KERLEY, HARRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3838), 192057, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KERR, ALEXANDER, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269478, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KERR, ARCHIBALD DAVID, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9932), S.S. 2542, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KERR, DAVID ANSELM, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, yr. s. of Major-Gen. Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, late Col. 10th Hussars, K.C.B., by his wife, Lady Anne, née Fitzalan-Howard, 6th dau. of Henry Granville, 14th Duke of Norfolk, and grandson of John Williams Robert, 7th Marquis of Lothian; b. Curragh Camp, Ireland, 21 April, 1893; educ. Oratory School, Birmingham, and New College, Oxford, at which latter he was a member of the Officer’s Training Corps; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, 7 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed near Bethune, 13 Oct. 1914. Buried, Croix Barbée, near Bethune; unm.

KERR, HERMAN HENRY, Private, No. 8/63, 10th (Otago Infantry), Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of the late (—) Kerr; b. Hamilton South, New Zealand, 5 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 10th Battn. Otago Infantry after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the Main Force in Oct., took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 and died 19 May, following, of wounds received in action there; unm.

KERR, HUBERT RAYNSFORD GORDON, Lieut., 1st Battn. (71st) Highland L.I., only s. of Frederick Kerr, of 27, Hereford Square, London, S.W., by his wife, Esther Barbara Nicloux, dau. of the late Robert Raynsford Jackson, of 31, Harrington Gardens, S.W.; b. at the British Consulate, Santiago, Chili, 16 March, 1892; educ. St. Cyprians, Eastbourne; Cheltenham College (Newick House, Mr. Scot Skirving), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Highland L.I., 13 March, 1912, and joined 21 April following; left for India to join the regt., 12 Sept. 1912, was promoted Lieut. 21 Sept. 1914; went to France with his regt. in the Lahore Division, and was killed at Givenchy, 19 Dec. following. Col. (now Brig.-Gen.) R. W. H. Ronaldson wrote: “he was killed on the 19th Dec. gallantly leading his men in action against a machine gun. I fear not one of them escaped and all were shot down. Gallantly he led, and as gallantly he died with all the honours of war, a soldier’s death.... I hope it may be some consolation to you all to know that he was so absolutely happy here on service among us all, and that he went to his death without a moment’s hesitation, determined to do his duty, come what might. He spoke to me a few moments before and was full of life and go there in the thick of it all. He was seen to fall just as the dawn came up for we had made a night attack on the German trenches. It seems so hard such a young life should have been so quickly cut down but you must find consolation in that he did his duty without a thought for himself, and met his death like the fine young soldier he was.”

KERR, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), S.S. 105934, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

RAIT-KERR, SYLVESTER CECIL, Capt., 22nd Trench Howitzer Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co., Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; b. Rathmoyle, afsd., 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 18 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1910; went to South Africa in Oct. 1910, with the 100th Battery, R.F.A. and afterwards proceeded to India and was home on leave from India when war broke out. He was employed for some weeks in training men in various places, being promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914, and on 6 Nov. left for France with “G” Battery, R.H.A., but was subsequently transferred to the 41st Battery, R.F.A. In April, 1915, he was given the command of a Trench Howitzer Battery, with which he went into the trenches near Wieltje on 6 May, and was killed in action on the 13th, being shot through the head by a German sniper whilst carrying bombs to his guns. Buried in the trenches close to the spot where he fell; unm. The General Officer Commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I have been informed that you would like a few particulars of the gallant work done by your son and the 22nd Trench Mortar Battery while they were under me in the hard fighting of May 9 to 13, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. Your son was posted in the trenches to the left of a building, named by the troops ‘Shelltrap Farm,’ which was about the hottest part of the line, and his duty was to assist the infantry in keeping back the enemy from sapping up to the farm buildings, and to endeavour to blow in their saps. The enemy’s shelling was so intense that time after time the trench mortars were silenced and the crews buried, but they were dug out and started on again, and they refused to be relieved. Cooke, the subaltern, was hit and his shoulder dislocated, but he refused to go to hospital, and the whole battery displayed a similar spirit all through the fighting, the severity of which may be judged from the fact that Shelltrap Farm was lost and retaken with the bayonet three times in twenty-four hours.” And the General Officer Commanding the 4th Division: “I remember Rait-Kerr and his 22nd Trench Mortar Battery well. It was the best battery of that sort that we ever had with the 4th Division, and under him it did invaluable service in the front trenches during the fighting from the 6th to the 13th of May (1915), which was some of the worst we had in France. I know he was a great loss to the Division and to the service.” The officer in charge of the Trench Howitzer School, 2nd Army Corps, wrote: “He had done magnificently with his Trench battery and had received the congratulations of the Divisional and Brigade commanders to whom his battery was attached. He was a great friend of mine, and without doubt the finest officer who had passed through the Trench Howitzer School. There was no officer in the British Army who could have done it better. He was a gallant fellow. He was the ideal British officer, a real tiger with his men, but loved and admired by them. In this Army (the 2nd) he made trench howitzers. He was, of course, recommended for a decoration, and he richly deserved it,” and the subaltern under him in his battery wrote: “His death was a great blow to all of us in the battery. He was a splendid fellow, and did not know what fear was. He was recommended to General Commanding 4th Division for gallantry during the action by officer commanding the 2nd Monmouths, who told me he had upheld the best traditions of the Royal Artillery.” His brother, Capt. W. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action at Veldhoek, 10 Nov. 1914 (see following notice).

RAIT-KERR, WILLIAM CHARLES, D.S.O., Capt., 57th Howitzer Battery, R.F.A. eldest s. of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co. Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; b. Rathmoyle, afsd. 6 Aug. 1886; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 23 July, 1907; and promoted Lieut. 23 July, 1910, and Capt. 30 Oct., 1914; went to France 16 Aug. 1914, with the 1st Division, commanded by Sir Douglas Haig, as Lieut. in 57th Howitzer Battery, 43rd Brigade, R.F.A.; took part in the Battle of, and retreat from, Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the 1st Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action at Veldhoek, near Ypres, 10 Nov. following, whilst in charge of an advanced gun 250 yards from the enemy, being shot through the head by a German sniper. The rest of his battery had gone to the rear to rest and refit, having been out since the beginning of the war. Buried at Veldhoek, beside the gun “he had commanded so well”; unm. He was awarded the D.S.O. “For gallant conduct in bringing up a gun to within 250 yards of the enemy in a wood, and blowing down a house in which the enemy were working a machine-gun” [London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914]; and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. His Colonel wrote: “He was in charge of a gun which had for some days been placed in a forward position for a special purpose, to destroy some houses from which some German snipers were causing heavy losses in our trenches. He had been doing splendid work, which had been specially noticed by the General, and only the day before his death the Commander of the French troops on our left had sent a letter of thanks for one particularly useful lot of shooting which he had put in and destroyed some German trenches in front of them. He was a brave and excellent officer and man. He had just appeared in the Gazette as Capt. and was so delighted that I had been able to get him posted to one of my batteries.” Another officer wrote: “He was up in the infantry trenches with one gun close behind, in communication by telephone with him. He was there about a fortnight, and in that time did very fine work, knocking houses down with Germans and machine-guns in them, and various other jobs. He was highly praised by all the people up there, and by the General in command of the Infantry Brigade. He had a very rough time from both shell and rifle fire, but had done great execution in spite of it.” His brother, Capt. S. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action 13 May, 1915 (see previous notice).

KERRAY, JAMES, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3918), 284967, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KERRISON, ARTHUR JAMES, Boy Servt., L. 4831, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KERWIN, ALBERT, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115602 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

KESSELL, HARRY, Lieut., Commanding Machine-Gun Section, 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), Australian Imperial Force, only s. of Thomas Norman Kessell, of Leederville, Western Australia, by his wife, Sophia: b. Leamington Spa, co. Warwick, 13 Jan. 1874; went to New Zealand with his parents and was educ. at the Normal School, Dunedin, afterwards settling in Australia. He joined the Victorian Rangers, 11 Dec. 1892, as a gunner in the Nordenfelt Battery; became Senior Sergt. 17 April, 1893; Lieut. G Coy., 23 Nov. 1895, Acting Signalling Inspector, 1 May, 1896, and after obtained the Flag Signalling Certificate (No. 600) 1 Aug. 1896, Signalling Instructor. He passed for promotion to the rank of Capt. Victorian Rangers, 10 Oct. 1897, and for the Militia with Special Certificate, No. 78, and obtained the extra Musketry Certificate, No. 12, 22 Oct. 1898, and re-qualified as Flag Signaller, 17 Dec. 1898. He served through the South African War, was appointed Lieut. to the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles: at Middleberg, 1901, acting as Troop Leader and Squadron Commander on various occasions, and was mentioned by Lord Kitchener in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps. After the close of the campaign he acted as Adjutant for the returning Australian Troops on board H.M.S. Britannia. On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, he joined the Australian Imperial Force, serving with the 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Heliopolis, 3rd July, 1915, of shrapnel wounds received in action in Gallipoli on May 9; unm. Of Lieut. Kessell’s last hours an Army chaplain wrote as follows: “He was grand, a regular inspiration to some other patients, who ceased worrying over their own troubles in the presence of a man who suffered greater things and yet never ceased to be a cheerful pattern to them.”

KETTERIDGE, JAMES WILLIAM, Bombardier, No. 63852, 11th Battery, R.F.A., and First-Class signaller, s. of William Ketteridge, of Waggon Lane, Lower Tottenham, co. Middlesex, Munition Worker; b. there 5 Nov. 1891; educ. St. James’ School, Fore Street, Upper Edmonton, enlisted, 12 Jan. 1911; awarded 2nd Class Certificate at Army School, 27 June, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and while reconnoitring at midnight on 21 Aug. 1914 at le Cateau was shot by the French by mistake. He m. at Kildare Parish Church, 1914, Mary Florence, dau. of Benjamin Robert Singleton, late of the Northamptonshire Regt., and had one child, Rosary Annie Le Cateau, b. 20 Dec. 1914.

KIDBY, ARTHUR, Rifleman, No. 2894, C Coy., 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd s. of Frederick Arthur Kidby, of 19, Hertford Road, Hoddesdon, Clerk, Building Department, Hoddesdon Brewery, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Stephen Elkins; b. Hoddesdon, co. Herts, 4 Jan. 1896; educ. Hoddesdon Church of England School and Broxbourne, Herts; was Clerk in wholesale drapery trade; joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem 3 March following; unm. His company commander, Capt. Herbert Fleming, wrote: “He was shot through the head on the 3rd inst. during a heavy burst of fire from the German trenches. He had only been here a short time, but he proved himself a keen and brave soldier. I deplore his loss more than I can say. I was with your boy when he died; he was unconscious, and only lived for a few minutes after he was shot. He has been buried in the churchyard at Wulverghem, and I will see that a cross is erected to his memory.” Private Kidby was a good athlete, and was captain of his school football team. He had a good voice and was a member of the Hoddesdon Church choir.

KIDD, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), 299560, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KILBEY, ALBERT JOHN, Private, No. 2881, 7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.); only s. of John Charles Kilbey, of 11, Royston Street, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, Waterside Labourer, by his wife, Harriet Rossetta, dau. of George Frederick Walker; b. Bethnal Green, 29 March, 1895; educ. Wolverley Street School there; joined the 7th London, 23 Sept. 1914; left for France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 17 May following; unm.

KILBOURNE, FREDERICK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KILGOUR, WILLIAM, Sapper, No. 615, 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder s. of William Thomas Kilgour, of Tighnabruaich, Fort William, co. Inverness, by his wife, Annie Hossack, dau. of William Macdougall, of Fort William; b. Fort William, 23 Nov. 1895; educ. Fort William; gained a very high place in the competitive examination for entrance to the Post Office service and was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at Grangemouth, Bo’ness, Linlithgow and Fort William; volunteered and joined 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), in Aug. 1914, and, while training at Bedford, transferred from that corps to the 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, R.E. (T.F.); left for France, 30 April, 1915, and was killed in action at La Coutiere, 27 May, 1915, by a high explosive shell, death being instantaneous. Buried at Vieille Chapelle; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “As your son worked his instrument in the same room that I occupy myself, I had the opportunity of watching him closely, and without any exaggeration I can truthfully say that he was one of the finest young soldiers I ever met. He was always willing and ready to do his work at any time, and when we were very busy he was quite pleased to work his 12 hours on end without grumbling. He had such a happy disposition that we all feel we have lost a very good comrade and an excellent worker.”

KILLICK, ALFRED HENRY, C.E.R.A. (Pensioner), 154516, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KILLING, JOHN WILLIAM, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269868, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

KIMBERLEY, ARTHUR, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 11904, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KING, ALEXANDER DUNCAN CAMPBELL, Tempy. Lieut., 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, attd. 18th Hussars, s. of Robert King, of Craigpark, Torphichen, co. Linlithgow, by his wife, Sara, dau. of Duncan Campbell, of Paisley; b. Torphichen aforesaid, 20 May, 1886; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, 20 Sept. 1914; promoted Tempy. Lieut., 24 Feb. 1915; left for France, 17 May; was attached there to the 18th Hussars, and died at Hooge, near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, from the effects of poisoned gas, which on that day was employed by the enemy against the British front between Shelltrap Farm and the Bellewaerde Lake for 4½ hours without intermission, the cloud in some places rising to a height of 40 feet. Buried west of Ypres, between Poperinghe and Vlamertinghe; unm.

KING, ALFRED CHARLES LAWRENCE, Stoker, 2nd. Class, K. 17463, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

KING, CHARLES GLAZIER, Private, No. 9936, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Henry King, of Lower Vobster, Coleford, near Bath; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914.

KING, CHARLES SEALY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, yr. s. of Charles Sealy King, of Richmount, Bandon, co. Cork, J.P., by his wife, Beatrice Ada, dau. of William Jocelyn Bradford, M.D., T.C.D.; b. Bandon, 18 Aug. 1894; educ. Catherington House Preparatory School, Hordean, Hants, from which he gained a scholarship to St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate; passed his Army Qualifying Examination in 1911; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 27 Jan. 1912, and after serving six months’ probation with the 2nd Battn. was promoted Lieut. 22 Aug. following, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Munsters, 14 Aug. 1914; was promoted temporary Lieut. from 30 Aug. 1914, and substantive Lieut. from 30 Nov. 1914; joined his Battn. in France, 18 Feb. 1915 and was killed in action at the Rue du Bois, near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; unm. His Adjutant, Capt. T. W. Filgate, wrote: “During an attack on the German trenches just south of Neuve Chapelle on Sunday morning your son was killed while gallantly leading his platoon. He was perfectly wonderful, and as cool and collected as if nothing was happening. He dashed forward ahead of his men, and was killed right up against the German parapet. It may be a little consolation to you to know that it was very largely owing to his and a few others’ gallant leading and dash that we were the only regt. in the brigade of which part reached the first line German trenches. We are all very proud of the gallant fellows that fell, and their names will never be forgotten in the regt. We were not able to recover your son’s body, which is close up to the German trenches.”

KING, EDWARD, Private, No. 7647, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; b. Marston, Bedford; enlisted 24 May, 1910; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was severely wounded in action in the arm and thigh, admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, 3 Nov. 1914, and died there on the 16th of that month.

KING, EDWARD, Signal Boy, J. 22608, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KING, FREDERICK ARTHUR, Private, No. 1949, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John King, of 97, Sumatra Road, West Hampstead, Bootmaker, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Chaffey; b. South Hampstead, 8 Feb. 1898; educ. Broomleigh Street Council School, West Hampstead; joined the 3rd Battn. London Regt. June, 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; unm. Lieut. Reeves in giving some particulars of the action wrote: “F. A. King was under me when he was killed, I saw him lying right on top of the captured German trench—I believe he was killed by a high explosive, because I noticed his face was black. He was quite a good youngster.”

KING, HARRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7995), S.S. 103737, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KING, HENRY WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., 1419U., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KING, HORACE ANDREW, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9004), 190503, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KING, JAMES, Private, No. 4444, 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, s. of John King, of Blackhill, Cookstown, Millworker, b. Clogog, Cookstown, co. Tyrone, Aug. 1893; educ. Cookstown; joined 3rd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8 Aug 1914; left for the Dardanelles with a draft for the 1st Battn., and died 14 Aug. following, of wounds received at Suvla Bay; unm.

KING, NICHOLAS MAINGER, Stoker, R.N.R., U. 1640, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

KING, ROBERT NEAL, Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only s. of the late Robert King, M.D., F.R.C.P., London, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Thomas Case; b. in London, 14 Sept. 1874; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lincolns, from Militia, 6 June, 1896; promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1899, and Capt. 19 Nov. 1904; served in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battle of the Atbara (medal; Egyptian medal with clasp); in the South African War, 1902, where he was employed with Mounted Infantry in operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, April and May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to March, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and from 24 Dec. to 31 Dec. 1901, was on special service. He retired 21 June, 1911, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France, Sept. 1914, and was reported killed in action at Wystchaete, 1 Nov. following. Capt. King m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 19 Dec. 1910, Klara Alice Fanny, 2nd dau. of Robert Shand Kynoch Shand, of Hillside, co. Kincardine, and the Linn Keith, co. Banff, and had two sons: Robert McKerrell, b. 24 Nov. 1911, died 3 Nov. 1914; and Philip Marshall, b. 23 March, 1914.

KING, SAMUEL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5284), 203896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KING, SIDNEY HORACE, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15574, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

KING, THOMAS, Sailmaker, 175250, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KING, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110209, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KINGSTON, SYDNEY, S.B.S., 2nd Class, 351152, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

KINKEAD, RICHARD CROFTON GEORGE MOORE, M.B., M.Ch., B.A.O. Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 10th Royal Hussars, only s. of Richard John Kinkead, of Galway, M.D., Dublin, J.P., Professor, Queen’s College, Galway, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Hubert Moore; b. Galway, 12 June, 1883; educ. Erasmus Smith’s School, Galway; Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; Queen’s College, Galway, and Royal University of Ireland, where he graduated, M.B., M.Ch. and B.A.O. While a student at the University he joined and went through a course of training in the South of Ireland Yeomanry (now the South Irish Horse). After serving for a year as house surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, he passed into the R.A.M.C., being gazetted Lieut., 31 July, 1909, and promoted Capt. 31 Jan. 1913. He was stationed in the Cork district, Ireland, 1909–11, and in South Africa, Jan. 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he was recalled to England with the regular troops and attd. to the 10th Royal Hussars. He left for France with that regt. which formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Division, 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 31st of the same month; unm. Lieut.-Col. Barnes, commanding the 10th Hussars, wrote: “He was a gallant officer and loved and respected by all ranks of the 10th Hussars. I especially asked that he might go to the war with the regt. and so I feel that fate has scarcely been kind.” Major the Hon. C. B. O. Mitford, D.S.O., of the same regt. wrote: “He with two other officers got one of my men and myself out of the trenches at considerable personal risk. He was just as cool helping the wounded under fire as if he was in a surgery. I hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know how he will be missed in the regiment and that his good work was appreciated by all.” Major, afterwards Lt. Col. Shearman, wrote: “You will be proud to know that he was possessed of great personal courage and his one thought here was his duty and care of the wounded, which he in many cases personally collected. Your son was buried by the Rev. C. S. Ensell, in the cemetery at Ypres. His grave is next that of Lord Charles Nairne, who was killed at the same time.” And a colonel of the R.A.M.C. wrote: “Capt. Kinkead was regarded as a daring and fearless soldier, with strikingly attractive qualities, and was immensely popular with the men of the regiment. Over and over again he risked his life in the discharge of his duties in the field.”

KINNAIRD, HON. DOUGLAS ARTHUR, Master of Kinnaird, Capt., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest s. of Arthur Fitzgerald, 11th Lord Kinnaird, K.T., by his wife, Mary Alma Victoria, dau. of Sir Andrew Agnew, of Lochnaw, 8th Baronet; b. Rossie Priory, Inchture, co. Perth, 20 Aug. 1879; educ. Cheam School, Surrey; Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1901, M.A. 1905); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Scots Guards, 22 May, 1901. and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1904, and Capt. 3 Feb. 1912; transferring to the 2nd Battn. when the 3rd was disbanded; went to Antwerp with his Battn. in the 7th Division; served through the retreat from that place and was killed in action, 23 Oct. 1914, during one of the numerous rearguard actions, to protect the retirement of the Belgian Army. Buried with another officer at Zonnebeke Farm, near Poligne, Belgium; unm. Capt. Kinnaird was in the Volunteer Corps at Eton and Cambridge, and travelled much on the Continent to study Art and Literature. In 1906, he went to East Africa for big game shooting, and made a large collection of heads and trophies. He also visited India for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1911.

KINNAIRD, FRANCIS JOSEPH, Capt., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of the late Francis Henry Kinnaird, of London; b. London, 16 March, 1875; educ. privately; obtained a commission in the 4th South Stafford in 1907; passed the School of instruction and qualified as Instructor of Musketry; became Capt. 4 Nov. 1910; went to France 16 March, 1915; was wounded in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915, and died in King Edward’s Hospital, London, 10 June, following; buried at Astley, Worcestershire. He m. in London, 5 Oct. 1901, Gertrude (16, Titchfield Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.), dau. of Robert Green, and had a dau.: Mary Gertrude, b. 21 Sept. 1904.

KIPLING, THOMAS WILLIAM, Seaman, R.N.R., 4772 B., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KIRKBY, BERTRAM JAMES, 1st Writer, 220342, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

KIRBY, HENRY JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8167), S.S. 103966, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KIRBY, JOHN RUSSELL, Private, No. 2517, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late John William Kirby, of Ivy House, Wortham, co. Suffolk, Farmer, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Rash; b. Wortham, 13 Nov. 1886; educ. Eye Grammar School; was a Motor Bodymaker at Messrs. Barkers & Co., Kensington; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Feb. 1915, and died at No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 27 March, 1915, of wounds received at Neuve Chapelle on 10–12 March. Buried at Boulogne; unm.

KIRK, ALAN, Gunner, No. 57708, 49th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd s. of John Robert Kirk, of Belton, near Doncaster, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Betsy, dau. of John Rookledge; b. York, 13 June, 1891; educ. Ackworth Church School, of which his father was head master; joined Pontefract Battn. King’s Own Yorkshire L.I. (T.F.), ... 1909; enlisted R.F.A., June, 1909; left for France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. following. Buried midway between Braine and Chessemy; unm.

KIRK, GERALD, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late Alfred Samuel Kirk of Greenwood Leghe, Ingleton, and of Leeds, and the only s. by his 2nd wife, Isabella Ann, widow of William Norman Greenwood and dau. of Richardson Balderstone; b. Bramley, near Leeds, 14 July, 1883; educ. Ilkley and Pocklington, but after the declaration of war enlisted in the King’s Own, 2 Sept. 1914, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the same, 3 Jan. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres the 5th Battn. of the King’s Own were with the Canadians in the great charge on Friday, 23 April, and Lieut. Kirk was severely wounded and died on the night of the following day at Poperinghe. Col. Lord Richard Cavendish wrote: “He was mortally wounded when bravely leading his men against a very strong position of the enemy. Although he had only been in the Battn. a comparatively short time he had endeared himself to us all, and he will be deeply mourned and long remembered. He had proved himself an extremely efficient officer.” Capt. Gerald W. Sharpe wrote: “He died a noble and gallant death, leading his platoon across an absolute inferno of shot and shell, he was wounded through the chest by a bullet. Four of his men carried him back to the dressing station where he was made as comfortable as possible and he was the first to be sent off in the motor ambulance.” He was buried in the hospital cemetery at Poperinghe. Kirk was the well-known amateur centre half-back, and had played for both Bradford City and Leeds City. He was the first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Conservative Club, and the originator and first Hon. Secretary of the Ingleton Farmers’ Association, etc., and a sidesman at St. Mary’s Church. He was also an ardent follower of the Vale of Lune Hounds, an excellent shot, and a keen cricketer and tennis player. He m. at Casterton, near Kirkby Lonsdale, 21 April, 1909, Jane, dau. of Edmund Capstick, of Barnoldswick, Burton-on-Lonsdale; s.p.

KIRK, RANDAL, Private, No. 8716, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only s. of the late Bruce Kirk, of Newland, Hull, by his wife, Cecilia (49, Linnaeus Street, Hull), dau. of the late Thomas Clarke, of Goole, and grandson of the late William Kirk, of Hull, Printer; b. Hull, 22 Sept. 1885; educ. The Crossley and Porter School, Halifax; was nine years (1900–09) in the Hull Rating Department, Posterngate, and for six years held the rank of Sergt. in the Hull Rifles (Cyclist Corps); joined the 1st Coldstream Guards the day previous to King Edward’s death, 1910, and served three years with the Colours; rejoined the battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and died a prisoner of war in the German XV Army Corps Hospital at Laon, 27 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action during the first days of the retreat from Mons; unm.

KIRKLAND, THOMAS LINDSAY, Petty Officer, 170934, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KIRKPATRICK, ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force (1st Canadian Contingent), s. of Alexander Mainwaring Morris Kirkpatrick, of 204, Rusholme Road, Toronto, by his wife, Caroline Adelaide, dau. of Col. George Taylor Denison, the Veteran Canadian Cavalry leader and writer on Imperial Defence; b. Toronto, 1 Jan. 1891; gazetted Lieut. in Governor General’s Body Guard, 10 July, 1910, transferred to the 2nd Regt. (Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada), 14 Aug. 1914, went overseas with the 3rd Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 26 Sept. following, and was killed in action, near St. Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915; unm.

KITCHING, ABNER PERCIVAL, Private, No. 8620, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of Abner Kitching, of Crouch Farm Highworth; b. Chadlington, co. Oxon, 1883; enlisted 28 Feb. 1910; left for France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; and died 24 Sept. following, of wounds received at the Battle of Mons on 23 Aug. Buried, Military Cemetery, Netley. He m. in Swindon, 14 April, 1914, Elizabeth, dau. of William Collins, of the Buildings, Highworth, and had a dau., Elise, b. posthumous, 12 March, 1915.

KLITZ, EVELYN ANTHONY, Private, No. 9512, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of William Lawson Klitz, of 88, High Street, Lymington, co. Hants, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Thomas Gossling; b. Lymington, 7 Nov. 1894; educ. Gillingham Grammar School; joined the London Rifle Brigade early in 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; and died at the Rawal Pindi Hospital, Wimereux, near Boulogne, 12 March, 1915, of wounds received in action on the preceding 12 Feb. at Ploegsteert. Buried in a private grave in Wimereux Cemetery; unm. Private Klitz was one of the company of the London Rifle Brigade who took part in the march in full kit from the Duke of York’s Column to the Aquarium at Brighton, on 18 April, 1914, in 14 hours 23 mins., thereby breaking the world’s record. For this feat he was awarded a bronze medal.

KLOSS, SIDNEY ALBERT EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Class, 310981, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KNIGHT, ALBERT ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11029, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

KNIGHT, HENRY ARTHUR, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3397), S.S. 101168, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KNIGHT, HENRY CHARLES, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2701), 160065, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KNIGHT, JOSEPH, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1363), 128345 (Port.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KNIGHT, STEPHEN, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (A. 1584), 126510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KNIGHT, THOMAS, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 3041), 307737, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KNOCKER, ARTHUR PAGET, Capt., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only s. of Col. Herbert Paget Knocker, of Bushey Ruff, Eastbourne, late R.E., by his wife, Maud, dau. of Major-Gen. Philip Ravenhill, C.B., R.E.; b. Kensington, 3 Aug. 1889; educ. Eastbourne College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st Hampshires, 18 Sept. 1909; promoted Lieut. 9 Aug. 1911, and temp. Capt. 15 Nov. 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, 8 Feb. 1915. Buried, Ploegsteert Cemetery; unm.

KNOTT, HENRY, Stoker, Petty Officer, 354781, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

KNOWLES, JONATHAN EDWARD, Capt., 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt. eldest s. of the late Edward Sugden Knowles, and grandson of the late Jonathan Knowles, of Rawdon, co. York; b. Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, 21 May, 1882; educ. Sedbergh School; joined the 2nd Vol. Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., as 2nd Lieut.; served with the 4th Durham L.I. (Militia) in the South African War, 1902, and took 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. to 1st Middlesex, 4 July, 1903, and served with his Battn. in India, Burma and at Aden; promoted Lieut. 14 Jan. 1906, and Capt. 1 Feb. 1914, when he was transferred to the 4th Battn.; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, in which the 4th “Diehards” formed part of the 8th Brigade (3rd Division), and was killed in action at the Battle of Mons, on the 23rd of the same month. Buried in Cemetery at Maisieres. He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Bexhill, Sussex, 3 June, 1909, Viva Brabazon, dau. of the late C. F. Bagot, and had three children: Jonathan Maynard, b. 11 Oct. 1913; Nina Mary, b. 21 April, 1910; and Viva Joan, b. 14 Aug. 1912.

KNOWLES, WILLIAM ALFRED, A.B., 239360, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KNOX, RALPH, Private, No. 9748, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), eldest s. of Ralph Knox, now serving as a private in the Canadian Highlanders, by his wife, Isabella, 2nd dau. of John Flood; b. Berwick-on-Tweed, 9 May, 1888; educ. Boys’ National School there; enlisted 9 Oct. 1906: went to France 23 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, on the night of the 14–15 May, 1915, being shot by a sniper while engaged in carrying rations to the trenches; unm.

KOCH, WILLIAM JAMES, Trooper, No. 2518, Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regt.) (T.F.), yst. s. of Oswald Hugo Koch, of 24, Cranmer Road, West Croydon, by his wife, Frances (24, Cranmer Road, West Croydon), dau. of William Wood, of Shirley; b. Croydon, 25 July, 1896; educ. Brighton Road Board Schools, Croydon; was a Grocer’s Assistant with Francis of Brixton; volunteered and joined the Surrey Yeomanry, 6 Jan. 1915, and died at 73, King’s Avenue, Clapham, 5 Feb. following, from injuries caused by a fall from his horse two days previously. Buried Mitcham Road Cemetery, Croydon; unm.

KYDD, JAMES PHILLIP, Leading Seaman, 215363, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

KYLE, ROBERT BRUCE, Private, No. 1781, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late John Kyle, M.I.C.E., Resident Engineer, Harbour Works, Colombo, Ceylon, by his wife, Agnes (100, Station Road, Barnes, London, S.W.); b. Colombo, 30 April, 1893; educ. Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, and Royal High School, Edinburgh; was a member of the foreign staff of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; joined the London Scottish Jan. 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for France, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. following. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until the 15 Feb. 1915, that definite news that he had fallen was received. He was unm.

KYNOCH, COLIN SMITH, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Robert Kynoch, of Stocksfield-on-Tyne, by his wife, Jennie, dau. of Silvanus Smith; b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 8 Sept. 1883; educ. at a Private School, Newcastle-on-Tyne; was a Traveller in the Corn and Flour Trade; volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6 Oct. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, Ypres, 26 April, 1915. Buried near Hill 60; unm.

KYTE, FREDERICK CHARLES, Private, No. 9332, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Kyte, of Horton, near Devizes, co. Wilts, a pensioner, Royal Marines, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of James Wiltshire; b. Easterton, co. Wilts, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Easterton National School; joined 1st Coldstream Guards, 18 Nov. 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; was wounded and invalided home in Nov.; returned to the Front, 17 Dec., was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; unm.

LACEY, CHARLES, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1250), late R.M.A. 11447 H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LACEY, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4724), S.S. 104080, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LACK, PERCY EDMUND, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4868), S.S. 104284, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LACY, FRANCIS PRIOR, M.C., Capt., Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, attd. 170 Coy. Royal Engineers, s. of Dyson Lacy, Hobart, Tasmania, by his wife, Francis Amelia, dau. of Capt. J. Irwin, R.N.; b. Mackay, North Queensland, Australia, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stubbington, also Felsted, Essex, England, and the Royal School of Mines, Kensington, London; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, 14 Oct. 1914, and was killed by a counter mine, 13 Aug. 1915; unm. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and awarded the Military Cross.

LACY, FREDERICK, Private, No. 11087, Royal Marines, only s. of Frederick Lacy, Sweep; b. 1882; lost in the North Sea on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at Stepney Parish Church, 19 Oct. 1913, Sarah Catherine (115, Shandy Street, Stepney, E.), dau. of Thomas John Dobson, and had a dau., Sarah Elizabeth, b. 24 June, 1915.

LADD, ERNEST WILLIAM, A.B., J. 18430, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LADD, ROBERT JOHN, Seaman, R.N.R., 3295 A., H.M.S. Cressy, s. of the late Edward Ladd, of Southwold, Mariner, by his wife, E. (3, School Green, Southwold); b. Southwold, 13 Nov. 1888; educ. National Schools there; joined the R.N.R. in 1909; lost in action in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; unm.

LADDS, FREDERICK, Seaman, R.N.R., 3435C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LAFONE, CLAUDE ALEXANDER, D.S.O., Capt., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., elder s. of Alfred William Lafone, of Springfield, Walton-on-Thames, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of the Rev. James Lawrence, M.A., b. Hanworth, co. Middlesex, 24 Feb. 1877; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to 2nd Devons from 3rd Devon Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1899, and Capt. 20 Dec. 1901; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; in operations of 17–24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; in operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; in operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieters Hill; in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laing’s Nek (6–9 June); in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen’s medal with five clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); went to France, 8 Nov. 1914, and on 26 Jan. following was awarded the D.S.O., “for conspicuous gallantry on the night of 18 Dec. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in capturing a trench from the enemy” [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915], and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; unm.