DE JONGH, FRANK, Corpl., No. 2778, Lord Strathcona’s Horse, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd s. of Francis de Jongh, of 6, Avenue Theatre, Lausanne, by his wife, Nellie, dau. of Henry Lahee, of Croydon; b. Lausanne, 22 June, 1889; educ. there; went to Canada in Sept. 1906, and settled at Montreal; joined Lord Strathcona’s Horse in Sept. 1914, came over in Oct. 1914; went to the Front, March, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at Messines, 6 Aug. 1915; unm. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Flanders. An officer wrote: “He was a splendid fellow and beloved by everyone with whom he came in contact and deservedly enjoyed a respect and love of which very few men can boast.”

JORDAN, ALFRED, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3733), 182347, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

JORDAN, CHARLES WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., 5111B., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

JORDAN, GEORGE GRAEME, Private, No. 2302, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of George Silas Jordan, of 21, Blackheath Rise, Lewisham, Director of Edwards & Sons, Ltd., Dairy Farmers and Dairymen, by his wife, Cecilia Annetta, dau. of Theodore Brooke Jones, of Harrogate; b. Lewisham, S.E., 10 June, 1896; educ. Colf’s Grammar School, Lewisham Hill; was in business with Messrs. Yencken & Co., Tower Hill, Australian Merchants; joined the 2nd Battn. London Scottish, with his elder brother, 20 Aug. 1914; transferred to the 1st Battn. and left for France, 16 Sept. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the Military Hospital, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen), 20 Nov. following, of wounds received in the first charge of the London Scottish at Messines on 1 Nov. Buried, Aix-la-Chapelle; unm.

JORDAN, WALTER JOHN LAVERNE, Trooper, No. 2254, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Alfred John Jordan, of Montreal, by his wife, Laverna (36, Tivoli Crescent, Brighton), dau. of Frederick Walter Yateman, of Bound’s Green, N., and Preston Park; b. London, 3 June, 1891; educ. Brighton Grammar School; was a Motor Engineer; joined Sussex Yeomanry, 16 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 26 Sept. 1915, and died on board H.M. Hospital Ship Assaye 20 Dec. following, of wounds received in action in Gallipoli. A comrade (L. J. Cooke) wrote: “The regt. was ordered to move off to support troops in the trenches, this move was carried out whilst a heavy bombardment from both sides was in progress. Whilst the Sussex Yeomanry were marching up the Gully, high explosive shells were falling in the Gully; these shells were endeavouring to silence a British battery which was situated on the left of the Gully on the high cliff. One of these shells fell near to the Squadron your brother belonged to, and six of them were wounded. I was coming up in the rear of the regt. with the Doctor, and we had a message that some ‘boys’ had been hit. When we arrived on the spot we found three badly wounded and three slightly wounded. Your brother had received a severe wound situated at the base of the left lung, the wound was large enough to put a person’s fore finger and thumb in, being a triangular shaped wound, the sides of which were about 2½ inches. While the party were dressing the wounded three more shells exploded about 8 yards from us, the second of which was nearer to us than the other two, and this shell knocked us all over and blew the dressing off your brother’s back which we had just got clean and in position, and covering him with dirt. When the dust had cleared I expected to find everybody blown to pieces, and marvelled at my own lucky escape of only being down away about 6 feet ... I should like to mention that your brother was absolutely one of the best liked fellows in the regt., and had all sorts of nicknames. He was always so jovial, and he is greatly missed by all the old boys.” He was the half-mile champion of Sussex, and a member of the Brighton and County Harriers. Buried at sea, 1 mile off Cape Helles. He m. at Brighton, 14 Oct. 1913, Edith Sarah, dau. of (—) Raymond; s.p.

JORDAN, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 5456, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 5 March, 1904; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 21 Aug. 1914; killed in action on or about 29 Oct. 1914.

JOSEPHS, ARCHIBALD EDWIN, Private, No. 9614, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action on or about 14 Sept. 1914.

JOSEPHS, CHERIBIM, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

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

JOSLIN, JOHN FRANCIS, Major, 2nd, attd. 1st, Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., only surviving s. of the late John Joslin, of St. Helier’s, Jersey, by his wife, Mary (7, Almorah Crescent, St. Helier’s Jersey), dau. of Francis Philip Cabot; b. St. Helier’s, 2 Sept. 1874; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Royal West Kents, from the Militia, 7 Dec. 1895, and promoted Lieut. 13 Nov. 1897; served in the South African War 1900–2, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900; in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Biddulphsberg and Wittebergen (1 to 29 July); in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River, 1900; in the Transvaal, Aug. to Sept. 1901, and April to 31 May, 1902; and in the Orange River Colony, 30 Nov. 1900 to Aug. 1901, and Sept. 1901 to April, 1902. For his service he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He was promoted Capt. 7 Jan. 1903, and from 16 Nov. 1904 to 15 Nov. 1907 was Adjutant to his Battn. After passing through the Staff College he acted as Brigade-Major to Gen. Braithwaite at the Durbar, for which he received the medal, and was promoted Major 3 Sept. 1914. He left for France 24 Oct., and in Nov. became Commandant on the lines of communication. Having been attd. to the 1st Battn. of his regt., he led the storming party (1st West Kents and 2nd K.O.S.B.’s) which captured Hill 60 on the evening of 17 April, 1915, but after holding the hill all night and repulsing three counter-attacks, he was killed as the West Kents were being relieved in the early hours of the 18th. He was the last to leave the position, and was shot in the act of leaving, death being almost instantaneous. He was unm. A brother officer wrote of him: “And in action he was splendid, quite without fear, and able by his example to inspire and encourage those around him. But in your sorrow should mingle pride, for to the very end he did his duty right well, and did much to keep the regimental standard of self-sacrifice as high as it now is. And such records never die.”

JOURNEAUX, WILLIAM FRANCIS, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21979, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

JOYCE, LEUI HAROLD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25447, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

JUDGE, FREDERICK DAVID, L.-Corpl., No. 8439, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of George Judge, of 54, Yarmouth Road, Watford, Gardener, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Brown; b. Sarratt, co. Herts, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. there; enlisted, 12 Aug. 1909, served three years with the Colours and then took up his trade again as a Printer, until called up on mobilisation, 4 Aug. 1914. He went to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in a bayonet charge at Cuinchy, near La Bassée, 1 Feb. 1915, being buried in Cuinchy Cemetery; unm.

JUKES, RONALD WORTHINGTON, Sub-Lieut., Collingwood Battn. Royal Naval Division, only surviving s. of the Rev. Worthington Jukes, Rector of Shobrooke, near Crediton, co. Devon, by his wife, Emily, dau. of (—) Crossley, of Belfast; b. Shobrooke Rectory, 10 Dec. 1892; educ. Crediton Grammar School and King’s College, Taunton, and afterwards trained on H.M.S. Worcester for the Mercantile Marine, which he entered 12 April, 1911; gazetted Sub-Lieut. R.N.D. 14 Nov. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli during the attack on the Krithia-Achi Baba position, 4 June, following; unm. Lieut.-Commander West, of the Collingwood Battn. wrote: “Your son was one of our best platoon commanders.” And Petty-Officer Finnigan, of his Platoon (11th Platoon, C Coy.), wrote: “He had been last seen fighting gallantly with a few men, against the enemy, who had cut them off, the enemy being in such force that rescue was impossible.”

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

JULIN, THOMAS FAWCETT, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I., 17057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

JUPE, BRUCE DUNNING, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 784, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

JUPP, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2524), 215170, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

JURY, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8886, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

JUSTICE, MAURICE, Plumber’s Mate, 310303, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

JUSTICE, PERCY HAROLD, 1st Class Machine Gunner, No. 9032, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd. s. of Caleb William Justice, of Napton, Rugby, co. Warwick, by his wife, Janie, dau. of the Rev. Ravenor Edward Rose, of Colyton, co. Devon; b. Napton, 23 June, 1890; enlisted, in March, 1911, went to France with his regt. in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 24 Jan, 1915; unm. He was buried 25 yards S.W. of the Railway Bridge over the Canal, 400 yards N.W. of Pont Fixe, Cuinchy. His Commanding Officer, Lieut. T. A. Tapp, wrote: “I was in charge of the machine-gun section for some months in France, and among a splendid team your boy and W. Wright stood out as the two most brilliant members: poor Wright was killed on 25 Jan., and I feel it will be impossible ever to replace him and your boy. They could neither have been more perfect as machine gunners, or more brave, and always first to wish to take the place of danger. Your boy was killed on 24 Jan. by a chance shot in the head, just south of the La Bassée Canal, where he was with the machine gun, in a very dangerous and important position. I had come to feel I should always be safe to be able to get up my guns under no matter what fire, and have them brilliantly served as long as I had these two men with me. I had spent some months continuously with them, and now not only feel I have lost two irreplaceable men, but also two friends. Your son died doing his duty as he had always done, most gallantly.” Justice was one of the winning team for the Machine-gun Cup in 1913.

KADWELL, WILLIAM, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./13957, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KAIN, STANLEY, S.B.S., 250914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KALLAWAY, EDGAR, Private, No. 6761, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the late James Kallaway, of 46, Grays Road, Taunton, by his wife, Jane, dau. of John Lewis, of Bridgwater; b. West Monkton, Taunton, co. Somerset 19 Sept. 1886; educ. Taunton; enlisted, 2 May, 1906; served three years with the Colours and then went to Canada in 1913 and settled in Manitoba. On the declaration of war he was called up, arrived in England, 7 Sept. 1914, and left for France, 7 Oct. following. His last post card was written on 26 Oct. In the action at Ypres, on the 29th of that month, the 1st Battn. suffered very heavily, and after it Kallaway was reported missing. He is now assumed to have been killed that day; unm.

KANE, CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class, 302531, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KAVANAGH, THOMAS JOSEPH CUTHBERT, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1521), 177201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KEABLE, JOSEPH WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14165, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KEAM, GEORGE JAMES, Seaman, R.N.R., 1893 D., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KEATES, ARTHUR SYDNEY, A. B., R.N.V.R. Mersey, Z/24, C Coy. Howe Battn., s. of William Keates, of Anfield, by his wife, Jane Ann, dau. of the late David Greenwood, of Liverpool, Ship’s Carpenter, and gdson. of the late John Keates, of Liverpool, formerly Coldstream Guards; b. Bessbrook, co. Armagh, 27 May, 1897; educ. Walton Lane Council School, Liverpool, enlisted following the outbreak of war, 7 Sept. 1914, and d. in No. 17 Hospital, Alexandria, 15 May, 1915, from wounds in the left hand and shoulder, received in action in Gallipoli on Sunday, 2 May. On the eve of embarking at Bristol he wrote to his father: “I am going without the slightest fear of death and with a true confidence in my Maker. My motto is duty.”

KEATES, REGINALD, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6237), S.S. 2565, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KEATES, THOMAS TRANCER, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14113, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KEELAN, JOHN, Private, No. 14908, 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, eldest s. of Patrick Keelan, of 13, Greville Street, Mullingar, J.P., General Draper, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Skerrin Kilkenny; b. Mullingar, 13 Dec. 1882; educ. Christian Brothers Schools there; after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Royal Irish Rifles on or about 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Kemmel, in France, 30 Jan. 1915; unm.

KEELER, SIDNEY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7234), S.S. 102151, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KEEN, FRED, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 2470, Portsmouth, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

KEENE, EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13675, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KEENE, OSWALD REES, Private, No. 15866, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., eldest s. of the late Rev. Rees Keene, M.A., Oxon, Theological Lecturer at St. Bees College, and afterwards Rector of Gosforth, co. Cumberland, 1895–1910; by his wife, Louisa Margaret, 2nd dau. of the late Sir Augustus Helder, M.P.; b. St. Bees, co. Cumberland, 30 April, 1891; educ. Alton School, Plymouth; The School, Malvern Link, and Malvern College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Border Territorial Regt., 31 May, 1911, but was obliged to retire through ill-health. On the outbreak of war he volunteered, and enlisted in the 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 12 Dec. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the Duke of Wellington’s. Left for the Front, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action on Hill 60 by poisoned gas, 5 May, 1915. Buried at Ypres; unm.

KEENLYSIDE, CECIL ALEXANDER HEADLAM, Capt., 1st Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Francis Headlam Keenlyside, of Gally Law, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Mary Anne Hales, 2nd dau. of Edward Charles Hales Wilkie, Lieut., 1st Dragoon Guards (gddau. of Lieut.-Col. Fletcher Wilkie, 35th and 38th Regt, and gt. gddau. of Thomas Wilkie, Lieut. 30th Regt., who died in the American War, 1781); b. Surbiton, 23 Oct. 1881; educ. Charterhouse, and Trinity College, Oxford; and while at the latter joined the Oxfordshire L.I. and served with them in the South African War. He afterwards obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Cambridge Territorials 24 Feb. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 26 Aug. 1914, and Capt. 16 Sept. following. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for Imperial service; went to France with his regt., 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Armentières, 20 July, 1915. He was struck by a splinter of shell in the throat and immediately became unconscious, and died a quarter of an hour later. Col. Copeman, Commanding 1st Cambridgeshires wrote to his widow: “You ought to be told that his death is the most grievous blow that has yet befallen the Battn. That he was at all times an inspiration and help to us all and his loss is irreparable.” He was a very keen cricket and racquet player; played cricket for his school Charterhouse, and also several times for Cambridge county. A very active member of the National Service League. He m. at Weybridge, 14 Sept. 1910, Gladys Mary, dau. of the late Henry Ernest Milne, of Warrenhurst, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, and had two children: Francis Hugh, b. 7 July, 1911; and Phoebe Lavender, b. 28 Aug. 1914. His brother, Capt. G. F. H. Keenlyside, died of wounds (see following notice).

KEENLYSIDE, GUY FRANCIS HEADLAM, Capt., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 2nd s. of the late Francis Headlam Keenlyside, of Gally Law, Weybridge, Barrister-at-Law, etc. (see preceding notice); b. 9 Jan. 1880, educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal West Kent Regt., 12 Aug. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 5 June, 1901, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1904; was Adjutant of Volunteers, 16 July, 1906, to 31 March, 1908, and of Territorials, 1 April, 1908, to Aug. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 29 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle. He m. 1906, Rose Margaret (Braemar, Kingston Road, Staines), dau. of Seymour Henry Knyvett, I.S.O., and had two sons: Richard Headlam, b. 13 May, 1909; and Christopher Headlam, b. 4 May, 1913.

KEIGHT, JOSEPH, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2842), 198973 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KELLAS, ARTHUR, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., Capt., tempy. Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), attd. 89th Field Ambulance, 86th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division, yst. s. of the late James Fowler Kellas, Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine for the Port of Aberdeen, by his wife, Mary Boyd (48, Carden Place, Aberdeen), dau. of Peter Mitchell, of Ballater, Aberdeenshire; b. Aberdeen, 1 March, 1884; educ. Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.B. in 1906, and in the following year took the degree of D.P.H. In 1914 he obtained the new diploma of psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. For a short time he was Resident Physician and Surgeon in the Sick Children’s Hospital, and subsequently held the appointment of Senior Medical Assistant at the Royal Asylum, Aberdeen. While a student at Aberdeen University he served for some time in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) and afterwards in the University Corps of the Scottish Horse. He received a commission as Lieut. in 1st Highland Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 2 Feb. 1909, and was promoted Capt., 2 Aug. 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division on 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 6 Aug. following. Buried in Military Cemetery at Lancashire Landing, Gallipoli; unm. Lieut.-Col. Thomas Fraser, commanding 1st Highland Field Ambulance, wrote: “To everyone in the Ambulance, Arthur had endeared himself by his excellent qualities of head and heart, by his devotion to duty and by his keen interest in everything that pertained to the good of the Ambulance as a whole. The men of his own section adored him, and there was no better trained or harder working unit in the Peninsula. To myself personally his loss is irreparable. Amongst a group of excellent officers, I regarded him as outstanding. He had been the greatest possible help to me, first as Transport Officer and then as Commander of C Section. We had been working together for just a year, and our most intimate association had been absolutely without friction. He had a great capacity for work, was an excellent organiser with a firm grasp of detail, of cool and sane judgment and a high sense of discipline, which was an outstanding example to all. Of his personal qualities and his unswerving loyalty I shall say nothing, save that they leave with me a lasting and unclouded memory which is full of pleasantness and cannot be effaced. We are all shocked by the suddenness of his end, though glad that it was a painless one. He was hit in the head by a sniper while making final arrangements before an action, during which it was his turn to take charge of our advanced Dressing Station. This was over 4 miles from our camp, but I decided that his body should be brought back to the Military Cemetery at Lancashire Landing, near which we have been stationed so long. There we buried him, wrapped in the colours for which he had given his life, yesterday afternoon at 2.14. A Church of England clergyman officiated. It was a most impressive service, to an accompaniment of shells from Achi Baba, which has been our daily and nightly portion for so long. There he sleeps in the company of many heroes who have laid down their lives for their country on these inhospitable and deadly shores, none of whom did his duty more earnestly or gallantly than he. I have received the enclosed letter from Col. Yarr, who at the landing was A.D.M.S. of the 29th Division. It speaks for itself, and shows how your son was regarded and appreciated at Headquarters.” The letter from Col. Yarr was as follows: “I hope you will express not only the regret of his unit but the grief of the whole 29th Division at the loss of a gallant comrade. Both in the 29th Division and in the 8th Army Corps, of which it forms part, I have known Capt. Kellas well; his watchword was Duty, and he died as he lived, a fearless, gallant officer and gentleman.” In the course of a notice of Major Kellas’s death which appeared in “Nature” (28 Aug. 1915), the writer observed: “His tenure of office at the Royal Asylum was a strikingly successful one; on both the therapeutic and the administrative sides he evinced gifts of no ordinary type.”

KELLEHER, CHRISTOPHER, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16289, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

KELLEY, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 98), lte. Ch./2399, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1916.

KELLIE, ESMOND LAWRENCE, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. s. of Lawrence Kellie, of 191, Portsdown Road, Maida Vale, London, W., Musical Composer and Singer, by his wife, Gertrude Mary, dau. of John Stonier, of Post Hill, Staffordshire; b. Portsdown Road, London, 27 April, 1894; educ. Loudoun House School, St. John’s Wood, N.W., and Westminster School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; obtained a 1st Class in the London University Matriculation Examination; joined the Artists’ Rifles as Private, 3 Aug. 1914, and went with that regt. to France in the following Oct.; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Unattached List, 1 Jan. 1915, and later posted to the 1st Bedfords. On 19 April following he was wounded in the thigh while defending a trench captured from the enemy at Hill 60, and while being carried from the trench, was killed by a shell, which also wounded the stretcher-bearers. Buried, Hill 60; unm. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. C. R. J. Griffith, D.S.O., wrote that he was “a most courageous and useful officer and very popular with all in the regt.” He was a keen all-round sportsman, and had also artistic and musical tastes.

KELLY, ARTHUR, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., 1st Class 66), 211500, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KELLY, HARRY HOLDSWORTH, Capt., R.E., yst. s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Holdsworth Kelly, R.M.A. (ret.), of Montrose House, Southsea, by his wife, Elizabeth Eleanor, dau. of John Collum, of Bellevere, co. Fermanagh; b. Staff Officers’ House, Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 24 Aug. 1880; educ. Rugby and R.M.A., Woolwich (Feb. 1897–99); gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 8 March, 1899; promoted Lieut. 25 July, 1901, and Capt. 8 March, 1908; served with the Egyptian Army, 1903–13; was Resident Engineer for the construction of the Town and Harbour of Port Sudan, 1904–08, and received the 4th Class Osmanieh for services in connection with this, 28 June, 1908; was Inspector of Roads and Communications for the Sudan, 13 Nov., 1908, serving as a member of the Lado Enclave Commission in 1911; Commissioner for the Sudan Government in the Sudan-Uganda Boundary Commission, 1913, and was responsible for the Reconnaissance to the Boma Plateau, carried out in the same year; took part in the operations in the Atwot Region, Sudan, in 1910 (Sudan medal), was Intelligence Officer in the operations against the Beir and Anuak tribes in South Eastern Sudan (clasp to Sudan medal and 3rd Class Medjidieh) 1912; decorated with the 3rd Class Osmanieh, 1913; re-absorbed into the British Establishment, Nov. 1913. He served with the 38th Field Coy. R.E. in France, and was killed in action at Bois Grenier, near Armentières, 24 Oct. 1914, while superintending wire entanglement work between the British and German trenches; buried at Bois Grenier; unm. His Commanding Officer, Major F. M. Browne, wrote: “He was killed early this morning while on duty in the trenches. He was struck by two bullets, one in the head and one in the back, and I feel sure that death was instantaneous and painless. We were enabled to recover his body, which was to-day buried simply by the chaplain in the presence of all the Coy. His grave lies by the roadside near a pretty country town and we are at present erecting a cross and railings to enclose it.... I need hardly tell you what a great loss your son’s death is to me, both as a friend and an officer. He was invaluable to me in every way and the country has lost in him a most valuable officer”; and writing home from a Colchester Hospital, Lieut. Arthur Evans, Royal Engineers (of Carnarvon), paid a tribute to the bravery and kindness shown by Capt. Kelly, who commanded his coy., in attending to him when he was wounded, four days before Capt. Kelly himself was killed. The letter states: “It was a great blow to me to read of Kelly having been killed in action just after I had written him a letter thanking him for being so decent to me after I was hit. He came down to me some miles from Coy. headquarters to the trenches, which must have been under heavy fire, saw me into the dressing station, and did not leave me until just before I left in the ambulance wagon. The dressing station was under fire, and was struck by a shell just before I got away. He was a fine man, 6 ft. 6 in. in his socks, beautifully built, popular and known everywhere, and I was very proud of his friendship.” Capt. Kelly won the Army and Navy Heavyweight Boxing Championship in 1901. He carried out explorations in Abyssinia in 1907, 1911 and 1913.

KELLY, THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3286), 302040, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KEMP, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 101861, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KEMP, ARTHUR, Private, No. 1818, C Coy. 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Sergt. Harry Kemp, of the same Battn., by his wife, Kate (Sunny Bank, Wadhurst, Sussex), dau. of James Patey; b. Moseham, Wadhurst, co. Sussex, 6 Oct. 1898; educ. Wadhurst Council School; joined the Sussex Territorials in March, 1914, and on the outbreak of war went with his Battn. to Dover and from thence to the Tower, where he volunteered for foreign service. He died in King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, 16 Jan. 1915, from pneumonia, contracted while trench digging at Whiligh. He had been a prominent member of the Wadhurst Boy Scouts, which he joined at its inception by Mr. E. Courthope. He was a patrol leader of the Rattlesnakes, and obtained a number of badges. He was also bugler of the troop.

KEMP, SYDNEY, Ordinary Seaman, No. J. 17067, Ch., 2nd s. of George Kemp, of 66, Plough Road, Battersea, S.W., by his wife, Anna Maria; b. Hoxton, N., 8 April, 1896; educ. Clapton Road School; joined the Royal Navy about 15 April, 1912; and was lost when H.M.S. Cressy, together with the Aboukir and the Hogue, were sunk by torpedoe-fire off the Dutch coast, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

KEMPSTER, JOHN DOUGLAS, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3714), B. 2226, 212890, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KEMPTON, HARRY LEONARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 3714), 305750, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KEMSLEY, WILLIAM CHARLES HENRY, Private, No. 2331, Royal Army Medical Corps (T.F.), 2/1st Home Counties F.A., s. of George Albert Kemsley, of 1, Railway Place, Lower Halling, near Rochester; b. Snodland, 20 June, 1896; educ. Halling Board School; joined the R.A.M.C. Aug. 1914, and died at Windsor, 10 Feb. 1915, of cerebral hæmorrhage, while training. Buried, Halling Cemetery; unm.

KENDALL, JESSE, Cooper, 282542, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KENNARD, ARTHUR, Private, No. 8557, 2nd Battn. The Hampshire Regt., yr. and only surviving s. of the late Edmund Arthur Kennard, of Hartfield, Tunbridge Wells, Master at Ipswich Grammar School (who d. 13 April, 1891), by his wife, Annie M. (Cairo Cottage, Southwater, Horsham), dau. of the late George Greenfield; b. posthumous at Hartfield, co. Sussex, 21 July, 1891; educ. Southwater Council School; joined the 1st Hants. Regt. at Portsmouth, 1 Jan. 1910, going direct to Londonderry till the Autumn, and then to Aldershot, where he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. for foreign service in the autumn of 1911; served Wynberg, South Africa; Mauritius and Mhow, Central India; came home suffering with malarial fever and was unable to accompany his regt. to the Front in March, 1915, but went out to the Dardanelles with a draft the following July. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, in the great charge at Krithia, 6 Aug. 1915. On this occasion, out of the 900 who went into the action, only 250 returned.

KENNARD, STANLEY CHARLES, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1981), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KENNEDY, ARTHUR ST. CLAIR, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yst. s. of Francis George Holland Kennedy, of Tivoli, co. Limerick, by his wife, Mary St. Clair, dau. of the late William Doyle Hobson, of Myler’s Park, co. Wexford; b. Shelbourne, co. Limerick, 12 Jan. 1892; educ. Aravon, Bray, co. Wicklow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.D.F. 10 June, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; was invalided home after the Battle of the Aisne, and subsequently sent on duty to Cork with the 3rd Battn. of his regt. There, while expecting to be again sent to the Front with a draft, he contracted pneumonia and died in the Royal Military Hospital, 6 March, 1915; unm. He was buried with full military honours on the 8th, in Cork Military Cemetery.

KENNEDY, JOHN HORACE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Somerset L.I., attd. 2nd Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), only s. of Capt. William Horace Kennedy, of Annfield, Brannockstown, co. Kildare, late 60th Rifles; by his wife, Ada Constance, dau. of Surgeon Major-Gen. John Warren; b. Oaklands, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, 19 Oct. 1890; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Connaught Rangers, 27 March, 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Oct. 1913; transferred as 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Somerset L.I., 10 June, 1914; left for France, and was killed in action in the trenches near Esterre when attd. to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Jan. 1915. Buried near Esterre; unm.

KENNEDY, JOHN PITT, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of the late Charles Napier Kennedy; b. London, 12 Aug. 1884; educ. Marlborough (House “Littlefield”) and Sandhurst: gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Cameronians, 10 Oct. 1903; promoted Lieut. 14 April, 1909, and Capt. 14 May, 1913; and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915. Buried near the village of Rouge Croix on the road between Neuve Chapelle and Estaires. Capt. Kennedy m. at Ootacamund, India, 13 July, 1908, Norah, dau. of Lieut.-Col. W. E. Baddeley, R.E., Indian Army, and had a son, Richard Pitt, b. 4 Sept. 1910.

KENNEL, JOHN HENRY, Private, No. 6802, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Timothy Kennel, of Arundel Road, Whittington Moor, by his wife, Sarah Ann; b. Ripley, co. Derby, 7 March, 1888; enlisted, 12 June, 1906, and was killed in action at Soupir, during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. He m. at Windsor, 17 May, 1913, Emily (5 Red Lion Row, Thames Avenue, Windsor), dau. of Thomas Hobbs, of Windsor, and had issue, John Henry Ernest, b. 4 Nov. 1913.

KENNETT, PERCY WILLIAM BISHOP, Private, No. 12009, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of George Bishop Kennett, of Yellands, South Zeal, near Okehampton, co. Devon, Civil Servant (retired), by his wife, Ada (Grace), dau. of W. Cone; b. Finchley Road, London, N.W., 13 Sept. 1893; educ. Bradley High School, Newton Abbott, Devon; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Jan. 1915, and died in the 3rd Field Ambulance, 4 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Givenchy, 2 March, 1915. Buried Bethune Cemetery; unm.

KENT, ALEXANDER JAMES, Ch. E.R.A (Pensioner), 132323. H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KENT, ALFRED HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3666), 203801, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KENYON, JOHN DE WINTON, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt., 2nd s. of the late Ernest Kenyon, of Manchester, Drysalter, by his wife, Eliza Gertrude (14 Farnborough Road, Birkdale. Southport), dau. of Edwin Muir, C.E., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., F.G.S.; b. Birkdale, Southport, 13 Sept. 1896; educ. Giggleswick, Yorkshire, where he was in the first Rugby Football XV and first Cricket XI for two years, was co-editor of the School Chronicle, a cadet officer of the O.T.C. and a preposter; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. The King’s, 15 Aug. 1914; was transferred to the 1st Battn., 13 Sept. 1914; went to France, 9 April. 1914, with the 6th Brigade (2nd Division), and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 16 May, 1915, while engaged in locating the exact position whence the heavy rifle fire kept up by the enemy was proceeding. Buried at Richebourg St. Vaast; unm. Lieut.-Col. C. J. Steavenson, commanding 1st King’s Liverpools, wrote: “He had only been with us a few days, but had shown that, had he been spared, he would have made an excellent officer,” and Mr. R. N. Douglas, Head Master of Giggleswick School, wrote: “Only last Sept. I was looking to having Jack here as Head of the School, and was feeling the greatest confidence that now all would go well with us, and that we should have a strong and upright leader. Of all the boys I have had in my five years here, his has been the character which has interested me most and given me the most pleasure. And I looked forward to a life of infinite usefulness for him. Now it is over, but I am sure that his usefulness has been exerted, his strength of character has justified itself, and his example has been an inspiration.”

KEOGHAN, LESLIE OWEN, Gunner, 2/1594 C. Battery, New Zealand Artillery New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Sigismund Owen Keoghan, of Denniston, Westport, New Zealand; b. Bainham, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Bainham, Collingwood, Nelson. He left school at the age of fourteen and was employed for a time in a cheese factory, after which he studied agriculture on his father’s farm at Bainham. At seventeen he went with his parents to reside at Denniston, Westport, and engaged in farming and other occupations until the outbreak of war. He joined the New Zealand Artillery, 20 Dec. 1914, and after six weeks’ training at Trentham, Wellington, sailed with the third contingent for Egypt; served at the Dardanelles; was admitted to the Egyptian Military Hospital, 28 May and died 1 June, 1915, of fever. Buried, Cairo; unm. Gunner Keoghan was a young man of exceptionally fine physique and remarkable strength.

KEOHAN, PATRICK JOSEPH, W.T. Operator, R.N.R., W.T.S. 149, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

KER, ARTHUR MILFORD, Capt., 2nd Battn. (92nd) Gordon Highlanders, only s. of Sir Arthur Milford Ker, C.I.E., M.V.O., Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Peter Mitchell; b. Simla, 7 Sept. 1882; educ. Tunbridge Castle School and Cheltenham College. When the Boer War broke out he joined the East Surrey Militia and went out to South Africa with them, receiving a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 19 March, 1901, and served through that campaign, 1900–2, including the operations in the Orange Free State, June to July, 1901, and in the Transvaal, Nov. 1901 to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). Promoted Lieut. 21 Feb. 1906, and Capt. 19 May, 1911; he was killed in action near Bethune, 14 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried in Bethune Cemetery.

KER, CECIL HOWARD, Capt., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of George Darling Ker, of Milcote, Branksome Park, Bournemouth, formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Madras, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late Capt. Charles Thomas Bently, 78th Highlanders; b. Madras, 4 Nov. 1883; educ. Cheltenham College; served in South African War, 1902, with the 4th Battn. Cheshire Regt. (Militia), taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, Feb. to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Bedfords, 4 July, 1903; promoted Lieut. 27 March, 1905, and Capt. 20 Nov. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, in which his Battn. formed part of the 15th Brigade (5th Division), took part in the Battle of Mons, the subsequent retreat, the Battle of the Marne, and the advance to the Aisne, and was killed in action near Missy-sur-Aisne, 15 Sept. following, being shot through the heart by a rifle bullet. Buried at Missy-sur-Aisne. His Commanding Officer wrote: “We have lost in him a very gallant officer and a dear friend.” He was a good all-round sportsman. He played cricket and football for his school, was a first-class rifle shot, and an excellent racquet and hockey player. In 1910, he and Capt. Leader of the Bedfords, were the runners-up for the Military Doubles Racquets Championship, and in 1909, when the Bedfords won the Army Hockey Championship, he captained the regimental team. He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 31 Dec. 1912, Dorothy, yst. dau. of Lieut.-Col. William Hill-Climo, of Fir Glen Yateley, co. Hants, Army Medical Staff (ret.), and had a son, Johnnie George Skipton, b. 4 June, 1914.

KERBY, ALFRED, Private. No. G. 7453, 2nd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915; m.

KERFOOT, HARRY VICTOR, Private, No. 5214, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Kerfoot, of 77, Malmesbury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, Compositor, by his wife, Hannah Maria, dau. of the late Edward Ford, of Wolverhampton, Painter; b. Leicester, 25 March, 1887; educ. Birmingham Council School; enlisted in Oct. 1903; went out to France with the 1st Expeditionary Force, lost his right arm in the action at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914, and was taken prisoner in hospital. He was conveyed to the Garrison Camp, at Zerbst, Anhalt, where he died of double pneumonia, 1 March, 1915; unm. He was buried in the Garrison Cemetery there. Kerfoot had served three years in Egypt, and in a letter to his father the Bishop of Khartoum said: “He was a very earnest and sincere soldier when I knew him, and just the kind of man to do his share in that wonderful fight at Landrecies which kept the Germans from enveloping our whole Army.”

KERL, WILLIAM AUSTEN, Rifleman, No. 1910, 16th (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt., only s. of William James Kerl, Auctioneer and Surveyor, of Old Jewry, E.C. and a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Curriers (died 17 Feb. 1903), by his wife, Emily (19, Solon New Road, Clapham, S.W.), dau. of the late Henry Jeffrey Austen, of Wadhurst, co. Sussex, Auctioneer; b. Beckenham, co. Kent, 9 Sept. 1893; educ. City Freemen’s School, Brixton, and on leaving school entered the wholesale drapery warehouse of Messrs. John Howell & Co., Ltd., St. Paul’s Churchyard, E.C.; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined The Queen’s Westminster Rifles, 6 Aug. 1914; went to France with his Battn. 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action, 4 June, 1915, by a shell bursting in the reserve trenches in front of Ypres while waiting to occupy the first line fire trenches. Buried at “Cross Roads,” Potyze, Ypres-Zonnebeke Road; unm. Letters from officers and men testify to his great courage and lovable disposition.