LOFTS, JAMES, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306070, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1915; m.

LOGAN, JAMES AIRD, A.B., 215575, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOGAN, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9595), S.S. 106972, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOMAX, GERALD DAVID, Lieut. 3rd Battn. The Welch Regt., 2nd s. of the late Capt. David Alexander Napier Lomax, Welch Regt. (killed in action at Driefontein, 10 March, 1900 during the South African War), by his wife, Annette (now wife of Major Frank Towle, of 3, Clarence Terrace, Regent’s Park, N.W.); b. Manorbier, co. Pembroke, 6 Jan. 1895; educ. Marlborough College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., The Welch Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1915; went to France, 12 March, whilst there was attd. to the 2nd Royal Berkshire Regt., and died in the hospital barge, 11 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Fromelles two days previously; unm. Buried at Estaires, in the English Cemetery. His Doctor wrote: “We did all we could to make him comfortable, but his wounds were so severe that medically speaking he never had a chance; fortunately he suffered very little pain, and died as I fancy he must have lived, bravely thinking of others more than himself.” His brother, Capt. C. E. N. Lomax, also Welch Regt., is now (1916) on active service, being a Temporary Major in the Manchester Regt.

LOMAX, HARRY, Private, No. 2164, 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Robert Lomax, of 4, Birmingham Street, Bolton, Mechanic, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Smith; b. Bolton, co. Lancaster, 10 Jan. 1885; educ. St. Matthew’s Church of England Schools and Bolton Municipal Secondary School; sometime employed at the Bolton Post Office; emigrated to New Zealand in Sept. 1909, and later went to Sydney, Australia, where he was a member of the Lancashire Association; volunteered for Imperial service, 4 May, 1915, and joined the 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt, 16 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 1 Aug., and was killed in action there, 6–9 Aug. 1915, during the fighting at Lone Pine; unm.

LONG, FREDERICK RICHARD RANDOLPH, Bugler, R.M.A., 10307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LONG, JOHN EDWARD, Stoker, 1st Cl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7397), S.S. 102426, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LONG, STEWART SHACROFT, Leading Seaman, 231412, H.M.S Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LONGBOURNE, WILLIAM LOUIS JENNINGS, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (F.), 4th surviving s. of the late Charles R. V. Longbourne, of Ripsley, co. Sussex, by his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Ainslie, dau. of the late Rev. and Hon. James Norton, of Anningsley Park, co. Surrey [4th son of Hon. Fletcher Norton, a baron of the exchequer in Scotland, and gdson. of Fletcher, 1st Baron Grantley, P.C.]; b. Ripsley, 24 Aug. 1887; educ. Malvern College, passed all the Law examinations for a Solicitor; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Battn. The Queen’s, 9 May, 1914, promoted Lieut., took part in the landing at Suvla Bay on the early morning of 9 Aug. 1915, and in the subsequent attack on Chocolate Hill, the same day; while leading his platoon in the attack he was badly wounded when near the top of the hill, but refused to allow his men to help him, telling them to go on. Afterwards, owing to the cross fire and nature of the country, it was found impossible to get to him and he was never seen again.

LONGHURST, CHARLES, Private, No. 10029, 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Charles Longhurst, of 68, Regent Street, Whitstable, Kent; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Gheluvelt, 29 Oct. 1914.

LONGMAN, FREDERICK, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Charles James Longman, of Upp Hall, Braughing, Ware, and 39, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., M.A., J.P., Publisher, by his wife, Harriet Ann, 2nd dau. of Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S.; b. Norfolk Square, London, 9 May, 1890; educ. Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge; joined the Hertfordshire Territorials in 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Fusiliers, 13 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 24 Aug. 1914; went to France 13 Aug.; was wounded in the arm at the Battle of the Marne, but rejoined his regt. after a short stay at a base hospital, and was killed in action at Herlies, 18 Oct. following; unm. On this day his regiment was holding the village of Le Riez close to Herlies and he was resting in a farm with some brother officers, when a shell burst over this house. Lieut. Longman ran to put on his equipment and join his men; but another shell exploded just outside the window, and a pellet struck him in the temple, killing him instantaneously. His Colonel (since killed in action) wrote: “Please accept my deepest sympathy and be consoled with the thought that his work on active service was as sound and valuable as his conduct has been brave and dutiful. His rapid return to duty after the wound received after crossing the Marne marked him specially as a genuine soldier, and his loss will be very much felt by all of us, professionally and socially.” A brother officer also wrote: “He was always cheery, and it did us all good to see the way he did his job, and never grumbled at anything. He was one of the gallantest fellows I ever saw, and nothing ever frightened him. We are all proud of him, and his name will always go on in the Regiment’s history as a hero”; and another said he noticed, on the retreat from Mons, how he carried far more than his share of the necessaries, and constantly cheered his men by word and example in their temporary depression. While at Harrow, he was a member of the School Corps, and of the Football XI in 1907, in which year he was also a Dolphin and champion featherweight boxer. He was a member of the O.T.C. at Cambridge, and later held a commission in the Hertfordshire Territorial Regt., for which he recruited a section of 41 men in the neighbourhood of his home at Braughing. He was an active member of the local rifle club and gave much time to training lads from the village school at the miniature range, some of whom became excellent shots. In the army he devoted himself to training his men in shooting and boxing, and represented his battn. in the competition for the Army championship at rifle shooting. In regard to his boxing in the Southern Command Boxing Meeting of 1914, the judge remarked that his fight was the finest thing he had ever seen, and held it up to the men as an example of British pluck and endurance.

LONGSDON, ALFRED ALLEN, St. John Ambulance Brigade, s. of the late Robert Longsdon, of Bromley, Kent, Civil Engineer, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Richard (and Sarah) Allen; b. Bromley, 16 Feb. 1866; educ. Wellington College, was a scientist; joined the St. John Ambulance Association after the outbreak of war, in Oct. 1914; went to France in the early part Dec., and was accidentally killed at Havre, 6 Jan. 1915, while on service. In returning to the hospital situated on the docks, Mr. Longsdon, who was owner-driver of a Fiat motor ambulance, had to pass near the edge of one of the quays. In the darkness he must have misjudged the distance, for the ambulance car fell into the basin and when he was got out of the water he was found to have sustained a fractured skull, and he died without recovering consciousness. Buried at Havre. He m. at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 5 Sept. 1896, Ellen Mary (Addison Mansions, Kensington), yst. dau. of Joseph Allen, and had five children: Robert Cyril, b. 28 March, 1900; Grant Allen, b. (posthumous) 2 June, 1915; Nancy, b. 22 July, 1902; Marion, b. 1 May, 1908; and Merritt Jean, b. 23 June, 1911.

LONSDALE, ARTHUR CARR GLYN, Lieut., 6th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yr. s. of the late Rev. John Henry Lonsdale, M.A., Rector of Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, by his wife, Katharine Carr (The Further House, Wimborne, co. Dorset), dau. of Capt. Carr Stuart Glyn, of Wood Leage, Wimborne, and gdson. of the late Canon John Gilby Lonsdale, of Lichfield; b. Wall Vicarage, Lichfield, co. Stafford, 7 Sept. 1891; educ. Summerfields, Oxford; Radley, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was intending to take orders, but on the outbreak of war, obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, from the C.U.O.T.C., 15 Aug. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. 1 Jan. 1915; went to France in Nov., 1914; was subsequently attd. to the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915, while leading his platoon; unm. Buried there. While at Summerfields, he won an Eton and a Radley Scholarship; at Radley he was capt. of rackets and of fives, and at Cambridge where he graduated in 1910, he represented his college at tennis.

LONSDALE, DAVID, Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 1005), 284049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LOOS, CECIL GEORGE BERTRAM, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yr. s. of the late Hon. Frederick Charles Loos, C.M.G., by his wife, Isabel (Roseneath, Darley Road, Colombo, Ceylon); b. Colombo, 3 Oct. 1884; educ. Bedford Grammar School; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Buffs (Militia), 1904; transferred to the 1st Worcestershire Regt., 27 May, 1908, and joined the Reserve of Officers, 1912; on the outbreak of war rejoined the 3rd Battn. of his regt.; was promoted Lieut. in Dec.; went to France, 3 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 12 March, 1915. Buried there near the chateau. He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 16 April, 1912, Helen, dau. of John Hines, of Seddlescombe Lodge, St. Leonards-on-Sea, and had one son, Frederick Charles, b. May, 1913.

LORAM, ALLEN, Stoker, 1st Class, 294257, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LORD, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2358), 184692, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action, 22 Sept. 1914.

LORD, HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class, B. 4301, S.S. 103147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LORD, WILLIAM HERBERT, A.B., J. 13484, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action, 22 Sept., 1914.

LOUCH, THOMAS, Private, No. 13590, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of the late Thomas Louch (died 17 June, 1905), by his wife, Mary Ann (Newbold-upon-Avon), dau. of the late Matthew Davies, of Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; b. Newbold-on-Avon, near Rugby, co. Warwick, 12 May, 1883; educ. Council School there, and afterwards attended night schools and gained several certificates. He was engaged in the building trade, but after the declaration of war, answered his country’s call and enlisted in Nov. 1914. He was sent to the Front in July, 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 8 Oct. 1915; unm. He was a member of the Newbold Football Club and of the Committee of the Cricket Club. He was also a member of the Church Choir and for several seasons spent most of his leisure time in helping to beautify the churchyard.

LOVATT, WILLIAM HENRY TURNER, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports. 7248), R.F.R., Ch. B. 1203, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOVEDAY, ARTHUR EDWARD, Private, No. 9411, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Joseph Joel Loveday, of 58, Yew Tree Road, Witton, Birmingham, late Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Green, of Berkshire; b. Saltley, Birmingham, 15 April, 1893; educ. College School there, enlisted 8 Jan. 1912; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 5 Nov. following; unm.

LOW, ANDREW LESLIE, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1084, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOW, DAVID, Private, No. 4104, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, s. of Alexander Low; b. Edinburgh, 23 Dec. 1881; educ. Cranstoun Street School there; enlisted 1897; served in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s and King’s medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Kemmel, 21 Jan. 1915. He m. at Edinburgh, 1903, Catherine (16, South Richmond Street, Edinburgh), dau. of Hugh Flaherty, and had four children: Alexander, b. 15 Feb. 1909; Hugh, b. 31 Jan. 1914; Catherine Muir, b. 18 Nov. 1903; and Helen Pringle, b. 24 Oct. 1912.

LOW, ROBERT THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8900), 199042, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LOWE, BERTIE GUY, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1713), 10813, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOWE, HENRY STANLEY, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edward Jackson Lowe, Vicar of Stallingborough, and only s. by his 2nd wife; b. Stallingborough, co. Lincoln, 7 Feb. 1891; educ. Glengarth Preparatory School, Cheltenham; Bilton Grange, near Rugby; Rugby, and in Sandhurst Company at Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 5 March, 1913; joined his regt. in Jhansi, India, in Jan. 1910; returned to Aldershot in 1913; went to France, and died at Paris, 21 Oct. following, of wounds received in action during the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept.; unm. Buried at St. Germain-en-Laye.

LOWE, JOHN, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7944), S.S. 1554, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of Thomas Lowe, of 6, Shepherd Place Buildings, Lees Mews, Park Street, London, W.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

LOWE, THOMAS, A.B., B. 1529, 190575, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOWERY, WILLIAM, Stoker, R.N.R., 1236 U., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOWIN, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9654), S.S. 107099, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOWRIE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115510, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOWRY, JOHN, A.B., R.F.R., B. 3218, S.S. 741, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LOWTH, JAMES FRANCIS ALEXANDER, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14721, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

LOXLEY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 14657, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late William Loxley, Engine Fitter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late Edward Stringer; b. Ecclesfleld, co. York, 26 Oct. 1885; educ. there; was a stove and grate fitter; volunteered and enlisted 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 15 Aug. 1915, and died in Convalescent Home, Westbury, co. Wilts, 27 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action during the Battle of Loos, 27–29 Sept. 1915. He m. at Grimsby, 4 Aug. 1912, Edith Mary (3, Burton Street, Langsett Road, Sheffield), widow of Philip Munty, and dau. of the late Frederick Charles Unwin; s.p.

LOXTON, CHARLES EDWARD HOLDEN, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. North Staffordshire Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of Charles Adshead Loxton, of Shoal Hill House, Cannock, LL.B., Solicitor, of Walsall, by his wife, Emily Clara, youngest dau. of Sir Edward Thomas Holden, of Great Barr, formerly M.P. and Mayor of Walsall; b. at Walsall, 3 June, 1892; educ. Sandroyd School, Stanmore; Harrow (Druries), and University College, Oxford; was a student at the Inner Temple, and after passing Moderations with honours (Classics) at Oxford, became a student also in the faculty of Medicine and Surgery; volunteered on the outbreak of war and gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th North Staffordshires, Aug. 1914; went to France, 3 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, early on Sunday morning, 23 May, 1915; unm. Soon after midnight he was with his men repairing some wiring in front of the trench, when he was struck by a bullet, and died in the ambulance on his way to the hospital. Buried at Neuve Eglise, Belgium. His commanding officer, Col. Knight, wrote: “He was certainly the bravest man I have seen out here, and endeared himself to all of us. We did our best to make him more cautious, but he would set the example—as he did to all of us—to his platoon, and he made them into a splendid lot of men.” The President of the Officer’s Mess also wrote: “I need only say that he was universally beloved by both officers and men, and his platoon would have done anything for him and followed him anywhere, and by his splendid behaviour in the face of danger he has left us a grand example.” The Platoon Sergt. writing on behalf of the platoon said: “In any work one or more of us were engaged in, he was always ready with a helping hand, thus in no small way in his capacity of an officer, displaying his desire to encourage us, and he always proved himself to be of an unselfish and thoughtful disposition.” Lieut. Loxton was fond of yatching and had just returned from a yatching cruise on the West of Scotland when the war broke out. While a boy at Stanmore, he became a member of the University and Public Schools Camp, and attended each year with the Anglesey Camp. He regarded these camps with real affection, and said they taught a boy the manliness of religion and not to be ashamed of it. His Housemaster at the Druries Harrow, wrote: “Edward Loxton came to Harrow in 1906. A steady worker if not an accomplished scholar in the technical sense, he had a strong appreciation of the best in literature, and spent a year in the highest form in the school. But it was in the house that his gifts of character were most clearly to be discerned. To a personality of great charm, and an exceptional talent for friendship, he added an unostentatious force of character, a self-less devotion to duty and all the simplicity of a finely touched spirit. Passionately loyal himself, he abhorred all that was mean or base. It surprises none who loved him to read of his bravery in the field, as he was sans reproche, he would be sans peur. He is deeply mourned in a house which has given many lives of bright promise in England’s cause.”

LUCY, REGINALD ERIC, Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Northamptonshire Regt., elder s. of Major Reginald Horace Lucy, of 9, The Crescent, Plymouth, M.B., F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th Southern General Hospital, Plymouth, by his wife, Emily Susan, dau. of Robert Shackleford Cross; b. Plymouth, 28 July, 1893; educ. Ellerslie, Fremington, N. Devon, Malvern College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 22 Jan. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 8 July, 1914; served with his regt. in Malta and Egypt until the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; returned to England in Oct.; went to France with the 8th Division, in Nov., and died at No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 March, 1915, of wounds received in action near Neuve Chapelle on the 12th; unm.

LUFF, WILLIAM HENRY, Private, No. 10450, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Frederick Luff, of 2, Court, 2, Newton Lane, Sheffield, by his wife, Lily, dau. of Thomas Clarke; b. Sheffield, 27 June, 1895; educ. St. Mary’s Church School there; enlisted in Nov. 1913; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel, 27 Oct. following.

LUKIS, THEODORE STEWART, M.D., M.R.C.P., Capt., 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Charles Pardey Lukis, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.C.S., Director-Gen. I.M.S., by his wife, Lilian, dau. of the late Col. John Stewart, C.I.E., R.A.; b. Cawnpore, India, 7 Dec. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; entered at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, in 1903, M.D. (Gold medal) London, 1912; M.R.C.P. London, 1913; Assistant Physician Queen’s Hospital for children; Demonst. Physiol. St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Fellow of London Medical Society, some time Home Physician to the Children’s Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and House Physician and Opth. Surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s. On the outbreak of war enlisted in the Kensingtons, 20 Aug. 1914, for service in the ranks; was gazetted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1914, and Capt. 13 March, 1915; severely wounded at “Port Arthur,” Neuve Chapelle, on 12 March, 1915, he died in No. 7 Base Hospital at Boulogne, 15 March following; unm. He won the open science scholarship in 1904, and the gold medal in medicine at the London University in 1912, and was elected to the Junior Staff of St. Bartholomew’s, and the Queen’s Hospital for children. “His great ability was recognised by all, and he was profoundly interested in medical research. But his deepest interest was in the condition of the London poor, and he early tried to give practical relief by throwing himself heart and soul into the Boy Scout movement. He commanded the East London Torynbee Hall Scouts for some years. On the outbreak of war, after much heart searching, he decided to enlist and thus set an example in its simplest form, and he was followed to the recruiting office by 80 ex-scouts, and scoutmasters.”

LUMSDEN, ANDREW STEEDMAN, Private No. 2153, 1/4th Battn. The Royal Scots,(T.F.), 2nd s. of Andrew Steedman Lumsden, of 14, Bruntsfield Avenue, Edinburgh, A. Mus. T.C.L., Teacher of Music, by his wife, Lillias Ellen, dau. of William Gray Tennant, Merchant, of Leith; b. Edinburgh, 2 Dec. 1891; educ. Bruntsfield School, Edinburgh; was assistant to Mr. Alex. G. Pyrie, Grocer, Edinburgh; volunteered and joined the Royal Scots, 7 Sept. 1914; left Larbert for Liverpool on the morning of 22 May, 1915, just escaped the railway disaster at Gretna Green on that date, being in the train that preceded the one that was wrecked; left Liverpool on or about the 23rd May, 1915, for Gallipoli, and was killed in action there, 28 June, 1915; unm. On 10 June, 1915, he wrote; “We have now left for Alexandria, started yesterday morning and are on our way to an unknown destination”; and on 25 June, 1915, he wrote from Gallipoli stating; “We have been in the trenches and are now in the rest camp.”

LUMSDEN, WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 25), 135850, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LUNON, ARTHUR JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14117, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

LUPTON, REGINALD, Capt., 9th (Service) Battn. Prince of Wales’ Own West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of William Charles Lupton, of 14, Claremont, Bradford, Member of the firm of John Lupton and Son, Ltd., Wine Merchants, Bradford, Leeds and Leith, three years Mayor of Bradford, by his wife, Sarah Woodhead, dau. of the late William Bentley, of Greenside, Bradford; b. Claremont, Bradford, 17 June, 1882; educ. Sedbergh; was a Director of John Lupton and Sons, Ltd.; served for many years in the 6th West Yorkshire Regt. (Bradford Rifles), and was on the Reserve of Officers when war broke out. He obtained a commission as Capt. in the 9th West Yorkshire Regt., 9 Sept. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1 July, and died on H.M.H.S. Valdivia, of wounds received after the landing at Suvla Bay, 7 Aug. 1915, and was buried at sea the following day; unm. He was carrying a wounded man to the dressing station, when he was shot in the abdomen. His elder brother, Major A. W. Lupton, 2nd West Yorkshire Regt., was invalided home from the western front early in 1915.

LUSH, ARTHUR GEORGE, Private, No. 12407, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th s. of Thomas Lush, of The Buddens, Bower Chalk, co. Wilts, by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Williams; b. Bower Chalk, 24 March, 1895; educ. National School there; was a Baker by trade; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, 21 Jan. 1915, and died in a General Hospital, Rouen, 14 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action on 17 Oct. previously; unm. Buried at Rouen.

LUSH, CHARLES ARTHUR, 1st Class Chief Petty Officer, Ch. Sh. Ck., 353904, 2nd s. of Jesse Lush, Naval Pensioner, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Richard (and Elizabeth) Freemantle; b. Portsea, co. Hants, 2 June, 1878; educ. there; joined the Navy, 3 May, 1895; and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea. He held the Long Service and Good Conduct medals. He m. at St. Margaret’s Church, Leiston, co. Suffolk, 25 Dec. 1905, Ethel (49, Sizewell Road, Leiston), eldest dau. of John Forsdike, of Leiston, and had three children: Kenneth Charles, b. 18 Jan. 1907; Charles Frank Trevor, b. 5 Sept. 1914; and Clare Helen Ruth, b. 28 Sept. 1910.

LUSTY, SAMUEL MORLEY, Petty Officer, 160608, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYDALL, HERBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1584), 285739, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

LYDEKKER, CYRIL RICHARD, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Richard Lydekker, of Harpenden Lodge, co. Hertford, F.R.S., J.P. (died 16 April, 1915), by his wife, Lucy Marianne, elder dau. of the Rev. Canon Owen William Davys, Rector of Wheathampstead, co. Herts; b. Harpenden Lodge, 8 Nov. 1889; educ. Haileybury and on leaving there entered Messrs. Barclay & Cos’. Bank (8 Oct. 1906), where he remained until the outbreak of war. He joined the Hertfordshire Artillery (4th East Anglian Brigade, T.F.) in the autumn of 1910, and after serving his three years in the Battery, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Bedfordshire Territorials, 14 March, 1914, and promoted Lieut., 29 Aug. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he was away on the annual fortnight’s training with his Regt., and immediately volunteered for foreign service. After training on the East Coast, and at St. Alban’s, he left for the Dardanelles with his Regt., 26 July, 1915; landed at Suvla Bay, 11 Aug.; went into action with his Regt. on the 15th, and was killed in action the same day, being shot through the head, while leading his platoon in a charge; unm. His Commanding Officer, in writing to his sister, said: “He died most gallantly leading his platoon. We found your brother right up in the front and he now lies close up behind the trenches, on the ground that he helped to win.” He was fond of all outdoor sports, especially riding and cricket, and was a great lover of animals, his life being spent almost entirely in the country. He was very fond of music. His brother, Lieut. and Qr.-Mr. Gerard Owen Lydekker, is now (1916) on active service with the same Regt.

LYMN, JOSEPH EWART, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3305), 218307, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYNCH, HAROLD JEROME, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd s. of the late Francis Lynch (d. 4 June, 1913), by his wife, Josephine (Glascoed Hall, Wrexham, co. Denbigh), dau. of Francis Reynolds, of Hillside, Woolton; b. Glascoed Hall, 9 Dec. 1895; educ. Stonyhurst College, left there 1 Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., Reserve of Officers, 9 Sept.; promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and posted to the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers as 2nd Lieut., 4 April following; went to France 26 Jan., and was killed in action at Festubert 16 May, 1915, while leading his men in a successful attack on the German trenches. Buried near Essar, off Rue Calloux, with six other officers of the R.W.F. who fell that day. He was captain of his College, 1913–14, and also of the football team, and a member of the O.T.C. For two years in succession he won the mile, half mile, quarter mile and hurdles, and his class won the shooting medal in 1914.

LYNCH, JOHN, Private, No. 12191, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 2 Ambulance Flotilla, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

LYNDEN, JOHN HENRY, Private, No. 2848, 2/7th Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of John Benjamin Lynden, of 57, Farrant Avenue, Wood Green, N., Clerk, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Pearmain; b. Wood Green, co. Middlesex, 30 July, 1892; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Clerk; enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; went to Gibraltar for garrison duty, 1 Feb. 1915, and died in Hospital at Gibraltar, 9 March following, while on active service; unm.

LYNDSELL, PHILIP, Private, R.M.L.I., Ports. 12672, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYNES, BERTIE FREDERICK, Private No. 6835, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. Warwick; enlisted 2 July, 1906; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 13 Aug. 1914; died in the Hospital train near Willereaux, 18 Sept. following, of wounds received in action.

LYNN, ERNEST, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3784), S.S. 1077, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYON, ALBERT EDWARD, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345360, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

LYON, JOHN JAMES, Private, No. 4011, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of Charles Lyon, Colliery Manager at Chorley, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of John Thurlby; b. Chorley, co. Lancs., 8 Nov. 1881; educ. St. George’s School there; enlisted 22 Jan. 1901; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 12 Feb. 1909, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 26 Aug. 1914, to 8 Oct. 1915, and died at No. 5 General Hospital, Rouen, 16 Oct. 1915, of wounds received in action at Loos on the latter date. Buried in St. Sivier Cemetery there. He m. at St. Edward’s R.C. Church, Palace Street, London, S.W., 4 April, 1904, Catherine (1, Hill View, Eastwood Road, Bramley, near Guildford), dau. of Jeremiah Donovan, and had two children: Sidney Francis, b. 15 July, 1912; and Kathleen Lucy, b. 27 Feb. 1914.

LYON, ROBERT MAIR, Sergt., No. 1239, 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Robert Lyon, of Galston, co. Ayr, and of Tottenham, N., M.D., C.M., by his wife, Annie (10, Baskerville Road, Wandsworth Common), dau. of Robert Mair; b. Newmilns, co. Ayr, 24 Jan. 1891; educ. Grocer’s Company School, Hackney Downs, and La Villa, Lausanne; was in the London office of Browne and Tawse, Iron and Steel Merchants; joined the London Scottish in 1910; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Hulluch, 13 Oct. 1915, while leading a platoon; unm.

BOWES LYON, CHARLES LINDSAY CLAUDE, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st. Battn., The Black Watch, eldest s. of the Hon. Francis Bowes Lyon, formerly Lieut.-Col. commanding 5th Battn. Black Watch, by his wife, Lady Anne, dau. of Alexander, 25th Earl of Crawford, and gdson. of Claude, 13th Earl of Strathmore; b. 15 Sept. 1885; educ. Eton, studied at the Royal College of Science, Newcastle, for electrical engineering, Member of the Inst. C.E. He joined the Forfarshire and Kincardine Militia Artillery in April, 1906, and in 1910 was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. (Special Reserve) of the Black Watch. In 1911, obtaining an engineering appointment in India, he spent two and a half years at Bombay, and on his return home with a friend via Japan and Canada in May, 1914, was one of the few survivors in the terrible disaster and loss of the Empress of Ireland liner on the St. Lawrence. Shortly afterwards, his battn. was mobilized on the outbreak of war. He was attd. to the 1st Battn. of the Black Watch in the First Army Corps, and joined the Expeditionary Force in France early in Sept.; served through the memorable battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the fierce struggles in the first battles round Ypres. He was twice slightly wounded, and after three days’ incessant fighting from 20 Oct. was killed in action on 23 Oct. at Pilken, during an attack to recover the lost trenches. He was buried in the churchyard at Boesinghe; unm. A keen cricketer and sportsman, his scientific career had been of brilliant promise, and his attractive disposition had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. A well-known chaplain with the Expeditionary Force wrote: “Capt. —— spoke most splendidly of B. L. and his example, and said, amongst other things, that he was one of the finest characters he had ever met.”

LYONS, ERNEST, Private, No. 13344, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Edward Lyons, of 52, Princess Street, Plumstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 14 March, 1915.

LYTTLE, DAVID JOHN ALBERT, Lieut., 14th Battn. South Otago Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of John Lyttle, of Chatton Road, Gore, New Zealand, formerly a Master at Longridge School, Gore, by his wife, Catherine (Rina), dau. of the late David Gardner, of Stanley Hill Gore, formerly of Blairmains Farm, Shotts, Scotland; b. Waikaia, New Zealand, 1888; educ. at his father’s school, Longridge, and Southland Boys’ High School, Invercargill (Scholar), and took a prominent part in the school sports; started his career as Third Assistant in Gore School, and was later transferred to Kaitangata as Second Assistant. After two years’ service there he returned as First Assistant in Gore School; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the New Zealand Territorials, while at Kaitangata; volunteered for Imperial service immediately the European war broke out, and was given a commission as Lieut.; left for Egypt with the main body, 16 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 2 May following; unm. While at Gore School he founded the Boy Scout movement there, and acted as District Commander for several years. He was an authority on local geology and botany; was well-known as a mountaineer, especially in connection with the exploration of the West Coasts Sound’s Region, and during one of these trips discovered falls 1,000 ft. high, now known as the “Lyttle Falls.”

McALLISTER, ANDREW, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7656), S.S. 103005, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MACATEER, JOHN, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21973, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACAUSLAND, OLIVER BABINGTON, Lieut., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, yr. s. of Lieut.-Col. Redmond Conynham Samuel Macausland, of Woodbank, Garvagh, co. Derry, J.P., Indian Army (ret.), by his wife, Jane Isabella, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Henry Keown, 15th King’s Hussars and Royal North Down Militia; b. Rawalpindi, Punjab, India, 28 Nov. 1895; educ. Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (prize cadet); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list, Indian Army, 8 Aug. 1914, and the same month joined the 4th Battn. (Special Reserve) Royal Irish Rifles, at Holywood, co. Down. In March, 1915, he was posted to the 1st Battn. of that regt. then on active service in France, and given the rank of Lieut. He was killed in action during the advance of the 8th Division from Rouges Bancs towards Fromelles, and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, in which our men came up against unbroken wire and parapets and sustained very heavy casualties. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a young soldier with a soldierly faculty; gentle, just, and clear-sighted.”; and the Adjutant wrote of him: “He was always more than ready to do any dangerous patrols that were to be done; and it was so nice to know that we could depend on him to do whatever was to be done without any further supervision. When he met his death, he was gallantly leading his platoon in the charge at Fromelles early on the 9th.” He was unm. A marble tablet to his memory was placed in Errigal Church, Garvagh, co. Derry.

MACBEAN, DUNCAN GILLIES FORBES, Capt., 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only child of Major-General Forbes Macbean, C.V.O., C.B., formerly A.D.C. to H.M. the King, late Gordon Highlanders, by his wife, Mary Katharine Fishburn, dau. of the late Capt. Forbes Jackson, R.N., and gdson. of Col. Forbes Macbean, 92nd Gordon Highlanders, Sergt.-at-Arms to Queen Victoria, and great-grand-nephew of Sir William Macbean, K.C.B., K.T.S., also of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders; b. R. M. C. Terrace, Yorktown, 19 July, 1893; educ. Aysgarth School, Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 4 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1914. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he went to France with his regt., was wounded at Gheluvelt, 28 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Festubert, 18 June, 1915; unm. He was buried in the garden of the Chateau de Gorre, near Bethune. Lieut. Macbean was a fine all-round sportsman. He excelled as a Rugby football player, and was a member of the XV at Wellington and Sandhurst. He was also a very good shot with both gun and rifle, and most popular with all who knew him.

McBRIDE, GILBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7954), S.S. 103628, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McCABE, JOSEPH, Private, No. 1603, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Alexander McCabe, of Killagorman, Killishandra, by his wife, Rose Ann, dau. of Daniel Kelly, of Killagorman, Killishandra; b. Dumnlara, Killishandra, co. Cavan, 30 April, 1877; educ. Killagorman National School; went to Sydney, Australia, 1907; when war broke out volunteered and joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 July, 1915; unm.

MACCABE, ROBERT MAXWELL, Lieut. 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Thomas Maccabe, of 22, Landscape Terrace, Belfast, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Maxwell; b. Belfast, co. Antrim, 25 Aug. 1884; educ. Clifton Park National School and Queen’s University, Belfast and was Telegraphist, G.P.O. He joined Queen’s University O.T.C. in 1910, and gained his “A” certificate in infantry training and entered for his “B” certificate. He also acted as Musketry Lecturer, and received a medal from Count Gleichen for excellent work in the O.T.C. After the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the Post Office Rifles as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to France with his battn. where he acted as bomb officer. On 23 April a small detachment of the battn. was stationed in a dug-out near Givenchy when a shell burst, wounding him severely. He was taken to the Military Hospital at Bethune, where he died, 23 April, 1915, and was buried in the Civil Cemetery there. Lieut. Maccabe was a keen sportsman and was for a long period captain of the Glendorra Lawn Tennis Club. He was also Hon. Treasurer of the Silverstream Hockey Club, and was a member of the committee of the Clytonville Football and Cricket Clubs. He m. at Belfast, 21 Nov. 1914, Amy Constance Robb, yst. dau. of Thomas McDowell, of Belfast; s.p.

MACCABEE, WILLIAM ERNEST, Private No. 7379, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Reg., s. of late William Maccabee, Royal Garrison Artillery; b. Portsmouth, 20 May, 1881; enlisted Feb. 1902, and was killed in action at Troyon, France, 7 Oct. 1914. He m. at Portsmouth, 23 Feb. 1914, Annie Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Ford, of Glastonbury, and had a posthumous dau., Eva Winnifred, b. 3 March 1915.

McCALL, ROBERT JAMES, Private, No. 8/1276, Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th s. of James William McCall, of York Bar, Wellington, Plumber; b. Blenheim, Nov. 1884; educ. at Terrace End School; worked as an assistant to his father and afterwards with his brother, J. McCall, of Main Street, Palmerston; volunteered on the outbreak of war; enlisted and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; was drafted to Otago Infantry Battn., and left New Zealand in Dec. 1914, with the Second Contingent; died of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915; unm. McCall was well-known in football circles as a member of the Old Kai Toa Club, and later of the Orientals.