CHOLMLEY, GEORGE FRANCIS, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., 2nd s. of Alfred John Cholmley, of Place Newton, Rillington, co. York, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Rev. Francis Simpson, of Foston, co. York; b. Place Newton, 1 Sept. 1882; educ. Summerfield’s 1893–5, and Mann’s Preparatory School for Navy 1895–7; joined the Britannia, 1897, was appointed to the Barfleur, Rear-Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald’s flagship, on the China Station in Sept. 1898, and served through the China War, for which he received the medal; was on the Niobe from Dec. 1900, to May, 1902, and after passing through Greenwich, entered the submarine service in 1903. He was serving as Sub-Lieut. with A 1 when she was sunk in 1904. On the day she was lost he had been sent to take temporary charge of another submarine, and was returning to A 1, about 4.30 p.m., when no trace of her could be found. After the A 1 was raised he was given six months’ promotion, being made Lieut. and put in command of her; afterwards commanded B, C and D boats, and from Feb. 1907, to March, 1909, served on the Bedford on the China Station, and in July of the latter year was appointed to the command of Submarine C 27. On 31 March, 1912, he was promoted Lieut.-Commander, and in May appointed to the Alecto for duty with submarines, and in 1913 received an expression of the Lords of the Admiralty’s high appreciation of the way in which he had handled his ship when towing H.M.S. Jackal into Dundee Harbour during a storm. He was given command of Submarine E 3 in June, 1914, and was killed in action in the Bight of Heligoland, 18 Oct. 1914. In Sept. he picked up a German seaplane which had been in the water for 20 hours about 30 miles off the Island of Borkum, and after destroying the remains of the seaplane he brought the officer and his mechanic as prisoners to Harwich. Lieut.-Commander Cholmley m. at St. Saviour’s Church, Mayfair, London, 9 Sept. 1911, Violet Penelope Munro (Hillcot, Shakespeare Road, Worthing), dau. of Robert James Trown Thomson, Indian P.W.D., by his wife, May Forbes, dau. of the Very Rev. Principal William Robinson Pirie, D.D., Aberdeen; s.p.

CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES ALMERIC JOHN, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., yr. s. of the late Lord Henry Vere Cholmondeley (2nd s. of William Henry Hugh, 3rd Marquis of Cholmondeley), by his wife, Frances Isabella Catherine, 2nd dau. of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. George Augustus Spencer [2nd s. of Francis Almeric, 1st Baron Churchill, and gdson. of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough]; b. London, 5 March, 1880; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted to the Border Regt. from the Militia, 4 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1902, and Capt. 23 July, 1910. In the Army Exercise at Northampton, 1913, Capt. Cholmondeley had a small command in the skeleton force under Major-General Munro, which operated so well from Daventry Heights. He was killed in action near Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; unm.

CHORLEY, DUDLEY CECIL, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., 2nd s. of Charles John Chorley, of The Grange, Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Wine Merchant, by his wife, Florence, dau. of William John Noad: b. Dulwich, 7 July, 1889; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; spent several years in Chili, Peru, Bolivia, and other parts of South America; was afterwards connected with the Union-Castle Line of steamships, and became their youngest purser, being in charge of the Gloucester Castle. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Naval Reserve as an Assistant Paymaster, 8 Sept. 1914; was commended by the commander of his first ship, H.M.S. Royal Arthur, and after three months’ service in this cruiser was appointed Assistant Paymaster (in charge) on H.M.S. Bayano, the youngest then holding that office in His Majesty’s Fleet. The Bayano left Glasgow on a Wednesday, and was torpedoed the following morning at 5 a.m., 11 March, 1915. His body was never recovered. He was a member of the Purley Cricket and Lawn Tennis Clubs, and a good sportsman. His marriage was fixed for his next return to port.

CHOWN, HERBERT, Private, R.M.L.l. (R.F.R., B. 1828), 186777, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHRISTOPHER, LEONARD DE LONA, Capt., 40th Pathans, Indian Army, elder s. of Major-General Leonard William Christopher, C.B., Indian Army (retired), of Harcourt House, Camberley, by his wife, Florence, 4th dau. of the late Major-Gen. Charles Stuart Lane, C.B., and gdson. of the late Major-Gen. Leonard Raisbeck Christopher; b. Mansfield, Iver Heath, co. Bucks, 21 Oct. 1883; educ. Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. then in India, 9 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 2 March, 1905, being the same month transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the 40th Pathans. He obtained his company 9 Jan. 1913; was Adjutant 12 April, 1911, to April, 1915, and took part in the operations in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp), 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he came home with his regt., served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915; buried in a farm three-quarters of a mile north-east of the village of St. Jean. His colonel wrote: “The regt. was in the first line of attack, and had to cross over open ground for over 1,000 yards under a fearful fire of machine guns and shells, both front and flank.... A native officer of ours near him loosened his belt for him, and Chris said “Mehrbani” and died.... He performed his duty nobly to the end.” And a brother officer: “He was dearly loved in the regt., and died a very gallant death at the head of his men, and helped to make the regt. he loved so well famous in that reckless charge.” Capt. Christopher m. at East Barnet, co. Herts, 4 June, 1913, Edith Marian, 4th dau. of Albert Robinson Bulman, of Trevor Hall, East Barnet, co. Herts, late of Indian Civil Service.

CHRYSTIE, JOHN, Major, 3rd Battery, Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, R.G.A., 2nd s. of Col. George Chrystie, of Shortheath Lodge, Farnham, J.P., Supernumerary List, Indian Army, who served in the Indian Mutiny in 1858 (medal), by his wife, Helen Anne Thomasine, dau. of William Robertson Myers, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica; b. Mangalore, India, 9 March, 1872; educ. Surrey County School, Cranleigh, and Portsmouth Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1894, Capt. 8 Nov. 1899, and Major 7 Oct. 1911, and was Adjutant in the Volunteer Forces, Nov. 1905, to March, 1907. He served in India with A Mountain Battery and R.G.A. from 1896 to 1905; was Instructor in Gunnery to the Hoogly Defences, 1901–5, and made three tours in Sierra Leone between 1907 and 1912 as Instructor in Gunnery. He left for France in command of No. 3 Battery, 1st Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, on 17 Sept. 1914; took part in the Battle of the Aisne, and on 12 Oct. was moved to the neighbourhood of Ypres. He was killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres at Zillebeke, near Ypres, on 17 Nov. 1914; and was buried in Ypres Cemetery. His colonel wrote of him: “He left behind him the lasting memorial of a shining example, of how we ought to live and die, and we shall not forget it. He came to this brigade at my invitation, stayed in it at my invitation, and so far as we all are concerned he remains in it for ever. We shall not see his like any more.” Major Chrystie was a keen sportsman, and won the Silver Spear of the Allahabad Tent Club in 1897 for pig sticking. His great-uncles, Lieut. John Chrystie, R.N., and Capt. Thomas Chrystie, R.N., served under Nelson. The former was in the Victory immediately before Trafalgar, but was transferred on promotion. The latter was at Trafalgar in the Defiance. His twin brother, Major George Chrystie, 25th Cavalry, Frontier Force, Indian Army, was killed in a raid on the North-West Frontier of India on 2 May, 1913. Major Chrystie m. at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, 15 Jan. 1913, Mignonne Muriel Maude (5, Portland Terrace, Southsea), dau. of Charles Lennox Brice Cumming, late of the Indian Civil Service, and had a dau.: Leslie Mignonne Comyn, b. 6 June, 1914.

CHUDLEY, JOHN FREDERICK, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 330, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Chudley, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Jesse Hattam; b. Sydenham, 8 Sept. 1875; educ. St. Mary’s School, Brook Green, London; enlisted in the 1st Royal Fusiliers (Volunteers) in 1894, and served through the Boer war, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for foreign service, and died of wounds caused by an explosion of a bomb in the trenches at Merville, 12 June, 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He m. at St. Paul’s Church, Wimbledon Park, S.W., 29 Jan. 1910, Charlotte Susannah (206, Balvernie Grove, Southfields, S.W.), yst. dau. of James Thomas Mortimer, and had one dau., Doris, b. 13 April, 1912. Capt. Glover wrote: “I personally have known the Sergt.-Major for nearly thirteen years, and a soldier with a keener sense of duty and a man straighter in all dealings I have never met. By his death I have lost a friend and a comrade, and one who has never failed me in any circumstances.” Besides the South African medal, Sergt.-Major Chudley had the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal.

CHURCHILL, DAVID EDWIN STANLEY, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16325, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CHURCHILL, JOHN WILFRED, L.-Corpl., No. 8109, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., s. of Nehemiah Churchill; b. Netherton, near Dudley, 6 June, 1885; enlisted Jan. 1905, and was killed in action at Paradis, 18 Oct. 1914; unm.

CHUTE, CHALLONER FRANCIS TREVOR, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 3rd s. of the late Francis Blennerhassett Chute, of Chute Hall, Tralee, co. Kerry, J.P., by his wife, Cherry Herbert (22, Ashburton Road, Southsea), dau. of Norcott D’Esterre Roberts, of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin; b. Chute Hall, Tralee, 2 April, 1885; received his commission from the Militia in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 28 Nov. 1905 and was promoted Lieut. 9 Feb. 1908. Reported “missing” after the Battle of Mons, it was afterwards officially announced that he was killed in action near Etreux, France, 27 Aug. 1914. Capt. H. S. Jervis, the senior surviving officer of the battn., gave the following account of the fight on 27 Aug. in which Lieut. Chute met his death: “The regt. was left in a somewhat exposed position, and the orders for a withdrawal seem to have gone astray. Chute, with his guns which he handled during the day with wonderful skill, covered the withdrawal of my company at mid-day. It was pouring with rain, and with entire disregard to personal comfort, characteristic of him, he lay down in six inches of water to manipulate his guns better. The Germans were crossing the front, and he never neglected an opportunity of delaying their advance. He withdrew them from one position to another all day, forming an invaluable escort to the two field guns we had attached to us. The withdrawal continued through a village at about 5.30 p.m., and at the other side of it he came into action again, firing right down the road, on both edges of which Capt. Rawlinson’s company was withdrawing. Owing to the help of your husband’s guns the company got safely through, and rejoined the battn. The enemy were now on three sides of us, and their artillery opened fire. Chute brought his machine guns back at the gallop along the road under a positive hail of lead. It was a splendid feat, and was successfully accomplished, and once again the guns were placed in position. We were now completely surrounded, and your husband crossed the road to try to find a target to aim at. As he crossed he was shot in the right side and thigh, and fell dead. Up to the last he was cheery and full of spirits as ever; in fact, he was the life and soul of the mess. He was looked upon as the best machine gun officer of the brigade, and his work during the day only served to confirm this view. Yesterday, the 28th, the Germans allowed us to send out a burial party of our own men, and they found Chuty and buried him with the eight other officers of the regt. who were killed in a grave separate from the men. He was buried with all his personal effects on him. His heavier kit is with the regimental transport, the only part of the regt. to escape.” Lieut. Chute m. 29 June, 1911, Maud Emily St. Clair, only dau. of the late Edward O’Brien Hobson, of Myler’s Park, co. Wexford, and had two sons: Desmond, b. 10 Aug. 1913; and Challoner, b. 18 March, 1915.

CLAIR, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., 1406U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept., 1914.

CLAPP, ALBERT GEORGE, Po. /16499, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARE, SAMUEL JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8218), 293806, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARK, EDWARD, Private, No. 13619, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 4th s. of the late Edward Clark, of Morley, co. York (died 28 April, 1909), by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Walker Clark, of Morley; b. Morley, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. Queen Street Wesleyan School there; went to Canada about 1906, and settled first at Elkron, Manitoba, three years later moving further west to Swift Currents, Sask. He enlisted there on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and came to England with the first Canadian contingent, arriving in Oct. After training at Salisbury during the winter he went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action on Whit Monday, 24 May, 1915; unm. His company officer, Lieut. L. F. Page, wrote: “He has been under my command ever since the first days at Valcartier, and I got to know him very well. He was an excellent soldier, always willing, obliging and brave. His death, I know, was all he would have wished it to be. He was killed capturing a German position; his loss is greatly felt by us all. May we each die as fine a death as he did.”

CLARK, FREDERICK JAMES, Gunner, No. 57600, Royal Field Artillery, s. of James Clark, of 2, Philip Street, Bath; b. Tiverton, Bath, 2 Feb. 1891; educ. there; enlisted in May, 1909; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914; unm. His brother is now (1916) serving with the 4th Somersets.

CLARK, HENRY WILLIAM, Rifleman, No. 2612, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt., 3rd s. of Frederick Clark, of 42, Goldsmith Road, Hackney, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Callan; b. Bethnal Green, 19 May, 1893; educ. Haggerston; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, was killed in the trenches 10 Nov. 1915, and was buried behind Lone Tree, near Hulluch, Loos; unm. Lieut. W. A. Clarke wrote that “He was always a good and devoted soldier, and did his duty splendidly.” And his comrades, in a joint letter of sympathy sent to his mother, said: “Owing to heavy rain the hole in the side of the trench in which he used to sleep when off duty collapsed, and he was buried under the heap of earth, although we made every effort to dig him out; but I am sorry to say he had passed away before we achieved our task. He was buried behind the old German line in front of Loos, which we captured in our recent attack, and a little wooden cross now marks the spot where he now lies in rest.”

CLARK, JOHN, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4915), 279038, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARK, NELLIE, Sister, a nursing member of Lady Ralph Paget’s Serbian Relief Expedition, dau. of Thomas Clark, of Bilsley, Alford, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Tammos, of Hardley, Norfolk; b. Cumberworth, 6 March, 1888; educ. Bilsby County School; and was a private nurse, having passed all degrees. She joined Lady Ralph Paget’s first unit for Serbia, in Oct. 1914, and died at Skopje, Serbia, 25 Dec. 1914, of septic poisoning, contracted while performing her duty, and was buried there. Lady Ralph Paget wrote: “She was the best nurse we had, and was so very sweet and gentle that she was loved by every one who had the honour of knowing her. As for the wounded men she nursed they simply adored her, and it was touching to see their grief when they heard of her death.”

CLARK, OWEN WALTER, Regimental Sergt.-Major, No. 5289, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Walter Clark, by his wife, Mary, dau. of (—) Humphreys, of Bow; b. at Bow, 30 Oct. 1877; educ. Bromley-by-Bow; enlisted in the 1st Royal Scots at Chatham in 1895, and after a short time at Edinburgh, and some years at the depot, Glencorse, was in 1903 drafted to the 2nd Battn., then at Kamptee, India. He returned from India in Oct. 1905, and on the occasion of the visit of the King and Queen to Edinburgh Castle in 1911 was, with three other N.C.Os., placed in charge of the Regalia. He also carried the new Colours which His Majesty presented to the battn. at Holyrood Palace on this occasion. The following year he was Worshipful Master of the Regimental Masonic Lodge, “Unity, Peace and Concord.” When war broke out he was Q.M. Sergt., and left Crownhill, Plymouth, with the 2nd Battn. for the Front on 13 Aug. 1914. He was granted first class Warrant rank, and promoted Regimental Sergt.-Major in Dec. 1914; was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 17 Feb. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field, and was killed in action at Hooge, 14 July, 1915, within nine months of completing 21 years with the Colours. He had been presented with the Good Conduct Medal by General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien at Crownhill in 1913, and numerous letters from his officers show that he had made himself beloved and respected by all ranks. Sergt.-Major Clark m. at Walthamstow Parish Church, 5 May, 1900, Alice Maud Mary (735, High Road, Leyton, Essex), dau. of Edward Carr, of Leyton, Essex, and had four children: Percy, b. 13 March, 1901; Roland, b. 17 Oct. 1902; Ivy, b. 26 Sept. 1906; and Marjorie, b. 12 Sept. 1910.

CLARK, THOMAS WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9966, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, ALBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 14643, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, ALGERNON PERCY, 2nd Lieut., 1/23rd Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd and elder surviving s. of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst.C.E., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; b. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, 8 July, 1894; educ. at Marlborough College, and at the outbreak of war was an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Cambridge. From the O.T.C. Cambridge, he received his commission as 2nd Lieut. Territorial Force as from 29 Aug. 1914. He at once joined the 1st/23rd London Regt., and, volunteering for foreign service, trained with his regt. until 14 March, 1915, when they embarked for France. He went through a course of machine-gun instruction at St. Omer, France, and was made machine gun officer to his battn. After several months in the trenches he was badly wounded in both legs on 21 July, by a German shell which burst in the room where he and two other officers were resting, south of La Bassee, and he died on 24 July, 1915, at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, and was buried in the new cemetery at Chocques, France. Writing to his father, Lieut.-Col. Streatfield said: “I pray that you may be able to derive some comfort from the knowledge of how splendidly your boy has done since he has been out here. We all loved him, and the men of his platoon would have done just anything in the world he asked them to. By his good heartedness and cheeriness he had endeared himself to them in a way it has been the lot of few men to do.” Lieut.-Col. Lord Herbert A. M. Douglas Scott, D.S.O. (formerly commanding 1/23rd The London Regt.), wrote from the War Office, 29 July, 1915: “Your son was doing so extremely well under my command and I heard from Lieut.-Col. Streatfield the same good account of his work. Your loss is the country’s loss also.” His brother, Harold Percy, of the Rifle Brigade, was killed on 9 May, two and a-half months earlier (see his notice).

CLARKE, AMBROSE CHILDS, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of William Arthur Clarke, of The Homestead, Manor Road, Leicester, Solicitor, by his wife, Ruth Lilian, dau. of Charles Baimbridge Rendle, of Russell Road, Kensington, Surgeon; b. Stoke, Devonport, co. Devon, 12 July, 1896; educ. Stoneygate School, Leicester, King’s College Choir School, Cambridge, and Malvern College. At the outbreak of war he was in camp with the Malvern College contingent of the O.T.C., and returned to Leicester, receiving his commission two days afterwards, 6 Aug. 1914. He was killed in the trenches near Messines, 9 May, 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He was placing his men under cover, refusing to take shelter himself until all his men were out of danger, and he had just got his last men under cover when he was killed by a shell instantaneously. He was buried in what had formerly been “Packhorse Farm,” Wulverghem, at the back of the English lines near Bailleul. A brother officer, who has since been killed, wrote: “He honestly was one of the cheeriest, best, most capable and well-loved officers in the battn., especially taking his age into consideration.”

CLARKE, BASIL HEATHCOTE, Rifleman, No. 2336, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Henry Heathcote Clarke, of 17, Birchwood Mansions, Muswell Hill, N., formerly of Durban, Natal, Journalist, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of Charles Samuel Clarke; b. Stamford Hill, N., 4 March, 1894; educ. Oakfield School, Crouch End, N.; was a member of the office staff of the London Electric Supply Corporation, Ltd., 25A, Cockspur Street, S.W., but on the declaration of war volunteered for Active Service, and enlisted in Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 3 Sept. 1914; landed in France, 23 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 6 March, 1915, only two days after his twenty-first birthday; unm. He was buried in the military burial ground near Wulverghem Church. Coy. Sergt.-Major Ashton wrote: “He was on the look out at the time, and he was struck by a rifle bullet, and death was instantaneous.... He had only been with us such a short while, and we have lost a brave and good comrade.” Clarke was a server at St. Peter le Poer, Friern Barnet, and also assistant scout-master of the 91st London Troop.

CLARKE, CHARLES PRIOR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1190), 205888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKE, CHARLES WILLIAM, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6419), 298869, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKE, EDWARD THOMAS, Private, No. 27621, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Joseph Edward Clarke, of 26, Lagham Road, South Godstone, Surrey, Groom Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Mark Chapman; b. St. John’s Wood, London, 12 Dec. 1893; educ. Blindley Heath National School, Surrey; went to Canada on his fourteenth birthday in 1907, and settled at Sweetsburg, working as a farm hand. He joined the 13th Scottish Light Dragoons, and gained his certificate as Sergt.-Major at the Royal Cavalry School at St. Jean, Quebec, 15 Feb. 1913. On the outbreak of war he joined the 48th Highlanders as a Private, came to England with the First Canadian Contingent, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Western Front, 11 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 22–24 April, 1915; unm.

CLARKE, ERNEST, Seaman, R.N.R., 5535A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, 302310, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9094), 201471, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, GEORGE RANKIN, Private, No. 271, B. Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Captain John Clarke, of Brigus, Newfoundland, Fisherman and Seafaring man; b. Brigus, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, 20 Oct. 1897; educ. Brigus Methodist Academy, and Methodist College, St. John’s; volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt. after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and d. in hospital at Mudros, 24 Nov. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service; unm.

CLARKE, HAROLD MARTIN, Barrister-at-Law, Lieut., 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of George William Clarke, of The Glen, Forest Hill, S.E., Town Clerk of Stepney, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Edwin Hill; b. Kirby-le-Soken, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1889; educ. Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon, and Clare College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1911. On 9 May, 1913, he obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Poplar and Stepney Rifles, and on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914, at once volunteered for foreign service and was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with his regt. 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26–27 Sept. 1915. The following order was issued shortly before this action (sent to England after Lieut. Clarke’s death): “The Major-General wishes to place on record his appreciation of the good work which has been done during the last four months by the following instructors at the Divisional Bomb School: Instructor Lieut. Martin Clarke, &c.—Headquarters, 10.25 p.m.” At Whitgift he was Colour-Sergt. in the Cadet Corps, and in the History Sixth, and at Clare he received his Lent and May colours. Lieut. Clarke m. at St. Albans in 1914, Daisy Emily (120, Croxted Road, West Dulwich), dau. of Philip Early Fenton Keatch, of India; s.p.

CLARKE, HAROLD PERCY, 2nd Lieut., 6th Special Reserve, attd. 2nd, Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), eldest s. of Joseph Percy Clarke, of 14, Hans Court, S.W., formerly of Buenos Ayres, M.Inst. C.E., etc., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edward Glover; b. Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentine Republic, 18 March, 1888; educ. Marlborough College; trained as a civil engineer, and became an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1913. He was constructing engineer on the Central Argentine Railway, and, arriving in England soon after the outbreak of war, he obtained through the Cambridge O.T.C. his commission in the Special Reserve of Officers as 2nd Lieut. from 15 Aug. 1914, joining the 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade at Sheerness. He went to the Front in November, but was shortly after invalided home with influenza and a slight attack of pneumonia. He rejoined the reserve battn. (6th) in February, 1915, and went to France, 17 March, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn., joining A Coy. He was killed on 9 May, 1915, in the attack on Fromelles and the Aubers Ridge as he was leading his platoon to take the German trenches. He was buried near Basseye, a little north of Kemmel, France. Almost all the officers of the battn. were casualties in this attack, but Capt. Nugent, company officer, 2nd Rifle Brigade, wrote: “Your son commanded his platoon with the greatest dash and gallantry, and showed himself to be a splendid officer.” He had already gained distinction in his professional career as a civil engineer, important works having been entrusted to his care, and was a keen sportsman in every way. His next brother, Algernon Percy, was killed also in France, two and a-half months later, July 24 (see his notice).

CLARKE, HERBERT CHARLES, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKE, HERBERT EDGAR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R.B., 8114), S.S. 103947, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

CLARKE, HENRY HAMES, Chief Ship’s Cook (Pensioner), 153478, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5108), 175327, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109357, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, JAMES GEORGE, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 5276, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, MAURICE TREDWAY, Private, No. 29752, 10th Battn., 1st Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. s. of Tredway Sydenham Clarke, Barrister-at-Law, late of Lincoln’s Inn, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Edmund Dewar Bourdillon; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 22 March, 1883; educ. Malvern College, Eastbourne College and St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge; went to Canada in June, 1905, and took up land near Eagle Butte, Medicine Hat, Alberta, and in 1910 obtained an appointment under the Dominion Forestry Department, which he held until Sept. 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for Imperial service; came over with the first contingent in Oct.; went to France, Feb. 1915; was slightly wounded in the early stages of the Second Battle of Ypres, and died 24 April, 1915, from injuries received whilst the ambulance was passing through Ypres; unm. He was buried at Vlamertinghe.

CLARKE, MONTAGU CHRISTIAN CUTHBERT, Lieut., 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, only s. of the late Montagu Charles Clarke, of the Southern Mahratta Railway, India, by his wife, Ada Georgina, dau. of Daniel Booth Rowbotham; b. Lindfield, co. Sussex, 3 Oct. 1893; educ. Radley College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and buried in graveyard of the temporary hospital on the Menin Road, about one mile from Ypres; unm.

CLARKE, MORDAUNT EDWARD LEONARD HANNAM, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Col. Francis Coningsby Hannam Clarke, C.M.G., R.A., sometime Surveyor-General of Ceylon, by his wife, Elizabeth Stainton (24, The Grove, Boltons, S.W.), dau. of S. W. Brown, F.R.C.S.; b. Bath, 13 Oct. 1884; educ. Marlborough College and University College Oxford; served first in the Kent Artillery from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Worcestershire Regt., 29 May, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Oct. 1910, serving for the next 3 or 4 years as Scout Officer to his regt. On the outbreak of the European war he left with his regt. for France, and was shot through the head by a bullet from a shell at Candry, near Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. He was carried to the Civil Hospital at Marly, but never regained consciousness. He received the following “mention” in Aug. 1913:—“I am to inform you that the G.O.C. 7th Brigade, wishes you to know how much he appreciates your work as Scout Officer during Brigade training. As this matter was not mentioned at the Pow-Wow he desired that you should be informed at once.”

CLARKE, VICTOR, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8513), 194420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 308, A Coy., 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd s. of George Clarke, pit top man, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Kelk; b. Blyth, 4 June, 1885; educ. there and Austerfield; enlisted in May, 1903, and served eight years in India, Egypt and Malta, and was a Reservist when war broke out. He was gassed at the Battle of Hill 60, but recovered and was sent back to the trenches, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 June, 1915, and was buried at La Brique, a mile and a-half away from Ypres, near Turco Farm. He had put his head over the parapet of the trench to aim at a German sniper, and was shot through the head, being killed instantaneously. 2nd Lieut. Granger wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, a splendid N.C.O., who took an interest in his work, and whatever he did he did well. He was as plucky a man as it is possible to meet. I deeply regret his death, and may say that there is no one else in the company whose loss would be more keenly felt.” Sergt. Clarke was mentioned for conspicuous bravery on the field. He also had six medals which he received while serving in India, etc. He m. at St. James’ Church, Doncaster, 3 Aug. 1913, Harriet (61, Concrete Cottages, Wombwell, near Barnsley), dau. of Thomas Schorah, and had twin children: Laurence and Doris (died 26 Aug. 1914), b. 4 July, 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5843), S.S. 100711, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17297, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKE, WILLIAM JOB, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10258), 208608, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARKSON, ARTHUR EDWIN, Private, No. 1122, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Annie (now wife of Maurice Barker, of St. Rose du Lac, Manitoba, Canada, and relict of John Cahill, of Scarborough); b. Scarborough, co. York; educ. Scarborough Board School; went to Canada with his mother in June, 1903; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted at Portage la Perrée, Man., 14 Aug. 1914; left Canada with the first contingent in Oct.; went to the Front in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 25 April, 1915. He m. at St. Mary’s Church, Scarborough, 8 May, .... Sarah (21, Hadden Street, Aberdeen), dau. of (——) Newcombe; s.p. His half-brother, Private John Cahill, 45th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force is now (1916) on active service.

CLARKSON, ERNEST, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272189, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLARKSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., only s. of the late Col. Frederick William Clarkson, 39th Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Ella Rosa (who m. 2ndly, Col. Sir Augustus Riversdale Warren, 5th Bart., of Warren’s Court, co. Cork), dau. of Major-General John Octavius Chichester, 39th Regt.; b. Dorchester, 6 Oct. 1883; became a cadet H.M.S. Britannia, in 1899; Midshipman within four months, Sub-Lieut. in 1892, Lieut. in 1904 and Lieut.-Commander, 1912. He was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed 15 Oct. 1914; unm.

CLARKSON, GERALD RICHARD, Corpl., No. 4, 525, Divisional Signal Coy., New Zealand Engineers, elder s. of the late Richard Potts Clarkson, M.A., Director of Technical Education, Hawkes Bay District, and Headmaster, Napier Technical College; by his wife, Rosina, dau. of (——) O’Shaughnessy, and nephew of John Bowes Clarkson, of Christchurch, New Zealand; b. Palmerston North, New Zealand, 26 Oct. 1893; educ. Normanby Public School, Stratford High School, and Napier Technical College; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 May, 1915, while patrolling Telegraph Lines in “No Man’s Land”; unm. Buried with three other New Zealanders near where he fell before a general Cemetery was decided on.

CLARKSON, ROBERT, Signalman, 190401, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLARRICOATES, GEORGE HENRY, Stoker, P.O., 306293, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLAW, SIDNEY THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9334), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLAXTON, EDWIN ARNOLD, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, Pensioner, 157283; reported missing after the sinking of H.M.S. Speedy by a mine 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914.

CLAY, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3895), S.S. 101752, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLAY, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110996, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLAY, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8970), S.S. 105678, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLAYDON, JAMES LEMARQUE, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1105), R.M.A. 11040, 4th s. of William Tilbrook Claydon, of Cambridge, by his wife, Emily; joined the Royal Marine Artillery in Nov. 1904; purchased his discharge in March, 1911, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve; was called up for service on the outbreak of hostilities, and was lost in action in H.M.S. Hogue in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLAYHILLS, GEORGE, D.S.O., Capt., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 4th s. of Thomas Clayhills, of Invergowrie, co. Forfar, and Thornton-le-Moor, co. York, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Rob, of Catton Hall, co. York; b. Darlington; educ. Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Received his commission and joined the 4th Militia Battn. of the Cheshire Regt. 8 Sept. 1896, from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt. 4 Jan. 1899; promoted Lieut. 4 June, 1900; and Capt. 8 Feb. 1908; and was Adjutant from April, 1906, to April, 1909. He went with his regt. to South Africa and served with the 8th Mounted Infantry during the war 1900–2, and took part in the operations at Paardeberg, and actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Karee Siding, Vet River and Zand River, being twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 17 May, 1902], and receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps, and the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action at the first Battle of Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. He was buried about three miles north of Armentières, one mile east of the Ploegsteert-le Cheir Road.

CLAYTON, ARTHUR GARDNER, Private, No. 18000, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., 2nd s. of Arthur Gardner Clayton, of the Colonial Secretary’s office, Ceylon, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the late Ven. R. Sutton, Archdeacon of Lewes and Vicar of Pevensey; b. Belize, British Honduras, 2 July, 1893; educ. King’s School, Bruton, co. Somerset, and was afterwards a clerk in the Saskatoon branch of the Bank of Montreal. On the outbreak of the European War he enlisted in Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., and was killed in action at Dickebusch, near St. Eloi, 15 Feb. 1915; unm.

CLAYTON, GERALD EDWARD CRIRIE, of Penarwel, Llanbedrog, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines, R.N.D., only s. of Ralph Cririe Clayton (grandson of Ralph Clayton, of Leyland and Crooke Hall, co. Lancaster), by his wife, Caroline, only dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. John Ffolliott Crofton; b. Liverpool, 27 Dec. 1879; educ. at Liverpool College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. and M.A., and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1904. He was for three years a Lieut. in the Army Motor Reserve, but this corps was disbanded in Dec. 1913. After the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered with his motor car as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 24 Sept. 1914. He went to France and subsequently to Belgium, and was in the retreat from Antwerp in Oct. 1914, his motor car being the last British car but one to leave that city. On the return of the Naval Brigade he was stationed at the Crystal Palace training the Naval Reserves, and while on Active Service there in Feb. 1915, contracted epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, from which he died at The Little Manor, Hertingfordbury, 2 Sept. following. He m. at St. James’, Spanish Place, W., 28 April, 1908, Ione (Penarwel, Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, North Wales), dau. of Major Oscar William de Satgé de Thoren, 45th and 38th Regt., and granddau. of Oscar Joseph de Satgé, 13th Baron de Thoren, of the Château de Thoren, Pyr. Or., France, and had three children: Ralph Dominic de Satgé, b. 18 Feb. 1909; Aymar Sinclair Joseph de Satgé, b. 6 July, 1912; and Eveline Mary Alice de Satgé, b. 26 May, and died 10 June, 1910.

CLAYTON, ROBERT WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13470, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLAYTON, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4542), S.S. 103649, I.C. 127, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLEAVER, SIDNEY, Private, No. 7722, 1st Battn. Gloucester Regt., s. of Samuel Cleaver, by his wife, Mary; b. Bristol, 1884 or 1886; educ. Northgate Wesleyan School, Gloucester; enlisted 23 Aug. 1904; served for three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve; was employed prior to the outbreak of the war in the Celynen Colliery; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Aug. and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 26 Sept. 1914. He m. at Gloucester, 30 Nov. 1909, Francis Sarah Ann (33, Swan Road, Kingsholme, Gloucester), dau. of Emanuel Charles Symonds, and had three daus.: Gwendoline Frances, b. 28 Dec. 1909; Mary Elizabeth, b. 13 Sept. 1911; and Iris May, b. 14 April, 1914. His Capt. wrote: “He was a plucky young soldier, always ready for anything—a man I could thoroughly trust. Only ten minutes before his death he had volunteered to go out with his platoon commander to reconnoitre some of the enemy trenches, a task requiring pluck, which was carried quite satisfactorily.”

CLELAND, MATTHEW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8945), S.S. 105660, H.M.S Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLEMENS, ARCHIBALD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10709), 208488, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLEMENTS, BERT RICHARD, L.-Corpl., No. 14488, 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only surviving s. of William Clements, late of the King’s Royal Rifles (who served in the Afghan campaign and died 31 May, 1908), by his wife, Elizabeth (30, Brook Street, Barry Dock, Cardiff), dau. of William Western; b. Barry Dock, near Cardiff, 20 April, 1892; educ. Council Schools, Barry Dock; was for two years a telegraph boy at the Barry Dock Post Office; enlisted in the R.G.A., but being an only son was claimed out by his mother; then enlisted in the Grenadier Guards at Cardiff Barracks, 2 Jan. 1909; saw three years’ service with the Colours, and afterwards joined the Cardiff City Police Force. On the outbreak of war he was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, went through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Aisne, and was killed in action at Ypres by shrapnel, 7 Nov. 1914; buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres; unm.