The Roll of Honour. (continued 25)

John F. Hodgkinson.

HODGKINSON, SAMUEL CHARLES LINDSEY, Lieut., Royal Australian Navy, H.M.A.S. Australia, 3rd s. of the late Edmund Hodgkinson, of Baslow, J.P., by his wife, Elizabeth Millicent, dau. of the late Thomas Heathcote, of Eyam, co. Derby; b. Baslow, co. Derby, 9 Oct. 1886; educ. Lady Manners Grammar School, Bakewell, Derbyshire, and on leaving school was apprenticed to the Merchant Service, and made several voyages to South America and Australia, obtaining his master mariner’s certificate, 29 July, 1910. On 25 Aug. 1905, he entered the Royal Naval Reserve as Midshipman, and served in H.M. ships Psyche, Scylla, and Irresistible, and when the Australian Navy was formed was appointed Lieut. 31 May, 1912. He served for some time in H.M.A. ships Protector, Pioneer, and Yarra, and for about 12 months acted as assistant navigation officer at Garden Island, Sydney (H.M.A.S. Penguin). He was appointed to H.M.A.S. Australia, flagship of the Australian squadron, on 1 April, 1914, with seniority, 1 Dec. 1912, and took part in the capture and occupation of the German Islands in the Pacific, by the Australian and New Zealand forces, and died at the Royal Naval Hospital, South Queensferry, 1 Aug. 1915, after undergoing a second operation rendered necessary by internal injuries, sustained while at gun practice in Jan.; unm.

Samuel C. L. Hodgkinson.

HODGSON, FRANCIS FAITH, Capt., 84th Punjabis, yst. s. of Henry Hill Hodgson, of Escote, Shortlands, Kent, J.P., formerly of Brathay House, Anerley, S.E.; b. Brathay House, Anerley, 14 Oct. 1880; educ. Arlington House (Mr. Burmann Prep. School), and Tonbridge, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. Indian Army, 28 July, 1900; and was attd. to the Cheshires for his first year and joined the 27th Madras Infantry (reconstituted in 1902 as the 84th Punjabis), 6 Oct. 1901. He became Double Company Officer, 16 May, 1902; was promoted Lieut., 28 Oct. 1902, and Capt., 28 July, 1909; served in the operations in the Mohmund Country, N.W. Frontier, India, 1908, including the engagement at Kargha, and received the medal with clasp. On the outbreak of war, he left for France with the Indian Expeditionary Force, under Lt.-Gen. Sir James Willcocks, 1 Nov. 1914; being attd. to the Headquarters staff of the Bareilly Brigade, in the Meerut Division as Brigade machine-gun officer, and died in the Field Ambulance at Vielle Chapelle, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received at Festubert the previous day. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 31 May [London Gazette, 23 June], 1915. Capt. Hodgson passed the Staff College with honours, 1914. He m. at Rawal Pindi, 5 March, 1914, Katherine Anna, dau. of Frederick Rowlandson, of Madras [and a descendant in the fifth degree of Elizabeth Fry], and had a dau., Katherine, b. 13 March, 1915.

Francis Faith Hodgson.

HODGSON, FREDERICK, Chief E.R.A., 1st Class (Pensioner, 16328), 141300, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HODGSON, GEOFFREY MITCHELL, Private, No. A. 10993, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, s. of the Rev. John Henry Hodgson, Vicar of Swanmore, Bishop’s Waltham, Hants, by his wife, Frances Helena, dau. of Capt. Clayton Mitchell, R.N.; b. St. Swithun’s Rectory, Winchester, 10 June, 1892; educ. Downsend, Ashtead; and Haileybury College; went to Canada in Nov. 1910, and settled at Montreal, as a Bank Clerk; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined Princess Patricia’s L.I. in Oct. 1914; came over with the 2nd Contingent, 8 June, 1915; went to France, 16 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Frise, 14 Oct. 1915; unm.

Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

HODGSON, GEORGE GRAHAM, Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of George Graham Hodgson, of Curfew House, Chertsey, co. Surrey, M.D., by his wife, Josephine, dau. of Joseph Iredale, of Carlisle; b. Devonshire House, Bootle, near Liverpool, 20 March, 1889; educ. Mulgrave Castle School (Rev. the Marquis of Normanby), Whitby, Rugby School and the Army House, Wiesbaden, and received his first commission in the 7th (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers. Passing out third on the list, he was, on 7 Dec. 1910, gazetted to the 2nd Berkshires, then stationed at Meerut. He served in India for four years, and was promoted Lieut. 10 Sept. 1913. After the outbreak of war he left India with his battn. in Sept. 1914, reaching England, 22 Oct. 1914, and after a few hours’ leave with his parents, went to the Western Front on 6 Nov. Subsequently he was attacked with pneumonia, necessitating his return to England, but was able to rejoin his regt. in the early part of April. He was for a time at the Base, near Havre, and on reaching the firing line found the Berkshires guarding the same trenches they had under their charge when he was invalided home. There was, however, a sad change in the personnel. Of the officers but two remained of those with whom he had served in India. He was killed in action at Fromelles, near Festubert ridges, on 9 May, 1915. Ordered to take a strongly fortified German trench, situated scarcely a couple of hundred yards away, he moved forward at the head of his company. When something like half the distance had been traversed he was hit in the hip or groin. The wound was bandaged by a Private, and he was urged to make his way to the rear. This advice he declined. His orders were to take the trench. On getting over the parapet they were met by a murderous fire from shrapnel and machine guns. They struggled on and arrived at a disused trench about 30 yards from the German position. Here Lieut. Graham Hodgson rallied the remnant of his men, together with some of the Rifle Brigade, and led them in the final attack on the enemy trench, in which his body was ultimately found. The trench was captured, but had to be evacuated later in the day, and his body was never recovered. Confirmation of his death was received from a German officer, who on 24 Nov. 1915, returned a photograph on which an address had been written in Lieut. G. Graham Hodgson’s handwriting (in English and German), saying: “In the event of my death will the finder kindly send the enclosed to the address given.” The German officer wrote: “It was found on the body of an English officer. Perhaps it will be of value to the person to whom it belongs.” Officially returned as “Missing, believed killed,” his commanding officer wrote: “I am afraid there is no doubt now that your son was killed in the fight of 9 May. The only definite information I have is that he was hit in the hip or groin while leading his men against the German trenches. A private soldier bandaged him up with a field dressing, and your son said he could manage. Nothing more has been seen of him since, and from all accounts the rifle and machine gun fire was so intense that anyone moving must have been hit several times. Since the action it has only been possible to get in those who fell quite close to our original breastwork, as no ground was held in front of that after the day itself. I am sorry to say we have several similar cases, and though everything has been done to trace the officers we can get no further. To the best of my belief two or three were actually killed in the German trench, which was temporarily taken. I am so very sorry that all this uncertainty exists. For some time it was hoped that some of our officers had been taken back during the confusion, but no trace of them can now be found in the field ambulances and clearing hospitals. Your son used to be in my company when we first came out, and I know how much we shall all miss him.” Out of 24 officers of the Berkshires who went into action that day, only four came out. Lieut. Graham Hodgson was an expert German linguist and scholar. He was unm. A memorial tablet, erected to his memory in Chertsey Parish Church, was unveiled by Col. Sir Lorenzo Dundas, K.C.B., on 19 Dec. 1915. His yr. brother, Harold Kingston Graham Hodgson, served as a Motor Cyclist Despatch Rider in the early days of the war until wounded by a shell explosion, and is now a Lieut. in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

George Graham Hodgson.

HODGSON, PHILIP ORMISTON, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 4th s. of the late Lieut. Thomas Tarleton Hodgson, R.N., and only s. by his 2nd wife, Georgina Julia Helen (11, Barne Park, Teignmouth, South Devon), 4th dau. of the late James Ormiston McWilliam, M.D., C.B., R.N., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Surgeon R.N., Medical Inspector of H.M. Customs, and gdson. of the late Rev. William Hodgson, D.D., Master of Peterhouse College, Cambridge; b. London, 8 March, 1887; educ. Stubbington and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; volunteered and applied for a commission on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the East Lancashires, 15 Aug. 1914. He joined the 3rd Battn. at Plymouth, 8 Oct. following; went to the Front, 19 Feb., and was transferred there to the 2nd Battn. and died in No. 25 Field Ambulance, 13 March, 1915, from wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, while gallantly leading a charge against a farmhouse held by the enemy with machine-guns. He was buried in Estaires Cemetery, France; unm.

Philip Ormiston Hodgson.

HODGSON, ROBERT, Private, No. 10571, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of the late Edward Hodgson, by his wife, Mary; b. Auckland Park, co. Durham, 22 Dec. 1893; enlisted, 14 Dec. 1909; went to France, 29 Dec. 1914, and died, 8 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Doorstraat; unm.

Robert Hodgson.

HODSDON, HARRY, Sergt., No. 19, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Henry Hodsdon, of 33, Concannon Road, Brixton; b. Islington, 22 March, 1885; educ. Mathias Road Board School; joined the Post Office Rifles in 1903; became Sergt., volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed at the Battle of Festubert, 21–26 May, 1915, in which his Battn. greatly distinguished itself; unm.

HODSOLL, GEORGE BERTRAM POLLOCK, Capt., 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve), the Suffolk Regt., 2nd s. of Charles Maxfield Hodsoll, of Farm House, Capel, Surrey, formerly of Loose Court, Kent [descended from the old Kent family of Hodsoll]; by his wife, Georgiana Mary, elder dau. of George Kennet Pollock, granddau. of Sir David Pollock, Chief Justice of Bombay, and grandniece of Field-Marshal Sir George Pollock, of Khyber Pass celebrity, b. Loose Court, co. Kent, 18 June, 1875; educ. Maidstone School and University College, Oxford; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridgeshire Militia, then the 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., Dec. 1902, and subsequently transferred to the 3rd Battn. Special Reserve, Suffolk Regt., and obtained his company 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Oct. following, and was there attd. to the 1st Cheshires, and was killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres, 7 Nov. 1914, while gallantly leading his men in a counter-attack. The Adjutant, Capt. L. Frost, wrote: “On 7 Nov. about three o’clock in the afternoon, the regt. on our left fell back and the Germans came through their trenches, so Capt. Hodsoll, Mr. Anderson and myself, with the supports of our regt. made a counter-attack. Your husband had not gone more than 100 yards when he, poor fellow, was killed, he died instantaneously and could not have suffered any pain at all. He died giving his life for his country at a very critical moment, if this counter-attack had failed, it would have meant the whole line coming back. He died a glorious and magnificent death. Capt. Pollock Hodsoll was buried the same evening on the ground where he died, in a wood near a chateau about 3½ miles east of Ypres. A wooden cross with his name was placed on the grave.” Capt. Pollock Hodsoll was well known to all followers of Association Football, having played many years for both the Casuals and Corinthians, touring with these teams both on the Continent and in South Africa, and captained the Army team on several occasions. He was much interested in political matters, and frequently spoke in public on this subject, and in support of the Unionist cause, and in favour of National Military Service. He m. at Edinburgh, 1 June, 1914, Olive Margaret, eldest dau. of the Rev. George Milne Rae, of Edinburgh, D.D.; s.p.

George B. P. Hodsoll.

HODSON, DANIEL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10644), 210650, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HODSON, EDWARD WILFRID, Rifleman, No. 298, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Gilbert Hodson, of Broomfield Avenue, Palmer’s Green, N., Secretary of Public Company, by his wife, Alice, dau. of George F. Snook; b. Highgate, N., 12 July, 1891; educ. Enfield Grammar School; was Junior Salesman in the Mantle Department of a London Wholesale House (Bradbury, Greatorex & Co., Ltd.) before the war; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 2 Sept. 1914, went to France, March, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Wandsworth, 22 May following, of wounds received on the 14th, near Verlounhock, during the Second Battle of Ypres, where his battalion greatly distinguished itself, and sustained terrible casualties, losing in one day 170 men; unm. Owing to the heavy losses which the L.R.B.’s machine gun section had suffered, Rifleman Hodson had been attached on 5 May to the crew of one of the guns, and a comrade wrote: “That one machine gun was soon put out of action by a shell, but another was soon put into its place. It was while standing by this second gun that a shell exploded which killed several of the fellows, and so badly wounded Wilfrid. I understand he calmly took the bandages from his pocket and put them ready for the fellows to bind him up. It is probably this coolness that misled our men, and although we knew he was hit in many places, his extraordinary cheerfulness and pluck gave us high hopes of his ultimate recovery.”

Edward Wilfrid Hodson.

HODSON, HUBERT BERNARD, Private, No. 15256, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., 6th s. of the late Rev. Thomas Hodson, M.A., Rector of Oddington, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Glos., by his wife, Catherine Anne, dau. of the late Rev. T. R. Maskew, Rector of Thornbury, Hereford; b. The Slad Vicarage, near Stroud, 22 June, 1892; educ. Ormond House Preparatory School, Dursley, and Cheltenham College, where he gained a classical scholarship, and the Hornby Prize for French; went to Canada for the second time in March, 1914; joined the 22nd Canadian Light Horse on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; transferred at his own request to the P.P.C.L.I. in April, 1915; went to France the same month, and was killed instantly in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, by shell fire; unm. His coy. commander wrote that: “No braver life was ever given for his country. Ever since he joined the regiment he has shown the true spirit of the soldier, he was always ready for any duty, no matter how trying or dangerous, and generally did a little more than his share. On several occasions he was placed in positions where not only courage was required but judgment of the situation and quick action, and he never failed us.”

Hubert Bernard Hodson.

HODSON, ROBERT, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21974, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOFFMAN, FRANCIS EDWARD CHARLES, Seaman, R.N.R., 3257B, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOGAN, JOHN, Seaman, R.N.R., 2505 B., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOGAN, ROBERT GARRETT ROCHE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Royal Berkshire Regt., only s. of William John Alexander Hogan, of Saharanpur, United Provinces, India, Civil Surgeon, and his wife, Evelyn Christine, dau. of William FitzGaskin Roche, of Mallow, co. Cork; b. Fyzabad, United Provinces, India; educ. St. Joseph’s Irish Christian Brothers, India; Wimbledon College, Edge Hill, Surrey; and qualified for the Army with Mr. Bullin-Spicer, Army Coach, Eastbourne. He was gazetted to the Special Reserve of Officers 11 March, 1914, was attached to the 1st Royal Berkshire Regt. at Aldershot. He received his commission in the regulars 2 Oct. the same year, serving with the 3rd battn. at Portsmouth on home defence till transferred to the 2nd Battn. Royal Berks for service in France, Feb. 1915. He was killed in action, being shot through the heart while leading his platoon in an attack at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He was buried in an orchard a few yards from where he fell, about 200 yards east of the village of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Letters from his brother officers speak in the highest terms of his efficiency and great courage. One wrote: “He fell with a bullet through the heart while leading his platoon in an attack at Neuve Chapelle on 12 March at 5 p.m. He was a good lad, so fearless and brave—most popular with everyone.”

Robert G. R. Hogan.

HOGG, ALBERT GEORGE WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 932, 12th Battn. (The Rangers), The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late George Hogg, of London, Merchant, by his wife, Julia (11, Cornwall Gardens, Willesden Green, N.W.), dau. of William Hill, of Nottingham Street, Marylebone; b. London, W.; 3 Jan. 1888; educ. Brondesbury College and the Polytechnic, Regent Street, W.; joined the Rangers, 1909, and was secretary of the Polytechnic Coy. of that Corps; retired 1913, but rejoined on outbreak of war; went to France, 23 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried in a little cemetery just outside Ypres. Lieut. G. F. Rickett wrote: “As an officer of the Polytechnic Coy. of the Rangers I am writing to tell you of some incidents that took place in the fighting of 20 and 21 Feb. We were ordered to go up to some very exposed trenches at dusk and remain until just before daybreak. We succeeded in taking up our position and remained all night under a fairly heavy fire, but managed all right and got away quite safely to our dug-outs in rear just before dawn. We stayed in those dug-outs all day and again at dusk took up our position at the trench. We were relieved by another battn. during the night, and I regret to say our second attempt was not so successful as the first, for we had several casualties. Amongst those killed I grieve to say was your son and my friend. He was killed in action, doing his duty, and I am thankful to say his death was instantaneous.”

Albert G. W. Hogg.

HOGG, ANDREW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9574), S.S. 106959, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HOGG, HARRY PAUL, Private, No. 2633, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), only s. of James Hogg, of Ellangowan, Bo’ness, J.P., partner in the firm of Messrs. Love, Stewart & Co., Shipowners and Brokers, Bo’ness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Peter Hastie, of Grangemouth; b. Bo’ness, 5 July, 1894; educ. Bo’ness Academy, and on leaving there entered the office of Messrs. Love, Stewart & Co.; on the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted in the 9th Highland Light Infantry, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France early in Jan. 1915, and died at Lillers, 1 April, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert, 31 March; unm. Buried at Lillers. A comrade, L.-Corpl. Herbert Bain, wrote: “Ever since the day we joined the ranks, Harry and I have been together and in danger many times, and I could always look to him as a cheerful and bright comrade, optimistic at all times, and always looking on the sunny side. Hence he endeared himself to all those of his comrades with whom he came in contact.”

Harry Paul Hogg.

HOGG, IAN GRAHAM, D.S.O., Lieut.-Col., 4th Hussars, 2nd s. of the late Quintin Hogg, founder of the London Polytechnic; and grandson of Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Bt., P.C.; b. Whitehall, London, S.W., 2 Feb. 1875; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 15 Jan. 1896; transferred to the 4th Hussars, Feb. following, and was promoted Lieut., 5 Sept. 1896; Capt., 3 Nov. 1900; Major, 7 July, 1904, and Lieut.-Col. 13 May, 1913; was employed in Niger Coast Protectorate, 23 Sept. to 31 Dec. 1899, and with the West African Frontier Force, 1 Jan. 1900, to 23 May, 1905; served (1) in South African War, 1901 first as Commandant at Wellington, then attached to the Intelligence Department and later on was one of Sir Bruce Hamilton’s Staff Officers: took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, June-Oct. 1901, in the Transvaal, Oct. and in Cape Colony, Nov.-Dec. 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); (2) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1901: operations in the Ishan country (medal with clasp); (3) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1901–2: Aro Expedition (clasp); (4) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1902: in command of operations in the Ibekwe country (clasp); (5) in West Africa (Northern Nigeria) 1903: Kano-Sokoto Campaign (clasp); (6) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1903 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 28 Oct. 1904], awarded the D.S.O.); (7) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1903–4: in command of expeditions against towns of Osea, Oriri and Ndoto (clasp); (8) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1904: in command of operations against natives of Asaba Hinterland and in those in the Kwale country (mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette, 25 Aug. 1905], Brevet Major, clasp); and (9) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1904–5: in command of operations in the Irua Patrol on the West of the Niger. After leaving Nigeria, in 1905 he rejoined his regiment in India, and went with it to South Africa. He passed through the Staff College in 1910–12 and after filling a Staff appointment at the War Office was appointed Lieut.-Col. of the 4th Hussars, in May, 1913. He went with his regt. to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was mortally wounded during the retreat from Mons on 1 Sept. He was shot through the lungs in some wood fighting just north of the little village of Haramont, near Soissons. His Second in Command wrote: “We were retiring, and the Germans were following so close that our men were often only 10 to 20 yds. distant from the enemy. Ian commanded the rearguard and in spite of the protests of his Staff insisted on being himself the last to withdraw. Actually, when shot, he was standing in an open clearing, signalling with his hat for some men to retire, and though urged by two of his officers to retire, he declined to budge till certain that all his men were back.” They carried him to the village of Haramont and at his express command left him there, the enemy entering the village ten minutes after our troops had left it. He died the next day, 2 Sept., 24 hours after he was wounded, and was buried in the Haramont Churchyard.

HOGG, IVAN DAYRELL MEREDITH, Capt., 101st Grenadiers, Indian Army, 3rd and yst. s. of General George Forbes Hogg, C.B., Indian Staff Corps, by his wife, Elizabeth Maria Chevallier (Cromer House, Brentwood), dau. of Harry Teverson Purkis, of Abbot’s Hall, Sturmer, Essex; b. London, W., 2 April, 1884; educ. United Services College, Westward Ho and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Indian Army (unattd. list), 21 Jan. 1903, and was attd. first to the 2nd Oxfordshire L.I., and then to the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; joined the 101st Grenadiers, 18 April, 1904; promoted Lieut., 21 April, 1905, and Capt., 21 Jan. 1912; went to German East Africa with the Indian Expeditionary Force and was killed in action there, 4 Nov. 1914, during the attack on Tanga. He m. at the Cathedral, Allahabad, U.P., India, 28 Dec. 1911, Bridget Eyre (18, Goldington Avenue, Bedford), yst. dau. of the late William Henry Lloyd, of Droitwich; s.p.

Ivan Dayrell M. Hogg.

HOGG, JAMES, Private, No. 2553, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of William Hogg, of 61, Main Street, Armadale, Coal Miner; b. West Calder, co. Midlothian, 16 June, 1892; educ. there; enlisted 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., was wounded in action at Hill 60, 14 May, 1915, and died in Hospital on the 20th; unm.

HOLBECH, WILLIAM HUGH, of Farnborough Hall, co. Warwick, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, elder s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Walter Henry Holbech, King’s Royal Rifles, and one of H.M.’s Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (who served in Red River Expedition, 1870; was Brigade Major, Egyptian Campaign, 1882, and was mentioned in Despatches, and died v.p., 6 March, 1901), by his wife Mary Caroline (The Grange, Farnborough, Banbury), widow of Lieut.-Col. Sir George Clay, 3rd Bart., and 4th dau. of Sir John Walrond Walrond, 1st Bart.; b. Murray Bay, Canada, 18 Aug. 1882; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; suc. his grandfather in the family property, 20 March, 1901; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Scots Guards, 30 April, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 7 March, 1904; retired 20 Feb. 1907; and passed into the Reserve of Officers; joined the 3rd Scots Guards on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, transferred to his old Battn., the 2nd, 2 Oct., and went to France with it as part of the Seventh Division, two days later; reached the firing line on the 18th, took part in the first Battle of Ypres; was severely wounded at Kruseid on the night of the 25th, and died in the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. Col. Bolton wrote: “From the time Willie joined us at Southampton until he was mortally wounded, he was one of the most cheery, unselfish, capable, and keenest of the officers in my Battn. We all deplore his loss more than I can say. I look back on both him and poor young Cottrell Dormer as two of the best officers in every way.” Major Cator wrote: “He defended his trench all night at Kruseik when the Germans got through our line. He and Capt. Paynter had the Germans all round them and defended their trenches most gallantly—I only wish I could tell you more; in him we have lost a gallant soldier and a great friend.”

HOLBROOK, HENRY GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17531, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOLDBROOK, JOSEPH, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22681, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOLDER, GEORGE STEPHEN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2078), 154330, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLDING, FRANK, L.-Sergt., No. 9025, No. 4 Coy., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Christopher Holding, of 25, Edmund Street, Exeter, late Corpl., Royal Engineers, by his wife, Bertha; b. Exeter, 18 June, 1891; educ. Exeter; enlisted, 7 March, 1911; appointed L.-Corpl., 6 June, 1913; promoted Corpl., 27 May, 1914, and appointed L.-Sergt., 7 Aug. 1914; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914; and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at La Cour de Soupir, on the Aisne, 14 Sept. following. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Dumbleton, near Evesham, 3 Aug. 1914, Ethel Mary (85, Shakespeare Road, Stoke Newington, London, N.E.), dau. of Thomas Sallis, of Dumbleton; s.p.

Frank Holding.

HOLFORD, ALFRED FREDERICK, 1st Class Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7986), 292960, s. of William Holford; b. Camberwell, 6 Aug. 1880; served through the South African War, and completed his 12 years’ service in Aug. 1911; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Swanscombe, co. Kent, 28 Oct. 1911, Ada Almira (25, Stanhope Road, Swanscombe, Kent), dau. of George William Weller, of Swanscombe, and had a son, Jack Leslie, b. 19 Nov. 1913.

HOLLAMBY, ALBERT EDWARD, Private, No. 47187, 13th Battn. (Royal Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Ely Hollamby, of Queen’s Road, Maidstone, Carter, by his wife, Lucy Elizabeth, dau. of the late George Henry Marchant; b. Maidstone, co. Kent, 22 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Michael’s School there; and was a Grocer’s Assistant. He enlisted in the Nova Scotia Highlanders in the 1st Canadian Expeditionary Force on 28 Nov. 1914, after the Canadians came to Maidstone; went to Belgium 26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 23 May, 1915. He m. at Maidstone 22 July, 1914, Ada (37, Chillington Street, Maidstone), dau. of the late James Portman, and had a daughter Barbara Gladys, b. 20 Dec. 1914.

Albert E. Hollamby.

HOLLAND, FRANK DAVENPORT, Private, No. 51225, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, eldest s. of Frank Bernard Holland, of 6th Avenue East, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, by his wife, Ada, dau. of William Turner-Whitlow, and great gdson. of Peter Holland, of Knutsford, co. Chester, Physician to her late Majesty, Queen Victoria; b. Great Warford, Alderley Edge, co. Chester, 13 Sept. 1895; went to Canada with his parents, 11 April, 1905; educ. privately and at King Edward School, Prince Rupert, and was on the Staff of the Bank of British North America when war began. He had joined Earl Grey’s Own Rifles in Nov. 1911, and immediately volunteered for Imperial service. He left Canada with the 30th Battn., and in Jan. 1915 was drafted to the Princess Patricia’s L.I. They arrived in France on 11 March, and were immediately sent up to the Front. He took part in the fighting at St. Eloi, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 May, 1915, when trying to bind up the wounds of a comrade, and was buried the same night at Bellewaarde. His Commanding Officer wrote that “He was a splendid soldier”; and three comrades: “He was beloved by us all, and his behaviour when in action proved that he was both a son and a soldier to be proud of.” He had had a brilliant school career, and was an expert shot and was a member of the rifle team that won the Corporation Cup and the Northern British Columbia Championship in 1913. A memorial tablet was erected in St. Andrew’s Church, Prince Rupert.

Frank Davenport Holland.

HOLLAND, JOHN WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., 3646D, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLLAND, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6528), 183900, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLLICK, WALTER STANLEY, Private, No. 1619, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s, Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Walter Charles Hollick, of 15, St Anne’s Road, Barking, E., by his wife, Eliza Ann, dau. of William Charles Saunders, late Sergt., 8th Hussars (King’s Royal Irish); b. Barking, co. Essex, 13 Feb. 1892; educ. C.E. Schools there; was a Clerk; joined the Kensingtons in May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 7 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Laventie, 21 Dec. 1914. Buried on the west side of the road, Aux Quatre, Paroises, between Ypres and Armentières.

Walter Stanley Hollick.

HOLLINGWORTH, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9174), 295342, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./7572, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLME, ALEXANDER CHARLES, Lieut., 1st Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Charles Henry Holme, of Rawburn, co. Berwick, by his wife, Eva Magdalen, dau. of the Rev. Richard Beverley Machell, Canon of York, and gdson. of Bryan Holme, of Paull Holme, co. York (late Capt. 88th Regt.), by his first wife, Catherine Margaret, dau. of Gen. the Hon. Sir Patrick Stuart, G.C.M.G.; b. Mussoorie, N.W.P., India, 26 Sept. 1888, educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst, gazetted 2nd Lieut. Gloucestershire Regt. 20 Mar. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 15 July, 1911. He served for a year in India and on the return of the battn. to England applied for service in Southern Nigeria, and was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 1912, to May, 1913, when he came home on leave. He returned to Nigeria the following Nov., and was killed in action at Nsanakang, Cameroons, 6 Sept. 1914; unm. A memorial cross was erected to his memory at Longformacus in the Lammermuir Hills, Berwickshire. His next brother was killed in France (see following notice); and another brother was private secretary to Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Gold Coast, and has now received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th K.O.S.B. (Aug. 1915). The eldest brother enlisted Sept. 1914, in the 11th Service Battn. (Lonsdales) of the Border Regt., commanded by his uncle, Col. Machell, C.M.G., and is serving abroad.

Alexander C. Holme.

HOLME, RONALD HENRY PAULL, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd s. of Charles Henry Holme, of Rawburn, etc., and next younger brother of the preceding; b. Rurki, N.W.P., India, 1 Jan. 1890; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst, and received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Oct. 1910, and as Lieut. 19 Feb. 1914. He was in the first Expeditionary Force and served through the Battle of Mons and other engagements until wounded in action at Messines 31 Oct. 1914. He died in a nursing home in London 9 Nov.; and was buried at Longformacus aforesaid; unm. He was an exceptionally good shot, having gained the distinction in 1911 of being the best shot in the battn., and of being one of the team which, in the same year, won Lord Roberts’ Young Soldiers’ Cup at the Curragh Rifle Meeting.

Ronald H. Paull Holme.

HOLMES, CECIL CRAMPTON, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd surviving s. of Capt. Harry William Holmes, of Rockwood, Galway, late 3rd North Staffordshire Regt., by his wife, Anna Blake, dau. of Edmond Concanon, of Waterloo, co. Galway; b. Galway, 21 Jan. 1888; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 9 Oct. 1907 and promoted Lieut., 21 Nov. 1911, and Capt. (posthumous), 15 Nov. 1914, and served five years with his regt. in India. On the outbreak of the European War, he left Portsmouth for France with the Expeditionary Force on 13 Aug. as machine-gun officer, and was wounded in the fighting at Frameries, near Mons, on the 24th of that month, and died in hospital there two days later, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. The news of his death did not reach the War Office till 27 Dec. and then unofficially, and it was not till the end of Feb. 1915 that it was confirmed in a letter from a brother officer, Capt. Rose, a prisoner in Germany, who wrote to his wife: “Poor old Holmes was in my hospital, but not in the same ward. He died two days after he was admitted, and was buried in the cemetery at Frameries, near Mons.” Capt. Holmes distinguished himself as an athlete at Bedford Grammar School, where he got his colours for rowing, water polo, rugby and boxing. He passed direct into Sandhurst, and was a Sandhurst cadet in Woolwich where he played in the Rugby team and came second of his year in the boxing team. He passed out of Sandhurst in the shortest time possible, getting special praise for his riding. Two of his brothers, Lieut. Edmond Concanon Holmes, R.N. on the Agamemnon, and Capt. Noel Galway Holmes, Royal Irish Regt., are (1916) on active service.

Cecil Crampton Holmes.

HOLMES, FRANCIS LENNOX, Lieut., 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., yr. s. of the late Major-General Ponsonby Ross Holmes, R.M.L.I. (who served in the Baltic, 1854, and was mentioned in Despatches), by his wife, Clara Bernell (Evesham House, Cheltenham), dau. of W. G. Nixey, and gdson of Lieut.-Col. Steven Holmes, 24th, 78th, and 90th Regts. (who served in the Peninsular and at Waterloo, and was mentioned in Despatches by the Duke of Wellington for his conduct at the siege of Burgos); b. Stoke, Devonport, 11 Oct. 1887; educ. Cheltenham College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st South Staffordshire Regt., 19 Sept. 1908, and Lieut., 14 July, 1909; passed through Hythe with distinction, and was appointed Signalling Officer to the Battn.; went to the Front in the 7th Division, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at the first Battle of Ypres, 21 Oct. 1914; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. Ovens wrote: “As his Commanding Officer I can truthfully say the Army has lost a fine and promising young officer, who, as Signalling Officer and in other capacities, brought credit and honour to his regt. He was killed instantaneously, poor fellow, and had been exposing himself and working hard all through the operations. Capt. Dunlop (his Capt.) told me he had been the greatest assistance to him in defending their position and he wished particularly to mention him”; and the following passage is taken from this officer’s diary: “Lieut. Holmes was killed this day. He was taking observation and instructing the men when and where to aim. He was in command of a half company of B Coy. and had been doing excellent work the whole day. He had been looking after and superintending a machine-gun which did very good service. He also had done a lot of very dangerous work in scouting through the wood in front of his section of trenches, and had shown much pluck and coolness.” Capt. Evans also wrote: “On Tuesday and Wednesday, 20 and 21 Oct., the Germans attacked our position in point of the outskirts of Zonnebeke. Lennox was in charge of half a company, and was hit on the Wednesday afternoon by a ricochet. Hayward told me afterwards that he was doing extraordinarily good work and was absolutely fearless in the way he moved from trench to trench to direct the fire against the Germans. It was while he was close by the machine-gun that he was hit. He was simply adored by the men, and, of course, his death upset them terribly and they fought magnificently to avenge his death. So that his example lived after him. Hayward’s own words to me were, ‘If ever a man deserved the V.C. he did’”; and Corpl F. Barrett: “On 22 Oct [this should be the 20th] 1914, I was working my machine-gun when Mr. Holmes came up and acted as my No. 2, also my observer, and we got over that day all right. On the 23rd [this should be the 21st] he visited me again, and I shifted my position close to where Mr. Holmes was killed about three o’clock. He was at the back of his trench taking cover, bandaging up Private Millar, after that he was taking aim at the Germans, and was just going to pull the trigger when a bullet hit him straight between the two eyes. I shall never forget him as long as I live.”

Francis Lennox Holmes.

HOLMES, FREDERICK HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17488, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOLMES, JOSEPH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3984), S.S. 102041, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOLMES, LOUIS GORDON, Capt., 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Dr. Louis Saenger Holmes, of Norwood, Adelaide, by his wife, Lucy Mary, dau. of the Rev. John Mewton; b. Launceston, Tasmania, 7 July, 1892; studied for the Army, and took special subjects at the Adelaide University and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 79th Infantry Battn. of the Commonwealth Army 28 Feb. 1913, and after the outbreak of the European War, Lieut. to the 10th Infantry Battn. of the First Australian Expeditionary Force, with which he left Australia in Oct. 1914. Arriving in Egypt, he spent several months in training with his battn., and early in 1915 was appointed A.D.C. to the Brigadier. He took part in the famous landing and the opening engagements of the Australians at Gaba Tepe in the Dardanelles. He landed on 25 April and the following day was promoted to a captaincy. He died 23 June, 1915, on board the Hospital Ship Gascon, near Gaba Tepe from shrapnel wounds received in action. Col. Maclagan, writing of the loss the brigade had sustained, said, “Capt. Holmes was beloved by all and one of the most unselfish of men, brave and courageous under all circumstances.” Capt. Holmes excelled in nearly every branch of athletics and was endowed with an extraordinarily good physique. He got his “Blue” as head of the river at the Wesley College Public School, Melbourne, and also his “Blue” for rowing and football as an Undergraduate of Adelaide University. For three years he was captain of his school Scotch College, Launceston, Tasmania. He was chosen in 1912 to row in the inter-state “eight” for South Australia. To his other athletic accomplishments it may be added that he was distinguished in his regt. for his expert use of the gloves.

Louis Gordon Holmes.

HOLMES, ROBERT, Leading Seaman, 140749 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HOLMES, WILLIAM, Private, No. 7873, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of Thomas Holmes, of South Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Joseph (and Barbara) Burnett; b. Hebburn-on-Tyne Colliery, 26 Oct. 1891; educ. St. Oswald’s School there; enlisted 10 Nov. 1910; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 28 Nov. 1914, to 16 June, 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Hooge, on the latter date. He m. at Jarrow-on-Tyne, 12 March, Wilhelmina (54, Pearson’s Place Back, Jarrow), dau. of Jonathan Craik, and had three children: Jonathan, b. 15 Feb. 1911; William, b. 30 Dec. 1912; and Margaret, b. 30 Oct. 1914.

HOLROYD, JOHN GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110089 (Po.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLT, CECIL WILLIAM, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd s. of Thomas Holt, of the Hall, Burnham, co. Somerset, by his wife, Margaret Jane, dau. of Edward Webb Edwards; b. The Hall, Burnham, 13 Sept. 1899; educ. Morgan and Halton’s Connaught House, Portmore, Weymouth; entered the Navy as a Cadet in May, 1912; appointed to H.M.S. Hogue at the beginning of the war and promoted Midshipman, 14 Sept. 1914; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOLTBY, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Private, No. 27812, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Mitchell Holtby, of North Coate Farm, South Cave, Hull, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of James Smith; b. Pickering Marshes, York, 17 May, 1890; educ. Hilnwick-on-the-Wolds; went to Canada, 20 April, 1911, and settled at Toronto as a Railway Rullyman; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Toronto; left for England with the first contingent, 26 Sept. 1914, arriving 16 Oct.; went to France, 29 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 27 April, 1915; unm.

Arthur William Holtby.

HONEY, ALBERT TOM, Sergt., No. 1144, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (Yeomanry), 4th s. of the late Colour-Sergt. Thomas Honey, of Usk, co. Monmouth (who served in the Crimea), by his wife, Sarah; b. at Beech Hill, Usk, 8 Feb. 1876; educ. at Usk and Bristol; was Manager of Liptons, Ltd., at Pontypool; joined the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry, 19 March, 1903; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Egypt; went to the Dardanelles, 14 Aug. 1915, and was killed in the charge of the Yeomanry there on 21 Aug. following. His four brothers were all in the Regular or Auxiliary Forces, and a nephew, Stewart Hardy, is serving in the Yeomanry.

Albert Tom Honey.

HONEY, HERBERT, Armourer’s Crew, M. 7486, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HONEYWILL, HERBERT CECIL, Private, No. 10955, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; s. of Samuel Honeywill, of Ashburton, Devon; b. Hampshire; killed in action at Givenchy, 19 April, 1915; buried Windy Corner there.

HOOD, CHRISTOPHER THOMAS, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 5691), 180094, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOOD, JOHN THOMAS, Stoker, Petty Officer, 294844, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOOD, LEWIS REGINALD, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16032, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HOOD, GEORGE, Private, No. 3465, 12th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late Richard Hood, of Tranent, Coal Miner (died 30 Aug. 1912); b. Tranent, East Lothian, 12 Sept. 1867; educ. Tranent Public School; and was with the South East of Scotland Militia for the training when war broke out; enlisted 11 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

HOOD, STUART CLINK, L.-Corpl., No. 21847, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of William Hood, of 61, Cowane Street, Stirling, by his wife, Helen, dau. of William Clink; b. Stirling, 24 Sept. 1880; educ. Territorial Public School; joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Volunteers in 1898, and served with a Volunteer Contingent of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the latter stages of the South African War, and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He emigrated to Canada in Oct. 1905, and latterly held a responsible position in the Saskatchewan State Telephone Service. When the European War broke out, he at once volunteered, and joined the 5th Battn. at Regina in Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent, Sept. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–5; went to France early in Feb. 1915; served through the 2nd Battle of Ypres, and in the various engagements in the spring of that year, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915, after his Battn. had carried out a successful attack on a strongly fortified position known as K5. A comrade wrote: “On the morning of 24 May, our regt. made a charge, captured our objective, and held it in spite of a heavy bombardment until relieved. Early in the morning Stuart went out into the open and brought in a badly wounded man, and a few minutes later assisted in bringing another wounded man to safety in spite of great danger, and immediately after was hit by a sniper at a low part of the parapet. His loss is greatly felt, not only by myself who was his friend, but by all his platoon, who had all learned to love and respect such a fine manly spirited comrade.” Buried in an orchard at Rue de L’Epinette, on the right of the road from Rue du Bois; unm.

Stuart Clink Hood.

HOOKE, JOHN HUON, Sergt., No. 274, C Coy., 6th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of the late Charles Frederick Hooke, of Auburn, Victoria, Manager, N.Z.L. & M.A. Co., by his wife, Maude (Ravenshoe, Ravenswood, Victoria, Australia), dau. of John Francis Huon Mitchell, of Ravenswood, an authority on the Australian native races; b. Thurgoona, Auburn, 6 Oct. 1889, and was in the Bank of Australasia. He volunteered immediately when war was declared, joined the 6th Battn. 2nd week in Aug. 1914, was promoted Sergt., left Australia with the Main Force and died from wounds received in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915. Sergt. (now Lieut.) D. A. McLean, of his company, wrote: “I was near your husband when he was hit. We had just got into the firing line on the first day of landing (25 April), when he was shot through the leg, but refused to leave his post. About an hour afterwards he was shot through the head, and remained unconscious from the moment he was hit till he died. Everything that was possible was done for him, but his case was hopeless from the first. Before he was killed, Sergt. Hooke did some very good work, proving himself a very brave man and good soldier. We all feel proud that he belonged to our company. During the nine months he was with us he won for himself the esteem and regard of every member of the company, and, believe me, we all regret his death very much.” He m. on the eve of embarkation, at Holy Trinity Church, Kew, Victoria, 17 Oct. 1914, Florence Constance Phipps (22, Grandview Grove, Armadale, Victoria), dau. of William Huon, of Kerilliere, Wodonga, Victoria, and granddau. of Paul Huon, a French squatter.

John Huon Hooke.

HOOKER, ALFRED, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 10125), 205654, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HOOKER, HENRY GEORGE, Private, No. 11123, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Ypres, 29 July, 1915.

HOOKHAM, HENRY CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2137), 207156, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOOKHAM, JAMES, otherwise DAVID, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 180225, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HOOKHAM, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8015), 309231, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOOPER, DAVID, Cook’s Mate, M. 5524, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HOOPER, DAVID ERNEST, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt., eldest s. of Dr. David Hooper, of Weston-super-Mare, F.I.C., F.C.S., F.L.S., late Economic Botanist to Government of India, by his wife, Hannah Carr, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Evans, of Mussoorie, U.P., India; b. Ootacamund, Nilgiri Hills, India, 21 Nov. 1893; educ. Switzerland, Birkenhead, Weston-super-Mare and Bristol University; was to have entered the P. W. Department, India, but volunteered on the outbreak of war, and while waiting for a commission was actively engaged with the O.T.C. at Bristol; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd East Lancashires, 10 Oct. 1914; went to France, 14 March, and joined his regt. at Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, at midnight, 30 April, 1915, while inspecting patrol; unm. Buried in La Trou Cemetery, in the Rue Petillon, near Neuve Chapelle. He was specially praised by Sir Francis Davies, the General of his Division, for his bravery and good work. In a letter to Dr. Hooper he said: “You will, I am sure, not be surprised to hear that he gave great promise, and had secured the approbation of his seniors by the way he was doing his work.” He distinguished himself as an amateur in Wireless Telegraphy, gaining the Marconi Company’s 2nd Prize in Britain in 1914.

David Ernest Hooper.

HOOPER, GEORGE ALBERT, Private, No. 9924, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 30 March, 1915.

HOOPER, JOSEPH, Private, No. 93606, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

HOOPER, THOMAS EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9526), 209135, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOOPER, THOMAS HENRY, A.B., 216988, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOOPER, WALTER WILLIAM, Private, No. 8178, 1st Battn. Dorset Regt., only son of Hugh Walter Hooper, of 12, Sussex Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, Haulier, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Timothy Gosling, Fisherman; b. Beer, co. Devon, 25 Sept. 1890; educ. Cardiff Elementary School; was an employee in the Health Dept. of the Cardiff Council; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Somersetshire L.I. 3 Sept. 1914; transferred to the 1st Dorsets; went to France in Feb. and was killed in action in the fighting at Hill 60, near Ypres, 5 May, 1915; unm.

HOPCRAFT, ARTHUR WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5778), 182221, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOPE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 2332, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Thomas Hope, of Driffield, Hull, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Harding; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 1877; educ. there; enlisted 11 Jan. 1899; served in South Africa, 9 Aug. 1900 to 4 Oct. 1902, including the Boer War (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in Flanders, 3 Feb. to 31 Oct. 1915; and died in hospital at Rouen on 31 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action on 17 Oct. 1915. Buried at Rouen. He m. at St. Luke’s Church, Kensington, 16 July, Harriet, dau. of George Medlock, of Yew Tree Cottage, Charing, Kent, and had two children: Donald George Hope, b. 29 July, 1903; and Harriet Florence Hope, b. 17 Feb. 1907.

HOPER, ERN SYDNEY JOSEPH, Cook’s Mate, M. 3901, H.M.S. Hawke; s. of Richard Hoper, of Teston Halt, Nr. Maidstone, co. Kent; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HOPEY, EDMUND EUGENE, Private, No. 22750, 14th Battn. (62nd Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only child of George Allen Hopey, of 13, Granite Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts, U.S.A., by his wife, Ida Tedella, dau. of the late David Crandel Corey; b. Dorchester, Mass., 25 June, 1893; educ. there; was a Carpenter by trade; joined the 8th Massachusetts Militia at Cambridge, 6 May, 1914, but after the outbreak of war went to St. John, N.B. and offered his services and was accepted for service with the 14th Batt. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 17 Aug. 1914; left for England in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter, 1914–15; crossed to France, 7 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in the regimental Cemetery at the junction of the Rue Petillon and the Sailly-Fromelles Road. Capt. George T. Jones of the 8th Massachusetts Militia wrote: “While he was connected with this company (A), he proved himself reliable, quiet and an earnest worker and one whom I was sorry to lose,” and Capt. Curry of the 14th Battn. wrote to his mother, speaking highly of his bravery in the trenches at Ypres. He met his death while covering a parapet.

Edmund Eugene Hopey.

HOPKINS, JACK, Private, No. 21612, No. 1 Coy., 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of James Hopkins; b. Chingford, co. Essex, 16 April, 1882; educ. St. Mary’s School, Walthamstow; served from 1898 to 1906 in the R.F.A. and then went to Canada. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 he at once joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, came over with the first contingent, and was killed in action 3 May, 1915; unm. The place has not been officially stated, but it is believed to have been St. Julien.

HOPKINS, CHARLES EDWIN, Armourer, 185423, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

INNES HOPKINS, CASTELL PERCY, Private, 9th (Service) Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Harrie Innes Hopkins, of The Towers, Ryton-on-Tyne, late 2nd Scottish Rifles, now commanding the 1st Tyneside Scottish, by his wife, Helen Elizabeth, dau. of the late Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.; b. Naini Tal, N.W.P., India, 31 July, 1889; educ. Dunchurch Hall, and Fribourg, Germany, afterwards being employed in his father’s offices in Newcastle. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Battn. Gordon Highlanders, and left with his regt. for the Front, May, 1915, and fell in action during the charge on Hill 70 at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm. His elder brother, John Gordon Innes Hopkins, is now (1916) serving in the Naval Brigade, having travelled specially from Japan, where he was in the R.M.S.P. Co. when the war broke out, to join the Navy as a volunteer, and his yr. brother, Lieut. C. R. Innes Hopkins, 2nd Scottish Rifles, and his uncle, Capt. James Randolph Innes Hopkins, Canadian Expeditionary Force, were both killed in action (see their notices).

INNES HOPKINS, CHARLES RANDOLPH, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 3rd s. (see previous notice) of Lieut.-Col. Charles Harrie Innes Hopkins, of The Towers, Ryton-on-Tyne, late 2nd Scottish Rifles, now commanding the 1st Tyneside Scottish, by his wife, Helen Elizabeth, dau. of the late Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I.; b. Ranikhet, N.W.P., India, 9 Aug. 1893; educ. Dunchurch Hall, Uppingham (scholar), and Sandhurst, where he gained the prize for military law and passed out the second term “third” with honours; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scottish Rifles, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut., 24 Oct. 1913; was in Malta with his regt. when war broke out; they returned to England, and went to the Front, 4 Nov. 1914, and he was killed in action in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, France, 18 Dec. 1914; unm. Buried in the orchard of the farm behind Neuve Chapelle. His company officer wrote: “I would like to say how very greatly I have valued his presence, from the day he joined. He has always been my subaltern and a very close companion to me. In all things I have trusted him implicitly, and in all things he has proved himself worthy. I know that he was good in thought, and word, and deed—that he could not do a wrong thing—that he would not lose heart, and that he was the loyalist subaltern and the finest friend that ever man had. We all feel his loss very deeply, especially his men.” A writer in the “Newcastle Journal” (23 Dec. 1914) said: “Of Charles Hopkins it could be truly said that he was one of Nature’s most perfect gentlemen, and if ever anyone seemed destined for a great future it was he. As able and gifted as he was modest, possessed of strong purpose, exceptional talents, sound judgment, and a personality infinitely attractive, there seemed to be nothing he could not have achieved had he tried. An excellent cricketer and hockey player, an expert ski-er, a ‘crack’ shot, and fine billiard player, there was no sport at which he did not excel, whilst in classics, military law and tactics he came out with highest honours. He had a soldier’s love and pride in his work, and if genius, as has been said, is an infinite capacity for taking pains, his career, had he been spared, would have proved him a soldier of genius.”

Charles R. Innes Hopkins.

INNES HOPKINS, JAMES RANDOLPH, Capt., 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of William Randolph Innes Hopkins, of The Leat, Malton, by his wife, Evereld Catherine Eliza, dau. of Thomas Hustler; b. at Grey Towers, Cleveland, 5 Oct. 1876; educ. at Aysgarth, Yorks, and Oriel College, Oxford; served in the South African War, 1899–1902, as a trooper and was afterwards given a commission in the Northumberland Hussars; went to Canada in 1906, and settled in Saskatchewan. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he immediately offered his services and was given a commission as Capt. 22 Sept. following; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; was stationed on Salisbury Plain during the winter, 1914–15; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 24 May, 1915, while leading his men. Capt. Hopkins’ two nephews, Private C. P. Innes Hopkins and Lieut. C. R. Innes Hopkins, were both killed in action (see their notices). He m. in London, 29 Sept. 1904, Doreen Maud (who m. secondly, 6 Oct. 1915, Thomas Sackville Manning), eldest dau. of the Hon. Reginald Parker [6th s. of Thomas, 6th Earl of Macclesfield], and had a dau., Evereld, b. 1905.

James R. Innes Hopkins.

HOPLEY, HERBERT, Private, No. 27352, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Stephen Hopley, of 35, Bloomsbury Road, Ramsgate, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Willmott, of Ramsgate; b. Ramsgate, 15 May, 1888; educ. Christ Church School, Ramsgate, and worked for eight years for Tucker & Son, Smack Owners and Sail Makers; went to Canada about 1912, and was for two years in the employ of J. J. Turner & Sons, Tent Makers, Peterborough, Ontario, after which he went to Toronto; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; left Valcartier Camp for England in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15; went to France, Feb. 1915, and died of gas poisoning at the Battle of St. Julien, 26 April, 1915; unm.

Herbert Hopley.

HOPPER, GEORGE, Sergt., No. 5945, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915.

HOPPER, JERRY, Private, No. 8020, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing, 14 Sept. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date; m.

HOPPER, WILLIAM, Private, S. 2249, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., s. of James Hopper, of Baldstow, St. Leonards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 10 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

HOPTON, GUY WILLIAM, of Homend, co. Hereford, Capt. 5th (Service) Battn. The Royal Berkshire Regt., elder s. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edward Hopton, K.C.B., Lieut.-Governor of Jersey (1895–1900), etc. (who served through the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Clare Ellen (Homend, near Ledbury, Hereford), dau. of Guy Trafford, of Michaelchurch Court, co. Hereford, 20 Nov. 1881; educ. Wellington College; joined the 2nd Battn. Berkshire Regt. from the Militia, 19 Oct. 1901, and was promoted Lieut. 8 May, 1904, and Capt. 3rd Battn. 3 Aug. 1910; served in the South African War, 1901; took part in the operations in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, May, 1901, and in the Transvaal, May to Nov. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was afterwards transferred to the 5th Service Battn. of his Regt., with which he went to France 31 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 28 July, 1915. He m. at Frittenden, Kent, 12 Feb. 1915, Ellen Beatrice (Homend, near Ledbury, Hereford), dau. of Capt. Sir Charles John Oakeley, 5th Bart., formerly 4th Queen’s Own; s.p.

HOPTON, TOM FRANCIS, Mechanic, 294560, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HORDERN, CEDRIC, Surgeon-Lieut., R.N., H.M.S. Kale, s. of the late William Hordern, of Melbourne, Solicitor, by his wife, Harriet (Cabramatta, Howard Street, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria); b. Hawthorne, Melbourne, 1 June, 1890; educ. Scotch College, Melbourne, and Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities; offered his services on the outbreak of war; was gazetted a Surgeon-Lieut. ... Dec. 1914, and died of pneumonia in the V.A.D. Hospital at Perth, 21 June, 1915. Buried in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh. He m. at Hawthorn aforesaid, 1 Sept. 1913, Louise (died 6 April, 1914), dau. of G. H. Knibbs, Statistician for Commonwealth of Australia, and had a son: Cedric Louis, b. 2 April, 1914.

Cedric Hordern.

HORE, WILLIAM COURTENAY, Ship’s Steward’s Assistant, M. 1598, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORN, HENRY ADRIAN, Gunner, No. 86777, 18th Battery, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Alfred Horn, Engineer, of Water Power House, Yorkton, Sask. (accidentally killed in 1909), by his wife, Frances Ann (Tupper Avenue, Yorkton, Sask., Canada), dau. of Richard Freeman, late of Maddox Street, London; b. Kilburn, London, 18 July, 1896; educ. London and at Yorkton (Saskatchewan) Public and Collegiate Schools; went to Canada with his parents in 1906; was Clerk in Bank of B.N.A., Yorkton, Sask.; enlisted June, 1915; came over with the second contingent, and was killed by a Zeppelin bomb while on guard, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

Henry Adrian Horn.

HORN, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3329), 191756, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORN, JAMES FREDERICK, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 181049, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORNE, GEORGE CHARLES, Private, No. 11530, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Horne, of the Gables, Rowley Park, Stafford, Auctioneer and Valuer, by his wife, Alice Jane, dau. of Charles Bridgwood, of Newport, Salop; b. Chetwynd, Aston, Newport, Salop, 29 April, 1888; educ. Stafford Grammar School, where he obtained an Intermediate Scholarship, and then matriculated at London University; afterwards, on leaving, entered the service of Lloyds Bank, and passed successfully as a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers. He joined the 6th Battn. North Stafford Regt. (T.F.), in 1910, and served with them for four years, enlisting in the 1st Coldstream Guards, after the outbreak of war, 4 Sept. 1914. He went to France, 22 Dec. following; was present at Givenchy, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert and other engagements, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 1 June, 1915; unm. Buried at Le Routoire. A comrade wrote: “He was ever ready to help a comrade, ever ready to deprive himself that someone else might not go without, ever ready to volunteer for any hard work, with a pleasant smile and a cheery word always on his lips.”

George Charles Horne.

HORNE, JOHN MORRISON, Petty Officer (N.S.), 188024, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORNE, STANLEY FRANK, Rifleman, No. 3095, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of John Robert Horne, of 108 Derwent Road, Palmers Green, N., Manager for Woollen Goods Manufacturer, by his wife, Emily Louise, dau. of John Rapson March; b. Highgate, N., 13 Nov. 1894; educ. Cathcart College, Highgate, N.; was a Warehouseman, Wholesale Trimming Warehouse, in the City of London; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, Aug. 1914; went to France, Jan. 1915; took part in the actions at Hill 60, 20–21 April, and at St. Julien, near Ypres, 25 April, and died in No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station, Bailleul, 27 April, 1915, of wounds received at the latter; unm. His Company Sergt.-Major, F. Brehaut, wrote: “I cannot speak too highly of his devotion to his duty as a soldier. I was very close to him when he met with his fatal accident, and was particularly struck with the anxiety he displayed for the welfare of his comrades who were struck by the same shell.”

HORNER, JOSEPH RICHARD, L.-Corpl. No. 18320, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Richard Horner, of Hamill Street, Belfast, by his wife, Ruth, dau. of William McElroy; b. Belfast, 20 Jan. 1874; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; was a Bricklayer and Tiler; enlisted, 23 Sept. 1914; went to France, 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action, 17 April, 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s R.C. Cathedral, Kilkenny, 17 Jan. 1897, Mary Catherine (Lower Walkin Street, next Friary, Kilkenny), dau. of John Hogan, of Kilkenny, Merchant Tailor, and had two children: Francis Joseph, b. 2 Aug. 1911; and Ruth Josephine, b. 27 Feb. 1905.

Joseph Richard Horner.

HORNEY, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9085), S.S. 105927, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HORRELL, THOMAS WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10617), 300394, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORSLEY, HARRY MATTHEW, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 13506, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HORSLEY, HENRY EDMUND, Seaman, R.N.R. 2487B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORTON, ALBERT EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 1051), late Ch./8837, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HORTON, GEORGE, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1952), 277903, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOSIE, WILLIAM JOHN, Leading Stoker, 310795, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOUGHAN, EDWARD JOSEPH, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2507, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOUGHTON, PERCY, Gunner (R.F.R., I.C. 91), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOULDSWORTH, WILLIAM GILBERT, 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, only surviving s. of the Rev. William Thomas Houldsworth, of 44, Lennox Gardens, W., and Cranston, North Berwick, by his wife, Eulalie, dau. of Charles John Venables, Vicar of St. Andrew’s, Wells Street, 1886–1904; b. London, 17 May, 1891; educ. Wellington House, Westgate-on-Sea (Rev. Herbert Bull), Eton, and Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A. 12 March, 1914). On leaving Oxford, where he was a member of the O.T.C. with the rank of 2nd Lieut, on the unattached list of the University candidates, he was attached to the 1st Battn. of the Scots Guards, served with them at Aldershot, 6 May to 15 July, 1914, and received his commission with 18 months seniority as an Oxford graduate, 4 Aug. 1914. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force 13 Aug. following, took part in the fighting at Mons, in the retreat from that place and in the subsequent advance to the Marne, including the engagements at the Grand and Petit Morin. At the Battle of the Aisne he was wounded at the small village of Vendresse, 13 Sept., and died in the American Hospital at Neuilly, near Paris, 23 Sept. 1914; unm. Writing to his father his Col. paid a warm tribute to the manner in which he led his platoon.

William G. Houldsworth.

HOUSE, ERNEST EDWARD, Corpl., No. 47311, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Henry House, of Thame, Oxon, Engineer, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of William Croxford, of Sydenham, Oxon, Farmer; b. Oakley, near Chinnor, co. Oxford; educ. Thame Royal British School; went to Canada, May, 1912, and settled at Toronto as an Attendant at an asylum; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914; left with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action on 30 Nov. 1915; unm. A comrade, Sergt. Bleckett, wrote: “Corpl. E. House was undoubtedly one of the best soldiers we had, always cheerful and willing to do his share of work under any circumstances.”

Ernest Edward House.

HOUSE, JOHN ROBERT, A.B., 195005, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOUSEGO, EDWARD GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16971, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOUSLEY, HARRY JOHN, Private, No. 3249, 16 Platoon, D Coy. 2/4th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Harry Housley, of Carshalton, by his wife, Alice (15, Carshalton Road, Carshalton. Surrey), dau. of William Baker, of Carshalton; b. Carshalton, 4 June, 1898; educ. Carshalton Council Schools; enlisted at Croydon, 11 Nov. 1914; trained at Croydon, Windsor and Bedford; left for Egypt with his regt. 16 July, 1915, landed at the Dardanelles, 8 Aug., and was reported missing after the fighting on the following day, and later to have been killed in action that day, 9 Aug. 1915; unm.

HOUSTON, JAMES, Sergt., No. 855. 1/7th Battn. (Leeds Rifles) West Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), Machine-Gun Section, only s. of Robert Murray Houston, of Horsforth, near Leeds, by his wife, Mary Catherine, dau. of Joshua Silcock, of Bradford; b. Horsforth, 20 Sept. 1891; educ. The Rhyddings School, Ilkley; was employed in an Insurance Office in Leeds; joined the Leeds Rifles, 22 July, 1908, at the age of sixteen, and became a cyclist-scout; was a keen shot and won his cross-guns and later was made Sergt. of the Machine Gun Section of his Battn.; volunteered for Imperial service and left for France, 14 April, 1915, and was killed in action by a sniper while rebuilding the parapet round his guns in the trenches at Laventie, 7 May following. Buried in an orchard, near Laventie; unm.

HOWARD, CYRIL JAMES, L.-Corpl., No. 1534, C Squadron, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry, 2nd s. of Charles Walter Howard, of 16, East Street, Chichester; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 18 April, 1895; educ. The Prebendal School, Chichester, and Manor House School, Bognor; joined the Sussex Yeomanry in Feb. 1912; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left England for the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 25 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 8 Nov. 1915. Lieut. C. C. Brown wrote: “I suppose his brother will have told you what happened. He left our reserve bivouac with a fatigue party about 1.30 yesterday (8 Nov.). This party had just arrived at their destination at a place just behind the front line trenches (which trenches your son had been in before), where the Turk line lies very close to our trenches. I suppose the direct line was not 100 yards away from where your son was killed. Some shrapnel came, killing your son instantaneously; he was hit in the head. It also killed three or four others belonging to the East Kent Yeomanry. We buried him this morning at a spot about 300 yards up a hill which veers sharply at ‘Y’ Beach, a spot where one of the original landings was made on this peninsula, overlooking a glorious view of the island of Imbros and Suvla Bay across the sea.... He did his duty from beginning to end, and did it well.”

Cyril James Howard.

HOWARD, ERNEST GUY, Leading Stoker, 305880, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOWARD, GEORGE WILLIAM, Private, No. 1068, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John Frederick Howard; b. Upper Holloway, 29 April, 1892; joined the Royal Fusiliers (T.F.), 1911, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was looked upon by myself and the other officers as a most promising soldier; he held the post of runner to one of my lieuts. and possessed very great ability and intelligence”; and 2nd Lieut. Reeves said: “Although very badly hit, he was awfully plucky and brave; he was hit just below the spine. His loss is very much felt by the men of the company.”

HOWARD, HERBERT RICHARD, Corpl., No. 1559, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Richard Howard, of Harleston, by his wife, Mary Ann; b. Harleston, co. Norfolk, Nov. 1883; educ. Wymondham, co. Norfolk; settled in Australia. On the outbreak of war joined the Melbourne Contingent of the Australian Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action in the attack on Cape Helles, Gallipoli 8 May, 1915. He m. at South Yarra, Melbourne, 9 June, 1913, Hetty, dau. of Richard William Simpson, of Hemsworth, near Wakefield, Yorks; s.p.

HOWARD, JAMES JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 538), 117887, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOWARD, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9078), 192315, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOWARD, JOSEPH, Private, No. 2505, 1/4th East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of William Henry Howard, of 5, Richmond Terrace, Harrow Street, Hull, N.E.R. Dock Gateman, by his wife, Lavinia Emily, dau. of the late Joseph Bennett Stephenson, of Hornsea; b. Hull, 15 Jan. 1884; educ. T. B. Holmes School, there; was a Lighterman with the G.C.R.; volunteered and enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, while repairing trenches, 29 May, 1915. Buried in Sanctuary Wood. He m. at Hull, 27 April, 1911, Olive Gertrude (5, Henry’s Terrace, West Parade, Hull), dau. of the late Samuel Joseph Anderson, of 1, Etty’s Terrace, Strickland Street, late of Brid. Fish Merchant, and had two sons: Joseph Leslie, b. 14 Aug. 1911; and Clive William, b. 22 April, 1914.

Joseph Howard.

HOWARD, THOMAS JAMES, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 43, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOWATT, HERBERT, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 272171, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HOWE, ERNEST JAMES COWELL, Chief Armourer, 159565, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOWES, ALBERT EDWARD, Petty Officer (N.S.), 191768, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOWES, HERBERT ARTHUR, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4914), 201629, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOWES, JOHN HENRY, Chief Writer, 344288, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOWLING, JOHN MATTHEW, Yeoman of Signals, 204855, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HOY, JOHN AlFRED, A.B., 227737, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HOYE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, 306080 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HOYLAND, JOHN, Leading Seaman, 190653, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUBBARD, FRED, Sergt. No. 130, Princess Patricia’s L.I., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas Hubbard, of Oundle Road, Peterborough, by his wife, Keziah; b. Woodstone, Peterborough, 1 Feb. 1884; educ. Peterborough; enlisted in the Grenadier Guards, and served seven years, going to Canada in Dec. 1912. On the outbreak of war he joined Princess Patricia’s L.I. at Ottawa, 7 Aug. 1914, came over with the first contingent, crossed to France in Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 4 May, 1915. Writing to his widow, Major Hamilton Gault, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., said: “He was killed in action yesterday by one of the enemy’s shells and died shortly afterwards, making light of his injuries. Only the previous evening I was telling him that I had seen you and gave him your messages. From his company commander I hear only praise and admiration for his character and splendid qualities. His officers greatly esteemed him and by his men he was immensely liked and respected. His death is a great loss to the battn., for he was one of the best non-commissioned officers in the regt.” He m. at Brompton Oratory, 28 Dec. 1912, Winifred (Llanarth, near Raglan, Monmouth), dau. of Ralph Willis; s.p.

Fred Hubbard.

HUBBARD, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8083), S.S. 103784, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUBIE-AXE, WILLIAM CECIL, A.B., 237053, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

HUCKSTEP, JAMES THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10128), 208635, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUDSON, ADAM, L.-Corpl., No. 8973, 2nd Battn. The Border Regt., s. of the late Adam Howard, by his wife, Ann (17, Clive Street, Southwick-on-Wear, Sunderland), dau. of John Middleton; b. Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, about 1888; educ. Board School there; enlisted about 1903, was employed in Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; called up from the Reserve, 5 Aug. 1914; promoted L.-Corpl. at the Front, and was killed in action in France, 16 May, 1915; unm.

HUDSON, ARTHUR, Acting Leading Stoker, 312428, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HUDSON, FREDERICK CATTELL, Private, No. 2772, 1/23rd London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Harry Hudson, 9, Louvaine Road, St. John’s Hill, Clapham Junction, S.W., and Redriff, Whitstable, co. Kent, Builder, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Richard Payne, of Wandsworth, S.W.; b. Battersea, S.W., 2 May, 1892; educ. Sir Walter St. John’s School, Battersea; A.A. of Oxford; was a Builder’s Manager; volunteered at the outbreak of war, and joined the 23rd London Regt. early in Sept. 1914; went to France, 14 March, 1915; was wounded in action near Festubert, 25 May, and died of wounds at Choques, two days later, 27 May, 1915; unm. He was buried in the English Cemetery there (Grave No. 200). His papers were signed and completed for a commission in the R.F.A. on 16 April, but he was not allowed to return to take it up. A comrade wrote: “I must say Fred played the man, for when the whistle went for us to go over the parapet, I am sorry to say there seemed to be a slight hesitation as to who should go first, when Fred said, ‘Come on!’ and over he went and we others followed him.” Another wrote: “Ever ready to do any service for a comrade to cheer up one when fatigued, never wanting when a duty involving any danger had to be performed, Fred was a favourite loved by all.”

Frederick Cattell Hudson.

HUDSON, FREDERICK GEORGE, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 1332), 195223, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUDSON, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3043), 179557, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUDSON, THOMAS ERNEST, Private, No. 10813, Signalling Section, 9th (Service) Battn. Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regt., elder s. of Thomas William Hudson, of 9, Albert Square, Ella Street, Hull, Clerk, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Thomas Parker, Knaresbro’, Carrier; b. Kingston-upon-Hull, co. York, 13 May, 1894; educ. Newland Avenue Council School there; was, when war broke out, a Litho Artist with Messrs. Goddard, Walker & Brown, of Hull; enlisted 25 Aug. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 3 July, 1915, and was killed in action at the landing at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915; unm. For their conduct this day the 9th West Yorkshires were specially mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916]. He was a member of the St. Jude’s Football Team, and also a member of the Hull City Swimming Club and the East Hull Harriers. In 1913 he won the Bronze medal for a study in Lettering at the Hull School of Art. His yr. brother went to France, 26 Aug. 1914 with the R.A.M.C. and is still (1916) serving there.

Thomas Ernest Hudson.

HUDSPITH, HAROLD BARON, Sergt., No. 544, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter John Hudspith, of 81, Pendle Road, Streatham, S.W., by his wife, Minnie Mary, dau. of William Lyttleton Baron; b. St. John’s Wood, London, 4 Aug. 1893; educ. Borough Polytechnic, London; was a Draughtsman; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in 1909, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 14 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the German trenches at Givenchy, Flanders, 25 May, 1915, while leading his section in the attack on the enemy position; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was extremely popular in my company (and in fact in the battn.) and personally I miss him very much, both as a splendid N.C.O. and as a man.”

Harold Baron Hudspith.

HUGGETT, MAURICE, Private, No. 12/136, A Coy., 3rd (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Martin Huggett, of Atherton Road, Auckland, New Zealand, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Holmes; b. Auckland, 1 Jan. 1894; educ. Auckland Grammar School; was an engineer apprentice, volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 16 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915; and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April following, and was killed in action there, 28 April, 1915; unm. He was taking a comrade’s watch when he was shot through the forehead.

HUGGINS, ALBERT, Private, No. 3353, Scots Guards; b. Diss, co. Norfolk; attested 20 April, 1900; served through South African War (medal) and in France; was wounded and died a prisoner at Hamelin, 15 Nov. 1914. He m. in London, 6 May, 1909, Agnes Blanche Bloomfield, and had three children: Maurice George, b. 31 Jan. 1912; Violet May, b. 9 May, 1910; and Ivy Agnes, b. 28 Jan. 1914.

HUGGINS, PETER WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10024), S.S. 107667, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13379, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, GEORGE WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 5539, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George William Hughes, by his wife, Emma, dau. of W. Godderidge; b. Keighley, co. York, 19 April, 1885; educ. Tamworth; enlisted 2 May, 1904; became L.-Corpl. 4 April, 1910; Corpl. 9 Oct. 1912; L.-Sergt. 30 April, 1913, and Sergt. 6 Aug. 1914; served in Egypt 20 Sept. 1906 to 23 May, 1911 (Khedival medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

HUGHES, GUY WILEY, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., yst. s. of George Hughes, of Fieldhead, Wimbledon, by his late wife, Emily, dau. of William Edward Wiley, of The Rookery, Erdington; b. Kensington, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Reserve of Officers from the O.T.C. March, 1913; attd. to the 4th Middlesex after the outbreak of war; went to France, 17 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 31 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm. His brother, Capt. A. E. Wiley Hughes, when attd. to the 3rd Royal Fusiliers, was wounded twice in France.

HUGHES, HENRY JOHN, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4663), 171044, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7885), 216211 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUGHES, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Pensioner, Carpenter’s Mate, 132399, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HUGHES, LIONEL, Trooper, No. 11/464, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Rev. William Henry Hughes, Vicar of St. Hilary, Marazion, Cornwall, by his wife, Kathleen, yst. dau. of the late Charles Gumm, of White Hall, Chingford, Essex; b. Trevarthian, Marazion, 25 Sept. 1887; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock; settled in New Zealand; joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 30 May, 1915; unm.

HUGHES, LIONEL HOLFORD, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st. Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Allen Edward Hughes, of Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Earthenware Manufacturer (died 15 April, 1916), by his wife, Evelyn Emma, yst. dau. of The Rev. Samuel Plant, Vicar of Weston-on-Trent and Prebendary of Lichfield; b. Wychdon Lodge, near Stafford, 25 July, 1895; educ. St. Ronan’s, Worthing, and Lancing College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd North Staffords, 6 March, 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and was killed in action near the Rue du Bois, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. Lieut.-Col. de Falbe, C.M.G., D.S.O., commanding 1st North Staffords, wrote: “He was killed to-day, by a shell in the trenches near Rue du Bois, a small village two miles south of Armentières. He was killed instantaneously, and is buried on the west side of the Armentières-Wavrin Railway, and 300 yards north-west of the level crossing at Rue du Bois. The grave is marked with a cross inscribed with his name and regiment.”

Lionel Holford Hughes.

HUGHES, PRYCE, Coy. Sergt.-Major, Brecknockshire Battn. (24th) South Wales Borderers (T.F.), s. of Robert Hughes, of New Inn Hotel, Merthyr, Licensed Victualler; b. Brecon, 8 Feb. 1874; educ. Butcher’s Grammar School there; joined the 1st Brecknockshire Volunteer Battn. South Wales Borderers (No. 2498), 27 Feb. 1893, and passed into the Territorial Force (No. 30) 3 April, 1908; became Sergt. 12 Dec. 1908, and later Coy. Sergt.-Major. He served in the South African War with the South Wales Borderers (Queen’s medal), and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service; went to Aden with his Battn. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on active service there, 19 June, 1915; unm. Buried in Government Cemetery there. He had the Long Service Medal.

HUGHES, SIDNEY ISAAC, L.-Corpl., No. 12481, 1st Battn. The Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late William Edgar Hughes, of Leigh Farm, Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine (Berkeley Road, Newbury, Berks), dau. of Henry King, of Woodlands, St. Mary, Farmer; b. Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, co. Berks, 15 July, 1891; educ. Newbury Church School; was an Engineer’s Fitter and Erector; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 10 Sept. 1914, with two of his brothers; appointed L.-Corpl., Dec.; went to France, 9 Jan. 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

Sidney Isaac Hughes.

HUGHES, THOMAS JOSEPH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8019), S.S. 103750, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, THOMAS HECTOR, Capt., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Frederick Hughes, of Wallfield, Reigate; b. there, 16 July, 1881; educ. Repton and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Worcesters, 3 May, 1901; gazetted Lieut. in May, 1903; acted as Adjutant from Nov. 1910 to Nov. 1913; obtained his company, 28 June, 1911, and was killed in action near Richebourg St. Vaast, 15 Oct. 1914, being buried 250 yards north of that place. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan., 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Hughes was an excellent cricketer, and played for Hampshire and the Aldershot Command. When his battn. went to Tidworth in 1911 he gave much attention to sport and rendered assistance to Capt. Whitty towards winning the Queen Victoria Cup in 1913. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, dated 21 Oct. 1914, Col. Rowland Hill, President of the Grindelwald Sports Meeting, said: “He was for years our champion ski expert, the capt. and centre-forward of our hockey team, one of the best of our curlers, the capt. of our rifle team against the Swiss marksmen. The cheeriest and best of comrades, always to the front in any fun or sport, he will be missed and sincerely mourned by hundreds of friends.” Capt. Hughes m. at Hythe, co. Kent, 4 May, 1911, Gertrude Mary, dau. of Charles Frederick Dobson, of Nottingham, and had two children: Thomas Frederick, b. 15 March 1914; and Joan Winifred, b. 22 June, 1912.

HUGHES, WALLACE JOHN, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305429, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GORDON-HUGHES, GORDON STONHOUSE (“DICK”), Corpl., No. 677, 8th Battn. 90th Winnipeg Rifles (“Little Black Devils”), and posthumous Lieut. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Gordon Gordon-Hughes, Capt., 92nd Gordon Highlanders, afterwards Col. and Adjutant of the Breconshire Rifle Volunteers, by his second wife, Elise Elizabeth (now widow of Algernon Walford Spencer, B.A.), dau. of George Summers Griffiths, of Marl Hill, Cheltenham, and Maida Vale, London, W., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple and Oxford Circuit, and gdson. of Gen. Samuel Hughes, C.B., of the Indian Army; b. Hampstead, 1 July, 1890; educ. Abingdon and Streatham Colleges; went to Canada in 1904, and purchased a farm in Manitoba. In 1911 went to Winnipeg where he became a Chartered Accountant. He had just received his final diploma when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, and he immediately volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles. He left Valcartier with the first contingent, arrived in England in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain, Col. Lipsett specially selected him as Regimental Scout. Went to France in Feb. 1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, after which he was promoted Corpl., and in the engagements at Langemarck (St. Julien), where he was wounded in the head, gassed and crushed under sand bags, but refused to go into Hospital; and Festubert, where, on 22 May, 1915, he was mortally wounded. He died in Hospital at Boulogne on the 25th, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 2251) on the 27th; unm. Col. (now Gen.) Lipsett wrote: “In losing your son I felt I had lost one of my very best, most reliable, and promising men, the commission for which I recommended him was gained entirely on his own merits, and for very good work done; a son to be proud of”; and Major A. W. Woods: “The boys of No. 2 Coy. never wavered for an instant, it was one of the finest instances of endurance that could be imagined, they were in a perfect inferno of shell fire. Your boy, though terribly wounded, uttered no word of complaint, and exhibited the most magnificent fortitude.” Lieut. J. P. MacKenzie wrote: “Corpl. Gordon-Hughes was an exceptionally gallant young man, he was very highly thought of, and liked, by every officer and man in the Battn. I believe he did more than one brave act, which entitled him to promotion, high mention, and reward, but the officers of his Coy., who saw and knew of these brave acts were all killed or prisoners, and there was no one left to bring these conspicuous acts of bravery, etc., before the O.C. Battn.” He was gazetted Lieut. shortly after his death. A bed in the Mackenzie Military Hospital, Winnipeg, was endowed by the T.O.D.E. and named the “Dick Gordon-Hughes” in his memory.

G. S. Gordon-Hughes.

HUGO, LAWRENCE WILLIAM ALBERT, Lieut., Wellington Infantry Regt., s. of William Eugene Hugo, and of his wife, Mary (3, Rossmore Crescent, Wellington, New Zealand); b. Napier, New Zealand, 28 March, 1885; educ. Terrace School, Wellington; joined the Volunteers in March, 1903, and on the introduction of the Territorial system received a commission and was posted to the Technical College Cadets. He was in charge of the Cadets from Nov. 1911, until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, when he volunteered for Imperial service. He was gazetted Lieut. 1 Sept. following; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge 4 May following. He was a crack rifle shot, and while in the Volunteers was Instructor of the Squads which won the Physical Drill and Bayonet-fighting Championships at the Military Tournaments.

Lawrence W. A. Hugo.

HULBERT, HAROLD JOHN, Private, No. 13507, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of George Reginald Hulbert, of Bethany, Manitoba, by his wife, Amy, dau. of John Woodcock, of Netherhampton, Wiltshire; b. Bethany, 1 Oct. 1894; educ. Minnedosa High School; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force directly war broke out; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Front in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried near St. Julien. Major Dyer, D.S.O., wrote: “Your boy was killed by shell fire on the hill of Gravenstaffel, while his company was advancing to support the 8th Battn. and help fill the gap left by the retiring Turcos.... We were holding the trenches against 15,000 Germans with less than 1,000 men ... for the last two days without food or water, but we were all there was between the Germans and Calais.”