CAUTLEY, WILLIAM OXENHAM, D.S.O., Major, 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., eldest s. of the late Capt. William Thompson Cautley, 1st South Staffordshire Regt. (who died of typhoid while on Active Service in Egypt, 1883), by his wife, Emily Marion, dau. of Henry Oxenham, nephew of the Rev. Proby Littler Cautley, Rector of Quainton, co. Bucks, and gdson. of Major-Gen. George Cautley, 8th Bengal Cavalry; b. Gosport, 7 Oct. 1875; educ. Bradfield College, where he distinguished himself in athletics, and was known in particular as a fast sprinter, his favourite races being the 100 yards and the half-mile. He joined the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Suffolks in Nov. 1894, and received a commission in the 3rd Hussars in May, 1897. He subsequently rejoined the 3rd Suffolks, a battn. that was chosen for service at the time of the Boer War, though instead of going to South Africa it was sent, to the disappointment of all concerned, to do garrison work in the Island of Alderney. At the outbreak of war last Aug. the 3rd Suffolks had become a reserve battn. under the new system, and Major Cautley, joining his unit and acting as a Capt. with the honorary rank of Major, was for some while in charge of a fort at Felixstowe. Volunteering for service on the Continent, he left at the end of Oct. for France, being first attached to the Sussex Regt., and then to the 1st Northamptons, who had lost many of their officers. Throughout the remainder of the year he saw a great deal of severe fighting, his company particularly distinguishing itself during the furious German attack on the night of 22 Dec., the following special Brigade Order being issued later by General C. B. Westmacott: “The Brigadier-General desires to take this opportunity of congratulating D Coy., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., on its gallant and steady behaviour during the action of 22 Dec. The manner in which, under the command of Major Cautley, of the 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., it resisted the German counter attack, and the steadiness with which it finally withdrew in face of superior numbers and eventually occupied a position in the rear to cover the gap made in the line was worthy of all praise, and adds fresh laurels to the fine record of the old 48th. The Brigadier-General has heard of numerous individual gallant exploits in this engagement, and congratulates himself on having such a gallant body of men in his Brigade. He desires that this Order be read out to the battn. on parade.” In Jan. last Major Cautley was gazetted Major; while for his services on 22 Dec. he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the announcement in the London Gazette of 10 March reading as follows: “For conspicuous gallantry on 22 Dec. 1914, near La Quinque Rue, when he handled his men with great skill under very critical circumstances.” There were a series of furious attacks and counter attacks from Thursday to Saturday night during the week ending 8 May, and early on Sunday morning, the 9th, Major Cautley was wounded while leading his men against the German trenches, and no sooner had he been attended to than another bullet struck him, death being instantaneous. In the Battn. Orders issued by Lieut.-Col. S. E. Hussy Lloyd, commanding 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., Felixstowe, under date 20 May, appears the following: “It is with deep regret that the Commanding Officer has to announce the death of Major W. O. Cautley, D.S.O., killed in action. Major Cautley by the keen interest he always took in the welfare of the battn., endeared himself to all ranks, and in the end brought a great distinction not only to himself, but to the battn. to which he was so devoted. The Commanding Officer has lost a personal friend, and the Suffolk Regt. a brilliant soldier.” Major Cautley m. at Blairgowrie, co. Perth, 10 April, 1901, Agnes, second dau. of the late Charles Hill-Whitson, of Park Hill, Blairgowrie, late Scots Greys, and had a son and two daus.: William Hill, b. 25 Aug. 1906; Beatrice Sylvia Aimée, b. 25 May, 1902; and Marian Agnita, b. 16 Oct. 1904.

CAVELL, FRANK CORNELIUS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3860), 180672, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CAVENDISH, GODFREY LIONEL JOHN, Capt., 97th Deccan Infantry, attd. 9th Bhopals, Indian Army, eldest surviving s. of Reginald Richard Frederick Cavendish, of Willand, Devon [gdson. of General the Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, Col. 2nd Dragoon Guards, 3rd s. of Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and nephew of William, 5th Duke of Devonshire, K.G.], by his wife, Mary Constance, dau. of the late Rev. Harry Dupuis, Vicar of Richmond, Surrey; b. Eastbourne, 30 March, 1884; educ. Framlingham and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Manchester Regt., then stationed at Singapore, 22 April, 1903. Two years later he received his Lieutenancy (5 Aug. 1905), and was transferred to the Indian Army, 97th Deccan Infantry, and became Capt. 22 April, 1912. At the outbreak of war he was recalled from leave to rejoin his regt., which was remaining in India, but so keen was he to serve in the great war, that at his special request he was attached to the Reserve of Officers and sent to France in Nov. 1914. He was temporarily attached to the 1/9th Gurkha Rifles until 15 Dec., when he was transferred to the 9th Bhopal Infantry. He had only joined the latter regt. five days when he received the wounds from which he died two days later in a field hospital at Lillers, and was buried in the Lillers Cemetery on 23 Dec. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “On 17 Dec. the half battn. he was commanding was ordered up to the support trenches at Givenchy. We remained in support until the morning of 20 Dec., when Capt. Cavendish received orders to take us up to support the regt. ahead of us, which was being attacked. On the way up he received orders to halt, and Capt. Cavendish went forward a few yards to find out what was wanted when he was hit by a rifle bullet in the neck. We tied up his wound, and were all relieved to think, as he did, that the wound was slight. He walked back two miles to the hospital apparently quite cheery and not in much pain. It was a great blow to us to hear a few days later that he had died of his wounds in the hospital on 22 Dec. During the few days we were under fire together he was always cheery, and helped us when we were ‘down in our luck.’... He pulled together both officers and men under him by his cheery stories and sense of humour.” A writer in the “East Anglian Daily News” (6 Jan. 1915), said: “He left Framlingham at the end of the summer term, 1901. He was one of those fellows who pass through a public school without attaining any particular distinction in either work or games but at the same time gain a certain position and influence by virtue of outstanding personality, and I remember that, though he had not a very large number of intimate friends, anything he said or did was of interest to quite a large circle. He was a kinsman of the Duke of Devonshire, and also connected with the earldom of Clare, and it was often remarked among his contemporaries that he possessed a remarkable family likeness, both in facial appearance and in character, to what may almost be called the Cavendish tradition of which the late Duke was so conspicuous an example.” Capt. Cavendish m. at Long Melford, Suffolk, 22 March, 1911, Cora Grace Graham, yst. dau. of Joseph Alphonsus Horsford, of Long Melford, co. Suffolk, M.R.C.S., and had two sons: Godfrey Herbert Richard, b. 14 Jan. 1912; and Hubert Gordon Compton, b. 26 Feb. 1913.

CAVENDISH, LORD JOHN SPENCER, D.S.O., Major, 1st Life Guards, brother of Victor, 9th Duke of Devonshire, P.C., G.C.V.O., 3rd s. of the late Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P., by his wife, Emma Elizabeth (6, Carlos Place, W.), dau. of the Right Hon. the Hon. William Sebright Lascelles, P.C., and grandau. of Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood; b. 25 March, 1875; and was educ. at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the Militia he was given a commission in the 1st Life Guards, 3 Feb. 1897, and was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1898, Capt. 23 Aug. 1902, and Major 12 April, 1911. He served with distinction on the staff in the South African War 1899–1906, being divisional Signalling Officer to the 2nd Infantry Division 9 Oct. 1899 to 18 June, 1900, and Brigade Signalling Officer, 19 June to 12 Oct. 1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900; and action at Spion Kop; the operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; the operations on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb.); the engagement at Pieter’s Hill; and the subsequent march from Bloemfontein to Pretoria; including actions at Zand River, near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11 to 12 June), also in the Transvaal west of Pretoria; actions at Eland’s River (4 to 16 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, actions at Bethlehem (7 July) and Wittebergen (15 to 29 July). His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 1 Feb. 1901] and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Queen’s medal with six clasps. He was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 29 June, 1907, to 6 Sept. 1910. After his brother’s succession to the title he was granted precedence as son of a Duke of Royal Warrant, Nov. 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and was killed in action 20 Oct. 1914; unm.

CAVEY, SIDNEY, Corpl., No. 357, B Coy., 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of William John Cavey, of 198, Cromwell Road, Peterboro’, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine Martha, dau. of John Barker; b. Plumstead, 9 Jan. 1884; educ. Woolwich Polytechnic; joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1906, and rose to the rank of Sergt. He afterwards emigrated to Australia in Feb. 1912, and was engaged in farming when war was declared. He at once joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and died in hospital at W. Mudros, Lemnos Island, of pneumonia, 11 Oct. 1915. He was buried in the military cemetery there; unm.

CAWLEY, HAROLD THOMAS, M.P., Capt., 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 12 June, 1878: educ. Rugby and New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1900 with honours in the History School, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1902, and practised on the Northern Circuit in the Palatine Chancery Court. He was returned as Liberal Member for Heywood at the General Elections in Jan. 1910, and again in Dec. the same year, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr. Runciman, at the Board of Education, March, 1910, to Nov. 1911, and to Mr. McKenna at the Home Office from Nov. 1911 to Aug. 1914. He joined the Mounted Infantry Company of the old 2nd Manchester Volunteers (now the 6th Manchester Regt.) in 1904, and became Capt. 1 June, 1913. On the declaration of war he volunteered for foreign service, and went to Egypt in Sept. 1914, as A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Douglas, commanding the East Lancashire Territorial Division. In Aug. he exchanged the comparative safety of Divisional Headquarters for the fighting line, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 Sept. 1915; unm. He was buried in the Lancashire Cemetery at Gallipoli. His Colonel wrote: “When we went to the front line it was greatly due to his coolness and bravery that the men were kept cool and every one in his place when we had a very large mine blown up just against our trench;” and the Right Hon. C. F. G. Masterman: “Courage, mental and physical, was the outstanding element in Harold Cawley’s character. In the House of Commons he commenced by advocating an unpopular cause in his constituency and opposed those who desired to effect economies through retrenchment in the Navy. He made short speeches, putting his points with lucidity and ability.” In a letter to a friend, Capt. Cawley wrote: “I told the General I wanted to join the Battn., and he has sent the application forward; I was ashamed of being behind here whilst all those fellows were being killed.” Capt. Cawley was a good sportsman, and he was known as a hard rider. He won the North Hereford point-to-point in 1913 and the Bar point-to-point in 1914. He was the third Member of the Commons killed in action. His next yr. brother, Major J. Stephen Cawley, was killed in action in France (see following notice).

CAWLEY, JOHN STEPHEN, Major, 20th Hussars, and Brigade-Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 3rd s. of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; b. Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 27 Oct. 1879; educ. Lockers Park, Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and obtained his commission in the 20th Hussars, 3 Aug. 1898, joining them at Mhow, India. He became Lieut. 8 Jan. 1900, and obtained his troop, 12 Oct. 1906. He served in the South African War, going to the Cape in 1901; was signalling officer to General Lowe’s Column, being present at the operations in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He subsequently served in Egypt, and was Adjutant of his regt. 7 Nov. 1903 to 6 May, 1907; and after passing through the Staff College, he became instructor at the Cavalry School at Netheravon, 8 Aug. 1910, and the following year (12 Aug. 1911) was appointed General Staff Officer at the War Office, an appointment he held till 15 April, 1913. On 16 April, 1913, he was made Brigade Major of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, and on the outbreak of war accompanied it to France. He was killed in action at Nery during the retreat from Mons, 1 Sept. 1914; was buried there; unm. A brother officer gave the following account of his death: “Our brigade was attacked soon after dawn at Nery by a force double our number—a cavalry division with 12 guns. Owing to thick mist they managed to get within 600 yards of us; 350 horses of the ‘Bays’ stampeded and their men went after them, and the L Battery was cut to pieces. The occasion was one which called for personal example, and Major Cawley, by permission of the General, went to help to restore order and get the broken remnants in their places. The situation being met and every one being in his place, he joined the advance line and was almost immediately killed by a piece of shell. The splendid manner in which he met his death in deliberately facing the awful fire to help others where he really need not have done so, is only what his whole life has led us to expect.” And a well-known cavalry officer, in a letter to “The Times,” said: “We had billeted in a village, and when day broke there was a thick mist. Our patrol came back saying that a German force was close by. My regt. got the warning first, and we had time to get our men into position behind some, thick walls; but the Artillery and the ‘Bays,’ who had picketed their horses in the open, were too late and were caught by a terrific fire. All the officers of the battery were killed or wounded, and the ‘Bays’ had nine casualties amongst their officers. They were very hard pressed, and Cawley, who was in the village, ran out into the open to try and collect some men and take them up into support. Just then a shell burst, and he was hit in the head. He was unconscious from the moment he was hit, and died in about a quarter of an hour.” General Briggs, commanding the Brigade, wrote of him: “He has been a true friend and always a conscientious staff officer to me for nearly two years, and it is needless to say how much I feel his death. He proved himself to be a real fighter in war, and was always cool and collected.” Major Cawley was a good all round sportsman. He was in the Rugby football team and shooting eight at Sandhurst, and in the hockey team, and was whip to the Drag at the Staff College; played for his regt. at polo when they won the Inter-Regimental Cup in India (Meerut), 1901; the Clements Polo Cup in South Africa (Pretoria), 1903; and the Inter-Regimental Cup (Hurlingham), 1906 and 1907. He won the Officers’ Riding and Jumping prize at the Royal Military Tournament in 1905, and was well known with the North Hereford and Whaddon Chase Hunts.

CAWSE, SAMUEL GEORGE, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CAWTHRA, HAROLD, Private, No. 3739, 1/10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of the late Carl Barber Cawthra; b. Arwick Green, Manchester, 10 June, 1895; educ. Claughton Higher Grade School, Birkenhead; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 13 March, 1915; unm.

CAYME, BERNARD GLYDE, Private, No. 81142, 10th Battn. (Western Canada Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of Harry Cayme, of The Red House, Horndean, co. Hants, by his wife, Minnie Annie, dau. of Edward Culver, of 9, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N.; b. Stamford Hill, 17 Feb. 1891; educ. Ardingly College, Haywards Heath, in 1908 emigrated to Canada to take up farming, and eventually settled at Manson, Manitoba, where he purchased land. On the outbreak of war he joined the 3rd Battn. Western Canada Regt., came to England with the 2nd Contingent early in the spring of 1915, was quartered at Shorncliffe, and ordered to France to reinforce the Canadians after the first memorable attack of gas by the Germans in April, being then transferred to the 10th Battn. He was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 22 May, 1915, being killed instantly with some 10 comrades by shrapnel; unm. Officers and men alike wrote in high praise of his courage and constant cheerfulness under any circumstances however difficult, and being the only man of his platoon who could speak French he was in constant request whilst in billets. He has been offered promotion in Canada, and on four occasions at the Front, all of which he refused, declining to forsake his comrades. The Caymes are of Huguenot descent and settled at Rye after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and Bernard Glyde Cayme, who was the last of the name in the male line, now lies in the land from which his family originated.

CECIL, GEORGE EDWARD, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only s. of Lord Edward Cecil, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Brevet Col., Coldstream Guards, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government since 1912, by his wife, Violet Georgina, 2nd dau. of Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse, of Dunley Hill, Surrey, and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C.; b. 20, Arlington Street, W., 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Winchester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he took a prize cadetship in 1912, passing out at the end of 1913. He passed his examination for a French cadetship in Jan. 1914, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 25 Feb. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, the 2nd Battn. went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and Lieut. Cecil acted as orderly officer to General Scott Kerr at the Battle of Landrecies. He was killed in the severe action fought by the rearguard of the 4th Brigade, near Villers-Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914; unm.

GASCOYNE-CECIL, RUPERT EDWARD, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 1st, Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 4th s. of the Rev. Canon Lord William Rupert Ernest Gascoyne-Cecil, Rector of Hatfield, by his wife, Lady Florence Mary, née Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd dau. of Edward, 1st Earl of Lathom, G.C.B., P.C., and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O.; b. St. Audrey’s, Hatfield, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; joined the Public School Corps on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914, and obtained his commission in the 4th Bedfordshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action near Ypres, 11 July, 1915, during a bombardment succeeding the blowing up of a very big mine by the Germans between the trenches, and was buried close to the Ypres-Cominis line, in the brigade headquarters cemetery; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Your son was only with us unfortunately for a very short time, but he had endeared himself to all who knew him by his cheerfulness and soldierly qualities.” Capt. Curtis also wrote: “The Germans exploded a very large mine between two of our trenches about 7.15 p.m. and then shelled us heavily. On hearing the explosion your son immediately tried to get up to the fire trench, of which he was in charge, but unfortunately he was struck on the head by a fragment of shell, and was killed instantaneously.... He was always beloved by all his fellow officers, and above all by his men, who had a great respect for him. We all feel the loss which the regt. has sustained by his death but we are proud he was doing his duty so nobly when he was killed. A good many men were stunned and confused by the explosion, but your son remained cool and met his death going to his post.” 2nd Lieut. Cecil rowed in the Torpids at Oxford, and was keenly interested in bell-ringing. His three brothers are all now (1916) on Active Service: Randle William, 2nd Lieut. 93rd Brigade, R.F.A.; Victor Alexander, Capt., Hampshire Regt. (twice wounded); and John Arthur, Lieut. and Adjutant, 19th Brigade, R.F.A.

CHADD, BENJAMIN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4134), S.S. 102612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHADWICK, FREDERICK JAMES, Capt., 104th Wellesley Rifles, Indian Army, eldest s. of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., by his wife, Amy (Westfield, Dorchester), yst. dau. of the late Rev. Charles Torkington; b. Chetnole, co. Dorset, 31 Aug. 1883; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth, Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Aug. 1903, and attd. for a year to the 59th Foot, then stationed at Poona; was appointed to the 104th Wellesley Rifles in Nov. 1904, being promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1905, and after serving with his regt. in the Mekran (gun-running) Expedition of 1911, Capt. 19 Aug. 1912. He died of wounds received the same day while leading his machine gun section at the Battle of Shaiba, Mesopotamia, 13 April, 1915; buried at Shaiba; unm. Capt. Chadwick was mentioned in Despatches [published in India in Feb. 1915] “for gallantry,” and recommended for reward. His yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. R. M. Chadwick, died of wounds, 13 May, 1915 (see following notice).

CHADWICK, RICHARD MARKHAM, 2nd Lieut., 11th Siege Battery, R.G.A., 3rd and yst. s. of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., etc. (see preceding notice); b. Chetnole, co. Dorset, 20 Nov. 1894; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth; Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery, 19 Dec. 1913; joined the 10th Coy. R.G.A. at Spike Island, Feb. 1914; went to Lydd for a Siege Course in Dec., and left for France with the 11th Siege Battery towards the end of April, 1915; he was seriously wounded while on observation duty for his battery, and died the following day, near Bethune, France, 13 May, 1915; buried Bethune; unm.

CHAFER, HERBERT JOHN, Sergt., No. 5342, C Coy., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of George Chafer, by his wife, Evelina, dau. of G. Houlton; b. Broughton, near Brigg, co. Lincoln; educ. at Broughton; joined the Army, 16 June, 1899, served through the South African War (Queen’s medal with bars), and afterwards in India. On completing his eight years with the Colours in 1907, joined the Reserve, and became a dock policeman at Immingham; but on mobilisation rejoined, was promoted Sergt. while at the Front, 1 Oct. 1914, and is reported to have been killed in action, 27 Oct. 1914, while serving with the Expeditionary Force in France. He m. at Sheffield, 19 April, 1908, Elizabeth W. (14, Storm Street, Chippinghouse Road, Sheffield), dau. of James Candow, and had three sons: Leslie James, b. 31 Jan. 1909; Sydney Herbert, b. 6 June, 1911; and Reginald George, b. 4 Jan. 1914.

CHALLIS, FRANK WALTER, P.O. (N.S.), 203516, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHALLIS, FREDERICK CHARLES, Gunner, No. 71677, 114th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of William Isaac Challis, of 212, Fulbourne Road, Forest Road, Walthamstow, House Decorator, by his wife, Maude Mary, dau. of William Holloway, of Harefield Road, Uxbridge; b. Tottenham, 3 March, 1894; educ. St. Andrew’s Road Board School, Higham Hill, Walthamstow; joined the 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. in March, 1911; transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, with which he proceeded to the Front on the outbreak of war; took part in the Battles of Mons and the Marne, and was killed in action at the Aisne while going to the assistance of his superior officer, who had been seriously wounded, 20 Sept. 1914. Buried above the village of Paissy Soissons; unm. His elder brother is now (1916) serving in Egypt.

CHALLIS, WALTER, Leading Signalman, 224820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHALLONER, ALAN CRAWHALL, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only s. of Frederick Charlton Turner Challoner, of Ealing, co. Middlesex, by his wife, Elspeth, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall; b. Ealing, 18 Dec. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; obtained his commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hooge, 30 July, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, in front of Hooge, Flanders, with six brother officers. Col. M. Stokoe wrote: “Ever since your son went to France he had done splendidly. He was brave and fearless, and always was a great assistance in attending the wounded owing to his medical knowledge. He was extremely popular with the men and handled them excellently. He was just the stamp of man to make an officer and leader of men, and we shall have great difficulty in replacing him.” Major Carew Barnett also wrote, saying: “He was doing splendidly, and at the time of being wounded he was in command of a company, all the officers of which had been killed or wounded. The gap he creates is, indeed, a hard one to fill, both as an officer and a friend.” A few days before he was killed, Lieut. Challoner got permission to do a little reconnoitring on his own account in a wood to the north of Menin Road, and was warned not to show himself, as it was shelled by the enemy on the least suspicion of the presence of any English; going up with one of his men he came upon a number of dead British and German soldiers, a large number of accoutrements, and in a dug-out about 100 rounds of trench mortar shells, etc., also the body of an English officer of the rank of Capt., Royal Fusilier badge and ribbon of the Military Cross, which he took steps to have buried. Subsequent inquiry proved the identity of the officer who had been killed by a shell five weeks earlier evidently by concussion as the body was found lying close to a shell hole but unwounded by a doctor and party, who removed it to a place of safety for burial, but on returning later it had disappeared, and was not found until Lieut. Challoner came upon it in the wood. Its presence and the bodies of the British and German soldiers, etc., remain a mystery. Returning to camp with as many of the mortar shells as he and his man could carry, Lieut. Challoner’s attention was drawn to the fact that the wood was being heavily shelled. When he observed, “Yes, I know, before leaving I showed myself at the edge of the wood to draw the enemy’s fire, which they are wasting quite satisfactorily.”

CHALMERS, WILLIAM ROBERT, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24697 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Robert Chalmers, of 11, Linton Street, Leicester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

INGLES-CHAMBERLAYNE, RUPERT HENRY, Midshipman, R.N., only s. of the late Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne, J.P., by his wife, Louisa Grace (The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold), dau. of the Rev. Charles Dallas Marston, Vicar of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, S.W.; b. Maugersbury Manor, Stow-on-the-Wold, 4 July, 1897; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed. His late tutor at Dartmouth wrote: “His pleasant, open smiling face was so very attractive. The first glance I had of it left no doubt in my mind of his character and his upbringing, and all that I ever saw or heard of him merely strengthened my first impression. He was a clean-hearted English gentleman, and worthy of the great service to which you so generously gave him.” And Lieut.-Commander R. R. Rosoman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke: “I feel certain the boy stuck to his post to the very last, because he was a splendid fellow.”

CHAMBERS, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1151), 276444, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAMBERS, PERCY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10030), 107623, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHAMP, FRANCIS LOGAN, Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 2978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CHAMPION, EDWARD THOMAS, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21840, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHAMPION, VICTOR ALFRED RICHARD, Bugler, No. 1468, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Frank Champion, of 36, Portnall Road, Paddington, by his wife, Anna, dau. of John Sawyer, of Lincolnshire; b. Woodfield Place, Harrow Road, Paddington, 2 March, 1897; educ. Moberley Board School there; joined the Kensingtons, 13 June, 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914; was wounded in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, two days later; unm.

CHAMPS, SIDNEY, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 2058), 163578, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHANCE, JOSEPH, Leading Stoker, K. 1158, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CHANCELLOR, SAMUEL, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110580, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHANDLER, CHARLES WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CHANDLER, HENRY NORMAN, L.-Corpl., No. 59, 3rd Coy. Divisional Engineers, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Henry Chandler, Plumber, by his wife, Elizabeth (71, Eldon Road, Wood Green, London), dau. of Joseph Newman; b. Twickenham, co. Middlesex, 8 March, 1891; educ. Hammersmith; emigrated to Australia in 1911, and was employed on the Broken Hill mines as a carpenter. On the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered, left Australia with the first contingent, and received promotion at the Dardanelles. He was killed in action there, 1 Aug. 1915; unm. Before enlisting he was secretary of the Broken Hill Congregational Church Choir, and also took part in the singing. He was a foundation member of the Young Men’s Christian Society of the same church. He belonged to the Y.M.C.A., in the work of which association he took an active part.

CHANDLER, JOHN KELLMAN, Private, No. 25935, H Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of John Kellman Chandler, Planter and Proprietor of Sugar Cane Plantation, Barbados, by his wife, Mary Ida, dau. of Samuel Chandler; b. Barbados, B.W.I., 9 Sept. 1889; educ. Combermere School, Bridgetown, Barbados; and on leaving there spent a few years as an Overseer on various Sugar Plantations in Barbados. In May, 1913, he went to Canada and joined the Staff of the C.P.R., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the Royal Montreal Regt. 11 Aug. 1914. He came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914 and while training on Salisbury Plain preparatory to going to the Front contracted spinal meningitis and died at Bulford Cottage Hospital, 23 Jan. 1915; unm. Major Gault McCombey wrote: “Kellman joined my company of the Royal Montreal Regt. in Aug., and I had formed a very high regard for him as he was one of my most reliable and best men.”

CHANDLER, NORMAN, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHAPLIN, ARTHUR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3573), S.S. 101235, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CHAPLIN, CHARLES SLINGSBY, Lieut-Col., 9th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, s. of the late Clifford Waterman Chaplin, of Burrough Hill, Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Rosa, dau. of William Chaplin, M.P.; b. Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, 31 May, 1863; educ. Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford; joined the City of London Regt. in May, 1885, from the Militia, and was transferred the same month to the “Green Jackets,” and gazetted Capt. to the King’s Royal Rifles 1894; served with the Chitral Force under General Low (medal with clasp); and in the South African war as Special Service Officer for Mounted Infantry; and later, from Aug. 1901, in command of the 1st Regt. of Mounted Infantry, doing excellent work in the Transvaal and the line of the Orange River (mentioned in Despatches, medal with five clasps). After the campaign he obtained his majority in 1903, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifles at Gharial, in the Punjab; he succeeded to the command of the 3rd Battn. 18 March, 1908, at Crete, and later took the battn. to Malta, afterwards returning to India and serving at Umballa. From half-pay in 1912 he retired, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, being at the top of the list when mobilisation took place, and was one of the big batch of officers who were given command on 19 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action after a 12 hours’ fight, when he and his men had just captured a trench, being shot through the head at Hooge, in Flanders, at 3.30 p.m. 30 July, 1915. He was buried at Chateau Hooge, close to where he fell. The following telegram was sent to the 9th Service Battn. from Headquarters, 2nd Army, at 1 p.m. on 31 July, 1915: “The Army Corps Commander wishes you to convey to the officers and men of the 9th Battn. King’s Royal Rifles his appreciation of the way in which they carried out the attack on the trenches north of the Menin Road yesterday afternoon, and maintained themselves under heavy artillery fire.” Lieut.-Col. Chaplin m. at Bombay, India, 29 Sept. 1905, Gwladys Hamilton (Erbistock House, Ruabon), dau. of Col. Stanley Creek, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and had three sons and a dau.: Clifford, b. 23 Sept. 1906; Nigel Gilbert Forbes, b. 9 Jan. 1908; Patrick Slingsby, b. 4 July, 1910; and Zara, b. 18 March, 1914.

CHAPLIN, EDWARD ROBERT, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6421), 223109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPLIN, HUMPHREY MARMADUKE, Lieut. 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. Cheshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Marmaduke Kaye Chaplin, of Etwall, co. Derby; b. Etwall, 8 Jan. 1892; educ. Glyngarth School, Cheltenham, and Rossall School, and was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and a member of the O.T.C. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Cheshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914; was attached to the 2nd Battn. on its return from India in Jan. 1915, and left for the Front the same month, being promoted Lieut. Feb. 1915. He was slightly wounded 13 March, and rejoined a month later (19 April). The battn. was moved up immediately afterwards to the advanced trenches in the Ypres salient, from which only a few men returned after the termination of the second battle for Ypres. Lieut. Chaplin was posted missing 11 May, 1915, and was afterwards reported as having been killed in action near Ypres on 8–9 May. He was buried by the Germans near St. Julien; unm. Lieut. Chaplin was a Craven scholar, and had gained a first in Moderations, and was a Charles Oldham Prizeman.

CHAPMAN, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10042), S.S. 112062, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, ARTHUR THOMAS, Capt., 3rd Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Chapman, of Croydon; b. Croydon, 20 April, 1873; educ. Whitgift School; joined the Volunteers (Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.) as a Private in 1888; was Trooper in the Hampshire Carabiniers (Yeomanry) from 1893 to 1897, and 2nd Lieut., to the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. ... 1899, from which he resigned owing to ill-health. He afterwards joined the 1st Battn. Surrey National Reserve as Lieut. in 1910, was promoted Capt. ... 1912, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 volunteered for foreign service. After a period of training with the 3rd East Surreys, he was attached as a Lieut. (13 Sept. 1914) to the 1st Hampshires, and spent the winter with them in the trenches, being promoted Capt. 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He won for himself a place in the hearts of his men and of the officers in the regt. during the few short months he was with us, that made his loss one of the worst blows we have received during the war. His solicitude for his men exceeded anything I have ever seen before.... All through the winter in the Plug Street trenches he was simply indefatigable, and withal as cheery as a sandboy—rain, mud, cold and German snipers were individually and collectively unable to subdue his good spirits. I was not with his regt. when the fighting in the Ypres Salient took place, but I have heard the story of that particular day’s fighting in which he was killed. The regt. was ordered to support the 28th Division, which had become exposed by the retirement of the Canadians. It reached a position an hour before dawn, and dug itself in. A small post in a house on the left flank of the line was rushed by Germans, who were thereby able to enfilade our trenches. It was thus we lost Capt. Sandeman, your husband and many men.... He set an example of devotion to the highest ideal of duty which is possible for any one to do in giving his life for his country, when only his own unbending sense of duty was there to urge him forward.” Capt. Chapman was one of the founders of modern Coulsdon. Going there nearly a dozen years ago he purchased the land which now forms the Smitham Downs Estate, and proceeded to at once develop it. He took an active interest in the formation of St. Andrew’s district in the year 1906, and became one of the first churchwardens of the temporary church. At the time of his death he was still serving as sidesman. He was married, but had no issue.

CHAPMAN, CLEMENT, Sailmaker’s Mate (R.F.R., B. 3220), 169201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, EDWARD HENRY, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., 1st s. of Edward Henry Chapman, of Cobrey Park, Ross, co. Hereford, by his late wife, Elizabeth Eden, dau. of James Walker, of Airy Hill, Whitby; b. Budleigh Salterton, co. Devon; educ. Aysgarth School, Yorkshire, United Services College, Westward Ho! and Sandhurst; obtained his commission in the 2nd Yorkshires, 20 Feb. 1895; and was promoted Lieut. 18 Aug. 1897, Capt. 29 Sept. 1901, Major 11 Feb. 1911, and Lieut.-Col. 19 Aug. 1914. He served in India and Burmah; took part in the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8, including the capture of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, the action at Saran Sar, and the operations round Dwatoi and against the Khani and Khel Chamkanis, and received the Tirah medal with two clasps. When war was declared in Aug. 1914, he was in charge of the Richmond Depôt, and undertook the raising of the 6th Battn., which formed part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action, 7 Aug. 1915, at the capture of the hill at Lalla Baba. The Chaplain of the 32nd Brigade, writing to his father, said: “He died as he would have wished to die—a gallant soldier leading his men, himself at the very front of the regt., on the summit of Lala Baba. As you have perhaps since learned we were to make a fresh landing on the night of the 6th inst. There were urgent reasons why we should capture the hill in silence, at the point of the bayonet without firing a shot. The moment we landed we were met with a very hot and accurate fire, which accounted for many casualties before our task was accomplished. Our advance, however, was irresistible, and despite the hail of bullets and the shower of shrapnel which had now got the range, the Yorkshires pushed forward to the Turkish trenches on the crest of the hill. There it was that the colonel’s gifts of leadership made themselves felt. ‘Come on the Yorkshires,’ he cried, and at their head with fixed bayonets, the lads he trained so well swept forward with irresistible force and the hill was ours. This brilliant little initial victory was, however, very dearly bought, for on the summit lay our colonel dead, and scattered all around a mass of wounded, dead and dying. With dawn we were able to estimate our losses. The losses among the men were heavy, but by no means proportional to the officers. The officers are young men who have received their commissions since the formation of the New Army. I go to see them in the firing line as often as I can. Their wonderful confidence and courage pass all belief. Confronted with a task that would try the nerve and test the skill of the most experienced soldier, commanded by a junior captain of 24 years, this little band of lads (for they are little more) with a wonderful courage, inspire with confidence and hope the men so unexpectedly committed to their care. It is a fresh and glorious page to be written in the history of the ‘Green Howards.’ Your son died instantaneously, shot through the neck. I was by his side not long afterwards, and so was able to prepare roughly for his burial. We buried him the same day in the same grave as his cousin, Wilfred Chapman, and two other officers, and have since erected a rough cross over the grave. At the moment of the accomplishment of the task he had been ordered to perform, with a quiet happy smile upon his face, he met his end as I know he would have chosen had the choice been his—the end of an English gentleman and a very gallant soldier.—P.S.—I am writing this under shell fire, so you must excuse its many errors.” He was unm. A tablet to his memory was placed in Richmond Parish Church, Yorkshire.

CHAPMAN, FRANK JAMES ALBERT, Private, No. 2856, 5th Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of Frank William Chapman, Driver A.S.C. (now on service in France), by his wife, Elizabeth Eliza (Dale Hill, Ticehurst, Sussex), dau. of James Francis; b. Frimwell, co. Sussex, 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Ticehurst Council School; enlisted about 18–19 Nov. 1914; went to France, 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper; unm. His brother, Driver Walter Reginald Chapman, No. 092582, A.S.C., is now (1916) on active service in Egypt.

CHAPMAN, FRED CHARLES, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8421), 294415, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, FREDERICK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9954), S.S. 107663, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHAPMAN, GEORGE ERNEST, Private, No. 9073, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd s. of Henry Chapman, of Thorpe Salvin, Worksop, Farm Horseman, by his wife, Harriett, dau. of William Good; b. Thorpe Salvin, co. Nottingham, 29 Nov. 1889; enlisted 10 April, 1911, and served three years with the Colours, then passing into the Reserve and joining the Nottingham County Constabulary. He was stationed at headquarters during his brief service with the force, and his superior officers spoke highly of him. On the declaration of war in August following, however, he was called up and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 29 Oct. 1914; unm.