The Roll of Honour (part 2)

BAUCHOP, ARTHUR, C.M.G., Lieut.-Col., Otago Mounted Rifles, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Robert Bauchop, of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Peter Stewart; b. Port Chalmers, N.Z., 27 Feb. 1871; educ. there and Otago Boys School, Dunedin; entered the Volunteer Garrison Artillery at Dunedin in 1898, and served through the South African War with the 4th New Zealand Contingent 1900–2, being promoted Capt. 1900, Major 1901 and Lieut.-Col. 5 Sept. 1904. He first distinguished himself in the action at Ottoshoop, and was three times mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 16 April, 1901, 20 Aug. 1901 and 25 April, 1902]; once, when a Major, for good service at the capture of a laager at Fanny Home, by Col. Bing. He held the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s with two, and was awarded the C.M.G. for his services. He remained in South Africa for some time after the conclusion of the war and then returned to New Zealand, where he commanded in succession the Canterbury (1904), Wellington (1907) and Otago (1912) Military Districts. On the outbreak of the European War he was appointed to command the Otago Mounted Rifles with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Lieut-Col. Bauchop was wounded early in July, 1915, but had returned to duty, and was mortally wounded on Bauchop’s Hill during the great advance in Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915, and d. on board H.M.S. Delta, 10 Aug. following. He was buried at sea. Lieut.-Col. Bauchop was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s despatch of 22 Sept. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was a keen and very efficient officer, and most popular with his men. As a young man he was a prominent athlete, and held several long-distance records. He m. at Waikana, New Zealand, 12 Dec. 1912, Mary Jean, dau. of Henry Richardson Elder, of Waikana, N.Z., and had a dau., Elizabeth Elder, b. 19 May, 1915.

BAVERSTOCK, ALFRED GEORGE, Leading Seaman, 237242, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BAVIN, NIGEL BENJAMIN, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Essex Regt., yst. s. of the late Benjamin Bavin, of Norwich, Solicitor; b. Northdene, Eaton, Norwich, 7 May, 1896; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham, Norwich Grammar School and Berkhamsted, was gazetted to the Essex Regt. from the Special Reserve of Officers, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed by a shell, which fell in the trench, at St. Jean, near Ypres, 23 May, 1915; he was buried at La Brique.

BAXTER, ALFRED JOYCE, Private, No. 2769, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.); s. of Arthur Boyd Baxter, of 161, Burntwood Lane, Tooting, S.W., Wholesale Bookbinder, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of William Joyce; b. Stoke Newington, N., 17 Oct. 1895; educ. Cambridge House School, Margate; joined the London Scottish after the outbreak of war, 1 Sept. 1914, was wounded at Vermelles, during the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; and d. at No. 18 Casualty Clearing Station the following day; unm.

BAXTER, BERNARD EYRE, Private, No. 10/275, West Coast (A) Coy., Wellington Infantry Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Stanley Eyre Baxter, of North Lees, Mangamuka, Hokianga, N.Z., Farmer [b. Upper Holloway, Highgate, London, 1861; emigrated with family to New Zealand, 1909], by his wife, Emma Louisa, dau. of Stephen Green, of Downhead, Somersetshire; b. Hagg Hill Farm, Hinton, Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, 2 July, 1893; educ. at Shepton Mallet and Ashford (Kent) Grammar Schools; was for 12 months a Cadet at Weraroa Experimental Farm, near Levin; volunteered directly war was declared in Aug. 1914; went to Egypt with his regt.; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb., and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 29 April, 1915; unm.

BAXTER, JAMES PATRICK, Private, No. 5640, 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, eldest s. of James Baxter, of School Street, Kilcock, co. Kildare, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Word; b. Kilcock, 26 Jan. 1883; educ. the Christian Brothers’ School there; joined the 3rd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers on the outbreak of war, and was later transferred to the 2nd Battn. He died at Netley Hospital, 4 May, 1915, from wounds received at St. Julien on the night of 25–26 April; unm. Private Baxter’s two younger brothers are also in the Army.

BAXTER, JOHN HENRY, Private, No. 10456, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Frederick Henry Baxter, of 19, Portland Road, Colchester, Bootmaker in Government workshop, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of William Calversbert, of Colchester, Essex; b. Colchester, 17 Sept. 1890; educ. National School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1909; served five years in India, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, came home with his regt. and went to France in Dec. He was invalided home in Jan. 1915, with frozen feet, but returned to duty in July, and was killed in action in the attack on Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

BAYFIELD, ALFRED, Stoker, P.O. 286348, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BAYLEY, ALBERT EDWARD, A.B., S.S. 3556, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BAYLEY, GEORGE BAIRD, 2nd Lieut., King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of Isaac Fenton Bayley, of The Halls, Dunbar, East Lothian, by his wife, Grace Jane, dau. of Gideon Pott, of Dod, co. Roxburgh; b. Halls, 1 July, 1894; educ. Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 24 Jan. 1914; killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914; unm. Lieut. Bayley was wounded at Le Cateau, being invalided home, and had only returned to the Front a short time before he fell. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir J. French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

BAYLY, CHARLES GEORGE GORDON, Lieut., R.E. and Royal Flying Corps, only s. of the late Brackenbury Bayly, of the Cape Civil Service, M.I.E.E., by his wife, Beatrice Mary Jesser, dau. of Col. William Jesser Coope, late 57th regt.; b. Rondebosch, Cape Colony, 30 May, 1891; educ. Diocesan College School, South Africa, St. Edmunds Preparatory School, Hindhead, St. Paul’s School, Kensington, and Woolwich Academy, which he entered in Feb. 1910 as a Gentleman Cadet. He gained a scholarship for St. Paul’s School and later won an exhibition from the school on passing into Woolwich. He passed out 7th into the R.E., and while at Chatham represented the R.E. at football and cricket, and took his aviator’s certificate at Hendon (No. 441). On leaving Chatham he was gazetted to the 56th Field Co. R.E., and was stationed at Bulford Camp, Salisbury Plain. While here he won 2nd prize in the Royal Artillery point-to-point steeplechase. In May, 1914, he was appointed to take his course at the Central Flying School, Upavon, having applied for service in the Royal Flying Corps on leaving Chatham. Here he was interested in the study of wireless telegraphy from aeroplanes. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted to the 5th squadron Royal Flying Corps, and on leaving the school at Upavon was very highly reported on, his confidential report being “Very good indeed as pilot and his capabilities as an officer being above the average,” and an added note that he was “A very keen officer with plenty of initiative.” He was amongst the first to reach France, as he flew his machine from Dover to Amiens on 12 Aug. 1914, and thence to Maubeuge. He and his pilot were the first of the Military to be killed in action on the British side in the war. He was killed in action, 22 Aug. 1914, while on reconnaissance duty flying over the German lines, in the neighbourhood of Enghein Rassily, as observer with 2nd Lieut. Waterfall as pilot. They were shot down by German cannon-fire, and were hastily buried by the Germans in ten centimetres of soil, and later the owner of the park where they were buried exhumed the bodies and placed them in zinc coffins to await more decent burial. Lieut. Bayly was an officer full of promise and a keen sportsman. He represented his school at football and won second eleven colours at cricket; he boxed and shot for his house, winning the shooting cup for the house his last year at school. He represented Rosslyn Park at football on leaving school, and while at Woolwich won several prizes both in the athletic sports and swimming sports each year he was there. He was a good horseman and won his spurs at Woolwich.

BAYNES, JAMES, Private, No. 10499, 13th Coy., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Edward Clemminson Baynes, of 46, Parry Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Chauffeur, by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Dixon, of Blackburn, Bootmaker; b. Barrow-in-Furness, 9 July, 1894; educ. Oxford Street Schools there; enlisted Nov. 1913, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, 21 Oct. 1914; unm.

BEACH, ERNEST, Private, No. 11301, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., yst. s. of George Beach, of Lime Street, Hull, Tailor, by his wife, Ada, dau. of (—) Gregory; b. Hull, 9 Feb. 1895; educ. at the Charterhouse Lane Board School there. Prior to the outbreak of war he worked at the Hull City Saw Mills; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, and had only been at the Front 11 days when he was wounded while on guard by bursting shrapnel, 28 Feb. 1915. He died in County Kendal Hospital, Westmoreland, 21 March following; unm.

BEADLE, JESSE AUGUSTUS, Private, No. 1906, 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of the late Jesse Delias Beadle, by his wife, Susannah (125, Broadway, Bexley Heath, Kent), dau. of John Nash, of Chadwell St. Mary’s, Essex; b. Bexley, co. Kent, 20 Dec. 1890; educ. Bexley Heath. In Australia on the outbreak of war, he joined the Australian Imperial Force, left for the Dardanelles with the 5th Reinforcements, being employed as a bomb thrower, and was killed in action in the advance at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; buried at sea. He m. in Sydney, New South Wales, March, 1914, Laura, dau. of (—) Casey, and had one dau., Ivy Alma, b. 10 Feb. 1915.

BEADON, BASIL HERBERT EDWARDS, Capt. and Adjutant, 7th Battn. (Merioneth and Montgomery) Royal Welsh Fusiliers (T.F.), yr. s. of Col. Frederick Watson Beadon, of Longley Hall, Huddersfield, V.D., Land Agent for the Ramsden Estates, Huddersfield, formerly commanding the 5th and 7th West Riding Regt., by his wife, Elizabeth Eleonora, dau. of the late William Bolam, of High Cross House, Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Longley Hall, co. York. 11 Jan. 1887; educ. Cheltenham College and Sedbergh, and took up his father’s profession of Land Agent. He was brought up on the Ramsden Estate, then on the Duke of Buccleuch’s Rugby estate, and finally on Lord Hothfield’s Shipton property, whence he went to Mr. Naylor-Leyland’s Kerry (Montgomeryshire) estate as sub-agent, and returned to the Ramsden estates as assistant to his father in 1912. He had joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1908, and on leaving the county passed into the 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers in July, 1910, of which he was appointed Lieut. 18 July, 1913, and Capt. and Adjutant, 21 Nov. 1914. On the declaration of war he volunteered with his battn. for foreign service, and was sent to the Dardanelles. Capt. Beadon was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 10 Aug. 1915. According to a letter received by his father he was wounded in the morning, but was able to remain in the fighting line throughout the day. In the evening he had just concluded a consultation with his colonel and was turning to speak to another officer when he was shot by a sniper and killed instantly. He was buried there at 6 a.m. on 11 Aug. He was a keen footballer, and played in the Huddersfield Old Boys’ Rugby Union. Capt. Beadon m. at Boroughbridge, 14 Jan. 1913, Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of the late Anthony Maynard, of Newton Hall, co. Durham, M.F.H. North Durham Hounds, and had a dau., Joan, b. 1 Feb. 1915. His brother, Lieut. Scarth Beadon, is now (1916) the transport officer in the 18th Durham L.I.

BEALE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7771), S.S. 103259, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEAMES, ALFRED EDWARD, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 5024), 294677, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEAN, FREDERICK JAMES, Private, No. 6575, Scots Guards, s. of A. Bean, of Station Road, Northiam, Sussex; b. co. Sussex; enlisted, 2 July, 1906; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action between 4–12 Nov. 1914; unm.

BEAN, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16855, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEAN, SAMUEL JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5305), 177884, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BEANEY, ALBERT EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5833), 182377, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEANEY, JAMES, Private, No. G. 4986, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 18 April, 1915; m.

BEANLAND, HARRY, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 10231), 298948, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEARD, FRED, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4369), 196362, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEARMAN, WALTER JOHN, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21160, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEARMAN, WILLIE GEORGE, Leading Seaman, 155050, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEARNE, ARTHUR HENRY, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, 359286 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEATSON, FREDERICK, Corpl., No. 9034, 1st Battn. K.O.R. Lancaster Regt., 3rd s. of William Beatson, of 16, Oak Street, Wavertree, Liverpool, by his wife, Alice, dau. of William Little; b. Liverpool, 22 April, 1887; educ. St. Clement’s National School, Liverpool; enlisted in 1905, served seven years and obtained his discharge in 1913, but on the outbreak of war rejoined, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action “somewhere” in France, 18 March, 1915; unm. He was buried near Le Bizett Hospital, a mile from Armentières. Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service.

BEATTIE, ISAAC, A.B., R.N.V.R., No. Tyneside Z/715, Collingwood Battn., R.N.D., 4th s. of John Beattie, of 9, Robson’s Buildings, Windynook, Gateshead, Miner; b. Windynook, 1891; educ. at the Council School there; joined the Navy at the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915; unm.

DE VERE BEAUCLERK, NEVILL, Lieut., 12th, attached 1st, Battn. Essex Regt., only child of Robert Sidney de Vere Beauclerk, B.A., London [gt.-gt. gdson. of Lord Sidney Beauclerk, 5th s. of Charles, 1st Duke of St. Albans, K.G.], and of Beatrice, dau. of the late Alfred Richard Hollebone; b. Ingatestone, co. Essex, 13 Oct. 1895; educ. Kenilworth School, near Cape Town, and South African College, Cape Town. At the age of sixteen he was a member of the Cape Town Society of Model Engineers, and won the Ashenden Shield for model speed-boat construction; on coming to London two years later he passed together the London Matriculation Examination and the Entrance Examination into the second year of the City and Guilds Engineering College. On the outbreak of war he immediately volunteered, and having had training in the South African Defence Force, obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 12th (Service) Battn. Essex Regt. For the first month he did Captain’s work at Harwich, and was within three months (9 Dec. 1914) promoted Lieut., later being appointed instructor in musketry, and afterwards machine gun officer. In the latter capacity he was sent with reinforcements to the Dardanelles, and attached to the 1st Battn. of his regt. He was killed in action while in charge of his gun, at Gallipoli, 17 June, 1915; unm. Letters received by his parents from friends and brother officers all testify to his cheerful disposition, his courage, and great capabilities. A private of his gun section wrote: “He was the sort of officer any man would be willing to die for,” and a sergt. of the section remarked to an officer: “Lieut. Beauclerk was the smartest officer we have ever had on the gun.” “Yes,” wrote a brother officer, “he was simply brilliant; but what was even better, he was so lovable.”

BEAUFORT, FRANCIS HUGH, Capt., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., s. of Major Francis Beaufort, Royal Artillery, by his wife, Adela Hastings, dau. of Edward Divett, of Bystock, near Exmouth, M.P. for Exeter (1832–64); b. Camberley, Surrey, 27 July, 1883; educ. St. David’s, Reigate, Stone House, Broadstairs, Wellington College, and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1904); while still at Oxford he was attached to the Devonshire Regt. for military training (1904); was nominated by the University for a commission, and was gazetted to the 1st Battn. of the Oxford and Bucks Regt. as 2nd Lieut., 16 Aug. 1905; served in India and Burmah, being promoted Lieut., 10 Aug. 1907, and Capt. 2nd Battn., 18 April, 1914. He was present at the action near Richebourg L’Avoué on 15–16 May, 1915, when the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I. and Inniskillings captured some German breastworks, came unharmed out of the terrific fighting during the night, but was shot in the morning by a sniper while trying to reach his Commanding Officer. He was buried in an orchard about two miles west of Richebourg L’Avoué. Capt. Beaufort m., Bamburgh, co. Northumberland, 31 Dec. 1913, Charlotte Gwendoline Frances, 3rd dau. of the late Charles Hope, of Shorestone Hall, near Bamburgh, s.p. Capt. Beaufort was descended from François de Beaufort, a Captain in the Dutch service, and afterwards “Chancelier de la Cour à Lippe-Detmold,” who migrated from France on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and was by letters patent dated at Vienna, 4 Mar. 1710, which recognised his antecedent French nobility, cr. by the Emperor Joseph I., a noble of the Holy Roman Empire for himself and all his descendants. His fourth son, Daniel Cornelis de Beaufort (b. Wesel, 29 July, 1700), took Holy Orders, and was naturalised in Great Britain by Act of Parliament, 15 April, 1742, and died Archdeacon of Tuam and Rector of Clonenagh Queen’s Co., 1788.

BEAUFORT, OSTCLIFFE HAROLD, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John William Beaufort, Managing Director of Messrs. Elliott & Fry, Ltd., of 55–56, Baker Street, W., by his wife, Lucy Anne, dau. of John Ostcliffe; b. Birmingham, 20 Oct. 1893; educ. Wellington College, Salop, and Birmingham University where he was for several years a member of the O.T.C.; gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 1/6th Staffords, 26 Aug. 1914, went to the front Feb. 1915, was wounded in Aug. 1915, and afterwards appointed Brigade Grenade Officer, and was killed in the fighting for the Hohenzollern Redoubt, 13 Oct. 1915; unm. Writing to his brother on the previous day, he said: “We attack to-morrow afternoon, hold the new trenches all night and get relieved the next night. If I see these three days through all will be well, and leave will be granted.” His Colonel wrote: “He was a very good and reliable officer, never sparing himself, and doing everything to the best of his ability”; and his Major: “He came to the regt. a stranger, but very soon endeared himself to everyone. He was a most efficient officer, and any duty given him was done in a most satisfactory manner.” A brother officer, writing to his father, gave the following interesting account of the fighting that day: “He, Beaufort, was killed in the trenches 2½ miles N.E. of Bethune, 6 miles south of La Bassée. As you know, he was Brigade Grenade Officer, and he was in charge of the bombing party, whose job it was to turn the Germans out of a trench known as ‘Big Willie,’ which runs south from the Hohenzollern Redoubt. He and his party were in part of ‘Big Willie,’ which our division held, and he commenced bombing it simultaneously with the charge. They made good headway, but the attack was driven back. Harold commenced to go back along a communication trench to issue further orders to the N.C.Os. in charge of the Brigade Store, when a high explosive shrapnel shell burst close beside him. The brass nose cap and time fuse, a piece of metal about the size of a cricket ball, hit him in the right breast and came out of the left shoulder blade, killing him instantaneously. He was buried in the rear of the trenches, along with four other brave officers who fell. The time was about 2.20 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 Oct. 1915. The arrangement for the supply of bombs and grenades was excellent, but Harold had not reckoned with the attack failing. His orders were for the Brigade Store to be transferred to ‘Big Willie’ when the German front line was taken. It was not taken, and Harold was afraid that all the bombs would be brought up, as in the excitement is was very difficult for everyone to know what had happened, and probably his storekeeper would imagine that we had succeeded. If the bombs had been sent up it is very likely that a German grenade would have dropped on them and detonated the lot. To save this loss, which could not have been replaced under at least an hour, Harold went back and met his death. He had done a very good work; he was in front of his men, throwing bombs and encouraging the others, and without a doubt was the means of keeping the bombers together. Only three of his party got out safely, and they cannot say anything good enough about him; they say he was marvellous. Enclosed is a rough map of the trenches. Harold was at A bombing to the left. The battalion were in the trench marked B, and they charged across the open to ‘Big Willie.’ I was at C with the machine guns covering Harold’s party. We two were isolated from the battalion during the attack, so I don’t think there is another officer who could tell you more than I can, except N. C. Joseph, who was the battalion bombing officer, and he lies now at the Bournbrook Hospital with a broken jaw and a bullet in each leg. We have heard from him, and he writes it will be about ten weeks before he is able to speak, but he could write you and give fuller particulars, as he was with Harold all the time. By 4 p.m. Thursday, 14 Oct. the Hohenzollern Redoubt and ‘Big Willie’ were entirely in our hands, at the cost of about 170 officers and 4,000 men.”

BECHER, HENRY OWEN DABRIDGCOURT, Capt., 1st Battn. (Scottish Rifles) Cameronians, elder s. of the Rev. Harry Becher, Rector of Rosscarbery, co. Cork, by his wife, Zoê Louisa, dau. of the late R. M. Hudson, of Oak Lea, Sunderland; b. Curate’s House, Houghton-le-Spring, co. Durham, 15 Aug. 1889; educ. Grammar School, Haverfordwest, Marlborough and Sandhurst; was gazetted to the 1st Battn. Cameronians, 20 April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 15 Feb. 1913, and Capt. 11 March, 1915. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, and served continuously through the winter of 1914–15, including the retreat from Mons, etc. He was killed in action at Bois Grenier, 13 March, 1915, two days after he had obtained his company, and was buried with four brother officers behind the police barracks at Bois Grenier; unm. Major Oakley, in command of the regt. at the time, wrote that he was killed “about 9 a.m. He was going his company trenches and was talking to some men. He stood right up, but only just showing, when he was shot dead. He was in command of C Coy. at the time, and had been ever since Capt. Jack left sick. You know how highly we all thought of him. As for myself, I feel it impossible to write all I think. He has been my constant companion and right-hand man in the company ever since the regt. came home from S. Africa—so hard working, reliable, clever, good with the men and beloved by all on this campaign. What we all thought of him in peace has been more than proved in war.” And Brig.-Gen. F. Gordon: “As Commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade, I wish to express to you my heartfelt sympathy in the death, in the trenches, of your dear son, Capt. H. O. D. Becher, 1st Cameronians. He was a very gallant and valuable young officer, of the type that can ill be spared at such a time. He was not only a particularly efficient and capable officer, but was a general favourite.”

BECHER, MAURICE ANDREW NOEL, Capt., 1st Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, only s. of Brig.-Gen. Andrew Cracroft Becher, of Howbury, St. Andrews, Fife, late Norfolk Regt., and now commanding the .... Division, by his wife, Frances Maude, dau. of the late Maurice Johnson, of Ayscough Fee Hall, co. Lincoln; b. Lowestoft, 30 Dec. 1884; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 28 June, 1905, promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1907, and Capt. 15 May, 1914. On the outbreak of war he returned with his battn. from India in Oct. 1914, and proceeded to the Dardanelles with the 29th Division. He was killed, 26 April, 1915, the morning following the landing at Y Beach, Gallipoli, conspicuous to the last, as the few survivors relate, by his coolness and daring. He m. at St. Andrews, 18 Dec. 1912, Violet Isabel, yr. dau. of Charles Todd, of St. Andrews, and left two daus.: Frances Isabel, b. 16 Dec. 1913; Anne Violet, b. 26 Sept. 1915.

BECK, ARTHUR, Private, No. 13356, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards; 3rd s. of John William Beck, of 119, Latimer Road, Eastbourne, by his wife, Alice, dau. of David Styles, of West Hoathly, co. Sussex; b. Turner’s Hill, co. Sussex, 22 Oct. 1894; educ. there; enlisted 31 Oct. 1914, and d. at Caterham Military Hospital, 7 Feb. 1915, of spotted fever and meningitis contracted while on active service; unm.

BECK, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3130), S.S. 506, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BECK, ROBERT LEONARD, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 11017, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BECKETT, RICHARD, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 693), 125116, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEDDOW, RICHARD CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4338), S.S. 102882, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEDFORD, CONRAD THOMAS, Private, No. 9499, 1/5 Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Arthur Bedford, Clerk in the London Joint Stock Bank (d. 24 Nov. 1899), by his wife, Clara, dau. of Walter W. Roberts, of Upper Holloway; b. Bowes Park, N., 8 Aug. 1891; educ. Seaford College (Col. Savage), Sussex, where he was for four years in the College Cadet Corps (attached to the Royal Sussex Engineers) and left with the rank of corpl. On leaving school in 1909, he became a clerk in the London Joint Stock Bank, and in Feb. 1913, joined the London Rifle Brigade. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, went to the front with the L.R.B., 4 Nov. 1914, was slightly wounded by a gunshot in the right shoulder at Ploegsteert at 2 a.m. on 27 Feb. 1915, and died at the American Women’s War Hospital, Paignton, South Devon, 15 March, following, of blood poisoning; unm. A comrade wrote: “May I say how keenly his death was felt by the men who knew him and liked him, as we all did. He was one of the cheery ones always, and always ready to do everything he could to help anyone.”

BEDFORD, HAROLD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4821), S.S. 1709, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEDFORD, HERBERT, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 532), late R.M.A., 5559, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEE, HARRY, Leading Seaman, J. 5226, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEECH, ALBERT, Private, No. 10385, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Beech, of Blyton, Gainsborough, Lincoln, by his wife, Rhoda, dau. of John Warriner; b. Blyton, 3 March, 1893; enlisted Aug. 1913, went to the front with the Expeditionary Force, and was reported missing after the Battle of the Marne, 29 Oct. 1914, and is now supposed to have been killed on that date; unm.

BEECHAM, ARTHUR ROBERT, Sergt., R.M.A., 5645, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEECHING, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6257), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEECHING, LUKE, A.B. (Ports.) 208406, R.N., s. of John Beeching, by his wife, Eliza; b. Hastings, 1 Sept. ...; educ. there; joined the Navy in 1901, and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. Portsmouth, 27 July, 1908, Mary Ann Elizabeth (C.G. Station, Walmer, Kent), dau. of George William Good, R.N., and left one son and two daus.: Henry Alexander, b. 30 July, 1910; Dorothy Cecilia, b. 10 April, 1913; Hilda Cressy, b. 2 Nov. 1914.

BEECROFT, GEORGE, Private, No. 8998, 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., s. of William Richard Beecroft, Private, No. 9866, 8th Battn. Suffolk Regt., by his wife, Ellen (25, Rope Walk, Ipswich), dau. of Samuel Cracknell (late of Bradfield, co. Essex); b. Chiswick, 2 Jan. 1897; educ. Clifford Road School, Ipswich; enlisted 21 July, 1914, and was killed by a sniper in trying to get some water for a wounded comrade at the Battle of Ypres, 18 Feb. 1915; unm.

BEER, FREDERICK JAMES, Private, No. 8251, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Beer, of 18, Kinsman Dale, Moretonhampstead, co. Devon, steam crane driver in granite quarry, by his wife, Eliza Ann, dau. of John Underhill Ford; b. Moretonhampstead, 20 June, 1890; educ. Pound Street Boys’ School there; enlisted 9 Jan. 1909; served three years with the colours, and then passed into the Reserve, joining the Tiverton Police Force. On the declaration of war he was called up, left Windsor on 26 Aug. 1914, arrived at Southampton at 9.30 p.m., and went on board the Lake Michigan, sailing at 3.30 on the morning of the 27th. Extracts from his diary state: “Arrived at Havre 4 o’clock on the 28th, and went into camp; distance seven miles. Left camp Monday afternoon about 3 o’clock, and embarked on board the Minneapolis, and after a rough voyage arrived at destination and went into camp about three miles west of St. Nazaire, about 18,000 in camp. Left St. Nazaire on 18 Sept. by train, passing through Segre. Took part in the battle of Chevonne. On 25 Sept. took up our position in trenches. Could hear the band of the Germans playing. 5 Oct. went out sniping, got shelled, and brought in a wounded comrade from a wood to the trenches, a distance of 200 yards. A shell exploded injuring five. On 4 Oct. attacked the Germans to the left of the town of Boeschebe and drove them off; 26 Oct. saw an aeroplane burned at 3 o’clock.” He was killed in action at Rentel Woods, Belgium, 5 Nov. 1914; unm.

BEER, GEORGE HENRY, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23495 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BEER, HARRY, Private, G. 30, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Frederick Beer, of 40, Chapel Street, Ramsgate; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 29 Sept. 1915.

BEER, WILLIAM EDWARD, Drummer, No. 8113, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of William Beer, of The Green, Littlebourne, near Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 11 Nov. 1914.

BEERLING, THOMAS WILLIAM, A.B., J. 6394, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEESLEY, DICK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8589), S.S. 104951, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEGG, ALEXANDER, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 2583), 282446 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BEGLEY, DENIS FRANCIS, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 96), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEHENNA, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 1311, 3rd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Henry Behenna; b. Blackheath, co. Kent, 23 Jan. 1889; educ. there; went to Australia, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

BEHRENS, ROBERT PHILIP, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers (24th Regt.), eldest s. of George Benjamin Behrens, of Vron Yw, Denbigh, J.P., by his wife, Helen Elizabeth, dau. of John Morgan Davies, of Froodvale, Carmarthen, D.L., J.P.; b. ... 4 Dec. 1893; educ. at Cordwalles, Maidenhead, under the Rev. C. R. Carter, from 1905–07 at Winchester (Mr. Nowell Smith’s, afterwards Mr. Irving’s house), and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Feb. 1912, being temporarily attached to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers till Sept., when he went out in charge of a draft to Tientsin to join the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914, and was present with his regiment at the capture of Tsing-tau that autumn. He was shot at the landing at de Totts’ Battery, in Gallipoli on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, and was buried at sea at the entrance to the Dardanelles from H.M.S. Cornwallis; unm. His Colonel wrote that, even as he lay mortally wounded, he continued to encourage his men to press forward. At Winchester, Behrens rowed stroke in his house-boat in 1910, and was champion middle-weight boxer, and at Sandhurst he was head of his company in riding and one of the Sandhurst representatives in the sabreing competition at the Royal Military Tournament in 1912.

BELCHER, ALBERT, Private, No. 9781, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action near Ypres, 3 June, 1915; m.

BELCHIER, FRANK ELLIOT, M.C., Capt., 1st East Lancashire Regt., yst. s. of the late Henry Nathaniel Belchier, of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Mary Helen (Elm Lodge, Surbiton Hill Road, Surbiton), dau. of John Allenby, of Naburn, co. Yorks; b. Surbiton, 24 June, 1891; educ. Wellesley House, Broadstairs, Marlborough, and Sandhurst; entered the Army, 4 March, 1911, promoted Lieut. 27 Dec. following, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and was for some time Acting Adjutant of the battn., resigning that position, 23 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at Ypres, 20 May, 1915; unm., and was buried at the Irish farm near that place. Capt. Belchier was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the Military Cross in recognition of his services in the field in Feb. 1915. A fellow officer wrote: “As Adjutant he had special work and did splendidly all through the retreat on Paris and afterwards.”

BELDHAM, ARTHUR, A.B., J. 5870, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BELDOM, GEORGE NOAH, Private, No. 2390, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; was reported missing, 9 May, 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date; m.

BELL, ALAN ROBERT, Private, No. 77438, 7th (British Columbia) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Thomas Best Bell, of Netherall, Sidcup, General Manager and Secretary of the Lion Fire Insurance Company, of London, by his wife, Mary (St. John’s Lodge, Sevenoaks), dau. of Robert Williams Soady, of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law; b. Surbiton, 11 April, 1885; educ. Shrewsbury House School, Surbiton, and Bradfield College, Berks; was for three years with the Royal Exchange Assurance, London, and afterwards studied poultry farming and went to Alberta, and from there to Duncan, Vancouver Island, where he took up land surveying. He enlisted in the 30th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, left for England 14 Feb. 1915, and was drafted into the 7th Battn., crossing to France on 2 May, 1915. He was killed in action in the attack on the position known as K5, at Festubert, 24 May, 1915, and was buried there in the rear of the first British line. The Chaplain, the Rev. Wm. Barton, wrote that his “company was in the reserve trench, which was subjected to a pitiless hail of high explosives and shrapnel for nine hours on 24 May, and the casualties were heavy. The marvel was not that many were killed and wounded, but that any of them came out alive.” And the sergt. of his platoon, Sergt. J. H. Cleland, wrote of him: “He was a splendid fellow, greatly liked by us all, and became a good soldier. His calmness and fortitude under a very heavy shell fire at Festubert were splendid, and when I look back and realise that they were all with the sole exception of myself new to active service, I can only say I am very proud to have been in charge of such a splendid lot of fellows.”

BELL, ALBERT HENDERSON, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., H.M.S. Goliath, yr. s. of the late Frederick Bell, of Itchen, Hants, by his wife, Louisa Maud (Woolston, Southampton), dau. of Henry Dampier, late of Winchester; b. Itchen, 29 Aug. 1886; educ. Woolston College; was a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and was associated with the firm of Messrs. Deloitte Plender, Griffiths & Co., of London; joined the R.N.R. in 1910, and was lost in the Goliath at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915; unm.

BELL, ALBERT WILLIAM, Private, No. 19001, 1st Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of Joseph Henry Bell, of 40, Fountas Street, Leeds, Drayman, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (—) Dobson, of Scarborough; b. Leeds, 30 May, 1891; educ. Park Lane Council School there; was a goods porter in the service of the London & North Western Railway; enlisted 5 Jan. 1915; left England for the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died 11 Aug. 1915, from wounds received in action there. He m. at Leeds, 28 July, 1914, Lilly (35, Fountain Street, Leeds), dau. of Fred Hartley, and had a son, James, b. 18 Sept. 1914.

BELL, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 14162, Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Alexander Bell, of Bridgeton, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 25 Sept. 1915.

BELL, ALEXANDER MURRAY-MACGREGOR, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd s. of William Bell, of 26, Albert Place, Stirling, Lieut.-Col. late 56th Regt. (now 2nd Essex and Army Pay Dept.), by his wife, Isabel Margaret, dau. of Major-Gen. Evan Murray-MacGregor, Bombay Cavalry; b. Weymouth, 4 Sept. 1880; educ. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Kingston, and Stirling High School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Militia) Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 30 Dec. 1901, served with them in South Africa, 1 Feb.-23 Sept. 1902, receiving the South African medal with two clasps. He was gazetted to the Royal Garrison Artillery, 4 Feb. 1903, and was transferred to the Dorset Regt., 6 May, 1905. On 8 Jan. 1907, he was promoted Lieut. and posted to Royal Scots Fusiliers, and became Capt. 28 May, 1912. From May, 1904, to May, 1905, was A.D.C. to the Governor of Natal, and Superintendent Gymnasia, Scottish Command, Feb. 1913–Nov. 1914, when he rejoined his regt. in Flanders, and was appointed Adjutant of the 1st Battn., Dec. 1914. He died in London, 28 April. 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres, 19 Feb. preceding; unm. The officer commanding his Battn. wrote: “The regt. was moving across some open ground under heavy shell fire, and your son and I were together at the moment we were both knocked over. He was hit on the back and right arm. I can only assure you that his gallantry and devotion to duty has been most marked.” Capt. Bell was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915.

BELL, (ALFRED) RAY LANCASTER, 2nd Lieut., 5th. attd. 2nd. Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only child of Alfred Bell, of 23, Morehampton Road, Dublin, formerly of Ardcarne, Ballinasloe, co. Galway, by his wife, Annie Ray Bell, dau. of James Bell, Lieut., 3rd Buffs, nephew of the late Major Lancaster Bell, R.A., and grandson of Capt. James Bell, of the 64th Regt.; b. Ballinasloe, 10 Feb. 1896; educ. at St. George’s and Rosse Colleges, Dublin. He entered the Army on the outbreak of war; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Battn. of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 15 Aug. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd Battn. then at the Front, May, 1915. He reached the firing line on 15 May, was wounded by shrapnel in the lung at the second Battle of Ypres on the 17th, and d. four hours later in the 12th Field Ambulance, near Vlamertynghe. He was unm. and was buried in the military cemetery there.

BELL, CEDRIC MOLESWORTH, Private, No. 9215, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., s. of Angus Alger Bell, of 120, Wightman Road, N., Chief Accountant at the Royal Academy of Music, and Sergt.-Major 5th London Brigade, R.F.A., by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Thomas Bell Weeks; b. Harringay, 22 May, 1893; educ. Owen’s School, Islington; joined the London Rifle Brigade in 1911, and volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war. He went to the Front in Nov. 1914, and on 4 Dec. was wounded in action by shrapnel and invalided home. He rejoined his regt. in France in March, 1915, was wounded by shell fire on 26 April, 1915, during the attack on Hill 60, and died before reaching the casualty clearing station; unm. He was buried in Bailleul Cemetery.

BELL, CHARLES OCKLEY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt., s. of Alfred F.... Bell, of Deansgate, Grimsby, by his wife, Sarah Susanna, dau. of John Ockley; b. Grimsby, 10 Dec. 1891; educ. Collegiate, Grimsby, and Alford Grammar Schools; enlisted in the South Staffordshire Regt. Jan. 1910; was given a commission 20 May, 1914, and transferred to the 2nd Bedfordshire Regt. He was killed by shrapnel at Ypres, 18 Oct. 1914; unm.

BELL, DAVID, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10813), S.S. 108915, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BELL, FRED, Eng.-Lieut., R.N.R., yr. s. of Samuel Bell, of Abbots Cottage, St. Bees, Cumberland, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Joseph Coulthard; b. St. Bees, 4 Dec. 1889; educ. there. He commenced his career with the Whitehaven Harbour Board under Engineer Wilcox. He was two and a-half years in this employ, and a similar period at Lowca Engineering Works. From there he entered the service of Messrs. Chambers, the Castle Line, Liverpool. After being two years and three months at sea he sat for, and secured, his second engineer’s certificate, and after another couple of years’ service he obtained his Chief Engineer’s certificate. Continuing in the same employ, he was in Liverpool studying for his extra chief certificate on the outbreak of war, but gave up his opportunity to sit for this to take up his commission as Eng.-Lieut. on the armed merchant vessel Viknor, commissioned at Portsmouth 12 Dec. 1914. They sailed just after Christmas, and no further word was heard until Feb. when the Admiralty announced that H.M.S. Viknor, which had been missing for some days, must now be accepted as lost with all officers and men. The cause of her loss is uncertain, but as bodies and wreckage were washed ashore on the north coast of Ireland, it is presumed that during the bad weather she either foundered, or, being carried out of her course, struck a mine in the seas which the Germans are known to have laid there. It is presumed that she was lost off the Irish coast 14 Jan. 1915. Lieut.-Commander Bell was unm. His elder brother, Edward, also received a commission, and was appointed to the armed liner The Duke of Cornwall.

BELL, GEORGE SINCLAIR, Stoker, 1st Class, 308909, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BELL, JOHN WILLIAM, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17205, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BELL, JOSHUA, Private, No. 8643, B Coy., 2nd Battn. The Border Regt., s. of William Joshua Bell, of 170, Conyers Road, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, now employed at Messrs. Armstrong & Whitworth’s Elswick Works; b. Shieldfield, 9 Jan. 1887; educ. Victoria Jubilee Council School, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne; enlisted 27 Nov. 1905, and was killed in action at Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914; unm. He had previously been employed by the Newcastle Tramway Co.

BELL, LAURISTON PERCIVAL EDWARD, Private, No. 1527, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) London Regt., only s. of the late William Harbutt Bell, Assistant Clerk, C.S., by his wife, Milly (15, Thornfield Road, Shepherd’s Bush), dau. of John Broad, of Stratton, Cornwall; b. Notting Hill, 18 June, 1894; educ. London Orphanage, Watford. Joined the Queen’s Westminster’s 16 March, 1913, volunteered for foreign service with his regt. on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Houplines, 27 March, 1915; unm. Buried in the military cemetery in the Rue Emile Zola at Houplines. In a letter of sympathy to his mother, Capt G. H. Lambert, commanding IV. Coy., said: “Your son, Rifleman Bell, was killed in the trenches yesterday morning. It may be a small consolation to you, in your great trouble, to know that he died as he had lived, a true soldier, and in him I have lost one of my good men.”

BELLAIRS, EDWARD DUNSTAN, Private, No. 9255, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., s. of Everard Dunstan Bellairs, of 4, Paley Street, Sunderland, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Henry Moon Clark, and grandson of Commander John Henry Bellairs, R.N.; b. Bishopswearmouth, Sunderland, 29 Sept. 1884; educ. Sunderland; enlisted with his brother in 1903, and served eight years in India. On the outbreak of war rejoined, was wounded on 20 Sept. 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne, and d. in the Victoria Hospital at Blackpool, 20 July, 1915; unm. His elder brother, William (see succeeding notice) was killed in the same action, and a 3rd brother, Private H. Bellairs, 7th Durham L.I., was wounded in France 26 May, 1915, and is now (1916) a prisoner in Germany.

BELLAIRS, WILLIAM, Private, No. 9160, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., eldest s. of Everard Dunstan Bellairs, of 4, Paley Street, Sunderland, &c. (see preceding notice); b. Bishopswearmouth, Sunderland, 16 Feb. 1881; enlisted with his brother in 1903, and served eight years in India. On the outbreak of war rejoined, and was killed at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept, 1914; unm.

BELLAMY, VICTOR SAMUEL, L.-Corpl., No. 9977, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Henry Bellamy, of 33, Park Road, Ashford, Kent; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; d. 8 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action near Lille.

BELLAS, WILLIAM, Pte., No. 10551, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Penrith, co. Cumberland, 1874; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915. He m. at Liverpool, 7 Oct. 1899, Margaret (14, Bowles Road, Bootle, Liverpool), dau. of (—) Walters, and had two sons, Francis William, b. 12 July, 1900; and Lancelot John, b. 1 May, 1910.

BELLERBY, TOM, Petty Officer, 187039, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept 1914.

BELLINGER, WILLIAM FREDERICK, Petty Officer, 184317, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BELLINGHAM, ROGER CHARLES NOEL, Capt., 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of Sir Henry Bellingham, of Castle Bellingham, 4th Bt., H.M. Lieutenant, co. Louth, by his wife, Lady Constance Noel, 2nd dau. of Charles George, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough; b. Wilbury Road, Brighton, 28 April, 1884; educ. Oratory School, Edgbaston, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. — Dec. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1906. He retired 26 Oct. 1912, and was placed in the R.F.A. Special Reserve. On 8 Nov. the same year he was appointed A.D.C. to the Lord Lieut. of Ireland (the Marquis of Aberdeen), which position he held until outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. on Aug. 5. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force, was specially mentioned in Dispatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], by F.M. Sir John French, for gallant and distinguished service in the field and was found dead in his bed near Ypres, 4 March, 1915, after a week’s hard fighting. He was buried in Dickebush Parish churchyard, three miles from Ypres. When at Woolwich in 1909, Capt. Bellingham wrote the best essay and was specially complimented by the General Commanding in Chief (Brig.-Gen. J. D. Snow), who wrote (21 Feb.): “A well written essay which shows a careful study of the campaign. What is particularly good about the paper, is, that the writer, having selected his principle, on which to write, has stuck to it throughout, and quoted every instance which bears his argument. In writing on Colombey that action was not an ordinary rearguard action. The French had to fight, to gain more considerable time, than is usual in rearguard actions. Lieut. Bellingham is to be congratulated on his paper, and he should develop into a good writer.” He m. at Stabannon, co. Louth, 18 Jan. 1910, Alice Ann, dau. of Richard Naish, of Ballycullen, co. Limerick, and had issue two children: Roger Carroll Patrick Stephen, b. 23 April, 1911, and Constance Catherine Mary Pia, b. 21 Oct. 1912.

BELLINGHAM, THOMAS HENRY, Stoker 1st Class, K. 6334, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BELSTEN, WALTER SIDNEY, Private, No. 1756, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt., s. of William Henry Belsten, of 8, Colville Road, South Acton, by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Jones, of Bristol; b. London, 7 Jan. 1892; educ. Priory School, and Central School, Acton; enlisted the day after the declaration of war, 6 Aug. 1914, went to the Front 4 Nov., came through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle unhurt, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge at the same time as his only brother (see following notice), 9 May, 1915; unm.

BELSTEN, WILLIAM HENRY, Sergt., No. 2360, 13th (Princess Louise’s) Battn. The London Regt., elder s. of William Henry Belsten (see preceding notice); b. London, 27 Oct 1890; educ. Priory School, Acton, Queen’s Park College, and Islington College; was an Assistant Master at St. Paul’s School, Brentford, but on the outbreak of war enlisted 30 Aug. 1914, went to France 9 Feb. 1915, came through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle unhurt, and was promoted sergt., and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, near Neuve Chapelle, at the same time as his only brother, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was Superintendent of the Sunday school, Acton, and a credence table was placed to his memory at St. Cuthbert’s Mission Church, Acton.

BENDING, GEORGE JESSE, Third Writer, M. 5284, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENDYSHE, RICHARD NELSON, Major and Brevet Lieut.-Col., Royal Marine Light Infantry, eldest s. of the late Nelson Bendyshe, by his wife; Charlotte, yst. dau. of Capt. Henry Brodrick, 29th Regt., and grandson of John Bendyshe, of Barrington Hall, co. Cambridge, J.P., Lieut. R.N., by his wife, Catherine, eldest dau. of George Matcham, of Ashfield Lodge, co. Sussex, and Catherine, his wife, sister of the great Lord Nelson; b. Woodstock, Ontario, 18 Jan. 1866; educ. King’s School, Canterbury; joined the Marines, became Lieut. 1 Sept. 1885, Capt. 1 April, 1895, Major 1 Feb. 1903, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1 Feb. 1910; was Assistant Instructor of Musketry, Chatham Division Royal Marines, in 1895; Adjutant to Plymouth Division, 1896–1901; Staff Officer, Chatham Division, 1902–06; and retired 1 July, 1910. At the outbreak of the war Major Bendyshe took charge of the wireless station at .... but applied to join the Marines Brigade; was appointed to the Deal battn., and went to Antwerp at the time of the siege. He was killed in action, 1 May, 1915, in the Dardanelles at Gebe Tebe whilst in command of the Deal battn. He m. at Berkesbourne, Canterbury, 15 Aug. 1893, Eleanor Margaret (Barrington Hall, Cambridge), dau. of the Rev. Henry John Wardell, Vicar of Berkesbourne, and had two children: John Nelson, Lieut. Worcestershire Regt., b. 29 July, 1894; and Margaret Charlotte, b. 1 Nov. 1900. In Sept. 1914, Major Bendyshe succeeded his uncle in the Barrington Hall estate, which has been the seat of the family since the reign of Edward III, and was succeeded in possession of it by his only son.

BENHAM, JOHN PERCY, Sergt., No. 48, No. 1 Coy., Princess Patricia’s L.I.; eldest s. of the late John Benham, Iron Founder, by his wife, Helen Louisa (99, Warwick Gardens, Earl’s Court, S.W.), dau. of John Jay; b. Earl’s Court, 6 Dec. 1872; educ. in Salisbury; served as a volunteer in the South African war, and on 5 Aug. 1914, while out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, enlisted in Princess Patricia’s L.I. He was wounded in March, 1915, being shot in the arm, and lay in hospital in Boulogne for six weeks; then returned to his company, and was killed on the north-west side of the Bellewarde Lake, about 500 yards north-west of Hooge, 8 May, 1915; unm. Sergt. Benham had a good knowledge of French, and a comrade wrote: “Your son was held in great respect and his quiet cheerfulness was much appreciated by those who came in contact with him. He was very popular not only in No. 1 Coy. but in the whole battn.”

BENHAM, JOHN RUSSELL, 2nd Lieut., 100th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, only s. of the late Edwin Arthur Russell Benham, of Colombo, Ceylon, Tea Planter and Tea Merchant, by his wife, Grizzet Hamilton (of Glenlinden, Colinton, Midlothian), elder dau. of the late John Leveson Douglas, of Glenogil, Forfarshire; b. Colombo, 19 Sept. 1895; educ. Mr. Perkin’s, Matfield Grange, Paddock Wood, Rugby and Woolwich. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 17 Nov. 1914, and went to France with the 28th Divisional Ammunition Column on 16 Jan. 1915, and was immediately posted to the 100th Battery. Later he served for a short time with G Battery, R.H.A., and then returned to his own. He died of wounds received in action near Ypres, 4 May, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “... that, through the most trying times he proved himself a soldier for all his youth.”

BENNETT, ALBERT EDWARD, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 178486, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BENNETT, ERNEST HENRY, Petty Officer, 193860, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENNETT, FRANK HENRY, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12196, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BENNETT, FREDERICK BENJAMIN, Private, No. 1115, 1/5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Benjamin Bennett, of 17, Airlie Gardens, Ilford, Clerk, by his wife, Alice Eliza, dau. of William Hudson, of Dalston, N.E.; b. Leyton, co. Essex, 16 June, 1896; educ. Cleveland Road Council School, Ilford, and St. George’s College, London; entered H.M. Customs as a boy clerk after competitive examination, remaining until he reached the age limit of eighteen, and was preparing for the Second Division Civil Service when war broke out. He had served a year and eight months in the Civil Service Cadets, and after passing his examination joined the London Rifle Brigade in Oct. and was picked for the drafts for the 1st Battn. at the end of Jan. He had been at the Front scarcely three weeks when, about 1 a.m. on 12 March, 1915, he was mortally wounded while on sentry duty in the trenches at Ploegsteert Woods. The Sergt. of his platoon wrote: “Your son was in my platoon and was on sentry duty in the trench on the night of the 11th-12th. At about 1 a.m. a star light was sent up by the enemy over his trench, followed immediately by a volley. Unfortunately one of the shots struck your son on the left side of the head level with the left eye. He was picked up at once and sent to the field ambulance without any delay. The wound was a very severe one, and he died the following morning about 11 a.m.... He was a fine manly chap and did his duty with the best.” He was a server at St. Clement’s Parish Church, Ilford, and was for some time secretary of the Young Men’s Guild.

BENNETT, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 838), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENNETT, HUGH DONALD, Lieut., Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. Cressy, 4th s. of the late George Bennett, of Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, by his wife, Eliza Laura (now wife of Col. F. Stringer, of the Old Mansion, Bredon, Tewkesbury), dau. of Nathan Dyer; b. Bredon, 21 May, 1877; educ. Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and H.M.S. Conway, training ship, Birkenhead. Joined the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company and Royal Naval Reserve, 23 July, 1897; served as 5th officer, s.s. Carthage (23 July, 1897), and Oriental (10 Aug. 1897); 4th officer, s.s. Ceylon (28 Oct. 1897); 5th officer, s.s. Oriental (8 Nov. 1897); and Himalaya (10 Nov 1897); 4th officer, s.s. Sumatra (8 March, 1898), and Australia (30 Sept. 1898); 3rd officer, s.s. Australia (30 Jan. 1899), Oriental (19 Feb. 1900), Britannia (15 Jan. 1901); 2nd officer, s.s. Britannia (19 Sept. 1901–13 June, 1902), Plassy (2 Sept. 1904–13 April, 1905), Dock staff (23 Feb. 1907), Sumatra (4 July, 1907), Marmora (28 Sept. 1908–10 Oct. 1910); Chief Officer, s.s. Palma (21 June, 1911–3 Aug. 1914), being twice (21 May–10 June, 1913 and 14 July–3 Aug. 1914) Acting Commander. Called up on mobilization, 3 Aug. 1914, and appointed to H.M.S. Cressy. He was lost in the North Sea when that ship was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

BENNETT, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7936), 292894, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LEIGH-BENNETT, ARTHUR, D.S.O., M.C., Capt., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. surviving s. of the late Henry Currie Leigh-Bennett, of Thorpe Place, co. Surrey, M.P. for the Chertsey Division; b. Thorpe Place, 25 Nov. 1885; educ. at Winchester and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 28 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1907, and Tempy. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, being continued in the latter rank, 1 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Aug. 1914, to 3 Oct. 1915; was wounded in Nov., and again in May; was twice mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French (18 Feb. and 11 March, 1915); received the Military Cross for services at the Battle of the Aisne; was awarded the D.S.O. “for conspicuous gallantry, at Cuinchy, on 1 Feb. 1915. Leading his men with great ability against the enemy, he stopped their advance, and eventually captured their position,” and was killed on the morning of 3 Oct. 1915, when inspecting with his Colonel and other officers some trenches which the Coldstream Guards were taking over that night. Capt. Leigh-Bennett was a member of the Coldstream Guards polo team, and played both cricket and golf for the 2nd Battn. He was unm.

BENNETT, THOMAS HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12083, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENNETT, VICTOR ERNEST EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 18396, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENNETT, WILLIAM HENRY HESP, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1192), 194125, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BENNION, REGINALD WALLEY, Third Writer, M. 7687, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENSON, HUGH CECIL, Lieut., 9th Battn. The Rifle Brigade, elder s. of Cecil Benson, of 35, Bedford Square, W.C., by his wife, Constance, dau. of George Bernard O’Neill; b. at 16, Young Street, Kensington Square, W., 3 July, 1883; was educ. at Eton, and afterwards became an Architect. On the declaration of war he volunteered for Imperial Service, and was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, 30 Dec. 1914. He went to the Western Front with his regt., 20 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 22 June following; unm.

BENSON, JOHN PENRICE, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest s. of William Denman Benson, of 10, William Street, Knightsbridge, County Court Judge, LL.D., J.P., by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Penrice, D.L., and nephew of Lieut.-Col. R. E. Benson, who died of wounds, 27 Sept. 1914 (see following notice); b. Kilvrough, co. Glamorgan, 1 Oct. 1877; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Feb. 1898, and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 8 Oct. 1904; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz, and operations on Tugela Heights (wounded 23 Feb. 1900); operations in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laings Nek; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to 31 May, 1902, including those in the Orange River Colony in May, 1901 (Queen’s medal with five clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); afterwards going to India with his regt. He was Adjutant of his Battn., 10 Sept. 1902, to 31 May, 1905. and of Militia and Special Reserve Battn., 15 April, 1907, to Feb. 1913, when he went on half-pay. On the declaration of war, 4 Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined, was given his company, and went to France on 12 Aug. He proceeded with his regt. to La Cateau, and then to the defence of the Condé Canal, where he was shot through the lower part of the body by a machine gun on the 25th, and died in the Convent School at Boussu, Belgium, the following day, 26 Aug. 1914. He was buried in the Convent School grounds. He m. at St. Stephen’s, Gloucester Road, S.W., Laura Annette, 2nd dau. of Major-Gen. Francis Goring Rideout, and had issue a son and dau.: William Frank Montague, b. 7 Oct. 1907, and Jane Penrice, b. 2 Jan. 1915.

BENSON, RICHARD ERLE, Lieut-Col., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 4th s. of the late General Henry Roxby Benson, C.B., 17th Lancers (who served through the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Mary Henrietta (Fairy Hill, Reynoldston Gower, co. Glamorgan), dau. of the late Hon. Mr. Justice William Wightman; b. London, 4 Oct. 1862; educ. Eton, and for some time served with the East Surrey Militia. He was gazetted Lieut. to the East Yorkshires (the old 15th), 14 May, 1884, and was promoted Capt. 5 Aug. 1891; Major, 15 Aug. 1903; and Lieut.-Col. 15 Aug. 1911. From July, 1889–May, 1890, he was employed with the Bechuanaland Police Force, and in the South African War served as Adjutant to the 4th Battn. of the East Surreys in 1902. He took part in the operations in Cape Colony, April and May that year, and received the King’s medal. On the outbreak of the European war Col. Benson went to the Front with his regt. as part of the Expeditionary Force. The East Yorkshires reached the Aisne on 19 Sept. and the same afternoon were ordered to relieve the Sussex Regt. in trenches which were being continually shelled. The following day the .... Brigade was ordered to advance against the German positions. The attack was made against a terrific cross-fire of machine guns and shrapnel, as well as a storm of rifle bullet attacks. Col. Benson led the attack with the utmost gallantry, and had, as one of his men afterwards stated, got within 50 yards of the German trenches, when he was shot down. The fighting continued fiercely for nearly an hour, but in spite of the most determined attempts to come to grips with the enemy, the latter could not be dislodged, and the battn. had eventually to retire to its trenches. Col. Benson died of his wounds in St. Nazaire Base Hospital 27 Sept. 1914. His body was brought home and buried in the family vault at Reynoldston, Gower. He m. in London, 1905, Janet Florence, dau. of William Armour, and had three children: John, b. 1904; Marguerita and Mary. Two of his brothers saw service—Col. S. M. Benson, late 17th Lancers, and Major H. W. Benson, D.S.O., now (1916) commanding officer of the Swansea Battn. of the Welsh Regt.; and a nephew, Capt. John Penrice Benson (son of His Honour Judge Denman Benson), was killed in action, 26 Aug. 1914 (see his notice).

BENSON, THOMAS BROOKE, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers, 13th child and 7th and yst. s. of the Rev. Riou George Benson, Rector of Hope Bowdler, co. Salop, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Thomas Brooke, of Northgate House, Honley, co. York, and grandson of Moses George Benson, of Lutwyche Hall, co. Salop, J.P., D.L.; b. 28 July, 1884; educ. The Well House, Malvern Wells, Repton and Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 16 Aug. 1905. He retired from the Army in 1911 and went to Bogowantalawa, Ceylon, and started tea planting, but on the outbreak of war came home and rejoined his old regt. with the rank he was when he left it ... Oct. 1914. He was twice wounded, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle in the early morning of 12 March, 1915; unm.

BENSTEAD, CHARLES, Seaman, R.N.R., 4241A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BENSTEAD, EDWARD, Private, No. 6378, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., killed in action, 19 Nov. 1914.

BENT, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 43247) S.S. 423, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BENTLEY, CLARENCE LESLIE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn Manchester Regt., yst. s. of the late Alderman and Sheriff William Bentley, of Fulford Grange, York, J.P., Lord Mayor of York (1907), by his wife, Anne Mary (Fulford Grange, York), dau. of Ewen Cameron, of Fort William, Inverness; b. York, 8 Aug. 1894; educ. Mill Hill School, N.W., and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his commission in the Manchester Regt. 8 Aug. 1914 (his 20th birthday), and served with the 3rd Battn. on the Humber defences till early in Sept., when he took out a draft for the 2nd Battn. at the front. He was killed in action near Festubert, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried at La Quinque Rue; unm. Lieut. Bentley was a bright and talented youth, and was keen on sport, having won all his school colours. He entered Sandhurst as the 195th cadet, and made such good progress that on leaving after the usual course he passed 55th in the 1st Division, and also won his blue for hockey. While serving with the Expeditionary Force he saw a great deal of heavy fighting, and the Captain of his company, in speaking of him, said how much he felt his loss, as he was of such an exceptional and outstanding character. His brother, Lieut. Ronald Cameron Bentley, Green Howards (2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt.) joined the Expeditionary Force in 1915, and is still (1916) on active service. His eldest brother, Capt. W. W. Bentley, returned from Ceylon, where he held an appointment under Government, early in 1915. He rejoined the Heavy Artillery, in which he had a commission, and is now serving with the Expeditionary Force as Capt. and Adjutant.

BENTLEY, FREELAND MARTELL, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, s. of Capt. Thomas Kellor Bentley, of Port Greville, Nova Scotia, by his wife, Flora Agusta, dau. of Fraser Hatfield; b. Port Greville, 19 May, 1887; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, being given a commission as Lieut., 17th Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regt.), 22 Sept. 1914. He was transferred to the 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 18 June following. His brother, Capt. Lloyd Omen Bentley, served through the war with the Canadian Field Artillery.

BENTLEY, GEOFFREY MALCOLM, Capt., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 5th s. of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Hadley, Barnet, Herts., J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; b. London, 3 May, 1883; educ. Wellington College. He joined the Militia, and served in the South African War, 1900–1, took part in the operations in Cape Colony in 1901, and in the following year was sent for guard duty to St. Helena when the Boer prisoners were quartered there, receiving the Queen’s medal with two clasps. On 28 Jan. 1903 he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., served in India, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1904, and Capt. 7 May, 1910, when he joined the 1st Battn. at Aden. He was afterwards stationed at Devonport and Blackdown. On the outbreak of the European War he went to the front with the Expeditionary Force, and was shot through the head by a sniper in leaving a trench immediately after the Battle of Pilkem, 24 Oct. 1914. He died at Ypres 29 Oct. following without recovering consciousness, and was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Bentley was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 “for gallant and distinguished service in the field.” He m. at Bangor, co. Down, 21 Oct. 1908, Edith Marie, only surviving dau. of William Henry Gallway, of Sheila Von, Bangor, and left a dau., Maureen Sheila, b. 29 Aug. 1911.

BENTLEY, GERALD WILSON, Major, 4th Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., 3rd s. of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; b. at 16, Addison Road, Kensington, 1 Aug. 1879; educ. Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Middlesex Regt. from the Militia, 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1900, Capt. 12 Oct. 1901, and Major, 8 Oct. 1914. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the relief of Ladysmith, including the operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop, in which he was severely wounded, his rifle, struck by a shell, being broken and causing serious injuries to his head. He recovered and was present at the operations on the Tugela Heights (26 to 27 Feb. 1900), and the action at Pieters Hill, and was awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He became Superintendent of Gymnasia in the Northern Command, 23 April, 1912, and held this appointment till the outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. He was killed in action at Croix Barbée, 13 Oct. 1914. A noted boxer in the Service, he was in 1910 the heavyweight champion of the Army and Navy. A man of grand physique, those who fought with him in the ring knew of the power of that right punch of his; he was content to submit to punishment while waiting for the chance to score with it.

BENTLEY, KENNETH HADDON, Private, No. 3047, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of A. Bentley, of Lauriston, Leicester Road, New Barnet; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the London Scottish, 2 Sept 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc. and was killed in action, 12 June, 1915.

BENTZON, SYDNEY MALCOLM, Private, No. 411, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; killed in action there the following day.

BENYON, GODFREY BERKELEY JOHN, Lieut. Commander, R.N., yr. s. of Augustus William Benyon, of Ashe, Windsor, by his wife, Mary Beatrice, dau. of the late William Chambers, of Hafod, co. Cardigan, J.P., D.L.; b. 10 Sept. 1883; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, Surrey; joined the old Britannia as a naval cadet in May, 1898, became Sub-Lieut. 1903, Lieut. 1905, and Lieut.-Commander June, 1913. He saw foreign service in China and the Cape, and was also with Admiral Fisher in H.M.S. Renown. Being a first-class draughtsman, he specialised in the Navigating Department; was assistant surveyor in H.M.S. Mutine in Bermuda. After the outbreak of war, he was appointed to H.M.S. Good Hope on 17 Aug., and was lost when that ship went down with Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and his gallant crew in the action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A memorial window was erected to his memory in All Saints’ Church, Windsor. He m. at Marylebone Church, 1 Nov 1911, Beatrice Lindley, dau. of the late Henry Lindley White, and had issue a son and dau., John Lindley, b. 23 Dec. 1912, and Elizabeth Hope, b. at Bermuda on Christmas Day, 25 Dec. 1914, and christened on board the s.s. Transylvania in mid-Atlantic.

BÉRARD, CHARLES DELPHIS, Private, No. 23628, Cyclists Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Louis Amedée Bérard, of St. Mathias de Rouville, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Délia, dau. of Joachim Létourneau; b. St. Mathias, Rouville co., 9 July, 1892; joined the 85th Montreal Regt. in Aug. 1914; left Quebec with the first Canadian contingent, 30 Sept., and was accidentally killed in England, 2 Dec. 1915; unm.

PACK-BERESFORD, CHARLES GEORGE, Major, 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd s. of Denis William Pack-Beresford. J.P., D.L., of Fenagh House, Bagnalstown, co. Carlow, by his wife, Annette Caroline, only dau. of Robert Clayton Browne, of Browne’s Hill, co. Carlow; b. London, 21 Nov. 1869; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. the Queen’s Own, 20 Nov. 1889, became Lieut. 1 Feb. 1893, Capt. 18 Dec. 1899, and Major 21 March, 1908, being Adjutant 1897–1900, an instructor at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1903–6, and Major in command of 3rd Battn., Regimental Depôt, Maidstone, 1911–14; served with the Malakand and Buner field force on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the action at Landakai, the operations in the Mamund country and Buner, also during the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass (medal with clasps); in the South African War, 1899–1901, including the operations in the Orange Free State, Sept. 1900–July, 1901, and in Cape Colony in Aug. 1901, Sept. to Dec. 1901 (Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901];] Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Wasimes, near Mons, 24 Aug 1914; unm.

BERESFORD, WILLIAM, Private, No. 11113, Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Voorstraat, 17 Feb. 1915.

BERESFORD, WILLIAM, Private, No. 11787, 2nd Battn. Highland Light Infantry; killed in action, 17 May, 1915.

BERKELEY, MAURICE KENNETH FITZ-HARDINGE, Bombardier, 5th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, 1st Canadian Contingent, only s. of Maurice Julian Berkeley, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, British Guiana, by his wife, Mary Bruce, dau. of Alleyne Pilgrim Murray; b. Barbados, West Indies, 10 Dec. 1893; educ. Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and on leaving the latter joined the Merchant’s Bank of Canada at Montreal. On the outbreak of war he volunteered as a Gunner, came over with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded in action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne on 1 May; unm.

BERLEIN, CHARLES MAURICE, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Oxford and Buckingham L.I., eldest s. of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; b. Kimberley, South Africa, 4 May, 1888; educ. Charterhouse and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1910); was engaged in chemical research, and was in charge of a laboratory, but on the outbreak of war received a commission as temporary Lieut. in the Oxford and Buckingham L.I., 22 Aug. 1914, and fell in action near Hoogh, 16 June, 1915, leading his men through a heavy shrapnel fire, a few paces from the enemy’s trenches; unm.

BERLEIN, LESLIE HERMAN, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., yst. s. of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; b. Johannesburg, 30 June, 1893; educ. Charterhouse, Berkhamsted School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, but following the outbreak of war, was gazetted temporary Lieut. in the Berkshires, 19 Sept. 1914. His battn. was selected to lead the attack near Hulluch on 25 Sept. 1915. In the assault his company was leading, and Lieut. Berlein was the first out of the trenches. He was killed on the front of the enemy’s trenches, leading his platoon; unm.

BERNARD, ROBERT, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the Most Rev. John Henry Bernard. D.D., D.C.L., Lord Archbishop of Dublin, by his wife, Maud, 2nd dau. of the late Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., Dep. Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; b. Dublin, 20 Dec. 1891; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Marlborough College (where he was in the O.T.C.) and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Dublin Fusiliers, 13 March, 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Nov. 1913. He served in the 2nd Battn. at Gravesend, April to Aug. 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, serving with them at Ahmednagar and Madras to Nov. 1914, when the regt. returned home, afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles. Lieut. Bernard landed in one of the open boats on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, when many officers were killed and wounded. His Captain was wounded in the landing, so that he was left in command of his company for twenty-four hours, when they lay out under slight cover on “V.” beach. The next morning the Dublins and the Munsters were ordered to storm the village of Sedd-el-Bahr, which they successfully accomplished. Lieut. Bernard was killed when gallantly leading his men in a bayonet charge. Lieuts. Bernard and Andrews were together with about twenty men of the X and Y companies, and they took cover behind a wall five and a half feet high. They were being fired at from a house in the village. Andrews stood in a gap made by a shell and was directing the fire when he was killed. Lieut. Bernard then called on the others to follow him, and saying “Come on, boys,” he dashed through the gap, when he was shot dead by a Turkish rifleman. He and his brother officers were buried close to the beach in a large rectangular grave.

BERNHARDT, MARTIN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8682), S.S. 1933, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BERRIDGE, HARRY, Private, No. G. 1712, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 2 May, 1915.

BERRIDGE, JOHN FREDERICK HARRY, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12245, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BERRY, ALFRED, Private, No. 10405, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Ephraim Berry, of Clayton’s Farm, Mayfield, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; d. 1 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action.

BERRY, ALFRED EDWARD, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; d. 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action.

BERRY, ALFRED ROBERT, Private, No. 1819, H. Coy, 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., only child of Alfred Berry, of Leiston, co. Suffolk, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Cole Feree; b. Leiston, 30 Dec. 1896, joined the Army, 26 Jan. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, being shot through the body and head. His commanding officer spoke most highly of his conduct.

BERRY, EDWARD ALFRED, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, s. of Ernest Albert Berry, of 37, Euston Street, Euston Square, London, N.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Groves; b. Marylebone, 26 July, 1887; educ. Lancing Street School, Somers Town; enlisted in the 1st Battn., 23 Aug. 1906, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action, 3 June, 1915; unm. The Chaplain wrote that he “was brought into our Field Ambulance (No. 9) last night severely wounded in the head. He died this morning without having become conscious, and I have buried him with the Church Service in the graveyard outside the Asylum here at Ypres, and have marked his grave with a cross inscribed with his name, etc.”

BERRY, IRA SIDNEY, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 94), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BERRY, THOMAS, Gunner, No. 7455, Royal Field Artillery, 4th s. of James Donkin Berry, of Sunderland, Plater’s Helper, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Pratt, of Portsmouth; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 1 Jan. 1892; educ. Southwick Board School; was employed at Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 8 March, 1915, and died on active service at Tedworth Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915, of septic peritonitis; unm.

BERRY, THOMAS SIDNEY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7823), S.S. 103290, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BERRYMAN, JAMES, P.O. (N.S.), 189999, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BERRYMAN, SYDNEY, Private, No. G. 933, 7th (Service) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Philip Berryman, of Sunnymount Lodge, Haywards Heath, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 Aug. 1915.

BERTIE, NINIAN MARK KERR, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Regt.), 4th and yst. s. of Rev. the Hon. Alberic Edward Bertie, M.A., Rector of Gedling, Notts, by his wife, Lady Caroline Elizabeth, née McDonnell, eldest dau. of Mark, 5th Earl of Antrim, and grandson of Montagu, 6th Earl of Abingdon; b. Rutland Gate, London, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Evelyns and Winchester, and on the outbreak of war was admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was posted to the 60th Rifles, 23 Dec. 1914. He was attached to the 6th Reserve Regt. till March, when he joined the 4th Battn. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and was buried there. The commanding officer wrote: “I will not say more now than that I sympathise with you (and with my regiment) over the loss of one of the finest and most fearlessly capable lads I ever met. He was quite exceptional.”

BERTRAM, PHILLIP, Stoker, 1st Class, 363940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BEST, HERBERT, Acting Leading Stoker, 309591, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BETTIS, ALBERT, Private R.M.L.I., Ch. 14607, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BETTS, GORDON W. G., Private, 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late L.-Corpl. Thomas Henry Betts (who d. on active service, 20 June, 1915, see his notice), by his wife, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West, Montreal), dau. of (—) Armitage; b. 16 April, 1899; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined his father’s regt., and was accidentally shot, 27 Aug. 1914, while on guard duty at Soulanges Canal, the first Canadian to lose his life on active service in the European War.

BETTS, JOHN WILLIAM, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt.; b. Ketteringham, Norfolk, 4 Aug. 1887; and educ. there. He joined the Norfolk Regt. in Sept. 1905, and was posted to the 2nd Battn.; served in South Africa, Gibraltar and India. He obtained his discharge to the Reserve in Oct. 1912, and on returning to England joined the Lincolnshire County Constabulary, and was stationed at Ouston Ferry. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the 1st Battn. and proceeded to Ireland. He was promoted to Sergt., and went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the retreat from Mons, etc. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was afterwards promoted on the field for gallantry and obtained his commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Regt. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at L’Epinette, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while leading a charge. He m. at Birmingham, 6 Dec. 1913, Emma Elizabeth (53, Manchester Street, New Cleethorpe, Grimsby), dau. of (—) Read, of Ketteringham, and had issue a dau., Irene Elsie Maud, b. 17 Nov. 1914.

BETTS, THOMAS HENRY, L.-Corpl., No. 894, Canadian Army Service Corps, s. of Joseph Betts; b. Montreal, 26 Nov. 1870; educ. St. Anne’s School there; served for over 20 years with the 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, and on the death on service of his son, Private G. W. G. Betts, decided to volunteer for Imperial service, and joined the Canadian A.S.C. in April, 1915. He left for England 13 May following, and d. in Newingreen Camp, England, 20 June, 1915, of haemorrhage of the heart. He m. at St. Patrick’s Church, Montreal, 23 Aug. 1897, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West, Montreal), dau. of (—) Armitage, and had three children: Gordon W. J., b. 16 April, 1899, killed on service (see his notice); Helena E. J. and Armitage H. A., b. 10 Oct. 1904.

BEVAN, ERNEST VICTOR, Private, No. 744, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late James Frederick Bevan, of Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; b. Stanwell, co. Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1891; went to Australia in 1914 to take up farming, and volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915, being bayoneted in a Turkish attack on the trenches at Anzac; unm.

BEVAN, GORDON FREDERICK, Private, No. 16861, 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late James Frederick Bevan, of Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; b. Stanwell, co. Middlesex, 3 Aug. 1888; educ. Croydon High School; went to Canada in Sept. 1907; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 16 March, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm.

BEVAN, PERCY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4894), S.S. 104327, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BEVAN, REGINALD JAMES, Private, No. 1881, 26th Battn. 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of James Bevan, of Henalt Hay Road, Builth Wells, Brecon, a Carpenter on Lord Glanusk’s estate, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Thomas Wasley, of Bishop Cleeve, near Cheltenham; b. Builth Wells, 9 Sept. 1894; educ. Builth Wells School; at the age of 16 worked his passage out to Australia on s.s. Gothic; was employed at the Bull and Mouth Hotel in Melbourne, afterwards as a waiter in Sidney. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the 3rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action near Sari Bair, Anzac, Gallipoli, 24 Oct. 1915; unm. Buried in cemetery attached to 7th Field Ambulance, A Section.

BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, s. of Richard Bevan, of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc., Alderman of Hammersmith; b. Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where he gained the Huxley scholarship; was in the St. Paul’s O.T. Corps, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 1911. At the time he was called up with his regt., he was a medical student and Huxley Scholar at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and was an undergraduate of the London University. He was shot, while in “Plugstreet” Wood with his section, 10 Dec. 1914, and died two days later at Bailleul Clearing Hospital from his wounds; buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm. Bevan was in the Gymnasium eight at St. Paul’s and reserve man at the Aldershot Public School Competition. He played Rugby for the Old Pauline A team and for the Charing Cross Hospital Rugby team.

BEVERIDGE, DAVID, Private, No. 17241, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland Light Infantry, s. of M. Beveridge of 216, Mathieson Street, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

BEVERIDGE, DAVID ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 54th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 4th s. of Erskine Beveridge, LL.D., of St. Leonard’s Hill, Dunfermline, and Vallay, North Uist, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Owst, of Wilberfoss, co. York; b. Dunfermline, 4 Nov. 1886; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat; Loretto; and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1908); and when war broke out was studying for the Scottish Bar in Edinburgh. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 10 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 7 July, 1915, and died at St. Andrew’s Hospital, Malta, 13 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; buried at Valletta; unm. He was a keen Rugby footballer, playing for his schools and college. Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his brother-in-law, Lieut. Alexander B. Innes, 1/7th Gordon Highlanders, and two uncles, Capt. and Adjutant David Inglis, 1/4th Gurkha Rifles, and Lieut. Charles N. D. Inglis, 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, were killed in action.

BEVERIDGE, JOHN, Private, No. 14555, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 14 Sept. 1915.

BEVERIDGE, ROBERT McAUSLAN, Private, No. 401, 1st Battn. Black Watch (42nd Royal Highlanders), s. of Alexander Beveridge, of Perth, Builder and Valuer (died 4 Jan. 1914); b. Cherrybank, Perth, 7 Jan. 1887; educ. Public School there, enlisted 30 Oct. 1905, stationed Fort George 1905–6, and in India 1906–Dec. 1912, being in charge of Regimental Police 1909–12; formed one of their Majesties’ Bodyguard on the occasion of the Durbar, 1911, and received the King’s medal. On the outbreak of war he was called up 6 Aug. and was badly wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in No. 3 General Hospital, St. Nazaire, 28 Sept. 1914; buried there; unm.

BEVERLEY, ARTHUR, Private, No. 14024, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., 2nd s. of Bethel Beverley, of 54, Savile Park Street, Halifax, Professor of Music, by his wife, Sarah Isabel; b. Halifax, 4 Dec 1893; educ. Halifax Secondary School; left his work as an electrical engineer and volunteered after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914, and was at first attached to the 3rd Battn. of the West Riding Regt. After seven months’ training he went to France with a draft to the 2nd Battn. He was only there three weeks when he died 5 May, 1915, from the effects of gas poisoning at Hill 60, and was buried on the Ypres and Poperingue Road; unm.

BEVIS, EDWARD ALBERT FRANK, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26776 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BEVIS, WILLIAM, Private, No. 10259, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 16 March, 1915.

BEYFUS, HAROLD EMANUEL, Private, No. 225, 5th Battn. (Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., yr. s. of Albert Lewis Beyfus, of 3, Park Place Villas, Maida Hill, W., Precious Stone Merchant and Broker, by his wife, Essie, dau. of Benjamin de Frece, of New York, U.S.A.; b. Maida Hill, W., 26 April, 1886; educ. Gower St. University School, and Kahn’s Institute, Brussels; joined the London Rifle Brigade after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was wounded in the head, in action at Hill 60, 1 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne two days later; unm.

BEZER, REUBEN, Private, No. 3387, A. Coy., 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.); a native of Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne; left Blyth for the Front, 20 April, 1915, was in action on 26 April, and was posted as missing the following day.

BIBB, GEORGE FREDERICK, Armourer, 342183, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BIBBY, JOHN PATRICK, Lieut. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of Col. Alfred Bibby, late 4th Hussars; b. 9 Nov. 1892; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Dec. 1913, and promoted tempy. Lieut., 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action there 10 March, 1915; unm.

BICKERTON, FREDERICK RICHARD, Sergt., No. 1110, A Coy. 1st/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Samuel Richard Bickerton, of 58, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N., Builder’s Clerk, by his wife, Fanny Cinclar, dau. of John Spiller Standen, late of 60, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N.; b. 22 Sept. 1893; educ. Montem Street Elementary and Higher Grade Schools (passed Oxford Local Junior Exam. 1908, with 3rd class honours); was a shipping clerk in the City of London, and joined the 3rd City of London Regt. in 1911. On the outbreak of war he was sent to guard the railway line near Fleet, Hants, and from thence to Malta for four months, reaching France in Jan. 1915. He went through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle where his Coy. were badly cut up, was promoted Sergt. in March, 1915, and was afterwards slightly wounded but recovered and rejoined. He died at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station 18 Aug. 1915, from wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, and was buried in Merville Cemetery, France (Grave H. 46); unm. His Commanding Officer, Capt. Noel, wrote: “I can honestly say that he was a fine soldier. I especially owe him a debt of gratitude, because if it had not been for him, I should probably not be alive now. I was rather badly wounded at Neuve Chapelle, and your son bandaged me up under heavy fire; he then practically carried me and put me in a shell hole, and later in the day came back to me when my life was in danger from shells, and helped to carry me back to our lines. I mentioned his name to the Colonel directly I was able to write, and he would surely have earned some decoration if he had lived, because both in the trenches and at Neuve Chapelle he showed great bravery and indifference under fire. He was popular all round and regretted by everyone, and I am proud to say he was in my company.”

BIDDLECOMBE, EDWARD GEORGE, Sergt., R.M.A., 8781, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BIGGE, HON. JOHN NEVILLE, Capt., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. and h. of Arthur John, 1st Lord Stamfordham, P.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., Private Secretary to his Majesty the King, by his wife, Constance, dau. of the late Rev. William Frederick Neville, Vicar of Butleigh, Somerset; b. London, 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Evelyn’s, Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was Page of Honour to Queen Victoria and to King Edward VII., and on leaving Sandhurst obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, at Colchester, 6 Oct. 1906, afterwards proceeding with them to India. He became Lieut. 10 March, 1909, was for a short time acting A.D.C. to the Earl of Minto when Viceroy of India, and to Viscount Hardinge for the Coronation Durbar; was transferred to the Egyptian Army, 8 July, 1913, and appointed A.D.C. to Sir Reginald Wingate, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. On the outbreak of war he was unable, according to the conditions of service, to leave the Egyptian Army, but in Sept. 1914, he was appointed A.D.C. to Gen. the Hon. Julian Byng, then nominated to the command of the 3rd Cavalry Division of the Expeditionary Force. He landed at Ostend on 7 Oct., was promoted Capt. 1 March, and remained on Gen. Byng’s Staff until the end of April, 1915, when at his own request he returned to regimental duty and joined the 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, then attached to the 6th Brigade, 2nd Division. On the occasion of the night attack carried out by the 1st Army on 15–16 May, he was in command of the C Company. Soon after the advance began he was seen to be wounded in the leg, but refused assistance from one of his men, said he was all right, and told the rifleman to go on. He was never seen again.

BIGGS, GEORGE EDWARD, Private, No. 26058, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of the late Edward Biggs, of Rainham, Essex, by his wife, Eliza; b. Dagenham, co. Essex, 27 Jan. 1885; educ. Rainham; emigrated to Canada in 1910, and settled in Toronto. He enlisted immediately on the outbreak of the war in Aug. 1914, came over with the first Canadian Contingent, and after training during the winter on Salisbury Plain, left for France, 3 April, 1915. He was eighteen days in the trenches during the Battle of Hill 60, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 20 May, 1915, while acting as bomb thrower, and was buried near Festubert. He m. at Rainham, 17 Aug. 1907, Daisy Constance (Anglo Cottages, Purfleet, Essex), 2nd dau. of Frederick Allen; s.p.

BILLING, CHARLES GEORGE, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., Chatham, attached to Deal Division, eldest s. of the late Rev. George Billing, M.A., sometime (1871–88) missionary under the S.P.G. at Ramnad, Madras and Calcutta, afterwards vicar of Sturry and Platt, by his wife, Caroline Flora (28 Bromley College, Bromley), dau. of the Rev. Joseph Gabbett, co. Limerick, Ireland; b. Ramnad, Madura District, Madras, 15 May, 1882; educ. King’s School, Canterbury, Dover College and Greenwich. He received his commission in the Royal Marines, 1 Jan. 1901, and was promoted Lieut., 1 Jan. 1902, and Capt., 1 Jan. 1912. Served on the China Station, 1903, West Indies, 1906, the Mediterranean, 1908, the Pacific, 1912, etc., and received pilot’s certificate in Flying Corps, Oct. 1913. He was appointed to the H.M.S. Doris, 1914, and was stationed near Ascension Island till April, 1915, when he came home. He left Plymouth for the Dardanelles, 10 May, 1915, and was killed in action, 13 June following; unm.

BILLING, SAMUEL ALFRED, No. 2449, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Timothy Billing, of 22, Ribblesvale Road, Hornsey, Inspector, Finsbury Borough Council; b. London, 16 Feb. 1896; educ. Stationers’ School, Crouch End, was an articled clerk to the Borough Accountant of Hornsey, but on the outbreak of war enlisted, 27 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Houplines, near Armentières, France, 27 Feb. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “His grave is here ... a mile from the firing line, a simple white cross with the simplest inscription, and the plaque bearing the regimental arms and the grand old Latin phrase, ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patriâ mori.’”

BILLINGTON, LESLIE CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attached 2nd, Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only s. of Charles Billington, of Heimath, Longport, co. Stafford, Metallurgist, by his wife, Annie Jane, dau. of George Richard Cockhead; b. Wolstanton, co. Stafford, 25 Dec. 1895; educ. Bishop’s Stortford College, and entered Manchester University as an engineering student in Oct. 1913. He was in camp with the University O.T.C. at the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers, 14 Oct. 1914. On going to the Front he was attached to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action during the taking of German trenches at Pilken, near Ypres, 6–9 July, 1915; unm. Writing on Aug. 1, Major Bowes said: “I have been making enquiries from the N.C.Os. and men of his platoon, and from what I can gather he was leading a party of men up to the German trenches during the violent attack which lasted from July 6 to the 9th. His party was told off as bomb throwers. He fell on the parapet of the trenches and nothing was recovered from his body. One thing I can say and that is, he showed the greatest courage, and never flinched when he was told off for the dangerous job. It was a most ghastly time for us all, and during those three days and four nights we lost ten officers killed and eight wounded, including the Commanding Officer and Adjutant, and all the captains except one, and eighty-five men killed and 234 wounded and missing. The place where this fight took place is called Pilken, about three miles N. of Ypres. It was brought about this way. One of the German trenches was in such a position as to enfilade the front trench occupied by the Rifle Brigade. This regt. with the Somersets were told off to take this trench, which they did on the morning of 6 July. My battn. relieved these two regts. on the 6th (midnight) and occupied the captured German trench. We had orders to hold the trench at all costs. The Germans counter attacked on the morning of the 7th with heavy artillery and bomb throwers, but in spite of heavy odds against us we held that trench for three whole days, until we were relieved at midnight on the 9th by another brigade. The regt. covered itself with honour in those three days, and it was due to such fine young fellows as your boy that we were able to hold our own”; and a few days later Corpl. Brereton wrote: “We were holding some trenches captured from the Germans, and our platoon, which was ably commanded by your son, were in support to the firing line. We were subjected to a very heavy shell fire, and early on your son inspired confidence in his men by the way he assisted in digging several of our men out who had been buried with debris, thereby saving, I know, two men’s lives from suffocation, for which we all admired him. It is the most nerve-trying time you can get, to be under heavy shell fire, especially fresh out from England, but your son seemed to overcome it straight away, and turned out a brick, as it were. On the afternoon of the 7th we were ordered to reinforce the front line, and when we arrived there learned that our bomb throwers had retired from the advanced saphead temporarily, being short of bombs. The Germans had occupied it, so your son was ordered by Capt. Blencowe, who was in command (the Col. and several of our senior officers having got wounded), to retake the trench. I was the corpl. in charge of the section he selected to go with him. He led us up fearlessly, he himself yards in front of any of his men, and I saw him get up to the parapet and empty his revolver, then jump in the trench, and after the trench was retaken, he was most unfortunately hit with a shell, dying a brave soldier’s death, staunch and fearless to the end. His platoon greatly feel the loss of so gallant an officer, and offer you their most sincere sympathy in your sad loss.”

BILNEY, EDWIN ARTHUR, Private, No. 2975, 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of A. Bilney, of Brandeston, Suffolk; was a Gardener; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in the Clearing Hospital, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received in action, aged 22.

BILTON, JOSEPH, Private, No. 6030, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Septimus Bilton, of 73, Arundel Street, Holderness Road, Hull, formerly of the N.E.R. Coy., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Samuel Seague, Naval Pensioner; b. Hull, 1 Nov. 1887; educ. Fish Street Council School there; enlisted in 1903 and served for eleven years, then became Labour Master at the York Workhouse and held this position when called up on the outbreak of war; killed in action at Soupir, 16 Sept. 1914; unm. His brother, Septimus, enlisted after the outbreak of war and is now (1916) on active service.

BINDLEY, HORACE, Private, No. 15594, 1st Battn. The Middlessex Regt., s. of William Bindley, of 104, Ber Street, Norwich; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 1 Sept. 1915.

BINGHAM, CHARLES HENRY, Private, No. 9057, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Henry Bingham of 1, Park Road, Beaver, near Ashford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 14 Feb. 1915.

BINGHAM, CHARLES JEFFREY SLADE, Private, No. 20745, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Richard Charles William Bingham, of Bingham’s Melcombe, co. Dorset, J.P., Lieut.-Col., Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Georgina (28a, Barons Court Road, West Kensington), dau. of William Stuckey Wood, of Charlton Musgrove, Wincanton, late Capt. 7th Dragoon Guards, and grandson of Col. Charles Bingham, Royal Artillery Dep. Adj.-Gen.; b. Bingham’s Melcombe, co. Dorset, 12 Dec. 1893, and was educ. at Clifton College, from which he went to Canada in 1910, and at the outbreak of the war joined the 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force. While in camp at Valcartier he contracted cerebro-spinal meningitis and was landed at Plymouth on 15 Oct. 1914, in a very serious condition, and taken to the 4th Southern Military Hospital, where he died on 6 Jan. 1915; unm. Four of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, Richard Charles Otho with the Ceylon Engineers in Ceylon; John Richard, 2nd Lieut., R.F.C., late H.A.C.; Humphrey Richard, Lieut., R.F.A. (awarded the Military Cross, in Jan. 1915); and William Philip, 2nd Lieut., R.F.C., all with the Expeditionary Force in France.

BINGHAM, FRANK MILLER, Capt., 5th K.O.R. Lancaster Regt., 2nd s. of the late John Joseph Bingham, M.D., by his wife, Kate Laura, dau. of John Yardley Robinson; b. Alfreton, co. Derby, 17 Sept. 1874; educ. St. Peter’s, York, and obtained medical degree of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. He joined the Territorials in 1909, being gazetted Lieut. 26 Nov. 1910, and was promoted Capt. 2 May, 1914. He took part in the fighting round Ypres in the early part of May, and had three days furlough to visit his wife and children, and was killed the day after returning to the Front while on reconnoitring work near Ypres, 22 May, 1915. He was buried in Sanctuary Wood. Capt. Bingham was a well-known practitioner in Lancaster, and formerly played cricket for Derbyshire County and Rugby football for Blackheath. He m. at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 12 Dec. 1900, Ruth Morley (Lindow Cottage, Lancaster), dau. of Alfred Evans Fletcher, late Chief Inspector of Albrali Works, and had three children: Thomas Fletcher, b. 8 July, 1902; Joan Fletcher, b. 15 July, 1905; and Jill Fletcher, b. 22 April, 1911.

BINGLEY, JOHN WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9100), S.S. 105260, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 11 Sept. 1914.

BINSTEED, GERALD CHARLES, Major, 2nd Battn. “Pompadours” Essex Regt., only s. of the late Major Charles Henry Frederick Binsteed, 52nd Oxfordshire L.I. and 1st Madras Lancers, by his wife, Consuelo (Hanover Court, Hanover Square, W.), dau. of Gerald de Wilton, Surgeon-Major, Indian Medical Service; b. Cairo, 7 Aug. 1885; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Essex Regt., 20 May, 1905, promoted Lieut., 6 March, 1910, and Capt., 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Mounted Infantry at Longmoor and Malta, and was Scouting Intelligence Officer at the Curragh. In May, 1914, he was appointed for Special Employment at the War Office, but after the outbreak of war, went to the Front with his Regt., was gazetted Major 18 March, and was killed in action at Le Gheer, 8 April, 1915; unm. Capt. Binsteed greatly distinguished himself by his gallantry in the field, and was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 4 and 10 Dec. 1914], and was one of the first officers to receive the Military Cross [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1915]. At Wellington he represented his school at Bisley and was winner of the mile race, and at Sandhurst took the Sword of Honour and passed out first. He also won the Subalterns’ half mile at Malta and the Officers’ mile race in the All Ireland Military Athletic Meeting at the Curragh. Capt. Binsteed was an able linguist, and passed as an interpreter in French, Russian and Chinese, and was a member of the Geographical Society, China Society, and Asiatic Society, and a contributor to the China Year Book, “The Far Eastern Review,” etc.

BIRCH, ARTHUR, Leading Stoker, K. 9930, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BIRCH, ARTHUR EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7353, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BIRCH, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1166), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BIRCH, WILLIAM ELRIC HAWTHORNE, 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 2nd s. of Richard Birch, of London Bank Chambers, Newcastle, New South Wales; b. Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia, 29 March, 1886; educ. Geelong, Australia; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, 31 July, 1915. He had previously held a commission in the Australian Imperial Forces, and his commanding officer wrote: “He is a very great loss to the battn., as his knowledge of sketching and surveying were invaluable. He was always cheery and brave, and was an excellent leader of men.” Lieut. Birch m. at Aldershot, 1 May, 1915, Mabel (35, Braidwood Road, Catford, S.E.), 3rd dau. of John Lewis, of Catford, S.E.; s.p.

BIRCHALL, ARTHUR PERCIVAL DEARMAN, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 4th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, and Capt. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late J.... Dearman Birchall, of Bowden Hall, co. Gloucester, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Towitt, of Harehills, Leeds; b. Bowden Hall, 7 March, 1877, and was educ. at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He obtained a University Commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), 23 May, 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 11 April, 1902, Capt. 1 Oct. 1908, Major, and Lieut.-Col. 22 Sept. 1914. From 25 March, 1904, to 24 March, 1907, he was Adjutant of the Royal Fusiliers, and on 15 April, 1910, was seconded for service with the Royal Canadian Regiment, and later he was on the Instructional Staff, Western Canada. In Aug. 1914, he was invalided home from Canada, but recovered sufficiently to rejoin the 1st Canadian Contingent in Nov., and acted as Staff Capt. to the 1st Brigade. Always popular and a keen and most efficient officer he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 4th Canadians in February, and was killed in action in the attack on the Pilkem Ridge, near Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm. Speaking of this action F.M. Sir John French said: “The Canadians had many casualties, but their gallantry and determination undoubtedly saved the situation. Their conduct has been magnificent throughout”; and the Official Report from the Canadian Record Officer at the Front was as follows: “The fighting continued without intermission all through the night, and to those who observed the indications that the attack was being pushed with ever-growing strength, it hardly seemed possible that the Canadians, fighting in positions so difficult to defend, and so little the subject of deliberate choice, could maintain their resistance for any long period. At 6 a.m. on Friday (April 23) it became apparent that the left was becoming more and more involved, and a powerful German attempt to outflank it developed rapidly. The consequences, if it had been broken or outflanked, need not be insisted upon. They were not merely local. It was therefore decided, formidable as the attempt undoubtedly was, to try and give relief by a counter-attack upon the first line of German trenches, now far, far advanced from those originally occupied by the French. This was carried out by the Ontario 1st and 4th Battns. of the 1st Brigade, under Brig.-Gen. Mercer, acting in combination with a British brigade. It is safe to say that the youngest private in the ranks, as he set his teeth for the advance, knew the task in front of him, and the youngest subaltern knew that all rested upon its success. It did not seem that any human being could live in the shower of shot and shell which began to play upon the advancing troops. They suffered terrible casualties. For a short time every other man seemed to fall, but the attack was pressed ever closer and closer. The 4th Canadian Battn. at one moment came under a particularly withering fire. For a moment—not more—it wavered. Its most gallant commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. Birchall, carrying, after an old fashion, a light cane, coolly and cheerfully rallied his men, and, at the very moment when his example had infected them, fell dead at the head of his battn. With a hoarse cry of anger they sprang forward (for, indeed, they loved him) as if to avenge his death. The astonishing attack which followed, pushed home in direct frontal fire made in broad daylight, by battns. whose names should live for ever in the memories of soldiers, was carried to the first line of German trenches. After a hand-to-hand struggle the last German who resisted was bayoneted, and the trench was won. The measure of this success may be taken when it is pointed out that this trench represented in the German advance the apex in the breach which the enemy had made in the original line of the Allies, and that it was 2½ miles south of that line. This charge, made by men who looked death indifferently in the face—for no man who took part in it could think that he was likely to live—saved, and that was much, the Canadian left. But it did more. Up to the point where the assailants conquered or died, it secured and maintained during the most critical moment of all the integrity of the Allied line. For the trench was not only taken, it was held thereafter against all comers, and in the teeth of every conceivable projectile, until the night of Sunday, the 25th, when all that remained of the war-broken, but victorious battns. was relieved by fresh troops.” Major R. Hayter, Brigade-Major, 1st Canadian Brigade wrote: “Your brother, Percy, fell on the 23rd, leading his battn. in the first Canadian counter-attack on the 23rd made by the French, British, and 1st and 4th Canadian battns., just east of the Ypres Canal. His battn. lost all its officers but four, and some 560 casualties other ranks, but they never wavered and got into the enemy’s line, saved the day, and prevented the enemy’s advance south along the east bank of the canal. We are still being desperately engaged, and I cannot write much, but I am sure you will be glad to hear that he has been recommended for the Victoria Cross. He was wounded, had his wound dressed, was wounded again, yet would go on, and fell, leading the charge which took the trenches.... I had a written message from him timed 4.20 p.m. acknowledging an order, and I hope some day to be able to give it to you. His loss has been the greatest blow the contingent could have had. Loved by all, and worshipped by his officers and men, we feel that it was his personal magnetism alone which kept his regt. together, and enabled them to hold what they had gained. All our deepest sympathies are with you and your family, but his end could not have been more glorious”; and the following tribute from an old friend appeared in “The Times” (29 April, 1915): “The claim to have been the most popular officer in the Army is a large one, and may be advanced in the name of many a candidate. But it is probable that all who in any true sense had made Birchall’s acquaintance will claim that no officer could have been more deeply, and probably none more widely, beloved and admired. At Eton, at Magdalen, and for fifteen years in the Army, he was for ever winning to himself friends by the simple but irresistible charm of his nature—by his manliness and sportsmanship, his humour and high spirits, his enthusiasm for his profession as in general for the better things of life. Joining the newly-formed 4th Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers during the South African War, as a university candidate, he became closely identified with its fortunes for some ten years; and he was largely responsible for raising it to the high level of the older battns. of that famous regt. Beloved alike by his brother officers and men, he was equally prominent as a leader in soldiering and in sport: in the field of manœuvre as in the football, the hockey, the hunting, but especially the cricket field he always played a fine sporting game. After ably fulfilling the second adjutancy of his battn., he received the singular distinction of being selected—one of two officers from the whole Army—to be attached to the Canadian Forces, according to a scheme for the mutual benefit of both services. In Canada, he inevitably won through to the same affectionate and admiring popularity as at home. His period of appointment was extended, he was appointed to the Staff, and was given an almost transcontinental district of supervision. The characteristic energy which he threw into this work in the unaccustomed climate caused a temporary breakdown in his health, and bitter was his grief, on returning to England, shortly before the outbreak of war, to find himself entirely forbidden on medical grounds to take for the present the share in active service for which he had keenly prepared and eminently fitted himself. To such advantage, however, did he make use of his time, even of sickness, that, in the intervals of being visited by a constant stream of devoted friends from two continents, he compiled the admirable little manual for the use of regimental officers in the present emergency training, which he entitled “Rapid Training of a Company for War” (Gale & Polden, Aldershot). This book rapidly attained a wide success, and was brought up to date in a second (and subsequent) edition, just as he himself, recently promoted Major, was appointed first a staff Captain in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and in immediate succession given command of the 4th Canadian Infantry a few days before it sailed for the front.” Col. Birchall resided at Saintbridge House, Gloucester. His brother, Capt. J. Dearman Birchall is (1916) serving with the Royal Gloucestershire’s Hussars Yeomanry.

BIRD, CUTHBERT, Private, No. 588, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 1 May, 1915.

BIRD, EDWARD, Private, No. 11984, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Bird, of 14, Albert Terrace, Stafford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was reported missing 25 Jan., 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

BIRD, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9529). S.S. 106902, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BIRD, FRANCIS CLIFFORD, 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., elder s. of Francis Bird of Cotswold, Winchcombe, co. Gloucester, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Joseph Tibbits, of Warwick; b. Cotswold, Winchcombe, 21 June 1895; educ. King William’s College, Isle of Man, and Cheltenham College, where he was a member of the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 15 Aug. 1914, went to the Front in Jan. and was killed in action near St. Eloi, 2 March, 1915. He was buried at Voorezelle; unm.

BIRD, FRANK EDWARD, Corpl., No. 476, C Squadron Essex Yeomanry, eldest s. of Frederick Bird, of Thorley, Herts, by his wife, Fanny Alberta, dau. of George, Fowler; b. Thorley, 25 March, 1893; educ. Hockerill Boys’ Practising Schools; joined Essex Yeomanry as a Trumpeter in Nov. 1909, and having completed his four years’ service, rejoined for a further period. He was killed in action, near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches for bravery and coolness under fire, and Capt. R. G. Proby, commanding the Stortford Troop, writing to his father, said: “He took part with the rest of the Stortford Troop in a very gallant attack on the German lines. The attack succeeded, but unfortunately our losses were heavy—he is among the number. I need hardly say how sorry I am to have to tell you this news. His death will be very greatly felt by the whole squadron, and especially by his friends in the Stortford Troop, with whom he was very popular. It will be some consolation to you to know how bravely he fell.”

BIRD, STEPHEN CARMEN, Private, No. 67193, B Coy., 25th Battn., 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Stephen Bird, Lieut. 93rd Battn. (died 9 Dec. 1895), by his wife, Augusta (Amherst, Nova Scotia), dau. of William Bird; b. Mapleton, Nova Scotia, posthumous, 24 April, 1896; educ. Amherst High School; was employed in the Offices of Canada Car Co., Amherst; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 9 Nov. 1914; came over with the 2nd Contingent, 29 May, 1915; went to France, 15 Sept. and was killed in action there, 8 Oct. 1915, by the explosion of a mine; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was a friend at all times and under all circumstances, no one need wish a better friend, we all loved him and we all mourn his loss.” And another: “He had splendid courage, and when urged to fall back a little further a few minutes before the explosion occurred his reply was ‘I am staying right here.’” Private Bird was a keen athlete and a base-ball player.

BIRD, WILFRED STANLEY, M.A. Oxon, Lieut., 6th (Reserve), attached 2nd, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, s. of the Rev. Henry George Bird, M.A., Rector of Newdigate, co. Surrey, by his wife, Henrietta Maria, dau. of William Greenham, of Hendford House, near Yeovil, J.P.; b. Yiewsley Vicarage, co. Middlesex, 28 Sept. 1883. He commenced his education at the Grange (Preparatory) School, Eastbourne, where he captained the cricket and football teams, and was an immense favourite with the masters and boys alike. He later proceeded to Malvern and entered the College at the time Canon Sidney James came to be Headmaster. There he represented his College in cricket, fives and football. His company also won the College Cup for military drill. In 1902 he was entered at New College, Oxford, and his early promise of being a leading sportsman was fully realised. He represented Oxford in cricket on three successive seasons, and was Captain of the Oxford side in 1906. He was a member of the Middlesex Team, though circumstances prevented him from playing in more than two or three matches during the season. He played for the Gentlemen against the Players, and was asked to represent England in South Africa and Australia. He was an extremely careful and good batsman, but specially excelled as a wicket keeper, and one of the best known captains in England said: “He is the best wicket keeper I ever saw.” After leaving Oxford, where he won for himself many friends, he became a master at Ludgrove. It was here that he spent the last eight years of his life. His record there is a fulfilment of the promise of his early days at Eastbourne and Malvern, and his keenness on everything to do with Ludgrove, and his willingness to put himself out for others, endeared him to masters and boys alike. He was immensely happy there and it was a terrific struggle to answer the call, but he never failed to recognise his duty. A member of the O.T.C., he was gazetted Lieut. to the 6th Battn. of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 29 Dec. 1914, and was afterwards attached to the 2nd Battn. at the Front. He was killed, 9 May, 1915, while gallantly leading his platoon near Richebourg St. Vaast; unm. His Major wrote of him: “Bird was gallantly leading his men when he was shot, and died instantly.” He adds: “Bird was a splendid fellow, and a very promising officer and very popular with officers and men alike. I am more than sorry to lose him.”

BIRRELL, GEORGE HENRY GORDON, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Dumbartonshire) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of Col. John Birrell, of Allander House, Milngavie, co. Dumbarton, late 9th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Army Service Corps (Highland Division), by his wife, Grace Marguerite, dau. of George William Masson Buish, of Salto, B.O.; b. Milngavie afsd., 2 Feb. 1893; educ. Loretto, gazetted to his father’s old regt., 3 Nov. 1914, and joined at the Front in Feb. 1915. On 10 May, 1915, during the second Battle of Ypres, the Battn., which formed part of the .. Brigade, received orders to take and hold a line of trenches near Hooge; this they did, but at considerable loss. Lieut. Birrell was killed during the advance, while gallantly leading his platoon under heavy shell fire. He was unm., and was buried in Zouave Wood, near Hooge.

BIRRELL, KENNETH, Private, No. 11106, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), only s. of W. Birrell, by his wife, Alsie (10, Merchant Street, Edinburgh), dau. of (—) Reid; b. Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 15 Jan. 1895; educ. Glen Street Roman Catholic School there; enlisted 2 April, 1912, and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, 26 Aug. 1914; unm.

BISHOP, ALBERT EDWARD, Signal Boy, J. 24353, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BISHOP, CHARLES HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3816), 187061, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BISHOP, EDWIN MAURICE, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., attached King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., elder s. of Edwin Bishop, of Gosport and Swanwick, Sugar Merchant, by his wife, Janette (The Lawns, Swanwick, near Southampton), dau. of the late Knowles Richardson, of Littlehampton and Portsmouth; b. Gosport, 19 June, 1891; educ. Bradfield College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., 21 June, 1912, and promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1913. On the outbreak of the European War, he left for the Front, 8 Sept. 1914, being attached to King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was killed in action at Illies, France, 18 Oct. 1914; unm. His Capt. wrote: “We started attacking yesterday morning at 6.20 a.m., and your son was leading his platoon with the firing line. I heard about mid-day that he had been killed; he was found by one of the other subalterns, and there is no doubt that he was killed instantaneously. We had all got very fond of him in D. Coy. We all feel his loss very deeply. Poor fellow! this was his ‘Baptism of Fire’; he was leading his platoon most gallantly when he was shot”; and Sergt. Beeching: “We started the attack and advanced under a very heavy fire from the enemy till we gained a ridge where we all laid down. Mr. Bishop then rose up on his hands and knees and was in the act of passing a message along the line when he was hit; the bullet had entered his forehead and had come out at the base of his skull”; and Sergt. Spooner spoke of him as: “One who during his short stay with us had won the greatest admiration and respect from his men.” His yr. brother, Private G. S. Bishop, A.S.C., died on active service, 10 April, 1915 (see his notice).

BISHOP, FREDERICK HENRY, Leading Seaman, 229715, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BISHOP, GEORGE SPENCER, Private, No. 31591, 178 Coy Army Service Corps (Motor Transport), yr. and only surviving s. of Edwin Bishop, of Gosport and Swanwick, etc. (see previous notice); b. Swanwick, 17 Oct. 1892; educ. Bradfield College; learned motor engineering at Adams’ Engineering Works, Bedford; enlisted in the Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) in Dec. 1914, trained at Grove Park Barracks and afterwards at Reading, where he died of cerebro-spinal meningitis, after a week’s illness, 10 April, 1915. He was brought home and buried in Sarisbury Churchyard. A brass tablet to his memory was put up in the church by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of his company. The Major stated that “He was a very smart soldier and much liked by all his Company.”

BISHOP, JAMES, A.B., 229797, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BISHOP, WILLIAM, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 10705), 300546, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BISS, FREDERICK ERNEST, Private, No. 2733, 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Frederick Biss, of 25, Werley Avenue, Dawes Road, Fulham, S.W., by his wife, Emma, dau. of Ernest Roylance; b. Shoreditch, 13 May, 1896; educ. Fulham Palace Road Board School; was a Labourer; joined the Territorials about 1911; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action in a trench at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried at Wye Farm, near Loos, with others of his comrades.

BITTEN, FREDERICK, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4948, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BLACK, CUTHBERT THOMAS, A.B., 224922, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BLACK, FRANK HENRY, Capt., 4th. attached 1st. Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of Francis Black, of Fairview, Great North Road, Finchley, R.B.A., A.R.C.A., Hon. Sec. of the Royal Society of British Artists, late Principal of the L.C.C. Camden School of Art, etc., by his wife, Annie Beatrice, dau. of the late John Smith, of the firm of John Smith, Ltd., 131, London Wall, and grandson of the late Horatio Black, of Nottingham; b. London, 1 Dec. 1887; educ. City of London School, and in Paris; joined the Artists’ Rifles as private in 1907, afterwards accepting a commission (20 Jan. 1912) which he resigned in June, 1914, owing to business pressure. On the outbreak of the war he volunteered, and there being no vacancy in his old Coy (A) of the Artists he accepted a commission in the 4th Battn. of the Royal Warwickshire Regt., 18 Aug. 1914. He was afterwards attached to the 1st Battn., being sent to it in France in Sept. After some weeks at the base, St. Nazaire, they went up to the firing line in Flanders, arriving on 26 Oct. He spent the whole winter in the trenches. He was promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914, and Capt 1 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres; unm. His commanding officer, Col. A. J. Poole, wrote: “He was killed on 25 April gallantly leading his men against the German trenches. He was the greatest favourite with us all, and all our sympathy goes out to you in your sad bereavement. Personally, I feel I have lost a great friend, and one that I shall never be able to replace as one of my officers. Unfortunately, we have been unable to recover his body at present, but will make every endeavour to do so”; and Private H. Roberts, writing from hospital, said: “On Sunday, 25 April, about 4 a.m., Capt. Black gave the order to advance and take the lines of trenches in front of us. We had advanced the biggest part of the ground under heavy fire, when the Capt. was shot through the head. It was impossible for any of us to render him any aid, as death was instantaneous. I daresay you will have read that he was posted wounded and missing, but I am sorry to say he was killed, as I was only a few yards away from him when it happened. The reason the Capt. was posted missing was because he was so near the enemy’s trenches when he fell. Capt. Black was one of our most popular officers, and his death was deeply felt amongst the boys of the Coy. with whom he was a great favourite.” Capt. Black held the Challenge Cup for highest efficiency for one year, and gained a number of silver spoons for shooting, and was very popular with his Coy. He was a member of the School of Arms, and took a great interest in A Coy.’s camp at Datchet in 1912, 1913, and 1914, being one of the chief movers in the formation of that club.

BLACK, HENRY, Private, No. 10008, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Mid Calder, Edinburgh; volunteered and enlisted 1 Sept. 1914, aged 25; reported missing after the fighting on 25 Jan. 1915.

BLACK, JAMES WILLIAM McKAY, Private, No. 2089, 1/5th Battn. Royal Scots, elder s. of John Black, of 15, Mertoun Place, Edinburgh, Blacksmith, by his wife, Christina, dau. of William McKay; b. Edinburgh, 15 Sept. 1883; educ. Gillespie’s School there; served his apprenticeship as an engineer in Edinburgh; on 18 Jan. 1909, was appointed an assistant in Edinburgh Weights and Measures Department; passed the Board of Trade Examination held in Glasgow on the 15–16 Nov. 1911; commenced his duties as an Inspector of Weights and Measures 16 Feb. 1912; appointed an officer under the Petroleum Acts, the Explosive Act and the Fabric Misdescription Act, 16 May, 1914; enlisted on the outbreak of the war, 29 Aug. 1914; and was reported killed in action in Gallipoli, 28 April, 1915; unm.

BLACK, ROBERT, L.-Corpl., No. 12109, 2nd Battn. Highland Light Infantry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported wounded and missing 24 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on that day.

BLACK, THOMAS, Private, No. 10674, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the late Thomas Black, Calender Worker, and formerly a Private in the Black Watch, by his wife, Agnes (5, Ramsey Street, Dundee), dau. of Jack Fields; b. Dundee, 23 Sept. 1892; educ. Mitchel Street Public School there; was for some time employed as a rope spinner in Messrs. Halket & Adams’ Rope Works, Dundee, and enlisted in the Royal Scots, 7 June, 1910. He was drafted to the 1st Battn. in India, and on the outbreak of the European War came home with his regt. and was killed in action in France, 12 May, 1915; unm.

BLACK, WALTER CAIRNS, L.-Corpl., No. 2164, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) London Regt., s. of James Black, Bookbinder’s Manager; b. Edinburgh, 10 June, 1888; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College, Edinburgh; joined on mobilisation 4 Aug. 1914, was promoted L.-Corpl. for tending wounded under fire and general good conduct in the field, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914; unm. Black was by profession a chemist and druggist, qualifying at Edinburgh, 1910; was for some time assistant to Mr. H. Dixon, of Russell Gardens, S.W., and later joined the staff of Messrs. Allen and Hanbury, of Lombard Street.

BLACK, WILLIAM, Private, No. 11521, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of James Black, of 12, Wilkies Lane, Dundee; b. Aberdeen; volunteered and enlisted 4 Oct. 1914, aged 19; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 18 May, 1915.

BLACK, WILLIAM, Sergt., No 11302, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 4th s. of Jeremiah Black, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Joseph Lowry; b. Craigywarren, Ballymena, co. Antrim, Ireland, 28 Jan. 1890; educ. Craigywarren National School; enlisted in April, 1909, promoted Sergt., Nov. 1914, served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action on the Rossitier Road in the Village of Zonnebeke, five or six miles from Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914; unm.

BLACK, WILLIAM, Private, No. 22764, 11th Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of George Black, of Buckhaven, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Adam Addison; b. Howtown, co. Clackmannan; educ. Cowdenbeath, Fife; was a miner; enlisted 9 May, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 15 Oct. 1915, by the explosion of a mine under the trench where he was on sentry duty. He m. at Buckhaven, Fife, 1 Jan. 1908, Isabella Gordon (Randolph Street, Buckhaven), dau. of George Cargill, and had three children: George Gordon, b. 22 Feb. 1909; William, b. 26 March, 1915; and Mary Keddie, b. 6 Aug. 1911.

BLACKBURN, EDWARD, Private, No. 12548, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 12 March, 1915; m.

BLACKBURN, HORACE, Private, No. 8393, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of (—) Blackburn, of 5, Sheridan Street, Wakefield Road, Bradford; b. Bradford; enlisted 31 Aug. 1912, aged 21; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported wounded and missing, 20 Oct. 1914.

BLACKBURN, JOSEPH EDWARD, Leading Seaman, 226195, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BLACKER, CECIL FRANCIS, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Connaught Rangers, yr. s. of Major Frederick Henry Blacker, late 4th Queen’s Own Hussars, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, C.B.; b. ...; educ. May Place, Malvern Wells, and Wellington College, Berks (Purnell’s 1903–06); was at the R.M.C. 1908, entered the Army, Nov. 1909, gazetted Lieut. Jan. 1911, being 2nd in command of the Brigade Cyclist Corps when he went to the Front. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Mons, 23 Aug. 1914, and died at Netley Hospital, 6 Sept. following; he was buried at Maudins, Naas; unm.

BLACKER, GEORGE FREDERICK, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attached “A” Coy. 2nd, Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of Arthur Edward Blacker, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., by his wife, Harriet Sophia Williams, dau. of the late Henry Robbins Dew, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Assistant Staff Surgeon to Lord Raglan in the Crimean War, and gdson. of the late George Frederick Blacker, of Midsomer Norton, M.R.C.S., L.S.A.; b. Bristol, 13 July, 1893; educ. Bristol Grammar School, was at the outbreak of war about to commence his medical studies, but at once applied for a commission and was gazetted to the Northamptons from the Bristol O.T.C., 28 Oct. 1914. He went to the Front, 30 March, and was killed in action at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was at first reported missing, but later his body was recovered and buried near an orchard about 300 yards south-west of the junction of Rue Petillon and the road from Sailly to Fromelles. The delay in recovering his body was due to the fact that the spot where he fell was in the open near the enemy’s lines, and was fiercely contested for many days. All the five officers in his company were killed on the same day, and most of the men were either killed or wounded by maxim gun fire in what his commanding officer described as: “a very gallant attempt to close with the enemy.” 2nd Lieut. G. F. Friendship, writing on behalf of the commanding officer to Dr. Blacker, said that: “Blacker with his Coy. took part in an attack we made on the German lines. As the Northamptons attacked, they were met by a perfect hail of bullets, machine and rifle fire. Nothing could live in it, and I am sorry to say, we lost a big number of men and officers. Your son acted most gallantly and was seen, before he was hit, shouting to his men to come on”; and Lieut. H. W. Carritt, one of the very few officers who came safely through that terrible charge, states that Lieut. Blacker led his platoon bravely, choosing the dangerous flank, and sending his sergt. to lead that which was less perilous. He died close to the enemy’s position in a brave attempt to lead his men over what proved practically insurmountable obstacles.”

BLACKER, WALTER, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345996, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BLACKETT, WILLIAM STEWART BURDETT, of Arbigland, co. Dumfries, and Manton Grange, Oakham, co. Rutland, Capt., Leicestershire Yeomanry, late Grenadier Guards, eldest s. of the late Capt. Archibald Campbell Steuart Blackett, R.N., by his wife, Clara Blanche Harriet, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Sedley Burdett, Coldstream Guards, and nephew and heir of Christopher Edward Blackett, of Arbigland, J.P., Lieut.-Col. 26th and 93rd Regts. and Coldstream Guards [a cadet of the family of Blackett, of Wylam, co. Northumberland]; b. London, 24 Oct. 1873; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst; joined the 3rd Grenadier Guards 8 May, 1895, becoming Lieut. 12 Feb. 1898, and Capt. 1901. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, in the 8th Division under General Rundle, was present at the Battle of Biddulphsberg, and received the Queen’s medal with two clasps and the King’s with two clasps. He retired in 1903, but on the outbreak of war joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry, and was gazetted 15 Aug. 1914. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force, was wounded in action near Ypres on 20 Nov. 1914, and died in a French hospital at Poperinghe 24 Nov. following, and was buried there. He m. at Staplestown Church, Carlow, 6 April, 1907, Kathleen Prudence Eirene (Arbigland, Dumfries), dau. of Beauchamp Frederick Bagenal, of Benekerry House, co. Carlow, D.L., and had a son, Christopher William Stewart Blackett, now of Arbigland, b. 27 April, 1908.

BLACKLAY, FRANCIS PETTICREW, Private, No. 21065, 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Blacklay, of 13, Marlborough Street, Londonderry, Managing Director of William Thompson & Co., Ltd., Londonderry; b. Londonderry, 5 May, 1893; educ. Foyle College there; and on leaving there went to Canada and entered the employ of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Winnipeg, being later transferred to Longham and Delisle, Sask. This he left in April, 1915, to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action, 26 Oct. 1915, while on duty round a German battleplane which had fallen in the British lines, and was buried near Wulverghem; unm.

BLACKLEY, JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 657, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late William Blackley, Shiprigger, by his wife, Phyllis, dau. of Robert Muir, Gardener; b. Edinburgh, 5 April, 1887; educ. London Road National School there; enlisted about 1906, and was killed in action at Wolverehem, 11 Sept. 1914. He m. at Leith, 15 Feb. 1909, Mary Ellen, 4th dau. of Andrew Dalziell, and had two children: John, b. 9 June, 1913; and Anna, b. 12 Oct. 1911.

BLACKMAN, JOHN THOMAS, Private, No. 258, Princess Patricia’s L.I., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late John Blackman, Sergt., 33rd West Riding Regt., by his wife, Mary (5, Best Town, Cage Lane, Chatham), dau. of Patrick Lyons; b. Lucknow, India, 11 April, 1881; educated Chatham; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, and after serving five years went to Canada, 4 April, 1910, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service. He was killed in action at Hill 60, 4 May, 1915; unm.

BLACKMAN, THOMAS, Sapper, No. 1544, Royal Engineers, eldest s. of William James Blackman, of 86, Church Street, Ore, Painter; b. Hastings, co. Sussex, 23 Nov. 1873; was a Painter; enlisted, 13 Oct. 1914; went to the Front, 22 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action, 5 March, 1915. His Capt. wrote: “He was carrying out last night some dangerous work in front of our trenches and was hit by a stray bullet.” He m. 1st, at Ore, Hastings, Laura (died 12 July, 1910), dau. of William Holewell, labourer; and 2ndly, at the same place, 7 Oct. 1911, Philly Jane (60, Fairlight Road, Ore, Hastings), dau. of William Mepham, Naval Pensioner, and had three children by his 1st wife: Thomas William, b. 24 May, 1907; Rose, b. 2 July, 1908; and Laura, b. 20 Feb. 1910.

BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., 3700A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BLAKE, AUGUSTUS EDWARD, C.P.O. (R.F.R., A. 2043), 153991, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BLAKE, HENRY, Private, No. 1835, 118th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of David Blake, of Grange View, Chalfont St. Peters, by his wife, Maria, dau. of James Butcher; b. Chalfont St. Peters, co. Bucks, 2 May, 1892; educ. National School there; joined the 8th Middlesex Territorials, Sept. 1912; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914, and volunteered for foreign service; served at Gibraltar, 3 Sept. 1914, to Feb. 1915, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 8 March, to 26 April, 1915, on which date he was killed in action at Zonnebeke during the second Battle of Ypres; unm.

BLAKE, JOHN EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2641), 205973, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BLAKE, LOUIS CHARLES, Private, No. 27168, B Coy., 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Harry George Blake, of 689, Ontario Street, Toronto, Canada, Gasfitter, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Charles Henry Stiling, of Walworth; b. Camberwell, London, 22 Jan. 1888; went to Canada with his parents when one year old in 1889; educ. Sackville Street Public School, Toronto, and was a Fourth Book Scholar. He served with the 12th York Rangers from 7 June, 1904, to 18 May, 1912, when he obtained his discharge with an excellent character. He then served for a short time with the A.S.C., and joined the 48th Highlanders in 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, was one of the first to volunteer for service overseas. He left with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to the Front in Feb. 1915, and served continuously until 5 Dec. 1915, when he was killed in action at 10.5 p.m. at King Edward Terrace (Ration Farm), France, by a high explosive shell. He was buried there; unm. His brothers, Corpl. Edward Blake, 19th Battn., and Private Harry Blake, 74th Battn., are now (1916) on active service.

BLAIR, SIDNEY BARCLAY, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn., Royal Warwickshire Regt., 3rd s. of John Blair, of Bidston House, Wigan, J.P., M.D., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of F.... Love, of The Priory, Grosmont, co. York; b. Wigan, 20 Aug. 1885; educ. Wigan and Warminster Grammar Schools, and Giggleswick School, where he won his colours and became a corpl. in the O.T.C. He matriculated at Liverpool University in 1913, and passed his first professional examination in medicine shortly after the outbreak of war. Volunteering, he was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. of the Warwickshire Regt., 19 Nov. 1914, and on going to France in March was transferred to 2nd Battn. He was killed in action at Festubert by a shell between the 1st and 2nd line German trenches, whilst leading his platoon, 16 May, 1915, and was buried at Le Touchet; unm. His colonel wrote: “He died gallantly leading his platoon attacking the Germans, 16 May.” His Adjutant: “I always found him so willing and always ready to be of service. His loss will be greatly felt in the regt.” His Capt.: “Your son belonged to my company, and he was killed between the 1st and 2nd line German trenches. His platoon was the first of the battn. to attack, and he led them most gallantly.”

BLAKEWAY, COL. THE REV. PHILIP JOHN THOMAS, M.A., T.D., Chaplain, 4th London Mounted Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division, and Vicar of Walberton, Arundel, s. of Philip Edward Blakeway, of 29, Clifton Gardens, Folkestone, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Wootton; b. London, — March, 1865; educ. Malvern, and Magdalen College, Oxford, and on leaving the latter in 1884 received a commission in the 8th Hussars and joined the regt. in India. After six years he sent in his papers, went back to Magdalen College, Oxford, and took his degree and was ordained Deacon in 1891 and priest in 1893. After holding curacies at Camberwell, Lambeth and Battersea, he was for seven years Chaplain to the Earl of Lathom, and in 1902 became temporary Chaplain to the Forces at Chichester Barracks. In 1903 he was appointed to the rectory of All Saints’, Hastings, and in 1907 to the Vicarage of Walberton. Since 1893 he had been Chaplain to the Middlesex Hussars (1st County of London), and when war broke out he applied to go to the Front, and was appointed 1st Class Chaplain with the rank of Colonel. He went out to Egypt with one of the first drafts of troops, and died on active service at Ismailia, 16 June, 1915, of heart failure. He m. at Old Windsor, 10 Aug. 1893, Sibyl Agnes (The Cottage, Halnaker, Chichester), dau. of Francis Ricardo, of The Friary, Old Windsor, and 44, Portman Square, W., J.P.; s.p.

BLAKEY, GEORGE HENRY, A.B., J. 7104 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BLANCHETT, CHRISTOPHER, Sergt., No. 18159, 3rd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Frederick Blanchett, of Whitehill Cottage, Wootton Bassett, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Curry, of North Curry, co. Somerset; b. Wootton Bassett, co. Wilts, ....; educ. Council School there; enlisted in the Wiltshire Regt.; served through the South African war, afterwards going to Canada in April, 1913. After the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ducks’ Bill, France, 19 June, 1915. He m. at Wootton Bassett, 11 April, 1903, Mildred Ellen, dau. of William Sainsbury, of Wootton Bassett, and had a son and two daus.: Stuart, b. 19 Jan. 1912; Zita Mary Asenatte, b. 2 May, 1907; and Mildred Christina, b. 22 May, 1909.

BLAND, CHARLES ERNEST WILLIAM, D.S.O., Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of Horatio Bland, of Stretton House, near Alfreton, co. Derby, Capt. (ret.) King’s Own Scottish Borderers, by his wife, Fanny Louisa (Stretton House, Alfreton, Derbyshire), dau. of William Henry Duff; b. New Wandsworth, co. Surrey, 21 Aug. 1881; educ. Marlborough and Sandhurst; joined the Scottish Borderers, 20 Jan. 1900, served in the Boer War, and was present at the actions at Vet River and Zand River, those near Johannesburg and Pretoria, and at Zillikats Nek (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); became Capt. 9 March, 1908, and retired 26 Oct. 1910, being gazetted to the 3rd (Reserve) battn. of his regt. On the outbreak of war he rejoined, was attached to the 2nd battn. with which he went to the Front, was twice mentioned in despatches by F.M. Sir John French, and awarded the D.S.O. 18 Feb. 1915, and was killed in the action around Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He is believed to have been buried near Pilkem. Major D’Ewes Coke wrote: “The actual event which gained him the D.S.O. was when we were holding trenches in front of Ypres in Nov. His trench was several times attacked by Prussian infantry, as well as being subjected to very heavy fire from minewerfers and artillery, but he stuck to it and defended his trench with great bravery.” He m. at the Parish Church, Maynooth, co. Kildare, Ireland, 22 Oct. 1910, Isabella, dau. of William Browne-Lecky, of Ecclesville, co. Tyrone, and had a dau.—Patricia, b. 24 April, the day after her father was killed. Capt. Bland was well known in the hunting field, and was frequently out with the Cottesmore and Belvoir packs.

BLAND, PERCY, Junior Sick Berth Reserve Attendant, M. 8633, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BLANDFORD, GEORGE JOHN, Chief Armourer, No. Ch. 340800, R.N., s. of Martin Blandford, Leading Stoker on the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert; b. Ewer Common, Gosport, 18 Sept. 1876; educ. Alverstoke School; was for many years at the Chatham Gunnery School; joined the Cressy on the outbreak of war, and was lost with that ship 22 Sept. 1914; unm. He had the Good Conduct medal.

BLANDFORD, HENRY, Private, No. 2253, 8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died of wounds, 9 Sept. 1915.

BLANDFORD, THOMAS HENRY, Private, No. 9247, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Henry Blandford, of 19a Skelbrook Street, Earlsfield, S.W.; b. co. Surrey; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Boiseron, 8 Sept. 1914; unm.

BLANFORD, CHARLES EDWARD, Major, R.G.A., 30th Indian Mountain Battery, 3rd s. of Thomas Blanford, of 4, The Grove, Highgate, N., by his wife, Amy, dau. of Frederick Simpson; b. Kensington, W., 16 March, 1874; educ. Highgate School and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Sept. 1891–93); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.A., 1 Jan. 1894, promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1897, Capt. 9 April 1900, and Major—Oct. 1914; joined at Portsmouth, and after nine months there and at Gordon Hill, Isle of Wight, went out to India in Oct. 1894, and was attached to a heavy battery at Ferozepore. He served in India for 21 years with the exception of the period of the South African War, when he was given ordnance work at Kimberley (Queen’s medal with clasp) and for a short time (six weeks) at Spike Island, Ireland, before going to Kimberley; died of wounds received the same day, 11 July, 1915, near Nasiriyeh in the Persian Gulf, while commanding a section of the battery on rafts. His commanding officer wrote: “He has been such a tower of strength to me that I cannot say it often enough. Always ready for work and never complaining. He has had several hard tasks and carried them through most successfully.... The State has indeed lost a gallant and invaluable officer whose continual watchword was Duty.” A comrade wrote: “It is an irreparable loss to us, and his place will not be easy to fill; he was always ready to do anything, but what I have always admired most about him has been his pluck, courage and indifference to danger.” He m. at Eastbourne, 24 Sept. 1912, Vida May (28, Milnthorpe Road, Eastbourne), dau. of Albert Henry Trenchard, of Eastbourne, and had a son, Edward Oliver Trenchard, b. Thandiani, near Abbottabad, N.W.F.P., India, 4 Sept. 1913.

BLANK, WILLIAM JOHN HENRY, E.R.A., 1st Class, 268654, H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

BLANSHARD, PHILIP ARTHUR, Private, No. 11466, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Henry Brand Blanshard, of 4, Finsbury Grove, Fountain Road, Hull, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late George Hurdman of Hull, hairdresser; b. Hull, 18 Sept. 1894; educ. Park Road Board School there; was in the employ of the Hull Corporation (Sanitary Dept.), enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; left England for the Front, 21 Jan. 1915 and died in the 1st Field Hospital, at 3.30 p.m. 2 Feb. following, of shell wounds received in action at Cuinchy near La Bassée. He was buried in Bethune Town Cemetery.

BLATCHFORD, ALBERT, Acting Leading Stoker, (Dev.), K. 10989, s. of Joseph Blatchford, of 2, Weslet Terrace, Ipplepen, near Newton Abbot; lost in action when H.M.S. Goliath, was sunk at the Dardanelles, 13 May, 1915.

BLATCHFORD, ALBERT GEORGE, Shipwright, 1 Ch. 170876, H.M.S. Formidable; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the English Channel, 1 Jan., 1915; m.

BLATHERWICK, HENRY THOMPSON, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26731 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BLATHWAYT, GERALD WYNTER, Capt., Royal Field Artillery, yr. s. of Arthur Pennington Blathwayt, member of the London Stock Exchange, and of Northwood Grange, R.S.O., Middlesex, by his wife, Mary Constantia, dau. of the late John Thorp, of Maldon, Essex; b. Belvedere, Kent, 30 June 1879; educ. Aldenham School, Herts; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Kent Artillery Militia, to the Royal Artillery, 22 Dec. 1898, promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, and Capt. 18 July, 1906. He served in the South African War and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. From 1906 to 1909 he served as Brigade Adjutant, and from 1910 to Jan. 1914 was Garrison Adjutant, Eastern Command. At the outbreak of war Capt. Blathwayt went with his Battery to France and was in the retreat from Mons to the Marne. He was killed at the Battle of the Aisne, near Verneuill, 14 Sept. 1914, and was buried in the garden of the Chateau there. Major Barker, commanding the battery, in communicating his death wrote: “In him the Army has lost a gallant officer and myself and his other companions in the Brigade a beloved comrade and friend.” While at Woolwich he took an active part in the Garrison cricket and was Hon. Sec. of the club. He was recently elected a member of the “Band of Brothers,” and was member of the Junior United Service Club. He m. at St. Stephen’s, Gloucester Road, London, 26 Oct 1911, Margaret Aline (20, The Court Yard, Eltham), younger dau. of the late Charles Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Cobb Court, Cootham, Sussex, and had two daughters, Madeleine Margaret, b. 12 July, 1912, and Elizabeth, b. 16 Feb. 1914.

BLEASE, HARVEY, Capt., 15th (Service) Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Walter Blease, F.C.A., of Messrs. Blease & Sons, Chartered Accountants, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late James Harvey, of Salford; b. Liverpool, 29 Aug. 1882; educ. Parkfield School, Liverpool, and Sedbergh, Yorks, and afterwards entered his father’s firm and took great interest in the educational schemes of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. After the declaration of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted Lieut. to the 15th Battn. of the King’s Liverpools, 12 Nov. 1914, and promoted Capt. 15 Jan. 1915. He went out with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was there attached to the 7th Lancashire Fusiliers. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915. Capt. Blease enjoyed a reputation as a batsman while at Sedbergh and later took part in the Old Boys’ annual tours. For fourteen years he was identified with the Sefton Park Club, during eleven of which he was captain, and for whom he gave many brilliant displays in Lancashire and Cheshire cricket. He was also an excellent cross-country runner. He m. at Liverpool, 15 Sept. 1910, Dorothy Stanley (Rostherne, Blundellsands, near Liverpool), 2nd dau. of the late Stanley Blease, of Liverpool, and had two children, Helen Margaret, b. 12 July, 1911; and Barbara Mary, b. 28 June, 1914.

BLEES, JOHN, Private, No. 712, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late John Peter Blees, of Jabalpur, India, by his wife, Mary Ann (24, Sandileigh Avenue, Withington, Manchester), dau. of James Bowden; b. Jabulpur, Central India, 25 Feb. 1889; educ. Dulwich College; went to Canada in 1900 and settled at Edmonton; on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined Princess Patricia’s L.I.; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; crossed to France in Feb. and died 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres on the 8th; unm. One of his officers wrote: “He was wounded in the engagement on 8 May, in which engagement all the officers were either killed or wounded. The regt. endured an extremely heavy bombardment. How severe it was and how gallantly our boys stuck to their trenches and held back the Germans can only be told in the future, when military consideration will not restrict correspondence, suffice it to say that this regt. held out so gallantly and against such odds that Sir John French came down to personally thank the regt. for what they did that day. On that day every man was a hero, but some were conspicuous even here. Your son was helping the wounded out and binding their wounds when he was struck, a shrapnel caught him in the abdomen, but even with this desperate wound he was game and was carried out still cheery and encouraging the boys to stick it.” He was buried in the regimental burial ground at Hazebrouck.

BLIGH, ERIC, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn., attached 2nd Battn., the East Lancashire Regt., s. of William Bligh, of Caterham Valley, co. Surrey, by his wife, Lilian Josephine, dau. of William Lafone, of Monte Video; b. Caterham Valley, 30 Dec. 1894; educ. The Dene, Caterham, Sherborne School, where he was a member of the junior O.T.C. with the rank of Lance-Corpl. and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he was a private in the senior O.T.C. Medical. After the declaration of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Battn. of the East Lancashires, 15 Aug. 1914. He joined the 2nd Battn. at the Front, 7 March, 1915, served through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle and was killed in action opposite Fromelles, 9 May, 1915, in the assault on Aubers Ridge. His commanding officer, Major Maclear, wrote: “Your son was shot by a German machine gun whilst leading his platoon in an assault on the German trenches opposite Fromelles on Sunday, 9 May, death being instantaneous. Your son was only with us a short time, but we were all very fond of him, and you have the consolation of knowing that he could not have died a nobler death.” He was promoted Lieut. after his death to rank as from 13 Feb. 1915, and was buried on the road from Sailly to Fromelles.

BLIGHT, CHARLES, Corpl., No. 3/5971, 1st Battn. Somerset L.I., s. of the late Charles Blight; b. London; and was killed in action, 19 Dec. 1914. Prior to the war he was employed as a Collier at the Cambrian Pits, Clydach Vale. He m. in Bath (—), and had two sons: Charles and Stanley.

BLISS, CHARLES, Major, 2nd Battn. 1st (King George’s Own) Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, 2nd surviving s. of Sir Henry (William) Bliss, of The Abbey, Abingdon, K.C.I.E., J.P., late Indian Civil Service, by his 1st wife, Mary, dau. of Edmund Rendle; b. at Dindigul, Madras Presidency, 31 Dec. 1871; educ. Clifton, Heidleberg and Sandhurst; and obtained his first commission in the North Staffordshire Regt., 5 June, 1891; transferred two years later to the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), of which he was promoted Lieut. 4 July, 1896. In the Dec. following he joined the Indian Staff Corps, becoming Capt. 10 July, 1901. After a period with the 43rd (later the 8th) Gurkha Rifles and the Assam Military Police, he was appointed double-company commander of the 1st Gurkha Rifles, 5 Dec. 1908, and obtained his Majority 5 Dec. 1909. In 1903–4 he saw service in Tibet, being present in the action at Niani, and during the operations at and around Gyantse, and in the march on Lhassa, being slightly wounded. His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 13 Dec. 1904], and he received the medal with clasp. Major Bliss commanded various punitive expeditions in the Nagar Hills, on the North-West Frontier, between 1907 and 1911, and from 1911 to 1913 was in command of escorts on several political, survey and exploration missions on the North-West Frontier. He had the Abor, Indian Police and Durbar medals, and in 1914 was made a C.I.E. On the outbreak of the European War he came to Europe with his regt., and died at Lille, 22 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action at Festubert on the 20th. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Major Bliss m. at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 11 April, 1901, Mabel Emmeline, eldest dau. of Col. Thomas M. Maxwell, late Sherwood Foresters, and had a dau., Lorna, b. 31 Aug. 1905.

BLISSETT, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 18317, 3rd Battn., 1st Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Edward Blissett, of Bath, Butler, by his wife, Elizabeth (9, Coleman Street, Brighton), dau. of Samuel Wills, of Liss, Hants; b. Paddington, 16 Dec. 1885; educ. Gordon Memorial Schools, Diss Board School and Priory Road School, Hastings, and was then apprenticed as a carpenter to Mr. Harvey, King’s Road, St. Leonards. In 1907 he went to Canada, and after a year in Ontario, settled in Alberta, where on the outbreak of war he enlisted. He came over with the 1st Contingent, in Oct. 1914, and after training at Salisbury and Shorncliffe, went to the Front in May and was killed in action in the trenches, 8 Nov. 1915, by a bullet. He was buried in Wulverghem Cemetery; unm.

BLOFELD, D’ARCY FRANK, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Life Guards, only s. of Frank Blofeld, of Dunster Lodge, Alcombe, West Somerset, by his wife, Leslie Blanche, only dau. of Major Thomas Perkins, R.H.A., H.A.C., of Doverhay Place, Porlock, Somerset; b. Dunster Lodge, afsd. 21 April, 1890; educ. St. Michael’s (Mr. Hawtrey), Westgate-on-Sea, and Eton (Mr. E. L. Churchill’s House, 1903–8), where he won the Junior Pulling in his last year. He served three years with the Eton College Volunteers, but ill health prevented his going on to Sandhurst, and he spent several years in the Argentine, where he became interested in the breeding and schooling of polo ponies. He was living at Staverton, near Cheltenham, when war broke out, and immediately joined the Gloucestershire Yeomanry. On 9 Sept. he was gazetted to the 3rd Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, and took up his duties at Canterbury. He was posted to the Household Cavalry on 24 Oct. and joined his regt., the 2nd Life Guards, at Windsor. On 7 Nov. he went to Flanders, and served with his regt. in the trenches, and just before Christmas he came home on seventy-two hours’ leave. His second experience of the trenches was early in Feb., after which he obtained a week’s leave, but was recalled in four days, and from then until his death, near Ypres, on 12 May, he was at the Front. He and four other officers were killed instantaneously by an explosive shell. He had won the liking of his brother officers, and the confidence of his men. Mr. Blofeld was fond of all sport, he was a finished horseman and a most promising polo player. He was a member of the Cheltenham and West Somerset Polo Clubs, his handicap being 5 goals Hurlingham, 1914. He hunted with the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the West Somerset Fox Hounds since early boyhood, and during the time he was at Staberton, with the Cotswold Hunt. He was greatly beloved by all who knew him and was a fine example of how quickly a good sportsman can become a good soldier. His Col. wrote: “As a horsemaster he was invaluable to me, and the fact that he had been chosen for the duty in which he met his death, proves that his Squadron leader relied on him.”

BLOMFIELD, CHARLES GEORGE MASSIE, Major, 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Massie Blomfield, K.C.M.G., for twenty-eight years in charge of the Port of Alexandria and afterwards Director-General of all Egyptian Ports, etc., by his wife, Rosamund Selina, 2nd dau. of the late Right Rev. Charles Graves, D.D., Lord Bishop of Limerick, and nephew of Alfred Perceval Graves, author of “Father O’Flynn,” and the “Irish Ballad,” etc., and of Charles Larcom Graves, Assistant Editor of the “Spectator,” and a member of the Inner Round Table of “Punch”; b. London, 19 June, 1878, brought up at Port House, Alexandria, Egypt, until nine years of age; educ. Stubbington House School, Farnham, Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Warwicks, 6 April, 1898, and was gazetted Lieut. 28 Dec. following, Capt. 16 Nov. 1901, and Major 19 Dec. 1914. He joined his regt. at Chatham and was sent to Malta, and in the following year (1899) to South Africa, and served through that campaign, 1900–2. He was employed with the Mounted Infantry, took part in the operations in Cape Colony, South of the Orange River (1900), in the Orange Free State, April to Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to 31 May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps. On the close of the campaign he took over drafts to India to the 2nd Battn. at Bangalore. He then joined his parents at Assuan for the opening of the Great Dam, and was afterwards stationed in Ireland, where he continued his polo and hunting. He had meanwhile qualified as an interpreter of foreign languages and from May, 1905, to June, 1906, was attached to the Egyptian Army, and spent about a year in the Soudan, then rejoining his regt. at Aldershot. He became adjutant of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. of his regt. 31 Jan. 1912, a post he held for 3½ years, and after the declaration of war, did excellent work in preparing drafts for the front. He was posted to the 1st Battn., and joined the Expeditionary Force in France, 5 May, 1915, and fell, mortally wounded by a bullet through the head, 9 June, at 5 p.m. Gen. Landon, Royal Warwick Regt., wrote: “The regt. has sustained a loss indeed, which it will be hard to get over, and one it can ill afford. He was a most valuable officer and I know everyone loved him”; and Col. Poole, Commanding 1st Battn.: “His loss to me as one of my Coy. Commanders is irreparable. I had the highest opinion of him as a soldier, and he was worth anything in these hard times. We all mourn his loss.” He was on the staff of the “Army and Navy Gazette” and his humorous little work “The Young Officer’s Guide to Knowledge” cheered many a man in the hum-drum life of the trenches. A good violinist, he raised the band of the Special Reserve at Warwick. Major Blomfield m. at St. Paul’s, Wimbledon Common, 5 Oct. 1907, Hirell, elder dau. of the late James Clarence, of Castle Towers, Wimbledon Common, and had issue, Charles Clarence Massie, b. Aug. 1908 (d. in infancy), and Richard Beverley Massie, b. 25 June, 1913.

BLOOM, JOSEPH HENRY, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 6876, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BLOOMFIELD, SIDNEY HERBERT, A.B., J. 8083, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BLOUNT, JAMES WILLIAM, C.E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269403, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BLOXAM, JOSEPH, Private, No. 1732, 5th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Thomas Bloxam, of Outram Street, Leicester, Framework Knitter, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Thomas Bowby; b. Leicester, 24 Oct. 1878; educ. Cottage Homes, Counterthorpe, Leicestershire; enlisted in the Leicestershire Regt. 20 years ago, and after serving his time went to Australia in 1910. On the outbreak of war he joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

BLOXSOM, WILLIAM JABEZ, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 164154, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BLUE, DOUGALL, Capt., 3rd, attached 2nd, Battn. Scottish Rifles (The Cameronians), s. of Dugald Blue, of Glasgow; b. Glasgow, 10 June, 1878. He graduated M.A. at Glasgow in 1900, and three years later he accepted a scholastic appointment in Rhodesia. Whilst there he organised and commanded the first Cadet Corps ever formed in that country. He also held a commission in the Southern Rhodesian Volunteers. Returning to Glasgow in 1910, he became classical master in the High School, and received a commission in the School’s Contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps. In 1913, he became classical master in Hutchesons’ Grammar School, and there organised a Cadet Corps, which was affiliated to the 7th Battn. Scottish Rifles, Capt. Blue being appointed its first commanding officer. When the war broke out he received a captain’s commission in the 3rd Scottish Rifles, 3 Dec. 1914, proceeding shortly afterwards to France where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles. He was wounded in action near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915, and died two days later, and was buried in Merville Cemetery. He m. at Airdrie, 6 Jan. 1915, Katharine Armit, dau. of Thomas Swan, of Springhill House, Airdrie, Banker; s.p.

BLYDE, MICHAEL JOHN, Private, No. 280, 1st Newfoundland Regt., 4th s. of John Blyde, of 49, Fleming Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, employee of St. John’s Municipal Council, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Philip Grouchy, Fisherman, and grandson of George Blyde (who served through the Crimean War, and after completing his 21 years’ service settled at St. John’s, Newfoundland); b. St. John’s afsd., 19 Feb. 1895; educ. Christian Brothers’ Schools there; was a member of the Catholic Cadet Corps and the local Boys’ Brigade, and also a Bugler in the local corps of the Legion of Frontiersmen; and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for Imperial service with the 1st Newfoundland Regt.; left for England, 6 Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 20 Aug. 1915, and died 26 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action at Gallipoli; unm.

BLYTH, REGINALD CROMMELIN POPHAM, Capt., 1st Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of the Rt. Rev. George Francis Popham Blyth, D.D., late Bishop in Jerusalem and the East, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Col. James Arden Crommelin, R.E., and gdson. of the Rev. George Blanshard Blyth, by his wife (—), dau. of Col. Samuel Taylor Popham, 28th (now Gloucestershire) Regt., who served on the Duke of Wellington’s Staff [nephew of Gen. William Popham, who took Gwalior, and of Admiral Sir Home Popham, whose signalling code, still in use in the Navy, was used by Nelson for his famous signal to the Fleet at Trafalgar]; b. Darjeeling, India, 24 June, 1877; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and Brasenose College, Oxford; entered the Gloucestershire Regt. from the Militia 18 April, 1900; gazetted Lieut. 25 Oct. 1903, and received his company 14 Jan. 1911. Served in South Africa 1899–1900, taking part in the operations in Natal and the Orange Free State, and received the Queen’s medal with clasp. Capt. Blyth was with his regt. in India for some years, and acted as Divisional Staff Signalling Officer. In 1908 he was attached to the Egyptian Army for service in the Sudan, and was made a Bey. On the outbreak of the European War he was attached to the Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915. He m. in London, 2 Aug. 1911, Norah (18, St. Leonard’s Road, Bexhill-on-Sea), dau. of Louis Edmund Hassells Yates, of Crawley, Sussex, and had one son, Lionel Popham, b. 16 June, 1912.

BOAG, HUGH, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4547), 279684, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOARDMAN, ALBERT, Gunner, R.M.A., 10135, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOATMAN, JAMES, Trimmer, 39810, H.M.S. Clan McNaughton; lost in that ship, Feb. 1915.

BOBBETT, ALFRED, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19166, H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOBBINS, HARRY, Private, No. 6899, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., died 13 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

BOCK, ROBERT HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111828, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BODDY, TOM, Private, No. 8170, 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., s. of the late John Thomas Boddy, of 69, West Parade, Hull, E. Yorks., Chronometer Maker to the Wilson Line of steamers, by his wife, Mary Artis, dau. of Capt. Ambrose White, R.N.R.; b. Hull, 22 Nov. 1887; entered the Army 13 July, 1905, served at home from 1905–7, and in India from 1907–13; returned to England in Dec. 1913, and joined the Special Reserve; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914, went to the front 7 Sept. 1914, was killed in action at La Courronne during the Battle of the Aisne, 16 Oct. 1914; unm. The commander of the section in which Boddy was serving writes: “My section under my command were sent out on point duty to the battn., that is about 200 yards in front, so as to prevent surprise. Tom and I were working as one pair in the centre, and I split up the others, ten men on each flank; we went along nicely until we came to the village of La Courronne, when we sighted a few Germans. These we drove along in front of us, for a distance of about half a mile. We then saw the enemy advancing towards us in large numbers, and a long shot wounded one of my men; we then took cover behind a house, and opened rapid fire to check their advance. I sent two men back immediately for reinforcements, another man was wounded, so this left me with only six men, and the enemy were within 400 yards of us, so I again sent for reinforcements which never came, so I made up my mind to try and get the wounded away with my remaining men, and I am sorry to say that it was whilst Tom and I were firing to cover the rescue party that poor Tom was killed.”

BODIMEADE, HENRY CHARLES, Private, No. 3776, 7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 10 June. 1915; m.

BODKIN, GEOFFREY, A.B., 182664, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BODY, WILLIAM HENRY, Chief Armourer, No. 5853, R.N., s. of John Body, Butcher (late Farmer); b. St. Cleer, near Liskeard, ... 1864; educ. Pelynt and Duloe, co. Cornwall; entered the Navy 28 June, 1886, served nearly three years on H.M.S. Firebrand, and on his return home was stationed at Devonport for some considerable time on H.M.S. Cambridge and H.M.S. Defiance; afterwards he served for about three years on the Penelope at the Cape of Good Hope, later went to China, and was for two and a-half years on the Tamar. He retired on a pension in 1908, but on the outbreak of war was called up and appointed to H.M.S. Majestic, and lost his life when that ship was torpedoed at the Dardanelles, 27 May, 1915, his body was picked up and interred at Sel-el-bahr. He m. at Talland Parish Church, near Looe, Cornwall, 19 Nov. 1891, Janie (196, Pasley Street, Stoke Devonport), dau. of Hugh Littleton, of Polperro, co. Cornwall, Builder, and had four sons and a dau.: William Maurice, b. 27 Aug. 1892, d. 25 Aug. 1911; Frederick Littleton, b. 10 Sept. 1893; Leonard Hugh, b. 28 Feb. 1899; Owen John, b. 12 June, 1907; and Doris May, b. 9 Feb. 1901. Body held the Good Conduct Medal.

BOEATER, ALFRED, Private, No. 6994, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914.

CRAWLEY-BOEVEY, EDWARD MARTIN, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd s. of the late Sir Thomas Hyde Crawley-Boevey, 5th Bart., by his wife, Frances Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Peters, Vicar of Eastington; b. Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester, 26 March, 1873; educ. Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Sussex Regt., 6 March, 1895, being promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1897, and Capt. 17 Dec. 1902. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the actions at Houtnek, Vet River (5–6 May), Zand River, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Diamond Hill, Wittenbergen, and Ladybrand, for which he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps, and was mentioned in despatches. In 1902 he was chosen to represent his regt. at the Coronation of King Edward VII, and came home with a detachment from the Cape, and afterwards served in East Africa, 1908–10 (Somaliland medal with clasp). After the outbreak of the European War he was sent from Dover on 11 Nov. 1914, with a draft of 200 men of the 4th Royal Fusiliers to France, and was with that regt. when he was killed in action, near Bailleul, 24 Dec. 1914. He was a noted marksman, and a very gifted draughtsman, and was greatly esteemed by all ranks. He m. at Christchurch, Mayfair, London, 31 Oct. 1905, Rosalie Winifred (Thorwald, Godalming, Surrey), yr. dau. of Col. George Conrad Sartorius, C.B., and granddau. of the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rose Sartorius, G.C.B., and had a son, Richard Martin, b. 31 July, 1907.

BOLD, HAROLD EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8978; H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOLES, HASTINGS FORTESCUE, 2nd Lieut., 17th Lancers, attd. Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Lieut.-Col. Dennis Fortescue Boles, of Watts House, near Taunton, M.P., Master of the West Somerset Foxhounds, now commanding 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt.; b. London, 21 June, 1895; educ. Evelyns, Eton and Sandhurst; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 17th Lancers, 16 Dec. 1914, and joined the Reserve Battn. at the Curragh for training. In April he offered himself to the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, and was accepted and appointed to duty with the Expeditionary Force in the North of France, and had some narrow escapes in reconnaissance duty, in which two of his pilots were seriously injured. Very early on the morning of 24 May he was engaged in making a reconnaissance over the German lines, when he was hit by a shot from an enemy anti-aircraft gun. The wound was seen to be extremely serious, but 2nd Lieut. Boles did not lose consciousness. When the machine returned to its base he was at once attended to by the surgical staff, placed under an anaesthetic and operated on, but died in the evening of the same day without recovering consciousness. The manner in which he met his death is best described in a letter from his commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. W. G. Salmond, who wrote: “Your son was very severely wounded in the head to-day by anti-aircraft fire whilst carrying out a reconnaissance. It occurred about 4.30 a.m. this morning. The wound was through the side of his head from front to rear. He was put under an anaesthetic. He was so plucky. When he was wounded he turned round to his pilot, Lieut. Bell Irving, smiled, and waved his hand, and when he came down I met him and he smiled again. He was conscious all that time, and even got out of the aeroplane, although he could hardly have been able to understand then. It is so distressing to have to write to you these things, but I thought you would rather hear them and know what grit he showed.” The machine was hit from the ground, where the enemy was concentrated in great force before the attack at Ypres—between Bercelaire and Dadizeele—at a height of over 7,000 ft. Lieut.-Col. W. G. Salmond also wrote again: “I cannot tell you how much we feel his loss. He was so quiet in all his work, which was always of the very best. I think few people realise what dangers our Observers have to face in the air. It is seldom that a machine returns from a reconnaissance without being hit. Your son showed no sign of the strain; he was always so cheery, ready and intelligent. He was by far the best at photography in the air this squadron or any squadron is likely to produce. In this he was as quick as lightning. He made up his mind in a moment that the area he was ordered to photograph was the area he was actually over at the time—no easy task—and took the photographs in succession at such a rate that the pilot had no need to turn and go over the ground again. When we were going to attack Hill 60 he took some photographs that morning of some German trenches and which were unknown to us, and was able to let our artillery know before attacking. The results he obtained were of the best the Flying Corps has produced. Photography of the German trenches are of tremendous value, and the results of his work were of very great value indeed to our Army. Only the day before his death he had been up photographing, and on his return showed me the back of his hand, which had been grazed by anti-aircraft splinter. He laughed at it. I am having these last photographs he took—which show the anti-aircraft shell actually fired at the machine bursting beneath, as well as the country he was asked to take—redone, so as to send to you when this war is over, as they are splendid examples of his skill and bravery. He was very gallant, and an example to us all.” He was buried at Bailleul; unm.

BOLITHO, FLEETWOOD JOHN, P.O., 1st Class, 167341, H.M.S. Clan McNaughton; lost in that ship, Feb. 1915.

BOLITHO, WILLIAM TORQUILL MACLEOD, Lieut., 19th Hussars, elder and only surviving s. of William Edward Thomas Bolitho, of York House, Penzance, and Hannaford, Ashburton, D.S.O., J.P., Banker, Major 1st Devon Yeomanry, now Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2/1st battn. of the same [a cadet of Bolitho of Trewidden], by his wife, Ethel Grace, 2nd dau. of Robert Bruce Æneas Macleod, of Cadboll, co. Cromarty, and Invergordon Castle, co. Ross, J.P., D.L., Comm. R.N.; b. Pendrea, Penzance, co. Cornwall, 13 Nov. 1892; educ. Warren Hill, Eastbourne, and Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He passed into Osborne College at 12¾ years old, and was given a remove from his own term to a term above, which was only very specially done. He continued to be head of his term, and passed out of Osborne and Dartmouth Colleges with top marks. He joined H.M.S. Cumberland at Devonport in Jan. 1909, and also passed out first from there after a six months’ cruise, taking three prizes. He was then appointed to H.M.S. Commonwealth as midshipman with four months’ seniority; he served in H.M.S. Cochrane and in H.M.S. Bellerophon, when he left the Navy of his own accord. As midshipman in the Bellerophon he won the Stoddart Cup for boat sailing, presented by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He then joined the Army by the Special Reserve, serving four months with the 11th Hussars at Aldershot, and passing into the Army by examination at Portsmouth in April, 1913; he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 19th Hussars 23 May, and joined 24 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he crossed to France with B Squadron on 23 Aug. 1914, and served with it throughout the winter and spring. He was killed in action near Chateau Hooge, 24 May, 1915; unm. His Major, writing to his father, said: “Your son is a great loss to us, his name had been sent in for special mention after the operations on 13 May, when he found himself temporarily in command of the squadron, and made very good use of his opportunity.”

BOLLAND, THEODORE JULIAN, Major, 9th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), late 16th Rajputs; b. 9 Jan., 1870; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattached from the Militia 23 Nov. 1892, and after serving with the Manchester Regt., was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps, 27 Feb. 1894; joined the 16th Rajputs; promoted Lieut. 23 Feb. 1895, but was obliged to resign owing to severe attacks of malaria; went on half pay 26 April, 1900; and retired 11 June, 1902; volunteered for service when war broke out, and was gazetted Capt. 2nd Queen Victoria’s Rifles (6th London Regt.) 6 Sept., 1914; exchanged into the 9th Liverpools in March, 1915, went to France a few days later, was promoted Major on the 30th and was killed in action there 9 April following.

BOLSTER, GEORGE EMIL, Major, R.F.A., eldest s. of the late Surg.-Major Thomas Gardiner Bolster, A.M.S., by his wife, Ludivina (44, Lebanon Park, Twickenham), dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. John Frederic Nembhard, Bengal Army; b. Dagshai, India, 21 July, 1876. His childhood was spent at the various places where his father happened to be serving—India 4½ years, Devonport 2½ years, and Halifax, N.S., 5 years, during the whole of which time his mother was his sole instructress. On returning from Canada in 1888, he was sent to Ipswich School, and in 1883 passed direct into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. At the final examination two years later he passed out sixth on the R.A. list, and was awarded the prize for artillery. Gazetted on 2 Nov. 1895, he was promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1898, Capt. 1 Sept. 1901, and Major 17 Feb. 1912. Most of his time as subaltern was spent in Northern India, where he acted for two cold seasons as Staff Officer of the late Brig.-Gen. R. Purdy, R.A. The 36th Battery, to which he was posted on promotion, came home early in 1903, and was stationed at Newbridge, Ireland, where he was at once made Adjutant of the 35th Brigade, which post he held for over three years. In 1909 he was appointed Staff Capt. R.A., 5th Division Irish Command, but vacated that appointment in 1911, on being nominated for the Staff College. On completing the course, he was posted to the 106th Battery in South Africa. Recalled to England on the outbreak of war, his battery joined the camp of the 7th Division at Lyndhurst, and with it proceeded to Belgium. They were in the advance to Ghent to support the Naval Division from Antwerp, and the Belgian Army, and shared the hardships of the subsequent retreat to Ypres. He was killed in the historic stand which the 7th Division made near that place, 23 Oct. 1914. His engagement to Coralie, elder dau. of Col. Thomas de Burgh, of Oldtown, Naas, was announced one month before his death. Lieut.-Col. D. Fasson, commanding 22nd Brigade, R.F.A., wrote: “As a battery commander, he was hard to beat, and I certainly have never met a keener soldier. His whole heart was in his work.”

BOLTON, CHARLES, 1st Class Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8166), S.S. 103986, s. of William Bolton, by his wife, Louisa (Towns End, New Buckingham, near Attleboro’, Norfolk), dau. of Robert Duffield; b. Scole, 7 Oct. 1888; educ. there; joined the Navy 1906, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

BOLTON, ERNEST JAMES, Private, No. 10221, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Moore Bolton, of 60, East Street, Coventry; b. Warwick; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action between 21 Oct. 1914 and 5 Feb. 1915; unm.

BOLTON, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6944, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BOLTON, HARRY HARGREAVES, Capt., 5th Battn. East Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of Heightside, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., Colliery Owner, by his wife, Florence Eliza, dau. of Thomas Allen, of the Manor House, Thurmaston, Leicester; b. Accrington, co. Lancaster, 9 Feb. 1886; educ. Mostyn House School, Parkgate; and at Shrewsbury School, and after being at home for a short time, gaining some knowledge of the working of collieries, he went to Wigan, and attended for two years a course of mining instruction, part of which consisted of practical work underground in the mines of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, Ltd., afterwards returning to Accrington Collieries to gain further experience, with a view to sitting for examination for the first-class mine manager’s certificate. This he obtained in Dec. 1912. Soon after, on the retirement, through ill-health, of the late Mr. James Whittaker, he was appointed to the responsible position of agent for the Accrington Collieries of Messrs. George Hargreaves & Co., of which his father was managing partner. He joined the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the Manchesters at Bolton in 1905, which was then the 1st Battn. Volunteers, but on his return to Accrington he transferred to the 5th Battn. of the East Lancashires, and having passed the school of instruction for qualification to the Regular service, was given his commission as Capt. 25 July, 1911. On the outbreak of war he and his brother both volunteered for foreign service, and went out with their regt. from Burnley to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and on 5 May, 1915, to the Dardanelles. He wrote home from the transport on that day, and nothing more was heard until a telegram was received to say that he had been wounded on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915, shot in the head, and he died without gaining consciousness the same day. Capt. Bolton took a great interest in the work of the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners’ Rescue station, formed for the purpose of rescuing men at underground explosions, going through the course of training instruction with the Accrington Collieries rescue team, and obtained a certificate for competency. At the time of the Hulton Colliery explosion he took a team of men over fully equipped with the necessary appliances and went underground to help in the work required after the explosion. He was also a keen supporter of the National Service League, and was Secretary for the Accrington district. Closely associated with St. Augustine’s Church and School, Huncoat, he took a boys’ class in the Sunday School there regularly up to the time of his marriage. He m. at Habergham Church, Burnley, 1 June, 1911, Helen Oliver, dau. of Alexander Drew, of Holme Lodge, Burnley, J.P., and they lived at High Brake, Accrington, and had two children: George Henry Hargreaves, b. 14 Feb. 1914; and Rhona Helen Allen, b. 2 April, 1915. Capt. Bolton’s next brother, Lieut. John Bolton, was also killed at the Dardanelles (see his notice), and his two younger brothers, Lieut. Maurice Bolton and Lieut. Geoffrey Bolton, and his brother-in-law, Lieut. Douglas Hacking, Conservative candidate for Chorley, are now (1916) on active service.

BOLTON, JAMES FREDERICK, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1909), late Ch. I/12380, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOLTON, JOHN, Lieut., 5th Battn. East Lancashire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of Heightside, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., etc. (see preceding notice); b. Accrington, co. Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1889; educ. Tonbridge School, and Manchester University. On leaving the latter, where he took the three years’ mining engineering course, he was engaged at the Accrington and Rossendale Collieries, of which his father was Managing Director, and after a short time was placed in charge of the commercial department at Accrington, and was soon recognised as a capable and energetic business man. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the East Lancashires, 19 June, 1913, and volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war. His regt. went out to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and while there he took a special course in scouting under Gurkha officers, and was made Scout Master of the battn. He received his Lieutenant’s commission 6 May, 1915, and sailed for the Dardanelles the same day. He was killed by a shell which fell in the front line trenches, in the bombardment before the advance on Krithia, 4 June. After his death his father received from General Douglas, commanding 42nd Division, the following card of congratulation which had been sent to him, but before it reached him he had been killed: “The General Officer commanding the 42nd (East Lancs.) Division congratulates Lieut. J. Bolton, 1/5 Battn. East Lancs. Regt. on the gallant action performed by him on 12 May, 1915. Signed C. O. W. Douglas, M. Genl. Commd., 42nd Division.” The action referred to was fetching ammunition from the base under fire of the enemy, when the battn. ran short in the trenches. He was unm. and was buried at Ghurka Bluff, Gallipoli.

BOLTON, JOHN, Private, No. 2575, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Lancaster; enlisted 1 April, 1899; served in South Africa, 9 Aug. 1900 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medals with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Braisne, 8 Oct. following, of wounds received in action; m.

BOLTON, JOSEPH CROOK, Private, No. 25689, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of (—) Bolton; b. Clitheroe, 3 June, 1883; educ. Royal Grammar School there; went to Canada in Oct. 1912, and was a painter; on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted, came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front, 10 Feb. 1915, and died 23 April, 1915, of wounds received in the great Canadian Charge at St. Julien. He was buried in Vlamertinghe Churchyard, Belgium. He m. 20 May, 1907, Emma (52, Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, Lancs), dau. of (—) Rushton, and had two children: Frank, b. 12 May, 1910; and Marjorie Esther, b. 4 Nov. 1908.

BOLTON, WILFRED, Private, No. 260, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of (—) Bolton, of Normanton, Yorkshire; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 18 May, 1915.

BOLTON, WILFRID, Sub-Lieut. R.N.V.R., Collingwood Battn., R.N.D., 2nd s. of Henry Lushington Bolton, of The Sanctuary, Westminster, and The Gables, Crowborough Beacon, Sussex, Solicitor, by his wife, Chloe, dau. of James Richard Gordon; b. Porchester Terrace, London, 26 May, 1897; educ. at The Grange, Crowborough; Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Osborne and Dartmouth. On leaving Dartmouth in April, 1914, he was rejected for the Navy on account of a slight defect in sight. On the outbreak of war joined the R.N.V.R., and was killed in Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915.

BOLTON, WILLIAM, L.-Corpl., No. 15252, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Kemmerl, 29 May, 1915; m.

BON, ROBERT, Private, No. 2399, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct., 1914.

BOND, JOSEPH, Private, No. 10752, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of Joseph Bond, of 44, Brough Street, Derby, Warder, Derby Prison, by his wife, Kate, dau. of the late Thomas Gordon, of Derby; b. Derby, 1 March, 1895; educ. St. Joseph’s R.C. School there; was for some time a Porter at the Great Northern Railway Station at Derby, and enlisted 1 June, 1914. He was sent to France 9 Oct. following, was severely wounded in the fighting around Ypres, 19 Nov. 1914, and died at No. 4 Clearing Hospital two days later. He was buried in the Military New Cemetery at Poperinghe; unm.

BOND, OLIVER HUGH DEVEREUX, Sapper, No. 2074, 1/1st Kent Field Coy., R.E., only s. of the late David Bond, of Bovey Tracey, South Devon, by his wife, Harriett (Watford, near Rugby, Northamptonshire), dau. of Hugh Devereux; b. South Kensington, 4 June, 1891; educ. Long Buckby (Rugby) Council School; was a Plumber; enlisted 22 May, 1915, and went to the Dardanelles 23 Sept. 1915. He was mortally wounded by a Turkish shell when returning from a day’s work in the trenches, at Lala Baba, Suvla, 1 Dec. 1915, and died an hour later. The doctor who attended him said: “He was one of the bravest lads I have had under my notice during the war,” and his N.C.O. wrote: “He did not know what fear was.” He was buried in the Reserve Area, 2nd Mounted Division, south of Chocolate Hill; unm.

BOND, SAMUEL, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3693), S.S. 101259, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOND, THOMAS MORGAN, 2nd Lieut., 11th Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, late Private, No. 9973, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., yst. s. of Major Thomas Morgan Bond, of 37, St. James’ Square, Holland Park, W., R.A.M.C. (retired), by his wife, Martha Francis, dau. of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Greenock; b. Belfast, 12 Oct. 1896; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex; enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade on 10 Aug. 1914, five days after the declaration of war, and at once joined his battn. for training at Crowborough. He left for France on 4 Nov., served in the trenches through the winter and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 2 May, 1915, aged 18 years and 7 months; unm. He was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Irish Rifles, 10 May, to rank as from 10 March, but did not live to take up his commission.

BOND, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7905), S.S. 103590, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BONE, HARRY, Gunner, R.M.A., 12056, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BONE, WILLIAM GEORGE ALFRED, Private, No. 1652, 1/4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st s. of William George Bone, of 253, Seward Street Buildings, Goswell Road, E.C., by his wife, Ada Rose; b. St. Luke’s, London, E.C., 29 Aug. 1895; educ. L.C.C. Central School; enlisted Aug. 1913, and was killed in action in Flanders, 27 April, 1915; unm.

BONFIELD, JAMES GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14967, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BONIFACE, VICTOR GORDON JOHN, Leading Seaman, 204435, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BONNAR, WILLIAM McGREGOR, Trooper, No. 726, 6th Australian Light Horse, 3rd s. of William Bonnar, of 51, Braid Avenue, Edinburgh, Joint General Manager, New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Ltd., by his wife, Mary Strachan Baird, dau. of John Calderwood; b. Edinburgh, 31 March, 1890; educ. George Watson’s College there, which he left in 1909, deciding to take up stock farming. After some training in Lauderdale he left Scotland for Australia, where he spent four years on a large sheep and cattle station in New South Wales. Soon after the outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914, proceeded in March, 1915, with reinforcements of his regt. to Egypt, and two months later crossed to Gallipoli. He had volunteered for bombing work, and while engaged in this was severely wounded and died on the hospital ship Sicilia two days later, 13 June, 1915, being buried at sea three miles off Gaba Tepe; unm.

BOONE, CHARLES FREDERICK DE BOHUN, Capt., 2nd Battn. Essex Regt., eldest s. of the late Col. Frederick Browne Boone, H.E.I.C.S., by his wife, Mary Frederica, dau. of Major-Gen. Wavell, F.R.S; b. Nagode, India, 16 May, 1870; educ. Haileybury, and Oriel College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 July, 1892, and promoted Lieut. 30 Sept. 1896, and Capt. 9 Oct. 1900; was Adjutant of Volunteers from Sept. 1902 to Nov. 1906, and was afterwards attached to the staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served with the relief force in the Chitral campaign (medal with clasp), 1895; in the South African War, 1900–2, being employed with the mounted infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal (May-Oct. 1900 and again Nov. 1901–May 1902), and in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River (Jan. 1901); present at the actions at Vet River (5–6 May, 1900), the Zand River, Diamond Hill (11–12 June), Belfast (26–27 Aug.), Frederickstad (17–25 Oct.), and at Colesberg (1–29 Jan. 1901), etc. (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug.-Sept. 1914; wounded at the Battle of the Marne, and died in the Lycée Pasteur, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 23 Sept. 1914; unm.

BOORER, WALTER JAMES, Trooper, No. 1839, West Kent Yeomanry, eldest s. of Walter George Boorer, of High Street, Cobham, Surrey, Printer and Publisher, formerly of Dorking, by his wife, Rachel, dau. of the late Samuel Butler of Tooting, Surrey; b. Dorking, co. Surrey, 15 Jan. 1897; educ. St. Martin’s National School, Dorking; volunteered and enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; left England for the Dardanelles in Sept., and was killed in the trenches there, 8 Nov. 1915. He was buried in his regimental cemetery in Y Ravine at Helles, Gallipoli. His Major wrote: “Your son and another man were both killed by the same shell, which came down the trench in which they were in. Death was almost instantaneous, and he could have suffered no pain. He had not been long in my squadron, but during the time he was with me he did his duty as a soldier, and displayed great courage under fire.”

BOORMAN, CYRIL ADLINGTON, Trooper, No. 801, posthumous Lieut. B. Squadron West Kent Yeomanry (T.F.), only child of Frederick William Boorman, of Gravesend, Solicitor and Commissioner for Oaths; b. Gravesend, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. King’s School, Rochester, where he held a King’s Scholarship; joined the West Kent Yeomanry in 1913, and on mobilization volunteered for foreign service with them, but died at home of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted while in training at Westbere, near Canterbury, 3 March, 1915. He was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. R.E. 27 March, to rank as from 1 March (prior to death). Lieut. the Hon. A. R. Mills wrote: “He joined the troop with me in 1913, and was under me for two trainings and, of course, since mobilisation, and was one of my most efficient men—intelligent, keen, and a first-rate soldier, and I feel sure would have made a most excellent officer.” Mr. Boorman was in his school cricket eleven for several years and captain of the football eleven; he also held the record for the long jump at the school sports, and was a member of the Gravesend Cricket and Rowing Clubs. He had matriculated at London University and passed the A.M.I.C.E. examination.

BOOT, ARTHUR, Private, No. 1076, 7th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of George Arthur Boot, of Risley House, 1 Berridge Road East, Nottingham, by his wife, Mary Kate, dau. of Mark Spink Shaw; b. Robin Hood’s Chase, Nottingham, 29 April, 1893; educ. Grosvenor School. He joined the Nottingham Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.) as a driver (No. 328), 27 June, 1911, and obtained his discharge 30 Sept. 1913, after which he went to Australia. On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the 7th Battn. of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, left with his battn. for the Dardanelles, was dangerously wounded in the head in action there, 9 May, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Nevasa on the 27th of that month; unm. He was buried at sea. His two brothers are now (1916) on active service, the elder, Leonard, with the Red Cross in France; the yr., George Harold, as Lieut. in the 15th Sherwood Foresters in France.

BOOTH, GEORGE THOMAS, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24708 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BOOTH, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10630 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOOTH, ROLAND HARTLEY, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24104 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Arthur Newsome Booth, of 177, Newsome Road, Huddersfield, co. York; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BOOTH, THOMAS, Private, No. 21338, 4th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Thomas Henry Booth, of 46, Ball Haye Road, Leek, Leather Merchant, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Bamford, of Stafford; b. Leek, co. Stafford, 24 Feb. 1877; educ. Leek Grammar School; was for some time manager of his father’s leather warehouse; joined the 2nd Manchester Volunteers in 1896, and the 1st Coy. North Staffordshire Volunteers in 1900, and served with them until their disbandment on the organisation of the Territorial Force in 1907; went to Canada in June, 1912, and was in the employ of the Hudson Bay Co., at Winnipeg; volunteered and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France, 31 March, 1915; was shot by a sniper while being relieved from the trenches at Ploegsteert, 2 Sept., and died of wounds in the Northern General Hospital, Leicester, on the 30th of that month. Buried in the family vault at Leek; unm.

BOOTH, TOM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9662, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOOTHAWAY, ARTHUR, Private, No. 9127, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Alonzo Boothaway, of Central Avenue, Wigston Magna, co. Leicester. Hosiery Framework Knitter, by his wife, Maria, dau. of William Vann; b. Wigston Magna, 4 Jan. 1892; educ. Board School there; enlisted 28 May, 1911, and at the time of the outbreak of war was serving as a valet at King Edward VII Hospital, Grosvenor Gardens, W. He went through the retreat from Mons, was wounded on 7 Nov. 1914, but recovered and returned to the trenches on 24 Dec., and was killed in action near Festubert, 3 Jan. 1915, while being relieved from the trenches. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery, Rue du Bois, Bethune (Richebourg Road, Row B, Grave 17); unm.

BOOTHBY, JAMES ROBERT, Lieut.-Commander R.N.V.R., No. 4 Squadron Armoured Cars, formerly Lieut., Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the late Alexander Cunningham Boothby, of St. Andrews, by his wife, Madeline (now wife of Alexander Rigaud Wilson Wood, of 7, Abbotsford Crescent, St. Andrews), dau. of Frederick Lewis Maitland Heriot, of Ramornie, co. Fife; b. Springfield House, Cupar, Fife, 17 Jan. 1883; educ. St. Salvators, St. Andrews, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire. In May, 1900, he joined the Fife Artillery Militia. He served in the 24th Battn. Imperial Yeomanry during the South African War, receiving medal with five clasps. He rejoined the Fife Artillery in 1903 and was subsequently appointed to the Royal Scots and served in India. When the regt. came home he resigned owing to temporary ill-health and went to Vancouver. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and obtained a commission in the Armoured Car Division. He was killed in action on 1 May, 1915, at Gallipoli, the day after landing at Gaba Tepe. His commanding officer wrote: “I can only say this, that every officer and man in the Armoured Car Force simply loved Jim Boothby. I never want a more loyal, good-hearted and good-natured second in command than he was. His own men saw that he had, what perhaps few out there got, a proper burial.” He was unm.

BOREHAM, CHARLES WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st class (R.F.R., B. 4450), S.S. 103462, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOSANQUET, LIONEL ARTHUR, of Cleddon Hall, co. Monmouth, Lieut.-Col., 9th Battn. The Sherwood Foresters (Notts, and Derby Regt.), eldest s. of the late Arthur Bosanquet, of Cleddon Hall, J.P., I.C.S., Judge, Bombay Presidency, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Col. Andrew Crawford, and grandson of Augustus Henry Bosanquet, of Ossidge, Southgate, H.E.I.C.S.; b. Southgate, co. Herts., 29 Jan. 1862; educ. Mr. Rose’s private school, Ramsgate, and Harrow; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted Lieut. to the Sherwood Foresters, 10 March, 1883, and promoted Capt. 8 May, 1892, and Major 9 May, 1903. He served in the Tirah Campaign 1897–8, took part in the operations in the Bazar Valley (25–30 Dec. 1897), the action at Dargai, and in the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, receiving the medal with two clasps; and retired in 1911. On the outbreak of war he rejoined and was given command of the 9th (Service) Battn. of his regt., 26 Oct., 1914. He went out to the Dardanelles and was in action from the 23 July to 22 Aug. 1915. He was wounded on 9 Aug. but rejoined in a week and was killed in action 22 Aug. 1915. Col. Bosanquet was killed (believed by machine guns) in Dead Man’s Gully, while leading his battn. To quote from a General’s letter, whose brigade found and buried his body: “He must have done well, for he was close up to the enemy, ahead of most of his men, who were stretched out behind him, never a one with his back turned, and all in perfect alignment.” He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [and published in the Supplement to the London Gazette dated 28 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Col. Bosanquet m. at Crockham Hill, Kent, 31 Aug. 1892, Alice Emily (7, Springfield Place, Bath), 2nd dau. of the Rev. John Erskine Campbell-Colquhoun, of Killermont and Garscaddon, co. Dumbarton, M.A., J.P., D.L., formerly Vicar of Southwold and Crockham Hill, and granddaughter of the late John Campbell-Colquhoun, of Killermont and Garscaddon, by his wife, the Hon. Henrietta Maria, née Powys, dau. of Thomas, 2nd Lord Lilford, and had issue: Cicely Alice Colquhoun, b. 25 Nov. 1893; and Eveline Louise Emmeline, b. 11 Jan. 1899.

BOSANQUET, SIDNEY COURTHOPE, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The Middlesex Regt., elder s. of Charles John Bosanquet, of Stokesay, Kidbrook Park, Blackheath, Electrical Engineer, by his wife, Edith, elder dau. of the Rev. John Lloyd, of Llanvapley, co. Monmouth, and grandson of the late Rev. Edward Stanley Bosanquet, Rector of Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln, and great nephew of the late Samuel Richard Bosanquet, of Forest House and Dingeston Court, co. Monmouth, J.P., D.L.; b. Belvedere, co. Kent, 15 July, 1894; educ. St. Lawrence’s College, Ramsgate; received his commission 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Houplines, near Armentières, 16 Dec. 1914; unm.

BOSEMAN, JOHN, Private, No. 631, 1st Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Armagh, Ireland; volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915.

BOSHER, CHARLES WALTER, Corpl., No. 2446, 1/7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Walter John Bosher, of 8, High Street, Egham, by his wife, Winifred Birkett, dau. of Henry Channing; b. Egham, co. Surrey, 2 Sept. 1884: educ. at Cranleigh School, Surrey; was in business with father as a corn and coal merchant; joined the 1/7th City of London Regt. early in Sept. 1914, and after training at Watford during the winter, went to the Front, 17 March, 1915. He came safely through the Battle of Loos (25 Sept.), and was killed in action three weeks later at Hulluch, 19 Oct. 1915, by the explosion of a trench mortar; unm. His cousin, Corpl. R. F. Bosher, who joined the Colours the same day was killed by the same explosion (see following notice).

BOSHER, RONALD FREDERICK, Corpl., No. 2449, 1/7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Ellington Bosher, of Lewes, Sussex, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Arthur Garratt; b. Lewes, co. Sussex, 24 March, 1893; educ. at Lewes Grammar School; was a farmer’s assistant; joined the 7th City of London Regt. early in Sept. 1914, and after training at Watford during the winter, went to the Front, 17 March, 1915. He came safely through the Battle of Loos (25 Sept.), and was killed in action at Hulluch, 19 Oct. 1915; unm. His cousin, Corpl. C. Bosher, who joined the Colours the same day, was killed at the same time (see previous notice).

BOSWELL, BENJAMIN, Private, No. 5784, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Benjamin Boswell, Blacksmith; b. Small Heath, Birmingham, 25 Dec. 1886; educ. Ada Street Council School there; enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regt., purchasing his discharge from it in 1902. On 4 Oct. 1903, he joined the Coldstream Guards, and died of wounds received in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 15 Sept. 1914. He m. at Christ Church, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 16 April, 1911, Lily, dau. of William Herrick, of Small Heath; s.p.

BOSWELL, JOSEPH NORMAN, Boy, 1st Class (Dev.), J. 29552, H.M.S. Formidable; lost when that ship was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel, 1 Jan., 1915.

GARNETT-BOTFIELD, ALFRED CLULOW FITZGERALD, Lieut., 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, yr. s. of the late William Egerton Garnett-Botfield, of Decker Hill, and The Hut, Bishop’s Castle, co. Salop, J.P., F.G.S., by his wife, Elizabeth Clulow (Decker Hill, Shifnal, etc.), dau. of John Howard-McLean, of Aston Hall, co. Salop, and gdson. of the late Rev. William Bishton Garnett-Botfield, of Decker Hill, co. Salop, and Haughton Hall, co. Chester, M.A., J.P.; b. Bishop’s Castle, 16 June, 1892; educ. Eton (Mr. Churchill’s House), and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was up at Cambridge for the Long Vacation when war was declared. He volunteered the same day, and was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914. After a course of training at Sheerness he was sent to the Western Front in Nov., and on arrival there was attached to the South Wales Borderers, and was subsequently (22 Jan. 1915) transferred to that regt. He served through the fighting at Festubert, Givenchy, La Bassée and Neuve Chapelle, where he several times had his clothes pierced with bullets but escaped unwounded, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915; unm., and was buried there. He had been promoted Lieut. in March. Writing to his mother, his company officer, Capt. A. C. Lloyd, said: “Your very gallant son fell in action on the 9th (Sunday). His platoon was ordered out to an advanced trench under protection of our artillery fire. The order was given to advance from there, and though heavy maxim gun fire was coming from the German lines, he at once and without any hesitation gave the command, ‘Prepare to advance.’ I was myself hit and just saw him leap out of the trench, only to fall at once instantaneously killed. I have recommended him for his gallant conduct, and only hope that an official recognition of his qualities as a soldier will receive due mention.... A more efficient subaltern than your son could not be found, always ready for any work however hazardous, and always most cheerful. The men all loved him, and would have followed him anywhere, as they always knew he could lead them.” And his commanding officer, Major A. I. Reddie, wrote: “On the 9th an assault in the early morning had been attempted on the enemy’s trenches. This was unsuccessful, so another was made in the afternoon, when our battn. were detailed to carry it out in one part of the line. Your son’s platoon during the artillery bombardment had to crawl along an old trench in front of the breastwork in order to get nearer the enemy’s lines. This they had to do under heavy fire, but succeeded so far. When the time came for the assault your son jumped up to lead his men, and was shot at once before he got any distance. Several attempts were made at night to recover his body, but owing to the enemy’s fire it was found impossible to do so before we were relieved at midnight; but it is still hoped to do so, and we had arranged to bury all the officers in an orchard near a place called ‘Windy Corner.’” His body was afterwards recovered and “buried on the 10th in the evening by being carried across our trench on one of the bridges used for the ditch ... about 300 yards on the left of the cinder track. The ditch between our line and the German line is the most permanent guide. This ditch, about 4 feet deep and 16 feet wide, runs parallel to our line, then at right angles to this into the German. The spot would be about 250 yards to our left of this junction and 40 yards from this point back in the direction of the Rue du Bois.” At Cambridge he was in the first Third Trinity boat. He stroked the winning University Trial Eight two years in succession, and with Mr. A. Drewe won the Foster-Fairbairn Pairs in the record time of 8 min. 35½ secs. He was also a keen tennis and hockey player. He was intensely musical, much of his spare time being spent at the organ. He was a member of Third Trinity, Leander and Viking Rowing Clubs, and but for the war would more than possibly have stroked the University boat in 1915. One who knew him very intimately at Cambridge as an engineering student wrote to his mother of him: “Your son was one of the best types produced by Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, a type we can very ill afford to lose.... He was much honoured, respected ... and loved by all oarsmen, and many hoped he might in his last year have obtained the coveted ‘Blue.’ As engineer he displayed a great ability in practical things and a thorough understanding of machines and men. An untimely end through his fearless bravery has robbed us of one of the very finest of the coming generation.”

GARNETT-BOTFIELD, CHARLES SIDNEY, Capt., Bedfordshire Regt., elder s. of the Rev. Charles Ramsey Garnett-Botfield, M.A., Vicar of Moreton, Oswestry, co. Salop, by his wife, Ida Mary, dau. of Thomas Aldersey of Aldersey, co. Chester, and gdson. of the Rev. William Bishton Garnett-Botfield, of Decker Hill, co. Salop, and Haughton Hall, co. Chester, M.A., J.P.; b. Rochdale, 5 Oct. 1887; educ. Rossall and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Bedfordshire Regt. 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1910, and Capt. 2nd Battn. 15 Sept. 1914. He died at Boulogne, 14 Dec. 1914, from wounds received in action at Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914, and was buried at Moreton; unm. Capt. Garnett-Botfield was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

BOTHWELL, WILLIAM, Private, No. 18312, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of William Bothwell, of 10, Bogside Place, Easter House, Lanarkshire; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died in the Canadian General Hospital, Camiers, 4 Oct. 1915.

BOTLEY, ALBERT WICKSTEAD, A.B., Ch. J. 10692, H.M.S. Formidable; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the English Channel, 1 Jan. 1915.

BOTTGER, ABBIN ERNEST HENRY, Private, No. 7774, 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 11–18 March, 1915.

BOTTING, EDWARD CHARLES, Private, No. G. 915, 6th (Service) Battn. East Kent Regt., s. of John Botting, of 12, Wheatley Terrace, Erith, Kent; b. Battersea, S.W., 20 July, 1893; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 Oct., 1915.

BOTTING, GEORGE, Private, No. G. 71, 7th (Service) Battn. East Surrey Regt., s. of Joseph Botting, of Cowdry Cottage, Midhurst, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 8 Oct. 1915.

BOTTOMLEY, ALBERT, Private, No. 2010, 4th Battn. Manchester Regt.; was employed at Messrs. Platt Brothers & Co.’s Works, Oldham; enlisted early in 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 14 March, 1915, aged 25.

BOTTOMLEY, THOMAS REGINALD, B.A., Lieut., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Bottomley, of 25, Norman Road Thornton Heath, co. Surrey, formerly of Ripponden, Halifax, by his wife, Ellen, eldest dau. of the late Peter Whiteley, of Liverpool; b. Ripponden, co. York, 17 Oct. 1887; educ. Rishworth Grammar School, and St. John’s Training College, Battersea, and from the latter was appointed as a teacher by the Croydon Educational Committee in 1909. He was connected mainly with the Oval Road Boys’ School, and with his boys he was a great favourite and an intimate friend, joining in all their sports and gaining their confidence in every way. As an internal student of London University he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1913 and had intended to take the Honours Degree examination in 1915. It was while at London University that he entered the Officers’ Training Corps, in which he spent three years until April, 1914, when he accepted a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st East Yorkshires. He entered barracks in June, left for the Front the beginning of Sept. a few days after his marriage, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 23 Sept. 1914. He was elected to membership of the South London Harriers in 1911, and was known mostly to the cross-country members, having been a regular attendant at headquarters. He avoided racing not being keen on it, nevertheless he finished 26th in the match against the Ranelagh Harriers in 1912. He m. at Cambridge, 29 Aug. 1914, Eveline Mary, only dau. of William Henry Gibson, of The Hollins, Sowerby Bridge; s.p.

BOUCHER, HAROLD ERNEST, Private, No. 7065, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Arthur Boucher, by his wife, Helena, dau. of James Whitehouse; b. Birmingham, 17 Aug. 1886; enlisted in 1st Battn. 28 Dec. 1906, and exchanged into the 3rd Battn. when he went to Egypt, serving seven years with the colours. On the outbreak of war he was called up from the Reserve, and died at Viviers, Landrecies, 2 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. He m. at Windsor, 4 Dec. 1912, Gertrude Annie (4, Park View, Winson Street, Dudley Road, Birmingham), dau. of George Hawkins, and had two children: Frances Annetta Gregson, b. 11 Oct. 1913; and Kathleen Gertrude Magdalen, b. (posthumous) 27 April, 1915.

BOUGHTON, ERNEST GEORGE, Rifleman, No. 3226, No. 2 Platoon, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt., 3rd s. of Horace John Boughton, of 15, Auckland Road, Bow, E., by his wife, Ann, dau. of George Parrot; b. Bow, London, E., 22 May, 1896; educ. Chisenhale Road Council School; was a Shop Assistant; enlisted 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and died in hospital at Bethune, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at La Bassée the previous day; unm. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His Platoon Officer, Lieut. W. A. Piercey, wrote: “He was wounded to-day. He was struck twice by a German sniper while out of the trench under my orders. Rifleman Gowers, who was with him, acted in a very cool and soldierly way in assisting his comrade under fire, and your son bore up most bravely under the pain and discomfort inevitable in being brought in under such circumstances. We have every reason to be proud of them both.”

BOULDEN, REUBEN WILLIAM HENRY, Leading Seaman, 237607, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

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

BOULT, THOMAS, Corpl., No. 1639, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry; a native of Seaham Harbour, Durham; went to Canada from West Hartlepool about 1910; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry; was severely wounded at Ypres, where he had a leg shot off, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 15 May, 1915. Three of his brothers are on service, two in the Army and one in the Navy.

BOULTON, JAMES FORSTER, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Monmouth, yr. s. of Alexander Claude Forster Boulton, of 28, Ranelagh Avenue, Barnes, J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, formerly M.P., North Hunts, by his wife, Florence Marion, dau. of Henry Harmes; b. Putney, 3 April, 1899; educ. Willington School, Putney, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth on the outbreak of war, as a Naval Cadet, and was advanced to the rank of Midshipman only a few days before he was lost in the sinking of H.M.S. Monmouth, while in action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. Entering Willington School as its youngest boy in May, 1905, he left it as head boy at Christmas, 1911, after being head of Form V and prize-winner the previous July. Having entered Osborne Royal Naval College in Jan. 1912, he was second of his year at Easter and first of his year at Midsummer. He was top in bookwork in the Christmas term, and third in the final order for the year. He played for the Soccer XI in various “forward” positions. In the following year he won the fly-weight boxing, and passed out second of the 70 Cadets of his “year.” In Jan., 1914, he entered Dartmouth College, where he was also first in bookwork in his first term. His aggregate position at both colleges was generally second—a highly creditable record when one remembers the number of Cadets.

BOURGES, JOHN (JEAN), Private, No. 67214, 25th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Gabriel Bourges, of Cancale, Ille et Vilaine, France; b. Cancale, 3 May, 1890; educ. there, and left France on a French fishing vessel in 1904 for Canada, and on account of ill-treatment remained there and worked as a sailor, and never returned to France until he came with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he at once volunteered, crossed to France in Sept., and was killed in action 27 Dec. 1915, by the bursting of a shell in his trench; unm. He was buried in the cemetery of the 25th Battn. by the Rev. Father Doyen, of the 5th Brigade.

BOURKE, BERTRAM WALTER, Capt., 5th, attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only surviving s. of the late Major William Henry Bourke, of Heathfield, Ballina, co. Mayo, Connaught Rangers, by his wife, Sarah Louisa, dau. of James John Young; b. 9 Dec. 1882; educ. in Saint Servant, France; served with the Royal Engineers (Militia) from which he exchanged into the 5th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1904; passed the school of instruction for employment with the Regular Forces, and obtained the rank of Capt. 24 Feb. 1912. He left for the Front on 2 May, 1915, was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and was killed in action while gallantly leading his men near Ypres, just a week later, 9 May, 1915. Capt. Bourke m. at Stapletown, Carlow, 19 April, 1913, Eileen, dau. of George Neville Usher, of Carlow, and had two daus.: Vivienne Neville, b. 29 Jan. 1914; and Patricia Bertram, b. 4 Nov. 1915.

BOURKE, EUSTACE GEORGE WALTER, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, eldest s. of Walter Longley Bourke, of Monycrower, Maidenhead, late Major, Duke of Lancaster’s Own Imperial Yeomanry, by his wife, Ethel Kathleen Jane, only dau. of the late Capt. John W... Freeman, of Rockfield, co. Hereford, 16th Regt., and grandson of Rev. the Hon. George Wingfield Bourke, M.A., [4th s. of Robert, 5th Earl of Mayo]; b. 24 June, 1888; educ. at Mr. Arnold’s School at Wixenford, Uppingham and Sandhurst, and received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6 Feb. 1909, becoming Lieut. 20 Aug. 1912, and Capt. 18 May, 1915. For some time he was A.D.C. to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor-General of South Africa, but was unable to proceed with Lord Buxton to take up the appointment on account of the outbreak of the war. He went out to the Front on 12 Aug. 1914, being in command of the machine-gun section of his battn. He was with his battn. during the retreat from Mons and on the Aisne. Near Ypres, on 26 Oct., he received a bullet wound in the foot, and was sent home. Subsequently he was appointed Adjutant of the 6th (Reserve) battn. of his regt., which appointment he might have retained until the end of the war but for his own determination to go again to the Front. Early in May he was transferred as Adjutant to the 9th Battn., and on the 20th of that month he again proceeded to the Front. “20 May. Just off,” he wrote. “We shall be in France before you get this. I can’t understand myself. I expected when the time came I should be sorry to go. However, I slept like a top last night, no worries, so far no fears. Everything seems to me to be quite all in the day’s work. It’s odd when you think of it.” He was promoted Capt. on 18 May, though not gazetted until a few weeks later. Capt. Bourke was killed in the first action in which the 9th battn. was engaged, and within half a mile of the spot where he was wounded in October. The battn. was ordered forward and marched up a railway cutting in full view of a German observation balloon. Within a few minutes they were being heavily shelled, and one burst close to Capt. Bourke and his servant (Rifleman S. Chater), who were together; the latter was blown into the air, but neither was injured. Capt. Bourke turned back to see if his man was hurt, and they then made for some small dug-outs in the side of the cutting. Before they could take cover, however, another shell fell close to them, and Capt. Bourke was badly hit. Chater again escaped unhurt, though he afterwards suffered so severely from shock that he had to be invalided home. Chater ran off under heavy fire to fetch a doctor, and succeeded in bringing one back in a very few minutes, but only to find that Capt. Bourke was already dead. Chater remained with him for several hours in the hope of being able to bring his body in, but this was impossible. It was, however, recovered the next day, and he was buried in a cemetery close to Ypres, where a wooden cross, put up by his Colonel and some of his brother officers, marks his grave. Col. Chaplin (himself killed shortly afterwards), in writing to Capt. Bourke’s father, said: “I cannot express to you how very deeply we feel his loss. He was most conscientious and a very useful officer, and did his duty admirably. I fear his loss to the battn. and to myself is almost irreparable.” And Major Hope (2nd in command), in another letter said: “I should like to add that I myself only knew your son for about a month, but that was quite long enough to become devoted to him and to appreciate his sterling qualities both as a man and as a soldier. I believe it was the same throughout all ranks of the battn., to which his loss is indeed irreparable. I was in the same mess with him, and he was always so cheery and capable in any difficulty. Chater, his servant, is heart-broken, and has gone to hospital.” Capt. Eric Benson also wrote: “In the short time he was with us he did so much for the battn. and helped everyone. We all miss him more than I can say, both as a soldier and as a friend.” Like so many of the Bourke family, he was devoted to hunting. In regimental point-to-point races, too, he never missed a chance of a plucky ride for a place, and many will remember how well he was often carried by his charger “Maxim Gun.” The charm of his personality is vividly illustrated in the lifelike description of him written by a friend, and here quoted: “He was still a boy, though already in the Army and an A.D.C., when I first knew him, about four years before his death. He retained to the last day I saw him before he went out to the war for the second time the light-hearted look of amusement at life of a typical boy, and his open expression, curly brown hair, and big humorous brown eyes heightened this first impression, but as time went on and things were discussed with and before him and, incidentally, his own experience and plans, it was striking to see how often he summed up a question in a few words modestly and often lightly spoken. Then, when it came to decisions, whilst almost turning the laugh against himself, he was clear as to his own course of action, and this invariably included consideration for and loyalty to others. He seemed to see his way without question. His handsome, healthy face and figure and look of high spirits seemed to put up the temperature when he came into a room.”

BOURKE, JAMES PATRICK, Private, No. 93, 1st Australian Light Horse, 2nd s. of James Bourke, Private Estate Steward, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Hugh Wallis; b. Kilfrush, co. Limerick, 23 Nov. 1880; educ. National School, Hospital; went to Australia in June, 1907; enlisted after the outbreak of war and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 26 June, 1915. He m. at Hospital, 10 Sept. 1905, Mary, eldest dau. of Loughlin Doran, of 26, Deyne Avenue, Rusholme, Manchester, and had a dau., Mary Elizabeth, b. 23 Nov. 1906.

BOURNE, ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4221), 294840, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOURNS, CHARLES, Lieut., 6th, attd. 4th, Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yr. s. of Charles Bourns, of Boley, Lichfield, formerly of West Hill, Oxted, Physician, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Edward Walker, of West Hill, Oxted, and Araluen, Eastbourne; b. West Hill, Oxted, 7 Aug. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School and St. John’s College, Oxford (M.A.), and was an Assistant Master at Repton when war was declared. Being a member of the Repton O.T.C., he obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in Oct. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. in the Rifle Brigade, 22 Jan. 1915. He was killed in action near Hooge, 25 May, 1915; unm. He was an Oxford (Rugby football) Blue in 1903.

BOUTLE, SYDNEY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2047), 209405, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, JACOB EDWARD, Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of the late Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie, of Coleshill House, by his wife, Maria Eleanor (Coleshill House, Highworth, Wilts.), dau. of Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Bt., and grandson of Jacob, 4th Earl of Radnor; b. Sherburn Lodge, Watlington, co. Oxford, 12 July, 1887; educ. Evelyns, Uxbridge; St. Vincents, Eastbourne; Eton, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, 8 Feb. 1908; joined his battn. at Colchester, and left with them for India in 1909. He was promoted Lieut. 23 Jan. 1911, returning to England the same year. On the outbreak of war, after some weeks at Sheerness, he went out with a draft on 30 Aug., arriving at St. Nazaire 1 Sept., 1914. He left there to join the 2nd Battn. in billets at Paynon, 20 Sept., and was posted to D Coy., taking command of 13 and 14 platoons. The battn. remained at or near Paynon till 18 Oct., when they were moved to Ypres. They were in the trenches from 22–24 Oct. when they returned to billets in Ypres. On 27 Oct. they went into reserve trenches in a wood just east of Hooge, and on 29th advanced to reinforce the 3rd Brigade at Gheluvelt. Lieut. Pleydell-Bouverie was hit 31 Oct. while ordering a counter attack, was carried to the rear under fire by Riflemen Taylor, Scott, Alcott and Quick, and from the field hospital was sent by train to Boulogne. He died early in the morning of 1 Nov. in No. 13 stationary hospital where he had been admitted a few hours before and was buried in the English cemetery there; unm.

BOWDEN, ALBERT JOHN, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., A. 890), 123326, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWDEN, EDWARD RATCLIFFE, Lieut., 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), s. of Thomas Bowden, of Sheriff Mount, Gateshead Fell, co. Durham, J.P., head of the firm of Thomas Bowden, Sons & Nephew, of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Manchester, Chartered Accountants; b. 28 April, 1889; educ. Corchester Preparatory School, Sedbergh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A.), was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and received a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers 1910, being promoted Lieut. 25 Dec. 1912. He died of wounds received in the action at Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Abbeville; unm.

BOWELL, FREDERICK JAMES, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2088), 162995, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BOWEN, CUTHBERT EDWARD LATIMER, Assistant District Superintendent, East African Police, Lieut., attd. King’s African Rifles, elder s. of the Rev. Thomas James Bowen, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Bristol, by his wife, Susan Elvina, dau. of John Williams, of Ty-ar-y-Graig, Swansea; b. at All Saints’ Vicarage, Swansea, 23 Sept. 1881; educ. at Box Grove, Guildford, and Rugby. He joined the 3rd (Royal Surrey Militia) Battn. of the Queen’s during the Boer campaign, and did duty at Guildford depôt during the 1900 embodiment, and in South Africa. After the peace of Vereeniging he was gazetted into the Regular Army and posted to the 1st Battn. of the Queen’s, then stationed on the North-West Frontier of India. In 1904 he was transferred to the West India Regt., and served with the 1st Battn. in Jamaica under Col. A. R. Loscombe. In 1905 he was employed under the Colonial Office, and became an assistant superintendent of police in the East African Protectorate and was serving under Major W. F. S. Edwards, the Insp.-General, when war broke out. He was attached to the King’s African Rifles, and fell on 1 Dec. 1914, at Utendi, in the Nyanza Province. His body was recovered and brought to British territory and buried at Utendi. The following message was received from Col. Edward, D.S.O.: “Mr. Bowen’s loss not only to the Police Force but to a large number of personal friends, will be most severely felt. I deem it to be the wish of all that their condolences should be inseparable from the high tribute of praise of the commanding officer that Mr. Bowen evidently lost his life in a gallant attempt to capture Susuni Hill. Concerning myself, I feel that I have lost both a gallant and true friend.” He m. at Nairobi, British East Africa, 25 May, 1907, Alice May, dau. of (—) Swift, and had two daus.: Kathleen Elvina, b. 25 March, 1908; and Dorothy Starbuck, b. 25 Jan. 1911.

BOWEN, EDWARD, Signaller (R.F.R., B. 2774), 230362, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOWEN, GEORGE FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2434), 169906, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWEN, HENRY, Rifleman, No. 3265, B Coy., 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Charles Richard Bowen; b. Camberwell, 17 Nov. 1893; was a Clerk, but after the outbreak of war joined the Surrey Rifles, 25 Jan. 1915, and was killed at Festubert at 6 a.m., 9 May, following being shot through the temple by a sniper; unm.

BOWERS, PERCIVAL CONWAY, Private, No. 9664, 2nd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of the late John Bowers (who served 22 years in the Army with the Yorks and Lancs., and d. 25 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Ann (Queen Street, Frodingham, Scunthorpe, Lincs.), dau. of (..); b. Broughton, co. Lincoln, 13 June, 1895; enlisted 9 Dec. 1913, and was killed in action, being shot by a sniper, 21 Feb. 1915. He was buried at a farm on the north side of the Rue Wasselot, south-east of Rue Bacqueort; unm.

BOWES, ROBERT EDWARD, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5306, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWES, WILLIAM EDWARD, Stoker, R.N.R., 2652T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWLBY, GEOFFREY VAUX SALVIN, Capt., Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), 6th but 2nd surviving s. of the late Edward Salvin Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Harlow, Essex, and Knoydart, Inverness, J.P., D.L., by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Vans-Agnew, of Barnbarroch, and Sheuchan, co. Wigtown; b. London, 1 Dec. 1884; educ. Eton, and joined the Royal Horse Guards from the Militia (King’s Own Scottish Borderers) as 2nd Lieut., 9 March, 1904. He was promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1905, and Capt. 6 May, 1908. He went to Ireland in 1909 as A.D.C. to Sir Neville Lyttleton, returning to his regt. in Sept. 1910 to take over the Adjutancy which he held to Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of war he was sent to France in advance of the composite regt., as billeting officer to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, rejoining his regt. the day before the battle of Mons. After the fight at Wytschaete, 29 Oct.-1 Nov. 1914, Capt. Bowlby was the senior officer left and took over command of the composite regt. for a short time, until each squadron went back to its own regt. On rejoining the “Blues” he commanded the A Squadron. He was killed leading his squadron in a charge across 1,000 yards of open country north of Bellewarde Farm, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, on the afternoon of 13 May, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “I cannot tell you what a loss he is to the regt.; he was as gallant as he could be and a magnificent soldier. He was so keen and energetic and proud of his squadron, of which he took the greatest care.” Capt. Bowlby was a fine polo player, and enjoyed great popularity at the London grounds. In his day there were few to surpass him in skill and dash. For several seasons he was No. 1 in the Blues’ team, and in two years (1910 and 1912) he helped the side to win the Inter-Regimental Cup at Hurlingham. The other members of those victorious sides were: Capt. Lord Alastair Innes-Ker, Capt. H. E. Brassey, and Capt. J. F. Harrison. Capt. Bowlby was in the team again in 1913 and in 1914, but his regt. was in both years beaten by the 1st Life Guards. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, 18 Oct. 1911, the Hon. Lettice, née Annesley, 4th dau. of Arthur, 11th Viscount Valentia, C.B., M.V.O., and had two children: John Edward Richard, b. 8 May, 1914; and Elizabeth Mary, b. 3 Feb. 1913.

BOWLEY, HARRY EDWIN, Private, No. 9913, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Harry Edwin Bowley, Private 2/4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (now on active service), by his wife, Eliza May (41, Bentham Road. Brighton), dau. of John Winder, of Brighton; b. Brighton, 25 June, 1894; educ. St. Luke’s Terrace Board School there; was for some time a telegraph boy at the Brighton Post Office; enlisted 1 Jan. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and during the retreat from Mons was sent with a dispatch but never returned, and is assumed to have been killed in action at Villers Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914.

BOWMAN, FREDERICK, Seaman, R.N.R., 1793C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWMAN, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3771), 180916, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWYER, CHARLES ALEXANDER, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7440) S.S. 1330, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BOWYER, WILLIAM HENRY, A.B., 215065, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOX, FREDERICK JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 112109, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BOX, JOSEPH WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2822), 175583, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOXALL, CARYL LERMITTE, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., yr. s. of Alleyne Alfred, 1st Baron Boxall, of 14, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late James Henry Lermitte, of Knightons, J.P., and nephew of Mr. Boxall, K.C., Recorder of Brighton, and of the late Col. Sir Charles Boxall, K.C.B.; b. at 14, Cambridge Square, W., 26 Dec. 1887; educ. Eton (1901–6) and Sandhurst; received his commission in the 2nd Hampshires, 9 Oct. 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911, and Capt. 4 Oct. 1914. He served in South Africa, Mauritius and India, and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. Landed from the River Clyde with the 29th Division, and died of wounds received in action following the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915. He was unm. A brass plaque to the memory of this officer was erected in the south aisle of St. Peter’s, Cowfold, Sussex.

BOXALL, CHARLES BERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3515), 210631, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOXWELL, FRANCIS JEFFARES TILSON, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3598), 188877, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOYCE, JOHN HENRY, Trooper, No. 1626, Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), only s. of Henry Boyce, of Woodford Green, Essex, and grandson of the late Henry Boyce, of the Leman School, Beccles, Suffolk; b..........., 1889; joined the Royal Bucks Hussars early in Oct. 1914; left England for Egypt just before Easter, 1915; went to the Dardanelles early in June, and was killed in a charge at Suvla Bay, 21 Aug. 1915; unm.

BOYD, DAVID, A.B., 229233, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOYD, HAROLD ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of Dr. Alexander James Boyd, of The Manor House, Ware, co. Herts (who served for 13 years in the 1st (Herts) Vol. Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., and retired as Capt. in 1902), by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Brackenbury Comyns Berkeley, of Collett Hall, Ware, and grandson of the late Samuel Boyd, of Illerton, Killiney; b. at The Manor House, Ware, 19 Jan. 1895; educ. at the Preparatory School, Castle Park, Dalkey (co. Dublin), Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was studying medicine at the time of mobilisation and had passed his first M.B. examination at the end of his first year. He had joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in April, 1913, as a Special Reserve officer, and was called up for service and at first put on Coast Defence duty at Lough Swilly, co. Donegal, being afterwards sent to France on 31 Aug. He was killed in action at Crecy, 7 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Marne; unm. Corpl. W. Poots wrote: “On the morning of Monday, 7 Sept., we were reinforced by a draft of a hundred men from the depôt in Ireland under Lieut. Boyd, and continued the advance all day. In the evening the Inniskillings had to find the outposts at a village to which we had come—on the right being an open road with a row of apple trees, and on the left a clear open plain. In the distance, about 1,000 or 1,200 yards, was a broad belt of woods and shrubs, from which came rifle and big gun fire. This took us by surprise. We lined out and retaliated, but their shelling was terrific, and we had no artillery with us. Our officers were trying to find the range and had no cover from the shells, thus exposing themselves, notably Mr. Boyd, who was standing by an apple tree by the right of the road. He was struck on the body by shrapnel and killed instantly; also Private Cousins, and 14 wounded. We continued all night in this position. In the morning the enemy had retired.” 2nd Lieut. Boyd was a fine athlete, gaining his colours at Rugby in football, swimming, shooting and cross-country running; and he also won the Royal Humane Society’s medal and Dr. Duke’s cup for life-saving competition. At Cambridge he was a member of the First Trinity Boat Club, and in 1914 he won the swimming championship of his regt. at Aldershot.

BOYD, NIGEL JOHN LAWSON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch, yr. s. of William Boyd, of 26, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, Writer to the Signet, Member of the King’s Body Guard for Scotland (R.C.A.), by his wife, Laura, dau. of the late John Crerar, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grandson of the late Sir John Boyd, of Maxpoffle, co. Roxburgh, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Lawson, 14th Laird of Cairnmuir, co. Peebles; b. Edinburgh, 14 Sept. 1894; educ. Cargilfield School, Midlothian, Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In passing into the latter he obtained a Prize Cadetship, and in passing out he was fourth on the list. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 25 Feb. 1914, and joined the 1st Battn. at Oudenarde Barracks early in March. After the declaration of war he left Aldershot with his regt. in the beginning of Aug. for France, and took part with it in the memorable retreat from Mons to the Marne. He was fatally wounded on the morning of 14 Sept., his birthday, during the early days of the great Battle of the Aisne. From a description which he subsequently gave when in hospital in Rouen to his father, it appears that in the early morning of 14 Sept., which was misty, the Black Watch were acting in concert with the Cameron Highlanders on the banks of the Aisne, and found themselves opposed to a strong force of the Germans, and came under a very severe fire. Lieut. Boyd with his platoon had been directed to take up a position, and it had been indicated to him that it must be held at all costs. The Germans continued to press on in overpowering numbers at that point, and they could see them within 100 yards. He stated that he had personally fired 10 rounds at them with a rifle, and afterwards emptied his revolver at them. The shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire at the time was terrific. The enemy continued to press on from all sides. He was standing up and had drawn his Claymore, and in turning to the side to give a signal to those of his men who survived he was hit. The bullet struck the scabbard of his Claymore, glanced off it, entered the left hip and lodged in the bladder. After that he said the Germans rushed the position. Words are unnecessary, and no effort of the imagination required to show that this young officer and his small force of men had made a gallant stand against overpowering odds, and that they had acted in accordance with the best traditions of their grand old regt. When on the ground wounded he asked a German who was passing for assistance, but all that the man did was to threaten to shoot him. After that he stated that he pretended to be dead when other Germans passed. Some time after this a party of the Cameron Highlanders appear to have been in the vicinity, and he was observed by the late Capt. Napier Cameron of that regt. Capt. Cameron gallantly went under fire to his assistance, and carried him to the shelter of a lane some distance in the rear. Lieut. Boyd told his father that he owed his life at the time to Capt. Cameron, as the ground on which he had fallen was swept afterwards by a terrible cross fire, and if he had been left there he could not possibly have survived. He lay where Capt. Cameron had put him for 16 hours in the rain. A stretcher party of the Gloucestershire Regt. found him and brought him in. Afterwards he was for 36 hours in a cattle truck being taken to the Base hospital. The officers in charge of No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen, and the Rev. W. G. Arrowsmith, one of the Chaplains, there stated that the whole of the time in that cattle truck, and afterwards in the hospital, he had never complained, and had shown extraordinary fortitude, and that the example shown had the most wonderful effect upon the wounded men there. An instance told was this: a Quartermaster-Sergt., who was badly wounded and was suffering a lot, had been calling out a great deal, and disturbing the other men. After they had tried to soothe him without effect he was told that in the next ward there was a young officer of the Black Watch who was far worse than he was, and who never complained at all. After that the man was quiet. Although very severely wounded, great hopes were entertained of Lieut. Boyd’s recovery, as he had been operated upon successfully. But it was not to be, as he collapsed suddenly in the early morning of 12 Oct., the immediate cause of death being a blood clot. As he died in hospital his body was brought back to Scotland in the hospital ship St. Patrick. The Headquarters, Scottish Command, arranged for a military funeral, which took place in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, on 19 Oct. From earliest boyhood he had taken the keenest interest in all outdoor sports. He played in the “Houses fifteen” matches at Winchester. At cricket he was a fair performer, and at golf a Scratch player. He was a good rider, a keen fisherman, and an excellent shot both with the gun and rifle. He represented Winchester College at Bisley in 1911, when he shot for the Cadet Trophy, and was again at Bisley in 1912, when he was in the Winchester “eight.” It had been his greatest ambition from earliest childhood to be in the Black Watch.

BOYD, PERCY GERNON, Private, No. 3158, 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., eldest s. of Samuel Boyd, of 19, Hale Road, Liscard, Cheshire, Accountant and Secretary, Liverpool Shipping Company, by his wife, Emma, dau. of William Ker, of Liverpool; b. Egremont, Wallasey, co. Chester, 1 Sept 1890; educ. Liscard High School, and joined the Army on the outbreak of the war Aug. 1914. He died from shell wounds received in action at Locre, Flanders, 22 Jan. 1915, and was buried in the churchyard there; unm. Major N. S. Anderson, D.S.O., wrote: “He was in my company (No. 1) and was under my command. I was thoroughly satisfied with all his work. He was a good soldier.” And a comrade wrote: “He was a real good soldier, and a very brave one too. It was only the night before Lieut. Turner was killed that he was out with him putting barbed wire in front of the trenches.” He was an active and keen footballer, being a member of the Liscard Old Boys’, Brompton, and other clubs, and won the mile handicap at his school annual sports.

BOYLE, HON. JAMES, Capt., Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd surviving s. of David, 7th Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., by his wife, Dorothea Elizabeth Thomasina, dau. of Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 4th Bt.; b. Shewalton, co. Ayr., 11 March, 1880; educ. Wanganui College, New Zealand, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and joined the Ayrshire Militia 27 May, 1898, and served through the South African War, 1901–2, part of the time with mounted infantry and for some time on staff duties, receiving the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In 1903 he joined the Regulars and was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, becoming Lieut. 6 June, 1906, and Capt. 10 April, 1912. From 1908–9 he was extra Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Victoria, and from 1909–11 Aide-de-Camp, and later, 1912–14, A.D.C. to Gen. Sir H. Smith-Dorrien, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command. He was killed in action at Chateau Warneton, near La Bassée, on 18 Oct. 1914 (being officially reported wounded and missing for seven weeks, until a letter was received from a German officer who reported he was buried at Chateau Warneton). He m. in London, 15 Sept. 1908, Katherine Isabel Salvin (Marston House, Banbury), sister of Capt. Geoffrey Vaux Salvin Bowlby, Royal Horse Guards, killed in action 13 May, 1915, and dau. of the late Edward Salvin Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Herts, and had three children: Patrick John Salvin, b. 21 April, 1910; Edward James, b. 26 Feb. 1912; and Belinda Margaret Graeme, b. 4 Dec. 1913.

BOYLE, THOMAS, Private, No. 15645, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Thomas Boyle, of 33, Lyons Lane, Port Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 27 Sept. 1915.

BOYLE, THOMAS WILLIAM, Private, No. 10345, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of William Boyle, Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Bridget (102, Marian Street, Gateshead, co. Durham), dau. of Thomas Jackson; b. Gateshead, 18 July, 1896; enlisted 4 Sept. 1913; died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914; unm.

BOYLE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 14602, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 4 Nov. 1914, while a prisoner of war.

BOYS, CHARLES HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9527), 200302, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRABAZON, HON. ERNEST WILLIAM MAITLAND MOLYNEUX, D.S.O., Staff Capt., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th and yst. s. of Reginald, 12th Earl of Meath, P.C., K.P., by his wife, Lady Mary Jane Maitland, only surviving dau. of Thomas, 11th Earl of Lauderdale, G.C.B.; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1884; educ. Dover College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 9 Jan. 1904, promoted Lieut. 5 Sept. 1906, and Capt. 3rd Battn. 4 April, 1912. On the outbreak of war he went to the front with his regt., was attached to the Staff, and was killed in action near La Bassée, 17 June, 1915. He was buried in Cambrin Cemetery, near where he fell. Capt. Brabazon was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914], in the following terms: “Has shown conspicuous efficiency in Staff duties and in keeping up communication with a long line of front composed of many units, where communication was often difficult. He has carried and delivered messages under fire with promptness and dispatch.” For these services he received the D.S.O. Lord Cavan, commanding the Guards’ Brigade, wrote: “We simply loved him. I can never tell you what he was to me, not only as a Staff Officer but as a friend. He was priceless, invaluable and never wearying in his work for the Brigade.” And Col. J. R. Drummond Hay, commanding Coldstream Guards: “By his death the Army, as well as the regt., has lost heavily.” He was keen on musketry and sport and a good shot. He m. at the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks, S.W., 29 Oct. 1912, Dorothy Mary, yst. dau. of Col. Horace Ricardo, of Bramley Park, Surrey, C.V.O.; s.p. His three brothers are now (1916) on active service: Col. Lord Ardee, C.B., in command of the 1st Battn. Irish Guards, has been wounded; Capt. the Hon. Arthur Brabazon, on special service in Egypt; and Major the Hon. Claud Brabazon, of the Irish Guards, now in the Royal Flying Corps.

BRABROOK, ARTHUR HENRY, Sergt., 1/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) City of London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frederick Joseph Brabrook, of Bury St. Edmunds, Fish Merchant, by his wife, Emma; b. Bury St. Edmunds, 18 Jan. 1879; educ. St. John’s Church School. He joined the 18th Middlesex V.R.C. (Paddington Rifles) in 1904, which became the 10th Battn. of the London Territorials. He became Colour-Sergt. of D Coy. in 1912, in which year the battn. was disbanded and transferred to Hackney. This was too far away, so with his Capt. (now Major Prance) and other men he formed a Paddington Coy., attached to the 3rd Battn. of the London Regt., and received the rank of L.-Sergt. He went through the School of Instruction at Chelsea and received a certificate and was promoted Sergt. When the battn. was mobilised in Aug. 1914 they were sent to guard railway stations for a month, and he was stationed at Arlesford with his section. On 4 Sept. 1914, he sailed for Malta, and after Christmas went to France, and served through the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and La Bassée, where he had a narrow escape, a shell bursting, knocking him down and burying him under some bricks. He died 10 May, 1915, of wounds received at Festubert, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. C. E. Rochford wrote: “He was killed through a shell bursting while advancing in an attack on a German trench. He has been with me ever since we left England, so I knew him well. He was a splendid man and a splendid soldier.” He m. at. North Kensington, 5 Sept. 1908, Clara Louisa (322, Ladbroke Grove, W.), 2nd dau. of Robert Wollington, of Ladbroke Grove, W., Builder, and had two children: Ralph Robert Arthur, b. 15 March. 1914; and Beatrice Caroline, b. 23 Sept. 1909.

BRACEY, HUMPHREY ALFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 1768, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); b. Stoke Newington, 6 Sept. 1891; elder s. of Alfred Bracey, of Ashcroft, 30 Seymour Gardens, Ilford, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of William James Hagger, b. ....; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and County High School, Ilford, and was in the employ of Parrs’ Bank when war broke out. He enlisted in the 1st Surrey Rifles, 8 Aug. 1914, went to the front 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 25–26 May, 1915; unm. His commanding officer, Capt. A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was exceptionally popular with all ranks and that he, personally, regretted the “loss of a very promising and fearless N.C.O.” And “Parrs’ Bank Magazine,” in recording his death, said: “At the outbreak of war he was one of the first to offer his services to his country. In the departments in which he was formerly employed, he was ever ready to assist his colleagues, and was a most generous and jovial companion. His absence will be especially noticed on balance nights, settling days, &c., when the heavy work was much lightened by his ready wit and humour. He was also well known in the rifle section of the Sports Club, where he was one of the best shots.”

BRACHER, GEORGE, Private, No. 9139, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Matthias Bracher of Gerrards Farm, Favant, near Salisbury; b. co. Wilts; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Rentel, 12 Nov. 1914; unm.

BRACKEN, JOHN, Private, No. G. 773, 8th (Service) Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Sept. 1915; m.

BRACKSTONE, HENRY, Corpl., No. 7248, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 20 April, 1915; m.

BRADBURY, EDWARD CHAPNESS, Private, No. 9409, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Samuel Bradbury, of 65, Queen Street, Palfrey, Walsall, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Baker; b. Walsall, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Palfrey School, Walsall, and on leaving there was employed by Neville Bros. as a Portmanteau Lock Maker. He enlisted 18 Jan. 1911, and three months before war was declared was transferred to the 2nd Life Guards, but then transferred back to his old regt., and was killed in action by a shell in an attack on a farmhouse, 16 Nov. 1914; unm.

BRADBURY, EDWARD KINDER, V.C., Capt., L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, only s. of the late Judge James Kinder Bradbury, J.P., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, by his wife, Grace (Parkfield, Altrincham, Cheshire), dau. of the Rev. Edward Dowling; b. Bowden, co. Chester, 16 Aug. 1881; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat, Marlborough College and Woolwich; gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery, 2 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, and Capt. 4 Feb. 1910. He joined the 125th Battery in Ireland, and in the later stages of the South African War obtained a commission in Fincastle’s Horse, with which he served on active service, obtaining the Queen’s medal with two clasps. After the close of that campaign he returned to Ireland, but in 1905 went to Uganda, and served with the 4th Battn. of the King’s African Rifles till Aug. 1906, when he was invalided home after severe fever. Coming home, he was transferred to the R.H.A., and on the outbreak of war went to France with the Expeditionary Force. At Néry, near Compiegne, on the last day of the retreat from Mons (1 Sept. 1914), L Battery, while covering the retreat, was attacked by a strong German force with ten field guns and two Maxims. Three British guns were brought into action, but two were quickly silenced. Capt. Bradbury and his men served the remaining gun so well, however, that all but one of the German guns were silenced; and when L Battery was relieved this gun was captured. “Bradbury,” writes an artillery officer, recounting this story, “was the real hero. He got the gun into action and gave the orders. Mundy knelt on one side and did ranging officer, and Brad., Campbell and Giffard, with the Battery Sergt.-Major, Gunner and Driver, served the gun. Brad. had one leg taken off above the knee, but still went on; Campbell ... was killed; Mundy was hit in both legs; the Major, coming back hastily, was hit in the throat as he arrived. Bradbury had his other leg taken off. Giffard was badly wounded, and still they kept the last gun firing, and when I Battery and the other Brigade came up they found that the Germans had left their guns and bolted.” Capt. Bradbury, who was unm., was buried in the cemetery at Néry. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914], and was awarded the Victoria Cross “For gallantry and ability in organising the defence of L Battery against heavy odds at Néry on 1 Sept.” A General wrote: “Your son was simply beloved by us all from me, his General, down to the last joined subaltern. He was very nearly four years under my command, and I looked upon him as one of the most brilliant officers I had ever come across, one who, had God willed it, had a great career in front of him, and the manner in which he met his death fighting a single gun to the end after the loss of one leg was worthy of him.”

BRADDOCK, ARTHUR LESLIE, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., H.M.S. Cressy, s. of William Braddock, of Sydney, New South Wales, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Alice, dau. of (—) Norman, Dental Surgeon; b. Adelaide, South Australia, 22 Feb. 1877; educ. Adelaide; joined the Royal Naval Reserve, Jan. 1908, and was appointed Assistant Paymaster, 3 Feb. 1911, with seniority of 30 Jan. 1908. He was appointed to the Cressy 1 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Liverpool, 15 July, 1912, Jeannie Scott (19, Huskisson Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late Capt. William Henry Burt; s.p.

BRADDOCK, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13669 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRADFORD, ARTHUR JESSE GEORGE, L.-Corpl., No. 766, B Coy., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of the late Arthur Jesse Bradford, of Clapton, N.E., by his wife, Gabriella (now a nurse, of 106, Valkyrie Road, Westcliffe-on-Sea), dau. of Jesse Witts, of Gloucester; b. Plaistow, co. Essex, 14 Nov. 1895; educ. London Orphan School, Watford; joined the (Temperley & Co.) Merchant Service when 16; then settled in Bunbury, Western Australia (1913), and when war broke out was in the Bush, engaged in the lumber trade. He immediately volunteered; left for Egypt with the Second Reinforcements in Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; unm. His yr. brother, Edward Lionel Bradford, L.-Corpl., No. 142397, No. 1 Co., R.E. (Signal Service), is now (1916) on active service.

BRADFORD, SIR EVELYN RIDLEY, 2nd Bt., Lieut.-Col. 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Bt., some time (1890–1903) Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and an extra Equerry to His Majesty the King, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth Adela, dau. of Edward Knight, of Chanton House, Alton; b. India, 16 April, 1869; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Aug. 1888, and promoted Lieut. 11 June, 1890, Capt. 3 July 1895, Major 26 June, 1902, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 10 May, 1913, and Lieut.-Col. 10 June, 1913. He served with the Soudan Expedition in 1898, being present at the Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum, and on the staff in the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State from May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Poplar Grove, and Driefontein, and Witteberjer (1–29 July), and during the operations in Cape Colony, Feb.-March, 1901. His services were twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 May and 10 Sept. 1901], and in addition to the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps, he received his brevet majority and was placed on the list of officers considered qualified for staff employment in consequence of service on the Staff in the field. At the time of the outbreak of the European War he was in command of the 2nd Battn. of the Seaforths, the old 78th, and took them out from Shorncliffe in Brig.-Gen. J. A. L. Haldane’s 10th Infantry Brigade, which was brought up from the lines of communication in France to cover the retirement of the Expeditionary Force on Cambray. This duty was performed in the centre of the line by Major-Gen. Snow’s 4th Division, consisting of the 10th, 11th and 12th Infantry Brigades. These units broke the front of the German pursuit, and suffered in consequence. as the 1st and 2nd Army Corps fell back. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and was buried at Bucy Le Long, near Soissons. Sir Edward Bradford was a famous cricketer and played many fine games for Hampshire and the Army with Major Poore and Capt Wynyard, of the Staff College, as contemporaries, the last time he played in the County Eleven being against Surrey, at Aldershot, in 1902. He m. at Colgate, Faygate, Sussex, 25 Nov. 1909, Elsie Clifton, 3rd dau. of Col. James Clifton Brown, and had three children: Sir Edward Montagu Andrew, now 3rd Bt., b. 30 Nov. 1910; Ridley Lewkenor, b. 11 April, 1912, and Donald Clifton, b. 22 May, 1914.

BRADFORD, GEORGE RICHARD, 2nd Engineer, No. 773, H.M. trawler Tern, s. of William Bradford, Labourer; b. 1878; was lost in the trawler Tern off the west coast of Scotland, 23 Feb. 1915, while mine sweeping. He m. at Hull, 28 June, 1898, Alice Edith (78, Day Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of Robert Dibnah, Lamplighter, and had two sons, George Thomas, b. 16 Feb. 1904, and Charles Henry, b. 5 April, 1912.

BRADLEY, ERIC JATINGA, Private, No. 140, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., eldest s. of James Bradley, of Grovehill, Suckley, co. Worcester, Tea Planter; b. London, 28 June, 1892; educ. Rottingdean, Rugby and Pembroke College Cambridge (Honours); entered at the Inner Temple, but on the outbreak of war at once enlisted; he proceeded with his battn. to France 4 Nov., and was mortally wounded with four others in the early morning of 5 Dec. by shrapnel, which burst on the parapet of the trench. He died the same day at No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, being buried in the cemetery there (No. 149); unm.

BRADLEY, REGINALD JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BRADLEY, THOMAS, Trooper, No. 13/296, Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Benjamin Bradley, of Christchurch, formerly of co. Lincoln; b. Papains, Christchurch, New Zealand, 16 June, 1884; educ. Christchurch High School; joined the Mounted Rifles, 10 July, 1914; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was killed in a night attack at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 19 May, 1915; unm. He was buried on Walker’s Ridge there.

BRADSHAW, FRANK SEYMOUR, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince Albert’s Somerset L.I. (the old 13th), only s. of the late Major Frank Boyd Bradshaw (13th Somerset L.I.), by his wife, Catherine Douglas, dau. of Capt. Loftus Nunn, late 99th Regt., and great-grandson of Gen. Lawrence Bradshaw, some time commanding 13th L.I.; b. Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 4 Dec. 1883; educ. East Sheen, Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Jan. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 12 June, 1906, and Capt. Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Ploegsteert Wood, 19 Dec. 1914, and was buried near Somerset House there; unm. One of Capt. Bradshaw’s men wrote: “His death is much regretted by the whole company, because they could always trust him. He would never send his men where he would not go himself. He was an exceptionally brave man, and knew his work, and it will be very difficult to find his equal.”

BRADSHAW, GEORGE RAMSON, Stoker, 1st Class, E. 12797 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRADSHAW, MATTHEW, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12547, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRADY, EDMUND, L.-Corpl., No. 9118, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Patrick Brady, of 102, Waterloo Street, Crumpsall, Manchester, Labourer, by his wife, Anne; b. Miles Platting, Manchester, 2 Sept. 1881; educ. St. Edmund’s R.C. School there; enlisted 9 Dec. 1904, and served eight years in India, winning a silver spoon for shooting. An attendant at the Crumpsall Workhouse when war was declared, he was called up, and was killed instantaneously in action, during the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being struck in the forehead by a bullet; unm.

BRAIK, JOHN, Sergt., No. 22961, 12th, later 4th, Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Adam Braik, of Kemnay, co. Aberdeen, Mill Owner, by his wife, Helen, dau. of John Ingram; b. Garthy, co. Aberdeen, 5 Oct. 1868; educ. Kemnay Public School, and was a mill owner. He joined the 4th Volunteer Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders in 1880, and obtained a commission in the same in 1896. On the outbreak of the South African War he enlisted as a Private in the 2nd Scottish Horse and served through the latter part of that campaign, receiving the medal. He was subsequently attached to the R.G.A. as Instructor of Military Signalling, and was shooting in the wilds of British Columbia when the European War began. He immediately hastened several hundred miles through the North-West to the nearest recruiting office and volunteered for service. He was offered a commission in the second contingent, but declined to wait, and was one of the last recruits entered for the first contingent, and came over with them in Oct., crossing to France in Feb. He subsequently returned to England to convey machine guns to the Front, and was given charge of one on his return. He was seriously wounded 18 June, 1915, by a shrapnel shell which burst above his gun, and was invalided to England, where he died in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 5 Aug. following. He was buried in Heroes Corner, Greenwich Cemetery.

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

BRAMALL, HORACE, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7357, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRAMLEY, HAROLD, 2nd Lieut., 2/5th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (T.F.), previously L.-Corpl. (C Squad.) Leicestershire Yeomanry, 2nd s. of the Rev. Cyril Richard Bramley, M.A. (Oxon.), Vicar of St. John’s, Donisthorpe with Moira (St. Hilda); b. Manchester, 9 Feb. 1894; educ. St. John’s School, Leatherhead, 1904; devoted himself to farming, and after a two years’ course on a farm in Snarestone, went to Canada for nine months to see the conditions of farming there; returning in Dec. 1913, he went to Kidlington, near Oxford, to take charge of a farm, but on the outbreak of war immediately rejoined the Leicestershire Yeomanry (in which he had been 1911–12); went with them to the Front in Nov. 1914, was in several engagements, being promoted L.-Corpl. Feb. 1915, and 2nd Lieut. a week before he was killed in action near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm.

BRAND, ERNEST STANLEY, Capt., Royal Fusiliers, attd. West African Rifles, s. of William Burmann Brand, of 19, Linzee Road, Hornsey, N.; b. Stoke Newington, 3 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 Jan. 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Jan. 1900, and Capt. 19 Oct. 1904. He was seconded for service with the Chinese Regt. at Wei-hai-Wei from 20 April, 1901, to 19 April, 1906; was employed with the West African Regt. from 14 July, 1906, to Dec. 1910, and again from 19 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the European War he was ordered to the Cameroons and was acting second in command when killed in action during the fighting around Jabassi on 8 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Dibandi. A picture of the cross erected to his memory appeared in the Sketch for 5 June, 1915. Capt. Brand was a clever Chinese linguist.

BRANDON, JOHN COOPER, 340733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRANTINGHAM, GEORGE, E.R.A., 1st Class, 155692 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRASH, PRENTISE STEPHEN, Petty Officer, 180365, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BRASHAW, JOSEPH ARTHUR, Capt., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of Harry Brashaw, of Perth and Dudley House Farm, Kwelkam, Kununoppin, West Australia, by his wife, Sebra, dau. of John White, of Coventry, and nephew of Joseph White, of The Woodlands, Cowper Road, Bournemouth; b. Woalingham, New South Wales, 1891; educ. Bunbury, West Australia; joined the forces as a cadet when 17 years of age, and was later transferred to the Militia. He worked his way up through the ranks and received his lieutenancy in 1913. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service, and was sent to Melbourne to assist in training the New Forces. Here he contracted typhoid fever, and returned to West Australia, leaving for the front in charge of reinforcements for the 16th Battn. He arrived in time to take part in the historic landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was subsequently wounded during the heavy fighting on 17 May. When convalescent he was given the opportunity of being invalided to England as his foot had not fully recovered, but pleaded to be allowed to rejoin his unit, and returned to duty on 17 July, being gazetted Capt. on the 29th. Nine days later, on 7 Aug. 1915, he was killed in action at Suvla Bay; unm.

BRASHIER, WILLIAM, Private, No. 2436, D Coy., 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I., 2nd s. of James Brashier, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Hugh McKee; b. Durham, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. there; enlisted after the outbreak of the war, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 14 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

BRASIER, LEONARD GEORGE, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2406), 219840, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRASS, WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 6/807, South Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of James Gilles Brass, of Kirkwall, Farmer, by his wife Isabella Balfour, dau. of James Bews; b. Harray, Orkney, 27 Dec. 1889; educ. Rendall Parish School, Orkney, went to New Zealand in Dec. 1908, enlisted at Christchurch on the outbreak of war, left with the main force and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 26 April, 1915; unm. Brass was the well-known Mount Cook Guide, and had been a member of the Scottish Garrison Artillery before going to New Zealand. He was a personal friend of Richmond, the guide who was lost with Mr. King in the descent from Mount Cook. Brass, with Mr. Turner, made an ascent on the same day, and the two parties were to have met on the top. They passed over the avalanche which killed the others, tracing their steps down to it. Subsequently it was Brass who found the mangled body of Richmond, and his great strength was a considerable factor in bringing it down to the hut in that terrible journey in which the guides had to take it in turns to carry it on their backs down a mountain side in the dark, a feat which seems almost incredible when the place is gone over in the daylight.

BRATTLE, WILLIAM, Chief Stoker, 277368, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRAY, CECIL HERBERT, Private, No. 2801, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt., s. of Thomas Bray, Engineer’s Draughtsman, by his wife, Frances, dau. of John Drewry Codling; b. Harringay, N., 22 Nov. 1892; educ. Haverstock Hill Orphanage; enlisted two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Voormezeele, near St. Eloi, 17 July, 1915; unm.

BRAY, GEORGE, A.B., 216585, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BRAY, DERRICK REGINALD PAMPHILON, Corpl., No. 1553, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Reginald Alfred Bray, of 49, Orlando Road, Clapham Common, S.W., formerly of Jersey, by his wife, Lissa, dau. of the late Stephen Algir Pamphilon, of Lea Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, Harlow, co. Essex; b. Clapham Common, 20 Sept. 1895; educ. private school, and Wix’s Higher Grade School; joined the 1st City of London Regt. 7 April, 1913; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, was sent to Malta for five months, and proceeded to France, 10 March, 1915. He was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and was buried in Rue Pettilon, near Picantin; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “At the time he was gallantly leading his section in an advance under very severe fire, and by his death, we all realise that we have lost a brave comrade, who has done his duty and whom we all miss dreadfully. His sense of duty was most real, as events have proved.” Corpl. Bray was very proud of the fact that every man of his family of fighting age joined the colours early in the war. His uncle, Lieut. Ede, Royal Marine Artillery, was mentioned in Despatches while serving with the Egyptian Army in 1896.

BRAY, HORACE, Private, No. 9241, 3rd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 April, 1915; m.

BRAZIER, ALFRED, Private, No. 9499, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., s. of James Brazier, of 22, Stewarts Lane, Battersea; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 April, 1915.

BRAZIER, BENJAMIN WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 8949, 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., eldest s. of Wallace Brazier, Lieut. and Quartermaster 6th Service Battn. and late Regimental Sergt.-Major 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., by his wife, Mary Jane (4, Pentland Villas, Juniper Green, Midlothian), dau. of William Paddon, late R.N.; b. Bareilly, N.W.P., India, 30 Nov. 1893; educ. Cowley, and East Oxford Council School, Oxford; joined the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I. in Sept. 1908, attended the Kneller Hall Royal School of Music from Oct. 1913 till Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war rejoined his battn., served in France and Flanders; was twice wounded, the second time at the Battle of the Aisne, and was killed in action during the night attack, 15–16 May, 1915, at Richbourg L’Avoue; unm. His company commander wrote: “During the time I was out in France he was in my company, and I looked upon him as a promising N.C.O. He was always cheerful, ready to help in anything there was to be done, and during the three rather hard days fighting, 21–23 Oct., he did a lot of most excellent work, and looked after the men round him admirably. Everyone who knew him will miss him, and the regt. has lost a N.C.O. who would in time have risen to the highest rank. He was a gallant lad,” and the Quartermaster: “He was a brave lad, the best of soldiers, and would, I am certain, had he been spared, have risen to a high position. There is not one but will mourn his loss.” Corpl. Brazier was a keen sportsman and football player, in which latter sport he won two medals.

BRAZIER, FREDERICK OWEN, Private, No. 3198, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Frederick Brazier, of 29, St. George’s Road, Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 9 May, 1915.

BRAZIER, JAMES, Private, No. 6282, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914; m.

BRAZIER, WALTER ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class, Chatham, 311704, H.M.S. Laertes; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

BREACH, JOHN, Private, No. 4770, 5th Dragoon Guards, 3rd s. of William Breach, of Lowestoft, Fishing Smack Owner, by his wife, Sarah; b. Lowestoft, 5 April, 1879; educ. at the Board and Technical Schools there; joined the Army, 16 April, 1898; served with his regt. in India, and went through the Boer War, for which he was awarded the medal. At the outbreak of the European War he was farming in Canada, and was recalled to join his regt. He died of wounds received in action at Hill 60, in 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 11 June, 1915. He m. at Kirkley Parish Church, Lowestoft, 28 March, 1910, Agnes Maud (Ivydene, Kitchener Road, Ipswich), yst. dau. of John William Hadenham, of Ipswich, District Superintendent Insurance Company; s.p. Private Breach was a lifelong abstainer, a keen football player, and an expert cricketer, and held several good conduct medals. His three brothers are all now (1916) on active service.