BOUTLE, SYDNEY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2047), 209405, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, JACOB EDWARD, Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only s. of the late Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie, of Coleshill House, by his wife, Maria Eleanor (Coleshill House, Highworth, Wilts.), dau. of Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Bt., and grandson of Jacob, 4th Earl of Radnor; b. Sherburn Lodge, Watlington, co. Oxford, 12 July, 1887; educ. Evelyns, Uxbridge; St. Vincents, Eastbourne; Eton, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, 8 Feb. 1908; joined his battn. at Colchester, and left with them for India in 1909. He was promoted Lieut. 23 Jan. 1911, returning to England the same year. On the outbreak of war, after some weeks at Sheerness, he went out with a draft on 30 Aug., arriving at St. Nazaire 1 Sept., 1914. He left there to join the 2nd Battn. in billets at Paynon, 20 Sept., and was posted to D Coy., taking command of 13 and 14 platoons. The battn. remained at or near Paynon till 18 Oct., when they were moved to Ypres. They were in the trenches from 22–24 Oct. when they returned to billets in Ypres. On 27 Oct. they went into reserve trenches in a wood just east of Hooge, and on 29th advanced to reinforce the 3rd Brigade at Gheluvelt. Lieut. Pleydell-Bouverie was hit 31 Oct. while ordering a counter attack, was carried to the rear under fire by Riflemen Taylor, Scott, Alcott and Quick, and from the field hospital was sent by train to Boulogne. He died early in the morning of 1 Nov. in No. 13 stationary hospital where he had been admitted a few hours before and was buried in the English cemetery there; unm.

BOWDEN, ALBERT JOHN, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., A. 890), 123326, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWDEN, EDWARD RATCLIFFE, Lieut., 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.), s. of Thomas Bowden, of Sheriff Mount, Gateshead Fell, co. Durham, J.P., head of the firm of Thomas Bowden, Sons & Nephew, of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Manchester, Chartered Accountants; b. 28 April, 1889; educ. Corchester Preparatory School, Sedbergh, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A.), was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and received a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers 1910, being promoted Lieut. 25 Dec. 1912. He died of wounds received in the action at Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Abbeville; unm.

BOWELL, FREDERICK JAMES, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 2088), 162995, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BOWEN, CUTHBERT EDWARD LATIMER, Assistant District Superintendent, East African Police, Lieut., attd. King’s African Rifles, elder s. of the Rev. Thomas James Bowen, Vicar of St. Nicholas, Bristol, by his wife, Susan Elvina, dau. of John Williams, of Ty-ar-y-Graig, Swansea; b. at All Saints’ Vicarage, Swansea, 23 Sept. 1881; educ. at Box Grove, Guildford, and Rugby. He joined the 3rd (Royal Surrey Militia) Battn. of the Queen’s during the Boer campaign, and did duty at Guildford depôt during the 1900 embodiment, and in South Africa. After the peace of Vereeniging he was gazetted into the Regular Army and posted to the 1st Battn. of the Queen’s, then stationed on the North-West Frontier of India. In 1904 he was transferred to the West India Regt., and served with the 1st Battn. in Jamaica under Col. A. R. Loscombe. In 1905 he was employed under the Colonial Office, and became an assistant superintendent of police in the East African Protectorate and was serving under Major W. F. S. Edwards, the Insp.-General, when war broke out. He was attached to the King’s African Rifles, and fell on 1 Dec. 1914, at Utendi, in the Nyanza Province. His body was recovered and brought to British territory and buried at Utendi. The following message was received from Col. Edward, D.S.O.: “Mr. Bowen’s loss not only to the Police Force but to a large number of personal friends, will be most severely felt. I deem it to be the wish of all that their condolences should be inseparable from the high tribute of praise of the commanding officer that Mr. Bowen evidently lost his life in a gallant attempt to capture Susuni Hill. Concerning myself, I feel that I have lost both a gallant and true friend.” He m. at Nairobi, British East Africa, 25 May, 1907, Alice May, dau. of (—) Swift, and had two daus.: Kathleen Elvina, b. 25 March, 1908; and Dorothy Starbuck, b. 25 Jan. 1911.

BOWEN, EDWARD, Signaller (R.F.R., B. 2774), 230362, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOWEN, GEORGE FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2434), 169906, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWEN, HENRY, Rifleman, No. 3265, B Coy., 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Charles Richard Bowen; b. Camberwell, 17 Nov. 1893; was a Clerk, but after the outbreak of war joined the Surrey Rifles, 25 Jan. 1915, and was killed at Festubert at 6 a.m., 9 May, following being shot through the temple by a sniper; unm.

BOWERS, PERCIVAL CONWAY, Private, No. 9664, 2nd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of the late John Bowers (who served 22 years in the Army with the Yorks and Lancs., and d. 25 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Ann (Queen Street, Frodingham, Scunthorpe, Lincs.), dau. of (..); b. Broughton, co. Lincoln, 13 June, 1895; enlisted 9 Dec. 1913, and was killed in action, being shot by a sniper, 21 Feb. 1915. He was buried at a farm on the north side of the Rue Wasselot, south-east of Rue Bacqueort; unm.

BOWES, ROBERT EDWARD, Officers’ Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5306, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWES, WILLIAM EDWARD, Stoker, R.N.R., 2652T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWLBY, GEOFFREY VAUX SALVIN, Capt., Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), 6th but 2nd surviving s. of the late Edward Salvin Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Harlow, Essex, and Knoydart, Inverness, J.P., D.L., by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Vans-Agnew, of Barnbarroch, and Sheuchan, co. Wigtown; b. London, 1 Dec. 1884; educ. Eton, and joined the Royal Horse Guards from the Militia (King’s Own Scottish Borderers) as 2nd Lieut., 9 March, 1904. He was promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1905, and Capt. 6 May, 1908. He went to Ireland in 1909 as A.D.C. to Sir Neville Lyttleton, returning to his regt. in Sept. 1910 to take over the Adjutancy which he held to Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of war he was sent to France in advance of the composite regt., as billeting officer to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, rejoining his regt. the day before the battle of Mons. After the fight at Wytschaete, 29 Oct.-1 Nov. 1914, Capt. Bowlby was the senior officer left and took over command of the composite regt. for a short time, until each squadron went back to its own regt. On rejoining the “Blues” he commanded the A Squadron. He was killed leading his squadron in a charge across 1,000 yards of open country north of Bellewarde Farm, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, on the afternoon of 13 May, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “I cannot tell you what a loss he is to the regt.; he was as gallant as he could be and a magnificent soldier. He was so keen and energetic and proud of his squadron, of which he took the greatest care.” Capt. Bowlby was a fine polo player, and enjoyed great popularity at the London grounds. In his day there were few to surpass him in skill and dash. For several seasons he was No. 1 in the Blues’ team, and in two years (1910 and 1912) he helped the side to win the Inter-Regimental Cup at Hurlingham. The other members of those victorious sides were: Capt. Lord Alastair Innes-Ker, Capt. H. E. Brassey, and Capt. J. F. Harrison. Capt. Bowlby was in the team again in 1913 and in 1914, but his regt. was in both years beaten by the 1st Life Guards. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, 18 Oct. 1911, the Hon. Lettice, née Annesley, 4th dau. of Arthur, 11th Viscount Valentia, C.B., M.V.O., and had two children: John Edward Richard, b. 8 May, 1914; and Elizabeth Mary, b. 3 Feb. 1913.

BOWLEY, HARRY EDWIN, Private, No. 9913, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Harry Edwin Bowley, Private 2/4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (now on active service), by his wife, Eliza May (41, Bentham Road. Brighton), dau. of John Winder, of Brighton; b. Brighton, 25 June, 1894; educ. St. Luke’s Terrace Board School there; was for some time a telegraph boy at the Brighton Post Office; enlisted 1 Jan. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and during the retreat from Mons was sent with a dispatch but never returned, and is assumed to have been killed in action at Villers Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914.

BOWMAN, FREDERICK, Seaman, R.N.R., 1793C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWMAN, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3771), 180916, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOWYER, CHARLES ALEXANDER, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7440) S.S. 1330, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

BOWYER, WILLIAM HENRY, A.B., 215065, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOX, FREDERICK JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 112109, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BOX, JOSEPH WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2822), 175583, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BOXALL, CARYL LERMITTE, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., yr. s. of Alleyne Alfred, 1st Baron Boxall, of 14, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late James Henry Lermitte, of Knightons, J.P., and nephew of Mr. Boxall, K.C., Recorder of Brighton, and of the late Col. Sir Charles Boxall, K.C.B.; b. at 14, Cambridge Square, W., 26 Dec. 1887; educ. Eton (1901–6) and Sandhurst; received his commission in the 2nd Hampshires, 9 Oct. 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911, and Capt. 4 Oct. 1914. He served in South Africa, Mauritius and India, and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. Landed from the River Clyde with the 29th Division, and died of wounds received in action following the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915. He was unm. A brass plaque to the memory of this officer was erected in the south aisle of St. Peter’s, Cowfold, Sussex.

BOXALL, CHARLES BERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3515), 210631, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOXWELL, FRANCIS JEFFARES TILSON, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3598), 188877, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOYCE, JOHN HENRY, Trooper, No. 1626, Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), only s. of Henry Boyce, of Woodford Green, Essex, and grandson of the late Henry Boyce, of the Leman School, Beccles, Suffolk; b..........., 1889; joined the Royal Bucks Hussars early in Oct. 1914; left England for Egypt just before Easter, 1915; went to the Dardanelles early in June, and was killed in a charge at Suvla Bay, 21 Aug. 1915; unm.

BOYD, DAVID, A.B., 229233, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BOYD, HAROLD ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of Dr. Alexander James Boyd, of The Manor House, Ware, co. Herts (who served for 13 years in the 1st (Herts) Vol. Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., and retired as Capt. in 1902), by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Brackenbury Comyns Berkeley, of Collett Hall, Ware, and grandson of the late Samuel Boyd, of Illerton, Killiney; b. at The Manor House, Ware, 19 Jan. 1895; educ. at the Preparatory School, Castle Park, Dalkey (co. Dublin), Rugby, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was studying medicine at the time of mobilisation and had passed his first M.B. examination at the end of his first year. He had joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in April, 1913, as a Special Reserve officer, and was called up for service and at first put on Coast Defence duty at Lough Swilly, co. Donegal, being afterwards sent to France on 31 Aug. He was killed in action at Crecy, 7 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Marne; unm. Corpl. W. Poots wrote: “On the morning of Monday, 7 Sept., we were reinforced by a draft of a hundred men from the depôt in Ireland under Lieut. Boyd, and continued the advance all day. In the evening the Inniskillings had to find the outposts at a village to which we had come—on the right being an open road with a row of apple trees, and on the left a clear open plain. In the distance, about 1,000 or 1,200 yards, was a broad belt of woods and shrubs, from which came rifle and big gun fire. This took us by surprise. We lined out and retaliated, but their shelling was terrific, and we had no artillery with us. Our officers were trying to find the range and had no cover from the shells, thus exposing themselves, notably Mr. Boyd, who was standing by an apple tree by the right of the road. He was struck on the body by shrapnel and killed instantly; also Private Cousins, and 14 wounded. We continued all night in this position. In the morning the enemy had retired.” 2nd Lieut. Boyd was a fine athlete, gaining his colours at Rugby in football, swimming, shooting and cross-country running; and he also won the Royal Humane Society’s medal and Dr. Duke’s cup for life-saving competition. At Cambridge he was a member of the First Trinity Boat Club, and in 1914 he won the swimming championship of his regt. at Aldershot.

BOYD, NIGEL JOHN LAWSON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Black Watch, yr. s. of William Boyd, of 26, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, Writer to the Signet, Member of the King’s Body Guard for Scotland (R.C.A.), by his wife, Laura, dau. of the late John Crerar, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and grandson of the late Sir John Boyd, of Maxpoffle, co. Roxburgh, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Lawson, 14th Laird of Cairnmuir, co. Peebles; b. Edinburgh, 14 Sept. 1894; educ. Cargilfield School, Midlothian, Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In passing into the latter he obtained a Prize Cadetship, and in passing out he was fourth on the list. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Black Watch, 25 Feb. 1914, and joined the 1st Battn. at Oudenarde Barracks early in March. After the declaration of war he left Aldershot with his regt. in the beginning of Aug. for France, and took part with it in the memorable retreat from Mons to the Marne. He was fatally wounded on the morning of 14 Sept., his birthday, during the early days of the great Battle of the Aisne. From a description which he subsequently gave when in hospital in Rouen to his father, it appears that in the early morning of 14 Sept., which was misty, the Black Watch were acting in concert with the Cameron Highlanders on the banks of the Aisne, and found themselves opposed to a strong force of the Germans, and came under a very severe fire. Lieut. Boyd with his platoon had been directed to take up a position, and it had been indicated to him that it must be held at all costs. The Germans continued to press on in overpowering numbers at that point, and they could see them within 100 yards. He stated that he had personally fired 10 rounds at them with a rifle, and afterwards emptied his revolver at them. The shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire at the time was terrific. The enemy continued to press on from all sides. He was standing up and had drawn his Claymore, and in turning to the side to give a signal to those of his men who survived he was hit. The bullet struck the scabbard of his Claymore, glanced off it, entered the left hip and lodged in the bladder. After that he said the Germans rushed the position. Words are unnecessary, and no effort of the imagination required to show that this young officer and his small force of men had made a gallant stand against overpowering odds, and that they had acted in accordance with the best traditions of their grand old regt. When on the ground wounded he asked a German who was passing for assistance, but all that the man did was to threaten to shoot him. After that he stated that he pretended to be dead when other Germans passed. Some time after this a party of the Cameron Highlanders appear to have been in the vicinity, and he was observed by the late Capt. Napier Cameron of that regt. Capt. Cameron gallantly went under fire to his assistance, and carried him to the shelter of a lane some distance in the rear. Lieut. Boyd told his father that he owed his life at the time to Capt. Cameron, as the ground on which he had fallen was swept afterwards by a terrible cross fire, and if he had been left there he could not possibly have survived. He lay where Capt. Cameron had put him for 16 hours in the rain. A stretcher party of the Gloucestershire Regt. found him and brought him in. Afterwards he was for 36 hours in a cattle truck being taken to the Base hospital. The officers in charge of No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen, and the Rev. W. G. Arrowsmith, one of the Chaplains, there stated that the whole of the time in that cattle truck, and afterwards in the hospital, he had never complained, and had shown extraordinary fortitude, and that the example shown had the most wonderful effect upon the wounded men there. An instance told was this: a Quartermaster-Sergt., who was badly wounded and was suffering a lot, had been calling out a great deal, and disturbing the other men. After they had tried to soothe him without effect he was told that in the next ward there was a young officer of the Black Watch who was far worse than he was, and who never complained at all. After that the man was quiet. Although very severely wounded, great hopes were entertained of Lieut. Boyd’s recovery, as he had been operated upon successfully. But it was not to be, as he collapsed suddenly in the early morning of 12 Oct., the immediate cause of death being a blood clot. As he died in hospital his body was brought back to Scotland in the hospital ship St. Patrick. The Headquarters, Scottish Command, arranged for a military funeral, which took place in the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, on 19 Oct. From earliest boyhood he had taken the keenest interest in all outdoor sports. He played in the “Houses fifteen” matches at Winchester. At cricket he was a fair performer, and at golf a Scratch player. He was a good rider, a keen fisherman, and an excellent shot both with the gun and rifle. He represented Winchester College at Bisley in 1911, when he shot for the Cadet Trophy, and was again at Bisley in 1912, when he was in the Winchester “eight.” It had been his greatest ambition from earliest childhood to be in the Black Watch.

BOYD, PERCY GERNON, Private, No. 3158, 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., eldest s. of Samuel Boyd, of 19, Hale Road, Liscard, Cheshire, Accountant and Secretary, Liverpool Shipping Company, by his wife, Emma, dau. of William Ker, of Liverpool; b. Egremont, Wallasey, co. Chester, 1 Sept 1890; educ. Liscard High School, and joined the Army on the outbreak of the war Aug. 1914. He died from shell wounds received in action at Locre, Flanders, 22 Jan. 1915, and was buried in the churchyard there; unm. Major N. S. Anderson, D.S.O., wrote: “He was in my company (No. 1) and was under my command. I was thoroughly satisfied with all his work. He was a good soldier.” And a comrade wrote: “He was a real good soldier, and a very brave one too. It was only the night before Lieut. Turner was killed that he was out with him putting barbed wire in front of the trenches.” He was an active and keen footballer, being a member of the Liscard Old Boys’, Brompton, and other clubs, and won the mile handicap at his school annual sports.

BOYLE, HON. JAMES, Capt., Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd surviving s. of David, 7th Earl of Glasgow, G.C.M.G., by his wife, Dorothea Elizabeth Thomasina, dau. of Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 4th Bt.; b. Shewalton, co. Ayr., 11 March, 1880; educ. Wanganui College, New Zealand, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and joined the Ayrshire Militia 27 May, 1898, and served through the South African War, 1901–2, part of the time with mounted infantry and for some time on staff duties, receiving the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In 1903 he joined the Regulars and was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, becoming Lieut. 6 June, 1906, and Capt. 10 April, 1912. From 1908–9 he was extra Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Victoria, and from 1909–11 Aide-de-Camp, and later, 1912–14, A.D.C. to Gen. Sir H. Smith-Dorrien, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command. He was killed in action at Chateau Warneton, near La Bassée, on 18 Oct. 1914 (being officially reported wounded and missing for seven weeks, until a letter was received from a German officer who reported he was buried at Chateau Warneton). He m. in London, 15 Sept. 1908, Katherine Isabel Salvin (Marston House, Banbury), sister of Capt. Geoffrey Vaux Salvin Bowlby, Royal Horse Guards, killed in action 13 May, 1915, and dau. of the late Edward Salvin Bowlby, of Gilston Park, Herts, and had three children: Patrick John Salvin, b. 21 April, 1910; Edward James, b. 26 Feb. 1912; and Belinda Margaret Graeme, b. 4 Dec. 1913.

BOYLE, THOMAS, Private, No. 15645, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Thomas Boyle, of 33, Lyons Lane, Port Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 27 Sept. 1915.

BOYLE, THOMAS WILLIAM, Private, No. 10345, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of William Boyle, Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Bridget (102, Marian Street, Gateshead, co. Durham), dau. of Thomas Jackson; b. Gateshead, 18 July, 1896; enlisted 4 Sept. 1913; died of wounds received in action at Ypres, 23 Oct. 1914; unm.

BOYLE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 14602, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 4 Nov. 1914, while a prisoner of war.

BOYS, CHARLES HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9527), 200302, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRABAZON, HON. ERNEST WILLIAM MAITLAND MOLYNEUX, D.S.O., Staff Capt., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th and yst. s. of Reginald, 12th Earl of Meath, P.C., K.P., by his wife, Lady Mary Jane Maitland, only surviving dau. of Thomas, 11th Earl of Lauderdale, G.C.B.; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1884; educ. Dover College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 9 Jan. 1904, promoted Lieut. 5 Sept. 1906, and Capt. 3rd Battn. 4 April, 1912. On the outbreak of war he went to the front with his regt., was attached to the Staff, and was killed in action near La Bassée, 17 June, 1915. He was buried in Cambrin Cemetery, near where he fell. Capt. Brabazon was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914], in the following terms: “Has shown conspicuous efficiency in Staff duties and in keeping up communication with a long line of front composed of many units, where communication was often difficult. He has carried and delivered messages under fire with promptness and dispatch.” For these services he received the D.S.O. Lord Cavan, commanding the Guards’ Brigade, wrote: “We simply loved him. I can never tell you what he was to me, not only as a Staff Officer but as a friend. He was priceless, invaluable and never wearying in his work for the Brigade.” And Col. J. R. Drummond Hay, commanding Coldstream Guards: “By his death the Army, as well as the regt., has lost heavily.” He was keen on musketry and sport and a good shot. He m. at the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks, S.W., 29 Oct. 1912, Dorothy Mary, yst. dau. of Col. Horace Ricardo, of Bramley Park, Surrey, C.V.O.; s.p. His three brothers are now (1916) on active service: Col. Lord Ardee, C.B., in command of the 1st Battn. Irish Guards, has been wounded; Capt. the Hon. Arthur Brabazon, on special service in Egypt; and Major the Hon. Claud Brabazon, of the Irish Guards, now in the Royal Flying Corps.

BRABROOK, ARTHUR HENRY, Sergt., 1/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) City of London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Frederick Joseph Brabrook, of Bury St. Edmunds, Fish Merchant, by his wife, Emma; b. Bury St. Edmunds, 18 Jan. 1879; educ. St. John’s Church School. He joined the 18th Middlesex V.R.C. (Paddington Rifles) in 1904, which became the 10th Battn. of the London Territorials. He became Colour-Sergt. of D Coy. in 1912, in which year the battn. was disbanded and transferred to Hackney. This was too far away, so with his Capt. (now Major Prance) and other men he formed a Paddington Coy., attached to the 3rd Battn. of the London Regt., and received the rank of L.-Sergt. He went through the School of Instruction at Chelsea and received a certificate and was promoted Sergt. When the battn. was mobilised in Aug. 1914 they were sent to guard railway stations for a month, and he was stationed at Arlesford with his section. On 4 Sept. 1914, he sailed for Malta, and after Christmas went to France, and served through the Battles of Neuve Chapelle and La Bassée, where he had a narrow escape, a shell bursting, knocking him down and burying him under some bricks. He died 10 May, 1915, of wounds received at Festubert, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery. Capt. C. E. Rochford wrote: “He was killed through a shell bursting while advancing in an attack on a German trench. He has been with me ever since we left England, so I knew him well. He was a splendid man and a splendid soldier.” He m. at. North Kensington, 5 Sept. 1908, Clara Louisa (322, Ladbroke Grove, W.), 2nd dau. of Robert Wollington, of Ladbroke Grove, W., Builder, and had two children: Ralph Robert Arthur, b. 15 March. 1914; and Beatrice Caroline, b. 23 Sept. 1909.

BRACEY, HUMPHREY ALFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 1768, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.); b. Stoke Newington, 6 Sept. 1891; elder s. of Alfred Bracey, of Ashcroft, 30 Seymour Gardens, Ilford, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of William James Hagger, b. ....; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and County High School, Ilford, and was in the employ of Parrs’ Bank when war broke out. He enlisted in the 1st Surrey Rifles, 8 Aug. 1914, went to the front 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 25–26 May, 1915; unm. His commanding officer, Capt. A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was exceptionally popular with all ranks and that he, personally, regretted the “loss of a very promising and fearless N.C.O.” And “Parrs’ Bank Magazine,” in recording his death, said: “At the outbreak of war he was one of the first to offer his services to his country. In the departments in which he was formerly employed, he was ever ready to assist his colleagues, and was a most generous and jovial companion. His absence will be especially noticed on balance nights, settling days, &c., when the heavy work was much lightened by his ready wit and humour. He was also well known in the rifle section of the Sports Club, where he was one of the best shots.”

BRACHER, GEORGE, Private, No. 9139, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Matthias Bracher of Gerrards Farm, Favant, near Salisbury; b. co. Wilts; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Rentel, 12 Nov. 1914; unm.

BRACKEN, JOHN, Private, No. G. 773, 8th (Service) Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Sept. 1915; m.

BRACKSTONE, HENRY, Corpl., No. 7248, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 20 April, 1915; m.

BRADBURY, EDWARD CHAPNESS, Private, No. 9409, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Samuel Bradbury, of 65, Queen Street, Palfrey, Walsall, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Baker; b. Walsall, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Palfrey School, Walsall, and on leaving there was employed by Neville Bros. as a Portmanteau Lock Maker. He enlisted 18 Jan. 1911, and three months before war was declared was transferred to the 2nd Life Guards, but then transferred back to his old regt., and was killed in action by a shell in an attack on a farmhouse, 16 Nov. 1914; unm.

BRADBURY, EDWARD KINDER, V.C., Capt., L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, only s. of the late Judge James Kinder Bradbury, J.P., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, by his wife, Grace (Parkfield, Altrincham, Cheshire), dau. of the Rev. Edward Dowling; b. Bowden, co. Chester, 16 Aug. 1881; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat, Marlborough College and Woolwich; gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery, 2 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, and Capt. 4 Feb. 1910. He joined the 125th Battery in Ireland, and in the later stages of the South African War obtained a commission in Fincastle’s Horse, with which he served on active service, obtaining the Queen’s medal with two clasps. After the close of that campaign he returned to Ireland, but in 1905 went to Uganda, and served with the 4th Battn. of the King’s African Rifles till Aug. 1906, when he was invalided home after severe fever. Coming home, he was transferred to the R.H.A., and on the outbreak of war went to France with the Expeditionary Force. At Néry, near Compiegne, on the last day of the retreat from Mons (1 Sept. 1914), L Battery, while covering the retreat, was attacked by a strong German force with ten field guns and two Maxims. Three British guns were brought into action, but two were quickly silenced. Capt. Bradbury and his men served the remaining gun so well, however, that all but one of the German guns were silenced; and when L Battery was relieved this gun was captured. “Bradbury,” writes an artillery officer, recounting this story, “was the real hero. He got the gun into action and gave the orders. Mundy knelt on one side and did ranging officer, and Brad., Campbell and Giffard, with the Battery Sergt.-Major, Gunner and Driver, served the gun. Brad. had one leg taken off above the knee, but still went on; Campbell ... was killed; Mundy was hit in both legs; the Major, coming back hastily, was hit in the throat as he arrived. Bradbury had his other leg taken off. Giffard was badly wounded, and still they kept the last gun firing, and when I Battery and the other Brigade came up they found that the Germans had left their guns and bolted.” Capt. Bradbury, who was unm., was buried in the cemetery at Néry. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914], and was awarded the Victoria Cross “For gallantry and ability in organising the defence of L Battery against heavy odds at Néry on 1 Sept.” A General wrote: “Your son was simply beloved by us all from me, his General, down to the last joined subaltern. He was very nearly four years under my command, and I looked upon him as one of the most brilliant officers I had ever come across, one who, had God willed it, had a great career in front of him, and the manner in which he met his death fighting a single gun to the end after the loss of one leg was worthy of him.”

BRADDOCK, ARTHUR LESLIE, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., H.M.S. Cressy, s. of William Braddock, of Sydney, New South Wales, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Alice, dau. of (—) Norman, Dental Surgeon; b. Adelaide, South Australia, 22 Feb. 1877; educ. Adelaide; joined the Royal Naval Reserve, Jan. 1908, and was appointed Assistant Paymaster, 3 Feb. 1911, with seniority of 30 Jan. 1908. He was appointed to the Cressy 1 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Liverpool, 15 July, 1912, Jeannie Scott (19, Huskisson Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late Capt. William Henry Burt; s.p.

BRADDOCK, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13669 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRADFORD, ARTHUR JESSE GEORGE, L.-Corpl., No. 766, B Coy., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, elder s. of the late Arthur Jesse Bradford, of Clapton, N.E., by his wife, Gabriella (now a nurse, of 106, Valkyrie Road, Westcliffe-on-Sea), dau. of Jesse Witts, of Gloucester; b. Plaistow, co. Essex, 14 Nov. 1895; educ. London Orphan School, Watford; joined the (Temperley & Co.) Merchant Service when 16; then settled in Bunbury, Western Australia (1913), and when war broke out was in the Bush, engaged in the lumber trade. He immediately volunteered; left for Egypt with the Second Reinforcements in Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; unm. His yr. brother, Edward Lionel Bradford, L.-Corpl., No. 142397, No. 1 Co., R.E. (Signal Service), is now (1916) on active service.

BRADFORD, SIR EVELYN RIDLEY, 2nd Bt., Lieut.-Col. 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, eldest s. of Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Bt., some time (1890–1903) Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and an extra Equerry to His Majesty the King, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth Adela, dau. of Edward Knight, of Chanton House, Alton; b. India, 16 April, 1869; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Aug. 1888, and promoted Lieut. 11 June, 1890, Capt. 3 July 1895, Major 26 June, 1902, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 10 May, 1913, and Lieut.-Col. 10 June, 1913. He served with the Soudan Expedition in 1898, being present at the Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum, and on the staff in the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State from May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Poplar Grove, and Driefontein, and Witteberjer (1–29 July), and during the operations in Cape Colony, Feb.-March, 1901. His services were twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 May and 10 Sept. 1901], and in addition to the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps, he received his brevet majority and was placed on the list of officers considered qualified for staff employment in consequence of service on the Staff in the field. At the time of the outbreak of the European War he was in command of the 2nd Battn. of the Seaforths, the old 78th, and took them out from Shorncliffe in Brig.-Gen. J. A. L. Haldane’s 10th Infantry Brigade, which was brought up from the lines of communication in France to cover the retirement of the Expeditionary Force on Cambray. This duty was performed in the centre of the line by Major-Gen. Snow’s 4th Division, consisting of the 10th, 11th and 12th Infantry Brigades. These units broke the front of the German pursuit, and suffered in consequence. as the 1st and 2nd Army Corps fell back. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and was buried at Bucy Le Long, near Soissons. Sir Edward Bradford was a famous cricketer and played many fine games for Hampshire and the Army with Major Poore and Capt Wynyard, of the Staff College, as contemporaries, the last time he played in the County Eleven being against Surrey, at Aldershot, in 1902. He m. at Colgate, Faygate, Sussex, 25 Nov. 1909, Elsie Clifton, 3rd dau. of Col. James Clifton Brown, and had three children: Sir Edward Montagu Andrew, now 3rd Bt., b. 30 Nov. 1910; Ridley Lewkenor, b. 11 April, 1912, and Donald Clifton, b. 22 May, 1914.

BRADFORD, GEORGE RICHARD, 2nd Engineer, No. 773, H.M. trawler Tern, s. of William Bradford, Labourer; b. 1878; was lost in the trawler Tern off the west coast of Scotland, 23 Feb. 1915, while mine sweeping. He m. at Hull, 28 June, 1898, Alice Edith (78, Day Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of Robert Dibnah, Lamplighter, and had two sons, George Thomas, b. 16 Feb. 1904, and Charles Henry, b. 5 April, 1912.

BRADLEY, ERIC JATINGA, Private, No. 140, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., eldest s. of James Bradley, of Grovehill, Suckley, co. Worcester, Tea Planter; b. London, 28 June, 1892; educ. Rottingdean, Rugby and Pembroke College Cambridge (Honours); entered at the Inner Temple, but on the outbreak of war at once enlisted; he proceeded with his battn. to France 4 Nov., and was mortally wounded with four others in the early morning of 5 Dec. by shrapnel, which burst on the parapet of the trench. He died the same day at No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, being buried in the cemetery there (No. 149); unm.

BRADLEY, REGINALD JOHN, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

BRADLEY, THOMAS, Trooper, No. 13/296, Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Benjamin Bradley, of Christchurch, formerly of co. Lincoln; b. Papains, Christchurch, New Zealand, 16 June, 1884; educ. Christchurch High School; joined the Mounted Rifles, 10 July, 1914; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was killed in a night attack at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 19 May, 1915; unm. He was buried on Walker’s Ridge there.

BRADSHAW, FRANK SEYMOUR, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince Albert’s Somerset L.I. (the old 13th), only s. of the late Major Frank Boyd Bradshaw (13th Somerset L.I.), by his wife, Catherine Douglas, dau. of Capt. Loftus Nunn, late 99th Regt., and great-grandson of Gen. Lawrence Bradshaw, some time commanding 13th L.I.; b. Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 4 Dec. 1883; educ. East Sheen, Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Jan. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 12 June, 1906, and Capt. Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Ploegsteert Wood, 19 Dec. 1914, and was buried near Somerset House there; unm. One of Capt. Bradshaw’s men wrote: “His death is much regretted by the whole company, because they could always trust him. He would never send his men where he would not go himself. He was an exceptionally brave man, and knew his work, and it will be very difficult to find his equal.”

BRADSHAW, GEORGE RAMSON, Stoker, 1st Class, E. 12797 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRADSHAW, MATTHEW, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12547, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRADY, EDMUND, L.-Corpl., No. 9118, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Patrick Brady, of 102, Waterloo Street, Crumpsall, Manchester, Labourer, by his wife, Anne; b. Miles Platting, Manchester, 2 Sept. 1881; educ. St. Edmund’s R.C. School there; enlisted 9 Dec. 1904, and served eight years in India, winning a silver spoon for shooting. An attendant at the Crumpsall Workhouse when war was declared, he was called up, and was killed instantaneously in action, during the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being struck in the forehead by a bullet; unm.

BRAIK, JOHN, Sergt., No. 22961, 12th, later 4th, Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Adam Braik, of Kemnay, co. Aberdeen, Mill Owner, by his wife, Helen, dau. of John Ingram; b. Garthy, co. Aberdeen, 5 Oct. 1868; educ. Kemnay Public School, and was a mill owner. He joined the 4th Volunteer Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders in 1880, and obtained a commission in the same in 1896. On the outbreak of the South African War he enlisted as a Private in the 2nd Scottish Horse and served through the latter part of that campaign, receiving the medal. He was subsequently attached to the R.G.A. as Instructor of Military Signalling, and was shooting in the wilds of British Columbia when the European War began. He immediately hastened several hundred miles through the North-West to the nearest recruiting office and volunteered for service. He was offered a commission in the second contingent, but declined to wait, and was one of the last recruits entered for the first contingent, and came over with them in Oct., crossing to France in Feb. He subsequently returned to England to convey machine guns to the Front, and was given charge of one on his return. He was seriously wounded 18 June, 1915, by a shrapnel shell which burst above his gun, and was invalided to England, where he died in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 5 Aug. following. He was buried in Heroes Corner, Greenwich Cemetery.

BRAITHWAITE, JOSEPH, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRAMALL, HORACE, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7357, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRAMLEY, HAROLD, 2nd Lieut., 2/5th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (T.F.), previously L.-Corpl. (C Squad.) Leicestershire Yeomanry, 2nd s. of the Rev. Cyril Richard Bramley, M.A. (Oxon.), Vicar of St. John’s, Donisthorpe with Moira (St. Hilda); b. Manchester, 9 Feb. 1894; educ. St. John’s School, Leatherhead, 1904; devoted himself to farming, and after a two years’ course on a farm in Snarestone, went to Canada for nine months to see the conditions of farming there; returning in Dec. 1913, he went to Kidlington, near Oxford, to take charge of a farm, but on the outbreak of war immediately rejoined the Leicestershire Yeomanry (in which he had been 1911–12); went with them to the Front in Nov. 1914, was in several engagements, being promoted L.-Corpl. Feb. 1915, and 2nd Lieut. a week before he was killed in action near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; unm.

BRAND, ERNEST STANLEY, Capt., Royal Fusiliers, attd. West African Rifles, s. of William Burmann Brand, of 19, Linzee Road, Hornsey, N.; b. Stoke Newington, 3 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 Jan. 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Jan. 1900, and Capt. 19 Oct. 1904. He was seconded for service with the Chinese Regt. at Wei-hai-Wei from 20 April, 1901, to 19 April, 1906; was employed with the West African Regt. from 14 July, 1906, to Dec. 1910, and again from 19 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the European War he was ordered to the Cameroons and was acting second in command when killed in action during the fighting around Jabassi on 8 Oct. 1914; unm. He was buried at Dibandi. A picture of the cross erected to his memory appeared in the Sketch for 5 June, 1915. Capt. Brand was a clever Chinese linguist.

BRANDON, JOHN COOPER, 340733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRANTINGHAM, GEORGE, E.R.A., 1st Class, 155692 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

BRASH, PRENTISE STEPHEN, Petty Officer, 180365, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

BRASHAW, JOSEPH ARTHUR, Capt., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd s. of Harry Brashaw, of Perth and Dudley House Farm, Kwelkam, Kununoppin, West Australia, by his wife, Sebra, dau. of John White, of Coventry, and nephew of Joseph White, of The Woodlands, Cowper Road, Bournemouth; b. Woalingham, New South Wales, 1891; educ. Bunbury, West Australia; joined the forces as a cadet when 17 years of age, and was later transferred to the Militia. He worked his way up through the ranks and received his lieutenancy in 1913. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service, and was sent to Melbourne to assist in training the New Forces. Here he contracted typhoid fever, and returned to West Australia, leaving for the front in charge of reinforcements for the 16th Battn. He arrived in time to take part in the historic landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was subsequently wounded during the heavy fighting on 17 May. When convalescent he was given the opportunity of being invalided to England as his foot had not fully recovered, but pleaded to be allowed to rejoin his unit, and returned to duty on 17 July, being gazetted Capt. on the 29th. Nine days later, on 7 Aug. 1915, he was killed in action at Suvla Bay; unm.