The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 9 of 10)

The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 (part 9 of 10)

=STEWART, JAMES ALEXANDER LOGAN=, of Alltyrodyn, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Rifle Brigade, elder s. of the late Lieut. James Logan Stewart, 7th Hussars (died v.p. 29 June, 1898), by his wife, the Hon. Eveline Mary (Alltyrodyn, Llandyssul, co. Cardigan), sister of Roland John, 13th Baron Dormer, and dau. of the Hon. Sir James Charlemagne Dormer, K.C.B., and grandson of the late James Stewart, of Alltyrodyn, J.P., D.L.; b. Bombay, India, 7 March, 1893; educ. Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge; suc. his grandfather, 23 April, 1908; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Reserve Battn. of the Rifle Brigade, 2 Sept. 1913; and promoted Lieut., 1st Battn., 30 Nov. 1914; went to France and joined his regt. at Ploegsteert Wood in Dec. following, and was killed in action at Shell Trap Farm, near Ypres, 13 May, 1915. On this occasion the position he was in command of was heavily shelled and temporarily captured, by the Germans, and on the Rifle Brigade subsequently, retaking the position, no trace could be found of his body or of those of his men; unm. In 1911, he played for Winchester against Eton; was a good all-round sportsman, being a first-rate shot, fisherman and cricketer. His brother, 2nd Lieut. Douglas Stewart, is now (1916) on active service with the Royal Hussars.

=STEWART, JAMES AUGUSTUS=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Royal Munster Fusiliers, only s. of James Augustus Stewart, of Buncrana, Loch Swilly, co. Donegal, J.P. (who has since died), by his wife, Ann Wilhelmina Jean, dau. of the late William Wray, of Oakpark, co. Donegal, and nephew of the late Sir Augustus Abraham James Stewart, of Fort Stewart, 9th Bart.; b. Fort Stewart, Rathmelton, co. Donegal, 17 Aug. 1894; educ. at Rossall and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 12 Aug. 1914, being attached to the 3rd Battn. for a short time, and promoted Lieut. 28 Nov. following. He went to the Front, 4 Jan. 1915, was wounded in action at [place unknown], and had only rejoined his battn. on recovery a few days, when he was returned as wounded and missing after the fighting at Neuve Chapelle on 9 May, 1915. His company officer, Capt. T. W. Filgate, wrote: “On Sunday morning, the 9th, we made an attack on the German trenches just south of Neuve Chapelle. Your son was seen to fall while very gallantly leading his platoon to the assault. I very much regret that nothing further is known of him. His manner, coolness and dash was a splendid example to all. It may be a little consolation to you to know that we were the only regt. to reach a part of the German first line, and this was largely due to the bravery of a few officers and men like your son, who so gallantly led the assault. His name will never be forgotten in the regt., and we are all very proud of the many officers and men who fell.” The following passage is taken from a letter which appeared in the “Cork Examiner” of 17 Jan. 1915: “Two minutes later I, too, followed in his wake (i.e., over the parapets). I was happy to follow in the trail of another brave Munster officer. There was no hesitation about him--no halting--no get here nor there, but simply ‘Follow me, men.’ As to his subsequent fate I know nothing. I have not seen him since, and I would not commit myself to any statement. He was Lieut. Stewart, 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers.” Lieut. Stewart was unm.

=STEWART, JOHN STEWART=, 2nd Lieut. and Signalling Officer, 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of William Stewart, of Benview, Gourock, M.B., C.M., D.P.H., M.O.H., by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late John Kirkland, of Rutherglen; b. Gourock, co. Renfrew, 20 Oct. 1894; educ. Greenock Academy, and Glasgow University (where he was in the O.T.C.), and was studying medicine when war broke out in Aug. 1914. He was given a commission in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a 2nd Lieut., 6 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 1 June, 1915, and died on H.M. Hospital Ship Rewa, 15 July following, from wounds received in action after the charge at Achi Baba on the 13th; unm. Major Clapperton-Stewart, 1/5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, wrote: “We had a very bad time on 12 July, and all the officers and men did well, but none better than John. He had a lot of dangerous and important work, getting the telephones across, and he did it well and fearlessly, coming through the attack unhurt. He was wounded on the head next morning by a sniper at 6 a.m. He is a boy with great backbone and lots of character and I do hope has been spared, but if not, your boy at least played the man”; and a friend: “You have a great sorrow in losing your son. but you have a great deal to help you to bear it, for everyone that speaks of your dear boy has some act of kindness to tell you he had done for them.” A tribute from the Ashton U.F. Church, Gourock, by the Rev. George Rae, M.A., states; “Lieut. Stewart, who has given his life in the service of his country in the cause of Justice and Righteousness, was known to most of us from his youth up, and by all who knew him highly esteemed. He was a singularly pure-minded and clean living young man; one who wore the white flower of a blameless life. He was also of a singularly lovable nature, a son of whom any parents might be proud. Having resolved to enter the medical profession he was quietly pursuing his studies when war broke out, preparing to save men’s lives and not destroy them, but a sense of duty compelled him to give up what promised to be a successful medical career to serve his country, as a soldier in her hour of need. To his military training he gave himself in the same whole-hearted manner that he had done whatever he undertook. He had a brief bright life. He died from wounds received in battle at the Dardanelles. His warfare is accomplished yet over such a death there rests, with mystic brightness, the graciousness of the sacrifice.”

=STEWART, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310491, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=STEWART, WILLIAM VICTOR=, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Stewart, of Brodawel, Caerleon, co. Monmouth, Mining Engineer, President of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, and late Chairman of the South Wales Coal Owners’ Association, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Hopkin John, of Tonypandy, Glamorgan; b. Abertillery, co. Monmouth, 10 Jan. 1897; educ. Blundell’s School, Tiverton; enlisted, 28 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm. On the previous evening the 1st Monmouths had been moved up into the trenches, in which it was found there was little shelter. The battn. was thereupon engaged throughout the whole of the night in improving the trenches. At daybreak the enemy commenced fiercely bombarding the 1st Monmouths, and continued doing so all the morning until about mid-day, when they broke through our lines to the right of Mons, and it was then that Lieut. Stewart was killed by a bullet wound in the forehead. An incident which occurred on the day of the charge at Neuve Chapelle (12 March, 1915) is thus related in a letter which appeared in the “South Wales Argus” of 13 April, 1915: “Our time at the redoubt was 24 hours, and our next 24 hours was spent at a farm about half a mile from the line. It was at this point that I essayed my most dangerous exploit. Our Capt. asked for volunteers to carry ammunition to the trenches as their stock was getting exhausted. No sooner had the words been spoken than the volunteers were ready and I am pleased to say I was one of them. First we had to get back to headquarters to obtain the ammunition. Well, our party, under the direction of Lieut. Stewart, safely fulfilled this part of our duty. Then our task began in earnest, and slowly we approached the danger area along the road. On arriving at a certain point our officer, Lieut. Stewart, ordered us to open the boxes and carry 10 bandoliers each. Truly this was far more favourable for moving about, and at this juncture we crept on to the side of the road and then right into the ditch. What with the heavy going, the excitement of being spotted, I can tell you it was far from pleasant. Step by step we advanced until we got to the communication trench, which was also knee deep in water. Still keeping up heart and receiving encouragement from our officer, we plodded on. With our goal in sight we were spotted, and didn’t the lead fly! Still, there were no hits and we arrived safely, every man completely exhausted. After a brief spell we soon revived, only to stop with damp pants for some eight or nine hours, until darkness set in, when we marched back to our billets.”

=STIFF, HARRY=, Private, No. 13118, 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of William Stiff, of Wickhambrook, co. Suffolk, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of William Willingham; b. Chedburgh, near Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk, 16 Sept. 1886; educ. Hargrave, and served for six years in the 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., being discharged with exemplary character. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted in the 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action south of Ypres, 18 Feb. 1915; unm.

=STILES, GEORGE=, Cooper, 340278, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STILING, WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY=, Signalman, No. 216012, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Monmouth, eldest s. of the late Charles Henry Stiling, of The Minories, by his wife, Phœbe (7, Circus, Minories, Aldgate, E.), dau. of William Thomas Pugh; b. St. George’s, E., 1 Dec. 1885; educ. Sir John Cass’ School, Minories; enlisted in the Devonshire Regt., 25 June, 1901, but was claimed out by his mother (29 June), being only 15½, and then in the 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, but was again claimed out; joined the Navy as a Boy (2nd class), 19 July, 1901; became Boy (1st class), 5 June, 1902; Signalman, 2 Dec. 1903; Ordinary Signalman, 1 Oct. 1907; Signalman, 26 Nov. 1907; served in H.M.S. Impregnable, Vivid, Royal Oak, Cambridge, Hogue, Cornwall, Mars, Hibernia, Crescent, Orontes, Egmont, Sutlej and Monmouth (appointed 30 July, 1914), and was lost on H.M.S. Monmouth when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. His brother, Thomas Edward, Leading Seaman, served at the Dardanelles on the Swiftshire, and is now (1916) on active service on H.M.S. Royal Oak in the North Sea.

=STIRLING, JAMES=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), eldest s. of Col. James Wilfrid Stirling, of The Grange, Rockbeare, Devon, now commanding 72nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, by his wife, Cecil Mary, dau. of Major-Gen. Dixon Edward Hoste, C.B., R.A.; b. Hong Kong, 7 June, 1884; educ. Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Cameronians, 22 April, 1903, and promoted Lieut., 5 Oct. 1907; retired in 1911 and joined the 3rd Battn. at Hamilton for Special Reserve duty; appointed Capt., -- 1912; rejoined on the outbreak of war; went to the Front from England, 6 Oct. 1914, where he was attached to the 1st Battn., and was killed in the trenches near Armentières, 2 Jan. 1915; unm. His Colonel wrote: “The loss of your dear son is irreparable.... As his late commanding officer I deeply feel his sad but glorious end; he was one of the most honourable, conscientious and reliable of all my officers.” A bronze tablet was placed in Rockbeare Parish Church to the memory of himself and his younger brother, Lieut. W. D. Stirling, R.N. (see following notice).

=STIRLING, WILFRED DIXON=, Lieut., Royal Navy, s. of Col. James Wilfrid Stirling, of The Grange, Rockbeare, Devon, now commanding 72nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, by his wife, Cecil Mary, dau. of Major-Gen. Dixon Edward Hoste, C.B., R.A.; b. Pennycross, near Devonport, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Cheltenham College, and passed direct into H.M.S. Britannia in 1901 and passed out 5th in his term in Dec. 1902, having been awarded the Diploma of Honour as selected Candidate of his term for His Majesty’s medal; entered the Navy as Midshipman, 16 Dec. 1902; promoted Sub-Lieut., 15 March, 1906, and Lieut., 16 June, 1907; served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Bacchante, under Capt. (afterwards Admiral Sir) Christopher Cradock; qualified as Navigating Officer in 1907, and acted in that capacity successively in H.M. ships Ringdove, Media, Attentive and Grafton; was Instructor in Navigation to Cadets at Dartmouth, Jan. 1913, to Aug. 1914; appointed Navigating Lieut., H.M.S. Monmouth (Capt. Brandt), Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. From many appreciative letters the following sentence is taken from that of a brother officer: “His was a glorious example, and if anything can lessen the terrible sorrow you and Col. Stirling are suffering it must be the knowledge that his life was well lived and his duty nobly done.”

=STOCK, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Drummer, No. 1137, B Coy., 4th Battn. The East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of James Stock, of 87, Brunswick Avenue, Hull, formerly of Ramsgate, late Sergt. in the 1st Norfolk Artillery Volunteers at Great Yarmouth, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of James Wright, of Great Yarmouth; b. Hull, co. York, 19 Aug. 1894; educ. Christ Church School there, and was a member of the St. Paul’s Church Lads’ Brigade. A Coppersmith by trade, he served his apprenticeship with Messrs. George Clark & Sons, Waterhouse Lane, where his brother, Herbert, who is now (1916) on active service, was also employed. He enlisted in the Hull Rifles in 1910, and was in training at Newcastle on the outbreak of war, when he immediately volunteered for foreign service. He went with his regt. to the Front, took part in all the engagements of his battn., witnessed some of the most severe battles in Flanders, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 June, 1915, and was buried in R.E. Farm, near Wulverghem (Ref. 1/40,000, Map N 35d 9–7); unm. A comrade wrote: “He was shot through the head at 4.15 a.m. on 28 June, and died at 4.40 a.m. the same day. I was with him all the time waiting for him to come round, but he went without gaining consciousness.”

=STOCKDALE, CECIL=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12872, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STODDART, SYDNEY=, Sergt., Machine-gun Section, 10th (Service) Battn. Durham L.I., only s. of Edward Stoddart, of 3, Brantwood Terrace, Tindale Crescent, Bishop Auckland, Cordwainer, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late Joseph Brown; b. Barnard Castle, co. Durham, 21 Sept. 1889; educ. there; and was afterwards a Ticket Collector at Crook Station, North Eastern Railway; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 10th Durham L.I., 12 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19 May, 1915, was promoted Sergt. on or about 29 May, and was killed in action at Ypres, 21 July, 1915; unm. Buried in the 43rd Brigade Cemetery there. Lieut. John B. Rosher wrote to his mother: “I know so well what a splendid fellow he was, as he has been in my machine-gun section so long. Always cheery under the most adverse circumstances, and always ready to help in every way possible. He is a great loss to my section, and I feel that his loss is a personal one. We have worked the gun together several times, and I had many opportunities of admiring his coolness and courage.”

=STOKELL, ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25783 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=STOKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4905, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STOKES, ALFRED EDGAR=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7616, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STOKES, ARTHUR EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4120), S.S. 1320, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STOKES, HALDANE DAY, M.V.O.=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., only s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Haldane Stokes, of Devonshire House, Cowley, co. Oxford, late R.A.M.C., by his wife, Florence, dau. of Samuel Browne, and grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. Patrick Day Stokes, of Tralee, co. Kerry; b. Dublin, 21 Sept. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; joined the Earl of Derby’s 3rd Royal Lancaster (Militia) Regt. in 1904, and received a regular commission in the 2nd Battn. 6 July, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 26 June, 1910; served in India, and returned with his regt. after the outbreak of the European War, landing in England 23 Dec. 1914; left for the Front 15 Jan. following, and was killed in action near Ypres, 17 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Zillebeke. He received the fifth class of the Victorian Order in June, 1905, when only 19 years of age.

=STOKES, THOMAS WILLIAM=, A.B., 238670, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STONE, BERTIE EDWARD=, Leading Signalman, 229302, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STONE, CECIL DOUGLAS=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 14500, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=STONE, GEORGE ALFRED=, Sail Mate, (R.F.R., A. 2937), 132084, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STONE, JAMES WILLIAM=, Private, N. 5510, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of the late James Stone, Maltster, by his wife, H. (43, Albert Street, Horncastle), dau. of John Would; b. Horncastle, co. Lincoln, 1 March, 1883; educ. there; was a Maltster and Labourer before he enlisted in the Coldstreams, 7 April, 1904; went to France, 26 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel 12 Nov. following. Buried in the woods there. He m. at Horncastle, Harriet (43, Albert Street, Horncastle), dau. of John Would, and had a son, James Walter, b. 12 July, 1913.

=STONEHAM, LOUIS=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 868), late Ch. 11705, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STONEHOUSE, CHARLES BROWELL=, Private, No. 13612, 6th (Service) Battn. E. Yorks Regt., 7th and yst. s. of John James Stonehouse, of Sunderland, Bricklayer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Ann Browell, of Sunderland; b. Bishopwearmouth, co. Durham, 2 Jan. 1878; educ. there; was employed at the Hylton Colliery; enlisted 16 Oct. 1914; trained at Grantham, arrived at the Dardanelles, 6 Aug., and was killed in action there three days later, 9 Aug. 1915. He m. at Southwick-on-Wear, 31 July, 1904, Ada Jane (30, Nelson Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of John Griffin, of Sunderland, and had issue: Charles Browell, b. 15 Jan. 1909; Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1914; Margaret, b. 22 May, 1905; Christine, b. 19 July, 1906; Lilian, b. Nov. 1907; Annie, b. 22 Aug. 1910; and Ada Jane, b. 19 May, 1915.

=STONEMAN, HENRY CHARLES BRYANT=, Pensioner, Carpenter’s Mate, 145536, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=STOPHER, JAMES FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7731), S.S. 103115, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STORER, RAYMOND TRITTON=, Private, No. 237, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Henry Norris Storer, of Belle Grove, Welling, Kent, Market Gardener and Fruit Grower, by his wife, Ellen Eliza, dau. of William Rush Tritton; b. Welling, 16 Feb 1894; educ. Hope Lodge, Welling, and Roam School, Greenwich, and on leaving the latter entered the employ of Mr. V. A. Litkie, Diamond Merchant. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 31 Aug 1914, and after six months’ training at Haywards Heath and Crowborough, sailed for France on his twenty-first birthday. They were sent up to the trenches, and he was killed two months later at the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. It was on this occasion that a General, speaking of the London Rifle Brigade, remarked that he had never seen a finer regiment. Storer was buried at Fortuin; unm.

=STOREY, GEORGE ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R. Ch. B. 5735), S.S. 100704, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STOWE, CHARLES WILLIAM HARVEY=, A.B., S.S. 4086, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=STRACHAM, WALLACE=, Leading Stoker, K. 1435, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STRACHAN, HUGH=, Private, No. 3472, 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 5th s. of the late James Strachan, Ploughman, by his wife, Jean, dau. of John Ross; b. Johnshaven, near Montrose, 16 Jan. 1870; educ. Montrose Public School; enlisted in the Black Watch, and served under Gen. Wauchope, and was invalided home with malarial fever and discharged just before the South African War; became a Signalman on the North British Railway; re-enlisted in his old regt. after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; left for the Front with the 1st Battn. in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915. Private Strachan was a first-class shot. He m. at Edinburgh, 13 Oct. 1899, Isabella (3, South Gayfield Lane, Edinburgh), dau. of the late Donald Robertson, and had two children: Hugh, b. 16 July, 1900; and Eleanor, b. 16 Oct. 1902.

=STRANGE, ARNOLD JOHN WARD=, Private, No. 2190, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Charles James Strange, of Brackleigh, Crowborough, Sussex, retired Farmer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of Thomas Ward; b. Silsworth Lodge, Crich, Rugby, 8 Sept. 1896; educ. King Charles’ School, Tunbridge Wells. On the outbreak of war joined the Sussex Territorials and signed on for foreign service, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, the battn. being held in reserve for the 2nd Sussex; selected as sniper for his platoon, 4 March, 1915; mortally wounded by a shell on Sunday, 17 Oct. 1915, and died the following day at Sailly-au-Bois; unm. Buried in the military cemetery at Louvercourt. His commanding officer spoke highly of him, describing him “as most intelligent, a keen soldier, always ready to volunteer for everything, brave as a lion and a splendid shot.”

=STRANGER, RICHARD HENRY=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), only s. of Richard John Stranger, of Franchise, Burwash, Sussex, Yeoman and Land Owner, by his wife, Wilhelmina Key, dau. of the late Melchior George Klingender, of Waterloo, Liverpool; b. Court House, North Molton, Devon, 19 Dec. 1889; educ. The Hermitage, Bath, and Allhallows, Honiton; joined the Royal Sussex Militia, 6 Jan. 1908, and was appointed to the Sherwood Foresters, then at Secunderabad, India, 28 May, 1910. He was promoted Lieut. 10 Aug. 1912, and became Adjutant, 31 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war he returned to Europe with his regt. and died, 13 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, being buried in Boulogne Cemetery; unm. Lieut. Stranger was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

=STRATFORD, THOMAS=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 317), 149993, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STRATTON, EDWIN VICTOR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13889, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STRATTON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5454, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STRAW, WILLIAM HENRY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27544, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=STREET, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3119), S.S. 100752, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STREETER, WILLIAM HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 30), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STREVENS, FRANCIS=, A.B., J. 6277 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STRICKLAND, CHARLES= (alias =HAYDON, J.=), A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 713), 104408, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STRIKE, STANLEY GEORGE=, Private, No. 1455, 1st Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Barham Strike, Post Office Pensioner; b. London, 21 Oct. 1891; educ. Havist Road Council School, Queen’s Park, W.; killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915; unm. Buried on the field of battle. A comrade wrote he “was shot through the head and died instantly.... Stan had to lie with several others behind a ridge to keep the ‘gentlemen in grey’ from becoming too troublesome, and while there was sniped.... I can only say that he died doing his duty and none of us can do more.”

=STRONELL, EDWARD=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10738, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STRONG, ALBERT VICTOR=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2133), 191308, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STRONG, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310788 (Dev.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STRONGMAN, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 12/910, Auckland Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of William S. Strongman, of Coromandel, Auckland, New Zealand, Engine Driver; b. Coromandel, 1 Jan. 1895; educ. Coromandel District High School; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and left for Egypt in Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there 8 May following; unm.

=STROUD, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Shipwright, 115268 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STUART, JOHN=, Private, No. 18161, No. 1 Coy., 3rd Battn. Grenadier Guards, s. of John Stuart, of 16, Bridge Street, Wigan, Collier, by his wife, Ellen; b. Wigan, co. Lancs., 19 Dec. 1883; educ. St. Joseph’s School, Wigan, and afterwards worked as a Miner at the Moss Hall Collieries. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 7 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action, being shot through the head by a sniper while filling sand bags, at Neuve Chapelle, 3 April, 1915; unm.

=STUART, PERCY CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14085, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=STUBBINGTON, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B., 231916, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STUBBS, ALBERT CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 760, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STUBBS, BERNARD CASTLE=, Private, No. 2655, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Charles Stubbs, of 20, Grafton Road, Worthing, by his wife, Kate Marian (141, Gladstone Road, Watford, Herts.), dau. of Thomas Henry Castle; b. Worthing, 6 March, 1891; educ. Slough School (1899–1907), and on leaving there entered the London offices of the Union Castle Line; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, Sept. 1914; went to France with a draft for the 1st Battn. in Feb., and was sent direct to the firing line; took part in the fight on Hill 60, during the night of 20–21 April, under Lieut. G. H. Woolley, who then gained the first Victoria Cross conferred on a Territorial officer; was wounded in the head by a piece of shell, 22 June, 1915, and died in the Receiving Hospital, Bailleul, without recovering consciousness; unm. At Slough he was head boy of the school during his last few terms, the holder of a cup for the school championship at “fives,” and the winner of the swimming medal of the school. He later captained the Old Boys’ Football Team.

=STUBBS, HERBERT CLAUDE=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 819), late R.M.A. 5329, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STUBBS, JOHN DUNCAN=, Midshipman, R.N., elder s. of Thomas Duncan Henlock Stubbs, of Nunthorpe, Yorkshire, Major, North Riding Heavy Battery, 13th Brigade, R.G.A. (now on active service in France), by his wife, Margaret Isobel, dau. of Arthur Buchannan, of Guisborough, Yorkshire; b. Coatham, Redcar, co. York, 24 June, 1899; educ. Coatham Grammar School; Pembroke Lodge, Southbourne, and the Osborne (entered May, 1912), and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges, and had just completed one term at the latter college when war broke out, and the Cadets from the college were sent to various ships on active service. As senior he took a party of nine Cadets of his term to Chatham, where they joined the Aboukir, and in a few days time he went to sea as acting Midshipman. Shortly afterwards the Cadets were all promoted Midshipmen. He was attd. to the Gunnery Lieut., and was in charge of four 12-pr. guns. Life on board was much to his liking, writing home he described it as “the most glorious time of my life.” On 22 Sept. the Aboukir was the first ship to be torpedoed; everyone came on deck, as it was obvious that the vessel was sinking. Stubbs noticing that one of the other Midshipmen was not on deck went below to look for him, he found the boy asleep (he had just come off watch), woke him up, and brought him on deck. As one of the officers wrote: “It took some pluck to do this with the ship heeling over and likely to go at any moment.” Stubbs swam in the direction of the Hogue, but before he reached her she was torpedoed also and sank very quickly. He then swam towards the Cressy, and while in the water in company with another Midshipman of the Aboukir, they came across a drowning man calling for help. They went to his assistance and succeeded in holding him up for some time, telling him what to do to help himself, but as the man was unable to do as they told him, they were obliged to leave him as they could hold him up no longer. They got to the Cressy where they received dry clothes and hot cocoa, and were in the sick bay when the Cressy was struck the first time. They went on deck, and when the second torpedo struck the ship they took to the water again. Stubbs was seen in the water clinging to some wreckage some time afterwards, but when the rescuing boats came along he had disappeared. According to an Artificer of the Hogue the following incident took place after the Cressy was sunk: A man was calling for help some distance away, the Artificer saw two Midshipmen on a plank not far from the man, later he saw the boys leave the plank they were on and swim towards the man. The latter seized the boys, then there was a short struggle and all three disappeared. The Artificer was then only a few yards away, he saw the boys clearly, and from his description and from the fact that all the other Midshipmen were accounted for, it is thought that almost certainly the boys referred to were Midshipmen Stubbs and Riley. One of the officers of the Aboukir wrote saying of Stubbs: “He was of the greatest assistance to me, in fact I could not have done without him. It was impossible for him to tell a lie. He was always cheerful no matter what time of day or night, nor how rough the sea was.” And again he wrote: “There were many fine things done that day, but none finer than his. He was one of the best and truest boys I ever met.” He early showed signs of great promise; at Pembroke Lodge he held a high place in the school, and was also good at all games. He played for the school in both the cricket and football teams, and in the school sports won every open event, taking the Sports Challenge Cup with the maximum number of marks. In the words of his headmaster: “He was one of God’s perfect little gentlemen.” At the R.N.C., Osborne, he was promoted Cadet captain on completion of his third term at the college, he played for the college at cricket, being given his colours in 1913, and won the prize for the best field in the college. He passed out of the college head of his term, being awarded the Admiralty’s prize for the Cadet obtaining the highest aggregate number of marks in all subjects, including engineering and seamanship.

=STUBLEY, FREDERICK=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 38), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STUCKEY, FREDERICK=, Major, 6th (Hauraki) Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Samuel Stuckey, of Christchurch, New Zealand (a native of Somersetshire, England); b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 8 April, 1877; educ. Nelson College (where he was winner of the Gymnastic and Swimming Championships); travelled in Europe for two years to qualify himself in French and German, and on his return joined the New Zealand T.F.; became Capt. 13 May, 1912; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war and was appointed Capt. 6th Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1 Sept. 1915, and later Major; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was thereafter missing, and is now assumed to have been killed in action the same day. The Col. wrote: “The last I saw of him was as he was gallantly leading his company up a ridge that ran to the left of Shrapnel Gully, and later in the day it was reported that he had been severely wounded (through the stomach, and if I remember correctly, through the chest), and that his men were unable to get him back. My report to the A.A.G. was ‘missing and severely wounded, believed killed,’ but as rumours were about that he had been taken off to a hospital ship, this was altered to wounded. Personally, I do not think there is any chance that he is a prisoner in the hands of the Turks”; and an officer of the 3rd Auckland Regt.: “At the time he was wounded I was on the look-out for any New Zealand officers, especially those I knew. I was on duty on an Auxiliary Hospital Ship Lutzow. I had two trips in her, and we arrived in Alexandria in company with many other ships, all of which I visited each time. I had heard the Major was severely wounded, and was especially looking out for him, but never found a trace of him having landed back in Egypt, where practically all the wounded went. Neither could I find him in any hospital in Alexandria. I did hear that he was in a Cairo hospital, but on further enquiries could not trace him. I also asked our Base Commandant at Alexandria to make a thorough search, which I am sure he did. Several of the Hauraki men told me they had seen the Major put on board a lighter on the Anzac Beach, and I am quite prepared to believe this. It is more than probable that he died before reaching the hospital, and was taken away in a mine sweeper and buried at sea, without his name being noted in the fearful rush of wounded which came from shore the first day or two.... The Major was very popular with men and officers alike, in fact almost the most popular, he was always so fair.” He was unm.

=STUDD, LIONEL FAIRFAX=, Clerk in Holy Orders, and Capt. 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of John Edward Kynaston Studd, M.A. Camb., President and Chairman of the Polytechnic, Regent Street, by his wife, Hilda, dau. of Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, 4th Bt., and the Hon. Caroline Esther Waldegrave, dau. of Granville George, 2nd Lord Radstock; b. 2, Cavendish Place, London, W., 16 May, 1891; educ. at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took Honours in History. He then studied for a year at Ridley Hall, where he was a double prizeman. On leaving Cambridge in 1913 preparatory to taking Orders in the following spring, he threw in his lot with the Polytechnic, in whose work he had always been interested, and to which he had ever given his help, notably in connection with the Christmas Dinner Fund and the Scottish Holiday Tours in Edinburgh. During the winter session of 1913–14 Capt. Studd, who had strong inclinations for a missionary life, determined to render himself more efficient by a course of practical business training. He entered as a student at the Polytechnic Business Training School, studying accounts, and then entered the accounts department, where he helped with the books. During this time he became a regular member of the second hockey team and a constant attendant at the weekly Bible classes. He joined the 12th Battn. of the London Regt. as a Subaltern in the “Poly” Coy., 15 Nov. 1909. On Trinity Sunday, 1914, he was ordained a Minister of the Church of England in St. Paul’s Cathedral by the Bishop of London, and commenced his work as a curate at St. James’s, Holloway, under the Rev. J. C. Banham. Here he worked assiduously during the summer months, and letters from the parish show that even in that short time he had gained the respect and affection of the very large congregation that worshipped there. Towards the end of the summer he had seriously thought of giving up his place in the 12th London Regt., and only held on hoping to be permitted to have a few more drills with his “Poly” friends, and perhaps to go to camp with them. Before any further steps could be taken war was declared, and he felt it to be his duty to continue with his regt. He was gazetted Capt. on 2 Sept. 1914. This promotion, to his great regret, severed his connection with the “Poly” company, and though he had a few “Poly” boys in his company, he was able to see comparatively little of his old friends. For several weeks he was in charge of the guard at Waterloo station, and received the thanks of those in authority for the efficient way in which the work was done. He and his company were in the trenches near Ypres on the night of 13 Feb. 1915. The following day a severe attack was made on the trenches, and he was struck by shrapnel in the head and died without suffering. The company received great praise for the steady way in which they had faced serious trouble. His old company were not in action on that day, but took their place under fire on the following day, the 15th, and then it was that their chief, Major V. R. Hoare, lost his life. They were buried in the same grave in a field adjoining the Cimetière de Menin, about half a mile east of Ypres, where they had previously been billeted. His commanding officer, Col. A. D. Bayliffe, wrote: “Lionel was one of my best officers and universally popular with all ranks in the battn. He and Vin have been laid side by side in the cemetery just outside the town where we were quartered at the time [Ypres]. ‘In death they were not divided.’ It may be of some slight comfort to you, in your great distress, to know that the result of their good work in the past was shown in the gallant conduct and bearing of the ‘Poly’ lads and enabled them to stand firm and endure their ordeal so splendidly.”

=STUMBLES, HORACE GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 990, D Coy., 25th Battn. 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, s. of Thomas George Stumbles, of 10, Godolphin Terrace, Devonport, Royal Naval Outfitter, by his wife, Kate Ellen, dau. of William Rockett; b. Stoke, Devonport, 17 July, 1892; educ. Devonport High School; went to Australia in June, 1911; enlisted 15 Feb. 1915, proceeded to the Dardanelles, where he was severely wounded in right leg, and died of dysentery and compound fracture of leg on board H.M.S. Aquitania, 20 Oct. 1915; buried Mudros East; unm.

=STURROCK, ALBERT GEORGE=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 6666, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=STURROCK, DAVID DUFF=, Corpl., No. 1845, 9th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), elder s. of Peter Sturrock, of Drummaird, Lenzie, L.R.C.P., and S. Ed., Lieut. R.A.M.C. by his wife, Helen Amelia, dau. of James Swirles, of Edinburgh; b. Jedburgh, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Jedburgh Grammar School and Lenzie Academy; was an Analytical Chemist; joined the 9th Territorial Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 13 April, 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 19 Feb. 1915; was wounded 18 March, 1915, but returned to duty 9 May, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, on the 10th; unm. Buried near Ypres.

=STYANCE, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9385), S.S. 106626, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=STYLES, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of the late Frederick Styles, of Preston, Lancashire, and 49, Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Helena Alice Wellington (124, Knightsbridge, S.W.; Blackmoor, Four Elms, Kent), widow of Capt. L. B. A. Poynter, 7th Hussars, and dau. of John Brophey; b. 27 Jan. 1884; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Munster Fusiliers 13 May, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 9 Jan. 1906. He retired in April, 1914, but rejoined his regt. just before the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Etreux, 27 Aug. 1914; unm. Capt. Wise, the Adjutant of the regt., writing to Mrs. Styles, said: “You will already have heard that poor Fred was shot on Thursday, 27th inst. At the time he was gallantly leading his men under a heavy fire, and had he survived would certainly have been mentioned in despatches. I was not actually present when he was hit, but I have been told by those who were on the spot that his death was painless and instantaneous. When I saw him a few minutes later he was lying peacefully as though asleep. As this letter will be censored by the German authorities, I am unable to give you any details as to the action, or the situation of the battlefield. All the officers who fell were buried in one grave, and a service was conducted by a German clergyman.” An interesting account of the doings of the Munsters and of their great stand this day will be found under the notice of Lieut. C. E. V. Awdry. The eight officers who fell this day were buried by the Germans in one grave, and the N.C.Os. and men in another, side by side, near the railway station of Etreux, on the right-hand side of the road, 400 yards north of the level crossing. They also erected crosses to mark the spot.

=STYLES, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13796, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=STYLES, HARRY=, Private, No. G3872, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of George Styles, of Albury, Surrey; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915.

=STYLES, JOHN=, Private, No. 6484, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Harry Styles, of Alderton, near Chippenham, co. Wilts, by his wife, Martha; b. Corston, co. Wilts, 13 Oct. 1883; educ. Malmesbury Public School; enlisted in the Wiltshire Regt. 25 March, 1901; became L.-Corpl. 19 May, 1904, and Corpl. 23 June, 1904; transferred to the Coldstreams, 13 Dec. 1905; served during the South African War, guarding prisoners at St. Helena, 20 June, 1901, to 11 Sept. 1902 (medal); and in Egypt, 31 Oct. 1907 to 23 March, 1911, and returned to England for King George’s Coronation; was called up with the Reserves on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to Franco with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. and was killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914, during the retreat from Mons; unm. Private Styles received the cross guns and stripe.

=SULIVAN, PHILIP HAMILTON=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 4th s. of Col. Ernest Frederic Sulivan, now commanding 10th (late commanding 4th) Battn. East Surrey Regt., formerly of the Hampshire Regt., by his wife, Florence Mary, dau. of James Houldsworth, of Coltness, Lanarkshire; b. Mayfield Hall, Ashbourne, co. Derby, 27 Aug. 1894; educ. Malvern, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Munster Fusiliers, 25 Feb. 1914; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in a rearguard action at Etreux, France, 27 Aug. following, during the retreat from Mons. Buried by the Germans at cross roads, near Etreux, with eight of his brother officers who fell the same day; unm.

=SULLIVAN, BARTHOLOMEW=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4733, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=SULLIVAN, JOHN JAMES=, Private, No. 6585, 3rd. Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Sullivan, by his wife, Jane, dau. of George Parsons; b. co. Surrey, 5 Jan. 1887; educ. Dockhead School, Bermondsey; was a Brushmaker; enlisted 29 Jan. 1906; served seven years with the Colours and two on Reserve, including five years (29 Sept. 1906 to 23 March, 1911) in Egypt; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914; was killed in action at Villers Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914, and was buried in the churchyard there. Private Sullivan m. at the Parish Church, Mortlake, 26 Dec. 1911, Caroline Harriett (26, Hampton Square, Sheen Lane, Mortlake), dau. of Henry Joseph Parsons, and had a son, Thomas Joseph, b. 19 July, 1914.

=SUMMERS, SYDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4403), S.S. 103389. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SUMMERS, WILLIAM WIGAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 81, Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of George Summers, of Norton, Warwickshire, Clay Worker, by his wife, Mary Jane; b. Measham, co. Derby, 1 June, 1887; educ. York Road Schools, Church-Gresley, Derbyshire, and on leaving school went to Shirebrook, Derbyshire, and worked in the collieries, and was a Local Preacher; went to Australia in 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Ambulance Corps; left for Egypt with the main force; died 28 June, 1915, of wounds received during the landing at Suvla Bay; unm.

=SUMMERSCALES, PERCY=, Private, No. 1465, 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Summerscales, of Asset Common, Yorkshire; b. Thornhill, co. York, 10 June, 1881; educ. there; went to Australia; volunteered on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action during the fighting at Lone Pine, 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=SUTCH, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 2315, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Charles Strugnell Sutch, of 45, Antill Road, South Tottenham, S.E., by his wife, Clara, dau. of Henry Robert Blake, of Birmingham; b. Tottenham, London, 6 Dec. 1894; educ. The Grammar School there; entered the employ of the London Telephone Service as a Clerk in 1912, and was a member of the Civil Service Cadets, only resigning in conformity with the demands of the age limit, with the rank of Sergt.; joined the Queen’s Westminsters soon after the outbreak of war, in Sept. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov., and died in Nottingham Hospital, 4 April, 1915, after undergoing three operations rendered necessary by wounds received in action at Houplines on 6 Jan.; unm. He was a keen sportsman and an enthusiastic yachtsman, and was the means of saving life on the River Lea.

=SUTHERLAND, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 3238, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Alexander Gair Sutherland, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police, Vine Street Station, Piccadilly, W., by his wife, Mary, dau. of A. Rugg, of Bower, Caithness, Scotland, Farmer; b. Hammersmith, 27 Sept. 1886; educ. South Western Polytechnic, Chelsea; was employed at H.M. Patent Office as assistant clerk; joined the London Scottish on the outbreak of war, 9 Sept. 1914, and was subsequently seven months in the firing line, during which time, according to a letter received from his commanding officer, he proved an excellent and cheery soldier. He was killed in a charge at Hulluch, near Loos, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

=SUTHERLAND, GEORGE LACEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7437), S.S. 1329, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=SUTHERLAND, JAMES McKAY=, Corpl., No. 2737, 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. The Royal Scots, eldest s. of Thomas William Sutherland, Pipe Major 3/6th Highland L.I., by his wife, Catherine (43, Eaglesham Street, Glasgow), dau. of Duncan McLaren, late of Callander, Perthshire; b. Edinburgh, 17 Oct. 1896; educ. Lambhill Street School, Glasgow; enlisted in Sept. 1913; went to the Front with the 2nd Battn. of his regt. 3 Oct. 1914, and was wounded in action at La Bassée in Nov. and invalided home. After undergoing an operation in hospital at Oxford, he had a month’s leave, and then went back to Weymouth, from which place he went to France in March with a draft for the 1st Battn. He died in hospital at St. Omer, 22 April, 1915, of wounds received in action at Hill 60 on the 18th, and was buried at St. Omer.

=SUTHERLAND, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 2030, College Coy., 6th Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of John Sutherland, of Meadowmill, Tranent, East Lothian, by his wife, Annie, dau. of James Wise; b. Meadowmill, Tranent, 6 Sept. 1888; educ. public school there, and Boroughmuir Higher Grade School, Edinburgh; was a teacher at Lauriston Public School, Falkirk; joined the 6th Volunteer Battn. of the Royal Scots, 29 Jan. 1906, and served with them till 31 March, 1908, when he passed into the 4th Battn. (T.F.); in 1910 he was transferred to the College Coy. of the 6th Battn. and served four years; after the outbreak of war he rejoined on 6 Sept. 1914, and with them volunteered for foreign service; they were attached to the 4th Battn. and left for the Dardanelles in May, 1915. He was wounded in action at Krithia, 28 June, 1915, and died the following day; unm.

=SUTHERLAND, JOHN=, Private, No. 10539, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of John Sutherland, of 15, West Port, Edinburgh, Labourer; b. Fountainbridge, co. Edinburgh; educ. Cranston Street; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 18 Oct. 1909; went to the Front in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 24 Nov. 1914; unm.

=SUTTIE, HENRY=, A.B., 223301, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SUTTON, FERGUS ALGERNON=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Lancashire Regt., 2nd s. of Algernon Charles Sutton, of Hamsted House, Chidham, Chichester, and Woodcroft, Tunbridge Wells, a great grandson of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Bt., M.P., Under Secretary of State, 1766–72, by his wife, Winifred Alice, dau. of William Edwin Cotton Fell, of Lochrin, Edinburgh; b. Chidham, Chichester, 26 Aug. 1891; educ. Tonbridge School; joined the 5th Battn. (Cinque Ports) of the Royal Sussex Regt., and became Lieut. 2 Aug. 1913. From the Territorial Force he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the South Lancashire Regt. 10 June, 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. the same year. On the outbreak of war he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, was present at the retreat from Mons and at the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, at which latter he was wounded. After returning home in Nov. 1914 he again left for the Front in the following Jan., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried at Kemmel, in the military cemetery. At Mons Lieut. Sutton made a gallant attempt to save a machine gun in a trench from which they had to retire; while he and another man were lifting the gun out, the Germans brought one of their own machine guns to the head of it, and starting to fire, killed his companion. Capt. B. Evans, after Lieut. Sutton’s death, wrote to his parents: “Your son was an extremely gallant man, and I, as his company officer, wrote twice to the authorities recommending him for the D.S.O. If any one in this war has deserved this distinction, he most certainly did so. In my experience, I have met many gallant young fellows, but I never remember having met a young officer who was always so cool and collected under every circumstance as he was. His indifference to danger was remarked by all of us. His loss is a great one to the regt. and he will be missed by all of us who know him.”

=SUTTON, JAMES THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3795), 191412, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SUTTON, HUBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 1757, A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Oswald Walker Sutton, of 17, Rosebery Avenue, E.C., and 2, Fernwood Avenue, Streatham, S.W., by his wife, Hannah Fletcher, dau. of Alexander Grossmann; b. Clapham, S.W., 25 Oct. 1892; educ. St. John’s, Brixton, and Alleyn’s, Dulwich; was a Commercial Traveller; joined A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry, Nov. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war and transferred to C Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry; left England for Egypt, 20 March, 1915; arrived at the Dardanelles 3 Aug. and died on shipboard, 22 Aug. 1915, of enteritis contracted in the Gallipoli trenches; unm. Fond of sport, he was at the same time much interested in literature and was a good writer, and a posthumous work entitled “Fragments of Verse” was published by his parents.

=SUTTON, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10131), 204339, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SWAINLAND, WILLIAM OSBORNE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 304300, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SWAN, ANDREW CAMPBELL=, Private, No. 7376, 1/4th Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), eldest s. of Walter Johnston Swan, of Reston, co. Berwick, Tailor and Clothier, by his wife, Mary Rose, dau. of William Rose, of Duns; b. Reston, 5 July, 1896; educ. Reston Public School; volunteered and enlisted, 23 Nov. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Asturias, 13 July, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm. Buried in Base Cemetery at Cape Helles.

=SWAN, GEORGE=, Private, No 15479, 1st Battn. Royal Fusiliers, s. of David Swan, of 21, Sloan Street, Leith, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Fairweather; b. Bathgate, co. Linlithgow, 25 Aug. 1878; educ. Bathgate Academy; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 5 Nov. 1899; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, with the 1st Battn. (Queen’s medal with five clasps); transferred to the 1st Battn. Royal Fusiliers in 1913; went to France, 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Chapelle d’Armentières, 18 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried there. His brother, Pioneer James Blair Swan, was killed in action at the same place (see following notice).

=SWAN, JAMES BLAIR=, Pioneer, No. 1975, 1/9th Battn. Royal Scots (Highlanders), yst. s. of David Swan, of 21, Sloan Street, Leith, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Fairweather; b. Ballark House, Nairn, 19 Aug. 1893; educ. Leith; was a Joiner with Drysdale & Son, Leith; joined the Royal Scots on the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914; trained at Edinburgh; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Chapelle d’Armentières, 15 July, 1915; unm. 2nd Lieut. H. M. Wardrop wrote: “He was killed up here in the trenches while putting up barbed wire in front of the reserve trench. He was in the act of driving in a post when a stray bullet grazed his rifle and entered into his back, passing right through him. He suffered no pain, as he never regained consciousness and passed away just as we got him into the dressing station. We laid him to rest at 9.15 p.m. the next night and his body was carried to the little cemetery (at Chapelle d’Armentières) about three-quarters of a mile behind the trenches by four of his old comrades in the same section and platoon as he was before he went to the Brigade Pioneers; his body being covered with the Union Jack.... As his platoon officer I had a very high opinion of him, for he was a most useful man all-round. It was because of this that he was transferred to the Brigade Pioneers, where he continued to do excellent work.” His brother, Private George Swan, was killed in action at the same place, 18 Oct. 1914 (see previous notice).

=SWAN, THOMAS GEORGE=, Private, No. 3317, 1/3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Thomas Swan, Crimean Veteran; b. Athlone, 18 April, 1877; educ. Bells School, Leith; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 11 Dec. 1895; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with clasps); obtained his discharge, 10 Dec. 1902, and joined the Reserve, completing his 16 years of service in 1911. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted in his old regt., 19 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 April, 1915. He m. at St. Thomas’ Church, Leith, 27 Dec. 1907, Annie (3/2, Corporation Buildings, Leith), dau. of (--) Ferguson, and had five children: Thomas George, b. 6 March, 1911; Robert, b. 27 June, 1914; Mary, b. 6 Oct. 1906; Susan Jane, b. 31 Oct. 1908; and Janet, b. 23 June, 1912.

=SWANN, JOHN DAVID LIVERMORE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9885), 220674, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SWANN, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7964), 292930, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SWANN, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109372, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=SWEETING, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14608, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=SWEETMAN, JOHN STANLEY=, Capt., Toronto Home Guards, Canadian Militia, 3rd s. of Edward Sweetman, late of Ryde, I.W., Brewer, by his wife, Emily (42, Priory Road, Hampstead, N.W.), dau. of the late William Godden, of East Street, Southampton; b. Ryde, 28 July, 1890; educ. Hyde Upper Grade School; was an Accountant in the Bloor Bathurst Street Branch of the Home Bank of Canada; joined the Toronto Home Guards after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and died in the General Hospital, Toronto, 12 Oct. 1914, from cerebral-spinal meningitis, contracted while undergoing a course of training; unm.

=SWEETSUR, JAMES HENRY=, Private, No. 1891, 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Edward J. Sweetsur, of 58, Grove Road, Tottenham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 22 March, 1915.

=SWETENHAM, EDMUND=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., only child of Clement William Swetenham, of Somerford Booths, Congleton, co. Chester, late Lieut., R.N., by his wife, Louisa, yst. dau. of Ralph Creyke, of Rawcliffe and Marton Hall, Yorkshire; b. Somerford Booths aforesaid, 30 April, 1890; educ. Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy; Army School, Stratford-on-Avon, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., 20 April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1914; went to the Front, 1 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches at Rue du Bois, near Armentières, 27 Oct. following; unm. Buried there.

=SWIFT, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 21026, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Ypres, 11 June, 1915.

=SWIFT, PETER=, Private, No. 9/1834, 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 April, 1915; m.

=SYMES, HAROLD=, Driver, No. 2499, 1st Battery Home Counties Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Symes, of 48, East Street, Littlehampton, co. Sussex, Stonemason, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William Luxford, of Pulborough; b. Littlehampton, 2 June, 1896; educ. there; was a Butcher’s Assistant; enlisted 4 Oct. 1915, and was accidentally drowned at High Wycombe, 3 Dec. 1915, while in training there; unm.

=SYMES, JOHN BORKWOOD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26728 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=SYMMANS, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 6749, B. 952, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SYMMS, CHARLES FULLERTON=, Telegraphist, J. 3596, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SYMONDS, ALBERT HENRY=, A.B., 214225, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SYMONDS, EDGAR=, Private, No. G6575, 8th (Service) Battn.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 20 Oct. 1915; m.

=SYMONDS, WILLIAM HARRY=, Private, No. 12059, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Spencer Symonds, of Badwell Ash, Bury St. Edmunds, Farmer, by his wife, Minnie, dau. of the late William Green Hatten, of Walsham-le-Willows; b. Badwell Ash, 13 May, 1894; educ. Albert College, Framlingham; enlisted on the outbreak of war, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hooge, 16 June, 1915; buried there in the Sanctuary Wood; unm. A brass tablet has been erected to his memory in the Parish Church at Badwell Ash.

=SYMONDS, WILLIAM PERCY=, Stoker, 1st class, K. 5165, H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SYMONS, ALFRED ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11325, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=SYMONS, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Capt., 1st Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (attd. Camel Corps), yr. s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Herbert Charles Symons, formerly commanding King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., by his wife, Ada Clara (Brooklands, Newport Pagnell, co. Bucks), dau. of Frederic Wells, of Oaklands, Chelmsford; b. Fulford, co. York, 17 Nov. 1884; educ. Uppingham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to his father’s old regt. 13 Jan. 1904, joined at Aldershot, 15 Feb. following, and was promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1906, and Capt. 9 Sept. 1914. He was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 29 March, 1911, to 4 March, 1914, and was then attached to the Somaliland Camel Constabulary. He was killed in action at Shimber Berris, Somaliland, while serving with the Camel Corps, 19 Nov. 1914, and was buried at Little Bohotleh, Somaliland; unm. He had the Royal Humane Society’s testimonial for saving the life of a comrade in South Africa.

=SYMONS, WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8056), 203642, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=SYNNES, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7950), S.S. 103617, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 1914.

=SYRED, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, C.E.R.A., 1st Class, 149442, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SYRETT, JOHN=, Leading Seaman, 235653, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=RENNY-TAILYOUR, HENRY FREDERICK THORNTON=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers, yst. s. of Colonel Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour, of Borrowfield, Forfarshire, and Shrewsbury House, Dublin, J.P., late R.E., by his wife, Emily Rose, dau. of John Wingfield Stratford, of Addington Park, West Malling, Kent; b. Homebush, Sydney, New South Wales, 31 July, 1891; educ. Arnold House, Llanddulas, and Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Engineers, 20 Dec. 1912; went to France with the 5th Field Coy. R.E. 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, 15 Aug. 1914; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept., but did not leave duty, and was killed in action at Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914, while leading his section against the Prussian Guards; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=TALBOT, EDWARD CHARLES=, Capt. and tempy. Major, 47th Sikhs, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Major Francis Arthur Bouverie Talbot, of 89, Philbeach Gardens, S.W., late Oxfordshire L.I., by his wife, Alice Mary Beatrice, dau. of Gen. Edward Melville Lawford; b. Biggleswade, co. Bedford, 9 April, 1881; educ. Haileybury College; joined the Herts Militia, 2 April, 1900; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Bedfordshire Regt., 26 June, 1901, and promoted, Lieut., 23 March, 1904; transferred to the Indian Army, 23 April, 1904, and became Capt., 2 April, 1909; served in the South African War, 1900–02; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony; operations in Cape Colony, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900, July to Aug. 1901, and Oct. to Nov. 1901; and those in the Orange River Colony, Aug. to Oct. 1901, and Nov. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with his regt. with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Sept. 1914. He was slightly wounded at Neuve Chapelle in March, but was able to remain on duty, and was made a tempy. Major in command of the regt., which he held till he was wounded at Ypres on 26 April, 1915, and died at Hazebrouck on the 29th, where he was buried. Capt. Talbot was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. While at Haileybury he played in the Football XV. He m. at Weybridge, 30 Sept. 1908, Dorothy Maynard (Eridge, Teignmouth, South Devon), dau. of Sir William Gibbons, K.C.B., and had two children: Patricia Mary, b. 23 Dec. 1909; Iris Nonie, b. 26 Dec. 1913.

=TALBOT, HUMFREY RICHARD=, Lieut., 3rd Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards, yst. s. of Gustavus Talbot, of Marchmont House, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, by his wife, Susan, 2nd dau. of Robert Elwes, of Congham House, Norfolk, J.P., D.L., and grandson of Rev. the Hon. George Chetwynd-Talbot [bro. of Henry, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury]; b. Ceylon, 11 Sept. 1889; educ. Wellington College and Frieburg, Germany; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the King’s Liverpool Regt., then in India, 11 Dec. 1909; promoted Lieut., 16 Sept. 1912; transferred to 3rd Dragoon Guards, 26 Feb. 1913; left for France, 30 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action by shell fire near Ypres, 13 Nov. following. Buried in cemetery at Ypres; unm. He was a keen sportsman and was Master of Hounds at Lahore, 1912–13.

=TALLACK, WILLIAM FRANCIS NECK=, Private, No. 4815, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Richard Tallack, of Stepney, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (--) Jones; b. Stepney, 10 Oct. 18--; educ. Ben Jonson School there; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, June, 1915; went to France in Oct., and was killed in action at Loos, 7 Jan. 1916, being buried there. He m. at Camden Town, N. 17 Dec. 1893, Clara Elizabeth (54, Cecil Road, Leytonstone), dau. of Robert Spinks, and had seven children: William James, Private, No. 2824, D Coy., 3/6th Essex Regt., b. 1895; Frank Robert, Private, No. 2825, 3/6th Battn. Essex Regt., b. 1897; Richard, b. 8 Dec. 1898; Hubert, b. 14 Nov. 1900; Frederick, b. 29 Dec. 1907; Lily, b. 13 Dec. 1902; and Clara, b. 13 Dec. 1905.

=TAMPIN, CHARLES THOMAS=, Probationary, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 7603, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TANNER, ERNEST EDWIN=, Private, No. 2980, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of John Tanner, of Cheltenham, Labourer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of John Wheeler; b. Cheltenham, co. Gloucester, 16 Sept. 1877; educ. Devonshire Street School there; was Labourer at Kynock’s Ammunition Works, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 2 Oct. 1899; served in the South African War 7 Nov. 1901, to 4 Oct. 1902 (medal with three clasps, “Cape Colony,” “S.A. 1901,” “S.A. 1902”), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 7 Oct. to 12 Nov. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in No. 3 German Field Hospital, 15th German Army Corps, Hallin, of wounds received in action. Buried at Hallin. He m. at Emmanuel Church, Bristol, 3 Aug. 1907, Lillie (10, Willway Street, St. Phillip’s, Bristol), 3rd dau. of Thomas Slocombe, of Bristol, and had one son, Arthur Thomas John, b. 23 June, 1908.

=TANNER, RALPH EYRE=, Capt., 1st Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Ralph Tanner, of 2, Little Dean’s Yard, Westminster Abbey, S.W., M.A., Senior Assistant Master at Westminster School, by his wife, Lucy Lawrence Le Grice, dau. of George Lewis Phipps Eyre; b. Regent’s Park, 16 July, 1885; educ. South Kensington Preparatory School; Westminster, and Sandhurst. He was gazetted on 16 Aug. 1905, as 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Liverpool Regt., which had formerly been commanded by his great-uncle, Major-Gen. Edward Tanner, C.B. He was promoted Lieut. 25 Sept. 1908, and Capt. 16 Sept. 1912, and served for a year with the 1st Battn. in India, 1908–9. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, and was in the retreat from Mons, behaving in the first action in which the regt. was engaged, as his Colonel wrote, “with great coolness under a murderous fire.” On 14 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Aisne, while leading his company through thickly wooded country he was seriously wounded by a party of Germans upon whom they came suddenly. Owing to heavy shell fire it was impossible to move from the wood, and during the course of the day another shell, bursting near, killed the two stretcher-bearers and wounded Capt. Tanner again. By the devotion of his men he was carried back some 4 miles to the dressing station, where he was skilfully doctored by Major A. Martin Leake, V.C., who, like Capt. Tanner, was an old Westminster. After seven days he reached Versailles, where he died from his wounds at No. 4 General Hospital, 23 Sept. 1914. He was buried in the Cimitière des Guards with full military honours, a guard of honour being furnished by a detachment of French cavalry and a large number of French officers attending. Col. Bannatyne, who was afterwards himself killed, wrote: “We in the regt. are sustained by the knowledge that Capt. Tanner met his death when leading the van in a magnificent attack on the enemy, who were holding an enormously strong position. The regt. was advance guard to the whole Division.... Capt. Tanner and Capt. Feneran, both of whom were wounded, most gallantly sustained the honour of the King’s. Our great sorrow at his loss will consequently be mingled with pride at his most gallant conduct.” Letters from his brother officers and from privates in the regt. testified to the affection in which he was held and how deeply his loss was felt. Capt. Tanner m. at Westminster Abbey, 11 June, 1913, Edith Vere Marjorie, 4th and yst. dau. of John Henry Brodie, then of Chart’s Edge, Westerham, co. Kent, and had one son: Peter Ralph Eyre, b. 13 Sept. 1914.

=TAPLIN, ALFRED CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 76), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TAPLIN, PERCY CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7897, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TAPSFIELD, CLAUDE REGINALD=, Bandsman, No. 704, 1/5th Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), 2nd s. of the late Frederick Tapsfield, for 18 years a member of the East Kent Yeomanry, by his wife, Laura Louisa (2, East Hill, Ashford, Kent), dau. of Valentine Munn (now the sole survivor of the first 80 men of the 1st East Kent Volunteers sworn in at Maidstone); b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 5 June, 1889; educ. British School, Ashford, and S.E.A. College, Wye; was a Newsagent and Tobacconist; joined the Kent Territorials in 1905; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to India with his regt. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on service at Pachmari, 1 June, 1915, following an operation for appendicitis; unm. Capt. F. Muckley wrote: “Tapsfield was not only a clever musician and good soldier, but was so well liked by every one of us for his cheerful good fellowship. He was attended to his grave by every man of the 5th Buffs stationed at Pachmari, and buried with military honours.”

=TARN, MARK AITCHISON=, Engine-Room Artificer, H.M.S. Aquarius, R.N., only s. of John Tarn, of Hornby Road, Bootle, Liverpool (formerly of Alston, Cumberland), Foreman Joiner, Messrs. J. Ellerman’s Engine Works, Liverpool, by his wife, Mary, eldest dau. of James Aitchison, of Melrose; b. Jarrow-on-Tyne, 1 Aug. 1894; educ. Christ Church Higher Grade and the Junior Technical Schools, Bootle, and was nominated by the local authority for training as Engine-Room Artificer on board H.M.S. Fisgard, Portsmouth, 31 Dec. 1909. Here he won the high esteem of his officers and comrades by his attention to duty and proficiency. On the outbreak of war he was appointed to H.M.S. Vernon, and later to H.M.S. Aquarius, and while serving on the latter at the Dardanelles was taken ill with acute dysentery. He was transferred to No. 15 Stationary Hospital, Mudros, Lemnos Island, and died 31 Aug. 1915, being buried in the cemetery there. Tarn was an all-round sportsman, being elected captain of the Rugby football team for three years, and won his cup in the final at Devonport. A memorial tablet was placed in St. Matthew’s Church, Bootle, where he served as a choir boy.

=TARRANT, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9590), 209374, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TATHAM, TREVOR HODGSON STANLEY=, Lieut., Royal Navy, eldest s. of Stanley Tatham, of Montana, Bournemouth, member of the Institute of Naval Architects, by his wife, Frances Emma Constance (Montana, Branksome Park, Bournemouth), dau. of Michael Hodgson Tatham; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 16 Nov. 1887; educ. The Old Ride, Branksome Park, Bournemouth; Stubbington House, Fareham, and H.M.S. Britannia; entered the Navy and became Midshipman, 15 Feb. 1904; Sub-Lieut. 15 April, 1907, and Lieut. 15 July, 1908; served six years on H.M. ships Formidable, Duncan and Barham; was A.D.C. to Capt. Walker while a Midshipman on the Formidable; took part in the Somaliland Expedition, 1909 (medal); re-appointed to the Formidable (his first ship), 9 Aug. 1913; and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the English Channel, 1 Jan. 1915.

=TATLER, ROBERT=, Private, No. 1289, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Robert Tatler, by his wife, Amelia (14, Longville Road, Newington Butts); b. Walworth, 30 Oct. 1891; joined the Australian Contingent on the outbreak of war; died at Netley Hospital, Southampton, 25 June, 1915; unm.

=TAVERNOR, JOHN=, Private, No. 11599, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder s. of Frederick Tavernor, of 6, Middle Friars, Stafford, Railwayman, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Thomas Holmes; b. Rugeley, co. Stafford, 22 Feb. 1891; educ. Rugeley; was a Joiner by occupation; enlisted on 2 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 22 Dec. following, and was killed in an attack on the German position at Cuinchy, Belgium, 6 Feb. 1915; unm.

=TAYLER, ERIC HARDWICK=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of Archdale Tayler, of Manurewa, Auckland, New Zealand, Accountant, by his wife, (--), dau. of J. G. Culpan, of Auckland; and grandson of the late Rev. Archdale Wilson Tayler, of Leeds, England; b. 15 Jan. 1894; educ. Auckland Grammar School; St. John’s College, Tanaka (where he held a Maria Blackett Scholarship), and Auckland University College. He received a commission in the Coast Defence Detachment of the 3rd (Auckland) Regt., 11 March, 1912, and in March, 1914, sat for the examination open to the Territorial Forces of Canada, South Africa, Malaya, and Australasia, for direct commissions in the regular Army. There were about 180 candidates, and Lieut. Tayler headed the list with 3,307 marks, out of the possible 4,500. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the York and Lancaster Regt. 20 June, 1914, and left Auckland two days before the outbreak of war to join his regiment at Jubbulpore, India. From there they were ordered to England and went to the front early in 1915. After about a fortnight in the trenches he contracted pneumonia and was admitted to the Clearing Station at Hazebrouck, France, 31 Jan. 1915, and died 9 Feb. following of double pneumonia; unm.

=TAYLOR, ARCHIBALD=, Sergt., No. 7919, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 29 Jan. 1915.

=TAYLOR, ARTHUR CUTHBERT BROOKE=, A.M.I.C.E., Lieut., 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Col. Herbert Brooke Taylor, of The Close, Bakewell, Derbyshire, Solicitor, and his wife, Mary Taitt, dau. of the Rev. William Mallalieu; b. West Bank, Bakewell afsd., 15 March, 1888; educ. Lady Manners’ School, Bakewell; and Cheltenham College, and on leaving there took the Engineering Course at Manchester University, obtaining the Engineering Certificate. He afterwards joined the firm of Saunders & Taylor, Ltd., and was elected an Associate Member of the Institute of Civil Engineers. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Vol. Battn. of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), and while serving with this battn. passed the Hythe Course with distinction, and was appointed to command the machine gun section. His method of adapting machine guns to mountain warfare when manœuvring in the North Derbyshire hills demonstrated the possibilities of machine gun warfare which the present war has so immensely developed. He was promoted Lieut. in Sept. 1907. The 2nd Vol. Battn. Sherwood Foresters was a 13-company battn., and when the Territorial scheme came into operation was nearly 1,500 strong. The reduction of the infantry quota of Derbyshire necessitated the reduction of the battn. to eight companies. As a result Lieut. Brooke Taylor reverted to the rank of 2nd Lieut. rather than retain his rank and pass to the reserve. As his business necessitated his residence nearer Manchester than Bakewell, he applied to be attached for training to the 6th Manchesters, and declining a captaincy in his old battn., was transferred as a Lieut. to this reg., in the spring of 1914. He was shortly afterwards appointed instructor of musketry to the battn., and held that position at the time of his death. On the outbreak of hostilities he volunteered and went to Egypt with the East Lancashire Division, and eventually to Gallipoli, where he landed early in May, 1915. He was killed in action there 4 June following; unm. A fortnight before, on the death of the senior Capt. of his company, he had been appointed second in command, and his Colonel wrote: “I do not think it would be possible to speak too highly of his character and qualities. During the time of training, from mobilisation up to the end of our time in Egypt, he was untiring in his special work of pushing on the musketry instruction of the men, and was always full of work, valuable ideas and suggestions. With his keenness and attractive character he could, of course, do anything with the men, and he had a large share in making the battn. the splendid fighting force it proved to be. No one was keener or more anxious to see service.” And a brother officer: “Brooke Taylor did the work of four men. His energy and fearlessness was an example to everyone.”

=TAYLOR, CLEMENT HAROLD=, Private, No. 1785, 1/15th Battn. Prince of Wales’ Own (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Francis Taylor, of 6, Church Street, Leominster, Postmaster there, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of the late John Andrew Brewer, of Poulteney Gardens, Bath; b. Chippenham, co. Wilts, 9 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s National School, and Wiltshire County Secondary School, Chippenham; was a Civil Service 2nd Division Clerk in Comptroller and Accountant General’s Department of the G.P.O.; joined the Civil Service Rifles, in March, 1914; was in camp when war was declared on 4 Aug. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died there, 25 July, 1915, of wounds received from an accidental bomb explosion; unm. Buried at the Military Cemetery, Noeux-les-Mines. Lieut. Scott wrote that he was wounded on Saturday afternoon at about 3.30 p.m. and that although he lived till morning was unconscious the whole time, and continued: “It may be some consolation to you to know that he was one of the very best soldiers and one of the very best men in my platoon. He was always entirely reliable, and always willing and eager to undertake any job that was going. He proved his worth, especially on night patrols between our lines and the Germans, for which he would always volunteer whenever it fell to our platoon to furnish one. His loss is deeply felt by all his comrades whose admiration and affection he had soon won.” On the day before the accident he wrote to his mother: “The battalion has now done 16 days in the trenches and came out last night, I believe. I left on the 14th day with a small party to come here for a course of four days at a bombing school. Bombs are fast becoming a most important factor in trench warfare, so a good many men are being trained to use them. It is a nice change after a fortnight’s trench life, and very interesting, too.” Private C. H. Taylor, was a keen student of Economics, and in an examination held by the Society of Arts in 1914 he won first place in all England.

=TAYLOR, DANIEL JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1325), 201149, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TAYLOR, ERNEST=, Painter, 1st Class, 166048, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, ERNEST EDWIN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, Chatham 295559, H.M.S. Laertes; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=TAYLOR, FRANCIS ROBERT=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2265B, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, FRANK=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 270109, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Officers’ Steward, 2nd Class, L. 3147, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 9793, 1st Battn. Essex Regt., 6th s. of Thomas Joseph Taylor, of 4, Reed’s Bank, Ocklynge Road, Eastbourne, retired Civil Servant, by his wife, Mary White, dau. of the late Henry Seward; b. Tottenham, N., 8 June, 1892; educ. West Green Road Board School; joined the Middlesex Special Reserve about April, 1911, and transferred in Aug. following to the 2nd Essex; was sent with draft to Mauritius to join the 1st Battn. in Oct., 1913; left for the Dardanelles on the Caledonia from Avonmouth, 22 Feb. 1915; was appointed L.-Corpl. on the field, died through wounds received in action at the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 29 June, 1915; unm.

=TAYLOR, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3628), S.S. 101257, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TAYLOR, JOHN ALFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26367 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=TAYLOR, LEO LAMBERT=, Mechanician, 298742, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, MILES BRUNSKILL=, Private, No. 7155, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Taylor, for many years a railway guard on the London & North Western Railway, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Miles Thompson; b. Lancaster, 18 Oct. 1886; educ. Christ Church School, Lancaster; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 26 Feb. 1907. In the Reserve on the outbreak of war he was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, passing unhurt through engagements at Mons, Landrecies, Lowey and Fontenay, but was seriously wounded by shrapnel, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at La Tretoire the same day. He m. at Christ Church, Lancaster, 30 Sept. 1912, Margaret (4, Trafalgar Road, Lancaster), yst. dau. of the late Robert Turner, of Maze Lisburn, Ireland, and had two daus.: Hilda Irene, b. 21 June, 1913; and Annie Norah Myles, b. 30 Dec. 1914. Three of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and one a munition worker.

=TAYLOR, RONALD FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I. 4th s. of Alfred Taylor, of Starston Place, Harleston, Norfolk, J.P., by his wife, Anna Enfield, dau. of Septimus Dowson, of Southtown, Great Yarmouth; b. Starston Place, afsd., 29 Feb. 1888; educ. St. Andrew’s School (Rev. E. L. Browne), Eastbourne; Malvern College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1909); and after a short period as an assistant master at St. Andrew’s School, joined the firm of Oslers, Birmingham; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Shropshire L.I. 28 Sept. 1914; went to France 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 9 Aug. 1915, during the attack on Hooge. He was in command of an advance trench, a shell killing him instantaneously while he was endeavouring to bind up the wound of one of his corporals. Lieut. Taylor was a good athlete, and an all-round sportsman. He was a member of the Malvern College Cricket XI, and a fine shot.

=TAYLOR, THOMAS=, Sick Berth Steward (Pensioner), 121820, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, THOMAS JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 404), late Ch./6355, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TAYLOR, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4250), S.S. 102958, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TAYLOR, WALTER WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 604, 1/21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Taylor, Verger and Guide at St. Paul’s Cathedral, by his wife, Clara, dau. of James Fensome; b. Brixton, London, S.W., 19 June, 1888; educ. St. Saviour’s School there; was a Porter in the Goods Department of the S.E. and C. Railway; joined the Surrey Rifles, 1 Aug. 1909; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 May, 1915; being buried there. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Herne Hill, S.E., 1910, Maud (99, Milkwood Road, Herne Hill), dau. of Ernest Ward, and had two children: Walter William, b. 17 June, 1913, and Maud Ethel, b. 11 Jan. 1911.

=TAYLOR, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13522, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=TAYLOR, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3554), S.S. 956, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=GAWAN-TAYLOR, FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of His Honour Judge (Henry) Gawan-Taylor, of Croftlands, Heads Nook, Cumberland, County Court Judge of Circuit No. 3, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by his wife, Rachel, 3rd dau. of the late Thomas Joseph Candler, of Low Hall, West Ayton, co. York; b. Darlington, 27 Aug. 1892; educ. Rossall (Scholar and Exhibitioner), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Scholar, 1913); was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Special Reserve), 16 Jan. 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 1 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, during the British advance north and west of Hooge; unm. Buried there. While at Rossall School he was a member of the O.T.C.; was a keen athlete and ran in the mile race for Cambridge in 1914, when the Oxonian, A. N. S. Jackson, beat him by eight yards. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “Your son was one of my subalterns; he was a very promising young officer and was doing very well. We had to take some German trenches.... I had two subalterns hit on the way there, but your son was there after we got into their trench. It was while directing the consolidating of their trenches that he was hit by a bullet through both temples. The men of his platoon greatly regret his loss, as they had learned to love him.” He was engaged to be married to Alyson May Estcourt Boucher, dau. of the Rev. Canon Boucher, Rector of Frolesworth, Lutterworth.

=TEHAN, EDMUND FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3718), S.S. 1029, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TEMPLE, JOHN=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 270540, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TEMS, WALTER EDGAR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7841), S.S. 103270, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TENNANT, CHARLES GRANT=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Batt. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of James Tennant, of Fairlie, Ayrshire, and formerly of Newcastle-on-Tyne, J.P., by his wife, Henrietta Grant, dau. of Alexander Andrew Fergusson; b. Lowfell, co. Durham, 23 July, 1882; educ. Charterhouse, Godalming, where he was a senior scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner; and on finishing his education, became a Director of the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Co., Ltd., and of Alexander Fergusson & Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Lead Manufacturers. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered and joined the Public Schools Battn. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 1 Oct. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 9 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “After less than four months soldiering his name was sent to the War Office for promotion to Capt.; that fact shows what a born soldier he was. On every occasion that we were under fire he was always the same, cool and collected. He declined promotion, as he wished to remain with the men with whom he had trained.”

=TERRY, CHARLES HENRY=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 293803, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TERRY, FRANK ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15464, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TERRY, FREDERICK JOHN CORTORPASSI=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 20300, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TERRY, HARRY=, Sailmaker, 158515, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TERRY, WILLIAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9015), 208316, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TESTER, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4068), 190099, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TETLEY, ARTHUR NORMAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 304, B Squadron, 8th Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of William Tetley, of Berwick, Gippsland, Victoria, Squatter, by his wife, Kate, dau. of Arthur Noyes; b. in Victoria, 19 Feb. 1889; educ. C. E. Grammar School, Melbourne; volunteered on the outbreak of war, being the first to do so in his district; left for Egypt with the main force; went to the Dardanelles 15 May; was wounded in action at Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli, 7 Aug., and died at sea on board the hospital ship Delta, 8 Aug. 1915; unm. Sergt. C. H. Lyon wrote: “I saw a good deal of him over at Gallipoli, and he did splendidly from beginning to end. I know men in his troop thought a lot of him, and it was only owing to lack of vacancies that he didn’t get rapid promotion. On June 23 Norman got shaken up pretty badly. The Turks were shelling us pretty heavily with French 75’s and high explosives. Where Norman was stationed they got it very badly; he wasn’t actually hit, but the shells bursting near him peppered his face with gravel. He got over it, however, without going away, but when the attack came on 7 Aug. he was very run down. From that I heard the doctor had advised him not to go out, but like many others he was keen on being with his troop and couldn’t stand the idea of being left behind. For three days we were expecting the attack, and on the evening of 6 Aug. we were taken out into the left hand sap on Walker’s Ridge. All night we sat there not knowing what moment we would be called on, and towards daylight the men-of-war and cruisers bombarded the Turkish trenches right in front of us. The 8th were divided into the 1st and 2nd lines of attack. A squadron and two troops out of B formed the 1st line (including Norman), and C Squadron with the other half of B formed into 2nd line. The 10th Regt. formed the 3rd and 4th. The Turkish trenches were about 25 yards from us, and the whole front not more than 150 yards long. At 4.30 a.m. the bombarding stopped and the attack commenced. Owing to a misunderstanding, my troop was late in moving up, and just as we got into the front sap, our officer was shot through the hand and retired. I was left in charge, and being unable to jam past the men, jumped up and ran round to the front of the sap, calling on them to follow, but just as we got out, the 1st line fell back, nearly all wounded, with orders to retire. As we dropped back into the sap, I saw Norman lying just out in front, and with the assistance of others, got him in and laid him on the bottom of the trench. His leg was in a fearful state, a machine-gun had got on to him, but he stood it wonderfully and a 10th man applied first aid. The stretcher bearers were fearfully busy, and we were in an out of the way place and he had to lie there over two hours before it was possible to get him away. The loss of blood must have been very great. Of 318 of our our men that went out that morning, 154 were killed, and 80 odd wounded. The Turks had 34 machine-guns playing on the narrow strip between the trenches, and only one of our men, a sergt. in A Squadron, ever reached their trenches. All but two of our officers that went out were killed, including Col. White, Major Retford, and our Adjutant.”

=TEUMA, GIOVANNI=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, Chatham 356340, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=THACKERAY, ALFRED WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 6865, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THAKE, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12817, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=THAL, MORRIS MARCUS VAN=, Rifleman, No. Z2641, B Coy., 25th Brigade, 8th Division, Rifle Brigade, Interpreter to Commanding Officer, only child of Marcus van Thal, of 91, Addison Gardens, Kensington, employee at the War Office, by his wife, Marie, dau. of Meyer Poole; b. Catford, co. Kent, 10 Oct. 1897; educ. St. John’s College, Southend-on-Sea, Brussels, and Hanover, and passed the Senior Cambridge Local Exam., with also oral French and German, 1913; enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915. Corpl. Leigh Knight wrote: “I was your son’s section commander, and am very sorry to have to tell you that I myself saw him fall. He was a good soldier, and when we charged he went forward very gallantly. He was killed by a German shell, and it was practically instantaneous death”; and Rifleman E. Allen wrote: “On 9 May we made an attack on Fromelles, where I saw your son carrying a machine-gun into action. I could not say whether he was killed, but I saw him go under, when I was wounded.”

=THEOBALD, WILLIAM GEORGE MORLEY=, Private, No. 792, No. 2 Coy. 14th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of George Theobald, of Littleport, Cambs, Superintendent of Fen Drainage, Littleport, and Downham District, by his wife, Hannah Jackson, dau. of James Hardwick, of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia; b. Little Downham, Isle of Ely, 12 Nov. 1894; educ. March (Cambs.) Grammar School; joined the Cambridgeshire Territorials in 1913; went to Australia, 18 April, 1914, and when war broke out volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force at the end of Oct., 1914; left Melbourne for Egypt with the 2nd Reinforcements, 23 Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at 10 the same morning while out sniping with four others. He was unm. A comrade wrote: “He was not out long before he was shot, but he did some good work before he was hit.” Another comrade wrote: “Every one of us was grieved when poor Tommy was killed, for all were agreed that Tommy was a gentleman.”

=THICK, JOHN CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12173, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMAS, ANDREW READ=, Chief Armourer, 340547, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMAS, AUBREY JOCELYN NUGENT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, elder s. of Jocelyn H. W. Thomas, of Belmont, Carlow, Ireland, formerly Capt., Scots Fusiliers Guards; b. Belmont, co. Carlow, 23 Sept. 1888; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, 16 Aug. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 29 May, 1909, and Capt. 20 Jan. 1915; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the landing of the Lancashire Fusiliers at Beach W., Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm.

=THOMAS, CHARLES HERBERT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., only child of Howard Thomas, of 10, Westminster Palace Gardens, S.W., by his wife, Ethel, dau. of the late William Baker, of Sneyd Park, Bristol, and grandson of the late Charles Thomas, of Stoke Bishop, Bristol, J.P., D.L.; b. Charlton, Henbury, co. Gloucester, 25 April, 1880; educ. at Clifton; Abbotsholme, and Edinburgh University; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Somerset L.I., 21 April, 1900, from the militia, and promoted Lieut. 16 Dec. 1901, and Capt. 8 Jan. 1909. He served in the South African War, 1899–1901, with the Somerset L.I., receiving the Queen’s medal with clasp, and in Feb. 1901, was transferred to the South Staffordshire Regt. then in India; was on leave, 1904–05; at Depôt, Lichfield, 1906–08, and in South Africa 1908–1911, where, in 1909, he was given the command of the Mounted Infantry Coy. of his Regt. then at Harrismith, and returned to Lichfield in 1911. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 11 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne; was severely wounded in action near Ypres, 27 Oct., and died at the Hotel Crystal Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. 1914. He was buried in the English quarter of the cemetery there. Capt. Thomas was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 18 Feb. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, and his Col. wrote: “I had hoped that your gallant and beloved son might have been the recipient of our most coveted decoration on the strength of my recommendation.” He was an expert horseman and a keen polo player. He m. at Winsford, Exmoor, 4 June, 1912, Dorothy Catherine, only dau. of Philip Everard, of Miltons, Dulverton, co. Somerset, and had issue a son, Charles Richard, b. 15 June, 1913.

=THOMAS, EDWARD THOMAS=, Rifleman, No. 9867, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of John Thomas, Shearer, Raglan Bays Works, Briton Ferry, by his wife, Susanah, dau. of David Hopkins; b. Pontarddulais, co. Glamorgan, 2 Feb. 1884; educ. Hammanford; was employed at Port Talbot; enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 5 May, 1903; served three years with the Colours; and then joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 23 Oct. 1914. Buried near Chapelle d’Armentières. He was a member of the Silver Band, Briton Ferry. He m. at Neath, 6 March, 1909, Catherine (Lowther Street, Briton Ferry, Glamorgan), dau. of David Hopkins, and had four children: Thomas Ivor Gwyn, b. 18 Dec. 1913; Edward Ypres, b. (posthumous), 16 April, 1915; Jane Ellen, b. 9 Jan. 1910; and Mary Catherine, b. 27 April, 1911.

=THOMAS, JOHN ARLOE EDWARD=, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, 345555, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Charles Thomas, of 17, St. Thomas Green, Haverfordwest; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=THOMAS, JOHN BAKER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9863), S.S. 106671, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMAS, MAURICE=, Private, No. 1715, 1/4th (Service) Battn. the Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Henry Thomas, of Worthing, by his wife, Ellen (11, Stanhope Road, Worthing), dau. of William Knight, of Washington, Sussex; b. Worthing, co. Sussex, 4 April, 1897; educ. St. Andrew’s Higher Grade School there, and on leaving became a messenger boy at the Worthing G.P.O. and had passed his examinations for the staff when war broke out. He had joined the Royal Sussex Territorials, 14 Aug. 1913; was called up 4 Aug. 1914, and volunteered for foreign service, and left England for the Dardanelles in July, 1915. He was attd. to the machine-gun section of his battn., landed at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. and was killed in action there four days later, 12 Aug. 1915, as his battn. was retiring after being relieved from the front trenches. The Turks opened a heavy machine-gun fire on them, and he was hit and killed almost immediately. He was buried where he fell at Anafarta Sagir, 1.20-000-105H, near Track to Chocolate Hill between 4–7 p.m. He was a prominent member of the Holy Trinity Church Lads’ Naval Brigade.

=THOMAS, PHILLIP PERCIVAL=, A.B., 231687, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMAS, THOMAS JAMES=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 3800), 189482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMAS, WALTER JAMES=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Po./10970, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THOMPSON, ALBERT RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1994), 211537, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THOMPSON, ARCHER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8602), S.S. 104956, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=THOMPSON, BERNARD HARRY LEOPOLD=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 175938, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=THOMPSON, EDWARD=, A.B., 226948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THOMPSON, GEORGE MASTERMAN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, attd. Gold Coast Regt. West African Frontier Force, only s. of the late Col. George William Thompson, formerly commanding 1st Battn. Royal Scots (who saw service in the Crimea, China, and India), by his wife, Agnes (Beechwood, Burley, co. Hants), dau. of Admiral John Russell; b. Etschowe, Zululand, 21 Feb. 1890; educ. Mr. Stanford’s Private School, St. Aubyns, Rottingdean; Wellington College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Royal Scots, 18 Sept. 1909; transferred to 1st Battn. in Jan. 1910, and served three years in India; promoted Lieut. 13 Feb. 1913, and attd. to the Gold Coast Regt. West African Frontier Force, and was killed in action, 22 Aug. 1914, while gallantly leading an attack on a strongly entrenched position at Chra, Togoland: “a deed of extraordinary courage.” Buried at Chra; unm. Lord Kitchener forwarded to his relatives an official letter from the Governor-General of French West Africa, saying: “That he had decided that the splendid behaviour on 22 Aug. 1914, in the affair of Chra, of Lieut. Thompson, of His Britannic Majesty’s Army, and of the detachment of French native troops commanded by that officer, deserved to be commemorated in a Special General Order, as an example to all the troops in the Colony”; and one from General Pienau, forwarding the Order: “and expressing his very deep admiration for the magnificent way in which this officer performed his duty as a soldier, when sacrificing his life.” The terms of the Order were: “Placed on 22 Aug. before the fight of Chra under the orders of Capt. Castaing of the Dahomey Brigade, he gave proof of supreme courage, of fine qualities of command in leading his Tirailleurs to the attack of German trenches vigorously defended--fifty metres from the enemy’s line he fell mortally wounded--his splendid example earned that almost the whole of the French Tirailleurs placed under his orders laid down their lives defending his body.” The Commanding Officer wrote: “His conduct during the action was particularly gallant. He was killed while attempting to storm the German trenches on the enemy’s left. He was an officer who was genuinely popular with all ranks and one whom we could ill afford to lose, and I wish to convey to you not only my own profound sympathy in your loss, which is also mine, but that of all ranks of the Togoland Field Force. His conduct was that of a gallant officer and gentleman.” The Adjutant wrote: “I had more opportunities than anybody of realising your son’s sterling qualities as a soldier in peace times and his conspicuous gallantry in times of war. His loss is deeply felt by the whole force”; and a District Commissioner wrote: “His proficiency in the language and his influence over the natives, both soldiers and civilians, were astonishing, and great regret was evinced by all at Quittah, where the force of his personality had been very much felt during the short time he had been in command there, the chief asking leave to visit the grave at Chra.” Lieut. Thompson was a fine linguist, and besides speaking French and the native dialect fluently, had passed the higher standard in Hindustani and Persian. He was a keen sportsman and a good fencer and polo player.

=THOMPSON, GILBERT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Connaught Rangers, attd. as Adjutant 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Reginald Thompson, of Loftus Hill, Knaresborough, Col. 2nd Vol. Battn. West York Regt., by his wife, Frances Harriet, 4th dau. of the Rev. Charles Smith Royds, of Haughton, co. Stafford, and Heysham, co. Lancaster, J.P., and gdson. of Sir Matthews William Thompson, of Guiseley, 1st Bart.; b. Baildon Lodge, 22 June, 1877; educ. Yarlet near Stafford, afterwards privately; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Connaught Rangers, from the Militia, 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1900, and Capt. 29 Nov. 1905; served eight years with them in India; appointed Adjutant to the Kensingtons, 1 Jan. 1913; left for France with them 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Laventie, 24 Feb. 1915. Buried at Picantin. One of the men, writing home, said of him: “We have lost one of our best officers. Capt. Thompson, the Adjutant. He was showing the General round, and he was shot in the head. He was one of the best; he thought of the men first and himself last. Every man is sorry at his death.... The men have lost their best friend.” Another man wrote: “Out in the trenches he was splendid. He would come along and ask how we were and always have something cheery to say. He got his feet frost-bitten and asked what he should do.... ‘See the doctor, sir,’ I said. ‘Not I,’ he replied. ‘He’ll want a few toes off and put me on the sick list.’ And he wouldn’t, with all my persuasion. When my feet got very bad, I rode back three miles on his horse and the next morning he came round to see me. He’s splendid.” He was buried in the little cemetery behind the firing-line. His last request was: “Bury me with the boys, not beside the officers,” and this wish was carried out. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April and 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. Capt. Thompson m. at Finghall, Yorkshire, 7 June, 1906, Ethel Isabella, 2nd dau. of Marmaduke D’Arcy Wyvill, of Constable Burton and Denton Park, Yorkshire, J.P., D.L., and had three children: Christopher Smith Byron, b. 19 April, 1907; Laura Barbara Frances, b. 10 Nov. 1908, and Naomi Isabella, b. 23 Oct. 1912.

=THOMPSON, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4241), 168018, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMPSON, JOHN ALEXANDER MACKAY=, Lieut., 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of William Thomas Thompson, M.A., Sc. (McGill), M.Can.Soc. C.E., D.T.S., District Engineer, Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada, by his wife, Mary, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Alexander Mackay, M.A., and grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. John Hall Thompson. M.P.; b. Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan, 6 Aug. 1890; educ. Qu’Appelle Schools and by tutors, afterwards by his father in Surveying and Engineering, and was acting as assistant to him when war broke out. In Dec. 1914, he was given a temporary Lieutenancy in the 16th Light Horse and, after qualifying at the Military Institute, Winnipeg, was gazetted Lieut. to the 32nd Battn. He left for England in Feb. 1915, and in April went with his company to reinforce the 10th Battn. in France, took part in the Second Battle of Ypres and was killed in the Battle of Festubert, leading his platoon in a night attack on the German position K. 5 (or Bexhill), 21 May following. He was unm., and was buried in a shell hole near K. 5. His men said that “he died like a hero, leading his men, on a rush attack right into a murderous fire,” and his commanding officer describing the attack on K. 5 wrote: “Lieut. Thompson in his quiet unassuming way led his platoon out to return no more--no better little soldier graced the 10th.” A brother officer wrote: “He was a soldier with few superiors, and a courage that knew no limits.”

=THOMPSON, ROBERT=, Stoker, R.N.R., 759V, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMPSON, SAMUEL VINCENT=, Signalman, 237351, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THOMPSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5690, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. co. Kerry; enlisted 14 Nov. 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 12 March, 1915.

=THOMPSON, WALTER DARCY=, Private, No. 4843, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Thompson, engineer; b. Elswick, Newcastle, 1883; educ. Southwick Board School; enlisted at Elswick, 26 Sept. 1902; left with the 1st Expeditionary Force for the Front on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action in France, 16 Sept. 1914. Private Thompson m. at Southwick, 21 Feb. 1906, Martha Alexandra, dau. of Robert Whyte, of Perth, and had two sons and one daughter: Vernon, b. 3 Nov. 1912; Walter Darcy, b. 11 Nov. 1914, and Edna, b. 21 April, 1909. His widow died 12 March, 1915, leaving the three infant children without any known relations. Capt. John Smith, of the Salvation Army at Southwick, took temporary charge of them, and Queen Alexandra hearing of the sad story wrote to Capt. Smith for particulars and expressed herself as anxious to assist in some way. The story was submitted to Her Majesty, and in reply a handsome money gift was sent for each child to be banked in trust for them.

=THOMPSON, WILLIAM JOHN HENRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./15133, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=THOMSON, ALEXANDER=, L.-Corpl., 6378, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Strickey, co. Aberdeen; enlisted 6 Jan. 1906; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 20–26 Oct. 1914. He m. Jennie (51, Esslemont Avenue, Aberdeen), dau. of (--) Anderson, and had two daus.: Mary Anderson, b. 20 April, 1910, and Joan, b. 25 June, 1915.

=THOMSON, ALEXANDER CAMERON=, Sergt., No. 1380, D Coy., 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of James Thomson, of 57, St. Andrew Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Alexander Cameron, of Rothes; b. Glasgow, 30 March, 1892; educ. Kinning Park Public School; was two years in the 7th S. R. Glasgow before going to Australia, 25 Nov. 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sydney, N.S.W., 26 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt about 24 Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and after being promoted Corpl. and Sergt. was killed in action there, 3 May, 1915; unm. His Officer Commanding, Lieut. C. B. Hopkins, wrote: “Your son was killed on the night of 3 May, doing his duty in a most gallant manner, in a charge against some Turkish trenches.”

=THOMSON, DUNCAN TURNER=, Private, No. 118, 9th Battn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland Light Infantry (T.F.). s. of Alexander Thomson, of 8, Hamilton Park Terrace, Glasgow, M.B., C.M., Edinburgh, by his wife, Mary J. McKean, dau. of the Rev. Duncan Turner, M.A.; b. Huntly, co. Aberdeen, 23 Dec. 1888; educ. Glasgow Academy, and the Royal Technical College, Glasgow; was a fully qualified and diplomated architect, and was in the employment of Mr. P. Macgregor Chelmers, Glasgow; joined the 9th Highland L.I. Territorials in 1908; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war; went to France in Oct. 1914, and died in the General Hospital, Northampton, 30 July, 1915, of wounds received in action on 19 June. He was shot by a sniper when on duty in the trenches at Vermelles; unm. Capt. A. K. Reid wrote: “He was a man for whom I had the highest regard, especially since we came out here, and he was one of the most popular members of the company. His good humour even under the most trying circumstances caused him to be liked by all. He could be trusted at all times to do his duty as a soldier and as a man. I saw him in the Vermelles trenches a few minutes after he was hit, and he left us to walk back to the dressing station with a cheery good-bye to us all”; and one of his comrades, writing to a friend, said: “You doubtless have heard of Duncan Thomson’s death. Man! Why is it that all those splendid sportsmen get knocked out, and the rest of us go free. He was an awfully decent chap and I saw quite a lot of him in the G.H. at Dunfermline and in France. A more thorough, straighter, cleaner chap you could not meet. Five of the old 1st Battn.--friends of his--and myself carried the coffin into the Kirk, and then again to the grave. It wasn’t a military funeral (military honours having been paid when the body left Northampton), so we could only salute his grave, but if ever a man deserved honours at his graveside he did. We called him ‘Sniper’ out there, for the simple reason that he was so delightfully cool and casual. He never fired a shot at anything unless he was absolutely certain. If ever you wanted a hot drink, or anything to cheer yourself up with, you went to Duncan, and sure enough then you got it.”

=THOMSON, HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2713, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914.

=THOMSON, LESLIE=, Rifleman, No. 1877, F Coy. 1/16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.). s. of Walter Thomson, of 18, Lorne Street, Reading, by his wife, Emma; b. Reading, co. Berks, 9 Feb. 1893; educ. Christ’s Hospital, West Horsham; volunteered and joined the Queen’s Westminsters, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action by a rifle grenade which burst just behind him in the trenches at Houplines, near Armentières, 18 March, 1915; unm. Buried in the hospital cemetery, Rue Carnot, Houplines. Major Tyrwhitt wrote to his parents: “Your son was always such a bright cheerful boy and such a good soldier,” and a letter signed by 42 men, including officers of his company (Sec. 11), also bore testimony to the respect in which he was held by all.

=THORBURN, WILLIAM=, Sergt.-Artificer, A.S.C., No. M./2, 101388, attd. to the 11th Battery, Motor Machine Gun Service, eldest s. of William Thorburn, of 110, Second Avenue, Clydebank, Linotype Operator, by his wife, Jessie Symington, 3rd dau. of the late Alexander Briton, Boot and Shoe Maker, Queen Street and Shawlands, Glasgow; b. Glasgow, 27 May, 1894; educ. at Dalmuir Public School, Clydebank; was employed by the Singer Manufacturing Company, Kilbowie, as an Engineer; enlisted 18 Nov. 1914; was promoted Corpl. and transferred to the Active Service Corps on Saturday, 29 May, 1915, being attd. to the 11th Battery, Motor Machine Guns, as Mechanic, and went to France on 7 July, 1915. He was employed at the time of his death in a blacksmith’s shop constructing an iron covering to bring a cycle and machine gun into action under cover, when one of the battery accidentally discharged a loaded revolver at 8 a.m. on Saturday, 7 Aug. 1915. The bullet entered his throat and travelled to his back and down the spine, and two and three-quarter hours later he died in hospital. He was buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, just outside Bethune; unm.

=THORNTON, EDWARD=, Private, No. 11817, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Thornton, of 16, Berkeley Street, Lambeth; b. co. Surrey; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action near Cambrin, 27 June, 1915; unm.

=THORNTON, JACK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2997), 220331, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THORNTON, LEACH=, Telegraphist, J. 11559, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THORNTON, WILLIAM CHATMAN=, A.B., S.S. 1435, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THORPE, CYRIL KIRKMAN=, A.B., J. 7169, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=THORPE, EDWARD ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310026, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THORPE, GEORGE ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110938 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THRUSH, GEORGE=, S.P.O. (R.F.R., B. 2050), 164113, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=THUMWOOD, ARTHUR GEORGE=, Leading Stoker, 300662, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=THUNDERCLIFFE, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8086 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THURGOOD, JOHN EDWARD=, Petty Officer, 180071, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THURLEY, ALBERT EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14029, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=THURLEY, ANSELL GIFFORD=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 2565, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Joseph Thurley, of 24, Station Road, Westgate-on-Sea; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=THURLOW, ARTHUR GEOFFREY=, 2nd Lieut., 8th Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., only s. of the late Arthur James Thurlow, of The Rookery, High Wycombe, co. Bucks, by his wife, Florence; b. High Wycombe, 8 Nov. 1891; educ. Norfolk House School, Beaconsfield; Felsted School, and won an open classical scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (where he graduated B.A. with classical honours, June 1914); gazetted 2nd Lieut., 8th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., 9 Sept. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 1 June, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug.; was wounded 21 Aug., and died at Alexandria, 29 Aug. 1915, of his wounds; unm. Buried at Alexandria. He was a fine athlete; was Captain of his College football team, and a member of The Wanderers Club, and played hockey for the University.

=THURSTON, SIDNEY GEORGE=, A. B. (R.F.R., B. 9808), 203210, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIBBO, JAMES JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1017, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd s. of Richard Tibbo, of 7, Lime Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Richard Roach; b. St. John’s aforesaid, 12 Nov. 1894; educ. St. Patrick’s Hall and Holy Cross Christian Brothers’ Schools; was a Seaman; joined the Newfoundland Regt. 13 Jan. 1915; left for England, 20 March; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 1 Dec. 1915, while gallantly assisting a stretcher bearer to remove the wounded; unm.

=TIDBURY, ALFRED HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9670), S.S. 107002, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIDMAN, THOMAS JAMES SAMUEL=, Petty Officer, 196090, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TIERNEY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9535), S.S. 106901, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIGHE, BERNARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4818), S.S. 1738, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TILBURY, DAVID=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 548), late R.M.A., 5982, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TILDESLEY, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3195), S.S. 100853; H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TILLETT, JAMES ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (O.S.), 178794, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TILLEY, HENRY PERCIVAL=, Private, No. 8669, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Parkstone, co. Dorset; enlisted 5 Aug. 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

=TILLEY, JAMES CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 1288, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TIMBRELL, GORDON=, Sergt., No. 225, 3rd Light Horse, Australian expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Samuel Timbrell, for many years Manager of the Central Station Hotel, Glasgow, by his wife, Charlotte Whyte (now wife of Anderson Rodger, of 59, Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.), dau. of George Gordon, of Aberdeen; b. Glasgow, 13 April, 1891; educ. Glasgow High School, and on leaving there in 1906 went to Stubbington House, Fareham, to be prepared for entrance in the Royal Navy as an Engineer Cadet. This idea had to be abandoned owing to the new age limit (12 years) coming into force, bringing Engineers under the same regulations as the Executive Cadets. Shortly afterwards he entered the office of a shipping firm in Stettin, with the purpose of learning the German language in combination with business training, and on leaving there, returned to Glasgow where he served a brief apprenticeship in a stockbroker’s office, and then went to Australia in 1910. He first took up sheep farming, but city life lured him, first to Melbourne, where he gained some experience in the wool trade, and then to Adelaide, where he managed the shipping department of Messrs. Bagot, Shakes & Lewis, Ltd. He had been with them three years when war broke out. He immediately volunteered and joined the Light Horse as a private, but being a fluent speaker of French and German, and a hard and fearless worker, he quickly won promotion and was appointed Sergt. early in March. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 1 July, 1915; unm. In a letter from Sergt. Smith under date of 26 June, printed in the Glasgow High School Magazine, Dec. 1915, p. 37, is the following passage: “My outlook on the world and things in general just now is even brighter than usual. Timmy (Sergt. Gordon Timbrell) is a wonderful boy and yesterday secured all manner of good things. We dined last night on turtle soup, thick mutton stew, pineapple, cakes, dates and coffee, and wound up with cigarettes. This morning for breakfast we had porridge and milk as a preliminary to what was in itself a splendid ‘feed.’ When Timmy is purveyor we are sure to be all right. The hardships of war! They have not existed so far.” And in a later letter he wrote: “You will no doubt have heard of poor Timmy’s death. He was killed in the trench last Thursday evening. You don’t know how I miss him. We have been the best of pals all the time. He was as game as you make ’em.” The secretary of his firm wrote: “He was a courageous and chivalrous young fellow, and had done uncommonly well in our firm. We were only awaiting his return, and the return of something like normal conditions to give him that lift which he had so well earned.”

=TIMMINGS, EDWARD ALBERT JOHN=, Electrical Artificer, 4th Class, M. 4098 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=TIMMINS, JOHN LLEWELLYN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 611), late Ch./4514, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIMMINS, WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, 187758, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=TINKLER, GILBERT=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1883T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TINNE, ERNEST PERCY JAMES=, Lieut., R.N.R., 4th s. of John Ernest Tinne, of Liverpool, Merchant; b. Aigburth, Liverpool, 30 Dec. 1882; educ. Liverpool College, and H.M.S. Conway; joined the R.N.R., and became Lieut. Oct. 1909; joined H.M.S. Hogue at Chatham, 3 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Paignton, South Devon, 4 May, 1907, Annie Amelia Kate, dau. of (--) Bartlett, and had three children: Maurice Herman James, b. 21 Feb. 1914; Hester Petronella, b. 26 Feb. 1908, and Margery Bertha Denise, b. 31 Oct, 1909.

=TIPPER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 7730, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only child of Fred Tipper, of 7, Back, 11, Blythe Street, Ladywood, Birmingham, Builder’s Labourer, by his wife, Ada, daughter of Isaac Morgan; b. Selly Oak, co. Worcester, 14 Feb. 1889; educ. St. Barnabas’ Church School, Ryland Street, Birmingham; enlisted, 4 March, 1908; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed at Givenchy, France, 16 April, 1915; unm. He was relieved from sentry duty in the trenches, at 6 a.m. that morning, and then went to attend a class for bomb throwing and at 11 a.m. a bomb exploded in his hand killing him and Lieut. Crawford. He was buried by the Bishop of Khartoum, just behind the firing-line.

=TIPPINS, JOHN=, Corpl. and Acting Sergt., No. 3105, 2nd Battn. Essex Regt., s. of Luke R. Tippins, of Mistley, Essex, Schoolmaster and Rifle Expert; b. Winsford, co. Somerset, 10 March, 1887; educ. Norman School, Mistley, and privately; served first in 2nd Vol. Battn. Essex Regt., then in the 5th Essex (T.F.) as Machine Gun Sergt., and finally in 8th Essex (T.F.) as Motor Cycle Sergt.; joined 2nd Battn. as Private 18 Sept. 1914, in order to get at once to the Front, and was appointed Corpl., and left for France the following day, and was killed in action at a farm near Armentières, 26 Nov. 1914, having been appointed Acting Sergt. in charge of a machine gun a few days previously. Buried in 2nd Essex Cemetery, near Armentières; unm. John Tippins was one of the finest rifle shots in the United Kingdom. He qualified for the final stage of the King’s Prize Competition at Bisley in the years 1908–11 inclusive and in 1913; he won the Wimbledon Cup, 1910, the Association Cup, 1909, the Aggregate Service Rifle Championship, 1911, and took first place in the second stage of the Albert Competition the same year. He shot in the Elcho, Mackinnon, and Challenge Trophy teams, and was one of the Empire Team chosen to go out to Australia, whose departure was prevented by the outbreak of war. On the night he fell, he had gone himself to get water for the Maxim in his charge, as it was a dangerous job in daylight, and was killed on his return. Capt. Binstead (since killed) wrote: “He had already gained for himself a reputation as a daring sniper and splendid shot, which had spread far beyond his own regt., and which, had he not been shot, would, I feel sure, have obtained for him a coveted distinction.”

=TITE, CHARLES JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111796, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TITTERINGTON, LESLIE=, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272194, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TITTERINGTON, ROGER=, Private, No. 11281, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of James Titterington, of Elim Grove, Bowness on Windermere, co. Westmoreland, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Roger Aldren, of Carnforth, Lancs.; b. Bowness on Windermere, 30 March, 1894; educ. Bowness Elementary School; enlisted 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rue de l’Epinette, 31 Dec. 1914; unm. Buried in Soldiers’ Cemetery, Rue du Bois, on road from Bethune to Richebourg, about a mile beyond Le Touret.

=TOCHER, JOHN LESLIE=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 215576, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOD, BERNARD DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 1828, A Coy. 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of James Tod, of 7, Bennochy Terrace, Kirkcaldy; b. North Berwick, East Lothian, 30 Jan. 1896; educ. Kirkcaldy High School (where he was a member of the O.T.C.), and Rouen; was a member of the staff of Messrs. Steel Bros. & Co., Ltd., East India Merchants, of 6, Fenchurch Avenue, E.C.; joined the London Scottish about March, 1913; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and left for France, 15 Sept. 1914; took part in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, and in the gallant defence of the trenches at Zillebeke, and was killed in action in the trenches at Givenchy, 23 Dec. 1914. Buried in a disused part of the trench; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was without fear, and his whole thought was to do his duty for those at home.”

=TODD, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9580), 200339 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TODD, JOHN WRIGHT=, L.-Corpl., No. 11308, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, grandson of John Todd, of Main Street, Norham-on-Tweed; b. Norham-on-Tweed, 14 Feb. 1894; educ. there; was a Baker; enlisted in 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Oct. 1911; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 9 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm.

=TODD, ROBERT FREDERICK=, Chief Ship’s Cook, 344299, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TODDERINGHAM, WILLIAM=, 1st Class Stoker, No. K. 12824, R.N., eldest s. of the late William Todderingham, Seaman, by his wife, Bridget (40, Tredegar Street, Cardiff), dau. of (--) Landers, of Cardiff; b. Cardiff, 10 May, 1892; educ. St. Peter’s R.C. Schools there; entered the Navy, 1909, and was lost when H.M.S. Monmouth was sunk in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

=TODRICK, THOMAS=, W.S., Capt., 1/8th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), elder s. of Robert Todrick, Agent for the Bank of Scotland at Haddington, Hon. Sheriff Substitute, by his wife, Marianne Somerville, dau. of the late Rev. John Stevenson, of Wigtown; b. Haddington, 26 Dec. 1879; educ. Knox Institute; Leys School, Cambridge, and Edinburgh University, at which latter he took his law course, and was admitted, in 1904, a Writer to the Signet. Apprenticed for a time in the offices of Messrs. J. & J. Turnbull, W.S., Edinburgh, he afterwards started business there on his own account. He received his first commission in the 7th (Haddingtonshire) Vol. Battn. of the Royal Scots, 1900, and was appointed to the command of the Headquarters Coy. at Haddington, 1908, which command he held till 1913, and then joined the Reserve of Officers. Early in 1914 he accepted the offer to take command of the Dalkeith Coy., and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. It was expected that the Service Battn. of the 8th Royal Scots would be called upon to leave Britain about Christmas, but on 1 Nov. they received orders to entrain the following day. Within a few days they were in France, and by the 15th of the same month in the firing line. Capt. Todrick took a prominent part in the operations, and was killed in action 15 Dec. 1914. A few nights before his death he crept from the British across to the German trenches, went under the wire entanglements and came back on that occasion in safety. A few days later the General in command asked that listening patrols should be sent out at night, and Capt. Todrick went out with three men himself. On reaching a certain point he asked them to lie in a ditch, as he thought he saw figures moving in front; he went on alone and fired his revolver. Doubtless the flash revealed him; an answering shot struck him in the neck, and his death was practically instantaneous. His men brought back his body, and he was buried in a little French cemetery while shells passed overhead. One of his brother officers wrote: “Poor Todrick has gone, best of comrades and bravest man in the battn.; no officer could have been more beloved by the others of all ranks in the battn.” Capt. Todrick was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He m. at Blackheath, 27 Aug. 1910, Brenda (30, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of John List, chief engineer of the Union-Castle Line, and had a son and dau.: Archibald, b. 25 April, 1912; and Elizabeth, b. 5 Feb. 1914.

=TOLHURST, WALTER=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1852), 157015, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=TOLLEMACHE, BEVIL DOUGLAS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the Hon. Douglas Alfred Tollemache, of Southbeach, Felixstowe, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late John Heath, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Tollemache; b. Melton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 11 April, 1889; educ. Wixenford and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the 1st Coldstream Guards, 15 Aug. 1914; left for France in Oct., and was killed in action at Givenchy on the morning of 22 Dec. following; unm.

=TOMBS, JOHN BERNARD EVELYN=, Corpl., No. 2367, 2/9th Battn., attd. 2/10th Battn., The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Thomas Charles Tombs, of 60, Harrow View, Harrow, Middlesex, by his wife, Mary Frances, dau. of John Airey, of Oakdene, Holly Park Gardens, Finchley, N.; b. Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 28 Jan. 1894; educ. Holmwood House School, Hampstead, and the William Ellis Endowed School, Gospel Oak; was in the employ of the Sun Life Office, Threadneedle Street, E.C., and was a Probationer of the Institute of Actuaries; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the 2/9th Middlesex in Sept. 1914; trained at Staines, Cambridge and Bedford; left England for the Dardanelles, 17 July, 1915, and was attached to the 2/10th Battn.; was in action at Suvla Bay, 8–12 Aug. 1915, when he was invalided to Alexandria and died there in the 15th General Hospital, 23 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery.

=TOMLIN, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1517), 201734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOMLIN, JOHN=, Canteen Assistant, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOMLINSON, FREDERICK WALLACE=, A.B., J. 7909, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOMLINSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2240), 301735, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOMPKINS, EDWIN=, Private, No. 54, 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Henry James Tompkins, of 133, St. James’ Road, Northampton, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of William Griffin; b. Great Houghton, co. Northampton, 30 March, 1891; educ. Kingsthorpe and Council School, St. James’ End; was an employee in Wolverton Carriage Works, and joined the Oxford and Bucks Territorials in May, 1913; emigrated to Australia in July, 1913, and settled in Victoria as a Farm Hand; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of the European War, 1 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt, 19 Oct 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died in King’s College Hospital, London, 16 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli the previous May; unm.

=TOMPKINS, GEORGE CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109430, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOMPKINS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Ordinary Signalman, No. J20250, R.N., H.M.S. Triumph, only s. of Thomas Tompkins, of 14, College Park Terrace, Willesden Junction, N.W., Gardener in Hyde Park under H.M. Office of Works, by his wife, Annie Ellen, dau. of Robert Margetts; b. Faringdon, co. Berks, 14 Feb. 1897; educ. Kenmont Garden Council School, College Park, N.W.; joined Royal Navy, 22 Sept. 1912; was drafted to Portsmouth Depot, 30 Aug. 1913; and sailed for the Dardanelles in H.M.S. Irresistible, 19 Feb. 1915. This ship was sunk by a drifting mine during the attack on the Narrows, 18 March following. He was saved and taken on board H.M.S. Ocean, which was also sunk in the same way immediately afterwards. Saved for the second time that day, he was appointed to H.M.S. Triumph, and was drowned when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire off Gaba Tepe, 25 May, 1915. His body was recovered by a trawler (705) and taken to H.M.S. Blenheim, from which it was buried at sea; unm. The Chief Yeoman of Signals of the Triumph wrote: “He was a very promising young fellow, and would have done well in his profession. I cannot say too much for him.” At school he won two scholarships and also the L.C.C. first prize for carpentry.

=TOMS, ARTHUR WOODLAND=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt. (Special Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of Frederick Woodland Toms, of 1, Claremont Terrace, Jersey, F.I.C., Official Analyst, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Frazer Hopwood, of Fauresmith, Orange River Colony; b. St. Helier’s, Jersey, 25 April, 1891; educ. Victoria College there; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Devonshire Regt. (Special Reserve), 7 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1914. For some time before the outbreak of war he had been preparing for service under the Colonial Office, and received the offer of an appointment in West Africa from the Secretary for the Colonies three days before the declaration of war. He went to France, 6 Nov., and was accidentally killed, 27 Nov. 1914, while on active service, and was buried in the cemetery at Estaires, Nord; unm. The officer commanding 3rd Devonshire Regt. wrote: “He was a great favourite in the regt, and a most capable officer.” In 1913 and 1914 Lieut. Toms captained the “Young Soldiers’” shooting team of his regt.

=TOMS, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 170693, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TONKINSON, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 599), S.S. 805, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOGOOD, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3730), 191822, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOLEY, JOHN JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13005, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TOOMER, CECIL WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10181, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOMEY, ARCHIBALD ROCHE=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), eldest s. of Archibald Montgomery Toomey, of 20, Palmerston Park, Dublin, by his wife, Nina, dau. of Surg.-Major James Roche Nagle; b. Dublin, 17 Dec. 1891; educ. St. Stephen’s Green School; Portora Royal School, and Trinity College, Dublin (Medical School); volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 6th Leinsters, 26 Aug. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from 5 Aug. 1915, to 10 Aug. 1915; killed in action at Suvla Bay on the later date; unm.

=TOOP, EDWARD CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5115), 195218, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

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

=TOPHAM, GEORGE SAMUEL=, L.-Corpl., No. 1358, 1/5th Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs) (T.F.), yst. s. of William Topham, of Arlesey, co. Bedford, Engine Driver, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Bowskill, of Arlesey; b. St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, 2 Feb. 1896; educ. Arlesey Council School, and was apprenticed to Messrs. Levitt & Sons, Outfitters, of Arlesey, and then moved to Luton, later going to Cranbrook, Kent. Volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined The Buffs on or about 6 Aug. 1914; left for India, 29 Oct., where he remained until Nov. 1915, when he was ordered to the Persian Gulf, and died there 17 Jan. 1916, of wounds received in action on the 6th: unm.

=TOPHAM, HENRY ANGRAVE CECIL=, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attd. 1st Battn. The Welsh Regiment, elder s. of John Henry Topham, of Morley Hall, co. Derby, by his wife, Dorothy Marion, dau. of George Henry Angrave; b. Derby, 14 Oct. 1891; educ. Malvern and Clare College, Cambridge (graduated B.A., Dec. 1913), and was in both the school and college O.T.C. He obtained a university commission as 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 21 Jan. 1913, and his rank was made substantive, 5 Aug. 1914. He was on the point of sailing for India when war was declared, but was posted to the 4th Sherwood Foresters at Backworth, Northumberland, where he remained until the end of Feb. 1915, when he was sent to France, being attached for the period of the war to the 1st Battn. Welsh Regt. He took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, and on 24 May, his regt. being ordered to join in a counter-attack, he was severely wounded in the head by a piece of high explosive shell, near Ypres, dying the next day, 25 May, 1915, at Bailleul Clearing Hospital, where he had been taken, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (No. 1125). An officer wrote: “We were all so fond of him and he is indeed a great loss. He was of great assistance to me in the field, for I could rely on him, and in addition he had the happy knack of commanding men.”

=TOSH, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 551, 8th Australian Light Horse, only s. of James Tosh, of Third Part, Crail, Fife, by his wife, Jessie Christine (Mansefield, Anstruther), only dau. of Alexander Campbell Macandie; b. 30 Sept. 1885: educ. Clifton Bank School, St. Andrews, and afterwards learnt sheep-farming in one of the Border counties; then proceeded to Australia and acted as assistant to the owner of Barunah, one of the largest sheep-runs in the Colony of Victoria. After a short visit home in 1910, he returned to Australia and started farming on his own account, but on the outbreak of war disposed of his property and joined the Australian Light Horse. He was wounded in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, and died half an hour afterwards, 7 Aug. 1915, being buried in the 8th L.H. Burial Ground, on the beach; unm. Major McLaurin wrote: “He was a splendid soldier and much beloved by the regt.”

=TOVEY, FREDERICK JOHN=, Private, No. 10724, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Tovey, of Walk Cottages, Heythorpe, co. Oxon, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Reuben Stanger; b. Milton under Wychwood, co. Oxon, 22 Oct. 1898; educ. Village School there; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 1914 at Coventry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was reported missing, 25 Jan. 1915 and is now assumed to have been killed in action about that date.

=TOWLE, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4859), S.S. 1767, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOWNEND, FRANCIS WHITCHURCH=, Capt., 35th Divisional Signal Coy. Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of the Rev. Alfred John Townend, Chaplain to the Forces, by his wife, Margaret Wiseman, dau. of the late William James Stairs, of Nova Scotia; b. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 10 July, 1885; educ. Dulwich College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and on leaving there spent two years at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E., 21 Jan. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 24 Sept. 1906, and Capt. 30 Oct. 1914; went to India in 1906, and was there attached to the 3rd Sappers and Miners; left for France with the Indian Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, reaching the front in Oct. and died at Bethune, 29 March, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day, while laying telephone wires; unm. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. A motor ambulance driver wrote the following account of the incident to his Mother [Morning Post, 12 April, 1915]: “After dinner I commenced a letter, but was interrupted by a shell bursting somewhere in the vicinity and a man yelling for bandages. Of course I rushed to see if I could be of any use, and found that the shell had burst at the side of the road about forty yards away, right in the midst of a party of Indian engineers who were inspecting the telegraph wires. T. and I grabbed stretchers from our car, and with some others rushed for the Indians. I was late in starting owing to my litter, and all the Indians were being attended to when I arrived on the scene. However, I saw someone in the shell hole which was on the side of the road opposite from where the men had been hit, and so had escaped notice. In it was a man, the white officer of the Indians, who appeared to have his legs half buried in the debris of the hole. He told us to attend to the others first; he was all right. And then as we moved him we saw that he was standing on the stumps of his legs. Both had been shot off at the knee. (I’m telling you this story, horrible as it is, because of the extraordinary courage the man showed--such courage as I’ve never seen before, and hardly imagined. It’s worth while bearing the horror of it to realise that we are officered by such men.) He was perfectly conscious and calm, and spoke as though he were a medical officer and someone else the victim. He looked at his legs as we moved him on to the stretcher and asked me quietly (he was not in the least excited, and his handsome face showed no pain) to tie something tight round both thighs to stop the bleeding. I did what I could with my handkerchief, and another I requisitioned, and we took him to our billet. We had to move hurriedly, of course, as a second shell had followed and we wanted cover in case any more arrived. There were two R.A.M.C. men with us, and they attended to the subsequent first aid. They discovered another horrible wound in his arm, and while they were dressing it he told them that he thought he would give up football next year. We then took him to the nearest hospital; he was still conscious and perfectly collected, and laughed quietly and talked, apologising for the trouble he was causing, while on the way to the hospital. And I came back thinking of that tag in some book or other ‘I have seen a man.’ The poor fellow died in hospital.” While at Woolwich he played for the Association Football XI, and was a well-known Army cricketer, having several times represented the Royal Engineers against the Royal Artillery at Lord’s; he also played for the Free Foresters, the Bombay Presidency, and the Indian Army. Capt. Townend was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John French [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915].

=TOWNER, FREDERICK ARTHUR ALBERT=, Private, Signaller, No. 148, 7th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Horace Frederick Towner, of 22, Alfred Street, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Cabinet Maker, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William McLeod; b. St. Leonards, 6 July, 1890; educ. Christ Church School there; went to sea in 1906 and was twice wrecked, first on the John Shelley, in Nov. 1907, and secondly with the sailing ship Enterprise, in the North Sea, Oct. 1908, being on this last occasion the sole survivor; in 1912 went to Australia and took up farming, but after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 4 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915; unm.

=TOWNSEND, CHARLES=, Armourer’s Mate (Pensioner), 342373, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOWNSEND, HENRY CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B., 239251, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOWNSHEND, ALFRED=, A.B., 236174, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOWNSHEND, CHARLES HENRY=, A.B., 229079, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TRACEY, ALBERT JAMES FREDERICK=, Private, No. 1940, 15th Battn. (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of Joseph Thomas Tracey, of 24, Belmont Road, South Norwood, S.E., formerly Sergt. 1st Border (34th) Regt., by his wife, Caroline, dau. of Richard Frederick Hill; b. Caterham, co. Surrey, 11 April, 1891; educ. Garrison School, Fort George, N.B.; South Norwood Council School, and Whitgift Middle School, Croydon; served as a registered Boy Clerk at the Board of Education, Whitehall, from 27 May, 1907, to 16 July, 1911, and as an assistant clerk, 17 July, 1911, to Aug. 1914. He joined the 23rd London Territorials in March, 1909; became Sergt. in Sept. 1912, but transferred to the Civil Service Rifles, April, 1914, giving up his stripes; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 25 May following, while bombing a German trench; unm. He was buried at Festubert. Capt. H. H. Kemble, of his Coy., wrote: “Your son led the way along the parapet and used his bombs with such effect, that the trench was taken the next day. A report of his bravery has been forwarded to Head Quarters. He was always thorough and efficient, and always quiet and gentle”; and Sergt. F. C. Robertson said that when they found him next day he had used all his bombs. He had rushed right on using the bombs till the Germans turned the machine-gun on to him. No man could have done more. The trench was won.

=HANBURY-TRACEY, HON. FELIX CHARLES HUBERT=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. s. of Charles Douglas Richard, 4th Baron Sudeley, P.C., by his wife, Ada Maria Katherine, dau. of the Hon. Frederick James Tollemache; b. Buckingham Gate, S.W., 27 July, 1882; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 10 Nov. 1907; retired in 1907 and joined the Reserve of Officers; gazetted to the 3rd Battn. of his regt. on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Nov., and died of wounds received in an attack on the German trenches near Fromelles, on the night of 18–19 Dec. 1914. He was wounded slightly at the commencement of the attack, but still led his men. When again wounded fatally on the parapet of the German trench, some of his men attempted to carry him back to safety, but he ordered them to leave him where he was and to go on, as he did not wish them to risk their lives in saving him. The Germans shortly afterwards re-took their trench, and he died a few hours later in their hands, and was buried by them. He m. at Lacock, Wiltshire, 11 June, 1908, Madeline Llewellyn (13, Queen’s Gate Place, S.W.), only dau. of Col. George Llewellyn Palmer, of Lackham, Lacock, Wilts, and had two sons: Michael David Charles, b. 29 March, 1909; and Ninian John Frederick, b. 7 Dec. 1910.

=TRAHERNE, LLEWELLYN EDMUND=, of Coedarhydyglyn, near Cardiff, J.P., Lt.-Commander, R.N., eldest s. of the late Llewellyn Edmund Traherne, of Coedarhydyglyn, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Henry Hogard; b. Paris, 14 Sept. 1863; joined the Britannia in Jan. 1877, and left in Dec. 1878, having taken the first prize in seamanship that year, he was appointed to H.M.S. Charybdis, then on the China Station, and took passage to her in the Encounter. He served in many stations and qualified in gunnery, gaining 1st Class Certificate in 1890, retiring in 1897. On the outbreak of the European War, at the age of 51, he rejoined as Lt.-Commander (G.) Emergency List, and was promoted to Acting-Commander of the Excellent, 12 Oct. 1914, and died while on active service, of pneumonia, at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 14 Oct. 1914. He was buried in the Churchyard of the village of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff. Lt.-Commander Traherne m. at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, 16 April, 1907, Dorothy Emma Olivia, elder dau. of George Felix Standish Sinclair, of 3, Manson Place, London, S.W., and granddau. of the late Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, of Ulbster, 3rd Bart., M.P., and had two sons and one dau.: Cennydd George, now of Coedarhydyglyn, b. 14 Dec. 1910; John Rhodri Llewellyn, b. 24 Sept. 1913; and Margaret Agnes Mary, b. 1 Dec. 1908.

=TRAVERS, ALBERT JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14738 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TRAYNOR, THOMAS=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2922, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=TREHANE, GEORGE=, Leading Stoker, K. 1240, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TREVELYAN, WILFRED=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan, of 1, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, etc. [gdson. of the Ven. George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, 3rd s. of Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe, 4th Bart.], by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabel, dau. of Edward Walhouse Mark, late Consul at Marseilles; b. Calcutta, 10 Oct. 1893; educ. Rugby, and at Manchester University; gazetted from the Officers’ Training Corps to the 5th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, was transferred to the 4th Battn. 8 Sept. following, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 5 May, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. He was buried in the grounds of Hooge Chateau, France; unm.

=TREVENA, FREDERIC WILLIAM=, Private, No. 931, A Coy., 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only surviving s. of Richard Charles Trevena, of 33, Lakeside Road, Palmer’s Green, N., by his wife, Eliza Barnicoat, dau. of the late John Robins, of Penryn, Cornwall; b. London, 22 Oct. 1892; educ. Bowes Road School, was a member of the Clerk’s Department of the Southgate Urban District Council Office; joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed on the 21st of that month, by shell fire, while the battn. was resting in an orchard about three miles from the firing line, some miles N.E. of Bethune. Buried in the orchard; unm. The Chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane wrote: “We were encamped and he and others were simply resting in their bivouac when the shells came raining across on us. We had been shelled the day before farther up the line and had left it to come here for safety as this place had never been shelled before. But this time the shells had a message, and it was your dear Frederic that they came to. He could have suffered nothing, as death was instantaneous. The others were spared, though they got a shock. We feel keenly parting so suddenly from a good comrade and a brave man.”

=TREVENER, WALTER JOHN=, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2277), 289209, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TREVOR, HARRY SPOTTISWOODE=, Lieut., Royal Engineers, s. of Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, K.C.S.I., late of the Indian C.S., Revenue Member of the Bombay Government (1892–95) and Public Works Member of the Government of India (1896–1901), by his wife, Florence Mary, 2nd dau. of Col. Cyril Jackson Prescott, Bombay S.C., and grandson of Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (who was murdered at Kabul in Dec. 1841, with the British Envoy, Sir William Macnaghten); b. Karachi, India, 19 July, 1899; educ. Marlborough College, where he was in the sixth form. Prefect and Head of his house, and a member of the house and school football teams, and the School Shooting Eight. From Marlborough he passed direct into Woolwich, became a member of R.M.A. Football XV, and gained his commission in the R.E., after an 18 months course, 1 Oct. 1909. After the usual period of training at Chatham he was ordered to India, served for a time in the Military Works Department at Jullunder, in the Punjab, and was then transferred to the Engineering Staff of the North-Western State Railway at Lahore, and promoted Lieut. 28 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak of the war he was attached to the 1st K.G.’s O. Sappers and Miners, and proceeded with the 4th Field Company of the battn. as part of the Meerut Brigade to France, where he landed in Oct. 1914, and where he served, throughout the fighting at Givenchy, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, and elsewhere on the front between La Bassée and Lille, till he was killed in action in the trenches near Laventie, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in the British Cemetery at Vieille Chapelle; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches, 30 Nov. 1915. General Nanton, C.R.E., Indian Contingent (under whom Lieut. Trevor had served in the Military Department in India, as well as at the front), wrote: “I have watched your son since he was with us in Jullunder. In this war I have noted his bravery and skill on so many occasions. We have lost a brave and good officer. He was buried with our other R.E. officers at Vieille Chapelle. He was shot whilst arranging a fixed rifle rest with his usual care, and he did not suffer for an instant”; and Col. Twining, late C.R.E. Meerut Division: “Your son worked under my orders from the time he came to France until March last. I had a high opinion of him as an officer and a strong regard for him as an individual, and I deplore his loss to the Service as well as to his relations and friends. He went through much hard and dangerous work--never spared himself in the slightest and was always cheery and ready for anything. I remember one occasion in particular last Dec. when I had to send him with another young officer out on a very difficult and dangerous task--they had been out through very severe fighting for 36 hours consecutively and were very much done, but your lad stuffed a little food into his pockets and went off again, full of cheer, with a smile. You will be glad to hear of this--it was his usual attitude and we have lost a valuable officer and a much-loved comrade.” The late Col. Davidson Houston, Commanding 58th Rifles F.F., also wrote: “I trust you will excuse an entire stranger writing to you, but on behalf of both my officers and myself I wish to tender our deepest sympathy with you in the loss of your son last month. He was, when he met his death, working in my section of the front line, as he had frequently done before, and I had always found him a most able and hard working adviser on technical points connected with the defences--always cheerful, always ready to help, never sparing himself, we shall miss him greatly and the R.E.’s have lost one of their most promising young officers. Your son had been lunching with me and discussing a rifle rest he had invented, a specimen of which he had had made and given to my regiment. He said he would like to test this particular specimen as he had not had time to do so before sending it to us. He asked if he might use my observation post to shoot from and he and my adjutant went there for the purpose. The post is raised up on a platform. Your son raised his head to look over the little breastwork and was immediately shot. We much regretted being unable, owing to the Military situation, to attend his funeral and mark our respect for him as a soldier and a comrade.” An officer of high professional promise, he was also a music and book lover, a talented designer and draftsman, and had a somewhat notable turn for the devising of contrivances “for the further discomfiture of the enemy,” to use the words of a brother officer. One of the first, if not absolutely the first, trench mortar used by the British, to counter the German Minenwerfer, was made on his initiative and under his orders, of 9 inch iron piping, in the company’s workshops, and proved very effective, and it was in arranging to test a portable contrivance of his own for enabling fire to be kept up on any desired point in the dark and without exposure, that he met his death. With reference to this contrivance the O.C. 2nd Black Watch wrote in a note found among Lieut. Trevor’s papers: “We have tried your rifle rest, and found it very good.”

=TRIGGS, WOODMAN GEORGE=, Ship’s Corpl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3710), 163287, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TRIMMER, GILBERT FREDERICK=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 3359, 2/4th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Trimmer, of Guildford, by his wife, Alice Katurah, dau. of J. Dawes Esher; b. Guildford, co. Surrey, 18 April, 1876; was by trade a Tailor; served in South Africa, 1900, with the City Imperial Volunteers and was invalided, home; after the outbreak of the European War enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s, Guildford, 10 Feb. 1902, Grace Eleanor (38, King John Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne), dau. of the late George Hewett, of Guildford; s.p.

=TRIMMER, WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACLEAN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only child of Edward Douglas Trimmer, of Oakrigg, Walton-on-Thames, Solicitor, and his wife, Mary Kate, dau. of John Lauchlan Maclean, late of Haremere Hall, co. Sussex; b. Surbiton, co. Surrey, 29 Dec. 1891; educ. Aldenham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Hampshires, 20 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, in the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division, served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action with his whole platoon, in an advanced and isolated trench at Ploegsteert Wood, during the First Battle of Ypres, 30 Oct. following. Buried in Ploegsteert Churchyard; unm. Lieut. J. F. Gwynne, Medical Officer to the Hampshires, wrote: “He died like a hero--he was a hero, and the way he and his men fought to the last is one of the finest acts I have heard of in the whole war. He was found in his trench, wounded fatally in the head, grasping unexpended cartridges in his hand--game to the last. He must have died immediately on receiving the fatal shot.” Capt. Clive Garsia, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “The simplest truth about him, uninfluenced by the natural wish to speak well of the dead, is that he was one of the very best subalterns I ever knew. From the day he joined he devoted himself whole-heartedly to work and to play, and exhibited pluck and endurance I have never seen excelled. His success as a cross-country runner was due solely to grit, because he was not the cut of a runner, but he had the heart to stay the pace however hot they made it. As a loyal subordinate who played up to me whole-heartedly on every occasion I should like to pay his memory humble tribute of acknowledgment. I knew when the war broke out that he would do well, and I have frequently asked men coming down wounded for news about the regt. and different officers. The first news I heard was about the retreat from Mons, when a sergt. told me that Mr. Trimmer and the General were the only two that wouldn’t lie down. Several told me that ‘the blokes said they’d follow him anywhere’”; and in a subsequent letter he added “the specially heroic circumstances attending the last stand of Douglas and his platoon are fully appreciated. I am now on the Divisional staff and have frequently heard the Chief Staff Officer say how well my regt. has done all through, instancing the way Douglas’ platoon stuck it to the last man.” And Capt. Douglas Johnston, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “On the Aisne he [Lieut. Trimmer] did his work perfectly, and I myself was particularly struck with the quiet courage he showed when on really dangerous patrol work. He was far from well there, but got better before we moved. When poor Major Connellan was struck, your boy dashed out and brought him into cover, and the next day, the 21 Oct., he told me about it. It is unnecessary for me to add that he was extraordinarily popular with his men.” Mr. Connellan in a letter to Mr. Trimmer said: “I have heard from Capt. Thurn and I will tell you all that he told me about your son, but I am afraid it is very little. He says, about 28 Oct. he was holding an advanced trench with his platoon in front of Ploegsteert Wood; he was very heavily shelled and attacked by infantry all day, losing most of his platoon. He sent back for reinforcements but apparently there were none to be had, anyhow none were sent. He held his men together and stuck to his trench all day, being finally killed by a shell towards the evening. The remains of his platoon, nine men out of about 40, stuck on and were finally all killed by German infantry, except, I believe, one man who is now wounded and prisoner. The only survivor of his platoon, the messenger he sent back, was killed about two months after. Young Trimmer certainly held his trench very gallantly and I know his name was sent on from the battn.” He was a good all-round athlete. When at Aldenham he won the School Mile and Half Mile, in 1910, creating school records in both instances. He was also a good cross-country runner, coming in fourth at the R.M.C. in 1911, and he ran in the 1st Hampshire Regimental Teams in 1912, 1913 and 1914, which won the Aldershot Command (twice) and the Eastern Command, Cross Country Runs. In other sports he was a useful Rugby Football and Hockey player, a plucky swimmer and a good horseman.

=TRINEMAN, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Staff Sergt., No. 62, 18th Battn. 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late William Trineman, Gardener; b. Exeter, 28 March, 1882; educ. Seaton Council School; joined the 27th Devonshire Yeomanry, and served with them through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); afterwards went to Australia; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 21–25 Aug. 1915. He had, just previous to his death, given a cooking demonstration at Victoria Barracks, on one of the Travelling Kitchens to be used by the troops, and was then presented with a gold wristlet watch. For many years he was golf professional and groundsman at the Axe Cliff Golf Links. He m. at Seaton, Devon, 28 Jan. 1903, Amelia (Southfield, New Road, Water Orton, near Birmingham), dau. of John Harley Boddy, and had a dau.: Nora Amelia, b. 13 March, 1904.

=TRITTON, ROBERT EDMUND=, Leading Seaman, 227159, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TROTMAN, SYDNEY=, Private, No. 3155, 2/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late George Hayman Trotman, of Brooklands Lodge, Cambridge, by his wife, Agnes (35, Norwich Street, Cambridge), dau. of Edward Godfrey; b. Cambridge, 18 April, 1886; educ. St. Paul’s School, Cambridge; was a Clerk; joined 2/3rd Royal Fusiliers, 8 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt, in April, and died of heatstroke at Khartoum, 3 June, 1915; unm. Buried at Khartoum. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was buried with all military honours and the Sirdar (Sir Reginald Wingate) has written asking me to express his sympathy to his relatives and the men of his company”; and another officer: “Your son was a good man and soldier, and will be deeply missed by officers and men alike.”

=TROTT, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21850, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TROTTER, ALEXANDER NIGEL=, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), only s. of Alexander Pelham Trotter, of 181, Ashley Gardens, London, S.W., Electrical Adviser to the Board of Trade, by his wife, Alys Fane, dau. of Maurice Keatinge, and a nephew of Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Trotter, K.C.M.G., C.B.; b. Cottesmore Gardens, London, W., 17 Sept. 1894; educ. Packwood Haugh, and Clifton College, where he was a member of the O.T.C., shot in the Bisley VIII, and was one of the best boxers in the school; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Scots, 21 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1914; acted as Transport Officer for the 3rd Battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France in charge of a draft of 100 men for the 2nd Battn., 30 Aug. 1914; the Royal Scots left the trenches at the Aisne about 26 Sept. and arrived in position near Bethune 11 Oct., and Lieut. Trotter was killed in action at La Fosse, near Vieille Chapelle, 12 Oct. 1914, while engaged in attacking a wood strongly held by the enemy. The ground over which the British had to advance was intersected by small irrigation canals crossed by plank bridges, on which the officers and men offered a good target. Lieut. Trotter is believed to have been first hit while crossing one of these bridges, and after advancing three-quarters of a mile fell with two more wounds. He was buried on the farm of Zelobes, near La Fosse, north of Bethune; unm. His Coy. Commander, Capt. (now Major) F. C. Tanner, D.S.O., wrote: “Everyone is unanimous that Nigel died like a hero, and knowing him I could not suppose it otherwise. I saw him under fire at the beginning of the action”; and a man in his company: “I can assure you all the men were sorry to lose him, for he seemed to have no fear and was a good leader of men.” On the cross put up on his grave by the mobile column of the Red Cross, some of his comrades wrote: “A very gallant gentleman.”

=TROTTER, JAMES KEITH=, Lieut. 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only s. of Major-General Sir James Keith Trotter, of Aislaby Lodge, Sleights, co. York, K.C.B., C.M.G., by his wife, Alice, yst. dau. of Francis James Crow, of Haughton-le-Skerne, co. Durham; b. Malta, 19 Dec. 1888; educ. Wellington College (where he was prefect, 1906, and head of the Rifle Corps), and the Royal Military College Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 23 Jan. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1910; was A.D.C. to his father, Major-General Sir J. K. Trotter, Commanding Southern Coast Defences, from 3 Nov. 1910, to 23 July, 1911; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Audencourt, near Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1915, being shot in the head while watching the fire of his machine-guns through field-glasses; unm. He was buried at Audencourt. Lieut. Trotter was the winner of 100 and 200 yards races at Wellington College, and was second in quarter of a mile race at Army Championship Meeting, Aldershot, 1909.

=TROUNSON, GRAHAM FRANCIS JAMES=, Midshipman, R.N.R., only child of Francis Thomas Trounson, of Onslow Mansions, Richmond, Surrey, by his wife, Kate E., dau. of Thomas Martin, of Chelmsford; b. London, 11 June, 1897; educ. The Whitegift and Mersey training ship for White Star Officers; Cadet R.N.R., 1911; Midshipman (Proby.), Jan. 1914; appointed to H.M.S. Good Hope, 2 Aug., and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. He had the unique experience, in so short a life of having travelled the world as a cadet, and Midshipman, in sail The Mersey, in steam The Cevarmie, and in H.M.S. Good Hope. He had been round the Horn six times.

=TRUDGETT, JAMES ALBERT=, Sergt., No. 5435, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, 3rd s. of George Alfred Trudgett, of 68, Lime Tree Place, Stowmarket, Suffolk, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of William Greenwood, of Stowmarket; b. Stowmarket, 18 Dec. 1883; educ. British School there, and was for a short time a Clerk in the offices of the New Explosives Co.’s Works at Stowmarket; enlisted in the King’s Dragoon Guards, 3 Jan. 1901, and after training at York was drafted to the regt. then in South Africa; remained there a year, then returned to England; served at Hounslow and Aldershot; went to India, 6 Nov. 1907, and was stationed at Ambala and later at Lucknow; went to France with the Lucknow Cavalry Brigade about Nov. 1914; took part in the heavy fighting round La Bassée, and was killed in action at Hooge, 2 June, 1915; unm. The Adjutant, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, wrote: “Your son was with me in the Headquarters during the 1st and 2nd and gave me very able assistance in taking messages, and assisting in dressing the wounded. During the severe bombardment of the 2nd, at about 2 p.m., the dug-out was blown in, in two places, and I gave your son an order to take the most important papers and go down the communication trench to a place of greater safety in Zouave Wood. That was the last I saw of him. The communication trench was almost obliterated, his body not being discovered for two days. The Lincoln Regt. reported that in clearing the trench, they had found him and buried him in Zouave Wood. I cannot tell you how great a loss he is to the regt., Colonel and myself. A thorough, trustworthy, gallant soldier, and mourned by all ranks.”

=TRUEMAN, CHARLES FITZGERALD HAMILTON=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Manchester Regt., eldest s. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Trueman, of Oakwell-on-the-Blean, Kent, late 32nd L.I., by his wife, Dorothea Magdalena, dau. of John P. Fitzgerald, M.D.; b. Devonport, 22 March, 1877; educ. King’s School, Canterbury, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Manchesters, 8 Sept. 1897; promoted Lieut. 17 Aug. 1899, and Capt. 5 Jan. 1901; served in the South African War, 1900–1; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, July, 1901, and in those in the Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Oct. 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), was Superintendant of Gymnasia, Aldershot Command, 23 April, 1908, to 31 Aug. 1909, and Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia in same command, 1 Sept. 1909, to 22 April, 1912; left for France with the Expeditionary Force (14th Brigade, 5th Division), Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the Battle of Le Cateau, on the 26th of same month, and is believed to have been killed in this action; unm. He had the Coronation medal of King Edward VII.

=TRUEMAN, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3264), 292872, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=TRUSSLER, FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./13907, H.M S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TUCK, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3410), 308496, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TUCK, PETER ISAAC THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5338), 211878, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TUCKER, ALAN ROBERT LLOYD=, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army (attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt.), only s. of Robert Edward Tucker, of Ashburton, co. Devon, Solicitor, Lt.-Col. Commanding 2/5th Battn. Devonshire Regt. (T.F.), by his wife, Annie Lloyd, dau. of the late Richard Williams, of Bodafon, Anglesey; b. Ashburton, 25 June, 1894; educ. Sherborne and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was subsequently attd. 2nd Royal Warwicks; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 19 Dec. following; unm.

=TUCKER, ERNEST EDWIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5398), 195629, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TUCKER, GEORGE JOSEPH=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 7283), 308124, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=TUCKER, REGINALD=, Rifleman, No. 1901, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Tucker, of “Oakwood.” Chorley Wood Road, Rickmansworth, Cigar Dealer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Samuel Drake; b. Wimbledon, 13 Sept. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon. He enlisted on the outbreak of war, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 4 Dec. 1914; unm. He was buried near Burnt Farm, Bois Grenier, France. Capt. Whitmore, commanding D. Coy. The Westminsters, wrote: “I regret to say that your son while sitting in the trench was this morning hit in the head by a bullet, which glanced in through a loop hole above him, and died in half an hour. I can only express my personal sorrow at losing a soldier who has always shown himself an extraordinarily plucky fellow, doing his best to keep down the enemy’s fire even when at its heaviest. We shall always remember him among us as the first man of the Company to fall fighting for England.”

=PITTS TUCKER, CECIL MORTIMER=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, 2nd s. of William Edwin Pitts Tucker, of Crosslands, near Barnstaple, Solicitor, by his wife, Violet Emily, dau. of Edmund Tattersall; b. Barnstaple, 12 April, 1890; educ. Ellerslie, Fremington, Devonshire; Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st H.L.I. 20 April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1912; was an extra A.D.C. to Sir James Meston, Lieut.-Governor of the United Provinces, India, Oct. 1912, to March, 1913; left for France with the Sirhind Brigade, Lahore Division, Indian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Festubert, on the morning of 20 Dec. following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was as fine a soldier as one could wish to see and a true and affectionate comrade, and he met his soldier’s death just in the manner all who knew him, knew he would.”

=TUCKWOOD, LESLIE EDGAR=, Private, No. 9964, 1st Battn. Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regt., yst. s. of the late Charles Tuckwood, of 82, Wightman Road, Hornsey, Music Publisher; b. Harringay, 1891; joined the Navy in 1912, was transferred to the Army in 1913, and was killed in action at the Battle on the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

=TUDBALL, THOMAS JOHN=, Private, No. 5499, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Tudball, of Bench Cottage, West Harwood, Timberscombe, near Dunster, co. Somerset, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Anna; b. Timberscombe aforesaid, 25 Dec. 1884; educ. Endowed Church School there; was a Farm Labourer and Ploughman: enlisted in the Coldstreams on 29 March, 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, 21 Aug. to 21 Dec. 1914, and from 9 Jan. 1915; and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 Jan. 1915.

=TUDWAY, HERVEY ROBERT CHARLES=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, eldest s. of Charles Clement Tudway, of The Cedars, Stoberry Park, and Milton Lodge, Wells, Somerset, J.P., D.L., by his 2nd wife, Alice Constance, yst. dau. of Sir Frederick Hutchinson Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Bart.; b. 17, Lower Berkeley Street, W., 23 Sept. 1888; educ. Evelyns and Eton, where he was in the sixth form and Eton Society; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards, 1 Feb. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 29 Sept. following; was appointed A.D.C. to Lord Buxton, and sailed for South Africa, 25 July, 1914, but hearing of the outbreak of war on his arrival there, cabled to Lord Buxton, who was in England, for leave; returned immediately and rejoined his regt.; went to the Front; joined the 2nd Battn. at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 18 Nov. following, of wounds in the head received at the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 9th; unm. He was buried in the cemetery at Boulogne. A brass tablet was erected to his memory in the North Choir Aisle of Wells Cathedral, the inscription concluding with; “His life for his country, his soul to God.” Lieut. Tudway was a keen sportsman and cricketer, and played for the Brigade, I.Z. and M.C.C. His brother, Lieut. Lionel C. P. Tudway, R.N., D.S.O., was taken prisoner at Kut when in command of H.M.S. Sumara.

=TUFF, CECIL THOMAS=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd s. of Charles Tuff, of Westfield, Singlewell, near Gravesend, and Rochester, J.P., formerly M.P. for Rochester, by his wife, Marian, dau. of George William Gill; b. Rochester, 16 Aug. 1885; educ. Abbey School, Beckenham, and Malvern College; obtained a commission in the Royal West Kent Militia in 1905; but resigned in or about 1911 rejoining as a Lieut. the day war was declared. He was gazetted Capt. to 3rd Royal West Kents, 26 Sept. 1914; went to France, 25 Nov. following, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 15 April, 1915. Buried Hill 60; unm.

=TUFNELL, CARLETON WYNDHAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 3rd s. of Carleton Fowell Tufnell, of Waterdone Manor, Kenley, Surrey, by his wife, Laura Gertrude, dau. of William Parker Charsley, of Ceylon, M.D.; b. Sydenham, co. Kent, 5 Aug. 1892; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 4 Sept. 1912; left for France in Sept. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. He was mortally wounded near Klein Zillebeke, during the first Battle of Ypres, on the evening of 6 Nov. 1914, dying shortly after he reached hospital. He was machine gun officer of his Battn., and was hit whilst taking up a position. Buried in Zillebeke Churchyard; unm. At Eton, Lieut. Tufnell was one of the best all-round athletes that the school has known. He was captain of the Eleven, Keeper of the Field (two years), Keeper of Oppadon Wall and Mixed Wall, and President of the Eton Society (“Pop.”). He won the Victor Ludorum Prize at athletic sports, and the King’s medal in the O.T.C. At Sandhurst, he was captain of the cricket, association football, and athletic team, and later played cricket for the Household Brigade, M.C.C., and Zingari, and represented the British Army against the Dutch Army at “Soccer,” both in England and Holland, in the season of 1914–15.

=TULETT, THOMAS=, Acting Leading Stoker, 296909, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TULIP, JOHN JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5840), S.S. 106376, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TULLY, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9914), S.S. 107383, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=TUNE, JOHN SKERROW=, Private, No. 5435, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Tune; b. Birmingham, 23 April, 1882; educ. Sherborne Road Board School there; enlisted 22 Feb. 1901; was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, Belgium, and later to have been killed in action, 22 Dec. 1914. Tune had the Good Conduct Badge granted, 22 Feb. 1906. He m. at Birmingham, 1910, Sarah Ann (16, Eastbourne Terrace, Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham), eldest dau. of the late William Smith, of 32, Frazier Street, Oldburn, Staffs, and had three children: Rosina May, b. 3 Dec. 1910; Olive Florence Ada, b. 8 July, 1912, and Beatrice Maud, b. 15 April, 1915.

=TUPPER, ERNEST=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10769), 300721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNBULL, DERWENT CHRISTOPHER=, M.B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., 5th s. of William Peverill Turnbull, of Burway House, Church Stretton, co. Salop, late H.M. Divisional Inspector of Schools, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of the late Edwin John Hayes, Town Clerk of Birmingham; b. Stockwell End, Wolverhampton, 28 Aug. 1890; educ. Private Schools, Sheffield, the Sheffield Royal Grammar School, and King Edward VII’s School at Sheffield, Giggleswick School, and the University of Sheffield; volunteered in 1914, obtained a commission as Lieut. in the R.A.M.C. Dec. 1914; was for some weeks a medical officer at King George V’s Hospital, Dublin; went to France 15 Feb. 1915; was attd. to 84th Field Ambulance, 28th Division, but on 9 March was lent as a temporary M.O. to the 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., and died at St. Eloi, 14 March, 1915, having been wounded on the 10th; unm. He was buried in a burial ground at Ypres. On the morning of 10 March, 1915, while Lieut. D. C. Turnbull was in his dressing station, a message came that an officer in a trench was bleeding to death. Lieut. Turnbull, with an orderly, volunteered to go to him, and about 10.30 a.m. crossed the dangerzone, and reached the trench, which was about 3 ft. deep and half full of water. Lieut. Turnbull attended to the wounded man but, judging some further operation necessary, determined to remove him to the dressing station. Rifle fire, however, prevented this, and the wounded officer and Lieut. Turnbull and the orderly were unable to get away from the trenches for many hours. About 6 p.m. they made an attempt in the course of which the wounded officer received a further wound and Lieut. Turnbull was shot in the lung. Of this he died four days later notwithstanding the utmost efforts made on his behalf by his colleagues, Capt. Bickerton and Lieut. Haynes. The orderly, Private (now Corpl.) J. Needham (1st Cheshires), afterwards received the D.C.M. for his conduct on this occasion. Lieut.-Col. W. Salisbury Sharpe, R.A.M.C., wrote: “I do not know what form official recognition will take, but I can assure you of my personal appreciation that no greater instance of heroic self-sacrifice will be recorded during the war;” and Capt. R. E. Bickerton, R.A.M.C., “The stretcher-bearers of my section have spoken very, very kindly of him and admired his pluck, saying that he never let them cross a risky part of the road without being there himself.” Lieut. Turnbull was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=TURNBULL, WALTER=, Private, No. 964, 24th Infantry Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Thomas Edward Turnbull, of Hexham, Northumberland, Rope and Candle Manufacturer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of James Charlton; b. Hexham, 26 Jan. 1882; educ. North Eastern County School, Barnard Castle; went to Australia in May, 1912; joined the Australian Force in March, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Guildford Castle, 21 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action near Lone Pine, Gallipoli; buried at sea about 5 miles from Lemnos; unm.

=TURNER, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 7673; 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 27 April, 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

=TURNER, ARTHUR=, No. 3894, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 15 Nov. 1900; served in South Africa, 26 Nov. 1901, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, “Cape Colony,” “South Africa, 1901,” “1902”), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 26 Aug. 1914; was reported missing after the fighting at Rentel on 12 Nov. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

=TURNER, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4104), 194994, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, ARTHUR MORRIS=, Private, No. 10/1357, Wellington Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of Edwin Turner, of 27, South Street, Chichester, Wholesale and Retail Grocer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Minnie, dau. of William Light, of Chichester; b. Chichester, co. Sussex, 22 July, 1893; educ. Chichester and Portsmouth Grammar Schools; went to New Zealand in Feb. 1913, and settled near Tologa Bay as a Farm Worker; volunteered on the outbreak of war, left for Egypt in Dec. 1914, and died on or about 11 May, 1915, from wounds received in action, when the New Zealanders landed at the Dardanelles; unm.

=TURNER, BERNARD GEORGE=, Private, No. 11833, Maxim Gun Section, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of John William Turner, of The Gables, Bledlow Ridge, co. Bucks. Schoolmaster, by his wife, Emily, dau. of David Hainsworth; b. Bledlow Ridge, Wallingford, 28 Nov. 1894; educ. High Wycombe Grammar School, and after leaving there won in open competition a post under the London County Council, and was serving in the Fire Brigade Department when war was declared in Aug. 1914. He volunteered shortly after and joined the Coldstream Guards in Sept. and left for the Western Front in Jan.; he was attd. there to the Maxim Gun Section, and was killed in action on Hill 70, at Vermeilles, 27 Sept. 1915, being shot through the heart; unm.

=TURNER, CHARLES=, Private, No. 7725, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Troyon, 8 Oct. 1914; m.

=TURNER, CHARLES ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2817), S.S. 133, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4579), 293331, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, ERNEST HERBERT=, Private. No. 6226, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Ernest Turner, of No. 6, Howard Terrace, Bank Top, Bedlington, Northumberland, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Henry Hyatt; b. Oxford, 14 July, 1886; educ. Broomhill Colliery School; was a Miner; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 30 May, 1905; went to France, 10 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Soupir, 16 Sept. 1914. He m. at Bedlington Parish Church, 3 Jan. 1914, Margaret Harrison, (1, Cragg’s Buildings, Bedlington, Bank Top, Northumberland), dau. of Isaac Nicholson, of Bedlington; s.p.

=TURNER, FRANCIS OLIVER=, Private, No. 11420, No. 1 Coy. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Frederick George Turner, of Briningham, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Clerk in Time and Wages Department, Midland and G. N. Joint Railways, by his wife, Ellen Maria, dau. of John Oliver, of Thornage, Norfolk; b. Briston, co. Norfolk, 17 Aug. 1894; educ. Norfolk C. C. School, Melton Constable, and on leaving there entered the service of the M. & G. N. Joint Railways as an apprentice in the Boiler-making trade in Oct. 1908. On the outbreak of war he enlisted, 2 Sept. 1914, and after three months’ training at Caterham and Windsor, was sent to France on 22 Dec. and was in the trenches before 1 Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Cuinchy brickfields 2 Feb. following, and was buried in the British cemetery between La Bassée Canal and the Railroad; unm.

=TURNER, FREDERICK HARDING=, Lieut., 1/10th (Scottish) Service Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Neil Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Jessie Stewart, dau. of the late Thomas Holder, of Liverpool, J.P.; b. Liverpool, 29 May, 1888; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Sedbergh (Sedgwick House, May 1902 to July, 1907), and Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. (Law, Class III) in 1910, afterwards joining the business of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father was senior partner, he received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Liverpool Scottish, 18 May, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He was promoted Lieut. 25 Sept. 1914; went to the Front at the end of Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches east of Kemmel, 10 Jan. 1915, while inspecting barbed wire entanglements. He was buried in Kemmel Churchyard; unm. The circumstances of his death were given as follows in a letter from a brother officer: “After breakfast on 10 Jan., 1915, he went down the trench to look at the barbed wire he had put out in front the night before. On the way he looked up twice for a second, and each time he was shot at, but both shots missed, he then got to a place where the parapet was rather low, and was talking to a sergeant when a bullet went between their heads. Lieut. Turner said ‘By Jove, that has deafened my right ear.’ The sergeant remarked, ‘And my left one too, sir.’ Lieut. Turner then went a shade lower down, and had a look at the wire, and was shot clean through the middle of the forehead, killing him instantly.” Lieut. Turner was the famous Rugby International forward. He played as a “fresher” for Trinity, gained his Rugger Blue in 1908, when the ’Varsity match of that year ended in a drawn game. A year later he led the Oxford forwards in their runaway victory over the Cantabs, this being the occasion of R.W. Poulton’s great feat of scoring five tries. In 1910 Mr. Turner was captain of Oxford, when they beat Cambridge by 23 points to 18. On leaving Oxford he took charge of the Liverpool Rugby Club, and his wonderful power as a hard scrummager brought him before the notice of the Scottish Selection Committee, and he played in all the internationals of that and the following year, namely, against England, Ireland, Wales and France. The next season, 1912–13. he had the honour of the captaincy conferred upon him, and although the year had been a disastrous one up to the time of the English match, the Englishmen, who held an unbeaten record, were badly defeated by the impetuous rushes of the Scots. Last season Mr. Turner was not keen on playing in the International fixtures, but an appeal for help from the Scottish Union brought him out of his semi-retirement, for he still assisted the Liverpool Club. He was also a cricketer of more than average ability, and held 15 international caps. He played for Oxford in 1909 and 1910, but not against Cambridge, and in 1908 figured in the second eleven of Lancashire. His elder brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner, was killed in action, 16 June, 1915 (see his notice).

=TURNER, GEORGE EDWARD=, W.T. Operator, 1st Class, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4686), 293608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, JAMES=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269658, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8020), S.S. 103639, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, JOHN REGINALD=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., s. of John Mayer Burrow Turner, of Hartshill, Bournemouth, Solicitor; b. Stoke-on-Trent, co. Stafford, 20 Nov. 1892; educ. Bournemouth School, and on leaving there was articled to his father and had passed the Intermediate Law Examination when war broke out. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Dorset Special Reserve Battn. 12 Dec. 1911, and became Lieut. 1 May, 1913, and on the declaration of war volunteered for foreign service. He was attd. to the 1st Dorsets (15th Brigade, 5th Division) and went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; took part in the Retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action near Festubert, on the Pont Fixe Road, 13 Oct. 1914, on which day the 1st Dorsets sustained 400 casualties, 130 of them being killed. Buried in an orchard west of the Post Office of Pont Fixe; unm. Lieut.-Col. Bols, C.B., D.S.O., commanding 1st Dorsets, wrote: “Practically the whole of B Coy. was destroyed on that awful 13th. We were all so very fond of him; he was always cheery and such an excellent soldier, qualities which he displayed to the full on the days following the 9th Sept, when he was left as senior officer in his company.” Capt. A. L. Ransome, 1st Dorsets, wrote: “Your son was one of our most promising young officers. His two previous Coy. Commanders were loud in his praises. He showed a power of command and common sense far above the average of his age and service.” Lieut. Turner held the office of Hon. Sec. to the Bournemouth and District Law Students’ Society, and had each year since its inception won the prize awarded to the best speaker amongst its members.

=TURNER, MONTAGUE ALWEYNE FISHER=, L.-Corpl., No. 3532, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 5th s. of Alweyne Turner, of Kobe, Catherine Road, Surbiton, late Government Advocate, of Lahore, India, by his wife, Violet Frances, dau. of Deputy Surgeon-Gen. Thorp; b. in Gulmery, Kashmir, 3 July, 1893; educ. Lancing College; enlisted 14 April, 1913; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action 25 April, 1915, being shot through the head in the trenches at Cross Roads, east of Zonnebeke, by a sniper. Buried at the Zonnebeke Dressing Station; unm. A writer in the regimental journal said: “It is only necessary to record two or three instances of gallantry displayed by our comrades to show what our men are, when it comes to the crucial point, and these are only a few of many. The first to be mentioned is the gallantry of our bomb-throwers under L.-Corp. M. Turner during the attack on Hill 60 on the 21–22 April. They went to work like one man, and soon had the enemy on the move. The coolness and bravery of Turner was one outstanding feature and we believe he was highly commended for the excellent work performed by his bomb-throwing party.”

=TURNER, NOEL PRICE JAMES=, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of the late Rev. John James Turner of Pentreheylin, Llandysilio, Montgomeryshire, by his wife, Harriett Augusta, dau. of Richard Price Harrison; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 7 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford; served in South African War as a trooper in the Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and on the outbreak of the European War enlisted in the 3rd South Wales Borderers, 19 Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to that battn. (Special Reserve of Officers) 4 Sept. following. He left for France, 19 Dec., and was attd. to the 2nd Welsh, with whom he served until March 1915, when he was attd. to the 1st Battn. of his own regt. He died in hospital at Bethune, 9 May following, of wounds received in action near that place on 9 May. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 31 May, 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], for distinguished conduct while attd. to the 2nd Welsh. Lieut. Turner was a prominent public man in Montgomeryshire; a former member of the Montgomeryshire County Council; High Sheriff, 1909; and the owner of the Pentreheylin Estate. He resided at Sylfaen Hall, Welshpool. He m. at Guilsfield, near Welshpool, 25 Sept. 1902, Minnie, 2nd dau. of the late Edward Beck, of South Gippsland, Australia, and had two sons: John James, b. 5 Sept. 1907; and Richard Price, b. 16 Dec. 1908. A nephew of his, 2nd Lieut. Alan Langlands, of the 3rd South Wales Borderers, and also serving with the 1st Battn., was killed in action the same day.

=TURNER, RICHARD CHASE=, Lieut.-Com., R.N., 2nd s. of Edward Turner, of Sherbourne Lodge, Leamington, retired I.C.S., by his wife, Georgiana, dau. of T. A. N. Chase, late I.C.S.; b. Madora, South India, 12 Jan. 1884; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham, Hants; entered H.M.S. Britannia in 1898, and became Midshipman, 1900; Sub-Lieut. 1903; 1st. Lieut. 1905 and Lieut.-Com. 31 Dec. 1914; served on H.M. ships Ocean, Triumph, Swiftsure, Pandore (1908–11 on South African Station), and Blonde (1911–13), and was appointed Gunnery Lieut. to H.M.S. Pegasus, 1 March, 1913. The Pegasus rendered useful services after the outbreak of war, including the destruction of the Wireless Station at Dar-es-Salaam carried out under Lieut.-Com. Turner’s command, and when attacked by the German cruiser Konigsberg off the coast of Zanzibar on 20 Sept. 1914 was having her boilers cleaned. In this action Lieut.-Com. Turner was mortally wounded and died the same day in hospital at Zanzibar. He was unm. and was buried in the English Cemetery there. The Commander of the Pegasus wrote: “In a small ship of this sort everything depends on the tact, energy, straightforwardness and professional knowledge of the 1st Lieut., with all of which he was so highly endowed. The men loved him, and would have done anything that was humanly possible to bring him success. The little ship, though old and out-classed, was kept as fit as was possible to do anything that was required, and it was due to him to a great extent that she was able to get about as she did in the early part of the war.” He was a Freemason, and was Master of Lodge No. 900, Simon’s Town, Kilwinning, Cape Colony.

=TURNER, ROBERT NATHANIEL=, Leading Seaman, 179019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, WALTER=, Private, No. 1204 (Barton Coy.), 1/5th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Charles Henry Turner, of Halton Villa, New Holland, Hull, Signal Lineman, G.C. Railway, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late George Parker; b. New Holland, co. Lincoln, 19 July, 1893; educ. there; was an Engine Cleaner, G.C. Railway; joined the Lincolnshire Territorials, 5 March, 1911, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at once volunteered for foreign service; trained at Luton and Stanstead, Aug. 1914 to Feb. 1915. during which time he was orderly to Lieuts. Fieldsend and Riggall; went to France, 26 Feb.; was doing his third period in the trenches when he was taken ill with spotted fever and died 15 days later in No. 10 Stationary Hospital, St. Omer, 27 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the Souvenir Cemetery there. Capt. Wilson wrote: “Personally I feel his death very much, as he was one of the members of my company who had been with me for several years, and was one of the original band who joined from New Holland, and who have all turned out to be splendid fellows. I liked him very much--he was a good soldier and he must have been a good son”; and Lieut. Fieldsend: “I can assure you that no man in the company was more popular and more respected by both officers and men than your son.” Lieut. Riggall also said: “He was an excellent man, one of the best and nicest in the company. He was always cheerful and willing, never grumbled and would do anything for anyone. We shall all feel his loss intensely and myself especially.”

=TURNER, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1459), 114371, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TURNER, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker, 288305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNER, WILLIAM STEWART=, Lieut., 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of William Neil Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Jessie Stewart, dau. of the late Thomas Holder, of Liverpool, J.P.; b. Liverpool, 19 March, 1883; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool, and Sedbergh (Mr. Wilson’s House, 1898–1901), and on leaving there entered the firm of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father is senior partner. In Aug. 1914, when war broke out, he enlisted in the Liverpool Scottish and received his commission in the Reserve Battn. 17 Nov. just before the regt. left for the Front. He was in England when his yr. brother, Lieut. F. H. Turner, was killed in action, and it was immediately after this that he proceeded to the Front (18 Jan. 1915), where, following upon a petition from the men, he was attd. to the platoon with which his brother had been so popular an officer. He was killed in action while leading his men in the advance on Bellewarde Farm, Hooge, 16 June, 1915. They had just captured a German trench, when a heavy shell burst, killing him and Sergt. J. B. Jones instantly He had been promoted Lieut. May, 1915, and was unm. Like his brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner was a keen athlete. He was in the cricket, and Rugby football teams at both Greenbank and Sedbergh, and gained both his cricket and football colours the year he left Sedbergh, being a useful three-quarter and a good cricketer. Afterwards he played regularly at cricket and football for the Liverpool Club, and was captain of the latter club in the season 1909–10. In 1908 the two brothers did a remarkable performance against Sedbergh in the Old Sedberghian Match; in the first innings W. S. took 5 wickets for 8 runs and F. H. 5 for 16, then after scoring 66 runs between them, they took 9 wickets in the second innings, F. H. taking 7 for 26 and W. S. 2 for 10--in all taking 19 wickets for 60 runs.

=TURNER, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12728, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TURNOR, CHRISTOPHER RANDOLPH=, Lieut., 10th Royal Hussars, 2nd s. of Algernon Turnor, of 9, Clarges Street, Mayfair, W., C.B., J.P., late Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Private Secretary to the Earl of Beaconsfield from 1874 to 1880, by his wife, Lady Henrietta, née Stewart, 6th dau. of Randolph, 9th Earl of Galloway, and grandson of Christopher Turnor, of Stoke-Rochford, co. Lincoln, J.P., D.L., M.P.; b. 37, Pont Street, London, S.W., 16 Aug. 1886; educ. at the Rev. the Marquis of Normanby’s Private School at Mulgrave Castle; Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10th Hussars, 30 Dec. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1910; joined his regt. at Rawal Pindi, India, in Jan. 1909; served with it there and in South Africa, returning to England in Sept. 1914. The 10th Hussars embarked at Southampton on 6 Oct. 1914, and landed at Ostend on the 8th, and were immediately engaged in the fierce struggle near Ypres which stemmed the advance of the Germans to the coast. Lieut. Turnor was killed in action in the trenches at Zandvoorde, near Ypres, on 26 Oct. 1914, while trying to locate with his glasses an enemy’s field gun, and was buried in the Churchyard at Zandvoorde, quite close to the village Church, a cross marking his grave. His Col. wrote of him: “He was a universal favourite, and a very good officer, and is a great loss to the regt. and to the country”; and the Major: “He is a very great loss to us as an educated and thoroughly grounded soldier and officer, and also from his personal charm, which endeared him to all ranks.” The Eton Chronicle, recording his death, said: “He was a boy of strong character, high principles, and considerable ability.” He was a keen all-round sportsman, a good rider to hounds, and fond of shooting, especially big game shooting, which latter pursuit he followed successfully in Kashmir, Central India, and British East Africa. He was devoted to his profession, a great student of Military History, as well as a lover of books and music. He was unm.

=TURPIN, THOMAS COBB=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 268940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TURRELL, ALFRED=, Private,No. 2347, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Charles Turrell, of East Finchley, Mason, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Hill; b. Finchley, London, 7 Nov. 1888; was a Labourer, Priory Road, High Street, Hornsey; enlisted 4 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 March, 1915. He m. at Holloway, 31 Jan. 1909, Lillian, dau. of Edward Maton, and had two children: William George, b. 18 Nov. 1915; and Alice Louisa, b. 8 March, 1910.

=TURRELL, ARTHUR SIDNEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23459 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=de TUYLL, BARON MAURICE ARTHUR=, Capt., 10th Royal Hussars, yr. s. of the late Baron Carlo de Tuyll, Lieut., Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, by his wife, Louise Emily (now wife of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort), dau. of William Henry Harford, of Oldown, co. Gloucester, D.L.; b. London, 1 Nov. 1888; educ. Pinewood School, Farnborough, Stubbington (being originally intended for the Navy), privately with Mr. W. Trevor, Lathbury, Newport Pagnell, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1914; went to France with regt. Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, Thursday, 13 May, 1915; unm. He was leading his squadron in a counter-attack that morning and fell when crossing road from Ypres to Menin. He was buried in the garden of the Château de Poljitze.

=TWEDALE, JOHN JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7339), 308093, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TWINE, ARCHIBALD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2291), 225355, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TWINE, ERNEST HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4857), 195908, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TWORT, JACK=, Chief Stoker, 170842, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TYLER, ELIAS GEORGE=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21415, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TYLER, JOHN COLLETT=, 2nd Lieut., 122nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yr. s. of Col. John Charles Tyler, of 8, Cambridge Road, Colchester, late Royal Engineers, by his wife, Florence Mary, only dau. of the late General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, K.C.B., C.S.I., and gdson. of the late Sir Henry Whateley Tyler, M.P., and great-gdson. of General Sir Charles Pasley, K.C.B., R.E. (the father of Lady Tyler), who founded the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, and who in early life was extra A.D.C. to Sir John Moore at the time of his death and burial at Corunna; b. Roorkee, India, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Wellington College, where he was head of the school and captain of football, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was senior under-officer and obtained the Sword of Honour, July, 1914, the Commandant in his report on that occasion, observing that he would specially mention Senior under-officer J. C. Tyler, who had shown in his present responsible position that he possessed in a high degree those qualities which were looked for in the best type of officer; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 17 July, 1914, and joined at Woolwich, 9 Aug. 1914, left for Dundalk, Ireland, on the 10th, and embarked for France on the 17th, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915; unm. The Major Commanding his battery wrote on 21 April: “There is a big battle going on here now which started at 7 p.m. on the 17th, John and I went forward that day to observe. I had to send John and a signaller on by night, to the newly captured trench to let me know if the Germans were counter-attacking and to observe by day. This job he did in his usual gallant way. Three times he came back to me under heavy fire and great difficulties to mend the telephone wires. He was shot at dawn, a rifle bullet clean through the forehead. He died as he lived, doing his duty gallantly and well. Had he lived he would have certainly had the D.S.O. He was killed in the foremost trench captured from the Germans. Just after he was killed the Germans re-took the trench and held it for about 12 hours. We then took it back again.” And the General Officer Commanding wrote a few days later: “I had already sent in his name for good service. His cheery, gallant example was worth everything at these times.”

=TYNDALL, JOSEPH CHARLES=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Joseph P. Tyndall, of 2, Eaton Square, Monkstown, Solicitor; b. Dublin, 18 May, 1892; educ. Castleknock College, co. Dublin; joined the Special Reserve, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 17 Oct. 1910; and was gazetted Lieut. 20 April, 1912; afterwards went to Australia; but on the outbreak of war returned home and rejoined his old Battn.; went to France and was attd. to the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 2 March, 1915, after a fortnight in the trenches; unm. His elder brother, Surgeon William Tyndall, R.A.M.C., is now (1916) on active service in France.

=UDEN, FREDERICK EDWIN=, A.B., J. 7028, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=UNDERHAY, GEORGE THEODORE=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8930), 222560, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=UNDERHILL, CLARENCE GORDON=, Leading Seaman, 208615, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=UNDERHILL, FREDERICK TOM=, Private, No. 1109, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Frederick Tom Underhill, of Aptor Marldon, co. Devon, by his wife, Emily (6, Killieser Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.), dau. of James Stidston; b. Aptor Marldon, 22 July, 1886; educ. Bancrofts School, Essex, and was afterwards employed in the City. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, and was later transferred to the London Rifle Brigade, with which he went to the Front, 6 Nov. 1914. He saw five months of service with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Ploegsteert trenches, 29 March, 1915, having been nominated for promotion just previous to his death. He was buried in the Rifle Brigade cemetery, in the Ploegsteert Wood; unm. Letters from his officers and comrades all testify to his wonderful cheerfulness under the greatest of discomforts, his helpfulness, and his readiness for any and every fatigue duty. His brother, Lieut. G. Underhill, 9th Devons, is now (1916) on active service.

=UNDERHILL, RAYMOND BENWELL=, Private, No. 1685, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensingtons) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Richardson Underhill, Watchmaker and Jeweller, by his wife, Annie (123, Holland Park Avenue, W.), dau. of James Benwell, of Knightsbridge; b. Kensington, W., 9 Oct. 1881; educ. St. Mary Abbotts Higher Grade School there; joined the 4th Middlesex Volunteers afterwards, in 1907, the 13th London Territorials, and served eight years; went to Canada in March, 1907; returned to England in 1909, and went into business as a watchmaker and jeweller at 39, Earl’s Court Road, Kensington; rejoined his old regt. immediately war was declared; volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Oct., and died at No. 6 Clearing Station, Merville, 11 Feb. 1915, from appendicitis contracted while on active service; unm. Buried in Merville Cemetery, France (Grave No. E 10)

=UNDERWOOD, JOSEPH SAMUEL GEORGE=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 17076, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=UNWIN, ROBERT, HENRY=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 3500), 164358, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=UPFOLD, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1797), 353621, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=UPRICHARD, CHARLES EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10810), S.S. 108911, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=UPTON, HON. ERIC EDWARD MONTAGU JOHN=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, elder s. and heir of Henry Edward Montagu Dorington Clotworthy, 4th Viscount Templetown, of Castle Upton, Templepatrick, co. Antrim, by his wife, Lady Evelyn, née Finch Hatton, dau. of George William, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham; b. Steventon, co. Hants, 8 March, 1885; educ. at Eton (Mr. H. E. Luxmoore’s) and Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst with honours, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Aug. 1905, and joined the 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifles in India, being promoted Lieut. 3 Oct. 1908, and returning with them in 1910. He was assistant Adjutant, 1910–13, and was appointed Adjutant, 1 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war the 2nd Battn. mobilised on the Chobham Ridges and went out under Lieut.-Col. Pearce Serocold in the 2nd Infantry Brigade under Major-Gen. Bulfin. Capt. Upton served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. He was wounded at the first Battle of Ypres, was twice mentioned in Despatches, 31 May and 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915, and 1 Jan. 1916], and promoted Tempy. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914. He was killed near Rue de Bois during the action of 9 May, 1915. His Colonel wrote of him: “Besides being an exceptionally gallant officer, the work he has done for the battn. will live and be felt by it for years. I need hardly say there was no more popular officer in the regt., and I personally have lost a very dear and loyal friend, and those who knew him well realised that his character and abilities had marked him out for a great career in the Service.” A good cricketer and football player, and an experienced big game shooter in India, and deeply devoted to his regt., he had a remarkable power of gaining the affection of all with whom he came in contact, rich and poor alike, and his loyalty to his friends was one of his most marked characteristics. He was unm., and was buried in the Soldiers’ Cemetery, near the Rue de Bois, Richebourg St. Vaast. His yr. brother, the Hon. Henry Upton, is now (1916) on active service as a 2nd Lieut. in the Royal East Kent Yeomanry.

=UPTON, RICHARD=, Sergt., No. 2356, The Royal Flying Corps, 3rd surviving s. of the late Capt. Richard Upton, 4th Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regt.), and of the Political and Secret Department of H.M. India Office, by his wife, Harriet Frances (92, Tooting Bee Road, S.W.), dau. of the late Richard Clayton Strelley, of Oakerthorpe, co. Derby; b. Finchley, 11 Sept. 1881; educ. privately, and deciding upon a sea career, passed through the stages of his apprenticeship in a sailing boat, and eventually became a captain and master mariner in the Straits S.S. Service, L.F., being regarded as the commodore of the fleet of 17 boats. While home on leave in July, 1914, he obtained his first-class flying ticket in the Grahame-White School of Flying, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, joined the Legion of Frontiersmen; went to France, where he did good work as a free lance with the Red Cross Society. He then joined the R.F.C., was promoted Sergt., and died in Tidworth Military Hospital, 3 May, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service; unm.

=UPTON, WILLIAM JAMES THOMAS=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 19637, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=UREN, GEORGE THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 8/1149, 14th Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of William Uren, of Clyde, Otago Central, New Zealand, formerly of St. Ives; b. Clyde, Otago, New Zealand, 2 April, 1887; educ. there; was by trade a Printer; volunteered on the outbreak of war; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 28 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. He was a well known athlete in Central Otago and was a member of the C.U. Fire Brigade.

=URQUHART, EDWARD FREDERICK MALTBY=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), only s. of the Rev. Edward William Urquhart, of 82, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W., M.A., formerly Vicar of King’s Sutton, co. Northampton, by his wife, Caroline Mary, dau. of William Harris, of Plumley, Bovey Tracey, Devonshire; b. Edinburgh, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. West Bournemouth and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Highlanders, 20 Feb. 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1899, and Capt. 17 April, 1902; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Dec. 1901, and in those in the Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), was assistant superintendent of gymnasia in the Irish command, 9 Nov. 1906 to 19 Feb. 1907, and superintendent of the same, 20 Feb. 1907 to 9 Nov. 1910, and later Inspector of Physical Training, Northern Army, India, from March, 1913, to date of his death; went to France, 22 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Pilken, 23 Oct. following, during the fighting in the Ypres salient; unm. Buried in Boesinghe Churchyard.

=USHER, SEBASTIAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4074), 220488, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=USSHER, BEVERLY=, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 2nd s. of the Rev. Richard Ussher, Vicar of Westbury, Brackley; b. Catton Hall, Burton-on-Trent, 4 Aug. 1879; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford (1891–98), and Wadham College, Oxford (1898–1900); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Leinster Regt., 23 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 9 Aug. 1902, and Capt. 1 April, 1910; was Adjutant, 3 May, 1906, to 2 May, 1909, and officer, Coy. Gentlemen Cadets, and Instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 21 Sept. 1912, to May, 1915; joined the 2nd Battn. at Barbados in Aug. 1900; served in Jamaica and St. Lucia; in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to March, and in the Transvaal, March to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), and subsequently in India for two years and then at Devonport and in Ireland. After the outbreak of the European War he was appointed Staff Officer on the Staff of General Doran; left for the Dardanelles in May as Staff Capt. to the 88th Brigade in the famous 29th Division; was acting Brigade-Major, and was killed there 19 June, 1915. An officer wrote: “On the night of 18–19 June, a battn. of the 42nd Division was attacked and lost two or three trenches. The Turks got in behind our line, and were firing into the backs of the Royal Scots, who were holding the right of the 88th Brigade position. The counter-attack of the 42nd Division hung fire; so about 2 a.m. we decided to make one ourselves. Capt. Ussher was sent to the support trench of the Worcestershire Regt. who were in rear of the Royal Scots. The situation was serious and involved. Communication by telephone with the Royal Scots was interrupted owing to the wire being cut. It was necessary to have clear reports sent back. The Worcestershire Regt. had lost all their regular senior officers, and were, on this night, commanded by a Ceylon Planter. Capt. Ussher was told to see that co-ordinated action was arranged between the Royal Scots and Worcestershire Regt. and to send reports on the situation; but on no account to lead any attempt which was not his work under the circumstances. He took his orderly with him who subsequently told me what occurred. The action to be taken was agreed upon. The Royal Scots charged from their trenches simultaneously with a coy. of the Worcestershire Regt., re-took from the Turks the trenches they had seized, followed on and took and held a Turkish trench. There was a close fight with the bayonet which lasted 15 minutes. A German officer was killed. When the Worcestershire Regt. were in the act of jumping out of the trench preparatory to charging, Capt. Ussher was in the trench with Capt. Allen, D.A.A.Q.M.G. 142nd Division (Hampshire Regt.). I understand that he moved, still in the trench, to give room, and as he stood up he was struck in the head by a bullet, and died in a few minutes without becoming conscious. He was brought back to a spot near our Brigade Headquarters, and buried by the Chaplain. The grave is on the open upland from which can be seen the Dardanelles and Asia. A large cross had been made and marked and placed at the head. Wild flowers grow there,” and the Chaplain: The bearing is 310 from South Corner of White House to South Corner of the Cemetery. At St. Edward’s he was in the XI from 1895 to 1898, when he was capt., and in the XV from 1894 to 1897, when he was capt. He was one of the most brilliant of our cricketers. He headed the batting averages in 1897, and won the average ball twice in both cases with fine scores. Twice he scored for the school a century, and his record of cricket at St. Edward’s ends with the perfectly played 120 which he made against it in the Jubilee Match. He was a member of the S.E.S. Society. He also represented Wadham both at cricket and football. He m. at Jullundur, India, 26 March, 1906, Ethel, dau. of the Rev. Henry Martin, Vicar of Stockton-on-Tees, and Canon of Durham, and had three children: John Beverly, b. 6 Nov. 1913; Stephen Beverly, b. 17 Sept. 1915; and Kathleen Mary, b. 28 Feb. 1910. His brother, Capt. S. Ussher, was killed in France (see following notice).

=USSHER, STEPHEN=, Capt., 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, 3rd s. of the Rev. Richard Ussher, Vicar of Westbury, Brackley; b. 52, Eaton Place, S.W., 4 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (20 Sept. 1901 to 30 July, 1903); gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattd., Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902; served with the 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I. (with which he went to India), 27 Aug. 1902 to 25 Feb. 1903; The Buffs, 26 Feb. 1903 to 13 Oct. 1903, and the 2nd East Lancashires, 14 Oct. 1903 to 4 July, 1904; was posted to the 129th Baluchis, 5 July, 1904, and promoted Lieut. 5 Dec. following, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911; was Double Coy. Officer, 7 July, 1904; Off. Adjutant, 11 Nov. 1908, to 27 June, 1909, and Adjutant, 28 June, 1909, to 15 Aug. 1913; was present at the Delhi Coronation Durbar (medal, 24 June, 1911); went to France with the Indian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 Dec. 1914; unm. The 129th Baluchis were ordered to make an attack on the German trenches at Givenchy near La Bassée on the early morning of the 16th. Capt. Ussher was in charge of the Machine-Gun Section of the Regt. The attack at first succeeded, but later the Germans brought up two machine-guns quite close, and by this means prevented any reinforcements coming forward to assist the first attacking party which had gained the Germans’ first line of trenches. Capt. Ussher, seeing what damage the German machine-guns were doing, tried to direct the fire from his guns on to theirs, and while looking over the parapet so that he could direct the fire effectively was hit by a bullet in the centre of his forehead. He died at once without recovering consciousness, and was buried the next day at Beuvry, near Bethune. His last words before he was killed were “Keep down, keep down,” to a brother officer who was with him. The 129th Baluchis were the first Indian Regt. to go into action, and one of the men received one of the two first V.C.’s ever granted to the native troops.

=VACHELL, RICHARD TANFIELD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps, only s. of Horace Annesley Vachell, of Beechwood, Bartley, Southampton, Author and Dramatist, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Chauncy Hatch Phillips, of San Luis Obispo, California; b. San Luis aforesaid, 29 June, 1890; educ. Harrow and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 13 June, 1910; promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1913, and Capt. in July, 1915; joined the 1st Battn. at Gharial in the Murree Hills in 1910, and served with it continuously, except for a short period in 1912, when he acted as A.D.C. to Lord Sydenham, the then Governor of Bombay, until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, when he proceeded with it to France. He took part in the retreat from Mons, but was wounded in Oct. and invalided home. Shortly after returning to the Front he joined the Flying Corps as an observer, again returning to England in April to train for his pilot’s certificate, which he obtained in June, 1915. He returned to France at the end of July, and died at Choques, 1 Aug. 1915, of wounds received on 31 July, being buried in the military cemetery there; unm. Capt. Vachell was a good all-round sportsman. While at Harrow he was a member of the football eleven and fifteen; was an ardent Skihari, and represented the regt. at polo in the Jubbulpore Tournament in 1912. He contributed several articles to the St. George’s Gazette under the nom de plume of “The Sprouter,” notably “With the American Section at the Delhi Durbar,” which exhibited his strong sense of humour. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915.

=VALLENTIN, JOHN FRANKS, V.C.=, Capt., 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Grimble Vallentin, of The Manor House, Walthamstow, by his wife, Lucy (33, Prince of Wales Mansions, S.W.), dau. of Col. John Finnis, 11th Bengal Native Infantry Regt. (killed at Meerut, 10 May, 1857, the first victim of the Mutiny); b. in London, 14 May, 1882; educ. Wellington College; served in the South African War, 1901–2, with the Sussex Militia, taking part in the operations in Orange River Colony, April to Dec. 1901, and in the Transvaal from that time until May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Garrison Regt., 29 July, 1903; transferred to 1st South Staffords, 7 June, 1905, and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. 1907, and Capt. 12 June, 1909. He went to France, 5 Oct. 1914, and was wounded on 31 Oct. at Ypres, and taken to hospital, where he was detained. On 2 Nov., on hearing Major Loder Symonds had been killed, he insisted on coming out of hospital to take command of what was left of the regt., the Col. having been seriously wounded on 31 Oct. He was killed in action at Zillebeke, 7 Nov. following; unm. The regt. on this occasion, with the remains of the Queen’s Regt., captured six machine guns, and recaptured the trenches which had previously been lost by the French. The machine guns captured on this occasion were destroyed and buried. He was awarded the V.C. posthumously “for conspicuous bravery on 7 Nov., at Zillebeke, when leading the attack against the Prussian Guard under a very heavy fire, he was struck down, and on rising to continue the attack, was immediately killed. The capture of the enemy’s trenches which followed was in a good measure due to the confidence which the men had in their captain, arising from his many previous acts of great bravery and ability.” Lieut.-Col. Ovens, C.M.G., commanding 1st South Staffords, wrote: “Capt. Vallentin’s splendid heroism and unfaltering courage and determination have been justly rewarded with the Victoria Cross. He was Captain of our Polo Club and the best player in the regt. He was a specialist in musketry, and a first-rate all-round man. At manœuvres and in the field General Officers have commented on the excellence of his work. The Chief Engineer of the 7th Division told me Capt. Vallentin’s scheme of defence and his trenches were the best he had seen. He was wounded and in hospital at Ypres on 6 Nov. 1914, and hearing the regt. was making an attack that night, he came out of hospital and took command. He was again wounded whilst leading his men forward, and was instantly killed. His is a great loss to his splendid old regt., and is deeply regretted by all who knew him.”

=VANE, JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305666, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VANRENEN, ARTHUR SAUNDERS=, Lieut.-Col., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, eldest surviving s. of the late Gen. Donald Campbell Vanrenen, Indian Army, by his wife, Julia (9, Lansdowne Place, Cheltenham), dau. of the late J. S. Sullivan, Bengal Medical Service; b. Meerut, India, 14 Dec. 1862; educ. Cheltenham; entered the Militia in 1879; was gazetted Lieut. from it, to the Lincolnshire Regt., 12 May, 1883; and promoted Capt. 23 Dec. 1893; served with Malay States Guides, 19 Nov. 1897–1908, being acting Commandant from 1905. He retired from the Lincolnshire Regt. on 3 Jan. 1903, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 offered his services, and was gazetted Major, 7th Battn. of that regt., 23 Sept. following, and Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 3 March, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Kapanya Dagh, 15 Aug. 1915, after the landing at Suvla Bay. He was buried on the hill where the battle took place. He m. at Bruges, Belgium, 28 Oct. 1897, Louisa Frances (Holmhurst, Bideford), dau. of Edwin Empson Isemonger, Colonial Treasurer of the Straits Settlements, and had two children: Esmé Mildred, b. 2 Aug. 1898; and Joyce Marguerite, b. 12 May, 1903.

=VANSON, ROBERT WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B 9073), 199912, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=VARLEY, HORACE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4856), S.S. 1766, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VARLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11284, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Varley, of Church, Accrington; b. co. Lancaster; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 Jan. 1915.

=VARNEY, JOHN=, Pte., No. 9360, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; s. of John Varney, of 18, Mitchells Road, Richmond; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action 15 Feb. 1915.

=VASSALLI, ALFRED JEROME=, Corpl., No. 305, 2nd King Edward’s Horse, s. of John Vassalli, of Scarborough, Jet Ornament Manufacturer, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of William Hardy; b. Whitby, co. York, 27 Aug. 1881; educ. Scarborough; was an officer in the Merchant Service, and was training with the Naval Reserve when the South African War broke out; volunteered, went with the naval guns to the Relief of Ladysmith, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State and Natal (Queen’s medal with five bars), and was for some time despatch rider for Gen. Bethune, in whose cavalry regt. he afterwards served. He was a Naval Reservist, and on the outbreak of war was called up, but failed to pass the medical examination, and, being anxious to serve his country, joined the 2nd King Edward’s Horse, and was promoted Corpl. His health, however, broke down, and he died in King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, 1 Oct. 1914, from pneumonia contracted while in camp at Slough. He was a Rural District Councillor at Drigg, Cumberland. He m. at Scarborough 3 Sept. 1902, Anne Pembroke (Derwent House, Drigg, Holmrook, Cumberland), dau. of Frederick Reynolds, of the Inland Revenue Department, and had three children: Frederick John, b. 10 Nov. 1911; Annie Reynolds, b. 1 Feb. 1904; and Jessie Irene, b. 30 Dec. 1905.

=JONES-VAUGHAN, EVAN NANNEY=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Hugh Thomas Jones-Vaughan, of Llwydyn, Carnarvonshire, C.B., Col.-in-Chief of the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. (who served through the Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Eva, dau. of the late Rev. Evan C. Owen, of Hengwrtucha, Merionethshire, and Aberhirriaeth Hall, T.L., J.P.; b. Llwydyn, 5 Sept. 1885; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 22 Feb. 1905; and promoted Lieut. 4 Dec. 1909, and Capt. 19 April, 1913; left for France, 10 Aug. 1914; and was killed in action not far from the village of Vertouquet, near Armentières, 26 Oct. following, by the explosion of a shell (but reports differ), which also killed two Lieuts., a Sergt. and two men of his battn. Buried 600 metres from the spot where he fell; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I have lost a most gallant and capable officer and a very dear companion.”

=VAVASOUR, LIONEL ORMISTON=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of Albert Carter Vavasour, M.A., J.P., of Weston Manor, Otley, co. York, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of C. H. Dawson, J.P., Weston Hall; b. Killwick Hall, Beverley, 29 Aug. 1889; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. 28 May, 1910, from the Special Reserve, and promoted Lieut. 28 Dec. 1913; went to India with his regt. in 1912, and died at Gharial, 24 July, 1915, while on active service; unm. Lieut. Vavasour was a keen sportsman, a clever cricketer, and while at school won several silver cups, especially for the eight miles’ race. In the regt. he found cricket and football “going to pieces,” but soon established a revival of keen interest, and regularly made his century with his team. He was the crack shot of his regt., and sent many trophies home to witness to his prowess with the rifle, including the heads of three urial and three chinkara from Kashmir, which was said to be the biggest bag an officer had ever secured there.

=VEITCH, FRANCIS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115773, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=VENN, ERNEST ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1393), 201717, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VENNER, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4893), S.S. 104302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VENNING, EDWIN GERALD=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. The Suffolk Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edwin James Venning, Chaplain in Cassel, Germany, by his wife, Amy, dau. of William Lawrence; b. Southsea, 7 June, 1883; educ. St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, and afterwards took up acting. From about 1911, he travelled in the provinces with touring companies, playing important parts, and when war broke out in Aug. 1914, he was acting at Brighton. He at once volunteered, and enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regt. in Sept. and was subsequently gazetted Lieut. 3rd Suffolks, 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 9 June, 1915; went to the Front, 3 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 6 Aug. following; unm. Buried in Locre Churchyard. Sergt. Major Utting, in writing to his sister, said: “Your brother, Capt. Venning, was my company officer, and he has treated myself and the men of my company in such a manner that he has gained a respect that will last as long as there is a man of the present B Coy. alive.”

=VERCO, WALTER JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch./10669, H.M.S Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=VERCOE, HENRY STEVEN=, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4863, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=VEREKER, ROBERT HUMPHREY MEDLICOTT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd s. of George Medlicott Vereker, of Sharpitor, near Salcombe, South Devon, J.P. for co. Galway, Freeman of the City of Dublin, late Capt. Kildare Militia, by his wife, Frances Gore, eldest dau. of Robert Manders, of Landscape, Dundrum, co. Dublin, and grandson of the Hon. John Prendergast Vereker [3rd son of John Prendergast, 3rd Viscount Gort]; b. Dublin, 15 Oct. 1894; educ. Cheam, Osborne Naval College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Grenadier Guards, 17 Sept. 1913, and joined his battn. the following month at the Tower of London; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the desperate night battle at Landrecies, on the 25th of the same month. Buried at Landrecies; unm. The Rev. Benjamin G. O. Rorke, Chaplain to the Forces, wrote: “You have probably already heard that your brave son met his death in action on the 25th inst. while trying to draw Corpl. Bacchus of his regt. out of the range of the German fire. Corpl. Bacchus, who was wounded, is now convalescent, and, if spared, can tell you all about it. He showed me the exact spot at Landrecies, on the town side of the railway level-crossing, on the left of the road. It was a brave man’s death. There were in his pocket a silver flask from his mother and his own ‘Onoto’ diary. I gave them into the custody of the medical officer, Major Fry (brother of C. B. Fry), to take charge of for you. He was buried in the next grave to Lord Hawarden and the Hon. Windsor Clive on the one side, and eight men of the Coldstream Guards on the other, and on the same occasion we erected a rough wooden cross inscribing the names. The following day the wife of the ‘Garde Cimetière’ brought me a wooden cross of a more substantial kind, and I left instructions for the names to be painted on it; it was her own thought and her own tribute. Mme. Bocquet, The Pharmacie, Grande Rue, Landrecies (a very kind lady), undertook to see this done. I have heard from the regt. how much he is missed. He died like a brave man. This will be a great consolation to you.” The house and grounds at Sharpitor were lent to the Red Cross Society for the duration of the war by Mr. and Mrs. George Vereker in memory of their son.

=VERGE, ARTHUR=, Capt., A.A.M.C., attd. 6th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Austral Verge, of Kempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales, Grazier, by his wife, Matilda Jane, dau. of Henry Flavelle, of Hamilton Terrace, London; b. Kempsey, 12 Feb. 1880; educ. The King’s School, Parramatta, where he was Burton Exhibitioner in 1898, and St. Paul’s College within Sydney University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.M., in 1905; was for two years (1905–6) resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital; then proceeded to England, where he attended the leading London hospital skin departments, and took courses in Bacteriology and Vaccine Therapy. After a post graduate course at Edinburgh University he qualified F.R.C.S. there in 1908, and then visited Paris, Vienna, Prague and Berlin, and attended the skin clinics and took courses in the treatment of skin diseases under Sabarand, Brocq, Thebierge, Albaran (Paris), Finger, Rheil, Oppenheim, Kapsammer (Vienna), Blaschko, Josephs and Wasserman (Berlin). Returning to Edinburgh, he was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Skin Department for three months, and later non-resident house physician for one year (1909–10), at the Royal Infirmary, and while holding these positions had charge of the X-Ray department, and the radium treatment under Dr. Cranston Low. He took a six months’ course in Vaccine Therapy and Bacteriology of the Skin at the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1910 published in the “British Medical Journal” (31 Dec.) an article on “The Treatment and Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris by Tuberculin Ointment.” He then returned to Australia and practised as a skin specialist in Sydney, and in 1911 obtained the position of Hon. Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Skin at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital there. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and was given a commission as Capt. A.A.M.C., 2 Oct. 1914; left Sydney as medical officer to the 6th Light Horse with the second reinforcements, and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, 8 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service with his regt. at Anzac Cove; unm. He represented both King’s School and St. Paul’s College in cricket, football, tennis and rowing. He played with the University Union Football Team, and was full-back for three seasons. He played full-back for New South Wales against Queensland in 1902 and 1904, and while in the old country played rugger with Blackheath and other Rugby clubs. Dr. Verge was also a capital all-round cricketer, and at one time was the most successful bowler at the University. He played in two matches against Melbourne University, scoring 10 and 2, and taking two for 22 and six for 20 in 1903; and scoring 4 and 5, and taking four for 70 and three for 69 in 1904. His yr. brother, Dr. C. A. Verge, is now with No. 32 General Hospital, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force.

=VICAT, HORATIO JOHN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., eldest surviving s. of the late Horatio Nelson Vicat, of Sevenoaks, by his wife, Miriam Frances Kate (East Lodge, Sevenoaks), dau. of Henry Augustus Prevost Holland, of Quebec, Canada [grandson of Capt. Samuel Holland, R.A., A.D.C. to General at the capture of Quebec, and afterwards Surveyor General of Quebec and Director of Surveys in British North America]; b. Melbourne, P. Quebec, Canada, 24 June, 1885; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal West Kents, 25 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 26 May, 1908; was seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force (Gold Coast Regt.), from Nov. 1910 to Oct. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Missy, during the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914. He was in command of his company when they were forming advanced guard to the Brigade and he was leading his men down to make good a bridge-head which was held by the enemy when they opened fire with a machine-gun, and he was killed instantly. Buried 300 yards East-South-East of Missy Bridge on the south side of the river; unm.

=VIGUS, ROBERT EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8507, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=VILES, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A., 13533, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=VILLIS, LEYSHON=, Trooper, No. 748, 18th Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of George Villis, by his wife, Mary Ann (Hayes Cottages, Sully, near Cardiff), dau. of Leyshon Watkin; b. Mountain Ash, co. Glamorgan, 17 April, 1893; educ. Sully; went to Australia, 1 Dec. 1911; volunteered and enlisted following the outbreak of war, 15 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

=VINALL, CHARLES COBDEN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3591), S.S. 957, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VINALL, EDWARD ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3504), S.S. 1184, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VINCE, DAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9107), 234619, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=VINCENT, THOMAS ERNEST=, Blacksmith’s Mate, M. 3134, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=VINCENT, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 6540, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of William Offer Vincent, of Garsdon, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Charles Vincent; b. Garsdon, co. Wilts, 6 May, 1883; educ. Lea National School; enlisted 8 Jan. 1906, and was killed in action at Villers Cotteretts, 1 Sept. 1914, being buried at Rue de la Reine on the 4th. He m. at Ampeny St. Peter, co. Gloucester, Elizabeth (Garsdon, Malmesbury, Wilts), dau. of Edwin Wheeler, and had issue: Francis William, b. 17 July, 1911; William Charles, b. 29 Sept. 1912; and Joan, b. (posthumous) 21 Dec. 1914.

=VINE, RICHARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 9739, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=VINEY, CECIL HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of Cecil T. Viney, of Bromley, Kent; b. 24 May, 1891; educ. South Lodge, Enfield Chase, and Westminster, and then entered the Royal Academy School of Painting, where he was still a student in Aug. 1914, when war was declared. He immediately volunteered for Imperial Service and was given a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers, Northamptonshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914, and later posted to the 2nd Battn. He went to France and was killed in action near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=VINEY, PHILIP ERNEST=, Capt., 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Josiah Ernest Viney, of Cintra, Swanage, formerly of Harcourts, Chertsey, M.D., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng.; b. 23 April, 1888; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Leicesters, 8 Feb. 1908, and was promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1910, and Capt. 24 Aug. 1914. He served with the 1st Battn. at Shorncliffe, and later with the 2nd Battn. at Belgaum, and 5 Oct. 1911, was seconded for service with the Gold Coast Regt., and did good work in West Africa. He was A.D.C. to Sir Hugh Clifford, but on the outbreak of war came home and rejoined his regt., and died in the field hospital at Bailleul, 17 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action; unm.

=VINNALL, EDWARD ARTHUR=, A.B., S.S. 1184, R.F.R., B. 3904, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=VIVIAN, CHARLES AUGUSTUS=, Brevet Lieut.-Col., 15th (Ludhiana) Sikhs, Indian Army, 3rd and yst. s. of the late Col. Aylmer MacIver-Campbell, formerly Vivian, of Asknish, C.B., D.L., J.P., Bengal S.C., by his wife, Margaret Agnes (Asknish House, Lochgair, co. Argyle), elder dau. and co. h. of Col. James Duff MacIver-Campbell, of Asknish; b. Dalhousie, India, 28 July, 1874; educ. Clifton College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut (unattd. list) Indian Army, 30 Aug. 1893; was attached to the Gordon Highlanders for his first year; joined the Indian Staff Corps, 27 Jan. 1895, and was promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1895, Capt. 30 Aug. 1902, and Major, 30 Aug. 1911; served (1) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895 (medal with clasp); (2) on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–8, including operations on the Samana and in the Kurram Valley during Aug. and Sept. 1897, and those of the Flying Column in the Kurram Valley, under Col. Richardson, 20 Aug. to 1 Oct. 1897 (two clasps); (3) in the Tirah Expedition, 1897–8; including actions of Chagree Kotal and Dargai; the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes; reconnaissance of the Saran Sar and action of 9 Nov. 1897; and operations of the Waran Valley, and action of 16 Nov. 1897 (clasp); and (4) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Oct. 1914 to 27 April, 1915. Delayed by illness in Egypt, he did not join his regt. at the front until Oct. and was wounded in Dec. He returned to duty in Jan. and was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, and promoted Brevet Lieut.-Col. 18 Feb. following, for service in the field. In the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, where his regt. took a leading part, he was again wounded, but refused to leave his men and remained in the trenches under very heavy fire. He was killed in action near St. Julien, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 27 April, 1915. About 5.30 p.m., under cover of a bombardment of the Sirhind Brigade, the 1st Highland Light Infantry, and the 15th Sikhs were ordered to advance, but were met with such a terrific fire that a check ensued. Col. Vivian had to rush with his company over a fire swept zone to join the remainder of his regt. Just as he arrived he was shot through the body. An officer wrote: “I think that Col. Vivian was the bravest man I ever met--he seemed absolutely fearless of bullets, and his patrol work in front of our trenches at night was really wonderful. He inspired all the Sikh officers and men of his company with the greatest confidence, and made them nearly as fearless as himself. Once there was a house 30 yards in front of our trenches and it obscured our field of fire. The regt. who occupied the trenches before we did, said that they had tried to pull down the house, but had had to give up the attempt, because the enemy fired on them. Col. Vivian called for volunteers of his company to assist him to demolish the house. The whole company to a man volunteered--he chose the requisite number and in two days the house was flat; although they worked in daylight, not a single man was hit. I shall never forget the thrill of admiration I had for him when he volunteered to go behind the German line for two or three nights and reconnoitre the German position at La Bassée, but I was very relieved when the General would not allow him to go. Each time that he was wounded he insisted on going on with his work; any ordinary man would have been very shaken. We have lost a very dear friend, and England one of her bravest soldiers.” Col. Abbott, writing to The Pioneer about the Tirah Campaign, said: “Your report, moreover, makes no mention of the very gallant and prompt manner in which, when Capt. Lewarne’s party was rushed from the wood, the next one was brought up to his aid by Lieut. Vivian. The second party also got to close quarters with the enemy and to them must be accredited a large proportion of the Afridi losses on that occasion.” He m. at Portsmouth, 30 Aug. 1906, Mary Hastings, eldest surviving dau. of the late Joseph Studholme, of Ballyeighan, King’s Co., J.P., and had three children: Aylmer Studholme, b. 17 Aug. 1909; John, b. 30 Aug. 1913; and Margaret Ruth, b. 25 June, 1907.

=VISCOUNT, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, No. 1065, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Charles B. Viscount, of Dunville, Placentia, Newfoundland, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Jane Norman; b. Cape Shore, Newfoundland, 23 March, 1895; educ. Dunville afsd.; was a Fisherman; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 14 Jan. 1915; left for England, May, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, Sept. 1915, and died on board the Hospital Ship Valdivia, 30 Oct. 1915, of wounds in the head received in action there. Buried at sea, Long. 23,26 E., Lat. 36,43 N.; unm.

=VYVYAN, WALTER DRUMMOND=, Lieut., 2nd King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, elder s. of Capt. Richard Walter Comyn Vyvyan, of Trewan, St. Columb. Cornwall, late 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt. and Temp. Lieut.-Col. 21st (Reserve) Battn. of the same, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Edward Sladen Foster, of Dowsby, co. Lincoln; b. Bath, co. Somerset, 20 March, 1887; educ. Bedford Grammar School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. King’s Shropshire L.I. 4 May, 1907, and promoted Lieut. 19 March, 1910; went to France, 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, Belgium, 2 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Dispatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

=WACHER, GEOFFREY GIBBINGS=, Sergt., No. 517, 1/16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Alfred Wacher, of the Anchor Brewery, Bermondsey, S.E., and Herne Bay, by his wife, Lucy Durant, dau. of Henry Gibbings, of North Tawton, Devon; b. Bermondsey, 25 April, 1891; educ. St. Anne’s School, Redhill, Surrey; was for some years in the employ of Chas. Morgan & Co., Paper Manufacturers, London; joined the Queen’s Westminsters, 22 Jan. 1909; volunteered for Imperial Service, Aug. 1914, and left for France, as Corpl. 1 Nov. 1914; promoted Sergt. June, 1915, and placed in charge of the machine-gun section, to which he had been transferred in Jan.; and was killed in action 9 Aug. following; unm. The Queen’s Westminsters were in support during the attack on Hooge on 9 Aug., and, after this had proved successful, occupied the first line trenches. During the severe bombardment by the enemy’s artillery which followed, our men took refuge in dug-outs. There were a large number of casualties, and Sergt. Wacher gave up his place of safety to some wounded men, and a few minutes later was killed by a shell. He had done valuable work with his battn. before war broke out, during its period of training, and more especially at the Front. One of his officers wrote: “He was one of the most popular fellows in the battn. among all ranks, and his loss is considered a regimental catastrophe”; and another wrote: “Ever since he went to the guns he had done excellent work as well as winning the affections of all the section.” He had been recommended for a commission by his Commanding Officer, and expected to return to England any day to take up his new duties, but owing to the heavy fighting could not be spared. An elder brother, Lieut. Walter Ronald Wacher, is (1916) on active service with the 2nd Royal Berkshires.

=WACKETT, FREDERICK JAMES=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3158), 151740, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WADDY, JOHN RAYMOND=, B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Lieut., R.A.M.C., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Waddy, late Commanding 2nd Somerset L.I., and grandson of Gen. Sir Richard Waddy, K.C.B., 50th Regt.; b. Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 15 Feb. 1886; educ. Clifton College; Pembroke College, Cambridge, and King’s College Hospital; qualified M.R.C.S., and L.R.C.P. (London) 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was given a commission as temporary Lieut., R.A.M.C., 11 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action by a stray bullet, Bois de Ploegsteert, 17 March, 1915; unm. Buried in Somerset Cemetery, Ploegsteert Wood. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan 1915, and was awarded the Military Cross, 18 Feb. 1915. An officer of the Somersets wrote: “We were all, both officers and men alike, absolutely devoted to him; he was brave as a lion, and always ready to help anybody who needed him; no name will go down in the history of the regt. with more honour than his, for everybody loved him and realised his sterling qualities.” And the Chairman of the King’s College Hospital: “Both at King’s College, London, and at King’s College Hospital, your son was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. As you know, he finished a brilliant career at the hospital by obtaining the senior scholarship of this year, and was forthwith appointed House Surgeon to Professor Sir Watson Cheyne; the latter appointment he fulfilled to the complete satisfaction of his seniors, and during his residence in hospital he considerably enhanced that high reputation he had already gained.”

=WADE, FREDERICK WALTER=, Private, No. 13069, 2nd Battn. The Suffolk Regt., eldest s. of Frederick William Wade, of Hall Cottage, Foxhall, near Ipswich, Farm Horseman, by his wife, Edith Florence, dau. of the late Joseph Goodchild; b. Bromeswell, near Woodbridge, 24 Sept. 1895; educ. Bucklesham; enlisted on the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, died from wounds received in action, 21 June, 1915, and was buried in the Civil Cemetery at Bailleul; unm.

=WADE, STAMPER PLASKETT=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269679, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WADE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2565, 1/7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F), s. of John William Wade, of 150, Lansdowne Road, Dalston, by his wife, Emily, dau. of (--) Parker; b. Hackney, 2 June, 1890; educ. Wilton Road School, Dalston; volunteered for Imperial service, and joined the 7th London in Sept. 1914, and went to France, 17 March, and died in hospital at Bethune, 5 April, 1915, of wounds received in action, 3 April. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune; unm.

=WADKINS, WILLIAM FERDINAND=, A.B., J. 3223, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=WADSWORTH, ALFRED CHARLES=, Private, No. 12/1820, 16th Waikato Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late John Wadsworth, of 10, Pelham Road South, Gravesend, Kent, Watchmaker and Jeweller, by his wife, Alice (10, Pelham Road South, Gravesend, Kent), dau. of John Hawes; b. Cheshunt, co. Herts. 3 Sept. 1889; educ. Christ Church School, Wanstead; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand E.F., 15 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt, 13 Feb. 1915; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, 1915, and was reported missing on 8 May following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action there between those dates; unm.

=WADSWORTH, THOMAS EDWIN=, Private, No. 9537, 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Edwin Wadsworth, of 13, Beech Hall Road, of Highams Park, Essex, an employee of the British Bank of South America, Moorgate Street, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Thomas Brown, Baughurst, Hants, Farmer; b. Southfields, S.W., 1 March, 1896; educ. Central Foundation School, Cowper Street, E.C., and on leaving there entered the service of Samuel Montagu & Co., of Old Broad Street, E.C., and was a junior in the bullion department when war broke out. He had joined the London Rifle Brigade, 18 March, 1913, and at once volunteered for active service, and went to the Front with his regt. 4 Nov. 1914. On 27 April he left the shelter of his trench in order to succour a wounded stretcher-bearer, and assist him to the rear. Soon after his return to the firing line he was wounded by the splinter of a shell. As there was a scarcity of stretchers he insisted on walking in order that other wounded men might be carried. The walking caused him to lose a considerable quantity of blood, and he reached the base in a very weak condition. He died in Netley Hospital, 8 May, 1915, and was buried in Ilford Cemetery; unm. A Memorial Tablet was placed in St. Stephen’s Church, Coleman Street, where he was formerly a chorister, with the following inscription: “This tablet is erected in affectionate memory of T. Edwin Wadsworth, by the staff of Samuel Montagu & Co., of 60, Old Broad Street, to whom he had become endeared by his winsome ways and eager and faithful discharge of daily duties. One of the youngest in the ranks of the London Rifle Brigade, he responded instantly to the call of his King and Country, endured with fortitude the rigours of the winter campaign in Flanders, and whilst repelling an attack of the enemy on 27 April, 1915, received wounds which proved mortal. Fragile in frame, his body proved unequal to retain his brave young spirit, which returned to Him who gave it. He finished his earthly course 8 May, 1915, within a brief span of 19 years and 2 months, and now awaits another Trumpet Call. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ Jno. XV. 13.”

=WAGLAND, ISAAC WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3885), 186631, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WAGSTAFF, ALFRED=, Private, No. 114, 6/2, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of William Wagstaff, of Thorpe, near Thrapston, Northampton, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of Kidman Giddings, of Long Stow, Cambs.; b. Thorpe, co. Northants, 14 Sept. 1891; educ. Lilford School, near Oundle; worked in copper sheds on L. & N.W.R. at Birmingham; enlisted, 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 28 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 30 Sept. 1915; unm. His four brothers, Samuel, William, Albert Kidman, and Jack, and a nephew, Reginald R. Wagstaff, are (1916) all on active service.

=WAITE, CHARLES WILLIAM=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 1542), 169682, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WAITT, GEORGE GREENHILL=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27506 (Devonport), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WAKEFIELD, ARTHUR JAMES=, Private, No. 11319, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Walter John Wakefield, of 2, Eleanor’s Terrace, Oxford Street, Hull, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Robert Handcock; b. Wincolmlee, Hull, 22 Nov. 1890; educ. Lincoln Street School; was an oilmiller in the employ of Messrs. Chambers & Fargus; enlisted in the East Yorks after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 27 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He m. at Hull, 1 Oct. 1910, Maria (2, Eleanor’s Terrace, Oxford Street, Hull), dau. of Edward Scott, and had two children: Lily, b. 2 March, 1912; and Lottie, b. 4 April, 1914.

=WAKELIN, JOHN BINHAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 1734, 1/7th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Wakelin, an employee at Queen’s College, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Georgina, dau. of Alfred Barnes Cook; b. Oxford, 17 Dec. 1881; educ. Wesleyan School there; was employed at the Whitechapel Infirmary; joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Oxfordshire L.I. 22 Jan. 1900, serving with them till Dec. 1904, and the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 5 Jan. 1905, serving till 4 Jan. 1908. On the outbreak of war he resigned his post at Whitechapel and joined the 7th London Regt.; went to France, 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 7 May, following; unm. Buried at Bethune.

=WAKEMAN, EDWARD OFFLEY ROUSE=, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, yr. s. of Sir Offley Wakeman, of Yeaton Peverey, Shrewsbury, and Rorrington Lodge, Chirbury, Shropshire, 3rd Bart., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Sir Charles Henry Rouse Boughton, 11th Bart.; b. Downton Hall, near Ludlow, 15 Jan. 1889; educ. Eton, and St. John’s College, Oxford (B.A. 1912); was employed by the University in agricultural research and afterwards by the Board of Agriculture as Special Investigator, which position he resigned to join the Guards in Dec. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Jan. 1915; went to France in April and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches; unm. He was buried on the field of battle near Richebourg l’Avoué. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had been with us a short time but amply long enough for us and his company to realise that in him we have lost a man and a gallant officer, and a good comrade. He was killed in the way we all hope to be killed (if it is willed that we are to be), that is gallantly leading men of the Brigade of Guards.” Lieut. Wakeman was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916].

=WAKINSHAW, JAMES WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 51464, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of James Wood Wakinshaw, of Wolsingham, Publican, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Clark, of Whitton Park, co. Durham; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 31 March, 1891; educ. National School there; was employed at Pickersgill’s Yard, Sunderland, and resided at 43, Wear Street, Southwick, and had been for five years a member of the Durham Territorial R.G.A.; enlisted 10 Sept. 1914, for the period of the war; trained at Chatham and in Ireland; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and died 15 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action at Suvla Bay; unm. Wakinshaw was a good oarsman, winning many prizes, including the Molly Pratt Cup, four tankards, four medals, etc.

=WALBURN, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1637, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Walburn, of 3, Portland Terrace, Redcar, co. Yorks, retired Hotel Proprietor, by his wife, Alice Helen, dau. of the late John Davison, of Redcar; b. Crakehall, near Bedale, co. York, 7 Aug. 1881; educ. Kirkleatham Private School; went to Australia in Oct. 1914, following a severe illness, and on his arrival found his health so much improved that he was able to join the Commonwealth E.F. at Sydney, 15 Dec. 1914; left Sydney for Egypt the following Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and in every engagement with his regt. till 3 Aug. when he was seriously wounded in the great charge at Lone Pine Ridge; and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, three days after admission, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery there. He m. at Redcar Parish Church, 23 Sept. 1903, Annie, dau. of the late William McNaughton, and had a son, William Cecil, b. 29 Jan. 1909.

=WALDECK, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1506), 185963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALDUCK, LUKE=, Private, No. 8050, 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd s. of John Walduck, of Westbury, Brackley, Railway Labourer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Edmund Coleman; b. Drayton Parslow, co. Bucks, 16 Feb. 1886; educ. Mixbury, Oxon; enlisted 10 Oct. 1905, and was killed in action at St. Julien, France, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

=WALFORD, HENRY=, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 2829, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALFORD, HERBERT ASHFORD=, Private, No. 2026, 1/14th Batt. (London Scottish) The London Regiment (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas Charles Walford, of Maidenhead, Mineral Manager, Great Western Railway, by his 1st wife, Mary Ann Ashford, dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Tiverton; b. Southall, co. Middlesex, 26 Feb. 1889; educ. Maidenhead College; was on the staff of Messrs. Eveson & Co., Coal Merchants; joined the London Scottish, Feb. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 Sept. 1914, was reported missing after the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. He was unm. His younger brother, Private L. F. Walford, who was in the same battn. was wounded and taken a prisoner on this occasion and died the next day (see following notice).

=WALFORD, LESLIE FRANCIS=, Private, No. 2048, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), second s. of the late Thomas Charles Walford, of Maidenhead, Mineral Manager, Great Western Railway, by his 1st wife, Mary Ann Ashford, dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Tiverton; b. Southall, 6 Aug. 1891; educ. Maidenhead College; was Clerk to Wm. Cory’s, Mark Lane; joined the London Scottish, May, 1914; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 Sept. 1914; was wounded and taken prisoner during the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. 1914, and died the following day; unm. Buried at Messines-Wytschaete.

=WALFORD, OLIVER ROBSON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., elder s. of the late Col. William Swordes Walford, of Warden Lodge, Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, R.A., by his 1st wife, Mary Ella, dau. of George Robson, of Altwood, Maidenhead Thicket; b. Warden House, Weymouth, co. Dorset, 25 June, 1895; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth; Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Hampshires, 13 Jan. 1915; went to France, 25 Jan., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915; unm.

=WALKER, ALFRED LEVI=, Private, No. 14450, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yst. s. of the late Walter George Walker, of Hackett Lane, Thornbury, co. Glos., Butcher, by his wife, Sophia (Crossways, Thornbury), dau. of Henry Honeyborne; b. Easton Hill, Thornbury, 10 March, 1889; educ. Board School there; enlisted in 1909, and was killed in action near Ypres, 10 Nov. 1914; unm.

=WALKER, ANTHONY THORNTON=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of John Walker, of Bawtry, co. York, by his wife, Dorothy Mary, dau. of Thomas Taplin Wickham, of Bideford, N. Devon; b. Bawtry, 9 May, 1894; educ. Dulwich Preparatory School, from which he obtained a scholarship to Uppingham School, and from Uppingham secured an open scholarship and exhibition at University College, Oxford; joined the Public Schools Battn. Middlesex Regt. Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th Rifle Brigade, 2 Dec. following; left for France, 25 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, 30 July, 1915, the day after he joined his battn. in the trenches; unm. At Uppingham he was captain of football, and played for his college at Oxford. He was also very musical, and was leader of the orchestra at Uppingham.

=WALKER, ARCHIE NORMAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 924, 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 6th s. of Robert Percival Hoar, of 22, Quanza Street, Beach, East London, South Africa, by his wife, Cornelia Isabella (Nellie) Hoar, dau. of Peter Fostin; b. Cathcart, South Africa, 4 April, 1893; educ. East London; went to Australia in 1914; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 22 Sept. 1914; left with the second reinforcements, and died 23 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles; unm. He was buried at sea from H.M. Hospital ship Nevasa in lat. 36.49N, long. 1° 2E.

=WALKER, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3752), S.S. 1069, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALKER, EDMUND BASIL=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. George Sherbrooke Walker, M.A., Rector of March, by his wife, Jessie Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Carter, of Hazelwood, Edgbaston; b. Birmingham, 8 Aug. 1888; educ. The Towers, Portinscale, Keswick; Sherborne School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and soon after leaving college, went as a master to Sherborne Preparatory School. On 23 March, 1912, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Dorsetshire Regt. (Special Reserve), and after war broke out joined his regt. at the Front, afterwards transferring to the 1st Battn. Royal West Kents, and was given a commission in that regt. 2 Jan. 1915; took part in the heavy fighting for Hill 60, near Ypres, and was killed in action there, 18 April, 1915; unm. He had been called upon to undertake the Senior Captain’s duty and he volunteered for the post of danger with the machine-guns on Hill 60, near Ypres. He was on the Hill all through the awful night of Saturday 17, when so many fell--with two officers under him, and in the early morning, just as day was breaking, their company was relieved. They had left the ridge of the hill, when with his usual devotion to duty he suddenly said to his fellow officer: “You go on--I’ll follow in a minute,” and turned back again, explaining that he wanted to make sure all was right for the relief company just coming to take their place. So he went back--and in doing this, lost his own life, for he was shot dead. He was buried in the little military cemetery near Ypres. Major Dunlop, officer in command of the Battn., wrote: “I found your son of great assistance to me, as he was not only devoid of fear, but was an exceptionally keen officer, and, I am sure, would have made a great name for himself had he survived. Anyone who knew him could not help admiring him.” An officer, working with Lieut. Walker when he was killed, wrote: “on all sides I heard mention of his bravery. He stood on the top of the hill, directing operations, and was actually handling the machine-gun at the time he was shot in the throat, and died instantly. He had volunteered for the post of danger.” Lieut. Walker was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915. He was in the O.T.C. at both Sherborne and Cambridge, and after his two years of teaching, spent a year in promoting Boy Scout work, and was organising secretary to the Great Rally at Birmingham in 1913.

=WALKER, EDWARD HENRY=, A.B., 163583, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WALKER, HENRY CLEMENT=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 308726, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALKER, JAMES=, Private, No. 1780, 1/9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F); b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 23 Aug. 1891; educ. Gateshead-on-Tyne; enlisted in the Durham L.I., 21 April, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and was killed in action on the outskirts of Ypres, 3 May, 1915. Buried in the Chateau grounds, west of Brielin, on the Poperinghe Road. He m. at the Roman Catholic Church, Dunston, 26 Dec. 1912, Mary (189, Rose Street, Gateshead), dau. of John Quinn, and had a child.

=WALKER, JOHN JAMES=, Corpl., No. 51512. R.F.A.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died from wounds received in action, 25 Aug. 1914.

=WALKER, JAMES THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6224), 203795, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALKER, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7858), 292549, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALKER, SAMUEL REID=, Private, No. 1876, A Coy. 1/9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of John Walker, of Wentworth, Newmarket Road, Norwich, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Samuel Reid, of St. George’s, Norwich; b. Norwich, 13 Feb. 1893; educ. Belle Vue and King Edward VI Middle School, Norwich; apprenticed to the Drapery Trade, first at Mr. Moll’s, Norwich, then to Messrs. Bryant and Bryant, St. Ives, Hunts, and lastly to Messrs. Jenners, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined 1/9th Royal Scots (A Coy.), 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 8 Hospital, Bailleul, 27 April following, of wounds received four days previously during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried Bailleul Cemetery; unm. Corpl. W. M. Clarke wrote: “I thought it would perhaps comfort you to know how much he was appreciated by his comrades, and how great a shock his death was to them. His bright face and willingness made him a valued man in my section and won him everybody’s affection. Our only consolation, and I hope it may be yours also, is that he died like a man fighting for the Old Country.”

=WALKER, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2395, 1/7th Battn. The Black Watch (T.F.), s. of Alexander Middleton Walker, of Middleton Place, Crossgates, co. Fife, Miner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late Thomas Young, of Leven; b. Fordell, Dalgetty, co. Fife, 13 Feb. 1884; educ. Crossgates Public School; served as a grocer in Dunfermline Co-operative Society for nearly five years, then enlisted in the Royal Scots, 2 Jan. 1902; obtained his discharge by purchase, 11 July following, and was employed in the mines; re-enlisted in the Black Watch after the outbreak of war, 15 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 June, 1915; unm. Buried there. His Captain wrote: “We were being subjected to a terrible bombardment during an attack on the Germans, and Tom along with L.-Corpl. Somerville were sitting in a dug-out sheltering from the fire, when a high explosive shell hit it, smashing in the roof. Both were killed immediately, and without suffering any pain. All the men exhibited great courage during the day and none more than your son, who was always a worker, doing his share and always willing to help others.”

=WALKER, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SMAIL=, Major, 46th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Major-Gen. Alexander Walker, C.S.I., R.A., Director-General of Ordnance in India, 1890–97, by his wife, Anne Yewdale Lambert, dau. of Commander William Archibald Smail, R.N.; b. Dum-Dum, India, 31 Oct. 1874; educ. Dulwich College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. Indian Army, 10 Oct. 1894; was attd. to the 1st Somerset L.I. for his first year; entered the Indian S.C. 10 Jan. 1896, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1897; Capt. 10 Oct. 1903, and Major 10 Oct. 1912; served with the 45th Sikhs and then with the 40th Pathans, and was posted to the 46th Punjabis on their formation; took part in the operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the Defence of Malakand, action at Landakai, and operations in Bajaur (medal with two clasps), and in the Tirah Expedition 1897–8 (clasp), and was afterwards employed with the King’s African Rifles, 25 Nov. 1903 to 10 May, 1906. After the outbreak of the European War, he was sent in Jan. 1915, with a double coy. to British East Africa and attd. to the 130th Baluchis (King George’s Own). He was commanding a section of the outpost line with headquarters at Mzima on the Tsava River. While visiting sentry groups with an escort of seven men on 12 April, he came on the spoor of a large party of Germans. He followed this up for some way in order to locate the enemy. In returning he was ambuscaded by a smaller party of Germans who were following the main force, and he and two men were shot. He was buried on the banks of the Tsava River--the grave was marked by a cairn of stones; the two men who fell with him are buried by his side. A brother officer wrote: “I knew him for a fearless man. He was with my regt. in the Tirah Expedition, 1897--I have never met a braver soldier”; and another: “His escort, Dogras and Gurkhas, five of whom managed to get away, all bear great testimony to his fearlessness and gallantry. He gave the orders with his last breath for his men to scatter; such is necessary in the bush. He is a great loss to us and to our country--we can ill spare such men.” He m. at Peshawar, N.W.P., 30 April, 1913, Marion Balfour, yst. dau. of the Rev. Frederick William Crick, M.A., Rector of Litton Cheney, Dorset, and had a dau., Anne Margaret, b. 21 Jan. 1914.

=BANES-WALKER, FREDERICK CECIL=, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., eldest s. of Harry Banes-Walker, of Verriers, North Petherton, Somerset, B.A., C.C., Director of Brewery Companies, by his wife, Mary Alexandra, dau. of Frederick S. Barker; b. Northgate House, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 19 June, 1888; educ. Mr. Coplestone’s, Exmouth, Devon, and Tunbridge School, and was gaining a business experience at the Ashton Gate Brewery. He enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, but was offered a commission in the Devons a few weeks later, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Reserve Battn. of that Regt. 7 Oct. 1914, and subsequently attd. to the 2nd Battn. (23rd Brigade, 8th Division), of which he became a Machine-Gun Officer. He went to France, 15 March, 1915; was promoted Lieut., and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 9 May, 1915; unm. Buried in a cemetery on the Rue Petillon, about 3,500 yards south of Fleurbaix. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was killed in action early Sunday morning, 9 May, as we were advancing under heavy cross-firing. He was in charge of our machine-gun section, and had done extremely well. He was very popular with all ranks, and will be greatly missed.” Lieut. Banes-Walker was well-known in sporting circles being a fine rider to hounds. He played cricket for Somerset, and hockey for Gloucestershire.

=GORDON-WALKER, CHARLES NIGEL=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 10th (Service) Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 8th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Frederick Alexander Walker, of Gravesend, Kent, by his wife, Grace Marion (23, Holbein House, Sloane Square, London, S.W.), dau. of the late David Alexander Gordon, of Culveman and Greenlaw, co. Kirkcudbright, and of Hong Kong; b. Milton-next-Gravesend, co. Kent, 3 July, 1889; educ. Westminster School; was in the firm of Messrs. Gilman & Co., Merchants of Hong Kong, and 18, St. Swithin’s Lane, London, E.C., and was Corpl. in the Scouts Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10th South Staffords, 21 Nov. 1914, and appointed Adjutant to the battn. 21 Nov. 1914; attd. to 8th Manchester (T.F.), May, 1915; left for the Dardanelles from Plymouth, 15 May, and was killed in action in Gallipoli 7 Aug. following; unm.

=WALL, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, No. 5743, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; enlisted 30 Sept. 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Poperinghe, 29 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried Poperinghe New Cemetery.

=WALLACE, ANDREW=, Capt., 1/4th Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), eldest s. of James Wallace, of Castle View, Prestonpans, Headmaster of Prestonpans Public School, by his wife, Barbara, dau. of John Guthrie Smith, of Newmilns, Ayrshire, Manufacturer; b. Prestonpans, 3 Feb. 1875; educ. Prestonpans Public School; George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University, where he was Gold Medallist in Anatomy, and completed his medical course when he was only twenty. After being assistant to Dr. Nuttall of Leicester for three years, he went as Ship’s Doctor to China and Japan on the S.S. Glen Avon, which was wrecked off Hong Kong on her homeward voyage; and then practised for fifteen years in Coldstream, where he took a prominent part in Ambulance Association Work, and in the Territorials. He joined the 2nd Vol. Battn. K.O.S.B. (afterwards the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Scottish Borderers) in 1902 and became Lieut. 8 Aug. 1903, and Capt. 11 April, 1906; and volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war. He left for the Dardanelles on 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Krithia, Gallipoli, 12 July following; unm. Of his nine brothers, Capt. W. E. Wallace is in France with 8th Battn. Royal Scots, Capt. H. S. Wallace is in Egypt with the Notts and Derby Mounted Field Ambulance Bde., and Cadet R. H. Wallace presently training with University Corps, Bristol. His second youngest brother, Harold S. Wallace, with 8th Battn. Royal Scots, was killed in France, 8 April, 1915, at Picantin, near Laventie.

=WALLACE, HAROLD SYDNEY=, Private, No. 893, 8th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 9th s. of James Wallace, of Castle View, Prestonpans, Headmaster of Prestonpans Public School, and a younger brother of Capt. Andrew Wallace (see preceding notice), by his wife, Barbara, dau. of John Guthrie Smith; b. Prestonpans, 29 Nov. 1892; educ. Prestonpans Public School; George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, and Skerry’s College; was an Officer of Customs and Excise; joined the 8th Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1912; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Picantin, near Laventie, 8 April, 1915; unm. Buried Rue Tilleloy, Laventie.

=WALLACE, HENRY ATHOLL CHARLES=, Capt., 10th Battn. 2nd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Henry Wallace, of Trench Hall, co. Durham, J.P., for many years Agent to the Earl of Ravensworth; by his wife, Jessie (139, Ware Road, Hertford), dau. of Charles Ellis, of New York, U.S.A.; b. Trench Hall, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1879; educ. Uppingham College; served in the South African War with the Northumberland Imperial Yeomanry, 1900–1901 (Queen’s medal with two clasps); emigrated to Canada in 1902, and after farming in Manitoba for a short time, turned his attention to real estate; joined the 106th Winnipeg L.I. in Winnipeg, Canada; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and was appointed Capt. 10th Battn. (Winnipeg L.I.); came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France early in Feb. and after serving in the trenches for two months, was killed in action at Langemarck, 22 April, 1915. He always took a keen interest in military matters, and belonged in Canada to the Veterans’ Brigade, composed of men who had served their country in any part of the world. He m. at St. Mary’s, Gateshead-on-Tyne, 1903, Winifred (194, Hill Street, Norwood Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), dau. of the late Thomas Archer, of the Dunston Engine Works, Dunston-on-Tyne, a well-known engineer and inventor, and had two children: Henry Archer Harold, b. 3 April, 1906; and Dorothy Laura, b. 15 March, 1909.

=WALLACE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4924), S.S. 104347, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALLACE, JOHN=, Private, No. S./7097, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 10 Feb. 1915.

=WALLACE, JOHN ROGER (ION)=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of Roger William Wallace, of 36, Campden Hill Gardens, Kensington, K.C., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Thornton; b. Kensington, 25 June, 1895; educ. at School House, Rugby, and Oriel College, Oxford; joined the Artists’ Rifles as a Private when war began, and went to France with them, 26 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission, 15 Dec. 1914, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. The same month he was invalided home after an attack of pleurisy caught in the trenches, and early this year (1915), after taking out a draft of men from Ayr, was transferred to the 1st Battn. of his regt. He was killed in action, near Ypres, 22 April, 1915, and buried in the Military Cemetery, Dickebusch, Belgium; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “His pluck and unselfishness will always be remembered in the Scots Fusiliers. His one idea was that the men wounded at the same time should be cared for first. Both in his life and death he was a splendid example.”

=WALLACE, JOSEPH=, Leading Stoker, 282825, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALLACE, THOMAS=, Acting Corpl., No. 7349, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Ypres, 12 May, 1915.

=WALLACE, WILLIAM JOSEPH=, Private, No. 7865, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 14 Dec. 1914.

=BURGOYNE-WALLACE, DOUGLAS BURGOYNE=, Lieut., 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajput L.I., Indian Army, elder s. of Frederick Burgoyne Burgoyne-Wallace, of Beechmont, Cheltenham, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Robert Watson, of Victoria Park, co. Ayr, and gdson. of the late Gen. Hill Wallace, C.B., R.H.A., by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Capt. Frederick Burgoyne, R.N. (who was present at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent); b. Edinburgh, 12 June, 1893; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list for the Indian Army, 12 Aug. 1912. He was attached to the 2nd Battn. Norfolk Regt. at Belgaum for a year, and was posted to the 7th Rajputs 2 Nov. 1913, being promoted Lieut. Nov. 1914. He left India with his regt. for the Persian Gulf in the same month and was reported as missing after the heavy fighting at Ahwaz, 2 March, 1915. He was unm. Whilst at Cheltenham College he gained the Gold Medal in 1910 presented by the Republique Francaise Ministère de l’Instruction Publique et des Beaux Arts for French competed for by all the Public Schools.

=WALLARD, WALTER=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1817), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALLER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 3082, C Coy., 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Waller, of Uckfield Road, Ringmer, Lewes, Stockman to Mr. John Porter, Park Farm, Ringmer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Henry Godcher, of Streat; b. Curd’s Farm, Barcombe, co. Sussex, 25 Nov. 1895; educ. Ringmer Council School, near Lewes; was Groom and Gardener to Mr. Moore Wellingham, Ringmer; enlisted 25 Nov. 1914; went to France, 12 Feb., and was killed in action at Richebourg, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=WALLER, HORACE EDMUND=, Private, No. 1530, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, yr. s. of John Edward Hopkins Waller, of Rockvale, co. Tipperary, 172, Cromwell Road, London, S.W., and The Nook, Westgate-on-Sea, M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, Annette Elizabeth, dau. of Adolphe Naudé, and grandson of the late John Francis Waller, of Finoe House, co. Tipperary, LL.D., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, writer and poet; b. in London, 16 April, 1891; educ. the Towers, Wellington College, and Tonbridge School (Scholar), and on leaving there entered the Engineering Section of the University of London at King’s College, and was one of the earliest members of the O.T.C. In 1910 he went to Canada where he engaged in engineering, the principal work with which he was connected being the Hydro Electric installation of the Algoma Central Railway at Steep Hill Falls, Ontario, and the government survey of Strathcona Park, Vancouver Island, B.C. On the declaration of war he joined the 1st Contingent of Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. as a private, and after training in Canada, on Salisbury Plain, and at Winchester, left Southampton for France with his regt. to join the Expeditionary Force on Sunday, 20 Dec. 1914. Owing to his intimate knowledge of French and his experience as an engineer, he was detailed to act as interpreter and guide. He was frequently in the trenches, and although as a result of the severe conditions prevailing he developed dysentery, he would not be persuaded to rest. On 4 Feb. however, he was obliged to enter hospital at Boeschèpe, and he died there, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried in the churchyard at Boeschèpe with full military honours. Lieut. Crubbe wrote: “I must tell you as one of his company officers how great a loss to No. 4 he is. He was always an excellent soldier, and seemed to thoroughly realise how his superior education and position necessitated his being a good example, and in this he never failed. Since we have been actually fighting he was of great service as a company guide, and invariably showed the greatest courage and devotion to duty”; and Sergt. Phillips: “Everybody in No. 4 Coy. and anybody in other companies who knew him join you in mourning the loss of one of the best little fellows that ever lived, and one whom I am very proud to have called friend. He was the most popular man in the company.”

=WALLER, JAMES=, A.B., J. 8260, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=WALLER, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 2467, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Charles Waller, of 121–123, Edgware Road, London, W., Master Tailor (died 2 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Alice Easter (123, Edgware Road, London, W.), dau. of James Waller, of Old Catton, Norwich; b. New Cross, London, 14 June, 1896; educ. Regent Street Polytechnic; was a student at Selfridges; enlisted in Aug 1914 on the outbreak of war; left for France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action, 7 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery on the Rue Petillon, near Neuve Chapelle. Lieut. A. G. Groser wrote: “He was a universal favourite among the non-commissioned officers and men of No. 3 Platoon. ‘Best man in my section,’ his sergeant used to say to me. Among the men all spoke well of ‘Nobby,’ as they used to call him.... On the night of May 7, your son was in the party of 19 under myself which was to occupy an advanced trench 70 yards in front of the trenches, and within 70 yards of the German lines. We occupied this advanced trench at 8.30 p.m., and barely had the sentries been posted, when a party of over 24 Germans, bent on slaughter, appeared on all sides and attempted to rush this trench. They had crawled up under cover of darkness, then jumping up they fired at us and then rushed into close quarters. After a hand-to-hand fight lasting a few minutes, they were beaten off with the loss of seven killed and several wounded. But four of the platoon lay on the ground wounded, and three more had slight wounds. Your son with five others under Sergt. Hocking (who has since died of wounds) stood up and fought like the gentleman he was against fully 15 of the Germans. Facing the enemy who appeared in front, he was shot in the back by one of those who sprang up from the rear. Though four were badly wounded they went on fighting till they drove the Germans off, which undoubtedly went a long way to saving the position. He behaved like a gentleman and a hero, as I ever thought he would should such circumstances arise. He was conscious the whole time he was waiting for a stretcher, and I could tell from his face that he was in great pain. I talked to him and gave him water, and he answered back though very feebly. Then the stretcher came and he was carried to the billets right behind the trenches. Not a murmur or cry of pain came from him while lying in the trench in awful agony, because he was not half a hero but one throughout;” and Sergt. G. W. Scott, writing “at the unanimous request of the N.C.Os. and men of the Platoon” to “record the great affection which every man in this platoon had towards him, and the high esteem in which he was held by all who knew him, officers and men alike,” added: “About 9 o’clock p.m. on Friday, May 7, just as the day party was being relieved, the Germans rushed the sap. Our boys were absolutely taken by surprise, but rose to the occasion and succeeded in driving the Germans off, but not before your son was shot through the back and several others wounded. Poor ‘Nobby’ lived for a few hours and remained cheerful and brave to the end. His death actually occurred about 1 o’clock a.m. whilst he was being conveyed to the dressing-station.”

=WALLIS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6251, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Frederick Wallis, of 55, Morecambe Street, Walworth; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

=WALLIS, HERBERT FRANCIS=, No. G. 3330, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 27 April, 1915.

=WALMESLEY, RICHARD=, Lieut., attd. 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only s. of John Walmesley, of Lucknam, co. Wilts, and the Hall of Ince, co. Lancaster; b. London, W., 21 Nov. 1890; educ. Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd (Reserve Battn.) Yorkshire Regt. 13 Aug. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1912; was posted on the outbreak of war to the 2nd Battn.; went to France early in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action about the 21st of the same month, near Ypres. He was shot through the head, death being instantaneous and was the first of his regt. to fall. Lieut. Walmesley is described as a thorough soldier whom his men would have followed anywhere. He was also a keen sportsman and a well-known and fearless rider to hounds. He was Master of the Cambridge Harriers, 1912–13, and hunted with the Quorn, the Belvoir, and the Cottesmore, during the winter of 1913–14.

=WALSH, ARCHIBALD=, Private, No. 3796, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 28 Feb. 1901; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); obtained his discharge, 14 Feb. 1903; re-enlisted. 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. following, and was reported missing between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov., and is now assumed to have been killed in action between those dates; m.

=WALSH, GEOFFREY PENNELL=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), elder s. of the late James Joseph Walsh, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, R.N. (who was lost on H.M.S. Good Hope in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914), by his wife, Eveline Mary (44, Worthing Road, Southsea), eldest dau. of Charles Pennell; b. Sheerness, 28 Oct. 1892; educ. Eversley School, Southwold; St. Paul’s and Pembroke College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Sherwood Foresters, 15 Aug. 1914; promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1915; went to France, 16 May, 1915; was attd. to 2nd Battn. and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915. Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Though he had only been with us a few weeks, he was very popular with both officers and men, and he is a great loss to the service;” and his tutor from Pembroke College, Oxford, wrote: “He only gave us pleasure. From the first he took his full share of college life, his energies mostly given to the river. He leaves behind him a memory upon which it is a pleasure to dwell.”

=WALSH, JAMES=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 205302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALSH, JAMES=, Acting Corpl., No. 12/1822, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, was reported missing after the fighting on 8 Aug. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

=WALSH, JAMES JOSEPH=, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Good Hope, yst. s. of the late Patrick James Walsh; b. Wexford, 29 Sept. 1863; educ. St. Peter’s College, Wexford, and the Royal University of Ireland; graduated. M.B. 1885, and was appointed Surgeon, Royal Navy, 20 Aug. of the same year; promoted Staff Surgeon, 20 Aug. 1897, and Fleet Surgeon, 20 Aug. 1901, and was lost in the sinking of H.M.S. Good Hope in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Sheerness, Kent, 21 Jan. 1891, Eveline Mary (44, Worthing Road, Southsea), eldest dau. of Charles Pennell, and had two sons: Geoffrey Pennell, Lieutenant 3rd Sherwood Foresters, b. 28 Oct. 1892, killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915; and Raymond Neville, b. 10 July, 1906.

=WALSH, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 5846, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Thomas Walsh, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of John Tyrrell, of Bolton; b. Earlestown, co. Lancashire, 3 Jan. 1885; educ. St. Patrick’s School, Bolton; enlisted 19 Nov. 1904; was called up from the Reserve on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914. He was reported missing, 27 Oct. 1914, and is supposed to have been killed in action on that date. He m. at Nelson, 6 April, 1912, Florence Ellen (8, Eastbank Street, Barrowford, Nelson, Lancs.), dau. of Henry Edwards, of Madeley Salop, and had a dau. Norah, b. 19 March, 1913.

=WALSH, PATRICK=, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 1741, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CORMAC-WALSHE, EDWARD JOSEPH=, Lieut., 2nd Battn Prince of Wales’) The Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 4th s. of Edward Cormac-Walshe, of Castle Hill, Crossmolina, co. Mayo, D.L., by his wife, Annita, dau. of Henry Hodgens, of Beaufort, co. Dublin; b. Bath, 6 Feb. 1892; educ. Stoneyhurst and Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1912), and obtained a University commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Leinsters, 19 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 7 May, 1913; went to France with his regt, which formed part of the 6th Division, 22 Sept. 1914, and died in No. 13 Base Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. 1914, from wounds received in action on 20 Oct.; unm. The 6th Division was holding the Radinghem-La Vallée-Emnetières-Copingham-Premesques Railway Line, 300 yards east of Halte, and according to information received from a brother officer at Premesques, Lieut. Walshe volunteered to go with a despatch some distance, and when returning with the report to his superior officer (Capt. Maffett, who had meanwhile been killed) found himself under severe machine-gun fire, and sheltered behind a hay stack, which was 300 yards from his trench. After half an hour he emerged running head down, but received a mortal scalp wound. His Colour-Sergeant ran out and fetched him in, and after 18 hours in the trench he was removed to the dressing station. His Colonel wrote: “During the attack on Premesques on the 18 Oct. he led his platoon in a gallant and skilful manner, always the first up to show his men the way. During that night and following night, he worked hard getting his men entrenched. When we were counter-attacking on the morning of the 20th, he was wounded when apparently bringing a report to his Company Commander, Capt. Maffett, who had just been killed. Your son was a gallant officer, very popular with all ranks. We all deplore his loss.” At Stoneyhurst he was in the football fifteen and cricket eleven, and was for a short time before leaving Capt. of the Officer’s Cadet Corps.

=WALTER, ARGYLE FRANCIS BRADFORD=, Private, No. 2795, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.). eldest s. of the late Francis Edward Walter, of Hornsey, N., by his wife, Ellen Annie (65, Middle Lane, Crouch End, Hornsey, N.): b. Holloway, N., 9 March, 1893; educ. L.C.C. School, Duncombe Road, Holloway; was a Clerk in the Scottish Provident Association Institution, Lombard Street, E.C.; volunteered and enlisted in the Kensingtons on the outbreak of war; went with his battn. to France, 28 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Fromelles on Sunday morning, 9 May, 1915; unm. A comrade said that on Sunday morning the 13th were ordered to capture certain German trenches--three successive lines of them--and they carried out their orders with great gallantry and success. Between the second and third lines was an open field, across which the battn. had to rush. Private Walter was among those who succeeded in reaching the third trench unhurt. It was then discovered that the red flag which they carried with them to indicate to the British Artillery behind them the point they had reached in their advance, had been left behind inadvertently at the second line of trenches. The officer in command called for volunteers to return and fetch it. Before he had finished Private Walter was out of the trench racing back across the open field under heavy fire from the enemy. He was about five yards from the flag when he fell. So far as could be judged he was killed instantaneously, as he was never seen to move again.

=WALTER, CHARLES RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 1654, 4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Charles Walter; b. Haggerston; educ. Shap Street School there; joined the Royal Fusiliers in May 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914: served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died in Boulogne Hospital, 3 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm. Buried at Boulogne.

=WALTER, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 15801, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914

=WALTERS, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17428, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WALTERS, HENRY JAMES=, C.P.O (N.S.), 179888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WALTERS, VIVIAN ARTHUR WALKER=, Leading Signalman, 228510, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WALTHAM, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Private, No. 6423, 2nd Battn Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of George Hamlin Waltham, of 3, Harold Street, Selby, by his wife, Ellen Eliza; b. Hull, 7 June, 1888; educ. Buckingham Street Board School there; was a Boilermaker; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 17 Nov. 1905; served three years with the Colours; went to France, 10 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 4 Field Ambulance, 9 Nov. following, of wounds received at the First Battle of Ypres that day. He was buried in the N.W. corner of the field, east of Château, 1½ miles west of Ypres, on the Vlamertinghe Road. He m. at the Congregational Church, Selby, 1911, Harriett (Staynor House, Denison Road, Selby, co. Yorks), 3rd dau. of William Cass, and had a son, William Ernest, b. 31 Jan. 1912.

=WALTHO, THOMAS JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5537), S.S. 100433, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALTON, GEORGE HENRY=, Sergt., R.M.A. (R.F.R., 0696), R.M.A. 4367, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WALTON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8670, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WALTON, RICHARD CRAWHALL=, Lieut., 1st Battn. 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army; elder s. of Richard Walton, of 5, Croxteth Grove, Liverpool, Secretary in Liverpool Northern Assurance Co., Ltd., President of the Insurance Institute of Liverpool, and Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute, by his wife, Judith, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Clifton, Bristol, 1 March, 1886; educ. Liverpool College, and passed into Sandhurst in 1905, being third on the list in that half-year’s examinations. A year later he passed out second in order of merit, with honours, and was placed first of the Cadets for the Indian Army, winning the coveted Norman medal, then presented for the first time. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattached list for the Indian Army, 29 Aug. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 29 Nov. 1908; served his first year with the 1st Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt.; was posted to the 9th Gurkhas, 12 Nov. 1907; appointed Double Company Officer, 17 Nov. 1907, and Qr.-Mr. 18 Jan. 1914; left India with the Expeditionary Force for France on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, during the first Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914; unm. Lieut. Walton was an all-round sportsman, and when in garrison at Chitral engaged in big game shooting, fine specimens of markhor, oorial, tahr, black and red bear, deer and leopard, being among his trophies. He was also an expert horseman and polo player, and was considered one of the best judges of ponies on his station. He rode Mr. Lee’s Ringette, the winner of the Murree Cup at the Gharial Races in 1907.

=WAND, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R), Ch./8521, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WANDBY, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5312), S.S. 42, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WANDS, ANDREW EASTON=, L.-Corpl., No. 7689, 8th Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), attd. 1/7th Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late James Wands, of 65, Glasgow Road, Wishaw, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Andrew Easton; b. Wishaw, co. Lanark, 18 Aug. 1893; educ. Berryhill School there; was Craneman G.I.S.W., Wishaw; joined the 8th Highland L.I., 1908, and served five years, rejoining, 15 Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war; was attached to the 1/7th Royal Scots, and left with them for the Dardanelles 22 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the capture of the Sagir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, following; unm.

=WARBURTON, JOHN ALFRED=, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., s. of the late Joseph Warburton, Cooper, by his wife, Emma (117, Walter Street, Blackburn); b. Blackburn, 10 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Matthew’s School there; enlisted 18 March, 1901; served through the South African War, 1901–02 (Queen’s medal), after which he proceeded with his regt. to India, but later returned to South Africa, where he was stationed until the outbreak of the European War; went to France 2 Nov., came through the action at Neuve Chapelle safely, but was killed the following day, 15 March, 1915, while trying to locate a German sniper; unm. While in India he scored many successes in regimental competitions.

=EGERTON-WARBURTON, PIERS (PETER)=, Private, No. 903, 10th Light Horse (Western Australian) Regt., Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of the late Rowland Egerton-Warburton, by his wife, Mary (Stonyhurst, Williams River, Western Australia), dau. of John M. Kail, and grandson of the late George Edward Egerton-Warburton, of St. Werburgh’s, Albany, Western Australia, sometime 51st Regt [5th s. of the Rev. Rowland Egerton-Warburton. of Warburton and Arley, co. Chester]; b. Perth, Western Australia, 13 July, 1892; volunteered and enlisted on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt in April; went to the Dardanelles in May, and died in No. 1 General Hospital, Alexandria, 19 Aug. following, of wounds received on the 9th in the great attempt to storm the Turkish positions, when the 8th and 10th Light Horse were almost annihilated; unm.

=WARD, ARTHUR=, Painter, 2nd Class, M. 6330, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WARD, ARTHUR PERCY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 3850), 196305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARD, ARTHUR RENOLD=, Private, No. 1196, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late (--) Ward, by his wife, Eliza (126, Commercial Road, Camberwell, S.E.); b. Walworth, S.E., 3 Sept. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Street Board School there; joined the 2nd London Regt. about Aug. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Dec. and died 4 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

=WARD, BASIL MIGNOT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Essex Regt., yr. s. of Arthur John Hanslip Ward. V.D., D.L., Town Clerk of Harwich, and Col. 1st Suffolk and Harwich R.G.A. Vol. (which he raised and commanded 1899–1906), by his wife, Eleanor Katherine Mignot, only dau. of John Brown, of Altwood, Maidenhead; b. Dovercourt, co. Essex, 20 Feb. 1888; educ. The Tower School, Dovercourt; Felsted School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Essex Regt., 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut., 25 Sept. 1911, and Capt., 26 April, 1915; served in Burma, India, and Mauritius; and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; and was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; unm. Buried on the shore of Gallipoli, just above W. Beach. His Commanding Officer (who was himself killed a few days later) wrote: “He was such a good officer, and so much beloved by us all. It must indeed be terrible for you, but you have the consolation that he died fighting for his country, and no one could die a more noble death. He fell the first day we landed, but not before he had proved what a gallant fearless officer he was. In the Regt. we shall miss him dreadfully.” He was a Freemason, and a member of the Hanslip Ward Lodge, into which he was initiated by his father; he was also a member of the St. Nicholas Mark Lodge.

=WARD, HENRY DE COURCY=, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., 2nd s. of the late Commander Henry Purcell Ward, R.N., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Allan, of Springfield House, Havant, co. Hants, and grandson of Capt. Richard Ward, R.N.; b. Kingstown, co. Dublin, 4 July, 1862; educ. Vickerys, Southsea; entered the Navy 15 July, 1878, and became Paymaster in 1895 and Fleet Paymaster in Aug. 1903. He served on H.M. Ships Wolverine, Miranda and Rapid, Australian Station; H.M.S. Emerald, North American Station; H.M.S. Firebrand, China Station; and H.M.S. Triumph and Indomitable, Home Fleet; and was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy in Dec. 1913, being present on the latter at the action off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914. He was lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914, when the Cressy was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. A survivor said: “Ward managed to reach a life-buoy, which was supporting the Doctor and Chaplain. When he found he could hold on no longer without taxing the strength of the others (our Chaplain, the writer says, could not swim), he slipped off, telling the others to save themselves, and sank with a cheery good-bye to us all.” And the Chaplain wrote: “The courage of Ward, the calmness with which he faced death was typical of the bravery of the rest.” Capt. Ozanne, R.M.L.I., another of the survivors, wrote: “I hope someone has told his wife what a fine thing he did. Ward passed me swimming hard. He was splendid, letting go a life-buoy which he had hold of, as our Chaplain, who couldn’t swim, was on it, and so was the Doctor, who was looking after him. He apparently thought they would get on better without him. He is a great loss, he kept things going in a wonderful way.” Fleet Paymaster H. de C. Ward was selected as one of the Naval interpreters to escort the officers of the French Fleet during the Entente Cordiale festivities in Aug. 1906, and was also chosen when the Indomitable took the Prince of Wales (now King George V.) to Quebec for the Tercentenary Celebrations in July, 1908. He m. at Kilmaronaig Lodge, Connel, co. Argyle, 10 July, 1900, Emelie Chisholm, 2nd dau. of the late Staff Surgeon Richard McClymont, R.N., by his wife, Anne Constance (who m. 2ndly Archibald Argyll Lochnell Campbell, 13th, of Lochnell), dau. of Inspector General (of Asylums) John Francis Fitzgerald, of Glenlee Lodge, Cheltenham; s.p. His brothers, Paymaster-in-Chief Charles A. Ward, R.N., and Col. W. R. Ward, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, are on service.

=WARD, HENRY=, Private, No. 2010, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Durham; enlisted 20 Sept. 1898; served in South Africa, 15 April, to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 11 Aug. 1914; killed in action, 22 Oct. 1914; m.

=WARD, HERBERT ALFRED=, Sergt., R.M.A., 5345, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WARD, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 8066, 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 1st s. of Stephen Ward, of Westbury, Brackley, co. Northampton, by his wife, Anne, dau. of William Merry; b. Brackley, 20 May, 1886; educ. Brackley National School; joined 2nd Oxford and Bucks, L.I., 21 Oct. 1905; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried, Rue du Bois, near Richebourg l’Avoué.

=WARD, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 68, H Coy., 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only child of John Edward Ward, of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent, employee of the South-Eastern Railway, by his wife, Kate Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Warner, of 39, North Street, Ashford, Kent; b. Ashford, 15 July, 1891; educ. Grammar School there, and on leaving secured an appointment at the Folkestone Branch of Lloyd’s Bank. After three years there he was given a special appointment at the Southsea Branch; remaining there for 13 months, he was then transferred to the Westgate Branch and from there to the head office in Lombard Street. Two days after the declaration of war (7 Aug. 1914) he joined the London Rifle Brigade, left England with it on 2 Nov. and was killed in action in the trenches at Ploegsteert, Belgium, 9 Dec., 1914; unm. His Company Officer, Capt. H. Macfeogh, wrote that by his death he “had lost one of the best men of his Company.” Ward had for many years been studying organ and piano, was a prize winner Trinity College, was assistant organist at Ashford Parish Church, was also a gifted accompanist on the piano and in great request at concerts. Was a choir boy at Ashford Parish Church for some years, soloist for two years until his voice broke. Resting from singing for some years, he again started by studying voice production under Mr. Fletcher of Folkestone, and later on under Mr. Franklin Clive, of London, and he developed a baritone voice of exceptional quality and power, and was seen in many provincial productions, and was heard to much advantage in the production of “The Geisha” at Portsmouth Theatre Royal by the Portsmouth Orpheus Society. In this production he played “Reggie Fairfax,” the part originally played in London by Mr. C. Hadyn Coffin. His first appearance on the concert platform was at the age of three, when he sang a little solo in a children’s operetta, and at intervals he appeared for years in many operettas and at many concerts, until his departure for the Front. He was a fine cricketer, and still holds the record for the Ashford Grammar School Eleven against club cricketers (not school cricket), viz., 168 not out, which he scored against the Ashford Drapers Cricket Club for the Grammar School in 1913. Another notable feat in his cricket career was 59 in the morning, l.b.w. out, and 59 in the afternoon, l.b.w. out, against a very strong combination Great Chart Cricket Club in 1910. His last season of cricket he played on the London grounds for the Private Banks C.C. and also for the Droits C.C. and scored up to the time of his enlistment in Aug., 9 runs short of 1,000 runs. This would have been, had he kept playing, his best season. He did not make a century in 1914 but scored 95, 98, 90 and 84, thus getting near it on four occasions. He topped the averages in all clubs he played for at some time of his cricket career, and was looked upon as a fine sporting bat by all good judges of the game.

=WARD, THOMAS LEONARD=, Private, No. 1859, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late Henry Walter Ward, of 34, St. Paul’s Road, Camden Town, N., for many years an optician with Adam Hilger, Stanhope Street, N.W., by his wife, Mary Ann Elizabeth, dau. of William Bartlett; b. London, 28 March, 1890; educ. Camden Town National School and Ditcheat Council School; went to Australia, 28 Oct. 1911; bought property in Narrogin, and farmed for himself 633 acres at Corrogin, W.A.; joined the 11th Battn. Jan. 1914; sailed for Egypt with the fourth reinforcements; proceeded to the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Alexandria, 10 Aug. following, of wounds received in action at Shell Green, Anzac, on or about 5 Aug. Buried in Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria, Grave No. 1240; unm. A comrade wrote: “Tom’s first thought was for his comrades; he even went so far as sharing his water allowance at a time when every drop was a luxury.” Another wrote: “His fearlessness was noticeable even among ‘our set.’ He died the death he chose--one of many heroes.”

=WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1368), 194032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARDALE, CLARENCE=, A.B. (R.F.R., C. 229), S.S. 1740, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARDE, BRIAN EDMUND DOUGLAS=, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve), attd. 4th, Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Major Charles Aprilis Warde, late 7th Dragoon Guards and 6th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, and now 2nd in command of 15th Battn. R.F., by his wife Felicia, dau. of James Richard Alexander Douglas, of Treaty House, Hounslow, F.R.C.S.; b. Hounslow, 29 July, 1894; educ. at Bilton Grange, Rugby; and Lancing College, Shoreham, where he was second classic, and Captain of his house. He was intending to go to Ceylon as a planter, but on the day war was declared applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to his father’s old battn., 15 Aug. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. following. After training at Dover and taking part in the defences of the fortress, he left for the Front with a draft of the 4th Battn. on 29 Dec. He served with that Battn. at Ypres, St. Eloi, and elsewhere in Flanders, until his death in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. That day he was the last officer of his company unhurt. He had helped to take three lines of the enemy’s trenches, had then fallen back to the 2nd line again, where his wounded Capt. saw him, quite calm and unconcerned, leading a handful of men down the trench. He jumped on the parapet to fire at and bomb a party of the enemy, when he fell shot through the head. An hour later he died, never having recovered consciousness, and was buried in the trench where he was shot; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He will be a great loss to us, he was always cheerful, was a very brave officer, and a real good leader of men.... He was sniped from the flank and killed dead.” Lieut. Warde was a splendid gameshot, and devoted to field sports and to nature generally. He possessed an excellent knowledge of French.

=WARDEN, ERNEST=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24984 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WAREING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6370, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WARLOW, THEODORE WILLIAM=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., elder s. of the Rev. George Edmund Warlow, M.A., Vicar of Ledsham, South Milford, Yorkshire, by his wife, Ellen Constance, dau. of Ferdinand Gozna Eiloart; b. St Anne’s Wycombe, Marsh, co. Bucks, 15 March, 1895; and was educ. at Doon House, Westgate-on-Sea, and Bradfield College, where he gained an Exhibition, was a Sergt. in the O.T.C. and obtained Certificate “A.” He left Bradfield, July, 1914, and was to have gone up to University College, Oxford, the following Oct., but on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th K.O.Y.L.I., 14 Aug. 1914, he was promoted Lieut. 25 Oct. following, went to France 21 May, 1915; and died at a stationary hospital, Boulogne, 28 July, 1915, of wounds received at Hooge on the 19th, while endeavouring to bring in a wounded Corpl. Buried at Boulogne; unm. Major E. H. Rigg wrote: “He was a good soldier, and his loss is deeply felt by all ranks,” and 2nd Lieut. R. G. Royle: “Being in the same company, I can bear personal witness to the great esteem his soldierly abilities and his remarkably sunny disposition have engendered amongst everybody.”

=PICTON-WARLOW, WILFRED=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Welsh Regt., and Royal Flying Corps, 7th and yst. s. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, formerly Picton-Warlow, of Ewenny Priory, Bridgend, Glamorgan, late Indian Staff Corps, by his 2nd wife, Eleanor, yst. dau. of Sir Grenville Temple, of Stowe, 10th Bart.; b. Laleston House, Bridgend, 6 April, 1884; educ. Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Welsh from the Guernsey Militia, 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 28 Nov. 1906, and Capt. 7 June, 1913; attached Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps as Flying officer, 14 Aug. 1913; and promoted Flight Commander, 1 May, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and on 20 Dec. 1914 left St. Omer for Dover. He was seen flying over Calais that same day, but nothing more was heard of him, and he is believed to have been drowned while crossing the Channel; unm.

=WARNE, JAMES FELIX=, Rifleman, No. 1966, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Charles Warne, Founder of the Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder, and brother to Frederick Warne, editor of the Bristol Free Press; b. Old Kent Road, S.E., 5 Oct. 1886; educ. Cobourg Road Council School there; was a Clerk with Messrs. Foster, Porter & Co., Wood Street, E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 7 Aug. 1914; went to France 4 Nov., and was killed in action at Ypres, 1 April, 1915, while on observation duty; unm. Buried in a railway cutting near Hill 60. Capt. H. Flemming wrote: “He had done excellent work since he has been in my company.”

=WARNER, CORNWALLIS JOHN=, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 2nd s. of Col. Sir Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet, C.B., M.P.; formerly Lieut.-Col. and Hon. Col. commanding the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I., Lord Lieutenant co. Suffolk, by his wife, Lady Leucha Diana, née Maude, 6th dau. of Cornwallis, 1st Earl de Montalt; b. Highams, Woodford Green, co. Essex, 1 Feb. 1884; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; called to the Bar, 1910, and in Dec. of that year unsuccessfully contested Salisbury as a Liberal; joined the 3rd Oxford and Bucks L.I. as 2nd Lieut., 25 July, 1906, and was promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1910; resigned May, 1914, but rejoined 26 Sept. following; went to France Dec. 1914, where he was attached to the 2nd battn. of his regt., and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 16 May following. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot say how I miss your son. He did such excellent work last spring that if he had been spared at Richebourg, as far as I am concerned, he would have commanded a company here ever since. There are a thousand and one jobs I would have given him to do, he was such a very useful and reliable officer in so many ways.”

=WARNER, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 8649, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frederick Neville Warner, of Bentfield End, Stansted, co. Essex, Removal Packer, by his wife, Caroline Amelia, dau. of Henry Jarvis; b. Bethnal Green, London, 19 Jan. 1891; educ. London Council School; was a Cycle Fitter by trade; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 17 March, 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action 25 Oct. 1914; unm.

=WARNER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B., 207043, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARNER, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4383), S.S. 103360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARREN, ARTHUR ERNEST=, A.B., J. 8681, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARREN, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 5689), 214567 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARREN, MARK=, L.-Corpl., G. 153, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 8 Feb. 1915.

=WARREN, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (Coastguard), 204414 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WARREN, JAMES PERCY SOLTAU=, Corpl., No. 511, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late William Warren, of Melbourne, Physician and Surgeon, by his wife, Charlotte Matilda (9, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, London, W.), dau of Henry Soltau, of Plymouth, Barrister; b. Melbourne, Australia, 23 May, 1883; educ. Scotch College there; was a Grazier; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914; left Australia in Sept. 1914 for training in Egypt, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, during the landing there. His Company Officer, Capt. H. Carter, wrote: “He was a gallant soldier and we could ill afford to lose him. He was killed in our successful attempt to take the gun to the heights north of Gaba Tepe.” He m. at Kew, Melbourne, 19 Jan. 1909, Stella May (Bull Plains Station, Corowa, New South Wales), dau. of the late Edward James Rand, of Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, and had three children: Cecil, b. 10 Nov. 1909; and Audrey and May (twins), b. 9 Feb. 1912.

=WARREN, JOHN ALEXANDER=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./16653, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARREN, PATRICK=, Private, No. 11041, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Killarney, co. Kerry; enlisted 14 Sept. 1914, aged 30; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 12 March, 1915. Buried at Le Touret and the spot marked by a cross.

=WARREN, REGINALD DOUGLAS=, Trooper, No. 2058, 1/1st Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, 1/1st South Eastern Mounted Brigade, s. of Edward George Warren, of 32, Lyndhurst Road, Hove, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Walter Sharp, of Kilnsea, Yorkshire; b. Cambridge, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Berkhampstead and Brighton Grammar Schools; was on the staff of Messrs. Lloyds Bank at Cliftonville, Margate; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to the Eastern front 25 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 7 Dec. following, being buried in Y Ravine there; unm. Major A. Leach Lewis wrote: “The lad died fighting and in the best of spirits. It was about 8.15 a.m. on Tuesday last that he was endeavouring to hit a periscope in the Turkish trench, when a sniper shot him from another part of the line. Your son had made himself extremely popular being always keen, cheerful and amusing. We have lost a good comrade, whose loss we all regret.”

=WARREN, ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25515, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WARREN, SYDNEY CHAS.=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2789), 205935, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WARREN, WALTER=, Sergt., No. 294, 1/28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Henry Warren, of Stevenage, co. Herts, by his wife, Clara, dau. of Thomas Phillips; b. Sloane Square, Chelsea, S.W., 11 July, 1877; educ. City of London School; was a member of the Baltic Exchange; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1900; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with the 1st Battn., 26 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Eglise, 27 Nov. 1914; unm. On that morning the left half battalion had marched out to dig trenches in the artillery beaten zone, and shortly after commencing work came under fire of heavy German guns. Sergt. Warren and a comrade were killed by practically the first shot. His Colonel wrote: “The loss is ours as well as yours.... Your son was splendid and had the goodwill and affection of every man in the Corps”; and a fellow Sergt.: “There was no one but spoke well of him, and those of us Sergts. who were privileged to know him best feel the loss more than we can express. He was beloved by everyone, was always cheery, and always doing somebody a good turn.” Walter Warren.

=WARRENDER, ANDREW ROBERTSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6334), 286718, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WARTH, EDWIN FREDERICK=, B.Sc., Sapper, No. 864, 1st Field Coy., R.N. Divisional Engineers, yst. s. of Hugo F. Warth, D.Sc., sometime Deputy Director Geological Survey of India; b. Mussoorie, U.P., India, 12 Aug. 1888; educ. privately, King Edward VI School, Birmingham (1899–1905); and Birmingham University (1905–10), where he graduated B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (1st Class). On leaving there he was from 1910 to 1913 with Messrs. Nuthall & Co., engaged in the construction of a pipe line from Thirlmere for the Manchester Water Supply. In 1913 he went to the Grand Canary and was there at the outbreak of war, surveying for the New Las Palmas Water Supply. He had to undergo an operation before he could offer himself for military service and did not reach England till Nov. Having been a member of the Birmingham University O.T.C. (1905–10), he applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 March, 1915, but having in the interval enlisted as a Sapper in the R.N.D.E. and left for the Dardanelles, he was unable to take it up. He was wounded in action in the Gallipoli Peninsula 16 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Alexandria, 25 June following; unm. He was buried there.

=WARTON, ROBERT INNYS BAKER=, Sapper, No. 5233, 1st Field Coy., Canadian Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of the late Matthew Henry Warton, of London, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary (Portsdown, Darley Road, Eastbourne), dau. of the late Capt. John Fenwick; b. Loughton, co. Essex, 19 Feb. 1879; educ. Marlborough, and afterwards passed law examinations for Solicitor; went to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1903, there qualified as a Barrister and practised later at Atlin, going to Prince Rupert in 1910, where he went into partnership with Mr. W. E. Fisher, the firm employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co.; joined the Canadian Engineers immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at Vancouver; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the front in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915, while guarding a bridge over the Yser Canal, north of Ypres; unm.

=WASSON, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7875), S.S. 103313, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WATERFIELD, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Capt. 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, attd. 15th Sikhs, Indian Army; yst. s. of the late Major-General Henry Gordon Waterfleld, C.B., 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, by his wife, Emily Scott (Harbledown, Canterbury), dau. of the late Edmund Scott Barber; b. Dulwich, 22 Sept. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattached list, Indian Army, 22 Jan. 1898; was attached to the 1st Gordon Highlanders, 7 April, 1898; joined the 45th Rattray’s Sikhs, 7 April, 1899; promoted Lieut. 22 April, 1900, and Capt. 22 Jan. 1907; took part in the China Expedition, 1900 (medal); served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1908; took part in the operations in the Zakka Khel country, and those in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp); was in England on leave when war broke out, and served for three months with the 6th (Service) Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; was attached to the 15th Sikhs, then in France, early in Nov. 1914; was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March 1915; and again near Richebourg l’Avoué on 18 May following, and died in Bethune Hospital, 21 May, 1915. He was buried in the Town Cemetery there. A brother officer wrote: “I have known Charlie for fifteen years--we went to China together and were intimately associated in our work and our play, and linked by a friendship which distance and time could never affect. He was the very best type of English officer, as brave as a lion; of strong character, indomitable energy, and popular everywhere, without ever seeking popularity. A splendid soldier in every way.” In 1912–13 he accompanied the late Capt. Pritchard, 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry, in a journey of exploration beyond the frontier of Northern Burma. Capt. Pritchard was drowned while crossing one of the rivers and Capt. Waterfield brought the party back alone showing great courage and endurance under very difficult and dangerous conditions. He was awarded the MacGregor Memorial Silver Medal for his expedition, the honour coming a month after his death. Capt. Waterfield m. at Clayton, Sussex, 9 Jan. 1915, Ethel (Royston, Hassocks, Sussex), only dau. of the Rev. George Edward Roberts, of Royston, Hassocks, Sussex; s.p.

=WATERING, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 6717, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the late Arthur Fergerson O’Connor Watering, by his wife, Harriet (2, Roynham Street, North Heigham, Norwich), dau. of the late Arthur Fergus O’Connor, Sergt., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots; b. Norwich, 17 April, 1881; educ. Heigham School there; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 17 April, 1899; became L.-Corpl. 19 Jan. 1901; Corpl. 20 June, 1902; Sergt. 29 Dec. 1906; Colour-Sergt. 1 Oct. 1913; and Coy. Sergt.-Major, 1 Oct. 1913; served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medals), and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug. to 15 Oct. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action at Croix Barbée, and was buried at Vieille Chapelle, France. He m. at Newlands, Glasgow, 26 Dec. 1911, Elizabeth (died 15 Oct. 1913), dau. of John Burt, and had a son, William Burt Paterson, b. 15 Oct. 1913.

=WATERMAN, LEONARD GORDON=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16648, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WATERMAN, ROBERT ALBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26355, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WATERS, ARTHUR DAVIS=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111853, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATERS, GEOFFREY ERNEST=, Private, No. 245, 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The Loudon Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late John Waters, of Wimbledon, co. Surrey, by his wife, Alice (St. Denis, Parkwood Road, Bournemouth), dau. of John Freeman; b. Wimbledon, 12 Jan. 1896; educ. Merton Park C.E. School, where he gained a scholarship for Rutlish Science School (Sept. 1907 to July, 1912), and on leaving there entered the Banking Department of Messrs. T. Cook & Son, of Ludgate Circus, Tourist Agents. After the outbreak of war he joined the L.R.B. 24 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 27 March, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 9 May, 1915, from wounds received in action; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Boulogne. From Merton Park School he gained a scholarship to Rutlish, obtaining a first place for all Surrey. He won the Surrey County Junior Scholarship (1907–11), the Senior ditto (1911–12), and the John James School Scholarship (1910–12), and passed the London University Junior School Exam, with honours, July, 1910; the same Senior Exam, July, 1911, and the same Exam, with additional subjects again in 1912.

=WATERS, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Fleet Surgeon, R.N., s. of the late Eaton William Waters, of Tramore, co. Waterford, M.D., by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Edwards; b. Tramore, 28 Sept. 1862; educ. Tramore Boarding School and Waterford High School, and Queen’s (now University) College, Galway (1880–84, Exhibition in Mathematics), and having completed his medical studies in Dublin at the Carmichael College of Medicine, the Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwick Hospitals, and the Coombe Hospital, he graduated M.D., M.Ch., at the Royal University of Ireland in 1884. After a voyage to India in the Clan Matheson, he spent some 18 months in the Melrose plying between Cape Town and East African ports, and entered the Royal Navy, 17 Aug. 1887, being bracketed second place. He was promoted Staff Surgeon, 17 Aug. 1899, and Fleet Surgeon 1905, and served in the R.N. Hospital, Haslar, and H.M. ships Hearty (engaged in fishery protection in the North Sea, 1890); Boomerang (on Australian Station, 1891–94); Caledonia (Queensferry); Cockatrice (Danube, 1899); Psyche (West Indies); Illustrious (Channel, present at Brest fêtes, 1905), and Drake (accompanied Admiral of the Fleet Sir E. H. Seymour to the Hudson-Fulton celebration in New York, 1909), and was then appointed P.M.O. at Whale Island (H.M.S. Excellent), where he was when war broke out. He was appointed to H.M.S. Goliath (battleship, 12,950 tons, Capt. Thomas Shelford), Aug. 1914; early in Nov. she took part in the operations against the German light cruiser Königsberg, blocking her into the Rufigi River, where she was later destroyed; and on 1 Dec. with the light cruiser Fox, in the bombardment of Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of German East Africa, when she successfully disabled the many vessels in the harbour. Ordered to the Dardanelles in April, 1915, she helped to cover the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and on 13 May, 1915, while engaged in protecting the right flank of the French Army, was struck by three torpedoes and sunk in two minutes. Only 166 survivors were picked up, Fleet Surgeon Waters being among those lost; unm.

=WATERS, THOMAS ROBERT=, Chief Armourer, 341363, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATERS, WILLIAM DENNE=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only s. and surviving child of William Denne Waters, of Clarence House, Walmer, co. Kent, by his wife, dau. of the late George William Gill, of Rochester; b. 1 Aug. 1892; educ. Sir Roger Manwood’s School, Sandwich, where he was in the O.T.C., and having passed the Entrance Examination for the Army in June 1914, was gazetted to a 2nd Lieutenancy 15 Aug. of the same year. He was sent to France in Jan. 1915, and attd. to the 1st Battn. of the same regt., being seriously wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915. An officer of his regt., who wrote regretting his death, in describing the circumstances said: “He was in my old Company, which was ordered to charge a breastwork, and he was up and off, leading his men as he always did, but the whole lot were practically mown down by maxims.” Lieut. Waters died of his wounds the same night, and was buried in the Cemetery at Estaires; unm.

=WATERS, WILLIAM LESLIE=, Lc.-Corpl., No. 10960, Machine-Gun Section, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Arthur Waters, of 25, Mill Hill Road, Acton, W., formerly of Herstmonceaux, co. Sussex, by his wife, Kate Emma, dau. of Ralph Joanes, of Brighton; b. Preston Park, Brighton, 23 Nov. 1896; educ. Stanford Road School there and Hugh Myddelton Higher Grade School, Clerkenwell; enlisted, 15 Aug. 1914; was promoted L.-Corpl. end of Nov. 1914; went to the Front, 17 March, 1915, and died of enteric fever while on active service, in No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Lillers, France, 7 July, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Ever since he came under my command he proved himself an excellent non-commissioned officer in every way and was generally liked by his own men and the whole Machine-Gun Section.”

=WATKINS, CHARLES HENRY=, Drummer, No. 8495, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of William Henry Watkins, Sapper, No. 200567, R.E. (now on active service), late 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards (served in the Egyptian Expedition, 1882), by his wife, Harriet Deborah, dau. of James Connor; b. Caterham, co. Surrey, 21 Dec. 1893; educ. Winslow and Aylesbury; enlisted in the Coldstreams Dec. 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force 15 Aug., and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 10 Nov. 1914, being shot through the head by a sniper while crossing from one trench to another, and was buried in a wood near Rentel, Belgium; unm.

=WATKINS, CHARLES ROBERT=, Private, No. 9986, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of Edwin Robert Watkins, of Sladmore, Priory Avenue, High Wycombe, Surveyor, Member of Auctioneers’ and Land Agents’ Institute, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of the late Walter Skull; b. High Wycombe, 19 Sept. 1891; educ. Royal Grammar School there (where he won a Major County Council Scholarship) and matriculated at London University with honours, subsequently becoming an Artist Designer for W. H. Smith & Sons, of Kingsway, Publishers. He joined the London Rifle Brigade the day after war was declared (5 Aug. 1914), went with it to France the first week in Nov., and was killed in action in the front trenches, outside Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, 3 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried on the side of the Armentières road, south of Ploegsteert Village. At the time of his death he had been recommended for a commission, and was shortly to have returned to take up his appointment. “A young man of great ability, considered by his employers to be a genius and with every prospect of a highly successful career.”

=WATKINS, ILTYD EDWIN MAITLAND=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Maitland Watkins, of Castle Parade House, Usk, Monmouthshire, Solicitor; b. Usk, 25 March, 1890; educ. Downside School, near Bath, and King’s College, Cambridge; B.A. (Law Tripos) 1911, LL.B. June, 1911, and passed Solicitor’s Final Examination in June, 1914. He joined the 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut. 25 March, 1909, and was promoted Lieut. 8 Feb. 1912, and Capt. 15 July, 1914, and was Signal Officer, Welsh Territorial Division Signal Coy. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service; went to France, 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 7 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. E. B. Cuthbertson, C.M.G., M.V.O., wrote: “He was killed in the morning of the 7th, just at the end of the German attack, and his death was instantaneous and painless. Of his qualities as a soldier and a gentleman I cannot speak too highly; cheerful, gallant and unselfish, he died as he would have chosen to die with his face to the enemy and in the middle of the men whom he loved and commanded so well. We buried him on the battlefield [at La Brique St. Jean, north of Ypres]. His loss is deeply deplored by all ranks.”

=WATKINS, WILLIAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1636), 200436, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WATSON, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 16999, C Coy., 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Thomas Watson, by his wife, Esther; b. Strathaven, 10 June, 1886; educ. Ballgreen Public School; was a Tailor; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915; went to France, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Sept. 1915. He m. 3 June, 1910, Annie (18, Ballgreen, Strathaven), dau. of Robert Orr, and had two children: Thomas, b. 5 May 1912; and Jeanie, b. 3 Aug. 1910.

=WATSON, ALFRED JAMES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 8439 (R.F.R., I.C. 46), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WATSON, CEDRIC GORDON=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. Princess Charlotte of Wales’ Royal Berkshire Regt.; only s. of Gilbert Watson, of the End House, St. Andrews, Fife, by his wife, Eva, dau. of Henry Minchen Chase, I.C.S.; b. Kenilworth, co. Warwick, 30 Aug. 1895; educ. Haileybury College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Berkshires, 25 Feb. 1914, was promoted Lieut. 5 Jan. 1915, and for a time attd. to the East Surrey Regt. but had rejoined his own regt. at the time of his death. He was killed in action while gallantly leading his platoon in a frontal attack under “terrible conditions” at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=WATSON, DAVID GALLOWAY=, M.A., M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., s. of John Watson, of 19, West Mayfield, Edinburgh, Headmaster Broughton Higher Grade School and Junior Student Centre, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of David Galloway, of Edinburgh; b. West Calder, Midlothian, 18 Nov. 1889; educ. at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, where he was dux, in a brilliant year, and at Edinburgh University, where he first studied with a view of entering the Church, but eventually turned aside to medicine. After graduating in 1913, he became House Surgeon to Mr. Alexis Thomson at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, and later Senior House Surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, which he left to join the R.A.M.C. on the outbreak of war. He was gazetted temporary Lieut. 10 Aug. 1914, and went to the Front immediately thereafter. He was wounded by fragments of high explosive shell, 17 May, 1915, when bringing in wounded men from the trenches taken from the Germans at Festubert and died very suddenly at the Duchess of Westminster’s Hospital at Le Touquet, Paris-Plage, 5 June, 1915; unm. He was the first officer buried in the British Cemetery at Etaples. Dr. Watson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 30 Nov. 1914, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field at Neufchatel and Festubert. At his university, as well as taking a uniformly high place as a student, he was well known in the Union, and as a President of the Dialectic Society, but even better as a prolific contributor to the University Journalism; he was Joint-Editor of The Gambolier when that light-hearted weekly was in the heyday of its first success, and he was for a year or two a member of the Editorial Committee of The Student, acting as Deputy-Editor (and frequently as Editor) in 1912–13. He used to devote much of his time (for a considerable period at least two evenings every week) to social work in the University Settlement, delighting especially in playing with the children and telling them stories. One of his most successful efforts, a popular exposition of Physical Methods in Therapeutics, is included in a volume published by Messrs. T.C. & E.C. Jack. Another little work entitled “Waiting Night Sketches” with a memoir and a Personal Impression was printed for private circulation at the Darien Press, Edinburgh, 1916.

=WATSON, GEORGE JOSEPH=, Leading Stoker, 298094, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WATSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8159), 293612, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATSON, JAMES WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1978), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATSON, JOHN ROBERT=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4751A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATSON, LOUIS TALBOT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt., 3rd s. of Col. Richard Talbot Watson, of Honeybrook House, Franche, Kidderminster, V.D., J.P., and formerly O.C. 1st Vol. Battn. Worcestershire Regt., by his wife, Harriet Elizabeth, dau. of James Morton; b. Kidderminster, 7 March, 1881; educ. Clifton College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt. 9 March following, and promoted Lieut. 26 April, 1902 and Capt. 22 Jan. 1909; served in the South African War, 1901–2, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal (Queen’s medal with five clasps). He then transferred to the 2nd Worcesters and served with this battn. in Africa, Ceylon and India, re-transferring to the 1st Battn. on 22 Jan. 1909. He left for France early in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915. He m. at Arreton, Isle of Wight, 28 Sept. 1911, Margaret Amy, 2nd dau. of William Hartshorne Shorthose, of Stickworth Hall, Arreton, and had a dau., Diana Marion, b. 12 June, 1912.

=WATSON, ROBERT=, a Private, No. 2083, 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of Robert Watson, of Gilmerton Dairy, Midlothian, Dairyman, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Alexander Anderson, of Lanarkshire; b. Midlothian, 20 Jan. 1890; educ. Public School there, and was afterwards employed as an assistant ironmonger. He enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, while assisting a wounded comrade into safety, 28 June, 1915; unm.

=WATSON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2333, 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Watson (died March, 1916), Law Clerk, by his wife, Lillias Barrie (19, India Street, Edinburgh), dau. of William Walker; b. Edinburgh, 4 Dec. 1890; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College there; served his apprenticeship as a Chartered Accountant with Messrs. Carter Greig & Co., C.A., Edinburgh, and after being admitted a member of the C.A. Society received an appointment with Messrs. Price, Waterhouse & Co., Accountants, London. He joined the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1909, and served with it until he left Edinburgh, but on the outbreak of war returned, and rejoined his old regt. and volunteered for foreign service; went to the Dardanelles in May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 28 June following; unm.

=WATSON, TOM=, A.B., J. 7935, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WATSON, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 27778, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATT, GEORGE HIMPHILL=, A.B., 220630, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WATT, GEORGE MURTAGH=, Private, No. 1422, 1/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Watt, of 11, The Grove, Crouch End, late Sergt. 2nd King’s Liverpool Regt., now a Customs Watcher, by his wife, Adelaide Nuletta, dau. of the late John Parsons, of Leek; b. Colchester Barracks, 15 April, 1895; educ. Crouch End Council School, and was an employee on the G.N.R.; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 12 Dec. 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 11 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 26 March, 1915; unm. Buried in the field adjoining Madame Surchelle Descamps’ farm at Sailly.

=WATTS, ALFRED GEORGE BERTRAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23432, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Alfred Watts, of Farndish Road, Irchester, Wellingborough; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WATTS, FRANK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 8854, 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. s. of Thomas Watts, of Langridge Farm, Nazeing, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of John Wright; b. Sherington, co. Bucks, 23 June, 1887; educ. Nazeing Schools; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. of the Bedfords, 7 Jan. 1907, served seven years with the Colours, then passed into the reserves, but, war breaking out a few months later, he was recalled and attd. to the 1st Battn. He went to France with the First Expeditionary Force, served in France and Flanders during the winter of 1914–15, and was shot by a sniper as he was going on duty at a listening post, 16 March, 1915; unm. The bullet entered just below the heart and he only lived 15 minutes. He was buried in the woods about 1½ miles from Ypres and about half a mile from the Chateau de Rosendale. A cross with his name marks the spot.

=WATTS, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7920), S.S. 103428, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WATTS, JAMES ROBERT=, Private, No. 2458, 1/2nd Battn. The Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Aldwyn Watts, of 26, Railway Terrace, Griffithstown, co. Monmouth, Haulier in the employ of the Panteg Urban District Council, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Thornton, of Gladestry, Herefordshire; b. Kings Pyon, co. Hereford, 4 Oct. 1896; educ. Griffithstown Council School; was employed at the Panteg Steel Works; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914; went to France in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Le Bizet, Belgium, 12 March, 1915; unm. Col. Cuthbertson, commanding the 2nd Monmouthshires, wrote: “Your son was killed on the 12th of this month, and a more gallant soldier never lived. He is buried in a soldiers’ cemetery not very far from the trenches where he met his death, and a careful record of his place of burial is being kept. A small cross with his name has been put up to his memory:” and one of his comrades wrote: “We all found him a jolly and good-hearted lad, and a very brave soldier. He feared nothing, but always thought of his duty to his country, of which he carried out to the last.”

=WATTS, VICTOR KERRIDGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9418), 203441, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WAUGH, DAVID=, Private, No. 9246, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); s. of Thomas Waugh, of 2, Salisbury Square, Edinburgh; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Voorstraat, 28 March, 1915.

=WAUD, LIONEL DOUGLAS=, Lieut., D Coy., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 2nd s. of Major Williams Henry Waud, late Royal Fusiliers, by his wife, Denise Caroline (sister of Baroness de la Bori de la Batut), dau. of the late Charles Maire, of Mantoche Haute Farm, France, and niece and adopted dau. of Pierre Francois, 1st Count Maire; b. Cranleigh Court, Guildford, 5 June, 1895; educ. at The Army School, Holyport (Maidenhead), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he passed out first and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Lancashires, 8 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914. He joined his regt. on the 19th and went with it to France on the 27th of that month; served through the subsequent fighting on the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action near Armentières, 8 Nov. 1914, being buried in Le Gheer Road, Ploegsteert Wood. Lieut. Waud was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct at Le Gheer. Writing to Major Waud, Capt. Melville Richards, of the 1st East Lancashires, said: “His only fault was he would take risks. He was too tall for the trenches, and wouldn’t trouble to stoop. He was very brave, and his action--which I remember well--of running along knocking down the rifles of his men, to make them fire low, was one of the finest things I have seen out here.” It happened that a Morning Post correspondent, some time after the incident referred to, was able to get a description of the circumstances from a German officer who was wounded on that occasion. It happened at Le Gheer. Respecting the assault made by the Guard on the English lines (wrote the correspondent) here is what I was told by one who took part in the action: “Towards evening we were ordered to advance. We marched forward without taking cover, confident enough, because not a shot came from the British trench. We thought it had been abandoned after the terrible bombardment to which it had been subjected all day long. Shouting ‘Hurrah,’ we rushed forward to seize it, but we had not gone more than 100 metres before our whole front is stricken down by a volley from a point much nearer than the trench we had been shelling and in addition to this terrible infantry fire the British quick-firing guns are brought into play, and simply mow our men down. We had been shelling an unoccupied trench, and had done no damage to the place where the enemy actually was hidden. Hence it is not surprising that our ‘assault’ should have proved to be--for us--a veritable massacre.” It was here that the late Lieut. Waud distinguished himself. When the mitrailleuse fire from the German attack began and there was a momentary loss of fire-control of his own company, Lieut. Waud, to regain control, sprang from the trenches, and ran in front of them, with the flat of his sword, struck down the men’s rifles, and so prevented the Germans finding out where the trenches really were. A brother officer wrote that his men “trusted him as a good and a brave leader,” adding: “He and I held an advanced trench before his end, and though he was younger than myself, I can say he was a great moral support to me. In conversation on the day of his death, he told me he was prepared to give the utmost for his Country, and that his one regret if that were required was that it would be a great shock to his parents.” He represented the Royal Military College in revolver shooting, for which he held the record score. He also represented Sandhurst in the bayonet competition at the Royal Military Tournament at Olympia, for which he obtained third prize.

=WAUDLEY, HARRY=, Driver, No. T/3/026409, Army Service Corps, s. of John Waudley, Ganger Platelayer on Hull and Barnsley Railway, by his wife, (--), dau. of Isaac Hornby, Roos, Holderness; b. Preston-in-Holderness, 26 June, 1891; educ. Anlaby National School, Hull; was a Farm Labourer with Mr. Richardson, Swanland; enlisted in the A.S.C., 12 Oct. 1914; went to Egypt in March, and died in No. 15 General Hospital, Alexandria, 30 June, 1915, of disease contracted while on active service; unm. Buried in Chatby Cemetery there (Grave No. 1125).

=WAY, FRANCIS MAXWELL=, Trooper, No. 7/772, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of George Edward Way, of Christchurch, New Zealand, F.P.A.N.Z., F.I.A.N.Z., by his wife, Emma Kate, dau. of the late Richard James Strachan Harman, one of the founders of, and for some years Deputy Superintendent of, Canterbury Province, and nephew of the Rev. John Pearce Way, D.D., late Headmaster of Rossall, and for two years stroke of the Oxford eight; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 Dec. 1895; educ. Christ’s College there, and then engaged in farming pursuits, first for eighteen months in the Back Blocks, Kaitieke, King Country, and then for eight months on Mount Torlesse Sheep Station, Canterbury, where he was when war broke out. He immediately enlisted, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, 15 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, June, 1915, and died on Anzac Beach, 8 Aug. 1915, of machine gun wounds received in action on Bauchop’s Ridge, Gallipoli; unm.

=WAYTH, SIDNEY ALFRED=, Private, No. 2342, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F), only s. of the late Edward Wayth, Mining Engineer, by his wife, Beatrice Elizabeth (now wife of Edward Steeles, of 54, Oxford Road, Harrow), dau. of James Spinks; b. Stoke Newington, N., 3 April, 1896; educ. Greenhill Council School, Harrow, gained a certificate for the London School of Economics and Political Science on “The Law of Carriage of Railway”; was a Clerk in the Great Northern Railway at King’s Cross; joined the Territorial Force after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915. His Coy. Sergt.-Major wrote: “I can assure you he was liked by all and was a good soldier.”

=WAYLING, THOMAS=, Private, No. G. 1902, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 March, 1915.

=WEAKE, ERNEST ALBERT=, Private, No. 8340, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at No. 5 Stationary Hospital, Le Mans, France, 10 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action; unm.

=WEARMOUTH, ISAAC NORMAN=, Private, No. 8434, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Wearmouth, of James Street, Stanhope, Durham; b. co. Durham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 6 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried Boulogne Cemetery.

=WEATHERILL, EDWARD THEAKER=, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yr. s. of Capt. John Weatherill, of 6, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, Shipowner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Archibald Mackenzie; b. Dublin, 19 March, 1887; educ. at St. Andrew’s College, Dublin; Fettes College, Edinburgh; and Armstrong College (Durham University), Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he obtained at the age of 20 his B.Sc. degree in Naval Architecture and Engineering, and, after serving his time as a Marine Engineer, gained his First Class Certificate, and subsequently became a Partner in his father’s firm of Shipowners. At its formation in Sept. 1914, he joined the “Football” Coy. of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers (having previously been a Member of the Monkstown and Lansdowne Football Clubs), and was elected by the Coy. to be Sergt. of the Machine Gun Section. On his being gazetted 2nd Lieut. in March, 1915, he was transferred from “D” Coy. to “B” Coy. of the same Battn. He left for the Dardanelles 9 July, 1915, and in the last letter received from him, dated 14 Aug. 1915, said: “We got here a week to-day, and I expect you will have heard by now all we have done so far. We landed under a very heavy shrapnel fire. Russell and I were left behind on the boat to load the stores of the Battn., and before we landed our first wounded started to come back. Then an old Taube flew over, dropped a bomb--which just missed us by inches--and gave those on shore the range, so we got shelled before we even got into the lighter. They did not hit us, however. We then landed and had to unload the boat on the beach. They got the range of us all right and we had some very narrow shaves. My water bottle was hit. Luckily we had no casualties. I will not tell you any more till I get home, except that all my fellows have behaved splendidly, and one, P. Quinn, has been mentioned. He was out sniping with me from an advanced trench on Thursday, and we got four of their snipers, so I recommended him this morning.... I am fit and well, and so far have been very lucky.” He was killed in action at Suvla Bay 16 Aug. 1915; unm. Letters received from officers and men alike testify to his gallant conduct. Capt. J. Lucie Smith, B Coy., wrote: “He bore himself in a most gallant manner, and at ‘Chocolate Hill’ brought in five wounded men under fire, for which deed I believe he has been mentioned in despatches.” Lieut. R. Douglas, Machine Gun Officer: “From the moment we landed he was splendid. He was in the thick of all the worst fighting round Hill 53 (the original position taken by our Battn.), he was seen one day carrying five different wounded men of ours under terrible fire, leaving his own trench each time to do so. It was on the early morning of Monday last, the 16th, that he was killed during a bomb attack by the Turks. At the time he was hit he was rallying some men of another battn. who were breaking up. He succeeded in getting them back, and so saved the position for us, but in doing so he was killed. No praise could be too high for the manner in which he fought, lived and died out here; he was wonderful.” L.-Corpl. Fraser, Machine Gun Section, now Lieut. in Connaught Rangers: “We had a very severe shelling on landing, and your brother distinguished himself on several occasions for bravery, leaving the trenches and bringing five wounded men under fire. On other occasions he displayed his fearlessness of danger also. I need hardly say his deeds have commanded the admiration and respect of everyone”; and Sergt. Charles E. Sawyer, B Coy.: “He was a fearless leader and a good friend to us all. The event of Lieut. Weatherill’s death needs some explanation. We were ordered to take up a position on a long ridge overlooking the sea, and ‘B’ Coy., with Engineers, had to dig a fire trench from the top down to the sea, and occupy it in the front line. In going towards this position in firing line formation No. 2 platoon became detached from the remainder of the Coy., the night being so dark. Mr. Weatherill then ordered us under cover while he went out to look for our Coy. He went to the top of the ridge, where the Royal Irish Fusiliers were keeping the right flank and found they had lost all, except one wounded, of their officers, and the men in a state of depression. Lieut. Weatherill returned to us and told me to go with him to where the Royal Irish Fusiliers were posted, and ordered me to find their N.C.O.’s and rouse the men as much as possible. I found they had only one L.-Corpl., and after some persuasion got the men to keep a look-out to ensure their own and our safety. We were thanked by their poor wounded officer and were returning to our platoon when Mr. Weatherill stopped and told me he felt it was his duty to stay with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and ordered me back to take command of No. 5 and join up with the Coy. as soon as possible. He wished me good-bye and to do our best, and left me. That was the last I saw of him alive. Next morning the fighting was very great and I heard the Royal Irish Fusiliers were being badly pressed and I went to the top of the ridge and learned from one of their men that Mr. Weatherill had been killed at daybreak (only a few yards from his great friend Lieut. Russell). I must say I was with Mr. Weatherill from the moment of landing in that terrible advance round Salt Lake and other places, and can truly say that a more brave and cool officer never took men into action in that awful Peninsula, and he fell in the knowledge that he was doing his duty and died as only a gentleman and a British Officer can die.”

=WEAVER, ALBERT=, Leading Stoker, 308507, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEAVER, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, 312062, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=WEAVER, WALTER=, Private, No. 8655, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Weaver, of Child Pitt, Newport, Shropshire, by his wife, Mary (Oak Cottage, Bicton Heath, near Shrewsbury), dau. of the late Edward Broome, of Hill End Farm, Lydbury, Salop; b. Crudgington, co. Salop, 12 Oct. 1890; educ. Lilleshall Public School, Newport, co. Salop, was a Porter, Rowton House, Newington Butts, London; enlisted in the Coldstreams in March, 1910; went to France 12 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date; unm.

=WEBB, ALBERT=, Private, 846, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 15 May, 1915.

=WEBB, ARTHUR STUART=, Sergt., No. 11533, 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, elder s. of Arthur Stuart Webb, the well-known Hampshire and Glamorgan professional cricketer, by his wife, Ethel E. (45A, Mersham Road, Thornton Heath); b. St. Helier’s, Jersey, 31 March, 1894; educ. Southampton Grammar School; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was promoted Sergt. 1 Feb. 1915. He went with his regt. to the front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. Sergt. Webb, who was himself a keen cricketer, belonged to a well-known sporting family; one of his uncles played for Kent, and another was Fred Webb, the ex-jockey, who won the Derby in 1873. His father is now (1916) on service with the Royal Fusiliers. A comrade wrote: “I was present at Neuve Chapelle when your eldest son got killed. He was a brave fellow, and led his platoon until he got to the German’s barbed wire. We were unable to get him into our trenches; but he died like a hero.” His younger brother, Sergt. C. F. Webb, was killed 16 May, 1915 (see his notice).

=WEBB, CHARLES ELIJAH JAMES=, Probationary 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 7800, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEBB, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Sergt., No. 11428, 1st Battn., King’s Royal Rifles, yr. s. of Arthur Stuart Webb, the well-known professional cricketer, etc. (see above notice); b. Newport, Isle of Wight, 3 Feb. 1896; educ. Southampton Secondary School; enlisted in Sept. 1914, was promoted Sergt. March, 1915, a week after his brother’s death, and died from wounds received in action at Givenchy, 16 May, 1915, succumbing while on his way to the Field Ambulance; unm. His Qr.-Mr. Sergt. G. Knaggs, wrote to his father, at the request of Section Officer Major Barton Frere: “His Battn. attacked the German trenches on the night, 15–16 May, and captured them. Your son was seen to fall wounded, and although his wounds may then have been slight ones, it is possible that he was more severely hit on proceeding to the rear. In any case it is only too evident that he did not reach the Field Ambulance.”

=WEBB, EDGAR DORRINGTON=, Sergt., No. 1164, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Edward Webb, Capt. 14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt., late King’s Own Scottish Borderers by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Powell; b. Devonport, 5 June, 1891; educ. Dumfries Academy, and Dulwich College, London; was a clerk in the Bank of England, May, 1910, to Aug. 1914; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in June, 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 15 March, 1915; and was killed in action at Brewery Post Trench, near Rue de l’Epinette, Pas de Calais, 5 May, 1915. Buried in British Cemetery, Rue du Bois, near Bethune. Sergt. Webb m. at St. Leonard’s Church, Streatham, London, S.W., Annie Florence, dau. of Arthur Henry Cornish; s.p.

=WEBB, EDWARD CHARLES HARRY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only s. of Edward Webb, of Cosham House, Cosham, co. Hants and Hindugalla, Peradeniya, Ceylon, Tea Planter, by his wife, Mary Quarry, dau. of William Charles Whitham, of Warangalla, Ceylon; b. Hindugalla, 18 Dec. 1894; educ. Haileybury College; passed into Sandhurst in Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Lincolns, 10 Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, and buried in an orchard with other officers and men of the regt.; unm.

=WEBB, JAMES=, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270880, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEBB, JOHN BOYER=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Prince of Wales’ North Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st. Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of Capt. Charles Boyer Webb, of Elford House, Tamworth, late 4th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (died 26 Feb. 1916), by his wife, Adela Dorothy, dau. of Colonel Arthur Blundells, 3rd East Kent Regt., and grandson of the late Colonel Charles John Webb, who for some time commanded the same regt. (4th N. Staffs); b. near Tamworth, 8 June, 1894; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was gazetted to the 4th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. 7 Aug. 1914, being quartered at Guernsey till 16 March, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Bedfords, and promoted Lieut. 1 April following. He was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 21 April, 1915; unm.

=WEBB, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2556), 199206, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WEBBER, CHARLES HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3852), 197166, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WEBBER, EDWARD CHARLES=, Clerk, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Good Hope, only s. of Edward Samuel Webber, of 18, Taswell Road, Southsea, M.B. Cantab, by his wife, Edith, dau. of Dr. John Brickwell; b. Sutton Valence, co. Kent, 13 May, 1894; educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, where he was Captain of the Games, 1910 and 1911, and Sergt. in the O.T.C.; entered the Navy, 15 July, 1911; appointed Clerk, 15 July, 1912; appointed to the staff of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, 25 Feb. 1913; and went down in H.M.S. Good Hope in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

=WEBBER, HAROLD PERCIVAL=, L.-Corpl., No. 2398, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of William Webber, retired Coy. Secretary, for 43 years in the service of John Board & Co., Ltd., of Dunball, Bridgwater, Cement, Lime, Brick and Tile Manufacturers; b. Puriton, Bridgwater, co. Somerset, 7 May, 1889; educ. Collegiate School, Bridgwater; was apprenticed for three years to J. P. Curtis, of High Street, Weston-super-Mare, Ironmonger, with whom he stayed for a few months; after which he was with John Walsh, Ltd., of Sheffield, for about three years, and then entered the employ of John Barker & Co., Ltd., of Kensington, London, being one of the first batch of young men who enlisted from that establishment on the outbreak of war; after training in Malta, he went to France, arriving at Marseilles the first week in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near l’Epinette, Armentières, 13 March, 1915; unm. Lieut.-Col. Attenborough wrote: “He was shot through the head and died instantaneously. His death was a great loss to his Coy., in which he was very popular, and was a loss to the battalion as he was a very promising soldier. He is buried with others of his comrades in a cemetery prepared for soldiers near a large farmhouse just behind our trenches.”

=WEBBER, HAROLD VICTOR=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Somerset L.I., yst s. of the late Sergt.-Major William Webber, Somerset L.I. (who d. 6 July, 1915, the same day as his son was killed); by his wife, Elizabeth (Jellalabad, Holway Road, Taunton), dau. of Thomas Laver; b. Taunton, co. Somerset, 22 Oct. 1895; educ. Huish Grammar School there; enlisted in the Somerset L.I. 9 April, 1912; was promoted Corpl. 15 July, 1914; Sergt. 31 Oct. 1914; and gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the field, 14 Feb. 1915; went to France 22 Aug. 1914; served through the fighting at Ligny; the retreat from Mons; the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne; afterwards proceeding to Belgium with his regt., and took part in the 1st Battle of Ypres and the fighting in the Ploegsteert Woods. In Feb. 1915, he came home on leave, and in May was seriously wounded and again sent home, but returned to the front 7 June, and was killed in action on the Yser Canal, 6 July, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Major G. Fleming wrote: “Your son died as a gallant officer and soldier should at the head of his men and whilst performing a particularly dangerous and arduous task. We, with the Rifle Brigade, attacked the German trenches at 6 a.m. on the 6th inst., and your son had to dig communication trenches across the open from our trenches to the captured trenches. He was killed very soon after he had got his men into position lined up across the open. There must be great comfort to you in knowing that he died so gallantly and a soldier’s death in action is much to be coveted. We all miss him terribly as he was always so cheerful and willing to do anything in his power to help others and to perform his duty.” 2nd Lieut. Webber’s eldest brother, Sergt. W. T. Webber, was killed in France in Nov. 1914, and his two other brothers, Col.-Sergt. S. A. Webber and Col.-Sergt. J. S. Webber, are now (1916) on active service.

=WEBBER, HUGO=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1683), 200656, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WEBBER, JOHN=, Private, No. 7611, 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, s. of the late James Webber, of Bootle, Liverpool, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Bootle, co. Lancaster, 14 Feb. 1879; educ. New Ferry, co. Chester; enlisted and served three years with the Colours; was a Labourer; rejoined 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and was reported missing after the heavy fighting on 29 Oct. 1914. He m. at Birkenhead, 1906, Myra (50, Teddesley Street, Walsall), dau. of Charles Jones, and had four children: James Edward, b. 8 April, 1907; John, b. 8 March, 1914; Myra, b. 29 Jan. 1909; and Gladys May, b. 21 Sept. 1911.

=WEBSTER, COLIN AILESBURY=, Private, No. 1253, No. 1 Coy., 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Co., only s. of Henry Ernest Webster, of 21, Kingsley Avenue, West Ealing, and the National Bank, Notting Hill Gate, W. (well-known in the swimming world as handicapper to the Otter Swimming Club); by his wife, Kate Minnie, dau. of William Ailesbury Bull; b. Bayswater, 13 May, 1894; educ. Acton County School, on leaving which he was employed on the Stock Exchange; joined the H.A.C., 8 Aug. 1914; left for France 18 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 25 Nov. following; unm. Buried in the garden of a farmhouse at Wulverghem. A sergt. of his Coy. wrote: “He has been a thoroughly good soldier throughout, and I can assure you we all (No. 1 Coy.) lament his loss.” Like his father he was a fine swimmer and at the close of the season of 1914, stood second for the average prize of the Otter Swimming Club. He was also a keen Rugby football player and a member of the Ealing Rugby Football Club.

=WEBSTER, HARRY=, Electrical Artificer, 2nd Class, 347541, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WEBSTER, JESSE=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 201748, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEDDERBURN, ROBERT HAMILTON MACLAGAN=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn., The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), yst. s. of the Rev. Laurence Craigie Maclagan Wedderburn, Minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, at Madderty, Crieff, by his wife, Gertrude Elizabeth, dau. of the late Lt.-Col. James Maxwell, C.B., sometime Acting Governor of the Gold Coast; b. Madderty Free Church Manse, co. Perth, 30 April, 1893; educ. at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University (M.A. April, 1914); was L.-Corpl. in his school O.T.C., and Sergt. of the machine-gun team of the University O.T.C., and obtained Certificates A and B; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve of officers, to 3rd Cameronians, 15 Aug. 1914; joined in Sept, and trained with them at the Nigg Camp, Ross-shire; left for Rouen in charge of 95 men, 1 Jan. 1915, was there attached to the 1st Cameronians then in the trenches near Armentières, and was killed in action in the trenches near Bois Grenier early in the morning of 3 Feb. following; unm. Buried beside Capt. Stirling in the village of Bois Grenier. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. P. N. Robertson, C.M.G., wrote: “Owing to the very short time he was with us, I had not seen your son personally very much, but I am informed that he was most keen in his work, and always did his very best to carry out efficiently every duty that was given him to do. He was at the time superintending the erection of a traverse of sandbags in the trenches, when he was shot through the brain by one of the enemy’s snipers,” and the Officer Commanding 3rd Battn., Major Luard, published the following order: “It is with the deepest regret that the Commanding Officer has to announce the death (killed in action) of 2nd Lieut. R. H. M. Wedderburn, of this Battn., and at the time serving with the 1st Battn. Though the late 2nd Lieut. Wedderburn was comparatively a short time with his battn., he was well-known for his exceptional keenness and the loss to this battn. is deeply felt by all.”

=WEEDON, SYDNEY CHARLES=, Private, No. 1102, 1/4th Battn. (Signal Section) Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Albert Weedon, of 23, Scott Street, Maidstone, by his wife, Alice Celia, dau. of John Fryer, of Maidstone, b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 19 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s School there; was a Wire Mattress Maker; joined the R.W.K. Regt. early in 1911; went to India 29 Oct. 1914, and died on foreign service at Jubbulpore, India, 27 May, 1915, of septicæmia, contracted from drinking water from a native well; unm. He was buried in the English Cemetery there, with full military honours; a marble cross erected by the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of his Coy. marks the grave. The Officer Commanding the signal section wrote: “He was in my Signal Section, and was one of the best and keenest signallers I had. He and his brother have been of very great assistance to me, always ready to do anything and always doing it thoroughly and well.” Two of his brothers are now (1916) on service: Pte. Leonard Weedon and L.-Corpl. Percy Weedon, both with the Royal West Kent Regt.

=WEEDS, JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 11520, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WEEKES, JOHN=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9369), 296881, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WELBURN, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 6663, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of Thomas Welburn, of Weaverthorpe, Sherbarn Eke, York, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of the late Thomas Swain; b. Allerston Marshes, Pickering, 9 Feb. 1889; educ. Sledmere; enlisted 25 Feb. 1904, served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve, and was for some time in the Huddersfield Police Force and at the time of the outbreak of war was an attendant at the County Asylum, Rainhill, near Liverpool; he was called up on mobilization 5 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 30 Oct. 1914, by the bursting of a shell; unm.

=WELBY, RICHARD WILLIAM GREGORY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, elder s. and h. of Sir Charles Glynne Earle Welby, of Denton Manor, Grantham, 5th Bt., C.B., formerly M.P. for Newark; by his wife, Lady Maria Louisa Helen, sister of Frederick William Fane, 4th Marquis of Bristol, and elder dau. of the late Lord Augustus Hervey; b. Denton Manor, 16 Oct. 1888; educ. Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Feb. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1911; went to France with his battn. which formed part of the 4th (Guards) Brigade, 12 Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 16 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried in Soupir Churchyard, near Vailly on the Aisne. The Officer Commanding his battn. wrote: “We have been fighting a hard battle and had a very severe action on Tuesday, when Dick Welby was wounded in the shoulder. We were very short of officers owing to our heavy casualties, and every officer of Dick’s coy. had been killed or wounded. He very pluckily insisted on remaining at duty (instead of going to the hospital) to help us through the difficulty, and remained at duty during the following day; on the third day we got a terrible shelling and poor Dick was killed. I can’t tell you how we all deplore Dick’s loss, nor how gallantly he did his duty to the end.” Lieut. Welby was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914.

=WELCH, GEORGE RICHARD=, Leading Seaman, 190986, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELCH, WALTER GEORGE FREDERIC=, Lieut., 117th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, only s. of Reginald Courtenay Welch, for twenty years Principal of the Army College, Heath End, Farnham, near Aldershot, by his wife, Adeline Charlotte, dau. of the late Abingdon Compton; b. Hyde Park, London, 7 March, 1890; educ. Charterhouse; The Army College, Farnham, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (passed in 25th on list, Jan. 1909); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A., 22 July, 1910, and posted to 127th Battery at Bordon; went to Depôt at Preston, Jan. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 23 July following. On mobilization he was attached to the 44th Brigade Ammunition Column; went to France 21 Aug. 1914, where he was, shortly after his arrival, posted to the 117th Battery, 26th Brigade, R.F.A. (1st Division), and took part in the fighting on the Aisne and in Flanders. He was killed in action while fighting his guns about 1,000 yards south of Veldhock, E.S.E. of Ypres, on the evening of 30 Oct. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He was the life and soul of our little mess: a keen and a good soldier. We buried him alongside the guns he had fought”; and one of those who served under him wrote: “Mr. Welch was always very popular with the men, especially so in action.” Lieut. Welch was a keen football player and on one occasion at the Front took part in a match played behind the firing line, which was interrupted by a German bombardment and resumed when the fire died down.

=WELCH, WALTER LEONARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15266, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WELCH, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Armourer’s Crew, M. 5907, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WELCHMAN, EDWARD THEODORE, D.S.O.=, Capt., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Edward Welchman, of Carshalton, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., formerly of Heckington, Lincolnshire, by his wife, Alice, dau. of James Singleton; b. Southea, co. Cambridge, 21 July, 1881; educ. Sleaford Grammar School and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd West Yorkshires, 11 Aug. 1900; and promoted Lieut. 20 March, 1902, and Capt. 7 March, 1910; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, April, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 [Despatches, London Gazette, 17 Jan. 1902; Queen’s medal with three clasps, D.S.O.], and with the 1st Battn. in the Mohmand Expedition, 1908 (medal with clasp). On his return home he joined the 3rd Reserve Battn. at York, but on the outbreak of war rejoined the 1st Battn.; went to France, 1 Oct. 1914, and died 26 Oct. following, at the Base Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received at Le Paradis on the 20th. Buried Boulogne Hospital Cemetery; unm. Capt. Welchman had a fine record, and numberless letters bear the highest testimony to his character and attainments. He was a keen sportsman, and very popular in both his regt. and outside it. He qualified for the Staff College, Camberley, which he entered Jan. 1914.

=WELFARE, HAROLD CUTHBERT=, Sergt., No. 1341, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry (T.F.), s. of John Henry Welfare, of St. Elliott’s, Crowborough, Farmer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of William Boarer, of Boarshead, Sussex; b. Crowborough, co. Sussex, 6 Oct. 1892; educ. King Charles’ School, Tunbridge Wells; was for some time in a solicitor’s office; afterwards returned to his father’s farm; joined the Sussex Yeomanry in 1910; volunteered for foreign service in Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war, and the same month was promoted L.-Sergt., Aug. 1915, and Sergt. 6 Oct. 1915, the day before landing at Gallipoli. He took part in the fighting there during Oct., Nov. and Dec., and was almost the last man of the Brigade to leave on the evacuation on 1 Jan. 1916. He died in the Island of Lemnos, 28 Jan. 1916, from heart failure while leading in a Brigade Marathon Race, and was buried there in Portianos Cemetery with full Military Honours. A memorial cross was subscribed for and erected by his comrades. His chief officer, Major H. Powell-Edwards, wrote: “I would rather have lost anyone in my squadron sooner than him. He was a most capable soldier, cheerful under all circumstances, and a tower of strength in hard times. He died in the service of his country, and was in his life a gallant soldier and a gentleman whom England could ill spare.” At King Charles’ School he was head boy and capt. of the school XI, and afterwards captained Crowborough Football Club and held the Regimental Cross Country Championship. He also took a great interest in the Boy Scout movement and was Scoutmaster of the 1st Crowborough Coy. He m. at Withyham St. John, 21 Sept. 1914, Marjorie Ursula (Crowborough House, Crowborough), dau. of the late Thomas Warmington, Headmaster of Sir Henry Fermor’s School, Crowborough; s.p.

=WELHAM, JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5330A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLER, CHARLES GEORGE=, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, L. 837, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLER, EDWARD JOHN=, Corpl., No. 8/124, North Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Edward Weller; b. Ardgowan, Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Ardgowan School. He was a member of the New Zealand Territorial Force, and when the war broke out was one of the first to volunteer, and left with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 27 April, 1915; unm. Corpl. Weller was a good shot and won the markman’s badge.

=WELLER, JACK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2414), 181557, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLS, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7240), S.S. 102191, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLS, ERNEST MAURICE=, Private, No. 8131, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Daniel Wells, of Whetstone, co. Leicester, Hosiery Hand, by his wife, Katherine, dau. of Joseph Wale; b. Whetstone aforesaid, 27 Feb. 1888; educ. National School there; was a Shore Hand; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 29 Oct. 1908; went to France, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried in the Cemetery there. He m. at Blaby Baptist Church, 25 Dec. 1912, Annie E. (Auburn Road, Blaby, Leicester), dau. of William Sabin, of Blaby, and had a daughter, Annie Wells, b. 20 Dec. 1913.

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

=WELLS, FREDERICK PENNSON=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./13273, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WELLS, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111410, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLS, HARRY STEPHEN=, Telegraphist, J. 8634, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLS, JOHN DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 6438, 3rd. Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Wells, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of George Edward Meacock; b. Clerkenwell, 12 Jan. 1884; enlisted 13 Dec. 1905, and was killed in action at St. Julien, during the Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914, being buried in the Eastern Cemetery at Ypres. He m. at St. Paul’s, Newington, S.E., 24 Dec. 1911, Rose (51, Meadow Road, Clapham Road, S.W.), dau. of Frederick Brazier Smith, and had two children: Jack Douglas, b. 11 Nov. 1914, and Rose Kitty, b. 28 Dec. 1912.

=WELLS, JOHN THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1155), 140773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELLS, WILLIAM APPLEYARD=, Corpl. of Horse, No. 1385, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), s. of William Appleyard Wells, of Grasmere, Fairbolt Road, Stamford Hill, Merchant, by his wife, Annie Matilda, dau. of Henry Scott; b. Tottenham, N., 21 Aug. 1890; educ. Cowper Street, City Road; enlisted in the Royal Horse Guards, 30 Nov. 1909, was promoted Corpl. Sept. 1914; served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Verbuden Molen, Flanders, 6 Nov. 1914; unm.

=WELLS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1914), 160507, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELSFORD, ARTHUR HADDEN=, Private, No. 974, Honourable Artillery Coy., 3rd and yst. s. of the late Richard Sherring Welsford, of 6, The Orchard, Blackheath, Coffee Planter in Ceylon, by his wife, Jane Elizabeth (The Cottage, Semaphore Road, Guildford), dau. of the late James Alexander Hadden, of Bittacy House, Mill Hill, Hendon; b. Blackheath, London, S.E., 30 Oct. 1891; educ. Blackheath School, and St. Dunstan’s, Catford; was a clerk in the office of Messrs. G. W. Dawes & Co. 5, Lothbury, E.C.; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. the day war was declared, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in the trenches in Flanders, 2 June, 1915, while repairing some wire on a parapet for which work he had volunteered; unm. He was buried in the cemetery of the Elsenwalla Château, near Dickebusch.

=WELSH, DAVID FERGUSON=, Engine Room Artificer, R.N.R., 1198 E.A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WELTON, WILLIAM JOBSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2722), 283951, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WENDOVER, ALBERT EDWARD CHARLES ROBERT WYNN-CARRINGTON=, Viscount, 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), only s. and heir of Charles Robert, 1st Marquis of Lincolnshire, K.G., joint Lord Great Chamberlain of England, by his wife, the Hon. Cecilia Margaret, née Harbord, Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. Queen Alexandra, eldest dau. of Charles, 5th Baron Suffield, K.C.B.; b. London, 24 April, 1895 (H.M. King Edward VII., sponsor); educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Horse Guards, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was mortally wounded, 13 May, 1915, in the charge of the 8th Cavalry Brigade (The Blues, the 10th Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry), near Hooge, during the Second Battle of Ypres, and died in hospital at Boulogne on the 19th; unm. Buried in Moulsoe Churchyard, Bucks.

=WENHAM, CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111369, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WEST, ANDREW=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3964, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WEST, FREDERICK=, L.-Corpl., S./6056, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 14 Nov. 1914.

=WEST, FREDERICK=, Private, G. 4447, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Frederick West, of Bishops Hall Lodge, Romford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 9 May, 1915.

=WEST, GEORGE=, Private, No. 13792, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., elder s. of John George West, of Old Bolingbroke, Spilsby, co. Lincoln, Labourer, by his wife, Martha (who died 8 June, two days after her son), dau. of Matthew Ward; b. Old Bolingbroke aforesaid, 31 Oct. 1893; educ. Village School there; enlisted Nov. 1914; went to France, 30 April, 1915, arriving at the Infantry Base, on Sunday, 2 May, and soon afterwards going into the trenches, and died in No. 4 General Hospital, Versailles, 6 June, 1915, of brain fever, following gunshot wound in the head, received in action, 28 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the General Cemetery, Versailles (G.R.C. 3378).

=WEST, HERBERT GIDEON=, Private, No. 9527, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of John West, of Silver Street, Steeple Ashton, near Trowbridge, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Kingman; b. Steeple Ashton, co. Wilts, 18 Jan. 1895; educ. National School there; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 18 March, 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 6 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried in Rentel Woods.

=WEST, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman, 197482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEST, ROBERT JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10382, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEST, WILFRED SCRIMSHAW=, L.-Corpl., No. 10886, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of Edward Scrimshaw West, of Yarwell, Peterborough, Entire Horse Proprietor, by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Robert Spiers, of Eye, Peterborough; b. Wood Newton, co. Northants, 23 Nov. 1894; educ. Yarwell; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted, 8 Aug. 1914; went to France, Oct. 1914; was promoted L.-Corpl. in Sept., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914, when the Coldstreams suffered heavily from concealed German machine-guns. He was a keen all-round sportsman; was a member of the choir at the Parish Church, and the Chaplain wrote saying what a help he had been to him in organising the open-air services.

=WEST, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7810), S.S. 103265, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WEST, WILLIAM FRANK=, Private, N. 823, 5th, attd. 1st, Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest and only surviving s. of Frank Albert West, of 111, Townsend Road, Southall, by his wife, Louisa Maria, dau. of Mathew Henry Leagas; b. Dalston, London, 17 March, 1890; educ. The Grocers’ Company School, Hackney Downs, N.E. and Islington Day Training College; was Assistant Master at St. Clement’s Church of England School, Notting Hill, but joined the London Rifle Brigade after the outbreak of war, 9 Sept. 1914; went to France with the 1st draft to join the 1st battn. 25 Jan. 1915, and died at Netley Hospital, Southampton, 12 May, 1915, after undergoing three serious operations, one being the amputation of his leg, rendered necessary by wounds received in action at the Battle of St. Julien, 25 April, 1915; unm. He was a keen athlete, fond of all games and sports; he held three silver medals for football, and the bronze Medallion and certificate for life saving.

=WEST, WILLIAM HENRY=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class, 199111, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FAZAKERLEY-WESTBY, GILBERT BASIL JOCELYN=, Capt., 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Capt. Jocelyn Tate Fazakerley-Westby, of Mowbreck Hall, Kirkham, and Whitehall, Great Eccleston, late Royal Scots Greys and Lancashire Hussars, D.L., J.P., Lancashire, by his wife, Beatrice, 3rd dau. of Thomas Barlow Jarvis, of Swinnerton Park, Lancashire, and Croft Lodge, near Ambleside, Westmoreland; b. Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, London, W., 27 April, 1881; was christened in Aug. 1881, at the Roman Catholic Church, The Willows, Kirkham, Lancashire, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Liverpool; educ. St. Charles’ Roman Catholic College; entered the Queen Victoria’s Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 23 July, 1911; and promoted Lieut. 23 July, 1913, and Capt. Dec. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 4 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action during the fighting at Hill 60 on the night of 20–21 April, 1915, on which occasion Queen Victoria’s Rifles brilliantly distinguished themselves; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “I cannot speak too highly of your son; all ranks loved and respected him. His fortitude and forbearance during that terrible week was an example to the whole regt. and never to be forgotten.” He was a good all-round sportsman, a dead shot with the pistol, and the holder of five silver cups and seven other silver articles as prizes for shooting and rowing, etc.

=WESTERN, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 230364, Devonport, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WESTLAKE, JOHN LUKE=, Corpl., No. 3235, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Treliving Westlake, of 3, Woburn Terrace, Tavistock, retired Prison official, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Luke Knight, of Gunnislake; b. Princetown, co. Devon, 11 Feb. 1883; educ. Princetown Public School and Tavistock Grammar School; was apprenticed to the ironmongery business on leaving there, and was subsequently in the employ of Messrs. Helliwell, Ltd., of Dudley, as a Traveller; gave up this position and joined the 2nd London Scottish on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was promoted to the rank of Sergt. in Dec. following, but in Aug. 1915, when volunteers for the 1st Battn. were called for, he offered himself, sacrificing his rank as sergt., and, crossing over to Rouen on the 18th of that month, joined the 1st Battn. as a Private. He took part in the Battle of Loos on 25 Sept., in which, though his company suffered severe losses, he was unwounded, and assisted in capturing and bringing in some prisoners. For his conduct on this occasion, he was restored to the rank of Corpl. He was killed in action on 13 Oct. 1915, while gallantly leading his men in an attack upon the German trenches near Loos, death being instantaneous; unm. His Coy. Commander, Capt. H. L. Seyer, wrote: “I find it difficult to tell you in what high regard Corpl. Westlake was held. I looked upon him as one of my coming men, a worthy successor of many fine non-commissioned officers who have left me to take commissions in this and other regts. His conduct at our severe engagement on 25 Sept. was beyond all praise, and his untimely end whilst leading his men on 13 Oct. is an enormous loss to me, his coy. and the whole battn. Your son was quite close to me when he fell, and I can vouch that he was killed quite instantaneously. It is such men as Corpl. Westlake who add lustre to the fame of the British Army and more particularly to the regt. to which they belong.”

=WESTMACOTT, ERIC WALTER POYNTZ=, Lieut., Royal Navy, H.M.S. Arethusa, yr. s. of Edgell Edward Westmacott, of Udney Place, Teddington, by his wife, Marian Charlotte Isabel, dau. of Innes Colin Munro, of Poyntzfield, late Capt. His Majesty’s 12th Regt.; b. Teddington, co. Middlesex, 23 June, 1887; educ. J. Williams-White’s School for the Navy, Bognor, and H.M.S. Britannia; became Midshipman, 30 Jan. 1904; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 March, 1907, and Lieut. 30 Jan. 1909, went to India in H.M.S. Argyll, one of the cruisers which escorted the King Emperor on the occasion of his visit to India after his Coronation; served as signal Lieut. to Commodore R. Y. Tyrwhitt, C.B., of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla, on the outbreak of war, and accompanied him when he transferred his flag to the Arethusa two days before the Battle off the Bight of Heligoland, 28 Aug. 1914, in which engagement he was killed. Commodore Tyrwhitt in his Despatch, said: “Lieut. Eric W. P. Westmacott (Signal Officer) was killed at my side during this action. I cannot refrain from adding that he carried out his duties calmly and collectedly, and was of the greatest assistance to me.” And he wrote to Mrs. Westmacott: “I can’t tell you how sorry I am and how splendid he was. He was standing next me on the bridge, and was so jolly and cheerful under a terrific fire. He had just said, ‘By Jove, they have got our range,’ which was true as we were in a regular inferno at the time, when he was hit ... his death being instantaneous.” Capt. Cecil Lambert, Fourth Sea Lord, wrote: “By the death of your husband the Service has lost a very gallant and valuable officer, and I have lost a personal friend, for whom I had a sincere admiration and affection.” Lieut. Westmacott was a fine hockey player, and in three successive years represented the Navy in their annual match with the Army. He m. at St. Andrew’s Church, Heybridge, Essex, 6 Aug. 1912, Dorothy, eldest dau. of Edmund Ernest Bentall, of The Towers, Heybridge, and had a son, Innes Bentall, b. 20 Sept. 1913. His brother, Richard Innes Edgell Westmacott, Sergt. 1st Scots Guards, was killed in action in France, 25 Jan. 1915.

=WESTMACOTT, SPENCER RUSCOMBE=, Lieut., Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 4th s. of the Rev. Walter Westmacott, Vicar of Probus and Hon. Canon of Truro, by his wife, Helen Maria Maud, dau. of John Austin Madeley, of Wood Hall, Salop, J.P.; b. 29 Jan. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leinsters, 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1912; seconded for “Grass Farm” work in India, 5 Nov. 1913, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm. His five brothers are (1916) or have been on active service. 2nd Lieut. John L. Westmacott, R.E., wounded in head, lost an eye in France, April, 1915; 2nd Lieut. Horatio Westmacott, R.N., H.M.S. Agincourt; 2nd Lieut. Rupert W. Westmacott, enlisted in New Zealand Auckland Contingent, got his commission in Gallipoli, where he lost his left leg. 2nd Lieut. Peter G. Westmacott, joined 4th D.C.L.I., and afterwards exchanged into 31st Punjabis; 2nd Lieut. Wilfred A. Westmacott, 9th West Yorks, invalided home from Gallipoli with enteric, has returned to duty.

=WESTON, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3928), 212186, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WESTON, GEORGE EDWARD=, Sergt.-Major, No. 851, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Samuel Weston, of 3, East Street, Oadby, Leicestershire, Bricklayer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Folwell; b. Wigston, co. Leicester, 15 March, 1873; educ. Evington School, co. Leicester; enlisted 2nd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. June 1889, and served 21 years with the Colours, rising to the rank of Sergt.; went to Australia, Aug. 1910, where he was working on Sheep Farm; volunteered on the outbreak of War in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, being appointed Sergt.-Major; left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 10 May, 1915 following. During the period he was in the West Yorks. he served in Ireland, China, India and South Africa, altogether serving 21 years, finishing with a life pension.

=WESTON, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 8/1103, 14th Otago Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Weston, Carpenter; b. Wellington, New Zealand, 6 April, 1894; educ. there, was connected with the Wellington Boys’ Institute; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, was for some time in the 5th Wellington Battn., but was later transferred to the 14th Otago Infantry; served in Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915; unm.

=WESTWOOD, ALEXANDER CLEGHORN=, Lieut., 1/7th (Fife) Battn. The Black Watch, Royal Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of Alexander Westwood, of Linley, Cupar, J.P., Bookseller and Publisher, by his wife, Helen Ramsay, dau. of Alexander Cleghorn; b. Cupar, 15 May, 1894; educ. Bell-Baxter School, Cupar, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and was associated with his father in business. At college he was an enthusiastic member of the Cadet Corps, and joined the Cupar Coy. of the 7th Battn. Black Watch in May, 1911. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. Oct. 1914. During the whole of his three years service in the ranks he was a member of the machine-gun section, and in May 1915, Lieut. Westwood was appointed machine-gun officer of his battn. He was killed in action by shell fire, while holding trenches captured from the Germans at Festubert, 16 June, 1915; unm. Lieut.-Col. H. M. Allen, D.S.O., Officer Commanding the 1/7th Black Watch, wrote to his father: “On my own behalf I should like to testify to the extremely high opinion in which your son was held by his brother officers and by the men. He had rendered invaluable service as machine-gun officer, and, both as an officer and a comrade, his loss will be severely felt by us all. It will be some consolation to you to know that his death was instantaneous and painless, and that he met it with the greatest courage, nobly doing his duty in a manner worthy of the best traditions of the British Army.” Lieut. Westwood was a keen sportsman, and took part in the matches of the local hockey club whenever business allowed him, playing in not a few Association fixtures. While training at Kinghorn he played Rugby for the garrison as well as Soccer for E Coy. He was a keen motor-cyclist; while another hobby was that of a poultry farmer, an interest which led him to act for some time as Joint Secretary of the Cupar Ornithological Society.

=WESTWOOD, JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12264, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WETTON, HENRY=, Band-Sergt., No. 9133, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of the late Thomas Allen Wetton; b. Hounslow, co. Middlesex, 3 April, 1889; educ. Spring Grove, Isleworth; enlisted in the 2nd Middlesex, 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March. 1915; unm.

=WHARTON, HAROLD=, Private, No. 9696, St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, R.N.R., s. of Ernest Wharton, of 4, Springfield Terrace, Crumlin, Dublin, Ordnance Surveyor, by his wife, Susannah, dau. of Richard Pughe; b. Llanfyllin, co. Montgomery, 23 Sept. 1894; educ. Holy Trinity (Nat. School), Cork; was Lieut. in the 15th Coy. Boys’ Brigade, Dublin, and joined the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade in Oct. 1913. On the 5th Oct. 1914 he was appointed to H.M. hospital ship Munich (sailing between Southampton and Calais) as Sick Bay Attendant. He was transferred to H.M.S. Bayano on 28 Dec. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed, 11 March, 1915.

=WHARTON, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13459 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHATLEY=, FRANK, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142041 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHATLEY, SIDNEY JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 8919, 1st Coy. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of George Robert Whatley, Attendant Norfolk County Asylum, Thorpe, Norwich, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late Robart Carver, Yelverton, Norfolk; b. Postwick, Norwich, 6 Nov. 1892; educ. Thorpe St. Andrew’s School there; enlisted at Norwich, 13 June, 1910, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, being shot through the head; unm.

=WHEAT, GEORGE ALFRED=, Signalman, 239001, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHEATLEY, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4402), S.S. 103386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHEELER, CLIFFORD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 982), 186074, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHEELER, LLOYD CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9442 (R.F.R., I.C. 81), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHEELER, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Gunner, R.M.A., 8118 (R.F.R., I.C. 29), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHEELER, WILLIAM JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 8638, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William John Wheeler, by his wife, Maria; b. Kingston-on-Thames, 12 July, 1880; educ. Public School there; was a House Decorator; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 7 Oct. 1903; served at Glencorse and in India; went to France, 26 Aug., and was killed in action at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; being buried there. He m. at Kingston, 19 Oct. 1908, Charlotte Madge (18, Royal Oak Road, Woking), 2nd dau. of Arthur Hillier; s.p.

=WHELAN, BERNARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9861), S.S. 107270, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHENNELL, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7812), S.S. 103273, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHETLOR, ARTHUR CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6180), 214591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHICHELLO, RICHARD WILLIAM=, Sergt., R.M.A. 7928, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHICHER, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1521), 206022, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHILES, SIDNEY HERBERT=, Rifleman, No. 1886, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Herbert Whiles, of 70, Northcote Road, Walthamstow, late Private, No. 6824, Army Service Corps (served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was discharged April 1916, owing to injury to eye), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steuber; b. Leytonstone, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Forest Road Council School, Walthamstow, and Walthamstow Higher Elementary School, at both of which he gained prizes for mathematics, and also showed proficiency in Art and Divinity; became a clerk in the National Amalgamated Insurance Society; joined the Rangers, Jan. 1914, and volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war; went to France with the first draft for his battn. which formed part of the 11th Brigade (4th Division), and was killed in action near the village of Fortuin during the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April; unm. Buried at Fortuin. His Commander wrote: That he was a gallant soldier throughout and that he personally regretted his loss, as he had frequently accompanied the officer on billet finding expeditions, in which his knowledge of French enabled him to act as interpreter. A brass plate to his memory was placed in the church of St. Michael and All Angels, Walthamstow (where he was a chorister for eight years), by his old comrades.

=WHISKIN, ERNEST CHARLES=, Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Charles Frederick Whiskin, by his wife, Susanna Agnes; b. Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 13 May, 1870, and educated there. He joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in 1892, and in 1908, when the Territorial Force was formed, he continued his service in the same regt. Holding an important position at Messrs. Jas. Shoolbred & Co., Ltd., he was for many years a Sergt. in the firm’s Company, which rank he held when the Battn. left for France on 1 Nov. 1914. His was the first company to take over a fire trench on the 14th of that month, when they relieved B Coy. of the East Yorkshires at Burnt-out Farm, near Gris Pot, he being at the time No. 1 Platoon Sergt. He was promoted to Coy.-Quartermaster-Sergt. 26 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Houplines, Flanders, 3 May following. C.Q.M.S. Whiskin had the Volunteer Long Service medal, and received mention by his Colonel for good service in France; he was a good shot, and was held in high esteem by his officers, brother N.C.Os. and men. He m. at St. Pancras, Marylebone Road, London, 6 Sept. 1902, Annie Ethel (Bancroft, Powys Lane, Palmer’s Green, N.), dau. of Henry Barham, of Hitchin, and had two daughters: Agnes Nora, b. 19 July, 1903; and Winifred Ethel, b. 30 May, 1906.

=WHITAKER, CHARLES=, A.B., 239469, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITAKER, HAROLD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of Arthur Whitaker, of 52, Cadogan Square, S.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of Charles Wilkin; b. London, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. Westgate-on-Sea (Mr. E. M. Hawtrey), Eton (Mr. E. Impey’s House), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (from which he passed out first of the Infantry candidates of his term in 1904); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Rifle Brigade, 4 June, 1904, and promoted Lieut. 15 Sept. 1907, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1913; served in Egypt, the Sudan and India, was Assistant Provost Marshal of the Delhi Durbar, 1911 (medal); returned to England with his regt. in Oct. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. following, and was killed in action near Fauquissart on the night of 1–2 Dec. 1914, when, after visiting his sentries he had gone forward alone about 1.30 a.m. to reconnoitre, it having been surmised that fresh German troops had taken up positions in front of our line of trenches. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an ardent explorer and keen big game shot. Besides expeditions on the White Nile, in Kashmir and Mesopotamia, he returned to India in 1908 through Russia, Central Asia and Turkestan, the latter part of this journey he made with native following only, which no English traveller had done before crossing 23 passes over 10,000 feet high, the highest being the Karakorum, 18,317 feet above sea level. He m. at Grayshott, co. Hants, 27 April, 1910, Madeleine Eléonore, dau. of David de Pury, of Grayshott and Neuchatel, Switzerland, and had two children: John de Pury, b. 10 Oct. 1911; and Lorraine Marie, b. 30 July, 1914. It is feared that his younger brother, Lieut. Trevor Whitaker, R.N., lost his life on active service in the North Sea in Jan. 1915. A still younger brother, Capt. and Adjutant Raymond Whitaker, Rifle Brigade, is now (1916) on active service, attd. to the R.F.C., and his youngest brother, L.-Corpl Geoffrey Whitaker, is in the Eton College O.T.C.

=WHITBY, CHARLES BARRY DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 26022, 14th Battn. (1st Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Charles Joseph Whitby, of 9, The Paragon, Bath, M.D. Cantab., by his wife, Clare, dau. of Joseph Hayden; b. Cambridge, 13 Nov. 1884; educ. Reading School, went to Canada about 1904, residing first in Montreal, later in Emerson and other places, then returning to Montreal, where at the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he held a position on the Staff of the “Gazette.” He at once enlisted and went into training at Valcartier, came to England with the first Canadian Contingent, and competed his training on Salisbury Plain. He crossed to Flanders with his Division early in 1915, and took part in the action at Neuve Chapelle. On 22 April, 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres was opened by the discharge of poison gas against the Turcos, who were driven back leaving the Canadian left exposed. On the morning of the 24th the 14th Battn., shelled out of a shallow dug-out they had prepared over night, in a field near St. Julien, retreated uphill under very heavy fire. Near the summit Private Whitby was hit and fell in a ditch, joking as he fell. He was never seen again by his comrades, but was officially reported “wounded and missing.” Later a report by the enemy stated that he had been picked up by them, had died on May 8 or 9, and was buried on Hill 20 (Kersselaare), not far from where he fell. In letters received from his comrades he was described as “a splendid soldier, always among the first to offer himself for any dangerous duty.” While at the front Private Whitby contributed several descriptive articles on life in the trenches to the “Montreal Gazette.”

=WHITCHURCH, LESLIE SEDGWICK=, Capt., 21st Prince Albert Victor’s Own Punjab Cavalry (Frontier Force), Indian Army, attd. 5th Dragoon Guards, 2nd s. of the late Rev. Walter Beaumont Gurney Whitchurch, Rector of Spixworth, Norfolk, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth (Old Catton, Norfolk), dau. of (--) Sedgwick; b. Lockeridge House, co. Wilts, 6 April, 1880; educ. Marlborough and Sandhurst, where he took the Queen’s Gold Medal for Military Proficiency and the Sword of Honour, with six other prizes, and on passing out, broke the College “record” and was given six months seniority; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, unattd., 19 July, 1899; entered Indian Staff College, 1 Oct. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1901; and appointed Squadron Officer in 21st Cavalry, 29 May, 1902, and became Capt., 19 July, 1908; served on the N.W. Frontier of India, Waziristan, 1901–2 (medal with clasp), and also took part in the operations against the Darwesh Khel Waziris, 1902; was home on leave when the European War broke out, and at once applied to be attd. to a British Regt.; trained reserves for the 9th Lancers at Tidworth for a short time; was sent to France to join 5th Dragoons, 10th Squadron, and was killed in action at Messines on 31 Oct. following, during the First Battle of Ypres; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was a most gallant and capable officer, and I was most fortunate to have had him with me. He was killed when most gallantly holding on to an advanced post which he had occupied with a few men on the edge of the town, when the enemy made a very determined attack on the town we were holding. He held on there though the enemy in force were only a few yards away from him. He was quite dead when I reached him. I grieve to have to tell you we were unable to bring him back. All I can say is that it was not possible. I reported especially upon his conduct as having been most gallant.”

=WHITCOMBE, DOUGLAS JAMES AUBREY=, Private, No. 6/176, Canterbury Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Frederick Whitcombe, of 24, Buckley’s Road, Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, by his wife, Alice, grand. dau. of Lieut.-Col. Mein, C.B., of Dumfries; and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield, Gloucester; b. in New Zealand, May, 1893; volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action in Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

=WHITCOMBE, GERALD AUBREY=, Trooper, No. 13/750, Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force; 2nd s. of George Whitcombe, of Kawhia, New Zealand; by his wife Margaret Janet, dau. of Albert West Sedcat, and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield, Gloucester; b. New Zealand, Oct. 1890, volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 Aug. 1915; unm.

=WHITCOMBE, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 15193, Royal Canadian Dragoons, only s. of Charles Henry Whitcombe, of Sunnyside, Crudwell, Malmesbury, F.R.C.S., by his wife, May, dau. of Richard Billiald, of Nottingham, and grandson of John Aubrey Whitcombe, of Hillfield, Gloucester; b. Westerham, co. Kent, 18 May, 1889; educ. the New School, Halifax, co. York, and the Royal Latin School, co. Bucks; was for two years in the Eastern Telegraph Co., but went to Canada in 1907 and took up farming at Pilot Mound, Manitoba. On the outbreak of the European War he joined the Fort Garry Horse, Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France in June, 1915, when he was attached to the Royal Canadian Dragoons; and died near Ploegsteert, 1 July, 1915, of wounds received in action same day; unm. He was buried in the Maple Leaf Military Cemetery, Romarin, near Nieppe, Belgium.

=WHITE, ALFRED=, Leading Seaman, 200784 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHITE, ALFRED WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 106882, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WHITE, BENJAMIN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11762, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 766), 280315, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, ERNEST=, Signal Boy, J. 24674, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, FREDERICK=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 297650, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, GEORGE EDWARD=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9578), 203769, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, GILBERT VICTOR=, Private, No. 871, The Honourable Artillery Company, yr. s. of William Baglin White, of High View, Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, Kent; b. Wood Green, co. Middlesex, 11 Jan. 1893; educ. Quernmore School and Clifton College; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and joined the H.A.C. 4 Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept.; was in the trenches from Nov. to Jan., and died at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 2 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres, on 6 Jan. He was shot by a German sniper while helping to bring in a wounded comrade; unm.

=WHITE, HARRY ARTHUR ALBERT=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 11354, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHITE, JAMES ERNEST=, Private, No. 287, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of James White, of 2, Woodside Road, Wood Green, N., by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Josiah Briscoe; b. London, N., 30 Sept. 1885; educ. Higher Grade School, Wood Green, N., and Birkbeck College; was a Clerk in the Oceana Land Co., Ltd.; joined the London Rifle Brigade on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 13 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Zillebeke, 27 April, 1915; unm. He was buried at Fortuin. White took a prominent part in many branches of Church work, was an enthusiastic ’cellist, and led a small orchestra.

=WHITE, LESLIE SPENSER=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., eldest s. of Frank Faulder White, of Charlton Road, Blackheath, F.R.C.S. Eng., by his wife, Eva Dalgairns, dau. of the late Major J. D. Travers; b. Coventry, 21 Sept. 1891; educ. King Henry VIII’s School there, and Framlingham College; joined the Artists Rifles immediately on the declaration of war, 5 Aug. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal West Kent Regt., 27 Jan. 1915; went to France in Oct. 1914; served as temp. 2nd Lieut. with the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers in the trenches and was accidentally killed near Ypres, 15 March, 1915, by a bomb explosion, while on active service; unm. Buried there.

=WHITE, LLOYD ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9380, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHITE, LYNTON WOOLMER=, Lieut., 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, elder s. of Woolmer Rudolph Donati White, of Salle Park, co. Norfolk, and Southleigh Park, co. Hants, J.P., High Sheriff, co. Norfolk (1914), by his wife, Edith Wittcomb, yr. dau. of George Dawes Monck, of Hilsea, co. Hants.; b. Southsea, 5 May, 1886; educ. Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, gazetted 2nd Lieut. 7 May, 1905, and promoted Lieut. 25 March, 1910. Being home on leave when the war broke out, he was attached to the Queen’s Bays; was severely wounded in action at the Battle of Nery, 1 Sept. 1914, during the retreat from Mons and died at the Chateau de Baron, three days later. He was buried at first in the Chateau grounds and afterwards removed to the Churchyard. He m. at St. Mary Abbott’s, Kensington, 29 June, 1911, Dorothea, only dau. of W. R. Haughton, of Calcutta, V.D., M.I.C.E., formerly Engineer-in-Chief Eastern Bengal State Railway; s.p.

=WHITE, ROBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 9733, 3rd Battn. (Toronto Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert White, Master Roscrea (Ireland) Union, by his wife, Elizabeth (44, Dingwall Avenue, Toronto, Canada), dau. of William Proctor, of Glashare, co. Kilkenny; b. Roscrea, co. Tipperary, 8 July, 1895; educ. National School there; went to Canada in May, 1914, and was a Sales Clerk; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Toronto, about 20 Aug. 1914; left Valcartier for England with the first contingent 9 Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15; went to France early in Feb. and was killed in action “in the field between St. Julien and St. Jean,” 23 April, 1915, being shot through the head and killed instantly.

=WHITE, WALTER EDWIN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7921, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHITE, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Blacksmith’s Mate, M. 5496, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, WILLIAM CLEMENT=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5261), 181422, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITE, WILLIAM DARCY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19848, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WHITEFORD, PETER=, Sergt., No. 6965, 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 4th s. of Andrew Whiteford, of Cramond, by his wife, Hannah Lawrie, dau. of James Black, of Easter Drylaw, Cramond; b. Davidson’s Mains, Cramond, 15 May, 1886; educ. Davidson’s Mains Public School; enlisted in the Cameron Highlanders at Edinburgh in 1904, and after a few months in Dublin served three years in South Africa, two years in China, and two years in India, returning to England in Jan. 1912. He obtained his discharge 1 June that year, and became a gardener to Mr. W. R. Reid at Lauriston Castle. When war broke out he rejoined at Inverness, and after training recruits there for four months, was promoted Sergt., and went to France early in Dec. He was killed while leading his platoon into action at La Bassée 25 Jan. 1915; unm.

=WHITEHEAD, ALFRED GEORGE=, Signal Boy, J. 23867, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WHITEHEAD, CHARLES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 9373, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WHITEHEAD, HARRY HARDING=, Private, No. 3/927, R.N.V.R. Hawke Battn. 1st R.N. Brigade, R.N. Division, 2nd s. of James Dove Whitehead, of Middleton Hall, near Pickering, Yorks, J.P., North Riding, by his wife, Jane, 2nd dau. of the late Samuel Harding Loy, J.P., Keldead, Pickering; b. Scarborough, 26 March, 1891; educ. Repton School; qualified as an Engineer, and joined a Flying School for the Naval Flying Corps, joining the R.N.V.R. after the outbreak of war, in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, 29 June, 1915; unm. His only brother, Capt. James Loy Whitehead, is now (1916) on active service.

=WHITEHEAD, HENRY MONTAGUE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 2nd, Battn. East Surrey Regt., 2nd s. of Henry Hammond Whitehead, of Boston Road, Brentford, by his wife, Edith Miriam, dau. of John Cove, of Northampton; b. Brentford, co. Middlesex, 16 Nov. 1890; educ. Tonbridge School, where he was in the O.T.C.; was an Architect; joined the Artists Rifles in 1908; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Surreys, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France Jan. 1915; attd. to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, joining the 2nd Battn. East Surreys in March, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 14 April, 1915; unm. Buried there.

=WHITEHEAD, JAMES SCULLARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2390), 161600, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHITEHURST, CHARLEY=, Private, No. 13205, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John William Whitehurst, of 4, Grove Lane, Smethwick; b. Birmingham; educ. Dudley Road and City Road Schools; was employed in the Ebbw Vale Steel Works; enlisted in the Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 Jan. 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. He m. at St. Matthew’s Church, Smethwick, 29 Sept. 1907, Emma (2, Fering Street, Corporation Road, Newport, co. Monmouth), dau. of Robert (and Emma) Bell, and had a dau., Elsie Agnes, b. 24 June, 1913.

=WHITEHURST, HAROLD=, Private, No. 1544, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of William Whitehurst, of 31, Cove Street, Beverley Road, Hull; b. Hull, 27 Feb. 1897; educ. Trinity House School, Hull; after leaving school was apprenticed to Messrs. Wright & Bacon, Shipowners; joined 1st Highland L.I., 6 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 11 and 18 March, 1915; unm. Two of his brothers are serving in the Army: George William Whitehurst in the N.E.R. Fusiliers (Pioneers), and Alfred Whitehurst in the 2nd Northumbrian R.F.A.

=WHITELAW, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 9040, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., s. of Alexander Whitelaw, Foreman Carpenter with Messrs. Currie & Co., of Leith, Ship Owners, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Adam Stenhouse, of Leith, b. Leith, 22 Aug. 1880; educ. Couper Street School there; enlisted in 1902, served for three years with the Colours and nine years in the Reserve, and on mobilization rejoined his regt. 17 Aug. 1914. He was shot through the head by a German sniper while helping to repair the trenches at Houplines, 30 Jan. 1915, and was buried in the military cemetery there. He m. at Leith, 9 July, 1908, Jane Jackson (66, Coburg Street, Leith), dau. of Allan McCallum, and had two sons and a dau.: Alexander, b. 6 Sept. 1909; Allan McCallum, b. 14 March, 1913, and Susan Webster, b. 9 Dec. 1910.

=WHITEWAY, THOMAS=, Petty Officer, 208492, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WHITFIELD, THOMAS NICHOLAS=, E.R.A., 3rd Class, M. 1752, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=WHITING, CHARLES=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 186224, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WHITING, FREDERICK JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 1050, 1/6th (Cyclist) Battn. The Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of John Whiting, of 73, Surrey Road, Ipswich, by his wife, Margaret; b. Westerfield, Ipswich, 10 Jan. 1893; educ. Council School and Boys’ British School there; joined the Suffolk Cyclists, 20 March, 1912, and died in the Military Hospital, Saxmundham, 12 May, 1915, from injuries received through an armoured car, while cycling out with his company, near Saxmundham; unm.

=WHITTLE, GEORGE THOMAS=, Petty Officer, 237335, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHITTLE, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 290939 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHYBROW, THOMAS JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9533), 106899, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WHYTE, CHARLES LEONARD LE BARON=, Chief Petty Officer, 147436, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WHYTE, DAVID STEWART=, Engine Room Artificer, No. Ch. 270811, R.N., only s. of the late John Stewart Whyte, of Stonehaven, Edinburgh, and 101, Stephen’s Road, Tunbridge Wells, Schoolmaster (died 23 March, 1915), by his wife Margaret (died 5 Sept. 1911), dau. of the late James Sutherland, Leith, N.L.S.; b. Stonehaven, co. Kincardine, 10 Nov. 1878; educ. Tewel Public School there, and Gordon’s College, Aberdeen; was 2nd Engineer in the Merchant Service; joined the Navy Nov. 1902, and was lost on H.M.S. Good Hope, 1 Nov. 1914, when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili. He m. at St. Simon’s Church, Southsea, 1 Aug. 1908, Emmeline Annie (31, Wisborough Road, Southsea), dau. of the late David Williams, of Southsea, and had two children: Merry Sutherland, b. 28 Nov. 1909, and Lena, b. 1 Sept. 1913.

=WICKENDEN, HARRY CHARLES=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./6612, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WICKINS, VERNON JOHN=, Private, No. 2086, 15th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late Vernon Evan Wickins, Engineer (who died shortly after the outbreak of war), by his wife, Mary (Cambria, 32, Wellington Street, North Hobart, Tasmania), dau. of John McGinnes, of Edinburgh; b. Hobart, 30 Aug. 1886; educ. State School there; joined when young the Volunteer Force and for five and a half years was a member of the Derwent Infantry Regt., in which he was promoted Sergt., 27 May, 1911. He was for some years employed in the Government Railways Service at Launceston, and while there became an active member of the Hobart Launceston Rifle Club, but on the illness of his father resigned his position to return home to Hobart so as to be a help to his mother and the other members of the family. On his return to Hobart he joined the A.N.A. Rifle Club and was on the roll as an active member when war broke out. He volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 15th Battn., 6 Feb. 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 Aug. 1915. Capt. L. Simpson, A.N.A. Rifle Club, wrote: “Vernon Wickins endeared himself to all his club mates and to all with whom he came in touch by his quiet, kindly and unassuming manner, and no greater testimony can be given of his love for country and fellow mortals than that he laid down his life for them.” He m. at Launceston, Tasmania, 3 April, 1915, Hilda, dau. of (--) Collins.

=WICKS, JAMES=, Private, No. 9532, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of George Wicks, of 22, Parkfield Road, Hollington, near Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 Oct. 1914.

=WIDGER, JAMES SAUNDERS=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345559, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WIGG, ARTHUR HARRY=, Private, No. 2685, 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Company, yr. s. of the late Harry Owen Wigg, of Ealing, W., formerly of West Derby, Liverpool, Draper’s Buyer, by his wife, Mary Walmsley (25, Gordon Road, Ealing, W.), dau. of the late Thomas Fletcher, of Newsham Park, Liverpool; b. West Derby, Liverpool, 16 Oct. 1890; educ. Elstow School (formerly called Bedford County School), Bedford; was in the service of Messrs. Dalton & Young, Fenchurch Street, E.C.; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war and joined the H.A.C. in Nov. 1914; left for France 26 April, 1915, as one of a draft to the 1st Battn.; and was killed in action at Hooge, 16 June following. Early on the morning of the 16th the British had attacked with some success south of Hooge, capturing 1,000 yards of German front trenches and part of their second line. Towards night the troops holding the most advanced of the captured trenches were obliged to fall back, and volunteers were called to go to their support. Private Wigg was one of those who volunteered, and while advancing with a party composed of men from various units under Major G. N. Crosfield, 4th South Lancashires, was hit in the head by a piece of high explosive shell and killed instantaneously. He was buried by the side of a path leading to the Sunken Road between Hooge and Potijze; unm. He was a very keen sportsman, being vice-captain of the Old Elstonian Hockey Club and a member of the Ealing Cricket Club, upon the committee of which he served.

=WIGG, EDWARD CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1497), 208328, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WIGHTMAN, FRANCIS CHARLES=, Private, No. 00189, 1st Imperial Light Horse, elder s. of the late John Wightman, of Edinburgh, Master Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, by his wife, Janet (28, Mardale Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of James McFarlane; b. Edinburgh, 6 April, 1880; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College there; joined the Imperial Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) at the time of the South African War; took part in the operations there, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps; returned to South Africa, 1902, and was for a time at the Remount Camp at Mooi River, afterwards settling in Johannesburg, where he held a position in one of the Rand Mines, Cattine Modder, Brakham. On the outbreak of the European War he made preparations to return to Britain, but on the rebellion in South Africa he joined the 1st Imperial Light Horse, and was killed in action at Rooidam, 25 Nov. 1914, during a fight with Kemp’s force, which lasted all day; unm. He was buried there. He was a keen footballer and played for Daniel Stewart’s College F.P. 1st team; a good horseman and a good shot.

=WIGHTON, JAMES ALBERT FORGAN=, Leading Carpenter and Diver, R.N., No. 346697, 2nd s. of the late James Brown Wighton, Jute Commission Agent, Calcutta, by his wife, Catherine (28, Redbourne Street, Boulevard, Hull), dau. of James Albert Forgan, of Hull, Engineer; b. Barrow-in-Furness, 19 Oct. 1886; educ. Constable Street Council School, Hull; joined the Navy in 1904; served on H.M.S. Assistance; went to India on H.M.S. Renown, with King George (then Prince of Wales); served on H.M.S. Glasgow, on her first Commission, and on H.M.S. Fearless; transferred to the Good Hope on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. and was lost when that ship was sunk in the action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. His brother-in-law, Joseph Williams, was lost on the Cressy (see his notice).

=WIGMORE, JAMES EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12112, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILCOX, PERCY JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., 10304 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 929), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILDE, REGINALD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5463 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILDMAN, HERBERT ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 2970, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Wildman, of 1, Stanhope Road, North Finchley, by his wife, Florence May, dau. of Joseph Evans; b. Pulloxhill, co. Bedford, 30 May, 1894; educ. Christ Church School, Finchley, N.; was a Postman at Whetstone; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, and joined the Post Office Rifles, 15 Sept. 1914; went to France 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 25 May, 1915, after being reported missing since 22 May. Buried at Festubert; unm.

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

=WILGRESS, GEORGE KESTEVEN KORTRIGHT=, Lieut., 21st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Arthur Trollope Wilgress, King’s Printer for Ontario, formerly Publisher and Editor of the Brockville Times, Brockville, Ontario, by his wife, Meta Carleton, dau. of the late George Acheson, of Tandragee, Ireland; b. Clarksburg, P. Ontario, Canada, 25 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Albans School, Brockville (Headmaster, Rev. F. G. Orchard, formerly of Bromsgrove, England); served on the Canadian Government Geodetic Survey in Western Canada, and also with the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey of their system north of Lake Superior; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and was gazetted Lieut. 15 Sept. 1914; came over with the second Canadian contingent in May, 1915; went to France in Sept. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 27 Nov. 1915; unm. Buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, near Ypres. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 15 June, 1916] by Sir Douglas Haig, for gallant and distinguished conduct in rescuing wounded under heavy rifle fire at short range, and his commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. (now Brig.-Gen.) W. St. Pierre Hughes, wrote: “George’s death was a very severe blow to the whole Battn. There was not an officer, non-com. or man in the whole lot who did not respect, love and admire him. He was kindness itself, thoughtful of others to an extreme degree, and always prompt, careful, thorough and in all ways efficient. He was a soldier and a gentleman always. His heroic acts, performed only two hours before he was killed, have stamped him as one of the few. He knew no fear and feared no foe. He loved his men and they adored him.” At St. Albans School he was head boy and captain of the school, and also of the football team, and exercised a very strong influence for good by reason of his outstanding character.

=WILKENS, HENRY EDWARD=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 608), 144292, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILKINS, ALFRED=, Private, No. 730, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action at Gallipoli, 3 May, 1915.

=WILKINS, ARTHUR JOHN=, Sergt., No. 6826, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of Cornelius Wilkins, of Strathmore, Alberta, Canada; enlisted 27 June, 1906; became L.-Corpl. 10 Sept. 1908; Corporal 17 Aug. 1912; L.-Sergt. 21 Jan. 1913, and Sergt. 22 Oct. 1914; served in Egypt 11 Oct. 1909 to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 22 Oct. 1914; killed in action at Cuinchy, 2 Feb. 1915; unm.

=WILKINS, BERT=, Sergt., No. S/9851, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, &c.; killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=WILKINS, FREDERICK JOHN=, Private, No. 6787, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frederick James Wilkins, of Towtree, Burghill, co. Hereford, Farmer and Licensed Victualler, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of Robert (and Mary) Sutton; b. Malvern, 22 Jan. 1882; educ. County Council School, Burghill; was a Chimneystack Builder; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 30 May, 1906; served in Egypt 31 Oct. 1907 to 23 March, 1911, and obtained his discharge in 1913; rejoined his old regt. on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, and subsequent engagements, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 7 Feb. 1915, being shot through the head by a sniper while effecting the rescue of a wounded comrade on the morning after his coy. had cleared the Brickfields of the Germans at the point of the bayonet; unm. He was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery.

=WILKINS, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., 9557 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1512), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILKINS, HARRY=, E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 152465, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILKINS, HENRY JOHN=, Private, No. 8896, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Frederick Wilkins, of 8, Collingbourne Ducis, Marlborough, co. Wilts, Woodman, by his wife, Helen, eldest dau. of George Bulpits; b. Collingbourne, 5 June, 1890; educ. C.E. School there; was employed at the Army Ordnance Stores, Tidworth, enlisted in the Coldstreams, 25 Oct. 1910; obtained his discharge, and joined the Reserve in Oct. 1913, with an excellent character from his Company Officer; rejoined on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went straight to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force; was wounded 21 Oct. 1914, and was in hospital in France until Jan. following, when he returned to the firing line, and was killed in the trenches at Cuinchy, 16 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried near La Bassée.

=WILKINS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Private, No. 10723, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of George Wilkins, of 59, Waterloo Street, Leamington, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Hortin; b. Leamington, co. Warwick, 11 Sept. 1894; educ. St. Peter’s R.C. School there; was a Dairyman; joined the 7th Warwickshire Territorials about Jan. 1911; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 2 May, 1914; went to France 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

=WILKINSON, CHARLES=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 4170, 1st Battn., Northumberland Fusiliers, eldest s. of Charles Wilkinson, of Stonebridge Park, by his wife Maria, dau. of (--) Churchill; b. Stonebridge Park, Middlesex; educ. there; enlisted 13 April, 1894, and became L.-Corpl. 16 March, 1899; Corpl. 1 April, 1900; L.-Sergt. 26 Feb. 1902; Sergt. 1 April, 1902; Col.-Sergt. 26 Sept. 1911, and Coy. Sergt.-Major 29 Nov. 1913; served in Gibraltar, 3 Oct. 1896 to 16 Jan. 1898; with the Soudan Expedition, 17 Jan. to 2 Oct. 1898 (Queen’s medal, Khedeval medal); during the occupation of Crete, 3 Oct. 1898 to 17 April, 1899; in South Africa, 16 Sept. 1899 to 6 April, 1903; including the actions at Belmont and the Modder River and the subsequent operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal (Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); in the Mauritius, 7 April, 1903, to 8 Feb. 1906; in India, 9 Feb. 1906 to 11 March, 1907, and again 4 Sept. 1908 to 11 Nov. 1913; took part in the operations in the Mohmand Country, N.W. Frontier, 1908 (India General Service medal with clasp); present at Delhi Durbar, 1911 (medal); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders 15 Aug. to 14 Sept. 1914; including the retreat from Mons, and was killed at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. Major H. R. Sandilands wrote: “Sergt.-Major Wilkinson belonged to the finest type of British non-commissioned officers, keen, smart and straight as a die, he was loved and trusted equally by the officers and the men in the ranks of the regt. in whose welfare he was so keenly interested, and in whose service he died. ‘Wilkie’ will ever be held in affectionate remembrance by all who had the privilege of serving with him.” While in India Wilkinson was for nearly five years Officers’ Mess Sergt. and was afterwards Chief Warder in Military Prison at Mauritius. He had also the silver medal for good conduct and long service. He m. at Trinity Church, Karachi, India, 9 Dec. 1908, Maud (88, Yerbury Road, Tufnell Park, N.), dau. of Charles Mockridge, of Upper Holloway, and had three sons: Stanley Charles, b. Rawal Pindi, India, 3 Nov. 1909; Douglas Reginald, b. Mhow, Central India, 6 Oct. 1912; and Charles Frank St. George, b. (posthumous) 2 Nov. 1914.

=WILKINSON, FRANK LEE=, Gunner, No. 71456, 47th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of Francis Lee Wilkinson, of 8, Little Lockwood Street, Wincolmlee, Hull, Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Wakefield; b. Hull, 10 May, 1895; educ. Lincoln Street Board School there; joined R.F.A. 5 Dec. 1912; went to France 19 Aug. 1914, and died at No. 10 General Hospital, Rouen, 1 Oct. following, of wounds received on 20 Sept. at the Battle of the Marne; unm. The Rev. C. M. Chavasse, Chaplain to the Forces, wrote: “I write to tell you all I know of the last hours of your son, who died in hospital here on 1 Oct. His was rather a sad experience, but patiently borne. He had received a gunshot wound in the right arm during the Battle of the Marne on Sunday, 20 Sept., and arrived in hospital here on Thursday, 24 Sept. He was wonderfully good and patient and brave, and lay very quietly in the corner bed of the hospital tent. There was always a smile from him whenever I came to see him, and I do not think anyone realised how bad he was through his bravery. He was a very good boy, too, and, as he told me once, never forgot his prayers, and was trusting in our Lord Jesus Christ. He ought to have gone home on a hospital ship on the 30th, but another operation was necessary, which prevented this. This was a sad disappointment to him, but again no one could have been braver or more patient. And then on the 1st came the sudden collapse. I was suddenly fetched to his side in the morning, and had just time to whisper a prayer in his ear and to feel him squeeze my hand when he became unconscious, and very peacefully passed away at 2.15 p.m.” He was buried the next day in the Cemetery in the Sepulchre des Rouen (Grave No. 58).

=WILKINSON, JOHN ROTHES MARLOW=, B.A., Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., eldest s. of the late Rev. Henry Marlow Wilkinson, Vicar of Milford, Lymington, Hants, by his wife, Florence Amy (Milford Corner, Milford-on-Sea), dau. of the late John Kemp-Welch, of Sopley Park, Hants; b. the Vicarage, Milford-on-Sea, 17 Oct. 1887; educ. Winchester College, and Worcester College, Oxford (1907–1911, B.A., Capt. of the College Boat Club); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Middlesex, 22 March, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 10 Oct. 1913; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Oburg, near Mons, on the 23rd; unm. A Private of C Coy., 4th Middlesex, wrote: “On Sunday, 23 Aug., we were entrenched in front of a convent, when Capt. ... gave Lieut. Wilkinson an order to take half his platoon (two sections) to reinforce ‘A’ Coy. This Coy. was at the left of our position and was being hard pressed. We took up position under heavy fire at a group of houses. Your son went into one of the houses, and was heard directing the fire of his two sections through the skylight in the roof. He directed his fire so well that he forced the Germans to retire from his front. It was from this house that he saw overwhelming numbers of Germans coming through the wood to his front. The Germans came on again until they were within 200 yards. Lieut. Wilkinson then came out of the house into the trench. It was here that he got the order to retire. He got the order twice, but would not take it, as he thought it was not an official order. Eventually he got the order from the G.O.C. to retire. It was then I noticed he was limping. To retire we had to go through barbed wire; here we got separated owing to the heavy shell and rifle fire. I am very sorry to say that I was the only man of those two sections to get away from that place. No officers could give me any information of Lieut. Wilkinson. I reported to the C.O. what had happened and told him that Lieut. Wilkinson was a very brave man. He replied, ‘Yes, I know that, and I am very sorry to have lost him.’... I must say your son was a man in every sense of the word. I think he was as brave a gentleman as one could meet here. I told this to Capt.... I think I have an idea of a brave officer, as I went through the South African War and have eight clasps to my medal.”

=WILKINSON, LEONARD RICHARD=, Rifleman, No. 2240, C Coy., 1/9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Henry Wilkinson, of Star Mills, Paper Maker, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William E. Pepper; b. Camberwell, 22 Dec. 1890; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders and was killed in action during the severe fighting for Hill 60, near Ypres, on 24 April, 1915; unm.

=WILKINSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6945), S.S. 101506, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLAN, SAMUEL=, Private, No. 11727, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Lancaster; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Cuinchy, 3 Feb. 1915.

=WILLETS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 7965, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Arthur Willetts, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Thomas Bennett; b. Aston, Birmingham, 7 Aug. 1883; educ. Vicarage Road there; was employed as a Stove Fitter; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 13 Feb. 1902; served three years with the Colours and nine years in the Reserve; went to the Front, Aug. 1914; was wounded and taken a prisoner at Haines, and died a prisoner of war at Erfurt, Germany, 16 Feb. 1915, and was buried there. He m. at Aston, Birmingham, 1907, Nellie (No. 2, Back, 119, Park Road, Aston, Birmingham), dau. of William Whadauck, and had a son, Frederick, b. 26 Jan. 1908.

=WILLIAMS, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3806 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, ALBERT ERNEST=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4015), 218031, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, ARTHUR MONTAGU=, Solicitor, Lieut. Machine Gun Section, 7th (Robin Hood) Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.) (T.F.), only s. of the late Arthur Williams, of 109, Forest Road, Nottingham, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Thomas Morley, of 46, Addison Street, Nottingham; b. Nottingham, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Nottingham Boys’ High School; served his articles with Capt. J. A. H. Green, admitted a Solicitor in 1905, and was in practice in Nottingham and had lately been a partner in the firm of Messrs. Browne, Son & Williams. He had joined the Robin Hoods as a private on leaving school in 1900, and became a 2nd Lieut. when the Territorial Act came into operation, and was gazetted Lieut. 8 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he volunteered with the Battn. for foreign service, went to France, 25 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 15 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in Kemmel Churchyard. One of his men (Private T. Linney, 1867) wrote: “On the night of 15 June, 1915, at about 9.30 p.m. the Germans thought to make a surprise attack on our trenches south of Ypres, by first of all blowing up our trenches and then by violently bombarding our position by artillery and hand grenades. The 8th Battn. Sherwood Foresters, were in the trenches at the time, and were expecting to be relieved that night by the 7th Battn. Sherwood Foresters, this accounting for the officers of the 7th being in the trenches in the afternoon to view the positions. After the violent bombardment the Germans tried to charge the trench, and this being the first severe attack the 8th Battn. had been in they did not know which way to turn or what to do; already they had lost a large number of men and officers and were naturally panic stricken, when Lieut. Williams came to the rescue. Already he had been to fetch a wounded officer, Lieut. Dobson, in, and seen him safe; when the Germans stormed the trenches, he gathered the men together, and by his cool manner and words made a desperate stand against the coming onslaught; the Germans had got as far as the barbed wire, when Lieut. Williams shouted to the men “Come on men, if we’ve got to die, we will die fighting,” this put new life into the men and by desperate fighting the Germans were driven back, but Lieut. Williams, who had saved the situation at such a critical time, was killed instantaneously, by part of a shell fracturing his skull”; and Capt. G. H. Stubington: “It was after dark and he had just gone into the trenches which the Robin Hoods were taking over from the 8th Battn. when Lieut. Dobson of the 8th Battn. was wounded by a shell. Arthur went to help him when another shell exploded and killed them both instantly. He died on duty and I need not tell you how much we feel his loss. He was a most efficient officer and also in my case a close personal friend; I have, as you are aware, known him for years and as far as Machine Gun work is concerned, I feel that I have lost my right hand man.... The Officer Commanding desires me to add that the Battn. has suffered a great loss by his death, and he will be very much missed by all ranks to whom he had endeared himself, and especially by his brother officers.” Lieut. Williams, who was a Freeman of the City of Nottingham by birth, had taken his Musketry and Machine Gun Course and had qualified as an Instructor of Musketry. He was a member of, and played for, the Notts. Amateur Cricket Club; was for some time Secretary of the Nottingham Children’s Hospital and Hon. Secretary of the Red Cross for Notts, and was a member of the Newstead Lodge of Freemasons.

=WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 9600, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Williams, of 25ct., 7h, Cheapside, Birmingham; b. Perry Barr, co. Stafford, 7 July, 1894; educ. Rea Street Board School, Birmingham; was a Metal Spinner, Simplex, Salop Street, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 11 May, 1912; went to France 14 Aug. 1914, and was accidentally drowned in Cuinchy Canal, 4 Aug. 1915, while on active service; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Givenchy.

=WILLIAMS, CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., 370), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, FREDERICK LEONARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3177), S.S. 622, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, GEORGE JACKSON=, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of David Jones Williams, of Rhydwen, Barnsley, member of the firm of Williams Bros., Ltd., Coal Exporters, by his wife, Dinah, dau. of the late George Jackson, Mining Engineer; b. Royston, co. York, 6 Feb. 1895; educ. High School, Barnsley and Rydal Mount, Colwyn Bay, and on leaving there entered his father’s office in Paris. When war broke out he was in England on a short holiday and he immediately volunteered and joined the 5th Reserve Battn. of the York and Lancaster Regt. under Lieut.-Col. Mitchell and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Sept. 1914. Being anxious to get to the front he transferred to the 1st/5th Battn. under Lieut.-Col. Fox (which had volunteered for foreign service) and while training with it at Sheffield contracted rheumatism and developed endocarditis from which he died at Barnsley, 27 April, 1915; unm.

=WILLIAMS, GEORGE JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14241 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, HAROLD=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21975, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, HERBERT CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 10080, 2nd Battn. King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regt., yst. but one of the six soldier sons of Ellis Williams, of Hanmer Place, Bowerham, Lancaster, ex Qr.-Mr.-Sergt. of the same regt. (with which he served for 25 years), by his wife, Eliza Mary, dau. of Henry Studd, late of the R.A.M.C.; b. the Barracks, Lancaster, 2 April, 1895; educ. Bowerham School; enlisted as a drummer in the King’s Own at Lancaster, 3 May, 1909, and joined his battn. in Jersey, subsequently accompanying it to India. He came home with it in Dec. 1914, and on 15 Jan. went to the Front. He was severely wounded on 16 March, 1915, while placing sand bags to repair front of trenches by Ypres, and died in hospital at Bailleul. His comrade, Band Sergt. J. A. Nichol, wrote: “He passed peacefully away at 6.15 a.m. this morning, 23 March. I was with him throughout, and I’m writing this letter for Lloyd, his brother, who is very much upset. The remains will be interred to-morrow at 9 a.m. in the cemetery there, and I’ll be there to put some token of love on his grave for you and the family.” His two elder brothers, Coy Qr.-Mr.-Sergt. Ellis Watkin Williams and Sergt. John Henry Williams of the 1st Battn. of the King’s Own were wounded in the retreat from Mons, the latter, now a prisoner at Doberitz, very severely. The third, Sergt. Lloyd Williams, suffered from shell concussion and is now (1916) in Egypt. Rifleman Reginald Williams, the fourth, belongs to the King’s Liverpool Regt., and the fifth and last son, Private Percival Williams, is in the Army Service Corps.

=WILLIAMS, HUBERT LESLIE=, Trooper, No. 13/258, 11th North Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Harry Edwin Williams, of Parua Bay, Auckland, New Zealand, by his wife, Harriet Mary, dau. of the late Henry Morey; b. at Parua Bay, 23 Nov. 1892; educ. there; and entered the Army, 15 Aug. 1914, being one of the first to enlist from Parua Bay at the outbreak of war. Killed in action at Walker Ridge, Gallipoli, during a night attack, 26 May, 1915, buried there. The circumstances of his death are told as follows in a letter from a comrade to his mother: “A mate of mine, H. L. Williams, was dragging me to put me in a hole out of the firing line after I was shot down that awful night, he had stopped for a minute to give me a drop of water out of his bottle, had just dropped on his knees, when a bullet struck him in the breast, he fell over me, he put his hand in mine and said ‘good-bye old fellow, good luck to you, I’m fixed.’ And so he died without a move, good fellow that he was.”

=WILLIAMS, IDRIS HAVARD JOSEPH=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 4th s. of the late Morgan Stuart Williams, of Aberpergwm, co. Glamorgan, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Josephine (9, Stratford Place, W.), dau. of William Herbert, of Clytha, Monmouthshire, and nephew of the late Capt. George Williams, Frontier Light Horse, who was killed in the Zulu War; b. Aberpergwm, 29 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and was promoted Lieut. 26 March, 1904, and Capt. 29 Jan. 1910; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, died at Boulogne, 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres; buried at St. Donat’s Castle; unm.

=WILLIAMS, JETHROE=, L.-Corpl., No. 6074, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Cabel Williams, of High Street, Cheltenham, Market Gardener; b. Leigh, near Cheltenham, 5 Dec. 1885; educ. there; enlisted 21 Jan. 1905; was appointed L.-Corpl. 10 Oct. 1914; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 28 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 12 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. following, of wounds received in action. He m. at Fulham, 22 Sept. 1906, Evelyn May (8, Station Road, Maldon, Essex), dau. of Robert Everett Coney Weston, of Bury St. Edmunds, and had a dau., Edith Josephine, b. 20 April, 1907.

=WILLIAMS, JOHN NATHANIEL=, Private, No. 12/484, 6th (Hauraki) Auckland Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force (formerly Capt., 4th Dorsets (T.F.)), elder s. of Col. Sir Robert Williams, of Bridehead, Dorchester, 1st Bt., M.P., by his wife, Rosa Walker, dau. of Nathaniel Sims, of Strood Park, Horsham; b. London, W., 24 Jan. 1878; educ. Matfield, Kent; Eton, and New College, Oxford; was for some time in the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Dorsetshire Regt., becoming Capt., but resigned his commission and went to New Zealand in 1910. On the outbreak of war enlisted as a Private in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in Oct. 1914; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe that day; unm. Major-Gen. Sir A. I. Godley, K.C.M.G., C.B., Commanding New Zealand Forces, wrote: “He was killed leading and setting a most gallant example to the men in the forefront of the Battn., and all the officers, N.C.O.’s and men of the company speak of him in the highest terms of admiration and affection. He had evidently made himself most popular with them and respected by all, and had he not fallen he would have been given a commission in this force immediately after the first action. I believe the example which he set in enlisting, and dying as he did in the ranks, has done more for this force and perhaps for the Empire than he would have done as a commissioned officer.”

=WILLIAMS, JOSEPH=, Chief Yeoman of Signals, R.N., No. Ch./206951, 4th s. of the late Edward Williams, of Hull, Chemist, by his wife, Betsy Ann, dau. of Henry Hollingsworth, of Hull, Chemist; b. Hull, 25 Feb. 1883; educ. Boulevard Higher Grade School, Hull, joined the Navy in Feb. 1899; served on H.M. ships, Perseus, 1905–8; Jason, 1908–10; Shannon, 1910–12; and R.F.A. Maine, 1912–14, and was studying for an examination for warrant officer when war was declared; joined H.M.S. Cressy and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Boulevard Baptist Church, Hull, 8 Sept. 1910, Agnes Mary (28, Redbourne Street, Boulevard, Hull), sister of James Albert Forgan Wighton, R.N. (lost in the action off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914), and only dau. of the late James Brown Wighton, and had two children; Joseph Albert, b. 8 Sept. 1914; and Catherine Marian, b. 23 Aug. 1912.

=WILLIAMS, MERVYN JAMES=, Colour Sergt.-Major, No. 6854, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of John Williams, of Blackrock, by his wife, Ellen Dorcas, dau. of James Watts, of Grove Avenue, Blackrock; b. Blackrock, co. Dublin, 21 June, 1882; educ. Booterstown School there; enlisted Jan. 1910; served in South Africa, Egypt, and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 24 Aug. 1914 to 16 May, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Festubert; unm.

=WILLIAMS, OWEN=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 6104), 297624, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, SYDNEY ERNEST=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4202, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, 299881, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, TOM JAMES=, Private, No. 11050, 2nd, attd. 1st, Battn. Welsh Regt., s. of George Williams, of Ffosyfedwen, Velindre, Henllan, Flannel Weaver, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of William Evans; b. Ffrontywann, 15 Nov. 1894; educ. National School, Velindre. He enlisted in the Welsh Regt. in Dec. 1913, was in training with the 2nd Battn. in Hampshire when the war broke out, and was soon afterwards sent out to France. There he was a driver in the transport section of his regt., till he contracted rheumatic fever, lying for some weeks in hospital at Le Havre, and then returning to England on three weeks’ leave. At the appointed time he reported himself at Cardiff Barracks, and was in a few days on his way back to France again, to join the 1st Battn. He served with them for three months, and was killed in action, being shot in a bayonet charge, at Zillebeke, 25 May, 1915; unm. His brother, Private William Williams, is now (1916) serving with the Devons.

=WILLIAMS, WALTER KENT, M.V.O.=, Engineer-Capt., R.N., 2nd s. of William Philips Williams, Journalist, some time of the South Wales Daily News, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Manoah Kent; b. St. Davids, co. Pembroke, 24 Oct. 1863; educ. Proprietary School, Cardiff, and Royal Naval College, Keyham, Devonport; entered the Navy as Assistant Engineer, 1 July, 1885; promoted Engineer, 2 April, 1887; Chief Engineer, 1 Aug. 1897; Engineer-Commander, 1 Aug. 1901, and Engineer-Capt., 1 Jan. 1912. While serving as Engineer in the Blanche, 1893, he landed with the Naval Brigade from H.M. ships Blanche, Swallow, and Sparrow under Commander Lindley to punish a robber chief, Fumo Omari, for various acts of treachery. The fortified strongholds at Puwani and Jongeni were stormed and captured. Capt. Williams was awarded the general Africa medal (Vitu, Aug. 1893 clasp) for these services. He was Engineer at the Royal Osborne College at the time the present Prince of Wales and his brother were students there, and for his services was awarded the M.V.O. in Oct. 1910. He afterwards served for a period ashore at Portsmouth, and on the outbreak of war was appointed on the staff of the Bulwark, and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

=WILLIAMS, WALTER ROLAND=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7279, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WILLIAMS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1218, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Edwin James Williams, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Roberts; b. Plymouth, 24 Oct. 1889; educ. there; joined the 3rd London Regt. in July, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to Malta in Sept.; was sent to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, being shot through the head in an attack on the German trenches; unm.

=WILLIAMS, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4468), S.S. 103409, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=ADDAMS-WILLIAMS, DONALD ARTHUR=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. (Service) South Wales Borderers, only s. of the Rev. Herbert Addams-Williams, Rector of Llangibby, co. Monmouth, by his wife, Grace, dau. of Thomas Royse Lysaght; b. Llangibby Rectory, 28 April, 1896; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and Marlborough College, where he was in the O.T.C., and joined the Public Schools Battn. immediately on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the South Wales Borderers, 18 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles 29 June, and was killed in action there, 11 Aug. 1915, after the advance from Anzac. Capt. A. W. Hooper wrote: “I am the only officer left out of the five who came out with the coy., and was in hospital wounded when Arthur was killed; hence I am somewhat handicapped, but I have spoken to Arthur’s platoon sergt. several times about the sad incident, and he has given me several little details about it. A covering party was sent forward to clear the enemy away from some wells from whence they had been sniping our troops for three or four days. This party was also to act as a screen to keep the enemy from advancing, or firing, while the remainder of our battn. went forward and dug themselves in, in an advanced position. Arthur, with his platoon, commanded a portion of this covering party, more of the enemy were found near the wells than was anticipated, and our covering party lost rather heavily. However, they nobly did their work, and kept the enemy back while the new trenches were being dug. Arthur was absolutely fearless, and always very cheerful in the trenches. He took his men forward, and had not advanced far before he was hit; he went on and presently was hit a second time, but where each of the first two shots struck him his sergt. did not know. However, being twice wounded, he continued to command his platoon, encouraging all of the men, and showing them a noble example by his own heroism, and disregard of self. A little time afterwards, while still advancing, he was wounded a third time. He turned completely round, and must have died within a few seconds. His sergt. knelt by him as he died, and has told me since that his death was a grand one to see. The sergt. had to leave him, to take charge of the platoon, and when the covering party retired his body was not seen. Several times Sergt. Worthington, his platoon sergt., volunteered to go forward and look for it, but the Turks were now holding that ground in very strong numbers, and it would have meant a further sacrifice of life to send a search party out; therefore his body, and those of two other officers who died the same evening, was never recovered. His death meant a great loss to his men, who thought so highly of him, to the whole coy., and also to myself, who found him an ever-cheerfull and lovable friend.” Nearly three months afterwards, during a reconnaisance, Lieut. Curtis, of the Northamptonshire Regt., discovered his body, and had it brought back to South Wales Borderers Valley, where it was buried in the little Military Cemetery on 3 Nov. 1915.

=DE COURCY-WILLIAMS, ALMERICUS JOHN FALKINER (ERIC)=, 2nd Lieut. 5th, attd. 4th, Battn. Middlesex Regt., only s. of John Almericus de Courcy-Williams, of St. Etchens, Killucan, co. Westmeath, M.A., M.B., B.Ch. T.C.D., by his wife Frideswide Catherine Emily, dau. of Robert Smyth, Portlick Castle, Athlone, J.P., and grandson of Surgeon-Major John William Williams, of Killucan, co. Westmeath, M.A., M.D., by his wife, Emily Letitia, née de Courcy, sister of Michael William, 32nd Lord Kingsale; b. Greenhills, Killucan, 4 May, 1895; educ. Roysses School, Abingdon, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. West India Regt., July, 1914; transferred to the Middlesex Regt., 20 Aug. 1914; went to France with the 4th Battn., 6 Sept.; took part in the fighting at Septmouts near Soissons, 14 Sept.; joined the 1st Battn. at Venizel, but returned to the 4th Battn. at Courcelles, 1 Oct.; took part in the march from the Aisne to Vieille-Chapelle, and the battle there, 12–15 Oct. where he was the only officer in his coy. not wounded, and died at Bethune, 21 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action two miles from Aubers while commanding his coy. in the front line of trenches, the previous day, during the First Battle of Ypres. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His Colonel wrote: “He was such a promising boy, and we were all proud of him and shall miss him much.” Another officer wrote: “I can tell you all ranks were very sorry, as he was a brave soldier and was a great favourite with all, and likely to have a bright army career.” A wounded soldier who was in the trenches with Lieut. de Courcy-Williams said that he frequently exposed himself to danger while exhorting his men not to waste ammunition, but to shoot straight. He was fatally wounded while aiming a rifle in the trenches trying to get a sniper who was picking off his men, and his last words were, “Men, give it them.”

=WILLIAMSON, ALBERT JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, Ch. 154287, R.F.R., B. 1366, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WILLIAMSON, DAVID MILLAR=, Petty Officer, 216842, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIAMSON, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, 302086, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILLIAMSON, PETER=, Private, No. 881, 12th Battn. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Matthew Williamson, of Ollaberry, Shetland; Seaman; b. Edinburgh, 29 March, 1891; educ. Ollaberry, and Lerwick, Shetland; went to Australia; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; went to the Dardanelles, and died on board H.M.S. Delta, 9 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action there. Buried at sea. He m. at Edinburgh, Jessie, dau. of (--) Sutherland, of Latheron, Crofter, and had three children: Peter, b. ----; Lizzie, b. 5 Jan. 1893, and Maggie, b. 30 Nov. 1894.

=WILLIAMSON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 14054, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Voorstraat, 30 Jan. 1915.

=WILLIAMSON, ROBERT HAMILTON=, 2nd Lieut., 118th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, only surv. s. of Dr. George Williamson, of 256, Union Street, Aberdeen, by his wife, Constance, dau. of A. H. Gunn; b. Stonehaven, co. Kincardine, 27 Sept. 1893; educ. Glenalmond, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (City of Aberdeen) Battery, 1st Highland Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), June, 1911, and promoted Lieut. ... June, 1913. After being attd. for a year to a Regular Battery of Field Artillery, he gained a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery at the Military Competitive Examination in April, 1914, and was gazetted to the 118th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., 10 June following. He left for France early in Nov. 1914, and died in the Allied Force Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Dec. 1914, of wounds received at Fauquissart, near Laventie, on the 6th, while making a sketch of the enemy’s position for his battery from an advanced observation post in a ruined church tower; unm. Buried Allenvale Cemetery, Aberdeen. The commanding officer, 8th Brigade of Heavy Artillery, in which he served, wrote: “I had a great personal liking for him and thought very highly of him, both professionally and as regards his general disposition and demeanour with his other brother officers and the men, who all liked him;” and the officer commanding his battery wrote: “I shall never forget your boy, either for his own personal qualities or for what he had done for the battery.”

=WILLINGALE, SIDNEY GEORGE=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 197386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIS, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12561, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILLIS, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3672), 160183, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILLIS, WILLIAM BRIAN DE LAVAL=, Corpl., No. 12289, 3rd Auckland Regt. (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the Ven. William Newcombe de Laval Willis, formerly for 35 years Vicar of Cambridge and Archdeacon of Waikato, New Zealand, by his wife, Mary Agnes, dau. of the late G. H. Clarke, of Micheldever, Hants, England; b. the Vicarage, Cambridge, New Zealand, 17 May, 1888; educ. the Cambridge District High School and St. John’s Collegiate School, Auckland; entered the Survey Department of the New Zealand Government in Feb. 1906. When war broke out in Aug. 1914, he obtained leave to temporarily resign his post and enlisted as a Private in the 3rd Auckland Regt., of which he was immediately made Corpl. He left New Zealand with the First Expeditionary Force 16 Oct. 1914, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at Gaba Tepe on April 25 and for 10 days was in the thick of the fight. On May 5 when re-embarking with 400 others for Cape Helles he was shot in the lungs. After considerable delay he reached Alexandria on 10 May, but died at the Deaconess Hospital there two days later; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Alexandria. His Colonel (Plugge) was near him when wounded, and helped temporarily to dress his wounds. Writing subsequently, he described him as “an ideal soldier, and as plucky as could be,” and said also that “he had done magnificent work.” One of his comrades wrote: “You would feel proud if you could hear the way all his men spoke of him, and they all said the same.” The Prime Minister of New Zealand writing as Minister of Lands said, “As an officer of the Lands and Survey Department he showed the greatest promise, and his assiduity to his responsible duties occasions a great loss not only to the Public Service, but also to the Dominion.” The Under-Secretary wrote also “His record in the Department was of the highest.” In the district in which he was last engaged in survey work, a public movement was made, and a memorial brass erected in the Manganui Hospital, and a number of beds attached to the Memorial.

=WILLS, GEORGE EDWARD LEONARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11282, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=EARDLEY-WILMOT, FREDERICK LAWRENCE=, Lieut., Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., only s. of Col. Arthur Eardley-Wilmot, of Westernlea, Westward Ho! and Hales Hall, Cheadle, co. Staffordshire, late R.F.A., by his wife, Mary Blanche, only dau. of Clement Thomas Sneyd-Kynnersley, of Loxley Park, and Highfields, co. Stafford, and grandson of Major-Gen. Frederick Marrow Eardley-Wilmot, R.A. [2nd son of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 1st Bart.]; b. Portsmouth, 25 Feb. 1895; educ. Cheltenham and Toronto University (Oct. 1913 to Aug. 1914); volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted Lieut., P.P.C.L.I. 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; was appointed Machine Gun Officer, Feb.; went to France when his regt. joined the 20th Brigade (27th Division), and was killed in action in the trenches at St. Eloi, 18 March, 1915; unm.

=WILMSHURST, WILLIAM JESSE=, Driver, No. 826, 1/3rd Kent (Fortress) Royal Engineers (T.F.), eldest s. of Jesse Wilmshurst, of 15, Standen Street, St. John’s, Tunbridge Wells, Engine Steerer for Kelsey’s, brewers, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Charles Hallett; b. Tunbridge Wells, 3 Sept. 1895; educ. at St. John’s Boys’ School there; was working at Kelsey’s, brewers, when mobilised; joined the Kent (Fortress) R.E. Oct. 1911; left England for the Dardanelles, and was drowned on H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915, when that ship was sunk in the Ægean Sea; unm. Major Ruston, himself saved from the ship, wrote: “The whole event was so sudden and so unexpected, and the time the Hythe remained afloat after the collision was so short, that it is practically impossible to say what happened to individual men. Many of the drivers must have been injured in the collision, as the other vessel struck their part of our vessel, and brought down our foremast.... From what I know of the drivers, and your son in particular, I am sure he died bravely.” His brother, Albert Edward Wilmshurst, was also on the Hythe, but was rescued.

=WILSON, ALBERT PATTERSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6304), 224462, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WILSON, ALLAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9740), 205388, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILSON, DOUGLAS HENRY VERNON=, Lieut., R.N., H.M.S. Bulwark, yst. s. of the late Charles Pooley Wilson, formerly Lieut. Indian Navy, and Principal Officer of the Board of Trade, London District, by his wife, Claudia Wilson (Highland Road, Upper Norwood, S.E.), dau. of James T. Secretan; b. Upper Norwood, 19 Dec. 1885; educ. Dulwich College and H.M.S. Britannia (where he won Champion Featherweight Cup in Boxing, Aug. 1901); entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet on H.M.S. Formidable, 15 Sept. 1901, became Midshipman, 30 Nov. 1901; Sub-Lieut. 30 April, 1905; and Lieut. 1 Oct. 1907; served the whole of her first commission on H.M.S. Formidable on Mediterranean Station; when Lieut. on H.M.S. Venus attended Mr. Winston Churchill as A.D.C. to Mombasa, and on the same ship went to Quebec for the Tercentenary Festival in 1908; appointed to H.M.S. Glory 30 Oct. 1913; transferred to H.M.S. Bulwark 29 July, 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness on the morning of 26 Nov. following. He m. at Weymouth, 17 Oct. 1914, Evelyn Maud, dau. of Thomas Charles Hooman, of Lilliput, Dorset; s.p.

=WILSON, EDWARD HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 2056, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Henry Edward Wilson, of 45, Durham Road, East Finchley, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Robert Pritty; b. Tufnell Park, N., 17 May, 1895; educ. Owen’s School, Islington, and on leaving school, entered the Head Office of the London City and Midland Bank; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria’s Rifles, Aug. 1914; left for France 4 Nov. following, being attached to the machine-gun section of his battn.; took part in the capture of Hill 60, when the machine-gun section of the Q.V.R.’s rendered excellent service; and was killed in action by shell fire near Wieltje, at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the garden of a cottage 200 yards S.E. Battn. H.Q., Wieltje. His officer, Lieut. Brian Fargus, who was himself killed on New Year’s Day, wrote in Dec. 1914: “Wilson accompanies me voluntarily whenever I go out on a prowl round the lines or up to some dangerous point. He knows no fear and has turned himself into my bodyguard; he is a splendid fellow and I think no end of him.” And the Sergt. in charge of the machine-gun section wrote of his fearlessness of danger and conscientious attention to duty, and of the very good work he had done at Hill 60. He was a member of the Blackheath Harriers and had won a number of prizes at athletic meetings; he was also a keen cricketer and football player and an enthusiastic yachtsman.

=WILSON, ENNIS NORMAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9005), 196524, H.M.S. Cressy, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILSON, ERNEST=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WILSON, EWEN HOLMES HUMPHREY JAMES=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), only s. of the late James Humphrey Wilson, of Shona, Ayr, by his wife, Katherine Campbell, dau. of John Gordon MacMillan; b. Ayr, 18 June, 1892; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14 Feb. 1912; and promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1914; left for France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, his battn. forming part of the 1st Brigade, and was killed in action at Sablonnières during the Battle of the Marne, 8 Sept, following; unm. Buried at Sablonnières. His Major wrote: “His Coy. will miss him, and so do we all, as he had endeared himself to all his brother officers and comrades,” and a corpl. in his platoon: “He died leading the men who adored him.” At Harrow he played cricket and football for his house, and was a Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C. at Sandhurst.

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

=WILSON, HARRY=, Private, No. 1278, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 27 April 1915.

=WILSON, HARRY=, Leading Seaman, 233319, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILSON, HUGH STANLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 8th Battn. Worcestershire Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the Rev. James Maurice Wilson, D.D., Canon of Worcester, formerly Head Master of Clifton College, and afterwards Vicar of Rochdale and Archdeacon of Manchester, by his wife, Georgina Mary, dau. of the late Admiral John Talbot; b. at the School House, Clifton College, Bristol, 28 Nov. 1885; educ. Clifton College and King’s College, Cambridge; was an assistant Master at Rugby School; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 8th Worcesters as a Private in Aug. 1914; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., 29 Oct. following, and was killed in action in France, 14 Sept. 1915. Buried in the English Military Cemetery, Hébuterne, Pas de Calais, France; unm.

=WILSON, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10493), S.S. 108189, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Wilson, of 63, Britannia Street, Belfast; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WILSON, JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. 15442), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WILSON, JOHN JOSEPH DEXTER=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27512 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Joseph Wilson, of 22, High Street, Waterloo, Pilsley, co. Derby; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WILSON, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 7473, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WILSON, ROBERT SYM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of the late Andrew Hay Wilson, Agent, Royal Bank of Scotland, Leith, by his wife, Anne Wood (11, Drummond Place, Edinburgh), dau. of Christopher Wood, of Leith; b. Leith, 17 Nov. 1876; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perth; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Seaforth Highlanders from the Militia, Dec 1897, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1899, and Capt. 11 April, 1902; served through the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including action at Magersfontein (wounded); the operations in the Orange Free State, May 8 to Jan. 1901, and Jan. to March, 1902; those in the Cape Colony, Feb. and March, 1901, and Aug. 1901 to Jan. 1902, and in the Transvaal March to Aug. 1901, and March 31 to May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). Between 1907 and 1910 he was employed as Adjutant, first to the Volunteers and afterwards to the Territorial Force. On the outbreak of war Capt. Wilson was in India with his battn. He sailed for France with the Dehra Dun Brigade (Meerut Division) of the Indian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 8 Nov. following. He m. at Murrayfield, Midlothian, 5 Nov 1902, Harriet Evelyn (Hawthornbank, Murrayfield), 2nd dau. of the late Alfred William Pearce, of Broughty Ferry, and had three children: Andrew Ripley, b. 13 Jan. 1904; Ronald Christopher, b. 15 May, 1905; and Marjorie Anne, b. 25 July, 1912.

=WILSON, SAMUEL OLSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9787), S.S. 2446, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WILSON, WILFRED=, A.B., 212496, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWES-WILSON, GEORGE HUTTON=, Capt., 4th Battn. The Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Bowes-Wilson, of Enterpen Hall, Hutton Rudby, Yorkshire; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 April, 1877; educ. Clifton College, and New College, Oxford (B.A.); joined the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Yorkshires from the Volunteers on the organisation of the Territorial Force in 1907, and was promoted Capt. 1 March, 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; and was killed in action, near Ypres, 17 June, 1915. Buried at Vlamertinghe. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Harrogate, 29 Sept. 1908, Nora Dulcie, only child of the late Herbert Linney, and had a son, Maurice Desmond, b. 6 June, 1912, d. 17 March, 1915.

=WIMHURST, ARTHUR DANIEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, 364229, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WIMSETT, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Private, No. 2280, 83rd Field Ambulance, 27th Division, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3rd s. of William George Wimsett, of 2, Hilda Terrace, Ham Hill, Snodland, co. Kent., by his wife, Emma, dau. of Richard May; b. Larkfield, 10 Dec. 1896; educ. Snodland National School; was working at Snodland Paper Mill; joined the Territorials 2 July, 1914, and was at his first training camp on Salisbury Plain when they were ordered to return, owing to the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He immediately volunteered for foreign service, trained at Maidstone, Canterbury, Sittingbourne and Windsor; went to France, 6 March, 1915, and died in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 13 May, 1915, from a wound in the head, received while picking up the wounded on the 11th. He was buried in the English part of the Cemetery there.

=WINDEBANK, ROBERT PERCY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4075), 190016, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WINFIELD, STUART JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 9956, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of James Stratton Winfield, of 17, Boden Road, Gillingham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Oct. 1914.

=WINDLE, JOHN=, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, L. 2085, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WING, MATTHEW=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2016), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WINGATE, THOMAS PATERSON=, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of the late Paterson Wingate, of Glasgow, Shipbuilder, by his wife, Jessie Crawford (18, Westbourne Terrace, Glasgow), dau. of John Bruce Murray, of Glasgow; b. Woodcroft, Glasgow, 7 Feb. 1877; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and Glasgow University (B.Sc. 1899); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, then in India, 4 May, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1900, and Capt. 24 Jan. 1906; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps; took part in the operations in Natal, 1899, including actions at Rietfontein and Lombard’s Kop; the defence of Ladysmith, including action on 6 Jan. 1900; operations in Natal, March-June, 1900; in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to March, 1901; and was Railway Staff Officer (graded Staff Lieut.), 4 May, 1900, to 4 May, 1901, and Military Landing Officer (graded Staff Capt.), 5 Sept. 1901, to 30 June, 1903 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. 1901], Queen’s medal with two clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). At the close of the war he joined his regt. in India and returned with it to Glasgow; and from 9 March, 1912, to 9 March, 1915, was Adjutant to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. at the Depôt, Berwick-on-Tweed, and after mobilisation in Aug. 1914, at Portland. He went to France, 16 March, 1915, in charge of a draft for the 2nd Battn., which had formed part of the first Expeditionary Force (13th Brigade, 5th Division), and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915, the day after the 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers and the 1st West Kents had stormed the Hill; unm. Col. Sladen, D.S.O., commanding 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, himself wounded on this occasion, wrote: “He was such a brilliant soldier and such a good comrade in every way. His loss is a great loss to the regt., and the Army can ill afford to lose such as he was. Hill 60 has indeed taken a heavy toll of this regt.” And the following appeared in the Regimental Orders, 23 April, 1915: “It is with very great regret that the commanding officer has to announce to the battn. the death of Captain T. P. Wingate, the late Adjutant, who was killed in action on 18 April, 1915. In his magnificent soldierly qualities and his self-sacrificing devotion to duty the late Capt. Wingate has set a standard which all ranks may well endeavour to attain.”

=WINGFIELD, JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310594, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WINKS, LAWRENCE=, Sergt., No. 11/457, 2nd Wellington Mounted Rifles, 5th s. of John Winks, of Hawera, New Zealand, by his wife, Mary Jane Amon, who was a dau. of the late Thomas Amon, of Rangitikei, N.Z.; b. Hawera, 19 Dec. 1891; educ. Normanby; enlisted the day following the declaration of war, 6 Aug. 1914, and died 6 June 1915, of wounds received in action during the fighting at No. 3 Port, Gallipoli, on 31 May; unm.

=WINKWORTH, HARRY=, Chief Ship’s Cook, 176650, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Stephen Winkworth, of 17, St. Clement Street, Winchester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WINMILL, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4702, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WINN, ARTHUR=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd. Suffolk Regt., only s. of Arthur Thomas Winn, of the Uplands, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Henry Hicks, of Weybridge, Surrey; b. Ewell, co. Surrey, 13 April, 1884; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Suffolk Territorials, April, 1902, and promoted Lieut., and Capt. 23 Aug. 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war; went to France, Aug. 1914, attd. to the 2nd Suffolks, and was killed in action near Soissons, 9 Sept. 1914; unm.

=WINN, ROBERT CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9831), 213622, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WINN, THOMAS=, Private, No. 12897, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Henry Winn, by his wife, Selina Harriet; b. 1873; enlisted 28 Sept. 1914, and died 29 June, 1915, in No. 23 General Hospital, Etables, of wounds received in action at France. He m. at St. Mark’s, Bow, E., 4 June, 1899, Emma (137, High Street, Homerton), dau. of Walter Elson, and had five children: Henry, b. 27 Jan. 1905; Selena, b. 12 Aug. 1902; Alice, b. 26 Jan. 1907; Martha, b. 6 Aug. 1909; and Caroline, b. 2 June, 1913, and d. 29 June, 1915.

=WINSHIP, ERNEST=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25790, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WINSHIP, JOHN=, Stoker (R.N.R.), V. 282, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WINTER, WILLIAM=, A.B., 230420, H.M.S. Aboukir, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WINTERBOTTOM, JACK HUDSON=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26734 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WINTERSON, GEORGE=, Private, No. 9876, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Winterson, of Weir Cottages, Chirton, near Devizes, by his wife, Ann; b. Chirton, co. Wilts, 8 Oct. 1894; educ. Patney School there; enlisted in the 3rd Battn., Wiltshire Regt. in 1910; transferred to the Coldstreams, 6 Dec. 1912; went to France 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 5 Nov. following. Buried there. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Windsor, 7 July, 1914, Minnie Jane (75, Hatherley Road, Reading, Berks), dau. of William Collyer, and had a son, Frederick Williams, b. 12 July, 1915.

=WINTON, ALBERT EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6841), 194785, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WINTON, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 9376, 2nd Battn., East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of John Winton, of East Ferring, Worthing, Council Labourer, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of Charles Pelham, of Angmering; b. Sutton, co. Sussex, 25 Feb. 1886; educ. Ferring Church of England School; was a Barman and Nurseryman; enlisted in Dec. 1909; served in India 1912–14; was recalled with his Regt. to England after the outbreak of the European War; arrived in England on Christmas Eve; went to France, 17 Jan. 1915, and was promoted L.-Corpl., previous to being killed in action, 22 May, 1915; unm.

=WINWOOD, GEORGE=, A.B., J. 2550, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=WINWOOD, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4966), S.S. 1786, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WIRE, JOHN BERTRAM=, Private, No. 2047, 11th Battn., Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of John Benjamin Wire, of 35, Borthwick Road, Stratford, co. Essex, retired Builder; by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Nicholas (and Grace) Oldreive; b. Stratford, co. Essex; educ. Commercial and Civil Service College, Forest Gate, and emigrated to Australia in Sept. 1907, where he had two years training at the Australian Government College for Agriculturists. On the outbreak of war he gave up his farm of 420 acres; enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt in April; went to the Dardanelles in June, and was killed in action in a bayonet charge 1 Aug. 1915, his battn. having been ordered by Lieut.-General Birdwood to clear the trenches opposite Tasmania Post. Buried at the rear of the battn. lines next to his Lieut.; unm. Private Wire gained distinction at the West Ham Technical Institute in Bookkeeping and a 1st Class Certificate from the Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, of London.

=WISE, ARTHUR ERNEST=, Steward, H.M. trawler Argyll, s. of the late Robert Wise, of Gainsborough; b. Newport, Isle of Wight, 30 Nov. 1873; educ. Bristol; joined H.M. cutter Argyll, 5 March, 1915, and was lost when she was torpedoed, 15 June, 1915. He m. at Bristol, 7 Aug. 1893, Maude (1, Auckland Terrace, Gillett Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of the late Frank Lewis; s.p.

=WISEMAN, PHILIP JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4902), 204779, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WITTER, JAMES=, Private, No. 742, 11th Battn. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Andrew Witter, of Kiltyferagle, Cloghan, co. Donegal, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John McDermott; b. Kiltyferagle, 9 May. 1887; educ. Cloghan National School; went to Australia, 11 May, 1911; worked on the gold fields; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; left for Egypt in Nov.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on 26 May, 1915, of wounds received in action there; unm. His Company Commander wrote: “He had been in my company from its inception and I found him a fine reliable soldier, full of pluck and good nature. He was wounded in the trenches by a shell, and although he received prompt attention, it seems that he was too badly hit to recover. My company formed part of the first landing force of 1,500 men, and your son took part in this action. You have read the reports in the papers, and from that you can see what each man had to put up with. Some of my men informed me that during the first few days he carried several men under fire. Unfortunately he has lost his own life. Still you can look with pride on his record, which was a good one indeed.”

=WOGAN, JOHN HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3770), S.S. 101411, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WOLSELEY, WILLIAM SPENCER JOSEPH=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 6th s. of Edward Talbot Wolseley, of Maryland, Ascot, formerly Capt. 3rd Staffordshire Militia, by his wife, Florence Mary, 3rd dau. of Edward Joseph Weld, of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, and nephew of Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, of Wolseley, 9th Bart.; b. Holme Chase, Weybridge, co. Surrey, 23 March, 1886; educ. St. Augustine’s College, Ramsgate; went to Canada in March, 1913, but on the outbreak of war came home and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Reserve of Officers to the 3rd Battn. East Lancashires, 15 Aug. 1914. He went to France with his regt. on 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. His yst. brother, Robert Francis Joseph, who was commissioned in the same battn. at the same time, was wounded at Ploegsteert on 4 Feb. 1915, and his 2nd brother, Hubert Joseph, was killed in action at Elandslaagte, during the South African War, 27 Oct. 1899, while serving with the Imperial Light Horse.

=WOLSTENHOLME, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109673, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WOMBWELL, ROBERT BERTIE=, Sergt., No. 8207, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Robert Wombwell, of Lower Holbrook, Ipswich, Hay Binder, by his wife, Elizabeth Louise, dau. of William Buttle; b. Holbrook, co. Suffolk, 16 March, 1892; educ. there; enlisted in 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action, 25 Nov. 1914; unm. His Chief Officer, Capt. V. C. de Crespigny, wrote: “He was a brave man and died a soldier’s death, and I cannot say how sorry we all are. He had had narrow escapes, having had amongst other things, a bullet through his clothes, and as his Company Commander I knew him well. Good men such as he are scarce. When sick before, he refused to go to hospital till ordered to do so.”

=WOOD, ALFRED JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1817, 2/9th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Arthur Henry Wood, of 29, Devonshire Road, Pinner Road, Harrow, Civil Servant, by his wife, Ellen Elizabeth, dau. of Alfred Brown of Roxeth, Harrow; b. Finsbury Park, London, 17 June, 1895; educ. Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow; was a Dental Mechanic; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914; trained at Sittingbourne, was attd. 2/10th Middlesex, went to the Dardanelles, 18 July, 1915; took part in the heavy fighting at Suvla Bay during Sept. 1915, and died in Alexandria Government Hospital, 16 Oct. from dysentery, contracted after six weeks in the trenches; unm. He was buried at Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria.

=WOOD, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER=, Plumber’s Mate, M. 5490, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WOOD, CHARLES EDMUND=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. s. of Edward John Wedg Wood, of Meece House, near Stone, Staffordshire, by his wife, Lettice, 3rd dau. of the late Charles Challinor, of Basford; b. Watford, co. Herts, 23 Dec. 1884; educ. at Elstree Hall, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs., Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 11 April, 1913, and was Adjutant to the 5th (Territorial) Battn. at Flint from 20 Oct. 1913 to Nov. 1914, when he left for France to join his own battn., which formed part of the 22nd Infantry Brigade, 7th Division, under General Sir Thomson Capper. He was acting Adjutant and 2nd in Command at the time of his death, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unm. Buried at Fauquissart, near Laventie. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches of 31 May, 1915, being incorrectly described there as of the 2nd Battn. Capt. Wood was a keen and zealous officer, well spoken of by his Divisional General and all who came in contact with him. He was well known in the hunting field with the North Staffordshire and other packs.

=WOOD, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 11863, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOOD, EDGAR ADRIAN=, Signalman (R.F.R., B. 2104), 206288, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WOOD, FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10376), 204911, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOOD, GEORGE DOUGLAS HARRY=, Midshipman, Royal Naval Reserve, and A.D.C. to Capt. Kennedy, H.M.S. India, yr. s. of the late George Wood, of Gordon Terrace, Edinburgh, Wholesale Boot Factor, by his wife, Annie Champion (9, Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh), dau. of Capt. William Bastard, of Padstow, Cornwall; b. Edinburgh, 7 Dec. 1897; educ. Edinburgh Academy and H.M.S. Conway; was appointed Midshipman (temp.), R.N.R., 24 March, 1915, and posted to H.M.S. India, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 8 Aug. 1915.

=WOOD, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9617), S.S. 106983, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WOOD, HARRY=, Private, No. 5562, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John Wood, Cloth Drawer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of James Broxombe; b. Burley, Leeds; educ. Church Schools there; enlisted 31 Aug. 1904; passed into the Reserve, 1907, then went into the Police Force, North Riding, at South Bank; was called up on mobilisation; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.; was wounded at the Aisne, 14 Sept., and was home for six months, returned to the Front 19 April, 1915; was again wounded at the Battle of Festubert, and died at No. 13 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert two days previously. He was buried at Boulogne. Private Wood m. at Middlesbrough, 1908, Edith Mary Ellen (4, Rockcliff Street, Ventnor Street, Kirkstall Road, Leeds), dau. of John Hughes, and had three children: John Henry, b. 26 Oct. 1908; Rowland George, b. 11 Feb. 1912; and Ivy, b. .. June, 1910.

=WOOD, JAMES MACGREGOR=, Private, No. 7941, 2nd Battn. The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, eldest s. of James Wood, of 11, Maxwell Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily Mary, dau. of William Fraser, of New York; b. Edinburgh, 20 July, 1882; educ. North Merchiston, South Morningside and Bruntsfield Board School there; joined the 3rd Royal Scots, was for some time in the 8th Provisional Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, joining the 1st Battn. in Jan. 1900. He was three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve and was a Postman at the G.P.O. in Edinburgh when war was declared; went to the Front in Aug. 1914, with the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 10 Nov. 1914. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. Wood m. at Morningside, 4 Oct. 1909, Martha (25, Stewart Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of Patrick Currie, of Ballymena, co. Down, and had two children: James, b. 27 March, 1911; and Robert MacGregor, b. Sept. d. Oct. 1912.

=WOOD, JOHN=, Chief Stoker, 279879, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WOOD, JOSEPH=, Acting Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4528), 305734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WOOD, LEOFRIC=, Private, No. 2049, 11th Battn. 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Frederic Wood, of Wrington, co. Somerset, Solicitor, by his wife, Amy Elizabeth, dau. of George Pizey, late of Clevedon, Somerset, M.R.C.S.; b. Wrington, 22 Aug. 1894; educ. Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare; was for some time in the Accountant’s Office of the British Imperial Tobacco Co. at Bedminster, but in April, 1912, went out to Western Australia; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 27 Jan. 1915, did three months’ training at Perth; sailed for Fremantle with the 5th reinforcement for the 11th Battn. in April, arrived at Cairo towards the end of May, and landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula 15 June, and after six weeks in the trenches died from dysentery, 2 Aug. 1915; unm. Three of his brothers are with the Colours, Dubric as a motor-cyclist despatch rider, with the Expeditionary Force in France, Godric with the R.E., in France, and Wilgric, O.T.C., Bristol, and a fourth brother, Yetric Wood, is a Midshipman R.N.R., training on H.M.S. Excellent at Portsmouth.

=WOOD, ROBERT=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., A. 1933), 161053, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOOD, THOMAS=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9935), 215158, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct 1914.

=WOOD, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 2300, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Arthur Wood, of 260, Oxford Street, Stepney, E., Bricklayer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late William Whale; b. Mile End Road, London, E., 12 Nov. 1894; educ. Trafalgar Square, White Horse Lane, and Cooper’s Company School, Bow; was a Clerk at C. & E. Morton’s, Ltd., Milwall; enlisted, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action in the attack on Hill 70 during the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. The Sergt. of his platoon wrote of him saying that “he fought like a man until the end, and was cheerful throughout.” While at school he won the Junior County Scholarship 1906, and passed the Oxford Senior Local Exam. at the age of 16.

=CARTER-WOOD, JOSEPH ALLAN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Joseph Edmund Carter-Wood, of Skinburness Tower, Silloth, co. Cumberland, by his wife, Evelyn Alice, dau. of Brig.-Gen. Alexander William Adair, of Heatherton Park, Somerset, late Coldstream Guards, who served in the Crimea; b. London, 3 Nov. 1884; educ. at Mr. Burgess’ School, Epsom, and Uppingham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 10 Oct. 1914, and promoted Lieut.; went to the Front, 22 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried in the military graveyard there. His Commanding Officer, Col. Pereira, wrote: “Your son had only been in the battn. about a week, but in that short time his company commander, Capt. Leigh-Bennett, had found him a most useful and invaluable officer”; and Col. R. Drummond Hay: “For even though your boy had been in the regt. such a short time he had shown what good metal he was made of, and in spite of his health was already a very valuable addition to our strength. Some few of our youngsters showed themselves born soldiers from the first, and he was one of the few.” Lieut. Carter-Wood was a good landscape painter, and had had several pictures hung in the Royal Academy and other exhibitions; he was also a keen fisherman and game shot.

=WOODFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2050), 205828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WOODGATE, CHARLES ARTHUR=, R.N.R., Skipper, 217 W.S.A., H.M. steam-drifter Linsdell; reported missing after the sinking of the Linsdell by a mine, 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914.

=WOODHOUSE, GEORGE=, A.B., J. 10624, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=WOODLAND, HERBERT EDWIN=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26779, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WOODNUTT, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 11559, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Woodnutt, of 16, Brewer Street, Brighton; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 4 March, 1915. Buried 500 yards past the Le Touret turning on right of Bethune-Richebourg Road via Rue du Bois; unm.

=WOODROFF, HENRY=, Private, No. 1426, 1 Coy. 14th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late James Woodroff by his wife, Jessie Sarah (27 E Block, Peabody Buildings, Shadwell, E.), dau. of James Maclachlan; b. Stepney, 12 April, 1883; educ. Broad Street School, Ratcliffe, E. Was employed for some years at a cork manufacturers, afterwards went to Australia, where he worked in an iron foundry. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, 29 Nov. 1914, and died of fever, in the Base Hospital, Egypt, 19 July, 1915; unm.

=WOODROFFE, KENNETH HERBERT CLAYTON=, Lieut., 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., 3rd s. of Henry Long Woodroffe, of Thorpewood, Branksome Avenue, Bournemouth, by his wife, Clara, 3rd dau. of the late Henry Clayton; b. Lewes, co. Sussex, 9 Dec. 1892; educ. Rose Hill School, Banstead, Marlborough College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (Classical Exhibitioner); obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridge University O.T.C. Oct. 1912, and was gazetted to the 6th Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. April, 1915; went to France early in Nov., being attd. at the Front to the 2nd Welsh, and was killed in action during an attack on the German trenches at Neuve Chapelle, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April-31 May [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915]. Capt. Gilbey wrote: “Your son was killed yesterday in an attack near Neuve Chapelle. He was with the leading platoon, and was the man to get nearer the German front line trenches than any other. He was killed in the way that every soldier would wish to be killed, leading his platoon gallantly in the attack. His death was quite instantaneous; he was shot through the head. By his death I personally have lost a very good and true friend, and the regt. a fine and most gallant officer. At Festubert before Christmas he commanded one of our companies in an attack with great success, for which his name was included in our list of recommendations sent in to the Brigade. Later at Givenchy, against the German attack on 25 Jan., he brought up his platoon under heavy fire, leading his men most gallantly.” At Marlborough College he was Senior Prefect. Capt. of the O.T.C., Athletic Champion, member (Capt. 1912) of the cricket XI, 1909–12; football XV and hockey XI. In his school days he was a good bat as well as bowler, and it was his all-round cricket and leadership that turned the match at Lord’s against Rugby in 1912. When he went to Cambridge he was more or less content to concentrate his cricket on his bowling. It is exacting work to bowl on those plumb wickets at Fenner’s, but the Hon. Harry Mullholland was satisfied with Woodroffe, and gave him his “Blue” as a freshman, 1913, and he took six wickets in his first (1913) Oxford and Cambridge match at Lord’s. He played cricket as fast bowler for Hants C.C.C. in 1912 v. South Africans (5 wickets); and for Sussex C.C.C. in 1914.

=WOODROFFE, LESLIE, M.C.=, Capt., The Rifle Brigade, 2nd s. of Henry Long Woodroffe, of Thorpewood, Branksome Avenue, Bournemouth, by his wife, Clara, 3rd dau. of the late Henry Clayton; b. Lewes, co. Sussex, 17 Oct. 1885; educ. Junior House, Brighton College, Marlborough College, and University College, Oxford (Classical Scholar), and on leaving there became an assistant master at Shrewsbury School, where he remained until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. He had received a commission as Lieut. (unattd. List, T.F.), 1 July, 1910, and was in the Shrewsbury School O.T.C., and immediately volunteered for foreign service. He was gazetted Capt. 8th Rifle Brigade, 27 Dec. 1914; went to France in May, 1915; was severely wounded at Hooge in July, and was only able to return to his regt. 1 June, 1916; was again wounded on the day of his arrival, and died in hospital from these wounds on the 4th; unm. Buried near Bethune. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the field at Hooge, 1915. While at Marlborough College he was head of the school, and was in the cricket XI and football XV; at Oxford he took a first-class in Mods, and a second class in Lt. Hum. His two brothers, Kenneth and Sidney Woodroffe, V.C., were also killed in action (see their notices.)

=WOODROFFE, SIDNEY CLAYTON, V.C.=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. The Rifle Brigade, 4th and yst. s. of Henry Long Woodroffe, of Thorpewood, Branksome Avenue, Bournemouth, by his wife, Clara, dau. of the late Henry Clayton; b. Lewes, co. Sussex, 17 Dec. 1895; educ. Rose Hill School, Banstead; Marlborough College, gained a Classical Scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 8th Rifle Brigade, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France 25 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, Flanders, 30 July, 1915; unm. He was awarded the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 6 Sept. 1915] “For most conspicuous bravery on 30 July, 1915, at Hooge. The enemy having broken through the centre of our front trenches, consequent on the use of burning liquids, this officer’s position was heavily attacked with bombs from the flank and subsequently from the rear, but he managed to defend his post until all his bombs were exhausted, and then skilfully withdrew his remaining men. This very gallant officer immediately led his party forward in a counter-attack under an intense rifle and machine-gun fire, and was killed whilst in the act of cutting the wire obstacles in the open.” At Marlborough he was Senior Prefect, Capt. of the O.T.C., and member of the football XV (1912–13–14), hockey XI and cricket XI. Lieut.-Col. R. C. Maclachlan wrote: “Your younger boy was simply one of the bravest of the brave, and the work he did that day will stand out as a record hard to beat; later I will try to get you a more or less definite account. When the line was attacked and broken on his right he still held his trench, and only when the Germans were discovered to be in rear of him did he leave it. He then withdraw his remaining men very skilfully right away to a flank and worked his way alone back to me to report. He finally brought his command back and then took part in the counter-attack. He was killed out in front, in the open, cutting the wire to enable the attack to be continued. This is the bald statement of his part of that day’s action. He risked his life for others right through the day and finally gave it for the sake of his men. He was a splendid type of young officer, always bold as a lion, confident and sure of himself too. The loss he is to me personally is very great, as I had learnt to appreciate what a sterling fine lad he was. His men would have followed him anywhere.” His elder brothers, Lieut. K. H. C. Woodroffe and Captain L. Woodroffe, were both killed in action (see their notices).

=WOODROFFE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., 8842 (R.F.R. Ch. B. 816), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOODS, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, Chatham, S.S. 105687, R.F.R., B. 8977, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=WOODS, BASIL HAMILTON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st East Lancs. Field Coy. Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder surviving s. of William Henry Woods, of Ravenstone, Hale, Cheshire, Mechanical Engineer, by his wife, Norah, dau. of Charles Greville Williams, F.R.S., F.C.S.; b. Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester, 18 Aug. 1891; educ. Repton School (where he was a Sergt. in the O.T.C.), and Oriel College, Oxford, was given a commission in the Reserve of Officers, which he resigned early in 1914 to take one in the East Lancashire Territorial Division, R.E., 16 April, 1914; went to Egypt with the East Lancashire Division in Sept. following, and was killed along with a number of N.C.Os. and men, 17 Dec. 1914, while on active service on the Suez Canal, by an explosion on a launch, supposed to be caused by a German mine, and was buried with full military honours in the Suez Cemetery.

=WOODS, CHARLES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1676U, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOODS, EDWARD WILFRED=, Signal Boy, J. 24461, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WOODS, MAURICE=, Seaman, R.N.R., 5005A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOODWARD, WILLIAM=, Private. R.M.L.I., Ch./11382, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WOODWARD, WILLIAM BERNARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4608), S.S. 103734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WOOKEY, FREDERICK MAURICE=, A.R.C.S.I., 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Regt., only surviving s. of Frederick Wookey, of Weston Lodge, Leixlip, co. Dublin, J.P., a member of the firm of Wookey & Son, Ltd., Washed Flock Manufacturers, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Colin McCalman; b. Rathmines, co. Dublin, 1 July, 1887; educ. privately; Campbell College, Belfast, where he won two scholarships; and the Royal College of Science, Dublin, passing in with a scholarship and obtaining the distinction of a pass “with credit” in 13 of the 16 examinations, and was awarded the Diploma of Associateship in the Faculty of Engineering. After this he went to Sir Howard Grubb’s for about a year, thence to the British Westinghouse Co., Manchester, for practical knowledge of all kinds of engineering, in order that he might qualify himself to take charge of his father’s factory, Electric Lighting, etc. Here he for some time worked for Mr. Bissett in the Large Machine Drawing Office, and was afterwards transferred to Production Department where he remained until 1913, when he returned to Leixlip. He was first Secretary and then Director of Wookey & Sons, but gave up everything when war was declared. He joined the O.T.C. about 6 Aug. and on Tuesday, 8 Sept. 1914, enlisted as a Motor Despatch Rider in the Reserve Signal Corps of the Royal Engineers, leaving for Chatham that day. He was given a commission at the Front, dated 14 Feb. 1915, and learning from his Commanding Officer that they wanted to fill up the gaps caused by casualties he joined the 1st Battn. of the Royal Irish, though he could have come home for training either in the Artillery or Royal Engineers. He was fatally wounded, when leading his company at St. Eloi on 15 March, 1915, after his Commanding Officer, Col. Forbes, had been wounded at Cross Roads, and died at No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, on Friday the 19th. He was buried in the military portion of the cemetery there on Tuesday morning the 23rd; unm. Writing to his father the Acting Adjutant, Lieut. T. E. H. Taylor, said: “Two motives prompt me in writing to you concerning the death of your son, 2nd Lieut. F. M. Wookey. One is that I wish to do so in my official position as Adjutant (Acting) of this battn. and the other is that I wish to tell you how proud I am of the perfect coolness and gallantry with which your son advanced with his men, up that fir-swept street of St. Eloi, until he was wounded. In common with all old Campbell College boys, I am proud to be able to say I was a schoolfellow of your son’s. Your son was with “C” Coy.--Commanded by Major Lillie with another subaltern, called Gordon-Ralph. In the hurried rush into the village of St. Eloi, under a very heavy fire, our companies got very scattered. Major Lillie collected some of his company, and advanced to the assault. Your son, also, got together as many as he could, and went, at the head of his men, straight for the barrier held by the Germans. Our assault had to be made, straight up the street, in the face of a deadly fire from rifles and machine-guns, both in front and on our right flank. I was with the Commanding Officer, and helped him to a place of safety when he was wounded, during which time the assault had advanced further up the street. When I returned from carrying Col. Forbes back to safety, I found that the assault had been checked by the enemy’s fire. We had then reached to within 30 yards of the enemy’s barricades, but all in front had been either killed or wounded, and those who could do so proceeded to occupy the houses on both sides of the street. In this first rush Major Lillie was killed--also Lieuts. Fottrell and Ford, and your son was severely wounded--evidently by machine-gun fire--in the legs. I did not see him, myself, but this was reported to me by a survivor who returned, and had seen your son fall. No one could get up to the killed and wounded, as the Germans kept up a heavy fire, and, by means of their flare lights, they could see the slightest move on our part. Just before dawn, on the 15th, some men who had got into a ruined house just opposite where your son fell, were able to get to him, and brought him in from the street behind the end of the house. He was then safe from the enemy’s fire. The poor fellow lay there all that day--no one could get back from that place with him. Next day the Germans allowed us to take back some of our wounded, and we brought him in to the dressing station, from where he was sent to No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul. I spoke to him, while he was being carried in, asked him how he felt, and he answered, in his quiet, cheery way, “These are great lads, to bring me back now.” He did not seem to be in any pain at all, in spite of one of his ankles being completely severed by the machine-gun fire. I went back later, to the dressing station to see him, and found that all his wounds had been dressed, and that he was sleeping peacefully on a stretcher. The doctors feared that the shock of his wounds would prove fatal, but hoped for the best. That was the last I saw of your son. I can realise what his loss means to you, and all his family. Our present Commanding Officer has asked me to try and express to you how very much we all sympathise with you in your sad bereavement. His death has been a most noble one. His example, which he set to the men who followed him that night, to almost certain death, was one of the features of the fight of which all of us are most proud.”

=WOOLF, NATHAN=, Rifleman, No. 2520, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Morris Woolf, of 14, Lincoln Street, Bow, E.; b. Commercial Road, E., 5 Aug. 1894; educ. Jews’ Free School, Birmingham; joined the week after mobilisation; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Loos, 17 Sept. 1915: unm.

=WOOLLEY, GEORGE FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 7925, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOOLLEY, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1169), 279527, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WOOTTEN, ALFRED=, Private, No. 6995, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Richard Wootten, of Somersham, by his wife, Rebecca, dau. of James Ruff, of Somersham; b. Somersham, co. Hunts, 14 July, 1885; educ. there; enlisted at Lincoln, 23 Oct. 1906, and after serving seven years with the Colours, was transferred to the Army Reserve, 23 Oct. 1913, with “Exemplary” character. On mobilisation he rejoined, 6 Aug. 1914, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Aug. 1914, and died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital at Braisne, 1 Oct. 1914, from wounds received in action at Troyon, on 29 Sept. during the Battle of the Aisne. Brig.-Gen. H. W. Studd, Coldstream Guards, wrote: “No more faithful, true, and gallant soldier gave his life for his country. He did his duty as a Guardsman and lived and died a Coldstreamer.” He m. at Stansted, Essex, 10 April, 1909, Florence (3, Gray Street, Manchester Square, W.), dau. of William Perry, of Stanstead, and had two children: Alfred Frank, b. 29 Nov. 1911; and Florence Pamela, b. 4 March, 1910.

=WOOTTON, JAMES FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2522B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WORDSWORTH, ALEXANDER GERALD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., 5th s. of the Rev. John Wordsworth, Vicar of Allhallows, Mealsgate, Cumberland, and formerly a Capt. in the same regt., by his wife, Rose Geraldine, dau. of the Rev. Alexander Williams, M.A., Rector of Upcerne, Dorset; b. Gosforth Rectory, co. Cumberland, 28 Oct. 1880; educ. Charney Hall, Grange-over-Sands, and Loretto School, Musselburgh; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Middlesex from the Cumberland Militia, 29 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 4 May, 1904, and Capt. 6 March, 1912; and was Adjutant, 9 March, 1912, to 9 March, 1914; served in South Africa, 1902, took part in operations in Transvaal, May (Queen’s medal with three clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 7 Nov. to 6 Dec. 1914, on which day he was killed in action in the trenches near Laventie. Buried in the orchard of a farmhouse, La Flinque, near Laventie; unm.

=WORSFOLD, EDWARD=, Private, No. 2385, 2/4th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Worsfold, of Thorley Cottage, Pyrford, near Woking, Cowman, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Richard Woolger; was a Gardener; b. Pyrford aforesaid, 15 Nov. 1895; educ. Pyrford Council School; enlisted 10 Aug. 1914; left England for the Dardanelles July, and was killed in action there, 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

=WORSFOLD, STEPHEN=, Private, No. 20175, Supery. Coy. 2/5th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late William Worsfold, of Holmwood, Dorking, by his wife, Betsy Ann, dau. of (--). Tidy; b. South Holmwood, 4 Sept. 1871; educ. there; was a Gardener; served for sometime with the 2nd Vol. Battn. The Queen’s R.W. Surrey Volunteers; was called up after the outbreak of war, 19 Oct. 1914, with the Veteran Reserve, and died suddenly at Chilworth, 1 Jan. 1916, of syncope, while changing guard. He m. at Dorking, 26 Oct. 1901, Lilian Caroline (5, Cotmandene Square, Dorking, Surrey), yst. dau. of James Howard, of Dorking, and had five children: Stephen Noel, b. 25 Dec. 1912; Adelaide Lilian, b. 25 May, 1902; Gladys Emma, b. 2 Aug. 1904; Evelyn Louise, b. 27 Sept. 1906; and Norah Eileen, b. 12 April, 1915.

=WORSLEY, CHARLES SACKVILLE PELHAM, LORD=, Lieut., Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), eldest s. and heir of Charles, 4th Earl of Yarborough, P.C., by his wife, Marcia Amelia Mary, suo jure 7th Baroness Fauconberg, and 13th Baroness Conyers; b. London, S.W., 14 Aug. 1887; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Oct. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 6 Oct. 1908; was extra A.D.C. to Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, K.C.B., G.C.B., Aldershot command, from 1912 to 1913, when he rejoined his regt.; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in one of the special brigades, and was given the command of the machine-gun detachment, for which work he had been specially trained; and was killed in action at Zandvoorde, Flanders, 30 Oct. 1914. On this day the Germans attempted a general offensive on the whole front from Nieuport to Arras, and there was severe fighting to the south of Ypres, in which region Zandvoorde was one of the Allies’ points d’appui. After the engagement Lord Worsley was reported missing, and for some time was believed to be a prisoner, but later evidence of his death in action this day was received. He was gazetted Capt. after his death, 15 Nov. 1915. He m. at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 31 Jan. 1911, the Hon. Alexandra Vivian, dau. of Hussey Crespigny, 3rd Baron Vivian P.C., G.C.M.G.; s.p.

=WORTABET, JOHN CECIL=, Private, No. 1625, 9th Battn. 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Emin Whiting Wortabet, of Babbacombe, Torquay, co. Devon, formerly an Official of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, by his wife, Emma Elizabeth (Marie), dau. of Michael Constantinidi, of Liverpool and Nicosia, Cyprus, and grandson of the late Dr. John Wortabet; b. Nicosia, Cyprus, 1 Nov. 1886; educ. The High School, Glasgow, and Bath College; and on leaving there in 1904, joined the Cairo Branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank, but in 1909 went to Australia and settled in Queensland as an Assistant in a Station; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the 9th Battn. A.I.F., left for Egypt with the third reinforcements, 13 Feb. 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 29 April, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Gascon, 14 May following, of wounds received in action at Gaba Tepe on the previous day; unm. He was a good shot and an accomplished horseman.

=WORTH, JOHN ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9273), S.S. 106472, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WORTHINGTON, ARTHUR TOM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1316), 203289, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WRATTEN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24625, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WRAY, HERBERT JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 1647), 191296, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WRIGHT, ALBERT GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2091), 173141, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Wright, of Canewdon, near Rochford, co. Essex; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WRIGHT, ALLAN O’HALLORAN=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, yst. s. of the late Frederick Wright, Consul at Adelaide, by his wife, Frances Jane (Clanferzeal, Redhill, Surrey), dau. of the late Major Thomas Shuldham O’Halloran, 97th Regt.; b. Adelaide, South Australia, 27 April, 1886; educ. St. Peter’s College, Adelaide, and Bedford Grammar School; served some time in the Bedfordshire Royal Engineers (Volunteers), and joined the Sussex Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia) in 1903, was promoted Lieut. 1905, and entered the regular army as 2nd Lieut., 1st Royal Irish Rifles, 29 May, 1907, being promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1909, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; was Adjutant from 1 Jan. 1913; served in the South African War, 1899–1900, with the Mounted Rifles (Queen’s medal with three clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Oct. 1914 to 13 March, 1915, on which date he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Gen. A. Lowry Cole wrote of him: “We have all lost a dear comrade and a good soldier, who met his death assisting his Col. to lead his Battn. against the enemy.” He was Scout Officer of his Battn., also Instructor of Musketry, Signalling and Gunnery. Went in extensively for polo and all sports, and for music, and composed Military marches and other compositions. He was in action before 14 years of age in the Boer War.

=WRIGHT, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7555), 189743, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=WRIGHT, EDWARD=, A.B., 213768, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WRIGHT, EDWIN=, Capt. Prince of Wales’s, 3rd Dragoon Guards, only surviving child of James Walker Wright, M. Inst. C.E., London, late Chief Engineer Public Works Department, Assam, India, and Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Joseph Hodgson, of Crofton Mills, Blyth, Northumberland; b. Jalandhar, Punjab, 27 Nov. 1879, came to England, 1883; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Greenwich Naval College, entered the Royal Marine Artillery, as 2nd Lieut., 1 Sept. 1897, promoted Lieut. 1 July, 1898, and left Greenwich, 30 June, 1899. He passed his torpedo course (H.M.S. Vernon), in 1900, and was appointed to H.M.S. Repulse (Channel Fleet), 22 Dec. 1900, till Dec. 1901. On leaving this ship he became Assistant Adjutant in his branch, Jan. 1902, a post he gave up on his promotion to the rank of Capt. 3 Dec. 1904. In the following year (1 Aug.) he took up the Adjutancy of the South-East of Scotland Royal Garrison Artillery Militia, a post for which his big-gun training fitted him. He resigned the Adjutancy 11 Aug. 1908, was placed on half-pay and served as A.D.C. to Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet, Governor of South Australia, from Feb. 1909 to Jan. 1911. Returning to England he took the opportunity offered him of going into the cavalry at the foot of the captains’ list in the 3rd Dragoon Guards at a time when the training of cavalry was exercising the minds of the authorities. He served with the regt. at Aldershot and Hounslow and subsequently at Cairo, till sent to join the Expeditionary Force in France after the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Ypres, 17 Nov. 1914. His death is thus described in a letter from a comrade: “The Prussian Guard were attacking and some of them rushed into some cottages between Wright’s trench and the next squadron trench; he rushed out of his trench with some men, and killed them all in the cottages, accounting for five himself. He then went back to his trench and took up a rifle and started shooting at the Germans in front, but a piece of bullet took a piece of his left thumb away, and damaged the rifle. This misfortune was followed by the bursting of a shell which killed him.... His squadron took the brunt of the attack, and he was responsible for a splendid piece of work in repulsing it....” His body was taken to Ypres that night and buried in the churchyard there the following day. Splendid testimony of his devotion to his men is given in a letter from Private O’Brien, who writing to his wife said: “There are many instances of bravery I saw myself. One in particular was that of Capt. Wright of my squadron who crept out under a heavy artillery and rifle fire to try and bring in two wounded men. He succeeded in bringing back to the trench Jack Lavery, who had been shot. He also bandaged up and placed in safety L.-Corpl. Fraser, who had the back of his head blown off by a shell.” Capt. Wright m. at Adelaide, South Australia, 21 Sept. 1910, Christine Margret, dau. of Thomas Elder Barr-Smith, of Birksgate, Glen Osmond, Adelaide; s.p. He was well known as a polo player and at Hurlingham was on the “four” mark.

=WRIGHT, HARRY THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5706), 203886, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WRIGHT, HUGH STAFFORD NORTHCOTE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. 8th Gurkha Rifles, 2nd s. of the late Frederick Wright, for many years senior superintendent and later Inspector General of Police in Berar, India, by his wife, Frances Louisa (Kilcor Castle, Fermoy, co. Cork), dau. of the late Henry Edmund Goodhall, of Sherwood Lodge, Upper Norwood; b. Akola, Berar, India, 14 Dec. 1877; educ. Chigwell School, Chigwell, Essex (Rev. Canon R. D. Swallow), and later at Heidelberg College. He was on plague duty in India, when the South African War broke out, and enlisted in Lumsden’s Horse, sailing from Calcutta 27 Feb. 1900. He obtained his commission in the Army Service Corps, 9 Aug. 1900. Col. Lumsden, in writing to his mother, said: “The pleasure was mine in recommending your boys [Capt. Wright’s younger brother enlisted at the same time] for their commissions. They turned out excellent troopers and fought loyally for Queen and Country; I have no doubt they will do equally well in the future. They are much indebted to General Tucker, who strongly supported my recommendation at Headquarters.” He was promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1901, and Capt. 15 Sept. 1909; took part in operations both in the Transvaal and the Orange Colony; entered Pretoria with Lord Roberts, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps, and returned to England in Nov. 1902. After a course at Aldershot, he was sent on duty to Cork, and from there to India for five years, arriving at Bombay 22 Jan. 1904; in 0ct. 1905, he went to Rawal Pindi for manœuvres in connection with the Prince of Wales’ visit; and from 1906–1908 he commanded 13th Mule Corps at Poona, returning to England in Jan. 1909, when he commanded the 15th Coy. A.S.C. at Bulford Camp, Salisbury, till 1912. On 19 April, 1912, he exchanged into the Indian Army, and left England for India the same month, joining the 2nd Battn. 8th Gurkha Rifles at Lansdowne, Himalayas. While here he passed for his Majority, and also in Kushura, the Ghurka language. On 22 Aug. 1914, he left India, embarking at Karachi for France on the S.S. Erinpura, and wrote: “We are now a convoy of 42 transports, all travelling two cables length of each other, H.M.S. Dartmouth in charge. It is really a most impressive sight, and at night looks like a white city.” They arrived at Marseilles 12 Oct. 1914, and were attached to the Meerut Division under Major-General Keary. The regt. went into action at Ypres on the night of the 29th Oct. and Capt. Wright was killed in action on the following day; unm. His Commanding Officer sent the following account of the engagement: “At 10 p.m. on the 29th he (Capt. Wright) got his Coy. in the advanced trench, next to that occupied by Capts. Hartwell and Hayes-Sadler. During the night his trench was attacked twice to my knowledge as I was with him during one attack, and with his Double Company Commander Major Wake, in the supporting trench during the other. He did all that man could do to keep his Command in hand, and acted with the greatest courage and coolness. During the very trying shell fire to which these trenches were subjected from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the 30th Oct., he did all it was possible to do. During this time he was wounded, but continued to command his men. When the furious attack developed, it was mainly directed on to his trench and that held by Capt. Sadler. He repelled line after line of the enemy, and held on till a very large proportion of his men had been killed or wounded, and till he himself was killed. What could a man do more? A soldier can do no more than die at his post--game to the last!” General Sir George Richardson wrote: “I had the honour of knowing your boy at Poona, when I was G.O.C. 5th Division, and formed the very highest opinion of him, socially and officially. We all loved him as a first class sportsman and a first class soldier”; and Major-General H. D. Keary, Commanding Meerut Division, wrote: “Professionally I was astonished at the rapidity with which he picked up his profession as an officer in a Gurkha Regt. in surroundings entirely foreign to anything he had previously seen, his previous service having been mostly in the Army Service Corps. I did, in fact, make a special note in the first Annual Confidential Report I wrote of him of my appreciation of the aptitude he had shown in this respect. Throughout the time he served under me, he showed the greatest zeal and capacity, and was an officer in whom I had the greatest confidence, and acknowledge that whatever work he had to do would be well and conscientiously done. He was a good soldier and died a soldier’s death, fighting against fearful odds and under every possible disadvantage.” Capt. Wright was far above the average both at polo and tennis, and played tennis for his Corps (A.S.C.) in Regimental Tournaments at Queen’s Club, twice being in the final; he also had the reputation of being an excellent shot. Once in Central India, while on a shooting expedition, he was walking with his elder brother and a few natives single-file along a narrow path through a thick jungle, when they came face to face with a huge tiger. Capt. Wright shot the animal dead, and saved what might have been a catastrophe; the skin of the tiger, after being cured, was found to measure from end to end, 12 feet.

=WRIGHT, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3267), 187388, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WRIGHT, JOHN HUTTON=, Private, No. 11431, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Albert Henry Wright, of 25, Grange Road, Small Heath, Birmingham; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at Bethune, 10 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action. Buried in town cemetery there; unm.

=WRIGHT, LAWRENCE WILLIAM=, Eng. Lieut. R.N., only s. of the late Lawrence Wright, of Orwell, Coatham, by his wife, Mary Livingstone (Orwell, Coatham, Redcar, Yorks), dau. of John Whyte; b. Middlesbrough, 4 Oct. 1880; educ. Coatham Grammar School, La Chatelaine College, Geneva, and the Durham College of Science; was an Engineer and volunteered his services after the outbreak of war and was gazetted Eng. Lieut. (temp.) and appointed H.M.S. Bulwark, 11 Sept. 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

=WRIGHT, LEONARD FREDERICK HALL=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19544, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WRIGHT, SYDNEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2610, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); joined the Queen Victoria Rifles 14 Sept. 1914; went to France 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; unm. Buried Larch Wood, 1, 29, Reference Map Belgium, 28, 1/40,000.

=WRIGHT, THOMAS=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., eldest s. of Stephen Wright, of Ruskington, Lincolnshire, Farmer, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of J. Christian, of Barrow House, Rutland; b. Ruskington, 6 July, 1889; educ. Christ’s Hospital School, Lincoln, and King’s College London (Associate; B.Sc.; A.I.C.); was a Demonstrator in Chemistry; joined King Edward’s Horse in Feb. 1913; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Berkshires, 24 Dec. 1914; left for France 29 Mar. 1915; and was killed in action 2 May, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Fauquissart, near Laventie, while on a reconnoitring patrol; unm. Buried in the Fauquissart Cemetery. His Commanding Officer, Major R. P. Harvey, wrote: “He was on duty in the trenches with his platoon and had taken out a sergt. and a man to reconnoitre a trench half way between the opposing lines. At 8 p.m. he returned to report that he had seen footmarks leading to the enemy’s trench. About 10 p.m. he asked permission to go on the next patrol as this was a duty which he particularly liked, and was allowed. While peering in the darkness, both he and the sergt. who was with him showing their heads above a flimsy parapet, a volley from the enemy was fired and your son was struck through the head, heart and wrist. He fell dead without a sound. The sergt. was unable to move him, but returned and reported. A brother subaltern and three men at once set out to find his remains which they brought down to headquarters by midnight. He was laid to rest in the little cemetery of Fauquissart where some 30 men of his Battn. lie. Having trained your son at Portsmouth when he joined this battn., I can testify personally to the loss the regt. has sustained in the death of a most promising young officer. One who was always willing, quite reliable, and of a most placid and cool temperament in danger.”

=WRIGHT, THOMAS=, Private, No. 20061, 4th Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs) (T.F.), eldest s. of William Worley Wright, of Bexhill, by his wife, Ellen; b. Bexhill, 19 April, 1854, enlisted in Oct. 1915, and died at Faversham, 30 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while in training. He m. at the Baptist Church, Erith, 6 July, 1890, Fanny (60, Kingsley Road, Maidstone), dau. of William Town; s.p.

=WRIGHT, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 8820, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 17 Jan. 1915.

=WRIGHT, WILLIAM=, E.R.A., R.N.R. 425EB, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WRIGHT, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (Coastguard), 306457 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=WRIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17936, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WROUGHTON, MUSGRAVE CAZENOVE=, 2nd Lieut., 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, only s. of William Musgrave Wroughton, of 77, Chester Square, London, S.W., and of Creaton Lodge, co. Northampton, by his wife, Edith Constance, dau. of Henry Cazenove, of Lilies, Aylesbury, and nephew of Philip Wroughton, of Woolley Park, co. Berks, M.P., J.P., D.L. (see The Plantagenet Roll, Mortimer-Percy, Vol. 1. p. 203); b. in London, 1 Oct. 1891. He was educ. at Harrow and at Christchurch, Oxford, and during his school and college vacations was a keen follower of the Pytchley Hounds, of which pack his father was master for many years. On leaving Harrow he received a commission in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, and in 1912 he accompanied Sir Robert Baden-Powell as A.D.C. on his world tour in connection with the Boy Scouts’ movement. After serving for four years in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, he was given a commission in the Special Reserve, 12th Lancers, as 2nd Lieut. (on probation) in Oct. 1913; the appointment was confirmed after his death, to date from 29 Oct. 1914. In Aug. 1914, he accompanied his regt. to the Front, and was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was killed in action near Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914, and was buried in Kemmel Churchyard, Belgium; unm.

=WYATT, ERNEST JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, 307234, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=WYKES, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2912, 2/10th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Henry Wykes, of 29, West View Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, Builder’s Manager, by his wife, Henrietta Adela Louisa, dau. of Laurance Rose; b. Hemel Hempstead, 16 May, 1892; educ. Council School there; was a Draper; volunteered and enlisted in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles in July, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and died in Hospital at Alexandria, 1 Nov. 1915, of dysentery contracted in the trenches. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery; unm.

=WYLD, GEORGE RICHARD=, Capt., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Wiltshire Regt., attd. 1st Berkshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. Edwin George Wyld, Vicar of Melksham, Wilts, Canon of Salisbury, by his wife, Mary Caroline, eldest dau. of Sir Hungerford Pollen, 3rd Baronet; b. Woodborough, co. Wilts, 8 July, 1879; educ. Marlborough, and on leaving there entered the Stock Exchange. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, with the 13th Middlesex V.R.C. (now the Queen’s Westminsters) and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and was appointed an Hon. Lieut. in the Army, 1 July, 1901. When the European War broke out he was on the Reserve of Officers and immediately volunteered for foreign service, and after being attached to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 19 Aug. 1914, was gazetted Capt. 3rd Wilts Regt., 7 Oct. following. He went to France with the 7th Division, attd. to the 1st Berkshires, Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy 24 Dec. 1914; unm. The Chaplain wrote: “He was most popular with his brother officers of the Berkshire Regt., and was considered very efficient in his duty, and it was whilst bravely doing his duty in trench at Givenchy that he was mortally wounded by a bullet.”

=DOUGHTY-WYLIE, CHARLES HOTHAM MONTAGU, V.C., C.B. C.M.G.=, Lieut.-Col., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, elder s. of Henry Montagu Doughty, of Theberton Hall, Suffolk, J.P., formerly R.N., by his wife, Edith Rebecca, only child of David Cameron, Chief Justice of Vancouver Island; b. 23 July, 1868; educ. Winchester and Sandhurst (1888–89); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 21 Sept. 1889, and promoted Lieut., 23 Sept. 1891; Capt. 9 Sept. 1896; Major 21 Aug. 1907, and temp. Lieut.-Col. 31 March, 1914; served (1) in the Black Mountain Expedition, 1891 (severely wounded; medal with Hazara clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force as transport officer on the Staff of Gen. Gatacre, 1895 (medal with clasp); (3) with the Nile Expedition, 1898–9, being employed with Egyptian Army, 22 May, 1898, to 1 March, 1900; was Brigade Major, Infantry Brigade, Flying Column: took part in the Battle of Khartoum, and in the operations resulting in the final defeat of the Khalifa (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 30 Sept. 1898, and 30 Jan. 1900]: Sudan medal; Egyptian medal with three clasps; order of the Medjidieh); (4) in the South African War, 1899–1900; in command of a Battn. of Mounted Infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, May-29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), and Vredefort (severely wounded; Queen’s medal with three clasps); (5) at Tien-Tsin, where he raised a regt. of Mounted Infantry; and (6) as Special Service Officer with Somaliland Field Force, 14 Jan. 1903, to June, 1904 (medal with clasps). From 26 Sept. 1906 to 3 Dec. 1909, he was acting Vice-Consul at Mersina and Konia, Asia Minor, and during his tenure of this appointment occurred the massacre by the Turks of Armenians at Adana. Of his services on this occasion, a correspondent wrote: “On his own responsibility he assumed the practical command of the city of Adana, and his courage and capacity saved the lives of hundreds--indeed, it was believed by those best able to judge, thousands--of many nationalities. Wearing his military uniform, he rode through the town with a half company of Turkish troops, compelling the raging mob to stop the killing, and posting guards over particular houses. His right arm was broken by a bullet, but this did not prevent him from riding out again, and in the second and worst outbreak of massacre again saving more hundreds of lives. The then British Ambassador at the Porte, Sir Gerard Lowther, afforded him a generous meed of support and encouragement, and Major Doughty-Wylie’s services were recognised by the award of the C.M.G. He also received the warm thanks of many foreign Governments and public bodies. He afterwards organised a system of relief to the destitute--22,000 persons, exclusive of refugees in his own house, and exclusive also of the inmates of three hospitals which were managed by Mrs. Doughty-Wylie. On 4 Dec. 1909, he was appointed Consul at Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, where he rendered important services, acting as Chargé d’Affaires for considerable periods. Being home on leave in 1912, he was, with the consent of the Government, appointed Director-in-Chief of the Red Cross units with the Turkish Forces during the Balkan War, and from 29 Aug. to 21 Dec. 1913, was British representative on the International Commission for the delimitation of the Southern Frontier of Albania, of which Commission he was elected President. For his services he received the Companionship of the Bath, and the second class of the Medjidieh from the Sultan. On his return to England he was appointed to the General Staff (2nd grade), and in 1915 went to the Dardanelles on the Staff of Sir Ian Hamilton. During the landings at the Beaches 25 and 26 of April, 1915, he represented the Staff in the steamship River Clyde, which had been specially prepared for running on shore on V Beach, and which carried 2,200 troops of the 29th Division. This landing had almost failed, owing to the raking Turkish fire from the Castle and village and both sides of the bay, and no progress was made on the 25th, in spite of the desperate valour of the Munster and Dublin Fusiliers and the Hampshire Regt., but on the 26th Col. Doughty-Wylie obtained leave to land, and collecting the brave survivors of the above-named regts., with the assistance of Capt. Walford, organised an attack, and in some hours’ fighting took the Castle and village of Sedd-el-Bahr, and finally led his handful of troops in a bayonet charge up Hill 141, since known as Col. Doughty-Wylie’s Hill. The Turks fled before them, and they occupied the old Fort on the crest, but Col. Doughty-Wylie fell at the moment of victory. An eye witness wrote: “All he carried was a small cane and from a band he wore round his arm the men gathered he was Staff Officer. He walked about in the open under a continuous fire, talking to the men, cheering them up, and rallying them together. Then when all was ready for the bayonet charge, he placed himself in front of them all, and armed simply with a small cane led them in a great charge up the hill. No braver man ever lived. He had no business to be there as a Staff Officer, but the loss among officers in landing had been so great and the necessity for making headway quickly was so essential, that he felt his duty lay in leading the men, so he went forth fearlessly to his death and the hill will be a lasting monument to his self-sacrifice and great valour. The magic of his personality and example infused the men with new resolution and they pressed the attack home.” For his services on the occasion he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915]: “On 26 April, 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both Brig.-Gen. and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieut.-Col. Doughty-Wylie and Capt. Walford organised and led an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd-el-Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. The enemy’s position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine guns and pompoms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory.” Col. Doughty-Wylie m. 1 June, 1904, Lilian Oimara, widow of Henry Adams-Wylie, Lieut. Indian M.S., and eldest dau. of the late John Wylie, of West Cliffe Hall, co. Hants; s.p. He assumed the additional name of Wylie by Deed Poll in 1904.

=WYLLIE, HENRY=, Pte., No. 2547, 6th Battn. Highland Light Infanttry; s. of A. Wyllie, of 181, East Main Street, Armandale; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915.

=WYLLIE, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 7409, 5th Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915.

=WYLLIE, JAMES BULLOCH=, Private, No. 12/2162, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of A. Wyllie, of Belmont Road, Quinfoes Green, Midlothian; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; reported missing, 8 Aug. 1915, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

=WYLLIE, SIDNEY ALFRED=, Private, No. 3382, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frederick William Wyllie, of 105, Kirkwood Road, Peckham (now on service in France), by his wife, Alice, dau. of Alfred Charles Yates; b. Port Sunlight, Cheshire, 13 June, 1899; educ. Stafford Street Wesleyan Council School, Peckham, S.E., was a Clerk; volunteered and joined the 1st London Regt., 9 Jan. 1915; went to France 16 April, and was killed in action there, 9 May, 1915; unm.

=WYLLIE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308390, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WYNDER, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 6570, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.(The Buffs), s. of William Wynder, of 37, Staunton Street, Deptford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915.

=WYNN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 17348, 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, eldest s. of Michael Wynn, of Southwick-on-Wear, Caulker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Storey, of Southwick; b. Southwick, 29 Jan. 1880; educ. Board School there; was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland, and was Secretary of the Southwick Football Club; enlisted 11 Feb. 1915, and trained at Newcastle and East Boldon. After the Battle of Hill 60 at Ypres on 24 May, 1915, he was officially reported missing and is now assumed to have been killed that day. He m. at Southwick Parish Church, 1 Jan. 1907, Ada (15, Ogle Terrace, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Edward Arthur Hatley, of Southwick, and had three children: Michael, b. 10 Dec. 1913; William, b. 29 June, 1915; and Ruth, b. 15 April, 1912.

=WYNNE, EDWARD=, Private, No. 1425, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Gloucester; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 9 Aug. 1915.

=WYNTER, FRANCIS CONSTANTINE WILLIAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yst. s. of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt. Bengal Army, and for 35 years a Queen’s Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Augustus Dillon [4th s. of Henry Augustus, 13th Viscount Dillon]; b. The Hays aforesaid, 25 April, 1888; educ. Cothill; Harrow and Hertford College, Oxford (of which he had a Founder’s Kin Scholarship); received a University commission as 2nd Lieut., Oxford and Bucks L.I., 19 May, 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1914, and Tempy. Capt. Sept. 1915; joined 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, and was posted to the 1st Battn. in India, 7 Feb. 1912; was appointed General Staff Officer (third grade), Indian Expeditionary Force, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915; unm. His eldest brother, Capt. P. C. Wynter, was killed in France in April (see his notice).

=WYNTER, PHILIP CECIL=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest s. of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt., Bengal Army, and for thirty-five years a Queen’s Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Dillon, 7th Dragoon Guards and 17th Lancers [4th s. of Henry, 13th Viscount Dillon]; b. London, 31 Jan. 1880; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st East Surreys from the Militia, 4 Dec. 1901, and joined his battn. at Lucknow the following year; promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1903, and Capt. 26 Jan. 1910; went to France the end of Oct., was invalided home the beginning of Dec. and returned to France 18 Feb., and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; unm. He was a first-rate horseman and a good cricketer and played for the Free Foresters. His yst. brother, Capt. F. C. W. Wynter, was also killed in action (see his notice).

=YARD, JOSEPH=, Stoker, H.M.S. Hood Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the roast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=YARDE, FRANK=, L.-Sergt., No. 3197, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Page Yarde, of Buckland St. Mary, near Chard, by his wife, Susan, dau. of James Yarde; b. Staple Hill, Buckland St. Mary, Chard, co. Somerset, 3 June, 1880; educ. Buckland St. Mary village school; enlisted 8 Jan. 1900; became L.-Corpl. 9 Nov, 1914; Corpl. 11 April 1915, and L.-Sergt. 12 July following; served in South Africa, 26 Nov. 1901, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1908; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 30 Aug. 1914 to 28 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action that day, near Vermelles, during the Battle of Loos. He was in a hastily dug trench in the firing line, when a shell burst and the nose cap caught him just above the forehead, killing him instantly. Letters from his comrades speak very highly of his conduct and of how much he was loved and respected by all. He was buried at the foot of the western slope of Hill 70, 300 yards from the village of Hulluch, Belgium. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 1905, Agnes Mary (Drill Hall, London Road, Camberley), yst. dau. of the late James (and Elizabeth) Knight, of Marden, near Devizes, and had issue: Frank, b. 2 May, 1906; William James, b. 11 April, 1909; Walter Cameron, b. 29 Aug. 1911; John, b. 13 May, 1914; and Margaret Elizabeth, b. 9 Dec. 1912.

=YARDLEY, FREDERICK GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., yst. s. of Joseph Yardley, of the Cedars, Bescot, Walsall, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Joseph Cockram; b. Darlaston, 19 Oct. 1887; educ. King Edward’s High School, Birmingham and Queen’s College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1910; was for three years classical master at Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Canada, and then went to Vancouver, and entered the legal profession; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the 16th Canadian Scottish (72nd Highlanders); came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th North Staffords, 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 17 July, and died in Hospital at Calais, 17 Sept. following, of wounds received whilst superintending trench digging operations near Neuve Chapelle on 22 Aug.; unm.

=YARROW, ERIC FERNANDEZ=, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), yst. s. of Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, of the Homestead, Hindhead, Surrey, Engineer and Ship Builder, by his wife, Minnie Florence; b. Blackheath, London, S.E., 5 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne; The School, Oundle, Northamptonshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was on the outbreak of the war. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 16 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. Buried on canal bank, near Ypres. 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.

=YATES, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9270). S.S. 106512, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YATES, GEORGE WALTER=, Ordinary Telegraphist, J. 17213 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Yates, of Luggvale, Stanhope Street, Hereford; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=YATES, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5597), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

=YATES, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1845), 305453, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=YATES, LENHAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12517, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YORK, WILLIAM LEONARD=, Corpl., No. 482, 1/8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 3rd s. of the late William York, Painter and Decorator; by his wife, Jennie; b. St. John’s Wood, N.W., 30 March, 1886; educ. West Hampstead School; was a post office official at the Western District Post Office, and when recruits were called for from that department immediately volunteered and joined the Post Office Rifles, Sept. 1914; went to France 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May following. Buried there. He m. at St. John’s Congregational Church, Croydon 23 April, 1910, Lilas Wilkins (53, Northboro Road, Norbury, S.W.), dau. of James Smith, and had a son, William Andrew Smith, b. 17 Sept. 1911.

=YOUNG, ALFRED=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9891, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YOUNG, ARCHIBALD EDGAR=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2077), 163559, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YOUNG, ARTHUR=, Major, 2nd Battn. 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, eldest s. of Colonel George Young, of Broomhill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Indian Army (ret.), formerly Commanding 1st Gurkha Rifles, by his wife, Harriet Rose, dau. of the Rev. James Weir, Drainie, Elgin, Scotland; b. Dharmsald, Punjab, India, 3 Dec. 1876; educ. Royal Academy, Tain; Blair Lodge School, Polmont, Stirlingshire, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, 5 Aug. 1896, and promoted Lieut. 3 Jan. 1899; Capt. 5 Aug. 1905; Double Company Commander 23 April, 1907, and Major 5 Aug. 1914. He was attached to the Gordon Highlanders for his first year in India and served with them throughout the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8; took part in the actions at Chagree Kotal and Dargai and the capture of the Sampagha and Arkanga Passes, the operations in the Waran Valley and action on 16 Nov. 1897, and those in the Bara Valley 7 to 14 Dec. following, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 June, 1898] and awarded the medal with two clasps. He joined the Indian Army in 1899, and was posted to the 1st Gurkha Rifles and later passed through the Staff College and on 1 June, 1912, was appointed Brigade Major to the Garhwal Brigade, 7th (Meerut) Division. On the outbreak of the European War, the 1st Gurkha Rifles formed part of the Indian Expeditionary Force and left India for France Sept. 1914. Major Young was wounded in action near Richebourg L’Avouée, 13 Dec. 1914, and died the following day: unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17th Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, and was buried in Lillers Cemetery.

=YOUNG, CHARLES STANLEY=, Private, No. 336, 6th Cyclist Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd and yst. s. of James Young, now R.A.M.C. Shoeburyness (served under General Buller in the South African War), by his wife, Francis (83, Western Road, Hove), dau. of Charles George Mealand; b. Hove, co. Sussex, 9 May, 1898; joined the Cyclist Corps of the Sussex Territorials in July, 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, but after nine months’ training on the East Coast, was taken ill and died in the Military Hospital at Brighton, 13 Sept. 1915.

=YOUNG, GEORGE EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8081), S.S. 103987, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.