GOODSELL, PERCY, Corpl., No. 2233, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regiment (T.F.), 3rd s. of Thomas Goodsell, of the Laurels, Ruck Hill, Horsmonden, Kent, Gardener to Mr. P. Manwaring, of Horsmonden, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William George Kingham; b. Higham, Salehurst, Sussex, 31 May, 1893; educ. Salehurst and Brenchley Council Schools; was an Under Gardener to Mr. P. Foster, of Frant, Sussex; joined the 5th Sussex Territorials in March, 1910, and served four years; volunteered on the outbreak of war and rejoined 14 Aug. 1914; appointed Corpl. Nov.; went to France with his regt. in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 9 May following; unm. Buried in the Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. While with the Territorials he won the Silver Medal and held the Silver Cup for shooting for a year. Three of his brothers are on active service: Private Ernest Charles Goodsell, M.T., A.S.C.; Private Herbert George Goodsell, 3rd Reinft. 50th Battn. South Australians; Francis Edward Goodsell, Sig., H.M.S. Egmont.

GOODSHIP, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2608), 177348, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GOODWIN, JOHN HENRY, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 183350, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GOODWIN, SIDNEY ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17481, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GORBEY, FRANK REUBEN, Corpl., No. 8930, 1st Battn. Royal Irish Regt., s. of John W. Gorbey, Constable (retired), Royal Irish Constabulary, now of 92, Main Street, Carrick-on-Suir, by his wife, Ellie, dau. of I. Huddy; b. Villierstown, Waterford, 13 Nov. 1889; joined 1st Battn. Royal Irish Regt. at Dublin, 22 March, 1906; promoted Corpl. 15 Feb. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm. Buried in the grounds of the Chateau at Hooge. He distinguished himself at Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, by bringing in wounded under fire and blowing up an enemy mine. Two of his brothers, one in the Irish Guards and one a Corpl. in the 7th Dragoon Guards, serving with the Expeditionary Force. Corpl. F. R. Gorbey had not met the latter brother for eight years, but a few days before he was killed they met during an action. A comrade wrote that: “A braver soldier or truer comrade never lived. He died as a brave man, with a smile on his face, and was mourned by his regt. as a true comrade.” His comrade placed a cross over his grave giving full particulars of how he died. His brother-in-law, Coy. Sergt.-Major Charles Abbot, 1st Royal Irish Regt., was also killed in action in May, 1915.

GORDON, ALEXANDER, L.-Corpl., No. 2409, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th s. of the late Andrew Gordon, Farm Steward at High Ashurst to Lord Harrowby (died 1899), by his wife, Edith Ellen (19, Parkhurst Road, Sutton), dau. of Daniel Sharp; b. Warren Farm, High Ashurst, Mickleham, Dorking, co. Surrey, 14 Aug. 1896; educ. London Orphan School, Watford, Herts (1904–7), and on leaving there entered the employ of Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the London Scottish in Aug. 1914; went to the Front, Jan. 1915, and died of wounds received at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being buried in Noeux les Mines Cemetery; unm. His Platoon Sergt. wrote: “He was a splendid fellow and esteemed by everybody.”

GORDON, GEORGE DUFF, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Robertson Barclay Gordon, Procurator Fiscal of Elginshire; b. Elgin, 16 July, 1894; educ. Elgin Academy; Ardvreck, Crieff, and Dover College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 Jan. 1913, promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He was buried in Estaires Cemetery; unm.

GORDON, JAMES WILLIAM NUGENT, Lieut., 5th (Angus and Dundee) Battn. (Royal Highlanders) The Black Watch (T.F.), elder s. of William Montgomerie Gordon, Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Trinidad, by his wife, Constance Lucretia, yst. dau. of the late Sir Oliver Nugent, and gdson. of the late James Loudon Gordon, of Brechin, Solicitor; b. Island of Montserrat, West Indies, 18 Oct. 1894; educ. Aldenham School, co. Herts, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; and went to Birmingham University in 1913, to study mining engineering. He obtained a commission in the 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Black Watch, 19 July, 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service; was promoted Lieut. 1 Sept. 1914; arrived in France with his Battn., 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed instantaneously in action, in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, 22 Feb. 1915, being shot through the head. He was buried with many others of the Battn. in an orchard close to the billets of the 5th Battn. Black Watch, near Neuve Chapelle, in “Black Watch Lane”; unm.

GORDON, JOSEPH, Private, No. 24483, 13th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of the late William Gordon, by his wife, Alice (40, Princess Street, Consett, Durham), dau. of Joseph Turnbull; b. Murton Colliery, 188-; was a Miner; went to Canada in 1910; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war; came over with the first Contingent; went to France in April, 1915, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 22 May, 1915; unm.

GORDON, ROBERT FREDERICK, Corpl., No. 3223, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Capt. Robert Keith Gordon, R.A.M.C. (died 17 Jan. 1892), by his wife, Caroline (59, Hunter Road, Southsea), dau. of John Standing; b. Gibraltar, 6 April, 1875; educ. St. Ignatius College, Malta, and Collegiate School, Aldershot; and was a Printer’s Manager at Gale & Poldens. He joined the London Scottish about 1897, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 17 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action, 13 Oct. 1915; unm.

GORDON, SIDNEY EUSTACE LAING, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, elder s. of Henry Laing Gordon, M.D., formerly of Florence, by his wife, Maud; b. Witheridge, co. Devon, 5 June, 1892; educ. Pelham House, West Folkestone; Harrow (Druries, 1906–11, Head of House, Monitor; Captain of House XI); and Brazenose College, Oxford (1911–14; Scholar; rowed in College Eights 1913; graduated with 3rd Class Honours, 1914); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Battn. (Special Reserve of Officers) Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914, and transferred to the 4th Battn. in Dec.; left for the Front, 2 Dec., and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 March, 1915. While giving an order to his platoon he was hit by a bullet, which striking a sandbag glanced off and shot him through the lung. He was buried outside the Regimental Headquarters dug-out, Verbrandenmolen, Flanders; unm. His Col. wrote: “He was indeed a natural soldier. Such charming gentlemen are now becoming rare. His loss will be very much felt by the regt. He was greatly loved by his men, and had a happy tact in dealing with them which was a credit to his Harrow education.” The Major: “I cannot tell you how much I feel his loss. He was always cheery and bright; he had no fear of anything, and whatever work he had to do there was no fuss about it, he went off and did it. I looked on him as one of my most experienced young officers”; and his Capt.: “He was an ideal subaltern in every way; always willing and reliable. Your son was a man without fear and on one or two occasions I had to check his wishes to do something which might have cost him his life.”

GORDON, WILLIAM JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7458), S.S. 102575, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GORE, SYDNEY KINGSTON, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., s. of Dr. Alfred Joseph Gore, of Ballarat, Australia, and Kingston, Cherry Garden Avenue, Folkestone, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late Henry Tompkins, of Abingdon Street, Westminster; b. Barry, co. Glamorgan, 12 July, 1889; educ. Grammar School and Penfillan House, Folkestone; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. Royal West Kent Regt. May, 1910, transferred to the 1st Battn. 14 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914; killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 28 Oct. 1914; unm. There had been severe fighting for three days, and only three officers were left in the battn. Sergt. Elson stated that the regt. was surrounded, that Lieut. Gore and A Coy. went forward to take up flank fire after the Wiltshires and Irish Rifles had retired, and that Lieut. Gore was shot through the head, and his body was found the next day. Col. Martyn, his commanding officer, wrote: “He was a gallant officer, beloved by the whole regt., who greatly mourned his loss.” He was buried in a wood close to the spot where he fell.

GORMAN, CHARLES JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 108091, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GORMAN, JAMES TOLAND, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10520), S.S. 2796, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

GORMAN, MICHAEL, L.-Corpl., No. 7712, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Michael Gorman, of Edinburgh (died July, 1907), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of James Pollock; b. Canongate, Edinburgh, 1886; educ. St. Michael’s Roman Catholic School there; enlisted during the South African War, and served in that campaign, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 14 Dec. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Dispatch dated 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915. He m. at Edinburgh, Sarah (401, Great Eastern Road, Glasgow), dau. of Thomas Wood, of Glasgow, formerly of Edinburgh, and has issue two children: Thomas Wood, b. 15 Feb. 1910; and Jessie, b. 28 April, 1907.

GOSLING, ERNEST ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9016, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GOSLING, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3312), 210078, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOSLING, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2785), 341006 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov 1914.

GOSS, ERNEST, Gunner, R.M.A., 7695, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOSS, HENRY THOMAS, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 12656, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOTCH, DUNCAN HEPBURN, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Davis Frederic Gotch, of Bassingburne, Abington Park, Northampton, Assistant Secretary for Education for Northampton, by his 2nd wife, Ethel, dau. of Frederic Hepburn; b. Kettering, Northants, 25 Aug. 1891; educ. Oundle School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Natural Science Scholarship and a special County Council Scholarship, and, in 1913, took an honours degree in natural science, after which he was appointed to the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. He joined the Artists Rifle Corps in Feb. 1914, and when war was declared volunteered for Imperial Service and left for France in Oct. After going through his course of training there he was gazetted to the 1st Worcestershires, 1 Jan. 1915, and joined them at the Front on 15 Jan. At the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, on 11 March, 1915, he was the last officer left in action with his company, and he was killed as he led his men to the charge. He was buried one mile N.W. of Neuve Chapelle; unm. Col. May, of the Artists, wrote: “He splendidly upheld the best traditions of the British Army and possessed the goodwill of all of us who came into contact with him. His name will always be remembered in this regt. with pride as well as sorrow”; and a brother officer in the Worcesters: “He had only been with us a month or two, but in that time, by his cheeriness, by his keenness, and by his hard work and enthusiasm we had all got to like him immensely. His cheerfulness was catching.... He was very plucky and would insist on exposing himself unnecessarily, generally in the hope that he would spot the enemy or find some better place for his platoon. His loss is a real one for the regt. for he was one of the right stuff and of the sort we want in the Worcestershire Regt. A brave, cheery, kindly, popular officer and we can ill afford his loss.” The Principal of the Imperial Bureau also wrote: “He was one of the keenest and most willing assistants I have ever had, and showed every promise of making a name for himself as a scientific worker. His cheery enthusiasm and charm of manner endeared him to all who had the pleasure of working with him, and his place will be hard indeed to fill.”

GOUGH, ERIC JOHN FLETCHER, Capt., 1st Battn. Irish Guards, only s. of the late Major Thomas Armstrong Gough, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards, and afterwards Adjutant of the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, by his wife, Blanche (now wife of Claude Langley, of 9, Onslow Crescent, S.W.), dau. of John William Fletcher, Bengal Army; b. 20 Nov. 1888; educ. Westgate (Mr. E. M. Hawtrey’s) and Eton; joined the (then) 7th Battn. Rifle Brigade (Special Reserve), 17 Feb. 1906, entered the Irish Guards as a probationer in 1909 and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 28 April, 1911, and promoted Lieut. 25 Nov. following, and Capt. 14 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 12 Aug. 1914 with his Battn. in the 4th (Guards) Brigade, served through the retreat from Mons, and the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne and Ypres, and was killed in action between Bethune and La Bassée, 30 Dec. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s despatch of 5 April-31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

GOUGH, JOHN EDMOND, V.C., C.B., C.M.G., A.D.C., Brig.-Gen., yr. s. of the late Gen. Sir Charles John Stanley Gough, V.C., G.C.B., by his wife, Harriette Anastasia, dau. of the late John William Power, of Gurteen le Poer, co. Waterford, M.P., J.P., D.L., and nephew of the late Gen. Sir Hugh Henry Gough, V.C., G.C.B.; b. Murree, India, 25 Oct. 1871; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade, 12 March, 1892, and promoted Lieut. 6 Dec. 1892; Capt. 5 Dec. 1898; Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900; Brevet Lieut.-Col. 22 April, 1903; Brevet Col. 14 Aug. 1907; Major 6 May, 1908; Col. 23 Dec. 1909, and temp. Brig.-Gen. 9 Oct. 1913; was employed in British Central Africa Protectorate, 26 Aug. 1896 to 9 Dec. 1897; took part in expeditions against Chikusi and Chilwa (medal with clasp); also in the Nile expedition 1898; present at Battle of Khartoum (medal, Egyptian medal with clasp); served in South African War, 1899–1902; was A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Infantry Brigade, 19 July to 9 Sept. 1900, and Brigade Signalling Officer (graded Staff Capt.), 10 Sept. to 31 Oct. 1900; took part in operations in Natal, 1899, including action at Lombard’s Kop; defence of Ladysmith, including sortie of 10 Dec. 1899, and action of 6 Jan. 1900; operations in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laings Nek (6–9 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and Lydenberg, 5–8 Sept.; and operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to 31 May, 1902; was District Commissioner of Lydenberg from Nov. 1900 till the end of the war (three times mentioned in despatches, [Sir G. S. White, 23 March, 1900; Sir R. H. Buller, 9 Nov. 1900; London Gazette, 8 Feb. 1901]; Brevet of Major; Queen’s medal with three clasps, King’s medal with two clasps); in East Africa, 1902–3, during operations in Somaliland; on Staff (as Special Service Officer) with Field Force, 30 Oct. 1902 to 10 Jan. 1904 (twice mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 7 Aug. 1903 and 2 Sept. 1904]; Brevet of Lieut.-Col.; medal with clasp; awarded the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 15 Jan. 1904] for conspicuous bravery at Daratoleh, when with Col. W. G. Walker and Major G. M. Rolland, of the Indian Army, he succeeded in rescuing Lieut. Bruce, R.N., mortally wounded during the retreat of the small column he was commanding of 200 men who were short of ammunition and exhausted by want of food and water, before a large force of Somali. They rode back with four soldiers through a hail of bullets and, being cut off from the retreating column, fought through the enemy and succeeded in mounting Lieut. Bruce on a camel. Eventually they brought him and Capt. Godfrey, who was mortally wounded, into camp); D.A.A.G., and Gen. Staff Officer (2nd Grade) Irish Command, 23 Dec. 1905 to 30 Sept. 1907; A.D.C. to the King, 14 Aug. 1907; Inspector-Gen. King’s African Rifles, 1 Oct. 1907 to 22 Dec. 1909; in command during operations in East Africa (Somaliland), 1908–10 (again mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 17 June, 1910], clasp); General Staff Officer (1st Grade), Staff College, 23 Dec. 1909 to 21 Jan. 1913; C.M.G., 24 June, 1910; Brig.-Gen., General Staff to Sir Douglas Haig, Aldershot Command, 9 Oct. 1913 to 4 Aug. 1914; Brig.-Gen., General Staff, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France with 1st Army Corps; served through the retreat from Mons and in the subsequent advance to the Aisne (mentioned in despatches by F.M. Sir John French [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914]; created C.B. for services rendered in connection with operations in the field [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]); severely wounded in action, 20 Feb. 1915, and died at Estaires on the 22nd. Sir John French in his despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915, said: “I wish particularly to express my deep sense of the loss incurred by the Army in general and by the Forces in France in particular in the death of Brig.-Gen. J. E. Gough, V.C., C.B., C.M.G., A.D.C., late Brig.-Gen. General Staff, 1st Army, which occurred on 22 Feb. as the result of a severe wound received on 20 Feb. when inspecting the trenches of the 4th Corps. I always regarded Gen. Gough as one of our most promising military leaders of the future. His services as Staff Officer throughout the campaign have been invaluable, and I had already brought his name before your Lordships for immediate promotion.” On 20 April, 1915, the posthumous honour of a Knight Commandership of the Military Division of the Bath was conferred on him by the King “in recognition of his most distinguished service in the field.” He m., 29 June, 1907, Dorothea (The Pightle House, near Farnham), eldest dau. of the late Gen. Sir Charles Patton Keyes, G.C.B., and had a dau., Diana.

GOUGH, RICHARD, Private, No. 2488, 3rd Battn. The Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), s. of James Gough, of Cwm; enlisted on the outbreak of war; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 8 May following; unm.

GOULD, ALBERT STANLEY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5313, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOULD, CLAUDE, Acting Chief Yeoman of Signals, 199951; H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GOULD, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4424), S.S. 103418, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOULD, JOHN MILLS, Private, No. 1135, N.E.R. Coy., 17th (Service) Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd s. of George Gould, of Warnford House, Thoralby Aysgarth, co. Yorks, Boarding-House Keeper and Farmer, by his wife, Isa, dau. of the late John Mills, of Sunderland, Shipbuilder; b. Masham, co. Yorks, 18 Feb. 1889; educ. Driffield and Thoralby; and was a Clerk in the N.E.R. Stationmaster’s office at Ferrybridge; enlisted 5 Jan. 1915, and died at Ferrybridge, co. Yorks, of pneumonia contracted while training; unm.

GOULD, LIONEL BERTRAM, Shipwright, 1st Class, 342695, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOULD, RICHARD WALTER, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3249), S.S. 100944, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOULD, ROBERT STEPHEN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10033), 226881, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GOULD, ROLAND, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4305), S.S. 1383, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOVER, FREDERICK THOMAS, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4894, (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GOWER, ARTHUR JOSEPH, Private, No. 2423, 1/10th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.); eldest s. of Joseph Gower, of 31, Delorme Street, Fulham Palace Road, S.W., Fitter’s Mate, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Thomas Dicheson; b. Walworth, London, S.E., 4 Aug. 1896: educ. Everington Street Council School, Fulham; was Booking Clerk at Down Street Station; enlisted 28 Aug. 1914, went to India with his regt. 29 Oct. 1914, and died at Jalapahar, India, 5 June, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service; unm.

GOWER, FRANK HERBERT HENRY, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 12685, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GRACE, JOHN LEYBOURNE, Trooper, No. 11/264, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late Nathaniel Grace, of Gladstone, Carterton, Sheep Farmer, by his wife, Emily (Carterton, New Zealand), dau. of James Sexton; b. Gladstone, Carterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand, 4 Nov. 1895; educ. High School there, and Wellington College; was learning sheep farming; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles, 12 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, 16 Oct.; went to the Dardanelles, May, 1915, and was killed in action there, 30 May, 1915; unm. His Chaplain wrote: “Your boy has fallen at his post like a good soldier, fighting against overwhelming odds. One of our outposts was cut off for a long night and day, and extricated on Sunday evening. Happily the enemy was desperately afraid of our boys or not one would have returned alive, as it was your son was killed in action along with others.”

GRAHAM, CYRIL, Lieut., 5th Battn. Border Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Capt. John Graham, manager of the London Joint Stock Bank, at Whitehaven, by his wife, Allie, dau. of Joseph Saudert Barnes; b. Bank House, Aspatria, Cumberland, 8 Sept. 1895; educ. St. Bee’s School; obtained a commission in the 5th (Cumberland) Battn. of the Border Regt. (T.F.), 13 June, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war for Imperial service; went to France 1st Nov. 1914; was promoted Lieut. April, 1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres in Whitsun week and was shot by a sniper, 27 May, 1915, the day his Battn. was relieved. He was buried in the grounds of a Chateau at Potyje; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was a most promising young officer and is a very great loss to us all. He was a great favourite with his brother officers and his men had implicit trust in him.”

GRAHAM, DAVID, Stoker, 1st Class, 307260, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GRAHAM, HENRY, Private, No. 7931, 3rd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, s. of the late Ralph Graham, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, by his wife, Mary (52, Pearson Place, Jarrow), dau. of Alexander (and Jane) Coulter; b. Jarrow-on-Tyne, 14 Oct. 1890; educ. Dunn Street Council School there; enlisted 21 June, 1908; served six years with the colours, then worked as a Labourer at Hawthorns Leslies; was called up on the outbreak of war, 6 Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept., and was killed in action in France, 1 March, 1915; unm.

GRAHAM, JAMES, Ordinary Seaman, J. 12576, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

GRAHAM, JOHN, Jun., Capt., 10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), elder s. of John Graham, of Mohrcroft, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool, and the Croft, Hoylake, Sugar Refiner, by his wife, Mary Gilkison, dau. of James Allan, of Glasgow; b. at Liverpool, 3 April 1877; educ. Marlborough, and became a partner in the firm of Macfie & Sons, the well-known Sugar Refiners of Liverpool. He had joined the old Liverpool Scottish Volunteers in 1900 and continued with them after they became the 10th Territorial Battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regt., retiring with the rank of Capt. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined as a Private and was given a Commission as Lieut., 25 Sept., and promoted Capt. 13 April, 1915; went to France, Oct. 1914, and was killed in the great charge of the Liverpool Scottish near Hooge, 16 June, 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Though good at racquets and cricket, it was as a golfer that Capt. Graham was best known in the sporting world. He was in the first flight of amateur golfers, and had attained international honours, and, while never getting further than the Amateur Championship semi-final, he had won most of the Club and open prizes. The Times said: “Not only was he one of the very finest of amateur golfers, but his most delightful and modest nature had endeared him to everyone who ever met him. ‘Jack’ Graham will be remembered in golfing history as the one really great player who never won a championship. It would not be right to call him an unlucky golfer. He had good chances and a natural genius for the game, but there was something in his temperament that prevented him from playing his best game in the crucial rounds towards the end of a championship. It was certainly not lack of courage in the ordinary sense of the word. No one who knew him could doubt that, and he has given the finest and most conclusive proof to the contrary. But the strain of hard matches day after day always proved too great a strain on his powers of endurance, and though he five times reached the final of the Amateur Championship he never got any farther. He was more successful as a score player than a match player. Only last year at Sandwich he won the St. George’s Vase at Sandwich by truly magnificent golf; his record in the Hoylake medals was one of many successes and he several times finished first amateur on the list of the Open Championship. On one occasion in particular at Muirfield he finished immediately after the great ‘triumvirate’ and gave Taylor, who was drawn with him, one of the most agitating days of his long career. Capt. Graham was a great golfer. He could not but have been sometimes disappointed on account of his comparative lack of success, and he knew that his friends at Hoylake were more bitterly disappointed on his behalf than he ever was on his own. Not only did no word of complaint or excuse ever escape him, but he never for one moment fell into the opposite error of pretending that he did not care. He took his ups and downs with perfect modesty and quietness, and was always interested in the play and the success of others. At Marlborough he distinguished himself at football, cricket and racquets, and if he had had time to play might have made a name for himself as a cricketer, but he always worked very hard at his business. Indeed he played comparatively little golf, but it was remarkable how he could so constantly play a very fine game with so little practice—an occasional Saturday afternoon and perhaps an evening walk on the links with two clubs under his arm, being apparently all the practice that he needed.”

GRAHAM, MALCOLM HEWLEY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only s. of Hewley Smales Graham, of Oxley-Woodhouse, Huddersfield; b. New Mill, near Huddersfield, 22 Nov. 1894; educ. Repton and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was studying for the medical profession; on the outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted to the 3rd Yorkshire Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front the following March, and was there attached to the 2nd Battn. He was promoted Lieut., 2 Feb., 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, near La Bassée, 15 June, 1915, and was buried close to Givenchy Church; unm. His Colonel wrote: “He was most gallantly leading his platoon when he fell, shot through the neck. Your son was a most excellent officer, very keen and hard working and he will be a great loss to the battn. Please accept the deepest sympathy of all ranks in your great loss.” Lieut. Graham was a fine athlete. At Repton he shot at Bisley for his school, and at Cambridge he rowed in the “Lents” and “Mays,” and was in the boat that won the Clinker Fours. He also rowed at Henley in 1914, where his boat won the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, and he was elected a member of the Leander Club.

GRAHAME, JOHN GORDON, L.-Corpl., No. 1894, Honourable Artillery Company)(T.F.), yr. s. of the late Thomas Grahame, Canadian Government Agent for Scotland, by his wife, Margaret Elizabeth (Cumberland House, Horley, Surrey), only dau. of William Tyrwhitt, sometime of Nantyr Hall, Denbighshire, and grandson of the Rev. James Grahame, author of “The Sabbath”; b. Glaudhall, Chryston, Glasgow, 12 March, 1885; educ. Glasgow High School and Dulwich College; and was in the employ of Harris & Dixon, Shipowners; on the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the H.A.C. in Sept. 1914; went to France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried behind the trenches of St. Eloi near Voormezeele, in the grounds of the Chateau of Elsinvelles. His Commanding Officer wrote that he was much loved and respected by all his platoon, and he as well as others would miss him both as a friend and a soldier.

GRAINGER, ALBERT VICTOR, Private, No. 2336, 4th Battn. The Suffolk Regt. (T.F), yst. s. of Henry Rampling Grainger, of 94, Kemball Street, Ipswich, Gardener, by his wife, Hannah, dau. of James Brown; b. Ipswich, 16 Oct. 1889; educ. St. John’s School there; and was a Boiler Maker; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in Sept. 1914; went to France, 6 Nov., and died, in No. 7 Clearing Hospital, 13 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle on the 11th. He m. at Buckersham, 12 March, 1911, Grace (4, Tennyson Road, Ipswich), dau. of William Edward Colthorpe, and had two children; Albert Victor, b. 2 Jan. 1914; and Grace, b. 30 March, 1912.

GRAMSHAW, ROBERT WILFRED RALEIGH, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., only s. of the Rev. Robert Michael Oginski Gramshaw, of Fittleworth, Sussex, by his wife Emily, dau. of Dr. Richard Hughes, of Brighton; b. Enfield, Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1890; educ. at St. Cyprian’s, Eastbourne (1901–4), Charterhouse (1904–9), and at Exeter College, Oxford (1909–13). He gained a classical scholarship at Harrow in March, 1904, which he refused, and a junior classical scholarship at Charterhouse in June of the same year, which he accepted. On the expiration of his junior scholarship he gained a senior scholarship at the same school, and in 1909, his last year there, won the Thackeray and Elder prizes, a leaving exhibition, and the Talbot Medal and Exhibition. In the same year he gained an open classical scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford, being the senior scholar of his year. He read Honour Moderations and Literae Humaniores, obtaining a second class in both schools, and took his B.A. degree in 1913. He took a keen interest in rowing, and was spare man for both his College Torpid and Eight, only doctor’s orders forbidding him an actual place in the boat. He had intended to take Holy Orders, and had been awarded a Liddon Studentship, but on the outbreak of war, was offered and accepted a commission in the 3rd Royal Sussex Regt., 15 Aug. 1914. He left for France on 1 Jan. 1915, where he was attached to the 2nd Battn. of the Regt., and was seriously wounded when leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches at La Bassée on the evening of the 25 Jan. 1915, and died in hospital two days later; unm. Buried in Béthune Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He died a soldier’s death of wounds received in a very brilliant little operation, by which our brigade recaptured some important ground which had been lost earlier in the day.”

GRANGER, JOHN ROBERT CLIFFORD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2563), 208749, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GRANT, DUNCAN, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, eldest s. of Archibald Grant, by his wife, Anne (Nevis Cottages, Fort William), dau. of Angus McMillan; b. Fort William, Inverness, 8 July, 1880; educ. Fort William Public School, afterwards being in the service of the Scottish Meteorological Society at their Ben Nevis Station. He joined the Camerons in Nov. 1899, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. at Gibraltar, leaving there with a draft for the 1st Battn. in South Africa, and served through that campaign, 1899–1902, and received the Queen’s medal with five clasps (Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, 1902). On the conclusion of the South African campaign, he returned with his Battn. to England, but after two years in various stations in Scotland and Ireland, offered himself for foreign service and was sent to the 2nd Battn. then doing duty in Natal. He afterwards accompanied his regiment to China, and from there to Bangalore, India, and was present at the Delhi Durbar (medal). On the outbreak of the European War he held the rank of Coy. Sergt.-Major, being stationed near Poona, and before leaving India was offered a commission in his own company, which he accepted and was gazetted, 14 Dec. 1914, proceeding to France about a week later. He was killed by a shell during the bombardment of Hill 60, Ypres, 28 April, 1915, and was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres, Belgium; unm. Lieut. Grant was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

GRANT, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 3311, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of William James Grant, of 7, Courtfield Mews, Courtfield Gardens, South Kensington, Private Chauffeur, by his wife, Alice Louisa; b. London, 16 June, 1896; enlisted 17 Dec. 1914, following the outbreak of war; was wounded in the trenches, 3 May, 1915, and died on board the hospital ship Salta during the crossing from France, 19 May following. He was buried in the military cemetery at Netley. Before joining he remarked to his mother: “I am not quite military age, but I have thought a lot about this war, and I feel it my duty to go, as I am a big, strong boy, and there will be plenty that can’t go.” His elder brother served in the 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. with the British Expeditionary Force in France.

GRANT, HAROLD CHARLES, Private, No. 2553, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of James Duff Grant, of 63, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.; b. Highbury, 9 June, 1883; educ. Crouch End School; was a Clerk with Messrs. Leslie Booth & Booth, Chartered Accountants [both partners, W. L. Booth and A. M. Booth, were Territorial officers, and both were killed in action]; after the outbreak of war, enlisted 3 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar, and then to France, and died in a Field Hospital near Sailly, 16 June, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. His Platoon Officer wrote: “Your son was hit in the head on Thursday morning and became unconscious. He died in hospital at 10 o’clock on Friday morning, never having regained consciousness.... I shall never be able to replace your son in my platoon”; and the Chaplain (the Rev. Richard Griffiths): “We buried him this afternoon [near Sailly] in a little soldiers’ cemetery with pretty green hedges around it, and a little orchard beyond.” He was unm.

GRANT, JAMES, Drummer, No. 976, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th s. of James Albert Grant, of 131, Kilburn Lane, Willesden, N.W., by his wife, Anne, dau. of (——) Clark; b. Kensington, W.; educ. Board School, Buckingham Terrace, Kensington, W.; was a keen member of the Cadet movement, and was a Lieut. in the Knightsbridge (St. Paul’s) Co.; joined the Kensingtons on the organisation of the Territorial Force; volunteered on the outbreak of war for foreign service; left for the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm.

GRANT, THOMAS, Private, No. 2243, 8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Grant, of 61, Albany Road, Brentford, Hawker; b. Brentford, co. Middlesex, 5 Nov. 1894; educ. St. John’s School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials in March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service and mobilized 6 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action there, 11 May, 1915; unm.

GRANT, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6993), 196834, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GRATTAGE, SAMUEL THOMAS, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10246), 299157, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GRAVETT, CHARLES DAVID, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex 1/334), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of George Gravett, of 19, Coleridge Street, Hove; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

GRAY, ALBERT JOHN, Ordinary Seaman, J. 22930, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GRAY, JAMES, Major, 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), s. of the late Robert Sclater Gray, of Leechman and Gray, Leith, Distiller and Wine Broker, by his wife, Barbara Mann, dau. of (——) Peterson; b. 22 March, 1875; educ. Royal High School, Edinburgh, and was a Wine Broker and Distiller. He joined the old 5th Highland Coy. of the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, afterwards the 4th Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots, in 1891, and received his commission in 1896; was promoted Lieut., 1898, and Capt., 1901, and Major, 1 May, 1913, after which he was placed in the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service; left for Egypt 19 May; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, when 2nd in command of his Battn. 28 June, 1915. Buried at Krithia. Colonel Younger, late Commanding Officer 4th Battn. Royal Scots, wrote: “None but myself can know how large a part James Gray played in the training of the Battn. in the first few months of the war. Only those who have had the experience can know the trials and difficulties which Territorial Commanding Officers were faced with on suddenly becoming professional soldiers. The help and strength I received from Major Gray were beyond all praise.” Major Gray had the Coronation Medal and the Long Service Medal. He m. at St. Cuthbert’s Parish Church, Edinburgh, 4 Jan. 1912, Grace E. (28, Scotland Street, Edinburgh), dau. of the late Robert Naismith, of Leith; s.p.

GRAY, MARY SUTHERLAND BROWN, Sister in charge of a Ward, Hospital Auxilliare 301, Abbaye de Royaumont, dau. of James Gray, of Oakleigh Lodge, Leven, Fife, Secretary of the Fife Coal Co., by his wife, Mary Sutherland, dau. of William Brown, Manager of the Colliery of Oakley, near Dunfermline; b. Oakleigh, Dunfermline, 17 Nov. 1869; educ. privately in Scotland and then trained as a nurse at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; and after leaving there nursed among the working classes at Kilmarnock and later at Crief; on the outbreak of the European War she went to France with her sister, Miss Margaret Gray, in Nov. 1914, and helped to found the Scottish Women’s Hospital for French wounded soldiers at Royaumont Abbey, Seine et Oise, and died there while engaged in her duties, 25 Jan. 1916. The Secretary of the Hospital, Miss Cicely Hamilton, wrote: “She was essentially a woman of character, a humorous, brave individual, a woman who over-worked with a smile and wore herself out as if the process amused her. She laughed with her men while she worked for them, she had the charm of good manners—those real good manners that come without teaching at the dictation of real good nature. She was buried in the cemetery at Asnieres-sur-Oise to the distant mutter of guns.”

GRAY, PHILIP, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 1818, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

GRAY, ROBERT HENRY, Private, No. 1157, 24th Battn. 6th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of Horace Frederick Gray, Chauffeur, by his wife, Annie Eliza (Goddingog, Llanfairfechan, N. Wales), dau. of Charles Henry Lowe; b. Rilton Mews, Brompton Road, London, 16 April, 1891; educ. Llanfairfechan National School; went to Australia 27 Aug. 1914; was a Valet and Footman; enlisted 15 April, 1915; left for Egypt 7 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 16 Sept. 1915; unm.

GRAY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 7969, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 6th s. of the late Henry Gray, of 3, Queen’s Road, Aberdeen, J.P., Merchant, by his wife, Helen Mackay, dau. of George Mackay, Aberdeen; b. Aberdeen, 1 Jan. 1882; educ. Aberdeen Grammar School and University Art Classes; went to Winnipeg, Canada, in 1903, and afterwards settled at Vancouver, B.C., as a Real Estate Agent; enlisted in the C.E.F. on the outbreak of war; left Valcartier for England with the 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade Contingent; went to France, Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by a bullet through the brain, 23 April, 1915; unm.

GRAY, WILLIAM JAMES, Private, No. 426330, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Thomas Gray, of Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada, by his wife, Margaret Helen, dau. of Joseph Moore, of Caulmet Island, Quebec; b. Thorne Centre, P. Quebec, 26 Jan. 1894; educ. Quebec; was a Farmer; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the 46th Battn. at Regina, 26 Jan. 1915; left Camp Sewell, Manitoba, with the 200 men of the 46th Battn., sent as reinforcements 30 June; trained at Shorncliffe with the 32nd Battn.; went to France between 1–5 Sept., and was there drafted to the 10th Battn., and died in No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, at Bailleul, 1 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm.