McCANN, FRANK RICHARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 24018, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McCAROGHER, JOHN OMMANNEY, Private, No. 1848, 1/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Ernest Joseph Chilton McCarogher, of Croydon, Bank Manager; b. Croydon, 19 May, 1895; educ. St. Dunstan’s College; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 and was killed in action at Messines, 1 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried on the battlefield.

McCARTEN, WILLIAM JAMES DANIEL, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3556), 216332, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McCARTHY, DENIS, Rifleman, No. 289, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, eldest s. of the late Denis McCarthy, of Cardiff, by his wife, Kathleen; b. Cardiff, 30 July, 1882; educ. St. Patrick School, Grangetown, there; enlisted in 1904, and, on completing his term of service with the Colours, became a tram conductor at Cardiff. When war broke out he rejoined his Battn.; went to France, 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Armentières, 23 Oct. 1914. He m. at Cardiff, 24 Dec. 1907, Mary Ann (16, Tyler Street, Roath, Cardiff), dau. of the late Ambrose Turner, of London, and had three children: William Denis, b. 25 Feb. 1911; Kathleen May, b. 15 Dec. 1909, and Eileen Mary, b. 6 Aug. 1913.

McCARTHY, GEORGE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3235), S.S. 748. H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McCARTHY, JERRY JOSEPH, L.-Corpl., No. 870. 2nd Battn. 1st Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force, s. of Florence McCarthy, of Bantry, co. Cork, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Denis McCarthy; b. Bantry, 6 Jan. 1876; educ. there; enlisted in the Royal Artillery, about 1895, became corpl. about 1897; served through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with clasps and King’s medal with clasps), and afterwards went to Australia, about 1905. When the European War broke out he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, 3 May, 1915, during an attack on the Turkish trenches; unm.

McCARTHY, WILFRED CYRIL, Private, No. 1573, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only s. of the late David McCarthy, of Derby, Coal Merchant, by his wife, Edith Annie (34, York Street, Derby), dau. of Joseph Hirst; b. Derby, 14 Aug. 1884; educ. Ashbourne Road Council Schools, Derby, and emigrated to Australia in July, 1913; enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force shortly after the outbreak of war, and was killed in the Gallipoli Peninsula, 8 May, 1915; unm.

McCARTNEY, JOSEPH DONKIN, Petty Officer, 175178, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McCARTY, MARTIN, Private, No. 8357, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, s. of John McCarty, of Glenmash, Westport, co. Mayo; b. Glenmash aforesaid; enlisted 5 Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915.

McCAUGHERTY, DAVID, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3079), 176815, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McCLELLAND, CHARLES STEEN, Private, No. 2086, 1/4th Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots (T.F.), 2nd s. of the Rev. Robert McClelland, Minister of Inchinnan, by his wife, Isabella Coutts, dau. of the Rev. William Corson, Minister of Girvan; b. Inchinnan Manse, co. Renfrew, 27 Jan. 1889; educ. Inchinnan Public School and Paisley Grammar School, and on leaving there entered the Union Bank of Scotland, Paisley, where he served his apprenticeship to banking, and was afterwards employed as ledger clerk in the Govan and Kinning Park, Glasgow branches of the same. In March, 1910, he accepted a post in a bank in Canada, but returned to Scotland the June following, and entered the Office of Messrs. McAndrew, Murray and Wright, of 9, Albyn Place, Edinburgh, where he was for some three years. On the outbreak of war he joined the 1/4th Royal Scots, in Sept. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Larbert, left for the East at the end of May, 1915. He arrived at the Dardanelles, 12 to 15 June, and was killed in action in the attack on the Turkish position on the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, on 28 June, 1915; unm.

McCLELLAND, SIDNEY, Private, No. S. 6895, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of John McClelland, of 3, Dowsett Road, Tottenham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 28 May, 1915, of wounds received in action.

McCLELLAND, THOMAS, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of Thomas McClelland, of St. Anne’s Mount, Aigburth, Liverpool, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of David Smart, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 7 Feb. 1893; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool; Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated in B.A., with honours in Jurisprudence, July, 1914. On the outbreak of war he joined the King’s Liverpool Regt., 12 Aug. 1914, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Sept. 1914, and went to the Front early in March, 1915. He was killed in action, while leading his platoon in the attack on the enemy’s trenches at Richebourg L’Avoué, 16 May, 1915, and was buried in the Rue du Bois, about 2 miles west of Neuve Chapelle; unm. A cross bearing his name marks the spot. He was a keen fisher and motor cyclist.

McCLUSKEY, ALFRED JOHN, L.-Corpl. No. 450, 10th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Andrew McCluskey, Ship’s Steward, by his wife, Hannah Louisa (17, North Church Street, Bute Dock, Cardiff), dau. of Alfred Budding, of Cardiff, Shipwright; b. Cardiff, 20 May, 1877; educ. Mount Stuart Square National School there, and on leaving started work as a wagon builder in the North Central Wagon Works, Cardiff. Tiring of wagon building he followed in his dead father’s footsteps and took to the sea. In Feb. 1907, he emigrated to Australia, and catching the “get rich quick” fever started out as a prospector with varying success. What money he made he speedily lost in speculation. Later he took up sheep farming, and worked in Western Australia until the outbreak of war, when he joined the Commonwealth Force, and was killed in action at Walkers Ridge, Anzac Beach, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “I personally knew that he was a good soldier, as during the whole of our training he personally came under my notice a great deal.”

McCOMB, HUGH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5565), S.S. 100505, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McCORMACK, JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 28), 10131, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

McCORMICK, FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, 304180, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

McCREADIL, CHARLES, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26680 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McDERMOTT, FREDERICK AYLWARD, Private, No. 857, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, yst. s. of the late Cornelius William McDermott, Paymaster-in-Chief, R.N., by his wife, Mary Anne (7, Leigham Terrace, Plymouth); b. Rhyd-y-Gors, co. Carmarthen, 29 June, 1879; educ. Richmond (Yorkshire) Grammar School and Mannamead College, Plymouth; after the declaration of war enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Sydney, 1 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 7 June, 1915, while on observation duty in the firing line by the bursting of a Turkish high explosive shell, a piece of which pierced his heart. He was buried by the padre in the Anzac Beach cemetery; unm. General Sir William Birdwood wrote his sympathy in the loss of a son, who died so gallantly for his King and country. The Adjutant wrote that the late Private F. McDermott was thought very highly of by his late Capt. A. J. Shout, V.C., in whose company he was.

McDIARMID, KENNETH, Capt., 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, s. of the late John McDiarmid, of Auchenvin, Dalbeattie, Scotland, Shipowner, by his wife, Mary A. J. dau. of the late James Hosack; b. Liverpool, 26 Oct. 1881; educ. Sedbergh School and Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; held an appointment in Burma with the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, Ltd., and being home on leave at the outbreak of war, applied for a commission; was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. on 4 Sept., and later was transferred to the 2nd Battn.; promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. subsequent to his death, 5 May, 1915, to date as from 2 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action on Hill 60 near Ypres, 18 April, 1915; unm. Writing to his mother, his commanding officer said: “He not only showed a splendid example of leadership, but of great heroism. Though wounded he refused to go away from the fighting line, and, finally, when his platoon was very much reduced in numbers and the Germans were in consequence pressing on to the parapet, he leapt on to the parapet himself and met his end most valiantly fighting at close quarters. He was an officer whose brave deeds will never be forgotten in the regt. and whose charming personality made a great impression on me for the short three weeks I knew him.” A brother officer wrote: “He was wounded through the arm first, but refused to leave the firing line. About 6 a.m., while cheering on the Scottish Borderers, he was shot clean through the head and killed instantaneously. Your son was beloved by his men and fellow officers, and in losing him the regt. has lost one of its best officers, and myself one of my best chums. It is some little consolation to know that his bravery pulled his men together at a very critical point, and his memory will never be forgotten.” And another officer: “The conduct of A Coy. was extraordinarily good. They had between 120 and 130 casualties out of 160. Lieut. McDiarmid did extraordinarily well there. Although severely wounded he kept up a rapid rifle fire behind a blockade until he was killed. I was told his conduct was absolutely heroic, for he succeeded in holding a very important communication trench, thus saving a rather dangerous situation, as but for his action it might well have resulted in our communications being cut.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.

McDONALD, ALEXANDER TOM CLARK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11267, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

McDONALD, ARCHIBALD, Private, No. 10076, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; b. Barony, Glasgow; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, aged 40; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914; m. at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1902, Annie, dau. of (—) Fay, and had two children: Archibald, b. 7 April, 1915; and Isabella, b. 5 June, 1904.

MACDONALD, ARCHIBALD, Private, No. 10151, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; died 31 Oct. 1914.

McDONALD, ANGUS, Private, No. 10741, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of Donald McDonald, of 47, Hopehill Road, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 20 March, 1915, of wounds received in action.

MACDONALD, REV. CHARLES GORDON, 2nd Lieut., 1/6th Scottish Rifles (The Cameronians) (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Edward Ellice Macdonald, Rector of Hillhead High School, Glasgow, by his wife, Johanna Margaret, dau. of the late John Adam, of India; b. Hillhead, Glasgow, 7 March, 1889; educ. Hillhead High School and Glasgow University, where he graduated M.A. and B.D. and where he was actively associated with the O.T.C., and in May, 1914, was licensed by the Presbytery and appointed Assistant Minister in Hamilton. On the outbreak of war he resigned his position and was gazetted to the 1/6th Scottish Rifles as 2nd Lieut., 5 Sept. 1914; went to France early in March, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915, in an attack on the enemy’s trenches. The attack was planned on the night of the 14th, Lieut. Macdonald, with his company, was appointed to lead the charge, and his own platoon, with himself at their head, was the first to advance. They had to traverse 300 yards of open ground to reach the German first line trenches, and in his last letter, written that night, Lieut. Macdonald said that he was proud at having been selected to lead the charge, but that it was very unlikely that he would come out of it with his life. He was unm. A brother officer wrote: “Your son was brave beyond all words; Lieut. Macdonald was asked to lead that charge, and he did lead that charge. He had smiles all over his face and shouted: ‘Come on, men!’ He had a rifle with the bayonet fixed, and he ran in front of his men to encourage them. It was a brave piece of work. He knew no fear.” The Rev. J. H. Dickie, Minister of New Kilpatrick, to whom Lieut. Macdonald acted as assistant for a time, in the course of an appreciation of the deceased, wrote: “The Church of Scotland is poorer to-day, because of the death of Gordon Macdonald. For he was a man of not only outstanding ability, but of exceptional spiritual power. A brilliant student, Master of Arts, with first-class honours in literature, he had all the makings of a powerful preacher, for he possessed a soul—soul all afire with vivid sense of the Divine. I was privileged to know him well, to share his inmost thoughts, and with sincerity I can say that Gordon Macdonald was one of the most spiritually-minded men I ever knew.” His brother, Lieut. Edward Ellice Macdonald, is now on active service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France.

McDONALD, DONALD, Stoker, 1st Class, 284481, Petty Officer, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACDONALD, EVAN RONALD HORATIO KEITH, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Highland L.I., 2nd and only surviving s. of the late Keith Norman MacDonald, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., the well-known collector of, and authority on, Highland music, by his wife, Eliza Mary (21, Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Francis Burgess Niblett, of Ermston, Wardie, near Edinburgh, and grandson of Charles MacDonald, of Ord; b. Edinbane, Isle of Skye, 10 April, 1893; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Harrogate, Southport, and the Edinburgh Institution, also receiving private tuition from Capt. Johnstone, R.E., of Edinburgh; joined the 3rd Battn. Highland L.I. 3 July, 1912, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. 10 June, 1914. On the outbreak of war he went to the Front with his regt. 13 Aug. 1914, came into action at Paturages on 24 Aug. and was killed, being shot through the right temple, at the Battle of the Aisne, 20 Sept. 1914; unm. He was buried near where he fell, about 1 mile north of the village of Verneuil, and 6 miles east of Vailly, on the River Aisne. A cross of wood was erected over his grave and a description of the place taken. His commanding officer, Col. Wolfe Murray, wrote to 2nd Lieut. MacDonald’s mother: “I am thankful to say it was quite instantaneous, while he was most pluckily directing the fire of his men. I feel his loss very much. He was an excellent young officer, keen, quick and reliable, and his company commander. Capt. Mayne, who has seen a good deal of service, told me how cool he was under fire and that he showed great promise.” He was keenly interested in everything Highland, and was a keen athlete, and loved to play the slower music of the pìob mhór. While at school he captained the first fifteen in seasons 1910–11–12 and afterwards played in the former pupils’ team. At the school sports in 1911 he won the cup for the mile race, and at the time of his death was one of the secretaries of the Institution Athletic Sports. His diary from 13 Aug. to 20 Sept. 1914, was printed in the Highland L.I. “Chronicle” for Oct. Lieut. MacDonald was predeceased a few years ago by his elder brother, the late Lieut. Reginald Francis Norman Keith MacDonald, 4th Battn. Highland L.I., who served in the South African War.

McDONALD, GEORGE, Private, No. 11457, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Alexander McDonald, of Milton of Culloden Farm, Allanfearie, co. Inverness, Cattleman, by his wife, Helen, dau. of Alexander Ross, Ploughman; b. Tomich, Muir of Ord, 6 Aug. 1895; educ. Urray Public School; was a Gardener at Forres; joined the Royal Scots 22 Feb.; went to France 7 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

McDONALD, GEORGE DUFFUS, E.R.A., R.N.R., 31 E.C., H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACDONALD, JAMES, Corpl., No. 15171, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, yst. s. of John Macdonald, of Kilnhillock, Glenrinnes, co. Banff, Crofter, by his wife, Jane, dau. of William Gordon; b. Dufftown, 28 Feb. 1895; educ. Mortlach Higher Grade School there; was apprenticed as a draper to the Central Cash Drapery Warehouse, Dufftown, and afterwards proceeded to Greenock; joined the Royal Scots soon after war was declared, 3 Sept. 1914; went to France July, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915; unm.

McDONALD, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9968), 296416, H.M.S Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McDONALD, JOHN WILLIAM SCOTT, Private, No. 1991, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), only s. of John McDonald, of 22, Downfield Place, Edinburgh, by his wife, Agnes Taylor, dau. of William Scott; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1895; educ. Dairy Public School there; enlisted, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot through the chest, 22 March following, while erecting barbed wire entanglements before our trenches at St. Eloi. He was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died on 3 April, and was buried in the cemetery there; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote of him: “He was a brave and plucky lad”; and his company commander: “I knew him well as being always keen on his work and ready to do anything to help at any time.”

McDONALD, KENNETH STUART, Corpl., No. 1534, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late Thomas McDonald, of Beauly, co. Inverness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Richard Mathews, of Compton, Berkshire; b. Richmond, co. Surrey, 23 Jan. 1881; educ. Merchant Taylors’ School; joined the Victoria and St. George’s Rifles (1st Middlesex), 24 April, 1900, retiring 29 Jan. 1907, and joining the London Scottish, 4 Feb. following, and was promoted Corpl., 1 Nov. 1913. He served in the South African War of 1899–1902 with the Imperial Yeomanry, and received the Queen’s medal. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Nov. 1914, while assisting a wounded comrade from the firing line. He was buried near a chateau, 1¼ miles west of Ypres, on the Ypres-Vlamertinghe road. He m. at Brixton, 8 Feb. 1902, Caroline, only dau. of Edwin Chambers Macreight, of Hauteville, Jersey; s.p.

MACDONALD, RONALD MOSSE, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders (the 79th), elder s. of Capt. William Mosse Macdonald, of Glenmore Cottage, Bournemouth, formerly 3rd Battn. Cameron Highlanders, by his wife, Helena, dau. of Samuel Harvey Twining; b. Bombay, 9 Dec. 1890; educ. Horris Hill, Newbury; Winchester College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cameron Highlanders, 16 Nov. 1910, and promoted Lieut., 1 May, 1914; left Edinburgh with his regt. for the Front, 12 Aug. following; was wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, during the heavy fighting to the west of the sugar factory at Troyon, 14 Sept. 1914, on which occasion the 1st Camerons lost 17 officers and 500 men, and was invalided to Angers, France; rejoined his battn. 8 Oct., and was killed at Veldhock, near Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; unm. Lieut. Macdonald was an excellent cricketer and played for the Aldershot Command for two years. He was also an accomplished violinist. His only brother is serving in the same regt.

McDONNELL, THOMAS, A.B., Sapper, No. 14, 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train, yst. s. of the late Thomas McDonnell, of Newfound Well, Drogheda, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of William Keeley, of Drogheda; b. Newfound Well, 12 Feb. 1885; educ. at the Christian Brothers School, Drogheda; joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1902, was for several years in the employ of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co., went to Australia in 1911, and in the early part of 1915 enlisted in the Australian Contingent at Victoria. In a letter to his mother announcing this he said he knew she would be glad to know he was doing his bit. He died on board H.M.S. Canada, 27 Aug. 1915, of enteric fever, contracted while serving in the Dardanelles; unm.

MACDUFF, ALEXANDER, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, only s. of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, co. Perth, J.P., by his wife, Edith Alexandrine, dau. of John Shiell, of Smithfield, co. Forfar; b. Bonhard, aforesaid, 6 July, 1884; educ. Cargilfield, Winchester, and New College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Cameron Highlanders, 19 April, 1905; promoted Lieut. 11 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 12 Oct. 1914; went to France, 20 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915; unm. Buried near where he fell.

MACE, JAMES, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9390), S.S. 106745, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McEVOY, MICHAEL, Stoker, R.N.R., 1500U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McEVOY, PATRICK, Leading Stoker, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2899), 285115, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

McEWAN, ROBERT, S.B.A., M. 5850, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACFARLANE, JOHN SHEPHARD, Private, No. 1819, F Coy., 9th Battn. (Glasgow Highlanders) Highland L.I. (T.F.), 2nd s. of John Macfarlane, of 65, Reidvale Street, Dennistown, Glasgow, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Cockburn; b. Glasgow, 10 Feb. 1897; educ. Thompson Street Public School; was in the employ of Messrs. Barclay, Curle and Co., Glasgow, Boilermakers; joined the Glasgow Highlanders, 4 March, 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 17 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell. Buried there. A comrade wrote: “I suppose you know now of our losses when in the trenches last time. One shell killed Hugh Macpherson, George Laing, Wee McFarlane, and three others, also wounded Lieut. Spens. I was at the door of the dug-out with my head outside when this big shell came through the roof and burst inside. When I got rid of the debris with which I was covered and looked in I nearly collapsed. All were dead except the Lieut.” His elder brother. L.-Corpl. David MacFarlane, was killed in action at the Persian Gulf, 7 Jan. 1916.

MACFARLANE, ROBERT CRAIG, Midshipman, R.N., 2nd s. of Robert Craig Macfarlane, of Roode Berg, South Africa [s. of Alexander Macfarlane, Jun., of Thornhill, Stirlingshire], by his wife, Jessie Wardlaw, dau. of James Wardlaw Reid; b. Glendenning, Graaff Reinet, South Africa, 5 July, 1897; educ. Ascham St. Vincent’s, Eastbourne, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges; entered the Navy, June, 1914, and was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McFARLANE, WILLIAM, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10630), S.S. 108637, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MACFIE, CLAUD WILLIAM, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Bedfordshire Regt., only s. of the late Claud Macfie, of Gogar Burn, Midlothian, by his wife, Mary (Warrix, North Berwick), dau. of W. S. Young, of Burntisland; b. Gogar Burn aforesaid, 8 Dec. 1892; educ. at Cargilfield, Midlothian, from which school he obtained a scholarship for Marlborough, where he was in the Hockey XI and the Gymnasium VIII, and won the Fisher Divinity Prize; afterwards proceeding to New College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in Modern History. It had been his intention to enter the Diplomatic Service, but on the outbreak of war he enlisted in Lovat’s Scouts, but being nominated by his college for a University commission, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Staffordshires, 11 Nov. 1914. He went to the Front, 20 May, 1915. and was there attached to the 2nd Bedfords. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while leading his platoon in an attack on a German trench. The official report of his death is as follows: “2nd Lieut. Macfie, C. W., 3rd Battn. South Staffordshires, attd. 2nd Battn. Bedford Regt., Givenchy, June 16, killed, was in command of the first platoon which assaulted the Crater. He led his platoon most gallantly and fearlessly, and was killed shortly after his men obtained a footing in the enemy’s lines.” The report was accompanied by the following message from the General Officer Commanding, 7th Division, British Expeditionary Force, to the deceased officer’s mother: “The enclosed is a report of the action of 2nd Lieut. C. W. Macfie, 3rd South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., as brought to Gen. Gough’s notice, and he thinks you would like to have a copy. He cannot express too deeply his opinion of this officer’s gallantry or his sympathy for you in your great loss.” The Officer Commanding 2nd Bedfords wrote: “He died a glorious soldier’s death, leading his platoon gallantly against the enemy. We took the enemy’s trench, but unfortunately were unable to retain possession of it for long, and those who were left got themselves away with difficulty and were unable to carry the dead back, so I am very sorry to say that your son’s body was left where he had met his end. I think I am allowed to tell you that I am reporting to the Brigadier-General that he led his men with great dash and gallantry, which was witnessed by several people. He had not been with us long enough for us to get to know him well, but he showed signs of making an excellent officer, and I am very sorry indeed to have lost his services.” His company commander wrote of him: “He was an excellent officer and a very good friend, and his behaviour under fire was the finest example his men could have. He fell leading his men on after we had captured the German trench on the top of the old Mine Crater. This spot is quite close to the village of Givenchy, near Festubert”; and an officer of his company: “He showed splendid spirit all the way through and constantly went down along the trench to see that the men were keeping their spirits up. When the attack was ordered, we had to charge, one platoon at a time, and No. 8, your son’s, was the first to leave the trench. Several officers of the other regts. besides those of our own who were near, remarked upon the way your son led the charge; he was easily the first man at the Germans, and he was seen climbing up over the German ‘crater’ while the rest were still streaming across the open. Soon afterwards he was killed.” 2nd Lieut. Macfie was mentioned by Field-Marshal Sir John (now Lord) French in his Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was unm.

McGEACHIE, JAMES ANDERSON, Private, No. 1218, 18th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest s. of William McGeachie, of 60, Jameson Terrace, New Milns, Ayrshire, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of James Anderson, of Dalrymple, St. Girvan, Ayrshire; b. New Milns, aforesaid, 22 April, 1889; educ. Public School there; went to Australia in Feb. 1911, and settled at Stockenkingle, New South Wales; was a Bushman; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force shortly after the outbreak of war; left for Egypt about June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 22 Aug. 1915; unm.

McGINNITY, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6631), 215701, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MCGEE, JAMES MICHAEL, Private, No. 3 605, No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, s. of Bernard McGee, of Greymouth, New Zealand, Goldminer (a native of co. Donegal, who died 5 July, 1916); b. Westland, New Zealand, 6 July, 1879; educ. Convent of Mercy, Greymouth, New Zealand; and was a Merchant Sailor; joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 20 May, 1915; and was drowned on the transport Marquette, when that ship was torpedoed in the Ægean Sea, 23 Oct. 1915; unm. Three of his brothers, viz.: Timothy, Lawrence and Daniel, are on active service with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

McGINTY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 16982, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots, s. of William McGinty, of Addiewell, Midlothian, Candlemaker; b. Blackburn, West Lothian, Aug. 1870; educ. Addiewell; was a Coal Miner; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Jan. 1915; went to France, July, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 70, during the Battle of Loos, 26 Sep. 1915. He m. at West Calder, Midlothian, 26 Feb. 1908, Martha (23, Westwood Rows, West Calder), dau. of Alexander Watson, and had four children: William and Alexander (twins), b. 1 March, 1913; Elizabeth, b. 24 Dec. 1911; and Margaret Calder, b. 20 May, 1915.

McGLASHAN, JOHN EWING, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), 2nd s. of Walter Charles Stuart McGlashan, of Moidart, Gourock, and the firm of Messrs. McGlashan, Sons and Co., Ltd., of Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes Templeton, dau. of the late David James; b. Shawlands, Glasgow, 16 March, 1884; educ. Greenock Academy, and afterwards entered his father’s business. He joined the Volunteers, 1900, and became 2nd Lieut. 1904, and having passed the school of instruction for regular service as Lieut. in the Renfrew Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 26 Aug. 1914, was gazetted as Lieut. to 1/5th Argylls. He left with his Battn. for the Dardanelles, and was killed in action near Krithia, 12 July, 1915; unm.

MACGREGOR, CORTLANDT RICHARD, Lieut., 2nd Battn. South Wales Borderers, elder s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan, J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Orange County, Florida, U.S.A., 7 Feb. 1894; educ. abroad and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1912–1913); gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, 5 Feb. 1913, and joined at Chatham; but, having applied for foreign service, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and sailed with it for China in Sept. 1913. He took part in the siege of Tsing-tau, and was promoted Lieut., 17 Sept. 1914. Returning to England in Jan. 1915, he left for the Mediterranean in March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; unm. His only brother, 2nd Lieut. Kenneth Cortlandt MacGregor, of the 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, had fallen in action near Ypres on 26 Feb. preceding (see following notice).

MACGREGOR, KENNETH CORTLANDT, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. s. of Cortlandt George MacGregor, of Llantrisant House, Llantrisant, by his wife, Margaret Josephine, eldest dau. of Col. John Picton Turbervill, of Ewenny Priory, co. Glamorgan. J.P., D.L., Madras S.C.; b. Brecon, 21 Jan. 1896; educ. Lancing College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 30 Sept. 1914; joined at Portland the following day, went to the Front with a Draft for the 2nd Battn., 5 Dec., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 Feb. 1915. He was buried at Verbranden Molen.

McGREGOR, SAMUEL BEGG, Sergt., No. 183, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, s. of John McGregor, of Aberfoyle, Perth, Blacksmith; b. Leith, 15 April, 1882; educ. Bells School there; enlisted 4 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 1900–02 (Queen’s and King’s medals); promoted Sergt. Aug. 1912; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died 11 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day at Kemmel.

McGUFFICK, HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9257), S.S. 106438, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McGUILEY, HUGH, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9103), S.S. 105931. H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

McGUINNESS, MICHAEL, Stoker, R.N.R., 1472U, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

HART-McHARG, WILLIAM FREDERICK RICHARD, Lieut.-Col., 7th Battn. (1st British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only s. of the late Hon. Major William Hart-McHarg, 44th (Essex) Regt., by his wife, Jane Scott (10, Netherhall Gardens, N.W.), dau. of the late Capt. Thomsett, 44th Regt.; b. Kilkenny, 16 Feb. 1869; educ. Bruges; went to Canada about 1885 and was a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, practising at Vancouver, where he was a partner in the firm of Abbott, Hart-McHarg & Duncan. He joined the Canadian Militia about 1895 as a Private and rose to the command of the 7th (Vancouver) Regt., receiving the medal for 20 years’ service. He served in the South African War, 1900–2, with the first contingent (Royal Canadian Regt.) and obtained the Queen’s medal with four clasps (Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Cape Colony), and in 1911 was one of the Canadian contingent present at the Coronation of King George V. On the outbreak of the European War, Lieut.-Col. Hart-McHarg was given command of the 7th Regt. and came over with the first contingent and went to France in Feb. 1915. At the Second Battle of Ypres, the 7th formed part of the 3rd Brigade, and on Friday, 23 April, occupied a position on the forward crest of a ridge, with its left flank near St. Julien. This position was severely shelled by the Germans during that day, and about 4.30 Col. Hart-McHarg, Major (now Lieut.-Col. Commanding) Odlum and Lieut. Mathewson, of the Canadian Engineers, went out to reconnoitre the ground. The exact location of the German forces opposed to them was not known, and they moved down the slope to the ruined village of Keerselaere—a distance of about 300 yards—in broad daylight without drawing a shot, but when they reached there they saw the Germans not 100 yards away, and they accordingly turned and began to retire. They were followed by a burst of rapid fire the moment they cleared the shelter of the ruins. Col. Hart-McHarg and Major Odlum managed to get into a shell-hole near by, but not before the former had been severely wounded. When Major Odlum discovered this, he raced up the hill under heavy fire in search of surgical aid. He found Capt. G. Gibson, Medical Officer, 7th Battn., who, accompanied by Sergt. J. Dryden, went down to the shell-hole immediately. They managed to move the Colonel into a ditch and there dressed his wound and remained with him till after dark, when he was carried back to Battn. Headquarters. He died the following day, 24 April, 1915, in hospital at Poperinghe, and was buried there in the New Cemetery with Col. Boyle, who fell the same day. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Col. Hart-McHarg was well known as a fine rifle shot. In 1908 he gained the Gold Medal of Canada after a close contest with three redoubtable antagonists from Toronto and Ottawa. He had shot several times in Canada’s national teams, and had distinguished himself in the matches for the Palma International Trophy against the selected teams of the United States, Great Britain, Australia and other countries. He held the record individual score in the match, being in this respect a world’s champion. He had also shot for Canada in the Empire Trophy match, founded by the Australians as an inter-Empire competition. He was a member of the Canadian team at Bisley in 1907, 1910 and 1914, and was spoken of as the next commandant of the Canadian team for Bisley. He shot for the Dominion here in both the Mackinnon and Kolapore Imperial matches, and in 1910 he tied for the Prince of Wales’s Prize with the British Army champion, the famous Capt. Wallingford, who is now with the New Zealand Force. Each scored 85, the highest possible, with 17 bull’s-eyes at 300 and 600 yards. Col Hart-McHarg lost on shooting off the tie, but he won the Bronze Cross of the Bisley Grand Aggregate. In Aug. 1913, he won the Governor-General’s prize for the second time—the Blue Riband—at the Dominion of Canada rifle meeting at Ottawa and the Long Range Championship of the World with army rifle at the international matches, Camp Perry, Ohio. He was unm.

MACHIN, CHARLES, Corpl., No. 10028, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of George Machin, of Tunstall, by his wife, Annie (3, Cardigan Road, Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury), dau. of Thomas Walker; b. Longton, co. Stafford; educ. Catholic School, Tunstall; enlisted, 17 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 14 Sept. 1914, during the desperate fighting on the Aisne. He was unm.

McHUGH, MICHAEL, Stoker, R.N.R., 1879S, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McINTOSH, ALFRED JAMES GRAHAM, A.B., 221937, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McINTOSH, LAURENCE SCOTT, Stoker, 1st Class, 283715 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

McINTOSH, ROBERT RAE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, yst. s. of the Rev. Robert McIntosh, D.D., Senior Minister of the Alva West United Free Church, by his wife, Helen, dau. of the late Thomas Stevens, of Ardline, Helensburgh; b. The West Manse, Alva, near Stirling, 8 May, 1888; educ. at the Dollar Academy and Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A., 1908, and when war broke out was working for his LL.B. degree; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Cameron Highlanders, 14 April, 1914, and joined his regt. 1 July following. He went to France 20 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, during the night of 23–24 April, 1915. Buried near “Hill 60” to the east of the Ypres-Lille railway; unm.

MACK, FRED, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MACK, JAMES WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2793), 193570, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACK, WILLIAM BELL, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8084). S.S. 103925, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MACKAIN, JAMES FERGUS, Capt., 34th Sikh Pioneers, Indian Army, elder s. of the Rev. William James Mackain, of Ardnamurchan, Aubrey Lodge, Merton Park, formerly Rector of Parham, Sussex, and subsequently Vicar of Little Waldingfield and Poslingford, Suffolk, by his wife, Helen Clifford, dau. of the late John Johnstone Elton Morecroft, of Hollymount, West Derby, Liverpool; b. Bognor, co. Sussex, 28 Oct. 1885; educ. Warden House School, Upper Deal; Clifton College (where he was a member of the Bisley VIII of 1902), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., unattached, Indian Army, 9 Jan. 1904, and after serving for his first year with the Gordon Highlanders at Sialkote and Peshawar, was posted to the 34th Sikh Pioneers, 8 March, 1905. During the great earthquake in the Punjab in 1905 he was in charge of a relief convoy from Lahore to Kulu and did good work there, and his name appeared in a telegram from the Viceroy to the Secretary of State. He entered the Kasauli Army Signalling College, and on the completion of his course received a special certificate. He was engaged in the Mohmand Expedition of 1908, for which he received a medal with clasp. Seconded from his regt. in 1901, he was one of the first officers appointed to the newly raised Signal Companies of the Sappers and Miners and served with the 31st Signal Coy. as second in command for three years at Futtehghur and other stations. He was promoted Lieut., 9 April, 1906, and Capt., 9 Jan. 1913. Home on furlough when the war broke out, he rejoined his regt. in Egypt in Aug. 1914, and proceeded with it to France. He fell in action near Festubert, Flanders, on 23 Nov. 1914, while gallantly defending his trench against a determined assault of the enemy. Capt. Mackain, though wounded in the face from the splinter of a shell, rallied his men and while he lived kept the enemy at bay. He was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “He was commanding his company (No. 4) at the time, and was shot through the head in a very gallant attempt to stem an attack in great force by the enemy through breaches blown in our trenches. The enemy were armed with hand-grenades, which they threw into the trenches. Your son, while shooting down the grenadiers with his revolver over the top of the trench, was unhappily himself shot dead through the head. His loss to us personally, and to us as a regt., I cannot yet realise. He was such a fine stamp of Christian soldier, and we looked on him as one likely to go a very long way.” The “Civil and Military Gazette” of India, of 4 Dec. 1914, said: “Capt. Mackain was known throughout Northern India as a keen Churchman and one of the main stays of the Church of England Men’s Society.” A memorial tablet to the memory of Capt. Mackain, erected by his father, was unveiled in the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, W., by the Chaplain-General on 29 Sept. 1915, and another was placed in Lahore Cathedral by his friends in India.

MACKAY, ALASTAIR SUTTON, Private, No. 2113, 9th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), s. of William Falconer Mackay, of Invergordon, Merchant, by his wife, Flora, dau. of Thomas Morrison; b. Moose Factory, Hudson Bay, Canada, 7 Dec. 1889; educ. Invergordon and Aberdeen; in his sixteenth year passed for a boy clerkship in the Civil Service, and was sent to the G.P.O., West Kensington. From here he passed as assistant clerk, and was transferred to the National Health Insurance Office in Edinburgh. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 9th Royal Scots (the Dandy Ninth), left for the Front on 23 Feb. 1915, and was shot by a stray bullet while carrying rations from the transports on 29 April. He died the same day, and was buried on the 30th on a farm at Hooge, near Ypres; unm.