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ROLL OF HONOUR

A BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ALL MEMBERS OF HIS MAJESTY’S NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES WHO HAVE FALLEN IN THE WAR

BY

THE MARQUIS DE RUVIGNY

_Author and Editor of “The Blood Royal of Britain,” “The Titled Nobility of Europe,” and other works._

“And he Passed over ... and all the Trumpetts sounded for him on the other side.”

Volume I.

With some 2,500 portraits.

LONDON:

THE STANDARD ART BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, 30–32, LUDGATE HILL.

AND EVER THE FAITH ENDURES.

These men have laid down their lives for England. In the future, History will pass its verdict upon the War, its causes and its consequences, the methods of its accomplishment, and on the men who planned and schemed and fought to bring it to a triumphantly victorious ending. Our children, and the generations which are to follow us, for whose sake we have believed this war is being waged, will sit in judgment on all that has been done in it for good or for ill. Let us be content to be so judged.

But, whatever may be that verdict, what grander tribute can we humbly pay to those who have fallen, what else can we proudly say of them than the bare reiteration of the simple fact that they have made that last and greatest sacrifice of all? That sacrifice has been reached after the manner of our race, for the benefit of others, for the sake of those ideals which we rightly regard alike as the foundation and the characteristics of our nation.

From the fringes of the Empire men came homing back to the Motherland to shoulder her troubles and die for her alongside of the veterans who had already grown grey in the service of the King, and of the boys from London Town.

Some have gone out to meet their death with laughter on their lips, and some with prayers; and others have faced the end racked with the pain of long drawn suffering. Some have died in the gladdening exaltation of accomplished victory; and there are those who fought--and fought--and turned again and fought--and fell, sleeping as they fell and dying as they slept, in that grimmest nightmare of retreat at the opening of the campaign.

Victory we have known--failure we have met; yet those who have fought this fight for us have heaped up laurel upon laurel to add eternal lustre to that battle fame which the centuries behind us have woven for our name; and our children’s children will rejoice in the glory they have made.

There are British graves in Flanders and Gallipoli, on the bleak hillsides of Serbia and by the waters of the Euphrates. There are those who now rest peacefully beneath the sullen waves of the grey North Sea or the sun-kissed far Pacific; and of those who sleep so quietly none now hears the maddening racket of this world at war in which they played out their parts so gallantly.

Here are their names, officers and men together, as they fought and died for this dear Empire which they have loved so exceeding well. Let us pay tribute to their memory.

PREFACE.

The purpose of the Roll of Honour is to place on permanent record the name of every officer, non-commissioned officer and man of His Majesty’s Forces, on land or sea, who is killed in action, who dies of wounds, or whose death is otherwise resulting from the present war. The work is to be issued in a series of volumes, and the arrangement is alphabetical.

The name, rank and regiment of every one whose name appears in the official casualty lists are included, and where details have been obtainable, the parentage, place and date of birth, schools, a biographical sketch of career, and date and place of death, with extracts from letters of Commanding Officers or comrades relating to the action in which the officer or man fell, or to the particular circumstances of his death. The names of children have been included so that in the years to come they may themselves read, or teach their children to read, of the glorious way in which their fathers died; and of those individual acts of bravery that are the chief redeeming features of war.

The present volume contains some 8,000 names, and deals with casualties during the first year of the war, though certain exceptions have been made in order that relatives, though killed at different periods, may be included together. In every case it has been found possible to give the full name and to state the actual date, and the locality, of death, and these details must add very greatly to the value of the record, as they are not to be found in the Official Casualty Lists.

A large number of portraits of officers and men will be found included. With some 300,000 casualties it was obviously clearly impossible that one should be given in every case, but when a portrait is supplied, the publishers do their best to include it.

The three following volumes, which are at present in course of completion or preparation, will, it is hoped, be issued this year. These are the second and third volumes for 1914–15, and the first volume for 1916. It is earnestly hoped that relatives of those deceased in the service will, by furnishing particulars, co-operate in carrying out what is, even with the official facilities which are being given, an exceedingly difficult task.

The Editor and Publishers wish it to be distinctly understood that the insertion of any name is in no way dependent upon the payment of any fee or of subscription to the book, and that no fee will be accepted for the insertion of any name.

The complete text of the official despatches will be given in the final volume, and in this will also be included a regimental index, in which will appear under each regiment a roll of the officers and men who have been killed, or died on active service, throughout the war, with a reference to the volume in which the biography appears.

14–15, HANOVER CHAMBERS, BUCKINGHAM STREET, ADELPHI, W.C.

_December, 1916._

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

[Illustration: =Marmaduke J. N. Abbay.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Thomas Abbott.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Frederick Charles Abbott.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Harry Abbotts.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Robert H. C. Abercrombie.=]

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

[Illustration: =James Aberdeen.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Albert Acton.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Geoffrey Lloyd Adams.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =George Stopford Adams.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =John Goold Adams.=]

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

[Illustration: =Laurence K. Adams, M.A.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Henry Adams.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Adams.=]

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

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

=ADAMSON, JOHN EDWARD=, No. 10473, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, nephew and adopted _s._ of Stephen Adamson, of South View, South Pelaw, Chester-le-Street; _b._ Durham; _d._ 2 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Cuinchy; _unm._

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Edward Addy.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Henry Robert A. Adeane.=]

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

[Illustration: =Arthur Wills Adlam.=]

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

[Illustration: =Walter George Admans.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Robert Aikenhead.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Ernest Ainley.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Denys Alfred Lafoue Ainslie.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Ronald A. C. Aitchison.=]

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

[Illustration: =James Home Aitken.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George Aked.=]

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

[Illustration: =A. J. Akehurst.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Stanley Alder.=]

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

[Illustration: =Henry Alderson.=]

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

[Illustration: =Joseph Alderson.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =R. J. P. D. Aldridge.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =James Alexander.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Allan.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Herbert Ernest Allcock.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John Hugh Allen.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Thompson Allen.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =William Benjamin Allen.=]

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

[Illustration: =Augustus H. Allenby.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William George Allison.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Byron Amos.=]

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

[Illustration: =Edward Baylie Amphlett.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Raulin Anthoine J. Amy.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Abdy Fellowes Anderson.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles A. K. Anderson.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Henry Kemp Anderson.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John Grant Anderson.=]

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

[Illustration: =Kenneth Angus Anderson.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Mervyn Kebble Anderson.=]

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

[Illustration: =Reginald W. C. Anderson.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George W. Anderson Bey.=]

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

[Illustration: =W. G. Moore Anderson.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Lyon Anderton.=]

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

[Illustration: =Frederick Russell Andrew.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Christopher B. Andrews.=]

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

[Illustration: =Edward Silvester Andrews.=]

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

[Illustration: =Frederick Charles Andrews.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Wallace Moir Annand.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Hubert Percy Anning.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George Alexander Anstey.=]

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

[Illustration: =John S. R. Anstice.=]

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

[Illustration: =Alfred Mansfield Antill.=]

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

[Illustration: =Edmund Antrobus.=]

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

[Illustration: =Elphinstone D’Oyley Aplin.=]

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

[Illustration: =Walter D’Ancie Appleyard.=]

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

[Illustration: =Kenneth W. Arbuthnot.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John William Butts Archer.=]

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

[Illustration: =William Archibald.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George L. Armstrong.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =James Alexander Arnell.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Ferdinand F. W. Arnold.=]

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

[Illustration: =Harry Richard Arnold.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Arthur.=]

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

[Illustration: =Herbert George Arthur.=]

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

[Illustration: =Richard Victor Arthur.=]

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

[Illustration: =John D’A. Harris-Arundell.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Vincent J. D. Ascott.=]

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

[Illustration: =Robert Geoffrey L. Ascroft.=]

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

[Illustration: =Basil Drummond Ash.=]

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

[Illustration: =Wilfrid John Ash.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Edwin Ashton.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Henry Adam Askew.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John Atcheson.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frank Stanley Atkins.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Andrew George Atkinson.=]

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

[Illustration: =William Joseph Atkinson.=]

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

[Illustration: =William Noel Atkinson.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =James Mervyn Attlee.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Algernon Foulkes Attwood.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Attwood.=]

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

[Illustration: =Alfred Charles Aubin.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Cyril Frederic Austin.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Lancelot Neville Aveling.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Carol Edward Vere Awdry.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Basil Kenrick Wing Bacon.=]

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

[Illustration: =Edward L. Baddeley.=]

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

[Illustration: =Lionel R. L. Baddeley.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Arthur Davies Bagley.=]

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

[Illustration: =Leonard Vale Bagshawe.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Arthur Edward Bailey.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John James Bailey.=]

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Dismore Bailey.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Ian Henry Baillie.=]

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

[Illustration: =Theodore Bailward.=]

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

[Illustration: =Thomas L. Bainbridge.=]

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

[Illustration: =Colin Baird.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frederick William Baker.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =James Henry Baker.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =John William Baker.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Osbert Clinton-Baker.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Anthony Hugh Baldwin.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Albert Ransome Ball.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Ormsby Wyndham Ball.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Daniel Ballantyne.=]

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Ballantyne.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles Frederick Ballard.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Edwin Scott Bamford.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles William Banbury.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Edward Nugent Bankes.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Percy D’Aguilar Banks.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Josiah Banner.=]

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

[Illustration: =Sydney Alfred Banner.=]

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

[Illustration: =Oriel William Erskine Bannerman.=]

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

[Illustration: =Percy Stuart Banning.=]

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

[Illustration: =Harold Oliver Banon.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Cyril Frederic Barber.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Alexander Barclay.=]

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

[Illustration: =Allen Barclay.=]

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

[Illustration: =Kenneth Barclay.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Cecil Massy Arbuthnot Barker.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Noah Barker.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John Barley.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =William Bingham Barling.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =B. A. Pratt-Barlow, R.N.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

=BARNES, ARTHUR FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6462, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Alfred Barnes of 59, Hervey Park Road, Walthamstow; _b._ co. Essex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; _d._ 1 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action; _unm._

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Douglas Meston Barnes.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frederick Francis Barnes.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =James Barnett.=]

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

[Illustration: =Knight Barnett.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =William Stuart Barnett.=]

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

[Illustration: =Frederick John Barnhardt.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Samuel Tudor Barr.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles John C. Barrett.=]

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

[Illustration: =Hugh Henry Guy Barrett.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Noel Scot Barrington.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =S. A. N. S. Barthropp.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Geoffrey Edward R. Bartlett.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Ernest Barton.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Harold William F. Barton.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Nigel K. W. Barttelot.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Gilbert Thomas Baskerville.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =John Basnett.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Bastard.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Stanes Geoffrey Bates.=]

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

[Illustration: =Stanley Knight Bates.=]

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

[Illustration: =William George H. Bates.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Robert Batey.=]

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

[Illustration: =Alfred William Batson.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Prince Maurice Victor Donald of Battenberg.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Augustus Wolfe Battersby.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles Fremoult Preston Battersby.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =William Henry Batty.=]

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

[Illustration: =Robert Baty.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Arthur Bauchop, C.M.G.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Nigel Benjamin Bavin.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Bernard Eyre Baxter.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George Baird Bayley.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles George G. Bayly.=]

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

[Illustration: =James Baynes.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Jesse Augustus Beadle.=]

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

[Illustration: =Basil Herbert E. Beadon.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frederick Beatson.=]

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

[Illustration: =Isaac Beattie.=]

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

[Illustration: =Nevill de Vere Beauclerk.=]

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

[Illustration: =Francis Hugh Beaufort.=]

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

[Illustration: =Ostcliffe H. Beaufort.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Maurice Andrew Noel Becher.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Conrad Thomas Bedford.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George Beecroft.=]

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

[Illustration: =Frederick James Beer.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Robert Philip Behrens.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Frank Elliot Belchier.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Alan Robert Bell.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =A. Murray-MacGregor Bell.=]

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

[Illustration: =(Alfred) Ray Lancaster Bell.=]

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

[Illustration: =Cedric Molesworth Bell.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles Ockley Bell.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Fred Bell.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Lauriston Percival Edward Bell.=]

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

[Illustration: =Edward Dunstan Bellairs.=]

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

[Illustration: =William Bellairs.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Roger C. N. Bellingham.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Walter Sidney Belsten.=]

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

[Illustration: =William Henry Belsten.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Richard Nelson Bendyshe.=]

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

[Illustration: =John Percy Benham.=]

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

[Illustration: =John Russell Benham.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frederick B. Bennett.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Hugh Donald Bennett.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Arthur Leigh-Bennett.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =John Penrice Benson.=]

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

[Illustration: =Richard Erle Benson.=]

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Brooke Benson.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Clarence Leslie Bentley.=]

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

[Illustration: =Freeland Martell Bentley.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Godfrey B. J. Benyon.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles Delphis Bérard.=]

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

[Illustration: =C. G. Pack-Beresford.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =M. K. F. Berkeley.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Robert Bernard.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Alfred Robert Berry.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Berry.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Ninian Mark K. Bertie.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Gordon W. G. Betts.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Henry Betts.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Richard Vincent Bevan.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =David A. Beveridge.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Robert McAuslan Beveridge.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Harold Emanuel Beyfus.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frederick R. Bickerton.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Hon. John Neville Bigge.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles George Billing.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Leslie Charles Billington.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Joseph Bilton.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles Jeffrey Slade Bingham.=]

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

[Illustration: =Frank Miller Bingham.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Gerald Charles Binsteed.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Elric H. Birch.=]

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

[Illustration: =Arthur P. D. Birchall.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frank Edward Bird.=]

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

[Illustration: =Stephen Carmen Bird.=]

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

[Illustration: =Wilfred S. Bird, M.A.=]

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

[Illustration: =George Henry Gordon Birrell.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Edwin Maurice Bishop.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =George Spencer Bishop.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Frank Henry Black.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =James William McKay Black.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Pte. Thomas Black.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Sergt. William Black.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =George F. Blacker.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =William S. B. Blackett.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Blackman.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Louis Charles Blake.=]

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

[Illustration: =Sidney Barclay Blair.=]

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

[Illustration: =Rev. P. J. T. Blakeway.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Christopher Blanchett.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles E. W. Bland.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Charles E. Blanford.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Philip Arthur Blanshard.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Gerald Wynter Blathwayt.=]

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

[Illustration: =Harvey Blease.=]

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

[Illustration: =John Blees.=]

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

[Illustration: =Eric Bligh.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =D’Arcy Frank Blofeld.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles G. M. Blomfield.=]

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Joseph Bloxam.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Michael John Blyde.=]

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

[Illustration: =Reginald C. P. Blyth.=]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Tom Boddy.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William Henry Body.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =E. M. Crawley-Boevey.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Hastings Fortescue Boles.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =William T. M. Bolitho.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =George Emil Bolster.=]

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

[Illustration: =Charles Bolton.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Harry Hargreaves Bolton.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =John Bolton.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Joseph Crook Bolton.=]

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

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

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

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

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

[Illustration: =Joseph Bond.=]

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

[Illustration: =O. H. D. Bond.=]

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

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

[Illustration: =Thomas Morgan Bond.=]

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

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

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

[Illustration: =William G. A. Bone.=]

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

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