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Badcock, Rector of Walgrave, Northamptonshire, and of Mrs Badcock of the Dial House, Walgrave. He was born at Walgrave Rectory 25 June 1894 and was educated at Radley College, commencing residence in October 1913, intending to study medicine. He won the Freshmen's Sculls in June 1914, his competitor being R. J. R. Richarclson,whose 1Roll of 1bonour. name also appears in this Roll. On the outbreak of war he was gazettecl Second Lieutenant in the 5th , The Northamptonshire Regiment 17 October 1914, but was after­ KENDRICK EDWARD DENISON AINLEY. wards transferred to the 6th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Lieutenant Light . Ainley, of the 1st East Lancashire Field He bad been in for five months and took part in of the Royal Engineers, was the only son of Mr Edwarcl some of the hardest fighting. Though not officially promoted Theodore Ainley of Rushbrooke, Bury St Edmunds. He was born he acted for a time as Company Commander. He had been at Birkenlreacl 5 January 1891 and received the greater at the Machine Gun School for a fortnight, and was made part of his edueation at King Edward VI. School, Bury Machine Gun officer a few clays before his death. St Edmunds, where he was senior prefect and played cricket, The following extract is taken from a letter written by football, and hockey for the school. In December 1912 Major Littledale, temporary Commanding Officer of the he was elected to an Open Scholarship for Mathematics at St John's, Battalion : u There had been a somewhat heavy bombard­ and commenced residence in October 1913, holding also ment by ourselves, and of course the Germans replied. But the Hewer Exhibition from his School. In June 1914 it had come to an end and he was walking down the trench he was placed in tbe First Class of Part I. of ihe Mathematical Tripos. when a belated shell came over and, bursting, killed him. It On struck him on the head and death was undoubtedly instan­ the outbreak of war he was gazettecl Second Lieutenant in the taneous. He was very much liked by everyone, and his loss 1st East Lancashire Field Company of the Royal Engineers 1s much felt. He was a very cool man indeed under fire, 5 September J 914 ; the headquarters of the Com­ pany are taking his risks absolutely calmly and yet not foolhardy nor at Old Trafford, Manchester, and he trained with the reserve companies rash. I will let you know later where he is buried-! do not at Southport. Towards the end of 1914 he left think I ought to mention the name of the place just yet. with a draft for Egypt, and on February 4 and 5 he was in the I hope it may be some consolation to know that he died hottest part of the fighting with the Turks ; his section a brave man and a good soldier." being the only one which had a man killed. From Egypt he went to the Dardanelles, reaching the Gallipoli Peuinsula on May S; he went into action on May 11, when he received wounds of which he died. GEORGE ENOCH BENSON.

George Enoch Benson, who was killed in action on the 9th 10£ of Mr Joseph Benson; he was ARTHUR LAWRENCE BADCOCK. May last, was a son born in South London 31 December 1894 and was educated Lieutenant Lawrence Badcock, who was killed in action at St Olave's School, Southwark In June 1913 he was in Flanders on October 14, was a son of the late Rev. Thomas elected to an Open Exhibition for Mathematics and Natural 121 120 Roll of Honour. Roll of Houour. Prefect, Col.-Sergt. in Science and commenced residence in the following October. At Cranleigh School he was Senior and football teams. He obtained a Second Class in Part I. of the Mathematical the O.T.C., and captain of both cricket Lincoln­ Tripos in June 1914. He was a brilliant cricketer and played for several himself in On the outbreak of war he at once enlisted in the Rifle shire clubs. His sixth-form master at Cranleigh, better fellow and Brigade and in clue course went to France (he was ' Rifleman hospital, wrote to Brice-Smith's father: "A " Z 2980, C Company, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade '). He fell a truer genlleman Cranleigh never turned out. in action on May 9th, near Fromelles, in the fight for the ALders ridge ; all the officers of C Company were killed or wounded. An officer of the Battalion, writing to Benson's father, says: "The Battalion did wonderfully well and got FREDERICK GODFREY BURR, B. A. through the German trenches to a road which had been The Reyal Scots allotted to them as their objective. The on their Captain Burr of the 7th Battalion, 70, during the great right and left did not succeed in reaching their objective, so Fusiliers, who fell in action on Hill 27, was the only son of that the Rifle Brigade, after holding on till the next morning, attack, between September 25 and Burr. He was born had to retire back to their own lines to save what was left of Lieutenant- Colonel Frederick William 1890 and was at Harrow them .... After the action the Colonel (who was made at Horsemonden, Kent, 24· August he was in the School a Brigadier on the field) in addressing the Battalion said : from 1

Coop was a man of gentle nature and shrank from war ; both the Junior and Senior Sculls at the Bedford Regatta solely from a sense of duty and in spite of natural repug­ and the Senior Sculls at Cambridge. nance he left a life he loved for one be probably loathed. He was also a good hurdler, running in the Freshmen's He had three brothers serving with the colours, Col. Rev. Sports in 1911 and represented the College in the Inter­ 0. J. Coop, Vicar of St Catherine's, Liverpool, now wilh the Collegiate Sports, winning the hurdles in the year in which 4th West Lancashire Howitzer Brigade; Corporal Henry the College got into the semi-final. Coop, 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, who was reported On the outbreak of war Day joined the Royal Naval wounded in action at in May 1915 and has not since Division, but on 1 December 1914 was gazetted Second been heard of ; and Second Lieutenant Rupert Coop of lhe Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, being attached to Howitzer Brigade. the 24th Division. After some training in England he was at the front in the spring, returned to England and went out again. He was one of the most unassuming and most popular of DENNIS IvoR DAY. men. His victory in the Colquhouns was especially popular, not on! y in the University but in the town and district Second Lieutenant Day, of the Royal Field Artillery, who around, where (from the place of his birth) he was a kind died 7 October in Hospital at Boulogne of wounds received of local champion. He was a slim light man, his weight at Vermelles on September 25, was a son of Mr George when he was bow of the University Boat being 11 st. 6lbs., Dennis Day (of St John's, B. A. 1883) of St Ives, Hunts, and about a stone heavier than when he rowed in the Trial was born there 10 February 1892. He was educated at Eight. His successes were due lo skill and pluck rather Repton, and entered St John's in 1911. He studied Mathe­ than to weight and great physical strength. matics and Mechanical Sciences, passing Part I. of the Day's body was brought home to England and he was Mathematical Tripos in 1912 and taking the Inter-Collegiate buried at St Ives on October 9 ; the funeral was largely Examination in Mechanical Science in 1913 and 1914. attended, wreaths were sent by the Lady Margaret and He soon came to the front in the rowing world, entering University Boat Clubs. for the Colquhoun Sculls in 1911 in his Freshmen's term ; he lost in the semi-final to Pattinson the winner. He com­ peted again in 1912 and finally won the Sculls in 19 13, a most popular victory. With his elder brother, G. L. Day, he HERBERT CLYDE EVANS, B. A., LL. B. won the Lowe Double Sculls in 1912, the Forster-Fairbairn Pairs in 1913, and the Magdalene Pairs in 1914. He rowed Lieutenant Commander Herbert Clyde Evans, of the two in the First Lent Boat of 1912, and stroked the First Nelson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division, was killed in Boat in the May Races 1912-13-14. the trenches in Gallipoli on June 5th. He was the youngest He rowed bow in the winning Uni1·ersity Trial Eight in son of the late Mr John Thomas Evans, shipper, of Gisborne, 1912, and made a first-class bow in the winning Cambridge New Zealand, and was born in the North Town Belt, Boat against Oxford in 1914. In that year he stroked a Oomaru, N.Z., on 26 April 1883. He received his early Leander Eight for the Grand at Henley, rowing a great, but education at the High School, Gisborne, and at the age of losing, race against Harvard. He stroked the Lady l\1ar­ 16 was apprenticed on one ot his father's ships, serving garet Fours at Henley which won the Wyfold Cup in 1913 during eight years in all capacities, including that of Chief and the Visitors' Cup in 1914. Among other events he won Officer and Acting Master. For eighteen months he was a VOL. XXXVII. K 130 Roll of Honour. Roll of H01wur. 131 navigating officer in the Russian Service, during the Rus to so­ that existed in our firing line ; an entrenchment had be Japanese war, being engaged on patrol and despatch duti es c]ug connecting the two ends of our firing line ; it was a in the vicinity of Port Arthur and Vlaclivostock and wi th matter of absolute necessity, for had it not been done the their Eastern Fleet. He was a little reticent as to his Turks would probably have got in between us, and our experiences during this period, but sometimes mentioned a losses would have been very heavy. The Nelson Battalion mutiny at Vlaclivostock, the terrible scenes he then witnessed did the work they were called on to do under a most trying having clearly made a great impression on him. He was fire, being subjected to numerous bombing parties; by day­ wrecked near Siberia, where his eyesight was so injured by light our men were well dug in and the good work clone by the frost that he had to relinquish the sea, determining to the Battalion saved the situation. It was reported to me take up a legal career. Thus Evans joined the College a soon after daylight that Evans had been shot through the little older than men of his own year. He rowed thre e head. About 2 a.1n. I bad a talk with him and he was in years running in Lady Margaret boats: in the Second Lent the best of spirits and very pleased with the work his Com­ Boat and the Second May Boat in 1910 ; in the First Lent pany had done and full of determination. In sending in my Boat and the Second May Boat in 1911, and in the First report to the General I recommended Lieut. Commander May Boat in 1912. He was Second Boat Captain in 1912. Evans for favourable consideration on account of his good He was also for some time Editor of The Eagle. He joined work that night. . . . . His death was greatly felt by the the Thames Ruwing Club after leaving Cambridge and men of his Company, and I shall never be able to replace rowed for them in several Regattas. He took his B. A him ". degree in 1911 and the LL.B. degree in 1912, and was It may be added that Lieut. Commander Evans was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 24 June 1914, when mentioned in despatches from Gallipoli published in the he was awarded a Studentship. He married 25 March 1913, papers on November 5, exactly five months after he fell. Constance Irene, daughter of the Rev. George Whelpton Johnson, Vicar of Fairwarp, near Uckfield, Sussex. On the outbreak of war he was very anxious to serve his JoHN HOLLAND BALLETT FLETCHER1 M.A. country in any capacity, preferably in connexion with the John Holland Ballett Fletcher, Lieutenant in the 7th sea, and while waiting for an opportunity he joined the Inns (City of London) Battalion, the London Regiment, who died of Court O.T. C. ; he was also appointed to lecture to officers on May 13 in the hospital at Bethune of wounds received by the Admiralty. On the formation ot the Naval Division, during the previous night, was the only son of Mr William Evans was given a commission as Sub-Lieutenant in the Holland Ballett Fletcher (of St John's, B.A. 1875). He was Nelson Battalion, training with them at the Crystal Palace, born at Worthing 30 June 1879, educated at , Portsmouth and Blanclforcl. He left England on March 3, and entered the College in 1899. He took his degree spending some time in Egypt in the trenches there, landing through the Law Tripos, Part I. in 1901 and Part 11. in 1902, on the. Gallipoli Peninsula in the desperate days of April 25 and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple 17 November and 26. 1902. While at Uppingham he was in the School Cadet He was instantaneously killed in the trenches on the Corps and at Cambridge he was a member of the College morning of June 5, being then a Lieutenant Commander. Company of the C.U.R.V.; after leaving Cambridge he The following extracts from a letter of the Lieut- Colonel joined the Inns of Court Volunteers, and from that received commanding the Nelson Battalion describe the circumstances his commission in the London Regiment. He was gazetted of his death : u After a heavy clay's fighting on the 4th the a Lieutenant on 1 January 1912 and was an officer of the Nelson Battalion was sent up at night to entrench in a gap Special Reserve. He was wounded in the night of May 133 132 Roll of Ho11our. . Roll of Hon01w. to lose his temper, or to 12-13, while with a working party which was supposed to greatest provocation, was he known (if, indeed, he had an be resting after a prolonged period in the trenches. The do anything that his worst enemy unjust. His unusually sweet disposition bullet was probably a ricochet; he was at the dressing enemy) could call ill of anyone, and during station within an hour of being hit, but the case was hopeless made it impossible for him to think friendship I only heard him twice say a from the first. He was buried in that portion of the town four years of closest ' it was well deserved. cemetery of Bethune, on the banks of the La Bassee Canal, bard word of boy or man, and then all ; his whole soul was which has been set apart for officers' graves. He loved all and was loved by the house over which he Lieutenant Fletcher was the third successive member of bound up in the School and the School Corps ; he his family at St John 's. His father took his degree in 1875, presided ; he founded and managed Musical Society, and his grandfather (Mr John Ballett Fletcher) took his degree in managed our first Camp, our School an one the highest 1831, while an uncle (Mr John Charles Ballett Fletcher) took helped in everything else. For such under other circum­ his degree in 1878. posts in the profession were sure and to history as one of stances he might well have gone clown knew his powers and our famous headmasters. And he CLIFFORD GEORGE GRAIL, B.A. possibilities. 1914, he did not Clifford George Grail, Captain in the 7th Battalion, The "Yet, when the call came in August those who waited Prince of Wales' (North Staffordshire) Regiment, was shot hesitate ; it was at least likely then, that on the very day through the head on July 23, at the end get the glory without the danger, but of a stiff action in wolllcl a for his first 500,000 men, I had the Gallipoli Peninsula, and died within twelve hours. He that Kitchener called · to go. His promotion was a son of Mr George Henry Grail, of Newport, Salop, telegram from Grail asking for leave Captain in May, the and was born at East Dean, Gloucestershire, 27 September was rapid, Lieutenant in February and work with 1890. He received his early education at Newport Grammar last being the result of some particularly thorough special commendation School, and took his degree in 1911 in the Medieval and the transport, for which he received in June he started for Modern Languages Tripos; having received the Cambridge from his Commanding Officer. Late from him on July 27th Teachers' Diploma in 1910. In September 1911 he was the East, happy as ever. I had a letter : two clays later appointed Modern Languages Master at Bromley School, describing his experiences as 'a great game' all that be had Kent, and was also Lecturer in French at the Bromley I heard that he had given to his country that should put to School of Science and Art. On the outbreak of war he at offered a year before, leaving an example stay at home. . .. once offered his services and was gazetted Second Lieut. uttermost shame the useless slackers that to his Regiment; 26 August 1914. His adjutant wrote of him as a great loss any loss is-irreparable." The following special memoir of him is written by the but the loss to this profession is-if Headmaster of Bromley School :- "Captain Grail joined the staff at Bromley in 1911, at the SAMUEL HAMILTON. opening of the School, after a brilliant career at Cambridge, ARCHIBALD commanding the 16th and immediately shewed that he was a born schoolmaster. Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, Infantry, died 13 October at the The Board of Education Inspector was of opinion that he Battalion Durham Light , London, of wounds received in was one of the very best teachers of French in the country, Enclsleigh Palace Hospital and other schoolmasters came to hear him and take hints action on September 26. Colonel Samuel Beamish from him. He had extraordinary enthusiasm for his work He was the third son of Lieut. Borderers, and was born at and a wonderful way with boys ; r the Hamilton, King's Own Scottish never, even unde K2 134 Roll of Ho1tour. . Roll of Ho�tozw. 135 Gresford, Denbighshi re, 23 February 1865. He was educated NoRMAN VrcToR HoLDEN, B. A. at Merchant Taylors' School and was elected to an Entran ce Lieutenant Holden, of the 6th Battalion the Lancashire Exhibition for Hebrew at St John's, commencing residenc e Fusiliers, died on 5 June of wounds received during the in October 1883 ; he resided until the May Term of 188 6, fighting in the Gallipoli Peninsula. He was a son of the but left without taking a degree. He then entered Sand­ Rev. William Holden (of St John's, B.A. 1884), Rector of hurst and was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalio n John's, Moston, Manchester; born in Manchester 30 March the 11 February St 1888. Joining the School Indian 1890, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar Army his successive steps were as follows : Lieutenant and entered St John's in 1909 as a Somerset Exhibitioner, 3 October 1889; Captain 11 February 1899 and Major taking his degree through the Historical Tripos in 1912. 11 February 1906 ; he served with the 54th and 52nd Sikhs. While at School he worked amongst the lads of his father's He was on the Headquarters Staff of the Indian Army from parish and "was as good as a curate." He stroked the 1900 to 1908 as D.A.Q.M.G. and saw much active service. Second Lady Margaret Boat in the May Races of 1912. He served with the Hazara, Black Mountain, Expedition in During his College career his rooms were the rallying point 1891 (medal with clasp), joined the lzazai Expedion in 1892 ; of the newly-formed Old Mancunian Association at Cam­ served in British Central Africa (1894-1 896), with the bridge. He always kept up his connexion with his lads at Expedition against Kawinga, Zarafi, Uponda and Makarjira, Manchester and turned the Lads' Club into a Scout ; during this service he was severely wounded (medal with becoming the Organising Secretary of lhe Manchester and clasp). He served in Waziristan (I 901 -2) as D.A.A.G. of District Scouts' Association. Of his work in connexion with Division (mentioned in despatches, London Gazett�: 8 August this Mr J. L. Paton, the High Master of Manchester Gram­ 1902), in Mohmund (1908) as D. A.A. and Q. M. G., on base mar School, writes : ''When spade work was to be clone he and communications. He was invalided home from India was doing it and bearing the heaviest brunt, but when there and retired 16 February 1913. He then joined the Special were votes of thanks and compliments he was always away. Reserve Battalion of his old regiment, the Sherwood No man I know has ever worked harder for worldly success Foresters, which he commanded from 1 January 1914. In than Holden for the lads of his father's parish and the Scout June 1915 he was given the command of the 14th Durham movement in our city and neighbourhood. " Light Infantry, and proceeded to the front, dying of wounds After taking his degree Holden was for a short time a received in the great attack of September 25-26. Master at the Central High School for Boys in Manchester and then was appointed by Mr Paton to be a Master on the Grammar School staff as history specialist and Form Master ALAN MENZIES HILLER. of the Junior Preparatory School. He was gazetted a 1914, Second Lieutenant Hiller was the only son of Mr Henry Lieutenant in the 6th 7 January King Hiller, of Mayfield Road, Sutton, Surrey. He was born and on service was placed in charge of the regimental in Shanghai 30 March 1895 and was educated at Berkhamsted Scouts ; declining to take a captaincy as that would have School. He commenced residence in October 1913 ; at the meant giving up the Scouts. His battalion went first to E special outbreak of war he at once joined the army and was gazelted gypt ; from there he wrote long letters for the b Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal euefit of his Scouts, which were published in his father's p West Surrey) Regiment. He was killed in action in France arish magazine. From Egypt he went to the Dardanelles an during on May 16, when he was serving with the Second Battalion d was shot through the head on June 4th and died of his Regiment. the night. He was buried in what is now a well known cemetery on W beach, near Cape Hellas. 136 Roll of Honour. Roll of Honow'. 137 Holden's father received many letters from brother officers Lieutenant 31 August 19l4. In September following he and men expressing their affection and regret for him. went with his Battalion to Egypt, moving to Gallipoli in Special memorial services were held in St John's Church, May. He acted as Transport Officer in Egypt, serving also M os ton, on June 13th ; both were largely attended by Old as temporary Quarter-Master and later as Adjutant in Mancunians, the School staff, and representative detach­ Gallipoli. He was wounded in July, but quickly rejoined ments of Scouts. the Battalion and was gazetted Captain in August. A younger brother, in the same regiment, was killed in Gallipoli on June 4. The Chaplain to the Brigade wrote as MAURICE IVES BERTHON HOWELL. follows to Captain J ames' father : Second Lieutenant Mam·ice Ives Berthon Howell, of the " It has been my sad duty to read the Burial service at 1st Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, the funerals of both your sons, who were both intimate who was killed in action on September 25, was the only son friends of mine, particularly Frank ... . I knew Frank best, of Mr Thomas Ives Ho well, M.R. C.S., of Oriel Lodge, we saw a deal of each other in Egypt and we seemed always Putney. He was born at Wandsworth 28 October 1895 and running into one another here. Many a time when I have educated at Radley College, where he was a member of the been plodding up the Krithia nullah he has called me into School Cadet Corps. He rowed in the School eight at his dug-out for a meal and chat. He was such a patient, Henley in the years 191 2- 13-14 and was captain of the boats hard-working, conscientious chap. Every vacant job that in the latter year. He was admitted to St John's on 17 June came along he took on, company officer, transport officer, 1914 intending to commence residence in the October follow­ quarter-master, acting adjutant, and company officer again, ing. On the outbreak of war he obtained a nomination to all tasks were fulfilled with the same quiet thoroughness. I Sandhurst and entered there 22 August; he obtained his shall never forget the pains he took to recover his brother's Commission as Second Lieutenant 11 November 1914 and body after our stay at Imbros ....I saw him a few proceeded to the front on December 19th. His Colonel minutes after he was hit by shrapnel the first time. He wrote that he was "killed while gallantly entering the would persist in walking up the nullah, despite his wounds, German first-line trench at the head of his platoon." and putting everything in order before he went away. He came back long before he ought to have clone. He was still quite lame and needed the support of a stick. He told me how t feel up ' he was with the conduct of so many officers FRANCIS ARTIIUR JAMES, M.A. and men who made sl ight wounds and sickness pretexts for Captain James of the 5th Battalion the Manchester getting back to England, and that he had to force his way Regiment who died of wounds in the Gallipoli Peninsula on out again. And now he is gone, mortally wounded by a September 18 was the second son of the Rev Charles Henry bomb in his dug-out. We laid him to rest in the cemetery James (of St John's, B. A. 1872), Vicar of Haigh, Lancashire. on the cliff above Gully Beach on the afternoon of the 19th He was born at Haigh 22 May 1886 and was educated at September. It is a beautiful site overlooking the Aegean Cranleigh School ; he entered St John's in 1905 and took with the Island of Imbros in the background and the peak his degree through the Mathematical Tripos of 1908. In of Samothrace to the right. His brother lies in the Krithia 1909 he was appointed Vice-Principal of the Colvin nullah . . . . My heart is too full to write any more. One Taluqdars School at Lucknow. When war broke out he after another the men I had learned to love during the past was home on leave and, after cabling for an extension, he twelve months pass away. Of the 126 officersof the Brigade, offered himself to the 5th Manchesters, being gazetted who cam panied together during the happy months in Egypt, 139 138 Roll of Honour. Roll of Hotlotw. On 10 March he was only 12 are left on the Peninsula. But still we can look up the 2nd Battalion of his regiment. in hospital in London; and take courage ; their labours have not been in vain, they wounded in action and was for a time 13, then joining the have given the 127th Brigade an imperishable glory." returning ag-ain to the front on August 1st Battalion. he was shot Early in the great attack on September 25 Battalion led the through the head and died instantly. His BASIL FULLEYLOVE WEST MOGRIDGE. and suffered severely. attack on the right of the Brigade killed, ten wounded, Second Lieutenant Mogridge, who was killed in action Out of twenty-one officers seven were men of the Battalion October 11-13, was the third son of the Rev. Henry Twells and two gassed : more than half the Colonel wrote : "He Mogridge, Vicar of Scalford, Leicestershire. He was born were killed or wounded. Richardson's I have ever met. In the at Scalford Vicarage 10 September 1896, received his early was one of the most gallant persons gallantly led his men education at St Christopher's, Melton Mowbray, and gained big attack of September 25 he most regiment mourns him. an open Scholarship at School. In December 1914 with absolute fearlessness ; the whole ability and a leader he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Classics and I considered him an officer of great was also awarded a Johnson Exhibition. In the ordinary of men." course he would have commenced residence in October, but in February 1914 he obtained a commission in the 2f4th LL. B. Battalion of The Leicestershire Regiment, and later joined RICHARD DENHAM ScHOLFIELD, B. A., the Battalion at the Front. lion The Second Lieutenant Scholfield, of the 6th Batta in action King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), was killed He was the in the Gallipoli Peninsula on August lOth. RusKrN JoHN RoBERT RrcHARDSON. and Mrs youngest son of the late Mr Frank Scholfield Road, Hale, Cheshire, and Lieutenant Richardson was killed in action on September Scholfielcl, of lngarsby, Warwick 10 August 1891. He was 25 while serving with the 1st Battalion of the South Stafford­ was born at Prestwich, Lancashire, five years in the Cadet shire Regiment. He was a son of the late Mr John James educated at Rossall, where he was Eight. He entered St John's in Richardson (and of Mrs R. W. Jeans of Langley Avenue, Corps and in the Bisley an Entrance Exhibition Surbiton) and was born in Kensington 14 April 1890. He October 1910, having been awarded the Law Tripos, Part I. in was educated at the Grammar School, Sydney, New South in June 1910 ; taking Honours in intended to become a solicitor Wales, at Victoria College, Jersey, and spent a year at Bonn. 1912 and Part II. in 1913. He Clerk of Salford. He entered the College in October 1913 with a view of and was articled to the Town gazetted Second Lieutenant qualifying for the diplomatic service. Before entering he On the outbreak of war he was left Aldershot on 13 June had rowed for the Molesey Boat Club and at St John's rowed 26 August 1914. The regiment He was killed in in the Second May Boat in 1914, being also spare man at 1915, and proceeded to the Dardanelles. men in a charge Henley that year. action on August lOth while leading his ac captain wrote that he was '' one of the On the outbreak of war he at once enlisted in one of the ross the open ; his mo Regiment, and died like a soldier Universities and Public Schools ; on 3 October st popular fellows in the a ncl 1914 he was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion a gentleman." of the South Staffordshire Regiment. On 18 February 1915, having been promoted Lieutenant, he left for France to join Roll of HotiOitl'. 245

his Regiment, and Mr and Mrs Adamson have received many letters saying how much he was missed both by officers and men. A brother officer writes: "I always admired your son, as we all did. In losing him, the Regiment has lost one of 1ROII of 1bOilOUl'. ils bravest and most promising young officers. " Another speaks of his conduct under fire-" We have lost a fine I M officer, he was one of the coolest men under fire, and very FRANC S DOUGLAS ADA SON1 B.A. popular with his grenade section and with everyone." Second Lieutenant Francis Douglas Adamson of the 2nd ·while the Chaplain who laid him to rest writes: "I have Battalion, The , who was killed in action in never been present at a more touching funeral than that of France 16 November 1915, was the second son of the Rev. your boy. Whilst we were waiting for the arrival of some Cuthbert Edward Aclamson, Rector of Houghton-le-Spring, of his brother officers, they talked to me about your boy. eo. Durham (of St John's, B. A. 1871). He was born at It was delightful to hear how they loved him. They said he South Westoe Vicarage, 8 October 1881, and was educated was such a fine soldier ... Of course to you they would at Durham School, entering St John's in 19 10 he took his say he was a fine soldier, but it was such a pleasure to hear degree in June 19 13 ; he was the second of three brothers to them saying it to me." Whilst at St John's, Adamson played enter the College. Afterwards he was admitted a student of three years in the College Rugby team, but his favourite the Inner Temple, intending to take up the Law as his recreation was golf. profession. The war, however, intervened, and he felt it to be his paramount duty to serve in the forces. He enlisted in the Public Schools and Universities Battalion of the Royal RoBERT SHUTTLEWORTH CLARKE, B. A. Fusiliers, and commenced training at Ashstead. Soon after­ wards he, with a few others, was offered a permanent Captain Robert Shultleworth Clarke, of the 5th Shropshire Commission in the Army and this he decided to accept, Light Infantry, who was reported ''wounded and missing " foregoing his previous idea of the Bar. near Hooge, between September 25-26, is now believed to He was then sent to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, have been killed. He was the only child of the Rev. William for instruction, and on 17 March 1915, was gazetted to the Shuttleworth Clarke (of St John's, B.A. 1874), and was born Border Regiment. He was ordered to France in June, and 22 April 1890, at The Thorn, Mm·stow, Herefordshire; he after a short stay at went to the Front. Here he was educated Jirst at Oakshade Preparatory School, Reigate, was appointed Regimental Grenade Officer; he passed then at Malvern College, and entered St John's in 1909. through the battle of Loos wilhout hurt. Six weeks later, Captain Clarke was one of the most distinguished athletes of however, when his Battalion was being relieved and had left his time at Cambridge. In the Freshmen's Sports of 1909 the trenches, he had to retur 1 to give � the relieving Bombing he won the Half-Mile, and was second in the High Jump and Officer the necessary information as to the whereabouts of the Mile. He rowed in the Lady Margaret First Boat in the bomb store. He was coming away from this duty when 1911 ,12,13, and in the Lady Margaret Eight and Four at he was hit either by a sniper or by a stray bullet. Death Henley in 1912. was instantaneous and he was buried on November 17, the in March, 1912 In the Athletic Sports at C::nnbridge ' clay after his death, at the Guards' Cemetery at Windy Clarke ran second to P. J.Baker in the Mile, and won the Corner, Givenchy. Three Miles. In the Inter-University Sports of that year he Lieutenant Aclamson had made himself very popular in represented Cambridge in the Mile, running second, the 246 Roll of Honour. . Roll of Honour. 247

Prussian Guard winner being A. N. S. Jackson, of Oxford, and the time impossible to move him, and in addition the 4 mins. 21 2-5th secs. The Ca111bridge Review, in its account were advancing in great force, the ambulance units having Clarke was of the Sports, describes this as "the finest spectacle of the to retire. A corporal reported that later Captain of the clay. With better pacing Clarke might easily have reversed buried ''down by Trench H. 15," with eight men the result." In 1913 he was President of the C.U. A.C., the Regiment, and a cross placed over the grave. Up to first Captain of the Lady Margaret Boat Club to become February, however, the War Office had not accepted these e President of th University Athletic Club. In that year he reports as settling the matter, and were still making inquiries. again ran second to Jackson in the Mile. He was also a We believe, however, that Captain Clarke's parents have "Cross Country" Blue. abandoned hope, and regard him as dead. While at College On leaving Cambridge Clarke became a Master at The Clarke was a splendid fellow, a little reserved, modest and Golden Parsonage Preparatory School at Hemel Hempstead, unassuming. It may be of interest simply to state the having a fine influence over the boys. On the outbreak of number of prizes gained by Clarke, 55 in all : 5 at Oakshade war Clarke enlisted in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Preparatory School; 11 at Malvern College, where he was ; 1 and soon after got a commission, becoming a Lieutenant champion athlete in 1909 ; 34 at Cambridge while at 3 November )914. The Regiment was for some time in Hemel Hempstead; and 4 at Aldershot. training at Aldershot, and went out to France in May 1915, Clarke rising to the rank of Captain. He took part at Aldershot in several athletic competitions. On 6 March

1915, in a Six-Mile Cross Country Race open to the 14th ALAN VICTOH HoBBS. Division, Clarke was the first officer home, for which he Royal received a medal presented by Queen Mary. The 5th Batt. Second Lieutenant Alan Victor Hobbs1 of the K.S. L.I. were placed second in this race to the 5th Batt. Flying Corps, reported "Missing " on 15 December 1915, Oxford and Bucks L.I. But on 3 April 1915, in a Relay and since unofficially reported killed, was the eldest son of Race of four miles open to the , the Mr Alfred Ern.est Hobbs, and was born at Bournemouth position of the Battalions was reversed, and the team of the 8 December 1894. He was educated at the Skinner's School, 5th K.S.L.I., consisting of Lieut. R. S. Clarke, Lieut. H. G. Tunbridge Wells, and at Tonbriclge School. He entered the Booker, and Privates Eclwards and Stuart, were placed fin;t, College in October 19 13 with an Entrance Exhibition for receiving medals. During the visit of the King to Aldershot Mathematics, and passed Part I. of the Mathematical Tripos During in April 1915, Clarke was chosen for officer of the Guard for in June 1914, being awarded the Hoare Exhibition. at the 24 hours. his year of residence he played Rugby Football, spoke College Mission In the advance near Hooge on September 25 his men the Union, and was on the Committee of the reported that Captain Clarke received a slight wound in the to Walworth. of the forehead about 5.30 a.m.; this he bound up himself, and he On the outbreak of War he joined the ranks was seen running on to join the Regiment, then attacking Royal West Kent Regiment, and on 23 October 1914 was Battalion, the third line of German trenches. He was again seriously gazetted Second Lieutenant in the lOth (Service) wounded by the explosion of a bomb about 10.30 a.m., and the . In January 1915 Lieutenant to Gosport from thence onwards accounts seem to vary as to his fate. Hobbs proceeded to Shoreham and afterwards July he was sent Captain Clarke gave a drink from his flask to a wounded for training in the Royal Flying Corps. In his machine private, who stated that he saw the Captain bleed to death ; to France, serving successfully as a Pilot until others state that he was so severely wounded that it was Was shot down by the Germans. 248 Roll of Honour. ·Roll of Ho11ottr. 249

On 15 December he proceeded on a monoplane for a long here, officer says : "I write in the name of the air-station reconnaissance over the German lines and did not ret urn sad ' and beg you will accept our keenest sympathy in your being posted as "Missing " on that clay. Simultaneously the we too have lost a very charming young Germans announced that Lieutenant loss. We feel that Immelmann had shot and capable officer whose quiet and clown his seventh, a British, friend and a keen aeroplane over the town of gentlemanly nature was an example to all. We were all very Valenciennes after an aerial duel ; Lieutenant Hobbs' that he should have died so machine was fond of him and bitterly regret the only British machine missing on that clay. A young. It should be remembered that he was doing his duty few clays afterwards the British airmen reported that they in an equal degree as one on service had seen and taking his chance the wreckage of a British machine on the roofs of in the Field, and I am sure you will derive some comfort some houses in Valenci ennes. Later still the Squadron from this." The senior Lieutenant wrote: '' All the men Commander received a message from the German lines that liked and respected him, which is very seldom the case with both pilot and observer had been killed, the garrison o( such a young officer. He had the most perfect manners and Valenciennes giving them a military funeral; representatives always did exactly the right thing." of the German Flying Corps laid wreaths on the graves. Lieutenant Hughes' grandfather, the Rev. Frederick George Hughes, was of St John's (B. A. 1843), he was Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity, Bishop's Stortford, and died there 4 May 1867 ; his great uncle, the Rev. Charles BASIL FREDERICK MUHRAY HUGHES. Joseph Hughes (of St John's, B. A. 1852) was Rector of Perivale, Middlesex, and died there 18 January 1907. Fl!ght Sub-Lieutenant Basil Freclerick MutTay Hughes, RN., was the eldest son of the Rev. Freclerick George Hughes, Rector of Slinfolcl, Sussex, and was born 23 July 1896 at St Peter's Vicarage, St Leonard's-on-Sea. He was educated at Wellington College, and was admitted to St JAMES LusK, B. A. John's in March 1915, passing the Previous Examination in James Lusk, Captain and Adjutant of the 6th Battalion June, and in the ordinary course would have commenced The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), T.F., who died in hospital residence in October last. At Wellington College he was in France, on 29 December 1915, of wounds received on Sergeant-Major in the Bluecher Company of the O.T.C., December 25, was the elder son of the late Mr John Lusk Gymnasium Officer, and a member of the Literary Society. and of Mrs Lusk, of Dunavon, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, and Last summer he applied for admission to the Royal Naval a grandnephew of the late Sir Andrew Lusk, Bart., Lord Air Service and got his commission on his 19lh birthday. Mayor of London 1873-4. He was born at Broomhouse, At the Flying School he was the first of those who joined Lanarkshire, 19 September 1878, and received his early with him to get his Pilot's certificate; he passed first in each education at Uddingston School and the West of examination and won a prize for bomb-dropping, also Technical College, Glasgow. He entered St John's in October establishing a record by not having the slighest mishap to a 1902, and took his degree in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos machine or to himself. 1905. He rowed in several Lady Margaret crews. After He proceeded on foreign service on 18 September 1915, taking his degree he returned to Scotland and entered the and was drowned near Gibraltar in a sea-plane acciclen t on firm of Messrs David Colville and Sons, Limited, of the December 1st; he was buried at Gibraltar with full naval Dalzell Steel Works, Motherwell (his mother was a Miss honours. Writing to Lieut. Hughes' father, his Commanding Colville), becoming one of the Directors of the firm. 250 Roll of H01�our. . Roll of Honour. 251

He was gazetted Lieutenant in the Cameronians 31 July the barriers of death, clean and bright." This he has done. 1910 and a Staff Captain 10 September 1914. He was Staff Captain Lusk was unmarried; his younger brother, the Rev. Captain at Falkirk to the General Commanding the Scottish D. C. Lusk, is Scottish Chaplain at Oxford. Rifle Brigade, but when in the spring of 1915 the 6th In a special supplement to the London Gazette issued on Battalion went abroad he resigned his Staff appointment to 24 February 1916 the official announcement appeared that go with his men. His firm were doing a large amount of the President of the French Republic, with the approval of Government work, but he took no advantage of that, older His Majesty the King had bestowed the Croix de Chevalier, men tcould see to it, he considered that his duty lay with of the Legion of Honour on Captain Lusk. the Battalion in which he had been so long an officer. The Cameronians are the successors of the fighting Covenanters, and the 6th Battalion are men of the district in which WILFRED MARSHALL. Captain Lusk's home had been, the district of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge, names which arouse grim memories of Lieutenant Wilfred Marshal! was a son of Mr William valour in every Scotsman. Baldwin Marshall, of Nottingham; he was born 15 Novem­ In France he acted first as Transport Officer. About the ber 1892 at New Basford, Notts, and educated at Nottingham middle of June, when an attack had been ordered at Festu­ High School. He entered the College in October 1912 with bert, Captain Lusk asked his Colonel's permission to take a an Entrance Exhibition for Natural Science and was elected place in the attack, but was refused. That night, when the a Foundation Scholar in June 1914 for Mechanical Sciences. Battalion had gallantly reached their objective, but lost half On the outbreak of war he at once joined the Army and their number, he took command of what was left and was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 10th Battalion Leicestershire brought them out of action. He then led a party of Regiment, 8 October 1914, becoming Lieutenant 1 December Volunteers in a brave, but unsuccessful, attempt to recover following. He went with the expedition to the Dardanelles, the wounded. Later he was gazetted Adjutant, and on where he was attached to the 1st Battalion, King's Own 7 November 1915 was decorated with the Cross of a Scottish Borderers. He was reported as " Missing" on 4 Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. Captain Lusk modestly June 1915, and no information has since been gleaned with said that the award was out of compliment to the Battalion, regard to him. We fear therefore that he must be regarded that date. but the Divisional Orders bore 11 for gallantry displayed at as having been killed in action on or about Rue d'Ouvert on 15 June 1915, when a large number of officers had been killed, he voluntarily proceeded to the firing line, took command of what was left of the Battalion, JoHN HRNTON PuLLTN. and successfully brought the troops out of action. " Battalion the On Christmas day 1915, while at his work in the trenches, Lieutenant John Henton Pullin of the 9th on 21 January he was wounded on the head and four clays later he died. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who died was the only Captain Lusk had a fine influence with his men ; the strength 1916 of wounds received on the previous clay, Pullin, now of 176, Hurst of his character was not in any love of fighting, but in a child of Mr William Henton strenuous self-forgetfulness and a keen desire to do well Grove, Bedford. 16 December the thing that was wanted. The Chaplain wrote of him : Lieutenant Pullin was born at Darlington Bedford Grammar School ; '' Absolutely fearless at all times, he greatly impressed us by 1893, and was educated at 1912 with an Exhibition for his goodness." What he believed to be wanted of him as entering the College in October a successful oar, stroking the winning an officer was, as he once wrote : 11 To carry a sword across Classics. He was 252 Roll of Honour.

College Trial Eight in December 1913, and he stroked lhe Second Lent Boat and Second the May Boat respectively in 1914. He also stroked the Lady Margaret Eight which entered for the Ladies' Plate at Henley in 1914. On the outbreak of war he was gazelted 2nd Lieutenant �bttuar\? in the 8th (Service) Battalion The King's Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment) 17 October 1914, and W3S afterwards REv. JoHN SEPHTON, M. A. transferred to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, in which he received the rank of Lieutenant. The Rev. John Sephton, who died on 25 July 1915 at his On January 20, Pullin was in charge of a special platoon 90, Huskisson Street, Liverpool, was for 24 years in an advanced position near Armentieres. He had jusl left residence, Institute, and was not only one his dug-out to look after some of his men, when he was Headmaster of the Liverpool generation, but also in his struck on the head by a piece of shrapnel which peuetraled of the great Headmasters of his of Icelandic. the brain. He died 24 hours later without regaining latter years the chief English scholar Rainford consciousness, and was buried at Bailleul. Among uumerous He was a son of Mr James Sephton, a fanner of where letters from brother officers we may quote from that of his in the parish of Prescot, near Ormskirk, Lancashire, Captain, who writes : "no work he could do as my second­ he was born 29 October 1836. His career is a rare and in-command was too much, but I have lost far more than a noble example of an intense love for learning asserting itself loyal officer in the breaking of one of those few real, true and reaching its goal through manifold difficulties. He friendships one makes in life." The Colonel wrote: "he received his early education at the Grammar School of his was an officer that I had the greatest trust in, steady and native village ; describing in after years his own early conscientious to a degree, and greatly liked both by officers experiences he was in the habit of saying that he picked up and men, and I am sure he would have gone far if he had most of his early knowledge of mathematics from the village been spared." blacksmith. Following on this he became a pupil of the late No one who knew Pullin at St John's will be surprised Mr J. F. Thomson, of Manchester, at whose school he was to hear that he made his mark during his short career in the first a pupil and afterwards an assistant master. He entered Army. He was a man of high ideals who, with a quiet and St John's in October 1858, and took his degree as fifth unassuming manner, was absolutely firm in doing his duty wrangler in 1862. He was admitted a Fellow of the College and in shewing moral as well as physical courage. His 3 November 1863, vacating his fellowship on his marriage, to Clara, prominence in the College was clue not merely to his 10 April 1866, at St John the Baptist, Hulme, eldest intellectual and athletic powers, but to his force of character, daughter of Leonard Cooper, Esq., of Manchester. added to an extremely winning disposition. Sephton was ordained, Deacon, 20 December 1863, by the Bishop of Winchester within the chapel at Farnham Castle, with letters dimissory from the Bishop of Ely, and Priest, 18 December 1864, by the Bishop of Ely in his Cathedral. From 1862 to 1865 Mr Sephton was assistant mathematical master at Highgate School under the late Dr Bradley Dyne, and in 1865 Clerk in Holy Orders of St Anne's, Soho. In 1866 he became Headmaster of the Liverpool Institute, VOL. XXXVII. T Roll of Ho11o1tr. 371

October 1915 he spoke in warm praise of regimental life, the cheeriness of the men and the pleasant jaunts he had with his fellow ofiicers when the respites from trench life gave them a few hours of freedom. 'IRoll of 'R)Oilonr. He was killed while on Patrol Duty in the early morning of December, almost immediately after his Battalion had got back to the trenches.

LESLIE HAROLD BowEN, B.A. His Colonel wrote: '' I deeply regret to inform you that your son, L. H. Bowen, whilst out on patrol between the Second Lieutenant L. H. Bowen, of the 3rd Lincolnshire lines on the early morning of the 22nd December was struck Regiment, attached to the first Battalion, was killed on Patrol by a bullet and I fear killed. He was approaching the Duty in France 22 December 1915. He was the youngest German wire about ten yards in front of the other members son of Alderman John Bowen, High Sheriff for Worcester­ of the patrol when he was hit and seen to fall. Owing to shire, and ·was born in Moseley, Birmingham, 3 November the enemy's rifle fire it was impossible to approach the spot 1888. He was educated at the Birmingham High School where he fell, and his body has unfortunately not been re­ and Queen's College, Taunton. He came into residence at covered. The Corporal who was accompanying him feels St John's in October 1907, and took his degree in 1910, sure that he was killed outright, but of course there is a faint obtaining a First Class in the Special Examination for Law. chance of his having been picked up by lhe Germans and On going clown he was articled to Messrs Rylancl, Marlinean being still alive, but I fear the chance is very remote. An and Carslake, of Birmingham, and through them joined endeavour was made to go out the next night, but the patrol M essrs Sharp and Co. of London for his final year. was observed and had to withdraw. We are all very grieved He passed his final examination in June 1913, and at lhe about it. He was a keen and zealous officer and very popular time when war broke out he held a good position wilh many among his comrades. Please accept my deepest sympathy futme possibilities. Vlith an old St John's friend, who had for your loss of a gallant son." qualified with him, he immediately joined the 2nd Battalion The Captain of his Company wrote: t< I feel I must write of the Queen Victoria Rifles (9th County of London Regiment) just lo tell you how much all the officers and the men feel wilh which he trained for several months, rising to the rank for you in the loss of your son. I have not known him long, of Corporal. In March 1915 he was offered and accepted a but qui le long enough to find out that he was one of lhe very Commission in the 3rd Lincolnshire Regiment. Writing in best officers and friends that any man could meet. On the June of that year from Grimsby, where he had trained with morning of the 22nd December he went out to find out certain the Regiment, on he said : '' I am off to-morrow for Southampt particulars about lhe ground between our lrenches and the en 1'0tt!e for France. I am glad to go now, I have had the enemy's ; this was at 3 a.m. He took two men with him. I best time the of my life in camp here," no small tribute to was watching for his return at about 4.15 a.m. when I saw esprit de corps e re­ and joie de vivre of camp life, when on three shots fired which apparently came from the enemy's members life, that it was written by one who always enjoyed trench, and about twenty minutes later the two men came and asant of whose College days were among the most ple back and told me that your son had been hit. They stopped recollections. out there about ten minute& and called his name several ent, and He was drafted to the 1st Lincolnshire Regim times, but he did not reply. They could not get at him was occasion�! constantly engaged in trench work, save for because they themselves would have been shot ; he was at 111 rests leave which the Regiment enjoyed. When home on the time close to the enemy's barbed wire, and about five 372 Roll of Honow·. Roll of Ho11ottr. 373

yards in front of his men. Mr Han·is, who had been with REV. GUY ARROTT BROWNING, M.A: him all the time he was out here, went out the next night to The Rev. G. A. Browning, Chaplain and Naval Instructor, see if he could find anything out, but found it was impossi ble who was killed in action on May 31 in the great North Sea to get near enough to find him. A keen watch was kept to battle, was a son of Captain George Alexander Browning, R.N. see if we could find out anything the previous day, but noth ing He was born at Wimbledon 15 December 1876, and was happened." educated at Dulwich College, entering St John's in October 189 6. He was a Foundation Scholar of the College, and took his degree as a wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1899. He then studied at the Clergy Training School, Cam­ CHRISTOPHER WILIGNSON BROWN1 B.A. bridge, and was ordained Deacon 1900 and Priest 1901 in Lieutenant C. W. Brown, killed in action 30 April 1916, the diocese of Exeter, being curate of Dawlish 1900-03. In the youngest son of the Rev. Charles Vernon Brown, Vicar the latter year he entered the Royal Navy as Chaplain and of Embsay, near Skipton-in-Craven, was born 15 November Naval Instructor, serving on H.M. ships Exmouth, 1903-04 ; 1892 at Embsay Vicarage, and was educated at Ski plon and Prince of Wales, 1904-05; I111placablc, 1905-07 ; King Ed­ Pocldington Schools. He entered the College with a Dow­ ward VII, 1907-08; D1'eadnought, 1908-09; Vauguard, 1910- man Exhibition in October 1911, and obtained Honours in 1911 ; Forte, 1911-13; Hyaci11lh, 1914-15; Orio111 1914-15; the Historical Tripos of 1914. Immediately after lhe and at the time of his death was serving on the llldefatigable. declaration of war he volunteered for service and was given a Commission in lhe Special Reserve of Officers, being finally attached to the 3rd , and gazettecl FRANcrs WILLMER McAuLAY1 M.A. Second Lieutenant 15 August 1914. He was promoted

Lieutenant in the summer of 1915, and at the time of his Captain F. W. McAulay, killed in action 21 May 1916, death was in command of a Company. was the only son of Mr Samuel McAulay, of Aylesby, near On 12 March 1915 he was wounded in the head at Neuve Grimsby. He was born at Aylesby 15 March 1891, and was Chapelle and invalided home. He rejoined his regiment educated at The Leys School, Cambridge, entering St John's and was again wounded at Hooge, on 25 September. While in 19 09. He rowed for the L.M.B.C. and was Secretary on duty in the trenches he was killed about midnight on and Captain of the College Lacrosse Club. He obtained a F.A. 30 April. His Commanding Officer writes : " He was setting Commission in the 2nd Lincolnshire Battery, R. ('f.), in a fine example of fearlessness to his men at the time, and 1910 and was gazetted Lieutenant 16 July 1913; at the died instantaneously.... We are all very sorry to lose a date of his death he held the rank of Captain. He was good of-ficer and a brave comrade." admitted to his M.A. degree (by proxy) on the 21st of Lieutenant Brown was a welcome visitor at St John's January last. within four days after his first wound, and those who met him could not have failed to be impressed by his pluck, when obviously suffering from considerable pain. With the WrLFRED MARSHALL. same his life at dogged persistency which he shewed in to The following additional particulars, with regard Lieu­ College, he was determined " lo see the thing through." Colonel tenant W. Marshall, have come to hand (see p. 251). no Stoney wrote as follows on 12 August 1915 : ''As trace has been found of your son it has been impossible to report 374 Roll of Honour. Roll of H ot1our. 375

him other than 'missing.' Before this was done against the and by the time they enquiries Germans. They went back, were made, but there was nobody found who got back over the could say that with he! p the Germans had advanced he had seen him hit. ground where Langton was. It was over three-quarters of "I very much regret to say that I fear he was killed. His an hour before we could drive them back, and then could Company was in the second line that advanced. Even after only drive them back as far as their own parapet, thirty yards the Turkish trenches were taken, the ground that lay between back. As soon as this was clone D, an officer of the regiment, them and the previous front line was swept by fire from the and C, a sergeant, already wouuded, and two others crawled other trenches. Your son gallantly led his platoon out of the all over the ground where Langton and his party had been, trenches after the troops in the first line had nearly all been but could see no one. When light came it was impossible killr.d or wounded. This second advance was successful, and to go out in the open, but we had men with telescopes and several lines of Turkish trenches were taken." periscopes, watching the ground all day, and they could see nothing: I don't wish to lead you to hope too much, but I do think there is a chance that he is a prisoner, and for this reason. If the Germans had shot him, where is he? They PETER LANGTON MAY, B.A. would not take him away, and yet D and C, both of whom Second Lieutenant P. L. May, of the 2nd Dragoons (Scots knew the ground, could not see anything of him or of the Greys) was killed in action at Hullnch on the 13th February ' four or five men with him, and if they were all dead they last through the exploding of a German mine. He was the would have seen them. Again, it is a great necessity in war eldest son of the late Mr Peter Wilson May, of St Margaret's, to catch men alive to get information out of them as to the Hampstead Heath, and was born at Frant, Sussex, 6 October enemy ; both sides make great efforts to do this. Langlon 18 75; he was at Harrow from 18 89 to 18 94 , entering St John's was unarmed, as his revolver was picked up some way away, in October of the latter year. While at College be was a blown away by the explosion. The Germans were on the distinguished oar, rowing in the first Lent Boat in 18 95 and ground quite long enough to dig him and his men out and in the second May Boat of that year and in the first May take them back. On the whole, therefore, honestly I have Boats of 18 96 and 18 97. l-Ie rowed in the College Light hopes of his safety, and yet I do not want you to have too Four in 18 96 , and rowed 4 in the winning University Trial great hopes. Langton was the bravest man I ever saw, as Eight in December 18 96. After leaving College he became he knew his danger, which most of these boys do not. He a member of the London Stock Exchange. On the outbreak organized and conducted an attack the night before on the of war he was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Reserve Germans, which was a marvel of success, and for which he Regiment of Cavalry 4 September 1914 , then he joined the was recommended for the , which he would Scots Greys and went to France in April 1915. He was without doubt have got. We all feel his loss and this made company bomb officer. For some lime his death was dreadful suspense most fervently, and I can assure you that not certain, but now there appears to be no hope that he is I actually had to forbid his men going over the parapet, to alive. The following extracts from a letter of his com­ certain death, in the daylight to look for him, and every I manding officer give an account of his death. "There is mortal thing that man can do has been clone. The private think no doubt that Langton was alive after the mine exploded soldier will do anything for a man he knows is fearless him­ two the in our trenches. He was seen, buried to the waist, by � self, and one of our men was severely wounded night men alive and here, he was quite uni11jured and told then before, as he insisted on walking in front of Langton when to go and get spades and rifles and dig him, and the fouL he went out to look at the German trenches." mille men with him, out and then hold the crater of the This letter was written on February 16 th, and as nothing 376 Roll of Honour. Roll of Honour. 377

has since been heard of Lieutenant while Wooler's eldest brother obtained a Commission in the May it would appear that R.A.M.C. Both the younger brothers served as N.C.O.'s in he was killed. Lieutenant May married 30 October 1902 the 11th Battalion until they applied for Commissions, and at Lindfielcl Parish Church, lda Maude, fourth daughter of Sturdy, were promptly gazetted Second Lieutenants in December William of Paxhill, Lindfield ; she, with two sons and a daughter, survives him. 1914. H. S. Wooler was Intelligence Officer in his Battalion, and had been out at the front about six months when he was wounded. He had been watching the effect of our artillery fire at St Eloi when he was struck on the temple by a stray HAROLD CHARLEs NoRMAN TAYLOR, B.A. piece of shrapnel on March 27th ; he died the following clay Second Lieutenant H. C. N. Taylor, killed in action without having regained consciousness, and was buried in 21 May 1916, was the younger son of Dr Frederick Taylor Poperinghe cemetery. of 20, Wimpole Street, London, and was born 26 October At St John's, Wooler distinguished himself as a good all­ 18 92. He was educated at Charterhouse and entered St round athlete, and, besides playing football and lawn tennis, John's in 1911 with a Foundation Scholarship for Classics. he won his College colours for cricket in 1913. His high He was placed in the First Class of the Classical Tripos in character and attractive personality made him a popular and 1914 and was preparing to read for the Indian Civil Service. influential member of the College, ancl the many who knew When war broke out he at once applied for a Commission him will always remember his brightness and unaffected and was gazetted, on 31 August 1914, a Second Lieutenant simplicity. in the 20lh (County of London), The London Regiment. At Lieutenant Wooler's father has received many letters with present no details are to hand with regard to his death. regard to the loss of his son. Second Lieutenant C. A. During his residence at St John's, Taylor played a promi­ Wooler (his brother) writes as follows: "Col. Leggitt, late nent part in the general life of the College and, although he C.O. of lhe 12th West Yorks, motored over to see me the did not obtain his colours, he was a keen cricketer and other clay and in the course of our interview spoke very golfer. He was also Junior Secretary and Treasurer of the highly of Bert, and said that he chose him out to observe College Mission. some dead ground in front of the parapet as it was a very responsible post. He said he was an excellent Intelligence HERBERT SYKES WOOLER, B.A. Officer and he was so very sorry about it all-he was a splendid fellow." Secon'cl Lieutenant H. S. Wooler, of the 12th Battalion, , was the second son of Mr Ernest Lieutenant Talbot, of the 11th West Yorks Regt, wrote: Octavius Wooler, eeds. Solicitor, of Balks House, Wortley, L "Just a few lines to express my deepest sympathy with you He was born 23 and November 18 92 at Morley, Yorks, in the loss of Bertie. At school we were friends, and since educated at Sedbergh, boy. of which school be became head leaving there our friendship has if anything been strengthened. He entered St John's waite as a Lupton and Hebbleth During our training in England Bert and I were always in Exhibitioner ssical in October 1911 and graduated, with Cla the same room, and it was with great regret that we were honours, in 191 and his 4. On the outbreak of war both he parted when this Battalion left for France. A more cheerful younger admitted a brother (Charles Armytage Wooler, and merry friend it was impossible to find, and it was a great member enlisted at of St John's, but not yet in residence) shock to read in the papers of his death. I had the fortune once as allhough privates in the West Yorkshire Regiment, to meet him a few months ago in Armenlieres, where we they had ., and two several years' experience in the O.T.C spent the afternoon together, and I liltle thought it was to be other member the ranks, s of the family (cousins) also joined the last of our many excursions together. The little band of 378 Roll of Hottour. old Sedberghians to which he and I belonged has unfor­ tunately suffered heavily this last few months."

A corporal in the Regiment writes : " I am very sorry to hear that your son, Mr Wooler, has been killed. I was looking i11 the paper this morning, but I could not believe it at first until I had read your letter to see if it was right, and I must say it grieves me very much, for he was my best friend all the time I was out in France, although he may not have known it, but I did ; he was strict at limes, but it was only his duty to be so. I hope you will accept my sympathy, and I think all the boys that was under him will wish the same, for he was greatly liked by all, and I :un sure lhey all will be very sorry lhey have lost him."

The following extracts from letters written by Lieutenant Wooler's servant, Private J. E. King, have an interest of --� /-:-,:-::: their own. (;0 y.,' . ..:; s:. u !__._..( ' � "I cannot sufficiently express my deep sympatily in your ..· J r c; t , -'( \<' ) : L 1 �- I ' ·1\ I \ r'\ great loss by the death of your son. I was ilis servant. I .: could not have had a better master. He was always so kind \ � -- --· - ,.. .. /')..,;) �)' �ALtpr_:• - (C�;..'/"' ·•j J..,/) and considerate lo me that it was a pleasure to attend to his wants. He was a fearless officer, Sir, and a great favourite with his men.

"Each scar received in fighting, for the cause of truth and right, Shall be a badge of honour on the breast of honour's knight, The world may have its burdens and its griefs and tears untold, But if therl! were no cross of sorrow there would be no crown of gold."

And again: "I shall place great value upon the photo of your dear son, my master. True, there is no portrait, I am sure, which will do him justice. I can give my testimony that on many occasions when feeling a bit depressed a cheery word from him (with which he always greeted me) was sufficient to drive away any depression. Indeed, I am reminded of Shakespeare's portrait of one of Christ's gentlemen : 'His life is gentle, and the elements so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, this is a man.' And that is the portrait of Lieut H. S. Wooler, which will l ive with me." 76 Review.

pursue th e ridiculo us rite of ea tin g in ma sses in publ ic dr ives him to abs tr ac tions :

" See these men in a world of men Material bodies ?-yes, what then ? These coarse trunks that here you see 1Roll of 'lbonour. Judge them not, lest judged you be,

• .. * • REv. PHIILIP GEORGE ALEXANDER , B.A. Think of these bodies here assembled, Whence they have come, where they have trembled." Th e Rev. P G. Alexan der was a son of th e la te Mr George Alexander , of H. M Civil Ser vice. He was bo rn 11 Ma y 18 83 And soMr Squire ph ilosoph is es abou t himself and th em. atPr ince town, Lyclf ord , De von. He was educa ted atSchools The two pr inc ipal poems in th is volume are more ambiti­ at Palmers ton Nor th and Well ing ton, Ne w Ze aland. He ou s th an any thing in The Three Hills, his las t pu bl is hed bo ok en tere d StJo hn's in Oc to be r 19 05 with his elder br other, th e of ve rse. The y atte mpt more , an d of te n are re mar kable in Re v R. C. Alexander , now Chapla in on HM.S. Cmupauia. th eir tu rns of express ion. Bu t al thou gh his poems are not . Dur ing his residenc e he was a pr ominen t me mber of th e lac king in secure an d de fin ite im ages , he is ap t to be led on L.M.B.C. Af ter laking his deg ree in 19 08, by t.h e Th eol ogic al in his mu sings to less coheren t tr ac ts of th ou gh t-and th is Sp ec ial, he wa s or dained in th e diocese of Bris tol to th e pa rtic ularly ap plies to th e piece '' In a Res tauran t," wh ic h is curac y of Chr ist Church , Bm·ton Hill , Br istol ; in 19 10 he th e mos t in teres ting contr ibu ti on in th ese pages. Probably, move d to Down end, wh ere he wa s curate to th e Re v J W too, it was th e most in te resting to Mr Squire, as he wr ote it. Dann , wh os e dau ghter be married. In 191 2 he was appoin ted J F H. a Na val Chapl ain, an d served success ivel y on H.M. SS. Ble��­ heilll, Fal111011lh, and Ha111pshire. He was serv ing on th e Hampshire wh en th atship wa s sun k on 5 Ju ne 19 16, off th e Or kn eys, with Lord Kitc h ener on bo ard.

WALTER HENRY BARTLETT

Lieu tena nt Wa iter He nry Bar tle t.t , of th e Canad ian Forces, wh o wa s killed in ac tion H Sep tembe r 1916 , wa s th e sec ond s on of th e Re v Charles Bla kesley Bar tle tt, now Incu mbe nt of Al l Sain ts', Br igh ton. He wa s bo rn atCr oyd on 29 Ma y 1878 and wa s educ ated at Brigh lon College, en terin g St Jo hn's in Oc t.o be r 18 96. He read for th e La w Tr ipos, bu t lef t College wi thou t ta ki ng a degree. He wa s a man of many in te res ts and a diligen t stude nt of ma ny subjec ts, amon gs t ol hers be ing archi tec ture. Af ter leav ing College he was ar ti cled to a solic itor at Brigh ton, and la ter proceeded to Canada, 'vvhere he was en gaged on survey wo rk in Ma nitoba. Wh ile atBr igh ton he 78 Roll of Honour Roll of Ho11ottr. 79 ha d identified himself whole-heartedly wit h the Boy Scout HENRY CLAUDE BERNARD. movem ent, and this work he continued in Canada, be ing Second Lieutenant He nry Claude Bernard, of the Glo uces ­ appointed Prov incial Secretary for the Pro vince of Manito ba. tershire Re gi ment, who was killed in action 3 Septem ber 19 16, In Septem ber 19 15 he was personally presented by H.R.H . was the eldest son of Dr Claucle Be rnard, of Fis hponds, the Duke of Connaught, the Chief Scout for Canada, wi th . Bnstol, and a great-nephew of Drs E. M and W G. Grace, the honorary 1 Silver Wol f.' the fa mous cricketers. He was bo rn at Fish 1)onds Bristol On the out break of war Lieutenant Bartlett joined th e ' ' 3 1 Oc to ber l 893, and received his early education at Red- Fort Garry Horse, in which he receiv ed a commission. He lands School, Bristol, and Lord Wi ll iam's Grammar Schoo l, passed his examination for his majority, bu t declined th e Thame. He entered St John 's in 19 12 , be ing a mem ber of promotion as he was an xious to go to the front. At his ow n the Of ficers' Training Corps. He joined the Ar my im­ re quest he was transferred, with the rank of Lieutenant, to a me dia tely on the out break of war and was gazetted Second ba tt alion go ing on service, and ca me to England in April Lieutenant in the 7th Batta lion the Glouces ter Regiment 19 16. He wa s sent to France on a con fidential mission, 1 Septem ber 19 14. He landed in Ga llipo li with his Battalion whi ch he conducted to the comp lete satisfaction of his in Ju ly 19 15 and was wounded 6 August 19 15 . On his Commanding Offi cer ; be was then transfe rred to anothe r recovery he returned to the peninsula, bu t in a few cl ays l.Ja ttalion, in which he was serving at the ti me of his death. was inva licle d with a poisoned foot. On the journey ba ck to Ale xandria he contracted enteric and was in valicled to England in Fe bruary 19 16, after abou t two months in vVrLLIAM DoUGLAS BENTALL. hospital. After his recovery he was attached to the Reserve Battalion, and in July 19 16 was attached to tile 'Wo rc ester Second Lieutenant Wi lliamDouglas Bentall, of the Ki ng's Regiment. A few clays be for e his death he was appointed Ow n Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action Signalling Officer to his Ba ttalion. while leading his men in an attack at the Battle of the So mmc 16 Se ptem ber 19 16, was the secon d son of Mr William Be nlall of Sou thchurc h Wick, Southend-on-Sea. WrLFRED GARDINRR CASSELS. He was bo rn at The \Vick 5 August 18 9 6, and received his ed uca tion at Lindisfa me Col lege, Westcli ff-on-Sea, and Mi ll W G. Casse ls was a son of Mr Her bert Wynne Cassels, Hill School. Ha vi ng passed th e Previous Examination in of Casa cla Torre, Op orto, and was bo rn at Op orto, Portugal, Dece mber 19 14 he was ad mitted to the College in March 30 Ju ly 18 93 ; he was a nephew of the Ri ght Rev. William 19 15, and in the ordinary course would have come into Wh ar ton Cassels, Bishop of Western China (of St John 's, residence in Oc to ber 19 15 . He was in the Of-ficers' Training B.A. 18 81), and grandson of th e late General James de Corps at Mill Hil l, and from it received his co mmission in Ha villand, who served in the Cri mea. He was educated at T Fe br uary 19 15 . He proceeded to France in May of that rent College, where he won the go ld medal gi ven by the Duke year, and was wounded on July 8th. He again rejoined his of Devonsh ir e, and was captain of Foot ball and head o£ the Sch regiment in January 19 16 and served with it until he (e ll in ool. He entered St Jo hn's in Oc to ber 19 13 and re ad �or action. the Theologica l Tripos, with service in the mission fie ld Ill vi� Li eu tenant Ben w During the year in whi ch he resided at St John's tall's elder br other died 3 Ju ly 19 16 as . he cl a prisoner of war in Germany. tstmguished hi mself in Association Foot ball, playing in t he Fr eshmen's Match, and winning his College Colours for F ootbal l and Ho ckey ; had he be en spared, he would Roll of Hottoltr 81 80 Roll of Ho1101tY. Regimen t at Blac kpool. On Chris tmas Eve 19 15 he was un doub te dly have become a leader in th e ge neral life of ordered to rejoin his Regimen t at th e fron t. On 6 Ju ne 1916 th e College. he was ou t wi th some of his men pu tting up wire in fron t He was ga ze tted a Second Lieu tenan t in The Border of th e tr enches wh en a chance sho t from a machine gu n, Regimen t 24 Oc tober 191 4 he was ga ze lted Cap tain ea rly striking th e steel helme t of one of his men, ricoche tted on to in 19 16, and in Ma y las t was men tioned in Sir Douglas Haig's Lieu t. Chapman, breaking his arm and injuring him in th e despa tches. While on ac tive service he kep t up Foo tball, abdomen so seriousl y th at he died th e same evening. His jus t behind th e Fron t. As cap tain of th e winning Foo tba ll cap tain, wri ting to Canon Chapman, sa ys: "We shall miss te am in ih e Division, besides securing ih e Cup for his him te rribl y: he was alwa ys so cheerful, and wha tever job Ba ttalion he received a medal for himse lf wi th th e inscrip­ he was asked to do he did willingl y, and one knew th at th e ti on : 11 75 th In£. Brig. in th e Field 1916.' ' Wi th regard to job wou ld be clone. His pla toon lov ed him, and would do th is he wro te 11 Itis no t of len one ge ts a medal for Spor ts an ything for him and go an ywhere wi th him ; nearl y ever y on ac tive servic e." ma n has asked me to co nve y his sympa thy to yo u th is On 13 Ju l y 19 16 he was in a cap tured tr ench, and had to mo rni ng" cr oss a pl ac e where th e tr ench had been filled in ; in doing He was buried in th e Soldiers ' Ceme ter y in a li ttle village so he exposed hims elf and was sho t th rough lh e hear t, dying behind th e lines. instan taneously He was buried atBo uzincour t, near AIber t.

DONALD CLARKE. ALFRED REGINALD BEWES CHAPMAN. Second Lieu tenan t Donalcl Clarke, of th e Ro yal Flyi ng Lie utenan t A R. B. Chapman was th e eldes t so n of th e Corps, who was kil led in ac tion on 26 Augus t 1916, was th e Rev Canon T A . Chapman, Vicar and Ru ral Dean of Bol ton ; elde st son of Mr Ar thur Joseph Clarke, Town Clerk of High he was born at Ne wton Abbo tt, Devon, 13 Ju l y 1895, and Wycombe, Bucks. He was bo rn at High Wycombe 4 Ma y wa s educa ted atPl ymou th Col le ge and Rossa ll Schoo l. He 1895 and was educa ted atSeaf ie ld College, Bexhill, and Mi ll en tered St Joh n's in Oc tober 191 3, wi th th e in ten tion of Hi ll School, enteri ng StJo hn 's in Oc tober 1913. stud ying for th e legal profession ; he wa s a man of fine On th e ou tbreak of wa r he enlis ted, 26 Augus t 191 4, in ph ysiq ue, an d an excellen t boxer On th e ou tbreak of war th e Honourable Ar tiller y Compan y, proceeding to France in he at once offered his services to th e coun tr y, and wa s th e Sep tember following. He was on ac tive service in th e ga ze tled a Se cond Lieu tenan t in Th e Lo yal Nor th Lancashire tr enches for a whole ye ar, serving con tinuousl y for th ir te en Regimen t 2 Sep tember 191 4. Af ter tr aining at Fil to n and mon ths wi thou t leave. In Ja nuar y 1916 Lieu tenan t Clarke Sevenoaks he proceeded to France in Februar y 1915. On ha d deci de d th at wh en war wa s over he would be unab le to 20 Ju ne 1915 he was wo unded at Armen tieres by a splin ter re tlll n to Cambri dge to compl ete his course, as so man y of a shell striking his head ; th is did no t keep him away : of Ius neares t friends in College had been killed. He was from du ty more th an a few cla ys. On Ju ly 29 th he \Vas accordingly ar tic led to his fa ther wi th th e view of pursuing again wo unded at Hooge, and on th is occasion th e wound th e legal prof ession. He ob tained a comm ission in th e Ro yal was more serious , and he was removed to No. 1 Red Cross _ Fl y1ng Corps in Ma y 1916. He was an Observa tion Ofnt:e r Hospi tal at Le Touq uetin France, where he unde rwen t X- ra y and worked th e wireless mechanism of one of th e mos t recen� tr ea tmen t : la ter he was moved to a hospi tal in London • iypes of aeroplane. one of his le and in Sep tember 1915 enjoyed a furlough. For a shor t In tters home he described some of his experiences in direc ting opera tions, sa ying th at ti me in th at au tumn he helped to tr ain recrui ts f�r his VOL. XXXVIII. G 82 Roll of Honour Roll of Honom'. 83

work and had he had been engaged in di recting artille ry Lancashi re, an d ed uca te d at the Presco t Gram mar School ; terho wi tze rs, been successful in manip ulating one of the mons he entered St John's in the Oc tobe r Te rm 19 13 , an d was a shell on _ adding "The re is a lo t of sa tisfac tion in di rec ting re achng fo r the Th eological Tripos. He play ed in the lo t going th e Buns ' gun-em placemen ts and seeing the whole Freslm_1en 's Match of Associa tion Footbal l (Colou rs) in 19 13 . I have just co me _ up. Yo u canno t mi ss seeing the m burs t. He J Omed the Office rs' Training Co rps and receive d his am going down from a th ree and a hal f hou rs' fligh t, and I Commission as Se cond Lieutenan t in the 5th (Terri to ri al) _ to visi t th e Bat tery " B� ttahon of th e Prince of Wales' Vo lun tee rs, South Lanca­ Ceme tery _ Lie uten ant Cla rke wa s buried in th e Soldie rs' sl ure Regtment. He showed both ab ili ty and promise as an atWa rloy. officer, and re ceived his Cap taincy in Ju ne 19 16 . He lef t fo r th e fron t on 3 August19 16 , jo ining the first li ne in th e mids t

GEOFFR EY ATK!NS ON GA ZE. of the re cent severe fi ghting. On the uigh t of Oc tobe r 10 �1e went out �n cha rge of a pa trol, with th e objec t of ac qu ir­ G. A. Gaze, of th e London Reg imen t, who was _ Ca ptain wg mf ormat wn ab out "n o man's land " an d the enemy 's kil \edin ac tion 15 Sep tembe r 19 16 was the elde r twin son 1 1 wt re . It ':as a moonligh t nigh t; he was appa ren tly spo tted, Wi lli am Geo ffre y Gaze, of 831 Altenburg Gardens, . of Mr and killed ms tan tl y by a ri fle bulle t. n t London, S.W ; th e yo unge r brothe r is Ca ptain an d Adj uta His Majo r writes wi th re ga rd to hi m : I( I was ver y much thur \Villi am Gaze, of th e same Regi me nt. Ca ptain Gaze . Ar gnev�d to h�ar of th e death of you r son. He was closel y at Carrow Hi\\1 Norwich, 19 July 18 81, and was was born assoc mteclwtth me from th e ti me he joined th is Regimen t, uca te d at Ou ndle , en tering St John's in 19 00 1 wi th a ed an d I had le arn ed to th ink ve ry highly of him. So also, I 02fo r u nstephen Exhibi tion. He lef t th e Un ive rsi ty in 19 M may say, had th e Rossall Ma sters, who spent so much ti me a cl erkship in Qu een Anne 's Bo unty Office. While at College with us as inst ructo rs, in his mo re ad vanced po rtions espec i­ a me mbe r of G Company in th e C. U.R.V., and in he was al ly Th ey main tained th atGl eave was the cleve res t man of he joined th e 15 th Co unty of London Re giment London his lo t. Your son had wo rked wi th me daily fo r eighteen (Civi l Service Ri fles) as a private. He became Second Lieu ­ months, had stood byme through ve ry tryin g ci rcums tances 19 12, an d was gaze tted Cap tain 28 Oc tobe r 19 14. te nan t in at ti mes, and I sho uld like to as sure yo u th at he was alwa ys wen t to th e front in Ma rc h 19 15 , and se rved continuous ly He equa l to th e occ asion " ceiving a sc ratch. He was killed on Septembe r 15 wi tho ut re Cap tain Glea ve's elde r brothe r, the Rev John Wallace he was le ading his Co mpany Alth ough he was hit when Gleave (B. A. 19 12), is a Chaplain to th e Fo rces , and at tached re fuse d to leave his me n, an d was ultim atel y hi t by tw ic e he to th e Cycle Co rps in Wil tshi re. a machine -gun bulle t an d kille d ins tan taneously. Captain Gaze was ac ti vely in teres ted in th e work of th e Colleg e Mi ss ion in Walw orth , an d lat terly wo rked at St John' s, WILFR !D NRWBOL D HALL IWELL. mainly wi th th e Ch urch Lads ' Brigade. Wa terloo Road, Second Lieu tenant Wilfrid Newbold Halli wel l of th e 1 1 Yo rkshi re Regiment, who died 21 Sep tembe r 19 16 of wo unds re ceived in ac tion on 19 Sep tembe r, was th e eldest son of THOMAS REGINAL D GLEA VE. Mr Robe rt Halliwell, of We llfiel cl, Bury , Lancashire and Ca ptain T R Gl eave, of th e So uth Lancashire Regimen t, a nephew � of th e late Rev Willia m Ta ylo r New bolcl ' fo r 1crly secon d F who wa s killed in action 10 Oc tobe r 19 16 , was the el lo"v 0 f tl1e C o 1 lege. He was bo rn at Bu ry 15 Septe mbe r son of Mr John Gleave, of Nor woo d, Eccleston Park, Pres co t, 18 89 and . was ed uca ted at StBees School 1 en teriug StJo lm's Lanc ashire. He was born 17 July 18 94, at St Helens, ln 19 09. Roll of Honour 85

84 Roll of Hollottr for Barr ow-in- Fu rness. He was bornat Barr ow 8 June 18 87 19 15 and was g zetted to September 19 00 he entered He joined the Arm y in August � In Ma nches ter Grammar Sch ool later bemg trans­ th e 11th Ba ttali on, Yorkshire Regiment, and went up rapid ly on the Clas sica l Side, winning the left for France July 11, 19 16 . ke speare Society 's Prize in 1904 and the Reading ferred to the 9th Battal ion. He Sha Pr octer 19 15 , at the in 19 05. In th e la tter year he Lieutenant Halliwell married, 30 September Prize entered St John 's, with ton, Verna AclaEsme, Exhibiti on, and took his degree Church of St Lawrence, Kirby Mi sper an in 19 09. He then at ­ Tw en tyman, of Kirby tended a course in Educa tio youngest daughter of Mr and Mr s J R. n at lh e Universit y of Ma nchester, was app oin te d on the Mi sper ton Hall, Pickering, Yorkshire. and sta ff of lh e North Ma nchester his wid ow, sa ys ol . During Th e Colonel of his Bat talion, writing to Sch o the time of th at Sch ool 's rapid gr ow th he cool courage, cheerful ­ took charge of Classics and Art. " It was in a large measure clu e tohi s He was on e of the first , which had bee n House Ma sters when th e system ness and splendid example that a trench was in troduced, and he n. Your husband was made ever y boy in his House cap tured by the enem y, was retake keen on its honour In 19 12 ht or nine weeks, but he was app ointed a Ma ster at on l y with this Battali on ab out eig Batley Grammar Sch ool . respect and love of While there he became interested in the ' during th at sh ort lime he earned the \V orkers Educa­ a ver y gr ea t regard for, ti onal Ass ociati on, and was appointed lec turer, and all who knew him. I myself had under ­ his loss deepl y " took a tu torial class i11 Indus trial His tory He was very and high op ini on of , him, and I regret successful in making the subject alive wi th in teres t, and in draw in g ou t th e members of th e Class.

ALFRED WALLACE HARVEY, B.A. In Januar y 19 15, after havi ngbeen rejected four times, he joined the 2nd Sp ortsma u's Bat talion, 24th Roya l Fusiliers. ya l Arm y Alfred Wallace Harve y, of the Ro Captain ''I don 't th ink you wi ll like it," said some one to him as he ember 19 16 of wond s Me dical Corps, wh o died 7 Sep t � Wngh t wen t off, kn owinghis ar tis tic tas te and refined susceptibili ties. in acti on , was a son of the Re v. Dr Bache received "I sha ll hate it", he said, ''but I must go." of Wa nganui y (of St John's, B.A. 18 57), Headmas ter Harve On ac tive service he pr oved as ste ady and str ong-heart ad Ma y 18 70 at New Ze al and. He was born 14 Sch ool I as th ose wh o were ph ysical ly more robust. Th e gr eater the New Ze aland, and was vern or's Ba yI Christ Church, . Go l clanger the cool er he seemed to be , and on on e oc casi on, John s m Wanganui Sch ool. He entered St educa ted at being in charge of a bombi ngpar ty, with two ot her men he June 1898. He com­ Oc tober 18 94 , and took his degree in � ing held a crater agains t th e Ge rmans under severe bombard ­ studies at StTh omas's Hospita l, o tain pleted his medical ment. On returningthe members of his platoon preferred 01 , m 19 05. ons of M. R.C.S . and L. R.C.P., Lond : his qualificati th e re quest that he sh ould be awarded the D.C. M. He was, c1.an and the app oin tments of House Ph ys1 Af ter holding howe ver, immediately made a Corp ora l and rec ommended the Qu een's Hospi tal for Children, Hackney Surge on at for a Commissi on bythe Brigadier-General. Bef ore he could the West on, and of Re sident Me dical Officer to Road, Lond . receive ithe bad fa llen in th e field. It was in appr oaching prac hce at and Lynn Hospi tal, he set tled clown to Norf olk Delville Wood fr om Mon ta uban, and he li es buried by the Ma rch 19 15 . iffe-on -S ea . He joined th e R.A.M.C. in Wes tcl side of a tr ench behind Tr ones W oocl. A member of his plat oon, wounded ea rly in the morni ng of Ju ly28 (the cla y on wh ich Hawcri clge fell), wr iting tohis I M. A. ROBF.RT STUAHT HAWCR DGE, father, says : " I alwa ys admir ed your son whils t in France, Royal as has Robert Stuart Hawcridge, a Corp oral in the 24th every one in his pla toom . Dur ing the nine months we 1916 , wa s a have been in France, I can honestly say, from experien ce, Fusiliers, wh o was killed in acti on on 28 Jul y tor of Educati on G2 son of Mr Th om as Ar lhur Hawcriclge, Direc 86 Roll of Ho11our. Roll of Honorw. 87 � th at yo ur son was alwa ys a wo rker, bo th pluc ky an fearl �ss, atta ched to the Sou th Staffordshire Regimen t ; a few we eks hon and wi llin g to th e ve ry las t to do his bes t for h1s sec before his death he wa s at tached to th e Royal Warwic kshir e comrades. He was liked by everyone wh o came in con tac t Regimen t. In a nigh t at tac k on 20 Ju ly 1916 he was las t wi th him. On July 28, wh en I go t my wound and was seen gallan tly le ading his pla toon to wards th e parape ts of carried to the Firs t Ai d pos t, stra igh twa y, af ter seeing me all the German trenches. Ev ery effo rtwas made to find hi m, � a ri ght, you r son ran off to my du g-ou t, under fire for h lf bu t wi thou t resul t, and he mustbe presumed to be no longer gs. mi le, and re turned to me wi th my few priva te be long m alive. His Colonel wro te th at, th ough Lieu tenan t Hur clman Tha t proves wha t ki nd of a fellow he wa s." An other, wri ting had been only a fe w wee ks wi th th e Warwi ckshires, everyone on be half of himself and another comrade, says : ''We were who came in contact wi th him had no thin g bu t praise for all th ree in th e same sec tion and th e same hu ts at Gilclea his wor k. Par k and Clips tone, and we spen t a grea t deal of our spare time to ge ther ou t here. Whi le we we re stil l in England, we bo th apprecia ted wha t a rea l friend he wa s, and since we ANSTRY Ross J ACOB. came ou t here he proved a brave man, coo l and steady in cri tica l momen ts and to be re lied on under all circums tances. Second Lieu tenan t Ans tey Ross Jacob, of the Durha m Your son and I were bo th Bat talion Bombers, and it wou ld Li ght Infan try, who died on 18 Sep tember 19 16 of wound g be difficul t for you to apprecia te wha t con fidence and courage received in ac tion on th e previous clay, was the si xth son of hi s presence has given me in th e various dangerous pos ts we th e la te Mr Stephen Jacob , C.S.I. , of th e Indian Civil Serv ice , hav e occupied toge ther When we we re in England th ere and of Mr s Jacob, of Raymon cl Road, Wimbledon. He was were many brave men, many daring, dashing fellows, bu t bo rn at Calcu tta 4 Oc tober 1893, was educa ted at Dul wich when we got ou t here men appeared in th eir tr ue colours, College, and en te red StJohn 's in 1912. He had been elec ted and wh ere many fell away Hawcriclge, by his ac tions, wo n in Dece mber 191 1 to an £8 0 Scholarship, being firs t in the respec t and es tee m of all wh o kn ew him." Classics in th e StJohn 's group of Colleges. His success wa s th e more remar kab le, as he had shor tly before sustained a severe inj ury to one of his legs wh ile playing foo tball at schoo l. He was seriously handicapped by the wound, CYRIL HURDMAN. which did no t hea l, and he passe tl more th an one vacation Second Lieu tena nt C. Hurdman, of th e Sou th Staffordshire in hospi tal during th e year 1913. In spi te of th is he main­ Regimen t, at tached to th e Royal Warwic kshire Regi ment, is ta ined his position, being firs t in the College Classica l 'Mays ' repor ted as "missing, believed to have been ki lled " in ac tion of 1913 and 1914, winning th e Haw ksley Blll·bury Prize. In 20 July 1916. He was th e eldes t son of Mr George Edward Augus t 1914 he was stil l qui te unfit for ac tive service ; bu t, Hurdman, of 48 , Pa ge t Road, Wolverha mp ton, and wa s born for a man of his spiri t, inac tion was in tolerabl e, and he atWolve rhampton 1 June 1896. He was educa ted at th e th erefore joined th e Officers' Training Corps, acting as Wolverhampton Gram mar School, wh ere he had a dis tin­ ins truc tor of mus ketry. La ter he was appoin ted mus ketry guished career, gaining th e Wolverhampton (Major) and ins truc to r to th e 17 th Division atWimb o rne, wi th th e ra nk Warner Scholarships. In Dece mber 19 14 he wa s elec ted of Sergean t. In June 19 15 he was well enough to be accepted to an En trance Scho larship for Ma the ma tics at St John 's, for ac tive service, and was gazel tecl Second Lieutenan t in the and in th e ordinary course would have commenced residence 4th Bat talion (Special Reser ve) Durh am Ligh t Infan try Afte r in Oc tob er 19 15 . In Ju ly 1915, however, he ob tained a a period of service as mus ketry offic er at Seaha m Harbo ur com mission in th e Special Reserve of Officers and was (wh ere he did excellen t wo rk) he wen t to th e fron t in July 88 Roll of Honour. Roll of 1-Iouou1' 89

19 16. He wa s wo unded on September 17 and died the co nscie ntio usly and well , he will be bad ly missed byall who followi ng cla y knew him." His earl y death pre ceded that of a yo unge r A bro ther officer writes : "Y our so n rec eived the wounds, brother byfo ur da ys only from wl1ich be died, while gallantl y leadi ng his platoo n in Lee wa s a man of much promise, while na turall y st udio us th e gr eat atta ck on th e Germa n li nes on the mo rning of th e he wa s passio natel y fo nd of ga mes In happier times he 17 lh September He was we ll infro nt whe n a ma chi ne-gun wo ul d have come to the fro nt duri ng his "Co llege ca reer infli ct ed se vere wou nds up on him. He bore his suff eri ugs inmore th anon e line of purs uit. wi th gr eat fortit ude. He died doi ng his duty no bl y and we ll." His former Colo nel at Seaham wr ote in th e na me of all th e officer s: ''We have lost a clear frie nd and anexce lle nt office r ; he wa s esteemed byall." FRANCIS WILLMER I'vlCAULAY, M. A. J acob wi ll lo ng be remem be red as a ma n of rare dis­ ti nctio n, in whom a fine intellect was united with gr ea t We have bee n furnished wi th the fol lowi ng par ticulars ph ys ical co ur age. He migh t fairlyhave cl aimed exemptio n with regard to Cap tai n F W. McAula y (see The Eagle, from acti ve servi ce, but he was one of the first who vol un­ xx xvii. , p. 373). teered. Absol ut el y unspoiled by success , he was alwa ys He was a member of the Universit y O.T.C ., and while si mp le and una ffe cted , maki ng light of his ow n tr oubles and st ill in reside nce re cei ved his commi ssi on in the Nor th anxi o us to help others. His influe nce and example in Mi dl and Brigade, R. F.A. (T.), in 19 10 . He was made College ca n hardl y be overrated. Captai n in 19 14, and we nt to the fro nt in Febr uar y 19 15 . At the time of his death (21 Ma y 19 16) he was in co mma nd of a Bat ter y, as the Ma jor was invalided. Duri ngan in te ns e bombardme nt bythe enem y, he withdrew his me n and we nt

hi mself to th e te lepho ne dug- out, which was incha rge of a Erne H ANSON LEE. co rporal and a private. The dug- out wa s str uck by two Se cond Lieute nant E. H. Lee , of the Ki ng' s Shropshire shells , and all th ree we re insta ntly killed. Ge neral H. M. Li ght Infa ntr y, wh o died on19 Sep tember 19 16 from wounds Campbell wr ote : '' He was an excel lent offi cer , one of th e re ce i ve d in ac tio n on the previo us da y, was a so n of Mr best I ha d, and such a go od fellow as well. We all miss Leo nard Lee, of Whitch urch, Salop. He was bo rn at him ver y much , and mo urnhis loss.'' Wh itch ur ch 7 No vember 18 95 and ed ucated at Wh it church Ma jor J H. Hi nto n wr ote : "H e wa s th e most co nscie n­ ti o Gram ma r School. He was elected to an Exhibi tio n fo r us and one of th e bes t me n I ever knew, a sp lendid so Nat ur al Scie nce inJun e and entered th e College inOctober ldier , and we shall all miss him dreadf ull y He was alwa ys my 191 4. righ t- ha nd ma n, and I sha ll alwa ys feel th at I am a bett Lee joi ned th e Shropshire Light Infa ntr y inMa rch 19 15 , er ma n for ha ving know n him and lived and wo rked so and after trai ning at Pe mbroke Do cks we nt to Fra nce inthe ma ny mo nths wi th him " August of tha t ye ar After some weeks in th e tre nches , he Ca ptai n Giles, his spe cial ch um, wro te: " He died ver y br a ve co ntrac ted ente ri c fe ver and was inhosp it al at Bo ul ogne for ly Tw o me n had to remai n, and he sta yed wi th them , as ei gh t weeks. He th enrejo ined the colo urs in Ma rch 19 16 he alwa ys shared ever y cla nger I have lost the best fr atPrees Hea th Camp, ne ar Whi tch urch, and agai n we nt to iend I ever had out here " Fra nce earl y inJu ly His Comma ndi ng Officer described him Se rge ant A. J Baile y wrote : '' The Capt ain's dea th made ever as : "A most pro misi ng yo ung Of-ficer vvho alwa ys did his wo rk yo ne in th e Batter y broke n hearted, and whe n th e sad Roll of Honour 91 90 Roll of Ho11o1tY.

fo r mo re tha n a yea r in France, an d I know pe rsonally how ne ws re ache d wagon line pract ically ever y ma n cr iedbecau se he wa s un ive rsally belove d an d how valuable he alway s wa s su ch a goo d frie nd ha d pa rte d from us; he wa s more like a to the Com pany an d Regiment. I have lo st a cle ar fr iend fathe r to usthan an officer in eve ry re spect. He wa s a goo d an you have lo st a ve ry no • d ble so n,who ha d alway s clone hi s sp ort sman , and eve ry man thought th e wo rldo f 111111 0 " du ly nobly lo hi s King an d Count ry an d his utmo st to help us all. His life, as we sa w it , wa s an in spi rat ion to every one." Wh ile a brother Lieutenant wrote : "His death isa great ERNEST EMANUEL POLACK. lo ss to us, as he wa s one of the be st offic ers in the Battal io n Lieutenant E. E. Polack, of the Glouce ster sh ir e Reg iment , an d clicl sp len didly out he re. I alway s admired his ab solute who wa s kill ed in act ion 17 July 19 16 , wa s the younge st so n fearle ssn ess in the face of clangeran d his capac ity for mak ing of the Rev. Jo seph Polack, Housema ster at Cl ifton College. de cision s at critical time s." He wa s born at Clif ton 25 Feb ruary 1893 an d educate d at Cl ifton Co llege. He ente redSt Joh n'swi th an Exh ibition in 19 12 an d wa s al so electe d to a (Un iv e rsity ) St ewart of Schola rsh ip fo r Hebrew At the en d of his se cond Ran noch DONALD RAMSAY PUDDICOMBE. year of re sidence he wa s electe d to a Foun dat ion Schola rsh ip s an d wa s awa rded se ve ral Co llege for Orie ntal Language Secon d Lieu tenant D. R. Pu ddicombe wa s the el der so n s a frequent sp eaker at the Un ion an d a Priz es. He wa of Mr Robe rt We stacott Puclcl icombe, of Leyto nstone. He Comm ittee of that Soc iety membe r of the wa s bo rn at Leylon stone 12 Novembe r 18 94 , an d wa s eclu ­ Cl ifto n an d at Camb ridge he wa s a member of Both at cate cl at Sca rbo rough College. He ente red the College in ng Corp s. On the outb reak of war he at the Of-fice rs' Traini Oc tober 19 14, an d at once jo ine d the O.T.C. with a view to once went in to train ing an d wa s gazette d a Lieutenant in the : qua lifying himself fo r a commi ssion ; th is he obta ine d in the istol ) Battal ion, the Glouce st ersh ire Reg ime 1 t. 4t h (C ity of Br Ea st Yo rkshi re Regime nt. He we nt with his Battalion to in Ap ri l 19 15 , an d wa s frequently 111 He went to the front Egypt. Hi s divi sion wa s then orde re d to Franc e. He took In Ja nuary 19 16 he ga ine d much comman d of hi s Compa ny pa rt in the first st age of th e on July 1, ring, du ring a night patrol , a German commen dat ion by captu wi th out mi shap. On 20 Ju ly 19 16 he wa s wounde d in the fia ntly fixe d in front of the enemy' s flag wh ich ha d been de thigh while in the Ge rman trenche s, an d die d on the 26th. trenche s nea r Hebute rne. In hi s la st lette r home he wrote "Capta in Ran son also wa s in the morn ing of July 17 wh ile He wa s kille d early woun ded while go ing to pic k me up. Th ree of my men in an assa ult on the German trenche s. lea ding his men re maine d behin d, an d lying do wn, by them selve s dragg ed ote : " His de ath is a great lo ss to us, as His Co lonel wr me on my ba ck right in to ou r line s again throu gh a mu rde r­ d he wa s an excel lent office r, brave to the la st de gree an ou s fire." iv ersa lly th office rs an d his men . He wa s un popular wi Lieute nant Puclclicombe wa s a man of great re finement, kille d in an attack onGe rman trenche s, wh ich his company, ke enly in te rested in art an d mu sic as well as in ou tdoor an d on e other, captu red an d we st il l hol d st ro ngly, an d s ports-one of the ma ny Cambr idge men who, from a thank s to his an d the other s da sh an d ga ll�ntry the Re giment rel igio us an d bu man ita rian poi nt of view, hate d war, but ha s re ce ive d congratulat ion s fro m the Army Comman der se rve d from a se nse of du ty clow n." His Major wrote : "I ha c\ the ho nour of se rv in g with him 92 Roll of Ho11orw Roll of Hononr. 93 JoHN NEVILL RrTcHm, B.A. solcliering, bred a cheerfulness in him which was able to witb all difficulties Second Lieuteuant J N Ritcbie, of the Seaforth High­ cope and discomforts. In an attack on the Turkish position on landers, who was killed in action in Mesopotamia 22 Ap ril Easter Eve, Ap ril 22nd, the Highland Battalions (Seaforth and 19 16 , was the third son of the late Mr John Macfarlane ) suffered very heavily, and the last that Hitchic and Mrs. Ritchie, of Balvraicl, Duneclin1 New Zea­ was seen of Jock Ritchie was, as his Colonel wrote, his "advancing land. He was born 31 December 18 79, at Duneclin, and at the head of his men in the attack." For some months received his early education at the High School there. hope was entertained that he might have been taken prisoner, but Coming to England in 18 99 he entered St John's in the unofficial news from brother officers has since banished Michaelmas Term of that year Int ending to devote himself all hope. No better descri to the legal profession he read for the Law Tripos, but ption of his character could be given than that of a brother owing to a temporary break-down in health he gave up officer who had got to know him very intimately : "No reading for Honours and took the ordinary B.A. degree in one coultl know Jock without having a great affection s June 19 02. for him. He was o thoroughly a Christian gentleman in the Af ter going clown he went back to New Zealand, intend­ highest sense of the words. He was no soldier from the ing to continue his Jaw work, but eventually gave up all idea love of the trade ; the discomforts of camp­ ing, the wh of it and went into his father's business at Duneclin ; for this istle of lead and the thud of shrapnel, were things he showed great aptitude, and in the course of time became he hated and overcame from sheer sense of duty If he had a branch manager one fear it was lest he should fail in the day of trial. His highly-strung, He was never one of those who gain great academic or refined nature, was apt to make him a little melancholy athletic distinctions, but he left behind him at St John's what at times, but a very charming melancholy it was. Death itself he never is more precious than either of these, a name and a memory feared ; it was only the thought of in the College, and his two brothers who followed him were his wife being left that used to hurt him ". always known as "Jock." His was a nature that could never An other officer writes '' We used to sit in my dug-out, and his hobby was fail to win many friends, and he always looked back upon his to dissect and pull his own character to bits, and then try to formulate it Cambridge cl ays with the keenest delight. When war broke as he would wish it to be. Then he would fall to discussing out he repeatedly tried to join the New Zealand Expedi­ people-men whom I was quite down on-and he would tionary Force, but each time he was turned down by the always find some redeeming feature in their make-up " New Zealand doctors on account of his heart and of a weak­ Jock Ritchie will always live in the memory of those who ness left after a very serious operation in 19 09. On learning, knew him as a great-headed gentleman. On the 9th Novem­ however, that another operation might circumvent the latter ber 19 15 he married Eirene Mary, second daughter of he immediately underwent it, and coming to England in July Mr C. J Stewart, the Public Trustee, and Lady Mary Stewart, 19 15 he was passed fit for service and received his commis­ and sion in the in the same month. In although one does not dare to set down in print all that February 19 16 he was sent out to join the Battalion in his marriage meant to him, certain it is that the few short montbs between Mesopotamia, and very shortly afterwards he went up to the that time and his leaving England gave him the advance trenches of the force that was endeavouring to realization, as never before, of the happiness of life and of relieve Kut. The conditions of life out there were almost the pride of service, even though it would entail the great sacri indescribable, but he always put his heart and soul into his fice. work, ancl pride of service at such a lime, rather than love of 94 Roll of H onow·

H, M.A. HUGH FRANCIS RussELL SMIT ds July 5, 191 6. Born Augu st 11, 1887 Die d of woun

d frien dship that ma de It wa s not si mply a se nse of se vere peculiar force to the the de ath of Ru ssell Smith come with per sonality of unu sual min ds of tho se who kn ew him. A s, an d the promi se of at tractivene ss pa sse d out of their live character wa s su ddenly ihe highest achievement of min d an d more than that of an cut sh ort. His career wa s something the normal st age s of able an d popular man ri sing through in Co lleg e an d Un iver­ aca demic su cce ss to a se cure po sition he wa s forme d on no si ty life. It left a de eper mar k. For natural mo desty ob scure d conventional pa ttern. Exceptional th e (act that hi s li(e wa s a li ttle hi s great ability, but not an d directe d to an ideal feel from de ep sp ring s of convic tion of his own. Smith, of Hea thside, The se con d so n of Mr H. Ru ssell and came up to Potter s Bar, he wa s educate d at Rugby, 0 6. He alway s sp oke St John' s as a Cla ssical Scholar in 19 he forme d a lifelong affectionately of hi s ol d sc hool, where in their gift s as frien dship with Rupert Broo kc. Different common, not lea st their the two were, they ha d much in career s were curiou sly nobi lity of min d, an d their Un iversi ty ture, both were attaining parallel. In sc ho lar ship an d in li tera k them an d unite d them to fame, when a greater fame over too ulfille d renown.' in their early de ath-' the inheri tor s of unf Smi th' s per sonality When he came in to re sidence Ru ssell a prominent figure in an d all-roun d talent s quic kly ma de him si mple si ncerity, the the College. Everyone mar ked the hi s manner, though quaint humour, the engaging fran kne ss of point of view, hi s hi s emphatic convictions, hi s intel lectual serve of a de eper si lent pursuit of the be sl in life lay in the re regar ded na ture. He wa s the centre of a particular circle, k are rare, with an admiration an d affection which I thin cu lt now but hi s intere stswere many an d variou s. It is di ffi li te rary, or to recall any College club or so ciety-ath letic, He so cial-with which one do es not asso ciate his name. to lhe wa s esse ntially one of tho se men who are so invaluable garet corporate life of a College. Ascaptain of the La dy Mar Boat Club, editor of Tile Eagle an d secretary of the General Roll of Ho11otw 95

Athletic Club, amongst many other th ings, he took his full share of the dut ies wh ic h fall to a man of his var ied talents and unfa iling publ ic sp irit. Al l such posit ions he filled remarkably we ll, for he comb ined wi th an extraordinary good nature and tact a real power of bus iness, and he never at any time put his hand to anything that he did not carry through with the utmost conscient iousness. His splendid physique made him a good athlete, and he distingu ished himself especially on the river. But his liking for athlet ics wa s that of the healthy man for exerc ise, or wa s a matter of College loyalty, and wa lkin g wa s his favourite outdoor pursu it. Love of nature and the open air wa s strong in him, as in most educated Engl ishmen ; and a few cla ys wa lking, preferably in the New Forest, of wh ic h he wa s by old assoc iat ion particularly fond, wa s his invar iable suggest ion for a holiday He wa s the best of companions at such times, for his energy, the freshness of his conversat ion and his·enjoyment of life we re never more conspicuous. His undergraduate cla ys we re, I bel ieve, as happy as they we re act iv e, for he wa s a man of a singubrly contented sp irit, ta king life always as it came, in an odd wa y of his own, yet wi th a human largeness and recept ivity that showed the quality of his nature. Independent and self-conta ined, he had the simpl icity that brings enjoyment of life. He had, loo, his own sense of values , wh ich he fearlessly ma inta ined. His temperament wa s im pulsive, but his mind wa s balanced . and very crit ical, strangely free from pr ejudice, and controlled by a keen sense of the ridiculous. He saw the humorous side of life more cons istently than any man I have known -a gift lhat stood him in good stead and did not desert him even at the last. He wa s not easily adaptable, and, though intensely in terested in people, wa s in clined to be reserved and even shy. Nor wa s he at his ease as a public speaker He could not take himself ser iously enough for that ; though he wo n both College and Un iversity pr izes for reading, in wh ic h he excelled. He could wr ite we ll, wi th restraint, dign it y and point, and a real sense of style ; and he wa s a wide reader, being es pecially fond of Wordsworth and Meredith. He took \V ordsworlh with him to the trenches, but he found that ' mo dern poems seem to hit the mark for one living under Roll of Honour 97 96 Roll of Houour

con dition s be tte r than the thought of the day ra the r than with an ant iquar ian pa st; the st res s of unplea sanlly mo dern an d the encou ragement wh ich he rece iv e d from sc holar s of ol der cla ssic s. ' demic ca reer came afte r em inence in crea sed his in tere st in a su bject that ha d been The mo re br ill ian t pa rt of his aca ipo s, his own cho ice. ha d misse d a first in lhe Cla ssical Tt With his ca ree r thus de fin it ely se tt led he his de gree. He � : ination in be d in the t uddl e became engage d to Do rothy, da ughter of Dr Edwar d Ta it, of hav ing to take pa rt of the exam But, man of st rong lttera ry Highbu ry, whom he married in the Sp ring of 1914. of an attack of in fl uenza. we re not, in lhe judgment From the moment that he took upHi st o ry he sh owe d an in stinct s as he wa s, the Cla ssics s su bj ect, an d he ha d not in stinct ive pr eference fo r the sl ucly of pol itical theo rie s an d of tho se who knew him be st, hi ing ove r from Cla ssics to in stitut ion s. His acute mindan d broa d an d tole rant ju dg­ allogethe r foun d himself. Chang r that awakene d the ment well fitte d him fo r the analy sis an d compar ison of Hist ory he progre ssed in a manne first cla ss in Part Il. of idea s, an d his two book s sh ow that he woul d ce rta inly have highe st expectat ion s. He ga ine d a d the Th irlwall Priz e fo r risen to greal dist in ct ion in his su bject. 1 The Theory of the Hist ory Trip o s in 19 10, an Scholar ship in 191 1. He Rel igiou s Libe rt y in the Re ign s of Charle s 11. an d Jame s 11.', histo rical re se arch an d the Al len to lhe Ed itor s of th e Calli­ an essay writ ten in a single Long Vacat ion, wa s a re markable al so for a time gave useful help th ro�tgh tour de fo rce fo r an in exper ienced st udent of hist o ry To bridge lifodem Hislo1y in se eing the At la s Volume il orsh ip of the Cambndge han dle so la rge, vague an d difficult a subject in so sh ort a the Press, an d wa s offe red the Ed to �ccept. perio d of time, an d to wr ite so meth ing fresh upon it , sh owe d Review, wh ich to his regret he wa s not able worned about the a faculty for dist in gu ish in g between the im po rtant an d the Like many other men he wa s much from th in king that he wa s un important an d for hold ing the ma ste ry of what he took cho ice of a ca ree r, fo r he wa s far He hate d to do anyth ing in to his mind, which wa s I th ink his mo st ma rke d in tellectual we ll fitte d fo r an aca dem ic life. ugh amb itiou s of academ ic characte rist ic . 1 Har rington and his Oceana ' wa s wr itten that he coul d not do well ; an d tho ca reer,' as he calle d it , he wh ile he wa s Al ien Schola r. It took him to the Un it ed dist in ct ion, 1 ego tist ic about his ough t adm in istrat iv e work State s, a journey wh ich 1 has clone me in calculable goo d' do ubte d his powe r to teach and th schola r'sli fe se eme d to him He like d the Uni le d State s, move d about there a goo d de al, woul d be more congen ial. The ant ry, where men lo st the ir an d met many sc hola rs. ' They take me so se riou s! y ', he to lea d in to an ar id de se rt of pe d d. 1 To think of llmt wh ile wrote, 1 lreat me as if I we re an Engl ish profe sso r, and not a human ity an d from that be reco ile wa s deep ly in tere sting young pe rson who ha s re adHi st ory for just two yea rs' The it is Spr it�g is a bit de pressing. ' Life other people dt d book wa s a valuable cont ribut ion to knowle dge, for Barr ing­ to him an d he in ten dedto live it fully But an doffe rsof a College po st ton ha d been st ra ngely neglecte d, an d it showe d too a ra pid not sh are his view of his lim it at ion s, one qua rte r He ha d thu s to de velo pment of his powe rs. It wa s publ ishe d in the sp rin g so on came to him from mo re than hisar riv in g in my ro oms of 191 4 and brought him recogn ition from the Royal Hist or­ come to a de cision, an d I re member asa sy mbol that the great ical Soc iety-a dist in ct ion that se eme d to give him plea sure. one morn ing with a la rge umb rella de. But his own The two book s re veal him well-h is st ro ng an d clear in tel­ de cision to become a do n ha d been ma foun d him a place on lect, his fine gift of expre ssion, his thorough wo rkman ship, College wa s unw ill ing to lo se him, an d le ss valuable than what ha d been the human touch in the de lineat ion of character, the gentle it s st affI wh ichI though loyally pre- la ughte r at ext reme s of thought an d feel ing that ma rked hi s offere d to him el sew he re, he with cha racter ist ic a Lectu rer, conver satio n an d the de ep sy mpathy with de moc rat ic thought fen·ed. Thu s in the su mme r of 1912 he became a Fellow of wh ich ha d drawn him to se venteenth century st ud ie s. He and in Novembe r o£ t.he sa me year wa s electe d d a fiel d of work ha d al rea dy ma rke d out fo r himself a new piece of work in his College. By that lime al so he ha d foun up with the aclive the sa me fiel d when the outb reak of wa r in te rrupte d his plan s. in Pol it ic al Sc ience wh ich se emed linked VOL. XXXVIII. H 98 Roll of Houottt'. Roll of Honour 99

war he had sometimes talked, not without woods and Before the and night in gales. But there was ' no Spring in the ser iousness of look ing for some permanent employment with lines,' and he longed to see ' . another Engl ish Spr ing. There internat ional peace organ isat ions. Thetrs was a re unpleasant one of the we exper iences- in wet trenches and under wh ich he had much at heart, for he was a man of shell fire-' one cause does not fear death , but one is fr igh tened , and by reason, and he believed that the purely phys peace by nature ically,' and he was tw ice slightly wounded, had come when war might be preve nted. Not that though he di time d not leave his work. He was to have led he loved England less than othe rs, but he loved peace his Company in to act ion at Beaumont Hamel on the first more. Reluctantly, yet completely, he was conv in ced at day of the July offe ns ive, the ann iversary of his son's birth­ the beginn in g of Au gust 1914 that war was in evitable, and clay, but, in the early dawn of that clay, go in g out with a that he felt he had his part to play, wh ich could be party to cut with the wire in front of our trenches, he was none but the hardest that offered. For a few weeks he wounded with shrapnel, and four clays later died in hosp ital in the Un iv ers ity O.T.C., and also as an did good work at Ro uen, where he was bu ried in the English cemetery cers' Tra ining School in Cambr idge. in structor in the Offi He was not an ord inary man. A gentle and generous Then, in Ap r il 1915, he took a Commiss ion in the RiHe nature, a sp irit free � . from ta int of self seek ing and self de­ and spent some months as Ad jutant \ lth Ins cept ion raised Br igade, him above the common. Manly simpl icity battal ion at Sheerness. It was there that he recetved the and modes ty , openness of mind and absolute candour were Ru pert Brooke's death, wh ich seemed at first 'too some of news of the qualit ies that gave to his character its singular sad and wrong ;' but, later, there was 'some­ charm. unutterably No man could have been more loved in his genera­ th ing essentially good about it ;' and he wrote the notice tion. He di d not seek pra ise, yet the pra ise of a life fully of Brooke, 'always the same in comparable friend,' that and nobly lived, and then laid simply down at the call of appeared in the magazine. Needless to say duty, is his, past quest ion. An d what pra ise could be higher ? d not find military life at first attract ive, though he He was he di so self distrustful that he did not th ink he could recogn ised the advantage of the exper ience. 'I am sure be worthy of a College Fellowsh ip , but now his name is one be glad of it all my life,' he wrote, 'if I su rvive.' that I shall his College will hold in a proud and perpetual remem­ as ever, brance. He took the greatest in terest in his work, and, It seems strange that he should fall in war-the his ability, 'for the sake of gentlest did what he did to the best of , the most del ightful of men-and all that human once added-a charac­ excellence civilian is m-I co in the word,' he be lost to us so soon. Yet oue always felt of him, France, and was fro terist ic touch. In October he went out to m the first meet ing to the last, that in his life and death qu ickly promoted. 'I shall do my best to make the th ing a there would be : success, ' he wrote , del ighted to get the command of his 'no weakness, no contempt, Company The men were 'absolutely splend id.' 'My ad- Dispra ise, or blame noth ing but well and fair.' miration for the way in wh ich they bear cheerfully very great hardships is st ill u11bounded.' An d his letters showed the same fi rm, yet humorous and respectful deal ings with them as had E. A. B. made his management of College clubs so marked a success. Moreover he found himself ' far less unhappy than I ever thought possible.' The open air life attracted him. 'This sort of war,' he wrote from behind the lines , 'where guns don't boom is all right-the country, the open air , simplic ity, a horse.' An d one heard often of lovely French villages, with orchards Roll of Honom'. 101 100 Roll of Honottr. himself friendl y towards th em , ow ing to a cer tain sh yn ess SOUP!l.R, B.A. NOEL BEAUMONT which he alwa ys admi tted." And on e of hi s ow n rank , a Lieu tenan t, wri tes: " For nt Sou per , of th e Roya l Sec ond Lieu tenan t Noel Be< 1um o m ys elf I have lost on e of my gr ea tes t friends , and th e tion on 1 Jul y 19 16, was a Berk shire Regimen t, wh o fell in ac Compan y-and indeed th e wh ole Ba ttali on-an offi cer wh o uper (of StJo hn's , B.A. n of th e Rev Francis Abr<1ham So so can never be rep laced. Ever ybodylo ved " Old Soup-can " 20 December 18 77 and 1 18 67). He w<1 s born at Ea stb ourne as we used to call him ; ever ybodyfr om th e C.O. to th e last hi s father atSt Andrew 's received hi s earl y educa tion under Priva te It wa s a bad d.t y for th e Ba ttali on when een th ye ar he wen t to Sch ool , Ea stb ourne. In hi s si xt you r husband lef t us al ong wi th some of th e ver and se ttling th ere, y bes t." Canada wi th th e in tention of farming ur or five ye ars , feeling a if poss ible , for life. Bu t af ter fo s, he re tu rn ed to England, strong de sire to ta ke Holy Order John's in 18 99, ta king his HAROLD CHARLES NORMAN resumed hi s studie s and en tered St TAYLOR, B.A. aside th e idea of bec oming B.A. de gree in 19 02. Then laying We are gl ad to be abl e to add to th e ver y brief acc There, for a ti me, he ount of gyman he wen t back to Canada. . a cler Lieu tenan t Ta ylor which appeared , and even tu ally in ou r la st number (Tit' ster ship in a sch ool atMo n tr eal took a Ma Eagle, xxxvii., p. 376). ere in 19 10 he married migra te d to Bri tish Columbia , wh In Augus t 19 14, on re turn fr om a sh ort holida y in Co la te Alexander Dick son rn­ Rosalie France s, daugh te r of the wall , he applied for a commis sion and was at on ce se ntto N or ie , Commander RN � Blackhea th s Sec ond Lieu tenan t in th e 20 th , Vanc ouver Island. Ba ttali on, His home was now at Cowichan Lond on Regimen t (Blackhea th and Wool wich). Af again st German y he ter four Immedia tel y on th e declara tion of war months tr aining and drilling his men th ere th e Ba ttali on was ghlanders , and came to enli sted in th e Canadian GOL·d on Hi � n: ov d to Be tchw orth in Surre y, where th eywere engaged in th e Domini on tr oops. England wi th th e firs t contingen t of chggm g tr enches for a month or more. In th e earl y par t of mudd y and we t Salis­ For si x months he wa s quar tered on Ma rch 19 15 Lieu tenan t Ta y lor wa s tr ansferred at a few e Roya l Berk shires fell bur y Plain. Then a commissi on in th hour s' noti ce , to St Alban s, where th e firs t divi si on of Ba ttali on of th at th e lot, and be was at tached to the 6th to his Lond on Regimen t wa s preparing for earl to join th e y depar ture to th e t. In December 19 15 he wen t to France Regimen fr ont, and he wen t at on ce wi th st da y of th em to France. He was for e fr ont. On th e firs t of Jul y, th e fir � Ba ttalion at th om e ti me in th e neighb ourh ood of Be thuneI and constan tly WC\S in ac tion. the gr ea t advance , he killed Ill an cl ou t fo th e tr enche s, bu t he sen t home ver y few de tail "I cann ot expre ss s One of his su peri or offi cers wr ote : of a 1yfig h ti ng or ac tions th at he ma y have be en in. t. There isno t a � He deepl y Lieu tenan t Souper's loss is fel how ob ta med his firs t leave , af ter six months and es teem , in Sep tember 19 15 cer in th isBa ttali on wh o did not love man or offi and a for tn igh t af ter his re turn � ing th e wa s in th e bat tle of Loo cer and a man. He me t his dea th sh ow as an offi w · him hen h'I s regimen t tcap ure tw o German I have cl 85mm. gu ns. The y he alwa ys sh owed , and ab out which courage th at occupied th e cap tured German of his tr enche s in fr ont of Loos for beard hi s me n ta lk I was a gr eatfriend of ten four cla ys, when th eywere on e relieved. Lieu tenan t Tayl or wa s ys considered him on e of th e fines t charac ters �he and alwa on ly offi cer of co hi s mpan y to escape harm ' and he w�s< could possibl y mee t." In com mand of t I 1e compan y for te n da ys Souper as an after th e attack An other wr ote as foll ows : "I ahvays knew He was al lowed home on leave sh ortly af ter th is I kn ow th at and wa s excellen t offi cer and a deligh tf ul compani on. prom . ' oted te mp orar y IeuL tenan t as fr om th e 26 Sep tembe r him : and th is , th ou gh his men , too, were in tensel y fond of tlle d ayaf ter th e assa ul t. He als o became Assis tant Adjutan t: as he used to te ll me , he found gr ea t difficul ty in sh owing H2 Roll of Honour. 102 Roll of Ho1101tY. 103

further south, in the in spirit, that he easily won t.he admiration of his men. Later his regiment was moved was in the action of lhe Whatever duties fell to him, however arduous they were, he neighbourhood of Souchez, and it he met his death ; he summoned up all his strength to meet them, and was a real 21 May 1916, on the Vimy Ridge, that time, but was not yet father to men who were much older than he was. He won had been acting as Captain for some m letters to Lieutenant the highest praise at the battle of Loos, when all the other gazetled. The following extracts, fro and gallant officer he officers of lhe company were pul out of action, and in the Taylor's father, show whal a capable long and arduous winter fighting that followed, his slight proved himself to be. formerly Colonel of the figure was only kept going by his fiery indomit;�ble spirit. Brigadier General Hubback, . 11 son very well, especmlly It was not that he had no fear and no nerves. He knew Regiment, wrote : I knew your time. He was always what it was t.o be frightened, but he ne ver shirked danger as he was my Signal Officer for some when commanchng I well remember him when we were in the Hohenzollern most gallant and fearless, and latterly, efficient officer. He was Redoubt and he was attached to Battalion Headquarters as a company, proved himself a most with me, and I am deeply SignaJling Officer and Assistant Adj utant. When four mines one of the few left who came out had gone up simultaneously on our right and a hideous grieved at his death." between 8 and 8.30 bombardment was in full swing he came running up to his His Colonel wrote : "Your boy fell critical moment when old company with a cheery, smiling face that heartened last Sunday evening. It was at a very our right and were in a every one of us. And when we used to reach billets for a t.he Germans had broken the line on Your boy was simply rest there was no one whose heart was lighter or whose portion of our own front trench. that his initiative and courage fellowship was more prized than your boy's. I can only splendid. I am quite certain , the arrest of the enemy s dwell on the fame your son won as a soldier and on the contributed in large measure to at t.he moment when he imperishable memory be has left behind with all who knew advance. He was killed instantly Out here we all loved and him. To me he is a very gallant figure ." had accomplished his endeavour. hearts go out to you and His Adjutant wrote : "I was privileged to count myself were proud of your boy, and our of such a son. Had he among your son's intimate friends out here, as we had served his mother in your grief at the loss him for lhe D.S.O., but all together at Heaclqu;�rters for a long lime, and it was a great lived I sh ould have recommended mentioned in despatches ". shock to me on my return from leave to learn of his clealh I can do now is to ask for it to be in March 1915, and I can give you no further details as to his death as I wa� His Major wrote : '' I first met him awa day until I was wounded y on leave at the time, but I should like to mention that we saw each other practically every the time work, difficul�ies, Chief of the Staff of the Division, in an account of the in September. During the whole as a compam�n, operations, stated that the whole situation was saved by and spare moments were, with him dangers, Cap unfailing od fellowsbtp, tain Taylor's prompt and courageous action." pleasures to me, because of his �� complammg acceptance His soldier servant wrote : "I feel 1 must convey to you slrict attention to discipline and un straigl t path of my deepest sympathy in your great loss, which is felt very conditions, always keeping in the � of trying ke e soldter, and I enly by every man in the Regiment. I, who was Captain The nation has lost a most valuabl duty Tay lor's servant ever since the battalion came to France and a very dear friend ". have lost all : 11 joined C the men who had been with him all through Captain writes I knew him well ; he , had the His late gr France. eatest admiration and love for him. He was ny on 8 March 1915, just before we left for a brave, Compa co was very urageous, fine soldier, a great leader, and a friend to our Mess he was a great favourite ; at first be all. In �e him we all never asked his men to go where he would not go quiet and mouest, but when we got to know huns so indomitable elf, but was always wilh and for his men. The N.C.O.'s loved him. He was so slight in figure, but 104 Roll of Houour. Roll of Honour 105

and men of C Company have asked me to convey to you HAROLD RoBERT WALES. their condolence in our mutual loss." writing to Lieutenant Taylor's elder brother His Adj utant, second Lieutenant H R. Wales, of the East Yorkshire Stuart Taylor M.B., R.A.M.C. (T.), of King's) , . (Captain E. Regtment, who was killed in action on 14 July 1916, was the on leave at the time of his death so cannot wrote : "I was only son of Mr and Mrs Horace Wales, and was born in of what occurred, but I gather that he tell you personally SheHield 2 May 1895. He was educated at the Central the Colonel during the German attack on the was sent up by Secondary School, Sheffield, where he held a Lancastrian report on the situ!'ltion, and on arriving at the � Vimy Ridge to Schol rship. He was a man of the highest intellectual found that the enemy had broken through at a front line prom1se and had a most distinguished school career In near the front and were rapidly spreading along mine crater 1910 he got first-class honours in the Oxford Senior Locals He at once collected a few men and counter the line. with distinction in' Mathematics · and in 1911 and 191l the Germans by bombing, beating back their attacked distinction in Mathematics at the Higher Certificate Exami­ confining tlH::ir gains to the edge of the crater, advance and nation, and in 1914 in the same examination he obtained a very serious danger He stayed and thereby averting distinction in Mathematics, English, Mechanics and Physics the position regained, and it was while return­ consolidated and was awarded a Town Trust Scholarship. In 1912 he Headquarters, after this, that he was hit by � ing to Battalion wa awarded a Mathematical Scholarship at Trinity Hall, of which must have reached his heart, as he . a splinter of shell, wlHch he ch cl not avail himself, and in 1913 was awarded an He would certainly have had the D.S.O. had died instantly Entrance Scholarship of £80 a year at St John's. He com­ it is he can only be mentioned in despatches ". he lived, as menced residence in the October Term of 1914, and at the . end of Ius first year ?£ was placed in the First Class of Part I. . the Mathematical Tripos. On en tering the College he DENZIL CLIVE TATE TWENTYMAN1 B.A. JOined the O.T.C., and having completed his training obtained a Regiment, commission in the . On the 14th Captain Twentyman, of the York and Lancaster leading of July last he was wounded and we"n t to the dressing station who was killed in action 1 July 1916 while gallantly and Twentyman, had his injury attended to and then, without the least his men, was the elder son of Mr James Robert He was delay, went back into the fighting line and was killed. of Kirby Misperton Hall, Pickering, Yorkshire. The Adj utant of the Regiment, writing to Lieut. Wales' born at Shanghai 27 June l 890 and was educated at Broms­ ng his B.A. parents, says : "During the short time your son was with grove School, entering St John's in 1909 and taki joined the this Battalion he proved himself a ·most efficientand gallant degree in 1913. After leaving Cambridge he On the officer, whose loss will be greatly felt amongst all ranks." Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. gazetted The Commanding Officer wrote : "After getting his wound outbreak of war he at once joined the Army, being and dressed he returned to the firing line and met his death Second Liet1tenant in the lOth Battalion The York �s e man could. He would have been perfectly 1914 ; he was promoted only a brav Lancaster Regiment 19 September . . . ; he JUstified 1n gomg to the clearing station, but returned to his Lieutenant in December 1914 and Captain in May 1915 men of his own free will." went to lhe front in September 1915. Captain Twentyman married 30 June 1915, at the Parish eldest Church, Bushey, Herts. , Milclred Sybil Josephine, , daughter of Mr Percy Hall, of The Gables, Glisson Road Cam bridge. 106 Roll of Honour. Roll of Ho11our. 107

CHARLES ARMY JOHN ARNOLD WILLETT. TAGE WOOLER.

Second Lieutenant C. A. Wooler was the youngest son Lieutenant J. A. Willett was the younger son of Mr and of Mr Ernes! Octavius Wooler, solicitor, of Balks House, Mrs John James Willett of 22, Ellenborough Road, Weston­ Wortley, Leeds. He was born at Wortley 16 March 1895, super-Mare. He was born 10 February 1895 at Banwell, and like his elder brother, Lieutenant H. S. Wooler (see Somerset, and was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, T!IeEa gle, xxxvii., p. 376), was educated at Sedbergh School, Gloucestershire, entering St John's in October 1913 and read and was elected to a Lupton and Hebblethwaite Exhibition for the Historical Tri pos. at St John's in June 1914. On the outbreak of war the two On the outbreak of war in 1914 he at once enlisted in the brothers at once joined the ranks of the West Yorkshire , but he received a commission as Regiment. Later both obtained commission in the West Second Lieutenant in (Prince Albert's) Somerset Light Yorkshire Regiment. Lieutenant C. A. Wooler was wounded, Infantry 9 November 1914 ; in May 1915 he was tr�nsferrecl though not seriously, on 26 September 1915. He returned to the , and, with his elder brother Lteutenant to the front and was again wounded on 1 July 1916, and died L. Willett, was sent to the Dardanelles. His battalion on 20 July in the Herbert Hospital, at Woolwich. He was belonged to the famous 29th Division. He was reported buried at the Harlow Cemetery, Harrogate. His former wounded and missing in an engagement on 28 June 1915, Colonel, writing to Lieutenant Wooler's father, says : "I am when the battalion suffered very heavily, as appears from deeply grieved because I was very fond of him, and he was a letter written by Lance-Corporal Lipscombe, elated 17 one of the cheeriest, pluckiest and most loyal officers I had, January and published in the Westem Gazette of 29 January or any C.O. could wish to have. His simplicity and his 1916. In this he says : "When we had to advance, on regard and affection for his men made him, young as he was, June 28, we had 16 officers and 800 metl, and 15 officers got . a born leader of men. I cannot express to you my sympathy killed, and we lost over 500 men. Lteutenant Wtllett was over his loss and also that of his brother, both of whom the only one who got wounded, and I saw him in the last worked so hard and who were ideally fitted for the task of trench which we took. His arm was then in a bad slate, leading men." I bandaged it up as well as I could, and took him to a trench which led to the 89th Field Dressing Station. I would have gone to the station with him, but the battle I was in was too bad and my place was in the firing line, as we did not have many men left." What happened after must of necessity be a matter of speculation, but the absence of any news of a reassuring nature, after so long an interval, makes it only too probable that Lieutenant J. A. Willelt succumbed to his injuries. Information has been received from the American Ambassador in Constantinople that Lieutenant Willett is not a prisoner in Turkish hands. Roll of Honour. 213

CHARLES RRGINALD GLYN.

Second Lieutenant was a 'IRoll of 1bonour. C. R. Glyn, of the Indian Army, son of Mr Lewis Edmund Glyn, K.C. He was born at Dartford 4 March 1895 and educated at Haileybury, entering HECTOR FussELL BILLING ER, B.A. the College in 1913. Soon after the outbreak of war he entered the Army, and England Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant H. F Billinger, who was after a period of training in killed in action 23 November 1916, was the only son of Mr obtained a commission in Hodson's Horse, and joined his and Mrs J F Billinger, of Cantref, St Barnabas Road, Cam­ regiment in India. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia bridge. He was born 18 October 1893 at Neath, Glamorgan­ 9 January 1917 shire, and was educated at the County School, Cambridge. He entered St John's in October 1911 he was a man of promise and ability, and took hisdegree in the History Tripos SAMUEL PERCY JACQUEST, B.A. of 1914. In the summer of that year he had received an appointment as History master at the Royal Masonic School, Mr Samuel Percy Jacquest, a gunner in the Canadian Bushey Both at school and at the university he was a Field Artillery, who was killed in action on the 18th October member of the Officers Training Corps, and on the outbreak 1916, was the only son of Mr Samuel Frederick Jacquest, of of war at once offered his services to the country, and was Northfields, Kettering. He was born at Kettering 18 Jan. gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the East Lancashire Regi­ 1888 and educated at Keltering Grammar School; entering ment, 17 October 1914. He went to France in February the College in 1907 be took his degree through the Medieval 1916, and in March became Acting Adjutant. He was for and Modern Languages Tripos in 1910. some months in the thick of lhe fight. The following is an In 1912 he went out to Canada as English master at extract from a letter he wrote to his father on the day that Bishop's College, Lennoxville, and was subsequently Head­ he fell : "We have been in the thick of the fighting some master, first of the Terrace School and afterwards of the clays and have not yet finished, so writing is almost impossible. Greenwood School, both in British Columbia. On accepting agree­ I am writing in a filthy hole in the ground in conquered the last-named appointment he signed a three years' at last territory. The mud and cold have been very trying, and we ment, but after two unsuccessful applications obtained in have suffered losses, especially amongst officers." a release from his engagement so that he might enlist the His commanding officer, in conveying his deep sympathy Canadian Field Artillery. He joined up at Toronto in August to to Mr and Mrs J F Billinger, wrote : "It is my unfortunate 1915, and in the following September came England for January 1916, the clay on duty to inform you of the death of your son, who was killed training. He left for France on 18 He was offered a com­ whilst gallantly commanding his company in the front line which he completed his 28th year. Battalions, but preferred trenches. We are very cut up about it indeed, especially mission in one or two Infantry "to was killed on 18 myself, for although I have only commanded this battalion slop with lhe guns." He October 1916 ammunition pit, a Gennan shell coming for a short lime, I have seen a considerable amount of your while at work in an son, as he was Adjutant to me for some weeks. I only hope over and killing him instantly. A cousin of Gunner Jacquest's, an officer in Princess that the knowledge that he has always clone his duty as a Palricia's Regiment, was killed in action 15 September 1916. good officer will help you to bear your great loss." 214 Roll of Honour Roll of Honour. 215

PERCY ARNOLD LLOYD-JONES, M.B., B.C. In the present war he was on active service from the very first, going out to France early in August, 1914. For his Major Percy Arnolcl Lloyd-Jones, D.S.O., Deputy Assistant services in France and Flanders he was twice mentioned in Director of Medical Services, who died of wounds on 22 Dec. Despatches by General French, and was awarded the D.S.O. 1916, was the youngest son of Mr Ebenezer Lloyd-Jones, on 23 June 1915; in the July following he was received by formerly of Brooklands, Sale, Cheshire, and now of Abbots­ H.M. the King at Windsor Castle and invested with the hill, Malvern. He was born at Altrincham, Cheshire, 17 Oct. insignia of the 0 rcler 1876, and educated first at Brooldands School and then at Manchester Grammar School, entering St John's in 1895 and The two following letters, which we are allowed to print taking his degree in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1898. show the regard and esteem in which Major Lloycl-Jones was He volunteered for active service, as a private, in the Boer held by his brother officers: War, and took part in many important engagements, entering Pretoria with General Roberts , he received the South African (1) From Colonel Beevor, A.D.M.S., 46th Division, R.A.M.C. medal with three clasps. On his return to Cambridge he was one of those who were made honorary freemen of the 29th December, 1916. Borough "for the patriotic conduct he displayed at a time of My clear Sir-1 cannot adequately express our sorrow at great national anxiety in leaving home as a volunteer for this great loss, or our sympathy with you and the rest of your active service in South Africa." He also received a silver family Your son was a brilliant staff-officer, an honourable, goblet presented at the same time, inscribed : ''A tribute of upright and hard-working official. You may imagine the respect from the Town and University, as one of those who respect in which he was held when I tell you my old brother at their Country's call left Cambridge for South Africa." officers in the Guards, who knew him, have sent telephone He completed his medical studies at St Bartholomew's messages of sympathy to you all, one General even riding Hospital, and obtained his qualifications of M.R.C.S. and over to see me about it. This Division (46th) will express L.R.C.P. in 1904. He was admitted to the degrees of M.B. its universal sorrow. The General Officer commanding has and B.C. in 1907. written separately to Dr Ernest Lloycl-Jones. I enclose a For a short time he was House Surgeon at the Bedford memo from a Regimental Medical Of-ficer, quite a voluntary County Hospital. The elates of his commissions in the Royal one, which may be of some comfort to you as confirming the Army Medical Corps are as follows: Lieutenant 30 July 1904; statements of the General Staff. We all feel that we have Captain 3 January 1908; Temporary Major 6 November lost a true friend, an exceptionally brilliant staff-officer, and 1914; Major and Temporary Lieutenant Colonell July 1915. the country a character that will rank among the most noble On joining the R.A.M.C. he was stationed at Malta, from of onr race. I am an old Guardsman, so you can imagine his there he went over to Messina at the time of the earthquake, loss to me personally is irreparable. The Field Ambulance and the valuable help he then gave was recognised by the are making an appropriate carving for a temporary tomb­ Italian Government, the King of Italy decorating him with stone, a photograph of which we shall be glad to send you the Italian Reel Cross Medal and making him a Knight of the wherever you may indicate. With deepest sympathy, yours Crown of Italy. During the war between Turkey and the very faithfully, Balkan States he went to Constantinople to assist Turkey in WALTER BEEVOR." connexion with an alarming outbreak of cholera, and had a large share in the management of a Cholera Hospital behind (2) From Major-General Thwaites, commanding the 46th the Chatalja lines ; for these services he received a medal Division to Major E. Lloycl-Jones, U.D.: from the Turkish Government. 216 Roll of Ho11our.

24 December 1916. "Dear Sir-I deeply regret to have to tell you of the un­ fortunate death of your brother, my Assistant Director of Medical Services. I heard of it on my return from Paris �bitURl'\? yesterday to my own great sorrow. Apparently he was hit by a chance shell whilst carrying out his duties connected with medical arrangements, just behind the firing line, on REv HENRY WHITEHEAD Moss, M.A. Friday the 22nd instant. We all greatly deplore his loss-a The Rev Prebendary Moss, for 42 years Headmaster of whole-hearted soldier. How we shall replace him I cannot Shrewsbury School, died in London on January 14. The say. I may say that I voice the sentiments of the whole eldest son of Mr William Moss, he was born at Lincoln Division in conveying to you our very sincere sympathy. 23 June 1841. We take the following notice of him from For ourselves we have lost a friend and a most gallant and Tht Ti111es of 16 January 1917:- sympathetic comrade. He was buried yesterday afternoon '' He received his early education at Lincoln Grammar at No. 43 Casualty Clearing Station, in the cemetery near the School, but migrated to Shrewsbury in 1857, where he came Arras-Donleur Road, a link south-east of Saulty Yours truly, under Dr Kennedy's brilliant and effectiveteaching. Shrews­ WM. THWAITES." bury was then at the height of its classical reputation ; its list of honours during Kennedy's headmastership was not only out of all proportion to its size, but actually in excess of that of any public school except Eton. Young Moss made the most of his chances ; unusually industrious, with no taste FREDERICK STURDY MAY, B.A. for athletics or games, he was also a day-boy, and so could Frederick Sturdy May, a Private in the Royal Fnsiliers, devote his whole time and energy to his work. Perhaps no who was reported as missing on 3 August 1916 is now believed boy ever passed through a public school and knew so little to have been killed in action, as no news has been obtain­ of its social life ; the many almost incredible stories extant in able with regard to him. after years of his ignorance of the rules, and even phraseology He was the second son of the late Mr Peter Wilson May of cricket, football, and rowing gain some plausibility from and Mrs May, of St Margaret's, Hampstead. He was born his total avoidance as a boy of these and all other recreations. 24 February 1877 at Hampstead, and was at Harrow from "After three years in the Sixth Form he left the school as 1891 to 1895, when he entered at St John's, taking his degree head boy in 1860 and proceeded to St John's with a scholar­ in 1898. After leaving Cambridge he went into business in ship. There he won the Porson Prize in three successive the city as a shipper. He joined one of the Public Schools years, and a Browne medal for Greek Elegiacs ; in 1862, as Battalions and went to France in July 1916. a second year man, he was elected Craven University Scholar; in 1864 he graduated as Senior Classic, and in the same year became Fellow and Lecturer of his College. Socially, how­ ever, he remained the same, valued and appreciated by a few intimate friends, but little known to the outside world. In 1866 Dr Kennedy resigned the headmastership of Shrews­ bury, and the Master and Fellows of St John's, with whom the appointment of a successor rested, chose their recently- Roll of H onozu· 305

think that perhaps the snggestion came from me that led to 'tRoll of lbonour. his winning three of Sir William Browne's medals. A College Prize Essay of his of these days was printed in The Eagle (vol. xxvii, 47-60)-on Worclsworth's Prelude. He had a JOHN BERNARD PYE ADAMS, B.A. natural gift for writing-a natural habit of style ; he wrote Lieutenant Adams, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who without artifice and achieved the expression of what he died of wounds on the 27th February 1917, was the only son thought and what he felt in language that was simple and of Mr Harold John Adams, of the Patent Office andSt John's, direct and pleasing. He was a man of the quiet and reserved Oakwood Avenue, Beckenham. He was born 15 November kind, who did not talk much, for whom, perhaps, writing 1890, at Beckenham, and educated at Clare House School, was a more obvious form of utterance than speech. Beckenham, and Malvern College, entering St John's in 1909, 11 Once he disappointed me. In his third year he came to having been elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Classics my lectures for the historical section of the Second Part of in the previous December. He won the Browne Medal for the Classical Tripos, and I looked forward with great satis­ a Greek Epigram in 1911 and 1912 and for a Latin Ode in faction to having him as a post-graduate student for it. But 1911 He played Hockey for the College, and was Secretary he chose otherwise. On religion, I should imagine, he kept and President of the College Classical Society He took his at that time his deepest thoughts to himself, and he was degree in the First Class of the Classical Tripes of 1912. giving his miud to it, thinking things out for himself. By In 1913 he was appointed Warden and Assistant Educa­ the end of his third year he had decided to be ordained, and · tional Adviser of the Hostel for Indian students -in Cromwell he conceived that some training in Economics would best Road, South Kensington. 1 He threw himself ', writes Dr T W equip him for his future work. So he turned from Classics, Arnold, Secretary for Indian Students, 1 with the enthusiasm which I felt might quite well have led him on to a Fellow­ of his ardent nature into the various activities connected with ship, to studies in which he hac\ little chance of distinction. 21, Cromwell Road, and endeared himseH both to the Indian I lost him as a pupil, but as a man I liked him better for the students and to his colleagues' His fine abilities, his tact sacrifice-thoughI do not know that he ever thought of it and humour made his influence felt, and he had, in an in that way. I do not think he would have. exceptional degree, the power of winning the confidence 11 In his fourth year, C. F Andrews, then of St Stephen's and affection of the students. On the ontbreak of war he College, Delhi, was about Cambridge, and his picture of the was gazetted a Lieutenant in a Battalion of the Royal Welsh claims of India won Adams, and he resolved that he Fusiliers, and was out at the front, acting latterly as tem­ would be a missionary. At the end of the year F M. Cheshire, porary captain, from October 1915 to June 1916, when he of St John's, who had been looking after Indian students was wounded and came home. He had only returned to the in London, went out to India, and his work and place in front in January 1917. Cromwell Road were offered to Aclams. ll meant the oppor­ Mr T R. Glover writes: "John Bernard Pye Adams was tunity of knowing Indians from every quarter of lndia-an my pupil during his Classical days at St John's, and we were exceptionally useful preparation for a man whose life was to brought into very close relations. He remains in my mind be spent probably in one Presidency or Province. He took as one of the very best men I to teach-best have ever had it and, as he told me, it proved a right choice. It was like every way, in mind and soul and all nature. He was, I his him that once when the Iudian students held a meeting think, something of an athlete, but we not talk much ol did in Caxton Hall, to protest agaiust some feature (real or that. We met first of all in the ordinary round of classical imagined) in the management and indeed in the whole scheme work ; he did composition for me and essays, and I like to of Cromwell Road, Adams went with his chief to heat· the x2 Roll of HotJOrtr 307 306 Roll of Honour FRANK ROLAND BLAKELEY worst about themselves. Frank and honest natures like his do not take hurt. Second Lieutenant Blakeley, of the Indian Infantry, was "When the war came he had di fficullies of decision as to killed in action 22 February 1917 He was a son of Frank the course he should pursue, for which I respect him. Like Blakeley, Esq., of Normanton, where be was born 22 June others of our number who had no gust for war, and no 1896. He was educated at Normanton Grammar School and animosity against the enemy, he took a commission not so entered the College in the Michaelmas Term of 1914, intend­ ing to read for the Modern much to fight agai11sl as to fight for ; the principles at stake Languages Tripos. When war appealed to him, and with an inner reluctance against the broke out he was in Germany and was made a prisoner, but whole business he went into it-once again the quiet thought­ escaped to Denmark. At Cambridge he joined the Officers out sacrifice. He was wounded in the Spring of 1916 and I Training Corps and was gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the had a letter from him ; I was at Simla and I rem em her it 4th Battalion, He went to India well, coming after a long interval. I have often wondered with his battalion ; there he studied Hindustani and was for what some of the men, who wrote to his father of his courage, six months at Quetta1 after which we was gazetted to the would have said of his frank avowal of being glad to be out tlllit with which he was serving when he was killed. He had of things, of his confession of fear felt under the responsibility only been at the front about a month. He was a good for other men's lives. The best of them would, I expect, gymnast and a good all-round athlete. have owned to much the same feelings. When it came to personal danger, he impressed men as being unconscious of it. REv. VINCENT CoKE BoDDINGTON, B.A. "While on furlough he wrote a book-Nothi11g of lmport­ cuzce he called it-borrowing the newspaper phrase for the The Rev V C. Boddington, temporary Chaplain to the week-in week-out bicker between the trenches, when no Forces, died 13 March 1917, at the Pinewood Sanatorium, 'push ' is taking place. Those who heard him read some near Wokingham, ot tuberculosis contracted while on active of it are not likely to forget it-its vivid description, its service. He was the son of the late Mr Arthur Cavendish straight simple style, its restrained intensity of feeling. It is Onslow Bodclington, and was born 16 April 1886, at Titley, to be published by Messrs Methuen & Co., when the War Kington, Herefordshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury Office allows. It will be more a 'human document ' than and Hereford Cathedral Schools, and entered St John's in many of the books born of the war. 1905 as a Choral Student. He rowed in the Lady Margaret "What we have lost who knew him these paragraphs boats in each of the years 1906-7-8, and played Lawn Tennis may hint-I do not think we really know the extent of our for the College. After a period spent at the Clergy Training loss. But we keep a great deal, a very great deal-quidquid School, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1910 as Curate of ex illo amavimus quidquid mirati sumus, ma11et matJSUrtllllqzte East Ham and became a temporary Chaplain to the Forces est. Yes, that is true ; and from the first my sorrow (it may in 1914. Mr Bocldington married, 6 November 1915, at St seem an odd confession) was for those who were not to know Mary Abchurch, City of London, Florence Garrett, second him, whose chance was lost, for the work he was not to do. daughter of Mr S. Bastard, of Chigwell. For himself, if ever a man lived his life, it was he ; twenty­ five or twenty-six years is not much, perhaps, as a rule, but V C. Boddington sang in the College Choir as a Choral here it was life and it was lived to some purpose ; it told and Student for five years. His studentship was twice renewed­ it is not lost." a very unusual occurrence. In his undergraduate days he had a tenor voice which has seldom been equalled in the 308 Roll of Hotlottr. Roll of Ho110ttr 309

University, at any rate during the last twenty years. As a and thirst had forced him to raid my gyp-room, but smilingly singer he was constantly in request, not only in his own protested that he was none the worse for his night's work. College, but at the University Musical Club and at concerts I rebuked him, but am not likely to forget his characteristic of all kinds in other colleges. He worked wonders as :lnd generous self-sacrifice. Soon afterwards we spent a few Secretary of the College Musical Society He used to waylay days together (with another friend of mine) in the Lake 'doubtful ' members of the May Concert chorus as they ldt district, to banish the termi11al cobwebs. The unfeigned Hall, and sweep them into the practi-:e-room. On one delight which every hour, amid that famous scenery (then occasion, if I remember aright, he darted from his p!;·,ce new to him), gave to his enthusiastic mind infected his two soon after the rehearsal had begun, and dragged to his side older companions, and we were genuinely sorry when he a bewildered undergraduate who had poked his head in an had to leave us. During that summer, and also in the enquiring way into the room, and made him join in U1e following year, Boddington and I played a number of times singing. It turned out afterwards that the new member of together as partners in the College Lawn Tennis team. He the chorus had started out with the intention of attending a was as impulsive and chivalrous in games as he was in his football or cricket club committee, but had tried the wrong life generally He was proud and fond of the College in lecture-room. However, Bodclington thought he ought to which, as he often told me, he spent four or five of his be in the College chorus, and in that chorus he remained. happiest years. His devotion to the College music I person­ Such are the powers of Orpheus or a V C. Bodclington. ally can never forget. He did not pretend to intellectual Always smiling, good-tempered and optimistic, Boclclington powers. He had a simple, clean, boyish mind, with boyish had a wonderful way of managing people. When his interest enthusiasms ; when these ran in useful channels (those which was aroused, he would throw himself with unbounded energy served his friends and College) they were directed with a into any project-an energy which sometimes exhausted his vigour and tenacity of purpose the impetus of which is still bodily strength. If he felt that he was helping his friends, to be felt by those who saw them rise and flow. prudence not infrequently was thrown to the winds. When CYRIL B. RooTHAM. I lived in College, he was often in my rooms. In 1908, when I was revising the College Anthem Book, he came in one day LAWRENCE DRURY CHIDSON. and asked if he could he I p with the index. I answered that about ten hours' work remained to be clone, and gratefully Captain Chidson, of the Ki ng's Royal Rifles, who was accepted his offer of help. We both went to work that killed in action in France on the 23rd April, was the eldest evening after Hall. At midnight I decided that we had both son of Mr Charles Richard Chidson, now of Streatham. He clone enough. He pleaded that in a few more minutes he was born 5 November 1894 ;tt Chidson's Ranch, near Tigard­ would have finished his part of the work. I left him and ville, Portland, Oregon, in the United States. He commenced went to bed, after giving peremptory orders that in a few his education at Streatham Grammar School, and in 1905 minutes' time he was to turn out the lamp, sport my oak and won a choristership at Westminster Abbey, being a member go to his own rooms. I quickly fell asleep in my bedroom of the choir until 1910. He then entered Dulwich College, and slept soundly till about 7 a.m., when I awoke and heard where he was in the Classical Sixth, a prefect, in the 1st XI. voices in my further keeping-room. One of the voices was at Cricket, and a Lance-Corporal in the O.T.C. In December Boddington's. He had been discovered by my gyp, to the 191 3 Chidson was elected to an En trance Scholarship for latter's astonishment, worl(ing away at the Anthem Book Classics at St John's, was admitted to the College, and in the index. He had worked all through the night and had ordinary course would have commenced residence in October finished the whole work. He admitted the pangs of hunger 1914. On the 5th of August in that year, the second day of 310 Roll of Ho11our Roll of Ho110111' 311 the war, he joined the 5th East Surrey (Territorial) Regiment he was appointed Sixth Master at Abingdon School. and in the September following obtained a commission as Form In the Autumn of that year he enlisted in the 21st Battalion, 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was At promoted Lieutenant 1 January 1915, and at the time of his Royal Fusiliers (University and Public Schools Brigade). that time he h<�d no wish to take a commission, serving with death held the rank of Captain. In 1915 he was commended the battalion and going to the front in 1915. After a winter for galLmtry by the Divisional General, and on 14 November 1916, at the Battle of the Ancre, won the Military Cross. spent in the trenches the brigade was disbanded and many of its members drafted into other regiments. Edwardes was The official award, in the Lottdott Gautte of 3 March 1917 was as follows : " He assumed command of, and led, his one of those selected for a commission, and in the Spring company forward with great gallantry Later, he rendered of 1916 joined an Officers Cadet Battalion quartered in most valuable assistance in consolidating the position." Em111anuel College. Early in July 1916 he was gazetted On April 23 his battalion was held up at a German strong­ to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in the Special . po111 t and he was busily engaged in organising bombing Reserve of Officers. He returned to France in September . parhes. He suddenly left the trench with the object, it is 1916 and spent a second winter in the firing-line. He was supposed, of warning another company of what was going killed in action on the night of 6 February 1917 on, when he was struck by a machine-gun bullet and instantly killed. KENNETH JOHN RATTRAY GARUINER. It is worth putting on record that the verses, '' Dimples : Captain Kenneth John Rattray Gardiner, of the Royal A Recruit Officer", reprinted in The Eagle (vol. xxxvi, p. 2.15) Engineers and the King's African Rifles, died on a hospital from Cou11t1 Ltje, were written by a brother officer with y ship of dysentery on 1 February 1917 and was buried at reference to Captain Chidson. sea. He was the elder son of Mr and Mrs William Rattray Gardiner, now of Mount Eclgccombe, Redhill. Captain HENRY FREDERICK EDGECUMBE EDWAHDES1 B.A. Gardiner was a man of cheery and optimistic disposition and, in the course of a comparatively brief life, had an Second Lieutenant Edwardes, of the Duke of Cornwall's interesting and varied experience in many lands and early Light Infantry, was the younger son of Mr Edgecumbe gave promise of a successful career He was born at Ferguson Edwardes, of Springfield, Crediton, Devon. He Alperton, Middlesex, 19 July 1889. At the age of two and was born 21 December 1878 at Sandgate, Kent, and educated a half years he went to Russia with his parents ; he was at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Crediton, where he educated there-first privately, and later at the School of the was head boy He entered St John's in 1897 and was an Reformed Churches in Petrograd. In 1903 he entered East­ Exhibitioner of the College, taking his degree in the Classical bourne College and subsequently passed through the Crystal Tripos of 1900. He afterwards devoted much time to the Palace School of Engineering. Otl leaving there he received study of French and German, holding diplomas from the an appointment as interpreter-assistant to the firm of Messrs Universities of Caen and Marburg. He also held the and Lancaster, who were drawing up a scheme for Teachers' Diploma in French and German of the University Hughes drainage of Petrograd. He remained at Petrograd about of Leeds. He was successively a Master at Carlisle Grammar the months, and on his return from H.ussia he actt:d for School, 1901; Coatham School 1905; Shrewsbury (tem­ seven time as assistant to the Surveyor to the Urban District porary), 1906; the High School, Kimberley, South Africa, some Council of Seaford, Sussex, where important drainage schemes · y 1907; Wakefield Grammar SchoolI 1909 I and Universit in progress. In October 1909 he entered St John's and College School, Hampstead, 1913. In the Spring of 1914 were took a course of Engineering at the Engineering Laboratory, 312 Roll of Honour Roll of Hon ot41' 313 and then returned to Seaford for a short period. Captain above the ordinary run of men, his faculty and facility for Gardiner next received an appointment with the important managing men was evidenced by the invariable loyalty of firm of Norton Griffitbs & Co., who had contraded for tbe the men and natives who served under him both in the work of constr11cling a water supply to the City of Balm, in Caucasus and East Africa ; while his bright and sunny Southern Russia. This occ11pit:d him for about a year, when disposition enabled him always to look on the bright side of he came home on furlough. He returned to Balm in the life. capacity of an inspector, and remained there a short time. He then visited Australia, and returned by way of South JoHN RoBRRTSHAW HILL, B.A. Africa, where he was engaged for some time in the office of Second Lieutenant J R. Hill, of the Royal Engineers, the Town Surveyor of Bloemfontein. On the termination o( who was killed in action on 6 May 1917, was the eldest and that engagement he retumed home, and shortly after he only surviving son of Mr Thomas Rawson Hill, of Westfield, received an appointment in the Public Works Department Birr Road, Bradford, and grandson of the late Alderman in Nairobi, the capital of British East Africa. While in John Hill, Mayor of Bradford. He was born at Manningham Government employment in the Protectorate he carried out 18 September 1883, and was educated at Bradford Grammar quite a lot of pioneering work, visiting districts on surveying School, entering St John's in 1902 with an Exhibition, after­ expeditions, with only ualive labour to assist him, which had wards becoming a Foundation Scholar of the College. He not been traversed by white men for very many years. took his degree through the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I. Captain Gardiner had been in service in East Africa about a in 1904 and Part 11. in 1906, his special subject being year, during which time war had broken out, when his Chemistry. He remained in residence for a time, pursuing repeated requests to be allowed to return home to join the research in collaboration with Mr Humphrey Owen Jones Army received official sanction. On returning home he (the famous chemist who, with his bride, lost his life when received a commission in the Royal Engineers as Second climbing a spur of Mont Blanc). The results of their Lieutenant. Previously he had qualified as an efficient combined research were two papers, entitled : "The effect Volunteer in the 1st Cadet Battalion Cinque Ports R.V., in of constitution on the rotatory power of optically active the London Scottish, and in the United League of Fr011tiers­ Ammonium compounds, Part I!., 1907 ", and "The replace­ men, East African Protectorate Volunteer Reserve. He went ment of Alkyl Radicles by Methyl in substituted Ammonium to France in October 1915, and served with his unit until compounds, 1908" He then proceeded to the Imperial February 1916, when he was invalicled home. Having been Institute, where, in conjunction with Dr Dunstan, Principal recommended for service in a wanner climate he was sent of the Institute, he worked on certain aspects of excitation out to take part in the East African Campaign in July 1916, and passivity of metals. This research resulted in the being attached as Lieutenant to the King's African Rifles. publication in the Trat1sactio11s of the Chemical Society of two Dr Dunstan. About this time He served as Adjutant both in France and East Africa. papers in collaboration with Captain Gardiner was possessed of a charming personality Mr H. 0. Jones wrote of him : "I have had ample oppor­ and made friends wherever he went. One of his gifts was a tunity of seeing Mr Hill's work, and have formed a high wonderful facility for making himst:lf familiar with foreign opinion of his ability. He is a particularly neat and careful languages, of which he had a working knowledge of seven or practical worker, and should be able to deal successfully eight. He made it his business to learn the language of with such problems as he is likely to come across in the every land he visited. He was a keen sportsman, interested course of analytical and other investigations". While Dr in football, swimming and shooting, and held many trophies Sell, the University Demonstrator, wrote of his "thorough to testify to his skill and prowess. Possessed of talents knowledge of chemistry ", adding, " He is a man of great 314 Roll of Ho11our Roll of H otzour 315 also ability, and combines, with an extensive acquaintance of relinquished it in order to enlistI wrote as follows : 11 y • • theoretical and general chemistry, a considerable experience ou1 loss IS very great, but I know very well that your in the various branches of practical work" Alter about dear son is a great loss to the Army as well as to the three years' work

Shrewsbury (Mr Deecles), and at Christ's Hospital, which he privates of the Durham Light Infantry, continued to throw entered by competition, taking the first place on the list. In bombs and hold the sap. They held it for about an hour, due course he became a Grecian and an Exhibitioner of the when reinforcements appeared. Only for them an important School, entering St John's in October 1913, having been post would have falleu into the hands of the Boche, and I elected in the previous June to an Exhibition for Classics. sincerely tmst that their action will meet with the recognition He also held an Exhibition from the Grocers' Company. it deserves. The other officers of the Company join During his year of residence he was a member of the O.T.C. with me in wishing B!!rnard a speedy recovery You have On the outbreak of war Wickham at once joined the Army, every reason to be proud of him. His action is at present being gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion of the the common talk, not only of our own Company and South Staffordshire Regiment 19 September 1914. In August Battalion, but of a Battalion of Australians and a Battalion 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross, the official notice of the Durham Light Infantry, both of whom were near the: of the award being as follows : scene of the exploit about the time that it occurred." 11 For conspicuous gallantry in the face of the enemy His Commanding Officer wrote : "So far as I can gather, On the morning of the 28th July 191�, in the vicinity of he found himself in a very tight place. He had clone his Contalmaison, 2nd Lieut. Wickham, with a platoon which own particular job, an attack was unexpected, and nobody had been at work all night wiring in No Man's Land, was in could have blamed him if he had taken his men out. But a forward trench, when the enemy made a bombing attack. he stood by, and, like a gallant soldier, refused to take any The garrison and the greater part of the working party were orders to relieve until he knew where they came from. With obliged to fall back for want of bombs. 2nd Lieut. Wickham, a few men-some of them unknown to him-he held his with two men of the Durham Light Infantry, stood his ground, got a hold of a few bombs, and kept the Boche at ground, searched the trench for bombs, and held it for more bay until reinforcements arrived. He stuck to his post after than an hour until reinforcements arrived. Though wounded he was wounded and kept his men together-any men there, early in the action he continued in charge of a joint party of his own and others-until the attack was beaten off. It was South Staffords and Durham L.I. until the attack was beaten a plucky deed, but I was not surprised at it knowing the off, and a Sergeant could be found to march his platoon out boy. A C.O. has sometimes to send officers and men on on relief " dangerous errands-that is his hardest task-but as long as The exploit is a little more fully described in a letter he can count on boys like young Wickham he is happy written by his Company Commander '' The circumstances They are brave because they think of themselves last and were roughly as follows : On the night of the 27th we were they make their men brave. May I sincerely congratulate ordered to do some work in part of the front line. Part of you on having a son like that ?" this work consisted of wiring around a certain bombing It is interesting to compare these letters with the follow­ point. I detailed Bernard to take his platoon to do this ing account which Lieutenant Wickham gave of his feat ; wiring ; he did this, and, when he had finished the wiring, this is as follows : carried bombs, ammunition, etc., up to the point. About "On Thursday night we paraded at 6 p.m., and with my 9 a.m. on the 28th the Hun made a bombing attack on the platoon I carried up pickets and barbed wire to a certain sap post, which I forgot to mention was at the end of a sap. East of Pozieres. We arrived there about 10.30 p. m. , and Bernard was at the post at the time and was wounded started work about 11.30, putting out an obstacle. This shortly after the attack started. About the same time as he work took till about 2.0 or 3. 0 a.m., and I had one man was wounded the order came to withdraw from the sap. wounded by machine-gun fire. We could see the Boches However, instead of withdrawing, your son, along with two when they sent up the flares, and I have no doubt they could 320 Roll of H onottr. Roll of Honour 321 see us. The sap we were working in was only held by one as they make six times as much smoke as ours. I was platoon, and during the night the bombers occupied 70 carried down from the front line by the Anzac stretcher yards more of the sap without the Germans finding out. So bearers. They took me to the Dressing Station. Then I I was asked to stay up there and help to hold it with my went on down the road on a wheeled stretcher to Contal­ men. The men had had no food since tea at 4.30 the day maison Chateau. The Germans started shelling it, and before, and had worked hard all night, carrying, wiring, wounded a stretcher bearer Contalmaison Chateau looked watching, so about 8 a.m. I let them eat half their emergency much more knocked about than it did when I went up there rations. I got a round of bread and jam from an officer up on the night of the 12th to fetch out wounded. From here there, and I had eaten half a biscuit when the Germans we went to Albert in a motor ambulance, I being asleep. made a hurricane bomb attack and retook the 70 yards of Here I was washed, labelled, and given some tea." sap before we could look round. The Durhams held an old After this Wickham was at home for some time and then sap-head, and we passed up bombs and machine-gun ammu­ rejoined. Early in 1917 he was in hospital at Boulogne for nition. There were two officers up in front, and these were some weeks. In one of his latest letters home he wrote : both brought back wounded, so I went up there to take "I am well content to be with ' C' company I am a citizen charge. We bombed them right out of reach and then of no mean city " stopped. We opened up again in case they were coming He was again in charge of a wiring party in front of the bade, but they had come back, and opened up at the same German trenches in the night of April 13-14, when he was moment. One of the first bombs knocked out the man next shot through the head and died almost immediately He to me, and wounded me in the right calf and right elbow. was wearing a steel helmet and the shot must have been a But I could still walk and bomb, and we bombed away as direct shot from a German sniper. He was buried in a little hard as we could, and so did the Boche, and the men were military cemetery at Zillebeke, near Ypres, wrapped in a getting fewer and more done up, so I passed back for the Union Jack, his platoon acting as pall bearers. Anzacs and two more Lewis guns, and, after what seemed Mr Wickham has received many letters of sympathy on the ages, they came up. We got the German bombers under, death of his son. His Company Commander writes : " He and were organizing two raiding parties to go forward, when was a splendid soldier, and one of the very best of officers. I have known him since two Australian officers came up and took charge of their he joined the battalion in September men. They decided to stand fast and let the Stokes guns 1914, and have always had a great admiration for him . bombard the Boche sap. The Boche bombarded us too, " but without doing any damage. About 12 o'clock two A former Commanding Officer (retired) writes : "You platoons of Durhams came up to reinforce, and I was carried know how highly I valued him. There are some boys­ to a Dressing Station and my men went home. From and he was preeminently one of them-who want to make one know their parents and the homes they come from, the time I started from my bivouac with my men I had no because their every word and thought is a tribute to their food except a round of bread and jam and a piece of biscuit upbringing. Character far outweighs mere cleverness or up to the time when I reached the Advanced Clearing ability. It is in fact the one thing which counts in life. . Station at Albert about 5 p.m., when I was given some tea Even in this life your boy's work is not ended, and bread and butter. I don't think much of the and will not be ended with this generation. He and German bombs. We were outranging them all the time those like him did to more than give their lives for their country ; they helped to with our Mills' Hand Grenades, and they were bound build, stone by stone, the new and give back. Their bombs are not so destructive as ours better England. . . No man who has ever been under your either, though they should produce greater effect on moral, boy will be able1 if Y2 322 Roll of Honour he wished to, to escape completely from his influence. He will have set his stamp upon him, and some part of it at least will remain, the impress of character My heart is still with the officers and men who gave me of their best, putting ®bttuar� duty first and self last. . War strips the trappings from REV. JoSEPH BICKERSTETH M YOR. men and shows only their souls ; one learns to appreciate A them better Among the very best was young Wickham." Joseph Bickersteth Mayor was the son of the Rev. Robert Mayor, one of the first missionaries sent by the Church Missionary Society to Ceylon, and of Charlotte Bickersteth, sister HARRY BEN WILLIAMS. of Henry Bickersteth, Lord Langdale, and of Edward Bickersteth of Watton, a leader of the Evangelical Movement. Second Lieutenant H. B. Williams, of The King's (Liver­ Joseph Mayor was born on October 24th, 1828, at the pool) Regiment, was killed in action 3 May 1917. He was Cape of Good Hope, as his father was returning home from the youngest son of Mr H. B. Williams, of Westmount, Ceylon. In 1841 he was sent to Rugby School, where he Biclstone, Cheshire ; born 8 April 1894, at Oxton, Birken­ was for a term under Dr Arnold, of whom he always retained head he was educated at Birkenhead School, where he won a vivid recollection. He kept a strong interest in the school man; honours and joined the College in 1913 with an throughout his life, and was for many years one of its after war was Entrance Scholarship for Classics. Soon Governors. declared he proceeded to France, where he remained for In 1847 he went up with a scholarship to St John's in association with a unit of workers connected some months College. His two elder brothers, Robert and John, had ds' War Victims Relief Expedition. He returned with the Frien preceded him there. All three brothers in turn became April 1915, and enlisted in the Army. He was to England in Fellows of the College. He took his degree in 1851, being the Inns of Court O.T.C. and spent many connected with placed second in the First Class of the Classical Tripos. of recruits. months at Berkhamsted assisting in the training The Senior Classic in that year was J B. Lightfoot, after­ gazetted to a On being pronounced medically fit he was wards Bishop of Durham, who was a close friend of his, proceeded to the commission in the Liverpool Regiment and both at Cambridge and later Amongst others of a large the first important front on the 9th January last. He was in circle of friends formed at the University may be mentioned Arras on April engagement in connection with the battle of Professor Liveing, Dr Edwin Abbott, Sir John Seeley, Dr 9thI and for his valour on that occasion was awarded the . Hort, H. J. Roby, and Augustus Jessopp. Military 111 Cross. He fell on May 3 while leading his men In 1852 he obtained a Fellowship and was appointed Officer an attack on the German positions. His Commanding College Lecturer in Moral Science. He was ordained sympathy with you in wrote : ''I feel unable to express my Deacon in 1859 and Priest in 1860. He had some thoughts your the great loss which you have sustained in the death of at this time of taking up parochial work, but eventually He son. He shewed keen ability in his work as an officer. decided to remain at Cambridge and give himself to teaching cool head had no fear I but I what is more valuable, he had a and study. In 1860 he was appointed a Tutor of the College. and great control of men in action". In 1863 he married Miss A. J Grote, niece of John Grote, the Professor of Moral Philosophy, and of George Grote, the historian of Greece. His marriage made it necessary for him to give up his College post, and he was appointed Head Master of Kensington Proprietary School, where he remained Roll of Ho11ottr. 43

and conducted the case successfully, besides being fi11 . s t brief many other law cases." The Colonel of �ooncl counsel in · 11 . • . YeOlna' nry writes I hope you wtll allow me to say how 'IR oIl of 'RJo no lll'. IllS . and all my regiment are for you 111 your sad loss, and sorr Y I . same time I and all who were Ius brother officers feel MONTMORENCY BEAUMONT BEAUMONT-CHECKLAND, B.A. at the 1 ucl of him and his glorious example and bravery. He so 1 ro . Lieutenant Beaumont-Checkland of of the regiment to all£ in action. the Somerset Yeo­ is I believe the first officer manry attached to the was a great Somerset Light Infantry, who was Your son "vas always popular with all ranks. He killed in action on Augus t 17th, was the younger son of Mr athlete, and was always ready lo join in any fun that was and Mrs Be a aumont-Checkland of 44 South Eaton Place and going on, and was a capital officer at his job. He got P01·lock, Somerset. He was born at Hove 16 November 1883 first class in musketry, and would probably have done equally a�1d was educated at Newton College, South Devon, and Up­ well in any future courses if he had not gone overseas. He ptngham, entering Stjohn's in October 1902, He passed Part I was recommended for promotion before he went out, but of the Law Tripos and took his degree through the Special owing to various delays he was not gazettecl Lieutenant till Exami nation in Law. He was called to the Bar at the Inner the beginning of August this year." The Colonel of the Temple 18 November 1912 and joined the Midland Circuit. Somerset Light Infantry writes : " Your son was killed on He was an ath lete, winning the quarter-mile at the age of August 17th , gallantly leading his platoon to reinforce the eight at his first school and at the St John's Sports in 1904, assaulting line in the attack on an enemy trench under heavy while at College he also played hockey and cricket in 1904-5. machine-gun and rifle fire. He was shot through the heart Later he won the 300 yards officers' race in the and killed instantaneously. He took part in the capture of regimen tal sports. A good all-round sportsman, he played the village of Langemarcke on the 16th, and all through the golf and hunted regularly, especially with the Devon and fighting shewed the greatest gallantry and coolness and was Somerset staghounds. He was a member of the Junior a splendid example to his men. I saw him leading his platoon Carlton Club. On the outbreak of war he applied for a into action on the 17th at 6.30 p.m . about an hour before he comm ission in the West Somerset Yeomanry, and as there was killed. He was a great favourite with all ranks, and his was no vacancy served in the ranks temporarily. He obtained loss is deeply mourned by us all." A brother officer writes his commission as Second Lieutenant in the second regiment of him : "I was near him all through the attack, and saw for 7 October 1914. Having served for two years and his regi­ myself what a fine example he set to everybody, especially ment being in England, he volunteered for service abroad when he was left in command of the company. He was a and was sent out with a draft in September 1916, being jolly good chap, and I am sure he would have been recom­ attached to the Somerset Light Infantry. A great-grandson mended if he had lived, as he did awfully good work in of Guill aume, Vicomte de Beaumont-et-Maine, he fought not keeping the company together. He was killed when leading only for Engl and but for the land of his ancestors. With his men over, and had come through the first clayuntouc hed. regard to his career at the Bar the barrister under whom he We shall all miss him very much , and all wish to offer our worked writes : "I t was a great shock to us all in chambers sympathy to you in your loss." The Chaplain's letter says : to hear �f his death. We shall all miss him very much, as ''We all loved him. He was absolutely without fear, and he was hked by everyone. I had personally become much was moving about regardless of shells. I heard the Adjutant attached to him, and hoped to have had him with me for remark, 'Is not Checklancl great under fire?' His company many years. It is sad to think that a career which had so had a very difficult job in the attack on Langemarcke, but mu promise ch in it sh ould end thus. He had obtained his they did it. I was speaking to him on the afternoon of the 44 Roll of Ho11ozw. Roll of Honout". 45

day he was hit, and he lent me a couple of men to get some . At Cambridge he took a first class in Part I of the Mathe­ wounded men out of the shell holes. At night there was matical Tripos in 1912 and was a Senior Optime in Part II another attack, and it was while going across the open that of that Tripos in 1914. He was intending to compete for your gallant son was hit and instantaneously killed. He is the Civil Service, but prom plly offered himself for a com­ laid to rest near the village of Langemarcke, a place which lllission and was gazettecl Second Lieutenant in the 7t h Batt. will ever be famous in the history of his batta lion. As the The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 16 October 1914, and, with Bishop says of him, 1 He died as a brave man should.' " A short intervals of leave, was continuously at the Front till he met with his cleath. In August 1916 he won the Military memorial service was held on September 7th at St Peter's, . Eaton Square, attended by his family and friends, and an Cross for an exploit which deserves record. His battalion offi cer representing the West Somerset Yeomanry. The was then in the Somme fighting. One of its Companies had regimental trumpeters were also sent. His elder brother advanced too far-they had in fact occupied an isolated Lieut-Colonel Beaumont Beaumont-Checklancl, has served at trench-and were almost given up for lost. Brock, at great the front for nearly three years, and has received the Military peril, went in search and discovered the lost Company, Cross. weakened and demoralized by casualties. He took com­ mand, restored the men's courage, and, when he had held ERIC GEORGE BROCK, M.C. the trench for four clays, it was joined up by the other trenches Lieutenant Eric George Broclc, of the 7th Battalion, The on both flanks, and the remnant of the Company got back King's (Liverpool Regiment) was killed in action in Flanders in safety. 31 July 1917 while leading his Company in an attack from His natural reserve and unfailing modesty prevented his the trenches. His death cut short a career of exceptional powers of intellect and charm of character from being known promise. He was the eldest child of the Rev. Gcorge Albert for their full worth to any wide circle. Had he lived there Broclc, Congregational Minister of Waterloo, Liverpool, where can be no doubt they would have won a large recognition. he was born 19 March 1893. His first school was 'Wynd­ Coolness of temper, affeclionateness of disposition, tenacity hurst,' Wellington Street , Waterloo, and he very early shewed of COIJviction and purpose-these were perhaps his leading signs of unusual intelligence. When nine years old he qualities. His religion was deep and genuine, quiet and un­ won a scholarship at the Merchant Ta ylors School, Crosby, obtrusive as was everything else about him. He was loyal and there he remained until 1911. Of his school clays the to the Church of his upbringing and willing always to give Headmaster, Mr A. Cradock-Watson, writes : "When he left practical service to the supreme cause he believed in. By he went up to Cambridge with a mathematical scholarship those who knew him intimately his friendship was prized as to St John's College, a La ncashire County Scholarship, the a rich resource. His comrades in the Army acknowledge the 'Great Crosby ' Scholarship and the Exhibition awarded by loss of a good soldier of stainless fidelity and high courage ; the the Oxford Local Examination's Delegates to the boy who men of his Company had the greatest confidence in him and took the first place in England in the Senior Examination. declared they wuulcl have followed him anywhere. In �lis h This year will long be remembered in the school as 'Broclc's ome he gave and received, as son and brother, a love 11 1esti Year.' Mathematics were of course his forte, but he was mable. no mean scholar beside. He achieved distinction in most ERIC METCALFE BROWN. school subjects, and almost swept the board of Foundation Lieu prizes in his last year. No athlete or lover of games, he tenant Eric Metcalfe Brown, of the Tank Corps, known played a prominent part in school life by his activity in the to his intimates at school and College as 'Worm ' or 'E.M.,' w School Debating and Musical Societies." as killed 30 September 1917 while guiding a Tank 46 Roll of Ho11our. Roll of Honour. 47

which he did get in the First Part of into action. Born 22 February 1892 at Barkly West, South. the 'First ' the Law Africa, he was the second son of Mr William Thomas Til­ Tripos in 1914. brook Brown, formerly of Vryburg, and now of Somerset Many of his vacations he spent roaming about with a tramp steamer, now as East, South Africa. His school was Kingswoocl College, friend, now as working hand on a Grahamstown, where he carried off many honours-sporting, cyclist in France, and again as a wanderer in the plains or in academic and administrative. One of the writer's first re­ the towns of Italy. It was in Italy that the war found him, called, collection of him is of a tall thin boy with a handsome, but no Latin charm could keep him when his country thoughtful face, staggering under a pile of well-bound books and he hurried across Europe as best he could in those first which were his material spoil for the year in the academic burly-burly clays of the war, reaching England by way of contests of the sixth form. Very litlle Daniel went the way France. He enlisted at once in the London Rifle Brigade, of the lions of the mighty sixth that year. The whole school went to the Front in November 1914, was wounded in April loved him for he was just, marvelled at him because he read 1Y15; got a commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment, was a book a day, and trembled at his greatness as he passed, for transferred to the Tanks and went out with them in Septemlier he was known to be an intimate friend of the Headmaster. 1916. He saw much service with the Tanks until invalided He passed from Kingswood to Rhodes University College in March i917. Once more his indomitable spirit triumphed with a first in Matriculation. The photographs in the halls again, and he faced the foe for the third and last time. He of his alma mater testify to his presence in most of the was killed as he had lived in the most self-sacrificing place, sporting teams and the College always knew that he could leading his Tank into action. be depended on in the titanic struggles at Rugby Football in For his friends and his Colleges his glory remains, al­ which the First XV engaged periodically. though his personality now seeks expression in the next But now the omnivorous reader of school days became phase. We, his friends, like to think of him not so much as the sublle and quick thinker of College life, and he brought sportsman and brilliant student, but rather as the indolent­ his studies to a triumphal conclusion by gaining honours in looking, untidily dressed man with a charming expression Mental and Moral Science in the B.A. examinations. In the who was always pleased to see us, who could be relied on forum too his voice was often heard and, as by his arguments for the appropriate phrase on any question, and, above all, he "proved things conclusively although we didn't believe who exemplified in his ways and deeds all that we admire him," we thought we could foresee the successes of the most in the men of our public schools and universities. future when he addressed judge and jury. When he went CYRIL N EWTON THOMPSON. up to St John's in the aut umn of 1912 it was no surprise to hear that he had determined on the Bar as his profession. CRCIL WE LLS CASTLE. At St John's he was less in the public eye than at Kingswood Lieutenant Cecil Wells Castle, of the South Staffordshire or Rhodes, for he felt, and probably rightly, that it is the Regiment, who was instantaneously killed in action on 3 August social life of Cambridge, the mingling with varied spirits, the 1917, was a of Mr Roland Constantine Castle, Deputy talks with men from all countries, and of all points of view son Inspector General of the Indian Police. He was born 5 June which is the most valuable part of the training there. He 1894 at Calcutta, and was educated at Bradfield College and was in the College XV and secured an oar when the Rugger Collington House School, Bexhill (Rev. A. H. Oak-Rhind). Boat made four bumps in the Lents of 1913. His friends He was admitted to the College in October 1914, but in May knew that they could always get tea in his rooms in Chapel 1915 he entered Sandhurst whence he obtained his com- Court. He never seemed to be working when you arrived . I I11Ission in the South Staffordshire Regiment. there, and there were few indeed who expected him to get Roll of H onottr. 48 Roll of Honour. 49

is a great loss to us ....Your son has helped to GoRDON SALLNow CosGRAVE. or play, he present superiority over the German air service, maintain our Second Lieutenant G. S. Cosgrave, of the Royal Flying tial to winning this war, and that is a valuable which is essen Corps, was killed, while flying on duty, at Hounslow on country." service to our 4 November 1917. He was a son of .Mr William Owen Cosgrove, of 70 Colney Hatch Lane, London, N., Surveyor HEHBERT LLEWELYN GWYNNE, B.A. to the Brewers' Company. He was born 10 Se ptember 1898 ire and educated at the Merchant Taylors School, London. He Se cond Lieutenant H. Ll. Gwynne, of the N orth Staffordsh killed" was awarded an Entrance Scholarship for Hebrew at St Regiment, was officiallyrep orted as" missing, believed

John's in December 1916, but join ed the Flying Corps 011 18 Nove mber 1916. As nothing has since been heard of short! y afterwards. him it would appear that the worst must be feared. He was the younger son of the late Mr Clement Thomas Gwynne, solicitor of Leek, Staffordshire, member of the firm of Messrs 0LIVER BERNARD ELLIS. Cilallinors & Shaw. Born at Leek 2 May 1892 and educated the High• School, Newcastle, Staffordshire, he entered St Flight Sub-Lieutenant 0. B. Ellis, RN., was reported as at John's i11 1911. Taking up the study of History he was "missing" on 20 May 1917, but subsequent information leaves elected a Scholar of the College, obtaining a Second Class no doubt that he was killed in an encounter with a superior in Part I of the History Tripos in 1913 and a First Class in force of German aeroplanes over the German lines. He Part II in 1914. He was then articlecl to Mr Arthur Shaw, was the second son of Mr Bernarcl Ellis, of Avenue Road head of the firm with which his father had been connected. Leicester, and was born at Leicester 20 June 1898. He was In 1916 he was elected to a McMahon Law Studentship at ed�cated at Wyggeston School, Leicester ; Sidcot School, St John's, of £150 for four years. He was also on the supple­ Wmscombe, Somerset; and Bootham School, York. He was mentary list of the staff of the Cambridge Extension Lectures, admitted to the College in May 1916, but before coming into bei ng a popular and effective speaker and lecturer. residence he joined the Royal Naval Air Service in June He obtained a commission in the Army in July 1915 after 1916 and was se nt on active service in March 1917. having been four times rejected on account of defective eye­ His Squadron Commander writes as follows to Mr Ellis sight. He was for some time in training at Pembroke College senior: "I would have written to you sooner, but hoped to and then joined the 11th North Staffordshire Regiment at have some definite news which I could give to you about Hummersknot Camp, Darlington, later moving to Rugeley !our son. We have, however, heard nothing, and, although . Camp, Cannock Chase, in October 1915. He we nt to France 1t 1s a hard thing to have to tell you, I fear there is not much 1 0 July 1916 aud in the August following was made machine­ hope of his safety. He was last seen during the progress of gun of-ficer to his Battalion. On 18 November 1916 as he a big �ght high up over the enemy's lines. Just after gallantly Was leading his men into action in the attack on Grandcourt attaclnng and destroying one enemy machine ' which broke . he was wounded and collapsed in a shell hole ; a brother up 111 the air, he was himself attacked by another, and his . officer who was with him was unable to see how badly he machrne was seen going down as if the pilot were wounded. was injured as he had to push on with the Company. Lieut. From the manner in which his machine went clown his Gwynne was never found, although the ground where he fe ll companions fear there was no hope of his landing safely. Was searched and afterwards taken. Eight other officers of Although your son was not with me more than a few weeks the Battalion were reported as 'missing' with him, and of I had formed a high opinion of him as an officer and � none of these have any tidings been received. fighting pilot, a cheery messmate, always ready for any work VOL. XXXIX. E so Roll of Honour. Roll of Honour. 51

Brother officers all describe Lieutenant Gwynne as a Company which was hard pressed. He passed 11 ther � '1 splendid officer who took a keen interest in his gunners, 1� gh what was described as a hell of shell fire" un- 1 ou . never thinking of his own comfort and absolutely fearless in cl but afterwards was struck clown, fal1111g at the head tl e . . sea J ' . Gwynne was Mr Lane's father was a comtlll swned officer 1n face of the enemy. Although while at College of his men. � debarred from taking a prominent part in games by extreme Navy and SOllletllne Clnef Supenntendent f the the Inclian � m short sight, he was a keen athlete, and was a good cricketer an Government Telegraph Departmcnt ; he served the I ndi . . ttny. and hockey player. He was quiet and modest, but his force Petsian War in 1856 and in the lndtan Mu of character, as well as his fineabil ity gave him influehce in the College, where his unaffected simplicity made him popular. He was not only a clear thinker but a good speaker, and HEV. HERBERT NETTLETON LEAKRY, B.A. would doubtless have made a reputation as a lecturer for the The Rev. H. N. Leakey, Chaplain lo the Forces, who Extension Syndicate, in whose work he was keenly interested. died of sunstroke 23 July 1917 al Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa, was the elder son of Dr Charles Montague Leakey, of Albaston1 Gunnislake. He was born 20 February H ENRY CLAHENCE HORSBUHGH LANE, M.A. 1890 at Blaby Rectory, Leicester, the residence of his grand­ father, the Rev. Peter N ettleton Leakey ; he was educated Second Lieutenant H. C. H. Lane, of the Border Regiment, at Stamforcl School, and entered St John's as Marquis of was ki lled in action 10 July 1917. He was the youngest son Exeter's Exhibitioner, holding also a leaving Scholarship and of Mr and Mrs John Macdonald Lane, of Devonia, Kew the Marshall Exhibition from his School. He took his Road, Richmond, Surrey. He was born at Peuge 16 De­ degree through the Classical Tripos in 1912. He then went cember 1886 and was educated at Dean Close School, Chel­ to the Ripon Clergy College, and was ordained Deacon in tenham. He entered St John's as a Choral Student in October 1913 and priest in 1914 by the Bishop of Exeter. He was 1906 and read for the Classical Tri pos, in which he was Curate of St Paul's, Devonport, 1913-14, and of Charles, placed in the Second Class in Ju ne 1909. During his residence Plymouth, 1914-17. Early in 1917 he volunteered as an as an undergraduate Lieut. Lane was prominent in College Army Chaplain, was accepted, and sent to Dar-es-Salaam, in at hletics. He played in the Freshmen's Association match, East Africa. Shortly after his arrival he was struck clown by and in 1908 won his College colours both for football and sunstroke, and, after lingering three weeks, died 23 July. cricket. After taking his degree he was an Assistant Master, While at Charles he did excellent work with the Boys' first at Pocldington and later at the King's School, Pontefract. Brigade, at the Prison and the Salisbury Road Hospital. He was then appointed to a high post in the Government With the boys he was at his best ; the following, written to Education Department in the Federated Malay States, passing them, was his last message, it reached Plymouth on the day in the vernacular eight months after his arrival in the country. of his death : At the close of over four years' service leave was clue to him, ' but he refuse d to take it and obtained permission to join the ' My clear Boys, ' Army, leaving for England in July 1916. He trained wi th ' I have such a lot to say that I hardly know where to be an Officers' Cadet Battalion at Newmarket, and while in gi n. My last letter to you was writlen from Durban ; I training there came over to Cam bridge and saliecl from at was admitted to there over a week ago , and am now-at last- u Je his M.A. degree on 1 December 1916. He obtained his end of my long journey. " commission and went to the Front in Fe bruary 1917. He Let me tell you first about some thing rather exciting that happ met his dt!ath after gallanlly leading his Company to support ened on the way up. Our boat caught fire in the coal Roll of Honoter. 52 Roll of Honour. 53

bunkers. You must not suppose that everything blazed up. JOSEPH COLIN MIRFIN. You see the coal is shut right away down below, and the Second Lieutenant J oseph Colin Mirfin, of the York and ship is so big we could only tell that anything was happening Regiment, was a son of Mr Joseph Mirfin, of Lancaster by the sound of explosions made by the escaping coal gas. Road, Sheffield. He was born at Sheffield, !10 Cowlishaw But some of the poor stokers got terribly burnt, and the fire 1 ed ucated at the Central Secondary School there. He anc . . spread from one bunker to four. So half-way though our ]lad a brilliant school career, pass1ng the Oxford Senwr journey we had to put into a little bay. Then every soul on Local Examination in 1910 with first class honours and board was crowded either into the stern or into the bow of distinction in Mathematics and English. He also passed the the boat in order that the bunkers amidships should be Higher Certificate Examination in 1912 with distinction in flooded. the same subjects. He fi nished his school career as Senior ''Now Lieut. Andrews, or anybody who knows about ship­ Prefect and Captain both of Football and Cricket. building, will tell you that if this is done it may be all right In December 1912 be was elected to a Foundation or it may cause a big explosion. So you can imagine what Scholarship of ;680 for Mathematics, and commenced resi­ we all felt like as the thing was being clone. Still it was all dence at St John's in the October following. In his fresh­ managed very gradually and carefully, and all you could see man's year he was at the head of the mathematical list of his was a big lot of smoke coming from the sh ip's side. Later, year, and took a First Class in Part I. of the Mathematical we changed ships, and soon arrived here [Dar-es-Salaam]. Tripos of 1914. He joined the College Company of the I am writing this in camp, but so different from camp in Officers' Training Corps, and in May 1915 was gazetted to England. Tall palm trees everywhere around, and hundreds the York and Lancaster Regiment. of thousands of different kinds of insects. Ants walking He was sevet·ely wounded on 7 December 1916 ; it was about over this sheet of paper, flies buzzing round my head, feared that it migh t at once prove fatal, but under the un­ and long lizards on the walls of the tent. At night one has remitting care of the best surgical skill he rallied, and hopes to sleep under a mosquito net, for the bite of the mosquito were entertained of his recovery. Complications, however, often means fever. And tbe row they make ! Think of a set in owing to a shrapnel wound in the lung, and he died at noise like the escape valve of a railway engine. That is a Brighton Hospital 17 August 1917. He was buried in the cicada or cricket, about as long as a match, and yet he makes Ecclesall Cemetery wilh full military honours. an amazingly loud noise-then think of three or four rusty His Headmaster describes Lieut. Mirfin as one of "the pumps all being worked together-those are just ordinary straightest, the purest and truest, as well as one of the most frogs-then the mosquito who makes a noise like a big wasp able and promising boys who have ever passed through this -add all this together and you get some idea of what it school." sounds like on an ordinary evening in East Africa. His College career promised to be a fitting sequel to his "T his plact, when it was in German hands, was bombarded school record. by an English man-of-war, and you can still see great holes in the walls of houses, also there are 'd uel ' shells lying about BLAKE here and there. ROBERT 0DGERS, B.A.

'' .... Don't forget that I am often th inking and praying Captain R. B. Odgers, of the Army Service Corps, died Au abou t you, and hope when the mails come in to hear how g gu st 1917. He was the third son of Dr W. Blake d ers you are ge tting on. . . . So don't disappoint me 1" g , K.C., and Mrs Odgers, of The Garth, North Finch­ l ey. H e was born in London 26 February 1890, and was E2 54 Roll of Honour. Roll of Ho11ou,., 55 educated at Sed bergh School, entering St John's in 1908. [ Mr Francis Richard William Robinson, of Buxar, While in residence he rowed for the Lady Margaret Boat son ndia sometime Superintendent of the Rewah °ba a cl' I and was on the Committee of the College Musical Society, Shah ' India. He was born 17 December 18 9 3 at te, Central being also a performer at its concerts. He graduated i11 Sta . the 11 Retainers' Procession" on a baby Buxat, and he led 1911 and in that year entered upon his engineering cm·eeL· . H . The Maharaja of Rewah lll· t I 1e D e 11JL D uruar' - ep 1 wn t Of H . in the Birmingham Metal and Munitions Company Limited, el ' 02 -3 . Educated at Dane Court, Parkeston, Roysse s Gram- of Saltley, where he also obtai 19 ned a commission in the Terri­ . m a 1 School ' Abingdon ' and Bedford Grammar School, he torial A.S.C., · being afterwards gazetted Captain 12 Septembet· . t et e c1 St John's in 1912. He played cncket and hoc1 {ey 1914. en . for the College. He volunteered for service on the out�reak In 1913 he became assistant to the Head of the Inspection . of war, landing in France 12 August 1914. CommiSSIOned Department of his J1rm ; on the declaration of war he was from the Front to the Royal Engineers in October of that mobilised, but he could not be spared from his post, and on ye,al. ' he returned to England for further training, but went the application of his firm he was seconded and ordered back . . . to the Front agam In 191 5, and from thence to Salonika, to his work in Birmingham. He was soon appointed Assistant returning to England in 1916. He went again to the Front Works Manager, an d held that post until April 1916, when on 1 January 1917, and was recommended for the 11 Croix de he was entrusted by his firmwith the work of superintending Guerre " and promotion. the planning, equipping and installing of a large new Govern­ His Major Commanding writes : "We were all very fond ment Cartridge factory, emplaying some four thousand men. of your son, and his death has cast a great gloom oYer the He was General Superintendent of this factory until the time Company, especially in the officers' mess. He was �!ways of his death. so cheerful and happy that he helped us all very much mdeed In August 1916 at the request of the Ministry of Munitions during trying times such as we have experienced recently. he represented his firm on a Commission which visi Ru ted ssia. I honestly assure you that I consider no death could be more In 1917 he became a member of the Institute of Metals. glorious than your son's, dying whilst doing his duty. " His He broke clown from overwork and died peaceful ly in his men, in sending their sympathies to his ''home folk " throL�gh sleep on August 31, having undergone a serious operation to a brother officer, say : "There was no wind about lum, relieve pressure on the brain a few clays before. He was anyway." He was buried, practically where he fell, in the buried in the West Hampstead Cemetery 4 September 1917. first line of trenches. Few young men of 27 have won such a position in the esteem and affection of all who knew him. In addition to friends MARSHALL HALL ROB!NSON, B.A. and relatives the Ministry of Munitions was represented at Mr. M. H. Robinson, Naval Instructor, RN., died at his funeral, the Managing Director of his Cam pany and Saltash 15 June 191 7. representali ves of the workers in his great factory were also He was a son of the late l\fr John Hall Robinson, Master present. Captain Odgers married 10 June 1915 at St Augus­ Mari ner ' and was born at Suez 17 August 1878. He was tine's Church, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Olive Asquith, elder educated at Merchant Taylor's School, and entered the daughter of Mr George Brewerton, of 5 Montague Road, College in 1897, taking his degree in the Mathematical Eclgbaston. Tripos of 1900 as a wrangler.

LOUIS FRANCIS WOODWARD ROBINSON. DONALD ARTHUR G EORGE BUCHANAN RYLEY. Second Lieutenan t Louis F. W. Robinson, Royal Engi­ Sec ond Lieutenant D. A. G. B. Ryley, of the Manchester neers, who was killed in action 26 May 1917 was the eldest Regim ent! attached to the North Staffordshire Regimeut, 56 Roll of Honour. Roll of Honour. 57

was reported as "Missing of Marwood in Devon and " on 11 February 1917, and is successivelv.Rector• Marston wa1·cls . . now believed to have been killed in action on that s. ; Ius mother was a �1ster of the elate. Morteyne, Bed famous He was the elder son of the Rev. Harolcl Buchanan Havilancl Dashwood Goldie. Lieutenant Torry Ryley, oarsman John formerly Headm May 1886 at M aster of Emmanuel School, Wandsworth was born 18 m·woocl Rectory and was educated Common, now serving as a Lieutenant in the Suffolk Regi­ at Bedford Grammar School j entering the College in October ment, and grandson of the Rev. George Buchanan Ryley, l905 with an Entrance Exhibition, and took his degree in Vicar of Whyteleafe, Surrey. Lieut. Ryley was born 5 July the Mechanical Sciences Tripos in 1908. He then went to 1893 at Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, America, the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich as a Shop Student for th ree and was educated at Sir R. Mm·wood's School, Sandwich, years, and while there took a great interest in the College and St Olave's Grammar School, entering St John's it� Mission in Walworth, going up to the Mission on Sunday October 1912 as a Classical Exhibitioner. He became a fine evenings, and at other times, to help in the Mission work. oar and a prominent member of the Lady Mar garet Boat He left Woolwich in 1911 and we nt to Messrs Vickers' Club, rowing at Henley in the Fours which won the Wyfold works at Bat-row-in-Furness as an ordinary workman to get Cup in 1913 and the Visitors' Cup in 1914, in the latter year more practical experience, but after a few months was trans­

your great loss, but poor though the that they were working so late all the week and also on with you in consolation is, he is one of th ose heroes of this struggle who gave of his Saturdays that he considered they really needed the privilege · best, and finally his all, for our clear old country." of using the Tennis courts on Sundays more than did the In the summer of 1917 he applied for transfer to the officers. He pointed this out to the Club Committee and Royal Flying Corps, and came to England for a month's arrangements were made to let the munition workers have ining in September last. He left for th� Front as an the same privileges as the officers. In September 1915 Lieut. tra observer R.F.C. on October 2nd and was killed in aerial Tarry was attached to the North Midland Heavy Battery, on October 9th. With the exception of his month's one of the first territorial batteries to go the front, and joined combat and an occasional ten clays' leave he had been at the them in Flanders, where he remained until the Somme offen­ training nt without intermission sive, when with some other North Midland officers he joined Fro from September 1915 until his the 132ncl Heavy Battery on the Somme. He was slightly death. A brother of-ficer wrote as follows : "There was an ck on October wounded in October 1916, but rem ained on duly. At the atta 9th, and a number o£ planes were told off laking of Thiepval he went out with a telephone wire imme­ £or patrol work to keep the Hun from crossing our lines. Quit diately behind the Infantry, and was able to send word through e unexpectedly two Hun planes dropped out of the of their position. For this deed he was awarded the Military clouds a few hundred feet above them and attacked from 1 sides at once. Cross, the official announcement being : 1 He established and both Arthur got his machine-gun on one of them, but the othe maintained communication under very heavy fire, clisplaying r had pretty much his own way for a few seconds, and one of his bullets great courage and determination." (London Gazette, 15 Nov. got Arthur. By this time 1916). some of our other machines arrived and drove off the H uns. Arthur had been badly His feat, for which he was awarded the Military Cross, is hit, and only lived a minute or two a thus described by a brother officer in a letter to Lieutenant and was quite dead when the y landed at the aerodrome few minutes later. His Flight Commander and other officers Tarry's sister : 11 We were both detailed for forward obser­ vation work on the 26 September 1916, when the attack was all spoke of him in the very highest terms, allhough they said he had been with them made on the Zollern, Hessian and Regina trenches, resulting such a short time." in the capture of the two former. The greatest dif-ficulty was experienced in keeping the communications intact, but GUY THWAITES, D.S.O. it was clone, and some useful information thus obtained. It Major Guy Thwai tes, D.S.O., of the Egyptian Army, was was an exceedingly hot time, and your brother was the most drowned on 29 May 1917 by the ca psizing of a small Suda n fearless man I have ever had the pleasure to meet. On that Mail Steamer, the Amara, during a sudden hurricane on the day our wire was running short, and he took the wire over White Nile, about a hundred miles north o£ Fashocla. He the top of the trenches to save taking it round the traverses was the fifth son of the late Rev. Henry Graham Thwaites which would have necessitated the use of more wire, and he and of Mrs Clara Thwaites, o£ 14 Cambridge Park, Durclham would do it himself and not endanger the lives of the re­ Downes, Bristol. Born 4 November 1877 at Bulkington, mainder of the party, five in number, by allowing them to do \Varwickshire, he was educated at Malvern College and St it. By the goodness of God we all returned safely that clay, Paul's School, London, entering St John's in 1897. although personally I hardly thought we could. He served in the South African War 1899- J 902, taking 1 1 I can assure you that your brother was one to be pmucl Part in the operations in Natal, including the action at of for his bravery and fearlessness alone, which I have seen Lombard's Kop ; at the defence of Lacl ysmitb, including 1 h displayed on many occasions, and I am extremely sorry that e sortie of 7 December 1899 (MentioPecl in despatches, Lo he has been taken from amongst us, and I deeply sympathise ndou Gazette, 8 February 1901) ; he took part in the 60 Roll of Honour. Roll of Ho/loltr. 61 operations in the Orange River Colony in February 1902 . behind. Lieutenant Vause will alway� liv� it� the memory and in the Transvaal from March to 31 May 1902. He was left tl10 s e Who knew him as one who, 1f h1s hfe had been awarded the Queen's Medal with four clasps. His first of . . 1 pa1. ec , would have gone far in the scholastic professiOn commission, in the Army Service Corps, was elated 1 May s which he adopted. He was not only a good teacher but a 1901 ; he was promoted Lieutenant in the following year, good sportsman, and he appealed strongly to boys. He and was gazetted Captain 1 May 1906. In June 1914 he was mat.1 .1· ecl Maucl Rosamoncl, daughter of Charles Helmsley, of seconded for duty with the Egyptian Army, and took part in . . Leeds, who, with two young children, survtves lu m. the Darfur campaign in 1915, when he was mentioned in despatches and received the D.S.O. JAMES LIONEL EAST WARREN. He was returning from the Niger Expedition in the Southern Sudan to Khartum, when the steamer in which he Captain J. L. E. Warren, of the 3rd Battalion The Welsh was, after collision with the bank, capsized in mid-stream. Regiment, was the eldest son of the Rev. John Alexander Faris Warren (formerly of North India), Assistant Secretary THOMAS CHRISTOPHE:R VAUSE, M. A., LL. B. Church Missionary Society Headquarters and Mrs Warren, Hampstead, and grandson of the late Rear-Admiral J. W. East. Second Lieutenant Thomas Christopher Vause, of the He was born 4 January 1895 at Jubbulpore, Central Pro­ West Yorkshire Regiment, was reported wounded and vinces, India, and was educated at Monkstown Park School, missing on 3 September 1916, is now officially presumed to eo. Dublin, and Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where he have died on or since that elate, and his grave has been held a Scholarship. At school he won his colours for Cricket, identified in the Divion Road British Cemetery, Thiepval, Soccer and Hockey� and was a Prefect and sergeant in the East of Albert. O.T.C. He was the only son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Orlando He gained a leaving Exhibition in the summer of 1913 Vause, of Rose Lea, King Lane, Moor Allerton, Leeds. He and entered St John's in the October Term of that year with was born at Kirkstall, near Leeds, on 12 November J 882, an open Exhibition for Classics. His intention was to read and after being educated at the Leeds Modern School and for Holy Orders preparatory to working in the Mission Field ; New College, Harrogate, entered :::;t John's in 1904, proceed­ he played in the College hockey team. On the outbreak of ing to the B.A. degree in 1907 ; he took the M.A. degree in war he enlisted in the Universities and Public Schools Brigade, 1911 and that of LL.B. in 1913. but almost immediately received a commission, being gazetted On leaving Cambridge he entered the teaching profession, 28 November 1914 to the 12th (Service) Battalion The Welsh and was a Master at the Modern School, Harrogate, 1907-10 ; Regiment, serving with the 3rcl Battalion at Cardiff. In at the Leeds Central High School 1910-14, and Second March 1915 he was posted to the 1st Battalion in France, Master at the Cleckheaton Secondary School, where he was and was slightly wounded in April. While at home he was engaged at the outbreak of war. Soon after hostilities com­ appointed Assistant Adjutant of lhe 3rd Battalion, rejoined menced he joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps, the 1st Battalion as Lieutenant in June, was made Acting afterwards obtaining a commission in the l/8th Battalion Captain in July, and confirmed in that rank in October 1915. West Yorkshire Regiment. Be took command of A Company, which he led in the attack Very soon after arriving at the Front he was reported and capture of the 'Little Willie ' Trench, Hohenzollern wounded and missing, and it was not until August 1917 that Redoubt, the officinl report of which runs : '' The 8�th Bri­ definite news that he had died was received by his father. gade had a very heavy trial. The continued fighlmg, the Many splendid tributes to his memory have been paid by re peated bombardments and bombing had clonegreat damage brothc::r officers, which have served as a comfort to those he to the Hohenzollern ; in places the trenches had been com- 62 Roll of Honour.. Roll of Houour. 63 pletely destroyed. They had to meet repeated attacks, and . and was born at Nuneaton 18 June 1890. He was educated though on October 1st the 1st Welsh won back a large at King Eclward's School, Nuneaton ; the King's School, portion of 'Little Willie,' capturing some prisoners and vV arwick ; and the King's School, Granlham. He entered inflicting heavy loss on the Germans, they could not manage Sl John's in October 1909 with a N ewcome Exhibition from to get touch with the troops in the redoubt, and having both Gran tham School, and took his B. A. degree in June 1912. flanks exposed were bombed out next afternoon after a During his residence he was a prominent and active member stul.Jborn defence." The casualties were very severe, being of the Lady Margaret Boat Club ; he rowed in the First 390 N.C.O.'s and men and 15 officers. Captain Warren's Boat in June 1912, and in the Eight at Henley in that year. Colonel (who saw nothing of him in the attack) wrote : "I He is the third member of that crew to fall in his country's always had the greatest admiration for Captain Warren, and service. he has frequently done good work in the trenches during very At School and at the University he was a member of the trying circumstances." The officer commanding B Company Officers Training Corps, obtaining A and B certificates, and wrote : "Captain Warren behaved with great gallantry, and was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Unattached List, Territorial personally led many attacks, in which we tried to bomb our Forces. way up the trench. He was an able and very energetic Failing to obtain a University Commission in the Indian officer as well as a very brave one. I very much fear he, with Army, in November 1912 he joined the Calcutta branch of the others, died in the most glorious way possible." Another the Shipping Firm of Messrs Turner, Morrison and Co. Mr officer wrote : "He was a great favourite amongst us, and Turner writes of him : "He was amongst the very best of we feel his loss very much." One of his sergeants, who was the you11g fellows we have sent out to India", and Mr Carter, the last man to see him alive, wrote : "Captain Warren ot the Calcutta branch, says : '' We saw Waters offat Howmh ordered me to retire after I was hit, and said he would stand Station full of life and pleasure at being able at last to go and by those who were too severely wounded to be moved ; he 'do his bit '.-In him we had one of the most promising had been hit himself, in the hand, and had been bandaged assistants in our office, and to us his loss will be very great. by a captured German doctor, but the wound did not seem Undoubtedly he would have made his mark in Calcutta if he to bother him. I sincerely hope we may yet hear of him, h ad lived." for a more gallant gentleman and courteous officer I have When war broke out he became a member of the Port never followed." A private of his Company wrote : " He Defence Corps at Calcutta. In March 1917 he applied for a was one of the best officers we had, and I would gladly go commission in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and to my death with him as my leader." One of his brother during April, to gain experience, he served with the Devon officerswho was wounded but escaped said blunlly : "Vlarren Battery at Barrackpore. On 3 M ay 1917 he was gazetted would never surrender. I saw him for hours keeping off the 2nd Lieutenant R.G.A., No. 1 British Mountain Battery, Huns with bombs and rifle-fire." stationed at Bara Gali, Murree Hills, North West Frontier Pr Captain Warren was officially reported as "wounded and ovinces. missing " on 1-2 October 1915, and as no further tidings have He was killed on May 30lh as Lieut.-Col. E. St G. Gray, RA been received of him the War Office premmes that he fell ou . , commanding No. 2 M.A. Brigade, reports in the one or other of the above elates. following letter to Lieutenant Waters' father : "I am writing to you on behalf of all the officers of this Bri 1 KENNETH SELBY WATE RS, B.A. � gac e to express our sincere condolences to you at the l ea th of your son. He joined here 13th, and I Lieut on May Second enant K. S. Waters was the third son of the orm ed a very high opiuion of your son's abililies. He was Rev. Samuel George Waters, of Meriden Vicarage, Coveulry, 64 Roll of Houo11r. Roll of Ho11o11r. 65 just the type of man who would have made a good officer, The terrible part is there appears to have been afterwards. and his death is a loss to the Regiment. He joined on the all for the crime except sheer fanaticism, and 110 1110tive at same day as Lieut. City, and both were attached to No. 1 all the more terrible from the utter the loss is rendered Mountain Battery at Bara Gali and lived in the quarters which caused it." wantonness and futility of the crime alongside the Mess. These buildings are situated on the top of a steep hill surrounded by trees and jungle. There has RICHARD HENRY WHITE, M.C. never before been an attempt at a disturbance ; at 10.15 p.m. Lieutenant Richard Het�ry White, of the London Regiment, on the 30th May, five officers, including your son, were killed in action in August last ; we have not been able sitting round the fire in the Mess, when two shots were fired was ascertain the exact date of his death. He was a son of through the glass window of the door. The shots were fired to Mr W chard Alfred White, of the Army Inspection Depart- simultaneously. The officers jumped up and clashed out of and of Melrose, Beaconsfield Road, Enfield Wash. the opposite door. When they found that your son and 111ent, 22 December 1896 at Small Heath, near Birmingham, Lieut. City were not with them, they went back and found Born educated at Enfield Grammar School, and was elected that both were dead, death being instantaneous-shot he was Entrance Scholarship for Natural Science in December through the heart. A native watchman was in the verandah to an 914. He joined the University Officers' Training Corps and on the other side and he neither saw nor heard anything 1 obtained his commission in December 1915. His linguistic except someone scrambling down the hill below the Mess. attainments made him a valuable officer in the Intelligence Tracks showed that there had been two barefooted men ' Cross a few probably two Department. He was aw;u:ded the Military raiders from across the borderI whoI wishing months before his death. to get even with the Government for some action taken against them or their relations, came into British territory HENRY WILLIAM KNOWLSON-WILLIAMS. and murdered these officers. The raiders probably selected Bara Gali as they knew this place was isolated and their Second Lieutenant Knowlson-Williams, of the Royal Flying escape was probably an easy matter. These officers were Corps, was killed in an aeroplane accident at Renclcomb in late buried ":ith all Military Honours in the Kalabagh Cemetery Gloucestershire on 11 July 1917. He was a son of the (three m1les from Bara Gali) on the first of June." l\1r Henry William Williams, and stepson of Mr William Major F. H. Scovil, commanding No. 1 Mountain Battery George Cosens, of St Benedict's, Glastonbury, and was born at Bara Gali, wrote on June 14th : in London 14 May 1896. He was educated at Cliflon ; before "Colonel Gray, I believe, wrote to you last week telling College, and was ad mitted to St John's in 1915 Corps. you the circumstances under which your son was killed. I comi11g into residence he joined the Royal Flying own am now writing on behalf of myself and the other officers of He was a skilful officer and had no mishap on his the Battery to express our very sincere and deep sympathy account. On the morning of July 11 Lieutenant Knowlson­ . w1th you 111 this tragic occurrence. As you know your son \Vi lliams, acting as observer, went for a fl ight in a '' Bristol had been fi with us less than three weeks, but in that time we ghter" with Lieutenant A. J. Cathie, R.F.C., acting as pilot. had got to know him as an extremely nice and hard-working Th e machine was a single control machine, said to be not of fe�low. One a n than of the murderers has been caught, and we hope unsafe type, though requiring more careful flying will very shortly be som to hanged here. He is the ringleader of e other machines. The two officers were returning a band l h e having of outlaws who have committed a series of crimes aerodrome to land, but apparenlly the distance and r?bberies in been flat a turn, these part s for several years past, always misjudged, flew on, and in turning made too escapwg ancJ of 150 feet to Independent Territory, some seventy miles away, as a consequence nose-dived from a height VOL. XXXIX. F 66 Roll of Honour. into a wheat-field some three-quarters of a mile distant. Both officers were killed. ®bitunr� The machine was in perfect order, and Lieutenant Cathie an experienced officer who bad made many fl ights in France, REV. KENELM HENRY SMITH. so that it would appear that the accident was cl ue to a mo­ In the late Rev. Kenelm Hemy Smith, of Ely, St John's mentary error of judgment. Lieutenant Knowlson-Williams College and Bury School, whence he came up here in 1856, was buried at Westbury-on-Trym on July 14, the service being ]lave alike lost a faithful and attached alummts. He was choral with full military honours ; the funeral was attended born at Ely in August 1837, as the only son of the Rev. by brother officers and a full muster of in addition to relatives Solomon Smith , M.A., Fellow of St John's (23rcl Wrangler the Clifton College Cadet Corps. in 1829), Minor Canon and for forty-one years Vicar of St J\lary's, Ely, who died in December 1873. At Bury St ARTHUR WESLEY WILSON. Edmunds Kenelm Smith (on whom his school-fellows, Lieutenan t A. W. Wilson, of the , M.G.C., with their habilual preference for the sonoro11s, always was killed in action 28 July 1917. He was the only surviving bestowed his father's Christian name) remained from 1849 son of the late Mr Samuel Wesley Wilson, physician, of to 1856, and was in the Sixth Form in the last year of Hanley, Staffordshire, and a grandson of the l<�te Mr and Dr Donalclson's and lhe first year of Mr Wratislaw's Head­ Mrs J onc::s-Lioyd, of Lancych, Pem brokeshire, and 19 Vi ctoria mastership, when he gained the English Verse Prize. Those Street, Tenby. Born 25 March 1897 at Blackrock, co. Dublin clays were not exactly spacious clays at Bury School ; but in he was educated at Denstone College and entered St John's the Sixth Form there was plenty of spirit and not a little of College in 1915, intending to st udy medici11e. He obtained varied ability, and Kenelm Smith had a place of his own l1is commission in the Scots Guards in J 11ne 1916. According among his fellows. With a strong sense of affection for the to a letter from his soldier servant, Private B. G. Gay, Lieu­ schuol, and all that belonged to it, he combined a humorous tenant Wilson was killed instantaneously by a shell, and he disposi tion which he retained to the last, and a considerable adds : "He was one of the finest and bravest genllemen I insigh t into character. He was afterwards author of an l1ave ever had the pleasure of meeting. I feel as if I had admirable p;1per of school reminiscences, as well as ot a lost the greatest friend I ever had.... He studied every long series of notices of Old Burians contributed to the one of his men." school magazine, which entitle him to the gratitude of all who, as antiquarians, or from pious motives of their own, JOHN WORSTENHOLM. value that ki1lcl of biograph ical literature. At St John's he held Second Lieutenant J. Worstenholm, of t h e Royal Flying the Spalding and Symonds Exhibition, and took part in Corps, was killed in action 25 September 1917. He was the the sports of the College. He was ordained in 1860, and, only son of Mr Luther afler filling several other curacies, settled clown at Ely, where Worstenholm I of Darlington I Editor of The h e Northem Echo, and was born at Eaglescliff, Durham, latlerlv held the cure of the hamlet of Chettisham till he Was 16 December 1897. He was educated at Darlington Grammar obliged by ill-health to relinquish the work. He had School, where previo he obtained two Scholarshi ps, entering St us] y held the curacy of St Mary's at Ely under his John's fath er, azille in October 1916, joining the O.T.C. On attaining the and was a frequent contributor to the Parisll !IIag age of of the 19 he joined the Artists' Rifles for training, and four parish, and a11thor of a pamphlet on its church. months Besides he later was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps ; h e being for a lime chaplain to the workhouse, Was a had only been at the Front about five weeks. member of the Ely Burial Board, and of the Board of 140 Our War List. 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Wagstaff, J. E. P. Woolwich Arsenal Gyps- Walker, J. Ness, Lieut. R.F.A. * Fox, W. B. Suffolk Regt \Valli·S, C. Braithwaite, Capt. A.P.M. Killed at the battle of the So m me Watcrhouse, G., Lieut. R.N.V.R. Waterhouse, H., Lieut. Lancashire Fusiliers Matthews, W. S. West Yorks \Vatkins, A. E., 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. Piggott, H. Suffolk Regt \Vatson, B. L., Lieut. Army Signal Service RE. Wounded at Nwve Chapclle Watson, J., Capt. King's Liverpool Rgt White, R. R.A.M.C. Watson, W. V. C., 2nd Lieut. W. Yorks Rgt \Vatls, A. C. B., 2nd Lieut. Altd Army Signal Service ·watts, R. J., Lieut. South Midland Field Co. R.E. From the Kitche11 aud Garden Staff- \Veils, W. D., 2nd Lieut. O.T.C. Black, T. R.F.A. \Ve�ton, T. A., Captain R.A.M.C. Wheldon, \V. P., Major, D.S.O. Royal Welsh Fusiliers Chapman, L. Suffolk Regt vVhiddington, R., Capt. R.F.C. Aircraft Works Killed Jan. 12, 1918, at Salonika vVhite, F. P., Orderly H.M.S. Gleuart Cas/le "'Death, C. London Regt Whiteley, G. T., Captain Royal West Surrey Rgt Killed October 7, 1916 *\Vhitfield, E. H. D., 2nd Lieut. Yorks. and Lancs. Rgt Whittaker, F. Y.M.C.A., Mesopotamia. Elderkin, R. C. Cambs. Regt *Whye, J. W., Lieut., M.C. Leicestershire Rgt Heffer, C. S. Cambs. Regt Willett, E. W., 2nd Lieut. A.S.C., M.T. Humphrey, A. G. Cambs. Regt Williams, Gerard W., Cpt., M.C. R.E. Hunt, N. Cambs. Regt Williams, W. H., Capt., M.C. A.S.C. Williamson, H., M.D., Captain R.A.M.C., 1st London General Hospital Kavanagh, H. Suffolk Regt Williamson, K. B., Lieut. R.G.A. Long, W. Life Guards vVills, R. G., Capt. R.A.M.C., West Lancs. Field Ambulance "'Wilson, A. S., Lieut. South Lancs. Rgt, attached M.G.C. Quinney, J. F. R.F.A. Wilson, Garner, 2nd Lieut. Norfolk Rgt Randall, A. E. Cambs. Regt \Vinder, R. McD., Lieut. R.M.L.I. Saddler, A. J. R.A.M.C. Winfield, P. H., Major Northampton Rgt Stevens, C. W. Cambs. Regt \Volstencroft, A. S. R.F.A. tWood, N. E., Cadet Officers' Cadet Bn Walpole, B. V. Suffolk Regt \Vood, N. \V., Pte. Cheshire Rgt Wye, R. F. Cambs. Regt *Wood, T. A. V., Capt. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry vVoods, B. F., Capt. Royal Fusiliers, T.R.B. vVoodall, F. E., 2nd Lieut. Unattached Terr., Oundle School O.T.C. vVoolrich, W. G., Dresser R.A.M.C. \Vordie, J. M., Lieut. R.G.A. (T.F.) ROLL OF 1 HONOUR. *Worthington, F., Major, D.S.O. R.A.M.C. Wragg, N., 2nd Lieut. Dorset Rgt The following list gives the names of all members of the College who, Wren, T. L. (Fellow), 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. since the beginning of the war up to the end of October last, are known Wright, T., 2nd Lieut. King's Own Y.L.I. to in action or died, of wounds or otherwise, in the active Wyeth, F. J., Captain, M.C. Essex Rgt have been killed \Vynne-Willson, Very Rev. H. Chaplain to the Forces service of the Crown, with the dates of their deaths. St J. B (Dean of Bristol) Adams, J. B. P., Lieut., Welsh Fusiliers ; 27 February 1917 Yeats, G. F. W., Pte. Middlesex Rgt Adamson, F. D., 2nd Lieut., Border Rgt.; 16 November 1915 Ainley, K. E. D., Lieut., E. Lancs. Field Co. R.E. ; 11 May 1915 Alexander, Rev P. G., Chaplain R.N., H.M.S. Hampshire; 5 June 1916

Badcock, A. L., Lieut., King's Own Yorks. L.I.; 14 October 1915 The following servants of the College are on Active Service:­ Barnelt, B. L. T., Captain, A.S.C.; 18 April1915 14 September 1916 Captain J. H. Palmer (Head Porter). R.F.A, Barllett, W. H., Lieut., Canadian Infantry; Beaumont-Checkland, M. B., Lieut., Somerset L.I.; 17 August 1917 Benson, G. E., Rifleman, Rifle Brigade; 9 May 1915 From the Buttery and College Office- 1916 Hentall, W. D., 2nd Lieut., King's Own Yorkshire L.I.; 16 Sept. Drury, E. J. Cambs. Regt Bernard, H. C., 2nd Lieut., Gloucester Rgt. ; 3 SepteJnber 1916 Billinger, H. F., Lieut., E. Lanes Rgt; 23 November 1916 Finding, T. West Yorks 1917 Boddington, Rev. V. C., Chaplain to the Forces; 13 March Frost, G. E. Cambs. Regt 1915 Bowen, L. H., 2nd Lieut., Lincolnshire Rgt. ; 22 December Hough, P. R.A.M.C. 142 Ottr War List. Our TVar List. 143

Hrice-Smilh, J. K., 2nd Lieut., Lincs. Rgt.; 10 September 1915 ]11cAulay, F. W., Captain, R.F.A.; 21 May 1916 Brock, E. G., Lieut., King's Liverpool Rgt; 31 July 1917 ]IJarshall, W., Lieut., The Leicestershire Hgt; 4 June 1915 Brown, C. W., Lieut., Royal Scots Fusiliers; 30 April 1916 ]lfason, P., 2nd Lieut., K.RRC. ; 17 February 1917 Brown, E. M.. Lieut., Tank Corps; 30 September 1917 May, F. S., Pte., R Fu iliers; 2 August 1916 Browning, Rev G. A., Chaplain R.N., H. M.S. Indefatigable; 31 May 1916 May, P. L., 2nd Lieut., Dragoons (Scots Greys); 13 February 1916 Burr, F. G., Captain, Hoyal Scots Fusiliers; 25-27 S�plember 1915 J\Iirfin, J. C., 2nd Lieut., York and Lancaster Hgt; 17 August 1917 Mogridge, B. F. W., 2nd Lieut., Leicester Regt; 11-13 October 1915 Callender,R. H., 2nd Lieut., Durham L.J.; 5 October 1915 Morley, G. H., Lieut., King's Shropshire L.I.; 30 December 1917 Cassels, W. G., Captain, Border Rgt; 13 July 1916 Castle, C. W., Lieut., South Staffs. Hgt; 3 August 1912 Newton, H. G. T., Capt., 13th Hu�sars; 25 April 1917 Chapman, A. R. B., Lieut., Loyal N. Lancs. Rgt.; 6 June 1916 Norbury, F. C., Captain, King's Royal Hifle Corps; 8 January 1915 C!Jell, H., Lieut., Royal Fusiliers; 10 August 1915 Chidson, L. D., Capt, King's Royal Rifle Corps; 23 April 1917 Oclgers, R. B., Captain, A.S.C.; 31 August 1917 Clark, H. R. E., 2nd Lieut., The London Hgl.; 3 June 1915 Clarke, D., 2nd Lieut, R.F.C.; 26 1\ugust 1916 Polack, E. E., Lieut., Gloucester Rgt; 17 July 1916 Clarke, R S, Captain, Shropshire L.J.; 25-26 Septemb<:r 1915 Pollard, W. M. N., 2nd Lieut., N. Staffs Rgt; April 1917 Cobhold, R. H. W., Lieut., The Hifle Brigade; 9 September 1915 Puddicombe, D. R., 2nd Lieut., E. Yorks. Hgt; 24 July 1916 Coop, W., 2nd Lieut., Tile Liverpool Rgl.; 16 June 1915 Pullin, J. H., Lieut., Loyal N. Lancashire Rgl; 21 January 1916 Cosgrave, G. S., 2nd Lieut., R.F.C; 4 November 1917 Rennie, D. W., Lieut., Royal Fusiliers, atld. Royal Warwickshire Rgt; Day, D. 1., 2nd Lieut., R.F.A. ; 7 October 1915 11 November 1914 Hichardson, R J. R, Lieut., S. Staffs. Rgt; 25 September 1915 Edwardes, H. F. E., 2nd Lt., Duke of Cornwall's L.l.; 6 February 1917 Wtchie, J. N., 2nd Lieut., Seaforth Highlanders; 22 April19J.6 Ellis, 0. B., Flight Sub-Lieut, R.N.; 20 May 1917 Robinson, L. F. W., 2nd Lieut., RE.; 26 May 1917 Evans, H. C., Lieut.-Commr., Nelson Bn. R.N. Division; 5 June 1915 Hobinson, M. H., Instructor R.N.; 25 June 1917 Evatt, G. R K., Captain, The Middlesex Rgt., 13 November 1914 Hoseveare, H. W., 2nd Lieut., Wiltshire Rgt; 20 September 1914 Fen·is, S. B. C., 2nd Lieut., Hussars; 6 April1915 Husseii-Smith, H. F., Captain (Fellow), Rifle Brigade; 5 July 1916 Fletcher, J. H. B., Lieut., The London Rgt.; 13 May 1915 Ryley, D. A. G. B., 2nd Lieut., Manchester Hgt; 11 February 1917 Frederick, T., Capt., M.C., Norfolk Rgt; 14 December 1917 Scholfield, R. D., 2nd Lieut., Royal Lancs. Rgt; 10 August 1915 Gardiner, K. J. R., Capt., R.E.; 1 February 1917 Souper, N. B., 2nd Lieut., Royal Berkshire Rgt; 1 July 1916 Gne, G. A., Captain, The London Rgt.; 15 September 1916 Gleave, T. R., Captain, South Lancashire Rgt.; 10 October 1916 Taylor, H. C. N., 2nd Lieut., The London Rgt; 21 May 1916 Glyn, C. R., 2nd Lieut., Indian Army; 9 January 1917 Thomson, K. S., Lieut., Cavalry, Indian Army; 3 March 1915 Grail, C. G., Captain, N. Staffordshire Rgt; 23 July 19t5 Thwaitcs, G., Major, D.S.O., Egyptian Army; 29 May 1917 Gwynne, H. Ll., 2nd Lieut., North Staffs Hgt; 18 November 1917 Torry, A. J. D., 2nd Lieut., llf.C., RF.C.; 9 October 1917 Twentyman, D. C. T., Captain, York and Lancaster Rgt; 1 July 1916 Halliwell, W. N., 2nd Lieut., The Yorkshire Rgt.; 21 September 1916 Hamilton, A. S., Lieut.-Col. Commanding Durham L.I.; 26 September 1915 Vause, T. C., 2nd Lieut., W. Yorks Rgt; 3 September 1916 Harvey, A. W., Captain, R.A.M.C., alld. RF.A.: 7 September 1916 Hawcridge, R. S., Corporal, Royal Fu�iliers; 28 July 1916 Wales, H. R., 2nd Lieut., East Yorks. Rgt; 14 July 1916 Hill, J. R, 2nd Lieut., RE. ; 6 May 1917 Warren, J. L. E., Capt., Welsh Hgl; 1 October 1915 Hiller, A. M., 2nd Lieut., Royal W. Surrey Rgt.; 16 May 1915 Waters, K. S., 2nd Lieut., Indian Army ; 30 May 1917 flobbs, A. V., 2nd Lieut., R.F.C. ; 15 December 1915 While, H. H., Lieut., M.C., London Rgt; Augu�t 1917 Holden, N. V., Lieut., Lancs. Fusiliers; 5 June 1915 Wickham, B. W. T., Lieut., M.C., S. StaiTordsl111'e Rgt; 14 April 1917 Howell, M. I. B., 2nd Lieut., Royal \Vest Surrey Rgt; 25 September 1915 \Villett, J. A., Lieut., Royal Fusiliers; 28 June 1915 Hughes, B. F. M., Flight Sub-Lieut. R.N.; 1 December 1915 Williams, H. B., 2nd Lieut., M.C., King's Rgt; 3 May 1917 Hurdman, C., 2nd Lieut., South Staffs. Hgt; 20 July 1916 Wilson, A. S., Lieut., Scots Guards; 28 July 1917 Wooler, C. A., 2nd Lieut., West Yorks I

Laughlin, P. H., 2nd Lit:ut., Royal West Surrey Rgt · 21 December 1917 Leakey, Rev. H. N., Chaplain to the Forces; 23 Jul; 1917 Lee, E. H., Lieut., Shropshire L.I.; 19 September 1916 Linnell, R. McC., Captain, R.A.M.C.; 16 March 1915 Lloyd-)ones, P.A., Major, D.S.O. RA.M.C.; 22 December 1916 Lusk, J., Captain, The Cameronians; 29 December 1915 Roll of Ho11our. 145

was severely wounded there, but he was able to return to the front in December 1916, rejoining his old Battalion as Captain of '' B" Company. For a time he was acting Major and, in the absence of his senior officers, was in command of the Battalion. The Battalion was then opposite Hulluch 'Roll of 'lbonour. (the scene of his former exploits), but was subsequently moved down, and after a time was near Lens ; later it was transferred further south, and took part in the Cambrai fight. On the 20th November 1917 the Battalion took Ribecourt, THOMAS FREDERICK1 M.C. and moved in the direction of Cambrai ; after going into Captain reserve at Marcoing for a few days, it was moved into ihe Thomas Frederick, M.C., of the Norfolk Regt who vicinity of Nine Wood. On 3rd December 1917 Captain died 14 December 1917 of wounds received in action 0;� De�e Frederick went to an Observation Post with an Artillery mber 3rd, was a son of Mr Henry Penrice Frederick . , Sohc1tor, officer who had reported that the Germans appeared to be of Great Yarmouth. He was born 7 March 1893 at Moulton, massing for an attack, and had scarcely reached the post South Walsham, Norfolk, and was educated at Edge borough before he was wounded and all the rest of the party in the Preparatory School, Guildford; Rosslyn House Preparatory post were killed by a shell. He died of his wounds on School, Walton, Fclixstowe; and at Aldenham School. December 14th. At Aldenham he was in the School Cricket Eleven 1910-12, a� The Commanding Officer of the Battalion wrote to d gained there first a junior Platt Scholarship and later a semor Captain Frederick's father as follows : "I have just heard Platt Scholarship. In December 1911 he was elected to that your son has died in hospital. This news has come as an Entrance Scholarship for Classics at St John's, a great shock to me. I saw him just after he had been hit and commenced residence 11 in Octobe1• 1912 • W! ·1e tn· · resi- dence he belonged and knew it was a nasty wound, but had no idea it would to the Officers' Training Corps, and on prove fatal, especially as I since had from him quite a cheery the outbreak of war at once joined the Army, being . gazettecl a S �cond letter and quite well written. When I saw him in the wood L1eutenant in the 9th Battalion of the Norfolk �egmlent just after he had been hit, he was very shaken and white, 19 September 1914, and was promoted Lieutenant . to walk. I had however a 111 the followtng January. but professed to be quite able him on to that; The 9th Norfolks stretcher at Battalion Headquarters and got crossed over to France in August 1915, . but found he and m September I went down later to the Regimental aiel post, were moved up to take part in the battle by the doctor's of Loos and H had already gone down, but was cheered ulluch. Frederick was second in command of was a very nasty one, "D" C ompany, and · report, who said, although the wound lus Captain was killed as they left the . would, he thought, get ttenches. He was reported he hac! such fine physical stamina he ''missing'', bttt aft' et. an 1n· terva 1 �f f ?, over it. It is a very great blow to us all that he has gone. ur days turned up with the remnants of his . own and of C. Company, havtng To me as Commanding Officer his loss appears irreparable. been meanwhile in some captured Get man h. enches. . He was my Senior Company Commander, and I always felt For hts services 011 tl11s · · occaswn 1 1e that in him I had a strong capable Company Commander, in subsequently received the Milibry Cross. He was afterwards whom I could implicitly rely. Beyond that, he had a very engaged in some special work in fear himself, he could Flanders, and then rejoined vivid personality ; absolutely without his Bathlion' ' a, s c ap tmn · of 1 us · ,, , He had old ( D ) Company, and and did inspire his men with complete confidence. the Battalion was transferred to the Battalion ; the , almost already proved that at Loos before I joined due north of it; in July 1916 he 146 Roll of Houour. Roll of Honour. 147 he has proved it again and again since 1 took over ]mow this, that never again shall I have a Company Com­ I have never met an officer who had a more devoted mander in whom I would place such confidence as I did in of duty ; he never spared himself in any shape or form, him. He would come round with us and see everything was his loss is a very great one. As you probably know I correct. When we came out of the line he wouldn't look to strongly recommended him for higher promotion. My very his own billet or mess until he had seen all his nten in and as deepest sympathy and that of my brother officers goes out to comfortable as possible. At times I used to think he worked you, but it may be some consolation to you to know bow himself and us too hard, but now I can only think of him as greatly Tom Frederick was loved and respected in the the finest soldier I have ever seen or served under." N 01·folk Regiment." (2) "I was second in command of ''B" Company and had And in a later letter the same officer writes : ''In the line been with Captain Frederick since June of last year. After practically every day or night I went round"C" Co. frontage the capture of Ribecourt on the 20th we were in reserve for wilh your son. In no shape or form did he ever spare him­ a time, but later moved into the vicinity of Nine Wood. It self ; duty to him was a very real thing. I think also I may was on the 3rd December that our Artillery officer came and say that no one feared death less than he did; I do not mean reported to us that the Germans appeared to be massing for in the bravado spirit, but simply from the fact lhat he was a an attack Captain Frederick immediately accompanied him thorough good, clean living man, and that if in lhe course of to the observation post on the fringe of Nine Wood; he had his duty death came to him he was the last man to cringe. hardly arrived there when a high explosive shell burst right However tired he might be he always kept his spirits up; I on top of the observation post, killing the other occupants always had a "mardle" with him in broadest Norfolk, which and wounding your son. About three minutes later I was I believe he thoroughly enjoyed." myself wounded in the left arm, and I accompanied your son The following are extracts from letters of brother officers : as far as the dressing station, Marcoing. He appeared quite (1) Written from a hospital in London-"I saw the name of cheerful then, and his only thoughts were, as usual, for the your son in the list as having died of wounds, and have also Company." heard from an officer in his Company, and am writing to tell (3) "I was deeply grieved to hear of the death of Captain you how grieved I am, and to offer you my sympathy in yom· Frederick; he sent me a line just before he died; pain seemed great loss. I was in "B" Company under your son ever since to be in every word. I was very fond of Tom ; he was a fine he took it over last March until the 21st November, when he officer, thorough and conscientious, with tremendous energy, sent me down the line with a twisted knee. I think I saw a strict disciplinarian and, for so young a soldier, had a great more of him and knew him better than any other officer in grasp of military matters. We have lost one of our best and the Company, for he and I were for a short time the only I a friend and comrade. I do not know his people, but should officers in the Company, and saw all the others come and go. like you to tell them, when you see them, how deeply I felt But I want to tell you my admiration for him; he was splendid his loss." all through, and, if we worked hard, he worked harder. I (4) "I have never met Tom, but I always wished to. I used to tell him he would kill himself with work. Several had heard such a lot about him that I felt I knew him per­ times on relief nights, when we were all tired with our long, sonally. I have questioned heaps of people who have known long trek up the line, he would go out and do duly himself him, and it is always the same story, not only from officers and let us rest. I have known times when the enemy has but from men too who saw him in France. They all say been strafing us and we expected a raid, and Captain Frede· What a brave and absolutely fearless man he was, always rick has sent one of us down to Company H .Q. and himself volunteering for the line and for attacks, always working in stopped out in it with his men and the remaining officers. I the line on difficult and risky patrols, generally quite alone. 148 Roll of Ho110ttr. Roll of Honour. 149

I have never heard of another man who gave himself up so n the Mount of Olives, in full view of the place where complete ly to do everything in his power to beat and harass �e fought so bravely. He was simply magnificent in actio1 , the � Germans. I have always admired him from afar, and . a nd all who saw him are unable to speak too highly of lus often wished I could be as brave and useful as he was." courage and the fine example he set his men. I hope 1't may This last letter is from an officer of another Battalion of the lessen your sorrow to know that it is shared by so many Norfolk Regiment. others.''

PHILIP HERBERT LAUGHLIN. GORDON HARPUH MORLEY. Second Lieutenant Philip Herbert Laughlin, of the Royal Lieutenant Gordon Harpur Morley, of The King's Shrop­ West Surrey Regiment, who died 21 December 1917 of shire Light Infantry, who was killed in action in France on wounds received in action on that day, was the only son 30 December 1917, was the only son of Mr Lancelot Arthm of the late Mr J oseph Herbert Laughlin, of St Giles Street, Morley, of Pittsmoor, Sheffield, and grandson of the late and of Mrs Gascoigne, of 45 Hazelwood Road, Northampton. Mr J. Caldwell, formerly of the 18th Hussars and the Shrop­ He was born at Northampton 22 April 1896 and educated at shire Yeomanry Cavalry, who fought both in the Crimea and the Northampton and County School, where he had a suc­ the Indian Mutiny, and a nephew of the Misses Caldwell, of cessful scholastic career. He passed the Senior Oxford Local Port Hill Road, Shrewsbury. Examination in July 1911 with First Class Honours, and the He was born 8 May 1894 at Brightside, Sheffield, and was Intermediate B.Sc. Examination of the University of London educated at the Grammar School, Wem, where he founded in July 1913. and edited the School Magazine. He passed the Oxford He was elected to an Entrance Scholarship of £80 for Senior Local Examinations in 1911, and on leaving school Natural Sciences at St John's in December 1913, and came for St John's in 1912 was awarded a Careswell Exhibiti�n by into residence in the October following ; passing while at the Governors of that Trust. He was a fine sculler, bewg a Cambridge the first part of the Mathematical Tripos in June a member of the Pengwerne Boat Club, Shrewsbury, and 1915. While at the University he attended the course for during vacations was often seen on the Sevem. He rowed a the training of teachers. . dead heat with D. M. Mackinlay for the College Fresl11uen s He belonged to the Cadet Corps of his school and at Sculls in 1913. While in residence he was reading for the College was a member of the University Officers Training Law Tripos, but on the outbreak of war at once joined the Corps. He received his Commission 1 January 1916 and, . Army, being gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 4th Ballal�ou, after a short period of training in Ireland, went to Egypt and Shropshire Light Infantry, 1 October J 9H. For some hme thence to Palestine. He was slightly wounded at Gaza on he served with his Ballalion in the far East and then pro­ 26 March 1917, but quickly recovered and subsequently ceeded to France in July 1917. He fell on December 30th shared in most of the heavy fighting which led to the capture � � while displaying the most fearless courage and ga lant ·y. of Jerusalem. His Commanding Officer wrote as follows : '' It ts with His Commanding Officer wrote as follows to Lieutenant great regn:t that I write to tell you of Lieut G. H. M01·l�y's Laughlin's mother : "I want to offer you the sincere sym­ death while gallantly leading his men in an attack agalllst pathy of all ranks of the Battalion, as well as of myself, the enemy. Indeed, he had succeeded in !lis objective and on the death of your son. He was severely wounded in the tumecl out or disabled all lhe enemy in the part of the trench action on the 21st of December and died that night in he had been detailed to take, and almost in the moment of the ambulance. We have buried him in a little cemetery victory a bnllet killed him instantaneously. It will be per- VUL. XXXIX. L 150 Roll of Honottr. haps some consolation to you in your great sorrow to kno that his bravery is the admiration not only of his com in this Battalion, but from all sides in the Brigade it has OUR CHRONICLE. spoken of, and I am putting forward a recommendation an award of the to him, which I hope Leut Term, Majesty will approve of. The application will be 1918. by the General. With renewed assurances of the sympathy, not only from myself, but from all his comrades. ' On 6 December 1917 it was announced that Mr Abdulla A brother ofncer wrote: "H e was magnificent .. I h Ibn Yusuf Ali (B.A. 1895), of the Indian Civil Service retired, lost a friend, the Battalion has lost a brave officer, and t had been appointed a Commander of the Order of the Empire. nation has lost a son she could ill afford." A Captain of the R.A.M.C. wrote: "I shall miss him, The list of "New Year's Honours " contained the names I had looked forward to watching what would most like of the following members of the College : have been a big career opening in front of a brilliant and brave boy." The honour of knighthood was conferred on Dr Jolm Phillips (B.A. 1881), M.D., F.R.C. P. Sir John Phillips is He was very popular with his men, for whom he was always thoughtful. Professor Emeritus of Obstetric Medicine at King's College, London, and Consulting Obstetric Physician to King's College Hospital.

Promotion for distinguished service in the Field : To be Major-General, Sir T. D'O. Snow (matriculated 1877), K.C. B., K.C. M.G. (temporary Lieutenant-General).

Among the Indian Honours is that of C. I.E. conferred on James Donald, Esq. (matriculated 1895), of the Indian Civil Service ; Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Financial Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Government for making Laws and Regulations.

The following appointments to the Order of the Empire were announced on 7 January 1918 :

To be C.B.E.

Leonard Thomas Horne, Esq. (B.A. 1882), Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions.

George Uclney Yule, Esq., (M.A. 1910), Director of Require­ ments, Ministry of Food. OUR WAR LIST.

The following additions and corrections should be made to the list in our last number:- '!Roll of ·fbononr. Adamson, J. H., Lieut., King's (Liverpool) Regt. Bain, G. W., Lieut., Indian Army. Barnes, J. Haycln, Friends' Ambulance Unit. Borchardt, W. G., Lieut., Cheltenham College O.T.C. Buchanan, R. D., Cadet, Of-ficer Cadet Bn. MILES JEFFHEY GAUE DAY. Cotton, Rev. R. H. A., Driver, A.S.C. Crau£ord, L. G., Sapper, London Electrical Engineers. Flight Lieutenant (Acting Flight Commander) M. J. G. Hyde, R. \V., Capt., Lines Regt., A.D.C. to the Governor of Day, of the Royal Naval Air Service, was killed in action Bengal. while scouting, near Dunkirk on 27 February 1918. He \Yas Irving, J. C., 2nd Lieut., R.G.A. the youngest son ot Mr George Dennis Day (of St John's, Joseph, F. A., Gunner, H.A.C., attd R.E. Kingsford, Rev. P. A., Chaplain to the Forces. B.A. 1883), of Rheola, St Ives, Hunts, and was born there Metcalf, H. K., Cadet, Of-ficer Cadet Bn. 1 December 1896. He was educated at Repton, and, follow­ Paulley, H., Capt., Norfolk Hegt. ing his two elder brothers, was admitted to St John's in 1915. Plowright, C. T. M., Capt. R.A.M.C. But, without coming into residence, he joined the R.N.A.S. Robinson, P. W., Capt., S. Staffs Regt., attd 2nd Cambs direct from school at the end of the summer term, and was Vol. Regt. Shepherd, Rev. E. H., Chaplain to the Forces. soon afterwards appointed to H.M.S. Vinde.1·, where he Shepherd, Rev. W. L., ln charge Y.M.C.A. Hut, France. served for about two years, and was then appointed to Stuart, H., Y.M.C.A. H.M.S. Cnssn11dra as sole airman and assistant navigator. In Wolstencroft, A. S. , Field Ambulance Unit. December 19 17 Mr Day, being then a Flight Lieutenant, was Woodmansey, Rev. G. E., Chaplain to the Forces. appointed to one of the squadrons near Dunkirk, and, as he

The following have bew Wounde1l : speedily distinguished himself, was appointed Acting Flight Commander about a fortnight before his death. He was Brice-Smith, H. F., Capt., R.A.M.C., attd K.O. Yorks L.I. Buckley, W. H., Lieut., Dragoons. awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for special services, Davy, C. L., M.C., Capt., Tank Corps. the notice in T!tc L o11do11 Gazetlt of 16 March 1918 being as Goode, R. H., 2nd Lieut., M.G.C. follows : Hardman, W. H., M.C. , Major, RE. (third time). Howe, G. A., Capt., Lanes Fusiliers. "Flight Lieutenant (Acting Flight Commander) M. J. G. Kingdom, W. A., Lieut., S. Staffs Regt., attd M.G.C. Day, R.N.A.S· (since killed). For great sl

" I have not written before to announce to you what I of his bright voice and ways. A few days ago he said of his fear must be the death of your son because I still hoped we part in the war, 1 It is the same now as when there were might hear something. He was shot down by five German dragons to fight'. Truly he was of the order of St George­ Aircraft, \Yhich he attacked single-handed, about 25 miles out true poet, glorious fighter, and a very noble lad." to sea. He had out-distanced the other machines in his The following is an extract from a letter signed H., which flight in his eagerness to get at the enemy, and also, I think, appeared in T/i, Sputator of 6 April 1918 : because he wanted to break their formation in order to make it easier for the less experienced people behind him to attack. "Sir,-Elsewhere in these columns, as you tell me, you He hit the enemy and they bit his machine, which burst into print a poem signed Jeff Day, and some may remember flames, but not apparently a bit Hurried he nose-dived his another poem, called 1 An Airman's Dream ', that you printed machine, flattened out, and landed perfectly on the water. last year ; it was by the same writer, but signed with his first He then climbed out of his machine and up the tail and name of Miles only. Readers in whom they have aroused an waved his fellow pilots back to their base, being aeroplanes interest may care to read here the short record of the writer's they could not land to assist him. Every endeavour with life. ships and aircraft was made to find him, but no trace of "Miles Jeffrey Game Day, D.S.C., was a Flight Com" either his machine or himself could be discovered. There is mander in the Naval Air Service, and well known as one of just a chance that a German submarine picked him up, but I its most brilliant young officers. He fell in action in the air really don't know if it is kind even to tell you this as it is a on February 27th last, in his twenty-second year. He was very slender chance. I consider it a privilege to have known born at St Ives, Hunts, of a family that has lived for genera­ your son : he was fearless and selfless, and his perfectly tions by the Ouse, and his boyhood was passed in the charming and open personality had made him beloved by company of the river. It was his path into the kingdom of everyone. He was as perfect a pilot as ever existed, his imagination : it led him to poetry through the loveliness and Hying was a poem and his influence in his squadron was homeliness o£ its coloms, lights, and sounds, by day and night. He was at school at Repton. Too small to be first­ really priceless ; he is a very serious loss to us, and I can _ perhaps only faintly realise the loss he is to you." rate at games, he had yet great physical vigour and a high spirit that made bf him a fine runner and swimmer. At The following note appeared in Th� Times of 18 March eighteen he entered the Naval Air Service, and was chosen But his 1918: for work needing high technical accomplishment. nature could not be satisf1ed with any service but the most "Even among the brilliant company of the young victors difficult and dangerous of all, and, by the mgency of his of the air J eff Day shone like a star. In the intensity of his asking for it, he secured his transfer to a fighting squadron devotion he was 1 all out ' ; he had a genius for being 1 all on the Western Front. His dauntless aggressiveness put him d out '. The air and its high adventures seemed to ignite an there into the front rank. Those vvho saw him then saw a run through his veins like liquid fire. Energy and vitality spirit that seemed to have been fanned by the air into flames in poured out of him-in marvellous exploits of flight, of courage and devotion. But they could almost have fore­ tremendous fights and victories, in an effervescent stream of told that the end would come, as it did, in an act of supreme ry, talk and laughter. Of late it had poured out too, in poet audacity and self-sacrifice." about the joy of flying and about the loveliness and homeli­ of T/J� Spr:ctalor has courteously given us ness of his Huntingdon fens and dykes. There is freshness The Editor reprint these two poems which appeared in and music in his poetry, it has some of the irresistible charm permission to that paper on 18 August 1917 and 6 April 1918 : 222 Roll of Houour. Roll of H 01101tr. 223

Down the stream a mile or two The fenlands come, where trees are few. AN AIRMAN'S DREAM. There sturdy, sad-eyed fenmen toil, \Vhen I am tired through and through, Tilling their heavy deep-brown soil ;- And all the things I have to do A land where the grey heron breeds Seem little, senseless, brutal things, And wild-fowl paddle in lhe reeds ; A land of mollen, golden reels, My mind escapes on happier wings Of ripening corn and osier beds; To an old house, that is mine own, Lichen-kissed and overgrown ; A land in which, where'er I go, With gables here and gables there There is no man to say me no. And tapered chimneys anywhere ; I'd have for my companions there With mill-stone hearths for burning logs A boat, a gun, of clogs a pair, And kettles singing from the clogs ; Cocker spaniels, silver grey, \Vith rough-hewn beams of darkened oak, With tails a-wagging all the day. Fragrant with a taint of smoke ; And other things I'd have are these: With unexpected steps and nooks Large breakfasts and enormous teas, And cases full of leather books- Honey and home-made bread, still hot, Soft water-colours that I love; Fresh butler in an earthen pot, And in the bedrooms, up above, And new-laid eggs, and clotlecl cream. Large four-post beds, and lots of air, 0 Lord ! to think it's all a dream. Mll.I\S. Where I can lie without a care, And hear the rustle of the leaves And starlings fighting in lhc eaves. TO MY BHOTHER.

Around the house a garden lies, This will I do when we have peace again, A many-coloured paradise ; Peace and return, to ease my heart of pain. With sunlit lawns and stately trees, Crouched in the brittle reed-beds, wrap! in grey, Ever murmuring in the breeze; I'll watch the dawning of the winter's day, With beds of flowers, not too tame, The peaceful, clinging darkness of the night All bright, and never twice the same, That mingles with mysterious morning light, And if the Lord is very good And graceful rushes melting in the haze; And all things happen as they should, While all around in winding waterways, There is a river gliding by, The wildfowl gabble cheerfully and low, Transparent as a summer's sky, Or wheel with pulsing whistle to and fro, Cool to the touch, and very deep, Filling the silent dawn with joyous song, Quietly smiling in its skep. Swelling and dying as they sweep along; There large, well-educated trout Till shadows of vague trees deceive the eyes, Scull themselves lazily round about; And steallhily the sun begins to rise, And there a brook with cheerful noise Striving to smear with pink the frosted sky, Comes chattering low its Iillle joys, And pierce the silver mists' opacity; Telling how, through Newton Wood, Until the hazy silhouettes grow clear, It stole, sedate and very good, And faintest hints of colouring appear, But when il tumbled through lhe mill And the slow, throbbing, reel, distorted sun It thumped the old wheel with a will; H..:aches the sky, and all the large mists run, How the pike beneath the bridge Leaving the little ones to wreathe and shiver, Caught the chub of Sandy Hidge; Pathetic, clinging to the friendly river ; And so on, if I care to listen, Until the watchful heron, grim and gaunt, Till the evening dew-drops glisten. Shows ghostlike, standing at his chosen haunt, Roll of Honour. 225 22-t Roll of Houonr.

n the outbreak of war he, however, joined the Inns of Court And jerkily the moorhens venture out, O Spreading swift-circled ripples round about, And softly to the ear, and leisurely, Querulous, comes the plaintive plover's cry; Addendtwt to the Roll of Hononr (R. C. Heal'll, pp. 224-225). And then maybe some whispering near by, Some still small sound as of a happy sigh, As I look back over nearly 20 years of College music, two Shall steal upon my senses soft as air, names seem to me to stand out, those of V. C. Boddington And, brother! I shall know that you are there. and R. C. Hearn. But a short time ago I tried to pay my And in the lazy summer nights I'll glide tribute to the former, a victim of the War. Now R. C. Silently down the sleepy river's tide, Hearn has died a soldier's death, and those of us who Listening to the music of the stream, remember him can only record our sense of loss. The plop of ponderously playful bream, The water whispering around the boat, Almost as soon as he came into residence, Hearn made And from afar the while owl's liquid note his mark in College music. He served on the Committee of Lingering through the stillness soft and slow, the College Musical Society for three years, and acted as Watching the little yacht's red, homely glow, Secretary 1912-1913. His artistic taste was good, and he Her vagne reflection, and her clean-cut spars, did much to keep the Ink-black against the silverncss of the stars, standard high in College by his fine Stealthily slipping into nothingness; playing of first-rate music. On turning up old programmes, While on the river's moon-splashed surfaces, I find that sonatas by Veracini, Bach, Handel, Brahms, and Tall shadows sweep. Then when I go to rest a partita by Sir Hubert Parry were among the things which It may be that my slumbers will be blessed he played at our College concerts. He made his mark in By the faint sound of your untroubled breath, University music also : for he played among the first violins Proving your presence near, in spite of death. in the orchestra of the University Musical Society, and his JEFF DAY. name appeared constantly in the weekly programmes of the Another poem by him, "On the Wings of the Morning", University Musical Club concerts, as a soloist or in concerted signed J. D., appeared in The Comhill.Magazincfor July 1917, works. I recollect that on Dec. 7th, 191 2, when resident page 25. and former members of the C.(] .M.C. met, dined, presented Mr Sedley Taylor with his portrait, and celebrated the 500th Club concert, that the Profe sor of Music, who was one of RoBERT CEcrL HEARN, B. A. the visitors, remarked upon Hearn's fine playing in Handel's Captain R. C. Hearn, of the London Regiment, who was G minor sonata for two violins and pianoforte. Hearn was killed in action on 30 April 1918, was the youngest son of the in good company on that occasion : for at the time the late Mr Charles Henry Hearn and of Mrs Hearn, of Faraday University could boast of some very 11ne players and ingers. House, St James, Hatcham. He was born at Halcham He revisited us several ti�es during the last three years, 30 October 1892 and educated at St Olave's School, South­ whenever he could get leave from his military duties : and warlc. He was elected to an Exhibition for Classics at St on each occasion he was to be found (with other former John's in June 1911, taking his degree in the Classical Tripos members, also in khaki) at the Saturday night concerts of the of 19 14. He was an accomplished violinist, and during his Club. residence was a prominent member of the University Musical Hearn was an honest, kindly man, always good-tempered Club and Musical Society, playing regularly in the concerts and pleasant. His personal characteristics and his violin­ of the College Musical Society. He had been entered at playing remain as charming memories. His name is now . Wells Theological College with a view to ordination in 191 5 added to the long roll of musical men whom Cambridge will see no more. V.Je miss them, and the music of Cambridge, and indeed of England, is the poorer. C. B. R. 22+ Roll of Houour. Roll of H on on r. 225

Anci ;P.rkilv !hP 1nnrwhpnc:; vPnfn1·P nu� On the outbreak of war he, however, joined the Inns of Court O.T.C., from which he gained hi commission in 1915. Shortly afterwards he proceeded to France, where, with the exception of a short period spent in England through sickness, he served until the autumn of 1916, when his battalion was transferred to Macedonia. After a few months there he was transferred to Palestine, where he fell. He had been recently awarded the Military Cross for a particularly fine piece of work. He was the youngest of three brothers. The eldest, a Chaplain to the Forces, was invalided home in 1917 after sixteen months service in France, and the second lost his life at Laventie in 1917.

WALTER SIBBAI.D LAIDLAW, B.A.

Lieutenant W. S. Laidlaw, of the Royal Engineers, was killed by a shell on the evening of 23 November 1917. He was a son of the late Dr Robert Laicllaw and brother of Charles G. P. Laidlaw, who was hilled 3 April 1915 (Engl�, xxxvi., p. 352). He was born at Stoke Newington 24 Feb­ ruary 1889 and was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge. Following four elder brothers he entered St John's in 1909 and took his. degree in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos of 1912. During his undergraduate clays he rowed several times in Lady Margaret boats. After taking his degree Laidlaw went to the Westinghouse firm in Manchester to gain practical experience, and was in the workshops there when war broke out. When the 203rd Field Company of the Royal Engineers was being formed in Cambridge he joined the ranl;s as a private, became a non­ commissioned officer and later a Second Lieutenant in the same company. Early in 1916 the company went to France. · Laidlaw was wounded on 6 April 1916. The officer commanding the Royal Engineers wrote as follows : " Your son was wounded yesterday whilst walking along a road behind the trenches with his commanding officer Captain Pye. A shell burst very close in front of them, ancl some of the fragments hit your boy in both hands, the thumb of one hand and the first finger of the other hand being damaged. I do not think that there is the slightest ground

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(or alarm on your part, for though the wounds may fire-place, driving in and shattering all before it and killing take some weeks to heal, no serious results need be anticipated. Your three officers, of whom Lieutenant Laicllaw was one. It is son is most likely to be sent back to hospital in England said that all was so sudden that he may not even have heard where I am sure he will soon get right. He really had ,� the noise; his watch stopped at 7.40 p.m. He was buried narrow escape, and Captain Pye also, who got of( with a next clay in a cemetery on the banks of a canal a little north singeing and a cut on his cheek. . . . I shall be very sorry to of Ypres. lose your son, as I shall, if he goes back to England, for he His former commanding officer wrote from India : " I was a most excellent and reliable officer." was dreadfully sorry to see your son's name in the list yester­ While Captain Pye wrote : "I am ju t writing a line to day ....Whatever work we did together he was always a say how sorry I am that your son was wounded \Yhen uut real trier, always ready to do the very best that \Yas in him, with me to-clay. Both his hands were badly cut about by a and no one could wish for .a more loyal helper or better shell bursting close by, and he won't be able to use them for companion. I feel his loss very deeply, and only wish that ome time, but otherwise I believe he is undamaged. H e there was something I could do to lighten your affliction." was able to walk with me to the aiel post after I had tied him A brother officer wrote : " During the two-and-a-half years up roughly, and was quite cheerful when I saw him off in a I have known him, his cheerfulness and good nature never motor ambulance. I can ill spare him, for he "vas a most varied. He was always thoughtful and willing to do his best useful officer, but my loss is your gain, so I must not grumble. for the comfort of everybody, of-ficers and men alike. I have To tell the truth, both of us had a marvellous escape, though never heard him complain, and we shall all miss him very I \Yas the luckier." much. " On arriYal in England Lieutenant Laicllaw was sent to His own sergeant wrote : " On behalf of the whole of Lady Mountgarret's hospital in Caclogan Gardens, London, No. 4 Section I sincerely wish you to accept our deepest where he \\·as kindly cared for. The wounds were more sympathy in your great loss. Your son was held in the serious than was at lirst supposed, there being four fractures highest esteem by all members of No. 4 Section ; they all in thumbs and first finger ; when they were healed he had considered it a personal loss, and looked upon him as a leader i treatment to restore the movements, and he had six weeks that feared nothina and was alway� anxious to do h s duty." sick-leave. But he was suddenly recalled to duty and sent to "The sergeant-major wrote : " The whole of the Cambridge France; a few clays after his landing his old company urgently boys of the company join in expressing to you their great requested that he should be sent back to them, and he re­ sorrow at the loss of him, who from the company's formation joined. For a year from that time, with the exception of a has been one of the members through all our trials and few clays leave, he served with them. A short time before troubles. I myself was the 11rst N.C.O. of the comp

. follows. Afler a strenuous time the Bedfords lined up for a son, our own officer and gentleman, a token which vYl ll . . . . not local counter-attack on the Rtilway, west of Albert. Macklin easily be obhterated by effort of il me, namely, a beautiful o ak was Intelligence Officer and accompanied his C.O., Lt.-Col. cros . I found amongst some timber a piece of oak, and thre � e J. S. Collings Wells, D.S.O.; they kept up with the first line of h1s old section carpenters worked at it and made their las t and the Colonel was wounded, but would go forward with token of respect and gratitude they could in this country. I his men, Lieutenant Macklin assi ting him, until the Battalion saw it erected myself. It is, I am sure, what he would ha,·e had reached their objective. Then the Colonel and other liked to have done for any one of his men." officers were in a shell hole, or fragment of a trench, \\·here the Colonel's wounds were clres eel. Just as they were 11nishing a German shell came over and burst on the DAVID HAROLO lVIACKLIN. Colonel's knee, killing him instantaneously along with a Second-Lieutenant D. H. Macklin, of the Bedfordshire Major and Lieutenant Macklin. The Germans advanced Regiment, who wa killed in action on 27 March 1918, was soon afterwards and the bodies were never recovered. Lt.­ the second of five brothers, sons of the late Rev. Herbert Col. Collings Wells was posthumously awarded the Victoria Walter Macldin (of St John's, B.A. 1888), formerly Rector of Cross. Houghton Conquest, and of Marian Macklin, of Whitewood Brother officers and men unite in describing Lieutenant Corner, Sanely. He was born 28 June 1897 at Piclley Par­ Macklin as a brave man and a good soldier, much beloved sonage, Huntingclon. When eight years old he gained a by all ; he was a happy soldier and interested in his work. Choral Scholarship at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and V\'e are privileged to print some extracts from his letters was there for six years, becoming head boy and soloist. At home, which illustrate his untiring keenness in his work, his fourteen he won a scholarship at King's School, Rochester, cheerful disposition and lack of grumbling at inevitable where in his last year he became a prefect and a sergeant in hardships. the O.T.C. In June 1916 he was elected to a Sizarship at 27 February 1 1.)18. Another letter to you from the usual St John's for Classics, having been for about six months dug-out and with the usual news that I am perfectly well, and at University College, London. During the next few months quite busy enough not to be bored, and very well satisfied. he repeatedly tried to join the army, being rejected seven In fact I really prefer the line to 'rest' in many ways. There times for short sight. Eventually he was accepted, and in i always something doing, and if there isn't anything inte­ October 1916 joined the 2nd Battalion of the Artists' Rifles resting on there is ahYays the feeling that some excitement or O.T.C. In March 1917 he passed first out of the Cadet other may turn up at any moment. And you can always School and was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 5th improve on your quarters. I hope you are not getting tired (Reserve) Bedfordshire Regiment, which he joined for train­ of descriptions of dug-outs. This one isn't so extraordinarily ing at Tring Camp. In June 1917 he qualified as Brigade good or comfortable, but the Mess has a more homely aspect Bombing Instructor at Godstone. He went to France in. than any I have seen before. Howe\'er comfortable and - July 1917 and was attached to the 4th Battalion of the pacious a dug out may be you can practically always feel Bedfordshire Regiment. During January 1918 he had ten that it is a dug-out. In this case however some enterprising a in clays' leave, and returned to France on the 31st. He was Bosche has papered the walls and put large mirror, and on the walls killed in action near Albert on 27 March 19 l 8 by the same a superior carved wood frame, at one end, ceiling is covered with material bomb which killed his Colonel and his Major. gilt-framed water colours; the sort, and you mignt really be sitting in a cottage From letters received from brother officers it appears that of some feet underground. It isn't really a good the circumstances of Lieutenant Macldin's death were as room instead of 30 VOL. XXXIX. Q 230 Ro/1 of Honour. Roll of Ho11011r. 231 du�-out except for the Mess, as the passages are rather them a last polish. We got a good starl, getting right mvay narrow and there is a beastly draught. However, I have forward, and were well across No Man's Land by the time a very comfortable bed to make up for that, and we are patrols usually think about starting. No Man's Land here is a good deal better off than we were in the one we exchanged the best part of a mile across. We cho e the widest bit. for this. We go up to our two-storiecl mansion again shortly, We had to crawl all the way of course, and had been out which will be very good again. about two hours in the snow before things began to hum. That happened just when we were in the middle of a long 3 March 191 8. . . . First of all, to tny great surprise and trek from one bit of cover to another. Bo,,·ever, that turned satisfaction, I have been given my job permanently, and so out to be a bit of luck in the end, as we were the greater sur­ am no longer 'acting ' but 'pukka ' Intelligence Officer. It is prise. I noticed someone in front and we all flattened. Four rather hard luck on the man I supplant , as he will come back Bosche strolled out-the first two passed within ten yards from leave and fmd himself a Company Subaltern, a job and neyer saw us ; the second pair, ,,·ho were followed by a \\·hich has less beer and more skittles than mine, w hi eh can \Yhole crush about fifty yards behind, came up to about six be exactly what one likes to make it-a soft and easy one; yards away. Here they stopped and looked clown at our or if one is energetic-a jolly exciting one. However, when dark patches. I put up my revolver (one of them challenged) I stood a chance of getting the job before, he stepped in and I let drive, shrieked at my people to let 'em have it, and and collared it, so it is only a case of Esau supplanting blazed off my six rounds. Huge excitement! Bwucoup Jacob..... wind up among all the Bosche. Three out of the first four The second bit of news is rather more exciting and equally were hit and they all fell clown. We turned our Lewis gun satisfactory. The powers that be have spasmodic and violent on the bigger party, ·which simply melted, and then rushed desires for prisoners at times, for identification. For the last the first four. Three of them got up and tore off clown the two nights we had sent out patrols without success, and the hill with absolute shrieks ; we didn't follow them, but aforesaid powers were getting a bit feel up ; I, of course, collared the fourth, who kicked out at one of my fellow3 being the one who consolidates and forwards the patrol and got him in the stomach. I spankecl him on the head with reports was likewise the one who "got it in the neck." So my revolver butt and knocked him out. Then we tore off yesterday morning I went to the C.O. and asked if I couldn't clO\Yn the bill, dragging the wretched Bosche. There was a go myself. After a bit of argument he consented, so I \\"ent blaze of Vevey lights, and we had a huge wind up, expecting off and thought out a scheme and chose my men, four from machine-guns all the time. However, when we had gone my old platoon and four of my observers. I harangued them about 300 yards, I recovered my nerYe and began to pay a long and earnestly and sent them off to get ready. Of course little attention to the Bosche, who was simply pumped full of it then began to snow hard-it ha a way of doing so ''"hen lead. We hoisted him upon a couple of rifles and got him I want to cro and crawl. However, that couldn't stop us, and back eventually to one of our outposts, where we got a d this is the tale of it. First of all I made my first look roun stretcher. They got a little information out of him, but he get and crawled out about 400 yards to see how far I could was pretty bad, and I don't know whether he'll pull through. is in daylight. Rather an original idea, but the ground However, everyone is awfully bucked, and as we only got a ole rather broken, and as a matter of fact that made the wh l

17 March with congratulations on my ludy exploit of the other night. 19 1 8. We're just out again for another four Thc Divisional Commander rang me up on the 'phone to say clays' rest. The first one is nearly over now, as I slept until . 3 n1ce thl l lgs to me, and there was a special 'chit ' of congratu­ o'clock thi afternoon. Disgracefully lazy, but I was only woken lations from the Brigadier, while shoals of Staff have rolled on�e and you !mow me. Personally I have had a very pleasant up. Apparently they got quite a lot of useful information hme ; I couldn't wish for a better time, except per­ from my Bosche. In a clay or two you should be getting a haps to be able to sleep in pyjamas instead of my clothes. Except souvenir, which I had from him .. .. Unfortunately I lost for that drawback our present front line really suits me perfectly. my revolver which I knocked him out \Yith ; it dropped out � � I have plenty of work to do and work that I of my pocket on the way home. rea l like, with just the right proportion of writing, etc., to achvtty outside. I never have time to be bored, and if I want any additional excitement have 1 1 March 1918. I have very little to do here ; a couple I only to do a trip into No Man's Land, where one can get as much of reports have to go in in the early morning, and after that as one likes, if one only looks for it. I run my I have nothing to clo at all except a walk up to my Obser­ own show with my own men, whom I train myself, and I can practically do wh vation Post about three-quarters-of-a-mile away when I am at I like. The weather has been perfect, and the C.O. is top-hole. One supposed to spend an hour to see that my observers are doing only has to work hard, show a bit of initiative and get results their job properly. It isn't at all a bad job for them in this to please him. I have found that a good way is to have a sort of weather, and the view is very good, although it is varied store of suggestions and to be able to offer to carry beginning to get a bit familiar no,,·. Still there is always the any of them into effect. Part of my job is of course to act interest of "·atching the Hun at "·ork, or walking about. On as private secretary to the C.O., and I am awfully lucky in anything like a decent day one can always see the three spires having such a nice one. . ..Sniping is another of my special of the large town in front of us , and sometimes quite a lot of � obs, which are also scouting, intelligence, patrolling (super­ the to\\'n. I suppose you didn't see the Bourlon Wood de­ mtenclence rather than actually going out, except on special spatch in The 1'i111es of Tuesday, March 5th. It is very occasions), and general utilil.y in odd jobs, like entraining, interesting, especially from my point of view, and I expect billeting (sometimes) , etc .... Perhaps you would like an would interest you too. I generally spend the morning account of my ordinary clay's work now I have got settled strolling round the area, which is pretty large, and includes down to it. I have managed to increase my speed at reports, a village on one side (at least it is just out of our bit really) and with that and other dodges, such as getting everything and a biggish wood on the other. The village is not very ready before I turn in, I manage to do with getting up no much bashed about as villages go about here, and it is inte­ earlier than 6 o'clock, unless anything particular happens. resting in its "'·ay. The Lewis-gun officer and I went clo,,·n From 6 to 8 con oliclating and getting off the reports on there the other evening. He is a gardening enthusiast, and d intelligence (information gained during the 24 hours as to insisted on digging up several plants from a garden an 's enemy movement, work, artillery, gun positions, sniping, etc.) ; sending them off home to his own, some where near Potter work (clone by ourselves) and patrols and aircraft ; 8-8.30 Bar. ... filing the originals or copies of my 1'httmJs ; 8.30 breakfast , • as I like my job very much indeed ; the C.O. gets nicer my h followed by a wash and shave ; then an hour or so in O.P. one gets to !mow him better, and I liked him very muc at H.Q., where I have an N .C .O . and three men. From he He is very quick to snap one up sometimes, but before. about 10 until lunch time, 1 o'clock, I go round the line d decent really, especially when one has got use is awfully visiting my other O.P.'s and keeping my observers up to the to him. scratch, also the sniper's posts where possible. After lunch Q2 23-f. Roll of Ho11our. Roll of Ho1zour. 235

I generally have enough to do in the way of sketches, maps, Sir Joseph Paton Maclay, the Shipping Controller. He was charts, or instructions with regat·d to patrols to keep me till born at Cathcart, in Renfrewshire, 27 December 1891, and educated 3.30, when another report has to go off. Then I have maps at Warrington School, Moffat. He entered St John's in 1909, and took in large numbers to keep up to elate, and a 'freshwork ' map, his degree through the Economics Tripos, 'enemy work and disposition ' map, and various others to Part I. in 191 1 and Part II. in 1912. keep posted up. After tea I usually go out again, either to He joined the Army as soon as war broke out, being sit at the telescope in my own O.P., from which one can gazettecl a Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, The Cameronians watch the Bosche trotting about or working, and, what is (Scottish Rifles) 2 September 1914. He rose to the rank of very unusual in most places, my splendid positions give me Captain, and after serving at the front was invalicled out. an excellent view of one of the principal roads into --, and For a short time he returned to his father's shipping business I can see motor lorries, limbers, cars, trains, and all manner in Glasgow. But desiring to serve again he joined the Scots of traffic going to and from the tm,�·n. My telescope is such Guards. a good one that I can see the spires of the three churches plainly enough to give you a description of their architecture, The following letters, all elated 11 April, have been re­ although they are five miles away .... Or else I have perhaps ceived by his father : to go round to investigate something one o{ the companies (1) Frc:m the Rev. limes Logan (of Braemar), Chaplain to has reported, or to see some one of a neighbouring battalion. the Forces : In the evening I, very occasionally, do a patrol if there is "Your boy Ebenezer was hit by a sniper's bullet while in anything very special I am not satisfied about. Usually I am the front line yesterday and very seriously wounded in the free to recreate until dinner, about 8 o'clock. After dinner there is usually a certain amount of work to be clone in the head. He passed through the Battalion Aid Post in the way of special reports and getting ready for the morning, and evening, and went from there to the Casualty Clearing Station I usually turn in between 11 and 12, and as I have now through the Field Ambulance at once. From there he went arranged for my 3.30 a.m. report to go in automatically unless to No. 3 Canadian General Hospital. His condition was then very grave, as the bullet had penetrated the brain, and anything particular is happening, I sleep for a regular six hours, a great improvement on the company subaltern's four he never recovered consciousness. At 2.30 in the morning broken hours in the twenty-four if he is lucky ....T he first he ceased to breathe and passed away. night of this last tour we had rather an unfortunate doseing ..... Your boy \Yas not only one of the most charming of fellows, but he was a constant example of Christian man­ with mustard gas, and lost nearly 200 men and 7 officers, temporarily blinded, but we hope to get most of them back hood to those arow1cl. I had seen much of him both in shortly. I don't know whether it was that I ·was particularly billets and in the trenche , and there \Yas no one more lucky, or whether I am not so easily affected by it as some, helpful and more anxious by the example of his own walk but I never felt the least effect, although I passed through a and conversation to do what he could to further all Christian lot of it .... work among the men. He walked in the footstep of h.is friend and mine, Arthur Kinnaircl. It is strange that he and Arthur Kinnaird and Captain Brand, his Company Com­ EBENEZER MACLAY, B. A. mander, all outstanding for their Jine loyalty to their Church Lieutenant E. Maclay, of the Scots Guards, who died early and to the truth as it is in Christ Jesus, should be the three in the morning of 11 April 1918 of wounds received on the offtcers to fall during the last six months. Surely some great previous day, was the eldest son of the Right Honourable service awaits all three." Roll of Hv11our. 236 . Roll of Ho11otw. 237

(2) From Sir Victor Mackenzie, Lieut.-Col. Commanding School and entered St John's in 1903. He took his degree 1st Battn Scots Guards : through the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1907. He completed " I am deeply distressed to have to write and tell you that his medical studies at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was your splendid son, Eben . was very badly wounded yesterday Assistant Casualty Officer, and proceeded to the degrees of evening and died of his wouuds at 2.30 a.m. this morning. M.B. and B.C. in July 1912, the title of his thesis being "The He was hit in the head by a sniper in the front line trenches ; treatment of ectopic gestation after the sixth month." he was sent clown to Doullens in an ambulance and died in Before the war he practised at Hereford, and was for hospital there. He was buried to-clay in a cemetery there, some time Resident Medical Officer to the Herefordshire and a coffin was made for him. He was a boy to be very General Hospital. He joined the R.A.M.C. in January 1916 proud of ; he had clone splendidly out here. Both officers and was sent to India, but was invalided home with enteric. and men \Vere devoted to him. A most charming and In March 1917 he went to France, where he served at first delightful companion and an excellent soldier, he is a very with the ammunition column of the 42nd Division, and after­ great and real loss to us all. Personally I was very fond of wards joined the Manchesters, with whom he was serving hi m and deplore his loss as a friend, and also as an officer when he was killed while attending the wounded under heavy whom I respected and admired and who had my utmost shell fire. His Colonel wrote : " He was killed by a shell as conf1clence, and who cannot be replaced. I hope you will he was in the act of tending a wounded man. We feel we accept my very deep sympathy and also that of all ranks of have lost a great fri end from our family whom it will be the Battalion. He was a brave, loyal Scots Guardsman, and impossible to replace ....We were all so glad to see your had clone his duty nobly. 1 cannot say any more." husband back to us again ...and at present can hardly understand he has gone. His bravery and devotion to duty (3) From a brother officer in the same Battalion : in tending the wounded were beyond all :praise." The chap­ " Eben and myself were two of the draft of five who left lain of the regiment, who was with Captain Philp when he England last August and we spent a month together with the was killed, says of him in a letter : "He was busy all the Entrenching Battalion, much of the time sharing the same Monday, and he successfully got away all our wounded before and a more cheerful and charming companion I could tent, we were ordered to retire ....We were all very fond o'f g not have wished for. We then became separated, he comin him ; to me he was a real companion ; we lived and worked to this Battalion and I going to the 2nd. Three months ago, together in many delightful and strenuous times ; I shall miss however, I came to this Battalion as Adjutant, and it was him much." only then that I had the opportunity of seeing how capable Captain Philp was married and leaves a widow and one and gallant an officer he was ; absolutely fearless and always son. doing any job that came his way quickly and well. Not only as an Officer but also as a man he was always an example to MAJOH GuY THWAITES, D.S.O. e\'ery one of us." We are able to give a fuller account of the late Major Thwaites than that given at p. 59 : CLAUDE HASTINGS GIWHGE PH ILP, M.B., B.C. El Ka'ir riakan Guy Thwaites, Bey, D.S.O., of the Egyptian , Captain C. H. G. Philp, of the Army, was the youngest son of the Rev. Henry Grahanl. who was killed in action 26 March 1918 was a son of Mr Thwaites and Clara J. Thwaites. He was born at Bulkington George Hastings Philp, and was born at Romford, in Essex• Vicarage, near Coventry, 4 November 1877. At the age of 17 D�cember 1885. He was educated at Falmouth Grammar ten he accompanied an elder brother, Cyril Edward, to a 238 Roll of Ho11ottr. Roll of Ho11o1tr. 239

despatches and received the D.S.O. The of school at Ouchy on Lake Geneva for some months ; the French severity the climate then sent him home for three months, some acquired at this time proved an asset to him in later years. of his time being spent in inspecting When he was twelve years old his parents took up their abode camps in Flanders. Returning 1916 for a time at Malvern, and while there Guy Thwaites and his to Khartoum in November the Egyptian Government m 1917 brothers attended the college as clay boys. On the departure conferred on hi the title of Bey. In March he was of the family from Malvern Guy stayed on as boarder at appointed Administration Officer to the Nuer Expedition, to Mr Young's school, and was for some time a chorister at the Sobat Pibor district, a country teeming with wild life, Malvern Abbey. In 1 891 Guy Thwaites entered at. St Paul's elephants, hippos, and crocodiles on the river banks, with School, where he distinguished himselJ in sports and science, wonderful birds, but a most unhealthy country, and the inhabi­ and was captain of the school 1896-7. He obtained a school tants were savages. The chiefs surrendered. While returning Scholarship and an Exhibition at St John's in 1897, and took from Taufikia to Khartoum the boat on which he travelled his B.A. degree in 1900. He then pa sed second in the was caught in a hurricane on the White Nile and overturned Sandhurst examination, and, being offered the choice of 29 May 19 J 7 ; Major Thwaites was drowned ; he was laid to regiments, for private reasons chose the Army Service Corps, rest at Rink, his fellow officers raising a memorial to him. to which he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant 1 May 1901 at His mother, Mrs Thwaites, has received the following Aldershot, to Woolwich 1 September 1901 , and to the South letters with regard to him : African war 30 January 1902, being gazetted Lieutenant (1) From His Excellency Sir Reginald Wingate, High 1 May 1903. He was retained in South Africa for five years, Commissioner for Egypt : being posted to headquarters at Pretoria in January J 905, "I have just heard, with the deepest regret, the sad news Adjutant to the A.S.C. in the Transvaal 1906, and promoted of the death of your son, and I write on behalf of myself and Captain 1 May llJ06. Delighting in sport, the wild game of his many friends in Egypt and the Sudan to express our most South Africa enabled him to send home noble heads of heartfelt condolences with you in your sorrow. It is im­ vildebeeste, antelopes, and so on, which adorn his old home. possible to speak too highly of his military capacity and Music being a passion with him his piano followed him when devotion to duty, qualities which he recently displayed in it was possible. his valuable work connected with the operations in Darfur. In June 1 914 he was seconded to the Egyptian Army. The death of your son has robbed the country of a most His father being then seriously ill (dying on 2-+ June), and efficient officer and his comrades of a most loyal friend. Captain Thwaites being one of his executors, his departure Again expressing my most sincere sympathy, in which Lady for Egypt was delayed until July 1st. Three months after Wingate joins, believe me, yours sincerely, R. WrNGATE." his arrival in Egypt he was gazetted Major in the English (2) From Colonel Edward Blunt, D.S.O., Egyptian Army ; Army. Living in Khartoum he was glad to be useful as as War Office, Cairo, 31 May 1917 : honorary organist at Khartoum Cathedral. He acted � Embarcation Officer at Port Sudan. In the spring of 1915 " I do not like t intrude upon the privacy of your great grief of all out he went on a punitive expedition to El Obeid and the N ubi an sorrow, but I do just want to assure of the great mountains and was mentioned in despatches. The autumn here who lmevv him, at the death of your son, and o£ our very your family in your heavy loss. and winter of 1915-6 found him at Cairo, lent to the British deep sympathy with you and one was more pleased than I was at his D.S.O. for his Army on secret service work in the Intelligence Office. He No Darfur campaign. We were both awarded it had then 60,000 troops under his administration. services in the and I think that reward and his increase, In the spring of 1916 another expedition, the Darfur in the same gazette, Egyptian Army rank, went far to com- Expedition, claimed him, and he was again mentioned in at the same time, in 2-1-0 Roll of Hvnour. Roll of Honour. 24 1

pensate his longing, shared by many of us in the Egyptian Serving for I our months in the 'ranks and for six as a Army, that he could take a more active part in the war in Lance Corporal, he was gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the another sphere of action. You will have the proud consolation 6th Battal ion, the \Vest Yorkshire Regiment, in December of knowing that he died doing his duty for his country in the 1916 and went to the front in January 1917, when he was war just as surely as if he had fallen in some actual field of attached to another Battalion. land battle, and it will be some comfort to you all that you Lieutenant Wat on was a man of sterling worth ; letters had him with you last autumn. I had not personally seen from his Captain and brother officers speak highly of his very much of him since he joined me, but I liked him and I \\·ork ; and outside his immediate family circle no one felt his ' think he liked me. Indeed, I think his genial nature made loss more keenly than the masters of his old school. him popular with all, and he was a very able as well as a most gallant officer, wlio had a most promising career before him. I enclose a copy of my special Departmental Order published COIWECTIO:N. to-day. It has been a week of tragedy for me, for it was only last Sunday that I heard that Colonel Worsley, my Assistant We have to coHect the notice of Capt.1.in J. L. E. Warren Director and great personal friend, had been drowned from \\'hich appeared in the December number of Tlte Eagle (see a transport that was torpedoed whilst returning from sick pp. 61-62.) leave in England. Your son was to have succeeded him as It is there stated that he received his commission in the Assistant Director of Supplies, and a letter of mine to tell him 12th Service Battalion of the 28 November so is still on its way to Khartoum, where he was clue to arrive 191-1-. This statement is correct of his younger brother, from the south to-clay. My heart is indeed heavy, and I can Captain J. E. L. V/arren. But Captain J. E. L. Warren, of assure you of my deepest personal sympathy, yours very St John's, joined the 3rd Battalion Df that regiment and �erved sincerely, E uwAH D BLUNT, Colonel." in France with the 1st Battalion. His name appeared as Second Lieutenant in the Gazt/1� of 28 September, but was

· antedated IS August 1914. WILLIAM VRRNON CROWTHI!: R WATSON. On p. 62 there is a misprint ; it is there stated that he was V. Second Lieutenant W. C. Watson, of the West York­ wounded in the ltn11d, this should have been ltwd. A brother shire Regiment, who was killed in action near Ypres in officer slated that the wound was slight, but the bandages October 1917, was the youngest son of Mr Joseph Watson, made him very conspicuous ; further that although he bled of Swincliffe, Birkenshaw, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. considerably during the night he refused to retire. He was born at Swincliffe 16 November 1896, and was educated at Bradford Grammar School, where he rose to the top of the School, first via Classics and later in Natural Science. He was a boy of fine character, never very great at school games, though he took part in all of them and fought well for the honour of his house ; occasionally he played in the first Eleven. In June 191 5 he was elected to an Exhibition for Natural Science at St John's, but without coming into residence enlisted in the 6th \V est Yorkshire Regiment ; though weak eyesight was against him he was determined to serve his country. Roll of Ho11o11r. 25

Sciences Tripos, Part I., in 1905. He completed his medical studies at the London Hospital, obtaining the qualifications of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1908; proceeding to the degrees of M.B. and B. C. in l 911. He was for a time Emergency Officer at the London Hospital and Clinical Assistant at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Before the war be was practising at Compton Greenfield. He was gazetted Lieu­ '!Roll of lbonour. tenant in the R.A.M.C., Special Reserve, 31 August 1914, and rose to the rank of Captain. Captain Brownson married 26 September 1911, at Llandy­ feisant Church, Cannarthenshire, the Hon. Gwenllian Clare }Of-IN BATESON, !lf.C. Rice, youngest daughter of the late Lord Dynevor. Second Lieutenant John Bateson, of the Royal Field Artillery, who was killed in action l 4 October 1918, was the eldest son of Mr William Bateson, F.R.S., Director of the CECIL A:-

A friend writes : '' Cecil Chapman has left a very bright of illness contracted ·on active service. He was the second memory to all who !mew him. His open, affectionate nature and youngest son of Mr Charles Cotton, F.R.C.P.E., M.RC.S. was sure to win friends, and the boyish eagerness with which England, of Briarfield, Canterbury. Born at. I�amsgate 2 he threw himself into his work seemed full of promise of a November 1888, he was educated at Wellesley House, St most useful life. He had always a fresh and beautiful Peter's, Thanet ; Malvern House, Kearsney ; and the ancient reverence for sacred things. Those who loved him hoped Grammar School at Sutton Valence, whence he gained a much from the sunshine of his presence here. God has Scholarship and the Robins Exhibition at St John's. He called him for some higher service elsewhere. It is surely entered the College in 1908 and took the B. A. degree in 1911. well." Heobtained a Philpott Exhibition, which heheld at the Scholce His elder brother, Alfred Reginalcl Bewes Chapman (also Cancellarii, Lincoln. He was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of a member of the College), Lieutenant in the 5th Loyal North St German's at Truro Cathedral 2 June 1912, and licensed to the Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action 6 June 1916 (Eagle, Curacy of Calstock in Cornwall. He was ordained Priest in vol. xxxviii, p. 80). The people of Bolton have subscribed the following year by Bishop BmTo\vs, of Truro, and remained over £200 for a window in the Parish Church to the memory in his Cornish Curacy until 1915, when he went as Curate to of the two brothers ; the money was collected in a few clays. St Peter's, Ealing. After about a year at Ealing he transferred to Holy Innocents', Hammersmith, where he remained until April 1918. Taking advantage of the bill introduced in RICV. WILLIAM GERARD CHEESJO:, M.A. Parliament, but never passed, as to the military services of The Rev. W. G. Cheese, Chaplain to the Forces, who died Clerks in Holy Orders, he obtained a dispensation from the 7 November 1918 of pneumonia in a Reel Cross Hospital at Bishop of London and volunteered for the Army Service Rouen, in France, was the youngest son of the late Rev. James Corps. He proceeded to Aldershot as a driver, and after a Albert Cheese (of St John's, B.A. 1851), Vicar of New Bilton, month's training there joined the A.S.C. Cadets, with whom near Rugby. He was born at New Bilton Vicarage 9 June he had three months' training, obtaining his commission as 1 883 and educated at Clifton College. Entering St John's in Second Lieutenant 26 Aug. 1918 ; he thep proceeded to Wool­ 1902 he took his degree through the Classical Tripos in 1905. wich, where he remained until he left England on Sept. 24 He was ordained Deacon in 1906, and licensed to the Curacy for Salonica. He spoke of his anticipated service as a'crusade ' of Belgrave with Birstall, being ordained Priest in 1907 ; and 'adventure ', and those who knew him intimately felt leaving Birstall in 1910 he became Curate of All Saints, that he was responding to an inner call to high self-sacrifice Peterborough, and in 1915 was called to the Vicarage of in a cause which he considered demanded the active and Duclclington, near Stamford, by the Bishop of Peterborough. ungruclging service of every fit Englishman. On his journey He became temporary Chaplain io the Forces in 1915. He he contracted Spanish influenza, complicated with broncho­ proceeded to the Front in France in October, but was al­ pneumonia, and, after nine clays' illness in a hospital in the most immediately attacked by influenza, bronchial pneumonia south of Italy, died on October 12. Mr Cotton was a member followed, and he died after a very short illness. of the Quill Club, and had written articles on various subjects appearing from time to time in magazines.

REV. ROBERT HUGH ALBAN COTTON, B.A. JosiAH FENWICK SIBREE C ROGGON, M.A. The Rev. R. H. A. Cotton, a Second Lieutenant in the Army Captain J. F. S. Croggon, of the Sherwood Foresters, died Service Corps, died J 2 October 1918 at Taranto, in hospital, of influenza in hospital at Abbeville, France, on 19 November 28 Roll of H 011011 r. Roll of HOil Our. 29

1918. He was the younger son of Mr \iVilliam Croggon, of Entrance Scholarship for 1\Iathematics and was admitted to Gram pound, Cornwall, and was born at Grampound 5 J an· the College in the January foll owing. In the autumn of 1915 ] 881. He ·was educated at Mill Hill School and entered St he was gazetted to the 6th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade John's in October, 1899. During his undergraduate days he from the University Officers' Training Corps, and vvent to was a distinguished Rugby Football player, playing in the France in the Spring of 1916. He was severely wounded at University Freshmen's match in the October Term of 1899 Guillemont, in the Somme push of 1916, and underwent four and in the Seniors' matches in 1900 and 1901 ; he was or five operations. When convalescent in 1917 he was captain of the College R.F.C. seconded to the Tank Corps and went to France with his Before the war he was an Assistant District Auditor of the Battalion in December of that year. He was killed in action Local Government Board. He had been acting in the North­ near Boyelles, and buried where he fell. The following Western Counties Audit District for about a-year-and-a-half letter from a brother officer of the 11th Battalion, Tank when war was declared in 1914. In September he joined the Corps, describes the circumstances of his death : " It appears Universities and Public Schools Brigade, and eventually was that his Tank went some considerable way into the German given a commission in the Sherwood Foresters. lines and was put out of action by an anti-tank rifle. While \iV. D. E. writes to The Tin1es: " That his men were devoted the crew were trying to repair the damage inside the tank to him is shown by the many letters I have received. He J\rth ur got out and tried to call the attention of the advancing was a born athlete, standing over six feet in height, a good infantry to warn them not to approach too close to his tank, boxer, a Rugger player for his college, of which his chief which was being heavily shelled ; he himself being thirty happened to be an old member, an d also a fair golfer. The yards or so away to one side of the tank. The Germans - work of Government Auditor in a large district precludes the made a rush to seize the tank and capture him, but he lay making of many friends, but Captain Croggon succeeded down in a shell-hole and kept them away from him with his where others did not. His personality was very attractive, revolver. He succeeded in attracting the British, who, and his purse was equally as open as his heart. On reading rushing up, drove off the Germans but found him shot the announcement of his death a member of his old staff said through the head by a German machine-gun. He must have 'One of the best'. t think we who loved him and all his died instantaneously and never suff ered for an instant. He ways may leave it at that". was buried the next clay when it was fairly safe to approach him ; he was buried where he fell, and I saw his grave the ame clay. His tank did extraordinarily well, cleaning up ARTHUR DAVENPORT. strong posts of the enemy, thus enabling the infantry to Lieutenant Arthur Davenport, of the Rifle Brigade, was advance with a minimum of casualties to themselves. The killed in action 23 August 1918, while serving with the Tank Germans paid their price in full on that occasion, as the tank Corps. He was the only son of Mr vVilliam Arthur Davenport, was surrounded with dead Germans. I hardly know how to of 'Lyndhurst ', Woodstock, and was born in the City of express my sorrow for you, for he was so bright and cheerful Oxford 19 April 1897. He was educated at Rayne's School, al\\'ays here, and it really honestly does not seem possible. Abingdon, from 1906 to 1914, where he had a distinguished I do hope my letter of details won't upset you unnecessarily, career, gaining a Berks County Intermediate Scholarship in but it is far better for you and Mrs Davenport to !mow what Senio Scholarship 19t0 and a r in 1912. He obtained first did happen, as conflicting stories are so worrying. As a honours in the Oxford Junior class Local Examinations in matter of fact quite a number of people thought he was killed honours in 1912 and first class the Senior Examination in by the shell that struck the tank, but this was not so, as I 1914 19 13. In December he was elected at St John's to an myself saw him leave the tank, but did not know about his death till later." 30 Roll of Hone11r. Roll of Honour. 31

His Adjutant wrote : " I feel I must write to you and part of the trenches while the Army embarked. He after­ express my sympathy over the loss of your son. \A'e haYe wards served in Egypt, and was killed on another front been in action continuously now for the last fortnight or I 20 August 1917 ; he had been avvarcled the Military Cross would have written before. I know from my 0\\'11 experience about a month before his death. that when those one loves are taken from us there is very little to say which can be of any comfort. As Adjutant of a Tank Battalion, where there are 91 officers on the establish­ WILLIAM MARGETSON HEALD, B.A. )nent, one cannot !mow them all intimately, but I did know Lieutenant W. M. Healcl, of the H.oyal Army Medical your son well and I cannot say how sorry I am personally Corps, died in the Reel Cross Hospital at Rouen on 8 Sep­ that he has been killed. He was a splendid officer, and the tember 1918 of wounds received on 22 August. He was the best Tank Commander we had. He ahYays set a splendid only son of the Rev. Charles William Heald, Rector of Chale example to his men, and every one in the Battalion momns in the Isle of Wight, and was born at U1e Rectory 21 August his loss. Such as he are becoming scarcer every clay." 1894. He was educated at Allen House, Guildford, and Marlborough College. He was elected to an Entrance Exhi­ bition for Classics at St John's in December 1912, commencing RoBERT DouGLAS FosTER, B.A. residence in October, 1913. He rovved '.five ' in the winning Junior Trial Eight of the L.M.B.C. in the Michaelmas Term Lieutenant R D. Foster, of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1 \J 13 and ' bow ' in the third boat in the Lent races of 1914. the eldest son of Mr Robert John Foster, of Medehamstead, He �btained his B.A. degree in 1916, and proceeded to St Peterborough, and formerly of Selby, was born at Selby Bartholomew's Hospital to complete his medical studies. He 2 May 1890. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, obtained the qualification of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in Jan. where he was head boy. He entered St John's in 1910, and 1918, and was for two months Junior House Physician at St was a Choral Student of the College. He was Captain of the Bartholomew's. He received his commission in the R.A.M.C. College Rugby Football team in 1912, and got his 'Half-blue ' 7 Apri1 1918 and sailed for France on April 17, when he joined for Lacrosse in 1913, in which year he played in the Cam­ the 91st Field Ambulance. In the beginning of August he bridge team against Oxford. l-:1e was on the Committee of was attached as medical of-ficer to the 16th Battalion, Lanca­ the Musical Society (taking part in its Concerts) and of the shire Fusiliers. He was wounded at his aid post on the College Mission. He took his B.A. degree in December 1913. Somme on August 22, his skull being fractured. It was his intention to take Holy Orders, but when war broke out he at once joined the army, being gazetted Second Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment, VICTOR WILLIAM JOHN HOBBS, M.A., LL.B. 26 August 1914. He went out with his Regiment to Gallipoli Lieutenant V. W. J. Hobbs, of The Buffs, was killed in in 1915, and was in the landing at Suvla Bay, and was last action in France on 9 August 1918. He was the only son of the seen leading his men up Chocolate Hill. He 'vvas officially late Mr Edwarcl Ernest Hobbs and of Mrs. Hobbs, of Clifton. reported as "wounded and missing " on 6 August 1915, and He was born in Bristol 23 January 1887 and educated at is now presurnecl to be dead. Clifton College, entering St John's in 1905. He passed Part I. His brother, Captain J. C. Foster, M.C., who was gazetted of the Law Tripos in 1 V07 and Part I I. in 1909, taking his to the Lincolnshire Regiment on the same clay in August B.A. degree in 1908, that of LL.B. in 1909 and his M .A. in 1914, also served in Gallipoli, being one of the last ditchers, 1913. Gainin� his college cricket colours as a freshman he been chosen with six of his men to remain and hold having \\'as elected cricket secretary in his second year, and in his 32 Roll of Ho11o11r. Roll of Ho11our. 33

ih�rd year he "He fell, leading his platoon, with the greatest gallantry at _ captained the College XI. most successfully. captured. He was one of H1s cncket was characteristic of the man himself-always Morlancourt , which this Battalion I have ever had under cheerful, plucky and invigorating. A dashing bat, he was the keenest and most thorough officers well as by his usually at his best when runs were badly wanted. An innings my command. He was loved by his men as 66 much ". He of on the Jesus ground especially lives in the writer s brother officers, and we all feel his loss very n:emory Frambillers near by reason of Hobbs' batting against a strong bowling was buried in the military cemetery at s1de. he spent, as an officer, in He was an extremely quick and safe field at extra Albert. During the period which cover, he served under two Commanding Officers. One and bowled slow leg-breaks which often broke up a England, stubborn partnership. writes : " In addition to his admirable qualities as a soldier, charming and delightful of all the In his last summer term Hobbs gave up cricket and took he was one of the most to haYe serving withme in those to tennis, a game he had neglected since winning the College clear fellows I was privileged : "I looked on him with affection Freshmen's Tournament in 1906. He quickly won a place trying years ". The other greatest approval of all his work as an in the College VI., and at the end of the season he won the as a man and with the than that he always came up to College Singles Cup. As a well-known athlete, the President officer. I can say no more of the officer and a gentleman ". ' Fireflies ' Club, an office-bearer in the College Mission, the highest ideal of an English �nd M. a member of the Debating Society Committee, he came F. D. 1n contact with a large circle of men, and his inOuence for PI!RCY VICKER?IIAN KEMP, B.A. good in the college was very great. Those who only met h1 Captain P. V. Kemp, of the Durham Light Infantry, who m casually were attracted at once by his charm of manner . two and his died of gas poisoning 31 I\fay 19 18, was the younger of infectious joic de vivre. His friends knew that he Kemp. He was possessed, a surviving sons of the Rev. James Vickerman in addition, fund of strong common-sense, a contempt born at Sunderland 16 July 1892, allCl was educated at St for all that was mean or base, and a very tender Leatherhead, ·where he was for eight years. sympathy with those in suffering or sorrow. John's School. and After He entered St John's in 1910 with a Choral Studentship going down from Cambridge, Hobbs was called to the � with an Exhibition from his school ; taking his degree in Bar at he Inner Temple 23 June l 909, but soon took up � 1913 through the Classical Tripos. During his undergraduate th� profes wn of a schoolmaster, for which he was admirably smted. course he played cricket, and was a member of the Of-ficers FirSt at Llandaff Cathedral School (1909-1911) and aft� Training Corps. i\fter graduating he spent a year at Westcott rwards at Highgate School, he displayed marked powers _ House, still remaining a Choral Student in the college. He of 1mpartmg knowledge, and was at the same time extremely broke out popular. had retired from the O.T.C. in 1913, and when war had just finished his residence at Cambridge. In August When the war broke out he was married and had a little daughter, 1914 he received notice from the headquarters of the O.T.C. but he gave up his post at H ighgate, and, after prelunmary he might be wanted for service, and be replied that he training at Cambridge in the O.T.C. and in Scot­ that land, received called, but the call never came. Not being a commission as Second Lieut. in The Buffs. was ready when ordained he took up teaching for a term, Sl:owmg great promise as an instructor, he was soon promoted old enough to be Lleutenant, �n� appomted but on 13 January 19 15 he enlisted in London in the l 9th _ Musl�etry Officer to a young soldiers' �attal ,I post Battalion Hoyal Fusiliers. In November of that year he wn. h1s he relmqmshecl at his own urgent request 111 order to go to �he Front, proceeded to France, where be became one of the pioneer and he went to France early in the trenches. May of 1918. H1s career m France company, and spent the winter of 1915-16 in was all too short I c I . . . an 1 ·t 1s best In April 1916 he was sent, with others of his company, to descnbed m the words of his Commanding Officer : VOL. XL. D

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England to train for a commission, which came in August, when he was appointed Second Lieut. in the 4th Battalion of the LnsLIE TowNSEND MoRRIS.

Durham Light Infantry ; at the end of the month he was Second Lieutenant L. T. Morris, of the , attached to another Battalion of the same regiment, and who was killed in action on 1 June 1918, was a son of l\fr J proceeded to France. At the end of March 918 he wrote W. R. Morris, Headmaster of the Halstow f�oacl School, home that he was Hilus c.r pauc:is of his Battalion, swept away Greenwich. He was born in Cambenvell 9 March 1899, and by a German attack near Hoye. He was deemed to have had ·was educated at Christ's Hospital. He was elected to an a shock, and was sent to hospital at Le Treport, but in less Entrance Exhibition at St John's for Mathematics in June than a week was again al his post training a new company ; 1917. Without coming into residence he joined the Army he was then acting Captain. On 26 l\Iay 1918 he was billeted and obtained a Commission in the Cheshire Regiment in at Lie\·en, about one mile south-east of Lens, and was out August 1917. After a period of training he went to France working with his men all that night. l\1eanwhile the Germans on 21 April 1918, and proceeded during the next eight clays hac! shelled the billets with gas-shells. Returning there in by easy stages to the clanger zone in Flanders. Incidentally looking after the welfare of his men, he was himself gassed he was attached to the , and so had and taken to hospital. On May 29 he was removed to Le to part with his friends in the Cheshires. The next mo\·e Touquct, where he died on May 3J, about two hours before was a long train journey through Paris towards Champagne, a relative could reach him. He was buried at Etaples on and here the regiment was supposed to be in for a quiet Sunday, June J. time. On May 27, he wrote saying they \\·ere in the bustle His Commanding Officer wrote: '' I have only recently of a departure (the second great offensive began on that clay), taken over the command of the Battalion, and in him I have and they were sent up to check the German advance. On lost my best company commander, to whom I looked for June 1 they were engaged again, anrl he was hilled by a shell adYice, for I am new to pioneering work. He was out as on that clay. His Colonel wrote to his father as follo\YS : usual at \York on the night of 26 to 27 May when I saw him, "You will by this time hm·e received the War Office notice and on his way back the Germans were bombarding the town of your gallant son's death in action, and I write now to in which he was billeted with gas-shells. The gas must have convey to you the deep sorrow and regret of myself and all got into his dug-out, or his clothing, in passing through, must his brother officers at the untimely closing of such a promising have got saturated, he was sent to hospital next morning. career. During the short time your son has been \Yith us he The news of his death is a great shock to us, and we mourn had shewn himself a most efficient and gallant officer, and a a gallant comrade ". The chaplain also wrote : " He and his thorough young gentleman such as one is proud to welcome company arrived there on Sunday, l'vlay 26th. On Sunday in any regiment. You will feel a melancholy interest in night we bad the attack ; on Monday morning I went to call hearing of his last hours. You will have seen by the papers on him and his brother orficers and found he had already that the Germans are making another great offensive, which been taken to the hospital. I discovered that it was through we were doing our best to resist. Your son was with D his anxiety for the safety of his men that he had been out in Company, and during the clay of the 1st I had specially told the mined and poisoned streets and in the infected dug-outs, him off to collect stragglers of other regimtnts, which he did regardless of his own safety and not sparing himself in any very efficiently. About 5 p.m. he quittecl the wood in which way. He had the reputation of being a man who never \\'e were, telling one of his men he was 'Just going a short spared himself where his men were concerned, and to the last way to look at some firing which was going on'. 'i\'hilst he bore out that reputation, dying a true soldier's death at the walking a shell burst near him, a piece piercing his heart. post of duty ". The doctor, \Yho examined him very shortly afterwards,

• Roll of Ho1iour. 37 36 Roll of H o11ottr. tain, acting in this capacity for some time, although he had pronounced death must have been instantaneous and without not been actually gazetted at the time of his death. The any suffering. He was carried to his grave with every mark circumstances of his death are explained by the Chaplain of of respect by his brother officers, and the Chaplain (the Rev. the Regiment in the following letter : " Your nephew very C. Noble) read the last prayers over him. His face in death pluckily went out in daylight with another officer (Mr W. \\"as composed and beautiful ; his grave is in a wood, the Grace) and a private named Dallard to a sap in Rossignol identity of which will be conveyed to you later. I can only Wood in order to verify some information received the repeat how much we all feel and sympathize with you and all previous night by patrols. They had reported that there your family in the great loss you have sustained, and to was no enemy in that part of the wood, though they had assure you how greatly he will be missed in the regiment." expected to find a German outpost there. It would have been very foolish for your nephew to have gone out if an WILLIAM GUTHHI� SALMONO, B.A. enemy outpost had been known to be there, but apparently the Germans only used this post at times and our party was W. G. Salmond, a Lieutenant in the Wellington Regiment taken by surprise when within fifteen yards of the post. The of the New Zealand Army, was l

. ·' And in the clays to come you'll have your thanks, MrmDEL Ismo R E TRACHTENBERG, B.A. \Vhen those Dominions far beyond the seas, Mighty in numbers, closed in serriecl ranks, Stand joined with us as arbiters of peace." Lance-Corporal Mendel Isidore Trachtenberg, of the 39th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, Egyptian Expeditionary Force In January 1910 his "Sonnet to Mr Chamberlain " was pub­ who died of malaria 12 October 1918, was the eldest son of lished in " Monthly Notes on Tariff Reform ", and to a letter Mr and Mrs I. M. Trachtenberg, of 139, Fordwych Road, he wrote to the statesman he received the following reply :- Cricldewood. He was born in London on 30 June 1882. He was educated at the Latymer Upper School, Hammer­ "Highbury, Moor Green, smith, of which he was top, and in 1900 gained an Open " Birmingham. Exhibition in Mathematics for St John's College, Cambridge. "Jall. 25, 1910. "Dear Sir, He also gained the Special Exhibition awarded by St John's " I am desired by Mr Chamberlain to acknowledge to the candidate who was top in mathematics in the Cam­ with thanks the receipt of your letter of Jan. 5 and copy of bridge Senior Local Examination, obtaining first-class honours with distinction in arithmetic, mathematics and religious your sonnet. lmowleclge. In addition he held the Cambridge Jewish " Mr Chamberlain has come to the same conclusion as Exhibition and a school leaving exhibition. yourself and thinks that the success of the Tariff Reform He commenced residence at St John's in October 1901. movement is only a question of time and that no lengthened He took a first-class in each of his College examinations and one. "Yours faithfully, was adjudged a prizeman. In 1903 he was elected a Scholar "J. WILSON. of St John's, and he graduated with honours in the Mathe­ "M. I. Trachtenberg, Esq." matical Tripos of 190i- as first Senior Optime. In 1906 he entered the Tariff Commission, of which Mr W. A. S. Hewins, He contributed two articles to the Eagle, " A Message from M.P., now Under-Secretary to the Colonies, was Secretary, Neptune " and '' The Rose by other names ", while he also and he was Statistician to the Commission at the time of his contributed to Ptmc!t , the Mathematical Gazelle and the death. He took the keenest interest in all questions which Journal of the Royal Statistical Soc£cly. He was a Fellow of affected the welfare of the Empire, and in 1910, when the the Royal Statistical Society and a frequent participator in its S!a11dard invited essays on the Governance of Empire, his discussions. contribution was placed fifth in order of merit out of efforts In spite of his serious activities he found time for lighter from all parts of the English speaking world. He was a things. At school he won the hundred yards, the quarter­ skilled debater, being a prominent member both of the West m'lie and the long jump, while as a member of the Tariff London Parliament and the " Ancient Society of Cogers ", of Reform Cricket Club he was an elegant bat. He was an the Committee of which he was a member. He was an enthusiastic member of the Operatic Class of Trinity College enthusiastic follower of 1\fr Joseph Chamberlain, and had the of Music, and when on 21 December 1907 the students of greatest confidence in the eventual realisation of that states­ that class gave a performance of "The Yeomen of the man's proposals for Tariff Reform and Colonial Preference. Guard " he played the part of Jach Point with outstanding In a poem "To Mr Chamberlain ", which appeared from his success. Equally striking was his rendering of the ,-6/e of pen in Tl" British a11d Tarrff Reforl/l lotmwl of 25 September Gaspard in "Les Cloches de Corneville", presented on 1909, occurred words which, in the light of ihe events of the 15 June 1910, in which, in the words of the Era, he "dis­ past four years, have a prophetic ring :- played considerable dramatic talent ". He delighted to read Roll of Ho11our. 43 42 Roll of Honour. His platoon officer wrote : papers on subjects of literary, scientific and educational "October 30th, 1918. interest, and was a Maccab

"E. MARGOLIN " . 44 Roll of HoHour. Roll of Honour. 45 '' May God console you with the consolation of Zion and Jerusalem. The following additions have been received to previous '' For the Council of the Jerusalem Jews, notices. "T. BARCHASH, Secretary." ROBI!RT C E CIL HEARN, B.A. On 4 November 1913 he married Jennie, the younger (Eagle, Vol. xxxix., p. 224.) daughter of Mr and Mrs N. Luxenburg, and their great love was the great thing of both their lives. As mentioned in our previous notice Captain Hearn intended to enter at Wells Theological College on the first Mr Hewins, in a letter of condolence, wrote : vacancy in January 1915, with a view to ordination at the end '' Colonial Office, . of that year. To fill up the intervening time he had promised "Oct. 18th, 1918. to give a term's help at Bolton School. On the outbreak of "Dear Mrs Trachtenberg, war in August 1914 his mind was seriously exercised as to '' I am deeply grieved to hear of the death of your ·what he ought to do, and finally he decided that it would husband, and wish to tell you how much I sympathise with not be fair to leave in the lurch one who was relying upon you. I know, if I may venture to say so, that you had a rare his promised help, Accordingly he went to Bolton School, attachment to each other, and it must appear that in his death where he speedily won golden opinions from all. At the that there can be no consolation which can reach to the end of the term he was strongly urged to remain, but he felt extremity of the loss you have suffered. During the years we it his duty to answer the call of his country, and at once worked together at the Tariff Commission I don't think we joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. A few months later he ever had a difference of any kind. He was a most loyal and gained his commission and was gazetted to the 20th London faithful friend and colleague. But he had such rare gifts Regiment, subsequently being gazetted Lieutenant 4 Dec­ that I regard his loss at the present time as a national loss. I ember 1916 and Acting Captain 13 October 1917. In the do not know anyone who can do the work of which he was summer of 1915 he was ordered to France at short notice capable. This is a war of supreme issues, and I can only and, with the exception of a short period spent in England pray that you ma;r find some consolation-and it may become through sickness, he served there until the Division was a great consolation-in the knowledge that he never shrank transferred to Salonica at the end of 1916. After a few from them, and that he has laid down his life in the redemp­ months' service in Macedonia his Division was again trans­ tion of Palestine from the dominion of the Turk. ferred to Palestine, and there he eventually met his death. "Believe me, yours sincerely, In November 1917 he vvas awarded the Military Cross for a "w. A. S. HE\VINS" . piece of work of which the details have not yet bee� pub­ lished. His method of conveying the news was typical of His was a life of high ideals. He had a great personality, his whole character. In a letter received by his mother on and there was no height to which he might not have risen. Christmas Day he remarked casually and parenthetically :­ Full of noble plans, he fell in the execution of the noblest of ,, By the way, you may be interested to hear that I have them all. He is not gone, but rests a space. recently been awarded the Military Cross. It was rather an No lily raised its head for long, ordeal when the General pinned the ribbon on "-and then No rose but to the ground descendt:d, went on to describe the recent bad weather. The following Swift dies away the sweetest song, extracts from letters shew the affection and esteem with But life's not ended. which he was regarded by all with whom his work brought him in contact. Roll of Houour. 47 46 Roll of Houour. friend the less. I shall never forget him, for he served his l\1ajor-General H. S!'Jea, commanding the 60th Division, country well, and was a great help to me in very strenuous writes : "He was one of the finest officers, and his death is times." deplored by all his brother officers and men of his battalion, A brother officer writes : "We attacked the Turks on the and while I recognise how much the Division has lost, it hills east of the Jordan on the early morning of April 30th. makes me realise how great is your loss. I trust that the The attack was successful , but after a time we were counter­ knowledge of how very finely your son did his duty will be attacked with heavy shelling, and had to leave our most some slight consolation to you in your trouble." advanced position. Your son, who had been handling his Captain J. J. Bell writes : "When your son first went to company with great skill, was about the last to come back, France in October 1915 he was posted to my company, and and he was shot on the way back. We have buried him at once joined me in the trenches at Chalk Pit Wood, about at the foot of the hills on which he was fighting and within half a mile north-east of Loos. The company was going view of Jerusalem. Your son had done much hard work for through a very nasty time, and was under heavy fire for nine the battalion, and led his company into action with great days in the front line, and, almost immediately after, for four gallantry on many occasions." clays in battalion reserve. It was a severe trial for a man Lieutenant Balfour T. Woolfe writes : "He was killed in straight out from home, but your son bore it as well as action on the 30th April, and he was buried amongst his any man could. He carried out some particularly nasty comrades, who fell in the same action, just at the foot of the work, which I had to impose on him, lying out under fire in Moab hills. He was a brave man, a good officer, loved by command of working parties for several nights. I was short, his men, and a good friend of his brother officers. We, his very short, of subalterns, and those I had were quite new to brother officers, miss him, as he was always so cheerful." the work. But he stood the strain well, and I formed not The Headmaster of Bolton School writes : "We have only a high appreciation of him, but a very sincere liking a very affectionate remembrance of him, for, though he was as well. The work, I knew, told hard upon him-indeed he here all too short a time, he had made himself so thoroughly must have felt it harder than most, for his temperament was at home with us, and entered so heartily into all our life and quiet and gentle, and his thoughts and hobbies had always interest, that real friendship began almost as soon as he came been far removed from war. But there was a strong dogged among us. When he left us to join the army we regretted strain in him for all his quiet ways, and his winning of the his departure as though we were losing an old friend, a�d we Military Cross was no surprise to those who really knew him. were as proud of his Military Cross as if he had been w1th us How he must have loathed war. And yet I never once heard for years. Indeed we have always had a lingering hope that him complain or shew any sign of shrinking from duty. I the clay might come when he would rejoin us again." was sorry to lose him from company and mess when he joined the l\lachine Gun Company, but I saw a good deal of him even then-as he passed through the trenches in RICHARD HENHY WHITE, M.C. charge of his guns or strolled the roads near his billets. And (Eagle, vol. xxxix, p. 65.) always he was cheerful, given to an expansive smile that was Lieutenant R. H. White, of the 30th London Regiment, a real reflection of a quiet and cheerful spirit within. Men was killed in action 5 August 1917. He was the only son of under clanger form warm attachments for lhose whom they Mr Richard A. White, of the Army Inspection Department can trust, and I should like you to kno w that I had such an and of Melrose, Beaconsfielcl Road, Enfield Wash. Born attachment for him. When I last saw him we were both at 22 December 1896, at Small Heath, near Birmingham, he Winchester. His loss is something more to me than the came to Enfield at the age of nine and was educated at mere death in action of a man I once knew. It means a Enfield Grammar School. His career at school was not only Roll of Honour. -1-8 Roll of Hollollr. 49 distinguished by numerous scholastic successes, but also by great regard and esteem. in which he was held are shown in the many good services which he rendered to his school­ the many letters which his parents have received from of-ficers fellows and the splendid influence which he exercised over and men who knew him. them. He won an Entrance Scholarship at St John's in His Commanding Officer wrote : " No one of my officers December 1914, and was also awarded a Middlesex County worked harder or made such rapid progress in his military Senior Scholarship. He came into residence in October 1915 career ". The Brigadier wrote : '' He was one of the very and at once joined the Officers' Training Corps, giving his best officers in the Brigade, and easily lhe best Scout Officer. full time to military training. Here his mental powers and Had he liYecl he \\'Oulcl assuredly have been selected for staff methodical habits shewecl themselves by the very high marks employ at an early elate. He is a great loss to me personally, he obtained in all the military examinations. He received as I had been looking forward to having him on my staff in a his first commission 13 December 1915, and, being an expert \Yeek or so ". One of his brother officers wrote : " His faith with the bicycle, he was posted to the 3rd Battalion of the in God was as keen as I've ever seen in any one. His con­ 25th London Cyclists, joining his regiment at Feltham tempt of death was beJitting in him, for he realised that death 26 December 1915. After two weeks he went to the Offi cers' is only the crossing over to fuller opportunity. His one desire Cadet School (Artists' Rifles) at Romforcl for a special course was to do his duly, and I can assure you that he succeeded " in Field Exercises. When this course was completed he Another wrote : '' I shall always remember him for his fine, returned to his regiment for another short spell and then straightforward, sunny Christian life. He was whole-hearted went to Godstone in Surrey for a course in bombing. His and not ashamed. Nobody can say how far the influence of such brilliant successes in both these courses were recognised by a life as his will go ". And yet another wrote : " He was one his appointment to the rank of Temporary Lieutenant, and of lhe bravest men I have eYer known, and we always used he went out to France on 26 April 1916, with the First to say that he enjoyed the war, so enthusiastic was he in Divisional Cyclist Corps. He soon found, however, that everything he undertook, and so firmly did he believe in the there was, at that time, no work for cyclists, and his keen justice of lhe cause he fought for. I have never known him desire to be "doing something useful " led him to apply for say or do a mean or unkind thing, and he was always modest transference to the Flying Corps. This application was not in the extreme about his own doings, and his deep religion successful, as he was then considered too heavy, and after was an example to all of us ". some delay he became attached in September 1916 to the But the letter which best of all helps to show his deep and 1 /4th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. His first beautiful character was one which he him elf wrote and left duties in this regiment were tho e of Platoon Commander, with a near friend, with instructions that it was to be given to but his worth was quickly realised and he was appointed his parents in the event of his death. This leller was add res ·eel Scout Officer and shortly afterwards Intelligence Officer. In to his father, mother and sister, and "everyone else whom it April 1917 he ·was awarded the Mililary Cross, as he explained may concern ". It was dated October 1916 and was as it, "for cutting a bit of wire." The official report said : follows : "Accompanied by two men he went out four times to '' The following is an attempt-a very feeble one I'm examine the enemy wire, and, in spite of meeting several afraid-to convey to you a message which has been in my hostile parties, attained his objective and brought back very mind for a long while. I don't believe there will ever be any valuable information." The scouts who worked tmder him, need for you to read it, for I am quite convinced that God not only admired him, they loved him. He was also a great has work in this world for me to do after the war ; but I may favourite with all his fellow officers. It was whilst he was be wrong, and the possibility of my being killed is the reason on his way to an advanced position on the evening of 5 Augusl for my writing lhis. I haye thought long and deeply over it, 1917 that he was killed, instantaneously, by a shell. The VOL. XXXIX. E so Roll of Honour. and I hope the result will give you some slight amount of comfort. There is one thing, and one thing only, which \\'Orries me when I contemplate sudden death, and that is the thought of the sorrow it would cause you. Were it not -for @bitn n r� that I should be perfectly ready to die, and proud too for such JAMES BASS MULLINGER. a cause as ours. You musn't think that I am tired of life, for nothing is (5 Feb. 1834-21 Nov. 1917.) further from the truth. Never, I should think, has anyone The following notice is reprinted, by permission, from the loved God's beautiful world so much as I, but the thought Cambridge Rtvitw for 29 Nov. 1917, with a few omissions that always strikes me is, that if this admittedly temporary and some slight additions or corrections :- earth is so glorious, what must our real home-Heaven-be The late Dr l\1ull inger is best known as the Historian of like ? his University, and the present notice will be mainly confined Oh ! please don't think of death as a tragedy or as an to a brief review of his published works. Born at Bishop occasion for mourning, but rather rejoice that God has spared Stortford on 5th February, 1834, be attended the lectures of me the trials and temptations of a longer 'apprenticeship ' Henry Maiden, the Professor of Greek at University College, here, and has taken me at once to his Eternal Rest. London, and was already 28 years of age before he became I shall be able to see you, feel for you, and enter into all a member of St John's College in 1862. As an undergraduate, your doings, even though you may not be allowed to 'pierce he showed a remarkable familiarity with English Literature, the veil ' from the earthly side-and, after all, even this especially with the voluminous and discursive writings of De 'semi-parting ' will only last for a few years, and then you too Quincey, and, in three successive years, he won the College will join me in that Land of Perfect Bliss. So please, please prize for the best English Essay written by students of hi� do not weep or mourn or despair, but look forward to that own year. After taking honours in Classics and in Moral Great Day of Reunion. I shall be longing for you, waiting Sciences in l 866, he won the Le Bas prize awarded by and watching for you, never fear ! Munro"' for an Essay dedicated to Mayor in 1867, and entitled Oh ! how I could wish I could persuade you not even to " Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century ; or worry about me now ! I don't like even to appear to be the Studies of the University, and their inOuence on the unkind, but I must try and show you that it is really a great character and writings of the most distinguished graduates presumption for any one to worry at all. Why, it is simply during that period. " One of the most interesting chapters in a flat contradiction of their alleged belief in a God of Love. a work rich with the highest promise for the future was that I never pray to be kept safe, but simply put myself into on the Cambridge Platonists, a theme which was destined, God's hands and ask to be granted grace to see how and forty-three years later, to mark the close of the third volume why His way is always the best. Death is not a tragedy any more than Birth is ; it is not of his great History of the University. the end of life, but merely a great step forward like Baptism • The other adjudicator was Todhunter, who \\'rote to Mullinger as or Confirmation. How can we profess to believe in a Risen follows on LS 1\Iay, 1866 :-" The subject for the Le Bas prize was, I Lord and yet mourn for those whom we say we have lost ? think, very interesting. It occurred lo me that it might possibly be of Ob ! how I pray that you may be permitted to see how true sufficient attractiveness to encourage a writer to devote much time to it after the prize was adjudged, and to produce a volume of abiding value. this is. . .. Should you think of writing still further on the subject, it might I have loved you all imperfectly on earth ; by God's grace perhaps be advisable to rdain all yout mate1 ials for the present, and I shall love you perfectly in Paradise, and in Heaven later on. publish now the Essay as it stands ". DICK." 1Roll of 1bonou r.

R. P. GREGORY, M.A.

Born 7 June 1879. Died 24 November 1918. Reginald Philip Gregory died, at his house in Cambridge, on the 24th November 1918 after a few clays illness. His life had been bound up with the College for more than twenty years. He came into residence in 1898, gained a fii·st class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1900, and in Part II (Botany) 1902. Throughout his undergraduate days he was a central figure in the athletic life of the College, unsurpassed in his all-round capacity for field games. He played for the college in rugby and association football, in cricket, hodey and lawn tennis, and for the University in hockey. He was elected to a Fellowship in 1lJ04, and in 1912 was appointed College Tutor, an office in which his friendliness, his good sense, his manly, direct, and unconventional ways endeared him alike to his pupils and colleagues. He was clearly making his mark when the war broke out. At the beginning of the war he joined the C.U.O.T.C., was promoted to the rank of captain, and for some tit'ne rendered good service in the Cambridge school of instruction for cadets. In 1917 he went to France with the Gloucesters and was badly gassed in August. He returned to England and, on his discharge, resume cl his College duties, but his health had been enfeebled, and he fell a victim to influenza, followed by pneumonia. He hac! married in 190tl Joan Laicllay, daughter of Mr T. G. Bisclee, of Button Court, Weston-super-Mare, and leaves three daughters. In his death the College suffers one of its most serious losses of recent years, for he seemed but on the threshold of his life's work. Of his original research work in the field of genetics, Professor Bateson wrote (Nature, 12 December 1918): '' Mr Gregory was at first associated wilh me in the proof that the familiar heterostylism of Primulas is an allelomorphic pheno­ menon. He next undertook a laborious inquiry into the sex-polymorphism of Volerimw .dioiccr, but, in spite of much experiment, the case proved intractable, and little positiYe Palme>' Clarke] [ Camb•·idge. result was reached. About this time he declined a lucrati\'e post which would have, as he feared, meant the practical abandonment of research, and, undeterred by a rather di�- 118 Roll of Honortr. Roll of Honottr. 119 appointing experience, he attacked several problems met with medal with in the genetics of Primula sinwsis, to which he devoted his '' In 1904 Mr Gregory shared the Walsingham as spare energies for many years. Mr Gregory there encountered the late Dr Keith Lucas. In 1907, after serving five years eship. a group of fads of surprising novelty and importance, which a demonstrator, he was elected to a University Lectur d were described in outline in Proc. Roy. Soc., 1914, vol. lxxxvii. Mr Gregory was a good all-round botanist, who inherite Viola is well B, p. 484. Certain plants known in horticulture as • giants' from his mother (whose work on the genus have all their organs of very large size, and two races of these known to systematists) a love of natural history. He had as are, as he proved cytologically, giant also with regard to the already established for himself an honourable position nuclei of their cells. In these new giants the number of an original investigator, and those who kne\Y him best looked in the chromosones is fourfold (tetraploid), the usual number in forward with confidence to still greater achievements normal plants. future. He was a man who would never grow old ; be himself to "Breeding from such plants, he found that they are actually enjoyed life in the be t sense, and endeared by his unselfishness and endowed with four set of Mendelian factors instead of the undergraduates and older associates to usual two sets proper to biparental inheritance. Various joyous, open-hearted character. His place will be hard paradoxical consequences were, therefore, theoretically fill, particularly in these clays when there is an exceptional possible, and several of these, as he demonstrated, do need for virile teachers and men of wide ancl strong human occur. sympathies.'' of Gregory's "Such tetraploid plants are known to have arisen d� uovo A colleague writes : "The dominant feature sincere. on two separate occasions (once in his own work and once at character was, I think, slrnig!ttness-he was ab olutely to initiate, Messrs Sutton's, to whom he was indebted for many facilities) Wilh great constructive ability, he was always ready While he firmly from diploid parents, but, as Mr Gregory discovered, they and yet always willing to accept critici m. was were incapable of breeding with the races from which they upheld tradition-so long as it was worth preserving-he the College were derived-a fact hitherto unparalleled and indubitably of never afraid of breaking new ground. He saw that and l�e great significance. When war broke out he became involved had great opportunities of development after the war, These in military duties, eventually going out to France and being was busy with new plans and ideas to the very last. lived to can y rather badly gassed. For technical reasons the study of the plans will not be forgotten, though he has not a loser, in this as in ''giants" had to be suspended, but he kept always in touch them out. None the less, the College is the pluckiest man I with the Primula work, which we maintained for him so far other ways ; for Gregory was perhaps well as body-and he as possible. The purpose of the later experiments was to have ever known-plucky in mind a work and lay it aside un­ lest the theory that the numerous linkages are indications was not one to take up a piece of of purpose that seems of successive somatic segregations, a view to which he finished. It was indeed his strength many strongly inclined in preference to current interpretations most lo have impressed younger men, to judge from the Front. His based on cytological appearances, and he believed that letters which have poured in from all parts of lhe a support for the somatic theory was already in some measure pupils have obviously felt that they lost in him not only " provided by his own observations. He left a mass of records friend and teacher, but the stimulus of a real man. bearing on this question, which we hope eventually to A former pupil writes : who fought will! publish, but the character and soundness of his work even in "He will live always for me as a f1ghter its imperfect state give it classical value." athletic direct attack, without too great fineness, without without Of his work in the Botany Schoo 1, Professor Seward excess of intellectual subtlety leading to cynicism, through clouds, him has written in Nalrtrc (28 November 1918): subterfuge or evasion. Some men I see I see face to face, free from deformity and warp of mind 120 Roll of Honour. Roll of Honottr. 121 which gives the feature of many. Of tenderness in him, Northamptonshire, and was born there 17 January 1884. of a warm ideal, of fundamental emotion I doubt not, but He was educated at the Northampton and County School ; always their expression was restrained by a natural and firm he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Natural inhibition. Their presence gave as in art the distinction Science in December 1902 and came into residence in of reality. He was a man." October 1903. While at school he had been Captain of the School, cricket, football and hockey Clubs and got his EDWARD VICTOR IREMONGER, B.A. cricket colours while at College ; he also played cricket V. as a son of the late Mr Edward Private E. Iremonger w for his County and for the Northampton Club. He passed Iremonger, formerly Fellow of Clare College (who died the First Part of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1905 and 2-+ October 1895 at Weymouth). He was born 21 June 1887 took his B.A. degree by means of the Chemistry " Special." at Southall, Middlesex, and was educated at Christ's Hospital On leaving Cambridge he entered the scholastic profession (1897-1905). He entered St John's in October 1905, having and was a master at Banham Grammar School (1906-09), been awarded an Exhibition for Classics by the College, at Thetford Grammar School (1909-14). In August 1914 he he was also awarded an open Exhibition offered by the was appointed Headmaster of Diss Secondary School. Both Goldsmiths' Company. He took his degree in the Classical at Thetford and Diss he was very successful in preparing his Tripos of 1908. On leaving Cambridge he entered the scholars for the Cambridge Local and other examinations, scholastic profession and held a post as assistant master and was interested in all aspects of school life, particularly at llkley Grammar School (1908-1909). In 1909 he was on the athletic side. appointed to an assistant mastership at Bishop's College When he joined the Army his place as Headmaster at Preparatory School, Lennoxville, Province of Quebec, Canada, Diss was reserved for him by the Governors. He went to holding that post till he joined the Army in April 1915. He France on 27 September 1918. and as stated above was killed joined the 21st Royal Fusiliers (Universities and Public in action on 16 October following, having been almost con­ Schools Battalion) and went to France in November 1915. tinuously in action since October 3rd. In 1916 he was transferred to the 9th Royal Fusiliers. He was awarded the Vellum Certiftcate for gallantry in the field EDWAHD BILLIARD DAY WHITFII!LD, B.A. at Monchy-le-Preux in May 1917. He was taken prisoner Second Lieutenant E. H. D. Whitfield, of the York and by the Germans on 27 March 1918, while performing his Lancaster Regiment, was reported on 30 August 1915 as duties as a Stretcher-bearer, "in which," in the words of '' Missing" at Gallipoli. As nothing further has been heard his Chaplain, "he was never known to fail." of him we fear he must be now presumed dead. A son of From that time onwards he was employed in moYing Mr Edward Hilliard Whitfield he was born 19 December Shell clumps behind the German lines in the neighbourhood 1892 at The Point Farm, Sealand near Chester, and was of Peronne. On 1 September 1918, when that town was educated at The King's School, Chester. In December 1909 threatened by the British, he was transferred to Le Quesnoy. he was elected to an £80 Entrance Scholarship for Mathe­ He went into the Prisoners' Hospital suffering from dysentery matics and commenced residence in the October following, on September 9th, and died on the 12th or 13th of September taking his degree in the :Mathematical Tripos of 1913 as 1918. a Wrangler, with distinction. In that year he was appointed ERNEST EDWARD THOMPSON, M.A. Mathematical Lecturer at St David's College, Lampeter. On Second Lieutenant E. E. Thompson, of the Royal Garrison the outbreak of war in 1914 he at once joined the Army, Artillery, was killed in action 16 October 1918. He was the being gazettecl 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion of the eldest son of Mr Edward Thompson, of East Hadclon, York and Lancaster Regiment 26 August 1914. 192 Rtvitws. is to prevent the captain of the school smoking in the fi,·es courts with the fifteen, and to prevent the aforesaid fifteen, a bold bad lot, from walking arm in arm in the cloisters. Let's forget the Preface and read ahead, and we'll find the book interesting, often amusing, sometimes inspiring, and provided we can keep ourselves from trying to appreciate the New Ideal we shall lay it down with the feeling a good 1Ro 11 of 'lbo no u r. school story always brings-'' the wild regrets of the last good-bye".

GEOFFREY AUSTIN ALLEN, B.A.

Geoffrey Austin Allen, who was reported wounded and missing 7 October 1916, is now reported killed. He was a son of the late Robert Alien, J.P., of Greensteacl Hall, Halstead, Essex, and was educated at Alclenham School. He came up to St John's. in 1905, proceeding to his degree in 1908 by the Natural Sciences Tri pos, Part I. and taking Part II. of the same Tripos in 1909. After going clown he held a mastership at the Grammar School, Wotton-. under-Edge, and later was second master of Milton Abbas School, Blandford. When war broke out he joined ,the Artists' Rifles, going to France in January 1915. In July, 1915 he obtained his commission in the 2nd , becoming'ScoutOfficer ' inl916. On 1 July 1916, during the Somme battle, he with his scouts had penetrated almost to the third German line when he was wounded about 9,30 a.m. His wound was dressed and he was laid on the fire­ step of the German trench. The Regiment was outflanked and had to retire, Lieutenant Allen was left behind with his· scout and observer. In the afternoon he was killed by a German bomb and later the scout was taken prisoner. It was only on the return from captivity of this soldier that the fate of Lieutenant Allen was ascertained.