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EAST INDIA CLUB ROLL of HONOUR Regiments the EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 THE EAST INDIA CLUB SOME ACCOUNT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE CLUB & STAFF WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN WORLD WAR ONE 1914-1919 & WORLD WAR TWO 1939-1945 THE NAMES LISTED ON THE CLUB MEMORIALS IN THE HALL DEDICATION The independent ambition of both Chairman Iain Wolsey and member David Keating to research the members and staff honoured on the Club’s memorials has resulted in this book of Remembrance. Mr Keating’s immense capacity for the necessary research along with the Chairman’s endorsement and encouragement for the project was realised through the generosity of member Nicholas and Lynne Gould. The book was received in to the Club on the occasion of a commemorative service at St James’s Church, Piccadilly in September 2014 to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Second World War members were researched and added in 2016 along with the appendices, which highlights some of the episodes and influences that involved our members in both conflicts. In October 2016, along with over 190 other organisations representing clubs, livery companies and the military, the club contributed a flagstone of our crest to the gardens of remembrance at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. First published in 2014 by the East India Club. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing, from the East India Club. THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE 1914-1919 ROLL OF HONOUR THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 BRITISH TROOPS ON THE MARCH TO THE SOMME THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 Few of us, as we pass through the hall OF the Club, will give more than a passing glance at the bronze memorial to the left over the fireplace, or to THOSE ON the right, except perhaps we may pause more thoughtfully around Armistice Day. HERE IS AN ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE US to those former members and staff whose names are listed and where possible to tell us who each one was. Some came from privileged backgrounds, some were of more humble origin, some were young men in their prime and some were more mature. Some were married, some had children and some were single men, but all of them left behind grieving families. Some coincidentally died in the same event or battle. For some it has been easier to discover who they were while others have proved more elusive but in future, rather than glance at an anonymous bronze plaque, perhaps we shall remember individual men and who they were. They served not just on the Western Front, but also in more far flung places, and if you are wondering at the year 1919, we must not forget that for some the war continued in Russia fighting with White Russian allies against the Soviet troops seeking control of that country. An appendix contains a list of all the regiments and who served in them, the principal graveyards where those who died are buried or remembered, accounts of especial campaigns and battles where members served, and other items for ease of reference. When one considers how many died, one understands better the extent of loss of so many fine men. THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 THE NIGHT PICKET THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 The East India Club A GETHSEMANE BY RUDYARD KIPLING The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. We used to pass–we used to pass Or halt, as it might be, And ship our masks in case of gas Beyond Gethsemane. The Garden called Gethsemane, It held a pretty lass, But all the time she talked to me I prayed my cup might pass. The officer sat on the chair, The men lay on the grass, And all the time we halted there I prayed my cup might pass. It didn’t pass–it didn’t pass- It didn’t pass from me. I drank it when we met the gas Beyond Gethsemane! THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 LIEUTENANT CECIL HALLIDAY ABERCROMBIE, RN KILLED IN ACTION 31ST MAY 1916 AGED 30 SERVING ON HMS DEFENCE AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND, ALL 903 HANDS WERE LOST AT SEA Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial He was born on the 12th April 1886 in Mozufferpore. He was the Assigned first to the Home Fleet and then to the China station son of Walter Abercrombie of the Indian Police, and Kate of 22 (1910-12), at the beginning of World War I, HMS Defence was the Cottesmore Gardens, Kensington. He married Cecily Joan, née Baker, flagship of Admiral of the Fleet Ernest Troubridge’s First Cruiser of 20 Cottesmore Gardens, Kensington. Squadron in the Mediterranean. Ordered to avoid a superior force, Troubridge followed, but failed to engage, the German Goeben and He played for the Officers of the Royal Navy v the Officers of the Breslau, which escaped to Constantinople in August 1914. Although Army in February 1907 (15-14), 1910 (19-10), 1911 (22-13) and 1913 cleared by a court-martial, his sea duty was at an end. After duty at (18-8) as well as for the Combined Navy and Army (6-8) v the 1908- the Dardanelles, Defence was sent to the South Atlantic. Recalled to 1909 Wallabies. In cricket, he was a right hand bat and right hand home waters, Defence became the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Robert medium pace bowler. In 1912 he gave an earlier indication of his Arbuthnot’s First Cruiser Squadron. At the Battle of Jutland on May ability as a free scoring batsman when he hit 37 and 100 for the Royal 31st 1916, Rear Admiral Sir RK Arbuthnot was flying his flag in Navy v the Army at Lord’s. He played for Hampshire Cricket Club Defence and believed that his ship, together with HMS Warrior and in 1913 and was said to have “a delightfully free style”, scoring 126 HMS Black Prince could easily sink the disabled German cruiser SMS and 39 in his debut against Oxford University at Southampton, 144 v Wiesbaden, which had been earlier torpedoed by HMS Onslow and Worcestershire at Dudley, where he and H A H Smith added 118 for which lay dead in the water between the opposing fleets. However, the tenth wicket and 165 v Essex at Leyton when Hampshire followed as Defence closed on Wiesbaden at 0705, the German battlecruisers on 317 behind; in a stand with George Brown (140) he put on 325 for and battleships of III Squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Paul the seventh wicket. In first class matches that year he scored 936 runs Behncke appeared from the fog of battle. SMS Lützow torpedoed with an average of 35.92. Defence, which then came under fire from SMSs Grosser, Kurfürst, Markgraf, Kronprinz and Kaiser. By 0720 a concentrated fire was raining In 1914, being away on service, he was unable to assist the County, down on Defence and Warrior. Defence sank with the loss of all her 903 and therefore his fame rests on what he accomplished in a single crew at 1815. Warrior and Black Prince withdrew, but around midnight season. He had been a member of the MCC since 1911 and had played the latter blundered back into the German line and was sunk with the Rugby football for Scotland, being capped in six internationals. loss of 857 men. FIRST-CLASS CAREER BATTING AND FIELDING (1910-1913) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Overall 16 31 3 1126 165 40.21 4 2 11 FIRST-CLASS CAREER BOWLING (1912-1913) Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 5wI 10wM SRate Overall 551 8 329 8 3-27 41.12 0 0 68.87 THE EAST INDIA CLUB WORLD WAR ONE: 1914–1919 MAJOR LIEUTENANT COLONEL HENRY GEORGE VERGOTTINI ADLER HENRY LAWRENCE ANDERSON ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY, 9TH BHOPAL INFANTRY 184TH SIEGE BATTERY KILLED IN ACTION 29TH OCTOBER 1914 AGED 47 KILLED IN ACTION 21ST JUNE 1917 AGED 44 Memorial: Pont du Hem, La Gorgue VI F 2 Memorial: Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, II D 2 He was born in Lucknow on 2nd June 1867 and was the son of Major General Robert Palmer and Mary Alderson. He was educated at Dulwich and commissioned into the Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1888. In 1890 he was promoted Lieutenant and transferred to the Indian Staff Corps. He was promoted captain in 1899 and served in Tibet 1903-4. In 1914 he was promoted Lieutenant Colonel and appointed Second in Command of the 9th Bhopal Infantry. They arrived in He was the son of William Henry Adler [1845-1930] and Cecilia France as part of the Ferrozepore Division. He was killed by a shell Elizabeth, née Vergottini [1853-1941]. He married Ruby in Durban while the regiment was entrenching under heavy fire. but she predeceased him. He was married to Ethel, née Lee and was the father of Robert Patrick. His father was Jewish and emigrated and with other members of his community from Germany to South Africa in 1867 to go diamond He played cricket for the Europeans India 1892-6. He made two First prospecting. There he met his wife and they married in 1872. Class appearances in 1892 and 1893.
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