DELANEY, ERNEST, Corpl., No. 1414, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd s. of Christopher Delaney, Band Sergt., 1st Somerset L.I., by his wife, Annie, dau. of James Richard Weaver and Elizabeth (42, Penrose Street, North Road, Plymouth), his wife; b. Plymouth, 25 Oct. 1886; educ. St. James-the-Less Church School, Millbay there; was an engineer for tugboats, Queensbury, Scotland; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 26 May, 1915; unm.

DELÉPINE, HELENUS GEORGE SHERIDAN, M.Sc., 2nd Lieut., D Coy., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only s. of Sheridan Delépine, of York Place, Rusholme, Manchester, and 15, Well Walk, Hampstead, N.W., M.B., M.Sc., Professor of Public Health at Manchester University, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Frederic Rose; b. Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London, 21 Oct. 1888; educ. Woodlands School, Manchester, spent a year in Geneva studying languages, and entered the University of Manchester in 1907, where he was one of the ablest of an exceptionally capable set of men in the Honours School of Engineering and took a good place in the final examination. After graduating in 1910, he went to Canada in order to gain further experience, and for one session was a Demonstrator in Engineering at McGill University. During this time he undertook, under the direction of Prof. MacKay, an elaborate investigation into the stress distribution of a certain type of built-up column. In April, 1911, he accepted a post as Assistant Engineer in the office of Messrs. Waddell and Harrington, of Kansas City, and became Principal Assistant in the Estimating Department. In 1903 he returned to Manchester, having been appointed Junior Instructor in Drawing and Demonstrator in the Engineering Department of the University. Whilst here he assisted Prof. Petavel in some of the experimental work carried out for the Home Office Department Committee on the “Humidity and Ventilation of Spinning Sheds.” Some of the results of this work are embodied in the two papers he submitted in support of his application for the degree of M.Sc., which he obtained in 1914. During this period he received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the O.T.C., which he joined as a Private in 1908, while at Manchester University, and did much valuable work for the corps. Always keen on gaining more experience, he accepted in the summer of 1914 a post as Assistant Engineer in the airship department of Messrs. Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness. In Aug. of 1914 he was in camp with the O.T.C., and at the outbreak of war immediately volunteered for Active Service. For a time he was detained in Manchester assisting in the general training work of the corps, but while in camp at Mobberley he received his commission in the Special Reserve, was appointed to the 3rd Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., Sept. 1914, and went to Falmouth for training. In Jan. he was sent to Northern France, where he was mortally wounded in action, in trenches near Ypres, on 16 April, 1915; unm. “We had been in the trenches,” says Private C. Lonworth, his servant, in a letter, “just one day, and about a quarter to midnight on the 16th he was sitting in the trench filling his pipe and talking and he suddenly stood up, saying, ‘I’m hit.’ So we found out where he was hit and bandaged him up. They got him down to the hospital with as little delay as possible, and when the doctor saw him he said he didn’t think he would live long, so I stopped in a little room next to him all day. He seemed to brighten up about mid-day, but he went off again and died at 4.45 p.m. on the 17th.... He was a good officer to his men.... I have lost a good master, he was a thorough gentleman....” The Manchester University Magazine for 24 June, 1915, affirmed of him: “As an officer his officer commanding found him ‘excellent, cheerful and full of go and life.’ He was very keen on his work, took an intense interest in his platoon, was very patient with recruits and ever ready to be of service to any who sought his help. In his profession he had already done good work in both academic and practical spheres. He was a hard and conscientious worker, keenly appreciative of new ideas in design and organisation, and would without doubt have attained to a considerable position in engineering.” Brig.-Gen. J. S. Maude, commanding 14th Infantry Brigade, wrote to his father: “Your son had done such splendid work with his fine regt., and it does seem sad that such a promising career should have been so all too soon cut short.... He set a fine example of courage and devotion to duty to those serving under him.”

DELLER, HARRY GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1854), 192696, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

DELMEGE, CLAUDE PHILIPPE, Midshipman, R.N. 3rd and yst. s. of Alfred Gideon Delmege. M.V.O, Hon. Surgeon to His Majesty the King, Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, R.N., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth. dau. of the Right Hon James Anthony Lawson, Judge of the High Court; b. Southsea, 15 March, 1898, entered the Navy as a cadet at Osborne in Jan. 1911, became Midshipman August, 1914, was appointed to His Majesty’s ship Cressy the same month: and was lost in the North Sea 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed by a German submarine.

DELMEGE, JAMES O’GRADY, Lieut., 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 2nd s. of Capt. James O’Grady Delmege, of Castle Park, co. Limerick, J.P., D.L., late South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry and South Irish Horse, by his wife, Caroline, dau. and co-heir of Marmaduke Coghill Cramer, of Rathmore, Kinsale, D.L.; b. Limerick, 18 March, 1891; educ. Clifton, Bath College (where he took, when 14 years of age, 60l. and 40l. Scholarships, open to all schools), and Trinity College, Dublin; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Dragoon Guards, 23 Jan. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following. After the outbreak of war he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and was appointed Assistant Adjutant, and put on the Headquarters Staff. On 24 May, 1915, the 4th Dragoon Guards, after a long spell in the trenches, were relieved by the 18th Hussars, but Lieut. Delmege was left behind to instruct the 18th in the plan of the trenches. During the night and early morning they were heavily gassed by the enemy, and he succumbed to gas poison, on 27 May, 1915. He was buried at Bailleul; unm. Numerous letters received from all ranks testify to the estimation he was held in. Major C. Hunter wrote: “I personally had a high opinion of his prospects as a cavalry officer”; and Lieut. E. G. Warlock, 4th Dragoon Guards: “He has left behind him a splendid name, being so popular with all who knew him, not only officers, but N.C.Os. and men. He was an officer of great promise, and had it not been for his untimely death ‘In Action,’ would have had an illustrious future.” Sergt. W. Jones, 4th Dragoon Guards, also wrote: “Lieut. Delmege was picked up unconscious. I was very sorry to hear of his death, as he was a brave young officer, so cheerful and patient with all ranks, and I know he will be missed by all, especially our Rugby team as he was a fine sportsman, and took a great interest in his troop, and we were very sorry when he was transferred from his troop to Head Quarters.” Lieut. C. Jackson, York and Lancaster Regt.: “The last time I saw him, he was going on in front with a patrol to find out where their place in trenches was, in order to lead the regt. up after dark, he was in such good spirits, and I am sure enjoyed every minute of the war”; and Capt. R. D). Brownson, R.A.M.C.: “Being in hospital with some of the regt., I thought you would like to hear what a very high opinion they all seem to have had of him. He was so popular, and such a good officer, in fact he was kept specially to go up into any special trench or take any special message, because he could always be trusted to get there, ‘Somehow.’”

DENHAM, FRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15731 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DENHAM, WILLIAM, Petty Officer, R.N., 1st s. of William Denham, of 2, Paradise Place, Stockton-on-Tees, by his wife, Jane A., dau. of Henry Lambert; b. Stockton-on-Tees, 10 Oct. 1886; educ. Secondary School there; joined the Navy in 1903, and served in both the Home and Mediterranean Fleets, receiving while with the latter the Messina medal from the King of Italy, for services rendered during the earthquake there. He passed his qualifying examination for Warrant Officer 30 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action, going down with H.M.S. Formidable, when that ship was sunk by a German submarine, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

DENISON, BERTRAM NOEL, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, yr. s. of Admiral John Denison, of Rusholme, Alverstoke, R.N. by his wife, Florence, dau. of William Ledgard, of Roundham, Yorkshire, and nephew of Col. George Taylor Denison, of Toronto, author of “Modern Cavalry”; b. Greenock, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Eagle House, Sandhurst and Harrow; and entered the Navy in Dec. 1898, passing at the head of the list in and out of H.M.S. Britannia. He served as a midshipman on H.M.S. Doris during the South African War, 1900, and was aide-de-camp to Capt. Bearcroft, R.N., with the Naval Brigade. He took part in the operations in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, including action at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 12 March, 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with 3 clasps. Later he was transferred to the Army, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. Yorkshire Light Infantry, 8 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut., 15 Nov. 1905, and Capt., 5 Aug. 1914. He served in Ireland, South Africa, and Crete; and was seconded for services in Canada, from 1906 to 1908, and on his return became Adjutant to the 2nd Battn. K.O.Y.L.I. In 1912 he went to the Staff College, which he left in December 1913, receiving a Staff Appointment at the War Office shortly before the European War broke out. He immediately rejoined his regiment, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was dangerously wounded in action at Le Cateau on 26 Aug. 1914, and died there of his wounds 15 Sept. following. He was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Denison m. at St. James’s Cathedral, Toronto, 2 Oct. 1907, Gladys, dau. of Albert Nordheimer, of Toronto, and had a dau. (Gladys Audrey) Yvonne, b. 12 Dec. 1908.

DENMAN, CLARENCE BENJAMIN, Private, No. 25944, C Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th s. of Walter Frederick Denman, of 2321, Hutchinson Street, Montreal, Canada [b. London, 5 Jan. 1857, 3rd s. of the late William Henry Denman, Chaser and Embosser, who went to Canada in 1859], by his wife, Amelia Mary, dau. of Christopher Fryer; b. Outremont, Montreal, 18 Jan. 1893; educ. Outremont Lower Grade School and St. François College, Quebec; was a clerk in Electrical Supplies Store, Richmond; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France 12 Feb., and died in the Military Cottage Hospital, Holmsfirth, near Huddersfield, 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Langemark on 27 April; unm. He was buried in St. John’s Churchyard there.

DENNIS, CLARENCE FRANCIS VICTOR, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115546, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

DENNIS, EDWARD HENRY, A.B. (B. 305), 148120, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

DENNIS, RICHARD HENRY, Senior L.-Corpl., No. 6675, C Coy., 1st Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard Henry Dennis, of Barnfield Place, Plumstead, near London, by his wife, Mary; b. Bexley Heath, co. Kent, 29 July, 1871; educ. All Saints’ Church School, Plumstead; went to Canada, 28 July, 1907; was for a number of years an employee of the Pere Marquette Railroad; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 12 March, 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915. He m. at Woolwich Church, 26 March, 1892, Margaret (117, Wellington Street E., Chatham, Ontario, Canada), dau. of John William Hazlett (a Crimean veteran), and had three sons: Richard Henry, Junior, L.-Corpl. 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, b. Plumstead, 29 March, 1893, now (1916) on active service in France; John William, Private, 186th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, b. Plumstead, 21 March, 1898; and George Arthur, b. Plumstead, 23 Feb. 1903.

DENNIS, RUSSELL, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14052, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DENNY, BARRY MAYNARD RYND, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd surviving s. of the Rev. Edward Denny, of Moorstown, co. Tipperary, and Drumlone, co. Fermanagh, M.A., Rector of Codford St. Peter’s, Bath, formerly Vicar of St. Peter’s, Vauxhall, and Member of the L.C.C. [gt.-gt.-gdson. of Col. Edward Denny, M.P., yr. brother of Sir Barry Denny, of Tralee, 1st Bart.], by his wife, Alma Mary, dau. of Charles John Chesshyre, of Bennington, co. Gloucester; b. at Pontrewydd, co. Monmouth, 2 Jan. 1885; educ. King’s College, Taunton, and London University, where he graduated B.A. in 1909. He took a leading part as an officer in Worksop College Cadet Corps, and trained for a commission in the Army Special Reserve at York in 1913 and at Aldershot, obtaining the highest place in the respective examinations. Gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the King’s (Liverpool) Regt. (Special Reserve), 4 April, 1914, he was shortly afterwards given the command of a fort at Crosby, in the north of England. Subsequently he went to the Front in command of a hundred men, being specially selected for the post, and was mortally wounded near Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914, and died two days later. The following account of the action is taken from information given by officers and men of his regt.: The Liverpools were required to take a village occupied by the enemy, between Ypres and Roulers. Advancing to the attack they found that all the houses were filled with Germans, who greeted them with a devastating fire. After four days’ fighting the position was taken, but at a terrible sacrifice of life. Of the officers, five, including the Col., were killed, and six wounded, only a Capt. and a subaltern being left. Lieut. Denny ‘gallantly led a charge not only once, but a second time against some houses strongly held by the enemy,’ and fell mortally wounded in the second charge, with his last words urging on his men. His three brothers, Edward Maynard Coningsby Denny, 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I.; Mowbray Charles Maynard Denny, Lieut., 11th King’s Liverpool Regt.; and Michael Maynard Denny, Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, are all (1916) on active service.

DENNY, ROBERT EDMUND BARRY, Private, No. 28612, 50th Gordon Highlanders, 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Edmund Barry Denny, of Barkwith House, co. Lincoln, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.E., by his wife, Emily Barclay, dau. of Henry Colclough Allen, and gdson. of the late Rev. Henry Denny, of Churchill Rectory, Tralee, B.A. [3rd son of Sir Edward Denny, of Tralee, 3rd Bart., M.P.]; b. Wragby, co. Lincoln, 19 March, 1891; educ. Sutton Valence School, Kent; after which he was a medical student for some time at the London Hospital, but went out to British Columbia in May, 1913. There he enlisted, with a brother, immediately on the outbreak of war, coming to England with the first Canadian Contingent. Both were offered commissions in Dec. 1914; his brother accepted, but he declined. He left for France with his regt. in Feb. 1915, came safely through the famous charge for the wood near St. Julien, but was seriously wounded by a shell, while on observing patrol, at Festubert, and died in hospital at Bethune, 22 May, 1915, having been recommended for a commission a few days previously. He was buried in Bethune R.C. Cemetery; unm. One comrade wrote of him: “He was one of the most courageous of comrades and I have seen him perform several deeds worthy of recognition”; and another: “He was wounded doing his duty as a soldier should, and evidences of his coolness and bravery under heavy fire were numerous. I once assisted him (at great personal risk to himself but very little to me) to bandage a wounded comrade. The King has lost a good soldier, and we a good pal.” Two of his brothers—Henry Allen Maynard Denny, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Lincs. Regt. (previously 50th Gordon Highlanders, Canadian Scottish), and Thomas Hamilton Denny, Lieut., 6th Devon Regt.—are now (1916) on active service, and the third, Arthur de Courcy McGillycuddy Denny, is at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

DENTON, MARK, Private, No. 13262, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Denton, of Victoria Street, Moor Top, Ackworth, near Pontefract, by his wife, Jane; b. Higham, near Barnsley; educ. Moor Top; enlisted 21 Oct. 1914, and was killed at Vermelles, Flanders, 19 Oct. 1915, while on sentry duty. He m. at High Ackworth, 25 Dec. 1913, Martha (2, Leight Street, Moor Top, Ackworth, Yorks), dau. of William Reeve, of Leight Street, Ackworth, and had a son, Frank. b. 9 June, 1914.

DENYER, CHARLES PETER, C.P.O. 186636, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

DERING, FREDERICK CHARLES, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DERISLEY, FRANK MARTIN, L.-Corpl., No. 73211, C Coy., 28th Battn. (2nd Canadian Rifles), 6th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Harry Derisley of Old Buckenham, Norfolk, Farmer, by his wife, Julia Jane, dau. of William Fincham; b. East Farm, Docking, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, 12 Jan. 1886; educ. National School, Palgrave, Diss; went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled in Rouleau, Sask.; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Moose Jaw, Sask., in Oct. 1914, and died 6 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm. His company officer, Capt. F. G. D. Quick, wrote “he died of wounds on 6 Nov. 1915. Corpl. Derisley was severely wounded at noon on the 5th, being struck in the head by a bullet. He was taken to hospital and died at 1.30 a.m. next morning without regaining consciousness. He was buried on 8 Nov. in the Cemetery at Bailleul, Belgium. Corpl. Derisley enlisted at Moose Jaw in Oct. 1914, and has been in my company ever since. His loss is felt keenly by myself and all the other officers, N.C.Os. and men in the company, in which he was a general favourite. He was an excellent soldier, and was held in the highest esteem by all his comrades.”

DERISLEY, HERBERT, L.-Corpl., Middlesex Regt., s. of Harry Derisley, of Old Buckenham, Attleborough, Norfolk, by his wife, Julia Jane, dau. of William Fincham, Farmer; b. Valley Farm, Hillington, King’s Lynn, 23 Jan. 1884; educ. Palgrave, Diss and Eye Grammar School, Suffolk; was a Draper; volunteered and joined the Middlesex Regt., Jan. 1915; went to France Oct. 1915, and was killed in action 1 June, 1916; unm. Buried in the Military Cemetery,... His brother, L.-Corpl. R. M. Derisley, died of wounds, 5 Nov. 1915.

DERRICK, TOM, Private, No. 2044, 2nd Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., 4th s. of Joseph Derrick, of Curry Mallett, Taunton, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Edwardes; b. North Curry, near Taunton, co. Somerset, 12 Feb. 1857; educ. Hatch; joined the Navy, 30 Oct. 1875; invalided out 3 Sept. 1880; then worked as a Cab Proprietor, enlisted 3 Dec. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed on the railway near Chatham, 30 June, 1915, while on sentry duty. He m. at Plymouth, 30 July, 1876, Louisa E. (5, Gloucester Place, Plymouth), dau. of Edward Lawrence, of Plymouth, Dockyard Pensioner, and had three children: Thomas Herbert Hartman, b. 5 May, 1880; James Henry, b. 30 Nov. 1885; and Mabel Ellen, b. 29 Dec. 1886.

DESMEULES, JOSEPH EDGAR, Private No. 32/792, 1st Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Nazair Desmeules, of Chambord Lake, St. Johns, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Eleanore; b. St. Irene, P.O., 8 Oct. 1890; educ. Chambord Lake; volunteered for service overseas, on the outbreak of war; came over with the first Canadian Contingent; went to France in Feb., and died, 28 April, 1915, of wounds received in action at Langemarck; unm.

des VŒUX, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yst. s. of the late Sir G. William des Vœux, G.C.M.G., by his wife, Marion Denison, yst. dau. of Sir John Pender. G.C.M.G., and nephew of the late Sir Charles Champagné des Vœux, 6th Bart.; b. at Government House, Hong Kong, China, 29 Nov. 1889; entered the Navy, 1905, as a cadet on H.M.S. Britannia, but owing to ill-health, left that Service in 1909, his admiral (Lord Charles Beresford) expressing his regret in writing, and saying “he felt sure, if he had remained in the Service, he would have made a very brilliant officer.” He joined the 3rd Battn. Grenadier Guards, as 2nd Lieut. from the special reserve, 28 May, 1910, and was promoted Lieut., 25 Oct. 1911. He served with the 2nd Battn. of his regt. through the retreat from Mons, and at the Battle of the Marne in France, being killed in action at La Court Soupir Farm, near Vailly on the Aisne River, 14 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried in Soupir Churchyard.

DETTNER, WALTER JOSEPH, Private, No. 2657, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles), London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Charles Ephraim Dettner, of 22, Glasgow Terrace, Pimlico, S.W., Coachman, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Charles King; b. Westminster, 6 May, 1896; educ. St. Mary’s School, Vincent Square, London; volunteered and joined the Irish Rifles, 6 Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 17 May, 1915, being buried close to the front line of trenches in Bethune Wood; unm.

DEVANNEY, WILLIAM GEORGE, Rifleman, No. 1688, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Simon Devanney, of 22, Essex Street, Kingsland Road, E., Market Porter, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Thomas O’Shea; b. Shoreditch, 24 Feb. 1898; educ. St. Monica’s R.C. School, Hoxton Square, W.; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles about Sept. 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to the front in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Loos, 26 Oct. 1915. A companion wrote that he and the officer whose servant he was, went to the rescue of some men who had been buried by the explosion of a shell, and while they were digging them out another shell came and blew the two to pieces.

DEVEREUX, CHARLES EMILE, Private, No. 2359, Machine Gun Section, 1/5th Battn. The Manchester Regt., 2nd s. of Patrick James Devereux, Accountant, Great Western Railway, Cardiff, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Morgan, of Gower; b. Cardiff, 20 Feb. 1894; educ. Roath Park Board School there, and prior to the outbreak of war was employed as Machine Attendant, Semet Solvay Coke Ovens, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. He joined the 5th Manchesters in Sept. 1914, and after training in Egypt, went with his battn. to the Dardanelles, and was killed instantaneously in action there, 1 June, 1915; unm. Writing to his sister, Mrs. McQuillan, of Pemberton, Private William Rowland, A Coy., said: “On Monday night last, 31 May, I, along with several comrades belonging to A Coy., 1/5th Manchesters, were ordered to dig ourselves in at a certain distance. This we did, and whilst we were digging ourselves in two gun sections belonging to our battn. advanced, and with one of these sections came your brother, Private C. Devereux. He took up a position four or five yards away from myself and commenced digging in. He had been thus engaged about two hours, and was getting nicely covered in, when, whilst on his knees, and apparently in the attitude of reaching something, a bullet from a Turkish rifle entered his body near the heart and emerged beneath his right armpit.” He was buried close to where he fell, and a small wooden cross with his name was erected by his comrades.

DEVONSHIRE, ALFRED JOHN, Painter, 1st Class, 341934, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DE VOY, JAMES WILSON, E.R.A., 1st Class, R.N.R., 249EB, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; m.

DEWAR, THOMAS CLARK, Private, No. 20295, C Coy., 3rd, attd. 12th, Battn. Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Alexander Dewar, of 41, Naysmith Place, Kelty, Fife, Colliery Worker, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of the late Thomas Clark; b. Kelty, co. Fife, 9 May, 1895; educ. Public School there; was a coal miner; enlisted 21 Jan. 1915; trained four months at Weymouth and four months at Edinburgh; was selected as a signaller; went to France, 10 Oct., and was killed in action there, 19 Dec. 1915; unm. His company officer, Capt. W. Skinner, wrote: “Last Sunday morning, about 5.45 a.m., we were submitted to a severe shelling, concurrently with a gas attack delivered on our left. Private Dewar and another man were standing speaking to one of my officers. A shell burst amongst them, and Private Dewar and the other men were killed, the officer having his right arm blown off. I regret the casualty very much, as Private Dewar was a most promising man and one who gave no trouble, and was of exemplary conduct.”

DEWEY, NOBLE, Corpl., No. 1357, 1st Battn. Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.) 5th s. of the late Thomas Henry Dewey, of Chesterton, co. Cambs., by his wife, Elizabeth (6, Serle Street, Chesterton), dau. of William Rayner, of Old Chesterton; b. Cambridge, 28 Sept. 1885; educ. St. Luke’s School, Chesterton; joined the 1st Cambridge Territorials in Jan. 1912; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war, went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action 4 March, 1915. He was shot by a sniper, and died about 5.30 a.m. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. C. E. F. Copeman, in a letter to “The Cambridge Chronicle,” said: “Corpl. Dewey was shot through the lungs as he was getting into a trench, and died a few hours afterwards. He was most plucky and never once complained, his only regret being that he could not get at the Germans”; and in a letter to Mrs. Dewey he wrote: “His platoon commander tells me he was the best N.C.O. that he had, and I know that he was one of the most useful men in the Battn.” He was buried in the churchyard at Dickebushe. Corpl. Dewey was a well-known Cambridge athlete, a member of the Town and County Cycling Club, and earned a great reputation as a trainer.

DE WINTON, WALTER, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder s. of Major Walter de Winton, of Maesllwch Castle, co. Radnor, J.P., D.A.A.G. to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915, formerly (1882–92) Lieut. 1st Life Guards, by his wife, Hylda Therise Jane, 2nd dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Marshall, K.C.M.G.; b. London, 22 Feb. 1893; educ. Wixenford School, Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd. Lieut. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5 Feb. 1913; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Marne, 6 Sept. 1914. He was buried in the garden of Monsieur Muraband, at La Fortelle, Rosoyen Brie, Seine et Marne; unm.

DEXTER, GEORGE HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, 309475, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

DIBSDALL, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., 13195 (R.F.R., B. 1421), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. m.

DICK, SAMUEL THOMAS, P.O., 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 1680), 122365, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DICKENSON, LAURENCE AUBREY FIENNES WINGFIELD, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., attached 1st Royal Irish Rifles, only s. of the Rev. Francis Wingfield Dickenson, Rector of Inworth, Kelvedon, Essex, by his wife, Florence A., dau. of the late Rev. Henry Battiscombe, M.A., and gdson. of the late Frederic Boughton Newton Dickenson, of Siston Court, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L.; b. Inworth Rectory, 1 Feb. 1894; educ. Forest School, Walthamstow, and Selwyn College, Cambridge; obtained his commission through the O.T.C. 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 19 March, 1915, and died in No. 6 Casualty Station, 10 May, 1915, of wounds received at the Battle of Ypres, 9 May, 1915; unm.

DICKESON, HENRY EDMUND, Rifleman, No. 3143, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Robert Walter Dickeson, of 41, Hardinge Street, Stepney, employee at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, W., by his wife, Esther, dau. of John Thomas Maloney; b. Stepney, 30 May, 1893; educ. Cable Street Secondary L.C.S. School; was a clerk in the employ of the Apollinaris Co., Ltd., and joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914. He went through his training at the White City, Hatfield and St. Albans, left for France on 10 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. A comrade (Rifleman P. W. Everett) wrote that he was killed by a shell from a trench mortar, and that he had buried him on the 26th, an officer of the 23rd Regt. reading the burial service. He had volunteered with Everett for a dangerous piece of work, and was killed while carrying it out.

DICKEY, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8572), S.S. 104940, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

DICKINSON, RONALD FRANCIS BICKERSTETH, Capt., 10th Battn. (The Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Dickinson, of Red How, Cumberland, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Mary Florence, dau. of Edward Robert Bickersteth, of Liverpool, F.R.C.S.; b. 23, Abercromby Square, Liverpool, 19 Jan. 1888; educ. Rugby, and was admitted a Solicitor in 1910, and at the time of his death was a manager with Messrs. Hill, Dickinson & Co., of Liverpool. When the war broke out and his battn. was mobilised, he with the rest of his battn. volunteered for foreign service, and they went to the Front on 1 Nov. 1914. He was continuously engaged in the trenches and trench fighting from then until his death, which took place after the capture of four German trenches at Hooge on 16 June, 1915. Owing to reinforcements not coming up in time, his men were eventually partially driven back by the German counter attack, and he was left lying wounded in six places in the fourth German trench. It was believed that he died shortly after capture by the Germans. Eventually the first German line of trenches and part of the second were held, but only two officers and about 120 men of the battn. answered the roll call when they were relieved at night. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. His Col. wrote: “He was absolutely lion-hearted, and I think all will agree that he was pre-eminent in a battn. which I am proud to say numbers many brave men in its ranks. It was my duty on many occasions during the winter months to tramp round the front line trenches at night, and invariably Ronald was to be found wherever a dirty or dangerous job had to be done.” One of his men wrote: “As brave a man as ever held charge. The company idolised him; wherever there was danger he was there.” Another: “We absolutely adored him. He was a leader worth following.” Another said: “Time and again when any of his men were lying wounded outside the trench, he ordered his men to keep under cover while he himself ran the greatest risk in bringing the wounded in. If anyone deserved the V.C. it was Capt. Ronald Dickinson; he had won it over and over again. He was a little god to his men.”

DICKSON, GEORGE, Private, No. 11295, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 24 Nov. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action at Kemmel on or about that date.

DICKSON, GEORGE, Private, No. 3405, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. co. Perth; enlisted 9 May, 1900; served in South African War (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914; killed in action, 18 Nov. 1914. He m. at Edinburgh, 21 May, 1907, Emma (48, Dundee Street, Edinburgh), dau. of (—) Johnson, and had two children: William George, b. 5 April, 1908; and Mary Gerrand, b. 30 Oct. 1909.

DICKSON, GEORGE AITKEN, Private, No. 11295, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of the late William Dickson, Carter, by his wife, Christina (13, Melburne Place, North Berwick), dau. of George Aitken; b. North Berwick, 11 March, 1895; educ. Public School there; enlisted 6 Nov. 1912, and is supposed to have been killed in action during the retreat from Mons. Official letters give the date as 24 Nov. 1914, though a private communication says he was killed on 26 Aug. 1914.

DICKSON, JAMES, Private, No. 2700, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 20 July, 1915.

DICKSON, JAMES STRUTHERS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6192), 185733, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

DICKSON, JOHN, Private, No. 6283, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Musselburgh, co. Midlothian; enlisted 29 Dec. 1905, aged 18; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 11 Nov. 1914; m. at Edinburgh, 14 April, 1911, Mary Ann (16, Sandfont Street, Leith), dau. of (—) Brown.

DICKSON, THOMAS, Driver, No. 86791, 18th Battery, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of Richard Dickson; b. Upper Ballinderry, co. Antrim, 26 April, 1881; educ. Village School there; served with the 83rd Battery, R.F.A., in the South African War, was invalided home after one year and ten months’ service, but later went out again and served till 31 May, 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; obtained his discharge and went to Canada; acted as a Recruiting Sergt. from the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 to 12 May, 1915, when he joined for service overseas; came over with reinforcements and died while on service in England, 13 Oct. 1915. Buried in the Military Cemetery, Shorncliffe. He m. at Ballinderry Parish Church, 25 Dec. 1901, Lillee (Rayanton P.O., Manitoba, Canada), dau. of Robert Cairns, late Colour-Sergt., York and Lancaster Regt. (served in Egyptian War), and had seven children: Alfred W., b. 3 Sept. 1903; Robert C., b. 7 Aug. 1905; Lewis Meighin, b. 16 Sept. 1911; Terance Richard, b. 6 March, 1913; Thomas, b. 18 Aug. 1914; Kathleen M. E., b. 21 Sept. 1906; and Beatrice McKeown, b. 9 March, 1908.

DIEHL, RALPH, Bombardier, No. 2/1613, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd but elder surv. s. of the late Gustav Diehl, of Wellington, by his wife, Anna Jane (7, Elizabeth Street, Wellington, New Zealand), dau. of the late John Mitchell; b. Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 July, 1892; educ. Wellington; was a Clerk and Bookkeeper; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, April, 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements, 13 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 21 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there 23 Oct. 1915; unm.

DIGBY, JOHN KENELM, B.A., 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. Norfolk Regt., elder s. of Algernon Digby, of Highfield, Fakenham, Norfolk, M.A., Solicitor [nephew of Edward St. Vincent, 9th Lord Digby], by his wife, Richenda Catharine, eldest dau. of the late Capt. Philip Hamond, 34th Regt.; b. Fakenham, co. Norfolk, 21 Nov. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, and after taking his degree there, joined the lay staff of the Mission at Edmonton, Alberta, under the Archbishop’s Western Canada Scheme, and worked there for a year and a half until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914. He then volunteered and enlisted as a private in the 9th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept., being afterwards promoted L.-Corpl. He came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct., and trained with them on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15, and on 20 Feb. 1915, was given a commission in the 7th Norfolks. He went to the Front, May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ploegsteart, Flanders, 4–5 Aug. 1915; unm.

DIGGLE, JOHN HAROLD, Private, No. 2510, 6th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Edward Diggle, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 10 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Margaret’s Higher Grade School, Anfield; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 March, 1915; buried, Zillebeke.

DILKE, HUGH STANLEY, L.-Corpl., No. 2107, Polytechnic Coy., 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th and yst. s. of Charles Wentworth Dilke, of Park Avenue North, Hornsey, N., co. Middlesex [a cadet of Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, co. Warwick], by his wife, Ellen, dau. of William Smith, of Cheddleton, co. Stafford; b. 7, Vincent Road, London, N., 2 Dec. 1889; educ. North Harringay School, London; and prior to the outbreak of war he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Napier Motors, Ltd., Acton Vale, W. He had joined the Rangers in 1908, but had retired in 1913, having completed his term of five years, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, immediately rejoined and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France 25 Dec. 1914, and after five weeks’ training at St. Omer went into the trenches at Ypres. He was wounded in the left foot while on patrol duty at Zillebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “Bob went up again to the trenches, and was unlucky enough to get hit very slightly. We were happily able to tie him up on the spot, and take him to the nearest hospital. He called out to us quite cheerily as he passed us in an ambulance waggon.” After three operations in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, he was sent home, and died in Queen Mary’s Hospital, Southend, 21 March, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He was always so cheery, and did his work so well that we miss him sorely. He did his duty nobly.” He was unm., and was buried in the Sutton Road Cemetery at Southend with full military honours on 24 March.

DILKES, SAMUEL RICHARD, Private, No. 5298, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Dilkes, of Rose Cottage, South Croxton, near Leicester, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of Richard Clarke, of Great Dalby, Melton Mowbray; b. Barsby, near Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, 9 March, 1885: educ. Gaddesby, near Leicester; enlisted 28 Dec. 1903; served in Egypt, 9 March, 1906, to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 25 Aug. to 14 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date, at the Battle of the Aisne; unm.

DILLON, LESLIE FRANK, Private, No. 1330, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of John Dillon, of Constantia, Houghton, formerly of Millbrook; b. 1894; went to Australia; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war, left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles; was at first reported missing, but later information showed that he was killed on active service.

DIMMOCK, CHARLES, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 192556, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

DING, DOUGLAS GEORGE, L.-Corpl. No. 12435, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of William Ding, of Sutterton, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Bull; b. Kenure Park, Rush, co. Dublin, 27 Feb. 1892; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to France in a draft in Feb., and was killed in action during the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915, while making a reconnaissance with two men in front of the Guards position near the Chalk Pit, north of Loos; unm. An officer wrote: “The late Capt. of this coy. was very sorry to lose such a valuable man as Corpl. Ding, who was a very good and brave man.”

DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 533, B Coy., 19th Battn., 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, dau. of the late William Turnbull Dobson; b. Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ. Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his battn. in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; unm. Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.

DIPPER, ARTHUR WILLIAM, Private, No. 5550, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Frank Dipper, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stockman, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Edward Turrall, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore; b. Stretton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby, 24 Nov. 1884; educ. there; enlisted 6 May, 1904, and after serving seven years passed into the Reserve. On mobilisation he rejoined, left England with his regiment early in Aug., and served through the retreat from Mons and the various subsequent engagements on the Aisne and Marne. On 2 Nov. he had a narrow escape, a bullet going through his coat, and after striking a tin he was carrying in his breast pocket, passed along his chest, and came out the other side of his coat. He was wounded in the foot on 2 Dec., and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 28 Feb. 1915, by the explosion of two shells close to his head. His brother, Private George Dipper, was standing by his side at the time, but escaped with a few scratches. He was buried at Cuinchy, near La Bassée. He m. at Coventry, 20 July, 1911, Annie, dau. of George Wall, of West Bromwich, co. Stafford, and had a son, George, b. 5 Nov. 1913.