LEVINGE, SIR RICHARD WILLIAM, 10th Bart. of Knockdrin, D.L., co. Westmeath, Lieut., 1st Life Guards, eldest s. of Sir William Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, 9th Bart., by his wife, Emily Judith (Knockdrin Castle, Westmeath), 2nd dau. of Sir Richard Sutton, 4th Bart.; b. Ryde, I.W., 12 July, 1878; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 8th Hussars, 27 May, 1899; transferred to South Irish Horse and served with them in the South African War, 1900–1; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900, and in those in the Transvaal, Dec. 1900 to Jan. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He succeeded his father 17 April, 1900, and on his return from South Africa retired from the Army, but offered his services again immediately the European War broke out, and was gazetted Lieut. to the Reserve of Officers, 8th Hussars, 19 Aug. 1914, and posted to the 1st Life Guards, 1 Sept. following. He went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914. Col. Stanley, 1st Life Guards, wrote: “The trenches were very small, and your husband was passing from one to another when he was shot dead by a bullet in the neck. I need hardly tell you the awful shock it has given the squadron officers and men, and the loss of one to whom we were devoted will remain with us for ever. Your husband knew no fear, and was always so ready and willing to help me in any way he could with the squadron.” He m. at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 15 Feb. 1910, Irene Marguerite (10, Hans Place, London, S.W.), elder dau. of the late John Henry Charles Pix, of Bradford, Yorks, and had an only son, now Sir Richard Vere Henry Levinge, of Knockdrin Castle, 11th Bart., b. 30 April, 1911.

LEVISTON, JOSEPH JAMES, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12740, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LEVITT, LOFTUS GEORGE, Leading Seaman, 218265, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LEWCOCK, ALGERNON GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16871, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LEWES, ERNEST, Chief Stoker, 276271, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LEWES, PRICE VAUGHAN, C.B., D.S.O., Capt., R.N., 2nd s. of Col. John Lewes, of Llanlear, co. Cardigan, The Buffs (who served through the Crimean War), by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of the Rev. Charles Griffith; b. Llanlear aforesaid, 27 Feb. 1865; educ. Reading, H.M.S. Britannia, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; entered the Royal Navy, 1878; and became Lieut. 1888; Commander 1898, and Capt. 1905. He served in China, 1885–88, and in the operations against the Somalis in British East Africa for the murder of Mr. Hamilton, an officer of the East African Company, and the relief of two Englishmen on board the s.s. Kenia in the Juba River, and as Sub-Lieut. of H.M.S. Blanche, landed at Kimayu, Zanzibar, in command of 40 volunteers from that ship and so successfully led this small force, exposed as it was to the attack of 150 riflemen and 600 spearmen, that they captured and destroyed the village of Magareda, up the Juba River, succoured the Englishmen and struck so decisive a blow against the enemy that a punitive expedition was rendered unnecessary. For this service he received the D.S.O., and the general Africa medal with Juba River clasp, and was officially thanked by Government. In 1898, being in command of H.M.S. Hazard and Senior Naval Official, Crete, he landed during the Moslem attack on 6 Sept., and after heavy fighting rescued and brought off the Col. commanding the troops and his soldiers, and for this he was again thanked by Government, and promoted Commander. From 1907 to 1909, he served on the Pacific Station, and was afterwards Deputy Commissioner, Western Pacific, and was officially thanked for his services as such by the New Zealand Government. He received the C.B. on the King’s birthday, 1913. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he was on sick leave, but immediately resumed command of his ship, H.M.S. Superb, but in the beginning of Nov. was invalided home and died in the Naval Hospital at Devonport, 10 Nov. 1914. He m. in London, 30 April, 1894, Anne Josephine, dau. of Lieut.-Col. J. G. M. Tulloch, 21st (Royal Scots) Regt., and had a son, Martyn Vaughan, Lieut., 3rd Welsh Regt., attd. R.F.C., b. 21 April, 1895; killed in flying accident, 15 July, 1916.

LEWINGTON, ALFRED CHARLES, Private, No. 1637, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Lewington, of 14, Eresbury Road, Kilburn, Lamplighter; b. Kilburn; joined the Royal Fusiliers about 1912, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915. Three of his brothers served with the Expeditionary Force.

LEWINGTON, WILLIAM, Yeoman of Signals, 188764, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LEWIS, ALFRED EDWARD, Leading Stoker, 302447, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LEWIS, CHARLES VERNON, Lieut., 11th (Service) Battn. (2nd Gwent), South Wales Borderers, 2nd s. of Thomas Charles Lewis, of The Sycamores, Conway, by his wife, Catherine Maria Lloyd, dau. of Thomas Lloyd Roberts, of Garthgyman, near Ruthen; b. Frondeg, Bangor, 14 March, 1883; educ. Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay; served three years with the Denbighshire Yeomanry, and afterwards represented Messrs. Harrisons and Crosfields, Tea Merchants, London; joined the South Wales Borderers after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914, and died at Weymouth, 18 Aug. 1915, after an operation for appendicitis, contracted while in training. He m. at Langbank, Renfrewshire, 16 June, 1915, Edith Isabel Collingwood, dau. of the Rev. Archibald B. D. Alexander, D.D., of Langbank; s.p.

LEWIS, DAVID, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9616), S.S. 106974, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LEWIS, DAVID WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4638), S.S. 1630, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LEWIS, EDWIN CHARLES, Petty Officer, 195389 (Chatham), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LEWIS, GEORGE ARTHUR DUNALLEY, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of Col. Arthur William Drummond Lewis, of 31, Midvale Road, Jersey, by his wife, Emilie Mary, dau. of Mark Morris, and grandson of the late Hon. Arthur James Lewis, Advocate-General of Bombay, ..., member of Council, ..., and of Guestling Lodge, Sussex; b. St. Helens, Hastings, 24 Jan. 1895; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, where he was for four years a member of the O.T.C.; was employed as a Clerk in the Capital and Counties Bank at Weymouth, but on the outbreak of war obtained a commission in the South Staffords, 3 Oct. 1914; trained at Jersey; passed through a machine-gun course during the winter and was machine-gun instructor to the battn.; went to France in May, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was killed in action, 8 July, 1915, just after having got his men into position to go to the relief of the Lancashire Fusiliers; unm. He was buried on the banks of the Yser Canal, north of Ypres and south of Pilken. The officer commanding the 1st Warwicks wrote: “We all admired him, he had made himself very popular and we all deplore his loss. His Adjutant, Company Commander and servant all speak in the highest praise of his character, bravery and cheerfulness when under fire, and that he was a fine soldier, and beloved by all ranks.”

LEWIS, HARRY FRANCIS, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3891), Ch./174438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LEWIS, HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6215), 187617, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LEWIS, HENRY EDWARD, A.B., J. 20038, H.M.S. Pathfinder, lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LEWIS, HERBERT BENJAMIN THOMAS, Corpl., No. 16296, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Robert Lewis, of Hackleton, Northampton, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, 2nd dau. of the late Benjamin (and Elizabeth) Thomas, of Waunfawr Farm, Llanboidy, near Whitland, South Wales; b. Whitland, 22 March, 1879; educ. Northampton Grammar School; was Managing Clerk for Mr. J. S. Campion, Auctioneer and Valuer, Northampton; enlisted in the 3rd Northamptonshire Regt. 31 Oct. 1914, afterwards transferring to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 2 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915; unm. Lieut. Haldane wrote: “I am sorry to say that details as to what happened on 9 May are very hard to get, but I do know that Herbert B. T. Lewis advanced with his company in the attack. They were the leading company, and he with many of his company were caught by machine-gun fire, and were killed whilst advancing to the enemy’s trench. I was very sorry to lose him, as I had already noticed him when inspecting his company, and had realised what a very excellent N.C.O. he was, and had hoped he would have been spared to rise to much higher rank, which he deserved.”

LEWIS, ISAAC, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10496), S.S. 108181, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

LEWIS, JAMES WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7473), S.S. 102603, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LEWIS, JOSEPH, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 7208, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LEWIS, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 2019, 5th Battn. Welsh Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Daniel Lewis, by his wife, Mary (26, Castle Street, Dowlais); b. Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 12 Aug. 1892; educ. Elementary Schools there, and was a Blacksmith at the Dowlais Iron Works; served with the Welsh Territorials for four years, and rejoined, 10 June, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of the European War; went to the Dardanelles, 14 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 Sept. following; unm.

LIBBITER, ALFRED, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LICKFOLD, EDWARD, Private, No. 2160, 11th Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of John Lickfold, of Billinghurst, co. Sussex, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Henry Criswick; b. Southampton, 27 Feb. 1878; educ. Wokingham Church School; went to Perth, West Australia, in 1907, and joined the Australian Imperial Force early in 1915; left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915; unm.

LIDBETTER, ALBERT WILLIAM, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24716 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of William Lidbetter, of 13, Holden Cottages, Broadwater, near Worthing; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

LIDDELL, CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3631), 186862, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LIDDLE, FRANK CHARLES, Private, No. 9166, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 26 March, 1915, of enteric fever, while on active service.

LIEBERT, FREDERICK ALEXANDER CHARLES, Capt., North Somerset Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of John Frederick Liebert, by his wife, Lena Henrietta, dau. of Jean Spreet de Bay, and grandson of Edmund Liebert, of Swinton Hall, co. Lancaster; b. Bruges, Belgium, 9th March, 1882; educ. there, and Beaumont College, and on leaving there received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, from which he retired in 1905, and joined the North Somerset Yeomanry (T.F.), as a 2nd Lieut., 20 Dec. 1905, being promoted Capt., 5 Aug. 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres, 17 Nov. following. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. The particular action in which he lost his life was the first action in which the North Somerset Yeomanry took a prominent part, was only over a space of ground some 500 yards square and B Squadron, led by Capt. Liebert, held the first of a series of trenches, upon which a vigorous shell fire of an appalling character was directed. The Germans got to within 15 yards of the trenches, but the attack was repelled, with very heavy losses to them. Letters from his Colonel and brother officers testify to his valuable services as an officer, his high sense of duty combined with much cheerfulness in difficulties and also to the great respect and affection his squadron had for him. Capt. Liebert was Assistant Secretary to the Blackmore Vale Hounds and Secretary to the Wincanton Races; was devoted to hunting, a keen golfer and cricketer, and Freemason. He m. at Pinhoe, 21 July, 1905, Frances (The Elms, Charlton Musgrove, Wincanton, co. Somerset), yr. dau. of Arthur Chamberlayne Chichester, of Gipsy Hill, Pinhoe, co. Devon; s.p.

LIFTON, ALBERT HUMPHREY, Shipwright, 1st Class, 342645, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LIGHT, ARTHUR PERCY, Ship’s Steward’s Assistant (Pensioner), 148076, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LIGHTWOOD, JAMES, Leading Seaman, 233265, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LIHOU, THOMAS ELISHA, A.B. (B. 3473), 226505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LILLY, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, Private, No. 8582, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 8 Oct. 1914; m.

LILLIE, JAMES, Private, No. 904, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; died 30 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action there.

LILLEY, ALBERT EDWARD, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21849, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LINCOLN, WILLIAM HARRY, Petty Officer (N.S.), 208647, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LINDLEY, HARRY, A.B., J. 2174, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

LINDRIDGE, CHARLES MALCOLM, Private, No. 10023, 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Edwin Lindridge, of Spitzbrook Cottage, Marden, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing 29 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date.

LINDSAY, ALEXANDER CAMERON, Private, No. 2462, 1/9th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of the late William Lindsay, Clothier, by his wife, Jane (55, Montpelier Park, Edinburgh), dau. of Alexander Cameron; b. Edinburgh, 18 Aug. 1895; educ. George Heriot’s School; joined the Royal Scots after the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915, while helping a wounded schoolfellow after being twice wounded himself. Buried near St. Jean, two and half miles N.E. of Ypres.

LINDSAY, DAVID SAUNDERS BROWN, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26630 (Devon.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LINDSAY, GEORGE LAWRENCE, Chief Stoker, 176607, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LINDSAY, JAMES HARPER, Capt., No. 1 Coy., Forth Royal Garrison Artillery (T.F.), yr. s. of the late James Lindsay, J.P., by his wife, Ann (Edzell Lodge, Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of James Harper, of Edinburgh; b. Edinburgh, 15 April, 1885; educ. Edinburgh Institution; was a partner in firm of Wm. Lindsay & Son, Cannon Mills, Edinburgh; joined the R.G.A. as 2nd Lieut. 1905; promoted Lieut., 1909, and Captain, 1 June, 1913; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and died in Craigleith Military Hospital, Edinburgh, 24 June, 1915, from the result of injuries received in a motor accident, while on service; unm. He was a keen Rugby footballer and played for the Edinburgh Institution F.P’s. for ten years, six of which he was captain of the team, and on retiring from play he was elected to the Scottish Rugby Union, of which body he was a member until his death. He took great interest in his artillery work, and took his company, which was qualified to shoot for the King’s Cup, to the Isle of Wight for the contest.

LING, GEORGE BATTELY, Rifleman, No. Y211, 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd s. of the late William Page Ling, of Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Christina Morrison (252, Spring Road, Ipswich), dau. of George Mitchell, of Alloa, and grandson of the late William Girling Ling, of Brooks Hall Road, Ipswich; b. Auckland, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. Ipswich Municipal Secondary School; was an Ironmonger; joined the King’s Royal Rifles after the outbreak of war, 29 Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 10 May, 1915; unm.

LING, WILLIAM, Corpl., No. 8008, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., s. of Samuel Ling, of Theberton, Suffolk, by his wife, Maria; b. Lowestoft, 20 April, 1888; educ. Board School there; enlisted 6 June, 1906; served in Malta and Egypt, from 18 Jan. 1911 to Oct. 1914; and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Nov. to 10–14 March, 1915, between which latter dates he was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1910, Barbara Ellen, 3rd dau. of Edward Cannell, of Lowestoft; s.p.

LINNEY, ALFRED, Petty Officer, 2nd Class, R.F.R. (B. 1996), 194089, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LINSDELL, HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3328), 162235, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LINTERN, ALFRED TENNYSON, Private, No. 13189, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Edward George Lintern, of Hill Side Road, St. George’s, Bristol, Foreman under the Bristol Council, by his wife, Clara (144, Two Mile Hill, Kingswood, Bristol), dau. of the late James Hicks, of St. George’s, Bristol; b. Bristol 18 July, 1892; educ. Summer Hill Board School, St. George Glou, Bristol; was for three years a member of the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the Gloucestershire Regt., and in 1912 joined the Metropolitan Police Force. After the outbreak of war he enlisted, 14 Oct. 1914; went to France, 28 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Laventie, 29 Dec. 1915; unm. Buried Fauquissart.

LINTON, JOHN THOMAS, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 2539), 303386, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LINTON, WILLIAM, Private, No. 11369, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. s. of John Paterson Linton, of Knowepark, Heriot, co. Midlothian, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Anderson, Blainslie; b. Knowepark aforesaid, 15 Aug. 1896; educ. Heriot Public School, Dalkeith, and Lasswade Secondary Schools, and was about to enter upon his college and University course when war was declared; enlisted in the Scots Guards, 22 Sept. 1914; went to France, 31 March, 1915, and died a prisoner of war in the German Field Hospital at Seclin, 21 May, 1915, from wounds received in action at Festubert on the 18th. It is said that he was one of the 80 Scots Guards who, at Festubert, sold their lives so dearly and fell to a man, after firing their last cartridge. At Heriot School he won all the chief prizes of his years, including a Secondary Education Bursary, open to the county, and at Dalkeith and Lasswade Schools the Intermediate and Junior Students’ Certificates respectively. As a rifle shot he did yeoman service to the Heriot Ride Club in their interclub matches, won the club championship (Mathison Cup) twice, and at the International Meeting in Glasgow he won the cup as boy champion of Scotland and the same cup at Edinburgh in the following year.

LINTORN, JOHN THOMAS, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1288), late R.M.A., 9658, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LINTOTT, ALBERT EDWARD, L.-Corpl., No. 7987, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 8 Sept. 1914; unm.

LINTOTT, CHARLES FRANK, Private, No. 8776, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Zonnebeke, 21 Oct. 1914.

LION, THOMAS EDWARD, Private, No. 265, 3rd City of London Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), only s. of Juan Joaquin Lion, of 28, Frognal, Hampstead, N.W., Agent, by his wife, Anna, dau. of Henry Boehmer; b. Stanmore, co. Middlesex, 23 Jan. 1895; educ. Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow-on-the-Hill; was a member of the staff of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.; volunteered and joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.), after the outbreak of war, 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 16 Jan. 1915, and died at a Field Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915, of wounds received during the Battle of Loos. Buried in Bethune Cemetery. His section officer wrote: “He was one of those upon whom one could always rely to undertake any duty at any time and to do it well and cheerfully, and with good will. He was one of those competent men in whom his officers always had confidence, and they were never disappointed. He died gallantly in this battle, being hit by a shell in the trenches at the very outset, and died the same night in the Field Hospital. Two other members of his stretcher squad were killed at his side. He fell doing his duty and after having done it well for many months.”; and a friend: “He was a fine fellow in every sense of the word, always ready to do anything, and there is not a man in the Corps that was not cut up about it.”

LIPSETT, WILLIAM ALFRED, Barrister-at-Law, Private, No. 20330, 10th Battn. Canadian Infantry, yst. s. of the late Robert Lipsett, Ballyshannon, Ireland; b. at Ballyshannon, 29 Jan. 1886; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Dublin, and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a member of the Irish Bar, but in the spring of 1914 went out to Canada and was engaged in legal work in Calgary, Alberta. Two days after war broke out he volunteered, enlisting as a private, and refusing a commission. He came home with the 1st Canadian Contingent, and went to France with them in Feb. 1915. He was killed on the night of 22–23 April, 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres during the charge of the 10th and 16th Canadian Battns. on the wood to the west of St. Julien. It will be remembered that these regts. charged through the wood, against far superior numbers, under the heaviest machine-gun fire, and actually reached a point 500 yards in advance of the wood, retaking the four British guns which had been lost in the afternoon of 22 April. Unfortunately the casualties were very high. The 10th Battn. went into the wood 1,000 strong, and came out only 200 strong. Mr. Lipsett played a gallant part in this attack. As Major Ormond, who took over command of the 10th Battn. after Col. Boyle was killed, wrote: “I saw Lipsett the night that he was killed; we went into action charging the wood west of St. Julien at 11.50 p.m., April 22. The Grenadiers were grouped on our left flank and did exceptionally well, Lipsett being one of them. As soon as we had taken the trench, they continued along to the left until they were stopped. Lipsett like the others was very cool and appeared to have no fear. They were subject to the most severe machine-gun fire I have known, but pressed on until all were killed and wounded. I regret to say that as he was killed within 10 or 15 yards from the German redoubt at the corner of the wood we were unable to recover his body. He was an excellent soldier.” His Adjutant also wrote: “He was a gallant soldier and is deeply regretted by all ranks,” and again, “He rendered valuable service to his Battn. and is universally regretted.” His eldest brother, Captain Lewis R. Lipsett, also a member of the Irish Bar, is (1916) serving in the Army Service Corps, with the Expeditionary Force in France. His cousin, Brigadier-General Lewis J. Lipsett, formerly of the Royal Irish Regt., was appointed a C.M.G. for his services at the Second Battle of Ypres, while in command of the 8th Battn. Canadian Infantry.

LIPTROTT, ERIC CARR, Lieut., 6th Jat. L.I., only s. of the Rev. Boulton Brander Liptrott, M.A., Vicar of St James’s, Teignmouth, co. Devon, by his wife, Louisa Constance, dau. of George Carr, of Greenlawalls, Northumberland; b. Plymouth, 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Sutton Valence, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was attd. to the West Yorks; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached Indian Army, 17 Aug. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 17 Nov. 1909; was attd. to the West Yorks Regt. for his first year, then joined the 6th Jats.; served in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, with the West Yorkshire Regt. (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 20 Oct. to 26 Nov. 1914, on which later date he died in the Casino Hospital at Boulogne, from wounds received in action at Festubert on the 21st; unm. Buried in the New Cemetery at Boulogne. Col. H. I. Roche, Commanding Officer of the 6th Jats., wrote: “It was with the deepest sorrow we heard of your son’s death, and you have the sympathy of all his brother officers in the sad loss you have sustained. We hoped so much he was going to be spared as, though he had sustained a very severe wound, there seemed some hope he might pull through. He is a great loss to the regt. as he had been doing so particularly well, and indeed, he had been specially brought to notice for his gallant behaviour in an attack on the night of 16 Nov.”; and Major P. H. Dundas: “I am very sorry indeed to see from the papers that your son succumbed to his wound. He had been my subaltern since 1911, and I never wish to have a better. He was always keen, full of energy and cheery as possible at anything he was asked to do. Four days before he was hit he helped me in a night attack on some German trenches, and it was very largely due to his cool leading of the left half of the attack that we brought the affair off successfully. Believe me you have the sincerest sympathy of the whole regt. in your loss.” He was the best revolver shot of his year at Sandhurst, and also represented Sandhurst against Woolwich in the revolver shooting competition. He was an expert at all games, especially golf, rugby football, for which he gained his cap at Sutton Valence, and tennis, for which he also won two firsts at the Teignmouth Tournament in 1914, and when in India he captained the West Yorkshire Rugby football team which won the cup at Lahore.

LITSON, CHARLES, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17688, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LITTLE, ANDREW (DREW), 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Andrew Little, of Hexham, Miller and Corn Merchant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of John Shanks; b. Hexham, 25 May, 1886, educ. Bilton Grange, Harrogate; was with his brother John George Little, joint Managing Director of Messrs. A. & G. Little, Ltd., Millers, and a partner in the County Roller Flour Mills at Hexham, but on the outbreak of war joined the Army. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3 Nov. 1914, left Newcastle for the Front, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, six days later (Sunday, 25 April); unm. Writing to his mother, Capt. J. E. Raine of the B Coy. said: “He died at the head of his platoon, leading his men in an advance. We were being shelled and I had just walked up to him to say something, when a shell burst. Death was instantaneous, and we buried him later in a little churchyard near Voloerenhook, Belgium, and marked the place with a cross. This was Sunday, about 6 p.m. Nothing could have been better than the magnificent way in which he behaved throughout the few days we were in this zone.” Little was a playing member of the Tyneside Athletic Association, took a keen interest in lawn tennis, and acted as joint secretary of the annual open tournament promoted by the above Association. Alongside with his brother, Mr. J. C. Little, he regularly used to figure in the matches of the Tynedale Hockey Club, and for several years represented Northumberland County.

LITTLE, WILLIAM ERIC, Private, No. 2594, 1/15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Little, of Nile House, Whitley Bay, Northumberland, Tea Dealer and Provision Merchant, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late W. Aynsley, of Consett, J.P.; b. Whitley Bay, 12 Oct. 1896; educ. Park County Council Schools there and Rutherford College, Newcastle; passed his examination for the Civil Service and was appointed to National Health Insurance Office, London; joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died at St. Omer Hospital, 6 April, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the French Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer. His Lieut. wrote: “Your son was a good soldier and did his duty, and I personally am very sorry to lose him. He was always in the leading four of my platoon, and I used to love his merry face. He died as soldier; he was ready, and that is all a soldier can do.”

LITTLEHALES, RICHARD, Private, No. 11988, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of the Rev. Walter Gough Littlehales, of 21, Princes Avenue, Muswell Hill, N., Clerk in Holy Orders, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the Rev. J. E. Robinson, Vicar of Chieveley, Berks; b. Bulvan Rectory, near Romford, co. Essex, 21 Sept. 1881; educ. Forest School, Walthamstow, and Chelsea Technical College, where he trained as an engineer; after working for several well-known firms, joined the staff of the East Surrey Traction Co.; volunteered and enlisted in the Coldstreams in Sept. 1914; went to France, 22 Jan. 1915, and died at Netley Red Cross Hospital, 13 June, 1915, of shell wounds received in action at Givenchy, 22–25 April; unm.

LITTLEJOHN, ERIC GEORGE, Private, No. 2596, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of George Littlejohn, of 245, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Christina, dau. of William Gardner; b. Edinburgh, 30 Nov. 1894; educ. George Heriot’s School; was an employee in the firm of Messrs. Dowell, of George Street, Edinburgh, but after the outbreak of war joined the Royal Scots, Sept. 1914; volunteered for foreign service; went to the Dardanelles, 6 May, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915. Letters from his officers and comrades all speak of his popularity, courage and soldierly capabilities. He was a football player at George Heriot’s School, played forward for his Battn.’s Rugby XV during the winter 1914–15, and was one of the team that secured the second Gold Medals at the Military Sports at Melrose in April, 1915. His yr. brother, Sapper Arthur William Gardner Littlejohn, is (1916) on active service with the City of Edinburgh (Fortress) Royal Engineers.

LITTLEWOOD, ARTHUR FRANCIS BEWICKE, Corpl., No. 1603, 1st Battn. Pioneer Section, Honourable Artillery Coy. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Elijah Harrison Littlewood, of Lingfield Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, formerly vicar of Biggleswade, co. Beds, by his wife, Julia Fanny, dau. of Henry Bellmam; b. Peterboro’, 18 July, 1884; educ. Haileybury and Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a member of the O.T.C., was Assistant Master at Haywards Heath and Eastbourne; volunteered and joined the H.A.C. on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Sept. following; worked for six months on the communication lines, and was then sent to the firing line, where he was attd. to the Pioneer Section, and it was while in command of this section that he died at No. 23 General Hospital, Etaples, 7 July, 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres on the 5th; unm. Buried at Etaples. His Capt. wrote: “He was a very fine fellow, and will be a great loss to me,” and a comrade: “He was one of the nicest fellows I ever knew, and men of many regiments thought the same. He had been promoted Corpl. since he came out and was thought very highly of.” At Haileybury he played for the 1st XI and for the Rugby XV.

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

LIVINGSTONE, WESTLEY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3031), 197062, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LLOYD, EDWARD RAYMOND, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, elder surviving s. of Lieut.-Col. Edward Lloyd, of Bedford, late Indian Cavalry, by his wife, Mary Katharine, dau. of the Rev. John Harding; b. 13 Nov. 1882; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. of the Inniskillings, 22 Oct. 1902, promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1905, and subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battn. then in Egypt, of which corps he was successively assistant adjutant and (29 Aug. 1911) adjutant. He received his coy. 21 Feb. 1912, went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, was wounded in the fighting about Cambray Le-Cateau on 26 Aug. and died of wounds in the hospital at Cambray, 3 Dec. following; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A good all-round sportsman, he represented his school in the Public Schools Boxing Competition held at Aldershot in 1899, and was a keen follower of the hounds and a frequent rider in point-to-point hunt steeplechases. He was also a good shot both with gun and rifle.

LLOYD, FREDERICK ALLAN, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./18106, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LLOYD, FRANK, Gunner, R.M.A., 12644, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LLOYD, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class, 298028, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LLOYD, GERALD AYLMER, Capt., 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., yr. s. of Francis Aylmer Lloyd, of Eastwood, Bridgwater Road, Weybridge; b. London, 17 April, 1888; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Welsh Regt., 19 Sept. 1908; and promoted Lieut. 1 April, 1911, and Capt. 16 Nov. 1914; passed through the Hythe Musketry School with distinction in 1912; served in the Camel Corps, Egypt, 1912–13; was Adjutant of the Missouri Volunteer Rifles in India from March to Aug. 1914; returned to England in Dec. 1914; went to France, 14 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 16 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Chateau Rosendal. His brother, Lieut. Francis Charles Aylmer Lloyd, Highland L.I., died of wounds, 8 Oct. 1915.

LLOYD, LEWIS JOHN BUCKNALL, Lieut., Acting Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Shropshire L.I., only s. of John Bucknall Lloyd, of Dorrington Grove, Shrewsbury, J.P., by his wife, Adela Maud, dau. of the late Percival Spearman Wilkinson, of Mount Oswald, Durham, J.P.; b. Toronto, Kansas, U.S.A., 19 Sept. 1886; educ. Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Battn. Shropshire L.I., 9 Oct. 1907, and promoted Lieut., 24 July, 1912; transferred to the 2nd Battn. in 1912 and served with it at Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, India, returning to England in Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 Dec. 1914, and from early in March, 1915, was acting Capt., and was killed in action during the Second Battle of Ypres, 28 April, 1915, while leading an attack on a German trench near Zillebeke; unm. He was last seen wounded and leaning against the wire of the German trench he was charging. Buried near Zillebeke.

LLOYD, THOMAS, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115871, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LLOYD, WALTER, Capt., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Thomas Lloyd, of Leghorn, Italy, and of Minard, co. Argyle, by his wife, Anne, 2nd dau. of John Campbell, of Kilberry, Argyleshire; b. Casa Mansi, Bagni-de-Lucca, Italy, 17 July, 1874; educ. Farnborough School and Wellington College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, from the Militia, 24 June, 1896; and promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1898, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1905; served in Malta; Cairo; Crete, where, during International occupation, he acted as Interpreter at the sittings of the International Committee; Hong Kong; and India; was Adjutant of Volunteers from Jan. 1905 to 31 March, 1908, and of Territorial Force from 1 April to 9 July, 1908; joined the Reserve of Officers; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and posted to the 8th Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers; went to the Dardanelles, 28 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. following, while leading his coy. in an attack on a Turkish trench. Buried at Quinn’s Post. He m. at St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong, 8 Nov. 1899, Phyllis, 2nd dau. of Admiral Sir Francis Powell, K.C.M.G., C.B., and had two daus.: Phyllis Joan, b. Hong Kong, 25 Sept. 1901; and Alma, b. at Minard Castle, Argyleshire, 21 May, 1904.

LLOYD, WALTER REGINALD, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 5th and yst. s. of the late Sampson Samuel Lloyd, of Dolobran, co. Montgomery, and Janoway Hill, co. Surrey, M.P. for Plymouth (1874–80), and South Warwickshire (1885–86), Chairman of Lloyd’s Bank, and yr. s., by his 2nd wife, the late Marie Wilhelmine Sophie Christine (Danesrood, Guildford), dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Frederick William Menckhoff, Prussian Army; b. at The Farm, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, 18 Aug. 1868; educ. Eton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd North Lancashire Regt., 22 Aug. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 21 June, 1891; Capt. 2 Dec. 1895; Major 1 June, 1906; and Lieut.-Col. (two days before his death) 12 Sept. 1914; was Adjutant, 3 July, 1897, to 3 July, 1901; served in the South African War with 1st Battn., 1901–02; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, July, 1901, to March, 1902, and in those in Cape Colony, March to 31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. following; unm. He rowed in the Eton Eight in 1886.

LOBB, RICHARD JAMES, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, No. M. 2882, R.N.; killed on H.M.S. Highflyer in action with the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, off the Ouro River, on the West African Coast, Aug. 1914.

LOBJOIT, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, Private, No. 3474, 2/10th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of William Benjamin Lobjoit, of 1, Glebe Street, Chiswick, W., Plumber, by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Philip Buckland; b. Chiswick, 20 Dec. 1894; educ. Hogarth Boys’ School there; was a Milk Carrier; enlisted, 5 April, 1915; left England with his Regt. for the Dardanelles on 17 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 14 Aug. following; unm.

LOCK, WILLIAM HENRY, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3845), 231925, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOCKE, ARCHIBALD CHARLES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7470), S.S. 102630, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOCKE, WILLIAM, Private, No. 13927, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Henry Locke, of 44, Gloster Road, Upper Edmonton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 11 May, 1915.

LOCKSMORE, RICHARD JAMES, Private, No. 9867, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 16 May, 1915; m.

LOCKWOOD, MARK, Private, No. 7346, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, Coulommiers, 9 Sept. 1914, of wounds received in action. Buried at Boitron in a field adjoining road, and a cross erected; unm.

ELIOTT-LOCKHART, PERCY CLARE, D.S.O., Lieut.-Col. Commanding 59th Scinde Rifles, Frontier Force, only s. of Col. William Eliott-Lockhart, of Glentromie, Camberley, Royal (Madras) Artillery (died 23 Aug. 1915), by his wife, Ada Clare, dau. of Henry Clan Cardew, Lieut., 94th Regt.; b. Kamptee, India, 21 Sept. 1867; educ. Somerset College, Bath, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.) Indian Army, 23 Nov. 1887; served for one year with the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and then for two years (1888–90) with the Indian Staff Corps, 14 Nov. 1890; was appointed to Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides in 1892; and became Capt. 23 Nov. 1898; Major 23 Nov. 1905, and Lieut.-Col. 16 Nov. 1913; served (1) as Brig. Transport Officer in the Waziristan Expedition, 1894–95 (medal with clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, present at storming of the Malakand Pass (medal with clasp); (3) on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–98; took part in the defence, and relief of, Malakand; the relief of Chakdara, Malakand; operations in Bajaur and in the Mamund country; Utman Kiel and Buner (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1897], medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); (4) in China, 1900 (medal); (5) in East Africa, 1903–04 as D.A.A. and Q.M.G., 2nd Brigade. Somaliland Field Force; took part in operations in Somaliland; action at Jidballi (again mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Sept. 1914], medal with two clasps): and (6) with the Expeditionary Force in France, in command of the 59th Scinde Rifles from 28 Jan. 1915, and died 12 March, 1915, from wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, a few hours previously. Buried about a mile to the west of Neuve Chapelle. He m. at High Leigh, Cheshire, 26 April, 1905, Katherine Mary, dau. of James Worrall, of High Leigh, and had two children: William, b. 11 Feb 1906; and Katharine Clare, b. 3 March, 1909.

LOFT, ALMA JAMES, Stoker, R.N.R., 1847U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOFTS, BERNARD, Private, No. 1966, 6th, attd. 8th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest s. of Alfred Lofts, of Amersham, co. Bucks, Provision Merchant, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William Hicks, of Looe, Cornwall; b. Canonbury, N., 20 April, 1891; educ. Watford Grammar School, and Bethany House School, Goudhurst, co. Kent; was apprenticed to the drapery trade at Uxbridge; and was successively employed by Eaden and Lilley, Cambridge; Hitchcock Williams, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and C. Jenner and Co., Edinburgh; joined the Royal Scots after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 16 May, 1915; unm. Buried near Festubert.