The Roll of Honour (part 4)

CASLEY, HUGH DE CHASTELAI, Lieut. 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., only s. of Wilbraham John Braddick Casley, of Coatham, Redcar, co. York, Civil Engineer; b. Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 31 Aug. 1886; educ. Coatham Grammar School and Charterhouse, where he was in the O.T.C. He was articled to Head, Wrightson & Co., Ltd., of Stockton-on-Tees, as an engineer, leaving that firm to go to Dorman, Long & Co., Ltd., of Middlesbro’, and became a member of the Cleveland Institute of Engineers. At the outbreak of war he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., 17 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and appointed to the command of the machine gun section. He left England in July for the Dardanelles, and landed 6 Aug. at Suvla Bay with his battn., which was the first to land there. He survived the fierce fighting on that day on Lala Baba, where so many of the officers and men of his regt. fell, but he was killed on the following day (7 Aug) whilst leading his men across the Salt Lake to the attack on Anafarta; he was buried where he fell at the foot of Chocolate Hill; unm.

CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yst. s. of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; b. Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educ. Mercers’ School, London, and King’s College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists’ Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battn. 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l’Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15–16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; unm.

CASTLE, GEORGE PHIL, Private, No. 1925, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late George William Castle, L.L.C. Fireman, by his wife, Annie (now wife of P.C. Harry Hebborn, of 10, Police Station, Paddington Green, W.); b. Faraday Road Fire Station, North Kensington, 1 Nov. 1889; educ. St. Peter’s Schools, Paddington; and went to Australia. He had been a member of the Paddington Rifles (10th London Regt.), and after the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Anzac, between 6–9 Aug. 1915; unm.

CASTLE, JOHN, Shipwright, 1st Class, 343174, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CASTLE, JOHN GEORGE, Private, No. 2375, 1/5th Battn. West Yorks Regt., s. of the late John Buckle Castle, Stationmaster; b. Church Fenton, 19 Oct. 1894; educ. Higher Grade School, York; was in the employ of Councillor W. Lee, of Millgate, Selby; volunteered and enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 July, 1915; unm. His Capt. wrote: “I was very sorry to lose him, as I have known him for some time now and was able to appreciate his soldierly qualities. He is buried in our little cemetery, and we are having a cross put over his grave”; and the Sergt.-Major: “He was a member of my platoon during the whole of his service, so that I am in a position to judge and desire to testify to his sterling qualities as a soldier. This, together with his general disposition, won for him the respect of all with whom he came in contact.”

CASTLEDINE, MONTAGU CYRIL, Private, No. 9261, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 3rd s. of George Henry Castledine, of 55, Lyndhurst Grove, Peckham, S.E., Lithographic Artist, by his wife, Emma Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Austin Blake, H.M.C.: b. Camberwell, S.E., 16 Feb. 1889; educ. Bancrofts School, Woodford, co. Essex. Prior to the outbreak of the war he was for eight years in the London County and Westminster Bank, and at the time of his enlistment, 11 Nov. 1914, was cashier at the Sudbury branch, Suffolk. After four months’ training at the Duke of York’s Military School, Dover, he was sent with a draft to the Front early in March, 1915, and was killed in action in the Battle of Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915; unm.

CATT, BERT, Private, No. 2641, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd s. of William Catt, of Hayes Farm, Beckley, by his wife, Elizabeth Caroline, dau. of William Feilder, of Oak Hill, Beckley; b. Beckley, co. Sussex, 15 June, 1898; educ. Udimore Council School; enlisted. 28 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Feb., 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 20 March, 1915. He was buried in a garden near Festubert.

CATT, EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6389), 189109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CATT, PERCY HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R. Ch. B. 9112), 198317, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CAULFEILD, JAMES CROSBIE, Lieut., 2nd Manchester Regt., 4th and yst. s. of Brig.-Gen. James Edward Wilmott Smyth Caulfield, of Corozal, Jersey, commanding 8th Reserve Infantry Brigade [4th in descent from the Hon. Toby Caulfeild, of Clone, 3rd s. of William, 5th Lord and 1st Viscount Charlemont], by his wife, Sophia Morley, dau. of William Alexander Parker, late Chief Justice of British Honduras; b. Southsea, 21 Feb. 1892; educ. Bradfield College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. 9 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914. He went to France in 6th Divisional Train, 20 Aug. 1914, and was transferred at his own request to 2nd Manchester Regt., 20 Oct. 1914. He took part in the great retreat from Mons, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 18 Nov. 1914, while in command of C Coy.; unm.

CAUTLEY, WILLIAM OXENHAM, D.S.O., Major, 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., eldest s. of the late Capt. William Thompson Cautley, 1st South Staffordshire Regt. (who died of typhoid while on Active Service in Egypt, 1883), by his wife, Emily Marion, dau. of Henry Oxenham, nephew of the Rev. Proby Littler Cautley, Rector of Quainton, co. Bucks, and gdson. of Major-Gen. George Cautley, 8th Bengal Cavalry; b. Gosport, 7 Oct. 1875; educ. Bradfield College, where he distinguished himself in athletics, and was known in particular as a fast sprinter, his favourite races being the 100 yards and the half-mile. He joined the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Suffolks in Nov. 1894, and received a commission in the 3rd Hussars in May, 1897. He subsequently rejoined the 3rd Suffolks, a battn. that was chosen for service at the time of the Boer War, though instead of going to South Africa it was sent, to the disappointment of all concerned, to do garrison work in the Island of Alderney. At the outbreak of war last Aug. the 3rd Suffolks had become a reserve battn. under the new system, and Major Cautley, joining his unit and acting as a Capt. with the honorary rank of Major, was for some while in charge of a fort at Felixstowe. Volunteering for service on the Continent, he left at the end of Oct. for France, being first attached to the Sussex Regt., and then to the 1st Northamptons, who had lost many of their officers. Throughout the remainder of the year he saw a great deal of severe fighting, his company particularly distinguishing itself during the furious German attack on the night of 22 Dec., the following special Brigade Order being issued later by General C. B. Westmacott: “The Brigadier-General desires to take this opportunity of congratulating D Coy., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., on its gallant and steady behaviour during the action of 22 Dec. The manner in which, under the command of Major Cautley, of the 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., it resisted the German counter attack, and the steadiness with which it finally withdrew in face of superior numbers and eventually occupied a position in the rear to cover the gap made in the line was worthy of all praise, and adds fresh laurels to the fine record of the old 48th. The Brigadier-General has heard of numerous individual gallant exploits in this engagement, and congratulates himself on having such a gallant body of men in his Brigade. He desires that this Order be read out to the battn. on parade.” In Jan. last Major Cautley was gazetted Major; while for his services on 22 Dec. he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the announcement in the London Gazette of 10 March reading as follows: “For conspicuous gallantry on 22 Dec. 1914, near La Quinque Rue, when he handled his men with great skill under very critical circumstances.” There were a series of furious attacks and counter attacks from Thursday to Saturday night during the week ending 8 May, and early on Sunday morning, the 9th, Major Cautley was wounded while leading his men against the German trenches, and no sooner had he been attended to than another bullet struck him, death being instantaneous. In the Battn. Orders issued by Lieut.-Col. S. E. Hussy Lloyd, commanding 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., Felixstowe, under date 20 May, appears the following: “It is with deep regret that the Commanding Officer has to announce the death of Major W. O. Cautley, D.S.O., killed in action. Major Cautley by the keen interest he always took in the welfare of the battn., endeared himself to all ranks, and in the end brought a great distinction not only to himself, but to the battn. to which he was so devoted. The Commanding Officer has lost a personal friend, and the Suffolk Regt. a brilliant soldier.” Major Cautley m. at Blairgowrie, co. Perth, 10 April, 1901, Agnes, second dau. of the late Charles Hill-Whitson, of Park Hill, Blairgowrie, late Scots Greys, and had a son and two daus.: William Hill, b. 25 Aug. 1906; Beatrice Sylvia Aimée, b. 25 May, 1902; and Marian Agnita, b. 16 Oct. 1904.

CAVELL, FRANK CORNELIUS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3860), 180672, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CAVENDISH, GODFREY LIONEL JOHN, Capt., 97th Deccan Infantry, attd. 9th Bhopals, Indian Army, eldest surviving s. of Reginald Richard Frederick Cavendish, of Willand, Devon [gdson. of General the Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, Col. 2nd Dragoon Guards, 3rd s. of Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and nephew of William, 5th Duke of Devonshire, K.G.], by his wife, Mary Constance, dau. of the late Rev. Harry Dupuis, Vicar of Richmond, Surrey; b. Eastbourne, 30 March, 1884; educ. Framlingham and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Manchester Regt., then stationed at Singapore, 22 April, 1903. Two years later he received his Lieutenancy (5 Aug. 1905), and was transferred to the Indian Army, 97th Deccan Infantry, and became Capt. 22 April, 1912. At the outbreak of war he was recalled from leave to rejoin his regt., which was remaining in India, but so keen was he to serve in the great war, that at his special request he was attached to the Reserve of Officers and sent to France in Nov. 1914. He was temporarily attached to the 1/9th Gurkha Rifles until 15 Dec., when he was transferred to the 9th Bhopal Infantry. He had only joined the latter regt. five days when he received the wounds from which he died two days later in a field hospital at Lillers, and was buried in the Lillers Cemetery on 23 Dec. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “On 17 Dec. the half battn. he was commanding was ordered up to the support trenches at Givenchy. We remained in support until the morning of 20 Dec., when Capt. Cavendish received orders to take us up to support the regt. ahead of us, which was being attacked. On the way up he received orders to halt, and Capt. Cavendish went forward a few yards to find out what was wanted when he was hit by a rifle bullet in the neck. We tied up his wound, and were all relieved to think, as he did, that the wound was slight. He walked back two miles to the hospital apparently quite cheery and not in much pain. It was a great blow to us to hear a few days later that he had died of his wounds in the hospital on 22 Dec. During the few days we were under fire together he was always cheery, and helped us when we were ‘down in our luck.’... He pulled together both officers and men under him by his cheery stories and sense of humour.” A writer in the “East Anglian Daily News” (6 Jan. 1915), said: “He left Framlingham at the end of the summer term, 1901. He was one of those fellows who pass through a public school without attaining any particular distinction in either work or games but at the same time gain a certain position and influence by virtue of outstanding personality, and I remember that, though he had not a very large number of intimate friends, anything he said or did was of interest to quite a large circle. He was a kinsman of the Duke of Devonshire, and also connected with the earldom of Clare, and it was often remarked among his contemporaries that he possessed a remarkable family likeness, both in facial appearance and in character, to what may almost be called the Cavendish tradition of which the late Duke was so conspicuous an example.” Capt. Cavendish m. at Long Melford, Suffolk, 22 March, 1911, Cora Grace Graham, yst. dau. of Joseph Alphonsus Horsford, of Long Melford, co. Suffolk, M.R.C.S., and had two sons: Godfrey Herbert Richard, b. 14 Jan. 1912; and Hubert Gordon Compton, b. 26 Feb. 1913.

CAVENDISH, LORD JOHN SPENCER, D.S.O., Major, 1st Life Guards, brother of Victor, 9th Duke of Devonshire, P.C., G.C.V.O., 3rd s. of the late Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P., by his wife, Emma Elizabeth (6, Carlos Place, W.), dau. of the Right Hon. the Hon. William Sebright Lascelles, P.C., and grandau. of Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood; b. 25 March, 1875; and was educ. at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the Militia he was given a commission in the 1st Life Guards, 3 Feb. 1897, and was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1898, Capt. 23 Aug. 1902, and Major 12 April, 1911. He served with distinction on the staff in the South African War 1899–1906, being divisional Signalling Officer to the 2nd Infantry Division 9 Oct. 1899 to 18 June, 1900, and Brigade Signalling Officer, 19 June to 12 Oct. 1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900; and action at Spion Kop; the operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; the operations on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb.); the engagement at Pieter’s Hill; and the subsequent march from Bloemfontein to Pretoria; including actions at Zand River, near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11 to 12 June), also in the Transvaal west of Pretoria; actions at Eland’s River (4 to 16 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, actions at Bethlehem (7 July) and Wittebergen (15 to 29 July). His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 1 Feb. 1901] and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Queen’s medal with six clasps. He was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 29 June, 1907, to 6 Sept. 1910. After his brother’s succession to the title he was granted precedence as son of a Duke of Royal Warrant, Nov. 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and was killed in action 20 Oct. 1914; unm.

CAVEY, SIDNEY, Corpl., No. 357, B Coy., 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of William John Cavey, of 198, Cromwell Road, Peterboro’, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine Martha, dau. of John Barker; b. Plumstead, 9 Jan. 1884; educ. Woolwich Polytechnic; joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1906, and rose to the rank of Sergt. He afterwards emigrated to Australia in Feb. 1912, and was engaged in farming when war was declared. He at once joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and died in hospital at W. Mudros, Lemnos Island, of pneumonia, 11 Oct. 1915. He was buried in the military cemetery there; unm.

CAWLEY, HAROLD THOMAS, M.P., Capt., 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 12 June, 1878: educ. Rugby and New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1900 with honours in the History School, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1902, and practised on the Northern Circuit in the Palatine Chancery Court. He was returned as Liberal Member for Heywood at the General Elections in Jan. 1910, and again in Dec. the same year, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr. Runciman, at the Board of Education, March, 1910, to Nov. 1911, and to Mr. McKenna at the Home Office from Nov. 1911 to Aug. 1914. He joined the Mounted Infantry Company of the old 2nd Manchester Volunteers (now the 6th Manchester Regt.) in 1904, and became Capt. 1 June, 1913. On the declaration of war he volunteered for foreign service, and went to Egypt in Sept. 1914, as A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Douglas, commanding the East Lancashire Territorial Division. In Aug. he exchanged the comparative safety of Divisional Headquarters for the fighting line, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Lancashire Cemetery at Gallipoli. His Colonel wrote: “When we went to the front line it was greatly due to his coolness and bravery that the men were kept cool and every one in his place when we had a very large mine blown up just against our trench;” and the Right Hon. C. F. G. Masterman: “Courage, mental and physical, was the outstanding element in Harold Cawley’s character. In the House of Commons he commenced by advocating an unpopular cause in his constituency and opposed those who desired to effect economies through retrenchment in the Navy. He made short speeches, putting his points with lucidity and ability.” In a letter to a friend, Capt. Cawley wrote: “I told the General I wanted to join the Battn., and he has sent the application forward; I was ashamed of being behind here whilst all those fellows were being killed.” Capt. Cawley was a good sportsman, and he was known as a hard rider. He won the North Hereford point-to-point in 1913 and the Bar point-to-point in 1914. He was the third Member of the Commons killed in action. His next yr. brother, Major J. Stephen Cawley, was killed in action in France (see following notice).

CAWLEY, JOHN STEPHEN, Major, 20th Hussars, and Brigade-Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 3rd s. of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 27 Oct. 1879; educ. Lockers Park, Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and obtained his commission in the 20th Hussars, 3 Aug. 1898, joining them at Mhow, India. He became Lieut. 8 Jan. 1900, and obtained his troop, 12 Oct. 1906. He served in the South African War, going to the Cape in 1901; was signalling officer to General Lowe’s Column, being present at the operations in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He subsequently served in Egypt, and was Adjutant of his regt. 7 Nov. 1903 to 6 May, 1907; and after passing through the Staff College, he became instructor at the Cavalry School at Netheravon, 8 Aug. 1910, and the following year (12 Aug. 1911) was appointed General Staff Officer at the War Office, an appointment he held till 15 April, 1913. On 16 April, 1913, he was made Brigade Major of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, and on the outbreak of war accompanied it to France. He was killed in action at Nery during the retreat from Mons, 1 Sept. 1914; was buried there; unm. A brother officer gave the following account of his death: “Our brigade was attacked soon after dawn at Nery by a force double our number—a cavalry division with 12 guns. Owing to thick mist they managed to get within 600 yards of us; 350 horses of the ‘Bays’ stampeded and their men went after them, and the L Battery was cut to pieces. The occasion was one which called for personal example, and Major Cawley, by permission of the General, went to help to restore order and get the broken remnants in their places. The situation being met and every one being in his place, he joined the advance line and was almost immediately killed by a piece of shell. The splendid manner in which he met his death in deliberately facing the awful fire to help others where he really need not have done so, is only what his whole life has led us to expect.” And a well-known cavalry officer, in a letter to “The Times,” said: “We had billeted in a village, and when day broke there was a thick mist. Our patrol came back saying that a German force was close by. My regt. got the warning first, and we had time to get our men into position behind some, thick walls; but the Artillery and the ‘Bays,’ who had picketed their horses in the open, were too late and were caught by a terrific fire. All the officers of the battery were killed or wounded, and the ‘Bays’ had nine casualties amongst their officers. They were very hard pressed, and Cawley, who was in the village, ran out into the open to try and collect some men and take them up into support. Just then a shell burst, and he was hit in the head. He was unconscious from the moment he was hit, and died in about a quarter of an hour.” General Briggs, commanding the Brigade, wrote of him: “He has been a true friend and always a conscientious staff officer to me for nearly two years, and it is needless to say how much I feel his death. He proved himself to be a real fighter in war, and was always cool and collected.” Major Cawley was a good all round sportsman. He was in the Rugby football team and shooting eight at Sandhurst, and in the hockey team, and was whip to the Drag at the Staff College; played for his regt. at polo when they won the Inter-Regimental Cup in India (Meerut), 1901; the Clements Polo Cup in South Africa (Pretoria), 1903; and the Inter-Regimental Cup (Hurlingham), 1906 and 1907. He won the Officers’ Riding and Jumping prize at the Royal Military Tournament in 1905, and was well known with the North Hereford and Whaddon Chase Hunts.

CAWSE, SAMUEL GEORGE, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CAWTHRA, HAROLD, Private, No. 3739, 1/10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Carl Barber Cawthra; b. Arwick Green, Manchester, 10 June, 1895; educ. Claughton Higher Grade School, Birkenhead; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 13 March, 1915; unm.

CAYME, BERNARD GLYDE, Private, No. 81142, 10th Battn. (Western Canada Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Harry Cayme, of The Red House, Horndean, co. Hants, by his wife, Minnie Annie, dau. of Edward Culver, of 9, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N.; b. Stamford Hill, 17 Feb. 1891; educ. Ardingly College, Haywards Heath, in 1908 emigrated to Canada to take up farming, and eventually settled at Manson, Manitoba, where he purchased land. On the outbreak of war he joined the 3rd Battn. Western Canada Regt., came to England with the 2nd Contingent early in the spring of 1915, was quartered at Shorncliffe, and ordered to France to reinforce the Canadians after the first memorable attack of gas by the Germans in April, being then transferred to the 10th Battn. He was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 22 May, 1915, being killed instantly with some 10 comrades by shrapnel; unm. Officers and men alike wrote in high praise of his courage and constant cheerfulness under any circumstances however difficult, and being the only man of his platoon who could speak French he was in constant request whilst in billets. He has been offered promotion in Canada, and on four occasions at the Front, all of which he refused, declining to forsake his comrades. The Caymes are of Huguenot descent and settled at Rye after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and Bernard Glyde Cayme, who was the last of the name in the male line, now lies in the land from which his family originated.

CECIL, GEORGE EDWARD, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only s. of Lord Edward Cecil, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Brevet Col., Coldstream Guards, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government since 1912, by his wife, Violet Georgina, 2nd dau. of Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse, of Dunley Hill, Surrey, and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C.; b. 20, Arlington Street, W., 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Winchester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he took a prize cadetship in 1912, passing out at the end of 1913. He passed his examination for a French cadetship in Jan. 1914, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 25 Feb. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, the 2nd Battn. went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and Lieut. Cecil acted as orderly officer to General Scott Kerr at the Battle of Landrecies. He was killed in the severe action fought by the rearguard of the 4th Brigade, near Villers-Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914; unm.

GASCOYNE-CECIL, RUPERT EDWARD, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 1st, Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 4th s. of the Rev. Canon Lord William Rupert Ernest Gascoyne-Cecil, Rector of Hatfield, by his wife, Lady Florence Mary, née Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd dau. of Edward, 1st Earl of Lathom, G.C.B., P.C., and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O.; b. St. Audrey’s, Hatfield, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; joined the Public School Corps on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914, and obtained his commission in the 4th Bedfordshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action near Ypres, 11 July, 1915, during a bombardment succeeding the blowing up of a very big mine by the Germans between the trenches, and was buried close to the Ypres-Cominis line, in the brigade headquarters cemetery; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Your son was only with us unfortunately for a very short time, but he had endeared himself to all who knew him by his cheerfulness and soldierly qualities.” Capt. Curtis also wrote: “The Germans exploded a very large mine between two of our trenches about 7.15 p.m. and then shelled us heavily. On hearing the explosion your son immediately tried to get up to the fire trench, of which he was in charge, but unfortunately he was struck on the head by a fragment of shell, and was killed instantaneously.... He was always beloved by all his fellow officers, and above all by his men, who had a great respect for him. We all feel the loss which the regt. has sustained by his death but we are proud he was doing his duty so nobly when he was killed. A good many men were stunned and confused by the explosion, but your son remained cool and met his death going to his post.” 2nd Lieut. Cecil rowed in the Torpids at Oxford, and was keenly interested in bell-ringing. His three brothers are all now (1916) on Active Service: Randle William, 2nd Lieut. 93rd Brigade, R.F.A.; Victor Alexander, Capt., Hampshire Regt. (twice wounded); and John Arthur, Lieut. and Adjutant, 19th Brigade, R.F.A.

CHADD, BENJAMIN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4134), S.S. 102612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHADWICK, FREDERICK JAMES, Capt., 104th Wellesley Rifles, Indian Army, eldest s. of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., by his wife, Amy (Westfield, Dorchester), yst. dau. of the late Rev. Charles Torkington; b. Chetnole, co. Dorset, 31 Aug. 1883; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth, Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Aug. 1903, and attd. for a year to the 59th Foot, then stationed at Poona; was appointed to the 104th Wellesley Rifles in Nov. 1904, being promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1905, and after serving with his regt. in the Mekran (gun-running) Expedition of 1911, Capt. 19 Aug. 1912. He died of wounds received the same day while leading his machine gun section at the Battle of Shaiba, Mesopotamia, 13 April, 1915; buried at Shaiba; unm. Capt. Chadwick was mentioned in Despatches [published in India in Feb. 1915] “for gallantry,” and recommended for reward. His yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. R. M. Chadwick, died of wounds, 13 May, 1915 (see following notice).

CHADWICK, RICHARD MARKHAM, 2nd Lieut., 11th Siege Battery, R.G.A., 3rd and yst. s. of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., etc. (see preceding notice); b. Chetnole, co. Dorset, 20 Nov. 1894; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth; Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery, 19 Dec. 1913; joined the 10th Coy. R.G.A. at Spike Island, Feb. 1914; went to Lydd for a Siege Course in Dec., and left for France with the 11th Siege Battery towards the end of April, 1915; he was seriously wounded while on observation duty for his battery, and died the following day, near Bethune, France, 13 May, 1915; buried Bethune; unm.

CHAFER, HERBERT JOHN, Sergt., No. 5342, C Coy., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of George Chafer, by his wife, Evelina, dau. of G. Houlton; b. Broughton, near Brigg, co. Lincoln; educ. at Broughton; joined the Army, 16 June, 1899, served through the South African War (Queen’s medal with bars), and afterwards in India. On completing his eight years with the Colours in 1907, joined the Reserve, and became a dock policeman at Immingham; but on mobilisation rejoined, was promoted Sergt. while at the Front, 1 Oct. 1914, and is reported to have been killed in action, 27 Oct. 1914, while serving with the Expeditionary Force in France. He m. at Sheffield, 19 April, 1908, Elizabeth W. (14, Storm Street, Chippinghouse Road, Sheffield), dau. of James Candow, and had three sons: Leslie James, b. 31 Jan. 1909; Sydney Herbert, b. 6 June, 1911; and Reginald George, b. 4 Jan. 1914.

CHALLIS, FRANK WALTER, P.O. (N.S.), 203516, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHALLIS, FREDERICK CHARLES, Gunner, No. 71677, 114th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of William Isaac Challis, of 212, Fulbourne Road, Forest Road, Walthamstow, House Decorator, by his wife, Maude Mary, dau. of William Holloway, of Harefield Road, Uxbridge; b. Tottenham, 3 March, 1894; educ. St. Andrew’s Road Board School, Higham Hill, Walthamstow; joined the 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. in March, 1911; transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, with which he proceeded to the Front on the outbreak of war; took part in the Battles of Mons and the Marne, and was killed in action at the Aisne while going to the assistance of his superior officer, who had been seriously wounded, 20 Sept. 1914. Buried above the village of Paissy Soissons; unm. His elder brother is now (1916) serving in Egypt.

CHALLIS, WALTER, Leading Signalman, 224820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHALLONER, ALAN CRAWHALL, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only s. of Frederick Charlton Turner Challoner, of Ealing, co. Middlesex, by his wife, Elspeth, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall; b. Ealing, 18 Dec. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; obtained his commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hooge, 30 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, in front of Hooge, Flanders, with six brother officers. Col. M. Stokoe wrote: “Ever since your son went to France he had done splendidly. He was brave and fearless, and always was a great assistance in attending the wounded owing to his medical knowledge. He was extremely popular with the men and handled them excellently. He was just the stamp of man to make an officer and leader of men, and we shall have great difficulty in replacing him.” Major Carew Barnett also wrote, saying: “He was doing splendidly, and at the time of being wounded he was in command of a company, all the officers of which had been killed or wounded. The gap he creates is, indeed, a hard one to fill, both as an officer and a friend.” A few days before he was killed, Lieut. Challoner got permission to do a little reconnoitring on his own account in a wood to the north of Menin Road, and was warned not to show himself, as it was shelled by the enemy on the least suspicion of the presence of any English; going up with one of his men he came upon a number of dead British and German soldiers, a large number of accoutrements, and in a dug-out about 100 rounds of trench mortar shells, etc., also the body of an English officer of the rank of Capt., Royal Fusilier badge and ribbon of the Military Cross, which he took steps to have buried. Subsequent inquiry proved the identity of the officer who had been killed by a shell five weeks earlier evidently by concussion as the body was found lying close to a shell hole but unwounded by a doctor and party, who removed it to a place of safety for burial, but on returning later it had disappeared, and was not found until Lieut. Challoner came upon it in the wood. Its presence and the bodies of the British and German soldiers, etc., remain a mystery. Returning to camp with as many of the mortar shells as he and his man could carry, Lieut. Challoner’s attention was drawn to the fact that the wood was being heavily shelled. When he observed, “Yes, I know, before leaving I showed myself at the edge of the wood to draw the enemy’s fire, which they are wasting quite satisfactorily.”

CHALMERS, WILLIAM ROBERT, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24697 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Robert Chalmers, of 11, Linton Street, Leicester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

INGLES-CHAMBERLAYNE, RUPERT HENRY, Midshipman, R.N., only s. of the late Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne, J.P., by his wife, Louisa Grace (The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold), dau. of the Rev. Charles Dallas Marston, Vicar of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, S.W.; b. Maugersbury Manor, Stow-on-the-Wold, 4 July, 1897; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed. His late tutor at Dartmouth wrote: “His pleasant, open smiling face was so very attractive. The first glance I had of it left no doubt in my mind of his character and his upbringing, and all that I ever saw or heard of him merely strengthened my first impression. He was a clean-hearted English gentleman, and worthy of the great service to which you so generously gave him.” And Lieut.-Commander R. R. Rosoman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke: “I feel certain the boy stuck to his post to the very last, because he was a splendid fellow.”

CHAMBERS, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1151), 276444, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAMBERS, PERCY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10030), 107623, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHAMP, FRANCIS LOGAN, Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 2978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CHAMPION, EDWARD THOMAS, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21840, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHAMPION, VICTOR ALFRED RICHARD, Bugler, No. 1468, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Frank Champion, of 36, Portnall Road, Paddington, by his wife, Anna, dau. of John Sawyer, of Lincolnshire; b. Woodfield Place, Harrow Road, Paddington, 2 March, 1897; educ. Moberley Board School there; joined the Kensingtons, 13 June, 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914; was wounded in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, two days later; unm.

CHAMPS, SIDNEY, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 2058), 163578, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHANCE, JOSEPH, Leading Stoker, K. 1158, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHANCELLOR, SAMUEL, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110580, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHANDLER, CHARLES WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHANDLER, HENRY NORMAN, L.-Corpl., No. 59, 3rd Coy. Divisional Engineers, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Henry Chandler, Plumber, by his wife, Elizabeth (71, Eldon Road, Wood Green, London), dau. of Joseph Newman; b. Twickenham, co. Middlesex, 8 March, 1891; educ. Hammersmith; emigrated to Australia in 1911, and was employed on the Broken Hill mines as a carpenter. On the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered, left Australia with the first contingent, and received promotion at the Dardanelles. He was killed in action there, 1 Aug. 1915; unm. Before enlisting he was secretary of the Broken Hill Congregational Church Choir, and also took part in the singing. He was a foundation member of the Young Men’s Christian Society of the same church. He belonged to the Y.M.C.A., in the work of which association he took an active part.

CHANDLER, JOHN KELLMAN, Private, No. 25935, H Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of John Kellman Chandler, Planter and Proprietor of Sugar Cane Plantation, Barbados, by his wife, Mary Ida, dau. of Samuel Chandler; b. Barbados, B.W.I., 9 Sept. 1889; educ. Combermere School, Bridgetown, Barbados; and on leaving there spent a few years as an Overseer on various Sugar Plantations in Barbados. In May, 1913, he went to Canada and joined the Staff of the C.P.R., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the Royal Montreal Regt. 11 Aug. 1914. He came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914 and while training on Salisbury Plain preparatory to going to the Front contracted spinal meningitis and died at Bulford Cottage Hospital, 23 Jan. 1915; unm. Major Gault McCombey wrote: “Kellman joined my company of the Royal Montreal Regt. in Aug., and I had formed a very high regard for him as he was one of my most reliable and best men.”

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

CHAPLIN, ARTHUR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3573), S.S. 101235, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHAPLIN, CHARLES SLINGSBY, Lieut-Col., 9th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, s. of the late Clifford Waterman Chaplin, of Burrough Hill, Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Rosa, dau. of William Chaplin, M.P.; b. Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, 31 May, 1863; educ. Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford; joined the City of London Regt. in May, 1885, from the Militia, and was transferred the same month to the “Green Jackets,” and gazetted Capt. to the King’s Royal Rifles 1894; served with the Chitral Force under General Low (medal with clasp); and in the South African war as Special Service Officer for Mounted Infantry; and later, from Aug. 1901, in command of the 1st Regt. of Mounted Infantry, doing excellent work in the Transvaal and the line of the Orange River (mentioned in Despatches, medal with five clasps). After the campaign he obtained his majority in 1903, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifles at Gharial, in the Punjab; he succeeded to the command of the 3rd Battn. 18 March, 1908, at Crete, and later took the battn. to Malta, afterwards returning to India and serving at Umballa. From half-pay in 1912 he retired, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, being at the top of the list when mobilisation took place, and was one of the big batch of officers who were given command on 19 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action after a 12 hours’ fight, when he and his men had just captured a trench, being shot through the head at Hooge, in Flanders, at 3.30 p.m. 30 July, 1915. He was buried at Chateau Hooge, close to where he fell. The following telegram was sent to the 9th Service Battn. from Headquarters, 2nd Army, at 1 p.m. on 31 July, 1915: “The Army Corps Commander wishes you to convey to the officers and men of the 9th Battn. King’s Royal Rifles his appreciation of the way in which they carried out the attack on the trenches north of the Menin Road yesterday afternoon, and maintained themselves under heavy artillery fire.” Lieut.-Col. Chaplin m. at Bombay, India, 29 Sept. 1905, Gwladys Hamilton (Erbistock House, Ruabon), dau. of Col. Stanley Creek, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and had three sons and a dau.: Clifford, b. 23 Sept. 1906; Nigel Gilbert Forbes, b. 9 Jan. 1908; Patrick Slingsby, b. 4 July, 1910; and Zara, b. 18 March, 1914.

CHAPLIN, EDWARD ROBERT, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6421), 223109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPLIN, HUMPHREY MARMADUKE, Lieut. 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. Cheshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Marmaduke Kaye Chaplin, of Etwall, co. Derby; b. Etwall, 8 Jan. 1892; educ. Glyngarth School, Cheltenham, and Rossall School, and was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and a member of the O.T.C. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Cheshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914; was attached to the 2nd Battn. on its return from India in Jan. 1915, and left for the Front the same month, being promoted Lieut. Feb. 1915. He was slightly wounded 13 March, and rejoined a month later (19 April). The battn. was moved up immediately afterwards to the advanced trenches in the Ypres salient, from which only a few men returned after the termination of the second battle for Ypres. Lieut. Chaplin was posted missing 11 May, 1915, and was afterwards reported as having been killed in action near Ypres on 8–9 May. He was buried by the Germans near St. Julien; unm. Lieut. Chaplin was a Craven scholar, and had gained a first in Moderations, and was a Charles Oldham Prizeman.

CHAPMAN, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10042), S.S. 112062, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, ARTHUR THOMAS, Capt., 3rd Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Chapman, of Croydon; b. Croydon, 20 April, 1873; educ. Whitgift School; joined the Volunteers (Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.) as a Private in 1888; was Trooper in the Hampshire Carabiniers (Yeomanry) from 1893 to 1897, and 2nd Lieut., to the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. ... 1899, from which he resigned owing to ill-health. He afterwards joined the 1st Battn. Surrey National Reserve as Lieut. in 1910, was promoted Capt. ... 1912, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 volunteered for foreign service. After a period of training with the 3rd East Surreys, he was attached as a Lieut. (13 Sept. 1914) to the 1st Hampshires, and spent the winter with them in the trenches, being promoted Capt. 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He won for himself a place in the hearts of his men and of the officers in the regt. during the few short months he was with us, that made his loss one of the worst blows we have received during the war. His solicitude for his men exceeded anything I have ever seen before.... All through the winter in the Plug Street trenches he was simply indefatigable, and withal as cheery as a sandboy—rain, mud, cold and German snipers were individually and collectively unable to subdue his good spirits. I was not with his regt. when the fighting in the Ypres Salient took place, but I have heard the story of that particular day’s fighting in which he was killed. The regt. was ordered to support the 28th Division, which had become exposed by the retirement of the Canadians. It reached a position an hour before dawn, and dug itself in. A small post in a house on the left flank of the line was rushed by Germans, who were thereby able to enfilade our trenches. It was thus we lost Capt. Sandeman, your husband and many men.... He set an example of devotion to the highest ideal of duty which is possible for any one to do in giving his life for his country, when only his own unbending sense of duty was there to urge him forward.” Capt. Chapman was one of the founders of modern Coulsdon. Going there nearly a dozen years ago he purchased the land which now forms the Smitham Downs Estate, and proceeded to at once develop it. He took an active interest in the formation of St. Andrew’s district in the year 1906, and became one of the first churchwardens of the temporary church. At the time of his death he was still serving as sidesman. He was married, but had no issue.

CHAPMAN, CLEMENT, Sailmaker’s Mate (R.F.R., B. 3220), 169201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, EDWARD HENRY, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., 1st s. of Edward Henry Chapman, of Cobrey Park, Ross, co. Hereford, by his late wife, Elizabeth Eden, dau. of James Walker, of Airy Hill, Whitby; b. Budleigh Salterton, co. Devon; educ. Aysgarth School, Yorkshire, United Services College, Westward Ho! and Sandhurst; obtained his commission in the 2nd Yorkshires, 20 Feb. 1895; and was promoted Lieut. 18 Aug. 1897, Capt. 29 Sept. 1901, Major 11 Feb. 1911, and Lieut.-Col. 19 Aug. 1914. He served in India and Burmah; took part in the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8, including the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, the action at Saran Sar, and the operations round Dwatoi and against the Khani and Khel Chamkanis, and received the Tirah medal with two clasps. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, he was in charge of the Richmond Depôt, and undertook the raising of the 6th Battn., which formed part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action, 7 Aug. 1915, at the capture of the hill at Lalla Baba. The Chaplain of the 32nd Brigade, writing to his father, said: “He died as he would have wished to die—a gallant soldier leading his men, himself at the very front of the regt., on the summit of Lala Baba. As you have perhaps since learned we were to make a fresh landing on the night of the 6th inst. There were urgent reasons why we should capture the hill in silence, at the point of the bayonet without firing a shot. The moment we landed we were met with a very hot and accurate fire, which accounted for many casualties before our task was accomplished. Our advance, however, was irresistible, and despite the hail of bullets and the shower of shrapnel which had now got the range, the Yorkshires pushed forward to the Turkish trenches on the crest of the hill. There it was that the colonel’s gifts of leadership made themselves felt. ‘Come on the Yorkshires,’ he cried, and at their head with fixed bayonets, the lads he trained so well swept forward with irresistible force and the hill was ours. This brilliant little initial victory was, however, very dearly bought, for on the summit lay our colonel dead, and scattered all around a mass of wounded, dead and dying. With dawn we were able to estimate our losses. The losses among the men were heavy, but by no means proportional to the officers. The officers are young men who have received their commissions since the formation of the New Army. I go to see them in the firing line as often as I can. Their wonderful confidence and courage pass all belief. Confronted with a task that would try the nerve and test the skill of the most experienced soldier, commanded by a junior captain of 24 years, this little band of lads (for they are little more) with a wonderful courage, inspire with confidence and hope the men so unexpectedly committed to their care. It is a fresh and glorious page to be written in the history of the ‘Green Howards.’ Your son died instantaneously, shot through the neck. I was by his side not long afterwards, and so was able to prepare roughly for his burial. We buried him the same day in the same grave as his cousin, Wilfred Chapman, and two other officers, and have since erected a rough cross over the grave. At the moment of the accomplishment of the task he had been ordered to perform, with a quiet happy smile upon his face, he met his end as I know he would have chosen had the choice been his—the end of an English gentleman and a very gallant soldier.—P.S.—I am writing this under shell fire, so you must excuse its many errors.” He was unm. A tablet to his memory was placed in Richmond Parish Church, Yorkshire.

CHAPMAN, FRANK JAMES ALBERT, Private, No. 2856, 5th Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Frank William Chapman, Driver A.S.C. (now on service in France), by his wife, Elizabeth Eliza (Dale Hill, Ticehurst, Sussex), dau. of James Francis; b. Frimwell, co. Sussex, 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Ticehurst Council School; enlisted about 18–19 Nov. 1914; went to France, 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. His brother, Driver Walter Reginald Chapman, No. 092582, A.S.C., is now (1916) on active service in Egypt.

CHAPMAN, FRED CHARLES, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8421), 294415, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, FREDERICK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9954), S.S. 107663, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, GEORGE ERNEST, Private, No. 9073, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Henry Chapman, of Thorpe Salvin, Worksop, Farm Horseman, by his wife, Harriett, dau. of William Good; b. Thorpe Salvin, co. Nottingham, 29 Nov. 1889; enlisted 10 April, 1911, and served three years with the Colours, then passing into the Reserve and joining the Nottingham County Constabulary. He was stationed at headquarters during his brief service with the force, and his superior officers spoke highly of him. On the declaration of war in August following, however, he was called up and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.

CHAPMAN, GEORGE MARTIN, M.A., M.B., M.R.C.S., Lieut., R.A.M.C., attached 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), 2nd s. of the Hon. Mr. Justice Frederick Revans Chapman, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, by his wife, Clara, dau. of George Cook, of Dunedin, Barrister, and gdson. of the late Hon. Henry Samuel Chapman, also a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand; b. Dunedin, New Zealand, 26 March, 1887; educ. Waitaki High School, Oamaru, New Zealand, and the Otago University Medical School, and on leaving there went to London to study medicine and passed the conjoint Boards Examination, under which he subsequently became M.R.C.S. In 1907, however, he decided to go to Cambridge, where he remained until 1910, studying medicine and graduating in Arts. He then returned to the London Hospital and went through all the appointments held by the Junior Staff. When war broke out he was House Physician, but was already appointed House Surgeon. Owing to shortage he had to hold both appointments until he went to Shorncliffe in Sept. 1914. He was gazetted a Lieut., R.A.M.C., on the 11th of that month, went to the Front, and was attached to the 2nd Dragoon Guards in Feb. While serving in No. 11 General Hospital at Boulogne, a small vessel was wrecked in a gale on 7 Dec. All but the skipper got away from her. Two British soldiers attempted without success to rescue this man and had themselves to be put under treatment. Lieut. Chapman swam out and gripped the old skipper as he was drowning, and both were dragged ashore. For this he was awarded, by the French Government, the Gold Medaille de Souvetage, inscribed “pour courage et dévouement,” and was commended in a British Routine Order. The two privates received silver medals. He was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 13 May, 1915, when his regt. was holding the trenches on the Zonnebeke Road, a little east of Ypres. He and the men who were standing by him were killed instantaneously by a shell while attending the wounded machine gunners, and was buried with two other officers of the same regt. in the grounds of the Chateau of Potijge; unm. The Major of the Bays wrote: “We were in the trenches under a very severe shell fire. Your son was most gallantly attending to the wounded when a shell killed him instantly, as well as two men who were standing by him. We took his body back and buried him in the grounds of a chateau just east of Potijge cross roads, a small village east of Ypres. I cannot tell you what a loss he is to this regt.; he had only been with us two months, but was most popular with officers and men. Please accept the sympathy of the entire regt. with your great loss, and you have the great consolation that he died doing his duty very gallantly as a soldier should”; and the Col. of the 1st Cavalry Division: “I, in common with all who knew your son, would like to express our sincere condolence to his family. His gallant conduct throughout the engagement won him the admiration of officers and men alike; he died a noble death attending wounded in the trenches under a murderous fire. His death deprives me of one of the best officers that ever served under me, and I again tender you my deepest sympathy in your great bereavement.” When at Cambridge he was a noted athlete, taking his blue in Rugby football in 1907, and subsequently his half-blue in boxing. In both of these sports he upheld the name of his hospital when in London, and also played for other clubs, notably, for the Harlequins. One of his teachers, writing in the British Medical Journal, 29 May, 1915, said: “Perhaps at his age it is inevitable that his athletic gifts should attract more attention than his high mental abilities and sterling moral sense, which in later years would have readily won him a new renown. He was cast in a heroic mould, and, while it is no doubt true nothing became him more than the manner of his death, it is but cold comfort to many who mourn the early end of so admirable a life—the sudden quenching of so much vital and kindly force.”

CHAPMAN, HARRY REYNOLDS, Major, 10th (Service) Battn. Durham L.I., eldest s. of the late Capt. Abel Henry Chapman, formerly 19th Hussars, and chairman-director of Messrs. Clarke, Chapman & Co.’s Works, Gateshead-on-Tyne, by his wife, Mary (Colinton, Midlothian), dau. of John Fraser; b. Benares, India, 27 April, 1868; educ. Uppingham. On leaving school in 1891 he entered his father’s works and became a director in 1893. He was keenly interested in a volunteer corps of Royal Engineers raised in the works, of which he became Major. On the outbreak of the war he offered his services and received a commission in the 10th Service Battn. of the Durhams. Major Chapman was killed in action in France, 27 June, 1915. He m. Elinore Phyllis (Wingfield, Eagle Lane, Snaresbrook, Essex), dau. of John Larkin, and left three daus.; Elinore Mary, b. 15 Feb. 1899; Dorothy Harriet, b. 5 Aug. 1900; and Phyllis Agatha, b. 8 May, 1904.

CHAPMAN, HERBERT ALFRED, Private, No. 2221, 4th Suffolk Regt., s. of William Chapman, of Norwich, Carpenter; b. Norwich, 9 March, 1870; educ. Boys’ Model School there; was in the employ of Messrs. Cowell, Ltd., as a Compositor for over 20 years; volunteered and enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, was wounded in action there, 16 May, 1915, and died at the Dover Military Hospital, 21 May following. Capt. E. L. Brown wrote: “I consider him a man of the highest rank. No officer could want a more willing soldier, no soldier could desire a better comrade.” Lieut. A. Brunzee also wrote saying what a splendid example he set his younger companions. He m. at St. Nicholas’ Chapel, Ipswich, 21 Aug. 1898, Priscilla Jane, dau. of Thomas Pizzy, of High Street, Ipswich, Greengrocer, and had seven children: Arthur Frederick, b. 4 March, 1907; Millicent Bertha, b. 9 Jan. 1900; Dorothy May, b. 11 Feb. 1902; Ruby Cecily, b. 20 March, 1905; Marjorie Florence, b. 5 Aug. 1908; Winnifred Laura, b. 7 June, 1910; and Ellen Mary, b. 27 May, 1913.

CHAPMAN, JOE, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8437), 294702, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, PERCEVAL CHRISTIAN, Capt., Royal Artillery, attd. 26th (Jacob’s) Mountain Battery, 2nd s. of the Rev. Theodore Charles Chapman, M.A., Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society, and late Vicar of Christ Church, Clifton, by his wife, Alice Barr, dau. of the late Patrick Keith, of 26, Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W.: b. Laxey Parsonage, Isle of Man, 10 March, 1884; educ. Clifton College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was Tombs Memorial scholar. He was gazetted to the Royal Garrison Artillery, 15 July, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 15 July, 1906. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, was promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914. From July, 1907, he had served with the 26th (Jacob’s) Mountain Battery of the Indian Army. He died at Alexandria, 1 May, 1915, of wounds received in action during the landing at Gaba Tepe on 25 April, 1915; unm.

CHAPMAN, PHILIP GEORGE, Private, No. 1742 (Pioneer), B Coy., 4th Battn. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, 4th s. of Philip George Chapman, of 3A, Franche Court Road, Tooting, S.W., Coachbuilder, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of the Rev. Charles Carter, Baptist Minister; b. Tostock, co. Suffolk, 13 Feb. 1884; educ. Waldron Road L.C.C. School, Wandsworth; left England for Australia in Aug. 1911, and was for some time in the bush, afterwards working in Blackbutt, Queensland, and then going to Sydney. He enlisted in Jan. 1915, and was wounded in the charge of the Australians at Lone Pine, 14 Aug. 1915, dying the day following at Alexandria; unm. He had been ordered a rest because of his eyes being weak, but would not go upon hearing of the impending charge. Chapman was a keen athlete, holding many medals for swimming, gymnastics and football.

CHAPMAN, RICHARD KEPPEL GEORGE SUTTON, Midshipman, R.N., yst. s. of Francis Hay Chapman, Commander R.N. (retired), of 12, Foster Road, Alverstoke, Hants, by his wife, Amy Georgiana, 2nd dau. of the late Capt. Frederick Sutton, 11th Hussars, and granddau. of Capt. Robert Nassau Sutton, 7th Fusiliers, A.D.C. to Sir Ralph Abercrombie in Egypt [3rd son of Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Bart., M.P.]; b. Blackheath, S.E., 26 Oct. 1898; educ. Shirley House School, Old Charlton, Weymouth College, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; joined H.M.S. Bulwark, 3 Aug. 1914, when the Fleet mobilised for war. He was killed at Sheerness in the explosion on board that ship, 26 Nov. 1914. Chapman was a general favourite and a keen sportsman. A former tutor wrote: “May the thought that no finer or more upright lad ever wore naval uniform in some small measure be your consolation,” and another wrote: “No one that had anything to do with Dickie could help loving him.”

CHAPMAN, WILFRID HUBERT, Capt., 6th (Service) Battn. Alexandra Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt., 4th and yst. surviving s. of the late Joseph John Chapman, of St. Hilda’s Terrace, Whitby, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Henry Simpson, and gdson. of Joseph Barker Chapman; b. Goudhurst, co. Kent, 13 Dec. 1879; and went to Eton (Mr. Hale’s in 1894, and afterwards with his brother, Harold, in 1895 to Mr. Somerville’s). Here he soon became known as a boy of independent, original character, and a promising athlete. In 1897 he was first Whip of the Beagles and second Captain of the Boats; he won the school steeplechase, mile and half-mile, and rowed bow of the eight which won at Henley. In 1898 he won the Steeplechase again, and for the second time rowed bow of the eight which won the Ladies Plate at Henley. From Eton he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1899 rowed bow of the eight which beat Oxford for the first time for 10 years. At the time of the South African War he was given (10 July, 1900) a commission as Lieut. in the 4th (Militia) Battn. of the Yorkshires, and served through that campaign, being promoted Capt. 25 Feb. 1901, and receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps. At the end of the war he retired, returned to Cambridge, and was in the winning Cambridge crews of 1902 and 1903, and was president of the Cambridge University Boating Club in the latter year. On leaving Cambridge he went into business in London, but still kept up his rowing. He was in the Third Trinity eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1902, and the four that won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup the same year, on both occasions beating Leander in the finals. In 1903 for Third Trinity, which won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup. This was said to be the best four ever seen at Henley up to that date. In the Grand Challenge Cup Third Trinity were only beaten by six feet after a most exciting struggle, in which each boat took the lead alternately. In 1904 he was in the Leander eight which won the Grand Challenge Cup, and in the Third Trinity four which won the Stewards’ Challenge Cup. In 1905 he went to India as an assistant in the Bombay Co., and when war was declared he was manager of the company in Karachi. He immediately joined the Sind Volunteer Field Artillery, but being desirous of going to the Front and failing to get permission from the company, he threw up his appointment, came home and rejoined the Yorkshires as Capt. in June, 1915. The regt. left England for the Dardanelles early the following month, and Capt. Chapman was killed in the landing at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915. He m. at Barkway, co. Herts, 5 Aug. 1909, May Campbell, dau. of Alexander Sinclair, of 5e, Montagu Mansions, Portman Square, W., and had two daus.: Elizabeth Mary, b. 22 April, 1911; and Annie Wilfrida Sinclair, b. 31 Dec. 1913. His elder brother, Percy, Lieut., 21st Lancers, died of enteric in the Sudan in 1905; another brother, Harold, a Capt. in the Yorkshires, was wounded in Gallipoli a day or two after his brother was killed.

CHAPMAN, WILLIAM ALFRED, Private, No. 16431, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, s. of William George Chapman, Police Sergeant, Herts Constabulary, in charge of the police station at Royston; b. Weston, co. Herts, 24 Nov. 1894; commenced his career in the engineering works of the Dacre Motor Car Co. at Letchworth, and after a short time in the Heatly Gresham Works, enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, 24 April, 1913. He left England with his regt. on or about 12 Aug. 1914, was in the retreat from Mons, and in the various subsequent engagements, being taken prisoner in Nov. but managed to escape. He was killed in action near Béthune, while carrying a despatch from the firing line to Headquarters. A comrade wrote that when the bullet struck him he smiled and fell down dead. Chapman was recommended in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

CHAPPLE, JOHN HENRY, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 14863, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHARITY, JOHN EDWARD, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21839, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHARLES, GEORGE, Private, No. 4242, 1st Battn. Royal Scots, s. of the late George Charles, of Leven, co. Fife, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of the late Alexander Mitchell, of Leven; b. Leith, 1871; educ. Bonnington Road School there; enlisted Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 May, 1915. He m. at Leith, 29 July, 1894, Catherine (died 30 April, 1911), dau. of James Dalgleish, and had two sons and four daus.: George, Private, No. 6410, Royal Scots Fusiliers (twice wounded), b. 1895; James, Private, No. 1942, — Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, b. 1897 (both on active service); Barbara; Lizzie, b. 9 June, 1901; Kate, and Isabella, b. 3 Oct. 1907.

CHARLES, JAMES ARTHUR MERRIMAN, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., only s. of the Rev. James Hamilton Charles, M.A., R.D., Vicar of Oakham, by his wife, Elisabeth, dau. of the late John Jones Merriman, of 45, Kensington Square, W., M.D.; b. Whittlesea, Peterborough, 7 Feb. 1890; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1912); joined Special Reserve, King’s Shropshire L.I. 4 Nov. 1912, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. 5 Nov. 1914. He was wounded in action at Rue du Bois, Armentières, 23 Oct. 1914, having been chosen by his colonel to hold some advance trenches only 400 yards away from the Germans. Many of his men had fallen round him and he had sent his servant with a message asking for reinforcements, to which the colonel replied on a piece of paper that he was to “hold on.” It was while reading this message that he was shot through the head, after which, though partially paralysed and unable to speak clearly, he lay in the trench for eight hours giving orders to his men through his servant, till the latter was also wounded. Two men then volunteered to carry him to the dressing station, which they did under heavy fire. He was at once removed to Boulogne and later to England, and died after a serious operation in King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers, 9, Grosvenor Gardens, London, 10 Feb. 1915; unm.

CHARLETON, THOMAS HOLT, Private, No. 19588, Scottish Rifles, 2nd s. of James Parker Charleton, of Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Ann (21, Thomas Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of James Holt, of Oldham; b. Southwick-on-Wear, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. National School there; was employed at Pickergill’s, Sunderland; enlisted 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front 2 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried on a farm near Loos, just behind the firing line.

MUSTARD CHARLETON, WILLIAM, L.-Corpl., No. 2254, 7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of James Mustard, of Southwick, Bottleblower, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Charleton, of Southwick; b. Southwick-on-Wear, 28 Oct. 1890; educ. National School there; was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland; joined the 7th (Territorial) Battn. of the Durham L.I. 5 May, 1913, but signed on again, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial Service, went to the Front 24 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 24 May, 1915. He m. at Sunderland, 5 April, 1913, Alice (16, Ogle Terrace, Southwick-on-Wear), 4th dau. of Samuel Kirkham, of Middlesbro’, and had two sons: William, b. 23 Sept. 1913, and John, b. 28 Feb. 1915.

CHARLTON, JOHN RAYWOOD, Teleg., J. 11054, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHARLTON, BENJAMIN DAVID, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 9493, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CHARLTON, ST. JOHN ALAN, Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of St. John Charlton, of Cholmondeley Malpas, co. Chester, Agent to the Marquess of Cholmondeley, by his wife, Elisabeth Bronwen, dau. of the late Hugh Robert Hughes, of Kinmel, co. Derby, and Lady Florentia Emily, née Liddell, dau. of Henry Thomas, 1st Earl of Ravensworth; b. Cholmondeley, 17 Nov. 1889; educ. Eton College, and was given a commission in the 4th Special Reserve Battn. of the Bedfords, 2 Dec. 1911. On the declaration of war he volunteered for foreign service, went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Festubert, 26 Oct. 1914; unm. Lieut. Charlton was a well-known member of the Cheshire Hunt.

CHARMAN, JOHN EDWARD, Private, No. 1738, 4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Charman, of 1, Friday Street, Warnham; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 21 Aug. 1915.

CHARMAN, JOSEPH PHILIP, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8880), 194784, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CHARMAN, WILLIAM, Private, No. G. 3557, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of William Charman, of 22, Lawnsmead, Wonersh, Guildfield; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

CHARRINGTON, ARTHUR CRAVEN, Capt., 1st Royal Dragoons, yr. s. of the late Nicholas Edward Charrington, of Bures Manor, Reigate, by his wife, Isabella (Offham House, Lewes, co. Sussex), dau. of George Arthur Fuller, of The Rookery, Dorking; b. Marden Ash, Ongar, Essex, 17 May, 1882; educ. Eton, where he was a member of Mr. Ainger’s House from 1896–1901. On leaving there he joined the Militia of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, whence he was gazetted into the 1st Royal Dragoons, 26 March, 1902, joining the regt. in India in 1903. He was promoted Lieut. 24 June, 1905, and Capt. 12 April, 1910. From Oct. 1911, to Oct. 1912, he was A.D.C. to General Sir O’Moore Creagh, V.C., Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies, having previously acted in the same capacity to Lord Minto and Lord Kitchener. At the time of the outbreak of the European War Capt. Charrington was stationed with his regt. in S. Africa. In Sept. the regt. was ordered home, and within a fortnight of its arrival was sent to France. Capt. Charrington was the first officer of the 1st Dragoons to fall. He was killed 20 Oct. 1914, being struck by shrapnel in the trenches around Ypres, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. Although at the Front but a very short time, he had the good fortune to take part in a very successful raid in an armoured car. “I had a great piece of luck yesterday,” he wrote to his mother on 12 Oct. “The division was halted at a place for the day, and I was sent out with another officer on a reconnaissance in two armoured cars, each carrying a Maxim gun. We also had an armoured car with 10 men. After scouring the country for some time without seeing anything we eventually got to a town where they told us the Germans had left a day or two previously. We went on through the town, stopped outside, and had a look round through our glasses. I saw a few men whom I took to be Germans about a mile away in a farmyard. They had evidently seen us, as they were running backwards and forwards, and seemed very excited. We then went on for about a mile and made a detour round to the farm where I had seen them. When we got there the inhabitants told us that nine mounted Germans had just left. We set off in pursuit. It was really just like a hunt. All the inhabitants of every village rushed out and told us they were just ahead of us. We eventually came up to them suddenly round a corner, standing by the side of the road, two of them dismounted. We let fly into the middle of them with the Maxim at 200 yards. They fled for their lives, leaving behind them four lances and two helmets. The three dismounted men ran across a field. We jumped out of the car and pursued them on foot with revolvers and rifles. It was rather like potting rabbits, as they dodged behind trees and bushes We eventually bagged one officer, four men and a horse, the officer and two men being wounded. The remaining four streaked away across country. We returned in triumph with our prisoners, and they gave us a tremendous reception. It was really great sport, and I have the honour of being the first to draw blood. Then the cars went out again this morning and captured the remaining four, so that I think we mopped up the whole covey” Always most thoughtful of the men in his troop, Capt. Charrington was immensely popular with them. Sergt. Ridley, who had served under him from the time he joined the regt., and who came from York to London to attend a memorial service to his troop officer, on his own account afterwards wrote to Mrs. Charrington: “I required no thanks for coming, as it was only natural for me to attend, considering that he was my troop officer when he first joined us on our return from South Africa in 1903 after the Boer War. He soon became most popular, not only because of his smartness, but because he took a great interest in the N.C.Os. and men belonging to his troop. He was a general favourite with us all, and your sad loss is shared by every single man of the Royal Dragoons.” It is evident from the many letters written by his friends that Capt. Charrington, known to his intimates as “The Kid.” had a singularly lovable disposition and the gift of inspiring affection in others. He was a famous gentleman jockey and well-known at Sandown, and was recognised as one of the best riders in India. As a race-rider Capt. Charrington established a record which must surely remain as a memento to his equestrian skill for all time. He was riding out at a meeting at Simla during the course of which he accepted 15 mounts. Of these, he brought 13 home in front, and one of the other two was second, an almost incredible performance. In 1909 he won the Army Cup on Capt. Gibb’s Pommard, while in the following year he won the same race on Major Campion’s Injas, and the Indian Grand National on Major Wilson’s Kaffirpan. Also as a game shot Capt. Charrington achieved considerable reputation, having made several expeditions to Kashmir and the Central Provinces, and while out shooting with Sir John Hewitt, the Governor of the United Provinces, he bagged two tigers.

CHARTERIS, MALCOLM MAXWELL McINNES, Private, No. 12874, 16th (Waikato) Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of David Charteris, of New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand, Land Agent; (a native of Dumfrieshire, Scotland); b. South Canterbury, New Zealand, 27 Jan. 1887; educ. Temuka, and Taranaki; was living near Rotorua, Auckland Province, when war broke out, and at once volunteered for Imperial Service; left for England with the Main Body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; unm. He was a great athlete and a representative footballer. One of his nephews and a cousin-german were also killed in action.

CHASTY, RICHARD CHRISTOPHER, L.-Corpl., No. 9834, 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers,] s. of James Chasty, Caretaker for the High School, 40, Harcourt Street, Dublin, naval pensioner of 38 years (10 Jan. 1876 to 27 July, 1914), by his wife, Clara Lucretia, dau. of Samuel How; b. Portaferry, co. Down, 24 Aug. 1893; educ. Strangford, Lower Moville, co. Donegal, and Shanaher Belmullet, co. Mayo, National Schools; enlisted in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers about 25 Sept. 1909; was wounded in action at the Dardanelles, 22 May, 1915, and died at Netley Hospital, 7 Sept. following; unm.

CHATTERIS, TOM BRODIE, Capt., attd. 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt., 4th s. of the late Charles C. Chatteris, of Chatteris, Nicholls & Chatteris, Chartered Accountants; b. London, W., 9 March, 1881; educ. Sherborne; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Militia) Battn. Sherwood Foresters, 1 Feb. 1900; and promoted Lieut., 19 March, 1902; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with one clasp), and retired with the rank of Hon. Lieut. in the Army, joining the Special Reserve of Officers. He then engaged in forestry work in Siam for the Borneo Co., London, but when war broke out returned home and rejoined his regt., 24 Dec. 1914; went to France in May, 1915, being gazetted Tempy. Capt. in June, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. following; unm.

CHAWNER, JOHN HENRY, A.B., J. 5865, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

CHAYTOR, ALBAN KINGSFORD, 2nd Lieut., 6th, attd. 3rd, Battn. Worcester Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. Charles Chaytor, Rector of St. Helens, and St. Albans with St. Michael’s, Worcester, since 1881; b. there 23 Oct. 1891; educ. at King’s School (Cathedral), Worcester, where he was successively captain of cricket and of the boats, and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he held the Worfield Scholarship and the Inge Exhibition. On leaving there he took up tea planting in Ceylon, was a member of the Volunteer Defence Force, and on the outbreak of war joined the Ceylon Rifle Corps. Early in 1915 he came to England, obtained a commission in the County Regt. 6 Feb. 1915, and (while serving later with the 3rd Battn.) was severely wounded in the trenches near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, and died in a field hospital two days later; unm. His colonel and brother officers wrote of him as “a most promising officer,” a “born soldier,” “always ready to volunteer on any dangerous venture.” He was buried in the churchyard of La Clytte.

CHEALES, CLEMENT BELLINGHAM, Able Seaman in Public School Corps of the Naval Brigade, Hawke Battn., brother of the Rev. John Patey Cheales, Vicar of Friskney, and s. of the late Rev. Henry John Cheales, formerly Vicar of that place, 1869–99, by his wife, Edith Maria, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Booth; b. Friskney, 6 April, 1876; educ. Marlborough College; served with the Imperial Yeomanry during the South African War (medal with two clasps), and was in South Africa when the European War broke out. He immediately came home in Jan. 1915, and enlisted in the Public Schools Battn. of the Royal Naval Brigade, spent the winter in training at the Crystal Palace, and went to the Dardanelles in April. His work lay with the machine gun section of the Division. He died in hospital at Alexandria, 5 Sept. 1915, of fever contracted in Gallipoli, where he had been fighting until 20 Aug.; unm. His commanding officer wrote that he had decided to recommend him for a commission when death intervened.

CHEESE, ALFRED, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 989), late R.M.A., 7113, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHEESE, WILLIAM JOHN, Private, No. 55979, 19th Battn. (Lincoln Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Frederick John Cheese, of 42, North Street, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, formerly Imperial Navy and Mercantile Marine (who volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, and was serving in the North Atlantic Squadron at the time of his son’s death), by his wife, Susan, dau. of James Harris, of Brixham, Devon; b. Dagenham, co. Essex, 4 Feb. 1898; educ. Hornchurch, Essex, England, and at Chatham, Ontario, Canada; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 24 Aug. 1914; was for a short time attached to the “Welland Canal Guard,” during which time he was instrumental in obtaining information which led to the capture of nine Austrians who were living in close proximity to the canal, and who were subsequently interned. Volunteered for service overseas in Oct. 1914; was accepted and attached to the 19th Battn., who received their training at Toronto Exhibition Grounds Camp. He was among those of that unit who broke all records for the route marching from Long Branch to the Exhibition Ground Camp, covering the distance of 11 miles in heavy marching order (carrying 65 lbs.) in 2 hours 8 minutes. The 19th Battn. left for Shorncliffe in May, 1915, where Private Cheese proved himself a crack shot with the rifle, making 95 points out of a possible 100. His ambition was to become a sniper at the Front, but unfortunately he met with an accident which necessitated an operation. While recovering from this he contracted typhoid, and died at Lidwells, Goudhurst, Kent, 17 Sept. 1915; unm. His battn. had left for the Front the previous day.

CHEESEMAN, PERCY, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 2026, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHEESEMAR, STANLEY WILLIAM, A.B., Private, R.M.L.I., J. 12085, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHENEY, WILLIAM JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 8287, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Joseph Cheney, Horsekeeper, formerly of Laughton, co, Leicester, by his wife Lucy, widow of (—) Allwood, dau. of John Wall, Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire; b. Birmingham, 29 May, 1888; educ. Highgate Council School; enlisted 24 Jan. 1909, and was for some time Orderly to the commanding officer before being transferred to the Reserve in March, 1913. He then joined the Isle of Ely Constabulary, and was for 18 months police constable at Ely and Littleport. On the outbreak of war he was called up, went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons, etc., and was shot by a sniper at Rentel, near Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914. The Capt. wrote that he was just returning to his place in the trench when he was shot in the back by a sniper, the bullet penetrating his left lung and killing him instantly. A letter was found on him and sent to his widow, in which the writer thanked Cheney and another man named Booth for attending to him when he was wounded, apparently in the right arm, for the letter was written with the left hand, and ran: “I can never tell you how grateful I am to you, old chap, for fixing me up at the critical moment, for I know that I should soon have bled to death.” He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 26 Sept. 1912, Mary Martha (Silver Street, Ely), dau. of Samuel Tustin, of Hampton-in-Arden, and had two children: Joseph William John, b. 16 Sept. 1914; and Clara Lucy Anita, b. 7 July, 1913. His half-brother, Sergt. H. Allwood, 3rd Coldstream Guards, is now (1916) on Active Service with the British Expeditionary Force.

CHENNELL, ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7424), 291447, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHESTER, GREVILLE ARTHUR BAGOT, 2nd Lieut., Special Reserve, 3rd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt, eldest s. of the Rev. John Greville Chester, M.A., Vicar of Gilling, Richmond, co. York [great-gdson. of Charles Bagot, afterwards Chester, brother of William, 1st Baron Bagot, and 2nd son of Sir Walter Wagstaffe Bagot, 5th Bart., by his wife, Amy, dau. of Arthur Hughes; b. Pyrton, co. Oxford, 3 April, 1891; educ. Rossall School and St. John’s College, Oxford; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. North Staffords, 5 Feb. 1913, and attached to the 1st Battn. on the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Oulterstern, near Hazebrouk, 13 Oct. 1914, while leading his platoon in an attack on German rearguard, and was buried at Meris, Flanders; unm. Lieut. Chester’s commanding officer wrote: “The battn. was carrying out an attack on a German rearguard at Oulterstern, a small village a few miles east of Hazebrouk. Your boy’s company was in front, and stood the brunt of the attack, and his Capt., Hume Kelly (who was himself killed a few days later), told me he behaved exceedingly well, and showed not only courage but common sense in leading his platoon. I personally am very sorry to lose him, for he was not only a thoroughly nice lad, but had the making of a first-rate officer—willing, keen and reliable.”

CHESTER, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, No. 40617, 3rd Battery, 1st Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Thomas Chester (who served in the Nile Expedition); b. 1 Jan. 1891; educ. Brockville (P. Ontario) Public School: volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted 10 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and died in No. 3 Casualty Clearing Hospital at Bailleul, 15 July, 1915, of wounds received in action. He m. at Gananoque, 24 May, 1910, Margaret Evelyn (Gananoque, Ontario, Canada), dau. of the late John MacDonald, and had two children: Margaret, b. 21 July, 1912; and Rita, b. 28 April, 1914.

CHESTNEY, ARTHUR, A.B., 233864, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHEVONS, JIM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 446). Ch./8359, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHEYNE, ANDREW, L.-Corpl., No. 1972, 9th Battn. (Highlanders) Royal Scots (T.F.), yst. s. of Robert Cheyne, Chief Clerk of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, Edinburgh (11, Denham Green Place, Trinity), by his wife, Violet, 4th dau. of the late Thomas Fairgrieve, of Musselburgh; b. Edinburgh, 4 April, 1896; educ. Royal High School, Edinburgh; enlisted on the outbreak of war, was promoted L.-Corpl. Jan. 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 14 April, 1915, from wounds received in France (presumably at Ypres). He was buried at Boulogne; unm. An elder brother, L.-Corpl. Harry Cheyne, 6th Infantry Brigade, 2nd Contingent, Canadian Expeditionary Force, is now (1916) serving at the Front.

CHEYNEY, SYDNEY BERNARD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26788, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHILDS, CHARLES ROBERT, A.B., 179912, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHILES, STANLEY MOORE, Leading Seaman, 210508 H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHILMAN, EDWARD RENNE, Seaman, R.N.R., 37453, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHILTON, FRANK, Lieut., 13th (Service) Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of Dr. Charles Chilton, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., etc., Professor of Biology, Canterbury College, New Zealand, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Jack; b. Port Chalmers, New Zealand, 27 Sept. 1892: educ. West Christchurch District High School, Waitaki Boys’ High School and Edinburgh University, where he was a member of the O.T.C. Prior to the outbreak of war Lieut. Chilton was studying medicine, but he immediately applied for and received a commission in the 3rd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 15 Aug. 1914; was promoted Lieut., 31 Oct. 1914, and transferred to the 13th (Service) Battn., and left for the Dardanelles in May, 1915, being attached for service to the 2nd Hampshires. He was killed in action there, 4 June, 1915; unm.

CHILTON, FREE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7510), S.S. 102823, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHILVERS, PERCY ERNEST, Gunner, R.M.A., 13375, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHING, HUGH (alias HUGH WILLIAM POWER), Private, No. 1631, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), only s. of Richard Ching, of 180, Esywn Road, Tooting, London, by his wife, Annie; b. London, 25 Jan. 1887; educ. Stockwell Board School, was an Advertising Expert and Agent; joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles in 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, Oct. 1914, and died in Hospital at Ypres, 26 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres two days previously. Buried in the ramparts of Ypres. His Capt. wrote: “All who knew your husband appreciated him very much, he was in every way a good soldier, no higher praise can be given to a man”; and 2nd Lieut. K. Lloyd wrote: “I only joined the 1st Battn. here in Jan., but he was then on the list of ‘staunch ones,’ which my platoon sergt. gave me. Ever since that first night when he took out a listening patrol, he has been a great rock of comfort to me. It is just the men like him that give such a feeling of confidence to us when we feel a touch of downheartedness. I am glad to say I was able to go back to him for a moment after he had been hit and the last I heard of him was his calling ‘Good luck’ to his friends as they filed past him along the path.” He m. at Manchester, 2 May, 1914, Pollie (Meadowside, New Mills, Derbyshire), 4th dau. of James Henry Pimley; s.p.

CHIPCHASE, CHARLES WILSON, Private, No. 4333, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Thomas Chipchase, of Hull, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Charles Leadley; b. Scott Street, Hull, 12 Sept. 1880; educ. Charterhouse Lane Board School; enlisted 19 Aug. 1901; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 5 Nov. 1914, being buried in Rentel Wood. He m. at St. Saviour’s Wilmington, Hull, 10 June, 1906, Elizabeth (31, Poplar Avenue, Poplar Road, Hull), dau. of Edward Pritchard, and left four children: Charles Edward, b. 2 Sept. 1907; Percy Pritchard, b. 15 Feb. 1909; Stanley Pritchard, b. 18 Nov. 1910; and David William, b. 20 Nov. 1912.

CHISHOLM, ALEXANDER, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4308), 188284, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CHISIM, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9121), S.S. 105949, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHISNALL, GEORGE HENRY, M.B., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Lieut., R.A.M.C., s. of Charles Henry Chisnall, of Frating Abbey, Colchester, co. Essex, by his wife, Eugénie Ellen (Frating Abbey, Colchester), dau. of Thomas Patrick Hitchcock, of Lavenham, co. Suffolk; b. Great Bentley, co. Essex, 4 April, 1886; educ. Framlingham College, Suffolk, and The London Hospital Medical College. He received his commission as temporary Lieut. in the R.A.M.C. on 6 Aug. 1914, having qualified in 1908, and taken the M.B. (Lond.) in 1910. Leaving England on the outbreak of war, he was attached to and started work in the surgical ward of No. 7 General Hospital set up at Amiens. This had to be abandoned in the retreat from Mons, and he was afterwards attached to the 1st Battn. Cameron Highlanders. He was struck by a shell while attending the wounded in the open during an engagement north of Ypres, and died the following day, 24 Oct. 1914, in hospital at Elverdinghe. He was buried in the churchyard there. He was the only Chisnall at that time on the British Medical Register, and the first F.R.C.S. to fall in the war.

CHITTENDEN, FRANK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5685), 186140, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHIVAS, EDWIN JOHN, Private, No. 27051, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of William Hay Chivas, of 74, Chisley Avenue, London, Ontario (who served for 16 years in the 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders and then settled in Canada), b. Fraserburgh, co. Aberdeen; educ. there; went to Canada with his parents in 1901; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left with the first Contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at St. Julien, Belgium, 24 April, 1915; unm. Sergt. L. D. Anderson, A. Coy. 15th Battn., who was invalided back to Canada after this action, gave the following account: “I was in charge of the fort in which he was, and we retired together after being forced out by the gas fumes in the Battle of St. Julien, 24 April. Twenty or more of us lay all day under a terrible shell fire, being unconscious for most of the time, from early morning—5 o’clock—till dusk. At dusk, I being the senior, and having come to my senses, decided that we must start to gain shelter or else we should all be lost, as our breathing was coming harder and I felt I was becoming worse. I crawled over to him and braced him up, with my arms around him, telling him that we would try to get across two fields to a road; here I felt we might get water or aid. Your son’s strength had so far gone that he could walk but a very few paces and then dropped to the ground. Whether he died then or later I cannot tell you, as I, with two others, forced my way till I lay exhausted, only to be rescued by two artillerymen and brought back to life in the hospital. Your son was very much beloved by all his comrades and always was cheery and happy. We slept side by side for a long time, and so I knew him very well. When on several occasions, as I was accustomed to read from the ‘Book’ on Sundays, I forgot, your son would remind me, and our little group would sit in a quiet corner and have a quiet read of some of St. Paul or the Ninety-first Psalm. Your son was a good and true soldier.” His three brothers are all on active service, two with the Divisional Ammunition Column, and the third as a baker in the A.S.C.

CHOLMLEY, GEORGE FRANCIS, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., 2nd s. of Alfred John Cholmley, of Place Newton, Rillington, co. York, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Rev. Francis Simpson, of Foston, co. York; b. Place Newton, 1 Sept. 1882; educ. Summerfield’s 1893–5, and Mann’s Preparatory School for Navy 1895–7; joined the Britannia, 1897, was appointed to the Barfleur, Rear-Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald’s flagship, on the China Station in Sept. 1898, and served through the China War, for which he received the medal; was on the Niobe from Dec. 1900, to May, 1902, and after passing through Greenwich, entered the submarine service in 1903. He was serving as Sub-Lieut. with A 1 when she was sunk in 1904. On the day she was lost he had been sent to take temporary charge of another submarine, and was returning to A 1, about 4.30 p.m., when no trace of her could be found. After the A 1 was raised he was given six months’ promotion, being made Lieut. and put in command of her; afterwards commanded B, C and D boats, and from Feb. 1907, to March, 1909, served on the Bedford on the China Station, and in July of the latter year was appointed to the command of Submarine C 27. On 31 March, 1912, he was promoted Lieut.-Commander, and in May appointed to the Alecto for duty with submarines, and in 1913 received an expression of the Lords of the Admiralty’s high appreciation of the way in which he had handled his ship when towing H.M.S. Jackal into Dundee Harbour during a storm. He was given command of Submarine E 3 in June, 1914, and was killed in action in the Bight of Heligoland, 18 Oct. 1914. In Sept. he picked up a German seaplane which had been in the water for 20 hours about 30 miles off the Island of Borkum, and after destroying the remains of the seaplane he brought the officer and his mechanic as prisoners to Harwich. Lieut.-Commander Cholmley m. at St. Saviour’s Church, Mayfair, London, 9 Sept. 1911, Violet Penelope Munro (Hillcot, Shakespeare Road, Worthing), dau. of Robert James Trown Thomson, Indian P.W.D., by his wife, May Forbes, dau. of the Very Rev. Principal William Robinson Pirie, D.D., Aberdeen; s.p.

CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES ALMERIC JOHN, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., yr. s. of the late Lord Henry Vere Cholmondeley (2nd s. of William Henry Hugh, 3rd Marquis of Cholmondeley), by his wife, Frances Isabella Catherine, 2nd dau. of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. George Augustus Spencer [2nd s. of Francis Almeric, 1st Baron Churchill, and gdson. of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough]; b. London, 5 March, 1880; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted to the Border Regt. from the Militia, 4 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1902, and Capt. 23 July, 1910. In the Army Exercise at Northampton, 1913, Capt. Cholmondeley had a small command in the skeleton force under Major-General Munro, which operated so well from Daventry Heights. He was killed in action near Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; unm.

CHORLEY, DUDLEY CECIL, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., 2nd s. of Charles John Chorley, of The Grange, Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Wine Merchant, by his wife, Florence, dau. of William John Noad: b. Dulwich, 7 July, 1889; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; spent several years in Chili, Peru, Bolivia, and other parts of South America; was afterwards connected with the Union-Castle Line of steamships, and became their youngest purser, being in charge of the Gloucester Castle. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Naval Reserve as an Assistant Paymaster, 8 Sept. 1914; was commended by the commander of his first ship, H.M.S. Royal Arthur, and after three months’ service in this cruiser was appointed Assistant Paymaster (in charge) on H.M.S. Bayano, the youngest then holding that office in His Majesty’s Fleet. The Bayano left Glasgow on a Wednesday, and was torpedoed the following morning at 5 a.m., 11 March, 1915. His body was never recovered. He was a member of the Purley Cricket and Lawn Tennis Clubs, and a good sportsman. His marriage was fixed for his next return to port.

CHOWN, HERBERT, Private, R.M.L.l. (R.F.R., B. 1828), 186777, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHRISTOPHER, LEONARD DE LONA, Capt., 40th Pathans, Indian Army, elder s. of Major-General Leonard William Christopher, C.B., Indian Army (retired), of Harcourt House, Camberley, by his wife, Florence, 4th dau. of the late Major-Gen. Charles Stuart Lane, C.B., and gdson. of the late Major-Gen. Leonard Raisbeck Christopher; b. Mansfield, Iver Heath, co. Bucks, 21 Oct. 1883; educ. Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. then in India, 9 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 2 March, 1905, being the same month transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the 40th Pathans. He obtained his company 9 Jan. 1913; was Adjutant 12 April, 1911, to April, 1915, and took part in the operations in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp), 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he came home with his regt., served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915; buried in a farm three-quarters of a mile north-east of the village of St. Jean. His colonel wrote: “The regt. was in the first line of attack, and had to cross over open ground for over 1,000 yards under a fearful fire of machine guns and shells, both front and flank.... A native officer of ours near him loosened his belt for him, and Chris said “Mehrbani” and died.... He performed his duty nobly to the end.” And a brother officer: “He was dearly loved in the regt., and died a very gallant death at the head of his men, and helped to make the regt. he loved so well famous in that reckless charge.” Capt. Christopher m. at East Barnet, co. Herts, 4 June, 1913, Edith Marian, 4th dau. of Albert Robinson Bulman, of Trevor Hall, East Barnet, co. Herts, late of Indian Civil Service.

CHRYSTIE, JOHN, Major, 3rd Battery, Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, R.G.A., 2nd s. of Col. George Chrystie, of Shortheath Lodge, Farnham, J.P., Supernumerary List, Indian Army, who served in the Indian Mutiny in 1858 (medal), by his wife, Helen Anne Thomasine, dau. of William Robertson Myers, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica; b. Mangalore, India, 9 March, 1872; educ. Surrey County School, Cranleigh, and Portsmouth Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1894, Capt. 8 Nov. 1899, and Major 7 Oct. 1911, and was Adjutant in the Volunteer Forces, Nov. 1905, to March, 1907. He served in India with A Mountain Battery and R.G.A. from 1896 to 1905; was Instructor in Gunnery to the Hoogly Defences, 1901–5, and made three tours in Sierra Leone between 1907 and 1912 as Instructor in Gunnery. He left for France in command of No. 3 Battery, 1st Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, on 17 Sept. 1914; took part in the Battle of the Aisne, and on 12 Oct. was moved to the neighbourhood of Ypres. He was killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres at Zillebeke, near Ypres, on 17 Nov. 1914; and was buried in Ypres Cemetery. His colonel wrote of him: “He left behind him the lasting memorial of a shining example, of how we ought to live and die, and we shall not forget it. He came to this brigade at my invitation, stayed in it at my invitation, and so far as we all are concerned he remains in it for ever. We shall not see his like any more.” Major Chrystie was a keen sportsman, and won the Silver Spear of the Allahabad Tent Club in 1897 for pig sticking. His great-uncles, Lieut. John Chrystie, R.N., and Capt. Thomas Chrystie, R.N., served under Nelson. The former was in the Victory immediately before Trafalgar, but was transferred on promotion. The latter was at Trafalgar in the Defiance. His twin brother, Major George Chrystie, 25th Cavalry, Frontier Force, Indian Army, was killed in a raid on the North-West Frontier of India on 2 May, 1913. Major Chrystie m. at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, 15 Jan. 1913, Mignonne Muriel Maude (5, Portland Terrace, Southsea), dau. of Charles Lennox Brice Cumming, late of the Indian Civil Service, and had a dau.: Leslie Mignonne Comyn, b. 6 June, 1914.

CHUDLEY, JOHN FREDERICK, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 330, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Chudley, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Jesse Hattam; b. Sydenham, 8 Sept. 1875; educ. St. Mary’s School, Brook Green, London; enlisted in the 1st Royal Fusiliers (Volunteers) in 1894, and served through the Boer war, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for foreign service, and died of wounds caused by an explosion of a bomb in the trenches at Merville, 12 June, 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Wimbledon Park, S.W., 29 Jan. 1910, Charlotte Susannah (206, Balvernie Grove, Southfields, S.W.), yst. dau. of James Thomas Mortimer, and had one dau., Doris, b. 13 April, 1912. Capt. Glover wrote: “I personally have known the Sergt.-Major for nearly thirteen years, and a soldier with a keener sense of duty and a man straighter in all dealings I have never met. By his death I have lost a friend and a comrade, and one who has never failed me in any circumstances.” Besides the South African medal, Sergt.-Major Chudley had the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal.

CHURCHILL, DAVID EDWIN STANLEY, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16325, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHURCHILL, JOHN WILFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 8109, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Nehemiah Churchill; b. Netherton, near Dudley, 6 June, 1885; enlisted Jan. 1905, and was killed in action at Paradis, 18 Oct. 1914; unm.

CHUTE, CHALLONER FRANCIS TREVOR, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 3rd s. of the late Francis Blennerhassett Chute, of Chute Hall, Tralee, co. Kerry, J.P., by his wife, Cherry Herbert (22, Ashburton Road, Southsea), dau. of Norcott D’Esterre Roberts, of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin; b. Chute Hall, Tralee, 2 April, 1885; received his commission from the Militia in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 28 Nov. 1905 and was promoted Lieut. 9 Feb. 1908. Reported “missing” after the Battle of Mons, it was afterwards officially announced that he was killed in action near Etreux, France, 27 Aug. 1914. Capt. H. S. Jervis, the senior surviving officer of the battn., gave the following account of the fight on 27 Aug. in which Lieut. Chute met his death: “The regt. was left in a somewhat exposed position, and the orders for a withdrawal seem to have gone astray. Chute, with his guns which he handled during the day with wonderful skill, covered the withdrawal of my company at mid-day. It was pouring with rain, and with entire disregard to personal comfort, characteristic of him, he lay down in six inches of water to manipulate his guns better. The Germans were crossing the front, and he never neglected an opportunity of delaying their advance. He withdrew them from one position to another all day, forming an invaluable escort to the two field guns we had attached to us. The withdrawal continued through a village at about 5.30 p.m., and at the other side of it he came into action again, firing right down the road, on both edges of which Capt. Rawlinson’s company was withdrawing. Owing to the help of your husband’s guns the company got safely through, and rejoined the battn. The enemy were now on three sides of us, and their artillery opened fire. Chute brought his machine guns back at the gallop along the road under a positive hail of lead. It was a splendid feat, and was successfully accomplished, and once again the guns were placed in position. We were now completely surrounded, and your husband crossed the road to try to find a target to aim at. As he crossed he was shot in the right side and thigh, and fell dead. Up to the last he was cheery and full of spirits as ever; in fact, he was the life and soul of the mess. He was looked upon as the best machine gun officer of the brigade, and his work during the day only served to confirm this view. Yesterday, the 28th, the Germans allowed us to send out a burial party of our own men, and they found Chuty and buried him with the eight other officers of the regt. who were killed in a grave separate from the men. He was buried with all his personal effects on him. His heavier kit is with the regimental transport, the only part of the regt. to escape.” Lieut. Chute m. 29 June, 1911, Maud Emily St. Clair, only dau. of the late Edward O’Brien Hobson, of Myler’s Park, co. Wexford, and had two sons: Desmond, b. 10 Aug. 1913; and Challoner, b. 18 March, 1915.

CLAIR, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., 1406U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept., 1914.

CLAPP, ALBERT GEORGE, Po. /16499, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARE, SAMUEL JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8218), 293806, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARK, EDWARD, Private, No. 13619, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 4th s. of the late Edward Clark, of Morley, co. York (died 28 April, 1909), by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Walker Clark, of Morley; b. Morley, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. Queen Street Wesleyan School there; went to Canada about 1906, and settled first at Elkron, Manitoba, three years later moving further west to Swift Currents, Sask. He enlisted there on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, arriving in Oct. After training at Salisbury during the winter he went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His company officer, Lieut. L. F. Page, wrote: “He has been under my command ever since the first days at Valcartier, and I got to know him very well. He was an excellent soldier, always willing, obliging and brave. His death, I know, was all he would have wished it to be. He was killed capturing a German position; his loss is greatly felt by us all. May we each die as fine a death as he did.”

CLARK, FREDERICK JAMES, Gunner, No. 57600, Royal Field Artillery, s. of James Clark, of 2, Philip Street, Bath; b. Tiverton, Bath, 2 Feb. 1891; educ. there; enlisted in May, 1909; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914; unm. His brother is now (1916) serving with the 4th Somersets.

CLARK, HENRY WILLIAM, Rifleman, No. 2612, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt., 3rd s. of Frederick Clark, of 42, Goldsmith Road, Hackney, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Callan; b. Bethnal Green, 19 May, 1893; educ. Haggerston; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, was killed in the trenches 10 Nov. 1915, and was buried behind Lone Tree, near Hulluch, Loos; unm. Lieut. W. A. Clarke wrote that “He was always a good and devoted soldier, and did his duty splendidly.” And his comrades, in a joint letter of sympathy sent to his mother, said: “Owing to heavy rain the hole in the side of the trench in which he used to sleep when off duty collapsed, and he was buried under the heap of earth, although we made every effort to dig him out; but I am sorry to say he had passed away before we achieved our task. He was buried behind the old German line in front of Loos, which we captured in our recent attack, and a little wooden cross now marks the spot where he now lies in rest.”

CLARK, JOHN, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4915), 279038, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARK, NELLIE, Sister, a nursing member of Lady Ralph Paget’s Serbian Relief Expedition, dau. of Thomas Clark, of Bilsley, Alford, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Tammos, of Hardley, Norfolk; b. Cumberworth, 6 March, 1888; educ. Bilsby County School; and was a private nurse, having passed all degrees. She joined Lady Ralph Paget’s first unit for Serbia, in Oct. 1914, and died at Skopje, Serbia, 25 Dec. 1914, of septic poisoning, contracted while performing her duty, and was buried there. Lady Ralph Paget wrote: “She was the best nurse we had, and was so very sweet and gentle that she was loved by every one who had the honour of knowing her. As for the wounded men she nursed they simply adored her, and it was touching to see their grief when they heard of her death.”

CLARK, OWEN WALTER, Regimental Sergt.-Major, No. 5289, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Walter Clark, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (—) Humphreys, of Bow; b. at Bow, 30 Oct. 1877; educ. Bromley-by-Bow; enlisted in the 1st Royal Scots at Chatham in 1895, and after a short time at Edinburgh, and some years at the depot, Glencorse, was in 1903 drafted to the 2nd Battn., then at Kamptee, India. He returned from India in Oct. 1905, and on the occasion of the visit of the King and Queen to Edinburgh Castle in 1911 was, with three other N.C.Os., placed in charge of the Regalia. He also carried the new Colours which His Majesty presented to the battn. at Holyrood Palace on this occasion. The following year he was Worshipful Master of the Regimental Masonic Lodge, “Unity, Peace and Concord.” When war broke out he was Q.M. Sergt., and left Crownhill, Plymouth, with the 2nd Battn. for the Front on 13 Aug. 1914. He was granted first class Warrant rank, and promoted Regimental Sergt.-Major in Dec. 1914; was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 17 Feb. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field, and was killed in action at Hooge, 14 July, 1915, within nine months of completing 21 years with the Colours. He had been presented with the Good Conduct Medal by General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien at Crownhill in 1913, and numerous letters from his officers show that he had made himself beloved and respected by all ranks. Sergt.-Major Clark m. at Walthamstow Parish Church, 5 May, 1900, Alice Maud Mary (735, High Road, Leyton, Essex), dau. of Edward Carr, of Leyton, Essex, and had four children: Percy, b. 13 March, 1901; Roland, b. 17 Oct. 1902; Ivy, b. 26 Sept. 1906; and Marjorie, b. 12 Sept. 1910.

CLARK, THOMAS WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9966, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, ALBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 14643, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, ALGERNON PERCY, 2nd Lieut., 1/23rd Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd and elder surviving s. of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; b. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, 8 July, 1894; educ. at Marlborough College, and at the outbreak of war was an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. From the O.T.C. Cambridge, he received his commission as 2nd Lieut. Territorial Force as from 29 Aug. 1914. He at once joined the 1st/23rd London Regt., and, volunteering for foreign service, trained with his regt. until 14 March, 1915, when they embarked for France. He went through a course of machine-gun instruction at St. Omer, France, and was made machine gun officer to his battn. After several months in the trenches he was badly wounded in both legs on 21 July, by a German shell which burst in the room where he and two other officers were resting, south of La Bassee, and he died on 24 July, 1915, at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, and was buried in the new cemetery at Chocques, France. Writing to his father, Lieut.-Col. Streatfield said: “I pray that you may be able to derive some comfort from the knowledge of how splendidly your boy has done since he has been out here. We all loved him, and the men of his platoon would have done just anything in the world he asked them to. By his good heartedness and cheeriness he had endeared himself to them in a way it has been the lot of few men to do.” Lieut.-Col. Lord Herbert A. M. Douglas Scott, D.S.O. (formerly commanding 1/23rd The London Regt.), wrote from the War Office, 29 July, 1915: “Your son was doing so extremely well under my command and I heard from Lieut.-Col. Streatfield the same good account of his work. Your loss is the country’s loss also.” His brother, Harold Percy, of the Rifle Brigade, was killed on 9 May, two and a-half months earlier (see his notice).

CLARKE, AMBROSE CHILDS, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of William Arthur Clarke, of The Homestead, Manor Road, Leicester, Solicitor, by his wife, Ruth Lilian, dau. of Charles Baimbridge Rendle, of Russell Road, Kensington, Surgeon; b. Stoke, Devonport, co. Devon, 12 July, 1896; educ. Stoneygate School, Leicester, King’s College Choir School, Cambridge, and Malvern College. At the outbreak of war he was in camp with the Malvern College contingent of the O.T.C., and returned to Leicester, receiving his commission two days afterwards, 6 Aug. 1914. He was killed in the trenches near Messines, 9 May, 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He was placing his men under cover, refusing to take shelter himself until all his men were out of danger, and he had just got his last men under cover when he was killed by a shell instantaneously. He was buried in what had formerly been “Packhorse Farm,” Wulverghem, at the back of the English lines near Bailleul. A brother officer, who has since been killed, wrote: “He honestly was one of the cheeriest, best, most capable and well-loved officers in the battn., especially taking his age into consideration.”

CLARKE, BASIL HEATHCOTE, Rifleman, No. 2336, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Henry Heathcote Clarke, of 17, Birchwood Mansions, Muswell Hill, N., formerly of Durban, Natal, Journalist, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of Charles Samuel Clarke; b. Stamford Hill, N., 4 March, 1894; educ. Oakfield School, Crouch End, N.; was a member of the office staff of the London Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd., 25A, Cockspur Street, S.W., but on the declaration of war volunteered for Active Service, and enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 3 Sept. 1914; landed in France, 23 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 6 March, 1915, only two days after his twenty-first birthday; unm. He was buried in the military burial ground near Wulverghem Church. Coy. Sergt.-Major Ashton wrote: “He was on the look out at the time, and he was struck by a rifle bullet, and death was instantaneous.... He had only been with us such a short while, and we have lost a brave and good comrade.” Clarke was a server at St. Peter le Poer, Friern Barnet, and also assistant scout-master of the 91st London Troop.

CLARKE, CHARLES PRIOR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1190), 205888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKE, CHARLES WILLIAM, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6419), 298869, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKE, EDWARD THOMAS, Private, No. 27621, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Joseph Edward Clarke, of 26, Lagham Road, South Godstone, Surrey, Groom Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Mark Chapman; b. St. John’s Wood, London, 12 Dec. 1893; educ. Blindley Heath National School, Surrey; went to Canada on his fourteenth birthday in 1907, and settled at Sweetsburg, working as a farm hand. He joined the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons, and gained his certificate as Sergt.-Major at the Royal Cavalry School at St. Jean, Quebec, 15 Feb. 1913. On the outbreak of war he joined the 48th Highlanders as a Private, came to England with the First Canadian Contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Western Front, 11 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 22–24 April, 1915; unm.

CLARKE, ERNEST, Seaman, R.N.R., 5535A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, 302310, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9094), 201471, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, GEORGE RANKIN, Private, No. 271, B. Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Captain John Clarke, of Brigus, Newfoundland, Fisherman and Seafaring man; b. Brigus, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, 20 Oct. 1897; educ. Brigus Methodist Academy, and Methodist College, St. John’s; volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and d. in hospital at Mudros, 24 Nov. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service; unm.

CLARKE, HAROLD MARTIN, Barrister-at-Law, Lieut., 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George William Clarke, of The Glen, Forest Hill, S.E., Town Clerk of Stepney, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Edwin Hill; b. Kirby-le-Soken, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1889; educ. Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon, and Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1911. On 9 May, 1913, he obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, and on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, at once volunteered for foreign service and was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with his regt. 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26–27 Sept. 1915. The following order was issued shortly before this action (sent to England after Lieut. Clarke’s death): “The Major-General wishes to place on record his appreciation of the good work which has been done during the last four months by the following instructors at the Divisional Bomb School: Instructor Lieut. Martin Clarke, &c.—Headquarters, 10.25 p.m.” At Whitgift he was Colour-Sergt. in the Cadet Corps, and in the History Sixth, and at Clare he received his Lent and May colours. Lieut. Clarke m. at St. Albans in 1914, Daisy Emily (120, Croxted Road, West Dulwich), dau. of Philip Early Fenton Keatch, of India; s.p.

CLARKE, HAROLD PERCY, 2nd Lieut., 6th Special Reserve, attd. 2nd, Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), eldest s. of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst. C.E., etc., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; b. Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentine Republic, 18 March, 1888; educ. Marlborough College; trained as a civil engineer, and became an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1913. He was constructing engineer on the Central Argentine Railway, and, arriving in England soon after the outbreak of war, he obtained through the Cambridge O.T.C. his commission in the Special Reserve of Officers as 2nd Lieut. from 15 Aug. 1914, joining the 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade at Sheerness. He went to the Front in November, but was shortly after invalided home with influenza and a slight attack of pneumonia. He rejoined the reserve battn. (6th) in February, 1915, and went to France, 17 March, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn., joining A Coy. He was killed on 9 May, 1915, in the attack on Fromelles and the Aubers Ridge as he was leading his platoon to take the German trenches. He was buried near Basseye, a little north of Kemmel, France. Almost all the officers of the battn. were casualties in this attack, but Capt. Nugent, company officer, 2nd Rifle Brigade, wrote: “Your son commanded his platoon with the greatest dash and gallantry, and showed himself to be a splendid officer.” He had already gained distinction in his professional career as a civil engineer, important works having been entrusted to his care, and was a keen sportsman in every way. His next brother, Algernon Percy, was killed also in France, two and a-half months later, July 24 (see his notice).

CLARKE, HERBERT CHARLES, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKE, HERBERT EDGAR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R.B., 8114), S.S. 103947, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CLARKE, HENRY HAMES, Chief Ship’s Cook (Pensioner), 153478, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5108), 175327, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109357, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, JAMES GEORGE, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 5276, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, MAURICE TREDWAY, Private, No. 29752, 10th Battn., 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. s. of Tredway Sydenham Clarke, Barrister-at-Law, late of Lincoln’s Inn, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Edmund Dewar Bourdillon; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1883; educ. Malvern College, Eastbourne College and St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge; went to Canada in June, 1905, and took up land near Eagle Butte, Medicine Hat, Alberta, and in 1910 obtained an appointment under the Dominion Forestry Department, which he held until Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for Imperial service; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France, Feb. 1915; was slightly wounded in the early stages of the Second Battle of Ypres, and died 24 April, 1915, from injuries received whilst the ambulance was passing through Ypres; unm. He was buried at Vlamertinghe.

CLARKE, MONTAGU CHRISTIAN CUTHBERT, Lieut., 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of the late Montagu Charles Clarke, of the Southern Mahratta Railway, India, by his wife, Ada Georgina, dau. of Daniel Booth Rowbotham; b. Lindfield, co. Sussex, 3 Oct. 1893; educ. Radley College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and buried in graveyard of the temporary hospital on the Menin Road, about one mile from Ypres; unm.

CLARKE, MORDAUNT EDWARD LEONARD HANNAM, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Col. Francis Coningsby Hannam Clarke, C.M.G., R.A., sometime Surveyor-General of Ceylon, by his wife, Elizabeth Stainton (24, The Grove, Boltons, S.W.), dau. of S. W. Brown, F.R.C.S.; b. Bath, 13 Oct. 1884; educ. Marlborough College and University College Oxford; served first in the Kent Artillery from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Worcestershire Regt., 29 May, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Oct. 1910, serving for the next 3 or 4 years as Scout Officer to his regt. On the outbreak of the European war he left with his regt. for France, and was shot through the head by a bullet from a shell at Candry, near Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. He was carried to the Civil Hospital at Marly, but never regained consciousness. He received the following “mention” in Aug. 1913:—“I am to inform you that the G.O.C. 7th Brigade, wishes you to know how much he appreciates your work as Scout Officer during Brigade training. As this matter was not mentioned at the Pow-Wow he desired that you should be informed at once.”

CLARKE, VICTOR, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8513), 194420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 308, A Coy., 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd s. of George Clarke, pit top man, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Kelk; b. Blyth, 4 June, 1885; educ. there and Austerfield; enlisted in May, 1903, and served eight years in India, Egypt and Malta, and was a Reservist when war broke out. He was gassed at the Battle of Hill 60, but recovered and was sent back to the trenches, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 June, 1915, and was buried at La Brique, a mile and a-half away from Ypres, near Turco Farm. He had put his head over the parapet of the trench to aim at a German sniper, and was shot through the head, being killed instantaneously. 2nd Lieut. Granger wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, a splendid N.C.O., who took an interest in his work, and whatever he did he did well. He was as plucky a man as it is possible to meet. I deeply regret his death, and may say that there is no one else in the company whose loss would be more keenly felt.” Sergt. Clarke was mentioned for conspicuous bravery on the field. He also had six medals which he received while serving in India, etc. He m. at St. James’ Church, Doncaster, 3 Aug. 1913, Harriet (61, Concrete Cottages, Wombwell, near Barnsley), dau. of Thomas Schorah, and had twin children: Laurence and Doris (died 26 Aug. 1914), b. 4 July, 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5843), S.S. 100711, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17297, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM JOB, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10258), 208608, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKSON, ARTHUR EDWIN, Private, No. 1122, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Annie (now wife of Maurice Barker, of St. Rose du Lac, Manitoba, Canada, and relict of John Cahill, of Scarborough); b. Scarborough, co. York; educ. Scarborough Board School; went to Canada with his mother in June, 1903; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted at Portage la Perrée, Man., 14 Aug. 1914; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 25 April, 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Scarborough, 8 May, .... Sarah (21, Hadden Street, Aberdeen), dau. of (——) Newcombe; s.p. His half-brother, Private John Cahill, 45th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force is now (1916) on active service.

CLARKSON, ERNEST, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272189, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., only s. of the late Col. Frederick William Clarkson, 39th Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Ella Rosa (who m. 2ndly, Col. Sir Augustus Riversdale Warren, 5th Bart., of Warren’s Court, co. Cork), dau. of Major-General John Octavius Chichester, 39th Regt.; b. Dorchester, 6 Oct. 1883; became a cadet H.M.S. Britannia, in 1899; Midshipman within four months, Sub-Lieut. in 1892, Lieut. in 1904 and Lieut.-Commander, 1912. He was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

CLARKSON, GERALD RICHARD, Corpl., No. 4, 525, Divisional Signal Coy., New Zealand Engineers, elder s. of the late Richard Potts Clarkson, M.A., Director of Technical Education, Hawkes Bay District, and Headmaster, Napier Technical College; by his wife, Rosina, dau. of (——) O’Shaughnessy, and nephew of John Bowes Clarkson, of Christchurch, New Zealand; b. Palmerston North, New Zealand, 26 Oct. 1893; educ. Normanby Public School, Stratford High School, and Napier Technical College; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 May, 1915, while patrolling Telegraph Lines in “No Man’s Land”; unm. Buried with three other New Zealanders near where he fell before a general Cemetery was decided on.

CLARKSON, ROBERT, Signalman, 190401, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARRICOATES, GEORGE HENRY, Stoker, P.O., 306293, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLAW, SIDNEY THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9334), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLAXTON, EDWIN ARNOLD, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, Pensioner, 157283; reported missing after the sinking of H.M.S. Speedy by a mine 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914.

CLAY, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3895), S.S. 101752, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLAY, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110996, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLAY, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8970), S.S. 105678, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLAYDON, JAMES LEMARQUE, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1105), R.M.A. 11040, 4th s. of William Tilbrook Claydon, of Cambridge, by his wife, Emily; joined the Royal Marine Artillery in Nov. 1904; purchased his discharge in March, 1911, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve; was called up for service on the outbreak of hostilities, and was lost in action in H.M.S. Hogue in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLAYHILLS, GEORGE, D.S.O., Capt., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 4th s. of Thomas Clayhills, of Invergowrie, co. Forfar, and Thornton-le-Moor, co. York, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Rob, of Catton Hall, co. York; b. Darlington; educ. Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Received his commission and joined the 4th Militia Battn. of the Cheshire Regt. 8 Sept. 1896, from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt. 4 Jan. 1899; promoted Lieut. 4 June, 1900; and Capt. 8 Feb. 1908; and was Adjutant from April, 1906, to April, 1909. He went with his regt. to South Africa and served with the 8th Mounted Infantry during the war 1900–2, and took part in the operations at Paardeberg, and actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Karee Siding, Vet River and Zand River, being twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 17 May, 1902], and receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps, and the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action at the first Battle of Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried about three miles north of Armentières, one mile east of the Ploegsteert-le Cheir Road.

CLAYTON, ARTHUR GARDNER, Private, No. 18000, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., 2nd s. of Arthur Gardner Clayton, of the Colonial Secretary’s office, Ceylon, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the late Ven. R. Sutton, Archdeacon of Lewes and Vicar of Pevensey; b. Belize, British Honduras, 2 July, 1893; educ. King’s School, Bruton, co. Somerset, and was afterwards a clerk in the Saskatoon branch of the Bank of Montreal. On the outbreak of the European War he enlisted in Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., and was killed in action at Dickebusch, near St. Eloi, 15 Feb. 1915; unm.

CLAYTON, GERALD EDWARD CRIRIE, of Penarwel, Llanbedrog, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines, R.N.D., only s. of Ralph Cririe Clayton (grandson of Ralph Clayton, of Leyland and Crooke Hall, co. Lancaster), by his wife, Caroline, only dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. John Ffolliott Crofton; b. Liverpool, 27 Dec. 1879; educ. at Liverpool College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. and M.A., and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1904. He was for three years a Lieut. in the Army Motor Reserve, but this corps was disbanded in Dec. 1913. After the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered with his motor car as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 24 Sept. 1914. He went to France and subsequently to Belgium, and was in the retreat from Antwerp in Oct. 1914, his motor car being the last British car but one to leave that city. On the return of the Naval Brigade he was stationed at the Crystal Palace training the Naval Reserves, and while on Active Service there in Feb. 1915, contracted epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, from which he died at The Little Manor, Hertingfordbury, 2 Sept. following. He m. at St. James’, Spanish Place, W., 28 April, 1908, Ione (Penarwel, Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, North Wales), dau. of Major Oscar William de Satgé de Thoren, 45th and 38th Regt., and granddau. of Oscar Joseph de Satgé, 13th Baron de Thoren, of the Château de Thoren, Pyr. Or., France, and had three children: Ralph Dominic de Satgé, b. 18 Feb. 1909; Aymar Sinclair Joseph de Satgé, b. 6 July, 1912; and Eveline Mary Alice de Satgé, b. 26 May, and died 10 June, 1910.

CLAYTON, ROBERT WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13470, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLAYTON, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4542), S.S. 103649, I.C. 127, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLEAVER, SIDNEY, Private, No. 7722, 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., s. of Samuel Cleaver, by his wife, Mary; b. Bristol, 1884 or 1886; educ. Northgate Wesleyan School, Gloucester; enlisted 23 Aug. 1904; served for three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve; was employed prior to the outbreak of the war in the Celynen Colliery; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Aug. and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 26 Sept. 1914. He m. at Gloucester, 30 Nov. 1909, Francis Sarah Ann (33, Swan Road, Kingsholme, Gloucester), dau. of Emanuel Charles Symonds, and had three daus.: Gwendoline Frances, b. 28 Dec. 1909; Mary Elizabeth, b. 13 Sept. 1911; and Iris May, b. 14 April, 1914. His Capt. wrote: “He was a plucky young soldier, always ready for anything—a man I could thoroughly trust. Only ten minutes before his death he had volunteered to go out with his platoon commander to reconnoitre some of the enemy trenches, a task requiring pluck, which was carried quite satisfactorily.”

CLELAND, MATTHEW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8945), S.S. 105660, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLEMENS, ARCHIBALD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10709), 208488, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLEMENTS, BERT RICHARD, L.-Corpl., No. 14488, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only surviving s. of William Clements, late of the King’s Royal Rifles (who served in the Afghan campaign and died 31 May, 1908), by his wife, Elizabeth (30, Brook Street, Barry Dock, Cardiff), dau. of William Western; b. Barry Dock, near Cardiff, 20 April, 1892; educ. Council Schools, Barry Dock; was for two years a telegraph boy at the Barry Dock Post Office; enlisted in the R.G.A., but being an only son was claimed out by his mother; then enlisted in the Grenadier Guards at Cardiff Barracks, 2 Jan. 1909; saw three years’ service with the Colours, and afterwards joined the Cardiff City Police Force. On the outbreak of war he was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, went through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Aisne, and was killed in action at Ypres by shrapnel, 7 Nov. 1914; buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres; unm.

CLEMENTS, BERTRAM SARGENT, Leading Seaman, 168315, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLEMENTS, JACK, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12014, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLEMENTS, THOMAS HAROLD, Trooper, No. 2803, 2nd Life Guards, s. of the late Robert Henry Clements, by his wife, Harriett (St. Mary’s Street, Monmouth), dau. of Richard Smith; b. Monmouth, 17 Oct. 1892; educ. Grammar School there (1907–1911), winning several scholarships. He joined the Army, 17 Oct. 1911, and went to the Front, 15 Aug. 1914. On the night of 12 May, 1915, he was in the trenches at Potijze, and was under very heavy shell fire for three hours. The trenches were blown in, and while returning to the support trenches, he was struck by shrapnel and killed instantly. He was buried at Potijze, 1 mile north-east of Ypres; unm. Trooper Clements was an excellent athlete, and one of the finest forwards of the school Rugby football team, his work in the open and at the line-outs being particularly good, besides being a fearless tackler. He also played several times for the Monmouth Rugby Club. While at the school he secured prizes at the sports, and in last year won the mile in 5 mins. 28 secs., and secured second place in the open hurdles. In 1910 he rowed in the school crew and also was a member of the crew in 1911 which defeated Hereford Cathedral School at Hereford by three lengths, this being the first victory for the Monmouth crew for some years. The triumphant crew led from the start. When Trooper Clements joined the Guards he interested himself in the regimental athletics and was a member of their team which was defeated in the final Army Cup, 1912–13 season. He was for many years a member of the parish church choir and also a server.

CLEMSON, GEORGE ERNEST, 1st Class Stoker, R.F.R.B., 8133, Ch/S.S. 103962, 4th s. of the late Thomas Thornhill Clemson, Cowman, by his wife, Ellen Matilda (Syneham, near Chipping Norton, Oxford) (College Farm, Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxon), dau. of Charles Stone; b. Idbury, 26 Aug. 1883; educ. Chilson, near Charlbury; joined the Navy, and at the time of the outbreak of war was a Reservist. He was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

CLERK, SMOLLETT DAVID MACGREGOR, Private, No. 1388, B Coy., 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots, (T.F.), elder s. of Claude Louis Clerk, employed in the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Singapore, by his wife, Lily (158, Braid Road, Edinburgh), dau. of the late David Aitken, of Gourock, Scotland, Advocate, Solicitor and Notary Public, Straits Settlements; b. Singapore, 25 April, 1895; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and in 1911 entered the National Bank of Scotland. On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, Royal Scots, left with the 1/4th Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm.

CLERY, CARLETON LUMLEY ST. CLAIR, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attached 4th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Col. Carleton Buckley Laming Clery, 104th Wellesley’s Rifles, Indian Army, C.B., by his wife, Jessie Violet, dau. of C. P. Fielon, and nephew of Lumley Clery, of Riverdene, Broxbourne; b. Burmah, 5 Dec. 1895; educ. Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, when he passed into the Indian Army. On the outbreak of war he was attached to the 4th Battn. of the Liverpool Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 5 March, 1915, and had only been there a week when he was killed in action, being struck by a shell at Richebourg St. Vaast, Flanders, 12 March, 1915; unm.

CLEVERLEY, ALBERT ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15596, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFF, ARTHUR JAMES, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 4114, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFF, HERBERT THEODORE, Major, 3rd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., yst. s. of William Dewhirst Cliff, of Meanwood Towers, Leeds, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Wade; b. Highfield House, Wortley, Leeds; educ. Cothill (Abingdon) and Repton College; joined the Militia in 1901, and was promoted Capt. Aug. 1901; when the Militia was disbanded he joined the Special Reserve of Officers, receiving his majority 19 May, 1913. He served in the South African war, and was specially selected for accelerated promotion, and remained as Musketry Inspector till the post was done away with; and also in the Mediterranean, receiving a medal. On the outbreak of the European war he rejoined, and left with his regt. for the Front at the end of Sept. 1914. On the morning of 13 Oct. he was wounded, but he fought gallantly and refused to give in, and officers present at the time spoke with great praise of his bravery. Later the same day he was killed by a shell. Major Cliff was a keen sportsman, and played frequently for the Yorkshire Gentlemen, of which cricket club he was a member for many years; he was also a regular follower of the Bramham Moor, York and Ainsty, and Lord Middleton’s hounds. He m. at Walton-on-Thames, Mary Alice, dau. of Arnold Trinder, of River House, Walton-on-Thames, and had a son, Anthony Dewhirst, b. 15 Aug. 1913.

CLIFF, WALTER, A.B. (R.F.R. A. 3958), 144621, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFFE, NICKOLAS HENRY, Private, No. 14700, Fort Garry Horse, attd. 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Cliff, of Fleece Inn, Preston, Publican, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Burton; b. Preston, co. Lancaster, 15 July, 1881; enlisted in the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. at the time of the South African War, and served through that campaign, afterwards going to Canada and settling in Winnipeg. After the outbreak of the European War he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 22 May, 1915; unm.

CLIFFORD (formerly WILLIAMS), ANTHONY CLIFFORD, B.A., M.B., B.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 3rd Dragoon Guards, yst. s. of the late Rev. Henry Williams. M.A., C.M.S. Missionary in India, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the Rev. John Bryant Clifford, Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Kingsdown, Bristol; b. Bristol, 13 July, 1888; educ. St. Oswald’s School, Clifton, and Marlborough; went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1900, when he took the name of Clifford. He belonged to the University O.T.C., and after taking his B.A. degree, went to Guy’s Hospital in 1909, where he took his M.B., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Reserve of Officers, 18 May, 1912. At the outbreak of war he had just qualified as a doctor, but was called up for active service; was attached to the 3rd Dragoon Guards; went to the Front as a machine-gun officer in May, and was killed in action at Hooge, 2 June, 1915. He was remounting his gun in a new position after the first position had been blown in, when he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Buried in the annexe of the churchyard at Vlamertinghe. Trooper W. Spencer in a letter home wrote: “A hundred shells fell in twenty minutes around our left Maxim gun. Lieut. Clifford timed them as cool as a cucumber, with his watch in his hand. This brave officer lost his life later in the day. Our officers worked like heroes. They were Capt. Holt and Lieut. Clifford.”

CLIFTON, FREDERICK CHARLES, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272033, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors’ Institution, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle; b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educ. St. Peter’s Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corpl., obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unm. At Harrow, 2nd Lieut. Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.

CLIFTON, HERBERT PERCIVILLE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4555), S.S. 103666, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFTON, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2938, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLINTON, RICHARD, Stoker, Petty Officer, 296947, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLOSE, MAX ARTHUR, Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., elder s. of George Arthur Close, of Westbury, East Finchley, N. by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the late William Swift, of Smethwick, Staffordshire; b. Stroud Green, co. Middlesex, 14 Sept. 1889; educ. Christ’s College, Finchley, and afterwards in France and Germany. He joined the 1st Battn. Artists’ Rifles in 1908, and on the outbreak of the war, volunteering for foreign service, was sent to France in Oct. 1914. He did his probationary work in the 2nd Border Regt. at Ypres in Nov. 1914, and was gazetted to the 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Lieut. While gallantly leading his platoon in an attack from Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915, he was hit in the head, and died shortly afterwards. He was buried outside the trenches, south-east of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Col. E. R. Hill, officer commanding 1st Highland L.I., wrote: “In him we mourn one more of those gallant fellows who responded so promptly to the call of duty and set an example to the country.” Lieut.-Col. H. A. R. May, officer commanding Artists’ Rifles, also wrote: “Your son unswervingly persisted in carrying out what he conceived to be his duty. He splendidly upheld all the best traditions of the British Army, and he won the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. His name will always be remembered by us with pride.”

CLOUGH, ALEXANDER JAMES, Chief Stoker, 291102, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLOUGH, THOMAS WOODHEAD, Private, No. 2017, C. Coy. 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Woodhead Lister Clough, of 8, Marsfield Terrace, West Bowling, Bradford, co. Yorks, retired Milk Dealer, by his wife, Alice (died 17 Feb. 1914), dau. of William (and Martha) Downes; b. West Bowling, 31 Dec. 1887; educ. Marshfield School, where he gained certificates entitling him to give lessons in shorthand, typing, etc.; and after serving 7 years with Messrs. Wright and Morgan, solicitors, Bradford and Shipley, secured an important position in their London Office. He had joined the Manchester Territorials, 15 Jan. 1912, and was transferred to the London Scottish, 31 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war the London Scottish at once volunteered for foreign service and were the first Territorial Force to go into action. In a letter to his father dated 30 Oct. (found subsequent to his death and forwarded 18 Nov.) he wrote: “Our regt. are now in the firing line. We joined it here yesterday. The big guns of the Germans are banging away whilst I am writing this letter. Sir John French has just sent for us. Good-bye. Don’t worry. Love to all. Your affectionate Son, Thomas.” He was mortally wounded in the great charge of the London Scottish at Messines, France, 31 Oct. 1914, and died at the 1st London General Hospital, St. Gabriel College, Camberwell, S.E., from gunshot wound in the groin, Sunday, 18 Nov. following, and was buried in Camberwell Borough Cemetery; unm. Lieut.-Col. Malcolm, commanding the London Scottish, wrote to Private Clough’s father: “No commanding officer could have had under his command a braver or more gallant soldier than your son, who so nobly gave his life for his country.” On this occasion F.M. Sir John French telegraphed to Col. Malcolm: “I wish you and your splendid, splendid regt. to accept my warmest congratulations and thanks for the fine work you did yesterday at Messines. You have given a glorious lead and example to all Territorial troops who are going to fight in France,” and in forwarding it Major-General E. H. Allenby, G.O.C. Cavalry Corps, wrote: “The behaviour of officers and men of the London Scottish was worthy of the best traditions of British Regular troops. Only their steadiness and courage saved a situation that was as difficult and critical to deal with as will ever occur.”

CLOUGHLEY, JOSEPH ERNEST, Private, No. 47828, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Thomas Henry Cloughley, of Barrie, Ontario, Canada; b. Colwell, Ontario, 31 March, 1893; enlisted in the 37th Battn. at Barrie in Dec. 1914; was transferred to the 17th Battn., on landing in England in June, and on 17 July was drafted to the 15th Battn. and sent to the Front. He died in No. 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, 6 Nov., 1915, of wounds received in action. A comrade in writing home spoke of him as “such a brave, courageous fellow, ever found willing and ready to render assistance whenever necessary.”

CLOVER, REGINALD WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R. B. 6552), 202676, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLUBLEY, IRIS, 1st Class, K. 9588, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLUTTERBUCK, HENRY, Capt., 1st Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., eldest s. of the late James Jacques Clutterbuck, of Hampton Lovett, Droitwich, formerly of Gloucester, by his wife, Elizabeth Anna, dau. of Rudolph Appell; b. Chacewater, Cornwall, 23 Jan. 1874; educ. King Edward’s School, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 28 July, 1893, became L.-Corpl. 22 June, 1894; Corpl. 22 May, 1896; L.-Sergt. 12 Dec. 1896; Sergt. 1 Dec. 1897, and Orderly Room Sergt. 1 Dec. 1897. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Yorkshire L.I. 25 Aug. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 23 Nov. 1901, and Capt. in the Royal Lancashire Regt. 20 Nov. 1907. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, being attached to the Army Service Corps from 1 June, 1901. He took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. He was present during the operations in the Orange Free State, including those at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), and the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Karee Siding, Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River. He was also in the operations in the Transvaal, May to Sept. 1900, and from Nov. 1900 to May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. Capt. Clutterbuck was Adjutant to the King’s Own Malta Regt. from 20 June, 1904, to 9 July, 1909, and afterwards served in India, interesting himself in the welfare of the soldiers, and in encouraging temperance and thrift among them, and was commended by the Commander-in-Chief of India for his work. He was to have taken up the appointment of Garrison Adjutant at Bordon, 1 Oct. 1914, but on the outbreak of war, left for France, 21 Aug. and was killed in action at Haucourt, France, between Le Cateau and Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Clutterbuck was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s despatch of 21 Aug. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914, “for his conspicuous bravery under heavy shell fire, and his gallantry in leading bayonet charges.” A brother officer wrote: “On the fateful 20 Aug., Capt. Clutterbuck, Mr. ........ and self were in a village, and about 8.30 p.m. about 150 Germans made a night attack on us. Just when the attack was starting Capt. Clutterbuck came up with about 50 men to help, as things looked bad. Capt. Clutterbuck then performed an act of great gallantry; he personally led 15 men with Mr. ........ to drive about 50 of the Germans away from a church where our wounded were. They called upon Capt. Clutterbuck to surrender; he would not, and I am afraid was then instantaneously killed. He had absolutely no suffering and his body was taken into the church.... This act of Capt. Clutterbuck’s was most gallant, he would not entertain anybody else doing the noble work which he did, thereby saving the lives of most of us....” Another officer wrote: “I thought perhaps you might care to hear from me, as I was with your husband the whole of the first day. He and I lay under very heavy shell fire, with about 100 men, for the whole morning and afternoon, and it was entirely through his influence that we kept the men together at all. After dark we went down to a village in order to turn some Germans out with about 30 men, which was all we could collect. We met them there in force, your husband ordered and led a charge against them which was so successful and well led by him that we cleared the village. He was shot leading us against a party a great deal stronger than our lot, who were at one end of a street. Throughout the day he was perfectly marvellous and cheerful in the worst times, and the men have since told me when talking about it, that his coolness and gallantry in leading charges in the street fighting was extraordinary. Of course, he was exactly the sort of officer who has made our regt. as famous as it is.” He m. at Valletta, Malta, 27 April, 1908, Cora Gwendoline Rajaela, yst. dau. of the late Gerard Myburgh, of Orange Grove, Cape Town, Consul-General for the Netherlands in South Africa; s.p.

COARD, HENRY HAROLD, Private, No. 13245, B Coy., 1st Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 2nd s. of John Henry Coard, Postman, Raheney, co. Dublin, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Henry Moore, of Dundrum, Dublin; b. Raheney, co. Dublin, 2 April, 1889; educ. Howth Road School, Clontarf; was foreman gardener to the Earl of Mar and Kellie at Alloa Park, but on the outbreak of war left and joined the Colours, 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front in January, 1915, took part in the fighting at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60 and the first and second Battles at Ypres, and was killed in action during the latter, near Hooge, 8 May, 1915; unm.

COATES, GEORGE BERNARD, Private, No. 148, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of George Coates, of Sproatley, near Hull, Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of W. Mason, of Hull; b. Wyton, Hull, East Yorkshire, 12 May, 1891; educ. Sproatley Endowed School; was for some time in the Halifax Territorials; went to Australia 6 June, 1913; joined the Australian Imperial Force at Melbourne on the outbreak of war and was wounded in the left arm at the landing at Suvla Bay on 25 April, 1915. He was invalided to Malta, but returned to the firing line about the end of July, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 9–10 Aug., 1915; unm.

COATSWORTH, EDGAR, Corpl., No. 8058, B. Coy., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd s. of Arthur Thomas Coatsworth, of 20, Earl Street, Maidstone, a Corpl. in the National Reserve Guard; b. Maidstone, 5 Aug. 1887; educ. St. Faith’s Schools there; enlisted 16 Aug. 1904, and after serving seven years with the Colours, passed into the Reserve and became a postman at Marden, Kent. He was called up on the outbreak of war; was promoted Corpl. early in Jan. 1915; went to France and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. His Coy. Sergt.-Major in a letter of sympathy to his wife said that he was killed whilst gallantly leading his men in the attack on the enemy’s trenches, and added “he was a great favourite of all the men of his platoon, who speak very highly of his conduct when under a very heavy shell fire.” He m. at St. Faith’s Church, Maidstone, 17 March (—), dau. of William Cummings, and had two children: Edgar, b. 5 July, 1912, and Marian, b. 21 Aug. 1913.

COBB, ARTHUR VICTOR JUBILEE, Signal Boy, J. 24845, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COBB, JOHN WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 1345), 206567, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COBBETT, ALBERT, A.B., J. 14137, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COBBOLD, ROBERT HENRY WANKLYN, Lieut., 6th. attd. 2nd. Battn. (The Prince Consort’s Own) Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the Rev. Robert Russell Cobbold, M.A., Rector of Hitcham, Ipswich, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late Frederick Wanklyn, of Buenos Aires, and gdson. of the late Rev. Robert Henry Cobbold, Rector of Ross; b. Earl’s Barton Vicarage, co. Northampton, 3 Dec 1892; educ. King’s College Choir School, Marlborough College (Foundation Scholar and Junior Scholar), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge (Classical Scholar). At Cambridge he took an active part in the work of the O.T.C., and on the outbreak of war was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, 7 Nov. 1914, to date from 14 Aug. To quote the “Eagle,” vol. xxxvi, Dec. 1914: “At the beginning of the term the task was a formidable one. There was plenty of enthusiasm, but very little experience—a mass of untrained material. But in R. H. W. Cobbold A Coy. had an almost ideal O.T.C. officer. The work which he did for the month before his knee got strong enough for him to take a commission in the Rifle Brigade was absolutely invaluable. When he went the most difficult part of the task was over.” He was promoted Lieut. 19 Dec. following; went to the Front, 13 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. and appointed machine gun officer, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 9 Sept. 1915; unm. Major-Gen. H. Hudson, commanding 8th Division, wrote: “Your son had done excellent work whilst serving in this division, and was a most promising officer. You have every reason to be proud of his gallantry and devotion to duty.” And Lieut.-Col. F. Nugent, commanding 2nd Rifle Brigade: “Your boy was machine gun officer to this battn., and I had a special opportunity of knowing what a splendid fellow he was. Absolutely fearless, and a really fine leader of men. His machine gunners loved him, and would have followed him anywhere. A really good machine gun officer like him is rare.” At Cambridge he rowed in his college first boat.

COBBY, WILLIAM ARTHUR, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 271735, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COBERN, WESLEY VINCENT, Private, No. 8502, 3rd Rifle Brigade, 3rd s. of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Agnes Eliza, dau. of George Drew; b. Winchester, 6 May, 1883; educ. Wesleyan Day School there; joined the 3rd Rifle Brigade, 27 June, 1901; and on the outbreak of war went out to France with the first Expeditionary Force. On the night of 17–18 Oct. 1914, the 3rd Rifle Brigade were billeted at a school near Armentières. On the early morning of 18 Oct. they were preparing breakfast when bugle sounded “Stand to Arms” at 5.30 a.m. The attack on a village called Prehencies commenced at 6. The railway from Armentières to Lille had to be crossed near Le Halte Station. Cobern was shot in the left arm, almost at the same time Sergt. Smith was shot in the head. He threw off his equipment and helped to bandage the Sergt.’s wound. Remembering that he had a scarf in his valise that would be useful, he went to where his equipment was lying on the railway, and was shot dead. He was buried with many others of the regt. who fell at the same time by the 139th Saxon Regt. of the German Army. There were 600 casualties on that day in the 3rd Rifle Brigade alone. His brother, L.-Corpl. W. G. Cobern died on active service, 13 June, 1915 (see following notice).

COBERN, WILFRID GEORGE, Corpl., No. 2570, 4th Battn. Hampshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, etc. (see preceding notice); b. Winchester, 1 Sept. 1878; educ. Wesleyan Day School there; served for over 10 years in the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Hampshire Regt., and on the outbreak of the war joined the 4th Battn. of the Hants Regt. for foreign service, 6 Aug. 1914. He died of heat stroke at Basra, in the Persian Gulf, 13 June, 1915; unm.

COCHRAN, LIONEL FRANCIS ABINGDON, Capt., 72nd, attd. 92nd, Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Col. Francis Cochran, 1st Hampshire Regt., who was Deputy Judge-Advocate under the late Lord St. Helier (then Sir Francis Jeune) during the South African war, by his wife, Amy Isabel Gray, eldest dau. of Abingdon Compton, Bombay Civil Service, and gdson. of Francis Cochran, of Balfour; b. Edinburgh, 20 March, 1882; educ. by private tutors and in Germany, where he was when the Boer war broke out. He joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Leinster Regt. at Queenstown when only 17 in Feb. 1900, and, proceeding with it to South Africa, served on the lines of communications, being twice given responsible posts and a commission from Lord Roberts in the Worcester Regt., and the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. following, and after being first attached to the 1st Hants Regt., was transferred in 1901 to the Indian Army. He joined the 72nd Punjabis in Burmah, became double company officer, 7 July, 1905, received his company 17 Nov. 1909, and served with them until Sept. 1914, when he was selected to proceed with the 92nd Punjabis on Active Service. They were sent to guard the canal at Ismailia, and Capt. Cochran was killed in action while leading his men at Tussum on the Suez Canal, 4 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Ismailia; unm. He was specially mentioned in Gen. Sir John Maxwell’s Despatch of 16 Feb. 1915 [London Gazette, 21 June, 1916]. The officers of the 72nd Punjabis erected a mural tablet to his memory in St. Mary Bolton’s Church, S.W., and the officers of the 92nd Punjabis put up a cross and stone on his grave at Ismailia. Capt. Cochran was a great traveller, having gone nearly all over the world during his leave, and an expert motorist; also he was a fine horseman. He several times filled the appointment of Station Staff Officer and Cantonment Magistrate in India with great credit.

COCHRANE, CHARLES, Private, No. 11101, 2nd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, s. of William Cochrane; b. South Shields, 21 April, 1889; educ. Drummond Street School, Edinburgh; was a Hairdresser; volunteered and enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, went to France in April, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle 11 May, 1915. He m. 3 June, 1900, Catherine (2, Blackfriars St., Edinburgh), dau. of Owen Airlie, of 49, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, and had a son and three daus.: Francis, b. 24 May, 1906; Mary Jane, b. 8 April, 1901; Agnes, b. 10 Feb. 1910; and Maria, b. 3 May, 1911.

COCKAYNE, WALTER, Officer’s Cook, 3rd Class, L. 4215, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COCKBURN, CHARLES JAMES, Lieut., 6th Jats L.I., Indian Army, yr. s. of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John Waterer; b. Malta, 27 March, 1891; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3 Sept. 1910; was attd. to the Berkshire Regt. in India, and was transferred to the Indian Army, 29 Oct. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. He served in France with the Meerut Division, and afterwards in Mesopotamia, and was killed in action with General Aylmer’s Relief Force, 7 Jan. 1916. Lieut. Cockburn was amongst the first to receive the Military Cross. He m. at Cobham, Kent, 16 July, 1915, Helen, dau. of Laman Herbert Evans; s.p. His elder brother, Lieut J. Cockburn, was killed in action, 25 April, 1915.

COCKBURN, JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John Waterer, of Bagshot; b. Malta, 3 March, 1890; educ. Wellington College. On the outbreak of war volunteered as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in his father’s old regt. 3 March, 1915. He was killed while leading his men into action at St. Julien, near Ypres; unm.

COCKER, EDGAR CHARLES, Private, No. 81163, 10th (late 32nd) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Edgar Charles Cocker, of Lintlaw, via Margo, Sask., Canada, Farmer and Stonemason, now Private, No. 887330, 188th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force (who served thirteen years with the 4th East Surrey Volunteers before leaving England), by his wife, Alice Jane, dau. of the late Charles Collier, of Homerton, London; b. Peckham, London, 9 Oct. 1895; educ. Peckham Park School, S.E.; Beachville, Ontario; and Yorkton, Sask.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; left Canada with the second contingent, 22 Feb. 1915; went to France, 27 April, and was killed in action in the front line trench at Festubert on the morning of 21 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell; unm. He was buried behind the trench close to where the second line trench crosses the head of Willow Road, and a cross marks the spot.

COCKMAN, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9045, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COCKRILL, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9255), S.S. 2208, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

COCKS, ALBERT, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Coy. (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th s. of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regt.); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educ. Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Coy. at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Coy. When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: “His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose.” He m. at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, dau. of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p.

CODD, HARRY CARR, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17530, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CODLING, ALFRED INCH, A.B., 219051, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COE, BARNABAS WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1150), 276443, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COE, HERBERT CLYDE, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 20, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COHEN, GEORGE HUBERT, B.A., LL.B., Lieut 5th King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Alderman Louis Samuel Cohen, of The Priory, St. Michael’s Hamlet, Liverpool, J.P., an ex-Lord Mayor of Liverpool, by his wife, May, dau. of the Hon. Louis Wolfe Levy, M.L.C., Sydney, N.S.W.; b. Liverpool, 26 Jan. 1878; educ. Cheltenham and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours B.A., LL.B., in 1901. He was called to the Bar in 1903, and practised law in Liverpool in the Northern Circuit, and was a member of the Inner Temple. He had always been a keen Volunteer, having been a sergt. both in the Cadet Corps at Cheltenham College and in the C.V.R.U. at Cambridge, and was for many years in the Inns of Court O.T.C., and gained the Long Service medal. On the outbreak of war he was travelling in Norway, and hastened to England and immediately enlisted in the Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regt., but within a week he was given (19 Sept. 1914) a Lieut.’s commission in the 5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., in which his brother, Stanley, was Major. He went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm. His colonel, J. M. McMaster, wrote: “He died as glorious a death as any soldier could ever wish for or hope for, gallantly leading his men in a charge against the enemy’s trenches. It was a difficult and dangerous task, but he and his men went to the assault in the way we expect British soldiers to act, without fear or hesitation. We mourn his loss and respect his memory. His disposition was kindliness itself, and he had thoroughly endeared himself to us all. We took the German trench and more than 120 prisoners surrendered to us. Your son lies buried in all honour near the field of battle at Richebourg L’Avoué. I am sorry to say that Stanley (his yr. brother, Major, now (1916) Lieut.-Col. S. Cohen) incurred a wound, which I hope and believe is only slight, in voluntarily going out in the attempt to reach George and succour him. Capt. Fairclough, on the same errand of mercy, was also wounded.”

COKE, HON. ARTHUR GEORGE, Lieut., R.N.V.R., Armoured Cars Division, 2nd s. of Thomas William, 3rd Earl of Leicester, G.C.V.O., C.M.G., by his wife, the Hon. Alice Emily, née White, dau. of Luke, 2nd Lord Annaly; b. London, 6 April, 1882; educ. H.M.S. Britannia; joined the Navy, 1897, and retired with the rank of Lieut. after some six years’ service. On the outbreak of the war he obtained a commission of 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons), 5 Sept. 1914, but was almost immediately transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, and served with that regt. in Flanders, including the first Battle of Ypres, until he was transferred as Lieut. to the Armoured Cars Division, R.N.V.R., in Jan. 1915. He was killed In action at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915. He m. in London, 10 May, 1906, Phyllis Hermione (Flaunden, Chesham, Bucks), only dau. of Francis Saxham E. Drury, of Pont Street, London, and had a son and dau.: Anthony Lovel, b. 14 Sept. 1909; and Deana Muriel, b. 7 Nov. 1907.

COKE, FREDERICK, A.B., 239092, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

COKER, CADWALLADER JOHN, Lieut., 1st Welsh Regt., yr. s. of the late James Gould Coker, by his wife, Florence Emily (The Grove, Mayfield Sussex), 2nd dau. of Cotterill Scholefield; b. Somerset Place, Bath, 11 May, 1892; educ. Wellington College and Oriel College, Oxford; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Welsh Regt. 15 Sept. 1914. He was promoted Tempy. Lieut. 14 Jan. 1915, and Lieut. 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front, 5 March following, and was killed in action in the trenches at St. Eloi by a German sniper, 22 June, 1915, being buried in a military cemetery near Dickebusch; unm. He had previously been wounded at Hooge, 24 May, and the Medical Officer in writing of this said: “Your son was slightly wounded on Whit Monday in a street which was heavily shelled by the enemy. About 40 officers and men were hit in a short time. Mr. Coker refused all attention until the others were seen to, helped to carry and dress them, and set a magnificent example to the rest of the wounded by his pluck and coolness. It hardly struck me at the time, it was so entirely what one would have expected of him. He was a fine type of officer and gentleman.” At Wellington Lieut. Coker was a college prefect, in the cricket eleven and a gymnasium officer, and was a Sergt. in the O.T.C., which rank he also held in the O.T.C. at Oxford. He played cricket, hockey and football for his college at the latter place, and was in the shooting team. He was a member of Vincents, Authentics and Cryptics. Had he lived one day longer he would have obtained his temporary captaincy. His commanding officer wrote of him: “We were very sorry to lose your son, who was always most gallant and very popular.”

COKER, HORACE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7715), S.S. 103095, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLBOURNE, EDWARD JAMES, Private, No. 12/1594, 16th Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Robert James Colbourne, of 7, Clarendon Crescent, Leamington Spa, by his wife, Emily Florence; b. 8 Jan. 1892; educ. at Stanley House, Margate, and Solihull Grammar School; went to New Zealand in Dec. 1911; enlisted in the 16th Auckland Infantry, Nov. 1914; left on 13 Feb. with the third reinforcements, and was killed in Gallipoli on 8 May, 1915; unm.

COLBOURNE, ERIC KRABBÉ, M.C., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Berkshire Regt., 3rd s. of Louis Colbourne, of Beckenham, Kent, M.D., by his wife, Henrietta Leonora, dau. of Charles Brehmer Krabbé; b. Buenos Ayres, 25 June, 1888; educ. Berkhamsted School; went to British Columbia in 1907 and settled in Victoria, but after the outbreak of war came home and was given a commission in the 3rd Berkshires, 19 Jan. 1915. He died at Choques, 27 June, 1915, of wounds received in action, and was buried in the military cemetery there. He was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 24 July, 1915] for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Cuinchy on the early morning of 22 June, 1915.” The Germans, following a gas attack, exploded a mine in front of one of our own in which was a Sergt. and about eight of our men, but owing to the gallant efforts of 2nd Lieut. Colbourne, another officer and a few men, who repeatedly went down among the fumes, all the men were rescued, although the rescuers suffered considerably. Lieut. Colbourne m. at Victoria, British Columbia, 31 Dec. 1912, Florence Marion, only dau. of George Gillespie, of Victoria, British Columbia; s.p.

COLE, ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2732), S.S. 58, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLE, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3834), 198991, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLE, FREDERICK GEORGE PARKER, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 272386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLE, FREDERICK THOMAS, Private, No. 61489, 3rd Battn. (Canterbury Infantry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas Cole, of Butcombe Farm, Blagdon, Bristol, Farmer, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Benjamin Warford; b. Stock Farm, Langford, Bristol, co. Somerset, 29 Nov. 1881; educ. at Churchill Public School; was a farmer; left England for New Zealand, 25 April, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Nov. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements and was in action at Cape Helles and Anzac Cove from 12 May to 4 June, 1915. On the latter date he was one of a party of volunteers sent to clear and hold part of a Turkish trench at Quinn’s Post, and was among those killed in the attempt. He was unm.

COLE, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9802), 213861, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLE, GEORGE HENRY, Corpl., No. 8152, Signalling Section, 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest s. of Alma Cole, of Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Joseph King; b. Sutton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Bramford Road Board School, Ipswich; enlisted 14 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 16 Feb. 1915; buried at R.E. Farm, Wulverghem; unm.

COLE, SIDNEY LIONEL FLINN, Assistant Paymaster, Royal Naval Reserve, only child of William George Cole, Chief Constructor (Royal Corps of Naval Constructors) H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, and late of H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar, by his wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of John Robert Flinn; b. Sheerness, co. Kent, 14 July, 1888; and was educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, and Oliver’s Mile End House School, Portsmouth. He entered the services of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ltd., at Newton Abbot, Devon, in Feb. 1906, and afterwards served at Ashburton, Haslemere, and Andover, from whence, at the outbreak of war, he joined the Navy for the period of the war, 5 Nov. 1914. He first served on H.M.S. Duke of Albany, and afterwards in the mine-layer H.M.S. Princess Irene, and was lost when that ship was blown up in Sheerness Harbour, 27 May, 1915. With the exception of a stoker, every officer and man, to the number of 280, including 78 Dockyard workmen from Sheerness Dockyard, were lost. Cole was the only officer whose body was (9 June) recovered, and it was interred in the Isle of Sheppey Cemetery with Naval honours on 12 June, preparatory to which a short service was held in the Royal Dockyard Chapel at Sheerness, where 27 years before he had been christened. He was unm.

COLE, WILLIAM CHARLES, Private, No. 4940, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frederick Cole, of Long Newton, Tetbury, co. Gloucester, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of Frederick Long, of Newton, near Tetbury; b. Bagpath, co. Gloucester, 21 March, 1880; educ. Cam, near Dursley; enlisted at Devizes, 30 Dec. 1902; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died from shell wounds in left thigh, received in action, 27 Sept. 1914, being buried in Veill Arcy Cemetery. He m. at Tetbury, 28 Aug. 1912, Elizabeth Emily (New Church Street, Tetbury), dau. of William Baker, of Tetbury, and had a dau., Elizabeth Mary Florence, b. 3 Oct. 1912.

COLEMAN, GEORGE HENRY, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21846, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COLEMAN, GEORGE MANSFIELD, Seaman, R.N.R., 3356A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLEMAN, JOHN MORRIS, Private, No. 9832, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of James Coleman, of 10, Erith Street, Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., died at Braisne 24 Sept. 1914, from wounds received in action.

COLEMAN, SAMUEL GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4380), S.S. 103358, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLEMAN, THOMAS BARNES, Private, No. 561, No. 1 Coy., 14th Battn. 4th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Frank Coleman, of Marsh Green, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Barnes; b. Marsh Green, 17 July, 1888; educ. National School, Brighstone; emigrated to Victoria in 1913, joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, north of Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, between 26 and 28 Aug. 1915; unm.

COLEMAN, WILLIAM, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 9090, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COLEMAN, WILLIAM ALBERT, Rifleman, No. 7512, 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, only s. of Albert William Coleman, of Ipswich, Builder, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas Whitmore; b. Ipswich, 4 May, 1886; educ. there; enlisted 10 May, 1906; went to France 20 Aug. 1914; was taken a prisoner at Ypres, 4 Nov. 1914, and d. of fever at the prisoners’ camp, Gustrow, Mecklenburg, 24 Jan. 1915. He m. at St. Luke’s Church, South Norwood, 18 Oct. 1913, Laura Harriet (19, Southcote Road, South Norwood), dau. of James Holdstock and had a dau., Evelyn Laura, b. 28 July, 1914.

COLENUTT, ALBERT EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14944 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLES, CHARLES GEORGE, Private, No. 1946, E. Coy., 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Coles, formerly of Hadlow, Kent, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Sewell; b. Deptford, London, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Lucas Street Board School there; joined the Volunteer Force in 1903, and was later transferred to the Territorials. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915. Private Coles m. at Leiston, Suffolk, 4 March, 1911, Beatrice Mary (30, Paradise Place, Leiston, Suffolk), dau. of Thomas Chilvers, and had one son, Charles James Thomas, b. 11 Aug. 1911.

COLES, EDGAR RALPH, Capt., 3rd (Prince of Wales’) Dragoon Guards, 2nd s. of Ernest Harry Coles, of Arnolds, Holmwood, co. Surrey, by his wife, Adela Caroline, dau. of James Heslop Powell; b. Caterham, co. Surrey, 13 May, 1889; educ. Hazlewood (Limpsfield), Marlborough, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, whence, having taken his degree, he entered the Army as a University candidate, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 23 Feb. 1910. He was promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1911, and Capt. 18 Nov. 1914; was with his regt. in Cairo for two years, returning to England in the summer of 1914, when he went to Aldershot to learn signalling. On the outbreak of war he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the trenches near Hooge, late on the night of 12 May (the eve of his twenty-sixth birthday). He was buried at Witte Poort Farm, two miles east of Ypres; unm. Capt. Coles was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for exceedingly good work in carrying messages and maintaining communication under heavy shell fire at Zillebeke in Nov. 1914. His commanding officer, Major Burt, wrote: “His gallantry had already been recognised by the authorities, and his splendid example and comradeship will be greatly missed by all ranks in the regt.” Lieut. Holt, Acting Adjutant, 3rd Dragoon Guards, said: “His gallantry was an inspiration to his men,” and his soldier servant, Private Harvey, who had been with him ever since he joined the Army: “He was one of the coolest officers that was ever under fire.”

COLES, EWART JOHN, Private, No. 876, 1/6th Battn. East Surrey Regt. (T.F.), attd. D. Coy. 2nd Battn. Norfolk Regt., s. of the late William Coles, House and Church Decorator [b. Cheddar, co. Somerset], by his wife, Eliza Ellen (7, Wilton Avenue, Richmond, Surrey), dau. of James Summerhayes; b. Paddington, London, 9 Aug. 1893; educ. Holy Trinity Church School, Richmond, Surrey, and was in the employ of the Pearl Assurance Co. He had joined the East Surrey Territorials in March, 1908, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to India 29 Oct. 1914, and in Sept. 1915, left with the British Expeditionary Force for the Persian Gulf, and was killed in action at Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915; unm. Writing to Mrs. Coles, Lieut.-Col. A. P. Drayson said: “I have known your son for a good many years, and have always looked upon him as the right stamp of soldier, always willing, smart and keen in any work he had to do,” adding that he felt that by his death they had “lost one of the best men in the regt.”

COLES, ROBERT, L.-Corpl., No. 7043, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Coles, of Eton Place, High Street, Crediton, by his wife, Emma, dau. of the late William Williams, of Llanvihangel, near Monmouth; b. Shobrooke, Crediton, co. Devon, 26 Jan. 1887; educ. there; enlisted 1907, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 18 Sept. 1914, being buried in Soupir Cemetery; unm. He was well known as a crack shot, having taken part in the Army Competition at Bisley on several occasions, and had won a number of cups and medals.

COLLES, ARTHUR GROVE, Capt., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only s. of Alexander Colles, of 3, Elgin Road, co. Dublin, Inspector, Registrar of Petty Sessions Office, Dublin Castle, by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Robert George Cullin; b. Dublin, 12 Feb. 1891; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Dublin; joined the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 11 Nov. 1910, and was gazetted Lieut. April, 1912, and Capt. Dec. 1914. He was attached for a year to the Connaught Rangers at the Curragh. Shortly after the outbreak of war he was sent to the Front with the 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, to which regt. he was gazetted 2 March, 1915. Capt. Colles fought at Neuve Chapelle, 10–12 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the village of that name on the last-mentioned date. He was buried in the orchard of the château at Neuve Chapelle; unm. Letters from his brother officers and the men of his battn. all bear testimony to his great capabilities and his fearlessness in the face of danger. A brother officer says that the last he saw of him was “charging for all he was worth at the head of his men.”

COLLET, CHARLES HERBERT, D.S.O., Lieut., Royal Marine Artillery, and Flight Commander, Royal Naval Air Service, 2nd s. of James Francis Herbert Collet, of Millbrook, Southampton, late of the Public Works Department of the Government of India, Engineer, by his wife, Teresa, dau. of Francis (and Teresa) Pilley; b. Calcutta, 4 Feb. 1888; educ. Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and Dulwich College, London, S.E.; joined the Royal Marine Artillery, 1 Sept. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 1 July. 1906, and transferred to the Naval Wing of Royal Flying Corps in 1913, in which he was gazetted Flight Commander 23 Feb. 1915. On the outbreak of war he served on the Western Front, taking part in the defence of Antwerp until the evacuation, and subsequently at the Dardanelles. On 23 Sept. British aeroplanes of the Naval Wing delivered an attack on the Zeppelin sheds at Düsseldorf. Conditions were rendered very difficult by the misty weather, but Flight Lieut. Collet, as he then was, flying a Sopwith tractor biplane, made a long flight, and dropped three bombs on the Zeppelin shed, approaching within 400 ft. His machine was struck by one projectile, but he returned safely to his point of departure. For this exploit, which was the pioneer exploit of its kind, he received the Distinguished Service Order, and the Director of the Air Department of the Admiralty, in a memorandum dated 11 Oct., described the “feat as notable—gliding down from 6,000 ft., the last 1,500 ft. in mist, he finally coming in sight of the airship shed, when at a height of 400 ft., and when only a quarter of a mile distant”; adding “The importance of this incident lies in the fact that it shows that in the event of further bombs being dropped into Antwerp or other Belgian towns measures of reprisal can certainly be adopted, if desired, to almost any extent.” He was twice brought down in France, but managed to escape; on the first occasion being forced to alight between the firing lines. On the second occasion, his engine being damaged by shrapnel over the German lines, he had to volplane, just managing to reach the Belgian lines, and coming under fire from both sides, as the Belgians mistook him for a German and seized him as a prisoner. In the Dardanelles he participated in the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula, 25 April, 1915, and engaged in several combats with hostile aeroplanes. He lost his life in the Eastern Mediterranean while on patrol duty, by an accident to his aeroplane resulting from engine failure, 19 Aug. 1915; unm. For his gallantry in endeavouring to rescue Capt. Collet, Michael Sullivan Keogh, Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Ark Royal, received the Albert Medal (2nd Class), the official record [London Gazette, 14 Jan. 1916], being as follows: “On 19 Aug. 1915, an aeroplane, piloted by the late Capt. C. H. Collet, D.S.O., R.M.A., was ascending from Imbros Aerodrome, and had reached a height of 150 ft. when the engine stopped. The machine was upset by the powerful air currents from the cliffs, and fell vertically to the ground, while the petrol carried burst into flames, which immediately enveloped the aeroplane and pilot. Chief Petty Officer Keogh, upon arriving at the scene of the accident, at once made an attempt to save Capt. Collet by dashing into the midst of the wreckage, which was a mass of flames. He had succeeded in dragging the fatally injured officer nearly clear of the flames when he was himself overcome by the burns which he had received from the blazing petrol.” Capt. Collet was regarded as one of the best naval airmen, having first attracted attention by his flying on the big biplane bought by the Admiralty from the Deutsche Flugzeug Werke of Leipzig in 1913. Early in 1914 he had this machine equipped with a huge petrol tank in place of the passenger’s seat, and started from Plymouth on a non-stop flight to John o’ Groats. He was brought down by engine trouble at Grimsby, but the flight stood as a British “record” for distance across country. While stationed at the Royal Naval Flying School at Eastchurch, Collet was the first officer in the Naval Air Service to loop the loop. A General officer with whom he served for a time on observation duty at the Dardanelles, wrote of him to his father in the highest terms. He held several trophies for boxing and shooting; he was a winner of the Navy and Marine light-weight boxing championship, and was in the final for the Army and Navy light-weight championships. He received the Distinguished Service Order 21 Oct. 1914, and was twice mentioned in Despatches: first by the Admiralty [London Gazette, 21 Oct. 1914], and again by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915]. He was unm.

COLLETT, FREDERICK WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4691), S.S. 1669, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLLIER, ALFRED ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2529), 215083, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLLIER, FREDERICK HENRY, Private, No. 9986, 1st Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Charles Collier, of 3, Beach Street, Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 Oct. 1914.

COLLIER, GEORGE, Private, No. 9822, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 5 May, 1915; m.

COLLIER, THOMAS, Private, R.M.L.I., 10587, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

COLLINGE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 9986, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Leyland, co. Lancaster; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914, aged 20; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing after the fighting on 25 Jan. 1915.

COLLINGS, WALLACE, Private, No. 1627, 2nd Battn. South Lancashire Regt., 6th s. of Henry Bence Collings, of 16, Stour Street, Kirkdale, by his wife Helen, dau. of John Rowe, of Exeter; b. Liverpool, 20 July, 1895; educ. Council Schools there; enlisted 4 Oct. 1911, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 27 Oct. 1914; unm.

COLLINGWOOD, WILLIAM, Private, No. 6540, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd s. of the late John Collingwood, of Denton Burn, Scotswood, Northumberland, Coal Miner, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of William Millar; b. Newburn, co. Northumberland, 25 Nov. 1876; educ. Denton Burn, and was afterwards employed at the Montagu Colliery, Denton Burn; enlisted in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Berwick-on-Tweed, 31 Oct. 1898, and served with them through the South African War, being present at operations in Paardeberg, Johannesburg and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s and King’s medals and five bars, also a certificate for good services in the Mounted Infantry, 26 May, 1903. On the outbreak of the European War he was called to the Colours 4 Aug. 1914; left with the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers for France 15 Aug.; was in the Battle of Mons and the retreat to Compiègne, after which he returned home for a time on sick leave. He left again for the Front at the end of Oct., and was in the First Battle of Ypres and several subsequent engagements in Belgium, and was killed in action by shrapnel shell bursting in trench at the Second Battle of Ypres, 5 March, 1915. He was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres. Private Collingwood m. at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 6 March, 1909, Mary Jane (98, Delaval Road, West Benwell, Newcastle), eldest dau. of Jacob Heslop, and had a son and two daus.: George Heslop, b. 13 Nov. 1911; Winifred, b. 11 Oct. 1909; and Eleanor, b. 1 April, 1914.

COLLINS, CHARLES JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1175), 194403, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLLINS, CHRISTOPHER, Able Seaman, No. 4727, R.N.R., 3rd and yst. s. of Christopher Collins, of 5, Ulster Lane, Drogheda, Sailor, by his wife, Mary; b. Drogheda, 27 May, 1886; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; joined the Navy in 1906, and was lost in the North Sea, when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

COLLINS, DAVID, P.O., 1st Class, 208619, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLLINS, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3932), S.S. 101811, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLLINS, EDWARD WILLIAM ELGER, Private, No. 7077, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 25 Oct. 1914; unm.

COLLINS, ERNEST GEORGE STEPHEN, Gunner, R.M.A., 11488, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLLINS, HARRY, Sqdn. Sergt.-Major, No. 2358, Lord Strathcona’s Horse (R.C.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late John Collins, Staff-Sergt., Royal Marine Artillery (who saw service in New Zealand war, and was champion shot of the British Army in 1877), by his wife, Clara Ann (14, St. Philip’s Terrace, Gratton Road, Cheltenham), dau. of William Minnell, of Fratton, Portsmouth; b. Fort Cumberland, Portsmouth, 22 April, 1877; educ. Amersham (Bucks) Commercial School; enlisted in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, July, 1896, and served 12 years. He was through the South African War (medal with two clasps), 1900–2, and after retiring, emigrated to Canada in 1908. There he was for some time in the North-West Mounted Police, and in May, 1912, joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse as a Corpl. He was made Sqdn. Sergt.-Major in June, 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; came over with the first contingent, went to the Front in April, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Eglise, 26 July, 1915, by a shell as he was leaving the trenches. He was buried with full military honours in Neuve Eglise churchyard, “just over the wall near the tree”; unm.

COLLINS, HARRY, Private, No. 2631, 1/4th Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), s. of Charles Collins, of 53, Stretton Road, Addiscombe, Decorator; b. East Grinstead, co. Sussex, 28 May, 1892; educ. Croydon Council School; enlisted 24 Oct. 1914; and d. in Amarah Military Hospital, 26 Oct. 1915, while serving in the Persian Gulf, and was buried in the British Cemetery there; unm.

COLLINS, HENRY SILVESTER, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4458, I.C. 238), 233478, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLLINS, HERBERT CHARLES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25469 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

COLLINS, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5107), 199840, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLLINS, RICHARD, Corpl., No. 9882, 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of the late (—) Collins, and nephew of Mrs. Collins, of 7, Tower Street, Harrogate; b. Brentford, co. Middlesex, 24 May, 1885; enlisted in 1904, and after serving in the Northumberland Fusiliers for eight years, joined the East Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary in Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, he was recalled to his regt. and went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 6 Nov. 1914; unm. Corpl. Collins had served with his regt. in India, and had taken part in some frontier fighting, for which he had a medal. He was one of the best shots in the regt.

COLLINS, SAMUEL, Ordinary Seaman, J. 23622 (Dev.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLLINS, STANLEY BERTRAM, Naval Schoolmaster, M. 4740, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of William Collins, of 46, West Side, Wandsworth Commons, S.W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

COLLINS, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 106440, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COLLINS, WILLIE GEORGE, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1562), 115537, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLLISSON, CEDRIC HAZLEDINE, Sergt., No. 16846, 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Rev. Sydney Garbett Collisson, Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral, by his wife, Sophy (8, Westfield Park, Bristol), dau. of the Rev. William Hazledine, Vicar of The Temple Church; b. Bristol, 24 Aug. 1887; and was educ. Warminster Grammar School (1 Jan. 1898–July, 1906) and Bristol University. He entered the teaching profession, was a Lieut. in the Devon Territorials, and in 1910 proceeded to Canada, where he joined the staff of the University School at Victoria. There he was offered and accepted a Lieutenancy in the 88th Victoria Militia Regt., in which he served until the outbreak of the European War, obtaining his Captain’s certificate. In order that he might at once proceed to England with the first Canadian Contingent, he resigned his commission and enlisted in the 7th Battn. British Columbia Regt., and was immediately promoted Sergt. He came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was mortally wounded in action at Hill 60 on 24 April, 1915, and died two days later. He was unm.

COLSON, WILLIAM JOHN, Sergt., No. 6285, 1st Battn. (West Ontario Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Corpl. John Colson, R.F.A., by his wife, Ellen, dau. of George Weller, of Wilmington; b. Erith, co. Kent, 25 Nov. 1878; educ. Erith Board School; enlisted in the R.F.A. 1 Dec. 1896; served 16 years—seven years with the Colours and nine years with the Reserve—including four and a-half years abroad; obtained his discharge, 30 Nov. 1912; went to Canada, 30 Oct. 1913; was employed at Ford’s Motor Works, Windsor, Ontario; on the outbreak of war joined in the West Ontario Regt., and was appointed Sergt.; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914, and was stationed at Bustard Camp, Salisbury, during the winter of 1914–15; went to the Front, 6 Feb. and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 April, 1915, when the Canadians so gallantly “saved the situation.” He was buried in a grave with 16 others on the east side of the Ypres to Pilkem Road, near the shrine about 400 yards from where the pontoon bridge crosses the road. He m. at All Saints’ Church, Belvedere, Kent, 5 Aug. 1905, Emily (32, Upper Grove Road, Belvedere, Kent), yst. dau. of Richard Spicer, of Belvedere, and had five children; Cyril Arthur, b. 27 March, 1906; Albert William, b. 10 April, 1913; Kathleen Adelaide, b. 13 Dec. 1907; Winifred Emily, b. 10 Aug. 1909; and Margaret Ellen, b. 21 July, 1911.

BOWEN-COLTHURST, ROBERT MACGREGOR, Capt., 4th (Special Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. Leinster Regt., 2nd s. of the late Robert Walter Travers Bowen-Colthurst, of Oak Grove, etc., J.P., by his wife, Georgina de Bellasis (Oak Grove, Killinardrish, co. Cork), only dau. of Alfred Greet, of Dripsey House, co. Cork, J.P.; b. Oak Grove, Killinardrish, co. Cork, 15 Sept. 1883; educ. Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving the latter in 1905 joined the staff of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, first as assistant private secretary, and later as vice-chamberlain, which post he held until 1912. He then undertook work in connection with the Irish Department of Agriculture, and later succeeded the Earl of Carrick as Inspector for Irish Agricultural interests in Great Britain, which post he held until the outbreak of war. Acting on his conviction that every man ought to be trained in time of peace for the defence of the country, he had joined the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Leinsters in 1910, received his Lieutenancy, 12 March, 1912, and, volunteering for Imperial service, was gazetted Capt. 14 Aug. 1914. He went to the Front on 5 March, 1915, and was killed in action on the 15th of that month at St. Eloi. Lieut.-Col. C. B. Prowse, commanding 1st Leinster Regt., wrote: “The battn. had to retake some trenches which had been lost by another regt., and your husband bravely led his men and took and occupied the trench as he was ordered to. But early the following morning he was shot through the head over the parapet of a trench, and died, I hear, without pain—in fact, death was instantaneous. During the few days he was with us he had done splendid work and behaved most gallantly, and the men would follow him anywhere, and I do greatly sympathise with you and yours in your loss, and the regt.’s loss, too. I am sending your husband’s name to the General for ‘gallant conduct,’ and I also enclose a note which he wrote previous to the night attack, which was to be given to you.” And a brother officer: “I know Col. Prowse has written to you, but I think, perhaps, you might like to hear a second account of everything that happened. It might throw fresh light on details that you have heard from the commanding officer. Your husband arrived up here last Thursday week, 11 March. We were just going to start our eight days’ tour of duty in the trenches and were marching to them. He, with Capt. Radcliff from the 5th Battn., joined just about 5 p.m., when we were having a halt for tea. I remember how delighted I was to see him again, as he had always been so good to me, and it was just like a link with home seeing him again. He and Capt. Radcliff came with us into the trenches, your husband taking command of A Coy. We came out of the trenches again on Saturday night, arriving in our billets about 2 a.m. on Sunday morning, the 14th. I did not see much of him that day, as we were all sleeping off the effects of the 48 hours in the trenches. About 4.30 p.m. in the afternoon of Sunday, the 14th, a tremendous bombardment by our guns started. We were very soon turned out and hurried up to a ruined village not far behind the trenches. We learned that the Germans had captured our trenches, and it was decided that we must counter attack at 2 a.m. on Monday morning. Your husband was detailed with his company to recapture a trench, No. 20. He was full of keenness and enthusiasm about it, as he was always about everything. Just before midnight, before we started off, I met him in the dressing station, where he gave a letter to Dr. Kenny, our medical officer, asking him to send it to you by registered post if he was killed. The medical officer said ‘Nonsense,’ not to talk that way, as he would not be killed. Your husband replied cheerfully that it did not worry him a bit, only he wanted the letter sent if he were. After that we started off. He was ahead of me. About 12.45 I caught him up with my company, and gave him a lot of empty sandbags we had been carrying for his company. This was about 500 yards from the enemy’s trenches, and the bullets were flying about. I said ‘Good-night,’ wishing him the best of luck. He was very cheery and happy then. That is the last time I saw him alive. From Coy. Sergt.-Major Kershaw, whose home address is 22, Clarendon Street, Bradford, I got the following details. He was with your husband the whole time. At 2 a.m. they charged and captured the trench, any Germans who were in it running away; but after some time found they were being so hotly fired on into the trench from the right flank that they decided to fall back into a trench just behind. As they did this a young subaltern, named Buchanan, of the Irish Fusiliers, who was attached to A Coy., was badly wounded. As soon as your husband got his company into a trench behind, he, with the Coy. Sergt.-Major and a volunteer, went back under heavy fire and brought Buchanan into the trench. By the time it was 5.15 a.m., just daylight. At 5.30 a.m. the Sergt.-Major saw a lot of men retiring out of the left flank of the trench they were in, and went to see what it meant. Your husband followed him. They were walking along inside the trench, but your husband’s head must have been exposed (his height was 6 feet 4 inches), for a bullet came over the parapet and went right through his head. He knew nothing about it, but just dropped, death being instantaneous. It would seem almost as if he had a premonition of his death, as several times he repeated to his Coy. Sergt.-Major, ‘Be sure, if I am shot, that you bury me where I fall, as I am too big and heavy for the men to carry in.’ Up to the very end he was always thinking of others. He was buried as soon as it was dark on Monday evening, 15 March, in a little plot of ground on the left hand side of the road just as you leave the ruined village of St. Eloi for Ypres. This spot is exactly opposite the last ruined cottage on the right as you leave the village. We are going back to this post to-morrow evening for another eight days’ work. I am getting the Battn. Sergt.-Major—Sergt.-Major Shaw—who buried him, to point me out the spot, so that I will know should I ever return alive. I can then tell you exactly. A wooden cross with his name and regt. will be put up to mark the place. I am very glad to say I understand the commanding officer is recommending your husband for the D.S.O. for the good work he did that night.” He m. at. Bilton, near Rugby, 7 Dec. 1907, Winifred, dau. of the late Rev. Charles Frederick Cumber West, Vicar of Charlbury, Oxford, and had a son and three daus.: Charles Patrick Russell, b. 25 Feb. 1913; Peggy Winifred Isabel, b. 2 Aug. 1909; Honor Georgina Beatrice, b. 13 Sept. 1911; and Marian Elizabeth Hope, b. 12 Oct. 1914.

COLUMBUS, FRED, Private, No. 912, D. Coy., 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd s. of Frank Columbus, of Shallop Cove, St. George’s Newfoundland, by his wife, Susan, dau. of Peter Benoit, of Flat Bay, Newfoundland; b. Shallop Cove aforesaid, 18 April, 1893; educ. Shallop Cove and Grand River, Newfoundland; was a Lumberman; joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 3 Jan. 1915; left for England in March, went to the Dardanelles, 19 Aug. 1915, and died at Alexandria, Egypt, 9 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action at Gallipoli on the 1st (?); unm. Buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery at Alexandria.

COLVIN, ROBERT ALEXANDER, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., s. of the late John C. Colvin, of Sutton Veney, co. Wilts: b. 5 Nov. 1889; gazetted 2nd Lieut. West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 2 July, 1909, and appointed Adjutant 1 Aug. 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action on the Western Front, 12 March, 1915; unm.

COLYER, REGINALD JAMES, Leading Seaman, 194323, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COMYN, WILLIAM NUGENT, L.-Corpl., No. 119777, 2nd Battn. The Wiltshire Regt., s. of Francis Sarsfield Comyn, Master Mariner, by his wife, Eliza Jane (209, Alcester Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham), dau. of George Barber, and only gdson. of the late Capt. William Nugent Comyn, R.N. [descended from the Comyns of co. Clare]; b. Upton Park, London, 27 Feb. 1881; educ. privately in Birmingham; was independent; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Wiltshires at Lavington, 8 Sept. 1914, trained at Weymouth; was promoted L.-Corpl. Nov. 1914, went to France 12 Dec., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.

CONDRON, EDWARD, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., B. 8605), 295103, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CONDUITT, ROBERT BRUCE, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, yr. s. of Henry Walter Conduitt, of 38, St. Alban’s Road, Edinburgh, late Examiner of Public Works Accounts, India, by his wife, Agnes Lennox, dau. of Robert Bruce; b. Allahabad, United Provinces, India, 13 April, 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Fetter’s College, Edinburgh; was by profession a banker, and had been attached to offices in Scotland, Canada and India. He served in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers for a year, and in the 4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.) for the same length of time, and joined the 14th Battn (London Scottish) The London Regt. 4 Aug. 1914, the day before the declaration of war. He went with them to France on 19 Sept. 1914, and served in the trenches throughout the winter of 1914–15. On 3 April he was given a commission in the Seaforth Highlanders, and joined on the 12th, being killed in action in the front line of trenches close to Neuve Chapelle four days later, 16 April, 1915. He was buried in the cemetery at Vieille Chapelle; unm. Capt. A. R. Baillie Hamilton, 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, wrote: “Although he had only joined my company the day we moved into the trenches (12th), I saw a great deal of him during the few days, and I formed a very high opinion of him, and was congratulating myself on having such a nice lad posted to me. He seemed to get on exceptionally well with the men, and I have overheard several nice things said of him by them. He had the makings of a really efficient officer.”

CONGDON, RICHARD HENRY, Stoker, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., A. 1829), 123974, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CONN, GEORGE DENHOLM, Private, No. 24466, 13th Battn. (5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Neil Stalker Conn, of Stevenston, by his wife ... (Park Avenue, Brockville, Ontario, Canada), dau. of Robert Montgomery; b. Ardrossan, co. Ayr, 10 March, 1896; educ. Public School, Saltcoats; went to Canada, 10 March, 1911; enlisted in Aug. 1914, on the outbreak of war; left with the first contingent in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at the Battle of Langemarck, 24 April, 1915; unm.

CONNELL, GILBERT, Private, No. 2387, 1/5th West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Joseph Connell, of 6, Barlow Terrace, Denison Road, Selby, Churchwarden at Selby Abbey, by his wife, Celia; b. Selby, co. York, 10 April, 1892; educ. Abbey Church School there; served his apprenticeship as a fitter and engineer at Messrs. Cochrane & Sons, Ltd., shipbuilders, Selby, and on the outbreak of war joined the 1/5th West Yorkshires in Sept. 1914. He was killed by a grenade at Ypres, 21 July, 1915, two Harrogate Territorials, who were in the trench with him, also meeting their death from the same explosive. He was unm., and was buried just behind the trenches. His commanding officer wrote: “He was an excellent and cheery soldier.” One of his brothers is at the Front, and the other has joined the Army.

CONNELLAN, PETER MARTIN, Capt. and Local Major, 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Major James Hercules Fitzwalter Henry Connellan, of Coolmore, Thomastown, co. Kilkenny, J.P., D.L., formerly Hon. Col. 5th Royal Irish Regt. and Capt. Hampshire Regt., by his wife, Laura Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Ussher Roberts; b. Sale, co. Chester, 19 Feb. 1882; educ. Harrow, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Hampshires (then in India), 8 Jan. 1901, being promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1903, and Capt. 9 May, 1907. He served in Aden, 1903–4, took part in the operations in the hinterland, and acted as signalling officer to the brigade under Brig.-Gen. Scallon with the Boundary Delimitation Commission, and was present at the attack by Arabs on the camp at Awabil; also in the expedition against the Kotaibis. He was Adjutant to the 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., 23 Oct. 1906, to 22 Oct. 1909, and of the Hampshire depot and 3rd Battn. from 23 Jan. 1911, to Jan. 1914, when he rejoined the 1st Battn. at Colchester. The Battn. left for the Front in the 11th Brigade, 4th Division, in the third week of Aug. 1914, and was closely engaged in covering the British retirement from Mons, the Division earning the warm approval of the Commander-in-Chief. Capt. Connellan bore a very conspicuous part in holding the railway line near Caudry on 26 Aug., being under heavy fire all day in a most exposed position, also in the retirement on Ligny, and subsequent engagements. On 7 Sept. 1914, he was promoted Tempy. Major (a rank which he continued to hold until he fell), and given the command of his battn., which he retained during the engagements at the Marne and the Aisne. After being relieved by the French near Buez-le-Long on 4 Oct. the Brigade was engaged in the neighbourhood of Armentières, to the north-east of which Major Connellan fell (shot through the neck by shrapnel) on 20 Oct., when second in command of his battn. He was buried at Pont-de-Nieppe. Major Connellan was twice mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette, 9 Dec. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915), and especially recommended for promotion and reward by his Brigadier, who described him as one of his ablest commanders and a born soldier. He was a keen sportsman, a fine rider, very fond of hunting and salmon fishing, also of games; was a member of the battn polo team, and a good player of hockey, tennis, Badminton, etc. He held the Bronze Medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving one of the men of his regt. from drowning. Major Connellan m. at St. Thomas’ Church, Winchester, 18 Oct. 1911, Winifred (New Empress Club), 3rd dau. of the late Arthur Niblett, formerly of Haresfield Court, co. Gloucester; s.p.

CONNER, RICHARD, Major, 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 2nd s. of the late Capt. Daniel Conner, of Ballybricken, Monkstown, co. Cork, Royal Marine L.I., J.P., by his wife, Emily, dau. of Henry Steigen Berger, of 30, Cleveland Square, Hyde Park; b. Ballybricken aforesaid, 29 Dec. 1868; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Gloucesters, 11 Feb. 1888, and was gazetted Lieut. 3 July, 1889, Capt. 26 May, 1897, and Major, 25 Oct. 1907; served through the South African war, 1899–1902, took part in operations in Natal, 1899, including actions at Rietfontein and Lombards Kop (slightly wounded), and afterwards on Staff as Station Officer and as Commandant at Kaffir River Bridge, also in operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902, mentioned in Despatches and awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Dec. 1914, to 9 May, 1915, when he was wounded and taken prisoner at Ypres, and died in London, 7 Sept. 1915, after exchange as an incapacitated prisoner of war; unm.

CONNETT, HENRY, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 885), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CONNOLLY, EDWARD, Corpl. No. 90396, R.F.A., 3rd s. of Thomas Connolly, of 16, Mary Street, Sunderland, Riveter, by his wife, Frances, dau. of Peter Patrick, of Sunderland; b. Southwick-on-Wear, 7 Nov. 1890; educ. National School there; was employed at Priestman’s, Sunderland; joined the R.G.A. (T.F.) and rose to the rank of Sergt., taking his discharge in June, 1914, as medically unfit; rejoined 16 Aug. following for the period of the war, and died of wounds, 12 Dec. 1915, received in a farmhouse near Ypres; unm. He was buried in O-Beal Cemetery.

CONWAY, JOHN, L.-Corpl. No. 73535, D Coy., 28th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Patrick Conway, of Ivy Cottage, Ennistymon, co. Clare, ex-Sergt. Royal Irish Constabulary, by his wife, Hanna, dau. of William O’Sullivan, Bonane, Kenmare, co. Kerry; b. Iries, Castletownbere, co. Cork, 13 July, 1874; educ. Bantry and Castletownbere; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards about 1894, and served with the Sudan Expedition, including the Battle of Omdurman and the capture of Khartoum; and through the South African war, 1899–1902 (receiving three medals). He then went to Canada about 1906 and settled in Ottawa, and was working on the railroad, but on the outbreak of the European war joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, came over with the second contingent, and was killed in action in Belgium, 17 Oct. 1915; unm. He was in charge of a machine gun, when a shell fell within 15 yards of his post, killing him and three more instantly. His commanding officer, Major C. R. Hill, wrote: “He was a splendid soldier, and on the 16th had been promoted L.-Corpl. He died at his post, and no man could do more.”

CONWAY, JOHN CHARLES, Mechanician, 282316, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

COOK, ALFRED JOHN, A.B., 211035, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOK, BERNARD HENRY, Rifleman, No. 2361, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Frederick Thomas Cook, of Harleston; b. Harlesden, N.W., 11 Dec. 1895; educ. Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, and the Polytechnic, Regent Street; joined The Rangers, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, being buried in Menin cemetery, near St. Eloi. He was just finishing his three years’ course as an architectural student.

COOK, EDGAR PRESTON, Corpl., No. 6780, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Robert Cook, of Loring, Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Rovy, dau. of John Currie; b. 6 Feb. 1896; educ. Loring Public School; enlisted 23 Sept. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front, 7 Feb. 1915; was commended by his Commanding Officer, 4 June, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field at the Battle of St. Julien, and promoted Corpl., and was killed in action at Festubert, France, 15 June, 1915; unm.

COOK, EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./1323, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept 1914.

COOK, EDWARD, Private, No. 2642, 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Cook, of Thornley, Fruiterer and Florist, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Peel; b. Thornley, co. Durham, 12 Jan. 1891; educ. Council School there, Henry Smith’s Secondary School, Hartlepool, and the Training College for Teachers, Sunderland, 1909–11, and having obtained his certificate was appointed assistant master at the Thornley Council School, which post he held at the outbreak of war. While going through his course at Sunderland Training College he had joined the Territorial Battn. of the Durham L.I., and on 9 Sept. 1914, volunteered for Imperial service. He left Gateshead for France on 19 April, and on arrival the Durham L.I. were immediately sent up to the trenches at Ypres, and he was killed in action there on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His body was found six weeks afterwards in front of the first line of trenches and buried by a comrade. His yr. brother, Private Percy Cook, Durham L.I., also a trained teacher, was killed in action on the Somme, 27 July, 1916.

COOK, EDWARD PERCY, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./17952, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOK, ERNEST VICTOR, Private, No. 656, 90th Winnipeg Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thurstan Cook, of 16, Killarney Road, Wandsworth, S.W., formerly of Ryder Street, St. James’, Military Boot Maker, by his wife Lucy, dau. of John Palmer; b. Wandsworth, 16 May, 1887; educ. Sir Walter St. John’s School, Battersea, and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs. Tyser & Co., shipping insurance agents, and afterwards of Lloyds. Leaving for Canada in Nov. 1910, he was for a time at Montreal, and then went to Winnipeg. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, he immediately joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, which arrived at Plymouth, 14 Oct. 1914. After training on Salisbury Plain during the winter months, he went to the Front early in 1915, and during the heavy fighting at Ypres, 22–25 April, suffered badly from gas poisoning, but recovered and was in the trenches again in May. He was hit by shrapnel at the Battle of Festubert on 20 May, 1915, and died a few hours later, being buried in Bethune Town Cemetery; unm.

COOK, FRANCIS JOSHUA, Cook’s Mate, M. 2956, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COOK, FREDERICK, Private, No. 10356, 2nd South Wales Borderers, only s. of William Cook, of 15, Tre-Edwards, Rhymney, Brewery Worker, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Aaron Powell; b. Rhymney, 11 Aug. 1891; educ. there; enlisted 23 Feb. 1910; served in South Africa, 31 Jan. 1912–3 Oct. 1912; North China, Oct. 1912 (including Battle of Tsing-Tau); and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915; unm.

COOK, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Private, No. 7105, A Coy., 1st Battn. Norfolk Regt., 2nd s. of Arthur Cook, of 30, Long Street, Ipswich, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of James Thorrington; b. Ipswich, 12 Nov. 1891; educ. there; joined the Special (Army) Reserve in 1911; d. 11 July, 1915, from wounds received in action at Blauvepoort, near Ypres; unm. His Commanding Officer, 2nd Lieut. Kenney, writing on 12 July, said: “He was working in the trenches the night before last when a bullet struck him in the back, afterwards passing through his side and arm,” adding: “He is a great loss to the regt. but died a noble death in doing the finest thing any man can do—giving his life for the sake of his country.”

COOK, HAROLD, Private, No. 113, 21st Battn. 6th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late James Cook, of Stockwell, Marble Mason (who d. 1889); b. Stockwell, London, 30 July, 1885; educ. Stockwell College; went to Australia, 5 Dec. 1913, and settled at Melbourne; enlisted there in Feb. 1915; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles and d. of pneumonia in No. 15 Base Hospital, Alexandria, 28 Dec. 1915; unm.

COOK, HARRY JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113688, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COOK, ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8030, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COOK, WILLIAM EDWARD, Seaman, R.N.R., 3171 C., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOK, WILLIAM GEORGE, L.-Corpl., No. 1916, 1/5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Alfred Henry Cook, of Bank Cottage, South Ascot, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Rew Maunders, of Bristol; b. Warfield, co. Berks, 25 May, 1890; educ. Rangleigh Elementary School, Windsor Forest; was a carman for Mr. Corbett, Builder, Bagshot; joined the Surrey Territorials, 19 Feb. 1909; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war, and was sent with his battn. to Lucknow, where he was promoted L.-Corpl. In May, 1915, a call was made for a draft of men from the 5th Queen’s to join the 2nd Norfolks, then engaged in operations in the Persian Gulf, and Cook was one of those who volunteered. He was drowned in the Tigris, 6 Aug. 1915, when on duty; unm.; an officer wrote that he was one of the best of their N.C.Os. and that he “was full of keenness at his work and cheeriness on the march, and an excellent example of smartness both on and off duty.”

COOKE, ALBERT EDWARD, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 8455, 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., s. of Edward Cooke, of 35, Langton Street, Cathay, Bristol, retired Army Warrant Officer and Barrack Master, late M.W.D., India, by his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, dau. of W. Davis; b. Bareilly, India, 6 Sept. 1889; educ. Military School, India, and Secondary School, Gloucester; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 20 Aug. 1906, and served seven years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve. He held the Army Acting Schoolmaster’s certificate, and as long as the rules permitted he had charge of the Depot Military School at Bodmin, Cornwall. On leaving the Army he joined the City of London Police Force, and was attached to the Clock Lane division until called up on the outbreak of the war, 5 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action in France on 4 June, 1915; unm. The officer commanding (Lieut.-Col. M. Turner), 1st Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., wrote that he “Was killed in action early yesterday morning (Friday). He was accompanying the company commander, Capt. B. Woodham, D.S.O., round the trenches—the night was a very dark one—and was shot in the head, dying shortly afterwards. The medical officer informs me that he could not have felt any pain whatever, which may be a comfort for you to know. I myself had known your son for some years, and he was at Bodmin with me when I commanded the depot. His loss is very deeply deplored by all here—officers, N.C.O.’s, and men. He was one of the finest, if not the finest, N.C.O. in the battn., utterly fearless and daring, a splendid disciplinarian, and an all-round good fellow. He is a great loss to the battn. and to the country. He had been recommended by Major Canton (he was in command when I was home wounded) for a commission, and we are all sorry that he did not live to receive it. He was buried yesterday (Friday) afternoon in our regimental cemetery here, a charming little spot, and I and several officers and as many men as could be spared attended the funeral. I trust you will accept the deepest sympathy of the battn., of which your son was one of the best, in your bereavement. He died like a soldier for his King and country.” Of his three brothers, Lieut. J. H. Cooke, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, was killed in action at the Dardanelles landing; Corpl. W. D. Cooke, of 5th Divisional Cyclist Coy., is now (1916) a prisoner of war in Germany; and Sergt. A. W. Cooke was (16 Sept. 1914 to 4 Jan. 1915) Drill Instructor to the 15th Gloucesters, and was then with the 13th and later with the 16th Battns., returning to Police duty 6 Jan. 1916.

COOKE, JOSEPH HENRY, Lieut., 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Alfred Edward Cooke, of 35, Langton Street, Cathay, Bristol, retired Army Warrant Officer, and Barrack Master, late M.W.D., India, by his wife, Elizabeth Catherine, dau. of W. Davis; b. Dinapore, India, 26 Oct. 1882; educ. in Military Schools in India; enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1899, and served with them 12 years; went to Western Australia and settled at Wickepin; volunteered on the outbreak of war; was made Sergt. and later promoted Lieut.; served at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there 2 May, 1915. He m. at Malta, Rosie (Wickepin, Western Australia), dau. of (—) Peffers, and had three children. His brother, Coy. Sergt.-Major A. E. Cooke, was also killed in action.

COOKSLEY, ARTHUR GEORGE, Gunner, R.M.A. 8388, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOLEY, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9339), S.S. 106582, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOLEY, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4035), S.S. 102438, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COOLEY, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./7606 (R.F.R., B. 880), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOLING, JOHN JOSEPH, Private, No. 379, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of John Joseph Cooling, of Windgates, co. Wicklow, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Boyd; b. Windgates, 31 Jan. 1891; educ. Bray National School; went to Australia in 1910 and settled at Sydney. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, leaving for Egypt with the first contingent. He was severely wounded on 26 April during the historic landing at the Dardanelles, and was invalided back to Cairo, but rejoined his unit in July. Shortly afterwards he was reported as missing, and later was officially stated to have been killed in action between 6 and 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

COOLLEDGE, JOHN HENRY, Leading Stoker, Ch./305541, R.F.R. B. 8475, 2nd. s. of Job Coolledge, of Purleigh, Essex, Shoemaker, by his wife, Sarah; b. Purleigh, 25 July, 1882; educ. there; joined the Navy in Sept. 1902, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 23 Sept. 1914. He m. at Leigh-on-Sea, 29 July, 1911, Alice H. (4, Reginald Cottages, High Street, Leigh-on-Sea), dau. of Walter Carey; s.p.

COOMBES, ALBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., 11496, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COOMBES, ARTHUR ROBERT, Private, No. 1920, 3rd Battn. Australian L.I., s. of James Coombes, of Hammersmith, by his wife, Emily; b. Hammersmith, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Paul’s C.E. School there; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of war, and was killed in the fighting at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, on 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

COOMBES, CECIL ROBERT, Private, No. 4215, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish). The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st s. of James Robert Coombes, of 35, Knollys Road, Streatham, S.W., Madras Provincial Civil Service, late Presidency Magistrate, Madras, and Treasury Officer, Salem, by his wife, Camellia Ruth, dau. of Sergt. Stephen Pincott, 1st Madras Fusiliers; b. Cuddalore, South India, 18 March, 1897; educ. Champion Hill School, Denmark Hill (1905–6), Doveton Protestant College, Madras (1906–13), and Birkbeck College (1914); joined the London Scottish for Imperial Service, 2 Jan. 1915; went to the Front, 4 July, 1915; was severely wounded in the stomach in the attack on the Hohenzollern trenches during the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died in the 2nd Field Ambulance the following day; unm. He was buried in the British cemetery at Vermelles. While in India, 1906–13, he was a Boy Scout, then a cadet, and finally a Volunteer in the Madras Volunteer Guards. A keen sportsman and shot, he was captain of Doveton College football and hockey teams, prefect of the school, and sub-editor of the school magazine. He had been selected and trained for the machine gun section, and successfully passed the snipers’ test, for eventual employment in that capacity.

COOMBS, ARTHUR ERSKINE GURNEY, Lieut., R.N., elder s. of Richard Samuel Gurney Coombs, of Church House, Oundle, by his wife, Kathleen Maria, dau. of Adolphe Philippe de Chastelain; b. Kensington, 3 Feb. 1888; educ. Oundle School; entered H.M.S. Britannia as a cadet, Jan. 1903, at the head of the list; appointed Midshipman, H.M.S. Ocean (China Station), April, 1904; transferred to H.M.S. Goliath (Mediterranean Station), 1905, and to H.M.S. Illustrious, March, 1907; appointed to Royal Naval College, Greenwich, for special course, April, 1908, and obtained four 1st classes; promoted Sub-Lieut. 30 July, 1908, and appointed to H.M.S. Dee (Destroyer), Jan. 1909; promoted Lieut. 30 April, 1909; appointed to H.M.S. Hindustan (Battleship), Sept. 1909, and to H.M.S. Dryad for navigation course, Jan. 1910; qualified as Lieut. (Navigating), and appointed to H.M.S. Essex (Cruiser), Aug. 1910, and to H.M.S. Blanche (Cruiser), Feb. 1911; transferred to H.M.S. Foresight (Light Cruiser), March following, and appointed to H.M.S. Diamond (Cruiser), Nov. 1912; and as Navigating Lieut. to H.M.S. Juno, Dec. following; appointed for first class ship’s course in navigation at Portsmouth, Jan. 1914, and obtained first place in examination; appointed Navigating Lieut. to H.M.S. Hawke, Feb. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that Cruiser was torpedoed. At the time of the attack Lieut. Coombs was on navigating duty on the bridge with the Capt. (Williams), and they remained there together until the ship sank. Coombs was subsequently seen in the water by survivors among the crew, but is presumed to have perished from the cold. He was unm.

COONEY, JOHN DANIEL, Private, No. 2486, 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Patrick Cooney, J.P., by his wife, Mary (Garranlea House, Cahir, co. Tipperary), dau. of Daniel Joseph Geary; b. Cahir, 20 Aug. 1889; educ. Rockwell College and Blackrock College, Ireland; enlisted in the Manchester Regt. on the outbreak of war, went with his battn. to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 29 May, 1915. He had been nominated for a commission, against his express wishes, just before his death; unm. Private Cooney played Rugby football regularly for the Manchester City Club and Lancashire County. He was a good boxer and a first-rate athlete, winning many prizes at 440 and 880 yards.

COOPER, ALBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4085), S.S. 102471, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COOPER, ALFRED, Private, No. 9720, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

COOPER, ANDREW, Private, No. 14288, 4th Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Zolobes, 14 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action.

COOPER, EDWARD WYNDHAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5932), 215711, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOPER, ERNEST, Private, No. 10041, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 30 Aug. 1914.

COOPER, ERNEST ROBERT, Stoker, R.N.R., 1202T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOPER, HANWAY, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst. s. of the late William Cooper, M.A. Oxford, by his wife, Marion (Gravel Hill, Boxmoor, co. Herts), dau. of the late Major James German, of Maywood, Sevenoaks, J.P., D.L., grandson of John Cooper, of The Oaks, Preston, co. Lancs, and great-great-nephew of Admiral Sir James Hanway Plumridge, who fought in the Crimea; b. Hampstead, co. Middlesex, 2 May, 1892; educ. St. Christopher’s School, Eastbourne, the Royal Naval College, Osborne (entered 12 Jan. 1905), and Britannia College, Dartmouth; and was promoted Acting Sub-Lieut. 15 Sept. 1912, and Sub-Lieut. 15 Nov. following. He served on H.M. ships Commonwealth (15 Sept. 1909–14 Sept. 1910), Rattlesnake (15 Sept. 1910–14 Nov. 1910), Warrior (15 Nov. 1910–4 April, 1911), Britannia (14 Sept. 1911–2 Sept. 1912, “a zealous, hard-working officer”), Dryad (3 Sept.-9 Oct. 1912), Circe (10 Oct. 1912–6 March, 1914, “has carried out the duties of executive officer with zeal and ability”), Pembroke (7 March–22 March, 1914), and Shannon (23 March–30 July, 1914, “a very capable and promising officer”), and on the outbreak of war was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth. He was killed in the naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, when the Monmouth and Good Hope were lost with all hands, 1 Nov. 1914. Sub-Lieut. Cooper was to have been promoted to the rank of Lieut. 15 Nov. following his death.

COOPER, HENRY, Private, No. 10894, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died on active service, 4 Nov. 1914, of enteric fever.

COOPER, JAMES HAMILTON, Private, No. 8551, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs), s. of Alfred Cooper, of The Lilac, Plantation Road, Hextable; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 29 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

COOPER, JOHN, Fleet Paymaster, R.N., yr. s. of James Cooper Cooper, formerly Tuthill, of Cooper Hill, Clarina, co. Limerick, J.P., by his first wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Pickering, of Roebuck, co. Dublin; b. Cooper Hill, 4 July, 1869; educ. Burney’s School, Gosport; joined the Navy as an Assistant Clerk in 1886, becoming Paymaster in 1900, Staff Paymaster in 1904, and Fleet Paymaster, 1 Feb. 1908. He served in H.M. Yacht Osborne from 1899–1902, and was afterwards Secretary to Admiral Custance in the Venerable, and to Admiral Sir Charles Briggs in the Lord Nelson and the Dreadnought. He joined H.M.S. Monmouth, 1 Aug. 1914, and was lost in action when that ship was sunk in the Battle off Coronel, 1 Nov. 1914. He m. at St. Peter’s, Cranley Gardens, S.W., 5 June, 1905, Marguerite Sutherland (Chiltern House, Chesham), dau. of the late Capt. Francis Sutherland, Royal Scots Greys, and had three children: James Francis, b. 5 May, 1906; John Christopher, b. 15 May, 1907; and Elizabeth Mary, b. 20 Feb. 1909.

COOPER, LEONARD GOSSE, 2nd Lieut., 4th (Service) Battn. South Wales Borderers, yst. s. of Walter Percy Cooper, of Ambleside, Abergavenny, Managing Director of Seargeant Bros., Ltd.; b. Abergavenny, 15 June, 1892; educ. Llandovery College, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he won a classical scholarship and also a Goldsmith’s Exhibition, and was placed in the first class in Honour Classical Moderations in 1914. On the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, and was gazetted to the South Wales Borderers, 29 Aug. 1914, accompanied the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action 9 Aug. 1915; unm. He was buried in the 29th Field Ambulance Cemetery, at the mouth of the Aghyl Dere, Gallipoli, near Col. Gillispie and Major Sir Lennox Napier. Capt. C. E. Kitchen, commanding the C Coy., wrote: “It was early on 9 Aug. that the Turks attempted a surprise attack upon us where we were holding a very difficult position which we had not time to properly strengthen. My company had to occupy a rough knoll, covered with scrub, and in the semi-darkness it was very difficult to see the enemy. I immediately ordered up two platoons—No. 12 (your son’s) and No. 11 (Mr. Miller’s)—and was successful in keeping back the Turks. Unhappily Leonard, whilst gallantly leading and encouraging his men, was shot through the body, and passed away almost at once.” The regt. was congratulated by Sir Ian Hamilton for their conduct on this day.

COOPER, STANLEY JAMES, Armourer’s Crew, 228727, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COOPER, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14542, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COOPER, THOMAS WILFRED, Private, No. 12629, 4th (Service) Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of George Cooper, of Joyford Hill, Coleford, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of George Taylor, of Joyford Hill; b. Coleford, co. Gloucester, 13 April, 1890; was employed at the Connop Collieries; volunteered and enlisted, Aug. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from 29 June, 1915, to 10 Aug. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action there; unm.

COPE, HARRY FITZGERALD, Private, No. 81177, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Gilbert Augustus Cope, of Russell, Manitoba, Canada, Farmer, formerly of Tralee, co. Kerry, and Sydenham, co. Kent, Organist of St. Michael’s, Lower Sydenham, 1882–88, by his late wife, Annie, dau. of the late William Burley, of Hastings, Sussex; b. Kilmalkeader Farm, Russell Co., Manitoba, 8 May, 1896; educ. Londonderry, near Russell, and Russell High School; joined the 32nd Manitoba Light Horse on its formation in May, 1913; trained at Sewell, 1913–14; volunteered for overseas service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and was drafted to the 32nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, at Winnipeg; came over with reinforcements for the first contingent, 17 Feb. 1915; trained at Shorncliffe Camp; went to the Front, 29 April, 1915; transferred to 8th Battn., 8 May (his 19th birthday); wounded in the left shoulder in action at Givenchy, 21 June, 1915, by a piece of shrapnel, but remained in the trenches with his company; appointed Headquarters Runner to the Battn., 1 Aug.; killed in action at Ploegsteert, Belgium, about 11 p.m., 12 Sept. 1915, while repairing trench under fire, being shot near the heart. Buried in the 90th Rifles graveyard in Ploegsteert Wood; unm. Capt. L. Gysin wrote: “He had been so familiar and well-liked a figure amongst us, as he had always been a good soldier and seldom without a smile, that his death will be a great loss to us”; and Private C. Robin: “All the Russell boys, in fact all the boys who knew him, feel pretty bad. He was one of the best, always cheery and cool under fire.”

BIDDLE-COPE, ANTHONY CYPRIAN PROSPER, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., s. of James Cyprian Biddle-Cope, formerly of Broadwood Hall, co. Salop, by his wife, Marie Louise, dau. of Edward Angell Saunders; b. London, 9 May, 1889; educ. Barnabite College, Florence, Italy; and was afterwards a Cadet on H.M.S. Conway, where he received the King’s gold medal. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., 10 Aug. 1910, and went to the Front with them on the outbreak of war. He was present when the general move of the British Army was made in Belgium and Northern France, and when the Germans made their first attempt to capture Calais, and was killed in action while saving the life of a friend, near Ypres, 26 April, 1915; unm. A Major of the 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., in a letter to his family, wrote: “The death of your son was not a surprise to me, for I knew it must only be a question of time before he was either killed or wounded seriously enough to lay him up for the rest of the war, for he was one of the bravest men I have ever met. I knew him first at the depot at Shrewsbury, when he first joined in 1910, and even then I was so much impressed with his pluck and his constant desire to do his duty in everything that I used to say that if ever I went on service I should rather have him to help me in a tight place than any other young officer I knew. When we were out on the Aisne, if ever there was any dangerous job that required to be done he would volunteer to do it, and yet the way he carried it out showed that he had caution and sense besides mere pluck. When he was first wounded, on 23 Oct., he came up to me with his hand bound up, and was all for leading a bayonet charge in daylight. The day before that he had walked across an open space of 50 yards to bring me a message, with the bullets spattering all around him, and nothing I could say would make him wait till dark before going back.” Another officer, who was wounded in the same engagement as that in which Lieut. Biddle-Cope met his death, wrote: “During the fight round Ypres two companies were ordered with the machine guns to reinforce a regt. who were having a very had time. On arrival there some selected men of our company were ordered to take a trench held by the Germans, and I was one of the officers, and while waiting to move out of our trench to attack, Biddle-Cope came up and chatted with me and wished me good luck; and I left my stick with him till I came back. The order to advance was given, and we charged, and just before we got to the enemy’s trench Biddle-Cope rushed by at a terrific pace, and was shot as he got to the enemy’s trench. When just in front of me he fired two shots from his revolver, and I think was again hit. I dropped down beside him and fired at the German who had shot, him, but can’t say whether I hit him or not. I myself had damaged my knee so severely that I could not walk at the time, and I saw no use trying to do any more, so collected the few men left—about five at the moment—and crawled back in. Biddle-Cope was machine gun officer, and should not have been there, but I can only think that he saw things were going badly and came out to help me.”

COPE, MICHAEL WILLIAM, Private, No. 6317, No. 3 Coy. 1st Battn. 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Michael Brown Cope, of The Corner House, Castledermott, co. Kildare, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of John Brown, of Woodlands, Castledermott; b. Castledermott, 1 Sept. 1892; educ. there; went to Canada, 24 May. 1912, and after a few months in Arkona, Thedford, Ontario, with his uncle, George Brown, J.P., became a clerk on the Canadian Pacific Railway at Windsor, Ontario. On the outbreak of war he enlisted and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, and after training at Salisbury during the winter, left for the Front, 7 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action between Bethune and La Bassée on the evening of 1 June, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote: “He was killed in one of the most daring attacks of this war. It commenced at 6 p.m. The hail of bullets and shrapnel which swept over our parapet was perfectly ranged; it was suicide to show oneself over the breastwork, for the enemy were less than 75 yards away. In spite of all, not a man hesitated. The whole platoon, of which William was one of my best chums, crossed the parapet with our heads down and a muttered prayer. We made straight for the German lines. We dropped into shell holes for a breather, and I glanced back and saw half of the boys (chums all of them since leaving Windsor, Ontario) lying dead and wounded. William, I afterwards learned, suffered no pain; his death was instantaneous. We had many debts to pay—Ypres, Festubert—and we alleged together to form one terrible effort, which carried us to their third line. William was with us through all our trouble at Ypres and Festubert, and has won the love and respect of us all. There are but few survivors left of the willing bands that landed in France last February.”

COPELAND, TOM, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, 357988, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COPELAND, WILLIAM GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10384), 206235, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COPELAND, WILLIAM JOHN, Corpl., No. 10666, Machine Gun Section Wellington L.I., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Thomas Mercer Copeland, of 30, Liffeton Street, Wanganui, New Zealand, Building Inspector etc., for Wanganui Borough Council, by his wife, Emma; b. Wanganui, 23 Jan. 1890; and was educated at the District High School and at Mossten, Wanganui. He joined the Defence Cadets as a boy, winning a cup for shooting at the age of 15, and afterwards attained the rank of Lieut. of the Senior Cadets acting at Capt. for eighteen months, but had to resign on leaving Wanganui for New Plymouth to take up other work. He was a Mechanical Engineer and Motor Expert by trade and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial Service and joined the Wellington Infantry Battn., 18 Aug. 1914. He left New Zealand with the Main Expeditionary Force, was promoted Corpl. while in Egypt on Christmas Day, 1914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. Col. Malone wrote: “When on the death of all his superior officers I placed him in charge of my four machine guns and recommended him for a commission to be my Machine Gun Officer. He was trying to locate the Turk’s fire which was harassing them when he was shot,” adding that “it was an extremely plucky act.”

COPLAND, DUDLEY CHARLES JAMES, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regt.), only s. of Charles Copland, Professor of Singing, R.A.M; b. Hampstead, 2 May, 1896; educ. St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School and Denstone College; joined the 28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) The London Regt., and was gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters, 2 March, 1915. He was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, being buried in the cemetery at La Cordonnierie.

COPLAND, LEONARD GEORGE, Ordinary Telegraphist, J. 14426, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COPLAND, MAURICE, Private, No. 2363, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Albert Copland, of Chelmsford, Solicitor, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Isaac King; b. Chelmsford, co. Essex, 21 Dec. 1876; educ. Chelmsford Grammar School, New College, Eastbourne, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914; proceeded with his regt. to the Front, and died in the Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 21 March, 1915, while on Active Service; buried in Wimereux Military Cemetery, Boulogne Base, Grave No. 285; unm.

COPPINGER, CYRIL DOUGLAS, Private, No. 12650, 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only s. of Col. Thomas Stephen Coppinger, of 168, Worple Road, Wimbledon, late 11th Regt., and Chief Paymaster, A.P.D. (who served in the Zulu war of 1879 and the last South African war), by his wife, Aldegonde Emily, dau. of Edward Thomas ffrench Beytagh, Q.C.; b. Maidstone, 26 July, 1890; educ. Wimbledon College, Edge Hill; was a journalist on the stall of the “Evening Standard,” and latterly a sub-editor on the staff of the Exchange Telegraph Co. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Northamptonshire Regt., joining the 1st Battn. at the Front, 2 Feb. 1915; he took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action in a charge on the German trenches at the Aubers Ridge, between Richebourg l’Avoue and Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried north of the Rue du Bois, between Richebourg St. Vaast and Richebourg l’Avoue. In announcing his death, the “Pall Mall Gazette” stated: “He was a young man of great promise, and several of his short stories, which recently appeared in a number of London magazines, attracted considerable attention.”

COPPINS, HUGH JOSEPH, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 15587, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CORBALLY, LOUIS WILLIAM, Capt., R.F.A., 3rd s. of the late Matthew James Corbally, of Rathbeale Hall, Swords, co. Dublin, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Sara Louisa, dau. of Thomas O’Kelly, of Bridge House, co. Kerry; b. Dublin, 27 May, 1876; educ. Stonyhurst and The Oratory School, Edgbaston; served with the Irish Hunt Yeomanry through the South African War (medal and clasps), and was gazetted Capt. R.F.A., 29 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of the European War he left with the R.F.A. for the Front; served in France and Flanders, and died from wounds received in action, at Bailleul, near Ypres, 6 May, 1915. He m. at The Oratory, Brompton, London, 26 April, 1906, Nancy, 4th dau. of John Joseph Whyte, of Loughbrickland, co. Down, D.L., and had two sons and two daus.; Marcus, b. 29 Aug. 1907; Edward, b. 15 Jan. 1909; Dorothy, b. 25 June, 1910; and May, b. 29 Dec. 1912. A brother officer wrote: “Our position was on the railway about 4 miles N.E. of Ypres, and it was going back to see the first line ... about ½ a mile along the track that the shelling took place. It was more or less a chance shell but there was a good deal all three days. I can only repeat how much Capt. Corbally is regretted and missed by all ranks in the Battery. One has to censor their letters and the sympathetic allusions to him have been very touching. As you know the funeral was at Bailleul in France.”

CORBET, SIR ROLAND JAMES, 5th Bart., Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. and only surviving s. of the late Sir Walter Orlando Corbet, of Moreton Corbet, 4th Bart., Capt., Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Caroline Douglas (now wife of Reginald Basil Astley, of Compton Beauchamp, Shrivenham), only child of the late Capt. James Affleck Stewart, of St. Fort, Fife, 11th Hussars; b. 19 Park Lane, W., 19 Aug. 1892; educ. Malvern and Sandhurst; suc. his father, 20 Dec. 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 22 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914–15, and was severely wounded at La Tretoire, near Rebais, on 8 Sept. and invalided home. From 28 Oct. to 22 Dec. 1914, he was on light duty at Windsor, returning to the Front on the latter date. On 6 Feb. 1915, he led successfully a most gallant attack on the Brickfields, for which he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], and was killed in action at Givenchy, France, 15 April, 1915; unm.

CORBETT, GEORGE, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CORBETT, MICHAEL PATRICK, Leading Stoker, 305374, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CORBIN, ALONZO JOSEPH, Seaman, R.N.R., 4187A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CORBYN, VERNON HECTOR, Midshipman, R.N., only s. of the late Major Hector Corbyn, R.H.A., by his wife, Lylie Evelyn (Stair Lodge, Wokingham, Berks.), dau. of Samuel Orby Carey: b. Ely Court, Llandaff, 16 Jan. 1898; educ. “Fonthill,” East Grinstead, Osborne, 1911, and Dartmouth; joined H.M.S. Cressy, 3 Aug. 1914, with which he went down in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CORDER, ERNEST, Ordinary Seaman (R.N.V.R.), 297 (Sussex), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CORDER, HUGH GERALD ANNERLY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt., only surviving s. of Major Arthur Annerly Corder, of Glendoone, Havant, Hants., A.O.D., D.A.D.O.S. (who served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles), by his wife, Lucy Ellen, dau. of George Armitage; b. Maesyneuadd Hall, co. Merioneth, 24 Jan. 1894: educ. Plymouth College and Sandhurst; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt. 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 4 Nov. 1914; went to France with the original Expeditionary Force, took part in the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne, the Marne and Ypres, being wounded by shrapnel at the latter place on 2 Nov. and was invalided home. He returned to the Front on 9 April, and was killed while leading his men into action at Richebourg l’Avoue, 9 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in the British cemetery near Rue de Bois.

CORDWELL, WILLIAM SAM, Gunner, R.M.A. 7989 (R.F.R., B. 1103), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COREN, EDWARD WALKER, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery, only s. of the late John William Coren, of Guyscliffe, Gloucester, Solicitor; b. Gloucester 8 Feb. 1893; educ. Cheltenham College, and on leaving there did 12 months’ training at Aldershot with the R.F.A. Special Reserve. He then went to the Malay States, but on the outbreak of war returned, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve of the R.F.A., 23 Dec. 1914, and into the Regular Army, 25 May, 1915. He went to the Front in March, and was severely wounded on the night of 14 June, 1915, while out with a party of men laying telephone wires. They had had to take shelter three times owing to the heavy shell fire. Lieut. Coren made a fourth attempt to finish the work, but he and three out of the four men with him were so severely wounded that they died the following day. The fourth man, a driver, was seriously wounded, but survived. He was buried at Ypres; unm. His Col. wrote speaking very highly of the work he had done while under his command. Coren was a good all-round athlete and sportsman. At Cheltenham he was a prefect and in the cricket eleven, and was considered a good bowler. He also played football and won the High Jump two years in succession. He was also an exceptionally good horseman.

CORFIELD, HARRY, Private, No. 6063, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Annagh, co. Mayo; enlisted 22 May, 1905; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; unm.

CORK, JOHN HENRY, Leading Seaman, 223677, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CORKE, ARTHUR NOEL, Rifleman, No. 1783, 1/18th (London Irish Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of George Johnson Corke, of 9, Adelaide Road, Brentford, W., Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Clara Maria, dau. of the late John Boys; b. Chiswick, W., 25 Dec. 1893; educ. Gunnersbury College, Chiswick, and Rothschild School, Brentford; enlisted on 7 Aug. 1914, two days after the outbreak of war, served in France and Flanders, was wounded at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died at Abbeville, 15 Oct. following, being buried there; unm. A comrade wrote: “Corke always had a quiet and gentlemanly air about him, and was thoroughly liked by all.... With regard to his life in the trenches, he did not seem to know the meaning of fear, and always took anything in that cool fashion of his which I have often envied during a heavy shelling.... In conclusion, one can say he was a good soldier, above all a good friend.” Four of his brothers joined the Army after war was declared: one the 10th Middlesex (T.F.), two the Australian Contingent, and a third the Queen Victoria Rifles.

CORKRAN, REGINALD SEYMOUR, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yst. s. of Col. Charles Seymour Corkran, of Chipstead, co. Surrey, late Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Sir Charles Lennox Peel, G.C.B., and gdson. of Charles Corkran, of Long Ditton, Surrey, by his wife, Georgiana Isabella, sister of the 5th Marquis of Hertford and dau. of Admiral Sir George Seymour; b. London, 28 June, 1890; educ. “Evelyns,” Uxbridge, and Eton. Was on the Stock Exchange, but on the outbreak of war enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company, served eight months and was promoted Corpl. and Sergt., receiving a commission in 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, May, 1915. He served in France and Flanders, was seriously wounded in action by shrapnel, 7 June, 1915, and died in the Duchess of Westminster’s Hospital at Le Toquet, four days later; unm. He was buried at Chipstead, co. Surrey.

CORMICAN, HUGH PATRICK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10490), S.S. 108467 H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CORNER, ALBERT JUST, Private, No. 1416, 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 8th s. of William Corner, of Brockside, Drummond Road, Inverness, late Actuary, Savings Bank, Inverness, by his wife, Hedwig, dau. of Heinrich Wolfgang Just; b. Inverness, 27 July, 1895; educ. High School and Royal Academy there; joined the 4th Camerons 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered with his company, went to France, 19 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. He had been trained for a bank life, and was a member of the Bankers’ Institute of Scotland. His elder brother, Otto, was also killed in action (see following notice).

CORNER, OTTO HEINRICH, Private, No. 22979, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 6th s. of William Corner, of Brookside, Drummond Road, Inverness, etc. (see preceding notice); b. Inverness, 7 July, 1892; educ. High School and Royal Academy there, and went to Canada 14 Aug. 1913; on the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and joined the Royal Montreal Regt., came over with the first contingent, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 7 July, 1915; unm. Like his brother, he had been trained for a bank life, and was a member of the Bankers’ Institute of Scotland.

CORNER, STEPHEN HENRY, A.B., No. 118, Royal Naval Brigade, 4th s. of John Corner, of 5, James Armt Street, Sunderland, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Tucker, of Sunderland; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 28 July, 1892; educ. Council Schools there; was a miner; enlisted in the Durham L.I. 23 Aug. 1914; was later transferred to the Naval Brigade; served through the Antwerp Expedition and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 15 June, 1915; unm.

CORNICK, DANIEL, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, L. 989, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CORNISH, CHARLES LAWSON, Lieut. 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., yr. s. of the late Henry Cornish, Barrister-at-Law and Co-Proprietor of the “Madras Mail,” India (died 7 June, 1915), by his wife, Emily Henrietta (Glastonbury, Lovelace Road, Surbiton), dau. of Charles William Engelbach; b. Brighton, 13 Aug. 1887; educ. Stoke House, near Slough, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A.), from which he entered the Army as a University candidate. He was for some time attached to the King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Highland L.I. in June, 1909, to rank as from 18 Sept. 1909. At the beginning of 1914 he resigned his commission, and was gazetted to the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his regt., and was with it in the retreat from Mons, and through the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and round Ypres, and was killed in action near the last-named town, 13 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried alongside the Passchendael-Becelaere Road.

CORNISH. HENRY GEORGE WILLIAM, A.B., J. 1249, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CORNWALL, GEOFFREY, Private, No. 1667, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of (—) Cornwall; b. .. June, 1896; educ. Hadlow Down (Sussex) School; was employed by Mr. H. Morriss, of Stonebridge; joined the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the Royal Sussex Regt. about 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of the war, and went to France 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the charge of the Sussex Regt. at Richebourg, 9 May, 1915; unm.

CORNWELL, ABIJAH, Sergt., No. 981, 1/8th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Eliphaz Cornwell, by his wife, Caroline (66, Queen’s Road, Southall, Middlesex), dau. of Joseph Brown; b. Southall, co. Middlesex, 5 Oct. 1877, and had been for some nine years in the employ of the Southall Gas Works when war broke out. He had joined the Southall Coy. of the Middlesex Territorials in 1908, and had risen to the rank of Sergt. He immediately volunteered for foreign service, and after going to Gibraltar with his regt., returned to England and went to France, 8 April, 1915; was wounded during the fighting at Ypres on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne on the following Friday morning, the 28th. He was a well-known and popular cricketer and footballer. He first played for the Norwood Green Cricket Club, later played for a short period for the St. James’ Electric Light Co. eleven, and then in 1906 joined the Brentford Gas Works cricket team, with which he continued to play for eight years. He m. at St. John’s Church, Southall, 8 Sept. 1900, Minnie Flora (66, Queen’s Road, Southall, Middlesex), dau. of William Cullen, and had six children: Eva Caroline, b. 31 March, 1901; Minnie Faith, b. 9 Dec. 1902; Dorothy Kate, b. 23 Dec. 1904; Ethel Mary, b. 19 July, 1906; Edith Florence, b. 20 Aug. 1908; Ida Ruth, b. 10 Dec. 1912 (d. 1915).

CORREGAN, THOMAS HOWARD, Bomber, No. 1037, Grenade Corps, A Coy., 8th Battn. (Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of the late Thomas Howard Corregan, of Nirvana Glen, Whitemouth, Manitoba, Canada, Merchant and Inventor, by his wife, Alice, dau. of William Henderson, of Kildonan, Manitoba; b. Springfield, Manitoba, 9 Oct. 1886; educ. Winnipeg High School; and American College, Chicago, U.S.A.; was a conductor in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway; volunteered and joined the Winnipeg Rifles on the outbreak of the European War, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915; was appointed a Bomber, 1 March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May following, while leading and encouraging his bombing party with the rally call “Come on boys, follow me.” After clearing an enemy trench, he went on although wounded to capture a machine gun. His Major wrote: “I have seen, heard and read of many stories of brave conduct of our men, but what those who returned tell me of your son, is equal to any act for which men are decorated. He led the attack of the whole battn. engaged, and really took the position which we still hold. He was still leading in the gallant dash to silence the machine gun, but this cost him his life. Nothing could equal the manner in which he went after the Germans that morning, as calm as though he were out for a morning walk. We old boys of his company all believe that Corregan’s action easily won the V.C.” He was a good all-round sportsman.

CORTIS, JOHN HALSTEAD, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, att. 2nd, Battn. Wiltshire Regt., eldest s. of Arthur Brownhill Cortis, of Outspan, Downview Road, Worthing, by his wife, Lilian, dau. of Henry Alexander Papps; b. Worthing, 21 Dec. 1894; educ. United Service College, and Christ’s Hospital, where for two years he was in the Bisley Shooting Team. He afterwards entered the employ of the Capital and Counties Bank, and had passed the final examination of the Bankers’ Institute in all but two subjects. After the declaration of war he threw up his post and joined the Public Schools and University Corps, afterwards passing through Sandhurst, where he was promoted to Sergt. of his company and obtained his commission, 17 March, 1915. He went to France on 25 May, and was killed in action by a shell, while leading an attack on the German trenches at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; unm. His battn. was not in this attack but he had volunteered to take the place of an officer who was ill. In this action out of eight officers only one returned and he was wounded in three places, and of the two companies every other man was wounded. His Col. wrote: “I took the greatest fancy to your boy when he joined us. He was extremely keen to go into action and was a first-rate soldier. The regt. feel the loss of such men as this; when we are able to do so we will erect a cross over his grave.”

COSENS, HAROLD STANLEY FREDERICK, Lieut., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., only s. of Frederick George Cosens, of Bacton, co. Norfolk, and 7 Observatory Gardens, Kensington, W., by his wife, Fanny Louisa Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Henry Ambrose, of Copford, Essex, and Manchester Square, London; b. Kensington, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. St. Paul’s School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the East Yorkshire Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 28 Feb. 1912. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 28 Oct. 1914; unm. Major W. Boyle wrote: “He was my subaltern, and I never want a better, always cheery and ready for any work that came in his way, and to take on any hard job, even when out of his turn, as often happened when I wanted a man I could trust to do any difficult or jumpy piece of work. I could not want for a nicer, more cheery and hard-working officer to soldier with.... The exact circumstances are these: He had led his men to retake some trenches from the Germans, and had carried out his work successfully, and was actually in the trench, doing a kindly act to one of the enemy, who wanted to surrender, when a sniper shot him from another direction. It is extremely painful to write thus, as it was sheer bad luck! My company are very cut up indeed. He died a gallant gentleman.” He was very keen on the Boy Scout movement, and the Vicar of St. Agatha’s (the Rev. Everard Digby) records in St. Agatha’s “Messenger” for Dec. 1914: “The year before last he gave up every evening of his two months’ leave to go down to different troops in East London to teach our scouts signalling. To give up every evening, to forego such luxuries as dining out, theatres, etc., for the whole of his furlough, involved no little self-sacrifice, but he never missed once, and he was so thoroughly good tempered and patient that even the stupidest boys managed to learn a good deal from him. The fruit of all is seen in the number of our lads serving with the Colours to-day. Several of the fellows he taught are now Army or Navy Signallers, and one or two are wearing the stripes of an N.C.O. as the result of his self-sacrificing labours. One thing was certain, whether they picked up more quickly or not, every Boy Scout he taught was a better chap for knowing him.” Lieut. Cosens had been on several occasions employed with the Mounted Infantry, and had passed with distinction through the schools of Signalling and Musketry.

COSTELLO, PETER, Stoker, R.N.R., 2108S., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COSTELLOW, WILLIAM JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14616, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COSTIN, BRUCE DUFFUS, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regt., only s. of John Duffus Costin, of New South Wales, and his wife, Adele (now wife of Walter Hobson, of Tan-y-bryn, Bangor); b. Strathfield, New South Wales, 20 June, 1889; educ. Bedford and Sandhurst; received his commission in the West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, and was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1910. He died in hospital at Boulogne, 24 Oct. 1914, from wounds received in action on 20 Oct. at the Battle of Ypres, and was buried in Boulogne Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: “You know without my telling you what a favourite he was with all ranks of the regt. and how we shall all miss him. He had done splendidly throughout the war, and was invaluable to us. He was always cool and cheery under fire, quite fearless, and had done very well on the 20th under an appalling shell fire. He is a great loss in every way to the regt. and the mess, so keen on both work and play, and the Rugby team will be nothing without him.” And the Chaplain: “He was a splendid officer, and a splendid man. I had many opportunities for forming an estimate of his character, for I knew him well, and I know he was a man of highest qualities and ideals, brave, honourable, respected by all who knew him, and loved by his brother officers and men under his command. His loss is a loss to the whole Army, and the cutting off of a keen soldier, who had promise of a brilliant career.” Lieut. Costin was good at all sports, a splendid rider and a keen follower to hounds in the South Staffordshire country. He played Rugby for the college fifteen at Sandhurst and for Rosslyn Park, and was capt. of the regimental football team. At Sandhurst he was in the winning teams for rifle and revolver shooting, and for riding.

COTTAM, HARRY FREDERICK, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 271794, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COTTER, JOHN JOSEPH, Leading Seaman, 194875, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COTTINGHAM, HERBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6015), 210795, H.M.S. Aboukir lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COTTON, HENRY ALBERT, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26631, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

COTTON, PHILIP, Private, No. 6746, 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Regt., s. of Thomas Cotton, Chimney Sweep; b. New Ross, co. Hereford, 1885; educ. there; served 13 years in the Royal Irish Regt. (India medal, 1895); re-enlisted after the outbreak of war, 21 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in the trenches by a flash of lightning, 22 May, 1915. He m. at New Ross, 20 May, 1907, Kate (2, Michael Street, New Ross), dau. of James Hennebury, of New Ross, and had three daus.: Anastatia, b. 1 Jan. 1908; Elizabeth, b. 1 Feb. 1912; and May, b. 27 Feb. 1915.

COTTON, SIDNEY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5176), S.S. 1858, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COTTON, THOMAS FREDERICK, Chief E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner), 149729 (Po.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COTTRELL, GEORGE FREDERICK, 2nd Lieut. 108th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., s. of George Anderson Cottrell, of Allandale, Sandon Road, Edgbaston, by his wife, Mary Agnes, dau. of the late Alexander Smith, of Bingley, Yorks.; b. West Bromwich, co. Stafford, 27 Oct. 1892; educ. Bromsgrove School and King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where he was Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., and was awarded the Coronation medal as the best all-round boy. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and there was senior Sergt., and won prizes for infantry training and military law. He received his commission, 18 July, 1913, and until the outbreak of the war was stationed in the Isle of Wight. In Sept. 1914, he left for the Front, and was attached to an ammunition column of the Indian Army, being posted to the 108th Heavy Battery, R.G.A., in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres, 11 May, 1915, and was buried in a railed off piece of ground used as a war cemetery, in the grounds of the chateau of the Gold Fish, Ypres; unm. A stained glass window, subscribed for by his brother officers friends, was placed in the church used by the R.G.A. at Freshwater, I.W. Lieut. Cottrell was one of the “shop” fifteen while at Woolwich, and afterwards was a member of the United Services Football Club, and also played for the Army and three counties on various occasions.

COTTRELL, WILLIAM, Private, No. 7305, 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Edward Cottrell, Iron moulder, by his wife, Phoebe, dau. of Joseph Dean; b. Tipton, co. Staffs, 26 Oct. 1884; educ. Council Schools there; enlisted 6 Nov. 1902, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10–13 March, 1915; unm.

COTTRELL, WILLIAM GEORGE, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 5209), 303575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COUCH, HERBERT WILLIAM, Engineer Lieut.-Commander, R.N., 4th s. of James Couch, Major, late 2nd North Staffordshire Regt., by his wife, Helen, dau. of William Hollis; b. Malta, 3 Sept. 1879; educ. Mile End House School, Portsmouth, and Keyham College, Devonport. Entering the Navy in 1905 he was promoted Lieut.-Commander in Aug. 1913, and appointed in July, 1914, to H.M.S. Good Hope, on which he was killed in action, off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. following. Engineer Lieut.-Commander Couch had the Messina medal. He m. at Portsmouth, 18 Dec. 1906, Edith Cecila (Grace’s Farm, Martyr Worthy, Winchester, Hants), dau. of the late Richard King, Royal Mail Contractor, and had a son and dau.: Richard John Hollis, b. 16 Nov. 1907; and Cecile Mary, b. 12 Nov. 1909.

COULL, CHARLES WILLIAM, Leading Shipwright, 347244, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COULSON, JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17211, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

COULTART, WILLIAM PERCY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16961, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COUNTER, WILLIAM GILL, Private, R.M.L.I., 13098 (R.F.R., B. 1831), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COUPER, WALTER, Private, No. 9128, 4th Coy., 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of William Clark Couper, of 36, St. Mary’s Road, Watford, Herts, Police Constable, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Henry Gulliver; b. Kensington, W., 24 March, 1892; educ. St. James’ School, Norlands, Notting Hill; joined the 1st Battn. Herts Regt. (T.F.) in May, 1909, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 7 June, 1911; served three years with the Colours, and then passed into the Reserve, from which he was called on the outbreak of war. He went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, and died in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 10 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action on the 2nd. He was buried in Boulogne Cemetery (Grave No. c/19). A comrade wrote: “On 1 Nov. Corporal Palmer was wounded in the arm, and Walter took him to hospital. Walter did not come back till mid-day on Monday, the 2nd. I met him in the communication trench, and he had two letters for some one in another platoon. The Sergt. of this other platoon was behind him, so he had to turn round in the trench. The trench being rather narrow he had to show his head above the top. No sooner did his head show above the trench when a German sniper shot, and the bullet cut the side of his head where he had a bald patch. I obtained help at once, and our machine gun officer bound the wound up for him. He was then taken away on a stretcher. On 23 Oct. our platoon held a line of trenches from which the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) had retired. It was open ground, and the bullets were whizzing over us pretty rapid. About 80 yards in front of us lay a fellow of the Queen’s, badly wounded. Seeing that he couldn’t crawl in, Couper ran out to him, cut his equipment off, and with the help of Corpl. Palmer, who had run out afterwards, got the wounded fellow on his back. He then carried him in by himself. There were only a few of us who saw this, and hardly any one else heard about it. There are a good many brave actions done out here which nobody hears about. I think if any one deserves the D.C.M. it is Private Couper.” His elder brother, Corpl. W. F. Couper, 4th Middlesex Regt., was taken prisoner at the Battle of Mons, and is now (1916) confined at Senneläger.

COUPLAND, HENRY, Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Coupland, of Stonewell, Lancaster, V.D., 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., now commanding the National Reserves at Lewes, Sussex, by his wife, Lilliere, dau. of Charles Innocent; b. Lancaster, 15 Dec. 1894; educ. Royal Lancaster Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., 1 Jan. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Dec. following; served in France and Flanders, and died from wounds received in action, near Ypres, at the Clearing Station, Bailleul, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried in the cemetery at Bailleul.

COURCOUX, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2879), S.S. 196, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COURT, CHARLES, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9663), 297567, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COURT, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Chief Armourer, 340995, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COURT, WILLIAM HUBERT ROYLANCE (ALGY), Capt., 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, only s. of William Roylance Court, of Manor House, Middlewich, co. Chester, J.P., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Mary Carlaw, eldest dau. of Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Bart., of Osmaston Manor, co. Derby; b. Osmaston Manor, aforesaid, 26 Sept. 1885; educ. Wixenford Preparatory School and at Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Royal Garrison Artillery Militia to the 9th Lancers, 6 July, 1907; became Lieut. 4 March, 1910, and Capt. 23 April, 1913, and was for a lengthy period stationed with his regt. at Potchefstroom, South Africa. When the war broke out in August the 9th Lancers were at Mooltan Barracks, Tidworth, from whence they proceeded direct to France, being among the first contingent of the British Army to take part in the fighting in Belgium. It will be remembered that in the early stages of the war in particular the 9th Lancers did splendid work, and in his letters home Capt. Roylance Court related some stirring incidents. About Dec. he was wounded in the foot by shrapnel, and after being in hospital for a short time came home for a few days. On 24 May, 1915 (the day he fell), Capt. Roylance Court was second in command of B Squadron, the senior officer being Capt. Francis O. Grenfell, V.C. The force occupied trenches near Hooge, some 60 to 80 yards from those of the enemy. Capt. Court was in the act of communicating by telephone with the Base regarding the enemy’s gas attack and the general situation, when he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Capts. Grenfell, Noel Edwards and many men fell that day. The Adjutant of the 9th Lancers, when writing to a friend some time after the 24th, referred to the incidents and said: “It certainly was a bad day, but the regt. came out with much praise from everybody. This is some consolation to us for the loss of a great many friends, and in spite of losses the reputation of the regt. increases. ‘Algy’ did a particularly gallant thing on the day he was killed. When reinforcements were required he went down from the fire trenches through a terrific shell fire (any messengers we sent on this day were killed or wounded) and led up a company of the Buffs, showed them where they were wanted. They suffered severely on the way, having to cross about 2,000 yards of very open ground, which was swept by an absolute curtain of shell fire.” Capt. Roylance Court was buried during the night after the battle in the churchyard at Vlamertinghe, in Flanders, close to the grave of Capt. Grenfell, whose remains were interred at the same time. He was a very capable officer and a thorough sportsman, and when on leave was a familiar figure in the Cheshire Hunt, of which his father was joint-Master for four years. He was an enthusiastic polo player, and won several point-to-point races for his regt. and several of his friends. Golf was another sport of which he was very fond.

COURTIS, ERNEST GEORGE, Chief Gunner, R.N., s. of James Courtis, Engine Fitter, by his wife, Mary Catherine, dau. of Walter Perry Jenkins; b. Cornwall, 3 March, 1873; educ. St. James’ School, Keyham, Devonport; joined the Navy, 7 Dec. 1888, and reached Warrant rank, 1 Nov. 1898. He served on the Algerine during the Boxer rebellion in China, 1900, being Gunnery Officer of that ship during the bombardment of the Taku Forts. In the latter part of the engagement the starboard after 3-pr. quick-firing gun recoiled off the netting, fracturing almost all the small parts of the machinery and breech mechanism. He remounted it in a position (from which it was effectively used) in the Captain’s cabin in less than 15 minutes. Later, having observed a line of electric observation mines ahead, he put off in a dinghy with one man, and personally performed the dangerous service of destroying five of the mines by cutting wires, removing detonators and primers, and sinking the mines, thus probably saving many lives. He was subsequently landed in charge of two of the ship’s 4-inch quick-firing guns, and accompanied them to the Tientsin lines, where they were urgently required to outrange the enemy; afterwards took one gun some 4 miles from the supports and base and mounted it under a brisk shell fire, continuing in command of that gun during the remainder of the bombardment and capture of Tientsin City. At Sin-Ho he was appointed Transport Officer, which post he held for four months and was promoted Chief Gunner 1 Nov. 1913. He had the China medal (1900) with two bars. Chief Gunner Courtis lost his life on the occasion of the sinking of H.M.S. Clan McNaughton, 3 Feb. 1915. He m. at Belmont Wesleyan Church, Devonport, 12 Feb. 1900, Gertrude, dau. of Charles Montague, and had a son and dau.: Geoffrey Ernest Montague, b. 2 April, 1907; and Gertrude Ellen Mary, b. 1 Sept. 1904.

COURTNEY, JOHN HENRY, alias JOHN HENRY ALFRED ADKINS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9614), S.S. 106961, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

COUSENS, ARTHUR, Seaman, R.N.R., 2403C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COUSINS, JAMES, Private, No. 8490, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of William Cousins, of Lurgan, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Robert Guiney; b. Dollingstown, Lurgan, co. Down ..., March, 1892; educ. National School there; enlisted 1 Jan. 1906; served two years in China, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 7 Sept. 1914; unm. On that evening the Inniskillings went out to take up an outpost line. Just before they reached the Ferme de la Grande Lodge they met a small force of Uhlans, which they drove off and closed up again, not suspecting that any more of the enemy were near, and while in close order two batteries opened fire at 1,200 yards. The company was immediately formed for attack, but the enemy’s fire was terrific for a short time, and it was here that Lieut. Boyd and Private Cousins fell. They were buried that night in a corner of a field in which the farmhouse of La Ferme des Arceries stands.

COVER, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 41, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.