[1904] Captain King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 20 February 1916. Aged 31. Son of Col. E. H. Bethell, of 18, Hyde Park Square, London, W.2., and the late Mrs. Bethell. Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple. Mentioned in Despatches. Buried at CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES, Nord, France. Plot IX. Row F. Grave 81.

Extracted information, sources: Truth, 1 March 1916 p.340, Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 16, 28 February 1916, 2 March 1916. Researched by Jonathan Vernon:

Born 27 Dec 1884 Kirkee, Poonah, Bombay, India second son of Edward Hugh Bethell DSO, retired Colonel R.E. and mother Gertrude and grandson of the late Mr William Froggatt Betheel, or Rise Park, and Watton Abbey, Yorkshire.

Of 18 Hyde Park Square, Middlesex

Educated at St. Andrews College, Grahamstown, South Africa where he had a distinguished academic career graduating with honours and from 25 June 1905, Trinity College, Cambridege being President of the Cambridge Union and graduated with honours. Lawyer 1908. After leaving the university he was called to the Bar but never practiced, as he gave up his time to philanthropic work at Cambridge House, Camberwell. When war broke out he enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, and after three month’s training accepted a commission in the 10th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI). He was promoted to Captai in August 1915. Mentioned in despatches. He was was serving with the corps in Flanders when he was killed on 20 February aged 31.

Colonel Bethell’s remaining sons were both serving on active service in France. Major Hugh Keppel Bethell, 7th Hussars, commandings the 1st Northamptons (survived the war, rose to the rank of Colonel, died 3 March 1947 on his farm in Kenya), and Lieut. David Bethell in the Scots Guards. Colonel Bethel, then commanding Royal Engineers at Plymouth was about to take up an appointment in France.

Extract from Driffield Times - Saturday 4 March 1916, page 2:

RISE

Capt. Christopher Bethell, 10th K.O.Y.L.I, is announced to have been killed in Flanders February 20tb. Aged 31 years, he was the second son of Colonel E. H. Bethell, D.S.O. R.E. and grandson of the late Mr. William Froggart Bethell, of Rise Park, and Watton Abbey. Yorkshire. He was educated at Malvern College, Grahamstown, South Africa, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where be was president of the Union and graduated with honours. Although he was called to the Bar, he for some years devoted his time and energies to philanthropic work at Cambridge House, Camberwell. When the war commenced he enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, and three months later accepted a commission id n the K.O.Y.L.I., being promoted Captain in August last. Capt. Bethell's Colonel writes. “His loss is irreparable, and he was the most self-sacrificing and bravest of men.” Colonel's Bethell’s remaining sons are both on active service in France.

Extract from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 26 February 1916, page 6 and Beverley and East Riding Recorder - Saturday 4 March 1916, page 5:

CHRISTOPHER BETHELL, 10th K.0.Y.L.I., is announced to have been killed in Flanders February 20. Aged 31 years, he was the second son of Colonel E. H. Betbell, D.5.O.. R.E., and grandson of the late Mr. William Froggatt Bethell, of Rise Park, and Walton Abbey, Yorkshire. He was educated at Malvern College, Grahamstown, South Africa, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and graduated with honours. Although lie was called to the Bar, he for some years devoted his time and energies to philanthropic work at Cambridge House. Camberwell. When the war commenced he enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, and three months later accepted a commission in the K.O.Y.L.I. being promoted to captain August last. Capt. Bethell’s Colonel writes: '"His loss is irreparable, and he was the most self-sacrificing and bravest of men." Colonel Bethell's remaining sons are both on active service in France. Major Keppel Bethell, 7th Hussars, commands the 1st Northamptons, and Lieut. David Bethell is in the Scots Guards. Colonel Bethell, now commanding Royal Engineers at Plymouth, is about to take up an appointment in France.

[1910] Lieutenant, 2nd Scottish Horse [Territorial] attached Machine Gun Corps. Died on service in Egypt 17 July 1916. Aged 23. Baptised 12 December 1891 at Cambridge, All Saints, son of Henry Montagu and Agnata Frances Butler, of Trinity Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge. Son of H. Montagu Butler and Agnata F. Butler, of Trinity Lodge, Cambridge. Educated 1905-1910 Harrow School, Harrow, Middlesex, son of Dr H M Butler. Buried in KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Plot C. Grave 18. See also Cambridge, St Faith's School and also Cambridge Guildhall

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

BUTLER Gordon Kerr Montagu of Trinity Lodge Cambridge lieutenant in Scottish Horse died 17 July 1916 in Egypt Administration Peterborough 15 January to the reverend Henry Montagu Butler trinity college master.
Effects £390 13s. 11d.

[1905] Captain, 1st/2nd (East Lancashire), Royal Engineers. Died of wounds 8 June 1915. Aged 28. Son of Oswald William and Kate Carver, of Holmes Chapel, Cheshire; husband of Elizabeth A. N. (nee Hobart) Carver, of West Runton House, West Runton, Norfolk, married 1911 in Tonbridge, Kent; brother of Basil (below). Educated Charterhouse, Surrey. Employed by The Hollins Mill Co. Ltd. of 5, Portland Street, Manchester, appears on their Roll of Honour. In the 1891 census he was aged 4, born Cheshire, resident with his parents at Rose Hill House, Stockport Road, Marple, Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 14, born Marple, Cheshire, a boarder at Charterhouse School, resident Hindhead Road, Godalming, Surrey. Buried in LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Section A. Grave 7. See also Horton School, Northill and Charterhouse School, Surrey

Extract from The Times (London, England), Tuesday, August 29, 1916; pg. 4; Issue 41258:

SECOND LIEUTENANT BASIL ARMITAGE CARVER, Dragoons, youngest son of W.O. and Mrs. Carver, Cranage Hall, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, died of mine gas poisoning on August 21, being overcome while endeavouring to rescue some engineers in a tunnel. He was at Horton Preparatory School, Charterhouse, and for a short time at Sandhurst when war broke out, and he obtained his commission a few weeks before his 18th birthday.

Extract from Nantwich Guardian - Friday 18 June 1915, page 5:

CAPTAIN O. A. CARVER
MEMBER OF WELL-KNOWN
CHESHIRE FAMILY KILLED

Captain Oswald Artmitage Carver East Lancashire Royal Engineers (Territorial Force), who death in action in the Dardenelles was recorded on Tuesday, was born in 1887. He was the second son of Mr. W.O O. Carver and Mrs. Carver of Cranage Hall, Holmes Chapel. He was educated at Tanllwyfan, Colwyn, Horton School, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He rowed for Cambridge in the inter-Univeristy race of 1908, and also for the 'Varsity in the Olynmpic Games the samke year. He married Elizabeth Adah Noel Hobart, daughter of Mr. Robert Hobart, of Tunbridge Wells, whom he leaves a widow and two children. Captain Carver lived at Marple, and was a director of the Hollins Mill Company, Limited, Manchester. Much sympathy is felt with Mr. and Rms. W. O. Carver and family in their sad bereavement.

Chance , Edward Seton. b. 23 June, 1.881. (Verites); Football XI, 1899-1900; Left C.Q., 1900. Trin. Coll., Camb.-Joined R. Welsh Fusiliers, 1903. E.

S. Chance, Esq., Morton, Carlisle

[1886] Major, 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers. Killed in action 2nd November 1914. Aged 46. Born 19th April 1868, Highgate, Middlesex. Son of the late Baden Crawley; husband of Lady Violet Crawley (nee Finch), of 5, Lancaster Gate Terrace, London, W. Played cricket for Cambridge University 1887-1889. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 5. See also Lords MCC WW1

Extract from Du Ruvigny's Roll of Honour:

CRAWLEY, EUSTACE, Major, 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers, 3rd s. of the late Baden Crawley; b. 16 April, 1868; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12th Lancers, from the Militia, 7 Aug. 1889; promoted Lieut. 7 Jan. 1891, Capt. 17 Nov. 1897, Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900, and Major 29 July, 1905; was A.D.C. (extra) to the Lord Lieutenant, Ireland, from 19 Feb. 1894, to 8 July, 1895; took part in the operations in Sierra Leone 1898-99 (Medal with clasp); served in West Africa 1898, where he was in command of the Expedition to Bula; in the South African War 1899-1902, as Special Service Officer, being afterwards employed on the Staff; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including action at Magersfontein and the Relief of Kimberley; operations in Orange Free State Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Houtnek (Thoba Mountain) and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony May to 29 Nov. 1900, Including actions at Lindley, Bethlehem and Wittebergen, and those in Cape Colony Aug. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; brevet of Major; Queen's Medal with four clasps and King's Medal with two clasps); served in West Africa (Northern Nigeria) 1903; took part in the Kano-Sokoto Campaign (Medal with clasp), and in the operations in the district to the east of Zaria, being in command; was D.A.A.G. India, from 17 April, 1909, to 16 April, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Ypres 2 Nov. 1914. He in. 14 Dec. 1904, Violet Ella, elder dan. of Charles Wightwick Finch, 8th Earl of Aylesford.

Extract from The Bond of Sacrifice Volume 1:

MAJOR EUSTACE CRAWLEY, 12th (PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL) LANCERS, who was killed near Ypres on the 2nd November, 1914, was born on the 16th April, 1868, third son of the late Baden Crawley.

He was educated at Harrow, and joined the 12th Lancers from the Militia becoming Lieutenant in 1891, and Captain in November, 1897. Major Crawley saw much active service. In 1898-99 he took part in operations at Sierra Leone, West Coast of Africa, for which he received the medal and clasp. Again, in 1899 he was in command of the Bula Expedition in Nigeria, being mentioned in Despatches by General Wilcox, in December, 1899. He commanded the Nigeria Company Constabulary from the latter date.

In 1900-02 he was appointed a Special Service Officer in the South African War; was D.A.A.G. Ridley's Corps of Mounted Infantry from April to December, 1900; took part in General Ian Hamilton's march, being present at the actions of Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, and Wittebergen; and also at operations in Cape Colony under General French; he was Intelligence Officer to Capper's Column at the end of 1901, and Staff Officer to Doran's Column from December, 1901, to May, 1902. For his services he was mentioned in Despatches by Lord Roberts, 4th September, 1901, given the Brevet rank of Major from November, 1900, and received the Queen's medal with four clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps. From May to November, 1902, he was D.A.A.G. on the staff of Colonel Hickman, commanding the troops at Middelburg, Cape Colony.

In 1902-03 he again saw service in Nigeria, being in command of a column in the Kano Expedition, for which he received the medal and clasp. In 1903 he commanded Mounted In-fantry, in India, and obtained the substantive rank of Major in July, 1905. In 1906-07 he was officiating Brigade-Major of the Amballa Cavalry Brigade and to the Inspector-General of Cavalry in India.

Major Crawley married, in December, 1904, Lady Violet Ella Finch, elder daughter of the eighth Earl of Aylesford.

His profile from Cricinfo

[1883] Captain. Born 17th September 1864, 2nd son of Edward and Theodosia Cropper, of Fearnhead, Great Crosby; husband of Anne Ellen Cropper, of Mount Ballan, Chepstow, Mon. He was at Charterhouse [H] 1878 - 1883. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. He qualified in medicine and worked for a time at a medical mission in Acre. In the Great War he was commissioned into the R.A.M.C. He was drowned in the sinking of the Britannic on 21st November 1916. The wreck is now designated an official war grave. He is commemorated on the Mikra Memorial, outside Salonica. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Cropper, John. b. 17 Sept., 1864. (Hodgsonites); Left C.Q., 1881. Trin. Coll., Camb.; M.A.; St. Bartholomew's Hospital; M.D.; B.C.-C.M.S., Medical Mission, Acre, Palestine, 1895-1901.

J. Cropper, Esq., M. D., Mount Ballan, Chepstow.

Extract from Kington Times - Saturday 2 December 1916, page 5:

LOST IN THE BRITTANIC.

Captain Cropper, who lost his life in the sinking of the Britannic, was a brother of Mrs. Probyn, wife of the Rev. H. E. H. Probyn, Vicar of Kington.

[1901] Second Lieutenant 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment who was killed in action on Saturday, 24th April 1915. Aged 33. Son of Horace and Ida Darwin, of The Orchard, Cambridge. Employed Cambridge Scientific Instrument Coy Ltd. Commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 33 Also listed on family gravestone in churchyard. See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambridge St Giles

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 1, Page 106

DARWIN, Erasmus, 2nd Lieut 4th battalion, Aleaxandra, Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment (T.F) Only son of Horace Darwin, F.R.S. Chairman of Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co, by his wife, the Hon Emma Cecilla (Ida) nee Farrer, only daughter of Thomas Henry, 1st Lord Farrer and grandson of Charles Darwin.

Born Cambridge 7-12-1881, educated at Horris Hill and Marlborough (Cotton House) and gained an exhibition for Mathematics at Trinity College,Cambridge. He went up to Trinity in October 1901 and took the mathematical Tripos in his second year being placed among the senior Optimes. Afterwards he took the mechanical sciences Tripos and was placed in the second class in 1905.

On leaving Cambridge he went through the shops at Messrs Mather and Platts at Manchester. After this he worked for some little while with the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., of which he was a director, and then became assistant secretary of Bocklow Vaughan and Co Ltd at Middlesborough. Here he stayed for seven years and at the outbreak of war occupied the postion of secretary to the company.

As soon as war broke out he decided to join the army and on 12-9-14 was gazetted 2nd Lieut in the 4th (Territorial) battalion of the Yorkshires, which after training at Darlington and Newcastle crossed to France, as part of the Northumbria division on 17-4-15 and was within a week called upon to take part in the second battle of Ypres. Here these Territorial troops fresh from home and tried at the very outset almost as highly as men could be tried, behaved with a steadiness and coolness which gained for them the congratulations of the generals commanding their division and their army corps.

Early on the morning of the 24-4-15 the battalion was ordered to attack the village of Fortuin, close to St Julien where the Germans had broken through. This attack they successfully carried out in the face of terrific shellfire, being ordered to retire at dusk.

By driving the enemy back a mile or more they had attained their object which was to prevent a breach in the line, and they hade made good their front with the Canadians and Royal Irish on their right.

It was during this advance that Darwin fell, killed instantaneously. His Commanding Officer, Colonel Bell wrote of him "Loyalty, Courage and Devotion to duty - he had them all .... He died in an attack which gained many compliments to the battalion. He was right in front. It was a mans death". Corporal Wearmouth, who was in his platoon wrote "I am a section leader in his platoon and when we got the order to advance he proved himself a hero. He nursed us men, in fact the comment was, you would say we were on a field day. We had got to within twenty yards of our halting place when he turned to our platoon to say something. As he turned he fell, and I am sure he never spoke. As soon as I could I went to him but he was beyond human aid. Our platoon sadly miss him, as he could not do enough for us, and we are all extremely sorry for you, in your great loss".

Private Wood wrote to a friend in Middlesborough "I would expect you would know poor Mr. Darwin .... I was in his platoon and I can tell you he died a hero. He led us absolutely regardless of the bullets from the German Maxim guns and snipers that whistled all around him".

Just before he left England, when his battalion was under orders for the front, he was summoned to the war office and offered a staff appointment at home in connection with munitions of war. This would have given great scope to his capabilities. "It would have been interesting and important work" he wrote "but of course there are plenty of older men who can do it just as well as I can".

He felt that at the moment his place should be with his Regiment and made, in the words of one present at the interview, a fine appeal to be allowed to go with his men. It was granted and he went gladly with no looking back.

The Times (30-4-15) said of him "Erasmus Darwin would, if he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his familyin a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge and a great iron works in the north there is something of a gulf fixed and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything more than that all that met him in business conceived a very high opinion of his grasp of the subject, his acuteness and administrative ability. It was indeed impossibe to know him without realising that he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound and practical judgement, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly. He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality, which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at Middlesborough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him as a wholly new and unlooked for esperience. He delighted in the men, and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts. There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree, namely a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide minded and completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain what to do what he believd to be right.

[1897] Lieutenant, 45th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 10 March 1915. Aged 36. Born 19 January 1879 in Chiswick, Middlesex. Baptised 20 February 1879 in Chiswick St. Nicholas, son of John and Frances Sarah Donaldson, resident Chiswick, Middlesex. Son of Mrs. F. S. Donaldson, of 2, Melbury Rd., Kensington, London, and the late John Donaldson; husband of Dorothea Joan Donaldson, of Lower Franklands, Pangbourne, Berks. Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). No known grave. Commemorated on LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 1. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Lieutenant Philip De Malpes Waynes Egerton © IWM (HU 121674)

[1913] Old Etonian. Captain, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars. Killed in action 8th October 1918. Aged 23. Son of Sir Philip Henry Brian Grey Egerton, 12th Bart., of Oulton Park, Cheshire, and Mary Carolyn Campbell Grey Egerton, his wife (now Mrs. Richard McCreery). His twin brother, Roland le Belward Egerton also served. In the 1901 census he was aged 15, born London, a student, boarding at Eton College, Eton, Buckinghamshire & Berkshire. Educatd at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Buried in BUSIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France. Plot IV. Row B. Grave 29. See also Lords MCC World War 1 memorial

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1919:

EGERTON Philip de Malpas Wayne of Oulton Park Cheshire lieutenant 19th Royal Hussars died 8 October 1918 in France killed in action Administration London 20 February to sir Philip Henry Brian Grey Egerton baronet.
Effects £1989 4s. 6d.

Extract from Chester Chronicle - Saturday 19 October 1918, page 3:

KILLED IN ACTION

EGERTON.—On 8th inst., at Brancourt, France, Lieut. Philip de Malpas Wayne Egerton, only surviving son of Sir Philip H. B. Grey Egerton, Bart., Oulton Park, Cheshire.
cp128

[1909] Sergt., H.A.C.; Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Prince Of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment). Accidentally killed 25 January 1916. Born 6 November 1891. In the 1901 census he was aged 9, born Kennington, Surrey, son of patrick T and Alice E Evans, resident 54, Longridge Road, Kensington, London & Middlesex. In the 1911 census he was aged 19, born Kensington, London, a studdent visiting at Parkhurst, Haslemere, Lurgashall, Sussex. Buried North-West of Church in HARPLEY (ST. BARTHOLOMEW) CHURCHYARD, Worcestershire. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey and also Upton St Leonards, Gloucestershire

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1916:

EVANS Rupert Ancrum of 54 Longridge-road Earl's Court Middlesex second-lieutenant 3rd West Yorkshire (Prince of Wales' Own) regiment died 25 January 1916 at Whitley Bay Northumberland Administration London 8 August Alice Emily Evans widow. Effects £8829 5s. 2d
Resworn £8809. 7s. 0d. Further spent 29 January 1937.

[1885] Old Etonian. Second Lieutenant, 3rd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment. Killed in action 25th September 1915. No known grave. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 130. See also Lords MCC WW1

Extract from Du Ruvigny's Roll of Honour:

GEDGE, CECIL BERTIE, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), attd. Grenadier Coy., Garhwal Brigade. I.A., only surv. child of Sydney Gedge, of Mitcham Hall, co. Surrey, Solicitor, by his wife, Augusta, dau. of Robert Herring ; b. Mitcham Hall aforesaid, 20 Feb. 1866 ; educ. Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.; was a Barrister, being called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1891, and afterwards practised on the South-Eastern Circuit and at the Essex and Herts Sessions ; joined the Sportsman's Battn. 9 Oct. 1914 ; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd London Regt. 1 April, 1915 ; went to France in June. when he was attached to the Grenadier Coy., Garhwal Brigade, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos 25 Sept. following. His Colonel wrote : "He was wounded early in the advance and came back and had his wounds dressed, and then went out again to lead his men, and he has not been seen since. He was a brave English gentleman, and we are glad to think he was one of us. . . . I am very sorry to say I have had strict orders not to send forward for 'Mention' any officer who has been killed. If it were not for this very strict rule I should have sent forward your husband's name," and a brother officer : "There is one thing that may console you, and that is, your husband showed the greatest courage. He was wounded by shrapnel early in the morning, but refused to go back. He just had his men bind him up, and when the order came to go over the parapet, he led his men over like a hero." He was a good sportsman, being well known in Switzerland as a curler ; was also a keen scholar, and had edited various publications, including "Granta" in 1890, "Huts," 1902-3, and was sub-editor of Lord Halsbury's "Laws of Ayland." He m. at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 6 Aug. 1892, Jessie Bickley (Brackondale, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham), 3rd dau. of Bery Bickley Rogers, and had a dau., Sydney, Jessie, b. 12 Sept. 1893.

[1911] Lieutenant. 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action on 25 September 1915. No known grave. Commemorated on Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 20 to 22. See also Cromer War Memorial

Extract from Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 8 December 1915, page 6:

LIEUT. HERBERT OTHO HAMILTON, 12th Northumberland Fusiliers, previously reported missing is now believed to have hve been killed on September 26 at Loos. He was the only son of the Rev. W. F. T. Hamilton, vicar of Cromer, and in January last he married Muriel, daughterof Mrs. Wakley, of Lassmade, Barnstaple. He was educated at Repton School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in June, 1914.

Extract from Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 8 December 1915, page 3:

Lieut. Herbert Otho Hamilton, 12th Northumberland Fusiliers, reported missing, now believed killed September 26th at Loos, was educated Repton School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in June, 1914. He joined the Army in September, and received his commission in the 12th Northumberand Fusiliers. He was the only son the Rev. W. F. T. Hamilton, Vicar of Cromer (and formerly of Christchurch Church, Woking), and in January last he married Miss Muriel Wakley, daughter of Mrs. Wakley, of Lasswade, Barnstaple. The major commanding his Company wrote: "We had to attack at 9 a.m. My Company was leading, and of the Company Herberh s platoon had the honour of leading. He fell right forward in the fining line at the head of his men. He was a very gallant officer, and greatly beloved by all." In his last letter to his father, Lieut. Hamilton wrote:—" Just a line while the beginning of the great battle is going on. It is wonderful how peaceful one feels amid it all. Any moment one may be put out of action, but one does not worry. That quiet time alone with at the Holy Communion was very nice and solemn and most comforting."

[1911] Lieutenant Acting Captain, "A" Battery, 162nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 16 May 1917. Attested 7 August 1914, as 1092, West Riding Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, born Cambridge, aged 22 years 1 month, employed as an Engineer at Vickers Ltd, unmarried, height 5 feet 9¾ inches, chest 40 inches, embodied from 7 August 1914 to 1 October 1914. In the 1901 census he was aged 8, born Trumpington, resident (Heyroun), Chaucer Road, Trumpington, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire. Buried in FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS, Pas de Calais, France. Plot V. Row E. Grave 27. See also Cambridge, St. Faith's School

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

HEAPE Brian Ruston of 10 King's Bench-walk London a captain R.F.A. died 10 May 1917 at Arras in France Administration London 15 August to Walter Heape esquire. Effects £1484 16s. 3d.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 3, page 133-134:

HEAPE, BRIAN RUSTON, Capt., R.F.A., s. of Waiter Heape, M.A., F.R.S., of King's End House. Bicester, and of 10, King's Bench Walk, Temple, by his wife Ethel, dau. of Joseph Ruston ; b. Cambridge. 27 June, 1892: educ. at Parkfield, Hayward's Heath; at Repton. where he was a member of the O.T.C., and shot for his school at Bisley ; he also represented his school in the team sent to Aldershot for the Public Schools competition of his year, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he served in the University Cavalry Corps. He was apprenticed to Messrs. Vickers, Sheffield ; joined the West Riding Territorial Royal Engineer Corps on the outbreak of war ; obtained a commission in the Royal Horse Artillery in Dec. 1914, and subsequently exchanged into the Royal Field Artillery. He served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from March, 1915 ; took part in the operations on the Somme, and was killed in action 16 May, 1917, while acting Major in command of his battery, and fighting his gnus at the Battle of Arras. His Colonel wrote : Brian, as you know, was a great friend of mine, and we had journeyed into much danger together. You have reason to be proud of him as the bravest of brave soldiers. as brave a man as ever I have met. He had nerves of steel, and did not know what fear was ; in fact, he didn't realize that there was any such thing as danger in the whole world. He was a born fighting soldier, a most capable battery commander, and during the whole time he was serving under me I never found a single fault in him, nor did I have a single complaint from him I miss that great big, cheery fellow, with his wonderfully joyful laugh and his perfect good temper. He was the life and soul of his battery," and a brother officer: " His death was nearly as great a blow to us as It must be to you, as we loved him as only a soldier can love a very brave and gallant officer." Unm.

[1892] F.R.S. Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Air Force. Killed in flying accident in crash of a Bristol F.2b. Monday, 26th August 1918. Aged 44. Son of Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., M.A., D.Sc., and Mrs. E. Hopkinson, of "Ellerslie", Adams Rd., Cambridge; husband of Mariana Hopkinson (nee Siemens), of 10, Adams Rd., Cambridge. Buried in the right half, near chapel, in ST. GILES & ST. PETER CHURCHYARD CEMETERY, Cambridge. Grave reference 2D51/2. The RAF List 1st April 1918 lists him as Major serving under Ministry of Munitions (Aircraft Production). See also Cambridge St Giles and Cambridge Guildhall

Born 11 January 1874, Birmingham ; eldest son of Dr.John Hopkinson (1849-1898) (later Professor of Electrical Engineering, King's College, London) & Evelyn Hopkinson (nee Oldenburg). Educated at St.Paul's, London, Trinity College, Cambridge (MA Mathematics), & King's College, London (BSc Experimental Physics). Called to the Bar, 1897, & practised patent law. Consultant electrical engineer, 1898-1903. In 1903, married Mariana, eldest daughter of Alexander Siemens; in same year, appointed Professor of Mechanisms & Applied Mechanics, Cambridge University, & elected Professorial Fellow at King's College,Cambridge. Research into electronic measurement techniques, efficiency of internal combustion engines,& effects of projectiles & explosives on armour plate. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society,1910. Also served as Major on London Electrical Volunteers (TF) & commanded RE Section of Cambridge University OTC, 1908-14. On outbreak of war, taught at School of Military Engineering, Chatham, then worked at Admiralty, 1915, on protection of warships from mines and torpedoes, developing "bulge" protection system. Transferred to Royal Flying Corps November 1915, as Technical Staff Officer. 1916-18, directed research into aircraft bombing and armament development at Experimental Station, Orfordness. Companion of the Order of St.Michael & St.George (gaz. 24th January 1917) ; prom.to Lt.Col. (RAF) (gaz. 23rd July 1918). Killed in flying accident 26/8/1918, piloting Bristol F.2b C4885; flying solo, crashed in bad weather at Paston, Essex, en route from Martlesham Heath to Hendon. Buried at St.Giles' Cemetery, Cambridge, 30th August 1918, after funeral service at King's College Chapel. Survived by widow & six daughters.

[1910]

Extract from Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Second Lieut. Geoffrey William Vanderbyl Hopley (2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards) died at the age of 23 on May 12 in the Military Hospital at Boulogne-sur-Mer, having been severely wounded in Flanders on February 3. He was in the Harrow Eleven in 1909 and 1910, in the latter season being second in the batting averages with 27.18. In his two matches against Eton he scored 1 and 23, 35 and 8. Proceeding to Cambridge, he obtained his Blue in 1912, making 14 and 6 not out v Oxford, but was unable to keep his place in either of the two following years. In 1914 he gave every promise of regaining a position in the side, scoring 29 and 120 in the Seniors' Match and 86 and 68 in a Trial game, but later he was quite out of form. In 1912 he won the heavyweight boxing for Cambridge. He was brother of Mr. FJV Hopley, and had been a member of the MCC since 1911.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 2, page 171:

HOPLEY, GEOFFREY WILLIAM VANDER BYL, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards. 2nd s. of the Hon. William Musgrove Hopley, of Tenterden, Wynberg, Cape Colony, Senior Judge of Southern Rhodesia, by his wife, Annie, eldest dau. of the Hon. John Vander Byl, M.L.A. ; b. Kimberley, South Africa, 9 Sept. 1891 ; educ. Harrow (Scholar), and Trinity College, Cambridge (Scholar), where he obtained a First Class in the Law Tripos ; subsequently became a Barrister-at-Law, being called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1914 ; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war in the Aug. of that year, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards on the 19th ; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died in hospital at Boulogne. 12 May, 1915, from wounds received in action near Bethune on 3 Feb. He was a keen sportsman; while at Harrow played in the Cricket XI. against Eton, and later in the Cambridge Xl. against Oxford ; also represented Cambridge as heavyweight boxer against Oxford : unm.

[1910] Captain, 3rd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Died 25 March 1920 form the effect of wounds received in action. Born 14 October 1890. Baptised 19 November 1890 in Ashbrooke, Christ Church, Durham, son of Ralph Millbanke and Eliza Westropp Hudson. Sailed from Plymouth to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 8 November 1916, aged 25 aboard the Omrah. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1920:

HUDSON Ralph Palliser Milbanke of 8 the Cedars Sunderland died 25 March 1920 Probate Durham 2 December to Annie Charleston Hudson widow Ralph Frederick Richard Becher lieutenant in H.M. Army and John Sanderson Dawson coal exporter. Effects £16619 11s. 10d. in the United Kingdom.

Extract from Lichfield Mercury - Friday 2 April 1920, page 6:

Captain Ralph Hudson ("Peter"), short story writer and shipowner, has died at Sunderland, aged thirty. His death was indirectlhy due to injuries received through being buried in a shell hole during the war.

Second Lieutenant, 111th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 30 April 1917. Aged 19. Birth registered in the July to September Quarter 1897 in Cambridge. Baptised 13 October 1897 in Cambridge, St Paul, son of Margaret and Hugh Mcleod Innes, of St Eligius Street, Cambridge. Son of Hugh McLeod Innes and Margaret Innes, of 6, St. Eligius St., Cambridge; brother of Donald McLeod Innes (above). Educated at Haileybury College, 1911-1916. Head of School, elected to a History Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1915. Buried in LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST, Pas de Calais, France. Plot I. Row A. Grave 3. See also Cambridge Guildhall and also Cambridge St Paul's

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

INNES Patrick McLeod of 6 St. Elgin's-street Cambridge second-lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery died 3o April 17 Administration Peterborough 5 October to Hugh cLeod Innes fellow and bursar Trinity College.
Effects £144 5s. 4d.

[1891]

Old Etonian. Lieutenant-Colonel, 6th Reserve Cavalry Regiment (Formerly Suffolk Yeomanry) attached 4th Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. Died of dysentery 18th September 1917. Aged 44. Son of Roger and Florence Lucy Kerrison, of Tattingstone Place, Ipswich, Suffolk. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Left Eton College in 1891. Joined the Loyal Suffolk Hussars (Yeomanry) in 1896, subsequently commanded the Regiment. In the 1881 census he was aged 7, born Norfolk, a scholar, son of Roger and Florence Lucy Kerrison, resident Tower House, 17, Ipswich St Mary at the Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk. Married Diana Elizabeth Postle Heseltine in 1896 in St Paul, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, Middlesex who he divorced and then married Elizabeth Isobel Stuart Ferguson in the July to September Quarter 1915 in St. Martin registration District, London. . Buried in WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot IV. Row N. Grave 4. See also Lords M.C.C. WW1 War Memorial.

Photograph Copyright © Illustrated London News - Saturday 20 October 1917, page 17

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

KERRISON Roger Orme of 56 Brompton-square Middlesex died 18 September 1917 iri France Probate London 28 December to Elizabeth Isobel Stuart Kerrison widow.
Effects £19578 12s. 2d.

Extract from Hampshire Independent - Saturday 22 September 1917, page 7 and Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 22 September 1917, page 6:

Lieutenan Colonel Roger Orme Kerrison, Reserve Regiment of Cavalry, attached Australian Artillery, died on September 18th, in hospital abroad, of dysentery contracted on active service, aged 44. Colonel Kerrison formerly commanded the Suffolk Hussars Yeomanry. He was a magistrate for Suffolk, and Lord of the Manor of Tattingstone. He married first in 1896 Diana Elisabeth, third daughter of John Postle Heseltine, formerly of Walhampton, Lymington, and second, in 1915, Elizabeth I. Stuart-Ferguson.

[1909] Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards attached Scots Guards. Killed in action between 25th and 26th January 1915. Aged 24. Born 25 October 1890, Malabar Hill, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India. Baptised 12 December 1890, Malabar Hill, All Saints, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India. Son of Basil and Alice Sophia Lang, of Royal Oak Hotel, Sevenoaks Kent. Buried in CANADIAN CEMETERY No.2, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST, Pas de Calais, France. Plot 12. Row E. Grave 22. See also Lords MCC WW1

See his statistics on CricInfo

Extract from The Bond of Sacrifice, Volume 2, page 273:

2nd LIEUTENANT ARTHUR HORACE LANG, SPECIAL RESERVE, GRENADIER GUARDS, attd. 1st BATTN. SCOTS GUARDS, the son of Basil Lang, late Advocate-General of Bombay, and Mrs. Lang, Westerham, Kent, was born in Bombay on the 25th October, 1890.

He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Pitt Club, at Cambridge, of the Conservative Club, London, and of I Zingari.

In August, 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Grenadier Guards, and for a short time was attached to the 2nd Battalion of that Regiment. Afterwards he was attached to the 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, and was serving with it when he was killed in action defending the front trench at Cuinchy, Flanders, on the 25th June, 1915.

Extract from Westminster Gazette - Thursday 24 May 1917, page 3:

WILLS.

Second-Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang, Grenadier Guards, a former captain of the cricket eleven at Harrow, left “£100 to Harrow School Cricket Club.” His property was worth £15,346.

Extract from Westminster Gazette - Thursday 24 May 1917, page 3:

CRICKET AND THE WAR.
OUR FALLEN HEROES.—X.

SUSSEX.

Sec Lt ARTHUR HORACE LANG (Grenadier Guards, attd Scots Guards) was reported “missing, believed killed,” and suberquently returned as “killed” on about Jan. 26, 1915. Born at Bombay on Oct. 25, 1890, he figured in the Harrow XI. four years (1906-1909), and in the last two acted as skipper and appeared for the' Public Schoots v. the M.C.C. to which was elected to membership in 1910. He was sound batsman and capable wicketkeeper, in the latter department securing eight victims against Eton in 1907. Proceeding to Cambridge University, he did not secure his “blue”" till his last yaer (1913). though he made some good scores in trial games, and 53 v. the M.C.C. at Lord's, in 1912. Going in first, v. Oxford, he made 28 and 4. and stumped three, his highest score of the season being 46 v. Hampshire, at Fenner’s, his average 18.36. From 1907 to 1911 he played for Suffolk, but in 1912 and 1913 transferred his allegiance to Sussex, for which in the latter he scored 141 v. Somerset at Eastbourne, and 104 v. Cambridge University, at Fenner's, though in this case might have been caught in the slips before he had “broken his duck.” His County Championship average for ten innings was 30.60, which placed him third on the list.

Extract from Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 25 May 1917, page 3:

LATEST WILLS .

Second Lieutenant Arthur Horace Lang, the Conservative Club, St. James’s Street, London, S.W., of the Grenadier Guards, attached to the Scots Guards; died on active service at La Bassee in France. (Net personalty £15,306) £15,346

[1896] Captain, 3rd Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) attached 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Killed in action on the Somme 12 October 1916. Born 17 June 1877. Aged 39. Son of the late B. W. Leader, R.A., and Mary Eastlake Leader, of Burrows Cross, Gomshall, Guildford; husband of Isabella Leader (nee Anderson), of Rosemerrin, Bude, Cornwall. Educated at Charterhouse and Cambridge. An Artist. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 5 D and 6 D. See also St Buryan, Cornwall and Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey.

From the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1891:

Leader, Benjamin Eastlake. b. 17 June, 1877. (Pageites); Left C.Q., 1896. Trin. Coll., Cambridge.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1916:

LEADER Benjamin Eastlake of Rosemerrin Saint Buryan Cornwall captain 3rd Queen's West Surrey regiment died 12 October 1916 in France on active service Probate London 21 December to William Boyd Anderson writer.
Effects 6219 12S. 10d. Resworn £7053 10s. 4d.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, volume 3, page 171:

LEADER, BENJAMIN EASTLAKE, Capt., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.), eldest s. of Benjamin William Leader, of Burrows Cross, Gomshall, co. Surrey, R.A.. by his wife, Mary, dan. of William Eastlake; b. Worcester, 17 June, 1877; educ. Charterhouse; Trinity College, Cambridge, and on leaving there studied as a Landscape Painter under Sir H. Von Herkomer, and later at Newlyn; formed part of the Artists' Colony at Lamorna, near Penzance, being for five years a well-known exhibitor at the Royal Academy; volunteered his services after the outbreak of war; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. The West Surrey Reg_ 25 Sept. 1914; promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. following, and Capt. 22 May, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force In France and Flanders from Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Le Transloy 12 Oct. 1916. He m. at Glasgow, 8 Sept. 1910, Isabella (1, Grosvenor Crescent, Glasgow), 3rd dau. of William Boyd Anderson, of Glasgow, and had two children : Benjamin John, b. 7 June, 1914, and Alison Mary, b. 1 June, 1916.

Extract from Evening Mail - Monday 13 November 1916, page 3:

CAPTAIN BENJAMIN EASTLAKE LEADER, Royal West Surrey Regiment, killed on October 12, was the eldest son of Mr. B. W. Leader, R.A., and was 39 years of age. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He followed his father's profession and studied at Bushey under Sir H. von Herkomer, and afterwards at Newlyn. He formed part of the artists' colony at Lamorna, near Penzance. He married in 1910 Isabella, third daughter of Mr. W. Boyd Anderson, of Glasgow, and leaves two children. At the beginning of the war he joined the Royal West Surrey Regiment and attained the rank of captain. He had been at the front for nearly two years.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1916:

[1906] [Listed as LODGER on SDGW] Old Etonian. Captain (Staff - 160th Brigade), 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. 53rd Division. Died of wounds 29th March 1917. Aged 30. Born 10th March 1887, baptised 18th April 1887 at St Peter, Eaton Square, Pimlico, Middlesex, son of Edmund Giles and Marion Loder. Son of Sir Edmund and Lady Loder, of Leonardslie, Horsham, Sussex; husband of Muriel Rolls Loder, of Clock House, Cowfold, Sussex. Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Robert Egerton Loder 1914. Resident of The Clock House, Cowfold. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Left Eton College in 1906. Roll of Honour and Lower Beeding Memorial. Born in Cowfold. Wounded during the First Battle of Gaza. Mentioned in Despatches twice Egypt, Gallipoli. In the 1891 census he was aged 11, son of Edward Loder, resident Leonardslie, Highfield, Lower Beeding, Horsham, Sussex. Buried in DEIR EL BELAH WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Section C. Grave 73. ex. Buried in DEIR EL BELAH WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Section C. Grave 73. See also Lord's Cricket Members' World War 1 Memorial and also the Cowfold War Memorial. Also listed on the R E Loder Memorial Window, Lower Beeding, West Sussex

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

LODER Robert Egerton of The Clock House Cowfield Sussex lieutenant temporary captain H.M. Army died 29 March 1917 in Syria Probate London 10 December to Walter William Otter captain H.M. Army and Charles Williams lieutenant Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Effects £297524 1s. 8d.

Extract from Brighton Gazette - Wednesday 24 January 1912, page 7:

Robert Egerton Loder has been gazetted Second Lieutenant (supernumeray) in the 4th Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment.

Extract from Northampton Mercury - Friday 15 August 1913, page 3:

MARRIAGE OF MR. R. E. LODER
A CHARMING SPECTACLE.

The marriage took place on Saturday afternoon at St. Peter’s Church, Eaton-square, between Mr. Robert Egerton Loder, only son of Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart., and Lady Loder, Leonardslee, Horsham, and Miss Muriel Rolls Hoare, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Rolls Hoare, of 43, Mount-street.

The church was prettily decorated with palms and white flower's, and the officiating clergy were the Rev. F. Campion, rector of West Grinstead, and the Rev. the Hon. H. E. Lambart, cousin of the bridegroom, Mr. James Hoare gave his daughter away, and she looked very graceful in a robe of soft ivory crepe de Chine, draped with Brussels lace lent her mother, and a Court train of velvet embossed brocade was suspended from the shoulders and draped with the same lace. Over a spray of orange flowers on her hair the bride wore a thick chiffon veil, the corners embroidered with true lovers’ knots. She was attended by six little children, the three pages escorting three tiny bridesmaids, who were daintly dressed in cream net and lace mounted over pale maize silk, with mob caps of net and lace. The pages wore maize satin knickers with soft crepe de Chine shirts, and from the bride they received gold monogram cuff links.

The pages were Masters Guy Otter, Anthony Barron, and John Campion, and the bridesmaids Miss Peggy Borron, the bride’s niece, Aliss Barbara Otter, niece of the bridegroom, and Miss Etheldreda Burrell, cousin of the bridegroom and daughter of Sir Merrik and Lady Burrell. Mr. C. J. Williams acted as best man to the bridegroom. Mrs. Rolls Hoare afterwards welcomed her friends at 48, Mountstreet, and among those present at the ceremony and reception were Sir Edmund and Lady Loder, Sir Alerrik and Lady Burrell, the Dowager Lady Burrell. Major Eustace Loder, Mrs. Barron, Mrs. Otter, Mr. and Mrs. John Millais, Miss Lees, Miss Glubb, Miss Lyon, Colonel Hoare, Mr. and Mrs. Clive Boyd, Mrs. Arthur Boyd. Mr. L. St. George, Miss Innes, and Miss Chaplin Jones.

Later in the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Loder left for their honeymoon, which they will spend motoring in the Lake District. The bride went away in a dress of Nattier blue charmeuse with black moire embroidered sash and collar, and a black hat with panache of blue feathers.

Extract from Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 April 1917, page 5:

HORSHAM

Many will deeply regret to learn that Capt. Robert Egerton Loder, Royal Sussex Regt, (staff Captain of —Infantry Brigade), died wounds on March 29. He was only son of Sir Edmund and Lady Loder, of Leonardslee. He was born in March, 1887, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1909. He married, in 1913, Muriel Rolls,. daughter of James Rolls Hoare, of Mounts-street. Captain Loder, who had served with distinction in the war, was gazetted to the Staff in May of last year.

Extract from Mid Sussex Times - Tuesday 10 April 1917, page 5:

LODER—Killed in action, Captain Robert Egerton Loder, Royal Sussex Regiment, only son of Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart., of Leonardslee Park, Lower Beeding, aged 30 years .

Extract from Manchester Evening News - Thursday 13 December 1917, page 3:

Captain Robert Egerton Loder, Sussex Regiment of Cowford, Sussex, who died from wounds in Syria, only son of Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart, left £297,524 gross and £281,191 net.

[1904] Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment formerly Private Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action 7 January 1917. Aged 32. Born 18 June 1884. Baptised 12 Jul 1885 in Over Tabley, Cheshire. Son of Edward Lushington Mather (formerly Vicar of Over Tabley, Cheshire) and Rose Eleanor Mather, of Over Tabley, Cheshire. Educated Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. In the 1891 census he was aged 5, born Over Tabley, Cheshire, son of Edward L and Rose E Mather, resident Over Tabley Vicarage, Moss Lane, Tabley Superior, Altrincham, Cheshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 15, born Over Tabley, Cheshire, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse Block, Godalming Rural, Guildford, Surrey. In the 1911 census he was aged 25, born Over Tabley, Cheshire, living on his own means, resident Beardwood Fold, Blackburn, Lancashire. Buried in VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot V. Row D. Grave 8. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey.

From the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1899:

Extract from England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 about Gerald Alexander Clifford Moore:

MOORE Gerald Alexander clifford of 2 Lancaster-crescent Glasgow lieutenant in Scottish Rifles died 11 July 1915 at Malata Confirmation of Hilda Esty Marsh spinster. Sealed London 30 October [1915].

From the Charterhouse Register Vol 2, Oration Quarter 1905:

[1903]

Lieutenant Arthur Conway Osborne Morgan © IWM (HU 124497)

Lieutenant, 4th Battery, 3rd North Midland Brigade attd. 5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 13 October 1915. Aged 31. Baptised 24 Mar 1885 at Cambridge, All Saints, in Jesus College Chapel, son of Charlotte Linda and Henry Arthur Morgan, of 5, Rhadegunds, Cambridge. Son of the Revd. Henry Arthur Morgan, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and of Charlotte Linda Morgan (nee Barnes), of 12, Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea, London, Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn; King's Gold Medallist, 1903, Winchester College; Chancellor's Gold Medallist, Trinity College, Cambridge; President of the Union Society, 1906. Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). In the 1901 census he was aged 11, born Cambridge, a boarder, scholar, resident Winchester College, Southgate House, Winchester St Thomas, Winchester, Hampshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 21, born Trumpington, a Barrister, son of Henry Arthur and Charlotte Linda Morgan, resident Jesus College, Cambridge. Enlisted 26 January 1914 at Armoury House, Finsbury, Lonon, aged 29 yesars, born Trumpington, Cambridge, unmarried, Barrister-at Law, London, son of Mrs. Charlotte Linda Morgan, of 45, Bramham Gardens, London S.W., height 5 feet 9 inchers, chest 36 inches, mobilized 5 August 1914, born 11 January 1885. Buried at CANADIAN CEMETERY NO.2, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST, Pas de Calais, France. Plot 13. Row C. Grave 7. See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambridge, St Fath's School

[1914] Sub-Lieutenant Z/1779, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Killed in action in France 13 November 1916. Aged 21. Born 1 October 1895. Son of Marian Perrin Knight Newall, of Wharton Hall, Winsford, Cheshire, and the late W. N. M. Newall. In the 1901 census he was aged 5, born Huyton, Lancashire, grandson of John K Armstrong (a widower), son of Marian P K Newall (a widow), resident Wharton Hall, Wharton, Northwich, Cheshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 15, born Hayton, Lancashire, at school, son of Marian P K Newall (a widow), resident Wharton Hall, Winsford, Wharton, Cheshire. Formerly member of the O.T.C. Religious denomination Church of England. Under Graduate at Trinity College. height 5 feet 9¾ inches, chest 36-38 inches, medium complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes. Joined Battalion for Duty at Mudros 10 January 1916, embarked on board H.M.T. "Minominee" aat Mudros 1 June 1916, disembarked at Marseilles 7 June 1916. Buried in ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL, Somme, France. Plot IV. Row A. Grave 27.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, volume 2, page 235:

NEWALL, JACK HAINSWORTH MAXWELL, Sub.-Lieut. Drake Battn. Royal Naval Division, R.N.V.R., only s. of the late William Newall Maxwell Newall, of Liverpool, Merchant, by his wife, Marian Perrin Knight (Wharton Hall, Winsford, co. Chester), dau. of John Knight Armstrong, of Wharton Hall, Winsford; b. Huyton, near Liverpool, 1 Oct. 1895; educ. Charterhouse, and Trinity College,. Cambridge, where he was a member of the O.T.C., but left to join the R.N.V.R. as a Private, 12 May, 1915, and was gazetted Sub-Lieut. 14 July, 1915; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli from Dec., 1915; took part in the evacuation in Jan. 1016; proceeded to France June, 1916, and was killed in action on the outskirts of Beaucourt Village 13 Nov. following. Buried at Hamel. While at Charterhouse he was House Monitor; won both House and Harpie Colours, and swam for his House; unm.

[1882] Major. Born 21 August 1863, 2nd son of Thomas and Rebecca Newson, of Marlow House, Kingston-on-Thames; husband of Francesca C. P. Newson, of Alexandra Club, 12, Grosvenor St., London. Baptised 26 August 1864 in East Molesey, Surrey. He was at Charterhouse [W] 1878 - 1882. He went up to Trinity College Cambridge. He served in the South African War 1899 - 1902. In the 1881 census he was aged 17, born East Molesey, Surrey, a school boarder, resident Sandy Lane, Godalming, Guildford, Surrey. In the Great War he served with 2nd/3rd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). He died of illness while on active service on 15 April 1917. Aged 53. His grave is at Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, Seine-Maritime, France. Plot IV. Row A. Grave 1. See also Charterhouse School, Goldalming, Surrey

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

NEWSON Walter Alexander of 63 Ashley-gardens Westminster Middlesex major His Majesty's Army died 15 April 1917 in France on active service Probate London 26 May to Emily Ann Eugenie Newson spinster.
Effects £171 9s. 4d.

[1905] Old Etonian. Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Rifle brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) attached Somerset Light Infantry. Killed in action 11th February 1915. Aged 28. Son of William and Constance Penn, of 34, Wilton Crescent, Victoria, London. Buried in RIFLE HOUSE CEMETERY, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. Plot IV. Row H. Grave 6. See also Lords MCC WW1

Extract from The Bond of Sacrifice Volume 2:

2nd LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY MARK PENN, 6th BATTN. (RESERVE) THE RIFLE BRIGADE (THE PRINCE CONSORTS OWN), attd. 1st BATTN. PRINCE ALBERT'S (SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY), was the youngest son of William and Constance Penn, of St. Alban's Court, Dover.
2nd Lieutenant Penn was born on the 20th April, 1886, and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He obtained his commission shortly after the outbreak of the war in August, 1914, and was killed instantaneously by a sniper while directing trench works near Pleogsteert, Flanders, on the 11th February, 1915.

Richardson, John Sherbrooke. b. 9 Jan., 1877. (Girdlestoneites); Cricket XI, 1895; Left C.Q., 1895. Trin. Coll., Camb.; M.A. -Solicitor, 1901; Partner in firm of Messrs. Cornell & Richardson.

Richardson, John Watson. b. 18 July, 1882. (Weekites); Left C.Q., 1900. Trin. Coll., Camb., B.A.-Articled Clerk to a Solicitor.

J. W. Richardson, Esq., Stone Grove, Sheffield.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1917:

RICHARDSON John Watson of 105 Osborne-road Sheffield died 3 May 1917 in France killed in action Probate London 17 July to Elizabeth Blakeney Richardson widow Mary Eleanor Richardson spinster and Samuel Roberts the younger solicitor.
Effects £4407 9s. 9d.

Second Lieutenant Sergius Holland Smith © Lives of the First World War

Second Lieutenant, 4th Battalion attached 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed in action 24 November 1915. Born 7 December 1891. In the 1901 census he was aged 9, born Russia, son of Berthold H and Nadejda mith, resident Kingsnympton Park, Kingsnympton, South Molton, Devon. in the 1911 census he was aged 19, born Russia boarding with his mother Nadejda Smith at 5, Gwendoline Terrace, Woolacombe, Mortehoe, Devon. Educated Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge University. No known grave. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 73 to 76.See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1916:

SMITH Sergius Holland of 27 The Boltons Kensington Middlesex died 24 November 1915 in Flanders Administration London 26 May to Nadejda Smith widow. Effects £163 18s. 1d.

[1901] [Not listed on CWGC] Captain, Madras Guards, Corps of Engineers, Madras Railway Corps (Indian Defence Force). Died of enteric fever while stationed in Madras 3 December 1917. Born 14 June 1883. Second son of Alfred Taylor, of Startston, Norfolk. Went up from Charterhouset to Trinity College, Cambridge. a civil engineer on the Madras and South Mahratta Railway. In 1908 he became a Captain in the Madras Volunteer Corps. See also Charterhouse School

Extract from the Charterhouse Register, Cricket Quarter 1897:

[1901] Second Lieutenant. Born 23 July 1882, only son of James and Henrietta Grant Tennant, of Fairlie, Ayrshire. He was at Charterhouse [g] 1895 - 1901. He won an Exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge. He was later with Alexander Fergusson & Co. of Glasgow, Lead Manufacturers. In the Great War he was commissioned into the Seaforth Highlanders and joined 4th Bn. He was killed in action on 9 May 1915. Aged 33. No known grave. He is commemorated on LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 38 and 39. See also Charterhouse School

[1897] Lieutenant. Born 8 March 1879, 1st son of John and Margaret Tennant, of 19, The Boltons, West Brompton, London, husband of the Hon. Winifred Chapple Norton, 3rd daughter of 5th Lord Grantley. He was at Charterhouse [D] 1893 - 1896. He went up to Trinity College, Cambridge and became a rancher in Argentina. In the Great War he joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians). He was killed in action on 25 May 1915. His grave is at CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot IV. Row B. Grave 14. See also Charterhouse School

Note: Lord Strathcona’s Horse was formed in Canada in 1900 for service in the Boer War. After that war’s end it disbanded, then re-formed in 1909. At the outbreak of the Great War the Regiment was mobilised and began its training in England. By 1915 it was serving as infantry in France.

[1902] Sergt., R. Fusiliers (P.S. Bn.); Major, 6th Battalion attached 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own). Died of wounds 10 April 1918. Aged 34. Born 24 December 1883 at Yocldeton, Shrewsbury. Son of the Rev. John and Mrs. Thornton; husband of Norah Thornton, of Ivyhouse Farm, East Malling, Kent. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) and Military Cross (M.C.). Buried in ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot III. Row E. Grave 29. See also Charterhouse School

Extract from the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1882:

[1909] Sub-Lieutenant, Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Awarded the Victoria Cross (V.C.). Killed in action in Gallipoli 6 May 1915. Aged 24. Son of Rev. Dr. Tisdall, D.D. (Vicar of Deal), and his wife, Marian L. Tisdall, of St. George's Vicarage, Deal, Kent. Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. (Double First Class Classical Honours); Chancellor's Gold Medallist, Cambridge; First Class Clerk, Civil Service (Treasury). No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 8 to 16.

An extract from The London Gazette, No. 29530, dated 31st March, 1916, records the following

During the landing from the S.S. River Clyde at V Beach, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, on the 25th April, 1915, Sub. Lieut. Tisdall, hearing wounded men on the beach calling for assistance, jumped into the water, and, pushing a boat in front of him, went to their rescue. He was, however, obliged to obtain help, and took with him on two trips, Ldg. Smn. Malia; and on other trips, Ch. P.O. Perring and Ldg. Smn. Curtis and Parkinson. In all, Sub. Lieut. Tisdall made four or five trips between the ship and the shore, and was thus responsible for rescuing several wounded men under heavy and accurate fire. Owing to the fact that Sub. Lieut. Tisdall and the platoon under his orders were on detached service at the time, and that this officer was killed in action on the 6th May, it has only now been possible to obtain complete information as to the individuals who took part in this gallant act. Of these, Ldg. Smn. Fred Curtis, DEV/1899/C, has been missing since the 4th June, 1915." (Since confirmed "missing in action", commemorated on the Helles Memorial)

[1899] [Alan Hawree Tompson on SDGW] Second Lieutenant, Special reserve attached to 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Killed in action 27 September 1915. Aged 35. Embarked France 15 August 1915. Son of John Alfred and Marie Louise Tompson; husband of Gladys Tompson (nee Bullough), of Glenlyon. In the 1881 census he was aged 1, son of John Alfred and Marie Louise Clifford Tompson, born Denham, Buckinghamshire, resident The Priory, Denham. In the 1891 census he was a son, aged 11, born Denham, resident The Priory, Denham. In the 1901 census he is a son, aged 21, born Denham, resident Dromenagh (?), Iver, Buckinghamshire. No known grave. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL. Panel 5 to 7. See also Glen Lyon War Memorial and Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

From the Charterhouse Register Vol 2, Cricket Quarter 1894:

Note from the Times newspaper of 20 October 1915 under heading "Fallen Officers."

Lieutenant Alan Tompson of 4th battalion Grenadier Guards who was killed on September 27th was the son of Mr. John Arthur Tompson of Dromenagh, Iver Heath. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity Cambridge where he took a scholarship and several distinctions. He was well known in British East Africa, having gone there 11 years ago and taken up land. He served 6 months in the East Africa Mounted Rifles.

Extract from Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 about Alan Hawtin Tompson :

Name: Alan Hawtin Tompson
College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1899
Born: 23 Jan 1880

Adm. sizar at TRINITY, Sept. 30, 1899. [2nd] s. of John Alfred, of ‘Dromenagh,’ Iver Heath, Bucks. (and Marie Louise Clifford, dau. of T. Kimber). B. Jan. 23, 1880, at Denham, Uxbridge. School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1899; B.A. 1902. A sheep-farmer in Nairobi, British East Africa. Married, 1915, Gladys, dau. of John Bullough, of Kinloch Castle, Rhum. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Second Lieut., East African Mounted Rifies and Grenadier Guards); killed in action, Sept. 27, 1915. Brother of the next. (The Times, Oct. 20, 1915.)

Extract from Bucks Herald - Saturday 23 October 1915, page 8:

Killed.— Lieut. Alan Tompson, 4th Batt. Grenadier Guards (killed in action September 27), was the second son of the late John Arthur Tompson, of Dromenagh, Iver Heath.

Extract from Bucks Herald - Saturday 23 October 1915, page 8:

Extract from Windsor and Eton Express - Saturday 23 October 1915, page 3:

IVER HEATH.

Killed in Action.

Lieutenant Alan Tompson, 4th Grenadier Guards, who was killed on September 27, was the second son of Mr. John Arthur Tompson, of Dromenagh, Iver Heath. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity, Cambridge, where he took a scholarship and several distinctions. He was well-known in British East Africa, having gone there 11 years ago and taken up land. He was one of the first to see the great possibilities of that country. He served for six months in the East African Rifles before returning to England, where he joined the Grenadier Guards, going to France two months later.

[1881] Brevet Colonel. Born 1 March 1863, 1st son of Sir Anthony Crosdil Weldon, husband of Lady Winifred Bruce (nee Varty-Rogers) Weldon of 17A, Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, London, married Janury to March Quarter 1902 in St. George Hanover Square Registration District, London. He was at Charterhouse [P] 1877-1879, then at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1885 He was commissioned into the Leinster Regiment. He followed a regular army career and served in the South African War, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). In 1900 he succeeded his father as 6th Baronet and returned to civilian life. From 1908 he was State Steward and Chamberlain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and in 1913 Lieutenant of County Kildare. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.). In the Great War he served with 4th Bn., Leinster Regiment. He died in a private hospital in Dublin on 27 June 1917, aged 54. According to his obituary in The Times, he commanded a battalion of his Regiment during the ‘Irish rebellion’, presumably the 1916 Easter uprising. His name appears on the C.W.G.C. Register. According to the Sunday Mirror, Sunday 1 July 1917, "He had seen many years of military service, and was a fine sportsman." The Charterhouse Register states him to have died ‘on active service’ He is buried at ATHY (ST. JOHN'S) OLD CEMETERY, Republic of Ireland, in the family vault. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

Extract from the Charterhouse Register, Long Quarter 1877:

[1908] Captain, 2nd (Wessex) Field Company, Royal Engineers. (T.F.). M - Mentioned in Despatches. Killed in action 15 February 1915. Aged 24. Recommended for V.C. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Melville Wills, of Bracken Hill, Leigh Woods, Bristol, and of "Killilan," Ross-shire; husband of Beryl (Daisy) E. Wills, of Birdcombe Court, Wraxall, Somerset. Educated at Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge. In the 1891 census he was newborn, born Bristol, son of Walter M and Louisa G Wills, resident Alfarnaes, Elton Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire. In the 1901 census he was aged 10, born Bristol, Gloucestershire, son of Walter M and Louisa G Wills, resident Bracken Hill, Leigh Woods, Long Ashton, Somerset. In the 1911 census he was aged 20, born Bristol, a Cambridge Undergraduate, boarding at Tynycornel Hotel, Talyllyn Corris, Talyllyn, Merionethshire, Wales. No known grave. Commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 9. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey and also All Saints Church War Memorial, Wraxall Avon

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916, volume 2, page 513-514:

CAPTAIN ROBERT BRUCE MELVILLE WILLS, 2nd WESSEX FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS (T.F.), serving with an Imperial Service Unit, was the second son of W. Melville Wills, of Leigh Woods, Somersetshire, and Killilan, Ross-shire.

He was born on the 26th May, 1890, at Clifton, Bristol, and was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was in the O.T.C. for three years (1908-11), and where he took an Honours Degree in the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the R.E. (T.F.) in June, 1911, and passed first on the list of his year after his course of instruction at Chatham ; he was promoted Lieutenant in September, 1913, and Captain in September, 1914. He was killed on the 15th February, 1915, at St. Eloi, while helping to carry out a wounded officer, who lay, the sole occupant, in a trench Captain Wills and his men had been sent to repair.

Captain Wills married Beryl Emmeline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Sutton, of Clifton, Bristol, and left one daughter, Ione Bruce Melville, born after her father's death in July, 1915. Captain Wills' recreations were stalking, shooting, fishing and hunting.

[1895] Major, Royal Field Artillery. Died of wounds 10 April 1918. Aged 42. Born 26 December 1876 at Chatham. Son of George Winch and Mary Bluett Winch; husband of Gertrude Dale (nee Uzielli) Winch, of "Ridgecote", Sevenoaks, married January to March Quarter 1904 in Marylebone Registration District, London, Kent. In the 1881 census he was aged 4, born Chatham, Kent, son of George Winch, resident 2, New Road, Chatham, Medway, Kent. In the 1891 census he was aged 14, born Chatham, Kent, a scholar, son of George and Mary Winch, resident The Terrace, Sea View, St Helens, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight & Hampshire. In the 1901 censu he was aged 24, born Chatham, Kent, an underwriter for Lloyds, resident, with his brother Arthur, at 26, The Avenue, Beckenham, Bromley, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 34, born Chatham Kent, an Insurance broker at lloyds, married to Gertrude Dale Winch weith two sons, resident Ridgecote, Vine Court Road, Sevenoaks, Kent. Awarded the Distinguished Service order (D.S.O.). Buried in HAVERSKERQUE BRITISH CEMETERY, Nord, France. Row E. Grave 16. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey

From the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1891:

[1905] Lieutenant, 36th Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 29 October 1914. Aged 27. Son of the Rev. J. W. Wynne-Jones, of Tre Iorwerth, Valley, Anglesey. In the 1891 census he was aged 3, son of John William Wynee-Jones, resident The Vicarage, Constantine Road, Llanbeblig, Carnarvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales. In the 1901 census he was aged 13, born Caernarvonshire, Wales, a school boarder, resident Charterhouse Block, Godalming Rural, Guildford, Surrey. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 9. See also Charterhouse School, Godalmng, Surrey and Caernarfon

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died In The Great War 1914-1916, volume 1, page 207:

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 1, page 210:

WYNNE-JONES, MORYS, Lieut., 54th Field Coy. Royal Engineers, only s. of the Rev. John William Wynne-Jones, of Trelorwerth, Anglesey, Vicar of Carnarvon, by his wife, the Hon. Jessie Frances née Bruce, dau. of Henry Austin, 1st Baron Aberdare; b. Carnarvon, 13 May, 1887; educ. Fonthill, Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he rowed in his college boat and won his oar. He graduated B.A. 1909, and after passing his A.M. Inst. C.E. examination, was for nearly two years an engineer on the Cardiff Railway, under the late Lord Merthyr, being subsequently appointed one of the engineers of the Mexican Eagle Oil Co., at Tampico, Mexico. He had joined the Special Reserve of Officers of the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut. 26 June, 1912, and on the outbreak of war, without waiting to be summoned, he at once returned to England. He was promoted Lieut. 4 Oct. 1914 ; left for France 4 Oct. 1914, with the 7th Division, and was killed in action at Zandevoorde, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 29th of the same month ; unm. Capt. (now Major) Guy Williams, commanding 54th Field Coy., wrote that they were called upon to counter-attack with the Yorkshire Regt. at a point where the Germans had broken through the British firing line. Lieut. Wynne-Jones was leading his section when the enemy's shrapnel found them, and he was killed instantaneously. The Coy. feel his loss very much. He understood his men and his job. I miss him personally as an excellent and most efficient subaltern and as a good friend." Capt. R. M. Burgoyne, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, now a prisoner in Germany, also wrote of two engineer officers, Lieut. Wynne-Jones and Lieut. J. M. Smeathman, who, he said, "Did a lot of good work for them. both as engineers and infantry, always being ready to take a rifle and bear a hand. They were two very gallant fellows."

Extract from London Evening Standard - Saturday 7 November 1914, page 6:

Second Lieut. Morys Wynne-Jones was killed in action on October 29. He was the only son of the Rev. J. Wynne-Jones, vicar of Carnarvon, and nephew of Lord Aberdare.