The Roll of Honour (part 9)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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