CLEMENTS, BERTRAM SARGENT, Leading Seaman, 168315, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLEMENTS, JACK, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12014, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLEMENTS, THOMAS HAROLD, Trooper, No. 2803, 2nd Life Guards, s. of the late Robert Henry Clements, by his wife, Harriett (St. Mary’s Street, Monmouth), dau. of Richard Smith; b. Monmouth, 17 Oct. 1892; educ. Grammar School there (1907–1911), winning several scholarships. He joined the Army, 17 Oct. 1911, and went to the Front, 15 Aug. 1914. On the night of 12 May, 1915, he was in the trenches at Potijze, and was under very heavy shell fire for three hours. The trenches were blown in, and while returning to the support trenches, he was struck by shrapnel and killed instantly. He was buried at Potijze, 1 mile north-east of Ypres; unm. Trooper Clements was an excellent athlete, and one of the finest forwards of the school Rugby football team, his work in the open and at the line-outs being particularly good, besides being a fearless tackler. He also played several times for the Monmouth Rugby Club. While at the school he secured prizes at the sports, and in last year won the mile in 5 mins. 28 secs., and secured second place in the open hurdles. In 1910 he rowed in the school crew and also was a member of the crew in 1911 which defeated Hereford Cathedral School at Hereford by three lengths, this being the first victory for the Monmouth crew for some years. The triumphant crew led from the start. When Trooper Clements joined the Guards he interested himself in the regimental athletics and was a member of their team which was defeated in the final Army Cup, 1912–13 season. He was for many years a member of the parish church choir and also a server.

CLEMSON, GEORGE ERNEST, 1st Class Stoker, R.F.R.B., 8133, Ch/S.S. 103962, 4th s. of the late Thomas Thornhill Clemson, Cowman, by his wife, Ellen Matilda (Syneham, near Chipping Norton, Oxford) (College Farm, Milton-under-Wychwood, Oxon), dau. of Charles Stone; b. Idbury, 26 Aug. 1883; educ. Chilson, near Charlbury; joined the Navy, and at the time of the outbreak of war was a Reservist. He was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

CLERK, SMOLLETT DAVID MACGREGOR, Private, No. 1388, B Coy., 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) Royal Scots, (T.F.), elder s. of Claude Louis Clerk, employed in the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Singapore, by his wife, Lily (158, Braid Road, Edinburgh), dau. of the late David Aitken, of Gourock, Scotland, Advocate, Solicitor and Notary Public, Straits Settlements; b. Singapore, 25 April, 1895; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and in 1911 entered the National Bank of Scotland. On the outbreak of war, he enlisted in the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, Royal Scots, left with the 1/4th Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; unm.

CLERY, CARLETON LUMLEY ST. CLAIR, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attached 4th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., elder s. of Col. Carleton Buckley Laming Clery, 104th Wellesley’s Rifles, Indian Army, C.B., by his wife, Jessie Violet, dau. of C. P. Fielon, and nephew of Lumley Clery, of Riverdene, Broxbourne; b. Burmah, 5 Dec. 1895; educ. Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, when he passed into the Indian Army. On the outbreak of war he was attached to the 4th Battn. of the Liverpool Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 5 March, 1915, and had only been there a week when he was killed in action, being struck by a shell at Richebourg St. Vaast, Flanders, 12 March, 1915; unm.

CLEVERLEY, ALBERT ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15596, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFF, ARTHUR JAMES, Carpenter’s Crew, M. 4114, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFF, HERBERT THEODORE, Major, 3rd Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., yst. s. of William Dewhirst Cliff, of Meanwood Towers, Leeds, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Wade; b. Highfield House, Wortley, Leeds; educ. Cothill (Abingdon) and Repton College; joined the Militia in 1901, and was promoted Capt. Aug. 1901; when the Militia was disbanded he joined the Special Reserve of Officers, receiving his majority 19 May, 1913. He served in the South African war, and was specially selected for accelerated promotion, and remained as Musketry Inspector till the post was done away with; and also in the Mediterranean, receiving a medal. On the outbreak of the European war he rejoined, and left with his regt. for the Front at the end of Sept. 1914. On the morning of 13 Oct. he was wounded, but he fought gallantly and refused to give in, and officers present at the time spoke with great praise of his bravery. Later the same day he was killed by a shell. Major Cliff was a keen sportsman, and played frequently for the Yorkshire Gentlemen, of which cricket club he was a member for many years; he was also a regular follower of the Bramham Moor, York and Ainsty, and Lord Middleton’s hounds. He m. at Walton-on-Thames, Mary Alice, dau. of Arnold Trinder, of River House, Walton-on-Thames, and had a son, Anthony Dewhirst, b. 15 Aug. 1913.

CLIFF, WALTER, A.B. (R.F.R. A. 3958), 144621, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFFE, NICKOLAS HENRY, Private, No. 14700, Fort Garry Horse, attd. 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late William Cliff, of Fleece Inn, Preston, Publican, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Burton; b. Preston, co. Lancaster, 15 July, 1881; enlisted in the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. at the time of the South African War, and served through that campaign, afterwards going to Canada and settling in Winnipeg. After the outbreak of the European War he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 22 May, 1915; unm.

CLIFFORD (formerly WILLIAMS), ANTHONY CLIFFORD, B.A., M.B., B.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 3rd Dragoon Guards, yst. s. of the late Rev. Henry Williams. M.A., C.M.S. Missionary in India, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the Rev. John Bryant Clifford, Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Kingsdown, Bristol; b. Bristol, 13 July, 1888; educ. St. Oswald’s School, Clifton, and Marlborough; went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1900, when he took the name of Clifford. He belonged to the University O.T.C., and after taking his B.A. degree, went to Guy’s Hospital in 1909, where he took his M.B., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Reserve of Officers, 18 May, 1912. At the outbreak of war he had just qualified as a doctor, but was called up for active service; was attached to the 3rd Dragoon Guards; went to the Front as a machine-gun officer in May, and was killed in action at Hooge, 2 June, 1915. He was remounting his gun in a new position after the first position had been blown in, when he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Buried in the annexe of the churchyard at Vlamertinghe. Trooper W. Spencer in a letter home wrote: “A hundred shells fell in twenty minutes around our left Maxim gun. Lieut. Clifford timed them as cool as a cucumber, with his watch in his hand. This brave officer lost his life later in the day. Our officers worked like heroes. They were Capt. Holt and Lieut. Clifford.”

CLIFTON, FREDERICK CHARLES, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272033, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFTON, HAROLD NORTON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yr. s. of William Edward Clifton, of 7, East India Avenue, London, E.C., Architect and Surveyor, and 12, Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London, W., Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and of the Surveyors’ Institution, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of the late James Nelson, of Carlisle; b. 32, Ashley Gardens, Westminster, 7 May, 1894; educ. St. Peter’s Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1913, and went with the Corps to France in Oct. 1914, as a Corpl., obtaining a commission in the Coldstream Guards, 1 Jan. 1915. He was severely wounded at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915, and died of his wounds in a German field hospital, 1 Feb. following, and was buried at Billy Berclau, near La Bassée; unm. At Harrow, 2nd Lieut. Clifton was in the Sixth Form, a school monitor, head of his house (Druries), a member of the football eleven, captain of the swimming and middle-weight boxer for the school for two years, competing in the Public Schools Competition at Aldershot. He was also a member of the Richmond Football Club.

CLIFTON, HERBERT PERCIVILLE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4555), S.S. 103666, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

CLIFTON, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2938, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLINTON, RICHARD, Stoker, Petty Officer, 296947, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLOSE, MAX ARTHUR, Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., elder s. of George Arthur Close, of Westbury, East Finchley, N. by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the late William Swift, of Smethwick, Staffordshire; b. Stroud Green, co. Middlesex, 14 Sept. 1889; educ. Christ’s College, Finchley, and afterwards in France and Germany. He joined the 1st Battn. Artists’ Rifles in 1908, and on the outbreak of the war, volunteering for foreign service, was sent to France in Oct. 1914. He did his probationary work in the 2nd Border Regt. at Ypres in Nov. 1914, and was gazetted to the 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Lieut. While gallantly leading his platoon in an attack from Neuve Chapelle on 12 March, 1915, he was hit in the head, and died shortly afterwards. He was buried outside the trenches, south-east of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Col. E. R. Hill, officer commanding 1st Highland L.I., wrote: “In him we mourn one more of those gallant fellows who responded so promptly to the call of duty and set an example to the country.” Lieut.-Col. H. A. R. May, officer commanding Artists’ Rifles, also wrote: “Your son unswervingly persisted in carrying out what he conceived to be his duty. He splendidly upheld all the best traditions of the British Army, and he won the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. His name will always be remembered by us with pride.”

CLOUGH, ALEXANDER JAMES, Chief Stoker, 291102, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

CLOUGH, THOMAS WOODHEAD, Private, No. 2017, C. Coy. 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Thomas Woodhead Lister Clough, of 8, Marsfield Terrace, West Bowling, Bradford, co. Yorks, retired Milk Dealer, by his wife, Alice (died 17 Feb. 1914), dau. of William (and Martha) Downes; b. West Bowling, 31 Dec. 1887; educ. Marshfield School, where he gained certificates entitling him to give lessons in shorthand, typing, etc.; and after serving 7 years with Messrs. Wright and Morgan, solicitors, Bradford and Shipley, secured an important position in their London Office. He had joined the Manchester Territorials, 15 Jan. 1912, and was transferred to the London Scottish, 31 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war the London Scottish at once volunteered for foreign service and were the first Territorial Force to go into action. In a letter to his father dated 30 Oct. (found subsequent to his death and forwarded 18 Nov.) he wrote: “Our regt. are now in the firing line. We joined it here yesterday. The big guns of the Germans are banging away whilst I am writing this letter. Sir John French has just sent for us. Good-bye. Don’t worry. Love to all. Your affectionate Son, Thomas.” He was mortally wounded in the great charge of the London Scottish at Messines, France, 31 Oct. 1914, and died at the 1st London General Hospital, St. Gabriel College, Camberwell, S.E., from gunshot wound in the groin, Sunday, 18 Nov. following, and was buried in Camberwell Borough Cemetery; unm. Lieut.-Col. Malcolm, commanding the London Scottish, wrote to Private Clough’s father: “No commanding officer could have had under his command a braver or more gallant soldier than your son, who so nobly gave his life for his country.” On this occasion F.M. Sir John French telegraphed to Col. Malcolm: “I wish you and your splendid, splendid regt. to accept my warmest congratulations and thanks for the fine work you did yesterday at Messines. You have given a glorious lead and example to all Territorial troops who are going to fight in France,” and in forwarding it Major-General E. H. Allenby, G.O.C. Cavalry Corps, wrote: “The behaviour of officers and men of the London Scottish was worthy of the best traditions of British Regular troops. Only their steadiness and courage saved a situation that was as difficult and critical to deal with as will ever occur.”

CLOUGHLEY, JOSEPH ERNEST, Private, No. 47828, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Thomas Henry Cloughley, of Barrie, Ontario, Canada; b. Colwell, Ontario, 31 March, 1893; enlisted in the 37th Battn. at Barrie in Dec. 1914; was transferred to the 17th Battn., on landing in England in June, and on 17 July was drafted to the 15th Battn. and sent to the Front. He died in No. 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, 6 Nov., 1915, of wounds received in action. A comrade in writing home spoke of him as “such a brave, courageous fellow, ever found willing and ready to render assistance whenever necessary.”

CLOVER, REGINALD WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R. B. 6552), 202676, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CLUBLEY, IRIS, 1st Class, K. 9588, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

CLUTTERBUCK, HENRY, Capt., 1st Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., eldest s. of the late James Jacques Clutterbuck, of Hampton Lovett, Droitwich, formerly of Gloucester, by his wife, Elizabeth Anna, dau. of Rudolph Appell; b. Chacewater, Cornwall, 23 Jan. 1874; educ. King Edward’s School, Birmingham; enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 28 July, 1893, became L.-Corpl. 22 June, 1894; Corpl. 22 May, 1896; L.-Sergt. 12 Dec. 1896; Sergt. 1 Dec. 1897, and Orderly Room Sergt. 1 Dec. 1897. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Yorkshire L.I. 25 Aug. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 23 Nov. 1901, and Capt. in the Royal Lancashire Regt. 20 Nov. 1907. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, being attached to the Army Service Corps from 1 June, 1901. He took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein. He was present during the operations in the Orange Free State, including those at Paardeberg (17–26 Feb.), and the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Karee Siding, Vet River (5–6 May) and Zand River. He was also in the operations in the Transvaal, May to Sept. 1900, and from Nov. 1900 to May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal with six clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. Capt. Clutterbuck was Adjutant to the King’s Own Malta Regt. from 20 June, 1904, to 9 July, 1909, and afterwards served in India, interesting himself in the welfare of the soldiers, and in encouraging temperance and thrift among them, and was commended by the Commander-in-Chief of India for his work. He was to have taken up the appointment of Garrison Adjutant at Bordon, 1 Oct. 1914, but on the outbreak of war, left for France, 21 Aug. and was killed in action at Haucourt, France, between Le Cateau and Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, and was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Clutterbuck was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s despatch of 21 Aug. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914, “for his conspicuous bravery under heavy shell fire, and his gallantry in leading bayonet charges.” A brother officer wrote: “On the fateful 20 Aug., Capt. Clutterbuck, Mr. ........ and self were in a village, and about 8.30 p.m. about 150 Germans made a night attack on us. Just when the attack was starting Capt. Clutterbuck came up with about 50 men to help, as things looked bad. Capt. Clutterbuck then performed an act of great gallantry; he personally led 15 men with Mr. ........ to drive about 50 of the Germans away from a church where our wounded were. They called upon Capt. Clutterbuck to surrender; he would not, and I am afraid was then instantaneously killed. He had absolutely no suffering and his body was taken into the church.... This act of Capt. Clutterbuck’s was most gallant, he would not entertain anybody else doing the noble work which he did, thereby saving the lives of most of us....” Another officer wrote: “I thought perhaps you might care to hear from me, as I was with your husband the whole of the first day. He and I lay under very heavy shell fire, with about 100 men, for the whole morning and afternoon, and it was entirely through his influence that we kept the men together at all. After dark we went down to a village in order to turn some Germans out with about 30 men, which was all we could collect. We met them there in force, your husband ordered and led a charge against them which was so successful and well led by him that we cleared the village. He was shot leading us against a party a great deal stronger than our lot, who were at one end of a street. Throughout the day he was perfectly marvellous and cheerful in the worst times, and the men have since told me when talking about it, that his coolness and gallantry in leading charges in the street fighting was extraordinary. Of course, he was exactly the sort of officer who has made our regt. as famous as it is.” He m. at Valletta, Malta, 27 April, 1908, Cora Gwendoline Rajaela, yst. dau. of the late Gerard Myburgh, of Orange Grove, Cape Town, Consul-General for the Netherlands in South Africa; s.p.

COARD, HENRY HAROLD, Private, No. 13245, B Coy., 1st Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I., 2nd s. of John Henry Coard, Postman, Raheney, co. Dublin, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Henry Moore, of Dundrum, Dublin; b. Raheney, co. Dublin, 2 April, 1889; educ. Howth Road School, Clontarf; was foreman gardener to the Earl of Mar and Kellie at Alloa Park, but on the outbreak of war left and joined the Colours, 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front in January, 1915, took part in the fighting at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60 and the first and second Battles at Ypres, and was killed in action during the latter, near Hooge, 8 May, 1915; unm.

COATES, GEORGE BERNARD, Private, No. 148, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of George Coates, of Sproatley, near Hull, Gardener; by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of W. Mason, of Hull; b. Wyton, Hull, East Yorkshire, 12 May, 1891; educ. Sproatley Endowed School; was for some time in the Halifax Territorials; went to Australia 6 June, 1913; joined the Australian Imperial Force at Melbourne on the outbreak of war and was wounded in the left arm at the landing at Suvla Bay on 25 April, 1915. He was invalided to Malta, but returned to the firing line about the end of July, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 9–10 Aug., 1915; unm.

COATSWORTH, EDGAR, Corpl., No. 8058, B. Coy., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd s. of Arthur Thomas Coatsworth, of 20, Earl Street, Maidstone, a Corpl. in the National Reserve Guard; b. Maidstone, 5 Aug. 1887; educ. St. Faith’s Schools there; enlisted 16 Aug. 1904, and after serving seven years with the Colours, passed into the Reserve and became a postman at Marden, Kent. He was called up on the outbreak of war; was promoted Corpl. early in Jan. 1915; went to France and was killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915. His Coy. Sergt.-Major in a letter of sympathy to his wife said that he was killed whilst gallantly leading his men in the attack on the enemy’s trenches, and added “he was a great favourite of all the men of his platoon, who speak very highly of his conduct when under a very heavy shell fire.” He m. at St. Faith’s Church, Maidstone, 17 March (—), dau. of William Cummings, and had two children: Edgar, b. 5 July, 1912, and Marian, b. 21 Aug. 1913.

COBB, ARTHUR VICTOR JUBILEE, Signal Boy, J. 24845, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COBB, JOHN WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 1345), 206567, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COBBETT, ALBERT, A.B., J. 14137, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COBBOLD, ROBERT HENRY WANKLYN, Lieut., 6th. attd. 2nd. Battn. (The Prince Consort’s Own) Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the Rev. Robert Russell Cobbold, M.A., Rector of Hitcham, Ipswich, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late Frederick Wanklyn, of Buenos Aires, and gdson. of the late Rev. Robert Henry Cobbold, Rector of Ross; b. Earl’s Barton Vicarage, co. Northampton, 3 Dec 1892; educ. King’s College Choir School, Marlborough College (Foundation Scholar and Junior Scholar), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge (Classical Scholar). At Cambridge he took an active part in the work of the O.T.C., and on the outbreak of war was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, 7 Nov. 1914, to date from 14 Aug. To quote the “Eagle,” vol. xxxvi, Dec. 1914: “At the beginning of the term the task was a formidable one. There was plenty of enthusiasm, but very little experience—a mass of untrained material. But in R. H. W. Cobbold A Coy. had an almost ideal O.T.C. officer. The work which he did for the month before his knee got strong enough for him to take a commission in the Rifle Brigade was absolutely invaluable. When he went the most difficult part of the task was over.” He was promoted Lieut. 19 Dec. following; went to the Front, 13 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. and appointed machine gun officer, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 9 Sept. 1915; unm. Major-Gen. H. Hudson, commanding 8th Division, wrote: “Your son had done excellent work whilst serving in this division, and was a most promising officer. You have every reason to be proud of his gallantry and devotion to duty.” And Lieut.-Col. F. Nugent, commanding 2nd Rifle Brigade: “Your boy was machine gun officer to this battn., and I had a special opportunity of knowing what a splendid fellow he was. Absolutely fearless, and a really fine leader of men. His machine gunners loved him, and would have followed him anywhere. A really good machine gun officer like him is rare.” At Cambridge he rowed in his college first boat.

COBBY, WILLIAM ARTHUR, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 271735, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COBERN, WESLEY VINCENT, Private, No. 8502, 3rd Rifle Brigade, 3rd s. of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Agnes Eliza, dau. of George Drew; b. Winchester, 6 May, 1883; educ. Wesleyan Day School there; joined the 3rd Rifle Brigade, 27 June, 1901; and on the outbreak of war went out to France with the first Expeditionary Force. On the night of 17–18 Oct. 1914, the 3rd Rifle Brigade were billeted at a school near Armentières. On the early morning of 18 Oct. they were preparing breakfast when bugle sounded “Stand to Arms” at 5.30 a.m. The attack on a village called Prehencies commenced at 6. The railway from Armentières to Lille had to be crossed near Le Halte Station. Cobern was shot in the left arm, almost at the same time Sergt. Smith was shot in the head. He threw off his equipment and helped to bandage the Sergt.’s wound. Remembering that he had a scarf in his valise that would be useful, he went to where his equipment was lying on the railway, and was shot dead. He was buried with many others of the regt. who fell at the same time by the 139th Saxon Regt. of the German Army. There were 600 casualties on that day in the 3rd Rifle Brigade alone. His brother, L.-Corpl. W. G. Cobern died on active service, 13 June, 1915 (see following notice).

COBERN, WILFRID GEORGE, Corpl., No. 2570, 4th Battn. Hampshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Thomas William Cobern, of 72, Parchment Street, Winchester, Merchant Tailor, etc. (see preceding notice); b. Winchester, 1 Sept. 1878; educ. Wesleyan Day School there; served for over 10 years in the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Hampshire Regt., and on the outbreak of the war joined the 4th Battn. of the Hants Regt. for foreign service, 6 Aug. 1914. He died of heat stroke at Basra, in the Persian Gulf, 13 June, 1915; unm.

COCHRAN, LIONEL FRANCIS ABINGDON, Capt., 72nd, attd. 92nd, Punjabis, Indian Army, 2nd s. of the late Col. Francis Cochran, 1st Hampshire Regt., who was Deputy Judge-Advocate under the late Lord St. Helier (then Sir Francis Jeune) during the South African war, by his wife, Amy Isabel Gray, eldest dau. of Abingdon Compton, Bombay Civil Service, and gdson. of Francis Cochran, of Balfour; b. Edinburgh, 20 March, 1882; educ. by private tutors and in Germany, where he was when the Boer war broke out. He joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Leinster Regt. at Queenstown when only 17 in Feb. 1900, and, proceeding with it to South Africa, served on the lines of communications, being twice given responsible posts and a commission from Lord Roberts in the Worcester Regt., and the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901, and promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. following, and after being first attached to the 1st Hants Regt., was transferred in 1901 to the Indian Army. He joined the 72nd Punjabis in Burmah, became double company officer, 7 July, 1905, received his company 17 Nov. 1909, and served with them until Sept. 1914, when he was selected to proceed with the 92nd Punjabis on Active Service. They were sent to guard the canal at Ismailia, and Capt. Cochran was killed in action while leading his men at Tussum on the Suez Canal, 4 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Ismailia; unm. He was specially mentioned in Gen. Sir John Maxwell’s Despatch of 16 Feb. 1915 [London Gazette, 21 June, 1916]. The officers of the 72nd Punjabis erected a mural tablet to his memory in St. Mary Bolton’s Church, S.W., and the officers of the 92nd Punjabis put up a cross and stone on his grave at Ismailia. Capt. Cochran was a great traveller, having gone nearly all over the world during his leave, and an expert motorist; also he was a fine horseman. He several times filled the appointment of Station Staff Officer and Cantonment Magistrate in India with great credit.

COCHRANE, CHARLES, Private, No. 11101, 2nd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, s. of William Cochrane; b. South Shields, 21 April, 1889; educ. Drummond Street School, Edinburgh; was a Hairdresser; volunteered and enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, went to France in April, and died of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle 11 May, 1915. He m. 3 June, 1900, Catherine (2, Blackfriars St., Edinburgh), dau. of Owen Airlie, of 49, Drummond Street, Edinburgh, and had a son and three daus.: Francis, b. 24 May, 1906; Mary Jane, b. 8 April, 1901; Agnes, b. 10 Feb. 1910; and Maria, b. 3 May, 1911.

COCKAYNE, WALTER, Officer’s Cook, 3rd Class, L. 4215, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COCKBURN, CHARLES JAMES, Lieut., 6th Jats L.I., Indian Army, yr. s. of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John Waterer; b. Malta, 27 March, 1891; educ. Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3 Sept. 1910; was attd. to the Berkshire Regt. in India, and was transferred to the Indian Army, 29 Oct. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1912. He served in France with the Meerut Division, and afterwards in Mesopotamia, and was killed in action with General Aylmer’s Relief Force, 7 Jan. 1916. Lieut. Cockburn was amongst the first to receive the Military Cross. He m. at Cobham, Kent, 16 July, 1915, Helen, dau. of Laman Herbert Evans; s.p. His elder brother, Lieut J. Cockburn, was killed in action, 25 April, 1915.

COCKBURN, JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of the late Major Charles James Cockburn, Royal Warwickshire Regt., by his wife, Kate Alice (Bagshot, Surrey), dau. of the late John Waterer, of Bagshot; b. Malta, 3 March, 1890; educ. Wellington College. On the outbreak of war volunteered as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in his father’s old regt. 3 March, 1915. He was killed while leading his men into action at St. Julien, near Ypres; unm.

COCKER, EDGAR CHARLES, Private, No. 81163, 10th (late 32nd) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Edgar Charles Cocker, of Lintlaw, via Margo, Sask., Canada, Farmer and Stonemason, now Private, No. 887330, 188th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force (who served thirteen years with the 4th East Surrey Volunteers before leaving England), by his wife, Alice Jane, dau. of the late Charles Collier, of Homerton, London; b. Peckham, London, 9 Oct. 1895; educ. Peckham Park School, S.E.; Beachville, Ontario; and Yorkton, Sask.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; left Canada with the second contingent, 22 Feb. 1915; went to France, 27 April, and was killed in action in the front line trench at Festubert on the morning of 21 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell; unm. He was buried behind the trench close to where the second line trench crosses the head of Willow Road, and a cross marks the spot.

COCKMAN, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9045, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COCKRILL, ARTHUR, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9255), S.S. 2208, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

COCKS, ALBERT, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Coy. (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th s. of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regt.); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educ. Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Coy. at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General’s Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Coy. When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: “His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose.” He m. at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, dau. of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p.

CODD, HARRY CARR, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17530, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

CODLING, ALFRED INCH, A.B., 219051, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COE, BARNABAS WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1150), 276443, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COE, HERBERT CLYDE, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 20, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

COHEN, GEORGE HUBERT, B.A., LL.B., Lieut 5th King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Alderman Louis Samuel Cohen, of The Priory, St. Michael’s Hamlet, Liverpool, J.P., an ex-Lord Mayor of Liverpool, by his wife, May, dau. of the Hon. Louis Wolfe Levy, M.L.C., Sydney, N.S.W.; b. Liverpool, 26 Jan. 1878; educ. Cheltenham and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours B.A., LL.B., in 1901. He was called to the Bar in 1903, and practised law in Liverpool in the Northern Circuit, and was a member of the Inner Temple. He had always been a keen Volunteer, having been a sergt. both in the Cadet Corps at Cheltenham College and in the C.V.R.U. at Cambridge, and was for many years in the Inns of Court O.T.C., and gained the Long Service medal. On the outbreak of war he was travelling in Norway, and hastened to England and immediately enlisted in the Public Schools Battn. of the Middlesex Regt., but within a week he was given (19 Sept. 1914) a Lieut.’s commission in the 5th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., in which his brother, Stanley, was Major. He went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm. His colonel, J. M. McMaster, wrote: “He died as glorious a death as any soldier could ever wish for or hope for, gallantly leading his men in a charge against the enemy’s trenches. It was a difficult and dangerous task, but he and his men went to the assault in the way we expect British soldiers to act, without fear or hesitation. We mourn his loss and respect his memory. His disposition was kindliness itself, and he had thoroughly endeared himself to us all. We took the German trench and more than 120 prisoners surrendered to us. Your son lies buried in all honour near the field of battle at Richebourg L’Avoué. I am sorry to say that Stanley (his yr. brother, Major, now (1916) Lieut.-Col. S. Cohen) incurred a wound, which I hope and believe is only slight, in voluntarily going out in the attempt to reach George and succour him. Capt. Fairclough, on the same errand of mercy, was also wounded.”

COKE, HON. ARTHUR GEORGE, Lieut., R.N.V.R., Armoured Cars Division, 2nd s. of Thomas William, 3rd Earl of Leicester, G.C.V.O., C.M.G., by his wife, the Hon. Alice Emily, née White, dau. of Luke, 2nd Lord Annaly; b. London, 6 April, 1882; educ. H.M.S. Britannia; joined the Navy, 1897, and retired with the rank of Lieut. after some six years’ service. On the outbreak of the war he obtained a commission of 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons), 5 Sept. 1914, but was almost immediately transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, and served with that regt. in Flanders, including the first Battle of Ypres, until he was transferred as Lieut. to the Armoured Cars Division, R.N.V.R., in Jan. 1915. He was killed In action at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915. He m. in London, 10 May, 1906, Phyllis Hermione (Flaunden, Chesham, Bucks), only dau. of Francis Saxham E. Drury, of Pont Street, London, and had a son and dau.: Anthony Lovel, b. 14 Sept. 1909; and Deana Muriel, b. 7 Nov. 1907.

COKE, FREDERICK, A.B., 239092, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

COKER, CADWALLADER JOHN, Lieut., 1st Welsh Regt., yr. s. of the late James Gould Coker, by his wife, Florence Emily (The Grove, Mayfield Sussex), 2nd dau. of Cotterill Scholefield; b. Somerset Place, Bath, 11 May, 1892; educ. Wellington College and Oriel College, Oxford; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Welsh Regt. 15 Sept. 1914. He was promoted Tempy. Lieut. 14 Jan. 1915, and Lieut. 1 Feb. 1915; went to the Front, 5 March following, and was killed in action in the trenches at St. Eloi by a German sniper, 22 June, 1915, being buried in a military cemetery near Dickebusch; unm. He had previously been wounded at Hooge, 24 May, and the Medical Officer in writing of this said: “Your son was slightly wounded on Whit Monday in a street which was heavily shelled by the enemy. About 40 officers and men were hit in a short time. Mr. Coker refused all attention until the others were seen to, helped to carry and dress them, and set a magnificent example to the rest of the wounded by his pluck and coolness. It hardly struck me at the time, it was so entirely what one would have expected of him. He was a fine type of officer and gentleman.” At Wellington Lieut. Coker was a college prefect, in the cricket eleven and a gymnasium officer, and was a Sergt. in the O.T.C., which rank he also held in the O.T.C. at Oxford. He played cricket, hockey and football for his college at the latter place, and was in the shooting team. He was a member of Vincents, Authentics and Cryptics. Had he lived one day longer he would have obtained his temporary captaincy. His commanding officer wrote of him: “We were very sorry to lose your son, who was always most gallant and very popular.”

COKER, HORACE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7715), S.S. 103095, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLBOURNE, EDWARD JAMES, Private, No. 12/1594, 16th Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Robert James Colbourne, of 7, Clarendon Crescent, Leamington Spa, by his wife, Emily Florence; b. 8 Jan. 1892; educ. at Stanley House, Margate, and Solihull Grammar School; went to New Zealand in Dec. 1911; enlisted in the 16th Auckland Infantry, Nov. 1914; left on 13 Feb. with the third reinforcements, and was killed in Gallipoli on 8 May, 1915; unm.

COLBOURNE, ERIC KRABBÉ, M.C., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Berkshire Regt., 3rd s. of Louis Colbourne, of Beckenham, Kent, M.D., by his wife, Henrietta Leonora, dau. of Charles Brehmer Krabbé; b. Buenos Ayres, 25 June, 1888; educ. Berkhamsted School; went to British Columbia in 1907 and settled in Victoria, but after the outbreak of war came home and was given a commission in the 3rd Berkshires, 19 Jan. 1915. He died at Choques, 27 June, 1915, of wounds received in action, and was buried in the military cemetery there. He was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 24 July, 1915] for “conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Cuinchy on the early morning of 22 June, 1915.” The Germans, following a gas attack, exploded a mine in front of one of our own in which was a Sergt. and about eight of our men, but owing to the gallant efforts of 2nd Lieut. Colbourne, another officer and a few men, who repeatedly went down among the fumes, all the men were rescued, although the rescuers suffered considerably. Lieut. Colbourne m. at Victoria, British Columbia, 31 Dec. 1912, Florence Marion, only dau. of George Gillespie, of Victoria, British Columbia; s.p.

COLE, ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2732), S.S. 58, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLE, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3834), 198991, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLE, FREDERICK GEORGE PARKER, E.R.A., 3rd Class, 272386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

COLE, FREDERICK THOMAS, Private, No. 61489, 3rd Battn. (Canterbury Infantry), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of Thomas Cole, of Butcombe Farm, Blagdon, Bristol, Farmer, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Benjamin Warford; b. Stock Farm, Langford, Bristol, co. Somerset, 29 Nov. 1881; educ. at Churchill Public School; was a farmer; left England for New Zealand, 25 April, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Nov. 1914; left for Egypt with the third reinforcements and was in action at Cape Helles and Anzac Cove from 12 May to 4 June, 1915. On the latter date he was one of a party of volunteers sent to clear and hold part of a Turkish trench at Quinn’s Post, and was among those killed in the attempt. He was unm.

COLE, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9802), 213861, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

COLE, GEORGE HENRY, Corpl., No. 8152, Signalling Section, 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest s. of Alma Cole, of Bramford Lane, Ipswich, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Joseph King; b. Sutton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 12 Sept. 1886; educ. Bramford Road Board School, Ipswich; enlisted 14 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 16 Feb. 1915; buried at R.E. Farm, Wulverghem; unm.

COLE, SIDNEY LIONEL FLINN, Assistant Paymaster, Royal Naval Reserve, only child of William George Cole, Chief Constructor (Royal Corps of Naval Constructors) H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, and late of H.M. Dockyard, Gibraltar, by his wife, Emma Elizabeth, dau. of John Robert Flinn; b. Sheerness, co. Kent, 14 July, 1888; and was educ. Portsmouth Grammar School, and Oliver’s Mile End House School, Portsmouth. He entered the services of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ltd., at Newton Abbot, Devon, in Feb. 1906, and afterwards served at Ashburton, Haslemere, and Andover, from whence, at the outbreak of war, he joined the Navy for the period of the war, 5 Nov. 1914. He first served on H.M.S. Duke of Albany, and afterwards in the mine-layer H.M.S. Princess Irene, and was lost when that ship was blown up in Sheerness Harbour, 27 May, 1915. With the exception of a stoker, every officer and man, to the number of 280, including 78 Dockyard workmen from Sheerness Dockyard, were lost. Cole was the only officer whose body was (9 June) recovered, and it was interred in the Isle of Sheppey Cemetery with Naval honours on 12 June, preparatory to which a short service was held in the Royal Dockyard Chapel at Sheerness, where 27 years before he had been christened. He was unm.