GEARD, FREDERICK JOHN PARSONS, Corpl., No. 47, Royal Flying Corps, 2nd s. of John Geard, of 45, Lascelles Road, Maxton, Dover, Stone Mason, by his wife, Amelia Emily, dau. of the late William Parsons, of Chislehurst, Kent; b. Mottingham, near Eltham, Kent, 1 Sept. 1892; educ. Herne Bay; enlisted in the Royal Engineers at Woolwich, 1 Sept. 1910, and after going through a course of training at Chatham was, in Jan. 1911, posted to the Balloon Section, R.E. at Aldershot. He then belonged to No. 1 Aeroplane Section (R.E.); was appointed Airman Rigger in Sept. 1911, and the following year transferred to the R.F.C. He was killed, while on active service, in an aeroplane accident at Peronne, France, 18 Aug. 1914; unm.

GEARING, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, 312042, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GEDDES, AUGUSTUS DAVID, Col., 2nd Battn. (The Buffs) East Kent Regt., 3rd s. of Col. John Geddes, of 4, Suffolk Square, Cheltenham, late 44th and 76th Regts., by his wife, Madeline Mary, dau. of John Augustus Hessing; b. Dover, 6 June, 1866; educ. Cheltenham College, and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 2nd East Kent Regt. 5 Feb. 1887, promoted Lieut. 21 Nov. 1889, Capt. 25 Oct. 1895, Major, 4 April, 1903, Lieut.-Col. 7 Feb. 1911, and Col. 7 Feb. 1915, with Seniority from 15 June, 1914; was Adjutant, 16 Feb. 1898 to 8 April, 1900. He passed through the Staff College 1902 to Dec. 1903; served in the South African War, 1899–1901; was present at the actions of Klip Drift, and Paardeberg (27 Feb. 1900), where he was severely wounded, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. On his recovery he was Staff Officer to the base Commandant (graded D.A.A.G.) in South Africa, 9 April, 1900, to 5 Jan. 1902, and Staff-Captain, Intelligence Department at the War Office, 21 Jan. 1904 to 31 Jan. 1908, and General Staff Officer, 2nd Grade, 1 Oct. 1908 to 6 Feb. 1910. He had also passed as Interpreter in Russian. After the outbreak of the European War, he was in command of the 2nd Buffs, and went to the Front, 17 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 28 April, 1915, while in command of 4 composite battns. at St. Jean. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir (now Lord) John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He obtained a Junior Classical Scholarship at Cheltenham College, and a Senior in 1882, a Silver Medal for Classics and the Jex Blake prize for English Literature, and was Cox of his College Boat, 1881–83. He m. at All Saints’ Church, Dearne, co. Hants. 3 March, 1908, Vera Colville (residing at Oakley Hall), dau. of William Oswald Gilchrist, of Oakley Hall, Basingstoke: s.p. His two brothers, Brigadier-General John Gordon Geddes, C.B., R.A., and Lieut.-Col. George Hessing Geddes, C.B., R.A., are both (1916) on active service.

GEDDES, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10500), 209339, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GEE, FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 838, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Charles Frederick Gee, of Mill House, Whitfield, Dover; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

GEE, ROBERT FRANCIS McLEAN, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attached 1st, Battn. Wiltshire Regt. (The Duke of Edinburgh’s), eldest s. of George Francis Gee, of Wellington, New Zealand, and of Te Whare, St. John’s Road, Eastbourne, by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of the late Hon. George Buckley, of Christchurch, New Zealand; granddau. of Capt. William Henry Buckley, 82nd Regt., and great-granddau. of Capt. William Buckley, Royal Scots Regt., who was killed at Quatre Bras; b. Wellington, New Zealand, 29 April, 1894; educ. at Wellington, New Zealand, and Eastbourne College, and had entered at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was in the Eastbourne College O.T.C., and having volunteered his services at the outbreak of the war, was given a commission in the 3rd Wiltshire Regt., 15 Aug. 1914. He joined on 3 Sept. 1914, and after four weeks’ training at Weymouth, was transferred to the 1st Battn. and went to France. He received his fatal wound—a sniper’s bullet in the head—a few days after his arrival at the firing line, during an attempt to capture the village of Ilies, and died at Netley Hospital, 27 Oct. 1914, being buried in Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne; unm. His younger brother, Alan, is a Lieut. in the R.H.A.

GENERY, HUGH THOMAS WATSON, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7382), S.S. 102512, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GENT, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3823), S.S. 101485, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GEORGE, ALEC, Private, No. 21145, 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of John George, of Granite House, Eversfield Place, St. Leonards-on-Sea, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Thomas Allen; b. Narborough, near Leicester, 3 Feb. 1893; educ. The Wyggeston School, Leicester; and became a Sanitary Engineer. He left for Canada 19 March, 1914, and settled at Winnipeg, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, immediately volunteered and joined the Expeditionary Force. After going through a course of training at Valcartier, he came over with the first Canadian Contingent on 15 Oct., went to the western front 27 April, and died 8 June, 1915, from wounds received in action on 6 June, 1915. He was buried at Lillers; unm. At Wyggeston, George was in the cricket XI and football XV, and afterward played both for Hendon and Golders Green, He won several medals for boxing, including one at the St. Pancras Boxing Club and one at Lark Hill—Canadians v. A.S.C.

GEORGE, BERTIE AARON, Seaman, R.N.R., 2779C, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GEORGE, ERNEST FREDERICK, Corpl., No. 51, A Coy. 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles), 2nd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder s. of Arthur Atherton George, of Leverington, near Wisbech, by his wife, Sarah, sister of Capt. Thomas Elson-Ivey, 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I. (taken prisoner at Kut), and dau. of Samuel Ivey, of Bristol; b. Leverington, co. Cambridge, 23 Sept. 1889; educ. Church School, Wisbech; was employed for five years with Messrs. Dawbarn & Sons, Wisbech; went to Winnipeg, Canada, in April, 1912, and worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the 1st Contingent in Nov. 1914; trained at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, and Salisbury; went to France, 8 Feb. 1915, and was reported missing after the heavy fighting at Ypres, 22–24 April, 1915. On this occasion the 8th Battn. commanded by Lieut.-Col. Lipsett held the extreme left of the Brigade position at the most critical moment. The Battn. was expelled from the trenches early on Friday morning (23 April) by an emission of poisonous gas, but recovering in three-quarters of an hour, it counter-attacked, re-took the trenches it had abandoned, and bayoneted the enemy; and after the 3rd Brigade had been forced to retire, Lieut.-Col. Lipsett held his position, though his left was in the air, until two British regts. filled up the gap on Saturday night. It would seem that George was wounded and taken prisoner, for, according to a postcard received from Corpl. W. S. Pozer of the same Battn. (himself a prisoner), George died of wounds or gas poisoning, in the Red Cross Hospital at Roulers, 26 April, 1915. He was unm. His yr. brother, Private John Robert George, served with the 1st Northamptonshire Regt. in France, Aug. 1914 to March, 1915, and is now (1916) with the 3rd Battn. at Gillingham.

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

GERMAN, THOMAS, Stoker, R.N.R., 1884T, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GERRANS, CHRISTOPHER DAVIES, Private, No. 4220, Australian Field Artillery; b. Peckham, S.E., 1870; educ. Rye College, Peckham Rye; enlisted; served through the South African War, and was in Ladysmith during the siege; went to Australia about 1907; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 2 Dec. 1915; unm.

GERRISH, FRANK, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7615, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GERRY, ALBERT JOHN, Private, No. 13632, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Albert Gerry, of Heward, Saskatchewan, Canada, by his wife, Edith Jane, dau. of George Rowland; b. Souris, Manitoba, 9 Jan. 1893; was in a Livery business; volunteered on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914; left Canada with the First Contingent, 23 Sept., and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15 crossed to France, 15 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 24 May, 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “Private Gerry was a wonderfully cheerful man, nothing seemed to damp his spirits. Even in those days at Ypres, when things looked so black, he was cheerful. He was killed when we made a charge on a strong German position which we captured on 24 May. We were able to get his body and bury him near a little village called Festubert. He met his death like a hero, his face to the foe.”

GETHING, HUGH BAGNALL, 2nd Lieut., Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry (T.F.), yr. s. of James Edwards Gething, of Siddington Hall, Cirencester, by his wife, Maria Llewellyn, dau. of James Bagnall, of Castle Hill House, Carmarthen, J.P.; b. Letherllistry, Llanddarog, co. Carmarthen, 7 Oct. 1883; educ. Elstree (1892–1897), Harrow (Bushnell’s and Graham’s Houses) (1897–1902), and Trinity College, Cambridge (1902–1906), joined the Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry 25 March, 1911, volunteered with them for active service, and was killed at the Dardanelles 21 Aug. 1915. Writing to his father, Col. Playne, who was himself wounded in the same action, said: “Your son was one of our best officers and the whole regt. will feel his loss keenly.” Major Yorke wrote: “Poor Lusty, as we always called him, was most gallantly leading his troops, setting them a splendid example, when a shell burst close to him, inflicting injuries to his head, which must have caused instantaneous death”; and Capt. Turner, the second in command of his squadron, also wrote “the whole division was ordered to advance across a stretch of about a mile and a half of open country after a heavy artillery preparation. They had only started a few minutes, when heavy shell fire was opened, and we began to suffer pretty heavy casualties amongst officers and men. Lusty had survived almost the whole way across, and had just faced forward, after turning to say a few encouraging words to his men, when he was struck by a shrapnel, and killed instantly. He was later buried in a grave by himself, close to where he fell, nearly under the shelter of a hill, the one we are now on, ... he was ... always cheerful, and was always ready to do anything that was going.” Gething was a keen sportsman, was captain of the cricket and football eleven at Elstree, played five years in the House Cricket Eleven at Harrow and four years in the football eleven, and was captain one year. He passed the Dolphin (swimming) test, 1899, and won the Beale Cup for diving, 1901, and the middle-weight boxing in the Public School Competition at Aldershot, 1902. He played in the Freshman’s Association Match at Cambridge, 1902, and in the Seniors’ Match, 1903, 1904, played regularly for the Trinity Harrovians A.F.C., and was secretary of the club from 1903 till its extinction. He won the Freshman’s middle-weight boxing, 1902, the C.U. middle-weight boxing, 1903, and the same event for Cambridge v. Oxford, 1903–1904 (beating Gardner in 1903, and Sheepshanks in 1904). He hunted with the Fitzwilliam, the Oakley and the Drag, and also played polo at Cambridge; won the Fairwell Cup at Cottenham on Mr. Pemberton’s “Hector,” and rode the same horse against Oxford over the Whaddon Chase Country, 1907, &c. He hunted with the Old Berkshire, V.W.H. and Lord Bathurst’s hounds after leaving Cambridge. His elder brother, Lieut. J. S. B. Gething, South Wales Borderers, was killed in the South African War.

GIBB, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, M.D., Lieut.-Col., Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest s. of Alexander Gibb, of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ipswich, J.P., by his wife, Jessie Violet, dau. of Donald Coghill, of Wick, Caithness; b. Ipswich, 17 June, 1872; educ. Ipswich School, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, London University, and Vienna; Matriculated at Edinburgh and London, 1889; M.B., C.M., 1895; M.D., 1900, and was successively House Surgeon, Royal Infirmary and Skin Dispensary, Edinburgh; Gloucester Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution, and Noble Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man; Clinical Assistant to the Ear, Throat and Nose Hospital, Golden Square, and the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. He then took up practice in Ipswich about 1900 and became Assistant Hon. Surgeon to the Ipswich and Suffolk Hospital, and Public Vaccinator for Ipswich Union; Member of the Red Cross Council of the County of Suffolk and the Scout Council; District Staff; District St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Lecturer to St. John Ambulance Association. While at Edinburgh he joined the University Coy. of the 1st V.B. Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers in 1898, serving for four years in the ranks, and later becoming Lieut. in the Harwich Infantry Brigade Bearer Company, R.A.M.C. He was gazetted Capt. to the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at its formation, and on 16 July, 1912, was transferred to the 6th (Cyclist) Battn. Suffolk Regt. as Medical Officer. He was promoted Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3 Dec. 1913, and after the outbreak of the War, was made Lieut.-Col. of the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station, 22 Dec. 1914. He raised the unit solely through his personal influence, both with regard to officers and men. He died at the Eastern General Hospital, Birmingham, 10 March, 1915, of pleurisy and pneumonia, contracted on active service. Dr. Gibb received the Coronation medal and was Honorary Associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He m. at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, London, 20 Sept. 1905, Rosina Sarah, only dau. of James Bullock, of Westbury, co. Wilts; s.p.

GIBB, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, No. 12/1214, 2nd Auckland Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of David Neneen Gibb, of Karanganake, Thames, New Zealand; b. Auckland, New Zealand, 1886; educ. Thames Gold Fields, New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted 1 Nov. 1914; went to Egypt, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; unm.

GIBBARD, WILLIAM, Private, No. G. 3504, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., s. of William Gibbard, of 12, Bride Street, Kilburn; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 April, 1915.

GIBBINS, HENRY EDWARD, Private, No. S. 5356, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of William Gibbins, of 61, Mansfield Street, Kingsland Road, N.E.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Boulogne, 15 Feb. 1915, of enteric fever while on active service.

GIBBINS, JOHN, Signalman, J. 3246, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GIBBONS, CHARLES, Private, No. G. 120, 7th (Service) Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 28 July, 1915; m.

GIBBONS, CHARLES WILLIAM CROWNE, Private, No. 1518, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late Charles William Gibbons, by his wife, Emily Marion (now wife of Charles Emery, of 35, Wandle Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W.), dau. of William Johnstone Harris; b. London, 2 Dec. 1884; educ. Tennyson Street Council School, Queen’s Road, S.W.; enlisted, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. 1914, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

GIBBS, ALBERT WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7975), S.S. 103638, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GIBBS, ALFRED, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5326, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GIBBS, ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9189, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GIBBS, RONALD CHARLES MELBOURNE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Scots Guards, yr. s. of the late Hon. Henry Lloyd Gibbs, of 10, Lennox Gardens, London, partner in the firm of Anthony Gibbs & Sons, of 22, Bishopsgate, E.C., by his wife, Alice Mary (10, Lennox Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Gen. Charles Crutchley, of Sunninghill Park, Ascot, co. Berks, and gdsn. of Henry Hucks, 1st Baron Aldenham; b. Salisbury, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, 26 Aug. 1894; educ. Wellington House, Westgate-on-Sea, and Eton College (P. L. Broke’s House, where he was in the O.T.C. and received certificate A); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Special Reserve of Officers, 27 Sept. 1913; served with 1st Battn. Scots Guards at Aldershot; and on declaration of war with 3rd Battn.; passed Army Examination, 1914; posted to the 2nd Scots Guards, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried at Chateau Gheluvelt. His Commanding Officer, Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox, wrote: “He was a splendid young officer.... He had a charming disposition, and showed such keenness and ability as an officer that the blow was all the harder. Liked by everybody he came in contact with, both officers and men, his death has been a great loss to the Regt.” 2nd Lieut. Gibbs rowed in the boats at Eton, 4 June, 1913, and also rowed when their Majesties visited Eton, 16 June, 1913.

GIBBS, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12701, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GIBBS, WILLIAM CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4719), 205068, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GIBSON, ALBERT EDWARD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5181), 207006, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GIBSON, JOHN, Stoker, R.N.R., 1638T., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GIBSON, MUNGO CAMPBELL, Lieut.-Commander, R.N.V.R., eldest s. of the late Campbell Gibson, of Messrs. George Gibson & Co., of Leith, Shipowners; b. Edinburgh. 11 May, 1890; educ. Cargilfield, Loretto, and in France; was before the war employed in his father’s firm; hon. secretary of the Leith Dock Labour Employers’ Association from its formation, and Commissioner of the Leith Boy Scouts. On the formation of the Forth Division, R.N.V.R., he was appointed its commanding officer, and in Sept. 1914, was promoted Lieut.-Commander of the Nelson Battn., with which he served in the Antwerp Expedition, and afterwards in the Dardanelles. He was killed in action near Cannon’s Post, Gaba Tepe, while leading his company at daybreak, 3 May, 1915, and was buried where he fell. Writing to his father, the Colonel of the Nelson Battn. said: “Your son was a keen and zealous officer and was doing splendidly.” He m. Edinburgh, 11 July, 1914, Isabel Esmé (23, Dean Park Crescent, Edinburgh), yr. dau. of James Cornwall, late Postmaster-General of the United Provinces, India, and left a dau., Helen Valerie, b. 18 April, 1915.

GIBSON, ROBERT, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, eldest s. of James Gibson, of 28, Park Gardens North, Glasgow, M.A., late Headmaster of Woodside Higher Grade School, Glasgow; by his wife, Grace, dau. of William Gott; b. Glasgow, 30 Nov. 1885; educ. Glasgow High School, and Glasgow University, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Classics in 1908. He gained the Snell Exhibition and Newlands Scholarship and entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated at the end of his course with First Class in Moderations and Greats, and was elected a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol. He was a member of the O.T.C. there, and when war broke out, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards attd. to the 2nd Battn. He was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. ... and was killed in action near Hill 60, 5–6 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Gibson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915.

GIDNEY, EDWIN, Engineer Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Empress of Russia, R.N.R., s. of Charles Gidney, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, Builder, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Allison, of Sunderland, Engineer; b. Jarrow, 23 Dec. 1873; educ. Higher Grade School there; and served his apprenticeship at Messrs. Palmer’s Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, where he was highly esteemed and gained considerable experience in destroyers and torpedo boats. He was afterwards a Marine Engineer, and was latterly employed by the C.P.R. After the outbreak of war he was appointed to H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser Empress of Russia, and died on her 10 June, 1915, from syncope, following wounds received in action while serving in the Persian Gulf; unm. He was buried at sea with full naval honours.

GIFFORD, GEORGE EDWARD, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 300296 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GIGG, HENRY ALBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1293), 206559, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GILBANK, CHARLES, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 112085, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILBERT, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, No. 2362, 7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Horace Gilbert, of Lower Edmonton, Cabdriver, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Locke; b. Holborn, London, 26 Oct. 1882; educ. Holborn Council School; worked for some time as an engraver in Fetter Lane, and was then for three years a Packer at Gamage’s, and then for two years at Selfridge’s, leaving there to enlist on the outbreak of War in Aug. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 25 Aug. 1915. He was buried in the Beauchamp Military Cemetery (Grave No. 47). His Lieut. wrote: “I had known him for the whole time he had been in the Battn. and one could not have wished for a better or a braver soldier.” He m. at Holborn, 25 Sept. 1904, Clarissa (4, Studd’s Cottages, Montague Road, Edmonton, N.), dau. of James Wright, and had issue: Horace Bert William, b. 30 Nov. 1914; Mary Elizabeth, b. 22 Jan. 1906; Dora, b. 16 June, 1908; Eugene Margaret, b. 11 Dec. 1909; and Ada Martha, b. 1 July, 1912.

GILBERT, NELSON, Sapper, No. 2167, R.E., s. of Nelson Gilbert, of 31, Waterloo Road, Tonbridge, Carpenter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of George Longley; b. Cranbrook, co. Kent, 20 March, 1895; educ. Council School there; was a Grocer’s Assistant; enlisted 19 April, 1915; left England, 11 Oct. 1915, and was drowned on H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915; unm.

GILBERT, WILFRED VALENTINE, Sub-Lieut., Royal Naval Division, 3rd s. of the late John Brettell Gilbert, of Longfleet House, Poole, co. Dorset, formerly of Chadwick Manor, co. Warwick, by his wife, Sara Elizabeth (Ferndene, Parkstone, co. Dorset), dau. of John Suckling; b. Abergwynant, Dolgelly, North Wales, 2 March, 1889; educ. Eastmans, Southsea; and when War broke out, was a member of the staff of the Rio Tinto Co. in Spain. He immediately returned to England and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 7 Oct. 1914, and joined the Nelson Battn. He was with the first party to land in Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, and was four times wounded whilst carrying ammunition to the firing line, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915, whilst superintending the digging of a trench linking up the firing line of the Naval Division and the 42nd Division, the enemy trench at that time being about 250 yards distant, and about 1,200 yards S.S.W. of Achi Baba, or about ... S.S.E. of Krithia. On this occasion they had gallantly gone to the support of the Lancashire Division, which had advanced further ahead and now found itself exposed to an enfilade fire. The Nelson men got between the enfilading Turks, and the right of the Lancashire Division joined up the line and dug themselves in under fire on a front of about 500 yards. The trench was completed that night, and was for a time a permanent force of our front line. He was buried in the rear of this position in a small burial ground at the back of the Reserve Trenches; unm. His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. Evelegh, wrote of him, and of his brother, Sub-Lieut. Robert Evelyn Gilbert, who was severely wounded: “The loss of these two good officers was a severe blow to the battn. I always said W. V. had a charmed life. He was wounded through the nose on the 3rd May. On the 1st June he had a very narrow escape, a large shell bursting within a few yards of him. I am glad to say he was unhurt. On the morning of the 4th June he was shot through the head whilst superintending some work in the firing line. His death was almost instantaneous.” He was very fond of painting, and exhibited several of his pictures in Spain. His seven brothers are all serving. Commander Archibald Gilbert, R.N., has specialised in gunnery and is at present on Sir Percy Scott’s Staff for the Defence of London; 2nd. Lieut. Vivian Gilbert, Machine-gun Corps, is at the Front; Lieut. Robert Evelyn Gilbert, R.N.V.R., was seriously wounded in Gallipoli, since recovery transferred to the Admiralty; Lieut. Gilbert Richard Gilbert, R.N.R., in command of H.M. Torpedo Boat 077; Lieut. Guy Gilbert, 7th Dorset Regt. attd. to Royal Flying Corps; Lieut. Geoffrey Gilbert, R.N.V.R., Nelson Battn. Royal Naval Division, now at the Front; Private Garnett Gilbert, Inns of Court O.T.C., at present stationed at Berkhampstead.

GILBEY, ERIC, Lieut., 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yr. s. of Sir Walter Gilbey, 2nd Bart., by his wife, Ella, dau. of the late John Coutts Fowlie, of Surbiton; b. London, 26 Dec. 1888; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; joined the Grenadier Guards in 1910, but afterwards resigned. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted Lieut. in the 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 23 Oct 1914; went to the Front with the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm. Writing to Sir Walter Gilbey, Corpl. W. Smith said: “I am proud to say that I was in Lieut. Gilbey’s platoon from the day he joined us until the time he fell, a few feet from my side. We considered ourselves, with your son as our leader, the luckiest platoon in the regt., if not in the whole Army. He was just like a father to us, and our interests were always his first thought. Each one of us would have followed him in the most forlorn hope, had he wanted us. He was the bravest man I ever saw, and I am sure you will know by now that it was while performing a brave deed that he fell. When we had made the charge at 2 p.m. on 12 March, we were met by the most awful fire of shells and bullets, and Lieut. Gilbey was the first to leap over the parapet, and shouted to us to make for another parapet 100 yards in front. Lots of men fell in that 100 yards, but Lieut. Gilbey, Sergt. Rann, the majority of the men and myself reached cover safely. The next instant I happened to look round, and there was your son, who had run back for about 10 yards, in the open. He was bending over a young fellow, and the next second he fell. I am sure there never was more feeling shown over the fall of an officer than there was by No. 10 Platoon. He had been badly wounded some hours previously, but refused to go to the dressing-room, and so home to England invalided, saying, ‘Where my men go, I go.’”

GILBEY, WILLIAM EDWARD, A.B., 221975, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GILBRIDE, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5154), 210720, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILCHRIST, ROBERT CROOKS, Capt., 46th Punjabis, Indian Army, yr. s. of Brig.-Gen. Robert Alexander Gilchrist, Indian Army; b. Aurangabad, Deccan, India, 24 June, 1878; educ. Dover College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he passed with honours; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 4 Aug. 1897, promoted Lieut. 4 Nov. 1899, and Capt. 4 Aug. 1906. He was appointed to the 33rd Punjabis, and afterwards to the 46th Punjabis when that regt. was raised. Served for five years with the Burma Military Police, and took part in two frontier expeditions, and was awarded the King’s Police Medal for service in the Burmo-China Boundary Delimitation Commission. When war broke out he was attached to the 59th Scinde Rifles in France, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 19 Dec. 1914, when most gallantly leading a storming party up a German sap under heavy fire. He was buried in Beuvry Cemetery, near Bethune; unm. Writing to his father, Major T. L. Leeds, commanding 59th Scinde Rifles, said: “Your son was killed yesterday morning in a night attack on the German trenches. He was most gallantly leading a storming party up a German sap under heavy fire when he was hit in the head by a rifle bullet and killed at once. He was officiating as my second in command, and was an exceptionally able and gallant officer, and he is a great loss to us,” and Col. J. ffrench Mullen, Deputy Inspector-General Military Police, Burma, wrote: “He served under me in the Myitkyina Battn. for five years and on two expeditions, so I had occasion to know of his sterling qualities and character.... I have never heard anything but the most kindly mention of him, and his death is mourned by his old battn., the Military Police.”

GILDERTHORP, HARRY STANLEY, L-Corpl., No. 9771, 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., s. of Benjamin Gilderthorp, of Birmingham, National Reserve, late Sergt., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt.; b. Hockley Hill, Birmingham, 3 Oct. 1886; educ. Lozells Street Board School there; enlisted in Nov. 1903; transferred to the Reserve in 1906; was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 2 May, 1915. He m. at Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 6 Aug. 1910, Alice, dau. of William (and Alice) Herrick, and had two children: Harry Stanley, b. 8 Aug. 1912, and Doris May, b. 18 May, 1911.

GILES, FRANK WILLIAM, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 9960), 201561, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILES, JAMES, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 1866), 160023, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

GILES, SIDNEY, Leading Stoker, K. 1042, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILES, SIDNEY DUNCAN, Private, No. 707, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.); educ. St. John’s School, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London; joined the 1st London Regt., and died 13 July, 1915, of wounds received in action; buried in the Military Cemetery, Bailleul (Grave No. 1488). He m. at All Saints’ Church, Caledonian Road, London, Isabella, dau. of (—), and had a son and a dau.: Sidney Walton, b. 14 Aug. 1908; and Dorothy Constance, b. 1 Aug. 1914.

GILHAM, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7611), 102992, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

GILL, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 8734 (Po.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILL, GEORGE ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8912), S.S. 105666, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILLAM, CECIL THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7686), S.S. 103002, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILLARD, WILLIAM JAMES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5641), 191989, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GILFILLAN, JOHN ALFRED ALISON, Private, No. 2528, 14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Archibald MacAlpine Gilfillan, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, by his wife, Mary Elliott, dau. of John Brown; b. Edinburgh, 9 Sept. 1881; educ. Tollington Park College, and Finsbury Technical College, and was an electrical engineer by profession. He had joined the London Scottish, rising to the rank of Corpl., but had to retire in 1910, owing to pressure of work. On the outbreak of war, however, he rejoined in Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 13 Sept. 1914, and was wounded and taken prisoner at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914, and died a prisoner of war at Gustrow, Mecklenburg, 6 Dec. following; unm.

GILLESPIE, ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Princess Louise’s (93rd) Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, elder and only surviving s. (see next column) of Thomas Paterson Gillespie, of Longcroft, Linlithgow, by his wife, Elizabeth Hall, dau. of Thomas Chalmers, of Longcroft, and gdson. of the late Alexander Gillespie, of Biggar Park, co. Lanark; b. at Woolaston, co. Gloucester, 23 June, 1889, and was educ. Cargilfield and Winchester College, for which latter he took a scholarship, winning among other honours while there, the King’s Gold and the King’s Silver Medals; passed on from Winchester to New College, Oxford, again with a scholarship, and also an exhibition, and there in 1910 proved himself the 1st Classical Scholar of his year by taking the much-coveted Ireland and 1st Craven Scholarships. On leaving Oxford he travelled for nine months, visiting East Africa, China, Korea, Japan, and returning by Canada and the United States. When war broke out he was reading for the Bar, International Law being the branch which he hoped ultimately to follow. Some months previously he had joined the Inns of Court Cavalry, but impatient of delay in getting a commission in a Cavalry Regt. he enlisted in the 4th Seaforth Highlanders, and after training with them at Bedford for two months, was given a commission in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 21 Oct. 1914. He went to the Front, Feb. 1915, being there attd. to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action near La Bassée, 25 Sept. 1915, being seen to fall on reaching the German trench, the only officer to get there. He was unm.

GILLESPIE, FRANKLIN MACAULAY, Lt.-Col., 4th (Service) Battn. South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Franklin Gillespie, of Health Hollow, Camberley, R.A.M.C., by his wife, Harriet Eliza Phillis, dau. of the late General Sampson Freeth, R.E., and granddau. of General Sir James Freeth, K.C.B., K.H.; b. Colchester, 19 Aug. 1872; educ. Dover College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd. Lieut. South Wales Borderers, 25 July, 1891; and promoted Lieut. 22 Feb. 1893, Capt. 6 March, 1898, and Major, 26 Sept. 1909. He was on special extra regimental duty from 14 Nov. 1896 to 5 April, 1897, and from 5 Feb. 1898 to 31 March, 1900, was employed with the West African Frontier Force; was sent up the Niger on Special Service in 1897 to Egbon, Bida, and Ilorin, when the growing menace of the great slave-trading Fulah Power threatened to drive us into the sea. He was in the fight at the capture of the capital of Nupe and the subjugation of the smaller States, and was awarded the medal with three clasps. He then served in Borgu with the West African Frontier Force, 1897–8, being mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Jan. 1900], and receiving medal with a clasp. He remained with them until March, 1900, when he rejoined his regt. and went to South Africa, and served through that campaign. He was Commandant at Roodeval Spruit to 10 Feb. 1901, and took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, July, 1900 to June, 1901, and in the Transvaal, June, 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps). After the war he was Adjutant of the 5th Volunteer Battn. (now the 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers) of his regt. from 18 April, 1903 to 14 July, 1908, at Newtown, and on relinquishing this appointment, was posted to the 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, later going with it to Chatham and Pretoria, South Africa. He next joined the 1st Battn. and returned to Chatham, and from Feb. to Aug. 1914, was in Command of the Regimental Depôt at Brecon. After the outbreak of war he was appointed (19 Aug. 1914) to the Command of the 4th (Service) Battn. and went with it to the Dardanelles, 30 June, 1915. He was killed in action there, 9 Aug. 1915, and was buried in the 39th Field Ambulance Cemetery. Col. Gillespie m. at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 27 July, 1905, Agnes Rose (Bromley, Camberley), dau. of Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones, of Dolerw, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and had issue, two sons and a dau.: Rollo Franklin Freeth, b. 11 Feb. 1910; Henry Pryce, b. 16 April, 1913; and Phillis Eleanor, b. 5 Sept. 1915. His brother, Lieut.-Col. E. C. F. Gillespie, C.B., A.S.C., is now (1916) on active service.

GILLESPIE, NORMAN ALEXANDER, Private, No. 27342, 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. s. of the late Johnston Hunter Gillespie, of The Mount, Belfast, by his wife, Mary Clarke (Eastbourne Cottage, Whitehead), dau. of Hugh McAlery; b. Rathfriland, co. Down, 14 Jan. 1892; educ. Methodist College and Queen’s University, Belfast. He accepted a post in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Toronto, where he remained until the outbreak of the war. He immediately volunteered and enlisted, 15 Aug., 1914; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; went to the Front, Feb. 1915, and died a prisoner of war in a German Hospital at Oostnieukerke, 25 April, 1915, from wounds received at the Second Battle of Ypres. He was buried in Oostnieukerke Churchyard; unm. Capt. McLaren wrote: “Norman always did his duty, and he was one of the best men I had, he was in the first line trenches on 24th April. I got wounded, and so lost sight of him.” Sergt. Wells also wrote: “I was Norman’s platoon Sergt. and I can assure you Norman always did his duty and was never in trouble with anyone.” Private Gillespie was a very fine baritone and his teacher predicted a great future for him.

GILLESPIE, THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yst. s. (see preceding column) of Thomas Paterson Gillespie, of Longcroft, Linlithgow, by his wife, Elizabeth Hall, dau. of Thomas Chalmers, of Longcroft, and gdson. of the late Alexander Gillespie, of Biggar Park, co. Lanark; b. Alvington, co. Gloucester, 14 Dec. 1892; educ. Cargilfield School, Cramond Bridge; Winchester College, and New College, Oxford, where he took his degree in June, 1914. Both at Winchester and Oxford he was a keen member of the O.T.C. He obtained a University commission, 29 July, 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Scottish Borderers, 4 Aug. 1914, and after three weeks’ service at home, joined his regt. in France in time to share in the advance from the Marne. He was for 17 days in the trenches at Missy-sur-Aisne, on the northern bank of the River Aisne, exposed night and day to the enemy’s fire from their heavy guns, and afterwards took part in the advance to the Belgian frontier, and was killed in action, near La Bassée, 8 Oct. 1914; unm. It was 2nd Lieut. Gillespie’s great desire to win a commission in a Scottish regt., and his last letter spoke with pride of the praise which the Scottish Borderers had received from Sir Charles Ferguson, commanding the 5th Division, “all the prouder of us because we were all Scotsmen.” He was a fine athlete, rowed three years in the New College Eight, and twice had the satisfaction of keeping his boat at the head of the River; also, he represented the United Kingdom in the New College Olympic Crew at Stockholm in 1912.

GILLESPIE, ANDREW, Private, No. 8107, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915.

GILLESPIE, WILLIAM JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10369), S.S. 107919, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

GILLHAM, BENJAMIN, L.-Corpl., No. S. 64, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; m.

GILLINGHAM, FRANK, Private, No. 10234, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of William Gillingham, of 9, Little Preston Street, Brighton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 April, 1915.

GILLS, GEORGE, Sapper, No. 102480, Royal Engineers, 2nd s. of John Gills, of Bishop Auckland, Miner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of George Etherington, of Bishop Auckland; b. Bishop Auckland, co. Durham, 1 Aug. 1871; educ. Board School there; was employed at the Hylton Colliery; enlisted 4 June, 1915; was sent to the Front at once, and was killed in action, 2 Aug. 1915, being buried in the Canadian Cemetery at St. Eloi, Belgium. He m. at St. Mary’s. South Shields, Isabella Ann (Clive Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of William Stevenson, of Seaham, and had six children: John William, b. 19 Dec. 1893; George, b. 13 July, 1898; Robert, b. 2 March, 1913; Margaret Jane, b. 29 Oct. 1891; Isabella, b. 16 April, 1899; and Emily, b. 4 June, 1903.

GRAHAM-GILMOUR, HERBERT JAMES, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt. only s. of the late James Graham-Gilmour, of Whittingdon Lodge, Worcester, by his wife, Ethel (now widow of William Price-Hughes, of Red Hill, near Worcester), dau. of the Rev. James Cook, of Peopleton, Pershore; b. Southport, co. Lancaster, 2 Aug. 1883; educ. Hartford House, and Radley College, Oxford; served with the Worcestershire Militia through the South African War, receiving the Queen’s medal with two clasps. After his return home, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Worcesters, 28 Jan. 1903, receiving the last free commission presented, and was promoted Lieut. 15 June, 1906. He joined at Tipperary, served at the Depot at Norton Barracks, 1904–6; in South Africa, 1906–7; and at Dover, 1907–10, when he transferred to the 4th Battn. at Bareilly, India. He came home on leave in February, 1914, and on the outbreak of war was ordered to join the 3rd Battn. at Tidworth, 4 Aug. and went with it to France, 13 Aug. He served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at Soissons, during the Battle of the Aisne, 19 Sept. 1914, and was buried at Maison Rouge, Vailly, in the valley of the Aisne; unm. Lieut. Graham-Gilmour was an enthusiastic cricketer, hockey player, and steeplechase rider, had played cricket for the gentlemen of Worcester, and on two occasions won regimental point-to-point races in Ireland and England, and was third in the Army Cup in India on “Exchange” in 1912.