The Roll of Honour (part 3)

BREAM, CHARLES, Drummer, No. 7248, 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Charles William Bream, of Nassington, co. Northants; b. Nassington, 5 Dec. 1883; educ. there; joined the 1st Northamptons (D Coy.), 1903, and saw active service on the Indian Frontier in 1904, for which he received two medals and two bars. He afterwards became a Police Constable in the Durham County Constabulary, and was stationed at South Moor, in the Lancashire and Consett Petty Sessional Division, when he was called up on the outbreak of war. He left with his regt. for France, 17 Aug. 1914, taking part in the retreat from Mons and several other engagements, and was killed in a bayonet charge at Festubert, 21 Dec. 1914. In a letter to a friend at South Moor he said: “You will have heard about the battle on the Aisne. We were in the trenches for a month, and the first week it never ceased raining, and we had to stick it.” Later, writing from Festubert, he said that they had had several engagements with the Prussian Guard, but had got through them, doing six bayonet charges in ten days. He m. at Yarwell, Nassington, 8 Oct. 1913, Carrie, dau. of (—) Mould, of Nassington.

BRECKELL, RALPH LEICESTER, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Edward John Blease Breckell, of Holmdene, Alexandra Road, Waterloo, near Liverpool, by his wife, Emilia Mary, only child of the late Charles Oddie, of Everton, Liverpool; b. West Derby, near Liverpool, 16 April, 1890; educ. Ellesmere College, Shropshire; was Resident Secretary in Liverpool for the British Crown Insurance Company, but on the outbreak of war joined the 18th Service Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. in Sept. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Lancashires, 20 Feb. 1915, being later attached to the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers at the front; killed in action on the canal between Pilkem and Boesinghe, during the severe fighting between 5 and 9 July, 1915; unm. His orderly, Private E. Murphy, wrote: “He died fighting like a true English gentleman, being in charge of a party of bomb throwers who held on to such a purpose that they were piling themselves on top of one another, and I am very pleased to tell you that he did not suffer more than a minute, just calling my name like this, ‘Oh, Murphy’; then I caught him and laid him down and as near as I could make out he said a few prayers, and then passed peacefully away looking as if he had gone to sleep,” and added that he was killed by a piece of shrapnel in line with his left shoulder striking his heart.

BREED, GEORGE ALFRED, Private, No. 444310, 55th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Breed, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Julia (Papworth Everard, Cambridge), dau. of James Paine, of Croydon, co. Cambridge; b. Hatley St. George, co. Cambridge, 14 Feb. 1892; educ. there, and at Papworth Everard; went to Canada, 1 March, 1912; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war, and died in the Military Hospital at Bramshott, Liphook, Hants., 10 Dec. 1915, of influenza contracted while going through his course of training; unm.

BREEZE, JOHN, Private, No. 10505, 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, s. of John Breeze, of 6, Durham Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, Labourer, by his 1st wife, Caroline, dau. of Thomas Morris; b. Tenbury, co. Worcester, 9 March, 1887; educ. National School, Monmouth; enlisted in 1911; killed in action at Langemark, 21 Oct. 1914; unm.

BREMER, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3921), 167964, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BREMNER, HENRY SADLER, Private, No. 138, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of James Bremner, of 137, Canongate, Edinburgh, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Robert Sadler, of North Shields; b. Edinburgh, 30 Oct. 1885; educ. Milton House School there; went to Australia in 1912; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm.

BREMNER, JAMES, Private, No. 8834, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of John Bremner, of Edinburgh, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Wilson; b. Edinburgh, 30 Sept. 1886; educ. there; enlisted in Jan. 1904, and served three years with the Colours, acting part of the time as Assistant Schoolmaster at the Depôt (Glencorse). At the outbreak of war he was in the employ of the North British Railway Co. at Edinburgh; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines, 16 Nov. 1914, by a shell when entering a trench; unm.

BRENAN, BYRON EDWARD, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., yst. s. of Edward Vincent Brenan, of Poulton, Sneyd Park, Bristol, late Commissioner Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (died July, 1915), by his wife, Marion Mabel, dau. of Major-Gen. John Thornhill Watson, B.S.C.; b. Hong-Kong, 22 March, 1895; educ. Clifton College, was in the O.T.C. there; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Gloucestershire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. On 19 March he was attached to the 2nd battn. at the front, and was killed while leading his men to repair a trench which had been absolutely destroyed by a shell, 18 April, 1915; buried at Ypres; unm.

BRENCHLEY, ARTHUR, Leading Seaman, 215494, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRENCHLEY, GEORGE CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6640), 223932, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRENCHLEY, ROBERT HENRY, 1st Class P.O. Blacksmith, No. 156247, H.M.S. Cressy, s. of Henry Brenchley, of St. Peters, Thanet, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Epps; b. 25 Jan. 1868; educ. St. Peter’s National School; served in the Navy for twenty-two years, and in 1912 became an attendant at the Broadstairs Cinema. On the outbreak of the war was recalled, 3 Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Broadstairs, 11 Nov. 1903, Louisa (20 Albion Street, Broadstairs), dau. of Henry Mawlings of Walford, near Ross, co. Hereford, and left a dau., Mary Louise, b. 7 May, 1905.

BRESLIN, ANDREW, Private, No. 3103, 1st Battn. Irish Guards, s. of Patrick Breslin, of Ballyorr, near Londonderry, Labourer; b. St. Johnston, co. Donegal, 4 Dec. 1885; enlisted Aug. 1908, served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action during a charge on a strong enemy position, 1 Nov. 1914; unm.

BRESLIN, PETER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8656), S.S. 105078, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRETT, CHARLES, A.B., 162505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRETT, CHARLES, Private, No. 1707, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Walter Brett, of Lodge Farm, Wingfield, Harleston, Norfolk, Farmer, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of the late John Welsh Berry, of Great Yarmouth; b. Styleham, Suffolk, 22 Oct. 1886; educ. Brockdish Council School, Norfolk; emigrated to Australia in July, 1911; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 9 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action between 9 and 11 Aug. 1915, at Gallipoli; unm.

BRETT, CHARLES ARTHUR HUGH, D.S.O., Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. The Suffolk Regt., eldest s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Arthur Brett, A.P.D., formerly of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Hugh Hannay, Paymaster R.N. (who served through the Napoleonic War and was taken prisoner at Verdun in 1812); b. Muttra, India, 28 March, 1865; educ. privately and at Sandhurst; entered the Army as Lieut. 9 May, 1885; was promoted Capt. 15 June, 1894; Major, 24 Feb. 1906, and Lieut.-Col., 24 Feb. 1914. From Jan. 1895–Jan. 1899, he was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. of the Suffolk Regt., and of the 4th Battn. at Ely in 1900, and from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1912 was in command of the Depot at Bury St. Edmunds. He served in the Hazara Expedition in 1888 and received the medal with clasp, and in the South African War, 1899–1901. He was in command of one of the four companies of the 1st Suffolks which, on 5 Jan., made the night attack on a ridge in the Colesberg district, and when they suffered repulse he found himself in charge of the party of 107 which was cut off, and after making a gallant resistance, until their ammunition gave out, and during which Capt. Brett was severely wounded, had no alternative but to surrender. After his release he rejoined his regt. and saw service in the operations east of Pretoria, and in the Orange River Colony, from July to Oct. 1900. He was mentioned in the general’s despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and also the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Le Cateau, France, 26 Aug. 1914. The 2nd Battn. of the Suffolks arrived at Le Cateau about 7 p.m. on the 25th, and bivouacked at the barn, and made themselves comfortable for the night, although the Germans were following close on their heels. The remainder of the Brigade was fairly close at hand. On the 26th the Suffolks had breakfast at 3 a.m., and fell in at 4 a.m. to take up their allotted positions, which were about half a mile to their rear. Two of the battns. (Nos. 3 and 4) of the Brigade were to occupy the trenches which had already been prepared for them, and the Suffolks (No. 1 Battn.) and the 4th Battn. of the Brigade was placed in reserve. Afterwards the Suffolks were moved out in front of the battery and No. 4 Battn. to the right, to protect the guns. The Suffolks had barely taken up their position and commenced to use the web equipment entrenching tool when the Germans opened fire on the battery and dropped a shell right among them. The fight developed and the regt. hung on, protecting the guns, but had to put up with a good deal of shelling which was intended for the battery. They also came in for a good deal of enfilading fire from the German guns. This went on for several hours. It was very difficult to feed the firing line with ammunition, especially when the German infantry drew near. Our infantry and maxim guns simply mowed them down, but still they pressed on, and for a time they recoiled, and then came on again. The battery at one time was firing at them at about 800 yards range, and some of our men, especially of C Coy. (Capt. Orford), got hit with our own shells. Nothing could show itself in the open without drawing a terrible fire from the enemy. The first line of transport was ordered to retire and get away the best way it could. The batteries and the infantry brigade stuck to their positions, and continued the fire, hoping to be reinforced, as General Sir Charles Fergusson had given out that 40,000 French troops were expected. Eventually the order to retire was given, but the old Suffolks had little ammunition left, and the casualties were enormous; very few men were able to retire. In the early part of the fight about 50 wounded Suffolks were carried to the dressing station and to the field hospital. These, together with the other wounded, were shown as “missing,” with the exception of Col. Brett, who was killed early in the fight by a shell. Col. Brett was buried on the battlefield and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “If ever there was a commanding officer that I would wish to have gone on service with, it was he whose loss we now mourn. The one consolation is that he fell as a soldier at the head of his regt. for whom he did so much, and who, everyone of them, looked up to him, admired him. and tried to follow his grand example in everything. His life was noble and straight, and his death was the same. We of the regt., or what is left of it, mourn his loss as the best of comrades”; and another one wrote: “I don’t suppose there was a single commanding officer in the service more beloved by the officers and men. We had all so looked forward to his getting command, and were delighted at the prospect of serving under him. His loss to the regt., as it is to you, is absolutely irreparable.... It will be a long time before we cease to grieve for a gallant soldier, and one of the best and kindest of men.” One of his former subalterns also wrote: “I thought I would like to write to you to tell you that I was his subaltern that night at Colesberg in 1900 when he was shot, and to say that he was a very gallant fellow. Though shot through the lungs, he kept up command of his Coy., and actually charged the Boer trenches in this state, until he fell exhausted from loss of blood. I have no doubt he was just as brave in France when he met his glorious death, and I write these few words in the hope that should they be shown to his wife, it may console her just a little to know that there are a few of his comrades of that night left, who will remember him always as one of old England’s most gallant sons.” Col. Brett was fond of travel and astronomy, and joined when on leave Sir W. Christie’s party to Sfax, Tunisia, 1905, to witness the Eclipse, and received thanks from the Admiralty for his assistance to the Astronomer Royal. During other leave he visited Mesopotamia, and was interested in exploring Muscat, Bagdad, Babylon, and other places. He m. at St. Mary-at-the-Walls Church, Colchester, 6 Jan. 1909, Enid Geraldine (The Cottage, Lexden, Colchester), eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Harry Hamersley St. George, Senior Ordnance Officer, Scottish District (and sister of Lieut. G. S. W. St. George, 1st Gurkha Rifles, who was killed in action, 27 April, 1915, see his notice), and had one dau., Ione Moncrieff St. George, b. 10 Oct. 1909.

BRETTELL, SAMUEL THOMAS, Petty Officer (N.S.), 210526, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BREWER, FRANK, A.B., 207025 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BREWER, JOHN HAROLD, Private, No. 169, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Brewer, late Worcester Regt., by his wife, Emily Isabella Margery, dau. of John Harley Bedford, late Superintendant of Post Offices, Bombay Presidency; b. Poona, India, 7 June, 1892; educ. Church School, Liskeard, Cornwall, and on leaving there served as an errand boy with Mr. Rapson, the Mayor for three years there; joined the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. in 1908, and two years later emigrated to Australia, where he was employed at the Parkside Tannery, Preston, until the outbreak of the war when he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; unm.

BREWER, WILLIAM ARTHUR, Private, No. 10398, 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 2nd s. of George Brewer, of 81, Shamrock Cottage, Chippenham, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Neate, of 42, Wood Lane, Chippenham; b. Chippenham, co. Wilts, 19 May, 1893, and educ. British School there; an old Territorial he enlisted in the Wilts Regt. 1 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres 13 Nov. 1914; unm. A comrade wrote: “The officer called for volunteers to rush a road, and he was the first to leave trench, and by so doing was killed with a Maxim gun.” Private Brewer was a well-known Wiltshire footballer, and was formerly a captain of Chippenham Town, but in 1913 signed on for Swindon and played one match with the first eleven.

BREWIN, WILLIAM HENRY FRANK, Private, No. 1749, 7th Battn, Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Henry Brewin, of 90, St. Loys Road, Bruce Grove, Tottenham, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Henry Calvert; b. Stoke Newington, 12 May, 1896; educ. Earls Mead School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials about 1911; volunteered for foreign service Aug. 1914; went to France the last week in Feb., and was killed in action there, 13 April, 1915; unm.

BREWSTER, HERBERT JOHN, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4774), 169829, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRIAN, HERBERT CECIL, 2nd Lieut. 59th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, eldest s. of Hyla Edwin Brian, Military School, Cairo, and of Holmbury, Berkhampstead, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Charles Elliott; b. Abbassieh, Cairo, Egypt, 23 Dec. 1891; educ. Berkhampstead School, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted to the 18th Battery 20 Dec. 1912, with which he served in England until June, 1914, when he left to join the 59th Battery in India, and returned the following Dec. to Portsmouth, and went from there to the Front early in March, 1915. He was present and took part in the action of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, while performing the duty of forward observing officer in the trenches, 9 May, 1915. He was unm. and was buried in an orchard near where he fell. His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a splendid officer and absolutely fearless in the execution of his duty.”

BRICE, HENRY COPELAND, Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Francis Strange Brice, of Middlemeade, Stoughton Drive, Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Alice, dau. of Thomas Henry Downing; b. Leicester, 28 Nov. 1893; educ. Mill Hill School, London; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 10 May, 1913. When war was declared he volunteered for Imperial Service, was gazetted Lieut., 22 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, France, 12 June, 1915, of wounds caused by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade at Dranoutre, Belgium. He was buried at Bailleul. His commanding officer wrote: “I cannot forbear saying how profoundly I regret his death, and how great a loss he is to the battn. He was the Grenade Officer and had charge of the bomb throwers. His work in that position was of a high quality. He was absolutely fearless, and I believe that his men would have followed him anywhere. He was of the type of which leaders are made, and the Army can ill afford to lose such men.”

BRICKETT, RALPH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7013), S.S. 101618, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRICKWOOD, ARTHUR CYRIL, Lieut., 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., elder s. of Sir John Brickwood, of Southsea and Hindhead, by his 2nd wife, Jessie, dau. of the late John Cooper, of Burghfield; b. Southsea, 1 Nov. 1896; educ. Twyford, near Winchester, and Charterhouse; entered Sandhurst, Feb. 1914; gazetted to York and Lancaster Regt., 30 Sept. and was engaged on coast defence at Cleadon and South Shields. On 2 Feb. 1915, he took out drafts of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to France, and on arrival was sent to Rouen Hospital suffering from a sharp attack of influenza. On recovery he rejoined, and was in and out of the trenches seven times. He was taken ill in the trenches with septic throat, 11 April, and was sent back to the base hospital at Boulogne, where, after two operations, he died 15 April, 1915; buried at Grayshott.

BRIDGELAND, HUBERT EDWARD, Private, No. 11478, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; 5th s. of the late John George Bridgeland, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Carpenter, by his wife Eliza (16 Silverlands Road, Silver Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea), dau. of George Dearing, of St. Leonards-on-Sea; b. Hastings, 8 Feb. 1897; educ. Tower Road Board School; enlisted the last week in Aug. 1914; went to France 8 April 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 Sept. 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “It was while we were advancing that he met his fate, a shell exploding just in front of him, the shock proving fatal. He was neither hit nor wounded, it was purely the shock.”

BRIERLY, ALWIN HUARD, Private, No. 1281, 25th Battn., 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, Marine Painter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by his 2nd wife, Louise Marie, eldest dau. of Louis Huard, of 37, Onslow Square, S.W., and Brussels; b. London, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. in London; went to South Africa as a lad in 1895, and after some years there left for New Zealand, and finally settled in Australia about 1907. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and enlisted at Mackay, North Queensland, in Oct. 1914, and after training at Enogerra Camp, Brisbane, from March to Aug. 1915, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements. He died in No. 27 General Hospital at Mudros, 1 Jan. 1916, from uremia, brought on by exposure in the trenches, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

BRIGGS, CHARLEY, Private, No. 6479, 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., 1st s. of Samuel Briggs, of 1, Ganny Yard, Elland Road, by his wife, Emma; b. Brighouse, co. York, 9 Jan. 1886; educ. there; enlisted 7 Aug. 1902, and was killed in action 1½ miles S.E. of Tyron, 20 Sept. 1914. He m. at Southowram, 13 Aug. 1910, Emma Jane (5, Elland Road, Brookfoot, Brighouse, co. York), dau. of (—), and had three daus., Mary, b. 9 Feb. 1911; Mabel, b. 5 Jan. 1913; and Muriel, b. 6 Oct. 1914.

BRIGGS, GEORGE CLARK, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, only s. of Francis Briggs, of Huntington, near Haddington, Teak Merchant and Shipowner, by his wife, Esther White, dau. of James Munro, of Moffat, M.D. [by his wife (—), dau. of Dr. George Smith, Fleet Surgeon, R.N., who at one time served with Nelson]; b. at Edinburgh, 4 March, 1878; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Malvern College and Clare College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 3 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 18 April, 1915. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the Relief of Ladysmith and was taken prisoner at Colenso, but was released on the entry of Lord Roberts into Pretoria. He was sent with Boer prisoners to Ceylon. On his return he took part in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, including the actions at Frederickstad, 17–25 Oct. 1900, and was employed with the Rand Rifles from Dec. 1901, to June, 1902, and was then chosen for the Mounted Infantry. For his services he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. He afterwards served in India, again in South Africa and accompanied the first Expeditionary Force to France. He was killed in action at Vailly-sur-Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, while extracting his men out of a position from which they had to retire. Capt. Briggs was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914, for gallant conduct during the retreat from Mons. Corpl. T. Gibson and Private Cox of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, both home wounded, related in The Scotsman of 17 Oct. the following incident: “In the retreat from Jemappes the Germans were pressing the Fusiliers closely, and towards evening the coy. reached the village, dead beat after a long march. Capt. Briggs got the men together and gave the order to fix bayonets. At the same time he spoke a few patriotic words with regard to the regt. and its illustrious history, pointing out that it had never been known to surrender. The Capt. said he was prepared to make a last stand and with bayonets fixed the men waited on the enemy coming through. The last stand was not needed, however, as the Germans did not press home their advantages.”

BRIMBLE, CYRIL GEORGE MICHAEL, Private, No 72029, Machine Gun Section, 27th Battn. (Winnipeg L.I.), 6th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force; 4th and yst. s. of Edward Henry Brimble, of Milton, Weston-super-Mare, retired Banker, by his wife, Agnes Edith, dau. of George Shadbolt, P.R.M.S.; b. Fish Ponds, co. Gloucester, 11 Sept. 1888; educ. Lewisham School, Weston-super-Mare; went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled at Winnipeg. In Feb. 1915, he volunteered and joined the Winnipeg L.I., and was killed in action at Neuve Eglise, 16 Oct. 1915, being the first of his battn. to fall; unm. He was buried in Locre churchyard the following day with full military honours.

BRIMBLECOMBE, THOMAS, Private, No. 91133, 7th (Service) Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 Aug. 1915.

BRINDLE, JAMES, Private, No. 17367, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancashire Regt., s. of Hugh Brindle, of 29, Pickup Street, Blackburn, by his wife, Jane Eliza, dau. of Henry Tomlinson; b. Blackburn, 16 Sept. 1893; educ. Holy Trinity School there; prior to the outbreak of the war was employed as a weaver in Sparrow’s Mill, Quarry Street; joined the Army 25 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May, 1915; unm. Five of his brothers are, or were, on active service, Private Joseph Brindle, 3rd Battn. East Lancashires; Ewen, 4th Battn. East Lancashires; and Alfred, Lancashire Fusiliers, are serving in France; George is in the Navy; and the yst., Private Thomas Brindle, Scottish Rifles, has been discharged, having had his finger blown off at the Battle of the Aisne.

BRINDLEY, THOMAS LESLIE ST. JOHN, Private, No. 12037, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. Worcester; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915; unm.

BRINGLOE, THOMAS, L.-Corpl., No. 470, 1/5th. Battn. (The Buffs) East Kent Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of the late John Bringloe, of Cranbrook, co. Kent, by his wife, Mary (Lauriston, High Street, Cranbrook), dau. of Henry Curry of Foulden, Norfolk; b. Didlington, co. Norfolk, 6 April, 1891; educ. Didlington and Cranbrook National Schools, and was Gardener to Col. Alexander; joined the Cranbrook Territorials in 1906; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for India (Kamptee) in Oct. 1914; went to Mesopotamia, Dec. 1915; and died 8 Jan. 1916, from wounds received in action at the Battle of Sheikh Saad, the previous day; unm. He was bugler to Col. Munn-Mace.

BRISTOW, ARTHUR THOMAS, Gunner, R.M.A., 10280, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRISTOWE, ROBERT OWEN, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., only s. of the late Stanley Bristowe, Member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Ethel (now wife of William Henry Harrison, of 13, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W.), dau. of John Pike, and grandson of Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham Hill, S.E.; b. Sydenham, 5 Sept. 1888; educ. Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Devonshire Regt., 14 Oct. 1908, and joined at Plymouth 21 Nov. following; served in Crete, Malta and Egypt, and was promoted Lieut. 4 May, 1911. He obtained a “distinguished” in both the rifle and machine gun courses at the Hythe School of Musketry between Jan. and March, 1913, and was Acting Adjutant in Cairo and at the front. When the European War broke out he was home on leave from Cairo and was sent to the camp at Saltash, Cornwall. He rejoined his battn. on its return from Egypt, and proceeded with it to the front on 5 Nov. 1914; came home on short leave 21 Jan. 1915, returning to the front on the 27th of the month, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. He was mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915]. The second in command of the battn. wrote: “His loss to the regt. is immense, and to me, personally, more than I can say...; he was always so cheery, and the whole of the officers, N.C.O.’s and men of the battalion share your grief.... He was cool and collected as he always was under all circumstances, and he led his platoon splendidly.” The officer commanding his company at the time said: “To me it seems impossible that such a catastrophe could have happened to the most wonderful nature I have ever met. His death has left all of us that remain in the battn. simply stupefied.... You will remember that he took his platoon over that machine gun and rifle swept ground, losing half his platoon, and when they arrived at the German trench the remnants laid down under the German parapet, while Bob knelt up and fired from two to three dozen shots at Germans who were firing at our troops advancing further to the left. There seems no doubt at all that he accounted for some dozen and a-half of them, until one of them spotted him and hit him behind the left ear.... Only 18 men out of 53 now remain of his platoon ... more than one gulped down a lump when reminded of their beloved officer and friend. They just loved the old lad. I have never known any person so universally admired and loved as he was by everyone”; adding: “his advance greatly helped to cause the whole German line to retire.” A private wrote: “I feel sure that I am expressing not only my own thoughts but those of my comrades of the platoon which has had the honour of serving under the leadership of so brave a gentleman as the late Lieut. Bristowe. It is hardly necessary for me to add that his loss is most keenly felt by us all.” The platoon sergt. wrote: “I trust you can now realise how bravely and fearlessly our gallant leader met his death, not caring about himself as long as he could make the attack successful.” His cousin, Private Stanley Bristowe, died on active service 18 June, 1915 (see following notice).

BRISTOWE, STANLEY, Private, No. 2063, Hon. Artillery Company, eldest s. of Percy Robert Bristowe, of Roundwood, Hutton, Essex, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances Mary, dau. of Henry Edward Milner (late of) Woodlawn, Kingswood Road, Norwood, and grandson of Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham Hill, S.E.; b. Waverley, Bromley, Kent, 29 May, 1893; educ. Charterhouse; joined the Hon. Artillery Company in Sept. 1914, and died in hospital, St. Omer, France, of illness contracted while on active service in France, 18 June, 1915. He was buried in the Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer; unm. His cousin-german, Lieut. R. O. Bristowe, was killed in action 14 March, 1915 (see preceding notice).

BRITT, ALBERT HENRY, Private, No. 3245, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 16 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 11 Sept. to 29 Oct. 1914; was reported missing on the latter date, and is now assumed to have been killed in action 29 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1914. He m. Rose (1, The Row, Elmdon Heath, Salihill, Birmingham) and had six children.

BROAD, EDWARD, Stoker, Petty Officer, 281620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BROAD, GEORGE ALFRED, Private, No. 7751, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Oct. 1914; m.

BROAD, WALTER, Sergt. Shoemaker, No. 5641, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Broad, of North Evington, Leicester; b. Leicester, 3 Jan. 1883; educ. there; served with the 3rd Battn. Leicester Regt. in the South African War (Queen’s medal with two clasps “Cape Colony,” “South Africa, 1902”); enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 8 Aug. 1904; became L.-Corpl. 3 Oct. 1905; Corpl. 5 Jan. 1909; Sergt. and Sergt. Shoemaker 26 July, 1913; served in Egypt 29 Sept. 1906, to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Mons, 16 Sept. 1914. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Mount Sorrell,—Aug. 1910, Nellie (170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell, Leicestershire), dau. of Harry Rudkin, of 170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell, and had two children: Walter, b. 29 Oct. 1914; and May, b. 2 May, 1912.

BROADHURST, JOSEPH HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6723), S.S. 101291, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BROADRICK, JAMES GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4540), 282164, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROADWAY, HUGH ALEXANDER, Lieut., R.E., eldest s. of Alexander Broadway, Magistrate and Landowner in the Punjab, India, by his wife, Lizzie Welford, dau. of Kinsey Beaumont Thomas, of Upton, co. Worcester; b. Mussoorie, India, 23 June, 1891; educ. Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; obtained his commission, 25 July, 1912. On the conclusion of the usual two years’ course at the S.M.E., he volunteered for India, and was sent to Gosport in July, 1914, for an electric lighting course prior to embarkation. On the outbreak of war, Broadway was at first employed in hutting the troops for coast defence, and then on some miscellaneous work at Netley Hospital and in the Southampton district, to his great and natural disappointment. But it was not for long, and in Nov. he was ordered to report at Chatham for service in a field company to be sent to the front, where he afterwards served in the 15th Field Coy. under Major P. K. Betty, R.E., to which he appears to have been transferred at the front. Here Broadway was specially commended for good work in design and execution of defences in an important position, christened “Port Arthur,” and specially commended for the excellent and gallant work carried out by himself and his section of the 15th Coy. R.E. by the Brig.-Gen. commanding the 24th Infantry Brigade, through the Headquarters of the 8th Division in March, 1915. The 10 March saw Broadway preparing the defences of a post captured outside Neuve Chapelle, and in the afternoon of that day he was bending down in an exposed position to bandage one of his sappers who had been shot when he was himself hit in the shoulder, and the bullet injured his spine. He was immediately carried to the dressing station and sent out to the base hospital, but eventually died there on 30 March. Hugh Broadway was specially fond of Rugby football among games, was a keen soldier, and very popular with his fellows, and put all his energy into the subject in hand. Many letters testify similarly to that of the Major commanding his company, who wrote: “Your son, during the short time he was in the company, endeared himself to us all, and worked hard at whatever he undertook,” and his all too brief career was crowned by his posthumous mention in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, “for gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

BROADWELL, THOMAS, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 2nd s. of Robert Broadwell, of Hull, Blacksmith, by his wife, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Peterson; b. Hull, 5 Sept. 1876; educ. Blundell Street Board School there; served for six or seven years in the 1st East Yorks Rifle Volunteers; worked for 21 years with Charles Hatfield, of Hull, Coal Merchant, and after the latter’s death in 1912, for himself as a coal dealer; was called up on the outbreak of the war (11 Aug. 1914), and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 9 April, 1915. He m. at Sculcoates Parish Church, Hull, Lily (7, Walter’s Terrace, West Parade, Hull), dau. of William Atkinson, and had five children: Robert William, b. 8 March, 1903; Harry, b. 29 May, 1904; Laura, b. 7 Feb. 1899; Lily, b. 27 Sept. 1907; and Muriel, b. 2 July, 1912.

BROADWOOD, MAXIMILIAN FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Queen’s Own West Kent Regt., s. of Francis Broadwood, of Hever Court, Singlewell, Gravesend, and his wife, Mary Sylvia, dau. of the late Maximilian Hammond Dallson, of Hamptons, co. Kent, J.P., and grandson of the late Thomas Broadwood, of Holmbush, co. Sussex; b. Brunswick Place, Hove, co. Sussex, 1 April, 1893; educ. Evelyns (G. T. Worsley), Hillingdon, Uxbridge; Wellington College, Berks; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt. 4 Sept. 1912, and joined the 1st Battn. in Dublin 9 Oct. following. He was killed in action near Wasmes, during the retreat from Mons, 24 Aug. 1914; unm. Col. Martyn, the officer commanding the battn. at the time of his death and during his two years’ service, wrote: “He was a boy with a future before him; was beloved by us all, always cheerful, and a great loss not only to his family but to his regiment and his country. He was killed at the same time as Major Bereford and Capt. Phillips, both in his company, which had been sent to help another battn. in difficulties.”

BROCK, JOHN, Shipwright, 1st Class, 344374, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BROCK, JOHN RAMSAY, L.-Sergt., No. 28957 16th Battn. (72nd Seaforth Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force; only s. of George Dunning Brock, of Greattree Estate, Chagford, Devon, by his wife, Seraphina Wagstaff dau. of Andrew Devoy Ramsay; b. Brantford, Ontario, 21 Sept. 1876; educ. Lapford College, North Devon; went to Canada in Aug. 1903, and was a builder, but on the outbreak of war enlisted, 18 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914, went to the front Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert between 18 and 20 May, 1915. He m. at Chagford, Devon, 19 Nov. 1894, Rose Edith (1860, 14th Avenue East, Vancouver, B.C.), 2nd dau. of William Lyddon, of Portland House, Chagford, and has two sons and three daus.: Jack Ramsay, b. 31 March, 1904; Roy Dunning, b. 29 July, 1906; Rita Ramsay, b. 30 April, 1900; Violet Palmer, b. 10 Oct. 1901; and Emily Wilfreda, b. 14 April, 1911.

BROCKBANK, SIEGFRIED HARRISON, Private, No. 2559, 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of James Harrison Brockbank, by his wife, Nettie Carpenter (the distinguished violinist known as Madame Nettie Carpenter), dau. of Dr. Wesley M. Carpenter, of New York; b. Highgate, 4 Feb. 1895; educ. Westminster Cathedral Choir School, and after spending five years there went to St. Edmund’s as a church student in Sept. 1908. He was placed in the 2nd School of Rudiments, but showing more than average ability, was promoted to the 1st School of Rudiments at the beginning of the spring term, 1909. At the end of the year, feeling that he had no vocation to the priesthood, he left the college and returned to the Choir School, where he remained for about a year. In Oct. 1910, he entered the Civil Service, but only remained there 18 months, as by that time a position in a London bank was offered him, which he accepted. In this profession he was making rapid progress when the war broke out. Cheerfully sacrificing all future prospects, he was among the first to join the New Army, enlisting in the 7th Middlesex Territorials on 10 Aug. Owing to previous experience in the Civil Service Cadet Corps, where he had obtained the rank of colour-sergt., he was dispensed from preliminary training, and on 2 Sept. he left England to take up garrison duty at Gibraltar. After six months spent at the Mediterranean fortress, he returned to London about the middle of Feb., and on 12 March left for active service in France. In a letter dated 27 May, 1915, he wrote: “Before the scourge, as we call the attack we made or helped to make on the 9 May, I had been feeling rather seedy for some time back, but I recovered just in time, and was luckily feeling fit. On the 7th I took part in what ‘Eye-witness’ in The Times of the 13th describes as a brilliant little affair of outposts, which took place in front of our trenches. The next platoon to us was holding the head of a sap, a sort of trench that ran from our lines slant-wise up to within 30 yards of the German trench. On the night of the 7th some Allemands raided the head and got in, but were speedily put to flight. We had sustained a few casualties, but they left four dead on the spot. While it was going on a wounded fellow of ours rushed up and said that the Germans were inside the sap. You can imagine the feelings with which I, one of the first to reinforce, went up to this sap in the pitch darkness, expecting every moment to find the Germans in possession. Luckily it was all over, except for an anxious all-night watch. The next evening was filled with preparation for the attack. Wire-cutting parties, ladder carrying parties, grenadiers, and lastly the assaulting troops coming in at night. We were moved a little in rear occupying a redoubt. After our bombardment we saw our fellows going over the parapet, their bayonets gleaming in the lovely sunshine—a stirring sight. We heard they had carried three lines of enemy trenches. Then the Germans shelled us, being the supports, and I think the strongest of us got terrified as the shells burst all around us. We were all heartily glad when in the evening the order came to man the trenches, and we found our fellows had been beaten back. The trench (our firing trench) was full of the remnants of the battns., and the whole air alive with hubbub. The Germans turned a heavy machine gun fire on to us, and the artillery started sending red-hot shells across the black sky. Morning revealed many painful sights, but we were glad to hear that the French had advanced considerably at the same time as we made our attack. We had drawn their reinforcements to us. I do not think our casualties were over heavy, as very many wounded crawled back under cover of night, and they will mostly recover. I have taken on a job the nature of which I must not mention, which precludes me from the trenches for a little while.” This it afterwards transpired was to learn grenade throwing, some 200 yards behind the firing trenches. On 5 June, the enemy finding the range of the French headquarters by means of their aeroplanes, subjected them to heavy shell fire. He fell covered with wounds, and expired a few minutes later from shock without regaining consciousness. Writing to his mother, his Capt. said: “He was always bright and cheerful and a thoroughly good soldier, and was liked and respected by officers and men alike. His company put a small wooden cross on his grave with I.H.S. upon it, which they took from a ruined church near by, knowing he was a Catholic.”

BROCKELBANK, LAURENCE SEYMOUR, Lieut., 3rd, attached 1st, Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of George Seymour Brockelbank, of Elm Lodge, Blackheath, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Julia, dau. of the late Henry Turner, of Court Lodge, Knockholt, Kent; b. Eliot Park, Blackheath, 21 Sept. 1892; educ. Lindesfurn, Lee and Tonbridge School; entered the army as 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King’s Own, 5 May, 1914, and is believed to have been killed at the Battle of Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, being reported missing from that date. Lieut. Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914: “On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer, the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to them afterwards.” From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen, of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as Lieut. Brockelbank’s servant, it appears that the “King’s Own” had been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieut. Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell. According to the list compiled by Capt Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; unm.

FITZHERBERT-BROCKHOLES, THOMAS JOSEPH, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of William Joseph Fitzherbert-Brockholes, of Claughton Hall, Garstang, co. Lancaster, J.P., D.L., C.A., by his 2nd wife, Blanche Winifred Mary, dau. of the late Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, V.C., K.C.M.G., C.B.; b. London, 4 May, 1887; educ. The Oratory School, Edgbaston, and New College, Oxford; gazetted to 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, then in England, 24 June, 1908, but exchanged in July, 1910, to the 2nd Battn. then at Calcutta; was promoted Lieut. 15 Feb. 1911, became Adjutant 21 Feb. 1914. On the outbreak of war he returned with his battn. to England (Oct.), and went with it to the Front early in Nov., and was promoted Capt. on the 15th of that month. He was wounded on 20 Dec., but not seriously, and was able to remain on duty, and was on constant service with his battn. in the trenches (with the exception of a short leave of seven days) until the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, when the 2nd Battn. was given a leading part in the attack, and was the first to get through the village on 10 March and entrench themselves on the far side of it. Two days later he was shot through the head while directing the fire of a machine gun in beating off a violent counter-attack, and died 14 March without recovering consciousness. Capt. Fitzherbert-Brockholes was mentioned for his services in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May. When in India he secured a special certificate at the School of Signalling at Kasauli, and a First Class at the School of Musketry. He was very keen and good at games and all kinds of sport, did excellent work in the cricket field for the Oxford University Authentics and the Green Jackets, and played polo for his regiment. All who came in contact with him spoke in the highest terms of his efficiency as a soldier, of his absolute fearlessness, and of his consideration for others.

BROCKIE, DAVID, Private, No. 75230, A Coy., 29th (Vancouver) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of the late Thomas Brockie, of Hawthornside, Hawick, co. Roxburgh, Farmer, by his wife, Anne Henderson, dau. of the late William Renwick, of Byrecleuch and Chapel Mains, co. Berwick; b. Hawthornside afsd., 1 Dec. 1878; educ. Hobkirk Public School, and Teviot Grove Academy, Hawick, and after a business training went to India, where he was for seven years with Whitaway, Laidlaw & Co. After a brief visit home he went to Vancouver about 1911, and after the declaration of war volunteered and joined the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada in Oct. 1914. He was transferred to the 29th Battn., came over with the second Contingent, went to France, 17 Sept. 1915, and was mortally wounded on 4 Nov. following, and died two days later in No. 2 Clearing Station at Bailleul. He was buried in the cemetery there; unm. For going to his assistance when he fell wounded and carrying him to a place of safety while under heavy fire, L.-Corpl. Alfred J. Hourston was awarded the D.C.M.

BROCKLEHURST, EDWARD HENRY, Capt., 6th (Rifle) Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 5th s. of the late Henry Brocklehurst, of Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of William Hutchings; b. Waterloo, near Liverpool, 15 May, 1878; educ. Harrow, and became a chartered accountant. He joined the volunteers in 1900 and was made Capt. of the 6th Battn. King’s Regt. 22 June, 1910, when he secured the certificate of proficiency qualifying him for higher rank. He was on the Special Reserve of officers, and had been gazetted as regimental instructor of musketry a short time before war broke out. He immediately volunteered for foreign service, and was killed while leading a charge at Hill 60, near Ypres, 5 May, 1915; unm.

BROCKLESBY, DENNIS, Armourer’s Crew, M. 6674, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROCKWELL, WILLIAM JAMES, Stoker, Petty Officer, K. 2386, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRODIE, EWEN JAMES, 11th of Lethen and Coulmony, co. Nairn, D.L., Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 2nd and only surviving s. of the late James Campbell John Brodie, 9th Laird of Lethen and Coulmony, Lord Lieut. of co. Nairn, by his wife Fanny Sophia Constance, dau. of Edmund Thomas Wedgwood Wood, of Henley Hall, co. Salop; b. at Lethen, 17 July, 1878; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted as 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the 2nd Battn. of the Cameron Highlanders, 26 May, 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1902, and Capt. 3 May 1911. He served in the Mediterranean, Africa and China, and from 1909 to 1913 was Adjutant to Lovat Scouts (T.F.), when he rejoined the 1st Battn. of the Camerons at Edinburgh Castle. On the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914., he went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, took part in the Battle of the Aisne, and all the fighting preliminary to the First Battle of Ypres, and fell in action, in the encounter with the Prussian Guards at Ypres, 11 Nov 1914. At the time of his death he was acting as Adjutant of his battn. and was one of the only three survivors of the officers of the regt. who had left Edinburgh Castle ten weeks before. He was buried near some men of his regt., close to the spot where he fell. He m. 4 Jan. 1911, Marion Louisa, eldest dau. of William Stirling, of Fairburn and Monar, co. Ross, and had three children, David James, b. 27 Oct. 1911; Peter Ewen, b. 6 May, 1914; and Helen Charlotte, b. 22 June, 1913.

BROMLEY, CUTHBERT, Major and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, s. of the late Sir John Bromley, C.B., J.P., formerly of the Exchequer and Audit Department, Somerset House, afterwards Accountant General of the Board of Education, by his wife, Marie Louise (Sutton Corner, Seaford, Sussex), dau. of the late Richard Bowman, of Maidenhead; b. Earl’s Terrace, London, W., 19 Sept. 1878; educ. St. Paul’s School and received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Lancashire Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 May, 1898, and was promoted Lieut. 28 Dec. 1898. In Sept. 1899, he was sent from Aldershot to Malta and received his company, 15 June, 1901. It is interesting to note the fact that when he received his company he was barely twenty-two, and he and a junior Subaltern (Gaspard de Coligny Le Marchant) are said to have been the two youngest captains in the British Army. While in Malta, the South African War broke out, and in order to be fully qualified he and Capt Le Marchant joined the Malta Mounted Infantry, but as his Commanding Officer (Capt. Hamilton) fell ill, he had to remain behind in Malta temporarily to take his place. In 1901–3 Major Bromley was seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force, and took part in the punitive expedition in the Aro country, and had the West African (S. Nigeria) 1901–2 and Aro medals with clasps. While in Southern Nigeria he gained the Royal Humane Society’s Certificate for saving a native’s life from drowning, by holding him up 8½ hours in the water. During 1906–7, he was Superintendent of Gymnasia, Irish Command, but resigned this post to rejoin his own regt. the Lancashire Fusiliers, and in 1909 went with it to India, serving for some time as Transport Officer. He was appointed Adjutant, 4 May, 1914, and took keen interest in the regimental sport and in organising the men’s games. His regt., with others from India, arrived in England 13 Jan. 1915, and started on the Dardanelles Expedition on 15 March, 1915; he was in the 29th Division and his Brigade (the 86th Infantry) was the first to land on W. Beach (Lancashire “Landing”) on that memorable 25 April, their duty being to cover the disembarkation of the rest of the Division. An officer who was there said, “Bromley and Needham were always forward, leading and cheering on; all were good, but then were splendid.” On 28 April, Major Bromley was wounded in the thigh, and when examined by the doctors was found to have been wounded in the back on the day of the landing. After three weeks in hospital, he rejoined his regt. on the Gallipoli Peninsula and was again wounded by shrapnel in the foot on 28 June. An officer wrote: “He was wounded at the beginning of the charge from our trenches. When he was picked up he made the men help him forward to lead the attack.” After six weeks in hospital at Cairo and at Troodos, he started from Alexandria for Cape Hellas on the ill-fated Royal Edward, with a draft of sixty-four men, as senior military officer “Commanding the troops on board.” The ship was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea and sank in about 4½ minutes, on 14 Aug. 1915. Major Bromley had not been well that morning, having a touch of fever and was the last to jump overboard. He was injured in the head by wreckage and rendered partially unconscious, and but for that would undoubtedly have had strength to swim to the Hospital Ship Sudan. His fate was the more tragic as from boyhood he had always been such an expert swimmer, and when at Malta swam five miles, from there to the Island of Gozo. His Commanding Officer wrote: “So passed one of the bravest officers I have known, my friend for years, and one of the most popular men in the regt.” He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 20 May [London Gazette, 5 Aug.], 1915, and had been gazetted temporary Major [London Gazette, 3 Aug. 1915] to rank as from 6 June. He was unm.

BROMLEY, HERBERT ASSHETON (Jett), Lieut., No. 3 Coy., 7th Battn (1st British Columbia Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Sir Henry Bromley, 5th Bt., by his wife, Ada, only child of Westley Richards; b. Stoke Newark, 16 Oct. 1879; educ. Farnborough and Eton, was Private Secretary to his brother, Sir Robert Bromley, Bt., Administrator of St. Christopher and Nevis (1905–6) and afterwards to the Hon. James Dunsmuir, Lieut.-Gov. of British Columbia; joined the 88th Fusiliers at Victoria, B.C., when that battn. was formed three years ago; on the outbreak of war volunteered for service overseas, was gazetted Lieut. on formation of Canadian Expeditionary Force, 21 Sept. 1911, and was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. Describing his death, a comrade said: “He was badly wounded in the trenches, but leaped out and led his men in a magnificent charge, calling out ‘we have got to win, follow me.’ He was quite alone away in front of his men and died a glorious death.” His Company Commander, Major R. C. Cooper, wrote to the Editor as follows: “I would, as the late Lieut. H. A. Bromley’s Company Commander, like to express my very high appreciation of him, both as an officer with the welfare of his men at heart, and as a personal friend. Mr. Bromley was invaluable to me in France with his intimate knowledge of the language and customs. His men were devoted to him and missed him greatly when wounded in the head on the 16 March at Fleurbaix. He returned to us on 27 March and remained with the battn. up to ‘Our Day’—doing duty in the trenches from the 14 to the 19 April, two days in billets and then the gas and subsequent heavy fighting. In Victoria, B.C., he was a member of the 88th Victoria Fusiliers, some time as a Company Officer and the remainder as Adjutant. He served with the regt. in the coal strikes at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, 1913–14. On the outbreak of war he was one of the first officers selected for Active Service, being posted to my company, left for Valcartier, 28 Aug. 1914, and for England, 27 Sept. 1914, arriving at Plymouth, 15 Oct. 1914—four months of rain at Salisbury Plain and then to France. We all mourn ‘Brom.’ as a pal and soldier. His last idea, and his was a forlorn hope, was to charge and scupper some of the Boches before going under himself. His platoon on 21 April lost twenty-one killed, sixteen wounded, three prisoners and eight wounded and prisoners. This record tells of his work.”

BROOKE, JAMES ANSON OTHO, V.C., Capt., 2nd Battn. The Gordon Highlanders, eldest s. of Capt. Harry Vesey Brooke, of Fairley, Countesswells, co. Aberdeen, J.P., D.L., late 92nd Gordon Highlanders, by his wife, Patricia, only child of James Gregory Moir Byres, of Tonley, co. Aberdeen, and gdson. of the late Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke, of Colebrooke Park, co. Fermanagh, 2nd Bt., M.P.; b. Fairley, Aberdeenshire, 3 Feb. 1884; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst, and received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Gordon Highlanders, 11 Oct. 1905, and joined the 1st Battn. at Cork in November. The following year he was promoted Lieut. (5 Aug. 1907) and transferred to the 2nd battn. in India, where he served till 1913. He was present at the Delhi Durbar and as Senior Subaltern he was one of the officers who received new colours from King George, and was awarded the Durbar medal. In 1913, the regt. went to Egypt and were stationed there till the outbreak of war, when (Oct. 1914) they were ordered to the Front. Lieut. Brooke was the Senior Subaltern and acting as assistant Adjutant. The 2nd battn. of the Gordons landed at Zeebrugge and after many days’ severe fighting, the regt. along with the rest of the Division found themselves on 29 Oct. attacked by very superior forces at Gheluvelt. Here it was that Lieut. Brooke was killed, having, as his Col. wrote, by his gallantry “saved the situation.” The Germans having broken through, he changed the formation of the line three times and finally led an assault on, and captured an important trench at a most critical moment. For this he was mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery and great ability near Gheluvelt on 29 Oct. in leading two attacks on the German trenches under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, regaining a lost trench at a very critical moment. He was killed on that day. By his marked coolness and promptitude on this occasion Lieut. Brooke prevented the enemy from breaking through our line at a time when a general counter-attack could not have been organised.” At Sandhurst he was Capt. of the Shooting Eight, was senior Colour-Sergt. of the College, won the Sword of Honour, tied for the Saddle, etc. He was unm.

BROOKE, VICTOR REGINALD, C.I.E., D.S.O., Major, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, 5th s. of the late Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, of Colebrooke, 3rd Bt. by his wife, Alice Sophia (Villa Ballenia, St. Jean de Luz, B.P., France), 2nd dau. of Sir Alan Edward Bellingham, 3rd Bt.; b. 53, Eaton Square, London, 22 Jan. 1873; educ. at Pau, Basses Pyrénées and at Storrington, and obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 9th Lancers, 12 Dec. 1894, and became Lieu. 29 April, 1896, Capt. 6 May, 1901, Major 7 June, 1905, and temporary Lieut.-Col. 1 June, 1907. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, where he greatly distinguished himself. He took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein, and in the operations in the Orange Free State from Feb. to May, 1900, including the actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, and Karee Siding, and was A.D.C. to the Lieut.-Gen. commanding the Headquarters staff in South Africa from Nov. 1901 to Sept. 1902. He was wounded in the Transvaal, and was twice mentioned in despatches [16 April, 1901, and 31 May, 1902], and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. From 1902 to 1907 he was A.D.C. and then Assistant Mil. Secretary to Lord Kitchener, and was sent by him to Kabul in 1904, and afterwards became Mil. Secretary to the Viceroy of India (Lord Minto), and was made a C.I.E. in 1910. He returned with Lord Minto Dec. 1910, and served with his regt. at Canterbury and Tidworth. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and died in hospital at Compiègne of wounds received in action during the retreat from Mons, 29 Aug. 1914; unm. The following appreciation by “A Friend” appeared in the Daily Telegraph of 12 Sept. 1914: “It was a fine ending to a fine life, Victor Brooke was known, if only as Military Secretary in India, to thousands; but it was by tens of thousands that he was liked and loved. He was almost the first man wounded in the South African War. The writer picked up the diary of a wounded Boer, in which was set down the enemy’s regret that so good a friend and fighter had been as they thought killed. Upon my conscience, I believe that the Boers who wounded him in 1899 will take an intentional and bitter revenge for his death in 1914, when they came to grips with the Germans in South West Africa. As to the manner of his death and burial, there is something to be recorded. He died on the night of 29 Aug. and he was buried early next morning at Chateau d’Annel, near Compiègne. The house had been turned into a hospital by Mrs. Depew, to whom most men who speak English will be glad to pay in full a willing debt of gratitude whenever and wherever the claim is presented. They left at eleven on the same day. I now quote the words of others: ‘The estate carpenter made his coffin, and one of the old men on the estate dug his grave. After the burial the old man said to Mrs. Depew, “Regardez, Madame.” He pointed out a gravestone to the north of the grave, which had the inscription underneath the date, 1870, “Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur.” It belonged to one of the family which owned Chateau d’Annel in those days, all of whom were buried there. Beside them the old grave-digger thought it right to lay Victor Brook—Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur indeed.”

BROOKE, VIVIAN CYRIL, Private, No. 98, A Coy., 12th Battn., 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert Parkinson Brooke, of Tasmania, formerly of India, Indigo Planter, by his wife, Amy (Rialannah, Swanston Street, New Town, Hobart, Tasmania), b. New Town, Tasmania, 19 June, 1887; educ. Queen’s College and Friend’s High School, Hobart, Tasmania; was a cashier in the Commonwealth Bank, Hobart, but on the outbreak of war volunteered and enlisted 20 Aug. 1914. He left for Egypt with the first Expeditionary Force; took part in the landing at Gaba Tepe on 25 April, 1915, when the 12th Battn. held the post of honour as covering party; was wounded and taken prisoner on that occasion and died a prisoner of war in the Turkish Military Hospital at Biga, Asia Minor, 9 May, 1915; unm.

BROOKE, WALTER, Sergt., 6506, 26 Coy. R.E., s. of Alfred Brooke, of Oxford Road, Mistley, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Scott, of Sutton; b. Lawford, co. Essex, 3 Feb. 1885; educ. Mistley Wesleyan School; enlisted in the R.E. in 1899, and was killed in action by a shell, 10 Nov. 1914; unm.

BROOKER, HORACE BRIAN, Rifleman, 9th (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt., only s. of Horace Sidney Brooker, of Queen’s Road, Weybridge, Draper and Outfitter, by his wife, Kate, dau. of John Jonas Couzens; b. Weybridge, 20 June, 1888; educ. St. James School there, and enlisted in the 9th London Regt. 21 Aug. 1914, going into camp three days later. He was home only once subsequently, for a few hours, immediately preceding his departure for the front on 2 Nov. After a fortnight’s training in France, he went with his regt. straight into the firing line, and there he remained, with intervals of relief, right up to the memorable fight for possession of Hill 60, where he was killed in action, 21 April, 1915; unm. In his last letter, dated 14 April, he referred to a visit of Zeppelins which had dropped 11 bombs within 200 yards of the regt., making holes 24 ft. in diameter. A comrade (Rifleman Barry) wrote: “I have been closely associated with Brian since we came out in November last, and during the dreary months of bad weather in the trenches his cheery influence did much to keep us going. There is not the slightest doubt that the hill would have been lost but for the timely arrival of our regt. and the courage shown both by officers and men, who were determined to hang on like grim death, even when some men of other regts. were beginning to give way. No. 1 platoon had to get out of the trenches and charge across the open and occupy a small German trench in front, and it was while doing this that Brian was killed.” Brooker was a well-known Surrey athlete, he had captained the Weybridge Football Club for several seasons, and achieved international A.F.A. honours, thrice accompanying representative teams to the Continent.

BROOKER, WILLIAM JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1282), 199598, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROOKING, CHARLES WILLIAM, Leading Seaman, 234617, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROOKS, ALFRED HAROLD, Private R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1888), late Ch./12955 H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROOKS, AUGUSTUS, Private, No. 27310, C Coy. 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Toronto), Canadian Expeditionary Force; b. about 1889; was admitted to Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, 16 Oct. 1895; emigrated to Canada in July, 1898, and settled at Riga, North-West Territory, the reports received concerning him being “uniformly good over the whole period of his stay in Canada”; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France, Feb. 1915; was wounded in the left shoulder at Langemarck, and was in hospital for a time, and was killed in action at Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm.

BROOKS, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4515), S.S. 103523, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROOKS, JAMES VINCENT, Private, No. 6/203, C Coy., Canterbury Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of James Brooks, of 88, Valley, Wakefield, Nelson, New Zealand, Farmer; b. Wakefield, New Zealand, 3 July, 1894; educ. there; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 18 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 8 May following; unm.

BROOKS, ROWLAND CAUSER, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Battn. The Manchester Regt (T.F.), 2nd s. of Buckley Brooks, of The Manor House, Hale Barns, co. Chester, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Henry Causer, of Melbourne, Victoria; b. Cheetham, Manchester, 12 April, 1892; educ. Merton House, Penmanmaur, and Dean Close, Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2/6th Battn. Manchester Regt. 31 Oct. 1914; joined the 1st Battn. in Egypt early in 1915, and proceeded with it to the Dardanelles. He was killed in action, whilst leading his men in the famous charge at Krithia on 4 June, 1915, from which only five officers and less than 200 men returned out of the 6th Battn.; unm.

BROOKSBANK, HUGH GODFREY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt., 3rd s. of Edward Clitherow Brooksbank, of Healaugh Old Hall, Tadcaster, late Major, Yorkshire Artillery, by his wife, Katherine Graham, dau. of the late Hugh Morris Lang, of Broadmeadows, Selkirk, and grandson of Edward Brooksbank, Lord of the Manor and Patron of Healaugh; b. 24 Nov. 1893; educ. Radley; received his commission in the Yorkshire’s, 5 Feb. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914. He was severely wounded at the first Battle of Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died in London 16 Dec. following; unm. He was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [16 Jan. and 31 May, 1915] for conspicuous gallantry in the field, and writing of his conduct at Ypres the senior officer of the regt. said: “A braver lad never stepped this earth; he was left in command of B Coy. when all his seniors had been shot. He commanded it like a veteran and on two occasions was largely responsible for the regt. being saved. He has been recommended for decoration.”

BROOMHAM, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2605), 172555, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROSTER, JESSEP, Ship’s Cook, 343743, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROTCHIE, ROBERT TRAILL, Surgeon, R.N.V.R., only s. of James Brotchie, of Swanney, Orkney, Tea Merchant, by his wife, Janet Catharine, dau. of Richard Brotchie, of Yorkshire; b. Crouch End, London, 29 Aug. 1885; educ. St. Paul’s School, London, and the London Hospital; served in the British Red Crescent Expedition in Tripoli, 1912, for which he received a medal; joined R.N.V.R. 13 Nov. 1913, and before being called up on 4 Aug. 1914 was in practice in Tarbert Loch, Tyne. He was lost on board H.M.S. Bulwark when that ship was blown up at Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914. He m. at Kingston-on-Thames, 6 July, 1910, Theo., 4th dau. of Robert Horne, of Kendal, co. Westmoreland, and had three children: Lindsay Drummond, b. 10 Jan. 1912 (deceased), Jean Muriel and Joan Dora, twins, b. 27 May, 1913.

BROTHERSTON, ROBERT THOMAS, Private, No 2605, 7th Durham L.I., 2nd s. of James Brotherston, of Rowlandson Terrace, Sunderland, engineer, by his wife, Jeannie, dau. of Alexander Henderson; b. Sunderland, 26 Dec. 1894; educ. Cowan Terrace Juvenile School, and Argyle House School, Sunderland; joined the 7th Durham L.I. 6 Sept. 1914, and died at the Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 5 May, 1915, of wounds received in action. He was buried in the East Cemetery there; unm.

BROTHERTON, RICHARD, Private, No. 6015, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of Richard Brotherton, of 34, Lindum Avenue, Lincoln, formerly an Engine Driver, Great Northern Railway, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of John Graves; b. Lincoln, 2 Feb. 1881; educ. St. Peter at Gowts public school there; enlisted 18 Jan. 1905, and served three years with the colours, then joining the Huddersfield Borough Police Force. On mobilization, 5 Aug. 1914, he was called up, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and is assumed to have been killed on or about that date. He m. at Lincoln, 24 May, 1908, Fanny (8, Fairfield Street, off Monk’s Road, Lincoln), yst. dau. of the late George Brown, of Poolham Hall, Horncastle, and had a posthumous son, George Richard, b. 9 (d. 31) Jan. 1915.

BROUGH, HUGH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4819), S.S. 104209, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROUGHTON, ERNEST CHAMIER, Lieut.-Col., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., s. of Robert John Porcher Broughton, M.A., Cambridge, Solicitor by Royal Appointment to the Coldstream Guards; b. London 3 June, 1858; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; entered the Army as a Sub-Lieut. in the 6th Foot in Nov. 1876, and was transferred to the 65th (2nd North Riding) Foot in Jan. 1878, and served with them in India. In 1884 his regt. was ordered home, but were disembarked at Suakim, and took part in the Soudan Campaign, including the Battles of El Teb and Tamai. He got his company in 1885 and field rank in 1894 when he was posted to the 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (the old 84th) in South Africa and subsequently served in Mauritius and India till 1901, when he retired. Immediately on his arrival home he joined the 3rd Battn. (Doncaster Militia) of his old regt. as a Capt. Three months later he was appointed Major for service in the South African War, and at the close of that campaign reverted to a company command. In 1908 he was again promoted to field rank, thus gaining the unusual distinction of being three times a Major. Three months later he received the honorary rank of Lieut.-Col., and 20 April, 1909, was promoted to substantive rank to command the 3rd York and Lancaster Special Reserve, and had two extensions of service. He died in the Armstrong College Military Hospital, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 17 Dec. 1914, while in command of his regt. then on east coast defence duty. Col. Broughton m. at Brighton, 2 Feb. 1888, Jane Henrietta King (The Cedar, Castle Donington, near Derby), dau. of Major Benjamin Bloomfield Keane, Ceylon Rifles, by his wife, Rebecca Kate, dau. of Capt. Harloe Dennis, of Galway, but had no issue. For over 25 years he was Editor of the regimental journal, “The Tiger and the Rose.”

BROWN, ALBERT EDWARD, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 4305, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, ALBERT MOORE, Private, No. 5011, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Edward Brown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1903, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, was wounded on 14 Sept., and was first reported as missing on 2 Jan. 1915, and later, to have been killed on that date. He m. at Offenham, 16 May, 1914, Emma (Offenham, near Eversham), dau. of James Clarke.

BROWN, ALBERT VICTOR. D.C.M., L.-Corpl., No. 4943, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edward Brown, of 34, Cemetery Road, Forest Gate; b. co. Middlesex; enlisted as a Boy, 2 Jan. 1903; became a Driver 5 Aug. 1908, and L.-Corpl. 26 May, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; was awarded the Distinguished Conduct medal [London Gazette, 17 Dec. 1914] “for gallantry on 28 Sept. 1914, in assisting to remove into safety the wounded who were lying exposed in the open,” and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 9 Dec.] 1914.

BROWN, ALBERT WILLIAM, Private, No. 63087, 3rd Battn. (Canadian Grenadier Guards) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Albert Charles Brown, of Balsham, co. Cambs., by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Purkiss; b. Balsham, 19 Aug. 1889; educ. County Council school there, and went to Canada, 22 March, 1912. He had joined the Canadian Grenadiers in June, 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, came over with the 2nd Contingent, and after a period of training at Shorncliffe went to the Western front. He had only been in France a month when he was killed in action, 26 May, 1915; unm.

BROWN, ALEXANDER BALFOUR, Private, No. 9695, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Brown, of Newlyle, co. Forfar; b. Ceres, Coupar, co. Fife; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 Jan. 1915.

BROWN, ARTHUR EDWARD, Sergt., No. 692, 3rd Dragoon Guards (C Squadron), yst. s. of Thomas Brown, of Barlby, near Selby, Farmer; b. Kirkdeighton, 1889; educ. Barlby; enlisted about 1907, and when war was declared was in Egypt with his regt. He came home, went to the Front on 9 Nov., was wounded in action at Poperinghe on the 16th, and died two days later, 18 Nov. 1914. He m. at Aldershot, (—), and left one dau.

BROWN, ARTHUR KENNISH, Private, No. 6188, 7th Platoon, 2nd Coy., 1st Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Rev. William Cowell Brown, by his wife, Fannie (20, Wellington Road, Brighton), dau. of William Isaac Lefeaux; b. Dalston, London, 22 May, 1878; educ. Coopers’ Company School, London, and Manor House School (Dr. Maxwell’s), Clapham; went to Canada in April, 1913; enlisted at London, Ontario, about a fortnight after war was declared; came over with the 1st Contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 23 May, 1915; unm. The following report in connection with his death was sent by the Canadian Record Office: “On the night of 23–24 May our company was out on a working party. The work in question was the digging of a trench in front of the firing line. The men were working in pairs, and I was detailed with Private Brown. After working for about three hours, we were observed by the enemy, who immediately opened on us with artillery fire. The first shell landed four feet in front of me and a piece of the casing struck Private Brown in the head, killing him instantly. I cannot say what was done with his body, but I understand that the company holding the front line brought it in early the following morning. I believe he was buried in rear of our first line trench. This was at Festubert. It is impossible to give map location of the spot referred to.”

BROWN, BERTRAM, Private, No. 2524, 1/9th Battn., Royal Scots (Highlanders) (T.F.), s. of late George Brown, by his wife, Christina Jane Adie (15, Warrender Park Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of the late William Mitchell, of Leith; b. Leith, 27 Sept. 1892; educ. Edinburgh: prior to the outbreak of war was serving as 2nd Engineer on the s.s. Glitra, which was sunk by U-17, being one of the first of our merchant ships to suffer that fate. Brown and his comrades were compelled to row to the Norwegian coast in their boats. A week later (31 Oct.) he enlisted in the “Dandy Ninth,” and was shot by a sniper at Ypres, 9 April, 1915, when entering the trenches with supplies; unm.

BROWN, CHARLES, Private, No. 5171, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Brown, of Wookey, Wells, Somerset; b. co. Somerset; enlisted 24 Aug. 1903; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Rentel, 8 Nov. 1914; unm.

BROWN, CHARLES ALFRED, Trooper, No. 830, Royal Canadian Dragoons, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Charles Ambrose Brown, of 93, Harcourt Avenue, Toronto, Canada (who served with the 12th York Rangers in the Fenian raid, 1866); by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John J. Lunan; b. Markham, York, co. Ontario, 1 March, 1883; educ. Toronto; joined the 1st Canadian Garrison Artillery at Halifax, N.S., in Feb. 1900, and after serving two years, came home and enlisted in the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles for service in South Africa, being given the rank of Corpl. He afterwards served in the Royal North West Mounted Police, and was one of the body of picked men sent over to attend the Coronation of King George and received the Silver Coronation Medal. On the outbreak of the European War, he re-enlisted 19 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent, 1 Oct. 1914; went to France April, 1915, and was killed in action at Messines, 20 Sept. 1915; unm.

BROWN, EDWARD, Private, No. 81105, 8th (formerly 32nd) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of George Edward Brown, of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada, formerly cashier at the Woolley and North Gawber Collieries, Barnsley, now farming at Lloydminster, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Horner, of Outwood, New Wakefield; b. Darton, near Barnsley, co. York, 5 Aug. 1888; educ. Darton Grammar School and St. Mary’s Church School, Barnsley; went to Canada with his family, with the Barr party of Colonists, leaving Liverpool, 30 March, 1903, and reached what is now known as the Lloydminster District in the following May, after trekking about 200 miles from Saskatoon, the nearest railway point at that time. After the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted at Lloydminster, 10 Nov. 1914; came over in March, 1915, went to the Front 26–27 April, 1915; was seriously wounded on the night of 20–21 May, 1915, at or near Festubert, and died on the 23rd; unm. He was buried in the ground of Hinges Chateau.

BROWN, FREDERICK GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15571. H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, FREDERICK JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 7549, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROWN, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Private, No. 10327, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Brown, of 2, Treadway Road, Hackney Road, N.E.; b. co. Middlesex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Cuinchy, 6 Feb. 1915.

BROWN, GEORGE, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306510, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BROWN, GEORGE, Private, No. 7870, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, s. of William Brown, of Burnside Cottage, Newmill, Keith; b. Keith, co. Banff; enlisted 24 March, 1911, aged 20; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 11 Nov. 1914; unm.

BROWN, GEORGE FREDERICK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15562, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, GEORGE SHIPTON, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 10513, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROWN, GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, No' 8563, 1st Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick William Brown, of Chaplin’s Cottage, Caple St. Mary, near Ipswich, formerly of Gosbeck, Suffolk, Shepherd, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Dye, of Helmingham; b. Stowmarket, Suffolk, 12 Aug. 1893; educ. Ashbocking and Gosbeck schools; joined the Army 18 June, 1912, and was killed in action 7 May, 1915; unm.

BROWN, HARRY JAMES, Seaman, R.N.R., 4010A, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, HEDLEY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15474, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, HENRY AUGUSTUS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10013), 206254, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, HERBERT HENRY, Bugler, R.M.A., 11965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HURST-BROWN, DUDLEY, 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., yst. s. of W. Hurst-Brown, of Hurstbourne, 62, Oxford Gardens, W.; b. 8 June, 1897; educ. at Cardwallis, Maidenhead, and Winchester, where he was in the O.T.C. It had been intended that he should proceed to Oxford in the autumn, but war breaking out in the interval, he offered his services and received his commission in the Special Reserve on 11 Aug. 1914. He was at the Front five months, during which time he went through some of the most severe fighting, but escaped injury until receiving his fatal wounds in action in Flanders, 15 June, 1915. He died the same day; unm. In a letter received the day before his death he stated how glad he was he went to the Front, although the fighting was becoming something frightful, and that he saw but little chance as a junior officer of ever getting safely home again, and concluded the letter with the famous Latin epitaph of Horace, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

BROWN, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8655), S.S. 105081, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

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

BROWN, JAMES CARTMELL DENNISON, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of Sir Frank Brown, of Norton Priory, Stockton-on-Tees, D.L., by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of John Hedley, of South Hetton, co. Durham; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 2 Sept. 1893; educ. Rugby (1907), and Pembroke College, Cambridge (1912). On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Durham L.I., 28 Aug. 1914. He went to France on 17 April, 1915, for divisional training, but consequent on the German attack with asphixiating gas his division was at once pushed to the front and engaged, and took part in the fighting around Ypres, 23 and 25 April, 1915. On Sunday, 25 April, he was wounded twice. He was first treated at Poperinghe Hospital, then removed to Hazebrouck, where he died on 27 April, 1915. His Colonel wrote: “He was one of the best officers we had, and did his duty to the last. On the day he was hit he had done valuable reconnaissance work in the morning, and, when hit, had taken part in a very good little attack. Although wounded in two places, he showed his pluck by returning unhelped to our lines. It is only by such examples as this that we may hope to conquer the enemy and keep up the tradition of the country.” A brother officer also wrote: “We all liked him very much, he was such a cheerful fellow, and so conscientious that I knew that anything entrusted to him, however slight or wearisome, would be properly carried out.” The Medical wrote: “He was a tremendous favourite with us all, and I can say I never had to attend to a pluckier lad.” His elder brother, Lieut. Frank D. Brown, of the same battn., was wounded near Ypres in May, 1915, and is again (1916) on active service.

BROWN, JOHN ALEXANDER, Rifleman, No. 3215, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Brown, Corpl., A Coy. 1st Battn. (London Irish) The London Regt. (with 28 years’ service), by his wife, Sarah; b. Old Street, Shoreditch, 10 April, 1876; educ. St. John’s Road Higher Grade School there; served 12 years with the London Irish, and after the outbreak of war joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, 10 Sept. 1914; was wounded at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died in King George’s Hospital, Stamford Street, 21 Nov. following. He m. at Hoxton, 4 Jan. 1897, Alice Rosina (18, Hemsworth Street, Hoxton), dau. of John Brown, and had seven children: John Alexander, b. 2 Aug. 1902; George Arthur, b. 22 March, 1905; William Charles Joseph, b. 3 April, 1907; Alice Rosina, b. 23 July, 1897; Minnie, b. 18 Sept. 1900; Florence Marion, b. 22 Sept. 1910; and Blanche Mabel, b. 16 Sept. 1912.

BROWN, JOHN EDWARD GUY, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., yst. s. of Alexander Francis Garden Brown, of Magonet-Stoke Gabriel, co. Devon, by his wife, Charlotte Mary, dau. of James William Alston, of Stockbriggs, co. Lanark; b. Swindrigemuir, co. Ayr, 28 Aug. 1892, and was educ. at Bradfield College. He received his commission in the 2nd Battn. of the Royal West Kent Regt., then in India, on 20 Sept. 1911, when just 19. Having been applied for in 1913, as an officer for the 64th Pioneers by the Commandant, he successfully passed two examinations in Indian languages, winning thereby a substantial prize given by the Indian Government, and intended to pass the final in the autumn of 1914. He became Lieut. on 1 July, 1914, and was at home on leave when war broke out. He was then attached on its formation to the 6th Service Battn. of the Royal West Kents in the new army. In Oct. 1914, in consequence of the heavy losses sustained by the 1st Battn. in the Battle of Ypres, he was sent out to join it, but by an error in the Army List copied in the newspaper accounts he was given as attached to the Royal Berkshire Regt. On leaving the 6th Battn. his commanding officer wrote: “I am very sorry to lose your son; he did very good work while with my battn. and I can ill afford to lose him. However, his work will bear its fruit in the future.” He spent the winter in the trenches between Messines and Zillebeke and went through some heavy fighting in Nov. when the battn. lost so many officers, that he, though a junior, had to act as company commander during the months of Dec. and Jan. During this time in the trenches he passed a course of instruction under the R.E. officer attached to the battn. which qualified him as a regimental scout and bomb officer, a post he held at the time of his death. He was killed in action at Hill 60, near Zillebeke, Flanders. 22 Feb. 1915; unm. His commanding officer, Col. P. M. Robinson, wrote: “I regret your son’s death immensely, he was a gallant man and a good officer, always ready to do rather than to talk. He had won my admiration on several occasions during the time I have been commanding this battn., and I had a very high opinion of him. I much regret his career has been cut short”; and Capt. Molony (who joined the battn. in Feb. from the reserve of officers): “During the short time I knew your son I acquired a very real respect and a great liking for him. This being my first experience of trench work, he really commanded the company, while I watched his methods and learnt from him. I was very much struck by his thorough efficiency as well as his imperturbable courage. Having left the Army nearly eight years ago and never before having been in action, I badly wanted someone to put me in the way of it. No one could have done it more thoroughly and at the same time tactfully than your son. During this time he was offered and accepted the very honourable, but at the same time dangerous position of battn. scout officer. I did not like it much because it would mean that I should very often be deprived of his assistance, but I heard the commanding officer, when discussing his suitableness, say among other things ‘He is as brave as a lion.’ He is a great loss to the regt. and his qualities would have carried him very far in his profession had he been spared. I hope it will be some consolation to you to know that he did not suffer. When I heard he was hit I went to him at once. He was quite unconscious, and remained so until he died, perhaps some two minutes later.” Speaking of his death, the Adjutant said: “He was setting a splendid example, and, regardless of danger, was walking about laughing at the bombs, and greatly encouraging his men by his behaviour.”

BROWN, JOHN SAMUEL, Chief Armourer, 341170, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWN, JOHN SAMUEL, A.B., 201534 (Chat.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROWN, NORMAN, Private, No. 12/1569, 15th North Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Arthur Brown, formerly of co. Down, Ireland, by his wife, Mary (44, Springfield Road, Christchurch, New Zealand), dau. of Abernethy Patterson; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, March, 1881; educ. St. Alban’s School, Christchurch; volunteered Dec. 1914, and died of wounds at Gaba Tepe, 11 May, 1915; unm.

BROWN, NORMAN McLEOD, Sergt., No. 1057, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Brown, of Kirkcaldy, co. Fife, Draper, by his wife, Mary Davidson, dau. of David Findlay; b. Kirkcaldy, 16 Nov. 1888; educ. High School there; entered the Civil Service and received an appointment in the India Office, where he was engaged till he volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war. He had been a member of the London Scottish for some seven years, went to France with them as a corpl., was promoted Sergt. at the Front, and at the time of his death had been recommended for a commission. He was shot in the trenches at Givenchy by a sniper, 24 Dec. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm.

BROWN, OSCAR, Lieut., 7th Lancers, Indian Army, attd. 4th Dragoon Guards, 8th s. of the late William Hooper Masters Brown, of Highfield House, Sherborne, co. Dorset, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William James, of Pembroke, b. Sherborne, 20 May, 1888; educ. Sherborne School, and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 48th Northamptonshire Regt. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 7 May, 1910. In Sept. 1912 he exchanged into the Indian Army, and joined the 7th (Hariana) Lancers. While riding for the Delhi Cup in 1913 his horse fell and injured him to such an extent that he was invalided home, and on the outbreak of the war, being still in England, he was attached to the 4th Dragoon Guards, going to France with them in Sept. 1914. He was killed in action by a shell at Ypres, 24 April, 1915, and was buried at Elverdinghe; unm.

BROWN, PHILIP GEORGE MORTIMER, Private, No. 9704, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Frederick Robert Brown, Solicitor, by his wife, Emily Louisa (Thirlmere, Dukesthorpe Road, Sydenham, S.E.), dau. of George Phillips, of Beckenham, b. Sundridge Park, co. Kent, 15 Oct. 1896; educ. The Hall, Sydenham Preparatory School, and Dulwich College. He joined the London Rifle Brigade early in 1914, and on the outbreak of war was with his regt. at Eastbourne for the midsummer manœuvres. Volunteering for foreign service, he left with his regt. for France early in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 3 May, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He died doing his duty to the last, and was buried the same night. After he was slightly wounded himself, he spent all his time attending to other wounded friends, and it was whilst performing this duty that he was killed.”

BROWN, WALTER GILBERT, Seaman, R.N.R., 13630, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWN (alias BROWNING), WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (N.C.S.), 298889, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WREFORD-BROWN, CLAUDE, D.S.O., Capt., 2nd Battn. 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), 5th s. of the late William Wreford-Brown, by his wife, Clara Jane (5, Litfield Place, Clifton, Bristol), dau. of Henry Clark, M.D.; b. Clifton, 17 Feb. 1876: educ. Waynflete, Durdham Downs; Wells House, Malvern Wells; and Charterhouse. After serving in the Royal Warwickshire Militia, he obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. of the “Fighting Fifth,” 15 May, 1897, being promoted Lieut. 24 Nov. 1899, and Capt. 15 April, 1901. In 1898 he took part in the Soudan Campaign under Lord Kitchener, being present at the Battle of Omdurman and the capture of Khartoum (Queen’s medal and Egyptian medal with clasp). He was employed in the occupation of Crete in 1898, and then, under Lord Methuen, served throughout the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. Afterwards he took part in the operations in the Orange Free State (March-May, 1900) and in the Transvaal (July-Nov. 1900), including actions at Venterskroom and Rhenoster River. Twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901], he received the D.S.O. for his services at Lichtenburg and the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was selected to represent his regt. at the Coronation of King Edward VII. In April, 1908, he was on the North-West Frontier of India, and while serving in the Mohmand Campaign was seriously wounded. On 4 Sept. 1912. he was appointed an instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, which post he filled until 17 Feb. 1915, when he joined the 2nd Battn. of his regt., then in France. Capt. Wreford-Brown was killed on the Menin Road, south of Ypres, 200 yards east of Wieltje Farm, north of Hooge, on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His regt. had been practically wiped out on the 13th, and when he heard of this he insisted on leaving Boulogne, where he was in hospital, and going back to reform the regt. He arrived at headquarters west of Ypres, Friday, 21 May, and there found 85 worn-out men of his battn., and about 450 of the 5th Fusiliers and Durham L.I., and 15 officers, a new draft which had just arrived, all from the same depôt. These he formed into a battn., and on Sunday, 23 May, was ordered to join the Brigade—only two clear days to form a new regt.! They marched between 15 and 29 miles on a sweltering hot day, losing several men on the way under shell fire. They arrived at Menin Road on Monday (Empire Day) the 24th; and were ordered out into support at 6 a.m. Wreford-Brown was commanding. At about 1 p.m. he received orders to advance to a certain point and attack a position which was allotted to him. The battn. shortly after leaving its support position came under heavy fire, and for a distance of two and a-half miles across country of open fields of buttercups, was continually under high explosive fire and shrapnel, machine and rifle fire. The regt. was formed up for the attack on the ridge which they took, but with very heavy casualties. Ten of the officers were wounded in this, leaving Wreford-Brown and two lieutenants. These and the remaining men dug themselves in, and on getting to the ridge they found the Germans very strong in a farm called Wieltje: it looked as if the Germans were on three sides of them. The regt. on the right could not be found, and two companies of the 5th were taking on three miles of Germans. At 7 p.m. he sent word as to his position and the heavy casualties. The answer came back: “You must try and take it and hold it at all costs.” One of the captains in the firing line who was wounded and lying in a ditch reports that Wreford-Brown told him to go back to hospital, and congratulated him on getting back to England wounded, and said: “Good-bye, old fellow, I shall not see you again. I am ordered to attack the place, it is hopeless, but I shall lead my men to it”; and with that he turned to his men and called for a rifle and bayonet and said: “Now we will make the final charge of the Mohicans,” which he did, leading the men. The Germans had 20 to 25 machine guns concentrated on them: Wreford-Brown fell 10 yards from the German trench mortally wounded. The remaining Lieut. reformed for a second attack and got wounded; the remaining few retired back to the trench behind the hedge, which they had dug after gaining the ridge. Only one officer got back safely, and he was with the machine gun a long way behind, which did not come into action. The regt. on the right had been delayed and came up afterwards. In the opinion of all he was shot several times and was certainly killed. Several attempts were made to recover his body, but it lay between two trenches of the Germans, and it was impossible owing to their withering fire. The Commander-in-Chief came round himself and thanked the survivors for their bravery. His brother officers bore general testimony to his capability and great courage. His brother, Capt. O. E. Wreford-Brown, died 7 July, 1916, of wounds received in action on the Somme.

BROWNE, ARTHUR GEORGE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Notts. and Derbyshire Regt. (Sherwood Foresters), s. of the late John Barrett Browne, Bandmaster 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers, by his wife, Isabella Helen, dau. of the late Hon. Capt. A. J. White, Indian A.C. Dept.; b. Mount Abu, India, 2 Sept. 1889; educ. Laurence Military Asylum, Sanawar, India; joined the Army 2nd Sept. 1903, at the age of 14, and served in the band of the 1st Battn. of the Gloucestershire Regt. for eight years, when he became an N.C.O., and joined the ranks, later becoming Sergt. He received his commission for “services in the field,” 1 Oct. 1914, and was transferred to the Notts. and Derbyshire Regt. He was killed in action near Armentières, 20 Oct. 1914; unm.

BROWNE, GORDON STEWART, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 4th s. of Henry John Browne, of Grosvenor House, Faversham and Chatham, Merchant, by his wife, Emily Martha, dau. of George William Gill, of Rochester; b. Chatham, 15 May, 1890; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Wiltshire Regt. 18 Sept. 1909; promoted Lieut. 26 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 25 Oct. 1914. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was wounded at Caudry on the fourth day of the retreat from Mons, but recovered and returned to the Front. On 17 Nov. he was badly wounded during the fighting at Hooge and died at the Allied Forces Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Nov. 1914. His body was brought home and buried at St. Margaret’s Cemetery, Rochester. Capt. Browne, who was unm., was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 for “gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

BROWNE, HAROLD VERNON, Capt., Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry, yr. s. of Leonard Gilbert Browne, of Hoburne, Christchurch, co. Hants, formerly of Buckland Park, South Australia, by his wife, Helen Mary, dau. of Henry Strong Brice; b. Buckland Park, 25 Aug. 1885; educ. Hazlewood, Limpsfield and Wellington College. He resided from 1909–14 at Cheriton Manor, Templecombe, and after that at Preston House, Iwerne Minster. In 1908 he joined the Dorsetshire Yeomanry and became Lieut. 4 Oct. 1913, and Capt. July, 1915. On the outbreak of the war he volunteered for foreign service, and was sent on special service in July, 1915, from Egypt to Gallipoli, and was military landing officer at Suvla Bay all through the August landing. He was killed by a shell on the beach while doing his work of landing troops, 7 Sept. 1915, and was buried there. His commanding officer at Suvla Bay wrote: “I, like all who came in contact with him, had learnt to be very fond of and admire him. He was a splendid man and a brave soldier, who did not seem to know such a thing as fear or danger, and he met his death, I think and trust, a painless one, when nobly doing his duty, and actually giving an order in connection with it. He was a true and good soldier and died a soldier’s death.” He was a very fine all-round athlete, he played in the school cricket eleven at Wellington, and afterwards for Dorset County, was a first-class golfer and lawn tennis player, hunted regularly with the Blackmore Vale Hounds, and rode in many point-to-point races and steeplechases. Capt. Browne m. at St. Peter’s, Eton Square, 24 June, 1908, Doris (Preston House, Iwerne Minster, Blandford), elder dau. of John Tillard, of Blakeney, co. Norfolk, and had three sons and one dau.: Anthony Harold Scott, b. 21 April, 1909; Peter Francis William, b. 1 Jan. 1912; Nigel Philip, b. 20 Jan. 1913; and Ursula Patricia, b. 24 Nov. 1915.

COLLIS-BROWNE, ALFRED ULICK, Lieut., 1st. Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., yst. s. of William Alfred Collis-Browne, of Monteagle, Godalming, Major (ret.) 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade; b. Byfleet, co. Surrey, 13 June 1889; educ. Killcott, Godalming; represented the R.M.A. at Association Football, 1908; joined the Yorkshire L.I. in South Africa, 1910, and was promoted Lieut. 27 July, 1914. On the outbreak of war he proceeded with his regt. to the Front, was appointed Machine Gun Officer, and was killed in action whilst making a reconnaissance of a trench at Ypres, 13 April, 1915. He was buried at Zonnebeke, near Ypres; unm. The Adjutant of his battn. wrote: “He was one of the pluckiest fellows I ever knew. Only a fortnight ago, in an action we had, the captain in the trenches reported how splendidly he worked his guns, and the good effect it had on his men, by whom he was greatly beloved.” He was mentioned in F M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

BROWNING, FRANK HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10905, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWNING, JAMES ALEXANDER, Major, 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), yr. s. of Edward Campbell Browning, of Rushden House, co. Northants, by his wife, Alice Louisa, dau. of C. Pratt Barlow; b. Onslow Square, London, 25 June, 1878; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; obtained his commission, 11 May, 1898, and was promoted Lieut. 16 Aug. 1899; Capt. 14 Sept. 1901, and Major 5 July, 1911. From 1906–09 he acted as Adjutant to the Queen’s Bays and was A.D.C. to the Inspector-Gen. of Cavalry in the early stages of the South African War, and in 1901–02 he took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s medal with five clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed by a shell at Messines, 31 Oct. 1914, while in command of his regt. He was buried at Wulverghem, and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Browning m. at St. Mary’s Church, Higham Ferrers, co. Northants, 21 March, 1903, Lilian Brenda (Stonycroft, Aldershot), only dau. of Capt. Basil John Fisher, U.S.A., and had two sons: Geoffrey Alexander, b. 21 March, 1907; and Peter Campbell, b. 18 March, 1910.

BROWNLEE, JAMES ALEXANDER, Petty Officer (N.S.), 185918, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BROWNLOW, MARK, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271387, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BROYD, ERNEST JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9569), 203287, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRUCE, ALFRED, Private, No. 1239, 1/4th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late William Bruce, by his wife, Alice Annie (40, Chatsworth Place, Harrogate); b. Aldboro’, Borobridge, co. York, 17 May, 1893; educ. Grove Road Board School, and Technical School, Harrogate; entered the service of the Educational Offices, Wakefield, where he was on the permanent clerical staff, but after the outbreak of war enlisted in Sept. 1914. and was accidentally drowned with six other soldiers at Gainsborough in a pontoon accident, 19 Feb. 1915; unm. He won the West Riding County Minor Scholarship in May, 1904, and passed the Oxford Junior Examination at the age of 14.

BRUCE, GERVASE RONALD, Midshipman, R.N., s. of Percy Robert Bruce, of Downhill, co. Londonderry, and Clifton Hall, Notts, Major, South Notts Hussars, by his wife, Aletheia Georgina, dau. of the Right Hon. Sir Richard Horner Paget, of Cranmore Hall, Somerset, 1st Bart., P.C., and grandson of Lieut.-Col. Sir Hervey Juckes Lloyd Bruce, of Downhill, near Coleraine, and Clifton Hall, Nottingham, 4th Bart., late Coldstream Guards; b. London, 19 Jan. 1899; educ. Osborne and Dartmouth Colleges; mobilised from Dartmouth. Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, by the sinking of H.M.S. Monmouth, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRUCE, JOHN ELLIOTT LIDDERDALE, R.A., Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, 2nd s. of Col. Elliott Armstrong Bruce, of Stenhouse, Barnstaple, Indian Army [grandson of Sir William Bruce, of Stenhouse, 7th Bart.], by his 1st wife, Mary Rebecca, dau. of the Rev. William Dawson; b. Rangoon, 10 Jan. 1870; educ. Carshalton House, Carshalton, Surrey; St. Paul’s School and Woolwich Academy; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Artillery, 15 Feb. 1889, and promoted Lieut. 15 Feb. 1892, Capt. 19 July, 1899, and Major, 7 Aug. 1909; was D.A.A.G. for Royal Artillery in India, 29 March, 1906, to 31 May, 1907; Staff Capt., India, 1 June, 1907, to 16 March, 1908, and Brigade Major, India, 17 March, 1908, to 28 March, 1910; served (1) in Burma as Orderly Officer, 1891, with the Wuntho Expedition (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 Feb. 1892] (medal with clasp); (2) with the Waziristan Expedition, 1894–5 (clasp); (3) in the operations in the North-West Frontier, India, 1897–8, with the Tochi Field Force (medal with clasp); (4) in South African War, 1900; took part in operations in the Transvaal, Orange Free State, and Cape Colony, March to Sept. (Queen’s medal with three clasps); (5) on North-West Frontier, India, 1908, as D.A.Q.M.G. (12–31 May) to Field Force during operations in the Mohmand country; and (6) with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, 1915; took part in the landing, 25 April, and was killed in action there 29 May following, being mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Aug. 1915]. Major Bruce m. at Tilford, Surrey, 12 Sept. 1900, Charlotte Mabel, yst. dau. of the late T. J. G. Johnstone, of the Ceylon Civil Service, and had two sons: John Charles Douglas, b. 2 Aug. 1902; and Henry Malcolm, b. 28 Feb. 1904.

BRUCE, JONATHAN MAXWELL, Major, 107th Pioneers, Indian Army, eldest s. of Richard Isaac Bruce, of Quetta, Teddington, C.I.E. late Commissioner in the Punjab (who received the thanks of the Indian Government on several occasions for distinguished frontier service), by his wife, Lilla, dau. of the Rev. John Beavor Webb, Rector of Dunderrow, co. Cork, and gdson. of Jonathan Bruce, of Miltown Castle, co. Cork; b. Dharmsala, India, 22 June, 1873; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst; obtained his commission, 16 Jan. 1895, and was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1897, Capt. 16 Jan. 1904, Double Company Officer 8 March, 1908, and Major 16 Jan. 1913. He saw active service on the North-West Frontier of India in 1897–8, taking part in the defence and relief of Malakand, the action at Landaki and the operations in the Mahmund Country, receiving the medal with two clasps. Major Bruce was killed in action at Festubert, 24 Nov. 1914, and was buried at Bethune. He m. at St. Alban’s Church, Teddington, 14 Sept. 1905, Mabel Waldron (Kenilworth, Seymour Road, Hampton Wick), 3rd dau. of Henry Trengronse, of Hampton Wick, J.P., and had two daus.—Mary Aileen, b. 5 May, 1908, Barbara Maxwell, b. 11 March, 1910.

BRUCE, WILLIAM ARTHUR McCRAE, Lieut., 59th Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, Indian Army, only s. of Col. Andrew McCrae Bruce, of Roch d’Or, Sanares, Jersey, C.B., Unemployed Supry. List, Indian Army; by his wife, Margaret Hay; b. 15 June, 1890; educ. Mr. Bickerstith’s Preparatory School, Netherwood, Hastings; Mr. Reynold’s Preparatory School, Cliff House, Southbourne, Hants; Victoria College, Jersey, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Was a King’s Indian Cadet, and after passing out of Sandhurst in the autumn of 1909 was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list for the Indian Army 29 Jan. 1910, and sailed for India in H.M. Troopship Plassy, on 11 Feb. from Southampton. On arrival in India he was ordered in join 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, to which regt. he was attached; after serving with them for one year he was posted to the 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. at Kohat, Punjab, and joined on 8 March, 1911. In 1911–12 he took part with his regt. in one or two small affairs against Wuzeerie Raiders. In 1912, he passed in musketry and signalling. In the autumn of 1913, he marched with his regt. from Kohat to Qullundur, arriving there on 17 Dec. 1913. In June, 1914, Col. Fenner, commanding the regt. wrote of him: “A big, fine and promising young officer of excellent ability. As Transport and Signalling Officer, has performed his duties with marked success. Personally popular, good at games and a fine rider. He is good tempered, has tact, judgment, self-reliance, reliability and common sense. His influence with officers and men is good, he is active and temperate.” In 1914, he was granted eight months’ leave to England where he arrived on 10 April. On the outbreak of war he was ordered to rejoin his regt. and sailed for India in H.M. Trooper Dongola on 10 Aug. On arrival in Egypt he was ordered to disembark and proceed to Cairo and await the arrival of his regt. With his regt, he arrived in Marseilles about 17 Sept. and in Oct. joined the fighting line. He took part in all the work done by his regt. until he was killed on 19 Dec. 1914. Major I. L. Leede, commanding the 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. wrote on 20 Dec. 1914: “I am deeply grieved to have to write and tell you that your son Lieut. Bruce was killed yesterday, during a night attack. He met his death in a German trench which we had taken, he was shot through the chest and killed instantly.... Until Col Fenner was killed, your son was my company officer, and I was very fond of him indeed, and I am more grieved than I can say to have to tell you of his death. I consider him to have been a young officer of most exceptional promise, and I have seen him under fire off and on for two months. Will you please accept the very sincere sympathy and condolence of the whole regt.” Capt. Anderson of 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. writing on 20 Dec. 1914, to Gen. J. R. B. Atkinson, said. “A N.C.O. of mine got back last night. He had been with Bruce, who was the first man into his part of the trench, and died most gallantly holding it. He (the N.C.O.) says he told his men to retire, but they said the Sahib had ordered them not to, so they died there.” Lieut. C. J. S. Le Cornu, 56th Punjab Rifles F.F. with the 33rd Div. Sig. Coy., writing on 27 Dec. 1914, said: “I had a long talk with Anderson, the Adjutant. He said to me: ‘If you are writing to Bruce’s people do tell them how very fond we all of us in the regt. were of him, and that he died doing an extremely plucky thing....’ He was leading a bombing party, ... and the men who were with and near him that night cannot speak too highly of him.... Every single officer and man in the 59th I saw to-day had a word of sympathy for you, and they one and all said how very pluckily your son had died.” Capt. Scales, attached to the 59th Scinde Rifles, who was very severely wounded in the same attack, wrote on 9 Jan. 1915: “Your son was with me just a minute or two before we left our trenches to attack the German trenches, he was in splendid spirits and ready for anything.... His loss will be felt by everyone in the regt. as he was the best of good fellows, and absolutely fearless.”

BRUMPTON, ERNEST WILLIAM, Gunner, R.M.A., 5923, (R.F.R., B. 547), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRUNS, THOMAS JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13363, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRYANT, CHARLES WILLIAM, Ordinary Seaman, J. 10225, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRYANT, HENRY EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4220), S.S. 102908 H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRYANT, JOHN WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8959), 207950, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRYANT, RICHARD, Chief Armourer, 168951, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRYANT, THOMAS HENRY, Armourer’s Crew, M. 7291, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BINGHAM-BRYDEN, EDWARD CARRUTHERS, Private, No. 1137, D Coy., 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late Edward Carruthers Bryden, of Birklees, Goulburn, New South Wales, Dental Surgeon, by his wife, Anna Maria (Birklees, Goulburn, New South Wales), dau. of the late Henry Bingham, of Annagh House, co. Mayo [2nd s. of Robert Augustus Bingham, of Bingham Castle, co. Mayo]; b. Birklees, Goulburn, 30 July, 1894; educ. Goulburn and afterwards at an Agricultural College, and when war broke out was on a station learning farming previous to taking up land for himself; volunteered for Imperial service at the end of Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force on the Euripides, 19 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the following day; unm. His company officer wrote: “He was in my company and under me since we left Sydney. I wanted you to know he died as a true soldier. His body was buried on the battlefield.”

BUCHANAN, DUNCAN ALLAN, Private, No. 1837, 1/8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas Watters Buchanan, of Oak Bank, Oban, Sheep Farmer, by his wife, Jane Cooper, dau. of the late William Allan, of Morningside, Edinburgh; b. Colisnacone Farm, Glencoe, co. Argyle, 19 Dec. 1894; educ. Oban High School; prior to the outbreak of the war was in the employment of Messrs. Hosack & Sutherland, Lawyers at Oban, but volunteered his services immediately and enlisted in the Cycle Corps of the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, going with his regt. to Flanders in May. On 11 June, 1915, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were in the trenches near Festubert, and as the men were short of rations, parties of ten from each platoon were organised to go to the rear for the purpose of obtaining food. No. 16 platoon, of which Buchanan was a member, went first. The firing trench was only between 50 and 100 yards from the enemy, and the men had to run about 100 yards across the open to get into the communication trench. When they were about half way across the Germans opened fire. Buchanan was badly wounded by a bullet in the thigh. He was brought home and died in Netley Hospital 6 July, following, from haemorrhage caused by the rupture of an artery. In all the letters from officers and comrades, also the nurses and orderlies, reference was made to his brightness and to his cheerful obliging disposition under all circumstances. He was unm.

BUCHANAN, JAMES HERBERT, Lieut., 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached 1st Battn. Leinster Regt., only s. of George Buchanan, of Prospect House, Ballyward, Banbridge, co. Down, retired teacher and farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Ochiltree; b. Ballyward, 12 Aug. 1892; educ. Excelsior Academy, Banbridge, and Queen’s University, Belfast, where he studied with a view to entering the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. While at Queen’s University he was for three years a member of the O.T.C. and rose to the rank of Sergt. On 24 June, 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., being posted to the 4th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers. After joining he spent some time training at Carrickfergus, was promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1914, and on 16 Feb. left for France with a draft of 200 men. They arrived on the 18th and spent five days at the base. He was then attached to the Leinster Regt. and served with them in the trenches until 15 March, when he received his fatal wound. Writing of his death his Captain said: “On the evening of 14 March he led his men against a German trench, and with great valour took it and held it till morning when it was found to be untenable. At daylight the order was given to retreat, and while assembling his men he was shot twice through the body by snipers.” He was carried to the Field Hospital where he died next morning (16 March, 1915) at 11 o’clock and was buried the same evening in the officers’ cemetery at Dickebush. A commanding officer wrote: “To say that Lieut. Buchanan was loved by his men is not enough, they idolised him.”

BUCHANAN, WILLIAM, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 166810, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

GRAY-BUCHANAN, CECIL GORDON, Trooper, 2nd Light Horse, Australian Imp. Force, yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. (Hon. Col.) James Ross Gray-Buchanan, of Eastfleld, Cambuslang, and Scotstoun, co. Lanark, late Commanding 3rd and 4th Battns. The Cameronians, and previously for many years with the 26th Cameronians; by his wife, Kate, dau. of James Farie, of Farme, co. Lanark, and grandson of Thomas Gray-Buchanan, of Ardoch and Scotstoun; b. Eastfleld, Rutherglen, 9 Sept. 1886; educ. Cargilfield School and Fettes College, Edinburgh; joined the Australian Light Horse on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 14 May, 1915. The Col. commanding the regt. wrote that he had had the opportunity of observing him on a good many occasions, both on shipboard and in Egypt, and his service was ever a credit to himself and his family and that he was seen to fall gallantly doing his duty to the last.

GRAY-BUCHANAN, CLAUDE, Capt., 35th Sikhs, Indian Army, eldest s. of Lieut.-Col. Michael Rowand Gray-Buchanan, of Ettrick Dale, Isle of Bute, by his wife, Frederica, 7th dau. of Henry Stuart, of Montford, Isle of Bute [and granddau. of Rear-Admiral Lord George Stuart, C.B., 7th s. of John, 4th Earl, and 1st Marquis of Bute], and grandson of Thomas Gray-Buchanan, of Ardoch and Scotstoun: b. Timaru, New Zealand, 17 Feb. 1878; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst, out of which he passed first in 1898; when he was attached to the 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt. as a probationer for the Indian Army. He served with that regt. at Lundi Kotal (Khyber Pass) and on the North West Frontier of India from October, 1898 to October, 1899, when he was appointed to the 35th Sikhs, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1900. He served through the Waziri Campaign in 1901, for which he received the medal and clasp. He received his company, 20 July, 1907, and passed out of the Staff College, Quetta, in Dec. 1913. Early in Aug. he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff of the Royal Flying Corps, Expeditionary Force and on 2 Nov. 1914, was attached to the 8th Gurkhas. He was at first reported missing, but afterwards officially reported as having been killed in action near Festubert, 4 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. Augustine’s Church, Dumbarton, 2 July, 1914, Jane Cecilia Hope, only dau. of Major Robert Elmsall Findlay, of Boturich Castle, co. Dumbarton, s.p.

GRAY-BUCHANAN, WALTER BRUCE, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), fourth s. of Lieut.-Col (Hon. Col.) James Ross Gray-Buchanan, of Eastfleld, Cambuslang, and Scotstoun. co. Lanark, late commanding 3rd and 4th battns. The Cameronians, and previously for many years with the 26th Cameronians; by his wife, Kate, dau. of James Farie, of Farme, co. Lanark, and grandson of Thomas Gray-Buchanan, of Ardoch and Scotstoun; b. Eastfield, Rutherglen, 20 Aug. 1885; educ. Cargilfield School and Fettes College, Edinburgh; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. Cameronians, 16 Feb. 1905, transferred to 2nd Battn. 16 Feb. 1907, promoted Lieut. 13 Oct. 1909, and Capt. 3rd Nov. 1914, and appointed Adjutant 8 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle 10 March, 1915, and was buried there; unm. A comrade wrote: “One of those whose memories will never be forgotten and whose deeds will add to the glories of the old regiment.”

BUCK, FREDERICK, Petty Officer, 210184, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BUCK, THOMAS CYRIL, D.C.M., Sergt., No. 7584, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of John Buck, of Frettenham, co. Norfolk, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Maria Buck, dau. of the late William Cooke, of Buxton; b. Frettenham, 3 Nov. 1891; educ. Elementary School there; enlisted at Norwich, 27 Dec. 1907; was promoted Sergt. in Sept. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, greatly distinguishing himself at Givenchy and again a week later near Gheluvelt, and was killed in action at Richebourg on the morning of 9 May, 1915, being hit by a shrapnel bullet. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal “For conspicuous gallantry and ability at Givenchy, 21 to 23 Dec. 1914, in going forward under heavy fire to select positions for machine guns, and subsequently for rescuing a wounded man who was lying out under fire. He also behaved gallantly on 29 Oct., near Gheluvelt, when in charge of machine guns.” Lieut. T. A. Tapp wrote: “As officer in charge of the machine gun section I feel I must write to you and tell you how dreadfully cut up we all are at losing Sergt. Buck, who had made a name for himself, not only for his machine gun section, which was the best in the Army, but also for his own great personal bravery and devotion to duty. I feel I shall never have any chance of getting another Sergt. even half so good as Sergt. Buck was,” and Col. J. A G. R. Drummond Hay, Commanding Coldstream Guards, writing at the wish of Col. Ponsonby said: “I will quote Colonel Ponsonby’s own words as they evidently convey the feeling in the battn. as to the conspicuously gallant manner in which Sergt. Buck has conducted himself throughout the war. ‘Sergt. T. Buck, who got the D.C.M. a little time ago and was my machine gun Sergt. was killed (this was in a big fight that took place on Sunday, 9 May). He will be a great loss. He has been right through the war, and was one of the bravest and coolest men under fire I have ever seen. I had already mentioned him twice before for that reason and was so glad when he was given D.C.M., which he had so well earned.’”

BUCKETT, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, 309963, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUCKINGHAM, ALBERT, Petty Officer (O.S.), 186259, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUCKINGHAM, ALFRED THOMAS, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13830, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUCKINGHAM, AUBREY WEBSTER, Major, 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late Joseph Hicks Buckingham, of Lancaster Gate, W., and Truro, by his wife, Lucy Webster, dau. of Benjamin Hallewell, of Leeds; b. London. 11 Oct. 1870; educ. Elstree, and Harrow; gazetted Lieut. in the London Scottish volunteers in 1892, and saw service in the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the operations in Natal in 1899 in command on volunteer details, and was afterwards appointed garrison adjutant at Green Point Camp, and for his services received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was given the rank of honorary Capt. in the Army, 31 May, 1901, and that of Major 11 Jan. 1902, and was attached to the 3rd Battn. (Reserve of Officers) of the Gordon Highlanders. He settled at Harrietsham in 1902, purchasing a large portion of the Stede Hill Estate and becoming lord of the manor. On the outbreak of war he was transferred to the 1st Battn. and went to the front on 6 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action near Hooge, 17 Nov. 1914. Major Buckingham m. at Harrietsham, 2 June, 1908, Mabel Felizardae (Harrietsham Manor, Kent), dau. of the late Col. Walter Reginald Rudge, of Stede Court, Harrietsham, R.A.; s.p.

BUCKINGHAM, JAMES, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 10250), 181522, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUCKINGHAM, WILLIAM EDWARD, Stoker, Petty Officer, 280012, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUCKLE, HENRY WHITE, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2775), 210616, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUCKLEY, MOSES MILLER SHAW, Boy 1st Class, J. 24636 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BUCKLEY, CLARENCE JAMES, Private, No. 69090, A Coy., 26th Battn., 5th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Buckley, of 31, Suffolk Street, St. John West, New Brunswick; b. (—); educ. St. Patrick’s School, St. John West; was employed in the Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive Works; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in Oct. 1914, and died shortly after sunset on Wednesday, 13 Oct. 1915, from wounds received in action in France at 4 p.m.; unm. He was buried in the cemetery of the 26th Battn. His Lieut. wrote: “He was killed in action Wednesday last doing his duty. When wounded, even though he knew he had not a chance of recovering, he bore himself as a man.” And a comrade: “My work is First Aid in the field, and as I am a stretcher-bearer in C Coy., and was detailed for the support of A Coy. on the memorable 13 Oct., I was an intimate friend of your son, and carried him in from the field when he was wounded, and gave him the best care within my knowledge. He was very badly wounded, and after I had given him enough morphine to deaden his pain, I made him as easy as possible. I was terribly busy that day, but every time I came in I went over to where Clarence was lying to see if he was resting easy. You have every reason to be proud of your brave lad. Although he was mortally wounded he would say, ‘How goes it, Doc.’ (Doc. is my nickname here), and he always had a smile for me.”

BUCKNILL, JOHN CHARLES, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Hampshire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of John Townsend Bucknill, of Thomfield, near Bitterne, co. Hants., Lieut-Col. late R.E., by his wife, Catharine Raworth, only surviving child of William Rudkin Morris, of Luffenham, co. Rutland, and grandson of the late Sir John Charles Bucknill, M.D., F.R.S.; b. Ditton Hill, Surrey, 19 Oct. 1879; educ. Wellington College, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (B.A.), and became an architect, studying in London and Italy. He practised at Southampton. At the outbreak of the war he applied for a commission, and finally obtained one, 12 Sept. 1914, in the 4th Battn. (T.F.) of the Hants Regt., and with it left for India, Oct. 1914: going to Mesopotamia in March, 1915. During the summer the battn. was quartered at Basrah, and the damp heat, often 110° F. in the shade, killed seven men by sunstroke, the older men and officers, including the subject of this memoir, his age being 36, only being able to stand it. Later the battn. took part in the advance up the Tigris and Euphrates, and in the affair at Gurma Safha and the engagement at Nasiriyeh, where only five officers of the battn. got through unwounded; Bucknill was one of them. Soon afterwards they were brought back to Kurna and sent up the Tigris, a party of the 4th Hants being employed on river work and assisting to clear the barrage, Bucknill as a yachtsman being usefully employed. At Amara they rested for some time to garrison this base, and for seven weeks he acted as paymaster, and subsequently as quartermaster. In the advance on Baghdad under Gen. Townshend one company took part, and the rest of the battn. went up with Gen. Aylmer’s relief force, and fought at the Battle of Filahey in support of the attack by the Black Watch and Seaforths. These battns. and the 4th Hants lost most of their officers and men killed and wounded, among whom Lieut. Bucknill was first reported as missing, 21 Jan. 1916, but on 12 April he was officially reported in England as “killed in action” 21 Jan. 1916. He was a most useful and keen officer, and much appreciated in his battn. He was mentioned in Sir John Nixon’s Despatches of 1 Jan. [London Gazette, 6 April, 1916] for services on Euphrates, 26 June-25 July, 1915, and on 17 April, 1916, it was announced that he had been granted the Military Cross by His Majesty the King. He m. at Bitterne, 22 Sept. 1908, Margaret Maria Mary, dau. of Clement Lister; s.p.

BUCKNILL, LLEWELLYN MORRIS, Major, Royal Field Artillery, yr s. of John Townsend Bucknill, of Thomfield, near Bitterne, co. Hants, Lieut.-Col. late R.E., by his wife, Catharine Raworth, only surviving child of William Rudkin Morris, of Luffenham, co. Rutland, and grandson of the late Sir John Charles Bucknill, M.D., F.R.S; b. Notting Hill, London, 20 June, 1881; educ. Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the R.F.A. 12 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, Capt. 13 Feb. 1910, and Major 30 Oct. 1914. He served in Northern Nigeria on special work, April, 1907–June, 1908, and with the 22nd Brigade in South Africa, Sept. 1912–Aug. 1914. The Brigade returned to Europe in August, and mobilised for war in the New Forest, forming part of the 7th Division which embarked for Belgium 5 Oct. 1914. He was promoted Major on the 30th, and soon after was appointed to command of the 105th Battery. On 16 May he was severely wounded in the spine. His signaller most gallantly carried him back under heavy fire, but early on the 18th he died in hospital at Bethune. He was buried in the town cemetery there. Major Bucknill was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches, first on 17 Feb. 1915, for his services during the early fighting at Ypres, and again on 1 Jan. 1916. Col. Alexander, V.C., Officer commanding 22nd brigade R.F.A., wrote: “Your husband was severely wounded whilst performing his duty in his usual fearless manner,” and Major H. W. Hill, R.F.A., wrote: “During the early part of the war I had the privilege of commanding the 105th Battery, and Major Bucknill was then my Capt. On all occasions he proved himself a most capable and conscientious soldier, full of dash and resource, and a very loyal comrade. His magnificent bravery at Ypres, and in the early days of November, near Gheluvelt, did not happen to be officially recognised, but was known and appreciated by his brother officers.... Major Bucknill will long be remembered by those who served with him.” Many other letters of a like nature from his brother officers and men were received by his widow and his father. Major Bucknill was a fine horseman, and when his Brigade went to Ireland in 1911 he became master of the regimental pack of harriers at Cahir. He was also a good shikar and captured some fine heads in N. Nigeria, although game was scarce. He was a scientific collector of coleoptera and lepidoptera, and able to interest professors at the British Museum. He m. at St. Michael’s Church, Hathersage, co. Derby, 24 Sept. 1913, Mary Ashton, dau. of the late Col. Ashton John Shuttleworth, of Hathersage Hall, co. Derby, R.A.; s.p.

BUCKNOLE, WALTER SAMUEL, Seaman, R.N.R., 4239A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUCKTROUT, HORACE, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19976, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUDD, WRINCH JOSEPH CHARLES, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of Ebenezer Budd, of 84, Melrose Avenue, Norbury, co. Surrey, by his wife, Mary Maria, dau. of William Bristow, of Chelsea; b. 23 Sept. 1877; educ. United Westminster Schools; and in Feb. 1904 was appointed Chief Clerk in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Council Electricity Dept. He was with the Queen’s Westminsters from 1894 to 1900, and passed for sergt., and served with the City of London Imperial Volunteers (M.I.) in South Africa, 1900. From 1905–8 he was a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, and served with the reserve company from 1908 to 1914. At the outbreak of war he volunteered and was granted a commission in Shanghai on 14 Dec. 1914. On his arrival in England he was promoted Lieut. 22 Feb. 1915, and was attached to the 9th Battn. South Wales Borderers stationed at Pembroke Dock and left home with a draft for the East, at the end of May. He landed at the Dardanelles, 10 June, 1915, and was killed on 28 June following; unm. He won several prizes for shooting, and formed one of the Shanghai team at Bisley in 1901, and was a Freemason.

BUHAGIAR, CARMELO, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, 360408, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BULL, ALFRED GEORGE, A.B., 221911, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BULL, ARTHUR EDWARD, Fitter, No. 42616, 118th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, eldest s. of Edward Bull, Steward at the Bishop’s Stortford Golf Club, late Sergt.-Major, Rifle Brigade, by his wife, Annie Maria, dau. of Mathew Barnard; b. Farnham, co. Surrey, 27 Aug. 1890; educ. Army Schools; joined the Army, 5 March, 1906, and was trained as a fitter at the Ordnance College, Woolwich; he went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was at first reported missing, and later killed in action. From one of the only two survivors of the two gun sections of the 118th Battery, who was exchanged as disabled in Feb. 1915, it was learnt that Bull was knocked over and killed on 27 Aug. 1914, as he was taking out a round from the ammunition boxes to hand up to the gun at Etreux during the retreat from Mons; unm.

BULL, BERNARD WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10511), 214140, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BULL, GODFREY JOHN OSWALD, Lieut., 2nd East Lancashire Field Co., R.E., 3rd s. of Col. William Henry Bull, F.R.C.S., K.H.S., V.D., J.P., Assistant Director of Medical Services, South Midland Division, by his wife Emma Elizabeth Cherry, dau. of the late Edward Hoare Garole, of Ballinacurra House, Midleton, co. Cork; b. St. Oswald’s House, Stony Stratford, co. Bucks, 3 Aug. 1890; educ. Wellington College and Magdalen College, Cambridge (B.A. 1st class honours). On leaving Cambridge he became a pupil at the Westinghouse Works, Manchester, and joined the East Lancashire R.E. (T.F.) as a 2nd Lieut. 10 June, 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 7 Jan. 1914. He left for Egypt in Sept. 1914, and proceeded to the Dardanelles in the following May, was slightly wounded in the leg during the fighting that month, and was killed in action there 8 July following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He met his death early in the morning whilst surveying the work his men had been engaged upon during the night in order to send in his report which is called for each morning. Death was instantaneous, being shot through the brain by a sniper. Your son was a noble lad and a good soldier, and an untiring worker; if any man ever served his country well as a junior officer it was your son and our comrade.” His two brothers are now (1916) on active service, Capt. W. E. H. Bull with the Mounted Brigade, Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), and Capt. H. C. H. Bull with the 8th Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I.

BULL, HERBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2165), 215077, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BULL, PHILIP, Stoker, 1st, Class, K. 1422, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BULL, WILLIAM ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 548), 280624, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BULLER, FREDERICK DERICK EDWIN, Volunteer, East African Mounted Rifles, British East Africa, 3rd s. of Rev. George Buller, Rector of Oakford, Devon, by his wife, Margaret Mildred, dau. of Sir John William Hamilton Anson, 2nd Bt.; b. Burrough Green, Cambs., 14 July, 1891; educ. Eton, and Trinity College, Oxford. On going down from Oxford in 1913 he bought a large farm in British East Africa, and on the outbreak of the European War immediately volunteered his services and joined the King’s Mounted Rifles. He was killed in the fighting on 25 Sept. 1914 in the Ingito Hills between the Magadi Railway and the frontier. It appears that a German force of about 35 Europeans and 150 natives, with two Maxim guns, attacked a body of the East African Mounted Rifles (C Squadron), only 30 in number, commanded by Capt. Chapman. After one hour’s severe fighting in thick bush country the enemy were repulsed, and retired hastily towards Longido. At Eton Buller rowed in his house fours, and at Oxford he stroked the winning trial eight in his first year. He was unm.

BULLINARIA, HENRY WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3766), 188856, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BULLOCK, GEORGE WILLIAM, Gunner (R.F.R., Immed. Class 14), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BULMAN, THOMAS, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 4701, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BULPITT, WILLIAM ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6089), S.S. 682 (Chat.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUNCE, CHARLES HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1123), 158786, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BUNCE, CHARLES RALPH THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7195), S.S. 102156, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BUNCE, EDWARD, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1987), 163524, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUNCE, JOHN HENRY, Private, No. 2418, 15th Battn. (P.W.O. Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Samuel Bunce, of 21, Dyson Road, Leytonstone, by his wife, Alice Amilia, dau. of Henry Allen; b. Forest Gate, co. Essex, 24 Aug. 1894; educ. Swaffield Road and Wadsworth Technical Institute; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Aug. after the outbreak of war and died of wounds received accidentally at a bomb instruction near Bethune, 24 July, 1915. He was buried in the cemetery Noeux des Mines; unm. His Capt. wrote: “Your son was a universal favourite—cheerful, willing, and a hard worker, and a very promising soldier”; and his platoon sergt.: “In the Army the best that can be said of any man is that ‘he is a good soldier.’ Without any hesitation I can say that your son had fully qualified for this high standard. He was well disciplined, obedient, and always ready to do anything he was called on to undertake; the mere fact that he was selected for instruction in bomb throwing shows that his superiors had a thorough confidence in his abilities.”

BUNN, GEORGE, Seaman, R.N.R., 5222B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUNYAN, BENJAMIN JAMES, Ship’s Steward, 340125, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BURBRIDGE, WALTER, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 794), S.S. 103586, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BURCH, ARTHUR THOMAS, Private, No. 27, 8th Battn. (90th Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of George Burch, of Woodnesborough, co. Kent, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of the late William Oldfield; b. Woodnesborough, 20 Dec. 1887; educ. there; emigrated to Canada in July, 1910; enlisted on the outbreak of the war, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres between 24–30 April, 1915; unm. He was at first reported missing, then in Aug. to have died, and finally (2 Dec. 1915) was officially stated to have been killed between the dates given above.

BURCH, WILLIAM JOHN, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 229), 153490, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURCHELL, FRED, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 11716, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BURCHELL, FREDERICK HUGH, A.B., J. 9672, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BURCHETT, ARTHUR, Sergt., No. 7882, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late William Burchett, Labourer, by his wife, Eliza (Peal Common, Elstead), dau. of George Pullen, Farmer; b. Peal Common, Elstead, co. Surrey, 3 March, 1890; educ. National School there; enlisted 10 June, 1908, and served in Egypt 1909–11, and afterwards became a postman at Elstead. On the outbreak of war he was called up, went to France 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. following, being buried at Soupir; unm. His brother, Private Thomas Burchett, No. 7285 (sometime a postman at Godalming), was officially reported missing, 30 Aug. 1914, and is (1916) a prisoner in Germany.

BURCHILL, THOMAS, Leading Stoker, 276152 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURDEKIN, GEOFFREY ERIC, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Notts and Derby Regt. (Sherwood Foresters), attd. 1st Loyal North Lancashires; yst. s. of Benjamin Thomas Burdekin, of Sheffield and Baslow, co. Derby, Solicitor, by his wife, Emily Jane, dau. of the Rev. Jeremiah Stockdale, Vicar of Baslow; b. Sheffield, 29 March, 1893; educ. Bramcote, Scarborough, Rugby and Woolwich. He was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt. 20 Sept. 1911, and served with it in India for two years. In 1913 he resigned his commission owing to ill-health, and was articled to his father as a solicitor. At the outbreak of the European War he applied for a commission, and was given one in the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Sherwood Foresters, and was afterwards attached to the 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regt. with which he was serving when he was killed in action at Beuvry, 26 Jan. 1915. He was buried at a farm near Beuvry; unm. His Capt. wrote: “The circumstances under which your boy and many other valuable men lost their lives were perhaps the most unfortunate that can be imagined. We were some four miles distant from the firing line at the time, and it was one of three shells that happened to strike us when the battn. orderly room was being held in the morning. Being in temporary command, I was taking orderly room myself and was only some six or seven yards distant from the spot where the shell burst, and how I and the Adjutant, who was standing beside me, escaped I really don’t know, for men within a couple of yards of us were killed instantaneously. What I remember was a deafening crash, a blackness, and the noise of broken glass falling. As soon as the air had cleared of débris we saw the fearful havoc that had been caused. You have one great consolation, however. Your son was spared all pain and suffering, for death was absolutely instantaneous; also that he was buried. The inability to bury one’s dead owing to their having been killed on the ground between the opposing trenches has, I think, been one of the most horrible features of the war. It is, I think, unnecessary for me to assure you that your son maintained to the end the high traditions of a British officer and gentleman. We were together during the night attack on 31 Dec., and his coolness under a heavy fire was very marked. Although he did not belong to the Loyal North Lancashires but to his own county regt., yet he always took an interest in his men and was a zealous officer. On the very morning that he was killed, I had picked him out to take command of a company because I had the greatest confidence in him. He was always cheerful, and had endeared himself to us all. We feel the loss greatly.”

BURDISS, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., 2985T. H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURDON, EDWARD, Pioneer. No. 110982, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of Edward Burdon, of Southwick-on-Wear, Joiner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Richard Wake, of Southwick; b. Southwick, 26 Dec. 1873; educ. Southwick Board School, and was a miner. He enlisted for the period of the war, 29 July, 1915; went to France the following week; was invalided home, 16 Sept. 1915; and died on active service, 13 Oct. 1915, following an operation for appendicitis. He m. at St. Columbus, Southwick, 7 June, 1887, Isabella (18, Edward Murdis Street, Southwick, Sunderland), dau. of James Turnbull, of Southwick, and had seven children: Edward, b. 19 Sept. 1888; James, b. 28 Aug. 1889; Sidney, b. 2 May, 1903; Nicholas, b. 29 Dec. 1908; Thomas, b. 28 Dec. 1910; Mary, b. 7 May, 1905; and Jenny, twin with Thomas.

BURGES, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd s. of the late Francis Lockie Burges, of Irwin House, Irwin, Western Australia, Squatter, and grandson of the late Francis Carleton Burges, of Fethard, co. Tipperary, M.D.; b. Irwin aforesaid, 3 June, 1889; educ. Campbell College, Belfast; Armagh Royal School, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 20 April, 1910, transferred to the 1st Battn. 20 April, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1914; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, while leading a charge of his platoon, 10 March, 1915; unm. Rifleman James Scott of this regt. wrote that in the attack on the German second line they “were met with a murderous fire from a machine gun which for an instant made our men waver. An officer, Lieut. Burges, leading our platoon, No. 8, B Coy., dashed into a stream of water which reached to his neck, and which ran parallel to the second German line wire entanglements. He called out as he plunged into the water: ‘Follow me, No. 8; be quick and we will capture that machine gun.’ Straight away every man followed this gallant officer. Once across the stream, ‘Form up, No. 8,’ and away we went towards the machine gun like hounds after the hare. We followed this officer over the German third line of trenches, and away in full cry towards the village of Neuve Chapelle, in our efforts to capture the accursed machine gun, which was playing the deuce with our men. Dashing forward to a wood on our right where the gun was concealed, our gallant officer received a bullet wound in the neck, which ended in his death.... As our Colonel said, by his dash and contempt of death, he brought victory to our arms and credit to our regt. At 12 noon our regt. found itself close up to the village, more advanced than any other regt. of the division, thanks to the gallant lead of a gallant officer.” Lieut. Burges was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in this action.

BURGESS, HERBERT WILLIAM, 1st Class Stoker, Ch/SS. 103633, R.F.R., B. 7981, R.N.R., s. of Charles Henry Burgess, of 2, Gills Cottages, Wouldham, Rochester, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late John Callhoming; b. Wouldham, 25 Jan. 1890; educ. National School there; joined the Navy 2 April 1906, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea; unm.

BURGESS, JOHN DONALD, Volunteer, King’s East African Mounted Rifles, 3rd s. of Rev. Samuel Burgess, of 10, Holly Road, Edgbaston, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late John Peed, of Whittlesey, Solicitor; b. Guilsborough, Northampton, 23 March, 1876; educ. Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy, Southsea. At the outbreak of the European War was the Engineer of the Magadi Soda Co., but immediately joined the King’s Mounted Rifles, and was killed in action at Ingito Hill, British East Africa, 25 Sept. 1914. His commanding officer wrote: “He was one of a party of 30 men who had followed up what was said to be a smaller party of Germans, but when they came up with them were found to consist of about 150 men with two maxims. The Germans opened fire at once, and for a time there was some little confusion. The four men of the Magadi Force, one of whom was your husband, stood fast, however, and returned the fire, and then our men rallied. This lasted for about 10 minutes, when the Germans started to advance. The officer in command decided that our men could not hold out, so he ordered a retirement, and Burgess and three others were told off to cover it. They lay down, taking cover as best they could, and when next day our men went out (the Germans having retired) all four were found dead, just as they had laid down; and if ever men gave their lives to save others, it was those four.” He m. at Christ Church, Woburn Place, London, 21 Oct. 1902, Ethel M., 2nd dau. of the late W. J. Roseby, of Doncaster, and left two daus.: Kathleen Constance and Joyce Averil.

BURGESS, RICHARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10674), 238875, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURGESS, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111339, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURGESS, WILLIAM HENRY GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3611), 185552, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DE BURIATTE, JOHN PHILIP, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., yr. s. of William Warwick de Buriatte, of The Mill House, Wraysbury, co. Bucks, by his 1st wife, Mary, dau. of James Edmund Huxley, M.D., and niece of Prof. Huxley; b. Aylesford, Kent, 28 Oct. 1887; educ. Dulwich College, and Manchester University, where he studied in the Faculty of Technology, in chemical technology (paper manufacture) from 1905–8; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1912, and went to France as Sergt. with them, 28 Oct. 1914; was given a commission in the 2nd East Surrey Regt., 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action leading his platoon at Lindenhoeck during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915, and was buried 20 yards behind the trenches.

BURINI, CHARLES LEWIS, Sergt., No. 7510, 2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt. (the “Green Howards”), s. of the late Sergt. Lewis Augustus Burini, for ten years drill instructor of the local company of the 2nd Vol. Battn. of the Yorkshire Regt., by his wife, Maria (Scorton, Darlington), dau. of William Winslow, of Trowbridge, co. Wilts (who served for 21 years in the Army); b. Norton, Malton, co. York, 2 Aug. 1891; educ. Bower Memorial Schools, Norton; enlisted 2 Oct. 1903, appointed L.-Corpl. 16 Feb. 1914, served in India for 15 months, in Africa for three years, and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 5 Oct. 1914 to 20 March, 1915, on which latter date he was severely wounded in the head in action at Neuve Chapelle, and died in No. 2 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne, 20 March following; unm. He was buried in the Casten Cemetery there, grave No. 136.

BURKE, CORNELIUS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7775), S.S. 103254, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURKE, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9051), S.S. 2130, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURKE, THOMAS CAMPBELL, Capt., 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, 2nd s. of Joseph Francis Burke, of Stratford-on-Avon, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Kate Marlow, dau. of the late William Cruickshank, Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals (who served through the Crimean War, for which he received medal, and died at Simla during the Indian Mutiny); b. Stratford-on-Avon, 27 May, 1877; educ. Trinity College, Stratford-on-Avon and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 4 Aug. 1897; served his first year with the Royal Irish Rifles; entered the Indian S.C., 23 Oct. 1898, and was appointed to the 125th (Napier’s) Rifles, being promoted Lieut. 4 Nov. 1889, and Capt. 4 Aug. 1906. He served in China in 1900 with the 122nd Rajputana Infantry during the Boxer Rebellion, receiving the medal, and was afterwards Assistant Inspector of Imperial Service Troops in Rajputana from 1903–6. After three years’ service as Adjutant of the Bangalore Volunteer Rifles (during which time he started the first corps of Boy Scouts in India); he was (26 March, 1912) transferred as Double Company Commander to the 1st Gurkha Rifles, then stationed at Dharmsala, Punjab. On the outbreak of the European War the regt. was ordered to France, but was detained for 10 weeks guarding the Suez Canal, and arrived at the Front late in Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Festubert, 19 Dec. 1914. He was ordered to lead a party against a German advanced trench, but the men were waist deep in mud, and he was only able to get 24 ready to start, and with these and his subaltern, Lieut. Rundall (who was ordered not to go, but would not let his Capt. go alone), left the trench in broad daylight. The Colonel stated the action was most gallant, and recommended him for the V.C. The Brigade-Major officially reported that Capt. Burke and Lieut. Rundall were killed, and more than 50 per cent. other ranks hit. He m. at Agra, 1906, Ada Mary Jane, dau. of the Rev. J. Langshaw.

BURKETT, WALTER, Private, No. 1976, machine gun section, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Isaac Burkett, of 12, Remus Road, Old Ford, E., by his wife, Annie; b. Old Ford, Bow, 26 Dec. 1896; educ. Smeed Road Board School; enlisted, 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Morrock, France, on the night of 22 Sept. 1915, being shot through the body while with a working party; unm. Sergt. Morgan wrote of him as one of his best men and a general favourite.

BURN, JOHN, Private, No. 8806, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of Thomas Burn, of 113, Conyers Road, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Labourer; b. Byker, 27 March, 1885; educ. Jubilee School, Byker Hill; was employed in Locke Blackett’s Lead Works, St. Anthony’s; joined the Army 29 Aug. 1914; died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at Byker 6 Aug. 1906, Mary Jane (113, Conyers Road, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne), dau. of Aaron, Richardson, and had three children: Thomas, b. 22 Nov. 1906; Margaret Richardson, b. 9 Oct. 1908; and Elizabeth Collins, b. 28 Dec. 1910.

BURN, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 8356, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 13 Sept. 1914; m.

BURNAND, CYRIL FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, only s. of Charles Hubert Burnand, of 1, Cavendish Square, London, Banker, by his wife, Mary Tirzah, dau. of James Nelson, and grandson of Sir Francis Burnand, late Editor of “Punch”; b. at 1, Cavendish Square, London, 31 July, 1891; educ. Downside School, and Trinity College, Cambridge. When the war broke out he was in the General Superintendent’s department of the Midland Railway at Nottingham, but immediately offered his services and was given a commission in the Special Reserve of the Grenadier Guards, 18 Aug. 1914, and later appointed to the 1st Battn. at the front. He was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; unm. Lieut. Burnand was a Cambridge rowing “blue,” and Capt. of the 1st Trinity Rowing Club.

BURNARD. LEONARD, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1153), 149707. H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURNELL, GEORGE CUTHBERTSON, 2nd Lieut., 10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Robert Burnell, of Egremont, co. Chester, by his wife, Mary (The Bungalow, Whitby, near Chester), dau. of John Cuthbertson, of Govan, M.D.; b. Egremont, co. Chester, 6 April, 1890; educ. Liscard High School; joined the Liverpool Scottish as a private the day war broke out, and after three months’ training at Edinburgh and Tunbridge Wells, went out with his battn., 31 Oct. 1914. He was given a commission in his own regt. 16 March, 1915. He was wounded at Hooge, 16 June, 1915, while leading his platoon in the famous charge of the Liverpool Scottish, and lay on the battlefield for two and a-half days, and at last crawled within sight of the British trenches, when an officer saw him and brought him in. He died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 24 June, 1915, from his wounds; unm. Lieut. Burnell played Rugby for the Cheshire XV for two seasons, and was a member of the Birkenhead Park Football Club.

BURNELL, JOHN SIDNEY, Private, No. 2321, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Burnell, an employee of Watney, Coombe & Reid, Brewers, by his wife, Elizabeth (14, Castle Buildings Castle Lane, Westminster), dau. of James Woodland; b. Holborn, 7 Sept. 1891; educ. St. Albans, Holborn; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Armentières, 19 May, 1915. He was buried in Esquingham Cemetery; unm. 2nd Lieut. Frank C. Langley, 2nd Battn. The London Regt., wrote from France: “He was engaged with other fellows filling sandbags when it happened, and he was awfully brave right up to the time he was sent to hospital. I was proud to feel that he was in my platoon”; and the Chaplain, 17th Field Ambulance, writing to his father, said: “Your son ... has died of a bullet wound received yesterday. It went through his right arm and into his stomach. An operation was attempted, but in vain. He did not suffer much pain, and was very calm and brave.” The following extract is from a letter to his mother, sent by L.-Corpl. A. N. Fegat, No. 2134, No. 9 Platoon, C Coy., 2nd Battn. London Regt.: “Your son, who was in my section, was wounded yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock. He was working behind the trench when a bullet hit his arm, inflicting a cut 1½ inches long and ¾ inch deep. The bullet then ricochetted across his stomach, inflicting a very nasty wound. The doctor attended immediately and we soon got him to hospital. The news from there was very good at first, but later reports were not so hopeful, and the news came through this morning that he died peacefully at 6.30 a.m.”

BURNET, ROBERT, Lieut.-Col. and Sanitary Staff Officer, 1st Wessex Division, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th s. of George Burnet, of Wigan, co. Lancaster; b. 9 Feb. 1875; educ. King William’s College, Isle of Man, and University College, Liverpool, graduating B.Sc. Hons. 1897, M.B., Ch.B., 1900, and M.Sc. 1904. Four years later he qualified D.P.H., Birmingham. After holding appointment as House Surgeon to the Rawcliffe Hospital, Chorley, he secured the appointment of Medical Officer of Health for the County Borough of Bury, and Medical Superintendent, Bury and District Joint Hospital Board, Fever and Smallpox Hospital, and Aitken Sanatorium for Consumption. Later he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Cornwall and Principal Medical Officer, Cornwall Education Committee. He joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) in 1907, was for some time Capt. 2nd Wessex Field Ambulance, and in Feb. 1913 was promoted Major upon appointment as Divisional Sanitary Officer to the 1st Division. On the outbreak of war he joined his unit for active service, and was promoted Lieut.-Col. On the afternoon of Thursday, 28 Jan. 1915, he was riding between Newton St. Cyres and Exeter, accompanied by Col. H. J. Mackay, when his horse was frightened by some colts in a field near the roadway, and bolted. Half a mile further on Col. Burnet was thrown and died within a few minutes from injuries caused by a fracture of the skull. He was buried at Chorley, Lancashire, the family burial place. An order issued by Brig.-Gen. G. S. McD. Elliott, Commanding R.A.M.C. (T.F.), Wessex Division said: “Lieut.-Col. Burnet was an officer of very high professional attainments, and these he devoted unceasingly with never-failing energy and earnestness to the welfare of the Division. By his death the Army has been deprived of the services of an officer who can ill be spared, and those who knew him have lost a valued friend.” Col. Burnet was a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and a member of the British Medical Association, and had held the offices of Senior Steward in Phœnix Lodge of Honour and Prudence, No. 331, Truro, and of Junior Steward in the Royal Cornubian Chapter, No. 331, Truro, of Royal Arch Masons. He was author of “Poliomyelitis and Dust Nuisance,” in The British Medical Journal, 1911; and “Poliomyelitis, as illustrated by an English Epidemic,” Paris Health Congress, 1913. He m. at Whalley Range, Manchester, 2 April, 1903, Alice, 3rd dau. of Thomas Thornber, of Vivary Bridge, Colne, co. Lancaster, and Westbourne, Rusholme, Manchester, and had three children: Gordon, b. 29 Sept. 1904; Georgina, b. 28 Jan. 1906; and Monica, b. 12 June, 1912.

BURNETT, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10276), 204551, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURNETT, FRANCIS, Private, No. 8578, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of J. Burnett, of Slew House, Broadwood Widger, Difton, Devon; b. Ashwater, Holsworthy, co. Devon; enlisted 19 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914.

BURNETT, GEORGE, Private, No. 7591, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Burnett of Chichester; served with the Expeditionary Force; reported missing and now assumed to have been killed in action between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1914.

BURNETT, NOEL FLETCHER, Private, No. 6/18, Machine Gun Section, 1st Canterbury Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of James Burnett, M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer, New Zealand Government Railways, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Wilson Gibson, of Waitangi Station, South Canterbury, New Zealand; b. Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. Wellington College, Victoria College and Canterbury College (all New Zealand), where he was in his last term at the Engineering School when war broke out; volunteered and enlisted in the Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct. 1914; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915; in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and in the great attack on Krithia, where he was severely wounded by a bullet in the lung; was six weeks in hospital at Alexandria, and was then invalided to England, where he was in various hospitals till Oct., when he rejoined at the Base Camp, Weymouth; went out with a draft, 15 Nov., and returned to the trenches early in Dec. and was shot at Chunock Bair, near Anzac, on the 13th of that month, and died the same day on board the hospital ship Dunluce Castle. Buried at sea between Anzac and Lemnos the same night; unm. His College Professor wrote: “He was a thoroughly sterling character, and commanded alike the respect and affection of his fellow-students and teachers. It was really his great influence which led to many College men enlisting after he had set the example. As a power for good and a standard for manliness amongst the students I shall greatly feel his loss.” He was a keen sportsman and athlete, member of his college football fifteen for three years, and secretary of the College Engineering Society.

BURNHAM, CHARLES RICHARD, Private, No. 1791, 4th Battn. West Riding Regt., s. of John Burnham, Commercial Traveller; b. Halifax, 16 Oct. 1872; educ. there. He was a member of the National Reserve, and on the outbreak of war joined the 4th Battn. West Riding Regt., 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 4 May, 1915, while carrying rations and water from the headquarters to the trenches. He was buried in the Military Burial Ground, Sailly. He m. at the Parish Church, Halifax, 19 May, 1894, Mary Emma, dau. of Isaiah Tawton, and had a dau: Ivy Eastwood, b. 16 May, 1907.

BURNS, ALBERT HORACE, Private, No. 10720, 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., s. of Harry Walter Burns, of 97, Chingford Road, Walthamstow, Silversmith, by his wife, Emma Esther, dau. of Richard Rolph; b. Camden Town, 4 Feb. 1899; educ. Oldfield Road School, Willesden; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 11 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 14 May, 1915, five days after his brother, Drummer Harry Walter Burns (see his notice); unm.

BURNS, DAVID, Private, No. 9413, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Keith, co. Banff; enlisted 23 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died a prisoner of war, 27 Jan. 1915, and was buried at Pont-a-Vendin, Pas de Calais, by the German authorities.

BURNS, HARRY WALTER, Drummer, No. 1441, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Harry Walter Burns, Silversmith, by his wife, Emma Esther, dau. of Richard Rolph; b. Kentish Town, London, 20 Nov. 1896; educ. Oldfield Road School, Willesden; enlisted 22 Feb. 1911, and was killed in action at Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm.

BURNS, JOHN, Private, No. 77984, 15th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Robert Burns, of Dublin, by his wife, Lizzie (20, Longford Street, Dublin); b. Dublin, 10 April, 1890; educ. there; went to Canada about 1907, and settled in Victoria, British Columbia; volunteered after the outbreak of war; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Oct. 1914; came over with the second contingent; went to France, and was killed in action at Festubert, 20 May, 1915. Buried first line trenches, north-east of Festubert village, about 500 yards from church. He m. at Victoria, B.C., 16 Nov. 1912, May (Box 934 Nelson, British Columbia, Canada), dau. of Thomas Carlisle, and had a son: John Carlisle, b. 15 June, 1914.

BURNS, MICHAEL, Private, No. 5973, 2nd Battn, The Border Regt.; served through the South African War with the 1st Border Regt. (Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. Previous to the outbreak of the European War he was employed at the Ravensworth Colliery, Gateshead.

BURNS, THOMAS, Private, No. 10646, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Patrick Burns, of 4, Spring Row, Knowle Park, Keighley, Yorkshire; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing 29 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

BURNS, WILLIAM, Private, No. 3321, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Thomas Burns, of 299, Hilltown, Dundee; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in the 13th General Hospital at Boulogne, 28 May, 1915, from wounds received in action.

BURNS, WILLIAM GORDON, L.-Corpl., No. 9217, 1st Section, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., b. Dumfries, 14 Sept. 1885; educ. there; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 5 Aug. 1915. He was buried north of Hop Store, just outside Vlamertinghe, on the Poperinghe Road. He m. at Wallsend-on-Tyne, Northumberland, Jennie (now training as a Nurse), eldest dau. of John Steele, of Wallsend-on-Tyne; s.p.

BURR, HAROLD, A.B., J. 2742, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURRARD, NORMAN SIDNEY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14263 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURRELL, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 13676, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Richard Burrell, of 70, Victoria Street, Shotton Colliery, Durham, Miner, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Keen, of Haswell; b. Haswell, co. Durham, 2 May, 1894; enlisted at Sunderland, 14 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Vermelles, 29 Sept. 1915; unm.

BURRELL, FREDERICK, A.B., 192688, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURRELL, JOHN WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 1519, B Coy., 9th Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Richard William Burrell, of 46, Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton, N., Confectioner, by his wife, Louisa Matilda, dau. of George Watling; b. Islington, 19 Sept. 1895; educ. Chequer Street School, E.C.; went to Australia, and enlisted there in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm. His elder brother was killed in France in Sept. (see following notice).

BURRELL, RICHARD GEORGE, Corpl., No. 1197, D Coy., 7th Battn. The London Regt., 47th London Division (T.F.), eldest s. of Richard William Burrell, of 46, Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton, N., and elder brother of the preceding; b. St. Luke’s, E.C., 13 July, 1893; educ. Chequer Street School, E.C.; enlisted in June, 1911, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. He m. at Watford, 16 March, 1915, May, dau. of Henry Knowles, of King’s Road, Fairfield Road, Edmonton.

BURRELL, WILLIAM MATTHEW, of Broome Park, co. Northumberland, and Hampton Court, co. Hereford, Major, Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry, elder s. of William John Burrell, by his wife, Helena Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of Major Alexander Browne, of Doxford Hall; b. Glen Allen, Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 2 Feb. 1876; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12th Royal Lancers, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 1900, and Capt. 22 Nov. 1902; served in South African War, 1899–1902; took part in advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including action at Maggersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Lindley, Bethlehem and Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to July, 1901; and in Cape Colony, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four claps and King’s medal with two clasps); and retired 15 May, 1907. He then joined the Northumberland Yeomanry Hussars; was Adjutant for three years, and became Major, 7 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he was en route for France with his regt. when he contracted pneumonia at Southampton, and died of septic pneumonia at a nursing home in Bath, 10 Nov. 1914. He m. at Carham, 13 May, 1903, Nancy (Hampton Court, Leominster, Herefordshire), 2nd dau. of the late Charles Perkins, of Carham Hall, Coldstream, N.B., and Birkley Hall, co. Durham, and had four children: Michael, b. 8 July, 1909, d. 4 Jan. 1910; Charles Dominic (now of Broome Park), b. 11 Aug. 1914; Cornelia Mary, b. 12 Jan. 1911; and Philippa, b. 25 Aug. 1912.

BURRIDGE, ARTHUR CHARLES, L.-Corpl., East African King’s Mounted Rifles, elder s. of the late Arthur Francis Burridge, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Vice-President of that Society, by his wife, Emily (Elmington, Bexley, Kent), dau. of Major-Gen. Charles James Green, R.E., for many years Chief Engineer of Mysore; b. Bedford Park, W., 7 Jan. 1883; educ. Rugby 1896–99, winning his house cup for running; entered Huth’s Bank 1899, and joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps; but in 1910 emigrated to British East Africa, where he took up a large tract of land; became a coffee planter, and started the raising of the Legion of Frontiersmen. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in C Squadron, King’s Mounted Rifles, was made L.-Corpl., and took part in the fighting along the British-German frontier during Sept. On 25 Sept. he was one of a small party, 30 in number, of the Rifles who were attacked in the Ingito Hills by a greatly superior force of the enemy, with two Maxim guns. After an hour’s severe fighting the enemy were driven off, but not until the Rifles had lost eight of their number killed, among them Mr. Burridge. The “Morning Post” for 1 Jan. 1915, contained a letter, in which the writer says: “One poor youngster in my section and mess got shot through the leg, and a man named Burridge attended him in the firing line and refused to retreat when the order was given. That was the last seen of either of them alive, for when we returned later the poor boy was found bayoneted through the neck and his companion shot through the head.” He was buried in the Ingito Hills the following day, and a handsome brass memorial tablet was placed in Bexley Parish Church.

BURRIDGE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15303, H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BURRIDGE, HENRY GARDINER (Lal), Lieut., 107th Pioneers, Indian Army, s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Francis John Burridge, R.A. (2nd s. of the late William Burridge, of Bradford Court, West Somerset), by his wife, Kitty (The Croft, Lee-on-the-Solent), dau. of Capt. E. Stannard, R.H.A.; b. Bareilly, India, 20 Jan. 1890; educ. Winton House, Winchester, Wellington College (1902–8), and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Sept. 1909, he was attached to the North Staffordshire Regt. at Nowshera for a year, and on 31 Dec. 1910, was transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the 15th Ludhiana Sikhs; promoted Lieut. 8 Dec. 1911, he transferred to the 107th Pioneers in 1912, and was killed in action (being shot through the head) while ascertaining the extent of damage done by high explosives at La Bassée, 17 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery, the men of his company carrying his body back some three miles. His Colonel wrote: “During the short time I knew him I got to recognise and admire his many qualities. He was always bright and jolly whatever his hardships might be, and I have seldom met a more unselfish fellow. He was always keen both at work and play, and was much loved by his men. Since we have been at the front I have much relied on his judgment, and he was my right hand. I miss him greatly. He had endeared himself to me.” At Wellington he was second of three brothers in the Anglesey, a school prefect, a member of the XI and XV, and a gentleman of the Hunt, and won the Challenge Cup in 1908. In 1908 he was passed for Sandhurst, but was sent to the infantry company attached to the R.M.A.

BURRINGTON, HARLEY, Private, No. 13615, Grenade Coy., 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of the late Gilbert George Burrington, of Bridgwater, co. Somerset, Bank Manager, by his wife, Amelia Frances (Burnham, co. Somerset), dau. of Edward Bryant; b. Bridgwater, 1 Dec. 1883; educ. Haileybury College; went to Canada in 1902; enlisted on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France in Feb.; was wounded when coming out of the trenches at Festubert, and died in the General Hospital at Boulogne, 23 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Eastern Cemetery there.

BURROW, THOMAS, Private, No. 20447, 10th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late James Burrow, Water Bailiff (died 1905), by his wife, Agnes (Grange Fell, Grange Over Sands, co. Lancaster), dau. of John Rigg, of Hill Farm, Cartmel; b. Grange Over Sands, 5 May, 1893; educ. National School there; went to Canada in 1913, and settled in Alberta. He joined the 103rd Calgary Regt. in 1913, and after the outbreak of war volunteered for service oversea. He came to England with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded at 3 p.m. on 20 March, 1915, in action at Neuve Chapelle, and died the following evening; unm. He was buried in Merivale Cemetery, France.

BURROWS, LEOPOLD CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10748), 203733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURROWS, SAMUEL JOSEPH, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12278, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BURSNALL, FRANCIS GEORGE, Stoker, R.N.R., 1734U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURT, ROBERT WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4559), S.S. 103678, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BURTON, ALFRED WILLIAM, Private, No. 7803, 1st Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., s. of the late William Burton; b. Haynford, 5 Feb. 1888; educ. there; enlisted 7 Dec. 1904; died 14 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle two days previously. He m. at Haynford, 7 Oct. 1913, Edith Miriam, dau. of Charles Golding; s.p.

BURTON, JAMES ALBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7513), S.S. 102819, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURTON, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10637 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BURTON, REES THOMAS, Private, No. 64831, Royal Field Artillery, s. of the late William Burton (died 20 May, 1898); b. Tylorstown, co. Glamorgan, 26 Sept. 1888; educ. there; enlisted 24 March, 1911, and had finished his three years’ service just five months before the outbreak of war; he immediately rejoined and was killed in action in France between 11 and 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

BURTON, WILLIAM HARRY, Sergt., No. 1420, C Coy., 1st/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Herbert Burton, of North Street, Atherstone, Foreman Hatter, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Lucas; b. Atherstone, 15 March, 1887; educ. Atherstone Grammar School; joined the London Scottish 1910, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 May, 1915; unm. His Commanding Officer, Capt. Claud Low, wrote he “was killed by a shell at 10.15 this morning, in a trench about 2,000 yards east of Vermelles. At the moment of writing this letter your son has not been buried but I am making arrangements for this. If the shelling does not stop before nightfall it will be done then. It may interest you to know that when the shells commenced to strike in this section this morning, your son immediately took steps to get his men into safety, and it was in doing so, in the exercise of his duty as a non-commissioned officer, that he lost his life.”

BUSH, ARTHUR DOUGLAS, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 6857, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUSH, CHARLES FREDERICK, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 819), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUSHELL, WILLIAM THEODORE, L.-Corpl., No. 2816, A Coy., 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Arthur Forest Bushell, of 39, Moreton Place, Pimlico, S.W., and Biggin Hill, Westerham, Kent, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of William Cooper, of Milton, Kent; b. Pimlico, 17 July, 1883; educ. Westminster Training College, and was for some 14 years in the employ of Messrs. J. W. Benson, Ltd., of Ludgate Hill. On 27 Feb. 1899, at the age of 15, he joined the 1st Cadet Battn. of the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., and leaving them 11 Jan. 1900, joined the old 13th Middlesex Queen’s Westminster Volunteers 5 Nov. following, with whom he served till 8 Dec. 1904. After the outbreak of war he rejoined 2 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front at the end of Jan. The Westminsters were stationed at Houplines, near Armentières, until 28 May, when they were moved up to Ypres. At the Battle of Hooge they were in reserve and were heavily bombarded the whole time. Bushell was hit in the head by a piece of shrapnel shell, and was killed instantaneously at midnight on 16–17 June, 1915. He was unm., and was buried on the side of the Potjhe-Hooge Road, about half a mile from Potjhe. His Commanding Officer, Capt. Stanley Low, wrote: “He was killed by shrapnel whilst doing his duty nobly in the trenches. He was very popular and will be sadly missed by his comrades. I should like to say how well his brother (who recently joined us) behaved, by restraining his natural inclination to go to his brother’s assistance, and remaining on sentry go until someone came to relieve him”; and Lieut. R. S. Dickinson wrote of him as “One of the best soldiers” in his platoon. His third brother, Harry George, joined the Warwickshires on the outbreak of war, and was later transferred to the Westminsters, being with his brother when he was killed. He is now (1916) a 2nd Lieut. in the 10th Suffolks. His next brother, Arthur Frederick, is serving with the Army Service Corps.

BUSK, EDWARD TESHMAKER, Lieut., London Electrical Engineers (T.F.), s. of Thomas Teshmaker Busk, of Fords Grove, Winchmore Hill, and Hermongers, Rudgwick, co. Sussex, M.A., J.P., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Brindley Acworth, of the Hook, co. Herts, J.P., Chairman of Petty Sessions; b. Fords Grove afsd., 8 March, 1886; educ. Bilton Grange, Rugby, Harrow (Mr. Marshall’s House, 1900–04) and King’s College (Foundation Scholar), Cambridge, where he secured a 1st Class in Part 1 of the Mechanical Sciences Tripos (1907), and carried off the John Winbolt prize next year. He joined the staff of the Royal Aircraft Factory as Assistant Engineer in charge of physical experimental work on 10 June, 1912. There he devoted much of his time to the mathematics and dynamics of stable flight on the full size, as distinct from the model aeroplane. He introduced many valuable improvements, of which it is not permissible to give particulars at the present juncture, his work not being confined to the solution of aeroplane stability, but covering a wide and varied range. His valuable researches into the nature and cause of wind gusts and his work in connection with the offensive and defensive uses of aircraft in warfare may be specially mentioned. He also guided his branch in the production of aeroplane instruments, some of which were exhibited at the Royal Society in May and June, 1913, by permission of the Superintendent, Mr. Mervyn O’Gorman, C.B., Royal Aircraft Factory. By the autumn of 1913, Mr. Busk had carried his researches so far that complete stability without material loss of efficiency could be obtained for any aeroplane designed in accordance with his results. Such an aeroplane was then produced for the first time, and in Nov. 1913, he was able to make flights of several hours’ duration in winds up to thirty-eight miles per hour, without at any time using any balancing, controlling, or steering mechanism whatever, save for alighting purposes. He took Col. Seely on such an uncontrolled flight, and later on made demonstration flights before the King and Queen. The matter was introduced in practical form to the Royal Flying Corps by his taking his Commanding Officer, Col. Sykes, as passenger, from the Royal Aircraft Factory, Farnborough, to Salisbury Plain and back, while both passenger and flier, being freed from the use of controls, wrote notes and observations continuously throughout the journey. This trial was repeated by Col. now Gen. Brancker as pilot as well as many other officers. When at the Wilbur Wright Memorial Banquet (1914), Col. Seely made the first public announcement of his flight on the stable aeroplane produced at the Royal Aircraft Factory, the pilot’s name was veiled in anonymity, only a privileged few knowing that Lieut. Busk was, in fact, the designer of the R.E. 1 now known as B.E. 2C. He was flying over Laffan’s Plain in his own stable aeroplane on 5 Nov. 1914, when it was destroyed by fire at a height of some 800 ft. The cause of the accident is unknown, as he was engaged on experimental work of which he had not given information. Mr. Busk’s scientific attainments and versatility were shown by the variety of matters entrusted to him by the Superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory. He resembled other men of genius in the simplicity of his methods, and the speed at which he worked, and he was remarkable for the soundness of the scientific judgments he reached. His mother received the following letter from H.M. the King:—

Buckingham Palace, 11 Nov. 1914.

Dear Mrs. Busk,

The King has heard with much concern of the tragic death of your son Mr. Busk. His Majesty well remembers meeting him at the Royal Aircraft Factory on the occasion of Their Majesties visit to Aldershot last summer, and was much struck by his ability and technical knowledge of the machinery of aeroplanes.
The King and Queen also saw him give an exhibition of flying in a stable aeroplane of his own invention.
In offering you his sincere sympathy in your bereavement, the King feels that the Country has lost the services of one, who, by experiment and research, contributed, in no small measure, towards the Science of flying.

Yours very truly, (Signed) Clive Wigram.

Mr. Mervyn O’Gorman, C.B., Superintendent R.A.F. wrote: “He did the most magnificent things without announcing any intention and without applauding audience. He merely took all the sane precautions of a clever engineer. Later with his hair blown about by a hatless flight, he would walk into my office, report the success of an experiment. He knew it was interesting, he forgot that it was brilliant or it did not occur to him. He worked out a result, knew he was right, but simply had his results checked and then proved them in his own person over and again. He was a genius, that we knew and you knew. He knew what he was about when he relinquished his volunteer regimental duty for the risks of this service, he talked it all over with me and he took this course, because he knew that he served his country better that way”; and Lord Rayleigh, President, writing on behalf of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: “At the National Physical Laboratory the assistance he was constantly able to give, from his experience in actual flying and his wide knowledge of his subject, in the critical examination of the difficult problems presented for investigation was very greatly valued.... The Committee have had many opportunities of appreciating the services he was able to render to the development of flying, and to his country, and wish to offer their tribute of admiration of the courage, skill, and devotion he brought to his work.” He was also awarded the posthumous honour of the Gold Medal of the Aeronautical Society.

BUTCHER, CHARLES GEOFFREY, Lieut., 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., 3rd s. of George William James Butcher, of 9, Tregunter Road, South Kensington, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Samuel Debenham; educ. St. Paul’s School, and was for some time in the H.A.C. He was gazetted to the Special Reserve in Aug. 1912. On 10 June, 1914, he joined the 2nd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., and on the outbreak of war was appointed to the 1st Battn. At La Bassée on 22 Oct. 1914, he was wounded in the leg by a bullet, his life being saved by Sergt. H. Cox, of the Dorsetshire Regt. who carried him from the trenches into cover under a very heavy fire. For this Sergt. Cox received the D.C.M. Lieut. Butcher was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914, returning to the Front on 25 March. He was killed in action by asphyxiating gas at Hill 60 on 2 May, 1915, and was buried at Reninghelst, Belgium; unm. His Adjutant wrote: “I knew him very well and looked upon him always as a man of unusual character, ability, and promise; his loss is a severe one for the Dorset Regt.”; and another officer wrote “He is a real loss to the regt. in every way. I am sure he had great prospects before him as he was an extraordinarily keen subaltern and very popular with both officers and men. He was always ready for any amount of work.” Two of his brothers are in the Army and one in the Navy.

BUTCHER, HARRY STANLEY, A.B., J. 3004, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUTCHER, WILLIAM, Signalman, J. 6825, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

BUTLER, CHARLES, Seaman, R.N.R., 3442C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUTLER, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1441), 198254, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUTLER, HARRY WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1990), 199217, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUTLER, JOHN, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch./8249, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BUTLER, JOHN, Private, No. 3545, 5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Henry Butler, of Sutton Scotney, near Winchester, Hants, by his wife, Abigail, 3rd dau. of John Stocker, of Hampshire; b. Crookham, co. Berks, 24 April, 1885; educ. West Clandon (Surrey) Council School; and had worked on Lord Rendel’s estate at East Clandon for nine years; enlisted 16 Nov. 1914, and died at the London South-Western Fever Hospital, Stockwell, 25 Feb. 1915, of measles and double pneumonia, contracted while on active service. He m. at Edmonton, London, 25 April, 1907, Ellen (2, Westfield Cottages, Great Bookham, Surrey), 3rd dau. of William Savage, of Bones Cottage, West Clandon, and had four children: William John, b. 17 May, 1910; Henry Louvain, b. 18 Dec. 1914; Edith Annie, b. 22 July, 1908; and Dora Irene, b. 1 Aug. 1912.

BUTLER, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4345), S.S. 101226, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BUTLER, WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class, 311362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BUTLER, WILLIAM LEWIS, Private, No. 3187, 1/13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Butler, of Prior’s Lea, Barrow-in-Furness, Solicitor, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of John Lewis; b. Barrow-in-Furness, 1 Dec. 1892; educ. Lancing College; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Kensingtons in Sept. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action, 19 April, 1915. He was buried in La Croix Marechal Cemetery, Rue David, near Armentières.

BUTTERWICK, ALEXANDER MIDDLETON, Rifleman, No. 3636, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Charles Matthias Butterwick, of Walthamstow, House and Estate Agent, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of R. Adnams, formerly of Reading; b. Walthamstow, co. Essex, 20 April, 1895. After his father’s death, when a child, he was taken and brought up by his uncle, A. M. Butterwick (Master Mariner, retired), who saw service in Burma, 1885–7, now of Broxton, Kew, Surrey; educ. Richmond (Surrey) County School and Gunnersbury High School, and on leaving there became an articled pupil in the firm of Breadmore and Webb, F.A.I., Auctioneers and Estate Agents, of Richmond. After the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles in Nov. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action in Flanders, 13 July, 1915; unm. Buried in 13th Infantry Brigade Cemetery, Voormeezelle. At the time of his death his name was down for a commission. He was a keen athlete, and held prizes for drill and swimming, also certificates for life saving and first-aid.

BUTTON, JOHN SAMUEL, Seaman, R.N.R., 1540D, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BYATT, HARRY VIVIAN BYATT, Capt., R.A.M.C., elder s. of Henry Byatt, author, late of 36, Warwick Gardens, Kensington; b. Kensington, 16 Dec. 1882; educ. Summer Fields, Summertown, Oxford, 1891; obtained an entrance scholarship at Charterhouse School, Godalming, 1896, and left there with the Charterhouse Science Exhibition, 1901, entering Clare College, Cambridge, with a Science Scholarship the same year. He left Cambridge with a second class in the Natural Science Tripos, and proceeded to the London Hospital, qualifying M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1907. He was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. the same year, and appointed to Netley Hospital. From there he proceeded to Poona in 1909, was promoted Capt. 29 Jan. 1911, and after five years’ service in India, joined the Expeditionary Force in France in Oct., being attached to the 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade. He attended to the trenches between Laventie and Estaires, and died 11 March, 1915, from wounds received at Neuve Chapelle while dressing the wound in the head of Machine Gun Sergt. Marriage. He was buried at Estaires. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was hit while attending to a wounded man and I never saw him again. He was taken to the 25th Field Ambulance at Estaires and died there. He was shot by a rifle bullet in the chest.” While at Clare College he was first secretary and then captain of the Clare Rowing Club, and under his leadership Clare rowing improved so greatly that the well-known footer college was placed in the first division on the river for the first time for many years.

BYE, FRANK EDWIN, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17384, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BYHAM, EDWARD ARTHUR GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12937, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BYRNE, HERBERT HENRY, Leading Seaman, 184370, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BYRNE, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2235), 204649, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BYRNE, THOMAS, Private, No. 5334, 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, s. of the late Thomas Byrne, Royal Irish Rifles, by his wife, Anne (Castledermot, co. Kildare), dau. of James Grace; b. Carlow, 14 Aug. 1895; educ. Castledermot; joined the Army in Aug. 1911, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Jan. 1915; unm.

CADGER, WILLIAM LAW, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4793), 293766 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CADMAN, ISAIAH, Private, No. 10213, 3rd Battn. Cheshire Regt., s. of the late Samuel Cadman, of Bilston, co. Staffs, Collier, by his wife, Ann (9, Taylor’s Buildings, Heywood, Lanes, Manchester), dau. of Joseph Reynolds; b. Awsworth, co. Notts. ...; educ. Bilston; enlisted 12 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; unm.

CAESAR, AUGUSTUS BENJAMIN, Private, No. 1896, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Julius Cæsar, of 49, Chippenham Road, Elgin Avenue, W., formerly of Southampton, M.P.S., F.S.M.C., by his wife, Emma (49, Chippenham Road, Elgin Avenue, W.), dau. of James Baker; b. at 49, Chippenham Road aforesaid, 12 April, 1897; educ. at Vale College, Maida Vale, W., afterwards at the City of London Freeman’s School, where he obtained the bronze medal for rifle shooting at Bisley; he was an optician and microscopical demonstrator attached to the firm of H. F. Angus & Co., Wigmore Street, W.; joined the 1st City of London Regt., 17 Aug. 1914; trained at Croydon; left for Malta, 19 Sept. 1914; returned to England, Feb. 1915; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge.

CAFFYN, HAROLD HUNT, Capt., 1st Battn., North Staffordshire Regt., eldest s. of Stephen Mannington Caffyn, of 6, Cedar Gardens, S.W., M.D., by his wife, Kathleen, Novelist (Iota) (Lacey Green, Princes Risborough), dau. of William de Vere Hunt, of Waterloo House, co. Tipperary; b. at Mount Sandria, South Australia, 10 Feb. 1882; educ. Rugby and Sandhurst; gazetted second Lieut., unattached, 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 2nd North Staffordshires 9 March following and promoted Lieut., 16 Feb. 1904; served in the South African War (Queen’s medal with 2 clasps) 1901–2, and afterwards in India and retired in 1912. Subsequently he was for eighteen months Private Secretary to Sir Wilfred Collett, Governor of British Honduras, but after the outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted Capt., 14 Nov. 1914. He rejoined his old regiment in Jan., went to France, 7 Jan., 1915, and was killed in action in front of the trenches near Armentières, 21 March, 1915, while reconnoitring; unm.

CAHILL, HENRY THOMAS, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1709), 152629, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CAINAN, DAVID WALTER, Corpl., No. 9866, 2nd Battn. Rifle Brigade, 4th s. of William Cainan, of 49, Albert Street, Llanelly, South Wales, Marine Engineer, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William Perrott, of Llanelly; b. Llanelly, 9 April, 1886; educ. Copper Works School; joined the Army 4 May, 1903, and after being stationed at Malta for 12 months, he went to India, where he did 11 years’ service, returning to Europe with his regt. after the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between the 10–14 March, 1915; unm. He was an all-round athlete, having gained the light-weight boxing championship of India, as well as a record for long jump and high jump.

CAIRD, JAMES ROBERT, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of Major Lindsay Henryson Caird (late Border Regt.), Assistant to Colonel in charge of Records, No. 2 District, by his wife, the late Janet Laura, 5th dau. of the late Rowland Hunt, of Boreatton Park, co. Salop, and Kibworth Hall, co. Leicester, and grandson of the late Right Hon. Sir James Caird, of Cassencary, Kirkcudbrightshire; b. Dalhousie, India, 4 Nov. 1892; educ. Bedford and Carlisle Grammar Schools; was in the office of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co., Ltd., but when war broke out at once applied for a commission, and being a member of the Inns of Court O.T.C., was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914. He was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. following, and went to the Front in Dec., being attached to the 2nd Highland L.I. until March, when he came home on short leave. On his return to the Front he was posted to the 2nd Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action while leading his platoon over open ground in the advance upon St. Julien, near Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm. He was promoted Capt. after his death to rank as from 2 Feb. 1915. Major Hilton, who was in command of the battn. during the action and was himself seriously wounded, wrote: “Capt. Caird was a gallant fellow, and we can ill afford to lose his kind.... I didn’t get much detail of the manner of his death as I was also knocked over, but I know enough to say that he died game and led his men well until killed.” And Sergt. Hugh McMurchy, in a sworn statement, declared: “I saw Lieut. Caird killed on 23 April in the advance at St. Julien. He was advancing in front of me and was shot through the forehead, being killed instantaneously.” Capt. Caird’s experience of active service had brought him to the conviction that he preferred a military to a civil career, and his application for a permanent commission had been sent in before his death. His last letter to his father contained an interesting account of the assault and capture of Hill 60, in which he took part.

CAIRNIE, GILBERT JAMES BRYAN, Corporal, No. 12/50, A Coy., 3rd Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of James Bryan Cairnie, of Taranaki, New Zealand, retired Farmer; b. Lymington, near Kilmarnock, co. Ayr, 5 June, 1881; educ. Tarbolton, Ayr, and Higher Grade School, Deansgate, Manchester; went to New Zealand and was Computing Draughtsman, Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, N.Z.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the N.Z.E.F. Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, and from there went to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action during a night sortie, 5 June, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches with his Coy. Sergt.-Major, for bringing in a wounded man under heavy fire. He was for a long time reported as missing, and Sapper L. J. Poff wrote: “The last that was seen of Jim as far as I can ascertain was that he was by himself in a Turkish trench. I hope he was taken prisoner rather than that he has been killed, for he has proved himself as brave as a lion. I sought out the Sergt.-Major of Jim’s company, who was with him in bringing in a wounded man, of which I wrote some time ago. He tells me that they were both ‘Mentioned in Despatches’ for it. The Sergt.-Major says that the sortie in which Jim became missing was a purely voluntary one, but practically the whole of his section went. They sallied out, did their work, and what was left returned with the wounded. The dead they could not bring in then. A few nights afterwards a party went out and gathered the identity discs of those who were killed. They also procured those of the men whose dead bodies were thrown out of the Turkish trenches, accounting for all but six. Jim’s disc was not among them, so let us hope he is a prisoner,” but later he was officially returned as killed in action, 5 June, 1915.

CAIRNS, JOHN, Sergt., No. 3515, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of the late Thomas Cairns, Gunner, Mid-Ulster Artillery, by his wife, Phoebe (Ballygawley, co. Tyrone), dau. of James Montgomery, of Feddan, Ballygawley, co. Tyrone; b. Ballygawley, co. Tyrone, 12 May, 1891; educ. National School there; enlisted originally in 1909, was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines 31 Oct. following; unm. His brother, Private William Cairns, No. 17584, 9th Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, is now (1916) on Active Service.

CALE, ALBERT, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., A. 2006), 143929 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CALLANDER, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Private, No. 2332, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th s. of the late Thomas Edward Callander, late of Richmond, Surrey, by his wife, Mary Ann Henrietta, dau. of the late Edward Faggetter; b. Richmond, Surrey, 21 June, 1886; educ. Commercial Travellers’ Schools, Pinner; was manager of the costume department at Messrs. Green & Co., Oxford Circus Mansions; volunteered after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the London Scottish; went to France in March, and was killed in action, 9 May, 1915; unm.

CALLEY, OLIVER JOHN, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. John Henry Calley, Vicar of Figheldean, Salisbury, by his wife, Elizabeth Isabella Maria, yst. dau. of Major John Haverfield; b. Chiseldon, 4 July, 1892; educ. at The Old Ride, Branksome, Bournemouth, and St. John’s School, Leatherhead; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Territorial Force to the Wiltshire Regiment, 4 Dec. 1912, joining at Tidworth in Jan. 1913, and being transferred the following Sept. to the 2nd Battn. at Gibraltar. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Oct. 1914; went to the Front the same month, and was invalided home a few weeks later. He left for the Front again in Dec., and was killed in action, 12 March, 1915; unm. Buried, Spanbrock Molen. His Colonel said of him that he deplored the loss of such a valuable and trustworthy officer.

CALROW, WILLIAM ROBERT LAUNCELOT, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., s. of Gerald Walton Calrow, of Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas, U.S.A., by his wife, Mabel Selina Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edmund King, formerly of Bury St. Edmunds and later of Boerne, Texas, and gdson. of the late Robert Calrow, of Cuzgarth, Adel, Leeds; b. San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 12 March, 1895; educ. Seascale, The School House, Rugby, and Sandhurst; received his commission 17 Sept. 1913, joined his regt. early in Nov. 1913, and accompanied it to France, 12 Aug. 1914. He was in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, at which latter he was killed by a high explosive shell, 7 Oct. 1914. He was buried near Vendresse, on the Aisne, about 12 miles from Braye; unm. Letters from his superior officers testify to his great courage, his capability, and the esteem in which he was held in the regt.

CALVERLEY, JAMES, Armourer, 342978, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CALVERLEY, LAWRENCE BASIL, Ordinary Seaman, J. 13727, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CALVERT, HERBERT EDWIN, Private, No. 6994, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Edwin Calvert, ex-Police Constable; b. Lincoln, 13 Dec. 1888; enlisted Oct. 1906; served in Egypt Jan. 1908 to April, 1911; was badly wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in hospital in Paris following the amputation of his leg, 24 Sept, 1914. Private Blanchard, who was severely wounded the same day, writing from hospital at Woolwich, said: “I sincerely hope Calvert is not dead. He was one of my best friends. He was the one that carried me to safety.” Calvert m. Lincoln, 13 April, 1914, Alice Maud, dau. of James Barnes, of Norwich, and had a posthumous son, Herbert Edwin, b. 14 Dec. 1914.

CALVERT, JOHN DUTTON, Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, elder s. of Edmund Percy Calvert, of The Manor House, Spexhall, Halesworth, by his wife, Susan May, eldest dau. of the late Col. the Hon. Charles Dutton, of Twigworth Lodge, Gloucester [5th s. of James Henry Legge, 3rd Baron Sherborne]; b. Abbotswood, Romsey, 26 Feb. 1891; educ. Winton House, Winchester, Osborne, Dartmouth and Sandhurst (1909); was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade 20 Sept. 1911, joined the 4th Battn. in Cairo in Nov. 1911, and proceeded with it a year later to India. He was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1914, and left Dagshai with his battn. the following Oct. for Winchester, and from there went to Flanders 20 Dec. 1914. Lieut. Calvert was killed in action near Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He came out of his dug-out to help a wounded man, and was killed instantaneously by a shrapnel shell. A few days previously he had assisted to bring in a wounded rifleman under difficult conditions, owing to the mud and wet, and that it was a fairly bright night, with Germans sniping. He was buried at Dickebusch; unm.

CAMBRIDGE, GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, No. 6235, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William James Cambridge, of 2, Brocks Cottages, Fairfield South, Kingston-on-Thames, by his wife, Martha Ellen, dau. of George Greenfield; b. Wandsworth, S.W., 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Swathfield Road School there; enlisted 20 June, 1905; was wounded at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914, during the retreat from Mons, and invalided home on the 31st, but returned to France on 22 Oct.; was again wounded in action at Bethune, and died in the 4th Field Ambulance Dressing Station, 7 Feb. 1915. He was buried in Bethune Cemetery. He m. at Kingston-on-Thames, 22 Nov. 1909, Kiziah (34, Fairfield Place, Kingston-on-Thames), dau. of Richard George Goldsmith, and had a dau., Emily Martha Ethel, b. 2 May, 1910, d. 7 Feb. 1915.

CAMERON, ALLAN GEORGE, Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron (79th) Highlanders, 3rd s. of the late Donald Cameron, of Lochiel, Twenty-fourth Chief of Clan Cameron, by his wife, Lady Margaret, 2nd dau. of Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch; b. Achnacarry, 27 July, 1880; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, 4 Oct. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 30 April, 1901, and Capt. 14 May, 1910; served with them at Gibraltar, Malta, Crete and in South Africa, where he was for a time in the Mounted Infantry, and was Adjutant of Lovat’s Scouts Dec. 1907–Feb. 1911, on vacating which appointment he was posted to the 1st Battn. On the outbreak of war he accompanied his battn. to France on 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near the Aisne, 25 Sept. 1914; buried at Bourg-et-Comin. Capt. E. J. Brodie (Adjutant 1st Camerons) wrote of him: “We were sent to relieve the Black Watch north of Verneiulle on the 24th. On the 25th we were again heavily shelled. Capt. Miers was in command of the regt., and at 7 a.m. he got wounded in the right arm, and decided to go to Verneiulle to get it dressed. He sent a message to Allan Cameron, who was next senior, to that effect. Before he could get away heavy shell fire again started, so he delayed going. Allan Cameron, however, came straight to Headquarters. Just as Allan Cameron got to the trench—or rather cave—a huge high explosive shell burst on the top and blew it in. The cave contained headquarters, signallers, stretcher-bearers, etc. Death to all must have been instantaneous. It took us three nights to get the bodies out, 31 in all. We could only work in the dark, as the place was shelled by day. We buried the officers and the Sergt.-Major at Bourg. Capt. Miers, Allan Cameron, Meiklejohn, Napier Cameron and Dr. Crockett were the officers killed.” In 1902 Capt. Cameron won the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for saving a boy’s life at Oban by jumping over the esplanade into the sea and bringing him out. At the Scottish Command Rifle Meeting in 1913 he won the Officers’ Aggregate for the highest number of points and was third in the individual aggregate of all ranks. He m. at Inverness Cathedral, 6 Oct. 1908, Hester Vere (Aldourie, Inverness), dau. of Col. Edward Grant Fraser-Tytler, of Aldourie, D.L., and had one son, Angus Ewen, b. 20 Jan. 1914.

CAMERON, ARCHIE, Private, No. 12693, A Coy., 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Angus Cameron, of Virden, Manitoba, Canada, Farmer and Liveryman [b. St. Catherine’s, Ontario, emigrated to Manitoba in 1880]; b. Virden, 22 Aug. 1884; educ. Public School and Collegiate Institute there, and was for five years a trooper in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted 14 Oct. 1914; left with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and died 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert, the previous day: unm. He was buried in the New Cemetery, Choques, France [No. 75, Row B.]. Private Cameron was a good sportsman, a typical Western pioneer, and an enthusiastic soldier and sincere Imperialist.

CAMERON, ARTHUR IAN DOUGLAS, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 2nd s. of the Rev. Angus Cameron, of St. Andrew’s, Tain, by his wife, Elizabeth Anna, dau. of the late Benjamin Liddall, of Press Castle, co. Berwick; b. St. John’s Rectory, Arpafeelie, Ross-shire, 28 Sept. 1893; educ. Trinity College, Glenalmond, Norwich, and Hanover; joined the Special Reserve of the Seaforth Highlanders, 13 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war was attached to the 2nd Battn., and died 25 April, 1915, from wounds received while in action at St. Julien; unm. Col. R. S. Vandaleur, writing to Mr. Cameron, said: “I saw and spoke to him not long before he fell, and he was then leading his men gallantly into the firing line. You will have heard how our brigade was ordered to attack early in the morning of 25 April; not knowing the ground or the exact position of the enemy we suffered terribly. We and the Warwicks, supported by the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, were attacking on the left of the road leading to St. Julien, when we came under the fire of machine guns in a farm immediately in front of us. Your son’s company was in support, and the last I saw of him was when he was leading his platoon up on the right of that farm,” and Capt. the Hon. Eric Campbell wrote: “He was a very gallant officer, whose loss will be felt very much by us all. His company commander, Major Campion, told me before I left the Battn., that he had done extremely well the day he met his death on 25 April. We were carrying out an attack on St. Julien, north-east of Ypres, about dawn. We came upon the enemy in trenches and occupying houses sooner than we expected; they inflicted heavy losses on us. Your son, after behaving with the utmost bravery, was hit, I should think, about 6 a.m., and died some hours later. We buried him and four other officers near a farm on the road between Ypres and St. Julien.” Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service.

CAMERON, DONALD EWAN, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lieut., Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., yst. s. of the late Archibald Cameron, Manager of the Merchants’ Bank of Canada, Toronto, by his wife, Agnes Margaret, dau. of Major James Barwick, 79th Cameron Highlanders, and grandson of Lieut.-Col. Duncan Cameron, C.B., 79th Cameron Highlanders (who fought at Waterloo); b. Toronto, 18 Dec. 1870; educ. Trinity College School, Port Hope, and the Montreal High School, and on leaving school entered the service of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. In 1902 he formed the Lilley and Cameron Cartage Co., and later the Terminal Warehouse & Cartage Co. of Montreal. In 1912 he became associated with the Dominion Securities Corporation. He served in the Canadian Militia for many years—first in the Victoria Rifles of Canada, then in all the ranks up to that of Major in the Duke of York’s Royal Canadian Hussars, and went on the Reserve of Officers. He joined the Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. upon the organisation of the regt. for service in Aug. 1914; sailed with the Canadian Contingent in Oct.; was encamped on Salisbury Plain and at Winchester, and left for France on 20 Dec. 1914. The regt. was sent up to the trenches in the neighbourhood of Ypres, and was constantly engaged. He fell in the counter-attack upon the Germans at St. Eloi, 15 March, 1915, and was buried in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I. cemetery at Voormezeele; unm. His brother, Col. Kenneth Cameron, of Montreal, was the officer in charge of the Surgical Division of No. 1 Canadian General Hospital at Netheravon on Salisbury Plain, and Etaples, France, and later officer commanding No. 2 Canadian General Hospital at Le Tréport, France.

CAMERON, EVAN STUART, Corpl., No. 25931 (Royal Montreal Regt.), 14th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest surviving s. of Sir Edward John Cameron, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Gambia, by his wife, Eva Selwyn, dau. of the late Robert Mackintosh Isaacs, LL.D., of New South Wales; b. Turks Island, West Indies, 21 Sept. 1893; educ. Blundell’s School, Tiverton (1905–12), where he was head for two years, and on leaving there in Sept. 1912, went to Montreal to join the Royal Bank of Canada. He enlisted in the Canadian Contingent on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 24 April, 1915; unm. Major Beatty. A.D.C. to General Alderson, Commanding 1st Canadian Contingent, wrote: “He was dearly loved by all his comrades, and he had earned the respect and admiration of all, and had behaved with the greatest gallantry all through that dreadful time from 5 p.m. on Thursday, 22 April, up to the time of his death.” His Capt. said: “He handled his men wonderfully, and would have been given a commission had he survived the battle,” and the head master of Blundells: “As I look back upon his school career I feel that we have lost one of the most sterling of the old pupils whom I remember in my long experience of 40 years.” He was a good cricketer, and was capt. of the cricket eleven and football fifteen for two years at Blundells and won the average bat four years in succession. He played against the Australian XI in 1913 and made the first century of the season for the McGill Cricket Club in July, 1914. He also played at Lords in 1912 in a Public Schools XI.

CAMERON, JOSEPH, stoker, P.O., 292522, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CAMERON, MORTON AUGUSTUS, Private, No. 22557, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Augustus Morton Cameron, of St. Stephen’s, New Brunswick, Canada, Labourer, by his wife, Isabella Mary, dau. of Caleb Hennessey; b. St. Stephen’s afsd. 27 Nov. 1896; educ. Mark Street School there; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 71st New Brunswick Regt. at St. Stephen’s, 8 Aug. 1914. After 3 weeks at Fredericton, N.B., he was sent to Valcartier, where he was transferred to the 12th Battn., and left for England with the first Canadian contingent. They landed at Plymouth on 14 Oct. and trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15. On 23 April. 1915, he was transferred to the 15th Battn., and went over to France with a draft for that Battn. and joined it in the trenches at Ypres. He went through the fighting at Ploegsteert Wood and Festubert, and was killed in action at Messines, 10 Nov. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery near Ration Hill. His captain wrote that he had been sent out with a party to repair the front trench, and that a piece of shell hit him on the head killing him almost instantaneously.

CAMERON, PEDRO, Corporal, No. 1685, 2nd Coy., 1/4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), eldest s. of George Cameron y Mackenzie, of Street Delicias 213, Valparaiso, Chili, by his wife, (—), dau. of (—) Zanartie; b. Tocopilla, Chili; educ. Valparaiso Liceum; came home in 1907 to finish his education with his uncle, afterwards serving his apprenticeship at Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), Nov. 1914, proceeded with his regt. to the Front, and was killed in action in France, in an attack on Hill 60, 9 May, 1915. Buried side by side with two of his cousins, who were killed in the same action; unm.

CAMERON, THOMAS ALBERT, L.-Corpl., 2nd Kimberley Regt., South African Force, s. of Thomas Cameron, of Kimberley, Diamond Miner, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late John Richardson, of Frizington, co. Cumberland; b. Bridgefoot, Cumberland, 2 June. 1891; went to Kimberley with his parents in 1895, and was educ. at the Boys’ High School there. He afterwards returned to England and worked as an electrician with Messrs. Dick, Kerr & Co., of Preston; but in 1911 returned to Kimberley, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, joined General Botha’s Army. He was killed in action at Trekkopjies, German South-West Africa, 26 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer, Col. Rodgers, wrote: “He was cut down in the act of doing a very brave deed. Ammunition was urgently required at one of the most exposed trenches. Volunteers were called for to carry the same, and without the slightest hesitation your gallant husband came forward, took the case of ammunition and had just put it down where wanted when he was killed. He died without any pain. We all—officers and men—mourn with you in your loss. His conduct was such that I, in my official report to the Officer Commanding, brought his name to official notice, as in my opinion such a deed of gallantry deserved recognition.” He played for Oldham in the Northern Rugby Union. He m. at Preston, 9 March, 1910, Grace, dau. of the late Alexander White, of Frizington, Cumberland, and had two sons: Thomas Alexander, b. Frizington, 9 May, 1911, and John Head, b. Kimberley, South Africa, 12 Sept. 1914.

CAMERON, WILLIAM MATHESON, Lieut., A Coy., 2nd Battn. Transvaal Scottish, yst. s. of Duncan Cameron, of Balbair, Edderton, Ross-shire, Bank Agent at Tain, Ross-shire (d. Nov. 1915); b. Thurso, 17 June, 1870; educ. Tain Royal Academy, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and entered the Commercial Bank, Glasgow, leaving it on the outbreak of the South African War to join the Imperial Yeomanry. He served throughout that war, was given a commission as Lieut., and received two medals and five clasps. After the war he settled in Johannesburg, where he was secretary to the manager of the Angelo Section of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered and was appointed Lieut. in the Transvaal Scottish. He served under General Botha in German West Africa, and was killed in action by a shell, at Trekkopjis, on the morning of 26 April, 1915. He m. (—), dau. of John Munro, Manager for Barnato Bros., and ex-President of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, and left a dau., Constance, b. 1912. Lieut. Cameron was an excellent tennis player, and for several years held the Singles Championship of the East Rand Club.

CAMFFERMAN, ALEXANDER, Corpl., No. 1581, 1/7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John James Camfferman. of Sunnyside, Whetstone, Nurseryman, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of Charles Athron; b. Whetstone, co. Middlesex, 7 April, 1895; educ. Christ’s College, Finchley; was a Nurseryman in his father’s business; joined the 7th Middlesex Territorials on his seventeenth birthday, and was in camp when war was declared. He volunteered for foreign service, and went out with his regt. to Gibraltar at the beginning of Sept. 1914, with one of the earliest convoys of Territorials for foreign service. The Battn. returned to England in Feb., and crossed to France, 12 March, 1915, and he was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in Rue Petillon La Cordonerie, France. His commanding officer wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, a fine shot, a clean liver and speaker, in short a young Englishman of the best type. I wish we had more like him.” Passionately fond of the rifle, he soon became the best shot in the Battn., and was the winner of many prizes.

CAMFIELD, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, 310864, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER, Stoker, 1st Class, 283219, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CAMPBELL, COLIN FREDERICK FITZROY, Capt., 1st Battn. Scots Guards, only s. of Major-Gen. Frederick Lorn Campbell, of Highfield House, West Byfleet, co. Surrey, late Scots Guards (of the Melfort family, Argyll), by his wife, Caroline, dau of John Alexander Smyth, and gdson. of Rear-Admiral Frederick Archibald Campbell; b. London, 29 Sept. 1880; educ. Stubbington and Haileybury; obtained his first commission in the Cameron Highlanders from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901; became Lieut. 3 Aug. 1904; transferred to the Scots Guards, 29 March, 1905; was Adjutant of the Guards Depot at Caterham from 1911 to 1913, being promoted Capt. 29 Oct. 1914, the same day on which he was killed in action close to the village of Gheluvelt, near Ypres. He m. at the Guards’ Chapel, London, 11 June, 1914, Helen Margaret, eldest dau. of Charles John Stewart, of 32, Eccleston Square, S.W., by his wife, Lady Mary Graham, née Toler; s.p.

CAMPBELL, DONALD, M.B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late John Campbell, for 43 years Tenant of Blair Mills, by his wife, Isabella (Fincastle, Bridge of Tilt, Blair Atholl), dau. of Alexander McBeath; b. Blair Atholl, 20 Jan. 1887; educ. at Blair Atholl Public School, Pitlochry Higher Grade School, where he won the County Council Bursary, and George Watson’s College (1904–6), from which he entered Edinburgh University as an Arts Student in 1906, gaining the same year the McDougal Bursary. He graduated M.A. in 1909, and M.B. Ch.B in 1913. In 1910 he shared the Vans Dunlop Scholarship with another student. When war broke out he was house surgeon in Sheffield Royal Hospital, and receiving a commission in the R.A.M.C. 16 Dec. 1914, went to the Front in Jan. as Medical Officer to the 2nd East Yorks Regt. He was killed on 17 Feb. 1915, near the village of Zillebeke while going to the assistance of a wounded man, and was buried at St. Eloi; unm. An officer of the 2nd East Yorks Regt. wrote: “He was only with me a short time, but it is no exaggeration to say that he left behind him not mere acquaintances, but real friends, who mourn his loss more than I can tell you. He lived always in the same billet with me and the headquarters staff, and shared all our rough food, delicacies and hardships just as they came, and for my part I find he has left a blank that will take a long time to fill. He met his death going up to the front to help a wounded man. A stretcher-bearer was with him at the time, and as they crossed an open space they came under the fire of the enemy in a house some 200 yards away, and both were shot dead.” For two years he was joint secretary for the Edinburgh University Musical Society, was a keen golfer, and for several years was a member of the Edinburgh Northern Hockey Club.

CAMPBELL, DONALD HENRY BRUCE, Sergt., No. 6999, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th surviving s. of Alexander Campbell, of Highland Grove, Ontario, Canada, Proprietor and Farmer, by his wife, Helen Isabella, dau. of Alexander Grant, of Blackhill, Bower, Caithness; b. Dalnacloich, Rosskeen, co. Ross, 11 Dec. 1894; educ. Munlochy and Arpafeelie Episcopal (where he was Dux and won the silver medal for head scholar, etc.) Schools, Ross; went to Canada with his parents in March, 1910; joined the Canadian Territorials in 1912, and was given the rank of Sergt. then; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war; left Canada with the first contingent; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. His company officer, Lieut. R. R. Brown (who was himself wounded on this occasion) wrote that Campbell was his platoon sergt. and that he had a very high opinion of him, adding: “During the attack circumstances were such that I had to leave my own men under another officer (Lieut. Sims) while I took command of men of another company, thereby failing to witness the fate of so many of my brave men. During the fight one of my own men came up to me (I could not say who it was) and said Sergt. Campbell had just been killed.”

CAMPBELL, DUNCAN, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), elder s. of Col. Edward Parker Campbell, of South Hall, co. Argyle, J.P., D.L., Major, The Black Watch, by his wife, Alice Isabel, 3rd dau. of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Goulbourn Parker, of Browsholme, co. York, and Alkincoats, co. Lancaster; b. South Hall aforesaid, 24 Oct. 1880; educ. Rugby; joined the 3rd (Royal Perth Militia) Battn. of The Black Watch, Dec. 1899, and on the outbreak of the Boer War volunteered for active service. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Black Watch, 27 Oct. 1900, and served in South Africa with the 2nd Battn. from 27 Oct. to 22 Dec. 1900, when he was transferred to the 1st Battn. in India. He served with them again in South Africa from 6 Dec. 1901, to 27 Oct. 1902, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State from Dec. 1901, to 31 May, 1902, and was promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps. From 16 Sept. 1905, to 29 Sept. 1910, he served in Northern Nigeria with the West African Force, and in 1906 took part in the Hodeija Campaign (medal with clasp). Promoted Capt. 8 Jan. 1910, he was in 1912 transferred back to the 2nd Battn. of his regt. in India and proceeded with the battn. to France with the Indian Expeditionary Force in the autumn of 1914. He was wounded in December and invalided home, but rejoined early in 1915; was present at the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Richebourg, etc., and in all the other engagements in which his battn. took part. He was killed in action in the trenches near the Bois-de-Biez, 18 May, 1915, by a shell which burst on the parapet of the trench, the repair of which he was directing. Letters from his commanding officers speak most highly of him as an officer and testify to the love and respect entertained for him by his men. He was unm. His yr. brother, Lieut. Patrick Colin Campbell, Royal Flying Corps, is now (1916) on active service with the British Expeditionary Force in France.

CAMPBELL, FREDERICK JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4781), S.S. 104136, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

CAMPBELL, GEORGE EDWARD FORMAN, Lieut., 2/10th Gurkha Rifles, yst. and only surviving s. of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, C.B., C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin Bensley; b. Strathyre, Balquhidder, 27 Aug. 1893; educ. at Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst, and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 Aug. 1912. A year later he was appointed to the Indian Army, and posted to the 2nd Battn. of the 10th Gurkha, 23 Nov. 1913. He was promoted Lieut. 24 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, on Rhododendron Spur, Chanak Bair, 7 August, 1915, in a charge on the Turkish trenches with two battns. of New Zealanders (Auckland). He was mentioned in Dispatches by Sir Ian Hamilton, 22 Sept. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Capt. R. C. C. Campbell, died of wounds received at Ypres (see his notice).

CAMPBELL, GEORGE JACKSON, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8270), S.S. 104251, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CAMPBELL, HAROLD EDGAR, Cook’s Mate, M. 2482, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CAMPBELL, JAMES, Private, No. 4121, 1st Battn. Irish Guards, 3rd s. of Michael Campbell, of Tubberfin, Drogheda, Labourer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of the late Patrick Kelly, of Howth; b. Sheephouse, Drogheda, 20 July, 1890; educ. Donore National Schools; enlisted 20 May, 1912, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 11 March, 1915; unm.

CAMPBELL, JOHN, Private, No. 19984, 4th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of the late Archibald Campbell, by his wife, Helen Hogg (1, St. Ninian’s Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of the late James Lawson; b. Glencorse, Midlothian, 24 Dec. 1878; educ. George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh; joined the Army and served with the Irish Guards, 1900–3, and afterwards went to British Columbia gold mining. He joined the 4th Battn. 1st Canadian Contingent, 1914, and died at No. 1 Canadian Field Ambulance, 24 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; unm.

CAMPBELL, JOHN DAVIES, Lieut., L Battery, R.H.A., eldest s. of John Davies Campbell, of Howden Court, Tiverton; b. Tacna, Chili, 1 March, 1883; educ. Cheltenham College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Army, 21 Dec. 1901, was promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Nery, near Compiégne 1 Sept. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914.

CAMPBELL, JOHN GORDON, Private, No. 4296, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Hugh Campbell, of 852, New City Road, Glasgow, and Clam Cottage, Cloverhill, Glasgow, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Munro; b. at North Woodside Road, 16 Sept. 1876; educ. Henderson Street School, Glasgow; enlisted 1891, and was a Reservist when called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Kemmel, 22 April, 1915. He m. at Glasgow, 20 Feb. 1903, Alice (Clare Cottage, Clover Hill, Drumchapel, Glasgow), dau. of Alexander McDonald, and had a dau., Isabella Munro, b. 6 Aug. 1906.

CAMPBELL, KEITH MOREHEAD GUNNING, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst. s. of Col. Gunning Campbell, Royal Marine Artillery, by his wife, Sophia Charlotte Jean, dau of the Rev. George Barber Peregrine Viner, M.A., and great-gdson, of William Campbell, of Fairfield; b. Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 23 Dec. 1892; educ. Haskoll’s School, Folkestone, Suffolk House, Cheltenham, Pelham House, Folkestone, and the Osborne (15 Sept. 1905, to 14 Sept. 1907) and Dartmouth (15 Sept. 1907, to 14 Sept. 1909) Royal Naval Colleges, being Chief Cadet Capt. at the latter. He served on H.M.S. St. Vincent (May, 1910–June, 1911); the Cochrane, which formed one of the escort on the occasion of the King’s visit to India (June, 1911–May, 1912), the Achilles (May, 1912–Sept. 1913), and the Albemarle, joining H.M.S. Lawford in the spring of 1914. He was present at the sinking of the Konigin Louise, and the engagement off the Bight of Heligoland. He was commissioned to the Arrogant on 30 Nov. 1914, for submarine service, and died between 4 and 12 Jan. the following year while on Active Service on Submarine C 31; unm. A fine Rugby three-quarter back, he several times played in the Royal Navy and United Services Fifteens, his last important match being in the R.N. officers’ team against the Harlequins at the turn of the season of 1913–14 at Queen’s Club.

CAMPBELL, KENNETH JAMES, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only s. of Robert Story Campbell, of Achnashie, Rosneath, co. Dumbarton, retired East Indian Merchant, by his wife, Evelyn Rose, dau. of the late Rev. William Henry Stokes, Vicar of Goring, a nephew of the late Sir James Campbell, K.C.I.E. (of the Bombay Civil Service and compiler of the Bombay Gazetteer), and, gdson. of the late Rev. John Macleod Campbell, D.D.; b. Bombay, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. at Rottingdean and Marlborough, he proceeded with a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his degree with honours in History in 1912, and in “Greats” in 1914. He had originally intended to take orders in the Church of England, and on leaving the University in 1913 joined the Magdalen College Mission in the Euston Road. On the outbreak of war, however, having been for eight years a cadet in the O.T.C. at Marlborough and Oxford, he applied for a commission, and on 2 Sept. was gazetted to the 1/9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, leaving Bedford with his regt. on 19 Feb. for France. He was killed in action near Ypres, being struck by a shell while in charge of machine guns, 10 May. 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he died “doing his duty nobly.” His platoon Sergt. that “He was a brave young officer and the pride of all the platoon.” A brother officer, writing on 13 May, stated: “I was myself slightly wounded the same day, so was not on the spot when he was killed, but I understand that he was wounded by a shell, but that he continued to serve the gun until a second shell killed him.” He was stroke of his college boat in the Torpids when Magdalen was head of the river in Feb. 1913.

CAMPBELL, KENNETH McKENZIE, Corpl., No. 17101, 7th Battn. (British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of James Campbell Campbell, of Dublin, by his wife, Jane Davidson, dau. of the late John Christie, of Bankhead, Aberdeen, and gdson. of the late Sergt. and Master Tailor Alexander Campbell, 93rd Sutherland Highlanders (who served 28 years); b. Dublin, 3 Aug. 1884; educ. Hardwicke National School there; went to Canada in April, 1906; enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; was wounded at Festubert, 23 April, 1915; and promoted Corpl. on his return to duty, 16 May following, but was killed in action at Givenchy eight days later, 24 May, 1915; unm.

CAMPBELL, MALCOLM DRING, Lieut., R.N.V.R., 3rd s. of the Rev. Herbert Ernest Campbell, of The Abbey, Carlisle, Canon of Carlisle; b. St. George’s Vicarage, Millom, 5 Sept. 1890; educ. Loretto; was a Cotton Broker in the firm of Bushby Bros., Liverpool, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. joined the R.N.V.R. He served through the siege of Antwerp, and was afterwards sent to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 2 May, 1915; unm. He was a good sportsman, played football for Birkenhead Park, and rowed for the Mersey Rowing Club.

CAMPBELL, MALCOLM JAMES, Private, No. 53323, 18th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late Malcolm Campbell, of Lismore, co. Argyle, by his wife, Mary (Backwater School House. Dykends, by Alyth, co. Perth), dau. of George M. Forrester, of Tayport; b. Tayport, co. Fife, 4 Aug. 1894; educ. at Tayport; emigrated to Canada in Oct. 1912, and after the outbreak of war enlisted at Kingsville in Nov. 1914. After going through a course of training at London, Ontario, he came to England in May, 1915, and was in camp at Sandling, Kent, till Sept., when the battn. went to the Western Front. Private Campbell was killed in action near Ypres, 13 Oct. 1915; unm. The Chaplain wrote that he “had indeed proved himself a very faithful soldier,” and had “done his part always well.” He was buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Dickebusch, south-west of Ypres, Belgium.

CAMPBELL, ROBERT, Private, No. 2105, 4th Battn., 1st Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Kenneth Campbell, of Wick, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of David Sutherland, of Duncansbay; b. Wick, 13 Jan. 1873; educ. there; went to Australia in 19—, and settled at Sydney. After the outbreak of war he joined (Feb. 1915) the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, between the 6–9 Aug. 1915. He was one of the few who took the Turkish trench, and was found beyond it. A letter from the Chaplain said: “He fought like a hero, and died as such, and they buried him a few days later in the military cemetery at Burrows Dip.” He m. at Barry, co. Glamorgan, 6 Aug. 1904, Flora Hannah (9, Trenwith Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall), dau. of the Rev. Henry Roe, and had a dau., René, b. 7 Aug. 1905.

CAMPBELL, ROBERT CHARLES COWBURN, Capt., 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, of Elsieshields, Lochmaben, co. Dumfries, C.B., C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin Bensley; b. Shillong, Assam, India, 26 March, 1889; educ. Dollar Institution, Edinburgh Academy and King’s College, Cambridge. He entered the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., in 1910, and was home on leave when war broke out. He volunteered, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 4 Sept. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. 5 Feb. 1915. He was attached to the 2nd Highland L.I., and served with them in the trenches from Dec. 1914, to March 1915, and at Givenchy and Neuve Chapelle. He reverted to the 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers in April, 1915; was in the attack and capture of Hill 60, and was wounded in the counter-attack at Ypres on 23 April, 1915. He died at Queen Alexandra’s Hospital for Officers, Highgate, 19 May following; unm. He was in the Rugby and cricket teams of the Edinburgh Academy, and obtained his Blue at Cambridge for Rugby football, and was in the King’s College Rugby and soccer football, cricket and hockey teams. His yst. and only surviving brother, Lieut. G. E. F. Campbell, was killed in action at the Dardanelles (see his notice).

CANDY, PHILIP SADLER, Midshipman. R.N., 2nd s. of John Alfred Sadler Candy, of Kingston, Angmering, co. Sussex, by his wife, Emily Louisa French, dau. of Capt. Edward Holland Hills, R.N., of Littlehampton, co. Sussex; b. 24 Feb. 1899; educ. Charlecote, Worthing; entered the Osborne Class on H.M.S. Conway, Jan. 1911, and afterwards went through a course of training at Dartmouth. He became Midshipman in Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Monmouth in the naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A tablet to his memory was placed in Ferring Parish Church, near Worthing.

CANHAM, HERBERT, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 861), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CANN, CHARLES, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4211, H.M.S. Hogue, s. of Robert Cann, of 81, Percy Place, Dublin; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CANN, ROBERT HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14258, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CANNON, CHARLES EDWIN, Private, No. 1972, 5th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late (—) Cannon, by his wife, S. (Felix Cottages, Updown Hill, Windlesham, Surrey); b. Windlesham, co. Surrey, 16 April, 1885; educ. Windlesham Board School; joined the Surrey Territorials in 1912; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force ....; was severely wounded in the chest at the Dardanelles and sent to Alexandria, and died on the hospital ship Asturias on his way back to England at 2 p.m. 23 Sept. 1915; unm. Buried at sea.

CANNON, HUGH STANLEY, Corpl., No. 28754, and Motor Despatch Rider, R.E., 2nd s. of the late Alfred Cannon, of Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford; b. Sandford-on-Thames, 15 Oct. 1888; educ. Roysse’s School and Magdalen College, Oxford. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the R.E., was promoted Corpl., attached to the 6th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division (as despatch rider), and left for the Front, 6 Oct. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed whilst on his motor bicycle carrying Despatches at the First Battle of Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Ypres Menin. His commanding officer wrote: “He was one of the nicest men to work with I have ever met, and all the officers on the staff think the same. He was always cheerful and keen to do his best, which was very good.”

CANNONS, FRANK JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3952), S.S. 101990, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CANTON, CHARLES JOHN, Gunner, No. 2/299, 1st Battery New Zealand Field Artillery, 3rd s. of the late George Canton, of Palmerston North, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Roberts, of Nelson, New Zealand; b. Ngatimoti, Nelson, New Zealand, 22 Aug. 1876; educ. Public School there. On the outbreak of war joined the New Zealand E.F., 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 19 May, 1915; unm. Col. Meldrum wrote he “was hit and killed instantly by a Turkish bullet on the 19th., I met him two days previously, he had put in three weeks’ work with his guns. He was happy and elated, he was having the time of his life”; and Major McGilp, O.C. 1st Battery: “His grave is on the heights of Anzac, in a nice spot close to the battery, which enables our men to keep it in proper order. We obtained a large wooden cross from Egypt, which will answer the purpose until a more permanent memorial can be erected.” He was a County Councillor, member of the Wellington Land Board, etc., and a keen and enthusiastic sportsman.

CANTON, HERBERT WESTRUP, Lieut., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., only s. of Frank Canton, Merchant (of a Huguenot family), by his wife, Florence; b. Walton-on-Thames, 6 March, 1892; educ. Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 March, 1912; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; first came under fire at Le Cateau, where his platoon suffered heavy casualties; took part in the retreat from Mons, and was present at the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. Through the winter of 1914 he was with his regt. in the trenches near Armentières, and was killed in action in the trenches near Ypres, 13 May, 1915, after repelling a strong German attack. He was buried at Wieltje; unm. Though promoted to the command of his company from 5 Mar. 1915, his appointment to rank as from 31 March, 1915, was only gazetted after his death.

CAPELL, ARTHUR GEORGE CONINGSBY, Capt., 2nd Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. George Marie Capell, Rector of Passenham, co. Northampton (d. 1 Feb. 1915), by his wife, Annie, dau. of Peter Stanley Lowe, of Whitehall Churchstow, co. Devon, and gdson. of the Hon. Adolphus Capell, brother of Arthur Algernon, 6th Earl of Essex; b. Passenham, Stony Stratford, 28 June, 1879; educ. by private tutor; joined the Northamptonshire Imperial Yeomanry in Jan. 1900, sailing with them for South Africa, 16 March the same year; took part in the operations in the Transvaal (Queen’s medal with five clasps); returned in June, 1901, and 12 months later joined 3rd Battn. Northants Militia, obtaining one of the late Earl Roberts’ commissions, 17 May, 1902, for which he was specially recommended by his Adjutant. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Feb. 1904, and obtained his company 20 Nov. 1910. On the outbreak of war he was with his regt. in Alexandria; they returned to England and went to France, 4 Nov. 1914. In the fighting near Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915, he was twice wounded in the hand and side, but refused to fall out, and went on leading and cheering his men till finally shot through the head, falling into the arms of his colonel, Col. C. Richard, D.S.O., C.B. He was buried behind the lines at Neuve Chapelle with his great friend, Capt. H. Power, adjutant to the regt., and 19 men of his company who fell that same day. The second in command wrote: “He was a brilliant officer, and deeply regretted by all the regt.” Capt. Capell m. at Whatstandwell, 20 Oct. 1914, Phyllis, dau. of Maurice Deacon, of Chase Cliffe, Whatstandwell, co. Derby, s.p. Capt. Capell was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished services.

CAPPER, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4253), S.S. 102941, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; m.

CARBAN, WILLIAM HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2796), 165857, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

CARBERY, MILES BERTIE CUNNINGHAME, Capt., 1st Battn. Princess Victoria’s Royal Irish Fusiliers, yst. s. of the late William Edward Carbery, of 17, Hartington Mansions, Eastbourne, by his wife, Florence, dau. of the late Charles William Jebb, formerly in the 60th Rifles; b. at Bangalore, 6 June, 1877; educ. at the Oxford Military College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, 1 Dec. 1897, and promoted Lieut., 1 Dec. 1899, and Capt., 17 Feb. 1903, and was Adjutant to the Special Reserve, 10 March, 1910, to 2 Nov. 1913; served in South African War, 1899–1900; was present at the operations in Natal, including the action at Talana, where he was dangerously wounded (Queen’s medal with clasp); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Aug. 1914; was killed in action at Houplines, Northern France, 17 Oct. 1914, while bravely leading his men. He m. at St. Columba’s, Pont Street, S.W., 24 Sept. 1908, Dora, dau. of the late Right Hon. Thomas Sinclair, P.C., of Hopefield House, Belfast; s.p.

CARDEN, DERRICK ALFRED, Major, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs), and temp. Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, yst. s. of the late Sir John Craven Carden, of Templemore Abbey, 4th Bt., by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabella (Wertown, Straffan, co. Kildare), dau. of Admiral Charles Gepp Robinson; b. Templemore Abbey, co. Tipperary, 27 March, 1875; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders from the Militia, 7 Dec. 1895, and promoted Lieut., 30 Aug. 1899, Capt., 3 July, 1901, and Major, 23 May, 1915, and was Adjutant from 10 May, 1911, to 9 May, 1914. He served in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battles of Atbara and Khartoum; and subsequently on the North-West Frontier of India, 1908, and during the operations in the Zakka Khel country (medal with clasp). On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was wounded on the Aisne in Sept. 1914, and was invalided home; returning to the Front in Dec. On 7 March, 1915, he was given command of the 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, with the rank of Lieut.-Col., and died of wounds received in action near Ypres, 25 May, 1915; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Hazebrouck.

CARDY, GEORGE JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, 302500, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914; m.

CAREW, FRANCIS LUDOVIC, 2nd Lieut., 20th Hussars, yr. s. of Charles Robert Sydenham Carew, of Warnicombe, Tiverton, co. Devon, M.P. [grandson of the Rev. Thomas Carew, of Collipriest House, 3rd s. of Sir Thomas Carew of Haccombe, 6th Bart.], by his wife, Muriel Mary, dau. of Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Bart.; b. Collipriest, Tiverton, 4 March, 1895; educ. Malvern (Mr. Douglas’) and Winchester College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 20th Hussars 24 Feb. 1914; joined at Colchester, 24 Mar. and was killed in action at Oostaverne, near Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914.

CAREW, JASPER, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Rev. Henry William Carew, Vicar of Rattery, South Brent, co. Devon [great-gdson. of Sir Henry Carew, of Haccombe, 7th Bart.], by his wife, Maude Eliza (Airlea, South Brent, Devon), dau. of the Rev. Fitzwilliam John Taylor, Rector of Haccombe and Ogwell; b. Rattery Vicarage, South Brent, co. Devon, 29 June, 1894; educ. The School, Malvern Link, Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the 1st West Yorkshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut. 22 Feb. 1914, and was killed in action while leading his platoon near Hazebrouck, 14 Oct. 1914. He was buried in the cemetery at Doulieu, Nord, France, and a stone with his name, etc., on it was erected by the Canadians. Lieut. Carew’s Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He fell while gallantly leading his platoon in an advance guard action near Hazebrouck. It was quite instantaneous, and he suffered no pain and never moved. He was beloved by every one, always cheery and bright under all circumstances, and we had some trying ones. A most promising officer, absolutely fearless, and had done so well.”

CAREY, EDWARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 17011, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CAREY, JEFFREY HUELIN, Private, No. 3555, 1/4th Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Ernest Rutherford Carey, of Melbourne, Australia, Accountant, by his wife, Mabel Marion (6, Park Road, Brentwood, Middlesex), dau. of Thomas Shann Detham, of Leeds, Yorks; b. Melbourne, Victoria, 13 Oct. 1898; educ. Merivale, Bexhill-on-Sea, City of London School (1909–11) and Brentwood Grammar School (1911–14); joined the 1/4th London Regt. 6 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915; unm. His Major wrote in a letter of sympathy: “Your son was a good boy, and faced the fire without fear. He was unfortunately hit, death being instantaneous. I enclose you a small sketch map, showing the spot where I had him buried by the side of a comrade who was killed at the same time. I hope the map will be clear to you; the grave lies in the corner of the field about 3 yards from each hedge, and at present has a small cross at its head bearing his name, number and regt.”

CAREY, JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14142, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CARGO, JAMES ROY, Lieut., Taranaki Coy., Wellington Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late (—) Cargo; b. Auckland, 1892; educ. Auckland Grammar School; was a member of the Highland Rifles, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for Imperial service; left for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April; was promoted Coy. Sergt.-Major, 8 May, 1915, and Lieut., on 29 May, and was transferred to the Ruakine Coy. on 2 June, 1915. He was killed in action at Courtney’s Post, Gallipoli, 3 June, 1915, and was buried in New Zealand Officers’ Cemetery there; unm. Sergt.-Major Seldon wrote: “He was shot through the head, and died before they could take him out of the trenches. I have the personal guarantee of the doctor who attended him (Dr. Ross, of New Plymouth) that he did not regain consciousness. Major Cox entrusted me personally with the duties of his burial. That evening I called for volunteers, and the whole of his company was forthcoming. We restricted it to a few of his most intimate friends, all ranks being represented. Under heavy shrapnel fire, but under cover of darkness, we buried dear old Roy with full soldier’s funeral rites and honours under the hill overlooking the sea,” adding, “Roy was the first in our battn. to receive a commission on his merits from the ranks. Having speedily proved his worth as a soldier he was on 8 May promoted to Coy. Sergt.-Major, and on 29 May was appointed Lieut., being transferred to the Ruahine Coy. on 2 June. Alas! his chance of further distinguishing himself was soon cut off, for in his first action as Lieut. he was, 3 June, sadly accounted for. It was at Courtney’s Post he gave his life for his country.”

CARLETON, THOMAS, Private, No. 12491, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Patrick Carleton, of 7, Wellington Place, Enniskillen, co. Fermanagh, Master Tailor, by his wife, Anne, dau. of William Maguire, of Drumlyon; b. Enniskillen, 16 Sept. 1894; educ. Presentation Bothes’ School there; went to London in 1912, and was a Vanman. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Coldstreams, 14 Sept. 1914, went out to the Front in Feb. 1915, and was killed by a sniper whilst on outpost duty, 1 April, 1915; unm. He was buried on the east side of the road from Rue de Berceaux to Rue du Bois.

CARLISLE, JOHN EDWARD GORDON, Capt., 107th Pioneers, Indian Army, eldest s. of Edward Carlisle, M.A., Army Tutor, of 7, Lexham Gardens, London, W., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Clegg, late of Highbury; b. Wargrave-on-Thames, 10 June, 1885; educ. St. Paul’s School, where he was a member of the O.T.C., and Sandhurst. On passing out of Sandhurst on the unattached list for the Indian Army, he was attached to the North Staffordshire Regt., 13 Aug. 1904, and afterwards joined the 114th Mahrattas, being subsequently transferred to the 107th Pioneers. He was promoted Lieut. 7 Jan. 1907, and Capt. 13 Aug. 1913; went to France with his regt. in Sept. 1914, and died in the military hospital, Bethune, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action near Neuve Chapelle on the 9th. He was buried in the Civil Cemetery, Bethune; unm. A brother officer wrote: “He went up with our machine gun in support of the Dehra Dun Brigade when they were attacked. He got up with the guns as far as the firing line, but then they got the order to retire, and as he was retiring with the machine gun detachment down a trench he was shot through his belt. He was unable to move but quite sensible, and told the machine gun section to leave him with his pistol. They, however, carried him back and got him to the dressing station. It has cast a gloom over the regt., as he was very popular, and all the Sepoys are very sad about it. He was attached to the 2nd Gurkhas when he received his death wound, and the commanding officer of that regt. spoke very highly of the conduct of the machine gunners. You have the consolation that he died a very gallant death, right up in the firing line, doing his job to the last.” Capt. Carlisle was the holder of the Officers’ Light Weight (Boxing) Championship of India, won at the Delhi Durbar.

CARLTON, GEORGE EDWARD, A.B., 228168, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

CARLTON, LAURENCE, Private, No. 36562, 40th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., only s. of Arthur Carlton, High Sheriff and Alderman of Worcester, owner of several London and provincial places of amusement, by his wife, Maude, dau. of Graham Seymour; b. London, 4 May, 1892; educ. City of London School, Worcester Royal Grammar School, and Birmingham University, matriculating at London University. He had passed all his examinations for the dental profession except the final, and was to have taken that in Nov., but war breaking out in Aug. 1914, he volunteered and enlisted in the R.A.M.C. on the 29th of that month, and was attached to the Nursing Section. He left for the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at 5.30 a.m. on 9 Aug. 1915; unm. The Adjutant (Capt. E. F. Burke) wrote: “We had gone out to a valley and had opened up an advanced dressing station there to attend to the wounded. They were just behind the firing line, and were under shell and rifle fire all the time. Your son was bravely dressing a wounded man on a stretcher, and as he was kneeling down adjusting the bandage a machine gun opened fire on us, and he was shot through the heart whilst doing his duty. He died a very brave soldier’s death, and had all along displayed the greatest courage under fire. He was buried by his comrades where he died. He was a very great favourite with all.” Carlton was a good amateur athlete. He won the mile race at the University Sports on three occasions, and also won the Old Boys’ race at the Grammar School Sports.

CARLYLE, ROBERT, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th (Dumfries and Galloway) Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers (T.F.), elder s. of Thomas Robert Carlyle, of Waterbeck, co. Dumfries, by his wife, Jean Graham, dau. of Alexander Miller, of Caithness; b. Waterbeck, 12 Oct. 1892; educ. St. Mary’s, Melrose, and Edinburgh Academy; volunteered and enlisted in the 5th King’s Own Scottish Borderers immediately on the outbreak of war; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 26 Aug. 1914; left for Gallipoli 28 May; landed at the Dardanelles 8 June, and was killed in action there 12 July, 1915; unm. He was a member of the Academy Rugby XV, who were Scottish School Champions for the season 1910–11.

CARMICHAEL, DAVID, Private, No. 1922, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Carmichael, of Whin Cottage, Comrie, co. Perth, Builder; b. Comrie, 8 March, 1886; educ. Comrie Public School; became a mason, and after serving his apprenticeship went to Melbourne about 1907; volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war; left with the fifth reinforcement for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 14 Aug. 1915. He was a student of natural history, could tell a bird at a glance, and had made a fine collection of British ferns. Private Carmichael m. in Australia, Carrie, dau. of (——) Kinnley; s.p.

CARMICHAEL, JOHN, Corpl., No. 3653, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of John Carmichael; b. Glasgow, 3 June, 1877; enlisted 20 July, 1894 (No. 5095); served in India, 21 Oct. 1896, to 1 March, 1902, and in South Africa (medal with clasp “Transvaal, 1902”), 2 March to 27 Sept. 1902; obtained his discharge, 19 July, 1906; worked as a Dock Labourer; re-enlisted 27 Aug. 1914; became L.-Corpl. 26 Sept. 1914; Acting Corpl., 27 Oct. following, and Corpl., 2 Feb. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 2 Feb. to 24 Feb. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action in the trenches, being shot through the head. He m. at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Glasgow, 25 Nov., Bridget (168, French Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow), dau. of William Little, and had seven sons: William John, b. 27 June, 1895; James, b. 27 June, 1897; Patrick, b. 23 Aug. 1903; Peter, b. 14 Aug. 1905; George, b. 9 April, 1911; and Joseph and David (twins), b. 18 Dec. 1913.

CARMICHAEL, ROBERT HENRY MORRIS, Lieut., 5th Battn. (Princess Louise’s) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 4th and yst. s. of Thomas Carmichael, of Netherton, Greenock, by his wife, Nina Jane Isabella, dau. of the Rev. David Arthur, of Belize; b. Greenock, 27 Jan. 1895; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock, and Loretto School, Musselburgh, at which latter he joined the Cadet Corps, and became an expert Signaller. On leaving school he was apprenticed to Messrs. Hardie and Rowan, of Greenock, Chartered Accountants, and obtained a commission in the 5th (Renfrew) Battn. (T.F.) of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 11 March, 1913. He was promoted temp. Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914, this rank being soon afterwards made substantive; landed at the Dardanelles with his battn., and was killed by shrapnel at the head of his company in the attack on the first line of Turkish trenches at Aki Baba in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 12 July, 1915; unm. His three elder brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his two sisters are V.A.D. nurses.

CARNAGHAN, STANLEY GEORGE, Corpl., No. 2153, D Coy., 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Carnaghan, of 174–178, Old London Road, Hastings, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Henry Clarke; b. Ore, near Hastings, co. Sussex, 18 March, 1888; educ. Clive Vale Board School there; was an ironmonger’s assistant; served in the 1st Cinque Ports Volunteer Rifle Corps (No. 4678) from 25 Oct. 1906, to 31 March, 1908, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service and enlisted, 12 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, France, 30 March, 1915; unm. Carnaghan was a good shot, and won first prize at the annual competition in 1907, also two silver spoons, etc. He was buried in the field adjoining the first farm on the east side of the road leading from Windy Corner, Rue des Berceaux to Rue du Bois. Lieut. J. B. Aiton wrote: “As senior subaltern of D Coy. (which is now the old G and H Coys.), I knew your son well, and can assure you we felt his loss deeply. He was a universal favourite, always cheerful, hard working and attentive to his duties.”

CARNEGIE, ALEXANDER, Shipwright, 1st Class, 343178, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914; m.

CARNEY, FRANK, Private, No. 712, 1st Australian Light Horse, Australian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of the late James Carney, Sergt., 3rd King’s Own Hussars, by his wife, Margaret, (5, Queen Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester); b. The Curragh, Ireland, 31 Aug. 1893; emigrated to Australia in 1912; joined the 1st Australian Light Horse in Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, during the general assault on the Turkish position that day; unm.

CARNEY, HAROLD, Rifleman, No. Z/781, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, yr. s. of the late James Carney, Sergt., 3rd King’s Own Hussars, by his wife, Margaret, (5, Queen Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester); b. Salford, co. Lancaster, ... June, 1896; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, and after four months’ training, left for the Front with a draft for his Battn., and a fortnight later was in the trenches. He received a gunshot wound in the neck on 10 March, 1915, during the first day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was taken to Boulogne, where he died in hospital on the 16th of the month. He was buried in the Cemetery there; unm. One of the Army Chaplains wrote: “He was a brave boy and bore his suffering with fortitude.”

CARNOCHAN, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 269, 15th Infantry Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of the late Alexander Carnochan, of Southsea, formerly Manager of the Bow and Stepney branches of the London & South-Western Bank, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Carter; b. London & South-Western Bank, Bow, 11 March, 1871; served over 15 years in the 1st Royal Scots, and fought throughout the Boer War. He emigrated to Australia, 4 June, 1914, and at the outbreak of the European War joined the Australian Imperial Force. He was wounded on 7 Aug. 1915, at Suvla Bay, near Walker’s Ridge, and died in the 2nd Stationary Hospital at Lemnos on 10 Aug. following. He m. at St. Pancras, 11 Oct. 1899, Edith Rose (82, Lady Margaret Road, Tufnell Park, N.), dau. of Joseph Warren, of co. Herts. and had issue: Douglas Alexander, b. 12 Dec. 1908; Edith Emily Mary, b. 13 June, 1900; Iva Lilian, b. 21 Jan. 1906; and Vera Millicent, b. 17 Jan. 1913.

CARON, RENE, Private, No. 61987, Platoon 9, C Coy., 22nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, only child of Alfred Caron, of 19, Rue Pacific, Verdun, Montreal, Canada, by his wife, Marie Louise, dau. of Joseph Bélanger; b. West Farnham, P.Q., 15 July, 1896; enlisted Jan. 1915; left Canada with the second contingent; went to France, 15 Sept., and was killed in action, 17 Oct. 1915; unm.

CARPENTER, DAVID REID, Lieut., 3rd Auckland Regt. (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Robert Carpenter, Major (retired), N.Z.S. Corps, late A.G. and Q.M.G., Auckland Military District, by his wife, Louisa Catherina Gabrielena, dau. of Simon Peter van Blerk, of Simons Town, South Africa; b. Hounslow, co. Middlesex, 23 Jan. 1893; educ. Grafton Road Public School, Auckland Grammar School, and Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australia (1911–12), and on leaving there entered the employ of Mr. T. H. Dawson, of Auckland, Barrister and Solicitor. He was appointed a 2nd Lieut. in Coast Defence Detachment, 31 May, 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and joined the 3rd Auckland Regt., of which Major T. H. Dawson was appointed Major and officer commanding. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 8 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Carpenter represented Auckland Grammar School in athletics, and was also capt. of No. 8 Company of the School Battn. of Defence Cadets.

CARPENTER, EDGAR STANLEY, Corpl., No. 1494, C Coy., 6th Battn. (Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Francis George Carpenter, of Bath, by his wife, Alice Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Wickham, 1st class Petty Officer, R.N.; b. Bath, 2 Aug. 1890; educ. Central Walcot School, and in 1905 went to the City Secondary School, where he won a bursarship and student teachership. In 1909 he passed the Oxford Local Examination with first-class honours, and was head of the school, receiving the much-coveted gold medal. Taking up his student teachership at Central Walcot Schools, he showed much promise, and went to Cheltenham Training College, where he remained two years, being in 1913 especially selected for an assistant mastership at a County Council school in London. While at the Bath Secondary School, Carpenter excelled at sports as well as in studies, and on going to St Paul’s, Cheltenham, was placed in the College Rugby XV. He joined the 6th London Rifles soon after coming to town, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 21 April, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote, speaking in the highest terms of his bravery in action, and saying that he died while leading and encouraging his comrades. He was buried in an orchard 300 yards north of Givenchy Cemetery.

CARPENTER, GEORGE HENRY, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21585, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CARPENTER, JOHN HENRY, Private, No. 8316, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of John Martin Carpenter, by his wife, Mary Ann (74, Grecian Street, Maidstone), dau. of Henry Wilson; b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 5 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s Church School there; went to Canada in April, 1911; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war, came over with the first contingent, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 8 May, 1915; unm.

CARPENTER, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Immed. Class, 314), 203198; H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CARR, JAMES, Private, No. 2115, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of James Carr, of Fettercairn, co. Kincardine, Master Tailor, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Milne; b. Fettercairn, 10 Dec. 1874; educ. at Public School there; joined Fincastle’s Horse in 1900, and served through the South African War, after which he joined the South African Mounted Police, in which he served three years, then going to Australia. After the outbreak of the European war he enlisted in March, 1915, in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles between 6 and 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

CARR, JOHN WILLIAM, Private, No. 8463, 4th Battn. West Yorkshire Regt.; b. Durham, 16 July, 1878; enlisted in the Yorkshire Regt. (Green Howards); served through the South African War; re-enlisted in the 4th West Yorkshire Regt. 14 Aug. 1914, and died in the General Hospital, Boulogne, as the result of wounds received in action, 26 April, 1915; buried at Boulogne (Grave No. 1713). He m. at Scarborough, 15 Oct. 1898, Elizabeth (2, Eliza’s Place, Canning Street, Hull), dau. of Charles Dyson Whitaker, and had a dau., Christiana, b. 1 Dec. 1906.

CARR, STANLEY JESSE, Private, No. 1285, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late Walter Carr, L.C.C. Tramway Driver, by his wife, Elizabeth (1, Chesson Road, West Kensington), dau. of the late George Ballam; b. Iron Acton, co. Gloucester, 31 Dec. 1893; educ. North End Road Council School, Fulham; joined the Kensingtons in April, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service with his regt., and was killed in action while trench digging at Laventie, France, 4 March, 1915; unm. Buried on a farm on the La Bassée road, about a mile and a-half from Neuve Chapelle.

CARR, TOM ADAMTHWAITE, Corpl., No. 1037, North Riding Battery, R.F.A., 2nd Northumbrian Division, only child of Edward Carr, of Beaconsfield Villas, Scalby, Gardener, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Hunter Adamthwaite; b. Scalby, 4 Jan. 1881; educ. there; enlisted in 1911, and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 May, 1915; unm.

CARRIERE, ALFRED, Private, No. 448043, 25th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Auguste Carrière, of 607, Johette Street, Hochelaga, Montreal, Canada, by his wife, Elmire, dau. of Antoine Carrière; b. St. Jacques Dembrun, Ontario, 11 Nov. 1898; educ. School of the Nativity, Hochelaga; enlisted in the 57th Battn., 30 June, 1915, and transferred to the 25th, 13 July following; left Canada 9 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action in France, 7 Dec. 1915. Buried in Laletterie Cemetery.

CARROL, PETER JAMES, Private, No. 29430, 16th Battn. (91st Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Carrol, of 156, Cannon Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Machinist [b. at Lariston, Scotland], by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Jardine; b. Terra Cotta, Peel Co., Ontario, 16 Oct. 1881; educ. Hamilton, aforesaid; joined the 4th Field Battery in 1898; served with them three years; joined the 91st Canadian Highlanders in 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at St. Julien, 23 April, 1915, while on a sniping expedition immediately after the Battle of St. Julien. Buried about 30 yards from the wood of St. Julien. The Corpl. in charge of the expedition wrote from hospital in England: “On the night of 22 April we made a charge, and on the morning of 23 April, just at daybreak, I was sent about 20 yards from the German trench to dig ourselves in with seven men, and Private Peter Carrol, 29430, was one of the men who went with me. It was close to the wood we had taken the night before, so we did not go so far down in the ground when we found we were being fired at from all sides, and there were only three of us left in five minutes, so we tried to move round to the main tunnel, and it was in doing that that Private Carrol was shot through the head. He was as cool under fire as he always was, and had his pipe in his mouth when he left the trench to go out, and sat joking when we were under heavy fire.” Private Carrol m. at Hamilton, 21 Dec. 1903, Margaret Ethel (1, Birch Avenue, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), dau. of Alexander McIsaac, and had two children: Forence, b. 14 July, 1905; and Auralie, b. 9 May, 1908.

CARSON, GEORGE ALFRED, Sergt., No. 811, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, yst. s. of the late Edward Carson, of Manchester, Draper, by his wife, Annie (74, Sandy Lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester), dau. of Thomas Wallworth, of Manchester; b. Bradford, 13 March, 1885; educ. Manchester Higher Grade School, and the Science and Art School; enlisted in the 16th (Queen’s) Lancers in 1902, and served two years in South Africa; obtained his discharge by purchase on the death of his father in 1905; went to Canada in 1909 to take up farming, but afterwards went into the Post Office in Regina; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war and joined the Regina Legion of Frontiersmen, 9 Aug. 1914, subsequently transferring to Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry; came over in Oct. 1914; went to France in Dec.; was in action on the 25th, and was promoted Sergt. on the field; was wounded by a stray shell while going to Headquarters at Ypres, 9 May, 1915, and died in the 13th General Hospital, Boulogne, on the 18th. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Boulogne. He greatly distinguished himself after the repulse of the German attack on 8 May by bringing in the wounded, and a comrade wrote: “He returned [from the support trenches to the open] and carried a wounded man back to our trenches. To do this he had to cross an open space 300ft. wide swept by shrapnel and machine guns, he returned four times and brought back a wounded man each time—how he escaped unhurt I cannot imagine. Our company sergt. shook him by the hand and said ‘You are the bravest man I ever met.’” Captain Adamson also wrote speaking highly of his conduct, and added “No braver man ever gave his life for his country.” He m. at Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 22 Aug. 1914, Frances Emily, yst. dau. of Thomas (and Marcella) Bolton, of Carlow; s.p.

CARSWELL, ROBERT NEVIN, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. The King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., eldest s. of John George Carswell, of St. Aubyn’s Park, Tiverton, Devon, by his wife, Sarah Constance, dau. of William Nevin Bell; b. at Shortlands, Kent, 31 Aug. 1889; educ. Blundell’s and Sheffield University, at both of which he was in the O.T.C.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve of Officers, 11 Sept. to rank as from 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 26 Oct. 1914; unm.

CARTER, ARTHUR DONALD DUNDAS, Lieut. 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, elder s. of Roderick Edmond Carter, of Waratilla, Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, formerly of the Public Works Dept., Bengal, by his wife, Mary Ursula, dau. of Donald William Dundas; b. Arrah, Bengal, 6 Sept. 1888; educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 4th Gurkhas, 9 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1910. He was attached to the Shropshire L.I. from Sept. 1908 till Sept. 1909; served in the Abor Expedition in 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders during the winter of 1914–15, being accidentally killed near Merville, France, 20 July, 1915, by the explosion of a bomb while instructing his men. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unm.

CARTER, CHARLES HERBERT EDGAR, Private, No. 10113, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Charles William Peter Carter, of Rose Cottage, Gracious Pond, Chobham, by his wife, Eliza, widow of Amos Packham, dau. of the late William Sadler; b. Laleham, co. Middlesex, 16 Feb. 1895; educ. Long Cross School, near Chertsey; enlisted 2 May, 1913, and was killed in action near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

CARTER, EDWARD CHARLES, Rifleman, No. 2373, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of John James Carter, of 73, Narrow Street, Limehouse, by his wife, Ada, dau. of James Smith; b. Stepney, 10 May, 1894; educ. St. John’s School, Limehouse; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy on Monday, 17 May, 1915. He was shot through the head, and died shortly afterwards without regaining consciousness, being buried on Tuesday close to the trenches. He m. at St. John’s, Limehouse, 4 Sept. 1911, Eliza Amelia (17, Taylors Place, Ben Jonson Road, Stepney), dau. of Thomas Robert Blundell, and had a son and dau.: Edward Kitchiner, b. posthumous, 6 March, 1915; and Eliza Amelia, b. 25 Jan. 1913.

CARTER, ERNEST GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1983), Chatham, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CARTER, FREDERICK JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9668, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CARTER, GEORGE, Private, No. 1359, 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Carter of 71, Park Road, Crouch End; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 July, 1915.

CARTER, GERALD FRANCIS, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of Alfred Henry Carter, of The Lindens, Abingdon, formerly of Birmingham, M.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), by his wife, Elizabeth Marian, dau. of the late William Henry King, of Pedmore House, Stourbridge; b. Edgbaston, Birmingham, 30 Nov. 1896; educ. St. Ninian’s Moffat, and Winchester College; was preparing for the Indian Forest Service, and was already entered as an undergraduate at St. John’s College, Oxford, when war was declared. He enlisted in the Public School Corps (16th Middlesex Regt.) in Sept. 1914, and became L.-Corpl., being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6 April, 1915. He went to the Front in May. On 30 July he was gallantly leading a bombing party in a counter attack on some trenches at Hooge when only a few yards from the enemy he was severely wounded. L.-Corpl. Standing (who has since been promoted for his bravery), assisted by three of his men, carried Mr. Carter out of action, but he died of his wounds shortly afterwards. He was buried close by, in Sanctuary Wood. The lieut.-col. commanding his battn. wrote: “He behaved most gallantly, and was leading his men when he was struck down. He was a great loss to the regt. as a soldier and a friend. I could always rely on him to do the right thing, and always so cheery. We were all very fond of him, and I am sure he enjoyed himself soldiering.” And the major wrote in much the same terms, referring also to the gallantry of the men who carried him out of action. At Winchester Lieut. Carter won the headmaster’s gold medal for gymnastics two years in succession, also two cups for diving. He was a good all-round athlete and a first-class shot. Dr. Carter, who was formerly professor of medicine at Birmingham University and a member of the City Council, is now (1916) on Active Service as Major in the R.A.M.C.

CARTER, HARRY GORDON, Private, No. G. 4120, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of William H. Carter, of Rawlings Garage, Halkin Street, Belgravia, S.W.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915.

CARTER, HERBERT, A.B., 213907, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CARTER, LESLIE, Private, No. 10469, 2nd Battn. Sussex Regt., s. of Amos Carter, of Holmbush Cottages, Findon, near Worthing, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915.

CARTER, THOMAS, L.-Corpl., No. 10269, 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., s. of James Carter, of 81, Queen Street, Preston, Labourer, by his wife, Ann Eliza; b. Preston, 7 May, 1893; educ. St. Saviour’s Public School; was afterwards a Spinner at Messrs. Harrocks, Crewdson & Co.; served three years in the Preston Territorial Force, and entered the Regular Forces, 28 Dec. 1901[?]. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed at Ypres, 23 Oct.; unm. Buried at Langemarck. L.-Corpl. Carter was one of a family of fifteen children, nine of whom survive him, and two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service in France.

CARTER, WALTER JOSEPH STEVENS, Private, No. 2966, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Walter William Carter, of 16, South Molton Street, W., Alpine Boot Maker and Tourist Outfitter, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late Joseph Bennett, of “The Daily Telegraph”; b. Brondesbury, 29 Aug. 1893; educ. Haberdashers School, Cricklewood; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 9 May, 1915; buried in Military Cemetery, near the village of Croix Blanche; unm.

CARTER, WILLIAM ARTHUR ROWE, Capt., 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of the late James Carter, F.G.S., Chairman of Directors, James Carter & Sons, Ltd., quarry proprietors, Clitheroe, by his wife, Margaret Anne (Wyreside, Fleetwood, Lancashire), dau. of Ralph Millner Lomax; b. Blackburn, 15 March, 1880; educ. University College, Southport; joined the Territorial Forces, was gazetted Lieut. to the 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., 20 July, 1911, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service; he was promoted Capt. 15 Sept. 1914, and was shot through the head while leading his company to the attack at Ypres, 23 April, 1915; buried at H.Q. Farm, near Potijie, north of Ypres; unm. Writing to his mother, his colonel, Lord Richard Cavendish, said: “He had led his men on most gallantly against a very strong position of the enemy, and was occupying the most advanced position when he was shot through the head. He was buried the following night, and I was glad to be able to read the burial service over him. His grave is close to a farmhouse, and can be easily found. Your son was universally beloved by all ranks in the battn. He was an exceedingly good officer, and his invariable cheerfulness under any circumstances was really wonderful.” Major Bates wrote: “We were ordered into action last Friday to attack the position described to the papers under that date. He led his men right to the front, like the gallant lad he was, reaching his position in safety. He was warning two junior officers to keep down as the position was dangerous, and must have exposed himself; he was shot through the head.” And Lieut. Saer (5th King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt.): “Owing to the breaking of the French line by the enemy, we were ordered to advance on the 23rd to drive them back and fill the gap. Capt. Carter had brought his company forward in the attack to its allotted position, when he was shot through the head and died instantaneously. I am sure that, could he have chosen, he would have desired no other death than he died. Having served under him for five years I knew his fine qualities as a man and as a soldier.”

CARTER, WILLIAM McEVOY, Private, No. 12/1585, Auckland Infantry Battn. (16th Wiakato Regt.) New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Carter, Butcher; b. Gisborne, New Zealand, 10 Sept. 1894; educ. Avondale School, Auckland, and prior to the outbreak of the war was in the service of Messrs. T. Gagger & Co, Auckland; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914; left with the third reinforcements for the Dardanelles; was killed in action at Cape Helles during the Battle of Achi Baba, 8 May, 1915; unm. He was a keen sportsman and an enthusiastic member of the Otahuka Football Club.

BONHAM-CARTER, GUY, Capt., 19th (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal) Hussars, 3rd s. of the late Alfred Bonham-Carter, C.B., sometime Referee of Private Bills in the House of Commons, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Warde Norman, of Bromley Common; b. London, 25 May, 1884; educ. Horris Hill, Winchester, and Magdalen College, Oxford; joined the 19th Hussars as 2nd Lieut. 29 Nov. 1905; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1907, and Capt. 4 Sept. 1912; served with Mounted Infantry in Northern Nigeria (1910–11), and was appointed Adjutant of Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 17 Feb. 1913; proceeded with that regt. to the Front in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 14 May, 1915; buried at Vlamertinghe. Capt. Bonham-Carter was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He m. at Cromford, co. Derby, 18 Oct. 1911, Kathleen Rebecca, only dau. of Frederic Arkwright, of Willersley, Matlock, co. Derby, and had a son and dau.: John Arkwright, b. 27 March, 1915; and Diana, b. 31 Jan. 1913.

CARTLEDGE, EVERITT PERCIVAL JOHN, Leading Signaller (R.F.R., B. 2618), 201260, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CARTWRIGHT, JOHN DIGBY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., eldest s. of the Rev. William Digby Cartwright, Rector of Aynhoe, by his wife, Lucy Harriette Maud, dau. of Edward Bury, and gdson. of Col. Henry Cartwright, Grenadier Guards, J.P., M.P. [7th s. of Lieut.-Col. William Ralph Cartwright, of Aynhoe Park, M.P.]; b. Aynhoe, co. Northants, 23 June, 1895; educ. Durnford, Wellington College and Sandhurst; received his commission in the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Durham L.I., 10 Nov. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. He went to the Front, 15 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, being buried there; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch dated 30 Nov. 1915.

CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM, Gunner, R.M.A., 12222, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CARVER, BERTRAM JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 90), 117768, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CARVIL, ERNEST, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16260; H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CASE, HENRY, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 302), 277037, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CASEY, JAMES, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 205528, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CASH, GEORGE RICHARD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26705, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.