The Roll of Honour (part 1)

ABBAY, MARMADUKE JOHN NORMAN, Capt., 87th Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the Rev. Richard Abbay, Rector of Earl Soham, Framlingham, Hon. Canon of Norwich, and Alderman of East Suffolk, by his wife, Janet, dau. of the Rev. Canon C. F. Norman, and grandson of Thomas Abbay, of Great Ouseburn; b. Earl Soham Rectory, co. Suffolk, 3 Nov. 1885; educ. at The College, Framlingham; Mr. T. Eastman’s, Winchester, and at Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Dorsetshire Regt. 16 Aug. 1905; promoted Lieut. and transferred to the 87th Punjabis, 16 Nov. 1907, and Capt. 16 Aug. 1914. On the outbreak of war he was attached to the 47th Sikhs, Lahore Division, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was slightly wounded at Neuve Chapelle, 10–14 March, 1915, where only one British officer out of ten was untouched; and in the attack at Ypres on Sunday, 25 April, when the machine gun bearer—a Sikh—was struck down, Capt. Abbay took the gun and carried it, drawing the fire of the enemy on himself, until he fell badly wounded. Being very hot with his exertions and faint from loss of blood, he told his men to pour cold water over him, and they, being Indians, did so. The result was that, besides being very seriously wounded, he was very ill when he reached the hospital at Boulogne, the wound would not heal, and he was unable to survive the third serious operation, and died under an anaesthetic on 10 May. He was brought home and buried with military honours at Earl Soham. Bronze memorial tablets by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, Bt., R.A., have been placed in the churches of Earl Soham, Suffolk, and Great Ouseburn, Yorkshire. His two brothers are (1916) on Active Service—Major Bryan Abbay as second in command of the 20th Royal Fusiliers (3rd Public Schools Battn.,) and Lieut. Ambrose Abbay, in command of the Destroyer Garry.

ABBOT, JOHN, Private, No. 3248, 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt.; was employed at Mr. J. Fletcher’s Great Lever Brickworks, Bolton; enlisted on the outbreak of war; went to France early in April, 1915, and was killed in action on the Western Front, June following, aged 19.

ABBOTT, ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5365), S.S. 99, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ABBOTT, CHARLES THOMAS, Coy. Q.M. Sergt., No. 5080, B Coy., 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., s. of Graves Abbott, Sergt. 1st Battn. Royal Scottish Fusiliers; b. Secunderabad, India, 13 Sept, 1881; enlisted 15 April, 1896; served in the South African War (Medal with Clasps), in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action 24 May, 1915. He m. at Karachi, 9 Dec. 1908, Margaret Helen, dau. of John William Gorbey, of Carrick-on-Suir, and had a son and two daus: Henry Graves, b. Agra, 17 Nov. 1910; Agnes May, b. Agra, 2 Oct. 1909; and Ellen Rewa, b. on the troopship Rewa in the Bay of Biscay, 26 Dec. 1911. Sergt. Abbott’s brother-in-law, Corpl. Frank R. Gorbey, D.C.M., was killed in action, 23 April, 1915.

ABBOTT, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 16125, 1st Coy. Grenadier Guards, eldest s. of William Abbott, of 123, Ranelagh Road, Ipswich; killed in action in France, 26 Oct. 1914, aged 20.

ABBOTT, FREDERICK CHARLES, Corpl., No. 20738, 10th Battn. 1st Canadian Contingent, yr. s. of Frederick Charles Abbott, of S. Mildred’s, Salters Hill, Norwood, S.E., Solicitor; b. Brixton, 2 Feb. 1885; educ. at Dulwich College; was Assistant Baggage Master, C.P. Railway, at Medicine Hat, Alberta. On the outbreak of war joined the Canadian Contingent, Sept. 1914, was promoted Corpl. April, 1915, and was killed in action in the second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm.

ABBOTT, ROBERT, A.B., 211311, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ABBOTTS, HARRY, Private No. 16814, 5th Battn. Shropshire L.I., s. of David Abbotts, of Brierley Hill, co. Stafford, and Hampton Charles, co. Hereford, by his wife, Jane (d. 19 May, 1912), dau. of Richard Bedford, of Bromyard, co. Hereford; b. Hampton Charles, 4 May, 1896; educ. Bockleton National School; enlisted, 3 Feb. 1914; was sent to the Front at his own repeated request, and died of wounds received in a bayonet charge at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1914. After being wounded he was removed to the trench occupied by the Durhams, where he died. Corpl. R. J. Smith wrote: “At 3 a.m. on 25 Sept. the big guns started to clear the way for the R.B.’s, O. and C.’s, Bucks and Shropshires to get over the parapet ... all too eager they went before it was intended, and the R.B.’s fell to a man, principally owing to a mine being exploded. Five only crawled back. The O. and C.’s and Bucks in the middle found no support for them, but still went on with the Shropshires on the right, and gained their goal, ‘but owing to the heavy losses and no supports being forthcoming’ the ground gained had to be left again, and most of the casualties of the Shropshires happened then. Your brother managed to get back to our lines, and everything possible was done for him and others, but this was not much in the trenches in the daytime. He died 8.30 a.m. 26 Sept. in the traverse I was in charge of.”

ABBS, TOM WILLIAM ROBERT, S.B.A., M. 4398, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ABEL, CLAUD CECIL, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B.1884), Ch. 12162, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ABERCROMBIE, ROBERT HENRY CHESTER, 2nd Lieut., 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt., only s. of Chester Abercrombie, of Ashberrie, Ruislip, Middlesex, by his wife Ada, dau. of Robert Large Baker, of Leamington, M.D.; b. Willesden, N.W.; educ. at Woodriding School, Pinner, and Elstow School, where he was a member of the O.T.C. On leaving school he entered the London County & Westminster Bank, and was successively in the St. John’s Wood, Hanover Square, Uxbridge and Hastings branches, and after the outbreak of war joined the 2/9th Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. in Oct. 1914; was promoted Corpl. in Nov. and Sergt. in Dec.; obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. with the 3/8th Battn. of the same regt. in March, 1915, and the following month was transferred to the 1/8th Battn., then in Flanders. In the fighting at Frezenberg, near Ypres, 3 May, 1915, the company were detached as escort to the artillery, and he was killed while in command (the other company officers having been all killed or disabled) in the act of helping a wounded comrade. Buried in Poperinghe Cemetery; unm.

ABERDEEN, JAMES, Corpl., No. 5391, B Coy., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, s. of (—); b. Durham, 8 June, 1880; joined Army 10 July, 1900, served nine years with the Colours and five years in the Reserve, and had a medal with 4 clasps for the South African Campaign. On the outbreak of war he was called up, and after going through the Battle of Ypres, was killed by a shell on 30 April, 1915, while resting in a wood. He m. 20 March, 1900, Brandon, co. Durham, Margaret Hannah, dau. of George Stringer, of New Brancepeth, Durham, and had two children: James Gordon, b. 16 May, 1913, and Vera Rebecca, b. 19 Oct. 1911.

ABRAM, ERNEST WILLIAM, P.O. (N.S.), 167361, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915; m.

ABRAMS, FREDERICK, L.-Corpl., No. 9504, 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 3rd s. of the late William Abrams, of Portsmouth; killed in action on the Western Front, 23 April, 1915, aged 23.

ABRAMS, HAROLD JAMES, A.B., No. 233190, H.M.S. Good Hope, 2nd s. of the late William Abrams, of Portsmouth; lost in the naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914, aged 25.

ABRATTHAT, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), B. 1999, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ACTON, WILLIAM ALBERT, Private, No. 9952, 2nd Battn. L.N. Lancashire Regt., s. of William Samuel Acton, of 26, Stansfield Road, Brixton, S.W., Labourer; b. Bow, E., 2 June, 1891; joined the Army 28 Feb. 1910, served two years at Preston and Tidworth, was drafted to India in Sept. 1912, and whilst serving there gained certificates for signalling and firing; in Jan. 1915, accompanied the Indian Expeditionary Force to British East Africa, and was killed in action at Makton, 3 Sept. 1915; unm.

ADAM, THOMAS, Corpl., No. 5558, Royal Scots Greys, 2nd s. of the late George Adam, of Edinburgh, Merchant; killed in action on the Western Front, 10 Sept. 1914, aged 28.

ADAMS, CLARE ROBERT, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ADAMS, ERNEST ALEXANDER HECTOR, Leading Seaman, 206926, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADAMS, FRANCIS HENRY, Private, No. 10349, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edwin Adams, of New Barn, Stanton Fitzwarren, Highworth, Wilts; reported missing between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action in France between these dates.

ADAMS, FREDERICK, Canteen Assistant, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ADAMS. GEOFFREY LLOYD, Private, No. 1711, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., 4th s. of the late George Frederick Adams, of Cardiff, M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, Ellen Gertrude, Ty-Draw, Parkstone, dau. of Frank Irwin, of Ebbw Vale, co. Monmouth, M.D.; b. Penarth, co. Glamorgan, 9 Aug. 1881; educ. Bedford Grammar School. While at Bedford School he was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Certificate for saving the life of a little child at Cardington Mill, near Bedford. Enlisted in Princess Patricia’s L.I. in Ottawa after the outbreak of war, 1 Oct. 1914. Killed in action at Bellewarde Lake, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was loved and respected by his comrades and trusted by his officers. I say in all sincerity that no braver man ever lived than G. Lloyd Adams. He died facing the enemy with his rifle in his hand, and twice they drove them back.”

ADAMS, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, (R.F.R.), B. 2978, 299119, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADAMS, GEORGE STOPFORD, Major, 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, elder and only surviving s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Cadwallader Adams, C.B., late Col. 49th Foot (served in the Crimean War, wounded at Inkerman), by his wife, Ann Catherine Elizabeth (66, St. George’s Square, S.W.), dau. of Brig.-Gen. James Stopford, C.B., and grandson of the late Henry Cadwallader Adams, of Anstey Hall, co. Warwick, J.P., D.L.; b. Belgum, India, 2 July, 1872; educ. Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted (Hon. Queen’s Cadet) as 2nd Lieut. Lancashire Fusiliers, 25 Feb. 1893, and promoted Lieut. 10 July, 1895, Capt. 9 Oct. 1899, and Major 30 April, 1913, and was Adjutant of Volunteers, 15 July, 1904, to 14 Jan. 1908; served in the South African War, 30 Nov. 1900–31 May, 1902; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony (Queen’s medal with four clasps), and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915; was present at “Lancashire Landing” on Beach W, Gallipoli, 24–25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there 11 May following. On reaching the beach on the 25th, a withering fire from right left and centre was poured into them, and many were instantly killed, including the subaltern on his right, and the Sergt. with the wire-cutter on his left. Major Adams at once seized the wire-cutter from him and cut a lane through the barbed wire, through which he and the survivors of his company rushed. Owing to submersion in the water the breech mechanism of their rifles had become clogged. Major Adams therefore gave the order to fix bayonets, and they charged up the heights and drove the Turks from their trenches. The Colonel-in-Chief wrote: “I have heard from many in the regt. of the particularly fine behaviour and leading of your son, and I know that in his case the V.C. was thoroughly deserved.” The Colonel wrote: “It is far the worst loss we have suffered, and has cast a gloom over the whole battn., as he was so popular with all ranks.” He m. at St. Matthew’s Church, Denmark Hill, London, 12 July, 1905, Muriel Ada (3, Rectory Place, Guildford), dau. of John Cooke Harker, of Danehurst, Champion Hill, S.W., and had a son, Derric John Stopford, b. 17 Jan. 1907.

ADAMS, GEORGE THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9765), 205993, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ADAMS, JOHN GOOLD, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), s. of the Ven. John Michael Goold Adams, Rector of Clonleigh, co. Donegal, and Archdeacon of Derry, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Robert McClintock, of Dunmore, co. Donegal, D.L.; b. Rossdowney Vicarage, Londonderry, 10 Oct. 1883; educ. Bilton Grange Preparatory School, Rugby, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Leinster Regt. 22 April, 1903, becoming Lieut. 15 Dec. 1904, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1912; served at Pretoria, 1903–4. with the Mounted Infantry at Harrismith, 1904–5, and in the Mauritius, 1905–6, and was employed with the West African Frontier Force in Northern Nigeria, 1908 to Nov. 1913. After the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he accompanied his regiment to France (Dec. 23), was wounded in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 4 May following. He m. at Moneyguyneen, Birr, King’s County, 5 Aug. 1913, Ierne Grace, dau. of Assheton Biddulph, M.F.H., of Moneyguyneen aforesaid; s.p.

ADAMS, LAURENCE KINGSTON, M.A., A.R.I.B.A., Lieut., 7th King’s Liverpool Regt., s. of William Adams, of Wyndcliffe, Birkdale, co. Lancs, by his wife, Celia; b. New Brighton, co. Chester, 10 Aug. 1886; educ. Elleray Park School, Wallasey, Cheshire, Shrewsbury School, and Liverpool Univ.; joined the 7th King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.) as 2nd Lieut. in 1908, becoming Lieut. four years later. On the outbreak of war the entire regiment volunteered for foreign service and proceeded to the front early in March, 1915. Lieut. Adams fell at the head of his platoon in the attack on the enemy’s trenches at Richebourg on the night of 15–16 May. They had gained the first trench, and he was shot dead on the parapet of the second trench. His brother-in-law, Capt. Marriott, of the same regiment, and six willing privates had his body removed and buried in the Rue du Bois, about two miles south-west of Neuve Chapelle. A cross bearing his name marks the spot. After leaving Shrewsbury he graduated at Liverpool Univ., taking his degree with first-class honours in architecture, later becoming an A.R.I.B.A.

ADAMS, ROBERT JOB, Rifleman, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regiment, s. of William George Adams, of 139, Green Street, Bethnal Green, China and Hardware Dealer, by his wife, Jane Sophia, dau. of Robert Ormes; b. Bethnal Green, E., 19 Feb. 1895; educ. Bonner Street L.C.C. School, and became a clerk in the Wool Department of the Port of London Authority at the London Docks. Having originally joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles 14 April, 1910, he rejoined 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war, went to the Front with his regt., 17th County of London, and was killed in action at Le Philosophe, between 9 and 10 a.m. on 11 June, 1915; unm. His company officer (Capt. J. Evan Evans) wrote: “He was on sentry duty, and with great keenness was trying to locate a sniper who had been seen to move earlier in the morning, unfortunately too much of his head showed over the parapet which resulted in him being struck by a bullet believed to be an explosive one. I do hope this will be of some consolation to you to know that he played a man’s game and died a man’s death in face of the enemy. Death was instantaneous with no suffering whatever.” Adams was secretary of the Christian Endeavour Society of the Grove Road Baptist Chapel and was a good all-round athlete. He won his school prize for swimming at the age of eleven.

ADAMS, ROLAND, Signal Boy, J. 23322, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADAMS, THOMAS HENRY, A.B. (Ch. R.F.R., B. 6034), late No. 188155, R.N., s. of Thomas Henry Hicks Adams; b. Buxton, 8 Aug. 18—; entered Navy, April, 1897, and was lost on the Aboukir, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. Lancaster, 18 April, 1908, Mary Ellen, dau. of William Thomas Beattie, and leaves two sons: Thomas, b. 10 July, 1910, and Harry, b. 29 March, 1912.

ADAMS, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3866), S.S. 101726, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADAMS, WALTER FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4909), 195243, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADAMS, WILLIAM, L.-Corpl., No. 11241, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William James Adams, of 78, Brighton Road, Watford, Gardener, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of James Borthwick; b. East Finchley, N., 11 Jan. 1887; educ. St. Matthew’s School, Ipswich; enlisted after the declaration of war, in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Richébourg, 14 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery.

ADAMS, WILLIAM FREDERICK, Private, No. 7115, 29th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of William James Adams, of Middle Street, Preston, Canada (now on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force); b. London, 21 Sept. 1897; went to Canada; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; crossed to France in Feb., and died 7 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Langemarck; unm.

ADAMSON, DAVID, Private, No. 8233, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Adamson of 2, North George Street, Dundee; b. Pettenween, co. Fife; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action 14 June, 1915.

ADAMSON, JOHN EDWARD, No. 10473, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, nephew and adopted s. of Stephen Adamson, of South View, South Pelaw, Chester-le-Street; b. Durham; d. 2 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Cuinchy; unm.

ADAMSON, THOMAS, formerly of the Bank of Scotland, Corpl., No. S/11312, 2nd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, yst. s. of Robert Adamson, of Garfield, Cardross; killed in action in France, 11 May, 1915, aged 24.

ADAMSON, WALTER BENJAMIN, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27366, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Samuel Adamson, of 4, London Road, Halesworth, co. Suffolk; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ADDLEY, EDWARD, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 3401, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

ADDY, EDWARD, Lieut., 9th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Edward Addy, of Catfield, co. Norfolk, by his wife, Marion, dau. of John Garrod, of Swaffham, Norfolk; b. Ludham, co. Norfolk, 5 July, 1873; enlisted in the Norfolk Regt. in 1888, and served in that same regiment for twenty-two years, being for ten years Colour-Sergt.-Instructor at Bungay, Yarmouth, and Gorleston-on-Sea; was afterwards for seven years in India, and went to Australia in 1911. There he joined the Commonwealth Forces as a Staff-Sergt.-Major, and when war broke out volunteered for Active Service with the 9th Battn. of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force. He was gazetted Lieut. 24 July, 1915; left for Egypt with his Battn. and proceeded to the Dardanelles, taking part in the landing; died from dysentery in Imtarfa Hospital, Malta, 17 Aug. 1915. Lieut. Addy had a Good Conduct Medal, and also a medal with two bars for the Tirah and Punjab Frontier skirmishes. He m. at Colchester, 31 Oct. 1900, Annie Laurie Gladden (72, Magdalen Street, Colchester), dau. of John Gladden, and had two sons and two daus.: Edward John, b. 27 April 1907; Raymond Clive, b. 27 Feb. 1913; Dorothy May, b. 6 Aug. 1904 and Pearl Mary, b. 30 Aug. 1910.

ADDYMAN, WILLIAM JOHN, Officers’ Steward, 2nd Class, L. 645 (Chat.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ADEANE, HENRY ROBERT AUGUSTUS, Capt. 4th, attd. 1st, Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Admiral Edward Stanley Adeane, R.N., C.M.G., by his wife, Lady Edith Isabella Dalzell, 2nd dau. of Harry Burrard, 14th Earl of Carnwath; b. 28, Eaton Place, S.W., 31 July, 1882; educ. Winchester and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Coldstream Guards 18 Jan. 1902; promoted Capt. 1910, and retired 17 May, 1913. On mobilisation he rejoined the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5 Aug., and was killed in action near Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, with the 1st Battn. He m. at the Chapel Royal, St. James’ Palace, 15 Sept. 1909, Victoria Eugenie, dau. of Col. Sir Arthur Bigge, now Lord Stamfordham, and had a son, Michael Edward, b. 30 Sept. 1910.

ADLAM, ARTHUR WILLS, Private, No. 1269, 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Richard Wills Adlam, Superintendent of Public Parks in Johannesburg (b. co. Wilts., England; d. 17 July, 1903), by his wife, Grace Campbell (49, West Savile Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of Duncan McDiarmid; b. Johannesburg, 7 Jan. 1895; came home with his mother after his father’s death; entered the service of the British Linen Co. Bank on leaving school in 1911; joined the Banker’s Coy. of the Royal Scots in Feb. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left Liverpool about the end of May, 1915, and landed at the Dardanelles, 14 June, and was killed in action there in the attack on Achi Baba, 28 June, 1915; unm. He was twice hit early in the charge, and was endeavouring to get back to the dressing station when he was again struck, this time fatally.

ADMANS, WALTER GEORGE, Corpl., No. 13092, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Walter William Admans, of Sunnyside Cottage, Newbury, Farmer, by his wife (1st son), Jane Sophia, dau. of (—); b. Kentish Town, London, 3 Dec. 1889; educ. Charlton Road School there; enlisted 6 Oct. 1914; was severely wounded in the head at the Battle of Hooge, 10 Aug. 1915, and d. at Calais, 13 Aug. following, being buried in the Southern Cemetery there. He m. at Oxford, 26 July, 1909, Alice Elizabeth (Avon Villas, Avon Street, Stoke, Coventry), dau. of Eli John Greenwood, of Magdalen Road, Oxford, and had two children: Walter William John, b. 25 Jan. 1910, and Dorothy Mary Alice, b. 30 July, 1912.

ADSHEAD, WILLIAM, Private, No. 12294, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Thomas Adshead, of 47, Ermott Street, Stepney, E.; killed in action on the Western Front, 15 Feb. 1915.

AFFLECK, LEWIS ALEXANDER, Private, No. 8494, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of George Affleck, of Loanhead, Midlothian; b. Lesmahagow, co. Lanark; killed in action on the Western Front, 12 Nov. 1914.

AGER, JAMES ALFRED, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19331, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

AGNEW, NATHANIEL, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8676), S.S. 105083, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

AIKENHEAD, ROBERT, Private, No. 27853, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Major Frank Aikenhead, commanding The (Somerset) R.H.A., by his wife, Mabel, dau. of the late Major-Gen. Edward Andrée Wylde, R.M.L.I., and grandson of the late Robert Aikenhead, of Otterington Hall, near Northallerton; b. Southsea, 22 April, 1892; educ. Cheltenham College. Was Commercial Editor of the “Toronto News,” but on the outbreak of war enlisted in the 48th Highlanders, and was killed in the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He displayed the greatest gallantry and courage, and though severely wounded and gassed, continued fighting till killed by a bullet in the head. He was always brave and cheerful, and one of the best.” A memorial tablet has been erected to his memory in the Great Elm Parish Church, Somerset.

AINAND, CHARLES, Private, No. G. 5942, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; killed in action on the Western Front, 30 April, 1915; m.

AINDOW, FRANK NORMAN, Sapper, No. 47873, 14th Division, 89th Field Co., R.E., 2nd s. of George Aindow, of 10, Cunard Road, Litherland, Liverpool, Bricklayer, by his wife, Eliza, 3rd dau. of Thomas Potts; b. Litherland, near Liverpool, 6 Dec. 1896; educ. Church School there; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; killed in action at Ypres while working in the first line of trenches; buried at Cambridge Road Junction, Ypres; unm.

AINGE, GEORGE ALFRED, Private, No. G. 845, 1st Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; killed in action on the Western Front, 16 May, 1915; m.

AINGER, HAROLD, 1st Class Boy, C.Y. 27513, H.M.S. Hawke, 2nd s. of Charles Ainger, of Horsley Cross, Mistley, Essex, Horseman on Farm, by his wife, Annie, dau. of James Goby; b. Horsley Cross, 16 Nov. 1897; educ. St. John’s School there; entered H.M.S. Ganges at Shotley, 15 Sept. 1913; was transferred to H.M.S. Hawke at Chatham in Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

AINGER, JOHN, Corpl., No. 11337, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Christopher Ainger, of 14, Southern Road, Fulham; killed in action on the Western Front, 23 Dec. 1914.

AINLEY, CHARLES ERNEST, Private, No. 1638, 4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Frederick Ainley, of 51, Cogan Street, Hull; b. Hull, 9 March, 1896; educ. South Myton School there; joined the Army, 18 Aug. 1912, and was shot through the head during a battle of Hill 60 by a sniper whilst leaving a trench and instantaneously killed on 1 May, 1915; unm. Before entering the Army he was an apprentice with Messrs. King & Co.

AINSLEY, GEORGE HENRY, Private, No. 7834, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was reported missing after the fighting on 31 Oct. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. He m. Susan (254, Bensham Road, Thornton Heath).

AINSLIE, DENYS ALFRED LAFOUE, Lieut., 1st Battn. Devonshire Regt., 3rd s. of William Langstaff Ainslie, of Hanworth House, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Alfred Lafoue; b. Hanworth Park, 21 May, 1894; educ. Wellington College, Berks. Joined 3rd Reserve Battn. Devonshire Regt. in Jan. 1911, promoted Lieut. 25 April, 1913; gazetted to the 1st Battn. as 2nd Lieut. 14 Aug. 1914, killed in action at Givenchy 24 Oct. following; buried there. He was promoted Lieut. (after death) March, 1915. Col. Boles (commanding 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt.) wrote: “We deplore the loss of a capable and gallant officer, and one who was most popular with all ranks.” And the chief of the Tutorial Staff of the Law Society says: “No one who knew Ainslie could fail to be impressed by the charm of his character, and attracted by his personality.”

AINSLIE, EDWARD, Private, No. 5860, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; killed in action on the Western Front, 15 Dec. 1914; m.

AINSWORTH, PHILIP, Private, No. G 4661, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., killed in action on the Western Front, 9 May, 1915.

AINSWORTH, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 3198, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. Leicester; enlisted 8 Jan. 1900; became L.-Corpl. 14 March, 1910; Corpl. 11 July, 1912; L.-Sergt. 18 July, 1914, and Sergt. 9 Aug. following; served in South Africa, 16 Jan. to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; killed in action, 13 Sept. 1914.

AITCHISON, RONALD ANDREW COLQUHOUN, Lieut. 1st Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., only s. of Gowrie Colquhoun Aitchison, of South Collingham, Newark-on-Trent, Lieut.-Col., 2/5th Battn. Sherwood Foresters, by his wife, Rose Mabel, dau. of Thomas Smith Woolley; b. Burbage, co. Derby, 27 Dec. 1894; educ. at Hillside, Godalming, Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own, 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted 9 Dec. 1914. Went to France with his regiment in Aug. 1914; was first in action at Cambray on 26 Aug., and was through all the subsequent actions in which the regiment was engaged, including the Battle of the Marne and the crossing of the Aisne; wounded in action near Armentieres, 14 Dec. 1914, and died a few hours later; unm. He was buried in the convent garden at Le Bizet. He had been recommended for accelerated promotion to Capt. about a month before his death, and a Staff Officer wrote: “Ever since the beginning of the war your son has done splendidly, his bravery was well known.... The men I know were devoted to him.... He was recommended on two separate occasions for gallantry on Aug. 26, and since then was again mentioned.”

AITKEN, JAMES HOME, Private, No. 6/4, 1st Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of James Home Rigg Aitken, of Canterbury, New Zealand (8th s. of John Aitken, of Cupar, Writer, and great-grandson of John Aitken, of Thornton, co. Fife), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of Stanley Bouchier, of Tipperary, and nephew of Col. Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken, V.C., one of the defenders of Lucknow; b. Christchurch, N.Z., 15 Dec. 1887; educ. Christ’s College there, and Canterbury College. Was attorney and chief agent in Christchurch of the Northern Insurance Co., and of the Indemnity Mutual, and also a member of the firm of Aitken Bros., sharebrokers, of Hereford Street. He had for a number of years been Capt. Commanding the Queen’s Cadets, but had relinquished his command owing to pressure of business, and when war broke out, no commissions being available, he joined the ranks rather than remain behind and await his chance of receiving one. He was killed near Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli, 5 May, 1915: unm. Writing to his brother, Gen. Sir A. J. Godley said: “He had been my special orderly since we landed here, and had been invaluable to me. On the 5th, the day he was killed, he was with me as usual, carrying my telescope, as he always did, and with his rifle, acting as my escort. We happened to be in one of the most forward posts when it was attacked in the afternoon by a considerable body of Turks, who, in addition to heavy rifle fire, were also throwing bombs. Some of the men were rather shaken by the explosion of a bomb in their midst, and Aitken was most cool and plucky in helping to rally them. He then helped me to extend some supports that came up, and shortly afterwards, the attack having been repulsed and having died away, I started to walk down the hill, thinking he was following me, and it was not until I reached the foot of the hill that I missed him. I then sent word back to let him know that I would walk slowly on down the valley and that he would catch me up, and it was not till I had gone some way and met Tahu Rhodes, that we began to be uneasy about him, and sent back again, with the result that, to my great grief, I heard he had been hit in the chest and had a lacerated wound, evidently from a bomb, and had died on the stretcher on which he was being brought down the valley. My two A.D.Cs., Major J. H. Hughes and Lieut. Tahu Rhodes, have carved a wooden cross, which will be placed on his grave.” Aitken was a member of the ’Varsity first fifteen, and one of the best half-mile, mile, and cross-country runners Canterbury has ever produced. He served for several years as secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, and he was also actively connected with the United Tennis Club and the Hagley Golf Club. His next elder brother, Edward Bouchier Aitken, served in Egypt, and is now (1916) serving in France with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

AITKEN, SIDNEY CHARLES, Private, No. 10447, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles William Aitken, of 72, Clinton Lane, Kenilworth; b. Warwick; killed in action on the Western Front, 23 Oct. 1914. Buried 700 yards south of cross roads, north-west of Zonnebeke.

AITON, ANDREW ALFRED, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1045). 143845, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

AKED, GEORGE, Lieut., 5th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George Aked, of Mapperley Park, Nottingham, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Wilkins; b. 19 April, 1895; educ. at Nottingham High School, where he served in the O.T.C. for two and a-half years, and was one of the High School Contingent reviewed by the King at Windsor in 1911. He received an appointment in the Nottingham and Notts Bank at Shepshed, near Loughboro in 1911, and in 1912, when a company of the 5th Leicesters was formed at Shepshed, he was given a commission 26 Oct. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 30 Aug. 1914. He was the only resident officer at Shepshed and had sole charge of the training of the company. At the outbreak of war the battalion was in camp and after various duties in England, including night guard near Enfield, they went to France in Feb. 1915, and were immediately sent to the Front. He was killed in action at Le Bizet, 5 March, 1915; unm. Lieut.-Col. Jones in command wrote as follows: “We have lost in him an officer of much promise. He had developed very rapidly since he joined us. He was extraordinarily conscientious in his work, and everything his duty called him to do he did faithfully, thoroughly and well.” He was buried near Armentières.

AKEHURST, ALEXANDER JAMES, Private, No. 1539, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Alfred Akehurst, of Walters Farm Cottage, Ticehurst, Sussex, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Susannah, dau. of George Cheesman; b. Etchingham, co. Sussex, 22 June, 1896; educ. Frimwell School; was a farm labourer on Walters Farm; joined the Sussex Territorials, 29 Aug. 1912; mobilised, 5 Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war; went with his battn. to Dover and then to the Tower, where he volunteered for Imperial service; left England for the Front, 18 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Carency, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried about half a mile from St. Vaast.

ALCOCK, HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6711), S.S. 999, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ALDER, DAVID, Petty Officer, 212628, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALDER, WILLIAM STANLEY, Corpl., No. 11057, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Joseph George Alder, of 35, Floyd Street, Charlton, S.E., by his wife, Emma, dau. of John Gilson; b. East Greenwich, 13 Oct. 1896; educ. Christ Church School there; enlisted 8 or 10 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 1 Feb. 1915; unm. He was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery (Section C, Grave No. 4).

ALDERSON, HENRY, Corpl., No. 5902, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Alderson, of 33, Martin Street, Sheffield, Carpenter; b. Sheffield, 18 Nov. 1885; educ. there; enlisted Oct. 1904, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914. He m. at St. Andrew’s Church, Islington, 24 Dec. 1911, Ethel Francis (75, Copenhagen Street, Islington, N.), dau. of Thomas Barker, of London, and had a son, Edward Thomas, b. 21 July, 1913.

ALDERSON, JOSEPH, Private, No. 423, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of James Alderson, of Ingleboro’ House, Formby, near Liverpool, Farmer and Butcher, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of William Ellison, of Yorkshire; b. Duke’s Farm, Formby, 27 July, 1890; educ. Clitheroe Grammar School, and was then articled to a well-known firm of solicitors in Liverpool. After two years of office life he felt the need of open living, so went to Canada, where he joined the Saskatoon police force, and quickly rose to a detective. On the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, he at once joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, known as “The Little Black Devils,” and came over with the first contingent. After being in several engagements he was killed, 3 June, 1915, by a “coal-box” shell which exploded at the door of a dug-out he was leaving, in a communication trench known as “Gunners siding” in Givenchy; death was instantaneous. He was buried in an orchard behind the trenches.

ALDERTON, ARTHUR, Arm. Mate, 342982, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALDERTON, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3310), 176323, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALDISS, HARRY, Stoker, P.O. 283643, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALDOUS, CECIL, A.B., 211922, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

ALDOUS, WILLIAM, Private, No. 8286, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.; died on active service with the Expeditionary Force in France, 20 Sept. 1914; m.

ALDRED, JOHN WILLIAM, A.B., R.F.R., B. 2386, 208914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALDRIDGE, DAVID, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 14961, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALDRIDGE, ERNEST SIDNEY, Private, No. 9720, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt., s. of William Harry Aldridge, of 5, Curzon Road, Chatham; died 4 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action on the Western Front.

ALDRIDGE, REGINALD JOHN PETTY DEVENISH, Capt. 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of the late Reginald Aldridge, of Poole, Dorset, Solicitor; b. Poole, co. Dorset, 7 Sept. 1877; educ. privately and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. Degree, and won his blue for football, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Sussex Regt. 23 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 21 March, 1903, and Capt. 1 April, 1910. In 1902 he was Instructor of Signalling at Kasauli, and in 1904 commanded a company of Mounted Infantry in Malta. He was attached to the West African Regt. from May, 1905 to Jan. 1908, being Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster from June, 1906, to Jan. 1908, and was Adjutant to the 2nd Royal Guernsey L.I. Jan. 1908, to Jan. 1912, when he rejoined his regt. at Woking. He went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed instantaneously by a high explosive shell, 7 Oct. 1914, while preparing to return to the trenches for the night. He was buried in the little churchyard at Troyon. He m. in London, 5 May, 1908, Mabel Dulcibella (Broadlands, 2, Prideaux Road, Eastbourne), yst. dau. of the late Rev. John Padmore Noble, of 20, Palace Court, London, W., formerly Vicar of Childs Ercall, Market Drayton, and had two children: Reginald, b. (posthumous), 24 Dec. 1914, and Dulcibella, b. 24 Dec. 1909.

ALDRIDGE, THOMAS, Sapper, No. 1103, Kent Fortress R.E. (T.F.), s. of John Aldridge, of 50, Cambridge Road, Strood; died at Sheerness, 16 Aug. 1914, of pneumonia contracted on active service.

ALDRIDGE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 1540, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Absolam Aldridge, of Aston Farm, Wallingford, Berks; enlisted 18 March, 1898; served at Gibraltar, 10 March to 27 Oct. 1899, and in South Africa, 28 Oct. 1899, to 20 July, 1902 (Queen’s medal with six clasps: “Belmont,” “Modder River,” “Dreifontein,” “Johannesburg,” “Diamond Hill” and “Belfast”; King’s medal with two clasps: “South Africa, 1901,” “South Africa, 1902”); obtained his discharge, 17 March, 1910; re-enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 8 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915.

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

ALEXANDER, ERNEST, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5030, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

ALEXANDER, JAMES, Private, No. 27032, A Coy., 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of James Alexander, of 3, Eastmount Avenue, Toronto, formerly of Drumoak, Scotland, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Andrew Milne, of Echt, Aberdeenshire; b. West Cairnton, Peterculter, co. Aberdeen, 9 July, 1892; educ. Drumoak Public School, and Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen; on leaving the latter, joined his father at Niagara Falls, Canada, afterwards going with him to Toronto. Here he spent several years with the firm of Cockburn and Bundy, wholesale milliners, during which time he gained the respect of all. After being with them for one year, he became one of their travellers, and was making a success of his work. He was an enthusiastic member and officer of the Prince of Orange Lodge, No. 111, of Toronto. When war was declared, he volunteered for overseas service, 11 Aug. 1914, and left Canada with the first contingent. He was gassed, wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of St. Julien, and died of wounds about 27 April, 1915; unm. He was buried at Moorseele.

ALEXANDER, THOMAS, Blk. Mate, M. 7537, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALGIE, ROBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5311), S.S. 40, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

ALLAN, CHARLES, Private, No. 10957, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Allan, of 195, South Glen Craig, Loch Gelly, Fife, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of F. Connor, of co. Derry; b. Habern-on-Tyne; educ. Loch Gelly; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received in action, 9 Jan. 1915; unm. He was buried in Boulogne Cemetery (Grave No. 1041).

ALLAN, JOHN MEIN, Private, No. 1078, 5th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Volunteers) Royal Scots, s. of Andrew Allan, Machine Printer, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of William Mein; b. Edinburgh, 1 Dec. 1894; educ. North Canongate School; joined the Queen’s Edinburgh Volunteers in 1907, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 May, 1915; unm. Buried near the village of Krithia. He held the Long Service medal. Writing to his mother, Private J. M. Anderson, a comrade, said: “Allan’s section was told off to clear a wood, and had got to the centre of it, when a machine gun was turned on them and your son was shot through the head.”

ALLAN, PETER, Private, No. 7173, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; killed in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915; m.

ALLAN, THOMAS MARTIN, Seaman, R.N.R. 3133C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALLARD, DONALD, Private, No. 73, 10th (South Australian) Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of William Henry Allard, of Messrs. Baillieu Allard Proprietary, Ltd., of 360, Collins Street, Melbourne, by his wife, Florence Benson, dau. of John Wilson, of Brighton, Victoria; b. Elsternwick, Melbourne, 2 June, 1891; educ. Brighton Grammar School, Melbourne. Joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force on mobilisation, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, was wounded in the subsequent fighting, and was killed by shrapnel at Gallipoli, when going to the beach, 18 May, 1915; unm. He was one of the twelve who volunteered to land for the purpose of cutting barbed wire, and landed before day broke on 25 April, 1915. His brother, William Keith Allard, was in the Southland when she was torpedoed and blown up by a howitzer, and suffered from concussion and was invalided home.

ALLCHIN, ALBERT GEORGE, A.B., J. 4333, H.M.S. Laurel; died of wounds received in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

ALLCOCK, HERBERT ERNEST, Private, No. 6774, 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., s. of Charles Allcock, by his wife, Emma, dau. of J.... Brett; b. Norfolk, Oct. 1882; educ. Burley Road Board School there; joined the Army 14 June, 1902, and served eight years with the Colours, three years being spent in India, and received two good conduct stripes and cross guns. He rejoined at the outbreak of war, and was killed in action in France 18 Oct. 1914. He m. Leeds, 29 July, 1911, Ethel Rose (30a, Greenlow Avenue, Burley, Leeds), dau. of (—) Bloomfield, and had issue two children: Winifred Emma, b. 24 Aug. 1912, and Ellen Kathleen, b. 18 April, 1914.

ALLCORN, HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, R.F.R., B. 4624, S.S. 103841, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALLEN, ARTHUR JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1318), late Ch. 14735, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALLEN, DANIEL, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch., B. 5107), 206565 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

ALLEN, HENRY, Petty Officer, 191506, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALLEN, HENRY, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 1920), 160090, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALLEN, JOHN CECIL, Private, No. 2602, 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), only s. of John Allen, Engineman (6, Queen Alexandra Road West, North Shields), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Jacob Williamson, of Ryhope; b. Ryhope, 20 Oct. 1897; educ. Jubilee School and Municipal High School, Tynemouth; joined Northumberland Fusiliers about 20 Sept. 1914; killed in action at St. Julien, near Ypres, 26 April, 1915; unm.

ALLEN, JOHN FRANCIS, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7329, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALLEN, JOHN HUGH, Lieut., 13th (Service) Battn. Worcestershire Regt., attd. Essex Regt., s. of Col. the Hon. James Allen, Minister of Defence, New Zealand, by his wife, Mary J., dau. of (—) Richards, of Alford, co. Somerset; b. Dunedin, N.Z., 1 March, 1887; educ. at Wanganiu Collegiate School and Otago University, and went to Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1907, where he took the degrees of B.A. and LL.B. in 1911. While at Cambridge he took a leading part in politics and public affairs, and was President of the Union and of the New Carlton Club. He was keenly interested in Imperial problems, and contributed articles to the “Saturday Review” and the “Oxford and Cambridge Review.” His intention was to devote himself to law and politics in New Zealand, and his early career gave promise of great service to the Empire. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple early in 1914, and his passage home was booked when war broke out in August. He at once joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., and after three months’ training with them was gazetted Lieut. 20 Oct. 1914. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, near Krithia, Hellis, 6 June, 1915, while gallantly leading his men.

ALLEN, MARSHALL CLAUDE, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22871, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ALLEN, THOMPSON, Corpl., No. 964, Essex Yeomanry, s. of Edgar Allen, of The Laurels, Great Horkesley, Colchester, Farmer; b. Great Horkesley, 5 Dec. 1893; joined the Essex Yeomanry Nov. 1913, and was killed in action near Ypres, 13 May, 1915, while taking part in what Brigadier-Gen. Johnson described as one of the finest charges he had ever seen. He was buried in a graveyard on the road running from Ypres to Z——, about a quarter of a mile beyond the village of Potilga. Lieut. Victor Hine wrote: “I had a personal pride and fondness for your son. He has always been my ideal of a soldier. Nothing was too much for him to do, and he always took a pride in himself and his work.... In fact, I relied upon him more than I can say.”

ALLEN, WILLIAM LYNN, D.S.O., Major, 2nd Battn. Border Regt., s. of Bulkeley Allen, of Altrincham, co. Chester, J.P.; b. 1871; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the 1st Battn. Border Regt. 2 Sept. 1893; promoted Lieut. 27 July, 1896, Capt. 23 July, 1902, and Major 20 Oct. 1915. Served in the South African War, 1899–1902, being acting Adjutant 1901–4, and again at the Discharge Depôt, Gosport, 1905–9; took part in the operations in Natal, 1899, the Orange Free State, April-May, 1900, and in the Transvaal, June, 1900, including the Relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Colenso, Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz, Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900), and Pieters Hill; twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 29 July, 1902], and received Queen’s medal with five clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps and the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he rejoined the 2nd Battn. of his regiment, and was killed in action 25 Oct. 1914. He m. 1902, Adeline Miriam, dau. of Isaac Garbutt Dickinson.

ALLEN, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, Corpl., No. 24452, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Capt. William Benjamin Allen, of Albion Road, Rowhedge, Essex, Merchant Service, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Daniel Potter; b. Rowhedge, co. Essex, 25 April, 1888. Was in business in New York when war was declared. He immediately proceeded to Montreal, joined the Royal Highlanders, and came over with the first Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914. After training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, they went to France in February, where Allen was transferred to the machine gun section and later promoted Corpl. He served through the Battles of Ypres, St. Julien, etc., and was killed in action in the early morning, 11 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the cemetery behind Ploegsteert Woods.

ALLENBY, AUGUSTUS HEATHCOTE, Lieut.-Col., 7th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Major Robert Allenby, of St. Mary’s Lodge, Bootham, York, J.P., by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Benjamin Blades Thompson, of Tadcaster, co. York; b. Halford, co. Warwick, 22 Nov. 1862; educ. Silsby and St. Peter’s School, York; received his first commission in the York and Lancaster Regiment from the Durham Artillery Militia, 23 May, 1885, and was gazetted Lieut. to the Indian Staff Corps in April, 1887. He was promoted Capt. 23 May, 1896; Major, 23 May, 1903; and Lieut.-Col. 23 May, 1911, and retired under limitation of age rule in Nov. 1914, having been in command of the 83rd Wallajabad Light Infantry since May, 1911. He served in the Burmah Expedition, 1885–7, with the Upper Burmah Field Force, 1887–9, and in the Chin Hills Expedition, 1891–2, and received the Burmah medal with three clasps. On his return to England he at once offered his services with the New Armies, was gazetted to the command of the 7th Royal Scots Fusiliers 3 June, 1915, and left for the front the following month. Col. Allenby was killed in action at Le Philosophe, France, 7 Aug. 1915, by shell fire, and was buried in Mazingarbe Cemetery, Bethune. He m. at Secunderabad, India, 24 Sept. 1890, Margaret Maud, 4th dau. of the late Thomas Rowe, R.E. Dept.; s.p.

ALLEYN, JOSEPH, Acting Sergt., No. 12874. 4th Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 14 May, 1915.

ALLINSON, JOSEPH, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3692), 301349, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ALLISON, DAN WALTER, Private, No. 7280, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Allison, of Bawburgh, Norfolk; b. Cossey, near Norwich; enlisted 27 Nov. 1908; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was reported missing after the fighting on 11 Nov. 1914; aged 21.

ALLISON, JOHN MALCOLM, Gunner, No. 3158, 1st Field Artillery, Australian Imperial Force; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 9 May, 1915.

ALLISON, ROBERT, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, 119411, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALLISON, WILLIAM GEORGE, Private, No. 887, 2/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade), The London Regt., eldest s. of George William Allison, of the Central Telegraph Office, London, and 30, Cavendish Flats, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square, W., by his wife, Georginia Rose, dau. of the late William Dean; b. St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 20 Nov. 1890; educ. Polytechnic, Regent Street; and when war broke out was on the clerical staff of a City shipping firm. He joined the 2nd Battn. of the London Brigade, 2 Sept. 1914, and left for France on 27 March, 1915. The London Rifle Brigade supported the Canadians at Ypres when they re-took the guns which had been temporarily captured by the Germans, and after nine days in the trenches he fell a victim the very day they were relieved, being killed by shrapnel, 3 May, 1915; unm. Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French, in his report, stated that the 5th City of London Regt. (London Rifle Brigade), although their losses were heavy, unfalteringly retained their position.

ALLOWAY, WILLIAM HENRY, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24691 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ALLUM, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2174), 172241, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914: m.

ALLWRIGHT, ALFRED WALTER, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch., B. 9238), 211594, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ALSBURY, JAMES, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 3635), 187202, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

AMBROSE, WILLIAM CHARLES JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., 10399), 299915, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

AMES, JOHN, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 181534, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

AMIES, STEPHEN JOHN, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22634, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

AMOS, ALBERT EDWARD, Officers’ Steward, 2nd Class, 365970, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

AMOS, CHARLES BYRON, L.-Corpl., No. 28951, E Coy., 16th Battn., 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, yst. s. of Henry Amos, of New House Farm, Sheldwich, Faversham, Kent, by his wife, Ellen Mary, dau. of John Byron, of Kirkby Green, Sleaford, co. Lincoln; b. Littles Manor, Sheldwich, 12 Aug. 1886; educ. Felsted School, Essex, and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Went to Canada in April, 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted at Vancouver, B.C. He was killed in action near Ypres, 25 April, 1915. A comrade wrote: “Charlie was shot after we had recaptured the guns and were returning. We were sent out of one small fort and had to dig ourselves in about 100 yards in advance of the fort, and it was whilst doing this that Charlie got hit; in fact, we had just received the order to get back to the fort, and he and I were making our way down a small ditch when he fell; his death was instantaneous, as he was shot in the head. Our ranks were, indeed, terribly thinned by that attack, but as we have been told by Gen. Anderson that it was our brigade who stopped the whole of the German line advancing, we feel very proud, and my deepest regret is that Charlie was not spared to share the honours; but you can all feel proud of him. He died like a man, and a better friend or braver soldier there was not.” At Felsted he made a name for athletics, winning the junior steeplechase one year and the senior twice. He also took the championship for sports. He m. at Hillingdon, West Uxbridge, 25 Oct. 1911, Brenda Grant, dau. of Edward Bailey, 9, Belmont Road, Uxbridge, and had issue a dau., Angela Mary, b. 1 Nov. 1913.

AMPHLETT, EDWARD BAYLIE, M.A., Capt., 12th Battn. Worcestershire Regt. (T.F.), attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yr. s. of John Amphlett, of Clent, co. Worcester, by his wife, Eliza Anne, only dau. of Edward Biven Baylie, of Stourbridge; b. Clent, 15 Jan. 1877; educ. Marlborough and Worcester College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, going on the Oxford Circuit. He saw service with Paget’s Horse in South Africa, and in 1912 was appointed Police Magistrate in the island of Grenada, W.I., a post he resigned to volunteer for the war. He was given the temporary rank of Lieut. in Nov. 1914, and was gazetted Capt. on 15 Jan. 1915, when he was also appointed Adjutant. He went out in May, 1915, to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, being attached to the Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915; unm. He was well-known in musical circles in Worcestershire and Birmingham.

AMPLEFORD, FREDERICK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9079, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

AMY, RAULIN ANTHOINE JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 63057, 4th (formerly 23rd) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Raulin William Amy, of 39, D’Artigny Street, Quebec, Canada, Accountant, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of James Clark; b. Grand Bay, co. Saguenay, Quebec, 29 March, 1893; educ. Victoria and Boys’ High Schools, Quebec. At the age of 15 years he entered the employ of the Jonquiere Pulp Co., manufacturers of paper and cardboard, and when this company was absorbed by Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., of Quebec, continued in their employ, being transferred to their large paper mill at Kenogami. Here he remained until 1914, and was then transferred to the company’s main office at Quebec, attached to the paper sales department. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for service overseas, and joined the 23rd Battn. 15 Nov. 1914. He came over with the Second Contingent in March, 1915, went to the Front, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 31 May, 1915; unm.

ANCILL, HARRY PEARCE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4796), S.S. 104187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ANDERSON, ABDY FELLOWES, Capt. 3rd Battn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), attd. 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd s. of the late Col. James Alexander Anderson, 14th Regt. (West Yorkshires), by his wife, Catherine (19, Gloucester Square, W.), dau. of William Campbell; b. near Melbourne, Australia; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; passed into the 13th Hussars for five years; saw service as Lieut. during the S. African campaign in the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers, for which he received the Queen’s medal with two clasps; later joined 4th Border Regt. as Capt., and retired on its disbandment in 1908. On the outbreak of the European war he joined 3rd Scottish Rifles as Capt. 5 Sept. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers in Oct. 1914. He was killed in action near the village of St. Jean, on the Yser Canal, 23 April, 1915, while his battalion was supporting the Canadians in the first gas attack. Capt. Anderson’s company was the first to reach Hill 60 when it was captured by us on 17–18 April, 1915. He m. St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., Phyllis Evelyn Carr (32, Walpole Street, Sloane Square, S.W.), only child of William Morris Fletcher, Burley Beacon, co. Hants, J.P., late I.C.S., and granddau. of Henry Alworth Merewether, Bowden Hill, Lacock, Wilts, Q.C., and had two sons: David Allan Fletcher, b. 2 May, 1904, and Gerald Donald, b. 29 Jan. 1908.

ANDERSON, ALEXANDER CLAIRMONTE, Capt., 6th Jat L.I., Indian Army, s. of Lieut.-Col. Alexander Anderson, of Pitt House, Dawlish, late R.A.M.C.; b. Muttra, N.W. Provinces, India, 28 April, 1885; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regt. 28 Jan. 1905; joined the Indian Army in 1907, became Lieut. 1908, and Capt. Jan. 1914, and was accidentally killed in the trenches at Festubert, 23 Nov. 1914, by the premature explosion of a hand bomb which he was about to throw; unm. He was buried in the cemetery near Bethune.

ANDERSON, CHARLES ALEXANDER KENNETH, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attd. to the 1st Battn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers, only s. of Alexander Richard Anderson, F.R.C.S., of Nottingham, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late C.... E.... Tuck, J.P. co. Norfolk, and grandson of the late Col. Richard Anderson, H.M. 56th Regt. He was born at Nottingham on 31 May, 1893; educ. at Harrow (1907–11) and Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted as University candidate to the 1st Battn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers on 4 Aug. 1914, and transferred to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 14 Aug. 1914, but having already left for France with the Royal Scots Fusiliers he remained attached to that regt. He took part in the Battles of Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, and the first Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action about 3 a.m. on 12 Nov. 1914, while leading his men in a night attack on the German trenches near the Chateau Harantalge, on the Ypres-Menin road, being at the time in command of half of C Coy. 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was unm.

ANDERSON, FREDERICK KINLOCH, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 4th s. of the late William Joseph Kinloch Anderson, of the City of Edinburgh, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late James Wilson, of Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 7 April, 1880; educ. George Watson’s College there; was a Civil Engineer in the Engineers’ Department of the North British Railway Co., and after joining the 9th Battn. of the Royal Scots (T.F.) at the outbreak of war, was given a commission in the 4th Black Watch, 2 March, 1915. He was killed in action near Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and was buried at Pont du Henn; unm.

ANDERSON, HENRY KEMP, Private, No. 12/297, 6th Hauraki Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Alexander Anderson, formerly of Perth, Scotland, School Teacher, by his wife, Elizabeth (Balmoral Road, Auckland, New Zealand), dau. of Robert Coghill, of Wick, Scotland; b. Hokianga, Auckland, New Zealand, 20 March, 1882; educ. Auckland; joined the Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; fought at Achi Baba on 8 May, was fortunate in getting through, but was mortally wounded a few days later in a rest camp, two miles in the rear of the firing line, from a stray bullet. He was shot in the back, above the kidneys, was taken on board the hospital ship Sicilia, and died between Gallipoli and Alexandria, 21 May, 1915; buried at sea; unm.

ANDERSON, HENRY SMALL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1604), 209596, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ANDERSON, JOHN, Sergt., No. 8150, 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt., s. of Jabez Anderson, of 87, Wood Street, Norton, Malton, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ellen, dau. of (—); b. 20 May, 1887; educ. Bower Memorial School, Norton. Entered Army 24 April, 1905. Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; buried at Lavanta. Sergt. Anderson had completed ten years’ service all but a few months with the Yorkshire Regt. He served through the S. African War, and in the present war passed unscratched through the heavy fighting at Mons, Ypres, and Armentières.

ANDERSON, JOHN GRANT, Private, No. 71568, 27th Battn. (City of Winnipeg Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force; 2nd surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. John Grant Anderson, Military Knight of Windsor (late the Leicestershire Regt., and formerly Royal Welsh Fusiliers), by his wife, Beatrice, dau. of Col. Samuel Bradburne, Commanding 2nd Battn. The Leicestershire Regt.; b. Brentwood, co. Essex, 20 Nov. 1894; educ. at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, and the Imperial Service College, Windsor. Went to Canada in June, 1912, with a view to taking up farming there, and settled in Manitoba. Shortly after the war broke out, however, he enlisted, and came over to England with the 2nd Canadian Contingent, arriving at Shorncliffe on 29 May, 1915; and on 17 Sept., left with his Battn. for the Western Front. Very shortly after arrival in France, they were sent into the trenches in the fighting line in the Ypres district—he having meanwhile volunteered for the Grenade and Bombing Section of his battn., and during an enemy bombardment on 13 Oct., he was killed by a high explosive shell, which penetrated the parapet. He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Kemmel, Belgium, where his grave was carefully marked and tended by his comrades. The following are extracts from some of the letters received by his parents from his officers and comrades. From Major Beattie, Senior Chaplain, 2nd Canadian Division: “Your boy made many dear friends in the battn., and leaves a record that others might be proud to emulate.” From Major Owen, Chaplain to the Brigade: “Your son was always spoken of very highly, a general favourite and very lovable. I have heard nothing but good of him.” From Lieut. Cay, in charge of Grenade Section: “I want to say how much I appreciate the way in which all his work was done. You will know what I mean when I say he was a real soldier.” From Corpl. Howard Chalmers: “He was very much endeared to us all by reason of his wonderful cheerfulness under all conditions. I need not tell you his death was a great loss to us all.” From Pte. C. A. Smith, Grenade Section: “I can’t say enough for him. Everybody had a good word for him, the bravest and kindest boy that ever lived.” He was unm.

ANDERSON, KENNETH ANGUS, Cadet, R.N., H.M.S. Bulwark, 2nd s. of Sir Kenneth Skelton Anderson, of Stamford House, Wimbledon, K.C.M.G., by his wife, Louisa Mary, 4th dau. of the late James Cochrane Stevenson, for many years M.P. for South Shields; b. Kings Langley, Herts, 13 Nov. 1898; educ. St. Aubyn’s School, Rottingdam; entered Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he joined H.M.S. Bulwark, and lost his life when that ship was blown up at Sheerness on 26 Nov. 1914.

ANDERSON, JOHN ROBERT, Pensioner Cooper, 135921, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

ANDERSON, MERVYN KEBBLE, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., 4th s. of James Anderson, of Brentford, Orwell Park, Dublin, by his wife, Sarah Olivia, dau. of Michael Thomas Brown; b. Ballina, co. Mayo, 22 Jan. 1892; educ. at the Diocesan School and St. Andrew’s College, Dublin; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of the Royal Irish Regt. 12 Sept. 1914; went to the Front in Jan. 1915. He was wounded by shrapnel while passing through a communication trench at Ypres on 7 May, 1915, and died in No. 7 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne, 11 May following. His captain wrote: “As his captain I knew him better than any other officer in the regiment, and next to his own people I don’t know who could feel his death more than I do, unless it be his men. He was always so good to them and thoughtful of their comfort. He was, indeed, a true type of British officer.”

ANDERSON, REGINALD WILLIAM CHRISTIE, Private, No. S. 4, 070893, Army Service Corps, s. of Robert Anderson, of Fraserburgh, co. Aberdeen, Solicitor; b. Fraserburgh, 9 Nov. 1875; educ. Blair Lodge School, Polmont; enlisted 18 March, 1915, and d. of pneumonia in the Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, while going through his course of training. He m. Alvescot, co. Oxford, 9 Nov. 1901, Edith Elizabeth (The Warren, Carterton, Clanfield, S.O., Oxon.), only dau. of the late John Pearse, Fleet Engineer, R.N., and left two sons: Robert Pearse, b. 20 Feb. 1905, and John Christie, b. 3 Dec. 1908.

ANDERSON, ROBERT SAMUEL, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16946, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANDERSON, SAMUEL, Private, No. 997, 2nd Battn., Australian 1st Infantry Brigade, only s. of Charles Anderson, of Eastwick, Ollaberry, North Mavine, Shetland, R.N.R., by his wife, Christina, dau. of George Clark Sharp, of Ollaberry; b. Ollaberry, Shetland, 14 Nov. 1890; educ. Public School there; was a few months in the Merchant Service, and went to Australia in 1910, and was working on a farm until the outbreak of war. He enlisted, went with the 1st Australian Contingent to Cairo, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 15 April, 1915; unm.

ANDERSON, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 14318, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANDERSON, WILLIAM JOHN, Leading Seaman, J. 918, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANDERSON BEY, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Quartermaster and Hon. Major, late Seaforth Highlanders, Director of Stores, Headquarters Staff, Egyptian Army, s. of the late James Anderson, Farmer in Bogieside, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Wright, of North Ardlair, Kennethmont, Farmer; b. at Muir of Rhynie, co. Aberdeen, 30 June, 1856; enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders (then in India) at Stirling, 9 July, 1874, and after being attached to the 91st Highlanders in Ireland for a time, went out to India with a draft in 1876, and joined his own regt. at Sialkot, and served 17 years and 57 days in the ranks. He went through the Afghan War, 1878–80, first with the Kuram Field Force; took part in the reconnaissance of 28 Nov.; the assault and capture of Peiwar Kotal, passage of the Chappri Defile, the Khost Valley Expedition, action of Matoon; then with the Kabul Field Force; took part in the night attack on rearguard at Zahidabad, Battle of Charasiah (promoted Sergt.); pursuit to Asniai Heights, occupation of Kabul, actions at Doaba and Lataband, operations in and around Kabul in Dec. 1879, relief of Sherpur; action of Childukbteran; march from Kabul to relief of Kandahar, reconnaissance of 31 Aug. and battle of 1 Sept., and was awarded the medal with four clasps and the bronze star. He afterwards served in the Egyptian Campaign, 1882; present at Battle of Chalouf, seizure of Canal east of Ismailia, Battle of Tel-el-Kebir, occupation of Zagazig and of Cairo (medal with clasp, bronze star), and in the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884–85, acting as chief of the signalling party. He became Regimental Sergt.-Major, Sept. 1891, and was promoted Quartermaster, 22 Dec. 1894, with the hon. rank of Lieut. He was with his regt. in Crete during the insurrection of 1896, and took part in the Nile Expedition, 1898. He was present at the Battles of Atbara and Khartoum, and was again mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 30 Sept. 1898], and given the hon. rank of Capt. 16 Dec. 1898. On the conclusion of that campaign his services were asked by Lord Kitchener and Sir Reginald Wingate for the Egyptian Army, and he was attached to it with the rank of Major in 1901. He became Director of Stores on the Headquarters Staff of the Egyptian Army in 1905, and his successful efforts in re-organisation and in matters of armament and equipment were gratefully recognised by the Khedive and Sirdar. He was made an Hon. Major in the British Army, 17 Oct. 1908, a Lieut.-Col. in the Egyptian Army, and created a Bey and decorated with the Imperial Ottoman Order of the Medjidieh. His period of services ended in 1911, but he was induced by Lord Kitchener to extend his service for three years, and before this was ended the European War had broken out. He volunteered to go to the Dardanelles, but was retained at his post in Cairo, and he died there on active service, 31 Aug. 1914. Anderson Bey was a great traveller and explorer, and had at one time or other penetrated to the outskirts of every province in the Soudan, inspecting, hunting, sketching and snap-shooting. Speaking Arabic fluently, his agreeable manners made him a welcome visitor, and “Assad Ahmar” (“The Red Lion”), as the Arabs called him, had many loyal friends among the desert tribes on the Nile. He was the author of “Seaforth Songs and Ballads” and “Lays of Strathbogie.”

MOORE-ANDERSON, WALTER GRAHAM, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., Staff Surgeon, R.N., 3rd s. of Sir Robert Anderson, of 39, Linden Gardens, Bayswater, W., K.C.B., LL.D., late Assistant Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard, by his wife, Lady Agnes Alexandrina, sister of Ponsonby William, 9th Earl of Drogheda, and dau. of Ponsonby Arthur Moore; b. 7, Kensington Gore, S.W., 12 Sept. 1877; educ. Coombe Down School, Bath, and Trinity College, Dublin, and took his degrees in 1902. He was for some time House Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, and joined the Navy in Nov. 1903, entering Haslar R.N. Hospital, Portsmouth. During his three years on H.M.S. Scylla, Sept. 1908, to May, 1911, he saw three revolutions—at Haiti, Nicaragua and Honduras—and was complimented on the wonderfully good health enjoyed by that ship’s company in the very trying West Indian climate. After the outbreak of war he served in H.M.S. Royal Arthur—doing patrol work in the North Sea—until Dec. 1914, when he went to the armed merchantman Clan McNaughton, on the paying off of the Royal Arthur (Cruiser), and was appointed Chief Medical Officer. She left Tilbury Docks, London, just after Christmas, and was lost with all hands on or about 3 Feb. 1915. Dr. Moore-Anderson was a very good all-round sportsman, and while serving in the Impregnable training ship, did a great deal in working up the boys’ enthusiasm for manly sports and exercises. He played cricket for the Navy on several occasions, and in July, 1914, at 37 years of age, gained the Silver Cup presented to the winner of the Officers’ Flat Race for the Queenstown Training Squadron. He m. at Plymouth, 6 July, 1907, Nora Edith Martin (39, Linden Gardens, London, W.), yst. dau. of Alfred Henry Martin, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N., had issue a son, Barry Loftus, b. 12 July, 1911, d. 17 March, 1912.

ANDERTON, JAMES, Private, No. 8651, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of James Anderton, of 15, Harper Street, Wigan; b. Wigan, co. Lancaster; enlisted 30 June, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action in France, 16 May, 1915.

ANDERTON, JOHN WAINWRIGHT, Corpl., R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 14411, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

ANDERTON, WILLIAM LYON, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt.; elder s. of the Rev. William Edward Anderton, M.A., Congregational Minister, Woodford Green, Essex, by his wife, Ellen Anderton, dau. of John Tyrer, of Liverpool; b. Woodford Green, 17 Jan. 1885; educ. St. Aubyn’s School, Woodford Green, and Merchant Taylors’ School, where he gained his colours for both cricket and football, and afterwards became a Director of the firm of George Anderton & Son, Ltd., Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. On the declaration of war, he enlisted as a Private in the West Riding Regt., 10 Aug. 1914, and six months later (— Jan. 1915) was given a commission in his own regiment. He was shot by a sniper, while going his rounds as bombing officer, at 4.30 a.m. on 21 Aug. 1915, about two miles north of Ypres, on the eastern bank of the Yser Canal. Writing to his father, Brig.-Gen. E. Brereton, Commanding 147th Infantry Brigade, said: “I am able to send you the following particulars:—I left my headquarters at 4 a.m. yesterday morning on my round of inspection. There is one corner where one has to leave a trench and be in the open more or less for about six paces, and then enter the trench again. At about 4.30 a.m. I came to this bit, and as I turned into the open found a small party with Mr. Law, of the 6th Battn., with your poor son lying at their feet. They said: ‘For God’s sake jump in quick; they have sniped Mr. Anderton.’ I saw at a glance his case was hopeless, poor boy. He was not suffering; of that I am sure, for practically the bullet had, I should imagine, passed through or near the brain.... I then proceeded on my rounds, and about three-quarters of an hour afterwards passed back, and found he had been moved to a first-aid post about 200 yards along the trench. He was still breathing as I passed, but quite unconscious. He died shortly afterwards, I understand. He died doing his duty nobly. As you know, he was bombing officer to his battn. I knew him fairly well, and looked upon him as a very charming fellow, and an excellent officer.” Other letters from his Company Officers and comrades unite in speaking of him in the highest terms. Gen. E. M. Perceval, 49th West Riding Division, wrote: “Brig.-Gen. Brereton, who commands the 147th Brigade, told me that your son was one of his best officers, and I know that his brother officers and men were very fond of him.” Lieut.-Col. E. P. Chambers, Commanding 4th W.R. Regt.: “He was a most popular officer with the men, and everyone will feel his loss. Officers of his experience are most difficult to replace, and our Battalion is much the poorer by his death.” And Capt. W. F. Denning: “I was quite close to him when he was killed, at about 4.30 a.m., being caught by a sniper. He was shot in the head and never regained consciousness, and I am thankful to be able to assure you that he suffered no pain. We have been in perhaps the worst trench in the whole line, and have had a very hard and trying time, losing some good men, but I think poor Lyon’s death was the last straw. I buried him on the canal bank in the afternoon, and we have put a cross over his grave, which adjoins the graves of other soldiers. I’m afraid no words of mine can lessen your grief, but I should like you to know how much we all loved him, officers, N.C.O.’s, and men alike, and how terrible it feels to miss him.” He was unm. His cousin german, Major H. Lyon Anderton, 1/6th West Yorkshire Regt., was wounded while attached to and in command of the 11th West Yorkshire Regt., and is now (1916) on active service with the Expeditionary Force in France.

ANDREW, FREDERICK RUSSELL, Private, No. 51041, 16th Battn. (91st Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Capt. James Andrew, of Owen Sound, Ontario, Merchant Service (who d. 14 April, 1916), by his wife, Sarah (d. 9 Nov. 1907), dau. of John McKechnie; b. Owen Sound, 1 July, 1885; educ. Owen Sound Public and Collegiate Schools. He had served as a Cadet in the Collegiate O.T.C., and later in 1903 in the 31st Grey Co. Regt., and after the outbreak of war enlisted at Victoria in Sept. 1914, and in Jan. 1915, was sent from the 30th Battn. with reinforcements to Princess Patricia’s L.I. He died 30 May, 1915, of shrapnel wounds received at the Battle of Festubert: unm. Lieut. H. A. Colquhoun wrote: “‘Happy,’ as he was called by the men, came through the fight in the Orchard, where he did exceedingly well, being very courageous and cool under the most trying fire. After this attack we were in reserve behind our former position. We were all out in the open when the Germans put six shrapnel shells among us. I managed to get to a dug-out with Capt. Morison, when Andrew came in wounded. I remember well he had some flesh wounds in the back, but one bad one in the left breast. At the time he was being bandaged up I tried to hold his head on my knee, but he seemed to want to get up and walk. He was a splendidly strong man, and we all thought he was quite safe; but I fear that shot in the left breast was worse than we thought. On making inquiries I find that he passed quietly away without pain about 30 May. He was a splendid chap.”

ANDREW, HARRY, Seaman (R.N.R., 2672B), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANDREWS, CHRISTOPHER BOYD, Capt., R.M.L.I., Royal Naval Division, yst. s. of the Rev. John Marshall Andrews, Vicar of St. Jude’s, Gray’s Inn Road, and afterwards of St. Michael’s, Highgate, by his wife, Lucy Anne (2, Winchester Road, Oxford), dau. of the Rev. James Nash, of Clifton; b. St. Jude’s Vicarage, King’s Cross, London, 20 May, 1880; educ. Cholmely School, Highgate. He obtained a commission in the Marines in 1898 and served twelve years, becoming Capt. 3 Oct. 1906. On his retirement in 1910 he took up farming in Western Australia, but on the outbreak of war he returned to England, rejoined, and was appointed to the Plymouth Battn. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 11 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “His men revered and respected him; he met his death solely in serving their interests and actively seeking their welfare.” His elder brother, E. Lancelot Andrews, of the 2nd Australian Contingent, was severely wounded at the Dardanelles.

ANDREWS, EDWARD SILVESTER, Private, No. 13908, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Henry Andrews, of Norah Farm, Hatfield, Leominster, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of George James Witbourne, of co. Worcester; b. Bockleton, Tenbury, co. Worcester, 2 March, 1895; educ. Bockleton and Hatfield Parish Schools; enlisted 26 Nov. 1914, and was killed at Vermelles, Belgium, 17 Oct. 1915, by a bomb explosion.

ANDREWS, FREDERICK CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Reserve Battn.), att. 2nd Battn., Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), only s. of Charles Henry Andrews, of 26, Mapleside Avenue, Hamilton, Canada (b. Hammersmith, London, 22 April, 1862), by his wife Frances Cowan, dau. of John James Matthews; b. Toronto, Canada, 7 Oct. 1888; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Toronto, and Toronto University (B.A. & D.Sc.). He was working on the Dome Gold Mine, Porcupine, Ontario, but on the outbreak of war came to England, and was gazetted to the 3rd Reserve Battn., Nov. 1914. He was killed in action near Armentières, 16 March, 1915, and was buried at La Bitterne Farm, Armentières; unm. The Adjutant, Capt. C. E. Harman, wrote: “He was a great class of man, the best of all the young officers we had; keen and able to handle men, and as gentle as a child, at the same time as hard as iron.” Another Adjutant of the 2nd Battn., to which he was attached, Capt. W. D. Murphy, said: “Andrews was most popular with both officers and men, and his death is a great loss to the Regiment. I might mention a few days previous to his death, your son was detailed for a particular ticklish duty, which he accomplished with great skill and credit, and it was a deed that would have stood him had he lived.”

ANDREWS, FREDERICK GEORGE, Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt.; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 Dec. 1872; educ. there; gazetted Lieut. 4th Battn. Liverpool Regt., 10 Aug. 1914; killed in action on the Western Front, 21 Oct. 1914; unm.

ANDREWS, FREDERICK JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3726), S.S. 1023, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ANDREWS, JAMES, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 6945, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANDREWS, JAMES JOSIAH, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 4206), 162842, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANNABELL, FREDERICK FELIX, Private, No. 10/1175. Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Joseph Robert Annabell, of Wanganui, Surveyor, by his wife Theresa; b. Wanganui, New Zealand, 23 Oct. 1890; educ. there; volunteered Nov. 1914 and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli, 27 April, 1915; unm. Lieut. F. K. Turnbull wrote of him: “He had been in my platoon since he joined the main body in Egypt, and was quite one of my best men.”

ANNAND, WALLACE MOIR, Lieut.-Commander, R.N.V.R., and Acting Major, Collingwood Battn., Royal Naval Division, 4th s. of Robert Cumming Annand, Managing Director Northern Press and Engineering Co., Ltd., of South Shields, Proprietor of the Shields Daily Gazette, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Young; b. South Shields, 23 Aug. 1887; educ. South Shields High School, 1896–1904, and Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne; on leaving there in 1904 joined the Northumberland Fusiliers as a Private: served two years, and then joined the R.N.V.R. as Midshipman, 11 April, 1907, being attached to H.M.S. Satellite on the Tyne, in which he took great interest and spent much time and labour creating greater efficiency. On the creation of the Royal Naval Division he was promoted Lieut., and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and was employed training men until appointed to the Collingwood Battn. Just before leaving the camp at Blandford he was gazetted Lieut.-Commander, 8 May, 1915. He was killed near Achi Baba, Gallipoli, and was buried on the battlefield. He represented the Northern Press Co. in South Africa and at home for some years, and had recently become a Director. He m. at South Shields 10 Jan. 1914, Dora Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Chapman, of Seacroft, South Shields, and had a son: Richard Wallace, b. 5 Nov. 1914.

ANNESLEY, HON. ARTHUR, Capt., 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars, eldest s. of Arthur, Viscount Valentia, C.B., M.V.O., M.P., late 10th Hussars, by his wife, Laura Sarah, widow of Sir Algernon William Peyton, 4th Bart., yst. dau. of Daniel Hale Webb, of Wykeham Park, co. Oxford; b. Bletchington Park, Oxford, 24 Aug. 1880; educ. Eton; joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Oxford and Bucks L.I. in 1898, and was gazetted into the 10th Hussars during the War, 4 April, 1900, being promoted Lieut. 16 Nov. 1901, and receiving his company 6 April, 1907. He served in the South African War, principally in the Transvaal, 1900–2, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s with two clasps, and afterwards went to India with the regt., being stationed at Mhow, Rawal Pindi, and other places; and when the regt. was transferred to South Africa, was appointed A.D.C. to Major-Gen. the Hon. Julian Byng, General Officer Commanding the Forces in Egypt, 1912. On the outbreak of war, Capt. Annesley left Cairo, rejoined his regt., and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke 16 Nov. 1914; unm. Capt. Annesley, like his father, was a distinguished polo player. In 1907 he played at No. 1 for the 10th Hussars, when they won both the Inter-Regimental and the Subaltern Tournament of India, and, excepting in 1909, he was always at No. 1 in the team, which between 1907–12 ran up such a remarkable series of successes in the Indian Inter-Regimental tournaments. He also assisted the 10th Hussars to win the Indian Championship at Calcutta.

ANNESLEY, FRANCIS, 6th Earl, Sub-Lieut. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, only s. of Hugh, 5th Earl Annesley, Lieut.-Col. Scots Fusilier Guards, by his first wife, Mabel Wilhelmina Frances, eldest dau. of Col. William Thomas Markham, of Cufforth Hall, co. York; b. Castlewellan, co. Down, 25 Feb. 1884; educ. Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; suc. his father in the peerage, 15 Dec. 1908; volunteered his services on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, and was gazetted a Sub-Lieut. Royal Naval Air Service, R.N.V.R., 20 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force and rendered valuable services in the operations in Belgium, Oct.-Nov., and was shot down by the Germans at Ostend, 5 Nov. 1914, and killed instantaneously, together with Lieut. Brevor, when returning to Belgium in an aeroplane from Sheerness. He m. at the Savoy Chapel, 14 Sept. 1909, Evelyn Hester (Castlewellan, co. Down; Donard Lodge, co. Down), sometime 1st wife of the late Hugh Robert Edward Harrison, of Caerhowel, dau. of Alfred Edward Miller Mundy, of Shipley Hall; s.p.

ANNING, HUBERT PERCY, Sergt., No. 1492, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, s. of Owen Hubert Charles Anning, of 23, Hale Gardens, West Acton, and of the Chief Office Staff, Prudential Assurance Co., by his wife, Fanny May, dau. of John Challice, of Cowley, Devon; b. Brook Green, Hammersmith, 7 Oct. 1889; educ. Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith; was a Fruit Farmer at Canterbury; joined the East Kent Mounted Rifles in the spring of 1912, and in his first camp won six prizes including Troop Challenge Shield for shooting and the Lloyd Lindsey Prize; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, being promoted Sergt. shortly afterwards; left with his regt. for the Dardanelles in Sept. 1915, and after being in the trenches for six weeks was taken ill with jaundice and was sent to St. George’s Hospital, Malta, where he died 28 Nov. 1915; unm.

ANNIS, ROBERT, Sergt., No. 8258, 1st Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 Sept. 1915; m.

ANSELL, ALBERT, Private. No. 10948, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., s. of George Ansell, of Maple Road, Ashstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 April, 1915.

ANSELL, CHARLES HART, Armourer’s Mate, M. 2728, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANSELL, CHARLES WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3025), 182981, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANSELL, WALTER, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch., B. 8976), 198896, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANSELL, WILLIAM, Private, No. 7482, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Middlesex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Souper, 14 Sept. 1914; m.

ANSELL, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4175), S.S. 102841, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ANSTISS, HENRY CECIL, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15448, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ANSTEY, GEORGE ALEXANDER, Capt., 1st Battn. The Devonshire Regt., elder s. of Major William Frederick Anstey, late 71st Highland L.I., by his wife Isabella Frances Alexandra, dau. of George Alexander Whitla, late Capt. Royal Antrim Rifles; b. Ulundi Lodge, Curragh Camp. Ireland, 29 Feb. 1888; educ. Wellington College, from where, having received an Hon. King’s Cadetship, he passed into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Nov. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 7 June, 1911, and Capt. 21 June, 1915. He accompanied his regt. to the Front at the end of August, 1914, and was wounded at La Bassée and invalided home in Oct. 1914. He returned to the Front in Jan. 1915, and on 17 June, 1915, he was temporarily attached to the 2nd Cheshire Regt., and had been with them one week when he was killed in the trenches in Flanders by a sniper at 1.45 a.m. 24 June, 1915. He was buried near Dickebusch in the 2nd Cheshire cemetery; unm. Major Walter Goodwyn, 1st Devonshire Regt., in temporary command of the 2nd Cheshire Regt., wrote: “It was at 1.45 a.m. this morning that your son’s senior subaltern, Beckett, rang up on the telephone to say that his company commander had just been shot through the head whilst standing at the parapet in the trenches. I understand from his subalterns, Beckett and Jones, that he wished to give some of the latest joined lads in his company confidence in manning the parapet and replying to the enemy’s fire. These infernal snipers though have rifle batteries sighted and clamped on certain spots for night firing, and your boy must have most unluckily struck one of these places, as he had two bullets in head and neck. The trenches were roughly 150 feet apart (i.e., German and British) where he was hit, and it was a fairly dark night with little or no moon.” And Lieut. Beckett himself wrote: “I was an officer in his company and came up only a minute afterwards. He was firing with a rifle over the parapet and was hit in the neck by a rifle bullet, and died at once without any pain at all. He was wonderfully cool, and during the short time he was with the regiment had done an awful lot to pull the company together. We are awfully sorry to lose so good an officer.” Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Fergusson, C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O., commanding 2nd Army, in a letter to Capt. Anstey’s father, said that “Gen. Bulfin, who commanded the Division to which he was temporarily attached, told him that in the few days Capt. Anstey had served with the Cheshires he had shown himself a really first-rate officer, and had put new life into them.”

ANSTICE, JOHN SPENCER RUSCOMBE, Lieut., 2nd Royal Fusiliers, only child of Col. Sir Arthur Anstice, K.C.B., V.D., J.P., D.L., cos. Salop and Gloucester, by his wife, Agnes Pauline, dau. of the late Ferdinand Unna, of Lancaster Gate, W.; b. Marnwood, co. Salop, 13 Feb. 1894; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers 17 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 21 Jan. 1915. At the outbreak of war he was with his regt. in India. He took part in quelling the Sikh riots at Budge-Budge, near Calcutta, in Sept. 1914, and brought home their Sikh banner. Returning home he joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force with his regt., took part in the memorable landing from H.M.S. Implacable of the 29th Division on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April, 1915; distinguished himself at the Battle of the Five Beaches, and when ammunition was urgently wanted carried 161 lbs. at a time to the firing line under a murderous fire, and finally took a trench and prisoners, receiving special mention in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915, and was buried near the spot where he fell.

ANTILL, ALFRED MANSFIELD, Private, No. 18889, 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, s. of George William Antill, of Carisbrooke Road, Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Harriett, dau. of Elisha Sant; b. Newport, 25 Jan. 1895; educ. Maindee Board School there; enlisted in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 28 June, 1915. He had been acting as orderly to Capt. Fowler.

ANTROBUS, EDMUND, Lieut., Grenadier Guards, only s. of Col. Sir Edmund Antrobus, 4th Bart., of Antrobus, co. Chester, of Amesbury Abbey, co. Wilts., and Rutherford, co. Roxburgh, late Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Florence Caroline Mathilde, dau. of the late Jules Alexander Sartoris, of Hopsford Hall, co. Warwick; b. Eaton Square, S.W., 23 Dec. 1886; educ. Eton and in France; gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Grenadier Guards from the Militia, 27 May, 1908; became Lieut. 21 Nov. 1908; killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914. Buried in the orchard of a small farmhouse in the village of Keghside; unm. Lieut. Antrobus was reported a very keen and courageous officer, and highly popular.

APLIN, ELPHINSTONE D’OYLEY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., s. of Lieut.-Col. Hugh Morgan Aplin, Royal Naval Ordnance Dept.; b. Upnor Castle, Rochester, 14 June, 1892; entered the Army Feb. 1913; promoted Lieut. 31 Oct. 1914; was severely wounded in action near Ypres 9 May, and died at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station, 13 May, 1915; buried Bailleul Cemetery. He was complimented by the Major-Gen. Commanding ... Division B.E.F. for distinguished conduct in the field.

APPLEYARD, WALTER D’ANCIE, Private, No. 14789, D Coy., 7th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 3rd s. of William Appleyard, one time secretary to the National Children’s Hospital, Dublin (d. 5 April, 1903), by his wife, Mary (32, Sandford Road, Dublin), dau. of Stuart Corrie Chambers; b. Dublin, 21 Dec. 1884; educ. High School, Dublin, where he won honours, prizes, and exhibitions, and was afterwards employed in the Irish Land Commission. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the 7th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and left for the Dardanelles with D Coy. 10 July, 1915, arriving at Gallipoli 6 Aug. and landing at Suvla Bay on Saturday, the 7th inst. The moment they landed the troops were in action, and D Coy. leading they advanced over the open plain a target for heavy shell fire and snipers, at evening driving the Turks out at the point of the bayonet and capturing Hill 53. Private Appleyard escaped without a scratch, though a bullet passed through the leg of his trousers. Later he was with three or four men in a small post without ammunition; the enemy were throwing bombs on them. It was while throwing back these bombs that he was shot through the heart, 16 Aug. 1915, on the ridge Kislagh Dagh. He was buried in Gallipoli at the foot of Dublin Hill (Hill 53); unm. Letters from his comrades are unanimous in extolling his bravery, devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and good comradeship. His brother, George, is now (1916) serving with the Leinsters at the Front.

ARBUTHNOT, KENNETH WINDHAM, Major, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 6th s. of William Reierson Arbuthnot, late of Plawhatch, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, by his wife, Mary Helen, dau. of Philip Anstruther, late Colonial Secretary of Ceylon (by his wife, née Stewart-Mackenzie, of Kintail, granddau. of Francis Lord Seaforth, and a descendant of the Sir Walter Scott who originally raised the Seaforth Highlanders); b. 23 July, 1873; educ. privately, at Bath College and Sandhurst; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Seaforth Highlanders, 19 July, 1893, and was promoted Lieut. 3 July, 1895; Capt. 29 April, 1900; Brevet Major 22 Aug. 1902; and Major 10 June, 1909. He took part in the operations in Chitral in 1895, serving with the Relief Force and receiving the medal with clasp; and with the Sudan Expedition, 1893. He was present at the Battle of Khartoum, and for his services received the King’s medal with clasp and the Egyptian medal. In the South African war, 1901–2, he was employed with the Mounted Infantry, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony (Feb. 1901), the Orange Free State (Feb.-March, 1901), and the Transvaal (March, 1901–31 May, 1902). He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902], given the brevet of Major and the Queen’s medal with five clasps. After his return to England he acted as Adjutant of the 4th Volunteer Battn. of his regt., 10 Aug. 1907, to 31 March, 1908, and of the Territorials, 1 April, 1908, to 9 June, 1909, and was Brigade-Major, Gordon Infantry Brigade (Scottish Command), 12 Oct. 1911, to 9 Aug. 1914. On the declaration of war he rejoined his regt., went to the Front in Nov., and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915. He was buried on the left side of the St. Jean-St. Julien Road, about 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Major Arbuthnot m. on 26 April, 1911, Janet Elspeth, dau. of Major Sinclair Wemyss, Gordon Highlanders, and had two children: John Wemyss, b. 11 Feb. 1912, and Robert Michael Wemyss, b. 9 March, 1914.

ARCHER, FRED, Private, No. 5229, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles Archer, of 163, St. Anne’s Well Road, Nottingham; b. Nottingham; enlisted 24 Oct. 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rental, 28 Oct. 1914.

ARCHER, GEORGE, Private, No. G 8965, 4th Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 10 Oct. 1915.

ARCHER, JOHN WILLIAM BUTTS, Lieut., The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), only s. of the Rev. George Archer, Rector of Stilton, Peterborough, by his wife, Beatrice, dau. of Capt. William Pitt Butts, The Buffs; b. Longfield, Halifax, co. York, 14 March, 1890; educ. Stubbington, in France, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Oct. 1910, and Lieut. 9 March, 1912; served at Singapore 1910–12, and in India, 1912–14. Recalled to England at the outbreak of war, he arrived home late in Dec. and spent a few days at his home at Stilton before proceeding to France on 16 Jan. The regt. was at once moved up to the firing line, he was wounded in the fighting at Ypres 15 Feb. 1915, and died the following day; unm. The story of his death is told in a letter of his Commanding Officer. It appears that on the night of 15 Feb. (almost exactly a month after he went to France), Lieut. Archer was sent out with his men to the relief of a regiment which was holding a trench which had been attacked by the Germans in the dark. He succeeded in fighting his way to the trench at the expense of half his men and of his own gallant life. The effort to hold the trench was successful. It was Lieut. Archer’s task thus to take the lead in the counter-attack which the Brigade made to retake the trenches which had been lost, but the other regiments were so badly knocked about by a bitter shell fire that they could not get up to support him and his gallant little handful of men, and so the work was splendidly done by this small company themselves. When he fell, mortally wounded, they carried him at enormous risk to themselves, into a dug-out in the trench, and here he died about twenty-four hours afterwards, for it was impossible to get him out of the trench and into hospital in face of the terrible fire which was maintained.

ARCHIBALD, WILLIAM, Major, 2nd Lowland Field Co., R.E. (T.F.), 29th Division, s. of the late William Richmond Archibald, of Mossend, Schoolmaster; educ. at Glasgow High School; was with Messrs. William Jacks & Co., of Glasgow, iron and ore merchants; joined the old 2nd Lanarkshire R.E.V. after the Boer war, and in 1908, when the Volunteers were reorganised, became attached to the Works Company of the Lanarkshire Fortress Engineers at Bellshill, being given the rank of Lieut. Subsequently after the disbandment of this unit, he was posted as supernumerary to the 2nd Lowland Field Co., became Captain, 12 Sept. 1914, and Major Commanding 26 Jan. 1915; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles; was wounded on the evening of the 18 June, 1915, while on his way to visit the section officers, and died the same day. A brother officer wrote: “The death of Major Archibald is a great loss to the country; he was an exceptional soldier and officer.” Major Archibald m. at Dundyvan, Coatbridge, co. Lanark, 9 Aug. 1911, Helen Gibson, dau. of the late James Mitchell, of Coatbridge, iron master and had issue two daus.: Margaret Allan, b. 5 June, 1912, and Elizabeth Campbell McLellan, b. 25 Sept. 1914.

ARGENT, WILLIAM ROBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10426), 229038, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

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

ARMES, JOHN HENRY, A.B., R.F.R., B. 1756, 211569, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov 1914.

ARMITAGE, THOMAS WILLIAM, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 157690, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ARMSTRONG, ELLERAY FRANCIS, L.-Corpl., No. 63046, 3rd Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Elleray Armstrong, of Eastmoor Drive, Carlton, Nottingham, by his wife, Jane Davidson, dau. of the late Walter Watson Walker, of Manchester; b. Stretford, near Manchester, 9 Feb. 1893; educ. Elmswood College and Sale Grammar School; went to Canada in 1912, and settled down to business in Montreal, returning for a short visit in June, 1914, for a deferred celebration of his twenty-first birthday; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted, 9 Nov. 1914; came over with the Second Contingent, landing in England, 7 March, 1915; went to France, 1 May, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, during an attack on the German lines. He was buried near Givenchy, 500 yards east of Duck’s Bill; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he “was a grand soldier and man.”

ARMSTRONG, GEORGE LEIGHTON, Private, No. 18186, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, s. of the late Edward Armstrong, 16th (Queen’s) Lancers, by his wife, Isabella (Methuen Street, Wavertree), dau. of John Smart, and grandson of the late Col. Edward Armstrong, of Bedford; b. at Edge Hill, Liverpool, 3 March, 1884; educ. at Sefton Park School; joined the Army after the outbreak of war, 22 Nov. 1914, and died of wounds at Neuve Chapelle, 15 March, 1915; unm.

ARMSTRONG, JAMES, Stoker P.O., 294264 H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

ARMSTRONG, JOHN, A.B., J. 3996, R.N., killed in action at Tsing-tau, 22 Aug. 1914, on board H.M. Destroyer Kennet while engaged in chasing the German Destroyer S 90.

ARMSTRONG, ROBERT, Private, No. 2706, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Robert Armstrong; b. Marylebone, London; enlisted 1 June, 1899; served in South Africa, 23 May, 1900, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps: “Belfast,” “Cape Colony,” “Orange Free State”; and King’s medal with two clasps: “South Africa, 1901,” “South Africa, 1902”); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 12 Aug. 1914, to 13 Feb. 1915, when he was killed in action at Cuinchy. Buried in the rear of the trenches there. He m. at Marylebone Parish Church, 1 Jan. 1905, Elizabeth (56, Ashmill Street, Lisson Grove, N.W.), dau. of (—) Leonard, and had four children: Charles, b. 1 Jan. 1908; Thomas, b. 1 May, 1914; Elizabeth, b. 4 Oct. 1905; and Annie, b. 1 Nov. 1909.

ARNELL, JAMES ALEXANDER, Private, No. A. 34446, 10th, formerly 50th, Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of John Arnell, of Calgary (who joined the 56th Battn., 1 May, 1915, as a Military Policeman, and died on active service at Calgary, 27 Dec. following), by his wife, Jessie G. (805, Fifth Avenue, West Calgary, Alberta), dau. of (—) Taylor; b. Calgary, 25 Oct. 1894; educ. Calgary, Woodstock College, Ontario, and Mount Royal College (diploma), Calgary; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 23 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action in France, 30 Sept. 1915, by a rifle grenade; unm. His commanding officer wrote speaking highly of his conduct. He was a keen sportsman, and had won two medals for Rugby football.

ARNOLD, CHARLES EDGAR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9600), S.S. 106981, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ARNOLD, FERDINAND FRANCK WILLIAM, Capt. 1st Batt. Suffolk (The 12th) Regt., elder s. of Franck Thomas Arnold, of the University College of South Wales, M.A. Trin. Coll. Cambridge, by his wife Edith Maud, dau. of Samuel William Kelly, and grandson of the Rev. Charles Thomas Arnold, of Rugby; b. Penarth, near Cardiff, 19 March, 1888; educ. Rugby, and after going through Sandhurst, was gazetted to the 1st Battn. of the Suffolk Regt., 29 Aug. 1906, being promoted Lieut., 6 Mar. 1909, and serving with the Battn. in Malta and Egypt. When war broke out, he was in Khartoum, and acted as Italian Censor, for which he received a letter of thanks from the Sirdar. In Dec. 1914, he was given his company, and on going to the Front in Jan. was appointed Machine-gun Officer to the 84th Infantry Brigade, but afterwards returned to regimental work, taking command of a double company owing to shortage of officers. He was killed in action, near Zonnebeke not far from Ypres, being shot in the trenches, which were enfiladed by the enemy, 23 April, 1915; unm.; buried in the garden of a farmhouse, near Zonnebeke. Capt. Arnold belonged to an old Suffolk family, from a branch of which Dr. Arnold of Rugby was also descended. Many of his forebears served with distinction in the Royal Navy. Capt. Thomas Arnold distinguished himself in 1718 by boarding and taking the colours of the Spanish flagship Royal St. Philip, which are still in the possession of his family. The son of the latter, Thomas Arnold, sailed round the world as midshipman on the Centurion, under Lord Anson, and in 1782, and Aldous Charles Arnold (great-great-grandfather of Capt. F. F. W. Arnold) was present as midshipman in the Royal William at the Siege of Gibraltar. Capt. Arnold was a keen sportsman, and letters from brother officers bear witness to the value that was set upon him in the regt., both as a soldier and as a friend. One wrote: “He was always merry and cheerful, even under the most adverse circumstances, and set an example to officers and men alike.” The late Major Maycock, D.S.O. (late of the 1st Suffolks), wrote as follows: “As you know, your son was my subaltern for two years, and I had the highest opinion of his ability as a soldier. He was a thoroughly keen and efficient officer, and would have gone far had he been spared. I am expecting to go to the Front immediately, and if I rejoin the 1st Battn. I shall miss your son very much. I felt I must write to you both to say how grieved I was to hear of your loss, and to let you know the high opinion I had of your son, personally and professionally.”

ARNOLD, HARRY RICHARD, Private, No. 13058, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; eldest s. of Harvey Arnold, of 251, High Street, Henley in Arden, co. Warwick, boot and shoe maker, by his wife Ellen, dau. of John Mills, of Yew Tree View, Henley in Arden; b. Henley in Arden, 3 Feb. 1895; educ. Council School there; enlisted 5 Oct. 1914; went to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Cambrin, by a rifle grenade which fell in the trench, badly wounding him in the back, and breaking his left leg, 6 July, 1915; unm. He was buried at Cambrin. Capt. Lloyd, writing to Mrs. Arnold, said that though her son had not been out long, he had proved himself an excellent soldier, and that by his death the Company had lost one of its best and pleasantest members.

ARNOLD, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9798), 297700, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ARNOLD, ROBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16953, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ARTHUR, CHARLES, Rifleman, No. 1770, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (Machine Gun Section), only s. of the late Richard Arthur, for several years manager at Messrs. Busvines, 4, Brook Street, London, W. [2nd son of James Arthur, of Great Treveryan Farm, Tynardreath, Cornwall], by his wife Emily (Pentillie, Lostwithiel, co Cornwall), dau. of the late Alderman Charles Taylor Cheesman, of Hove, Sussex; b. Regent’s Park, London, N.W., 2 July, 1890; educ. Brighton Grammar School and London Orphan School, Watford, at which latter he passed all the local Cambridge Exams, (three with honours), also earning the scholarship given by Mr. J. Debenham for two years’ tuition in Switzerland; he was in the employ of Messrs. Debenham & Co., of Wimpole Street; joined Queen Victoria’s in 1908, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign service. He was killed in action near Ypres, 5 Jan. 1915, being buried at Neuve Eglise; unm. When at Watford he was Captain of the 1st Eleven cricket team. He also won the championship for swimming, and while in Switzerland gained a diploma for football. At Messrs. Debenham’s Sports Ground he won the silver cup in a tennis tournament.

ARTHUR, HERBERT GEORGE, Private, No. 1357, D Coy., 1st (Royal Fusiliers) Battn. The London Regt., 3rd s. of Harry Reginald Arthur, of 5, Kingswood Avenue, Kilburn, by his wife, Lydia Arthur, dau. of Benjamin Wyatt; b. Kilburn, N.W., 7 Nov. 1895; educ. Kingsgate Road L.C.C. School there, where he was top boy of the school in chemistry, and afterwards obtained a berth in the Haberdashers’ School, Cricklewood, as science master’s assistant. He remained here for three years, and then went to Messrs. Burroughs & Wellcome, chemical manufacturers, Dartford, where he was employed until the outbreak of war. He had joined the 1st Battn. London Regt. in 1911, and, volunteering for active service, left with his regt. for Malta, 4 Sept. 1914, and returned after having passed as a first-class shot. After a few days’ leave, he went to France, and was killed in action, 17 May, 1915; unm. His officer, Lieut. H. A. Eiloart, wrote: “He died a soldier’s death in the face of the enemy, being shot in the head and dying instantaneously while firing from our trench. He was in my Half-company and in my platoon from the time we left for Malta up to the time of his death, and I feel his death most keenly, both as a soldier and a man.” His two elder brothers are now (1916) serving in the Army: Gunner H. Arthur, R.M.A., on board H.M.S. Colossus, and Corpl. J. R. Arthur, with the 1st Australian Expeditionary Force.

ARTHUR, RICHARD VICTOR, L.-Corpl., No. 8118, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of John Meredith Arthur, of 46, Aston Lane, Handsworth, Grocer, by his wife, Emma Jane; b. Shirley, co. Warwick, 9 Feb. 1892; educ. Small Heath Secondary School, Birmingham; enlisted on or about 5 Oct. 1908, and was killed in action at Landrecies, 8.30 p.m., 25 Aug. 1914, during the retreat from Mons. He m. at St. Michael’s Church, Camberley, 27 July, 1912, Margaret Emily (12, The Mews, Watchetts Road, Camberley), dau. of Thomas Herridge, of Camberley, and had two sons: Richard John, b. 23 Nov. 1913, and Victor George, b. 28 Jan. 1915.

HARRIS-ARUNDELL, JOHN D’AUVERGNE, Sergt., No. 25911, 14th Battn. (1st Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert Harris-Arundell, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, by his wife, Elizabeth Blanche, dau. of the late John D’Auvergne Dumaresq, C.M.G., Acting Administrator of the Government of Lagos, W. Africa, and grandson of the late William Reinfred Harris-Arundell, of Lifton, co. Devon, England; b. Fairmont, Martin co., Minnesota, U.S.A., 14 May, 1889; went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, with his family at the age of five; educ. Collegiate School, Windsor, N.S., and joined the staff of the Royal Bank of Canada in 1905, and when war broke out in Aug. 1914, was in Montreal. He was at the time a Corpl. in the Victoria Rifles of Montreal, and volunteered at once for active service, and on 24 Aug. his regt., then called 1st Royal Montreal Regt., went into training at Valcartier Camp. On the night of 23 Sept. they left for Quebec, where they embarked for England, arriving in Plymouth on 14 Oct., and after training at Salisbury, left for France on 5 Feb. At the Battle of Langemarcke on 24 April, 1915, he was shot through the heart while helping Lieut. Whitehead, who was wounded in the foot, to cross 200 yards under withering fire; unm. The ground was captured by the enemy, and Sergt. Arundell’s body was never recovered.

ASBURY, ARTHUR GERARD, Sapper, No. 45044, 3rd Field Coy., Canadian Divisional Engineers, s. of Joseph Asbury, bank accountant; b. Burton-on-Trent, 13 Oct. 1889; educ. Burton Grammar School and Hymers’ College, Hull; enlisted on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914, and d. of wounds in No. 14 General Hospital, at Wimereux, 21 May, 1915; unm.; buried there, No. 496.

ASCOTT, VINCENT JOHN DAWSON, Volunteer, Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve, s. of Capt. William Ascott, A.V.C., of West Bridge, Bideford, by his wife Frances Annie, dau. of the late William John Keyte; b. 26 Aug. 1892; educ. at Allhallow’s School, Honiton. Volunteered for active service, 3 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action at Karonga, Nyasaland, 9 Sept. 1914; unm. The official account states: “Field Force advanced from Karonga on afternoon of 8th. Enemy in strength of about 400 appears to have evaded our Force, and at sunrise on the 9th attacked Karonga, which was defended by Bishop in charge of a few K.A.R.’s and Resident, with police, in all about 55 natives and 8 civilians. This small garrison very gallantly resisted the attack for three hours until relieved by Column 3 under Capt. Griffiths. They drove off and pursued the enemy, who left 2 officers and 40 native soldiers dead on the field. Casualties in Karonga: Webb, slightly wounded; 1 askari killed and 4 wounded. Entire British Force came into action later. Enemy fought with great determination, and had to be dislodged by repeated bayonet charges, but ultimately fled towards Songwe. Total German losses: 8 officers killed and 2 wounded and captured with Medical Officer; two field guns and three Maxims captured. British losses: killed, Caldecott and Ascott; since died of wounds, Manning and Merriman; seriously wounded, Muirhead, Garnett, Mason, Sinclair; slightly wounded, Barton, Ness; missing, Williams and Harvey. All reports speak highly of gallantry of all engaged.” His Commanding Officer, in a letter of sympathy to his parents, wrote: “Your son died a gallant death firing one of the Maxim guns in the battle of Karonga, on 9 Sept.... I feel his loss doubly, as he was one of my Planter neighbours, and a very close friend.” Another comrade, writing to his aunt, wrote: “The whole of Nyasaland will be grieving that one so popular as a true English sportsman will never play again in those games in which he so much excelled. Zomba has lost a fine athlete and gained a noble hero.” He was mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 3 Aug. 1916] for gallant and distinguished service in the field “while working maxim guns under heavy fire with coolness and effect.”

ASCROFT, ROBERT GEOFFREY LEES, 2nd Lieut., 1/10th Battn. The Manchester Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late James Henry Ascroft, of Oldham, Solicitor (d. 1900), by his wife, Mabel Gertrude, dau. of John Lees, of Primrose House, Oldham, Cotton Spinners, and nephew of the late Robert Ascroft, M.P.; b. Oldham, 25 April, 1896; educ. Charterhouse, and on the outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 25 Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 4 June, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “Geoffrey was absolutely fearless and had endeared himself to all ranks by brave deeds which he had performed previously. His comrades all speak of his pluck and say, ‘he did not know what fear was.’” His brother-in-law, 2nd Lieut. J. B. Emmott, of the same regt., was killed in action the same day.

ASH, BASIL DRUMMOND, Lieut., R.N., and Flight Lieut., R.N.A.S., s. of the Rev. Cyril Alfred Drummond Ash, B.A., Keble College, Oxford. Incumbent of Saxton, Tadcaster, co. York, by his wife, Hester Elizabeth, dau. of the late F. J. Alexander, B.C.S., India; b. Southport, Queensland, Australia, 16 May, 1890; educ. Preparatory School, Arlington House, Brighton, and Mr. Foster’s School, Stubbington, Fareham, Hants; joined the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as a Cadet, 18 Sept. 1905, and became sub.-Lieut. 12 Sept. 1910, and Lieut. 1 Oct. 1912; served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Dreadnought (Flagship of Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, Home Fleet), Prince of Wales (Flagship of Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, Atlantic Fleet); and Africa (Capt. Leveson, Home Fleet); as sub-Lieut. and Lieut. in H.M.S. Philomel and Espiègle, in the Persian Gulf, Oct. 1911, to Nov. 1913; and in the R.N.A.S., 27 Jan. 1914, to 29 Sept. 1914, on which latter day he was lost in Seaplane 77 off the coast of Scotland, while engaged in scouting for German submarines. All his commanding officers testified to his ability as a Naval Officer. He was unm.

ASH, WILFRID JOHN, Lieut., 3rd Batt. Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Regt., s. of Herbert Edward Ash, of Keilawarra, Warlingham, Surrey, Solicitor; b. Croydon, 29 July, 1890; educ. Littlejohn’s, Greenwich; Haileybury and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., 5 Oct. 1910; exchanged to 3rd Battn., then at Lebong, India, July, 1911; promoted Lieut., 23 July, 1913. Lieut. Ash was in England on leave when war broke out. He was recalled to rejoin his regt. at Cawnpore, and sailed for India in September. Two or three days before Christmas Day, 1914, he was back again in England with the 3rd Middlesex, who had come over as a complete unit. He went with the regt. to France in January, 1915, and was killed in action on the afternoon of Sunday, 14 Feb. 1915, between Ypres and St. Eloi, while leading his men in a successful counter attack against the enemy’s trenches. Col. E. W. R. Stephenson, Commanding the 3rd Battn. Middlesex, wrote that he “died gallantly leading his men in an attempt to capture a trench that had fallen. Previous to this, he saved the life of my nephew, Moller, who had been severely wounded, and after placing him in a place of safety, he again entered the fight.... He nobly did his duty, and we deplore his loss.” Private Worsfold also wrote: “On the afternoon of Sunday, 14 Feb., we were ordered to attack a position occupied by the enemy, north-west of Ypres and west of the canal ... on the morning of the same day we had been badly cut up, and the Surreys, who afterwards came up in support, opened to let us through. Lieut. W. J. Ash, who had been previously wounded in the arm, was still leading up to the last moment.”

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

ASHTON, EDWARD STANLEY JOHN CHARLES, Corpl., No. 1248, Army Service Corps, elder s. of Charles Ashton, of 21, Endymion Road, Finsbury Park, by his wife, Alice Elyzabeth Sophia, dau. of George Nelson Howlett; b. Finsbury Park, 19 June, 1894; educ. Ealing Grammar School, and St. Frances Xavier’s College, Bruges; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 11 Aug. 1914, and died at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 16 June, 1915, from heart failure caused by rheumatic fever contracted while at the Front; unm.

ASHTON, EDWIN, Rifleman, No. 1667, 1/12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt., former Engineers’ apprentice, s. of Edwin Ashton, fancy leather worker; b. Peckham, 7 April, 1895; was a Scout and Patrol Leader from 13 years of age to 18, when he joined the Rangers; killed in action at Zonnebeke, 20 April, 1915. Cart. Jones wrote: “He was hit by a bullet on the evening of the 20th, and died soon afterwards. We buried him that night in a small wood behind our trench. He was a man for whom I had a great liking; a good soldier, and he died doing his duty.”

ASHURST, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4246), S.S. 102939, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ASHWORTH, EDMUND, Leading Stoker, 311053 (Dev.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ASKEW, HENRY ADAM, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., elder s. of the late Canon Edmund Adam Askew, Rector of Greystoke, Cumberland, by his wife, Mary Penelope (Bushby House, Greystoke, Cumberland), dau. of the late Rev. Henry James Feilden, Rector of Kirk Langley, and grandson of the late Henry William Askew, of Conishead Priory, co. Lancaster, and Glenridding, co. Cumberland, J.P., by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the Right Rev. and Hon. Hugh Percy, D.D., Lord Bishop of Carlisle; b. Greystoke Rectory, 8 Sept. 1881; educ. Aysgarth, Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Border Regt. 8 May, 1901; joined his battn. in South Africa in the Sept. following, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Nov. 1901–2 (Queen’s medal and three clasps); promoted Lieut. 5 Sept. 1903. On his return to England he went through two courses with Mounted Infantry and the Gymnastic course (certificate 1908); Assistant Superintendent of Gymnasium at Devonport for the Southern Command, 3 Aug. 1909–13, when he rejoined his regt. On the outbreak of war he received his company, 23 Aug. 1914, was appointed Transport Officer, and went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force. On the death of the Adjutant, Capt. Andrews (26 Oct.), he took over his duties, and as Adjutant was with his Colonel when wounded, and assisted in carrying him back, becoming then second in command; and from 25 Nov. to 3 Dec. was in command, his Colonel sending in his name as “doing exceptionally well.” He was killed on 19 Dec. 1914, in a night attack on the German trenches at Sailly. He was at first reported as wounded and missing, but was later found to have been killed. He was twice mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John French. A private wrote home to a friend: “There was one officer called Capt. Askew. I was right against him when he got shot. I shall never forget him; the last words he uttered were, ‘Stick it lads, stick it Borders,’ and then he got killed. It happened on the top of their trenches.” Another writes that he was in the trench. The Germans buried him behind their first line of trenches, and erected a cross on which they inscribed in German. “To a brave British officer, Border Regt.” This information was obtained during the truce on Christmas Day, when Lieut. Nunnerly, 3rd Bedfords, was sent by the Commanding Officer of the Border Regt. in answer to a German officer, who passed over the badge from the cap of Capt. Askew. He m. at St. Cuthbert’s Church, Carlisle, 25 April, 1908, Winifred Lucy, dau. of Col. Thomas Angelo Irwin, of Lynehow, Carlisle, Solport, co. Cumberland, D.L., and had issue 2 sons and a dau.; Henry Cuthbert Adam, b. 21 Sept. 1909; David, b. 16 June, 1913; and Winyfred Anne, b. 19 Jan. 1911.

ASKEW, JOHN HENRY, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ports. 11610, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

ASLIN, GEORGE, Private, No. 1941, C. Co., 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Aslin, of Melrose Villas, 7, Avenue Road, Hampton, Bootmaker, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Edward Busby, R.M.; b. Gosport, co. Hants, 31 Dec. 1891; educ. Hampton Council School; was a Fitter’s Labourer; joined the Middlesex Territorials, Feb. 1913; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Frezenberg, 11 May following; unm.

ASSITER, ALFRED, Chief Yeoman of Signals, 168358, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ATCHESON, JOHN, Private, No. 9474, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., 2nd s. of the late Hugh Atcheson, of Jarrow, Machine Planer, by his wife, Mary (Carley Place, Southwick, Sunderland), dau. of Michael Benson; b. Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, co. York, 24 May, 1894; educ. St. Banett’s, Sunderland; enlisted Oct. 1910; and after serving his time with the Colours joined the Special Reserve, and was employed at Thomson’s Yard, Sunderland. He was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 1 June, 1915; unm. His elder brother, Private Samuel Atcheson, is now (1916) serving with the Expeditionary Force in France.

ATKIN, JOHN CLAUDE, R.M.L.I., Ch. 7931, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ATKINS, EDMUND JOSEPH, Leading Seaman, 222044, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ATKINS, FRANK STANLEY, Private, No. 12608, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of William Edward Atkins, of Gravesend, co. Kent, Nurseryman and Florist, by his wife, Elizabeth Hollwey, dau. of William Hollwey, of Chilcompton, Bath; b. Gravesend, 30 July, 1892; educ. Christ Church School there, and then entered the service of the P. & O. Steamship Co. He joined the Garrison Artillery at the age of eighteen, and on the declaration of war enlisted in the Coldstreams, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed at Cuinchy on 25 Jan. 1915, in his first action. He was buried where he fell, 500 yards from Cuinchy Church, and a cross marks the spot. He was spoken of as a keen soldier, who never failed to do his duty.

ATKINS, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3519), 162449, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ATKINS, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4569), S.S. 1544, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ATKINSON, ALFRED GEORGE, A.B., 193724, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

ATKINSON, ANDREW GEORGE, Private, No. 798, 25th Infantry Battn., Australian Imperial Force, s. of George Andrew Atkinson, Solicitor, and Coroner for North Fermanagh; b. Ballyshannon, co. Donegal, 12 March, 1891; educ. Conway College and Jones School, Lispoole Abbey, Enniskillen; went to Australia; enlisted in the Australian Force in Dec. 1914, following the outbreak of war; was wounded in action in the fighting at Anzac, near Hill 971 (Sari Bair), and died in No. 19 General Hospital at Alexandria, 27 Nov. 1915; unm. Buried in Chatby Cemetery, near Alexandria (Grave No. 1883).

ATKINSON, WILLIAM JOSEPH, R.N.R., No. 3672C, s. of Joseph Atkinson, Merchant Seaman, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of Isaac Thomas, of London; b. Hull, 8 Aug. 1873; educ. St. Paul’s Street School, Hull; was formerly employed in the weekly boats, and was delegate for the Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union; was called up on mobilisation, 2 Aug. 1914, and lost his life on the Cruiser Hogue, torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Hull, 15 Jan. 1900, Lucy Anne (7, Kingston Street, Hull), dau. of John Scarborough, of Spilsby, Lincolnshire, shoemaker, and had issue a son and six daus.: John, b. 11 March, 1910; Jessie, b. 8 Oct. 1900; Lucy, b. 17 Nov. 1901; Annie, b. 11 Aug. 1902; Muriel, b. 17 Aug. 1905: Mildred, b. 10 April 1908; and Charlotte, b. 19 Sept. 1911. Had Atkinson lived throughout the year 1915 he would have received a medal for fifteen years’ service in the R.N.R.

ATKINSON, WILLIAM NOEL, Capt. and Adjutant 2nd Battn. 10th Gurkha Rifles, eldest s. of the late Rev. Augustus William Atkinson, Principal of the Lawrence Memorial School, Ootacamund, by his wife, Mary Louisa (Mountain View, Ootacamund, Nilgiris, S. India), dau. of Brinard Antony Daly, Tonyville, Yercand, Shevaroy Hills, Madras Presidency, S. India; b. Calcutta, 21 Nov. 1883; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Sandhurst, from which latter he passed out fifth with honours in Feb. 1902. He was gazetted to the unattached list for the Indian Army, 21 Jan. 1903, being temporarily attached to the Durham L.I., and was posted to the 72nd Punjabis in Aug. 1904, and to the 1st Battn. of the 10th Gurkhas the following year. He was promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1905, and Capt. 21 Jan. 1912, and appointed Adjutant 1 Oct. following. He did valuable work in helping to raise the 2nd Battn. of his regt. in 1908, to which battn. he was appointed Q.M., his Col. placing on record his appreciation of all the “solid excellent work done in recruiting for the battalion.” The 10th Gurkhas were sent to Egypt in Oct. 1914, and Capt. Atkinson received his baptism of fire at Toussoum on 4 Feb. 1915, when he took part in the repulse of the attempted Turkish invasion. In May the regt. was sent to the Dardanelles; he was present during the severe fight on the 28th of that month and was killed in the trenches on the following day by a sniper while encouraging his men to repel a fierce counter-attack of the Turks on their freshly seized trenches. His death was instantaneous, and he was buried on the hillside where he fell, the grave being marked by a heap of stones and a wooden cross bearing his name, etc. “His loss is irreparable to the regt.,” wrote his Col., and he was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept. 1915. “A good sportsman and a good rider, well read and untiring in energy. A thorough all round soldier, whose judgment is always sound and to the point. Is on the Staff College list, and should make in the future a most reliable Staff Officer. His profession is his first thought, and his power of imparting knowledge is quite above the normal. A most able officer, of whom I cannot too highly speak, and a general favourite,” was the verdict of one of his chiefs. He was unm.

ATTERBURY, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, No. 9583, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest s. of William Atterbury, of 3, Spencer Road, Mitcham; b. Carshalton, co. Surrey, 7 Oct. 1888; enlisted 5 June, 1908; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action there, 24 Nov. following.

ATTLEE, JAMES MERVYN, Private, No. 3152, 1st/23rd Battn. The London Regt., only surviving s. of James Attlee, of Hillcrest, Chart Lane, Reigate, formerly partner in the firm of C. & J. Attlee, Tooting Brewery, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Thomas Butler; b. Wandsworth, 6 June, 1883; educ. New College, Eastbourne, and Crystal Palace School of Engineering, where he won the medal of the School of Art, Science, and Literature. Held a good position in the Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co., but on the outbreak of war threw this up and enlisted, 19 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 26 May, 1915, in the attack on the German trenches led by Major Streatfeild, and was buried at Festubert; unm.

ATTREALL, ALBERT, Corpl., No 8032, 2nd Battn. The Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915.

ATTREE, BENJAMIN, Private, No. 8745, 2nd Battn. The Sussex Regt., s. of Cornelius Attree, of 88, Beaconsfield Avenue, Toronto, Canada; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died of wounds, 27 Jan. 1915.

ATTREL, ERNEST CHARLES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27515 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Frank Attrel, of 2, Bampfield Terrace, Southern Cross, Portslade, Brighton; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

ATTWATER, RICHARD, Leading Stoker, (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8422), 294694, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

ATTWOOD, ALGERNON FOULKES, Capt., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Llewellyn Carless Foulkes Attwood, of Pandy, co. Monmouth, and of Llay Gresford, co. Denbigh, J.P., and his wife, Rachel Edith, dau. of Arthur Alexander Corsellis, of Wandsworth, co. Surrey; b. Wandsworth, 17 May, 1880; educ. Haileybury and Christ Church College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (as a University candidate) in 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 4 May, 1901; promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 1 March, 1912. In the spring of 1914, after undergoing a course of instruction in aviation at Upavon, he was recommended for an appointment in the Royal Flying Corps, but rejoined his regt. on its mobilisation in Aug. of that year. This was one of the first units of the British Expeditionary Force to arrive on the Belgian frontier in that month. He took part in the Battle of Mons, the retreat to the Marne, and the subsequent advance to the Aisne. On 14 Sept. 1914, however, he was reported severely wounded and missing, and it was afterwards ascertained that at Vailly, near Soissons, at the Battle of the Aisne, “while skilfully and gallantly withdrawing his men from an advanced position which could not be held he was hit twice in rapid succession and fatally wounded.” He d. unm., and was the only male of the last generation of the family of Attwood, formerly of Hawne House, Corngreaves Hall, and The Leasowes, Worcestershire.

ATTWOOD, ARTHUR, Private, No. G 7559, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of James Attwood, of Dale View, Hackney, near Matlock; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 30 Sept. 1915.

ATTWOOD, ARTHUR CHARLES, Gunner, R.F.R., 26, Immed. Class, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

ATTWOOD, CHARLES, Private, No. 26, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Henry Mark Attwood, Superintendent of Police, Somerton Division, Somerset, by his wife, Emma Matilda, dau. of the late James Coles Taylor, of Weston-super-Mare; b. Bishopsworth, near Bristol, 5 Oct. 1893; educ. at various schools in Nailsea, Chard, Taunton, and Somerton, and was afterwards apprenticed to Mr. J. G. Williams, Somerton, to learn the trade of printing. At the termination of his indenture he left for Canada, where at the outbreak of war he held a good position as a printer in Winnipeg, Canada. He immediately volunteered, and joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles on 6 Aug. 1914, coming over with the first Canadian Contingent. After training at Salisbury during the winter he went to the Front, 10 Feb. 1915 (sailed from Avonmouth), was slightly wounded by a splinter at Neuve Chapelle, but, in his own words when writing home, “It was not enough to stop me,” and took part in the memorable charge at Ypres on 23 April, 1915, when the Canadians, in spite of heavy odds, recaptured the guns which the retirement of the French before the asphyxiating gas (then used for the first time) had left in the hands of the Germans. He was killed in action at Langemarck the following day, and as the trenches held by his company had to be evacuated shortly afterwards his body was not recovered. Attwood was a fine athlete and a member of the Somerton Rifle Club, and later of the Winnipeg Rifle Club. He was unm.

AUBIN, ALFRED CHARLES, Capt., East Lancashire Regt. (attd. West African Field Force), s. of Alfred Jackson Aubin, of Belle Vue, Lower King’s Cliff, Jersey, by his wife, Christiana Spark; b. 16 Oct. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Oxford Univ.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the East Lancashire Regt. 21 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 11 Sept. 1901, and Capt. 12 Feb. 1913; served in South Africa with the Mounted Infantry as a Railway Staff Officer, 1899–1902, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); employed with the West African Frontier Force (local Capt. 11 Jan. 1911) from July, 1904, to Feb. 1909, and again from Jan. 1911; killed in action at Garua, in the Cameroons, 30 Aug. 1914; unm.

AUSTEN, WILLIAM FRANK, Ord. Seaman, J. 13723, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

AUSTIN, CYRIL FREDERIC, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., yst. s. of the late Louis Frederic Austin, of 48, Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, W., the well-known journalist, by his wife, Wilhelmina, dau. of Richard Robinson, C.E.; b. Bedford Park, W., 6 Oct. 1884; educ. in Belgium and Germany; was on Reuter’s editorial staff, and had been a member of the Artists’ Rifles since 1907. Went to the Front with them in Oct. 1914, and was given his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Queen’s 15 Nov. following; served continuously in the trenches during the winter of 1914–15, came home for the week-end in Feb. for his marriage, returning to the Front the following day, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; buried at Laventie. While serving at the Front he sent home several graphic sketches of soldier life, which were printed as “From a subaltern in the trenches.” He was mentioned for important and dangerous reconnaissance work in ascertaining the whereabouts of enemy saps by F.M. Sir John French in his Despatch of 31 May, 1915. The Medical Officer of the battn., writing with reference to his death, said: “For some time he and his men occupied a small position of the utmost importance to our line, a position constantly sniped and bombarded by the enemy. I well remember going down to see a wounded man in this isolated post after the German trench mortars had blown the defences about their ears. Austin—wet, muddy, but cheerful—crawled out of the ruins and displayed the utmost concern about his wounded man. Brave, cool, and fearless himself, he would go out of his way to show me a safe way out of the trenches and where I could avoid ploughing through too much mud and water. I was talking to him a few minutes before he was hit, and it was a terrible blow to me that when I was called to him his condition was such that no treatment was available.” While a member of the Artists’ Rifles Sec. Lieut. Austin won cups with the Tent Pitching Team, and for five years was in the Bayonet Team, taking part in the Naval and Military Tournament at Olympia in 1913 and 1914, and winning many spoons and cups. The chairman of Reuter’s at the annual general meeting on 3 June, 1915, described him as “one of our most promising young editors.” He m. at St. Ippolyt’s, Herts, 27 Feb. 1915, Margaret Elizabeth (Gosmore, Hitchin), elder dau. of Samuel Bridgman Russell, of Gosmore, Hitchin, Herts.

AUSTIN, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Private, No. 9726, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, s. of Edward Austin; b. Birmingham, 13 Dec. 1884; educ. St. Mary’s Schools there; served seven years in India; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, 26 Aug. 1914; unm.

AUSTIN, GEORGE, Stoker, R.N.R., 514 V., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

AVELING, LANCELOT NEVILLE, Lieut., 1st Battn. Connaught Rangers, only s. of Neville Clifford Aveling, temporary Capt. R.F.A., by his wife, Evelyn Mary, of St. Germans Hall, Norfolk, dau. of Capt. Hurton Barker, of Needham House, near Wisbech, and grandson of Stephen Thomas Aveling, of Restoration House, Rochester; b. Rochester, 20 March, 1892; educ. Gresham’s Holt School; was for four years in the O.T.C., and shot at Bisley for school; joined the Surrey (Queen Mary’s Own) Yeomanry 1911, and the Special Reserve of Officers (3rd Connaught Rangers) 13 June, 1913, and passed third in qualifying examination for Regular Army on mobilisation, being gazetted 1 Sept. He left with the Expeditionary Force for the Front at the end of August; was wounded (two bullet wounds) at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept.; again at Ypres, 7 Nov. (mentioned in Despatches, Feb. 1915); and a third time at the same place, 26 April, and d. in hospital at Hazebrouck three days later, being buried in the cemetery there; unm. His colonel wrote: “He was such a splendid officer and so charming a fellow. He is, indeed, an almost irreparable loss to my battalion.... He came to us with a very high reputation from the 2nd Battalion, and more than made it good. Gen. Egerton had especially asked for your boy’s services for the day as orderly officer.”

AVERILL, ALBERT, Private, No. 9974, 1st Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., s. of Alfred John Averill, Officer’s Waiter, 11th South Staffs. Regt., by his wife, Hannah, dau. of Hiram Pritchard; b. Hanley and Stoke (N. Stafford), 6 Aug. 1891; educ. Cauldon Road Elementary School there, enlisted in Sept. 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Armentières, 2 Nov. 1914; unm.

AVIS, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4659), S.S. 103859, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

AVIS, RALPH CUTTS, Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6683), 191425, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

AVIS, WILLIAM, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 10913, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

AWDRY, CAROL EDWARD VERE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, s. of the Rev. Vere Awdry, Vicar of Ampfield, Romsey, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of Edward Desborough Man; b. Broad-Hinton Vicarage, co. Wilts, 11 June, 1894; educ. Marlborough House School, Hove (April, 1903–Dec. 1907), Marlborough College (Foundation Scholar, Jan. 1908–June, 1912), and Royal Military College, Sandhurst (G Coy., June, 1912–June, 1913); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Munster Fusiliers, Sept. 1913; joined the 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, 15 Oct. 1913; went to the Front with them 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Etreux, 27 Aug. 1914, during the retreat from Mons. Writing to his father, the senior surviving officer, Capt. H. S. Jervis, who was himself taken prisoner, said: “Your boy lost his life that day while leading his men against overwhelming odds. The Army was at the time withdrawing, and the battn. was occupying an important position covering the movement. In order to better safeguard the retreat of the remainder our withdrawal was delayed by some hours. We were attacked on three sides, and when we moved off finally it was found that the greatly superior forces of the Germans had enabled them to cut us off from our main body. Faced by odds of 6 or 8 to 1 we put up the best fight we could until compelled by fire from all sides to surrender. C Coy—to which your son belonged, of course—was chosen to watch our right rear (on the north-east) as the battn. withdrew to the south, and Capt. Rawlinson selected your son to take his platoon (No. 9) out to an exposed position the far end of a village named Fesmy, through which our line of retreat lay. He performed the duty in a most able manner, and although harassed with a nasty fire, he held on until the battn. withdrew, and then rejoined with his little force intact. It was a commendable performance, worthy of one of far greater age and experience than your son. His company then continued the withdrawal until we came to the next village (Oisy), when it was detailed to act as rearguard. Again they were sharply engaged by largely increased forces this time, but they gallantly held their own, your son again holding a detached position at an important cross roads, and again the battn. was able to withdraw in safety. Your boy’s party was the last to come in, and though he lost a few men he saved many more. It was now six o’clock (p.m.), and it was now discovered that we were cut off from the main body. The battn. shook out to the attack in an endeavour to break through, every officer doing good work, your son no less than the others. With sword drawn he led his men in support of the attack which was in progress in front (to the south), and as he advanced he fell shot through the lungs. His death was painless and practically instantaneous. He was buried with his eight brother officers who fell the same day, 28 Aug. 1914. I write as a prisoner in German hands. The grave is near the railway station of Etreux, 400 yards to north of the level-crossing, right-hand side of the road.” It seems clear that from the first the situation was so critical that to enable the Army to escape the sacrifice of a regt. might possibly prove to be inevitable. Major Charrier, in command of the Munsters, fully recognised this, and, according to a survivor, in the absence of definite orders to retire, felt it his duty to hold on to the last at all costs. Though they had had two little “scraps” with the Germans lasting a few minutes on 24 and 26 Aug., the Munsters’ first serious fighting was on the 27th. The morning was very misty, and while waiting for the Germans a German aeroplane came over them, quite close, about 10 a.m. It flew back at once, and shortly afterwards a heavy fire was opened on them, rendering their position untenable. They therefore retired through Fesmy, where Awdry with his platoon held a detached position and succeeded in holding the Germans back till the regt. was safe, and then rejoined. He received a slight flesh wound here. Next they came to Oisy. Here they had to cross a canal, a little distance in rear of which was an important cross roads. Attacked in flank, in danger of being cut off in front, a cavalry attack now threatened them in rear, and Awdry was sent to the cross roads with his platoon. He left about 12 men under a sergt. at the canal bridge while he with the rest went forward and succeeded in holding the Germans at bay for some three-quarters of an hour. The sergt. and nearly all the detachment at the bridge were killed, and a corpl. went forward to get instructions, and as he got up he saw Awdry put his hand up to his chest and fall. Private C.... says he was hit high up on the left side. The corpl. thought he was killed, and as nearly all that party were hors de combat he returned to the bridge, where, finding no one left, he thought all was over and escaped as best he could with a few stragglers who joined him and worked round to St. Quentin, where they eventually joined the remnant of the regt. (about 260) who had escaped destruction or capture. Awdry was not, however, killed then, and held on; but his numbers were so reduced that he signalled for reinforcement, and though none could be sent then, he refused to leave the post till assured that the battn. was safe. Eventually a few men from another platoon came to his help, and finally they retired and rejoined, his party being the last to come in. Then about 6 p.m. the battn. found themselves attacked on three sides, and it was now in the last desperate attempt to break through that Awdry got his fatal wound, in the forehead. Private C. ... was again close to him, and though himself slightly wounded managed to get him back near the road, and was putting his own field dressing on the wound when his left shoulder was shattered and he fell over and Awdry fell on the top of him, and so about an hour later died in his arms. They lay there all night till a burial party composed of captured men of the Munsters under German guards brought them in. The nine officers of the Munsters who fell that day were buried in one grave, and the N.C.Os. and men in another, side by side, near the railway station of Etreux, on the right hand side of the road, 400 yards north of the level-crossing. A German Pastor read a funeral service over them and the Germans put up crosses to mark the spot. Two memorial windows have been put up in St. Mark’s Church, Ampfield, in memory of 2nd Lieut. Awdry and officers, N.C.O.s and men of the Munsters who fell that day.

AXON, WALTER HENRY, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, R.F.R., A. 1230, late Ports., A. 2045, 128826, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

AXUP, VICTOR EMMANUEL, Leading Signaller, 215587, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

AYLING, WILLIAM, L.-Corpl., No. 9330, 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., s. of Horace Ayling, of Stubbington Lane, Stubbington, Fareham, Hants, Cowman, by his wife, Anne, dau. of Edward Etherington; b. Hindhead, co. Surrey, 18 Dec. 1895; educ. Fareham and Crofton Elementary School; enlisted April, 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914; was seriously wounded near Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914, by a wounded Prussian, and was invalided home; but returned to the Front in May, appointed L.-Corpl. June, and was killed in action at Ypres, 9 July, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote that “he was killed instantly by a shell which burst in a trench”; adding, “He was an excellent fellow.... He was buried behind the trench. I am afraid it was only a rough grave, as we left that night.”

BABER, THOMAS EDWARD, Petty Officer (N.S.), 154395, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BACHELOR, FRANK, Gunner, R.M.A., 12282, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BACK, JOHN RICHARD, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2843), 199592, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BACON, BASIL KENRICK WING, Major, D Coy., 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt., 4th s. of Kenrick Verulam Bacon, of The Lodge, Hale, Farnham, J.P., late Capt. Worcestershire Regt. (with which he served in the Indian Mutiny, 1857–8), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of the late T. Wing, Gray’s Inn; b. Eastbourne, 28 May, 1872; educ. United Services College, Westward Ho! was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. of the Worcesters, from the Militia, 4 Oct. 1893, and promoted Lieut. 14 Dec. 1896, and Capt. 14 Feb. 1900, and Major 1 April, 1909. When the Boer war broke out he was with his regt. in Bermuda. They came home to Aldershot in order to mobilise, and then went to South Africa. He served with the 2nd Battn. in the South African war of 1899–1902, took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1899–1900, including action at Colesberg (1 Jan.-12 Feb.); in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, and Orange Free State, May-Feb. 1901, and in the Orange Free State, Feb.-May, 1902; was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and obtained the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps. After the war he continued to serve with the 2nd Battn. in South Africa, subsequently moving with it to Ceylon and thence to India. He obtained his Majority in the 3rd Battn. at Dover, but afterwards was posted to the 1st, which was at Cairo when the European War broke out. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 Dec. 1914; unm. A memorial brass was erected in Hale Parish Church by the N.C.Os. and men of his company “in token of their esteem and affection.”

BADDELEY, EDWARD LAWRENCE, Major, 8th Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers (T.F.), eldest s. of the late John Bratton Baddeley, of Whalley, co. Lancaster, M.D., by his wife, Marion (afterwards wife of Charles Edward Emmet, of Southport), dau. of (—) Brewer; b. Whalley, 12 July, 1870; educ. at Macclesfield, and was admitted a solicitor in June, 1893, but did not practise, being secretary to Messrs. W. T. Glover & Co., of Trafford Park, Manchester, Cable Makers. Major Baddeley joined the Halifax (1st Volunteer Battn. Duke of Wellington’s) Volunteers as a Private in 1888, and obtained his commission, 21 March, 1900, in the 3rd Volunteer Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt., and afterwards transferred into the Lancashire Fusiliers; Southport Volunteers, 13 June, 1903; and on 24 Jan. 1914, obtained his majority in the 8th Territorial Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, went out to Egypt with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 6 June, 1915, being then second in command. He helped to form one of the first cycle corps in England. He held the Volunteer Long Service medal. Major Baddeley was a leading member of the Southport Yachting Club. He m. at Halifax, 4 July, 1911, May, only dau. of John Oakley, of Halifax, M.D., J.P.; s.p.

BADDELEY, LIONEL RICHARD LOGAN, Corpl., No. 11/566, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd Squadron, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard Baddeley, of Kakatahi, Wanganui, New Zealand, Runholder, by his wife, J..., dau. of Thomas Logan Williamson, grandson of Capt. Frederick Clinton Herman Stuart Baddeley, 40th Regt., and great-grandson of General Frederick Henry Baddeley, R.E.; b. Wanganui, New Zealand, 4 Dec. 1887; educ. Wanganui College. On the outbreak of war he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles on 20 May, 1915; unm.

BADDER, SIDNEY JOSEPH, A.B., J. 6017, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BADENOCH, JAMES, Leading Stoker, R.F.R., Ch. B. 9396, 296586, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAGLEY, ARTHUR DAVIES, Private, No. 107, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Frederick Bagley, Master Draughtsman, by his wife, Ann, dau. of the late Stephen Davies; b. Broseley, co. Salop, 22 Nov. 1889; educ. there, and emigrated to Australia in 1911. At the outbreak of war he volunteered, and was killed in action during the landing operations in Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; unm. A comrade writing said that he was shot through the head by a sniper whilst going to the assistance of a wounded officer.

BAGSHAWE, LEONARD VALE, Capt., 3rd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. s. of Rev. William Vale Bagshawe, of Moorlands, Calver, Sheffield, formerly Assistant Master at Repton School, Master of the Uppingham Lower School, Vicar of Isel and Rector of Pitchford, by his wife, Alice Katharine, dau. of Edward Otto Partridge; b. Highfield, Uppingham, 30 Nov. 1877; educ. Lower School, Uppingham, Shrewsbury, and Christ Church, Oxford. After taking his degree he entered the service of the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, and later became one of their forest managers. Being home on leave when the war broke out he applied at once, with three other members of the company’s staff, for a commission in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 30 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. following. He trained at Portland and Sunderland, left with a draft on 4 Dec., and was attached to the 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers near Ypres, where, having acted as Capt. of his company for several months, he was gazetted to that rank 5 May, 1915. He was killed in action at Hooge, in Flanders, 16 June, 1915; unm. Lieut. Edward Partridge wrote from Ypres: “His example enabled his men to carry the position and retain it against counter attacks, and they all speak so highly of his pluck and resource.” And Private Pike, Northumberland Fusiliers, from the Base Hospital at Sheffield: “I was with your son when he got killed in the great charge at Hooge, near Ypres, on 16 June. I was very proud to be led by such a brave and noble man—for he led the company as if he were in the streets of England.” Private Pike also said that “Capt. Bagshawe and his men were in the fighting in March at St. Eloi, St. Julien, and Hill 60. One night he had 18 men in a trench which was shelled by the Germans preparatory to an attack; 16 men were killed or wounded. Capt. Bagshawe mounted the parapet and fired into the attacking enemy. He and his two men held the trench through the night until daylight caused the Germans to relinquish the attack.” The adjutant of his Battn. said: “... He was as popular with his men as with the officers.... He was from the first in a responsible position, which he filled with great energy and tact.... We were attacking, and I heard that he got into the first line of the enemy’s trenches, and I think he was hit in the actual assault. He will have been buried close to where he fell, which is just south of the Ypres-Roulers Railway, about three miles east of Ypres.” Capt. Bagshawe was a keen and successful all-round sportsman. At college he rowed in the eight and represented Christ Church in the crew which competed for both Thames and Ladies in 1897 at Henley. They were beaten in the semi-final of the Ladies Plate by Emmanuel, and in the final of the Thames Cup by Kingston after a good race.

BAILEY, ARCHIBALD ERNEST, L.-Corpl., No. 9592, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt., s. of Samuel Bailey, of 16, Blackwall Road, Willesboro Lees, near Ashford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 28 Sept. 1915.

BAILEY, ARTHUR EDWARD, Private, No. 9703, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Bailey, of Hyam Cottages, Malmesbury, Wilts., Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Matthew Clark, of Malmesbury; b. Brokenborough, near Malmesbury, co. Wilts., 2 Aug. 1890; educ. Malmesbury National School; enlisted 31 July, 1912, and was killed in the fighting round Ypres, Oct. 1914; unm.

BAILEY, FREDERICK JOSEPH, Acting Sergt.-Major, No. 4640, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.); killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915.

BAILEY, GEORGE HENRY, Leading Seaman, 220337, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. His brother, Wallace J. Bailey, was lost in the Cressy.

BAILEY, JOHN JAMES, Private, No. 2280, 7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), only s. of the late (—) Bailey; b. Sunderland, co. Durham, ... Aug. 1887, and was employed at Foster’s Forge, Sunderland; joined the 7th (Territorial) Battn. of the Durham L.I., and trained at Gateshead; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action “somewhere” in France, 15 May, 1915. He m. at Sunderland, 24 Aug. 1912, Elizabeth Jane (who died 16 June, 1914), dau. of William Chambers Farley, of Sunderland, Machine Driller, and had an only child, Catherine (15, Victoria Street, Southwick, Sunderland), b. 9 Jan. 1913.

BAILEY, THOMAS DISMORE, Private, No. 3189, B Coy., 1/5th Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., yr. s. of Samuel Bailey, Coachman to Mr. J. H. Sykes, of Bryancliffe, Edgerton, Huddersfield, by his wife, Selina, dau. of Thomas Dismore; b. Marsh, Huddersfield, 29 Dec. 1895; was a cutter’s apprentice at Messrs. Bairstow, Sons & Co., Ltd., Clothiers, but on the outbreak of war joined the Army as a Stretcher-bearer and First Aid Ambulance man, 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed while attending to the wounded at Fleurbaix at 12.15 p.m., 14 June, 1915; buried at La Croix Marchal; unm. Writing to his parents his Commanding Officer, Capt. J. E. Eastwood, said: “We had just had one man badly wounded, and your son as a stretcher-bearer was attending to him, when I heard that we had another man wounded higher up the trenches, so your son set off to attend to him, and while doing so was shot dead on the spot.” And Lieut. A. L. McCully, of the R.A.M.C., wrote: “As you know, I have not been very long in charge of the Ambulance Section, but I have heard nothing but praise of your son from Sergt. Flood and his late comrades. He was always willing to do his share of whatever was in hand, and the fact of his at once going out to a dangerous place to help a wounded man shows that he had the very highest conception of what his duty was.” He was a member of the choir at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield.

BAILEY, WALLACE JAMES, Seaman, R.N.R., 2467A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. His brother, George Henry, was lost in the Pathfinder.

BAILEY, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7729), S.S. 103118, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAILEY, WILLIAM, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 576), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9459), S.S. 106853, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAILLIE, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, Leading Seaman, 230740, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAILLIE, SIR GAWAINE GEORGE STUART, 5th Bart., of Polkemmet, Lieut., 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), elder s. of the late Sir Robert Baillie, 4th Bart. (who commanded the Australian Squadron of the King’s Colonials), by his wife, Isabel (Polkemmet, Whitburn, Linlithgow), dau. of the late David Elliot Wilkie, of Ratho Byres, Midlothian; b. Victoria, Australia, 29 May, 1893; educ. St. David’s, Rufalt, Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 2nd Dragoons, 4 Sept. 1912, being stationed at York till the war broke out. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force Aug. 14; was promoted Lieut., and was wounded in the hand in Aug., but insisted on returning to the firing line, although unable to use it. He was killed in action at Rebais on 7 Sept. 1914, when the onward rush of the Germans was stopped at the Marne. In the words of a brother officer: “Unable to draw any weapon himself, he died charging the enemy like the gallant English gentleman he was.” His body was brought home and buried in the family burial ground: unm. Numerous letters were received from his brother officers and the men of the regt. testifying to his gallantry and to the high esteem and popularity in which he was held by the whole regt.

BAILLIE, IAN HENRY, Capt., 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Duncan Baillie, formerly of the Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, Anna Glentworth (Lochloy, Nairn, N.B.), dau. of the Rev. Gustavus Burnaby, of Somerby Hall, Leicestershire; b. Househill, co. Nairn, 3 Sept. 1870; educ. Wellington College; was for some time a Lieut. in 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted Capt. to the 4th Battn. of the Cameron Highlanders, 20 Nov. 1914. He was wounded at Festubert, 18 May, 1915, and d. in hospital at Rouen four days later; unm. An elder brother, Capt. Alan Baillie, Seaforth Highlanders, was killed at Atbara in 1898, and another brother, Major Hugh Baillie, D.S.O., of the Seaforth Highlanders, was wounded in the early part of the war, and has now (1916) a staff appointment abroad. A third brother, Major Duncan Baillie, 2nd Lovat Scouts, is serving abroad with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

BAILWARD, THEODORE, Lieut., 26th King George’s Own Native L.I., 3rd s. of Thomas Henry Methuen Bailward, of Horsington Manor, co. Somerset, B.A. Oxford, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Margaret Eliza, dau. of Henry Hobhouse, of Hadspen House, Castle Cary, J.P.; b. Horsington Manor, 9 March, 1888; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Rugby and Sandhurst; received commission in Somerset L.I., then quartered at Poona, 1907. The following year he passed into the Indian Army, joining the 26th Native Cavalry at Bangalore, and in 1913 was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor of Madras (Lord Pentland), and became Master of the Ootacamund Hounds, which office he held until the outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. He was attached to the 7th Lancers, and with them joined the Indian Expeditionary Force in the Persian Gulf in March, and was killed, with two other officers and some men, at Imanzadeh Ali Ibuhussin, 18 miles due east of Awaz, when on a reconnaissance, 29 April, 1915. He was buried there; unm.

BAINBRIDGE, THOMAS LINDSAY, Lieut., 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, attd. Northumbrian Signal Coy. R.E., 3rd s. of the late Thomas Hudson Bainbridge, of Eshott Hall, co. Northumberland; b. Holmwood, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 April, 1882; educ. privately and Dr. Osborn’s, Colwyn Bay; qualified as an electrical engineer, and then entered the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, at Wallsend. He received his first commission in 1913 as commander of a signalling section, and was in the Special Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and after being stationed at Blyth left for the Front about the middle of April, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres on the 26th of that month; unm. The following is an extract from a letter read at the Newcastle Wesleyan Synod at Durham on 13 May: “Last night, after dark, we buried Lieut. Bainbridge and others. It was the most impressive ceremony I have ever attended. It was a beautiful moonlight night as we carried the bodies down the lines wrapped in blankets and lying on stretchers. As we passed each entrenched battn. the men stood to ‘Attention.’ At about a quarter of a mile from the trenches, on a piece of ground where about six other officers lie buried, we laid them to rest. The guns were roaring on every side, and the huge fire-balls the Germans threw into the air illuminated the sky. Lieut. Bainbridge was a plucky and good fellow.” Prior to Lieut. Bainbridge being gazetted to the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers he had held a commission in the Engineers Volunteers, and subsequently was a Cadet in the Senior Division, Durham University O.T.C. During his service in the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers he endeavoured to qualify himself in every way to become as efficient a soldier as possible, and with this in view he did a month’s tour of duty at the regimental depôt, receiving a good report on his work during that tour. He also prepared himself to qualify, and qualified in examination “B” for promotion to Capt. He took a month’s course in signalling at Bulford Camp, at the end of which he qualified most satisfactorily. After this he became battn. signalling officer, and never spared himself in bringing his signallers into as high a state of efficiency as possible in all branches of military signalling. He also became interested in “wireless,” and provided himself with an apparatus, which he studied with great zeal and ability. When the war broke out he commanded the Northumbrian Divisional Signalling Coy., and was consequently attached to the Northumbrian Divisional R.E. He was a popular officer with all ranks, was a keen rifle shot, and in 1913 won the revolver championship of Northumberland. He was also a very keen motorist, and, in fact, an all-round sportsman.

BAIRD, COLIN, Sergt., No. 2768, D Coy., 1st/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt., s. of Thomas Baird, of 25A, Wood Street, E.C., by his wife, Lucy Maria, dau. of Mark Williams; b. West Norwood, 5 Nov. 1886; educ. Lancaster College, West Norwood; killed in action near Loos, 13 Oct. 1915, while in charge of a party sent out to cut wire entanglements; unm.

BAIRD, STANLEY CHARLES, Probationary 2nd Cook’s Mate, No. Ch. M. 7600, H.M.S. Cressy, 4th s. of George Alexander Baird, of 4, Pleasant View, Farnborough, of the Metropolitan Water Board, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Francis Balchin; b. Farnborough, co. Kent, 11 June, 1893; educ. Farnborough Board School; joined the Royal West Kent Territorials, 1912; entered the Navy, 12 May, 1914; lost in H.M.S. Cressy in North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

BAIRD, WILLIAM FRANK GARDINER, Capt., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. s. of Sir William James Gardiner Baird, of Saughton Hall, Midlothian, 8th Bt., J.P., Lieut.-Col. Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry, formerly 7th Hussars, by his wife, the Hon. Arabella Rose Evelyn Hozier, dau. of James Henry Cecil, 1st Lord Newlands; b. Inch House, Liberton, Midlothian, 15 April, 1885; educ. Castlemount, Eton and Sandhurst. Served in the 7th Dragoon Guards and Scots Guards. On the outbreak of war he received a commission from the Reserve of Officers as Capt. in the 4th Bedfordshires, 11 Aug. 1914, and went to the Front attached to the 1st Lincolnshire Regt. He d. 5 Nov. 1914, in hospital at Boulogne, from wounds received in action, and was buried there. Capt. Baird m. at Ware, 24 Nov. 1910, Violet Mary, dau. of the late Richard Benyon Croft, of Fanham’s Hall, and had three children: James Richard Gardiner, b. 12 July, 1913; William Henry Gardiner, b. 11 Oct. 1914; and Lilias Mary, b. 26 Sept. 1911.

BAKER, EDWARD JAMES, P.O., 1st Class, 164169, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BAKER, EDWIN JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6773), 189515, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 44, 54th Field Coy., R.E., s. of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (—), dau. of (—) Naunton; b. Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educ. there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergt. Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieut.-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: “Sergt. W. Baker, when I knew him, was section sergt. of the 54th Field Coy., R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise.” He m. at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), dau. of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daus.: Frederick William Naunton, b. 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, b. 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, b. 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, b. 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, b. 23 Oct. 1910.

BAKER, GEORGE BRANDON, Elect. Art., 3rd Class, M. 399, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BAKER, HENRY TILLET, Armourer, 345914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BAKER, JAMES HENRY, Rifleman, No. 971, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd s. of Samuel Baker, of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, ex-Police Constable, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Thomas Durrance; b. Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, 21 Aug. 1875; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Clapham. He was a postman, and had done 25 years’ service at Brixton. He joined the old 24th Middlesex Volunteers in 1896, and afterwards passed into the Post Office Rifles. On the outbreak of war he volunteered with his battn. for foreign service, and d. of wounds received in action at Festubert, 26 May, 1915. A comrade wrote “he was wounded severely in my company on Wednesday night (25th) at Festubert, and have just now received official information that he died in Bethune Hospital on the 26th, and was buried in Bethune cemetery. I knew he was terribly wounded, but did not think he was dangerously wounded, as I had the sad task of attending to his wounds; the latter were in both legs, from the knees downwards.” And his Colonel, in writing to express his sympathy with Mrs. Baker, spoke of the “Many kind things he did to help one.” Baker m. at St. Saviour’s, Brixton, 12 Jan. 1901, Eliza Susan (114, Cornwall Road, Brixton Hill, S.W.), dau. of Alfred Mills, of Thurlow, Suffolk, and had two children: James Alfred, b. 7 Dec. 1904; Constance Sophia, b. 31 Dec. 1901.

BAKER, JOHN, A.B., No. 1402D, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAKER, JOHN WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5353), S.S. 100106, s. of the late Daniel Baker, Labourer; b. Chislet, Kent, ... 1868; educ. there; joined the Navy 1904; was called up at the outbreak of the war, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Chislet, 17 April, 1906, Margaret A., dau. of ..., and had three children: John William Henry, b. 1910; Annie, b. 1907; and Ivy, b. 1908.

BAKER, MARSHALL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3734), 166055, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAKER, OSBERT CLINTON-, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 3rd s. of the late William Clinton-Baker, of Bayfordbury, co. Herts., by his wife, Edith Mildmay Ashhurst (Bayfordbury, Hertford), dau. of the Rev. Henry Lewis Majendie, Vicar of Great Dunmow, co. Essex; b. Bayfordbury, 25 Sept. 1869; educ. at Winchester and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, receiving his first commission in the Royal Irish Rifles 1 March, 1890. He obtained his step 18 Nov. 1894, and his company 24 Feb. 1900, being promoted to field rank 22 Sept. 1906, and succeeding to the command of the 1st battn. of his regt. 15 March, 1915, on the death of Lieut.-Col. G. B. Laurie, who fell in action at Neuve Chapelle. From Jan. 1896 to 31 Dec. 1899 he was Adjutant to his regt. and from Feb. 1905 to Sept. 1906 he occupied a similar position in the Militia. He served in the South African War, and in May, 1902, obtained the command of the 21st Battn. of the Mounted Infantry, and held that position until the end of the war, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps. After this he was for some years in India and Burmah, accompanying his regt. as 2nd in command to the front in Nov. 1914. Lieut.-Col. Clinton-Baker was one of four officers R.I.R.—out of 22—who passed unhurt through Neuve Chapelle. He was killed in action during the abortive attack near Fromelles on 9 May, 1915. The battn. had to face a perfect inferno of machine guns and rifle fire as soon as they mounted their own parapet after the lifting of the guns. It appears that after the Rifles had carried the first line of trenches allotted to them, and had advanced to the road beyond, the enemy concentrated a terrible fire on them. The General in command of the Brigade was killed and a battn., which was to have come up and relieved the Rifles, was not sent forward. The Rifles held on to the position and were being enfiladed, when Lieut.-Col. Clinton-Baker took a party to the right flank to prevent this, a similar party being sent to the left. It was when he was with his party, which was practically annihilated, that he was shot. A good cricketer, fine shot and keen polo player, he, with other officers, won for his regt. King George’s Cup for polo at Aden in 1914. He was unm.

BAKER, WILLIAM HENRY, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4754, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAKER, WILLIAM JOHN, Blacksmith, 341057, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BALCOMBE, FREDERICK, Stoker, P.O., 276783, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BALDING, ROBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6413), 190103, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BALDOCK, WILLIAM ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14609, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BALDWIN, ANTHONY HUGH, Brig.-Gen. Comdg., 38th Infantry Brigade, late Manchester Regt., only s. of James Baldwin, of Smithies Bridge, Clitheroe, co. Lancaster, by his wife, Ann, dau. of James Part; b. Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, 30 Sept. 1863; educ. Clitheroe Grammar School and Giggleswick; obtained his first commission as Lieut. in 1st Manchester Regt. from the Militia, 14 May, 1884, being promoted Capt. 3 Feb. 1892; Major 15 Dec. 1900; Lieut.-Col. 17 Feb. 1908; substantive Col. 4 Oct. 1911; Col. 13 Aug. 1914; and Brig.-Gen. 24 Aug. 1914. He joined the 2nd Battn. in India in 1888, served with it at Agra, Meerut and Dinapore, and was Adjutant from 5 July, 1891, to 4 Aug. 1895 when he returned to England. From 14 Nov. 1898, to 13 Nov. 1903, he was Adjutant of the 6th (Militia) Battn., and was at the depôt at Ashton-under-Lyne until July, 1902, when he went out with this battn. to South Africa, and took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, March to 31 May, 1902, receiving the King’s medal with three clasps. On his return in Sept. he served with the 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, Cork, Alderney, Portsmouth and Mullingar, and in 1910 returned to India to command the 1st Battn. He was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal), and 1 June, 1914, retired on half-pay. On the outbreak of the European War he offered his services and was given the command of the 38th Infantry Brigade, 13th Division, 5 Sept. 1914, which he trained at Tedworth, Winchester and Blackdown, and took to the Dardanelles on 14 June, 1915. He was killed at its head on 10 Aug. 1915, in an attack on Chanak, about a month after landing. The Brigade after his fall were forced to retreat, and his body was not recovered. The A.D.C. to the Divisional General wrote: “He died in the front line leading his Brigade—he died as a gallant English gentleman, beloved, honoured, respected and mourned by all. He met his death as I am sure he must have wished, absolutely in the front line of his splendid Brigade.” And the Brigade Machine Gun Officer: “In General Baldwin the Brigade has lost a wonderfully capable leader, cool and collected in the moment of danger, always ready with a cheery word and a smile to help those who, not having his nerve, were not so collected as he. In quiet times a more charming and considerate officer could not be found. His kindness and consideration for the junior members of his staff, and indeed for everybody, down to the merest drummer boy, were wonderful, and he held the heart and affection of every man he commanded.” Gen. Baldwin m. in London, Emily Seabrooke, dau. of the late Thomas Dyson, of the Bank of Bengal, and had issue: Mary Violet, d. 25 June, 1913; and Betty, b. 1 Sept. 1899.

BALDWIN, JOSIAH, Stoker, R.N.R., 2537T, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BALL, ALBERT RANSOME, Lieut., A Coy., 10th Battn. 2nd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of William Lee Ball, of 155, Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg, by his wife, Nellie Lenore, dau. of William M. Ransome; b. Richmond, P. Quebec, Canada, 21 April, 1891, removing with his parents to Winnipeg in 1903, and was educ. there and at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario. He was engaged in commercial pursuits, but on the declaration of war felt it his duty to join the Colours, and enlisted in the 106th Winnipeg L.I., which was united with the 103rd Calgary to compose the 10th Battn. They left Quebec with the first Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to France in Feb. 1915. At the Battle of St. Julien the 10th Battn. was assigned the post of honour, and led the memorable charge on the night of 22–23 April, which is said by Sir John French “to have saved the situation.” In the action Lieut. Ball was mortally wounded, and he died in No. 7 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne on the 29th of that month; unm. His body was taken back to Canada for burial.

BALL, JAMES, Sergt., 11659 (Plym.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

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

BALL, WILLIAM ORMSBY WYNDHAM, M.B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., s. of the late Henry Wyndham Ball, of the Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin; b. Dublin, 27 Sept. 1889; educ. St. Andrew’s College and Dublin University; obtained his colours on the Hockey XI. two years in succession, and represented Ireland in six international hockey matches. Gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C., 24 Jan. 1913, and on the outbreak of war was attached to the 2nd Battn. S. Staffords, and proceeded to the Front with them 13 Aug. He was killed by a shell at Sonpir on the Aisne, 26 Sept. 1914, when attending the wounded there, being buried at Sonpir Farm; unm.

BALL, WILLIE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10509), 226180, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BALLAM, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6060, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BALLANTYNE, DANIEL, Private, No. 4264, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, s. of the late Daniel Alexander Ballantyne, of 38, India Place, Edinburgh, Watchmaker, by his wife, Jane, 3rd dau. of Angus Kennedy; b. Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 18 March, 1878; educ. Hamilton Place School, Edinburgh; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 1 Oct. 1896, and spent six years in India and eight years in the Reserve. He joined the National Reserve, and transferred about 1912 to the Kames Gunpowder Works (Messrs. Curtis’s & Harvey, Ltd.), and raised branches of the National Reserve in Kames, Tighnabruaich and Millhouse. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he got up rifle competitions in aid of the local Red Cross Society, and received the thanks of the Society for the sum of money he thereby raised. He re-enlisted in his old regt. in Sept., and while at Glencorse did good recruiting work. He went to the Western Front in Jan. 1915, and died 27 April of wounds received in action at Hill 60, and was buried at La Clytte Reninghelst, Belgium. He had been in the trenches on Thursday, the 26th, until midnight, when he left to have a cup of tea, and while partaking of it a bullet entered his left shoulder passing across the back and injuring his spine. He was taken down to the hospital, but only lived a few hours. His letters from the trenches were published in “The Buteman and West Coast Chronicle.” In the last one written on the 21st, just five days before his death, he said: “You were asking how we could be so cheery in the trenches. Well, it’s like this. There is no use in being sad, and the cheerier you are the better, for one never knows when it may be his turn to stop laughing for a long, long time. We do not think on half the things those at home bother about, and consider our duty our ordinary course of work, as it certainly is; and there you are! Some may not come back, but we get accustomed to that thought, and think nothing of it. It may be our turn next, but we know that if it does come we have tried to the best of our ability to do our duty to our people at home and King and country.” Ballantyne m. at Edinburgh, 16 Oct. 1906, Mary Jane (187, Gala Park Road, Galashiels), dau. of the late James Donaldson, and had a son and five daus.: Daniel, b. 23 Oct. 1911; Jane Kennedy, b. 29 March, 1908; Alice Weddell, b. 24 April, 1909; Mary Alexandrina, b. 17 July, 1910; and Margaret Inglis, b. 19 Jan. 1913.

BALLANTYNE, THOMAS, Private, No. 7114, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of Thomas Ballantyne; b. Dunston-on-Tyne, 28 Feb. 1886; educ. St. Dominic’s Schools, Newcastle-on-Tyne; joined the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 22 June, 1905, and re-enlisted 2 Aug. 1908. On the outbreak of war he was drafted to the 1st Battn. at the Front, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 1 March, 1915. He m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 6 June, 1906, Margaret Nathans (44, Byron Terrace, Shieldfield, Newcastle), dau. of C. H. Dagg, and had issue two sons and two daus.: Thomas Hubert, b. 28 Jan. 1907; Edward, b. 3 Nov. 1912; Sarah Elizabeth, b. 16 Aug. 1910; and Margaret Alina, b. 12 Dec. 1914. Private Ballantyne held several certificates for service.

BALLARD, CHARLES FREDERICK, Commander, R.N., yr. s. of the late Lieut.-Col. John Fane Ballard, Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., by his wife, Mary (The Grove, Kingston Blount, Oxford), dau. of Arthur Henry Clerke Brown, of Kingston Blount, Oxford; b. Rock, Washington, co. Sussex, 23 March, 1879; educ. Herbert Bull’s, Westgate-on-Sea, and Littlejohn’s, Blackheath. Joined the Britannia in 1892, passing in eighth; became Midshipman, Jan. 1895; Sub-Lieut., July, 1898; Lieut., Nov. 1900, and Commander, June, 1913. Served in China, 1900, as Sub-Lieut. on the Aurora, and was present at the taking of Tientsin, being mentioned in Despatches and specially promoted. He was appointed to the Formidable in Aug. 1913, and was lost in that vessel 1 Jan. 1915. Commander Ballard was last seen on the bridge of the Formidable with Capt. Loxley. He had previously superintended getting the boats out, and had ordered as much wood as possible to be thrown overboard for the men to cling to. A survivor narrates that he met the Commander, who told him to tell everybody to keep cool. He then gave the command to get the boats out. He m. at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 15 July, 1913, Violet Hazel, dau. of Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., and had one dau., Margaret Charley, b. 29 Dec. 1914.

BALMAIN, JOHN, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4470, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BAMFORD, EDWIN SCOTT, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., yst. s. of the late Arthur Bamford, of Misterton Hall, Lutterworth, by his wife, Annie (who re-m. Capt. the Hon. Harold Brooke Hawke), dau. of John Nash, of Chicago; b. Bromborough, co. Chester, 23 April, 1885; educ. Uppingham and afterwards in Switzerland, and joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Leicestershire Regt., from which he passed into the York and Lancaster Regt. 6 July, 1907, becoming Lieut. 1 Feb. 1909. In that year he passed the Signalling Course at Poona, and obtained a certificate for Field Telephoning; in 1911 he took the Musketry and Machine Gun Course at Satara, and in 1912 the Physical Training and Swordsmanship at Poona, where he was Gymnastic Superintendent for eight months, serving altogether seven years (1908–14) in India. On 12 March, 1913, he was appointed Adjutant of his battn. with which he joined the Expeditionary Force in France in Jan. 1915. He had been promoted Capt. 5 Sept. 1914, and was mortally wounded in action on his birthday, 23 April, 1915, during a charge at the second Battle of Ypres, and d. at the Poperinghe Clearing Station the following day. The following abbreviated account of the circumstances attending his death was received from a brother officer: “On the morning of April 22 the battn. was resting—the men playing football—when the French troops came hurrying back completely overcome by asphyxiating gases. Immediately, on their own initiative without any command, our men fell in and moved off by companies from trenches near St. Jean, with fixed bayonets, across open country in broad daylight, with only two guns to support them, to fill in the gap left by the French, which the Canadians were unable to protect with their flank. They made the attack through a hail-storm of high velocity shell fire and machine guns at short range, which nearly wiped out the whole battn., leaving 300 out of the original 1,200. In spite of the heavy casualties, they pushed on, as a Canadian officer remarked: ‘As if they were on parade,’ and eventually reached a field which was under still heavier fire. At the top of the field was a hedge on which the enemy’s fire was concentrated; very few of the battn. got past it. It was here that the Colonel was killed outright and Capt. Bamford, having done magnificent work during the whole attack, was mortally wounded. Some days after, Gen. Plumer came to see the few survivors and congratulated them on their gallant attack. Had it not been made the Germans would have broken through. To use the General’s own words: ‘They had saved the situation.’” Capt. Bamford was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot. He m. London, 1 Jan. 1913, Lulu, only dau. of the late Edwin Whitney Smith, of Bath; s.p.

BAMPTON, WILLIAM, 2nd Ship’s Steward, 347283, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BANBURY, CHARLES WILLIAM, Capt., Coldstream Guards, only s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick George Banbury, of Warnford Place, Highworth, co. Wilts., 1st Bt., M.P. for the City of London, by his wife, Elizabeth Rose, dau. and co-heir of the late Thomas Barbot Beale, of Brettenham Park, co. Suffolk; b. 19, Grosvenor Street, London, W., 11 Feb. 1877; educ. Eton and University College, Oxford; gazetted to the Coldstream Guards, 9 Aug. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, and Capt. 27 March, 1909. He served in the South African War, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps. From March, 1909–Aug. 1910, he served as A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding 1st Division, Aldershot Command, and from March, 1912, to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command. He d. at Soupir, near Soissons, 16 Sept., 1914, from wounds received in the Battle of the Aisne two days previously, and was buried at Soupir. He m. at the Guards’ Chapel, 29 April, 1913, Joseph Marguerite (Wadley Manor, Faringdon, Berks), dau. of Jose Reixach, and had a son and a daughter: Charles William, b. 18 May, 1915, and Mary Heritage, b. 28 March, 1914. Capt. Banbury won the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown, riding Capt. Christie Miller’s Sprinkle Me two years in succession, 1909 and 1910, and also the Grand International Steeplechase on the same. He won the Aldershot Gold Cup, and the United Service Hunter’s Cup both twice on horse Noble Roy, and the Coldstream Plate twice (1903 and 1904) on his own horse Casino, and once (1911) on Noble Roy, besides many other races. He rowed in the University College four and in the eight, and played polo for the Coldstream Guards.

BANFIELD, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4170), S.S. 102835, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BANKES, EDWARD NUGENT, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 5th and yst. s. of the late Henry Hyde Nugent Bankes, of Wraysbury, co. Bucks, by his wife, the Hon. Lalagé, née Vivian, dau. of Richard Hussey, 1st Lord Vivian, P.C., G.C.B., and grandson of the Right. Hon. George Bankes, of Kingston Hall, Dorset, M.P.; b. Wraysbury, 3 Oct. 1875; educ. Charterhouse. During the South African War he served in the ranks with Lumsden’s Horse, and was afterwards employed with Imperial Yeomanry; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal, May, 1900, including action near Johannesburg, and in those in the Transvaal, March, 1901, to Jan. 1902, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 20 Aug. 1901], and awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (the Queen’s Bays), 25 Dec. 1901; became Lieut. 25 Dec. 1902, and Capt. 12 Sept. 1908, and was Remount Officer in South Africa, 29 Sept. 1905, to 12 March, 1907, and Staff Officer there, 13 March, 1907. He retired 4 Dec. 1912, and joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Dublin Fusiliers. On the outbreak of the European War he was called up, and joined the 2nd Battn. in France on 16 March, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 26 April following. He was buried close to a farm about 500 yards on the Ypres side of St. Julien. His commanding officer wrote: “He came safely through our big action of 25 April against the village of St. Julien, some 3 miles north of Ypres. He was with me throughout the day of the 25th, while we dug in on the ground gained on that day. I left him in command of the battn. on the night of the 25th, as I was slightly wounded myself. He was instantaneously killed by a rifle bullet on April 26th, during an attack made by another Brigade sent up to our assistance. He behaved with the greatest gallantry on 25 April, leading his men all the time.” He m. at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, 19 Feb. 1906, Lettice Adelaide, eldest dau. of Charles Wriothesley Digby, of Meriden Hall, near Coventry [great-great-great-grandson of William, 5th Lord Digby], and had issue a son and two daus.: John Digby Hyde, b. 16 Nov. 1906; Adelaide Margery Dora, b. 21 Feb. 1908; and Lettice Monica, b. 12 April, 1909.

BANKS, FRED LAKEMAN, Corpl., No. 370, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Seymour Banks, of 4, St. John Street, Bedford Row, W.C., Commission Agent, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of (—) Belsham; b. Doughty Street, Mecklenburgh Square, London, 20 Jan. 1874; educ. Whitgift Grammar School, and on leaving school entered his father’s business. He joined the London Rifle Brigade in 1892, and served all through the South African War in the C.I.V. Mounted Infantry, receiving the medal with four bars. On the outbreak of the European War he rejoined the Brigade with his old schoolfellow, J. L. Hampton, and arrived in the trenches about the middle of November. He was shot and died on 13 May 1915, near Ypres. Writing to his parents, the officer commanding his company stated that Hampton (who met his death ten days before Banks did) and he well helped to maintain a fine tradition by their spirit and experience, and that it was almost impossible to write any sort of appreciation of what those two men were to their company. They many times gave their officer comfort and courage in difficult times, and he adds, “When we get into the tight places again I know that many of us who had been taught by him will think of Freddy Banks and his cheery confidence, and take courage.” On more than one occasion he was offered a commission, but preferred to remain in the ranks alongside his comrades. At the Whitgift Grammar School athletic sports he won the mile on three occasions, 1889, 1890 and 1891. A fourth win was obtained in 1893 when he secured the Old Boys’ mile. He joined the Cadet Corps, and won the Spencer Cup for the champion shot of the Public Schools at Bisley in 1891, scoring 33 out of a possible 35 at 500 yards. He also won the Easty silver medal. He won the Whitgift Veterans in 1896. In 1892 he made a brave attempt to rescue a boy who had fallen into the river at Rainham. He was competing for his Regimental Bronze Badge at the time, and was waiting his turn to fire, when he plunged into the river and, after diving repeatedly, recovered the lifeless body of the boy. He afterwards resumed his shooting, and obtained second place, being beaten by only one point. He received the Royal Humane Society’s certificate on vellum and a bronze medal, being also complimented by Lord E. Pelham Clinton (at an inspection by the Duke of Cambridge) on his deed. Corpl. Banks won the D Coy. Waldegrave Challenge Cup three times, when it became his, as also did the Moger Cup similarly thrice won. He shot in the winning team for the “Daily Telegraph” Cup in 1897 and 1898. On his return from the South African War the late Sir Walter Gilbey, Bt., presented him with a massive silver cup “as a token in appreciation of services rendered to his country.”

BANKS, GEORGE EDWARD, Stoker, P.O., 287551, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BANKS, PERCY D’AGUILAR, Capt., Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides, attd. 57th Wildes Rifles, only s. of Col. Samuel Henry O’Brien Banks, of 9, Eaton Place, Brighton, by his wife, Katherine Rosa, dau. of the Rev. John Burton D’Aguilar, late Senr. Chaplain of H.M. Forces; b. Bath, 9 May, 1885; educ. St. Peter’s, Weston, and Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 10 Oct. 1903; joined 16 Nov. following, and left for India to join the 1st battn. in April, 1904. He was appointed to the Guides the following year; promoted Lieut. 10 Jan. 1906, and Capt. 10 Oct. 1912. He was A.D.C. to the Hon. A. D. Younghusband, C.S.I., Commissioner in Sind during the visit of the King, then Prince of Wales, to India in 1906, and afterwards served as transport officer with the Chitral Relief Force in Aug. 1907. He was killed 26 April, 1915, during the second Battle of Ypres only 50 yards from the German lines; unm. On this day Wilde’s Rifles were in the front line of the Ferozepore Brigade. Capt. Banks’ double company guides formed centre, and he, the only English officer, led them. The position to be assaulted was an extremely strong one, and the assaulting force laboured under heavy disadvantages. It had been impossible to reconnoitre the ground in a satisfactory manner, and little was known of the exact position of the German line beyond the fact that it was somewhere on the opposite ridge about 1,500 yards distance. The ground was devoid of cover, and rose slightly for the first 500 yards, then dipped and ended in a gradual upward slope towards the German position which commanded the whole line of advance. On crossing the first ridge the regt. came under an absolute tornado of fire of every description—shrapnel, machine-gun, rifle, and, last but not least, high explosive shells filled with asphyxiating gas. From this point onwards the men began to fall rapidly, but still the gallant regt. pushed on. The murderous nature of the fire can be gauged by the fact that when the bottom of the slope was reached, at a point some 900 yards from the start, the Commanding Officer, Major Willams, and four of his colleagues had been severely wounded. Still the attack was pressed to a point about 80 yards from the German trenches. Here Major Duhan, Capt. Mackie and Capt. Banks were all killed, as were also two of the Indian officers. Capt. Banks’ orderly, a Sikh named Bhan Singh, had been severely wounded in the face early in the action. In spite of this he insisted in following Capt. Banks till he was killed. As soon as darkness set in, in the face of the appalling fire, and severely wounded as he was, his one thought was to bring back the body of his officer. Weak as he was from loss of blood, he staggered along carrying the body until he fell from exhaustion. They were both brought in, and Capt. Banks was buried near a farm house two miles north-east of Ypres. For this act of devotion and gallantry Bhan Singh received the Indian D.S.M. and later a Russian decoration. Col. Egerton wrote: “We were all very fond of him in the Guides, and he had a great many other friends besides who will feel his loss very keenly I am sure. His men were also very fond of him, and were following him bravely when he fell. His name was, of course, brought to notice by Col. Gray, and I was proud and glad to endorse his mention, and I know that it was passed on by the next higher authority, the Divisional Commander.” A brother officer also wrote: “Many of the Eusafzai Pathans who were with him, and actually in the advance in which he was killed, are back here wounded or invalided, and I have spoken to many of them, the Subadar, one Afzal Khan, in particular. The very genuine love they had for him and their admiration for his great personal pluck and power as a leader is apparent in everything they say about him, and the Subadar broke down altogether when telling me of him. He says that not the smallest detail relating to the men’s comfort was overlooked, and that in fact they really had a father to command them. I’ve never seen any native express such genuine sorrow at the loss of one of their sahibs.” Capt. Banks was mentioned for conspicuous bravery in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s despatch of Jan. 1, 1916. He was a good all-round athlete and sportsman. At Cheltenham he won the school rackets and fives, and he was in the eleven both there and at Sandhurst. After making a score of 131 for the Somerset Colts, he played for the Somerset County Eleven. He also played cricket for the Army against the Rest at Lahore in 1904. A fine polo player, he twice in 1913 led the Guides to victory, and also the same year took part in a tour in Germany, playing for the Frankfurt team, which won three events—the Challenge Cup, Champion Cup, and Ladies’ Cup.

BANNAN, JAMES CHARLES, Private, No. 79897, 31st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Joseph Cope Bannan, of Kilkenny, Ireland, ex-Sergt. Royal Irish Constabulary, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Edward McElveny, ex-Insp. M.D. Police; b. Kilkenny, 24 Feb. 1894; educ. Model National School there. Went to Canada 10 March, 1913, and after the outbreak of war enlisted at Calgary in Oct. 1914; came over with the 2nd Canadian Contingent; went to France 14 Sept. 1915, and was shot by a sniper 6 Nov. 1915; unm.

BANNER, FREDERICK SIDNEY, Private, No. 2515, 10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) The King’s Liverpool Regt. (Gun Section), eldest s. of William Banner, of 113, Bridge Road, Litherland, Liverpool, by his wife, Emma, dau. of the late Thomas Oswald Rudge; b. Litherland, near Liverpool; educ. at St. Philip’s and afterwards at Seaforth High School; enlisted 1912; killed in action at Ypres, 1 April, 1915; unm. Buried in an enclosed burial ground 700 yards west of Verbranden Molen.

BANNER, JOSIAH, Private, No. 4138, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Banner, of Birmingham, Wheelwright, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of (—) Herbert; b. Birmingham, 29 Oct. 1879; educ. at St. Anne’s Boys’ School, Duddeston, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 12 March, 1901, and served in Egypt, Sept. 1906–Jan. 1909, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders 1914, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 3 Nov. 1914. He is believed to have been buried in the Rentel Woods, close to St. Julien. He m. at Birmingham, 24 April, 1909, Bertha Elizabeth Charlotte Sophia (4, County Terrace, Pears Road, Hounslow), dau. of James Kingston Merrick, of Hounslow, and had two sons, Joseph James, b. 29 April, 1910, and William Albert Kingston, b. 26 Oct. 1913.

BANNER, SYDNEY ALFRED, Private, No. 1501, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Alfred James Banner, of 17, Francis Road, Hay Hill, Birmingham; b. Small Heath, Birmingham, 25 Nov. 1893; educ. at the Red Hill Road Board School there; went to Australia; enlisted towards the end of 1914; killed in action at the Dardanelles during a night attack, 2 May, 1915; unm.

BANNERMAN, ORIEL WILLIAM ERSKINE, Capt., 15th Lancers (Cureton’s Mulatnis), Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Gen. William Bannerman, C.B., 104th Wellesley’s Rifles [great-grandson of Sir Patrick Bannerman, 3rd s. of Sir Alexander Bannerman, of Elsick, 1st Bt.], by his wife, Louisa Constance (6, Lansdowne Crescent, Cheltenham), dau. of Robert Goddard, of Monkstown; b. Bombay, 13 Dec. 1877; educ. Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; joined the Indian Army, 27 July, 1898, was promoted Lieut. 27 Oct. 1900, and Capt. 27 July, 1907, and from Oct. 1903–07 was A.D.C. to Major-Gen. G. Henry, Divn. Commander at Meerut. He was severely wounded in action at Givenchy, 20 Dec. 1914, and d. in hospital at Boulogne, 3 Feb. following. He was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at Mussoorie, 14 Sept. 1907, Emilie Henriette, 2nd dau. of the late Capt. Charles Lousada, of Shelburne Hall, Cheltenham; s.p.

BANNING, PERCY STUART, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, only child of Lieut.-Col. Stephen Thomas Banning, of 50, Kensington Mansions, Earl’s Court, LL.D., late Royal Munster Fusiliers, by his wife, Isabel Margaret, dau. of the late Rev. Denis Moriarty; b. at Yorktown, co. Surrey, 22 June, 1887; educ. Westward Ho! Bath College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and received his commission in the Munsters, 19 Sept. 1908, being gazetted Lieut. 19 March, 1910, and Capt. (posthumously), 30 Aug. 1914. He went to the front with the first Expeditionary Force as battn. transport officer, and was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium, 4 Nov. 1914, while attached to Sir Douglas Haig’s staff. Capt. Banning was an all-round athlete and a good cross-country runner. While at Sandhurst he won the two miles in the Woolwich and Sandhurst Sports in record time. He was also a first-rate horseman, and won the point-to-point race at the Mounted Infantry School in Jan. 1911. He m. 25 March, 1913, Mona Mary, only dau. of the late Alfred Chaplin, of Henfield, Sussex; s.p.

BANON, HAROLD OLIVER, Private, No. 77982, 7th (British Columbia) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Capt. A. T. Banon, of the Manali Orchards, Kulu, Punjab, India, late Bengal Staff Corps; b. Manali, Kulu, afsd., 2 June, 1890; went to Canada, 1 March, 1910; volunteered from the Canadian Naval Volunteers, and enlisted after the outbreak of war; came over with the second contingent, 14 Feb. 1915; went to France, 29 April, 1915, and was killed by a shell in the trenches near Petit-pond, Ploegsteert, near Messines, 19 Oct. 1915; unm. Buried at the Canadian Cemetery, Chateau Rosenberg. He was wounded on 23 May, 1915, at Festubert when 60 men volunteered to attack the Germans with bombs. Of these 58 were killed or wounded, and only two returned unwounded. Capt. W. Holmes, who led the party, got the Military Cross for leading on this occasion.

BARBER, ALFRED EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., 8817), 205320, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARBER, CYRIL FREDERIC, Major, Royal Marine L.I., 3rd s. of the late Ven. Edward Barber, Archdeacon of Chester, and Canon of the Cathedral, and Rector of St. Bridget with St. Martin’s, Chester, by his wife, Edith Sarah (St. Bridget’s, Hall Place Gardens, St. Albans), dau. of the Rev. Thomas Evetts, Hon. Canon of Christchurch, Oxford, and Rector of Monk’s Risboro’, Bucks; b. Radley Vicarage, Abingdon, co. Berks., 18 Oct. 1876; educ. New Brighton (Miss Staley’s), Rossall and Greenwich, where he gained the Sword of Honour, being gazetted to the R.M.L.I. 1 Sept. 1895, and promoted Lieut. 1 July, 1896, Capt. 27 May, 1901, and Major 11 April, 1915. In his examination for company officer he received special certificates with distinction in fortification and topography. He was appointed to the Naval Intelligence Department 1 Aug. 1906, and Intelligence Officer at Gibraltar in Aug. 1910. He also qualified as a first-class gunnery officer. He joined the Goliath 2 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship went down on 13 May, 1915. A fellow officer wrote: “I worked a great deal with your husband in the Goliath. He and I were together in the control top all day long during the majority of days in action since we came to the Dardanelles. I have made careful inquiries concerning your husband’s actions on the night of the accident, and there appears no doubt that he went from his cabin straight on to the marines’ mess deck and endeavoured to save the lives of his men by calling to them to keep quiet and not panic, and not to scramble for the ladder. He then, according to Sergt. Thorne, went still further along the mess deck. I imagine he was going to X3 casemate to try and get his men out. Anyhow he must have known by the heel the ship had on that he was going away from his own personal chance of safety. I heard yesterday when in London from the Capt. of Marines there that on the day of the accident or the day following your husband had received his promotion, and that Gen. Paris, in command of the Naval Brigade, has specially asked for him. I think it is to your husband that we all owe our escape from several sure disasters when on the East African coast. I have such a deep and lasting admiration for your husband, as we all had in the Goliath, and he was a real good friend to me. It was only the day before the loss of the Goliath that your husband went ashore into the French trenches on the right flank to confer with the officer in command concerning the position of some enemy snipers that were worrying them. He went there at considerable risk to his own life, but someone had to go, so he went without any hesitation, and ascertained what was wanted. This great war is taking its hourly toll of brave men, and your husband was one of the best, and he had done his share and more than his share for the country ere he too was called.” Major Barber m. in Spain, 5 March, 1912, Satunina Josepha, dau. of Manuel Morales; s.p.

BARBER, JAMES WILLIAM, Petty Officer, 183362, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARBER, ROBERT, Seaman, R.N.R., 4186A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARCLAY, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 158, 1st Battn. 1st Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Alexander Barclay, of 38, Braemar Place, Aberdeen, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John Davidson, M.A.; b. Aberdeen, 13 Feb. 1895; educ. Ashley Public School. He went to Australia in May, 1914, having previously served nearly four years in the Royal Engineers (T.F.), and at the outbreak of war volunteered, joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at Gabe Tepe, 29 May, 1915; unm.

BARCLAY, ALLEN, 2nd Lieut., 170th Coy. R.E., eldest s. of Henry James Barclay, of Wapella, Silverdale, Sydenham, by his wife, Mary Allen, dau. of the late Allen Stoneham, Financial Secretary, Board of Trade; b. Penge, S.E., 17 Feb. 1887; educ. The Hall, Sydenham, Dulwich College and Birmingham University. On leaving Dulwich the master wrote: “He is a sound chemist. He works well and systematically; his conduct and industry have always been excellent.” He matriculated at Birmingham in 1905, and took the B.Sc. degree three years later, studying geology, on which he was particularly keen, under Prof. Lapworth. On going down from the University, “to which he has been a credit,” wrote Prof. Redmayne, he was granted a Post-Graduate scholarship, and went out to the Transvaal, where he spent three years as sampler, assistant surveyor and head surveyor to the Consolidated Langlaagte and the new Primrose Gold Mines, doing his work throughout in that thorough manner which was characteristic of his labours. “He has carried out his onerous and responsible duties in a manner very satisfactory to his employers, as well as to the Government Mines Department. Mr. Barclay is a man of high integrity, and is thoroughly capable and experienced. He is leaving at his own request in order to extend his mining experience beyond South Africa,” wrote the manager in 1912. He afterwards went to Burmah, Norway, Spain, etc. On the outbreak of war he applied as an old member of the O.T.C. for a commission, and while waiting for this enlisted in the Royal Engineers. He was soon promoted, quickly becoming L.-Corpl., Corpl. and Sergt. On 16 Nov. 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., and at the request of his commanding officer was appointed to the regt. in which he was serving. From this he was transferred to the Mining Corps on its formation in Feb. 1915, as an expert. Lieut. Barclay was killed by the exploding of a mine on 24 April, 1915; unm. His commanding officer, Capt. Preedy, in announcing his death, wrote as follows: “At the time of his death he was working underground with some of his men. The Germans exploded a mine, killing him and one of his N.C.Os. instantaneously. His men were very anxious to extricate his body to bury him, but having inspected the spot I was reluctantly compelled to forbid them to do so, as it would not have been possible without a very grave risk of losing further lives in the attempt. His body lies buried under about 15 feet of earth half-way between our trenches and the German trenches in the orchard just east of Givenchy.” Canon King, who had known him all his life, wrote: “A more unsullied boy I never came across, and though so retiring and humble, he had, and must have known he had, great gifts.”

BARCLAY, KENNETH, Private, No. 1547, G Coy., 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt., 3rd s. of Henry James Barclay, of Wapella, Silverdale, Sydenham, S.E., by his wife, Mary Allen, dau. of the late Allen Stoneham, Financial Secretary, Board of Trade; b. Sydenham, 31 Dec. 1892; educ. The Hall, Sydenham, and Dulwich College; joined the London Scottish, May, 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, took part in the charge at Messines and the first battles of Ypres, and was killed in action, 12 Nov. 1914; unm. His colonel, writing, says: “No commanding officer could have had under his command a braver or more gallant soldier.” The bell of St. Philip’s Church, Sydenham, suitably inscribed, commemorates him, and a beautiful memorial in bronze and hammered ironwork was placed in the chancel of that church, where for years he sang in the choir. His elder brother, Lieut. Allen Barclay, was killed in action, 24 April, 1915 (see preceding notice).

BARCLAY, RAFE HEDWORTH MYDDELTON, 2nd Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of Hedworth Trelawny Barclay, Major 2/1 Leicestershire Yeomanry, formerly member of the Jockey Club and Clerk of the Course at Hurst Park [a cadet of Barclay of Urie], by his wife, Agnes Mary, yr. dau. of Richard Myddelton, of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh; b. 31, Lennox Gardens, London. S.W., 14 Nov. 1892; educ. Rugby and Army College, Aldershot; joined the 3rd Battn. Wiltshire Regt. 1910, and was promoted Lieut. 2 Aug. 1913. He was gazetted to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps 10 June, 1914, accompanied the first Expeditionary Force to France, went through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, having previously been reported missing; unm.

BARDEN, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5332), S.S. 100101, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARDSLEY, LEONARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3163), S.S. 100826, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARKER, CECIL MASSY ARBUTHNOT, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, 3rd and yst. s. of Samuel Lindsey-Bucknal Barker, of Belfast and Dublin, by his wife, Catherine Maude, dau. of the Rev. Moses Leatham, Rector of Langfield; b. Belfast, 21 Sept. 1895; educ. Campbell College, Belfast, and Trinity College, Dublin; a candidate for Holy Orders, he was gazetted from Dublin University O.T.C. to be 2nd Lieut. 6th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 22 Sept. 1914; left with his regt. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action “when bravely leading his men in a splendid attack on a difficult position” at Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, 10 Aug. 1915; unm. His brother, the Rev. E. L. B. Barker, is now (1916) serving as Chaplain to the Ulster Division.

BARKER, ERNEST, Leading Seaman, Collingwood Battn., Tyneside, 6/213, R.N.D., R.N.V.R., 2nd s. of John Barker, Lifton House, Newcastle, Assistant General Secretary of the Boilermakers’ Society and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders’ Society, a member of the Newcastle City Council, by his wife, Laura Jane, dau. of John Leeson, of Crewe, Chester; b. Horwich, near Bolton, Lancs., 13 May, 1895; educ. Council schools, Bolton and Newcastle; joined the Tyneside Naval Volunteers, Jan. 1914; killed in action in the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915; unm. Seaman Barker was formerly in the employment of Messrs. R. Robinson & Co., Ltd., wholesale stationers, Clavering Place, Newcastle. His elder brother is now (1916) serving in France with the 19th (Commercial Battn.) Northumberland Fusiliers.

BARKER, GODFREY, Major, Royal Marine L.I., Drake Battn., R.N.D., 4th s. of Col. Sir Francis Barker, of Essex Lodge, Folkestone, late R.A., by his wife, Jessie, only child of the late John Foster; b. Malta, 13 Jan. 1883; educ. King Edward’s School, Birmingham, privately, and Royal Naval College, Greenwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.M.L.I., 1 Sept. 1901, and promoted Lieut. 1 July, 1902, and Capt. 1 Sept. 1912. He served successively on board H.M.S. Firequeen, Magnificent, Exmouth, Victory, Europa, Powerful, Eclipse, Terrible, Hampshire, Prince George, Royal Arthur, and Prince of Wales, and received excellent certificates from his commanding officers. He had qualified as an instructor in physical training. At the outbreak of the war he was appointed Major and Adjutant of the Drake Battn., R.N.D., and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 28 April, 1915; unm.

BARKER, HERBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4600), S.S. 1379, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARKER, NOAH, Private, No. 4467, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late William Barker, by his wife, Elizabeth; b. Ketley Sands, Wellington, co. Salop, 22 July, 1881; educ. Board School there; enlisted 21 Nov. 1901; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 26 Aug. 1914, and d. at Rentel, 11 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action. He m. at Denaby, near Rotherham, Yorks, 12 Nov. 1905, Rose (10, Albert Street, South Kirkby, near Wakefield), dau. of Samuel Alfred Hodgetts, and had a dau.: Edith Florence, b. 13 Feb. 1906.

BARKER, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7987), S.S. 102800, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BARKS, HERBERT, Private, No. 7281, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only child of Abraham Barks, Wales Bar, co. York, by his wife, Emily; b. Clowne, co. Derby, 7 July, 1888; educ. Wales School, Wales Bar, Yorks; enlisted 3 June, 1907, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. He m. at Hampstead, 27 Sept. 1913, Elizabeth Florence (48, Junction Road, Highgate, N.), dau. of Thomas Rumble, and had a posthumous child: Kathleen Elizabeth, b. 24 Sept. 1914. Two of his brothers-in-law, Private Charles Rumble and Gunner Fred Rumble, were killed in action.

BARKS, ISAAC, Private, No. 14293, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Isaac Barks, of 91, Pembroke Road, New Southport; served with the Expeditionary Force; killed in action at Kemmel, 28 Dec. 1914.

BARLEY, JOHN, Private, No. 8147, 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of Thomas Barley, of Broughton, Miner, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of Robert Sharp, of Broughton; b. Broughton, 6 April, 1876; educ. there; enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regt., 24 Nov. 1893; served nine years in the Regulars and three in the Reserve, and saw service in Khartoum and Atbara (medal with two bars), South Africa (medal), and Soudan (medal with two bars). On mobilisation he was called up, served in France and Flanders, and was wounded in Nov. 1914; afterwards went back to the front, and d. of wounds received in action at Ypres, 27 Feb. 1915. Private Barley m. at Leeds, 21 April, 1905, Elizabeth Ann (7, New Broughton, near Brigg, Lincoln), dau. of William Hyke, and had one son and five daus.; Thomas William b. 3 Oct. 1905; Gladys Gwendolen, b. 21 Dec. 1906; Evylyn Kitty, b. 16 Oct. 1908; Nancy, b. 19 July, 1910; Amy Winifred, b. 10 Aug. 1912; and Joyce Attra, b. 14 July, 1914.

BARLING, HENRY WILLIAM, Chief Stoker, 281047, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARLING, WILLIAM BINGHAM, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., only s. of William Barling, of The Paddocks, Newnham-on-Severn, by his wife, Millicent, dau. of Seymour Bingham; b. at Newnham, co. Gloucester, 1892; educ. Beresford House, Gloucester; The Priory, Great Malvern; and Dean’s Close, Cheltenham, and on leaving the latter became a student at Wye College; was elected to a Fellowship of the Surveyor’s Institute, and became a member of the Inland Revenue Valuation Department at Gloucester, a post he held for three years. On the declaration of war he enlisted as a Private in the 5th Battn. of the Gloucesters about 12 Aug.; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 6th Battn. Worcestershire Regt., 2 Dec. 1914, and was put on the Officers’ Reserve. He went to France on 19 Feb., and reached the firing line on 23 Feb., where he was attached to the 3rd Battn. of the regt. A wire from the War Office came on 16 March “reported missing, believed killed,” and the last authoritative information concerning his death was contained in a letter from his Colonel. The letter said when last seen Lieut. Barling was very bravely leading his platoon in a determined assault against an enemy’s trench, and was believed to be killed. A corpl. concerned in this particular advance reported he stumbled over an officer whom he believed to be Lieut. Barling. The trench, which a very few men succeeded in reaching, had to be evacuated at nightfall, and is still (1916) in the enemy’s hands. He was unm.

BARLOW, CHARLES ERNEST, Corpl. No. 964, 2nd Home Counties (T.F.) R.E., only s. of the late Joshua Barlow, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William Cann; b. Soho, London, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. St. Anne’s School there; was a chauffeur; enlisted Oct. 1914; went to the Front, 22 Dec. 1914, and died 30 June, 1915, of wounds received in action in France. He m. at Walthamstow, Essex, 18 Jan. 1914, Lilian (6, Church Street, Old Town, Bexhill-on-Sea), dau. of John Todd, and had issue a dau., Marie Lilian, b. 31 Jan. 1915.

BARLOW, JAMES WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9666), S.S. 107176, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARLOW, THOMAS ARTHUR, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11741, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

PRATT-BARLOW, BERNHARD ALEXANDER, Commander R.N., elder s. of Charles James Pratt-Barlow, of Roxby, The Hoe, Plymouth, by his wife, Rosa Caroline, yr. dau. of the late William Gladstone, D.L., J.P., of 58, Queen’s Gate, London, S.W.; b. St. George’s Road, London, S.W., 10 Sept. 1874; educ. Brighton (Mr. W. R. Lee, of Norfolk Terrace), and Royal Naval College, Gosport; joined H.M.S. Britannia as a Naval Cadet in Jan. 1889, being rated midshipman three years later. He was promoted Sub-Lieut. 31 May, 1896, Lieut. 31 Aug. 1897, and Commander 31 Dec. 1908. As a naval cadet he served in the Trafalgar, flagship of Rear-Admirals Lord Walter Kerr, A. H. Markham, and C. G. Domvile, on the Mediterranean Station, July, 1891; the Warspite, flagship of Rear-Admiral Drummond, commanding “D” Fleet in the Naval Manœuvres of July, 1894; and the Active, flying the broad pennant of Commodore R. H. Harris, in the Training Squadron, Sept. 1894. He was Sub-Lieut. of the last-named ship, flying the broad pennant of Commodore G. L. Atkinson from May, 1896, to June, 1897, when he was appointed to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, in which he was present at the Diamond Jubilee Review at Spithead the same month. At the end of August following he was promoted to Lieut. and appointed to the Majestic, flagship of Admiral Sir Henry Stephenson in the Channel Squadron—the flag Capt. being Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg, G.C.B. He was flag Lieut. to Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont on the Pacific station, March, 1899, and on the Australian station to January, 1903. He commanded the destroyers Sturgeon, Contest and Osprey, all at Devonport, and in June, 1903, was appointed 1st Lieut. of H.M.S. Antrim. He was 1st Lieut. at the R.N. Barracks, Devonport, from July, 1907, to the end of 1908, when he was advanced to Commander. In that rank he commanded the destroyers Kale and Rattlesnake, both in the second Destroyer Flotilla, and was commander of H.M.S. Irresistible and of H.M.S. Centurion. He commanded H.M.S. Hawke in the Training Squadron at Queenstown from Jan. 1914, until she was commissioned for war service. Commander Pratt-Barlow lost his life in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915, when H.M.S. Hawke was torpedoed by a German submarine. After the sinking of H.M.S. Hawke, Capt. Charles J. Wintour, of H.M.S. Swift, wrote the following letter: “I was instrumental in picking up the survivors of the Hawke from the rafts, and I took them in the Swift to harbour. I at once asked one of the survivors as to the commander, and he told me that he had been on his (the survivor’s) raft, and seeing that there were too many men on the raft said: ‘There are too many men on the raft, I will swim to another.’ He was never seen again, but his self-sacrificing action was undoubtedly the means of saving others. I would like you to know how deeply I grieve at his loss, and also that you should know that his very last act was one of unselfish bravery.” He m. at Canon Ffrome, co. Hereford, 17 June, 1903, Dorothy Nesta, yr. dau. of the late Walter Baskerville, D.L., J.P., of Clyro Court, co. Radnor, and left a dau., Mary Pamela, b. 17 June, 1905.

BARNARD, PHILIP, Seaman, R.N.R. 35140, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNARD, REUBEN GEORGE, Ship’s Steward, 341409, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNARD, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, 287572, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNARDIER, JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1768), Ch. 14072, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNDEN, FREDERICK THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7435), S.S. 102658, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BARNES, ARTHUR, Shipwright, 2nd Class, M. 6714 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BARNES, ARTHUR FREDERICK, Private, No. 6462, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Alfred Barnes of 59, Hervey Park Road, Walthamstow; b. co. Essex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; d. 1 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action; unm.

BARNES, CHARLES, Plumber, 346127, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNES, CHARLES EDWARD, Private, No. 2187, 10th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); d. in India 1 Sept., 1914, while on active service.

BARNES, DOUGLAS MESTON, Flight-Lieut., Royal Naval Air Service, s. of George Frederick Barnes, of Tulse Hill Park, A.S.I., by his wife, Elizabeth; b. Clapham, co. Surrey, 19 June, 1887; educ. Broomwood College there and privately. On completing his education, Lieut. Barnes entered the engineering profession, and was particularly interested in marine engineering and aircraft. He attained the position of manager of Smokeless Appliances, Ltd., an advisory and manufacturing company, of Victoria Street, Westminster. He resigned this on the outbreak of the war, and offered his services to the War Office and Admiralty. He received his commission as Flight Sub-Lieut. in the Naval Air Service, and was appointed to H.M.S. Pembroke on 12 Oct. 1914, was transferred to Hendon Flying Station in Nov. and gained his Pilot’s Certificate in Dec. Early in 1915 he was appointed to the staff and placed in charge of the mechanics at the station. Later on he was gazetted Flight-Lieut., and was promoted to the command at Hendon. At the time of his death he was designated to the command of the more important station at ..., and was about to take up his duties there. On the night of the first air raid on London, 31 May-1 June, Lieut. Barnes received warning of the approach of the Zeppelins at 11.30 p.m., and at once went out on a large Sopworth biplane. He sighted a Zeppelin at ..., and chased it for many miles in various directions ..., but finally lost it, and met his death at 2.30 a.m. in endeavouring to land in darkness and mist. The subjoined official account, furnished by the Admiralty, gives further particulars of Lieut. Barnes’ exploit: “This officer lost his life in a very gallant attempt to destroy a Zeppelin which was attacking London on the night of 31 May, and if only weather conditions had been a little more favourable it is likely that the result would have been quite as successful as in the case of Flight Sub-Lieut. Warneford’s complete destruction of a Zeppelin in the air in Flanders. The ascent was made in the dark, and it is probable that after chasing the Zeppelin he missed her owing to the hazy weather, and then found it necessary to land in order to find his position, and in doing so found himself surrounded by low-lying fog, entirely obscuring the ground. After a careful inspection it was found that the machine struck the ground at an abnormally high speed, bounced twice, and then turned over on its back completely, and there seems to be no doubt that Lieut. Barnes was killed outright.... It is felt that the highest praise is due to these officers who, in defence of their country, cheerfully carry out such hazardous flights at night under extremely dangerous conditions. (Signed) Murray F. Sueter, Commodore, R.N.” He was buried in Nunhead cemetery; unm.

BARNES, EDWARD ERNEST, Sergt., No. 65046, 24th Battn. (Victoria Rifles of Montreal), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Frederick Barnes, of 21, Lasalle Street, Lachine, P.Q., Canada, by his wife, Jennie, dau. of William Sheppard, of Ipswich; b. Faversham, co. Kent, 18 July, 1892; educ. Davington School; went to Canada on 30 May, 1912, was employed at National Brick Co., Delson, Quebec; volunteered for Imperial service, and enlisted in Jan. 1915; left for England with the Second Contingent; went to France, 12 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action in Belgium, 18 Nov. 1915. He m. at St. Columbia Church, Montreal West, 1 April, 1915, Minnie Victoria (103, Effra Road, Haydon’s Road, Wimbledon), dau. of Frederick Grumbridge, of Wandsworth, ex-Detective Sergeant, Metropolitan Police; s.p.

BARNES, FREDERICK, S.P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 4240), 167803, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BARNES, FREDERICK FRANCIS (“Eric”), Private, No. 19991, 5th Platoon, 10th Battn., 2nd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Frederick Barnes, of Alexandra College, Shirley, Southampton, Officer in Mercantile Marine, by his wife, Amy Maude, dau. of William Francis Mayass; b. Alexandra College, Shirley, Southampton, 30 May, 1894; educ. Taunton School, Somerset; and was in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, first at Calgary and then at Youngstown, Alberta. He volunteered for Imperial service directly war was declared, came over to England with the first contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, left for the front on 10 Feb. He took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and in the second Battle of Ypres, at the latter of which the 10th Battn. distinguished itself by recovering the wood of St. Julien, losing three-fourths of its strength and nearly every officer. At Festubert, on 22 May, 1915, the 10th Battn. recovered some trenches from the Germans, and while they were being made habitable, Barnes was struck by a shell and killed instantly. His commanding officer wrote: “He was a good soldier and a brave man.” He was unm.

BARNES, GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, No. 9548, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.; s. of Edmund Barnes, of 75, Gibbon Road, Peckham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action 25 May, 1915.

BARNES, HERBERT PLUME, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9615), S.S. 106968, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BARNES, JOHN, Private, No. 10159, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Carlisle; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; served with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing 25 Jan. 1915.

BARNES, JOHN WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 967), Ch. 7252, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNES, PHILIP CHARLES, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 2874, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Barnes, of 48, Iffley Road, Oxford; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BARNES, SYDNEY JAMES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24950, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

BARNES, THOMAS, Blacksmith, 344039, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARNES, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3907), 168377, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BARNES, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4580), 192725, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARNETT, JAMES, 2nd Lieut., 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers (T.F.), only child of Lieut.-Col. Hugh Barnett, of Hafton, Kilmarnock, co. Ayr, V.D., commanding 2/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers (T.F.), by his wife, Nellie, dau. of Hugh Barnett; b. Kilmarnock, 7 March, 1895; educ. Kilmarnock Academy, Irvine Royal Academy, and Glasgow University, where he distinguished himself as a prizeman in Logic, Latin, English and Political Economy, and was Secretary of the University Dialectic Society. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 14 Aug. 1913. On the outbreak of war the entire battn. volunteered for foreign service, and proceeded to the Dardanelles on 20 May, 1915. Lieut. Barnett fell while leading the charge in the battle of 12 July, 1915, at the head of his men and just as they reached the Turkish trenches. He was buried along with another officer near the spot where he fell. A cross bearing his name marks the spot. Lieut. Barnett, prior to joining his battn., acted as Lieut. and afterwards as Capt. of the Irvine Royal Academy Cadet Corps. He also was the first Boy Scout to be enrolled in Ayrshire, and was the patrol leader of the 1st Ayrshire Troop. His commanding officer wrote: “He was a brave lad throughout it all, and that was not the only instance. He showed himself on previous occasions full of bravery and determination and a true British officer, and we have lost one we can ill afford. I have had occasion to notice and admire his bravery since we came out here, but especially on the morning when Capt. L.... was killed. I had a very urgent and important message to send through and across a part that meant danger. He immediately volunteered when I asked for volunteers, and did the work splendidly. Throughout the whole time here, and on many trying occasions, he showed the true British blood of a brave and true soldier boy.” The Brig.-Gen. of the Brigade also wrote: “All who knew your son were unanimous in their praise of his devotion to duty and fearlessness. The regt. has lost a most valuable young officer, and one who will not be easily replaced.”

BARNETT, KNIGHT, L.-Corpl., No. 184, A Coy., 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Arthur Nelson Barnett, of Sydney, N.S.W., Stipendiary Magistrate, by his wife, Ada Hargrave, dau. of Henry Breton, M.D.; b. Wentworth, N.S.W., 30 Dec. 1888; educ. Church of England Grammar School, North Sydney; was a surveyor, but on the outbreak of war volunteered, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, leaving with the first contingent. He was wounded at the first landing of the Australians at Gallipoli on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, and was sent into hospital in Egypt. After convalescence he returned to the Dardanelles in time to take part in the charge at Lone Pine on 6 Aug., and was killed on that day while on observation duty in the first line of Turkish trenches; unm.

BARNETT, WILLIAM, Private, No. 14739, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Isaac Barnett, of 8, Cradock Street, Loughborough (d. 12 Oct. 1915), by his wife, Sarah (d. 26 March, 1911), dau. of Samuel Bassford, of Burton-on-the-Wolds; b. Wymeswold, co. Leicester, 22 Feb. 1893; educ. there, and Loughborough; enlisted 29 Jan. 1915, and d. 11 Dec. 1915, of wounds received in action on the Western front by the bursting of a shell; unm.

BARNETT, WILLIAM STUART, Corpl., No. 27868, Signal Coy., R.E., only s. of the late William Barnett, of Sutton, Jeweller and Silversmith (died 5 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Louisa (1, Wickham Road, Sutton), only dau. of James Crute, of Honor Oak; b. Sutton, co. Surrey, 4 March, 1892; educ. Laleham House, Northdown, Margate; enlisted in the 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt., 12 Oct. 1910, promoted L.-Corpl. Aug. 1912, transferred to the R.E. May, 1914, and was killed in action at Doue, France, 7 Sept. 1914, while carrying despatches from General Headquarters to the 2nd Army Corps Signals. The Rev. O. S. Watkins, Wesleyan Chaplain to the Forces, says, in his book “With French in France and Flanders” (pp. 53–55): “I found the brave lad lying in a cottage in the village. Peasants told me that in the darkness he had lost his way, and had actually ridden through two villages occupied by the Germans until he was brought to a stand at Doue with a bullet through his heart. As soon as the Germans retired the villagers had lifted him tenderly into the cottage, straightened the fine young limbs into decent restfulness, and covered him with a clean white sheet. I found him, a bunch of newly gathered flowers on his breast, his face calm and determined, but looking strangely young. He was carried to his last long rest by old men belonging to the village—there were no young men, for all were serving with the Army—and as we passed through the streets women came from the houses and laid flowers upon the bier. Up the steep road we toiled, with many a stop to rest the ancient bearers. Ahead boomed the heavy guns in action, and below we could see the infantry advancing to the attack. At last we reached the hill-top, crowned by its little church and peaceful graveyard. We laid him in his shallow grave, the peasants, with heads uncovered, listening with reverence to the grand words of the Burial Service in a language they did not understand. Before the service was over shrapnel was bursting on the hill, and silently the peasants crept to the wall for shelter, their heads still uncovered. As the final ‘Amen’ fell from my lips, and I stood for a moment looking down on all that was left of that fine young manhood, one of the old men, forgetting his fear of the thundering guns, stepped to the graveside, and, as he cast earth upon the prone body with his hands, with wonderful dignity he addressed the sleeper. As far as I could understand his words he said: ‘You are a brave man and our friend. You have given your life for our country. We thank you. May you sleep well in the earth of beautiful France,’ and the others said ‘Amen.’”

BARNHARDT, FREDERICK JOHN, Private, No. A 2464, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of William Henry Barnhardt, of P.O. Station, Stratford, Ontario [of a family originally from Germany], by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Neal, of Bristol; b. Norwich, Ontario, Canada, 19 Feb. 1893; educ. West Monkton Public School, Ontario, and the Central Business College, Stratford, Ontario; joined the 34th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 18 Jan. 1915, but volunteered for the first special detachment which left Canada on 18 June, arriving in England about 1 July, and was there transferred to the 1st Battn. as grenade thrower. He was killed in action somewhere in Belgium, 28 Nov. 1915, by a rifle grenade. On the night of his death he had specially volunteered to go to the first line trench, and letters from his officers and comrades unite in speaking highly of his work and conduct.

BARON, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3201), S.S. 100851, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARR, SAMUEL TUDOR, Lieut., 3rd King’s Own Hussars, only s. of Sir James Barr, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.E., Consulting Physician, Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C., by his wife, Isabella Maria, dau. of John Woolley; b. Liverpool, 2 May, 1883; educ. Liverpool College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Hussars, 18 Jan. 1902, and became Lieut. 6 June, 1906; served with his regt. in India and South Africa; came home on leave in Jan. 1909, and while on a holiday in Switzerland met with an accident, falling down a crevasse, from which his father succeeded in extricating him. They afterwards missed their way, were discovered by a search party of Swiss guides the following morning, and brought down in the afternoon. Tudor Barr suffered severely from frost bite and lost all his toes, nevertheless he rejoined his regt. in South Africa towards the latter part of the year, but finding the work too much for him in the then sensitive condition of his feet, he resigned in 1910. He then joined the South Irish Horse, and being a very keen and successful polo player, took a farm and trained polo ponies; this not being a financial success, he retired from the Army in 1912 and went to Rhodesia with the view of settling there. On the outbreak of war he at once came home, travelling 10,000 miles at his own expense. He reached England early in October, at once volunteered, and was gazetted Lieut. 25 Nov. 1914. He was first engaged training cavalry reserves at Shorncliffe, then joined the Reserve of his old regt., the 3rd Hussars, at Rouen, and from there attached to the 20th Hussars then in the trenches. He was killed in action, near Zillebeke, 23 Feb. 1915; unm. Col. Kennedy, of the 3rd Hussars, wrote: “In the old days in India, your son was always in my squadron, and he was a capital officer and one who, I am sure, would have been to the fore in this war, had he been spared. It was bad luck that when he came out we were full up with officers, and this is the reason why he volunteered to go temporarily to the 20th Hussars.... You grieve for an only son, and we for a brave and gallant comrade.” And Col. Edwards, of the 20th Hussars: “Your son had been attached to the 20th Hussars for some two months and did excellent work with us. He was a most energetic and keen officer, and had he been spared would, I am sure, have done very well indeed.” Another officer wrote: “A braver soldier or a truer friend never lived.”

BARR, THOMAS HENRY, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 11508, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARRASS, ALFRED LEONARD, Private, No. 6014, 3rd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of Alfred Barrass, of Hull, Private, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of William Leonard Brown; b. Hull, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Warnes Street Board School there; enlisted 23 June, 1911; placed on the Reserve, Dec. 1911; called up on the outbreak of war, and transferred to the 1st Battn. at the front. He was killed in action in France, 8 Dec. 1914, being shot by a sniper when fetching water; unm.

BARRATT, CHARLES WYLLY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3160), S.S. 100828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARRATT, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9500), S.S. 106889, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARRATT, PERCIVAL JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7811), S.S. 103275, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARRETT, CHARLES JOHN CHARD, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yst. s. of the late Major William Barrett, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Charlotte Maria Herring (Moredon, North Curry, Taunton), dau. of William Wheaton Chard, of Mount Tamar, Devon, and nephew of Col. John Rouse Merriott Chard, V.C., R.E., the hero of Rorke’s Drift; b. Moredon, North Curry, co. Somerset, 26 Aug. 1873; educ. at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he won the riding prize, “The Saddle.” He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 10 Oct. 1894, becoming Lieut. 12 Nov. 1896, and Capt. 2 May, 1900, and was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. 12 Sept. 1903 to 7 March 1904. He served in the South African war, beginning with the operations in Natal in March, 1900, also in the operations in the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and the action of Ruidam. He also raised a company of Mounted Infantry on active service, and gained the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was Adjutant of the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Welsh Regt. from Jan. 1905 to 1908. While stationed in Dublin with his regt. in 1909 he won the Irish Grand Military at Punchestown with his horse Scarlet Runner. He had nearly completed four years as an officer of gentlemen cadets at Sandhurst, to which he was appointed, 1 Feb. 1911, and had raised a new company (L Coy.), which he was commanding when he was called to join the 1st Battn. of his regt. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914, when in temporary command of the battn., and was buried in the grounds of Héronthage Château, Hooge. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He m. at London, 26 Nov. 1904, Lena, only dau. of the late Albert Vaucamps, of 34, Queen’s Gate. His brother Donald, who was in the same regt., was accidentally drowned, 28 May, 1891, while fishing in the River Dee during the time he was serving on the Queen’s Guard of Honour at Ballater.

BARRETT, HUGH HENRY GUY, Private, No. 27589, 15th Battn. (48th King’s Canadian Highlanders) 3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of William Henry Barrett, of 127, Kenilworth Court, Putney, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of James Redgrove; b. West Dulwich, London, 10 Sept. 1894; educ. Lynchmere School, Eastbourne, and Dover College. Being in Canada when war was declared, he volunteered immediately, enlisting at Grimsby, Ontario, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He went through the heavy fighting at Ypres on 22–23 April, 1915, and was mortally wounded on Saturday, 24 April. It was on this occasion that the Germans first used asphyxiating gases which caused the French to retire and left the Canadian left exposed. The 48th suffered very severely. Barrett was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died 27 April; unm. He was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.

BARRETT, JOSEPH, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8954, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARRETT, ROBERT SIMON, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.) 7048, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARRETT, WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., A.E. 4468, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARRETT, WILLIAM GEORGE JOHN, Seaman, R.N.R. 2677B, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARRINGTON, NOEL SCOT, Lieut. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, only s. of Fourness Barrington, M.S. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Lecturer in Obstetrics, University of Sydney, Surgeon Royal Hospital for Women and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals; b. Edinburgh, 20 May, 1892; educ. Mostyn House and Worcester College, Oxford (1912); gazetted as University candidate to be 2nd Lieut. Royal Irish Rifles, 26 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 23 Jan. following; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm.

BARRY, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., 34 Immed. Class), 189368, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARRY, JOHN FRANCIS, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4274. H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BARSBY, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9097), 210354, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARSON, PERCY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARSTOW, JOHN BAILLIE, Major, R.E., eldest s. of Henry Clements Barstow, of Hazelbush, York, late Bengal Civil Service, by his wife, Cecilia Clementina, 3rd dau. of Rev. the Hon. John Baillie, M.A., Canon Residentiary of York [brother of George, 10th Earl of Haddington]; b. Allahabad, India, 31 Oct. 1872; educ. Clifton College and Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1894, Capt. 24 July, 1902, and Major 24 July, 1911. Killed in action near Bailly, 31 Aug. 1914; buried in the cemetery there. He m. at Killiney, 31 Oct. 1906, Ethel Constance, dau. of John Richards Orpen, of St. Leonard’s, Killiney, co. Dublin, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, and had three sons and one dau.: John Michael Orpen, b. 15 Dec. 1907; Henry Stewart Peregrine, b. 21 April, 1909; George Baillie, b. 29 Aug. 1912; Cecilia Mary Penelope, b. 11 Feb. 1914.

BARTER, HARRY STANLEY, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26050, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BARTER, WILLIAM CHARLES, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 891), 119878, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARTHROPP, SIDNEY ALFRED NATHANIEL SHAFTO, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., only s. of Major Alfred Shafto Barthropp, of Newport House, Essex (now serving on the Depôt Staff of the Norfolk Regt. at Britannia Barracks, Norwich), by his wife, Ellen Ada Wentworth, 2nd dau. of the late Capt. Sidney Wentworth Stanley, of Longstowe Hall, co. Cambridge, J.P., D.L., and nephew of the late Philip George Barthropp, for many years Master of the Essex and Suffolk Foxhounds; b. Kensington Court, W., 25 March, 1892; educ. at Winchester, where he played for “Commoners XVs.” in Nov. 1909, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After taking his degree in Nov. 1913, he went to the Bishop’s Hostel, Farnham, Surrey, with the intention of studying for Holy Orders, and on the outbreak of war joined the 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (Special Reserve) then at Dover. He subsequently joined the 2nd Battn. of the regt. in France, and had only been out there a fortnight when he was killed in action in the trenches in the brickfields, near Cuinchy, on 29 Jan. 1915. In announcing his death to his parents, Col. E. W. B. Green, officer commanding the regt., wrote: “He was killed on 29 Jan. during an attack by the Germans upon a portion of the line which we were holding and in which the company with which your son was serving put up a very gallant defence, and beat off a very determined attack. He died a soldier’s death in the very front of the fight. In him we feel we have lost a comrade who was bound to do well, and who, during the short time he had been with us, had endeared himself to all. He is buried in the graveyard at Cuinchy, near Bethune.” He was confirmed in his rank as 2nd Lieut. the day he was killed. Lieut. Barthropp was a thorough sportsman, and while at Cambridge whipped in to the Trinity Foot Beagles from March, 1911, until he left the University. Mr. Barthropp also whipped in to the Eastern Counties Otter Hounds from Aug. 1911, during the Mastership of Mr. Rose, until the retirement of the latter gentleman in Dec. 1914, when he succeeded Mr. Rose as Master, which position he occupied at the time of his death. His fondness for, and eager participation in, all sorts of outdoor pursuits earned him amongst his fellow students at Farnham the name of “The Squire,” and one of them, writing of the healthy and manly influence he exercised over men of his own age, said: “It is good to have been with him here.” He was unm.

BARTLETT, CHARLES FREDERICK, Seaman, R.N.R., 1858D, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARTLETT, GEOFFREY EDWARD ROSE, Midshipman, R.N.R., elder s. of the late Edward Noel Napier Bartlett, J.P., co. Bucks, by his wife, Dorothy (St. Margaret’s Cottage, Penn, Bucks), dau. of Sir Philip Rose, 2nd Bt. of Rayners; b. London, 8 Oct. 1895; educ. St. John’s, Beaumont, Old Windsor; was for three years on H.M.S. Conway, and two years a cadet on the White Star s.s. Mersey, going round the world twice, 1912–13 and 1913–14; joined H.M.S. Bulwark 29 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was blown up at Sheerness, 26 Nov. following. Bartlett was a great-great-grandson of Admiral James Noble, who served as Act.-Lieut. of the Agamemnon under Commodore Nelson in 1795, and was promoted to Commander in 1797 through the influence of Nelson after the battle of St. Vincent, where he was very dangerously wounded.

BARTLETT, HENRY ARTHUR, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21843, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BARTLETT, JOE, Armourer’s Crew (Pension, No. 19272), 135647, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARTON, ERNEST, Corpl., No. 7380, 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., s. of Thomas Barton, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of James Crossley; b. Ashton-under-Lyne, 3 July, 1884; educ. St. Peter’s School there; enlisted 9 Sept. 1903; on outbreak of war was called up from the Reserve and was killed in action near Lille, 23 Oct. 1914. Major W. A. Payn (his commanding officer), writing to his widow, described how, on the evening of 22 Oct. they were in the trenches near Lille, with the Germans 600 yards away. When day broke on the 23rd they saw the Germans entrenching 100 yards away. Volunteers were called to creep up to the ditch to turn the Germans out with the bayonet, and Barton, with six others, volunteered at once, and proceeded to crawl towards the trench. They had not gone far when the Germans saw them, and opened fire. Barton unluckily was hit in the head and killed. Before the war Corpl. Barton was employed as a grinder at the Park Road Spinning Company’s Mill, Dukinfield, and was one of the bellringers at St. Peter’s Church, where a tablet has been erected to his memory. He m. at Ashton, 13 Jan. 1908, Mary Jane (195, Portland Street, Ashton-under-Lyne), dau. of the late John Edward Wolstencroft, and had issue a dau., Hilda, b. 17 Nov. 1911.

BARTON, GILBERT JOHNSON, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5356), S.S. 100, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARTON, HAROLD WILLIAM FERGUSON, 2nd Lieut., Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of the late William Thomson Barton, of Morriston, Elgin, by his wife, Clara (Woodstock, Camberley, Surrey), dau. of the late Very Rev. John Ferguson, Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness; b. Morriston, Elgin, 5 Sept. 1893; educ. Stratheden House, Blackheath; Radley College; Mr. Tinniswood’s, Holmdale, Camberley; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; and was gazetted to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914. He went to France on 8 Sept., served on the Aisne and in Flanders, and was killed in action near La Bassée on or about 18 Oct. 1914. At first reported missing after the fighting that day, the news of his death was conveyed to his mother by a German officer, who wrote on a letter from her, no doubt found on his body, as follows: “Dear Mrs. Barton, Your son fell on the field of honour against our regt. I admired his courage after a very hard struggle against us. Your son will be buried near Castle Warneton, near Lille.—(Signed) Ewald, Lieut. Feldart. Regt. No. 7.”

BARTON, HENRY, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 10176), 298707, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BARTON, JAMES THOMAS, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 2315), 115754, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BARTON, JOHN THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5046, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BARTTELOT, NIGEL KENNETH WALTER, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., H.M.S. Liberty, 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, yr. s. of the late Sir Walter George Barttelot, 2nd Bt., 5th Dragoon Guards (killed in action South Africa, 23 July, 1900), by his wife, Georgiana Mary (now wife of Beville Molesworth St. Aubyn), only dau. of George Edmond Balfour, of The Manor, Sidmouth; b. Coates Castle, Fittleworth, Sussex, 9 April, 1883; educ. at “Fonthill,” East Grinstead; “Kivernells,” Lymington, and H.M.S. Britannia, Dartmouth. He joined the Navy, 15 Jan. 1899, becoming a Midshipman 15 May the same year, Sub-Lieut. 15 May, 1902, Lieut. 30 Sept. 1904, and Lieut.-Commander 30 Sept. 1912. He was appointed to the command of the destroyer Liberty, 7 March, 1914, and was killed in action off Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. He was buried at Stopham. In the official report of their action, Commodore R. V. Tyrwhitt said: “H.M.S. Liberty.... The late Lieut.-Commander Nigel K. W. Barttelot commanded the Liberty with great skill and gallantry throughout the action. He was a most promising and able officer, and I consider his death a great loss to the Navy.” He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, 10 Jan. 1906, Dorothy Maud, dau. of the late Frederick Aldcroft Kay, and had a son: James Nigel Walter, b. 27 June, 1911.

BASHFORD, ALFRED, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2682), 217071, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BASKERVILLE, GILBERT THOMAS, Clerk, Royal Navy, yr. s. of the late Henry Spencer Baskerville, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., by his wife, Jane (4, Marlboro’ Villas, Gillingham, Kent), dau. of Thomas Wetherall Sproulle, M.D., and grandson of the late Commander Percival Baskerville, R.N.; b. Gillingham, 6 Oct. 1893; educ. Christ’s Hospital; entered the Navy, July, 1911, and was appointed to H.M.S. Highflyer, flagship in the East Indies. After the manœuvres in 1913, for which he was appointed to H.M.S. Euryalis, he joined the King George V. and was amongst those fêted at Kiel in June, 1914. In July the same year he was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy in order to qualify for his Assistant Paymaster examination, and was lost in the North Sea when that ship was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm. He had the Persian Gulf medal.

BASKERVILLE, HEDLEY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2418), 204437, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BASNETT, JOHN, Corpl., No. 2801, D Coy., 8th (Service) Battn. Rifle Brigade, s. of John Basnett, of 14, Clement Street, Taylorson Street, Salford, Manchester, Labourer, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Gallop; b. Bristol, 1 Sept. 1890; educ. Ordsall Board School, Salford; was employed at the Westinghouse Works, Trafford Park, but after the outbreak of war joined the Rifle Brigade, 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, 30 July, 1915; unm. His Capt., A. C. Sheepshanks, wrote that after the action he was found to be missing, and must have been struck down in the charge that day, adding: “He was turning out a most useful and reliable N.C.O.”

BASS, HENRY, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 6800, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BASSETT, VICTOR CHARLES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26732, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Isaac Bassett, of 12, Furnival Road, Sheffield; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BASTARD, REGINALD GEORGE, Officers’ Chief Steward, 362308 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BASTARD, WILLIAM, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., s. of William Bastard, of Coltscombe, Slapton, near Kingsbridge, South Devon, by his wife, Helen, 2nd dau. of Joshua Edward Adkins; b. Coltscombe, 20 April, 1891; educ. Plymouth (Miss Tubbs’ preparatory school), Blundells’, and Exeter College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Jan. 1913; was in South Africa at the outbreak of war, came home in Sept., was promoted Lieut. the 30th of that month, went to the front on 4 Oct., and was killed in action at Gheluvelt a few days later, 26 Oct. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. The following remarks were received by his mother from Col. Coates—6 Nov. 1914. “From the day he joined I recognised that your son was one of the best types of officers—very keen on his work, thoroughly sensible, and willing to take responsibility. I always had him in my eye as being well fitted for the Adjutancy later on.”

BATCHELOR, BENJAMIN EDWIN, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111822, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BATCHELOR, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5069), 177988, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BATCHELOR, HAROLD JAMES, Flight Sub-Lieut., Royal Naval Air Service, 3rd s. of Capt. (—) Batchelor; was in the merchant service; obtained his commission Nov. 1914; was killed in the Dardanelles 11 May, 1915; unm.

BATE, THOMAS HENRY, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., A. 1815), 134972, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BATEMAN, CLAUDE JOHN, Private, No. 391, 7th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, s. of F. Bateman, of Wainfleet, Lincolnshire; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 2 June, 1915.

BATEMAN, FRANK, A.B., R.F.R. (B. 2845, S.S. 184), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BATEMAN, WILLIAM THOMAS, Private, No. 748, 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; d. 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles.

BATES, FRANK, Private, No. 2020, 4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.); d. at Cuckfield 31 Jan. 1915, of heart failure, while training.

BATES, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9776), 210136, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BATES, JAMES CHRISTOPHER, Private, No. 11259, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Bates, of 113, Woodland Street, Smethwick, co. Stafford; served with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing 22 Dec. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on that date.

BATES, STANES GEOFFREY, Capt., 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, and Adjutant, North Somersetshire Yeomanry, only s. of Gilbert Thompson Bates, tenant of Mells Park, Frome, Somerset, J.P. [2nd s. of Sir Edward Bates, 1st Bt., M.P.], by his wife, Charlotte Thaxter, dau. of George Warren, of Woolton; b. London, 2 June, 1884; educ. Farnborough, Winchester, and Sandhurst. He joined the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, 22 April, 1903, and was promoted Lieut. 27 April, 1907, and Capt. 11 May, 1912. He spent two and a-half years in South Africa, and returned with his regt. in Dec. 1906, when they were quartered at Norwich and afterwards at Aldershot. In Oct. 1911 the regt. went to Bangalore, where he remained until July, 1913, when he returned to England on leave, shortly afterwards (1 Nov.) receiving the Adjutancy of the North Somersetshire Yeomanry. He went to the front with this regt. and was wounded at Vlamertinghe during the 1st battle of Ypres, 16 Nov. 1914, but was able to return to the front from the Base Hospital in a few days. At the 2nd battle of Ypres he was killed instantaneously in the trenches at Hooge by a shell explosion, 13 May, 1915; unm. He was buried there the same day, amid a few trees behind the line held by the North Somersets. For their conduct on this occasion the North Somersets were specially mentioned in Despatches. He was much beloved by his men in both regts., and his loss deeply regretted by his Colonel and brother officers in the 7th Hussars. A good all-round sportsman and well-known with the Blackmore Vale Hounds.

BATES, STANLEY KNIGHT, Lieut., 5th Battn. The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.), yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. John Henry Bates, late 2nd in command of the same regt., formerly of Fir Bank, Penrith, Manager of the Penrith branch of the Liverpool Bank, by his wife, Sarah Eleanor, dau. of the late William Knight, of Milnthorpe, co. Westmorland; b. Morcambe, co. Lancaster, 19 June, 1897; educ. Lancaster Royal Grammar School in which he was House Prefect, and an Ashton House Exhibitioner. On the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in his father’s regt., 10 Aug. 1914, was promoted Lieut., 28 Dec. 1914, and went along with his father to France with his regt., 11 Feb. 1915. He was killed during the second Battle of Ypres in an advanced trench off the Zonnebeke River in front of Potijze at noon on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while bringing food for the few men he had left with him. He was buried in front of the White Château, Potijze, near Ypres, where an iron cross was erected to his memory. Lieut. Bates took a great interest in the work of the O.T.C. from its commencement, obtained his colours in the Rugby team, and was also in the School Cricket team. A keen athlete, he was intended for the Army and was proud of the distinction of being the youngest full Lieut. in the Army; unm.

BATES, WILLIAM GEORGE HENRY, Capt., 1st Battn. (Prince of Wales’s) Leinster Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. William Wheatley Bates, M.A., of Toronto, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Manasseh (and Emma) Leeson, extensive landowner of Canada; b. Thornhill, Toronto, 12 Oct. 1878; educ. privately, and Trinity College, Toronto. He enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1901, hoping to see active service in South Africa, but the regt. was ordered to Crete and kept there until the conclusion of the campaign. After serving over two years in the ranks, he was given a commission, 7 Nov. 1903, in the Leinster Regt., and promoted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1906, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1912. He saw much foreign service, serving in Crete, Malta, Gibraltar, South Africa, Mauritius and India. In South Africa he was Instructor in the School of Musketry, and invented an automatic elevating and traversing machine gun gear, which is now (1916) being tested in the Hythe School of Musketry. On the outbreak of war Capt. Bates was in India, and arrived with his regt. in Flanders 21 Dec. 1914, holding the double command of Company and Brigade Machine Gun Officer. He went through all the heavy fighting for Ypres, and served continuously until he was killed in action, shot through the head near Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “Your husband was one of the bravest and most gallant men I know, and his death leaves a gap which cannot be filled. I can only add that he died like the gallant man he was.” A brother officer also wrote: “The regt. can say of him that he never asked a man to do a thing he would not do himself. He simply did not know fear, and would always tell us that dying was part of the game. It isn’t only we officers who admired him, but every man who knew him would have followed him anywhere—everywhere he he led.” He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Warnham, co. Essex, 10 Aug. 1912, Mabel (Dent, Warnham, Sussex), yst. dau. of Hastings Castor Draper, and left a son and a dau.: Lionel William Leeson, b. 25 May, 1913, and Pamela Dorcas, b. 2 June, 1914.

BATEY, EDWARD HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7358), S.S. 102501, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BATEY, ROBERT, Private., No. 1852, 1/7th (Leith Territorial) Battn. Royal Scots, yr. s. of Edward Batey, of 22, Ryehill Gardens, Leith, Linotype Operator, by his wife, Christina Allen, dau. of Thomas Morrison; b. Walworth, S.E., 7 Jan. 1897; educ. at Parson’s Green School, Edinburgh, and Broughton Higher Grade School, Edinburgh; enlisted on the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in the railway accident near Gretna on 22 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh.

BATSON, ALFRED WILLIAM, Lieut. 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only s. of William Lascelles Batson, of Dorking, Surrey, by his wife, Barbara Edwina, dau. of Edward Hugh Blakeney, M.D.; b. Dorking 25 Feb. 1887; educ. Fonthill, East Grinstead, Wellington College, and Sandhurst; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 9 Oct. 1907, and Lieut. 17 March, 1910. He served in Bermuda, South Africa (where he was attached to the Mounted Infantry), and Hong Kong. Soon after the outbreak of war his regt. was ordered home, and on the 19 Dec. 1914, was sent to France. Lieut. Batson was in charge of the machine-gun section, and on 24 Feb. 1915, he was commended by the Major-Gen. Commanding the 27th Division for distinguished service in the field. He was killed in action on the mount at St. Eloi, near Ypres, 14 March, 1915; unm. At Wellington College Lieut. Batson was in the Cricket Eleven and won Prince Christian’s prize for the best bowling average for that year, and also in Rugby football Fifteen won both prizes for the best kick of the season. While in South Africa he was a very keen Polo player.

BATT, JOHN ALBERT, alias FRANK, Private, No. 477, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Albert Batt, Lighterman; b. London, 10 July, 1874; enlisted in S. Australia under the name of “Frank” Batt, 14 Aug. 1914; killed at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915. He m. at Bermondsey, London, 25 Dec. 1896, Jessie Mary (9, Woolfe Street, Dockhead, Bermondsey), dau. of William Brockwell, and had five children: John Albert (Private, 3596, 22nd Queen’s), b. 10 Oct. 1897; William, b. 28 July, 1900; Henry, b. 9 Feb. 1903; Christopher, b. 26 July, 1905; and Arthur, b. 14 Sept. 1907.

BATT, NORMAN HAROLD, Private, No. 10140, 2nd Battn. Sussex Regt., s. of William Batt, of 33, Alma Villas, St. Leonards; served with the Expeditionary Force; killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915.

BATTARBEE, HERBERT, Signaller, No. 1578, 4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Frederick Battarbee, of 60, Tadman Street, Hull, by his wife, Clara, dau. of John Wrigglesworth; b. Hull, 11 Feb. 1895; educ. St. Luke’s Street Church School there; joined the 4th East Yorks in March, 1912, and was killed in action in France, 24 April, 1915; unm.

BATTEN, ARTHUR, Private, No. 8162, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 12 Oct. 1914; m.

BATTEN, JOHN HENRY STRODE, Capt., 1st Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of the late Col. John Mount Batten, of Upcerne, co. Dorset, and Mornington Lodge, West Kensington, C.B., J.P., Lord-Lieutenant co. Dorset (d. 1916), by his 1st wife, Margaret Annie (d. 1893), dau. of the Rev. John Brooks, Rector of Walton-le-Dale, co. Lancaster; b. Aldon, near Yeovil, co. Somerset, 23 Dec. 1875; educ. at Rossall and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and after taking his B.A. degree, was gazetted to his father’s old corps, the King’s Liverpool Regt., 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 21 March, 1900, and Capt. 1 Dec. 1909. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, being employed with the Mounted Infantry, and later was Supply Officer; took part in operations in Natal, 1899, including actions at Reitfontein and Lombard’s Kop; defence of Ladysmith, including action of 6 Jan. 1900; operations in Natal, March to June, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900, to Oct. 1901; and in those of the Orange Free State, Oct. 1901, to 31 May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with two clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. After the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and consistently did good work, his name being mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.] 1914. “On a particular occasion,” 20 Sept., during the Battle of the Aisne, his Brigadier said, “quite regardless of himself, he encouraged and steadied the men on the right of his battn., and of the brigade when very heavily attacked, and when the situation at that point was critical. It was owing to his very gallant conduct on that occasion that the portion of the line held its own.” He was killed in action, 25 Oct. 1914, being shot through the heart while on his way from the trench to confer with his Commanding Officer. Gen. R. H. Davies wrote: “I should like you to know that he was looked upon by all who knew him as one of the very bravest of the brave, and that by his exceedingly gallant and cool conduct at the Battle of the Aisne he did a great deal to stop a rush and prevent what might easily have proved to be a disaster to our part of the line.” And Col. Stevenson: “He saved the whole line on 20 Sept. just by his grit. Nothing would move him from the line he had to take up in that awful wood fight when Kyrke Smith and others were wounded.... He was killed outright crossing a small gap in a hedge by some men hidden in a house about 500 yards away.... We buried him that night beside the Colonel in an orchard close to a farm outside the village where he was shot.” “I owe him a debt I can never repay,” wrote Lieut. P. C. Snatt, “if it had not been for his gallant work on 20 Sept. I should now be a prisoner, I was wounded and unable to get away, and it was Strode who saved the line retiring.” Capt. Batten m. Alberta, yr. dau. of P. Kavanagh, of 56, Queen’s Gardens, Lancaster Gate, M.D.; s.p.

BATTEN, JOSEPH, Private, No. 8323, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., s. of Richard Batten, of 120, Nelson Road, Hornsey, served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc; killed in action 24 May, 1915.

BATTEN, WILLIAM HENRY, L.-Corpl., No. G. 321. 11th (Service) Battn., Middlesex Regt.; b. Hillingdon Heath, co. Middlesex, 22 Jan. 1888; volunteered and enlisted 11 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., from May; d. 15 June, 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

BATTENBERG, HIS HIGHNESS PRINCE MAURICE VICTOR DONALD OF, K.C.V.O., Lieut. 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps; yst. s. of H.R.H. Prince Henry of Battenberg, K.G., P.C. (who died on active service at sea, 20 Jan. 1896, of fever contracted during the Ashanti War), and of H.R.H. the Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg), yst. dau. of Her late Majesty, Queen Victoria; b. at Balmoral Castle, 3 Oct. 1891, and was educ. at Wellington, where he was a Lance-Corpl. in the O.T.C., and became one of the best marksmen at the College. He went to the National Rifle Association meeting at Bisley with the Wellington Shooting Eight which competed for the Ashburton Shield and other events. After leaving Wellington he went to Sandhurst, from which he was gazetted to a second lieutenancy in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 4 March, 1911. He was attached to the 1st Battn., then stationed at Gosport, as part of Brig.-Gen. H. H. Burney’s 9th Infantry Brigade. Prince Maurice came under the tuition of Lieut.-Col. R. S. Oxley and Capt. R. H. Seymour, and in due course was posted for duty to the 1st Battn. He served with this unit at Aldershot on transfer there into Gen. Davies’ 6th Infantry Brigade, and served under Lieut-Col. E. Northey in Salamanca Barracks, at the town end of the camp, and was senior 2nd Lieut. while there. He had been made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 19 June, 1911, and was promoted Lieut., 13 Feb. 1914. On the declaration of war he mobilised with his battn. at the town barracks in Aldershot and proceeded to France on 12 Aug. He proved himself possessed of sound soldierly qualities and was mentioned twice in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915] for gallantry in the field. At the crossing of the Aisne he was first over the bridge by which his battn. had to pass under heavy fire, and when Major Armytage led the line forward in a splendid charge he was in the thick of the fray. His name and that of Major Armytage were on every man’s lips in the battn. The following account of the action was given by Corpl. J. Jolley:—“Instead of retiring as we had been doing, on 5 Sept, we advanced five miles to Firoy. There was very fierce fighting, the German infantry advancing to within 800 yards of our artillery, and also in good rifle range. They were practically slaughtered, and hundreds of dead lay everywhere. Early in the morning of the 6th we were up and on the scent, the Guards being the advance guard for a change. Towards the afternoon they got in touch with the German rearguard at a place called by us and the Germans “The Valley of Death.” All the artillery possible was brought on to a ridge overlooking this valley, and played on the enemy, who could not get out of it in a hurry, and consequently got many casualties, the Guards capturing eighty men and five maxims, and losing only twelve men. We kept on going until we reached the heights overlooking Charly-sur-Marne. Here we took up our post about two miles from the enemy without knowing it. On the morning of the 7th the King’s Royal Rifles were the advance guard. We traversed a wood, and found that the enemy had camped on the other side. We could see the Germans making blockages on the bridge, preparing to blow it up, but on seeing us they made off, and as we had no artillery with us they got off free. The order then came that the bridge must be taken at once. When we got there we found that the bridge had three blockages, comprised of carts, furniture, glass, wire, etc. Prince Maurice of Battenberg was first man over, searching the house beyond all by himself. This was a brave act for an officer alone. The blockage was removed, and the battn. got across without a shot being fired. We went through Charly-sur-Marne, and halted about one mile on the other side for four hours, as the French were busy in action, and in the end they repulsed the Germans.” On 27 Oct. 1914, he was ordered to storm a German position and capture some guns which were doing a lot of damage. On the advance they came to a wood which was too thick for them to get through conveniently, and they had to cross an open field. Prince Maurice was leading his men across this open space when a shell fell and burst right by him. He knew that his injuries were mortal, and wished the men good-bye. He was carried to a field dressing-room, where he died. He was buried at Ypres on 30 Oct. about 3.30 p.m. “and not far away the German big guns were firing on our trenches, and our men were doing their best to put them out of action. The guns were making such a noise that you could not hear the Chaplain’s voice. It was a soldier’s funeral amidst the noise of battle,” wrote Capt. W. H. Dyer. The following eulogies were passed upon the Prince:—Sir John French: “The Army has lost a gallant officer, who was a fine example to all around him.” General Munro, Commanding the 2nd Division: “His Highness had throughout the campaign displayed a rare example of courage and fortitude to the men of his battn.,” and Sir Douglas Haig: “The Army loses a most gallant and valuable officer.” Prince Maurice supported the work of the Army Rifle Association and was also keen on polo, being in the Hurlingham handicap list. He did not play much, but he liked the game and was also fond of football, tennis, and motoring. He was also greatly interested in aviation, and made many flights as a passenger at Hendon. Prince Maurice was made a Freemason in the Heroum Filii Lodge, No. 3,404 (the Lodge of the Old Wellingtonians) on 21 June, 1912, and was installed Master of the Twelve Brothers Lodge, No. 785 Southampton, 22 April, 1914. His two brothers are (1916) on active service—Prince Alexander Albert with the Grenadier Guards and Prince Leopold with the 60th Rifles.

BATTERHAM, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B 6505), 204862, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BATTERSBY, AUGUSTUS WOLFE, Lieut., 4th Battn. Connaught Rangers, 2nd s. of the late John Radcliff Battersby, of Loughbawn, Collinstown, co. Meath, J.P., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Augusta Helen, dau. of John Rynd, of Reynella, co. Westmeath; b. Loughbawn, 10 Feb. 1885; educ. Corring School, Kingstown, and Trinity College, Dublin (B.A.). He entered the Church 20 Feb. 1910, and was curate of Antrim Parish, co. Down, until he was gazetted to the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. of the Connaught Rangers, 14 April, 1914. He joined at Aldershot, 30 April, was promoted Lieut. 5 Dec. following, and was attached for service to the 2nd Battn. of the Nigerian Regt. He sailed for the Cameroons on the 17th of the same month; took part in operations at Wum Bidgas where he was slightly wounded, and died of dysentery at Duala, 8 June, 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

BATTERSBY, CHARLES FREMOULT PRESTON, Capt., 113th Battery Royal Field Artillery, only s. of Major-Gen. Thomas Preston Battersby of Imber House, East Molesey, Principal Ordnance Officer, by his wife, Agnes Janet, dau. of the late John Evens; b. Castle Barracks, Enniskillen, 11 July, 1887; educ. King’s School, Canterbury, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 July, 1907, and became Lieut. 23 July, 1910, and Capt. 30 Oct. 1914. He was present at the retreat from Mons, the Battle of the Marne and in action for a long time on the Aisne. He was killed during the first bombardment of Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, while a farm, in which he was billetted was being heavily shelled, he returned from his safety pit to release a horse which was tied up in the yard belonging to the farm, and he was killed by one of the shells while so doing. He was buried the following day in the cemetery at Ypres.

BATTY, CHRISTOPHER, Leading Stoker, K. 3346, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BATTY, WILLIAM HENRY, Corpl., No. 7780, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Batty, of Sheffield, late Scots Greys, by his wife, Helen; b. Sheffield, 13 Jan. 1889; educ. National School there; enlisted 1 April, 1908, served three years with the colours and then passed into the reserve, and joined the Sheffield Police. On the declaration of war, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to France, 8 Aug. 1914, and served through all the various engagements up to the 26th Dec. 1914, when he was severely wounded in action at La Bassee, while assisting a wounded comrade. He died in hospital at Boulogne, 19 Jan. 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at Wadsley Bridge Church, 30 Jan. 1913, Lillian Moore (35 Fielding Road, Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield), dau. of John Parkin, of Sheffield, Accountant, s.p.

BATY, ROBERT, Private, No. 13061, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd and yst. s. of William Baty, of Saskatoon, Canada, Accountant and Auditor, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Giles, Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 27 July, 1890; educ. Winnipeg, Canada; was a Manufacturing Jeweller; joined the 29th Saskatchewan Light Horse in 1907, and became Regt. Sergt.-Major in 1912. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, he was the first man in Saskatoon to volunteer for service overseas; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct., went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915, during the taking of a fortified redoubt described as “K. 5”; unm. Buried at Festubert. Lieut.-Col. J. A. Aikin, Officer Commanding Sask. 29th L.H., wrote that he had been his Regt. Sergt.-Major for two years, and had always proved himself a good soldier. His two brothers, Major William Baty, 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles, and Lieut. Edward Baty, are now (1916) on active service.

BATY, THOMAS, L.-Corpl. No. 3607, 2nd Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Alexander Baty, of 127, North High Street, Musselburgh, Collier, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of Charles Fraser, 42nd Highlanders (Black Watch) (who was killed in action at the Relief of Lucknow in 1857); b. Musselburgh, 3 Nov. 1877; educ. St. Peter’s School, Mill Hill, there; enlisted 13 Nov. 1899; served through the South African war (Queen’s and King’s medals); retired, 28 May, 1902, and afterwards worked as a miner; re-enlisted 1 Sept. 1914, after the outbreak of war; promoted L.-Corpl. March, 1915; went to the Front, 27 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, 25 Sept. 1915. He m. at Musselburgh, 8 July, 1910, Elizabeth (7, Rothesay Place, Musselburgh), dau. of William Moffat, of Musselburgh, and had two children, William, b. 20 Jan. 1914, and Mary Anne, b. 22 April, 1911.