HUDSPITH, HAROLD BARON, Sergt., No. 544, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter John Hudspith, of 81, Pendle Road, Streatham, S.W., by his wife, Minnie Mary, dau. of William Lyttleton Baron; b. St. John’s Wood, London, 4 Aug. 1893; educ. Borough Polytechnic, London; was a Draughtsman; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles in 1909, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 14 March, 1915, and was killed in action in the German trenches at Givenchy, Flanders, 25 May, 1915, while leading his section in the attack on the enemy position; unm. His Capt. wrote: “He was extremely popular in my company (and in fact in the battn.) and personally I miss him very much, both as a splendid N.C.O. and as a man.”

HUGGETT, MAURICE, Private, No. 12/136, A Coy., 3rd (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own) Auckland Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Martin Huggett, of Atherton Road, Auckland, New Zealand, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Holmes; b. Auckland, 1 Jan. 1894; educ. Auckland Grammar School; was an engineer apprentice, volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 16 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915; and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April following, and was killed in action there, 28 April, 1915; unm. He was taking a comrade’s watch when he was shot through the forehead.

HUGGINS, ALBERT, Private, No. 3353, Scots Guards; b. Diss, co. Norfolk; attested 20 April, 1900; served through South African War (medal) and in France; was wounded and died a prisoner at Hamelin, 15 Nov. 1914. He m. in London, 6 May, 1909, Agnes Blanche Bloomfield, and had three children: Maurice George, b. 31 Jan. 1912; Violet May, b. 9 May, 1910; and Ivy Agnes, b. 28 Jan. 1914.

HUGGINS, PETER WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10024), S.S. 107667, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13379, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, GEORGE WILLIAM, Sergt., No. 5539, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George William Hughes, by his wife, Emma, dau. of W. Godderidge; b. Keighley, co. York, 19 April, 1885; educ. Tamworth; enlisted 2 May, 1904; became L.-Corpl. 4 April, 1910; Corpl. 9 Oct. 1912; L.-Sergt. 30 April, 1913, and Sergt. 6 Aug. 1914; served in Egypt 20 Sept. 1906 to 23 May, 1911 (Khedival medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914; unm.

HUGHES, GUY WILEY, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., yst. s. of George Hughes, of Fieldhead, Wimbledon, by his late wife, Emily, dau. of William Edward Wiley, of The Rookery, Erdington; b. Kensington, 26 Feb. 1892; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Reserve of Officers from the O.T.C. March, 1913; attd. to the 4th Middlesex after the outbreak of war; went to France, 17 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 31 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action the previous day; unm. His brother, Capt. A. E. Wiley Hughes, when attd. to the 3rd Royal Fusiliers, was wounded twice in France.

HUGHES, HENRY JOHN, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4663), 171044, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7885), 216211 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUGHES, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Pensioner, Carpenter’s Mate, 132399, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HUGHES, LIONEL, Trooper, No. 11/464, Wellington Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of the late Rev. William Henry Hughes, Vicar of St. Hilary, Marazion, Cornwall, by his wife, Kathleen, yst. dau. of the late Charles Gumm, of White Hall, Chingford, Essex; b. Trevarthian, Marazion, 25 Sept. 1887; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock; settled in New Zealand; joined the Wellington Mounted Rifles on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 30 May, 1915; unm.

HUGHES, LIONEL HOLFORD, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st. Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., only s. of the late Allen Edward Hughes, of Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Earthenware Manufacturer (died 15 April, 1916), by his wife, Evelyn Emma, yst. dau. of The Rev. Samuel Plant, Vicar of Weston-on-Trent and Prebendary of Lichfield; b. Wychdon Lodge, near Stafford, 25 July, 1895; educ. St. Ronan’s, Worthing, and Lancing College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd North Staffords, 6 March, 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, where he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and was killed in action near the Rue du Bois, 29 Oct. 1914; unm. Lieut.-Col. de Falbe, C.M.G., D.S.O., commanding 1st North Staffords, wrote: “He was killed to-day, by a shell in the trenches near Rue du Bois, a small village two miles south of Armentières. He was killed instantaneously, and is buried on the west side of the Armentières-Wavrin Railway, and 300 yards north-west of the level crossing at Rue du Bois. The grave is marked with a cross inscribed with his name and regiment.”

HUGHES, PRYCE, Coy. Sergt.-Major, Brecknockshire Battn. (24th) South Wales Borderers (T.F.), s. of Robert Hughes, of New Inn Hotel, Merthyr, Licensed Victualler; b. Brecon, 8 Feb. 1874; educ. Butcher’s Grammar School there; joined the 1st Brecknockshire Volunteer Battn. South Wales Borderers (No. 2498), 27 Feb. 1893, and passed into the Territorial Force (No. 30) 3 April, 1908; became Sergt. 12 Dec. 1908, and later Coy. Sergt.-Major. He served in the South African War with the South Wales Borderers (Queen’s medal), and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service; went to Aden with his Battn. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on active service there, 19 June, 1915; unm. Buried in Government Cemetery there. He had the Long Service Medal.

HUGHES, SIDNEY ISAAC, L.-Corpl., No. 12481, 1st Battn. The Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of the late William Edgar Hughes, of Leigh Farm, Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine (Berkeley Road, Newbury, Berks), dau. of Henry King, of Woodlands, St. Mary, Farmer; b. Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, co. Berks, 15 July, 1891; educ. Newbury Church School; was an Engineer’s Fitter and Erector; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 10 Sept. 1914, with two of his brothers; appointed L.-Corpl., Dec.; went to France, 9 Jan. 1915, and was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

HUGHES, THOMAS JOSEPH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8019), S.S. 103750, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUGHES, THOMAS HECTOR, Capt., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Frederick Hughes, of Wallfield, Reigate; b. there, 16 July, 1881; educ. Repton and Sandhurst; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Worcesters, 3 May, 1901; gazetted Lieut. in May, 1903; acted as Adjutant from Nov. 1910 to Nov. 1913; obtained his company, 28 June, 1911, and was killed in action near Richebourg St. Vaast, 15 Oct. 1914, being buried 250 yards north of that place. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan., 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Hughes was an excellent cricketer, and played for Hampshire and the Aldershot Command. When his battn. went to Tidworth in 1911 he gave much attention to sport and rendered assistance to Capt. Whitty towards winning the Queen Victoria Cup in 1913. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, dated 21 Oct. 1914, Col. Rowland Hill, President of the Grindelwald Sports Meeting, said: “He was for years our champion ski expert, the capt. and centre-forward of our hockey team, one of the best of our curlers, the capt. of our rifle team against the Swiss marksmen. The cheeriest and best of comrades, always to the front in any fun or sport, he will be missed and sincerely mourned by hundreds of friends.” Capt. Hughes m. at Hythe, co. Kent, 4 May, 1911, Gertrude Mary, dau. of Charles Frederick Dobson, of Nottingham, and had two children: Thomas Frederick, b. 15 March 1914; and Joan Winifred, b. 22 June, 1912.

HUGHES, WALLACE JOHN, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305429, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

GORDON-HUGHES, GORDON STONHOUSE (“DICK”), Corpl., No. 677, 8th Battn. 90th Winnipeg Rifles (“Little Black Devils”), and posthumous Lieut. Canadian Expeditionary Force, s. of the late Gordon Gordon-Hughes, Capt., 92nd Gordon Highlanders, afterwards Col. and Adjutant of the Breconshire Rifle Volunteers, by his second wife, Elise Elizabeth (now widow of Algernon Walford Spencer, B.A.), dau. of George Summers Griffiths, of Marl Hill, Cheltenham, and Maida Vale, London, W., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple and Oxford Circuit, and gdson. of Gen. Samuel Hughes, C.B., of the Indian Army; b. Hampstead, 1 July, 1890; educ. Abingdon and Streatham Colleges; went to Canada in 1904, and purchased a farm in Manitoba. In 1911 went to Winnipeg where he became a Chartered Accountant. He had just received his final diploma when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, and he immediately volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles. He left Valcartier with the first contingent, arrived in England in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain, Col. Lipsett specially selected him as Regimental Scout. Went to France in Feb. 1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, after which he was promoted Corpl., and in the engagements at Langemarck (St. Julien), where he was wounded in the head, gassed and crushed under sand bags, but refused to go into Hospital; and Festubert, where, on 22 May, 1915, he was mortally wounded. He died in Hospital at Boulogne on the 25th, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 2251) on the 27th; unm. Col. (now Gen.) Lipsett wrote: “In losing your son I felt I had lost one of my very best, most reliable, and promising men, the commission for which I recommended him was gained entirely on his own merits, and for very good work done; a son to be proud of”; and Major A. W. Woods: “The boys of No. 2 Coy. never wavered for an instant, it was one of the finest instances of endurance that could be imagined, they were in a perfect inferno of shell fire. Your boy, though terribly wounded, uttered no word of complaint, and exhibited the most magnificent fortitude.” Lieut. J. P. MacKenzie wrote: “Corpl. Gordon-Hughes was an exceptionally gallant young man, he was very highly thought of, and liked, by every officer and man in the Battn. I believe he did more than one brave act, which entitled him to promotion, high mention, and reward, but the officers of his Coy., who saw and knew of these brave acts were all killed or prisoners, and there was no one left to bring these conspicuous acts of bravery, etc., before the O.C. Battn.” He was gazetted Lieut. shortly after his death. A bed in the Mackenzie Military Hospital, Winnipeg, was endowed by the T.O.D.E. and named the “Dick Gordon-Hughes” in his memory.

HUGO, LAWRENCE WILLIAM ALBERT, Lieut., Wellington Infantry Regt., s. of William Eugene Hugo, and of his wife, Mary (3, Rossmore Crescent, Wellington, New Zealand); b. Napier, New Zealand, 28 March, 1885; educ. Terrace School, Wellington; joined the Volunteers in March, 1903, and on the introduction of the Territorial system received a commission and was posted to the Technical College Cadets. He was in charge of the Cadets from Nov. 1911, until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, when he volunteered for Imperial service. He was gazetted Lieut. 1 Sept. following; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge 4 May following. He was a crack rifle shot, and while in the Volunteers was Instructor of the Squads which won the Physical Drill and Bayonet-fighting Championships at the Military Tournaments.

HULBERT, HAROLD JOHN, Private, No. 13507, 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of George Reginald Hulbert, of Bethany, Manitoba, by his wife, Amy, dau. of John Woodcock, of Netherhampton, Wiltshire; b. Bethany, 1 Oct. 1894; educ. Minnedosa High School; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force directly war broke out; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went to the Front in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. He was buried near St. Julien. Major Dyer, D.S.O., wrote: “Your boy was killed by shell fire on the hill of Gravenstaffel, while his company was advancing to support the 8th Battn. and help fill the gap left by the retiring Turcos.... We were holding the trenches against 15,000 Germans with less than 1,000 men ... for the last two days without food or water, but we were all there was between the Germans and Calais.”

HULME, SIDNEY, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 42), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUME, ARTHUR GRENVILLE, Major, Wellington Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of Lieut.-Col. Arthur Hume, late 79th Cameron Highlanders and Inspector of Prisons, N.Z., by his wife, Raby, dau. of Dr. Macintire, Inspector-General of Hospitals; b. Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, 3 Oct. 1873; educ. Wellington College, and Wanganui College, New Zealand; was an Engineer; had been for many years in New Zealand Territorials and was Major, Garrison Artillery, when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial service and left for Egypt with the fourth reinforcements in April, 1915; served at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. 1915. He m. at Bath, 8 April, 1902, Amy Charlotte (8, Kensington, Bath), dau. of William Rogers, and had a son, Philip Waldron Grenville, b. 31 July, 1903.

HUME, ISAAC, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1267), 141118, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HUMFREY, WILLIAM KNOX, of Cavanacor, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, eldest surviving s. of the late Col. Benjamin Geale Humfrey, of Cavanacor, co. Donegal (who commanded the 3rd Leicestershire Regt. in the South African War), by his wife, Emily Anne (Cavanacor, Ballindrait, co. Donegal), 2nd dau. of William Knox, of Clonleigh, co. Donegal, N.E., I.C.S. [gdson. of the Right Rev. and Hon. William Knox, D.D., Lord Bishop of Derry, yr. brother of Thomas, 1st Earl of Ranfurly]; b. Narborough, co. Leicester, 14 May, 1891; educ. Bedford Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Lancashire Fusiliers, 5 Oct. 1910; succeeded his elder brother in the family estates, 23 May, 1912; promoted Lieut. 3 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Aug. 1914, was appointed Machine-Gun Officer, and was killed in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1914; unm. Buried at Esnes.

HUMPHREY, ALBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1134), 276452, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUMPHREY, EDMUND WILLIAM ALFRED, Acting Lieut., Royal Naval Reserve, s. of Edmund Humphrey, of Boughton-under-Blean and Westgate-on-Sea, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Emma Lynch, dau. of William Andrews; b. Boughton-under-Blean, co. Kent, 11 July, 1880; educ. Wreight’s School, Faversham, and Margate School of Art; and joined the Merchant Service in 1895, being apprenticed to the Shaw, Saville and Albion Coy. and acquired his first knowledge of seacraft in the old-fashioned sailing ships, gradually working his way to a master’s ticket. He afterwards entered the service of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Coy. becoming 2nd officer, and in 1898 was nominated by the late Lord Goschen, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to a commission as Midshipman, R.N.R., and received his annual training in H.M.S. President, becoming Sub-Lieut. 10 April, 1904; just prior to the war was accepted for a year’s training in a battle ship, and appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, 1914, in which he was serving as acting Lieut. when she was torpedoed in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915. A brother officer who survived, wrote: “Humphrey was popular with his shipmates and certain to have done his duty to the end.” He m. at the Presbyterian Church, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1908, Annie McIlwrick Neilson (28, Hampstead Road, Elm Park, Liverpool), dau. of James Neilson Sproul, of Paisley and Liverpool, and had a dau., Joan, b. 7 July, 1915.

HUMPHREYS, GEORGE GEOFFREY PENDERGAST, Major, 127th Regt. Queen Mary’s Own Baluchis L.I., yst. s. of the late Thomas William Drumond Humphreys, J.P., of Donoughmore House, Castlefin, co. Donegal, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Dr. Thomas Thomson, of Leamington; b. Milltown house, Strabane, co. Tyrone, 17 Feb. 1873; educ. All Hallow’s School, Honiton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1891–2); gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt. 13 July, 1892; transferred to the Indian Staff Corps as Lieut. 13 July, 1895, and promoted Capt. 13 July, 1901, and Major, 13 July, 1910; was Staff Officer to the Officer Commanding the troops in East Africa Protectorate and Uganda, 1897–8 (medal with clasp); and Double Coy. Officer, 130th Baluchis, with China Field Force in 1901; was Adjutant Sind Volunteer Rifles, 1 May, 1908, to 1 May, 1911; Double Coy. Commander, 17 April, 1910; and an extra A.D.C. to H.M. King George V, for the Delhi Durbar, 2 Dec. 1911 to 10 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak of war he went to France attd. to the 129th D.C.O. Baluchis, sailed from India 24 Aug., and died at Hollebeke, Belgium, 30 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Karachi, India, 30 Nov. 1903, Olive Muriel (The Cottage, Rowledge, Farnham), only dau. of Major-Gen. Sir James Bell, K.C.V.O., and had two sons and two daus.: Patrick William, b. 14 May, 1905; George James Alexander, b. 16 Dec. 1906; Olive Phylis, b. 14 July, 1909; and Lorna Isobel, b. 9 May, 1913.

HUMPHREYS, JOHN THOMAS, Sergt., R.M.A., 7273, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUMPHRIES, GEORGE WILLIS, L.-Corpl., No. 1344, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Humphries; b. Newington, London, 2 Aug. 1877; joined The Rangers, 1911, and was killed by a shell which exploded in the trenches, 14 Feb. 1915, while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France. Humphries was the winner of the Light Weight Amateur Boxing Championship in 1900 and was for 20 years connected with the Battersea Athletic Club. He m. at Balham, 4 Oct. 1902, Margaret (32, Strathville Road, Earlsfield, S.W.), dau. of Thomas Cooper, and left four children: George Stanley, b. 16 Feb. 1907; Margaret Dorothy, b. 12 Aug. 1904; Florence Ellen, b. 5 Nov. 1908; and Ivy Gertrude, b. 2 July, 1912.

HUNT, ALBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9624), K. 536, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HUNT, ALFRED EDWARD, Rifleman, No. 2894, 1/8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Hunt, of 35, Balfour Road, Lower Edmonton, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Eldridge; b. Old Kent Road, S.E., 10 Nov. 1895; educ. Croyland Road Board School, Lower Edmonton; was a Postman at Winchmore Hill and Finchley; joined the Post Office Rifles early in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915; and was killed in action at Festubert in the course of a bomb attack upon the German trenches. 2nd Lieut. W. N. Kirkland wrote: “I have known your son since he joined the Battn. in Sept. last, and since the beginning of this year, when the double-coy. organisation was adopted, he has been in my Platoon. Your son was one of the coy. bombers, and when we were ordered to attack a portion of the German trench, he went forward with the bombers in order to drive out the Huns. While doing this he unfortunately was killed. I am sure his death has caused a great loss to the Coy., as bombers are of the utmost importance when attacking the enemy’s trench and it is difficult to find brave and capable men for this.”

HUNT, FRANK ERNEST, Private, No. 2057, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 2nd s. of Simeon Hunt, of 5, Lancaster Road, Brighton, Architect and Surveyor, by his wife, Charlotte, 2nd dau. of Thomas Stanley Wakeley, of Rainham, Kent; b. Brighton, 7 Sept. 1892, and was educ. at Brighton Grammar School and Brighton Municipal Technical College. He passed the Cambridge Local Examination as a junior in 1st Class Honours with two distinctions in 1907, the Matriculation Exam., London University, 1910, and the Intermediate Exam, in Faculty of Engineering, London University, in 1912, but, owing to a severe nervous breakdown in 1913, he was unable to sit for the final B.Sc. (Eng.). Concerning this his master wrote: “Your son worked like a Trojan, and but for the collapse (which I feared) he would have passed. I should like you to be convinced of this.” After the outbreak of war, he volunteered and joined the Sussex Yeomanry in Sept. 1914, and after training at Brighton, Canterbury, and Maresfield, left England, 23 Sept. 1915 for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 17 Dec. 1915, by a chance Turkish bullet fired at night from a considerable distance. The regt. was in reserve at the time some distance from the firing line, and Hunt was standing just outside his dug-out emptying sandbags when hit. Immediate medical attention was given, but the bullet had passed through the lung and death occurred within about half an hour. He was buried in East Anglia Gully Cemetery; unm. His troop officer wrote: “When he came to this regt. in Sept. he was placed in my troop, and although I had thus been his Troop Officer only for a few months they were more than ample to enable one to judge of his good qualities and to feel that, in addition to the thoroughness and loyalty which he always put into his work as a soldier in the form of warfare that we have been through, he would have given a good account of himself in open battle if the opportunity had been allowed him.”

HUNT, GEORGE HENRY, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./11450, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUNT, HARRY, Private, No. 8921, R.E., eldest s. of the late Firth Hunt, of Market Place, Barton-on-Humber, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Thomas Cash; b. Barton-on-Humber, co. Lincoln, 22 Dec. 1883; educ. Wesleyan School there; enlisted 29 April, 1901; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (medal with five clasps), and passed into the Reserve, 27 Feb. 1909; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France 28 Aug. and was killed in action at Armentières, 13 Dec. 1914. In addition to the South African medal he had two Good Conduct medals. He m. in Malta, 7 Aug. 1905, Concerta (30, White Cross Street, Barton-on-Humber, near Hull), dau. of Lorenzo Deprossimo, of Malta; s.p.

HUNT, PERCY HENRY HART, L.-Sergt., No. 1426, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of the late Henry Hunt, Gas and Hot Water Engineer, by his wife, Agnes (39, Dekker Road, Dulwich Village, S.E.), dau. of the late George Hart; b. Chelsea, 24 May, 1892; educ. Dulwich Hamlet School, Dulwich; became a telegraph boy at the age of fourteen, and was subsequently promoted to sorting; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles, 11 April, 1913; appointed L.-Corpl. shortly before war broke out, and promoted Corpl. on mobilisation; volunteered for Imperial service and left for France, 15 March, 1915, where he was appointed L.-Sergt. and died at No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, 28 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the abdomen received in action at Givenchy on the 25th, while leading his men over a parapet. Buried in British New Cemetery, Chocques (grave No. 202); unm. From information furnished his relatives by a Sergt.-Major who assisted to carry him in, it appears that he was left on the field for twenty-four hours, and when they picked him up, although so badly wounded, was quite cheerful, and remarked “I’ve had it.” His Coy. Commander, Capt. A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was extremely popular with his men, and expressed his personal regret at the loss of such a promising and straightforward N.C.O.

HUNTER, GEORGE RUPERT, Gunner, No. 40190, 12th Battery, 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd but only surviving s. of Richard Harrison Hunter, of 418, Gilmons Street, Ottawa, Canada, Civil Servant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of George Cooper, of London, England; b. Aylmer, P. Quebec, 7 Nov. 1890; educ. Ottawa; volunteered for service overseas and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, at Winnipeg, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war; came over with the first contingent, and died at Netheravon, 10 Feb. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while going through his course of training; unm.

HUNTER, HUGH, Private, No. 2000, 1/4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd surviving s. of the late Robert Hunter, Engineer and Manager, Chester Gas Works, Member of the Society of Engineers, by his wife, Ann Martha (16, Durand Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Henry Carne; b. Whitefriars, Chester, 21 June, 1892; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, where he was a L.-Corpl. in the Cadet Corps, and on leaving entered the employ of a firm of Motor Engineers, afterwards Patent Agents in London; volunteered after the outbreak of war, joined the 4th Seaforths in Sept. 1914, and after two months’ training at Bedford, went to the Front with them in Nov. He was shot through the head while acting as observer to his Capt. in the advance on Neuve Chapelle, in the early morning of 11 March, 1915, and died before reaching the dressing station; unm. He was buried with several comrades in the garden of a house at Neuve Chapelle (Edgware Road), S.5.d.3.5. Letters from his Commanding Officer and the Chaplain testify of his being most popular with his comrades and a good soldier.

HUNTER, JAMES ANDREW, L.-Corpl., No. 982, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, only s. of the late James Hunter, of Murdoch Terrace, Edinburgh, and 10, Bryson Road, Edinburgh, Hay and Straw Merchant, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Duncan, of Edinburgh, Coal Merchant; b. Edinburgh, 18 March, 1895; educ. Merchiston Public School; enlisted, 10 Jan. 1912; went to France, 22 Aug. 1914, and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 22 Oct. 1914, of wounds received at Steenwerk on the 20th; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote that he was wounded while taking part in a bayonet charge and bravely driving back the enemy, for which his coy. (B) was highly complimented.

HUNTER, JOHN GEORGE, Private, No. 2134, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of James Hunter, of 67, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, Postman for 28 years in New Deer and Fraserburgh, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Forbes; b. Auchreddie, New Deer, 17 Sept. 1888; educ. New Deer and Fraserburgh Public Schools; served his time as a Draper with Mr. Anderson, Fraserburgh, and was afterwards for six years in the employ of Mr. Millar, cabinet-maker, as salesman and timekeeper; emigrated to Australia, June, 1911; enlisted, Sept. 1914, and trained at Broadmeadows, Victoria; sailed for Egypt, 24 Dec. 1914, and died on 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day, during the landing of the Anzacs near Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli; unm.

HUNTER, LESLIE, Sergt., 14th Platoon, D Coy., No. 75976, 29th (Vancouver) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd s. of Edward Hunter, Manager of Lloyd’s Bank, Compton Street, Ashbourne; b. Ashbourne, co. Derby, 21 June, 1886; educ. Grammar School there; went to Canada in March, 1910; joined the 104th Regt. Jan. 1912; volunteered for service overseas after the outbreak of war, was transferred to the 29th Battn., and was killed in action in France, 11.35 a.m. on 30 Sept. 1915. Capt. P. H. Smith, his commanding officer, wrote that “there was no man in his company for whom he had a higher regard,” and one of his platoon (B. G. Wolfemerton): “He was killed in the discharge of his duty a few feet from myself; he and Corpl. Moorhouse had gone to a ruined house to attempt to locate a sniper who was a source of danger to our lines, and on his way back was shot by probably the sniper he was in search of, through the heart; he died instantly and suffered no pain.” Hunter m. at Derby, 14 Feb. 1910, Ethel (Compton Street, Ashbourne), dau. of Joseph Watson, and had a dau., Gladys Evelyn, b. 18 July, 1911.

HUNTER, ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8375), S.S. 104449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

HURLBERT, REXFORD, Private, No. 10773, 2nd Battn., 1st Brig. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. and only surviving s. of William Benjamin Hurlbert, by his wife, Bessie, dau. of (—) Race, and nephew of Almina, née Hurlbert, wife of George Alfred Whiting, of Smith’s Falls, Ontario (by whom he was brought up); b. Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 29 May, 1895; educ. Smith’s Falls, Ontario; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action in the trenches, 29 Nov. 1915, by a bullet through the head; unm. He was buried N.E. of R.E. Farm, Wulverghem.

HURT, GEORGE WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8922), 196582, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HURT, SEYMOUR FREDERICK AUCKLAND ALBERT, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Albert Frederick Hurt, of Alderwasley, co. Derby, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Alice, 3rd dau. of Frederic Peter Delmé Radcliffe, of Hitchin Priory, co. Herts; b. The Outwoods, near Duffield, co. Derby, 18 Oct. 1879; educ. Hazelwood, Limpsfield, Surrey (1890–93), Harrow (J. Stogden’s House, 1893–98); joined the Militia Oct. 1899, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 18 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1901, and Capt. 24 Jan. 1911; went to the Front, 5 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near La Bassée during the First Battle of Ypres, 18 Oct. following, while leading his coy. in a charge; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915]. Capt. Hurt was in the Harrow cricket XI and the football XI, 1897–98; and took great interest in the cricket and football teams in the R.S.F.; was a keen sportsman, devoting himself to polo, pig-sticking, and big game shooting while in India, where he served the greater part of his time. When at home he acted as field master to his brother’s (Mr. Hurt’s) pack of fox hounds in Derbyshire.

HUSBAND, HERBERT BARRY, L.-Corpl., No. 1377, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Irons Husband, of 4, Eastcheap, London, E.C., Merchant (a native of Fifeshire), by his wife, Constance Eugénie, dau. of Charles Barry, of San Francisco; b. San Francisco, U.S.A., 8 March, 1893; educ. St. George’s College, Weybridge, Surrey, and Maison de Melle, Belgium; was engaged with his father’s firm; joined the London Scottish in Nov. 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died at Wimereux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 16 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at the First Battle of Ypres, and was buried there; unm. Lieut.-Col. G. A. Malcolm wrote: “No commanding officer could have had under his command a braver or more gallant soldier than your son, who so nobly gave his life for his country.” He is believed to have been the first native son of California to fall on a European battlefield. In 1913 he was champion shot of the London Scottish, and the youngest member of the Battn. to secure this distinction in the 49 years of its existence.

HUSKINSON, CHARLES ROBERT, Shipwright, 2nd Class, 344902, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUSSEY, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 8213 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 131), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUSSEY, THOMAS JOSEPH, Private, R.M.L.I., 5775 (R.F.R., Ch. B. 398), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HUTCHESON, JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Service) Battn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), eldest s. of Robert Hutcheson, of Annandale, Berkhamsted, and Mincing Lane, E.C., Sugar Broker, by his wife, Janey Symington, dau. of the late John Henry Downes, of 18, Athole Gardens, Glasgow, and gdson. of the late John Mitchell Hutcheson, of Greenock; b. Highbury, London, 31 Jan. 1897; educ. Berkhamsted School, where he was from 1906 to 1914. The last three years he was a member of the O.T.C. On leaving school he entered the offices of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Assurance Society, but after the outbreak of war left in the beginning of Oct. to join the Inns of Court O.T.C. From this he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 10th Battn. of the Sherwood Foresters, 3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Zillebeke, Flanders, 8 Sept. 1915, by a sniper while surveying his fire trenches. He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres; unm. Many letters were received from his superior and his brother officers, all testifying to the regard and affection in which he was held. His Col. wrote: “He was a keen and energetic young officer of considerable promise and popular with all ranks.” His Capt.: “It is the first life lost among our officers and it is one of the best that has gone.... He was absolutely clean and honourable, frank, sincere and fearless.” His orderly wrote: “I write this short letter out of respect to my esteemed officer, your son. It was a very severe blow to me to lose him, for he was the very best friend that I ever had out here, and although I was only a ‘Tommy’ he showed every consideration for me as well as all the other men in the platoon, where he was very much esteemed. He was buried with full honours, and his grave is in a wood with others. There is a cross at the head, and I shall do all I can to keep his grave clean.” The doctor wrote: “A more unselfish boy one could not find; always thinking of the well-being of others.... I chose his resting place. A plain wood cross has been erected ‘In loving Memory of 2nd Lieut. J. Hutcheson. Killed in action,’ and the motto ‘To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.’”

HUTCHINGS, ROBERT SIDNEY, Private, R.M.L.I., Po. 15154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUTCHINS, THOMAS ARTHUR, Trooper, No. 303, 3rd Light Horse, 1st Light Horse Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 5th and yst. s. of the late Samuel Newburgh Hutchins, of Ballylicky and Ardnagashel, Bantry, co. Cork, B.A. (T.C.D.), J.P., Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Marianne Isabella eldest dau. of Henry Harrison, of Castle Harrison, co. Cork, J.P.; b. Ardnagashel, 20 July, 1888; educ. Fermoy College; went to Australia in Jan. 1912; enlisted in the 3rd Light Horse at Adelaide on 19 Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and embarked for Egypt on 22 Oct. following, arriving at Alexandria on 9 Dec. He was in training for five months, and left for Gallipoli on 8 May, 1915. They landed on the evening of the 13th, and he was killed in action in the Monash Valley the following day, 14 Aug. 1915, the first man of his regt. to fall. He was unm.

HUTCHINSON, ALFRED RICHARD, Officer’s Steward, 2nd Class, L. 1645, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUTCHINSON, HENRY ERNEST, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10706, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUTCHINSON, LIONEL CLYDE, A.C.A., Private, No. 3052, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), only surviving s. of Robert Hutchinson, Marine Engineer, of 6, Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, by his wife, Ellen King, dau. of Thomas Draper, of Albion Street, Spalding, co. Lincoln; b. Spalding, 12 Sept. 1884; educ. at Bournemouth and Bradford Grammar School, Yorks; was afterwards articled to Messrs. Hibberd, Bull & Co., Chartered Accountants, of London and Bournemouth; passed his final examination at the age of 21 and remained at the London office until he enlisted in the London Regt. 2 Sept. 1914. He was killed in the attack on the German lines, at Aubers Ridge, near Fromelles, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, in which the Kensingtons took a leading part and captured three lines of trenches; meeting his death while returning for the third time for supplies of bombs under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He behaved with great gallantry, it was a brave soldier’s death.” A comrade said: “We were all very sorry to lose him, he was very popular with the fellows of his platoon”; and Gen. Rawlinson spoke of the attack as “a feat of arms surpassed by no other battn. in this great war,” asserting: “You and your fallen comrades have won imperishable glory for the 13th Battn.,” and Field-Marshal Sir John French, referring to their conduct in this action, spoke of the Kensingtons as the “glorious 13th.”

HUTCHINSON, ROBERT GREENWOOD, A.B., 222014, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUTH, AUSTIN HENRY, Capt., 4th, att. 1st, Battn. East Surrey Regt., yr. s. of Edward Huth, of Wykehurst Park, Bolney, Sussex, D.L., J.P., by his wife, Edith Wilhelmina, 4th dau. of the late Rev. Frederick Anthony Stansfeld Marshall, Vicar of Great Easton, co. Leicester; b. Mayfair, London, W., 13 Oct. 1881; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; obtained a commission in the King’s Royal Rifles, Feb. 1900, and was promoted Lieut. 1902; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the operations in Natal, March-June; those in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July–29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Belfast (26–27 Aug.) and Lydenberg (5–8 Sept.), receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. On his return to England he left the Army with rank of Lieut., and went to Magdalen College, Oxford (B.A. 1907), afterwards becoming a partner in the family banking business of Messrs. Frederick Huth & Co. On the outbreak of the European War he enlisted in the Middlesex Regt. (Public School Battn.), and was given a Capt.’s commission with the 4th East Surrey Regt., 28 Oct. 1914; went to France, Jan. 1915, and was att. to the 1st East Surreys. He was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; unm. The Brig.-Gen. wrote: “I had a long talk with him in his trench that night. I was much impressed at the time with his zeal, keenness, and thoroughness, and the measures that he was taking to put his trench on a thoroughly sound footing. Sir Charles Fergusson (the Corps Commander) in a letter to me spoke of the East Surreys as ‘The heroes of the occasion,’ and later on he said ‘You may well be proud of your East Surreys.’ His life was given in the hour of victory for King and country in the performance of a magnificent exploit in capturing and consolidating our hold on Hill 60, a point of extreme importance to the well-being of the Allied front.”

HUTT, HAROLD VERNON, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., yr. s. of Arthur William Hutt, of The Moorings, Wallington, Surrey, Member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Margaret Sarah, dau. of William Rees, J.P., Glamorganshire, and gdson. of the Rev. John Charles Hutt, Vicar of St. Silas, Pentonville; b. Enfield, co. Middlesex, 4 Oct. 1887; educ. Eastbourne College, and Finsbury Technical College; graduated B.Sc. (Eng.) with honours at University of London and passed the A.M. Inst.C.E. examination, taking first place, and obtaining the Bayliss Prize. For the four years preceding the war he was engaged on tube railway work: the Central London Railway extension to Liverpool Street, and the Queen’s Park extension of the Bakerloo Railway. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in Aug. 1914, went to France with them in Oct., and, after serving in the trenches for a time, joined the Artists’ O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal Sussex. He was killed in action while defending the Keep at Cuinchy, 27 Jan. 1915, and was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “During the short time your son was with us he endeared himself to all his comrades and showed very high promise; and we all feel that we have lost a comrade who would have been sure to distinguish himself. He died a soldier’s death in the forefront of the fight.” and the Commanding Officer of the Artists’ Rifles wrote: “Your son acted splendidly from the day of mobilisation in Aug. last, and had the goodwill and esteem of every man in the Regt. He had done much to uphold all the best traditions, and his name will always be remembered by all with pride.” 2nd Lieut. Hutt was a descendant of Capt. John Hutt, of H.M.S. Queen, who greatly distinguished himself in the victory obtained off Brest on 1 June, 1794, and to whom a monument was erected in Westminster Abbey by public subscription.

HUTTON, GEORGE, A.B., 223256, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

HUTTON, IAN CAMPBELL, Private, No. 2367, 9th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), 1st s. of William Hutton, of 26, Nile Grove, Edinburgh, Superintending Engineer, Indian Public Works, by his wife, Annie Dickson, dau. of Edward Boyes; b. Tanjore, Southern India, 8 Aug. 1896; brought home to Scotland at the age of three, and was educ. Dollar Academy, where he distinguished himself in sports and was a member of the Cadet Corps. On leaving there he entered the Clydesdale Bank in Edinburgh, for training for Indian banking, but after the outbreak of war joined the 9th Battn. of The Royal Scots in Sept. 1914. After a period of training at Edinburgh, he went to the Front in Feb., and was killed instantaneously by a bullet, at the Second Battle of Ypres, 16 May, 1915. He was buried in Bellewaarde Wood, Hooge. He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh. His brother, 2nd Lieut. Gordon C. Hutton, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, was with him at Ypres, and is still (1916) on active service.