The Roll of Honour. (continued 30)

Frederick Longman.

LONGSDON, ALFRED ALLEN, St. John Ambulance Brigade, s. of the late Robert Longsdon, of Bromley, Kent, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Richard (and Sarah) Allen; b. Bromley, 16 Feb. 1866; educ. Wellington College, was a scientist; joined the St. John Ambulance Association after the outbreak of war, in Oct. 1914; went to France in the early part Dec., and was accidentally killed at Havre, 6 Jan. 1915, while on service. In returning to the hospital situated on the docks, Mr. Longsdon, who was owner-driver of a Fiat motor ambulance, had to pass near the edge of one of the quays. In the darkness he must have misjudged the distance, for the ambulance car fell into the basin and when he was got out of the water he was found to have sustained a fractured skull, and he died without recovering consciousness. Buried at Havre. He m. at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 5 Sept. 1896, Ellen Mary (Addison Mansions, Kensington), yst. dau. of Joseph Allen, and had five children: Robert Cyril, b. 28 March, 1900; Grant Allen, b. (posthumous) 2 June, 1915; Nancy, b. 22 July, 1902; Marion, b. 1 May, 1908; and Merritt Jean, b. 23 June, 1911.

Alfred Allen Longsdon.

LONSDALE, ARTHUR CARR GLYN, Lieut., 6th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of the late Rev. John Henry Lonsdale, M.A., Rector of Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, by his wife, Katharine Carr (The Further House, Wimborne, co. Dorset), dau. of Capt. Carr Stuart Glyn, of Wood Leage, Wimborne, and gdson. of the late Canon John Gilby Lonsdale, of Lichfield; b. Wall Vicarage, Lichfield, co. Stafford, 7 Sept. 1891; educ. Summerfields, Oxford; Radley, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was intending to take orders, but on the outbreak of war, obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, from the C.U.O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to France in Nov., 1914; was subsequently attd. to the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Buried there. While at Summerfields, he won an Eton and a Radley Scholarship; at Radley he was capt. of rackets and of fives, and at Cambridge where he graduated in 1910, he represented his college at tennis.

Arthur Carr G. Lonsdale.

LONSDALE, DAVID, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 1005), 284049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LOOS, CECIL GEORGE BERTRAM, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Hon. Frederick Charles Loos, C.M.G., by his wife, Isabel (Roseneath, Darley Road, Colombo, Ceylon); b. Colombo, 3 Oct. 1884; educ. Bedford Grammar School; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Buffs (Militia), 1904; transferred to the 1st Worcestershire Regt., 27 May, 1908, and joined the Reserve of Officers, 1912; on the outbreak of war rejoined the 3rd Battn. of his regt.; was promoted Lieut. in Dec.; went to France, 3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 12 March, 1915. Buried there near the chateau. He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 16 April, 1912, Helen, dau. of John Hines, of Seddlescombe Lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea, and had one son, Frederick Charles, b. May, 1913.

Cecil George B. Loos.

LORAM, ALLEN, Stoker, 1st Class, 294257, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LORD, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2358), 184692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action, 22 Sept. 1914.

LORD, HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, B. 4301, S.S. 103147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LORD, WILLIAM HERBERT, A.B., J. 13484, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action, 22 Sept., 1914.

LOUCH, THOMAS, Private, No. 13590, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Thomas Louch (died 17 June, 1905), by his wife, Mary Ann (Newbold-upon-Avon), dau. of the late Matthew Davies, of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; b. Newbold-on-Avon, near Rugby, co. Warwick, 12 May, 1883; educ. Council School there, and afterwards attended night schools and gained several certificates. He was engaged in the building trade, but after the declaration of war, answered his country’s call and enlisted in Nov. 1914. He was sent to the Front in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 8 Oct. 1915; unm. He was a member of the Newbold Football Club and of the Committee of the Cricket Club. He was also a member of the Church Choir and for several seasons spent most of his leisure time in helping to beautify the churchyard.

Thomas Louch.

LOVATT, WILLIAM HENRY TURNER, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports. 7248), R.F.R., Ch. B. 1203, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOVEDAY, ARTHUR EDWARD, Private, No. 9411, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Joel Loveday, of 58, Yew Tree Road, Witton, Birmingham, late Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Green, of Berkshire; b. Saltley, Birmingham, 15 April, 1893; educ. College School there, enlisted 8 Jan. 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following; unm.

Arthur Edward Loveday.

LOW, ANDREW LESLIE, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1084, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOW, DAVID, Private, No. 4104, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Alexander Low; b. Edinburgh, 23 Dec. 1881; educ. Cranstoun Street School there; enlisted 1897; served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Kemmel, 21 Jan. 1915. He m. at Edinburgh, 1903, Catherine (16, South Richmond Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Hugh Flaherty, and had four children: Alexander, b. 15 Feb. 1909; Hugh, b. 31 Jan. 1914; Catherine Muir, b. 18 Nov. 1903; and Helen Pringle, b. 24 Oct. 1912.

David Low.

LOW, ROBERT THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8900), 199042, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LOWE, BERTIE GUY, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1713), 10813, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOWE, HENRY STANLEY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Jackson Lowe, Vicar of Stallingborough, and only s. by his 2nd wife; b. Stallingborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Feb. 1891; educ. Glengarth Preparatory School, Cheltenham; Bilton Grange, near Rugby; Rugby, and in Sandhurst Company at Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1913; joined his regt. in Jhansi, India, in Jan. 1910; returned to Aldershot in 1913; went to France, and died at Paris, 21 Oct. following, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept.; unm. Buried at St. Germain-en-Laye.

LOWE, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7944), S.S. 1554, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Lowe, of 6, Shepherd Place Buildings, Lees Mews, Park Street, London, W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

LOWE, THOMAS, A.B., B. 1529, 190575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOWERY, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., 1236 U., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOWIN, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9654), S.S. 107099, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOWRIE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOWRY, JOHN, A.B., R.F.R., B. 3218, S.S. 741, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOWTH, JAMES FRANCIS ALEXANDER, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOXLEY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 14657, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Loxley, Engine Fitter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late Edward Stringer; b. Ecclesfleld, co. York, 26 Oct. 1885; educ. there; was a stove and grate fitter; volunteered and enlisted 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 15 Aug. 1915, and died in Convalescent Home, Westbury, co. Wilts, 27 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action during the Battle of Loos, 27–29 Sept. 1915. He m. at Grimsby, 4 Aug. 1912, Edith Mary (3, Burton Street, Langsett Road, Sheffield), widow of Philip Munty, and dau. of the late Frederick Charles Unwin; s.p.

LOXTON, CHARLES EDWARD HOLDEN, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Charles Adshead Loxton, of Shoal Hill House, Cannock, LL.B., Solicitor, of Walsall, by his wife, Emily Clara, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Thomas Holden, of Great Barr, formerly M.P. and Mayor of Walsall; b. at Walsall, 3 June, 1892; educ. Sandroyd School, Stanmore; Harrow (Druries), and University College, Oxford; was a student at the Inner Temple, and after passing Moderations with honours (Classics) at Oxford, became a student also in the faculty of Medicine and Surgery; volunteered on the outbreak of war and gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th North Staffordshires, Aug. 1914; went to France, 3 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, early on Sunday morning, 23 May, 1915; unm. Soon after midnight he was with his men repairing some wiring in front of the trench, when he was struck by a bullet, and died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Belgium. His commanding officer, Col. Knight, wrote: “He was certainly the bravest man I have seen out here, and endeared himself to all of us. We did our best to make him more cautious, but he would set the example—as he did to all of us—to his platoon, and he made them into a splendid lot of men.” The President of the Officer’s Mess also wrote: “I need only say that he was universally beloved by both officers and men, and his platoon would have done anything for him and followed him anywhere, and by his splendid behaviour in the face of danger he has left us a grand example.” The Platoon Sergt. writing on behalf of the platoon said: “In any work one or more of us were engaged in, he was always ready with a helping hand, thus in no small way in his capacity of an officer, displaying his desire to encourage us, and he always proved himself to be of an unselfish and thoughtful disposition.” Lieut. Loxton was fond of yatching and had just returned from a yatching cruise on the West of Scotland when the war broke out. While a boy at Stanmore, he became a member of the University and Public Schools Camp, and attended each year with the Anglesey Camp. He regarded these camps with real affection, and said they taught a boy the manliness of religion and not to be ashamed of it. His Housemaster at the Druries Harrow, wrote: “Edward Loxton came to Harrow in 1906. A steady worker if not an accomplished scholar in the technical sense, he had a strong appreciation of the best in literature, and spent a year in the highest form in the school. But it was in the house that his gifts of character were most clearly to be discerned. To a personality of great charm, and an exceptional talent for friendship, he added an unostentatious force of character, a self-less devotion to duty and all the simplicity of a finely touched spirit. Passionately loyal himself, he abhorred all that was mean or base. It surprises none who loved him to read of his bravery in the field, as he was sans reproche, he would be sans peur. He is deeply mourned in a house which has given many lives of bright promise in England’s cause.”

Charles E. H. Loxton.

LUCY, REGINALD ERIC, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Northamptonshire Regt., elder s. of Major Reginald Horace Lucy, of 9, The Crescent, Plymouth, M.B., F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth, by his wife, Emily Susan, dau. of Robert Shackleford Cross; b. Plymouth, 28 July, 1893; educ. Ellerslie, Fremington, N. Devon, Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 22 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 July, 1914; served with his regt. in Malta and Egypt until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; returned to England in Oct.; went to France with the 8th Division, in Nov., and died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Neuve Chapelle on the 12th; unm.

LUFF, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 10450, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Frederick Luff, of 2, Court, 2, Newton Lane, Sheffield, by his wife, Lily, dau. of Thomas Clarke; b. Sheffield, 27 June, 1895; educ. St. Mary’s Church School there; enlisted in Nov. 1913; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 27 Oct. following.

William Henry Luff.

LUKIS, THEODORE STEWART, M.D., M.R.C.P., Capt., 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.C.S., Director-Gen. I.M.S., by his wife, Lilian, dau. of the late Col. John Stewart, C.I.E., R.A.; b. Cawnpore, India, 7 Dec. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; entered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in 1903, M.D. (Gold medal) London, 1912; M.R.C.P. London, 1913; Assistant Physician Queen’s Hospital for children; Demonst. Physiol. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Fellow of London Medical Society, some time Home Physician to the Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and House Physician and Opth. Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the Kensingtons, 20 Aug. 1914, for service in the ranks; was gazetted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1914, and Capt. 13 March, 1915; severely wounded at “Port Arthur,” Neuve Chapelle, on 12 March, 1915, he died in No. 7 Base Hospital at Boulogne, 15 March following; unm. He won the open science scholarship in 1904, and the gold medal in medicine at the London University in 1912, and was elected to the Junior Staff of St. Bartholomew’s, and the Queen’s Hospital for children. “His great ability was recognised by all, and he was profoundly interested in medical research. But his deepest interest was in the condition of the London poor, and he early tried to give practical relief by throwing himself heart and soul into the Boy Scout movement. He commanded the East London Torynbee Hall Scouts for some years. On the outbreak of war, after much heart searching, he decided to enlist and thus set an example in its simplest form, and he was followed to the recruiting office by 80 ex-scouts, and scoutmasters.”

LUMSDEN, ANDREW STEEDMAN, Private No. 2153, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots,(T.F.), 2nd s. of Andrew Steedman Lumsden, of 14, Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, A. Mus. T.C.L., Teacher of Music, by his wife, Lillias Ellen, dau. of William Gray Tennant, Merchant, of Leith; b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1891; educ. Bruntsfield School, Edinburgh; was assistant to Mr. Alex. G. Pyrie, Grocer, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined the Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left Larbert for Liverpool on the morning of 22 May, 1915, just escaped the railway disaster at Gretna Green on that date, being in the train that preceded the one that was wrecked; left Liverpool on or about the 23rd May, 1915, for Gallipoli, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. On 10 June, 1915, he wrote; “We have now left for Alexandria, started yesterday morning and are on our way to an unknown destination”; and on 25 June, 1915, he wrote from Gallipoli stating; “We have been in the trenches and are now in the rest camp.”

Andrew Steedman Lumsden.

LUMSDEN, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 25), 135850, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LUNON, ARTHUR JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14117, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LUPTON, REGINALD, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of William Charles Lupton, of 14, Claremont, Bradford, Member of the firm of John Lupton and Son, Ltd., Wine Merchants, Bradford, Leeds and Leith, three years Mayor of Bradford, by his wife, Sarah Woodhead, dau. of the late William Bentley, of Greenside, Bradford; b. Claremont, Bradford, 17 June, 1882; educ. Sedbergh; was a Director of John Lupton and Sons, Ltd.; served for many years in the 6th West Yorkshire Regt. (Bradford Rifles), and was on the Reserve of Officers when war broke out. He obtained a commission as Capt. in the 9th West Yorkshire Regt., 9 Sept. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1 July, and died on H.M.H.S. Valdivia, of wounds received after the landing at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915, and was buried at sea the following day; unm. He was carrying a wounded man to the dressing station, when he was shot in the abdomen. His elder brother, Major A. W. Lupton, 2nd West Yorkshire Regt., was invalided home from the western front early in 1915.

Reginald Lupton.

LUSH, ARTHUR GEORGE, Private, No. 12407, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Thomas Lush, of The Buddens, Bower Chalk, co. Wilts, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Williams; b. Bower Chalk, 24 March, 1895; educ. National School there; was a Baker by trade; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Jan. 1915, and died in a General Hospital, Rouen, 14 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action on 17 Oct. previously; unm. Buried at Rouen.

Arthur George Lush.

LUSH, CHARLES ARTHUR, 1st Class Chief Petty Officer, Ch. Sh. Ck., 353904, 2nd s. of Jesse Lush, Naval Pensioner, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Richard (and Elizabeth) Freemantle; b. Portsea, co. Hants, 2 June, 1878; educ. there; joined the Navy, 3 May, 1895; and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea. He held the Long Service and Good Conduct medals. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Leiston, co. Suffolk, 25 Dec. 1905, Ethel (49, Sizewell Road, Leiston), eldest dau. of John Forsdike, of Leiston, and had three children: Kenneth Charles, b. 18 Jan. 1907; Charles Frank Trevor, b. 5 Sept. 1914; and Clare Helen Ruth, b. 28 Sept. 1910.

Charles Arthur Lush.

LUSTY, SAMUEL MORLEY, Petty Officer, 160608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYDALL, HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1584), 285739, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LYDEKKER, CYRIL RICHARD, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Richard Lydekker, of Harpenden Lodge, co. Hertford, F.R.S., J.P. (died 16 April, 1915), by his wife, Lucy Marianne, elder dau. of the Rev. Canon Owen William Davys, Rector of Wheathampstead, co. Herts; b. Harpenden Lodge, 8 Nov. 1889; educ. Haileybury and on leaving there entered Messrs. Barclay & Cos’. Bank (8 Oct. 1906), where he remained until the outbreak of war. He joined the Hertfordshire Artillery (4th East Anglian Brigade, T.F.) in the autumn of 1910, and after serving his three years in the Battery, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Bedfordshire Territorials, 14 March, 1914, and promoted Lieut., 29 Aug. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he was away on the annual fortnight’s training with his Regt., and immediately volunteered for foreign service. After training on the East Coast, and at St. Alban’s, he left for the Dardanelles with his Regt., 26 July, 1915; landed at Suvla Bay, 11 Aug.; went into action with his Regt. on the 15th, and was killed in action the same day, being shot through the head, while leading his platoon in a charge; unm. His Commanding Officer, in writing to his sister, said: “He died most gallantly leading his platoon. We found your brother right up in the front and he now lies close up behind the trenches, on the ground that he helped to win.” He was fond of all outdoor sports, especially riding and cricket, and was a great lover of animals, his life being spent almost entirely in the country. He was very fond of music. His brother, Lieut. and Qr.-Mr. Gerard Owen Lydekker, is now (1916) on active service with the same Regt.

Cyril Richard Lydekker.

LYMN, JOSEPH EWART, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3305), 218307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYNCH, HAROLD JEROME, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Francis Lynch (d. 4 June, 1913), by his wife, Josephine (Glascoed Hall, Wrexham, co. Denbigh), dau. of Francis Reynolds, of Hillside, Woolton; b. Glascoed Hall, 9 Dec. 1895; educ. Stonyhurst College, left there 1 Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 9 Sept.; promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and posted to the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers as 2nd Lieut., 4 April following; went to France 26 Jan., and was killed in action at Festubert 16 May, 1915, while leading his men in a successful attack on the German trenches. Buried near Essar, off Rue Calloux, with six other officers of the R.W.F. who fell that day. He was captain of his College, 1913–14, and also of the football team, and a member of the O.T.C. For two years in succession he won the mile, half mile, quarter mile and hurdles, and his class won the shooting medal in 1914.

Harold Jerome Lynch.

LYNCH, JOHN, Private, No. 12191, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 2 Ambulance Flotilla, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

LYNDEN, JOHN HENRY, Private, No. 2848, 2/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Benjamin Lynden, of 57, Farrant Avenue, Wood Green, N., Clerk, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Pearmain; b. Wood Green, co. Middlesex, 30 July, 1892; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Clerk; enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar for garrison duty, 1 Feb. 1915, and died in Hospital at Gibraltar, 9 March following, while on active service; unm.

John Henry Lynden.

LYNDSELL, PHILIP, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 12672, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYNES, BERTIE FREDERICK, Private No. 6835, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; enlisted 2 July, 1906; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; died in the Hospital train near Willereaux, 18 Sept. following, of wounds received in action.

LYNN, ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3784), S.S. 1077, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYON, ALBERT EDWARD, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYON, JOHN JAMES, Private, No. 4011, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles Lyon, Colliery Manager at Chorley, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of John Thurlby; b. Chorley, co. Lancs., 8 Nov. 1881; educ. St. George’s School there; enlisted 22 Jan. 1901; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 12 Feb. 1909, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 26 Aug. 1914, to 8 Oct. 1915, and died at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, 16 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action at Loos on the latter date. Buried in St. Sivier Cemetery there. He m. at St. Edward’s R.C. Church, Palace Street, London, S.W., 4 April, 1904, Catherine (1, Hill View, Eastwood Road, Bramley, near Guildford), dau. of Jeremiah Donovan, and had two children: Sidney Francis, b. 15 July, 1912; and Kathleen Lucy, b. 27 Feb. 1914.

John James Lyon.

LYON, ROBERT MAIR, Sergt., No. 1239, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Robert Lyon, of Galston, co. Ayr, and of Tottenham, N., M.D., C.M., by his wife, Annie (10, Baskerville Road, Wandsworth Common), dau. of Robert Mair; b. Newmilns, co. Ayr, 24 Jan. 1891; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and La Villa, Lausanne; was in the London office of Browne and Tawse, Iron and Steel Merchants; joined the London Scottish in 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Hulluch, 13 Oct. 1915, while leading a platoon; unm.

Robert Mair Lyon.

BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st. Battn., The Black Watch, eldest s. of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Battn. Black Watch, by his wife, Lady Anne, dau. of Alexander, 25th Earl of Crawford, and gdson. of Claude, 13th Earl of Strathmore; b. 15 Sept. 1885; educ. Eton, studied at the Royal College of Science, Newcastle, for electrical engineering, Member of the Inst. C.E. He joined the Forfarshire and Kincardine Militia Artillery in April, 1906, and in 1910 was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of the Black Watch. In 1911, obtaining an engineering appointment in India, he spent two and a half years at Bombay, and on his return home with a friend via Japan and Canada in May, 1914, was one of the few survivors in the terrible disaster and loss of the Empress of Ireland liner on the St. Lawrence. Shortly afterwards, his battn. was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attd. to the 1st Battn. of the Black Watch in the First Army Corps, and joined the Expeditionary Force in France early in Sept.; served through the memorable battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the fierce struggles in the first battles round Ypres. He was twice slightly wounded, and after three days’ incessant fighting from 20 Oct. was killed in action on 23 Oct. at Pilken, during an attack to recover the lost trenches. He was buried in the churchyard at Boesinghe; unm. A keen cricketer and sportsman, his scientific career had been of brilliant promise, and his attractive disposition had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. A well-known chaplain with the Expeditionary Force wrote: “Capt. —— spoke most splendidly of B. L. and his example, and said, amongst other things, that he was one of the finest characters he had ever met.”

Charles L. C. Bowes Lyon.

LYONS, ERNEST, Private, No. 13344, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Edward Lyons, of 52, Princess Street, Plumstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915.

LYTTLE, DAVID JOHN ALBERT, Lieut., 14th Battn. South Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of John Lyttle, of Chatton Road, Gore, New Zealand, formerly a Master at Longridge School, Gore, by his wife, Catherine (Rina), dau. of the late David Gardner, of Stanley Hill Gore, formerly of Blairmains Farm, Shotts, Scotland; b. Waikaia, New Zealand, 1888; educ. at his father’s school, Longridge, and Southland Boys’ High School, Invercargill (Scholar), and took a prominent part in the school sports; started his career as Third Assistant in Gore School, and was later transferred to Kaitangata as Second Assistant. After two years’ service there he returned as First Assistant in Gore School; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the New Zealand Territorials, while at Kaitangata; volunteered for Imperial service immediately the European war broke out, and was given a commission as Lieut.; left for Egypt with the main body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 May following; unm. While at Gore School he founded the Boy Scout movement there, and acted as District Commander for several years. He was an authority on local geology and botany; was well-known as a mountaineer, especially in connection with the exploration of the West Coasts Sound’s Region, and during one of these trips discovered falls 1,000 ft. high, now known as the “Lyttle Falls.”

David John A. Lyttle.

McALLISTER, ANDREW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7656), S.S. 103005, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MACATEER, JOHN, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21973, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACAUSLAND, OLIVER BABINGTON, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. Redmond Conynham Samuel Macausland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, co. Derry, J.P., Indian Army (ret.), by his wife, Jane Isabella, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Henry Keown, 15th King’s Hussars and Royal North Down Militia; b. Rawalpindi, Punjab, India, 28 Nov. 1895; educ. Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (prize cadet); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and the same month joined the 4th Battn. (Special Reserve) Royal Irish Rifles, at Holywood, co. Down. In March, 1915, he was posted to the 1st Battn. of that regt. then on active service in France, and given the rank of Lieut. He was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division from Rouges Bancs towards Fromelles, and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, in which our men came up against unbroken wire and parapets and sustained very heavy casualties. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a young soldier with a soldierly faculty; gentle, just, and clear-sighted.”; and the Adjutant wrote of him: “He was always more than ready to do any dangerous patrols that were to be done; and it was so nice to know that we could depend on him to do whatever was to be done without any further supervision. When he met his death, he was gallantly leading his platoon in the charge at Fromelles early on the 9th.” He was unm. A marble tablet to his memory was placed in Errigal Church, Garvagh, co. Derry.

Oliver B. Macausland.

MACBEAN, DUNCAN GILLIES FORBES, Capt., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of Major-General Forbes Macbean, C.V.O., C.B., formerly A.D.C. to H.M. the King, late Gordon Highlanders, by his wife, Mary Katharine Fishburn, dau. of the late Capt. Forbes Jackson, R.N., and gdson. of Col. Forbes Macbean, 92nd Gordon Highlanders, Sergt.-at-Arms to Queen Victoria, and great-grand-nephew of Sir William Macbean, K.C.B., K.T.S., also of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders; b. R. M. C. Terrace, Yorktown, 19 July, 1893; educ. Aysgarth School, Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1914. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he went to France with his regt., was wounded at Gheluvelt, 28 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Festubert, 18 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in the garden of the Chateau de Gorre, near Bethune. Lieut. Macbean was a fine all-round sportsman. He excelled as a Rugby football player, and was a member of the XV at Wellington and Sandhurst. He was also a very good shot with both gun and rifle, and most popular with all who knew him.

Duncan G. F. Macbean.

McBRIDE, GILBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7954), S.S. 103628, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McCABE, JOSEPH, Private, No. 1603, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Alexander McCabe, of Killagorman, Killishandra, by his wife, Rose Ann, dau. of Daniel Kelly, of Killagorman, Killishandra; b. Dumnlara, Killishandra, co. Cavan, 30 April, 1877; educ. Killagorman National School; went to Sydney, Australia, 1907; when war broke out volunteered and joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 July, 1915; unm.

Joseph McCabe.

MACCABE, ROBERT MAXWELL, Lieut. 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Maccabe, of 22, Landscape Terrace, Belfast, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Maxwell; b. Belfast, co. Antrim, 25 Aug. 1884; educ. Clifton Park National School and Queen’s University, Belfast and was Telegraphist, G.P.O. He joined Queen’s University O.T.C. in 1910, and gained his “A” certificate in infantry training and entered for his “B” certificate. He also acted as Musketry Lecturer, and received a medal from Count Gleichen for excellent work in the O.T.C. After the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the Post Office Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to France with his battn. where he acted as bomb officer. On 23 April a small detachment of the battn. was stationed in a dug-out near Givenchy when a shell burst, wounding him severely. He was taken to the Military Hospital at Bethune, where he died, 23 April, 1915, and was buried in the Civil Cemetery there. Lieut. Maccabe was a keen sportsman and was for a long period captain of the Glendorra Lawn Tennis Club. He was also Hon. Treasurer of the Silverstream Hockey Club, and was a member of the committee of the Clytonville Football and Cricket Clubs. He m. at Belfast, 21 Nov. 1914, Amy Constance Robb, yst. dau. of Thomas McDowell, of Belfast; s.p.

Robert Maxwell Maccabe.

MACCABEE, WILLIAM ERNEST, Private No. 7379, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Reg., s. of late William Maccabee, Royal Garrison Artillery; b. Portsmouth, 20 May, 1881; enlisted Feb. 1902, and was killed in action at Troyon, France, 7 Oct. 1914. He m. at Portsmouth, 23 Feb. 1914, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Ford, of Glastonbury, and had a posthumous dau., Eva Winnifred, b. 3 March 1915.

William Ernest Maccabee.

McCALL, ROBERT JAMES, Private, No. 8/1276, Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of James William McCall, of York Bar, Wellington, Plumber; b. Blenheim, Nov. 1884; educ. at Terrace End School; worked as an assistant to his father and afterwards with his brother, J. McCall, of Main Street, Palmerston; volunteered on the outbreak of war; enlisted and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; was drafted to Otago Infantry Battn., and left New Zealand in Dec. 1914, with the Second Contingent; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915; unm. McCall was well-known in football circles as a member of the Old Kai Toa Club, and later of the Orientals.

Robert James McCall.

McCANN, FRANK RICHARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 24018, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McCAROGHER, JOHN OMMANNEY, Private, No. 1848, 1/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Ernest Joseph Chilton McCarogher, of Croydon, Bank Manager; b. Croydon, 19 May, 1895; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 and was killed in action at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield.

McCARTEN, WILLIAM JAMES DANIEL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3556), 216332, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McCARTHY, DENIS, Rifleman, No. 289, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the late Denis McCarthy, of Cardiff, by his wife, Kathleen; b. Cardiff, 30 July, 1882; educ. St. Patrick School, Grangetown, there; enlisted in 1904, and, on completing his term of service with the Colours, became a tram conductor at Cardiff. When war broke out he rejoined his Battn.; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Armentières, 23 Oct. 1914. He m. at Cardiff, 24 Dec. 1907, Mary Ann (16, Tyler Street, Roath, Cardiff), dau. of the late Ambrose Turner, of London, and had three children: William Denis, b. 25 Feb. 1911; Kathleen May, b. 15 Dec. 1909, and Eileen Mary, b. 6 Aug. 1913.

Denis McCarthy.

McCARTHY, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3235), S.S. 748. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McCARTHY, JERRY JOSEPH, L.-Corpl., No. 870. 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, s. of Florence McCarthy, of Bantry, co. Cork, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Denis McCarthy; b. Bantry, 6 Jan. 1876; educ. there; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, about 1895, became corpl. about 1897; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with clasps and King’s medal with clasps), and afterwards went to Australia, about 1905. When the European War broke out he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 3 May, 1915, during an attack on the Turkish trenches; unm.

Jerry Joseph McCarthy.

McCARTHY, WILFRED CYRIL, Private, No. 1573, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late David McCarthy, of Derby, Coal Merchant, by his wife, Edith Annie (34, York Street, Derby), dau. of Joseph Hirst; b. Derby, 14 Aug. 1884; educ. Ashbourne Road Council Schools, Derby, and emigrated to Australia in July, 1913; enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force shortly after the outbreak of war, and was killed in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 8 May, 1915; unm.

Wilfred Cyril McCarthy.

McCARTNEY, JOSEPH DONKIN, Petty Officer, 175178, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McCARTY, MARTIN, Private, No. 8357, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John McCarty, of Glenmash, Westport, co. Mayo; b. Glenmash aforesaid; enlisted 5 Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

McCAUGHERTY, DAVID, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3079), 176815, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McCLELLAND, CHARLES STEEN, Private, No. 2086, 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Robert McClelland, Minister of Inchinnan, by his wife, Isabella Coutts, dau. of the Rev. William Corson, Minister of Girvan; b. Inchinnan Manse, co. Renfrew, 27 Jan. 1889; educ. Inchinnan Public School and Paisley Grammar School, and on leaving there entered the Union Bank of Scotland, Paisley, where he served his apprenticeship to banking, and was afterwards employed as ledger clerk in the Govan and Kinning Park, Glasgow branches of the same. In March, 1910, he accepted a post in a bank in Canada, but returned to Scotland the June following, and entered the Office of Messrs. McAndrew, Murray and Wright, of 9, Albyn Place, Edinburgh, where he was for some three years. On the outbreak of war he joined the 1/4th Royal Scots, in Sept. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Larbert, left for the East at the end of May, 1915. He arrived at the Dardanelles, 12 to 15 June, and was killed in action in the attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915; unm.

Charles Steen McClelland.

McCLELLAND, SIDNEY, Private, No. S. 6895, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of John McClelland, of 3, Dowsett Road, Tottenham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 28 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

McCLELLAND, THOMAS, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Thomas McClelland, of St. Anne’s Mount, Aigburth, Liverpool, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of David Smart, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 7 Feb. 1893; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in B.A., with honours in Jurisprudence, July, 1914. On the outbreak of war he joined the King’s Liverpool Regt., 12 Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front early in March, 1915. He was killed in action, while leading his platoon in the attack on the enemy’s trenches at Richebourg L’Avoué, 16 May, 1915, and was buried in the Rue du Bois, about 2 miles west of Neuve Chapelle; unm. A cross bearing his name marks the spot. He was a keen fisher and motor cyclist.

Thomas McClelland.

McCLUSKEY, ALFRED JOHN, L.-Corpl. No. 450, 10th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Andrew McCluskey, Ship’s Steward, by his wife, Hannah Louisa (17, North Church Street, Bute Dock, Cardiff), dau. of Alfred Budding, of Cardiff, Shipwright; b. Cardiff, 20 May, 1877; educ. Mount Stuart Square National School there, and on leaving started work as a wagon builder in the North Central Wagon Works, Cardiff. Tiring of wagon building he followed in his dead father’s footsteps and took to the sea. In Feb. 1907, he emigrated to Australia, and catching the “get rich quick” fever started out as a prospector with varying success. What money he made he speedily lost in speculation. Later he took up sheep farming, and worked in Western Australia until the outbreak of war, when he joined the Commonwealth Force, and was killed in action at Walkers Ridge, Anzac Beach, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I personally knew that he was a good soldier, as during the whole of our training he personally came under my notice a great deal.”

Alfred John McCluskey.

McCOMB, HUGH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5565), S.S. 100505, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McCORMACK, JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 28), 10131, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McCORMICK, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, 304180, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

McCREADIL, CHARLES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26680 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McDERMOTT, FREDERICK AYLWARD, Private, No. 857, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of the late Cornelius William McDermott, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N., by his wife, Mary Anne (7, Leigham Terrace, Plymouth); b. Rhyd-y-Gors, co. Carmarthen, 29 June, 1879; educ. Richmond (Yorkshire) Grammar School and Mannamead College, Plymouth; after the declaration of war enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Sydney, 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 7 June, 1915, while on observation duty in the firing line by the bursting of a Turkish high explosive shell, a piece of which pierced his heart. He was buried by the padre in the Anzac Beach cemetery; unm. General Sir William Birdwood wrote his sympathy in the loss of a son, who died so gallantly for his King and country. The Adjutant wrote that the late Private F. McDermott was thought very highly of by his late Capt. A. J. Shout, V.C., in whose company he was.

Frederick A. McDermott.

McDIARMID, KENNETH, Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of the late John McDiarmid, of Auchenvin, Dalbeattie, Scotland, Shipowner, by his wife, Mary A. J. dau. of the late James Hosack; b. Liverpool, 26 Oct. 1881; educ. Sedbergh School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; held an appointment in Burma with the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., and being home on leave at the outbreak of war, applied for a commission; was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. on 4 Sept., and later was transferred to the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. subsequent to his death, 5 May, 1915, to date as from 2 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action on Hill 60 near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, his commanding officer said: “He not only showed a splendid example of leadership, but of great heroism. Though wounded he refused to go away from the fighting line, and, finally, when his platoon was very much reduced in numbers and the Germans were in consequence pressing on to the parapet, he leapt on to the parapet himself and met his end most valiantly fighting at close quarters. He was an officer whose brave deeds will never be forgotten in the regt. and whose charming personality made a great impression on me for the short three weeks I knew him.” A brother officer wrote: “He was wounded through the arm first, but refused to leave the firing line. About 6 a.m., while cheering on the Scottish Borderers, he was shot clean through the head and killed instantaneously. Your son was beloved by his men and fellow officers, and in losing him the regt. has lost one of its best officers, and myself one of my best chums. It is some little consolation to know that his bravery pulled his men together at a very critical point, and his memory will never be forgotten.” And another officer: “The conduct of A Coy. was extraordinarily good. They had between 120 and 130 casualties out of 160. Lieut. McDiarmid did extraordinarily well there. Although severely wounded he kept up a rapid rifle fire behind a blockade until he was killed. I was told his conduct was absolutely heroic, for he succeeded in holding a very important communication trench, thus saving a rather dangerous situation, as but for his action it might well have resulted in our communications being cut.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

Kenneth McDiarmid.

McDONALD, ALEXANDER TOM CLARK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11267, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

McDONALD, ARCHIBALD, Private, No. 10076, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Barony, Glasgow; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, aged 40; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914; m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1902, Annie, dau. of (—) Fay, and had two children: Archibald, b. 7 April, 1915; and Isabella, b. 5 June, 1904.

MACDONALD, ARCHIBALD, Private, No. 10151, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 31 Oct. 1914.

McDONALD, ANGUS, Private, No. 10741, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Donald McDonald, of 47, Hopehill Road, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 20 March, 1915, of wounds received in action.

MACDONALD, REV. CHARLES GORDON, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Scottish Rifles (The Cameronians) (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Edward Ellice Macdonald, Rector of Hillhead High School, Glasgow, by his wife, Johanna Margaret, dau. of the late John Adam, of India; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 7 March, 1889; educ. Hillhead High School and Glasgow University, where he graduated M.A. and B.D. and where he was actively associated with the O.T.C., and in May, 1914, was licensed by the Presbytery and appointed Assistant Minister in Hamilton. On the outbreak of war he resigned his position and was gazetted to the 1/6th Scottish Rifles as 2nd Lieut., 5 Sept. 1914; went to France early in March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915, in an attack on the enemy’s trenches. The attack was planned on the night of the 14th, Lieut. Macdonald, with his company, was appointed to lead the charge, and his own platoon, with himself at their head, was the first to advance. They had to traverse 300 yards of open ground to reach the German first line trenches, and in his last letter, written that night, Lieut. Macdonald said that he was proud at having been selected to lead the charge, but that it was very unlikely that he would come out of it with his life. He was unm. A brother officer wrote: “Your son was brave beyond all words; Lieut. Macdonald was asked to lead that charge, and he did lead that charge. He had smiles all over his face and shouted: ‘Come on, men!’ He had a rifle with the bayonet fixed, and he ran in front of his men to encourage them. It was a brave piece of work. He knew no fear.” The Rev. J. H. Dickie, Minister of New Kilpatrick, to whom Lieut. Macdonald acted as assistant for a time, in the course of an appreciation of the deceased, wrote: “The Church of Scotland is poorer to-day, because of the death of Gordon Macdonald. For he was a man of not only outstanding ability, but of exceptional spiritual power. A brilliant student, Master of Arts, with first-class honours in literature, he had all the makings of a powerful preacher, for he possessed a soul—soul all afire with vivid sense of the Divine. I was privileged to know him well, to share his inmost thoughts, and with sincerity I can say that Gordon Macdonald was one of the most spiritually-minded men I ever knew.” His brother, Lieut. Edward Ellice Macdonald, is now on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France.

Charles G. Macdonald.

McDONALD, DONALD, Stoker, 1st Class, 284481, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving s. of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; b. Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Capt. Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his regt. 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Col. Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieut. MacDonald’s mother: “I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Capt. Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise.” He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910–11–12 and afterwards played in the former pupils’ team. At the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. “Chronicle” for Oct. Lieut. MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieut. Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battn. Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.

Evan R. H. K. MacDonald.

McDONALD, GEORGE, Private, No. 11457, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Alexander McDonald, of Milton of Culloden Farm, Allanfearie, co. Inverness, Cattleman, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Alexander Ross, Ploughman; b. Tomich, Muir of Ord, 6 Aug. 1895; educ. Urray Public School; was a Gardener at Forres; joined the Royal Scots 22 Feb.; went to France 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

George McDonald.

McDONALD, GEORGE DUFFUS, E.R.A., R.N.R., 31 E.C., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACDONALD, JAMES, Corpl., No. 15171, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, yst. s. of John Macdonald, of Kilnhillock, Glenrinnes, co. Banff, Crofter, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Gordon; b. Dufftown, 28 Feb. 1895; educ. Mortlach Higher Grade School there; was apprenticed as a draper to the Central Cash Drapery Warehouse, Dufftown, and afterwards proceeded to Greenock; joined the Royal Scots soon after war was declared, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France July, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915; unm.

McDONALD, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9968), 296416, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McDONALD, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT, Private, No. 1991, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), only s. of John McDonald, of 22, Downfield Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes Taylor, dau. of William Scott; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1895; educ. Dairy Public School there; enlisted, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot through the chest, 22 March following, while erecting barbed wire entanglements before our trenches at St. Eloi. He was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died on 3 April, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He was a brave and plucky lad”; and his company commander: “I knew him well as being always keen on his work and ready to do anything to help at any time.”

McDONALD, KENNETH STUART, Corpl., No. 1534, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas McDonald, of Beauly, co. Inverness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Richard Mathews, of Compton, Berkshire; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 23 Jan. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School; joined the Victoria and St. George’s Rifles (1st Middlesex), 24 April, 1900, retiring 29 Jan. 1907, and joining the London Scottish, 4 Feb. following, and was promoted Corpl., 1 Nov. 1913. He served in the South African War of 1899–1902 with the Imperial Yeomanry, and received the Queen’s medal. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914, while assisting a wounded comrade from the firing line. He was buried near a chateau, 1¼ miles west of Ypres, on the Ypres-Vlamertinghe road. He m. at Brixton, 8 Feb. 1902, Caroline, only dau. of Edwin Chambers Macreight, of Hauteville, Jersey; s.p.

Kenneth S. McDonald.

MACDONALD, RONALD MOSSE, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (the 79th), elder s. of Capt. William Mosse Macdonald, of Glenmore Cottage, Bournemouth, formerly 3rd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, by his wife, Helena, dau. of Samuel Harvey Twining; b. Bombay, 9 Dec. 1890; educ. Horris Hill, Newbury; Winchester College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 16 Nov. 1910, and promoted Lieut., 1 May, 1914; left Edinburgh with his regt. for the Front, 12 Aug. following; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, during the heavy fighting to the west of the sugar factory at Troyon, 14 Sept. 1914, on which occasion the 1st Camerons lost 17 officers and 500 men, and was invalided to Angers, France; rejoined his battn. 8 Oct., and was killed at Veldhock, near Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. Lieut. Macdonald was an excellent cricketer and played for the Aldershot Command for two years. He was also an accomplished violinist. His only brother is serving in the same regt.

Ronald Mosse Macdonald.

McDONNELL, THOMAS, A.B., Sapper, No. 14, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, yst. s. of the late Thomas McDonnell, of Newfound Well, Drogheda, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William Keeley, of Drogheda; b. Newfound Well, 12 Feb. 1885; educ. at the Christian Brothers School, Drogheda; joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1902, was for several years in the employ of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., went to Australia in 1911, and in the early part of 1915 enlisted in the Australian Contingent at Victoria. In a letter to his mother announcing this he said he knew she would be glad to know he was doing his bit. He died on board H.M.S. Canada, 27 Aug. 1915, of enteric fever, contracted while serving in the Dardanelles; unm.

MACDUFF, ALEXANDER, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, only s. of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Edith Alexandrine, dau. of John Shiell, of Smithfield, co. Forfar; b. Bonhard, aforesaid, 6 July, 1884; educ. Cargilfield, Winchester, and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Cameron Highlanders, 19 April, 1905; promoted Lieut. 11 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 12 Oct. 1914; went to France, 20 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. Buried near where he fell.

MACE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9390), S.S. 106745, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McEVOY, MICHAEL, Stoker, R.N.R., 1500U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McEVOY, PATRICK, Leading Stoker, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2899), 285115, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McEWAN, ROBERT, S.B.A., M. 5850, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACFARLANE, JOHN SHEPHARD, Private, No. 1819, F Coy., 9th Battn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Macfarlane, of 65, Reidvale Street, Dennistown, Glasgow, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Cockburn; b. Glasgow, 10 Feb. 1897; educ. Thompson Street Public School; was in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow, Boilermakers; joined the Glasgow Highlanders, 4 March, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 17 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell. Buried there. A comrade wrote: “I suppose you know now of our losses when in the trenches last time. One shell killed Hugh Macpherson, George Laing, Wee McFarlane, and three others, also wounded Lieut. Spens. I was at the door of the dug-out with my head outside when this big shell came through the roof and burst inside. When I got rid of the debris with which I was covered and looked in I nearly collapsed. All were dead except the Lieut.” His elder brother. L.-Corpl. David MacFarlane, was killed in action at the Persian Gulf, 7 Jan. 1916.

John S. MacFarlane.

MACFARLANE, ROBERT CRAIG, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd s. of Robert Craig Macfarlane, of Roode Berg, South Africa [s. of Alexander Macfarlane, Jun., of Thornhill, Stirlingshire], by his wife, Jessie Wardlaw, dau. of James Wardlaw Reid; b. Glendenning, Graaff Reinet, South Africa, 5 July, 1897; educ. Ascham St. Vincent’s, Eastbourne, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; entered the Navy, June, 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

Robert C. Macfarlane.

McFARLANE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10630), S.S. 108637, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MACFIE, CLAUD WILLIAM, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of the late Claud Macfie, of Gogar Burn, Midlothian, by his wife, Mary (Warrix, North Berwick), dau. of W. S. Young, of Burntisland; b. Gogar Burn aforesaid, 8 Dec. 1892; educ. at Cargilfield, Midlothian, from which school he obtained a scholarship for Marlborough, where he was in the Hockey XI and the Gymnasium VIII, and won the Fisher Divinity Prize; afterwards proceeding to New College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in Modern History. It had been his intention to enter the Diplomatic Service, but on the outbreak of war he enlisted in Lovat’s Scouts, but being nominated by his college for a University commission, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Staffordshires, 11 Nov. 1914. He went to the Front, 20 May, 1915. and was there attached to the 2nd Bedfords. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on a German trench. The official report of his death is as follows: “2nd Lieut. Macfie, C. W., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshires, attd. 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt., Givenchy, June 16, killed, was in command of the first platoon which assaulted the Crater. He led his platoon most gallantly and fearlessly, and was killed shortly after his men obtained a footing in the enemy’s lines.” The report was accompanied by the following message from the General Officer Commanding, 7th Division, British Expeditionary Force, to the deceased officer’s mother: “The enclosed is a report of the action of 2nd Lieut. C. W. Macfie, 3rd South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., as brought to Gen. Gough’s notice, and he thinks you would like to have a copy. He cannot express too deeply his opinion of this officer’s gallantry or his sympathy for you in your great loss.” The Officer Commanding 2nd Bedfords wrote: “He died a glorious soldier’s death, leading his platoon gallantly against the enemy. We took the enemy’s trench, but unfortunately were unable to retain possession of it for long, and those who were left got themselves away with difficulty and were unable to carry the dead back, so I am very sorry to say that your son’s body was left where he had met his end. I think I am allowed to tell you that I am reporting to the Brigadier-General that he led his men with great dash and gallantry, which was witnessed by several people. He had not been with us long enough for us to get to know him well, but he showed signs of making an excellent officer, and I am very sorry indeed to have lost his services.” His company commander wrote of him: “He was an excellent officer and a very good friend, and his behaviour under fire was the finest example his men could have. He fell leading his men on after we had captured the German trench on the top of the old Mine Crater. This spot is quite close to the village of Givenchy, near Festubert”; and an officer of his company: “He showed splendid spirit all the way through and constantly went down along the trench to see that the men were keeping their spirits up. When the attack was ordered, we had to charge, one platoon at a time, and No. 8, your son’s, was the first to leave the trench. Several officers of the other regts. besides those of our own who were near, remarked upon the way your son led the charge; he was easily the first man at the Germans, and he was seen climbing up over the German ‘crater’ while the rest were still streaming across the open. Soon afterwards he was killed.” 2nd Lieut. Macfie was mentioned by Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French in his Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was unm.

Claud William Macfie.

McGEACHIE, JAMES ANDERSON, Private, No. 1218, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William McGeachie, of 60, Jameson Terrace, New Milns, Ayrshire, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of James Anderson, of Dalrymple, St. Girvan, Ayrshire; b. New Milns, aforesaid, 22 April, 1889; educ. Public School there; went to Australia in Feb. 1911, and settled at Stockenkingle, New South Wales; was a Bushman; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force shortly after the outbreak of war; left for Egypt about June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915; unm.

James A. McGeachie.

McGINNITY, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6631), 215701, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MCGEE, JAMES MICHAEL, Private, No. 3 605, No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, s. of Bernard McGee, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Goldminer (a native of co. Donegal, who died 5 July, 1916); b. Westland, New Zealand, 6 July, 1879; educ. Convent of Mercy, Greymouth, New Zealand; and was a Merchant Sailor; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 20 May, 1915; and was drowned on the transport Marquette, when that ship was torpedoed in the Ægean Sea, 23 Oct. 1915; unm. Three of his brothers, viz.: Timothy, Lawrence and Daniel, are on active service with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

McGINTY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 16982, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, s. of William McGinty, of Addiewell, Midlothian, Candlemaker; b. Blackburn, West Lothian, Aug. 1870; educ. Addiewell; was a Coal Miner; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915; went to France, July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 70, during the Battle of Loos, 26 Sep. 1915. He m. at West Calder, Midlothian, 26 Feb. 1908, Martha (23, Westwood Rows, West Calder), dau. of Alexander Watson, and had four children: William and Alexander (twins), b. 1 March, 1913; Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec. 1911; and Margaret Calder, b. 20 May, 1915.

McGLASHAN, JOHN EWING, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter Charles Stuart McGlashan, of Moidart, Gourock, and the firm of Messrs. McGlashan, Sons and Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes Templeton, dau. of the late David James; b. Shawlands, Glasgow, 16 March, 1884; educ. Greenock Academy, and afterwards entered his father’s business. He joined the Volunteers, 1900, and became 2nd Lieut. 1904, and having passed the school of instruction for regular service as Lieut. in the Renfrew Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 26 Aug. 1914, was gazetted as Lieut. to 1/5th Argylls. He left with his Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Krithia, 12 July, 1915; unm.

MACGREGOR, CORTLANDT RICHARD, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan, J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Orange County, Florida, U.S.A., 7 Feb. 1894; educ. abroad and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1912–1913); gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 5 Feb. 1913, and joined at Chatham; but, having applied for foreign service, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and sailed with it for China in Sept. 1913. He took part in the siege of Tsing-tau, and was promoted Lieut., 17 Sept. 1914. Returning to England in Jan. 1915, he left for the Mediterranean in March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. His only brother, 2nd Lieut. Kenneth Cortlandt MacGregor, of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, had fallen in action near Ypres on 26 Feb. preceding (see following notice).

MACGREGOR, KENNETH CORTLANDT, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan. J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Brecon, 21 Jan. 1896; educ. Lancing College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 30 Sept. 1914; joined at Portland the following day, went to the Front with a Draft for the 2nd Battn., 5 Dec., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Verbranden Molen.

McGREGOR, SAMUEL BEGG, Sergt., No. 183, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of John McGregor, of Aberfoyle, Perth, Blacksmith; b. Leith, 15 April, 1882; educ. Bells School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 1900–02 (Queen’s and King’s medals); promoted Sergt. Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died 11 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Kemmel.

McGUFFICK, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9257), S.S. 106438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McGUILEY, HUGH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9103), S.S. 105931. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McGUINNESS, MICHAEL, Stoker, R.N.R., 1472U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HART-McHARG, WILLIAM FREDERICK RICHARD, Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late Hon. Major William Hart-McHarg, 44th (Essex) Regt., by his wife, Jane Scott (10, Netherhall Gardens, N.W.), dau. of the late Capt. Thomsett, 44th Regt.; b. Kilkenny, 16 Feb. 1869; educ. Bruges; went to Canada about 1885 and was a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, practising at Vancouver, where he was a partner in the firm of Abbott, Hart-McHarg & Duncan. He joined the Canadian Militia about 1895 as a Private and rose to the command of the 7th (Vancouver) Regt., receiving the medal for 20 years’ service. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, with the first contingent (Royal Canadian Regt.) and obtained the Queen’s medal with four clasps (Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Cape Colony), and in 1911 was one of the Canadian contingent present at the Coronation of King George V. On the outbreak of the European War, Lieut.-Col. Hart-McHarg was given command of the 7th Regt. and came over with the first contingent and went to France in Feb. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres, the 7th formed part of the 3rd Brigade, and on Friday, 23 April, occupied a position on the forward crest of a ridge, with its left flank near St. Julien. This position was severely shelled by the Germans during that day, and about 4.30 Col. Hart-McHarg, Major (now Lieut.-Col. Commanding) Odlum and Lieut. Mathewson, of the Canadian Engineers, went out to reconnoitre the ground. The exact location of the German forces opposed to them was not known, and they moved down the slope to the ruined village of Keerselaere—a distance of about 300 yards—in broad daylight without drawing a shot, but when they reached there they saw the Germans not 100 yards away, and they accordingly turned and began to retire. They were followed by a burst of rapid fire the moment they cleared the shelter of the ruins. Col. Hart-McHarg and Major Odlum managed to get into a shell-hole near by, but not before the former had been severely wounded. When Major Odlum discovered this, he raced up the hill under heavy fire in search of surgical aid. He found Capt. G. Gibson, Medical Officer, 7th Battn., who, accompanied by Sergt. J. Dryden, went down to the shell-hole immediately. They managed to move the Colonel into a ditch and there dressed his wound and remained with him till after dark, when he was carried back to Battn. Headquarters. He died the following day, 24 April, 1915, in hospital at Poperinghe, and was buried there in the New Cemetery with Col. Boyle, who fell the same day. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Col. Hart-McHarg was well known as a fine rifle shot. In 1908 he gained the Gold Medal of Canada after a close contest with three redoubtable antagonists from Toronto and Ottawa. He had shot several times in Canada’s national teams, and had distinguished himself in the matches for the Palma International Trophy against the selected teams of the United States, Great Britain, Australia and other countries. He held the record individual score in the match, being in this respect a world’s champion. He had also shot for Canada in the Empire Trophy match, founded by the Australians as an inter-Empire competition. He was a member of the Canadian team at Bisley in 1907, 1910 and 1914, and was spoken of as the next commandant of the Canadian team for Bisley. He shot for the Dominion here in both the Mackinnon and Kolapore Imperial matches, and in 1910 he tied for the Prince of Wales’s Prize with the British Army champion, the famous Capt. Wallingford, who is now with the New Zealand Force. Each scored 85, the highest possible, with 17 bull’s-eyes at 300 and 600 yards. Col Hart-McHarg lost on shooting off the tie, but he won the Bronze Cross of the Bisley Grand Aggregate. In Aug. 1913, he won the Governor-General’s prize for the second time—the Blue Riband—at the Dominion of Canada rifle meeting at Ottawa and the Long Range Championship of the World with army rifle at the international matches, Camp Perry, Ohio. He was unm.

W. F. R. Hart-McHarg.

MACHIN, CHARLES, Corpl., No. 10028, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Machin, of Tunstall, by his wife, Annie (3, Cardigan Road, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury), dau. of Thomas Walker; b. Longton, co. Stafford; educ. Catholic School, Tunstall; enlisted, 17 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, during the desperate fighting on the Aisne. He was unm.

Charles Machin.

McHUGH, MICHAEL, Stoker, R.N.R., 1879S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McINTOSH, ALFRED JAMES GRAHAM, A.B., 221937, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McINTOSH, LAURENCE SCOTT, Stoker, 1st Class, 283715 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McINTOSH, ROBERT RAE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, yst. s. of the Rev. Robert McIntosh, D.D., Senior Minister of the Alva West United Free Church, by his wife, Helen, dau. of the late Thomas Stevens, of Ardline, Helensburgh; b. The West Manse, Alva, near Stirling, 8 May, 1888; educ. at the Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A., 1908, and when war broke out was working for his LL.B. degree; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Cameron Highlanders, 14 April, 1914, and joined his regt. 1 July following. He went to France 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the night of 23–24 April, 1915. Buried near “Hill 60” to the east of the Ypres-Lille railway; unm.

MACK, FRED, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACK, JAMES WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACK, WILLIAM BELL, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084). S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army, elder s. of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan, Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk, by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; b. Bognor, co. Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the 34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in 1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9 Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt. Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell, rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt., I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier, and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his friends in India.

James Fergus Mackain.

MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon, Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; b. Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the 30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; unm.

Alastair Sutton Mackay.

MACKAY, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13442 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKAY, JOHN, Petty Officer, 175154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACKAY, WALTER EDWARD, Stoker, Petty Officer, 174303, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MCKECHNIE, WILLIAM GEORGE ERNEST, 2nd Cook’s Mate, M. 1777, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MCKEE, JAMES, Signalman, 224740, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 14 Oct. 1914.

MACKENZIE, COLIN LANDSEER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only s. of Landseer Mackenzie, of St. Bernard, Bournemouth [Cadet of Mackenzie of Redcastle], by his wife, Laura, dau. of David Dobell, and a great-nephew of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated painter; b. Malvern, 4 May, 1892, and was educ. at Haley Preparatory School, Bournemouth; Stubbington Naval School, and Cheltenham College, where he entered the O.T.C. at so early an age as to be physically unfit to carry his rifle on a march, and won the school prize for German. On leaving Cheltenham, he joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders as 2nd Lieut. on probation, in which rank he was subsequently confirmed, and, after passing his “Army Competition,” was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., 24 May, 1913. On 13 Aug. 1914, he proceeded with his battn., which formed part of the 5th Brigade, to France, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on 20 Sept. following. His company commander, Capt. Chichester, wrote of him: “He was in the trenches at the time, defending a position, and was watching a charge of our men on his left front, and had turned round to tell his men to cease fire, in case they hit any of their own side, when he was shot in the head, death being instantaneous. He was a gallant fellow and a good officer; his death is much deplored.” He was buried on the ridge above Vernieul; unm.

Colin L. Mackenzie.

MACKENZIE, CORTLANDT GRAHAM GORDON, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 3 Nov. 1889; educ. Upper Canada College, Toronto, and the Royal Military College, Kingston; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Scots Fusiliers, 30 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut., 17 Feb. 1912; went to France with his regt. about 30 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Gheluvelt, near Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried there; unm. His eldest brother, Lieut. G. A. G. Mackenzie, was killed at Festubert (see following notice), and his yst. brother, Lieut. John G. Mackenzie, is in the 92nd Highlanders, Canadian Expeditionary Force.

C. G. G. Mackenzie.

MACKENZIE, GORDON ALEXANDER GORDON, Lieut., 16th Battn. (Canadian Scottish) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Henry Gordon Mackenzie, of 31, Walmer Road, Toronto, Canada, Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple, London, by his wife, Beatrix Kathleen, dau. of the late Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Uckfield, co. Sussex, J.P., and grandson of the late Gordon Gates Mackenzie, of Montreal; b. Toronto, 22 Aug. 1882; educ. Ridley College, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, and at the Royal Military College, Kingston; joined the Queen’s Own Rifles, Toronto, about 1901, being placed on the Reserve of Officers about 1907, and when the war broke out was fruit farming in British Columbia. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 30th (British Columbia) Battn., being afterwards transferred to the 16th Battn. He came over with the second contingent, Feb. 1915; went to France about 1 May, and was killed at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; unm.

Gordon A. G. Mackenzie.

MACKENZIE, JAMES, V.C., Private, No. 8185, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of the late Alexander Mackenzie, by his wife, Marion, dau. of Hugh Miller, of Meikle, Borneleugh, Irongray, Dumfries, Farmer; b. West Glen, New Abbey, Kirkcudbrightshire, 2 April, 1889; educ. Laurieknowe Public School, Maxwelltown; enlisted 16 Feb. 1912; killed in action at Rouges Bancs, France, at 2 p.m. 19 Dec. 1914, while acting as stretcher-bearer, in a brave endeavour to bring in a wounded comrade. For a similar act of bravery on the same day he was awarded the Victoria Cross, 18 Feb. following, the official record stating: “For conspicuous bravery at Rouges Bancs, on 19 Dec., in rescuing a severely wounded man from the front of the German trenches, under a very heavy fire, and after a stretcher-bearer party had been compelled to abandon the attempt. Private Mackenzie was subsequently killed on that day whilst in performance of a similar act of gallant conduct.” A comrade wrote: “He was returning to the trenches along with me and another stretcher-bearer when it occurred. We had only two or three cases that morning, so the last one was taken by us three. After we took the wounded soldier to hospital, we returned to see if there were any more. There was a very dangerous place to pass. I went first, followed by another, then James came behind, which caused his death. He was shot in the heart by a sniper, and only lived five minutes.” A memorial tablet, erected by friends in the Burgh of Maxwelltown and parishioners of Troqueer, was placed in the east vestibule of Troqueer Parish Church. A portrait has also been hung in his old school.

James Mackenzie.

MACKENZIE, JAMES, L.-Sergt., No. 806, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of the late John Mackenzie, Coachman, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John McKenzie; b. Strathpeffer, co. Ross, 10 June, 1881; educ. Lochbroom Public School, and after working for some time in an engineering shop in Glasgow, went to Queensland about 1902, and was employed there in well sinking; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to Egypt in Dec.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 23 May following. He was a widower; s.p. On hearing of his death, his brother William enlisted in the R.G.A., and is now (1916) on active service.

MACKENZIE, KEITH BETHUNE, Capt., 2nd. attd. 1st Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, attd. 1st Gordon Highlanders, elder s. of the late James MacKenzie, of Daresbury, Malvern, Worcestershire, by his wife, Jane (Woodham House, Horsell, Woking), only dau. of the Rev. Neil Bethune, of Thamesford, Ontario; b. Shanghai, China, 1 Dec. 1879; educ. Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia, 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut., 5 April, 1904, and Capt., 3 June, 1911; served in the South African War, 1900–2, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Aug. 1900–Jan. 1902; Orange Free State, Jan.-March, 1902; and in the Transvaal, March-May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 14 Oct.-12 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 12 Nov. 1914. He was buried at Hooge. He was a Knight of the Saxe Ernestine Family Order. He m. at St. Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh, 22 Jan. 1912, Louise, dau. of the late James Scott, of Craigholme, Edinburgh; s.p.

Keith B. MacKenzie.

MACKENZIE, KENNETH, Blacksmith, 342118, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

McKENZIE, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 8876, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of William McKenzie, of 5, Ritchie Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Robert Stuart, of Logie-Almond, Perthshire; b. Edinburgh, 8 Oct. 1886; educ. Fountainbridge Public School, Edinburgh; enlisted, 20 Aug. 1904; went to France with his battn., 21 Aug. 1914, and was wounded at Hazebrouck, 13 Oct. 1914, and invalided home, but returned to the Front, 19 Jan. 1915. Early on the morning of 25 April, 1915, the 10th Brigade, in which were the 2nd Seaforths, received orders to retake the village of St. Julien, which had been captured by the enemy on the previous day. The attack was pushed up to the very edge of the houses, when it was checked by a murderous maxim-gun fire. The 10th Brigade suffered terrible losses and Sergt. McKenzie was mortally wounded. He was removed to the Dressing Station at Hazebrouck, where he died early the following morning (the 26th). He was buried near a burned farmhouse to the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien road, 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Sergt. McKenzie m. at Edinburgh, 18 May, 1909, Annie (2, Roseburn Street, Murravfield, Edinburgh), dau. of Henry Dunnet, and had a dau., Marion Margot Stuart, b. 15 Aug. 1912.

William McKenzie.

MACKEY, HARRY, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 789), late R.M.A. 5753, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKIE, REGINALD ERNEST, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Councillor James Wyse Mackie, J.P., of the firm of I. W. Mackie & Sons, Ltd., Princes Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth (16, Greenhill Gardens, Edinburgh), dau. of the late John Burnett; b. Edinburgh, 6 July, 1884; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and studied at the Surgeon’s Hall, and then entered his father’s firm. He joined the Queen’s Own Edinburgh Rifles, which on the formation of the Territorial Force became the 1/4th Battn. Royal Scots, in 1907, and on 10 March, 1910, having passed in tactics and obtained a certificate from the School of Instruction, was gazetted Lieut. On the outbreak of war, he volunteered for Imperial service; left with his battn. for the Dardanelles, Saturday, 22 May, and was killed in the attack on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm. He went out as Capt., but was not gazetted until after death, and to rank as from 26 May, 1915.

Reginald E. Mackie.

MACKIE, ROBERT COLE, Private, No. 6/499, 2nd South Canterbury Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force; b. Cathcart, Glasgow, 26 Feb. 1885; educ. Public School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the 2nd South Canterbury Regt.; 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 there between that date and 1 May; unm.

McKINNON, ALEXANDER, Private, No. 537, 1st Australian Light Horse, 2nd s. of Alexander McKinnon, of Brownhill, Pitglassie, Turriff, co. Aberdeen, Farmer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Myles Morrison; b. Easter Elchies, co. Moray, 13 Aug. 1882; educ. Craigellachie and Aberlour Secondary School; was a Coppersmith; went to Australia in 1912, and settled in Queensland. He joined the Scottish Horse on the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899, and served with that corps in South Africa, and when the European War began in Aug. 1914, he enlisted in the 1st Australian Light Horse, and died in hospital at Malta, 1 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli on or about 8 Aug.; unm.

MACKINNON, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7581), S.S. 102965, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKINTOSH, JAMES LAWTON, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, yr. surviving s. of the late Hugh Mackintosh, of Braeval, Nairn, Shipowner, by his wife, Henrietta (12, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Richard Lawton; b. Nairn, 4 Jan. 1895; educ. Nairn Academy, Edinburgh Academy, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. List, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was given a temporary lieutenancy in the 1st Highland L.I., Dec. 1914; went to France, 26 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Ypres. Lieut.-Col. Hill, of the 1st Highland L.I.. wrote: “I had recognised his rare promise as an officer and he had endeared himself to all. He was leading his platoon in the attack when he was shot in the head, and died at once, without any pain.”

MACKIRDY, PETER MACKAY, Lieut.-Commander. R.N.V.R., Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division, twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock; was an Engineer; Sub-Lieut., R.N.V.R., 17 July, 1910; Lieut., 10 April, 1913. and Lieut.-Commander, 10 April, 1913; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 29 May, 1915; unm. His twin brother. Capt. R. F. MacKirdy, was killed in action there, 12 July following (see next notice).

MACKIRDY, ROBERT FINGLAND, Capt., 5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.). twin s. of Robert MacKirdy, of Greenock and Glasgow, Sugar Broker, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Peter Mackay, of Greenock; b. Greenock, 1 Sept. 1888; educ. Collegiate School, Greenock, and was a Commission Agent; joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 22 March, 1907; became 2nd Lieut., 23 March, 1908; Lieut., 20 Jan. 1912. and Capt., 1 Nov. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for Southampton; went to the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915; unm.

MACKLIN, ALFRED HENRY, Private, No. 5064, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; eldest s. of William Macklin, of Long Street, Enford, near Pewsey, by his wife. Emily, dau. of the late John Cox; b. Enford, Wilts, 18 Oct. 1881; educ. there, enlisted on or about 4 Aug. 1903; killed in action at La Bassée, 25 Dec. 1914, and buried close to the west wall of the brewery at Givinchy. He m. at Enford, 1 Aug. 1908, Ellen Beatrice (Enford, Pewsey, Wilts), dau. of William Eyres, of Enford, Pewsey, and had a son, Reginald William, b. 24 June, 1909.

MACKRELL, THOMAS, Canteen Manager. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACKWORTH, FRANCIS JULIAN AUDLEY, Major, Royal Artillery, 3rd s. of the late Col. Sir Arthur William Mackworth, 6th Bart., R.E., C.B., D.L., J.P., by his wife, Alice, dau. of Joseph Cubitt, of Park Street, Westminster, C E.; b. Clifton, Bristol, 15 Sept. 1876; educ. Cathedral School, Llandaff, Malvern College (scholar) and Selwyn College, Cambridge (scholar, Mathematical Tripos, 1898); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 June, 1898; promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, Capt. 15 April, 1906, and Major 30 Oct. 1914; was employed with the West African Frontier Force from 2 April, 1904, to 25 June, 1908; passed into the Staff College in 1909; was Adjutant, 26th Brigade, R.F.A., from Feb. 1912 to Sept. 1913, and Brigade Major, R.A., 3rd Division, Oct. 1913 to the time of his death; went to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near La Couture, Pas de Calais, 1 Nov. 1914. Buried at Fosse, Pas de Calais. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914. He m. at Llantilio, Pertholey, co. Monmouth. 4 Aug. 1910, Dorothy Conran (The Mardy. Abergavenny), only dau. of Arthur Hastings Lascelles, and had two daus.: Cecily Joan, b. 15 Aug. 1911; and Helen Margaret, b. 18 Feb. 1914. His eldest brother, Capt. Digby Mackworth, was killed in action at Ladysmith in Jan. 1900. His yr. brother, Capt. Harry Llewelyn Mackworth, D.S.O., is now (1916) at the Front with the Australian troops. Another, Commander Geoffrey Mackworth is in the R.N.; and Capt. John Mackworth is (1916) on active service with the Royal Flying Corps.

Francis J. A. Mackworth.

McLARDY, HENRY, Staff Sergt.-Major, No. 1122, 8th Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Donald McLardy, of Glasgow, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late (—) Slater; b. Glasgow, 26 June, 1875; educ. there; enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders at Glasgow. 4 Aug. 1891; served in Chitral, 1895, including the attack on, and capture of, Dargai Heights; and through the South African War. 1899–1902, and received the Queen’s medal with four bars (Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two bars (1901–02). He then returned to India, was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal), and obtained his discharge, 31 Aug. 1910, with the rank of Sergt. after 19 years’ service with the Colours, seven of which were abroad. He went to New Zealand the same year and joined the Defence Staff as Drill Instructor Sergt.-Major, and on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign service and left for Egypt with the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in a bayonet charge on Walker’s Ridge on the night of 2 May, 1915, being buried in the Infantry Cemetery at the foot of that ridge. He m. at Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand, 28 Feb. 1913, Elizabeth (Nen Street. Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand), eldest dau. of the late John Fraser, and had two sons: Donald Gordon, b. 1 Dec. 1913; and Henry Thomas, b. 17 Jan. 1915.

Henry McLardy.

MCLAREN, ERIC ANDREW, Private, No. 12/1740. A Coy,. 3rd Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas McLaren, of Waitahuna, Miner (b. in Ireland), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Andrew Chapman; b. Waitahuna, Otago, New Zealand, 11 July, 1891; educ. Union Street School, Dunedin, and Richmond Road School, Auckland; enlisted 14 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements, 13 Feb.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, and was killed in action at Daisy Patch. Cape Hellas, Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; unm.

Eric Andrew McLaren.

MACLEAN, ALISTAIR ALLAN, Private, No. 1730, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.); 3rd s. of Alexander Maclean, of Gordon Hall, Kingussie, co. Inverness, Farmer, by his wife, Margery, dau. of Finlay McGillivray; b. Gordon Hall aforesaid, 4 May, 1894; educ. Kinguissie Higher Grade School; was a Clerk in the London Branch of the Bank of Montreal; joined the London Scottish in 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 15 Sept.; was wounded at the First Battle of Ypres, 11 Nov. 1914, during the famous charge of the London Scottish, and died at Poperinghe three days later, 14 Nov.; unm. He was buried at Poperinghe.