The Roll of Honour (part 12)

MURRAY, PATRICK MAXWELL, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), only surviving s. of Arthur Turnour Murray, of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law, and Red Towers, Melton, Suffolk, and of Nora Alice, dau. of the late Hugh Maxwell, of The Elgin Mills Company, Cawnpore; b. 1, Radnor Place, Hyde Park, London, 24 April, 1890; educ. Gisburne House, Watford (W. H. Wright), 1898–1903; Repton (The Priory, H. Vassall), 1903–08, and Woolwich (Sandhurst Detachment), 1908–09; received commission, 18 Sept. 1909, joined Oct. 1909, went through musketry and machine gun course at Hythe, 1911, and qualified in both; Assistant Adjutant, 1911–14; promoted Lieut., 16 Aug. 1911; while at Repton he shot at Bisley, 1906, in the team which won the rapid-firing prize, and also in 1907 and 1908, and his house team won the House Challenge Shield for shooting in 1908 and the House Drill Shield in 1907 and 1908. He also won prizes at the school sports (150 yards, and hurdles). During his Assistant Adjutancy the shooting of his battn. improved, and the following prizes were won:—(a) Seymour Challenge Cup—team snap-shooting at Western Rifle Meeting, 1911; (b) Young Able Seamen and Soldiers’ Cup—teams under two years’ service, 1911; (c) Evelyn Wood Cup—time march ending with ball-firing at unknown ranges, 1912; (d) Judging Distance Shield, 1912; (e) Fairfax Cup—Western Rifle Meeting, 1913. As to the Evelyn Wood Cup, the “Regimental Annual,” 1913, says: “Lieut. Murray commanded the team and led them over the previously unknown nine miles of country with excellent judgment.” He was killed in action on Sunday, 20 Sept. 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne, while retaking a trench captured by the enemy by a ruse from another regt. In this section five officers were killed and nine wounded. His Capt. wrote: “He did so well on that dreadful Sunday—perfectly cool and collected the whole time.” His Colonel, who had reported of him in the highest terms at the last inspection, said: “His death was in every way worthy of the man he had proved himself to be, and his life was freely given in the noblest of causes. After a very dashing advance in which he was one of the first to gain the trenches from which the enemy had driven another British corps, he was there killed instantaneously while encouraging his men and watching every turn of the fight at his own peril.” All accounts agree that the 2nd Sherwoods saved a dangerous situation. He is buried near Troyon.

MURRAY, PETCHELL BURTT, Flight Sub-Lieut., R.N.R., Royal Naval Air Service, attd. H.M.S. Pembroke, yr. s. of George Irving Murray, of Broad Oak Park, Worsley, member of Home Defence Corps VII, by his wife, Janie, dau. of William Lees; b. Didsbury, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1884; educ. Eccles Grammar School, Sedbergh School, and Manchester Technical College, afterwards going to Germany for a time, and then entering his father’s business. He and his brother early devoted themselves to aviation, and in 1912–13, produced an aeroplane of their own construction. In 1911 he gave a lecture on the future of the hydro-aeroplane, in which he foreshadowed the lines of development, and was one of the first half-dozen to obtain his flying certificate off water (at Windermere). On 29 July, 1914, he applied for a commission in the Royal Naval Air Service, and was gazetted Flight Sub-Lieut. on 13 Sept. following, and attd. to H.M.S. Pembroke. He had attained an unusual degree of proficiency for his experience when he was killed in an accident at Rushall Down, Salisbury Plain, 4 Nov. 1914. He was returning to the Central Flying School, Upavon, after making a trial flight in a high speed B.E. Army biplane, when he was overtaken by a dense fog, which, it is assumed, prevented him from seeing the ground to regulate his descent. Flight Sub-Lieut. Murray was a member of the Executive Committee of the Manchester Cavendish Society, a society formed to enlist the help of young men of education in public work, and he gave much time and service to the work in connection with the Collyhurst Recreation Rooms in that City, and was immensely popular with the poor lads of Collyhurst.

MURRAY, RUPERT AURIOL CONANT GOSTLING, Capt., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late Col. Charles Edward Gostling Murray, of Whitton Park, Hounslow, and the Moat, Charing, Kent [gdson. of the Right Rev. Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. Davids, 2nd s. of John, 3rd Duke of Atholl, K.T.], by his 2nd wife, Margaret Francis Elizabeth, only dau. of the Rev. John William Conant; b. Whitton Park, Hounslow, 29 Sept. 1882; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders, 22 Oct. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 15 Jan. 1908. and Capt. 22 Oct. 1914; went to France from India, and died in Lilliers Hospital, 11 March, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day at Neuve Chapelle. Buried in Lilliers Cemetery. He m. at Pluckly, Ashford, Kent, 12 Aug. 1913, Ivy Maud, eldest dau. of Sir Henry Edward Dering, 10th Baronet, and had a son, Antony Ian Rupert, b. 13 June, 1914. His eldest brother, Capt. Fane Murray, was killed in action 30 Oct. 1914.

MURRAY, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., I.C. 243), S.S. 102034, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MURRAY, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9576), S.S. 106966, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MURRAY, WALTER STANLEY, Private, No. 2221, 1/4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Richard Henry Murray, of 93, St. George’s Road, Hull, Shipping Clerk (retired), by his wife, Martha, dau. of Joseph Williams, of that town; b. Hull, 30 Dec. 1877; educ. Bridlington and Hull; was for 15 years a clerk in the firm of Messrs. Beckett & Sons, of Hull; enlisted on the first call for recruits, 1 Sept. 1914, trained at Hull and Newcastle; left for France, 17 April, 1915, and went straight up to the trenches; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, in which occasion his battn. sustained heavy casualties and was subsequently complimented by Sir John (now Lord) French on the gallantry it had displayed; and was accidentally shot by one of his own comrades in the trenches near Ypres, 11 June, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Capt. W. T. Wilkinson, wrote expressing the deep sorrow of himself and the battn. at the loss of “so fearless and gallant a soldier.”

MURRAY, WILLIAM EDWARD, Capt., 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 3rd s. of Surgeon Lieut.-Col. John Murray, of 12, Ashburn Gardens, S.W.; b. Hong Kong, China, 23 Dec. 1880; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Jan. 1901, and posted to the 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 9 March following; promoted Lieut. 30 May, 1904; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in operations in the Transvaal, June, 1901, to 31 May, 1902; in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901, and in Cape Colony, May, 1901 (Queen’s medal with clasp); was attd. to West African Frontier Force, 12 March to 28 Sept. 1904. He retired from active service in 1906 following an attack of blackwater fever, contracted in West Africa, and joined the Reserve of Officers from which he was gazetted to the 3rd Special Reserve Battn. of his regt. 4 Oct. 1913. On the outbreak of war he immediately rejoined his regt. at Aberdeen, was promoted Capt. 10 Aug. 1914; and after guarding the wireless station there for three weeks, was, on Aug. 31, sent with a draft of 100 men, to join the 1st Battn. at the Front. They had suffered so heavily during the retreat from Mons that the remnants were sent back to the base and Capt. Murray and his draft were temporarily attd. to the 2nd Seaforths. He joined them at Juarre before the crossing of the Marne. “They were a splendid lot of fellows,” wrote Sergt. A. H. Fraser of the 2nd Seaforths from Broadwater Hospital. “We had some very trying marches, following up the retiring Germans until we came to the crossing of the Aisne. We crossed the river on the night of 13 Sept. under cover of darkness and took up a position on the heights of the north bank of the river near Soissons. The following morning when dawn broke, we found ourselves within a thousand yards of the German position. They were not long before they made their presence felt, and we had to dig ourselves into the face of the bank under a heavy shell fire. Capt. Murray was beside me and dug himself in with my entrenching tool, but he did not occupy it very much for I saw him out on the road giving his men advice to entrench themselves, and this, whilst shrapnel was whistling about his ears, at which he only laughed. Later on, after our Colonel was killed, Capt. Murray was ordered to reinforce a part of our line, and with these words, ‘Come on the Gordons,’ he went up with about half of his party, and in less than ten minutes I was informed he was killed. Every man of his party expressed deepest sympathy for his death; they felt it very keenly. Personally, I have never seen a man so cool under fire before or since. His name, I am sure, will be remembered in my regt. when all our battles are fought over again.” His last words, addressed to a private who was binding up the wound in his head, were: “You must hold on here at all costs,” and when, after nearly two days, they were relieved, only seven of Capt. Murray’s draft remained in a fighting condition. Brig.-Gen. A. Haldane, Commanding 11th Brigade, wrote: “The Gordons, under Capt. Murray, advanced with the greatest coolness and dash under a very heavy and accurate shrapnel fire. Their officer was killed but they went forward and won the admiration of the Seaforth Highlanders. They are as fine a draft as I have ever seen, and it is with great regret that I part with them. They are true Gordon Highlanders—sans peur et sans reproche”; and the Adjutant, Capt. E. Campbell: “Early on the morning of the 11th we took up a position north of the Aisne just before light. We had not time to entrench properly, and throughout the day were shelled. As an attack was anticipated, the Commanding Officer strengthened the firing line and half the men under Murray were sent up into the firing line. Almost immediately he was killed, his death being instantaneous, I believe. He was buried in a rough coffin that night about 12.30 a.m. within a quarter of a mile from where he fell. On one side of him we buried Col. Sir E. Bradford and on the other Lieut. Williamson of my regt. They all had rough crosses placed over their graves, and several others were buried there. In fact, I think it has been railed off now as a small cemetery. It is a very pretty spot on the slope of the hill overlooking the Aisne Valley, towards Soissons, quite close to a farm called La Montague Ferme, just above Buey de Long.” He m. at the Royal Bavarian Chapel, London, 31 July, 1906, Lilias Caroline Drummond Leslie (The Manor House, Littlehampton, Sussex), only dau. of Edward Drummond, of St. James’ Place, late Bengal Civil Service, and had three children: Edward John, b. 17 June, 1907; Sybil Lilias, b. 21 June, 1909; and Mary Katherine, b. 8 Sept. 1910.

MUSGRAVE, ANDREW BREMNER, Private, No. 2408, 3rd Battn. 1st. Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Edgar Musgrave, of Bradford, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Catherine Wares Rittie, dau. of James Bremner, of Kirkhill, Wick, Caithness; b. Bradford, York, 21 Dec. 1887; educ. Bradford Grammar School, where he won a Scholarship in 1900; was engaged in the woollen trade, and in 1911 went to Melbourne; when war broke out he enlisted in the Australian Expeditionary Force at Sydney in Oct. 1914, and was killed in action during the landing in Gallipoli on 25 April, 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, Capt. C. H. Howel Price said: “He was killed in action on 25 April the day of landing on the peninsula of Gallipoli, whilst nobly doing his share of the work allotted to us.... He was a great favourite in his company.”

MUSGROVE, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10429), 205575, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MUSHETT, FRANK, Private, No. 1730, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 17 April, 1915, of wounds received in action.

MUSKETT, ALFRED, A.B., J. 1475, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MUSSETT, JOHN WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., B. 2633, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MUSSETT, WILLIAM HENRY, Acting Leading Stoker, 297573, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MUSSO, JOSEPH, Private, No. 10550, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Joseph Musso, of 74, Canal Road, Mile End; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, died on active service, 4 Nov. 1914.

MUSSON, JOHN HARDY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., eldest s. of Samuel Peter Musson, of Kinnaird House, Upper Norwood, by his wife, Naomi, dau. of Abraham Hardy; b. Streatham, 21 Aug. 1894; educ. Stanley House School, Cliftonville, Margate; King’s School, Canterbury (member of the O.T.C.; in the first boat, first athletic team, and second football team); Lycée Faidherbe, Lille (2nd prize for public school fencing); Lille University (diploma 1914); London University, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Queen’s, 17 Feb. 1915; went to France, 24 May, and was killed in action near Bethune on 19 July following; unm. Buried at St. Vaast Post, near Bethune. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915; and his Commanding Officer wrote “The battn. has lost a brave and valuable young officer.”

MUSTARD, ALEXANDER, L.-Corpl., No. 1160, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; b. Elgin, co. Moray, 5 March, 1886; educ. Urquhart Public School, Morayshire; went to Australia; volunteered and joined the Australian Imperial Force, 5 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 10 May following; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he very gallantly volunteered to go for his comrades with the water bottles slung across his shoulders, and was shot by a sniper when quite close to the well.

MYDDELTON, EDWARD GEOFFREY, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., only surviving s. of Edward Brackenbury Myddelton, of Bank House, Wellingborough; b. Boston, 22 Aug. 1893; educ. Lancing, Wellingborough, and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was in the Officers’ Training Corps, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., 4 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he went to the front with the 2nd Battn., was in the retreat from Mons, and was unofficially reported killed at Le Cateau on 26 Aug. 1914. Coy. Sergt.-Major Crack, of the Suffolks, who was taken prisoner in this action, writing from Sennelager, 15 Jan. 1915, says: “I am very sorry to say that 2nd Lieut. Myddelton was killed about 12 o’clock on Aug. 26; also his platoon Sergt. was killed at the same time, both by the same shrapnel. The men of his platoon were all very much grieved to have lost their leader, as they were all very fond of him.” Lieut. Myddelton had passed the first part of the Mathematical Tripos with 1st Class honours.

MYER, ERNEST ALEX, Major, 6th (City of London) Battn. The London Regt. (Rifles) (T.F.), 4th s. of Sydney Myer, of Southampton, by his wife, Sophy Alex, dau. of Montagu Alex, of Hereford; b. Southampton, 23 Nov. 1874; educ. St. John’s Wood School, and University College School, London, and was admitted a Solicitor in 1897, practising at 46–47 London Wall, E.C. He was a keen volunteer, and soon after leaving the University College School, joined the Victoria Volunteer Regt. which was afterwards amalgamated with the St. George’s Rifles; and on 26 Nov. 1901, received a commission in the 2nd London Rifles, which became the 6th City of London Rifles on the organisation of the Territorial Force. He was promoted Capt. in 1898, and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for foreign service. He received his Majority, 5 Aug. 1914, and during the arduous months of training was for a considerable period in command of the Battn. The 2nd London Division, to which he was attached, left for the Front, 20 March, 1915, and he was killed in action near Givenchy, 3 April following, being struck by shrapnel while passing through the trenches on inspection duty with Col. Simpson. Buried at Cuinchy close to where he fell. In a letter to Mrs. Myer, Col. Simpson wrote: “This Battn. has lost an officer who cannot be replaced—he was loved and respected by all ranks. Our country has lost a fine English gentleman, who had a very keen sense of duty and the determination to do it. He died the death of the brave soldier that he was.” He was an authority on apprenticeship (published a text book on apprenticeship entitled “Apprenticeship Law”), and acted for many years as hon. solicitor to the Industrial Department of the Jewish Board of Guardians, to the Apprenticeship and Skilled Employment Association, and to the Apprenticeship Committee of the Women’s University Settlement; he was one of the founders of the Brady Street Club in East London. Major Myer was called “The Boys’ Friend.” He was very keenly interested in their welfare, and many a boy in good and lucrative situations to-day owes it only to his help. In a quiet unassuming way he did splendid service for the Boys’ Clubs, and for the young men belonging to them, and never spared himself where the lads’ interest and welfare were concerned. Many of the old members and others have cause to be grateful to him for a start in life, and many for valuable help in other ways. The Maidenhead Club Scouts, too, owe their foundation to him, being the first troop in the country to be completely fitted out, and he was always keenly interested in their welfare. On one occasion he went out of his way, and went specially to visit their camps at Gosport to see that the boys were well provided for. He m. at Bayswater Synagogue, London, Emmy (123, Inverness Terrace, Bayswater), dau. of Charles (and Jeanette) Jacob; s.p.

MYERS, GEORGE MAURICE, Private, No. 2250, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Henry Myers, Wholesale Tobacconist (died 1908), by his wife, Amelia, dau. of J. B. George, of Paris; b. Regent’s Park Road, N.W., 10 April, 1894; educ. Kilburn Grammar School; enlisted early in Sept. 1914, following the outbreak of war; went to the Front, March, 1915, was badly wounded on the night of 12 Sept. following, and died two days later (14 Sept.) in No. 18 Casualty Clearing Station; unm. His commanding officer, Capt. C. J. Salkeld Green, wrote that he had been “marked for promotion when opportunity arose” and that “when he received his wounds he was on a working party on a very important piece of work.” He was buried at Lapugnoy, near Bethune. Lieut. Sydney Frankenburg, in a letter to Mrs. Myers, said: “He was buried in accordance with Jewish ritual in a part of the soldiers’ cemetery set apart for Jews. I performed the ceremony yesterday [15 Sept.] afternoon, and also spent some hours with him before his death. To show you the esteem that your son was held in by his comrades and officers I may mention that a party of soldiers from his platoon of their own free will marched several miles to attend his funeral. His Coy. Commander was present.”

MYERS, SIDNEY, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24128, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MYLAM, ALFRED CLAUDE, Rifleman, No. 1728, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Henry Mylam, of 441, King’s Road, Chelsea, Ironmonger, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Henry Cornwall; b. Chelsea, 29 May, 1889; educ. St. Mark’s College School there; was a Solicitor’s Clerk; joined the Rangers in Sept. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 24 Dec. 1914, and died at St. Julien, 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action while advancing to relieve the Canadians; unm. Buried at Hazebrouck.

NAIRN, WALTER, Bugler, No. 1366, 7th Battn. Durham Light Infantry (T.F.), 4th s. of the late John Nairn, of Southwick-on-Wear, Fruiterer, by his wife, Isabella (23, Grosvenor Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Benjamin Cook, of Monkwearmouth; b. Southwick, 12 Dec. 1895; educ. Board School there; joined the 7th Territorial Battn. of the Durhams, 26 March, 1911, and was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action “somewhere” in France, 22 June, 1915, by a sniper; unm. His four brothers are all on active service, a fact upon which their mother was complimented by H.M. the King.

MERCER-NAIRNE, LORD CHARLES GEORGE FRANCIS, C.V.O., formerly Fitzmaurice, of Meikleour and Tullybeagles, co. Perth, and of Aldie, co. Kinross, Major, 1st Royal Dragoons, yr. s. of Henry Charles, 5th Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., etc., by his wife, Lady Maud Evelyn, née Hamilton, C.I., V.A, Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to H.M. Queen Alexandra, 7th and yst. dau. of James, 1st Duke of Abercorn, K.G.; b. London, 12 Feb. 1874; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Dragoons from the Royal Scots Militia, 29 May, 1895; and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1898, Capt. 27 June, 1901, and Major 30 June, 1910; was A.D.C. to G.O.C. the Forces in Ireland, 29 May, 1897, to 19 Oct. 1899; A.D.C. to Commander-in-chief (F.M. Earl Roberts), 3 Jan. 1901 to 11 Feb. 1904; Equerry-in-Ordinary to King George V when Prince of Wales, 1 April, 1909, to 6 May, 1910, and to His Majesty, 10 June, 1910, to Sept. 1914; created C.V.O. 1911; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights, 14 to 27 Feb. 1900, and action at Pieters Hill; operations in Natal, March, 1900, and in the Orange Free State, May, 1900 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 6 Oct. to 30 Oct. 1914, on which date he was killed in action near Klein Zillebeke, Ypres. He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French President for gallantry in the field. He m. at Calcutta, 20 Jan. 1909, Lady Violet Mary, née Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (11, Hyde Park Terrace, W.), yst. dau. of Gilbert John, 4th Earl of Minto), K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., and had issue, George John Charles, now of Meikleour, etc., b. 27 Nov. 1912, for whom H.M. King George V was sponsor; and Mary Margaret Elizabeth, b. 6 Feb. 1910, for whom H.M. Queen Mary was sponsor.

NAISH, WILLIAM CHARLES GATTON, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6656), 196269, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NAISMITH, PERCY THOMAS, Private, No. 1543, C Coy., 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Naismith, of 589, Romford Road, Woodgrange, and Thomas Street, Burdett Road, E., formerly of Eastfield, Leith, Licensed Victualler; b. Poplar, 17 March, 1894; educ. Thomas Street School, Burdett Road, and Pitman’s, Southampton Row; joined the London Scottish; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died in Boulogne Hospital, 11 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 30 Oct. Buried in Boulogne Cemetery; unm.

NANCARROW, JOHN VIVIAN, Capt., 4th Battn. Yorkshire Regt., York and Durham Infantry Brigade, Northumbrian Division T.F., eldest s. of George Bennett Nancarrow, of Ravenscroft, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, a partner in the firm of W. B. Peat & Co., Chartered Accountants, by his wife, Charlotte Alice, dau. of Capt. Josiah Thomas; b. Middlesbrough, 6 June, 1885; educ. Leys School and King’s College, Cambridge (M.A., LL.B.); admitted a Solicitor, 1909, and became Secretary to the Middlesbrough Chamber of Commerce. He joined the 1st Vol. Battn. Durham L.I. in 1907, was later attached to the Northumberland Fusiliers at Newcastle and then to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., before settling in Middlesbrough where he became Lieut. in the 4th Yorks, and after passing through a school of instruction, was promoted to the Captaincy in the latter part of 1913. On the outbreak of war he undertook Imperial service obligations and landed in France with his Battn. in the middle of April 1915; they were immediately hurried up to the front in consequence of the French troops north of Ypres having been “gassed” on 22 April, and on the afternoon of the 24th were ordered to attack the German lines near the village of Fortuin, near St. Julien, a few miles north-east of Ypres. During the day. Capt, Nancarrow was seen cheering on his men, and in the advance, he stopped to bind up the wound of a Private who had fallen and then hurried forward. After making several rushes at the head of his men towards the enemy’s position, he was shot and died almost instantaneously. His Colonel wrote of him that “he behaved like a hero.” Capt. Nancarrow had taken a very active part in the Boy Scouts’ movement in connection with the settlement in Newport Road, Middlesbrough. He was engaged to be married to Miss Elsie Harkess of Stokesley.

NASH, EDWARD RADCLIFFE, Capt., 16th Lancers, elder s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Nash, of Ballycarty, Tralee, co. Kerry, and 56, Sloane Street, London, S.W., J.P., late Essex Regt., by his wife, Constance, dau. of John Radcliffe, of Moorfield, Withington, J.P.; b. London, 9 June, 1888; educ. Mr. Bull’s Preparatory School, Westgate-On-Sea (1898–1902), Eton (1902–July, 1905), and Sandhurst, into which he passed in Sept. 1905, at the earliest possible age, giving up for the sake of seniority all that another two years at Eton would have meant to him; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 16th Lancers, 29 Aug. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 15 Jan. 1909, and Capt. 10 Oct. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne, and the Aisne, and the First Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915, when the 16th Lancers suffered severely through the blowing up of a trench; unm. At the time of his death he was acting Adjutant of his regt. Capt. Nash was a splendid all-round sportsman. At Eton he distinguished himself as a long distance runner and as a “wet-bob,” and in 1905 won the Junior Sculls and stroked his Junior House Four up to “head,” the last time that the colours of Miss Evan’s were seen on the River; while at Sandhurst he proved himself a remarkable athlete, winning against competitors considerably older than himself the equivalent of the “Victor Ludorum” Cup. After joining the 16th Lancers he ran twice in the Army Championship for the mile, being second on each occasion with practically no training, but he devoted himself chiefly to riding, and was one of the finest horsemen in the Army. He was well known at Olympia, and was one of the team which represented Great Britain at the last Olympic Games at Stockholm in 1912. He was first and second in successive years at the Grafton Point-to-Point, won his Regimental Light Weight Steeplechase on two occasions, and was “placed” at a number of other meetings at which he rode. As conspicuous for dash, energy and endurance in war as in sport, he was the ideal cavalry officer and appeared to have a distinguished career before him. His exuberant vitality found expression in all that he said or did, and one who knew him well observed, on hearing that he had been killed: “Of all the deaths in this war, his death is the hardest to realise.” Capt. Nash was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch, of 8 [London Gazette, 19] Oct. 1914. His younger brother, Capt. L. C. Nash, died of wounds 28 Sept. following (see following notice).

NASH, LLEWELLYN CHARLES, 2nd Lieut. (temp. Capt.), 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Nash, of Ballycarty, Tralee, co. Kerry, and 56, Sloane Street, S.W., J.P., late Essex Regt., by his wife, Constance, dau. of John Radcliffe, of Moorfield, Withington, J.P.; b. Cefn Ila, Usk, co. Monmouth, 23 June, 1895; educ. at Wixenford (Mr. Morton’s), Eton (Mr. Mill’s House, Jan. 1910–July, 1914), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 11 Nov. 1914, and Lieut. 1 Aug. 1915; left for France in Jan. 1915; took part in the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and Festubert; was promoted Capt. 12 July, and died in hospital at Lozinghem, 28 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action near Vermelles on the 25th, the first day of the Battle of Loos. He was wounded early in the morning of the 25th, but was not found until late in the afternoon, and one of his brother officers wrote: “The fact that we found him wounded almost through the German wire shows the splendid determination and courage with which he went forward.” He was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John French [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], and a General officer under whom he served wrote: “He was Battn. bombing officer and easily the best in the Division, and was constantly sent for when they wanted advice on the subject.” Buried at Lozinghem, near Lillers; unm. At Eton he was a Sergt. in the O.T.C., a whip to the Beagles, and won the School Sculling in 1914, being ninth man of the Eight that year. In all branches of sport he was keen, especially excelling as a fisherman. A writer in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle said: “To know “The Fat Boy” as Nash was affectionately called, was to love him. Always cheery and keen for work, he set a magnificent example to those under him. If he was in charge of a party working in the trenches he buckled to and worked harder than anyone else. At Eton he had the reputation of working his hardest at work or play, and this reputation he fully justified while he was in the Regt. His character was eminently fitted for the stern combination of work and sport entailed by active service, and his success as a soldier is shown by the fact that at the age of 20, with less than a year’s service, he had already been gazetted to the rank of Capt.” His elder brother, Capt. E. R. Nash, was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915.

NASH, WILLIAM GEORGE, Private, No. 2346, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Nash (now Sergt. No. 110331, in the 1st Labour Battn. Royal Engineers, on active service in France), by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late George Williams, of Hawley; b. Hampton Hill, co. Middlesex, 10 April, 1895; educ. there; was a Chauffeur and Student in the S.C.S.; enlisted 25 Feb. 1914; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action, in the German trenches, at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, while bomb throwing; unm.

NASMYTH, JAMES THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Capt., 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of John Nasmyth, of Mount Forest, by his wife, Jane P., dau. of John Morrison; b. Mount Forest, Ontario, Canada, 23 Aug. 1874; joined the 46th Durham Regt. about 1900, and, after going through a course of instruction at the Stanley Barracks, Toronto, was given a commission as Lieut., two years later, and promoted Capt. in 1912, after taking a second course; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and was appointed Lieut. 10th Battn. 22 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was promoted Capt. at the Front; and was killed in action near St. Julien, 23 April, 1915, during the heroic stand of the Canadians at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres. He m. at Janetville, Ontario, Canada, 22 Oct. 1896, Emma Amelia, dau. of Christopher Armstrong, of Janetville; s.p.

NATTON, REUBEN WALTER, Private, No. 1005, Royal Army Medical Corps, 3rd s. of James Natton, of Stockton-on-Tees, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of James Jeffries, of Stockton-on-Tees; b. Thornaby-on-Tees, co. Durham, 17 March, 1889; educ. New Board School there; enlisted there in the Coldstream Guards in Aug. 1905, but was bought out the following October; in June, 1906, he enlisted in the R.A.M.C. and after serving three years passed into the Reserve and found employment at Doxford’s Yard, Sunderland; on mobilization, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to France with the first Expeditionary Force and was wounded at Ypres in November; invalided home to Wandsworth Hospital he was found unfit for further active service and was placed on the Hospital Ship Neuralia; on the voyage out to Bombay he contracted fever and was landed at Alexandria, where he died at No. 15 General Hospital, 2 June, 1915, and was buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery near there. He m. at Haswell Parish Church, 27 July, 1908, Rosina (14, John Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Thomas Brown, of Easington, and had four children: Reuben Walter, b. 18 Oct. 1910; Robert William, b. 19 Sept. 1914; Rosina, b. 3 May, 1909; and Margaret, b. 29 Feb. 1912.

NAYLOR, CLARENCE EDGAR, A.B., 209926 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

NAZARETH, JOHN XAVIER, Officers’ Cook, 2nd Class, L. 694, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEAL, HENRY JOSEPH, A.B., 194903, Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEALE, ROY GORDON KING, A.B., J. 6046, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEARY, HENRY FRANK, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9031), S.S. 2128, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEAVE, ARUNDELL, Major, 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, yr. s. of the late Sir Arundell Neave, 4th Bart., by his wife, the Hon. Gwyn Gertrude, née Hughes (Llysdulas, Amlwch, Anglesey), yst. dau. of William Lewis, 1st Lord Dinorben; b. London, 2 July, 1875; educ. Evelyn’s, Uxbridge, and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16th Lancers, from the Royal Anglesey R.E. Militia, 11 May, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 17 Oct. 1899; Capt. 1 April, 1903, and Major 19 Dec. 1914; served (1) in South Africa War, 1900–2; took part in the relief of Kimberley; operations in Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), Poplar Grove; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Aug. to Sept. 1900; in Orange River Colony, Sept. to Nov. 1900, and Feb. to June, 1901; operations in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900, to Jan. 1901, and July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, 17 Sept. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914; and died, 21 Feb. 1915, of wounds received while leading his squadron into action near Ypres the same day. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour for gallantry in the field. Major Neave was a fine horseman and a good all-round sportsman.

NEILL, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9342), S.S. 106586, H.M.S Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEILL, JOHN THOMAS, Petty Officer, 171483, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

NEILL, WILLIAM, Chief Ship’s Cook (Pensioner), 147941, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEILSON, WILLIAM, Regt. Sergt.-Major, No. 25, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Victorian Contingent, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late William Neilson, of Ashgillhead, Dalserf, by his wife, Grace, dau. of James Copland; b. Muirkirk, co. Ayr, 30 Nov. 1864; educ. Blackwood, co. Lanark; enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Oct. 1882, and served nine years with them in India (Queen’s medal with one clasp); joined the Scottish Horse when the South African War broke out, and served through that campaign (Queen’s medal with four clasps). After spending four years in business in Glasgow, he went to Australia in Sept. 1911, settled at Melbourne and later at St. Kilda, but on the outbreak of the European War, again enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the main force; arrived at the Dardanelles in April, and was killed in action there, 19 May, 1915. Buried at Gaba Tepe. He m. at Dalserf, co. Lanark, 1 Dec. 1893, Janet Penman (12, Moodie Place, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia), dau. of Thomas Renwick, of Dalserf, and had six children: William, b. 27 May, 1899; John Renwick, b. 6 March, 1902; Abram Renwick, b. 10 Dec. 1906: Janet Douglas, b. 23 Aug. 1894; Grace Copland, b. 18 Dec. 1896; and Isabel Renwick, b. 5 July, 1903.

NEKREWES, DAVID SMITH, Private, No. 2024, A Coy., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late David Smith Nekrewes, of 3, Carisbrook Road, Maindee, Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Michael Buckley; b. Newport, 20 July, 1883; educ. Shaftesbury School, Newport. He enlisted at Abergavenny on the outbreak of war, proceeded with his regt. to France on 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Frezenberg, 16 May, 1915; unm. Private Nekrewes was well known in South Wales as an athlete. He represented his school on two occasions in the School’s Swimming Championship, and also in the School’s Gymnastic Competition; he also played Rugby football for Bridgend, Glam., and (three-quarter), Pontypridd, Mountain Ash, Pontypool, and Glamorgan County. He met with considerable success as a sprinter.

NELIS, JAMES EDWARD THORNHILL, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of Lieut.-Col. James Alexander Nelis, of 1, Seaview Terrace, Donnybrook, late I.M.S., by his wife, Anna, dau. of the late Cudbert Bensley Thornhill, C.S.I., Indian Civil Service; b. Abbottabad, India, 31 Dec. 1891; educ. at Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Inniskilling Fusiliers, 26 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. following; left for the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 15 Aug. following; unm.

NELSON, GEORGE, Private, No. 1162, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Francis Nelson, of 2, Stafford Street, East End, Sunderland; b. Sunderland; educ. St. John’s School there; enlisted in the Coldstreams after the outbreak of war, 26 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died a prisoner of war in No. 2 German Field Hospital, 25 Feb. 1915, of frozen feet; unm. Buried at Pont à Vendin.

NESMITH, JAMES, Capt., 5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of the late James Nesmith of Glencairn, Port Glasgow, Accountant, by his wife, Catherine (Glencairn, Port Glasgow), dau. of Donald Gillies, of Craigenterue, Argyleshire; b. Glasgow, 17 July, 1881; educ. Greenock Academy, and Glasgow University; was a Solicitor practising in Glasgow; joined the E Coy. (Port Glasgow) of the 1st Renfrew Volunteer (afterwards the 5th Territorial) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 10 April, 1900, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 29 Nov. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 22 Feb. 1911, and Capt. 13 July, 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, left for the Dardanelles, 28 May, 1915; and was killed in action during the British attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, Gallipoli, 12 July following. Buried on the field; unm.

NESS, GORDON STUART, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yst. and only surviving s. of the late Patrick Ness, of Braco Castle, Perthshire, by his wife, Charlotte Jane Wells (19, Dawson Place, Notting Hill Gate, W.), dau. of Stephen Powell; b. London, 4 Nov. 1885; educ. Westminster School, and Clare College, Cambridge; was elected an underwriting member of Lloyds in 1909; joined the 3rd Battn. (Royal Ayr and Wigtown Militia) Royal Scots Fusiliers, as 2nd Lieut. 7 April, 1906, and was promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1909; went to France 11 Sept. 1914, attached to the 1st Battn. of his Regt.; and was killed in action during the 1st Battle of Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914. Buried near Ypres. He m. in London, Gladys, dau. of Charles Ernest Gwynne Harrison; and had a son and daughter: Patrick, b. 15 June, 1914; and Marguerite Gordon, b. 3 June, 1915.

NEVE, BASIL HOVENDEN, Acting Chief E.R.A., 2nd Class, 270424, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

NEVE, WILLIAM CHARLES, Petty Officer (N.S.), 184688, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEVETT, THOMAS ALFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 13041, 5th Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., yst. s. of William Berber Nevett, of Cotsbrook Hall, co. Salop, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Richard Jones, of Norton, co. Salop; b. Sansaw, co. Salop, 24 June, 1895; educ. Elleray Park, Wallasey, and Shrewsbury School (1911–13), and on leaving there took up an agricultural life, but on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the King’s Shropshire L.I. with several other Salopians. After some months of training he was placed in the battn. machine-gun section, and went with this unit to France in May, 1915. During the violent attacks and counter-attacks around Hooge in Aug. he was wounded on the 9th by a shell which destroyed his gun, and on the way to the dressing station he received another and more severe wound from shrapnel, resulting in spinal injury and paralysis, from which he died in Edmonton Military Hospital, 10 Sept. 1915; unm. The Headmaster of Shrewsbury said of him: “He was one of those unselfish boys whose real goodness gives them an influence out of all proportion to their prominence in school life.” His eldest bro., Sergt. W. P. Nevett, was killed at the Dardanelles landing (see his notice).

NEVETT, WILLIAM PERCY, Sergt., No. 851, 12th Battn. Australian L.I., Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William Barber Nevett, of Cotsbrook Hall, co. Salop, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Richard Jones, of Norton, co. Salop; b. Sansaw, co. Salop, 4 June, 1889; educ. Bridgnorth Grammar School and Birmingham University and after securing first-class in the Engineering Course, 1906–9, became Assistant Engineer to the Miners’ Water Supply, Perth, Western Australia. On the outbreak of war he joined the Australian L.I., and having been a member of the O.T.C. at Birmingham University, was set immediately to train recruits. He left for Egypt in Nov. 1914, and while there was offered a commission in the New Army at home but declined it, preferring to stay with his comrades. He was killed in action during the landing of the Australians at Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm. The Sergt.-Major of his battn. wrote: “Nevett was on the left flank on the Sunday we effected a landing here, and at this point the fighting was particularly heavy. Your brother was hit in the firing line, and was carried to a place of more safety by Private Michie, another of our good men since killed. The wound was so serious that before the stretcher-bearers could get him to the beach, he died. He was one of our most efficient and popular N.C.O.’s, and my best friend.”

NEW, ALEXANDER HERBERT, Private, No. 5712, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Harry New, of Bournemouth, by his wife, Theresa, dau. of (—) Hazel; b. Ringwood, co. Hants, 5 June, 1886; educ. at Bournemouth; enlisted 12 Sept. 1904; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906, to 14 Feb. 1908; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at La Tretoire, 8 Sept. 1914, being buried in the wood there. His company officer wrote saying that he was a good soldier, and fought gallantly, and cheerfully carried out the hard marching of the first three weeks of the campaign; also how well he helped to maintain the reputation of the Coldstream Guards and the British Army. He m. at St. Luke’s, Burton, Christchurch, 18 April, 1910, Fanny (67, Forton Road, Gosport), only dau. of Charles Langrish; s.p.

NEWBURY, WILLIAM JOHN, Chief Ship’s Cook, 165257, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NEWBY, GEORGE EDWIN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2629), 207242, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEWCOMBE, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10707 (Ports.), H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEWHAM, ARTHUR JOHN, Petty Officer (N.S.), 208884, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEWMAN, CHARLES HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2948), S.S. 264, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEWMAN, CORMIE AUBREY, E.R.A., 3rd Class, M. 1478, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEWMAN, FRANCIS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2512), 201770, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEWMAN, HARRY, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Petty Officer, 6325, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

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

NEWMAN, RICHARD HARRY, Chief Petty Officer, Tel. 183585, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

NEWMAN, SAMUEL, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 1706, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NEWMAN, STANLEY FRANCIS, Sergt., No. 1093, Essex Yeomanry, 3rd s. of Francis Newman, of Moor Hall, Thorley, Bishop’s Stortford, Farmer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Richard Stock; b. Moor Hall, Thorley, co. Hertford, 18 July, 1885; educ. Bishop’s Stortford College; served six years in the Essex Yeomanry, 1906–12; then went to Singapore and later to Australia, where he was farming; returned to England in July, 1914, and when war broke out the following month, immediately rejoined his old regt. and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France, 28 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action in an attack on the German trenches at Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm. The Capt. commanding C Squadron wrote: “The regt. was sent up to reinforce the infantry at this part of the line about a week ago. On the 13th the Germans succeeded in taking a bit of our line and the regt., together with the two other regts. of our Brigade, was ordered to retake it. They had to advance 500 yards of open ground, most of it going under a very heavy fire from shells, rifle, and machine-gun fire. Your son reached the enemy’s trenches safely, and helped to recapture them, but a few minutes later he was shot while standing near Mr. Holt who was also wounded. His death is a great blow to us all, officers and men alike, and he leaves a place in the Squadron which will be hard to fill. Everybody agreed that he was one of the very best N.C.Os. in the regt. and his troop would do anything for him.” And Trooper H. J. Tucker writing to his father said: “Will you just break the news on my behalf, that my two comrades, Sergt. Stanley Newman and Corpl. Frank Bird, have both been killed in action during a great charge, which took place two days ago. When there was a roll call the whole regt. had 168 casualties—killed, wounded and missing; amongst them our Colonel and many officers.”

NEWMAN, WILLIAM HENRY, Acting Chief Stoker, 293000, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEWMAN, WILLIAM HERBERT, Private, No. 3082, 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Harry Newman, of 15, Marlow Road, Southall, Police Sergeant, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of Thomas Betts, for 53 years on L. & N.W.R.; b. Haggerston, N., 23 June, 1895; educ. Featherstone Road Boys’ School, Southall; was a clerk with Messrs. Kearby & Sons, Rubastic Road, Southall; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 5 Sept. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; trained at Hampton and Staines; left for Gibraltar, 1 Feb. 1915; went to France at the end of July; took part in the Battle of Loos, 25–26 Sept. and was killed in action near La Bassée, 19 Oct. 1915; unm. Buried at Wye Farm.

NEWPORT, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13141, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Newport, of The Green, Beyton, Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NEWSHAM, CHARLES, Private, No. 2763, 16th Platoon, C Coy., 9th (Highlanders) Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Robert Newsham, of 6, Broadway, Withington, Manchester, a buyer for Ralli Bros., of Manchester, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of John Gorrie, Manchester; b. Cheetham, Manchester, 16 May, 1885; educ. Cheetham Higher Grade School; was a buyer for Ralli Bros., and a member of the Manchester Royal Exchange. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Scots with his great friend Gerard G. S. Frost (who was afterwards killed during the same bombardment as himself), 10 Nov. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, left for the Front towards the end of Feb.; he lost his life during the bombardment of Ypres, three shells dropping into the billets of his company, killing him and six of his comrades, 7 April, 1915. He was the first member of the Manchester Royal Exchange killed in the war.

NEWSHAM, RICHARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13680, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NEWSTEAD, GEORGE POPE, Major, 2nd Battn. Suffolk Regt., and Tempy, Lieut.-Col. Sierra Leone Battn., West African Frontier Force, only s. of James Newstead, of Ashby Manor, Horncastle, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Louisa Anne, dau. of George Pope; b. Bristol, 23 Sept. 1875; educ. Rugby School (1889–94, where he was in the cricket eleven and football fifteen, and won the Athletic Sports’ Challenge Cup) and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Suffolks, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 June, 1899, Capt. 15 March, 1905, and Major, Nov. 1914; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, being employed with the Mounted Infantry; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899–1900, including action at Colesberg (1–6 Jan.); in the Orange Free State, April and May, 1900; in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Pretoria; in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900; in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900; and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force, 16 Sept. 1905; served with the Sierra Leone Battn. at Freetown and in the bush under Major Palmer until 26 Oct. 1909; then returned to England and rejoined the 2nd Suffolks, but in Aug. 1910, he again went to West Africa, and on 1 April, 1913, was promoted Tempy. Lieut.-Col. He died at Bare, Cameroons, West Africa, 5 March, 1915, of wounds received at Stoebel’s Farm on the previous day. Buried at Bare. Describing the action, an officer wrote: “On 4 March, 1915, I was with the advanced guard, which the colonel was commanding, and we came under a very hot fire—he, his Adjutant and myself being all together for about half an hour. He then ordered me to take our Maxim gun back a little way, and came with me to select a new position for it. After this he left me and went forward to the right under a very heavy fire to make further dispositions, and I lost sight of him; but about five minutes later his Adjutant ran past me and called out that he himself was hit in the face and that the Colonel had been shot in the side.” He m. Maude Aileen, dau. of the late Col. Hanley, R.E.; s.p.

NEWTH, WALTER JOSEPH, Trooper, No. 11/495 2nd Queen Alexandra’s Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of George Charles Newth, of Sandy Farm, Luckington, Chippenham, Wilts, Farmer, by his wife, Charlotte Mary, dau. of J. H. Harris; b. Sandy Farm, Luckington, Chippenham, co. Wilts, 23 April, 1891; educ. Village School there; left home in July, 1912, to take up farming in New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted Sept. 1914; left with 2nd reinforcements, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 27 Aug. 1915; unm.

NEWTON, ERNEST, Armourer’s Crew, M. 2643, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NEWTON, FREDERICK, L.-Corpl., No. 9311, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at Coulommieres, 9 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried in Cemetery there; unm.

NEWTON, GEORGE HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6696), S.S. 968, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NEWTON, WILLIAM HENRY, Gunner, R.M.A., 13524, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NIBLETT, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, 225960, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NICHOLL, CHRISTOPHER BENONI, Lieut., 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Powell Nicholl, of Ogmore, Manitou, Manitoba; formerly vicar of Ascott-sub-Wychwood, co. Oxon, and recently Incumbent of Mission of St. Luke, Pembina Crossing, Manitoba, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Jenkyns, of Llanblethian, Glamorgan, and grandson of the late Right Hon. John Nicholl, of Merthyr Mawr, co. Glamorgan; b. Leighton Buzzard, co. Bedford, 15 Dec. 1881; educ. Manitoba Public Schools, and St. John’s Collegiate School, Winnipeg; was a Chemist; received a commission as Lieut. in the 16th Saskatchewan Light Horse, Nov. 1911; and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for Imperial service, and was appointed Lieut. 5th Battn. 22 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. following; went to France, 25 May, and died in No. 3 Casualty Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, 30 July, 1915, of wounds received on the 29th, when on night patrol near Ploegsteert, examining the wire entanglements in front of the trenches; unm. In the Battn. journal his comrades wrote of him: “A quiet and unostentatious officer was Lieut. Nicholl. But he was one whose conscience was keen for good service ... those who were privileged to know him knew an honest heart and a nature entirely true and faithful.”

NICHOLAS, GEORGE ARTHUR, No. 2101, A Coy., 1/4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Nicholas, of Limehurst Lodge, Haywards Heath, Gardener, by his wife, Ruth Mary, dau. of George Mitchell; b. Wivelsfield, co. Sussex, 31 May. 1895; educ. St. Wilfred’s School, Haywards Heath; was a Butcher’s Assistant, enlisted 31 Aug. 1914; left with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 16 July, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 11 Sept. 1915; unm.

NICHOLAS, ROBERT STANLEY, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., 1871), late Ch./12017, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NICHOLLS, HARRY, Chief Armourer, 151366, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NICHOLLS, HENRY ARTHUR, Private, No. 8777, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late James Nicholls, of Birmingham; b. Birmingham. 19 Feb. 1895; educ. Highfield Road School there; enlisted 30 June, 1910, served three years with the Colours, and then entered the employ of the G.W.R. as a carman. On the declaration of war, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to the Front with his regt. and served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and all the severe fighting from 26 Oct. to 20 Nov. when in the words of the Brigadier-General Commanding the 4th (Guards) Brigade, “the Coldstreams held their line intact under hardships and strain that it is impossible to describe.” During these four weeks they had occupied trenches dug on a hill full of natural springs, and which were “undrainable, and constantly full of water above the knee for 23 days. The gale of about 2 Nov. cleared the wood in which they were, of every particle of cover, the trees having been all pierced through by shrapnel and bullets. Hand grenades thrown at them were, on one occasion when they did not explode, picked up and hurled back again, and they finally rejoined the Brigade on the right flank of this part of the British line on 17 Nov. in as good heart as the day they left England.” On 20 Nov. they were withdrawn for a short rest, but were soon back in the firing line and Nicholls died of wounds received in action the same day at La Bassée, 31 Jan. 1915, and was buried in Cuinchy Churchyard. He m. at Walworth, London, 29 June, 1913, Helen Adelaide (119, Albany Road, Camberwell, S.E.), dau. of (—) Ware, and had a dau., Phyllis May, b. 30 April, 1914.

NICHOLLS, JOHN WILLIAM ERNEST, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26610, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NICHOLLS, WILLIAM CHARLES, Private, No. 19427, 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., s. of William Charles Nicholls, Sailor; b. Penzance, 7 Dec. 1880; educ. National School there, enlisted following the outbreak of war, 15 Nov. 1914, served in France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed at Zillebeke, 25 May, 1915. He m. at Penzance, 22 Sept. 1901, Alice Maud, dau. of George James Pidwell, and had six sons: William Charles, b. 4 Nov. 1901; George James, b. 30 Jan. 1905; Richard John, b. 26 Oct. 1907; Stephen, b. 18 Nov. 1909; Arthur Reginald, b. 26 Nov. 1912; and Edward Harvey, b. 22 Oct. 1914.

NICHOLLS, WILLIAM JAMES, Chief Stoker, 170482, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NICHOLSON, ARTHUR KNIGHT, 2nd Lieut., 18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Hussars, only s. of Herbert Nicholson, of Ridborough Hall, Tunbridge Wells, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Stella, dau. of Edward W. Knight; b. Helena, Montana, U.S.A., 6 Oct. 1893; educ. St. Andrew’s, Harrow, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 18th Hussars, 22 Jan. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914; and was killed in action at St. Eloi, 31 Oct. following. Buried near Chateau Hollebeke; unm.

NICHOLS, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class, 310744, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NICHOLS, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4613), 173115, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NICHOLSON, BASIL LEE, Lieut., 3rd Staffordshire Battery, North Midland Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), yst. s. of Sir Arthur Nicholson, of Highfield Hall, Leek, co. Stafford, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Marianne Lee, dau. of Robert Falkner, of Kersal; b. Highfield Hall, 24 Oct. 1890; educ. Malvern, Rugby, and afterwards in Germany and Switzerland, joined the Territorial Force shortly after its formation, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in the trenches near Ypres, while making observations, 24 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Dranoutre Churchyard. Col. Sir Hill Child, Bart., wrote: “He was shot through the head this afternoon, when on duty as observing officer in the trenches. His brother (who was wounded the previous Wednesday) is quite heart-broken, as indeed we all are. I have always considered your two sons the two best young officers in my brigade.” His two brothers, Capt. A. Falkner Nicholson and Capt. Malcolm Nicholson, are both (1916) serving with the R.F.A.

NICHOLSON, DAVID BEVERIDGE, Private, No. 3035, 1/5th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), 2nd s. of Rev. Thomas Brown Nicholson, of Chalmers Street, Dunfermline, Minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, M.A., by his wife, Barbara Stevenson, dau. of the late David Beveridge, of Kingskettle; b. Hamilton, co. Lanark, 22 Dec. 1895; educ. Dunfermline High School, and was afterwards engaged as an apprentice with Oliver Melville, Robb & Scott, Electrical Engineers, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy. In Dec. 1914 he enlisted in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, and was chosen as one of a draft in May, 1915, to go to Gallipoli to strengthen the 5th Royal Scots, reaching there just before the heavy fighting in which that regt. so distinguished itself. He took part in the famous charge of 28 June, 1915, and was thereafter reported missing, until 7 March, 1916, when he was posted as killed in action; unm. A comrade wrote: “I knew him well and I was much attached to the young lad. We had talks together and shared our dug-outs together often and on the awful day, we went over the parapet together. I was wounded in the attack and he went on, so, of course, from that time I knew nothing further. I shall ever treasure the memory of him, and shall ever think of him as the brave young lad who did not seem to know fear.” “I have put my faith in God, and am ready for whatever happens,” he wrote, in one of his last letters.

NICHOLSON, JOHN BEVERIDGE, Private, No. 2253, 1/4th (City of Dundee) Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (T.F.), eldest s. of the Rev. Thomas Brown Nicholson, M.A., Minister of the Chalmers Street United Free Church, Dumfermline, by his wife, Barbara Stevenson, dau. of the late David Beveridge, of Kingskettle, Manufacturer; b. Hamilton, 24 May, 1894; educ. High School, Dumfermline; was a journalist and a member of the literary Staff of John Leng & Co., Dundee; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the 1/4th Black Watch, 10 Aug. 1914; left for France on Tuesday, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 12 July following, being shot by a sniper while repairing the trenches at midnight. Buried, Grave No. 7, Row H, Sheet, France, Bethune, Square R. 32d. 7.5; unm. Capt. E. Leslie Boase, commanding D Coy. to which he belonged (himself killed in France in Aug. 1916), wrote: “He was to me not only a comrade-in-arms, but also a friend. I have known young Nicholson to volunteer for a very dangerous bit of work, and keep at it unflinchingly till finished without, so to speak, turning a hair. He went at Neuve Chapelle twice with me, his Capt., on quite a dangerous errand of mercy—voluntarily, and if anything had been necessary to assure me of his bravery, I had it then. His death came like a cruel blow to me.” A comrade, L-Corpl. W. C. Andrews, wrote: “There was not a man in the platoon who was not his friend. I knew him and liked him in civilian days, but it was out here, amid hardships and dangers, that I learned how splendid in manhood he was; how fine and fearless in thought and act. I never knew him do or say a mean thing. He was the very soul of chivalry. Long shall we miss his cheery laughter, his little acts of exquisite courtesy and thoughtfulness.” Another comrade, L.-Corpl. Joseph Lee, wrote: “He passed to his death in the fearless manner in which he faced all that was uncongenial to one of his refined and artistic disposition in our present environment.” The editor of “Answers,” wrote: “As fine a fellow as ever donned a Black Watch kilt; he sent home several of the most realistic letters from the firing-line that have been published since the outbreak of the war.” And the “Dundee Advertiser” remarked: “It is indeed a singularly promising career which has been cut short. While yet a mere boy, he had acquired a bright, clear and forcible style of writing; he had both fancy and wit; he had read much and felt a keen interest in all human affairs. His achievement already was considerable, and there can be no doubt that, with matured powers and wider experience, he would have attained distinction as a journalist and writer of fiction. Some of his poems written at the Front have won high praise from qualified critics for their fine feeling and delicate phrasing, while his prose descriptions of battlefield scenes are full of vigour.” Among his writings may be mentioned his recruiting appeal “A call from the trenches,” which was printed in pamphlet form and given away by the military authorities in street distribution; some charming verses entitled “On hearing a lark singing at dawn in the trenches,” and a poem of singular beauty, “The Crucifix,” which has been widely cited and which would alone suffice to stamp the writer as a poet of a very high order. His brother David was also killed in action (see his notice).

NICHOLSON, JOHN CHARLES, Private, No. 10347, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John William Nicholson, of 15, Villa Terrace, Alexandra Street, Hull; b. co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Zillebeke, 19 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried there.

NICHOLSON, LAWRENCE CAIL, D.S.O., Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st. Battn. Princess Charlotte of Wales’ Royal Berkshire Regt., 4th s. of Frederick William Nicholson, of Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Benjamin Cail, of Maidenhead; b. Maidenhead, co. Berks, 30 Aug. 1882; educ. Uppingham; was embodied with Militia 1 year 38 days, and attd. to Regulars 362 days; served in South African War with Mounted Infantry, 1899–1901; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 14th (King’s) Hussars, 26 March, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 24 Jan. 1905; retired and joined the Special Reserve of Officers; appointed Lieut., 3rd Berkshire Regt., 28 July, 1914; went to France, 30 Aug. 1914, attd. to the 1st Battn.; “led and commanded his platoon admirably during an attack on German position Passchendaele-Becelaere Road, which resulted in the taking of the enemy’s trenches and 70 prisoners,” for which he was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914]; was wounded in action near Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914, and died of wounds in London. 2 Nov. following; unm.

NICHOLSON, LEONARD SAMPSON, 2nd Lieut., 1/12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Nicholson, of Tanshelf Mills, Pontefract, co. York, Matting Manufacturer, by his wife, Elizabeth (West View, Ackworth Road. Pontefract), dau. of Leonard Sampson, of Humburton Grange, Boro’bridge, Yorks; b. Pontefract, 14 July, 1890; educ. King’s School, Pontefract; on leaving school he entered a wholesale iron and steel business in London; became a member of the Polytechnic, and in March, 1909, joined The Rangers; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and left for France with his battn. on Christmas Eve, 1914, holding the rank of Platoon Sergt.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14 April, 1915. He was killed in action at Verlorenhoek, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 2 May following. His Commanding Officer. Lieut.-Col. A. D. Bayliffe, wrote: “His death was a great loss to the Rangers; he would have made a very valuable officer had he been spared.” He was greatly esteemed by his men and, to quote from a letter written by one of them, “there was not a man in his platoon who would not have died for him if occasion had arisen. He faithfully upheld the honour of the British Army, and died doing his best for King and Country.”

NICKLIN, GEORGE, Acting Chief Armourer, 342117, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NICOL, ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 4th s. of the late John S. Nicol, of 85, Brisbane Street, Greenock, Coal Merchant, by his wife, Agnes Berwick, eldest dau. of the late Charles Mill, of Greenock, Shipowner; b. Greenock. 5 Nov. 1893; educ. Greenock Academy; was qualifying as a C.A. with Messrs. Kidston, Goff & Findlay, C.A., Glasgow. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 16 Jan. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; went to the Dardanelles in June, 1915, and was killed in action during the attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, Gallipoli, 12 July following; unm. Two of his brothers, Capt. C. M. Nicol, R.A.M.C. (Regular Army prior to outbreak of war), and Lieut. John E. Nicol, R.N.V.R., are (1916) on active service.

NICOL, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7237), S.S. 102206, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NICOL, HUGH JOHN, Sergt., No. 741, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late John Nicol, of Edinburgh, Principal Stamper, Inland Revenue, by his wife, Ann S. (1c, Maxwell Street, Edinburgh), dau. of John McIntosh, of 2, Bangholm Terrace, Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 11 Nov. 1889; educ. South Morningside Board School there; and was in the office of the Assistant Secretary and Comptroller, Inland Revenue, Edinburgh. He had joined the 4th (Territorial) Battn. of the Royal Scots in 1909, and after the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. His brothers, Corpl. David Nicol, No. 13266, Cameron Highlanders, and L.-Corpl. William C. Nicol, No. 4130 (Highlanders) Royal Scots, are both on active service.

NICOL, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14678 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NICOLSON, JOHN, Private, No. 2283, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of John Nicolson, of 5, Lower Ollach, Braes, Portree, Skye, Crofter, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Ross, of Camusknioag; b. Braes, aforesaid, 15 July, 1896; educ. Braes Public School, and Portree Higher Grade School, Skye; went to Australia, 3 May, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles between 6 and 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

NIGHTINGALE, WILLIAM ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 84), 140682, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NILSON, CECIL EDGAR, Private, No. 2063, D Coy. 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Julius Nilson, of 12, Welham Road, Streatham, S.W., Organ Tuner, by his wife, Emma Annie, dau. of the late William Goodwin Brightling, of Kennington, S.E.; b. Kennington, 19 Aug. 1894; educ. L.C.C. School, Mitcham Lane, Streatham; was employed by Liberty & Co.; enlisted on the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914; was terribly wounded in action, 24 Feb. 1915, and died in a Clearing Hospital at Merville, France, the same evening; unm. Buried in the cemetery there. A comrade wrote: “I am very sorry to inform you that our comrade Nilson got wounded on a working party the other day. We were out at a place which is named by our troops as ..., and I can assure you it was a perfect hell. The Germans had a machine-gun trained upon the gates and at night to get to our duty posts we had to dodge a perfect fusilade of shot. In front of our post one could see two dead cows which could not be buried owing to the terrific danger, and it was at this place when our friend Nilson was shot. We were working at night strengthening a trench when the Germans sent up a very brilliant star shell followed by heavy fire.... The Leicesters with whom we were working informed me that they had never seen a man bear such pain so bravely; the shot entered his back and went through his stomach.”

NIXON, FRANCIS EUGENE ARCHER, Ship’s Steward, 219829, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

NIXON, GERARD FERRERS, Lieut., 129th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Major-Gen. Arundel James Nixon, of Clone, Ballyragget, co. Kilkenny, D.L., late R.A., by his wife, Maria Lucy, dau. of the late John Laurence, D.L.; b. Stoke, Devonport, 25 Jan. 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 23 Dec 1913; left for France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 24 Oct. following. Buried Fauquissart, in an orchard in the Rue de Bacquerot; unm. The Officer commanding his battery wrote: “It is a very great sorrow indeed to us all that we have lost him. Officers and men were devoted to him. He was a gallant little fellow and a first-class officer.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. He was a keen sportsman; rode very well and was very good at all games.

NIXON, WILLIAM, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26752 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NOBBS, WILLIAM ROBERT, Seaman, R.N.R., 2282A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NOBLE, CHARLES CRAWFORD, Private, No. 6/698, 13th Canterbury and Westland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of George Noble, of Blue Spur, Hokitika, New Zealand, Gold Miner, by his wife, Jeannie A. S., dau. of Alexander Walker, of Strichen; b. Fraserburgh, 31 Jan. 1887; educ. All Saints’ School, Strichen; went to New Zealand, 7 May, 1906; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, after the outbreak of war, 17 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on board H.M.S. Royal George, 12 May following, of wounds received in action at Cape Helles on the 8th; unm.

NOBLE, CORNELIUS, Private, No. 1856, 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), yst. s. of John Noble, of 310, Church Street, Walker, co. Northumberland, by his wife. Alice; b. Walker, 7 June, 1895; educ. West Walker Council Schools; joined the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, 1 June, 1913; volunteered for Imperial service, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 20 April, 1915, and was killed in action 24 May, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 24 May, 1915. Buried, Boulogne; unm.

NOBLE, GEORGE, Private, No. 6507, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of Thomas Noble, of 25, Sigismund Street, Blackwall; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 26 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action.

NOBLE, GEORGE, Driver, No. 8125, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action 28 Oct. 1914; m.

NOBLE, JACK EDWARD, Private, No. 15184, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of George Noble, of High Wycombe, Bucks; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 21 March, 1915.

NOBLE, ROBERT, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 4521), 171089, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NOBLE, THOMAS, of Aberdeen, lost when the mine-sweeping trawler No. 61 (Crathie, of Aberdeen) was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

NOEL, HERBERT BISHOP, C.E.R.A., 2nd Class (Pensioner), 269614, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NOLAN, MYLES PATRICK, Private, No. 2754, 2nd Battn. 8th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late William Nolan, of Fulham, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Michael (and Mary) Murphy, of Dublin; b. Fulham, S.W., 3 June, 1897; educ. Council School there; was an Assistant Engineer, P.O. Telegraph; joined the 10th Middlesex Territorials in June, 1912; volunteered for foreign service, Aug. 1914; was transferred to the 2/8th Middlesex, and was drafted to Gibraltar, Sept. 1914, returning to England, Feb. 1915; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Rye, France, 21 Oct. 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. Letters from his officers speak of him as a good soldier and a general favourite.

NOOTT, MERVYN, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), yst. s. of William Mathias Noott, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.S.A., and his wife, Louisa (Upton Lodge, St. Peter’s, Thanet), eldest dau. of the late Sir Alfred Hickman, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Kensington Park Road, London, 19 May, 1890; educ. Mr. Edminson’s, Tan-y-bryn, Llandudno, and Fauconberg School, Beccles; joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. The Buffs as 2nd Lieut. 15 March, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 20 Jan. 1913; passed into the Regulars as 2nd Lieut., 1st Buffs, 24 May, 1913; left for France, 16 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Radinghem Wood, near Lille, 20 Oct. following; unm. Capt. R. Bright wrote: “Your son was killed in action on the 20th. He was gallantly leading his men under heavy fire, and every one who was near him cannot speak too highly of his conduct. I cannot tell you how sorry I am to lose him, and how I feel for you in your loss. But he died gallantly and knew nothing of being hit, being killed instantaneously. He was a good soldier and thoroughly popular with both officers and men, and we can ill afford to lose him.” Major (Brig.-Gen.) E. H. Finch-Hatton, D.S.O., wrote: “There is one thing that I can bear witness to, and that is a more noble and more chivalrous boy has never fallen on the field of battle. His enthusiasm and his sense of duty and chivalry were quite out of the ordinary. He was more like a knight of old, and it is such as he who have made the glory of the British Army to be what it is to-day—the wonder and the admiration of the world.” And L.-Corpl. Kisby wrote: “The platoon would have followed him anywhere. Yes, every man was devoted to him. He won this by his many acts of kindness and cheerfulness, and, above all, they had a great respect for him as a brave man, for undoubtedly he knew no fear.” He had taken a flying certificate and hoped to join the Royal Flying Corps.

NORLEY, SIDNEY HENRY, Acting Chief Stoker, 195527, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NORMAN, ALBERT EDMUND, Capt., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. Army Cyclist Corps, yst. s. of the late Henry Alexander Norman, of Croydon, by his wife, Annie, dau. of (—) Roberts; b. Croydon, 7 April, 1875; educ. Whitgift Middle School, Croydon; was in a Bank; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 1st Vol. Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt. 7 Jan. 1905; gazetted Lieut., 3rd East Surreys, 11 Sept. 1914; attd. Army Cyclist Corps, 1 Dec. following; promoted Capt. 24 March, 1915, and went to France 27 March, and died in hospital at Merville, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in the advance against the Aubers Ridge on the 9th. Buried at Merville. The N.C.Os. and men of his company erected a stone to his memory. A comrade wrote: “He very much distinguished himself in offering to take a despatch message under heavy fire. He was successful in getting it through, but was wounded on returning to Headquarters.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916]. He m. at Croydon, 5 Jan. 1905, Linda Burnell, dau. of the late William Bust Turner, of Croydon, Surrey; s.p.

NORMAN, EDWARD, A.B., 226971, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NORMAN, ERRINGTON HOUNSOME, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9676), S.S. 2428, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NORMAN, ROBERT, Private, No. 2200, A Coy., 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of Robert Norman, Sailor; b. Ipswich, 18 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Clement’s School, Ipswich; was a Labourer at Paul’s Barley Factory, Ipswich; volunteered and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 6 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915. Capt. S. L. Brown wrote: “Your husband was a soldier from head to foot, and an Englishman, and the example he set to the younger men was grand—I shall never have a better man to go with me anywhere. It may, perhaps, be a little comfort to you to know that his death was instantaneous: a soldier’s death without pain.” He m. at St. Helen’s Church, Ipswich, 25 Dec. 1906, Alice Maud (50, Rosebery Road, Ipswich), dau. of George (and Ellen) Prebble, of Ipswich, and had three children: Robert William, b. 14 Sept. 1907; Arthur George, b. 31 May, 1913; and Elsie May, b. 6 Nov. 1900.

NORMAN, ROBERT, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., I.C. 35), 186027, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NORMANLY, MARTIN, Private, No. 9791, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Normanly, of Montuaigh, Curry, co. Sligo, Farmer, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of Thomas Gallagher; b. Montuaigh, Curry, afsd. 14 Oct. 1892; educ. National School there; was a Coal Miner; joined the Coldstreams in Oct. 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Mons, on the 25th; unm.

NORRIS, GEORGE CROSSLEY, Deckhand, No. 207 D.A., Trawler Section, R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler No. 61 called “Crathie” (Thomas W. Irvine, of North Shields) was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

NORRIS, OSWALD MARK, Private, No. 61221, 1st Canterbury Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 7th s. and yst. child of Thomas C. Norris, of Christchurch, J.P., late Secretary and Treasurer to North Canterbury Hospital Board, by his wife, Mary; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 15 June, 1892; educ. Christ’s College, Canterbury, New Zealand, after which he took up sheep farming in Hawkes Bay, and while there joined the local Regt. of Mounted Rifles, in which he was a corpl. when war broke out. He volunteered for Imperial service, 12 Oct. 1914; left for Egypt with the main body; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the landing at Gebe Tepe, Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “In our camp life your son’s sterling qualities and high principles made him very popular. The memory of your son Oswald—a brave and true man—will ever remain dear to us”; and another: “He was a favourite among all, and everybody admired his strength of character and his great lovable disposition.”

NORRIS, REGINALD HAYDEN, Corpl., No. 9096, 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of William Norris, of 6, Pleasant Place, Chalvey, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Chalvey, Slough, 8 March, 1889; educ. Board School there; enlisted 22 Oct. 1906; left for France, 20 Sept., and was killed in action at Metrean, 13 Oct. 1914. Buried there. He m. at Scotforth, Lancaster, 25 Dec. 1913, Helena Eleanor (12, Abbey Terrace, Scotforth, Lancaster), dau. of Joseph Kendall, of Scotforth; s.p.

NORRIS, ROBERT, Engine Room Artificer, 2nd Class, No. Ch. 149732, R.N., s. of Robert Norris; b. Chatham, co. Kent, 22 Aug. 1866; educ. St. Paul’s School there; joined the Navy, 23 May, 1889; served in South African War (medal), and on H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm. He had the Long Service and Good Conduct medal.

NORRIS, WILLIAM, Private, No. 10734, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Joseph Norris, of 35, Albert Road, Tamworth, Warwick, Carpenter (a native of Lancashire), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of David Marney, of Melbourne, Victoria; b. Melbourne, 28 Nov. 1893, came to England with his parents when two years of age, and was educ. at Tamworth Council School; was employed as a Platelayer on the L. &. N.W. Railway; enlisted in May, 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

NORSWORTHY, EDWARD CUTHBERT, Major, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of James Counter Norsworthy, of Ingersoll, P. Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Mary Jane, eldest dau. of Alexander Cuthbert, of Ingersoll, and gdson. of John Norsworthy, of the Parish of Widdicombe, co. Devon, England (who went to Canada in 1852); b. Ingersoll afsd., 29 May, 1879; killed in action in the Battle of Langemarck on 22 May, 1915; educ. Ingersoll and St. Thomas’ Public Schools, from which he passed to the Upper Canada College, and thence matriculated to McGill University, at which time he won the Governor-General’s gold medal for mathematics. He subsequently became registered as a Student of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain along with his younger brother Stanley. At the examination held that year, there were thirty-six candidates writing in the Dominion; of this number five were successful, including Major Norsworthy and his brother. In his student days he had been connected with the Cadet Corps at St. Thomas’ Collegiate Institute, and the Upper Canada College Rifle Corps. Deciding to adopt a career in the financial world, he obtained a position with Messrs. G. A. Stimson & Co., of Toronto, and in 1901 he opened an office in Montreal as Manager for the Dominion Securities Corporation. He joined the 5th Royal Highlanders as a subaltern, shortly after his arrival there, and after passing his examination at St. John’s (Quebec) Military School, he became Capt. in 1905, and Adjutant three years later, and Major in 1909. On the outbreak of war, Major Norsworthy volunteered his services, and helped to organise the 13th Battn. for active service, and accompanied it to Europe as Senior Major and Second in Command. While in England, he was offered an appointment with Sir Max Aitken, the Canadian “Eye Witness,” but preferred to remain with his regt.; unm. On 22 April, 1915, the Germans, using virulent and asphyxiating gasses for the first time, were able to overcome a portion of the French troops adjoining our line. In the words of Sir John French’s Despatch of 15 June, 1915: “The left flank of the Canadian Division was thus left dangerously exposed to serious attack in flank, and there appeared to be a prospect of their being overwhelmed, and of a successful attempt by the Germans to cut off the British troops occupying the salient to the east. In spite of the danger to which they were exposed, the Royal Highlanders of Canada held their ground with a magnificent display of tenacity and courage; and it is not too much to say that the bearing and conduct of these splendid troops averted a disaster which might have been attended with the most serious consequences.” The 13th Battn. (5th Royal Highlanders) were the first Canadian troops to meet a charge of the Germans, and notwithstanding they were greatly outnumbered, and were being attacked in flank in their dug-outs, Major Norsworthy skilfully led his men out to the Ypres-Poelcapelle Road, manning the road ditches facing the advancing Germans, and heroically holding their position, and refusing to give one inch of ground, thereby setting the pace for the whole division. Major Norsworthy’s part in the action was thus described by one of the privates present: “After having remained in the dug-outs for about one hour, with our throats parched and our eyes watering, caused by the gas, we could see that the Germans had broken our lines. It was reported to Major Norsworthy, and he gave the order to ‘stand to’ which we were waiting anxiously to do, and he led us out to the Ypres-Poelcapelle Road. It was not long before they began to pick our boys off. Major Norsworthy was hit in the neck by a bullet, but it did not stop him from walking up and down our line, encouraging our men to hold fast. It was not until he received the second bullet that he had to give in and lie down. We bound him up as well as we could, but the second wound was serious, and he died about three-quarters of an hour after.” Another private who was with Major Norsworthy said: “As we advanced out of our dug-outs and trenches—that were being enfiladed—we met a perfect storm of shell and rifle bullets, when some inclinations of hesitancy and flinching were shown. Seeing this, Major Norsworthy sprang to the front and called out, ‘Come on, men, remember that we are Canadians and all the eyes of Canada are upon us.’ His action and words steadied those that were wavering, and we all followed him with a wild cheer, and advanced to the Ypres-Poelcapelle Road ditches—facing the advancing Germans—which gave us some little protection, and we stuck it there to the last man.” The following are extracts spoken to the first Canadian Division after the twelve days and nights of fighting included in the period from 22 of April to the 4th of May, 1915; “I tell you truly that my heart is so full I hardly know how to speak to you. It is full of sorrow for the loss of those comrades of ours who have gone, and pride in what the first Canadian Division has done. I think it is possible that you do not all of you quite realise that if we had retired in the evening of 22 April, when our Allies fell back before the gas and left our left flank quite open, the whole of the 27th and 28th Division would probably have been cut off. This is what our Commander-in-Chief meant when he telegraphed as he did: ‘The Canadians saved the situation.’ My lads, if ever men have had a right to be praised in this work, you have.” Major Norsworthy was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

NORTH, ARTHUR, Sergt., No. G. 582, 9th (Service) Battn. East Kent Regt.; died in Dover Military Hospital, 4 June, 1915; m.

NORTH, FREDERICK ALBERT, Sergt., No. 8010, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 3 April, 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

NORTH, CHARLES NAPIER, Major, 5th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of the late Col. Roger North, R.A., by his wife Fanny Ellen (Briarwood, Camberley), dau. of Stephen Beeching, of Tunbridge Wells; b. Bristol, 16 Aug. 1874; educ. Radley College, where he gained the Heathcote Mathematical Scholarship, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 10 Feb. 1893, and promoted Lieut. 10 Feb. 1896, Capt. 1 April, 1904, and Major, 25 July, 1913; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1902, took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, March to May 1900, in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, Aug. to Nov. 1900, in the Orange River Colony, May to June 1900, in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899–1900, and in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, 1901–2; and was afterwards on the Staff, and from 20 May, 1902 to 7 Aug. 1902, was employed under the Dir. Mil. Intelligence (Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 15 Aug. to 1 Nov. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the First Battle of Ypres, being shot by a sniper while engaged in inspecting the erection of barbed wire entanglements in an exposed position. Buried in Zonnebeke Wood, N.E. of Ypres. The General Officer Commanding, Royal Engineers, 2nd Division, wrote: “Major North’s death was a severe loss not only to his own company, but to the Royal Engineers and the service generally, as on several occasions his devotion to duty and his excellent work had come under my observation, and I have no doubt his example conduced largely to the fine performance of the 5th Field Coy.” Major North was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He m. at St. Mary Abbott’s Church, Kensington, 18 Dec. 1913, Norah, dau. of the late Col. Gribbon, of Inverness Terrace, W., and had a dau. Elizabeth, b. posthumous, 31 March, 1915.

NORTH, WILLIAM THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2721), 286931, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NORTHCOTT, ALBERT HENRY, Shipwright, No. Chat. 345561, Royal Navy, s. of Lieut. Albert Northcott, R.N., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth Swete (4, Springfield Terrace, Elburton Cross, near Plymouth), dau. of Samuel Tolcher; b. Plymouth, co. Devon, 6 April, 1887; educ. Ryders High School, Stoke Devonport; was for some time a Shipwright Apprentice in Devonport Dockyard; joined the Navy in 1907; served on H.M. ships Cyclops, London, and Cressy; took part in the Battle of Heligoland, and was lost when the Cressy was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

NORTHEY, ALFRED, Lieut., 4th, attd. 3rd, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Rev. Alfred Edward Northey, formerly Vicar of Rickmansworth, co. Hertford, by his wife, Alice (Lisworney, Torquay), dau. of Frederick Hatton, and grandson of Lieut.-Col. William Brook Northey, of The Mount, Sevenoaks, Coldstream Guards, J.P., D.L.; b. at The Vicarage, Rickmansworth, 10 Sept. 1886; educ. at Rottingdean, Sherborne School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Worcesters 3 Feb. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 24 Oct. 1908; joined his battn. at Malta, where he was stationed until Nov. 1908, when it proceeded to Bareilly, India. Returning from India on sick leave in Feb. 1911, he was sent to the Depôt at Worcester, and was there when war broke out. He acted as Machine-Gun Officer at Tregantle, Cornwall, until 30 Aug. 1914, when he left for France in charge of a draft, and, after being stationed for three weeks at St. Nazaire, joined the 3rd Worcesters (7th Brigade, 3rd Division) at the Front. He was killed in action, 12 Oct. following, close to Richebourg St. Vaast, while the battn. was fighting its way through Richebourg to Neuve Chapelle. He was unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed whilst leading his men in the attack. He was killed instantly, and did not suffer. He was a splendid officer, and can ill be spared. I hope it may be some little comfort to you, that he died leading his men in the most gallant manner.” He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb., 1915.] Lieut. Northey was an excellent musician, playing both piano and violin; a good all-round sportsman, and very popular with both officers and men.

NORTON, WILLIAM GEORGE, Private, No. 3582, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Thomas Norton, of 21, Newman Road, Plaistow, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Smith, Master Baker; b. Poplar, 7 Dec. 1898; educ. West Ham; trained in the West Ham Boys’ Naval Brigade for 2½ years under A. E. Cleave, commanding officer; was employed as a Coppersmith at the Plaistow Railway Works; volunteered and joined the 2nd Royal Fusiliers, 13 Feb. 1915; went to France, 17 April, and died at No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, 6 June, 1915, of a gunshot wound in the head, received in action, 31 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Civil Cemetery, Bailleul.

NOTTON, HARRY GUY, A.B., J. 2639, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

NOURISH, THOMAS ALDERMAN, Private, No. 6118, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Nourish, of Highland House, Kilby Road, Fleckney, Leicester, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Anthony Loomes, of North Kilworth; b. Illston-on-the-Hill, co. Leicester, 8 March, 1881; educ. Fleckney Church of England School; enlisted 23 Feb. 1905; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1909; obtained his discharge and joined the Reserve, 23 Feb. 1908; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug., and died in No. 4 General Hospital, Boulogne, 4 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Rentel, 29 Oct.; unm. Buried in Wimereux Churchyard (Grave No. 21).

NOVELL, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3819), 189603, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

NUNN, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, 228989, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

NUNN, FRANK ALFRED, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7311, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

NUNN, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Leading Cook’s Mate, 347626, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

NUNN, MERVYN HENRY, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 9th (Service) Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of William Henry Nunn, of Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells, by his wife, Sophie Caroline, dau. of Major Richard Rollo Houghton, late of the Buffs; b. Woolhampton, co. Berks, 17 Nov. 1864; educ. Harrow; was gazetted Lieut. to the Worcestershire Regt. from the Militia, 28 April, 1886, and promoted Capt. July, 1892, Major 13 Nov. 1901, and Lieut.-Col. 8 Jan. 1915; was employed with Egyptian Army, 27 Dec. 1896 to 1 Oct. 1897; served in the Nile Expedition, 1897 (Egyptian medal with clasp, and medal); and in the South African War, 1902; was in command of the Imperial Yeomanry Battn., from 26 Feb. 1902; took part in operations in Natal (Queen’s medal with clasp); retired and joined the Reserve of Officers, 11 April, 1906, but rejoined his old Regt. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 24 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Chunik Bair, 10 Aug. following; unm. He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Col. Nunn was a fine sportsman, a good man to hounds and a good polo player.

NUTCHER, MONTAGUE CYRIL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3961), S.S. 1224, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

OAKELEY, FRANCIS ECKLEY, Lieut., R.N., 5th s. of the late Rev. James Oakeley, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Hereford, by his wife, Frances E. (Westdale, Chilston, Torquay), dau. of John Eckley, of Credenhill Park, Hereford; b. Hereford, 3 Feb. 1891; educ. Hereford Cathedral School, Eastman’s, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; was one of the second batch of cadets entered under the “new scheme,” and passed out from Dartmouth, 15 Sept. 1908; became Midshipman, 15 Sept. 1908, Sub-Lieut. 30 Nov. 1911, and Lieut. Nov. 1913; served in H.M. ships London (flagship of Rear-Admiral Startin, Channel Fleet, Sept. 1908); Invincible (Capt. Mark Kerr, 1st Cruiser Squadron, March, 1909); the Téméraire (1st Battle Squadron, Nov. 1909); Warrior (2nd Cruiser Squadron, Jan. 1910); Ure (2nd Destroyer Flotilla, July, 1910); Dreadnought (flagship of Sir William May, Home Fleet, Sept. 1910); Formidable (Atlantic Fleet, April to Sept. 1911); Superb (1st Battle Squadron, Nov. 1911); Dolphin (Portsmouth Submarine Depot for Instruction, Jan. to May, 1913); and from the last was transferred to H.M.S. Forth at Devonport for submarines. In Sept. 1913, he returned to Portsmouth on appointment to the Arrogant for C 7, and after the outbreak of war was appointed to the Maidstone, additional for D 2. He was lost in D 2 during the last week in Nov. 1914; unm. He was widely known for so junior an officer on account of his remarkable merit as a Rugby football player. He was in 1913’s English International Fifteen v. Scotland, and was looked upon as the most promising player of the United Services. He began playing for the Services First Twenty when he was still a Midshipman The following season Oakeley and Davis played magnificently against Ireland at Twickenham, and against Scotland at Inverleith—two matches that England won. Lieut. Oakeley had two caps against Scotland, one each against Ireland and France, and he was always on the winning side. He won the second prize for the cadet competition Sabre v. Sabre at the Royal Naval and Military Tournament, 1906, and the first prize cadet competition, Foil v. Foil, in the following year.

OAKES, ALEXANDER MONTAGUE, Private, No. 11, 19th Battn. 5th Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Alfred Charles Oakes, of Camden House, Sussex Street, Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Civil Service, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of George Robb; b. Cape Town, 26 Dec. 1885; educ. Normal College and St. George’s Grammar School, Cape Town; served for some time in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Volunteer Mounted Rifles before going to Australia on 30 Jan. 1913. On the outbreak of war he immediately volunteered and joined the 1st Naval and Military Contingent which left Sydney, N.S.W., early in Aug. 1914, in the steamer Berrima, accompanied by H.M.A. ships Sydney and Australia, for the conquest of German New Guinea. In this expedition he lost, by an accident, the use of three fingers of his right hand and was for some time in Hospital at Sydney, but upon being discharged immediately re-enlisted in the 19th Battn. and left Australia in the Ceramic, 25 June, 1915. He was killed in action in Gallipoli, 29 Sept. 1915; unm. The battn. were on fatigue work with the engineers improving the firing line when it occurred, and Oakes was putting up sand bags, when about 4 a.m. a stray bullet struck him over the heart killing him instantaneously. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. W. K. S. MacKenzie, wrote: “Your son was on my staff at the Liverpool Camp in Sydney before we left Australia and during our stay in Egypt before we came to the Front. I saw much of him and was attached to him, and I feel his loss deeply, it was a great shock to me. He was a fine soldier, and was liked by everyone in the regt. He died bravely fighting for the Empire.” He was buried the same afternoon at the foot of a gully near the sea, and a cross with his name, etc., was erected by his comrades.

OAKES, ORBELL, Capt., 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Orbell Henry Oakes, of Nowton Court, Bury St. Edmunds, late 1st Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., by his wife, Laura Eliza Josephine, dau. of George Clifton, formerly R.N.; b. Mhow, India, 7 Nov. 1880; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Regt. 28 Jan. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 2nd Yorkshire Regt. 3 Oct. 1906, and Capt. 29 Jan. 1913; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, 1901–2 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 6 April, 1910, to 3 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Moulin du Pietre, near Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. Buried there. The late Lieut.-Col. W. L. Alexander wrote: “He died in action on 12 March, gallantly doing his duty in a trench near the Moulin du Pietre. He was hit in the head by a bullet, and death must have been instantaneous. He had been doing splendid work with his company since he rejoined the battn., and his loss will be deeply felt by us, both as an officer and a comrade, for he had endeared himself to us all.”

OAKES, RICHARD, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109616, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OAKLEY, GEORGE HOWARD, A.B., 222020, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

O’BRIEN, HUGH CONOR HENRY, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of Henry Joseph O’Brien, of Whitepoint House, Weston, Queenstown, co. Cork, late Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C., by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Henry Banister; b. Stoke Damarel, co. Devon, 19 Nov. 1880; educ. Clongowes Wood College; Stonyhurst (1896) and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1899–1900); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 11 Aug. 1900, and promoted Lieut. 6 March, 1903, and Capt. 1 April, 1910; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Jan. to July, 1901; operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902, and in Cape Colony, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with clasp); (2) on the North West Frontier, India, 1908, as Brigade Signalling Officer, attd. 3rd Brigade, during operations in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914. On 5 Sept. 1914, he left with the 2nd Battn. for Flanders where, and on the Aisne, he served in the trenches, except for one week’s leave home, until Dec. 1914. On 22 Dec. 1914, after a forced march from Bailleul, the regt. was ordered to retake, at all costs, trenches at Festubert which had been evacuated by Indian troops; advancing over open heavy ground in daylight, Capt. O’Brien, at the head of his company, was first wounded in the left side and fell, but was still able to encourage his men, calling out “Go on Munsters, now is your time to get back your own”; a few minutes later he was killed outright by shrapnel bursting over him; unm. An officer wrote: “He was ever a gallant officer, and died a glorious death after helping a wounded comrade to cover; by his death the regt. lost a most efficient and popular officer whom the men would follow anywhere.” Col. Bent, who was badly wounded, in the same regt., wrote: “I wish to tell you what a splendid officer your son was; you will have this testimony from others, but I must tell you what he was to me, as his commanding officer. He was of the best in every way, and as a company commander was of the greatest use to me—absolutely reliable, he had his company in first-class order. Beloved by all the men and officers, he was such a splendid man and soldier that it seems particularly cruel that he should have been taken so early.” Major Ryan, one of the few surviving officers of that fight, wrote: “From all accounts of everyone nothing could have been more gallant than the way he led his men.” When in India he got a Special Certificate at the School of Signalling, Kasauli. He was a keen sportsman and a good shot with gun and rifle, and on two trips to Cashmere and Baltistan made good bags of big game.

O’BRIEN, JAMES JOSEPH, Private, No. 1160, 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of James O’Brien, of 27, Adelaide Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Cooper, by his wife, Mary; b. St. John’s, Newfoundland, 8 April, 1891; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted, 1 Feb. 1915; and died in Edinburgh Hospital, 2 Oct. 1915, following an operation; umn.

O’CALLAGHAN, DUNCAN MCKAY MACDONALD, 2nd Lieut. 3rd attd. 2nd. Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 2nd s. of the late Surgeon-Major George Henry Kenneth O’Callaghan, A.M.S., and eldest s. by his 2nd wife, Suzanne Charlotte (Minto House, Newquay, Cornwall), dau. of the late Thomas Harding, of Wick House, Brislington; b. Ludlow, co. Salop, 4 June, 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and Trinity College, Oxford; obtained his commission 10 Aug. 1914, being gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., served with the 2nd Battn. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, 14 March, 1915; buried in Military Cemetery, Dickebusch, Flanders; unm. At Cheltenham he won the Junior School Championship in Athletic Sports and represented the College in cricket and football. He was a College Prefect and Head of his House. On leaving, he gained a classical scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was elected member of the Oxford University Authentics Cricket Club. He played in the Freshmen’s and Seniors’ matches in football and cricket, and, after leaving Oxford, was a prominent member of the London Irish Football Club.

OCHS, RONALD PHILIP, 2nd Lieut., 5th, attd. 4th. Battn. The Middlesex Regt., yr. s. of Capt. James Frank Ochs, of 4, Sloane Gardens, S.W., now (1916) M.L.O. at Dieppe, by his wife, Amy, eldest dau. of Philip Goldsmith; b. 4, Sloane Gardens, S.W., 20 Nov. 1896; educ. at Chertsey, Sunningdale School, and Marlborough College; joined the Public School Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. on the outbreak of war, and was given a commission, 10 Feb. 1915; went to France early in June, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, Flanders, 27 Sept. 1915, and buried the next day at Brandhoek.

ODDY, JOSEPH ETHELBERT, A.B., 207511 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ODGERS, NICHOLAS, Leading Seaman (C.G.), 179652 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ODLING, ERIC ROBERT MEADE, Lieut., Royal Engineers, only s. of Charles William Odling, of Craignoon, Ridgway Gardens, Wimbledon, C.S.I., formerly Secretary to the Government of India P.W.D., and Inspector-General of Irrigation, by his wife, Alice Ronayne Mary, dau. of Robert Warren Meade, of Dublin; b. Darjeeling, India, 30 Oct. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College (scholar), passing 3rd on the list into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Nov. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and after various services was appointed Acting Adjutant to the Signalling Coy. at Headquarters; invalided home in Oct. but returned to duty the following Jan. joining the 11th Field Coy. at Givenchy, 11 March, and was killed in action at Festubert, a fortnight later, 25 March, 1915; unm. Buried at Chateau Gorre, near Festubert.

THOMAS-O’DONEL, GEORGE O’DONEL FREDERICK, M.C., Capt. and Adjutant, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edwin Thomas-O’Donel, of Newport House, Newport, co. Mayo, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Melicent Agnes, dau. of Capt. Richard Annesley O’Donel; b. Dublin, 21 Oct. 1884; educ. Cheltenham College, and abroad; joined the Royal Donegal Artillery Militia in 1902; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 4th Royal Fusiliers, 23 May, 1906; promoted Lieut. 10 April, 1909, and Capt. 26 Nov. 1914; appointed Adjutant, 15 Jan. 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. Capt. O’Dond was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 19 Feb. 1915]; and was twice mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914, and 18 Feb. 1915]. Brig.-Gen. McMahon, commanding the Brigade, wrote on 5 Nov. 1914: “I think the Battn. has done very well out here, and I hope it will continue to do so. George is going strong and is fitter than when he started, and can claim a very large share in producing such good results as may have been attained”; and Col. Hely-Hutchinson wrote: “I cannot tell you what a shock the whole thing has been to me, we were the closest of friends, we slept together, we fed together, we rode together, and we fought together, and we never had a row for seven months, and the only time we had been separated, George goes and gets killed, and I get off. It is too sad after all the months he had been out and the good work he had done. I myself got a small touch of a shell on the head and have come home for a bit, thank God, as I don’t think I could have carried on any longer out there without George and the rest—we lost six killed and nine wounded officers, and I had no heart and was just tired out and so was George, he just went on till he dropped.” Major F. R. Mallock: “His death is a great loss to his country and the regt.—he served so gallantly and so well; there are few of us left who went out with the Battn., George was the only one of the combatant officers left after the fighting at Ypres. I had a great affection and admiration for him, he did work splendidly right through.” Brig.-Gen. Reginald Pinney, formerly commanding 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, also wrote to the late Capt. Thomas O’Donel’s father: “I am most distressed for you and his mother at George’s death—also for the regt. and the army, for he was fulfilling all the promise he showed when he joined; seeing his name gave me a special shock, for I had just heard of my getting a division, and had been talking of Staff and had hoped to get George appointed a G.S.O.” He m. in London, 26 Nov. 1914, Florence Violet (Newlands, co. Wexford), only dau. of George Claud Flood Braddell, of Newlands, co. Wexford, and Luckington, co. Wilts; s.p.

O’DONNELL, MARTIN, Seaman. R.N.R., 2729A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

O’GRAM, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5549), S.S. 2104, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

O’HAIRE, DAVID, Private, No. 11058, 6th Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd s. of the late David O’Haire, by his wife, Agnes (now wife of Private William John McCallister, of Dromore Street, Rathfriland, co. Down, now (1916) on active service with the Royal Irish Rifles), dau. of Thomas O’Haire; b. Lierkelly, Ballyroney, co. Down, 17 July, 1897; educ. Newry Street National School, Rathgueanel; was an active member of the Ulster Volunteer Force; enlisted, 27 Aug. 1914; left Basingstoke, with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, July, 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles on or about 6 Aug. 1915; unm.

O’HARA, HENRY DESMOND, D.S.O., Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only s. of William James O’Hara, of Oriel House, Ballincollig, Cork, Resident Magistrate, by his wife, Cecilia, 7th and yst. dau. of the late Peter Connellan, of Colmore, co. Kilkenny, J.P., D.L., and gdson. of the late Rev. James Dunn O’Hara, of O’Hara Brook and The Castle, Portstewart, co. Antrim; b. Ballydulf, Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, 21 May, 1892; educ. Dunchurch Hall, Rugby; Charterhouse, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 4 Sept. 1912; promoted Lieut. 29 April, 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 17 March, 1915; took part in the heavy fighting following the landing there, and died on the hospital ship Arcadian, 29 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action on the 12th; unm. Buried in the military cemetery, Gibraltar. “On 25 April, 1915, at Sedd-el-Bahr, he took command of his battn. when all other officers had been killed or wounded. At night, when the enemy broke through the line, he displayed great initiative and resource in organising a successful counter-attack, restoring the line and causing great loss to the enemy.” For this he was awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 3 June, 1915]. Lieut. O’Hara was also mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 20 May [London Gazette, 5 Aug.], 1915, for his conduct during, and after, the landing of the 29th Division on 25 April.

O’KEEFFE, THOMAS, Corpl., No. 11022, 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 29th Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Richard O’Keeffe, by his wife, Ellen (Dublin Road, Carlow), dau. of Andrew O’Neill; b. Ballykealy Ballon, co. Carlow, 10 Dec. 1892; educ. Christian Brothers Academy, Carlow; enlisted 10 Jan. 1911; was appointed L.-Corpl. 1912, and promoted Corpl. 1913; served in India, Nov. 1913, to Nov. 1914; left England with his regt. for the Dardanelles, 16 March, 1915; took part in the landing there, 25–26 April, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 10 July, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “On one occasion we were advancing and the enemy’s trenches were about three or four hundred yards in front. At all events, a Sergt. of the Worcestershire Regt. twigged a wounded man lying out in front. At this time we were halted in a ravine preparing to advance, and the enemy’s fire was very heavy; at any rate, the Sergt. shouted at his men that there was a wounded man in front: would some of them go out and take him in? But the fellows all passed it down the line that there was a wounded man out in front: would someone go out and bring him in? At any rate Tom heard it, and asked immediately where the wounded man was. The Sergt. showed him, and Tom shouted round at me, ‘Will you come, Terry?’ Then without waiting for an answer he was out over the top and started running towards the wounded chap. I rushed out after Tom, and between us we got the chap in. He told us he had been lying out there two days—in reality he had been there since about 11 a.m. that morning; it was then about 6 p.m. He was wounded in the shoulder, side, arm and thigh, and had lost an awful lot of blood. He was in that much pain that he thought he had been there two days. The Dublins and Munsters were that weak then that they combined the two regiments and called us the Dubsters. Well, after bringing in that chap we advanced, and succeeded in routing the Turks and dug ourselves in in a new position, from which the New Zealanders relieved us the next day. Well, that is just one of the many little moves I was in with poor old Tom. Now I wasn’t present when Tom was killed; I was in the trenches, and Tom was in charge of a ration party going back along a nullah to draw the company’s rations, when he was killed by a sniper. It appears this sniper had command of this part of the nullah, and blankets and sandbag barricades were put to knock off the sniper, but all to no purpose; he must have been concealed on a hill. It was him that killed poor Tom. The bullet pierced his brain, and he only lived for a couple of minutes afterwards, during which time he was unconscious, so never spoke after being hit. The medical officer was present on the spot, but could not do anything. Tom is buried in a very nice cemetery in a separate grave.” His yr. brother. Richard O’Keeffe, is now (1916) on active service with the London Regt.

OLDBURY, FREDERICK, Chief Armourer, 340522, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

OLDFIELD, GUY CHRISTOPHER OTTLEY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal Surrey Regt., attd. King’s African Rifles, only s. of Lieut.-Col. Christopher George Oldfield, late Royal Artillery, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of the late Cortlandt J. Le Bailly, and gdson. of Sir Richard Charles Oldfield; b. Poona, India, 17 Sept. 1888; educ. Clifton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal West Surrey Regt. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911; was seconded for service with Uganda Battn. of the King’s African Rifles, 3 Dec. 1913; served in the Jubaland Expedition in the spring of 1914, and was killed in action at Tsavo, Mombassa, British East Africa, 6 Sept. 1914, while defending the Nairobi Railway against a superior German force armed with maxim guns; unm. His body was recovered two days later and buried at Tsavo. A brother Officer wrote: “It is quite impossible for me to convey to you in words how we all loved the dear lad. Such a shining example of a true Christian gentleman and sportsman.”

OLDHAM, JOHN HASLOPE, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., only s. of Ernest Haslope Oldham, of Oakfield, Chudleigh, co. Devon, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Charles Baker, of Portland Square, Bristol; b. Southgate, co. Middlesex, 7 Jan. 1891; educ. Blatchington Place, Sussex, Lancing College, and Hertford College, Oxford (graduated B.A. July, 1913), and on leaving there became junior master at Summer Fields, St. Leonards-on-Sea, in Sept. 1913; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Reserve of Officers, 16 July, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and gazetted to the 3rd Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 11 Aug. 1914; went to France, 4 Jan. 1915, where he was attd. to the 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was killed in action during the Battle for Hill 60, near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Buried near where he fell. His Col. wrote: “He behaved in a most gallant manner and will be a great loss to my battn.”; and his Capt. “He was most capable and keen on his work and had done most awfully well all the time he had been out there. He was absolutely fearless, and he fell in the attack on Hill 60 gallantly leading his men forward. He was hit by a bullet early in the charge, but ignoring his wound he went on to the top of the hill. He had just jumped up on the parapet and started to run over the crest of the hill, when he was shot and killed instantly.” An In Memoriam, from the Summer Fields Magazine, stated: “It came as a great shock to us all to read of the death of Lieut. J. H. Oldham who fell at the head of his men on Hill 60. Mr. Oldham, who was educated at Lancing College, and Hertford College, Oxford, came to us as a master in Sept. 1913, and during his 12 months’ stay endeared himself to everybody by his unaffected kindliness, his energy and unselfishness. He was always ready to help the youngest boys, constantly improvising new indoor games for their benefit, and just as keen as he could be on the outdoor games, and the work of the school. We little thought when we said good-bye to him at the end of last Summer Term that we should see him no more, but it was like him to be among the very first to volunteer for active service, without hesitation as without fuss. He was sent to the Front in Jan. and died fighting gallantly early in April. Only a few days before his death he had sent cheery messages to the boys, with snapshots taken in the trenches and numerous inquiries and good wishes for their welfare. His noble example and good influence here will long be remembered.”

OLDHAM, LESLIE WILLIAM SEARLES, Major, R.E., only s. of the late Brigade Surgeon Charles Frederick Oldham, by his wife, Harriet Bertha (The Lodge, Bealings, Suffolk), dau. of Thomas Bailey, of Gloucester; b. London, 3 Feb. 1870; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 27 July, 1889; promoted Lieut. 27 July, 1892; Capt. 5 May, 1900 and Major, 27 July, 1909; was in command of the R.E. with the Chitral Relief Force from Gilgit, 1895; was present at the actions at Chakalwat and Nisa Gol and was mentioned in Despatches. In 1899 he joined the Indian Public Works Department and did excellent work especially in connection with water supplies. After the outbreak of war he was recalled; was put in command of the 63rd Field Coy. and went to France in May, and was killed in action on the afternoon of 28 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper while inspecting work in the “Orchard” trench, near Festubert. He was a good all-round sportsman, particularly keen on polo and big game shooting, having done a good deal of the latter on the Pamirs and in the Central Provinces of India. He m. at Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India, 27 Aug. 1900, Caroline Mary Burton, sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and dau. of the late Charles Altamont Doyle, of Edinburgh, and had a dau., Claire Annette, b. Nagpur, India, 5 Sept. 1906.

OLDMAN, WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., 2354B., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OLDREWE, PERCIVAL, L.-Sergt., No. 8684, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Devon; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914; unm.

OLDREY, ROBERT JOHN BLATCHFORD, Capt., 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, eldest s. of the late Robert Blatchford Oldrey, of Harpole Hall, co. Northants, by his wife, Hannah Jane Powell, of The Laws House, Turvey, co. Beds., dau. of the late Richard John James; b. Northampton, 18 June, 1883; educ. Uppingham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Dragoon Guards from the Militia, 26 March, 1902; promoted Lieut. 27 Feb. 1905, and Capt. 21 Jan. 1911; was Adjutant from Jan. to 27 Oct. 1914; served in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 15 Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, and the severe fighting during Sept, and Oct. and was killed in action while in command of a squadron at Richebourg, Neuve Chapelle, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. He was a keen polo player, and represented his regt. in the Inter-Regimental tournaments; and as a horseman had made his name famous in cavalry circles, being chosen to represent England in the jumping at Olympia, before King Edward and Queen Alexandra, at the 1st Olympian shows. He was also a prominent figure in the hunting world, being an ardent follower of the Oakley and Beaufort Hunt and a winner of many point-to-point races.

OLIVE, JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A., 7618, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

OLIVER, ERNEST JAMES, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1936), 154787, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OLIVER, PERCY FREDERICK, Armourer’s Crew, M. 7341, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OLLEY, MATT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13391, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OLLIFF, WILLIAM, Private, No. 51370, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of William Olliff, of 13, Grainger Street West, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Motor and Cycle Agent; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 29 March, 1888; educ. Royal Grammar School there; served his apprenticeship with Messrs. C. A. Parsons & Co., Ltd., Heaton Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne; went to sea as an Engineer and took a 2nd Engineer’s certificate, afterwards going to British Columbia in Feb. 1913; worked for a time at the Esquimault Dockyard, leaving there to enter the motor trade in Victoria; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Victoria Rifles; came over in Feb. 1915, being one of a hundred picked men for the P.P.L.I., but was drafted to the 16th Canadian Scottish (Gordon Highlanders), and after only a fortnight in England, went with his regt. for the Front; came unhurt through the heavy fighting at Ypres 22–25 April, and was killed by a high explosive shell while resting by the roadside, on the night of 26–27 April, 1915; unm. Private Olliff was offered a commission, but as this entailed a return to Canada, refused it.

O’MALLEY, EDWARD, Stoker, R.N.R., 728V, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

O’NEILL, SAMUEL, Lieut., 6th Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers (T.F.), 2nd s. of Adolf George O’Neill, of Marland Grange, near Rochdale, co. Lancaster, J.P., Manufacturer, by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Holt, J.P.; b. Castleton, near Manchester, 11 June, 1894; educ. Parkgate (Mostyn House School) and Shrewsbury, and on leaving there entered the business of Messrs. Samuel O’Neill & Sons, Paper Tube Manufacturers, of Castleton; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut, in the Territorial Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers in Nov. 1911, promoted Lieut. 6 Jan. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; went to the Dardanelles from Egypt, and was killed in action there, 10 June. 1915; unm. He was congratulated by Major-Gen. W. Douglas, Commanding 42nd East Lancashire Division, on an action performed 4–5 June, 1915.

ONSLOW, BRIAN WALTON, Lieut., 11th (King’s Edward’s Own) Lancers (Probyn’s Horse), Indian Army, and A.D.C. to Gen. Sir William Birdwood, yst. s. of the late Col. Gerald Charles Penrice Onslow, Royal Engineers, by his wife, Flora Frances Mary (Camperdown, Crowborough, co. Sussex), dau. of the late William Donald, of Lisle House, Cheltenham; b. Gillingham, co. Kent, 24 Aug. 1892; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Unattached List, 6 Sept. 1911; served his first year with the Royal West Kent Regt., passed into the Indian Army, 3 Dec. 1912. and was promoted Lieut. 6 Dec, 1913; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 28 July, 1915; unm. Buried at Anzac Cove. He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s despatch of 22 Sept. [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915]. Gen. Sir William Birdwood wrote: “A finer fellow or better example of the true English gentleman never lived. A son of whom any mother must always have been most justly proud. Never out of temper, always doing what he could to help others, able far above the average. I had hoped a brilliant career was in store for him. Every individual here regrets and feels his death. I have lost the best and bravest of officers, the truest and trustiest of friends”; and a brother officer: “Few people could be so ill-spared. I never met or hope to meet a more lovable character; best at everything he ever did, both in work and play, and always so cheerful. I never heard anyone say anything but good of him, and he was quite the most popular officer both with the men and in the mess.” Admiral ........ wrote from the Dardanelles: “He was a splendid young fellow. We on board only knew him for a few months, but in that short time he made himself very popular with us all. Everybody liked him and admired him, and we looked on him as the true ideal of a British soldier. I fully realise what a great loss his services must be to Gen. Birdwood and to the service generally.” And the Principal of Cheltenham College: “He has left an influence and power behind him that many an older man would be proud to leave.” While at Cheltenham he won a mathematical scholarship, and was one of the most prominent members of the hockey eleven and football fifteen. He was a keen athlete, a good polo player, pigsticker, golfer, etc. Two of his brothers and two brothers-in-law are (1916) serving either in the Army or Navy. His eldest brother, Lieut.-Commander A. G. Onslow, D.S.C., was killed in action in the Battle of Jutland, 1 June, 1916.

OPIE, ARTHUR GEORGE, Petty Officer, 204207, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

OPIE, WILLIAM EDWIN, Cook’s Mate, M. 4659. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ORFORD, CHARLES THOMAS, Private, No. 14240. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Henry Orford, Platelayer, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Booker; b. Bromsgrove, co. Worcester, 24 Feb. 1882; educ. Stourbridge Road Board School there; worked at the Midland Carriage Works, Bromsgrove; joined the 8th Worcestershire Territorials, 3 April, 1912; was called up on mobilization, 5 Aug. 1914; trained with them until 18 Dec. 1914, when he was discharged as medically unfit for further service, but joined the Coldstream Guards the next day; went to France in Aug. 1915, and died at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, 18 Oct. following, of wounds received in action. He m. at St. John’s Church, Bromsgrove, 1905, Louisa (17, Homes Cottages, Station Street, Bromsgrove), dau. of Samuel Perrys, and had five children: Henry George, b. 11 Sept. 1905; Charles William and Edna May (twins), b. 12 Sept. 1913; Annie Maud, b. 1 Dec. 1907; and Phylis Mary, b. 4 Feb. 1911.

ORLEBAR, ROBERT EVELYN, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., only child of Lieut.-Col. Evelyn Henry Orlebar, of Rutt House, Ivybridge, South Devon, Royal Marine L.I., Plymouth Division, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of William Morris, of Manchester [Cadet of Orlebar, of Hinwick, co. Bedford]; b. Walmer, co. Kent, 16 June, 1894; educ. Plymouth and Mannamead School, Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Middlesex Regt. 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914; joined his regt. at Malta in Jan. 1914; went to France, 4 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 9 Jan. 1915, while on duty in the trenches; unm. He was buried in an orchard behind the battn.’s headquarters. Letters from his officers all testify to his courage and sterling qualities. He was good at all school games, hunted with the Dartmoor Fox Hounds, and had his first polo season at Malta.

ORR, ROBERT WATSON, 2nd Lieut., 1/18th (London Irish Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th s. of John Orr, of 24, Belmont Gardens, Glasgow, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Abreauden Ross, Railway Contractor; b. Glasgow, 19 Dec. 1878; educ. at the Academy there. He commenced his business career in Glasgow in the office of the United Kingdom Provident Institution, and remained with them until he joined the Scottish Life Assurance Co. as Assistant Secretary in London in 1908, and was still in the latter company’s employ when he joined the O.T.C. at the Inns of Court. He was training at Berkhampstead for four months, when he obtained his commission, 5 March, 1915. He joined his regt. at St. Albans, and proceeded with it to France nine days later, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. He was buried at North Maroc, near Grenay. A good many years ago 2nd Lieut. Orr won a high reputation as a golfer. He was one of the foremost players in the Prestwick St. Nicholas Club, and gained many individual successes; but he will be remembered even more for his resourcefulness in the foursome form of the game. A neat and stylish golfer, he possessed temperamental qualities which made him an ideal partner in double harness. In 1908 he had the distinction of winning with his partner for the New Alban Club (Edinburgh) the “Evening Times” foursome tournament; and, in the same year, he was one of the quartette of players who enabled the New Alban Club to carry off also the “Evening Dispatch” trophy. When he went to London he joined the Northwood Club, and, in partnership with another member, succeeded in winning the London Amateur Foursomes in 1912. Though he never gained the highest honours in the Amateur Championship, 2nd Lieut. Orr was among the last eight in 1906; he also qualified three times—in fact, each time he entered—for the Open Championship. Brig.-Gen. Thwaites wrote to his wife: “He died in the full performance of his duty, superintending the establishment of communications for his battn. He came to his death ... as a brave soldier and gallant English gentleman should do.” He m. at Belhaven Church, Glasgow, 3 April, 1909, Annie Margaret (8, Springfield Road, St. John’s Wood, N.W.), dau. of the late James Crichton, of Edinburgh, J.P.; s.p.

ORR, WILLIAM, Private, No. 7938, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., s. of William Orr, of 19, Carlisle Road, Londonderry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 16 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Richebourg.

ORROW, ALBERT WILLIAM, A.B., J. 6317, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ORSLER, GEORGE HENRY, Private, No. 9144, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John Orsler, of Bridge Street, Framlingham, co. Suffolk; b. Framlingham; enlisted 14 Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 1 Jan. 1915.

ORTON, JAMES, Private, No. 7602, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of James Orton, of 3, Victoria Street, Hinckley, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Samuel Spare; b. Hinckley, co. Leicester, 31 July, 1887; educ. Hinckley Church School; enlisted 11 Jan. 1908; went to France, August, 1914. and was killed instantly in action near Vermelles, Belgium, 24 Oct. 1915; unm. Sergt. Maddison wrote “he had always done his duty well, and was performing a dangerous task when he was shot.” His brother was killed in action, 20 Dec. 1915.

ORTON, JOHN THOMAS, Private. No. 12933, B Coy., 8th (Service) Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 3rd s. of James Orton, of 3, Victoria Street, Hinckley, by his wife. Maria, dau. of Samuel Spare; educ. Hinckley Council School; was a Shoe Hand; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the 8th Leicesters, 3 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 July to 20 Dec. 1915, on which day he was killed in action, two months after his elder brother; unm. His company officer, Capt. H. L. Beardsley, wrote: “It is with much regret, and the deep sympathy of myself and the other officers of my company, that I have to convey the sad news of the death of your boy, who was killed by a sniper on the 20th inst. whilst carrying out his duties; he was shot through the heart and died almost immediately. A thorough, conscientious, hard-working lad, he will be sadly missed by us all.”

OSBEN, GEORGE THOMAS, Private. R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 11918, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

OSBORNE, ALBERT VINCENT, Private, No. 1837, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Albert Osborne, of Water Mill, Guestling, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William Dennett; b. Guestling, co. Sussex, 23 Nov. 1893; educ. there; was a Milkman; joined the Sussex Territorials, 26 Feb. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was sent to Dover, and then to the Tower; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and, after being in the trenches, was resting at a farm on 16 May, when a shell burst, killing and wounding many. Osborne was sent to the 2nd General Hospital at Manchester, where he died, 24 May, 1915; unm.

OSBORNE, BRIAN, Capt., 15th (The King’s) Hussars, yr. s. of the late Capt. Frank Osborn, of Harbury Hall, near Leamington, 13th Hussars, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Thomas Lever Rushton; b. Sydney, N.S.W., 18 Nov. 1888; educ. Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 15th Hussars, 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1909, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; went to France, 23 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 11 Nov. 1914, during the assault on the trenches near Herenthaze Château by the Prussian Guard. He had been sent with his machine gun to support the Duke of Wellington’s Regt. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until the following March that confirmation of his death was received in a letter from one of his machine gun section, a prisoner of war in Germany; unm. At Harrow he was successful in both cricket and football, and was first string at racquets; at Sandhurst he won the sword of honour; and in 1908, after joining the 15th Hussars, he attained a great record of first-spears in pig-sticking when quartered at Muttra. As a polo player he came to the front with amazing rapidity, playing for his regimental team and winning the South African Inter-Regimental Tournament in 1911, and repeating the event against more powerful opponents in the English Inter-Regimental Tournament at Hurlingham in 1913. As a member of the Cavalry School team and the Cavalry Club team he lent his aid successfully, and was invited by Lord Ashby St. Ledger, now Lord Wimborne, to practise in the international team of 1914, as choice for the American Expedition. He was a fine rider to hounds, and well known in the Warwickshire country.

OSBORNE, FRED, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9092), 198537, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OSBORNE, FREDERICK, Private, No. 1597, 1/6th (Cyclist) Battn. Suffolk Regt.(T.F.), 2nd s. of William Osborne, of 33, Salisbury Road, South Lowestoft, one of the staff of Lowestoft Central Station, by his wife, Mary Ann. dau. of (—) Hill, of London; b. Lowestoft, 19 April, 1892; educ. there; was a Waiter at the Imperial Hotel, Lowestoft; volunteered and joined the Cyclist Battn. of the Suffolk Regt. in Oct. 1914, and died in the Isolation Hospital, Lowestoft, 2 Feb. 1915, of disease contracted while on active service; unm.

OSBORNE, JOHN ALFRED VICTOR, Private, No. 3204, 2/1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Christopher Osborne, ex-Sergt. Criminal Investigation Department, New Scotland Yard, by his wife, Louisa Helen, dau. of George Peall, of Chertsey, Surrey; b. Marylebone, London, 17 June, 1897; educ. Barnsbury Park High Grade School; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Royal Fusiliers, 12 Nov. 1914; trained at Tonbridge; went to Malta, 1 Feb. 1915, where the regt. performed garrison duty until 9 Sept., when they were sent to Egypt, and thence to the Dardanelles on the 19th, where he died, 27 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action; unm. A comrade wrote; “I was out with your son on the night he was killed, but was not very near to him, so I did not see the last of him. He was shot in the muscle of the arm by an explosive bullet, and got wounded very severely, dying on admission to the hospital. He was buried by some of his fellow mates, and a cross erected over his grave with suitable wording. If ever a man died doing his duty for his King and Country, your son did, and it was a marvel to me how the remainder of us out that night did not get killed.... Our platoon have been very unlucky, and out of Jack’s section there are only about three of us left.”

OSBORNE, JOHN HENRY, Leading Stoker (Coastguard), 308083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OSBORNE, LESLIE HALL, Lieut., 9th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd s. of John Hall Osborne, of Summer Court, Queen’s Walk, Ealing, formerly of China, by his wife, Jane Jenkinson, dau. of Capt. John Whittle; b. Shanghai, China, 2 July, 1894; educ. St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, where he won distinction on the Modern side, and went into residence at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in Oct. 1912. Having tried for an Honorary Entrance Scholarship in Medieval and Modern Languages in 1911, he was placed 2nd Class in that subject in the Intercollegiate examination of July, 1914, and was given his degree in the following year under the regulations for men on active service. He was studying at Greifswold when war was declared, and going (5 Aug. 1914) to Stettin to appeal for help to the British Consul, was arrested as a spy and detained for four days, when he was released and ordered to leave the country. At St. Edmund’s he had been a keen member of the O.T.C., gaining Certificates A and B, and on reaching England he applied for a commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut., 9th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 June, 1915. He left England with his regt. early in July; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the night of 6 Aug. 1915, and fell the following day early in the advance to the attack of Hill 10, shot through the heart. His body was recovered next night and buried with those of five brother officers in rising ground about the middle of Suvla Beach, just north of the Canal that leads into the Salt Lake; unm. His elder brother, 2nd Lieut. W. J. Osborne, was mortally wounded in the same action. While at Christ’s College, Cambridge, he took an active part in the Hockey XI. and in the Lent term, 1913, played in goal in most of the University matches. He also occasionally played for the Surrey Club.

OSBORNE, MAURICE GODOLPHIN, Capt., 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, 3rd and yst. s. of the late Sidney Goldolphin Osborne, Commissioner of Inland Revenue (died 1903), by his wife, Margaret Dulcibella (51, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W.), dau. of Hugh Hammersley, of 6, Cromwell Gardens, London, and grandson of the late Rev. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne [yr. bro. of George, 8th Duke of Leeds]; b. London, S.W., 1 July, 1889; educ. The Old Ride, Bournemouth and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Rifle Brigade, 20 April, 1910; promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1911, and Capt. 15 Dec. 1914; was appointed machine gun officer in May, 1913; went to France, 5 Sept. 1914, and died in Bailleul Hospital, 25 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action in the trenches near Armentières on the 10th, while making an emplacement for one of his machine guns; unm. Buried at Bailleul. Capt. Osborne was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 23 June, 1915. He was a member of the Army Revolver Thirty in 1912, and won several cups and prizes in the All-Ireland Rifle Meeting of 1912 and 1913, both individually and in the Regimental Officers’ Team, and in 1911 he won the Regimental Heavyweight Point-to-Point, on his own horse Chance.

OSBORNE, WILLIAM JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, eldest s. of John Hall Osborne, of Summer Court, Queen’s Walk, Ealing, formerly of China, by his wife, Jane Jenkinson, dau. of Capt. John Whittle; b. Tientsin, China, 9 Nov. 1891; educ. St. Edmunds, Canterbury, and in Germany for some months, and after spending two years in the office of a Chartered Accountant, entered his father’s office in London, and was to have taken up an appointment in China in Oct. 1914. At school he was a member of the O.T.C., and during his subsequent residence in London joined the H.A.C., but had resigned some time before war was declared. He enlisted in the 18th Battn. (1st Public School) Royal Fusiliers, 11 Sept. 1914, and was given a commission, 24 Nov., and posted to the 9th (Service) Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers with which regt. he left England in July. On 6 Aug. they landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. He was wounded the following morning in an attack on Hill 10, and died of his wounds two days later (9th) on board the Hospital Ship Sudan. His company commander (Capt. Milnes), writing from Alexandria, said: “The men who are back here wounded, all say how very well he did during the landing. He was an excellent officer who looked after his men, often at the expense of himself, and no work was too big for him. He never left anything unfinished. He was a good friend and my right hand platoon officer.” A brother officer who picked him up, and had him carried off the field, said he was quite cheerful though very weak, and only anxious about his men and his brother (Lieut. L. H. Osborne, who was killed there the same day, see his notice). 2nd Lieut. Osborne was conspicuous at school as an athlete, especially in hockey and football, and was always deeply interested in natural history, especially in birds; in fact, sports of all kinds appealed to him very strongly. He was a member of the Wild Fowlers’ Association and of the True Waltonian Society.

O’SHEA, MICHAEL JOHN, Private, No. 5111, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, s. of Patrick O’Shea, of 70, Ethel Street, Cardiff, Labourer, by his wife, Mary; b. Cardiff, 3 Jan. 1897; educ. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, Canton, Cardiff; enlisted 1 Nov. 1913; went to France 21 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée 21 Dec. following. His company officer, Capt. Ford, wrote highly of him, and added he “was buried beside a shrine, and his grave is beautifully turfed and has a cross with his name on it.”

OSMOND, ERNEST HERBERT, Pensioner, Blacksmith, 340821, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

OSMOND, HAROLD COOMBS, Cook’s Mate M. 5542, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

O’SULLIVAN, ARTHUR MOORE, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, only s. of the late Patrick O’Sullivan, Advocate-General, Madras Presidency, by his wife, Sydney Jane (Auburn, Greystones, co. Wicklow), dau. of William Daniel Moore, M.D.; b. Ootacamund, India, 19 Aug. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Hertford College, Oxford; enlisted in the Oxfordshire L.I. in 1900; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Irish Rifles, 23 July, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1906; Capt. 11 March, 1910; was adjutant of his regiment from 1 Jan. 1910 to 31 Dec. 1912; served in the South African War, 1900–01; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal, April, 1900, to April, 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 1 Oct. 1905 to 22 Nov. 1907; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. Capt. O’Sullivan was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

OTELLIE, WILLIAM GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3678), 196618, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

OTTLEY, GEOFFREY CLAUDE LANGDALE, D.S.O., Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, only child of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Langdale Ottley, of 17, Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W., and Coruanan, Fort William, Inverness-shire, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., by his wife, Kathleen Margaret, dau. of Col. Alexander Stewart, R.A., and grandson of the Rev. Lawrence Ottley, Canon of Ripon; b. Southsea, co. Hants, 20 Jan. 1896; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Scots Guards, 1 Oct. 1914; promoted Lieut. 10 Dec. (ante-dated to 9 Nov.); went to France, 7 Nov., and died in the Australian Voluntary Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne, 21 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action while leading an attack on the enemy’s trenches on the 18th. Lieut. Ottley was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry and good reconnaissance work.

OUSLEY, GEORGE, Leading Seaman, 230179, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

OWEN, ALFRED FREDERICK, Petty Officer (N.S.), 204497, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

OWEN, CHARLES, L.-Corpl., No. 7668, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 23 Aug. 1914.

OWEN, CHARLES, Private, No. 9004, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 1 Jan. 1915.

OWEN, CHARLES, Private, No. 10022, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Bushey, co. Renfrew; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 16–18 May, 1915. Buried near Richebourg St. Vaast, in front of Dead Cow Farm; m.

OWEN, EDWARD REID, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 107833, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

OWEN, ERNEST HADDON, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., attd. 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of William Haddon Owen, of Louth, co. Lincoln, formerly of Little Grimsby Hall, co. Lincoln, Solicitor, by his wife, Elizabeth Vincent, dau. of Charles Leftwich Oldfeld Bartlett, of Burton House, Sherborne; b. Louth, 4 Feb. 1886; educ. Llandaff Cathedral School, Stancliffe Hall Preparatory, and Haileybury, where he was in the College Cadet Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th (Militia) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 15 Oct. 1904; later transferring to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn., and was promoted Lieut. 8 May, 1911, and was Musketry Instructor; left the Army in 1912; was admitted a Solicitor in 1909, joining the firm of Haddon Owen & Son, of Louth. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his old regt., 15 Aug. 1914, with the rank of 2nd Lieut., and was gazetted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1914; went to France, 12 Nov., being attd. to the South Wales Borderers, and was killed in action at Festubert, 21 Dec. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed leading his men into the trenches, and was shot in the head when only three or four yards off them. He was slightly wounded in the neck a short time before, but gallantly led his men on”; and a brother subaltern: “Your son was in the leading company. We had to drive the Germans from the trenches which the Indians had lost the day previously. You will be glad to hear we got those trenches. He was most brave in the advance, and those of us who saw him advance could not help but note his coolness and unconcern.”

OWEN, FRANK JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I., 12974 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1437), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

OWEN, GEORGE WEBSTER, Capt., 1/10th Battn. The Manchester Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Thomas Owen, of The Pollards, Penketh, near Warrington; b. Eccleston, co. Lancaster, 27 July, 1882; educ. Warrington Grammar School, and Manchester University (where he was in the O.T.C.), and later was a Yarn Agent in Manchester. He joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Manchester Regt. in 1899; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., in the 10th Battn. Manchester Territorials, ... April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 15 March, 1912, and Capt. 31 Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 6 June, 1915, during the attack on Krithia. Lieut.-Col. J. B. Rye wrote: “He was with his company, which had been attd. to the Royal Fusiliers, and during the three days’ hard fighting had made quite a name for himself, by the leading of his men and the example he set them, and it was whilst taking them on to recapture a Turkish trench that he was killed. Please accept the most sincere sympathy of myself and all the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of his Battn. in your great loss. We have lost a cheerful and popular comrade.” Capt. Owen m. at Unnston, co. Lincoln, 20 July, 1910, Ruth Mary (Glentworth, Ramillies Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire), dau. of S. W. Cocks, of Unnston; s.p.

OWEN, HUGH, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd Battn. The Border Regt., yr. s. of Sol Owen, of Odessa, Russia, Merchant, by his wife, Elizabeth dau. of William Rees; b. Sevastopol, Crimea, 30 May, 1890; educ. Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Cranbrook (1901–7); Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne (1907–10); and Durham University, where he obtained his degree of B.Sc. While at Cranbrook he was in the Cadet Corps, attd. 2nd Volunteer Battn. The Buffs, East Kent Regt., and at Durham University was a Corpl. in the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Border Regt., 21 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 8 April, 1915; went to the Front, 13 Nov. 1914; was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; returned to duty on 6 April, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm.

OWEN, NORMAN MOORE, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, yr. s. of the Rev. Octavius Edward Owen, Rector of Over Wallop, co. Hants, formerly Lieut. Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife, Ella Jane, yr. dau. of Col. John Patrick Briggs, of Strathairly, Fife, late Indian Army, b. Flempton Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, 16 Dec. 1893; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham, and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 18 July, 1913; went to France 18 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914; unm. Buried at Chassemy, France.

OWEN, THOMAS, Private, No. G./1234 (8th Service) Battn. Royal Fusiliers; served with the Expeditionary Force in France etc.; died 29 July, 1915, of wounds received in action.

OXENBRIDGE, GEORGE HERBERT, Private, No. 3644, 2/4th Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Edward Oxenbridge, Private, Royal Sussex Regt. (now serving in Egypt), by his wife, Eliza Annie (33, Shelly Cottage, Denny Bottom, Tunbridge Wells); b. Tunbridge Wells, 26 April, 1897; educ. Rusthall and Church of England Schools there; enlisted 21 Dec. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915, while acting as a stretcher-bearer, and was buried at Anafarta Plain. An officer of his platoon wrote: “It was on 22 Aug., a man was wounded outside the trench; your son went out after him to bring him in, and was shot dead. I was sorry indeed, as he was a very good soldier, cheerful and very willing, also a general favourite amongst his fellow comrades. He did a very brave act, and I am very sorry indeed to lose him”; and a comrade: “We were in some heavy fighting that day and chaps were shot down anyhow, and one Welsh boy was severely wounded and laid out in front of our lines, and as they asked for volunteers to fetch him in, Pat, who was a stretcher-bearer, volunteered and was shot before he got to the chap; it was a very brave deed and deserved the D.C.M. All our company miss him very much.”

OZANNE, EDWARD GRAEME, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, of Le Platon, Guernsey, Bailiff of Guernsey, by his wife, Frances; b. Guernsey, 5 April, 1883; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 23 April, 1912; served in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, and in those of the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, Feb.-31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 18 Jan. to 14 Feb. 1915; and was killed in action in trenches at Ypres on the latter date. Buried in the Ramparts there. He m. at Bombay, India, 17 Oct. 1913, Aline (52, Lower Sloane Street, S.W.), dau. of the late Lieut.-General Josias Gordon Cloete, Indian Army; s.p.

PACKER, REGINALD CHARLES, Sergt., No. 53, A Squadron, Essex Yeomanry (T.F.), s. of the late Handal Henrico Packer, Architect and Surveyor, Proprietor of Angel Hotel, Wellingboro’, and subsequently of the Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt, by his wife, Emily Mary Jane (Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt), dau. of (—) Hobbs, of Stroud, Glos.; b. Wellingborough, 5 Dec. 1888; educ. Wellingborough and Eye Grammar Schools; worked with his father until his death in 1909, and subsequently managed the Cliff Hotel, Dovercourt, for his mother; joined the Essex Yeomanry in 1908; was promoted Sergt. in 1912 for work in connection with regimental signalling, and was in charge of the signallers of the regt.; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war; went to France 29 Nov. 1914; was selected in Jan. for a special signalling course, with about 50 others, from which he passed out No. 11, and died in Hazebrouck Military Hospital, 19 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 13th. Buried in Hazebrouck Cemetery. Capt. Parker, of the Essex Yeomanry, wrote: “I can a little realise your loss, for I have been learning signalling lately and have seen a good deal of him, and have learnt what a charming fellow he was. As you probably know he was a signaller of exceptional ability and in that way alone he was a serious loss to the regt. But apart from that he has become a very good soldier and his troop officer during the last two months has been continuous in his praise of the work he has done. He is a sad loss to the Squadron, and was very popular with all and we shall miss him sadly.” He m. at Ufford, co. Suffolk, 28 Nov. 1914, Marion (2, Station Road, Dovercourt), elder dau. of the late Quartermaster-Sergt. George Thomas Rushton-Rudd, of the Essex Regt.; s.p.

PADDAY, WILLIAM HAMILTON, Capt., 36th, attd. 47th Sikhs, Indian Army, yr. s. of the late Col. Arthur Charles Padday, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, by his wife, Alice Hamilton (30, Orsett Terrace, Hyde Park W.), dau. of the late Thomas Campbell Foster, Q.C., Bencher of the Middle Temple, and Recorder of Warwick; b. Stoke Devonport, 21 Sept. 1881; educ. Bath College (where he was a prominent member of the football XV in 1898); and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1900–01); gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.) Indian Army, 8 Jan. 1901; served his first year with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. then in the Punjab; was gazetted to the 36th Sikhs, 7 April, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 8 April, 1903, and Capt. 20 July, 1911; was for some time attd. to the Military Police in Assam, but rejoined his regt. in 1910. Home on leave when the European War broke out, he was for a short time attd. to the 8th Service Battn. West Riding Regt. at Belton Camp, but early in Nov. joined the 47th Sikhs in France, and was serving with that regt. when he was killed in action near Givenchy, 21 Dec. 1914; unm. His Col. wrote that he “died a most gallant death gallantly performing a difficult task”; and an officer who was in the trenches with him: “His coolness and great personal bravery alone commanded admiration, and his unfailing cheerfulness under any circumstances.” And another: “When we had reached the bit of trench we had been told to retake, the Germans were found to be in each end of it with machine guns. On previous occasions it had been found that the most effective method of turning the enemy out of such positions was for parties of bomb-throwers to creep up to the part occupied by the Germans, and by throwing bombs amongst them, drive them out bit by bit. Your son was in charge of our regimental party of bomb-throwers, whom he had personally trained, and he went off with the party to try and dislodge the Germans. A Sepoy who was with him says that he had thrown two bombs and was preparing a third, when he was shot at close range through the head.... Owing to the heavy fire the Germans opened on the party it was quite impossible to remove the body. The party had to make their way back, and just then a retirement was ordered and the trench was evacuated. The subsequent counter-attack, in which the regt. did not participate, did not reach that trench at all, so it was never possible to recover the bodies of those who had died there.” He was a keen sportsman, fond of shooting, fishing and yachting. He was Hon. Secretary of both the Lucknow and Naini Tal Yacht Clubs, and won several cups when racing in the latter club.

PADDOCK, GEORGE WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109803, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

PADDY, ALFRED, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10197), S.S. 2639, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAGE, ALBERT, Private, No. 7345, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late William Page, by his wife, Jane (12, Andover Road, Hornsey Road, Holloway), dau. of William Finch; b. Highgate, 27 Nov. 1887; educ. St. Mary’s School there; enlisted 12 July, 1907; served three years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve, and worked as a Carman; was mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action 30 Oct. following; unm. Buried in Rentel Woods. His brother, Private Frederick Page, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., was killed in action, 10–14 March, 1915, and his two other brothers are now (1916) on active service.

PAGE, ALFRED, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8840), 198471, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PAGE, DAVID, Gunner, R.M.A., 10386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAGE, FREDERICK, Private, No. 11334, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of the late William Page, by his wife, Jane (12, Andover Road, Hornsey Road, Holloway), dau. of William Finch; b. 4 May, 1889; educ. Arkley School, Barnet; enlisted 15 Oct. 1906; served seven years with the Colours (including five years in India), then became a Carman with Carter Patersons; mobilised Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept., was wounded 15 Oct. (the same month his brother, Private Albert Page, was killed, see his notice), and invalided home; returned to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action between 10–14 March, 1915; unm.

PAGE, JOHN, Petty Officer (T.), 194013, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAGE, THOMAS, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., A. 589), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAGE, WILLIAM THOMAS, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7537), 291867, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAGE, WILLIAM WILLIE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9632), S.S. 2347, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAGET, GEORGE GODFREY BRANDRETH, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only child of Charles Edward Paget, of Great Houghton House, near Northampton, by his wife, Ethel Pilkington, dau. of the late Rev. Canon William Harper Brandreth, Rector of Standish, Lancs.; and gdson. of the late Sir George Edward Paget, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.S.; b. North Bentcliffe, Eccles, co. Lancaster, 6 April, 1891; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne (1901–05), and Charterhouse (1905–08); joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. of the Northamptonshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut., 29 April, 1908, and was promoted Lieut. in the Special Reserve, 26 July, 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 1st Battn., 14 Aug. 1914, having crossed with it to France on the 12th; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. “His Coy. were attacking under a very heavy shell fire and rifle fire also,” wrote Lieut. Farrer. “They had just halted in a bit of a dip, where they were out of rifle fire; he moved forward to see if they could go on, when he was hit. The men of his Platoon say he didn’t seem to mind the lead that was flying round, and was urging them on all the time.” The Adjutant, Capt. Lloyd, also wrote: “You know he died doing his duty, and that his name will be handed down to posterity, amongst the others of the Regt., as being one who assisted to uphold the glorious traditions of our Regt., and who emulated the deeds of times gone by.” His body was not recovered, but was seen on 17 Sept. about 40–50 yards from the German trench, when a Coldstream officer succeeded in getting some letters out of his pocket by which his body was identified. The body was lying about 300 yards in front of our trenches.

PAINE, CHARLES PERCIVAL, Corpl., No. 554, Army Service Corps. (Motor Transport Section), s. of Charles Paine, Master Tailor, by his wife, Emma; b. Old Kent Road, E., 19 May, 1876; educ. Dulwich; joined the 22nd Middlesex Volunteers about 1894; attaining the rank of Sergt.; served in the South African War, 1899–1900, with the C.I.V. Mounted Infantry (Queen’s medal with three clasps); joined the Motor Transport Special Reserve in Oct. 1912; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force on the 6th; was promoted Corpl. in Dec. for valuable services rendered in the field, and died in No. 10 Military Hospital, St. Omer, 17 Feb. 1915, from cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the Cemetery of Remembrance there. He m. at the Baptist Church, Attleborough, 17 Sept. 1901, Harriet Jane (52, Thorpebank Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), eldest dau. of Francis (and Harriet) Smith-Newby, of Attleborough, co. Norfolk, and had four children: Francis Percival, b. 11 Oct. 1902; Charles George, b. 21 Oct. 1905; Geoffrey Herbert, b. 24 Feb. 1908; and Evelyn Hattie, b. 16 Feb. 1904.

PAINE, CHARLES WILLIAM STANLEY, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., eldest s. of William Henry Paine, of Derwent House, Canterbury, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Buss; b. Canterbury, 22 Dec. 1876; educ. Tonbridge (The School House, 1891–95); and on leaving there qualified as an Electrical Engineer. After being some time in Queensland, he went to South Africa, and took part with the Border Police in putting down the native rising in Bechuanaland. When the South African War broke out he was in England. He volunteered and went out with the Electrical Engineers, serving later with Steinecker’s Horse, and receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. At the end of the war he returned to England, and was for some time once more at the electrical power station in the Isle of Thanet. In May, 1905, he returned to South Africa, and cleared and farmed a large tract of land in Mashonaland. Towards the end of 1909 he returned to England, and was farming in Hampshire when war began. The day after war was declared he left home to serve with the Legion of Frontiersmen, but after three months of duty at Southampton, finding that the Legion had little chance of being sent to the Front, he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.N.D., 19 Nov. 1914. He was promoted Lieut., R.M. attd. R.N.D., 23 Nov., and Capt., R.M., on 8 Dec. 1914. He went out to the Dardanelles in May with the Benbow Battn. of the R.N.D., and was in action almost immediately. On the disbanding of the Benbow Battn. he was transferred to the Hood Battn., and was instantaneously killed in action, 17 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper while attempting to get help for a wounded man. He was buried in the trench—Ferril Gap, where he fell. “He was,” wrote one who knew him well, “a thorough sportsman, a man of unfailing courage and cheerfulness, equally ready to share his purse and his last meal, not only with friends, but with anyone who seemed in need of either. No one has ever more cheerfully and unassumingly lived the golden rule than he, as scores of men down on their luck, and many a tired animal too, could testify.” He had a distinct literary and poetical bent, and published, as a rule, anonymously, a good many things, mostly short stories, both in English and in Rhodesian magazines. Two of his short poems, one entitled “The Dead,” appeared in the “Westminster Gazette” in 1915. He m. at St. George’s Cathedral, Capetown, 24 Aug. 1908, Lilian Josephine (Barnfield, Medstead, Hants), 2nd dau. of the late Joseph Naylor, of Hull, and had three children: Geoffrey William Wright Halden, b. Umbali, Rhodesia, 27 Aug. 1909; Catherine Mary, b. 27 Dec. 1910; and Josephine Halden, b. 8 Feb. 1914.

PAINE, SYDNEY WILLIAM, 2nd Lieut., 1st Divisional Field Coy. New Zealand Engineers, only s. of William John Paine, of Ashton Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Accountant, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Shadrick Moordaff; b. Auckland, 9 April, 1891; educ. Maungakaramea County School, Wellesley Street City School, and Auckland Grammar School; joined the New Zealand Engineers (Volunteers) in 1906, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in No. 3 (Auckland) Coy. 21 Feb. 1911; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the Expeditionary Force as a Sapper, but was shortly afterwards given a commission, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 20 May, 1915; unm. Buried there. Lieut.-Col. Pridham wrote: “It may be some consolation to you to know that he had done wonderfully good work ever since he landed here, and the loss to the Engineers will be very severely felt. He was absolutely trusted by the men under him and was, I think, the most unconcerned under fire of us all. He died on duty, reconnoitring for a fresh advance against the enemy”; and Capt. W. Limm: “Your son was with me—I knew him really well, and he was a personal friend of mine and was a splendid chap. I cannot tell you all I know of him in a letter, but you can be very proud of him.” Sapper F. Leyland also wrote: “We got a shock last night, for we lost our section officer, Lieut. S. W. Paine. He was the best officer we had, and I had known him for years. He was at the Grammar School when I was, and was in the same company of Engineers as I was in Auckland. A finer chap I never met—his first thoughts were always for the men, and he always mixed up with them. Just before he was shot he was laughing and joking with us. When the news came down that he was shot and had rolled down the gully, we rushed up to get him, but by the time we found him he was dead. We feel lost without him, and are feeling pretty miserable.” He was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Bronze Medal for saving a comrade from drowning at Fort Cantley, and was congratulated by Col. Wolffe on being the first Territorial in camp to receive it.

PAINE, THOMAS HARRY, Leading Telegraphist, 239741, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAINTIN, SHAYLER, Sergt., No. 9784, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, yst. s. of the late Joseph Paintin, of West End, Witney, Carpenter, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of J. Mann, of Witney; b. Witney, co. Oxon, 5 April, 1885; educ. Wesleyan Higher Grade School there; was a Grocer; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 17 Sept. 1906; went to India with the 1st Battn. in 1909; served there until the outbreak of war; returned to England, Nov. 1914; went to France the following month, and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 12 May, 1915; unm. His Coy. Sergt.-Major wrote: “He was highly respected by the officers, N.C.Os. and men, and a better soldier never wore the uniform. He died like a good British soldier in the trench not far from the machine gun he was in charge of. We buried him in the Bellewarde Wood, near the village of Hooge, about 4 kilometres from the now ruined city of Ypres.” Sergt. Paintin was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot, and at the Royal Scots Rifle Meeting he won the championship medal, India, 1912; he was in C Coy. hockey team, which won the Meay Ahmed Hockey Cup, 1911–12, and at the Royal Scots Rifle Meeting he won third prize, aggregate, 1914.

PAKENHAM, CHARLES JOHN WINGFIELD, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., s. of Major Charles Pakenham, of Headon Hall, Alum Bay, I.W., late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers [gdson. of the Hon. Sir Thomas Pakenham, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, 3rd s. of Thomas, 1st Earl of Longford], by his 2nd wife, Gertrude Edith Mary, yst. dau. of William Wingfield; b. Northam, near Bideford, co. Devon, 25 April, 1892; educ. Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Victoria College, Jersey; joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Hampshire Regt., in Aug. 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn., then at Mhow, India, 21 Jan. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. following; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there three days later (28 April); unm.

PAKENHAM, ROBERT EDWARD MICHAEL, Capt., 2nd Battn. Munster Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Major Charles Pakenham, of Headon Hall, Alum Bay, I.W., late 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers and Royal Irish Fusiliers [gdson. of the Hon. Sir Thomas Pakenham, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, 3rd s. of Thomas, 1st Earl of Longford], by his wife, Emily Blanche, dau. of Charles Hercules Harrison, of Singapore; b. Armagh, 27 July, 1874; educ. Lausanne House, Worthing, and United Service College, Westward Ho!; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 March, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1898, and Capt. 1 May, 1902; served (1) in the South African War, 1899–1900, 1902; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including action at Belmont; operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900, and those in Orange River Colony, May to June, 1900 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died in the Military Hospital, Boulogne, 17 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action. He m., 12 Sept. 1900, Nancye (Ballinacurragh, co. Cork), 2nd dau. of William Fowler, of Broadlands Park, Liverpool, and had three children: Ivo Robert Lygon, b. 4 Dec. 1903; Osmund Edward Michael, b. 20 April, 1905, d. 13 April 1906; and Emilie Estelle Rosemary, b. 4 Feb. 1907. His yr. brother, Lieut. C. J. W. Pakenham, was killed in the Dardanelles (see his notice).

PAKENHAM, WILLIAM HENRY, L.-Corpl., No. 7765, 2nd Battn. Connaught Rangers, only s. of the late Henry Pakenham, by his wife. Maria; b. Granard, co. Longford, 4 June, 1885; enlisted 5 March, 1903; served eight years in India; went to France 13 Aug. 1914, and died in the Military Hospital, Colchester, 26 Feb. 1915, from a shrapnel wound in the right shoulder received in action near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Culmore, co. Londonderry, 20 Jan. 1914, Caroline (Burgage, Blessington, co. Wicklow), dau. of Michael Bryant, of Tallamore, King’s Co., and had a dau., Violet Charlotte, b. 5 Oct. 1914.

PALIN, ARCHIBALD EDWIN (“Blue”), Private, No. 938, 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, foster child of Mrs. Ann Charman; b. Dorking, Surrey, 7 Jan. 1872; educ. Dorking National Schools; afterwards going to Australia; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 3 May, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “He proved himself thoroughly brave and courageous in action and always put his duty before personal safety. He did invaluable work in his capacity as a scout and set a great example to the other men by his coolness under heavy fire.”

PALLANT, HERBERT, Sergt., No. 7001, 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, s. of Harry Pallant, Ipswich, employee on the Ipswich Corporation Tramways Co., by his 1st wife; b. Ash Bocking, co. Suffolk, 14 May, 1879; educ. Ipswich; enlisted 5 Oct. 1898; became L.-Corpl. 1 May, 1900; Corpl. 1 Feb. 1901, and Sergt. 28 Feb. 1904; served in Malta, Crete and South Africa (Queen’s medal with four clasps); was seven years with the Colours and five with the Reserve, at the end of which time he again signed on for four years, during which period he was employed as a Postman at the G.P.O.; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France on the 30th, and was killed in action at Messines, 2 Nov. following. Buried on the Eastern Edge of Ploegsteert Wood. Qrmr.-Sergt. Clague, 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, wrote: “I did not know Sergt. Pallant previous to his joining the company on active service, but what I saw of him convinced me that he had no fear and died a glorious death, he was always willing to do any duty he was called upon to do, and was a great help to the officers of company when any trying work was to be carried out. He was liked very much by the men of his platoon and they miss him very much now.” He m. at Ipswich, 3 June, 1906, Helen (38, Newton Street, St. Helen’s, Ipswich), dau. of the late William (and Elizabeth) Cunningham, and had a son, Herbert, b. 4 Aug. 1907.

PALMER, FREDERICK ERNEST, A.B., 236457 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PALMER, GEORGE, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 22186, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

PALMER, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1317), 197816, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PALMER, GEORGE EDWARD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PALMER, JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A., 12655, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PALMER, JOHN JOSEPH, 2nd Writer, 346138, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PALMER, MAURICE WESTON, L.-Corpl., No. 1104, 5th Battn., Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Attwell Lynch Palmer, of Pentney, Swaffham, co. Norfolk, Engineer, by his wife, Frances, dau. of William Daniel Weston, of the Lenwades, Moulton, near Newmarket; b. Letcham, Swaffham, 4 July, 1894; educ. Grammar School, Swaffham; went to Australia in Dec. 1913; was a 1st Class Steward in the Orient S.S. Co.; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war and joined the 5th Battn., A.I.F., in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt in Dec; went to the Dardanelles in June, 1915, and was killed in action there, 20 July following; unm.

PALMER, PERCY VICTOR, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9038), No. 206273, R.N., s. of William Palmer, of Towersey, near Thame, co. Oxford, by his wife, Harriett, dau. of John Rumble, of Norfolk; b. Kensington Gore, W., 12 Jan. 1883; educ. St. Barnabas’ Church School, Pimlico, and was a chorister at St. John’s, Wilton Road; entered Navy, 1899, and was lost on board H.M.S. Cressy when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm. For services rendered during the Messina earthquake, while serving in H.M.S. Euryalus, he received a letter of thanks from the King of Italy, and was awarded the Messina silver medal. Palmer was also at Martinique when that earthquake happened.

PALMER, RONALD WILLIAM POULTON, B.A. Oxon, Lieut., 4th Battn. Berkshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Edward Bagnall Poulton, D.Sc., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology, Oxford University, and Fellow of Jesus College, by his wife, Emily, eldest dau. of the late George Palmer (of Huntley & Palmer, Ltd.), some time M.P. for Reading, and nephew of the late Right Hon. George William Palmer, also at one time M.P. for Reading, and of the late Sir Walter Palmer, Bart., M.P. for Salisbury; b. Oxford, 12 Sept. 1889; educ. Oxford Preparatory School, Rugby (School House), and Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated with an exhibition in 1908; took 2nd Class Honours in the Final Honour School of Natural Science (Engineering), and graduated B.A. 1911. On leaving Oxford he entered Huntley & Palmer’s factory in Jan. 1912, to qualify himself for a Directorship, and after 18 months there, went to Manchester and continued his engineering studies in Mather & Platt’s, attending courses at the Municipal School of Technology. On the death of the Right Hon. G. W. Palmer, in Oct. 1913, he became the heir and, had he lived, would have succeeded his uncle in the Marlston Estates, and by the terms of the will he took the name of Palmer. At Oxford he had served with the O.T.C. from 4 Dec. 1908 to 29 Dec. 1911, and on going to Reading was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., in the Berkshire Territorials, 30 April, 1912; and on the outbreak of war volunteered with his Battn. for foreign service, and was promoted Lieut. He went to the Front at the end of March, and was killed by a stray bullet, or by a sniper, at 12.20 a.m., 5 [not 4] May, 1915, while superintending work on the trenches in front of Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium. He was buried in the wood, close to “Hyde Park Corner”; unm. Col. O. P. Serocold wrote: “He was killed instantaneously, while on duty in the trenches, about 12.20 a.m. this morning, and as it was quite dark at the time, and before the moon rose, we think it must have been an unaimed chance bullet which struck him. Naturally Ronald was the most beloved and popular officer with all ranks, and one of those whom we could least spare. I shall miss him sorely, as he was a most trustworthy and capable officer, and would have gone high in soldiering, had he been spared”; and Capt. Thorne: “Ronald was engaged on work of trench repair, in company with Sergt. Brant, and was hit by an enemy sniper at 12.20 a.m. Death, mercifully, must have been instantaneous. This I am sure of, as I reached him a moment after he was shot; he never spoke or moved again, and the Doctor, who shortly after arrived, is of the same opinion. Sergt. Brant did everything that could be done, but it was obviously all in vain. I cannot express what we feel about it, men and all were devoted to him, and there is not one of us who would not have cheerfully exchanged our lives for his. He never shirked a job, whatever the risk was, and he fell, as he would have liked to do, in the execution of his duty. The regt. has lost one it could ill afford.” Lieut. O. B. Challenor also wrote: “He was our company works manager, i.e., he looked after the trench, and found out what work on the parapet or elsewhere was necessary for the safety of the men. He was shot at 12.20 a.m. to-day, 5 May. It was a foggy night, and he was on the roof of a dug-out, looking at work that had been done, when a stray shot, which I think was a ricochet off our wire in front of the trench, hit him. It entered his right side, just below the armpit; death was instantaneous.” He was a noted Rugby International, and captained the English Team which won all the International matches in the season before the war. The “Times” said: “By the death of Lieut. Poulton Palmer Rugby football has lost one of its most brilliant exponents. As a three-quarter back—he could play either in the centre or on the wing—his name will go down to posterity as probably the greatest player of all time. He was decidedly of the unorthodox type, and, although he had many imitators, was unequalled in his distinctive style and opportunism. The strongest points of his game were his resolute running and wonderful swerve. At the beginning of his career he was rather weak in his tackling, but this weakness was remedied by experience. As a captain he was a born leader; he was never flurried, and was always seen at his best when the score was against his side. Like all great players, he had his off days, but he was just the man to win games by his individual flashes of brilliance, and no English side could have been considered at full strength without him. Between the seasons of 1909 and 1914 he gained 17 International caps—five against Scotland, four against Ireland, four against Wales, three against France, and one against South Africa. He failed to get his Blue at Oxford as a Freshman in 1908, when the three-quarter line consisted of four old Blues and International players—H. H. Vassall, F. N. Tarr, C. M. Gilray, and H. Martin but in the following year, when Oxford beat Cambridge by four goals and five tries to one try, he scored five tries—the other four being gained by Martin. In 1910 and 1911 he was also on the winning side, and was captain in the latter year, he also did splendid service for the Harlequins, and it was in a large degree due to him that the three-quarter line reached its high standard of excellence. In addition to his skill as a Rugby football player he was a fine exponent at hockey, and he played against Cambridge in 1909, 1910, and 1911.” Early in his school days at Rugby he began to feel that love for work in boys’ clubs which was to become the chief among his many interests. It was further developed at Oxford in the Balliol Boys’ Club, in the Rugby School Mission and by contact with kindred spirits of whom the brightest have, with him, given their lives for their country. When in 1912 he went to Reading, with all his strenuous work at the Factory, he found time to help in the management of a Boys’ Club in the parish of St. John’s, and in Manchester he gave time and thought to the same absorbing interest. His friends have felt that to write of him, as many of the papers did. as a football player and nothing else, was to give an entirely false impression of the man, and to miss what to him was the paramount duty as well as the keenest pleasure of life.

PALMER, SAMUEL EDWARD, Private, No. 3234, Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Owen Palmer, of Durgates, Wadhurst, Gardener, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Manktelow, of Woods Green, Wadhurst; b. Wadhurst, co. Sussex, 12 Jan. 1895; educ. Boys’ School there; was employed by Miss Olvir, Durgate’s Farm, Wadhurst, Farm Hand; joined the Church Lads’ Brigade, and became a member of the Wadhurst Fire Brigade; joined the 5th Sussex, 22 Feb. 1915; left Woolwich for France, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action 2 Jan. 1916, by the bursting of a German shell, while on duty with a fatigue party; unm.

PALMES, GUY NICHOLAS, Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 4th s. of the Rev. George Palmes, Vicar of Naburn, Squire and Lord of the Manor of Naburn, by his wife, Eva Blanche, yr. dau. of Henry Dalbiac, of Holbrook Park, Sussex; b. Naburn Hall, co. York. 14 July, 1894; educ. Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and on leaving there was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the K.O.Y.L.I. 1 Oct. 1914, and promoted Lieut. Nov. following; went to France, Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm.

PANNELL, WILLIAM FRANCIS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4661), 307771, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PANTLAND, ROBERT WILLIAM, Pensioner, Ch. E.R.A., 118003, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

PARAGREEN, FREDERICK ARTHUR, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 41), 10860, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARDOE, HARRY JAMES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26738 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PARFITT, HERBERT EDWARD, No. 725, 2nd Class Air Mechanic, Royal Flying Corps; killed while acting as Pilot to 2nd Lieut. E. W. C. Perry on a B.E. 8 machine at Amiens, 16 Aug. 1914. Buried in the Cemetery at St. Acheuil.

PARHAM, FREDERICK, Leading Stoker, C.G., 286907, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARKE, WALTER EVELYN, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Lawrence Parke, of Moreton Heath, Moreton, co. Dorset, 7th Hampshire Regt., late Durham L.I., by his wife, Evelyn, dau. of the late T. Evans Lees; b. Wimborne, co. Dorset; educ. Swanage (Mr. Pellatt) and Winchester College; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Durham L.I., 16 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. following, while acting as Machine Gun Officer; unm. Buried near Hazebrouck. Lieut. Parke was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915. While at Winchester he was captain of the Cricket XI.

PARKER, ARTHUR, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17068, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARKER, BASIL STEWART, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of the late Rev. George Parker, Rector of Quainton, co. Bucks, and Tickencote, co. Rutland, by his wife, Elizabeth Maria Hislop (47, Sea Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth), dau. of the late John Lorimer, of Edinburgh; b. Oxford, 2 July, 1878; educ. Oxford Preparatory School and Bedford Grammar School. He served through the South African War, first with the Imperial Yeomanry, and afterwards in the Hampshire Regt., to which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 27 July, 1901. He took part in the operations in Cape Colony, North of the Orange River, May, 1900, and in those in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with two clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps, and was promoted Lieut. 20 Aug. 1904, and Capt. 12 June, 1909. From March, 1906–09 he was Adjutant of his Battn., and from 1912–13 held a similar appointment in the Mounted Infantry in South Africa. In 1911, at Harrismith, he was a member of the 2nd M.I. Polo Team which won the Inter-Coy. Polo Cup. When the Dardanelles Expedition was organised the 2nd Hants. formed part of the 29th Division, which did such splendid work, that it became to be known as the “Old Guard of the Army.” He left England with his regt. 20 March, 1915, and took part in the first attack on 25 April. His Coys. W and X, under Major Leigh, landed about 10 a.m. that morning, from boats on W beach, and proceeded to the first ridge and there took up a position, where they stopped practically the whole day covering the other regts. landing. His Commanding Officer writing home on 30 April said: “Basil Parker is going strong, he is doing orderly runner for me as we have not got our horses yet; he did splendidly.” And on 1 May, Capt. Parker wrote: “What we call a quiet day, and only being shelled. It is a glorious day, sitting in the trenches, and a gentle trickle of sand falling on you all the time. We moved yesterday into reserve, but at 4 a.m. were sent back into the firing line. So much for our rest cures out here. This life seems to suit me. I never felt better in my life. Reveille at 4 a.m. and bed at 8 p.m. daily. I drink unlimited tea, no sugar or milk in it, and biscuits; can’t get bread at any price. I am as filthy as I feel, black with dust and exposure. We still wear caps. Isn’t it sad about the Col. and Deane; they were both shot dead, not wounded. I have to write early here as we neither have electric light or candles in this trench, and go to bed and rise with the sun”: and the following day: “We had a vile night, an attack which lasted from 10.30 p.m. to 2 p.m. to-day. As usual we have caught it fairly hot. Leigh and Reid were both killed during the night, and three more subs. were wounded to-day. We were under awful shrapnel fire to-day in the open. I feel a bit more filthy than usual; have not had my clothes or boots off for fourteen days.” He was wounded in the head on 6 May, or as he puts it, “Got myself into trouble yesterday, and got a bullet in my head, or very near it. It came in absolutely in the centre of my cap (was fired from the right), and came out where the top of the cap and the part that fits your head joins. I have had luck, because on its way through it took a piece out of my head like a cheese scoop down to the bone without damaging the skull. I could not at first make out what had happened. I felt a huge bang on the head, as if a polo ball had hit me, and asked the man next me, ‘What on earth is that?’ ‘You’re hit on the head, sir.’ It began to bleed badly, so I went back a little and got it tied up with the dressing you had sewn in my coat. I was hit at noon, but commanded my company till dark.” He was able to rejoin on 3 July, and after being continuously in action since landing, the 2nd Hants were sent to Lemnos for rest and refreshment on 7 July. Here they were joined by fresh drafts and returned to Gallipoli on 28 July, about 900 strong. They remained “on the beach” eight days and then moved up to the front trenches—the intention being to create a diversion in the Southern part of the peninsula whilst a new attack was made at Suvla Bay, six or seven miles to the north. The 2nd Hants were told on the evening of 5 Aug. that they would go up next day, and all were in excellent spirits. Cooks were sent on to prepare food, etc., and at 5.30 a.m. on Aug. 6 the advance began, the force going up the communication trenches, and the distance from the front trench being about three or four miles, and Achi Baba being about three-quarters mile distant. The trenches were close to the village of Krithia and very near the great Gully. By 7 a.m. the 2nd Hants had occupied three lines of trenches, having on their right the 4th Worcesters, and on their left the 1st Essex. The front Turkish trench ran forward at an angle and was about 50 yards distant on the left and 100 yards more on the right. The space between the opposing trenches was swept by gun fire from a distance, as well as from the trenches themselves. It was known that an attack on the Turkish trenches would be made at 4 p.m., and until that time many of the force rested. The General sent up an encouraging message to the Hants saying that this would be the last time he would call upon them to make a great charge. Exactly at 4 p.m. Capt. Parker, who was in command, called out: “Time’s up, my lads,” and those in the first trench immediately leapt out, those in the second at once taking their places and leaping out a minute later, and those in the third doing the same. All were well up in a good deal less then five minutes, and with a cheer they rushed forward. It was a glorious charge, and every one showed splendid courage. The Turks were startled, and took a minute or two—not much more—to get their machine-guns (of which they had one for about every five yards, and which during the bombardment they had hidden in the trenches) into position, so that our men got some way across the open space. Apparently, however, none reached the Turkish trench. All were mown down. Of the second line, a few got across. Of the third line, which had fewer men, more than half got through, and those who were left of the battn. held the trench until they were relieved by the Royal Scots and Royal Fusiliers. A private said positively that the Turks were driven from their front trench which remained in our hands, as perhaps did some others. The open ground was so heavily swept by gun fire that it was impossible to bring in the wounded or the dead, even at night. Some may have crawled in, but the severely wounded must have died. As none could be recovered and identified, they were posted as missing. In the evening of the 6th only 250 out of 900 of the Hants answered their names. It was in this action that Capt. Parker was killed about 4 p.m. He had gone forward out of the trench to direct a portion of the line and was hit by a bullet in the left side; the bullet coming out near the left breast was deflected by his cigarette case and again entered his body and came out on his right side. He died four minutes afterwards with his head resting on the leg of a lieutenant. He was brought back to the dressing station, and buried at 7.10 a.m. on the following morning in C. Communicating trench between the firing line and twelve tree copse. He never spoke after he was hit, and was unconscious until he died. He was carried to his last resting-place by men of the Battn. he had commanded, and in which he was so much liked. A cross made by the Royal Engineers marks the spot. Capt. Parker m. at St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, 5 April, 1913, Kathleen Lambert (“Lausanne,” Leigh Road, Cobham, Surrey), dau. of Lawrence Newman-Walker of Cape Colony, M.D., F.R.C.S., and had a son, Gerald Stewart, b. Indore, Central India, 3 April, 1914.

PARKER, BERTIE CLARENCE, A.B., J. 10893, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARKER, CHARLES WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 12829, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PARKER, CYRIL EDMUND, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, eldest s. of the Hon. Edmund William Parker, of Westfield House, Rugby, by his wife, Fanny Emma, dau. of Capt. William Baldwin, of Dunedin, and grandson of Thomas Augustus, 6th Earl of Macclesfield; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 15 May, 1884; educ. Eton, and on leaving there joined the London Stock Exchange in 1903, where he remained for 10 years; went to British Columbia in 1913, and became a Financial Agent at Vancouver, British Columbia, but on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, immediately proceeded to Vancouver and volunteered for Imperial service. He obtained a commission in the 6th Regt., the Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles, Vancouver, and proceeded to Valcartier with the detachment from that regt. which, with detachments from other regts. from the same province, eventually formed the 1st British Columbia Regt., Canadian Expeditionary Force. Lieut. Parker qualified for the rank of Lieut. while at Valcartier, but owing to there being a surplus of officers in the regt., he could not be placed, all the others being senior to him. He came over with the first contingent in Oct. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 23 Nov. following; went to France in Dec. with a draft for the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Jan. 1915, in an attack on the German trenches; unm.

PARKER, ERNEST ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10532), S.S. 2799, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARKER, FRANK VIRLAND, Chief Petty Officer, 154010, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARKER, FREDERICK JOHN BUSH, Private, No. 13215, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of the Rev. Frederick Talbot Parker, Vicar of Knowle, Bristol, by his wife, Marion Einene, dau. of Edward Thomas, of Bristol, Solicitor; b. Bristol, 14 Aug. 1896; educ. Clifton College; enlisted after the outbreak of war, in Sept. 1914; went to France, April, 1915; and was killed in action at Givenchy, 8 Aug. 1915. Buried in the Guards Cemetery there.

PARKER, FREDERICK NEVILLE, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yst. s. of the late Major-General Neville Fraser Parker, of Craymead, High View Road, Sidcup, co. Kent, Indian Army, by his wife, Emily Annie, dau. of Richard Abbatt; b. Torquay, 8 Nov. 1892; educ. Elizabeth College, Guernsey; volunteered and joined the Artists Rifles on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with them 27 Oct. 1914, was selected for a commission and gazetted 2nd Lieut., K.R.R.C., 3 March, 1915; and was accidentally killed at Bethune, 28 April, following, while in charge of trench mortars; unm. Buried in Bethune Civil Cemetery.

PARKER, HARRY BOTTOMLEY, Ship’s Petty Officer, 307254, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARKER, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5701), 204310, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARKER, JOHN WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3135), S.S. 100777, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARKER, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1024), 145222, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARKER, HARRY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., eldest and only surviving s. of Capt. and Quarter-Master Henry John Porteus Parker, The Worcestershire Regt., by his wife, Kate, dau. of Henry Stubbs; b. Limerick, 25 June, 1889; educ. Army Schools; enlisted in the Worcestershire Regt. in 1903, and at the time war was declared in Aug. 1914 was Sergt., 4th Battn. of that regt., and employed as Assistant Instructor of Signalling; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Hampshire Regt., 7 Nov. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died on the Hospital ship Delta, 30 April, 1915, of wounds received in action on the Gallipoli Peninsula two days previously; unm.

PARKER, ROBERT BURTON, Capt., 2nd, attd. 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of the late Robert Parker, of Cressington Park, Liverpool, Merchant, by his wife, Emma Catherine, dau. of James Rawlence, of Bulbridge House, Wilton, Salisbury; b. Cressington afsd., 3 July, 1879; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and Wellington College; joined the Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry in Feb. 1900, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Northamptonshire Regt. 27 July, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 14 Aug. 1903, and Capt. 14 Feb. 1910; served in the South African War, 1900–2, being attd. to the Army Service Corps, and was mentioned in despatches, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. On his return to England he was adjutant of the Mounted Infantry and in command of Maxim guns at Borden and Longmoor; went to the Depôt in Northampton, 1907–10, and was then Adjutant of the local Territorials there for three years, after which he rejoined his old regt. at Alexandria. On the outbreak of the European War he was on leave in England; exchanging into the 1st Battn. he went to France with the first Division, 12 Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 17 Sept. 1914, while leading his men in an attack on the German trenches; unm. He was buried near the village of Bourg, on the Aisne. His Col. wrote: “He was the most gallant man I ever met, he did not know what fear was. He was greatly loved by all ranks and a most able and energetic officer, always thinking of the comfort of others”; and a Sergt. of his regt.: “We shall never forget him; he was a brave fellow, absolutely fearless, and beloved by his men. It was grand to serve under an officer like him.” During his residence at Northampton, Capt. Parker was a regular follower of the Pytchley Hounds, and his brilliant horsemanship will not readily be forgotten by the members of the hunt.

PARKER, RONALD ELPHINSTONE, Lieut., D Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, yst. s. of Robert Gabbett Parker, of Bally Valley, Killaloe, co. Clare, J. P., by his wife, Louisa, dau. of John C.... Whitty, of Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells; b. Bally Valley, aforesaid, 5 Jan. 1886; educ. The Abbey, Tipperary, and Clifton College; joined the Clare Artillery Militia, 11 Feb. 1905; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Artillery, 25 May, 1907, and posted to the 87th Howitzer Battery; promoted Lieut., 25 May, 1910; went to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Marne, 8 Sept. following. Four guns of D Battery, R.H.A., were supporting the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in the advance to the Marne. The Germans brought back some 12 guns against them, but the battery held its ground, and eventually the enemy drew off. The battery lost its Major, wounded, and both its subalterns, killed. He was unm., and was buried at the Hotel de Bois, Jonarre, Meaux. His brigade commander wrote: “He died like a man, fighting his guns at great odds to the last.” The officer commanding his R.H.A. battery wrote: “He was indefatigable, undaunted even in the darkest moments; his good temper and high spirits were worth anything to us all”; and the officer commanding his R.F.A. battery: “In 20 years I have never met a better subaltern and a keener sportsman, in both of which capacities he won my complete respect and affection, as he did that of every man or horse that came into his care.” Lieut. Parker excelled at all field sports and was a fine horseman and whip.

PARKES, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5224), 203456, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARKES, SAMUEL, Private, No. 13627, 4th Battn. Worcestershire Regt., eldest s. of Private Henry Parkes, of the North Staffordshire Regt. (now on home defence work at Southampton), by his wife, Emily Louisa (21, Reform Street, West Bromwich), dau. of Samuel Southern; b. West Bromwich, 18 Oct. 1897; educ. Christ Church School there; entered the employ of Messrs. Salters at West Bromwich when he was 14; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 4th Worcesters, 7 Aug. 1914, with several others from Salters; served in Malta and Egypt; went to the Dardanelles, 7 July, and was killed in action there, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

PARR, ARTHUR, Leading Stoker, R.F.R., B. 6439, 287527, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

PARR, CECIL, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply./10884, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARR, SYDNEY LANGFORD, L.-Corpl., No. 2845, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt., only s. of Thomas Parr, of 8, Vernon Gardens, Seven Kings, N., by his wife, Caroline; b. Manor Park, East Ham, 8 Jan. 1891; educ. East Ham, Technical College; enlisted, Sept. 1914; went to France, 28 Jan. 1915, and died of wounds at St. Julien, 26 April, 1915.

PARRETT, CHARLES ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R, Ch. B. 8951), 203270, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARRISS, WALTER FREDERICK, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt. (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), yst. s. of the late John William Parriss, of Ardagh, Willesden Lane, N.W.; b. Ardagh afsd., 17 Nov. 1893; educ. Harrow School; joined the H.A.C. on the outbreak of war, 11 Aug. 1914, and served with them with the Expeditionary Force in France from 18 Sept. until he received a commission, 14 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action in Flanders, while holding an advanced trench, 15 March, 1915; unm. Buried at Kemmel. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. Stephenson (since killed), wrote of him: “He was so willing, so ready to do anything, so brave, so keen, that we shall miss him very much, although he has been so short a time with us ... a gallant boy, with all the courage of his race.”

PARRY, ARTHUR CROOSE, Private, No. 2322, Honourable Artillery Company, 3rd s. of William Rowland Parry, of Ladye Grove, near Leominster, and grandson of the late Thomas Croose Parry, of Birley Court, co. Hereford; b. Lye Court, Birley, 16 March, 1888; educ. King’s School, Grantham; joined the H.A.C. after the outbreak of war 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 12 March, 1915; unm. Buried in the Chateau Grounds at Kemmel.

PARRY, JAMES HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2976), S.S. 100333, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARRY, NORMAN CECIL, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., yst. s. of Edward Parry, of Rossmore, Leamington, formerly of Woodthorpe Grange, Nottingham, a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth; b. Nottingham, 19 Sept. 1887; educ. Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he passed the Natural Science Tripos in Honours; afterwards obtaining a Diploma in Mining Engineering at the Sheffield University, and First Class Certificate as a Colliery Manager from the Home Office, and was an Assistant of Mr. Maurice Deacon, M.Inst.C.E., Managing Director of the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Coy. Immediately on the outbreak of war he joined the Army; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug. 1914, and Lieut. to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. 2 Feb. 1915, being afterwards attd. to the 1st Battn.; went to the Front early in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 25 July, 1915, by the bursting of a shell, while he was endeavouring to get his men under cover, during a sudden attack upon his section of the trenches; unm. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Jean, Ypres.

PARSONS, CHARLES FRANCIS, Private, No. 3769 D Coy. 1/7th. Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late William Henry Parsons, by his wife, Sarah (54, Graham Road, Wealdstone, Middlesex), dau. of George Tillay; b. Haggerston, London, 4 May, 1893; educ. Wealdstone; was a Piano Polisher; joined the Middlesex Territorials about 1909; mobilised, 5 Aug. 1914, and volunteered for Imperial Service; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Larbartier, 24 July, 1915; unm.

PARSONS, EDWARD JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3656), 201013, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARSONS, EDWIN STUART THOMAS, Petty Officer (N.S.), 219856, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARSONS, WILLIAM, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 311114, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PARSONS, WILLIAM HARRY, Petty Officer, 1st Class (O.S.), 183802, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PARTRIDGE, CHARLES BURNETT, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., Plymouth Division, eldest surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. Sylvanus Roger Burnett Partridge, of Homecroft, Fleet, Hants, late King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and Governor of His Majesty’s Prison, Portland, by his wife, Mary Bishopp, dau. of Edward Bishopp Dorman, M.D.; b. Anchor Gate Lodge, Portsmouth, 29 May, 1880; educ. Bath College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.M.L.I., 1 Jan. 1899, and promoted Lieut., 1 Jan. 1900, and Capt., 1 Jan. 1910; was Instructor of Musketry at Malta, 26 June, 1906–08, and later Swimming Instructor at the Deal Depôt; served in H.M. ships Mars, Gladiator, Egmont, Melpomene, Hermione, Drake, and Good Hope, and was lost when the last was sunk in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. He had won many prizes for shooting, sailing and golf. He made top score when the Marines won the United Service Cup at Bisley, and held the Marine Jewel. His eldest brother, Lieut. Edward Louis Lort Partridge, died of enteric at Jullundur, aged 20; and another brother, Lieut. Geoffrey Dorman Partridge, 2nd Welsh Regt., was reported missing after the Battle of Ypres, on 3 Nov. 1914—since, presumed officially to have been then killed. The remaining brother, Capt. Richard Evelegh Partridge, Dorset Regt., is now (1916) on active service at the front, as Brigade-Major, 12th Canadian Infantry Brigade, and has received the Military Cross.

PARTRIDGE, GEOFFREY DORMAN, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Sylvanus Roger Burnett Partridge, of Homecroft, Fleet, Hants, late King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and Governor of His Majesty’s Prison, Portland, by his wife, Mary Bishopp, dau. of Edward Bishopp Dorman, M.D.; b. Portsmouth, 24 Dec. 1890; educ. Bath College, United Services College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 11 Oct. 1911, and was promoted Lieut., 1 Nov. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force early in Aug., and was reported missing after the first Battle of Ypres, 3 Nov. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or after that date. He had played Rugby for the Army. His elder brother, Capt. Charles Burnett Partridge, Royal Marine L.I., was killed in action in H.M.S. Good Hope two days previously (see his notice).

PARTRIDGE, THOMAS JOSIAH, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 189739, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PATEMAN, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 9157, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Emily, dau. of George Pateman; b. Little Houghton, near Northampton, 22 Aug. 1890; enlisted 29 June, 1911; went to France in Aug. 1914; was wounded 22 Oct. 1914, and invalided home; returned to the front 7 April, 1915; and was killed in action at Vermelles, 20 May, 1915; unm. The Officer Commanding No. 2 Coy. (the Hon. T. Agar-Robartes) wrote: “A large shell fell on the top of his dug-out where he was resting and he never regained consciousness. He was a most gallant soldier and will be greatly missed”; and Sergt. (now 2nd Lieut.) H. O. Tomkins wrote: “There were four of us in our dug-out in the trenches when a shell came right through the roof, seriously wounding Will in the head, killing a corpl. instantaneously and leaving myself and the other fellow untouched. He was knocked unconscious and died two hours afterwards. He did not even moan when he was hit, so he died painlessly, and was buried in a garden in front of an old Castle at Vermelles, near La Bassée. Vermelles is marked on the map, but the castle itself is one mile to the east of the village. It can easily be traced.”

PATERSON, ALASTAIR FINLAY, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of John Paterson, of Yewbank, Beauly, Ironmonger and Seed and Hay Merchant, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Tinlay Maclennan of Ardnagrask, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire; b. Beauly, co. Inverness, 4 Feb. 1888; educ. Beauly Public School and Inverness High School; joined the 4th Camerons as a Private in 1905, and previous to receiving his commission was considered one of the most efficient non-commissioned officers in D Coy. He went to the Front with his Battn. in Feb. 1915, and received his commission (24 Feb.) shortly after landing. He was wounded early in the charge against the German trenches at Festubert on the night of 17 May, and his brother, L.-Corpl. Paterson (see succeeding notice), was reported missing after the action. His wounds were not at first considered dangerous, but on 5 June he died at No. 2 British Red Cross Hospital, Rouen; unm. He was buried with full military honours in the St. Sevère Cemetery, Rouen. Lieut. Paterson was well known in the north, both as a noted shot and as a shinty player of high repute. He was captain of the Beauly Shinty Club for several years, and led it during the season when it won the Championship Cup. A player of skill, courage and resource, he was a notable figure on the shinty field, and the high place which his club attained was mainly due to his leadership.

PATERSON, DONALD, L.-Corpl., No. 645, 4th Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Paterson, of Yewbank, Beauly, etc. (see preceding notice); b. Beauly, co. Inverness, 20 Dec. 1891; educ. Beauly Public School and Dingwall Academy; enlisted in the 4th Camerons in 1908. An architect by profession, he was at the time war broke out engaged in lands valuation work at Nethy-Bridge, but at once volunteered for foreign service. After the attack on the German trenches at Festubert on the night of 17 May, 1915 (at which his brother, 2nd Lieut. A. F. Paterson was mortally wounded), he was reported missing, but was later officially reported to have been instantaneously killed during the night of 17–18 May. From information received by his parents from L.-Corpl. Ferguson, of the same corps, it appears that Paterson was advancing towards the German trenches with the other members of D Coy., but remained behind to bind up the wounds of the said L.-Corp. Ferguson. Afterwards unable to get into touch with his companions, Paterson returned to Ferguson and remained with him over night. At daybreak he raised himself up to have a look round and endeavour to ascertain their whereabouts. Unfortunately, they were in close proximity to a German trench, and Paterson was shot by a German sniper, dying immediately. This was the second comrade whose wounds Paterson had bound up that night, and truly it may be said that he gave his life to save others. Paterson, who was unm., was piper to the Beauly Coy., a player of much merit and also a composer of Highland music. He was one of the champions of the Beauly Shinty Club, of which his brother, Lieut. Paterson, was captain.

PATERSON, JOHN AGAR, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 2nd s. of William Morison Paterson, of 80, Great Portland Street, W., Manufacturers’ Agent, by his wife, Margaret S., dau. of John Agar; b. Glasgow, 19 Nov. 1893; educ. Dulwich College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Bedfordshire Regt., 17 Sept. 1913; went to France, early Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Klein Zillebeke, 31 Oct. following; unm. Buried there.

PATERSON, JOHN McLELLAN STEWART, M.A., Private, No. 2832, 4th Battn. Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), yr. s. of the Rev. Robert Paterson, M.A., Minister, Savoch U.F. Church, Auchnagatt, co. Aberdeen, by his wife, Agnes Y., dau. of John McLellan, of Burnhouse, Galston; b. Savoch aforesaid, 13 Dec. 1890; educ. there, Ellon H.G. School, Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh University (graduated with honours in English literature, July, 1913), and on leaving there spent several months in France and Germany with a view to qualifying as a journalist; joined the staff of the Aberdeen Free Press, as a Sub-Editor, on his return to England in May, 1914, to which paper he contributed articles, as well as to the Glasgow Herald, and The Student, etc., but, on the outbreak of war in Aug. of that year, he volunteered and joined the Gordon Highlanders in Oct.; went to France, 19 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 22–23 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. Buried there. While at Gordon’s College, Aberdeen, he was one of the originators and joint editor during its first year, of the school magazine, The Gordonian, and contributed articles to it on “An Aberdeenshire Wilderness,” “Bird Life on a Lake,” and “The Night Shore,” etc. At Edinburgh University he was one of the founders, a President, and an Honorary member, of the Edinburgh University English Literature Society; was an office bearer, and member of the Historical Society there, and of the Diagnostic Society, also of the O.T.C., and the Hockey Club. He was a great lover of nature, and was interested in every phase of country life. A writer in the Edinburgh University Magazine, The Student, said: “It was as a student of our University that I came to know him. His ability and attainments as a scholar were of the highest, and it very soon came to be recognised that his opinions were the outcome of a logical and well-informed mind. As such, no matter the topic under discussion, they were sought after and prized, for his outlook went far beyond the confines of his especial branch of literature. Nor was his wide range acquired at the expense of social popularity. I have confidence in saying that no student in my time had a wider circle of friends. I say friends advisedly—not acquaintances. His whole personality radiated friendship, and all who came within the sphere of his magnetic influence were irresistibly drawn to him; having made his acquaintance they immediately became his friends. He took a prominent part in many directions on the social side of our ’Varsity life. He was a member of at least three Societies, of the O.T.C., of the Hockey Club, and, I think, also of the Boat Club. A staunch and trusted member of the Liberal Association, he played his part right manfully in the victories which not infrequently attended that Party in the hotly contested debates in the Union. It is the man, however, as we knew him, that claims our affectionate remembrance and esteem. The multiplicity and yet the wonderful harmony of his moral and intellectual qualities compelled first respect, then admiration, then love. Unassuming in manner, he was loyal to a degree in his friendships. Intellectually the superior of most of us, he was a most delightful and lovable companion, upright in word and deed. He found his highest pleasure in helping others, when necessary, eliminating himself, and foregoing those honours to which his undoubted abilities and the high esteem in which he was held would necessarily have brought him—honours which were, in my time, and no doubt still are, considered the high-water mark of a successful University career. One might say of him without irreverence—he sought not his own. I find it difficult to give adequate expression of my esteem for Stewart Paterson, but in concluding this brief sketch I can at least say this: I have seldom found occasion to respect and esteem a man as I respected and esteemed Stewart Paterson, and however far I still fall short of the high ideal which stands, a beckoning figure, before the spiritual eye of each one of us, I am a better man to-day for having known him.”

PATIENCE, GEORGE, Sergt., No. 2334, 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), s. of George Patience, of 30, High Street, Avoch, Fisherman; b. Avoch, co. Ross, 7 Sept. 1895; educ. Mackenzie Foundation Institute there, and on leaving was apprenticed to a painter; it was his great desire to become a soldier and he more than once tried to enlist but was brought back by his father; but on the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the 4th Seaforths in Sept. 1914. He was promoted Sergt. within three months, crossed to France, 11 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the trenches at Aubers Ridge, 7 May, 1915; unm.

PATON, JOHN EDWARD, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Paton, of Waun Wern, Pontypool, co. Monmouth, J.P., by his wife, Susan, dau. of the late Edward Jones, of Snatchwood Park, Pontypool; b. Pontypool, 6 Sept. 1895: educ. Copthorne School, Winchester College, and in the spring of 1914 passed the entrance examination for Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was to have taken up residence in Oct., but after the outbreak of war in Aug., was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Monmouthshire Regt., 14 Oct.; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Le Bizet, 31 Dec. following; unm. He was buried in the Essex Regt. Cemetery, Calvaire, near Le Touquet. 2nd Lieut. Paton was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. While at Winchester he was in the O.T.C., in which he attained the rank of Sergt.; took Certificate “A” in 1912, and was one of the eight to represent the College at Bisley in 1913 and 1914.

PATRICK, FRANCIS ALEXANDER, Private, No. 2309, A Coy. 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of John Bonthron Patrick, of 1, Morningside Terrace, Edinburgh, Wholesale Merchant, by his wife, Wilemina Frances, dau. of the late William Goldie; b. Edinburgh, 6 Dec. 1892; educ. George Watson’s College there, Edinburgh University, and Besançon and Jena Universities; studied for the Indian Police, and passed the examination in 1912, but afterwards took up the study of Indian and Colonial agriculture, and in the prosecution of his researches studied at Besançon, Jena and Guelph (Canada). On the outbreak of war he was studying for his B.Sc. at the Edinburgh University, but gave this up and joined the 9th Royal Scots in Sept. 1914; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the second Battle of Ypres, 12 April following; unm. Buried at Sailly-sur-la-Lys, Ypres. An officer, writing home to a brother, said: “This sad event cast a gloom over the battn., with whom Patrick had been very popular, and I assure you I feel his loss very keenly. He was a lad I was proud to have in my platoon, a fellow-Watsonian, and the first Watsonian to fall in the Dandy 9th.” He was a keen golfer and fisher, and a good horseman, and one of the best shots in the regt.; but. above all, was a diligent student. “If you want to find Patrick,” wrote one of his comrades at the Front in the few days of rest that fell to them, “go to the roofless library or convent ruins and there you will find him rummaging amongst the old and shell-torn books, smoking his pipe.” His brother, Lieut. John Cairns Patrick, Royal Scots, and also ten of his cousins, are now (1916) on active service.

PATRICK, FRED, A.B., 225222, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PATRICK, JAMES, Stoker, R.N.R., 13468, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PATTEN, EDWARD SAMUEL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10529), 217304, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PATTERSON, ALEXANDER, Trooper, No. 4238, 14th Hussars, attd. Royal Horse Guards, eldest s. of Alexander Patterson, Tin Plate Worker; b. Evesham, co. Worcester, 6 Sept. 1876; educ. Castleford Council School; enlisted in the 14th Hussars, Oct. 1900; served in the South African War, 1900–2, under Gen. (now Lord) French (Queen’s medal with three clasps); was 14 years with the Colours, then joined the Reserve, and was employed as a groom at Selby; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept., attd. to the Royal Horse Guards, and was killed in action there, 13 May, 1915. He m. at Castleford Parish Church, 1906, Sarah Ann (16, Douglas Street, off Brook Street, Selby, co. York), dau. of Joseph Clements, of Evesham, and had three children: Joseph, b. 12 Nov. 1906; George Alexander, b. 21 April, 1909; and John Stanley, b. 29 Sept. 1911.

PATTERSON, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 12/826, Auckland Infantry Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late James Patterson, of Henhill, Forteviot, Farmer; by his wife, Jessie, dau. of the late Robert Mitchell, of Golland[P2, P1 had changed this to Holland, the image is clearly Golland so probably printer error]; b. Forteviot, co. Perth, 24 July, 1884; educ. Crieff Academy; went to New Zealand about 1907, and was farming at Moeafoa Ye Kmiti; but on the outbreak of war, volunteered for Imperial service; left for Egypt with the Main Body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 22 May following; unm.

PATTERSON, CYRIL JAMES, A.B., 208036, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PATTERSON, JOHN HEADLEY, L.-Corpl., No. 8976, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of James Patterson, Joiner; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 7 Feb. 1884; educ. Ouseburn Board Schools there; was employed in the moulding shop of Messrs. Henry Watson & Sons, High Bridge Works; was a Reservist, and was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France at the end of Nov., and was killed in action, 4 March, 1915. Buried at Ypres. He m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 28 July, 1907, Mary Pringle, dau. of (—) Melville, and had with three other children a son, John Headley, b. 24 Sept. 1914.

PATTINSON, HUGH LEE, Capt. and Adjutant, 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, elder s. of Hugh Lee Pattinson, of Lowlynn, Beal, co. Northumberland, by his wife, Mary Constance, dau. of Lawrence W. Adamson; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 21 Aug. 1888; educ. Bengeo School, co. Herts; Rugby (Payne Smith’s, now Wilson’s House); Stubbington House, Fareham, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 6 Feb. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1912; temporary Capt. 28 Sept. 1914, and Capt. 9 March, 1915, being Adjutant of the 9th Battn. from 5 Sept. till the time of his death. He joined his regt. in Pietermaritzburg in 1909; went with it to Mauritius, then to Meerut and Chakrata, India, and finally to Lucknow; returned to England on leave in May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war the following Aug. was posted to the 9th Battn. Royal Fusiliers; went to France, 31 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Houplines, 4 Aug. 1915, while superintending a working party in the communication trenches. Brig.-Gen. Borradaile wrote: “His loss will be severely felt in the Battn., in forming which he took such a large and conspicuous share, and also in the Brigade, as his qualifications as a soldier were exceptional, and had he been spared he would have made his mark.” The Major commanding the Battn. wrote: “I should like you to know that this is an irreparable loss to the Regt., and particularly to this Battn. Taken all round he was the most efficient fellow I have ever worked with”; and a brother officer: “He was a splendid soldier, absolutely fearless, and loved by both officers and men.” He m., 22 July, 1914, Catherine Lina, dau. of John Patricius Chaworth-Musters, of Annesley Park, co. Notts, J.P., and had two daus.

PATTLE, ERNEST, Private, No. 11086, 4th (Reserve) Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Arthur Pattle, of Denham, Bury St. Edmunds, by his wife; b. Denham, co. Suffolk, 8 Sept. 1881; educ. National School there; enlisted Oct. 1914, and was missing after the action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed that day; unm.

PATTON, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman, 188359, H..M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

PAUL, GAVIN, Lieut., 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), elder s. of the late Gavin Paul, of Edinburgh, Coalmaster; b. Edinburgh, 8 Aug. 1893; educ. Bramcote, Scarborough, and Radley College, near Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Dragoon Guards, 4 March, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was killed in action at Messines, 31 Oct. following; unm.

PAUL, GEORGE THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110586, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

PAUL, ROBERT, Private, No. 196, H Coy. 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd. s. of Robert Paul, of 22, Lutton Place, Edinburgh, Plumber, by his wife, Eliza; b. Edinburgh, 28 May, 1889; educ. Preston Street Public School there; enlisted in Sept. 1908; served at Chatham, Malta, in India and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action near Hooge, 10 May, 1915; unm. Writing to his father, his Chief Officer, Capt. J. R. Couper, said: “He was killed instantaneously by a shell which burst on the parapet in front of him and two others with him. The company was heavily engaged at the time and later had to evacuate the trench by order of our General. At night we went back and buried your son along with ten others. The company lost on this date 11 killed and 22 wounded. The place was close to Hooge, which is east of Ypres, and the exact spot of his grave is not marked by any special feature or by a cross as the burial had to be done very hurriedly.... Your son was a splendid ‘sticker,’ and though he suffered from very bad feet, always refused to ‘go sick,’ and on one occasion when ordered to go to the dressing station to have his feet treated, as he could not keep up with his company, he very reluctantly went, but rejoined us within three hours, having found his way to the trench at his own pace.”

PAUL, WILLIAM HENRY BOWEY, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class (Pensioner), 121261, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAULL, ALAN DRYSDALE, Private, No. 721, Honourable Artillery Company (T.F.), elder s. of Alan Paull, of Kylecote, Harrowdene Road, Wembley, J.P., F.S.I., by his wife, Catherine Swan, dau. of James Drysdale, of Devonside; b. Wembley, co. Middlesex, 10 June, 1894; educ. Colet Court, and St. Paul’s School, where he was a Corpl. in the O.T.C.; entered his father’s office on leaving school, having previously passed the examination and entered as a student of the Surveyors’ Institution, and in 1914 passed the Intermediate Professional Examination; joined the H.A.C. in 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the Ypres district 12 Dec. following, being shot by a sniper while proceeding with his section to reinforce the firing line; unm. He was buried at Kemmel, by a cottage now know as “Paull’s Cottage.” His officer wrote: “Through the great privations we have been through out here your son has always been one of the most willing, capable and cheerful members of my platoon, and I feel his loss as a friend, and his death is greatly felt throughout the regiment. He was a splendid soldier;” and a comrade: “All we in his section had learnt to understand and appreciate a kind heart and an indomitable spirit such as his. His cheerful voice and bright manner, how shall we get on without them, where cheerfulness and fortitude are so dearly needed?” He played Rugby football for the H.A.C., and represented them in boxing against the Cambridge University in 1913.

PAVEY, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9373), S.S. 106584, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PAVITT, STEPHEN ARTHUR, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 1010, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

PAVLOSKY, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4387), 194223, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PAYNE, ALBERT JOHN, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27539 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PAYNE, ARTHUR JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9552), 207907, Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PAYNE, ERNEST ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1820), 290191, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PAYNE, JOHN HENRY, A.B. 214259, H.M S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PAYNE, CHARLES GERAINT CHRISTOPHER, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., only s. of Charles Henry Payne, of Brentor, Hereford, Manager of Lloyd’s Bank, Ltd., there, by his wife, Edith McKenna, dau. of William Evans Commins; b. Shifnal, co. Salop, 23 April, 1888; educ. Ludlow and Monmouth (1897–1905 Exhibitioner) Grammar Schools, and on leaving there was articled to his uncle, Mr. Alexander Payne, a London Architect, and had just started on his own account in the Metropolis when war was declared in Aug. 1914. He immediately joined the Artists’ Rifles; proceeded to France with them in the autumn of 1914; passed through the special training school for officers at the front, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut., 27 Jan. 1915, being posted to the Highland L.I., subsequently joining the 1st Battn. about 18 Feb. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March following, and was buried behind the trenches there; unm. He was a strong swimmer and keen boating man; was also an excellent ’cellist, and a member of the Hampstead Orchestral Society.

PAYNE, JOHN JAMES, Corpl., No. 2245, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., eldest s. of Emily Payne (Gravel Pit Cottage, Rogate, near Petersfield, co. Hants), yst. dau. of John Payne; b. Liss, co. Hants, 11 Oct. 1882; enlisted Royal Army Medical Corps, 24 Nov. 1899, and served throughout the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, and King’s medal with two clasps); re-enlisted in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Royal Sussex, as Corpl. Sept. 1908 then a Reservist, and served until 1909, when he purchased his discharge; joined the 2nd Battn. 15 Aug. 1914; left for France, Nov. 1914; and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. The Quartermaster-Sergt. of his company wrote that he was struck in the head by a bullet, death being instantaneous, and added, “I can say that your son was a hard-working and zealous soldier and was esteemed by us all, who sadly miss him.” He m. at Rogate, Sussex, 9 Jan. 1905, Lydia Jane, dau. of Charles William Locke, late of Liss, and had two children: Albert, b. 13 June, 1907; and Emily, b. 14 June, 1905.

PAYTON, CHARLES MERVYN, Lieut. 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., only s. of Sir Charles Payton, of Stepney Court, Scarborough, M.V.O., late British Consul-General at Calais, by his 1st wife, Eliza Mary, dau. of the late John Olive; b. Mogador, Morocco, 5 Dec. 1891; educ. Dover College, and on leaving there in 1909, became a Clerk under his father in the British Consulate at Calais; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Reserve Battn. of the Royal West Kent Regt., 1910, and promoted Lieut. 6 Sept. 1911; left the Army in 1912 to go to Singapore, where he held a post on a rubber plantation, but in the following year was appointed Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s Office, which appointment he gave up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; returned home and rejoined his old Regt., was on special duty in England for some time; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 18 April following. He was leading his men in the attack on Hill 60 and had picked up the rifle of a fallen soldier, and was firing at the enemy when he was shot through the head. His Commanding Officer wrote that he had done very good work, and “shown himself to be a brave man and a good leader,” and a Sergt. of his Coy. wrote of him as “one of the best and truest, more like a brother to the men than an officer, cheering in the blackest times by his brave gaiety, and mourned by them as a brother.” Lieut. Payton was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was a keen sportsman, a remarkably good shot and expert angler.

PEACOCK, EDWARD DANIEL, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, 345947, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PEACE, HUBERT KIRKBY, Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Hugh Kirkby Peace, of Springfield House, Sheffield, Steel Manufacturer, by his wife, Emmeline (Sandygate, Sheffield), dau. of James Fawcett; b. Sheffield, 16 Oct. 1881; educ. Rugby; became Managing Director of his father’s firm, W. K. & C. Peace, File Manufacturers, Feb. 1906; joined the 1st Volunteer Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Doncaster Militia), afterwards the 4th (Hallamshire) Battn., and served 10 years retiring in May, 1913, but, after the outbreak of war, was given a commission in 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. as Lieut. 4 Sept. 1914, and went to France attd. to the 1st Lincolnshire Regt., on 3 Oct. 1914; and died in hospital at Aubers, on the morning of 17 Oct., of wounds received in action near Lille, the previous day. Buried there. He had gone to the rear to hurry up supports, and he succeeded in getting them, but as he was returning he was wounded in the neck by a shot fired from a farm which it was supposed had been cleared by the French. A wounded soldier in Leeds Base Hospital, belonging to the Coldstream Guards said: “He died fighting to the last in trying to save his platoon from being cut to pieces, and many will never be able to give full praise and admiration for so gallant a deed.” He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 2 Aug. 1906, Grace Mary (Thurgoland, Sheffield), dau. of Charles Weller, and had a son, George Hugh Kirkby, b. 15 Dec. 1909.

PEACOCK, JOSEPH MOFFAT, Sapper, No. 46405, R.E., eldest s. of William Thomas Peacock, of Hartlepool, Driller, by his wife, Sarah Carry, dau. of Joseph Moffat, of Monkwearmouth; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 8 Feb. 1894; educ. Southwick and Goole Board Schools; was employed at Pickersgill’s and resided at 50, John Street, Southwick; enlisted, 9 Sept. 1914; trained at Brixton, Henley and Gillingham, and was killed in action “somewhere” in France, 10 Dec. 1915. His Chief Officer wrote “A shell came into their dug-out killing four of them instantly. They were buried the day following in Princess Pat’s Cemetery, Voormezeele, when all the section attended the funeral. He was a splendidly brave fellow.”

PEAKE, CECIL GERALD WYATT, Capt., 2nd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd s. of Henry Arthur Peake, of Westholme, Sleaford, co. Lincoln, Solicitor, by his wife, Alice Anne, dau. of the Rev. John I. Penford Wyatt; b. Sleaford, 21 Nov. 1891; educ. Aysgarth School, Charterhouse, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Lincolnshire Regt., 19 Jan. 1912; promoted Lieut. 28 May, 1913. and Capt. 21 Dec. 1914; served in Bermuda, Dec. 1913 to Sept. 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 8 Nov. 1914 to March, 1915, on which date he was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, being among the first of the Lincolnshires to enter the enemy’s trenches; unm. Buried in an orchard at Masselot. Capt. Peake was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. While at Oxford he gained his oar for rowing, and also took a 2nd in Law for his B.A. degree.

PEAKE, COLIN, Lieut., Leicestershire Yeomanry (T.F.), elder s. of Ronald Peake, of Howard House, Ashtead, co. Surrey, Solicitor, by his wife, Florence, dau. of the late Edward Adams; b. Ashtead, 28 Sept. 1889; educ. Fonthill, East Grinstead, and Charterhouse; admitted a Solicitor in 1913; joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry as 2nd Lieut., 23 April, 1909, being promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with his regt. in Nov.; took part in the fighting in France and Flanders, during the winter of 1914–15, and was killed in action in an advance trench near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm.

PEARCE, ALFRED, Driver, No. 35452, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of Nathan Pearce, of 21, Sunnyside, Diss, co. Norfolk, Farm Labourer; b. Thrandeston, Diss, 18 Aug. 1885; educ. there; enlisted in the R.F.A. in Oct. 1907; served six years with the colours, then passed into the Reserve, and was engaged as a Dairyman at Chigwell, Essex; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France in Aug., and died in the Lycée Pasteur, Neuilly, 28 Sept. following, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Aisne. He m. at Chelmsford, Jan. 1914, Grace, dau. of (—) Bradley; s.p.

PEARCE, DUDLEY HOGARTH, L.-Corpl., No. 2162, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (Yeomanry), s. of Henry Pearce, of Elberton, Tockington, co. Gloucester, by his wife, Eliza Jane Sarah, dau. of the late Charles Smith, of Max House, Winscombe, co. Somerset; b. Winford, co. Somerset, 13 Oct. 1884; educ. Thornbury Grammar School; joined the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at Newbury and Heacham; left for the Dardanelles, 15 April, 1915; was promoted Corpl. for his bravery and coolness during the charge of the Yeomanry on Chocolate Hill, 22 Aug. following, and was killed in action there at 5.30 a.m. on the 28th, while cooking his comrades’ breakfast; unm. Buried to the west of Chocolate Hill. His brother, Trooper Edward Charles Henry Pearce, was killed in action at Quinn’s Post, 7 Aug. 1915 (see following notice). L.-Corpl. Dudley Pearce was always called the father of the troop, for his great thought and kindness.

PEARCE, EDWARD CHARLES HENRY, Trooper, No. 190, 2nd Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Henry Pearce, of Elberton, Tockington, co. Gloucester, by his wife, Eliza Jane Sarah, dau. of the late Charles Smith, of Max House, Winscombe, co. Somerset; b. Winford, co. Somerset, 26 Jan. 1883; educ. Thornbury Grammar School; served for three years in the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars; went to Australia in 1910 and was farming at Roma, Queensland, when war broke out; was one of the first men in that district to volunteer for Imperial service; joined the 2nd Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt the end of Oct., where he completed his training; went to the Dardanelles; took part in the famous landing of the Australians there, 25–26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Quinn’s Post, 7 Aug. following; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was one of the best chaps; he died as he had lived, an English gentleman to the last.” His brother, L.-Corpl. Dudley Hogarth Pearce, was killed in action at Chocolate Hill, 28 Aug. 1915 (see preceding notice).

PEARCE, HARRY CECIL, A.B., J. 896, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

PEARCE, JOHN ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6098), 201703 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PEARCEY, ALFRED STEPHEN, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 12774, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PEARCE, GEOFFREY VINCENT, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., only s. of Sir William Pearce, of Shepway Lodge, Walmer, co. Kent, M.P., J.P., by his wife, Ethel Alexandra, dau. of Edwin Neane, of Harefield, Sidling, co. Kent; b. Brentwood, co. Essex, 19 June, 1889; educ. Uppingham School, where he was a Sergt. in the School Corps; was a Chemical Manufacturer (Spencer, Chapman & Messel, Ltd.); joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Artists’ Rifles, Oct. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Warwicks, ... Nov. 1914, and was killed in action 18 Dec., during an attack on the German trenches at Rouges Bancs, south-east of Armentières, and buried by the enemy; unm.

PEARS, STUART, Sergt., No. 974, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.); twin s. of Ernest Pears, of 69, Palace Road, Streatham Hill. S.W., Fellow of Chartered Institute of Secretaries, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of John Campbell; b. Dulwich, 29 Oct. 1891; educ. Streatham Grammar School; was a Marine Insurance Clerk at Lloyds; joined the London Scottish in Nov. 1908; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914, being shot by a sniper; unm. Buried in the churchyard there.

PEARSON, FREDERICK PHILLIPS, Corpl., No 2881, 6th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Edward Pearson, of Whitchurch, co. Salop, formerly of Waterloo, Liverpool, retired Draper, by his wife, Maria, dau. of the late Thomas Phillips, of Chelmsford, Essex; b. Liverpool, 11 May, 1880; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School, Great Crosby, and on leaving entered the service of the National and Provincial Bank of England, and was stationed at Chester. He there joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. of the Cheshire Regt., and on the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, volunteered and served with the 1st Volunteer Coy. of that Regt., in that campaign, and was awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he was Cashier at the Wolverhampton branch of the National and Provincial Bank, and again volunteered for active service; joined the 6th (Territorial) Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. in Sept. 1914; went to the Front in March, 1915, and was killed in action near Zillebeke, 7 July, 1915; unm. Buried in Sanctuary Wood. His Lieut. wrote: “A shell came over which did not explode but crashed in a dug-out burying two men, one of whom was lying in the débris wounded. Pearson and another man at once got to work to dig them out, and had just succeeded when another shell came over, and a bit struck Pearson on the head. I took him up myself, but all to no purpose, he was hit badly. We all recognised his position, and others like him nobly served their country by joining in the ranks. He was actually killed in trying to save the life of other men, which I take it is the greatest thing a man can do. On all sides one hears the men talking about him, and there is no doubt he is a loss to the Regt.”

PEARSON, SYDNEY JOHN, Rifleman, No. 3584, 2/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late John Pearson, of St. Neots, by his wife, Alice, dau. of George Cramley, of Sandy, Beds; b. St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, 21 June, 1887; educ. Sandy, co. Beds, and Downshall, co. Essex, and held a responsible position in an Ironmongery business at Ilford, which he gave up after the outbreak of war and joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 4 Nov. following; went to France, 12 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 21 April, 1915; unm. Buried at Ypres behind the firing line.

PEARSON, WILLIAM RANSOME, L.-Sergt., No. 7366, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of William Pearson, of 24, Ashford Road, East Ham, Essex, formerly Colour-Sergt. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards (served through the Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon, 1884–85; wounded at the Battle of Abu-Klea, 17 Jan. 1885; awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal for service in the field), by his wife, Sophia, dau. of Samuel Ransome, of Sherborne, King’s Lynn, co. Norfolk; b. St George’s Barracks, Trafalgar Square, London, 16 Oct. 1892; educ. Sandringham Road (Forest Gate) and Monega (E.) Council Schools; enlisted in the Coldstreams as a Drummer Boy, 27 July, 1907; joined the ranks, 6 June, 1912; appointed L.-Corpl. the same day; promoted Corpl., 24 May, 1914; appointed L.-Sergt., 7 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; served through the retreat from Mons; was wounded in action and taken prisoner during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept., and died a prisoner of war in the Fortress Hospital, Wesel, Germany, 24 Dec. 1914; unm. His Company Officer, Capt. Saint A. Warde-Aldam, wrote: “On 14 Sept. we had a hard fight; the first brigade (in which we are) attacked between two villages called Vendresse and Cerny near the Aisne; we captured a good deal of ground but were not able to hold all we had taken, and consequently a large number of casualties were left on ground afterwards re-occupied by the Germans. I am afraid your son was one of them. I knew your son well, having trained with him at Aldershot, but I cannot remember definitely seeing him myself on the 14th. He was a very promising young sergt. and was a great loss to the company.... Whatever has happened to your son, I am quite confident he did his duty and upheld our old Coldstream traditions.” He himself wrote to his parents from the Festungshazarett, Wesel, about 30 Nov. 1914: “I was shot in the right thigh, and lay where I fell for a whole week. I don’t know how I lived it through, but I did. On the morning of the 21st some German stretcher-bearers picked me up and took me to hospital where they dressed the leg, which, of course, was broken. I have been shifted from one show to another till I’ve landed here, and here I shall be for two or three months.”

PEART, GEORGE, Seaman, R.N.R., 5332A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PEART, STANLEY BRACE, A.C.I.S., Rifleman, No. 2436, B Coy., 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd and yst. s. of George Peart, by his wife, Marie (55, Silverdale, Sydenham, S.E.), dau. of Francis Henry Moller; b. Adelaide, South Australia, 10 Aug. 1891; educ. Bellenden Road L.C.C. School and Dulwich College; passed the Intermediate Examination in June, 1914, and was admitted an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries the following month, and prior to the outbreak of war was engaged on the staff of the Kamfersdam Mines, Ltd., of Gresham House, Old Broad street, E.C., with Mr. W. Howarth, F.C.I.S., who held a high opinion of his abilities. He joined the 1st Surrey Rifles for active service, 31 Aug. 1914, and after training at St. Albans, Luton and Harpenden, went to France, 14 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 May, 1915; unm. His Company Officer, 2nd Lieut. H. Persse, wrote; “On 25 May the battn. was ordered to attack at Givenchy. In the ordinary course of attack the bombers go first so as to prevent what are known as flank attacks. Your brother was with them, and I saw him myself go right into the German front line trench and on then to the second line trench. The last I saw of him was when his supply of bombs had run out—he was standing his ground very coolly on top of a German trench using his bayonet to great effect. I am afraid he was hit by a bomb, for when we found him next day he was greatly damaged but quite dead. I buried him myself with a lot of his comrades, and I am sure it will relieve your sorrow somewhat to know that the ‘fellow Tommies’ put up a beautiful cross to him with his name and regt. upon it. I always knew Stanley Peart as one of my best men. When the call came for bombers (a most dangerous job), Peart didn’t wait to be selected; he volunteered, and paid the price. No work was too hard for him, and he certainly fulfilled my greatest expectations when the time came for the battn. to show what it was made of.” And a comrade: “He was my fellow bomber in our platoon. There are four of us to a platoon. Although I did not actually see him fall, I know pretty well what his end was. It happened just before our platoon went over the parapet to support the other fellows who were holding the captured trench in front. There was an urgent call for bombs and bombers, and as Stan. happened to have a bandolier of bombs on him he was detailed to go with some more bombers. He was with me when he got the order, but he went to join the others a few yards further down the line. It was just in the act of getting over the parapet that he was shot; I think a machine gun caught him. At any rate it was a bullet that caused his death, not a shell.... He was one of the most popular fellows in our platoon.” Peart was well known in South London as a most versatile athlete. He captained Bellenden Road L.C.C. School in cricket, football and swimming. He won the Rutherford Harris Shield, the Championship South London breast stroke swimming in 1904, the championship of Dulwich, 1904 and 1905, and played in the cricket team for the boys for East v. West at the Oval in 1905 and 1906, captaining the team in 1906. He was in the Dulwich Hamlet Reserves in the season 1910–11, when they won the Southern Suburban League Championship. He played in the first team of Honor Oak Cricket Club for several years, until he gave up playing by his doctor’s orders.

PEAT, WILLIAM McDONALD, Private, No. 10299, 2nd Battn. the Scots Guards, 2nd s. of Colin Peat, of 7, Roseburn Terrace, Edinburgh, formerly of Ratho, Midlothian, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William McDonald, of Barflat, Aberdeenshire, Farmer; b. Edinburgh, 11 Feb. 1896; educ. Brunsfield and Roseburn Public Schools, Edinburgh; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to France 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action by a shell near Givenchy, 14 June, 1915. He was buried along with seven of his comrades just where he fell, after a charge at Festubert, where his coy. were nearly all killed or wounded. He had been picked as reserve stretcher-bearer but did not have the opportunity of performing the duties assigned to him.

PECKHAM, BERTRAM, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 2854), 301582, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PECKER, HENRY CYRIL, Lieut., 3rd. attd. 1st, Battn. The Royal Scots, 4th s. of Major and Quartermaster George Pecker, of Workington, co. Cumberland (now on active service with the Border Regt. (T.F.)), by his wife, Alice Charlotte, dau. of Septimus Radclyffe; b. Shrewsbury, 8 Oct. 1894; educ. St. Bees School, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and on leaving there entered the St. Helen’s Colliery Co.; joined the General Reserve of Officers of the 3rd Border Regt. as 2nd Lieut., 17 May, 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, was drafted to the Royal Scots; went to France in Oct., was wounded at Ypres in Dec., but returned to his Regt. in March; was promoted Lieut. 29 April, and was killed in action at Hooge, by a shell, the following day, 30 April, 1915. Buried in Hooge Chateau. His school magazine wrote of him: “A keen sportsman, a charming companion, a gentleman in its fullest sense, he could not fail to win his way in his Regt., as he had done at School and in professional life.” He was unm.

PECKSON, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9055), 196514, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PEDDEL, SYDNEY EDGAR, Sergt., No. 8918, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of Edward James Peddel, of 33, Cardonzo Road, Caledonian Road, Holloway, N., Coach Trimmer, by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Salter, of Southampton; b. Salisbury, co. Wilts, 1 July, 1888; educ. St. James’s Church School, Holloway; was employed in a city stockbroker’s office; joined the L.R.B. in 1907; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France 1 Nov. following; took part in several trench attacks; came home on leave 21 Feb. 1915; returned to the firing line on the 28th, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 10 April following, unm. Buried in the L.R.B. Cemetery in the wood there. 2nd Lieut. A. Bryan White wrote: “Although I had only been his platoon commander for a very short time, I have known Sergt. Peddel for many years, and feel that I have not only lost a good N.C.O. but a very old friend. He was liked and respected by every man in the battn., and would have made an excellent officer had his commission gone through sooner.” Sergt. Peddel was well known in North London as an indefatigable athlete. He was a leader of the Gymnasium connected with St. James’s Church, Holloway, and the possessor of several medals won in various competitions. He took part in the Territorial sports at Stamford Bridge in 1913, when the London Rifle Brigade beat the London Scottish in the Marathon in the record time of 1 hour 33 mins. 37 secs.—a remarkably fine achievement. Sergt. Peddel was then a L.-Corpl. In April, 1914, when the L.R.B. made the forced march from London to Brighton, Corpl. Peddel (to which rank he had been promoted) was pacemaker, and assisted to set up a new record for long-distance marching, the Foreign Legion’s record of 50 miles in 15½ hours being easily beaten. The time occupied by the L.R.B. to do the 52½ miles was 14 hours 23 mins. (marching time 12 hours 44 mins.). Sergt. Peddel secured several prizes in L.R.B. contests. He won a silver cup in the school of arms competition 1913, bayonet v. bayonet, and another cup in the five miles race in the same year. He was also a member of the Orion Harriers, the Archway Harriers, the Crouch End Cyclist Club, and the Alexandra Park Tennis Club.

PEDDER, PERCY JAMES, Private, No. 7759, 2nd Battn. The Border Regt., eldest s. of (—) Pedder; was for some time in South Africa; returned during the Balkan War, and went to Greece with the British Red Cross. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered and joined the 2nd Border Regt.; went to France with his Regt. in the 7th Division, and was killed in action 24 Oct. 1914, while assisting a wounded comrade. Coy. Sergt.-Major Stuart Davenport wrote: “I am able to inform you from an eyewitness who was next to him when he was killed that he died a hero in a trench at a traverse.... A man was hit by a shrapnel; no one would go and help him at the moment—as shell after shell was coming in at that particular spot. Pedder went and had succeeded in bandaging him up when he was struck behind the left ear by one bullet from a shell, which penetrated his brain. He died at once and said not a word, and he was buried that night, a cross was put on his grave.” He m. Annette (26, Palatine Road, Stoke Newington, N.), dau. of (—).

PEEL, ALAN RALPH, Capt., South Wales Borderers (24th Regt.), eldest surviving s. of Herbert Peel, of Taliaris Park, co. Carmarthen, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary Susannah Ainsworth, dau. of the late Capt. William Lee, R.M.L.I.; b. Taliaris Park, 7 July, 1886; educ. Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the South Wales Borderers, 24 Jan. 1906, became Lieut. 1 Dec. 1907, and Capt., 12 Sept. 1914; served with the 1st Battn. in India, 1907–9, and at Pretoria, 1910; attached to the South African Mounted Infantry, Feb. 1911, and quartered at Harrismith and Bloemfontein to 1912, in which year he was seconded to the West African Frontier Force (Nigerian Regt.). Returning home on furlough in 1914, he was the same year seconded for service with the Nigerian Mounted Infantry, and left again for West Africa in June; he was killed in action, leading a bayonet charge, at Kosseoa, near Marna, North Cameroons, 17 Nov. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote as follows: “I had made application for him to join me, knowing his ability. You have the honour of knowing no soldier could have met a more gallant death, viz., at the head of his men, leading them to the charge and showing an example of great bravery. He was buried with all honours by the Capt. of the French company with whom he was operating at the time.” The latter wrote: “I paid the funeral honours ... to the two brave English officers, MM. le Capit. A. R. Peel and Lieut. Percival, who fell on the field of honour while giving to their men an example of great bravery.” The Commandant of the Nigerian Regt. wrote as follows: “To lighten your great sorrow you have the honour of knowing that your son died in a manner worthily upholding the finest traditions of the Service, and setting an example of valour to the whole regt., among whom he was so deservedly known as a brave and upright officer and the best of good comrades.” Capt. A. R. Peel was a thorough all-round sportsman, a good rider and polo player.

PEELING, HARRY COURTLAND, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, 365838, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Joseph Peeling, of Gardener’s Lodge, Wickham Place, near Witham, co. Essex; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

PEET, JOHN EDWARD GRIMSTON, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., elder s. of James Henry Peet, of Perry Hill, Worplesdon, co. Surrey, M.D., by his wife, Winifred, dau. of the late Major Henry Grimston Hale, 11th Hussars; b. Huddersfield, co. York, 24 April, 1895; educ. St. George’s College, Weybridge, and Douay Abbey, Woolhampton; enlisted in the Berkshire Yeomanry, 25 Sept. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal West Surrey Regt., 9 Feb. 1915 and was accidentally killed in a motor cycle collision at Guildford on the 27th while on service. Lieut.-Col. J. B. Kerslake wrote: “We had great expectations of him, and in no case have I recommended a commission with more confidence. His premature death is a loss not only to his family but to his country. In your great loss we, indeed, sympathise most deeply. Your only consolation can be that he met his death while serving his country, and doing his duty to the fullest.” And Brig.-Gen. Andrew L. Macfies, Commanding 1st South Lancashire Brigade: “The class of instruction to which your son belonged is attached to my brigade. He was, therefore, to some extent under my command, and I understand showed every promise of becoming a good officer.”

PELHAM, HENRY ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9409, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PELHAM, HON. HERBERT LYTTLETON, Lieut. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 4th and yst. s. of Francis Godolphin, 5th Earl of Chichester, by his wife, Alice, née Carr Glyn (Oldland, Keymer, Sussex), dau. of George Carr, 1st Baron Wolverton; b. Lambeth Rectory, London, 3 April, 1884; educ. by the Rev. A. Tabor, Cheam; Charterhouse; and Rev. V. Scott, South Lynn, Eastbourne; joined the Duke of Connaught’s Own Hampshire and Isle of Wight Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia), 12 April, 1902; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Sussex Regt., 3 June, 1904; joined the 2nd Battn. at Malta, 5 Aug. 1904; served in Crete during the insurrection and later on the International Tribunal there; and in Belfast 1907 during riots; promoted Lieut. 26 Sept. 1908; passed first “distinction” in musketry and over 95 per cent. in machine gunnery courses at Hythe, 25 Sept. 1909; appointed Adjutant 18 Dec. 1911; took Brevet Certificate, and was accepted for Royal Flying Corps, 9 April, 1914; specially commended for work of mobilisation, Aug. 1914; left for France as Senior Lieut. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn., with 2nd Division, 1st Army Corps, 12 Aug. 1914, became acting Capt. after the death of Capt. Jemmet Browne, 12 Sept., and was killed in action 14 Sept. following, during the Battle of the Aisne; unm. The 2nd Royal Sussex were in reserve at Mons, and formed part of the rearguard during the retirement from that place, and then became the vanguard of the 1st Army, when the Germans turned, before the Battle of the Marne. Major-Gen. E. H. Bulfin wrote: “I ordered the Sussex to pass on and seize the ridges north of the village of Priez.... 10 Sept., for the good work done that day I sent in Pelham’s name for recognition. 14 Sept. Pelham with a handful of men of the Sussex held on to the Chemin des Dames, and it was here that he lost his life, working the machine guns, and he died one of the most brave and gallant gentleman it has ever been my honour to know. A fine capable officer who put his duty before everything, and by his self-sacrificing devotion set a splendid example to us all. By his death the Regt. has suffered a terrible loss and the Army has lost a most capable officer, who would have gone far in his profession.” His commanding officer. Major E. V. B. Green, wrote: “Your son died a soldier’s death in the forefront of the fighting on the 14th. I have sent you in a separate package a testament which was found on him, and I am sorry that there is nothing more to send. We have lost a much-loved comrade who we all felt had a promising career before him, in fact, perhaps I cannot do better than quote to you the words in which his name has gone forward for mention in despatches. ‘Lieut. and Adjutant the Hon. H. L. Pelham. I saw this officer two or three times under heavy fire conveying orders and encouraging the troops. He was killed in an advanced position, assisting with the machine guns, several of the detachment having been knocked out. In him the Army have lost a most promising officer. His work during mobilisation and during the campaign has been deserving of the highest praise.’” and again later: “I wish I could give you further details regarding your son, but the circumstances of the battle on the 14th, the first day of the Aisne, were such that we were not able to hold to the foremost ground to which we got that day, and indeed although we have been here a month to-day, we have never got back on the actual ground on which your son was killed. I am being perfectly honest with you, as I judge you wish me to be. We know where your son fell, in the forefront of the battle, but we do not know as yet where he lies. The Germans, doubtless, have buried him, and when we move forward we shall, I hope, be able to give you fuller particulars. I am very pleased to be able to tell you that I have heard to-day that the President of the French Republic has awarded your son the Legion of Honour. For this he was recommended previous to his death. It will be, I am sure, a solace to you to know that his worth has received this recognition. Like many of his forbears, he has given his life for his country, and has not lived in vain.... No! It was not at Moulines. The action was fought between a place called Vendresse and Cerney, and your son was killed just on the edge of the latter place. He was with Mr. Dashwood in a farmhouse with the machine guns when the building was destroyed by a shell.... Mr. Dashwood tells me that his death was instantaneous, and that he was struck by a piece of shell and was thus saved from suffering.” He was awarded the Croix de Chevalier of the Legion of Honour “for conspicuous gallantry in the field between 23 Aug. and 31 Aug.”

PELLETT, GEORGE ALBERT VICTOR, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10403 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LEIGH-PEMBERTON, THOMAS EDWARD GEOFFREY, Lieut., 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Wilfred Leigh-Pemberton, of Wrinsted Court, Sittingbourne, Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Alice Augusta, dau. of the late Capt. David Rolland Erskine, 92nd Highlanders [2nd s. of Sir David Erskine, of Cambo, 1st Bart.], and grandson of Sir Edward Leigh-Pemberton, of Torry Hill and Wrinsted, co. Kent, K.C.B.; b. Wrinsted Court aforesaid, 15 Nov. 1893; educ. Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was in the O.T.C.; was, at the outbreak of war, learning business with the firm of Antony Gibbs & Sons; appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Kensingtons, 12 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 1 Sept. following; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; went to France at the beginning of Nov., and was killed in action near Laventie, 11 Jan. 1915; unm. Buried at Estaires. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. F. G. Lewis, wrote: “I feel I must write and tell you how all my officers will mourn his loss most deeply. His capacity and his popularity made everybody like him; he was a real good fellow in every way, and he has made a gap which we can never quite fill. I am sorrier than I can say”; and Major-Gen. Sir A. Turner: “He was a most excellent and conscientious young officer, and a great loss to his battn., in which he was a great favourite.” Capt. Thompson also wrote: “He was a really good officer, always cheerful, and of the very greatest assistance to me in the trying work of the trenches. The battn. has lost a good officer and all the officers a valued friend”; and Sergt. Stiles: “Lieut. Leigh-Pemberton was very much liked and respected by every man he came in touch with. One of our bravest officers; he considered his men; in fact, he used to take four hours duty whilst his sergeant slept, and the sergeant used to take two hours’ duty whilst he (the Lieut.) slept. He would at any time carry the pack of any man who was knocked up. I’m sure any of our men would have followed him through fire and water. His death was a great shock to the whole battn.” He was fond of sports of all kinds and hunted a small pack of harriers of his own.

PENDALL, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, No. 13657, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Albert Pendall (now serving in France as a Gunner with the R.G.A.), by his wife, Mary Jane (14, Usk Road, York Road, Battersea), dau. of Henry Brown; b. Wandsworth Common, 8 Dec. 1898; educ. St. John’s Schools, Battersea; was a Butcher; enlisted, 17 April, 1915; went to France, 4 Oct. 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 Dec. 1915; unm.

PENDER, JAMES (HAMISH) GRANGER GEILS, 2nd Lieut., 3rd. attd. 2nd Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, eldest s. of Major James Pender, of Ardnoe, St. Catherine’s, co. Argyle, 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, by his wife, Janet Helen Maude, dau. of the late Thomas Geils, of Geilston and Ardmore, Dumbartonshire; b. St. Catherine’s, 19 July, 1892; educ. Larchfield Academy, Helensburgh; Edinburgh Academy, and Edinburgh University; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 17 Oct. 1914; went to France, 13 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle between 11–13 March, 1915; unm. A brother officer wrote: “He was shot through the head on the morning of the 11th trying to urge his men to keep their heads down and take cover, and his death was instantaneous. He died for his country and no mistake, and long will we all remember his cheery face”; and another: “He died thinking only of his men’s safety and not of his own, and was one of the most gallant among many gallant officers who died that day. As we were being enfiladed the men were in a very dangerous position, he shouted to them to get right in, as they could not hear, he stood up and signalled to them. He was shot through the head.”

PENFOLD, GEORGE HENRY, Acting Chief Petty Officer, 164841, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

PENGELLEY, HAROLD, Private, No. 9707, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., s. of Samuel Pengelley, of 2, York Road, Uxbridge; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 6 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action.

PENMAN, WILLIAM, Private, No. 10614, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Falkirk, enlisted 8 Sept. 1914, aged 24; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

PENN, ALFRED EDWARD, A.B., R.N.R., 2453A, 3rd s. of Stephen Penn (died 1 March, 1912), by his wife, Elizabeth; b. Deal, 17 Sept. 1891; lost with his brother on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914: unm.

PENN, JOSEPH LIVELY, Private, No. 2879, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5th s. of William John Penn, of Leamington Spa, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Patrick Lively of Liverpool; b. Leamington Spa, 23 Feb. 1882; educ. there; enlisted in the Coldstreams in Aug. 1899; served for a short period in the South African War, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from early in Sept. to 29 Oct. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action at Ypres. He m. 1906, Anne, dau. of William Oldham, of Sheffield, and had two sons: Joseph, b. 1 June, 1907, and Ernest, b. 1 Sept. 1910.

PENN, LEWIS SYDNEY, A.B., R.N.R., 2451A, 2nd s. of Stephen Penn (died 1 March, 1912), by his wife, Elizabeth; b. Deal, 1 July, 1889; was serving with his two brothers on board H.M.S. Cressy when that vessel was torpedoed by submarines off the coast of Holland, 22 Sept. 1914; unm. The elder brother, Hubert, was saved after being two hours in the water.

DOUGLAS-PENNANT, HON. CHARLES, Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of George Sholto Gordon, 2nd Lord Penrhyn, and yr. s. by his 2nd wife, Gertrude Jessie (37, Lennox Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the Rev. Henry Glynne, Rector of Hawarden; b. at Wicken, Northants, 7 Oct. 1877; educ. Evelyn’s, Eton, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Coldstream Guards, 8 Sept. 1897, and promoted Lieut. 5 Feb. 1899; served in South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, including actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal, May-June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11–12 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.), operations in Orange River Colony, Nov. 1900, and in Cape Colony, Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902 (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 26 Jan. 1900, and 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with six clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); was A.D.C. to Major-Gen., 8th Division, 3rd Army Corps, and to Major-Gen. 8th Division, Irish Command (Sir Reginald Pole-Carew), 9 Nov. 1903 to 1905; retired and joined the Reserve of Officers, 22 Feb. 1905; rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; went to France, 11 Sept. 1914; was reported missing after the fighting near Gheluvelt, 29 Oct. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action there that day. He m. at St. Michael’s, Chester Square, 28 Jan. 1905, Lady Edith Anne, née Dawson (Soham House, Newmarket), dau. of Vesey, 2nd Earl of Dartrey. His elder brother, Capt. the Hon. G. H. Douglas-Pennant was killed in action, 11 March, 1915, and his nephew, Lieut. the Hon. A. G. S. Douglas-Pennant, Grenadier Guards, was reported wounded and missing, 29 Oct. 1914.

DOUGLAS-PENNANT, THE HON. GEORGE HENRY, Capt., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, 2nd s. of George Sholto Gordon, 2nd Lord Penrhyn, and elder s. by his 2nd wife, Gertrude Jessie (37, Lennox Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the Rev. Henry Glynne, Rector of Hawarden; b. Torquay, 26 Aug. 1876; educ. Evelyn’s and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Grenadier Guards, from the Militia, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 12 July, 1899, and Capt. 1905; served in the South African War, 1900–2; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April-May, 1900; operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen (1–29 July); operations in the Transvaal, Feb.–March, 1901, also those in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1900 to Feb. 1901, and March, 1901 to 31 May, 1902, when he was employed as Signalling Officer (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); was A.D.C. to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Leslie Rundle, Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, 1903–7, and in 1908 joined the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of the European War he was north of Gilgit, N. Kashmir, but at once returned to England, rejoined his old regt. in Sept., went to France in Nov., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, while leading the King’s Coy., Grenadier Guards, into action; unm. Buried there. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915]. He took great interest in fox hunting, salmon fishing and big game hunting, and had travelled in East Africa, the Soudan, India, Turkistan, Persia, Canada, Alaska, etc. He left his collection of trophies, heads, skins, and specimens of game, to the National Museum, Wales, at Cardiff. His brother, Lieut. the Hon. Charles Douglas-Pennant, was killed in action, 29 Oct. 1914.

PENNELLS, CHARLES PERCY, Private, No. 85, 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 27 May, 1915.

PENNEY, JOHN EDWIN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5060), 213157, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PENNY, HENRY, Private, No. 7528, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 22 Jan. 1915; m.

PENNY, WILLIAM, Chief Signal Boatswain, R.N., 2nd s. of James Penny, by his wife, Christina, dau. of (—) Gunn; b. Benares, Bengal, 11 June, 1864; entered the Royal Navy, 26 Aug. 1879, as a boy in H.M.S. Resistance; was drafted to the Impregnable, 30 Aug. 1879, and then to the Inconstant, in which ship he escorted the King, when Prince George, round the world. He served in the Egyptian Campaign, 1882, for which he received the medal and clasp. He also served in the following ships: Duke of Wellington, Victor Emanuel, St. Vincent, Northumberland, Active, Victory and Royal Oak, and was promoted Signal Boatswain, 8 July, 1896. He afterwards served in the Ramillies under Admiral Hopkins until July, 1899; when he was appointed to the Vivid for the Signal School until 1903, then to the Revenge, flagship of Admiral Wilson, with whose staff he transferred to the Exmouth until 1907, when he was appointed to the Victory for Signal School 1907–1910. He was promoted Chief Signal Boatswain, 4 June 1909, and served in H.M.S. Prince of Wales, under Admiral Jellicoe, 1910 to 1911. On the outbreak of the European War in 1914 he was appointed to the Good Hope, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock, C.B., M.V.O., and was killed in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. John’s, Bognor, 26 Aug. 1893, Elizabeth Jane (Argyll Road, Bognor), eldest dau. of William Smith, late Chief Officer of Coastguards, and had two children: Gertrude Ethel, b. 14 June, 1896, and Dorothy Marguerite, b. 15 Jan. 1909.

PENSON, REGINALD, Private, No. 2391, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Frederick Penson, of 8, Burns Street, Mansfield, Nottingham, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Israel Dook; b. Leicester 11 April, 1887; educ. at Gainsboro’; was an employee in the Army and Navy Stores at Westminster; volunteered and joined the Royal Fusiliers, 6 Sept. 1914; went to Malta with his Battn., 9 Sept.; proceeded to France, 30 Dec., and was killed in action near Armentières, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried at Ferme-de-la-Buterne, Chapelle d’ Armentières. Capt. R. Henman wrote: “It is with the deepest regret I have to inform you that your son was killed this morning whilst observing the effect of artillery fire. I would like to offer you my most sincere sympathy as well as that of the whole company. We shall all miss your dear son most awfully, as his genial manner, his courage, and his willingness to do any work made him loved by everyone.” Private Penson was a fine vocalist and won a £100 scholarship in London for singing.

PENTER, EDWARD SYDNEY, Petty Officer, 159207, H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PEPPER, JAMES WILLIAM THOMAS, B.A., Private, No. 793, 1/5th Battn. (The London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of James William Pepper, of 15, West Cliff, Whitstable, Local Secretary and Correspondent at Whitstable for the Kent Education Committee, by his wife, Emma Maria, dau. of John Harlow; b. Whitstable, co. Kent, 2 July, 1891; educ. Simon Langton School, Canterbury, and Goldsmiths’ College, London (B.A. 1912), and on leaving there was for several months a supplementary teacher for the Kent Education Committee, later being appointed certificated teacher at Bridge Road Council School, Harlesden, under the Willesden Education Committee, who wrote highly of his influence and of his ability. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for foreign service and joined the London Rifle Brigade in Sept.; went to France with the first draft to join the 1/5th Battn., on active service in Flanders, in Jan. 1915; served in the trenches from Jan. to April; retired to the rear after Easter for a rest, but was suddenly ordered up with his regt. to the support of the Canadians at the Ypres salient, and was killed in action there, 26 April, 1915; unm. Buried at Fortuin, near St. Julien. He obtained a Junior County Scholarship at ten years of age and later a County Bursary; was especially interested in history and languages, and at the time war was declared was making a special study of Anglo-Saxon, and Old English. During his last two years at College he played successfully as a member of the College Rugby Team, and was also interested in cricket.

PEPPIATT, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 9556, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late William Robert Peppiatt, by his wife, Emily Elizabeth, dau. of the late Charles Giles; b. Stoke Newington, London, 2 Nov. 1888; educ. Bancroft’s School, Woodford Wells; entered the service of the London & North-Western Railway Co. in 1907, and when war broke out was in the General Manager’s office at Euston; he had joined the London Rifle Brigade in 1912, and volunteered for foreign service in Aug. 1914; went to France in Nov. and died at Ploegsteert, 5 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action there the previous day; unm. Buried in the London Rifle Brigade Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Major C. Burnell, the officer commanding his company, wrote: “I personally feel very much his loss, he was one of those always willing to help and always cheerful even when things were at their worst.” He was one of the team of his regt. which won the Territorial Marathon in 1913, and one of the contingent from the London Rifle Brigade which marched to Brighton in record time. He was also an expert bayonet fighter.

PEPYS, FRANCIS, D.S.O., 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 2nd s. of Capt. Arthur Pepys, of Knowle House, Budleigh Salterton, late 60th Rifles, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the Rev. John Lomax; b. Budleigh Salterton, co. Devon, 2 April, 1891; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., 24 May, 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the repulse of the Prussian Guards at Ypres, 11 Nov. and was killed in action the following day by the bursting of a shell; unm. Buried at Zonnebeke. 2nd Lieut. Pepys was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous good work on 3 Nov. “in advancing from his trench and assisting in driving away a party of the enemy who were commencing to dig a new trench within thirty yards of his own. Thirty of the enemy were shot down on the occasion.” He was also mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. His elder brother, 2nd Lieut. John Pepys, was killed in action at Mons, 23 Aug. 1914 (see following notice).

PEPYS, JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, eldest s. of Capt. Arthur Pepys, of Knowle House, Budleigh Salterton, late 60th Rifles, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the Rev. John Lomax; b. Budleigh Salterton, co. Devon, 7 May, 1890; educ. Charterhouse, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst: gazetted 2nd Lieut. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 9 Nov. 1910; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Mons, on the 23rd, three hours after going into action as machine-gun officer; unm. Buried at Wasmes. His younger brother, 2nd Lieut. Francis Pepys, D.S.O., was killed in action at Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914 (see preceding notice).