Harrow Memorials of the Great War August Zgrd, 1914, to March 20Th

HARROW MEMOR I A LS O F TH E GREAT WA R

U ST rd ‘ 1 1 to MA R C H 0th 1 1 A U G z g , 9 4 , 2 , 9 5

VOL U M E I

PR I N T E D F O R H A R R O W S C H O O L

I ntro d u c tion

I T is more than three years since ou r great Empire rushed to the standard to o n prevent the abs rptio of small nations by a Power, steeped in Imperialism

o and Militarism , and bent, through those instruments , on the d mination of the world .

o ﬁ r Fr m the rst our public schools eagerly came forward to take thei part , an d none have been more prominent than the dear old School on the Hill .

’ I have already endeavoured in Ha rrow s Epic of 1196 Wa r (published in

c 1 16 o in De ember , 9 ) to depict, in all too feeble words , the glori us spirit which

o r for Old Harrovians willingly laid d wn thei lives , not only the noblest c a t he ﬁ use ever submitted to decision of the battle eld , but also in the r the g eatest war world has ever witnessed . Their memories will be kept r o r g een in the minds of all who visit the Sch ol , in yea s to come, by an

r impressive monument, now under consideration , whe e future Harrovians

of o will be able to read the names the Sch ol heroes . Naturally they will tr y to picture to themselves the features of the gallant dead , and it will be in the pages o f these volumes that they will be enabled to fulfil their wishes . w It is not possible to say what the number of volumes ill be , for the end of the war is n o t yet in sight but already some five hundred have paid fi the great sacri ce . No words are necessary to commend these volumes to

o the n tice of Old Harrovians . f To them , whether they were personally acquainted with the allen or

o not, the b oks will form a glorious record of the unselﬁsh patriotism and i o ndescribable bravery of the old Sch ol , in the cause of honour, uprightness n - o m and dow tr dden hu anity, while to relations and friends they will bring o o of s me consolati n , in that the faces their dear ones will thus be permanently handed down to posterity . - . R L . H L . SMITH DOR IEN, GENERA

' r rzde i ﬂ P e nt , H a r r ow A rraciat o . Au wt 1 1 g , 9 7 , I n this V o lu m e a re c on taine d t h e N am e s o f th e First H u ndre d Old H arrov ians to fall in th e W a r f om A u u s 2 rd 1 1 t o , r g t 3 , 9 4,

M c h z o th 1 1 ar , 9 5

r C . A . K . Ande son H A . A . skew H r - r W . . J . Ba ber Sta key E E . . Barwell

H R . G . . Blount R c G. . Ma Bowen Colthurst

F . S . Bradshaw

W . L . Breese H R . . W . Brewis E . J . Brodie

E . C .

G . C .

A . W . Buckingham E . T . Busk T - J . . Carpenter Garnier J . A . M . Charles H S . . Christie, D . S . O . Cla A . J y

H . . N Clifton C r . . Close B ooks Con n ellan

r A . C . Gibson C aig, Bart . Eustace Crawley E . C . Daun

B . N .

M . P . Dilworth

D . S . Dodgson R D . . Drummond H H D u s . . n m u re . A

E . . L P . Edwards R a . de C . Findl y T H on O he . A . . W . C . Weld Forester

R . or C . F rest W — . A . Fuller Maitland A . N . Galbraith R H . . E . G F E . .

T -Do rin ton . P . Godman g s E . . L . Gordon R Sa l . w e C . Graves

R . . E . C Groome

J A . Halliday - Th e . . . H Hon F C . Hanbury Tracy D R . . S . Harding H V . . Hare R . L . Q . Henriques

B J . . Jenkinson

C . A . S . O . Lafone, D . L a e n R . O . g d

H . A . Lang

- T . E . Lawson Smith

F . C . Ledgard

Chandos Leigh , D . S . O .

o M . Ll yd

F . Longman L C . E . u ard M c L e an C .

. M a R a I A . c e A V . . Makant O ’ B C . . H. Methuen

E .

. M ont o m e rie W G . g

E . D . Murray

N . Neill

. o H L . F . Nich lls

A . K . Nicholson

B . Osborne r W . F . Par iss

J . D . Patteson V l\ C . . . Percival

. PCtO C H .

o C . A . Pigot Mo die

Pr it ie T . R t he Hon F . . D . R ff M . adcli e R E . H . eid R W . E . ogerson

W . A . F . Sandeman

B . H . Selby

H . J . Shaw

W . T . Stackhouse

C . E . Strahan

F . E . Styles - C . Symes Thompson

H . Taylor

F . G . Theobald R G . . . S odie Thompson R . Tryon R a G . M . . T rbutt

r H . Scott Tu ner

C . H . Van Neck

F .

1r . E . r S Waller , Ba t . W illan s R . St . J . M D . . . Williams E H W ilson . . C E . . M C . .

' The na mes bein in a l b a betzca / orde r it b a s g p , been considered u nnecessa r to number /ze a s y t p g e .

L N A N T 2 N D I E U TE C K . . A . A N DE RSO N

’ King s R oya l R iﬂe Corps

— ° N v th 1 r c ll A ed 2 1 o . 1 2 1 Chu h Hi 0 7 1 1 g , 9 4

O N LY R r n r r son of Al exander icha d A de son , Senior Su geon

a a n a n d r r Gener l Hospit l , Notti gham , of Edith , daughte of the late Cha les

lo ﬁ ld o r o P . B e Edward Tuck , J . , , N f lk, and grandson of the late Colonel

h R n . R r H M . 6t ichard Ande son , . 5 egime t

r r Pemb oke College , Camb idge .

2 n d Lieute n an t Ande r son received his C o mmission in the R oyal Scots

da W a r r r Fusiliers on the y was decla ed , and a week late joined his Regiment

r for r o n 1 1 1 at Gospo t, leaving the F ont August 3 th , 9 4 . He was trans ’ f t o I o R R 1 erred the st Battali n King s oyal iﬂe Corps on August 4th , but

n r r co tinued to se ve with the Scots Fusilie s until his death .

t he R r a n d He took part in etreat f om Mons , in the battles of Le Cateau ,

a n d I r in the Marne, the Aisne, the st Battle of Yp es , which he was slightly

n n wou ded . He was killed leading his men in a night attack on the Germa

a H a e re n ta e o n 1 2 th . trenches at Ch teau g , November He had outlived or

a r r -ofﬁ c e r s outstayed ne rly all his b othe . Of the number that left Gospo rt

R r with the egiment only three emained .

r- Colonel (now Majo General) Douglas Smith , then commanding the

R r egiment, w ites “ r A capital boy in every sense of the word . Always cheerful and eady

o n a n d to work , and thor ughly reliable . H e did not k ow what fear meant,

was so eager to undertake anything that was goi ng .

r o r r Captain A . A . Seaton , Tuto and Hist y Lecturer of Pemb oke College ,

o who has since died of w unds , writes “ H e a s on e of stands out in my mind of the most lovable my pupils ,

a t r I and of the many men serving the F ont, do not think there is one whose

r death co u ld touch me so nea ly . Another Cambridge letter contains the following “ M ru n We felt it all the more because M r . told us he had up

R r against Anderson in the road on the etreat f om Mons . He said he was

- r very mud stained and dirty, but smiling as se enely as ever . CHARLES ALEXANDER KEN N ETH ANDERSO N K CA PTAI N H . A . A S EW

Bara er R eg iment

3 - “ The Park 8 A ed De c . l th 1 1 9 5 9 g 3 3 g , 9 4

ELDER son of the late Canon Askew, of Greystoke, Cumberland .

1 0 8 r r I n 9 he married Winif ed I win , daughter of the late Colonel and

L ne how . Mrs . I rwin , of y , Cumberland , and leaves two sons and a daughter

After leaving Sandhurst, Captain Askew was gazetted to the I st Battalion ’ R 1 0 1 of the Border egiment, and j oined them in South Africa in 9 (King s

five C . medal and lasps) On returning home he took up Gymnastics, and became Assistant Superintendent of Gymnasia at Devonport . He rejoined a nd 1 1 w the Battalion in 9 3 , and went to the Front ith them in October , 1 1 fi n -in 9 4, as Regimental Transport Of cer, soon becomi g Adj utant, Second fi O a . C . command, and n lly . Border Regiment and Gordon Highlanders He was killed on the top of a German trench at Sailly while gallantly leading a charge, and so impressed the enemy by his courage that they paid him the tribute of burying him and erecting a cross , on which they inscribed , fi ” “ ” To a brave of cer of the Border Regiment, and added Capt . Askew ,

- the name they found in his pocket book . During the informal truce on

ﬁ r Christmas Day , a German of ce handed a cap and badge to one of our ﬁ of cers and told him it belonged to a brave soldier . He also handed over

fﬁ 0 11 f . the cross , and our o cer put the name in ull and gave it back again A brother-ofﬁ c e r writes “ f He had a wonderfully cheering ef ect on the men , and incited them to " d oing j u st that little bit more that is so needed in this country . HENRY ADAM ASKEW - K CA PTAIN W . H . J . BA RBER STAR EY R oya l Field Artillery

’ — ’ S mall H ou ses 6 A ed S e t. 1 0th 1 1 94 9 g 3 4 p , 9 4

- B A l P . . . ELDEST son of Wil iam Joseph Starkey Barber Starkey, J . , , of é Aldenham Park , Bridgnorth , Co . Salop, and Margaret Aim e, third

daughter of Sir George Kinloch , I st Baronet, of Kinloch . l Trinity Co lege , Cambridge .

Captain Barber- Starkey was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery from 1 00 1 0 the Forfarshire M ilitia in 9 , was promoted Lieutenant in 9 3 , and

Captain in 19 12 . He went to France with the Expeditionary Force on

1 1 1 . 2 6th August 7 th , 9 4 He died from wounds, received on August ,

1 1 . 9 4, in the Battle of Le Cateau ‘ ’ 2 n d ﬁ On September he was of cially reported missing , and was twice

ﬁ l war afterwards unof cia ly reported a prisoner of at Torgau , unwounded . H is parents received information of his death through the R e d Cross Inter

of . national Agency Prisoners of War , Geneva He died, on September h 1 l rot 1 . , 9 4, in a German Fie d Hospital at Le Cateau , where he is buried WILLIAM HENRY JOSEPH B AR B ER~STAR KEY MAJO R E . E . BA RWELL

’ 5 7 112 Wilde s R iﬂes I ndia n Army

2 - 3 O t s 1 1 me B oarde r 8 8 A ed 2 c . x t H o 6 9 g 4 3 , 9 4

YOU N GEST C . B a nd son of the late General Charles Arthur Barwell , o f

Mrs . Barwell , of Launceston , Harrow . Tu n s till r 1 8 2 r . He mar ied , in 9 , Mary Cicely, eldest daughte of H ,

Thornton Lodge , Aysgarth , and leaves two sons and a daughter .

R 1 8 2 l a eceiving his Commission in 9 , Major Barwel was att ched to the

n e 1 8 East La cashire R giment for one year in India . In 93 he joined the Indian Staff Co rps and served with the 4th Punjab Infantry (now the 5 7 th ’ Wilde s R ifl es) i n the Waziristan Expedition 1 894- 5 (medal with clasps) r - r 1 8 — 8 on the No th West F ontier at Tochi , 97 (medal with clasps) and in

0 1 0 1 n China in 1 9 0 and 9 3 (medal) . In 90 8 he agai served on the North

r r f Khiel M ah m and West F ontie on the Staf , taking part in the Zakha and t R operations , and was mentioned in Despatches . He went wi h his egiment

n r to Belgium with the Indian Expeditio ary Fo ce , and met his death by t being shot in the forehead and killed instantly at Messines on Octobe r 3 1 3 . ll A . who knew him will feel his loss keenly His bright, merry ways, quick

to . wit , and superb temper endeared him both rich and poor There are

who l many people still in Harrow can remember him we l , and who will

sympathise much with his wife and three little children , also with his

M rs r . b others and only sister ( Percy Harvey) , all of whom passed their early

years at Harrow . EDWARD EGERTON BARWELL CAPTAI N G . H . R . BLO U NT

R oya l F ield Ar tillery

° ’ The Park — A e d 1 Se t 2 rd 1 9 7 99 g 3 p . 3 , 1 9 4

R A l h S . . t e ELDE T son of Major Hubert Blount, , who was ki led in South

i . Afr can War, and of his wife Maud Blount

- R M . A 1 8 1 00 . . . Woolwich 99 9 He married Gladys , daughter of the

Rev . Canon Wilson , of Mitcham , and leaves one son .

Captain Blount joined the R oyal Field Artillery in 1900 and was pro 1 r XV h i 1 1 a X t . moted Captain in 9 , and afte wards Adjut nt of the Br gade 1 1 2 rd He went to France in August , 9 4, and died on September 3 of wounds received in action on September 1 1th . His Colonel wrote “ I have never had under me a more promising young soldier, or one " -ofﬁ c e rs who could be more regretted by fellow and men .

- CAPTAIN R . M . BO WEN CO LTH U RST

L einster Reg iment

e r ’ 2 - A 1 Marc h 1 th 1 1 ' 9 8 0 2 n 3 5 , 9 5 Tlie Heid M aste r s "

R - YOUNGER son of . W . T . Bowen Colthurst, of Dripsey Castle , Coach ford , Co . Cork . w C . 1 0 . . . In 9 7 he married Winifred, daughter of the Rev F C West , Fello ’ of St . John s College , Oxford, and leaves three daughters and one son .

: 1 06 Trinity College, Cambridge in 9 Private Secretary to the Lord of : - Lieutenant Ireland subsequently Vice Chamberlain , and eventually

I nspector of Irish Produce in Britain under the Irish Board of Agriculture . A bro th er-ofﬁ c e r writes to his widow “ m . 1 About p . , in the afternoon of Sunday, March 4th , a tremendous bombardment by our guns started . We were very soon turned out and hurried up to a ruined village, not far behind the trenches . We learned that the Germans had captured our trenches , and it was decided that we must

- 2 a . m counter attack at . on Monday morning . Your husband was detailed

2 0 . with his company to recapture a trench , No . He was full of keenness

. 2 a . m and enthusiasm about it, as he always was about everything At .

r r they cha ged , and captured the trench , any Germans who we e in it running ﬁ away, but after some time found they were being so hotly red on f from the right lank , that they decided to fall back into a trench j ust

. B behind As they did this , a young subaltern , named uchanan , of the Irish

Fusiliers , who was attached to A Company, was badly wounded . As soon

r as your husband got his Company into a t ench behind , he , with the Com - ﬁre pany Sergt . Major and a volunteer, went back under heavy and brought

Buchanan into the trench . They were walking along inside the trench , but ’ your husband s head must have been exposed , for a bullet came over the parapet and went right through his head . He knew nothing about it, but j ust dropped , death being instantaneous . It would seem almost as if he had a premonition of his death , as several times he repeated to his Company ‘ - — Sergt . Major , Be sure , if I am shot, that you bury me where I fall as I am ’ too big and heavy for the men to carry in . Up to the very end he was

. C C always th inking of others I am very glad to say I understand the . . is recommending your husband for the D . S . O . for the good work he did that ” night . ROBERT MACGREGOR BOWEN-COLTHURST F S CA PTA IN . . B RADSHAW

Somerset Lig bt I nfa ntry

’ ’ M oretons - De c . 1 th 1 1 9 8 0 1 Aged 3 1 9 , 9 4

Son th e r 1 e of late Majo Frank Boyd Bradshaw, 3 th Somers t Light

n r - r Infa try, and of Catharine Douglas B adshaw, and great g andson of General

r r . Laurence B adshaw, also of the Some set Light Infantry 1 0 2 Sandhurst, 9 .

r Captain B adshaw joined the Somerset Light Infantry, the Regiment in 1 0 which he had been born and bred , in 9 4, and was promoted Captain i n

1 1 . ﬁve R 9 4 For years he served with his egiment in India, where he was

n well k own as a Polo player, and did much big game shooting and pig

. 1 1 1 o sticking In 9 he went to the Dep t at Taunton for three years, and

R r 1 1 . rejoined his egiment at Colcheste , in March , 9 4 1 1th th He went to the Front wi th the Infantry Brigade , 4 Division ,

r 1 1 . which , before leaving, was quarte ed at Harrow , in August, 9 4 He took

r r r l part in the Ret eat f om Mons , and was p esent at the Batt es of Le Cateau, — n L e t r . the Mar e, the Aisne , Gheer and the I st Bat le of Yp es On Novem 2 md 1 1 th e ber , 9 4, he was wounded in right hand, but refused , contrary to

r 2 2 n d u R all advice, to be sent home . On Novembe he ret rned to his egi

l th . ment, and was killed in the attack of December g , at Ploegsteert Wood

r -ofﬁ c e r His Company was in reserve at the ti me , but seeing a brothe fall at ’ the head of one of the attacking platoons , without a moment s hesitation

he j umped up and took command , being himself killed soon after . A private in his Company w r ites

His death is very much regretted by th e whole Company, because

they could always trust him . He would never send his men where he

would not go himself. He was an exceptionally brave man , and knew his ” fﬁ ﬁnd work , and it would be very di cult to his equal . FRANK SEYMOUR BRADSHAW 2 N D . LIEUTENANT W L . B REESE

R oya l Horse Gua rds

3 ‘ Th e G rov e 6 -0 1 A ed 2 M arch 1 th 1 1 9 g 3 7 , 9 5

f . . o . . ONLY son of the late W L Breese, New York , and M rs H

O . Higgins .

Trinity College, Cambridge . Spent several years in travel , and was for th ree or four years engaged in mining enterprises in the Yukon .

Married Julia Fish , daughter of the Right Honourable Hamilton Fish , of New York City, and leaves two sons .

2 n d At the outbreak of the War, Lieutenant Breese returned to

England, and in order to accomplish his desire to serve with the British

. 1 1 Forces , became naturalized In January , 9 5 , he was gazetted to the

- Royal Horse Guards . H e was much interested in quick ﬁrin g guns and

r explosives, and in connection with these was attached on special se vice to the Headquarters of the Expeditionary Force .

1 1 1 on He was killed by an explosion on March 7 th , 9 5 , while working explosives near St . Omer . WILLIAM LA URENCE BREESE R H w MAJO R . . . B REWI S

R oya l Wa r wick's/t ire R egiment

’ ’ Ch rc Hill 8 8 - 1 A ed 1 De c 1 8th 1 1 u h 9 g 4 . , 9 4

f . P . o . . ELDEST son S R Brewis J , of Ibstone House, Oxford 86 R S W shire, and Mrs . Brewis , Cromwell oad, . .

Jesus College , Cambridge .

R 1 8 Major Brewis entered the egular Army from the M ilitia in 95 , and

1 00 1 1 2 . was promoted Captain in 9 , and Major in 9 For three years , from 1 0 1 10 9 7 to 9 , he was Adj utant to his regiment, and was then appointed

ff . 1 8 8 Adjutant and Quartermaster , Sta College In the Nile Expedition , 9 , h . t he was present at the battles of the Atbara and Khartoum On August 4 , 1 1 9 4, he was gazetted with the Expeditionary Force, and on

- G. . 1 A . A . a October 4th , with rank of temporary Lieut Colonel . This p R pointment he resigned to rejoin his egiment, which he was com manding e 1 8 1 1 . when he fell , near Armenti res , on December th , 9 4 He was men ’

i n l s t 1 1 . t o e d in Sir John French s Despatch of M ay 3 , 9 5

CAPTAI N E . J . BROD IE Ca meron Hig hla nders

’ 3 - ° N v th te A ed 6 o . 1 1 1 1 Th e H ead Mas r s 9 2 96 g 3 , 9 4

Cou lm on SECON D son of the late J . C . J . Brodie, of Lethen and y, Lord

Lieutenant for the county of Nairn .

. Trinity College, Cambridge . Head of the family of Brodie of Lethen

10 Married in 1 9 Marion , daughter of Major Stirling, of Fairburn , and h leaves t ree children .

1 00 Captain Brodie entered his Regiment from the M ilitia in 9 , and was

r 1 1 1 r a a p omoted Captain in 9 , after serving on M editer ane n st tions, in r South Africa and China . On the death of his elder b other he was obliged ’ to return to England , and for four years acted as Adj utant to Lovat s Scouts

Yeomanry . At the beginning of the War he went to France with a draft ‘ on 2 r st 1 1 r August , 9 4, to join the I st Came ons , and was present at the Battles ’ 2 th of the Marne and the Aisne . On September 5 the Camerons head

ih quarters was blown by a shell , causing the death of all in the cave or dug at th e fﬁ out the time, and he was only senior o cer left to take command ,

M c Ewe n which he did till the arrival of Colonel , who appointed him

Adj utant . He was killed in the I st Battle of Ypres . The followi ng account from Brigade Headquarters tells how he fell “ O h the morning of November 1 1 th we were very heavily shelled by

rd r a the Germans , and were then attacked by the Prussian Gua in g e t

. s strength A great many of our people had been killed in their trenche ,

r m and th ough these gaps the Ger ans came . Captain Brodie , who was at

c a n d r his Battalion H eadquarters , collected what men he ould , then retu ned

r with them to B igade Headquarters . M eanwhile , of course , the Germans had followed him up and began to attack our actual headquarters . General

r Fitzclarence then ordered Captain B odie to organize the defence , so he got

r r a n d together g ooms , servants , telephonists , and o derlies , with them not

n o ly succeeded in holding the Germans up , but also managed to drive them

00 . r back some 4 yards They attacked us again , but we e again repulsed ” by Captain Brodie and his command . An Ofﬁ cer writing says ﬁ He had done most awfully well , rst of all in command of the Batta lion after the cave tragedy, and then as Adj utant, and at the end he died most gallantly after a very successful attack . EWEN JAMES BRODIE -C L . O LIEUT . E . C . B RO U GHTO N

York a nd La ncaster R egiment

‘ - 3 Dec th 1 1 d 6 . 1 Drurie s 7 2 74 A ge 5 7 , 9 4

FIFTH son of Robert John Porcher Broughton for nearly sixty f years Solicitor to the Coldstream Guards , and of Louisa Diana, his wi e . 1888 M arried in Jane Henrietta King Keane, only daughter of Major Ben ﬁ jamin Bloom eld Keane .

o 1 8 6 C lonel Broughton entered the Army in 7 , and retired as Maj or in

1 0 1 . 1 88 9 He served in the Egyptian Army in 4, being present at the ’ a battles of El Teb and Tamai (med l , clasp , and Khedive s Star), and in the

South African War (medal and three clasps) . He was promoted Lieut . R i h 1 0 . Colonel (Special eserve) 9 9, receiving two extensions of service rd R The 3 Battalion York and Lancaster egiment, of which he was in 1 1 command , was mobilized i n August, 9 4, for coast defence at Sunderland , and Colonel Broughton died in the Armstrong College Military Hospital 1 after an Operation on December 7 th . His Adj utant wr ites : “ I knew him well, and was very fond of him , for no Adj utant could

' ﬁ H e have had a better or a kinder Commanding Of cer . was an example to

R . all of us , and his loss to the egi ment is irreparable The late Colonel Ellis Lee wrote

Personally I have lost a dear friend , and I shall never forget how he helped me in regimental matters while I was in command of the dear " old 65 th . H is Quartermaster writes “ We have lost not only a Commanding Ofﬁ cer who was beloved by all who have served with him , but one whom we all looked upon as a father , ﬁ ” and to whom all of us went when in trouble or dif culty . ERNEST CR AM IER BROUGHTON CAPTAI N C . GRAY B UC HANAN

3 5 tlz Siklzs

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- R . th ELDEST son of Michael owand Gray Buchanan , Lieut Colonel late 4

Battalion Scottish R iﬂes . ﬁ 1 8 8 . 1 1 Sandhurst, passed out rst 9 Married , in 9 4, Jane f r o . . B otu ric h Cecilia Hope, only daughte Major R E Findlay, of Castle ,

Dumbartonshire .

Captain Gray Buchanan was attached to the I st Battalion Hampshire

R egiment as a probationer for the Indian Army . He served with that R egiment at Lundi Kotal (Khyber Pass) and on the North -West Frontier of

r 1 8 8 till 1 8 India f om October, 9 , October, 99, when he was appointed to the

r R 3 5 th Sikhs . He served through the Wazi i Campaign with his egi ment in

1 0 1 a . 1 0 9 (med l and clasp) He was promoted Captain in 9 7 , and pas sed out

f 1 1 . r 1 1 of the Sta f College , Quetta , in December, 9 3 Ea ly in August, 9 4, ' he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff of the R oyal Flying Co rps 2 nd 8 Expeditionary Force , and on November was attached to the th ﬁ ‘ l ’ t fﬁ Gurkhas . He was rst reported missing, believed ki led , and hen o cially

r h 1 1 r t . eported killed on Novembe 4 , 9 4, near Festubert CLAUDE GRAY BUCHANA N K MAJO R A . W . B UC I N GHA M

Gor don Highla nders

3 — ’ N ov th 1 A e . 1 1 R e ndalls 8 4 8 7 g d 44 7 , 9 4

I TH RD son of the late Joseph Hicks and Lucy Webster Buckingham ,

Lancaster Gate .

’ Sometime a member of London Stock Exchange : late Captain London

R V rd . . . Scottish . . Major 3 (Spec Res ) Battalion Gordon Highlanders M ar

- 1 08 . R . A . ried in 9 the only daughter of the late Lieut Colonel Rudge, , and

Mrs . Rudge , Stede Court, Harrietsham , Kent .

2 Major Buckingham saw service in South Africa from 1899 to 1 90 . 1 8 He was present at operations in Natal , 99, in command of volunteer details , and afterwards Garrison Adjutant , Green Point Camp , obtaining ’ ’ Queen s medal with three clasps and King s medal with two clasps . 1 1 Attached to the I st Battalion , he went to the Front in September, 9 4, h 1 t . and was killed at Hooge , near Ypres , on November 7

Major W . Baird , Commanding I st Battalion Gordon Highlanders , wrote

M r to s . Buckingham “ ’ It is with the greatest sorrow that I write to tell you of your husband s

. 1 death It was on November 7 th , and our position was being heavily ﬁ r . shelled by German Artille y Your husband, with two of cers of the — Wilts . Regt . , was taking shelter in a dug out , when suddenly a German shell

- fi fell right on top of the dug out , killing your husband and one other of cer, and very dangerously wounding the third . I need not tell you how deeply R fi the whole egiment, of cers and men alike , have felt and will feel his loss . ffi We have lost a sterling friend and splendid o cer, whose whole heart was in his duty. We have buried him in a wood , close to where he fell . The place has been enclosed and marked with a wooden cross . The spot where he lies is in a little wood , not far from the road which leads from

Ypres to Menin , S . E . of the village of Hooge .

L ondon Electrica l E ng ineers

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P for ELDEST son of T . T . Busk , Esq . , J . . M iddlesex and Westminster , m H er o n r R . e s . of g , udgwick , and Mrs Busk ' n : Ki g s College , Cambridge (Scholar) I st Class Mechanical Sciences

Tripos . Assistant Engineer in charge of Physical Experimental Work at

R o r ﬁ - the yal Aircraft Factory . Designe of the rst full sized inherently stable aeroplane .

re Lieutenant Busk was with his Corps when War broke out, but was ﬁ R called by the War Of ce to the oyal Aircraft Factory, where he conducted

n expe r ime ts of a highly dange ro u s nature in the air . ’ ﬁ ve th 1 1 About o clock on November 5 , 9 4, a biplane piloted by him

ﬁ re 1 000 o caught while feet above the Long Valley, Aldersh t , and when ' ’ som e hu n d red feet above the centre of Laﬁ an s Plain fell headlong to the

n n grou d . Death must have bee instantaneous .

- . H M . Lieut Colonel Clive Wigram , writing for . the King to his mother , s ays : “ I n f n c of ering you his si ere sympathy in your bereavement, the King f eels that the country has lost the services of one who, by experiment and

r r f . esea ch , contributed in no small measure towards the science of lying ’ O rm n r M r . Go a R , the Supe intendent of the oyal Aircraft Factory , writes “ He did the most magniﬁce n t things without announcing any intention a n n d without applauding audie ces . “ r r He wo ked out a result , knew it was ight , but simply had his results " r r checked , and then proved them in his own pe son over and ove again .

B ra nc k er r r ﬁ Col . , the Directo of M ilitary Ae onautics at the War Of ce , writes “ r r You son is an irrepa able loss to the British Army and , indeed , to the n n for r e x c e atio , the e are few men available with a like combination of an p ” tion al ﬁ n c brain and scienti c k owledge with perfe t courage . ' r O Gorm an Professor Hopkinson w ites to Mr . I am convinced that had he lived Busk would have attained the highest I distinction as an engineer . believe he might even have been remembered Of with Parsons and Baker . all the young men I have had to do with , he ,

n ﬁ more than any, combined com mo sense and sagacity with scien ti c ability " and originality . EDWARD TESH MAKER BUSK - MAJ O R J . T . CARPEN TER GA RNIE R

Scots Gua rds

2 C ll 3— A ed Se t r th 1 1 h rc Hi 8 2 0 . u h 7 9 g 4 p g , 9 4

- R G r . P . . . ook e sb u r ELDEST son of John Carpenter a nier, J , D L , of y Park ,

r - 2 n d Wickham , Hampshire, and the Hon . Ma y Louisa Carpenter Garnier,

r l th l . daughte of the g Baron Clinton , of Heanton Satchvil e, North Devon

r 1 8 2 . Christ Church , Oxfo d , 9 Often played cricket for the Household i Br gade against the School .

1 8 6 the 2 nd Joining the Scots Guards in 9 , he was Adj utant of Battalion

1 06 1 0 oh 1 0 to 1 06 . from 9 3 9 , and Regimental Adj utant from 9 to 9 9 H e

a in t ed 1 0 8 . his majority in 9 He served in the South African War, being ﬁv e present at various engagements (two medals and clasps) . 1 1 He went to the Front in August , 9 4, with the Expeditionary Force, -in- th e being Second command of his Battalion . He took part in early

Operations , including the Battle of the Aisne, at which he commanded his a o Batt lion , owing to the temp rary absence of Colonel Lowther . He was badly wounded i n the hea d by shrapnel on September 1 4th ; he never re covered consciousness, and died on the following day . The Colonel writes to his father

r l I wish to send you a message to say what a loss you son wil be to me , and how much I shall feel the want of his services . He was so absolutely ff r r o . reliable, and always took a g eat share of wo k my shoulders All the ” Brigade will sadly feel the loss of so excellent a Guardsman . His Adj utant writes “ l He died gal antly , as was to be expected of h im , and his loss to us is indeed a severe one . I must tell you how beloved Jack was by all the

r Regiment, who admired so much his straightforward and steadfast characte , ” apart from his rare qualities as soldier and man . JOHN TREFU SI S CARPENTER-GARNIER C 2 N D . LIEU TENANT J A . M . HA RLES Slzrop slzire Liglzt I nfa ntry

’ ’ Elmﬁe ld - A e d z F eb 1 0th 1 1 04 0 8 g 5 . , 9 5

S ON of James Hamilton Charles Vicar of Oakham and Rural

Dean , and Mrs . Charles .

X 1 1 0 8 . t B . A . Twelfth man for the in 9 Trini y College, Cambridge,

2 nd Lieutena n t Charles was gazetted to the Shropshire Light Infantry 1 1 R v i n November, 9 4, from the Special eser e , which he joined two years e b fore . 1 1 He went out to the Front in September, 9 4, and was reported wounded in November under the following circumstances z— H e had been chosen by e his Colonel to hold some advanced trenches at Armenti res , only a hundred yards from the Germans , and was endeavouring to reach some men of his

r re Platoon , who we e being hard pressed by the enemy . I n doing this he c e ived r r a terrible wound in the head , as a esult of which he became pa tially paralysed and was unable to speak clearly . Nevertheless he lay in the trenches for eight hours , giving orders to his men through his servant . At the end of this time he was carried by two men under a heavy ﬁre to a

a ﬁ re ﬁ t e dressing st tion ; even here he was exposed to shell , but was nally moved to safety . Great hopes of his recovery were entertained , but a serious operation became necessary , and he died in London on February

roth 1 1 . , 9 5 His Colonel wrote “ ﬁ r The Battalion has lost an able of cer, one who was cheerful unde all

r a fi ci cumst nces , and very well tted for his work . A Captain wrote : I know how sorry all his brother-offi c e rs and the men will be to hear of his death . He was always the life and soul of the Company during the " dreary days on the Aisne and i n Belgium . Another brother -offi c e r wrote “ ’ o fi It was owing to his C lonel s con dence in him , and to the fact that the men would follow him anywhere , that he was honoured at the Battle of to the Aisne by being chosen hold advanced trenches against the enemy, and e " also again at Armenti res . JAMES ARTHUR MERRIMAN CHARLES . . CA PTAI N S . H . CH RI STY , D S . O

2 0tlz H ussa rs

2- ‘ Se t d T e A ed . r 1 1 h Knoll 93 9 7 g 3 5 p 3 , 9 4

H i hﬁeld c t YOUN GER son of the late Stephen Christy, of g , Sto kpor , and of Blanche, his wife .

Christ Church , Oxford .

] . r 1 0 . . Ma ried , in 9 5 , Violet M M Chapel Hodge , who predeceased him

I s t n d 2 n 1 899 Captain Chri yj oi e the oth Hussars . He served in the South

r African War (medal and fou clasps) , and in the Sokoto Burni Expedition ,

i 1 0 . N . Niger a, in 9 3 , where he was wounded and mentioned in Despatches R In 1 90 5 he won the D . S . O . He then became a Lieutenant in the e serve o f ﬁ a n Of cers d Master of the South Shropshire Foxhounds . He rejoined R his egiment at the beg inning of the War, and was gazetted Captain on

1 th 1 1 Fe rté rd August 4 , 9 4, being killed at La on September 3 . His Colonel writes

was offi He is a very great loss , as he a most excellent cer . A brother-offi c e r writes “ He made himself frigh tfully popular with the ofiic e rs and m e n of his

r s a R i Squad on , and his di appe rance has cast quite a gloom over the eg ment . Everyone says they never saw a man so utterly devoid of fear and so ab so " l ﬁ r l u te y unsel sh in eve y way .

MAJO R A . J . C LAY N ortlz Staﬁ ords/zire R eg iment

" Chu rc h H ill — 3 A ed F eb 1 8th 1 1 8 4 89 g 44 . , 9 5

- - P o h . ELDEST son of C . J . Clay, J . . , of Holly Bush , Burton Trent — d . . 1 8 6 . l 1 8 8 . New Co lege , Oxfor , 9 M A 9 Director of M essrs Bass , Rat ff ; cli e and Gretton . Director of the Gordon Hotels One of the principal

-o n- promoters of the Motor Industry in Burton Trent . - 1 0 . . Married , in 9 5 , Bridget, eldest daughter of T S Parker Jervis , of

F oothe rle Lic hﬁeld y Hall , , and leaves two sons and one daughter .

Majo r Clay had been prominently a s s omate d with the old Volunteer

- Movement for many years , having obtained his Commission twenty two

r t years ago . He had esigned his Cap aincy before the formation of the

Territorial Force, but upon the outbreak of the War he i mmediately f 6th R of ered his services , and resumed his Captaincy in the ( eserve) Bat talion , in the raising of which he showed great energy . He died of pneumonia, at Harpenden , whilst on duty with his Regiment . ARTHUR JOSEPH CLAY 2 N D . F LIEUTENANT H . N CLI TO N

Coldstrea m Gua rds

'- ' d F eb . r st 1 1 Druries 08 1 3 A ge 2 0 , 9 5

1 2 YOUN GER son of William Edward and Isabel Clifton , of Cambridge

Square, Hyde Park , W .

a . . Monitor : Head of his House . Footb ll XI Dolphin School Boxer at A ldershot .

At the outbreak of the War 2 n d Lieutenant Clifton was already a mem ’ 2 6th ber of the Artists Riﬂes , and accompanied them to France on October , 1 2 nd in 9 14 . I n the following January he was gazetted Lieutenant the 2 t I st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards . On January 5 h he was severely e wounded while leading his platoon , at Cuinchy, near La Bass e , and died 1 s t from his wounds and exposure on February , in a German Field Hospital .

He was buried in the churchyard at Billy Berclau . His brother, of the same battalion , was severely wounded at the same time . From Regimental Headquarters comes the following

From the moment he joined, he showed himself well worthy of belong a R fi ing to the Coldstre m egiment, and everyone from the commanding of cer downwards wrote saying what an acquisition he was to the Battalion . Had he been spared he had already shown that he would have been a credit ” to i t, in whatever circumstances he might have been called upon to act . His Captain writes “ One of the men who were with him says he led them splendidly . He had been in the Company only about a week , but I liked him very much , and he was an excellent subaltern . ’ R The Colonel of the Artists ifles wrote about him , when he left the Corps “ fi n H is career has been a very e one . We are all very proud ofeve r of him , and he has the good will and good wishes y man in the Corps . HAROLD NORTO N CLIFTON - K LIEUTENA N T J . C . CLOSE B ROO S 1 st L ife Gua rds

3 Th e Knoll — 1 A ed 8 Oc t oth 1 1 9 g 3 . 3 , 9 4

L - of E DEST son of the late John Brooks Close Brooks, Birtles Hall , f Chel ord , Cheshire .

. P . o Trinity College , Cambridge J . for Cheshire , C unty Councillor, and

o f Chairman the Conservative Party in M ac c le s ﬁe ld . Partner in the Firm f - o . Stockbrokers , Marsden , Close Brooks and Robertson

r 1 0 r — a Mar ied , in 9 4, Marie, daughte of Maj or Gener l Beresford Lovett,

B . C . . , and leaves two sons and one daughter

n - u Lieute ant Close Brooks enlisted in the Cheshire Yeomanry in Jan ary ,

1 00 two ﬁve . 9 , during the South African W ar ( medals and clasps) After ’ a year s service he was given a Commission in the 5 th Dragoon Guards , and

n 1 . went with them to India . He res igned his Commissio in 904 On the

W ar th e outbreak of the he joined I st Life Guards , and went to the Front

1 1 . a in October , 9 4 He was killed i n action at Zandvoorde, ne r Ypres, on h ot 1 1 . October 3 , 9 4 The following are extracts of letters from brother—ofﬁ c e r s When we were in action he p roved himself to be entirely careless of a danger, and absolutely fe rless , and I know that on that day at Zandvoorde ” he and his Squadron will have behaved like true Briti sh soldiers . “ I had the greatest admiratio n for hi m ; the Squadron to which he

r belonged was the best that ever went to F ance, and there were no more gallant members of it than and your husband . These heroes will ever stand out in my memory as among the best types of English gentle ” men I have met .

ﬁ R r Every of cer and man in the egiment loved you husband , for two ‘ ’ r reasons ; he was a man , and he was always so fai to them , and took his turn . All who knew Close -Brooks knew hi m to be the most ga llant and cool ”

in r . man action eve seen , and all were devoted to him JOHN CHARLES CLOSE-BROOKS ON N E LLAN . C MAJO R P M .

H a mpslzire R eg iment

3 - 3 h e A e d 2 Oc t . 2 0th 1 1 T e G rov 9 5 98 g 3 , 9 4

P . . . ll n . L . . Co nne a O N Y son of the late Major J H . F H . J , D L ,

n M r Con nell a n . a d s . Laura

1 1 1 r rd . Married , in 9 , Winif ed , 3 daughter of the late Arthur E Niblett, f ﬁ o H are s eld . Court, Gloucester

C on ne llan 1 0 1 Major j oined the Hampshire Regiment in 9 , becoming

o f rd 1 1 1 a Adjutant the 3 Battalion in 9 , having previously been Adj ut nt of a the I st Battalion for three years . H e served with the Aden Bound ry Delimi

— t ation 1 0 1 0 . Column in 9 3 4, and became Captain in 9 7

H is last days in England were spent at Harrow, where he was encamped th with the 4 Division , and he went straight from there to Southampton ,

2 15 t 1 1 . on the August, 9 4

- After the Retreat from Mons , General Hunter Weston sent forward ’ ” n n l an s Major Co e l name for special promotion and reward . A few days later the command of the Battalion became vacant, owing to the senior

ﬂi c r or - o e s being wounded made pri soners . General Hunter Weston o r Con n ellan btained for Maj o the temporary rank of Maj or, and gave him the command , which he held at the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne , ﬁ until he was superseded by a senior of cer sent out from England . After 2 nd this he continued as Major, in Command , until he was killed near e 2 0th Armenti res on the October , the day after his name appeared in ’ r Si John French s Despatch . He was buried in a little French graveyard at

Pont de Nieppe with another Old Harrovian , Lieut . E . D . Murray,

19th Hussars .

- After his death General Hunter Weston wrote strongly, urging that death should not be a bar to the honours for which he had been pre v iou sl h y recommended, but beyond the second mention in Despatc es - no notice was taken of his services . General Hunter Weston in a letter “ C o n nellan bo o ne has stated that he looked upon Major as a rn soldier, and of the ablest of his commanders , who would , if he had been spared , have ” reached the very top of the tree . ’ Major Con ne lla n held the R oyal Humane Society s Medal for saving a man in his Regiment from drowning in 1909.

LIEUTE N ANT SI R A . C . GI BSO N C RAI G , BA RT .

H ig bla nd Lig lzt I nfa ntry

’ ’— 2 The H ead Mas te r s 6 A ed 1 Se t . i 6th 1 1 9 o r g 3 p , 9 4

R i ca I Sir . c rton TH RD son of James Henry Gibson Craig , Bart (O of ,

M idlothian , and of Julia Buchanan , daughter of Archdeacon Buchanan , of

C u rr ie hill , M idlothian . i A 1 th r B . 0 : Tr nity College , Camb idge , . , 9 5 succeeded as 4 Baronet in

190 8 .

n n I 1 Lieutenant Gi bso Craig J oi ed the Highland Light nfantry in 90 6.

1 1 r ﬁ for He spent 9 3 in South Af ica , where he acted as Intelligence Of cer ’

r o ﬁ . some time, during the pe manent f cer s absence on leave He went to

r 1 1 n the F ont in August , 9 4, bei g killed in the Battle of the Aisne . He was mentioned in Despatches .

r o —o fﬁ c e r W iting of his death , a br ther says “ Gibson Craig was shot while leading his men to an attack on a German m n achi e gun which was hidde n in a wood . H e located the gun and asked ou r Second- in - Co mmand whethe r he might take his platoon (about 2 0 men) lo t and try to capture the gun , which was doing a of damage to our troops

o ff at the time . The Major gave his consent, and Gibson Craig went to get

n the g u . He and his men crawled to the top of the hill and fo und f themselves unexpectedly face to face with a large body o Germans . Our m en ﬁ r red a volley, and then the Lieutenant drew his swo d and rushed for ‘ ' ’ r in A t " . wa d front of the troops , calling to them Charge , men them He got to within ten ya rds of the enemy and then fell . The Germans held up

r fﬁ thei hands, but our men were so mad at their o cer being killed (and also suspected treachery , as the Germans had not thrown down their arms) that ﬁ about fty Germans were killed on the spot . By his gallant action Gibson

an d Craig did a great deal to assist the general advance of the Regiment, ” indeed of the whole of the troops concerned . I C IB C I BS I B S R AR H ALD HARLES G ON CRA G , ART . MAJO R EU STACE CRAWLEY

1 2 tlz L a ncers

’ 3 — ' The H ea aste s e d N ov. z ud 1 1 d M r 8 1 86 Ag 45 , 9 4

FOURTH son of the late G . Baden Crawley and Mrs . Crawley . XI 1 88 - 6 X 1 1 88 Cricket , 5 ; Football , 5 ; winner of Public Schools — 1 88 — R 1 88 6 . . acquets , 5 ; Trinity College , Cambridge ; C U Cricket XI , 7 9 ; 1 888— R ﬁve C . U . Tennis Player , 9 ; winner of Army acquets for years with Major Eastwood ; the only player who ever made a h undred in both the “ Eton and Harrow , and Oxford and Cambridge matches ; won the Grand “ ” Military on Field Marshal . 1 0 8 In 9 4 married Lady Violet Finch , daughter of the th Earl of Ayles ford .

1 2 n 1 88 Major Crawley j oined the th La cers in 9, and served at Sierra 1 8 8— L eone, 9 9 (medal and clasp) ; and in the South African War (mentioned i n

. to Despatches , two medals and six clasps) ; India He went France 1 1 in August, 9 4, and was killed instantaneously by a shell near Wytschaete , ’ in November (mentioned in Sir John F r ench s ﬁrst Despatch) .

- Lieut . General the Earl of Cavan writes

I knew Eustace intimately from 1 87 9 to 1 9 1 4 . His sense of true

n sportsmanship was almost a religio with him , by which I mean that any at - thing like trickery a game or on the race course he abhorred . Few things ‘ ’ roused him to such a state of fury as an unfai r claim for a let at R acquets or

Tennis No amount of congratulations could ever turn his head , and , from 1 885 when he made his century for Harrow to the last L ondon Ga z ette 1 1 of 9 4, he was idolized by all who knew him .

C r e r H e was loyal to the ; loyal to his f iends , men and women ; loyal to his School ; loyal to his R egiment ; and I remember Sir Philip Chetw o de telling me that from the qualities he showed in the advance from the Marne

o t the Aisne he proved him s elf a born cavalry leader .

r r r He was a vo acious eade , and loved a discussion on any point of

R o r . eligion , Tactics , Politics , Sport “ ‘ I doubt if any man ever lived more fully up to the motto Play up and ’ r play the game . All loved him , and all remembe him .

— I r He was the best claim the ight of saying so as his oldest friend . EUSTACE CRAWLEY C LIEUTENA N T E . . DA U N

R oya l Sussex R eg iment

° R e ndall - 3 A ed h 1 s 0 1 2 Se t . 1 t 1 99 g 9 p 4 , 9 4

r r ON LY son of Charles James Daun and Ada M a ga et Daun ,

- r C B . . R A . daughte of the late Lieutenant General E A . Williams , . , .

R R in 1 0 b e Lieutenant Daun j oined the oyal Sussex egiment 9 4, and

R n M 1 0 . r r came Lieutenant in 9 9 He se ved with his egime t at alta , C ete,

r and subsequently at Belfast, the Cur agh , and Woking, where he was

Assistant Adjutant . ’ Oﬂi c e rs r He was an excellent riﬂe shot, and won the Cup at the Alde

1 1 2 1 1 1 1 . shot Command Riﬂe meeting in 9 and 9 3 , and was second in 9 4 R He also sh o t in the 19 14 team representing the English egiments . He

n r n had been sig alling , machine gun and musketry instructo to the Battalio . for n 1 2 th 1 1 He left with the First Division Fra ce on August , 9 4 , and

R r was through the et eat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne .

r n e r He was killed nea the villag e of Troyo on the Aisne, on Septemb

R o r n 1 1 1 . 4th , 9 4 His egiment had rde s to advance against some Germa

an d trenches , had reached the top of the Chemin des Dames ridge, when they came under ﬁre from the enemy . The Sussex men returned the ﬁ re

r with thei machine guns , and soon a white ﬂag was displayed by the Ger

r . of mans , some of whom came forward to sur ender Most of A Company

R r r the Sussex egiment stood up to receive the sur ende . Lieut . Daun had ’ j ust taken a German offi ce r s sword whe n a heavy r ifle and artille r y fi re

r l -d a n was opened by the Ge mans on the assemb m ss of friends a d foes .

ﬁ r n d - fﬁ c e e . a r r o r s . Under this Lieut Daun fell , with his Colonel th ee b other

His body was never recovered . A Captain in the same Company writes

fﬁ r a n d for He was a splendid o ce , and worked night day the good of his Regiment and his Company . He had a great future before him , and

n was to have been o u r next Adj uta t. He will be a great loss to the R ” egiment . EDWARD CHARLES DAUN CA PTAI N B . N . D ENI SO N

f orks/t ire L ig lzt I nfa ntry

’ — 3 h 1 A ed 0 S e t . 1 t 1 W est A c re 97 9 7 g 3 p 5 , 9 4

YOUN GER son of Admiral John Denison and Florence Denison .

: 1 st th e 1 8 : . . . Entrance Scholar passed into Navy, 97 I st out of H M S

ia Br ita nn .

1 0 N ordhe im e r Married , in 9 7 , Gladys May, daughter of Albert , of

Toronto, Canada, and leaves one daughter .

Captain Denison ﬁrst saw service as a Midshipman with the Naval Bri gade in South Afri ca , being present at the battles of Belmont and Belfast he was mentioned in Despatches and recommended for early promotion 1 0 2 (medal and three clasps) . He was transferred to the Army in 9 , and j oined the He was employed with the Canadian Force s from

1 06 1 08 R 1 08 1 1 1 . 9 to 9 , and was Adj utant of his own egiment fro m 9 to 9 r f Captain Denison was a G aduate of the Staf College, and Interpreter in d t . 1 1 . r I alian and French He was gazetted Captain in 9 4 On August 3 , 1 1 ff ﬁ ﬁv e 9 4 , he was given a Sta appointment at the War Of ce , but left days

n r n ro t later to j oin his Regime t in I eland e u e for France . He was mortally wounded in the Retreat from Mons , at Le Cateau , and it is learnt that , he

ﬁ r r was rst taken by the Ge mans to the chu ch , and then to a hospital , where

1 r h e died on September 5 th . He was bu ied in Le Cateau cemetery . Colonel Arthur Elles writes to his father ’ ﬁ l Bertram s sacri ce i s principa ly yours , but it is also very much a national loss . He was undoubtedly j ust establishing himself on the ladder o f r fame, and had earned a deservedly high eputation . Colonel De e d e s writes

o f l ﬁ Of the hundreds gal ant of cers who have died i n this cruel war, I a m sure that none could have gone further than Bertr am . I knew him so

n R n well from the day he joi ed the egime t, and admired all his qualities of

r mind and character eno mously . Colonel Bond writes to his widow

rr We all miss your husband te ibly . He had behaved very gal ” l antl y each day .

M . LIEUTE N A N T P . DILWO RTH

N otting lza mslzire a nd Derbyslzir e R eg iment

Th Kn ll 3 -0 3 A ed 6 N ov 2 0th 1 1 e o 0 1 5 g 2 . , 9 4

s on R a r ON LY of William Proctor and M abel ebecc G ace Dilworth , ’

1 . . of 3 , St Alban s Mansion , Kensington Court , W 1 06 Sandhurst, 9 .

Lieutenant Dilwo r th joined the Sherwo od Fo resters as a 2 n d Lieute n an t

1 0 . R n 1 1 . in 9 7 He went to the Front with his egime t i n November, 9 4

ﬁ c o n 2 0th 1 1 He had been chosen as Machine Gun Of er , and November , 9 4 ,

for e n ﬁlade was scouting a good place for the guns to the enemy, when , as he

r r r was ounding a co ner, a German shot him in the neck at close quarte s .

r n who Death was i nstantaneous his se gea t, was with him , shot the

German . H is Colonel writes

r R He was most popula with all ranks in the egiment, and I feel

r fr R that in addition to losing a dear pe sonal iend , the egiment and country ” a ﬁ have lost gallant and capable of cer . His late Captain writes to his mother “ We are all very distressed at the death of you r son and the loss we

r have sustained . He was a great f iend of mine, so you can imagine how much I feel his loss . ’ r The Captain who took Lieut . Dilwo th s position writes

are ﬁ n e His machine gun men such a set of fellows, and I can see how

a r s on . cut up they are bout the death of you , which dealt us all such a blow

a n d r I feel it immensely , as I was very fond of him , it makes it doubly ha d

r r u n ﬁ for me to have to ca y on his duties as M achine G Of cer . Your son certainly faced death most pluckily— may I face it a s b r avely when my time comes . His Sergeant writes R His death has caused deep regret in the egiment, as he was loved by

ﬁ r a n d m an : s on a n d every of ce in him a brave and noble has been taken , ” I have lost a good master . M I ACLEAN PROCTOR . D LWORTH CA PTAIN D . S . DODGSO N

R oya l Ga rr ison Artillery

’ Th e G ro e ’— o N v th 1 8 r A ed 2 o . 1 1 v 9 g 9 4 , 9 4

SO N of the late General Sir David Scott Dodgson , and of

Lady Dodgson . 1 02 Woolwich , 9 .

r 1 0 8 . Mar ied , in 9 , Blanche Mary, youngest daughter of the late Dr J . L e ac roft M . , and leaves one son .

1 0 e Captain Dodgson received h is Commission in December , 9 4, b came

1 0 1 1 . Lieutenant in 9 7 and Captain in October, 9 4 He went to the Front 1 1 a i n September, 9 4 , with the Ammunition Column att ched to the I st and

2 n d I Siege Batteries of the st Siege Brigade . He was killed by a sniper — 2 n d fi under the following circumstances The Battery being short of of cers , fi Captain Dodgson had been acting as Observing Of cer, as well as doing his 1 volu n own work in the Ammunition Column . On November 4th he teered to lay a telephon e cable for the Battery, a most dangerous piece of fi an work to undertake in broad daylight . H aving nished his work in advanced trench , he was on his way back , and it was while crossing an exposed piece of ground between our trenches that he was shot and ’ a instantly killed . For his g llantry he was mentioned in Sir John French s 1 1 Despatch of January , 9 5 .

- . R A Lieut Colonel Smeaton , . . (commanding the I st Siege Brigade) , writes to his widow “ Your gallant husband died nobly, killed in action . He died as he

oo lived , a brigh t and shining example to us all , and we shall not s n ” or easily forget him . A brother -ofﬁ c e r wrote

o u I should like y to know how dreadfully we all feel h is death , and how our hearts go out to you in your irreparable loss . He was always so

n . cheery, so willi g, and the men all loved him I can only repeat that

I have lost a dear friend , who gave h is life in a gallant attempt to carry out a dangerous and very i mportant piece of work . DAVID SCOTT B O B OSON LIEU TE NA NT D . R . D RU M MO N D

Scots Gua rds

D i 2 rur es 8 0 A e d 0 N ov. rd 1 9 , g 3 3 , 9 1 4

SECON D son of the late George James Drummond and M rs . Drummond ,

Swa land s of y House , Penshurst . a 1 0 M rried , in 9 7 , H ilda Margaret, daughter of Alfred Harris, of Don n in ton g , Chichester, and leaves three daughters .

In 1903 Lieutenant D r ummond joined the 3 rd (Militia) Battalion of the

1 0 . Black Watch , and in 9 4 was given a Commission in the Scots Guards 1 0 He was promoted Lieutenant in 9 7, and had latterly been on the Reserve ﬁ 1 1 of Of cers . He went out to France in October, 9 4, with the Seventh I Division , and fought in the st Battle of Ypres . He was killed by a sniper

o . near Ypres , and buried cl se to Veldhoek His Captain writes “ Just a hurried line on the march to tell you about poor old David ; he ff was shot through th e head by a sniper, and , thank God , su ered no pain .

We buried him that night . I got a parson to say a few words over his grave , and I put up a rough cross I cut out of the wood, with his name and r W e — ffi I egiment on it . can ill spare him one of the best o cers had , and fi the most un sel sh fellow I have met ; however tired and hungry, he was fi to always the rst volunteer to do anything , or to help others . I am simply

r mise able about him . He was a very gallant gentleman . His Sergeant writes : “ of It makes me very sad to think of such an untimely end , as his charm

to manner endeared him all ranks , and he proved himself a born leader in ” the ﬁeld . The wife of a brother-o fﬁ c e r writes to his widow The same night the re was a wounded man in the trench a little way o ff . They heard him moaning, and during the night Mr . Drummond managed to go to hi m and give him some morphia . The poor man died in the night, ’ so his last hours were painless owing to M r . Drummond s act . Another day they passed a wounded man lying on the ground in the cold, waiting to

. r o r be picked up . M r D ummond t ok his Burber y and covered the man with it and left it there . Considering what coats mean to them out ” there, it was a splendidly kind and noble action . DAVID ROBERT DRUMMOND DU N SM U R E LIEUTEN ANT H . A . H .

Ca meron H ig lzla nders

'- ' F eh 2 th 1 1 R endalls o6 t o A g ed z 3 . 9 , 9 5

M Du ns m u re H . . ELDER son of Henry William Henderson , Member of

for Te rro t Du ns m u re e Bodyguard Scotland , and Alice Mary , and gr at V V H M n D u ns m u re . S . . B a grandso of James , , Chairman of . Fisheries o rd , f D o Te rro t D . . a and Charles Hughes , , Pri mus of the Scottish Episcop l

Church .

X I 1 0 . Football , 9 9 After leaving Harrow he spent some months in

r Ge many and France before going to Sandhurst .

D u ns m u re 1 1 Lieutenant went to the Front in December, 9 4, and was a killed , two months later, in the trenches by a German sniper, who man ged

e n ﬁlad e . to a section His death was almost instantaneous . His Colonel writes “ fﬁ l all H e was a brave and e cient leader , and had endeared himse f to ” r anks .

M c L eod The late Captain , of the Cameron Highlanders, wrote He was cheerful under the most adverse circumstances and absolutely ” fearless .

° A n . . 3 N . C O of the Regiment write We our ﬁ ﬁ have lost of cer , the nest gentleman that ever stepped , who

n ot was only brave himself, but inspired bravery in others .

CAPTAI N E . L . P . EDWA RD S

E a st Yorkshire R egiment

'— ’ N ewlands 1 A ed 6 S e t. 2 0th 1 1 9 94 g 3 p , 9 4

W T r . P . arb err o ELDEST son of Lea Priestley Edwards , J , y Court,

- quay , his mother being a daughter of Lieut . Colonel Sir Henry Edwards , B C . Bart . , .

— r 1 8 . Sandhu st, 94 5

1 8 6 . Captain Edwards joined his Regi ment in 9 at Bangalore , India H e R was attached to the Northamptonshire egiment for the Tirah Campaign ,

— 18 8 . 2 0th 1 1 97 (medal and two clasps) He went to France on August , 9 4, 2 oth on and was killed , at the head of his men , on September , near Troyon , ﬁ the Ai sne, where two hundred and ten men , and ten or twelve of cers were killed or wounded in seven minutes . He would have been a Major next day had he lived . ERI C LEA P RIESTLEY EDWARDS 2 ‘ Small H ouse s 8 2 - 8 Marc h 1 2 th 1 3 , 9 1 5

E aste rhill Blairl sk u B . ONLY son of the late James Findlay , of and , N . ,

E as te rhill Botu ric h N B . and grandson of the late Robert Findlay, of and , .

t Captain Findlay served for some years in the London Scot ish , and was

r War a member of the Royal Company of Arche s . When broke out in 1 1 a 9 4, he devoted hi mself for some months to the recruiting and organiz tion of an extensive system of Special Police, or Corps of Guides , in the

- t R . I n r 1 1 t Coun y of oss shire Novembe , 9 4 , he was gazet ed Captain in th e th r 4 Seaforths , and went to the Front with a draft f om Bedford , where l 1 1 . he had been training, in February, 9 5 He was kil ed by a shell which r h 1 1 1 2 t . bu st close to him in the battle of Neuve Chapelle, on March , 9 5 The Maj or (afterwards Colonel) of the 1 /4th Seaforth Highlanders writes

I n oﬂﬁc er a him we lost a very gallant , and his death is a gre t blow ” to us . The Adj utant 1/4th Seaforth Highlanders writes a Some of us had known hi m for sever l years, some of us only quite recently, but we all know that we have lost one of the best, and feel his loss

greatly . H e brought out our last draft, and had not been with us for m fe w m e n ore than a days ; I know , however, that the with whom he had e l s rved loved and admired him , and this admiration was perfect y obvious to ” anyone who had met him only for a few minutes . The Chaplain 1 /4th Seaforth Highlanders writes R e H is death has been keenly felt in the egiment, and p rsonally I ’ regret his removal more than I can say . But he met a soldier s death , and he will be honoured not only by this R egiment but everywhere for the ” courage and devotion which he showed at a critical time . From the R oss-shire J ourna l Those of the draft which he commanded will ever retain plea sant

o ﬂi c e r r a n d memories of an whose single conce n was the safety, comfort ” - well being of all under him . From the D a ily Graphic There is grea t grief among the men of the London Scottish over the

t . death of Cap ain R . de C Findlay of the Seaforth Highlanders For many years Captain Findlay was a very popular sergeant in the ‘ Scottish . ROBERT DE CARB ON NEL FI NDLAY M V O . . F . . . MAJO R TH E H O N . A . O . W C WELD O RESTER ,

Grena dier Gu a rds

’ ’ aste r s - 3 A ed N ov I st 1 1 The H ead M 9 2 94 g 3 7 . , 9 4

I Sh ro F FTH son of Lord and Lady Forester, of Willey Park , Broseley, p shire .

r 2 n d 1 8 8 Majo Forester joined the Battalion Grenadier Guards in 9 , and ’ served throughout the South Afr ican War in the 8th Division (Queen s and ’

1 10 . . to King s medals) . In 9 he became A D C . Lord Hardinge of Pens

1 12 . hurst , Viceroy of India . 9 th 1 1 He went out to France with the Seventh Division on October 7 , 9 4, and fought at the I st Battle of Ypres . He was wounded near Ypres on 2 th October 9 , and died of wounds in London on November I st . Mentioned in Despatches . Earlier in the year he had been playing cricket against the School for the a Household Brig de . W OLSTAN THE HON . ARTHUR ORLANDO CECIL WELD FORESTER F PRI VATE R . C . O RREST

L ondon Scottish

' D ec 3 — A ed Oct 1st 1 1 ruri o9 1 4 g 1 8 . 3 , 9 4

P . a . ONLY son of the late Robert Forrest, of Calderhead, Lan rkshire, J r and D . L . for Glamorgan , and of Mrs . For est, of New Court , Marlow .

u 6th 1 1 Pri vate Forrest j oined the London Scottish on Aug st , 9 4, a week 1 after leaving School , and went to France on September 5 th . He was wounded and missing after the charge of the London Scottish at Messines,

e l s t 1 1 . on Octob r 3 , 9 4 He is said to have been shot in the leg, and to have been last seen with other wounded in a farmhouse near M essines , j ust r r befo e it was overrun by the Germans . None of the party has been hea d of since .

F - CAPTAIN W . A . U LLER MAITLAND

Coldstrea m Gua rds

’ The H as te r 3 - 3 ed 2 Se t th 1 ea M A . 1 1 d s 9 6 99 g 3 p 4 , 9 4

-M d ELDEST son of William Full er aid an and the Hon . Evelyn Coulston l - a a l . Fu ler M itland, of St nsted Hal , Essex 1 00 Sandhurst, 9 .

t - 1 0 1 Cap ain Fuller Maitland joined the Coldstream Guards in 9 , and served in South Africa during the last year of the Boer War . R 1 1 H e went to France with his egiment on the outbreak of War in 9 4, e and served in the early operations, during the Retr at from Mons , and in

. a the Battle of the Marne He was killed in the Battle of the Aisne, ne r v illa e of the g Z Troyon . WILLIAM ALAN FULLER-MAITLAND CA PTAI N A . N . GALB RAITH

’ Cevlon Pla nters Riﬂe Corps

W 2- ’ e Feb 1 h t A 6 . t 1 1 es A c re 9 2 9 7 g d 3 s , 9 5

YOUNGER and only surviving son of the late Ven . Henry Galbrai th ,

Gle ndalon h . . Archdeacon of g , and of M rs Galbraith , of Enniskerry, Co k Wic low . — : 1 8 18 . Monitor 95 . Trinity College, Cambridge, 95 7 Ceylon Civil

Service .

’ Captain Galbraith j oined the Ceylon Planters R ifle Corps soon after a a his rriv l in the Island , was soon promoted Sergeant, and took a Com i a mission in 1 90 8 . When at home on leave he was temporar ly att ched as a R Lieutenant to the ifle Brigade, and was promoted Captain on his return to Ceylon . As an indication of his keenness , it is said of him , that, I except when out of the sland , he did . not miss a single annual Camp, and he also had the reputation of being an excellent rifle shot . When the question of r aising a Ceylon Contingent for active service in fi fi the War was rst mooted, Captain Galbraith was one of the rst, if not the fi rst, to send in his name . He went with the Ceylon Contingent to Egypt 1 1 t - in November , 9 4, and was at ached to the Head quarters of the

1 1 . Australian and New Zealand Army Corps in January, 9 5 He was fatally inj ured in a motor-car accide nt on his way to attend a court 2 2 n d 1 1 a martial , on January , 9 5 , and died in Citadel Hospit l , Cairo , on

1 1 . P w rsc ou r 1 o e t . February 5th , 9 5 He was buried at Church , Co Wicklow,

1 8th 1 1 . Ireland , on March , 9 5

Mr . Stubbs , Colonial Secretary and Acting Governor of Ceylon , writes

Galbraith , as you know, was my private secretary for nine months , wh ile I was administering the Govern ment of Ceylon , an d was invaluable to me . His wide knowledge of the Island and the people , his sound j udgment and great powers of work , and his sympathetic insight, combined to make him an ideal person for such a position . Subsequently as my principal assistant i n the Secretariat he continued to do most valuable

o ﬁ work , and I looked f rward with con dence to a time when the Secretary of ff State would o er him a more important post elsewhere . He was always ready to take any amount of trouble for other people , and was one ﬁ of the most unsel sh men I have ever known . I know of nobody whose death will be so widely and deeply regretted . ALEXANDER NORMAN GALBRAITH MAJO R R . H . GALWEY

R oya l Ga rrison Artillery

H ome Boarde rs — 3 A ed 2 F eb a rd 1 1 8 9 g 4 . 3 , 9 5

f E . o C . SECOND son of William Galwey, , and Maria

Louisa Galwey .

R A . 18 1 00 Major Galwey j oined the . in 93 , became Captain i n 9 , and 1 1 e Major in March , 9 4, and was for a time instructor in gunnery at Sho b r u n e ss . y He served in the South African War, taking part in the Relief ’ of Ladysmith , and in the Operations on the Tugela Heights and at Pieter s ’ ’ ﬁve H ill . He received the Queen s medal with clasps and the King s medal with two clasps .

He was stationed at Singapore, and was on the point of coming home to the command a Heavy Battery when Si ngapore Riots broke out, and he was shot in the streets by the mutineers .

Their Maj esties , the King and Queen , telegraphed to his mother “ The King and Queen deeply regret the loss you and the Army have sustained by the death of your son in the service of his country . Their

Majesties truly sympathize with you in your sorrow . General R idout writes “ He stood in the very front rank of his profession , and was loved by all . His loss is a great personal grief to me, and it is too sad for words to ﬁ ” realize that such a noble life should have been sacri ced to murderers . Colonel Brownlow writes from Singapore

His death is very deeply regretted here, as he was loved and respected by all who knew h im . I regarded him as a very great personal friend, and ﬁ had the highest admiration for him , both as an of cer and in his private capacity, as one of the best and most lovable men I have ever met . His loss to the Service is great, and I am sure that he would have had a dis ” in u ished t g career . REGI NALD HUGH GALWEY GI L B LIEUTENANT E . EY

' Th e Knoll o z -0 A ed 2 6 M arc h 1 2 th 1 1 5 g , 9 5

YOU N OER a Gilbe 2 nd B son of Sir W lter y aronet, Elsenham Hall ,

2 2 . Essex , and Down Street, Piccadilly

Sandhurst .

Gilb e 2 nd t l R Lieutenant y was gazetted to the Ba ta ion of the iﬂe Brigade , the having formerly held a commission in Grenadier Guards . He was 1 2 1 1 killed in action at Neuve Chapelle on M arch th , 9 5 . A co rporal in his Platoon writes to his father “ ’ ilb e s I am proud to say that I was in Lieut . G y Platoon from the day

n f he joi ed us until the time he fell , a few feet rom my side . We considered o urselves, with your son as our leader , the luckiest Platoon in the Reg iment, in . e ts if not the whole Army He was j ust like a father to us , and our inter s

r fi e we e always his rst thought . Each one of us would have follow d him in the most forlorn hope had he wanted us . He was the bravest man I ever 2 m m saw . When we made the charge at p . . we were met by the ost awfis l fi r l ilb fi o r e . G e t of shells and bul ets , and Lieut y was the rst leap ove for the parapet, and shouted to us to make anoth er parapet a hundred yards

in r . f ont Lots of men fell in that h undred yards . The next instant I for happened to look round , and there was your son , who had run back about ten yards , in the open . He was bending over a young fellow, and the n ex t second he fell . He had been badl y wounded some hours previ o u sl a i so y, but he refused to make his way to the dressing st t on , and home

a e . to England , inv lid d

F CAPTAI N . E . GILL

R oya l E ng ineers

’ ' Re ndalls - A e F eb a 8th 1 1 96 9 9 g d 3 2 . , 9 5

- D th V . V. B ONLY son of Lieut Colonel John Whitcombe Gill , . , 4 . . M R anchester egiment, retired Cotton Manufacturer, and the late Sarah Jane, daughter of Edwin H ilton , Chairman of the Manchester and County

Bank . Captain Gill was gazetted to the Royal Monmouth Royal Engineers in t 1 0 1 . 9 When the Sou h African War broke out he volunteered for service , and

1 02 . went to South Africa in 9 , being attached to the Cheshire Regiment He ’

1 0 . obtained the King s Medal , and was gazetted Captain i n 9 3 ﬂi' c e rs Wh en the M ilitia was disbanded he joined the Reserve of O . On

r the outb eak of the War he was sent to Brompton Barracks , Chatham - Here he developed Cerebro Meningitis, of which he died at Fort Pitt 8 h 2 t 1 1 . Military Hospital on February , 9 5 FRANCIS EDWI N GILL T P - R I N GTON . DO MAJO R . GOD MAN

1st Drag oons

‘ Drurie s 1 - 3 A ed N ov a th 1 1 9 94 g 3 7 . r , 9 4

I - r R r 1 th TH RD son of the late Major Gene al icha d Temple Godman , 5

r H i hden Dragoon Gua ds , and Mrs . E . M . Godman , of g , Pulborough ,

r Sussex , and 5 Uppe Belgrave Street . D orin ton Sandhurst . Assumed the name of g on succeeding to L iatt yp Park , Stroud , the estate of his godfather, the late Sir John

Dorin ton g .

-Dorin ton 1 8 Major Godman g joined the Royal Dragoons in 97 , and was 1 0 promoted Captain in 9 5 . He served in the South African War, being

r present at the Battles of Colenso , Spion Kop , Vaal K antz , Tugela Heights, ’ ’ ’

l s . Pieter s Hi l , etc . (Queen s and King medals and seven clasps) He had been acting latt erly as Adj utant of the Sussex Yeomanry . He was killed 1 2 th 1 1 in the I st Battle of Ypres , on November , 9 4, shot by a sniper , while in the trenches . THOMAS PH ILIP GODMAN-DORI N GTON LIEUTENA N T S . E . L . GO RDO N

R oya l F usiliers

3 ° Druries 06 — 1 1 A ed 2 2 M ar c h th 1 g 1 3 , 9 1 5

L a . o 2 E DER son of Henry L ing Gordon , M D . , and M rs . G rdon , of 7 f Carrington Court , May air . B A 1 10 . . Monitor , 9 . Harrow Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford . , 1 9 14 .

Lieutenant Gordon was gazetted to the 5 th Battal ion Royal Fusiliers in 1 1 th August, 9 4 he was afterwards attached to the 4 Battalion , and went to

r 11 r 1 was r 0 rd 1 . the F ont with them Decembe 3 , 9 4 He killed in the f ont

n 1 1 1 . li e trenches at Ypres on March 3 th , 9 5 H is Colonel writes as follows

H e was indeed a natural soldier . Such charming gentlemen are now

r b becoming rare, and his loss will be felt ve y much y the Regiment . He e was greatly loved by his men , and had a happy tact in d aling with them ” that does credit to his Harrow education . His Maj or speaks thus “ I cannot tell you how much I feel his loss . H e was always cheery and

i r br ght, and had no fear of anything, and whatever work he had to do , the e i — ff was no fuss about t h e went o and did it . I looked on him as one

r n ﬁ of my most expe ienced you g of cers . From his Captain come these words

H e had been an ideal subaltern in every respect, always willing and reliable : on several occasions he had been of real assistance in cases of

ﬁ . dif culty He was a man without fear, and more than once I had to

n check his wishes to do something which , to my mi d , might have cost him his life . SIDNEY EUSTACE LAI NG GORDON -SAW LE LIEUTENANT R . C . GRAVES

Coldstrea m Gua r ds

Druries - ‘ N ov 2 nd 1 1 0 3 o 7 A g e d 2 6 . , 9 4

- -Sawle ELDEST child and only son of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Graves ,

- . Sawle Bart , and of Lady Graves . 8 n 1 0 . 1 0 . Sa dhurst, 9 7 Joined the Coldstream in 9 Assistant

a for Adj ut nt two years .

6th 1 1 r . On the August, 9 4, he ma ried M iss Heaton Ellis

Lieutenant Graves - Sawle went to France with h is R egiment on August h 1 2 t 1 1 . , 9 4 He went through the Retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne , and was killed in action at Ypres under the fol lowing circumstances H e had taken charge of a Company which had lost its Captain , and was pinned to an advanced trench distant about 80 yards from a wood full of

r German snipe s . A French attack had developed through our lines , but had been repulsed , with the result that the com munication trenches were

r r required to give shelter to the French . In o de to make his way from the ’ o ffi c e r s - -Sawle dug out to his Company, Lieut . Graves had climbed on to the top of the communication trench when he was shot in the head by an ex ’ a plosive bullet from sniper s rifle , and died about two hours later . The following are tributes from all r anks “ r ffi He was one of the best and most tho ough o cers in the Battalion , and

o I am much l st without his services (Colonel) . “ He was a very great loss to me : we had be e n together in the Company

r - Oﬂi r since coming out (B other c e ) . “ - A very considerate and capable ofﬁ ce r (Lance Sergeant) .

r We did everything i n our power to b ing him back to life , as we loved him so much , and he was an example to us all of the most wonderful

u n se lﬁsh n e s s r r - r bravery and (St etche beare ) .

2 N D LIEUTENANT R . E . C . GROO M E

R oya l F ield A rtillery

Ke nd alls 083 —1 1 3 Marc h th 1 1 A g ed 2 0 4 , 9 5

M r c s . ONLY child of Harry Groome and Groome, of Brooklands, Bro ken

s . hur t, Hants 1 1 2 Woolwich , 9 .

Lieutenant Groome received his Commission in the Royal Field Artil

1 h for 1 6 t . lery in January, 9 4, and was attached to the s Battery He left 1 1 1 f the Front on August 7 th , 9 4, and was through the Retreat rom Mons, r rd 1 1 and the Battles of the Ma ne and the Aisne . On March 3 , 9 5 , he was mortall y wounded under the following circumsta nces A break was repo r ted in the telephone communications with a forward observation station , which he had himself selected and connected some days r t earlie . He at once volunteered to repair the break, and star ed out, m about 7 p . . , with one Bombardier . After repairing the wire, they were

u r ret rning along the road f om Ypres to Neuve Eglise, when a chance shell burst on to the road between them , severely wounding both men in the legs .

h r . They were found by a passing waggon , pluckily cheering one anot e

r Lieut . Groome insisted on the Bomba dier having the ﬁrst drink and the

ﬁ r r rst attendance , though he was himself mo e seve ely wounded . He was

r conveyed to hospi tal at Poperinghe , but the surgeons p onounced that an

r r Ope ation was impossible . On the mo ning of M arch 4th he succumbed to e his wounds , cheerful to the last ; indeed his last regret was that in b ing

moved from the ambulance he had allowed one groan to escape his lips . “ The Colonel commanding the 8th Brigade of Artillery writes — H e was ﬁ r a most promising of cer, chee y and full of pluck , and his loss is a severe ” r a one to the B ig de . H is Major writes The whole Battery has had a great loss : he was so

had r th e popula r with all ran ks . He se ved thro ug hout War with the a gre test credit and distinction , and it is only a few days ago that his name

ﬁ . ﬁ was noted for of cial recognition Please accept from the of cers , r d gunners , drivers , and in fact eve y single man of the Battery, our eepest sympathy . ROBERT EDWARD CHARLES GROOME CA PTAI N J . A . HALLIDAY

1 1th H ussa rs

’ — ’ A N ov. 1 th 1 1 Churc h Hill 8 9 94 g ed 3 9 3 , 9 4

ELDEST son of John and Maria Halliday, of Chicklade House , Salisbury . ’ 1 8 I 1 8 2— —u Cricket XI , 93 ; Football X , 9 3 ; runner p Public Schools 18 18 Heavy Weight Boxing Competition , 93 winner, 94 ; Trinity College, - t 1 8 6— Cambridge Inter Universi y Sports (Hammer Throwing) , 9 7

1 8 . winner, 97

H allida oin ed 1 1 1 8 8 Captain yj the th Hussars in 9 , and served in India and ’ ﬁ e on special service in the South African War (Queen s medal and v clasps) . 1 0 H e obtained his Captaincy in 9 5 , and was Adj utant to his own Regiment 1 08 1 1 1 from 9 to 9 , and then for three years to the Leicestershire Yeomanry .

He went out with the Expeditionary Force at the beginning of the War, R r and fought all through the et eat from Mons , the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the I st Battle of Ypres . He was wounded at Messines

r 1 s t 1 on Octobe 3 , and died, on November 3 th , in the Duchess of West ’ minster s Hospital , Le Touquet . “ Alec ” was brought over and buried in a lovely little country church f ’ ﬁ yard quite close to his ather s house at Chicklade . A ring party from his R ” old egiment came over from Aldershot, and the Last Post was played over - one of the most cheery, lion hearted Englishmen that ever lived . JOHN ALEXANDER HALLIDAY H N F - O . . LIEUTENANT TH E . . C H H AN B U RY TRACY

Scots Gua rds

' ’ The G ro e - A e 2 D ec 1 th 1 1 v 9 6 oo g d 3 . 9 , 9 4

I th TH RD son of Charles , 4 Baron Sudeley, and Ada, only daughter of

Tollemac he the Hon . Frederick . nd Passed 2 into Sandhurst . Lle we llen of Married Madeleine , only daughter Colonel George

Llewellen L ac k ha m . Palmer, of , Lacock , Wilts , and leaves two sons

- to Lieutenant Hanbury Tracy was gazetted the Scots Guards in 1903 .

1 0 the fﬁ . He resigned his commission in 9 7 , and j oined Reserve of O cers

On the outbreak of the War he rej oined , and went to France with his 1 1 Regiment in November , 9 4 . He was slightly wounded in the leg when for on 1 8 1 1 he left the trenches an attack , near Fromelles , December th , 9 4, th e and was again wounded i n thigh on reaching the German trenches, and was unable to move . One of his Sergeants who was also slightly wounded in the head wanted to help him back , but he told him to leave him to o f where h e was , and g , as quickly as possible, to get rein orcements which were badly needed . He must have known that in doing this he was fi sacri cing his life . He was shortly after taken prisoner by the Germans, and died of his wounds in their hands the next day . One of his Commanding Offi cers wrote T told me Felix was lying in front of the German trench , and ’ I e some men wanted to carry him back , but Felix said No . t was a v ry ” gallant thing to do . Another offi cer wrote

Poor Felix , as you have probably heard, has been killed . He led a charge against the German trenches and they got in . He was shot through os both legs getting there, and m t gallantly refused (so a kiddie Sergeant

I . I told me) to be bound up or moved till it was all over . am sorry knew ” he would play the game to the end , and he did . - THE HON . FELIX CHARLES HUBERT HANBURY TRACY LIEUTENANT R . D . S . H ARDI N G

Bedﬁ rdshir e R egiment

’ R end all s 3 - 0 A e 2 N ov th 1 1 99 3 g d 9 . 7 , 9 4

1 ONLY son of S . G . Harding and Mrs . Harding, of 5 Lowndes Square, S W .

Joined Lloyds in 19 14.

1 1 Lieutenant Harding went to the Front in September, 9 4, and was killed in action near Ypres on November 7th . His Captain writes “ The enemy had broken through the line of trenches held by a battalion f on ou r . le t, and its break caused a part of our trenches to be vacated also o ff Our Company was in reserve, and we formed up and brought an entirely

- c a tu r successful counter attack , driving the enemy back , killing many and p

- - t ﬁv e . ing twen y prisoners I t was in this counter attack that Harding fell , l I leading his men up a light y wooded hill . did not see him fall , but missed him when we got to the ridge, and on going back found him quite dead ; death had evidently been instantaneous . I had formed a very high opinion : I r of his gallantry and coolness could ely on him always , and he had g ained ﬁ the con dence of his men , though he had only been with his Company about

. a to a month He was always cheery and bright, and it was a real ple sure ” r have his company on the line of ma ch or in the trenches .

CA PTAI N H . V . HARE

D urha m L ight I nfa ntry

2 2 M oretons - A e Se t a th 1 1 9 5 99 g d 3 3 p . c , 9 4

C R N . the SE ON D son of the late Admiral the Hon . Richard Hare, . , and

Hon . Mrs . Hare . 1 0 a son Married , in 9 9, Nellie, daughter of the l te Sir Edward Hud

Kinahan , Bart . , and leaves a son and a daughter .

a f 1 00 e a Captain Hare j oined the Durh m Light In antry in 9 , b c me Adju h 1 1 1 1 12 . e tt e t e tant in 9 , and Captain in 9 He was kill d at the Ba l of

2 0th 1 1 . Aisne on September , 9 4

His Colonel writes . “ He was one of the very best— a very gallant gentleman— a good soldie r e (he was for some time Adj utant of his Battalion) . He was d arly loved by ﬁ to the e of cers and men , and his death has been a grievous loss Regim nt . ﬂ i n s Long will little Bunny Hare be a ec t o ately remembere d by the Durham . HEN RY VIVIAN HARE LIEUTE N A N T R . L . Q . HE N RI QUES

R oyal West Surrey R eg iment

' ’ W r — 1 A ed 0 Se t . 1 th 1 1 e st A c e 9 8 0 g 3 p 4 , 9 4

SEC OND son of the late David Q u ix ano Henriques and of Agnes Char

1 r . lotte Henriques , of 7 Sussex Squa e, Hyde Park , W

Guid to Arm Si na llin Author of a e y g g .

From 19 1 1 to 19 14 Lieutenant Henriques served with his R egiment in

Gibraltar, Bermuda, and South Africa . He was home from South Africa on leave at the outbreak of the War, and applied to be transferred from the all z u d to the I st Battalion in o r der to go to the Front at once . He was R ﬁ through the etreat from Mons and the subsequent ghting, to the day of his death in the Battle of the Aisne . A private in his R egiment writes as follows “ M r . We started the advance, my Platoon about thirty yards behind, _ ’ Henriques in support . We had j ust come up out of a valley when the

ﬁ re . n Germans opened on us However, we kept on adva cing until we were

t r about thir y ya ds from the enemy . We were all up in line , and I was the

r thi d man from Mr . Henriques . He j ust raised his head and shoulders and ‘ ’ ” r said Advance when he was shot through the cent e of the forehea d . A brother—ofﬁ c er in the 2 nd Battalion wr ote “ The men worshipped him . He commanded my Company in r t Be muda and trained them there, and I am quite certain hat no man ever ﬁ took so much trouble to make his men ef cient . H e worked night and day m to . for th e , and was well repaid by their success and their devotion him

D . Company will give a great account of themselves , and it will be greatly due to the magniﬁcent example set them by him whose gallant con ” duct was j ust what they expected . His Platoon Sergeant in the 2 n d Battalion writes “ I must tell you he was sincerely loved by every N . C . O . and man of his

Company, also the Regiment . How we would have loved to have him ” lead us at the Front . Another man of the 2 n d Battalion writes for we all loved hi m we said we would follow him any ” on ﬁ where the eld .

F CAPTAI N S . . A . A . H U RT

R oya l Scots Fusiliers

2 W st c re 3 - 8 A e Oc t 1 8th 1 1 e A 93 9 g d 3 5 . , 9 4

P A . . . SECOND son of lbert F Hurt, J , D . L . , of Alderwasley, Derbyshire,

' - A . Delm é R adc liﬂe . and of lice , daugh ter of F . P , of Hitchin Priory, Herts 1 8 — 8 1 8 Cricket XI , 97 ; Football XI , 97 .

1 8 Captain Hurt j oined the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 99, and became Cap

1 1 1 . a I tain in 9 The gre ter part of his service was in ndia . 8th 1 1 e He went out to France on September , 9 4, and was pres nt at the

Battle of the Aisne . Later on he was sent to the neighbourhood of La 8th Bassée 1 th . , and fell in action on October , his 3 5 birthday He was killed instantaneously, while leading his Company to an attack in the evening, f ﬁ a ter having been ghting all day since early morning . He was mentioned ’ 1 1 1 i n Sir John French s Despatch of January 4th , 9 5 . SEYM OU R FREDERICK AUCKLAND ALBERT HURT K CA PTAI N J . B . JEN I N SON R iﬂe Brig a de

’ 2- 3 T e ed Se t . 1 th 1 1 he H ead Mast r s 95 98 A g 3 3 p 4 , 9 4

ir r 1 2 ELDEST son of S Geo ge Banks Jenkinson th Baronet , and Falﬁeld Lady Jenkinson , of Eastwood , . 1 8 Sandhurst, 99 .

1 0 . C . B . Married , in 9 7 , Joan , only daughter of Colonel J Hill , , of Wol laston Hall , Wellingborough , and leaves a son , the present Baronet, who

1 1 . succeeded his grandfather in 9 5 , and a daughter

1 8 1 08 Captain Jenkinson j oined the Riﬂe Brigade in 99 ; Captain , 9 ;

f ﬁ 1 1 2 rd I General Staf Of cer , Eastern Command , 9 ; Brigade Major 3 nfantry f 1 1 . Brigade, 9 3 Staf College Graduate He served in the South African War ’

t a ﬁve . with the Mounted Infan ry, and obt ined the Queen s medal with clasps

A very enthusiastic sportsman , fond of hunting, shooting and polo , he was especially keen on shooting expeditions abroad , and when able to do so , R always spent his leave on such expeditions and trips to the ockies , Cau

r . casian Mountains , Asia M inor and North Af ica H e had collected many

r r r good heads and trophies, and a great numbe of birds , natu al histo y being

r r his special hobby . He was a real love of ﬂowers and ga dening .

- r 1 1 He went to France , as Brigade Majo , in August, 9 4, and was

R a n d through the etreat from Mons , the Battle of the Aisne , at which he ” r was killed . His last wo ds were Fight on . He was buried at Vendresse . 1 1 1 He was mentioned in Despatches on October 9th , 9 4. A friend writes “ r I knew him well , as he and I went to Ha row the same day and ’ shared a room at the Head Master s House . He was j ust as brave as a ” lion ; he did not know what fear meant .

. F . CA PTAI N C . A LA O NE , D . S . O

Dev on shire R eg iment

ll ’ - ' A ed 8 Marc h 1 th 1 1 Church H i 90 94 g 3 4 , 9 5

ﬁ -on - ELDER son of A . W . Lafone, Spring eld, Walton Thames .

r 1 8 th e Captain Lafone j oined the A my in 97, and served throughout

A 1 01 . South frican War, obtaining his Company in 9 He was mentioned in ’ ’ ﬁve Despatches , and obtained the Queen s medal with clasps and the King s a x med l with two clasps . He had been on active service with the E pedition

a 8 1 1 . . . ary Force in Fr nce since November th , 9 4, and his D S O was granted for “ 1 8 1 1 Conspicuous gallantry on the night of December th , 9 4, near Neuve ” l u Chape le , in capt ri ng a trench from the enemy . He was serving with his 2 nd Regiment, the Devons , when he was killed by a chance bullet through r 1 1 1 the pa apet on March 4th , 9 5 . The following are extracts from letters received “ ou r l We have lost best Company Commander , and one whose p ace can ﬁ ” not be lled during the War (h is Colonel) . i al His Reg ment has lost its best Captain and I my best p .

r l ffi We have lost the most cha ming, ga lant o cer the Regiment could ” wish to have . ’ Captain L afone s presence in our midst unde r all circumstances was fi always a tower of strength . The con dence which he inspired in us was fi suf cient to carry us anywhere (N and men of his Company) . fi " He was simply magni cent in an attack . During the whole of his service h e helped (like his uncle) to make the R ” Devon egiment great in the eyes of its Country and Nation . “ R His loss to the egiment is too dreadful and the whole of our Brigade, from the Brigadier downwards, feel it much . “ I for r s hall was in his Company nearly a yea , and I never forget how ” competent and j ust he was , and how much we all liked him in consequence . CLAUDE ALEXANDER LAFONE 1 0 - 1 08 he the Educated at Marlborough School , 9 3 9 , where represented R School at Cricket, Football , Hockey, acquets, and Fives . Oriel College , — — - 1 08 . t 1 0 10 1 1 1 2 Oxford , 9 Universi y Cricket XI , 9 9 ; Rugby XV, 1 0 — 1 0— 1 1 1 0 — 1 0- 1 1- 12 1 0 9 9 ; Hockey , 9 9 ; Racquets , 9 9 ; Rugby Inter

national .

Captain L ag de n j oined the Supernumerary Army Reserve in 19 12 : at

the outbreak of the War, upon the nomination of General Sir Edward ’ 6th Hutton , he was appointed to the Battalion King s Royal Rifle Corps , at “ first- Sheerness, where he did remarkable work and was esteemed a rate fi ” of cer . ’ Chronicle 1 1 An account in the King s Royal Rifle Corps , 9 5 , says of him 1 1 Proceeding to France at the end of February, 9 5 , he was posted to th al the 4 Battalion , and a few days later was c led upon to lead h is Company ‘ in an assault on the German trenches at St . Eloi . He behaved with the ’ t ‘ utmost gallan ry, wrote his Colonel the task was an impossible one, and ’ D Company did all that was humanly possible to carry it out . When last seen he was lying badly wounded on the parapet of the German trench , and ’ although reported as wounded and missing, there is little hope of his sur

vival . . He died as he had lived , a hero among h is fellows f Coming direct rom Harrow, where as Assistant M asters their sym c pathi s and interests were identical , the two friends , Charles Eyre and La de n Ronald g , are essentially types of British manhood , which the Public School and University life of England has produced in such numbers to

ﬁght for the Empire in the hour of her peril . Athletes of superlative excellence , scholars of high degree , conscious of their own physical strength

to and mental culture, both had been habituated from boyhood lead, and to gain the conﬁdence of their fellows . Such heroic spirits are of their very fﬁ nature ideal o cers and leaders of men .

Of the only two survivors who were taken prisoners in that attack , one, a corporal , wrote from Germany La de n ﬁ Captain g , who was well away in front, was the rst man to fall . ' o ﬂe re d I I went and help, but he told me to go on with my men then saw f hi m get up and struggle orward , but he was again wounded, and fell .

2 N D LIEUTENANT A . H . LAN G

Grena dier Gua rds

’ Ch rc h Hill ’ - J a a th 1 1 u 04 0 9 Aged 2 4 n. s , 9 5

YOU N C EST son -G ba of the late Basil Lang , Advocate eneral of Bom y, and

Mrs . Lang . — — 1 6- - - 1 0 8 . 0 8 C a Head of his House, 9 7 9 Cricket XI , 9 7 9 ; apt in , — 1 908 9 . Represented the School at both Racquets and Fives ; won the R Challenge acquet twice and the Ebrington Racquet Cup once . the Had a share in winning the Fives Shield four times , Racquet o a the C c Cup twice, and the Torpid Fives twice . T ok p rt in o k House

Match every summer he was at Harrow .

Trinity College, Cambri dge represented the University at Racquets in ’

1 1 . 9 3 , and the same year kept wicket at Lord s in the University Match

On the outbreak of the War 2 nd Lieutenant Lang obtained a Com in mission the Grenadier Guards , being subsequently attached to the I st e 2 th 1 1 Scots Guards . He went to the Front on Decemb r 9 , 9 4, and was 2 th 1 1 killed in Cuinchy, Flanders , on January 5 , 9 5 , whilst helping to hold — e the front line trenc hes against overwhelming odds . H e was report d ‘ ’ missing , and for many months hopes were entertained that he was still alive . To his personal qualities testimony enough is borne by the numbe r a f — o f and the w rm af ection of his friends friends who , like Ge f rey Hopley, ff e knew how to value hi s high sense of honour and unru led temper . Non f could know him well without a deep af ection for the loyalty of his nature, the f quiet sense of humour (always ready to see a j oke against himsel ) , and above all for his simple unquestioning obedience to duty whenever duty called . HORACE LANG - LIEUTENANT T . E . LAWSO N S M ITH

13 th H ussa rs

' ' R endall s -o 8 A e 2 Oc t 1 th 1 1 04 g d 5 , 3 , 9 4

- s o a . ELDER son of E . M . Law on Smith , of Cotton L dge, T dcaster, Yorks — I 1 08 1 08 . Cricket X , 9 . Sandhurst, 9 9

- When the War broke out, Lieutenant Lawson Smith was travelling home f H e ce on sick leave (a ter enteric) from his Regiment in India . at on

a to 1 1 th . volunteered for service , and was temporarily ttached the Hussars ’ 1 On October 3 th he was working in the trenches , when one of the enemy s 1 6- o e inch shells dropped right into the trench , burying him with s m six

t e . o hers under a mass of earth , so that death must have b en instantaneous A brother-ofﬁ c er writes ﬁ ff The ghting at Messines was desperate , and tremendous e orts were of o required the tro ps to hold it . You cannot imagine what his loss R to means to the whole egiment, which had e very reason be proud of him . ‘ ’ Tommy was the life and soul of everything ; the whole of India knew

— ab so Tommy and loved him h e was always the same keen , cheery , and ” l u tely fearless .

C . O 1 1 th Colonel Pitman , . Hussars , in France, writes to his mother I hope it will be a comfort to you to know that your son had done most awfully well , and only a few days before I had wri tten to Colone l

Brooke to ask him to send me some more of the same sort . He knew no ” fear . Wherever he went his men followed him .

. C . O 1 Colonel A Symons, . 3 th Hussars , writes “ fi — t fi He was j ust the kind of of cer that we badly need gallan , unsel sh , ” w -o fli c ers and shrewd , al ays respected by the men and by his brother .

F A LIEUTENANT . C . LED G RD

Yorkshire R egiment

3 — 3 t nd 1 N e wlan 0 A ed Oc . 2 2 1 ds 0 5 9 g 2 3 , 9 4

FOURTH son of Armitage Ledgard and Helen Ledgard , The

M anor House , Thorner, Yorkshire .

1 10. Sandhurst, 9

2 nd 1 1 1 Lieutenant Ledgard joined the Battalion in 9 , and left with his

th 1 1 . Regi ment for the Front on October 4 , 9 4 Three weeks later, on c 2 2 nd O tober , he was killed at Ypres , when in charge of the Machine

Gun Section . A private of his R egiment gave the following account of his death

Another very brave man was Lieutenant Ledgard . On the day of a big German attack in October he was in command of the two Machine Guns m ihu fe s to of and some Artillery, and every few he had change the position the guns . Backwards and forwards along the trenches, from one position to another , he was running with the heavy machine gun over his shoulder and the perspiration streaming down his face . Man after man in his section was t all hit , as they mowed down the German Infantry , and eventually hey were out of action , except Lieutenant Ledgard and Private Norfolk . Almost at n fi — a ightfall the of cer was hit by a shell , and he died great loss in the eyes of every ‘ Green The Adj utant of his Regiment writes “ fi ne ffi The Regiment has lost in him a and most gallant o cer , and one that we shall not be able to replace . Up to the time of his death he had done most excellent work i n every way, and was here, there, and everywhere doing damage with his machine gun . I was next to him when he was hit . t a o ff He was killed ins ant ne usly and su ered no pain . Your son was carrying

M . . G his gun to a more advanced position , when he was hit ; the section had done great slaughter in this business before your son was killed . He died ” a t a splendid de h , and we all feel proud of him . ’

f 1 1 1 . He was mentioned in Sir John French s Despatch o January 4th , 9 5 FRANK COO PER LEDGARD D S O . MAJO R CHAN DO S LEI GH , . .

’ King s Own Scottish B orderer s

3— 3 A u 2 rd 1 1 Elmﬁe ld A e d . 8 7 90 g 3 7 g 3 , 9 4

K C L . . ELDER son of the Hon . Sir E . Chandos eigh , , and Lady

Leigh , of 45 Upper Grosvenor Street, W .

1 1 2 . . . In 9 he married Winifred, daughter of the late Right Hon A F ff Je reys , of Burkham , Hampshire .

Trinity Hall , Cambridge .

’ After leaving Cambridge, Major Leigh entered the King s Own Scottish 1 8 Borderers through the Warwickshire M ilitia, in 95 . As a subaltern he served with the Mounted I nfantry in South Africa, being mentioned in

Despatches and receiving the medal and six clasps . For his services in the Egyptian Army from 1 902— 19 12 he received the Os m anie h and Med

idieh - el- j Orders , as well as the medal and clasp for the Bahr Ghazal — 1 0 1 06. ﬁne Expedition of 9 5 9 He was a horseman and polo player, and was well known on the Cairo Turf, where he more than once headed the winning list of steeplechase riders, both amateur and professional .

At Mons , Major Leigh , though severely wounded, not in the trenches but in the open , ordered his men to retire across the canal and leave him where he was, so that there should be no delay in blowing up the bridge in face of the advancing Germans . News was received later that he had died and was buried at Boussu , shortly afterwards . ﬁ He was the rst Old Harrovian to fall in the war .

O CAPTAI N M . LL YD

N orthumberla nd Fusiliers

° ‘ Small H o se s - c A e 1 Marc h 1 th 1 1 u 97 c g d 3 5 , 9 5

FOURTH son of Richard Borrodaile Lloyd and Cath e rine Jean Campbell

Lloyd .

At the time of mobilization was acting as Land Age nt to Mr . Longford

o e . Bro ke, in Ch shire

Captain Lloyd j oined the old 5th (Militia) Battalion Northumberland ’ 1 00 n Fusiliers in 9 , and saw service in the South Africa War (King s da to rd a a me l) . He was gazetted a Captaincy in the 3 B tt lion in November , 1 0 1 08 9 5 , and was transferred to the Special Reserve in 9 . He went to a th 1 1 was Fr nce with the I st Battalion on December 4 , 9 4, and mortally th 1 1 wounded at Ypres on March 4 , 9 5 . MERVYN LLOYD F N LIEU TENA N T . LO N G MA

R oya l Fusiliers

3 - 3 d Oc t th dalls A e 2 . 1 8 1 R e n 0 3 0 7 g 4 , 9 1 4

C . . SE ON D son of C J Longman of Upp Hall , Braughing,

r L on m ans Co . Herts , and pa tner in Messrs . g , Green and , 3 9 Paternoster

Row, and of Harriet Ann Longman . 1 0 1 0 - Football XI , 9 7 ; Dolphin , 9 7 ; Champion Feather weight Boxer,

1 0 . . 9 7 Pembroke College, Cambridge

1 8 1 1 Lieutenant Longman was killed in action on October th , 9 4, at

Herlies , in N . France . He had been previously wounded in the arm (with four other bullets through his clothes) at the Battle of the Marne ; but h e rejoined after a short stay in a base hospital . His Colonel (since killed in action) wrote “ Please accept my deepest sympathy and be consoled with the thought that his work on active service was as sound and valuable as his conduct has

r r re been b ave and dutiful . His rapid eturn to duty after the wound c e ive d r on crossing the Marne marked him specially as a genuine soldie , ” and his loss will be very much felt by all of us , professionally and socially . A brother- o ﬂi c e r writes “ He was always cheery, and it did us all good to see the way he did his j ob, and never grumbled at anything . He was one of the gallantest fellows

I ever saw, and noth ing ever frightened him . We are all proud of him , ’ ” and his name will always go on in the R egiment s history as a hero . th R Captain Cooper, 4 Battalion oyal Fusiliers, writes ’ r One couldn t want a mo e excellent companion or a braver fellow, always a u nr u fﬁ e d bsolutely cool and , and the most cheery person imaginable under

r most trying ci cumstances, and I can hardly tell you what a lot th is latter ” means on a show like this . th R Captain Hill , Adjutant of the 4 oyal Fusiliers , writes

r in I , unfortunately, was not p esent when he fought the Southern Com

o a r mand Boxing Meeting, but C rpor l Campbell of the Go dons , who is one ’ o f ﬁ ﬁ the Army s most expert j udges , told me that his ght was the nest thing

r t o he had eve seen , and he held it up the men as an example of British ” c r pluck and endurance . A crowded house hee ed him to the echo .

L U A R D MAJO R C . E . , D . S . O .

N orfolh R eg iment

’ The Knoll - 3 A e Se t 1 th 1 0 d 8 . 1 9 94 g 3 p 5 , 9 4

d R L u r . E l Charl e s a . . ELDER son of Genera Edward , , F and M rs L u ard Gilfoot . , daughter of Thomas Hartley , of , Cumberland 1 8 Sandhurst, 95 .

1 1 r r M arried, in 9 3 , Dorothy F ances, youngest daughter of Maj o Wil

P . . s on . liam Barrett, J . , D . L , of Moredon , Taunton , and leaves one

r L u ard R 1 8 6 M ajo joined the Norfolk egiment in 9 , and became Captain 1 1 8 1 00 in 905 . He served in British Central Africa in 99 ; in Ashanti in 9 , where he was severely wounded and mentioned in Despatches ; and in - 1 0 f . . . Somaliland, 9 3 4. He passed the Staf College and gained his D S O in

1 0 1 . 1 1 R e 9 He went to the Front in August, 9 4, and was all through the ’ r ﬁ ‘ t eat from Mons . He was rst reported missing, but is now known to

- - have been killed during an attack on Chivres Hill , near Missy sur Aisne, on

1 . September 5th He was again mentioned in Despatches . CHARLES ELMH IRST LU AR D - O LIEUT . C LO N EL CO LIN M CLEAN

Gordon Highla nders

t ’ - 3 A e 1 M arc h 1 th 1 1 More ons 8 7 9 1 g d 4 3 , 9 5

M c Le an be e . ELDEST son of Neil , of Breda, Alford , A rdeenshir M c N e il] 1 0 1 u . . e a Married , in 9 , Isabel , da ghter of W L , and leav s daughter and a son .

Mc L e an 18 Colonel joined the Black Watch in 93 , serving with them in ’ ’ al 1 the South African War (Queen s and King s med s) . He retired in 909 6th with the rank of Captain , receiving the command of the Terri torial e Battalion Gordon Highlanders . He went to France on Novemb r th 1 1 1 1 1 e 9 , 9 4, and was killed at Neuve Chapelle on March 3 th , 9 5, whil commanding his Regiment .

2 N D LIEUTE N A N T I . A . M AC RAE

’ a g s Own Scottish Borderers

‘ ‘ The G o e 0 — 1 A e 1 O c t th r . 1 1 1 v 9 3 g d 9 4 , 9 4

M ac R ae of l ONLY son of Donald M . and Rosalie , Stenhouse, Thornhi l ,

- Dumfries shire .

a nd M ac R ae After leaving Harrow, Lieutenant travelled for a year in rd 1 1 France , and was gazetted to the 3 Battalion in January , 9 4. 2 n d He was transferred to the Battalion in April , and left with them for

n 8th 1 1 . l Fra ce on September , 9 4 He was present at the Batt e of the Aisne , and then moved to La Bassee . He was wounded near Cuinchy while leading o fi his Company on October 1 3 th . All but one fhis senior of cers having been

th e killed day before , his Company was ordered to advance ; he had only

fi . a . m gone fty yards when he was shot through the head He lay out from 5 . till 1 th 1 1 night, and died from his wounds at Bethune on October 4 , 9 4. One of his men writes “ M R . ac ae They were occupying a forward position , and Lieut kept moving about amongst those under his charge . This exposed him to a great r r l deal of danger, as Ge man snipers were active, and he was st uck whi e changing his position from one point to another . H is men would have done if t anything for him , and he gave an order , he gave it pleasan ly, and was M . ac R ae always smiling and cheery . If Lieut ordered his men to advance, he was always in front trying to fi n d cover for them or as sheltered a ” position as possible . An ofli c e r writes a fi c Most g llant , and by his bearing inspired con den e i n men many years his seniors . MACRAE K CAPTAI N A . V . M A ANT

L oya l N orth La ncashire R eg iment

’ ’ The Par o - 8 A e 2 6 Marc h 1 th 1 k 3 0 g d 4 , 1 9 5

of l Gilnow SECO ND son John Wi liam and Florence Mary Makant, of

Lodge , Bolton . 1 06 1 0 -8 I 1 0 —6— Monitor, 9 ; Cricket XI , 9 7 ; Football X , 9 5 7 (Captain ,

Clare College , Cambridge .

1 1 1 Captain Makant was gazetted to a Lieutenancy on October I st, 9 , and

2 rd 1 1 . was promoted Captain on December 3 , 9 4 th a C Company of the 5 Battalion , Loy l North Lancashire Regiment, - 1 1 1 was engaged trench digging on the night of Saturday, March 3 th , 9 5 and

c t re eived a good deal of attention from enemy marksmen . Cap ain Makant was shot through the head at about on Sunday morning, and died in t hospital at His younger bro her , Lieut . R . K . Makant, had been

u s mmoned to his side, but Captain Makant never recovered consciousness after the bullet struck hi m . His Commandi n g Ofﬁ cer wrote “ ﬁ The Battalion has lost an excellent of cer by the death of Angus V .

Makant . He was loved and respected by all ranks . From the Ha rrovia n “ r c t St aight , loyal and sympatheti , a natural leader , caring lit le for what

others thought of him , he did more for the School and his house than he was

perhaps aware of himself. It is not therefore surprising to learn of the ff ’ a ection felt for him by the men in his father s works in Lancashire , which ‘ h e ﬁve entered on leaving Cambridge about years ago , or again that in his R egiment he was looked up to by his men , who, whenever in any trouble,

cam e to him for advice .

C O ’ B CAPTAIN . . H . M ETH UEN

R oya l Wa rwickshire R eg iment

’ ‘ Th e Par 0 - 2 A ed Oc t 2 0th 1 1 k 9 9 g 3 8 . , 9 4

E L D Es r Volu n son of the late Colonel C . L . M ethuen , commanding I st

r R the tee Battalion Gloucestershire egiment (Bristol Riﬂes), and formerly of t h th e t 7 9 Cameron Highlanders , and of late Mrs . Me huen .

R R 1 8 8 Captain Methuen joined the oyal Warwickshire egiment in 9 , from the M ilitia . As his Regi ment was not ordered to sail at the beginni ng of r t e the South Af ican War, he volunteered for service and was at ach d to the

R u silie rs with . oyal Irish F , whom he was present at the Battle ofColenso Later, i u when his own Reg ment was sent out, he rej oined it, and served thro gh th the remainder of the war with the 4 Mounted Infantry, receiving the ’ ’

ﬁv e l . Queen s medal and clasps , and the King s medal and two c asps

wa s to n t He at Malta when the War broke out, and returned Engla d wi h R 1 1 th his egiment in September, 9 4, sailing for France with the 7 Division

n the following mo th . He was in the I st Battle of Ypres , where the Regi ﬁ l ment lost all their of cers but one j unior subaltern , ki led , wounded, or

missing . He was shot through the head while looking over a trench on

r 2 0t h 1 1 Octobe , 9 4, near Zonnebeke , only a fortnight after going to the

Front . The following are extracts from the letters of brother -offi cers “ far His loss was very keenly felt by everyone , as you know he was by fi R the most popular of cer in the egiment . “ R o u a The egiment will miss him awfully , he was quite the most p p l r ” fi r fi of ce we had , both with of cers and men . “ I know it is quite unnecessary to tell you how much I pe rson ally shall

miss him , and I know I am only one , among the many who have known him , ﬁ s who will deplore the loss as a friend of his most charming, unsel sh per on ﬁ ality . I am con dent his end has been the one he would have chosen . We l ” all knew he was a ga lant soldier, without fear of any kind . ’ CAMERON O BRIEN HARFORD METHU EN CA PTAIN E . C . M ILLER

Loya l N orth La nca shire R egiment

' ’ i - Oc t 2 d 1 Dru r es A e 6 . r 1 93 96 g d 3 3 , 9 4

M e rlewood n SECOND son of the late William Pitt Miller , Gra ge - m over Sands , and of Thistleton , Kirkha , Lancashire . B A 1 1 0 . Trinity College, Cambridge, . . , 9 ff 1 1 Be . Married , in 9 3 , M iss rnard , of Cop Dock , Su olk

Captain Miller joined the 3 r d Battalion of the Loyal North Lancashire

m 1 02 r 1 06. R egi ent i n 9 , and was p omoted Captain in 9 He was a keen riﬂe shot, being one of the founders of the Grange Riﬂe Club, and him self won prizes both at Bisley and Altcar . When War broke out he went of down to Felixstowe, as part the Coast Defence Force , where his know f- ledge of the country, previously gained in staf rides, was invaluable . He 1 1 l R went to the Front in September , 9 4, to j oin the I st Batta ion of his egi

o n 2 rd su c c e ssﬁal ment, and was killed in action October 3 , during the attack

o near Bixscho te . H is Colonel writes “ Captain Miller was serving with the I st Battalion when he was killed ; he fell while leading a party of his men in the endeavour to capture a machine r d 2 . gun on October 3 His death was a great loss to both Battalions, and

r was deeply reg etted by all ranks . He was one of the ﬁnest fellows I have

. f ever had the good fortune to know His uprigh t and stead ast character, and hatred of anything mean or paltry, combined with a genial and sympa thetic nature , has left behind him , in the memory of h is friends, an example ” and an inﬂuence which will long survive him .

-ofﬁ c e r Captain R . E . Crane , a brother who saw h i m fall , writes

r Dear old Tubs died, j ust as eve yone who knew him would have ex e c ted p , leading on his men in the attack , and setting an example of courage ’ n and coolness which went far to bri g success to the day s operations , and ” which was worthy of the highest traditions of the Regiment .

M ON TGOMER IE CA PTAIN W . G .

L einster R eg iment

' Th e G ov 3 - Oct ac th 1 1 r e 9 1 93 Aged 3 6 . , 9 4

S N M n r m O . o t ome ie . of Mrs g , Wrotha , Kent

M ont om e rie o the e 1 8 Captain g j ined Leinst r Regiment in 97, and was Pre me s u e e e t 1 0 . e promoted Cap ain in 9 3 He was wound d at q , it is beli v d , on e l th - Arme ntiére s e Octob r g , and died thirty six hours later at , wher he is buried . WILLIAM GRAHAM MONTGOMERI E 2 N D LIEUTENANT E . D . M U RRAY

1 9th H ussa rs

’ 3 — 3 e 1 Oc t. 1 6th 1 1 The Head M aster s 0 6 10 A g d 2 , 9 4

SECON D son of Sir George Sheppard Murray, of Cleveland House , ’ S W ﬁ St . James Square , . . , late unof cial member of the Legislative Council ,

r l . Singapore, St aits Sett ements, and of Lady Murray

Sandhurst .

to 2 nd Lieutenant Murray joined the 19th Hussars in 191 3 . He went F 1 1 and rance in August, 9 4, and was through the Retreat from Mons, the t Ba tles of the Marne and the Aisne . He was killed in action while on

r 16 1 1 . ou t pat ol duty near Le Bizet on October th , 9 4 H e had led his troop - r . to reconnoitre near the cross oads , a quarter of a mile from Le Bizet

to o Leaving his men under cover , he proceeded alone lo k for some German r t enches, which had been reported near the village . On leaving the fi shelter of some houses , he was red on and seen to fall . Sergeant Brunton and r ff u Private Jerome, of his Squadron , t ied to e ect a resc e , but were fire D C M driven back by heavy for this act they both received the . . . Mc Clu re 1 8 Major , of the th Hussars , writes to his father “ Your son is a great loss to me . He came out as a recruit and grew ffi ” into a good o cer, with a very gallant heart . a 1 8 Capt in Lyon , of the th Hussars , writes to his father

M c Cl u r e r Major , I know, w ote to you of his gallant death . I wish r there we e more as brave as your son . A Lance -Corporal in his Squadron writes

We all feel the great loss of Mr . Murray, to whom we were so much attached .

CA PTAI N N . NEI LL

1 3 th H ussa rs

3 — 3 N ov th A d . 6 1 1 R e ndalls 94 97 ge 3 3 , 9 4

YOU N C EST son of the late R obert Neill and Mrs . Neill . Began life as

an d the . an artist, studied at Slade School 1 10 Married , in 9 , Eleanor de Courcy, second daughter of the late Major C B General Sir Gerald de Courcy Morton , . . , and leaves one daughter .

Captain Neill was gazetted to the 1 9th Hussars fr om th e M ilitia in 1 0 2 1 10 1 9 , beco ming Adj utant in 9 ; in this year he transferred to the 3 th f Hussars, and was promoted Captain . He served in the South A rican ’

m . ca paign , and held the Queen s medal with four clasps He was a member the r ff r of Gene al Sta , and was appointed B igade Major to the Household

Ge n eral a t . Cavalry Brigade , commanded by Kavan gh , shor ly before it sailed 1 1 a H e went to France early in October, 9 4, and was wounded in lmost ﬁ the rst engagement . After a stay in the Casino Hospital at Boulogne he returned to the Front at the beginning of November . 6th 1 1 l H e was killed on November , 9 4, near K ein Zillebeke, leading a l successfu advance of the Cavalry Brigade to support the French , who were

r being p essed back by overwhelming numbers . - 1 Major General Sir Philip Chetwode, former Colonel 9th Hussars , writes I had always hoped to see him in th e place his brains entitled him to ; ” r h e is a g ea t loss to the Army and to his Country . - 1 Brigadier General Taylor, former Colonel 3 th Hussars , writes

As a soldier he was brilliant as he was brave, and had he been spared u I am sure there was a brilliant career before hi m . I know f ll well how th e R a egiment all loved him , and how deeply grieved they will be to he r of his d ” eath . 6th General Kavanagh , commanding Cavalry Brigade, writes as His death , I think , must have been instantaneous and without pain ,

I saw h im two minutes after he was hit, and I am sure it was the death he would have chosen , as the last thing he saw was the Brigade advancing suc c es s fu ll y. They were complimented on their work that day by Sir John l French , and that they did it wel was in a great measure due to the help he

a i gave them . He Is a gre t loss to the Army generally and this Staff n par ” t ic ul ar . , and we are all very low about it NORMAN NEILL F CA PTAIN H . L . . NICH O LLS

N orthumberla nd Fusiliers

N ev/ lands 3—0 2 3 A e 2 Feb a th 1 1 99 g d 9 . s , 9 5

ﬁ ld N . Cu lverland Shed e O LY son of Colonel and Mrs Nicholls , of , , h Botle ig .

Sandhurst . u M rs Sc hu ter e Married the only da ghter of Captai n and . y , and l aves one daughter .

l z Captain Nic ho l s was ga etted to the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1 906.

r t 2 nd a fﬁ . H e se ved wi h the Batt lion at Aldershot, Dover, and She eld He ’ was then appointed Adj utant of the 9th Territorial Battalion of th e King s 1 1 e Liverpool Regiment . He was gazetted Captain i n 9 4, and on Novemb r

I 1 1 . st, 9 4, j oined the I st Battalion of his Regiment in France He was l 2 th 1 1 ki led near Ypres by a stray bullet on February 5 , 9 5 , j ust as he had of finish ed a tour inspection of the trenches . He represented his Regi ment fi - s at Golf, Cricket and Tennis , and was one of the nest left handed golfer " i n England , being a plus handicap at Westward Ho His Colonel wrote of him that he had not only lost one of his be st and ofli c ers was most promising , but also a great personal friend , whose loss untold . ’ St Geor e s Ga ette In the . g z he was mentioned as being one of the cheeriest - a se and kindest he rted men that one could wish to meet, and was one of tho few men about whom one could say he had not an enemy in the world. difli c u lt k However or serious a job he had to tac le, he made light of it, put a ting his whole he rt and soul into it .

K . LIEUTENANT A . NICH O LSO N

1 8th H ussa rs

' Druries 0 8 1 12 Oct 1 1 A g ed 2 1 . 9 4

P ONLY son of Herbert Nicholson , C . C . , J . . for Kent, and of Hetta

Nicholson , of Bidborough Hall , Tunbridge Wells . 1 1 1— 1 2 Sandhurst, 9 .

1 1 1 Lieutenant Nicholson went to the Front on August 5th , 9 4 On the morning of October 3 l s t the R egiment was holding a line of trenches near

St . Eloi , when Lieut . Nicholson put his head over the parapet for an instant , s l to earch the Front with his glasses . He was instantaneously ki led by a a o 1 0 sh rpshooter , who had taken post during the night in a house ab ut 5 a off y rds . The following extracts are from letters received “ was a His troop were devoted to him , as he lways most thoughtful for a their welfare and comfort . I found him most gallant , always re dy and keen a n for any risky patrol work , though he natur lly hated killi g and the horrors

all of war (as we do) . I am afraid I shall never be able to replace him in

my Squadron (Squadron Leader) . fi re He was most popular with his men , and his example under was m a fi all t gni cent hrough the War (Adj utant) . “ Only the night before he died he offered to take out his gun and storm a fi 00 a a ch teau where the Germans were xing a machine gun, 4 y rds from our

- trenches (Brigade Major) . “ t I had great hopes of him as a soldier, and he had made such s rides I with his work and was doing so well , that feel sure he would have made his

name in the Army at a future date . I always considered him one of my

ﬁ an d best of cers , both professionally and socially have liked him so much

(Colonel) . “ ﬁ He was an extraordinarily able and conscientious of cer, respected and

loved by all who knew him . He is an almost irreparable loss to the Squadron ” and the R egiment (Major) . ARTHUR KN IGHT N ICHOLSO N N LIEUTENA T B . OSBO RNE

1 5th H ussa rs

‘ The Knoll 0 2 -o 63 A e 2 N ov 1 1th 1 1 g d 5 . , 9 4

GER son 1 YOUN of the late Captain Frank Osborne, late 3 th Hussars , and

Mrs . Osborne , of Harbury Hall , Leamington .

n 1 06 X 1 1 06 1 06 Mo itor, 9 ; Cricket , 9 ; Football XI , 9 ; Racquet Player, 1 06 9 . f 1 0 o . Sandhurst, 9 7 (Sword Honour)

1 1 08 Lieutenant Osborne joined the 5th Hussars in 9 , and was gazetted

r 1 1 . won e s tempo ary Captain in 9 4, four days after his death He the larg t ﬁ R number of rst spears in pigsticking at Muttra, represented his egiment at P010 e - , and was in the winning t am in the Inter Regimental Tournament in

1 1 1 1 1 . 1 South Africa in 9 , and in England in 9 3 . He was No in the 1 1 was Cavalry Club team which won the Ranelagh Open Cup in 9 4, and handicapped at 7 points . 1 1 R He went to France in August, 9 4, with the egimental Machine ’ Guns , and was attached to Captain Courage s Squadron , acting as Divisional

rd o - Cavalry to the 3 Division . He was sent up t the front line trenches with H ae re nta e a his Machine Guns at g Ch teau , east of Ypres , on the night of the ’ — 1 h ‘ l oth 1 t November . He was reported missing on the morning of the 1 1 th 1 1 , and as those trenches were lost, nothing was heard till March , 9 5 , when a letter from a private in his Machine Gun Section (a prisoner) in

a . m formed his mother that he had been shot through the forehead about 7 . l 1 th 1 1 on November , 9 4.

LIEUTENANT G . C . L . OTTLEY , D . S . O .

Scots Gua rds

’ The Knoll 1 0 - I 3 A e 1 8 De c z rst 1 1 3 g d . , 9 4

R - B C . . a . O . ONLY child of ear Admir l Sir Charles Ottley, , M V , and of Lady Ottley .

1 1 . Sandhurst, 9 4

1 s t 1 1 Lieutenant Ottley j oined the Scots Guards on October , 9 4, and went out to France a month later . He was promoted Lieutenant on December ’ l oth th (antedated to November 9 ) , mentioned in Sir John French s Despatch 1 llan 1 1 . a on January 4th , 9 5 , and was awarded the D . S . O for conspicuous g ” ’ tr y. He fell mortally wounded while leading an attack on the enemy s trenche s 1 8 on on December th , and died in the Australian Hospital at Wimereux 2 1 December 3 t . O C 2 nd The . . Scots Guards writes “ a I in He is a very g llant fellow, and have mentioned him my report to the General . I was very sorry to lose his services we can ill spare out here ” boys of his pluck and grit . A Captain in the Regiment writes ’ a We are all very sorry indeed to hear of Ottley s death . He was h rd ” working and capable , and mad keen . A Lieutenant writes I am sure nobody in the Regiment deserved it "the more than he did and I am sure everyone who was out there with him thinks the

same . Another Lieutenant writes I have twice personally heard our Brigadier speak with the greatest

admiration of the work he has done , scouting at night up to the German

trenches and the last time he said , Young Ottley is a capital boy, I wish ’ we had more like him . His servant writes “ No one could have been more anxious or fearless in his duty , always ' ” eager to run risks for the others good , and his men knew it . GEOFFREY CLAUDE LANGDALE OTTLEY F P 2 N D LIEU TENANT W . . A RRI SS

M iddlesex R egiment

h t 3- 3 A 2 Marc h 1 th 1 1 Hig S ree t 0 6 09 ged 1 5 , 9 5

son . r YOUNGEST of the late J . W . Parriss and Mrs Parriss , of A dagh , W Willesden Lane, N . .

2 n d . . . When the War broke out , Lieutenant Parriss joined the H A C as 1 8 1 1 a private, and went out to France on September th , 9 4, being in the rd trenches for some months . He was then given a commission in the 3

M iddlesex, but shortly afterwards was killed in action in Flanders, while 1 1 1 holding an advanced trench on the 5th March , 9 5 . He is buried at

Kemmel .

- C . His C . Lieut . Colonel Stephenson (since killed) wrote of him “ s o He was so willing, so ready to do anything, brave and keen that we shall miss him very much ; although he had been so short a time with us ” he was very popular a gallant boy with all the courage of his race .

N D . 2 LIEUTENANT J . D PATTESO N 5 th D ra g oon Gua rds

’ ° ' - A ed 2 Oc t . 1 th 1 1 The H ead M aster s 04 0 7 g 5 4 , 9 4

ELDEST son of the late Colonel Henry Tyrwhitt Stainfo r th Patteson

P r J . . , D . L . , of Beeston St . And ew Hall , Norwich . B A t . . . 1 10 . Trini y College , Cambridge , 9

nd th r 1 1 2 Lieutenant Patteson j oined the 5 D agoon Guards in 9 0 . 16 1 1 R He went to the Front on August th , 9 4, and was with the egiment up

r to the time of his death . He was through the Retreat f om Mons , and the

Battles of Le Cateau , the Marne and the Aisne . He was killed in the early 1 1 1 morning of October 4th , 9 4, at Vieille Chapelle . JOHN DOSSIE MAJO R C . V . N . PE RCIVAL

R iﬂe B rig a de

’ e ad Maste r s 3 - 8 83 A ed 2 De c 1 th 1 1 The H 86 g 4 . 4 , 9 4

- ELDEST surviving son of Maj or General Lewis Percival , the Riﬂe Brigade,

- I . . . and sabella Agnes Percival , only daughter of Major General W E A

Elliott . 1 88 Sandhurst, 9.

1 8 2 Major Percival was gazetted to the Riﬂe Brigade in 9 , became Lieu

in 1 8 1 00 1 0 . tenant 95 , Captain in 9 , and Major in 9 9 For services in British 1 8 Central Africa in 99 he received the medal with clasp , and gained a similar 1 1- 2 decoration for services in Southern Nigeria in 90 . He was employed

r 1 0 1 1 2 with the Egyptian Army f om 9 5 to 9 , being promoted Bey and Senior 1 08 Inspector in the Soudan Civil Administration in 9 , and Acting Governor ,

H aifa r 1 1 1 . P ovince, in 9 R 1 1 He went to France with his egiment in November, 9 4, and was shot t hrough the heart and killed instantaneously, while superintending a digging Tille lo party at night, near Laventie . He was buried in the cemetery Rue y. The following are extracts from letters received

o fﬁ He was the best cer I had in the Battalion , and has done wonders

. a with his Company He was a very dear person l friend , and I thought the

- world of him as a soldier . He had j ust come up to Head quarters as ” -in- Second command . Claud is far the best ofﬁ cer in the Battalion his arrangements are per ﬁ ” feet and his men are the ttest and the best behaved .

We all deplore his loss , and he will be sadly missed both as a soldier ” a nd as a friend . “ ﬁ H e was one of the best of cers in his Battalion , always ready for any ’ o r hazard us enterprise , always cheerful unde hardship . I can t tell you how ” w e shall miss him in my Brigade .

CAPTAI N C . H . PETO

t oth H ussa rs

’ - l el A ed 0 N ov. 1 th 1 1 E mﬁ d 9 8 0 1 g 3 7 , 9 4

YO U N C EST Du n k in t son of William Herbert Peto, of y, Elgin , and of his f a l e d wi e Kate, d ughter of the late Sir Robert Pa m r Har ing, and grandson of the late Sir S . Morton Peto , Bart .

Sandhurst .

a l oth r 1 0 Capt in Peto joined the Hussa s in 9 4, and was promoted

in 1 1 0 10 . Lieutenant in 9 5, and Captain 9 He was a great hunter , and a l t e tr vel ed from India, through Kashmir and Turkes an , to Siberia , a com

ie d fin al s o an e . p only by natives , getting many heads H e shot lions in r d Northern Rhodesia . I n regimental races at Rawal Pindi and Mhow he o e many winners . 6th 1 1 2 -l He went to the Front on October , 9 4, with his Regiment, e 1 1 1 was kill d in action on November 7 th , 9 4, while in command of C fi Squadron , at the rst Battle of Ypres . The Germans had made a strong attack and h e had allowed them to come within five yards of his trench f fire : be ore giving the order to he then led his Squadron in pursuit, and

o was sh t through the head by a sniper . His Colonel wrote to his father “ There was no better soldier in the Army, or a better fellow than your

r son All the time he was unde me , I have never known him cavil or ” grumble at any order, however unpleasant. The Ofﬁ cer commanding the R egiment on the day of his death wrote “ He met his death commanding his own Squadron , which he had

fi . trained so well in South Africa , in repelling a erce attack of the Germans 1 r A private of the 4th Hussa s , who was wounded on the same day, wrote “ We came under a very heavy shell and rifle fi re I saw two fi of cers j ump out of the trench and run towards us . They dragged me to

ﬁ r the trench by the arms . The of cers were two b others, Captain C . ”

l oth . and Lieutenant R . Peto, Hussars ’ r s 1 He was mentioned in Sir Joh n F ench Despatch of January 4th , ”

1 1 ﬁ . 9 5 , for gallant and distinguished conduct in the eld CLEMEN T HENRY P ETO 2 N D - LIEUTENANT C . A . PI GOT M OODIE

Riﬂe B rig a de

2 C urc h Hill - 8 A e 2 J an 1 th 1 1 h o g d 4 . 3 , 9 5

YOU N C ER - of son of the late George Pigot Moodie, Westbrooke, Ronde bosch , Cape Colony .

Magdalen College, Oxford .

Second Lieutenant Pigot- Moodie joined the Riﬂe Brigade soon after W ar R R was declared , and was later transferred to the oyal Irish iﬂes, R which egiment he j oined at the Front in November . l oth 1 1 H e wrote to a friend on Sunday, January , 9 5 Of course the conditions are very bad, and trenches in an awful state, and all that but the actual thing is not half so bad as a bald statement of conditions makes it sound accounts ’ that leave out the human element must give a false im to - pression ; if the men were get depressed then it would be heart rending, but exceptional conditions only bring out their extraordinary form of humour , ” and so they keep their spirits up . To another he wrote One thing is certain — one is far happier here than one would be anywhere else — no one is

h - 1 1t . On Monday, January , his brother, Lieut . G . F A . Pigot Moodie, ” Royal Scots Greys , saw him for the last time , and found him very cheery . “ 1 2 On Tuesday, the th , he was sent into the trenches in place of someone ” 1 who was ill , and on Wednesday, the 3 th , was shot through the head by W . ts a sniper at Kemmel , dying a few minutes after He is buried near y c cha te, in the neighbourhood of Bailleul .

R I T . F . P T I E CA PTAIN TH E HO N . R D .

R iﬂe B rig a de

’ ‘ Maste r s 3 — A ed De c th T e H ead . h 94 9 9 g 3 4 1 9 , 1 9 1 4

’ O Calla han th SECO ND son of H enry g Prittle 4 Baron Dunalley, Kilb o Representative Peer, and Mary Frances Dunalley, of y, Nenagh ,

Co . Tipperary .

Prittie 1 8 Captain received a Commission in the th Royal Irish Regiment,

t 1 00 1 8. and was ransferred to the Riﬂe Brigade in 9 , becoming Captain in 90 1 0 — 8 - In 9 7 he was employed on the Uganda Congo Boundary Commission , and from 19 10- 19 13 he was Assistant Commissioner in the Anglo -German - n 1 1 and Anglo Belgian Boundary Commissio , while from September, 9 3 , to

1 1 . Pr ittie April , 9 4, he was on special duty in Egypt Captain was twice mentioned in Despatches , and was awarded the Cross of the Legion of “ a ff 1 1 1 b Honour by Gener l Jo re on October 5 th , 9 4, for eing the last man ﬁ re to leave a trench under very hot , and it was his action that saved the lives of many French soldiers . 1 1 1 He was killed on December 9th , 9 4, while leading an attack at

Ploegsteert . f Colonel Seymour, of the Rifle Brigade , writes to his ather By your son ’ s death the Regiment has lost one of the most gallant of fi o ne - n of cers , and whose never faili g kindliness and cheerfulness under all conditions have helped those around him i n a way that they can never I b forget . t is impossible to descri e how great a gap his death leaves in the f . n Battalion He was my greatest friend in the Regime t, and the blank le t fi l ” can never be l ed . fi General Cockburn , his rst Rifle Brigade Colonel , writes to his father “ a t He was gre tly loved by his men , and I am told he commanded the Bat a

ofﬁ c er . lion extraordin arily well , when he found himself the senior I glory that it has been my privilege to have known him , and to have had him under me . God rest his gallant soul . R Captain Ovey, of the iﬂe Brigade, writes

He was a particular friend of mine, and I have always looked upon him as one of the most charming and generous natures I have ever known . how I need not tell you how awfully well he had done out here, and very ﬁrst- popular he was , and what an absolutely class soldier everyone thought ” him . He would undoubtedly have g ot on very quickly if he had lived . THE HON . FRANCIS REGINALD DENIS P R I TTI E FF CA PTAIN M . RA DCLI E

Border R eg iment

E lmﬁeld 3 -0 1 3 A ed 1 De c 1 2 th 9 7 g 3 . , 1 9 1 4

R ff . P . ff for ELDEST son of the late Henry M iles adcli e, J and High Sheri f M P Westmorland , and Emily Bertha Radclif e , daughter of John Platt, . . for Oldham .

Sandhurst . 1 1 D u fﬁ n Married, in 9 3 , Kathleen , and leaves one son .

Captain R adcliffe received his Commission in the Border R egiment in 1 0 I 1 06 9 4, and served with the Mounted nfantry in South Africa in 9 and

1 0 . 1 1 9 7 In October , 9 4, he was attached to the I st Royal Scots , as fi Machine Gun Of cer , and with them went to the Front . He was killed ’ ‘ - i nstantaneously by a sniper while stepping into a dug out at Kemmel , in 12 th 1 1 Flanders , on December , 9 4, and was buried in the churchyard there . A brother-offi c e r writes to his mother “ We were all most sorry about your son he had done extremely well , fi ” and was a very good and gallant of cer .

CA PTAI N E . H . REI D

' Suﬂolh R egiment

The Pa r 62 3 A ed 2 u a th 1 1 A . 6 k 9 99 g 3 g , 9 4

R SECOND son of George Boileau eid late Indian Civil Service , a n d r r R Flo ence M arga et eid, of Fair Hill , Camberley .

r 1 1 Ma ried , in 9 3 , Elsie Vivian , daughter of the late E . C . Grant , Secre tary to the Stock Exchange, of Fosse Bank, East Camberley, and leaves one daughter .

R f 1 01 Captain eid joined the Suf olks in 9 , an d served a year and a half in ’ r the South African War, gaining the Queen s medal with three clasps . F om ’ 1 0 1 1 2 R oo 9 7 to 9 he served with the King s African iﬂes in Uganda, and t k

r a . pa t in the operations in Somaliland, for which he lso held the medal 6th 1 1 2 On leaving Uganda the Governor wrote on April , 9 , to the Sec r etary of State for the Colonies “ Before proceeding o n Tour the Governor desired me to take this opportunity of bringing to your notice the excellent wo rk pe r formed by

' . ofli c er r Capt Reid , and the able assistance this has endered to the Pro rectorate Government duri ng the period he has acted in the capacity of fi r th 1 1 1 Political Of ce of the Kigezi District, viz . from July 7 , 9 , to March 1 6 1 1 2 R fi th , 9 . Captain eid had to contend with exceptional dif culties in

administering this new and unsettled district, which he has done without

assistance under trying circumstances . He has shown marked administrative abili ty and maintained good order in a district where the native population

has been brought under control for the ﬁrst time . He has also furnished the Government with valuable reports a n d maps of a country h ithe r to prae ﬁ ’ tically unknown . Under the circumstances I recommend that this of cer s

name may be noted for special service , and that his service as Political Ofﬁ ce r in the P r otectorate may be brought to the notice of the Secretary of

fo r W a r State .

on 1 1 1 th He left the Curragh August 3 th , 9 4, with the s Division , and

2 r d was present at the Battle of Mons on August 3 , and in the retreat to Le

. 2 6th Cateau H e was shot through the head at Le Cateau on August , and

had been unc o nscious for some time when the R egiment was surrounded .

ﬁ o 1 1 . His identi cati n disc was sent in by the Germans in May, 9 5 EDWARD HARRI NGTON REID CAPTAIN W . E . RO GERSON

Durha m Light I nfa ntry

‘ 2 W est A c re - A ed 2 1 th 1 1 8 7 89 g 4 3 , 9 4

o YOUNGER son of the late John Rogerson , of Cr xdale Hall ,

n Tri ity Hall , Cambridge (Master of the Beag les) . Lived at Holywood h t Hall , Wolsingham , and later at Walwort Castle, Darling on , where he

n a hunted with the South Durham and Zetla d Hounds, and kept a few r ce horses . i - r n 1 8 8 . . Ma ried , 9 , Violet, elder daughter of Lieutenant General W H

Mackesy, and leaves two sons and two daughters .

1 th 1 1 Bu llswate r He died very suddenly on November 3 , 9 4, at Camp,

a . Woking, of he rt failure He had been appointed Adj utant to the 1 2 th t Battalion this , however, entailed more than he had s rength for, but he refused to shirk his work . I t is believed that his was the ﬁrst n ame on the Roll of Honour K 1 of . .

F U . . LIE TENANT W . A SANDEMAN

Gordon Hig hla nders

' E mﬁe l 3 - A ed 2 Oc t 1 th 1 1 l d 0 2 05 g 5 . 9 , 9 4

ONLY surviving son of Capt . W . W . Sandeman (late Seaforth High landers) and Mrs . Sandeman . Joined the Gordon Highlanders 1 909 : before the War he had been a as M c Callu m cting extra A . D . C . to Sir Henry , Governor of

Ceylon .

i e a 1 1 e L utenant Sandeman went to Fr nce in August, 9 4, and was pres nt e e at the Battl of Le Cat au , and through the Retreat from Mons . h He was wounded and taken prisoner at Laventie Farm on October 1 3 t , l th and died from peritonitis following his wound , at Laventie , on October g , 1 1 9 4 . WILLIAM ALASTAIR FRASER SANDEMAN ' H CA PTAIN B . . SELBY

N or thumberla nd Fusiliers

’ Par 6 — 3 A ed 2 t Th e Se . 2 0th 1 1 k 9 9 7 g 3 p , 9 4

. . P for ELDER son of Beauchamp P Selby (O H J . . Northumberland , of

- - Pawston on . , Cornhill Tweed ’ 1 1 1 Ofﬁ c e rs Won the Silver Cup at the Indian Durbar, 9 , for the Feather 1 1 weight Championship of All India, and in April , 9 4, at Portsmouth , was

- u ...... runner p to Lieut A B Butterworth , A S C

u siliers 1 0 1 Captain Selby j oined the Northumberland F in 9 , served in M hm and 1 0 8 a 1 1 2 . the Expedition in 9 , and became Captain in 9 ’

St. Geor e s Ga z ette l s t The following appeared in the g of October 3 , “ 19 14 — Beauchamp — it is right to speak of him by the Ch r istian name by which all his friends knew him— was an offi cer with marked individual u nfla in fi tastes which he followed with g g g perseverance and ef ciency . He : excelled in three particulars as a boxer, a marksman , and a hunter. The encouragement and personal attention which he gave to all promising glove

R r fighters in the egiment will eve be gratefully remembered by them . He was a keen rifle and revolver shot, and only this summer was busy at Wool ’ training possible members of a revolver team for the Duke of Connau g ht s fi Competition . But his rst love, and we think his foremost, was shikar, and

al w practic ly the hole of his leave in India during the years he spent there , was occupied with tracking and shooting game . H is tragic end robs us all f ff of a brave and sturdy riend, whose memory we shall all a ectionately fi cherish . He was a born ghter, and there is , peculiarly for him , something fi ” fitting that he should have died ghting for the noblest of all causes . His Colonel writes to his mother Poor Beauchamp was shot through the head in the trenches north of

Vailly . H e is buried close by where he fell . Your son was one

- r of the lion hearted breed that are such a powe in a Regiment . At the

ﬁ Ke m ine s ght at , the day after Mons , he did some very gallant work under

ﬁ O C . re . a heavy to the great admiration of the Lincolnshire Regiment, to ” whom he was temporarily attached .

CAPTAI N H . J . SHAW R oya l Fusiliers

’ - ’ N ov th 1 1 A ed 8 . 1 2 Churc h Hill oo 0 5 g 2 , 9 4

Sis sm ore Co . ELDEST son of William Shaw, Partner in Parry and , Madras , and Violet Amy Yule Shaw . — 1 0 l 1 0 . 1 0 . Monitor, 9 4 ; Footbal XI , 9 3 4 ; Gym VI II , 9 3

Went to India on leaving School and spent a year in Messrs . Parry and ’ ﬁ r m . Co . s then visited East Africa, to shoot big game

th 1 08 was Captain Shaw joined the 5 Battalion Royal Fusiliers i n 9 , and — a r 1 1 . promoted Capt in in Octobe , 9 4 Jimmy Shaw to use the name by which his br other-ofﬁ c e rs knew him — was a man of exceptional force of

r r character, liked and espected by all , and pa ticularly esteemed by th e other R H arr ovians in his egiment . 1 2 1 1 He was killed on November th , 9 4, at Fleur Baix, by a fall of

- earth , which smothered him in his dug out . As a boy at Harro w he showed rare determination and quiet courage in facing difﬁ culties . This did not make him popular with those who did not understand . But all who knew him well thought most highly of him , and this opinion has be en amply j usti ﬁed by the excellent work he did with his

Regiment . HU GH JAMES SHAW . K CAPTAI N W T . STAC H O USE

N otting ha mshir e a nd Derbyshir e R eg iment

2 2 The Grove - 00 A ed 1 M arc h 1 1 9 7 g 3 , 9 5

SON I n l e ﬁeld . of the late Maj or W . A . Stackhouse , of g Hall, Settle

1 1 2 the of . . Married , in 9 , second daughter Mr and Mrs Norrington ,

Abb ots ﬁeld of , Plymouth .

1 0 Captain Stackhouse joined the Lancashire Fusiliers in 9 3 , and served th a at Tipperary with the 4 Batt lion . On its disbandment under the Haldane scheme he was posted to the 1 s t

Battalion at Malta , from which he was specially appointed to the Sherwood o h . t t 1 1 saw Foresters He went the Front on November 4 , 9 4, and much ﬁ ghti ng . Wh ile on active service he was attached to the Royal Berk shire Regiment . 1 1 He was killed i n action in March , 9 5 .

CAPTAI N C . E . STRAHAN

R oya l Hig hla nders

‘ Small H ouse s 63 — A e d 1 N ov a th 1 1 9 99 g 3 . 7 , 9 4

- R E R l . . ONLY son of Lieutenant Genera Charles Strahan , , and ose Sarah

Richardson Strahan , of Hemingstone Hall , Coddenham , Ipswich .

Captain Strahan was gazetted to the I st Battalion of the Black Watch in ’ 1 02 9 , joining them during the South African War (King s medal and two 1 0 f ﬁ clasps) . I n September , 9 9, he was appointed Staf Of cer to the local

to 1 1 2 . 1 1 forces in the Windward Islands, returning England in 9 In 9 3 he

n d j oined the 2 Battalion in India . On the outbreak of the War he was sent fﬁ ahead to Marseilles as billeting o cer, and joined his Regiment in the 2 trenches on October 0th . He was shot while on duty in the trenches near 2 th 1 1 Bethune , on November 7 , 9 4.

- Lieut . Colonel William Campbell writes ﬁ He was an excellent of cer , and had done particularly well throughout all the trying work in the trenches which he was called on to do here . Major Sutherland writes “ I was in the trenches with him at the time , and I can tell you that on that day, as on every day, he was the cheeriest of us all . We all feel his ﬁ loss very deeply, both as a real friend and as an of cer . I can assure you that all the men of his Company feel it as keenly as we do . Captain Skene writes R He was one of the best, and a real good soldier . The egiment has

f r suf ered a eal loss in him . H is men loved him and would have done any

thing for him . Brigadier-General Fasken writes

He was a charming fellow, I liked him very much indeed . ”

fﬁ . was out of the common , even among British o cers CHARLES ERIC STRAHAN N F LIEUTEN A T . E . STYLES

R oya l Munster Fu siliers

‘ — ’ More tons 8 A e d 0 A u . a th 1 1 9 99 g 3 g 7 , 9 4

“ m H orroc k s e s ELDEST son of Frederick Styles , late Chair an of ,

Cotton Spinners, of Preston , Lancashire , and Helena A . W . Styles , of

Blackmoor, Edenbridge , Kent .

Sandhurst .

1 0 Lieutenant Styles was gazetted to the Munster Fusiliers in 9 3 . He 1 0 6 1 1 was promoted to Lieutenant in 9 , and retired in April , 9 4, but rejoined his Regiment j ust before the outbreak of the War . He went 1 1 1 to France on August 3 th , 9 4, and was killed at Etreux fourteen days ﬁ re . afterwards , while gallantly leading his men under a heavy

Captain Wise , his Adj utant, now a prisoner of war at Torgau , wrote 2 th You will already have heard that poor Fred was shot on Thursday, 7 l ﬁ r . e of August At the time he was gallantly eading his men under a heavy , and had he survived would certainly have been mentioned in Despatches .

I was not actually present when he was hit, but I have been told by those who were on the spot that his death was painless and instantaneous . When

I saw him a few minutes later he was lying peacefully, as though asleep . As this letter will be censored by the German authorities I am unable to ﬁ . Al l give you any details as to the action , or the situation of the battle eld

o ﬂi c e rs the who fell were buried in one grave , and a service was conducted ’ ﬁ by a German clergyman . Fred s loss is in nitely regretted by all of us who

011 R survive , and I wish to convey to you , behalf of the egiment, the utmost ” sympathy of all ranks with M iss Styles and yourself.

- CAPTAIN C . SYMES TH O M PSO N

Grena dier Gua rds

' ’ The G ro e — A e N ov 1 th 1 1 v 9 6 98 g d 3 3 . 7 , 9 4

- YO U N C EST . . . son of the late Dr Edmund Symes Thompson , M D ,

- and of Mrs . Symes Thompson , of 3 3 , Cavendish Square , and

f . Finmere House , Finmere, Ox ordshire l 1 12 . . Married, in 9 , the elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Churchil , and leaves one daughter .

Captain Symes -Thompson went with the 3 rd West Yorkshire R egiment 1 0 1 to Malta in April , 9 , and the following month j oined the I st Battalion d 1 2 n a a 10 . Grenadier Guards, as Lieutenant ; he obt ined his Capt incy i n 9 s 1 0 He was in charge of the signaller of the I st Battalion in 9 7 , in which r a ﬁ yea they g ined rst place in the British Army . He also used to keep f 2 nd wicket for the Household Brigade . He was trans erred to the Batta

it on lion when was ordered on active service, and went to the Front 1 2 1 1 August th , 9 4. He was through the Retreat from Mons, and fought 2 l s at the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne . On October t he arrived th a at Zonnebeke with the 4 Guards Brig de, to reinforce brigades which ﬁll e needed support to gaps b tween the British and French . He was killed 1 1 1 ﬁ in action on November 7 th , 9 4, the last day of the rst battle of Ypres ,

2 . while commanding No . Company, in a very exposed trench He was buried at Zillebeke . C H OLMELEY SYMES-THOMPSON N CAPTAI H . TAYLO R

Scots Gua rds

“ The G rove 3 - A ed Dec 1 th 1 1 94 9 9 g 3 3 . 9 , 9 4

Chi c h ase ELDER son of Thomas Taylor, of p Castle , Northumberland .

1 8 8 . Pro Monitor, 9 Head of his House . Balliol College, Oxford . s i e pe c t v Unionist Candidate for th e Borough of Sunderland . 1 0 Married , in 9 7, M ary, daughter of the late Henry Villiers Stuart , of

Dromana, Co . Waterford , and left a son , who has since died , and a daughter .

1 0 Captain Taylor joined the Scots Guards in 9 4, and was promoted 1 0 1 1 Lieutenant in 9 5 , and Captain in 9 4. He went to the Front in September, 1 1 ﬁ 9 4, as Brigade Machine Gun Of cer, in which capacity he took part in the

th e ﬁ r . retreat from Antwerp and rst Battle of Yp es In December , being

of then in command a Company, he led an attack on the German trenches near Rouges Bancs . He succeeded in occupying part of the trench and

r returned alone to the British lines to repo t . While going back to rejoin his men he was instantaneously killed . For gall ant and distinguished conduct on this and other occasions he was ’ 1 1 1 mentioned in Sir John French s Despatch of January 4th , 9 5 .

On Christmas Day an informal truce was initiated by the Saxons, who ’ were opposite the Scots Guards , and Captain Taylor s body was brought over

Cardoniere . by the Saxons , with bared heads , and was buried at La Farm A brother-o ﬂi c e r writes ’ ol Dear d Hugh was a most splendid character . I can t tell you how l wel he ran the Machine Guns ; he was always cheerful , and no day was ﬁ ever too long for him . He was the most unsel sh man I ever came across . ” We in the Regiment will always be proud to have had him as our comrade .

F CA PTAIN . G . TH EO BALD

Roy a l L anca ster R eg iment

’ R A e 8 Au th 1 1 en ls . a 6 dal 89 g d 3 g , 9 4

son e ELDEST of Frederick Th obald , Rector of Great and Little Wig

e e . borough , Colchester, and Jan Elizab th Theobald ﬁ 18 a nd was for Bar Quali ed as a Solicitor in 99, reading the .

a 1 00 Captain Theob ld joined the Royal Lancaster Regiment in 9 , and ’ ’ s ee s erved in the South African War, receiving the Qu n and the King s

s medals and four clasps . During thi war he distinguished himse lf by gal lantly holding a dangerous post under heavy ﬁre for twelve hours with only ’ te n f men , an incident which is re erred to in Sir Conan Doyle s book , The Gr ea t Boer Wa r was . 1 0 He obtained his Captaincy in 9 7, and appointed

2 nd 1 08 1 1 was . . . Adj utant to the Battalion . From 9 to 9 3 he A D C to Sir M c Callu m H . , Governor of Ceylon , and helped to entertain the Crown Prince

on of Germany, when the latter visited Ceylon . He went to the Front 2 oth 1 1 the n of 2 6th August , 9 4, and was killed in action on morni g August at Le Cateau . Sir Henry M c Callu m writes a son Let me add my testimony to the sterling qu lities of your . o Conscientious and thorough to a degree, the soul of hon ur, sweet in dis position and perfect in character . FREDERICK GEORGE THEOBALD 2 N D LIEUTENANT G . S . RODIE TH O M PSON

R oya l R iﬂe Corps

2 — 2 d S e t 1 th D ies 0 1 1 A e 2 0 . 1 1 rur 7 g p 4 , 9 4

P ONLY son of George Rodie Thompson , J . . and D . L . , of Lynwood ,

Ascot, Berkshire , and of Ezit Thompson . 1 1 1 Sandhurst, 9 .

1 12 Second Lieutenant Rodie Thompson joined the in 9 . He 12 th 1 1 left England with the I st Division on August , 9 4, and was with his R egiment through the Retreat from Mons . He was killed in action on

S 1 on eptember 4th , while leading his men in the attack the Factory at T royon , on the heights of the Aisne .

CA PTAI N R . TRYO N

Riﬂe B ri g a de

'- ‘ R alls 8 A e 6 J an. roth 1 1 end 8 2 4 g d 4 , 9 5

son ELDEST of the late Captain Richard Tryon late Riﬂe Brigade , a of of The Lodge, Oakham , and of J ne Anna Lucy, eldest daughter the late M - - - P . on the General W . A . Johnson , . , of Wytham Hill, Lincoln . Nephew

- . . . to of Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon , A D C the late Queen Vic “ ” a e 2 2 nd 18 tori , who was drowned in his ﬂagship , the Victoria, on Jun , 93 , while commanding the Mediterranean Fleet . 1 8 e Married, in 94, Edith Campbell Watson , ldest daughter of William

e two . Clarence Watson , of Colworth , Bedfordshire, and leav s sons

Captain Tryon was gazetted to the Riﬂe Brigade in 1 890. He retired 18 R ﬁ In 1 0 in 95 , and was attached to the eserve of Of cers . 9 4 he j oined the

Northamptonshire Yeomanry as Major . When the War broke out he was o 6th p sted to the Battalion of the Riﬂe Brigade , and at the time of his death ’ e 2 nd in he was s rving with the King s Royal Riﬂe Corps . He was killed

at l oth 1 1 . action Cuinchy, on January , 9 5 RICHARD TRYON TU R B T . U T LI E UTENA NT G . M . R

Oxfordshire a nd Bucking ha mshir e L ig ht I nfa ntry

2 ’ The Knoll — 0 1 A ed 1 Oct z l st 1 1 97 g 3 . , 9 4

f T rb P o l u u tt . . ELDER son Wil iam Gladwin , J , of Ogston Hall , Derby shire . B P . . A . 1 0 . Magdalen College, Oxford , . , 9 4 J . for Derbyshire Architect

R of estored to the Bodleian Library the original copy Shakespeare , presented ’ a a a u by Stationers H ll to the Libr ry , and fterwards sold . He was entr sted

Dr W lls . e by Armitage Robinson with the task of restoring the Deanery of , a work which he performed with characteristic care and good sense .

n Tu rb u tt 2 oth 1 1 Lieutena t went to France on August , 9 4, and, in charge o f ﬁ R the rst Reserves , joined his egiment during the Retreat from Mons

l ﬁ . early in September . He was ki led on the rst day of the Battle of St 2 1 st 1 1 Julien , on October , 9 4 . His Colonel wrote “ Gla dwyn Tu rb u tt is a great loss ; he was the best sub altern in the R ” egiment, and always hoped he would one day command it . One of his men speaks of his sympathy for those under his command

he was leading them when he was shot , and had j ust called out to them , ” Come on , boys . His success as a soldier is all the more striking , as he was a born student and lover of books and literature , as well as a very promising architect .

2 N D LI EUTENANT H . SCOTT TU R NER

R oya l Hig hla nders

2 ’ H h Street — A e 1 8 M arc h th 1 ig 1 1 1 4 g d r 1 , 1 9 5

ONLY son of the late Maj or Scott Turn er (42 nd Royal H ighlanders) and

Dora Scott Turner .

1 1 . Sandhurst, 9 4

Second Lieutenant Scott Turner joined the 3 rd Battalion of th e Black r 1 1 e a t f m a Watch at Nigg in Janua y, 9 5 , and di d at Crom r ie rom pneu oni on

1 1th a . e was ea e March of the same ye r He was not ninete n , and g rly look ing forward to active service with the Regiment in which his fathe r had served and died , in the South African War . H is Colonel writes e e He was such a v ry promising soldier in very way . His Maj or writes to his moth e r “ e see s to sa e I never met your boy, but ev ryone m have had the m ” f ﬁ ﬁ n s f o ne e the son o e . opinion him a man and a oldier, his fath r HENRY SCOTT TURNER LIEUTENANT C . H . VAN NEC K

N or thu mberla nd Fusilier s

’ ”l The H ead M aste r s 0 3- d A e 2 1 O t h x c . 2 0t 1 7 g d , 91 4

R so n th e l Braek ne k FOU TH of late Charles Neck, of Li y Hill , , and of

a e 2 r . Gr c Van Neck, of 3 Pont St eet

Lieutenan t Van Ne c k j oine d th e 3 rd Battalion Northumbe rland Fu s ilier s f . 1 1 e n e a . e th e (S R ) in 9 3 , and was promot d the ollowi g y r He w nt to 2 1st 1 1 af for the as Front on September , 9 4, and ter being a short time at b e at La Bas sée . e n ea . l e b St Nazaire, he joined his R giment r He was ki l d y a 20 th l e th e r sniper on October , at Her ies, and buri d by his men in ga de n of the house in front of which they were entrenched . His Major writes to his mother “ I can only say that England has lost one who showed how a thorough - r English Sahib should live all my brother ofﬁ ce s say the same . I f I had s on a son I should wish him to take your as an example . A brother-oﬂi c er writes

e a his men who u do t for Charl s was a gre t favourite with , wo ld any hing r e of e n e who him ; he was as cool and b av as the oldest soldi rs, and a yon ” knew him must admire him .

F LI EUTENANT . C . VER N ER

Shrop shire L ig ht I nfa ntry

3 — 3 O t 2 th 1 1 Moretons 0 5 1 0 A g ed 2 1 c . 5 , 9 4

a SECOND son of William Henry Verner, Beng l Civil Service, and Catherine

r Louisa Verne . 1 1 1 Brasenose College, Oxford , 9 .

Lieutenant Verner left for the Front with his Regiment on September

8th 1 1 . , 9 4 Of his death in the following month a brother-ofﬁ c er wrote that he stuck to a most dangerous post in the trench which his men had been occupying , l and from which he made them retire to a safer p ace, while he himself r r emained, i n order to give warning of an expected attack . He was st uck no by a shell and apparently killed immediately, though one actually saw hi m fall .

His Captain , writing to his father, says “ I may say that your son during the whole time behaved in the most gallant manner . All his men speak in the most extraordinary terms of his conduct , and say they would have gone anywhere with him , and are unani mous in saying that he stuck to a practically untenable position with extra ordinary pluck . I may also say that I have recommended him to my fi Commanding Of cer for some reward , wh ich I trust he may get, as I know b e fully deserved it . The men of his platoon came and even asked me ‘ for pennies from his money as souvenirs , as he was the bravest man they $ 9 , ever saw . fi His Commanding Of cer writing of him , said “ ofli c ers He must have died a splendid death . One of his said His n ame will always be remembered for having made a gallant fight for eight ’ r hou s ag ainst overwhelming force . An article in the Oxford Ma g a z ine said

As honest as he was chivalrous , he saw clearly the right and the

r r w ong , and he always did the right . He had set his hea t on becoming an ﬁ R ’ . D is a liter v isum r of cer in the oyal Flying Corps . For him a soldie s death seemed the only possible end for in him we have lost an old - fashioned ﬂi r gentleman and a very gallant o c e . FREDERICK CHARLES VERNER F CAPTAIN S I R . E . WALLER , BA RT.

R oya l Fusiliers

’ ' ' H ea Maste r s - A ed Oc t 2 th 1 The d 94 9 8 g 3 4 . s , 9 14

- T of he a . . l a E t G . LDES son late Maj or ener l Sir G H Wal er , B rt

. e th 18 2 . . P Sandhurst . Succe ded as 4 Baronet in 9 J . and D . L . for Warwickshire .

Wall er oine d u siliers 1 8 Captain j the Royal F in 99, and retired as Captain f 1 0 8. the o in 9 H e served in the South African War, being present at relief a s e o e L dy mith , Colenso, and various engagements, and was s verely w und d ’ ’ f t f e to (Queen s medal and our clasps , King s medal) . He was rans err d the 1 0 8 to F his Special Reserve, Royal Fusiliers, in 9 . He went rance with 1 1 on 2 th ea Regiment in September, 9 4, and was killed October 5 , n r

Neuve Chapelle .

W I LLAN S LIEUTENANT R . ST . J .

N orthumber la nd Fusiliers

l 3 - 3 e N ov 1 th 1 1 R endal s A . r 9 1 94 g d 3 7 , 9 4

- Willans W illans N . . . O LY son of the late Lieut . Colonel St J and Mrs R nowde nham . S . daughter of the late Courage, , Bramley, Surrey

Trinity College, Cambridge .

Lieutenant Willans served through the South Afr ican War with the ’ ’ Northumberland Fusiliers (Queen s and King s medals) . He retired in 1 0 1 1 9 5 , and was studying Art in Paris in 9 4. When the War broke out

1 1 . he rej oined his Regiment and went to the Front in November, 9 4 h 1 1t . He was buried by a shell on November , near Ypres The other ﬁ R of cers of his egiment had all been killed or wounded , and he was at ﬁ ’ rst included among the missing, but has since been reported as killed .

With an Irish love of getting into scrapes, and a happy capacity for get ’ h ting out of them , he was one for whom Mr . Bowen s lines might ave been wrl tte n F aults m an and u ic l re CDted y q k y P ,

M u c h love whe re re e ntanc e h ad b e e n p .

- o- Always cheerful and happy g lucky, he leaves a singularly happy memory f of himself, even with those who suf ered from him . ROBERT ST . JOH N W I LLA N S 2 N D E N . LI EU T N A T M . D WI LLIAM S

R oya l West Surr ey R eg iment

’ 2 T - 2 d he G ro e 0 8 1 A e 2 0 O c t . a rd 1 1 v g 3 , 9 4

YOU N C ES T s o n o f r o n Alexande and Amy Williams , of Jerez de la Fr tera ,

Spai n .

r 1 1 . Sandhu st , 9 3

c o n n a n to o o n r 2 8th Se nd Lieute a t Willi ms we t the Fr nt Septembe ,

f a c i 1 1 . n o n of r 9 4 He was le t in dit h , wounded the leg , the night Octobe

2 rd 1 1 n ar Pilk e m r o a 3 , 9 4 , e , i n the neighbou h od of Ypres . On ret king the

r n r o n 2 th n o rac c of g ou d at sun ise , the 4 , t e ould be found h im . No news

r n o r 1 1 6 n of him was eceived u til N vembe , 9 , whe it was stated by the Ger

a n a t W ie d e n re ft m ns that he had bee buried , Belgium .

o o c n n a ro C l nel Pell , omma di g his B ttalion , w te

H e r f o ﬂi c e r s was a unive sal avourite with and men , which is the best ” pro o f of his sterling qualities . The Ofﬁ cer Commanding his C o mpa ny said

f f a . . a o n o r a s M D Williams saved my li e b ut hal mi ute bef e he w hit .

O LIEUTENANT E . H . WILS N

R oya l Hig hla nde rs

3 - 2 A ed Se t th R enda lls 2 2 . 8 1 1 0 5 4 0 g p , 9 4

a ONLY son of the late James Humphrey Wilson , of Shon , Ayr, and M l Kathari ne Campbell M ac il an . - 1 1 1 . Sandhurst, 9 (colour sergeant)

1 1 2 be e Lieutenan t Wilson j oined the Black Watch in 9 , ing promot d

1 1 . t Al t 1 1 1 in 9 4 He lef dershot wi h his Regiment on August 3 th , 9 4, and was through the Retreat from Mons . He was killed on September 8th while gallantly leading his men in a - charge on the Petit Morin River . i eat His Colonel wr tes that he was a very promising young soldier, gr ly fﬁ m en I f a ff e beloved both by o cers and . n the retreat rom Cambr i he su er d for u to from a lame foot, but only one hour in the dark wo ld he consent

x to . ride , as he wanted to set an e ample of endurance his men His Maj or writes

His loss is much felt by all ranks . His Company will miss him and so ” all b - o ffi c ers . do we all , as he had endeared himself to his rother and comrades Another Officer writes We have all lost a good friend and the Regiment a splendid ofli c e ri ERIC HOLMES WILSON CAPTAIN C . E . WOOD

R oya l Welsh Fusiliers

’ Th e G rove 3— arc h th 1 1 98 03 A ged 3 0 M r 1 , 9 5

YOU N C ER W e d L son of Edward John g and ettice Wood , of M eece ff House , near Stone, Sta ordsh ire . I 1 02 - 1 0 Shooting V II , 9 3 Sandhurst, 9 4 (won the Revolver and passed out second) ; was well known with the North Staﬁ ordshire I I u nd s o .

Captain Wood joined the I st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers i n 1 0 1 1 n 9 5 , and obtained his Captaincy in 9 3 , being appointed Adj uta t of the th 1 1 t on 5 Batt alion in 9 3 . He went to the Front with the I st Ba talion 1 1 r November I st, 9 4, and saw considerable service in the t enches during -in- the winter, being Second command of the Battalion , as well as acting as 1 1th Adj utan t . He was killed on the of March at the Battle of Neuve au u issart e Chapelle, and was buried at F q , near Laventie . H e was mention d ’ 13 t 1 1 in Sir John French s Despatch of May 3 , 9 5 . The General of his Division writes fi Good of cers such as he are worth their weight, many times , in gold fi fi he was an excellent of cer, and commanded con dence wherever he went . The Offi cer Commanding his Battalion writes “ I l t was a noble ending to his brilliant service . I feel most awfu ly a for about it, for I had grown to care very much for him , and to le n on hi m ” advice and help all through the long cold winter .

2 N D . LIEUTENANT M . C WRO U GHTO N

12 th L a ncers

‘ n all s ’- 0 A ed 2 Oct oth 1 1 R e d 05 1 g 3 . 3 , 9 4

ONLY son of William Musgrave and Edith Constance Wroughton , of

Creaton Lodge, Northants . 1 12 - Christ Church , Oxford in 9 accompanied Sir Robert Baden Powell as A . D . C . on h is world tour, in connection with the Boy Scout movement.

' Second Lieutenant Wroughton j oined the N orthampton shire Ye om anry

1 1 0 1 2 1 1 . in 9 , but transferred to the th Lancers i n October, 9 3 He

011 16th 1 1 accompanied his Regiment to the Front August , 9 4, and was pre

at r sent the Battle of Mons , th ough the Retreat , and at the Battles of the

n t oth M arne and the Aisne . He was killed in action ear Ypres on Oc ober 3 , i and buried in the churchyard at Kemmel , Belg um . His Major writes (two days before he was killed) “ in He is an excellent soldier, and can turn his hand to anything . I tend to do my utmost to get him mentioned in Despatches for al l the good ” work he has done . One of the Captains of the 1 2 th Lancers writes Did I tell you what a splendid fellow Wroughton was "We found it

all out more and more after the War began , and we came to love him . He v was bra e as a lion , generous , always cheery and ready for any sort of ” r work, and in fact one of the best fellows one could eve wish to have . ’ 1 1 1 He was mentioned i n Sir John French s Despatch of January 4th , 9 5 , ﬁ for gallant and distinguished conduct in the eld . MUSGRAVE GAZ EN OVE W R OU GHTO N