The Roll of Honour (part 11)

McCRAE, GEORGE, Capt., 6th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), attd. 1/4th Royal Scots, eldest s. of Col. Sir George McCrae, of Torluish Grange, Edinburgh, Vice-President of the Local Government Board for Scotland, and Commanding Officer 16th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, by his wife, Elizabeth Cameron, dau. of William Russell; b. Edinburgh, 10 Dec. 1883; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and on leaving there entered his father’s firm, Messrs. McCrae (Ltd.), Hosiers, of Princes Street, Edinburgh, of which he became managing director. On 23 May, 1898, at the age of 15, he joined the 4th Royal Scots (Volunteer), afterwards the 6th Royal Scots (T.F.), as a bugler; he became a private, 23 May, 1901, 2nd Lieut., 12 June, 1901, Lieut., 22 April, 1903, and Capt., 26 Sept. 1905. Volunteering for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, he was transferred to the 1/4th Royal Scots and placed in charge of a double company. He left with a draft of this battn. for the Dardanelles in April, 1915, and was killed in action during an attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915. He was first wounded in the leg, but continued to lead his men on, until he was shot through the head and killed instantly. He was buried in the battlefield. “A keen and hard-working officer,” said the “Watsonian”; “his cheery and generous disposition made him popular alike with men and officers. On the voyage out, at a time of great danger, he insisted on giving his lifebelt to a private. His men here, who are left, will miss him.” He m. at Glasgow, 24 Sept. 1910, Jemima, dau. of Alexander Ross, of that city; s.p. Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service, Lieut. W. K. McCrae, in the 1st Lowland R.G.A., and Capt. K. McCrae, in the Cameron Highlanders.

MACRAE, IVOR ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn., King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of Donald MacDonald MacRae, of Stenhouse, Thornhill, co. Dumfries, by his wife, Rosalie, dau. of the late Edward Lloyd, of Sittingbourne; b. Stenhouse aforesaid, 8 March, 1895; educ. Aldro, Eastbourne, and Harrow (The Grove); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B., 10 Jan. 1914, and attached to the 2nd Battn. for training at Dublin, 14 April following; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at Bethune, 14 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action near Cuinchy, the previous day, while leading his platoon. They had been ordered to drive the enemy out from an entrenched position and during the attack nine-tenths of his men were killed or wounded. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm.

MACRAE, KENNETH CHARLES ERNEST, L.-Corpl., No. 1348, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Kenneth Macrae, of Durham Road, East Finchley, N.W., by his wife, Frances Gertrude (18, White Hall Park, Hornsey Lane, N.), dau. of Henry Double, of Ramsgate; b. Highgate, 5 June, 1893; educ. Highfield, Muswell Hill; was a Civil Servant, Somerset House; joined the London Scottish in Sept. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with his battn. in Sept. 1914, and died of wounds in the 13th Hospital at Boulogne on 26 Nov. following. He was shot in the spine by a German sniper at Ypres; unm.

MACRAE, VICTOR CHARLES JAMES, Corpl., No. 5327, 4th Battn. Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd s. of Donald Macrae, of 123, Blenheim Place, Aberdeen, formerly Station Master of Plockton, Ross-shire, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Alexander Ferguson, of Inverness, Goldsmith; b. Inverness, 12 Oct. 1892; educ. Plockton Public School, Aberdeen Grammar School, and Aberdeen University, where he graduated in classics with 1st Class honours and was captain of the University Shinty Club and won his blue; had been in the Territorial Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders but had retired. On the outbreak of war he re-enlisted, 2 Oct. 1914; went to France, 22 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Frierstraghte, Belgium, 21 April, 1915, while succouring a wounded comrade; unm. His Commander wrote of him as one of his best non-commissioned officers, and Major G. H. Smith, of the 4th Gordons, wrote: “Your son was a brave soldier, and it was just characteristic of him that he gave his life for his comrade. He was shot through the heart while attempting to lift up a wounded comrade and hold a cup of water for him to drink.”

MACREIGHT, ARTHUR WILLIAM JAMES, Lieut., 18th Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Albert Francis Henry Macreight, of The Cottage, Gammaton, North Devon, by his wife, Alma Jane, dau. of the late Joseph Ede Hamley; b. Kenython, St. Just-in-Penwith, Cornwall, 21 Jan. 1892; educ. Worcester Royal Grammar School, and H.M.S. Worcester, Thames Nautical Training College, and was for 18 months a Cadet on board the British Indian steamship Chyebassa. He joined the London Irish Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 9 June, 1913, on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and went to the Front with his regt., but was invalided home, and died at Bournemouth, 23 Nov. 1915, after undergoing several operations; unm.

McSPARRON, WILLIAM GEORGE, Private. No. 541, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of George McSparron, of Straidarran, co. Derry, Farmer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Matthew Millar; b. Straid, afsd., 16 June, 1891; educ. Tyrglasson National School; went to Australia in 1912, and was working in Sydney when war broke out; volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt, 18 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was wounded shortly afterwards; returned to duty in June, and was killed in action in the fight for the Lone Pine trenches, between 6–9 Aug. 1915; unm.

MACSWAN, ANGUS, Private, No. 6247, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 4th s. of the late Donald MacSwan, Diver to the Leith Dock Commission, by his wife, Flora (139, Great Junction Street, Leith), dau. of the late Ronald Macdonald, Registrar, of Sleat, Skye; b. South Leith, 16 Dec. 1881; educ. Dr. Bell’s School there; enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders, 23 Aug. 1898; served with the 2nd Battn. through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); after this campaign transferred to the 1st Battn. in India; obtained his discharge, 28 Sept. 1905, and joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and rejoined the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, while acting as orderly to the Capt. of B Coy.; unm. He was buried at a farm close to where he fell. Private MacSwan was a good all-round sportsman; was a marksman; a great footballer, and a member of the Regimental XI when they were the champions of India in 1905.

McTURK, HORATIO ANDREW DAVID, Trooper, No. 1269, Essex Yeomanry, yst. s. of Robert McTurk, of Frieze Hall, South Weald, Brentwood, Essex, Farmer, by his wife, Janet, dau. of John Crawford, of Sproulston, co. Renfrew; b. Frieze Hall afsd., 12 March, 1896; educ. High School, Brentwood; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to the Front, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres in the famous charge of the 8th Cavalry Brigade, the 10th Hussars, the Blues and the Essex Yeomanry, on 13 May, 1915; unm.

McVEIGH, GEORGE, Seaman, R.N.R., 4826B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McVEY, JAMES, Gunner, 11425, R.M.A., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McVITTIE, GEORGE HENRY, 2nd Lieut. 2/4th Battn. The Border Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Richard McVittie, of 34, Brunswick Square, Penrith, Boot and Shoe Merchant, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Henry Hill, of Carlisle; b. Penrith, 24 Sept., 1895; educ. Brunswick Road Council School, Penrith; Penrith Grammar School (Sept. 1908 to July, 1914, Scholar), and Christ College, Cambridge (Exhibitioner); was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Border Regt. 4 Jan. 1915; left for India on 6 March, 1915, on H.M. Transport Dongola, and died on active service on H.M. Transport Tunisian the following day of strain and exposure caused by a collision between the Dongola and another ship in the Bristol Channel. He was unm.; and was buried at sea with full Military honours off the Scilly Isles. Col. Haswell wrote: “It is very sad that such a promising boy should be cut off so early, and the only comfort I can give you is that he did not suffer any pain, but quietly slept away. He was a good lad, keen at his work, and would have made a good soldier. We wrapped him in the Union Jack this afternoon (8 March), and buried him in the Atlantic.” While at the Grammar School he passed the Oxford Junior Local in 1910, the Senior in 1911, and took second-class honours in 1912. Having chosen the scholastic profession, Mr. McVittie in March, 1913, took the teacher’s preliminary certificate, with distinction in mathematics and geography, and taught for a year at the Boys’ National School. Prior to going Cambridge he was extremely anxious to respond to his country’s call and enlist as a private, but as the arrangements for going to Cambridge had been completed he went there and joined the Officers’ Training Corps. As a boy he was an enthusiastic member of the Penrith Boy Scouts, and he was also keenly interested in the Penrith Y.M.C.A.

MACWHINNIE, NORMAN HENRY, D.C.M., Regimental Sergt.-Major, No. 5177, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of James Tait Macwhinnie, of Ayr, Marine Engineer, by his wife, Elizabeth (14, St. Michael Street, Dumfries), dau. of the late John Carruthers, of Maxwellbank. Kirkcudbrightshire; b. Glencaple, co. Dumfries, 9 Aug. 1877; educ. St. Joseph’s College, Dumfries, subsequently entering the office of Charles M’Kie, the Sheriff clerk. He attached himself to the Dumfries Volunteers, and as soon as he had reached the age of 18 joined the 1st Battn. of the Scottish Borderers at York, 22 Jan. 1895, being promoted Corpl. in October the following year. During the South African war he accompanied his regt. to the Front and served with Lord Roberts’ column all the way to Pretoria, passing through the campaign without a scratch, and receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps; he also took part in the engagement at Karee Siding, near Bloemfontein, in which the Scottish Borderers were badly cut up, and for this gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal. In Jan. 1900 he became Sergt., in the following year Colour-Sergt., and while stationed at Cairo in 1908 Quartermaster-Sergt., having in the meantime seen service in Egypt and the Soudan; his final promotion came when he left Khartoum to take up the Sergt.-Majorship of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick in 1910. On the outbreak of war he was offered a commission, but preferred to stay with his regt., with which he proceeded to the Front, being killed in action at the Aisne River, 13 Sept. 1914. He was buried about two miles from Saarcy. Sergt.-Major Macwhinnie was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 9 Oct. 1914, and was awarded the Military Cross and the French Medaille Militaire; he also held the regulation medal for long service and good conduct, and King George’s Coronation Medal. He m. at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Belfast, 28 April, 1904, Caroline Christina, dau. of William Hart, 1st Class Staff Sergt.-Major, A.S.C., and had a son and dau.: Norman, b. Cairo, 29 Jan. 1908; and Elizabeth Madge, b. Colchester, 1 Dec. 1905.

McWHIRTER, HUGH WALTER, Private, No. 902, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Henry McWhirter, of Humbermouth, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, by his wife, Lottie, dau. of Henry Lilsed Harris; b. New Richmond, Quebec, 18 March, 1894; educ. Bay of Islands; volunteered and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. in 1915; left for Britain 20 March, 1915, went to the Dardanelles, 19 Sept., and was killed in action there, 22 Sept. 1915; unm.

MACWILLIAM, JAMES JULIAN GORDON, Lieut., 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of James MacWilliam, of 22, Forbes Road, Edinburgh, Solicitor in the Supreme Courts of Scotland, by his wife, Ella Julie de Lorn, dau. of Charles William Gordon MacDougall; b. Edinburgh, 16 Aug. 1895; educ. Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Gordon Highlanders, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 11 Dec. following; was for some time A.D.C. to Major Oakeley, Commandant of the O.T.C. at Barry Camp; went to France about 10 Sept.; joined his battn. at Fère-en-Jardenois; marched to La Bassée early in October, and was wounded by shrapnel on the 12th; rejoined the battn. about 19 Nov., when he took over his coy. temporarily, and was killed in action at Maedelsted Spur, Wytschaete, 14 Dec. 1914, while leading his platoon. His Commanding Officer, Major Baird, wrote: “On 14 Dec. three companies of his battn. were ordered to attack a German trench. Your boy’s coy. was one of these. The artillery previously bombarded the German trench, and it was hoped that it would have been made practically untenable. So far from this proving to be the case, as soon as our men advanced they were met by a terrific fire, through which they pushed forward in spite of heavy losses to within fifty yards, and in some places nearer still, of the German trench. It was when your boy was gallantly rising to lead his men for a final rush from this forward position that he was shot through the head and killed instantly. These are the particulars given me by a sergt. who was with the body of men under your son and who saw him fall. The Germans’ fire was so heavy that our men, in spite of their splendid advance, could not assault and carry the trench; their losses during the advance had been terrible, yet they hung on all day from 8 a.m. till dusk, and then had to withdraw. It was to my deep regret impossible to bring your boy’s body back for burial. Even after dark, the Germans kept up a heavy fire at this very close range, but he was lying so near the German trench that there is no doubt that they will have taken him behind their lines and buried him. I cannot express sufficiently the deep sorrow which I, and all of us, feel at the loss of a brother officer, who, though but so recently joined, had already on more than one occasion shown his sterling value. I have felt it my duty to bring to official notice the gallant manner in which your son was leading his men when he met his death. I know how little there is I can say that can bring consolation to you in your great sorrow, and will only add that your son’s death occurred in an action which, though it failed in its purpose, has been as fine an exhibition of sacrifice and determination as any in the annals of this regt., and I hope that you may be able to feel that your boy has died in covering himself with glory.” And Sergt. P. Benzies (since killed) on behalf of the N.C.Os. and men of C Coy., wrote: “On the morning of 14 Dec., the Gordon Highlanders made a glorious charge, two platoons of C Coy. leading, the other two to support. Your son was in charge of Nos. 9 and 11 Platoons which led, and, when the order came to advance, he was the first out of the trenches; smiling and waving his stick, he encouraged his men on. When we had got to within fifty yards of the German trenches we had to lie down for a minute to get our breath before the final assault. It was when he raised his head to give the order to advance that he was killed. He died instantaneously, and therefore suffered no pain. You ought to be very proud of yourself to have had such a gallant son, for he was a thorough hero, and we all admired him very much. I was also with your son when he was wounded on 12 Oct. 1914. I gave him a snapshot photograph, which was taken about the beginning of Oct., and which I hope he sent home. He gave a few of us cigarette lighters just a few days before the charge, and we all treasure them very much now.” Another officer writing home said: “Poor young MacWilliam, who had just rejoined after recovering from a wound, was shot dead through the head. I have since then taken over temporary command of C Coy., and in drawing up a report of its work during the day of the attack (14 Dec.) find that the men speak in the most glowing terms of the bravery of George and Mr. MacWilliam, and of the gallant way in which they led up their men to the advance under heavy machine gun and rifle fire. In fact the Commanding Officer has expressed extreme satisfaction and praise for the altogether splendid way in which they led their men in face of overpowering odds. Although victory was not achieved, the glory of unselfish bravery, such as reaches the highest achievements of the British Army, is attached to the names of the men who took part in that charge.” At Edinburgh Academy he was a L.-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and a member of the Shooting VIII, and shot for his school at Bisley.

MADDANS, FREDERICK, Private, No. G6535, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915; unm.

MADDEN, THOMAS HYLTON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., only s. of the Ven. Thomas John Madden, Archdeacon of Liverpool, and Vicar of St. Luke’s Church there, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Henry Horrocks, M.D.; b. Liverpool, 30 April, 1895; educ. Liverpool College and was to have entered Emmanuel, Cambridge, in Oct. 1914, but war breaking out he gave up his studies and applied for a commission. He had joined the Liverpool College O.T.C. in 1909, and at 16 commanded a coy. of the “King’s” Cadets under the late Lieut.-Col. A. T. S. MacIver. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (Reserve of Officers), 2 Aug. 1914; mobilised 5 Aug. following, and after training at Seaforth left there for the Front, 29 Sept.; reaching the firing line, 13 Nov. He received a regular commission in the 1st Battn. of his regt., 2 Feb. 1915; led the charge of his platoon against the German trenches on 10 March following, and was in the act of throwing a bomb over the barbed wire entanglements when he was shot down by a machine gun and fell mortally wounded. The Adjutant (Capt. S. E. Norris) wrote: “He fell leading his platoon in an assault on the German trenches at Givenchy about 8.15 yesterday (10 March). Capt. Feneran and Lieut. Young were also killed, and Lieut. Millar (all the officers of your son’s Coy., A) was wounded. From the evidence of the few men who returned I am sure they were all killed instantly. The whole history of the British Army has nothing finer to show than the work of A Coy. yesterday. Col. Carter was wounded, so I am writing this for him. Your son was one of the most promising young officers in the regt.”; and a Capt. of the 5th King’s: “On 10 March there was a general attack by the whole of the 1st Division, and on the whole it succeeded. The 6th Brigade, of which ‘The King’s’ Liverpool Regt. formed part, attacked at Givenchy, and in the attack by his regt. Hylton led the second party on the left. The first party had come under exceptionally heavy fire, and he must have known that he had to face more than the usual risk. He never faltered nor hesitated. He led his men well, and fell a victim to machine-gun fire. I think he must have died instantaneously. When the history of this war comes to be written, the story of ‘The King’s’ charge at Givenchy will rank equally with any of its heroic deeds in the past. The attack of our brigade failed, and the King’s Royal Rifles, the Liverpools and the South Staffords lost heavily in officers and men. But the force of their attack caused the Germans to bring reinforcements to Givenchy, and enabled success to be achieved elsewhere.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A memorial tablet and window has been placed in St. Luke’s Church, Liverpool, and a memorial tablet in Christ Church, Southport.

MADDISON, ALFRED, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26723 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Arthur Maddison, of 7, Railway View, Dringhouses, near York; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MADDOCK, THOMAS HENRY, Private, No. 10066, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of George Maddock, of Stratford, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Henry Rand; b. Stratford, co. Essex, 21 March, 1890; educ. Carpenter’s Road Council School there; enlisted 19 July, 1907; went to France, 30 Jan. 1915, and died at a Clearing Station on 27 Feb. 1915, of wounds received at St. Eloi the previous day. He was buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm.

MADIGAN, JAMES FRANCIS JOSEPH, Private, 12 1703, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war; joined his unit at the Dardanelles, 8 May, 1915, and was killed in action, 8 June following.

MAGEE, RICHARD EDWARD, Master-at-Arms, 164813, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MAGILL, HUGH, L.-Corpl., No. 11355, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Hugh Magill, of 17, Ardenlea Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11–18 March, 1915.

MAGUIRE, CHARLES, Private, No. 8081, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of James Maguire, of Newton Farm, East Wemyss, Fife; b. Carnoustie, co. Forfar; enlisted 13 Nov. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; dangerously wounded in the spine in action; admitted to hospital at Aldershot, 6 Nov. 1914, and died there, 12 July, 1915.

MAHONEY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 12317, 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., s. of John Mahoney, of Convent Street, Bandon, co. Cork, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Gilman; b. Convent Hill, Bandon, co. Cork; educ. Convent School, Bandon; enlisted in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and served nine years with the Colours, going through the South African War, for which he received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He then enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at Tralee, 4 April, 1901, and served his time in Halifax. On the outbreak of the European War he again enlisted in the 2nd Welsh, 22 Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 Dec. 1914. He m. at the R.C. Church, Dowlais, 29 Aug. 1897, Emily (29, Greenfield Terrace, Penydarren, near Merthyr), dau. of William Mitchell, and had two children: Daniel, b. 17 June, 1905; and Minnie, b. 11 June, 1898. While with the Munster Fusiliers Mahoney was a prominent regimental athlete.

MAHONY, FREDERICK HENRY, Capt., 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., only s. of Capt. Frederick Henry Mahony, late York and Lancaster Regt., for some years Adjutant of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Hounslow, by his wife, Elizabeth Mary, dau. of Lawrence Cahill; b. Lucknow, 24 Aug. 1874; educ. Dover College, and by Mr. Miller Maguire, the Army Tutor, etc.; enlisted in 1892 in the York and Lancaster Regt., and served for five years in the ranks. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Cheshires, 24 Aug. 1898, and promoted Lieut., 2 June, 1900, and Capt., 10 Feb. 1906; served in the South African War, 1900; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, attd. to the A.S.C., including actions at Dreifontein, Vet River, (5–6 May), and Zand River; in the Transvaal, May to June, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11–12 June), and in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, July to Nov., including action at Belfast (26–27 Aug.), etc. (Queen’s medal with five clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 28 Nov. 1900 to 9 July, 1904, first in Northern Nigeria, during operations against the Emir of Yola, 1901 (medal with clasp), and subsequently in Southern Nigeria with the Aro Expedition 1901–2 (clasp). From 8 Jan. 1906 to 31 March, 1908, he was Adjutant of the Durham L.I. Volunteers and of the Territorial Battn., 1 April, 1908, to Jan. 1909. He went to France with his battn. which formed part of the 15th Brigade, under Major-Gen. Count Gleichen, in Aug. 1914, and which he commanded in Oct. during the first desperate fighting in which the 2nd Army Corps was engaged in the neighbourhood of La Bassée. During this time he led a successful bayonet charge under very heavy artillery fire, and showed excellent coolness and courage, and was complimented by General Count Gleichen on the excellent work of his battn. On 22 Oct., near La Bassée, while on his way to give orders to some men in the trenches, he was mortally wounded by a bullet from a German sniper, who fired at him from a cottage window, over 1,000 yards distant, the bullet striking him in the shoulder and penetrating to the lungs. He was removed to the Clearing (114) Hospital at Bethune, where he died a couple of hours after his arrival. Before starting on his fatal journey to the trenches he had been asked, “Why not send a man with the message?” to which he replied: “I won’t ask a man to do what I won’t do myself.” He was buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. Mahony was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 14 Jan. 1915. He had been strongly recommended for the D.S.O. by General Count Gleichen, and according to information received by his relatives from the War Office this honour would have been duly awarded him had he lived. He m. at St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, 12 July, 1905, Ethel, dau. of John Paterson, of 42, Holland Park, W., and 1, Wallbrook, City, and had issue: Frederick Henry Patrick, b. 11 Feb. 1911; and Cynthia Patricia, b. 14 March, 1909.

MAINE, JOSEPH LESLIE, Corpl., No. 10399, 7th (Service) Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., s. of Thomas Maine, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Thomas Preece; b. Grangetown, Cardiff, 1 Aug. 1888; educ. Grange Schools, Cardiff; enlisted, Aug. 1914; promoted Corpl., 26 Sept.; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the 13th Division at the Dardanelles from 17 June to 8 Aug. 1915, on which date he was killed in action there. He was a well-known member of the Bream Rugby Football Club. He m. at the Baptist Chapel, Parkend, 26 Dec. 1912, Hannah (Breams Tufts), dau. of Thomas Preece.

MAINWOOD, WILLIAM RICHARD, Sergt., R.M.L.I., 10397 (R.F.R., Ch. A. 666), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAIR, JOHN, Private, No. 3334, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Walter Mair, of Church Street, Newarthill, Motherwell, by his wife, Annie Glen, dau. of (—) Buchanan; b. Newarthill, co. Lanark, 13 May, 1880; educ. there; enlisted 12 Nov. 1901; went to France, 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines, 17 Nov. 1914. He m. at Forsyth, Newarthill, 8 April, 1910, Annie (now wife of James Reid, of 25, Drygate Street, Larkhall), dau. of John Dobbie, and had three children: Mary Sneddon, b. 26 June, 1910; Annie Glen Buchanan, b. 29 Jan. 1911; and Margaret Dobbie, b. 8 Dec. 1913. He was awarded the Second Class Certificate of Education, 9 April, 1908, and had the Mounted Infantry Certificate.

MAIRS, ALEXANDER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7130), S.S. 101872, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Mairs, of Kellswater Station, Randalstown, co. Antrim; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MAISEY, FRANK DOUGLAS, Rifleman, No. 2326, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Arthur George Maisey; b. London, 28 Feb. 1893; educ. Commercial Travellers’ Schools, Pinner; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915; and was killed in action at Hill 60 21 April following, on the occasion on which the Q.V.Rs. so greatly distinguished themselves, and 2nd Lieut. Geoffrey H. Woolley of that battn. won the V.C.; unm.

MAISEY, WALTER SRAFFORD, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8384), 203623, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MALCOLM, JAMES (HAMISH) WADDELL, 2nd Lieut., 5th (City of Glasgow) Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), s. of John Malcolm, of 3, Kensington Gate, Dowanhill, Glasgow, Shipowner and Shipbroker, by his wife, Margaret Black, dau. of the late James Waddell, of Airdriehill; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 19 Sept. 1894; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 9 April, 1913; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service with the battn., and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 July, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916], for gallantry in the field. Writing to his father, July 16 his Colonel stated: “A Coy. was detached as support to the 6th Highland L.I., and early on the evening of the 12th was ordered up to reinforce that battn. which had captured several trenches, but was held up at one advanced trench running diagonally across its front. Our men carried the near end of the trench, but the Turks retained the far end, and for a long time the struggle raged up and down at very close quarters between hurriedly constructed barriers of sand bags. Major Downie was severely wounded early in the fight, and for some time Hamish was the only officer of the company at that part of the trench. The men all speak in the highest terms of his pluck and the manner in which he cheered them on and kept them at it. They say that he fainted from exhaustion, but as soon as he came to, insisted on getting forward again although he was urged to rest for a little. A good deal of hand grenade work was going on on both sides, and he set the example of picking up the enemy’s grenades and throwing them back. Eventually he was struck by a grenade which exploded and killed him on the spot.”

MALET, HUGH ARTHUR GRENVILLE, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, elder s. of Allan Arthur Grenville Malet, of The Butts, Harrow-on-the-Hill, M.I.C.E., Madras P.W.D. (ret.), Deputy Chief Engineering Inspector, Local Government Board, by his wife, Elizabeth Anne, dau. of William Lysaght, of Beechmount, co. Cork; and gdson. of the late Lieut.-Col. George Grenville Malet, 33rd (old 3rd) Queen’s Own Bombay Light Cavalry [killed in action at Bushire in the Persian War, 1857; 4th s. of Sir Charles Warre Malet, 1st Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A.]; b. Duggirala, Kistua, India, 22 Sept. 1892; educ. Harrow, and Caius College, Cambridge; was in the O.T.C. at School and College, and on entering the Inner Temple in 1913; joined the Inns of Court Squadron; volunteered for active service the day war was declared, and obtained a Special Reserve Commission in, and joined, the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as a University Candidate in the Connaught Rangers, 26 Sept. 1914, but at the special request of the Col., 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, was transferred to them; was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt. 26 Nov., and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Buried at Hill 60. An officer wrote: “Everyone here speaks very highly of him. And they all say he was absolutely fearless. I understand his name was sent in for ‘mention in Despatches’ for some very useful work he did in scouting. Those who were present on Hill 60 say that he was killed while trying to take a communication trench which was held by German bomb-throwers. I am told he was killed instantaneously, which is a blessing. I am really proud to have known him.” A wounded Private of his platoon wrote from a Base Hospital: “At the request of Major Bindloss, R.A.M.C., I will endeavour to the best of my ability to describe to you how your son conducted himself during his period of active service. I cannot say for certain when he joined us out here, but it was either the end of Nov. or the first days in Dec. that he was posted to No. 3 Platoon of A Coy., which I belonged to. I know we were not exactly delighted at the time, for he just looked like a young boy, and we of No. 3 did not like the idea of being led into action by a lad whom we thought had no experience, but he was not with us many days when we changed our opinion regarding him. It was our first turn in wet trenches when we began to take a little more notice of him. He came amongst us cheering us up and giving us all the help he possibly could to make things more comfortable until we were relieved. The next time we went in, your son, at a very great risk to himself, went about looking for different ways into the trench, so that we should not have to go through the communication trenches which were full of water, and he always found a way which took us into the trench with dry feet, which meant a great deal to our comfort. He was always the same every time we went into the trenches. The comfort of the men came first; this continued during the hard winter which we put in. Spring came, and with it dangerous work. Your son was always the first to volunteer, in fact he was the only officer in A Coy. who ever did any of that work. He used to go out in front of the trench scouting along with six men, perhaps he would stay out one hour, perhaps two, and then again I’ve known him stay out from 8 o’clock at night until 4 in the morning, trying to find out who were in front of us. Then came the order we were to help at Hill 60. We lay in dug-outs while our artillery shelled the Hill; the Germans replied; the air seemed to be alive; it was awful, but we sat tight until the hour arrived, 7 a.m. It was then the Hill went up; it was like a huge crater, and shook the earth for miles around. We then advanced on the Hill, and, of course, we took it. We could not see a German anywhere, but bullets and bombs came amongst us, doing frightful damage. Your son then said, ‘Follow me, men, I’ll find the Germans for you.’ We went after him, he found them, but I regret to say, they found him first. His death was instantaneous, he suffered no pain. Madam, your son died a hero, and he should have had the V.C., but unfortunately there was no one there to recommend him for same. His death was deeply regretted, not only by the men of his platoon, but by every man who was left alive in his Coy. We not only lost our best officer, but we had lost a friend.” The Medical Officer, after taking a statement from two wounded men of his platoon, wrote; “Lieut. Hugh Malet took command of the trench, and in less than an hour he was killed in an exactly similar way by a rifle bullet. His death was instantaneous. He fell within five yards of the place where Capt. Wingate was lying.... Lieut. Malet was considered by these men to be a wonderfully brave officer, he invariably volunteered for all dangerous duties; quite recently he had gone out four nights in command of scouts in front of the British trenches to try and capture German ‘listening’ posts and snipers who were suspected of using explosive bullets. The two men said that we men always said that he would either get a V.C. or be killed; Lieut. Malet used to come back from these night scouting expeditions covered from head to foot in mud, from the ditches he had crawled through.”

MALKIN, PERCY, Private, No. G. 2941, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 8 May, 1915.

MALLINS, CLAUDE JOSEPH O’CONOR, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Batt. Connaught Rangers, eldest s. of the late Capt. Frederick William Mallins, 3rd East Lancashire Regt., by his wife, Eliza (now the wife of Henry O’Connell-Fitzsimon, of 31, Pembroke Road, Dublin), yst. dau. of the late Roderic Joseph O’Conor, of Milton, co. Roscommon, J.P.; b. Dublin, 3 Oct. 1894; educ. Stonyhurst College, Wimbledon, and Sandhurst; was gazetted from the Reserve of Officers to the Connaught Rangers, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force on 2 Sept. and was killed close to Mollemsarrelhoek, near Ypres, while directing the fire of his platoon, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. He had been acting as Adjutant for some weeks. His Commanding Officer wrote deploring the loss of a very valuable officer who “knew no fear.”

MANCER, ARTHUR JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3083), 210896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MANDERS, NEVILLE, Col., Army Medical Staff, yst. s. of the late Major Thomas Manders, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), afterwards Adjutant, P.W.O., Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of John Hacking; b. Marlborough, co. Wilts, 12 Dec. 1859; educ. Marlborough College, and after qualifying (with honours) as L.R.C.P. (Lond.), and M.R.C.S. (Eng.), entered the Army Medical Service as a Surgeon, 2 Aug. 1884; was gazetted Major, R.A.M.C., 2 Aug. 1896, and promoted Lieut.-Col 2 Aug. 1904; and Col, 21 Dec. 1910; served in the Suakim Campaign, 1885 (medal with clasp, Khedive’s Bronze Star), and with the Burmese Expedition of 1887–89, in which he was severely wounded (medal with two clasps); was Senior Medical Officer, Ceylon, 1908 to 1911, and at the Curragh, 1912 to Dec. 1913, and was appointed Deputy Director of the Medical Service in Egypt, 21 Dec. 1913, a position which he retained until Jan. 1915, when he was, by special request, attd. to the Headquarters Staff of the Australian and New Zealand Forces as A.D.M.S., going with them to the Dardanelles in April, 1915. He was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. 1915, during the attack on Sari Bair, and was buried on the beach at No. 3 Post. Gen. Sir Alexander Godley, General Officer Commanding, New Zealand and A Division, wrote: “He had endeared himself to us all, and had so thoroughly identified himself with this force and had been such a help to us, that his loss will be irreparable. I can hardly say how much I shall miss him and all the help he gave me. He was killed while making plans for the relief of the wounded, on the field in the execution of his duty, and I only hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know this, and to know how highly we all thought of him, and how much we shall miss him both as a Staff Officer and a comrade.” Col. Manders was a prominent Entomologist, having done much research work in that branch of science. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society, and a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and the Bombay Natural History Society. He m. at St. Michael’s, Colombo, Ceylon, 15 Sept. 1900, Maude Braybrooke (Glenthorne, Dorset Road, Bexhill-on-Sea), only child of Frederick William Vane, I.S.O., Ceylon C.S. (retired), and of Louisa Frances, his wife, and had a dau., Una Jim Chester, b. 1 Nov. 1901.

MANLEY, HERBERT JOHN, Gunner, No. 2/330, New Zealand Field Artillery, s. of the late John Manley, of Rathdrum, co. Wicklow, Ireland, for over 30 years Relieving Officer under Rathdrum Board of Guardians (who died 11 Dec. 1910), by his wife, Maria, dau. of the late Arch Manning Greenane; b. Rathdrum, co. Wicklow, 20 June, 1892; educ. Rathdrum High School; went to New Zealand with his mother and brothers and sisters after his father’s death in 1910, and after the outbreak of war joined the Expeditionary Force, 2 Oct. 1914, and was killed instantaneously in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915, being shot through the heart; unm. He was buried in a gully near the sea, close to the spot where he fell, and a wooden cross was erected by his comrades.

MANLEY, JOHN DUNDAS, 2nd. Lieut., 26th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of the late Herbert Manley, of West Bromwich, M.D., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Alice (1, Bank Mansions, Golders Green, London, N.W.), dau. of Capt. Robert Thomas Dundas, R.N.R.; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford, 24 Jan. 1892; educ. Cheltenham College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. on probation, to the Special Reserve of the Royal Engineers, 21 June, 1913, and confirmed in that rank, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the 26th Field Coy. R.E., attd. to the 1st Division, of the Expeditionary Force, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, during the Battle of the Aisne, 26 Sept. following, and was buried in Vendresse churchyard about a mile from the spot where he fell; unm. An oak cross set in stone and bearing his name and rank was erected by the men of the 26th Coy. Major H. L. Pritchard, D.S.O., R.E., wrote: “I cannot tell you how much all the officers of the 26th Coy. sympathise with you in your bereavement, and how much we mourn the loss of your son, while to me, his commanding officer, it is a serious handicap to lose such a brave and valuable officer. It will also, I hope, be some consolation to you to know that the General, under whose orders he was working (having been detached from me), had several times on days just prior to his death told me how much your son was helping him, and what a good fellow he was. In fact, the General appreciated his services as much as I did;” and Lieut.-Col. A. L. Schreiber, R.E., D.S.O.: “I feel that I must write to tell you of the high opinion that had been formed of your boy. He had been in charge of a section of his company detached with the front line of the 3rd Brigade, and the General (Loudon) and his Staff Officer, Major Grant, both expressed to me their great sorrow at his loss, and their appreciation of the excellent work he had done for them. I had personally come specially in contact with him several times since he was detached, and was much impressed with the excellent spirit in which he was carrying out his independent duties. There must be this consolation that his death must have been instantaneous ... also there is the feeling, of which you should be proud, that he was killed actually on the field of battle while in the execution of his duty, and he had borne his share of the great hardships the company had gone through, and was much appreciated by his brother officers.”

MANN, ERNEST WALTER CHARLES, Private, No. 9489, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., eldest s. of Albert Mann, of 61, Rosebery Road, Ipswich, Sawyer, by his wife, Ellen; b. Westbourne, near Ipswich, 1878; enlisted in the Suffolks at the age of 18, and served eight years with the Colours and four in the Reserve, and after the outbreak of war rejoined his old regt. in Sept. 1914; went to France, in Nov., and was killed in action at La Bassée, 8 Jan. 1915. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich, 2 Dec. 1905, Ethel Frances (12, Benhall Green, Saxmundham), dau. of Thomas Holland, and had a son: Ronald Albert, b. 27 June, 1912.

MANN, HOWARD WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 11617, 12th (Service) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., s. of George Mann, of Blakeney, co. Glos., Wood Sawyer; b. Blakeney, 17 Nov. 1877; educ. Council School there; enlisted in the Monmouth R.E. (Militia) in April, 1895; served for two years and five days, and obtained his discharge by purchase, July, 1897; later became a member of the Cyclist Coy. Liverpool Battn. National Reserve, and on the outbreak of war re-enlisted in the Liverpool Regt., Aug. 1914; died of pneumonia at Aldershot, 21 Dec. 1914. He m. at Gloucester, 24 Dec. 1898, Sarah Jane, dau. of John Papps, of Stroud; s.p.

MANN, REUBEN, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 22131 (Ports.), H.M.S Hawke, s. of William Mann, of Bishops Itchington, Leamington Spa; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MANN, WILLIAM HORACE, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. E. 13136, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MANNERING, ARTHUR LIDSTONE, Cook’s Mate, M. 5540, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MANNING, ALFRED, Private, No. 1618, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Alfred Manning, Coal Porter; b. Canning Town, E., 27 Aug. 1895; educ. Cyprus Place Council School, New Beckton, E.; joined the Rangers, 12 June, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France with his Battn. at the end of Dec. 1914, and died of wounds received in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 24–26 April, 1915; unm.

MANSFIELD, JOHN RICHARD, A.B., 213674 (Ports), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MANSFIELD, THOMAS RICHARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5775), S.S. 487, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MANSFIELD, WILLIAM, Stoker, Petty Officer, 276756, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MANSON, MAGNUS MURRAY, Rifleman, No. 1999, A Coy. 1/21st (1st Surrey Rifles), London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of James Alexander Manson, of 4, Cornwall Avenue, Church End, Finchley, author and journalist, by his wife, Margaret Emily, dau. of Charles Deering; b. at Herne Hill, London, 30 Sept. 1891; educ. Alleyn’s School, Dulwich; was a Clerk, first in the Education Department of the London County Council and, secondly, in the London Office of the Guaranty Trust of New York; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 April, 1915; unm. He was buried the same day in the little churchyard there behind the firing line. Capt. Quintin Walford, his Coy. Officer, wrote: “His loss is much felt by his comrades of ‘A’ Coy. and by me. He was conscientious and hard working, and died doing his duty for his King and Country.”

MANT, WILLIAM, S.P.O., 306427. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAPLESTONE, JAMES WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1857), 290210, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAPPLETHORPE, CLAUDE, Rifleman, No. 1508, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frank Mapplethorpe, of 9, Delamere Terrace, Paddington. Tailor, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Alexander Mould; b. Lumley Street, Oxford Street, W., 5 May. 1892; educ. Camble Street Council School, N. Paddington; was by trade a Tailor; joined the Rangers about 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France in Dec. 1914, and died in the 5th General Hospital, Rouen, on 2 July, 1915, of wounds received at St. Julien, near Ypres, on 3 May. He was buried in the cemetery at St. Sever, Rouen; unm. His brother Frank, serving in the same battn., was wounded and taken prisoner on 8 May. Their platoon sergt. wrote of them: “Both brothers did some splendid work while we were in the trenches, and stood by me like bricks.”

MARDELL, EDWARD, Private. R.M.L.I., Ch. 16690, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MARKER, RAYMOND JOHN, D.S.O., Col., Coldstream Guards, 1888–1913. Staff Officer, eldest s. of Richard Marker, of Combe, Honiton, co. Devon. J.P., D.L., late Capt. 1st Devon Yeomanry, by his wife, the Hon. Victoria Alexandrina, née Digby, eldest dau. of Edward, 9th Baron Digby; b. Upcerne Manor, Dorchester, 18 April, 1867; educ. Evelyns Preparatory School, Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 15 Nov. 1888, and promoted Lieut., 29 Sept. 1890; Capt. 1st Battn. 24 Jan. 1898; Brevet Major, 26 June, 1902; Major, 29 Nov. 1903; Lieut.-Col. 2nd Battn. 11 March, 1911, and Col. 5 Aug. 1914; was Adjutant, Coldstream Guards, 7 March, 1892, to 6 March, 1896; A.D.C. to Gov. and Com.-in-Chief (Sir Joseph West Ridgway), Ceylon, 7 March, 1896, to 5 Dec., 1897; A.D.C. to Viceroy of India, 6 Jan. 1899 to 9 March, 1900; on special service in South Africa, 7 April, 1900, to 8 March, 1901; and A.D.C. to General Officer, Com.-in-Chief the Forces, South Africa, 9 March, 1901, to Sept. 1902; served through that campaign; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, including actions at Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May to June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, July to Aug. 1900, including action at Belfast; operations in Orange River Colony, Sept. to 29 Nov. 1900 and 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900; operations in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900 to March 1901, and operations in the Transvaal, March, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (three times mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 23 April, 7 May, and 10 Sept. 1901]; Brevet of Major, Queen’s medal with five clasps, King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.; placed on list of officers concerned qualified for stall employment, in consequence of services on the Staff in the Field); was in charge at Vereeniging during deliberations of Boer Generals and with Col. (afterwards Major-Gen.) Hubert Hamilton brought home peace despatches to Windsor, June. 1902; A.D.C. to Com.-in-Chief, East Indies, 28 Nov. 1902 to 30 April, 1904; Private Secretary of State for War (Mr. Arnold Foster), 1 Jan. 1905 to 18 Oct. 1905; A.D.C. to Com.-in-Chief East Indies, 5 Nov. 1905 to 27 Oct. 1906; General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, Home Counties Division, E. Command, 1 April, 1908 to 12 June, 1910; in command of 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, March 1912 to Nov. 1913; A.Q.M.G. Aldershot Command, 29 Nov. 1913 to Aug. 1914; A.A. and Q.M.G. 1st Army Corps, British Expeditionary Force, in France; served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915]; Cross of Officer of the Legion of Honour); was wounded at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, and died at Boulogne on the 13th. Buried at Gittisham, Honiton. He m. at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, 21 Nov. 1906, Beatrice Minnie Shrieve, 3rd dau. of Sir Thomas Jackson, of Stansted House, Essex, 1st Bart., and had a son: Richard Raymond Kitchener, b. 18 June, 1908.

MARKHAM, ALLAN, S.P.O. (R.F.R., B. 8683), 295344, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MARKHAM, JOHN ADDIS, Capt., 1st Battn. The East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Markham, of Popenhoe, Wisbech, Norfolk, by his wife, Henrietta Jane, dau. of William Addis, of London; b. Faulkner House, Walpole-St.-Peter, Wisbech, 31 Dec. 1886; educ. Dover College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Yorkshires from the Militia, 27 May, 1908, and promoted Lieut. 3 Sept. 1910. He was appointed temporary Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and this rank was made substantive, 6 Feb. 1915. He went to France with the 6th Division in Sept. 1914, and was mortally wounded by a sniper’s bullet in the trenches near Armentières, 7 May, 1915, and died two hours later, being buried in Le Bizet Convent; unm. Major I. L. I. Clarke, commanding 1st East Yorkshires, wrote: “I looked upon Markham as my most reliable Company Commander, always cheery and a splendid example to all under him. He was beloved by his men, and exceedingly popular with his brother officers”; and Private John Brady, of his company: “He was the gentleman who led my platoon to the trenches on the Aisne, the platoon that was the first to come under the fire of the Germans’ famous coalboxes. He laughed at those shells, bucked us up, making us so that we could not do anything else but follow him.” Capt. Markham was a fine horseman, and in 1913 he won the East Yorkshire’s Regimental Point-to-Point Race, on his horse, Loretto.

MARKILLIE, EDGAR JOHN, Private, No. 944, Machine Gun Section, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late John Adam Markillie, Mayor of Camberwell in 1908, by his wife, Frances J. (85, Norbury Crescent, Norbury), dau. of Thomas Morris, of Harrow, Tailor; b. Peckham, 1 Dec. 1890; educ. Bellingdon Road Higher Grade School, South London School, Camberwell, and Clarke’s College, Lewisham; went to Sydney, New South Wales, 3 Aug. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the Australian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, Aug. 1915; unm. He had gained accountancy examination just before enlistment, also examination in book-keeping, first class. He excelled in sport of all kind, and was one of the crack shots of the second Australian contingent. His brother, Ernest Stuart, was killed in Belgium (see his notice).

MARKILLIE, ERNEST STUART, Private, No. 156, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late John Adam Markillie, Mayor of Camberwell in 1908, by his wife, Frances J. (85, Norbury Crescent, Norbury), dau. of Thomas Morris, of Harrow, Tailor; b. Peckham, 24 March, 1895; educ. Bellingdon Road Higher Grade School, and South London School, Camberwell; was a Clerk in the London County and Midland Bank, 1913–14; volunteered and enlisted on the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Bailleul, 18 Jan. 1915, while fixing barbed wire; unm. He was in first Rugby team, and was a fine swimmer. His brother, Edgar John, was killed at the Dardanelles (see his notice).

MARKQUICK, ARTHUR CHRISTIAN, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23520, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MARLER, ALBERT WALTER, Officer’s Steward, R.N.V.R., Sussex 1/305, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Albert Marler, of 116, Montgomery Street, Hove; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MARQUER, TOUSSAINT MARYS, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 342455, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MARROW, EDWARD ARMFIELD, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only surviving s. of the late Major Peter Marrow, of the King’s Dragoon Guards, by his wife, Mary (Belhaven Hill, Dunbar), dau. of the Rev. Alexander Stewart, Rector of Liverpool; b. Blantyre, co. Lanark, 26 Sept. 1883; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the K.O.S.B., 18 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1906, and Capt. 1 April, 1910; served with the 2nd Battn. in India, 1902–06; was at the depot at Berwick-on-Tweed from 1908 to 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, and was appointed Adjutant, 15 May, 1914. He returned with his Battn. to England on 31 Dec. 1914, and was at Rugby till 17 March, 1915, when they embarked for the Dardanelles, took part in the landing at Y beach, Gallipoli, on 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Y Beach the following day. He was buried just above the landing place there. He m. at Norham, Berwickshire, 11 Jan. 1911, Constance Marion (Belchester, Coldstream), 2nd dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Bloomfield Gough, 9th Lancers, and had three children: Peter, b. 11 Jan. 1913; Edward Charles Gough, b. posthumous, 21 Nov. 1915; and Margaret Constance, b. 29 Nov. 1911, died in infancy.

MARSH, ARTHUR, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 3940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MARSH, CECIL FRANK, Private, No. 14953, 10th (Service) Battn. Hampshire Regt., s. of William John Marsh, a Painter, working on Sir George A. Cooper’s Hursley Park Estate, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Hilbert Whitmarsh; b. Winchester, 15 Aug. 1897; educ. Church of England School, Ampfield; enlisted, 4 Jan. 1915; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21 Aug. following; unm.

MARSH, HENRY HERBERT STANLEY, Major, 4th London Field Coy., R.E. 2nd London Division (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Herbert Marsh, of London, Engineer and Manufacturer, by his wife, Agnes Amelia, dau. of Thomas Towers, of Ontario, Canada; b. Toronto, Canada, 26 Oct. 1875; and was educ. Kent House, Eastbourne, and Faraday House. He began work as an engineer under Sir Benjamin Baker, and in 1897 was appointed Assistant Engineer to the City and South London Railway; subsequently he worked for Sir Alexander B. W. Kennedy; was a member of the Engineers’ Lodge of Freemasons, of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of the Junior Institution of Engineers, and Vice-President of the Faraday House Old Students’ Association. He obtained a commission in the 1st Middlesex R.E. (Volunteers) in March, 1900, and served in the South African War in command of the 2nd Service Section of that regt., for which he was mentioned in Lord Kitchener’s Despatch of 29 July, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps, and was gazetted an Hon. Lieut. in the Army, 1902. He afterwards commanded the Telegraph Coy. 2nd London Divisional Engineers (T.F.), for several years, and was gazetted Capt. 3rd London Field Coy. 3 Aug. 1913, and Major, 4th London Field Coy. 10 Sept. 1914. On 14 March, 1915, he went with his company to France, and was wounded by a shell at Cuinchy, April, 1915, while superintending a working party under fire, and died the following day. He was buried in Bethune Town Cemetery. The A.A. and G.M.G. wrote “We have lost in your husband not only a friend, but a really good officer, whose value lay in his keenness and conscientious sense of duty.” He m. at St. Jude’s, South Kensington, 20 April, 1904, Grace Marie (86, Lansdowne Road, London, W.), 2nd dau. of the late Francis Cheyne Hare, late 53rd Regt. and had issue: Thomas Francis Herbert, b. 9 Nov. 1905; Agnes Marie, b. 1 June, 1908, and Margaret Grace, b. 19 May, 1912.

MARSHALL, ALBERT FRANK, Plumber, 340898, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MARSHALL, ALFRED ERNEST, Leading Stoker, 293716, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MARSHALL, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4648), 212798, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MARSHALL, AUGUSTUS DE LA PERE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 2nd s. of the late John Harcourt Hamilton Marshall, by his wife, Blanche Isabella (73, Muswell Road, Muswell Hill, N.), dau. of Augustus De la Pere Robinson, of Cloughkeating Castle, co. Tipperary; b. Melbourne, Australia, 23 Nov. 1892; educ. Seapoint High School, Cape Town, and Bedford Modern School. He joined the 28th London Territorials (Artists’ Rifles), 16 April, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and went to France, 26 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., and was posted to the 2nd East Lancashires, 27 March, 1915. He was killed in action during the attack on Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; and was buried in “Cameron Lane,” off the La Bassée Road, near Neuve Chapelle; unm. He was a keen cricketer and hockey player. He won his Second Cricket XI when at Bedford, was Capt. of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Cricket Club, and Vice-Capt. of the Bowes Park Hockey Club.

MARSHALL, EVELYN SAFFREY, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., 6th s. of the Rev. Edward Thory Marshall, M.A., Vicar of Sutton-in-the-Isle, Hon. Canon of Ely, by his wife, Lucy Charlotte Emma, dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Charles Henry Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire; b. Manea, Isle of Ely, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stancliffe Hall School and Repton; and Camborne School of Mines; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Empire Battn. Royal Fusiliers, Sept. 1914, as a Motor-cycle Despatch Rider; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. Royal Warwickshire Regt. 25 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 7 Aug. 1915; left for Gallipoli, 19 June, 1915, and took part in both evacuations at the end of the year; was specially mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, in Gen. Monro’s Despatches from the Dardanelles; joined Mesopotamian Relief Force, March, 1916, and died in Hospital on 6 April of wounds received the previous day at Falahiyeh (El Hannel); unm. In reporting his death, Col. Gordon wrote: “We are all most deeply grieved. He led his company most gallantly at Falahiyeh, and in no small measure contributed to the brilliant success and capture of the Turkish trenches. He was one of the noblest men I have ever known, brave to a fault, modest, warmhearted, cheerful when everyone else was depressed, enduring and the most capable leader of men. His company was devoted to him, and all wanted to stay by him on his stretcher.” A brother officer wrote: “At Suvla, when most people fell sick, he was one of the mainstays of the battn., and kept things going when most others were ready to give in. I can remember how at one time he hung on with great grit against an overcoming sickness which would have sent others down to the hospital ship.” Another letter said: “All his men worshipped him, and would have followed him anywhere.” An officer wounded in Gallipoli told how Capt. Marshall practically saved his life by ripping the fleecy lining out of his coat and sending him down to the hospital in it. His brother, Capt. J. E. Marshall, was also killed in action (see his notice).

MARSHALL, GEORGE FREDERICK, Private, No. 11469, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of John William Marshall, by his wife, Isabella (41, Curzon Street, Birmingham), dau. of William Hoare; b. Birmingham, 30 May, 1890; educ. Cowper Street Council School there; was a Brass Polisher; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 5 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 9 July, 1915, by a rifle grenade while on sentry duty; unm. An officer of his battn. wrote to his brother: “He was killed by a rifle grenade which fell into the trench close by him, but as he was shot through the heart death must have been instantaneous and quite painless.... Ever since I have known him, some three months, your brother did well in everything, being one of the first to volunteer for a patrol about five weeks ago, and, which is a more difficult thing than any momentary act of bravery, whether in the trenches or in billets, he invariably did his duty cheerfully and willingly, an excellent example to all. He will be buried in Cambrin Churchyard, a village close to Bethune.”

MARSHALL, GEORGE GARTH, Lieut., 11th Hussars, 2nd s. of Victor Alexander Ernest Garth Marshall, of Monk Coniston, co. Lancaster, by his wife, Victoria Alberta Alexandrina, eldest dau. of Gen. the Hon. Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, K.C.B., M.P., and granddau. of George, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, K.G., K.T., P.C., Prime Minister (1852–55); b. South Kensington, 6 Dec. 1884; educ. Marlborough; joined the Lancashire R.F.A. (Militia) in 1904, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 11th Hussars, 20 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 16 Sept. 1909. He was stationed in Dublin, and afterwards at Shorncliffe and Aldershot, and was appointed A.D.C. to Gen. Sir E. H. Allenby, K.C.B., commanding Cavalry Corps just before the outbreak of war. He went to France in Aug. 1914, served in the retreat from Mons, the advance to the Aisne, and the movement to the Calais front, and was killed in Ypres by a shell while carrying a despatch to Gen. Haig, commanding 1st Army Corps, on 6 Nov. 1914. Gen. Allenby wrote: “He was a devoted A.D.C., indefatigable and capable.” A brother officer wrote: “If there is a consolation it is in the memory of his example, which will always live with us who knew him,” and Gen. Hamilton Gordon, commanding at Aldershot, said: “We all loved him.” He was unm.

MARSHALL, ISAIAH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9597), S.S. 106977, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MARSHALL, JENNER STEPHEN CHANCE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., only s. of the late Jenner Guest Marshall, of Westcott Barton Manor, co. Oxford, J.P., by his wife, Grace Eleanor (now wife of the Rev. George Miller, Rector of Teffont Ewyas, near Salisbury), dau. of A. de Peyster Chance, of Wheatfields, Worcester, J.P.; b. Hagley, co. Worcester, 1 June, 1895; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth Verites, Charterhouse, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Oxford and Bucks L.I., 17 Sept. 1913; went to France with his Battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, in Aug. 1914, and died on 23 Oct. following, of wounds received on the 21st. near Langemarck, Ypres. Buried in Ypres Cemetery; unm.

MARSHALL, JOHN EDWARD, Capt., 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 2nd s. of the Rev. Edward Thory Marshall, M.A., Vicar of Sutton-in-the-Isle, Hon. Canon of Ely, by his wife, Lucy Charlotte Emma, dau. and co-heiress of the Rev. Charles Henry Knight, of Barrells, Warwickshire; b. Coveney, Isle of Ely, 3 June, 1881; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School and Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Garrison Regt. from the Militia, 28 Jan. 1903; promoted Lieut. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 17 Oct. 1906, and Capt. 30 Aug. 1914; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901 to Feb. 1902, and in Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); with the West African Regt. from 29 Aug. 1908 to 2 April, 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 18 Dec. 1914 to 30 March, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Kemmel; unm. Buried there. Brig.-Gen. J. S. Maude, commanding 4th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I just wanted as General Commanding the Brigade to bear testimony to the splendid work which has been done by your gallant son since he has been with us. It was not my good fortune to know your son intimately, but I had noted him especially on several occasions for his quiet unassuming manner, a characteristic which is often associated with more sterling qualities. He was in every respect a thoroughly capable and efficient officer; he fell as a gallant soldier at the head of his men, a brilliant example of personal bravery and devotion to duty”; and Major H. T. Cantan: “He is a great loss to the regt., being a very smart officer, and one of my best company commanders, a man to whom I had hardly to express my wishes before the matter was done or placed in hand. He had always shown great bravery, and did not, I think, know fear. I only hope that my boys will grow up with the same pluck and endurance.” Capt. W. T. Brooks also wrote: “My regard for your son was sincere, and I admired greatly the way he handled his men under very trying circumstances. His loss to me is very great, and to our regt. of which we are so proud.... I must say again what a severe loss we have suffered, for your son was not only a fine officer, who looked well after his men and feared nothing, but when out of the trenches he kept people going.” A yr. brother, Capt. E. S. Marshall, 9th Royal Warwicks, died of wounds in Mesopotamia, 6 April, 1916.

MARSHALL, PERCY STANLEY THOMAS, Private, No. 7905, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd s. of William Marshall, of 4, Lochinvar Street, Balham, S.W., late Trooper, Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, Lucy Jane, dau. of William Bartholomew Pestete, of Bacton. Norfolk; b. Southwark, S.E., 11 April, 1891; educ. Cavendish Road School, Balham; enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regt. in Jan. 1907; served seven years with the Colours, and then joined the Reserve; mobilised on 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and died at Jemappes, 11 Sept. following, of wounds received in action there, 23 or 24 Aug.; unm. Buried in the garden of the Institute of St. Ferdinand, Jemappes.

MARSHALL, ROGER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham Light Infantry, yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Marshall, of Annstead, Chathill, Northumberland, late 3rd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers; b. Annstead afsd., 25 Jan. 1891; educ. privately; joined the Special Reserve, R.F.A., 10 Aug. 1910; was granted Aviator’s Certificate of the Royal Aero Club. 30 April, 1913; passed Army Examination, March, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 2nd Durham L.I., 15 July, 1914, and joined 6 Aug. 1914; went with his battn. as part of the 6th Division to France in Sept., and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914, only four days after his arrival at the Front; unm.

BURT-MARSHALL, WILLIAM MARSHALL, Capt., 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, yst. s. of the late James Burt-Marshall, of Luncarty, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Katherine, dau. of the late David Bannerman, J.P.; b. Luncarty, 14 July, 1887; educ. at Rugby, where he was in the XI and XV (playing half-back), Steward of Athletics, and winner of the School Mile and passed into Sandhurst in 1906. He was in the XV of 1906–7, captaining the team of 1907 when they beat Woolwich by a score which was a record up to that period. He was also in the XI of 1908. On 19 Sept. 1908 he was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders then in South Africa, where they remained until Jan. 1910, when the regiment returned to Scotland. He was promoted Lieut., 10 Sept. 1910. On 9 Aug. 1914 the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders left Fort George for France, and from then onwards were in the thick of all the fighting. They were personally complimented by Sir John French on their performance in the Battle of Le Cateau. In Sept. Lieut. Burt-Marshall was in command of A Coy., which command he held, save for one short period, until he fell. Capt. H. Clark, writing of him, said “All through the retreat he was strong of heart and untiring in devotion to duty. All the way back towards Paris, and right up again to the Aisne, he was with his men, encouraging and influencing them, and gradually the company grew to its original strength again. On 8 Nov. a special duty in Ploegsteert Wood was detailed to us. The capture of an advanced German trench which had proved a veritable thorn in the British side was imperative, and the 93rd were asked to do what others had already tried to do and failed. All through the 9th the battn. lay in the wood shelled at intervals; the attack was ordered for that night, three companies were to advance from different points against the enemy trench, and while our guns were paving the way for the assault we silently moved forward to our allotted positions. When the shelling stopped the attack crept closer, but the German flare lights showed up our line and we rose and dashed for the trench. He was at the head of his men and led the charge. He ran right up to the German barbed wire, was hit and fell, but rose again and dashed on to the parapet where he fell again. No one could get up to him, and those who were able crawled back to reform with the remnants of the companies.” For some months it was hoped that news might come that he was a prisoner, but on 8 Feb. the War Office reported that Capt. Burt-Marshall had died of wounds in a German Field Hospital at Quesnoy on 17 Nov. 1914.

MARSON, HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class K. 14685 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MARSON, JOHN CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. The Welsh Regt. (13th Divisional Pioneers), only s. of the Rev. Charles Latimer Marson, Vicar of Hambridge, Somerset (died 3 March, 1914), by his wife, Clotilda (86, Oakwood Road, Golders Green, N.W.). dau. of Dr. Peter Bayne, author of “Chief Actors of the Puritan Revolution,” etc., and gdson. of the Rev. Charles Marson, Vicar of Clevedon; b. 62, Gower Street, London, 15 April, 1896; educ. Eastington, Clevedon; Honiton Grammar School; Sherborne (1910–13), and matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the latter year. As he, however, wished to become a naval architect, he changed to Glasgow University, and spent a year between there and Fairfield Shipbuilding Works. At Sherborne and Glasgow University he had belonged to the O.T.C.’s, and he was offered a commission the day war broke out, and at once signed on for foreign service. On 1 Sept. 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., and after a month’s training at Barry Camp, was drafted into the 6th Battn. of the Loyal North Lancashires. He was for some months in training at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth. Early in 1915 the officers of the 6th North Lancashires who had any engineering experience were invited to volunteer for the 13th Pioneer Division of the Welsh Regt. Marson at once responded and migrated to Tournay Barracks, Aldershot, where he stayed in training until his regt. left for the Dardanelles on Tuesday, 15 June, 1915. They were nearly five weeks at Lemnos before crossing to the Peninsula. On 7 Aug. he wrote to his mother from the trenches:—“To-night is a supreme test of the men of K.s Army. Numbers are bound to be killed. This may be the last letter. However, I have a conviction it will not be yet.” Early on the following morning (Sunday) he was killed in action with the Anzacs. He was shot through the forehead and killed instantaneously on the summit of Chunuk Bair. Capt. Gordon Williams, his commanding officer, wrote: “He was a great favourite with us all, and he made an excellent officer, always showing plenty of keenness and was never, if I may so say, without a cheery smile on his face. We had to hold a hill that day with the New Zealanders against terrific counter attacks, and your son, throughout the action, behaved magnificently, finally to be shot down, bayonet and rifle in hand, surrounded by Turks. His men brought him in, and Lieut. Gwyther had him placed on a stretcher during the fight, but he died at once, and could only be buried then and there, right in the midst of the fighting. We all feel his death awfully, and that of our brother officers who fell that day. The hill was lost next day by the regts. that relieved us, so there our dead officers and men lie buried by the Turks who are very chivalrous in this respect. The regt. earned a great name for itself that day, but suffered severely”; and Lieut. Evan B. Gwyther: “He died leading his men on, and yards in front of all; and he was last seen alive fighting 10 or 15 Turks all by himself. He did not know what fear was, and everybody admired his pluck, and was amazed at his courage. There wasn’t a man in his platoon that could speak too highly of his courage, pluck and determination. I am glad to tell you his sufferings were nil, as he died the moment he fell.” The Lieut.-Col. (J. A. Bald) also wrote: “I was unfortunately wounded myself that day before the regt. as a whole went into action, and so missed what I had been looking forward to so keenly, namely, to go into action with them all, and also could not see how all my brave officers led their men, but I did hear that the last seen of your son was, that he was gallantly leading his platoon in the face of what must have been a very severe fire, rifle in hand, more than ready to do his share. I always looked on him as absolutely without fear and knew, when it came to the point, he would show himself a good leader. The regt. lost many good officers it could ill spare, who will be a loss both to it and the Army at large. Your son before the fighting began showed himself a keen officer and did some very hard work for me when we were at Lemnos.” Major H. Lynn Stevens, Adjutant of the 8th Welsh, wrote: “It will be a source of never-ending pride to know that your son died fighting most gallantly in a hand-to-hand attack upon the enemy at the summit of Chunuk Bair. He would not suffer restraint, but charged forward outstripping everybody in his resolve to do his duty.”

MARTIN, ALBERT HENRY, Private, No. 2107, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Martin, of Capel House Lodge, Turkey Street, Waltham Cross, Herts, Gardener, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John and (Ann) Savage; b. Romford, co. Essex, 11 Aug. 1895; educ. Forty Hill, Enfield and Ramsbury, Wilts; was employed in the garden at Capel House; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 6 March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and died at No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Merville, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May previous; unm. Buried in Merville Cemetery.

MARTIN, ARTHUR THOMAS, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16124, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MARTIN, AYLMER RICHARD SANCTON, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of the late Rev. H. Martin, Vicar of Thatcham, Newbury, Berkshire; b. Newbury, co. Berks, 19 Nov. 1870; educ. Bradfield College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the Royal Fusiliers, 4 March, 1891, and Lieut. 26 June, 1892 and later the same year transferred to the Royal Lancaster Regt.; became Capt. 25 Jan. 1900, Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900, Major 8 Sept. 1906, and Lieut.-Col. 13 Dec. 1912; served through the South African War, 1899–1901, including the relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz, Tugela Heights (14–22 Feb. 1900, wounded) and Laing’s Nek, and acted as Adjutant to the 2nd Battn., 2 Nov. 1899 to 8 Jan. 1900, and 25 Jan to 15 Sept. 1900 (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1910], Queen’s medal with six clasps, Brevet of Major). On his return to England, after passing through the Staff College he was attached to the General Staff at the War Office from 1904 to 1906 and from 1907 to 1912 was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Scottish Command. In 1912 he was given the command of the 2nd Battn. of the King’s Own, then in India. Col. Martin was killed in action at Frezenberg during the fighting around Ypres, 8 May, 1915. He m. at Surbiton, 21 July, 1896, Mary Beatrice, dau. of General Charles Terrington Aitchison, C.B., Indian Army, and had a dau., Eileen, b. 15 Oct. 1898.

MARTIN, BASIL CUTHBERT DANVERS, 2nd Lieut., 13th (Service), attd. 4th, Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., only s. of the Rev. Henry Basil Martin, Rector of Pudleston, Leominster, co. Hereford, by his wife, Gertrude May, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Hannington Irving Child, formerly Rector of Stratton, co. Gloucester; b. Sunhill Ranch, Loomis, Placer Co., California, U.S.A., 6 Oct. 1896; educ. Wolborough Hill School, Newton Abbott, South Devon, and Lancing College, Sussex; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13th Worcesters, 14 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 20 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 4th Battn., and was killed in action there, 4 June following; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I was not near him at the time, but those who were said that he showed perfect coolness and courage all the time. During the few days he was with us I especially noticed him for his keenness and desire to get on and feel very sure that if he had been spared he would have done well.” While at Lancing he was a keen member of the O.T.C., shooting twice at Bisley, where he helped to gain the Cadets’ Challenge Trophy in 1913, and the Public Schools Rapid in 1914, besides gaining several other medals at school, his first being Lord Roberts’s Miniature Rifle Clubs Society, which he won at Wolborough Hill School at the age of 13.

MARTIN, CECIL TAYLOR, Assistant Clerk, R.N., elder s. of George Martin, of 4, Park Terrace, Silloth, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I., by his wife, Margaret Emily, dau. of Robert Taylor; b. Silloth, co. Cumberland, 15 June, 1897; educ. Preparatory School there, Cherbourg, Malvern, and St. Bee’s School, Cumberland; joined the Navy as Assistant Clerk, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MARTIN, CHARLES, Private, No. 8758, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 30 Oct. 1914; m.

MARTIN, CHARLES EDWARD JOHN, Private, No. 7974, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Charles Martin, of 41, Ashbrooke Road, Upper Holloway; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died, 4 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action.

MARTIN, CHARLES HERBERT GEORGE, M.A., F.Z.S., Lieut., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Edward Pritchard Martin, of The Hill, Abergavenny, Mining Engineer and Colliery Owner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of C. H. James, of Merthyr; b. Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 5 Oct. 1882, and was educ. at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a high standard of efficiency in biology and obtained his degrees. He was demonstrator in Zoology to the University of Glasgow, and Lecturer at Oxford, and was well-known at Cambridge and at Naples, and was a scientist of European reputation. At Glasgow he joined the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. (T.F.), 12 Oct. 1909, and posted to the 3rd Monmouths, 5 June, 1912. He was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914, being subsequently machine-gun officer. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was killed in action N.E. of Ypres, 2 May, 1915. He was buried between St. Julien and Freezenberg. He published several books on protozoology. When war broke out he was preparing papers for the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. He was also an ardent all-round sportsman, a keen follower of the Monmouthshire Hounds, and was Master of the Crickhowell Harriers. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Abergavenny, 11 June, 1912, Beatrice Elise (The Hill, Abergavenny), only child of Ferdinand Packington John Hanbury, of Nantoer, Abergavenny, J.P., D.L., co. Monmouth, and had a son, Charles Edward Capel, b. 21 April, 1913.

MARTIN, HERBERT EDWARD, A.B., J. 11840, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

MARTIN, JOHN, Private, No. 7875, 1st. Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of John Martin, of 79, Mill Road, Lewisham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

MARTIN, JOHN WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7909, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chill, 1 Nov. 1914.

MARTIN, JOSEPH EDWARD, Chief Stoker, (R.F.R., A. 1793), 152383, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MARTIN, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11808, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MARTIN, WILLIAM HERBERT, Private, No. 1522, E Coy. 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Albert Martin, of 10, Shakespeare Road, Edmonton, Labourer at Woolwich Arsenal, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Robert Rawlinson; b. Sawston, co. Cambridge, 8 June, 1896; educ. Bruce Grove Board Schools, Tottenham; was a Carpenter and Joiner; joined the Middlesex Territorials in June, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at Sittingbourne; went to Gibraltar, 7 Sept. 1914, and died in the Military Hospital there, 23 Jan. 1915, after undergoing an operation for appendicitis, contracted on service; unm.

WOOD-MARTIN, FRANCIS WINCHESTER, Capt., 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., 4th and yst. s. of Col. William Gregory Wood-Martin, of Cleveragh, co. Sligo, A.D.C., J.P., D.L., by his wife, Frances Dora, dau. of Roger Dodwell Robinson, of Wellmount, co. Sligo, J.P.; b. London, 27 Feb. 1880; educ. Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., 12 Aug. 1899; promoted Lieut. 30 Aug. 1900, and Capt. 11 Feb. 1906; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899–1902, including actions at Colesberg (1–5 Jan.) being taken prisoner, but was released in the following June when Lord Roberts entered Pretoria. He was appointed Station Officer in the Transvaal and took part in the operations east of Pretoria, July-29 Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900–31 May, 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he served with his regt. in the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Ypres, 17 Feb. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Capt. J. I. Wood-Martin, was killed at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915 (see following notice), and a memorial was erected to their memory in St. Anne’s Parish Church, Strandhill, and in the Cathedral at Khartoum.

WOOD-MARTIN, JAMES ISIDORE, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt. (58th), eldest s. of Col. William Gregory Wood-Martin, of Cleveragh, co. Sligo, A.D.C., late R.G.A. and 44th Regt., etc. (see preceding notice); b. 3 Sept. 1874; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 20 Feb. 1895; promoted Lieut. 23 Feb. 1898, and Capt. 2 June, 1903; served with the Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal west of Pretoria, July to Nov, 1900; including action at Venterskroon (7–9 Aug.), operations in the Orange River Colony, May to Nov. 1900; including actions at Lindley (1 June), and Rhenoster River; operations in the Transvaal, May, 1901, to May, 1902 (severely wounded, Queen’s medal with three clasps, and King’s medal with two clasps). On the conclusion of the war he was attached to the Egyptian Army, 4 April, 1903, to 3 April, 1913, being Lieut.-Col. Commanding the 9th and 11th Sudanese. In 1905, he took part in the operations in the Sudan against the Nyam Nyam tribes in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province (Egyptian medal with clasps). On the outbreak of the European War he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, while leading his men in a charge against the enemy, near Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. His yr. brother, Capt. F. W. Wood-Martin, was killed, 17 Feb. 1915 (see preceding notice).

MARTYN, EDWARD THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8487), 194645 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MARVIN, HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8452), 203011 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MASEFIELD, ROBERT, Major, 1st Batt. King’s Shropshire L.I., eldest s. of Valentine Vickers Masefield, of Akaroa, New Zealand, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of (—) McKay, of Pigeon’s Bay, New Zealand, and nephew and adopted s. of Col. Robert Taylor Masefield, C.B., formerly commanding 4th Battn. Shropshire L.I., late of Ellerton Hall, Newport, Salop, and now of Woodbury, Devon; b. Gough’s Bay, Canterbury, New Zealand, 24 May, 1872; educ. Marlborough (Crescent), 1884–90, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., 18 June, 1892, and shortly after posted to the 1st Battn. at Hong Kong, going with it to India; became Lieut. 21 Aug. 1895, and Capt. 9 June, 1901; joined the 2nd Battn. in South Africa in 1902, took part in the operations in the Transvaal, March 31 to May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps) and returned with it to India on the close of the campaign; promoted Major at Secunderabad, 18 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the European War he was home on furlough, and was ordered to join the 1st Battn. at Tipperary, 8 Aug. 1914. They proceeded to the Front on 8 Sept. and were in the trenches on the Aisne, near Vailly. On 12 Oct. the Shropshires were moved north to help to bar the first rush on Calais, and during the following days—hastily entrenched and holding an extended front in flat country—had to beat back incessant and determined attacks from superior numbers. On 24 Oct. Major Masefield, commanding A Coy., was also left 2nd in command of the battn., and was killed in the trenches near Bois-Grenier, between Armentières and Lille. Of his death on that day his Capt. wrote: “It was in the trenches of A Coy. We had been fighting hard for five days, and D Coy. had lost all their officers except one, so at 12 o’clock I was taken from A to go to D Coy. trenches. I said good-bye, and he took my seat. It was there at about 4.30 p.m. he was killed instantaneously by shrapnel shell in the back.” Many tributes to his memory were received from his brother officers and men, and his feelings for them may be best expressed in his own words, in almost his last letter: “The men are splendid, always cheery—full of thrust and ready for anything—we cannot do enough for them.” A Private in A Coy. wrote: “His last thoughts were for his men, his last words telling us to keep our heads down as much as possible”; and a Sergt.: “It was a critical time as another strong attack was expected ... he himself was (standing against the traverse) watching the front ... cheering his men and preventing any signs of possible panic or unnecessary risk at a most nerve-trying time.... He died, as he had lived, a gallant gentleman.” Brother officers wrote: “You know we all loved him, from the Colonel down to the newest recruit....” and “we always said the regt. would be all right as long as Masefield was with it”; and his Colonel (himself wounded): “Always cheery and ready for work under all conditions, he will be hard to replace.” A fine soldier and sportsman, he was a first-class shot, both big and small game, and a keen fisherman, and he also excelled in all games, in most of which he played for his regt. He m. at Farnham, co. Surrey, 2 July, 1908, Esmé, dau. of Col. Henry Spencer Wheatley, C.B. (late 3rd Gurkhas), of the Knoll, Farnham; s.p.

MASON, ALBERT EDWARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16559, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MASON, ANDREW NIMMO, Private, No. 919, 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1893; educ. Morningside Board School there; was employed as a Vanman with Messrs. Buchan, Dairymen, of Balcarris Street, Edinburgh; enlisted 22 Feb. 1912; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 2 Nov. following.

MASON, ARTHUR, Rifleman, No. 2367, A Coy, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Joseph Mason, of 11, Tower Terrace, Wood Green, N., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Hammond, of Lower Guiting; b. Wood Green, N., 4 Feb. 1883; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Mercantile Clerk; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. of the London Irish Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914, and trained with them at the White City, London, and Reigate; later he volunteered for the 1st Battn. then at St. Albans, and left with them for France on 10 March, 1915. He was killed in action during the famous charge made by the London Irish at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

MASON, EDWARD, 2nd Lieut. 3rd (attached 2nd) Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., the distinguished ’Cellist and Conductor; only s. of Jeremiah Mason, of 1, Ingoldsby Mansions, West Kensington, and Coventry, by his wife Sarah, dau. of William Sutton, of Kenilworth; b. Coventry, 24 June, 1878; educ. privately in Coventry and in Germany; began his musical life as a chorister in St. Michael’s Church, during the period Dr. A. H. Brewer was organist and choirmaster, and when he entered the Royal College of Music, he had already gained some proficiency as a violinist, ’cellist and pianist. In the course of his studentship he won several exhibitions, and obtained his diploma of Associateship. On leaving there, he was, in 1897, appointed assistant to Dr. C. H. Lloyd at Eton, a post he held until the outbreak of the war. He made his first appearance in London as a ’cellist at the Bechstein Hall in 1900, and was well-known both as a soloist and as a quartet player at Chamber concerts in London and the country. He was a Director of, and principal ’cellist in the New Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted on its first appearance at the Queen’s Hall, in 1906, and was engaged in the orchestras of most of the principal musical festivals. In 1907, he established the Edward Mason Choir, formed principally in order to produce new works by the younger British composers, who by his death lost a good friend. Following the outbreak of war, he joined the Universities and Public Schools Battn. early in Sept., received his commission 24 Feb. 1915; went to France at the end of March, and was killed in action near Fromelles, 9 May. In a letter to his father, a brother officer said: “He was killed gallantly leading his men in the attack on 9 May against the German trenches”; and his platoon sergt. wrote that Mr. Mason’s detachment came under a devastating fire from German machine guns near Fromelles, and that he fell in a hail of bullets. His portrait was hung in the music school at Eton, where he taught so long and so successfully. Another portrait hangs in the Students’ Room of the Royal College of Music. The R.C.M. Magazine for No. 3 Term, 1915, says: “Edward Mason, the man, had many lovable qualities, which endeared him to his friends. He was generous-hearted, good-humoured, and at all times a charming companion. He hated any kind of pose or pretence, and might be described as the antithesis of the conventional musician of the ‘long-haired’ variety.” “He was a fine fellow, and one of the best musicians I ever knew,” wrote Dr. C. H. Lloyd, his former chief at Eton. “And all who knew Edward Mason well will endorse this very apt and true summary of his qualities.” He m. at Ealing 14 Aug. 1905, Jessie, (the violinist and leader of the Grimson String Quartet) dau. of Samuel Dean Grimson.

MASON, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 7021, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MASON, HENRY THOMAS, Chief Stoker, 170258, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, JAMES, Private, No. 5779, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Mason, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Lincoln; b. Sprowston, co. Norwich, 14 May, 1886; enlisted 18 Oct. 1904; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914. He m. at Norwich, 19 Aug. 1911, Clara (7, Pearces Fields, Sprowston, Norwich), dau. of James Hazelton, and had a dau., Clara Ada, b. 5 Feb. 1913.

MASON, JOHN, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 196093, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, JOHN, Color-Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 7778. H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, THEOPHILUS, Drummer, No. 1614, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Theophilus Mason, of 3, Pitley Place, Walworth, S.E., retired Policeman: b. New Kent Road, London, S.E., 23 Feb. 1884; educ. Sayer Street Board School; enlisted as a Drummer, 2 May, 1898; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy Brickfields, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried in Cuinchy Cemetery (Grave No. 14 F). Sergt.-Drummer A. Douglas of his battn. wrote to the widow; “I feel I must write and tell you how sorry we all feel for you in your sad bereavement. It may be some consolation to you to know that your husband died like a hero and a true soldier. He always had my deepest respect, and I with the remainder of the drummers feel his loss very deeply.” He m. at St. Stephen’s Church, Walworth, S.E., 1 Nov. 1902, Ellen (14, Russell Street, Windsor), dau. of Charles Eagle, of 39, Eltham Street, Walworth, S.E., and had five children: Theophilus, b. 26 May, 1904; Charles, b. 15 April, 1907; Horace, b. 17 April, 1910; Ellen, b. 23 Nov. 1905; and Muriel Irene, b. 12 March, 1913.

MASON, WALTER TROWER, Shipwright, 342914, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 3625), 133388, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MASSEY. CHARLES THOMAS, Chief Petty Officer (W.T.O.), R.N.R., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea 22 Sept. 1914.

MASSIE, JOHN HAMON, D.S.O., Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, yr. s. of Edward Richard Massie, of Coddington, Cheshire, and Annefield, Gresford, North Wales, formerly Lieut. 78th Highlanders, by his first wife, Baroness Olga Marie, dau. of Baron von Wessenberg-Ampringen and granddau. of Henry, Baron von Wessenberg-Ampringen, formerly Austrian Ambassador, at St. James’, and grandson of Admiral Thomas Leche Massie; b. Eaux Chaudes, Basses Pyrenees, France, 10 June, 1872; educ. Stubbington House (Mr. M. Foster), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1 May, 1892; promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1895; Capt. 19 Jan. 1900, and Major, 15 Feb. 1913; served in Chitral, 1895, with the Relief Force (medal with clasp); and in the South African War, 1900–2, attd. to the Transport Department; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to March, 1902, and those in the Orange River Colony, March to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Jan. 1902], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); was Instructor at the Royal Military Academy from 1 Jan. to 11 Sept. 1904; Commander of a company of Gentleman Cadets there from 12 Sept. 1904 to 31 Dec. 1908, and Staff Capt. School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, Nov. 1910 to Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Oct. 1914, and died in the Field Ambulance, near Ypres, 15 Nov. following, of wounds received in action on the 13th, when in command of the 26th Battery, Heavy Artillery. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. Major Massie m. at Southsea, co. Hants, 3 Sept. 1903, Maria Margaret, elder dau. of Major-Gen. Ernest Archibald Berger, late 10th (The Lincolnshire) Regt.; s.p.

MASTER, CHARLES LIONEL, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, s. of the late William Edward Master, of Kotmalie, Ceylon, Tea Planter, by his wife, Jeanette, dau. of Samuel Newson Gissing, nephew of Harcourt Master, of Rotherhurst, Liss, co. Hants, grandson of Lieut.-Col. Harcourt Master, 1st Dragoon Guards, and 4th Queen’s Own Light Dragoons, and great-grandson of Lieut.-Col. Harcourt Master, 52nd Foot; b. in Ceylon, 24 March, 1881; educ. Bradfield College; joined the Royal Irish Rifles from the Louth Militia, as 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901; promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1905; Adjutant, 25 Jan. 1908; and Captain, 28 June, 1908; served in the South African War, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal, Aug. 1901–May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). On the outbreak of the European War, he went out with his regt. to France, took part in the retreat from Mons, and the subsequent engagements prior to meeting his death in action at La Couture, on 12 Oct. 1914, from a shrapnel shell, when leading his coy. in the attack. He was buried at Vielle Chapelle; unm. He was mentioned for distinguished conduct in the field in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s despatch of 8 Oct. 1914. Capt. Master was much beloved by both officers and men, as will be seen from the following extracts from letters received since his death. The wife of his late Colonel wrote: “As Capt. Master was my husband’s Adjutant, we got to know him so well, and he was invaluable to my husband being such a dependable, able soldier”; and an officer: “His death was a dreadful blow to me, as it was to us all, and we shall miss him terribly, and mourn him always. It is no exaggeration to say that he was beloved by officers and men alike, for we recognised his great ability and worth, and I know that Col. Bird thought very highly of him as a thoroughly sound and reliable soldier. Had he lived, I am sure he would have done particularly well in this war, and he has already been mentioned in despatches.” Capt. Master was a keen sportsman, being a member of his football eleven at school, and after joining his regiment kept up his interest in the game, and did his utmost to inculcate the love of pure sport amongst his men. It was owing in a large measure to his tuition and untiring efforts that the Royal Irish Rifles turned out a team which was a tower of strength for several years in regimental contests, and had the proud distinction of winning the Army Cup. He was also devoted to hunting, and whenever the opportunity occurred he might be seen out with the various packs in the neighbourhood in which his regt. happened to be quartered.

MASTERS, TREVOR MONRO HOARE, Midshipman, R.N., eldest s. of the late Lieut. Charles Monro Masters, R.N., late H.M.S. Cressy (died 21 Aug. 1902), by his wife, Susan (now wife of Capt. William Firth Slayter, R.N.), dau. of (—), of New Zealand, and gdson. of Canon James Hoare Masters, of The Close, Chichester; b. Sydney, N.S.W., 13 May, 1895; educ. privately (Rev. C. Royle, Stanmore Park, near Harrow); entered the Navy, became Midshipman in Jan. 1911, was appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, Nov. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the English Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

SMITH-MASTERS, GEORGE ARTHUR, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., yst. s. of the Rev. John Ernest Smith-Masters, M.A., Vicar of South Banbury, formerly Vicar of Stewkley, Bucks, and Rural Dean of Mursley, by his wife, Eliza Margaret, dau. of Samuel Swinton Melville, I.C.S., and grandson of the late Rev. Allan Smith-Masters, of Camer, Kent, J.P.; b. Kidmore End, co. Oxon, 29 Dec. 1894, and after receiving his early education at Eversley School, was elected to a scholarship at Haileybury College. He matriculated at Keble College, Oxford, in Jan. 1914, intending to prepare for Holy Orders, but on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Oxford University O.T.C. on 21 Aug. 1914, and left England with his regt. 30 July, 1915. He had always taken a great interest in the Church Lads’ Brigade, and had been appointed Lieut. in the 5th Oxford Cadet Corps (C.L.B.) in July, 1914. In the early days of the war he was, with his father, in charge of the lads of the Stewkley Coy. of C.L.B. in their work of guarding bridges on the main line of the London & North Western Railway by day and night. He went out near midnight on 19 Aug. 1915, along with a Sergt. to endeavour to locate shots which were endangering the lives of his men employed in digging trenches, and was shot through the heart by a sniper. His Colonel wrote to his mother: “Your dear son was a favourite with us all, and there was not an officer or a man who stood with me round his grave who did not feel they had lost a personal friend. He was such a charming boy, a God-fearing, straight-living English boy. An English gentleman, he died doing his duty, a very brave action. Col. des Vœux, who commands the operations there, said that nobody but one of the best and bravest would have attempted to do what your son wished to do.” His company officer wrote: “One thing you will be proud to know is that he died doing his duty in an exceptionally brave manner, not in broad daylight, when it is easier to be brave, but in the dead of night, a mile behind the firing line. The whole of his company was able to attend his last parade, when we laid him to rest yesterday evening.” A drummer of his company wrote home: “He was a great favourite with us all, both with the other officers and with us men. He was the best officer in the battn.; he was something like a brother might be, and was missed quite as much.” He was buried in the English cemetery at Dranoutre, the Service being taken by the Senior Chaplain of the Brigade. The General and officers from all the regiments in the Brigade were present, his uncle, Col. J. S. Melville, commanding 8th E. Lancs. Regt., attending as chief mourner.

MATHER, JAMES, Private, No. 8884, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Charles Mather, of 25, Fraser Street, Bolton, Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Hough, Stripper and Grinder; b. Halliwell, Bolton, co. Lancaster, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. Brownlow-fold Council School; enlisted 3 Oct. 1910, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 2 Nov. 1914; unm.

MATHER, JOHN KEARSLEY, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 5th s. of Arthur Mather, of Avonhill, Cheltenham, by his wife, Ethel Madeline, dau. of the late Rev. Charles Francis Willis, M.A.; b. Cheltenham, 25 Jan. 1890; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Sandhurst Division); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st York and Lancaster Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, and joined his battn. at Quetta, India, in the following Dec.; served in India five years, being promoted Lieut. 8 Dec. 1911; came home with his battn. in Dec. 1914; went to France, 15 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by shell fire near Ypres, 18 Feb. 1915, and buried at Verbranden Molen; unm.

MATHERRON, EDWARD JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8050), S.S. 103773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MATHESON, JOHN RODERICK FLETCHER, Private, No. 8919, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of the Rev. Dugald Matheson, United Free Church of Scotland, Minister of Tarbat; b. Kiltearn, co. Ross, June, 1880; educ. Tarbat Old Public School and Inverness; enlisted in the Highland L.I. in 1909, served through the South African War, and obtained his discharge in 1913. On the outbreak of war he was in Canada, but immediately re-enlisted, came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent, obtained his transfer to his old regt.; went to the Front at the end of Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He m. at Winnipeg, Canada, 1909, Bella, dau. of D. M. Davidson, of co. Inverness, but had no children.

MATHEWS, ALFRED FELTON, Rifleman, No. 2657, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Felton Mathews, of Highworth, Wilts, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Shewry, of Southampton; b. 2 Sept. 1894; educ. Carlton Road Council School and Polytechnic, Regent Street; and was on the staff of Messrs. H. I. Nicoll & Co., of Regent Street, London, W., when war broke out, but was intending to enter a missionary college as a student. He joined the Rangers on 5 Sept. 1914, went to France on the following Christmas Day, and was killed in action near Ypres on 5 May, 1915. He was acting as a stretcher-bearer when a shell burst close to him, wounding him in the arm; but he pluckily refused to give in until quite exhausted, when he laid his groundsheet down and fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, another shell came and killed him. Buried in the grounds of the Asylum, Ypres; unm.

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

MATHWIN, DOUGLAS GATECLIFF, 2nd Lieut., 1/9th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), only surviving s. of the late Henry Mathwin, of Bickerton House, Birkdale, Southport, Schoolmaster, M.A., by his wife, Agnes (3, Bickerton Road, Southport), dau. of John William Gatecliff; b. Bickerton House, afsd., 9 June, 1885; educ. Bickerton House School; and was a Chartered Accountant; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/9th Liverpools, 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué on 9 May, 1915, being buried behind the trenches; unm. He was acting captain at the time of his death.

MATRAVERS, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3204), S.S. 100832, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MATSON, CLIFFORD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10394, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MATTHEWS, CHARLES HENRY, Private, No. 5533, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Matthews, of 42, Butlin Street, Nechells, Birmingham, Millwright, by his wife, Frances; b. 24 June, 1885; educ. Cromwell Street Council School; enlisted 30 April, 1904; went to France, 17 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the severe fighting on 29 Oct. 1914, on which day the 2nd Coldstreams and the rest of the 1st Division were at one time driven from their trenches near Gheluvelt; and is now assumed to have been killed on that day. He m. at St. Clement’s Church, Nechells, 3 Oct. 1909, Charlotte (18, Brighton Grove, Great Francis Street, Birmingham), dau. of Samuel Woodin, Painter, and had two children: Charles Henry, b. 9 Feb. 1915, d. 9 Jan. 1916; and Edna Francis, b. 9 Dec. 1910.

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

MATTHEWS, FRANK, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12178, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MATTHEWS, FRANK GEORGE, Midshipman, R.N., yr. s. of Brig.-Gen. Frank Broadwood Matthews, of Old Raven House, Hook, co. Hants, C.B., D.S.O., late commanding 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Regt., and his wife, Edith Mabel Warner, dau. of the late Ralph George Price, of 26, Hyde Park Gardens, London, W.; b. Lichfield, co. Stafford, 9 Feb. 1898; educ. Parkside, Ewell, Surrey (Mr. A. Vaughan Pott); Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. following.

MATTHEWS, HAROLD CAREY, Major, 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) (T.F.), eldest s. of Frederick William White Matthews, of Low Hall, Sinnington, Yorks, J.P., formerly manager of Barclay’s Bank, at Leyburn; by his wife, Ellen Georgiana, dau. of the late Rev. Hewett Carey; b. Hawes, Wensleydale, co. York, 25 April, 1879; educ. The School, Aysgarth, Yorks, entered Barclay’s Bank, and at the time of the outbreak of war was second in charge of their Market Weighton Branch. He had joined the London Rifle Brigade as a Private in 1897, and was afterwards given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th Yorks Regt., and served in the South African War in command of the 2nd Service Company of that Regt. For his services he received the Queen’s medal with five clasps and was made an Hon. Lieut, in the Army, 26 July, 1902. He was promoted Capt. 30 April, 1904, and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service, and was gazetted Major, 29 Aug. 1914. He left for France on 17 April, and was killed in action at St. Julien, north of Ypres, a few days later, 25 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed in action leading his men in work which earned the compliments of the General.” Major Matthews m. at Dringhouses Parish Church, York, 12 July, 1911, Marjory Phyllis, yst. dau. of Gervas Woodhouse, of 196, Mount Vale, York, and had issue: Frederick Gervas, b. 24 Dec. 1912; and Marjory Phyllis, b. posthumous, 13 Oct. 1915.

MAUGHAN, JOHN, Mechanician, 284270, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov., 1914.

MAULE, ROBERT, Lieut., 5th, attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt., T.F.), only s. of Sir Robert Maule, of Ashbrook, Edinburgh, J.P., by his wife, Janet, dau. of Robert McIntosh, of Leith; b. at Trinity, Edinburgh; 1884; educ. Morrison’s Academy, Crieff; the Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ’s College, Cambridge (M.A. 19..); and on leaving the University joined his father’s firm, Robert Maule & Son, Princes Street, Edinburgh, and became a director in 1913. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots, 24 Nov. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; was promoted Lieut. 16 Sept. 1914, and attd. to 1st Battn.; went to Egypt with his Battn. in March, 1915, and was there nominated by his Commanding Officer, Col. J. T. A. Wilson, to command the section to form an escort to the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, but at his own request was allowed to rejoin his regt.; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was killed in action there, 29 May, 1915; unm. His brother-in-law, Capt. Edgar Walker, 1st East Yorks, was also killed in action.

MAUNDER, LEONARD, Rifleman, No. 7692, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, s. of Henry Maunder; b. Downley, High Wycombe, co. Bucks, 29 Aug. 1883; enlisted in March, 1899; served in France and Flanders from 9 Sept. to 29 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date. Buried the Quarries by Champs d’Ering, near Soupir. He m. at St. Peter’s, Winchester, 2 Aug. 1909, Ada Susan (2, Middle Brook Street, Winchester), dau. of Alfred Charles Dillow, and had a son Leonard Charles, b. 12 June, 1910.

MAURICE, FRANCIS DENNISON, Lieut., 1st (Canterbury) Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Frank Augustus Maurice, of 41, Alma Square, St John’s Wood, London, N.W., R.A.M., Can. Coll., Professor of Music and Singing, by his 1st wife, Gertrude, dau. of John Gibbs Hart, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and great-grandnephew of the Rev. Peter Maurice, D.D., Rector of Oxford; b. Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 Aug. 1891; and was educ. at Temuka High School, and Canterbury College, New Zealand. He was a brilliant scholar, winning the Junior Scholarship at the age of 12, coming out third of the whole of Canterbury, and the Senior two years after, coming out second. He matriculated when 15 years of age, so he paid for all his education; and at the age of 18 was assistant master at Burnham Industrial School; and at 19, Head Master at Longridge, Southland. He was five years in the Senior Cadets, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the formation of the New Zealand Universal Training Army, and Lieut. just before the war broke out, and had passed his captaincy examination. He volunteered for Imperial service, left New Zealand for Egypt with the first reinforcements on R.M.S. Athenic in the following Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and died 10 May, 1915, on H.M.S. Braemar Castle, of wounds received two days previously in Gallipoli. He was buried at sea; unm. For over two years he was a master of the Waimate District High School, where a memorial tablet was erected to his memory. He was an enthusiastic hockey player and instructor; his Waimate ladies’ team of six-a-side winning the championship, and was on the Committee of the South Canterbury Hockey Association.

MAW, WILLIAM FRANCIS, A.B., J. 12612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAXTED, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7844), S.S. 1471, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MAXWELL, AYMER EDWARD, Younger of Monreith, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 4th (Collingwood) Battn. 1st brigade, R.N. Division, only surviving s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Bart., P.C., F.R.S.; b. Edinburgh, 26 Oct. 1877; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Grenadier Guards, 8 Sept. 1897; served in South African War 1899–1900; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont and Enslin (Queen’s medal with clasp); invalided home, 1900; and retired with rank of Captain, 4 Sept. 1907, joining the Reserve of Officers; Capt. Lovat’s Scouts (Yeo.), 1911. On mobilisation, Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined the Grenadier Guards, and subsequently volunteered for service as Adjutant and second in command in the newly-formed Royal Naval Division. He received command, with the rank of Lieut.-Col. of the Collingwood Battn. then in camp at Walmer, and with it accompanied the expedition to Antwerp. He was wounded in the head by the first shell of the bombardment of 8 Oct. after four days and nights of ceaseless exertion, almost entirely without sleep or rest, and died the following day in the Military Hospital there, being buried in the garden. The officer commanding the Brigade, wrote: “His death is a severe loss to my brigade. I personally have lost a friend, the whole brigade has lost one of its finest officers. His energy, earnestness and singleness of purpose inspired his whole Battn., and both his officers and men were animated by his fine spirit from the moment he assumed command of them.” He was gazetted temporary Lieut.-Col. Royal Marines (10 Nov.) after his death. Colonel Maxwell was a J.P., D.L. and County Councillor for Wigtownshire, a Director of the Crichton Royal Institution and author of various works and articles on sporting subjects. He m., London, 20 Oct. 1909, Lady Mary Percy, dau. of Henry George, 7th Duke of Northumberland, K.G., P.C., by his wife, Lady Edith Campbell, eldest dau. of George, 8th Duke of Argyll, K.G., K.T., P.C., and had issue three sons and a dau.: Aymer, b. 7 Dec. 1911; Eustace, b. 24 Feb. 1913; Gavin, b. 15 July, 1914; and Christian, b. 31 July, 1910.

MAXWELL (alias ROBERTS), BERTRAM JESSE, Chief Petty Officer, No. 282914, R.N., s. of Louisa (now wife of Robert Roberts, of 19, Clarendon Road, Havant), dau. of the late George Maxwell; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 10 May, 1878; educ. St. Faith’s, Havant, was adopted and brought up by his stepfather; entered the Navy under the name of Roberts, 1896; but afterwards resumed his own name; served in China (medal); and was lost in H.M.S. Invincible in the Battle off Jutland, 31 May, 1916. He m. at Langrish, 31 April, 1904, Agnes, dau. of Thomas (and Annie) Nash, of Stroud, Petersfield, and had two daus.: May, b. 11 April, 1906, and Gladys, b. 14 Sept. 1913. His half brother, L.-Corpl. F. W. Roberts was killed in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 (see his notice).

MAY, EDWARD THOMAS, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142724 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MAY, FRANK JUBILEE, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4586), S.S. 103696, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAY, JOHN, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16137, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MAY, JOHN EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8452, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MAY, SIDNEY CHARLES, Sapper, No. 1507 Kent (Fortress) R.E. (T.F.), s. of William May, of Elm Cottage, Oxonhoath, West Peckham, Tonbridge; b. Oxonhoath aforesaid; educ. there; joined the Navy, 27 Oct. 1914; and was lost when H.M.S. Hythe was sunk in the Ægean Sea, 27 Oct. 1915; unm.

MAY, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1089), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAY, WILLIAM RICHARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10340), S.S. 108083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAYCOCK, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4858), S.S. 104278, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAYLIN, FREDERICK FRANCIS, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26753, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MAYNARD, DANIEL, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 862), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAYNARD, JOHN WILMOT, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard, of Hoon Ridge, co. Derby, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Blanche, elder dau. of Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell, of Stainsby House, Derbyshire, J.P., D.L.; b. Eastbourne, 8 June, 1896; educ. St. Peter’s Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the north-west corner of the Polygone de Zonnebeke Wood, 5 miles due east of Ypres.

MAYO, GEORGE PATRICK, Petty Officer, 210642, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MEAD, BERNARD WALLACE, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yst. s. of Henry John Mead, of 27 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington, W., Solicitor, by his wife, Edith Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev. Joseph Gifford, Vicar of Newport, Barnstaple; b. Kensington, W., 2 Aug. 1893; educ. Cranleigh School, and on leaving joined the staff of the Sun Fire Office. He had belonged to the 28th London Regt. (Artists’ Rifles) for some years, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them in Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list, 5 April, 1915, and immediately afterwards appointed to the 4th Royal Fusiliers, a corps which had been in the thick of the fighting since the Battle of Mons. On the night of 30 May, 1915, near Ypres, he received orders to relieve another officer in a trench about 25 yards from the German lines. While on his way, accompanied by his Capt. and a N.C.O., the party met two other officers belonging to another Corps. The enemy sent up a flare and opened fire upon the group of five and Lieut. Mead fell mortally wounded. He died three days later (2 June) at Bailleul, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

MEAD, CHRISTOPHER, Lieut., A Coy. 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., 2nd s. of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; b. Fopstone Road, Earl’s Court, S.W., 10 May, 1888; educ., Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites); was admitted a Solicitor in 1913, and was a junior partner in his father’s firm; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1910, and after serving in it four years, joined the Reserve. He rejoined on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn., East Surrey Regt., 15 Aug., and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. [London Gazette, 11 Nov.], 1915; trained at Devonport; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and was there attached to the 2nd Battn.; served through the gas attack on Whit Monday, his regiment being in the front trenches, and was shot in the temple by a bullet in July, but remained on duty at the time; was given five days’ leave in Aug., and was killed in action in the assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Vermelles, 28 Sept. 1915, while leading a bombing party of A Coy., and after having been throwing bombs incessantly for over three hours; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. F. Montague Bates, wrote: “Your son was killed by a bomb on the 28th. He was commanding A Coy. at the time of his death and was gallantly leading a bombing party of his men forward when he was hit by a German bomb and killed instantaneously. I thought a great deal of him, he was an excellent soldier, daring and gallant; he was beloved by his men and popular with all ranks; his loss to me as commanding officer is a great blow. He was brave as a lion and died a glorious death”; and in a later letter: “Your boy was killed by a bomb in a trench leading out of the Hohenzollern Redoubt; he was running up a trench towards the Germans, who were in the same trench, and throwing bombs and driving the Germans back. He, of course, was in the thickest of the fighting.” Capt. A. Dowler of his regt. wrote: “Doubtless you know how popular Mead was with everybody and his work in the Hohenzollern would undoubtedly have earned him some distinction”; and Major F. Clifford, of The King’s Liverpool Regt., wrote from Egypt: “Today the Colonel of the East Surrey Regt. was here, he told me that young Mead had behaved in a very gallant manner and that he probably would be awarded some posthumous honour.” Lieut. Mead was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for conspicuous gallantry in the field. At Charterhouse he was in the Cricket and Football Elevens in 1906. His brother, Corpl. G. P. Mead, died on active service (see following notice), and two surviving brothers are now (1916) serving with the British Forces.

MEAD, GEOFFREY PHILLIPS, Corpl., No. 54268, Despatch Rider, 32nd Signal Section, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, E.C., and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; b. London, 28 Oct. 1892; educ. Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites), where he matriculated in the first class; studied surveying, and held a post under the Egyptian Government Survey Dept. from March, 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he returned to England to join the Army. He enlisted as a Motor Cyclist Despatch Rider, and after training at various camps, went to the Eastern Front in Aug. 1915, and died while on active service in the Military Hospital at Alexandria, 2 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia, following enteric fever, which he contracted while carrying despatches in Egypt; unm. He was buried with military honours at Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria. His brother, Lieut. C. Mead, was killed in action two months previously (see preceding notice).

MEAD, HENRY GEORGE FREDERICK, D.C.M., Private, No. 6926, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Henry Robert Mead, Carpenter; b. Edgware, 1 April, 1882; educ. Kilburn; served eight years with the Colours, and five and a half with the Reserve; took part in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with four bars), and was called up from the Reserve on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 5 Nov. 1914. Buried in Croix Barbée Cemetery. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 1 April, 1915] “for conspicuous gallantry on 5 Nov. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in attempting to rescue a wounded non-commissioned officer from in front of the enemy’s trenches. He was killed in the attempt.” He was also given the Russian medal of St. George (3rd class). He m. at St. Anne’s Church, Wandsworth, 10 Oct. 1909, Ethel Maud (84, Larch Road, Bedford Hill, Balham), eldest dau. of the late J. E. Sheldon, Private, No. 3446, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, and had two children: Henry Edwin, b. 8 April, 1912; and Ethel Violet Lilly, b. 21 July, 1910.

MEADOWS, ERNEST, Private, No. 1188, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Henry Meadows, of 61, Mountford Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, Baker; b. Vaughan Street, Birmingham, 26 Sept. 1883; educ. Clifton Road Church School there; went to Australia, 9 March, 1914; enlisted on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and died in the General Hospital, Alexandria, 14 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli; unm.

MEADOWS, JAMES HORATIO, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 488), 278492, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MEAKIN, HERBERT, Gunner, No. 26735, 75th Battn. R.F.A., s. of Jacob Meakin, of 18, Vine Street, Rotherham, Bricklayer, by his wife, Maggie, dau. of Neri (and Elizabeth) Irons, of Ilkeston; b. at Nottingham, 7 May, 1884; educ. Rotherham; enlisted R.F.A., 3 Sept. 1902, and on completing his term of service with the Colours was employed as a cleaner of machinery in a mill at Huddersfield. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his battery, and was killed in action near Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried near Ypres. He m. at Huddersfield, 13 April, 1906, Susannah (11, Heath House, Golcar, near Huddersfield), dau. of James David Giles, Stone Mason, and had a dau., Katie, b. 29 June, 1912.

MEAKINGS, JAMES WILLIAM, Rifleman, No. 1625, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, only s. of John William Meakings, of 305, Brantford Road, Ipswich, Carpenter, formerly for 19¾ yrs. in the R.A., by his wife Ellen, dau. of William Firman, for 33½ yrs. a member of the Ipswich Borough Police Force; b. Shoeburyness, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1888; educ. Bramford Road School, Ipswich; enlisted in the 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 26 March, 1906, and afterwards transferred to the 3rd Battn., then stationed at Malta. In Dec. 1907, he left Malta to join the 2nd Battn. in India, where he remained until his battn. was ordered to France on the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 10 and 14 March, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “There was no better soldier in the British Army.” He belonged to the Army Temperance Association in India, and received two medals. He was also in the Garrison Military Police at the Delhi Durbar.

MEARNS, WILLIAM MELLIS, M.B., Surgeon, R.N., eldest s. of William Mearns, of Berwick Road, Gateshead, M.A., M.D., V.D., J.P., late Lt.-Col. R.A.M.C. (T.F.), now attached Royal Engineers, by his wife, M. A., dau. of John Mellis, Surgeon; b. Gateshead-on-Tyne, co. Durham, 7 Dec. 1884; educ. Aldenham School, Elstree, Herts, and Aberdeen University, graduating M.B., Ch. B., 1908. He entered the Navy the same year; served in H.M. Ships Pembroke, 1909; Action, 1909–10; Redbreast, in the Persian Gulf, 1910–11; Pembroke, 1911; Teal, in the Upper Yangtse River, China, 1911–14; and had only returned from abroad ten days when the European War broke out. He was ordered to join H.M.S. Formidable, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

MEAUTYS, THOMAS GILLIAT, Lieut., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorks Regt., elder s. of Thomas Arrowsmith Meautys, of Hammonds Place, Burgess Hill, Sussex, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, M.A. Oxon, J.P., Surrey, for some time Chairman of the Wimbledon Petty Sessional Division, by his wife, Ellen Gertrude, 3rd dau. of Gilliat Hatfield of Morden Hall, Morden, Surrey, b. Wimbledon, co. Surrey, 13 June, 1889; educ. Marlborough, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1908); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, but transferred to the 1st Battn., and went to India in Dec. following. He was promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1910. In Sept. 1914 he went with his Battn. which formed part of the 18th Brigade, in the 6th Division, to France to reinforce the Expeditionary Force, then on the Aisne, and was in charge of the machine gun section. He died on the 22nd of that month of wounds received on the 20th, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was buried in Troyon Churchyard. A brother officer wrote: “He was conspicuous for his bravery and coolness under fire.... He conveyed an officer of the Horse Guards (who was wounded and afterwards died) back under cover, although he was under fire the whole time.” While at Marlborough he was in the Rugby Football XV (1906); won the School Boxing Competition in his class in two successive years, and represented Marlborough in the Public Schools’ Competition at Aldershot. He m. at the Parish Church, Hambledon, Hants. 16 June, 1914, Norah Nell, only dau. of the late Herbert Hotblack, of Brighton, and had a son, Thomas Gilliat, b. posthumous 29 April, 1915.

MEDHURST, JOHN EDWIN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7839). 298939, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MEDHURST, WILLIAM RICHARD, Leading Stoker, 8958 R.F.R., O.N. 291342, Royal Navy, eldest s. of William Gayner Medhurst, of Leytonstone, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of (—) Weller; b. Old Ford, 18 April, 1881; educ. Leyton; joined Royal Navy, 1 Feb. 1899; and was lost in H.M.S. Cressy when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at West Ham, 1 Oct. 1995, Ellen Rose (55, West Road, Portway, West Ham), dau. of Robert Taylor Jamieson, of 56, Woodstock Road, Upton Park, E., and had three children: William Albert, b. 23 Aug. 1907; Edward George, b. 19 June, 1909; and Ellen Beatrice, b. 16 Aug. 1912.

HASTINGS-MEDHURST, FRANCIS LESLIE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of the late Francis Hastings-Medhurst, of 20, Hampstead Lane, Highgate, N., by his wife, Mary (11, St. Dunstan’s Road, Baron’s Court, W.), dau. of the Rev. Robert Leslie Morris, of Rothes, Hampton Hill; b. 7, Campden Hill Square, Kensington, 28 July, 1895; educ. Malvern College (where he was house prefect) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Prize Cadet), and was to have entered the Indian Army, but on the outbreak of war, he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Worcestershires, 14 Aug. 1914. He went to France, 26 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Illies, near La Bassée, 17 Oct. 1914. On this occasion the Worcesters had suffered severely, and he had volunteered to go for reinforcements. He was almost in safety when he was killed by a maxim gun, but fortunately the forces coming up saw him and were in time to succour the few left alive. He had been wounded in the head three days previously, but refused to go into hospital, owing to shortage of officers. He was buried by his men the same night, 700 yards north-west of Illies Church; unm. His Colonel wrote to his widowed mother that he was a most promising officer, loved by all his men, and a real loss to his regiment; and another officer wrote: “We all loved him, and his men were very fond of him and would go anywhere with him. He was always so cheerful and extremely cool in action. As an officer remarked to me, ‘an awfully nice fellow, a most promising soldier and one we can ill afford to lose.’”

MEDLAND, WILLIAM HARRY WILSON, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4864), S.S. 104067, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MEEHAN, FRANCIS JAMES, Private, No. 981, 12th Battn. (15th North Auckland Infantry Regt.) New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thomas Meehan, of Queen Street, Feilding, New Zealand, Carrier, formerly of Waterford, Ireland, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Bernard Maynes, of Terraquin, Omagh, co. Tyrone, Farmer; b. Feilding, 30 Sept. 1888; educ. at the State School there; was employed for some years at the firm of Grey & Menzies, Auckland. After the outbreak of war, enlisted 23 Aug. 1914; was severely wounded in action at the Dardanelles, 29 April, 1915, and died in the 17th General Hospital at Alexandria 5 May following; unm. Writing to his mother the Rev. J. McMenamin, R.C. Chaplain, N.Z.F., said: “Frank arrived here fit and well with his regt. on Sunday, 25 April, and carried himself bravely through the first four days’ terrible fighting. Then, on Thursday, 29 April, he was stooping down in a trench when a bullet entered his head. He was rendered unconscious mercifully.... Everything possible was done for him, and he was taken away to hospital in Alexandria without any delay.” He was buried at the Chatby Military Cemetery [Grave No. 235).

MEEHAN, WILLIAM, C.E.R.A., 124820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MEEKER, CHARLES EDWARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 20933, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MEGAW, WILLIAM CECIL KENNEDY, M.C., Capt., 1st Battn. Norfolk Regt., yr. s. of Kennedy Megaw, of 18, Chesham Road, Brighton, by his wife, Mary Augusta, dau. of (—) Zouche; b. Farnborough, co. Kent, 8 May, 1885; educ. Wellington College, and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Norfolk Regt., 16 Aug. 1905; promoted Lieut. 20 March, 1908, and Capt. 26 March, 1913; served as Adjutant of his regt. from 1910–13; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 31 March, 1915; being buried by the ramparts of Ypres. He served as acting Adjutant from the Battle of Mons till the time of his death, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]; and twice mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Feb. and 22 June, 1915]. Capt. Megaw m. at St. Mark’s Church, South Farnborough, 1 Oct. 1913, Alice May (Rhudlan, West Hove, near Brighton), elder dau. of Col. John Samuel Gaussen, of Hollymouth, South Farnborough, co. Hants; s.p.

MEHEUX, GEORGE THOMAS SHELTON, Leading Seaman (R.F.R.. B. 9701), 233279, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MEIKLEJOHN, KENNETH FORBES, Lieut., 1st Battn. Cameron Highlanders, 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. John Forbes Meiklejohn. of 147, Victoria Street S.W., late R.H.A., by his wife, Edith Mary, dau. of Thomas Dives, and grandson of the late Rev. Robert Meiklejohn, of Strathdon, Aberdeenshire; b. at Woolwich, 18 June, 1885; educ. Rugby and passed 3rd into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 27 Feb. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 13 Sept. 1909; was appointed Adjutant, 13 March, 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 25 Sept. 1914. On that day what was left of the 1st Camerons—they had lost 17 officers and 500 men in the action of the 14th—had moved up to relieve the 1st Black Watch in the trenches just west of the village of Beaulne, and the battn. headquarters occupied one of the caves in the chalk of the plateau. During the morning a German shell fell on the top of the cave and buried the inmates, amongst whom was Lieut. Meiklejohn, and five officers and some 30 men were subsequently found dead, including Capt. D. N. Miers, then temporarily in command of the battn., Capt. A. G. Cameron, of Lochiel, Capt. Napier Cameron, and Lieut. Meiklejohn, who was buried in the grounds of the Chateau of Verneuille. Lieut. Meiklejohn had qualified as first class interpreter in both Russian and French. He m. at Edinburgh, 14 April, 1914, Sybil Maud, only dau. of John Charles Stewart, of Kinlochmoidart and Glenmoidart, co. Inverness, J.P., and had a son, Kenneth Mathew, b. posthumous, 14 Jan. 1915.

MELIA, EDWARD, Corpl., No. 705, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of P. Melia, of Liverpool; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 2 May, 1915.

MELLETT, MARTIN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4459), S.S. 103473, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MELLISH, CHARLES HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11127, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MELSON, JOHN RAITHBY, L.-Corpl., No. 11754, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Tom Melson, of 4, Whostenholme Place, off Powell Street, Sheffield, by his wife, Jemima, dau. of John Richardson; b. Sheffield, 15 Aug. 1889; educ. St. John’s National School, there; was a Rigger by trade; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Jan. 1915, and died in No. 10 Stationary Hospital, St. Omer, 5 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action, 11 July, and was buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery at St. Omer; unm.

MELSON, ROBERT, Private, No. 11564, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of Tom Melson, of 4, Whostenholme Place, Powell Street, Sheffield, by his wife, Jemima, dau. of John Richardson; b. Sheffield, co. York. 21 Jan. 1894; educ. St. John’s National School, Sheffield; was a Steel Warehouseman; enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 21 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Cuinchy, 7 Feb. following, and buried in Bethune Churchyard. Belgium; unm. He was the younger of the two brothers, but the first to be killed.

MELVILLE, WILLIAM, Private, No 14481, King’s Coy., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, s. of Hugh Melville, of Portgower, Helmsdale, co. Sutherland, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of James Morrison, of Scourie; b. Portgower afsd., 15 Oct. 1886; educ. Portgower School; was a member of the Edinburgh City Police, and later of the Metropolitan Police; joined the Grenadier Guards in Sept. 1909; was selected as one of the special guards at the Coronation of King George; serving three years with the Colours, he was placed on the Reserve for 10 years, and emigrated to Canada in 1912, where he joined the Winnipeg Police, being rapidly promoted to the rank of detective. On the outbreak of the European War he was called to rejoin his regiment; left for England, 17 Aug. 1914; went to France, 8 Sept.; took part in the severe fighting till 12 Jan. 1915, when he got entangled in barbed wire around a German trench, and was so wounded that he was removed to hospital; rejoined his regt. 5 March, and died in No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station, 13 March. 1915. from wounds received in action the previous day at the battle of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Buried in Merville Cemetery. A brass tablet to his memory, subscribed for by his comrades, was placed in the Central Police Station at Winnipeg.

MEMBREY, EDWARD JOHN, S.S.A., M. 7318, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MERCER, ARCHIBALD ARIEL, Major, 2nd Battn. Dorset Regt., 2nd s. of the late Charles Mercer, of Lansdowne Lodge, Weymouth, by his wife, Grace Ewart (Weymouth), dau. of Edward Clark; b. Uxbridge, 24 Feb. 1875; educ. Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Dorset Regt. then stationed at Wellington, Madras, 16 March, 1895; and promoted Lieut. 12 July, 1897; Capt. 19 Nov. 1901, and Major 19 Nov. 1913. He served with the 1st Dorsets in the Tirah Campaign of 1896–97, taking part in the actions at Chagru and Dargai, in the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga passes and in the reconnaissance of the Saran Sar, where he was severely wounded on 9 Nov. 1897, and received the Tirah Medal with two clasps. He afterwards joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt. in India, and in Nov. 1914, sailed with the Poona Brigade, of which the 2nd Dorsets formed part, for the Persian Gulf. He was killed in action at Sahil, near Basra on the Shat-el-Arab, on the 17th of that month, and was buried at Sahil. Major Mercer was a qualified musketry instructor and a first-class interpreter of Hindustani. He m. at Ugley, Essex, 14 Aug. 1913, Margaret Edith, dau. of William Augustus Tennant, of Orford House, Ugley, and had a dau., Ariel Margaret, b. posthumous, 30 Nov. 1914.

MERCER, EDWARD ALLAN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14665 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MERCER, ERIC CAMERON, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attd. 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 5th surviving s. of Col. Charles Archibald Mercer, of Belgrave House, Dover, Indian Army (ret.), late 4th Gurkha Rifles, by his wife, Helen E., eldest dau. of the late Major-Gen. J. S. Rawlins, Indian Army, formerly 1st Gurkha L.I.; b. Bakloh, Punjab, India, 17 Nov. 1894; educ. Junior School, Westward Ho, co. Devon, Dover College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, unattd. List, 15 Aug. 1914, and attd. to the 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Meteren, near Bailleul, 13 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried in a field there, belonging to M. Cokelaere. At Dover College, he was in the football XV, 1910–11–12, and the hockey XI, 1911–12–13, and at Sandhurst he was in the 2nd football XV, 1913–14.

MERCER, GEORGE EDWARD, Private, No. 8237, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, s. of Thomas Mercer; enlisted in the Seaforths; took part in the Somaliland Expedition 1902–4 (medal); was afterwards employed on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Bolton Road Goods Station; was called up with the Reserve on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died 25 April, 1915, of wounds received in action. He m. St. Luke’s Church, Blackburn, 5 Sept. 1912 (—), dau. of (—) Gibson, and had a son, Harold, b. 2 Oct. 1913.

MERCER, WALLER CARPENTER, Rifleman, No. 3246, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Peter Brit Mercer (died 4 Aug. 1894), by his wife, Mary Jane (“Merton,” Plympton Avenue, Brondesbury, N.W.), dau. of Thomas Hooper; b. London, 5 Oct. 1885; educ. Philological School, Marylebone, N.W.; enlisted on the outbreak of war, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, being shot through the head while on sentry duty in the trenches, at Houplines, near Armentières, 9 April, 1915. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

MERCHANT, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2559), 207436, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MERRETT, ALBERT JOHN, A.B. 236732, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MERRETT, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3281), S.S. 101000, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MERRICK, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4529), S.S. 103702, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MERRILEES, STUART, Private, No. 10228, Northumberland Fusiliers, 4th s. of James Merrilees, of 42, Coomassie Road, Crofton, Blyth, Plasterer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Gilroy; b. Blyth, co. Northumberland, 6 Aug. 1897; educ. there; enlisted 22 Sept. 1914; went to France, 19 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there, 11 Feb. 1916, being shot by a sniper while working in a triangle trench; unm. His brother, William, was killed, 15 Feb. 1915.

MERRILEES, WILLIAM, Private, No. 3086, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 3rd s. of James Merrilees, of 42, Coomassie Road, Crofton, Blyth, Plasterer, by his wife Mary, dau. of James Gilroy; b. Blyth, co. Northumberland, 14 Feb. 1893; educ. Wright Street School there; enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1910; went to France 18 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action, 16 Feb. 1915, after delivering a message; unm. Capt. O. B. Foster, commanding C Coy., wrote: “He had volunteered to come back from the trenches in broad daylight under a heavy fire to take back a message to battn. headquarters, that ammunition was urgently required. He accomplished this dangerous duty successfully, being slightly wounded in the arm on the way. While at battn. headquarters where his wound had been attended to by the doctor, a shell struck the building in which he was, a fragment of it hit him on the head, killing him instantly. Had he lived he would have probably been awarded the medal for Distinguished Conduct in the Field.” And again, after saying that a “strong recommendation” had been forwarded to the authorities, giving full particulars of his brave act, added: “He certainly well deserved it. Since I wrote I found he took a further message by means of which our artillery, which had been firing in a wrong direction, was directed at the proper place; this was the means of saving a number of our men’s lives. In any other war but this he would certainly have gained a V.C., but, as you can imagine, a terribly high standard of courage is required to win anything now. We had a very hard time with our company, but lately things have been a little easier. As we are not now in the same district, I can give you the following information: Your son was buried by a farmhouse 2½ miles south of Ypres; the farm is south of the Ypres-Comines Canal, and is 1,200 yards south-east of Chateau Langrof. This may enable it to be traced after the war. A cross was erected over it.”

MERRIMAN, GORDON, Volunteer, Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve, yr. s. of Thomas Mark Merriman, of 96, Finchley Road, N.W., and 3, Mitre Court, Temple, E.C., Solicitor, by his wife, Ellen Charlotte, dau. of Matthew Marshall; b. Hampstead, N.W., 5 Feb. 1885; educ. St. Andrews, Eastbourne, Uppingham, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and was a Planter in Nyasaland, where he owned the Nanglukutichi Estate, near Blantyre. He was a member of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve, serving with the Nyasaland Field Force, and was in charge of a Maxim gun which he was working when wounded in an encounter with the Germans at Karonga, and died 9 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried at Karonga, N.W. of Lake Nyasa. He was mentioned by the Governor of Nyasaland in his Despatch of 1 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 3 Aug. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field “while working Maxim guns under heavy fire with coolness and effect.”

MERRITT, CECIL MACK, Capt., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish, 72nd Seaforth Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, last surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. William Ingersoll Merritt, of 6, Sumner Place, South Kensington, London, late 30th (East Lancashire) and 4th Manchester Regts., by his wife, Mary Beatrice, 3rd dau. of Major-Gen. Frank Adams, C.B., and granddau. of Henry Cadwallader Adams, of Anstey Hall, co. Warwick, J.P., D.L.; b. St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada, 6 Jan. 1877; educ. St. Paul’s School, London; went to Canada in 1895, and joined the Royal Grenadier (Militia) Regt. in 1896. He was one of the few who went into Dawson in the rush of ’98 over the Edmonton trail, the journey taking him two years. After leaving the Yukon he returned to England and was for a short time on the London Stock Exchange. He went to Vancouver in 1904, and when the 72nd Regt. Seaforth Highlanders of Canada was formed in Nov. 1910, he was appointed one of its senior Capts. He received his Majority in that Regt. 13 Oct. 1914. He was on Major-Gen. Sir Sam Hughes’s Staff during his visit to the Imperial Army manœuvres in 1912, and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for Imperial service, and was given command of a coy. in the 16th Battn. “Canadian Scottish,” 1st Canadian Division. He went with them to France in Feb. 1915, and was present at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. On 22 April, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres he was leading his coy. in the charge made by the Canadian Scottish near St. Julien, to check the first rush of the Germans after their gas attack, when he was wounded in the leg. He refused to leave his men, and with them occupied the German trenches. Next morning he was killed while encouraging his men during a counter-attack. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. His commanding officer, Col. R. E. Edwards Leckey, wrote: “Cecil Merritt was one of the finest officers I ever knew. He was wounded in the charge, but not severely, and still continued to lead his men on. He remained in the trenches we had captured, and when a counter-attack was threatened he got up to shoot over the parapet with his revolver. It was then he received his fatal wound. No one could have been braver and no one could have led his men better than he did. His name has been submitted for the Military Cross”; and brother officers speak of his “personal bravery and spirit of dash and tenacity,” and of the admiration which his men had for him; and a Private wrote: “He was wounded twice but would not expose his men to be carried back to the dressing station, and after some hours in the captured trenches heard there was a counter-charge from the Germans, and it was then he received the fatal shot in his head.” At St. Paul’s he took a leading part in the school life, being captain of the football XV. He was one of the first captains of the well-known Harlequin Rugby Football Club. He m. at Vancouver, B.C., 4 Dec. 1905, Sophie Almon, eldest dau. of the Hon. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K.C.M.G., and had two sons and a dau.: Charles Cecil Ingersoll, b. 10 Nov. 1908; Francis William, b. 16 Aug. 1913; and Beatrice Ormonde, b. 14 Feb. 1907.

MERRITT, HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2400), 201016, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MESSAGE, EDGAR, Private, No. 2479, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Herbert Message, of The Old School House, Rush Lake Green, Warbleton, Sussex, by his wife, Miriam, dau. of the late Thomas Rumery, of Warbleton; b. Rush Lake Green, 30 April, 1893; educ. Warbleton National School; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 9 May following, being shot through the head; unm. Buried in cemetery at Richebourg.

MESSAM, JOHN WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16830, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

METCALFE, RICHARD, Master-at-Arms, 159487, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

METHUEN, WILLIAM, Private, No. 7902, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, s. of William Methuen, of Edinburgh, late 78th Seaforth Highlanders, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Hamilton; b. Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 23 Sept. 1878; educ. North Merchiston School; enlisted 21 Jan. 1901, and was killed in action in Belgium, 14 Dec. 1914. He m. at Edinburgh, 1906, Margaret (10, McLeod Street, Edinburgh), dau. of the late James Bathgate, of Edinburgh, and had four children: James, b. 11 April, 1914; Alison, b. 5 Nov. 1906; Mary, b. 16 Dec. 1907; and Agnes, b. 16 June, 1912.

MICKELS, THOMAS EDWARD, S.S.A., M. 2159, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MIDDLETON, JOHN LIDDLE, Private No. 2731, 1/8th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), yst. s. of Thomas Middleton, of 38, South Burns, Chester-le-Street, co. Durham, Brewery Mason, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late George Brown, of Washington, co. Durham; b. Chester-le-Street, 8 May, 1895; enlisted 12 Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; was wounded in the fighting at Ypres on 26 April, 1915, by a gunshot wound in the head, and taken prisoner, and is stated to have laid for 36 hours in a greenhouse without water or care. He died of his wounds at Ostneeuw Kerke, Belgium, two days after his twentieth birthday, 10 May, 1915; unm.

MIDMER, HARRY GEORGE, A.B., No. S.S. 2026, Ch. R.F.R. B8844, R.N. eldest s. of George Midmer, of Mabbs Hill, Stonegate, Ticehurst, Roadman, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Henry Taylor, of Horsham; b. Stonegate, Ticehurst, 10 Oct. 1888; educ. there; joined the Navy, 29 July, 1907, and was lost in H.M.S. Cressy, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

MIELL, CHARLES FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10220), 183675, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MIGHALL, CECIL CHARLES NEWMAN, Sergt., No. 560, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late William Mignall, of East Grinstead, by his wife, Mary Ann (now wife of William Prodger, of 53, Brook Hill Road, Woolwich), dau. of Charles Newman, of Findon, near Worthing, Sussex; b. East Grinstead, co. Sussex, 3 Aug. 1890; educ. East Grinstead Council Schools, and entered the employ of Messrs. Pugh & Co., of 16, Buckingham Palace Road, as a Clerk in 1906; joined the Queen’s Westminster Rifles in 1908, became L.-Corpl., 1910; and, passing the examination, was promoted to Corp., 1911. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for foreign service, was promoted Sergt.; went with his regt. to the Front, and was killed in action, in the trenches at Houplines, France, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. Letters from his Commanding Officer and others speak highly of his capabilities and great courage. Sergt. Mighall took part in the pageant held by the regt. at Chelsea in 1913, and he also held the Trollope Cup.

MILES, DAVID, Private, No. 1126, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., eldest s. of David Miles, of Malt House, Llanblethian, Cowbridge, Quarry Labourer, by his wife, Angelina, dau. of Thomas Bond; b. Cadoxton Barry, co. Glamorgan, 15 Dec. 1897; educ. Denas Powis National School; enlisted, 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, 11 Jan., and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 9 May, 1915. He was a great favourite in the regt. and his officers described him as a fearless and efficient soldier; unm.

MILEY, JOHN, Stoker, R.N.R., 804U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLAR, ARTHUR JAMES, Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 2nd s. of James Millar, of 87, Eglantine Avenue, Belfast, F.C.I.S., by his wife, Jane Isabella, dau. of William Hardie, of Edinburgh; b. Belfast, 10 Sept. 1890; educ. Methodist College and Queen’s University there, where he attended the medical course, and served for over three years in the O.T.C., from which he joined the Special Reserve of Officers, and was attd. as 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 25 May, 1912; promoted Lieut. 21 Nov. 1914, and Capt. 10 April, 1915; joined his regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with a draft in Sept.; was in the trenches during the winter, 1914–15, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 25 April, 1915; unm. An officer wrote: “He met his soldier’s death gallantly leading his platoon forward against very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire—the way he led his platoon was splendid. Almost the last act under this fire was to crawl over and bandage a man of his platoon who had been wounded, and was certainly one of the most gallant things I have ever seen done. It was almost immediately after this that he was so very unfortunately killed. His name was sent forward prior to the 25th for his excellent work during the whole time he was out here, and has now been sent forward for his most gallant conduct on the 25th, and I only hope he will get the reward he so thoroughly deserves. He is buried with his men where he fell on the field between the villages of Fortuin and St. Julien, north-east of Ypres. His name will ever be remembered in the regt. and its glorious annals.”

MILLAR, JOHN JAMES, Ordinary Seaman, J. 25646 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLAR, JOHN TROTTER, Private, No. G 5023, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., yr. s. of William Millar, of 107, Trinity Road, Edinburgh, formerly of St. Margaret’s, Musselburgh, and of 7, Gladstone Place, Stirling, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Trotter, of Stirling, Merchant; b. Stirling, 14 May, 1878; educ. Stirling High School; was a Head Cashier; enlisted, Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 10 and 14 March, 1915; unm.

MILLER, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 2564, 3rd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Margaret (32, Victoria Street, Dunbar), dau. of Peter Miller; b. Dunbar, 24 Dec. 1892; educ. Dunbar Burgh School; enlisted 13 July, 1914; went to France and was killed in the trenches in France on 21 Feb. 1915. He was an outworker before enlisting.

MILLER, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, 289617, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLER, EDWARD, Probationary 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 7799, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLER, ERNEST CHARLES WILLIAM, Private, No. 8959, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Miller, of Framfield, Carter, by his wife, Sarah Jane (Wilmington, Polegate, Sussex), dau. of Joseph Wood; b. Framfield, co. Sussex, 6 Dec. 1893; educ. Wilmington, Sussex; enlisted, 10 Jan. 1911, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed on that date.

MILLER, ERNEST CYRIL, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 3rd s. of the late William Pitt Miller, of Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, and of Thistleton, Kirkham, Lancashire, by his wife, Emilie Mary (Merlewood, Grange-over-Sands); b. Grange-over-Sands afsd., 13 June, 1878; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia (now the 3rd Special Reserve Battn. Loyal North Lancashires), 1902; promoted Lieut. July, 1905, and Capt. 2 June, 1906. On the abolition of the Militia, he was transferred to the Special Reserve of Officers. He was called up to his Regt. on the outbreak of war, and was attd. to the 1st Battn.; went to France, 20 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Pilken, in Flanders, during the First Battle of Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914. He was buried near a farm between Pilken and Bixschoote. Capt. Miller m. at Copdock, Suffolk, 5 Nov. 1913, Dulcie Katharine, yst. dau. of Arthur Montague Bernard, of Copdock, Ipswich; s.p.

MILLER, GODFREY LYALL, 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers, elder s. of Sir John Ontario Miller, of Rowley Lodge, Arkley, Herts, K.C.S.I., late Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Mary Evelina, dau. of the late Sir Alfred Lyall; b. Cawnpore, India, 14 Feb. 1893; educ. Warden House School, Deal, Rugby, and Woolwich, where he gained the King’s Gold Medal; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.E., 20 Dec. 1912; visited Germany twice during leave to study the language; was appointed on mobilisation to the 11th Field Coy. R.E. attd. to the 2nd Division, with which he left for France on 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action while in charge of a bridge over a canal at Pont Arcy, 14 Sept. 1914, during the crossing of the Aisne; unm. Buried where he fell.

MILLER, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4694), 230012, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILLER, INGLIS FRANCIS ROWLEY, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd and only surviving s. of the late Major Rowley Alexander Rowley Miller, of Millbank, Omagh, co. Tyrone, by his wife, Ella Frances, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Mason of All Saints’, Blackrock, Dublin; b. Millbank, 19 Jan. 1893; educ. Berkhamsted; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. (Royal Tyrone Militia) Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 26 July, 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, attd. to the 2nd Battn, and was wounded in the shoulder and leg in the first battle—at Cambray—26 Aug. during the retreat from Mons, and was taken prisoner. A week later his father received a card from him stating that he was doing well, and was well cared for. Tetanus, however, supervened, and he died at Venelon Hospital, France, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. It was not till the end of Jan. 1915, that notice of his death was received through the American Ambassador. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. He was gazetted to the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 19 Nov. 1914.

MILLER, JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 793), 7086, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLER, LIONEL, A.B., 172493, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLER, RICHARD LESLIE, Private, No. 15245, A Coy. 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of the late Horace Edward Miller, of Royton, co. Suffolk, and Zions Hill, Fincastle, Virginia, U.S.A., by his wife, Alice (now the wife of Harry Ernest Ling, of Little Cornard, Sudbury, Suffolk), dau. of Edward May, of Capel St. Andrew, Suffolk; b. Virginia, U.S.A., 8 Sept. 1882; educ. Haverstock Hill, London; was a Gardener; enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 26 July following; unm. He was buried at Spoilbank, between Lankhop Chateau and Chester Farm. His Commanding Officer spoke very highly of him in writing to his mother, and said that he died a heroic death.

MILLER, THOMAS JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 686, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLER, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4590), S.S. 103698, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILLETT, ARTHUR, Private, No. 2176, 5th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of Alfred Miller, of Newgate, Pontefract, Miner; b. Newgate, 25 July, 1895; educ. St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Pontefract; was a Colliery Driver; enlisted 26 July, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 13 March, and was mortally wounded 18 June, 1915, while assisting to repair a barbed-wire fence in front of our first-line trenches at Bois Grenier, and died the same day. Buried there; unm. His coy. officer wrote: “He was one of the nicest and cheeriest lads in the platoon, and I feel I have lost one of the best and bravest. I can assure you that all the lads of his platoon feel his loss deeply, as he was one of the most popular amongst them.... The time he was shot he was with a working party at night, in front of the parapet, repairing barbed wire, when several shots came across rapidly. Arthur lost consciousness almost at once, and when the end came he had not regained it, so that he practically suffered no pain.” Of his two brothers, the eldest, Sergt. Alfred Millett, R.E., was wounded in France, and the younger, William, is (1916) a Corpl. in the King’s Own Yorkshire L.I.

MILLETT, FREDERICK, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 3025, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MILLINGTON, GEORGE ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1710), 190050, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILLINGTON, HERBERT HUGH, Rifleman, No. 1881, 18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Rev. William Millington, Rector of Cottingham, Northamptonshire, by his wife, Margaret (St. Margaret’s, Westcott, near Dorking, Surrey), dau. of George Smith, Manufacturer; b. Wandsworth Common, 14 May, 1873; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, and Tucson Mining College, Arizona, U.S.A., and was a mining engineer and surveyor in America. Being in England on a holiday when war broke out, he joined the London Irish Rifles the next day; went to France in March, 1915, was wounded at Givenchy on 16 May, during the Second Battle of Ypres, and died on 17 May, 1915, of wounds; unm. Buried in the cemetery at Aire. A stained-glass window was erected to his memory in Cottingham Church.

MILLS, ARCHIBALD HARDING, S.S.A., M. 6886 (Ports.), H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MILLS, CHARLES, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 10422, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILLS, CHARLES DANIEL, Boy Servant, L. 5452, H.M.S. Cressy, eldest s. of Henry Albert Mills, of 39, Boleyn Road, East Ham, Packing Case Maker, by his wife, Elizabeth Jane, dau. of Daniel Hills Hobbs, Carpenter and Joiner; b. Stratford New Town, co. Essex, 8 Dec. 1897; educ. Plashet Lane Council School, East Ham; joined the Navy, 16 June, 1914, and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

MILLS, EDWARD GEORGE, Private, No. 10465, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., eldest s. of Percy Mills, of The Kennels, Findon, co. Sussex, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of James Kent; b. Littlehampton, 3 Oct. 1895; educ. there; was an Under Cowman; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 28 Aug. 1914; trained at Dover; went to France, 24 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

MILLS, EWDIN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3937), 197120, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILLS, GEORGE HARVEY, Private, No. 23128, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, only surviving s. of George Mills, of Edinburgh, Draper, by his wife, Bertha Agnes, dau. of David Smith; b. Edinburgh, 22 March, 1894; educ. Musselburgh Grammar School, and Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh; was Cashier with Messrs. Maxton, Graham & Syme, Chartered Accountants, Edinburgh; joined the Royal Scots, 1 June, 1915; went to France, 2 Oct. 1915, and was killed in action near Vermelles, 19 Nov. following, by the bursting of a shell, which entered the dug-out where he was; unm. Buried at Le Haie, east of Vermelles.

MILLS, JESSE, Sergt., No. 7159, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Jesse Matthew Mills, of 45, Chapel Street, Bognor, by his wife, Janet, dau. of Henry Horner, of Bognor; b. Bognor, Sussex, 4 Feb. 1888; educ. Council School there; enlisted at Chichester, 4 March, 1907; served four years in England and three in Egypt; and then, in Jan. 1914, joined the Police Force at Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was recalled to the Colours, 4 Aug. following; left for France on the 29th; was wounded in action at Ypres on 21 Oct., and died in the Mater Hospital at Dublin, 16 Nov. 1914; unm.

MILLS, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9433), S.S. 106665, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MILLS, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4920), S.S. 1772, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILLS, JOSEPH HENRY, Private, 15/978, North Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Joseph Mills, of Westport, Gold Miner; b. Charleston, New Zealand, 9 July, 1889; educ. Public School there; was a Carter in Auckland; on the outbreak of war joined the Expeditionary Force, 5 Sept. 1914, left for Egypt with the second contingent; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, and died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 9 May, 1915; unm.

MILLS, MARK, Private, No. B. 1549, Ch. 9860, R.M.L.I., s. of Mark Mills, of Holloway, London, by his wife, Caroline, dau. of (——) Williamson; b. London, 11 Sept. 1879; educ. there; joined the Navy, 18 Aug. 1897, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Upper Holloway, 27 Feb. 1910, Florence Caroline (53A, Ormiston Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), dau. of Albert Aldridge, and had three children: Mark, b. 5 Sept. 1911; Cecil, b. 25 July, 1913; and Margery, b. 26 July, 1910.

MILLS, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2795), 186948, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MILLWARD, HENRY WOODVINE, Deckhand, No. 365 D.A., Trawler Section, R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler No. 61 (Thomas W. Irvine, of North Shields) was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

MILNE, FRANCIS JAMES, Private, No. 1555, 1st Battn. Honourable Artillery Coy., elder s. of James Milne, of 14, Park Houses, Willesden Green, N.W., by his wife, Harriette Eugenie, dau. of William Southwood, of Exeter, and grandson of John Milne, formerly of New Merdrum, Rhynie, co. Aberdeen; b. Willesden Green, afsd. 20 Dec. 1891; educ. The Haberdashers’ School, West Hampstead; was a Commercial Traveller; on the outbreak of war joined the H.A.C., with his brother, Hugh, and volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Rouge Croix, 14 Nov. 1914, during the Battle for Calais; unm. Buried with full military honours in a farm garden, Les Lobes, La Conture, Pas-de-Calais. He was the first man in the H.A.C. to fall. Two days before he was killed he wrote: “Hugh and I are in the best of health. Don’t worry if you do not hear regularly from us. The post is very uncertain. We are quite safe and glad to be out here doing our duty.” Lieut.-Col. Treffery wrote: “He died as many others have done during the past few months, doing his duty and putting in the best he could for his country”; and Capt. A. L. Ward: “I think perhaps it may lessen your grief to know how well he has done his duty during the trying and difficult times we have had for the past three weeks, and as his captain, I can assure you of my sorrow at losing such an excellent soldier.” While at school he passed the junior Cambridge examination, and won V form prize. He gained many prizes and certificates for shooting and swimming, including life-saving, and was enrolled as first-class shot in National Roll of Marksmen; was a member of the Cadet Corps; Capt. of the Rifle Club, and best shot in the school. At Bisley in 1908 he won the 1st Prize, Silver Cigarette Case, in Marydown Competition; 2nd prize, Silver Watch, Cheylesmore Cup Competition; the Patriotic Society’s Badge and the Bisley medal.

MILNE, JAMES, Private, No. 1364, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of James Milne, of East Grange, Kinloss, by Forres, a Platelayer on the Highland Railway, by his wife, Jane Milne, dau. of John Bower, Road Contractor, Dufftown; b. Rothes, 23 March, 1893; educ. Inchberry and Alves Public Schools, afterwards being employed on the Highland Railway at Inverness; went to Australia in 1911, and was engaged in gold mining at Cobar; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Australian Imperial Force in Feb. 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and died of wounds received in action there, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

MILNE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 9383, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William Milne, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of James McFarlane; b. Edinburgh, 1889; educ. St. Leonard Street Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted in 1900; went to France, 6th March, 1915, and died 23 April, 1915, of wounds received in the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He m. at Dundee, 1 Oct. 1905, Williamine (40, Watson’s Lane, Dundee), dau. of James Donnelly, of that city, and had a son, James, b. 17 Nov. 1910.

MILNER, JOHN LEWIS, M.A., 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of John William Milner, of 31 Penkett Road, Liscard, Wallasey, Merchant, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Henry Lewis; b. Liverpool, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. St. Bee’s School, Cumberland, and graduated B.A. in 1911, and M.A. in 1913. He was a brilliant scholar, and held Sir Edward Grey’s nomination for a position under the Foreign Office, and had spent some time abroad making a special study of modern languages, but on the outbreak of war, applied for a commission, and was gazetted to the reserve of officers, and went to Woolwich in Aug. 1914. He went out to the Front the first week in Jan. 1915, received a commission in the regular Army, 15 Feb., and was killed in action near Ypres, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915; unm. “He was in the trenches,” wrote his Colonel, “observing the fire of his battery. The Germans rushed our front trenches, and all the infantry officers at that point were killed. In rallying the Infantry to retake the trench, he was shot through the head. He was a very gallant officer.”

MILNES, EDMUND, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4099), S.S. 1312, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILNES, JESSE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5824), 206965, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MINIHAN, PATRICK, Boatman C.G., 284271, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

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

MINTER, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4556), 172760, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MINTON, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., 11718, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MITCHELL, ALBERT CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9137), 203369 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, ARTHUR JAMES, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 3202 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, AUGUSTUS JAMES, A.B., J. 3087, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, BERTIE FREDERICK, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8923), 200567, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, FREDERICK EUGENE HOBART, A.B., J. 3975, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, GEORGE JOHN, Carpenter’s Mate (Pensioner), 157320 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, JAMES BANNERMAN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8054), S.S. 103779, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, JOHN MONFRIES, Capt., 1/7th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Alexander Mitchell, Senior Partner in the firm of John Mitchell & Co. Timber Merchants, Leith, by his wife, Annie (101, Trinity Road, Edinburgh), dau. of Alexander Alexander, of Leith; b. Leith, 24 Sept. 1882; educ. Royal High School Edinburgh, and Blairlodge School, Polmont, and was a partner in his father’s firm. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th (then the 5th Vol.) Battn. Royal Scots, 18 Feb. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 31 March, 1908, and Capt. 17 April, 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, but was killed on his way to the Front in the railway disaster at Gretna, 22 May, 1915; unm.

MITCHELL, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Corpl., No. 8/437, 8th Southland Coy. Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of David Mitchell, of Southland, New Zealand, Manager, Ocean Beach Freezing Works there, by his wife, Ann, dau. of William Crabb, of Laverock Hall, Carmyllie, Scotland; b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 29 Sept. 1891; educ. Bluff Public School and the Southland Boys’ High School; was on the staff of the mercantile firm of J. G. Ward & Co., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the 8th Southland Coy. 12 Aug. 1914. He was wounded in the fighting at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915, and died at Alexandria, 29 May following; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there. L.-Corpl. J. McLeary wrote: “When I was wounded on Sunday night (May 2) I had to crawl back to the Red Cross, and on my way I met Alic Mitchell. He said ‘I will see you up this rise,’ but he had no sooner spoken than he was moaning on the ground, shot in the mouth and arm. He seemed very bad, but we managed to get back without further injury, though the bullets from Turkish rifles and machine-guns were ploughing up the dirt all around us.” Corpl. Mitchell was a keen Territorial and a prominent athlete. For many years he represented Southland at Association football as half back. He was also a Rugby and tennis player and a member of the Bluff Cricket Club.

MITTEN, THOMAS HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15477, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOFFAT, ARCHIBALD SKIRVING WOOLERY, Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., 4th and yst. s. of James Moffat, of Ken Ervie, co. Kirkcudbright, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Capt. Robert Skirving of Croys; b. Castle Douglas, co. Kirkcudbright, 14 Nov. 1867; educ. Craigmount, Edinburgh, and in Switzerland; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Border Regt. from the Militia, 10 Nov. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1890; Capt. 26 Aug. 1896; Major, 20 Oct. 1909, and Lieut.-Col. (posthumous) 22 June, 1915, to rank as from 3 May, 1915, and from June 1899, to June, 1903 was Adjutant. He served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–95, and received the medal with clasp. At the end of 1909 he joined the 1st Battn. of his regt. in India, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Burma, where he was second in command when war broke out. The battn. was ordered home and arrived in England in Jan. 1915, when he proceeded to France, and rejoined the 2nd Battn. as second in command. He was killed in action whilst leading a charge, during the Battle of Festubert, 16–17 May, 1915, and was buried near the spot where he fell. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 30 Nov. 1915. Lieut.-Col. Moffat excelled in all outdoor games and sports, and did much to encourage athletics among the men of his regt. Almost all his leaves were spent in big game shooting, and he had a fine collection of trophies. He m. at Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, 27 April, 1912, Marjorie Armstrong, dau. of Arthur Jadick Just, of Morireby, Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, and had a son: Archibald James, b. (posthumous), 18 Aug. 1915.

MOFFET, JOHN LEESON, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.E.E., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, elder s. of Thomas Moffet, of Ingleside, Kingsfield Road, Watford, Assistant Estate and Land Agent to the London & North-Western Railway Co., Chairman of the Watford Public Library and a member of the Watford Urban District Council, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of the late John Leeson, of Rugby; b. Watford, co. Herts, 17 May, 1888; educ. Watford Grammar School, City and Guilds of London Technical College, Finsbury, and Manchester University, where he graduated B.Sc. (Engineering) with honours. On leaving there he became an Engineering Assistant at the Horwich Locomotive Works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. and in 1913 left there to take a position as Electrical Expert to the Chloride Electrical Storage and Battery Co., Clifton, Manchester. At Manchester University he had been in the O.T.C. for four years and a half, and had obtained certificates A and B; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5 Sept. 1914, and at this date was at Portland in charge of electrical work on a submarine. He went to France on 26 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a most promising officer, keen and anxious to learn. He had a high sense of duty and had plenty of confidence in himself”; and another officer: “I last spoke to your son on the morning of March 10 while we were waiting for the artillery bombardment to cease. He was then quite cheery, and certainly not as nervous as a good many of us.” “I was in the same company as your son,” wrote another officer, “and only ten yards away when he was killed. We had been advancing in extended order just after the capture of the German first line of defence, when we suddenly struck some heavy rifle fire. Your son was in front of me with his platoon, and had just given the order to his men to lie down, when he was struck by a bullet through the left lung and died at once, without speaking. He died a noble death, leading his men into action, and it was through turning round himself to warn his men to take cover that he himself was hit.” Lieut. Moffet was an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and while in training at Greenock received a unanimous invitation to accept the Chairmanship of the Manchester Students’ Section of the Institution. He was awarded the Premium Prize of the Institution for a paper on “Possibilities of Electrical Traction on Railways.” His younger brother, Lieut. Thomas Arthur Moffet, King’s Liverpool Regt. is now (1916) a Railway Transport Officer with the Expeditionary Force in France.

MOGG, FREDERICK HARRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7907), S.S. 103585, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOGGRIDGE, ROBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16964, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOHR, JOHN CARL BERNHARDT, No. G. 1420,2nd Battn. Sussex Regt. s. of Charles Mohr, of 91, Sumner Road, Peckham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 4 Feb. 1915.

MOIR, ARCHIBALD GIFFORD, Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), elder s. of Archibald Patrick Moir, of Marshill, Alloa, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Gifford, of London; b. Alloa aforesaid, 17 March, 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Banstead Hall, Surrey, and Fettes College, Edinburgh, and on leaving there studied law, qualifying in 1914, with the intention of joining his father in business. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 12 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. following; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; went to France in Dec., and was killed in action at Ypres, near Hill 60, 25 April, 1915; unm. Buried near St. Jean. Col. Carden, who was killed shortly afterwards, wrote: “He was the most popular officer in the regt. and the best at his work;” and one of his men: “You were asking about Mr. Moir, he was the finest officer in the Battn., everybody liked him. When he fell he was leading us. I have been to his grave, it is behind the firing trench. Everyone of us miss him. We have had other officers, but none like him. All he thought of was his men.” Lieut. Moir was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. At Banstead Hall he was captain of the School, and gained all the important athletic prizes; at Fettes College he gained the gold medal in 1908, as the best athlete of his year; was captain of the Cricket XI; was also a brilliant three-quarter back at football, and seemed to be marked out for International honours, but an accident to his knee while playing for the Edinburgh Academicals stopped his football career. He played for his county regularly at cricket, and had many brilliant innings.

MOIR, JAMES, Private, No. 1794, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt, and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 8 Aug. 1915.

MOIR, JOHN ANDREW ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, elder s. of Andrew John Moir, of 15, Clive Row, Calcutta, Merchant and Skipper; b. London. 1 Dec. 1897; educ. in Germany, and at Southport Modern School, and St. John’s College, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, where he was a Prefect, and on the outbreak of war, at once volunteered and joined the London Scottish (14th London Regt.), 28 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with them in 28 Nov. following; served in the trenches during the winter of 1914–15, and was selected for a commission and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5 April, 1915. He fell leading an attack on a small party of Germans in the early morning of 16 June, 1915. His Col., Lieut.-Col. Gore, wrote of him: “I cannot tell you how sorry I am to have lost him. He was a most promising young officer and brave almost to recklessness, and, though he had been with us only a short time, was much liked and esteemed by all his comrades.” He was buried in Ration Farm Cemetery (Bois Grenier), near Armentières. He was an excellent horseman, motor cyclist and swimmer, and founded and managed the Thamesmouth Football Club until it was disbanded on the outbreak of war.

MOLE, HERBERT, Sergt., No. 6067, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Henry Mole, of Charlecote, Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 27 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action.

MOLESWORTH, ERNEST KERR, Major, Royal Engineers, attd. 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, 3rd s. of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, of 3, Priory Street, Cheltenham, and of Cruicksfield, Duns, Berwickshire, late R.A., by his wife, Ann Elizabeth, yst. dau. of Major William Hope Smith, H.E.I.C.S., and gdson. of Capt. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, R.A., [brother of Richard Pigott, 7th Viscount Molesworth]; b. Montrose, 28 March, 1878; educ. privately and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 23 March, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1901; Capt. 23 March, 1907 and Major 30 Oct. 1914. He took part in the Tibet Expedition of 1903–4, and was present at the Delhi Durbars (medals). In 1907 he was attd. to the 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, with headquarters at Bangalore, being appointed Company Commander, April, 1911. He left with the Indian Expeditionary Force for France, 16 Oct. 1914, and was accidentally shot at St. Hilaire, on 31 Dec. following. Major Molesworth m. in London, 31 May, 1905, Hilda Rosalie, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Henry Alexander Brownlow, R.E., and had two children: Brownlow David, b. 10 Feb. 1913; and Mollie Rosalie, b. 11 March, 1907.

MOLINEUX, GEORGE KING, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, elder s. of Major Harold Parminter Molineux, of The Cottage, Isfield, Sussex, late Essex (56th) Regt., by his wife, Ross Eugenie Katherine, 2nd dau. of the late Henry King, of Isfield Place, Sussex; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 15 April, 1887; educ. Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford; after serving two years in the 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 11 Dec. 1909, and served in England with his Regt. until Sept. 1913, when he proceeded with it to India, being promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1913, and Capt. 16 Jan. 1915. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, then Viceroy of India, in Aug. 1914, but resigned this appointment in Nov. 1914 in order to accompany his regt. to France on active service. He landed in France in Jan. 1915, and was engaged in transport work for a short time previous to going into the trenches in the Ypres district. On the 7 and 8 May, the Germans concentrated their guns on the salient held by the Brigade in advance of Ypres, the bombardment of the trenches being exceptionally severe. In the assault by the enemy which followed, owing to the giving way of a unit on the right of the Northumberland Fusiliers, the right flank of that regt. was overwhelmed, and Capt. Molineux was last seen wounded and unconscious in his trench, between Wieltje and Frezenberg, by the survivors who retired. He was most popular in his regt. and was beloved by all who knew him. He was unm. At Winchester he was in the cricket eleven in 1906, and was captain of Commoner Football. He gained his Harlequin colours at Oxford, and played in several matches for the University, also for Gentlemen of England against Oxford University and for the M.C.C. He was a first-class cricketer, shot, horseman, fisherman, and a good naturalist.

MOLLOY, CHARLES, Chief Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2975), 171847, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MOLONEY, JOHN LAWRENCE, Sergt.-Major, Warrant Officer (1st Class), No. 68888, 22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, s. of Michael Moloney, Sergt. Sussex Regt., by his wife, Mary; b. Chichester, co. Sussex, 17 June, 1873; enlisted, 24 Sept. 1888; served in the South African War (wounded at Lindley; Queen’s medal with two clasps); and with the 7th Division of the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 5 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Gheluvelt, Belgium, 29 Oct. following. An officer wrote: “We were in a position near the village of Gheluvelt and were being heavily shelled. The Brigade Staff horses were in a farm shed behind our position, and as a shell set it on fire, Mr. Moloney ordered the horses to be taken out. He saw all safely out and led out the last one himself. Before he was ten yards away from the building, another shell burst near him killing him almost instantly. As you will see from this he died doing his duty; he is buried near where he fell, and the spot is marked by a cross bearing his name. You have all our sympathy, and his loss was deeply felt by all ranks.” Sergt.-Major Moloney was an all-round sportsman and had won many cups and medals for riding and jumping, tentpegging and shooting. He had the Silver Medal for best Man-at-Arms, Bombay Army, won at Poona, 1903, and was for many years a successful competitor at the London Military Tournament. He had the Good Conduct medal. He m. at Wimborne, Dorset, 17 Jan. 1905, Janet Christine (14, New Boro’, Wimborne), twin dau. of Samuel and Isabella Foster, of Homeleigh, Wimborne; s.p.

MOLLOY, MICHAEL VALLANCEY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters, elder s. of the Rev. Eben Molloy, Vicar of Shenstone, B.A., by his wife, Harriet Rachel Emily, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Maule Wetherall, Rector of Pelham Parva, M.A. [gdson. of Lieut.-Gen. Vallancey, R.E.]; b. Keyston Rectory, co. Huntingdon, 29 Sept. 1894; educ. Mr. Strahan’s School, Hythe, and Rossall School (Mr. Furneaux’s House), where he was in the O.T.C., and obtained Certificate “A”; later joined the Birmingham University O.T.C., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of Officers, 15 Aug. 1914, being at his own request attd. to the 3rd Sherwood Foresters; went to France early in Jan. 1915, attd. to the 2nd Battn., as Machine Gun Officer, and in April was given a commission in the regular Army; and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, while attending to his guns in a captured German trench; unm. Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge. Gen. Congreve, V.C., wrote: “I knew him better than almost any of the young officers. I don’t quite know how, and feel I have myself lost a friend. He was an excellent officer—chosen because he was so, for the machine gun command, and he was killed when looking after the guns in a battle in which his brigade did everything it was asked to do”; and Major C. I. D. Hobbs, the commanding officer: “He is a great loss to the regt., as, in addition to being such a keen young officer, full of pluck, he was universally popular with officers and men. He was shot by a bullet through the heart while leading his men against the enemy, and must have been killed instantaneously.” Capt. Chidlow-Roberts, officer commanding C Coy., also wrote: “Everybody is most awfully cut up about it, as he was a top-hole fellow and a jolly good soldier. He was a great friend of mine. The word of it was he was too brave, and shouldn’t have gone down to see about the gun”; and Capt. Noel Chance, R.A.: “Mollie (as we all called him) was to me as dear as a younger brother. No loss has affected me so much in this war, and it has caused a gap that cannot be filled. You must, indeed, be proud to have such a son; brave, extraordinarily courteous, and always anxious to help and be a pleasure to others. He died a death we should all prefer, and he could have felt nothing. I have had two short letters from the regt., and in each case (one from Major Hobbs, the commanding officer, and one from Roberts), the outstanding comment is the loss of ‘Mollie.’ I have never known a boy of his age have so many friends among both senior and junior officers.”

MOLSON, ERIC ELSDALE, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Major John Elsdale Molson, of Goring Hall, Worthing, and 3, Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, J.P., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Dr. Arthur Edmund Leeson, M.A., M.D., Trinity College, Dublin; b. Chelmsford, co. Essex, 26 March, 1894; educ. Cheltenham College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Scots, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; went to France, 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action in Flanders, 1 April, 1915, while on duty in a gap between two trenches; unm. Buried behind the trenches where he fell. His Colonel wrote: “I had a great admiration for the boy. He was universally popular. We should have considered ourselves very fortunate to get him to come into the regt. permanently. He was such a delightful type of an English gentleman, I often used to think when I looked at him”; and another: “He was very popular with everyone in the battn. and especially with his own platoon. Although he was a strict disciplinarian and insisted on things being thoroughly done, he always did the most dangerous work himself, such as going in front of his trench to put up the barbed wire, with the result that his men had absolute confidence in him. He did some particularly daring sniping work, which resulted in his being twice grazed by the German snipers, once in the head. For this work his name was sent in to the General.” While at Cheltenham he was captain of the College Football XV, 1912–13, a Prefect of the College and winner of the Hornby Prize. His father is (1916) on active service at Newhaven, attached to Military Hospital and Garrison, and his two brothers are (1916) Harold Elsdale Molson, 2nd Lieut., King’s Royal Rifles, who has been wounded, and Gerald Elsdale Molson, Sub-Lieut. in the Royal Navy.

MONCK, THE HON. CHARLES HENRY STANLEY, Capt., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder and only surviving s. of Henry Power Charles Stanley, 5th Viscount Monck, late Capt., Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Lady Edith Caroline Sophia, née Scott, dau. of John, 3rd Earl of Clonmell; b. London, S.W., 9 Nov. 1876; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Coldstream Guards from the Militia, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut., 9 Nov. 1898, and Capt., 21 Nov. 1903; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb.-May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900, including action at Belfast; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Nov. 1900; in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900; in the Transvaal, Nov. to Dec. 1900; and those in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900, to 31 May, 1902; receiving the Queen’s medal with seven clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; was wounded in the thigh, 8 Sept., but rejoined his regt. on the 24th, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914. Buried there. He m. at Wellington Barracks Chapel, London, 16 Feb. 1904, Mary Florence, 2nd dau. of Sir William Wyndham Portal, of Laverstoke, 2nd Bart., and had three children: Henry Wyndham Stanley, b. 11 Dec. 1905; Elizabeth Noel, b. 25 Dec. 1908; and Mary Patricia, b. 22 June, 1911.

MONCKTON, MARMADUKE HENRY, 2nd Lieut., Royal Garrison Artillery, attd. Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Commander Henry Grant Monckton, by his wife, Maud Lilian, dau. of the Rev. John W. Hallowell; b. Clifton, Bristol, 31 May, 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.G.A., 23 Dec. 1910; went to France, 1914, in charge of an anti-aircraft gun, and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, 19 March, 1915. He was killed in action on 9 July, 1915, while flying over the enemy’s line near Bailleul. Buried at Bailleul; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed at mid-day to-day, while flying over the enemy’s lines. The attendant circumstances will never be accurately known, but it seems probable from evidence of onlookers that the machine, a Bristol scout, was hit by a fragment of shell and became uncontrollable from about 4,000 feet. Your nephew’s death was instantaneous. He was a gallant pilot and a fine, fearless soldier”; and in a later letter he spoke of his faithful and loyal services to himself.

MONCUR, GEORGE CLARK, L.-Corpl., No. 3457, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John William Moncur, of Aberdeen, Hotel Proprietor (retired), by his wife, Elizabeth S. M., dau. of James S. Paterson; b. Aberdeen, 5 Feb. 1894; educ. Ashley Road School there; was a Window Dresser; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 11 Nov. 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 25 April, 1915. Buried at Headquarter Farm (c. 16–3, Reference Map, Belgium 281/40,000); unm. His brother, Sergt. Nicol Moncur, Dragoons, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and is still (1916) serving there.

MONDAY, TOM, Farrier-Sergt., No. 769, 1st Battery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late George Monday, of 59, East Cheap, Hull, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Tom Auckland; b. Hull, 7 Nov. 1878; educ. Collier Street School, Hull; was a Farrier Blacksmith; enlisted 23 March, 1908; was promoted Sergt. about Aug. 1912; went to the Front, 18 April, 1915; was killed in action at Ypres, 24 May following, and was buried there. He m. at St. Stephen’s Church, Hull, 1 May, Susanna (Waterloo Cottage, The Dene, Stainland, near Halifax), dau. of Jim Hardwick, and had ten children: George, b. 31 Dec. 1900; Jim, b. 24 Dec. 1905; Tom, b. 20 Dec. 1907; John, b. 2 Dec. 1913; Arthur, b. (posthumous), 25 Aug. 1915; Florence, b. 19 Feb. 1892; Fanny Elizabeth, b. 2 Dec. 1895; Sarah, b. 4 Dec. 1903; Alice, b. 19 Jan. 1909; and Edith, b. 26 Nov. 1911.

MONEY, HENRY IRONSIDE, Capt., 1st Battn. 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, the yr. s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Ernie Edmund Money, Commandant, 9th Bengal Lancers (who was killed in India in command of his regt., 20 Dec. 1894), by his wife, Alice Mary (Gardenia, Torquay Road, Paignton, South Devon), sister of Major Eric Grey Drummond, killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914, and dau. of the late Major-Gen. Henry Drummond, Bengal R.E., and gdson. of the late Rev. William Money, of Walthamstow, and Lea Marston, co. Warwick; b. Kasauli, Punjab, India, 21 Sept. 1883; educ. Marlborough College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.), Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902; served his first year with the Somerset L.I.; and joined the 1/1st Gurkha Rifles 18 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. following, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911; passed and received his certificate in the Maxim Machine Gun Examination at the Erith Works, 29 Oct. 1909; attended the manœuvres near Wetzlar, Germany, in 1909, and those in Switzerland in the spring of 1914; was home on leave, when the European War broke out, and joined his regt. in Egypt during Aug. 1914; landed with them at Marseilles at the end of Nov., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 20 Dec. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A brother officer wrote: “Since we have been in France he has been in charge of our bomb-throwers, and has done magnificent work. Had he lived he would have been recommended for the D.S.O.”; and another: “He was last seen fighting most valiantly and with the greatest coolness. His name has gone in for D.S.O., and richly he deserved it.” Another: “He proved himself to be a magnificent soldier, and literally covered himself with glory. One can say that he died as he would have wished—leading and encouraging his men with whom he was enormously popular.”

MONK, GEORGE BERTRAM FIFIELD, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., yr. s. of Dr. Charles James Monk, of 15, Harley Street, W., and 3, Linnell Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., Surgeon Dentist; b. Wiesbaden, Germany, 15 Sept. 1891; educ. St. George’s, Harpenden, Herts; Michigan University, U.S.A., and Guy’s Hospital, London, and was a Medical Student. He had joined the 28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) London Regt. in Jan. 1914; volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them, 27 Oct. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Warwicks (7th Division, 4th Corps), 11 Nov. 1914. He was killed in action in an attack on the enemy’s trenches near Armentières on 18 Dec. following; unm. Capt. I. H. G. White wrote: “Your son died a very gallant death. He was found, together with four other officers and 34 men, within a few yards of a German machine gun, and it was obvious that he was one of a party that had made an extraordinary gallant effort to capture the gun and prevent it killing their comrades who were coming up behind. We buried him the next morning on the spot on which he fell”; and an officer of the 2nd Queen’s: “On the 28th a general attack was ordered on the German position with a view to keeping the attention of the enemy fixed while important operations took place elsewhere. I was on duty in the trenches when the attacking party went out. Bertram went up the scaling ladder with a smile on his face. The moment the enemy’s fire broke out it was clear that no one could live in such a storm. Our men were assailed with a torrent of rifle bullets, machine-gun fire and hand grenades. The bravest might have blenched before this awful ordeal. As the fire died down the wounded began to crawl back to our lines; our patrols devotedly went out, helping them in. As the night wore on and I saw nothing of the officers of your son’s regt., I began to fear he was amongst the killed or was lying too badly wounded to come in. At daybreak the Germans made signs to us to come over and pick up our wounded. I went out; after a long search I found your brave son just where I should have expected. He was lying dead within 30 yards of the German trenches, half-way across the wire entanglements, his right hand outstretched as though pointing the way to his men. Death must have been instantaneous, for his head was pierced by two bullets from the machine gun. He was buried between the English and German trenches with his comrades. On Christmas Day we had another armistice to finish clearing the ground, and a funeral service was held, attended by a large gathering of German and English officers. It was a strange and impressive sight.” Capt. Bare, Artists’ Rifles, also wrote: “The following is an extract from a letter written by the Divisional General to our Colonel: “2nd Lieut. G. B. Monk was killed right on the enemy’s wire entanglement, well in front of his battn. and opposite a machine-gun position.... While deeply deploring the loss of these most promising young officers, it must be satisfactory for you to know that they gloriously upheld the traditions of your regt....’ The Colonel has ordered the General’s letter to be read to all the men in the regt., and we are proud to remember that your son belonged to C Coy. and to know that he could not have died a finer death.” Lieut. Monk was an excellent athlete, he represented his school at cricket and Rugby football and was in the Guy’s Hospital Rugby football team. A poem was written in 2nd Lieut. Monk’s honour by Canon Rawnsley and published in a book entitled ”The European War, 1914–1915.”

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

MONK, OSWALD FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10558, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MONTGOMERY, ADAM, Private, No. 20231, 2/5th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late William Montgomery, of Possilpark, Glasgow, Road Surfaceman in the employ of the Glasgow Corporation, by his wife, Margaret (378, Garscube Road, Glasgow), dau. of Gilbert Connell; b. Dunoon, co. Argyle, 15 July, 1884; educ. Dunoon Grammar School, was a Plumber in the employ of R. Munro & Son, Springburn; enlisted 25 Jan. 1915; joined at Glencorse Barracks on Monday the 29th; was sent to Weymouth the following Wednesday for training; crossed to France, 1 May; was wounded in action on the 16th of that month and invalided into hospital; discharged from there 21st and was back in the firing line on the 23rd, and was killed in action at Ypres, 26 May, 1915; unm.

MONTGOMERY, SIDNEY GEORGE, Signaller, No. 9857, 6th (Service) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of George Montgomery, formerly of the 2nd Battn. of that Regt., by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Grundy, of Lincoln, Machine Fitter; b. Lincoln, 5 June, 1893; educ. St. Martin’s School there; was a Clerk in Messrs. Dawson’s Leather Works at Lincoln, but enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM SPROAT, Capt., 6th (Rifle) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Hugh Montgomery, of The Allports, Bromborough, Cheshire, member of the firm of Simmonds, Hunt & Montgomery, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 25 May, 1881; educ. Liverpool College. He had joined the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the King’s Liverpool Regt., 14 March, 1909, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He passed the School of Instruction and obtained his company, 8 Sept. 1914, and went to France, 22 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres, 13 March, 1915; unm. He was a well-known Rugby football player, and played for his county of Lancashire and the Liverpool Rugby Football Club, which he captained in the season of 1908–9 and in which for several years he held the post of Secretary. He was also a member of the Racquet and the Royal Liverpool Clubs. It was said of him: “In business life and in private life, as well as in the battn. of which he was a member, Capt. Montgomery was persona grata to all with whom he came in contact.”

PIGOT-MOODIE, CHARLES ALFRED, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yst. s. of the late George Pigot-Moodie, of Westbrooke, Rondebosch, Cape Colony; M.L.C. of Cape Colony, and sometime Surveyor-General of the Transvaal, by his wife, Rose, dau. of Stephen Spranger, F.R.C.S. Eng., and gdson. of Lieut. Donald Moodie, R.N. Colonial Secretary of Natal (1845–49), and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1857) [3rd s. of Major James Moodie, 9th Laird of Melsetter, Orkney]; b. Westbrooke, 30 May, 1890; educ. Windlesham House, Brighton, Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, Belgium, 13 Jan. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Lieut. George Frederick Arthur Pigot-Moodie, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), is now on active service in France. He was wounded on 12 Sept. 1914, at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was awarded the Military Cross, and the 3rd class Order of St. Anne of Russia (with swords).

MOODY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Chief Armourer (Pensioner), 154309, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914

MOODY, ROBERT RONALD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24634 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MOOR, CHRISTOPHER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of the Rev. Charles Moor, D.D., sometime Vicar of Barton-on-Humber and of Gainsborough and Canon of Lincoln, by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Robert Moon, M.A., Barrister-at-Law; b. at Barton-on-Humber, 2 Feb. 1892; educ. at Abbotsholme, at Bradfield. and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took his degree with honours in Mechanical Science, afterwards taking a post-graduate course at McGill University, Montreal. He was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Hants Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. and sent to Gallipoli in May, 1915. After being invalided to Egypt, he returned to the front in July and took part in a very gallant charge at Krithia on 6 Aug. 1915, when he was one of the few to reach the Turkish trench, where he fell on the parapet, shot through the heart. He had given early promise of distinction in various fields of human culture and was a keen student of engineering, of architecture and of literature. He taught himself to read hieroglyphic writing and had compiled for his own use a vocabulary of ancient Egyptian words and was deeply interested in the history of Egypt. In his short military career he had trained the signaller of several battns. and was regarded as an extremely keen and promising officer

MOORE, ALFRED, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./10271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MOORE, ANTHONY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13950 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOORE, ARTHUR, Private, No. 1990, 5th Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force; s. of Henry Albert Moore, of Park House, Whatley, near Frome, Somerset, by his wife, Elizabeth Thurzia, dau. of James Burge Whatley; b. 9 April, 1879; educ. Warminster Grammar School; went to Australia in 1900, and settled at Melbourne and Sydney; enlisted at Melbourne in Feb. 1915; was wounded at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, and invalided home to England, and died in King George’s Hospital, 29 Feb. 1916; unm.

MOORE, CHARLES JAMES, Private, No. 1772, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Francis Moore, of Nile Street, St. Luke’s, Picture Framer, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of Thomas Richard (and Elizabeth) Wells; b. St. Luke’s, London, 13 Dec. 1888; educ. Old Street Parochial School there; and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs. Badcock, Golden Lane, City, Tailor, for whom he worked as a cutter for fifteen years. He joined the 7th London on 6 Aug. 1914, two days after war broke out; went to France 17 Feb. 1915, and died in hospital at Bethune, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received in action on the 14th. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm.

MOORE, FREDERICK, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 177856, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MOORE, GEORGE, A.B., J. 5422, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOORE, HENRY GLANVILLE ALLEN, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (Pioneers), only s. of the late Rev. Henry Dawson Moore, Vicar of Misterton, 1858–80, subsequently Vicar of Hornby, co. York, and Private Chaplain to the 9th Duke of Leeds, by his wife, Harriet Louisa (Roydwood, Kirkburton, co. York), dau. of the Rev. William Richards, M.A. Oxon., Vicar of Dawley Magna, Salop; b. Misterton, co. Nottingham, 28 Oct. 1865; educ. Aysgarth, Bedale, from which he gained an open junior scholarship for Rossall, at the age of 13; on leaving the latter in 1883 he was for three years a student at the Sussex County Hospital, and being then too old to enter the Army in any other way, enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1886; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Warwickshire Regt., 2 Sept. 1891, and promoted Lieut., 3 March, 1893; Capt., 21 Sept. 1898; Major, 21 Feb. 1908; and Lieut.-Col., 19 Aug. 1914; was Adjutant of his battn., 28 Jan. 1894 to 8 Dec. 1896, and of the King’s Own Malta Militia, 24 Sept. 1902 to 23 Sept. 1907; took part in the Egyptian Campaign, 1898 (medal, Egyptian medal with clasp); transferred to the East Yorks Regt., 8 July, 1908; was on half-pay, 3 Sept. 1910 to 28 Aug. 1911, and on the outbreak of war was appointed Lieut.-Col. commanding the 6th Battn., constituted as Pioneers in Nov. following; went to the Dardanelles, 22 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 7–11 Aug. 1915, from a bayonet thrust in a skirmish after the landing there. He was specially selected to raise the 6th Sappers of the New Army in Aug. 1914, and was mentioned in Despatches by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916] for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Lieut.-Col. Moore m. at the Cathedral, Kandy, Ceylon, 3 June, 1893, Julia Margaret (Dorset Lodge, Tonbridge), 7th dau. of the late William Parry-Okenden, of Turnworth, co. Dorset, and had two daus.: Marjorie Gladys, b. 18 April, 1894; and Katherine Georgina, b. 4 Feb. 1899.

MOORE, HENRY JOHN, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 272213, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MOORE, JOHN THOMAS WARREN, 2nd S.B.S., 154465, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOORE, REGINALD HENRY HAMILTON, Capt., 1st Battn. Border Regt., eldest s. of the late Col. Joseph Henry Moore, of Easterlands, Wellington, Somerset, R.A.M.C., by his wife, Jessie, dau. of John Pope; b. Bareilly, India, 2 Dec. 1884; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Border Regt., 10 Oct. 1903; promoted Lieut., 16 Nov. 1905, and Capt., 29 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 16 March, 1915, with the 29th Division, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 11 June, following; unm. Buried in Gully Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: “On 10 June we captured a trench; early the following morning the Turks counter-attacked, and in the confusion it seemed as if they would probably drive our men back. Your son, who was at the time acting as Adjutant, volunteered to lead an assaulting party back. Those with him say how magnificently he behaved, and at the head of his men he re-took the lost portion of the trench in a few minutes. He was the best type of officer and had proved himself several times in action”; and a brother officer: “For a short, but critical, period in the Gallipoli operations he commanded the battn., and his quiet and firm command earned the respect and confidence of all ranks....” Another wrote: “On this occasion he again displayed that personal courage and coolness in danger which had been an example to his men from the commencement of the campaign.” Capt. Moore was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 12 June, 1915.

MOORE, THOMAS, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3729), 302799, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOORE, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9618), S.S. 106969, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOORE, WILLIAM ALBERT, A.B., S.S. 132, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOOREY, FRANK LESLIE, Private, No. 1714, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Edmund Moorey, Head of the Estate and Survey Department of John Barker & Co., Ltd., of Kensington (formerly of Christchurch, and for many years a member of the Town Council and President of the Bournemouth and District Cricket League, etc.), by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of George Picken, of Kings Norton, co. Warwick; b. Christchurch, co. Hants, 20 March, 1894; educ. Bournemouth Public School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; on leaving school, he received an appointment on the head office staff of the Bank of British North America, at 5, Gracechurch Street, E.C., and two days after the outbreak of war joined (7 Aug. 1914) the Kensingtons; leaving for France with his regt. 5 Nov. 1914. On the 18 Nov. he was wounded, went into hospital in France, but recovered, and was back again in the trenches before Christmas. During the fighting around La Bassée, in Jan. 1915, a German shell burst in the dug-out where he was, hitting some and practically burying others, whose mouths, nostrils and ears were filled with the clay. A virulent germ from this attacked him, and though sent home to England with frostbite in both feet (arriving 26 Jan.), septic pneumonia developed soon after his arrival, and he died in the 1st Eastern General Hospital at Cambridge, 19 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried with full military honours in the Kensington Cemetery, 24 Feb. following. He was well-known in hockey circles in Hampshire and Kent, being an expert player, and was an excellent sculler, as well as a good footballer and cricketer. His elder brother, William Edward, joined the 10th City Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers and is now (1916) at the Front.

MOORHOUSE, WILLIAM APPLEYARD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26717 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

RHODES-MOORHOUSE, WILLIAM BARNARD, V.C., Lieut., Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Edward Moorhouse, of Parnham House, Dorsetshire, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Hon. William Bernard Rhodes, M.L.C., New Zealand; b. in London, 26 Sept. 1887 educ. The Golden Parsonage, Hertfordshire Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and after leaving there was engaged in monoplane experiments at Huntingdon in 1909–10, and has been truthfully described as “one of the pioneers” of aviation in England. He made many long flights before taking his pilot’s certificate in Oct. 1911. and was then considered probably the finest cross-country flier in this country, and quite the equal of anyone abroad.” He finished third in the Aerial Derby for 1912, and the same year established a record in aviation as the first pilot to make a Channel-crossing with two passengers (one of whom was his wife). Soon after joining the R.F.C. in Aug. 1914, he was placed in charge of work shops at Aircraft Park, South Farnborough, and remained there till 20 March, 1915, when he was sent out to the Front to join the No. 2 Squadron, No. 1 Wing, at Merville, as a flying officer. His promotion to the rank of Lieut. was gazetted after his death to rank as from 24 April, 1915. On Monday, 26 April, during the Second Battle of Ypres, an urgent message came through from Headquarters ordering the immediate destruction of the railway line at Courtrai Junction to prevent the bringing up of German reinforcements, and he was detailed for this important task, his instructions being “to use his own discretion as to his height at which he would drop his bomb.” He left Merville flying ground at 3.5 p.m., and returned again mortally wounded at 4.15, having piloted his machine over 35 miles under conditions of extreme difficulty after receiving his first serious wound. He made a full report before he was taken to hospital, so that Sir John French was able to record the destruction of Courtrai Junction in his Report from Headquarters despatched the same evening. He died of his wounds next day, but before his death received the following message: “But for pressure of urgent work the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief would have visited 2nd Lieut. Moorhouse himself to express his admiration of his courage and the way in which he carried out his duties yesterday.” [The Battle of Ypres was then in progress and Merville was over 30 miles from General Headquarters.] The following are extracts from the official accounts of his exploit: From Sir John French’s Report from Headquarters, 26 April, “One of our airmen bombed Courtrai Station this afternoon and destroyed the junction. Although wounded, he brought his machine back to our lines.” Extract from the Daily Bulletin issued to the troops (first issued by special request to the Indian Corps), who “had seen him flying back and were so impressed by his astounding courage” that they asked for further details and translated them into Hindustani, and it was afterwards circulated among all our troops at the Front. Dated 29 April, 1915. “British Air Raid on Courtrai. Details are now to hand of the successful air raid carried out on the 26th inst., and mentioned in yesterday’s bulletin. It is a story of amazing gallantry and heroism, and and is worthy of special notice. The aviator, 2nd Lieut. W. B. Rhodes-Moorhouse, left Merville at 3.5 in the afternoon, alone in a biplane, to drop a heavy bomb on the railway junction at Courtrai. Arriving at his destination, he volplaned down to a height of 300 ft. and successfully dropped the bomb on his objective, the effect of the explosion being felt by the aviator at a height of 300 ft. While at this low altitude he was subject to a tornado of fire from thousands of rifles, machine-guns and shell fire. He was severely wounded in the thigh (part of which was torn away), but instead of descending into the German lines where his life might have been saved, and to prevent his machine from falling into the hands of the Germans, he turned and made for the British lines. To increase his speed he descended a further 200 ft., and crossed the German lines at a height of 100 ft. only. He was again severely wounded by a bullet which ripped open his abdomen. Instead of landing at Ypres, he flew the whole way back to the flying ground at Merville, and made his report. We regret to say that he succumbed to his wounds 24 hours later. He was an aviator who had always performed several daring feats, and was the first man to do the ‘tail slide,’ and also the only man who had flown across the Channel with two passengers. This would appear worthy to be ranked among the most heroic stories of the world’s history.” Extract from Eye-witness’s communication dated 30 April: “The raid on Courtrai, unfortunately cost the nation a very gallant life, but it will live as one of the most heroic episodes of the war. The aviator started on the enterprise alone in a biplane. On arrival at Courtrai he glided down to a height of 300 ft., and dropped a large bomb on the railway junction. While he did this he was the target of hundreds of rifles, of machine guns, and of anti-aircraft armament, and was severely wounded in the thigh. Though he might have saved his life by at once coming down in the enemy’s lines, he decided to save his machine at all costs, and made for the British lines. Descending to a height of only 100 ft. in order to increase his speed, he continued to fly and was again wounded, this time mortally. He still flew on, however, and without coming down at the nearest of our aerodromes, went all the way back to his own base, where he executed a perfect landing and made his report. He died in hospital not long afterwards.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 3 May, 1915, and was awarded the V.C. [London Gazette, 22 May, 1915] “for most conspicuous bravery on 26 April, 1915, in flying to Courtrai, and dropping bombs on the railway line near that station. On starting the return journey he was mortally wounded, but succeeded in flying for 35 miles to his destination at a very low altitude and reported the successful accomplishment of his object. He has since died of his wounds.” Lieut. Rhodes-Moorhouse m. at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 25 June, 1912, Linda Beatrice (Parnham House, Beaminster, Dorset), yst. dau. of the late Robert Ambrose Morritt, of Rokeby, Yorkshire, and had a son: William Henry, b. 4 March, 1914. In accordance with the will of his grandfather he assumed the name of Rhodes in addition to, and before, that of Moorhouse by Royal Licence, 21 Jan. 1913.

MORAN, JOHN BARROW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9651), S.S. 107013, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORAN, JOSEPH, Private, No. 7776, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Michael Moran, of 9, Chatburn Avenue, Tanshelf, Pontefract, Miner, by his wife, Julianne, dau. of Patrick Tierney; b. Sharleston, near Wakefield, co. York, ... May, 1888; educ. Colliery School there; enlisted 1908; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons and the subsequent fighting on the Marne and Aisne, and died in hospital at Versailles, 24 Sept. 1914, of wounds received at La Cour de Soupir, on the Aisne, on the 17th. He was buried in Versailles Cemetery; unm.

MORGAN, ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2767), S.S. 674, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORGAN ALBERT ERNEST, Lieut., 6th (Special Reserve) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Albert Charles Frederick Morgan, of 135, Oakwood Court, Kensington, by his wife, Marion Grimston, 4th dau. of John Alexander Fladgate, 1st Baron da Roeda in Portugal, and grandson of the late Thomas Morgan, F.S.A.; b. London, 24 May, 1889; educ. at Summerfield, Oxford, and at Westminster School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 May, 1911; promoted Lieut. 1913; and attd. to the Royal Flying Corps on 15 Sept. 1914; acted as Assistant Instructor at the Upavon Flying School until he proceeded to the Front in France, in December, 1914. He was killed by a shell whilst observing for artillery fire from an aeroplane, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on 10 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

MORGAN, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 968), 141514, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORGAN, EDWARD CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 1st, attd. to 5th Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of Charles Morgan, of Guildford, Surrey and formerly of Burdon Hall, Shackleford, M.A. Cantab., late Naval Instructor, R.N., by his wife, Kathleen Courtenay, dau. of Edward Robinson, of West Meath, and granddau. of the late Thomas Morgan, F.S.A.; b. Blackheath, 19 Dec. 1897; educ. at Haileybury and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; obtained his first commission, 15 July, 1914, and shortly afterwards proceeded to France as an observer in the Royal Flying Corps, subsequently joining his Battn. in the trenches. He was killed by a shell when in charge of a machine gun, with three of his men, several others being wounded, on 18 Dec. 1915; unm. He was buried in Windy Corner (the Guards’ Cemetery), Givenchy. Lieut.-Col. F. W. Foley, in command of his Battn., wrote: “he was killed by a large shell, the first one from the German artillery on their suddenly opening fire in this locality.... I always felt in the position of a parent to him, he was so young ... all his officers loved him, and none more than I did; he was a perfectly delightful boy, and a first-rate officer.... I arranged with the Chaplain to bury him to-morrow morning in a coffin, and I will see that a cross is put up to his memory.”

MORGAN, FRANCIS MATTHEW, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5502, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MORGAN, GEORGE, Private, No. 4058, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Morgan, of Worminster, near Shepton Mallet, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Billing; b. North Wooten, near Shepton Mallet, co. Somerset, 12 May, 1883; educ. North Wooten Church of England School; enlisted 6 Feb. 1901; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action by the explosion of a bomb at Vermelles, Belgium, 8 Oct. 1915. He m. at Shepton Mallet, 19 Sept. 1905, Florence (The Mill House, Shepton Mallet), 7th dau. of William Woolley, of Shepton Mallet, Farmer, and had four children: Ethel, b. 14 Oct. 1906; Edith Gwendoline, b. 9 Sept. 1907; Lillian Beatrice, b. 20 Feb. 1909; and Marion Olive, b. 27 Nov. 1910.

MORGAN, HARRY, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Auckland (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Regt., s. of William Morgan, of Birmingham, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of James Duffield; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford; educ. Birmingham; went to New Zealand about 1891 and was for some time Officer Commanding the 88th Coy. of Senior Cadets, Auckland. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Auckland Regt., 28 March, 1912, and promoted Lieut., 8 April, 1915, being Provost-Marshal while in Epsom Camp before proceeding with his regt. to the Front. He was killed in action at Cape Helles, 8 May, 1915. Capt. Frazer, since invalided to Auckland, told Lieut. Morgan’s wife: “The day on which he fell there had been a terrible charge. He was one of those to get back to the trenches safely, but, on peering out, saw some wounded still under fire. At his own risk he went out and brought one man in who had been shot in the thigh, and then started out for a brother officer, whom he had passed when getting the wounded man in. Unfortunately a sniper got him, and ended a glorious career”; and Lieut. Topham, Gallipoli, wrote: “I was quite near to him when he fell; he was shot through the head and only lived a few minutes. It had always been said that he would either get killed in action or win a V.C. He was so daring and had absolutely no fear. It happened down at Cape Helles on 8 May, the day on which the New Zealand Infantry made history.... He fell in the thick of the fight and died game, and was buried that night where he fell. A wooden cross was placed at the head of his grave by some of the men of his company.” An Auckland nurse from the 15th General Hospital, Alexandria, stated: “The soldier who told me of his death said his conduct had been most heroic, and that he was seen night after night creeping out of the trenches to help back the wounded soldiers.” Lieut. Morgan m. at Auckland, 12 May, 1897, Euphemia Margaret (“Waiuna,” Rata Street, New Lynn, Auckland), yst. dau. of David Heron, late Madras Commissariat Department, India, and had one dau., Gwendolen Margaret, b. 6 June, 1911.

MORGAN, ROBERT WILLIAM, Private, No. 696, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late William Henry Morgan, of 13, Albert Road, Leyton, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Mary Ann (25, Wellesley Road, Leytonstone), dau. of Joseph Barnes, of Torquay, Devon; b. Leyton, co. Essex, 3 Sept. 1884; educ. Newport School, Leyton; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 28 Jan. 1901; served in the South African War and afterwards in India, where he finished his service with the Colours. In 1909 he emigrated to Western Australia, and on the outbreak of war joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force and sailed for Egypt, Sept. 1914. He died on board H.M. Hospital Ship Sicilian, 9 June, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles on the 4th of that month while on observation duty; unm.

MORGAN, STEPHEN BEVERLEY, 2nd Lieut., 3rd attd. 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Beverley Morgan, of Muscalls, Paddock Wood, Kent, by his wife, Clara Elizabeth, dau. of Major Edgworth Horrocks; b. Tunbridge Wells, 22 April, 1896; educ. Hurstleigh, Tunbridge Wells, and Clifton College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Leicestershires, 15 Aug. 1914; went to France attached to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action by shell fire in the trenches near Armentières, 14 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Regimental Burial Ground behind the trenches. He was a well-known cricketer, and played for the Public Schools at Lords, in the summer of 1914.

MORGANS, THOMAS ALFRED, Leading Seaman, 239252, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORIARTY, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3851), 204033, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MORKILL, RONALD FALSHAW, Lieut., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. and Flying Officer, Royal Flying Corps; 2nd s. of John William Morkill, of Newfield Hall, Malhamdale, Yorkshire, M.A., J.P., by his wife, Hannah Shaw, yst. dau. of Peter Hobson, of Castle Lodge, Yorkshire, and niece and co-heiress of Sir James Falshaw, Bart.; b. Edinburgh, 22 Nov. 1891; educ. Radley, and University College, London; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. West Yorkshire Regt. 1 Oct. 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. After the outbreak of war he was (14 Aug. 1914) gazetted to the 1st West Yorkshires and the following day went to the Front as Lieut. attd. to the 1st East Yorkshires, with which he served through the winter of 1914–15. On 1 July, 1913, he gained a pilot’s certificate from the Royal Aero Club, and in Feb. 1915, was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a probationer. He qualified as a flying officer on 19 June, and was gazetted to the Corps on 15 July, after his death. Under orders on 22 June he piloted a Blériot Monoplane from Gosport to Shoreham, leaving the latter place on his return journey shortly after 6 o’clock in the evening. He had risen barely 200 feet when his engine was noticed to miss fire and finally stop. Having insufficient space beneath him he was unable to keep control of his craft which dived to the earth causing injuries by the impact from which he died in the Military Hospital a few hours later. A letter of sympathy from the N.C.Os. and men of the section he commanded, dated 3 July, 1915, contains the following passage: “The hardest and most terribly trying time—last winter—he spent in the trenches with us, and never a murmur of complaint was ever heard to fall from his lips. To say he was loved by all men would be to express our feelings in the mildest form.” Buried at Kirby-in-Malhamdale, Yorkshire. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Heywood, Westbury, Wilts, 23 Sept. 1914, Ellen Mary, yst. dau. of the late Thomas Loyzelure Wilkinson, of Neasham Abbey, near Darlington; s.p.

MORLAND, HENRY ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111650 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORONEY, EDWARD FRANCIS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3965), S.S. 102026, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORPETH, MOORE, Private, No. 12/1039, 6th Hauraki Coy., Auckland Infantry Battn., 5th s. of Henry Douglas Morpeth, Town Clerk of Waiki, Auckland, New Zealand; b. Auckland, 10 May, 1894; educ. Waiki District High School; was studying law in Auckland when war broke out, and was one of three brothers who at once volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force early in Aug. 1914. He left for Egypt with the main body on 16 Oct., and on 12 April embarked from there for the Dardanelles, taking part in the landing at Gaba Tepe on the 25th of that month. He was one of a small body of New Zealanders and Australians who, after making good their landing, had gained the ridges above Anzac Cove, but the enemy coming at them in force they were obliged to retire. One of the Australians was struck down, and Morpeth made over to his assistance, when he received a mortal wound that paralysed him. His comrades, in the face of advancing Turks, could do nothing for him, and next day when the ground was retaken his dead body was found where he fell; unm.

MORPHEW, ARTHUR, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115038, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MORPHEW, ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7934), S.S. 103605, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORRIS, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2176), 194828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORRIS, CLIVE WILSON, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6th s. of Frank Robert-Morris, of Crofton, near Orpington, Kent; b. Oak Hill Park, Hampstead, N., 4 March, 1894; educ St. Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, and Repton; volunteered and joined the Artists’ Rifles on the outbreak of war, Oct. 1914; went to France in Oct.; was given a commission in the 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 1 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, France, 9 May following; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed in an attack on a very strong German position, as he was gallantly leading his platoon across the open.”

MORRIS, HON. GEORGE HENRY, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 2nd s. of Michael, 1st Lord Morris and Killanin, P.C., Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, by his wife, Anna, dau. of the Hon. George Henry Hughes, a Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland; b. co. Galway, 16 July, 1872; educ. The Oratory School, Birmingham, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, then stationed in India, 12 March, 1892, and promoted Lieut., 16 May, 1894; took part in the operations on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, with the Tochi Field Force, for which he received the medal with clasp, and from 7 Jan. 1897, to 6 Jan. 1901, was Adjutant of his battn., receiving his company, 16 Aug. 1899. In 1901 he entered the Staff College, but left soon afterwards and went out to South Africa and served with Damant’s Horse in the latter stage of the Boer War, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to March, 1902, and in those in the Transvaal, March to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 18 July, 1902] and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He then returned to the Staff College and passed out in 1903, and after being D.A.A.G. at Belfast (8–31 March, 1904), was Staff Capt., Army Headquarters, 1 April, 1904, to 12 March, 1906. He was gazetted Major to the 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 3 March, 1906, and on 15 May, 1908, was appointed D.A.A.G. (General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade), with the rank of temp. Lieut.-Col. at the Staff College, where he remained until 1911. On 15 July, 1913, he obtained command of his Battn., and in Aug. 1914, he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, in which the 1st Irish Guards formed part of the 4th Brigade (2nd Division, 1st Army Corps). He was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, while endeavouring to extricate some of his men from an impossible position, in the woods of Compiègne, near Villers Cotterets on 1 Sept. following. When the Battn. reassembled after a difficult rearguard fight through the beech woods, Lieut.-Col. Morris missed some of No. 4 Coy. and went back alone to find them, but they were hopelessly outnumbered, and he was killed while leading a final bayonet charge. He was buried in Villers Cotterets Cemetery. Lieut.-Col. Morris was a brilliant Lecturer on Military History and Tactics, and was universally regarded as one of the cleverest men of his age in the Army. The men of the Irish Guards were deeply attached to him and he was immensely proud of his battn. He m. at Westminster Cathedral, 29 April, 1913, Dora Wesley (10, Chesham Place, S.W.), dau. of the late James Wesley Hall, of Melbourne, and had a son, Michael, b. 30 July, 1914.

MORRIS, HENRY GAGE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only surviving child of Col. Henry Gage Morris, late commanding 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., and great-great-grandson of Col. Roger Morris of York, by his wife, Maude, dau. of the late Preston Gilbert Wallis, of Park Hill, Bodmin; b. Bodmin, co. Cornwall, 14 Aug. 1897; educ. Preparatory School, The Hoe, Plymouth; Marlborough College (Sept. 1911–July, 1914), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 12 Jan. 1915, aged 17½ years; went to France, 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915, being buried where he fell. His commanding officer wrote: “He was such a nice boy, and a very brave and gallant lad, and died gallantly. He was killed in a counter-attack we made with the 13th Brigade, the East Yorks., York and Lancs., and 4th Canadians on the 23rd. I was commanding the Battn. at the time, and the last I saw of him he passed me with a platoon of C Coy., which was in Reserve. He came past me with a very cheerful face, and laughing under a very heavy cross-fire from machine guns, and sang out to me, ‘Shall I push on?’ and I answered, ‘Go on, laddie, as hard as you can.’ Poor lad, I did not see him again, but heard he was shot in the head, but he would not let anyone stay with him. He was such a good boy, always cheerful and always ready to do anything that was wanted. He was very popular with everyone—officers and men;” and Private W. Board, C Coy., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I.: “You must be proud to know your son was as brave a man as anyone could wish to meet. I was his servant while he was in France, and a better master I never had. The men in the platoon loved him, and would do anything for him. He was always cheerful and had friends every where he went. I was not with him when he got hit, but I heard he wanted to go on, and refused to be bandaged, as he said there were men who were hit more badly than himself. He always thought of others before himself.” A writer in his School Magazine (“The Marlburian,” 19 May, 1915) said: “From his earliest days in the school—in ‘A’ House, his company was a real pleasure. Always bright and full of fun, and merry talk, he had from the first great personal charm; and as he developed, one saw behind him those qualities of modesty, generosity, and straightness, which mark the perfect gentleman.”

MORRIS, JAMES, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 279187, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MORRIS, JOHN, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 151804, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORRIS, WILLIAM, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MORRIS, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman, 214875, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MORRISON, EDWIN DUNCAN RUTHERFORD, Private No. 10/1007, 9th Hawkes Bay Regt., Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; s. of George Morrison, of Normanby, New Zealand, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Thomas Novis; b. Cust, Canterbury, New Zealand, 21 Nov. 1889; educ. Belfast, Canterbury. On the outbreak of war in August, 1914, he joined the N.Z.E.F. at Napier, Hawkes Bay; left for Egypt with the first contingent, took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 28 April following; unm. Throughout the whole of the day of his death Private Morrison had been fighting and escaped injury, but was fatally hit in the evening while digging a trench. He was an excellent shot, and before going to the Dardanelles had been selected as a sniper.

MORRISON, FREDERICK CHARLES, Corpl., No. 4972, 1st Battn. (The Prince Consort’s Own) The Rifle Brigade, s. of Frank Saunderson Morrison, of The Cottage, Hallaton, co. Leicester, F.R.C.S., J.P.; b. Dublin, 19 Aug. 1882; educ. Dundalk Educational Institution; St. John’s College, near Preston, and Trinity College, Dublin, of which he became a graduate and honour man; qualified as an engineer and went to Rhodesia; volunteered his services for the suppression of the rising in Natal, 1906–7, for which he received the King’s medal, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he, with three other old University comrades, returned to England and joined the Rifle Brigade in Sept.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action during the engagement at Ploegsteert, 7 Feb. 1915; unm. He was a good athlete and footballer, playing for his school and college; a hard rider to hounds, well-known to the Louth Pack and Harriers.

MORRISON, GERARD HUMPHREYS, Capt., 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of John Hebb Morrison, of 63, Hamilton Terrace, London, Member of Lloyds; b. London, 16 March, 1889; educ. Harrow, and Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was in the O.T.C.); received a commission in the London Rifle Brigade, on leaving Oxford, and was promoted Lieut. 18 Sept. 1913, and Capt. 25 Feb. 1915; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Oct., and was killed in action near Armentières, 31 March. 1915; unm. Buried in the Rifle Brigade Cemetery in Ploegsteert Wood. His Col., Lord Cairns, wrote: “We all loved him—he was not only a personal friend to us all, but also a good and capable officer. He was a splendid example of cheerfulness and devotion to duty, and I am convinced that his men would have followed him anywhere”; and his Major: “Universally loved by us all, a born leader of men, it is impossible for me to tell you what a gap your son’s death will make in the regiment.” While at Harrow he was head of his house (H.O.D. Davidson’s), and in the football XI; at Oxford he took his degree with honours in law, and was made President I.C.R.

MORRISON, HERBERT HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4507), 176230, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MORRISON, JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 5181, 1st Battn. Black Watch, 2nd surviving s. of John Morrison, Head Gamekeeper to Major, The Brodie of Brodie, Brodie Castle, Forres, by his wife Margaret, dau. of the late Alexander Ross, North Lodge, Orton, co. Moray; b. Inveravon, Banffshire, 14 Nov. 1885; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, drafted to France in Nov.; killed during heavy fighting, in which his regt. was engaged at La Bassée, on 25 Jan. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “The attack was fierce, and John got a bullet in the leg. Nevertheless, he crawled to the assistance of his officer, 2nd Lieut. L. H. Willet, also wounded, and was in the act of helping him to remove his pack when fatally shot. He was promoted L.-Corpl. only a few days before.” 2nd Lieut. Willet said: “Some gallant fellow crawled up to me shortly after I was hit, and attempted to assist me off with my pack, but owing to the nature of my wound, I was unable to turn my neck sufficiently round to see who it was. I heard he was hit, and asked him if it was so. He replied: ‘Yes, Sir’; and when I inquired later, I received no reply, but could just touch his hand by reaching back, and found he was dead. From the sound of his voice I thought it was your brother, who was in my Platoon, and I hoped it wasn’t so, and that I had made a mistake, for he was one of my most valued men.... His end was a gallant one, and his was a peaceful conclusion to a career, which, had he been spared to prolong it, he could have looked back on with the justifiable pride of one who has done his work well.” His brother, George James, is a 2nd Lieut. 3/6th Seaforth Highlanders.

MORROW, ROBERT, V.C., Private, No. 10531, 1st Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, s. of Hugh Morrow (who died 21 years ago), by his wife Margaret Jane, dau. of Isaac William Ash McKnight, Tailor; b. Sessia, near Newmills, East Tyrone, 28 March, 1892; educ. Carland National School, 1909; enlisted about 1910; went to the Front with his battn. on the outbreak of war, and greatly distinguished himself at Messines on 12 April, 1915, by rescuing several wounded soldiers who were lying exposed to a dreadful rain of shell and rifle fire. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating that it was granted “For most conspicuous bravery near Messines on 12 April, 1915, when he rescued and carried successively to places of comparative safety several men who had been buried in the débris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. Private Morrow carried out this gallant work on his own initiative, and under very heavy fire from the enemy.” On 25 April, barely a fortnight later, he was killed at St. Julien while in the act of again succouring the wounded. The Victoria Cross was forwarded to his mother, to whom His Majesty the King sent an autograph letter regretting that Private Morrow’s death had deprived him of the pride of personally conferring the Victoria Cross, “the greatest of all distinctions.” The Emperor of Russia also conferred on him the medal of St. George (3rd Class) for his “gallantry and distinguished service in the field,” the War Office in forwarding the decoration stated that it was to be retained as a memorial of the deceased soldier’s distinguished conduct. He was unm.

MORRISON, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 1981, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MORSE, GORDON THOMAS HARCOURT, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Richard Edward Ricketts Morse, of Chargrove House, near Cheltenham, by his wife, Kathleen, dau. of the late Col. Neville Hill Shute (64th), North Staffordshire Regt.; b. Mian Meer, Punjab, India, 6 Dec. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College (Sept. 1908–Dec. 1912), and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (12 Feb. 1913–July, 1914), where he was an Hon. King’s Cadet; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Middlesex Regt., 8 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 13 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Rouge-Croix, France. His Col. wrote that he was killed instantaneously being shot while leading his platoon in an attack, and that “during the short time he was with the regiment he had become popular with both officers and men.” At College he rose to be a prefect, and his house-master said of him: “He was industrious at work, fearless at games, loyal to his friends, and esteemed by all.”

MORSE, GURTH STEPHEN, 2nd Lieut., 34th Batty. Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Amyas Morse, of The Bourne, Bourne End, Bucks, late Superintending Engineer, Indian Public Works Department, by his wife, Rose, dau. of the late Rev. Henry John Maddock; b. Lahore, Punjab, India, 20 March, 1894; educ. Ashampstead, Eastbourne; Clifton College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A., 18 July, 1913; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and died in Hospital at Bailleul, on 9 Dec. following, of wounds received in action on the 4th, while observing for his battery at Bois Grenier, near Armentières. He was buried in the Communal Cemetery, Bailleul; unm.

MORTAR, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MORTIMER, HARRY BROOKS, Private, No. 2731, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late William Henry Mortimer, of Heaton Moor, near Stockport, by his wife, Mary Ann (Oakin Clough, Limehurst, Ashton-under-Lyne), dau. of the late Samuel Brooks; b. Longsight, Manchester, 31 Jan. 1883; educ. Grammar School, Longsight, and was a Manager of a Restaurant for John Lewis, Oxford Street, London. On the outbreak of war he joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France on 3 Nov.; took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915, and in the attack on the German position near Fromelles on 9 May, in which his Battn. most brilliantly distinguished itself, and died in No. 6 Clearing Station, Merville, 12 May, 1915, from wounds received at the latter. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unm.

MORTON, EDGAR DOUGLAS, Trooper, No. 1391, 1st (Service) squadron, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (Yeomanry), only s. of Edgar Morton, of The Studio, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, by his wife, Eleanor Jane, dau. of Edward John Wall, of Great Chesterford; b. London, 7 June, 1895; educ. Ashford Grammar School (Sept. 1906, to Easter, 1913), and on leaving there entered the Canterbury Motor Works, where he was when war broke out. He joined the Waldershare Troop of the East Kent Yeomanry, 7 Sept. 1914, and was quartered with the regt. in huts on the Military Polo Ground at Canterbury during the autumn and winter. He died in the Canterbury V.A.D. Hospital, 22 Feb. 1915, from pneumonia and pleurisy contracted while on service. He was a good all-round sportsman and a crack shot. At Ashford he was the school prefect, and Capt. of the football team, and twice won the Strathcona shooting trophy. His former Headmaster (Mr. A. S. Lamprey) wrote: “One of the best, straightest, pluckiest boys I have ever known,” and Major Ffrench Blake “He was a general favourite, and we all mourn the loss of a young but keen soldier.”

MORTON, HENRY, Private, No. 1790, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Morton (who served 21 years in India with the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, and received the Good Conduct medal, etc., and afterwards for 15 years on the staff of the old Wicklow Rifles); b. Wicklow, 15 Dec. 1867; educ. Wicklow Church School; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, 15 June, 1887; transferred into the Grenadier Guards, 1 Oct. following, and was posted to the 3rd Battn. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with six bars (Belmont, Modder River, Dreifontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901, 1902), and obtained his discharge at his own request in Sept. 1906, after being with the Colours 19 years and 87 days, when he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct medal. He was servant to Capt. Weller-Poley, re-enlisted in the Sussex Yeomanry the day war was declared; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Sept., 1915, and was killed in action, 13 Nov. 1915; unm. He was buried in Anglesea Gully, Gallipoli. Writing to his brother, Mr. George Morton, of 4, North Road, Prestwich, Manchester, Capt. Weller-Poley said: “I feel that I have lost a true friend and trusted servant who can never be replaced,” and Mr. Thomas Weller-Poley, of Chichester, J.P.: “Your brother Henry had been with us so long and was so much liked and respected by everyone, that the news of his death is a genuine sorrow to us and to the whole establishment.”

MORTON, JAMES FAIRFAX AMPHLETT, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve Battn., attd. 2nd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of James Amphlett Morton, of Puxton House, Kidderminster, by his wife, Edith Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Garland, Vicar of Ombersley, Worcestershire; b. Puxton House, afsd., 6 May, 1892; and was educ. at Repton and Clare College, Cambridge, where he rowed stroke in his college boat in the May Races, 1914. On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission through the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th (Service) Battn. K.R.R.C., early in Sept. 1914. After spending three weeks at a training camp for officers at Royston, Herts, he joined his battalion at Aldershot, but was subsequently transferred to the 6th (Reserve) Battn. at Sheerness. He left for France at the end of Nov. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd K.R.R.C. (2nd Brigade, 1st Division). He was killed in action near La Bassée, 10 Jan. 1915, during a counter-attack by the enemy to recover one of their trenches against which he had just led a successful assault. Buried in a garden at Cuinchy; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

MORTON, WILFRED, Private, No. 2581, 1/7th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), eldest s. of William Morton, of 47, Otto Terrace, Sunderland, Quantity Surveyor, by his wife, Evelyn Mary, dau. of Lancelot Steel; b. Sunderland, 1 Dec. 1895; educ. Great Ayton, Sunderland, and Ackworth; was a pupil in his father’s office; enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to the front, 19 April, 1915, was wounded and taken prisoner at Hooge, on Whit Monday, and was afterwards officially reported to have died, whilst a prisoner of war, in the Krieg Lazarette, Rossclare, 30 May, 1915, from wounds, and was buried at Rossclare; unm.

BOYD-MOSS, ERNEST WILLIAM, D.S.O., Major, 4th, attd. 9th, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Matthew Henry Moss, of Belsize, Worthing; b. 26 Sept. 1876; educ. Tonbridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt. from the Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 2 Jan. 1900; Capt. 6 Feb. 1901, and temp. Major of the Battn., 22 Oct. 1914; was attd. to the West African Frontier Force, 12 Nov. 1904, to 11 July, 1907; served (1) in West Africa, 1898–9; took part in the operations in Sierra Leone (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; operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Ladybrand, 2–5 Sept, for which he was awarded the D.S.O.; operations in the Transvaal, Jan.-June, 1901; operations in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900–Jan. 1901, and June, 1901–Feb. 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps); and (3) with the Mediterranaean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Sari Bair, 10 Aug. 1915. Major Boyd-Moss m. at Christ Church, Gorakhpur, U.P., India, Mary Elizabeth Grace (Elsie), dau. of Frank Middliton Howard, of Zehra, Gorakhpur, aforesaid, and had a son, Deryck Frank, b. 11 April, 1913.

MOSS, HERBERT, Private, No. 126, A Coy., 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen’s Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of the late John Samuel Field; b. New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educ. Stock Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912, and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J. Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge; unm. Letters from his former employer and from his officers and comrades speak very highly of him.

MOSS, HORACE GEORGE, Signalman, J. 12422, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MOSS, SAMUEL, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3653), 177261. H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOTRONI, PETER GEORGE, Private, No. 8727, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street, Ipswich, by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina, Italy; b. Colchester, co. Essex, 1 July, 1895; educ. St. Pancras R.C. School, and St. Mary’s Convent School, Ipswich; enlisted 4 April, 1913; went to France, 11 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooges, near Ypres, 19 July, 1915; unm.

MOTRONI, UMBERTO AMEDIE, Corpl. No. 1756, Suffolk Regt., 3rd s. of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street, Ipswich by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina, Italy; b. at Ipswich, 1898; enlisted 7 Oct. 1913; went to France, 6 Nov. 1914, was promoted Corpl. in March, 1916, and was killed in action, 15 July, 1916; unm.

MOTT, GEORGE, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.) (R.F.R., A. 1944), 148075, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOUCHER, THOMAS HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4009), 291032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOULD, ALBERT ARTHUR, Rifleman, No. 1487, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Arthur Mould, of 3, Buckingham Terrace, Notting Hill, W. (who served for 25 years with the 18th Middlesex Volunteers), by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Harris, Jeweller; b. London, 6 Feb. 1891; educ. Buckingham Terrace Public School; was a Porter at a Court Milliner’s, joined the Rangers in Sept. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Dec. following, and died in the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton, 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action during the Second Battle of Ypres; unm.

MOULL, WILLIAM DANIEL, Chief Sick Berth Steward, 350416, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOUNTAIN, GEORGE, Acting Leading Stoker, 306050, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Mountain, of 3, Thomas Street, Craghead; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MOXEY, CHARLES GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6819), S.S. 1043, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MUCHALL, GEORGE WILLIAM STEWART, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of the late Colour-Sergt. William Angus Muchall, who served for 21 years in the 8th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt.; b. Orford Barracks, Warrington, 12 June, 1881; enlisted in the King’s Own, 4 Jan. 1901, reached the rank of Colour-Sergt., and was serving with his Regt. in India when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914. He came home with his regt., reaching England at Christmas; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., in the 2nd King’s Own, 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, and was killed in action in the desperate fighting on the Frezenberg Ridge, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. Lieut. Muchall was three years Battn. Champion shot, and in 1909 he won the J. H. Steward Jewel for judging distance at Bisley, and was fourth in the grand aggregate. He m. at Scotforth Church, Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1906, Elizabeth (15, Cheltenham Road, Lancaster), dau. of William Jackson, of 15, Cheltenham Road, Lancaster, and had three children: William J., b. 18 Feb. 1907; George, b. 13 Aug. 1914; and Lilian M., b. 6 April, 1911.

MUDDIMAN, OLIVER, L.-Corpl., No. 4868, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late Alfred Muddiman, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William and Sarah Burgess; b. Winchester, 1 June, 1883; educ. Winchester Council School; enlisted 22 Oct. 1902; promoted L.-Corpl., 9 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug., and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at La Cour de Soupir on the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed on that date. He m. at Fulham, 5 Oct. 1907, May Louise (19, Dunton Road, Leyton, Essex), dau. of John Charles Everett, Engine Driver, G.N.R., and had two sons: Oliver, b. 17 July, 1908; and Eric Charles, b. 31 Jan. 1914.

MUDFORD, WALTER, Bombardier, R.M A. (R.F.R., I.C. 15), 9004, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MUIR, GEORGE CHALMERS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5821), 285210, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MUIR, GEORGE WATSON, Midshipman, R.N., elder s. of Andrew Gray Muir, of 17, Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh, writer to the “Signet,” by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Thomson Henderson, of Leghorn, and great-grandson of the Rev. John Muir, of St. Vigeans, co. Forfar; b. Edinburgh, 2 May, 1899; educ. Edinburgh Academy; Stubbington, Hampshire; and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in action in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MUIRHEAD, JAMES GRAHAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17214, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MULADY, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5091, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MULHOLLAND, ARTHUR, 2nd Ship’s Steward, 344220, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MULLEN, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9230), S.S. 106287, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MULLIGAN, ALEXANDER, Private No. 7462, 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of Alexander Mulligan, of 16, Newport Street, Dublin, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of Adam Russell; b. Ellen Field, Drumcondra, Dublin, 16 Sept. 1882; educ. St. James’ Schools, Dublin; joined the Army, 22 Dec. 1902, and was killed in action, being shot through the head at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914. He m., Dublin, 15 Jan. 1908, Elizabeth Beatrice (12, St. John’s Cottages, High Road, Kilmainham, Dublin), dau. of the late John Sadleir, and had issue a son and dau., Alexander John, b. 14 June, 1911, and Annette Rosabella, b. 14 June, 1909.

MULLINS, JOHN OLLIS, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve) Battn. Middlesex Regt., attd. Royal Flying Corps, 3rd s. of the late Edwin Roscoe Mullins, of London, Sculptor, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late John Pelton, of Croydon; b. London, 6 March, 1892; educ. University College School, London (where he was captain of the school, and Colour-Sergt. of the O.T.C.); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2 April, 1913; attd. to the 6th Middlesex, 6 Aug. 1914, transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1 Feb. 1915, and was killed in an aeroplane accident at Upavon, 29 March, 1915, while going through a course of instruction there; unm. His Adjutant wrote that he was “a promising young officer, who in his short career in the 6th Middlesex had already shown a marked capacity for the handling of men.”

MULLOY, JOHN THOMAS, Signalman, (R.F.R., B. 5053), 204138, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MUMFORD, GEORGE, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, L. 4183, H.M.S. Hawke; s. of George Felix Mumford, of 28, Albury Grove Road, Waltham Cross; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MUMFORD, HARRY, A.B., J. 13954, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MUNBY, ERNEST JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 1st East Anglian Field Coy., R.E. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Rev. George Frederick Woodhouse Munby, Rector of Turvey, Bedford (1869–1905), by his wife, Harriet Louisa, dau. of the Rev. Canon Linton; b. Turvey Rectory, 19 May, 1875; educ. Rugby and Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., where he took his degree as Mechanical Engineer, and became M.Am. S.M.E. and A.I.M. and M. As a Mining Engineer, he worked in Colorado and Borneo, and was subsequently engaged with Lord Cowdray (then Sir Weetman Pearson) in constructing the tunnel under the Hudson River to New York. He was afterwards employed by the Gardner Electric Drill and Hammer Company, and had latterly been engaged at the St. John’s Mine, Montezuma, Colorado. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and applied for a commission. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Anglian Coy., R.E., 14 Sept. 1914; went to France at the end of Dec., and was killed in action near Bethune, 31 Jan. 1915, being buried at Le Touret. He m. at Croydon, 7 Nov. 1905, Emily Louisa Ann, widow of Capt. Herbert Turner Turner Emery, of Baddow Park, Essex, and dau. of Charles Henry Coxhead; s.p.

MUNDAY, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10124), S.S. 107841, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MUNDEN, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3767), 148102, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MUNN, DUNCAN, Painter, 2nd Class, 183670, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MUNN, GEORGE ANDERSON, Shipwright, 1st Class, 340648, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MUNRO, DAVID SINCLAIR, Sergt., No. 8/678, 4th (Otago Infantry) Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Sinclair McKay Munro, of 21, Selwyn Road, N.E. Valley, Dunedin (a native of Wick, Caithness), Storeman; b. Dunedin, N.Z., 13 Aug. 1895; educ. N.E. Valley School, Dunedin; volunteered and enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; was promoted Sergt.; left for Egypt with the Main Body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 May following, being shot through the temple in an attack on a Turkish position. Buried, Cape Helles, Gallipoli; unm.

MUNRO, ROBERT WILLIAM, Farrier, No. 13/106, 4th Troop, 3rd Regt. Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of John Alexander Munro, of Clevedon, Blacksmith, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Franz Bartosh, and great grandson of Robert Munro, who served through the Peninsula War; b. Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 3rd Regt. of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, 1 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 18 May, 1915; unm.

MUNRO, RODERICK, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4519, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MUNTON, FRANK BOUGHTON, Sergt., No. 1958, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Field Boughton Munton, of 10, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush, Ironmonger, by his wife, Jenny, dau. of George Blair, of Queen’s Road, Bayswater; b. Shepherd’s Bush, 23 Jan. 1869; educ. Westbourne Park School, and was a Builder by trade. He joined the 18th Middlesex Volunteers in 1899. This, on the introduction of the Territorial system, became the 10th County of London Regt., and for some years he was Sergt.-Instructor of the Maxim-Gun Team, and was Quartermaster-Sergt. when the regt. was disbanded in 1912. Much of the work which the disbandment entailed fell to his share, and he was presented with a silver cup and a set of silver spoons by his old comrades. On the outbreak of war, notwithstanding that he was 45 years of age, he at once volunteered, and joined the Kensingtons as a Private, leaving a well-established business and large family to do so. He was promoted Sergt. early in March, 1915; went to France, 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action by machine-gun fire on 9 May, 1915, in the attack delivered by the 8th Division upon the German position at Fromelles and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, on which occasion the Kensingtons most brilliantly distinguished themselves and sustained heavy losses. He was a first class shot and his Commanding Officer wrote saying how greatly his help would be missed, adding, “he was invaluable to me.” He m. at St. James Norlands, London, 14 Feb. 1890, Elizabeth (23, Caxton Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), dau. of Charles Hazard, and had three sons and five daus.: Frank Boughton, b. 25 Dec. 1899; Clifford Arthur, b. 17 April, 1904; Ernest Percy, b. 30 May, 1906; Jeannette Frances, b. 13 July, 1891; Constance May, b. 17 April, 1894; Irene Elizabeth, b. 27 May, 1897; Phyllis, b. 28 Nov. 1901; and Marjorie Joyce, b. 1 April, 1910.

MURGATROYD, WALTER ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14723, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MURIEL, SIDNEY HERBERT FOSTER, Capt., 1st Battn. The Border Regt., only s. of the late Rev. William Carter Muriel, Vicar of Fulham (d. 30 March, 1916), by his wife, Lucie, 2nd dau. of the late Edmond Foster, of Cambridge; b. Cambridge, 9 Sept. 1877; educ. St. George’s, Harpenden, Westminster, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Border Regt. 16 Feb. 1898, and promoted Lieut. 27 Aug. 1901; and Capt. 13 April, 1909. From 1 Oct. 1904, to 30 Sept. 1907, he was Adjutant of his battn. and of the Territorial Force from 13 April, 1909, to 12 April, 1912. He served with his regt. in the South African War, 1899–1902, took part in the operations in Cape Colony, South of the Orange River, 1899; operations in Natal, including the relief of Ladysmith and operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900 (slightly wounded 20 Jan.); operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, June, 1900, and in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July, and west of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal from 30 Nov. 1900, in which he was slightly wounded, and afterwards in the operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony. For his services he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. In 1915 the Border Regiment formed part of the 29th Division of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and Capt. Muriel left England with his regt. on 8 March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action there four days later (30 April); unm. Buried near Sedd-el-Bahr.

MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yr s. of the Rev. Canon Richard William Murphy, M.A., Rector of Clifden, Connemara, and formerly of Tuam, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of the late Christopher Mulvany, C.E.; b. Dublin, 17 May, 1889; educ. Abbey School, Tipperary, and Trinity College, Dublin; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Oxford and Bucks L.I., from the R.F.A., Special Reserve, 7 Dec. 1910; promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1914; went to France, 27 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914, while leading his company in an attack; unm. He was buried near Ypres on the road to St. Julien and Poelcapelle. Lieut.-Col. Davies, in command of the 2nd Battn., wrote: “He will be a great loss to us both personally and as a soldier. He died gallantly doing his duty in leading his men on to the attack”; and Lieut. Wingfield: “He died bravely a brave man’s death, and his last moments made me very proud of him as a brother officer.”

MURPHY, GEORGE PATRICK, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21976, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MURPHY, JOACHIM, Private, No. 696, C Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., eldest s. of Joseph Murphy, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Patrick Dunn, of Mundy’s Pond; b. St. John’s, aforesaid, 16 July, 1896; educ. Christian Brothers School there; and on leaving in 1908 entered the employ of the Colonial Cordage Company; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2 Sept. 1914; left for England, 4 Feb. 1915, went to the Dardanelles, 16 Oct. and died on board the Hospital Ship Morea, 7 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action on the 5th. Volunteers were called for to go to the assistance of some men on Cariboo Hill; Murphy formed one of them and though they were successful in their object, they suffered heavily—Murphy was hit in eight or nine places. He was buried at sea; unm.

MURPHY, JOHN, Private, No. 189, 25th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; s. of John Murphy, of Keane’s Lane, Boherbee, Tralee, co. Kerry, by his wife, Julia, dau. of (—) Tobin; b. Tralee, Aug. 1885; educ. Strand Street School there; was for nine years in the employ of Messrs. Baily, of Tralee, Government Contractors, and went to Brisbane about 1910; on the outbreak of war joined the Australian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Apex Chailak Dere, Gallipoli, 7 Oct. 1915; unm. He was buried there the same evening at 7.30 p.m. His brother Maurice was killed at the Battle of Mons, and his uncle Michael at Ypres. Another uncle served with the Expeditionary Force in France, was wounded and invalided home, and later was sent to the Dardanelles.

MURPHY, JOHN CORNELIUS MATTHIAS, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./17860, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MURPHY, JOHN FRANCIS, Ship’s Cook, 347632, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MURPHY, MAURICE, Private, No. 10158, 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, s. of John Murphy, of Keane’s Lane, Boherbee, Tralee, co. Kerry, etc. (see under Private John Murphy); b. at Boherbee, Tralee, 1896; killed in action at the Battle of Mons, Aug. 1914; unm.

MURPHY, MICHAEL, L.-Corpl., No. 2786, 1st Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, s. of John Murphy, of Tralee, and uncle of John and Maurice Murphy (see their notices); b. Tralee about 1884; educ. Christian Brothers School there, and was killed in action at Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He m. at Tralee, Ellenor Hannah (2, Keane’s Lane, Boherbee, Tralee), dau. of (—), and had two children.

MURPHY, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., 1.C. 589, late B. 8132), S.S. 103963, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MURPHY, WALTER LEONARD, Private, No. 407, B Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of John Joseph Murphy, of 20, Buchanan Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Checker, Reid Newfoundland Railway Co., by his wife, Alice, dau. of Peter Hamilton, of Carbonear, Newfoundland; b. Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, 6 April, 1897; educ. Roman Catholic Academy there, and Christian Brothers’ (Holy Cross) Schools, St. John’s; was in the employ of Messrs. James Baird, Ltd., of St. John’s, but on the outbreak of the European War resigned his post and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. 16 Aug. 1914; left for England on steamship Florizel, 4 Oct. 1914, and died at Mudros, 29 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; unm. He was a keen student, and won many prizes and honours in his schools; was a pianist of no mean ability, a good all-round sportsman and an expert in amateur photography. His brother, Private Michael Patrick Murphy, Canadian Infantry, is now (1916) on active service in France.

MURRAY, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 535, 5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Donald Murray, of The Poles, Dornoch, by his wife Isabella (The Poles, Dornoch, Sutherland), dau. of Lewis Grant; b. Bernarmin, Clyne, co. Sutherland, 19 May, 1895; educ. Dornoch; joined the 5th Seaforths, March, 1912; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 8 June, 1915; unm.

MURRAY, ALEXANDER, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2883, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MURRAY, ARTHUR JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4800), S.S. 104146, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MURRAY, CHARLES JOHN, Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Charles Archibald Murray, of Taymount Stanley, co. Perth [grandson of David William, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, K.T.], and only s. by his second wife, Blanche, 5th dau. of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Bart.; b. Taymount, co. Perth, 1 Dec. 1881, educ. Haileybury College; joined the Black Watch Militia in Dec. 1899; gazetted Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 4 Dec. 1901; and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. 1904; served in the South African War, 1902; took part in operations in Cape Colony in May (Queen’s medal with two clasps); was A.D.C. to High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, N. Nigeria, 10 March, 1907, to 6 May, 1908, to Governor and Commander-in-Chief, N. Nigeria, 7 May, 1908 to 1909, and subsequently to Governor of East African Protectorate, 1909–12, when he resigned his commission to take up farming, and the breeding and training of horses there. On the outbreak of war he returned to England, and rejoined the Coldstream Guards at Windsor, 19 Sept. 1914; left with his regt. for France, 7 Oct. following, and was killed in action when leading an attack on Poezelhoek, near Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914; unm.

MURRAY, FANE WRIGHT STAPLETON, Capt., 12th Royal Lancers, eldest s. of the late Col. Charles Edward Gostling Murray, of Whitton Park, Hounslow, and the Moat, Charing, Kent, J.P., D.L. [grandson of the Right Rev. Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David’s, 2nd s. of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl, K.T.], by his 2nd wife, Margaret Frances Elizabeth, only dau. of the Rev. John William Conant; b. Whitton Park, Hounslow, 16 Oct. 1879; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 12th Lancers from the Militia, 20 Dec. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 3 Oct. 1900, Capt. 27 Nov. 1907; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914, and was shot through the heart in the trenches at Wytchaete, between St. Eloi and Messines, 30 Oct. 1914. As immediately after he fell, the 12th Lancers were obliged to abandon their trenches, his body was never recovered. He was unm.

MURRAY, JOHN THOMAS, Leading Stoker, S.S. 102034 (Portsmouth I.C. 243), R.N., and Sergt., No. 5664, Legion of Frontiersmen, eldest s. of Joseph Murray, of 8, William Street, Lintz Colliery, Burnopfield, co. Durham, member of the Legion of Frontiersmen, formerly 3rd Northumberland Fusiliers, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth; b. North Shields, 25 May, 1886; educ. Leazes Board School (where he was one of the most brilliant scholars turned out by its headmaster, Mr. Abbott, J.P., who said that his late scholar “was a credit and reward of many anxious years of toil”); in the Tanfield U.D., co. Durham, afterwards being employed in the Lintz Colliery. Joined the Royal Navy, 10 Jan. 1906, his first ships being in rotation: the Nelson (in which he won the Gold Cross Guns and Gold Star), Brazen, Albermarle, Prince of Wales, Cressy, submarine A.E. 1, the Glasgow, and lastly, in 1906, the Good Hope, on which ship he was serving when she made her record cruise of 30,000 miles, also when she formed one of the squadron representing England at Jamestown Exposition; was one of the Good Hope crew presented by Princess Christian with a shield, on behalf of the women of South Africa, and one of the Guard of Honour to the German Emperor in 1908. After leaving the Navy he joined the Legion of Frontiersmen in Dec. 1911, the commanding officer, Col. Driscoll, D.S.O., writing to Sergt.-Major Harding, of Sunderland, “Use this man, he will be a credit to you; he is an ideal Frontiersman.” He was not long in being made Trooper, Corpl., and finally Sergt., and organised the North-West Durham subunit of the Legion, becoming its Chief Recruiting and Organising Officer and Hon. Secretary. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the Good Hope, and was killed in action when that ship was sunk with H.M.S. Monmouth in the battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. He had the Good Conduct badge, the St. John’s Ambulance certificate, etc., and had a good knowledge of French, Spanish, Hindustani and Zulu; also possessed certificate in mining engineering, and had taken a deep interest in ornithology and history.