The Roll of Honour (part 10)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MACK, JAMES WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACK, WILLIAM BELL, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084). S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army, elder s. of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan, Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk, by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; b. Bognor, co. Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the 34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in 1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9 Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt. Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell, rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt., I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier, and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his friends in India.

MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon, Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; b. Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the 30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; unm.

MACKAY, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13442 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKAY, JOHN, Petty Officer, 175154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACKAY, WALTER EDWARD, Stoker, Petty Officer, 174303, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MCKECHNIE, WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 1777, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MCKEE, JAMES, Signalman, 224740, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 14 Oct. 1914.

MACKENZIE, COLIN LANDSEER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only s. of Landseer Mackenzie, of St. Bernard, Bournemouth [Cadet of Mackenzie of Redcastle], by his wife, Laura, dau. of David Dobell, and a great-nephew of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated painter; b. Malvern, 4 May, 1892, and was educ. at Haley Preparatory School, Bournemouth; Stubbington Naval School, and Cheltenham College, where he entered the O.T.C. at so early an age as to be physically unfit to carry his rifle on a march, and won the school prize for German. On leaving Cheltenham, he joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders as 2nd Lieut. on probation, in which rank he was subsequently confirmed, and, after passing his “Army Competition,” was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 24 May, 1913. On 13 Aug. 1914, he proceeded with his battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, to France, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on 20 Sept. following. His company commander, Capt. Chichester, wrote of him: “He was in the trenches at the time, defending a position, and was watching a charge of our men on his left front, and had turned round to tell his men to cease fire, in case they hit any of their own side, when he was shot in the head, death being instantaneous. He was a gallant fellow and a good officer; his death is much deplored.” He was buried on the ridge above Vernieul; unm.

MACKENZIE, CORTLANDT GRAHAM GORDON, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 3 Nov. 1889; educ. Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Scots Fusiliers, 30 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut., 17 Feb. 1912; went to France with his regt. about 30 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried there; unm. His eldest brother, Lieut. G. A. G. Mackenzie, was killed at Festubert (see following notice), and his yst. brother, Lieut. John G. Mackenzie, is in the 92nd Highlanders, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

MACKENZIE, GORDON ALEXANDER GORDON, Lieut., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 22 Aug. 1882; educ. Ridley College, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and at the Royal Military College, Kingston; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, about 1901, being placed on the Reserve of Officers about 1907, and when the war broke out was fruit farming in British Columbia. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 30th (British Columbia) Battn., being afterwards transferred to the 16th Battn. He came over with the second contingent, Feb. 1915; went to France about 1 May, and was killed at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; unm.

MACKENZIE, JAMES, V.C., Private, No. 8185, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of the late Alexander Mackenzie, by his wife, Marion, dau. of Hugh Miller, of Meikle, Borneleugh, Irongray, Dumfries, Farmer; b. West Glen, New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 April, 1889; educ. Laurieknowe Public School, Maxwelltown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1912; killed in action at Rouges Bancs, France, at 2 p.m. 19 Dec. 1914, while acting as stretcher-bearer, in a brave endeavour to bring in a wounded comrade. For a similar act of bravery on the same day he was awarded the Victoria Cross, 18 Feb. following, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs, on 19 Dec., in rescuing a severely wounded man from the front of the German trenches, under a very heavy fire, and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on that day whilst in performance of a similar act of gallant conduct.” A comrade wrote: “He was returning to the trenches along with me and another stretcher-bearer when it occurred. We had only two or three cases that morning, so the last one was taken by us three. After we took the wounded soldier to hospital, we returned to see if there were any more. There was a very dangerous place to pass. I went first, followed by another, then James came behind, which caused his death. He was shot in the heart by a sniper, and only lived five minutes.” A memorial tablet, erected by friends in the Burgh of Maxwelltown and parishioners of Troqueer, was placed in the east vestibule of Troqueer Parish Church. A portrait has also been hung in his old school.

MACKENZIE, JAMES, L.-Sergt., No. 806, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late John Mackenzie, Coachman, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John McKenzie; b. Strathpeffer, co. Ross, 10 June, 1881; educ. Lochbroom Public School, and after working for some time in an engineering shop in Glasgow, went to Queensland about 1902, and was employed there in well sinking; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; s.p. On hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and is now (1916) on active service.

MACKENZIE, KEITH BETHUNE, Capt., 2nd. attd. 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, attd. 1st Gordon Highlanders, elder s. of the late James MacKenzie, of Daresbury, Malvern, Worcestershire, by his wife, Jane (Woodham House, Horsell, Woking), only dau. of the Rev. Neil Bethune, of Thamesford, Ontario; b. Shanghai, China, 1 Dec. 1879; educ. Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1904, and Capt., 3 June, 1911; served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Aug. 1900–Jan. 1902; Orange Free State, Jan.-March, 1902; and in the Transvaal, March-May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 14 Oct.-12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He was buried at Hooge. He was a Knight of the Saxe Ernestine Family Order. He m. at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, 22 Jan. 1912, Louise, dau. of the late James Scott, of Craigholme, Edinburgh; s.p.

MACKENZIE, KENNETH, Blacksmith, 342118, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

McKENZIE, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 8876, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of William McKenzie, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Stuart, of Logie-Almond, Perthshire; b. Edinburgh, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Fountainbridge Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted, 20 Aug. 1904; went to France with his battn., 21 Aug. 1914, and was wounded at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. 1914, and invalided home, but returned to the Front, 19 Jan. 1915. Early on the morning of 25 April, 1915, the 10th Brigade, in which were the 2nd Seaforths, received orders to retake the village of St. Julien, which had been captured by the enemy on the previous day. The attack was pushed up to the very edge of the houses, when it was checked by a murderous maxim-gun fire. The 10th Brigade suffered terrible losses and Sergt. McKenzie was mortally wounded. He was removed to the Dressing Station at Hazebrouck, where he died early the following morning (the 26th). He was buried near a burned farmhouse to the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien road, 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Sergt. McKenzie m. at Edinburgh, 18 May, 1909, Annie (2, Roseburn Street, Murravfield, Edinburgh), dau. of Henry Dunnet, and had a dau., Marion Margot Stuart, b. 15 Aug. 1912.

MACKEY, HARRY, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 789), late R.M.A. 5753, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKIE, REGINALD ERNEST, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Councillor James Wyse Mackie, J.P., of the firm of I. W. Mackie & Sons, Ltd., Princes Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth (16, Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh), dau. of the late John Burnett; b. Edinburgh, 6 July, 1884; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and studied at the Surgeon’s Hall, and then entered his father’s firm. He joined the Queen’s Own Edinburgh Rifles, which on the formation of the Territorial Force became the 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots, in 1907, and on 10 March, 1910, having passed in tactics and obtained a certificate from the School of Instruction, was gazetted Lieut. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for Imperial service; left with his battn. for the Dardanelles, Saturday, 22 May, and was killed in the attack on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm. He went out as Capt., but was not gazetted until after death, and to rank as from 26 May, 1915.

MACKIE, ROBERT COLE, Private, No. 6/499, 2nd South Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; b. Cathcart, Glasgow, 26 Feb. 1885; educ. Public School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 2nd South Canterbury Regt.; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there between that date and 1 May; unm.

McKINNON, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 537, 1st Australian Light Horse, 2nd s. of Alexander McKinnon, of Brownhill, Pitglassie, Turriff, co. Aberdeen, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Myles Morrison; b. Easter Elchies, co. Moray, 13 Aug. 1882; educ. Craigellachie and Aberlour Secondary School; was a Coppersmith; went to Australia in 1912, and settled in Queensland. He joined the Scottish Horse on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and served with that corps in South Africa, and when the European War began in Aug. 1914, he enlisted in the 1st Australian Light Horse, and died in hospital at Malta, 1 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli on or about 8 Aug.; unm.

MACKINNON, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7581), S.S. 102965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKINTOSH, JAMES LAWTON, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, yr. surviving s. of the late Hugh Mackintosh, of Braeval, Nairn, Shipowner, by his wife, Henrietta (12, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Richard Lawton; b. Nairn, 4 Jan. 1895; educ. Nairn Academy, Edinburgh Academy, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. List, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was given a temporary lieutenancy in the 1st Highland L.I., Dec. 1914; went to France, 26 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Ypres. Lieut.-Col. Hill, of the 1st Highland L.I.. wrote: “I had recognised his rare promise as an officer and he had endeared himself to all. He was leading his platoon in the attack when he was shot in the head, and died at once, without any pain.”

MACKIRDY, PETER MACKAY, Lieut.-Commander. R.N.V.R., Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division, twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock; was an Engineer; Sub-Lieut., R.N.V.R., 17 July, 1910; Lieut., 10 April, 1913. and Lieut.-Commander, 10 April, 1913; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 29 May, 1915; unm. His twin brother. Capt. R. F. MacKirdy, was killed in action there, 12 July following (see next notice).

MACKIRDY, ROBERT FINGLAND, Capt., 5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.). twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay, of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock, and was a Commission Agent; joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 22 March, 1907; became 2nd Lieut., 23 March, 1908; Lieut., 20 Jan. 1912. and Capt., 1 Nov. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for Southampton; went to the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915; unm.

MACKLIN, ALFRED HENRY, Private, No. 5064, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; eldest s. of William Macklin, of Long Street, Enford, near Pewsey, by his wife. Emily, dau. of the late John Cox; b. Enford, Wilts, 18 Oct. 1881; educ. there, enlisted on or about 4 Aug. 1903; killed in action at La Bassée, 25 Dec. 1914, and buried close to the west wall of the brewery at Givinchy. He m. at Enford, 1 Aug. 1908, Ellen Beatrice (Enford, Pewsey, Wilts), dau. of William Eyres, of Enford, Pewsey, and had a son, Reginald William, b. 24 June, 1909.

MACKRELL, THOMAS, Canteen Manager. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACKWORTH, FRANCIS JULIAN AUDLEY, Major, Royal Artillery, 3rd s. of the late Col. Sir Arthur William Mackworth, 6th Bart., R.E., C.B., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Alice, dau. of Joseph Cubitt, of Park Street, Westminster, C E.; b. Clifton, Bristol, 15 Sept. 1876; educ. Cathedral School, Llandaff, Malvern College (scholar) and Selwyn College, Cambridge (scholar, Mathematical Tripos, 1898); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 June, 1898; promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, Capt. 15 April, 1906, and Major 30 Oct. 1914; was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 2 April, 1904, to 25 June, 1908; passed into the Staff College in 1909; was Adjutant, 26th Brigade, R.F.A., from Feb. 1912 to Sept. 1913, and Brigade Major, R.A., 3rd Division, Oct. 1913 to the time of his death; went to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near La Couture, Pas de Calais, 1 Nov. 1914. Buried at Fosse, Pas de Calais. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914. He m. at Llantilio, Pertholey, co. Monmouth. 4 Aug. 1910, Dorothy Conran (The Mardy. Abergavenny), only dau. of Arthur Hastings Lascelles, and had two daus.: Cecily Joan, b. 15 Aug. 1911; and Helen Margaret, b. 18 Feb. 1914. His eldest brother, Capt. Digby Mackworth, was killed in action at Ladysmith in Jan. 1900. His yr. brother, Capt. Harry Llewelyn Mackworth, D.S.O., is now (1916) at the Front with the Australian troops. Another, Commander Geoffrey Mackworth is in the R.N.; and Capt. John Mackworth is (1916) on active service with the Royal Flying Corps.

McLARDY, HENRY, Staff Sergt.-Major, No. 1122, 8th Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Donald McLardy, of Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late (—) Slater; b. Glasgow, 26 June, 1875; educ. there; enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders at Glasgow. 4 Aug. 1891; served in Chitral, 1895, including the attack on, and capture of, Dargai Heights; and through the South African War. 1899–1902, and received the Queen’s medal with four bars (Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901–02). He then returned to India, was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal), and obtained his discharge, 31 Aug. 1910, with the rank of Sergt. after 19 years’ service with the Colours, seven of which were abroad. He went to New Zealand the same year and joined the Defence Staff as Drill Instructor Sergt.-Major, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign service and left for Egypt with the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in a bayonet charge on Walker’s Ridge on the night of 2 May, 1915, being buried in the Infantry Cemetery at the foot of that ridge. He m. at Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, 28 Feb. 1913, Elizabeth (Nen Street. Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand), eldest dau. of the late John Fraser, and had two sons: Donald Gordon, b. 1 Dec. 1913; and Henry Thomas, b. 17 Jan. 1915.

MCLAREN, ERIC ANDREW, Private, No. 12/1740. A Coy,. 3rd Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas McLaren, of Waitahuna, Miner (b. in Ireland), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Andrew Chapman; b. Waitahuna, Otago, New Zealand, 11 July, 1891; educ. Union Street School, Dunedin, and Richmond Road School, Auckland; enlisted 14 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements, 13 Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, and was killed in action at Daisy Patch. Cape Hellas, Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; unm.

MACLEAN, ALISTAIR ALLAN, Private, No. 1730, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.); 3rd s. of Alexander Maclean, of Gordon Hall, Kingussie, co. Inverness, Farmer, by his wife, Margery, dau. of Finlay McGillivray; b. Gordon Hall aforesaid, 4 May, 1894; educ. Kinguissie Higher Grade School; was a Clerk in the London Branch of the Bank of Montreal; joined the London Scottish in 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 Sept.; was wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914, during the famous charge of the London Scottish, and died at Poperinghe three days later, 14 Nov.; unm. He was buried at Poperinghe.

MACLEAN, ANDREW DE VERE, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., only surviving s. of Kaid Sir Harry Maclean, of Tangier, Morocco; b. Morocco City, 18 Oct. 1882; educ. Wellington; and served with the Militia in the South African War. 1901–02 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and was gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 1st East Surreys, 28 April, 1902. He was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1904. and Capt. 1910, and retired 23 April, 1913, when he joined the Special Reserve. He rejoined his Battn., in Dublin, on the outbreak of war; went with the 14th Brigade to France, and was killed in action at Missy-sur-Aisne, 19 Sept. 1914, and was buried there. He m. at Bombay, 20 Nov. 1907, Dulce (Westlands, Ewhurst, Surrey), only dau. of the late Major-Gen. T. J. Maclachlan, R.H.A.; s.p.

MACLEAN, ANGUS ROBERT, Private, 1363, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force. 3rd s. of Angus Maclean, of Korrumburra, Victoria, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of George McGregor; b. Deep Creek, Victoria, 16 June, 1889; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, took part in the landing and was killed in action there, 17 July, 1915; unm.

MCLEAN, CHARLES, Private, No. 2583, 2nd Battn. (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., s. of Michael McLean; b. Liverpool, 34 years ago; educ. St. Sylvester School, Liverpool; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; buried Bailleul Cemetery. He m. Liverpool, 8 Aug. 1906, Sarah, dau. of Felix Grimes, of Liverpool, and had five children: Michael, b. 2 June. 1907; Felix, b. 17 March. 1909; Gerard, b. 15 Jan. 1913; Sarah, b. 14 March, 1911; and Mary, b. 8 April, 1915.

MCLEAN, WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., R.N.R. 5329A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea. 22 Sept. 1914.

MACLEHOSE, NORMAN CRAWFORD, Lieut., 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Norman Macmillan MacLehose, of 18, Harley Street, London, W., and of Little Heath, Berkhamsted, Herts, M.B., Ophthalmic Surgeon, by his wife, Olive, dau. of the late Alexander Macmillan, Publisher; b. London, 21 April, 1889; educ. at Rugby, where he was “King’s Medallist,” and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A., with 2nd Class honours in Modern History, 1911; was a student of the Inner Temple and a member of the staff of the “Umpire’s Office” in connection with the Insurance Act (Part II for Unemployment). For some time after leaving Oxford he resided at, and worked for, Toynbee Hall, and he kept up his connection with that institution until the war broke out. He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1912, and in the following year obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Post Office Rifles. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was promoted Lieut., 19 Aug. 1914. He left for France with his battn. in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert on 26 May following; unm. He was buried at Lindez Farm, Festubert. In a letter written a few days before his death he said; “Well, the war is a bad business, but there are compensations. People had so often told us the race was degenerate that I had almost begun to wonder whether it was not true, but I know now.... Some of our fellow’s used to grouse and seem soft in England, but there is no doubt about them here. They are made of the right stuff, as I believe the whole nation is.” His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a very valuable officer and will be greatly missed”; and a brother officer said: “His men loved him.”

MACLENNAN, IAN DOUGLAS, Sergt., No. 2690, 5th Battn., Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of the Rev. George Robert Maclennan, M.A., Parish Minister of Thurso, by his late wife, Barbara Johnston, dau. of the late Robert Johnston, Jeweller, Glasgow; b. Campbeltown, co. Argyle, 16 April. 1894; educ. St James School, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; won the medal for junior vocalists at the “mod” of “An Comunn Gaidhealach” in 1907; and on leaving Edinburgh in 1911 entered the Thurso Branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, and was an active and enthusiastic worker in his father’s church at Thurso. He joined the 5th Battn., Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.) in May, 1911; volunteered on the outbreak of war for foreign service; was promoted Sergt. 19 April, 1915; went to France on the following Saturday, and was killed in action at 6.30 on the evening of 15 June, 1915, in an attack upon the German trenches a few miles N.N.E., Festubert; unm. His chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane, wrote: “Sergt. Maclennan was killed in action last night when our battn. had severe losses. His coy. (C) was chosen to lead an attack, and he with several others, among them two of the officers, were cut down by machine gun and shell fire. He always willingly led the praise for me at the coy. services. On Friday afternoon I had a service with his coy. in preparation for the trench work and its hazards, and he led the hymns for us so lustily. He was an influence for good among the men, and was most highly respected and beloved by his own coy.” A comrade wrote: “Everyone here has great reason in feeling very proud of Ian. I saw him last just before we left the trench to charge, and as usual, he was cheerily talking to us and looking as cool as could possibly be. It is a comfort for you to know that Ian’s remains have had a very decent burial just behind the trench from which we charged, and a Sergt. from B Coy. has put up a very neat cross on the grave.” Another comrade paid the following tribute to his memory: “Happiness was one of his great possessions, he was never downhearted. He was one to march with or to rest with, a man in a hundred to fight alongside, for he had the two essential qualities of a good comrade—great spirits, and ceaseless unselfishness. His death, like his life, was a glorious one, and I am sure that he met it as he met good and bad fortune alike—with a smile.”

MACLEOD, ALASTAIR RODERICK, Lieut., “Y” Battery, R.H.A., yr. s. of Simon John Fraser Macleod, of 26, Albert Hall Mansions, Kensington. S.W., K.C., one of H.M. Commissioners of the Board of Control, by his wife, Catherine Florence, dau. of the late William Nelson, of Salisbury Green, Edinburgh; b. 44, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, W., 20 Jan. 1892; educ. Cheltenham, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1911; appointed to 135th Battery, and promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1914. He proceeded with his battery to France in Aug. 1914, his brigade being attached to the 4th Division, and took part in the memorable retreat from Mons to Melan, and subsequently in the general advance and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. While on observation duty for his battery in our first line trenches near Le Gheir before daybreak on the morning of 21 Oct., the trenches were captured by a battn. of the 104th Saxon Regt. and he himself and some 40 men made prisoners. They were well treated by their captors and placed in the cellars of a convent for protection from the bombardment of their own guns, and later in the day, when a counter-attack recovered the lost trenches, were released. In Nov. he was wounded by shrapnel in the shoulder and got concussion from the effects of high explosive shells, and was invalided home. He rejoined at Woolwich in Jan. 1915, and getting his “jacket” was in March appointed to “Y” Battery, R.H.A., and proceeded to the Dardanelles with the 29th Division. He was mortally wounded at Beach W, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915. Having been selected on 23 April by the officer in command of the R.H.A., of the Division to act as observation officer to certain of the ships, whose guns were to cover the landing of the troops near Cape Helles, he, with his servant and five signallers, went on board the Caledonia, and on the morning of the 25th he and his men landed with the Lancashire Fusiliers at Beach W, between Capes Tekke and Helles, to control and direct the fire of the warships. Lieut. Macleod was the only R.H.A. officer to participate in this gallant feat of arms. Our men suffered heavily while still on the water, and, on landing, came up against unbroken lines of barbed wire, while, from the cliffs, snipers and concealed machine-guns and quick-firers rained death upon them. Lieut. Macleod and his signallers, with the exception of one, who fell severely wounded directly he left the boat, succeeded in crossing the beach and gaining some shelter on the cliffs; but, in attempting to move forward to a more commanding position, he was mortally wounded by a pom-pom bullet. Just after being hit, he sent off a military message to the Fleet, ending with the words: “I’m done for!” His servant, Gunner McCarthy, raised him up and dragged him into some slight shelter, and he was within a short time placed in a boat and taken to H.M.S. Euryalus, but died as he was being lifted on board. He was buried at sea the following day together with 16 other officers, the Brigadier-General and all the officers of the Headquarters’ staff being present; unm. The officer commanding his battery in France wrote: “I had an extremely high opinion of the boy, both as a friend and an officer, and the regt. has lost one of a type which is rare to find. He combined every virtue that one could wish to find; a charming companion, very popular with the officers and equally so with the men, and they had a great respect for him. Hard working, always thorough at his duties and keen on his profession, he was an absolutely straight gentleman. His one fault I fear may have been his undoing, and that was his total disregard for his own safety”; and the Colonel commanding the R.H.A. Brigade at the Dardanelles wrote: “He had a particular charm about him with his very boyish appearance and manner, and I had taken a great liking to him. His selection for so important a job is a sufficient proof of what was thought of him as an officer. The desperate enterprise succeeded on that beach, and you, with many others, will have your grief tempered by pride in one of the most glorious achievements of this war.” Lieut. Macleod was a fine rider, and on 25 April, 1914—exactly a year before his death—won the Bar Point-to-Point Open Steeplechase on his own horse in a field of 23. He was known to his intimates as “Hamish.”

McLEOD, ARCHIBALD ALASTAIR, Capt., 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., 3rd s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. William Kelty McLeod, Col., The Highland L.I., by his wife, Emilie Godfrey, dau. of the late James Thomson, of Gibraltar, nephew of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir John McLeod, G.C.B., Col., Black Watch, and gdson. of the late Col. Alexander McLeod, C.B., 61st Regt.; b. Singapore, 3 June, 1877; educ. Wimbledon School, the Oxford Military College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 8 Sept. 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 13 Oct. 1905; served (1) in the South African War, 1900–02, was employed with Mounted Infantry, took part in relief of Kimberley operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain), Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River, operations in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11–12 June), operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), Bothaville, Caledon River (27–29 Nov.), in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900, and in Cape Colony, north of Orange River, operations in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Oct. 1901 to 31 May, 1902, and operations in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1901, and Sept, to Oct. 1901 (Queen’s medal with six clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); (2) in Nigeria being employed with West African Frontier Force, 29 Sept. 1906 to 1908, when he joined 1st Battn.; and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914; went to the Front with the 1st Division, was present at the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action while leading his Coy. in an attack on a farm held by tin-Germans, 2 Nov. 1914. Capt. McLeod was distinguished in musketry, and had the Special Certificate of signalling granted to him at Pretoria in June, 1904. His Coy. were winners of the Douglas Shield (a Regimental trophy) in 1912. His recreations were hunting, polo and shooting. He m. at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, 18 June, 1914, Marie Jeanette Amelia, yst. dau. of Lord Henry Fitzwarrine Chichester, and gdson. of Edward, 4th Marquis of Donegall; s.p.

MACLEOD, DAVID FERGUSON, L.-Corpl. No. 270, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late David Ferguson Macleod, of 29, Polworth Gardens, Edinburgh, and of the General Post Office, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Henry John Gibson, Aberdeenshire; b. Edinburgh, 12 Sept. 1889; educ. George Heriot’s School; went to Australia, Oct. 1913, and settled at Sydney, New South Wales; was a Secretary; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of the European War; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on the hospital ship Devanha, 10 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action after Lone Pine, 9 Aug. 1915; unm. He was buried at sea 10 miles south-east of Mudros Harbour, Lemnos Island.

MACLEOD, IAN BREAC, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch, only s. of the Rev. Roderick Charles Macleod, Vicar of Mitford, Morpeth, by his wife, Katharine Louisa, dau. of the Rev. William Edward Jelf, of Caerdeon, Dolgelly, and gdson. of Norman Macleod of Macleod, of Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, J.P., D.L., 22nd chief of his clan; b. Bolney, co. Sussex, 4 Sept. 1893; educ. Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914; joined the 2nd Battn. in India, Nov. 1912, with it went to France in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches near Neuve Chapelle, 17 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the cemetery at Veille Chapelle. Col. Harvey wrote: “Your son was a most excellent young officer, and since the Battn. has been in France he has done most sterling work, especially when his Coy. Commander was wounded before Christmas—a time which tried all ranks very highly. Your son was killed while he was carrying out his duties in the trenches, and I understand died without pain.” And Major Wauchope: “Believe me that for all great and important qualities such as truthfulness, courage, kindliness, a most ready sympathy (most rare in one so young), consistent unselfishness—in all these he was, I believe, superior to most.... I have seen no one more cool and collected in hours of great danger.... As his Capt., and I do indeed trust as his friend, I can say there are few indeed I know who have qualities that are so ‘becoming to an officer and a gentleman.’ You can guess how all the men loved ‘Mr. I. B.’ All who knew him, officers and men, mourn his loss. I do not think he ever had an unkind thought for anyone, but it is only since the war began I understood his value as an officer.”

McLEOD, DUNCAN, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9671), S.S. 201449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct 1914.

MACLEOD, TORQUIL HARRY LIONEL, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Goliath, 2nd s. of Roderick Willoughby Macleod, of Invergordon Castle and Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and 10, Ovington Gardens, London, formerly Capt., Cameron Highlanders (who served in the Egyptian Campaign of 1882), by his wife, Alice Olivia, 2nd dau. of Edward Tierney Gilchrist Darell; b. Invergordon Castle, aforesaid, 11 Sept. 1899: educ. Hillbrow, Eastbourne, and the Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth; joined H.M.S. Goliath as a Naval Cadet, 1 Aug. 1914, and was drowned when that battleship was sunk by a torpedo from a Turkish destroyer in the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. His Commander, H. Peel-Ritchie, V.C., wrote of him: “All the time he was my A.D.C. I had every reason to be more than pleased with his keenness and zeal and the cheery way he did everything. He was a great favourite with officers and men, and I feel sure that, as he had made such a very good start, he would very quickly have made his mark in the Service.”

McLOUGHLIN, FRANCIS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3640, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McMILLAN, ALEXANDER, Driver, No. 5/692 A., New Zealand Army Service Corps, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Archibald McMillan, Farmer, by his wife (—), dau. of Andrew Gilmour, of Waipawa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, Engineer and Surveyor; b. Kumeroa, 26 Feb. 1888; educ. Waipawa District High School; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, left for Egypt with the Main Expeditionary Force, and died of enteric fever, 3 Nov. 1915, in the 17th General Hospital, Alexandria, and was buried there; unm. He was a most prominent cricketer and Rugby football player, and prior to his departure from New Zealand represented the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in a football match against the Christchurch Rugby Team.

McMILLAN, JAMES, Blacksmith (Pensioner), 163582, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McMULLEN, THOMAS. Sergt., No. 7360, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late William McMullen, of 40, Bell Street, Sunderland, Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard Copping; b. Sunderland, 8 May, 1889; educ. St. Joseph’s there and Albert Road School, Darlington; was a Shipyard Labourer; enlisted, 28 July, 1908, and reached the rank of Sergt. after about five years’ service; went to France with his battn. in Aug. 1914; took part in the Battle of Mons and the other engagements in which the 2nd Coldstreams so greatly distinguished themselves, and was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant conduct in the field. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915, in the same affair in which L.-Corpl. Michael O’Leary, 7th Irish Guards, won the V.C. Buried at Cuinchy; unm. Immediately the news of his death was received, one of his brothers, John McMullen, a married man with three children, enlisted in the Royal Engineers, in order that the family might still be represented in the Army, but was invalided out after six months’ service.

McMURRAN, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7687), S.S. 103004, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McNALLY, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9696), S.S. 107103, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McNAMARA, JAMES, A.B., 196451 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McNEALE, FRANK HANSFORD, Petty Officer, Tele. 233305, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McNEALY, MATTHEW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 637), 281510, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McNEILL, HENRY GEORGE, Trooper, No. 735, 10th Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of John O’Brien McNeill, of 13, Diamond (—), Londonderry, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Charles Howard Cullen, of Drumbawn, Newport, co. Tipperary; b. Queenstown, co. Cork, 10 Jan. 1896; educ. there and Mallow, co. Cork; went to Western Australia early in 1914 with the intention of taking up farming, but gave this up on the outbreak of the European War and joined the 10th Australian Light Horse at Perth, 5 Jan. 1915; went to Egypt, 9 March, and, after training there, volunteered to go as an Infantryman with his regt. to the Dardanelles; served there from 14 May to 7 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge during the famous charge of the Light Horse. A comrade wrote: “It was on the morning of 7 Aug. when our unlucky regt. and another charged from Walker’s Ridge, and almost all got wiped out. When we had to retire back to the trenches that we started from, I looked for your son and to my sorrow could see him lying a few yards out. I watched him for a few minutes and could not see him move. I knew that he had given his life doing his bit. We could not get him in until it got dark, as it was only 50 yards off the Turkish trenches and it was death to show your hand over the trench. But that night we got him and several more in and carried them down to our medical station. We could not bury them that night, as we could not be spared from the firing line for long, but the next night we carried your son down and gave him a decent burial, our Army Chaplain reading the burial service and saying a short prayer. We mounded his grave up with stones and put a small wooden cross at the head of it with his name and regt. on it.” His 2nd brother, Corpl. John Elder McNeill (No. 7266), serving with the R.A.M.C., then attd. to the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers in France, was officially announced to have been awarded the D.C.M. the same day as his brother was killed, and his eldest brother, Gunner Charles Simpson McNeill (No. 31907), Royal Garrison Artillery, is also at the Front. Of his mother’s brothers, two served in the South African War and four are now on active service.

MACNEILL, WILLIAM MACKINNON, 2nd Lieut., 16th Lancers, 2nd s. of the late Duncan Macneill, of Winchester House, Old Broad Street, E.C., by his wife, Louisa Lucia, 4th dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw Castle, 8th Baronet, Wigtonshire; b. Tyndale House, Wimbledon Common, 7 March, 1890; educ. Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 16th Lancers (Special Reserve) from the Carmarthenshire Militia, 22 June, 1909; obtained his Pilot’s Certificate, qualifying to serve as a flying officer, 1 Jan. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Mont des Cats, near Hazebrouck, 12 Oct. 1914, being buried in the Monastery there; unm.

MACNICOL, HORATIUS BONAR, 2nd Lieut., 1/10th Royal Scots (T.F.), elder s. of the late Rev. Duncan Clarke Macnicol, B.D., United Free Church Minister of Stockbridge, Edinburgh, by his wife, Emily Florence (74, Grange Loan, Edinburgh), dau. of the Rev. Horatius Bonar, of Grange, Edinburgh, D.D.; b. Glasgow, 13 April, 1896; educ. Edinburgh Academy, and Trent College, Derbyshire; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/10th Royal Scots, 17 April, 1915, and was drowned in Belhaven Bay, Dunbar, 30 July, 1915, in a gallant attempt to save a private named Watson, of his battn., who had been seized with cramp; unm.

MACNIVEN, ROBERT, Private, No. 606, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Lanark; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed, 6–9 Aug. 1915.

McNULTY, JAMES, Private, No. 3385, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); a native of co. Sligo; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 15 May, 1915.

McNULTY, PETER, Private, No. 1455, 1/4th Battn. East Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late John McNulty (died 8 March, 1912), by his wife, Ellen (37, Eldon Place, Blackburn), dau. of (—) Ingham; b. Blackburn, 25 April, 1894; educ. St. Albans Higher Grade School there; was an engineer; joined the Lancashire Territorials in Nov. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt in Sept. following; served at the Dardanelles, and died 1 July, 1915, of wounds received in action there; unm. Buried in Cape Helles Cemetery.

McPHERSON, DONALD, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13741, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACPHERSON, DUNCAN STUART ROSS, Lieut., 7th, attd. 2/8th, Gurkha Rifles, only child of Surgeon-Gen. William Grant Macpherson, Army Medical Service, C.B., C.M.G., K.H.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of J. Clunas, of New Orleans and Nairn; b. Bushey Heath, co. Herts, 23 Aug. 1889; educ. Westminster, Fettes College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattd. List, 20 Jan. 1909; served his first year in India with the 2nd Black Watch; was appointed to the Indian Army, 11 March, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 20 April, 1911; served in India with the 7th Gurkha Rifles at Quetta and, during the winter of 1912–13, on the Persian Frontier; was in England on leave when war was declared in Aug. 1914, and was appointed Assistant Adjutant of the 8th (Service) Battn. The Black Watch at Aldershot, where he took an active part in the training of the battn. He went to France early in Nov. 1914, and was attd. to the 8th Gurkha Rifles. They were in the trenches at Festubert until the night of 22 Nov., when they were relieved. Shortly afterwards the enemy attacked and took the line of trenches they had handed over, and the battn. was ordered to return and counter-attack on the 23rd; this they did, eventually regaining the lost positions. It was during this attack that Lieut. Macpherson was killed while in command of the leading coy.; unm. Buried at Bethune. Lieut. Macpherson was a keen golfer and polo player, and had passed the examination for promotion to Capt. with distinction.

MACPHERSON, JOHN, Cadet, R.N., elder s. of John Lumsden Macpherson, Lieut.-Col. commanding 7th (Reserve) Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, T.D., Solicitor, by his wife, Mabel Jeanie, dau. of the late Rev. Robert Nimmo Smith, L.L.D., Minister of the First Charge of Haddington; b. St. Andrews, Fifeshire, 6 Nov. 1898; educ. Clifton Bank, St. Andrews and privately; entered Osborne in Sept. 1911; joined H.M.S. Bulwark from Dartmouth on the outbreak of war, and was lost when that ship was blown up at Sheerness on 26 Nov. 1914; unm.