TREVENA, FREDERIC WILLIAM, Private, No. 931, A Coy., 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only surviving s. of Richard Charles Trevena, of 33, Lakeside Road, Palmer’s Green, N., by his wife, Eliza Barnicoat, dau. of the late John Robins, of Penryn, Cornwall; b. London, 22 Oct. 1892; educ. Bowes Road School, was a member of the Clerk’s Department of the Southgate Urban District Council Office; joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed on the 21st of that month, by shell fire, while the battn. was resting in an orchard about three miles from the firing line, some miles N.E. of Bethune. Buried in the orchard; unm. The Chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane wrote: “We were encamped and he and others were simply resting in their bivouac when the shells came raining across on us. We had been shelled the day before farther up the line and had left it to come here for safety as this place had never been shelled before. But this time the shells had a message, and it was your dear Frederic that they came to. He could have suffered nothing, as death was instantaneous. The others were spared, though they got a shock. We feel keenly parting so suddenly from a good comrade and a brave man.”

TREVENER, WALTER JOHN, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2277), 289209, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TREVOR, HARRY SPOTTISWOODE, Lieut., Royal Engineers, s. of Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, K.C.S.I., late of the Indian C.S., Revenue Member of the Bombay Government (1892–95) and Public Works Member of the Government of India (1896–1901), by his wife, Florence Mary, 2nd dau. of Col. Cyril Jackson Prescott, Bombay S.C., and grandson of Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (who was murdered at Kabul in Dec. 1841, with the British Envoy, Sir William Macnaghten); b. Karachi, India, 19 July, 1899; educ. Marlborough College, where he was in the sixth form. Prefect and Head of his house, and a member of the house and school football teams, and the School Shooting Eight. From Marlborough he passed direct into Woolwich, became a member of R.M.A. Football XV, and gained his commission in the R.E., after an 18 months course, 1 Oct. 1909. After the usual period of training at Chatham he was ordered to India, served for a time in the Military Works Department at Jullunder, in the Punjab, and was then transferred to the Engineering Staff of the North-Western State Railway at Lahore, and promoted Lieut. 28 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak of the war he was attached to the 1st K.G.’s O. Sappers and Miners, and proceeded with the 4th Field Company of the battn. as part of the Meerut Brigade to France, where he landed in Oct. 1914, and where he served, throughout the fighting at Givenchy, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, and elsewhere on the front between La Bassée and Lille, till he was killed in action in the trenches near Laventie, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in the British Cemetery at Vieille Chapelle; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches, 30 Nov. 1915. General Nanton, C.R.E., Indian Contingent (under whom Lieut. Trevor had served in the Military Department in India, as well as at the front), wrote: “I have watched your son since he was with us in Jullunder. In this war I have noted his bravery and skill on so many occasions. We have lost a brave and good officer. He was buried with our other R.E. officers at Vieille Chapelle. He was shot whilst arranging a fixed rifle rest with his usual care, and he did not suffer for an instant”; and Col. Twining, late C.R.E. Meerut Division: “Your son worked under my orders from the time he came to France until March last. I had a high opinion of him as an officer and a strong regard for him as an individual, and I deplore his loss to the Service as well as to his relations and friends. He went through much hard and dangerous work—never spared himself in the slightest and was always cheery and ready for anything. I remember one occasion in particular last Dec. when I had to send him with another young officer out on a very difficult and dangerous task—they had been out through very severe fighting for 36 hours consecutively and were very much done, but your lad stuffed a little food into his pockets and went off again, full of cheer, with a smile. You will be glad to hear of this—it was his usual attitude and we have lost a valuable officer and a much-loved comrade.” The late Col. Davidson Houston, Commanding 58th Rifles F.F., also wrote: “I trust you will excuse an entire stranger writing to you, but on behalf of both my officers and myself I wish to tender our deepest sympathy with you in the loss of your son last month. He was, when he met his death, working in my section of the front line, as he had frequently done before, and I had always found him a most able and hard working adviser on technical points connected with the defences—always cheerful, always ready to help, never sparing himself, we shall miss him greatly and the R.E.’s have lost one of their most promising young officers. Your son had been lunching with me and discussing a rifle rest he had invented, a specimen of which he had had made and given to my regiment. He said he would like to test this particular specimen as he had not had time to do so before sending it to us. He asked if he might use my observation post to shoot from and he and my adjutant went there for the purpose. The post is raised up on a platform. Your son raised his head to look over the little breastwork and was immediately shot. We much regretted being unable, owing to the Military situation, to attend his funeral and mark our respect for him as a soldier and a comrade.” An officer of high professional promise, he was also a music and book lover, a talented designer and draftsman, and had a somewhat notable turn for the devising of contrivances “for the further discomfiture of the enemy,” to use the words of a brother officer. One of the first, if not absolutely the first, trench mortar used by the British, to counter the German Minenwerfer, was made on his initiative and under his orders, of 9 inch iron piping, in the company’s workshops, and proved very effective, and it was in arranging to test a portable contrivance of his own for enabling fire to be kept up on any desired point in the dark and without exposure, that he met his death. With reference to this contrivance the O.C. 2nd Black Watch wrote in a note found among Lieut. Trevor’s papers: “We have tried your rifle rest, and found it very good.”

TRIGGS, WOODMAN GEORGE, Ship’s Corpl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3710), 163287, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TRIMMER, GILBERT FREDERICK, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 3359, 2/4th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Trimmer, of Guildford, by his wife, Alice Katurah, dau. of J. Dawes Esher; b. Guildford, co. Surrey, 18 April, 1876; was by trade a Tailor; served in South Africa, 1900, with the City Imperial Volunteers and was invalided, home; after the outbreak of the European War enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s, Guildford, 10 Feb. 1902, Grace Eleanor (38, King John Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne), dau. of the late George Hewett, of Guildford; s.p.

TRIMMER, WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACLEAN, Lieut., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only child of Edward Douglas Trimmer, of Oakrigg, Walton-on-Thames, Solicitor, and his wife, Mary Kate, dau. of John Lauchlan Maclean, late of Haremere Hall, co. Sussex; b. Surbiton, co. Surrey, 29 Dec. 1891; educ. Aldenham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Hampshires, 20 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, in the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division, served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action with his whole platoon, in an advanced and isolated trench at Ploegsteert Wood, during the First Battle of Ypres, 30 Oct. following. Buried in Ploegsteert Churchyard; unm. Lieut. J. F. Gwynne, Medical Officer to the Hampshires, wrote: “He died like a hero—he was a hero, and the way he and his men fought to the last is one of the finest acts I have heard of in the whole war. He was found in his trench, wounded fatally in the head, grasping unexpended cartridges in his hand—game to the last. He must have died immediately on receiving the fatal shot.” Capt. Clive Garsia, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “The simplest truth about him, uninfluenced by the natural wish to speak well of the dead, is that he was one of the very best subalterns I ever knew. From the day he joined he devoted himself whole-heartedly to work and to play, and exhibited pluck and endurance I have never seen excelled. His success as a cross-country runner was due solely to grit, because he was not the cut of a runner, but he had the heart to stay the pace however hot they made it. As a loyal subordinate who played up to me whole-heartedly on every occasion I should like to pay his memory humble tribute of acknowledgment. I knew when the war broke out that he would do well, and I have frequently asked men coming down wounded for news about the regt. and different officers. The first news I heard was about the retreat from Mons, when a sergt. told me that Mr. Trimmer and the General were the only two that wouldn’t lie down. Several told me that ‘the blokes said they’d follow him anywhere’”; and in a subsequent letter he added “the specially heroic circumstances attending the last stand of Douglas and his platoon are fully appreciated. I am now on the Divisional staff and have frequently heard the Chief Staff Officer say how well my regt. has done all through, instancing the way Douglas’ platoon stuck it to the last man.” And Capt. Douglas Johnston, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “On the Aisne he [Lieut. Trimmer] did his work perfectly, and I myself was particularly struck with the quiet courage he showed when on really dangerous patrol work. He was far from well there, but got better before we moved. When poor Major Connellan was struck, your boy dashed out and brought him into cover, and the next day, the 21 Oct., he told me about it. It is unnecessary for me to add that he was extraordinarily popular with his men.” Mr. Connellan in a letter to Mr. Trimmer said: “I have heard from Capt. Thurn and I will tell you all that he told me about your son, but I am afraid it is very little. He says, about 28 Oct. he was holding an advanced trench with his platoon in front of Ploegsteert Wood; he was very heavily shelled and attacked by infantry all day, losing most of his platoon. He sent back for reinforcements but apparently there were none to be had, anyhow none were sent. He held his men together and stuck to his trench all day, being finally killed by a shell towards the evening. The remains of his platoon, nine men out of about 40, stuck on and were finally all killed by German infantry, except, I believe, one man who is now wounded and prisoner. The only survivor of his platoon, the messenger he sent back, was killed about two months after. Young Trimmer certainly held his trench very gallantly and I know his name was sent on from the battn.” He was a good all-round athlete. When at Aldenham he won the School Mile and Half Mile, in 1910, creating school records in both instances. He was also a good cross-country runner, coming in fourth at the R.M.C. in 1911, and he ran in the 1st Hampshire Regimental Teams in 1912, 1913 and 1914, which won the Aldershot Command (twice) and the Eastern Command, Cross Country Runs. In other sports he was a useful Rugby Football and Hockey player, a plucky swimmer and a good horseman.

TRINEMAN, CHARLES FREDERICK, Staff Sergt., No. 62, 18th Battn. 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late William Trineman, Gardener; b. Exeter, 28 March, 1882; educ. Seaton Council School; joined the 27th Devonshire Yeomanry, and served with them through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); afterwards went to Australia; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 21–25 Aug. 1915. He had, just previous to his death, given a cooking demonstration at Victoria Barracks, on one of the Travelling Kitchens to be used by the troops, and was then presented with a gold wristlet watch. For many years he was golf professional and groundsman at the Axe Cliff Golf Links. He m. at Seaton, Devon, 28 Jan. 1903, Amelia (Southfield, New Road, Water Orton, near Birmingham), dau. of John Harley Boddy, and had a dau.: Nora Amelia, b. 13 March, 1904.

TRITTON, ROBERT EDMUND, Leading Seaman, 227159, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TROTMAN, SYDNEY, Private, No. 3155, 2/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late George Hayman Trotman, of Brooklands Lodge, Cambridge, by his wife, Agnes (35, Norwich Street, Cambridge), dau. of Edward Godfrey; b. Cambridge, 18 April, 1886; educ. St. Paul’s School, Cambridge; was a Clerk; joined 2/3rd Royal Fusiliers, 8 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt, in April, and died of heatstroke at Khartoum, 3 June, 1915; unm. Buried at Khartoum. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was buried with all military honours and the Sirdar (Sir Reginald Wingate) has written asking me to express his sympathy to his relatives and the men of his company”; and another officer: “Your son was a good man and soldier, and will be deeply missed by officers and men alike.”

TROTT, FREDERICK JAMES, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21850, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

TROTTER, ALEXANDER NIGEL, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), only s. of Alexander Pelham Trotter, of 181, Ashley Gardens, London, S.W., Electrical Adviser to the Board of Trade, by his wife, Alys Fane, dau. of Maurice Keatinge, and a nephew of Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Trotter, K.C.M.G., C.B.; b. Cottesmore Gardens, London, W., 17 Sept. 1894; educ. Packwood Haugh, and Clifton College, where he was a member of the O.T.C., shot in the Bisley VIII, and was one of the best boxers in the school; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Scots, 21 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1914; acted as Transport Officer for the 3rd Battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France in charge of a draft of 100 men for the 2nd Battn., 30 Aug. 1914; the Royal Scots left the trenches at the Aisne about 26 Sept. and arrived in position near Bethune 11 Oct., and Lieut. Trotter was killed in action at La Fosse, near Vieille Chapelle, 12 Oct. 1914, while engaged in attacking a wood strongly held by the enemy. The ground over which the British had to advance was intersected by small irrigation canals crossed by plank bridges, on which the officers and men offered a good target. Lieut. Trotter is believed to have been first hit while crossing one of these bridges, and after advancing three-quarters of a mile fell with two more wounds. He was buried on the farm of Zelobes, near La Fosse, north of Bethune; unm. His Coy. Commander, Capt. (now Major) F. C. Tanner, D.S.O., wrote: “Everyone is unanimous that Nigel died like a hero, and knowing him I could not suppose it otherwise. I saw him under fire at the beginning of the action”; and a man in his company: “I can assure you all the men were sorry to lose him, for he seemed to have no fear and was a good leader of men.” On the cross put up on his grave by the mobile column of the Red Cross, some of his comrades wrote: “A very gallant gentleman.”

TROTTER, JAMES KEITH, Lieut. 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only s. of Major-General Sir James Keith Trotter, of Aislaby Lodge, Sleights, co. York, K.C.B., C.M.G., by his wife, Alice, yst. dau. of Francis James Crow, of Haughton-le-Skerne, co. Durham; b. Malta, 19 Dec. 1888; educ. Wellington College (where he was prefect, 1906, and head of the Rifle Corps), and the Royal Military College Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 23 Jan. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1910; was A.D.C. to his father, Major-General Sir J. K. Trotter, Commanding Southern Coast Defences, from 3 Nov. 1910, to 23 July, 1911; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Audencourt, near Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1915, being shot in the head while watching the fire of his machine-guns through field-glasses; unm. He was buried at Audencourt. Lieut. Trotter was the winner of 100 and 200 yards races at Wellington College, and was second in quarter of a mile race at Army Championship Meeting, Aldershot, 1909.

TROUNSON, GRAHAM FRANCIS JAMES, Midshipman, R.N.R., only child of Francis Thomas Trounson, of Onslow Mansions, Richmond, Surrey, by his wife, Kate E., dau. of Thomas Martin, of Chelmsford; b. London, 11 June, 1897; educ. The Whitegift and Mersey training ship for White Star Officers; Cadet R.N.R., 1911; Midshipman (Proby.), Jan. 1914; appointed to H.M.S. Good Hope, 2 Aug., and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Naval action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. He had the unique experience, in so short a life of having travelled the world as a cadet, and Midshipman, in sail The Mersey, in steam The Cevarmie, and in H.M.S. Good Hope. He had been round the Horn six times.

TRUDGETT, JAMES ALBERT, Sergt., No. 5435, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, 3rd s. of George Alfred Trudgett, of 68, Lime Tree Place, Stowmarket, Suffolk, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of William Greenwood, of Stowmarket; b. Stowmarket, 18 Dec. 1883; educ. British School there, and was for a short time a Clerk in the offices of the New Explosives Co.’s Works at Stowmarket; enlisted in the King’s Dragoon Guards, 3 Jan. 1901, and after training at York was drafted to the regt. then in South Africa; remained there a year, then returned to England; served at Hounslow and Aldershot; went to India, 6 Nov. 1907, and was stationed at Ambala and later at Lucknow; went to France with the Lucknow Cavalry Brigade about Nov. 1914; took part in the heavy fighting round La Bassée, and was killed in action at Hooge, 2 June, 1915; unm. The Adjutant, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, wrote: “Your son was with me in the Headquarters during the 1st and 2nd and gave me very able assistance in taking messages, and assisting in dressing the wounded. During the severe bombardment of the 2nd, at about 2 p.m., the dug-out was blown in, in two places, and I gave your son an order to take the most important papers and go down the communication trench to a place of greater safety in Zouave Wood. That was the last I saw of him. The communication trench was almost obliterated, his body not being discovered for two days. The Lincoln Regt. reported that in clearing the trench, they had found him and buried him in Zouave Wood. I cannot tell you how great a loss he is to the regt., Colonel and myself. A thorough, trustworthy, gallant soldier, and mourned by all ranks.”

TRUEMAN, CHARLES FITZGERALD HAMILTON, Capt., 2nd Battn. Manchester Regt., eldest s. of Lieut.-Col. Charles Hamilton Trueman, of Oakwell-on-the-Blean, Kent, late 32nd L.I., by his wife, Dorothea Magdalena, dau. of John P. Fitzgerald, M.D.; b. Devonport, 22 March, 1877; educ. King’s School, Canterbury, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Manchesters, 8 Sept. 1897; promoted Lieut. 17 Aug. 1899, and Capt. 5 Jan. 1901; served in the South African War, 1900–1; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, July, 1901, and in those in the Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Oct. 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), was Superintendant of Gymnasia, Aldershot Command, 23 April, 1908, to 31 Aug. 1909, and Assistant Inspector of Gymnasia in same command, 1 Sept. 1909, to 22 April, 1912; left for France with the Expeditionary Force (14th Brigade, 5th Division), Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the Battle of Le Cateau, on the 26th of same month, and is believed to have been killed in this action; unm. He had the Coronation medal of King Edward VII.

TRUEMAN, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3264), 292872, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

TRUSSLER, FREDERICK, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./13907, H.M S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TUCK, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3410), 308496, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TUCK, PETER ISAAC THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5338), 211878, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TUCKER, ALAN ROBERT LLOYD, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army (attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt.), only s. of Robert Edward Tucker, of Ashburton, co. Devon, Solicitor, Lt.-Col. Commanding 2/5th Battn. Devonshire Regt. (T.F.), by his wife, Annie Lloyd, dau. of the late Richard Williams, of Bodafon, Anglesey; b. Ashburton, 25 June, 1894; educ. Sherborne and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and was subsequently attd. 2nd Royal Warwicks; went to France, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 19 Dec. following; unm.

TUCKER, ERNEST EDWIN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5398), 195629, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TUCKER, GEORGE JOSEPH, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 7283), 308124, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

TUCKER, REGINALD, Rifleman, No. 1901, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Tucker, of “Oakwood.” Chorley Wood Road, Rickmansworth, Cigar Dealer, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Samuel Drake; b. Wimbledon, 13 Sept. 1891; educ. Whitgift School, Croydon. He enlisted on the outbreak of war, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 4 Dec. 1914; unm. He was buried near Burnt Farm, Bois Grenier, France. Capt. Whitmore, commanding D. Coy. The Westminsters, wrote: “I regret to say that your son while sitting in the trench was this morning hit in the head by a bullet, which glanced in through a loop hole above him, and died in half an hour. I can only express my personal sorrow at losing a soldier who has always shown himself an extraordinarily plucky fellow, doing his best to keep down the enemy’s fire even when at its heaviest. We shall always remember him among us as the first man of the Company to fall fighting for England.”

PITTS TUCKER, CECIL MORTIMER, Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland Light Infantry, 2nd s. of William Edwin Pitts Tucker, of Crosslands, near Barnstaple, Solicitor, by his wife, Violet Emily, dau. of Edmund Tattersall; b. Barnstaple, 12 April, 1890; educ. Ellerslie, Fremington, Devonshire; Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st H.L.I. 20 April, 1910, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1912; was an extra A.D.C. to Sir James Meston, Lieut.-Governor of the United Provinces, India, Oct. 1912, to March, 1913; left for France with the Sirhind Brigade, Lahore Division, Indian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Festubert, on the morning of 20 Dec. following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was as fine a soldier as one could wish to see and a true and affectionate comrade, and he met his soldier’s death just in the manner all who knew him, knew he would.”

TUCKWOOD, LESLIE EDGAR, Private, No. 9964, 1st Battn. Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regt., yst. s. of the late Charles Tuckwood, of 82, Wightman Road, Hornsey, Music Publisher; b. Harringay, 1891; joined the Navy in 1912, was transferred to the Army in 1913, and was killed in action at the Battle on the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

TUDBALL, THOMAS JOHN, Private, No. 5499, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Tudball, of Bench Cottage, West Harwood, Timberscombe, near Dunster, co. Somerset, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Anna; b. Timberscombe aforesaid, 25 Dec. 1884; educ. Endowed Church School there; was a Farm Labourer and Ploughman: enlisted in the Coldstreams on 29 March, 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, 21 Aug. to 21 Dec. 1914, and from 9 Jan. 1915; and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 Jan. 1915.

TUDWAY, HERVEY ROBERT CHARLES, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, eldest s. of Charles Clement Tudway, of The Cedars, Stoberry Park, and Milton Lodge, Wells, Somerset, J.P., D.L., by his 2nd wife, Alice Constance, yst. dau. of Sir Frederick Hutchinson Hervey-Bathurst, 3rd Bart.; b. 17, Lower Berkeley Street, W., 23 Sept. 1888; educ. Evelyns and Eton, where he was in the sixth form and Eton Society; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Grenadier Guards, 1 Feb. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 29 Sept. following; was appointed A.D.C. to Lord Buxton, and sailed for South Africa, 25 July, 1914, but hearing of the outbreak of war on his arrival there, cabled to Lord Buxton, who was in England, for leave; returned immediately and rejoined his regt.; went to the Front; joined the 2nd Battn. at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 18 Nov. following, of wounds in the head received at the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 9th; unm. He was buried in the cemetery at Boulogne. A brass tablet was erected to his memory in the North Choir Aisle of Wells Cathedral, the inscription concluding with; “His life for his country, his soul to God.” Lieut. Tudway was a keen sportsman and cricketer, and played for the Brigade, I.Z. and M.C.C. His brother, Lieut. Lionel C. P. Tudway, R.N., D.S.O., was taken prisoner at Kut when in command of H.M.S. Sumara.

TUFF, CECIL THOMAS, Capt., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd s. of Charles Tuff, of Westfield, Singlewell, near Gravesend, and Rochester, J.P., formerly M.P. for Rochester, by his wife, Marian, dau. of George William Gill; b. Rochester, 16 Aug. 1885; educ. Abbey School, Beckenham, and Malvern College; obtained a commission in the Royal West Kent Militia in 1905; but resigned in or about 1911 rejoining as a Lieut. the day war was declared. He was gazetted Capt. to 3rd Royal West Kents, 26 Sept. 1914; went to France, 25 Nov. following, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action at Hill 60, near Ypres, 15 April, 1915. Buried Hill 60; unm.

TUFNELL, CARLETON WYNDHAM, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 3rd s. of Carleton Fowell Tufnell, of Waterdone Manor, Kenley, Surrey, by his wife, Laura Gertrude, dau. of William Parker Charsley, of Ceylon, M.D.; b. Sydenham, co. Kent, 5 Aug. 1892; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 4 Sept. 1912; left for France in Sept. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. He was mortally wounded near Klein Zillebeke, during the first Battle of Ypres, on the evening of 6 Nov. 1914, dying shortly after he reached hospital. He was machine gun officer of his Battn., and was hit whilst taking up a position. Buried in Zillebeke Churchyard; unm. At Eton, Lieut. Tufnell was one of the best all-round athletes that the school has known. He was captain of the Eleven, Keeper of the Field (two years), Keeper of Oppadon Wall and Mixed Wall, and President of the Eton Society (“Pop.”). He won the Victor Ludorum Prize at athletic sports, and the King’s medal in the O.T.C. At Sandhurst, he was captain of the cricket, association football, and athletic team, and later played cricket for the Household Brigade, M.C.C., and Zingari, and represented the British Army against the Dutch Army at “Soccer,” both in England and Holland, in the season of 1914–15.

TULETT, THOMAS, Acting Leading Stoker, 296909, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TULIP, JOHN JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5840), S.S. 106376, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TULLY, DAVID, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9914), S.S. 107383, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

TUNE, JOHN SKERROW, Private, No. 5435, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late John Tune; b. Birmingham, 23 April, 1882; educ. Sherborne Road Board School there; enlisted 22 Feb. 1901; was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, Belgium, and later to have been killed in action, 22 Dec. 1914. Tune had the Good Conduct Badge granted, 22 Feb. 1906. He m. at Birmingham, 1910, Sarah Ann (16, Eastbourne Terrace, Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham), eldest dau. of the late William Smith, of 32, Frazier Street, Oldburn, Staffs, and had three children: Rosina May, b. 3 Dec. 1910; Olive Florence Ada, b. 8 July, 1912, and Beatrice Maud, b. 15 April, 1915.

TUPPER, ERNEST, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10769), 300721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TURNBULL, DERWENT CHRISTOPHER, M.B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., 5th s. of William Peverill Turnbull, of Burway House, Church Stretton, co. Salop, late H.M. Divisional Inspector of Schools, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of the late Edwin John Hayes, Town Clerk of Birmingham; b. Stockwell End, Wolverhampton, 28 Aug. 1890; educ. Private Schools, Sheffield, the Sheffield Royal Grammar School, and King Edward VII’s School at Sheffield, Giggleswick School, and the University of Sheffield; volunteered in 1914, obtained a commission as Lieut. in the R.A.M.C. Dec. 1914; was for some weeks a medical officer at King George V’s Hospital, Dublin; went to France 15 Feb. 1915; was attd. to 84th Field Ambulance, 28th Division, but on 9 March was lent as a temporary M.O. to the 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., and died at St. Eloi, 14 March, 1915, having been wounded on the 10th; unm. He was buried in a burial ground at Ypres. On the morning of 10 March, 1915, while Lieut. D. C. Turnbull was in his dressing station, a message came that an officer in a trench was bleeding to death. Lieut. Turnbull, with an orderly, volunteered to go to him, and about 10.30 a.m. crossed the dangerzone, and reached the trench, which was about 3 ft. deep and half full of water. Lieut. Turnbull attended to the wounded man but, judging some further operation necessary, determined to remove him to the dressing station. Rifle fire, however, prevented this, and the wounded officer and Lieut. Turnbull and the orderly were unable to get away from the trenches for many hours. About 6 p.m. they made an attempt in the course of which the wounded officer received a further wound and Lieut. Turnbull was shot in the lung. Of this he died four days later notwithstanding the utmost efforts made on his behalf by his colleagues, Capt. Bickerton and Lieut. Haynes. The orderly, Private (now Corpl.) J. Needham (1st Cheshires), afterwards received the D.C.M. for his conduct on this occasion. Lieut.-Col. W. Salisbury Sharpe, R.A.M.C., wrote: “I do not know what form official recognition will take, but I can assure you of my personal appreciation that no greater instance of heroic self-sacrifice will be recorded during the war;” and Capt. R. E. Bickerton, R.A.M.C., “The stretcher-bearers of my section have spoken very, very kindly of him and admired his pluck, saying that he never let them cross a risky part of the road without being there himself.” Lieut. Turnbull was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

TURNBULL, WALTER, Private, No. 964, 24th Infantry Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of Thomas Edward Turnbull, of Hexham, Northumberland, Rope and Candle Manufacturer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of James Charlton; b. Hexham, 26 Jan. 1882; educ. North Eastern County School, Barnard Castle; went to Australia in May, 1912; joined the Australian Force in March, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Guildford Castle, 21 Sept. 1915, of wounds received in action near Lone Pine, Gallipoli; buried at sea about 5 miles from Lemnos; unm.

TURNER, ARTHUR, Private, No. 7673; 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 27 April, 1915, of wounds received in action; m.

TURNER, ARTHUR, No. 3894, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 15 Nov. 1900; served in South Africa, 26 Nov. 1901, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps, “Cape Colony,” “South Africa, 1901,” “1902”), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 26 Aug. 1914; was reported missing after the fighting at Rentel on 12 Nov. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

TURNER, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4104), 194994, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNER, ARTHUR MORRIS, Private, No. 10/1357, Wellington Regt. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of Edwin Turner, of 27, South Street, Chichester, Wholesale and Retail Grocer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Minnie, dau. of William Light, of Chichester; b. Chichester, co. Sussex, 22 July, 1893; educ. Chichester and Portsmouth Grammar Schools; went to New Zealand in Feb. 1913, and settled near Tologa Bay as a Farm Worker; volunteered on the outbreak of war, left for Egypt in Dec. 1914, and died on or about 11 May, 1915, from wounds received in action, when the New Zealanders landed at the Dardanelles; unm.

TURNER, BERNARD GEORGE, Private, No. 11833, Maxim Gun Section, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of John William Turner, of The Gables, Bledlow Ridge, co. Bucks. Schoolmaster, by his wife, Emily, dau. of David Hainsworth; b. Bledlow Ridge, Wallingford, 28 Nov. 1894; educ. High Wycombe Grammar School, and after leaving there won in open competition a post under the London County Council, and was serving in the Fire Brigade Department when war was declared in Aug. 1914. He volunteered shortly after and joined the Coldstream Guards in Sept. and left for the Western Front in Jan.; he was attd. there to the Maxim Gun Section, and was killed in action on Hill 70, at Vermeilles, 27 Sept. 1915, being shot through the heart; unm.

TURNER, CHARLES, Private, No. 7725, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Troyon, 8 Oct. 1914; m.

TURNER, CHARLES ALFRED, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2817), S.S. 133, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNER, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4579), 293331, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNER, ERNEST HERBERT, Private. No. 6226, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Ernest Turner, of No. 6, Howard Terrace, Bank Top, Bedlington, Northumberland, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Henry Hyatt; b. Oxford, 14 July, 1886; educ. Broomhill Colliery School; was a Miner; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 30 May, 1905; went to France, 10 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Soupir, 16 Sept. 1914. He m. at Bedlington Parish Church, 3 Jan. 1914, Margaret Harrison, (1, Cragg’s Buildings, Bedlington, Bank Top, Northumberland), dau. of Isaac Nicholson, of Bedlington; s.p.

TURNER, FRANCIS OLIVER, Private, No. 11420, No. 1 Coy. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Frederick George Turner, of Briningham, Melton Constable, Norfolk, Clerk in Time and Wages Department, Midland and G. N. Joint Railways, by his wife, Ellen Maria, dau. of John Oliver, of Thornage, Norfolk; b. Briston, co. Norfolk, 17 Aug. 1894; educ. Norfolk C. C. School, Melton Constable, and on leaving there entered the service of the M. & G. N. Joint Railways as an apprentice in the Boiler-making trade in Oct. 1908. On the outbreak of war he enlisted, 2 Sept. 1914, and after three months’ training at Caterham and Windsor, was sent to France on 22 Dec. and was in the trenches before 1 Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Cuinchy brickfields 2 Feb. following, and was buried in the British cemetery between La Bassée Canal and the Railroad; unm.

TURNER, FREDERICK HARDING, Lieut., 1/10th (Scottish) Service Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Neil Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife, Jessie Stewart, dau. of the late Thomas Holder, of Liverpool, J.P.; b. Liverpool, 29 May, 1888; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Sedbergh (Sedgwick House, May 1902 to July, 1907), and Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. (Law, Class III) in 1910, afterwards joining the business of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father was senior partner, he received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Liverpool Scottish, 18 May, 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He was promoted Lieut. 25 Sept. 1914; went to the Front at the end of Oct. 1914, and was killed in action in the trenches east of Kemmel, 10 Jan. 1915, while inspecting barbed wire entanglements. He was buried in Kemmel Churchyard; unm. The circumstances of his death were given as follows in a letter from a brother officer: “After breakfast on 10 Jan., 1915, he went down the trench to look at the barbed wire he had put out in front the night before. On the way he looked up twice for a second, and each time he was shot at, but both shots missed, he then got to a place where the parapet was rather low, and was talking to a sergeant when a bullet went between their heads. Lieut. Turner said ‘By Jove, that has deafened my right ear.’ The sergeant remarked, ‘And my left one too, sir.’ Lieut. Turner then went a shade lower down, and had a look at the wire, and was shot clean through the middle of the forehead, killing him instantly.” Lieut. Turner was the famous Rugby International forward. He played as a “fresher” for Trinity, gained his Rugger Blue in 1908, when the ’Varsity match of that year ended in a drawn game. A year later he led the Oxford forwards in their runaway victory over the Cantabs, this being the occasion of R.W. Poulton’s great feat of scoring five tries. In 1910 Mr. Turner was captain of Oxford, when they beat Cambridge by 23 points to 18. On leaving Oxford he took charge of the Liverpool Rugby Club, and his wonderful power as a hard scrummager brought him before the notice of the Scottish Selection Committee, and he played in all the internationals of that and the following year, namely, against England, Ireland, Wales and France. The next season, 1912–13. he had the honour of the captaincy conferred upon him, and although the year had been a disastrous one up to the time of the English match, the Englishmen, who held an unbeaten record, were badly defeated by the impetuous rushes of the Scots. Last season Mr. Turner was not keen on playing in the International fixtures, but an appeal for help from the Scottish Union brought him out of his semi-retirement, for he still assisted the Liverpool Club. He was also a cricketer of more than average ability, and held 15 international caps. He played for Oxford in 1909 and 1910, but not against Cambridge, and in 1908 figured in the second eleven of Lancashire. His elder brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner, was killed in action, 16 June, 1915 (see his notice).

TURNER, GEORGE EDWARD, W.T. Operator, 1st Class, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TURNER, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4686), 293608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNER, JAMES, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269658, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TURNER, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8020), S.S. 103639, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TURNER, JOHN REGINALD, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., s. of John Mayer Burrow Turner, of Hartshill, Bournemouth, Solicitor; b. Stoke-on-Trent, co. Stafford, 20 Nov. 1892; educ. Bournemouth School, and on leaving there was articled to his father and had passed the Intermediate Law Examination when war broke out. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Dorset Special Reserve Battn. 12 Dec. 1911, and became Lieut. 1 May, 1913, and on the declaration of war volunteered for foreign service. He was attd. to the 1st Dorsets (15th Brigade, 5th Division) and went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; took part in the Retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action near Festubert, on the Pont Fixe Road, 13 Oct. 1914, on which day the 1st Dorsets sustained 400 casualties, 130 of them being killed. Buried in an orchard west of the Post Office of Pont Fixe; unm. Lieut.-Col. Bols, C.B., D.S.O., commanding 1st Dorsets, wrote: “Practically the whole of B Coy. was destroyed on that awful 13th. We were all so very fond of him; he was always cheery and such an excellent soldier, qualities which he displayed to the full on the days following the 9th Sept, when he was left as senior officer in his company.” Capt. A. L. Ransome, 1st Dorsets, wrote: “Your son was one of our most promising young officers. His two previous Coy. Commanders were loud in his praises. He showed a power of command and common sense far above the average of his age and service.” Lieut. Turner held the office of Hon. Sec. to the Bournemouth and District Law Students’ Society, and had each year since its inception won the prize awarded to the best speaker amongst its members.

TURNER, MONTAGUE ALWEYNE FISHER, L.-Corpl., No. 3532, 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 5th s. of Alweyne Turner, of Kobe, Catherine Road, Surbiton, late Government Advocate, of Lahore, India, by his wife, Violet Frances, dau. of Deputy Surgeon-Gen. Thorp; b. in Gulmery, Kashmir, 3 July, 1893; educ. Lancing College; enlisted 14 April, 1913; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action 25 April, 1915, being shot through the head in the trenches at Cross Roads, east of Zonnebeke, by a sniper. Buried at the Zonnebeke Dressing Station; unm. A writer in the regimental journal said: “It is only necessary to record two or three instances of gallantry displayed by our comrades to show what our men are, when it comes to the crucial point, and these are only a few of many. The first to be mentioned is the gallantry of our bomb-throwers under L.-Corp. M. Turner during the attack on Hill 60 on the 21–22 April. They went to work like one man, and soon had the enemy on the move. The coolness and bravery of Turner was one outstanding feature and we believe he was highly commended for the excellent work performed by his bomb-throwing party.”