part in the battle of Chevonne. On 25 Sept. took up our position in

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 shell exploded injuring five.

On 4 Oct. attacked the Germans to the left of the town of Boeschebe and

drove them off; 26 Oct. saw an aeroplane burned at 3 o’clock.” He was

killed in action at Rentel Woods, Belgium, 5 Nov. 1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =Frederick James Beer.=]

=BEER, GEORGE HENRY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23495 (Devon.), H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BEER, HARRY=, Private, G. 30, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The

Buffs), _s._ of Frederick Beer, of 40, Chapel Street, Ramsgate;

served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 29

Sept. 1915.

=BEER, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Drummer, No. 8113, 1st Battn. East

Kent Regt. (The Buffs), _s._ of William Beer, of The Green,

Littlebourne, near Dover; served with the Expeditionary Force in

France, etc.; killed in action, 11 Nov. 1914.

=BEERLING, THOMAS WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 6394, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BEESLEY, DICK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8589), S.S. 104951,

H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BEGG, ALEXANDER=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 2583), 282446

(Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BEGLEY, DENIS FRANCIS=, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 96), H.M.S.

Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1

Nov. 1914.

=BEHENNA, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 1311, 3rd Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, _s._ of William Henry Behenna; _b._ Blackheath, co.

Kent, 23 Jan. 1889; educ. there; went to Australia, and joined the

Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; killed in action at

Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._

=BEHRENS, ROBERT PHILIP=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales

Borderers (24th Regt.), eldest _s._ of George Benjamin Behrens,

of Vron Yw, Denbigh, J.P., by his wife, Helen Elizabeth, dau. of John

Morgan Davies, of Froodvale, Carmarthen, D.L., J.P.; _b._ ...

4 Dec. 1893; educ. at Cordwalles, Maidenhead, under the Rev. C. R.

Carter, from 1905–07 at Winchester (Mr. Nowell Smith’s, afterwards

Mr. Irving’s house), and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Feb. 1912,

being temporarily attached to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers

till Sept., when he went out in charge of a draft to Tientsin to join

the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914, and was present with

his regiment at the capture of Tsing-tau that autumn. He was shot at

the landing at de Totts’ Battery, in Gallipoli on Sunday, 25 April,

1915, and was buried at sea at the entrance to the Dardanelles from

H.M.S. Cornwallis; _unm._ His Colonel wrote that, even as he lay

mortally wounded, he continued to encourage his men to press forward.

At Winchester, Behrens rowed stroke in his house-boat in 1910, and

was champion middle-weight boxer, and at Sandhurst he was head of his

company in riding and one of the Sandhurst representatives in the

sabreing competition at the Royal Military Tournament in 1912.

[Illustration: =Robert Philip Behrens.=]

=BELCHER, ALBERT=, Private, No. 9781, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots

(Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France and

Flanders; killed in action near Ypres, 3 June, 1915; _m._

=BELCHIER, FRANK ELLIOT, M.C.=, Capt., 1st East Lancashire

Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Henry Nathaniel Belchier, of the

London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Mary Helen (Elm Lodge, Surbiton

Hill Road, Surbiton), dau. of John Allenby, of Naburn, co. Yorks;

_b._ Surbiton, 24 June, 1891; educ. Wellesley House, Broadstairs,

Marlborough, and Sandhurst; entered the Army, 4 March, 1911, promoted

Lieut. 27 Dec. following, and Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and was for some time

Acting Adjutant of the battn., resigning that position, 23 Dec. 1914.

He was killed in action at Ypres, 20 May, 1915; _unm._, and was

buried at the Irish farm near that place. Capt. Belchier was mentioned

in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915],

and was awarded the Military Cross in recognition of his services in

the field in Feb. 1915. A fellow officer wrote: “As Adjutant he had

special work and did splendidly all through the retreat on Paris and

afterwards.”

[Illustration: =Frank Elliot Belchier.=]

=BELDHAM, ARTHUR=, A.B., J. 5870, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the

action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BELDOM, GEORGE NOAH=, Private, No. 2390, 2nd Battn. East Surrey

Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; was

reported missing, 9 May, 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed

in action on that date; _m._

=BELL, ALAN ROBERT=, Private, No. 77438, 7th (British Columbia)

Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of the late Thomas

Best Bell, of Netherall, Sidcup, General Manager and Secretary of the

Lion Fire Insurance Company, of London, by his wife, Mary (St. John’s

Lodge, Sevenoaks), dau. of Robert Williams Soady, of Lincoln’s Inn,

Barrister-at-Law; _b._ Surbiton, 11 April, 1885; educ. Shrewsbury

House School, Surbiton, and Bradfield College, Berks; was for three

years with the Royal Exchange Assurance, London, and afterwards

studied poultry farming and went to Alberta, and from there to Duncan,

Vancouver Island, where he took up land surveying. He enlisted in the

30th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, left for

England 14 Feb. 1915, and was drafted into the 7th Battn., crossing

to France on 2 May, 1915. He was killed in action in the attack on

the position known as K5, at Festubert, 24 May, 1915, and was buried

there in the rear of the first British line. The Chaplain, the Rev. Wm.

Barton, wrote that his “company was in the reserve trench, which was

subjected to a pitiless hail of high explosives and shrapnel for nine

hours on 24 May, and the casualties were heavy. The marvel was not that

many were killed and wounded, but that any of them came out alive.” And

the sergt. of his platoon, Sergt. J. H. Cleland, wrote of him: “He was

a splendid fellow, greatly liked by us all, and became a good soldier.

His calmness and fortitude under a very heavy shell fire at Festubert

were splendid, and when I look back and realise that they were all with

the sole exception of myself new to active service, I can only say I am

very proud to have been in charge of such a splendid lot of fellows.”

[Illustration: =Alan Robert Bell.=]

=BELL, ALBERT HENDERSON=, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., H.M.S.

Goliath, yr. _s._ of the late Frederick Bell, of Itchen, Hants, by

his wife, Louisa Maud (Woolston, Southampton), dau. of Henry Dampier,

late of Winchester; _b._ Itchen, 29 Aug. 1886; educ. Woolston

College; was a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and was

associated with the firm of Messrs. Deloitte Plender, Griffiths & Co.,

of London; joined the R.N.R. in 1910, and was lost in the Goliath at

the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915; _unm._

=BELL, ALBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 19001, 1st Battn. King’s Own

Scottish Borderers, _s._ of Joseph Henry Bell, of 40, Fountas

Street, Leeds, Drayman, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (--) Dobson, of

Scarborough; _b._ Leeds, 30 May, 1891; educ. Park Lane Council

School there; was a goods porter in the service of the London &

North Western Railway; enlisted 5 Jan. 1915; left England for the

Dardanelles, 25 May, 1915, and died 11 Aug. 1915, from wounds received

in action there. He _m._ at Leeds, 28 July, 1914, Lilly (35,

Fountain Street, Leeds), dau. of Fred Hartley, and had a son, James,

_b._ 18 Sept. 1914.

=BELL, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 14162, Royal Scots (Lothian

Regt.), _s_. of Alexander Bell, of Bridgeton, Glasgow; served with

the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres,

25 Sept. 1915.

=BELL, ALEXANDER MURRAY-MACGREGOR=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal

Scots Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of William Bell, of 26, Albert

Place, Stirling, Lieut.-Col. late 56th Regt. (now 2nd Essex and

Army Pay Dept.), by his wife, Isabel Margaret, dau. of Major-Gen.

Evan Murray-MacGregor, Bombay Cavalry; _b._ Weymouth, 4 Sept.

1880; educ. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Kingston, and Stirling

High School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Militia) Battn. of the Argyll

and Sutherland Highlanders, 30 Dec. 1901, served with them in South

Africa, 1 Feb.-23 Sept. 1902, receiving the South African medal with

two clasps. He was gazetted to the Royal Garrison Artillery, 4 Feb.

1903, and was transferred to the Dorset Regt., 6 May, 1905. On 8 Jan.

1907, he was promoted Lieut. and posted to Royal Scots Fusiliers, and

became Capt. 28 May, 1912. From May, 1904, to May, 1905, was A.D.C. to

the Governor of Natal, and Superintendent Gymnasia, Scottish Command,

Feb. 1913–Nov. 1914, when he rejoined his regt. in Flanders, and was

appointed Adjutant of the 1st Battn., Dec. 1914. He died in London,

28 April. 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres, 19 Feb.

preceding; _unm._ The officer commanding his Battn. wrote: “The

regt. was moving across some open ground under heavy shell fire, and

your son and I were together at the moment we were both knocked over.

He was hit on the back and right arm. I can only assure you that his

gallantry and devotion to duty has been most marked.” Capt. Bell was

mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915.

[Illustration: =A. Murray-MacGregor Bell.=]

=BELL, (ALFRED) RAY LANCASTER=, 2nd Lieut., 5th. attd. 2nd. Battn.

Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only child of Alfred Bell, of 23, Morehampton

Road, Dublin, formerly of Ardcarne, Ballinasloe, co. Galway, by his

wife, Annie Ray Bell, dau. of James Bell, Lieut., 3rd Buffs, nephew

of the late Major Lancaster Bell, R.A., and grandson of Capt. James

Bell, of the 64th Regt.; _b._ Ballinasloe, 10 Feb. 1896; educ.

at St. George’s and Rosse Colleges, Dublin. He entered the Army on

the outbreak of war; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Battn. of

the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 15 Aug. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd

Battn. then at the Front, May, 1915. He reached the firing line on 15

May, was wounded by shrapnel in the lung at the second Battle of Ypres

on the 17th, and d. four hours later in the 12th Field Ambulance,

near Vlamertynghe. He was _unm._ and was buried in the military

cemetery there.

[Illustration: =(Alfred) Ray Lancaster Bell.=]

=BELL, CEDRIC MOLESWORTH=, Private, No. 9215, 5th Battn. (London

Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., _s._ of Angus Alger Bell, of 120,

Wightman Road, N., Chief Accountant at the Royal Academy of Music,

and Sergt.-Major 5th London Brigade, R.F.A., by his wife, Agnes,

dau. of Thomas Bell Weeks; _b._ Harringay, 22 May, 1893; educ.

Owen’s School, Islington; joined the London Rifle Brigade in 1911, and

volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war. He went to the

Front in Nov. 1914, and on 4 Dec. was wounded in action by shrapnel and

invalided home. He rejoined his regt. in France in March, 1915, was

wounded by shell fire on 26 April, 1915, during the attack on Hill 60,

and died before reaching the casualty clearing station; _unm._ He

was buried in Bailleul Cemetery.

[Illustration: =Cedric Molesworth Bell.=]

=BELL, CHARLES OCKLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt.,

_s._ of Alfred F.... Bell, of Deansgate, Grimsby, by his wife,

Sarah Susanna, dau. of John Ockley; _b._ Grimsby, 10 Dec. 1891;

educ. Collegiate, Grimsby, and Alford Grammar Schools; enlisted in the

South Staffordshire Regt. Jan. 1910; was given a commission 20 May,

1914, and transferred to the 2nd Bedfordshire Regt. He was killed by

shrapnel at Ypres, 18 Oct. 1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =Charles Ockley Bell.=]

=BELL, DAVID=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10813), S.S. 108915,

H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BELL, FRED=, Eng.-Lieut., R.N.R., yr. _s._ of Samuel Bell,

of Abbots Cottage, St. Bees, Cumberland, by his wife, Alice, dau. of

Joseph Coulthard; _b._ St. Bees, 4 Dec. 1889; educ. there. He

commenced his career with the Whitehaven Harbour Board under Engineer

Wilcox. He was two and a-half years in this employ, and a similar

period at Lowca Engineering Works. From there he entered the service

of Messrs. Chambers, the Castle Line, Liverpool. After being two

years and three months at sea he sat for, and secured, his second

engineer’s certificate, and after another couple of years’ service

he obtained his Chief Engineer’s certificate. Continuing in the same

employ, he was in Liverpool studying for his extra chief certificate

on the outbreak of war, but gave up his opportunity to sit for this

to take up his commission as Eng.-Lieut. on the armed merchant vessel

Viknor, commissioned at Portsmouth 12 Dec. 1914. They sailed just after

Christmas, and no further word was heard until Feb. when the Admiralty

announced that H.M.S. Viknor, which had been missing for some days,

must now be accepted as lost with all officers and men. The cause of

her loss is uncertain, but as bodies and wreckage were washed ashore on

the north coast of Ireland, it is presumed that during the bad weather

she either foundered, or, being carried out of her course, struck

a mine in the seas which the Germans are known to have laid there.

It is presumed that she was lost off the Irish coast 14 Jan. 1915.

Lieut.-Commander Bell was _unm._ His elder brother, Edward, also

received a commission, and was appointed to the armed liner The Duke of

Cornwall.

[Illustration: =Fred Bell.=]

=BELL, GEORGE SINCLAIR=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308909, H.M.S.

Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off

the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BELL, JOHN WILLIAM=, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17205, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BELL, JOSHUA=, Private, No. 8643, B Coy., 2nd Battn. The Border

Regt., _s._ of William Joshua Bell, of 170, Conyers Road, Byker,

Newcastle-on-Tyne, now employed at Messrs. Armstrong & Whitworth’s

Elswick Works; _b._ Shieldfield, 9 Jan. 1887; educ. Victoria

Jubilee Council School, Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne; enlisted 27 Nov.

1905, and was killed in action at Ypres, 26 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He

had previously been employed by the Newcastle Tramway Co.

=BELL, LAURISTON PERCIVAL EDWARD=, Private, No. 1527, 16th

Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) London Regt., only _s._ of

the late William Harbutt Bell, Assistant Clerk, C.S., by his wife,

Milly (15, Thornfield Road, Shepherd’s Bush), dau. of John Broad, of

Stratton, Cornwall; _b._ Notting Hill, 18 June, 1894; educ. London

Orphanage, Watford. Joined the Queen’s Westminster’s 16 March, 1913,

volunteered for foreign service with his regt. on the outbreak of war,

and was killed in action at Houplines, 27 March, 1915; _unm._

Buried in the military cemetery in the Rue Emile Zola at Houplines.

In a letter of sympathy to his mother, Capt G. H. Lambert, commanding

IV. Coy., said: “Your son, Rifleman Bell, was killed in the trenches

yesterday morning. It may be a small consolation to you, in your great

trouble, to know that he died as he had lived, a true soldier, and in

him I have lost one of my good men.”

[Illustration: =Lauriston Percival Edward Bell.=]

=BELLAIRS, EDWARD DUNSTAN=, Private, No. 9255, 2nd Battn. Durham

L.I., _s._ of Everard Dunstan Bellairs, of 4, Paley Street,

Sunderland, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Henry Moon Clark, and grandson

of Commander John Henry Bellairs, R.N.; _b._ Bishopswearmouth,

Sunderland, 29 Sept. 1884; educ. Sunderland; enlisted with his brother

in 1903, and served eight years in India. On the outbreak of war

rejoined, was wounded on 20 Sept. 1914, at the Battle of the Aisne,

and _d._ in the Victoria Hospital at Blackpool, 20 July, 1915;

_unm._ His elder brother, William (see succeeding notice) was

killed in the same action, and a 3rd brother, Private H. Bellairs, 7th

Durham L.I., was wounded in France 26 May, 1915, and is now (1916) a

prisoner in Germany.

[Illustration: =Edward Dunstan Bellairs.=]

=BELLAIRS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9160, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I.,

eldest _s._ of Everard Dunstan Bellairs, of 4, Paley Street,

Sunderland, &c. (see preceding notice); _b._ Bishopswearmouth,

Sunderland, 16 Feb. 1881; enlisted with his brother in 1903, and served

eight years in India. On the outbreak of war rejoined, and was killed

at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept, 1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =William Bellairs.=]

=BELLAMY, VICTOR SAMUEL=, L.-Corpl., No. 9977, 1st Battn. East

Kent Regt. (The Buffs), _s._ of Henry Bellamy, of 33, Park Road,

Ashford, Kent; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

_d._ 8 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action near Lille.

=BELLAS, WILLIAM=, Pte., No. 10551, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards;

_b._ Penrith, co. Cumberland, 1874; enlisted 7 Sept. 1914; served

with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May,

1915. He _m._ at Liverpool, 7 Oct. 1899, Margaret (14, Bowles

Road, Bootle, Liverpool), dau. of (--) Walters, and had two sons,

Francis William, _b._ 12 July, 1900; and Lancelot John, _b._

1 May, 1910.

=BELLERBY, TOM=, Petty Officer, 187039, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept 1914.

=BELLINGER, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Petty Officer, 184317, H.M.S. Good

Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=BELLINGHAM, ROGER CHARLES NOEL=, Capt., 37th Battery, Royal Field

Artillery, 2nd _s._ of Sir Henry Bellingham, of Castle Bellingham,

4th Bt., H.M. Lieutenant, co. Louth, by his wife, Lady Constance Noel,

2nd dau. of Charles George, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough; _b._ Wilbury

Road, Brighton, 28 April, 1884; educ. Oratory School, Edgbaston, and

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. -- Dec. 1903, and

promoted Lieut. 23 Dec. 1906. He retired 26 Oct. 1912, and was placed

in the R.F.A. Special Reserve. On 8 Nov. the same year he was appointed

A.D.C. to the Lord Lieut. of Ireland (the Marquis of Aberdeen),

which position he held until outbreak of war, when he rejoined his

regt. on Aug. 5. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force, was

specially mentioned in Dispatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], by

F.M. Sir John French, for gallant and distinguished service in the

field and was found dead in his bed near Ypres, 4 March, 1915, after

a week’s hard fighting. He was buried in Dickebush Parish churchyard,

three miles from Ypres. When at Woolwich in 1909, Capt. Bellingham

wrote the best essay and was specially complimented by the General

Commanding in Chief (Brig.-Gen. J. D. Snow), who wrote (21 Feb.): “A

well written essay which shows a careful study of the campaign. What is

particularly good about the paper, is, that the writer, having selected

his _principle_, on which to write, has stuck to it throughout,

and quoted every instance which bears his argument. In writing on

_Colombey_ that action was not an ordinary rearguard action. The

French had to fight, to gain more considerable time, than is usual in

rearguard actions. Lieut. Bellingham is to be congratulated on his

paper, and he should develop into a good writer.” He _m._ at

Stabannon, co. Louth, 18 Jan. 1910, Alice Ann, dau. of Richard Naish,

of Ballycullen, co. Limerick, and had issue two children: Roger Carroll

Patrick Stephen, _b._ 23 April, 1911, and Constance Catherine Mary

Pia, _b._ 21 Oct. 1912.

[Illustration: =Roger C. N. Bellingham.=]

=BELLINGHAM, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker 1st Class, K. 6334, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BELSTEN, WALTER SIDNEY=, Private, No. 1756, 13th (Princess

Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt., _s._ of William

Henry Belsten, of 8, Colville Road, South Acton, by his wife, Sarah

Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Jones, of Bristol; _b._ London, 7 Jan.

1892; educ. Priory School, and Central School, Acton; enlisted the

day after the declaration of war, 6 Aug. 1914, went to the Front 4

Nov., came through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle unhurt, and was killed

in action at Aubers Ridge at the same time as his only brother (see

following notice), 9 May, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Walter Sidney Belsten.=]

=BELSTEN, WILLIAM HENRY=, Sergt., No. 2360, 13th (Princess

Louise’s) Battn. The London Regt., elder _s._ of William Henry

Belsten (see preceding notice); _b._ London, 27 Oct 1890; educ.

Priory School, Acton, Queen’s Park College, and Islington College;

was an Assistant Master at St. Paul’s School, Brentford, but on the

outbreak of war enlisted 30 Aug. 1914, went to France 9 Feb. 1915,

came through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle unhurt, and was promoted

sergt., and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, near Neuve Chapelle,

at the same time as his only brother, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ He was

Superintendent of the Sunday school, Acton, and a credence table was

placed to his memory at St. Cuthbert’s Mission Church, Acton.

[Illustration: =William Henry Belsten.=]

=BENDING, GEORGE JESSE=, Third Writer, M. 5284, H.M.S. Cressy;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENDYSHE, RICHARD NELSON=, Major and Brevet Lieut.-Col., Royal

Marine Light Infantry, eldest _s._ of the late Nelson Bendyshe,

by his wife; Charlotte, yst. dau. of Capt. Henry Brodrick, 29th Regt.,

and grandson of John Bendyshe, of Barrington Hall, co. Cambridge, J.P.,

Lieut. R.N., by his wife, Catherine, eldest dau. of George Matcham,

of Ashfield Lodge, co. Sussex, and Catherine, his wife, sister of the

great Lord Nelson; _b._ Woodstock, Ontario, 18 Jan. 1866; educ.

King’s School, Canterbury; joined the Marines, became Lieut. 1 Sept.

1885, Capt. 1 April, 1895, Major 1 Feb. 1903, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1 Feb.

1910; was Assistant Instructor of Musketry, Chatham Division Royal

Marines, in 1895; Adjutant to Plymouth Division, 1896–1901; Staff

Officer, Chatham Division, 1902–06; and retired 1 July, 1910. At the

outbreak of the war Major Bendyshe took charge of the wireless station

at .... but applied to join the Marines Brigade; was appointed to the

Deal battn., and went to Antwerp at the time of the siege. He was

killed in action, 1 May, 1915, in the Dardanelles at Gebe Tebe whilst

in command of the Deal battn. He _m._ at Berkesbourne, Canterbury,

15 Aug. 1893, Eleanor Margaret (Barrington Hall, Cambridge), dau.

of the Rev. Henry John Wardell, Vicar of Berkesbourne, and had two

children: John Nelson, Lieut. Worcestershire Regt., _b._ 29 July,

1894; and Margaret Charlotte, _b._ 1 Nov. 1900. In Sept. 1914,

Major Bendyshe succeeded his uncle in the Barrington Hall estate, which

has been the seat of the family since the reign of Edward III, and was

succeeded in possession of it by his only son.

[Illustration: =Richard Nelson Bendyshe.=]

=BENHAM, JOHN PERCY=, Sergt., No. 48, No. 1 Coy., Princess

Patricia’s L.I.; eldest _s._ of the late John Benham, Iron

Founder, by his wife, Helen Louisa (99, Warwick Gardens, Earl’s Court,

S.W.), dau. of John Jay; _b._ Earl’s Court, 6 Dec. 1872; educ. in

Salisbury; served as a volunteer in the South African war, and on 5

Aug. 1914, while out in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, enlisted in Princess

Patricia’s L.I. He was wounded in March, 1915, being shot in the arm,

and lay in hospital in Boulogne for six weeks; then returned to his

company, and was killed on the north-west side of the Bellewarde Lake,

about 500 yards north-west of Hooge, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ Sergt.

Benham had a good knowledge of French, and a comrade wrote: “Your

son was held in great respect and his quiet cheerfulness was much

appreciated by those who came in contact with him. He was very popular

not only in No. 1 Coy. but in the whole battn.”

[Illustration: =John Percy Benham.=]

=BENHAM, JOHN RUSSELL=, 2nd Lieut., 100th Battery, Royal Field

Artillery, only _s._ of the late Edwin Arthur Russell Benham, of

Colombo, Ceylon, Tea Planter and Tea Merchant, by his wife, Grizzet

Hamilton (of Glenlinden, Colinton, Midlothian), elder dau. of the late

John Leveson Douglas, of Glenogil, Forfarshire; _b._ Colombo, 19

Sept. 1895; educ. Mr. Perkin’s, Matfield Grange, Paddock Wood, Rugby

and Woolwich. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 17 Nov. 1914, and went to

France with the 28th Divisional Ammunition Column on 16 Jan. 1915,

and was immediately posted to the 100th Battery. Later he served for

a short time with G Battery, R.H.A., and then returned to his own. He

died of wounds received in action near Ypres, 4 May, 1915; _unm._

His commanding officer wrote: “... that, through the most trying times

he proved himself a soldier for all his youth.”

[Illustration: =John Russell Benham.=]

=BENNETT, ALBERT EDWARD=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 178486, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BENNETT, ERNEST HENRY=, Petty Officer, 193860, H.M.S. Hogue; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENNETT, FRANK HENRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12196, H.M.S. Hawke;

lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BENNETT, FREDERICK BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 1115, 1/5th Battn.

(London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of

Benjamin Bennett, of 17, Airlie Gardens, Ilford, Clerk, by his wife,

Alice Eliza, dau. of William Hudson, of Dalston, N.E.; _b._

Leyton, co. Essex, 16 June, 1896; educ. Cleveland Road Council School,

Ilford, and St. George’s College, London; entered H.M. Customs as a boy

clerk after competitive examination, remaining until he reached the

age limit of eighteen, and was preparing for the Second Division Civil

Service when war broke out. He had served a year and eight months in

the Civil Service Cadets, and after passing his examination joined the

London Rifle Brigade in Oct. and was picked for the drafts for the 1st

Battn. at the end of Jan. He had been at the Front scarcely three weeks

when, about 1 a.m. on 12 March, 1915, he was mortally wounded while on

sentry duty in the trenches at Ploegsteert Woods. The Sergt. of his

platoon wrote: “Your son was in my platoon and was on sentry duty in

the trench on the night of the 11th-12th. At about 1 a.m. a star light

was sent up by the enemy over his trench, followed immediately by a

volley. Unfortunately one of the shots struck your son on the left side

of the head level with the left eye. He was picked up at once and sent

to the field ambulance without any delay. The wound was a very severe

one, and he died the following morning about 11 a.m.... He was a fine

manly chap and did his duty with the best.” He was a server at St.

Clement’s Parish Church, Ilford, and was for some time secretary of the

Young Men’s Guild.

[Illustration: =Frederick B. Bennett.=]

=BENNETT, GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 838), H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENNETT, HUGH DONALD=, Lieut., Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S.

Cressy, 4th _s._ of the late George Bennett, of Little Rissington,

Gloucestershire, by his wife, Eliza Laura (now wife of Col. F.

Stringer, of the Old Mansion, Bredon, Tewkesbury), dau. of Nathan Dyer;

_b._ Bredon, 21 May, 1877; educ. Dean Close School, Cheltenham,

and H.M.S. Conway, training ship, Birkenhead. Joined the P. & O. Steam

Navigation Company and Royal Naval Reserve, 23 July, 1897; served as

5th officer, s.s. Carthage (23 July, 1897), and Oriental (10 Aug.

1897); 4th officer, s.s. Ceylon (28 Oct. 1897); 5th officer, s.s.

Oriental (8 Nov. 1897); and Himalaya (10 Nov 1897); 4th officer, s.s.

Sumatra (8 March, 1898), and Australia (30 Sept. 1898); 3rd officer,

s.s. Australia (30 Jan. 1899), Oriental (19 Feb. 1900), Britannia

(15 Jan. 1901); 2nd officer, s.s. Britannia (19 Sept. 1901–13 June,

1902), Plassy (2 Sept. 1904–13 April, 1905), Dock staff (23 Feb.

1907), Sumatra (4 July, 1907), Marmora (28 Sept. 1908–10 Oct. 1910);

Chief Officer, s.s. Palma (21 June, 1911–3 Aug. 1914), being twice (21

May–10 June, 1913 and 14 July–3 Aug. 1914) Acting Commander. Called

up on mobilization, 3 Aug. 1914, and appointed to H.M.S. Cressy. He

was lost in the North Sea when that ship was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914;

_unm._

[Illustration: =Hugh Donald Bennett.=]

=BENNETT, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7936), 292894,

H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=LEIGH-BENNETT, ARTHUR=, D.S.O., M.C., Capt., 2nd Battn.

Coldstream Guards, yr. surviving _s._ of the late Henry Currie

Leigh-Bennett, of Thorpe Place, co. Surrey, M.P. for the Chertsey

Division; _b._ Thorpe Place, 25 Nov. 1885; educ. at Winchester

and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Coldstream Guards, 28 Jan. 1905,

and promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1907, and Tempy. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914,

being continued in the latter rank, 1 Jan. 1915; served with the

Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Aug. 1914, to 3 Oct.

1915; was wounded in Nov., and again in May; was twice mentioned in

Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French (18 Feb. and 11 March,

1915); received the Military Cross for services at the Battle of the

Aisne; was awarded the D.S.O. “for conspicuous gallantry, at Cuinchy,

on 1 Feb. 1915. Leading his men with great ability against the enemy,

he stopped their advance, and eventually captured their position,” and

was killed on the morning of 3 Oct. 1915, when inspecting with his

Colonel and other officers some trenches which the Coldstream Guards

were taking over that night. Capt. Leigh-Bennett was a member of the

Coldstream Guards polo team, and played both cricket and golf for the

2nd Battn. He was _unm._

[Illustration: =Arthur Leigh-Bennett.=]

=BENNETT, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12083, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENNETT, VICTOR ERNEST EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 18396,

H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENNETT, WILLIAM HENRY HESP=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1192), 194125,

H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of

Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BENNION, REGINALD WALLEY=, Third Writer, M. 7687, H.M.S. Cressy;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENSON, HUGH CECIL=, Lieut., 9th Battn. The Rifle Brigade,

elder _s._ of Cecil Benson, of 35, Bedford Square, W.C., by his

wife, Constance, dau. of George Bernard O’Neill; _b._ at 16,

Young Street, Kensington Square, W., 3 July, 1883; was educ. at Eton,

and afterwards became an Architect. On the declaration of war he

volunteered for Imperial Service, and was given a commission in the

Rifle Brigade, 30 Dec. 1914. He went to the Western Front with his

regt., 20 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 22

June following; _unm._

=BENSON, JOHN PENRICE=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.,

eldest _s._ of William Denman Benson, of 10, William Street,

Knightsbridge, County Court Judge, LL.D., J.P., by his wife, Jane,

dau. of Thomas Penrice, D.L., and nephew of Lieut.-Col. R. E. Benson,

who died of wounds, 27 Sept. 1914 (see following notice); _b._

Kilvrough, co. Glamorgan, 1 Oct. 1877; educ. Charterhouse and the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Feb. 1898,

and promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1900, and Capt. 8 Oct. 1904; served in the

South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the relief of Ladysmith,

including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and

action at Spion Kop; operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at

Vaal Kranz, and operations on Tugela Heights (wounded 23 Feb. 1900);

operations in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laings

Nek; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to 31 May, 1902, including

those in the Orange River Colony in May, 1901 (Queen’s medal with five

clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); afterwards going to India

with his regt. He was Adjutant of his Battn., 10 Sept. 1902, to 31

May, 1905. and of Militia and Special Reserve Battn., 15 April, 1907,

to Feb. 1913, when he went on half-pay. On the declaration of war, 4

Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined, was given his company, and went to

France on 12 Aug. He proceeded with his regt. to La Cateau, and then

to the defence of the Condé Canal, where he was shot through the lower

part of the body by a machine gun on the 25th, and died in the Convent

School at Boussu, Belgium, the following day, 26 Aug. 1914. He was

buried in the Convent School grounds. He _m._ at St. Stephen’s,

Gloucester Road, S.W., Laura Annette, 2nd dau. of Major-Gen. Francis

Goring Rideout, and had issue a son and dau.: William Frank Montague,

_b._ 7 Oct. 1907, and Jane Penrice, _b._ 2 Jan. 1915.

[Illustration: =John Penrice Benson.=]

=BENSON, RICHARD ERLE=, Lieut-Col., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire

Regt., 4th _s._ of the late General Henry Roxby Benson, C.B., 17th

Lancers (who served through the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny), by his

wife, Mary Henrietta (Fairy Hill, Reynoldston Gower, co. Glamorgan),

dau. of the late Hon. Mr. Justice William Wightman; _b._ London,

4 Oct. 1862; educ. Eton, and for some time served with the East Surrey

Militia. He was gazetted Lieut. to the East Yorkshires (the old 15th),

14 May, 1884, and was promoted Capt. 5 Aug. 1891; Major, 15 Aug.

1903; and Lieut.-Col. 15 Aug. 1911. From July, 1889–May, 1890, he was

employed with the Bechuanaland Police Force, and in the South African

War served as Adjutant to the 4th Battn. of the East Surreys in 1902.

He took part in the operations in Cape Colony, April and May that year,

and received the King’s medal. On the outbreak of the European war Col.

Benson went to the Front with his regt. as part of the Expeditionary

Force. The East Yorkshires reached the Aisne on 19 Sept. and the same

afternoon were ordered to relieve the Sussex Regt. in trenches which

were being continually shelled. The following day the .... Brigade was

ordered to advance against the German positions. The attack was made

against a terrific cross-fire of machine guns and shrapnel, as well

as a storm of rifle bullet attacks. Col. Benson led the attack with

the utmost gallantry, and had, as one of his men afterwards stated,

got within 50 yards of the German trenches, when he was shot down. The

fighting continued fiercely for nearly an hour, but in spite of the

most determined attempts to come to grips with the enemy, the latter

could not be dislodged, and the battn. had eventually to retire to its

trenches. Col. Benson died of his wounds in St. Nazaire Base Hospital

27 Sept. 1914. His body was brought home and buried in the family vault

at Reynoldston, Gower. He _m._ in London, 1905, Janet Florence,

dau. of William Armour, and had three children: John, _b._ 1904;

Marguerita and Mary. Two of his brothers saw service--Col. S. M.

Benson, late 17th Lancers, and Major H. W. Benson, D.S.O., now (1916)

commanding officer of the Swansea Battn. of the Welsh Regt.; and a

nephew, Capt. John Penrice Benson (son of His Honour Judge Denman

Benson), was killed in action, 26 Aug. 1914 (see his notice).

[Illustration: =Richard Erle Benson.=]

=BENSON, THOMAS BROOKE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots

Fusiliers, 13th child and 7th and yst. _s._ of the Rev. Riou

George Benson, Rector of Hope Bowdler, co. Salop, by his wife, Mary,

dau. of Thomas Brooke, of Northgate House, Honley, co. York, and

grandson of Moses George Benson, of Lutwyche Hall, co. Salop, J.P.,

D.L.; _b._ 28 July, 1884; educ. The Well House, Malvern Wells,

Repton and Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn.

of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 16 Aug. 1905. He retired from the Army

in 1911 and went to Bogowantalawa, Ceylon, and started tea planting,

but on the outbreak of war came home and rejoined his old regt. with

the rank he was when he left it ... Oct. 1914. He was twice wounded,

and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle in the early morning of 12

March, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Thomas Brooke Benson.=]

=BENSTEAD, CHARLES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4241A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BENSTEAD, EDWARD=, Private, No. 6378, 2nd Battn. Royal West

Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.,

killed in action, 19 Nov. 1914.

=BENT, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 43247) S.S. 423,

H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of

Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BENTLEY, CLARENCE LESLIE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn Manchester

Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Alderman and Sheriff William

Bentley, of Fulford Grange, York, J.P., Lord Mayor of York (1907), by

his wife, Anne Mary (Fulford Grange, York), dau. of Ewen Cameron, of

Fort William, Inverness; _b._ York, 8 Aug. 1894; educ. Mill Hill

School, N.W., and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received

his commission in the Manchester Regt. 8 Aug. 1914 (his 20th birthday),

and served with the 3rd Battn. on the Humber defences till early in

Sept., when he took out a draft for the 2nd Battn. at the front. He

was killed in action near Festubert, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried at

La Quinque Rue; _unm._ Lieut. Bentley was a bright and talented

youth, and was keen on sport, having won all his school colours. He

entered Sandhurst as the 195th cadet, and made such good progress that

on leaving after the usual course he passed 55th in the 1st Division,

and also won his blue for hockey. While serving with the Expeditionary

Force he saw a great deal of heavy fighting, and the Captain of his

company, in speaking of him, said how much he felt his loss, as he was

of such an exceptional and outstanding character. His brother, Lieut.

Ronald Cameron Bentley, Green Howards (2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt.)

joined the Expeditionary Force in 1915, and is still (1916) on active

service. His eldest brother, Capt. W. W. Bentley, returned from Ceylon,

where he held an appointment under Government, early in 1915. He

rejoined the Heavy Artillery, in which he had a commission, and is now

serving with the Expeditionary Force as Capt. and Adjutant.

[Illustration: =Clarence Leslie Bentley.=]

=BENTLEY, FREELAND MARTELL=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Gordon

Highlanders, _s._ of Capt. Thomas Kellor Bentley, of Port

Greville, Nova Scotia, by his wife, Flora Agusta, dau. of Fraser

Hatfield; _b._ Port Greville, 19 May, 1887; joined the Army on

the outbreak of war, being given a commission as Lieut., 17th Canadian

Infantry (Nova Scotia Regt.), 22 Sept. 1914. He was transferred to

the 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2 April, 1915, and was killed in

action near Festubert, 18 June following. His brother, Capt. Lloyd Omen

Bentley, served through the war with the Canadian Field Artillery.

[Illustration: =Freeland Martell Bentley.=]

=BENTLEY, GEOFFREY MALCOLM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire

Regt., 5th _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The

Grove, Hadley, Barnet, Herts., J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith,

dau. of John Rogers; _b._ London, 3 May, 1883; educ. Wellington

College. He joined the Militia, and served in the South African War,

1900–1, took part in the operations in Cape Colony in 1901, and in the

following year was sent for guard duty to St. Helena when the Boer

prisoners were quartered there, receiving the Queen’s medal with two

clasps. On 28 Jan. 1903 he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn.

Northamptonshire Regt., served in India, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec.

1904, and Capt. 7 May, 1910, when he joined the 1st Battn. at Aden. He

was afterwards stationed at Devonport and Blackdown. On the outbreak

of the European War he went to the front with the Expeditionary

Force, and was shot through the head by a sniper in leaving a trench

immediately after the Battle of Pilkem, 24 Oct. 1914. He died at Ypres

29 Oct. following without recovering consciousness, and was buried in

the cemetery there. Capt. Bentley was mentioned in Sir John French’s

Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 “for gallant and distinguished service in the

field.” He _m._ at Bangor, co. Down, 21 Oct. 1908, Edith Marie,

only surviving dau. of William Henry Gallway, of Sheila Von, Bangor,

and left a dau., Maureen Sheila, _b._ 29 Aug. 1911.

=BENTLEY, GERALD WILSON=, Major, 4th Battn. The Duke of

Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., 3rd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred

Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, J.P., by his

wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; _b._ at 16, Addison

Road, Kensington, 1 Aug. 1879; educ. Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut.

Middlesex Regt. from the Militia, 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 14

March, 1900, Capt. 12 Oct. 1901, and Major, 8 Oct. 1914. He served

in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the relief of

Ladysmith, including the operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action

at Spion Kop, in which he was severely wounded, his rifle, struck by

a shell, being broken and causing serious injuries to his head. He

recovered and was present at the operations on the Tugela Heights (26

to 27 Feb. 1900), and the action at Pieters Hill, and was awarded the

Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He

became Superintendent of Gymnasia in the Northern Command, 23 April,

1912, and held this appointment till the outbreak of war, when he

rejoined his regt. He was killed in action at Croix Barbée, 13 Oct.

1914. A noted boxer in the Service, he was in 1910 the heavyweight

champion of the Army and Navy. A man of grand physique, those who

fought with him in the ring knew of the power of that right punch of

his; he was content to submit to punishment while waiting for the

chance to score with it.

=BENTLEY, KENNETH HADDON=, Private, No. 3047, 14th Battn. (London

Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of A. Bentley, of

Lauriston, Leicester Road, New Barnet; volunteered after the outbreak

of war, and joined the London Scottish, 2 Sept 1914; served with the

Expeditionary Force in France, etc. and was killed in action, 12 June,

1915.

=BENTZON, SYDNEY MALCOLM=, Private, No. 411, 15th Battn.

Australian Imperial Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles,

25 April, 1915; killed in action there the following day.

=BENYON, GODFREY BERKELEY JOHN=, Lieut. Commander, R.N., yr.

_s._ of Augustus William Benyon, of Ashe, Windsor, by his wife,

Mary Beatrice, dau. of the late William Chambers, of Hafod, co.

Cardigan, J.P., D.L.; _b._ 10 Sept. 1883; educ. Temple Grove,

East Sheen, Surrey; joined the old Britannia as a naval cadet in May,

1898, became Sub-Lieut. 1903, Lieut. 1905, and Lieut.-Commander June,

1913. He saw foreign service in China and the Cape, and was also with

Admiral Fisher in H.M.S. Renown. Being a first-class draughtsman, he

specialised in the Navigating Department; was assistant surveyor in

H.M.S. Mutine in Bermuda. After the outbreak of war, he was appointed

to H.M.S. Good Hope on 17 Aug., and was lost when that ship went down

with Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and his gallant crew in the

action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A memorial window was

erected to his memory in All Saints’ Church, Windsor. He _m._ at

Marylebone Church, 1 Nov 1911, Beatrice Lindley, dau. of the late Henry

Lindley White, and had issue a son and dau., John Lindley, _b._

23 Dec. 1912, and Elizabeth Hope, _b._ at Bermuda on Christmas

Day, 25 Dec. 1914, and christened on board the s.s. Transylvania in

mid-Atlantic.

[Illustration: =Godfrey B. J. Benyon.=]

=BÉRARD, CHARLES DELPHIS=, Private, No. 23628, Cyclists Corps,

Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Louis Amedée Bérard, of St.

Mathias de Rouville, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Délia, dau. of

Joachim Létourneau; _b._ St. Mathias, Rouville co., 9 July, 1892;

joined the 85th Montreal Regt. in Aug. 1914; left Quebec with the first

Canadian contingent, 30 Sept., and was accidentally killed in England,

2 Dec. 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Charles Delphis Bérard.=]

=PACK-BERESFORD, CHARLES GEORGE=, Major, 1st Battn. Queen’s Own

Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd _s._ of Denis William Pack-Beresford.

J.P., D.L., of Fenagh House, Bagnalstown, co. Carlow, by his wife,

Annette Caroline, only dau. of Robert Clayton Browne, of Browne’s

Hill, co. Carlow; _b._ London, 21 Nov. 1869; educ. Wellington

College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. the Queen’s Own, 20 Nov.

1889, became Lieut. 1 Feb. 1893, Capt. 18 Dec. 1899, and Major 21

March, 1908, being Adjutant 1897–1900, an instructor at the R.M.C.,

Sandhurst, 1903–6, and Major in command of 3rd Battn., Regimental

Depôt, Maidstone, 1911–14; served with the Malakand and Buner field

force on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the action

at Landakai, the operations in the Mamund country and Buner, also

during the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass (medal with clasps);

in the South African War, 1899–1901, including the operations in the

Orange Free State, Sept. 1900–July, 1901, and in Cape Colony in Aug.

1901, Sept. to Dec. 1901 (Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901];]

Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in

France; killed in action at Wasimes, near Mons, 24 Aug 1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =C. G. Pack-Beresford.=]

=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11113, Royal Scots (Lothian

Regt.); served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action at Voorstraat, 17 Feb. 1915.

=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11787, 2nd Battn. Highland

Light Infantry; killed in action, 17 May, 1915.

=BERKELEY, MAURICE KENNETH FITZ-HARDINGE=, Bombardier, 5th

Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, 1st Canadian

Contingent, only _s._ of Maurice Julian Berkeley, Senior Puisne

Judge of the Supreme Court, British Guiana, by his wife, Mary Bruce,

dau. of Alleyne Pilgrim Murray; _b._ Barbados, West Indies, 10

Dec. 1893; educ. Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College,

Cambridge, and on leaving the latter joined the Merchant’s Bank of

Canada at Montreal. On the outbreak of war he volunteered as a Gunner,

came over with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded in

action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne on 1

May; _unm._

[Illustration: =M. K. F. Berkeley.=]

=BERLEIN, CHARLES MAURICE=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Oxford

and Buckingham L.I., eldest _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak,

Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Kimberley, South Africa, 4

May, 1888; educ. Charterhouse and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1910); was

engaged in chemical research, and was in charge of a laboratory, but

on the outbreak of war received a commission as temporary Lieut. in

the Oxford and Buckingham L.I., 22 Aug. 1914, and fell in action near

Hoogh, 16 June, 1915, leading his men through a heavy shrapnel fire, a

few paces from the enemy’s trenches; _unm._

=BERLEIN, LESLIE HERMAN=, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal

Berkshire Regt., yst. _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak,

Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Johannesburg, 30 June,

1893; educ. Charterhouse, Berkhamsted School and Magdalene College,

Cambridge, was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, but following the outbreak

of war, was gazetted temporary Lieut. in the Berkshires, 19 Sept.

1914. His battn. was selected to lead the attack near Hulluch on 25

Sept. 1915. In the assault his company was leading, and Lieut. Berlein

was the first out of the trenches. He was killed on the front of the

enemy’s trenches, leading his platoon; _unm._

=BERNARD, ROBERT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers,

2nd _s._ of the Most Rev. John Henry Bernard. D.D., D.C.L.,

Lord Archbishop of Dublin, by his wife, Maud, 2nd dau. of the late

Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., Dep. Inspector-General of Hospitals and

Fleets; _b._ Dublin, 20 Dec. 1891; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas,

Marlborough College (where he was in the O.T.C.) and Sandhurst;

gazetted 2nd Lieut. Dublin Fusiliers, 13 March, 1912, and promoted

Lieut. 12 Nov. 1913. He served in the 2nd Battn. at Gravesend, April to

Aug. 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, serving with them

at Ahmednagar and Madras to Nov. 1914, when the regt. returned home,

afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles. Lieut. Bernard landed in one

of the open boats on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, when many officers were

killed and wounded. His Captain was wounded in the landing, so that he

was left in command of his company for twenty-four hours, when they

lay out under slight cover on “V.” beach. The next morning the Dublins

and the Munsters were ordered to storm the village of Sedd-el-Bahr,

which they successfully accomplished. Lieut. Bernard was killed when

gallantly leading his men in a bayonet charge. Lieuts. Bernard and

Andrews were together with about twenty men of the X and Y companies,

and they took cover behind a wall five and a half feet high. They were

being fired at from a house in the village. Andrews stood in a gap

made by a shell and was directing the fire when he was killed. Lieut.

Bernard then called on the others to follow him, and saying “Come on,

boys,” he dashed through the gap, when he was shot dead by a Turkish

rifleman. He and his brother officers were buried close to the beach in

a large rectangular grave.

[Illustration: =Robert Bernard.=]

=BERNHARDT, MARTIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8682), S.S. 1933, H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BERRIDGE, HARRY=, Private, No. G. 1712, 3rd Battn. Middlesex

Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action, 2 May, 1915.

=BERRIDGE, JOHN FREDERICK HARRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12245,

H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BERRY, ALFRED=, Private, No. 10405, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey

Regt., _s._ of Ephraim Berry, of Clayton’s Farm, Mayfield, Sussex;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; _d._ 1 Nov.

1914, of wounds received in action.

=BERRY, ALFRED EDWARD=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. The Royal

Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; _d._ 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=BERRY, ALFRED ROBERT=, Private, No. 1819, H. Coy, 4th Battn.

Suffolk Regt., only child of Alfred Berry, of Leiston, co. Suffolk, by

his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Cole Feree; _b._ Leiston, 30

Dec. 1896, joined the Army, 26 Jan. 1914, and was killed in action at

Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, being shot through the body and head.

His commanding officer spoke most highly of his conduct.

[Illustration: =Alfred Robert Berry.=]

=BERRY, EDWARD ALFRED=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots,

_s._ of Ernest Albert Berry, of 37, Euston Street, Euston Square,

London, N.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Groves; _b._

Marylebone, 26 July, 1887; educ. Lancing Street School, Somers Town;

enlisted in the 1st Battn., 23 Aug. 1906, was transferred to the

2nd Battn., and was killed in action, 3 June, 1915; _unm._ The

Chaplain wrote that he “was brought into our Field Ambulance (No. 9)

last night severely wounded in the head. He died this morning without

having become conscious, and I have buried him with the Church Service

in the graveyard outside the Asylum here at Ypres, and have marked his

grave with a cross inscribed with his name, etc.”

=BERRY, IRA SIDNEY=, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 94), H.M.S.

Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1

Nov. 1914.

=BERRY, THOMAS=, Gunner, No. 7455, Royal Field Artillery, 4th

_s._ of James Donkin Berry, of Sunderland, Plater’s Helper,

by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Pratt, of Portsmouth; _b._

Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 1 Jan. 1892; educ. Southwick Board

School; was employed at Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 8 March,

1915, and died on active service at Tedworth Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915,

of septic peritonitis; _unm._

[Illustration: =Thomas Berry.=]

=BERRY, THOMAS SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7823), S.S.

103290, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BERRYMAN, JAMES=, P.O. (N.S.), 189999, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in

the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BERRYMAN, SYDNEY=, Private, No. G. 933, 7th (Service) Battn.

Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Philip Berryman, of Sunnymount Lodge,

Haywards Heath, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action, 28 Aug. 1915.

=BERTIE, NINIAN MARK KERR=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Royal

Rifle Corps (60th Regt.), 4th and yst. _s._ of Rev. the Hon.

Alberic Edward Bertie, M.A., Rector of Gedling, Notts, by his wife,

Lady Caroline Elizabeth, née McDonnell, eldest dau. of Mark, 5th Earl

of Antrim, and grandson of Montagu, 6th Earl of Abingdon; _b._

Rutland Gate, London, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Evelyns and Winchester, and

on the outbreak of war was admitted to the Royal Military College,

Sandhurst, from which he was posted to the 60th Rifles, 23 Dec. 1914.

He was attached to the 6th Reserve Regt. till March, when he joined

the 4th Battn. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near

Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and was buried there. The commanding officer wrote:

“I will not say more now than that I sympathise with you (and with

my regiment) over the loss of one of the finest and most fearlessly

capable lads I ever met. He was quite exceptional.”

[Illustration: =Ninian Mark K. Bertie.=]

=BERTRAM, PHILLIP=, Stoker, 1st Class, 363940, H.M.S. Pathfinder;

lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East

Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BEST, HERBERT=, Acting Leading Stoker, 309591, H.M.S. Cressy;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BETTIS, ALBERT=, Private R.M.L.I., Ch. 14607, H.M.S. Hogue; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BETTS, GORDON W. G.=, Private, 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal,

Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of the late L.-Corpl.

Thomas Henry Betts (who _d._ on active service, 20 June, 1915,

see his notice), by his wife, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur

Street West, Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage; _b._ 16 April,

1899; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined his

father’s regt., and was accidentally shot, 27 Aug. 1914, while on guard

duty at Soulanges Canal, the first Canadian to lose his life on active

service in the European War.

[Illustration: =Gordon W. G. Betts.=]

=BETTS, JOHN WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt.;

_b._ Ketteringham, Norfolk, 4 Aug. 1887; and educ. there. He

joined the Norfolk Regt. in Sept. 1905, and was posted to the 2nd

Battn.; served in South Africa, Gibraltar and India. He obtained his

discharge to the Reserve in Oct. 1912, and on returning to England

joined the Lincolnshire County Constabulary, and was stationed at

Ouston Ferry. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the 1st Battn. and

proceeded to Ireland. He was promoted to Sergt., and went to the Front

with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the retreat from Mons,

etc. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch

of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was afterwards

promoted on the field for gallantry and obtained his commission, being

gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Regt. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in

action at L’Epinette, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while leading a charge.

He _m._ at Birmingham, 6 Dec. 1913, Emma Elizabeth (53, Manchester

Street, New Cleethorpe, Grimsby), dau. of (--) Read, of Ketteringham,

and had issue a dau., Irene Elsie Maud, _b._ 17 Nov. 1914.

=BETTS, THOMAS HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 894, Canadian Army Service

Corps, _s._ of Joseph Betts; _b._ Montreal, 26 Nov. 1870;

educ. St. Anne’s School there; served for over 20 years with the 5th

Royal Highlanders of Montreal, and on the death on service of his son,

Private G. W. G. Betts, decided to volunteer for Imperial service, and

joined the Canadian A.S.C. in April, 1915. He left for England 13 May

following, and _d._ in Newingreen Camp, England, 20 June, 1915,

of haemorrhage of the heart. He _m._ at St. Patrick’s Church,

Montreal, 23 Aug. 1897, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West,

Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage, and had three children: Gordon W. J.,

_b._ 16 April, 1899, killed on service (see his notice); Helena E.

J. and Armitage H. A., _b._ 10 Oct. 1904.

[Illustration: =Thomas Henry Betts.=]

=BEVAN, ERNEST VICTOR=, Private, No. 744, 6th Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of

Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston

Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co.

Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1891; went to Australia in 1914 to take up farming,

and volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth

Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force

in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, April, 1915, and was killed in

action there, 8 May, 1915, being bayoneted in a Turkish attack on the

trenches at Anzac; _unm._

=BEVAN, GORDON FREDERICK=, Private, No. 16861, 7th Battn. Canadian

Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of

Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston

Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co.

Middlesex, 3 Aug. 1888; educ. Croydon High School; went to Canada in

Sept. 1907; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian

Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent;

went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 16 March,

1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._

=BEVAN, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4894), S.S. 104327,

H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of

Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BEVAN, REGINALD JAMES=, Private, No. 1881, 26th Battn. 7th

Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of

James Bevan, of Henalt Hay Road, Builth Wells, Brecon, a Carpenter on

Lord Glanusk’s estate, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Thomas Wasley, of

Bishop Cleeve, near Cheltenham; _b._ Builth Wells, 9 Sept. 1894;

educ. Builth Wells School; at the age of 16 worked his passage out to

Australia on s.s. Gothic; was employed at the Bull and Mouth Hotel in

Melbourne, afterwards as a waiter in Sidney. On the outbreak of war

he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the

3rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action near Sari Bair, Anzac,

Gallipoli, 24 Oct. 1915; _unm._ Buried in cemetery attached to 7th

Field Ambulance, A Section.

=BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT=, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The

London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, _s._ of Richard Bevan,

of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc.,

Alderman of Hammersmith; _b._ Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893;

educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where

he gained the Huxley scholarship; was in the St. Paul’s O.T. Corps, and

joined the London Rifle Brigade, 1911. At the time he was called up

with his regt., he was a medical student and Huxley Scholar at Charing

Cross Hospital Medical School, and was an undergraduate of the London

University. He was shot, while in “Plugstreet” Wood with his section,

10 Dec. 1914, and died two days later at Bailleul Clearing Hospital

from his wounds; buried in Bailleul Cemetery; _unm._ Bevan was

in the Gymnasium eight at St. Paul’s and reserve man at the Aldershot

Public School Competition. He played Rugby for the Old Pauline A team

and for the Charing Cross Hospital Rugby team.

[Illustration: =Richard Vincent Bevan.=]

=BEVERIDGE, DAVID=, Private, No. 17241, 10th (Service) Battn.

Highland Light Infantry, _s._ of M. Beveridge of 216, Mathieson

Street, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=BEVERIDGE, DAVID ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 54th Brigade, Royal

Field Artillery, 4th _s._ of Erskine Beveridge, LL.D., of St.

Leonard’s Hill, Dunfermline, and Vallay, North Uist, by his wife, Mary,

dau. of John Owst, of Wilberfoss, co. York; _b._ Dunfermline, 4

Nov. 1886; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat; Loretto; and Pembroke College,

Cambridge (B.A. 1908); and when war broke out was studying for the

Scottish Bar in Edinburgh. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 10

Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 7 July, 1915, and died at St.

Andrew’s Hospital, Malta, 13 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while

on active service in Gallipoli; buried at Valletta; _unm._ He was

a keen Rugby footballer, playing for his schools and college. Two of

his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his brother-in-law,

Lieut. Alexander B. Innes, 1/7th Gordon Highlanders, and two uncles,

Capt. and Adjutant David Inglis, 1/4th Gurkha Rifles, and Lieut.

Charles N. D. Inglis, 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, were killed in action.

[Illustration: =David A. Beveridge.=]

=BEVERIDGE, JOHN=, Private, No. 14555, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal

Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 14 Sept. 1915.

=BEVERIDGE, ROBERT McAUSLAN=, Private, No. 401, 1st Battn. Black

Watch (42nd Royal Highlanders), _s._ of Alexander Beveridge, of

Perth, Builder and Valuer (died 4 Jan. 1914); _b._ Cherrybank,

Perth, 7 Jan. 1887; educ. Public School there, enlisted 30 Oct. 1905,

stationed Fort George 1905–6, and in India 1906–Dec. 1912, being in

charge of Regimental Police 1909–12; formed one of their Majesties’

Bodyguard on the occasion of the Durbar, 1911, and received the King’s

medal. On the outbreak of war he was called up 6 Aug. and was badly

wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in No. 3 General Hospital,

St. Nazaire, 28 Sept. 1914; buried there; _unm._

[Illustration: =Robert McAuslan Beveridge.=]

=BEVERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 14024, 2nd Battn. Duke of

Wellington’s West Riding Regt., 2nd _s._ of Bethel Beverley, of

54, Savile Park Street, Halifax, Professor of Music, by his wife,

Sarah Isabel; _b._ Halifax, 4 Dec 1893; educ. Halifax Secondary

School; left his work as an electrical engineer and volunteered after

the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914, and was at first attached to the 3rd

Battn. of the West Riding Regt. After seven months’ training he went

to France with a draft to the 2nd Battn. He was only there three weeks

when he died 5 May, 1915, from the effects of gas poisoning at Hill 60,

and was buried on the Ypres and Poperingue Road; _unm._

=BEVIS, EDWARD ALBERT FRANK=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26776 (Ports.),

H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BEVIS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10259, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent

Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action 16 March, 1915.

=BEYFUS, HAROLD EMANUEL=, Private, No. 225, 5th Battn. (Rifle

Brigade) The London Regt., yr. _s._ of Albert Lewis Beyfus, of 3,

Park Place Villas, Maida Hill, W., Precious Stone Merchant and Broker,

by his wife, Essie, dau. of Benjamin de Frece, of New York, U.S.A.;

_b._ Maida Hill, W., 26 April, 1886; educ. Gower St. University

School, and Kahn’s Institute, Brussels; joined the London Rifle Brigade

after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was wounded in the head, in

action at Hill 60, 1 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne two

days later; _unm._

[Illustration: =Harold Emanuel Beyfus.=]

=BEZER, REUBEN=, Private, No. 3387, A. Coy., 6th Battn.

Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.); a native of Jesmond,

Newcastle-on-Tyne; left Blyth for the Front, 20 April, 1915, was in

action on 26 April, and was posted as missing the following day.

=BIBB, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Armourer, 342183, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BIBBY, JOHN PATRICK=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish

Rifles), 2nd _s._ of Col. Alfred Bibby, late 4th Hussars;

_b._ 9 Nov. 1892; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve to

the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Dec. 1913, and promoted tempy. Lieut., 15 Nov.

1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action there 10 March, 1915; _unm._

=BICKERTON, FREDERICK RICHARD=, Sergt., No. 1110, A Coy. 1st/3rd

Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Samuel

Richard Bickerton, of 58, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N., Builder’s

Clerk, by his wife, Fanny Cinclar, dau. of John Spiller Standen, late

of 60, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N.; _b._ 22 Sept. 1893; educ.

Montem Street Elementary and Higher Grade Schools (passed Oxford Local

Junior Exam. 1908, with 3rd class honours); was a shipping clerk in

the City of London, and joined the 3rd City of London Regt. in 1911.

On the outbreak of war he was sent to guard the railway line near

Fleet, Hants, and from thence to Malta for four months, reaching France

in Jan. 1915. He went through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle where his

Coy. were badly cut up, was promoted Sergt. in March, 1915, and was

afterwards slightly wounded but recovered and rejoined. He died at

No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station 18 Aug. 1915, from wounds received

in action at Aubers Ridge, and was buried in Merville Cemetery,

France (Grave H. 46); _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Capt. Noel,

wrote: “I can honestly say that he was a fine soldier. I especially

owe him a debt of gratitude, because if it had not been for him,

I should probably not be alive now. I was rather badly wounded at

Neuve Chapelle, and your son bandaged me up under heavy fire; he then

practically carried me and put me in a shell hole, and later in the

day came back to me when my life was in danger from shells, and helped

to carry me back to our lines. I mentioned his name to the Colonel

directly I was able to write, and he would surely have earned some

decoration if he had lived, because both in the trenches and at Neuve

Chapelle he showed great bravery and indifference under fire. He was

popular all round and regretted by everyone, and I am proud to say he

was in my company.”

[Illustration: =Frederick R. Bickerton.=]

=BIDDLECOMBE, EDWARD GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.A., 8781, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BIGGE, HON. JOHN NEVILLE=, Capt., King’s Royal Rifle Corps,

only _s._ and _h._ of Arthur John, 1st Lord Stamfordham,

P.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., Private Secretary to his Majesty the

King, by his wife, Constance, dau. of the late Rev. William Frederick

Neville, Vicar of Butleigh, Somerset; _b._ London, 14 Oct. 1887;

educ. Evelyn’s, Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was Page

of Honour to Queen Victoria and to King Edward VII., and on leaving

Sandhurst obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s

Royal Rifle Corps, at Colchester, 6 Oct. 1906, afterwards proceeding

with them to India. He became Lieut. 10 March, 1909, was for a short

time acting A.D.C. to the Earl of Minto when Viceroy of India, and

to Viscount Hardinge for the Coronation Durbar; was transferred to

the Egyptian Army, 8 July, 1913, and appointed A.D.C. to Sir Reginald

Wingate, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. On the

outbreak of war he was unable, according to the conditions of service,

to leave the Egyptian Army, but in Sept. 1914, he was appointed A.D.C.

to Gen. the Hon. Julian Byng, then nominated to the command of the 3rd

Cavalry Division of the Expeditionary Force. He landed at Ostend on 7

Oct., was promoted Capt. 1 March, and remained on Gen. Byng’s Staff

until the end of April, 1915, when at his own request he returned to

regimental duty and joined the 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps,

then attached to the 6th Brigade, 2nd Division. On the occasion of

the night attack carried out by the 1st Army on 15–16 May, he was in

command of the C Company. Soon after the advance began he was seen to

be wounded in the leg, but refused assistance from one of his men, said

he was all right, and told the rifleman to go on. He was never seen

again.

[Illustration: =Hon. John Neville Bigge.=]

=BIGGS, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, No. 26058, 14th Battn. (Royal

Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of the

late Edward Biggs, of Rainham, Essex, by his wife, Eliza; _b._

Dagenham, co. Essex, 27 Jan. 1885; educ. Rainham; emigrated to Canada

in 1910, and settled in Toronto. He enlisted immediately on the

outbreak of the war in Aug. 1914, came over with the first Canadian

Contingent, and after training during the winter on Salisbury Plain,

left for France, 3 April, 1915. He was eighteen days in the trenches

during the Battle of Hill 60, and was killed in action at Richebourg,

20 May, 1915, while acting as bomb thrower, and was buried near

Festubert. He _m._ at Rainham, 17 Aug. 1907, Daisy Constance

(Anglo Cottages, Purfleet, Essex), 2nd dau. of Frederick Allen;

_s.p._

=BILLING, CHARLES GEORGE=, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., Chatham,

attached to Deal Division, eldest _s._ of the late Rev. George

Billing, M.A., sometime (1871–88) missionary under the S.P.G. at

Ramnad, Madras and Calcutta, afterwards vicar of Sturry and Platt, by

his wife, Caroline Flora (28 Bromley College, Bromley), dau. of the

Rev. Joseph Gabbett, co. Limerick, Ireland; _b._ Ramnad, Madura

District, Madras, 15 May, 1882; educ. King’s School, Canterbury,

Dover College and Greenwich. He received his commission in the Royal

Marines, 1 Jan. 1901, and was promoted Lieut., 1 Jan. 1902, and Capt.,

1 Jan. 1912. Served on the China Station, 1903, West Indies, 1906, the

Mediterranean, 1908, the Pacific, 1912, etc., and received pilot’s

certificate in Flying Corps, Oct. 1913. He was appointed to the H.M.S.

Doris, 1914, and was stationed near Ascension Island till April, 1915,

when he came home. He left Plymouth for the Dardanelles, 10 May, 1915,

and was killed in action, 13 June following; _unm._

[Illustration: =Charles George Billing.=]

=BILLING, SAMUEL ALFRED=, No. 2449, 16th Battn. (Queen’s

Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of George

Timothy Billing, of 22, Ribblesvale Road, Hornsey, Inspector, Finsbury

Borough Council; _b._ London, 16 Feb. 1896; educ. Stationers’

School, Crouch End, was an articled clerk to the Borough Accountant of

Hornsey, but on the outbreak of war enlisted, 27 Aug. 1914, and was

killed in action at Houplines, near Armentières, France, 27 Feb. 1915;

_unm._ A comrade wrote: “His grave is here ... a mile from the

firing line, a simple white cross with the simplest inscription, and

the plaque bearing the regimental arms and the grand old Latin phrase,

‘Dulce et decorum est pro patriâ mori.’”

=BILLINGTON, LESLIE CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attached 2nd,

Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only _s._ of Charles Billington, of

Heimath, Longport, co. Stafford, Metallurgist, by his wife, Annie Jane,

dau. of George Richard Cockhead; _b._ Wolstanton, co. Stafford,

25 Dec. 1895; educ. Bishop’s Stortford College, and entered Manchester

University as an engineering student in Oct. 1913. He was in camp with

the University O.T.C. at the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd

Lieut. to the 4th Battn. of the Lancashire Fusiliers, 14 Oct. 1914. On

going to the Front he was attached to the 2nd Battn., and was killed

in action during the taking of German trenches at Pilken, near Ypres,

6–9 July, 1915; _unm._ Writing on Aug. 1, Major Bowes said: “I

have been making enquiries from the N.C.Os. and men of his platoon, and

from what I can gather he was leading a party of men up to the German

trenches during the violent attack which lasted from July 6 to the

9th. His party was told off as bomb throwers. He fell on the parapet

of the trenches and nothing was recovered from his body. One thing I

can say and that is, he showed the greatest courage, and never flinched

when he was told off for the dangerous job. It was a most ghastly time

for us all, and during those three days and four nights we lost ten

officers killed and eight wounded, including the Commanding Officer

and Adjutant, and all the captains except one, and eighty-five men

killed and 234 wounded and missing. The place where this fight took

place is called Pilken, about three miles N. of Ypres. It was brought

about this way. One of the German trenches was in such a position

as to enfilade the front trench occupied by the Rifle Brigade. This

regt. with the Somersets were told off to take this trench, which they

did on the morning of 6 July. My battn. relieved these two regts. on

the 6th (midnight) and occupied the captured German trench. We had

orders to hold the trench at all costs. The Germans counter attacked

on the morning of the 7th with heavy artillery and bomb throwers,

but in spite of heavy odds against us we held that trench for three

whole days, until we were relieved at midnight on the 9th by another

brigade. The regt. covered itself with honour in those three days,

and it was due to such fine young fellows as your boy that we were

able to hold our own”; and a few days later Corpl. Brereton wrote: “We

were holding some trenches captured from the Germans, and our platoon,

which was ably commanded by your son, were in support to the firing

line. We were subjected to a very heavy shell fire, and early on your

son inspired confidence in his men by the way he assisted in digging

several of our men out who had been buried with debris, thereby saving,

I know, two men’s lives from suffocation, for which we all admired

him. It is the most nerve-trying time you can get, to be under heavy

shell fire, especially fresh out from England, but your son seemed to

overcome it straight away, and turned out a brick, as it were. On the

afternoon of the 7th we were ordered to reinforce the front line, and

when we arrived there learned that our bomb throwers had retired from

the advanced saphead temporarily, being short of bombs. The Germans

had occupied it, so your son was ordered by Capt. Blencowe, who was

in command (the Col. and several of our senior officers having got

wounded), to retake the trench. I was the corpl. in charge of the

section he selected to go with him. He led us up fearlessly, he himself

yards in front of any of his men, and I saw him get up to the parapet

and empty his revolver, then jump in the trench, and after the trench

was retaken, he was most unfortunately hit with a shell, dying a brave

soldier’s death, staunch and fearless to the end. His platoon greatly

feel the loss of so gallant an officer, and offer you their most

sincere sympathy in your sad loss.”

[Illustration: =Leslie Charles Billington.=]

=BILNEY, EDWIN ARTHUR=, Private, No. 2975, 4th Battn. Suffolk

Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of A. Bilney, of Brandeston, Suffolk;

was a Gardener; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of

war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in the

Clearing Hospital, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received in action, aged 22.

=BILTON, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 6030, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards,

_s._ of Septimus Bilton, of 73, Arundel Street, Holderness Road,

Hull, formerly of the N.E.R. Coy., by his wife, Mary, dau. of Samuel

Seague, Naval Pensioner; _b._ Hull, 1 Nov. 1887; educ. Fish Street

Council School there; enlisted in 1903 and served for eleven years,

then became Labour Master at the York Workhouse and held this position

when called up on the outbreak of war; killed in action at Soupir,

16 Sept. 1914; _unm._ His brother, Septimus, enlisted after the

outbreak of war and is now (1916) on active service.

[Illustration: =Joseph Bilton.=]

=BINDLEY, HORACE=, Private, No. 15594, 1st Battn. The Middlessex

Regt., _s._ of William Bindley, of 104, Ber Street, Norwich;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action,

1 Sept. 1915.

=BINGHAM, CHARLES HENRY=, Private, No. 9057, 2nd Battn. East Kent

Regt. (The Buffs), _s._ of Henry Bingham of 1, Park Road, Beaver,

near Ashford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action 14 Feb. 1915.

=BINGHAM, CHARLES JEFFREY SLADE=, Private, No. 20745, 10th Battn.

Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of the late Richard Charles

William Bingham, of Bingham’s Melcombe, co. Dorset, J.P., Lieut.-Col.,

Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Georgina (28a, Barons Court Road,

West Kensington), dau. of William Stuckey Wood, of Charlton Musgrove,

Wincanton, late Capt. 7th Dragoon Guards, and grandson of Col. Charles

Bingham, Royal Artillery Dep. Adj.-Gen.; _b._ Bingham’s Melcombe,

co. Dorset, 12 Dec. 1893, and was educ. at Clifton College, from which

he went to Canada in 1910, and at the outbreak of the war joined the

10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force. While in camp at Valcartier

he contracted cerebro-spinal meningitis and was landed at Plymouth

on 15 Oct. 1914, in a very serious condition, and taken to the 4th

Southern Military Hospital, where he died on 6 Jan. 1915; _unm._

Four of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, Richard Charles

Otho with the Ceylon Engineers in Ceylon; John Richard, 2nd Lieut.,

R.F.C., late H.A.C.; Humphrey Richard, Lieut., R.F.A. (awarded the

Military Cross, in Jan. 1915); and William Philip, 2nd Lieut., R.F.C.,

all with the Expeditionary Force in France.

[Illustration: =Charles Jeffrey Slade Bingham.=]

=BINGHAM, FRANK MILLER=, Capt., 5th K.O.R. Lancaster Regt., 2nd

_s._ of the late John Joseph Bingham, M.D., by his wife, Kate

Laura, dau. of John Yardley Robinson; _b._ Alfreton, co. Derby,

17 Sept. 1874; educ. St. Peter’s, York, and obtained medical degree

of M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London. He joined the

Territorials in 1909, being gazetted Lieut. 26 Nov. 1910, and was

promoted Capt. 2 May, 1914. He took part in the fighting round Ypres

in the early part of May, and had three days furlough to visit his

wife and children, and was killed the day after returning to the Front

while on reconnoitring work near Ypres, 22 May, 1915. He was buried

in Sanctuary Wood. Capt. Bingham was a well-known practitioner in

Lancaster, and formerly played cricket for Derbyshire County and Rugby

football for Blackheath. He _m._ at St. Margaret’s, Westminster,

12 Dec. 1900, Ruth Morley (Lindow Cottage, Lancaster), dau. of Alfred

Evans Fletcher, late Chief Inspector of Albrali Works, and had three

children: Thomas Fletcher, _b._ 8 July, 1902; Joan Fletcher,

_b._ 15 July, 1905; and Jill Fletcher, _b._ 22 April, 1911.

[Illustration: =Frank Miller Bingham.=]

=BINGLEY, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9100),

S.S. 105260, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 11 Sept.

1914.

=BINSTEED, GERALD CHARLES=, Major, 2nd Battn. “Pompadours” Essex

Regt., only _s._ of the late Major Charles Henry Frederick

Binsteed, 52nd Oxfordshire L.I. and 1st Madras Lancers, by his wife,

Consuelo (Hanover Court, Hanover Square, W.), dau. of Gerald de

Wilton, Surgeon-Major, Indian Medical Service; _b._ Cairo, 7 Aug.

1885; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Essex

Regt., 20 May, 1905, promoted Lieut., 6 March, 1910, and Capt., 15

Nov. 1914; served with the Mounted Infantry at Longmoor and Malta,

and was Scouting Intelligence Officer at the Curragh. In May, 1914,

he was appointed for Special Employment at the War Office, but after

the outbreak of war, went to the Front with his Regt., was gazetted

Major 18 March, and was killed in action at Le Gheer, 8 April, 1915;

_unm._ Capt. Binsteed greatly distinguished himself by his

gallantry in the field, and was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John

French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 4 and 10 Dec. 1914], and was one

of the first officers to receive the Military Cross [London Gazette, 1

Jan. 1915]. At Wellington he represented his school at Bisley and was

winner of the mile race, and at Sandhurst took the Sword of Honour and

passed out first. He also won the Subalterns’ half mile at Malta and

the Officers’ mile race in the All Ireland Military Athletic Meeting

at the Curragh. Capt. Binsteed was an able linguist, and passed as

an interpreter in French, Russian and Chinese, and was a member of

the Geographical Society, China Society, and Asiatic Society, and a

contributor to the China Year Book, “The Far Eastern Review,” etc.

[Illustration: =Gerald Charles Binsteed.=]

=BIRCH, ARTHUR=, Leading Stoker, K. 9930, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost

in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BIRCH, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7353, H.M.S.

Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off

the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BIRCH, WILLIAM JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1166),

H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BIRCH, WILLIAM ELRIC HAWTHORNE=, 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall’s

L.I., 2nd _s._ of Richard Birch, of London Bank Chambers,

Newcastle, New South Wales; _b._ Hawthorne, Victoria, Australia,

29 March, 1886; educ. Geelong, Australia; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the

Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 18 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at

Hooge, 31 July, 1915. He had previously held a commission in the

Australian Imperial Forces, and his commanding officer wrote: “He is

a very great loss to the battn., as his knowledge of sketching and

surveying were invaluable. He was always cheery and brave, and was

an excellent leader of men.” Lieut. Birch _m._ at Aldershot, 1

May, 1915, Mabel (35, Braidwood Road, Catford, S.E.), 3rd dau. of John

Lewis, of Catford, S.E.; _s.p._

[Illustration: =William Elric H. Birch.=]

=BIRCHALL, ARTHUR PERCIVAL DEARMAN=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 4th

Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, and Capt. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd

_s._ of the late J.... Dearman Birchall, of Bowden Hall, co.

Gloucester, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Towitt, of Harehills,

Leeds; _b._ Bowden Hall, 7 March, 1877, and was educ. at Eton and

Magdalen College, Oxford. He obtained a University Commission, being

gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), 23

May, 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 11 April, 1902, Capt. 1 Oct. 1908,

Major, and Lieut.-Col. 22 Sept. 1914. From 25 March, 1904, to 24 March,

1907, he was Adjutant of the Royal Fusiliers, and on 15 April, 1910,

was seconded for service with the Royal Canadian Regiment, and later

he was on the Instructional Staff, Western Canada. In Aug. 1914, he

was invalided home from Canada, but recovered sufficiently to rejoin

the 1st Canadian Contingent in Nov., and acted as Staff Capt. to the

1st Brigade. Always popular and a keen and most efficient officer he

was appointed to the colonelcy of the 4th Canadians in February, and

was killed in action in the attack on the Pilkem Ridge, near Ypres,

23 April, 1915; _unm._ Speaking of this action F.M. Sir John

French said: “The Canadians had many casualties, but their gallantry

and determination undoubtedly saved the situation. Their conduct

has been magnificent throughout”; and the Official Report from the

Canadian Record Officer at the Front was as follows: “The fighting

continued without intermission all through the night, and to those

who observed the indications that the attack was being pushed with

ever-growing strength, it hardly seemed possible that the Canadians,

fighting in positions so difficult to defend, and so little the subject

of deliberate choice, could maintain their resistance for any long

period. At 6 a.m. on Friday (April 23) it became apparent that the left

was becoming more and more involved, and a powerful German attempt to

outflank it developed rapidly. The consequences, if it had been broken

or outflanked, need not be insisted upon. They were not merely local.

It was therefore decided, formidable as the attempt undoubtedly was, to

try and give relief by a counter-attack upon the first line of German

trenches, now far, far advanced from those originally occupied by the

French. This was carried out by the Ontario 1st and 4th Battns. of

the 1st Brigade, under Brig.-Gen. Mercer, acting in combination with

a British brigade. It is safe to say that the youngest private in the

ranks, as he set his teeth for the advance, knew the task in front of

him, and the youngest subaltern knew that all rested upon its success.

It did not seem that any human being could live in the shower of shot

and shell which began to play upon the advancing troops. They suffered

terrible casualties. For a short time every other man seemed to fall,

but the attack was pressed ever closer and closer. The 4th Canadian

Battn. at one moment came under a particularly withering fire. For a

moment--not more--it wavered. Its most gallant commanding officer,

Lieut.-Col. Birchall, carrying, after an old fashion, a light cane,

coolly and cheerfully rallied his men, and, at the very moment when his

example had infected them, fell dead at the head of his battn. With

a hoarse cry of anger they sprang forward (for, indeed, they loved

him) as if to avenge his death. The astonishing attack which followed,

pushed home in direct frontal fire made in broad daylight, by battns.

whose names should live for ever in the memories of soldiers, was

carried to the first line of German trenches. After a hand-to-hand

struggle the last German who resisted was bayoneted, and the trench

was won. The measure of this success may be taken when it is pointed

out that this trench represented in the German advance the apex in the

breach which the enemy had made in the original line of the Allies, and

that it was 2½ miles south of that line. This charge, made by men who

looked death indifferently in the face--for no man who took part in it

could think that he was likely to live--saved, and that was much, the

Canadian left. But it did more. Up to the point where the assailants

conquered or died, it secured and maintained during the most critical

moment of all the integrity of the Allied line. For the trench was not

only taken, it was held thereafter against all comers, and in the teeth

of every conceivable projectile, until the night of Sunday, the 25th,

when all that remained of the war-broken, but victorious battns. was

relieved by fresh troops.” Major R. Hayter, Brigade-Major, 1st Canadian

Brigade wrote: “Your brother, Percy, fell on the 23rd, leading his

battn. in the first Canadian counter-attack on the 23rd made by the

French, British, and 1st and 4th Canadian battns., just east of the

Ypres Canal. His battn. lost all its officers but four, and some 560

casualties other ranks, but they never wavered and got into the enemy’s

line, saved the day, and prevented the enemy’s advance south along the

east bank of the canal. We are still being desperately engaged, and I

cannot write much, but I am sure you will be glad to hear that he has

been recommended for the Victoria Cross. He was wounded, had his wound

dressed, was wounded again, yet would go on, and fell, leading the

charge which took the trenches.... I had a written message from him

timed 4.20 p.m. acknowledging an order, and I hope some day to be able

to give it to you. His loss has been the greatest blow the contingent

could have had. Loved by all, and worshipped by his officers and men,

we feel that it was his personal magnetism alone which kept his regt.

together, and enabled them to hold what they had gained. All our

deepest sympathies are with you and your family, but his end could not

have been more glorious”; and the following tribute from an old friend

appeared in “The Times” (29 April, 1915): “The claim to have been the

most popular officer in the Army is a large one, and may be advanced in

the name of many a candidate. But it is probable that all who in any

true sense had made Birchall’s acquaintance will claim that no officer

could have been more deeply, and probably none more widely, beloved and

admired. At Eton, at Magdalen, and for fifteen years in the Army, he

was for ever winning to himself friends by the simple but irresistible

charm of his nature--by his manliness and sportsmanship, his humour and

high spirits, his enthusiasm for his profession as in general for the

better things of life. Joining the newly-formed 4th Battn. of the Royal

Fusiliers during the South African War, as a university candidate, he

became closely identified with its fortunes for some ten years; and he

was largely responsible for raising it to the high level of the older

battns. of that famous regt. Beloved alike by his brother officers and

men, he was equally prominent as a leader in soldiering and in sport:

in the field of manœuvre as in the football, the hockey, the hunting,

but especially the cricket field he always played a fine sporting game.

After ably fulfilling the second adjutancy of his battn., he received

the singular distinction of being selected--one of two officers from

the whole Army--to be attached to the Canadian Forces, according

to a scheme for the mutual benefit of both services. In Canada, he

inevitably won through to the same affectionate and admiring popularity

as at home. His period of appointment was extended, he was appointed

to the Staff, and was given an almost transcontinental district of

supervision. The characteristic energy which he threw into this work in

the unaccustomed climate caused a temporary breakdown in his health,

and bitter was his grief, on returning to England, shortly before the

outbreak of war, to find himself entirely forbidden on medical grounds

to take for the present the share in active service for which he had

keenly prepared and eminently fitted himself. To such advantage,

however, did he make use of his time, even of sickness, that, in the

intervals of being visited by a constant stream of devoted friends

from two continents, he compiled the admirable little manual for the

use of regimental officers in the present emergency training, which

he entitled “Rapid Training of a Company for War” (Gale & Polden,

Aldershot). This book rapidly attained a wide success, and was brought

up to date in a second (and subsequent) edition, just as he himself,

recently promoted Major, was appointed first a staff Captain in the

Canadian Expeditionary Force, and in immediate succession given command

of the 4th Canadian Infantry a few days before it sailed for the

front.” Col. Birchall resided at Saintbridge House, Gloucester. His

brother, Capt. J. Dearman Birchall is (1916) serving with the Royal

Gloucestershire’s Hussars Yeomanry.

[Illustration: =Arthur P. D. Birchall.=]

=BIRD, CUTHBERT=, Private, No. 588, 13th Battn. Australian

Imperial Force; volunteered on the outbreak of war; killed in action at

the Dardanelles, 1 May, 1915.

=BIRD, EDWARD=, Private, No. 11984, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,

_s._ of William Bird, of 14, Albert Terrace, Stafford; served with

the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was reported missing 25

Jan., 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

=BIRD, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9529). S.S.

106902, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BIRD, FRANCIS CLIFFORD=, 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King’s Shropshire

L.I., elder _s._ of Francis Bird of Cotswold, Winchcombe, co.

Gloucester, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Joseph Tibbits, of

Warwick; _b._ Cotswold, Winchcombe, 21 June 1895; educ. King

William’s College, Isle of Man, and Cheltenham College, where he was

a member of the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, was

gazetted 2nd Lieut., 15 Aug. 1914, went to the Front in Jan. and

was killed in action near St. Eloi, 2 March, 1915. He was buried at

Voorezelle; _unm._

=BIRD, FRANK EDWARD=, Corpl., No. 476, C Squadron Essex Yeomanry,

eldest _s._ of Frederick Bird, of Thorley, Herts, by his wife,

Fanny Alberta, dau. of George, Fowler; _b._ Thorley, 25 March,

1893; educ. Hockerill Boys’ Practising Schools; joined Essex Yeomanry

as a Trumpeter in Nov. 1909, and having completed his four years’

service, rejoined for a further period. He was killed in action, near

Ypres, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ He was mentioned in Despatches for

bravery and coolness under fire, and Capt. R. G. Proby, commanding

the Stortford Troop, writing to his father, said: “He took part with

the rest of the Stortford Troop in a very gallant attack on the

German lines. The attack succeeded, but unfortunately our losses were

heavy--he is among the number. I need hardly say how sorry I am to have

to tell you this news. His death will be very greatly felt by the whole

squadron, and especially by his friends in the Stortford Troop, with

whom he was very popular. It will be some consolation to you to know

how bravely he fell.”

[Illustration: =Frank Edward Bird.=]

=BIRD, STEPHEN CARMEN=, Private, No. 67193, B Coy., 25th

Battn., 2nd Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of

the late Stephen Bird, Lieut. 93rd Battn. (died 9 Dec. 1895), by

his wife, Augusta (Amherst, Nova Scotia), dau. of William Bird;

_b._ Mapleton, Nova Scotia, posthumous, 24 April, 1896; educ.

Amherst High School; was employed in the Offices of Canada Car Co.,

Amherst; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian

Expeditionary Force, 9 Nov. 1914; came over with the 2nd Contingent,

29 May, 1915; went to France, 15 Sept. and was killed in action there,

8 Oct. 1915, by the explosion of a mine; _unm._ A comrade wrote:

“He was a friend at all times and under all circumstances, no one need

wish a better friend, we all loved him and we all mourn his loss.” And

another: “He had splendid courage, and when urged to fall back a little

further a few minutes before the explosion occurred his reply was ‘I am

staying right here.’” Private Bird was a keen athlete and a base-ball

player.

[Illustration: =Stephen Carmen Bird.=]

=BIRD, WILFRED STANLEY=, M.A. Oxon, Lieut., 6th (Reserve),

attached 2nd, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, _s._ of the Rev.

Henry George Bird, M.A., Rector of Newdigate, co. Surrey, by his wife,

Henrietta Maria, dau. of William Greenham, of Hendford House, near

Yeovil, J.P.; _b._ Yiewsley Vicarage, co. Middlesex, 28 Sept.

1883. He commenced his education at the Grange (Preparatory) School,

Eastbourne, where he captained the cricket and football teams, and

was an immense favourite with the masters and boys alike. He later

proceeded to Malvern and entered the College at the time Canon Sidney

James came to be Headmaster. There he represented his College in

cricket, fives and football. His company also won the College Cup for

military drill. In 1902 he was entered at New College, Oxford, and

his early promise of being a leading sportsman was fully realised. He

represented Oxford in cricket on three successive seasons, and was

Captain of the Oxford side in 1906. He was a member of the Middlesex

Team, though circumstances prevented him from playing in more than

two or three matches during the season. He played for the Gentlemen

against the Players, and was asked to represent England in South

Africa and Australia. He was an extremely careful and good batsman,

but specially excelled as a wicket keeper, and one of the best known

captains in England said: “He is the best wicket keeper I ever saw.”

After leaving Oxford, where he won for himself many friends, he became

a master at Ludgrove. It was here that he spent the last eight years

of his life. His record there is a fulfilment of the promise of his

early days at Eastbourne and Malvern, and his keenness on everything to

do with Ludgrove, and his willingness to put himself out for others,

endeared him to masters and boys alike. He was immensely happy there

and it was a terrific struggle to answer the call, but he never failed

to recognise his duty. A member of the O.T.C., he was gazetted Lieut.

to the 6th Battn. of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 29 Dec. 1914, and

was afterwards attached to the 2nd Battn. at the Front. He was killed,

9 May, 1915, while gallantly leading his platoon near Richebourg St.

Vaast; unm. His Major wrote of him: “Bird was gallantly leading his men

when he was shot, and died instantly.” He adds: “Bird was a splendid

fellow, and a very promising officer and very popular with officers and

men alike. I am more than sorry to lose him.”

[Illustration: =Wilfred S. Bird, M.A.=]

=BIRRELL, GEORGE HENRY GORDON=, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Dumbartonshire)

Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest _s._ of

Col. John Birrell, of Allander House, Milngavie, co. Dumbarton, late

9th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Army Service Corps

(Highland Division), by his wife, Grace Marguerite, dau. of George

William Masson Buish, of Salto, B.O.; _b._ Milngavie afsd., 2

Feb. 1893; educ. Loretto, gazetted to his father’s old regt., 3 Nov.

1914, and joined at the Front in Feb. 1915. On 10 May, 1915, during

the second Battle of Ypres, the Battn., which formed part of the ..

Brigade, received orders to take and hold a line of trenches near

Hooge; this they did, but at considerable loss. Lieut. Birrell was

killed during the advance, while gallantly leading his platoon under

heavy shell fire. He was _unm._, and was buried in Zouave Wood,

near Hooge.

[Illustration: =George Henry Gordon Birrell.=]

=BIRRELL, KENNETH=, Private, No. 11106, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots

(Lothian Regt.), only _s._ of W. Birrell, by his wife, Alsie (10,

Merchant Street, Edinburgh), dau. of (--) Reid; _b._ Stockbridge,

Edinburgh, 15 Jan. 1895; educ. Glen Street Roman Catholic School there;

enlisted 2 April, 1912, and was killed in action during the retreat

from Mons, 26 Aug. 1914; _unm._

=BISHOP, ALBERT EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 24353, H.M.S. Hawke; lost

in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BISHOP, CHARLES HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3816),

187061, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast

of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BISHOP, EDWIN MAURICE=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt.,

attached King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., elder _s._ of Edwin Bishop, of

Gosport and Swanwick, Sugar Merchant, by his wife, Janette (The Lawns,

Swanwick, near Southampton), dau. of the late Knowles Richardson, of

Littlehampton and Portsmouth; _b._ Gosport, 19 June, 1891; educ.

Bradfield College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire Regt.,

21 June, 1912, and promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1913. On the outbreak of the

European War, he left for the Front, 8 Sept. 1914, being attached to

King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., and was killed in action at Illies, France,

18 Oct. 1914; _unm._ His Capt. wrote: “We started attacking

yesterday morning at 6.20 a.m., and your son was leading his platoon

with the firing line. I heard about mid-day that he had been killed; he

was found by one of the other subalterns, and there is no doubt that he

was killed instantaneously. We had all got very fond of him in D. Coy.

We all feel his loss very deeply. Poor fellow! this was his ‘Baptism

of Fire’; he was leading his platoon most gallantly when he was shot”;

and Sergt. Beeching: “We started the attack and advanced under a very

heavy fire from the enemy till we gained a ridge where we all laid

down. Mr. Bishop then rose up on his hands and knees and was in the

act of passing a message along the line when he was hit; the bullet

had entered his forehead and had come out at the base of his skull”;

and Sergt. Spooner spoke of him as: “One who during his short stay

with us had won the greatest admiration and respect from his men.” His

yr. brother, Private G. S. Bishop, A.S.C., died on active service, 10

April, 1915 (see his notice).

[Illustration: =Edwin Maurice Bishop.=]

=BISHOP, FREDERICK HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 229715, H.M.S. Cressy;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BISHOP, GEORGE SPENCER=, Private, No. 31591, 178 Coy Army Service

Corps (Motor Transport), yr. and only surviving _s._ of Edwin

Bishop, of Gosport and Swanwick, etc. (see previous notice); _b._

Swanwick, 17 Oct. 1892; educ. Bradfield College; learned motor

engineering at Adams’ Engineering Works, Bedford; enlisted in the Army

Service Corps (Motor Transport) in Dec. 1914, trained at Grove Park

Barracks and afterwards at Reading, where he died of cerebro-spinal

meningitis, after a week’s illness, 10 April, 1915. He was brought home

and buried in Sarisbury Churchyard. A brass tablet to his memory was

put up in the church by the officers, non-commissioned officers, and

men of his company. The Major stated that “He was a very smart soldier

and much liked by all his Company.”

[Illustration: =George Spencer Bishop.=]

=BISHOP, JAMES=, A.B., 229797, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that

ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BISHOP, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 10705), 300546,

H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BISS, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Private, No. 2733, 1/8th Battn.

Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Frederick Biss, of 25, Werley

Avenue, Dawes Road, Fulham, S.W., by his wife, Emma, dau. of Ernest

Roylance; _b._ Shoreditch, 13 May, 1896; educ. Fulham Palace Road

Board School; was a Labourer; joined the Territorials about 1911;

volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914;

went to France, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action in a trench at

the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was buried at Wye

Farm, near Loos, with others of his comrades.

=BITTEN, FREDERICK=, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4948, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BLACK, CUTHBERT THOMAS=, A.B., 224922, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BLACK, FRANK HENRY=, Capt., 4th. attached 1st. Battn. Royal

Warwickshire Regt., elder _s._ of Francis Black, of Fairview,

Great North Road, Finchley, R.B.A., A.R.C.A., Hon. Sec. of the Royal

Society of British Artists, late Principal of the L.C.C. Camden School

of Art, etc., by his wife, Annie Beatrice, dau. of the late John Smith,

of the firm of John Smith, Ltd., 131, London Wall, and grandson of

the late Horatio Black, of Nottingham; _b._ London, 1 Dec. 1887;

educ. City of London School, and in Paris; joined the Artists’ Rifles

as private in 1907, afterwards accepting a commission (20 Jan. 1912)

which he resigned in June, 1914, owing to business pressure. On the

outbreak of the war he volunteered, and there being no vacancy in his

old Coy (A) of the Artists he accepted a commission in the 4th Battn.

of the Royal Warwickshire Regt., 18 Aug. 1914. He was afterwards

attached to the 1st Battn., being sent to it in France in Sept. After

some weeks at the base, St. Nazaire, they went up to the firing line

in Flanders, arriving on 26 Oct. He spent the whole winter in the

trenches. He was promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1914, and Capt 1 Jan. 1915,

and was killed in action at St. Julien, 25 April, 1915, during the 2nd

Battle of Ypres; _unm._ His commanding officer, Col. A. J. Poole,

wrote: “He was killed on 25 April gallantly leading his men against

the German trenches. He was the greatest favourite with us all, and

all our sympathy goes out to you in your sad bereavement. Personally,

I feel I have lost a great friend, and one that I shall never be able

to replace as one of my officers. Unfortunately, we have been unable

to recover his body at present, but will make every endeavour to do

so”; and Private H. Roberts, writing from hospital, said: “On Sunday,

25 April, about 4 a.m., Capt. Black gave the order to advance and take

the lines of trenches in front of us. We had advanced the biggest part

of the ground under heavy fire, when the Capt. was shot through the

head. It was impossible for any of us to render him any aid, as death

was instantaneous. I daresay you will have read that he was posted

wounded and missing, but I am sorry to say he was killed, as I was only

a few yards away from him when it happened. The reason the Capt. was

posted missing was because he was so near the enemy’s trenches when he

fell. Capt. Black was one of our most popular officers, and his death

was deeply felt amongst the boys of the Coy. with whom he was a great

favourite.” Capt. Black held the Challenge Cup for highest efficiency

for one year, and gained a number of silver spoons for shooting, and

was very popular with his Coy. He was a member of the School of Arms,

and took a great interest in A Coy.’s camp at Datchet in 1912, 1913,

and 1914, being one of the chief movers in the formation of that club.

[Illustration: =Frank Henry Black.=]

=BLACK, HENRY=, Private, No. 10008, 1st Battn. Scots Guards;

_b._ Mid Calder, Edinburgh; volunteered and enlisted 1 Sept. 1914,

aged 25; reported missing after the fighting on 25 Jan. 1915.

=BLACK, JAMES WILLIAM McKAY=, Private, No. 2089, 1/5th Battn.

Royal Scots, elder _s._ of John Black, of 15, Mertoun Place,

Edinburgh, Blacksmith, by his wife, Christina, dau. of William McKay;

_b._ Edinburgh, 15 Sept. 1883; educ. Gillespie’s School there;

served his apprenticeship as an engineer in Edinburgh; on 18 Jan.

1909, was appointed an assistant in Edinburgh Weights and Measures

Department; passed the Board of Trade Examination held in Glasgow on

the 15–16 Nov. 1911; commenced his duties as an Inspector of Weights

and Measures 16 Feb. 1912; appointed an officer under the Petroleum

Acts, the Explosive Act and the Fabric Misdescription Act, 16 May,

1914; enlisted on the outbreak of the war, 29 Aug. 1914; and was

reported killed in action in Gallipoli, 28 April, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =James William McKay Black.=]

=BLACK, ROBERT=, L.-Corpl., No. 12109, 2nd Battn. Highland Light

Infantry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported

wounded and missing 24 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed

in action on that day.

=BLACK, THOMAS=, Private, No. 10674, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots,

2nd _s._ of the late Thomas Black, Calender Worker, and formerly

a Private in the Black Watch, by his wife, Agnes (5, Ramsey Street,

Dundee), dau. of Jack Fields; _b._ Dundee, 23 Sept. 1892; educ.

Mitchel Street Public School there; was for some time employed as

a rope spinner in Messrs. Halket & Adams’ Rope Works, Dundee, and

enlisted in the Royal Scots, 7 June, 1910. He was drafted to the 1st

Battn. in India, and on the outbreak of the European War came home with

his regt. and was killed in action in France, 12 May, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Pte. Thomas Black.=]

=BLACK, WALTER CAIRNS=, L.-Corpl., No. 2164, 14th Battn. (London

Scottish) London Regt., _s._ of James Black, Bookbinder’s Manager;

_b._ Edinburgh, 10 June, 1888; educ. Daniel Stewart’s College,

Edinburgh; joined on mobilisation 4 Aug. 1914, was promoted L.-Corpl.

for tending wounded under fire and general good conduct in the field,

and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. 1914; _unm._ Black

was by profession a chemist and druggist, qualifying at Edinburgh,

1910; was for some time assistant to Mr. H. Dixon, of Russell Gardens,

S.W., and later joined the staff of Messrs. Allen and Hanbury, of

Lombard Street.

=BLACK, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11521, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of

James Black, of 12, Wilkies Lane, Dundee; _b._ Aberdeen; volunteered

and enlisted 4 Oct. 1914, aged 19; served with the Expeditionary Force

in France, etc.; reported missing, 18 May, 1915.

=BLACK, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No 11302, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.,

4th _s._ of Jeremiah Black, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Joseph

Lowry; _b._ Craigywarren, Ballymena, co. Antrim, Ireland, 28 Jan.

1890; educ. Craigywarren National School; enlisted in April, 1909,

promoted Sergt., Nov. 1914, served with the Expeditionary Force in

France and Flanders, and was killed in action on the Rossitier Road in

the Village of Zonnebeke, five or six miles from Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914;

_unm._

[Illustration: =Sergt. William Black.=]

=BLACK, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 22764, 11th Battn. The Royal Scots,

2nd _s._ of George Black, of Buckhaven, by his wife, Helen, dau.

of Adam Addison; _b._ Howtown, co. Clackmannan; educ. Cowdenbeath,

Fife; was a miner; enlisted 9 May, 1915, and was killed in action near

St. Julien, 15 Oct. 1915, by the explosion of a mine under the trench

where he was on sentry duty. He _m._ at Buckhaven, Fife, 1 Jan.

1908, Isabella Gordon (Randolph Street, Buckhaven), dau. of George

Cargill, and had three children: George Gordon, _b._ 22 Feb. 1909;

William, _b._ 26 March, 1915; and Mary Keddie, _b._ 6 Aug.

1911.

=BLACKBURN, EDWARD=, Private, No. 12548, 1st Battn. Coldstream

Guards; _b._ York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 12 March, 1915; _m._

=BLACKBURN, HORACE=, Private, No. 8393, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards,

_s._ of (--) Blackburn, of 5, Sheridan Street, Wakefield Road,

Bradford; _b._ Bradford; enlisted 31 Aug. 1912, aged 21; served

with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported wounded and

missing, 20 Oct. 1914.

=BLACKBURN, JOSEPH EDWARD=, Leading Seaman, 226195, H.M.S. Hogue;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BLACKER, CECIL FRANCIS=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Connaught Rangers,

yr. _s._ of Major Frederick Henry Blacker, late 4th Queen’s

Own Hussars, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Sir Joseph Bazalgette,

C.B.; _b._ ...; educ. May Place, Malvern Wells, and Wellington

College, Berks (Purnell’s 1903–06); was at the R.M.C. 1908, entered

the Army, Nov. 1909, gazetted Lieut. Jan. 1911, being 2nd in command

of the Brigade Cyclist Corps when he went to the Front. He was

severely wounded at the Battle of Mons, 23 Aug. 1914, and died at

Netley Hospital, 6 Sept. following; he was buried at Maudins, Naas;

_unm._

=BLACKER, GEORGE FREDERICK=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attached “A” Coy.

2nd, Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only _s._ of Arthur Edward

Blacker, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., by his wife, Harriet Sophia Williams,

dau. of the late Henry Robbins Dew, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Assistant

Staff Surgeon to Lord Raglan in the Crimean War, and gdson. of the

late George Frederick Blacker, of Midsomer Norton, M.R.C.S., L.S.A.;

_b._ Bristol, 13 July, 1893; educ. Bristol Grammar School, was

at the outbreak of war about to commence his medical studies, but at

once applied for a commission and was gazetted to the Northamptons

from the Bristol O.T.C., 28 Oct. 1914. He went to the Front, 30 March,

and was killed in action at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915;

_unm._ He was at first reported missing, but later his body was

recovered and buried near an orchard about 300 yards south-west of the

junction of Rue Petillon and the road from Sailly to Fromelles. The

delay in recovering his body was due to the fact that the spot where he

fell was in the open near the enemy’s lines, and was fiercely contested

for many days. All the five officers in his company were killed on

the same day, and most of the men were either killed or wounded by

maxim gun fire in what his commanding officer described as: “a very

gallant attempt to close with the enemy.” 2nd Lieut. G. F. Friendship,

writing on behalf of the commanding officer to Dr. Blacker, said that:

“Blacker with his Coy. took part in an attack we made on the German

lines. As the Northamptons attacked, they were met by a perfect hail

of bullets, machine and rifle fire. Nothing could live in it, and I am

sorry to say, we lost a big number of men and officers. Your son acted

most gallantly and was seen, before he was hit, shouting to his men to

come on”; and Lieut. H. W. Carritt, one of the very few officers who

came safely through that terrible charge, states that Lieut. Blacker

led his platoon bravely, choosing the dangerous flank, and sending

his sergt. to lead that which was less perilous. He died close to the

enemy’s position in a brave attempt to lead his men over what proved

practically insurmountable obstacles.”

[Illustration: =George F. Blacker.=]

=BLACKER, WALTER=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345996, H.M.S. Good

Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=BLACKETT, WILLIAM STEWART BURDETT=, of Arbigland, co. Dumfries,

and Manton Grange, Oakham, co. Rutland, Capt., Leicestershire Yeomanry,

late Grenadier Guards, eldest _s._ of the late Capt. Archibald

Campbell Steuart Blackett, R.N., by his wife, Clara Blanche Harriet,

eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Sedley Burdett, Coldstream Guards,

and nephew and heir of Christopher Edward Blackett, of Arbigland, J.P.,

Lieut.-Col. 26th and 93rd Regts. and Coldstream Guards [a cadet of the

family of Blackett, of Wylam, co. Northumberland]; _b._ London,

24 Oct. 1873; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst; joined the 3rd Grenadier

Guards 8 May, 1895, becoming Lieut. 12 Feb. 1898, and Capt. 1901. He

served through the South African War, 1899–1902, in the 8th Division

under General Rundle, was present at the Battle of Biddulphsberg, and

received the Queen’s medal with two clasps and the King’s with two

clasps. He retired in 1903, but on the outbreak of war joined the

Leicestershire Yeomanry, and was gazetted 15 Aug. 1914. He went to

France with the Expeditionary Force, was wounded in action near Ypres

on 20 Nov. 1914, and died in a French hospital at Poperinghe 24 Nov.

following, and was buried there. He _m._ at Staplestown Church,

Carlow, 6 April, 1907, Kathleen Prudence Eirene (Arbigland, Dumfries),

dau. of Beauchamp Frederick Bagenal, of Benekerry House, co. Carlow,

D.L., and had a son, Christopher William Stewart Blackett, now of

Arbigland, _b._ 27 April, 1908.

[Illustration: =William S. B. Blackett.=]

=BLACKLAY, FRANCIS PETTICREW=, Private, No. 21065, 16th Battn.

(Canadian Scottish), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of James

Blacklay, of 13, Marlborough Street, Londonderry, Managing Director

of William Thompson & Co., Ltd., Londonderry; _b._ Londonderry,

5 May, 1893; educ. Foyle College there; and on leaving there went to

Canada and entered the employ of the Canadian Bank of Commerce at

Winnipeg, being later transferred to Longham and Delisle, Sask. This

he left in April, 1915, to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

He was killed in action, 26 Oct. 1915, while on duty round a German

battleplane which had fallen in the British lines, and was buried near

Wulverghem; _unm._

=BLACKLEY, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 657, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots,

_s._ of the late William Blackley, Shiprigger, by his wife,

Phyllis, dau. of Robert Muir, Gardener; _b._ Edinburgh, 5 April,

1887; educ. London Road National School there; enlisted about 1906,

and was killed in action at Wolverehem, 11 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at

Leith, 15 Feb. 1909, Mary Ellen, 4th dau. of Andrew Dalziell, and had

two children: John, _b._ 9 June, 1913; and Anna, _b._ 12 Oct.

1911.

=BLACKMAN, JOHN THOMAS=, Private, No. 258, Princess Patricia’s

L.I., Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late John

Blackman, Sergt., 33rd West Riding Regt., by his wife, Mary (5, Best

Town, Cage Lane, Chatham), dau. of Patrick Lyons; _b._ Lucknow,

India, 11 April, 1881; educated Chatham; enlisted in the Grenadier

Guards, and after serving five years went to Canada, 4 April, 1910, and

on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service. He was killed

in action at Hill 60, 4 May, 1915; _unm._

=BLACKMAN, THOMAS=, Sapper, No. 1544, Royal Engineers, eldest

_s._ of William James Blackman, of 86, Church Street, Ore,

Painter; _b._ Hastings, co. Sussex, 23 Nov. 1873; was a Painter;

enlisted, 13 Oct. 1914; went to the Front, 22 Dec. 1914, and was killed

in action, 5 March, 1915. His Capt. wrote: “He was carrying out last

night some dangerous work in front of our trenches and was hit by a

stray bullet.” He _m._ 1st, at Ore, Hastings, Laura (died 12 July,

1910), dau. of William Holewell, labourer; and 2ndly, at the same

place, 7 Oct. 1911, Philly Jane (60, Fairlight Road, Ore, Hastings),

dau. of William Mepham, Naval Pensioner, and had three children by his

1st wife: Thomas William, _b._ 24 May, 1907; Rose, _b._ 2

July, 1908; and Laura, _b._ 20 Feb. 1910.

[Illustration: =Thomas Blackman.=]

=BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3700A, H.M.S. Hogue; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BLAKE, AUGUSTUS EDWARD=, C.P.O. (R.F.R., A. 2043), 153991, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BLAKE, HENRY=, Private, No. 1835, 118th Battn. Middlesex Regt.

(T.F.), 2nd _s._ of David Blake, of Grange View, Chalfont St.

Peters, by his wife, Maria, dau. of James Butcher; _b._ Chalfont

St. Peters, co. Bucks, 2 May, 1892; educ. National School there; joined

the 8th Middlesex Territorials, Sept. 1912; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914, and

volunteered for foreign service; served at Gibraltar, 3 Sept. 1914, to

Feb. 1915, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders,

8 March, to 26 April, 1915, on which date he was killed in action at

Zonnebeke during the second Battle of Ypres; _unm._

=BLAKE, JOHN EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2641), 205973, H.M.S. Good

Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=BLAKE, LOUIS CHARLES=, Private, No. 27168, B Coy., 15th Battn.

(48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Harry

George Blake, of 689, Ontario Street, Toronto, Canada, Gasfitter, by

his wife, Louisa, dau. of Charles Henry Stiling, of Walworth; _b._

Camberwell, London, 22 Jan. 1888; went to Canada with his parents when

one year old in 1889; educ. Sackville Street Public School, Toronto,

and was a Fourth Book Scholar. He served with the 12th York Rangers

from 7 June, 1904, to 18 May, 1912, when he obtained his discharge

with an excellent character. He then served for a short time with the

A.S.C., and joined the 48th Highlanders in 1913, and on the outbreak

of war in Aug. 1914, was one of the first to volunteer for service

overseas. He left with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on

Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to the Front in Feb. 1915, and

served continuously until 5 Dec. 1915, when he was killed in action

at 10.5 p.m. at King Edward Terrace (Ration Farm), France, by a high

explosive shell. He was buried there; _unm._ His brothers, Corpl.

Edward Blake, 19th Battn., and Private Harry Blake, 74th Battn., are

now (1916) on active service.

[Illustration: =Louis Charles Blake.=]

=BLAIR, SIDNEY BARCLAY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn.,

Royal Warwickshire Regt., 3rd _s._ of John Blair, of Bidston

House, Wigan, J.P., M.D., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of F....

Love, of The Priory, Grosmont, co. York; _b._ Wigan, 20 Aug.

1885; educ. Wigan and Warminster Grammar Schools, and Giggleswick

School, where he won his colours and became a corpl. in the O.T.C. He

matriculated at Liverpool University in 1913, and passed his first

professional examination in medicine shortly after the outbreak of war.

Volunteering, he was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. of the Warwickshire

Regt., 19 Nov. 1914, and on going to France in March was transferred

to 2nd Battn. He was killed in action at Festubert by a shell between

the 1st and 2nd line German trenches, whilst leading his platoon, 16

May, 1915, and was buried at Le Touchet; _unm._ His colonel wrote:

“He died gallantly leading his platoon attacking the Germans, 16 May.”

His Adjutant: “I always found him so willing and always ready to be of

service. His loss will be greatly felt in the regt.” His Capt.: “Your

son belonged to my company, and he was killed between the 1st and

2nd line German trenches. His platoon was the first of the battn. to

attack, and he led them most gallantly.”

[Illustration: =Sidney Barclay Blair.=]

=BLAKEWAY, COL. THE REV. PHILIP JOHN THOMAS, M.A., T.D.=,

Chaplain, 4th London Mounted Brigade, 2nd Mounted Division, and Vicar

of Walberton, Arundel, _s._ of Philip Edward Blakeway, of 29,

Clifton Gardens, Folkestone, by his wife, Maria, dau. of John Wootton;

_b._ London, -- March, 1865; educ. Malvern, and Magdalen College,

Oxford, and on leaving the latter in 1884 received a commission in the

8th Hussars and joined the regt. in India. After six years he sent in

his papers, went back to Magdalen College, Oxford, and took his degree

and was ordained Deacon in 1891 and priest in 1893. After holding

curacies at Camberwell, Lambeth and Battersea, he was for seven years

Chaplain to the Earl of Lathom, and in 1902 became temporary Chaplain

to the Forces at Chichester Barracks. In 1903 he was appointed to

the rectory of All Saints’, Hastings, and in 1907 to the Vicarage of

Walberton. Since 1893 he had been Chaplain to the Middlesex Hussars

(1st County of London), and when war broke out he applied to go to the

Front, and was appointed 1st Class Chaplain with the rank of Colonel.

He went out to Egypt with one of the first drafts of troops, and died

on active service at Ismailia, 16 June, 1915, of heart failure. He

_m._ at Old Windsor, 10 Aug. 1893, Sibyl Agnes (The Cottage,

Halnaker, Chichester), dau. of Francis Ricardo, of The Friary, Old

Windsor, and 44, Portman Square, W., J.P.; _s.p._

[Illustration: =Rev. P. J. T. Blakeway.=]

=BLAKEY, GEORGE HENRY=, A.B., J. 7104 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BLANCHETT, CHRISTOPHER=, Sergt., No. 18159, 3rd Battn. Canadian

Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Frederick Blanchett, of Whitehill

Cottage, Wootton Bassett, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Curry, of

North Curry, co. Somerset; _b._ Wootton Bassett, co. Wilts, ....;

educ. Council School there; enlisted in the Wiltshire Regt.; served

through the South African war, afterwards going to Canada in April,

1913. After the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Expeditionary

Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ducks’ Bill, France, 19

June, 1915. He _m._ at Wootton Bassett, 11 April, 1903, Mildred

Ellen, dau. of William Sainsbury, of Wootton Bassett, and had a son

and two daus.: Stuart, _b._ 19 Jan. 1912; Zita Mary Asenatte,

_b._ 2 May, 1907; and Mildred Christina, _b._ 22 May, 1909.

[Illustration: =Christopher Blanchett.=]

=BLAND, CHARLES ERNEST WILLIAM, D.S.O.=, Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd,

Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, _s._ of Horatio Bland,

of Stretton House, near Alfreton, co. Derby, Capt. (ret.) King’s

Own Scottish Borderers, by his wife, Fanny Louisa (Stretton House,

Alfreton, Derbyshire), dau. of William Henry Duff; _b._ New

Wandsworth, co. Surrey, 21 Aug. 1881; educ. Marlborough and Sandhurst;

joined the Scottish Borderers, 20 Jan. 1900, served in the Boer War,

and was present at the actions at Vet River and Zand River, those near

Johannesburg and Pretoria, and at Zillikats Nek (Queen’s medal with

three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); became Capt. 9 March,

1908, and retired 26 Oct. 1910, being gazetted to the 3rd (Reserve)

battn. of his regt. On the outbreak of war he rejoined, was attached

to the 2nd battn. with which he went to the Front, was twice mentioned

in despatches by F.M. Sir John French, and awarded the D.S.O. 18 Feb.

1915, and was killed in the action around Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He

is believed to have been buried near Pilkem. Major D’Ewes Coke wrote:

“The actual event which gained him the D.S.O. was when we were holding

trenches in front of Ypres in Nov. His trench was several times

attacked by Prussian infantry, as well as being subjected to very heavy

fire from minewerfers and artillery, but he stuck to it and defended

his trench with great bravery.” He _m._ at the Parish Church,

Maynooth, co. Kildare, Ireland, 22 Oct. 1910, Isabella, dau. of William

Browne-Lecky, of Ecclesville, co. Tyrone, and had a dau.--Patricia,

_b._ 24 April, the day after her father was killed. Capt. Bland

was well known in the hunting field, and was frequently out with the

Cottesmore and Belvoir packs.

[Illustration: =Charles E. W. Bland.=]

=BLAND, PERCY=, Junior Sick Berth Reserve Attendant, M. 8633,

H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BLANDFORD, GEORGE JOHN=, Chief Armourer, No. Ch. 340800, R.N.,

_s._ of Martin Blandford, Leading Stoker on the Royal Yacht

Victoria and Albert; _b._ Ewer Common, Gosport, 18 Sept. 1876;

educ. Alverstoke School; was for many years at the Chatham Gunnery

School; joined the Cressy on the outbreak of war, and was lost with

that ship 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ He had the Good Conduct medal.

=BLANDFORD, HENRY=, Private, No. 2253, 8th Battn. Middlesex Regt.

(T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died of

wounds, 9 Sept. 1915.

=BLANDFORD, THOMAS HENRY=, Private, No. 9247, 2nd Battn.

Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Thomas Henry Blandford, of 19a

Skelbrook Street, Earlsfield, S.W.; _b._ co. Surrey; served with

the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Boiseron,

8 Sept. 1914; _unm._

=BLANFORD, CHARLES EDWARD=, Major, R.G.A., 30th Indian Mountain

Battery, 3rd _s._ of Thomas Blanford, of 4, The Grove, Highgate,

N., by his wife, Amy, dau. of Frederick Simpson; _b._ Kensington,

W., 16 March, 1874; educ. Highgate School and Royal Military Academy,

Woolwich (Sept. 1891–93); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.A., 1 Jan. 1894,

promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1897, Capt. 9 April 1900, and Major--Oct. 1914;

joined at Portsmouth, and after nine months there and at Gordon Hill,

Isle of Wight, went out to India in Oct. 1894, and was attached to a

heavy battery at Ferozepore. He served in India for 21 years with the

exception of the period of the South African War, when he was given

ordnance work at Kimberley (Queen’s medal with clasp) and for a short

time (six weeks) at Spike Island, Ireland, before going to Kimberley;

died of wounds received the same day, 11 July, 1915, near Nasiriyeh in

the Persian Gulf, while commanding a section of the battery on rafts.

His commanding officer wrote: “He has been such a tower of strength

to me that I cannot say it often enough. Always ready for work and

never complaining. He has had several hard tasks and carried them

through most successfully.... The State has indeed lost a gallant and

invaluable officer whose continual watchword was Duty.” A comrade

wrote: “It is an irreparable loss to us, and his place will not be easy

to fill; he was always ready to do anything, but what I have always

admired most about him has been his pluck, courage and indifference

to danger.” He _m._ at Eastbourne, 24 Sept. 1912, Vida May

(28, Milnthorpe Road, Eastbourne), dau. of Albert Henry Trenchard,

of Eastbourne, and had a son, Edward Oliver Trenchard, _b._

Thandiani, near Abbottabad, N.W.F.P., India, 4 Sept. 1913.

[Illustration: =Charles E. Blanford.=]

=BLANK, WILLIAM JOHN HENRY=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 268654, H.M.S.

Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914; _m._

=BLANSHARD, PHILIP ARTHUR=, Private, No. 11466, 2nd Battn.

Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of Henry Brand Blanshard, of 4,

Finsbury Grove, Fountain Road, Hull, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the

late George Hurdman of Hull, hairdresser; _b._ Hull, 18 Sept.

1894; educ. Park Road Board School there; was in the employ of the Hull

Corporation (Sanitary Dept.), enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; left England for

the Front, 21 Jan. 1915 and died in the 1st Field Hospital, at 3.30

p.m. 2 Feb. following, of shell wounds received in action at Cuinchy

near La Bassée. He was buried in Bethune Town Cemetery.

[Illustration: =Philip Arthur Blanshard.=]

=BLATCHFORD, ALBERT=, Acting Leading Stoker, (Dev.), K. 10989,

_s._ of Joseph Blatchford, of 2, Weslet Terrace, Ipplepen, near

Newton Abbot; lost in action when H.M.S. Goliath, was sunk at the

Dardanelles, 13 May, 1915.

=BLATCHFORD, ALBERT GEORGE=, Shipwright, 1 Ch. 170876, H.M.S.

Formidable; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the English Channel, 1

Jan., 1915; _m._

=BLATHERWICK, HENRY THOMPSON=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26731 (Ports.),

H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BLATHWAYT, GERALD WYNTER=, Capt., Royal Field Artillery, yr.

_s._ of Arthur Pennington Blathwayt, member of the London Stock

Exchange, and of Northwood Grange, R.S.O., Middlesex, by his wife, Mary

Constantia, dau. of the late John Thorp, of Maldon, Essex; _b._

Belvedere, Kent, 30 June 1879; educ. Aldenham School, Herts; gazetted

2nd Lieut. from the Kent Artillery Militia, to the Royal Artillery,

22 Dec. 1898, promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, and Capt. 18 July, 1906.

He served in the South African War and received the Queen’s medal

with three clasps. From 1906 to 1909 he served as Brigade Adjutant,

and from 1910 to Jan. 1914 was Garrison Adjutant, Eastern Command. At

the outbreak of war Capt. Blathwayt went with his Battery to France

and was in the retreat from Mons to the Marne. He was killed at the

Battle of the Aisne, near Verneuill, 14 Sept. 1914, and was buried in

the garden of the Chateau there. Major Barker, commanding the battery,

in communicating his death wrote: “In him the Army has lost a gallant

officer and myself and his other companions in the Brigade a beloved

comrade and friend.” While at Woolwich he took an active part in the

Garrison cricket and was Hon. Sec. of the club. He was recently elected

a member of the “Band of Brothers,” and was member of the Junior United

Service Club. He _m._ at St. Stephen’s, Gloucester Road, London,

26 Oct 1911, Margaret Aline (20, The Court Yard, Eltham), younger dau.

of the late Charles Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Cobb Court, Cootham,

Sussex, and had two daughters, Madeleine Margaret, _b._ 12 July,

1912, and Elizabeth, _b._ 16 Feb. 1914.

[Illustration: =Gerald Wynter Blathwayt.=]

=BLEASE, HARVEY=, Capt., 15th (Service) Battn. The King’s

Liverpool Regt., elder _s._ of Walter Blease, F.C.A., of Messrs.

Blease & Sons, Chartered Accountants, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the

late James Harvey, of Salford; _b._ Liverpool, 29 Aug. 1882;

educ. Parkfield School, Liverpool, and Sedbergh, Yorks, and afterwards

entered his father’s firm and took great interest in the educational

schemes of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. After the

declaration of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted Lieut.

to the 15th Battn. of the King’s Liverpools, 12 Nov. 1914, and promoted

Capt. 15 Jan. 1915. He went out with the Mediterranean Expeditionary

Force, and was there attached to the 7th Lancashire Fusiliers. He

was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915. Capt. Blease

enjoyed a reputation as a batsman while at Sedbergh and later took part

in the Old Boys’ annual tours. For fourteen years he was identified

with the Sefton Park Club, during eleven of which he was captain, and

for whom he gave many brilliant displays in Lancashire and Cheshire

cricket. He was also an excellent cross-country runner. He _m._ at

Liverpool, 15 Sept. 1910, Dorothy Stanley (Rostherne, Blundellsands,

near Liverpool), 2nd dau. of the late Stanley Blease, of Liverpool, and

had two children, Helen Margaret, _b._ 12 July, 1911; and Barbara

Mary, _b._ 28 June, 1914.

[Illustration: =Harvey Blease.=]

=BLEES, JOHN=, Private, No. 712, Princess Patricia’s Canadian

L.I., Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late John Peter

Blees, of Jabalpur, India, by his wife, Mary Ann (24, Sandileigh

Avenue, Withington, Manchester), dau. of James Bowden; _b._

Jabulpur, Central India, 25 Feb. 1889; educ. Dulwich College; went

to Canada in 1900 and settled at Edmonton; on the outbreak of war

volunteered and joined Princess Patricia’s L.I.; came over with

the first contingent in Oct. 1914; crossed to France in Feb. and

died 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action near Ypres on the

8th; _unm._ One of his officers wrote: “He was wounded in the

engagement on 8 May, in which engagement all the officers were either

killed or wounded. The regt. endured an extremely heavy bombardment.

How severe it was and how gallantly our boys stuck to their trenches

and held back the Germans can only be told in the future, when military

consideration will not restrict correspondence, suffice it to say that

this regt. held out so gallantly and against such odds that Sir John

French came down to personally thank the regt. for what they did that

day. On that day every man was a hero, but some were conspicuous even

here. Your son was helping the wounded out and binding their wounds

when he was struck, a shrapnel caught him in the abdomen, but even

with this desperate wound he was game and was carried out still cheery

and encouraging the boys to stick it.” He was buried in the regimental

burial ground at Hazebrouck.

[Illustration: =John Blees.=]

=BLIGH, ERIC=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn., attached 2nd Battn., the

East Lancashire Regt., _s._ of William Bligh, of Caterham Valley,

co. Surrey, by his wife, Lilian Josephine, dau. of William Lafone, of

Monte Video; _b._ Caterham Valley, 30 Dec. 1894; educ. The Dene,

Caterham, Sherborne School, where he was a member of the junior O.T.C.

with the rank of Lance-Corpl. and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where

he was a private in the senior O.T.C. Medical. After the declaration

of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the

3rd Battn. of the East Lancashires, 15 Aug. 1914. He joined the 2nd

Battn. at the Front, 7 March, 1915, served through the Battle of Neuve

Chapelle and was killed in action opposite Fromelles, 9 May, 1915, in

the assault on Aubers Ridge. His commanding officer, Major Maclear,

wrote: “Your son was shot by a German machine gun whilst leading

his platoon in an assault on the German trenches opposite Fromelles

on Sunday, 9 May, death being instantaneous. Your son was only with

us a short time, but we were all very fond of him, and you have the

consolation of knowing that he could not have died a nobler death.” He

was promoted Lieut. after his death to rank as from 13 Feb. 1915, and

was buried on the road from Sailly to Fromelles.

[Illustration: =Eric Bligh.=]

=BLIGHT, CHARLES=, Corpl., No. 3/5971, 1st Battn. Somerset L.I.,

_s._ of the late Charles Blight; _b._ London; and was killed

in action, 19 Dec. 1914. Prior to the war he was employed as a Collier

at the Cambrian Pits, Clydach Vale. He _m._ in Bath (--), and had

two sons: Charles and Stanley.

=BLISS, CHARLES=, Major, 2nd Battn. 1st (King George’s Own)

Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, 2nd surviving _s._ of Sir Henry

(William) Bliss, of The Abbey, Abingdon, K.C.I.E., J.P., late

Indian Civil Service, by his 1st wife, Mary, dau. of Edmund Rendle;

_b._ at Dindigul, Madras Presidency, 31 Dec. 1871; educ. Clifton,

Heidleberg and Sandhurst; and obtained his first commission in the

North Staffordshire Regt., 5 June, 1891; transferred two years later

to the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), of which he was

promoted Lieut. 4 July, 1896. In the Dec. following he joined the

Indian Staff Corps, becoming Capt. 10 July, 1901. After a period with

the 43rd (later the 8th) Gurkha Rifles and the Assam Military Police,

he was appointed double-company commander of the 1st Gurkha Rifles,

5 Dec. 1908, and obtained his Majority 5 Dec. 1909. In 1903–4 he saw

service in Tibet, being present in the action at Niani, and during the

operations at and around Gyantse, and in the march on Lhassa, being

slightly wounded. His services were mentioned in Despatches [London

Gazette, 13 Dec. 1904], and he received the medal with clasp. Major

Bliss commanded various punitive expeditions in the Nagar Hills, on

the North-West Frontier, between 1907 and 1911, and from 1911 to 1913

was in command of escorts on several political, survey and exploration

missions on the North-West Frontier. He had the Abor, Indian Police and

Durbar medals, and in 1914 was made a C.I.E. On the outbreak of the

European War he came to Europe with his regt., and died at Lille, 22

Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action at Festubert on the 20th. He

was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 5 April

[London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct

in the field. Major Bliss _m._ at St. Paul’s, Knightsbridge, 11

April, 1901, Mabel Emmeline, eldest dau. of Col. Thomas M. Maxwell,

late Sherwood Foresters, and had a dau., Lorna, _b._ 31 Aug. 1905.

=BLISSETT, WILLIAM HENRY=, Private, No. 18317, 3rd Battn., 1st

Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Edward

Blissett, of Bath, Butler, by his wife, Elizabeth (9, Coleman Street,

Brighton), dau. of Samuel Wills, of Liss, Hants; _b._ Paddington,

16 Dec. 1885; educ. Gordon Memorial Schools, Diss Board School and

Priory Road School, Hastings, and was then apprenticed as a carpenter

to Mr. Harvey, King’s Road, St. Leonards. In 1907 he went to Canada,

and after a year in Ontario, settled in Alberta, where on the outbreak

of war he enlisted. He came over with the 1st Contingent, in Oct. 1914,

and after training at Salisbury and Shorncliffe, went to the Front in

May and was killed in action in the trenches, 8 Nov. 1915, by a bullet.

He was buried in Wulverghem Cemetery; _unm._

=BLOFELD, D’ARCY FRANK=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Life Guards, only

_s._ of Frank Blofeld, of Dunster Lodge, Alcombe, West Somerset,

by his wife, Leslie Blanche, only dau. of Major Thomas Perkins, R.H.A.,

H.A.C., of Doverhay Place, Porlock, Somerset; _b._ Dunster

Lodge, afsd. 21 April, 1890; educ. St. Michael’s (Mr. Hawtrey),

Westgate-on-Sea, and Eton (Mr. E. L. Churchill’s House, 1903–8), where

he won the Junior Pulling in his last year. He served three years with

the Eton College Volunteers, but ill health prevented his going on to

Sandhurst, and he spent several years in the Argentine, where he became

interested in the breeding and schooling of polo ponies. He was living

at Staverton, near Cheltenham, when war broke out, and immediately

joined the Gloucestershire Yeomanry. On 9 Sept. he was gazetted to the

3rd Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, and took up his duties at Canterbury. He

was posted to the Household Cavalry on 24 Oct. and joined his regt.,

the 2nd Life Guards, at Windsor. On 7 Nov. he went to Flanders, and

served with his regt. in the trenches, and just before Christmas he

came home on seventy-two hours’ leave. His second experience of the

trenches was early in Feb., after which he obtained a week’s leave, but

was recalled in four days, and from then until his death, near Ypres,

on 12 May, he was at the Front. He and four other officers were killed

instantaneously by an explosive shell. He had won the liking of his

brother officers, and the confidence of his men. Mr. Blofeld was fond

of all sport, he was a finished horseman and a most promising polo

player. He was a member of the Cheltenham and West Somerset Polo Clubs,

his handicap being 5 goals Hurlingham, 1914. He hunted with the Devon

and Somerset Staghounds and the West Somerset Fox Hounds since early

boyhood, and during the time he was at Staberton, with the Cotswold

Hunt. He was greatly beloved by all who knew him and was a fine example

of how quickly a good sportsman can become a good soldier. His Col.

wrote: “As a horsemaster he was invaluable to me, and the fact that he

had been chosen for the duty in which he met his death, proves that his

Squadron leader relied on him.”

[Illustration: =D’Arcy Frank Blofeld.=]

=BLOMFIELD, CHARLES GEORGE MASSIE=, Major, 1st Battn. Royal

Warwickshire Regt., elder _s._ of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Massie

Blomfield, K.C.M.G., for twenty-eight years in charge of the Port of

Alexandria and afterwards Director-General of all Egyptian Ports, etc.,

by his wife, Rosamund Selina, 2nd dau. of the late Right Rev. Charles

Graves, D.D., Lord Bishop of Limerick, and nephew of Alfred Perceval

Graves, author of “Father O’Flynn,” and the “Irish Ballad,” etc., and

of Charles Larcom Graves, Assistant Editor of the “Spectator,” and a

member of the Inner Round Table of “Punch”; _b._ London, 19 June,

1878, brought up at Port House, Alexandria, Egypt, until nine years

of age; educ. Stubbington House School, Farnham, Cheltenham College

and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Warwicks,

6 April, 1898, and was gazetted Lieut. 28 Dec. following, Capt. 16

Nov. 1901, and Major 19 Dec. 1914. He joined his regt. at Chatham and

was sent to Malta, and in the following year (1899) to South Africa,

and served through that campaign, 1900–2. He was employed with the

Mounted Infantry, took part in the operations in Cape Colony, South

of the Orange River (1900), in the Orange Free State, April to Nov.

1900, and in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to 31 May, 1902, and received

the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two

clasps. On the close of the campaign he took over drafts to India to

the 2nd Battn. at Bangalore. He then joined his parents at Assuan for

the opening of the Great Dam, and was afterwards stationed in Ireland,

where he continued his polo and hunting. He had meanwhile qualified

as an interpreter of foreign languages and from May, 1905, to June,

1906, was attached to the Egyptian Army, and spent about a year in

the Soudan, then rejoining his regt. at Aldershot. He became adjutant

of the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. of his regt. 31 Jan. 1912, a post

he held for 3½ years, and after the declaration of war, did excellent

work in preparing drafts for the front. He was posted to the 1st

Battn., and joined the Expeditionary Force in France, 5 May, 1915,

and fell, mortally wounded by a bullet through the head, 9 June, at 5

p.m. Gen. Landon, Royal Warwick Regt., wrote: “The regt. has sustained

a loss indeed, which it will be hard to get over, and one it can ill

afford. He was a most valuable officer and I know everyone loved him”;

and Col. Poole, Commanding 1st Battn.: “His loss to me as one of my

Coy. Commanders is irreparable. I had the highest opinion of him as a

soldier, and he was worth anything in these hard times. We all mourn

his loss.” He was on the staff of the “Army and Navy Gazette” and his

humorous little work “The Young Officer’s Guide to Knowledge” cheered

many a man in the hum-drum life of the trenches. A good violinist, he

raised the band of the Special Reserve at Warwick. Major Blomfield

_m._ at St. Paul’s, Wimbledon Common, 5 Oct. 1907, Hirell, elder

dau. of the late James Clarence, of Castle Towers, Wimbledon Common,

and had issue, Charles Clarence Massie, _b._ Aug. 1908 (_d._

in infancy), and Richard Beverley Massie, _b._ 25 June, 1913.

[Illustration: =Charles G. M. Blomfield.=]

=BLOOM, JOSEPH HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 6876, H.M.S.

Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1

Nov. 1914.

=BLOOMFIELD, SIDNEY HERBERT=, A.B., J. 8083, H.M.S. Pathfinder;

lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East

Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BLOUNT, JAMES WILLIAM=, C.E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269403, H.M.S. Good

Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=BLOXAM, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1732, 5th Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, 4th _s._ of Thomas Bloxam, of Outram Street,

Leicester, Framework Knitter, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Thomas Bowby;

_b._ Leicester, 24 Oct. 1878; educ. Cottage Homes, Counterthorpe,

Leicestershire; enlisted in the Leicestershire Regt. 20 years ago, and

after serving his time went to Australia in 1910. On the outbreak of

war he joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action

at Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Joseph Bloxam.=]

=BLOXSOM, WILLIAM JABEZ=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 164154, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BLUE, DOUGALL=, Capt., 3rd, attached 2nd, Battn. Scottish Rifles

(The Cameronians), _s._ of Dugald Blue, of Glasgow; _b._

Glasgow, 10 June, 1878. He graduated M.A. at Glasgow in 1900, and three

years later he accepted a scholastic appointment in Rhodesia. Whilst

there he organised and commanded the first Cadet Corps ever formed

in that country. He also held a commission in the Southern Rhodesian

Volunteers. Returning to Glasgow in 1910, he became classical master in

the High School, and received a commission in the School’s Contingent

of the Officers’ Training Corps. In 1913, he became classical master

in Hutchesons’ Grammar School, and there organised a Cadet Corps,

which was affiliated to the 7th Battn. Scottish Rifles, Capt. Blue

being appointed its first commanding officer. When the war broke out

he received a captain’s commission in the 3rd Scottish Rifles, 3 Dec.

1914, proceeding shortly afterwards to France where he was attached

to the 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles. He was wounded in action near

Fromelles, 9 May, 1915, and died two days later, and was buried in

Merville Cemetery. He _m._ at Airdrie, 6 Jan. 1915, Katharine

Armit, dau. of Thomas Swan, of Springhill House, Airdrie, Banker;

_s.p._

=BLYDE, MICHAEL JOHN=, Private, No. 280, 1st Newfoundland Regt.,

4th _s._ of John Blyde, of 49, Fleming Street, St. John’s,

Newfoundland, employee of St. John’s Municipal Council, by his wife,

Mary, dau. of Philip Grouchy, Fisherman, and grandson of George Blyde

(who served through the Crimean War, and after completing his 21 years’

service settled at St. John’s, Newfoundland); _b._ St. John’s

afsd., 19 Feb. 1895; educ. Christian Brothers’ Schools there; was a

member of the Catholic Cadet Corps and the local Boys’ Brigade, and

also a Bugler in the local corps of the Legion of Frontiersmen; and on

the outbreak of the European War volunteered for Imperial service with

the 1st Newfoundland Regt.; left for England, 6 Oct. 1914; went to the

Dardanelles, 20 Aug. 1915, and died 26 Sept. 1915, of wounds received

in action at Gallipoli; _unm._

[Illustration: =Michael John Blyde.=]

=BLYTH, REGINALD CROMMELIN POPHAM=, Capt., 1st Battn.

Gloucestershire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only

_s._ of the Rt. Rev. George Francis Popham Blyth, D.D., late

Bishop in Jerusalem and the East, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Col.

James Arden Crommelin, R.E., and gdson. of the Rev. George Blanshard

Blyth, by his wife (--), dau. of Col. Samuel Taylor Popham, 28th (now

Gloucestershire) Regt., who served on the Duke of Wellington’s Staff

[nephew of Gen. William Popham, who took Gwalior, and of Admiral Sir

Home Popham, whose signalling code, still in use in the Navy, was used

by Nelson for his famous signal to the Fleet at Trafalgar]; _b._

Darjeeling, India, 24 June, 1877; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford,

and Brasenose College, Oxford; entered the Gloucestershire Regt. from

the Militia 18 April, 1900; gazetted Lieut. 25 Oct. 1903, and received

his company 14 Jan. 1911. Served in South Africa 1899–1900, taking part

in the operations in Natal and the Orange Free State, and received the

Queen’s medal with clasp. Capt. Blyth was with his regt. in India for

some years, and acted as Divisional Staff Signalling Officer. In 1908

he was attached to the Egyptian Army for service in the Sudan, and was

made a Bey. On the outbreak of the European War he was attached to the

Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915.

He _m._ in London, 2 Aug. 1911, Norah (18, St. Leonard’s Road,

Bexhill-on-Sea), dau. of Louis Edmund Hassells Yates, of Crawley,

Sussex, and had one son, Lionel Popham, _b._ 16 June, 1912.

[Illustration: =Reginald C. P. Blyth.=]

=BOAG, HUGH=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4547), 279684, H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOARDMAN, ALBERT=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10135, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOATMAN, JAMES=, Trimmer, 39810, H.M.S. Clan McNaughton; lost in

that ship, Feb. 1915.

=BOBBETT, ALFRED=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19166, H.M.S. Monmouth;

lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOBBINS, HARRY=, Private, No. 6899, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., died 13 Jan. 1915,

of wounds received in action; _m._

=BOCK, ROBERT HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111828, H.M.S.

Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off

the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BODDY, TOM=, Private, No. 8170, 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt.,

_s._ of the late John Thomas Boddy, of 69, West Parade, Hull, E.

Yorks., Chronometer Maker to the Wilson Line of steamers, by his wife,

Mary Artis, dau. of Capt. Ambrose White, R.N.R.; _b._ Hull, 22

Nov. 1887; entered the Army 13 July, 1905, served at home from 1905–7,

and in India from 1907–13; returned to England in Dec. 1913, and joined

the Special Reserve; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914, went to the front 7 Sept.

1914, was killed in action at La Courronne during the Battle of the

Aisne, 16 Oct. 1914; unm. The commander of the section in which Boddy

was serving writes: “My section under my command were sent out on point

duty to the battn., that is about 200 yards in front, so as to prevent

surprise. Tom and I were working as one pair in the centre, and I split

up the others, ten men on each flank; we went along nicely until we

came to the village of La Courronne, when we sighted a few Germans.

These we drove along in front of us, for a distance of about half a

mile. We then saw the enemy advancing towards us in large numbers, and

a long shot wounded one of my men; we then took cover behind a house,

and opened rapid fire to check their advance. I sent two men back

immediately for reinforcements, another man was wounded, so this left

me with only six men, and the enemy were within 400 yards of us, so I

again sent for reinforcements which never came, so I made up my mind to

try and get the wounded away with my remaining men, and I am sorry to

say that it was whilst Tom and I were firing to cover the rescue party

that poor Tom was killed.”

[Illustration: =Tom Boddy.=]

=BODIMEADE, HENRY CHARLES=, Private, No. 3776, 7th Battn. The

Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action, 10 June. 1915; _m._

=BODKIN, GEOFFREY=, A.B., 182664, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in

the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BODY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Chief Armourer, No. 5853, R.N., _s._

of John Body, Butcher (late Farmer); _b._ St. Cleer, near

Liskeard, ... 1864; educ. Pelynt and Duloe, co. Cornwall; entered the

Navy 28 June, 1886, served nearly three years on H.M.S. Firebrand, and

on his return home was stationed at Devonport for some considerable

time on H.M.S. Cambridge and H.M.S. Defiance; afterwards he served for

about three years on the Penelope at the Cape of Good Hope, later went

to China, and was for two and a-half years on the Tamar. He retired

on a pension in 1908, but on the outbreak of war was called up and

appointed to H.M.S. Majestic, and lost his life when that ship was

torpedoed at the Dardanelles, 27 May, 1915, his body was picked up

and interred at Sel-el-bahr. He _m._ at Talland Parish Church,

near Looe, Cornwall, 19 Nov. 1891, Janie (196, Pasley Street, Stoke

Devonport), dau. of Hugh Littleton, of Polperro, co. Cornwall, Builder,

and had four sons and a dau.: William Maurice, _b._ 27 Aug. 1892,

_d._ 25 Aug. 1911; Frederick Littleton, _b._ 10 Sept. 1893;

Leonard Hugh, _b._ 28 Feb. 1899; Owen John, _b._ 12 June,

1907; and Doris May, _b._ 9 Feb. 1901. Body held the Good Conduct

Medal.

[Illustration: =William Henry Body.=]

=BOEATER, ALFRED=, Private, No. 6994, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey

Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action, 18 Dec. 1914.

=CRAWLEY-BOEVEY, EDWARD MARTIN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Sussex

Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Sir Thomas Hyde Crawley-Boevey,

5th Bart., by his wife, Frances Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Thomas

Peters, Vicar of Eastington; _b._ Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester,

26 March, 1873; educ. Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst,

and was appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Sussex Regt., 6 March,

1895, being promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1897, and Capt. 17 Dec. 1902. He

served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the actions

at Houtnek, Vet River (5–6 May), Zand River, Johannesburg, Pretoria,

Diamond Hill, Wittenbergen, and Ladybrand, for which he received the

Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps,

and was mentioned in despatches. In 1902 he was chosen to represent

his regt. at the Coronation of King Edward VII, and came home with a

detachment from the Cape, and afterwards served in East Africa, 1908–10

(Somaliland medal with clasp). After the outbreak of the European War

he was sent from Dover on 11 Nov. 1914, with a draft of 200 men of the

4th Royal Fusiliers to France, and was with that regt. when he was

killed in action, near Bailleul, 24 Dec. 1914. He was a noted marksman,

and a very gifted draughtsman, and was greatly esteemed by all ranks.

He _m._ at Christchurch, Mayfair, London, 31 Oct. 1905, Rosalie

Winifred (Thorwald, Godalming, Surrey), yr. dau. of Col. George Conrad

Sartorius, C.B., and granddau. of the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir

George Rose Sartorius, G.C.B., and had a son, Richard Martin, _b._

31 July, 1907.

[Illustration: =E. M. Crawley-Boevey.=]

=BOLD, HAROLD EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8978; H.M.S.

Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=BOLES, HASTINGS FORTESCUE=, 2nd Lieut., 17th Lancers, attd. Royal

Flying Corps, elder _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Dennis Fortescue Boles, of

Watts House, near Taunton, M.P., Master of the West Somerset Foxhounds,

now commanding 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt.; _b._ London, 21 June,

1895; educ. Evelyns, Eton and Sandhurst; received a commission as

2nd Lieut. in the 17th Lancers, 16 Dec. 1914, and joined the Reserve

Battn. at the Curragh for training. In April he offered himself to

the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, and was accepted and appointed

to duty with the Expeditionary Force in the North of France, and had

some narrow escapes in reconnaissance duty, in which two of his pilots

were seriously injured. Very early on the morning of 24 May he was

engaged in making a reconnaissance over the German lines, when he was

hit by a shot from an enemy anti-aircraft gun. The wound was seen to

be extremely serious, but 2nd Lieut. Boles did not lose consciousness.

When the machine returned to its base he was at once attended to by the

surgical staff, placed under an anaesthetic and operated on, but died

in the evening of the same day without recovering consciousness. The

manner in which he met his death is best described in a letter from

his commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. W. G. Salmond, who wrote: “Your

son was very severely wounded in the head to-day by anti-aircraft fire

whilst carrying out a reconnaissance. It occurred about 4.30 a.m. this

morning. The wound was through the side of his head from front to rear.

He was put under an anaesthetic. He was so plucky. When he was wounded

he turned round to his pilot, Lieut. Bell Irving, smiled, and waved

his hand, and when he came down I met him and he smiled again. He was

conscious all that time, and even got out of the aeroplane, although he

could hardly have been able to understand then. It is so distressing

to have to write to you these things, but I thought you would rather

hear them and know what grit he showed.” The machine was hit from the

ground, where the enemy was concentrated in great force before the

attack at Ypres--between Bercelaire and Dadizeele--at a height of over

7,000 ft. Lieut.-Col. W. G. Salmond also wrote again: “I cannot tell

you how much we feel his loss. He was so quiet in all his work, which

was always of the very best. I think few people realise what dangers

our Observers have to face in the air. It is seldom that a machine

returns from a reconnaissance without being hit. Your son showed no

sign of the strain; he was always so cheery, ready and intelligent.

He was by far the best at photography in the air this squadron or any

squadron is likely to produce. In this he was as quick as lightning. He

made up his mind in a moment that the area he was ordered to photograph

was the area he was actually over at the time--no easy task--and took

the photographs in succession at such a rate that the pilot had no need

to turn and go over the ground again. When we were going to attack Hill

60 he took some photographs that morning of some German trenches and

which were unknown to us, and was able to let our artillery know before

attacking. The results he obtained were of the best the Flying Corps

has produced. Photography of the German trenches are of tremendous

value, and the results of his work were of very great value indeed to

our Army. Only the day before his death he had been up photographing,

and on his return showed me the back of his hand, which had been grazed

by anti-aircraft splinter. He laughed at it. I am having these last

photographs he took--which show the anti-aircraft shell actually fired

at the machine bursting beneath, as well as the country he was asked to

take--redone, so as to send to you when this war is over, as they are

splendid examples of his skill and bravery. He was very gallant, and an

example to us all.” He was buried at Bailleul; _unm._

[Illustration: =Hastings Fortescue Boles.=]

=BOLITHO, FLEETWOOD JOHN=, P.O., 1st Class, 167341, H.M.S. Clan

McNaughton; lost in that ship, Feb. 1915.

=BOLITHO, WILLIAM TORQUILL MACLEOD=, Lieut., 19th Hussars, elder

and only surviving _s._ of William Edward Thomas Bolitho, of

York House, Penzance, and Hannaford, Ashburton, D.S.O., J.P., Banker,

Major 1st Devon Yeomanry, now Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2/1st battn. of

the same [a cadet of Bolitho of Trewidden], by his wife, Ethel Grace,

2nd dau. of Robert Bruce Æneas Macleod, of Cadboll, co. Cromarty,

and Invergordon Castle, co. Ross, J.P., D.L., Comm. R.N.; _b._

Pendrea, Penzance, co. Cornwall, 13 Nov. 1892; educ. Warren Hill,

Eastbourne, and Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He passed

into Osborne College at 12¾ years old, and was given a remove from

his own term to a term above, which was only very specially done.

He continued to be head of his term, and passed out of Osborne and

Dartmouth Colleges with top marks. He joined H.M.S. Cumberland at

Devonport in Jan. 1909, and also passed out first from there after

a six months’ cruise, taking three prizes. He was then appointed to

H.M.S. Commonwealth as midshipman with four months’ seniority; he

served in H.M.S. Cochrane and in H.M.S. Bellerophon, when he left the

Navy of his own accord. As midshipman in the Bellerophon he won the

Stoddart Cup for boat sailing, presented by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.

He then joined the Army by the Special Reserve, serving four months

with the 11th Hussars at Aldershot, and passing into the Army by

examination at Portsmouth in April, 1913; he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to

the 19th Hussars 23 May, and joined 24 June, 1913. On the outbreak of

war he crossed to France with B Squadron on 23 Aug. 1914, and served

with it throughout the winter and spring. He was killed in action near

Chateau Hooge, 24 May, 1915; _unm._ His Major, writing to his

father, said: “Your son is a great loss to us, his name had been sent

in for special mention after the operations on 13 May, when he found

himself temporarily in command of the squadron, and made very good use

of his opportunity.”

[Illustration: =William T. M. Bolitho.=]

=BOLLAND, THEODORE JULIAN=, Major, 9th Battn. King’s Liverpool

Regt. (T.F.), late 16th Rajputs; _b._ 9 Jan., 1870; gazetted 2nd

Lieut. unattached from the Militia 23 Nov. 1892, and after serving

with the Manchester Regt., was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps, 27

Feb. 1894; joined the 16th Rajputs; promoted Lieut. 23 Feb. 1895, but

was obliged to resign owing to severe attacks of malaria; went on half

pay 26 April, 1900; and retired 11 June, 1902; volunteered for service

when war broke out, and was gazetted Capt. 2nd Queen Victoria’s Rifles

(6th London Regt.) 6 Sept., 1914; exchanged into the 9th Liverpools in

March, 1915, went to France a few days later, was promoted Major on the

30th and was killed in action there 9 April following.

=BOLSTER, GEORGE EMIL=, Major, R.F.A., eldest _s._ of

the late Surg.-Major Thomas Gardiner Bolster, A.M.S., by his wife,

Ludivina (44, Lebanon Park, Twickenham), dau. of the late Lieut.-Col.

John Frederic Nembhard, Bengal Army; _b._ Dagshai, India, 21

July, 1876. His childhood was spent at the various places where his

father happened to be serving--India 4½ years, Devonport 2½ years, and

Halifax, N.S., 5 years, during the whole of which time his mother was

his sole instructress. On returning from Canada in 1888, he was sent

to Ipswich School, and in 1883 passed direct into the Royal Military

Academy, Woolwich. At the final examination two years later he passed

out sixth on the R.A. list, and was awarded the prize for artillery.

Gazetted on 2 Nov. 1895, he was promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1898, Capt.

1 Sept. 1901, and Major 17 Feb. 1912. Most of his time as subaltern

was spent in Northern India, where he acted for two cold seasons as

Staff Officer of the late Brig.-Gen. R. Purdy, R.A. The 36th Battery,

to which he was posted on promotion, came home early in 1903, and was

stationed at Newbridge, Ireland, where he was at once made Adjutant of

the 35th Brigade, which post he held for over three years. In 1909 he

was appointed Staff Capt. R.A., 5th Division Irish Command, but vacated

that appointment in 1911, on being nominated for the Staff College.

On completing the course, he was posted to the 106th Battery in South

Africa. Recalled to England on the outbreak of war, his battery joined

the camp of the 7th Division at Lyndhurst, and with it proceeded

to Belgium. They were in the advance to Ghent to support the Naval

Division from Antwerp, and the Belgian Army, and shared the hardships

of the subsequent retreat to Ypres. He was killed in the historic

stand which the 7th Division made near that place, 23 Oct. 1914. His

engagement to Coralie, elder dau. of Col. Thomas de Burgh, of Oldtown,

Naas, was announced one month before his death. Lieut.-Col. D. Fasson,

commanding 22nd Brigade, R.F.A., wrote: “As a battery commander, he

was hard to beat, and I certainly have never met a keener soldier. His

whole heart was in his work.”

[Illustration: =George Emil Bolster.=]

=BOLTON, CHARLES=, 1st Class Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8166), S.S.

103986, _s._ of William Bolton, by his wife, Louisa (Towns End,

New Buckingham, near Attleboro’, Norfolk), dau. of Robert Duffield;

_b._ Scole, 7 Oct. 1888; educ. there; joined the Navy 1906, and

was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept.

1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =Charles Bolton.=]

=BOLTON, ERNEST JAMES=, Private, No. 10221, 3rd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, _s._ of George Moore Bolton, of 60, East Street, Coventry;

_b._ Warwick; served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action between 21 Oct. 1914 and 5 Feb. 1915; _unm._

=BOLTON, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6944, H.M.S. Pathfinder;

lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East

Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BOLTON, HARRY HARGREAVES=, Capt., 5th Battn. East Lancashire

Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of

Heightside, Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., Colliery

Owner, by his wife, Florence Eliza, dau. of Thomas Allen, of the Manor

House, Thurmaston, Leicester; _b._ Accrington, co. Lancaster,

9 Feb. 1886; educ. Mostyn House School, Parkgate; and at Shrewsbury

School, and after being at home for a short time, gaining some

knowledge of the working of collieries, he went to Wigan, and attended

for two years a course of mining instruction, part of which consisted

of practical work underground in the mines of the Wigan Coal and Iron

Company, Ltd., afterwards returning to Accrington Collieries to gain

further experience, with a view to sitting for examination for the

first-class mine manager’s certificate. This he obtained in Dec. 1912.

Soon after, on the retirement, through ill-health, of the late Mr.

James Whittaker, he was appointed to the responsible position of agent

for the Accrington Collieries of Messrs. George Hargreaves & Co., of

which his father was managing partner. He joined the 5th (Territorial)

Battn. of the Manchesters at Bolton in 1905, which was then the 1st

Battn. Volunteers, but on his return to Accrington he transferred to

the 5th Battn. of the East Lancashires, and having passed the school

of instruction for qualification to the Regular service, was given

his commission as Capt. 25 July, 1911. On the outbreak of war he and

his brother both volunteered for foreign service, and went out with

their regt. from Burnley to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and on 5 May, 1915,

to the Dardanelles. He wrote home from the transport on that day, and

nothing more was heard until a telegram was received to say that he had

been wounded on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915, shot in the head, and he

died without gaining consciousness the same day. Capt. Bolton took a

great interest in the work of the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners’

Rescue station, formed for the purpose of rescuing men at underground

explosions, going through the course of training instruction with the

Accrington Collieries rescue team, and obtained a certificate for

competency. At the time of the Hulton Colliery explosion he took a

team of men over fully equipped with the necessary appliances and went

underground to help in the work required after the explosion. He was

also a keen supporter of the National Service League, and was Secretary

for the Accrington district. Closely associated with St. Augustine’s

Church and School, Huncoat, he took a boys’ class in the Sunday

School there regularly up to the time of his marriage. He _m._

at Habergham Church, Burnley, 1 June, 1911, Helen Oliver, dau. of

Alexander Drew, of Holme Lodge, Burnley, J.P., and they lived at High

Brake, Accrington, and had two children: George Henry Hargreaves,

_b._ 14 Feb. 1914; and Rhona Helen Allen, _b._ 2 April, 1915.

Capt. Bolton’s next brother, Lieut. John Bolton, was also killed at

the Dardanelles (see his notice), and his two younger brothers, Lieut.

Maurice Bolton and Lieut. Geoffrey Bolton, and his brother-in-law,

Lieut. Douglas Hacking, Conservative candidate for Chorley, are now

(1916) on active service.

[Illustration: =Harry Hargreaves Bolton.=]

=BOLTON, JAMES FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1909),

late Ch. I/12380, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22

Sept. 1914.

=BOLTON, JOHN=, Lieut., 5th Battn. East Lancashire Regt.

(T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Henry Hargreaves Bolton, of Heightside,

Newchurch-in-Rossendale, co. Lancaster, J.P., etc. (see preceding

notice); _b._ Accrington, co. Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1889; educ.

Tonbridge School, and Manchester University. On leaving the latter,

where he took the three years’ mining engineering course, he was

engaged at the Accrington and Rossendale Collieries, of which his

father was Managing Director, and after a short time was placed in

charge of the commercial department at Accrington, and was soon

recognised as a capable and energetic business man. He was given a

commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Territorial) Battn. of the East

Lancashires, 19 June, 1913, and volunteered for Imperial service on

the outbreak of war. His regt. went out to Egypt in Sept. 1914, and

while there he took a special course in scouting under Gurkha officers,

and was made Scout Master of the battn. He received his Lieutenant’s

commission 6 May, 1915, and sailed for the Dardanelles the same day.

He was killed by a shell which fell in the front line trenches, in the

bombardment before the advance on Krithia, 4 June. After his death his

father received from General Douglas, commanding 42nd Division, the

following card of congratulation which had been sent to him, but before

it reached him he had been killed: “The General Officer commanding

the 42nd (East Lancs.) Division congratulates Lieut. J. Bolton, 1/5

Battn. East Lancs. Regt. on the gallant action performed by him on 12

May, 1915. Signed C. O. W. Douglas, M. Genl. Commd., 42nd Division.”

The action referred to was fetching ammunition from the base under

fire of the enemy, when the battn. ran short in the trenches. He was

_unm._ and was buried at Ghurka Bluff, Gallipoli.

[Illustration: =John Bolton.=]

=BOLTON, JOHN=, Private, No. 2575, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards;

_b._ co. Lancaster; enlisted 1 April, 1899; served in South

Africa, 9 Aug. 1900 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps

and King’s medals with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force

in France, etc., from 11 Sept. 1914; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital,

Braisne, 8 Oct. following, of wounds received in action; _m._

=BOLTON, JOSEPH CROOK=, Private, No. 25689, 14th Battn. (Royal

Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of (--)

Bolton; _b._ Clitheroe, 3 June, 1883; educ. Royal Grammar School

there; went to Canada in Oct. 1912, and was a painter; on the outbreak

of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted, came over with the first contingent in

Oct.; went to the Front, 10 Feb. 1915, and died 23 April, 1915, of

wounds received in the great Canadian Charge at St. Julien. He was

buried in Vlamertinghe Churchyard, Belgium. He _m._ 20 May, 1907,

Emma (52, Eshton Terrace, Clitheroe, Lancs), dau. of (--) Rushton, and

had two children: Frank, _b._ 12 May, 1910; and Marjorie Esther,

_b._ 4 Nov. 1908.

[Illustration: =Joseph Crook Bolton.=]

=BOLTON, WILFRED=, Private, No. 260, 15th Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, _s._ of (--) Bolton, of Normanton, Yorkshire;

killed in action at the Dardanelles, 18 May, 1915.

=BOLTON, WILFRID=, Sub-Lieut. R.N.V.R., Collingwood Battn.,

R.N.D., 2nd _s._ of Henry Lushington Bolton, of The Sanctuary,

Westminster, and The Gables, Crowborough Beacon, Sussex, Solicitor, by

his wife, Chloe, dau. of James Richard Gordon; _b._ Porchester

Terrace, London, 26 May, 1897; educ. at The Grange, Crowborough;

Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Osborne and Dartmouth. On leaving Dartmouth

in April, 1914, he was rejected for the Navy on account of a slight

defect in sight. On the outbreak of war joined the R.N.V.R., and was

killed in Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915.

=BOLTON, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 15252, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots

(Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action at Kemmerl, 29 May, 1915; _m._

=BON, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2399, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian

Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct., 1914.

=BOND, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 10752, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,

1st _s._ of Joseph Bond, of 44, Brough Street, Derby, Warder,

Derby Prison, by his wife, Kate, dau. of the late Thomas Gordon, of

Derby; _b._ Derby, 1 March, 1895; educ. St. Joseph’s R.C. School

there; was for some time a Porter at the Great Northern Railway Station

at Derby, and enlisted 1 June, 1914. He was sent to France 9 Oct.

following, was severely wounded in the fighting around Ypres, 19 Nov.

1914, and died at No. 4 Clearing Hospital two days later. He was buried

in the Military New Cemetery at Poperinghe; _unm._

[Illustration: =Joseph Bond.=]

=BOND, OLIVER HUGH DEVEREUX=, Sapper, No. 2074, 1/1st Kent

Field Coy., R.E., only _s._ of the late David Bond, of Bovey

Tracey, South Devon, by his wife, Harriett (Watford, near Rugby,

Northamptonshire), dau. of Hugh Devereux; _b._ South Kensington,

4 June, 1891; educ. Long Buckby (Rugby) Council School; was a Plumber;

enlisted 22 May, 1915, and went to the Dardanelles 23 Sept. 1915. He

was mortally wounded by a Turkish shell when returning from a day’s

work in the trenches, at Lala Baba, Suvla, 1 Dec. 1915, and died an

hour later. The doctor who attended him said: “He was one of the

bravest lads I have had under my notice during the war,” and his N.C.O.

wrote: “He did not know what fear was.” He was buried in the Reserve

Area, 2nd Mounted Division, south of Chocolate Hill; _unm._

[Illustration: =O. H. D. Bond.=]

=BOND, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3693), S.S. 101259,

H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of

Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOND, THOMAS MORGAN=, 2nd Lieut., 11th Battn. Royal Irish Rifles,

late Private, No. 9973, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London

Regt., yst. _s._ of Major Thomas Morgan Bond, of 37, St. James’

Square, Holland Park, W., R.A.M.C. (retired), by his wife, Martha

Francis, dau. of Alexander Meiklejohn, of Greenock; _b._ Belfast,

12 Oct. 1896; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex; enlisted in the

London Rifle Brigade on 10 Aug. 1914, five days after the declaration

of war, and at once joined his battn. for training at Crowborough. He

left for France on 4 Nov., served in the trenches through the winter

and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 2 May, 1915,

aged 18 years and 7 months; _unm._ He was gazetted as 2nd Lieut.

to the Royal Irish Rifles, 10 May, to rank as from 10 March, but did

not live to take up his commission.

[Illustration: =Thomas Morgan Bond.=]

=BOND, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7905), S.S. 103590,

H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BONE, HARRY=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12056, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action

in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BONE, WILLIAM GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 1652, 1/4th Battn.

(Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st _s._ of William

George Bone, of 253, Seward Street Buildings, Goswell Road, E.C., by

his wife, Ada Rose; _b._ St. Luke’s, London, E.C., 29 Aug. 1895;

educ. L.C.C. Central School; enlisted Aug. 1913, and was killed in

action in Flanders, 27 April, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =William G. A. Bone.=]

=BONFIELD, JAMES GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14967, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BONIFACE, VICTOR GORDON JOHN=, Leading Seaman, 204435, H.M.S.

Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1

Nov. 1914.

=BONNAR, WILLIAM McGREGOR=, Trooper, No. 726, 6th Australian Light

Horse, 3rd _s._ of William Bonnar, of 51, Braid Avenue, Edinburgh,

Joint General Manager, New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Ltd.,

by his wife, Mary Strachan Baird, dau. of John Calderwood; _b._

Edinburgh, 31 March, 1890; educ. George Watson’s College there, which

he left in 1909, deciding to take up stock farming. After some training

in Lauderdale he left Scotland for Australia, where he spent four years

on a large sheep and cattle station in New South Wales. Soon after the

outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Dec.

1914, proceeded in March, 1915, with reinforcements of his regt. to

Egypt, and two months later crossed to Gallipoli. He had volunteered

for bombing work, and while engaged in this was severely wounded and

died on the hospital ship Sicilia two days later, 13 June, 1915, being

buried at sea three miles off Gaba Tepe; _unm._

[Illustration: =William McGregor Bonnar.=]

=BOONE, CHARLES FREDERICK DE BOHUN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Essex

Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Col. Frederick Browne Boone,

H.E.I.C.S., by his wife, Mary Frederica, dau. of Major-Gen. Wavell,

F.R.S; _b._ Nagode, India, 16 May, 1870; educ. Haileybury,

and Oriel College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13 July, 1892, and

promoted Lieut. 30 Sept. 1896, and Capt. 9 Oct. 1900; was Adjutant of

Volunteers from Sept. 1902 to Nov. 1906, and was afterwards attached

to the staff of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served with

the relief force in the Chitral campaign (medal with clasp), 1895;

in the South African War, 1900–2, being employed with the mounted

infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal

(May-Oct. 1900 and again Nov. 1901–May 1902), and in Cape Colony, south

of the Orange River (Jan. 1901); present at the actions at Vet River

(5–6 May, 1900), the Zand River, Diamond Hill (11–12 June), Belfast

(26–27 Aug.), Frederickstad (17–25 Oct.), and at Colesberg (1–29 Jan.

1901), etc. (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901],

Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and

with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, Aug.-Sept. 1914;

wounded at the Battle of the Marne, and died in the Lycée Pasteur,

Neuilly-sur-Seine, 23 Sept. 1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =C. F. De Bohun Boone.=]

=BOORER, WALTER JAMES=, Trooper, No. 1839, West Kent Yeomanry,

eldest _s._ of Walter George Boorer, of High Street, Cobham,

Surrey, Printer and Publisher, formerly of Dorking, by his wife,

Rachel, dau. of the late Samuel Butler of Tooting, Surrey; _b._

Dorking, co. Surrey, 15 Jan. 1897; educ. St. Martin’s National School,

Dorking; volunteered and enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, Whit

Monday, 24 May, 1915; left England for the Dardanelles in Sept.,

and was killed in the trenches there, 8 Nov. 1915. He was buried in

his regimental cemetery in Y Ravine at Helles, Gallipoli. His Major

wrote: “Your son and another man were both killed by the same shell,

which came down the trench in which they were in. Death was almost

instantaneous, and he could have suffered no pain. He had not been long

in my squadron, but during the time he was with me he did his duty as a

soldier, and displayed great courage under fire.”

[Illustration: =Walter James Boorer.=]

=BOORMAN, CYRIL ADLINGTON=, Trooper, No. 801, posthumous Lieut.

B. Squadron West Kent Yeomanry (T.F.), only child of Frederick William

Boorman, of Gravesend, Solicitor and Commissioner for Oaths; _b._

Gravesend, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. King’s School, Rochester, where he

held a King’s Scholarship; joined the West Kent Yeomanry in 1913, and

on mobilization volunteered for foreign service with them, but died

at home of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted while in training

at Westbere, near Canterbury, 3 March, 1915. He was gazetted as 2nd

Lieut. R.E. 27 March, to rank as from 1 March (prior to death). Lieut.

the Hon. A. R. Mills wrote: “He joined the troop with me in 1913, and

was under me for two trainings and, of course, since mobilisation, and

was one of my most efficient men--intelligent, keen, and a first-rate

soldier, and I feel sure would have made a most excellent officer.” Mr.

Boorman was in his school cricket eleven for several years and captain

of the football eleven; he also held the record for the long jump

at the school sports, and was a member of the Gravesend Cricket and

Rowing Clubs. He had matriculated at London University and passed the

A.M.I.C.E. examination.

[Illustration: =Cyril Adlington Boorman.=]

=BOOT, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1076, 7th Battn. 2nd Infantry

Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of George Arthur

Boot, of Risley House, 1 Berridge Road East, Nottingham, by his wife,

Mary Kate, dau. of Mark Spink Shaw; _b._ Robin Hood’s Chase,

Nottingham, 29 April, 1893; educ. Grosvenor School. He joined the

Nottingham Royal Horse Artillery (T.F.) as a driver (No. 328), 27 June,

1911, and obtained his discharge 30 Sept. 1913, after which he went

to Australia. On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the 7th Battn.

of the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, left with his battn. for the

Dardanelles, was dangerously wounded in the head in action there, 9

May, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Nevasa on the 27th of

that month; _unm._ He was buried at sea. His two brothers are

now (1916) on active service, the elder, Leonard, with the Red Cross

in France; the yr., George Harold, as Lieut. in the 15th Sherwood

Foresters in France.

[Illustration: =Arthur Boot.=]

=BOOTH, GEORGE THOMAS=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24708 (Ports.), H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BOOTH, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10630 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOOTH, ROLAND HARTLEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24104 (Ports.),

H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Arthur Newsome Booth, of 177, Newsome Road,

Huddersfield, co. York; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BOOTH, THOMAS=, Private, No. 21338, 4th Battn. Canadian

Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Thomas Henry Booth, of 46, Ball

Haye Road, Leek, Leather Merchant, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Thomas

Bamford, of Stafford; _b._ Leek, co. Stafford, 24 Feb. 1877; educ.

Leek Grammar School; was for some time manager of his father’s leather

warehouse; joined the 2nd Manchester Volunteers in 1896, and the 1st

Coy. North Staffordshire Volunteers in 1900, and served with them until

their disbandment on the organisation of the Territorial Force in 1907;

went to Canada in June, 1912, and was in the employ of the Hudson Bay

Co., at Winnipeg; volunteered and joined the Canadian Expeditionary

Force on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent, Oct.

1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France,

31 March, 1915; was shot by a sniper while being relieved from the

trenches at Ploegsteert, 2 Sept., and died of wounds in the Northern

General Hospital, Leicester, on the 30th of that month. Buried in the

family vault at Leek; _unm._

=BOOTH, TOM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9662, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost

in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOOTHAWAY, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 9127, 2nd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, only _s._ of Alonzo Boothaway, of Central Avenue, Wigston

Magna, co. Leicester. Hosiery Framework Knitter, by his wife, Maria,

dau. of William Vann; _b._ Wigston Magna, 4 Jan. 1892; educ. Board

School there; enlisted 28 May, 1911, and at the time of the outbreak

of war was serving as a valet at King Edward VII Hospital, Grosvenor

Gardens, W. He went through the retreat from Mons, was wounded on 7

Nov. 1914, but recovered and returned to the trenches on 24 Dec., and

was killed in action near Festubert, 3 Jan. 1915, while being relieved

from the trenches. He was buried in the soldiers’ cemetery, Rue du

Bois, Bethune (Richebourg Road, Row B, Grave 17); _unm._

[Illustration: =Arthur Boothaway.=]

=BOOTHBY, JAMES ROBERT=, Lieut.-Commander R.N.V.R., No. 4 Squadron

Armoured Cars, formerly Lieut., Royal Scots, 2nd _s._ of the late

Alexander Cunningham Boothby, of St. Andrews, by his wife, Madeline

(now wife of Alexander Rigaud Wilson Wood, of 7, Abbotsford Crescent,

St. Andrews), dau. of Frederick Lewis Maitland Heriot, of Ramornie,

co. Fife; _b._ Springfield House, Cupar, Fife, 17 Jan. 1883;

educ. St. Salvators, St. Andrews, and Glenalmond College, Perthshire.

In May, 1900, he joined the Fife Artillery Militia. He served in the

24th Battn. Imperial Yeomanry during the South African War, receiving

medal with five clasps. He rejoined the Fife Artillery in 1903 and was

subsequently appointed to the Royal Scots and served in India. When the

regt. came home he resigned owing to temporary ill-health and went to

Vancouver. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and obtained

a commission in the Armoured Car Division. He was killed in action on

1 May, 1915, at Gallipoli, the day after landing at Gaba Tepe. His

commanding officer wrote: “I can only say this, that every officer and

man in the Armoured Car Force simply loved Jim Boothby. I never want

a more loyal, good-hearted and good-natured second in command than he

was. His own men saw that he had, what perhaps few out there got, a

proper burial.” He was _unm._

[Illustration: =James Robert Boothby.=]

=BOREHAM, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st class (R.F.R., B. 4450),

S.S. 103462, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the

coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOSANQUET, LIONEL ARTHUR=, of Cleddon Hall, co. Monmouth,

Lieut.-Col., 9th Battn. The Sherwood Foresters (Notts, and Derby

Regt.), eldest _s._ of the late Arthur Bosanquet, of Cleddon Hall,

J.P., I.C.S., Judge, Bombay Presidency, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of

Col. Andrew Crawford, and grandson of Augustus Henry Bosanquet, of

Ossidge, Southgate, H.E.I.C.S.; _b._ Southgate, co. Herts., 29

Jan. 1862; educ. Mr. Rose’s private school, Ramsgate, and Harrow; and

the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted Lieut. to the Sherwood

Foresters, 10 March, 1883, and promoted Capt. 8 May, 1892, and Major

9 May, 1903. He served in the Tirah Campaign 1897–8, took part in the

operations in the Bazar Valley (25–30 Dec. 1897), the action at Dargai,

and in the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, receiving the

medal with two clasps; and retired in 1911. On the outbreak of war

he rejoined and was given command of the 9th (Service) Battn. of

his regt., 26 Oct., 1914. He went out to the Dardanelles and was in

action from the 23 July to 22 Aug. 1915. He was wounded on 9 Aug.

but rejoined in a week and was killed in action 22 Aug. 1915. Col.

Bosanquet was killed (believed by machine guns) in Dead Man’s Gully,

while leading his battn. To quote from a General’s letter, whose

brigade found and buried his body: “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 perfect

alignment.” He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec.

1915 [and published in the Supplement to the London Gazette dated

28 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

Col. Bosanquet _m._ at Crockham Hill, Kent, 31 Aug. 1892, Alice

Emily (7, Springfield Place, Bath), 2nd dau. of the Rev. John Erskine

Campbell-Colquhoun, of Killermont and Garscaddon, co. Dumbarton,

M.A., J.P., D.L., formerly Vicar of Southwold and Crockham Hill, and

granddaughter of the late John Campbell-Colquhoun, of Killermont and

Garscaddon, by his wife, the Hon. Henrietta Maria, née Powys, dau.

of Thomas, 2nd Lord Lilford, and had issue: Cicely Alice Colquhoun,

_b._ 25 Nov. 1893; and Eveline Louise Emmeline, _b._ 11 Jan.

1899.

[Illustration: =Lionel A. Bosanquet.=]

=BOSANQUET, SIDNEY COURTHOPE=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The

Middlesex Regt., elder _s._ of Charles John Bosanquet, of

Stokesay, Kidbrook Park, Blackheath, Electrical Engineer, by his

wife, Edith, elder dau. of the Rev. John Lloyd, of Llanvapley, co.

Monmouth, and grandson of the late Rev. Edward Stanley Bosanquet,

Rector of Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln, and great nephew of the late Samuel

Richard Bosanquet, of Forest House and Dingeston Court, co. Monmouth,

J.P., D.L.; _b._ Belvedere, co. Kent, 15 July, 1894; educ. St.

Lawrence’s College, Ramsgate; received his commission 1 Sept. 1914,

and was killed in action at Houplines, near Armentières, 16 Dec. 1914;

_unm._

[Illustration: =Sidney Courthope Bosanquet.=]

=BOSEMAN, JOHN=, Private, No. 631, 1st Light Horse, Australian

Imperial Force; a native of co. Armagh, Ireland; volunteered on the

outbreak of war; killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915.

=BOSHER, CHARLES WALTER=, Corpl., No. 2446, 1/7th Battn. The

London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Walter John Bosher, of 8, High

Street, Egham, by his wife, Winifred Birkett, dau. of Henry Channing;

_b._ Egham, co. Surrey, 2 Sept. 1884: educ. at Cranleigh School,

Surrey; was in business with father as a corn and coal merchant; joined

the 1/7th City of London Regt. early in Sept. 1914, and after training

at Watford during the winter, went to the Front, 17 March, 1915. He

came safely through the Battle of Loos (25 Sept.), and was killed in

action three weeks later at Hulluch, 19 Oct. 1915, by the explosion

of a trench mortar; _unm._ His cousin, Corpl. R. F. Bosher, who

joined the Colours the same day was killed by the same explosion (see

following notice).

=BOSHER, RONALD FREDERICK=, Corpl., No. 2449, 1/7th Battn. The

London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Ellington Bosher, of Lewes, Sussex,

by his wife, Alice, dau. of Arthur Garratt; _b._ Lewes, co.

Sussex, 24 March, 1893; educ. at Lewes Grammar School; was a farmer’s

assistant; joined the 7th City of London Regt. early in Sept. 1914,

and after training at Watford during the winter, went to the Front, 17

March, 1915. He came safely through the Battle of Loos (25 Sept.), and

was killed in action at Hulluch, 19 Oct. 1915; _unm._ His cousin,

Corpl. C. Bosher, who joined the Colours the same day, was killed at

the same time (see previous notice).

=BOSWELL, BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 5784, 1st Battn. Coldstream

Guards, _s._ of Benjamin Boswell, Blacksmith; _b._ Small

Heath, Birmingham, 25 Dec. 1886; educ. Ada Street Council School there;

enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regt., purchasing his discharge from

it in 1902. On 4 Oct. 1903, he joined the Coldstream Guards, and died

of wounds received in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 15 Sept. 1914.

He _m._ at Christ Church, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 16 April, 1911,

Lily, dau. of William Herrick, of Small Heath; _s.p._

[Illustration: =Benjamin Boswell.=]

=BOSWELL, JOSEPH NORMAN=, Boy, 1st Class (Dev.), J. 29552, H.M.S.

Formidable; lost when that ship was torpedoed and sunk in the English

Channel, 1 Jan., 1915.

=GARNETT-BOTFIELD, ALFRED CLULOW FITZGERALD=, Lieut., 1st Battn.

South Wales Borderers, yr. _s._ of the late William Egerton

Garnett-Botfield, of Decker Hill, and The Hut, Bishop’s Castle, co.

Salop, J.P., F.G.S., by his wife, Elizabeth Clulow (Decker Hill,

Shifnal, etc.), dau. of John Howard-McLean, of Aston Hall, co. Salop,

and gdson. of the late Rev. William Bishton Garnett-Botfield, of Decker

Hill, co. Salop, and Haughton Hall, co. Chester, M.A., J.P.; _b._

Bishop’s Castle, 16 June, 1892; educ. Eton (Mr. Churchill’s House),

and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was up at Cambridge for the Long

Vacation when war was declared. He volunteered the same day, and was

given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914. After a course

of training at Sheerness he was sent to the Western Front in Nov., and

on arrival there was attached to the South Wales Borderers, and was

subsequently (22 Jan. 1915) transferred to that regt. He served through

the fighting at Festubert, Givenchy, La Bassée and Neuve Chapelle,

where he several times had his clothes pierced with bullets but escaped

unwounded, and was killed in action at Richebourg L’Avoué, 9 May, 1915;

_unm._, and was buried there. He had been promoted Lieut. in

March. Writing to his mother, his company officer, Capt. A. C. Lloyd,

said: “Your very gallant son fell in action on the 9th (Sunday). His

platoon was ordered out to an advanced trench under protection of our

artillery fire. The order was given to advance from there, and though

heavy maxim gun fire was coming from the German lines, he at once and

without any hesitation gave the command, ‘Prepare to advance.’ I was

myself hit and just saw him leap out of the trench, only to fall at

once instantaneously killed. I have recommended him for his gallant

conduct, and only hope that an official recognition of his qualities

as a soldier will receive due mention.... A more efficient subaltern

than your son could not be found, always ready for any work however

hazardous, and always most cheerful. The men all loved him, and would

have followed him anywhere, as they always knew he could lead them.”

And his commanding officer, Major A. I. Reddie, wrote: “On the 9th

an assault in the early morning had been attempted on the enemy’s

trenches. This was unsuccessful, so another was made in the afternoon,

when our battn. were detailed to carry it out in one part of the line.

Your son’s platoon during the artillery bombardment had to crawl along

an old trench in front of the breastwork in order to get nearer the

enemy’s lines. This they had to do under heavy fire, but succeeded so

far. When the time came for the assault your son jumped up to lead his

men, and was shot at once before he got any distance. Several attempts

were made at night to recover his body, but owing to the enemy’s fire

it was found impossible to do so before we were relieved at midnight;

but it is still hoped to do so, and we had arranged to bury all the

officers in an orchard near a place called ‘Windy Corner.’” His body

was afterwards recovered and “buried on the 10th in the evening by

being carried across our trench on one of the bridges used for the

ditch ... about 300 yards on the left of the cinder track. The ditch

between our line and the German line is the most permanent guide. This

ditch, about 4 feet deep and 16 feet wide, runs parallel to our line,

then at right angles to this into the German. The spot would be about

250 yards to our left of this junction and 40 yards from this point

back in the direction of the Rue du Bois.” At Cambridge he was in the

first Third Trinity boat. He stroked the winning University Trial Eight

two years in succession, and with Mr. A. Drewe won the Foster-Fairbairn

Pairs in the record time of 8 min. 35½ secs. He was also a keen tennis

and hockey player. He was intensely musical, much of his spare time

being spent at the organ. He was a member of Third Trinity, Leander

and Viking Rowing Clubs, and but for the war would more than possibly

have stroked the University boat in 1915. One who knew him very

intimately at Cambridge as an engineering student wrote to his mother

of him: “Your son was one of the best types produced by Eton and

Trinity College, Cambridge, a type we can very ill afford to lose....

He was much honoured, respected ... and loved by all oarsmen, and many

hoped he might in his last year have obtained the coveted ‘Blue.’

As engineer he displayed a great ability in practical things and a

thorough understanding of machines and men. An untimely end through his

fearless bravery has robbed us of one of the very finest of the coming

generation.”

[Illustration: =A. C. F. Garnett-Botfield.=]

=GARNETT-BOTFIELD, CHARLES SIDNEY=, Capt., Bedfordshire Regt.,

elder _s._ of the Rev. Charles Ramsey Garnett-Botfield, M.A.,

Vicar of Moreton, Oswestry, co. Salop, by his wife, Ida Mary, dau.

of Thomas Aldersey of Aldersey, co. Chester, and gdson. of the Rev.

William Bishton Garnett-Botfield, of Decker Hill, co. Salop, and

Haughton Hall, co. Chester, M.A., J.P.; _b._ Rochdale, 5 Oct.

1887; educ. Rossall and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd

Lieut. Bedfordshire Regt. 8 Feb. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 5 March,

1910, and Capt. 2nd Battn. 15 Sept. 1914. He died at Boulogne, 14 Dec.

1914, from wounds received in action at Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914, and was

buried at Moreton; _unm._ Capt. Garnett-Botfield was mentioned

in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and

distinguished conduct in the field.

[Illustration: =Charles Sidney Garnett-Botfield.=]

=BOTHWELL, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 18312, 13th (Service) Battn.

Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), _s._ of William Bothwell, of 10,

Bogside Place, Easter House, Lanarkshire; served with the Expeditionary

Force in France; died in the Canadian General Hospital, Camiers, 4 Oct.

1915.

=BOTLEY, ALBERT WICKSTEAD=, A.B., Ch. J. 10692, H.M.S. Formidable;

lost when that ship was torpedoed in the English Channel, 1 Jan. 1915.

=BOTTGER, ABBIN ERNEST HENRY=, Private, No. 7774, 1st Battn.

Highland Light Infantry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 11–18 March, 1915.

=BOTTING, EDWARD CHARLES=, Private, No. G. 915, 6th (Service)

Battn. East Kent Regt., _s._ of John Botting, of 12, Wheatley

Terrace, Erith, Kent; _b._ Battersea, S.W., 20 July, 1893;

enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action, 13 Oct., 1915.

=BOTTING, GEORGE=, Private, No. G. 71, 7th (Service) Battn. East

Surrey Regt., _s._ of Joseph Botting, of Cowdry Cottage, Midhurst,

Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action, 8 Oct. 1915.

=BOTTOMLEY, ALBERT=, Private, No. 2010, 4th Battn. Manchester

Regt.; was employed at Messrs. Platt Brothers & Co.’s Works, Oldham;

enlisted early in 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 14 March, 1915, aged 25.

=BOTTOMLEY, THOMAS REGINALD=, B.A., Lieut., 1st Battn. East

Yorkshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Thomas Bottomley, of 25, Norman

Road Thornton Heath, co. Surrey, formerly of Ripponden, Halifax, by

his wife, Ellen, eldest dau. of the late Peter Whiteley, of Liverpool;

_b._ Ripponden, co. York, 17 Oct. 1887; educ. Rishworth Grammar

School, and St. John’s Training College, Battersea, and from the latter

was appointed as a teacher by the Croydon Educational Committee in

1909. He was connected mainly with the Oval Road Boys’ School, and

with his boys he was a great favourite and an intimate friend, joining

in all their sports and gaining their confidence in every way. As an

internal student of London University he graduated Bachelor of Arts

in 1913 and had intended to take the Honours Degree examination in

1915. It was while at London University that he entered the Officers’

Training Corps, in which he spent three years until April, 1914, when

he accepted a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st East Yorkshires. He

entered barracks in June, left for the Front the beginning of Sept. a

few days after his marriage, and was killed in action at the Battle of

the Aisne, 23 Sept. 1914. He was elected to membership of the South

London Harriers in 1911, and was known mostly to the cross-country

members, having been a regular attendant at headquarters. He avoided

racing not being keen on it, nevertheless he finished 26th in the match

against the Ranelagh Harriers in 1912. He _m._ at Cambridge, 29

Aug. 1914, Eveline Mary, only dau. of William Henry Gibson, of The

Hollins, Sowerby Bridge; _s.p._

[Illustration: =Thomas R. Bottomley.=]

=BOUCHER, HAROLD ERNEST=, Private, No. 7065, 3rd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, _s._ of the late Arthur Boucher, by his wife, Helena, dau.

of James Whitehouse; _b._ Birmingham, 17 Aug. 1886; enlisted in

1st Battn. 28 Dec. 1906, and exchanged into the 3rd Battn. when he went

to Egypt, serving seven years with the colours. On the outbreak of war

he was called up from the Reserve, and died at Viviers, Landrecies,

2 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. He _m._ at Windsor,

4 Dec. 1912, Gertrude Annie (4, Park View, Winson Street, Dudley

Road, Birmingham), dau. of George Hawkins, and had two children:

Frances Annetta Gregson, _b._ 11 Oct. 1913; and Kathleen Gertrude

Magdalen, _b._ (posthumous) 27 April, 1915.

[Illustration: =Harold Ernest Boucher.=]

=BOUGHTON, ERNEST GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 3226, No. 2 Platoon,

1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt., 3rd

_s._ of Horace John Boughton, of 15, Auckland Road, Bow, E., by

his wife, Ann, dau. of George Parrot; _b._ Bow, London, E., 22

May, 1896; educ. Chisenhale Road Council School; was a Shop Assistant;

enlisted 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and died in

hospital at Bethune, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at La

Bassée the previous day; _unm._ Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His

Platoon Officer, Lieut. W. A. Piercey, wrote: “He was wounded to-day.

He was struck twice by a German sniper while out of the trench under

my orders. Rifleman Gowers, who was with him, acted in a very cool and

soldierly way in assisting his comrade under fire, and your son bore up

most bravely under the pain and discomfort inevitable in being brought

in under such circumstances. We have every reason to be proud of them

both.”

[Illustration: =Ernest George Boughton.=]

=BOULDEN, REUBEN WILLIAM HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 237607, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOULOGNE, JORDAN=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the

action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOULT, THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 1639, Princess Patricia’s Canadian

Light Infantry; a native of Seaham Harbour, Durham; went to Canada

from West Hartlepool about 1910; volunteered on the outbreak of war

and joined Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry; was severely wounded at

Ypres, where he had a leg shot off, and died in hospital at Boulogne,

15 May, 1915. Three of his brothers are on service, two in the Army and

one in the Navy.

=BOULTON, JAMES FORSTER=, Midshipman, R.N., H.M.S. Monmouth, yr.

_s._ of Alexander Claude Forster Boulton, of 28, Ranelagh Avenue,

Barnes, J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, formerly M.P., North

Hunts, by his wife, Florence Marion, dau. of Henry Harmes; _b._

Putney, 3 April, 1899; educ. Willington School, Putney, and the Osborne

and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth

on the outbreak of war, as a Naval Cadet, and was advanced to the rank

of Midshipman only a few days before he was lost in the sinking of

H.M.S. Monmouth, while in action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

Entering Willington School as its youngest boy in May, 1905, he left

it as head boy at Christmas, 1911, after being head of Form V and

prize-winner the previous July. Having entered Osborne Royal Naval

College in Jan. 1912, he was second of his year at Easter and first

of his year at Midsummer. He was top in bookwork in the Christmas

term, and third in the final order for the year. He played for the

Soccer XI in various “forward” positions. In the following year he won

the fly-weight boxing, and passed out second of the 70 Cadets of his

“year.” In Jan., 1914, he entered Dartmouth College, where he was also

first in bookwork in his first term. His aggregate position at both

colleges was generally second--a highly creditable record when one

remembers the number of Cadets.

[Illustration: =James Forster Boulton.=]

=BOURGES, JOHN (JEAN)=, Private, No. 67214, 25th Battn. Canadian

Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Gabriel Bourges, of Cancale, Ille et

Vilaine, France; _b._ Cancale, 3 May, 1890; educ. there, and left

France on a French fishing vessel in 1904 for Canada, and on account of

ill-treatment remained there and worked as a sailor, and never returned

to France until he came with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. On the

outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he at once volunteered, crossed to France

in Sept., and was killed in action 27 Dec. 1915, by the bursting of a

shell in his trench; _unm._ He was buried in the cemetery of the

25th Battn. by the Rev. Father Doyen, of the 5th Brigade.

[Illustration: =John (Jean) Bourges.=]

=BOURKE, BERTRAM WALTER=, Capt., 5th, attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal

Dublin Fusiliers, only surviving _s._ of the late Major William

Henry Bourke, of Heathfield, Ballina, co. Mayo, Connaught Rangers, by

his wife, Sarah Louisa, dau. of James John Young; _b._ 9 Dec.

1882; educ. in Saint Servant, France; served with the Royal Engineers

(Militia) from which he exchanged into the 5th Battn. Royal Dublin

Fusiliers in 1904; passed the school of instruction for employment with

the Regular Forces, and obtained the rank of Capt. 24 Feb. 1912. He

left for the Front on 2 May, 1915, was attached to the 2nd Battn. Royal

Dublin Fusiliers, and was killed in action while gallantly leading his

men near Ypres, just a week later, 9 May, 1915. Capt. Bourke _m._

at Stapletown, Carlow, 19 April, 1913, Eileen, dau. of George Neville

Usher, of Carlow, and had two daus.: Vivienne Neville, _b._ 29

Jan. 1914; and Patricia Bertram, _b._ 4 Nov. 1915.

=BOURKE, EUSTACE GEORGE WALTER=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn.

King’s Royal Rifle Corps, eldest _s._ of Walter Longley Bourke, of

Monycrower, Maidenhead, late Major, Duke of Lancaster’s Own Imperial

Yeomanry, by his wife, Ethel Kathleen Jane, only dau. of the late

Capt. John W... Freeman, of Rockfield, co. Hereford, 16th Regt., and

grandson of Rev. the Hon. George Wingfield Bourke, M.A., [4th _s._

of Robert, 5th Earl of Mayo]; _b._ 24 June, 1888; educ. at Mr.

Arnold’s School at Wixenford, Uppingham and Sandhurst, and received

his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle

Corps, 6 Feb. 1909, becoming Lieut. 20 Aug. 1912, and Capt. 18 May,

1915. For some time he was A.D.C. to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,

and was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor-General of South Africa, but

was unable to proceed with Lord Buxton to take up the appointment on

account of the outbreak of the war. He went out to the Front on 12

Aug. 1914, being in command of the machine-gun section of his battn.

He was with his battn. during the retreat from Mons and on the Aisne.

Near Ypres, on 26 Oct., he received a bullet wound in the foot, and was

sent home. Subsequently he was appointed Adjutant of the 6th (Reserve)

battn. of his regt., which appointment he might have retained until

the end of the war but for his own determination to go again to the

Front. Early in May he was transferred as Adjutant to the 9th Battn.,

and on the 20th of that month he again proceeded to the Front. “20

May. Just off,” he wrote. “We shall be in France before you get this.

I can’t understand myself. I expected when the time came I should be

sorry to go. However, I slept like a top last night, no worries, so

far no fears. Everything seems to me to be quite all in the day’s

work. It’s odd when you think of it.” He was promoted Capt. on 18 May,

though not gazetted until a few weeks later. Capt. Bourke was killed

in the first action in which the 9th battn. was engaged, and within

half a mile of the spot where he was wounded in October. The battn.

was ordered forward and marched up a railway cutting in full view of

a German observation balloon. Within a few minutes they were being

heavily shelled, and one burst close to Capt. Bourke and his servant

(Rifleman S. Chater), who were together; the latter was blown into the

air, but neither was injured. Capt. Bourke turned back to see if his

man was hurt, and they then made for some small dug-outs in the side of

the cutting. Before they could take cover, however, another shell fell

close to them, and Capt. Bourke was badly hit. Chater again escaped

unhurt, though he afterwards suffered so severely from shock that he

had to be invalided home. Chater ran off under heavy fire to fetch a

doctor, and succeeded in bringing one back in a very few minutes, but

only to find that Capt. Bourke was already dead. Chater remained with

him for several hours in the hope of being able to bring his body in,

but this was impossible. It was, however, recovered the next day, and

he was buried in a cemetery close to Ypres, where a wooden cross, put

up by his Colonel and some of his brother officers, marks his grave.

Col. Chaplin (himself killed shortly afterwards), in writing to Capt.

Bourke’s father, said: “I cannot express to you how very deeply we feel

his loss. He was most conscientious and a very useful officer, and

did his duty admirably. I fear his loss to the battn. and to myself

is almost irreparable.” And Major Hope (2nd in command), in another

letter said: “I should like to add that I myself only knew your son

for about a month, but that was quite long enough to become devoted to

him and to appreciate his sterling qualities both as a man and as a

soldier. I believe it was the same throughout all ranks of the battn.,

to which his loss is indeed irreparable. I was in the same mess with

him, and he was always so cheery and capable in any difficulty. Chater,

his servant, is heart-broken, and has gone to hospital.” Capt. Eric

Benson also wrote: “In the short time he was with us he did so much

for the battn. and helped everyone. We all miss him more than I can

say, both as a soldier and as a friend.” Like so many of the Bourke

family, he was devoted to hunting. In regimental point-to-point races,

too, he never missed a chance of a plucky ride for a place, and many

will remember how well he was often carried by his charger “Maxim Gun.”

The charm of his personality is vividly illustrated in the lifelike

description of him written by a friend, and here quoted: “He was

still a boy, though already in the Army and an A.D.C., when I first

knew him, about four years before his death. He retained to the last

day I saw him before he went out to the war for the second time the

light-hearted look of amusement at life of a typical boy, and his open

expression, curly brown hair, and big humorous brown eyes heightened

this first impression, but as time went on and things were discussed

with and before him and, incidentally, his own experience and plans, it

was striking to see how often he summed up a question in a few words

modestly and often lightly spoken. Then, when it came to decisions,

whilst almost turning the laugh against himself, he was clear as to his

own course of action, and this invariably included consideration for

and loyalty to others. He seemed to see his way without question. His

handsome, healthy face and figure and look of high spirits seemed to

put up the temperature when he came into a room.”

[Illustration: =Eustace G. W. Bourke.=]

=BOURKE, JAMES PATRICK=, Private, No. 93, 1st Australian Light

Horse, 2nd _s._ of James Bourke, Private Estate Steward, by his

wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Hugh Wallis; _b._ Kilfrush, co. Limerick,

23 Nov. 1880; educ. National School, Hospital; went to Australia in

June, 1907; enlisted after the outbreak of war and was killed in

action at the Dardanelles, 26 June, 1915. He _m._ at Hospital, 10

Sept. 1905, Mary, eldest dau. of Loughlin Doran, of 26, Deyne Avenue,

Rusholme, Manchester, and had a dau., Mary Elizabeth, _b._ 23 Nov.

1906.

=BOURNE, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4221), 294840,

H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOURNS, CHARLES=, Lieut., 6th, attd. 4th, Battn. The Rifle

Brigade, yr. _s._ of Charles Bourns, of Boley, Lichfield, formerly

of West Hill, Oxted, Physician, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Edward

Walker, of West Hill, Oxted, and Araluen, Eastbourne; _b._ West

Hill, Oxted, 7 Aug. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School and St. John’s

College, Oxford (M.A.), and was an Assistant Master at Repton when

war was declared. Being a member of the Repton O.T.C., he obtained a

commission as 2nd Lieut. in Oct. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. in the

Rifle Brigade, 22 Jan. 1915. He was killed in action near Hooge, 25

May, 1915; _unm._ He was an Oxford (Rugby football) Blue in 1903.

[Illustration: =Charles Bourns.=]

=BOUTLE, SYDNEY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2047), 209405, H.M.S. Good

Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, JACOB EDWARD=, Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle

Corps, only _s._ of the late Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie,

of Coleshill House, by his wife, Maria Eleanor (Coleshill House,

Highworth, Wilts.), dau. of Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Bt., and grandson

of Jacob, 4th Earl of Radnor; _b._ Sherburn Lodge, Watlington,

co. Oxford, 12 July, 1887; educ. Evelyns, Uxbridge; St. Vincents,

Eastbourne; Eton, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s

Royal Rifles, 8 Feb. 1908; joined his battn. at Colchester, and left

with them for India in 1909. He was promoted Lieut. 23 Jan. 1911,

returning to England the same year. On the outbreak of war, after some

weeks at Sheerness, he went out with a draft on 30 Aug., arriving at

St. Nazaire 1 Sept., 1914. He left there to join the 2nd Battn. in

billets at Paynon, 20 Sept., and was posted to D Coy., taking command

of 13 and 14 platoons. The battn. remained at or near Paynon till

18 Oct., when they were moved to Ypres. They were in the trenches

from 22–24 Oct. when they returned to billets in Ypres. On 27 Oct.

they went into reserve trenches in a wood just east of Hooge, and

on 29th advanced to reinforce the 3rd Brigade at Gheluvelt. Lieut.

Pleydell-Bouverie was hit 31 Oct. while ordering a counter attack, was

carried to the rear under fire by Riflemen Taylor, Scott, Alcott and

Quick, and from the field hospital was sent by train to Boulogne. He

died early in the morning of 1 Nov. in No. 13 stationary hospital where

he had been admitted a few hours before and was buried in the English

cemetery there; _unm._

[Illustration: =J. E. Pleydell-Bouverie.=]

=BOWDEN, ALBERT JOHN=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., A. 890), 123326,

H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWDEN, EDWARD RATCLIFFE=, Lieut., 6th Battn. Northumberland

Fusiliers (T.F.), _s._ of Thomas Bowden, of Sheriff Mount,

Gateshead Fell, co. Durham, J.P., head of the firm of Thomas Bowden,

Sons & Nephew, of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Manchester, Chartered

Accountants; _b._ 28 April, 1889; educ. Corchester Preparatory

School, Sedbergh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A.), was a

member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and received a commission in the

Northumberland Fusiliers 1910, being promoted Lieut. 25 Dec. 1912. He

died of wounds received in the action at Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was

buried at Abbeville; _unm._

[Illustration: =Edward Ratcliffe Bowden.=]

=BOWELL, FREDERICK JAMES=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2088),

162995, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914;

_m._

=BOWEN, CUTHBERT EDWARD LATIMER=, Assistant District

Superintendent, East African Police, Lieut., attd. King’s African

Rifles, elder _s._ of the Rev. Thomas James Bowen, Vicar of St.

Nicholas, Bristol, by his wife, Susan Elvina, dau. of John Williams,

of Ty-ar-y-Graig, Swansea; _b._ at All Saints’ Vicarage, Swansea,

23 Sept. 1881; educ. at Box Grove, Guildford, and Rugby. He joined

the 3rd (Royal Surrey Militia) Battn. of the Queen’s during the Boer

campaign, and did duty at Guildford depôt during the 1900 embodiment,

and in South Africa. After the peace of Vereeniging he was gazetted

into the Regular Army and posted to the 1st Battn. of the Queen’s,

then stationed on the North-West Frontier of India. In 1904 he was

transferred to the West India Regt., and served with the 1st Battn.

in Jamaica under Col. A. R. Loscombe. In 1905 he was employed under

the Colonial Office, and became an assistant superintendent of police

in the East African Protectorate and was serving under Major W. F.

S. Edwards, the Insp.-General, when war broke out. He was attached

to the King’s African Rifles, and fell on 1 Dec. 1914, at Utendi, in

the Nyanza Province. His body was recovered and brought to British

territory and buried at Utendi. The following message was received

from Col. Edward, D.S.O.: “Mr. Bowen’s loss not only to the Police

Force but to a large number of personal friends, will be most severely

felt. I deem it to be the wish of all that their condolences should be

inseparable from the high tribute of praise of the commanding officer

that Mr. Bowen evidently lost his life in a gallant attempt to capture

Susuni Hill. Concerning myself, I feel that I have lost both a gallant

and true friend.” He _m._ at Nairobi, British East Africa, 25

May, 1907, Alice May, dau. of (--) Swift, and had two daus.: Kathleen

Elvina, _b._ 25 March, 1908; and Dorothy Starbuck, _b._ 25

Jan. 1911.

[Illustration: =Cuthbert E. L. Bowen.=]

=BOWEN, EDWARD=, Signaller (R.F.R., B. 2774), 230362, H.M.S. Good

Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.

1914.

=BOWEN, GEORGE FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2434), 169906, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWEN, HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 3265, B Coy., 21st Battn. (1st

Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Charles

Richard Bowen; _b._ Camberwell, 17 Nov. 1893; was a Clerk, but

after the outbreak of war joined the Surrey Rifles, 25 Jan. 1915, and

was killed at Festubert at 6 a.m., 9 May, following being shot through

the temple by a sniper; _unm._

[Illustration: =Henry Bowen.=]

=BOWERS, PERCIVAL CONWAY=, Private, No. 9664, 2nd Battn.

Lincolnshire Regt., _s._ of the late John Bowers (who served 22

years in the Army with the Yorks and Lancs., and _d._ 25 Aug.

1915), by his wife, Ann (Queen Street, Frodingham, Scunthorpe, Lincs.),

dau. of (..); _b._ Broughton, co. Lincoln, 13 June, 1895; enlisted

9 Dec. 1913, and was killed in action, being shot by a sniper, 21 Feb.

1915. He was buried at a farm on the north side of the Rue Wasselot,

south-east of Rue Bacqueort; _unm._

[Illustration: =Percival Conway Bowers.=]

=BOWES, ROBERT EDWARD=, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5306,

H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWES, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Stoker, R.N.R., 2652T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWLBY, GEOFFREY VAUX SALVIN=, Capt., Royal Horse Guards (The

Blues), 6th but 2nd surviving _s._ of the late Edward Salvin

Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Harlow, Essex, and Knoydart, Inverness,

J.P., D.L., by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Vans-Agnew,

of Barnbarroch, and Sheuchan, co. Wigtown; _b._ London, 1 Dec.

1884; educ. Eton, and joined the Royal Horse Guards from the Militia

(King’s Own Scottish Borderers) as 2nd Lieut., 9 March, 1904. He was

promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1905, and Capt. 6 May, 1908. He went to Ireland

in 1909 as A.D.C. to Sir Neville Lyttleton, returning to his regt. in

Sept. 1910 to take over the Adjutancy which he held to Sept. 1913. On

the outbreak of war he was sent to France in advance of the composite

regt., as billeting officer to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, rejoining his

regt. the day before the battle of Mons. After the fight at Wytschaete,

29 Oct.-1 Nov. 1914, Capt. Bowlby was the senior officer left and

took over command of the composite regt. for a short time, until

each squadron went back to its own regt. On rejoining the “Blues” he

commanded the A Squadron. He was killed leading his squadron in a

charge across 1,000 yards of open country north of Bellewarde Farm,

during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, on the afternoon of 13 May, 1915. His

commanding officer wrote: “I cannot tell you what a loss he is to the

regt.; he was as gallant as he could be and a magnificent soldier. He

was so keen and energetic and proud of his squadron, of which he took

the greatest care.” Capt. Bowlby was a fine polo player, and enjoyed

great popularity at the London grounds. In his day there were few to

surpass him in skill and dash. For several seasons he was No. 1 in

the Blues’ team, and in two years (1910 and 1912) he helped the side

to win the Inter-Regimental Cup at Hurlingham. The other members of

those victorious sides were: Capt. Lord Alastair Innes-Ker, Capt. H. E.

Brassey, and Capt. J. F. Harrison. Capt. Bowlby was in the team again

in 1913 and in 1914, but his regt. was in both years beaten by the 1st

Life Guards. He _m._ at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, 18

Oct. 1911, the Hon. Lettice, née Annesley, 4th dau. of Arthur, 11th

Viscount Valentia, C.B., M.V.O., and had two children: John Edward

Richard, _b._ 8 May, 1914; and Elizabeth Mary, _b._ 3 Feb.

1913.

[Illustration: =Geoffrey V. S. Bowlby.=]

=BOWLEY, HARRY EDWIN=, Private, No. 9913, 2nd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, _s._ of Harry Edwin Bowley, Private 2/4th Battn. Royal

Sussex Regt. (now on active service), by his wife, Eliza May (41,

Bentham Road. Brighton), dau. of John Winder, of Brighton; _b._

Brighton, 25 June, 1894; educ. St. Luke’s Terrace Board School there;

was for some time a telegraph boy at the Brighton Post Office; enlisted

1 Jan. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and during

the retreat from Mons was sent with a dispatch but never returned, and

is assumed to have been killed in action at Villers Cotterets, 1 Sept.

1914.

=BOWMAN, FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1793C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWMAN, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3771), 180916, H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOWYER, CHARLES ALEXANDER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7440) S.S. 1330,

H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BOWYER, WILLIAM HENRY=, A.B., 215065, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in

the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOX, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 112109, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BOX, JOSEPH WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2822), 175583, H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BOXALL, CARYL LERMITTE=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt.,

yr. _s._ of Alleyne Alfred, 1st Baron Boxall, of 14, Cambridge

Square, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late

James Henry Lermitte, of Knightons, J.P., and nephew of Mr. Boxall,

K.C., Recorder of Brighton, and of the late Col. Sir Charles Boxall,

K.C.B.; _b._ at 14, Cambridge Square, W., 26 Dec. 1887; educ. Eton

(1901–6) and Sandhurst; received his commission in the 2nd Hampshires,

9 Oct. 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911, and Capt. 4 Oct.

1914. He served in South Africa, Mauritius and India, and with the

Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. Landed from the River Clyde with

the 29th Division, and died of wounds received in action following

the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915. He was _unm._

A brass plaque to the memory of this officer was erected in the south

aisle of St. Peter’s, Cowfold, Sussex.

[Illustration: =Caryl Lermitte Boxall.=]

=BOXALL, CHARLES BERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3515), 210631, H.M.S.

Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1

Nov. 1914.

=BOXWELL, FRANCIS JEFFARES TILSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3598),

188877, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast

of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOYCE, JOHN HENRY=, Trooper, No. 1626, Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

(Royal Bucks Hussars), only _s._ of Henry Boyce, of Woodford

Green, Essex, and grandson of the late Henry Boyce, of the Leman

School, Beccles, Suffolk; _b._.........., 1889; joined the Royal

Bucks Hussars early in Oct. 1914; left England for Egypt just before

Easter, 1915; went to the Dardanelles early in June, and was killed in

a charge at Suvla Bay, 21 Aug. 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =John Henry Boyce.=]

=BOYD, DAVID=, A.B., 229233, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action

off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BOYD, HAROLD ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal

Inniskilling Fusiliers, only _s._ of Dr. Alexander James Boyd, of

The Manor House, Ware, co. Herts (who served for 13 years in the 1st

(Herts) Vol. Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., and retired as Capt. in 1902),

by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Brackenbury Comyns Berkeley, of

Collett Hall, Ware, and grandson of the late Samuel Boyd, of Illerton,

Killiney; _b._ at The Manor House, Ware, 19 Jan. 1895; educ. at

the Preparatory School, Castle Park, Dalkey (co. Dublin), Rugby, and

Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was studying medicine at the

time of mobilisation and had passed his first M.B. examination at the

end of his first year. He had joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

in April, 1913, as a Special Reserve officer, and was called up for

service and at first put on Coast Defence duty at Lough Swilly, co.

Donegal, being afterwards sent to France on 31 Aug. He was killed in

action at Crecy, 7 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Marne; unm.

Corpl. W. Poots wrote: “On the morning of Monday, 7 Sept., we were

reinforced by a draft of a hundred men from the depôt in Ireland under

Lieut. Boyd, and continued the advance all day. In the evening the

Inniskillings had to find the outposts at a village to which we had

come--on the right being an open road with a row of apple trees, and

on the left a clear open plain. In the distance, about 1,000 or 1,200

yards, was a broad belt of woods and shrubs, from which came rifle and

big gun fire. This took us by surprise. We lined out and retaliated,

but their shelling was terrific, and we had no artillery with us.

Our officers were trying to find the range and had no cover from the

shells, thus exposing themselves, notably Mr. Boyd, who was standing by

an apple tree by the right of the road. He was struck on the body by

shrapnel and killed instantly; also Private Cousins, and 14 wounded.

We continued all night in this position. In the morning the enemy had

retired.” 2nd Lieut. Boyd was a fine athlete, gaining his colours at

Rugby in football, swimming, shooting and cross-country running; and

he also won the Royal Humane Society’s medal and Dr. Duke’s cup for

life-saving competition. At Cambridge he was a member of the First

Trinity Boat Club, and in 1914 he won the swimming championship of his

regt. at Aldershot.

=BOYD, NIGEL JOHN LAWSON=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch,

yr. _s._ of William Boyd, of 26, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh,

Writer to the Signet, Member of the King’s Body Guard for Scotland

(R.C.A.), by his wife, Laura, dau. of the late John Crerar, of Halifax,

Nova Scotia, and grandson of the late Sir John Boyd, of Maxpoffle,

co. Roxburgh, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Lawson, 14th

Laird of Cairnmuir, co. Peebles; _b._ Edinburgh, 14 Sept. 1894;

educ. Cargilfield School, Midlothian, Winchester College and the Royal

Military College, Sandhurst. In passing into the latter he obtained a

Prize Cadetship, and in passing out he was fourth on the list. He was

gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 25 Feb. 1914, and joined the

1st Battn. at Oudenarde Barracks early in March. After the declaration

of war he left Aldershot with his regt. in the beginning of Aug. for

France, and took part with it in the memorable retreat from Mons to

the Marne. He was fatally wounded on the morning of 14 Sept., his

birthday, during the early days of the great Battle of the Aisne. From

a description which he subsequently gave when in hospital in Rouen to

his father, it appears that in the early morning of 14 Sept., which

was misty, the Black Watch were acting in concert with the Cameron

Highlanders on the banks of the Aisne, and found themselves opposed

to a strong force of the Germans, and came under a very severe fire.

Lieut. Boyd with his platoon had been directed to take up a position,

and it had been indicated to him that it must be held at all costs.

The Germans continued to press on in overpowering numbers at that

point, and they could see them within 100 yards. He stated that he

had personally fired 10 rounds at them with a rifle, and afterwards

emptied his revolver at them. The shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire

at the time was terrific. The enemy continued to press on from all

sides. He was standing up and had drawn his Claymore, and in turning

to the side to give a signal to those of his men who survived he was

hit. The bullet struck the scabbard of his Claymore, glanced off it,

entered the left hip and lodged in the bladder. After that he said

the Germans rushed the position. Words are unnecessary, and no effort

of the imagination required to show that this young officer and his

small force of men had made a gallant stand against overpowering odds,

and that they had acted in accordance with the best traditions of

their grand old regt. When on the ground wounded he asked a German who

was passing for assistance, but all that the man did was to threaten

to shoot him. After that he stated that he pretended to be dead when

other Germans passed. Some time after this a party of the Cameron

Highlanders appear to have been in the vicinity, and he was observed

by the late Capt. Napier Cameron of that regt. Capt. Cameron gallantly

went under fire to his assistance, and carried him to the shelter of

a lane some distance in the rear. Lieut. Boyd told his father that he

owed his life at the time to Capt. Cameron, as the ground on which he

had fallen was swept afterwards by a terrible cross fire, and if he

had been left there he could not possibly have survived. He lay where

Capt. Cameron had put him for 16 hours in the rain. A stretcher party

of the Gloucestershire Regt. found him and brought him in. Afterwards

he was for 36 hours in a cattle truck being taken to the Base hospital.

The officers in charge of No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen, and the Rev.

W. G. Arrowsmith, one of the Chaplains, there stated that the whole

of the time in that cattle truck, and afterwards in the hospital, he

had never complained, and had shown extraordinary fortitude, and that

the example shown had the most wonderful effect upon the wounded men

there. An instance told was this: a Quartermaster-Sergt., who was badly

wounded and was suffering a lot, had been calling out a great deal, and

disturbing the other men. After they had tried to soothe him without

effect he was told that in the next ward there was a young officer of

the Black Watch who was far worse than he was, and who never complained

at all. After that the man was quiet. Although very severely wounded,

great hopes were entertained of Lieut. Boyd’s recovery, as he had been

operated upon successfully. But it was not to be, as he collapsed

suddenly in the early morning of 12 Oct., the immediate cause of death

being a blood clot. As he died in hospital his body was brought back to

Scotland in the hospital ship St. Patrick. The Headquarters, Scottish

Command, arranged for a military funeral, which took place in the Dean

Cemetery, Edinburgh, on 19 Oct. From earliest boyhood he had taken

the keenest interest in all outdoor sports. He played in the “Houses

fifteen” matches at Winchester. At cricket he was a fair performer, and

at golf a Scratch player. He was a good rider, a keen fisherman, and an

excellent shot both with the gun and rifle. He represented Winchester

College at Bisley in 1911, when he shot for the Cadet Trophy, and was

again at Bisley in 1912, when he was in the Winchester “eight.” It had

been his greatest ambition from earliest childhood to be in the Black

Watch.

[Illustration: =Nigel John Lawson Boyd=]

=BOYD, PERCY GERNON=, Private, No. 3158, 10th (Liverpool Scottish)

Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., eldest _s._ of Samuel Boyd, of

19, Hale Road, Liscard, Cheshire, Accountant and Secretary, Liverpool

Shipping Company, by his wife, Emma, dau. of William Ker, of Liverpool;

_b._ Egremont, Wallasey, co. Chester, 1 Sept 1890; educ. Liscard

High School, and joined the Army on the outbreak of the war Aug. 1914.

He died from shell wounds received in action at Locre, Flanders, 22

Jan. 1915, and was buried in the churchyard there; _unm._ Major N.

S. Anderson, D.S.O., wrote: “He was in my company (No. 1) and was under

my command. I was thoroughly satisfied with all his work. He was a good

soldier.” And a comrade wrote: “He was a real good soldier, and a very

brave one too. It was only the night before Lieut. Turner was killed

that he was out with him putting barbed wire in front of the trenches.”

He was an active and keen footballer, being a member of the Liscard

Old Boys’, Brompton, and other clubs, and won the mile handicap at his

school annual sports.

[Illustration: =Percy Gernon Boyd.=]

=BOYLE, HON. JAMES=, Capt., Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd surviving

_s._ of David, 7th Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., by his wife,

Dorothea Elizabeth Thomasina, dau. of Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 4th Bt.;

_b._ Shewalton, co. Ayr., 11 March, 1880; educ. Wanganui College,

New Zealand, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and joined the Ayrshire

Militia 27 May, 1898, and served through the South African War,

1901–2, part of the time with mounted infantry and for some time on

staff duties, receiving the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In 1903 he

joined the Regulars and was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Scots

Fusiliers, becoming Lieut. 6 June, 1906, and Capt. 10 April, 1912.

From 1908–9 he was extra Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Victoria,

and from 1909–11 Aide-de-Camp, and later, 1912–14, A.D.C. to Gen. Sir

H. Smith-Dorrien, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command. He was

killed in action at Chateau Warneton, near La Bassée, on 18 Oct. 1914

(being officially reported wounded and missing for seven weeks, until

a letter was received from a German officer who reported he was buried

at Chateau Warneton). He _m._ in London, 15 Sept. 1908, Katherine

Isabel Salvin (Marston House, Banbury), sister of Capt. Geoffrey Vaux

Salvin Bowlby, Royal Horse Guards, killed in action 13 May, 1915, and

dau. of the late Edward Salvin Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Herts, and had

three children: Patrick John Salvin, _b._ 21 April, 1910; Edward

James, _b._ 26 Feb. 1912; and Belinda Margaret Graeme, _b._ 4

Dec. 1913.

[Illustration: =Hon. James Boyle.=]

=BOYLE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 15645, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal

Scots (Lothian Regt.), _s._ of Thomas Boyle, of 33, Lyons Lane,

Port Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action at Hooge, 27 Sept. 1915.

=BOYLE, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10345, 1st Battn. Coldstream

Guards, only _s._ of William Boyle, Coldstream Guards, by his

wife, Bridget (102, Marian Street, Gateshead, co. Durham), dau. of

Thomas Jackson; _b._ Gateshead, 18 July, 1896; enlisted 4 Sept.

1913; died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914;

_unm._

[Illustration: =Thomas William Boyle.=]

=BOYLE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 14602, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 4 Nov. 1914,

while a prisoner of war.

=BOYS, CHARLES HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9527), 200302, H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRABAZON, HON. ERNEST WILLIAM MAITLAND MOLYNEUX=, =D.S.O.=,

Staff Capt., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th and yst. _s._ of

Reginald, 12th Earl of Meath, P.C., K.P., by his wife, Lady Mary Jane

Maitland, only surviving dau. of Thomas, 11th Earl of Lauderdale,

G.C.B.; _b._ Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1884; educ. Dover

College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, 9 Jan. 1904, promoted Lieut. 5 Sept. 1906, and Capt. 3rd Battn.

4 April, 1912. On the outbreak of war he went to the front with his

regt., was attached to the Staff, and was killed in action near La

Bassée, 17 June, 1915. He was buried in Cambrin Cemetery, near where he

fell. Capt. Brabazon was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch

[London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914], in the following terms: “Has shown

conspicuous efficiency in Staff duties and in keeping up communication

with a long line of front composed of many units, where communication

was often difficult. He has carried and delivered messages under fire

with promptness and dispatch.” For these services he received the

D.S.O. Lord Cavan, commanding the Guards’ Brigade, wrote: “We simply

loved him. I can never tell you what he was to me, not only as a

Staff Officer but as a friend. He was priceless, invaluable and never

wearying in his work for the Brigade.” And Col. J. R. Drummond Hay,

commanding Coldstream Guards: “By his death the Army, as well as the

regt., has lost heavily.” He was keen on musketry and sport and a good

shot. He _m._ at the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks, S.W., 29

Oct. 1912, Dorothy Mary, yst. dau. of Col. Horace Ricardo, of Bramley

Park, Surrey, C.V.O.; _s.p._ His three brothers are now (1916) on

active service: Col. Lord Ardee, C.B., in command of the 1st Battn.

Irish Guards, has been wounded; Capt. the Hon. Arthur Brabazon, on

special service in Egypt; and Major the Hon. Claud Brabazon, of the

Irish Guards, now in the Royal Flying Corps.

[Illustration: =Hon. E. W. M. M. Brabazon.=]

=BRABROOK, ARTHUR HENRY=, Sergt., 1/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers)

City of London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Frederick Joseph

Brabrook, of Bury St. Edmunds, Fish Merchant, by his wife, Emma;

_b._ Bury St. Edmunds, 18 Jan. 1879; educ. St. John’s Church

School. He joined the 18th Middlesex V.R.C. (Paddington Rifles) in

1904, which became the 10th Battn. of the London Territorials. He

became Colour-Sergt. of D Coy. in 1912, in which year the battn. was

disbanded and transferred to Hackney. This was too far away, so with

his Capt. (now Major Prance) and other men he formed a Paddington Coy.,

attached to the 3rd Battn. of the London Regt., and received the rank

of L.-Sergt. He went through the School of Instruction at Chelsea and

received a certificate and was promoted Sergt. When the battn. was

mobilised in Aug. 1914 they were sent to guard railway stations for a

month, and he was stationed at Arlesford with his section. On 4 Sept.

1914, he sailed for Malta, and after Christmas went to France, and

served through the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and La Bassée, where he

had a narrow escape, a shell bursting, knocking him down and burying

him under some bricks. He died 10 May, 1915, of wounds received at

Festubert, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. C. E. Rochford

wrote: “He was killed through a shell bursting while advancing in an

attack on a German trench. He has been with me ever since we left

England, so I knew him well. He was a splendid man and a splendid

soldier.” He _m._ at. North Kensington, 5 Sept. 1908, Clara

Louisa (322, Ladbroke Grove, W.), 2nd dau. of Robert Wollington, of

Ladbroke Grove, W., Builder, and had two children: Ralph Robert Arthur,

_b._ 15 March. 1914; and Beatrice Caroline, _b._ 23 Sept.

1909.

[Illustration: =Arthur Henry Brabrook.=]

=BRACEY, HUMPHREY ALFRED=, L.-Corpl., No. 1768, 21st Battn. (1st

Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); _b._ Stoke Newington, 6

Sept. 1891; elder _s._ of Alfred Bracey, of Ashcroft, 30 Seymour

Gardens, Ilford, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of William James Hagger,

_b._ ....; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and

County High School, Ilford, and was in the employ of Parrs’ Bank

when war broke out. He enlisted in the 1st Surrey Rifles, 8 Aug.

1914, went to the front 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action at

Festubert, 25–26 May, 1915; _unm._ His commanding officer, Capt.

A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was exceptionally popular with all ranks

and that he, personally, regretted the “loss of a very promising and

fearless N.C.O.” And “Parrs’ Bank Magazine,” in recording his death,

said: “At the outbreak of war he was one of the first to offer his

services to his country. In the departments in which he was formerly

employed, he was ever ready to assist his colleagues, and was a most

generous and jovial companion. His absence will be especially noticed

on balance nights, settling days, &c., when the heavy work was much

lightened by his ready wit and humour. He was also well known in the

rifle section of the Sports Club, where he was one of the best shots.”

[Illustration: =Humphrey Alfred Bracey.=]

=BRACHER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 9139, 2nd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, _s._ of Matthias Bracher of Gerrards Farm, Favant, near

Salisbury; _b._ co. Wilts; served with the Expeditionary Force in

France, etc.; killed in action at Rentel, 12 Nov. 1914; _unm._

=BRACKEN, JOHN=, Private, No. G. 773, 8th (Service) Battn. Royal

West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action, 26 Sept. 1915; _m._

=BRACKSTONE, HENRY=, Corpl., No. 7248, 1st Battn. East Surrey

Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in

action, 20 April, 1915; _m._

=BRADBURY, EDWARD CHAPNESS=, Private, No. 9409, 2nd Battn.

Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of Samuel Bradbury, of 65, Queen

Street, Palfrey, Walsall, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Baker;

_b._ Walsall, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Palfrey School, Walsall, and

on leaving there was employed by Neville Bros. as a Portmanteau Lock

Maker. He enlisted 18 Jan. 1911, and three months before war was

declared was transferred to the 2nd Life Guards, but then transferred

back to his old regt., and was killed in action by a shell in an attack

on a farmhouse, 16 Nov. 1914; _unm._

=BRADBURY, EDWARD KINDER, V.C.=, Capt., L Battery, Royal Horse

Artillery, only _s._ of the late Judge James Kinder Bradbury,

J.P., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, by his wife, Grace

(Parkfield, Altrincham, Cheshire), dau. of the Rev. Edward Dowling;

_b._ Bowden, co. Chester, 16 Aug. 1881; educ. St. Ninian’s,

Moffat, Marlborough College and Woolwich; gazetted to the Royal Field

Artillery, 2 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, and Capt.

4 Feb. 1910. He joined the 125th Battery in Ireland, and in the later

stages of the South African War obtained a commission in Fincastle’s

Horse, with which he served on active service, obtaining the Queen’s

medal with two clasps. After the close of that campaign he returned to

Ireland, but in 1905 went to Uganda, and served with the 4th Battn. of

the King’s African Rifles till Aug. 1906, when he was invalided home

after severe fever. Coming home, he was transferred to the R.H.A., and

on the outbreak of war went to France with the Expeditionary Force. At

Néry, near Compiegne, on the last day of the retreat from Mons (1 Sept.

1914), L Battery, while covering the retreat, was attacked by a strong

German force with ten field guns and two Maxims. Three British guns

were brought into action, but two were quickly silenced. Capt. Bradbury

and his men served the remaining gun so well, however, that all but one

of the German guns were silenced; and when L Battery was relieved this

gun was captured. “Bradbury,” writes an artillery officer, recounting

this story, “was the real hero. He got the gun into action and gave

the orders. Mundy knelt on one side and did ranging officer, and

Brad., Campbell and Giffard, with the Battery Sergt.-Major, Gunner and

Driver, served the gun. Brad. had one leg taken off above the knee, but

still went on; Campbell ... was killed; Mundy was hit in both legs;

the Major, coming back hastily, was hit in the throat as he arrived.

Bradbury had his other leg taken off. Giffard was badly wounded,

and still they kept the last gun firing, and when I Battery and the

other Brigade came up they found that the Germans had left their guns

and bolted.” Capt. Bradbury, who was _unm._, was buried in the

cemetery at Néry. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s

Despatch of 7 Sept. [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914], and was awarded the

Victoria Cross “For gallantry and ability in organising the defence of

L Battery against heavy odds at Néry on 1 Sept.” A General wrote: “Your

son was simply beloved by us all from me, his General, down to the last

joined subaltern. He was very nearly four years under my command, and I

looked upon him as one of the most brilliant officers I had ever come

across, one who, had God willed it, had a great career in front of him,

and the manner in which he met his death fighting a single gun to the

end after the loss of one leg was worthy of him.”

[Illustration: =Edward Kinder Bradbury.=]

=BRADDOCK, ARTHUR LESLIE=, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., H.M.S.

Cressy, _s._ of William Braddock, of Sydney, New South Wales,

Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Alice, dau. of (--) Norman, Dental

Surgeon; _b._ Adelaide, South Australia, 22 Feb. 1877; educ.

Adelaide; joined the Royal Naval Reserve, Jan. 1908, and was appointed

Assistant Paymaster, 3 Feb. 1911, with seniority of 30 Jan. 1908.

He was appointed to the Cressy 1 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that

ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._

at Liverpool, 15 July, 1912, Jeannie Scott (19, Huskisson Street,

Liverpool), dau. of the late Capt. William Henry Burt; _s.p._

=BRADDOCK, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13669 (Ports.), H.M.S.

Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRADFORD, ARTHUR JESSE GEORGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 766, B Coy., 16th

Battn. Australian Imperial Force, elder _s._ of the late Arthur

Jesse Bradford, of Clapton, N.E., by his wife, Gabriella (now a nurse,

of 106, Valkyrie Road, Westcliffe-on-Sea), dau. of Jesse Witts, of

Gloucester; _b._ Plaistow, co. Essex, 14 Nov. 1895; educ. London

Orphan School, Watford; joined the (Temperley & Co.) Merchant Service

when 16; then settled in Bunbury, Western Australia (1913), and

when war broke out was in the Bush, engaged in the lumber trade. He

immediately volunteered; left for Egypt with the Second Reinforcements

in Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April,

1915, and was killed in action there the same day; _unm._ His yr.

brother, Edward Lionel Bradford, L.-Corpl., No. 142397, No. 1 Co., R.E.

(Signal Service), is now (1916) on active service.

[Illustration: =Arthur Jesse G. Bradford.=]

=BRADFORD, SIR EVELYN RIDLEY=, 2nd Bt., Lieut.-Col. 2nd Seaforth

Highlanders, eldest _s._ of Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford,

1st Bt., some time (1890–1903) Commissioner of Police of the

Metropolis, and an extra Equerry to His Majesty the King, by his 1st

wife, Elizabeth Adela, dau. of Edward Knight, of Chanton House, Alton;

_b._ India, 16 April, 1869; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted

2nd Lieut. 22 Aug. 1888, and promoted Lieut. 11 June, 1890, Capt. 3

July 1895, Major 26 June, 1902, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 10 May, 1913, and

Lieut.-Col. 10 June, 1913. He served with the Soudan Expedition in

1898, being present at the Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum, and on

the staff in the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the

operations in the Orange Free State from May to 29 Nov. 1900, including

actions at Poplar Grove, and Driefontein, and Witteberjer (1–29 July),

and during the operations in Cape Colony, Feb.-March, 1901. His

services were twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 May and

10 Sept. 1901], and in addition to the Queen’s medal with four clasps

and the King’s medal with two clasps, he received his brevet majority

and was placed on the list of officers considered qualified for staff

employment in consequence of service on the Staff in the field. At

the time of the outbreak of the European War he was in command of the

2nd Battn. of the Seaforths, the old 78th, and took them out from

Shorncliffe in Brig.-Gen. J. A. L. Haldane’s 10th Infantry Brigade,

which was brought up from the lines of communication in France to cover

the retirement of the Expeditionary Force on Cambray. This duty was

performed in the centre of the line by Major-Gen. Snow’s 4th Division,

consisting of the 10th, 11th and 12th Infantry Brigades. These units

broke the front of the German pursuit, and suffered in consequence.

as the 1st and 2nd Army Corps fell back. He was killed in action at

the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and was buried at Bucy Le

Long, near Soissons. Sir Edward Bradford was a famous cricketer and

played many fine games for Hampshire and the Army with Major Poore and

Capt Wynyard, of the Staff College, as contemporaries, the last time

he played in the County Eleven being against Surrey, at Aldershot, in

1902. He _m._ at Colgate, Faygate, Sussex, 25 Nov. 1909, Elsie

Clifton, 3rd dau. of Col. James Clifton Brown, and had three children:

Sir Edward Montagu Andrew, now 3rd Bt., _b._ 30 Nov. 1910; Ridley

Lewkenor, _b._ 11 April, 1912, and Donald Clifton, _b._ 22

May, 1914.

[Illustration: =Sir Evelyn R. Bradford.=]

=BRADFORD, GEORGE RICHARD=, 2nd Engineer, No. 773, H.M. trawler

Tern, _s._ of William Bradford, Labourer; _b._ 1878; was lost

in the trawler Tern off the west coast of Scotland, 23 Feb. 1915, while

mine sweeping. He _m._ at Hull, 28 June, 1898, Alice Edith (78,

Day Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of Robert Dibnah, Lamplighter, and

had two sons, George Thomas, _b._ 16 Feb. 1904, and Charles Henry,

_b._ 5 April, 1912.

[Illustration: =George Richard Bradford.=]

=BRADLEY, ERIC JATINGA=, Private, No. 140, 5th Battn. (London

Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., eldest _s._ of James Bradley, of

Grovehill, Suckley, co. Worcester, Tea Planter; _b._ London, 28

June, 1892; educ. Rottingdean, Rugby and Pembroke College Cambridge

(Honours); entered at the Inner Temple, but on the outbreak of war at

once enlisted; he proceeded with his battn. to France 4 Nov., and was

mortally wounded with four others in the early morning of 5 Dec. by

shrapnel, which burst on the parapet of the trench. He died the same

day at No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, being buried in the cemetery

there (No. 149); _unm._

=BRADLEY, REGINALD JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17049, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BRADLEY, THOMAS=, Trooper, No. 13/296, Auckland Mounted Rifles,

New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Benjamin Bradley, of

Christchurch, formerly of co. Lincoln; _b._ Papains, Christchurch,

New Zealand, 16 June, 1884; educ. Christchurch High School; joined the

Mounted Rifles, 10 July, 1914; went to the Dardanelles in May, and

was killed in a night attack at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 19 May, 1915;

_unm._ He was buried on Walker’s Ridge there.

=BRADSHAW, FRANK SEYMOUR=, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince Albert’s

Somerset L.I. (the old 13th), only _s._ of the late Major Frank

Boyd Bradshaw (13th Somerset L.I.), by his wife, Catherine Douglas,

dau. of Capt. Loftus Nunn, late 99th Regt., and great-grandson of

Gen. Lawrence Bradshaw, some time commanding 13th L.I.; _b._

Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 4 Dec. 1883; educ. East Sheen,

Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Jan. 1904, and promoted

Lieut. 12 June, 1906, and Capt. Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at

Ploegsteert Wood, 19 Dec. 1914, and was buried near Somerset House

there; _unm._ One of Capt. Bradshaw’s men wrote: “His death is

much regretted by the whole company, because they could always trust

him. He would never send his men where he would not go himself. He was

an exceptionally brave man, and knew his work, and it will be very

difficult to find his equal.”

[Illustration: =Frank Seymour Bradshaw.=]

=BRADSHAW, GEORGE RAMSON=, Stoker, 1st Class, E. 12797 (Ports.),

H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRADSHAW, MATTHEW=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12547, H.M.S. Aboukir;

lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRADY, EDMUND=, L.-Corpl., No. 9118, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots,

3rd _s._ of Patrick Brady, of 102, Waterloo Street, Crumpsall,

Manchester, Labourer, by his wife, Anne; _b._ Miles Platting,

Manchester, 2 Sept. 1881; educ. St. Edmund’s R.C. School there;

enlisted 9 Dec. 1904, and served eight years in India, winning a silver

spoon for shooting. An attendant at the Crumpsall Workhouse when war

was declared, he was called up, and was killed instantaneously in

action, during the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being struck in the

forehead by a bullet; _unm._

=BRAIK, JOHN=, Sergt., No. 22961, 12th, later 4th, Battn. Canadian

Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Adam Braik, of Kemnay,

co. Aberdeen, Mill Owner, by his wife, Helen, dau. of John Ingram;

_b._ Garthy, co. Aberdeen, 5 Oct. 1868; educ. Kemnay Public

School, and was a mill owner. He joined the 4th Volunteer Battn. of

the Gordon Highlanders in 1880, and obtained a commission in the same

in 1896. On the outbreak of the South African War he enlisted as a

Private in the 2nd Scottish Horse and served through the latter part

of that campaign, receiving the medal. He was subsequently attached

to the R.G.A. as Instructor of Military Signalling, and was shooting

in the wilds of British Columbia when the European War began. He

immediately hastened several hundred miles through the North-West to

the nearest recruiting office and volunteered for service. He was

offered a commission in the second contingent, but declined to wait,

and was one of the last recruits entered for the first contingent, and

came over with them in Oct., crossing to France in Feb. He subsequently

returned to England to convey machine guns to the Front, and was given

charge of one on his return. He was seriously wounded 18 June, 1915,

by a shrapnel shell which burst above his gun, and was invalided to

England, where he died in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 5 Aug.

following. He was buried in Heroes Corner, Greenwich Cemetery.

[Illustration: =John Braik.=]

=BRAITHWAITE, JOSEPH=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in

the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRAMALL, HORACE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7357, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRAMLEY, HAROLD=, 2nd Lieut., 2/5th King’s Own Yorkshire Light

Infantry (T.F.), previously L.-Corpl. (C Squad.) Leicestershire

Yeomanry, 2nd _s._ of the Rev. Cyril Richard Bramley, M.A. (Oxon.),

Vicar of St. John’s, Donisthorpe with Moira (St. Hilda); _b._

Manchester, 9 Feb. 1894; educ. St. John’s School, Leatherhead, 1904;

devoted himself to farming, and after a two years’ course on a farm

in Snarestone, went to Canada for nine months to see the conditions

of farming there; returning in Dec. 1913, he went to Kidlington,

near Oxford, to take charge of a farm, but on the outbreak of war

immediately rejoined the Leicestershire Yeomanry (in which he had been

1911–12); went with them to the Front in Nov. 1914, was in several

engagements, being promoted L.-Corpl. Feb. 1915, and 2nd Lieut. a week

before he was killed in action near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; _unm._

=BRAND, ERNEST STANLEY=, Capt., Royal Fusiliers, attd. West

African Rifles, _s._ of William Burmann Brand, of 19, Linzee

Road, Hornsey, N.; _b._ Stoke Newington, 3 Dec. 1878; educ.

Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn.

Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 Jan. 1899, and was promoted Lieut.

27 Jan. 1900, and Capt. 19 Oct. 1904. He was seconded for service with

the Chinese Regt. at Wei-hai-Wei from 20 April, 1901, to 19 April,

1906; was employed with the West African Regt. from 14 July, 1906,

to Dec. 1910, and again from 19 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the

European War he was ordered to the Cameroons and was acting second in

command when killed in action during the fighting around Jabassi on 8

Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was buried at Dibandi. A picture of the cross

erected to his memory appeared in the Sketch for 5 June, 1915. Capt.

Brand was a clever Chinese linguist.

=BRANDON, JOHN COOPER=, 340733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in

the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRANTINGHAM, GEORGE=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 155692 (Ports.), H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRASH, PRENTISE STEPHEN=, Petty Officer, 180365, H.M.S.

Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off

the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BRASHAW, JOSEPH ARTHUR=, Capt., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial

Force, 3rd _s._ of Harry Brashaw, of Perth and Dudley House Farm,

Kwelkam, Kununoppin, West Australia, by his wife, Sebra, dau. of John

White, of Coventry, and nephew of Joseph White, of The Woodlands,

Cowper Road, Bournemouth; _b._ Woalingham, New South Wales, 1891;

educ. Bunbury, West Australia; joined the forces as a cadet when 17

years of age, and was later transferred to the Militia. He worked his

way up through the ranks and received his lieutenancy in 1913. On the

outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service, and was sent to

Melbourne to assist in training the New Forces. Here he contracted

typhoid fever, and returned to West Australia, leaving for the front

in charge of reinforcements for the 16th Battn. He arrived in time to

take part in the historic landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915,

and was subsequently wounded during the heavy fighting on 17 May. When

convalescent he was given the opportunity of being invalided to England

as his foot had not fully recovered, but pleaded to be allowed to

rejoin his unit, and returned to duty on 17 July, being gazetted Capt.

on the 29th. Nine days later, on 7 Aug. 1915, he was killed in action

at Suvla Bay; _unm._

[Illustration: =Joseph Arthur Brashaw.=]

=BRASHIER, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2436, D Coy., 1/7th Battn.

Durham L.I., 2nd _s._ of James Brashier, by his wife, Sarah, dau.

of Hugh McKee; _b._ Durham, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. there; enlisted

after the outbreak of the war, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 14

May, 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._

=BRASIER, LEONARD GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B.

2406), 219840, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the

coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRASS, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 6/807, South Canterbury Battn.,

New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of James Gilles Brass, of

Kirkwall, Farmer, by his wife Isabella Balfour, dau. of James Bews;

_b._ Harray, Orkney, 27 Dec. 1889; educ. Rendall Parish School,

Orkney, went to New Zealand in Dec. 1908, enlisted at Christchurch

on the outbreak of war, left with the main force and was killed in

action at the Dardanelles, 26 April, 1915; _unm._ Brass was the

well-known Mount Cook Guide, and had been a member of the Scottish

Garrison Artillery before going to New Zealand. He was a personal

friend of Richmond, the guide who was lost with Mr. King in the descent

from Mount Cook. Brass, with Mr. Turner, made an ascent on the same

day, and the two parties were to have met on the top. They passed over

the avalanche which killed the others, tracing their steps down to it.

Subsequently it was Brass who found the mangled body of Richmond, and

his great strength was a considerable factor in bringing it down to

the hut in that terrible journey in which the guides had to take it in

turns to carry it on their backs down a mountain side in the dark, a

feat which seems almost incredible when the place is gone over in the

daylight.

[Illustration: =William Brass.=]

=BRATTLE, WILLIAM=, Chief Stoker, 277368, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in

action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRAY, CECIL HERBERT=, Private, No. 2801, 1/9th Battn. (Queen

Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt., _s._ of Thomas Bray, Engineer’s

Draughtsman, by his wife, Frances, dau. of John Drewry Codling;

_b._ Harringay, N., 22 Nov. 1892; educ. Haverstock Hill Orphanage;

enlisted two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914; served

with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in

action at Voormezeele, near St. Eloi, 17 July, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Cecil Herbert Bray.=]

=BRAY, GEORGE=, A.B., 216585, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that

ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept.

1914.

=BRAY, DERRICK REGINALD PAMPHILON=, Corpl., No. 1553, 1st Battn.

(Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Reginald

Alfred Bray, of 49, Orlando Road, Clapham Common, S.W., formerly of

Jersey, by his wife, Lissa, dau. of the late Stephen Algir Pamphilon,

of Lea Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, Harlow, co. Essex; _b._ Clapham

Common, 20 Sept. 1895; educ. private school, and Wix’s Higher Grade

School; joined the 1st City of London Regt. 7 April, 1913; on the

outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, was sent to Malta

for five months, and proceeded to France, 10 March, 1915. He was

killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and was buried in Rue

Pettilon, near Picantin; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote:

“At the time he was gallantly leading his section in an advance under

very severe fire, and by his death, we all realise that we have lost a

brave comrade, who has done his duty and whom we all miss dreadfully.

His sense of duty was most real, as events have proved.” Corpl. Bray

was very proud of the fact that every man of his family of fighting

age joined the colours early in the war. His uncle, Lieut. Ede, Royal

Marine Artillery, was mentioned in Despatches while serving with the

Egyptian Army in 1896.

[Illustration: =Derrick R. P. Bray.=]

=BRAY, HORACE=, Private, No. 9241, 3rd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action,

16 April, 1915; _m._

=BRAZIER, ALFRED=, Private, No. 9499, 2nd Battn. East Surrey

Regt., _s._ of James Brazier, of 22, Stewarts Lane, Battersea;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action,

25 April, 1915.

=BRAZIER, BENJAMIN WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 8949, 2nd Battn.

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., eldest _s._ of Wallace

Brazier, Lieut. and Quartermaster 6th Service Battn. and late

Regimental Sergt.-Major 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire

L.I., by his wife, Mary Jane (4, Pentland Villas, Juniper Green,

Midlothian), dau. of William Paddon, late R.N.; _b._ Bareilly,

N.W.P., India, 30 Nov. 1893; educ. Cowley, and East Oxford Council

School, Oxford; joined the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I. in

Sept. 1908, attended the Kneller Hall Royal School of Music from Oct.

1913 till Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war rejoined his battn.,

served in France and Flanders; was twice wounded, the second time at

the Battle of the Aisne, and was killed in action during the night

attack, 15–16 May, 1915, at Richbourg L’Avoue; _unm._ His company

commander wrote: “During the time I was out in France he was in my

company, and I looked upon him as a promising N.C.O. He was always

cheerful, ready to help in anything there was to be done, and during

the three rather hard days fighting, 21–23 Oct., he did a lot of most

excellent work, and looked after the men round him admirably. Everyone

who knew him will miss him, and the regt. has lost a N.C.O. who would

in time have risen to the highest rank. He was a gallant lad,” and the

Quartermaster: “He was a brave lad, the best of soldiers, and would, I

am certain, had he been spared, have risen to a high position. There is

not one but will mourn his loss.” Corpl. Brazier was a keen sportsman

and football player, in which latter sport he won two medals.

[Illustration: =Benjamin W. Brazier.=]

=BRAZIER, FREDERICK OWEN=, Private, No. 3198, 5th (Cinque Ports)

Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Frederick Brazier, of

29, St. George’s Road, Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in

France, etc.; killed in action, 9 May, 1915.

=BRAZIER, JAMES=, Private, No. 6282, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.;

served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in

action, 26 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BRAZIER, WALTER ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, Chatham, 311704,

H.M.S. Laertes; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=BREACH, JOHN=, Private, No. 4770, 5th Dragoon Guards, 3rd

_s._ of William Breach, of Lowestoft, Fishing Smack Owner, by his

wife, Sarah; _b._ Lowestoft, 5 April, 1879; educ. at the Board

and Technical Schools there; joined the Army, 16 April, 1898; served

with his regt. in India, and went through the Boer War, for which he

was awarded the medal. At the outbreak of the European War he was

farming in Canada, and was recalled to join his regt. He died of wounds

received in action at Hill 60, in 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 11

June, 1915. He _m._ at Kirkley Parish Church, Lowestoft, 28 March,

1910, Agnes Maud (Ivydene, Kitchener Road, Ipswich), yst. dau. of

John William Hadenham, of Ipswich, District Superintendent Insurance

Company; _s.p._ Private Breach was a lifelong abstainer, a keen

football player, and an expert cricketer, and held several good conduct

medals. His three brothers are all now (1916) on active service.

[Illustration: =John Breach.=]

=BREAM, CHARLES=, Drummer, No. 7248, 1st Battn. Northamptonshire

Regt., _s._ of Charles William Bream, of Nassington, co.

Northants; _b._ Nassington, 5 Dec. 1883; educ. there; joined the

1st Northamptons (D Coy.), 1903, and saw active service on the Indian

Frontier in 1904, for which he received two medals and two bars. He

afterwards became a Police Constable in the Durham County Constabulary,

and was stationed at South Moor, in the Lancashire and Consett Petty

Sessional Division, when he was called up on the outbreak of war.

He left with his regt. for France, 17 Aug. 1914, taking part in the

retreat from Mons and several other engagements, and was killed in a

bayonet charge at Festubert, 21 Dec. 1914. In a letter to a friend at

South Moor he said: “You will have heard about the battle on the Aisne.

We were in the trenches for a month, and the first week it never ceased

raining, and we had to stick it.” Later, writing from Festubert, he

said that they had had several engagements with the Prussian Guard,

but had got through them, doing six bayonet charges in ten days. He

_m._ at Yarwell, Nassington, 8 Oct. 1913, Carrie, dau. of (--)

Mould, of Nassington.

=BRECKELL, RALPH LEICESTER=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Prince of

Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Lancashire

Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Edward John Blease Breckell, of Holmdene,

Alexandra Road, Waterloo, near Liverpool, by his wife, Emilia Mary,

only child of the late Charles Oddie, of Everton, Liverpool; _b._

West Derby, near Liverpool, 16 April, 1890; educ. Ellesmere College,

Shropshire; was Resident Secretary in Liverpool for the British Crown

Insurance Company, but on the outbreak of war joined the 18th Service

Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. in Sept. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd

Lieut. to the 3rd South Lancashires, 20 Feb. 1915, being later attached

to the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers at the front; killed in action on the

canal between Pilkem and Boesinghe, during the severe fighting between

5 and 9 July, 1915; _unm._ His orderly, Private E. Murphy, wrote:

“He died fighting like a true English gentleman, being in charge of a

party of bomb throwers who held on to such a purpose that they were

piling themselves on top of one another, and I am very pleased to

tell you that he did not suffer more than a minute, just calling my

name like this, ‘Oh, Murphy’; then I caught him and laid him down and

as near as I could make out he said a few prayers, and then passed

peacefully away looking as if he had gone to sleep,” and added that

he was killed by a piece of shrapnel in line with his left shoulder

striking his heart.

[Illustration: =Ralph L. Brecknell.=]

=BREED, GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 444310, 55th Battn. Canadian

Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late William Breed, Farm

Labourer, by his wife, Julia (Papworth Everard, Cambridge), dau. of

James Paine, of Croydon, co. Cambridge; _b._ Hatley St. George,

co. Cambridge, 14 Feb. 1892; educ. there, and at Papworth Everard;

went to Canada, 1 March, 1912; volunteered for service overseas on

the outbreak of war, and died in the Military Hospital at Bramshott,

Liphook, Hants., 10 Dec. 1915, of influenza contracted while going

through his course of training; _unm._

[Illustration: =George Alfred Breed.=]

=BREEZE, JOHN=, Private, No. 10505, 1st Battn. South Wales

Borderers, _s._ of John Breeze, of 6, Durham Street, Grangetown,

Cardiff, Labourer, by his 1st wife, Caroline, dau. of Thomas Morris;

_b._ Tenbury, co. Worcester, 9 March, 1887; educ. National School,

Monmouth; enlisted in 1911; killed in action at Langemark, 21 Oct.

1914; _unm._

=BREMER, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3921), 167964, H.M.S.

Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BREMNER, HENRY SADLER=, Private, No. 138, 2nd Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, 3rd _s._ of James Bremner, of 137, Canongate,

Edinburgh, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Robert Sadler, of North Shields;

_b._ Edinburgh, 30 Oct. 1885; educ. Milton House School there;

went to Australia in 1912; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was

killed in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Henry S. Bremner.=]

=BREMNER, JAMES=, Private, No. 8834, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots,

_s._ of John Bremner, of Edinburgh, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau.

of James Wilson; _b._ Edinburgh, 30 Sept. 1886; educ. there;

enlisted in Jan. 1904, and served three years with the Colours, acting

part of the time as Assistant Schoolmaster at the Depôt (Glencorse). At

the outbreak of war he was in the employ of the North British Railway

Co. at Edinburgh; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and was

killed in action at Messines, 16 Nov. 1914, by a shell when entering a

trench; _unm._

=BRENAN, BYRON EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire

Regt., yst. _s._ of Edward Vincent Brenan, of Poulton, Sneyd

Park, Bristol, late Commissioner Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs

(died July, 1915), by his wife, Marion Mabel, dau. of Major-Gen.

John Thornhill Watson, B.S.C.; _b._ Hong-Kong, 22 March, 1895;

educ. Clifton College, was in the O.T.C. there; joined the Army on

the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn.

Gloucestershire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. On 19 March he was attached to the

2nd battn. at the front, and was killed while leading his men to repair

a trench which had been absolutely destroyed by a shell, 18 April,

1915; buried at Ypres; _unm._

[Illustration: =Byron Edward Brenan.=]

=BRENCHLEY, ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman, 215494, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost

in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRENCHLEY, GEORGE CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6640), 223932,

H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRENCHLEY, ROBERT HENRY=, 1st Class P.O. Blacksmith, No. 156247,

H.M.S. Cressy, _s._ of Henry Brenchley, of St. Peters, Thanet,

by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Epps; _b._ 25 Jan. 1868;

educ. St. Peter’s National School; served in the Navy for twenty-two

years, and in 1912 became an attendant at the Broadstairs Cinema. On

the outbreak of the war was recalled, 3 Aug. 1914, and was lost on

H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Broadstairs, 11 Nov.

1903, Louisa (20 Albion Street, Broadstairs), dau. of Henry Mawlings

of Walford, near Ross, co. Hereford, and left a dau., Mary Louise,

_b._ 7 May, 1905.

[Illustration: =Robert Henry Brenchley.=]

=BRESLIN, ANDREW=, Private, No. 3103, 1st Battn. Irish Guards,

_s._ of Patrick Breslin, of Ballyorr, near Londonderry, Labourer;

_b._ St. Johnston, co. Donegal, 4 Dec. 1885; enlisted Aug. 1908,

served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action

during a charge on a strong enemy position, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._

[Illustration: =Andrew Breslin.=]

=BRESLIN, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8656), S.S.

105078, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRETT, CHARLES=, A.B., 162505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action

off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRETT, CHARLES=, Private, No. 1707, 4th Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, _s._ of Walter Brett, of Lodge Farm, Wingfield,

Harleston, Norfolk, Farmer, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of the late

John Welsh Berry, of Great Yarmouth; _b._ Styleham, Suffolk,

22 Oct. 1886; educ. Brockdish Council School, Norfolk; emigrated to

Australia in July, 1911; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force,

9 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action between 9 and 11 Aug. 1915, at

Gallipoli; _unm._

[Illustration: =Charles Brett.=]

=BRETT, CHARLES ARTHUR HUGH, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. The

Suffolk Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Arthur Brett,

A.P.D., formerly of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), by his wife,

Georgina, dau. of Hugh Hannay, Paymaster R.N. (who served through the

Napoleonic War and was taken prisoner at Verdun in 1812); _b._

Muttra, India, 28 March, 1865; educ. privately and at Sandhurst;

entered the Army as Lieut. 9 May, 1885; was promoted Capt. 15 June,

1894; Major, 24 Feb. 1906, and Lieut.-Col., 24 Feb. 1914. From Jan.

1895–Jan. 1899, he was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. of the Suffolk Regt.,

and of the 4th Battn. at Ely in 1900, and from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1912

was in command of the Depot at Bury St. Edmunds. He served in the

Hazara Expedition in 1888 and received the medal with clasp, and in

the South African War, 1899–1901. He was in command of one of the four

companies of the 1st Suffolks which, on 5 Jan., made the night attack

on a ridge in the Colesberg district, and when they suffered repulse

he found himself in charge of the party of 107 which was cut off, and

after making a gallant resistance, until their ammunition gave out, and

during which Capt. Brett was severely wounded, had no alternative but

to surrender. After his release he rejoined his regt. and saw service

in the operations east of Pretoria, and in the Orange River Colony,

from July to Oct. 1900. He was mentioned in the general’s despatches

[London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with

three clasps, and also the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War

he went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed

in action at Le Cateau, France, 26 Aug. 1914. The 2nd Battn. of the

Suffolks arrived at Le Cateau about 7 p.m. on the 25th, and bivouacked

at the barn, and made themselves comfortable for the night, although

the Germans were following close on their heels. The remainder of

the Brigade was fairly close at hand. On the 26th the Suffolks had

breakfast at 3 a.m., and fell in at 4 a.m. to take up their allotted

positions, which were about half a mile to their rear. Two of the

battns. (Nos. 3 and 4) of the Brigade were to occupy the trenches which

had already been prepared for them, and the Suffolks (No. 1 Battn.) and

the 4th Battn. of the Brigade was placed in reserve. Afterwards the

Suffolks were moved out in front of the battery and No. 4 Battn. to

the right, to protect the guns. The Suffolks had barely taken up their

position and commenced to use the web equipment entrenching tool when

the Germans opened fire on the battery and dropped a shell right among

them. The fight developed and the regt. hung on, protecting the guns,

but had to put up with a good deal of shelling which was intended for

the battery. They also came in for a good deal of enfilading fire from

the German guns. This went on for several hours. It was very difficult

to feed the firing line with ammunition, especially when the German

infantry drew near. Our infantry and maxim guns simply mowed them down,

but still they pressed on, and for a time they recoiled, and then came

on again. The battery at one time was firing at them at about 800 yards

range, and some of our men, especially of C Coy. (Capt. Orford), got

hit with our own shells. Nothing could show itself in the open without

drawing a terrible fire from the enemy. The first line of transport was

ordered to retire and get away the best way it could. The batteries

and the infantry brigade stuck to their positions, and continued the

fire, hoping to be reinforced, as General Sir Charles Fergusson had

given out that 40,000 French troops were expected. Eventually the order

to retire was given, but the old Suffolks had little ammunition left,

and the casualties were enormous; very few men were able to retire. In

the early part of the fight about 50 wounded Suffolks were carried to

the dressing station and to the field hospital. These, together with

the other wounded, were shown as “missing,” with the exception of Col.

Brett, who was killed early in the fight by a shell. Col. Brett was

buried on the battlefield and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s

Despatch of 7 Sept. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “If ever there was

a commanding officer that I would wish to have gone on service with,

it was he whose loss we now mourn. The one consolation is that he

fell as a soldier at the head of his regt. for whom he did so much,

and who, everyone of them, looked up to him, admired him. and tried

to follow his grand example in everything. His life was noble and

straight, and his death was the same. We of the regt., or what is left

of it, mourn his loss as the best of comrades”; and another one wrote:

“I don’t suppose there was a single commanding officer in the service

more beloved by the officers and men. We had all so looked forward to

his getting command, and were delighted at the prospect of serving

under him. His loss to the regt., as it is to you, is absolutely

irreparable.... It will be a long time before we cease to grieve for a

gallant soldier, and one of the best and kindest of men.” One of his

former subalterns also wrote: “I thought I would like to write to you

to tell you that I was his subaltern that night at Colesberg in 1900

when he was shot, and to say that he was a very gallant fellow. Though

shot through the lungs, he kept up command of his Coy., and actually

charged the Boer trenches in this state, until he fell exhausted from

loss of blood. I have no doubt he was just as brave in France when he

met his glorious death, and I write these few words in the hope that

should they be shown to his wife, it may console her just a little to

know that there are a few of his comrades of that night left, who will

remember him always as one of old England’s most gallant sons.” Col.

Brett was fond of travel and astronomy, and joined when on leave Sir W.

Christie’s party to Sfax, Tunisia, 1905, to witness the Eclipse, and

received thanks from the Admiralty for his assistance to the Astronomer

Royal. During other leave he visited Mesopotamia, and was interested in

exploring Muscat, Bagdad, Babylon, and other places. He _m._ at

St. Mary-at-the-Walls Church, Colchester, 6 Jan. 1909, Enid Geraldine

(The Cottage, Lexden, Colchester), eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col.

Harry Hamersley St. George, Senior Ordnance Officer, Scottish District

(and sister of Lieut. G. S. W. St. George, 1st Gurkha Rifles, who was

killed in action, 27 April, 1915, see his notice), and had one dau.,

Ione Moncrieff St. George, _b._ 10 Oct. 1909.

[Illustration: =Charles Arthur H. Brett.=]

=BRETTELL, SAMUEL THOMAS=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 210526, H.M.S.

Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BREWER, FRANK=, A.B., 207025 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in

action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BREWER, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 169, 6th Battn. Australian

Imperial Force, _s._ of John Brewer, late Worcester Regt., by

his wife, Emily Isabella Margery, dau. of John Harley Bedford, late

Superintendant of Post Offices, Bombay Presidency; _b._ Poona,

India, 7 June, 1892; educ. Church School, Liskeard, Cornwall, and

on leaving there served as an errand boy with Mr. Rapson, the Mayor

for three years there; joined the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. in 1908,

and two years later emigrated to Australia, where he was employed at

the Parkside Tannery, Preston, until the outbreak of the war when he

joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in

Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =John Harold Brewer.=]

=BREWER, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 10398, 1st Battn. Wiltshire

Regt., 2nd _s._ of George Brewer, of 81, Shamrock Cottage,

Chippenham, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Neate, of 42, Wood

Lane, Chippenham; _b._ Chippenham, co. Wilts, 19 May, 1893, and

educ. British School there; an old Territorial he enlisted in the Wilts

Regt. 1 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres 13 Nov. 1914;

_unm._ A comrade wrote: “The officer called for volunteers to

rush a road, and he was the first to leave trench, and by so doing was

killed with a Maxim gun.” Private Brewer was a well-known Wiltshire

footballer, and was formerly a captain of Chippenham Town, but in 1913

signed on for Swindon and played one match with the first eleven.

[Illustration: =William Arthur Brewer.=]

=BREWIN, WILLIAM HENRY FRANK=, Private, No. 1749, 7th Battn,

Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Henry Brewin, of

90, St. Loys Road, Bruce Grove, Tottenham, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of

Richard Henry Calvert; _b._ Stoke Newington, 12 May, 1896; educ.

Earls Mead School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials about 1911;

volunteered for foreign service Aug. 1914; went to France the last week

in Feb., and was killed in action there, 13 April, 1915; _unm._

=BREWSTER, HERBERT JOHN=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class (R.F.R., B.

4774), 169829, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.

1914.

=BRIAN, HERBERT CECIL=, 2nd Lieut. 59th Battery, Royal Garrison

Artillery, eldest _s._ of Hyla Edwin Brian, Military School,

Cairo, and of Holmbury, Berkhampstead, by his wife, Annie, dau. of

Charles Elliott; _b._ Abbassieh, Cairo, Egypt, 23 Dec. 1891; educ.

Berkhampstead School, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted

to the 18th Battery 20 Dec. 1912, with which he served in England

until June, 1914, when he left to join the 59th Battery in India, and

returned the following Dec. to Portsmouth, and went from there to the

Front early in March, 1915. He was present and took part in the action

of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, while

performing the duty of forward observing officer in the trenches, 9

May, 1915. He was _unm._ and was buried in an orchard near where

he fell. His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a splendid

officer and absolutely fearless in the execution of his duty.”

[Illustration: =Herbert Cecil Brian.=]

=BRICE, HENRY COPELAND=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt.

(T.F.), only _s._ of Francis Strange Brice, of Middlemeade,

Stoughton Drive, Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Alice, dau. of

Thomas Henry Downing; _b._ Leicester, 28 Nov. 1893; educ. Mill

Hill School, London; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 10 May,

1913. When war was declared he volunteered for Imperial Service, was

gazetted Lieut., 22 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, France, 12 June,

1915, of wounds caused by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade at

Dranoutre, Belgium. He was buried at Bailleul. His commanding officer

wrote: “I cannot forbear saying how profoundly I regret his death, and

how great a loss he is to the battn. He was the Grenade Officer and had

charge of the bomb throwers. His work in that position was of a high

quality. He was absolutely fearless, and I believe that his men would

have followed him anywhere. He was of the type of which leaders are

made, and the Army can ill afford to lose such men.”

[Illustration: =Henry Copeland Brice.=]

=BRICKETT, RALPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7013), S.S.

101618, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BRICKWOOD, ARTHUR CYRIL=, Lieut., 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st

Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., elder _s._ of Sir John Brickwood,

of Southsea and Hindhead, by his 2nd wife, Jessie, dau. of the late

John Cooper, of Burghfield; _b._ Southsea, 1 Nov. 1896; educ.

Twyford, near Winchester, and Charterhouse; entered Sandhurst, Feb.

1914; gazetted to York and Lancaster Regt., 30 Sept. and was engaged on

coast defence at Cleadon and South Shields. On 2 Feb. 1915, he took out

drafts of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to France, and on arrival

was sent to Rouen Hospital suffering from a sharp attack of influenza.

On recovery he rejoined, and was in and out of the trenches seven

times. He was taken ill in the trenches with septic throat, 11 April,

and was sent back to the base hospital at Boulogne, where, after two

operations, he died 15 April, 1915; buried at Grayshott.

[Illustration: =Arthur Cyril Brickwood.=]

=BRIDGELAND, HUBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 11478, 1st Battn.

Coldstream Guards; 5th _s._ of the late John George Bridgeland,

of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Carpenter, by his wife Eliza (16 Silverlands

Road, Silver Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea), dau. of George Dearing, of

St. Leonards-on-Sea; _b._ Hastings, 8 Feb. 1897; educ. Tower Road

Board School; enlisted the last week in Aug. 1914; went to France 8

April 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 Sept. 1915;

_unm._ A comrade wrote: “It was while we were advancing that he

met his fate, a shell exploding just in front of him, the shock proving

fatal. He was neither hit nor wounded, it was purely the shock.”

[Illustration: =Hubert Edward Bridgeland.=]

=BRIERLY, ALWIN HUARD=, Private, No. 1281, 25th Battn., 7th

Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Sir Oswald

Walters Brierly, Marine Painter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by his

2nd wife, Louise Marie, eldest dau. of Louis Huard, of 37, Onslow

Square, S.W., and Brussels; _b._ London, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. in

London; went to South Africa as a lad in 1895, and after some years

there left for New Zealand, and finally settled in Australia about

1907. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service,

and enlisted at Mackay, North Queensland, in Oct. 1914, and after

training at Enogerra Camp, Brisbane, from March to Aug. 1915, left

for Egypt with the second reinforcements. He died in No. 27 General

Hospital at Mudros, 1 Jan. 1916, from uremia, brought on by exposure in

the trenches, and was buried in the cemetery there; _unm._

[Illustration: =Alwin Huard Brierly.=]

=BRIGGS, CHARLEY=, Private, No. 6479, 1st Battn. West Yorkshire

Regt., 1st _s._ of Samuel Briggs, of 1, Ganny Yard, Elland Road,

by his wife, Emma; _b._ Brighouse, co. York, 9 Jan. 1886; educ.

there; enlisted 7 Aug. 1902, and was killed in action 1½ miles S.E. of

Tyron, 20 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Southowram, 13 Aug. 1910, Emma

Jane (5, Elland Road, Brookfoot, Brighouse, co. York), dau. of (--),

and had three daus., Mary, _b._ 9 Feb. 1911; Mabel, _b._ 5

Jan. 1913; and Muriel, _b._ 6 Oct. 1914.

[Illustration: =Charley Briggs.=]

=BRIGGS, GEORGE CLARK=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers,

only _s._ of Francis Briggs, of Huntington, near Haddington,

Teak Merchant and Shipowner, by his wife, Esther White, dau. of James

Munro, of Moffat, M.D. [by his wife (--), dau. of Dr. George Smith,

Fleet Surgeon, R.N., who at one time served with Nelson]; _b._

at Edinburgh, 4 March, 1878; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Malvern College

and Clare College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn.

of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 3 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 24

Feb. 1900, and Capt. 18 April, 1915. He served in the South African

War, 1899–1902, taking part in the Relief of Ladysmith and was taken

prisoner at Colenso, but was released on the entry of Lord Roberts into

Pretoria. He was sent with Boer prisoners to Ceylon. On his return

he took part in the operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria,

including the actions at Frederickstad, 17–25 Oct. 1900, and was

employed with the Rand Rifles from Dec. 1901, to June, 1902, and was

then chosen for the Mounted Infantry. For his services he received

the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two. He

afterwards served in India, again in South Africa and accompanied

the first Expeditionary Force to France. He was killed in action at

Vailly-sur-Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, while extracting his men out of a

position from which they had to retire. Capt. Briggs was mentioned in

F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914, for gallant

conduct during the retreat from Mons. Corpl. T. Gibson and Private

Cox of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, both home wounded, related in The

Scotsman of 17 Oct. the following incident: “In the retreat from

Jemappes the Germans were pressing the Fusiliers closely, and towards

evening the coy. reached the village, dead beat after a long march.

Capt. Briggs got the men together and gave the order to fix bayonets.

At the same time he spoke a few patriotic words with regard to the

regt. and its illustrious history, pointing out that it had never been

known to surrender. The Capt. said he was prepared to make a last stand

and with bayonets fixed the men waited on the enemy coming through. The

last stand was not needed, however, as the Germans did not press home

their advantages.”

[Illustration: =George Clark Briggs.=]

=BRIMBLE, CYRIL GEORGE MICHAEL=, Private, No 72029, Machine

Gun Section, 27th Battn. (Winnipeg L.I.), 6th Brigade, Canadian

Expeditionary Force; 4th and yst. _s._ of Edward Henry Brimble,

of Milton, Weston-super-Mare, retired Banker, by his wife, Agnes

Edith, dau. of George Shadbolt, P.R.M.S.; _b._ Fish Ponds, co.

Gloucester, 11 Sept. 1888; educ. Lewisham School, Weston-super-Mare;

went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled at Winnipeg. In Feb. 1915,

he volunteered and joined the Winnipeg L.I., and was killed in action

at Neuve Eglise, 16 Oct. 1915, being the first of his battn. to fall;

_unm._ He was buried in Locre churchyard the following day with

full military honours.

[Illustration: =Cyril G. M. Brimble.=]

=BRIMBLECOMBE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 91133, 7th (Service) Battn.

Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,

etc.; killed in action, 13 Aug. 1915.

=BRINDLE, JAMES=, Private, No. 17367, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal

Lancashire Regt., _s._ of Hugh Brindle, of 29, Pickup Street,

Blackburn, by his wife, Jane Eliza, dau. of Henry Tomlinson; _b._

Blackburn, 16 Sept. 1893; educ. Holy Trinity School there; prior to

the outbreak of the war was employed as a weaver in Sparrow’s Mill,

Quarry Street; joined the Army 25 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action

at Ypres, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ Five of his brothers are, or were,

on active service, Private Joseph Brindle, 3rd Battn. East Lancashires;

Ewen, 4th Battn. East Lancashires; and Alfred, Lancashire Fusiliers,

are serving in France; George is in the Navy; and the yst., Private

Thomas Brindle, Scottish Rifles, has been discharged, having had his

finger blown off at the Battle of the Aisne.

[Illustration: =James Brindle.=]

=BRINDLEY, THOMAS LESLIE ST. JOHN=, Private, No. 12037, 2nd Battn.

Coldstream Guards; _b._ Worcester; served with the Expeditionary

Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915;

_unm._

=BRINGLOE, THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 470, 1/5th. Battn. (The Buffs)

East Kent Regt. (T.F.), 5th _s._ of the late John Bringloe,

of Cranbrook, co. Kent, by his wife, Mary (Lauriston, High Street,

Cranbrook), dau. of Henry Curry of Foulden, Norfolk; _b._

Didlington, co. Norfolk, 6 April, 1891; educ. Didlington and Cranbrook

National Schools, and was Gardener to Col. Alexander; joined the

Cranbrook Territorials in 1906; volunteered for active service on the

outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for India (Kamptee) in Oct. 1914;

went to Mesopotamia, Dec. 1915; and died 8 Jan. 1916, from wounds

received in action at the Battle of Sheikh Saad, the previous day;

_unm._ He was bugler to Col. Munn-Mace.

=BRISTOW, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10280, H.M.S. Good Hope;

lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BRISTOWE, ROBERT OWEN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., only

_s._ of the late Stanley Bristowe, Member of the London Stock

Exchange, by his wife, Ethel (now wife of William Henry Harrison, of

13, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W.), dau. of John Pike, and grandson of

Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham Hill, S.E.; _b._

Sydenham, 5 Sept. 1888; educ. Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Charterhouse,

and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Devonshire Regt., 14 Oct.

1908, and joined at Plymouth 21 Nov. following; served in Crete,

Malta and Egypt, and was promoted Lieut. 4 May, 1911. He obtained

a “distinguished” in both the rifle and machine gun courses at the

Hythe School of Musketry between Jan. and March, 1913, and was Acting

Adjutant in Cairo and at the front. When the European War broke out

he was home on leave from Cairo and was sent to the camp at Saltash,

Cornwall. He rejoined his battn. on its return from Egypt, and

proceeded with it to the front on 5 Nov. 1914; came home on short leave

21 Jan. 1915, returning to the front on the 27th of the month, and was

killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; _unm._ He

was mentioned for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field in

F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 5 April, 1915 [London Gazette, 22

June, 1915]. The second in command of the battn. wrote: “His loss to

the regt. is immense, and to me, personally, more than I can say...;

he was always so cheery, and the whole of the officers, N.C.O.’s and

men of the battalion share your grief.... He was cool and collected

as he always was under all circumstances, and he led his platoon

splendidly.” The officer commanding his company at the time said: “To

me it seems impossible that such a catastrophe could have happened to

the most wonderful nature I have ever met. His death has left all of

us that remain in the battn. simply stupefied.... You will remember

that he took his platoon over that machine gun and rifle swept ground,

losing half his platoon, and when they arrived at the German trench

the remnants laid down under the German parapet, while Bob knelt up

and fired from two to three dozen shots at Germans who were firing at

our troops advancing further to the left. There seems no doubt at all

that he accounted for some dozen and a-half of them, until one of them

spotted him and hit him behind the left ear.... Only 18 men out of 53

now remain of his platoon ... more than one gulped down a lump when

reminded of their beloved officer and friend. They just loved the old

lad. I have never known any person so universally admired and loved as

he was by everyone”; adding: “his advance greatly helped to cause the

whole German line to retire.” A private wrote: “I feel sure that I am

expressing not only my own thoughts but those of my comrades of the

platoon which has had the honour of serving under the leadership of so

brave a gentleman as the late Lieut. Bristowe. It is hardly necessary

for me to add that his loss is most keenly felt by us all.” The platoon

sergt. wrote: “I trust you can now realise how bravely and fearlessly

our gallant leader met his death, not caring about himself as long

as he could make the attack successful.” His cousin, Private Stanley

Bristowe, died on active service 18 June, 1915 (see following notice).

[Illustration: =Robert Owen Bristowe.=]

=BRISTOWE, STANLEY=, Private, No. 2063, Hon. Artillery Company,

eldest _s._ of Percy Robert Bristowe, of Roundwood, Hutton, Essex,

member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances

Mary, dau. of Henry Edward Milner (late of) Woodlawn, Kingswood Road,

Norwood, and grandson of Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham

Hill, S.E.; _b._ Waverley, Bromley, Kent, 29 May, 1893; educ.

Charterhouse; joined the Hon. Artillery Company in Sept. 1914, and

died in hospital, St. Omer, France, of illness contracted while on

active service in France, 18 June, 1915. He was buried in the Souvenir

Cemetery, St. Omer; _unm._ His cousin-german, Lieut. R. O.

Bristowe, was killed in action 14 March, 1915 (see preceding notice).

[Illustration: =Stanley Bristowe.=]

=BRITT, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 3245, 1st Battn. Coldstream

Guards; enlisted 16 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901 to 4

Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps), and with the Expeditionary

Force in France and Flanders, 11 Sept. to 29 Oct. 1914; was reported

missing on the latter date, and is now assumed to have been killed in

action 29 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1914. He _m._ Rose (1, The Row, Elmdon

Heath, Salihill, Birmingham) and had six children.

=BROAD, EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 281620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost

in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BROAD, GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 7751, 2nd Battn. East Kent

Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;

killed in action, 18 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BROAD, WALTER=, Sergt. Shoemaker, No. 5641, 3rd Battn. Coldstream

Guards, _s._ of George Broad, of North Evington, Leicester;

_b._ Leicester, 3 Jan. 1883; educ. there; served with the 3rd

Battn. Leicester Regt. in the South African War (Queen’s medal with two

clasps “Cape Colony,” “South Africa, 1902”); enlisted in the Coldstream

Guards, 8 Aug. 1904; became L.-Corpl. 3 Oct. 1905; Corpl. 5 Jan. 1909;

Sergt. and Sergt. Shoemaker 26 July, 1913; served in Egypt 29 Sept.

1906, to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the British Expeditionary Force in

France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the

Battle of Mons, 16 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at St. Peter’s Church,

Mount Sorrell,--Aug. 1910, Nellie (170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell,

Leicestershire), dau. of Harry Rudkin, of 170, Main Street, Mount

Sorrell, and had two children: Walter, _b._ 29 Oct. 1914; and May,

_b._ 2 May, 1912.

[Illustration: =Walter Broad.=]

=BROADHURST, JOSEPH HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6723),

S.S. 101291, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct.

1914.

=BROADRICK, JAMES GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4540),

282164, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BROADWAY, HUGH ALEXANDER=, Lieut., R.E., eldest _s._ of

Alexander Broadway, Magistrate and Landowner in the Punjab, India, by

his wife, Lizzie Welford, dau. of Kinsey Beaumont Thomas, of Upton, co.

Worcester; _b._ Mussoorie, India, 23 June, 1891; educ. Watson’s

College, Edinburgh, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; obtained

his commission, 25 July, 1912. On the conclusion of the usual two

years’ course at the S.M.E., he volunteered for India, and was sent

to Gosport in July, 1914, for an electric lighting course prior to

embarkation. On the outbreak of war, Broadway was at first employed in

hutting the troops for coast defence, and then on some miscellaneous

work at Netley Hospital and in the Southampton district, to his great

and natural disappointment. But it was not for long, and in Nov. he

was ordered to report at Chatham for service in a field company to

be sent to the front, where he afterwards served in the 15th Field

Coy. under Major P. K. Betty, R.E., to which he appears to have been

transferred at the front. Here Broadway was specially commended for

good work in design and execution of defences in an important position,

christened “Port Arthur,” and specially commended for the excellent and

gallant work carried out by himself and his section of the 15th Coy.

R.E. by the Brig.-Gen. commanding the 24th Infantry Brigade, through

the Headquarters of the 8th Division in March, 1915. The 10 March

saw Broadway preparing the defences of a post captured outside Neuve

Chapelle, and in the afternoon of that day he was bending down in an

exposed position to bandage one of his sappers who had been shot when

he was himself hit in the shoulder, and the bullet injured his spine.

He was immediately carried to the dressing station and sent out to the

base hospital, but eventually died there on 30 March. Hugh Broadway was

specially fond of Rugby football among games, was a keen soldier, and

very popular with his fellows, and put all his energy into the subject

in hand. Many letters testify similarly to that of the Major commanding

his company, who wrote: “Your son, during the short time he was in the

company, endeared himself to us all, and worked hard at whatever he

undertook,” and his all too brief career was crowned by his posthumous

mention in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, “for

gallant and distinguished service in the field.”

[Illustration: =Hugh A. Broadway.=]

=BROADWELL, THOMAS=, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire

Regt., 2nd _s._ of Robert Broadwell, of Hull, Blacksmith, by his wife,

Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Peterson; _b._ Hull, 5 Sept. 1876;

educ. Blundell Street Board School there; served for six or seven

years in the 1st East Yorks Rifle Volunteers; worked for 21 years with

Charles Hatfield, of Hull, Coal Merchant, and after the latter’s death

in 1912, for himself as a coal dealer; was called up on the outbreak

of the war (11 Aug. 1914), and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle,

9 April, 1915. He _m._ at Sculcoates Parish Church, Hull, Lily (7,

Walter’s Terrace, West Parade, Hull), dau. of William Atkinson, and had

five children: Robert William, _b._ 8 March, 1903; Harry, _b._ 29 May,

1904; Laura, _b._ 7 Feb. 1899; Lily, _b._ 27 Sept. 1907; and Muriel,

_b._ 2 July, 1912.

=BROADWOOD, MAXIMILIAN FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The

Queen’s Own West Kent Regt., _s._ of Francis Broadwood, of Hever

Court, Singlewell, Gravesend, and his wife, Mary Sylvia, dau. of

the late Maximilian Hammond Dallson, of Hamptons, co. Kent, J.P.,

and grandson of the late Thomas Broadwood, of Holmbush, co. Sussex;

_b._ Brunswick Place, Hove, co. Sussex, 1 April, 1893; educ.

Evelyns (G. T. Worsley), Hillingdon, Uxbridge; Wellington College,

Berks; and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; obtained his

commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt. 4

Sept. 1912, and joined the 1st Battn. in Dublin 9 Oct. following. He

was killed in action near Wasmes, during the retreat from Mons, 24 Aug.

1914; _unm._ Col. Martyn, the officer commanding the battn. at the

time of his death and during his two years’ service, wrote: “He was a

boy with a future before him; was beloved by us all, always cheerful,

and a great loss not only to his family but to his regiment and his

country. He was killed at the same time as Major Bereford and Capt.

Phillips, both in his company, which had been sent to help another

battn. in difficulties.”

[Illustration: =Maximilian F. Broadwood.=]

=BROCK, JOHN=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 344374, H.M.S. Hawke; lost

in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=BROCK, JOHN RAMSAY=, L.-Sergt., No. 28957 16th Battn. (72nd

Seaforth Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force; only _s._

of George Dunning Brock, of Greattree Estate, Chagford, Devon, by

his wife, Seraphina Wagstaff dau. of Andrew Devoy Ramsay; _b._

Brantford, Ontario, 21 Sept. 1876; educ. Lapford College, North Devon;

went to Canada in Aug. 1903, and was a builder, but on the outbreak

of war enlisted, 18 Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent,

Oct. 1914, went to the front Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at

Festubert between 18 and 20 May, 1915. He _m._ at Chagford, Devon,

19 Nov. 1894, Rose Edith (1860, 14th Avenue East, Vancouver, B.C.), 2nd

dau. of William Lyddon, of Portland House, Chagford, and has two sons

and three daus.: Jack Ramsay, _b._ 31 March, 1904; Roy Dunning,

_b._ 29 July, 1906; Rita Ramsay, _b._ 30 April, 1900; Violet

Palmer, _b._ 10 Oct. 1901; and Emily Wilfreda, _b._ 14 April,

1911.

[Illustration: =John Ramsay Brock.=]

=BROCKBANK, SIEGFRIED HARRISON=, Private, No. 2559, 7th Battn.

Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of James Harrison Brockbank,

by his wife, Nettie Carpenter (the distinguished violinist known as

Madame Nettie Carpenter), dau. of Dr. Wesley M. Carpenter, of New York;

_b._ Highgate, 4 Feb. 1895; educ. Westminster Cathedral Choir

School, and after spending five years there went to St. Edmund’s as

a church student in Sept. 1908. He was placed in the 2nd School of

Rudiments, but showing more than average ability, was promoted to the

1st School of Rudiments at the beginning of the spring term, 1909. At

the end of the year, feeling that he had no vocation to the priesthood,

he left the college and returned to the Choir School, where he remained

for about a year. In Oct. 1910, he entered the Civil Service, but

only remained there 18 months, as by that time a position in a London

bank was offered him, which he accepted. In this profession he was

making rapid progress when the war broke out. Cheerfully sacrificing

all future prospects, he was among the first to join the New Army,

enlisting in the 7th Middlesex Territorials on 10 Aug. Owing to

previous experience in the Civil Service Cadet Corps, where he had

obtained the rank of colour-sergt., he was dispensed from preliminary

training, and on 2 Sept. he left England to take up garrison duty at

Gibraltar. After six months spent at the Mediterranean fortress, he

returned to London about the middle of Feb., and on 12 March left for

active service in France. In a letter dated 27 May, 1915, he wrote:

“Before the scourge, as we call the attack we made or helped to make

on the 9 May, I had been feeling rather seedy for some time back, but

I recovered just in time, and was luckily feeling fit. On the 7th I

took part in what ‘Eye-witness’ in The Times of the 13th describes as

a brilliant little affair of outposts, which took place in front of

our trenches. The next platoon to us was holding the head of a sap, a

sort of trench that ran from our lines slant-wise up to within 30 yards

of the German trench. On the night of the 7th some Allemands raided

the head and got in, but were speedily put to flight. We had sustained

a few casualties, but they left four dead on the spot. While it was

going on a wounded fellow of ours rushed up and said that the Germans

were inside the sap. You can imagine the feelings with which I, one

of the first to reinforce, went up to this sap in the pitch darkness,

expecting every moment to find the Germans in possession. Luckily it

was all over, except for an anxious all-night watch. The next evening

was filled with preparation for the attack. Wire-cutting parties,

ladder carrying parties, grenadiers, and lastly the assaulting troops

coming in at night. We were moved a little in rear occupying a redoubt.

After our bombardment we saw our fellows going over the parapet, their

bayonets gleaming in the lovely sunshine--a stirring sight. We heard

they had carried three lines of enemy trenches. Then the Germans

shelled us, being the supports, and I think the strongest of us got

terrified as the shells burst all around us. We were all heartily glad

when in the evening the order came to man the trenches, and we found

our fellows had been beaten back. The trench (our firing trench) was

full of the remnants of the battns., and the whole air alive with

hubbub. The Germans turned a heavy machine gun fire on to us, and the

artillery started sending red-hot shells across the black sky. Morning

revealed many painful sights, but we were glad to hear that the French

had advanced considerably at the same time as we made our attack. We

had drawn their reinforcements to us. I do not think our casualties

were over heavy, as very many wounded crawled back under cover of

night, and they will mostly recover. I have taken on a job the nature

of which I must not mention, which precludes me from the trenches for

a little while.” This it afterwards transpired was to learn grenade

throwing, some 200 yards behind the firing trenches. On 5 June, the

enemy finding the range of the French headquarters by means of their

aeroplanes, subjected them to heavy shell fire. He fell covered with

wounds, and expired a few minutes later from shock without regaining

consciousness. Writing to his mother, his Capt. said: “He was always

bright and cheerful and a thoroughly good soldier, and was liked and

respected by officers and men alike. His company put a small wooden

cross on his grave with I.H.S. upon it, which they took from a ruined

church near by, knowing he was a Catholic.”

[Illustration: =Siegfried H. Brockbank.=]

=BROCKELBANK, LAURENCE SEYMOUR=, Lieut., 3rd, attached 1st,

Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., _s._ of George Seymour

Brockelbank, of Elm Lodge, Blackheath, member of the London Stock

Exchange, by his wife, Julia, dau. of the late Henry Turner, of Court

Lodge, Knockholt, Kent; _b._ Eliot Park, Blackheath, 21 Sept.

1892; educ. Lindesfurn, Lee and Tonbridge School; entered the army as

2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King’s Own, 5 May, 1914, and is believed to have

been killed at the Battle of Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, being reported

missing from that date. Lieut. Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914:

“On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your

boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to

clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer,

the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely

next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to

them afterwards.” From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen,

of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as

Lieut. Brockelbank’s servant, it appears that the “King’s Own” had

been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieut.

Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a

retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed

instantaneously by the bursting of a shell. According to the list

compiled by Capt Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between

Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; _unm._

[Illustration: =Laurence S. Brockelbank.=]

=FITZHERBERT-BROCKHOLES, THOMAS JOSEPH=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Rifle

Brigade, eldest _s._ of William Joseph Fitzherbert-Brockholes, of

Claughton Hall, Garstang, co. Lancaster, J.P., D.L., C.A., by his 2nd

wife, Blanche Winifred Mary, dau. of the late Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir

Henry Hugh Clifford, V.C., K.C.M.G., C.B.; _b._ London, 4 May,

1887; educ. The Oratory School, Edgbaston, and New College, Oxford;

gazetted to 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade, then in England, 24 June, 1908,

but exchanged in July, 1910, to the 2nd Battn. then at Calcutta; was

promoted Lieut. 15 Feb. 1911, became Adjutant 21 Feb. 1914. On the

outbreak of war he returned with his battn. to England (Oct.), and went

with it to the Front early in Nov., and was promoted Capt. on the 15th

of that month. He was wounded on 20 Dec., but not seriously, and was

able to remain on duty, and was on constant service with his battn. in

the trenches (with the exception of a short leave of seven days) until

the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, when the 2nd Battn. was given a leading