The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : $b A biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war
By Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, marquis de
Classic work by Ruvigny et Raineval, Melville Henry Massue, marquis de.
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With some 2,500 portraits. LONDON: THE STANDARD ART BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, 30–32, LUDGATE HILL. ...
trenches. Could hear the band of the Germans playing. 5 Oct. went out sniping, got shelled, and brought in a wounded comrade from a wood to the trenches, a distance of 200 yards. A...
March and entrench themselves on the far side of it. Two days later he was shot through the head while directing the fire of a machine gun in beating off a violent counter-attack, ...
in the Transvaal (July-Nov. 1900), including actions at Venterskroom and Rhenoster River. Twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 9 July and 10 Sept. 1901], he received the ...
Sergt.-Major, 8 May, 1915, and Lieut., on 29 May, and was transferred to the Ruakine Coy. on 2 June, 1915. He was killed in action at Courtney’s Post, Gallipoli, 3 June, 1915, and ...
Christian Society of the same church. He belonged to the Y.M.C.A., in the work of which association he took an active part. [Illustration: =Henry N. Chandler.=] =CHANDLER, JOHN...
second Battles at Ypres, and was killed in action during the latter, near Hooge, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Henry Harold Coard.=] =COATES, GEORGE BERNARD=, Private, No...
won a number of cups and medals. [Illustration: =Robert Coles.=] =COLLES, ARTHUR GROVE=, Capt., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only _s._ of Alexander Colles, of 3, Elgin Ro...
Battn. who came through untouched; was wounded in action at the Battle of Festubert, 27 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Lillers the next day, from shock following the amputation...
Free State and the Transvaal, receiving the Queen’s medal with three bars and the King’s medal with two bars. Afterwards he worked as a collier at the Tower Colliery of the Marquis...
of Botha’s Pass and Allman’s Nek and occupation of Utrecht, Volkorust and Wakestroom, and was awarded the Ashanti medal with clasp (Gambia, 1894), 21 March, 1896; the South African...
end of October and beginning of November, and spent five months with his regt. in the trenches near Messines. He came home on a week’s leave in Feb., returning to his regt. on the ...
saved the day, and died 2 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the head, received in action in the reserve trenches. He was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, L.-Corpl. Char...
there, 6 May, following; _unm._ [Illustration: =A. B. Fotheringham.=] =FOUCAR, CLEMENT AUGUSTE=, Rifleman No. 1931, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 4...
in the Orange Free State Feb. to May, 1900, including the actions at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), and Poplar Grove and Driefontein, and afterwards in operations in Natal, May-June, 190...
killed in action near Krithia, 28 April, 1915. He _m._ at St. Ambrose Church, Bournemouth, 5 Feb. 1914, Agnes Margaret (Sedaw, West Cliff Road, Bournemouth), yst. dau. of the late ...
there continuously for four months, being killed in action, 25 Aug. 1915, and was buried in Australia Valley. He _m._ 12 Sept. 1909, Margaret Ann (9, Crokell Street, Salford), dau,...
was invalided home with enteric fever, receiving for his services the Queen’s medal with four clasps. On returning home he qualified at Hythe, and became Instructor of Musketry to ...
(Egyptian medal with clasp; Medijidich and Osmanich Orders); and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; was reported missing and wounded after t...
in Orange River Colony, Dec. 1900 to Oct. 1901; in Cape Colony, Feb. to March, 1901; commanded the 7th (Hampshire) Mounted Infantry in the operations against De Wet, until he was s...
in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; _s.p._ On hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and is now (1916) on active service. =MACKENZIE, K...
the Scottish Borderers were badly cut up, and for this gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal. In Jan. 1900 he became Sergt., in the following year Colour-Sergt., and while station...
1901–May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). On the outbreak of the European War, he went out with his regt. to France, took part in the retreat from Mons, and the subsequent e...
1915, on H.M.S. Braemar Castle, of wounds received two days previously in Gallipoli. He was buried at sea; _unm._ For over two years he was a master of the Waimate District High Sc...
Sampagha and Arhanga passes and in the reconnaissance of the Saran Sar, where he was severely wounded on 9 Nov. 1897, and received the Tirah Medal with two clasps. He afterwards jo...
of the first captains of the well-known Harlequin Rugby Football Club. He _m._ at Vancouver, B.C., 4 Dec. 1905, Sophie Almon, eldest dau. of the Hon. Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, K....
in action there, 9 May following, being shot through the temple in an attack on a Turkish position. Buried, Cape Helles, Gallipoli; _unm._ =MUNRO, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Farrier, No. 13...
missing, until 7 March, 1916, when he was posted as killed in action; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “I knew him well and I was much attached to the young lad. We had talks together and s...
in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, Aug. to Nov. 1900, in the Orange River Colony, May to June 1900, in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899–1900, and in the Transvaal, Orange ...
operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen (1–29 July); operations in the Transvaal, Feb.–March, 1901, also those in...
H.M. Hospital Ship Dongola, 7 May, 1915, of wounds received in action in a bayonet charge there on the 2nd. =PITT, GEORGE ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16457, H.M.S. Hogue; lost...
there the following day. His Col. wrote of him as “devoted to his duty and always to be relied on,” and a brother officer said that when wounded “lying on the ground he still cheer...
31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps). He retired in 1908 and went to the Malay States, where he held an appointment as Manager of a rubber estate; but after the outbreak ...
end of July for good work done in the field, and fell in action there, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._ He was killed instantly by a bullet in the head and chest as he sprang over the edge of t...
in action at Quinn’s Post, Gaba Tepe, between 9 and 10 a.m. on 3 May following; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “Colour-Sergt. Scougall was an old pal of mine also, he being of about the s...
1915, eight days after landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula; _unm._ [Illustration: =James William Smith.=] =SMITH, JOHN=, Private, No. 2484, 5th Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T....
while in charge of the machine-gun section, 9 Aug. 1915, on Chanak Bair. They occupied an exposed position, and he was hit by a bullet after bandaging a wounded man, and killed ins...
succession the several Synagogue offices. He was an occasional speaker at the Union Society, and read several papers at college societies. He devoted a considerable part of his vac...
Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony; operations in Cape Colony, 30 Nov. to Dec. 1900, July to Aug. 1901, and Oct. to Nov. 1901; and those in the Orange River Colony, A...
promoted Corpl. and Sergt. was killed in action there, 3 May, 1915; _unm._ His Officer Commanding, Lieut. C. B. Hopkins, wrote: “Your son was killed on the night of 3 May, doing hi...
draft of the 4th Battn. on 29 Dec. He served with that Battn. at Ypres, St. Eloi, and elsewhere in Flanders, until his death in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. That day...
suffered severe losses, he was unwounded, and assisted in capturing and bringing in some prisoners. For his conduct on this occasion, he was restored to the rank of Corpl. He was k...
him, playing in not a few Association fixtures. While training at Kinghorn he played Rugby for the garrison as well as Soccer for E Coy. He was a keen motor-cyclist; while another ...
clasps; returned to South Africa, 1902, and was for a time at the Remount Camp at Mooi River, afterwards settling in Johannesburg, where he held a position in one of the Rand Mines...
1915, and in the landing at Gaba Tepe on April 25 and for 10 days was in the thick of the fight. On May 5 when re-embarking with 400 others for Cape Helles he was shot in the lungs...
that you can see what each man had to put up with. Some of my men informed me that during the first few days he carried several men under fire. Unfortunately he has lost his own li...