WRIGHT, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7555), 189743, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

WRIGHT, EDWARD, A.B., 213768, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WRIGHT, EDWIN, Capt. Prince of Wales’s, 3rd Dragoon Guards, only surviving child of James Walker Wright, M. Inst. C.E., London, late Chief Engineer Public Works Department, Assam, India, and Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Joseph Hodgson, of Crofton Mills, Blyth, Northumberland; b. Jalandhar, Punjab, 27 Nov. 1879, came to England, 1883; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Greenwich Naval College, entered the Royal Marine Artillery, as 2nd Lieut., 1 Sept. 1897, promoted Lieut. 1 July, 1898, and left Greenwich, 30 June, 1899. He passed his torpedo course (H.M.S. Vernon), in 1900, and was appointed to H.M.S. Repulse (Channel Fleet), 22 Dec. 1900, till Dec. 1901. On leaving this ship he became Assistant Adjutant in his branch, Jan. 1902, a post he gave up on his promotion to the rank of Capt. 3 Dec. 1904. In the following year (1 Aug.) he took up the Adjutancy of the South-East of Scotland Royal Garrison Artillery Militia, a post for which his big-gun training fitted him. He resigned the Adjutancy 11 Aug. 1908, was placed on half-pay and served as A.D.C. to Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet, Governor of South Australia, from Feb. 1909 to Jan. 1911. Returning to England he took the opportunity offered him of going into the cavalry at the foot of the captains’ list in the 3rd Dragoon Guards at a time when the training of cavalry was exercising the minds of the authorities. He served with the regt. at Aldershot and Hounslow and subsequently at Cairo, till sent to join the Expeditionary Force in France after the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Ypres, 17 Nov. 1914. His death is thus described in a letter from a comrade: “The Prussian Guard were attacking and some of them rushed into some cottages between Wright’s trench and the next squadron trench; he rushed out of his trench with some men, and killed them all in the cottages, accounting for five himself. He then went back to his trench and took up a rifle and started shooting at the Germans in front, but a piece of bullet took a piece of his left thumb away, and damaged the rifle. This misfortune was followed by the bursting of a shell which killed him.... His squadron took the brunt of the attack, and he was responsible for a splendid piece of work in repulsing it....” His body was taken to Ypres that night and buried in the churchyard there the following day. Splendid testimony of his devotion to his men is given in a letter from Private O’Brien, who writing to his wife said: “There are many instances of bravery I saw myself. One in particular was that of Capt. Wright of my squadron who crept out under a heavy artillery and rifle fire to try and bring in two wounded men. He succeeded in bringing back to the trench Jack Lavery, who had been shot. He also bandaged up and placed in safety L.-Corpl. Fraser, who had the back of his head blown off by a shell.” Capt. Wright m. at Adelaide, South Australia, 21 Sept. 1910, Christine Margret, dau. of Thomas Elder Barr-Smith, of Birksgate, Glen Osmond, Adelaide; s.p. He was well known as a polo player and at Hurlingham was on the “four” mark.

WRIGHT, HARRY THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5706), 203886, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WRIGHT, HUGH STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Capt., 2nd Battn. 8th Gurkha Rifles, 2nd s. of the late Frederick Wright, for many years senior superintendent and later Inspector General of Police in Berar, India, by his wife, Frances Louisa (Kilcor Castle, Fermoy, co. Cork), dau. of the late Henry Edmund Goodhall, of Sherwood Lodge, Upper Norwood; b. Akola, Berar, India, 14 Dec. 1877; educ. Chigwell School, Chigwell, Essex (Rev. Canon R. D. Swallow), and later at Heidelberg College. He was on plague duty in India, when the South African War broke out, and enlisted in Lumsden’s Horse, sailing from Calcutta 27 Feb. 1900. He obtained his commission in the Army Service Corps, 9 Aug. 1900. Col. Lumsden, in writing to his mother, said: “The pleasure was mine in recommending your boys [Capt. Wright’s younger brother enlisted at the same time] for their commissions. They turned out excellent troopers and fought loyally for Queen and Country; I have no doubt they will do equally well in the future. They are much indebted to General Tucker, who strongly supported my recommendation at Headquarters.” He was promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1901, and Capt. 15 Sept. 1909; took part in operations both in the Transvaal and the Orange Colony; entered Pretoria with Lord Roberts, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps, and returned to England in Nov. 1902. After a course at Aldershot, he was sent on duty to Cork, and from there to India for five years, arriving at Bombay 22 Jan. 1904; in 0ct. 1905, he went to Rawal Pindi for manœuvres in connection with the Prince of Wales’ visit; and from 1906–1908 he commanded 13th Mule Corps at Poona, returning to England in Jan. 1909, when he commanded the 15th Coy. A.S.C. at Bulford Camp, Salisbury, till 1912. On 19 April, 1912, he exchanged into the Indian Army, and left England for India the same month, joining the 2nd Battn. 8th Gurkha Rifles at Lansdowne, Himalayas. While here he passed for his Majority, and also in Kushura, the Ghurka language. On 22 Aug. 1914, he left India, embarking at Karachi for France on the S.S. Erinpura, and wrote: “We are now a convoy of 42 transports, all travelling two cables length of each other, H.M.S. Dartmouth in charge. It is really a most impressive sight, and at night looks like a white city.” They arrived at Marseilles 12 Oct. 1914, and were attached to the Meerut Division under Major-General Keary. The regt. went into action at Ypres on the night of the 29th Oct. and Capt. Wright was killed in action on the following day; unm. His Commanding Officer sent the following account of the engagement: “At 10 p.m. on the 29th he (Capt. Wright) got his Coy. in the advanced trench, next to that occupied by Capts. Hartwell and Hayes-Sadler. During the night his trench was attacked twice to my knowledge as I was with him during one attack, and with his Double Company Commander Major Wake, in the supporting trench during the other. He did all that man could do to keep his Command in hand, and acted with the greatest courage and coolness. During the very trying shell fire to which these trenches were subjected from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the 30th Oct., he did all it was possible to do. During this time he was wounded, but continued to command his men. When the furious attack developed, it was mainly directed on to his trench and that held by Capt. Sadler. He repelled line after line of the enemy, and held on till a very large proportion of his men had been killed or wounded, and till he himself was killed. What could a man do more? A soldier can do no more than die at his post—game to the last!” General Sir George Richardson wrote: “I had the honour of knowing your boy at Poona, when I was G.O.C. 5th Division, and formed the very highest opinion of him, socially and officially. We all loved him as a first class sportsman and a first class soldier”; and Major-General H. D. Keary, Commanding Meerut Division, wrote: “Professionally I was astonished at the rapidity with which he picked up his profession as an officer in a Gurkha Regt. in surroundings entirely foreign to anything he had previously seen, his previous service having been mostly in the Army Service Corps. I did, in fact, make a special note in the first Annual Confidential Report I wrote of him of my appreciation of the aptitude he had shown in this respect. Throughout the time he served under me, he showed the greatest zeal and capacity, and was an officer in whom I had the greatest confidence, and acknowledge that whatever work he had to do would be well and conscientiously done. He was a good soldier and died a soldier’s death, fighting against fearful odds and under every possible disadvantage.” Capt. Wright was far above the average both at polo and tennis, and played tennis for his Corps (A.S.C.) in Regimental Tournaments at Queen’s Club, twice being in the final; he also had the reputation of being an excellent shot. Once in Central India, while on a shooting expedition, he was walking with his elder brother and a few natives single-file along a narrow path through a thick jungle, when they came face to face with a huge tiger. Capt. Wright shot the animal dead, and saved what might have been a catastrophe; the skin of the tiger, after being cured, was found to measure from end to end, 12 feet.

WRIGHT, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3267), 187388, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WRIGHT, JOHN HUTTON, Private, No. 11431, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Albert Henry Wright, of 25, Grange Road, Small Heath, Birmingham; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died at Bethune, 10 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action. Buried in town cemetery there; unm.

WRIGHT, LAWRENCE WILLIAM, Eng. Lieut. R.N., only s. of the late Lawrence Wright, of Orwell, Coatham, by his wife, Mary Livingstone (Orwell, Coatham, Redcar, Yorks), dau. of John Whyte; b. Middlesbrough, 4 Oct. 1880; educ. Coatham Grammar School, La Chatelaine College, Geneva, and the Durham College of Science; was an Engineer and volunteered his services after the outbreak of war and was gazetted Eng. Lieut. (temp.) and appointed H.M.S. Bulwark, 11 Sept. 1914; and was lost when that ship was blown up off Sheerness, 26 Nov. 1914; unm.

WRIGHT, LEONARD FREDERICK HALL, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19544, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WRIGHT, SYDNEY, L.-Corpl., No. 2610, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); joined the Queen Victoria Rifles 14 Sept. 1914; went to France 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; unm. Buried Larch Wood, 1, 29, Reference Map Belgium, 28, 1/40,000.

WRIGHT, THOMAS, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., eldest s. of Stephen Wright, of Ruskington, Lincolnshire, Farmer, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of J. Christian, of Barrow House, Rutland; b. Ruskington, 6 July, 1889; educ. Christ’s Hospital School, Lincoln, and King’s College London (Associate; B.Sc.; A.I.C.); was a Demonstrator in Chemistry; joined King Edward’s Horse in Feb. 1913; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Berkshires, 24 Dec. 1914; left for France 29 Mar. 1915; and was killed in action 2 May, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Fauquissart, near Laventie, while on a reconnoitring patrol; unm. Buried in the Fauquissart Cemetery. His Commanding Officer, Major R. P. Harvey, wrote: “He was on duty in the trenches with his platoon and had taken out a sergt. and a man to reconnoitre a trench half way between the opposing lines. At 8 p.m. he returned to report that he had seen footmarks leading to the enemy’s trench. About 10 p.m. he asked permission to go on the next patrol as this was a duty which he particularly liked, and was allowed. While peering in the darkness, both he and the sergt. who was with him showing their heads above a flimsy parapet, a volley from the enemy was fired and your son was struck through the head, heart and wrist. He fell dead without a sound. The sergt. was unable to move him, but returned and reported. A brother subaltern and three men at once set out to find his remains which they brought down to headquarters by midnight. He was laid to rest in the little cemetery of Fauquissart where some 30 men of his Battn. lie. Having trained your son at Portsmouth when he joined this battn., I can testify personally to the loss the regt. has sustained in the death of a most promising young officer. One who was always willing, quite reliable, and of a most placid and cool temperament in danger.”

WRIGHT, THOMAS, Private, No. 20061, 4th Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs) (T.F.), eldest s. of William Worley Wright, of Bexhill, by his wife, Ellen; b. Bexhill, 19 April, 1854, enlisted in Oct. 1915, and died at Faversham, 30 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while in training. He m. at the Baptist Church, Erith, 6 July, 1890, Fanny (60, Kingsley Road, Maidstone), dau. of William Town; s.p.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM, L.-Corpl., No. 8820, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 17 Jan. 1915.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM, E.R.A., R.N.R. 425EB, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM, Leading Stoker (Coastguard), 306457 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

WRIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17936, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WROUGHTON, MUSGRAVE CAZENOVE, 2nd Lieut., 12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, only s. of William Musgrave Wroughton, of 77, Chester Square, London, S.W., and of Creaton Lodge, co. Northampton, by his wife, Edith Constance, dau. of Henry Cazenove, of Lilies, Aylesbury, and nephew of Philip Wroughton, of Woolley Park, co. Berks, M.P., J.P., D.L. (see The Plantagenet Roll, Mortimer-Percy, Vol. 1. p. 203); b. in London, 1 Oct. 1891. He was educ. at Harrow and at Christchurch, Oxford, and during his school and college vacations was a keen follower of the Pytchley Hounds, of which pack his father was master for many years. On leaving Harrow he received a commission in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, and in 1912 he accompanied Sir Robert Baden-Powell as A.D.C. on his world tour in connection with the Boy Scouts’ movement. After serving for four years in the Northamptonshire Yeomanry, he was given a commission in the Special Reserve, 12th Lancers, as 2nd Lieut. (on probation) in Oct. 1913; the appointment was confirmed after his death, to date from 29 Oct. 1914. In Aug. 1914, he accompanied his regt. to the Front, and was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was killed in action near Ypres, 30 Oct. 1914, and was buried in Kemmel Churchyard, Belgium; unm.

WYATT, ERNEST JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, 307234, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

WYKES, WILLIAM, Private, No. 2912, 2/10th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Henry Wykes, of 29, West View Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, Builder’s Manager, by his wife, Henrietta Adela Louisa, dau. of Laurance Rose; b. Hemel Hempstead, 16 May, 1892; educ. Council School there; was a Draper; volunteered and enlisted in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles in July, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, and died in Hospital at Alexandria, 1 Nov. 1915, of dysentery contracted in the trenches. Buried in Chatby Military Cemetery; unm.

WYLD, GEORGE RICHARD, Capt., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Wiltshire Regt., attd. 1st Berkshire Regt., only s. of the Rev. Edwin George Wyld, Vicar of Melksham, Wilts, Canon of Salisbury, by his wife, Mary Caroline, eldest dau. of Sir Hungerford Pollen, 3rd Baronet; b. Woodborough, co. Wilts, 8 July, 1879; educ. Marlborough, and on leaving there entered the Stock Exchange. He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, with the 13th Middlesex V.R.C. (now the Queen’s Westminsters) and received the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and was appointed an Hon. Lieut. in the Army, 1 July, 1901. When the European War broke out he was on the Reserve of Officers and immediately volunteered for foreign service, and after being attached to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 19 Aug. 1914, was gazetted Capt. 3rd Wilts Regt., 7 Oct. following. He went to France with the 7th Division, attd. to the 1st Berkshires, Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy 24 Dec. 1914; unm. The Chaplain wrote: “He was most popular with his brother officers of the Berkshire Regt., and was considered very efficient in his duty, and it was whilst bravely doing his duty in trench at Givenchy that he was mortally wounded by a bullet.”

DOUGHTY-WYLIE, CHARLES HOTHAM MONTAGU, V.C., C.B. C.M.G., Lieut.-Col., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, elder s. of Henry Montagu Doughty, of Theberton Hall, Suffolk, J.P., formerly R.N., by his wife, Edith Rebecca, only child of David Cameron, Chief Justice of Vancouver Island; b. 23 July, 1868; educ. Winchester and Sandhurst (1888–89); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 21 Sept. 1889, and promoted Lieut., 23 Sept. 1891; Capt. 9 Sept. 1896; Major 21 Aug. 1907, and temp. Lieut.-Col. 31 March, 1914; served (1) in the Black Mountain Expedition, 1891 (severely wounded; medal with Hazara clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force as transport officer on the Staff of Gen. Gatacre, 1895 (medal with clasp); (3) with the Nile Expedition, 1898–9, being employed with Egyptian Army, 22 May, 1898, to 1 March, 1900; was Brigade Major, Infantry Brigade, Flying Column: took part in the Battle of Khartoum, and in the operations resulting in the final defeat of the Khalifa (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 30 Sept. 1898, and 30 Jan. 1900]: Sudan medal; Egyptian medal with three clasps; order of the Medjidieh); (4) in the South African War, 1899–1900; in command of a Battn. of Mounted Infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, May-29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), and Vredefort (severely wounded; Queen’s medal with three clasps); (5) at Tien-Tsin, where he raised a regt. of Mounted Infantry; and (6) as Special Service Officer with Somaliland Field Force, 14 Jan. 1903, to June, 1904 (medal with clasps). From 26 Sept. 1906 to 3 Dec. 1909, he was acting Vice-Consul at Mersina and Konia, Asia Minor, and during his tenure of this appointment occurred the massacre by the Turks of Armenians at Adana. Of his services on this occasion, a correspondent wrote: “On his own responsibility he assumed the practical command of the city of Adana, and his courage and capacity saved the lives of hundreds—indeed, it was believed by those best able to judge, thousands—of many nationalities. Wearing his military uniform, he rode through the town with a half company of Turkish troops, compelling the raging mob to stop the killing, and posting guards over particular houses. His right arm was broken by a bullet, but this did not prevent him from riding out again, and in the second and worst outbreak of massacre again saving more hundreds of lives. The then British Ambassador at the Porte, Sir Gerard Lowther, afforded him a generous meed of support and encouragement, and Major Doughty-Wylie’s services were recognised by the award of the C.M.G. He also received the warm thanks of many foreign Governments and public bodies. He afterwards organised a system of relief to the destitute—22,000 persons, exclusive of refugees in his own house, and exclusive also of the inmates of three hospitals which were managed by Mrs. Doughty-Wylie. On 4 Dec. 1909, he was appointed Consul at Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, where he rendered important services, acting as Chargé d’Affaires for considerable periods. Being home on leave in 1912, he was, with the consent of the Government, appointed Director-in-Chief of the Red Cross units with the Turkish Forces during the Balkan War, and from 29 Aug. to 21 Dec. 1913, was British representative on the International Commission for the delimitation of the Southern Frontier of Albania, of which Commission he was elected President. For his services he received the Companionship of the Bath, and the second class of the Medjidieh from the Sultan. On his return to England he was appointed to the General Staff (2nd grade), and in 1915 went to the Dardanelles on the Staff of Sir Ian Hamilton. During the landings at the Beaches 25 and 26 of April, 1915, he represented the Staff in the steamship River Clyde, which had been specially prepared for running on shore on V Beach, and which carried 2,200 troops of the 29th Division. This landing had almost failed, owing to the raking Turkish fire from the Castle and village and both sides of the bay, and no progress was made on the 25th, in spite of the desperate valour of the Munster and Dublin Fusiliers and the Hampshire Regt., but on the 26th Col. Doughty-Wylie obtained leave to land, and collecting the brave survivors of the above-named regts., with the assistance of Capt. Walford, organised an attack, and in some hours’ fighting took the Castle and village of Sedd-el-Bahr, and finally led his handful of troops in a bayonet charge up Hill 141, since known as Col. Doughty-Wylie’s Hill. The Turks fled before them, and they occupied the old Fort on the crest, but Col. Doughty-Wylie fell at the moment of victory. An eye witness wrote: “All he carried was a small cane and from a band he wore round his arm the men gathered he was Staff Officer. He walked about in the open under a continuous fire, talking to the men, cheering them up, and rallying them together. Then when all was ready for the bayonet charge, he placed himself in front of them all, and armed simply with a small cane led them in a great charge up the hill. No braver man ever lived. He had no business to be there as a Staff Officer, but the loss among officers in landing had been so great and the necessity for making headway quickly was so essential, that he felt his duty lay in leading the men, so he went forth fearlessly to his death and the hill will be a lasting monument to his self-sacrifice and great valour. The magic of his personality and example infused the men with new resolution and they pressed the attack home.” For his services on the occasion he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915]: “On 26 April, 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both Brig.-Gen. and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieut.-Col. Doughty-Wylie and Capt. Walford organised and led an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd-el-Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. The enemy’s position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine guns and pompoms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory.” Col. Doughty-Wylie m. 1 June, 1904, Lilian Oimara, widow of Henry Adams-Wylie, Lieut. Indian M.S., and eldest dau. of the late John Wylie, of West Cliffe Hall, co. Hants; s.p. He assumed the additional name of Wylie by Deed Poll in 1904.

WYLLIE, HENRY, Pte., No. 2547, 6th Battn. Highland Light Infanttry; s. of A. Wyllie, of 181, East Main Street, Armandale; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915.

WYLLIE, JAMES, L.-Corpl., No. 7409, 5th Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915.

WYLLIE, JAMES BULLOCH, Private, No. 12/2162, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of A. Wyllie, of Belmont Road, Quinfoes Green, Midlothian; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; reported missing, 8 Aug. 1915, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

WYLLIE, SIDNEY ALFRED, Private, No. 3382, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frederick William Wyllie, of 105, Kirkwood Road, Peckham (now on service in France), by his wife, Alice, dau. of Alfred Charles Yates; b. Port Sunlight, Cheshire, 13 June, 1899; educ. Stafford Street Wesleyan Council School, Peckham, S.E., was a Clerk; volunteered and joined the 1st London Regt., 9 Jan. 1915; went to France 16 April, and was killed in action there, 9 May, 1915; unm.

WYLLIE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, 308390, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

WYNDER, JOHN, L.-Corpl., No. 6570, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.(The Buffs), s. of William Wynder, of 37, Staunton Street, Deptford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915.

WYNN, WILLIAM, Private, No. 17348, 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, eldest s. of Michael Wynn, of Southwick-on-Wear, Caulker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Storey, of Southwick; b. Southwick, 29 Jan. 1880; educ. Board School there; was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland, and was Secretary of the Southwick Football Club; enlisted 11 Feb. 1915, and trained at Newcastle and East Boldon. After the Battle of Hill 60 at Ypres on 24 May, 1915, he was officially reported missing and is now assumed to have been killed that day. He m. at Southwick Parish Church, 1 Jan. 1907, Ada (15, Ogle Terrace, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Edward Arthur Hatley, of Southwick, and had three children: Michael, b. 10 Dec. 1913; William, b. 29 June, 1915; and Ruth, b. 15 April, 1912.

WYNNE, EDWARD, Private, No. 1425, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Gloucester; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 9 Aug. 1915.

WYNTER, FRANCIS CONSTANTINE WILLIAM, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yst. s. of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt. Bengal Army, and for 35 years a Queen’s Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Augustus Dillon [4th s. of Henry Augustus, 13th Viscount Dillon]; b. The Hays aforesaid, 25 April, 1888; educ. Cothill; Harrow and Hertford College, Oxford (of which he had a Founder’s Kin Scholarship); received a University commission as 2nd Lieut., Oxford and Bucks L.I., 19 May, 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1914, and Tempy. Capt. Sept. 1915; joined 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, and was posted to the 1st Battn. in India, 7 Feb. 1912; was appointed General Staff Officer (third grade), Indian Expeditionary Force, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915; unm. His eldest brother, Capt. P. C. Wynter, was killed in France in April (see his notice).

WYNTER, PHILIP CECIL, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest s. of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt., Bengal Army, and for thirty-five years a Queen’s Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Dillon, 7th Dragoon Guards and 17th Lancers [4th s. of Henry, 13th Viscount Dillon]; b. London, 31 Jan. 1880; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st East Surreys from the Militia, 4 Dec. 1901, and joined his battn. at Lucknow the following year; promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1903, and Capt. 26 Jan. 1910; went to France the end of Oct., was invalided home the beginning of Dec. and returned to France 18 Feb., and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; unm. He was a first-rate horseman and a good cricketer and played for the Free Foresters. His yst. brother, Capt. F. C. W. Wynter, was also killed in action (see his notice).

YARD, JOSEPH, Stoker, H.M.S. Hood Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the roast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

YARDE, FRANK, L.-Sergt., No. 3197, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of Page Yarde, of Buckland St. Mary, near Chard, by his wife, Susan, dau. of James Yarde; b. Staple Hill, Buckland St. Mary, Chard, co. Somerset, 3 June, 1880; educ. Buckland St. Mary village school; enlisted 8 Jan. 1900; became L.-Corpl. 9 Nov, 1914; Corpl. 11 April 1915, and L.-Sergt. 12 July following; served in South Africa, 26 Nov. 1901, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1908; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 30 Aug. 1914 to 28 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action that day, near Vermelles, during the Battle of Loos. He was in a hastily dug trench in the firing line, when a shell burst and the nose cap caught him just above the forehead, killing him instantly. Letters from his comrades speak very highly of his conduct and of how much he was loved and respected by all. He was buried at the foot of the western slope of Hill 70, 300 yards from the village of Hulluch, Belgium. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 1905, Agnes Mary (Drill Hall, London Road, Camberley), yst. dau. of the late James (and Elizabeth) Knight, of Marden, near Devizes, and had issue: Frank, b. 2 May, 1906; William James, b. 11 April, 1909; Walter Cameron, b. 29 Aug. 1911; John, b. 13 May, 1914; and Margaret Elizabeth, b. 9 Dec. 1912.

YARDLEY, FREDERICK GEORGE, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., yst. s. of Joseph Yardley, of the Cedars, Bescot, Walsall, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Joseph Cockram; b. Darlaston, 19 Oct. 1887; educ. King Edward’s High School, Birmingham and Queen’s College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1910; was for three years classical master at Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Canada, and then went to Vancouver, and entered the legal profession; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the 16th Canadian Scottish (72nd Highlanders); came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th North Staffords, 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 17 July, and died in Hospital at Calais, 17 Sept. following, of wounds received whilst superintending trench digging operations near Neuve Chapelle on 22 Aug.; unm.

YARROW, ERIC FERNANDEZ, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), yst. s. of Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, of the Homestead, Hindhead, Surrey, Engineer and Ship Builder, by his wife, Minnie Florence; b. Blackheath, London, S.E., 5 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne; The School, Oundle, Northamptonshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was on the outbreak of the war. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 16 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. Buried on canal bank, near Ypres. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

YATES, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9270). S.S. 106512, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

YATES, GEORGE WALTER, Ordinary Telegraphist, J. 17213 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of James Yates, of Luggvale, Stanhope Street, Hereford; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

YATES, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5597), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

YATES, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1845), 305453, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

YATES, LENHAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12517, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

YORK, WILLIAM LEONARD, Corpl., No. 482, 1/8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 3rd s. of the late William York, Painter and Decorator; by his wife, Jennie; b. St. John’s Wood, N.W., 30 March, 1886; educ. West Hampstead School; was a post office official at the Western District Post Office, and when recruits were called for from that department immediately volunteered and joined the Post Office Rifles, Sept. 1914; went to France 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May following. Buried there. He m. at St. John’s Congregational Church, Croydon 23 April, 1910, Lilas Wilkins (53, Northboro Road, Norbury, S.W.), dau. of James Smith, and had a son, William Andrew Smith, b. 17 Sept. 1911.

YOUNG, ALFRED, Gunner, R.M.A., 9891, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

YOUNG, ARCHIBALD EDGAR, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2077), 163559, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

YOUNG, ARTHUR, Major, 2nd Battn. 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, eldest s. of Colonel George Young, of Broomhill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Indian Army (ret.), formerly Commanding 1st Gurkha Rifles, by his wife, Harriet Rose, dau. of the Rev. James Weir, Drainie, Elgin, Scotland; b. Dharmsald, Punjab, India, 3 Dec. 1876; educ. Royal Academy, Tain; Blair Lodge School, Polmont, Stirlingshire, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, 5 Aug. 1896, and promoted Lieut. 3 Jan. 1899; Capt. 5 Aug. 1905; Double Company Commander 23 April, 1907, and Major 5 Aug. 1914. He was attached to the Gordon Highlanders for his first year in India and served with them throughout the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8; took part in the actions at Chagree Kotal and Dargai and the capture of the Sampagha and Arkanga Passes, the operations in the Waran Valley and action on 16 Nov. 1897, and those in the Bara Valley 7 to 14 Dec. following, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 June, 1898] and awarded the medal with two clasps. He joined the Indian Army in 1899, and was posted to the 1st Gurkha Rifles and later passed through the Staff College and on 1 June, 1912, was appointed Brigade Major to the Garhwal Brigade, 7th (Meerut) Division. On the outbreak of the European War, the 1st Gurkha Rifles formed part of the Indian Expeditionary Force and left India for France Sept. 1914. Major Young was wounded in action near Richebourg L’Avouée, 13 Dec. 1914, and died the following day: unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17th Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, and was buried in Lillers Cemetery.

YOUNG, CHARLES STANLEY, Private, No. 336, 6th Cyclist Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd and yst. s. of James Young, now R.A.M.C. Shoeburyness (served under General Buller in the South African War), by his wife, Francis (83, Western Road, Hove), dau. of Charles George Mealand; b. Hove, co. Sussex, 9 May, 1898; joined the Cyclist Corps of the Sussex Territorials in July, 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, but after nine months’ training on the East Coast, was taken ill and died in the Military Hospital at Brighton, 13 Sept. 1915.

YOUNG, GEORGE EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8081), S.S. 103987, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

YOUNG, GEORGE NEVILLE PATRICK, M.C., Lieut., 2nd Battn. Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 2nd s. of George Lawrence Young, of Culdaff House, co. Donegal, and Millmount, Randalstown, co. Antrim, J.P., by his wife, Annie, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Gardiner Harvey, of Islandnahoe, co. Antrim; b. Millmount, 17 March, 1893; educ. Mourne Grange Preparatory School; St. Columbia’s College, co. Dublin, and Dover College, from which he entered Sandhurst in 1912, obtaining a Prize Cadetship; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leinsters 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 6 Nov. 1914; went to France with his Regt. in Sept. 1914, as part of the first Expeditionary Force, and died in No. 14 General Hospital at Wimereux, 26 July, 1915, from wounds received in action near Hooge on 12 July: unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for conspicuous bravery at Soupir and elsewhere, and was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 18 Feb., 1915]. The Officer formerly Commanding the 2nd Leinsters wrote: “He was such a dear, natural, cheerful boy, and the bravest of the brave. He was my subaltern for the first four months of the war, until I came to this battn., and I want to tell of instances of his bravery. The first one was at Soupir, when he was sent out with half of his platoon. I do not mean sent, he volunteered to go; it was not necessary, but I did not like to stop him—to find out the German strength opposite. Every man in the two section was hit except himself. He ordered those near him back, and remained himself out all day, from 11 a.m. till nearly 6 p.m. with his badly wounded men. He dug shelter pits for them, and got them under cover, although fired at all the time, and finally carried one man in on his back at night, when he met him quite a long way from our trenches. He must have been within 150 yards from the Germans all the time. The other occasion was in our terrific fight on 20 Oct., when the whole battn. had fallen back or been cut to pieces except one coy., and the mainstay of the whole defence was your son’s platoon, which made two extremely spirited counter attacks, in one of which they recaptured 300 yards of trenches which had been captured by the Saxons. The Saxons never got round our coy. until 2 p.m. Had it not been for these counter attacks I would have been attacked from the rear at a much earlier hour, and the result, not only to ourselves but to the troops on our right, might have been most serious. My diary tells a better story of these deeds than I can now, and I will have it forwarded to you. Do not think the lad has died in vain; he has gone, but deeds such as his never die, and years after we are dead and gone his deeds will stand out in a bright light among the many brilliant and brave deeds of the war.” His yr. brother, Lieut. Guy Young, is (1916) with the Royal Irish Rifles. His elder brother, Robert C. Young, B.L., is a Lieut. in the R.N.V.R.

YOUNG, GEORGE WILLIAM, Stoker, Petty Officer, 282952, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

YOUNG, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4677), S.S. 103445, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

YOUNG, NORMAN MITCHELL, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Scots, eldest s. of the late Alexander Young, Director of Alexander Cowan & Sons, Paper Makers, by his wife, Bessie P. Ravenslea, Trinity, Edinburgh), dau. of William and Selina Hannah Cormack; b. Edinburgh, 23 Aug. 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy; joined the 9th (Territorial) Battalion of the Royal Scots, Aug. 1908, and was in command of a company at the Coronation of King George V. and Queen Mary in 1911 (medal); passed into the Regular Army in 1913, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 10 Dec. 1913; promoted Lieut. Aug. 1914; served in India, Feb. to Oct. 1914, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 19 Dec. 1914, to 23 April, 1915, on which date he was killed in action at the second Battle of Ypres; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. His commanding officer, Col. (now Brigadier) D. Callender wrote: “He was so brave always, so devoted to his duty, such a favourite with both officers and men, that he will be the greatest loss to the regt. In all my 28 years’ experience I have never met a young officer who promised so well. He was so keen, so absolutely reliable that I do not see how I can ever replace him. He was hit by a shell, killing him outright, so did not suffer at all”; and again: “He was one in a thousand. I had some time before recommended him for the Military Cross for his constant good word and bravery. He so thoroughly deserved it”; and Private J. T. Devlin: “Your son, Mr. Young, joined my company when he came out to India; when we were ordered for active service he took charge of our platoon, and I took over Observer to him and was by his side when he was killed. My job in the trenches was to go with the late Mr. Young wherever he went, and believe me he was as brave an officer as ever walked on to the field. I may state here that he was known in the company as the best officer in it, and he only missed four days in the trenches, when he went down to Rouen for a draft of new men, and then the men could be heard saying, ‘Oh, how I wish Mr. Young was here; you could always trust your life in his hands.’” Capt. Lucas of the 9th Battn. also wrote: “He told me he didn’t like burying his men without saying a prayer, and he just made one up as he went along. For his sympathy in this way, these rough lads loved and respected him. I was with them in the trenches at St. Eloi, and I could see very plainly they would do anything for Norman. He was straight, dead straight in his dealings, and had no affectation or false pride about him, and that is what we all like—simple, true, honest, and with a kind and generous heart; to know him was to love him. Already we in the 9th Royal Scots had hoped that in the future he would be our Adjutant, and that shows better than words can tell what we thought of him.”

YOUNG, ROGER ASSHETON, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, elder s. of Archibald Edward Young, of 3, The Green, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Solicitor, by his wife, Cicely, dau. of the late Henry Ashton; b. St. Leonards-on-Sea, 20 Dec. 1894; educ. Hill House School, St. Leonards-on-Sea; Royal Naval College, Osborne; Uppingham and Sandhurst. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914, went out with a draft on 8 Nov. and joined the 2nd Battn. at the front, and was killed in action when the Munsters relieved the Indians at Festubert, 22 Dec. 1914; unm. Col. Bent, R.M.F., wrote to his father: “Your boy was a very keen and promising young officer and was always ready for a job; as it was, he was quite self possessed and fearless when under fire for the first time and showed a fine example to his men. He died a gallant soldier’s death, and the Regt. honouring his memory is proud of him. I wish that he had been spared to us for longer service,” and Major Julian Ryan: “Your boy was splendid, and if it is any relief to you to know it, all the officers of his coy. were killed actually leading their men, except. Capt. Pakenham, who was wounded in three places.”

YOUNG, THOMAS, Painter, 1st Class, 347000, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

YOUNG, THOMAS WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15465, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

YOUNG, VICTOR HARRY, Rifleman, No. 1558, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Harry Young, of 34, Mulgrave Road, Neasden, N.W., by his wife, Mary A., dau. of W. H. Lloyd; b. Gunnersbury, 19 Jan. 1895; educ. Aske’s, Haberdashers, Hampstead Schools; was a Staff Clerk in the office of the Gas Light and Co.; joined the Queen Victoria’s Rifles in 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm. Buried there.

YOUNG, WALTER, D.C.M., Sergt., No. 5891, 1st Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., s. of Joseph Young, Sailor (with 21 years’ service), by his wife, Eliza, dau. of (—) Jones; b. Manchester, 2 Sept. 1879; educ. St. James’ Church School, Hollinwood; enlisted at Manchester, 30 Jan. 1899; served six years with the Colours; went through the South African War (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps), and then became a postman at Oldham. On the outbreak of the European War he was called up, rejoined his regt. 5 Aug. 1914, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and “for gallant conduct near Le Touquet on 22 Jan. 1915 in assisting in the rescue of a wounded man under fire from the enemy, who were only 40 yards distant,” was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 1 April, 1915]. On that day a house held by the Monmouth Regt. was heavily shelled. Men of this battn. reported that one of their number was missing, on which Corpl. W. Young, from the adjoining barricade, went out through the communication trench which was waist deep in water and found the man with his head under water. He raised the man’s head, but thinking he was dead left him, hearing groans later Corpl. Young went out again and with the assistance of L.-Corpl. Collings and No. 25071, Pioneer G. Elms, 7th Coy. R.E., carried the wounded man across the open into the barricade under fire of the German trenches 40 yards away. He died in No. 2 Clearing Station, G.H., 5 April, 1915, from wounds, and was buried two kilos. from Le Bizet, on the north side of the road to Le Touquet. A wooden cross marks the spot. His Company Officer, Capt. A. B. Woodgate, wrote: “I was with him in the trench when he was hit and I was afraid at the time that there was but little hope of his recovery as the wound in his head was deep and he was quite unconscious. I have only been in command of the Coy. for a few weeks, but in that short space of time I have had the opportunity to see what a brave man and a good soldier he was.” He m. at St. Andrew’s Church, Oldham, 23 Dec. 1905, Elizabeth Ann (13, Hathersaye Street, Werneth, Oldham), dau. of Alfred Dawson, of Oldham and had three children: Walter, b. 4 Jan. 1911; Elizabeth, b. 10 Sept. 1906; and Annie, b. 16 April, 1909.