TURNER, NOEL PRICE JAMES, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st, Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of the late Rev. John James Turner of Pentreheylin, Llandysilio, Montgomeryshire, by his wife, Harriett Augusta, dau. of Richard Price Harrison; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 7 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford; served in South African War as a trooper in the Montgomeryshire Imperial Yeomanry (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and on the outbreak of the European War enlisted in the 3rd South Wales Borderers, 19 Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to that battn. (Special Reserve of Officers) 4 Sept. following. He left for France, 19 Dec., and was attd. to the 2nd Welsh, with whom he served until March 1915, when he was attd. to the 1st Battn. of his own regt. He died in hospital at Bethune, 9 May following, of wounds received in action near that place on 9 May. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 31 May, 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915], for distinguished conduct while attd. to the 2nd Welsh. Lieut. Turner was a prominent public man in Montgomeryshire; a former member of the Montgomeryshire County Council; High Sheriff, 1909; and the owner of the Pentreheylin Estate. He resided at Sylfaen Hall, Welshpool. He m. at Guilsfield, near Welshpool, 25 Sept. 1902, Minnie, 2nd dau. of the late Edward Beck, of South Gippsland, Australia, and had two sons: John James, b. 5 Sept. 1907; and Richard Price, b. 16 Dec. 1908. A nephew of his, 2nd Lieut. Alan Langlands, of the 3rd South Wales Borderers, and also serving with the 1st Battn., was killed in action the same day.

TURNER, RICHARD CHASE, Lieut.-Com., R.N., 2nd s. of Edward Turner, of Sherbourne Lodge, Leamington, retired I.C.S., by his wife, Georgiana, dau. of T. A. N. Chase, late I.C.S.; b. Madora, South India, 12 Jan. 1884; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham, Hants; entered H.M.S. Britannia in 1898, and became Midshipman, 1900; Sub-Lieut. 1903; 1st. Lieut. 1905 and Lieut.-Com. 31 Dec. 1914; served on H.M. ships Ocean, Triumph, Swiftsure, Pandore (1908–11 on South African Station), and Blonde (1911–13), and was appointed Gunnery Lieut. to H.M.S. Pegasus, 1 March, 1913. The Pegasus rendered useful services after the outbreak of war, including the destruction of the Wireless Station at Dar-es-Salaam carried out under Lieut.-Com. Turner’s command, and when attacked by the German cruiser Konigsberg off the coast of Zanzibar on 20 Sept. 1914 was having her boilers cleaned. In this action Lieut.-Com. Turner was mortally wounded and died the same day in hospital at Zanzibar. He was unm. and was buried in the English Cemetery there. The Commander of the Pegasus wrote: “In a small ship of this sort everything depends on the tact, energy, straightforwardness and professional knowledge of the 1st Lieut., with all of which he was so highly endowed. The men loved him, and would have done anything that was humanly possible to bring him success. The little ship, though old and out-classed, was kept as fit as was possible to do anything that was required, and it was due to him to a great extent that she was able to get about as she did in the early part of the war.” He was a Freemason, and was Master of Lodge No. 900, Simon’s Town, Kilwinning, Cape Colony.

TURNER, ROBERT NATHANIEL, Leading Seaman, 179019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNER, WALTER, Private, No. 1204 (Barton Coy.), 1/5th Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of Charles Henry Turner, of Halton Villa, New Holland, Hull, Signal Lineman, G.C. Railway, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late George Parker; b. New Holland, co. Lincoln, 19 July, 1893; educ. there; was an Engine Cleaner, G.C. Railway; joined the Lincolnshire Territorials, 5 March, 1911, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at once volunteered for foreign service; trained at Luton and Stanstead, Aug. 1914 to Feb. 1915. during which time he was orderly to Lieuts. Fieldsend and Riggall; went to France, 26 Feb.; was doing his third period in the trenches when he was taken ill with spotted fever and died 15 days later in No. 10 Stationary Hospital, St. Omer, 27 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the Souvenir Cemetery there. Capt. Wilson wrote: “Personally I feel his death very much, as he was one of the members of my company who had been with me for several years, and was one of the original band who joined from New Holland, and who have all turned out to be splendid fellows. I liked him very much—he was a good soldier and he must have been a good son”; and Lieut. Fieldsend: “I can assure you that no man in the company was more popular and more respected by both officers and men than your son.” Lieut. Riggall also said: “He was an excellent man, one of the best and nicest in the company. He was always cheerful and willing, never grumbled and would do anything for anyone. We shall all feel his loss intensely and myself especially.”

TURNER, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1459), 114371, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TURNER, WILLIAM, Leading Stoker, 288305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNER, WILLIAM STEWART, Lieut., 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), elder 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, 19 March, 1883; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool, and Sedbergh (Mr. Wilson’s House, 1898–1901), and on leaving there entered the firm of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father is senior partner. In Aug. 1914, when war broke out, he enlisted in the Liverpool Scottish and received his commission in the Reserve Battn. 17 Nov. just before the regt. left for the Front. He was in England when his yr. brother, Lieut. F. H. Turner, was killed in action, and it was immediately after this that he proceeded to the Front (18 Jan. 1915), where, following upon a petition from the men, he was attd. to the platoon with which his brother had been so popular an officer. He was killed in action while leading his men in the advance on Bellewarde Farm, Hooge, 16 June, 1915. They had just captured a German trench, when a heavy shell burst, killing him and Sergt. J. B. Jones instantly He had been promoted Lieut. May, 1915, and was unm. Like his brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner was a keen athlete. He was in the cricket, and Rugby football teams at both Greenbank and Sedbergh, and gained both his cricket and football colours the year he left Sedbergh, being a useful three-quarter and a good cricketer. Afterwards he played regularly at cricket and football for the Liverpool Club, and was captain of the latter club in the season 1909–10. In 1908 the two brothers did a remarkable performance against Sedbergh in the Old Sedberghian Match; in the first innings W. S. took 5 wickets for 8 runs and F. H. 5 for 16, then after scoring 66 runs between them, they took 9 wickets in the second innings, F. H. taking 7 for 26 and W. S. 2 for 10—in all taking 19 wickets for 60 runs.

TURNER, WILLIAM THOMAS, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12728, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TURNOR, CHRISTOPHER RANDOLPH, Lieut., 10th Royal Hussars, 2nd s. of Algernon Turnor, of 9, Clarges Street, Mayfair, W., C.B., J.P., late Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Private Secretary to the Earl of Beaconsfield from 1874 to 1880, by his wife, Lady Henrietta, née Stewart, 6th dau. of Randolph, 9th Earl of Galloway, and grandson of Christopher Turnor, of Stoke-Rochford, co. Lincoln, J.P., D.L., M.P.; b. 37, Pont Street, London, S.W., 16 Aug. 1886; educ. at the Rev. the Marquis of Normanby’s Private School at Mulgrave Castle; Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10th Hussars, 30 Dec. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1910; joined his regt. at Rawal Pindi, India, in Jan. 1909; served with it there and in South Africa, returning to England in Sept. 1914. The 10th Hussars embarked at Southampton on 6 Oct. 1914, and landed at Ostend on the 8th, and were immediately engaged in the fierce struggle near Ypres which stemmed the advance of the Germans to the coast. Lieut. Turnor was killed in action in the trenches at Zandvoorde, near Ypres, on 26 Oct. 1914, while trying to locate with his glasses an enemy’s field gun, and was buried in the Churchyard at Zandvoorde, quite close to the village Church, a cross marking his grave. His Col. wrote of him: “He was a universal favourite, and a very good officer, and is a great loss to the regt. and to the country”; and the Major: “He is a very great loss to us as an educated and thoroughly grounded soldier and officer, and also from his personal charm, which endeared him to all ranks.” The Eton Chronicle, recording his death, said: “He was a boy of strong character, high principles, and considerable ability.” He was a keen all-round sportsman, a good rider to hounds, and fond of shooting, especially big game shooting, which latter pursuit he followed successfully in Kashmir, Central India, and British East Africa. He was devoted to his profession, a great student of Military History, as well as a lover of books and music. He was unm.

TURPIN, THOMAS COBB, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 268940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

TURRELL, ALFRED, Private,No. 2347, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Charles Turrell, of East Finchley, Mason, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Hill; b. Finchley, London, 7 Nov. 1888; was a Labourer, Priory Road, High Street, Hornsey; enlisted 4 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 March, 1915. He m. at Holloway, 31 Jan. 1909, Lillian, dau. of Edward Maton, and had two children: William George, b. 18 Nov. 1915; and Alice Louisa, b. 8 March, 1910.

TURRELL, ARTHUR SIDNEY, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23459 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

de TUYLL, BARON MAURICE ARTHUR, Capt., 10th Royal Hussars, yr. s. of the late Baron Carlo de Tuyll, Lieut., Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, by his wife, Louise Emily (now wife of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort), dau. of William Henry Harford, of Oldown, co. Gloucester, D.L.; b. London, 1 Nov. 1888; educ. Pinewood School, Farnborough, Stubbington (being originally intended for the Navy), privately with Mr. W. Trevor, Lathbury, Newport Pagnell, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1914; went to France with regt. Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, Thursday, 13 May, 1915; unm. He was leading his squadron in a counter-attack that morning and fell when crossing road from Ypres to Menin. He was buried in the garden of the Château de Poljitze.

TWEDALE, JOHN JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7339), 308093, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TWINE, ARCHIBALD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2291), 225355, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TWINE, ERNEST HARRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4857), 195908, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

TWORT, JACK, Chief Stoker, 170842, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

TYLER, ELIAS GEORGE, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21415, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

TYLER, JOHN COLLETT, 2nd Lieut., 122nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yr. s. of Col. John Charles Tyler, of 8, Cambridge Road, Colchester, late Royal Engineers, by his wife, Florence Mary, only dau. of the late General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, K.C.B., C.S.I., and gdson. of the late Sir Henry Whateley Tyler, M.P., and great-gdson. of General Sir Charles Pasley, K.C.B., R.E. (the father of Lady Tyler), who founded the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, and who in early life was extra A.D.C. to Sir John Moore at the time of his death and burial at Corunna; b. Roorkee, India, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Wellington College, where he was head of the school and captain of football, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was senior under-officer and obtained the Sword of Honour, July, 1914, the Commandant in his report on that occasion, observing that he would specially mention Senior under-officer J. C. Tyler, who had shown in his present responsible position that he possessed in a high degree those qualities which were looked for in the best type of officer; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 17 July, 1914, and joined at Woolwich, 9 Aug. 1914, left for Dundalk, Ireland, on the 10th, and embarked for France on the 17th, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 18 April, 1915; unm. The Major Commanding his battery wrote on 21 April: “There is a big battle going on here now which started at 7 p.m. on the 17th, John and I went forward that day to observe. I had to send John and a signaller on by night, to the newly captured trench to let me know if the Germans were counter-attacking and to observe by day. This job he did in his usual gallant way. Three times he came back to me under heavy fire and great difficulties to mend the telephone wires. He was shot at dawn, a rifle bullet clean through the forehead. He died as he lived, doing his duty gallantly and well. Had he lived he would have certainly had the D.S.O. He was killed in the foremost trench captured from the Germans. Just after he was killed the Germans re-took the trench and held it for about 12 hours. We then took it back again.” And the General Officer Commanding wrote a few days later: “I had already sent in his name for good service. His cheery, gallant example was worth everything at these times.”

TYNDALL, JOSEPH CHARLES, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Joseph P. Tyndall, of 2, Eaton Square, Monkstown, Solicitor; b. Dublin, 18 May, 1892; educ. Castleknock College, co. Dublin; joined the Special Reserve, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 17 Oct. 1910; and was gazetted Lieut. 20 April, 1912; afterwards went to Australia; but on the outbreak of war returned home and rejoined his old Battn.; went to France and was attd. to the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 2 March, 1915, after a fortnight in the trenches; unm. His elder brother, Surgeon William Tyndall, R.A.M.C., is now (1916) on active service in France.

UDEN, FREDERICK EDWIN, A.B., J. 7028, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

UNDERHAY, GEORGE THEODORE, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8930), 222560, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

UNDERHILL, CLARENCE GORDON, Leading Seaman, 208615, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

UNDERHILL, FREDERICK TOM, Private, No. 1109, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Frederick Tom Underhill, of Aptor Marldon, co. Devon, by his wife, Emily (6, Killieser Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.), dau. of James Stidston; b. Aptor Marldon, 22 July, 1886; educ. Bancrofts School, Essex, and was afterwards employed in the City. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, and was later transferred to the London Rifle Brigade, with which he went to the Front, 6 Nov. 1914. He saw five months of service with his regt. in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Ploegsteert trenches, 29 March, 1915, having been nominated for promotion just previous to his death. He was buried in the Rifle Brigade cemetery, in the Ploegsteert Wood; unm. Letters from his officers and comrades all testify to his wonderful cheerfulness under the greatest of discomforts, his helpfulness, and his readiness for any and every fatigue duty. His brother, Lieut. G. Underhill, 9th Devons, is now (1916) on active service.

UNDERHILL, RAYMOND BENWELL, Private, No. 1685, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensingtons) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Richardson Underhill, Watchmaker and Jeweller, by his wife, Annie (123, Holland Park Avenue, W.), dau. of James Benwell, of Knightsbridge; b. Kensington, W., 9 Oct. 1881; educ. St. Mary Abbotts Higher Grade School there; joined the 4th Middlesex Volunteers afterwards, in 1907, the 13th London Territorials, and served eight years; went to Canada in March, 1907; returned to England in 1909, and went into business as a watchmaker and jeweller at 39, Earl’s Court Road, Kensington; rejoined his old regt. immediately war was declared; volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Oct., and died at No. 6 Clearing Station, Merville, 11 Feb. 1915, from appendicitis contracted while on active service; unm. Buried in Merville Cemetery, France (Grave No. E 10)

UNDERWOOD, JOSEPH SAMUEL GEORGE, Ordinary Signalman, J. 17076, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

UNWIN, ROBERT, HENRY, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 3500), 164358, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

UPFOLD, WILLIAM HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1797), 353621, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

UPRICHARD, CHARLES EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10810), S.S. 108911, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

UPTON, HON. ERIC EDWARD MONTAGU JOHN, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, elder s. and heir of Henry Edward Montagu Dorington Clotworthy, 4th Viscount Templetown, of Castle Upton, Templepatrick, co. Antrim, by his wife, Lady Evelyn, née Finch Hatton, dau. of George William, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham; b. Steventon, co. Hants, 8 March, 1885; educ. at Eton (Mr. H. E. Luxmoore’s) and Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst with honours, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Aug. 1905, and joined the 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifles in India, being promoted Lieut. 3 Oct. 1908, and returning with them in 1910. He was assistant Adjutant, 1910–13, and was appointed Adjutant, 1 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war the 2nd Battn. mobilised on the Chobham Ridges and went out under Lieut.-Col. Pearce Serocold in the 2nd Infantry Brigade under Major-Gen. Bulfin. Capt. Upton served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. He was wounded at the first Battle of Ypres, was twice mentioned in Despatches, 31 May and 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915, and 1 Jan. 1916], and promoted Tempy. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914. He was killed near Rue de Bois during the action of 9 May, 1915. His Colonel wrote of him: “Besides being an exceptionally gallant officer, the work he has done for the battn. will live and be felt by it for years. I need hardly say there was no more popular officer in the regt., and I personally have lost a very dear and loyal friend, and those who knew him well realised that his character and abilities had marked him out for a great career in the Service.” A good cricketer and football player, and an experienced big game shooter in India, and deeply devoted to his regt., he had a remarkable power of gaining the affection of all with whom he came in contact, rich and poor alike, and his loyalty to his friends was one of his most marked characteristics. He was unm., and was buried in the Soldiers’ Cemetery, near the Rue de Bois, Richebourg St. Vaast. His yr. brother, the Hon. Henry Upton, is now (1916) on active service as a 2nd Lieut. in the Royal East Kent Yeomanry.

UPTON, RICHARD, Sergt., No. 2356, The Royal Flying Corps, 3rd surviving s. of the late Capt. Richard Upton, 4th Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regt.), and of the Political and Secret Department of H.M. India Office, by his wife, Harriet Frances (92, Tooting Bee Road, S.W.), dau. of the late Richard Clayton Strelley, of Oakerthorpe, co. Derby; b. Finchley, 11 Sept. 1881; educ. privately, and deciding upon a sea career, passed through the stages of his apprenticeship in a sailing boat, and eventually became a captain and master mariner in the Straits S.S. Service, L.F., being regarded as the commodore of the fleet of 17 boats. While home on leave in July, 1914, he obtained his first-class flying ticket in the Grahame-White School of Flying, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, joined the Legion of Frontiersmen; went to France, where he did good work as a free lance with the Red Cross Society. He then joined the R.F.C., was promoted Sergt., and died in Tidworth Military Hospital, 3 May, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service; unm.

UPTON, WILLIAM JAMES THOMAS, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 19637, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

UREN, GEORGE THOMAS, L.-Corpl., No. 8/1149, 14th Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of William Uren, of Clyde, Otago Central, New Zealand, formerly of St. Ives; b. Clyde, Otago, New Zealand, 2 April, 1887; educ. there; was by trade a Printer; volunteered on the outbreak of war; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force 28 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. He was a well known athlete in Central Otago and was a member of the C.U. Fire Brigade.

URQUHART, EDWARD FREDERICK MALTBY, Capt., 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), only s. of the Rev. Edward William Urquhart, of 82, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W., M.A., formerly Vicar of King’s Sutton, co. Northampton, by his wife, Caroline Mary, dau. of William Harris, of Plumley, Bovey Tracey, Devonshire; b. Edinburgh, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. West Bournemouth and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Highlanders, 20 Feb. 1897, and promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1899, and Capt. 17 April, 1902; served in the South African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Dec. 1901, and in those in the Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), was assistant superintendent of gymnasia in the Irish command, 9 Nov. 1906 to 19 Feb. 1907, and superintendent of the same, 20 Feb. 1907 to 9 Nov. 1910, and later Inspector of Physical Training, Northern Army, India, from March, 1913, to date of his death; went to France, 22 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Pilken, 23 Oct. following, during the fighting in the Ypres salient; unm. Buried in Boesinghe Churchyard.

USHER, SEBASTIAN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4074), 220488, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

USSHER, BEVERLY, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 2nd s. of the Rev. Richard Ussher, Vicar of Westbury, Brackley; b. Catton Hall, Burton-on-Trent, 4 Aug. 1879; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford (1891–98), and Wadham College, Oxford (1898–1900); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Leinster Regt., 23 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 9 Aug. 1902, and Capt. 1 April, 1910; was Adjutant, 3 May, 1906, to 2 May, 1909, and officer, Coy. Gentlemen Cadets, and Instructor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 21 Sept. 1912, to May, 1915; joined the 2nd Battn. at Barbados in Aug. 1900; served in Jamaica and St. Lucia; in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, Feb. to March, and in the Transvaal, March to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), and subsequently in India for two years and then at Devonport and in Ireland. After the outbreak of the European War he was appointed Staff Officer on the Staff of General Doran; left for the Dardanelles in May as Staff Capt. to the 88th Brigade in the famous 29th Division; was acting Brigade-Major, and was killed there 19 June, 1915. An officer wrote: “On the night of 18–19 June, a battn. of the 42nd Division was attacked and lost two or three trenches. The Turks got in behind our line, and were firing into the backs of the Royal Scots, who were holding the right of the 88th Brigade position. The counter-attack of the 42nd Division hung fire; so about 2 a.m. we decided to make one ourselves. Capt. Ussher was sent to the support trench of the Worcestershire Regt. who were in rear of the Royal Scots. The situation was serious and involved. Communication by telephone with the Royal Scots was interrupted owing to the wire being cut. It was necessary to have clear reports sent back. The Worcestershire Regt. had lost all their regular senior officers, and were, on this night, commanded by a Ceylon Planter. Capt. Ussher was told to see that co-ordinated action was arranged between the Royal Scots and Worcestershire Regt. and to send reports on the situation; but on no account to lead any attempt which was not his work under the circumstances. He took his orderly with him who subsequently told me what occurred. The action to be taken was agreed upon. The Royal Scots charged from their trenches simultaneously with a coy. of the Worcestershire Regt., re-took from the Turks the trenches they had seized, followed on and took and held a Turkish trench. There was a close fight with the bayonet which lasted 15 minutes. A German officer was killed. When the Worcestershire Regt. were in the act of jumping out of the trench preparatory to charging, Capt. Ussher was in the trench with Capt. Allen, D.A.A.Q.M.G. 142nd Division (Hampshire Regt.). I understand that he moved, still in the trench, to give room, and as he stood up he was struck in the head by a bullet, and died in a few minutes without becoming conscious. He was brought back to a spot near our Brigade Headquarters, and buried by the Chaplain. The grave is on the open upland from which can be seen the Dardanelles and Asia. A large cross had been made and marked and placed at the head. Wild flowers grow there,” and the Chaplain: The bearing is 310 from South Corner of White House to South Corner of the Cemetery. At St. Edward’s he was in the XI from 1895 to 1898, when he was capt., and in the XV from 1894 to 1897, when he was capt. He was one of the most brilliant of our cricketers. He headed the batting averages in 1897, and won the average ball twice in both cases with fine scores. Twice he scored for the school a century, and his record of cricket at St. Edward’s ends with the perfectly played 120 which he made against it in the Jubilee Match. He was a member of the S.E.S. Society. He also represented Wadham both at cricket and football. He m. at Jullundur, India, 26 March, 1906, Ethel, dau. of the Rev. Henry Martin, Vicar of Stockton-on-Tees, and Canon of Durham, and had three children: John Beverly, b. 6 Nov. 1913; Stephen Beverly, b. 17 Sept. 1915; and Kathleen Mary, b. 28 Feb. 1910. His brother, Capt. S. Ussher, was killed in France (see following notice).

USSHER, STEPHEN, Capt., 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, 3rd s. of the Rev. Richard Ussher, Vicar of Westbury, Brackley; b. 52, Eaton Place, S.W., 4 Oct. 1882; educ. St. Edward’s School, Oxford, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (20 Sept. 1901 to 30 July, 1903); gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattd., Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902; served with the 1st Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I. (with which he went to India), 27 Aug. 1902 to 25 Feb. 1903; The Buffs, 26 Feb. 1903 to 13 Oct. 1903, and the 2nd East Lancashires, 14 Oct. 1903 to 4 July, 1904; was posted to the 129th Baluchis, 5 July, 1904, and promoted Lieut. 5 Dec. following, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911; was Double Coy. Officer, 7 July, 1904; Off. Adjutant, 11 Nov. 1908, to 27 June, 1909, and Adjutant, 28 June, 1909, to 15 Aug. 1913; was present at the Delhi Coronation Durbar (medal, 24 June, 1911); went to France with the Indian Expeditionary Force, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 Dec. 1914; unm. The 129th Baluchis were ordered to make an attack on the German trenches at Givenchy near La Bassée on the early morning of the 16th. Capt. Ussher was in charge of the Machine-Gun Section of the Regt. The attack at first succeeded, but later the Germans brought up two machine-guns quite close, and by this means prevented any reinforcements coming forward to assist the first attacking party which had gained the Germans’ first line of trenches. Capt. Ussher, seeing what damage the German machine-guns were doing, tried to direct the fire from his guns on to theirs, and while looking over the parapet so that he could direct the fire effectively was hit by a bullet in the centre of his forehead. He died at once without recovering consciousness, and was buried the next day at Beuvry, near Bethune. His last words before he was killed were “Keep down, keep down,” to a brother officer who was with him. The 129th Baluchis were the first Indian Regt. to go into action, and one of the men received one of the two first V.C.’s ever granted to the native troops.

VACHELL, RICHARD TANFIELD, Capt., 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps, only s. of Horace Annesley Vachell, of Beechwood, Bartley, Southampton, Author and Dramatist, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Chauncy Hatch Phillips, of San Luis Obispo, California; b. San Luis aforesaid, 29 June, 1890; educ. Harrow and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 13 June, 1910; promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1913, and Capt. in July, 1915; joined the 1st Battn. at Gharial in the Murree Hills in 1910, and served with it continuously, except for a short period in 1912, when he acted as A.D.C. to Lord Sydenham, the then Governor of Bombay, until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, when he proceeded with it to France. He took part in the retreat from Mons, but was wounded in Oct. and invalided home. Shortly after returning to the Front he joined the Flying Corps as an observer, again returning to England in April to train for his pilot’s certificate, which he obtained in June, 1915. He returned to France at the end of July, and died at Choques, 1 Aug. 1915, of wounds received on 31 July, being buried in the military cemetery there; unm. Capt. Vachell was a good all-round sportsman. While at Harrow he was a member of the football eleven and fifteen; was an ardent Skihari, and represented the regt. at polo in the Jubbulpore Tournament in 1912. He contributed several articles to the St. George’s Gazette under the nom de plume of “The Sprouter,” notably “With the American Section at the Delhi Durbar,” which exhibited his strong sense of humour. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915.

VALLENTIN, JOHN FRANKS, V.C., Capt., 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Grimble Vallentin, of The Manor House, Walthamstow, by his wife, Lucy (33, Prince of Wales Mansions, S.W.), dau. of Col. John Finnis, 11th Bengal Native Infantry Regt. (killed at Meerut, 10 May, 1857, the first victim of the Mutiny); b. in London, 14 May, 1882; educ. Wellington College; served in the South African War, 1901–2, with the Sussex Militia, taking part in the operations in Orange River Colony, April to Dec. 1901, and in the Transvaal from that time until May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Garrison Regt., 29 July, 1903; transferred to 1st South Staffords, 7 June, 1905, and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. 1907, and Capt. 12 June, 1909. He went to France, 5 Oct. 1914, and was wounded on 31 Oct. at Ypres, and taken to hospital, where he was detained. On 2 Nov., on hearing Major Loder Symonds had been killed, he insisted on coming out of hospital to take command of what was left of the regt., the Col. having been seriously wounded on 31 Oct. He was killed in action at Zillebeke, 7 Nov. following; unm. The regt. on this occasion, with the remains of the Queen’s Regt., captured six machine guns, and recaptured the trenches which had previously been lost by the French. The machine guns captured on this occasion were destroyed and buried. He was awarded the V.C. posthumously “for conspicuous bravery on 7 Nov., at Zillebeke, when leading the attack against the Prussian Guard under a very heavy fire, he was struck down, and on rising to continue the attack, was immediately killed. The capture of the enemy’s trenches which followed was in a good measure due to the confidence which the men had in their captain, arising from his many previous acts of great bravery and ability.” Lieut.-Col. Ovens, C.M.G., commanding 1st South Staffords, wrote: “Capt. Vallentin’s splendid heroism and unfaltering courage and determination have been justly rewarded with the Victoria Cross. He was Captain of our Polo Club and the best player in the regt. He was a specialist in musketry, and a first-rate all-round man. At manœuvres and in the field General Officers have commented on the excellence of his work. The Chief Engineer of the 7th Division told me Capt. Vallentin’s scheme of defence and his trenches were the best he had seen. He was wounded and in hospital at Ypres on 6 Nov. 1914, and hearing the regt. was making an attack that night, he came out of hospital and took command. He was again wounded whilst leading his men forward, and was instantly killed. His is a great loss to his splendid old regt., and is deeply regretted by all who knew him.”

VANE, JOHN, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305666, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VANRENEN, ARTHUR SAUNDERS, Lieut.-Col., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, eldest surviving s. of the late Gen. Donald Campbell Vanrenen, Indian Army, by his wife, Julia (9, Lansdowne Place, Cheltenham), dau. of the late J. S. Sullivan, Bengal Medical Service; b. Meerut, India, 14 Dec. 1862; educ. Cheltenham; entered the Militia in 1879; was gazetted Lieut. from it, to the Lincolnshire Regt., 12 May, 1883; and promoted Capt. 23 Dec. 1893; served with Malay States Guides, 19 Nov. 1897–1908, being acting Commandant from 1905. He retired from the Lincolnshire Regt. on 3 Jan. 1903, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 offered his services, and was gazetted Major, 7th Battn. of that regt., 23 Sept. following, and Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 3 March, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Kapanya Dagh, 15 Aug. 1915, after the landing at Suvla Bay. He was buried on the hill where the battle took place. He m. at Bruges, Belgium, 28 Oct. 1897, Louisa Frances (Holmhurst, Bideford), dau. of Edwin Empson Isemonger, Colonial Treasurer of the Straits Settlements, and had two children: Esmé Mildred, b. 2 Aug. 1898; and Joyce Marguerite, b. 12 May, 1903.

VANSON, ROBERT WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B 9073), 199912, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VARLEY, HORACE WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4856), S.S. 1766, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VARLEY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 11284, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Varley, of Church, Accrington; b. co. Lancaster; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 Jan. 1915.

VARNEY, JOHN, Pte., No. 9360, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; s. of John Varney, of 18, Mitchells Road, Richmond; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action 15 Feb. 1915.

VASSALLI, ALFRED JEROME, Corpl., No. 305, 2nd King Edward’s Horse, s. of John Vassalli, of Scarborough, Jet Ornament Manufacturer, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of William Hardy; b. Whitby, co. York, 27 Aug. 1881; educ. Scarborough; was an officer in the Merchant Service, and was training with the Naval Reserve when the South African War broke out; volunteered, went with the naval guns to the Relief of Ladysmith, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State and Natal (Queen’s medal with five bars), and was for some time despatch rider for Gen. Bethune, in whose cavalry regt. he afterwards served. He was a Naval Reservist, and on the outbreak of war was called up, but failed to pass the medical examination, and, being anxious to serve his country, joined the 2nd King Edward’s Horse, and was promoted Corpl. His health, however, broke down, and he died in King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, 1 Oct. 1914, from pneumonia contracted while in camp at Slough. He was a Rural District Councillor at Drigg, Cumberland. He m. at Scarborough 3 Sept. 1902, Anne Pembroke (Derwent House, Drigg, Holmrook, Cumberland), dau. of Frederick Reynolds, of the Inland Revenue Department, and had three children: Frederick John, b. 10 Nov. 1911; Annie Reynolds, b. 1 Feb. 1904; and Jessie Irene, b. 30 Dec. 1905.

JONES-VAUGHAN, EVAN NANNEY, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Hugh Thomas Jones-Vaughan, of Llwydyn, Carnarvonshire, C.B., Col.-in-Chief of the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. (who served through the Indian Mutiny), by his wife, Eva, dau. of the late Rev. Evan C. Owen, of Hengwrtucha, Merionethshire, and Aberhirriaeth Hall, T.L., J.P.; b. Llwydyn, 5 Sept. 1885; educ. Wellington and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 22 Feb. 1905; and promoted Lieut. 4 Dec. 1909, and Capt. 19 April, 1913; left for France, 10 Aug. 1914; and was killed in action not far from the village of Vertouquet, near Armentières, 26 Oct. following, by the explosion of a shell (but reports differ), which also killed two Lieuts., a Sergt. and two men of his battn. Buried 600 metres from the spot where he fell; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I have lost a most gallant and capable officer and a very dear companion.”

VAVASOUR, LIONEL ORMISTON, Lieut., 2nd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of Albert Carter Vavasour, M.A., J.P., of Weston Manor, Otley, co. York, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of C. H. Dawson, J.P., Weston Hall; b. Killwick Hall, Beverley, 29 Aug. 1889; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. 28 May, 1910, from the Special Reserve, and promoted Lieut. 28 Dec. 1913; went to India with his regt. in 1912, and died at Gharial, 24 July, 1915, while on active service; unm. Lieut. Vavasour was a keen sportsman, a clever cricketer, and while at school won several silver cups, especially for the eight miles’ race. In the regt. he found cricket and football “going to pieces,” but soon established a revival of keen interest, and regularly made his century with his team. He was the crack shot of his regt., and sent many trophies home to witness to his prowess with the rifle, including the heads of three urial and three chinkara from Kashmir, which was said to be the biggest bag an officer had ever secured there.

VEITCH, FRANCIS, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115773, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VENN, ERNEST ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1393), 201717, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VENNER, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4893), S.S. 104302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

VENNING, EDWIN GERALD, Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. The Suffolk Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edwin James Venning, Chaplain in Cassel, Germany, by his wife, Amy, dau. of William Lawrence; b. Southsea, 7 June, 1883; educ. St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, and afterwards took up acting. From about 1911, he travelled in the provinces with touring companies, playing important parts, and when war broke out in Aug. 1914, he was acting at Brighton. He at once volunteered, and enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regt. in Sept. and was subsequently gazetted Lieut. 3rd Suffolks, 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 9 June, 1915; went to the Front, 3 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 6 Aug. following; unm. Buried in Locre Churchyard. Sergt. Major Utting, in writing to his sister, said: “Your brother, Capt. Venning, was my company officer, and he has treated myself and the men of my company in such a manner that he has gained a respect that will last as long as there is a man of the present B Coy. alive.”

VERCO, WALTER JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch./10669, H.M.S Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

VERCOE, HENRY STEVEN, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4863, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

VEREKER, ROBERT HUMPHREY MEDLICOTT, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd s. of George Medlicott Vereker, of Sharpitor, near Salcombe, South Devon, J.P. for co. Galway, Freeman of the City of Dublin, late Capt. Kildare Militia, by his wife, Frances Gore, eldest dau. of Robert Manders, of Landscape, Dundrum, co. Dublin, and grandson of the Hon. John Prendergast Vereker [3rd son of John Prendergast, 3rd Viscount Gort]; b. Dublin, 15 Oct. 1894; educ. Cheam, Osborne Naval College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Grenadier Guards, 17 Sept. 1913, and joined his battn. the following month at the Tower of London; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the desperate night battle at Landrecies, on the 25th of the same month. Buried at Landrecies; unm. The Rev. Benjamin G. O. Rorke, Chaplain to the Forces, wrote: “You have probably already heard that your brave son met his death in action on the 25th inst. while trying to draw Corpl. Bacchus of his regt. out of the range of the German fire. Corpl. Bacchus, who was wounded, is now convalescent, and, if spared, can tell you all about it. He showed me the exact spot at Landrecies, on the town side of the railway level-crossing, on the left of the road. It was a brave man’s death. There were in his pocket a silver flask from his mother and his own ‘Onoto’ diary. I gave them into the custody of the medical officer, Major Fry (brother of C. B. Fry), to take charge of for you. He was buried in the next grave to Lord Hawarden and the Hon. Windsor Clive on the one side, and eight men of the Coldstream Guards on the other, and on the same occasion we erected a rough wooden cross inscribing the names. The following day the wife of the ‘Garde Cimetière’ brought me a wooden cross of a more substantial kind, and I left instructions for the names to be painted on it; it was her own thought and her own tribute. Mme. Bocquet, The Pharmacie, Grande Rue, Landrecies (a very kind lady), undertook to see this done. I have heard from the regt. how much he is missed. He died like a brave man. This will be a great consolation to you.” The house and grounds at Sharpitor were lent to the Red Cross Society for the duration of the war by Mr. and Mrs. George Vereker in memory of their son.

VERGE, ARTHUR, Capt., A.A.M.C., attd. 6th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Austral Verge, of Kempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales, Grazier, by his wife, Matilda Jane, dau. of Henry Flavelle, of Hamilton Terrace, London; b. Kempsey, 12 Feb. 1880; educ. The King’s School, Parramatta, where he was Burton Exhibitioner in 1898, and St. Paul’s College within Sydney University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.M., in 1905; was for two years (1905–6) resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital; then proceeded to England, where he attended the leading London hospital skin departments, and took courses in Bacteriology and Vaccine Therapy. After a post graduate course at Edinburgh University he qualified F.R.C.S. there in 1908, and then visited Paris, Vienna, Prague and Berlin, and attended the skin clinics and took courses in the treatment of skin diseases under Sabarand, Brocq, Thebierge, Albaran (Paris), Finger, Rheil, Oppenheim, Kapsammer (Vienna), Blaschko, Josephs and Wasserman (Berlin). Returning to Edinburgh, he was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Skin Department for three months, and later non-resident house physician for one year (1909–10), at the Royal Infirmary, and while holding these positions had charge of the X-Ray department, and the radium treatment under Dr. Cranston Low. He took a six months’ course in Vaccine Therapy and Bacteriology of the Skin at the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1910 published in the “British Medical Journal” (31 Dec.) an article on “The Treatment and Diagnosis of Lupus Vulgaris by Tuberculin Ointment.” He then returned to Australia and practised as a skin specialist in Sydney, and in 1911 obtained the position of Hon. Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Skin at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital there. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and was given a commission as Capt. A.A.M.C., 2 Oct. 1914; left Sydney as medical officer to the 6th Light Horse with the second reinforcements, and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, 8 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service with his regt. at Anzac Cove; unm. He represented both King’s School and St. Paul’s College in cricket, football, tennis and rowing. He played with the University Union Football Team, and was full-back for three seasons. He played full-back for New South Wales against Queensland in 1902 and 1904, and while in the old country played rugger with Blackheath and other Rugby clubs. Dr. Verge was also a capital all-round cricketer, and at one time was the most successful bowler at the University. He played in two matches against Melbourne University, scoring 10 and 2, and taking two for 22 and six for 20 in 1903; and scoring 4 and 5, and taking four for 70 and three for 69 in 1904. His yr. brother, Dr. C. A. Verge, is now with No. 32 General Hospital, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force.