HARROW MEMORIALS
THE GREAT WAR VOLUM
HARROW MEMORIALS OF THE
GREAT WAR. VOLUME II
HARROW MEMORIALS
OF THE GREAT WAR
MARCH 31st, 191 5, to SEPTEMBER nth, 191 5
VOLUME II
PRINTED FOR HARROW SCHOOL
BY PHILIP LEE WARNER, PUBLISHER TO THE
MEDICI SOCIETY, LIMITED. MDCCCCXVIII
In this volume are contained the Names of the
Second Hundred Old Harrovians who fell in the
War, from March 31st, 19 15, to September
nth, 1915
Sec. Lt.
L. H. Alison
Capt.
A. F. Anderson
Capt.
P. H. A. Anderson
Lieut.
G. J. B. Atkinson
Sec. Lt.
G. H. Bagshawe
—
Lindon W. Bates
Capt.
M. A. N. Becher
Sec. Lt.
C. B. H. Beck
Sec. Lt.
E. V. Bell
Lt.-Col.
L. A. Bosanquet
Lieut.
R. G. Breece Bowen
Capt.
A. H. M. Bowers
Lieut.
D. R. Brandt
Capt.
E. H. Brocklehurst
Lieut.
J. H. Brownrigg
Sec. Lt.
H. G. Byng
Sec. Lt.
G. P. Cable
Capt. the Hon. R. C. F. Chichester
Capt.
J. H. Christie
Lieut.
P. Clutterbuck
Major
J. H. D. Costeker, d.s.o
Capt.
D. H. Davidson
Capt.
R. E. English
Capt.
S. Field
Capt.
R. S. Findlay
Lieut.
J. E. Findlay-Hamilton
Trooper
A. G. E. Fisher
Capt.
T. B. Forwood
Capt.
A. A. Fowler
Capt.
Sir J. E. Fowler, Bart.
Capt.
G. B. T. Friend
Sec. Lt.
H. B. Gething
Capt.
F, W. Grantham
Lance-Sgt.
A. R. Greenwood
Major
R. S. Hamilton-Grace
Capt.
J. B. Hartley
Capt.
R. Head
Private
G. T. Henery
Capt.
H. P. L. Heyworth
Sergt.
G. P. G. Hoare
Capt.
C. T. T. Holland
Sec. Lt.
G. W. V. Hopley
Sec. Lt.
Sir W. G. Hoste, Bart.
Capt.
J. E. V. Isaac, d.s.o.
Capt.
B. T. James, m.c.
Sec. Lt.
L. A. Jarvis
Capt.
P. A. Kennedy
Capt.
H. McL. Lambert
Lieut.
E. H. Leigh
Capt.
F. K. Leslie
Lt.-Col.
H. G. Levinge
Lieut.
J. R. Lingard
Sec. Lt.
H. G. Livingstone
Lieut.
G. B. Lockhart
Sec. Lt.
C. E. H. Loxton
Sec. Lt.
R. T. Maclver
Lieut.
L B. MacLeod
Lieut.
H. A. G. Malet
Capt.
E. A. Marrow
Capt.
H. C. Marten
Major
W. F. Martin
Lieut.
W. F. J. Maxwell
Lieut.
J. W. Maynard
Lt.-Col.
Sir J. P. Milbanke,
Bart, v.c
Lieut.
T. R. Mills
Capt.
J. C. Morgan
Capt.
G. H. Morrison
Lt.-Col.
M. H. Nunn
Capt.
D. W. Pawle
Lt.-Col.
J. R. Pease
Capt.
R. M. Pike
Lieut.
G. H. Pollock
Lieut.
A. M. F. W. Porter
Sec. Lt.
G. P. N. Reid
Lieut.
H. N. L. Renton
Lieut.
W. B. R. Rhodes-Moor-
house, v.c.
Sec. Lt.
F. Ricard
Sec. Lt.
W. A. 1. Richardson
Capt.
J. McB. Ronald
Lt.-Col.
P. C. L. Routledge
Lieut, the Rev. F. E. B. Hulton Sams
Lieut.
J. H. Seaverns
Capt.
E. H. Le M. Sinkinson
Capt.
G. C. Stewart
Sec. Lt.
J. M. Stewart
Lieut.
The Hon. K. A. Stewart
Capt.
J. A. Tennant
Capt.
A. J. N. Thomas
Private
T. L. G. TurnbuU
Capt.
R. T. Vachell
Capt.
G. N. Walford, v.c.
Capt.
G. L. Watson
Sec. Lt.
J. B. Webb
Capt.
C. A. Werner
Sec. Lt.
L. C. Wilson
Lieut.
R. B. Winch
Sec. Lt.
F. T. Seppings Wright
Trooper
C. J. O. Wrigley
Capt.
H. T. W. Wyllie
Capt.
P. C. Wynter
The biographies being arranged in alphabetical order^
it has been thought unnecessary to number the pages.
2ND LIEUTENANT L. H. ALISON
Royal Berkshire Regiment
RendaUi 04'-O9« Aged 25 May i6th, 1915
Son of Captain C. G. Alison.
Monitor 1909. Beddington Prizes for Science. Champion Heavy
Weight Boxer 1908. Natural Science Scholarship, Pembroke College, Cam-
bridge. Represented Cambridge in the Inter-University Golf Competition.
I St Class Science Tripos.
On the outbreak of the War 2nd Lieutenant Alison enlisted in the
Royal Berkshire Regiment, was at once made Lance-Corporal, and shortly
afterwards given a Commission.
He went to the Front with the ist Battalion of his Regiment in April,
1915, and on the i6th of the following month led his platoon into action
against the German trenches at Richebourg I'Avoue. It was a night
attack and no one saw him fall, but he never returned, and, though the
ground covered by his Regiment was carefully searched, his body was
never found ; he is thought to have been buried under the earth thrown
up by the heavy German shells, with which the ground was pitted. He
was reported * missing* on May i6th, 1915, but, as no news has since been
received of him, his death has been presumed on that date.
The Captain of his Company writes : —
" He is a very real loss to the Company and to the Battalion, for officers
and men alike loved him. . . . He had a very high sense of duty and was
always cheerful. His platoon tell me that when the * advance ' was given
he went ahead of them at once. You may be certain that he fell in a
manner worthy of the very gallant gentleman he was."
The Colonel commanding the 3rd Battalion wrote to his father : —
" Your son was one of 600 recruits that I myself took out of Reading,
all in plain clothes. Before I had got to the station, I had noticed him and
selected him in my mind for promotion. . . . When he went to the
1st Battalion, I wrote to its Commanding Officer that I thought I had sent
him a really good and dependable man, and so he proved himself to be.
What can I say more, and how can a man die better ? He was as fine a
figure of a man as I have ever seen."
LAUGHTON HASSARD ALISON
CAPTAIN A. F. ANDERSON
Cameronians
The Park 86'-88' Aged 43 April 23rd, 191 5
Son of the late Colonel J. A. Anderson, and of Mrs. Anderson, of
19 Gloucester Square, W.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
After leaving Sandhurst Captain Anderson was gazetted to the 13th
Hussars, in which Regiment he remained from 1892 to 1898. He served
all through the South African War with the Queenstown Volunteers, receiv-
ing the Queen's Medal and two clasps.
On the outbreak of the present War he joined the Cameronians, but
was attached to the 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers in October, 19 14.
He was badly wounded in the legs on April 23rd, 19 15, but pluckily went
on, till he was shot in the chest about ten minutes later. He had been in
a big fight the day before and had written home that night saying he had to go
through it again the next day, but that he did not see how he could possibly
get through another day like it. He was buried where he fell, and a rough
cross was put over his grave.
ABDY FELLOWES ANDERSON
CAPTAIN P. H. A. ANDERSON
2 1 J/ Lancers
Newlands 94^97^ Aged 34 September 5 th, 191 5
Only son of Colonel Charles John Anderson, of 49 Queen's Gate
Gardens, S.W., and of Constance Louisa, daughter of the late Robert Allfrey,
D.L., of Wokefield Park, Berkshire, and grandson of Sir George W.
Anderson, K.C.B.
Married in 1905 Anne Catherine, only daughter of the late Colonel
Hathorn, Coldstream Guards, of Castle Wigg, Co. Wigton.
Captain Anderson joined the 21st Lancers in 1900. He rode the
winner of the Irish Grand Military Steeplechase in two consecutive years.
From 1910-1914 he was Instructor in Cavalry Tactics at the Cavalry
School of Instruction at Netheravon.
In June, 19 14, he rejoined his Regiment at Rawal Pindi in India. He
was killed commanding a Squadron of his Regiment in a cavalry charge,
during an engagement with the Mohmands at Sheb Kador, on the Punjab
Frontier, on September 5th, 1915.
PERCY HUME ALLFREY ANDERSON
LIEUTENANT G. J. B. ATKINSON
Worcestershire Regiment
The Head Master's 08'- 13' Aged 2 1 June 19th, 191 5
Elder son of Robert Hugh Montgomery Buddie Atkinson, Barristcr-
at-Law, and of Mabel Atkinson.
Oriel College, Oxford, 19 13.
Lieutenant Atkinson applied for a Commission on the outbreak of the
War and was gazetted to the 5th Worcesters. He left for the Dardanelles
in May, 1915, being then attached to the 4th Battalion. From the time of
landing he saw almost continuous fighting. He was killed at about 4 a.m.
on June 19th, 1915, whilst leading his men into action in order to retake
some lost trenches. He was buried close to the spot where he fell.
His Colonel wrote to his father : —
"Your gallant son had been with the Regiment about three weeks, and
had seen a great deal of fighting. He had shown himself a really brave
fellow, who, if he had been spared, would certainly have distinguished
himself. On June 4th he took part in a very brilliant attack by the
Battalion and showed himself as cool and collected under fire as possible.
It was whilst leading the way over the parapet in front of his platoon that
he received a shot in the head and was killed instantaneously. He was
showing the greatest gallantry and dash in thus leading his men in the face
of a very heavy fire."
GEOFFREY JOHN BUDDLE ATKINSON
2ND LIEUTENANT G. H. BAGSHAWE
I St {Royal) Dragoons
The Knoll 04'-0 7' Aged 25 May 13th, 19 15
Elder son of Ernest Bagshawe (formerly Carver), of Poise House,
Hazel Grove, Cheshire, and of F. Alice D. Bagshawe, grandson of W. H. G.
Bagshawe, D.L., of Ford Hall, Derbyshire.
While at Harrow he was known by the name of Carver.
Christ Church, Oxford.
2nd Lieutenant Bagshawe joined the ist (Royal) Dragoons in South
Africa as a University Candidate in 191 2. He left them next year to take
up farming in Rhodesia but rejoined immediately on the outbreak of War.
He went to France in October, I9i4,and was wounded in the first Battle of
Ypres ; he was killed in the second Battle of Ypres on May 13th, 191 5.
A senior Officer of his Regiment writes to his father : —
" In your son we have lost as good a troop leader as there ever was
in the Regiment, absolutely cool and undisturbed under the most trying
circumstances, knowing not the meaning of the word fear ; well loved
and rightly, highly esteemed and deeply regretted by Officers and all ranks
of the Regiment. He has died a gallant death, in a good and just cause —
and I can only say I most deeply regret him as a friend and as an invalu-
able officer. We, alas, lost heavily in the Regiment — out of 340 all ranks,
there remained this morning, I believe, 180. The General told me to-night
they fought right gallantly, and that is the only point we can be thankful
for. May we in our turn do as well."
His Major writes : —
" We have all lost a dear comrade."
GEOFFREY HAMILTON BAGSHAWE
L. W. BATES
The Park 97^-99* Aged 31 May 7th, 191 5
Eldest son of Lindon Wallace Bates, Constructor of Public Works,
and of Josephine Bates, Chairman of the Women's section of the American
Commission for Relief in Belgium, of 615 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Yale University, U.S.A. : Vice-President of the Bates Engineering Co. :
travelled in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Egypt, and
spoke French, Spanish, and German fluently : a prominent member of the
Republican Club in New York, and in 1908 elected to the New York
State Assembly. Author of "The Russian Road to China" and "The
Path of the Conquistadores," besides many technical articles in the leading
magazines.
When the Commission for Relief in Belgium was started, Lindon Bates
threw himselt with characteristic energy into the work. He was drowned in
the Lusitania on his way to England, to attend, at their request, the meetings
of the London Committee. He first went below to try and save children,
assisted at the launching of four boats, gave his own lifebelt to a woman
who was without one, and then with three friends dived off the ship
as she went down. His body was found on Eddy Island, Galway Bay,
230 miles from where the Lusitania was torpedoed, and was taken back to
his home in America for burial.
The King of the Belgians wrote to his parents : —
" I learn with deep affliction of the death of your son travelling to aid
our distressed people, and express to you my most sincere sympathy."
Theodore Roosevelt wrote : —
" He was one of the finest young fellows I knew. 1 was not only fond
of him, but I admired and respected him and had unlimited faith in his
future. There is an added horror in his murder — for murder it was, when
he was going abroad on an errand of mercy."
From the Belgian Government : —
" Stricken with grief at the sad news that your noble son lost his life,
when bringing help to the work undertaken by generous America to save
our starving people, the Belgian Government respectfully offers its tribute
of heartfelt sympathy with his sorrowing parents, and of admiration for the
martyr to the cause of Humanity, whose name will live for ever in the
heart of the Belgian nation."
LIN DON WALLACE BATES
CAPTAIN M. A. N. BECHER
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Newlands 982-03" Aged 30 April 26th, 1915
Only son of Brigadier-General Andrew Craycroft Becher, of Ingleboro'
House, East Runton, Cromer, and of Frances Maude Becher, nee
Johnson.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Married, in 19 12, Violet Isobel Todd, younger daughter of Charles E.
Todd, of Wayside, St. Andrews, and leaves two daughters.
Captain Becher was gazetted to the King's Own Scottish Borderers in
1905, and was promoted Captain in 1914. He was in India when the war
broke out and left with his Regiment for Ismailia, in October, 1914.
After being there for six or eight weeks, during which time there was
no fighting, he returned with the Regiment to England. In March, 191 5,
they were ordered to the Dardanelles, being one of the units of the
29th Division. He was reported * wounded and missing' on April 26th,
191 5, the day after the Regiment had landed on Y Beach, Gallipoli. The
Turks broke through the line shortly after he was wounded, and he was
never seen again. No further information being forthcoming, he was, in
June, 191 6, officially presumed killed in action.
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MAURICE ANDREW NOEL BECHER
2ND LIEUTENANT C. B. H. BECK
Cheshire Regiment {T.F.)
West Acre 05'-l0' Aged 24 August 15th, 1915
Only son of the late Colonel C. H. Beck, C.B., of Upton Priory,
Macclesfield, J. P. for the County of Cheshire, who commanded the
4th (Militia) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment in the South African War,
and of Mrs. Beck, youngest daughter of the late Rev. C. F. Broughton,
Rector of Snelston, Derbyshire.
Shooting VIII 1909-10. Pembroke College, Cambridge. Married
in 19 1 3, and leaves one son.
2nd Lieutenant Beck volunteered for active service on the outbreak of
the War and received a Commission in the 7th Battalion of the Cheshire
Regiment. He left England for the Dardanelles in July, 191 5, and was
fatally wounded, in saving his gun, at the landing at Suvla Bay. He
died on the hospital ship EuripideSy while being taken back to Alexandria,
on August 15th, 191 5.
A brother-officer wrote to his mother : —
" He was bringing the gun up when he was shot. I was about twenty
yards in front and saw them come up the hill ; they got the gun itself up,
when the man with the tripod got hit in the right hand, which made him
drop it. Beck (who thought of nothing but his gun) ran back and picked
up the tripod, and turned back ; he had only got about three strides, when
he put his hand to his face and fell : the bullet went in just above his
right eye, I believe, but he lived for some time after. . . . His men got
the gun up and working well, enabling more men to come up under cover
of its fire."
CHARLES BROUGHTON HARROP BECK
2ND LIEUTENANT E. V. BELL
Manchester Regiment
The Headmaster's I o^-ii^ Aged 1 8 August 14th, 191 5
Eldest son of John Bell, A.S.C., of Middleton Cottage, Newmarket,
and of Lilian Gertrude Bell.
2nd Lieutenant Bell joined the nth Battalion of the Manchester
Regiment, when he was only seventeen, and was sent to the Dardanelles in
June, 191 5. On August 14th he was acting as regimental signal officer
and was making his way from his own Regiment to the 8th Northumber-
land Fusiliers ; while so doing he had to pass a dangerous place, exposed
to the fire of hostile snipers, one of whom succeeded in hitting him. He
was at once attended to by a Medical Officer who was on the spot, but he
died on the way to the Field Ambulance.
An extract from a letter received by his father says: —
"... He did excellent work all through the fighting from August 7th
until he met his death. His name was, I believe, one of those sent forward
for ' mention in Despatches.' Whether it will eventually appear in the
lists it is difficult to say, but I thought you would like to know that his
Commanding Officers appreciated his work, and thought very highly of
him. Lives like his are very hard to replace."
ERIC VICTOR BELL
LIEUT.-COLONEL L. A. BOSANQUET
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Home Boarders 76^-80' Aged 53 August 21st, 1915
Eldest son of the late Arthur, Bosanquet (O.H.), J. P., I.C.S., of
Cleddon Hall, Monmouth, Judge, Bombay Presidency, and of his wife
Isabella Matilda, daughter of Colonel Andrew Crawfurd, and grandson of
Augustus Henry Bosanquet, of Osidge, Southgate, Herts.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Married, in 1 892, Alice Emily, second daughter of the Rev. John Erskine
Campbell-Colquhoun, J. P., D.L., of Killermont and Parscadden, Dum-
barton, and leaves two daughters.
Colonel Bosanquet was gazetted to the Sherwood Foresters in 1883,
was promoted Captain in 1892, and Major in 1903. He served in the
Tirah Campaign, 1897-8, and took part in the operations of the Bazar
Valley, in the action of Dargai and in the capture of Arhanga and Sanpagha
Passes, receiving the medal with two clasps. He retired in 191 1. Rejoining
his Regiment on the outbreak of the War, he sailed for the Dardanelles
in June, 1915, as Colonel of the 9th Battalion which he had himself
trained. He landed on August 6th, and was in action on the 9th, loth,
and 2 1 St. He was killed, it is believed by machine-gun fire, on
August 2ist, 1915, in "Dead Man's Gully," near Chocolate Hill, while
leading his Regiment against a Turkish redoubt, with orders " to take it
at all costs." He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch for
"gallant and distinguished service in the field."
A General, whose Brigade found and buried his body, writes : —
" He must have done well, for he was close up to the enemy, ahead of
most of his men, who were stretched out behind him, never a one with his
back turned, and all in proper alignment."
A brother-officer writes: —
" May I express, on behalf of the Battalion which had the honour to be
trained by him and which served under him, profound sympathy in your
great loss. He was loved and admired by all."
LIONEL ARTHUR BOSANQUET
LIEUTENANT R. G. BREECE BOWEN
London Regiment (T.F,)
The Park o6^-ii' Aged 22 May 9th, 1915
Only son of George David Bowen and of Elizabeth Bowen,
Exeter College, Oxford, 191 1.
Lieutenant Bowen joined the ist City of London Regiment, Royal
Fusiliers, soon after leaving school. After training in England for some
months, he left with his Regiment in the beginning of 1915 for Malta,
where they completed their training. He accompanied his Regiment to
France in March, 191 5, and was killed by a shell on May 9th, 191 5, near
Aubers Ridge.
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. Mercer, commanding ist City of London Regi-
ment, writes : —
" I particularly regret his loss, for I have known him so long. In
Harrow days, when he was a small boy, our relations were of the most
friendly sort. He was always willing, cheerful, and full of fun. It may
be a consolation to you later to remember that he gave his life in the best
possible way for any man to give it — for his country."
His Major writes to his mother : —
"Your son was killed in action on the 9th May at 7 a.m. during the
first stage of the attack. He was waiting in the support trenches with his men,
when a shell exploded near and hit him. He died almost at once. An
Officer of the 8th Division, who was with him, informs me that, although
so badly wounded, he still did his duty and ordered his men to move to
a safer part of the trenches. ... He is a great loss to us, especially to
the Platoon which he commanded."
Colonel Rowe, who commanded the Regiment up to the time they left
Malta, writes : —
" I have watched the career of every subaltern in the Battalion right
from the start, and I was proud of them all, your son amongst them. He
especially showed a great aptitude for military work, and from his charming
manner was universally liked both on parade and in the Mess."
ROWLAND GEORGE BREECE BOWEN
CAPTAIN A. H. M. BOWERS
Durham Light Infantry
Elmfield 94^-98=' Aged 35 August 9th, 1 9 1 5
Eldest son of Colonel Maunsell Bowers (O.H.), late 5th Dragoon
Guards, and of Mrs. Bowers, of Beeston Grange, Sandy, Bedfordshire.
Married, in 19 10, Mary Jessie, daughter of the late Colonel C. Case,
B.Sc, and leaves two daughters.
Captain Bowers was gazetted to the Durham Light Infantry in 1900.
He saw active service in the South African War, 1900-2, receiving the
Queen's Medal and two clasps, and the King's Medal and two clasps. He
then served in India from 1903 to 1909, being promoted Captain in 1909.
From 1 910 to 191 3 he acted as Adjutant to the 8th Battalion Durham
Light Infantry.
He went to France in September, 191 4, and served with the 2nd
Battalion up to the time of his death, on August 9th, 191 5. He was
killed in action, while gallantly leading his Company, at Hooge.
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ARTHUR HUGH MAUNSELL BOWERS
LIEUTENANT D. R. BRANDT
Rifle Brigade
Elmfield 013-06" Aged 27 July 6th, 191 5
Younger son of Robert E. Brandt (O.H.), of 15 Lennox Gardens,
S.W., and of Mrs. Brandt.
Leaf Scholar 1906. Cricket XI 1904-5-6 : Football XI 1903-4-5 :
(Capt. 1904-5) : threw the Cricket Ball in the School Sports 120 yards :
won Light Weight Boxing in Public Schools' Competition, 1903. Exhibi-
tioner of Balliol College, Oxford: ist Class Mods: Oxford University
Cricket XI 1907. B.A. and Fellow and Lecturer of Brasenose College,
Oxford, 1 910.
Lieutenant Brandt received a Commission in the Territorial Force as a
Reserve Officer in 191 1. He went to the Front in May, 1915. On July
6th, 1 91 5, he was put in command of a Company, detailed to capture a
German trench in Flanders, and in so doing was killed.
No name more justly entitled to honour and affection will be found in
the long list of those who have fallen than that of D. R. Brandt. There
have been few at Harrow to rival his combination of intellectual and
athletic distinction, none in whom strength of character and personal charm
have more happily blended both elements. As an athlete, perhaps the most
dramatic of his individual feats was his carrying of a relatively weak
House XI to victory in the Cock House Match of 1906, when he not
only scored 61 out of 136, and 120 out of 266, but by sheer invincible
determination took 11 wickets in the two innings, with the result that his
House won by 5 wickets. Some may remember how, hurrying into
Speech Room for Prize-giving after the match, and not being able to arrive
till the proceedings had well started, he was covered with confusion by
a spontaneous and universal roar of applause — a little incident, perhaps,
but one probably unique in its way, and eloquent from its very
spontaneity.
His services to his House can perhaps be more easily imagined than set
down in detail ; assuredly the influence of his character and of his capacity
for friendship and for leadership did not end with his time. His services to
the School were summed up by Dr. Wood in the pleasantry with which he
gave him his leaving prize — he had many irons in our Harrow fire, and
all his irons had been gold.
DRUCE ROBERT BRANDT
CAPTAIN E. H. BROCKLEHURST
Liverpool Regiment (T.F.)
Moretons 92'-96' Aged 36 May 5th, 1915
Fifth son of Henry Brocklehurst, Chartered Accountant, and of his
wife Ellen, nee Hutchings, of Homesefton, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool.
Captain Brocklehurst joined the Volunteers as a Subaltern in 1900, and
became Captain in the 6th Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment. He
was instructor in musketry to his Battalion.
He went to the Front in March, 191 5, and was killed in action on May
5th, 191 5. His company was ordered to advance and drive back the
Germans who had captured part of their trench near Hill 60. While
directing the operation he was instantaneously killed by a bullet from a
machine gun.
A brother-officer writes : —
" I need not tell you that he was really beloved by the Mess, and also
by his Company."
EDWARD HENRY BROCKLEHURST
LIEUTENANT J. H. BROWNRIGG
Norfolk Regiment
The Head Master's 07 -II 3 Aged 20 April 14th, 191 5
Elder son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Henry John Watt Brownrigg,
R.E., and of the late Evelyn Brownrigg.
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 191 2.
Lieutenant Brownrigg was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment in 191 3.
In October, 1 914, he joined the Battalion of his Regiment which was serving
in Belgium, but left in the following month for Basra. He was killed in
action, in the Persian Gulf, on April 14th, 191 5.
Colonel (now General) Peebles wrote to his grandfather : —
" He was a very good lad and would have made a good soldier, had it
not been willed otherwise. Your grandson was instantaneously killed during
the attack on the Turks at Shaiba."
JOHN HULEATT BROWNRIGG
2ND LIEUTENANT H. G. BYNG
Border Regiment
High Street 03--o8' Aged 25 May 1 6th, 191 5
Third son of the late G. Byng, and of Mrs. Byng, of 39 Fitzjohn's
Avenue, Hampstead.
Monitor 1908. Head of his House. Gymnasium VIII 1908. Harvard
University, Mass., U.S.A. Studied at various American electrical works,
and then, after his father's death, came home to take his share in the manage-
ment of the family business of the General Electric Company.
Married in March, 191 5, Miss Evelyn Curtis, of Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
2nd Lieutenant Byng enlisted in the Artists' Rifles on the outbreak of
the War, and went out to France in September, 1914. In the following
March he was given a Commission in the Border Regiment, and on the 21st
of that month came home to be married. Three weeks after his return to
the Front he was shot, on May i6th, 191 5, at the head of his men at
Festubert.
His Commanding Officer wrote : —
" Mr. Byng was wounded whilst most gallantly leading his Platoon in
action on May i6th. He was universally popular in the Regiment. He had
done very good work reconnoitring the enemy's trenches, and his loss is
very great to the Battalion."
His Adjutant wrote : —
" He was shot while leading his men and fell actually in the enemy's
trenches. He lay quite uncomplaining and would not allow any of his men
to carry him back, because of the danger to their lives."
His Platoon Sergeant wrote : —
" He was our superior Officer, but he was a true comrade. He lived
well and died well."
HARRY GUSTAV BYNG
2ND LIEUTENANT G. P. CABLE
Rifle Brigade
Kendalls 05^-11^ Aged 23 May 9th, 1915
Only son of Sir Ernest Cable, High Sheriff of Devon, 1916, senior
partner in Bird and Co., Calcutta and London, ex-President of the Bengal
Chamber of Commerce, and of Lady Cable, of Lindridge, Bishop's Teignton,
Devon.
Monitor 1909. Magdalen College, Oxford, 191 1.
2nd Lieutenant Cable obtained a Commission in the Rifle Brigade on
the outbreak of the War in August, 1914, and went to the Front in
March, 1915. He was killed while leading his Platoon in the attack on
the Aubers Ridge.
Captain Nugent, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, writes : —
" He led his Platoon with great dash and gallantry under a very heavy
fire and showed himself to be a splendid officer and leader. He is a very
great loss to the Regiment. In the attack this Battalion got further and
held on longer to the ground gained than any other in the Brigade."
Lieut.-Colonel Talbot, commanding 5th Battalion Rifle Brigade,
writes: —
" It appears that the 2nd Battalion led their Brigade in the attack
which was very successful, and they pushed on to a further line of
trenches. The Brigade on the left did the same but subsequently fell
back, leaving the 2nd Battalion in the air. The Battalion however held
on, until the Germans brought machine guns to bear, and the men in the
advanced trench were wiped out. All accounts agree that they did splendid
work, but their loss was very heavy. . . . Your son had done very good
work here, and I considered him perhaps the ablest of all the young officers
who have been through this Battalion. Some of the papers and reports that
he sent in would have done credit to any Officer.
" He was in command of a strong detachment at Warden Point for
some time, and did excellent work there. He would have made a first-
class Officer, keen, cool, collected, a pleasant companion, and that fine
type of English gentleman which has made England what she is."
GEORGE FICKERSGILL CABLE
CAPTAIN THE HON. R. C. F. CHICHESTER
Attached Serbian Army
Elmfield 02'-o6' Aged 26 July 31st, 191 5
Youngest son of Lord and Lady Templemore, of Dunbrody Park,
Arthurstown, Co. Wexford.
University College, Oxford, B.A. 1910.
Captain Chichester, having been pronounced medically unfit for Active
Service, went to Serbia as Secretary to Lady Paget's Hospital, ist Unit, in
October, 191 4. For his services there he was given the honorary rank of
Captain in the Serbian Army. He was just proposing to come home on
leave, to try to induce the doctors to pass him for Active Service, when
he caught a most virulent form of typhoid fever and died in nine days, on
July 31st, 1915.
Out of very many letters and telegrams received the following are
extracts : —
Telegram from Petar Mirkovie, member of the Municipality of Novi
Bazar, to Lady Paget :
" In the name of the citizens of Novi Bazar, I beg you to accept my
deepest sympathy, learning the news of the sudden death of our young and
noble Richard Chichester, who came to Serbia under pressure of his love
for right, and far away from his own country left his life on this field
of duty."
Telegram from the Mayor of Prizen to Lady Paget:
" With great sorrow we learnt of the death of Mr. Richard Chichester,
whose name is remembered with gratitude by hundreds of poor families."
M. Pashitch, Prime Minister of Serbia, wrote to Sir Ralph Paget :
" Nous garderons en Serbie un souvenir d'autant plus precieux des
services rendus par le defunt, qu'il est mort, comme un soldat au champs
d'honneur, victime du devoir qu'il s'etait si noblement impose."
Lady Paget wrote :
" His devoted work of the previous winter, and his unfailing energy
and courtesy, had endeared him to a far wider circle even than that with
which he came into personal contact. For myself, I cannot express the
value of his eflicient and sympathetic help, nor what his loss meant to us.
There was no member of the unit whose absence could have left a greater
gap, or whose presence during the indescribable difficulties of the following
winter would have been a more effective aid to us all."
THE HON. RICHARD CECIL FREDERICK CHICHESTER
CAPTAIN J. H. CHRISTIE
Royal Irish Regiment
Druries 93'-96' Aged 35 May 24th, 19 15
Only son of the late Hugh Christie (O.H.), J. P., and of Mrs. Christie,
of 10 1 Northgate, Regent's Park.
Married, in 1907, Phyllis Becher, eldest daughter of Colonel Becher, 60th
Gurkhas, and leaves one son.
Captain Christie originally joined the Militia Battalion of the Somerset
Light Infantry and with them went out to the South African War. He
then received a Commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers and was present at
the Battle of Laing's Nek. He received the Queen's Medal and four
clasps, and the King's Medal and two clasps. Was mentioned in De-
spatches and recommended for the V.C. by his Colonel, who was killed
before the recommendation could be sent in.
He was promoted Captain in 1907, and transferred to the South Lanca-
shire Regiment in 1908, retiring in 1909. He then went out to Vancouver,
but returned in 1914, to take a Commission in the Royal Irish Regiment,
and went out to France in February, 191 5. He was present at Hill 60
and through the 2nd Battle of Ypres, being killed on May 24th, 191 5,
when all the Regiment except one Officer and 40 men were either killed
or wounded. It is said of him that he " was always cheerful and helped
everyone over a very trying time," and " was greatly missed."
JAMES HUGH CHRISTIE
LIEUTENANT P. CLUTTERBUCK
East Yorkshire Regiment
Elmficld 06'- 10' Aged 22 October 20th, 191 4
Eldest son of Peter Cluttcrbuck, J. P., Lord of the Manor of Sarratt,
of Goldingtons, Sarratt, Herts, and of his wife Fanny Clutterbuck.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Lieutenant Clutterbuck was gazetted to the East Yorkshire Regiment in
191 1, and went to the Front on September 6th, 1914. On October 20th,
19 14, his Company was sent to support the Leinsters, between Lille and
Armentieres, and he was seen wounded, but never found afterwards. He
was reported ' missing,' but as nothing has since been heard of him, his
death has been presumed.
A brother-officer writes: —
" For some time previously he and I had been the only Officers of the
Company, and on two previous occasions I had commended him to the
Commanding Officer for his behaviour in action. He was immensely liked,
for he had no fear whatever."
PETER CLUTTERBUCK
MAJOR J. H. D. COSTEKER, D.S.O.
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Church Hill 93'-96' Aged 36 April 25th, 191 5
Only son of William and Clara Costeker, of 46 Evelyn Gardens, S.W.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Married Margaret P. G. Morris, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Percy Morris.
Major Costeker received his Commission in the Royal Warwickshire
Regiment in 1898. He served with distinction in the South African War,
being twice mentioned in the Despatches of January 18th, 1902, and awarded
the D.S.O. on January 28th of the same year, receiving also the Queen's
Medal with five clasps. From 1904 to 1907 he served as Adjutant of his
Regiment, and as Garrison Adjutant, Colchester, in 1907. In May, 1914,
he was appointed Staff Captain, G.H.Q., Irish Command.
He went to the Front, acting as Brigade-Major, 9th Infantry Brigade, in
September, 191 4. He was wounded in the first Battle of Ypres, on
November 15th, 191 4, and again mentioned in Despatches on February 17th,
191 5, being appointed Brigade-Major two days later.
He then sailed for the Dardanelles, as Brigade-Major, 88th Brigade, 29th
Division, and was killed in the landing at Gallipoli, on V Beach, April 25thj
1 91 5, his Brigadier being killed at the same time.
JOHN HENRY DIVES C03TEKER
CAPTAIN D. H. DAVIDSON
Seaforth Highlanders
Elmfield 90^-943 Aged 38 May 9th, 1915
Elder son of Duncan Davidson, D.L., J. P., of Inchmarlo, Banchory^
N.B., and of Flora Frances Davidson, eldest daughter of Sir Francis
Burdett, Bart., of Foremark.
At the outbreak of the South African War, Captain Davidson, after
having served with the 3rd Gordon Militia, obtained a Commission,
through the late King, in the Seaforth Highlanders, although he was over
age at the time. He served with his Regiment in Egypt and India, and
was then posted to the Adjutancy of the 4th Seaforth Territorial Battalion,
which he only gave up in 191 3. He was stationed at Agra when orders
came for the Indian Force to proceed to France, where he arrived in October,
1914. He was severely wounded on December 17th, and invalided home.
He returned to his own Battalion on March 28th, 191 5, and fell at the
Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on May 9th, at the head of his Company, in the
attack on the German trenches.
Colonel Ritchie writes : —
"The story is brief: In the attack on May 9th his Company was in
front with Baillie-Hamilton's. The moment he crossed the parapet they
came under heavy machine-gun fire. He was hit — got up again, hit again
— and again up and on towards the German trenches, at the head of what
remained of his Company. Then he was hit again and fell near the German
trenches. None of them got there, few came back."
Colonel Vandeleur wrote : —
" Gallant Hamlyn, gallant in everything he did. It was he who led in
everything, no matter what. . . . The ist Battalion have lost their bravest
and most gallant Officer, and his brother-officers their dearest pal."
The Rev. J. McNeil, Chaplain to the Seaforths, writes : —
" He has borne a very noble part in this great fight. I remember the
first time he was wounded, when he came into the ambulance from Le
Touret, from the trenches at Festubert. There was one of our men
beside him, who he thought needed more care than he did, and when his
own turn came, he would not let himself be touched till the others had.
been dressed — it was the spirit in which he acted."
DUNCAN HAMLYN DAVIDSON
CAPTAIN R. E. ENGLISH
North Somerset Yeomanry
West Acre 973-0 1^ Aged 31 May 13th, 1915
Second son of Robert and Mrs. English, of 58 Great Cumberland
Place.
Magdalen College, Oxford. Member of Lloyd's.
Captain English joined the North Somerset Yeomanry on the outbreak
of the War and went to France with the 7th Division, in November, 19 14.
He was killed at Hooge, in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, on May 13th, 191 5.
The President of Magdalen writes : —
" Robert Ernest English was certainly one of the most pleasant and
popular of the many pleasant and popular men Harrow has sent to this College
in the last dozen years. "Without any special or specialized ability, either
in athletics or in the Schools, he soon became a leading man in the College,
known and liked by all, and exercising an undemonstrative but valuable
influence. His healthy, sensible, pleasant, and very kindly disposition, and
unselfish love of his fellows, displayed itself no less when he went down.
He devoted himself with much ardour and readiness to the College
Mission, and in particular to the Boys* Clubs, for which no one ever did
more. When the War came he gave up business to join the North
Somerset Yeomanry. Every Magdalen man knew what a good officer he
would make, but, alas 1 very little scope was given him, for the end came
almost directly he had got abroad. Simple, unselfish, good-hearted, no one
was ever more ready to sacrifice himself. For none will there be more
unqualified regret, among those who knew him here."
ROBERT ERNEST ENGLISH
CAPTAIN S. FIELD
Royal Army Medical Corps
Small Houses 9+'-95' Aged 34 April roth, 1915
Third son of George P. Field, Dean of St. Mary's Hospital Medical
School, and of Pauline Field.
St. Mary's Hospital. M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
Married Margaret Price, and leaves a son and a daughter.
Captain Field joined the RA.M.C. in 1907, and was promoted Captain
in 19 10. Served in Somaliland, for which he received the medal. He
was in Ireland when the War broke out and sailed from Dublin early in
August, 1 91 4, with the first troops that went out. He was taken prisoner
while attending to the wounded in a church at Lc Cateau, during the
Retreat from Mons. He was sent to Torgau, thence to Halle, to Burg,
and finally to Wittenberg in Saxony, when typhus was raging there.
After three months he developed fever and died on April loth, 191 5.
He is said to have volunteered to go to the typhus-stricken camp, and he
and the two Medical Officers who were at first with him all died. A sum
of money was raised to commemorate their memory, and a memorial was
designed to be placed in the Library at Millbank (the R.A.M.C. Head-
quarters). The design was by Mr. Walker, who also drew up that for
Florence Nightingale.
The War Office, however, or an official therein, wrote to say that it
was too realistic and would " tend to keep up the resentment against the
Germans after the War." The design was therefore refused, and the only
memorial to these three brave men is a small room in the " Star and
Garter" at Richmond.
STEPHEN FIELD
CAPTAIN R. S. FINDLAY
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders {T.F.)
Elmfield oa»-05' Aged 28 May 22nd, 1915
Second son of R. E. Findlay(O.H.), of Boturich Castle, Ballock, Dum-
bartonshire, Director of Messrs. Findlay, Richardson & Co., and Major,
Q.O.R. Glasgow Yeomanry, and of Jane Cecilia Louisa, daughter of
James Scott, of Woodside Place, Glasgow.
Shooting VIII 1904-5. Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. 1910. Rowed in
the Balliol boat 1906, 1909. University Shooting VIII 1906 and 1909.
Shooting IV 1906-9, Captain 1909. University Swimming Team 1908.
Scottish Shooting VIII 1910.
Captain Findlay was gazetted to the 9th Argyll and Sutherland High-
landers in 1910, becoming Lieutenant in 1913, and Captain in January, 1915.
He went with his Battalion to France in February, 1915, and was at once
sent into the trenches ; what remained of the Battalion was relieved on
May 17th, after 37 days of continuous and very severe fighting in the
Second Battle of Ypres. On the 8th, loth, and nth of May alone they
lost over 600 men, killed and wounded, and were thanked by Sir John
French in p>erson for their gallant behaviour. During this time Captain
Findlay was hit three times by pieces of shell, but never enough to stop
him for long.
He was killed in a railway accident near Gretna on May 22nd, 191 5,
when on his way home for four days' leave.
A brother-officer wrote : —
" He was the coolest man in difficulty and danger I ever met ; he did
splendid work for the Regiment all through, and was certainly one of our
best and bravest Officers."
Another brother-officer wrote : —
" He was always cool and always seemed to know the right thing to do
in an emergency, and did it — absolutely fearless, but never took an un-
necessary risk, or allowed any of his men to do so."
Another brother-officer wrote : —
" He was always working so hard for the efficiency of the Company,
and his work was continually benefiting us all. Apart from his regimental
work, he was always so keen about anything he took up."
ROBERT SCOTT FINDLAY
LIEUTENANT J. E. FINDLAY-HAMILTON
Royal Scots Fusiliers
Elmfield 09^-13-' Aged 19 June i6th, 1915
Only son of George Douglas Findlay-Hamilton and Georgina Julia
Findlay-Hamilton, of Westport and Carnell, Hurlford, Co. Ayr.
Received the Humane Society's Medal for Life-saving, November, 1913.
Lieutenant Findlay-Hamilton went to France in February, 1915, and
was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. He was killed while
gallantly leading his men over the parapet near Givenchy, on June i6th,
1915.
A brother-officer wrote : —
" There is no doubt that he was invaluable in re-establishing the morale
of the men, which was rather shaken by excessive German shell-fire, and
nobody could have exhibited a finer sense of courage or coolness than he
did, in leading his men over the parapet in the face of almost certain death."
JOHN ERIC FINDLAY-HAMILTON
TROOPER A. G. E. FISHER
King Edward's Horse
The Grove oi--o5' Aged 27 May 25th, 1915
Second surviving son of George Fisher, of Hurst, Sutton, Surrey,
formerly partner in the firm of Messrs. Robinson and Fisher, of Willis'
Rooms, St. James', and of Katie, daughter of Samuel Heath.
Manager of an estancia near Bahia, San Bias, Argentina.
Trooper Fisher, being in England on a holiday at the time, joined the
Legion of Frontiersmen on the first day of the War, afterwards exchanging
to the 2nd King Edward's Horse. He went to France in April, 191 5, and
saw much fighting near Cuinchy and in the Battle of Festubert. He was
killed on May 25th, 191 5, advancing with hand-grenades, for the second
time, on the German trenches.
A friend, who was with him at the time, writes : —
" I was running with him down the side of a trench, under heavy fire,
when a chance shot must have skimmed a low part of the trench. He was
struck in the head, and death was immediate ; he could never have known
anything."
Lieutenant F. J. Lawrence, of the 2nd King Edward's Horse, writes : —
" The Squadron miss him very much, he was so popular with every
one."
Another friend in King Edward's Horse writes to his sister : —
" Our troop was ordered to proceed over some open ground and occupy
some trenches on the right flank. We got about 500 or 600 yards
when the enemy spotted us and rained shrapnel on us. We were recalled,
as it was madness to advance in the open under such heavy fire. We had
reached our own trenches and had been there about ten minutes, when
the order was passed along that bombers were wanted. Your brother,
Walrond, and myself had previously volunteered, so we went along, until
we came to the Post Office Rifles, who required us. I was at least a
hundred yards in the rear, but when I came up to them your brother was
dead."
ALWYN GEORGE ESMOND FISHER
CAPTAIN T. B. FORWOOD
Royal Lancaster Regiment
Kendalls 00--03' Aged 28 May 8th, 191 5
Only son of Thomas Brittain and Edith Anne Forwood, of Frimhurst,
Frimley Green, Farnborough.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Married, in 191 2, Constance, elder daughter of Colonel W. F. Fairlie, of
Middlewood, Jersey, and leaves a daughter.
Captain Forwood was gazetted to the King's Own Regiment in 1905,
and was promoted Captain in 191 5. He went to France in January, 191 5.
On May 8th, 191 5, at Frezenberg, near Ypres, he was in command of his
Company, who were sent up to support the 3rd Monmouths, and was
leading his men into position under a very heavy rifle fire, when he was
shot through the head and killed instantaneously.
The following extracts are from letters received : —
" He was too brave — absolutely regardless of danger. The men would
have followed him anywhere, he was always cheering them up and doing
everything he could for them."
" I have taken over T. B. F.'s old Company and assure you that I have
a very hard task, if I am in any way to fill his position and keep up the
standard of its last Company Commander. On all hands I am told by the
N.C.O.'s and men of what was done when he commanded the Company, and
can only say they make me feel very small. They were absolutely devoted
to him and would have done anything for him."
" He was always a hero and died a hero's death, encouraging his men
to the end."
" I know what he was as a soldier, and there arc not many like him."
His Colonel wrote : —
"The Regiment has lost one of its best Officers, and one who was not
only an officer but a gentleman, in the best sense of the word ; while I per-
sonally have lost a friend for whom 1 had the greatest liking and respect.
Everyone in the Regiment is sharing his family's sorrow, for he was one of
the best."
THOMAS BRITTAIN FORWOOD
CAPTAIN A. A. FOWLER
Cameron Highlanders
Elmfield or-053 Aged 27 April 28th, 1915
Younger son of the late Sir John Arthur Fowler, Bart., of Braemore,
Ross-shire, and of Alice Janet Clive, daughter of the late Sir Edward
Clive Bayley, K.C.S.I., and grandson of Sir John Fowler, engineer of the
Forth Bridge. His only brother, Capt. Sir J. E. Fowler, Bart. (O.H.),
Seaforth Highlanders, was killed in action on June 22nd, 191 5.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Married, in 191 2, Alice Mary, youngest daughter of Sir Charles Bayley,
G.C.I.E., Lieut.-Governor of Bihar and Orissa, and an old member ot
Rendalls, and leaves one daughter.
Captain Alan Fowler received his Commission in 1907, joining his
Battalion in South Africa and accompanying it to China and India. He
returned to England in November, 1914, and three weeks afterwards left
with his Regiment for France. At this time he acted as Transport Officer,
and was afterwards on the Staff of his Brigadier. By the middle of April
the greater portion of his brother-officers had been killed, wounded, or
invalided home, and when his Battalion was sent to the relief of other
troops on Hill 60, he was in command of B Company, which occupied the
front trench on the lip of a huge crater 40 feet deep, formed by the
explosion of a mine.
It was on April 28th, 1915, the last day that the Battalion was occupying
these trenches, that he, his subaltern, and several men were killed by the
same shell, a minenwerfer bomb. So long as the Camerons held it, the
Germans gained no footing on Hill 60.
Brigadier-General Macfarlane, commanding 81 st Brigade, writes: —
" He was a first-rate soldier and a dear good fellow, for whom I had a
great regard, and I always wished I had him on my Staff. He will be
dreadfully missed, both in his Regiment and in the Brigade."
Colonel John Campbell, commanding 2nd Camerons, writes : —
"He died a soldier's death about 12 noon to-day, when holding a
trench in a difficult and important position. I cannot speak too highly of
the truly gallant way in which he has behaved and kept his men together
and cheerful."
A brother-officer writes : —
" During the week on Hill 60 he was never once depressed, though all
of them, and his Company in particular, were having a very rough time."
/'f«J«f^
ALAN ARTHUR FOWLER
CAPTAIN SIR J. E. FOWLER, BART.
Seaforth Highlanders
Ehnfidd, 98^-02^ Aged 30 June 22nd, 191 5
Elder brother of Captain Alan Fowler, whose record appears on the
preceding page, and eldest son of Sir John Arthur Fowler, Bart., of Braemore,
Ross-shire, N.B., whom he succeeded as third baronet in 1899, and of Alice
Janet Clive, daughter of the late Sir Edward Clive Bayley, K. C.S.I.
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1903.
Captain Sir John Fowler joined the 2nd Seaforths in 1904 ; for three
years he acted as Assistant Adjutant, and as Officer in charge of the Brigade
Machine Guns. He held a Commission in the Royal Company of Archers
and acted as Aide-de-Camp to the Lord High Commissioner of the Church
of Scotland at Holyrood in 1907 and 1908. At the outbreak of the War he
was seconded as Adjutant of the 4th Battalion, the first Highland Territorial
Battalion selected for service in France. After two months' training at Bed-
ford they went to the Front in November, 1914, taking part in an engage-
ment at Festubert in the following month, and in the Battles of Neuve
Chapelle and Aubers Ridge. Captain Fowler was killed in the trenches on
June 22nd, 191 5, near Richebourg I'Avoue. He was mentioned in Sir John
French's Despatch of November, 191 5, "for gallant and distinguished con-
duct in the field." The official expression of " the King's high appreciation
of these services" was received by his family on March 28th, 1916.
Brigadier-General Ross, C.B., wrote : —
" He was one of the very best young Officers I have ever met, and an
example to all others. It was mainly due to his wonderful influence that
the Battalion did so well."
The Hon. E. O. Campbell, Adjutant of the 2nd Seaforths, wrote : —
"We shall always miss Jack : one of the best and kindest of men, and
always thoroughly beloved by every one in the Regiment."
Lieut.-Colonel Cuthbert, C.M.G., D.S.O., Commanding 4th Seaforths,
wrote : —
" He lived a soldier's life, ever ready to do his duty, and one always
knew how well that duty would be done. He gave us all confidence — con-
fidence that otherwise we could never have had. He has died a soldier's death,
and we are the poorer by a very gallant gentleman and capable Officer."
Sergeant-Major, later Lieutenant, Glass, wrote : —
" He was the guide, adviser, and helpmate of every individual in the
Battalion, and we miss him terribly. Defeat could not have shaken us more."
SIR JOHN EDWARD FOWLER, BART.
CAPTAIN G. B. T. FRIEND
East Kent Regiment
Elmfield 93^-96* Aged 35 July 26th, 19 15
Eldest son of James Taddy Friend, D.L., J. P., of Northdown, Isle of
Thanet, and Mary Stewart, daughter of George Irvine, of Bruckley,
Mossley Hill.
Married in 1906 Susie F. S. Copley, second daughter of the late Richard
Copley, of Thrapston, Northants, and had two sons, one of whom survives
him.
Captain Friend first received a Commission in a Militia Battalion of the
Rifle Brigade and was then gazetted to the Buffs in 1900. He retired from
the Army in 1906, to take up farming, but rejoined his old Regiment on
the outbreak of the War. He went to the Front in June, 191 5, and was
killed on July 26th, 191 5, in Flanders, whilst putting up barbed-wire
entanglements.
GEORGE BARTON TADDY FRIEND
2ND LIEUTENANT H. B. GETHING
Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
Rendalls 973-02" Aged 31 August 21st, 1915
Second son of James Edwards Gething, of Siddington Hall, Cirencester,
and of Maria Llewellyn, daughter of James Bagnall, of Castle Hill House,
Carmarthen.
Football XI, 1 900-1901 (Capt. 1901). Dolphin. Won Beale Cup for
Diving. Won the Middle-weight Boxing at the Public School Competition
at Aldershot, and in 1903 and 1904 won the Middle-weight Boxing for Cam-
bridge against Oxford. Trinity College, Cambridge. Was a well-known
steeplechase rider and polo player.
2nd Lieutenant Gething was sent out with his Regiment first to Alex-
andria, and from there to the Dardanelles in August, 191 5, being killed a
few days after landing. His Regiment was ordered to advance across
a stretch of about a mile and a half of open country. They had only just
started when heavy shell fire was opened on them, and they began to suffer
many casualties. He had survived almost the whole way across and had
just faced forward again, after turning to say a few encouraging words to his
men, when he was hit by shrapnel and killed instantaneously. He was
buried close to the spot where he fell.
His Colonel wrote : —
" He was one of the best of our Officers, and the whole Regiment will
feel his loss keenly."
His Major writes : —
" We feel his loss terribly ; his Troop was devoted to ' Lusty,' as we
always called him, and would have followed him anywhere. In fact, his Troop
Sergeant remarked to me the other day, * We all worship Mr. Gething.'"
HUGH BAGNALL GETHING
CAPTAIN F. W. GRANTHAM
Royal Munster Fusiliers
Moretons 84°-88'' Aged 44 May 9th, 191 5
Second son of Sir William Grantham, Judge of the High Court,
M.P. for East Surrey, 1874-85, and for Croydon in 1885-6, and of
Lady Grantham.
Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1892 : Called to the Bar, 1894 :
Clerk of Assize on the Oxford Circuit. He was a great traveller in the
Far East and an authority on Eastern philosophy. He made many
journeys on foot in the interior of China and walked with Buddhist monks
from Siam to Burmah.
Married Alexandra, daughter of Herr von Herden, Schloss Salenstein,
Thurgau, and had two sons, the elder of whom was killed at Gallipoli,
in June, 1915.
Captain Grantham served in the South African War, as a Volunteer,
receiving the King's Medal. On the outbreak of the War he rejoined the
Royal Munster Fusiliers, with whom he had served in South Africa, and left
for the Front in September, 1914. He served continuously with his
Regiment through the winter of 1914-15, and was killed at Richebourg
I'Avoue, while leading his men in a charge, on May 9th, 191 5. He was
reported * wounded and missing ' till August 14th, when his body was
found.
A brother-officer writes : —
"I can assure you all the men in his Company loved him, and his is a
great loss to the Regiment. It was largely owing to his gallant leading
that we were the only Regiment in the Brigade to reach the German first-
line trenches. He was the bravest man in the Regiment and feared
nothing."
FREDERICK WILLIAM GRANTHAM
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LANCE-SERGEANT A. R. GREENWOOD
Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, N.Z.
Church Hill 05^-083 Aged 23 August 6th, 1915
Youngest son of G. D. Greenwood, of Teviotdale, Amberley, N.Z.,
and of Mrs. Greenwood.
In business in New Zealand.
Lance-Sergeant Greenwood, prior to the War, was attached to the Canter-
bury Yeomanry Cavalry and joined the Main Expeditionary Force as a
Corporal. He went with his Regiment to Egypt, where he was promoted
Sergeant, and thence to the Dardanelles. He was killed in Gallipoli on
August 6th, 1915.
His Major wrote : —
" He was one of a gallant little band who fell in capturing a Turkish
trench and machine gun on Walden's Knob, upon the night of August 6th.
Five fell dead together, and others were wounded, of our very best men.
Our Regiment had no grander feat of arms to be proud of, and, since it had
to be, truly they were fortunate in dying so, leaving an imperishable memory,
when so many fall stricken by chance bullets, accidents, and disease."
ARTHUR ROBERT GREENWOOD
MAJOR R. S. HAMILTON-GRACE
13/^ Hussars
Newlands 94^-98' Aged 34 August 4th, 1915
Only son of the late Colonel Sheffield Hamilton-Grace, J. P., late
Durham Light Infantry, of Knole, Frant, and of Anne Hamilton-Grace,
daughter of Joseph Smyth Windham, of Wawne, Hull.
Shooting VIII 1897. R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Married Gladys, daughter of Michael Paul Grace, of 40 Belgrave
Square, and leaves a son and a daughter. Author of several important
articles on military matters, as well as a work entitled " Finance and War."
Major Hamilton-Grace was originally gazetted to the Durham Light
Infantry, joining his Regiment in India. He served in the South African
War and received the Queen's Medal with two clasps, and the King's
Medal with two clasps. He then entered the Staff College at Camberley,
as Captain, and from there transferred to the 13th Hussars, at that time
stationed in India, where he became a well-known steeplechase rider and
polo player. On his return to England he was appointed Instructor of
Tactics at the Cavalry School at Netheravon, during which time he obtained
his pilot's certificate for aviation.
On the outbreak of the War he was acting as Brigade-Major to General
de Lisle, 2nd Cavalry Brigade, which post he held until his promotion to the
Staff of the Cavalry Corps under General Allenby, serving later in the
same capacity under General Byng. He was all through the Retreat from
Mons, and, on the recommendation of the General Commanding the French
Forces, was awarded the Croix de Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur for
gallantry in the field : he was also twice mentioned in Sir John French's
Despatches. He was killed in a motor accident, while on active service, at
Hazebrouck, on August 4th, 191 5.
RAYMOND SHEFFIELD HAMILTON-GRACE
CAPTAIN J. B. HARTLEY
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
The Grove 99^-02' Aged 29 June 4th, 191 5
Elder son of the late Francis Chisholme Hartley, of Shandon, Dum-
bartonshire, Government Inspector of Schools, and of Harriet Kate Hartley,
nee Hill.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Captain Hartley received a Commission in the 2nd King's Own Scottish
Borderers in 1905, and joined his Regiment in India, where he remained
for three or four years. Returning to England with his Regiment, he got
his Company in the ist Battalion in 19 14, and again went out to India,
where he remained until the war broke out. His Regiment formed part
of the renowned 29th Division, which went to Gallipoli for the first landing.
He was killed in Gallipoli on June 4th, 191 5, on the parapet of the
Turkish trench which he and his Company went out to take. Almost as
soon as he was over his own parapet he was knocked down and badly
wounded in the face, but he got up again and gallantly led his Company
through a terrible cross-fire from Turkish machine guns, which practically
wiped out the whole Company. Captain Hartley and two men alone reached
their objective, when he was instantaneously killed by machine-gun fire.
The two men were badly wounded at the same time, though they survived
to tell the tale.
The following are extracts from, the letters of brother-officers : —
" He had no sense of fear."
" The whole Regiment mourns the loss of a very gallant Officer."
One of his men writes : —
"He was well liked by his men. We used to nickname him *John' —
behind his back, of course — but the bestowal of such a name always means
an Officer is first favourite with his men."
JOHN BERNARD HARTLEY
CAPTAIN R. HEAD
Border Regiment
Church Hill 99^-04- Aged 29 April 30th, 191 5
Only son of the late J. O. Head, J. P., and of Mrs. Head, of Hack-
wood, Hexham.
Shooting VIII 1900, 1 90 1, but in the latter year was unable to shoot at
Bisley.
Married.
Captain Head was gazetted to the Border Regiment in 1906, serving
with them in India and Burmah. He was serving with the ist Battalion,
when he was killed in action on April 30th, 1915.
REGINALD HEAD
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PRIVATE G. T. HENERY
Liverpool Regiment
Church Hill 02'-03' Aged 27 June i6th, 191 5
Second surviving son of Perceval Jeffer)- Thornton Henery (O.H.),
of Spring Bank, Olive Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, and of Maria Henery,
nee Bullock.
Was in business with Messrs. Duncan, Ewing & Co., Timber
Brokers, Liverpool.
Private Henery joined the loth (Scottish Battalion) of the King's
Liverpool Regiment soon after the outbreak of the War. He sailed for
France on November 1st, 1914, and served continuously in the trenches
from November 29th, 1914, to June i6th, 1915.
He was reported * missing' after the attack at Hooge on June i6th,
191 5. Nothing further having been heard of him, his death has now been
presumed.
GRAHAM THORNTON HENERY
CAPTAIN H. P. L. HEYWORTH
North Staffordshire Regiment
The Headmaster's 92'-96' Aged 37 August 6th, 191 5
Only surviving son of the late Colonel Lawrence Heyworth, Command-
ing 3rd Welsh Regiment, and of Mrs, Heyworth, of Colne Priory, Earls
Colne, Essex.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Married, in 1915, Cecily M. Garfit, daughter of Major B. C. Garfit, of
Dalby Hall, Spilsby, Lincolnshire.
Captain Heyworth received a Commission, in 1899, in the Militia
Battalion of the South Wales Borderers. In April, 1900, he was gazetted
to the 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment, and with them served
in the South African War 1900-2, receiving the Queen's Medal and
three clasps, and the King's Medal and two clasps. He was afterwards
with his Regiment for seven years in India and was Master of the Peshawar
Vale Hounds in 191 1 -12. In 191 3 he returned to England on sick leave
and in 1 9 14 was acting as Adjutant to the 7th Service Battalion. He left
for the Dardanelles with his Regiment in June, 191 5, and was killed in
action near Sari Bair on August 6th, 191 5. He is buried in the Australian
and New Zealand Cemetery, Gallipoli.
His Commanding Officer writes : —
" He has proved a very good Adjutant to me."
The Second in Command writes : —
" He is a terrible loss to us, as he was quite the most popular man in
the Regiment."
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HENRY POTTER LAWRENCE HEYWORTH
SERGEANT G. P. G. HOARE
Essex Yeomanry
The Headmaster's 89^-94' Aged 39 September 6th, 1915
Eldest son of Charles R. G. Hoare (O.H.), Banker, and Rachel G.
Hoare, nee Bevan, of Lexden House, Colchester.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Sergeant Hoare fought in the South African War in 1900 and 1901,
serving in the Duke of Cambridge's Yeomanry.
He went to the Front with the Essex Yeomanry in December, 19 14.
He was severely wounded on May 13th, 1915, and was invalided home.
He died in hospital in England, after a second operation, on September 6th,,
1915.
GEORGE PHILIP GURNEY HOARE
CAPTAIN C. T. T. HOLLAND
Royal Field Artillery
The Headmaster's 96^-99' Aged 32 May 9th, 1915
Only son of the late Colonel Trevenen Holland, C.B., and of Mrs.
Trevenen Holland, of Mount Ephraim House, Tunbridge Wells.
R.M.A., Woolwich.
Married in 191 1, and leaves one son.
Captain Holland was gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery in 1901 ;
he resigned his Commission in 1908, and went out to British East Africa,
but rejoined the Army on the outbreak of the War. He went to the
Front in November, 19 14, with the 33rd Brigade, 8th Division, R.F.A.
The following extracts from letters received relate the manner of his
death on May 9th, 1915.
Colonel Graham wrote on May loth, 1915: —
"He was bored at the somewhat inactive time he had during the
Neuve Chapelle fight and begged to be allowed to see more of this one, so
he volunteered to go as what is called ' liaison ' Officer with the Brigadier
of the Infantry with whom we are working. ... It was a task that, had
he been successful, would have brought him some distinction and reward
. . . but he had hardly started with the General at the very beginning
of the fight, when he was shot through the head and instantly killed.
His orderly came back to report it, but no one could get out to where
he lay until the evening, when a party of men, at great risk to themselves,
went out to find him. We got him in last night ... he looks quite
peaceful, and the Doctor says he must have been killed instantly."
Captain Stirling writes : —
" I miss him and his cheery ways greatly. He lunched with me the
day before the fight and was full of delight in getting away from the office
into the field of action."
Captain Spencer writes: —
" He was * liaison ' officer with the 25th Infantry Brigade, on the 9th,
and had volunteered for the duty. He had to maintain communications
between that Brigade and ourselves. The Brigade came under very hot
fire, and, as far as can be made out, he was repairing his telephone wire
in the open. The telephonist with him could only give the vaguest
description, as his nerves were very much rattled at the time."
CHARLES TREVENEN TOWNSEND HOLLAND
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2ND LIEUTENANT G. W. V. HOPLEY
Grenadier Guards
Moretons 05'-io=' Aged 23 May 12th, 191 5
Second son of the Hon. W. M. Hopley, until recently a Puisne Judge
of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and now a Senior Judge in Southern
Rhodesia, and of Mrs. Hopley.
Entrance Scholar: Monitor 1909: Head of his House: Cricket XI
1909-10: History Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, ist Class
History Tripos, Parts I and II : University Cricket XI : Winner of Heavy
Weight Inter-University Boxing Competition.
At the beginning of the War 2nd Lieutenant Hopley joined the Grenadier
Guards with his friend Arthur Lang. In France they were separated, Lang
going to the Scots Guards, where he and Gerald Crutchley had a trench
mined under them and were rushed by a German attack. Crutchley was
wounded and taken prisoner ; of Lang nothing more has been heard. On
February 3rd, 19 15, Geoffrey Hopley, while outside his trench, was hit by
a bullet in the arm and thigh. He rolled down into a shell-crater behind
the trench and lay there some time. At length with the greatest difficulty
he crawled up from it and made his way back into his trench, where the
Captain and he were the only officers left. Desperately wounded as he was,
his first thought was not of himself: " I am afraid. Sir," he said, " I shall
not be much use to you ; 1 am sorry, especially as we are so short-handed."
Then followed fourteen weeks in Hospital, with alternate hopes and fears,
alternate rallies and set-backs, great pain and patience in a losing game fought
out to the end. His last wish, expressed to a brother Head of his House
who saw him daily in his illness, was that he should be buried at Harrow.
He died in the Military Hospital, Boulogne, on May 12th, 1915, and in
accordance with his wishes his body was brought back to England and
buried by the Hill he loved so well.
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GEOFFREY WILLIAM VANDERBYL HOPLEY
2ND LIEUTENANT SIR W. G. HOSTE, BART.
Rifle Brigade
The Headmaster's n'-is^ Aged 19 May 9th, 191 5
Only son of the late Sir William H. C. Hoste, Bart, and of Alice,
daughter of James Healy, of Sydney, New South Wales. Before going to
Harrow he was a Naval Cadet at Osborne, and afterwards at Dartmouth :
the latter place he was obliged to leave owing to ill-health.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
2nd Lieutenant Hoste left for France in March, 191 5. He was last
seen alive during an attack on the German lines at Rouges Bancs, near
Fromelles, on May 9th, 191 5. He was reported * missing' for some
time, but the War Office has since officially reported his death.
Colonel F. G. Talbot, of the Rifle Brigade, writes: —
" I liked him very much. He was a right good-hearted lad, and the
best sort of English Officer, keen as mustard. . . They all say he led his
men so gallantly and was always most cheery in the trenches, and that he
behaved so splendidly at the last.'*
SIR WILLIAM GRAHAM HOSTE, BART.
CAPTAIN J. E. V. ISAAC, D.S.O.
Rifle Brigade
The Knoll 93'-98- Aged 35 May 9th, 1915
Third son of the late John Swinton Isaac (O.H.), D.L., Banker, of
Broughton Park, Worcester, and of Amy Alice, daughter of Major-General
R. H. Crofton, R.A. He was a member of the I. Zingari, Free Foresters,
and M.C.C., and played cricket for his Regiment and occasionally for his
County : he rode in various races, winning the Cairo Grand National in
191 1, on a horse trained, and partly owned, by himself.
Captain Isaac was gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1900,
and in June of that year joined his Regiment on active service in South
Africa. He was dangerously wounded at Nooitgedacht and received the
King's Medal and three clasps. On the disbanding of the 3rd Northumber-
land Fusiliers he was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in 1908, and served
with them in Malta and Egypt. He left the Regiment in 1911, and went
to Vancouver, engaging in real estate. He hunted and shot on the Yukon
and played much polo in California. On the rumour of war Captain Isaac at
once started for England and rejoined his Regiment. In October, 1 9 14, he
went to the Front as A.D.C. and Camp Commandant to Major-General
Sir T. Capper, commanding 7th Division. He was wounded at the
1st Battle of Ypres and received the D.S.O. for "conspicuous gallantry"
on that occasion, besides being twice mentioned in Despatches. He
returned to the Front in December, I914, but in the spring, after his
General was wounded, he resigned his appointment on the Staff and joined
the 2nd Battalion of his Regiment, reaching them three days before the
action on the Aubers-Fromelles Ridge, in which he fell, on May 9th, 19 15.
He was notified as * missing, believed killed,' but from information
received it is believed that he was wounded while leading his men, but
went on and finally reached the objective, being killed just afterwards.
General Sir T. Capper, K.C.M.G., commanding 7th Division, writes : —
"Johnnie is more to me than an A.D.C, a very ^ear friend and
companion ... he is a gallant soldier too. Sir H. Rawlinson writes to
me that he was last seen leading his men to the second assault with great
dash — a noble and gallant spirit."
The late Brigadier-General Walter Long wrote : —
" His courage was phenomenal, as his return to his Regiment affords
ample proof. Everyone who came in contact with him felt the better for
his presence — he really had a most wonderful personality. . . . His bravery
was really remarkable, and it was a bye-word in his Division ; he performed
some wonderful deeds out here."
JOHN EDMUND VALENTINE ISAAC
CAPTAIN B. T. JAMES, M.C.
Royal Engineers {attached Royal Flying Corps)
Newlands cs'-oj* Aged 26 July 13th, 191 5
Eldest son of Dr. C. A. James and of Annie Lucy James, and grandson
of the Rev. W. Philipson, Rector of Bradley, Lincolnshire.
Entrance Scholar. Head of his House. Monitor, 1906.
R.M.C., Woolwich, 1907.
Captain James, after being a short time at Gosport, worked for nearly
two years at Dover under General Ffowke ; he was then attached to the
Royal Flying Corps. In the early summer of 1914 he fitted his aeroplane
for wireless signalling and was made Captain and Flight-Commander in
November of that year. He flew over to France in the first week of the
War and signalled first for the French Artillery, and then for the British.
He was twice " mentioned in Despatches," and received the Military Cross
in June, 1915, for work done at Hooge and Festubert.
Lieut.-Colonel Buske, commanding 2nd Wing R.F.C., wrote : —
" He was ranging a battery and was being heavily shelled. The
machine was hit by a shell and was seen to dive to the ground from a great
height. The Germans dropped a note saying that he was dead when he fell. . . .
It is rarely given that one so young should be able to play such an important
part in this tremendous struggle, but he did, and did it well. . . . His
splendid combination of brain and nerve made him an invaluable Officer."
Major G. S. Shephard writes : —
" It is impossible to speak too highly of his work as an officer, and it
is not too much to say that in his line, artillery observation, he was quite
the most competent officer in the Flying Corps. . . . We are indebted to
him not only for all his flying out here, but also for his work and the experi-
ments he carried out before the War."
" He was so well known for all the work he had done, and it was quite
appreciated here that he had been the pioneer in wireless ranging with
artillery — that our first successes in this were owing to him. The Army
Commander has written about him to Headquarters to that effect."
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BARON TREVENEN JAMES
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2ND LIEUTENANT L. A. JARVIS
Scots Guards
Moretons 05^-10' Aged 23 Mayi6th, 1915
Only son of Major Lewis Kerrison Jarvis (O.H.), 3rd County of
London Yeomanry, Banker, of 54 Lombard Street, E.G., and of Adeline
Egidia Jarvis.
Was with Messrs. Reeves, Whitburn & Co., Bankers, of 37 Clement's
Lane, E.C.
2nd Lieutenant Jarvis left for the Front on February i8th, 1915 ; he
^as shot through the heart while leading his men into action on the Rue du
Bois, on May 16th, 1915.
Lieut. -Colonel A. B. E. Cator, D.S.O., commanding 2nd Battalion
Scots Guards, writes to his parents : —
" I thought you would like to hear of the gallant way in which your son
died. He was shot through the heart leading his Platoon, just after they
had pierced the German line. 1 cannot tell you how much we all miss him,
he was always so cheery and hard-working and was a splendid soldier.
Everyone in the Battalion, both Officers and men, loved him. We buried
him close to the road, just behind the old British line, not far from
Festubert."
His Brigadier wrote to a friend describing him as " such a nice boy,
who promised to be such a good soldier."
LOUIS ARCHIBALD JARVIS
CAPTAIN P. A. KENNEDY
Rifle Brigade
Elmfield 00^-04 » Aged 28 May 9th, 1915
Third son of Sir John Gordon Kennedy (O.H.), K.C.M.G., of H.M.
Diplomatic Service, and of Lady Kennedy.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Captain Kennedy was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade in 1906, and joined
the 4th Battalion. He served with his Regiment in Malta, Egypt, and
India, and was at home on leave when the War broke out. He asked to be
sent to a home Battalion, and in August, 19 14, was posted to the 3rd Bat-
talion. He went to France the following month and was wounded in the
Battle of the Aisne and invalided home. In December, 1 9 14, he was
attached to the 8th (Service) Battalion and was offered two Staff appoint-
ments, which he refused. He returned to the Front in March, 1915, and
then joined the 2nd Battalion of his Regiment. He was killed by a sniper,
while leading his Company in a general attack on the Aubers Ridge, near
Fromelles, on May 9th, 1915. His Company and another were leading,
and he fell in the German lines ; two Privates were left with him, but he
would not let them stay and sent them back to their own lines.
A brother-officer writes : —
" Paul was in my Company in the 4th Battalion in Malta and Egypt.
He was so much beloved by all of us. I shall never forget his charming
personality."
Another brother-officer writes : —
" His was the leading Company and was the first to take the German
trenches. The whole Battalion did splendidly ; so well, indeed, did they
do, that they left behind the Regiment on either side of them and practically
got cut off. Only 3 Officers and 250 men came back unwounded that
night. Paul died leading an attack, which this Battalion and the whole
Regiment will always remember."
PAUL ADRIAN KENNEDY
CAPTAIN H. McL. LAMBERT
I J/ {Royal) Dragoons
Elmficld 933-97* Aged 35 May 13th, 1915
Eldest son of the late E. T. Lambert, of Telham Court, Battle, Sussex,
and of Mrs. Lambert.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Captain Lambert joined the ist (Royal) Dragoons in 1899, and served
in the Boer War, where he received the Queen's and King's Medals and
five clasps. When his Regiment subsequently went to India he became
A.D.C. to Lord Ampthill, and afterwards to Lord Curzon, Lord Minto,
and General Sir O'Moore Creagh. He left the army in 191 2, and was in
British East Africa, when War was declared, but returned to England, in
August, 1 9 14, to rejoin his Regiment. Ke was killed in France on
May 13th, 1915.
HENRY MCLAREN LAMBERT
LIEUTENANT E. H. LEIGH
Rifle Brigade
Elmficld 02*-o5' Aged 26 Maygth, 1915
Second son of the Hon. Sir E. Chandos Leigh (O.H.), K.C.B., K.C., for
many years Counsel to the Speaker, of 45 Upper Grosvenor Street, W., and
of Lady Leigh, and grandson of Lord Leigh, of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Lieutenant Leigh received his Commission in 191 1, when he joined the
2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in India, being promoted Lieutenant in
191 3. He went to the Front with his Regiment in November, 19 14, and
took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, his Battalion gaining the
distinction of being the first actually to enter and capture that village. He
was killed on May 9th, 191 5, while leading his men into action in the
attack on the Aubers Ridge.
He was much beloved by his Riflemen, who said that there was not one
of them who would not have followed him into action anywhere, he was so
fearless.
EDWARD HENRY LEIGH
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CAPTAIN F. K. LESLIE
Royal Fusiliers
The Headmaster's 99='-03- Aged 29 April 25th, 1915
Only son of Henry King Leslie (O.H.), of Glenburne, Rockcorry,
Co. Monaghan, and of Ruth Leslie.
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1903.
Captain Leslie was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers in 1905, joining his
Regiment in India, and served with them at Secunderabad and Fort William,
Calcutta, returning to England in January, 191 5. In March, 191 5, he left
with his Regiment for Alexandria, and was sent straight on to Mudros
Harbour, en route for the Dardanelles. On April 25th, 1915, he was killed
at the landing on X Beach, Gallipoli.
A brother-officer wrote : —
". . . . Captain Frank Leslie, who commanded my Company, passed
peacefully away on April 25th. His gallantry and coolness under very
heavy fire saved many lives. He ordered me to leave him and take some
men back to another position, to cover his retirement, and soon after 1 left
him he was shot in the head. He suffered no pain. He was buried where
he so gallantly fell."
FRANK KING LESLIE
LIEUT.-COLONEL H. G. LEVINGE
Norfolk Regiment
The Knoll 782-82' Aged 50 August loth, 191 5
Eldest son of Harry Corbyn Levinge, J. P., D.L., late of Knockdrin.
Castle, Mullingar, Westmeath.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Married, in 1905, Maureen Fagan, only daughter of the late Captain
Fagan, I2th Lancers.
Lieut.-Colonel Levinge joined the Norfolk Regiment in 1885, and
served with the 2nd Battalion and the Mounted Infantry in the South
African War. He was twice mentioned in Despatches, promoted Brevet-
Major, and awarded the Queen's and the King's Medals with five clasps.
On the outbreak of the War he was serving with the 3rd Norfolk
Regiment, S.R., and in November, 19 14, was appointed Lieut.-Colonel
to command the loth Battalion, from which he was transferred to the
command of the 6th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. In June, 19 15,
he proceeded with his Regiment to Gallipoli. He took part in the fighting
of August and was reported * missing ' on August loth, when the
Battalion was overwhelmed by the Turks ; he was later officially presumed
to have been killed in action on that day. He was mentioned in Sir Ian
Hamilton's Despatches dealing with the fighting at Chunuk Bair.
The General commanding the Division writes : —
" His Regiment was trained by him to the highest pitch, and it did not
fail, when it was required."
The General commanding the New Zealand Division writes : —
" He had commanded his Battalion so well, and they fought most
gallantly, till they were overwhelmed by an enormous mass of Turks.
He was at the head of them when last seen, and everyone says he was a
first-rate Commanding Officer, and that his Battalion had been made by
him about the best of the 13th Division."
The Second in Command of the Loyal North Lancashires writes : —
" He was defending a trench which was attacked by vastly superior
numbers. He remained to the last gallantly defending the post, thereby
stemming an enemy attack, which, if it had been entirely successful, would
have led to most serious consequences."
HENRY GEORGE LEVINGE
LIEUTENANT J. R. LINGARD
Manchester Regiment
West Acre 98^-03' Aged 30 August 21st, 191 5
Only child of Thomas Dewhurst Lingard, J. P. for the County of
Westmorland, of Fellside, Windermere, and of Regina Caroline Lingard,
nee Walpole, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire.
Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1906, M.A. 1910, LL.B.
A member of the firm of Lingard and Hamp, Solicitors, Manchester.
Lieutenant Lingard was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment on the
outbreak of the War and was afterwards attached to the Lancashire
Fusiliers. He went to Alexandria in June, 19 15, and after a few days
proceeded to Gallipoli. He was reported * wounded ' in the advance
from Suvla Bay on August 21st, 1915. A Special Court of Inquiry on his
case was held in Gallipoli, when it was proved that he was carried off the
field by Private Quinn (who was awarded the D.C.M.) to the regimental
dressing station, whence he was forwarded on a stretcher en route for the
beach and hospital ship. From that time all trace of him was lost, and the
War Ofllice has now presumed his death.
JOHN REGINALD LINGARD
2ND LIEUTENANT H. G. LIVINGSTONE
Royal Field Artillery
Moretons 943-973 Aged 34 May 3rd, 191 5
Youngest son of the late Henry Darley Livingstone, J.P., of Belclare,
Westport, Co. Mayo, and of Mrs. Darley Livingstone.
After leaving Oxford he went out to farm in British Columbia and
afterwards to the Argentine.
2nd Lieutenant Livingstone was in the Argentine when the War broke
out and returned to England in December, 19 14, in order to join the Army.
He was given a Commission in the 64th Battery, R.F.A., Lahore Division,
Indian Expeditionary Force in the following month, and after short training
at Exeter left for France in April, 1915. He was instantaneously killed in
action on May 3rd, 1915, in the Second Battle of Ypres.
His Major wrote to his mother: —
" I hope you will allow me to say how much not only we Officers, but
also the men of the Battery, regret the loss of your boy, and how much he
had made his mark in the few days he was with us. . . . We mourn the loss
of a good comrade and gallant soldier, who would have continued to render
most valuable service as an Artillery Officer, had he been permitted to
do so."
HAROLD GORDON LIVINGSTONE
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LIEUTENANT G. B. LOCKHART
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
MoretoDS, 07^-12' Aged 21 August loth, 191 5
Second son of Philip Lockhart, of 17 Rutland Court, and of Mrs.
Lockhart.
Magdalen College, Oxford, 19 12.
Lieutenant Lockhart was gazetted to the 6th Battalion Loyal North
Lancashire Regiment, in September, 1914, and was promoted Lieutenant in
February, 19 15. He left England for Gallipoli in June, and was killed in
action on August loth, 191 5. He was for some months reported * missing,'
and it was not till December that Sergeant Baldwin, who was himself
wounded three times in the same fight and after sixteen days in the open
regained the Anzac Beach, wrote to his father the following letter : —
" You will pardon me for this intrusion, but, since I have been home,
I hear that there is still some doubt about the death of your son, Lieutenant
Lockhart, who was commanding C Company, Loyal North Lancashire
Regiment, on August 9th, 191 5. On the evening of the same date we
moved up to the trenches at Chunuk Bair, arriving there about midnight,
and took over the trenches from the New Zealanders, which had to be
improved upon by daylight. Lieutenant Lockhart was by my side the
whole time ; he worked very hard, so as to have our position in apple-pie
order by daybreak. About 3.30 a.m. this work was completed, when
I received an order from Lieutenant Lockhart to pass the word for our
much-needed rations to be sent along the line, but instead of getting rations
we got the Turks on either flank, as well as the front. Lieutenant Lock-
hart was in the act of firing his second shot at the enemy to our left front,
when he received a bullet through the head. He died instantly. I feel it
very much indeed, having to enclose the sad news of such a brave young
Officer. . . . He was always a hard-working soldier and a lover of sport
with his Company off duty — loved by all."
GERALD BEVI3 LOCKHART
2ND LIEUTENANT C. E. H. LOXTON
North Staffordshire Regiment {T.F.)
Druries, 06'- 12' Aged 22 May 23rd, 191 5
Elder son of C. A. Loxton, LL.B., of Shoal Hill House, Cannock,
and of Emily Clara, youngest daughter of Sir Edward Thomas Holden, of
Glenelg, Great Barr, Staffordshire.
Monitor, 191 1.
University College, Oxford, 19 12. Rowed in his College boat.
2nd Lieutenant Loxton was still at Oxford when the War broke out,
but immediately volunteered for Active Service and was gazetted 2nd
Lieutenant in the North Staffordshire Regiment in August, 1914. While
at Oxford he had served in the O.T.C. After training at Luton and
Saffron Waldron he left with his Battalion for France, in March, 19 1 5. He
was killed at Wulverghem, near Neuve Eglise, very early on Whit Sunday
morning. May 23rd, 191 5. Soon after midnight he, with two of his men,
was repairing some wiring in front of the trench, when he was hit by
a bullet and died about 2 a.m. in the ambulance, on his way to the Field
Hospital. He was buried near Neuve Eglise.
Colonel Knight (since killed), commanding the 5th North Staffordshire
Regiment, writes : —
" He was certainly the bravest man I have ever seen out here and
endeared himself to all of us. We did our best to make him more
cautious, but he would set the example (as he did to all of us) to his
Platoon, and he made them a splendid set of men."
The President of the Officers' Mess writes : —
" I need only say that he was universally beloved both by Officers and
men, and his Platoon would have done anything for him and followed him
anywhere."
His servant writes : —
" As time rolls by we miss him more and more. Each time we go to
the trenches we pass his grave, and every time we pass each man marches
to attention on his own account, so you can tell that he will never be for-
gotten."
A brother-officer writes : —
" His men looked up to him with the utmost affection and respect,
respect fully earned by his ability and keenness. He died after accom-
plishing work that would have been deemed impossible in one so young,
and of such short experience."
CHARLES EDWARD HOLDEN LOXTON
2ND LIEUTENANT R. T. MACIVER
Royal Scots
Kendalls 1 1'- 1 4' Aged 1 8 September 1 1 th, 1 9 1 5
Only son of the late Robert Rankin Maclver, of Rothay Bank, Amble-
side. Westmorland, and of Maude C. Maclver, now Mrs. H. S. Sanderson.
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Maclver was gazetted to the ist Battalion Royal Scots
in March, 1915 ; he was attached to the 3rd Battalion, but in the following
month joined the ist Battalion in France. He was killed in the trenches
on September iith, 1915, by a stray shell near Armenti^res, while instruct-
ing a draft of Kitchener's Army.
Lieut.-Colonel Callender, 1st Royal Scots, wrote: —
" It is with the very greatest grief and sympathy that I have to write and
tell you that your poor lad was killed this afternoon. I am so desperately
sorry about it, because we were all so fond of him, and he is such a great
loss to the Regiment. He was always so keen on his work and so reliable.
He was just the right type of boy, of which we get so few nowadays, 1
wanted to let you know how much I appreciated him, and how much we
shall all miss him."
Captain G. W. Bennett-Clark wrote: —
" Your son has been in my Company since he came out to this country.
He was very popular both with his brother-officers and with the men, in
whom he always took the greatest interest."
A brother-officer wrote: —
". . . Of one thing I am certain, he died as he lived, Splaying the game.'"
ROBERT TROUTBECK MACIVER
LIEUTENANT I. B. MACLEOD
Royal Highlanders
Elmficld, 063-IO' Aged 21 April 17th, 1915
Only son of the Rev. R. C. MacLeod (O.H.), of Mitford Vicarage,
Morpeth, and nephew of MacLeod of MacLeod, of Dunvegan Castle, Isle
of Skye.
Lieutenant MacLeod was gazetted to the Black Watch in 191 2, and
joined the 2nd Battalion in India, in November of that year. He went to
the Front with his Regiment in October, 1 9 14, having been gazetted
Lieutenant the previous month. He was killed on April 17th, 19 15.
IAN BREAC MACLEOD
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LIEUTENANT H. A. G. MALET
King's Own Scottish Borderers
Home Boarders 05 =-10 Aged 23 April 1 8th, 1915
Eldest son of Allan A. Greville Malet and of Mrs. Malet, of The
Butts, Harrow-on-the-Hill.
Caius College, Cambridge.
Lieutenant Malet received a University Commission in the K.O.S.B. in
September, 1914, and went to the Front in the following November. He
was killed in action at Hill 60, on Sunday, April i8th, 19 15.
The following account is given by a Lance-Corporal and a Private wha
were in A Company and were present at his death, and were themselves
wounded : —
"At 3.30 a,m. on Sunday A and B Companies, K.O.S.B., relieved the
West Kcnts in the craters and the new trench. Within five minutes of arrival
in the trench, which was only five feet deep, Captain Wingate, commanding
A Company, was killed by a rifle bullet through the head. Lieut. Malet
took command of the trench and in less than an hour was killed in an
exactly similar way. His death was instantaneous."
A brother-officer writes : —
" He was considered by his men to be a wonderfully brave Officer ; he
volunteered for all dangerous duties. Quite recently he had gone out four
nights in command of scouts in front of the British trenches to try and
capture German * listening ' posts and snipers. He used to come back from
these night scouting expeditions covered from head to foot in mud from the
ditches he had crawled through ; the men always said he would either get a
V.C or be killed."
Another brother-officer writes : —
" Everyone here speaks very highly of him, and they all say he was
absolutely fearless. I understand his name was sent in for * mention in
despatches ' for some very useful work he did in scouting."
One of his men wrote to his mother : —
" The next time we went in, your son, at a very great risk to himself,
went about looking for different ways into the trench, so that we should
not have to go through the communication trenches, which were full of water ;
and he always found a way which took us in with dry feet, which meant a
great deal to our comfort. He was always the same every time we went
into the trenches — the comfort of the men came first."
HUGH ARTHUR GRENVILLE MALET
CAPTAIN E. A. MARROW
King*s Own Scottish Borderers
The Park 973-003 Aged 31 April 25th, 191 5
Only son of the late Major P. Marrow (O.H.), King's Dragoon Guards^
and of Mrs. Marrow, of Belhaven Hill, Dunbar.
Captain Marrow joined the ist Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers,
in 1902, and attained his Captaincy in 1910. He was killed in the Dar-
danelles on April 25th, 1915.
EDWARD ARMFIELD MARROW
CAPTAIN H. C. MARTEN
South Staffordshire Regiment
High Street o+'-o;' Aged 25 August 9th, 191 5
Third and youngest son of Harry Holditch Marten, Chairman of
Young and Marten, Ltd., Caledonian Works, Stratford, of Lloyds House,
Bishops Down, Tunbridge Wells, and of Elizabeth Marten.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Captain Marten was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire
Regiment, in 1909. He served with his Regiment for a year in South
Africa. In 19 14 he went to West Africa for about three months, returning
to England three days before war was declared. He reported himself
at the War Office, but was too late to go on active service with the
2nd Staffordshires, who were badly cut up in the early part of the War.
He was then attached to the 7th Staffordshires and was sent with them to
the Dardanelles on July ist, 1915. He was killed in action at Gallipoli on
August 9th, 1915. Major Yool, of the Staffordshires, wrote that he died
leading his men on to avenge the death of his brother-officers who were
nearly all killed in this action.
HAROLD CHARLES MARTEN
MAJOR W. F. MARTIN
Leicestershire Yeomanry
The Head Master's 9o'-94' Aged 39 May 13th, 1915
Second son of the late Robert Trewen Martin (O.H.), M.A., J. P. for
the County of Leicestershire, of Anstey and The Brand, Leicestershire,
and of Henrietta Susan, daughter of the Rev. E. R. Larken, Rector of
Burton by Lincoln.
Shooting VIII, 1893-4. Trinity College, Cambridge. University
Shooting VIII, 1895. Director and Secretary of the Mountsorrel Granite
Co., Leicester.
Married, in 19 1 2, Violet Anne Philippa, elder daughter of Colonel Walter
Wynter, and leaves a son and a daughter.
Major Martin served as a Lieutenant with the Leicestershire Yeomanry
in the South African War and received the Queen's Medal and four
clasps.
He went to the Front in November, 1914, the Leicestershire Yeomanry
being brigaded with the ist and 2nd Life Guards. He served in the
trenches near Ypres during the winter and spring. On the night of
May I2th, 1915, he went up with the 2nd Cavalry Division, during the
2nd Battle of Ypres, into the trenches between Zonnebeke Road and the
Roulers Railway, his squadron occupying part of the front-line trench north
of the railway. Heavy shelling on the morning of May 13th drove back
the troops on their left, and he was killed while assisting by rifle-fire in
keeping off an enemy flank attack from that direction.
A brother-officer writes: —
" He was the finest man I ever met. In the fight he behaved as everyone
knew he would. He was like a rock and by his steady courage kept his
men together. He was well backed up, which must have made him very
happy. You will be very sad, but, when you know exactly how he died,
you will be very proud of him."
His Sergeant-Major writes : —
" In Major W. F. Martin we have lost the best Squadron Leader the
Leicestershire Yeomanry has ever known."
The Colonel of the Leicestershire Yeomanry, with whom he fought in
South Africa, wrote: —
" Having been with him in South Africa, no one knew his worth more
than I did, and I was proud to call him friend. His work with the
Yeomanry, before they went out, and since he has been in France, has
been the best man could give."
WILLIAM FRANCIS MARTIN
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LIEUTENANT W. F. J. MAXWELL
Kings Own Scottish Borderers
Elmfield 99-'-03^ Aged 30 August 13, 191 5
Only son of Sir William F. Maxwell, of Cardoness, Bart. (O.H.) ; there
being no other heir, the title becomes extinct in the male line.
Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1908. He had passed the first
examination in Edinburgh for LL.B., in anticipation of going to the
Scottish Bar.
Lieutenant Maxwell joined the 5th K.O.S.B. (T.F.) on leaving Cam-
bridge. He was sent to Gallipoli in May, 1915, and served with his
Battalion there, until he was killed in action on August 13th, 19 15. Out
of many letters received the following are extracts.
General Sir Ian Hamilton writes to his father : —
"... From all sides I have heard of the special charm which made your
boy beloved by all who had the privilege of knowing him. It has been
specially mentioned to me that he was a good Officer, and one who had no
fear."
Lieut.-Colonel Millar, commanding i/5th K.O.S.B., writes : —
" Lieutenant Maxwell met his death while engaged with a bombing
party, attacking a very dangerous and difficult section of Turkish trench.
This party had done remarkably well and had driven the enemy out of a
considerable length of trench. ... It must somewhat mitigate your sorrow
to know that Lieutenant Maxwell nobly and fearlessly carried through
a dangerous and difficult task successfully, and fell just when his task was
being accomplished."
Lieutenant Salmon, l/5th K.O.S.B,, writes : —
" He did excellent work, and I am told that General Douglas sent him
a letter of thanks. ... All our Officers here felt his loss very keenly. We
had all got t^ love him very much, and he had the respect and devotion of
his men, and his life was a model to them."
Captain A. Clark Kennedy, Adjutant i/5th K.O.S.B., since killed in
action at Gaza, writes: —
" The men in his Platoon thought no end of him, and, as censor of their
letters home, I have seen what they told their people at home about him,
and how very highly they must have respected and liked him. ... I need
not tell you how perfectly ready for death he always was. A more unselfish
Christian man I never knew, or one more interested in all that is good."
WILLIAM FRANCIS JOHN MAXWELL
LIEUTENANT J. W. MAYNARD
King's Royal Rifle Corps
Moretons o9»-i4' Aged 1 8 April 24th, 1915
Younger son of Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard (O.H.), and
Margaret Blanche, elder daughter of R. S. Wilmot Sitwell, of Stainsby
House, Smalley, Derbyshire.
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 19 14.
Lieutenant Maynard received his Commission in the King's Royal
Rifle Corps on leaving Sandhurst, and went to the Front in March, 19 15.
He was killed at Ypres, on the morning of April 24th, 19 15, while peace-
fully sleeping in his * dug-out ' in the support trenches, half a mile behind
the firing line. Quiet, with a keen sense of humour, he had already won
the friendship of his brother-officers, two of whom wrote to say how
fond they had grown of him in the short time he was with them.
JOHN WILMOT MAYNARD
LIEUT.-COLONEL SIR J. P. MILBANKE, Bart., V.C.
Nottinghamshire Yeomanry
The Headmaster's 86^-893 Aged 42 August zist, 1915
Elder son of the late Sir Peniston Milbanke, 9th Baronet (O.H.), D.L.,
J. P. for Sussex, and of Elizabeth Margaret, daughter of the Hon. Richard
Denman.
Succeeded as loth Baronet in 1899.
Married, in 1900, Amelia (Leila), only daughter of Lieut.-Colonel the
Hon. Charles and Lady Madeline Crichton, and leaves two sons.
Lieut.-Colonel Sir John Milbanke joined the Sussex Militia in 1890,
and was gazetted to the loth Hussars in 1892. He served with them
in Ireland until the outbreak of the South African War, during which he
acted as A.D.C. to Sir John French.
At Colesburg on January 5th, 1900, just before the memorable occasion
on which the Suffolks were captured, he was out with a reconnoitring party
of the loth Hussars, when, the horse of one of the men having been ridden
to a standstill, he, being already severely wounded, rode back through a
galling fire, picked up the man, put him on his own horse and brought him
safely in. Unfortunately, on arrival, he was unconscious from loss of blood
and could not communicate the information he had gathered. Had he been
able to do so the Suffolks would have been otherwise employed. For this
action, while home on sick leave after his wound, he was given the V.C. by
Queen Victoria. This was the last public duty she performed before her
death. He was also mentioned in Despatches and received the Queen's
Medal and two clasps.
After the South African War Sir John served with the lOth Hussars in
India, where he incidentally achieved some success pig-sticking, winning the
Guzerat Cup in 1906, and being runner-up for it in 1907.
He retired from the Army in 1910, but rejoined on the outbreak of the
War, taking over the command of the Sherwood Rangers in October, 1914.
He left England with the Regiment in April, 1915, and was killed at the
head of his men on August 21st, 1915, at the farthest point reached by
British troops on Hill 70, Gallipoli, three days after arriving on the
Peninsula. At the time of his death he had just received a communication
offering him a Brigade.
SIR JOHN PENISTON MILBANKE, BART.
LIEUTENANT T. R. MILLS
Manchester Regiment {T.F.)
West Acre oo'-os' Aged 29 June 4th, 191 5
Only son of T. H. Mills, of White Bank House, Stockport, and of
Mrs. Mills.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lieutenant Mills went out to Egypt with the 4th Battalion (T.F.), of
the Manchester Regiment. He spent many months there training and was
then sent on with his Regiment to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in
a bayonet charge on June 4th, 1915.
Captain Holberton, his Adjutant, wrote: —
" Previous to the attack he was put on to organize the difficult task of
getting supplies to the front line. He did excellent work and was priceless
in all the work of pushing forward to take new ground. He was killed
during the attack on June 4th, not far from the most forward point reached
by the Battalion. Tommy Mills and Donald both lived a few minutes, in
each case telling their men to go on and leave them."
His Colonel wrote: —
" One can and need add nothing to this, except a word as to his cheery
and attractive character, which made him beloved both by Officers and men
during the long period of training in Egypt. He was very keen and
capable and at the same time had an unfailing fund of fun and humour.
His Pierrot Company, which was an immense source of pleasure to the
whole Battalion, was characteristic of the combined humour and energy
that he put into everything. He was from the first keen to see service,
and whatever he did he put his heart into, and he carried that right out to
the end."
TOM RATHMAN MILLS
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CAPTAIN J. C. MORGAN
The Yorkshire Regiment
The Head Master's 89-^-94' Aged 38 August 7th, 1915
Only son of John Hammond Morgan (O.H.), C.V.O., F.R.C.S., of
3 Connaught Square, W.
Trinity College, Oxford. B.A. 1898, MA. 1903.
He was married and leaves a widow and one daughter.
Captain Morgan joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, the Yorkshire Regi-
ment in February, 1899, and in the following December was gazetted to
the 1st Battalion, He served with his Regiment in the South African War,
being present at various engagements and receiving the Queen's Medal and
five clasps, and the King's Medal and two clasps. He was promoted Captain
in 1906, and retired from the Army three years later.
On the outbreak of the War he rejoined and was gazetted to the 6th
Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, with the rank of Captain. He served
with them at Grantham and other places before leaving, in July, 19 15, for
Suvla Bay. He was killed while leading his Company to the capture of
Lala Baba, during the landing at Suvla Bay. He was buried on Lala Baba.
JOHN CECIL MORGAN
CAPTAIN G. H. MORRISON
London Rifle Brigade (T.F.)
Elmfield o3'-o8* Aged 26 March 31st, 191 5
Younger son of John Hebb Morrison, of 63 Hamilton Terrace, N.W.,
and of Mrs. Morrison,
Monitor 1907-8. Football XI 1907. Magdalen College, Oxford.
President of the Junior Common Room.
Captain Morrison, on coming down from Oxford, was appointed to a
Commission in the London Rifle Brigade, being promoted Lieutenant in
1 9 12, and Captain in 191 5. He went to the Front in October, 1914, and
was killed on March 31st, 191 5, near Ploegsteert ; he is buried in the
Rifle Brigade Cemetery, in the wood of Ploegsteert.
His Colonel, Lord Cairns, wrote : —
" He was most thorough in all his work and had his men well in hand,
but they idolized him and would have followed him anywhere. They greatly
appreciated, as we all did, his keen sense of fun. He was splendid at the
Front — never spared himself and shared every hardship and danger with
his men. He never asked them to do anything he did not do himself, and
he set them a fine example."
A brother-ofiicer wrote : —
" A finer, more manly, or straighter fellow never breathed ; his country
and his many friends are the poorer for his loss."
" Universally loved by all, a born leader of men."
" I knew him well at Magdalen ; he was one of the best men I ever
knew."
Mr. Cookson wrote from Magdalen : —
" I remember when they elected him President of the J. C. R. There
were several men in College more prominent and more distinguished in all
sorts of ways, but undergraduate opinion very seldom goes wrong in the
men they select for the really responsible posts, when they pick out the man
who is to represent the best side of them and by whom their generation is
to be remembered. . . . He showed qualities as President that are very rare,
and he raised the whole tradition of the post by the fact that he, a
Commoner, never allowed it to interfere with his work."
GERARD HUMPHREY MORRISON.
LIEUT.-COLONEL M. H. NUNN
Worcestershire Regiment
The Grove 79^-81' Aged 50 August loth, 191 5
Only son of William Henry Nunn, of Broadwater Down, Tunbridge
Wells, and of his wife Sophie Caroline, daughter of Major Richard Rollo
Houghton, late of the Buffs.
Lieut. -Colonel Nunn was gazetted to the Worcestershire Regiment from
the Middlesex Militia in 1886. He was employed with the Egyptian Army
in 1896-7, and served in the Nile Expedition in 1897, receiving the Egyptian
Medal with clasp. During the latter part of the South African War he was
in command of the Imperial Yeomanry in Natal during 1902, and held the
Queen's Medal with clasp. In 1906 he retired and joined the Reserve of
Officers, but he rejoined his old Regiment on the outbreak of the War and
was given command of the 9th (Service) Battalion of the Worcestershire
Regiment in January, 1915.
He went with his Regiment to the Dardanelles in June, 1915, and was
killed in action at Sari Bair on August loth, 1915. He was mentioned in
Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch of December, 1915, *for gallant and dis-
tinguished service in the field.'
A brother-officer wrote: —
" Only those who have served with him throughout will ever know what
he did for the Battalion."
MERVYN HENRY NUN]
CAPTAIN D. W. PAWLE
Border Regiment
Rendalls oi'-05" Aged */ April 29th, 191 5
Eldest son of Lewis S. Pawle, of Hutchin's Barn, Beaconsfield, and
of Mrs. Pawle.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Captain Pawle received his Commission in 1907, and joined his
Regiment in South Africa, at the end of that year. In 19 10 he was
seconded for service with the Northern Nigerian Regiment and was
serving with the 2nd Battalion, when war was declared. He was killed in
action on April 29th, 19 15, when in command of a small force at Fort
Gurin, N. Nigeria. He was buried in the Fort which he gallantly
defended against a greatly superior force of the enemy.
The Political Officer of the District wrote to his father : —
" Your son Derek and I were attacked in the little fort at dawn. We
had a British N.C.O. and some 40 native soldiers and police. The
enemy came on, some 300 soldiers, 16 Europeans and 4 maxims. We
had a good idea they were coming, and your son, who was O.C. Troops,
could have withdrawn his little force and retreated. No thought of the
kind suggested itself to him. He opened fire on the enemy at once, and
we had a heavy action from 5 a.m. till noon — the enemy using three
of his guns and making repeated attempts to get his infantry up to the
assault. Soon after midday he stopped firing and drew off altogether at
4.30 p.m. Your son was shot through the head very soon after the start
of the action. He dropped at once and did not suffer at all. When he
was killed, he was in the act of getting the men to fire at the right range,
going from loophole to loophole continually in the bravest possible manner."
Sir F. Lugard, in the official report, states " that this action reflects the
greatest credit on the Officers and men of the small British Force con-
cerned," while the Commandant of the Nigerian Regiment reports "that
the success was of great importance, having regard to the general situation."
DEREK WEATHERALL PAWLE
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LIEUT.-COLONEL J. R. PEASE
Royal Garrison Artillery
The Knoll 872-90' Aged 42 May 17th, 191 5
Eldest son of H. J. Robinson Pease, Banker, of Hesslewood, near
Hull.
Pembroke College, Cambridge. J. P. for the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Married, and leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter.
Lieut.-Colonel Pease had served for many years in the East York
Artillery Militia, of which he became Lieut.-Colonel. He was on the
Reserve of Officers and held the rank of Captain in the Army. On the
outbreak of the War he was put in command of the Fort at Gosport. He
died at the Grove House, Lymington, Hants, of pneumonia following
influenza.
JOSEPH ROBINSON PEASE
CAPTAIN R. M. PIKE
Royal Flying Corps
The Head Master's oo'-oi' Aged 28 August 9th, 19 15
Second and youngest son of Robert Lecky Pike, D.L., of Kilnock,
Tullow, Co. Carlow, and of Mrs. Pike.
Captain Pike entered the Royal Navy in 1903, but, owing to an accident,
which left him with a stiff knee for life, was invalided out three years later.
At the beginning of the War, in September, 19 14, he joined the Royal
Flying Corps, took his pilot's certificate after a month's training and
quickly became an expert airman. He remained in England until the end
of January, 1915, when he went to the Front. Three months later he was
promoted Flight-Commander and temporary Captain. He was killed on
August 9th, 1 91 5, flying a De Haviland Scout, fighting two ^German aero-
planes single-handed near Hooge. He defeated one of the enemy machines,
but whether he was shot down by the other or by shell-fire from below is
not known. He fell in the German lines and died almost immediately.
A German message was picked up in our lines saying that he had died
a gallant death and had been buried in a churchyard close by, with full
military honours.
ROBERT MAXWELL PIKE
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Lancashire Fusiliers
The Head Master's 04'-09' Aged 24 April 25th, 191 5
Eldest son of J. Francis Porter, M.D., J. P., H.M. Coroner for the
North Riding of Yorkshire, and of Edith S. Porter, of Helmsley, Yorkshire.
Magdalen College, Oxford. First Whip to the New College and
Magdalen Beagles. B.A. 191 2.
Lieutenant Porter was gazetted to the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
in 1 913, and joined his Regiment at Multan, India, in March of that year.
The Regiment returned to England in January, 191 5, and in March sailed
from Avonmouth for the Dardanelles. On April 25th, 1915, the ist Lanca-
shire Fusiliers landed on W. Beach, Lancashire Landing, and he was killed
while climbing the cliff to capture a machine gun.
Major Pearson, ist Lancashire Fusiliers, writes to his father : —
" Your poor boy, who was my Subaltern, was killed at the landing
whilst trying to capture a machine gun concealed in a cliff, up which he was
leading his men most gallantly. Death was instantaneous. He was buried
in our little private cemetery on Lancashire Landing."
Colonel Victor Gostling, 88th Field Ambulance, 29th Division, who
found him, writes : —
" At a critical moment in the one really successful part of a landing
which may yet change the world's history your son rallied his men and
charged for the machine gun, which was doing more than anything to stop
our men getting up the hill. Though the poor lad was instantly killed, his
men went on, put the gun ou( of action, stopped the enfilading fire and
enabled the rest to go forward — and all due to his initiative and splendid
dash and leading."
ALWYNE MORTON FRANCIS WORSLEY PORTER
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2ND LIEUTENANT G. P. N. REID
Essex Yeomanry
The Grove 02 '-05^ Aged 27 May 12th, 1915
Second son of Percy Reid (O.H.), of Peering Bury Manor House^
Kelvedon, Essex, and The Brewery, Hatfield, and of Mrs. Reid.
Football XI, 1905.
Director of Pryor and Co., Brewers, Hatfield.
2nd Lieutenant Reid went to France in November, 1914, with his
Regiment, which was brigaded with the loth Hussars and The Blues.
They went into action on May 12th, 19 15, and were ordered to take a
German trench at any cost : this they did. 2nd Lieutenant Reid was in
charge of the Machine-Gun Section, and during the charge the men carry-
ing the ammunition got separated from him. After reaching in safety the
trench from which the Germans had been driven, he returned a consider-
able distance across the open in search of the ammunition — but fruitlessly,
as all his men had been killed. Returning to the trench, he helped to
organize its defence and was using his revolver at close quarters against
the Germans who had re-formed and who were again charging, when he
was shot in the head. As the trench was re-taken by the Germans his body
was never recovered.
A brother-officer writes : —
" As for Geoffrey, it is impossible to say too much. He always was one
of the very best, and he went out to fight as an English gentleman should,,
and because he considered it his duty to go — we all loved him."
Another brother-officer writes : —
" Your son was one of the nicest fellows I ever met, so courteous and
cheery, it did me good to be in his company. His troop feel his loss
terribly — he organized everything so well, and was such a thorough
sportsman."
Another writes : —
" Geoffrey was a splendid boy. The Colonel, who is missing, probably
dead, considered him one of the ' best boys ' in the Regiment. The charge
was simply magnificent, and the Regiment came on as though they were on
parade — with hunting cries they dashed forward."
GEOFFREY PERCY NEVILE REID
LIEUTENANT H. N. L. RENTON
Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Ncwlands o 8^-14' Aged 20 July 30th, 191 5
Second son of James Henry Renton and Louise Sophia Renton, of
Woodcote, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire.
Monitor, 19 14. Cricket XI, 19 14. Captain of his House at Cricket
and Football.
Lieutenant Renton had matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, but
on the outbreak of the War he immediately joined the K.R.R.C., training
with the 9th Battalion at Aldershot and Petworth. He was promoted
Lieutenant in February, 19 15.
He went to France in May, 19 15, and, a fortnight after landing, was in
almost continuous service in the trenches. By his coolness and courage he
won his Colonel's warmest appreciation, and in July, 19 15, with less than
a year's service to his credit, was recommended for promotion to the rank
of Captain.
He was killed on July 30th, 19 15, by a bullet through the head, just as
he got over the parapet to lead the attack. Eight Officers of the Battalion,
including the Colonel, were killed, and eight wounded in this engagement,
which took place near Hooge, on the Ypres-Menin Road ; the Battalion
went into action with 21 officers and 900 men ; it came out with 3 officers
and 200 men unhurt.
His Major writes : —
" He was a real soldier through and through, absolutely fearless, pains-
taking, and trustworthy, and his men loved him. He was my right hand
in everything, and, however difficult the task set him, I could always be
absolutely sure that he would see it through all right."
His Captain, who was severely wounded on the same day, wrote : —
"All through the day Noel behaved with the greatest coolness, and
I do not know what we should have done without him, as there were only
three of us. He never paid the slightest attention to danger, and he was
tremendously pleased, when I ordered the charge. Not only his own
Platoon, but the whole Company were devoted to him and would have
followed him anywhere, as they did. ... He died as well as a man
could."
A Sergeant who was wounded at the same time says his death was
instantaneous, and that he lay quite peacefully, with a smile on his face.
HARRY NOEL LESLIE RENTON
LIEUTENANT W. B. R. RHODES-MOORHOUSE, V.C.
Royal Flying Corps
The Park oi'-os' Aged 27 April 27th, 191 5
Elder son of Edward Moorhouse, of Parnham House, Beaminster,
and of Mrs. Moorhouse.
In accordance with the will of his grandfather he assumed, by Royal
Licence, on January 21st, 19 13, the name of Rhodes, in addition to and
before that of Moorhouse.
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1908-10.
Married, in 19 12, Linda Beatrice, youngest daughter of the late Robert
Ambrose Morritt, of Rokeby, and leaves a son.
Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse had been engaged on monoplane experi-
ments, chiefly at Huntingdon, during 1 910 and 191 1, and has been described
as " one of the pioneers of aviation in England," and " the finest cross-
country flier of his time." He took his Pilot's certificate after flying over
1000 miles, in October, 1911, and made the first Channel flight with two
passengers, in August, 191 2. He gave up flying after his marriage, but, on
the outbreak of the War, received a Commission in the Royal Flying Corps.
He was at first placed in charge of the workshops at South Farnborough, and
then, in March, 19 15, joined No. 2 Squadron, No. i Wing, at the Front.
On Monday, April 26th, 191 5, during the second battle of Ypres, an
extremely urgent message came through from Head Quarters to Merville,
ordering the immediate destruction of the railway line at Courtrai, in order
to prevent the Germans bringing up reinforcements, to the extent of a
whole Army Corps. He was detailed for this task, his instructions being
" to use his own discretion as to the height at which he could drop his
bomb." He successfully accomplished this, but was twice severely wounded,
the second time mortally. He died in Hospital on the next day. Before
his death he received the following message from Sir John French : " But
for pressure of work the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief would have
visited Lieutenant Moorhouse himself, to express his admiration for his
courage, and the way in which he carried out his duties yesterday."
" For gallant and distinguished conduct in the field," he was mentioned
in Sir John French's despatch of May 31st, 19 15, and was subsequently
awarded the Victoria Cross.
Major T. I. Webb-Bowen, who commanded his Squadron, writes : —
"... His last act has now set a standard of courage and devotion to
duty, which others may hope to equal but never excel."
WILLIAM BARNARD RHODES RHODES-MOORHOUSE.
2ND LIEUTENANT F. RICARD
Royal fVarwickshire Regiment
The Head Master's 01^-06' Aged 27 April 25th, 19 15
Eldest son of Charles Ricard, of 97 Westbourne Terrace, W., and of
Mrs. Ricard.
Monitor, 1905; King's College, Cambridge, M. A., LL.B. ,1910. Barrister-
at-law, Inner Temple.
2nd Lieutenant Ricard was in America, studying law, when the War
broke out ; he immediately returned to England and was given a Commis-
sion in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He went to the Front in
January, 19 1 5, and was killed in action near St. Julien, in Belgium, on
April 25th, 1915.
FRANK RICARD
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2ND LIEUTENANT W. A. I. RICHARDSON
Royal West Kent Regiment
Kendalls 08^-12' Aged 20 August 3i6t, 1915
Third son of William Ridley Richardson (O.H.), M.A., of Ravensfell,
Bromley, Kent, and of Elizabeth Harriott his wife, only daughter of John
Newman Tweedy, of Bromley, Kent.
On the staff of Messrs. Price, Forbes & Co., Ltd., of Lothbury and
Lloyds.
2nd Lieutenant Richardson enlisted as a Rifleman in the Queen's
Westminsters (i6th London Regiment) in August, 1914, and served with
them for more than nine months. He left with his Regiment for France on
November ist, 19 14, and was wounded in the left ear in the following
month. In May, 191 5, he was discharged from the Territorial Force and
was given a Commission in the ist Royal West Kent Regiment.
He was mortally wounded on July i6th, 1915, under the following
circumstances : —
The trenches were being heavily shelled, one shell bringing down a
ruined brick wall, which buried one of his men, and, whilst helping to dig
him out, he was hit by shrapnel and knocked back into the trench. The
man whose life he had saved came to his assistance at once and was able to
bind up his wounds. He was immediately taken to the Clearing Hospital,
and thence to the Base Hospital at Boulogne, where his wound proved so
serious that it resulted in the loss of his leg. Septic poisoning, however, set
in, and he died on August 31st, 191 5. His body was brought back to
England and buried at Bromley Hill Cemetery with full military honours
on September 4th.
His Captain writes to his father : —
" I must tell you how sorry I was to see in the paper that your son had
died of his wounds. I had a cheery letter from him after the amputation
and hoped all was going well with him. For his service, he was a long way
the best subaltern I ever had, exceedingly keen and capable, and his Platoon
was the best in the Company."
WILLIAM ARTHUR INGHAM RICHARDSON
CAPTAIN J. M. RONALD
East Kent Regiment
The Knoll 90^-94' Aged 38 April 23rd, 191 5
Sixth son of Robert Bruce Ronald and of Fanny Ronald, of Pembury
Grange, Tunbridge Wells.
Monitor, 1894. Football XI, 1893-4.
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1895.
Married, in 1903, Evelyn Crosthwait, and leaves a daughter.
Captain Ronald received his Commission in the Buffs in 1906 ; he got
his Company in 1900, and was Adjutant from 1904 to 1907. He served
with the 2nd Battalion in the South African War, and took part in the
relief of Kimberley and the battles of Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, and
Dreifontein, being twice slightly wounded. He received the Queen's
Medal with four clasps, and the King's Medal with two clasps.
He retired from the Army in 19 12, but resumed service as a Railway
Transport Officer on August 6th, 19 14, and rejoined his Regiment the
following March. He was shot through the head and instantaneously
killed on April 23rd, 1915, about a mile from Wieltje Farm.
JAMES MACBAIN RONALD
LIEUT.-COLONEL P. C. L. ROUTLEDGE
South Staffordshire Regiment
Drurie8 88'-9i' Aged 41 May 17th, 1915
Fourth son of the late Edmund Routledge, J. P., Publisher, and of
"Mrs. Routledge, of Coombe Lodge, Wimbledon.
Colonel Routledge was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion, South Stafford-
shire Regiment, in 1895. He served with his Regiment in India and after
the South African War was stationed at Pretoria. He returned with the
Battalion to England in 191 1.
He went to France with the original Expeditionary Force in August,
1 91 4, and was through the Retreat from Mons and present at the actions of
Landrecies, Le Cateau, and Givenchy. On February i8th, 191 5, he had the
brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel bestowed upon him for distinguished service
in the field and was mentioned in Sir John French's despatches. He was
killed while leading his Regiment in an attack on the German trenches on
May 17th, 191 5 ; he had cleared two trenches and was leading his men into
a third, when he was hit in the temple and fell instantly.
Brigadier-General Fanshaw wrote : —
" He and his Regiment did grandly. I feel that besides losing one who
has played such a leading part in the 6th Brigade in the Ypres fighting, at
Givenchy, and here, I have lost a very valued friend."
Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson, CO. 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment,
wrote : —
" Beloved by all who met him, the life and spirit of the Regiment and
the most gallant Officer."
PHILIP CHARLES LYTTON ROUTLEDGE
LIEUTENANT THE REV. F. E. B. HULTON SAMS
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
RcndalU 96'-99' Aged 33 July 31st, 191 5
Eldest son of the Rev. George Frederick Sams, Rector of Emberton
and Rural Dean, and of Sarah Beatrix Sams, nee Hulton.
Trinity College, Cambridge. Won the University Feather-weight
Boxing Cup in 1901, 1902, 1904, and represented Cambridge against
Oxford in those years, winning each time. He was ordained in September,
1905, to the curacy of St. Paul's, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, and in 1908
joined the Bush Brotherhood, Queensland, where he worked till 19 14,
his skill in boxing earning him the sobriquet of " the Fighting Parson."
On the outbreak of the War Lieutenant Hulton Sams applied for a
Military Chaplaincy, but, failing to obtain one, enlisted in the 3rd Bedford-
shire Regiment, in which he rose to the rank of Lance-Corporal. In
November, 19 14, he received a Commission in the Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry.
He was killed at Hooge on July 31st, 1915, while crawling from
cover to fetch water for his wounded men.
His Adjutant writes : —
" He died a glorious death, commanding a Company in an important
position, and sticking to it, where others might have failed. . . . All the
afternoon and all night they never flinched, though the enemy attacked
again and again with bombs and liquid fire. Next morning at 10 a.m.
I crawled out and talked to him. He was magnificent and very cheerful,
and his last words to me were, 'Well, this is a bit thick, but we'll see it
through, never fear.' . . . After that he crawled out of cover to see if he
could get water for the men, many of whom were wounded and very
thirst)'. He was hit by a piece of shell in the thigh and side and never
recovered consciousness. He was a fine Officer, a fine friend, and worshipped
by his men, and he died doing a thing which makes us proud to have
known him."
It was said of him when he left Australia : " He touched men that
other Brothers failed to reach and brought the message of the Gospel to
those who in the past have stood aloof: he was a man among men, and his
heart was right there."
FREDERICK EDWARD BARWICK HULTON SAMS
LIEUTENANT J. H. SEAVERNS
London Regiment (T.F.)
The Park o/'-li' Aged 23 May loth, 191 5
Only child of Joel Herbert Seaverns, formerly M.P. for the Brixton
Division of Lambeth, of 25 Grosvenor Road, S.W., and of Helen Gertrude
Seaverns.
Christ Church, Oxford, 1911-14.
On leaving Harrow Lieutenant Seaverns was gazetted to the ist City of
London (Royal Fusiliers). He was a keen Territorial Officer and had
taken much interest in his military duties. He joined his Regiment on the
outbreak of the War and served with it in Malta from September, 1 9 14, to
February, 1915, and afterwards in France. In the action of May 9th, 19 15,
opposite Aubers Ridge, he commanded the forward Platoon of the right
wing of his Battalion, and fell mortally wounded, dying on the next day.
Lieutenant R. G. B. Bowen, also of The Park, his old friend at Harrow and
Oxford, and an Officer in his Battalion, was killed in the same engagement.
Lieut. -Colonel E. G. Mercer, C.M.G., ist City of London (Royal
Fusiliers), writes : —
" He was a keen Officer and loved by the men of his Platoon, and their
advance into a storm of shot and shell, after he had fallen at their head,
was the finest testimony that could be paid him."
An Officer who formerly served under him in the ranks writes : —
" 1 shall always remember him as a gentleman and a thorough soldier
and Officer. On many occasions he went entirely out of his way to see to
the comfort of his men — always so full of spirit, and so keen for the welfare
of those under him : he was justly admired by all ranks, and the men would
go anywhere for him."
Captain Glover, his Company Commander, afterwards killed in action in
France, wrote : —
"Joel Seaverns was magnificent that day."
JOEL HARRISON SEAVERNS
CAPTAIN E. H. Le M. SINKINSON
z^th Punjabis
The Park 96'-99' Aged 33 July 14th, 19 15
Eldest surviving son of the late James Sinkinson, sometime Financial
Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, and of his wife, Irene
Sinkinson, now Mrs. Victor Fisher, and grandson of Colonel C. B. Le
Mesurier, C.B., D.S.O., and of Contessa Zancarol. Godson of the late
Lord Roberts.
Captain Sinkinson joined the Militia in 1901, and volunteered for
active service in South Africa. He was gazetted to the Liverpool Regi-
ment in 1902. During operations in the Transvaal he was severely injured
in the leg and was unable to rejoin his Regiment until 1904 : he received
the Queen's Medal and three clasps. He then transferred to the Indian
Army, and was gazetted Captain in 191 1. While in India, during 1 9 14, he
was Recruiting Officer for the Sikhs and Dogras. His great ambition,
however, was to see really active service, and this was gratified, when, in
191 5, he was sent to Mesopotamia and succeeded in getting into the firing
line, "where every keen soldier must desire to be," as he wrote home.
After the action of July 14th, 1915, he was reported * missing,' but two
months later a telegram was received saying, "Captain Sinkinson's dead
body has been found and buried where he fell by the Regiment."
The following Royal message was received by 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 sympathise with you in your sorrow,"
Major Cook- Young, of the Indian Expeditionary Force D, wrote : —
"The Regiment as usual did magnificently, but were attacked by Arabs
behind — the Turkish position in front . . . the operation was mostly in
deep water, up to the waist and higher. Captain Sinkinson was not at first
wounded, and, it appears, tried to rally the men. What is so sad is that
he could have got out of it, but refused, and sent two men back for
ammunition. These two Sepoys were grand men and tried forcibly to
carry Captain Sinkinson out of action — he would not permit it. . . . On
returning to the place where they had left him he was not there. The
obvious thing was that he had been killed, and his body lost in deep water.
His loss to me is irreparable. I never had any affection for any individual
in this world as I had for him, and I only wish 1 had been there to save him
or to die with him."
EVELYN HENRY LE MESURIER SINKINSON
CAPTAIN G. C. STEWART
10//2 Royal Husfars
The Grove 03'-05' Aged 27 May 13th, 1915
Elder son of Charles John Stewart (O.H.), Public Trustee, and of
Lady Mary Stewart, eldest daughter of Hector, 3rd Earl of Norbury.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Captain Stewart was gazetted to the loth Royal Hussars in 1907 and
attached to the i8th Hussars at York for that summer. He joined the
lOth Hussars at Rawal Pindi in the autumn of 1907, and was appointed
Adjutant in 1912. He took part with his Regiment in quelling riots at
Johannesburg in 1913. On the outbreak of the War he went to the Front
with the 7th Division in October, 1914, and was twice wounded at the
first Battle of Ypres. He was killed on May 13th, 19 15, at the second
Batde of Ypres.
A brother-officer wrote : —
" He died a very splendid soldier's death, leading his men in one of
the most glorious counter-attacks ever made in the history of the British
Army. It was such a fine performance that all the English troops wha
saw it cheered the survivors to the echo. He was a magnificent soldier
and universally beloved by everyone in the Regiment. The recovery of
his body is largely due to a piece of fine gallantry in going out for it on
the part of Borthwick. The Regiment are in a magnificent state at the
present moment, owing to Gerald's hard work in the past."
Another Officer wrote : —
"Just a line to tell you we buried poor old Jorrocks with his Colonel
last night in two graves side by side. Clem Mitford's grave is just ahead
of them, so all those dear good chaps are together. The whole Regiment
went to the funeral, and Generals Byng, Kavanagh and Bulkeley Johnston,
besides all the old loth that could go. A bombardment was taking place
at the time — it was most impressive and very sad — but it was worthy of
the two men, for they were both more than ordinary heroes, and their last
performance was magnificent, quite up to Balaclava."
GERALD CHARLES STEWART
2ND LIEUTENANT J. M. STEWART
Irish Guards
Elmfieldo9'-ii' Aged 19 April ist, 191 5
Younger son of Charles John Stewart (O.H.), Public Trustee, and Lady-
Mary Stewart, eldest daughter of Hector, 3rd Earl of Norbury.
2nd Lieutenant Stewart joined the Irish Guards on the outbreak of
the War and went to the Front on Christmas Eve, 1914. He acted as
Battalion Transport Officer and had passed a bombing course. He was
killed in the trenches at daybreak on April ist, 1915, at Givenchy.
His Colonel writes : —
" He was a splendid boy, and we all liked him so much in the Irish
Guards, and he behaved so gallantly out at the Front."
His Adjutant writes to his father: —
"As Adjutant of this Battalion I can quite honestly tell you that your son
was a most keen and efficient soldier, and never once during the whole time
he was out here has he been heard to grumble. In addition to this he had
made himself most popular, not only with his brother-officers, but also with
the men of his Company ; so not only has the Regiment lost a promising
Officer, but a real friend. We had only a few days before put in a special
recommendation that he should become a regular Officer of the Regiment."
From his Commanding Officer at Warley : —
" We were all so fond of him while he was here, and so they were in the
1st Battalion in France — officers and men too. I hear that the Company-
Sergeant-Major quite broke down when he was killed, and, as you may
guess, they have all been through so much that there is not much room left
for any emotion."
Another Officer writes : —
" The Officers of the Battalion asked me to say how terribly they felt his
loss, tor he was a real good fellow and very popular. He was one of the
best Officers we had, and one of the bravest ; he seemed to know no fear."
Another Officer writes : —
"... He was truly Irish, and at about the last place he was in there
was an inscription put up over his dug-out, ' Paddy's Hut.* It must have
been put there by one of his men, but nobody could complain."
This is the second gallant son the Public Trustee has lost in the War.
JOHN MAURICE STEWART
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LIEUTENANT THE HON. K. A. STEWART
Royal Highlanders
Church Hill o7'-i3» Aged 20 May 9th, 191 5
Younger son of Randolph, nth Earl of Galloway (O.H.), and of the
Countess of Galloway.
Monitor, 1911. Head of the School, 191 2-13. Football XI, 19 10-11-12
(Captain, 191 2). School Fives Player, 191 3. School Fencing Prize,
191 i-i 2-13. Won Public Schools Fencing Competition, 191 1, 2nd in
1 913, and the Army Cup for Fencing at Olympia, 1914. Won the Mac-
namara Prize for an English Essay, 1911-12-13. Passed 2nd into the
R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1913, and 5th out in 1914.
Lieutenant Stewart was gazetted to the Black Watch in August, 1914,
and went to the Front in the following December. He served with the
2nd Battalion at the Battles of Givenchy, Neuve Chapelle, and Festu-
bert. He fell on May 9th, 191 5, leading his men in the charge from
Bois du Biez towards the Aubers Ridge.
Of the many letters received the following is perhaps the most
characteristic : —
"Dear Tammy, " ist October^ 1915-
"Just a note to let you know that I am alive and kicking. Things
are much the same as when you left here. We have had one good kick up
since you were wounded, that was on the 9th of May. We lost little
Lieutenant Stewart, the best man that ever toed the line. You know what
like he was ; the arguments you and him used to have about politics. He
always said you should have been Prime Minister. None of the rest of
them ever mixed themselves with us the same as he done ; he was a credit
to the Regiment and to the father and mother that reared him ; and, Tammy,
the boys that are left of the Platoon hope that you will write to his father
and mother and let them know how his men loved him, you can do it better
than any of us. I enclose you a cutting out of a paper about his death.
He died at the head of his Platoon, like the tofF he was, and. Tammy, 1
never was very religious, but 1 think little Stewart is in heaven. We knew
it was a forlorn hope before we were half-way, but he never flinched. Well,
Tammy, see and write to Stewart's father and let him know how his men.
liked him, it will perhaps soften the blow. No more at present, but I re-
main your ever loving chum and well wisher.
" Good night and God bless you. « Sandy."
THE HON. KEITH ANTHONY STEWART
CAPTAIN J. A. TENNANT
Bedfordshire Regiment
RcndalU 03'-o7' Aged 26 August 22nd, 191 5
Second son of John Tennant and of Margaret Croom Tennant, of 19
The Boltons, S.W.
London University, B.Sc, A.C.G.I., 191 1. In 1912 appointed to the
Egyptian Irrigation Service, and was stationed at Tantah on the Delta, and
afterwards at Luxor.
On the outbreak of the War Captain Tennant returned to England and
was given a Commission in the Bedfordshire Regiment. He was rapidly
promoted because of his previous experience in the Machine-Gun Section
of the London Scottish, and was gazetted Captain in February, 191 5. In
May, 1 91 5, he was sent with a draft of the ist Border Regiment to
Gallipoli and took part in the heavy fighting at the close of June. He was
mortally wounded while leading his Company in the final assault at Suvla
Bay, on August 2ist, 191 5. He died next day on board the Hospital Ship
Rewa and was buried at sea.
Captain Tennant made certain improvements in the periscope rifle sup-
plied to the troops, and his able drawings in explaining this improvement
caused him to be selected to sketch the Turkish positions from on board a
Destroyer, and later on from a Cruiser.
His Colonel writes : —
" Tennant was a first-class Officer, and, though he had been with us only
a short time, 1 always felt I could place the utmost reliance on him to carry
out any task, however difficult and dangerous. His ingenuity in the
trenches at Helles was unbounded, and he invented many little improve-
ments for periscope rifles and trench periscopes, which added largely to
their utility. His panorama sketches were also first-class, and altogether
he was a most valuable Officer, keen as mustard and a thoroughly good
fellow."
imtflmmaiiij^^
JOHN AMHERST TENNANT
CAPTAIN A. J. N. THOMAS
Lancashire Fusiliers
Elmfield 99^-02' Aged 29 April 25th, 191 5
Elder son of Jocelyn H. W. Thomas (O.H.), J. P., formerly Captain
Scots Fusilier Guards, of Belmont, Carlow, Ireland.
R.M.C., Sandhurst.
Captain Thomas received his Commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers in
1905, and was promoted Captain in January, 191 5. He went to the Front
in February, 1915, and was killed at Lancashire Landing, in Gallipoli, on
April 25th, 1915.
AUBREY JOCELYN NUGENT THOMAS
PRIVATE T. L. G. TURNBULL
Honourable Artillery Company
Moretons 06'- 1 1 ' Aged 22 April 1 5 th, 1 9 1 5
Fourth and youngest son of the late Reginald March Turnbull, Ship-
owner, and of Frances Clitheroe Turnbull.
Monitor, 1910. Cricket XI, 1909-10-I1 (Captain, 1911). Foot-
ball XI, 1 9 10. School Racquet Player, 191 1.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Private Turnbull joined the H.A.C. a few days after war was declared,
and went to France in December, 1914. He was mortally wounded when
moving up from the support to the firing trench, near St. Eloi, on the
night of the 14th April, 1915. In crossing a stream by a plank he was hit
close to the heart by a bullet which had wounded the man in front of him
in the arm. He was carried to the nearest hospital and died in a very few
hours. He is buried at Dickebusch.
An Officer in the H.A.C. wrote to his brother: —
" It is with the utmost possible regret that I write to tell you of the
death of your brother, . . . Please accept the sincerest sympathy of the
Captain and all Officers, N.C.O.'s and men of B Company, who feel they
have lost a very gallant comrade."
A Private in B Company wrote : —
" 1 am afraid that I cannot express my feelings adequately in words, as
poor Tommy was my very best friend out here, and his loss is absolutely
irreparable ... he was always so cheery and was the life and soul of the
Section. . . . When we came down two days later I saw the R.A.M.C.
orderly who was with him in hospital, and he was full of admiration for the
great pluck he showed."
Another of the Officers wrote : —
" I have seen a great deal of him, and I can honestly say I have never
met a better sportsman in the very best sense of the word. As you may
imagine, conditions out here have, on occasion, been very trying indeed,
but he was invariably cheerful and did his job in the most soldierly way —
in short, he was a white man,"
THOMAS LANCELOT GAWAIN TURNBULL
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CAPTAIN R. T. VACHELL
Northumberland Fusiliers
The Head Master's o5'-o8' Aged 25 September ist, 19 15
Only son of Horace Annesley Vachell (O.H.), Novelist and Dramatist,
of Beechwood House, Hartley, Southampton, and of Mrs. Vachell, nee
Phillips, of San Luis Obispo, California.
Football XI, 1907. Rugby XV, 1906-7.
He had considerable literary gifts, especially for the Short Story and
the Drama, and contributed several articles to the St. George's Gazette. At
one time he intended to go on the stage, but, on leaving Harrow, finally
made up his mind to adopt the Army as a profession and went to Sand-
hurst.
Captain Vachell was gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1910,
and joined the ist Battalion, at Gharial in the Murree Hills, the same year.
Except for a short period in 191 2, when he acted as A.D.C. to Lord
Sydenham, the then Governor of Bombay, he served continuously with
the 1st Battalion till the outbreak of the War. He left for France with
Jhis Regiment in August, 1914. He was all through the Retreat from
Mons, but was wounded on October 20th, 1914, and invalided home.
For his services at that time he was mentioned in Despatches. He was
then seconded for service with the Flying Corps as Observation Officer,
and took many remarkable photographs of the enemy's lines. Later he
qualified as a Pilot and again went to France in July, 191 5. On the
31st of August, as he was returning from a reconnaissance, he broke his
propeller on landing ; by some mischance the machine caught fire, and he
and his Observer fell to earth from a height of about ten feet. They both
extricated themselves without difficulty, but Vachell was badly burnt, and
died next day from shock.
From the St. George's Gazette: —
'*A11 who knew Dick Vachell will realize the loss the Regiment has
suffered by his death. A sportsman through and through, keen as mustard,
and the cheeriest of comrades, he made friends wherever he went. His
peculiar power of making friends was never more apparent than among the
French and Belgian Officers, with whom he mixed freely, when he was with
the Flying Corps in Belgium."
RICHARD TANFIELD VACHELL
CAPTAIN G. N. WALFORD, V.C.
Royal Artillery
The Grove 95^-00^ Aged 32 April 26th, 1915
Only son of Colonel Neville Lloyd Walford (O.H.), Royal Artillery.
Entrance Scholar : Monitor, 1900. Sayer Scholar, 1900.
Balliol College, Oxford.
Married, in 1907, Betty, younger daughter of Colonel the Hon. J. S.
Trefusis, and leaves two daughters.
Captain Walford entered the Royal Artillery as a University Candidate,
heading the list, in December, 1902 ; he became Captain in 19 14, and
Brigade-Major in January, 19 15. When war broke out he was at the
Staff College and went out to France in the middle of August, being
present at the Battle of the Aisne, and all the major engagements until
January, 1915, when he was at Ypres, serving with two batteries and holding
temporary Staff appointments. He then returned to England and sailed
for the Dardanelles, as Brigade-Major, R.A., 29th Division. He was
killed on April 26th, 1915, while helping to lead the attack on the village
and fort of Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli.
The General, commanding the 29th Division in the Dardanelles, wrote
on April 27th, 1915 : —
" Alas, that I should have to write it, Captain Walford has been killed.
He died gallantly, very, very gallantly, leading with Colonel Doughty
W^yllie the attack on V Beach. We landed some men on that beach on
the 25th . . . but further progress was impossible on that day. On the
26th Doughty Wyllie, with Walford assisting him, organized an advance,
and, working through the village of Sedd-el-Bahr, . . . they finally
managed to drive oft the Turks and clear the beach of the enemy's fire
that had rendered further landing impossible.
"In this glorious deed both Doughty Wyllie, Walford and many
others lost their lives, but their gallantry saved the situation and has
written their names on the pages of history. They achieved the impossible.
They showed themselves Englishmen of the grand old mould. 1 esteem
it an honour and a privilege to have known such gallant men.
" I am trying to get them both a suitable posthumous reward, and hope
I may succeed. No honour could be too high for them."
The honour they obtained was the V.C.
GARTH NEVILLE WALFORD
CAPTAIN G. L. WATSON
East Surrey Regiment
Small Houses 94^-98" Aged 35 April 21st, 191 5
Only son of Christopher Stowell Watson, Clerk in Holy Orders, and
Eliza Mary Watson.
2nd Prize Heavy-weight Boxing, Public School Competition, 1898.
St. John's College, Oxford.
Captain Watson was originally gazetted to the 3rd East Surrey
Regiment, and served in the South African War. He then resigned his
Commission and bought a ranch in British Columbia. On the outbreak of
war he returned from Canada and received another Commission in his old
Regiment, as Lieutenant, being promoted Captain in April, 191 5. He
went to the Front in November, 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60,
on April 21st, 1915.
A brother-officer, writing to his sister, says : —
" It may be a little consolation to you to know he died the finest death
a man can die, fighting for his country, honour, and liberty. He was killed
in a glorious action where the deeds of the Regiment will never be
forgotten, which mere words cannot describe. He was hit by a shell and
death was instantaneous. His services will be greatly missed in the
Regiment, and we all sympathise very deeply with you in your great loss.
Your brother had been with us a long time, and all Officers and men
loved him."
GEOFFREY LAUNCELOT WATSON
2ND LIEUTENANT J. B. WEBB
North Staffordshire Regiment
Church Hill 083-13' Aged 20 April 21st, 191 5
Only child of Captain Charles Boyer Webb and Adela Dorothy Webb,
of Elford House, Tamworth, Staffordshire. Both his father, Captain C. B.
Webb, and his grandfather. Colonel C. J. Webb, served in the 4th Battalion,.
North Staffordshire Regiment, his grandfather commanding it.
Entrance Scholar : Fifth Form Scholar, 191 1. Shooting VIII, 1913.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
2nd Lieutenant Webb received his Commission in August, 19 14, and
went to the Front in March, 19 1 5, where he was attached to the ist
Bedfordshire Regiment. He was killed on the night of 20th— 21st April,
191 5, at Hill 60, near Ypres. His last words were, "This is going to be
a glorious death."
Major Allason, of the Bedfordshire Regiment, writes, quoting a letter
from Captain Green who was in command of C Company at the time : —
" It would appear that your son anticipated the end and gloried in
the fight. He must have been on the extreme left, as it was there that the
pressure was greatest during the early part of the night. Whether the
actual trench in which he fell was regained later I cannot say : the whole
front was only 120 yards, and the fighting swayed to and fro over about
20 or 30 yards. Many of the trenches were obliterated by shell fire.
Our men were heroic ; they were determined not to give way, and I
can well understand your son's enthusiasm. It will be recorded in history
as one of the finest fights of the War. In C Company there were iii
casualties out of 160 men, and 3 officers out of 4 were killed."
In another letter he writes : —
"An Officer in the Norfolks who saw the fight from some neighbouring
trenches described it to me later as the finest fight in the War . . . the
conduct of all ranks was simply heroic. Your son had a peculiarly happy
disposition, and, I think, thoroughly enjoyed life to the very end. He is a
great loss."
JOHN BOYER WEBB
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CAPTAIN C A. WERNER
Rifle Brigade
Harrow Master, 1 901-15 Aged 38 May 9th, 1915
Second son of Israel Paul Werner, Merchant, of The Gerards, Harrow-
on-the-Hill, and of the late Julie Werner.
Educated at Dulwich College, and King's College, Cambridge, Scholar,
1st Class Classical Tripos, Part I. Cambridge University Swimming
Team, 1 897-1 900, President Cambridge University Swimming Club, 1900.
Assistant Master, Harrow School, 1901. House Master in the Head
Master's from 1907 to 1913.
Captain Werner was gazetted to the 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, in
October, 1914. He went to the Front in March, 1915, and was then
attached to the 2nd Battalion. He was reported ' missing ' after the
attack on the Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, on May 9th, 1915, and his death
has now been presumed on that date.
Lieut.-Colonel R. S. Stephens, commanding 2nd Battalion, Rifle
Brigade, wrote: —
" It is with the greatest regret that I write to tell you that Captain
Werner is missing. He has been with my Battalion for the last two
months and has been of the greatest help to me. He was a most capable
Oflicer, and 1 have seldom seen his equal for untiring keenness. He was
commanding a Company in the Battalion and was quite as good at it as any
regular Officer.
" His was one of the two leading Companies of the Battalion in the
attack we made on May 9th. Our men got into the German trench, and,
in accordance with orders, pushed on to a road about 300 yards beyond
it. Unfortunately the troops on our right and left failed to get in, and
our leading Companies were taken in flank and rear by machine-guns, from
the untaken part of the German trenches.
" Captain Werner was last seen leading a party of men against some of
the enemy who had established themselves on the right flank of his Com-
pany. I am afraid it is no good holding out great hopes of his being alive.
Our men on the road were shot to bits, and very few of them got back.
We managed to hold the captured trench for twenty-four hours ; but
during that time the road in front of it was heavily shelled by both sides.
"I have put his name forward to be mentioned in Despatches, and,
I hope, rewarded ; but I am afraid we have lost a very gallant Officer."
CHARLES AUGUSTUS WERNER
2ND LIEUTENANT L. C. WILSON
Norfolk Regiment
Moretone 093-143 Aged 19 August 12th, 1915
Eldest son of Cecil and Annie M. Wilson, of High House, Thorpe,,
Norwich.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
2nd Lieutenant Wilson received his Commission in December, 1914, in
the 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, and after nearly six months' training
at Felixstowe went to the Front in June, 191 5. He was severely wounded
at Hill 60, on July 7th, and died in Hospital at 17 Park Lane, W., on
August 1 2th, 1 91 5. He is buried at Thorpe.
A brother-officer wrote : —
" He was a gentleman in the gentlest sense of that fine word, a true
sportsman, a dear pal. He has given all he had to what he cherished more
than life itself. His memory remains to encourage those of us who knew
him in the great task, and to sweeten our lives, if better fortune should
await us."
The Senior Captain of his Company writes : —
" He was keen, a hard worker and quite regardless of danger — ^just the
man one likes to have in one's Company."
His dying wish was that he might have a little tablet put up to him at
Harrow, " where some of my best days were spent."
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LAURENCE CECIL WILSON
LIEUTENANT R. B. WINCH
Royal East Kent Yeomanry
Druries o9'-i2= Aged 20 April 1 8th, 1915
Only child of LieuL-Colonel George Bluett Winch and of Mrs. Bluett
Winch, of Boughton Place, near Maidstone.
After leaving Harrow he spent six months in France, and six months
travelling round the world. He had matriculated at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, but did not go into residence owing to the outbreak of the War.
Lieutenant Winch joined the Royal East Kent Yeomanry and was
training with his Regiment in England. He was accidentally shot by a
sentry, whilst on duty, when returning in a motor-car from a recruiting
concert on April i6th, 19 15. He died at the Hospital at Ramsgate two
days later.
RONALD BLUETT WINCH
2ND LIEUTENANT F. T. SEPPINGS WRIGHT
113/-^ Infantry {Indian Army)
Home Boarders 99^-0 1' Aged 30 July zist, 1915
Elder son of the late H. C. Seppings Wright, War Correspondent and
Artist, and of Mrs. Seppings Wright.
Royal School of Mines, Cornwall, and afterwards in the Public Works
Department in India.
2nd Lieutenant Seppings Wright, who was in India when the War
broke out, volunteered for service in November, 19 14, and was given a
Commission in the 113th Infantry (Indian Army). In April, 1915, he
brought over 70 men to fill the gaps in the 6th Jat Light Infantry, to
which he was then attached. He was accidentally killed in France on
July 2lst, 1915, by the explosion of a bomb.
Captain R. S. Baker wrote to his mother on the day of his death: —
" In the name of the Regiment I write to send you our deepest sympathy
in the loss of your son. On the 19th July he was superintending the
bombing practice of his Company, and, while he was demonstrating how to
throw a bomb, it burst in his hand. He lingered through the 19th and
20th, and died to-day in Merville Hospital, having never recovered con-
sciousness. The accident was due to some defect in the bomb. . . . We
all feel his loss terribly. He was the life and soul of the Mess, and I in
no way exaggerate when I say the men loved him."
A Major in the 113th Infantry wrote: —
" In the two and a half months he was with us he proved himself a
brave and competent Officer. He was most popular with his brother-officers
and with all Indian ranks, and his unflagging optimism and good spirits
were of the utmost value. I am sure that a comrade has never been more
deeply mourned."
FRANK THOMAS SEPPINGS WRIGHT
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TROOPER C. J. O. WRIGLEY
King Edward's Horse
Moretons 07'-ii' Aged 21 May 26th, 1915
Eldest son of Oswald Osmond Wrigley (O.H.), Barrister-at-Law, of
Shackleford House, Godalming, and of Emma Wrigley.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Trooper Wrigley joined the 2nd King Edward's Horse soon after the
outbreak of the War and went out to France on May 2nd, 191 5. About
three weeks later he was shot in the head and killed instantaneously, while
standing by his Machine Gun, near Festubert.
The Officer Commanding Gun Section, 2nd King Edward's Horse,
writes : —
" He had proved himself a brave and fearless soldier, and his loss will
be deeply felt, both by myself and his fellow-comrades."
CHRISTOPHER JAMES OSWALD WRIGLEY
CAPTAIN H. T. W. WYLLIE
Afth Dragoon Guards
Moretons 88*-90* Aged 41 May 24th, 1915
Second son of Colin Campbell and Mary Wyllie, of 10 Launceston
Place, Kensington, W.
Captain Wyllie joined the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in 1896,
being promoted Captain in 1905. He saw service on the North- West
Frontier with the Tirah Expeditionary Force in 1897-8, receiving the Tirah
Medal with two clasps, and the Punjab Frontier Medal. During the years
1 909-1 1 he was attached to the Northern Nigerian Rifles, and was himself
the only white Officer in charge of a detachment of African soldiers on the
borders of Lake Chad for a considerable time. He retired in 191 2, and
was placed on the list of Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of the War
he was gazetted for service with his old Regiment and went to the Front
towards the end of 19 14. Coming home on leave in May, 191 5, he
returned to France on May 23rd, and was reported * missing' on May 24th.
He is now believed to have been killed by a shell on the morning of
May 24th, on the Ypres-Menin road.
HUGH TWEED WALFORD WYLLIE
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CAPTAIN P. C. WYNTER
East Surrey Regiment
Druries 94'-96 Aged 35 April 20th, 1915
Eldest son of the late Captain Philip H. M. Wynter (O.H.), King's
Foreign Service Messenger, of the Hays, Charlbury, Oxon, and of the
late Mrs. Wynter.
Captain Wynter joined the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, from
the Militia in December, 1901, and spent a year with his Regiment in India.
He was promoted Lieutenant in November, 1903, and got his Company in
January, 1910.
He was a good cricketer and an excellent horseman.
He went to the Front in November, 1914, and served all through the
winter of 1914-15. Shortly before his death he was invalided home for a
fortnight. On April 20th, 1915, he was reported * wounded and missing,
believed killed,' after the fight at Hill 60, and nothing having been heard
of him since, his death has been presumed on that date.
PHILIP CECIL WYNTER
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