MASON, ALBERT EDWARD, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16559, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MASON, ANDREW NIMMO, Private, No. 919, 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders; b. Edinburgh, 14 Oct. 1893; educ. Morningside Board School there; was employed as a Vanman with Messrs. Buchan, Dairymen, of Balcarris Street, Edinburgh; enlisted 22 Feb. 1912; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 2 Nov. following.

MASON, ARTHUR, Rifleman, No. 2367, A Coy, 1/18th Battn. (London Irish Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. s. of Joseph Mason, of 11, Tower Terrace, Wood Green, N., by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Hammond, of Lower Guiting; b. Wood Green, N., 4 Feb. 1883; educ. Higher Grade School there; was a Mercantile Clerk; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. of the London Irish Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914, and trained with them at the White City, London, and Reigate; later he volunteered for the 1st Battn. then at St. Albans, and left with them for France on 10 March, 1915. He was killed in action during the famous charge made by the London Irish at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; unm.

MASON, EDWARD, 2nd Lieut. 3rd (attached 2nd) Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., the distinguished ’Cellist and Conductor; only s. of Jeremiah Mason, of 1, Ingoldsby Mansions, West Kensington, and Coventry, by his wife Sarah, dau. of William Sutton, of Kenilworth; b. Coventry, 24 June, 1878; educ. privately in Coventry and in Germany; began his musical life as a chorister in St. Michael’s Church, during the period Dr. A. H. Brewer was organist and choirmaster, and when he entered the Royal College of Music, he had already gained some proficiency as a violinist, ’cellist and pianist. In the course of his studentship he won several exhibitions, and obtained his diploma of Associateship. On leaving there, he was, in 1897, appointed assistant to Dr. C. H. Lloyd at Eton, a post he held until the outbreak of the war. He made his first appearance in London as a ’cellist at the Bechstein Hall in 1900, and was well-known both as a soloist and as a quartet player at Chamber concerts in London and the country. He was a Director of, and principal ’cellist in the New Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted on its first appearance at the Queen’s Hall, in 1906, and was engaged in the orchestras of most of the principal musical festivals. In 1907, he established the Edward Mason Choir, formed principally in order to produce new works by the younger British composers, who by his death lost a good friend. Following the outbreak of war, he joined the Universities and Public Schools Battn. early in Sept., received his commission 24 Feb. 1915; went to France at the end of March, and was killed in action near Fromelles, 9 May. In a letter to his father, a brother officer said: “He was killed gallantly leading his men in the attack on 9 May against the German trenches”; and his platoon sergt. wrote that Mr. Mason’s detachment came under a devastating fire from German machine guns near Fromelles, and that he fell in a hail of bullets. His portrait was hung in the music school at Eton, where he taught so long and so successfully. Another portrait hangs in the Students’ Room of the Royal College of Music. The R.C.M. Magazine for No. 3 Term, 1915, says: “Edward Mason, the man, had many lovable qualities, which endeared him to his friends. He was generous-hearted, good-humoured, and at all times a charming companion. He hated any kind of pose or pretence, and might be described as the antithesis of the conventional musician of the ‘long-haired’ variety.” “He was a fine fellow, and one of the best musicians I ever knew,” wrote Dr. C. H. Lloyd, his former chief at Eton. “And all who knew Edward Mason well will endorse this very apt and true summary of his qualities.” He m. at Ealing 14 Aug. 1905, Jessie, (the violinist and leader of the Grimson String Quartet) dau. of Samuel Dean Grimson.

MASON, GEORGE, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 7021, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MASON, HENRY THOMAS, Chief Stoker, 170258, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, JAMES, Private, No. 5779, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Mason, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Lincoln; b. Sprowston, co. Norwich, 14 May, 1886; enlisted 18 Oct. 1904; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Landrecies, 25 Aug. 1914. He m. at Norwich, 19 Aug. 1911, Clara (7, Pearces Fields, Sprowston, Norwich), dau. of James Hazelton, and had a dau., Clara Ada, b. 5 Feb. 1913.

MASON, JOHN, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 196093, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, JOHN, Color-Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 7778. H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, THEOPHILUS, Drummer, No. 1614, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, yst. s. of Theophilus Mason, of 3, Pitley Place, Walworth, S.E., retired Policeman: b. New Kent Road, London, S.E., 23 Feb. 1884; educ. Sayer Street Board School; enlisted as a Drummer, 2 May, 1898; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy Brickfields, 1 Feb. 1915. Buried in Cuinchy Cemetery (Grave No. 14 F). Sergt.-Drummer A. Douglas of his battn. wrote to the widow; “I feel I must write and tell you how sorry we all feel for you in your sad bereavement. It may be some consolation to you to know that your husband died like a hero and a true soldier. He always had my deepest respect, and I with the remainder of the drummers feel his loss very deeply.” He m. at St. Stephen’s Church, Walworth, S.E., 1 Nov. 1902, Ellen (14, Russell Street, Windsor), dau. of Charles Eagle, of 39, Eltham Street, Walworth, S.E., and had five children: Theophilus, b. 26 May, 1904; Charles, b. 15 April, 1907; Horace, b. 17 April, 1910; Ellen, b. 23 Nov. 1905; and Muriel Irene, b. 12 March, 1913.

MASON, WALTER TROWER, Shipwright, 342914, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MASON, WILLIAM, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 3625), 133388, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MASSEY. CHARLES THOMAS, Chief Petty Officer (W.T.O.), R.N.R., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea 22 Sept. 1914.

MASSIE, JOHN HAMON, D.S.O., Major, Royal Garrison Artillery, yr. s. of Edward Richard Massie, of Coddington, Cheshire, and Annefield, Gresford, North Wales, formerly Lieut. 78th Highlanders, by his first wife, Baroness Olga Marie, dau. of Baron von Wessenberg-Ampringen and granddau. of Henry, Baron von Wessenberg-Ampringen, formerly Austrian Ambassador, at St. James’, and grandson of Admiral Thomas Leche Massie; b. Eaux Chaudes, Basses Pyrenees, France, 10 June, 1872; educ. Stubbington House (Mr. M. Foster), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1 May, 1892; promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1895; Capt. 19 Jan. 1900, and Major, 15 Feb. 1913; served in Chitral, 1895, with the Relief Force (medal with clasp); and in the South African War, 1900–2, attd. to the Transport Department; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including action at Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900 to March, 1902, and those in the Orange River Colony, March to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 17 Jan. 1902], Queen’s medal with four clasps and King’s medal with two clasps, D.S.O.); was Instructor at the Royal Military Academy from 1 Jan. to 11 Sept. 1904; Commander of a company of Gentleman Cadets there from 12 Sept. 1904 to 31 Dec. 1908, and Staff Capt. School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, Nov. 1910 to Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 9 Oct. 1914, and died in the Field Ambulance, near Ypres, 15 Nov. following, of wounds received in action on the 13th, when in command of the 26th Battery, Heavy Artillery. Buried in Ypres Cemetery. Major Massie m. at Southsea, co. Hants, 3 Sept. 1903, Maria Margaret, elder dau. of Major-Gen. Ernest Archibald Berger, late 10th (The Lincolnshire) Regt.; s.p.

MASTER, CHARLES LIONEL, Capt., 2nd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, s. of the late William Edward Master, of Kotmalie, Ceylon, Tea Planter, by his wife, Jeanette, dau. of Samuel Newson Gissing, nephew of Harcourt Master, of Rotherhurst, Liss, co. Hants, grandson of Lieut.-Col. Harcourt Master, 1st Dragoon Guards, and 4th Queen’s Own Light Dragoons, and great-grandson of Lieut.-Col. Harcourt Master, 52nd Foot; b. in Ceylon, 24 March, 1881; educ. Bradfield College; joined the Royal Irish Rifles from the Louth Militia, as 2nd Lieut. 5 Jan. 1901; promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1905; Adjutant, 25 Jan. 1908; and Captain, 28 June, 1908; served in the South African War, taking part in the operations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal, Aug. 1901–May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps). On the outbreak of the European War, he went out with his regt. to France, took part in the retreat from Mons, and the subsequent engagements prior to meeting his death in action at La Couture, on 12 Oct. 1914, from a shrapnel shell, when leading his coy. in the attack. He was buried at Vielle Chapelle; unm. He was mentioned for distinguished conduct in the field in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s despatch of 8 Oct. 1914. Capt. Master was much beloved by both officers and men, as will be seen from the following extracts from letters received since his death. The wife of his late Colonel wrote: “As Capt. Master was my husband’s Adjutant, we got to know him so well, and he was invaluable to my husband being such a dependable, able soldier”; and an officer: “His death was a dreadful blow to me, as it was to us all, and we shall miss him terribly, and mourn him always. It is no exaggeration to say that he was beloved by officers and men alike, for we recognised his great ability and worth, and I know that Col. Bird thought very highly of him as a thoroughly sound and reliable soldier. Had he lived, I am sure he would have done particularly well in this war, and he has already been mentioned in despatches.” Capt. Master was a keen sportsman, being a member of his football eleven at school, and after joining his regiment kept up his interest in the game, and did his utmost to inculcate the love of pure sport amongst his men. It was owing in a large measure to his tuition and untiring efforts that the Royal Irish Rifles turned out a team which was a tower of strength for several years in regimental contests, and had the proud distinction of winning the Army Cup. He was also devoted to hunting, and whenever the opportunity occurred he might be seen out with the various packs in the neighbourhood in which his regt. happened to be quartered.

MASTERS, TREVOR MONRO HOARE, Midshipman, R.N., eldest s. of the late Lieut. Charles Monro Masters, R.N., late H.M.S. Cressy (died 21 Aug. 1902), by his wife, Susan (now wife of Capt. William Firth Slayter, R.N.), dau. of (—), of New Zealand, and gdson. of Canon James Hoare Masters, of The Close, Chichester; b. Sydney, N.S.W., 13 May, 1895; educ. privately (Rev. C. Royle, Stanmore Park, near Harrow); entered the Navy, became Midshipman in Jan. 1911, was appointed to H.M.S. Formidable, Nov. 1914, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the English Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

SMITH-MASTERS, GEORGE ARTHUR, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. The Bedfordshire Regt., yst. s. of the Rev. John Ernest Smith-Masters, M.A., Vicar of South Banbury, formerly Vicar of Stewkley, Bucks, and Rural Dean of Mursley, by his wife, Eliza Margaret, dau. of Samuel Swinton Melville, I.C.S., and grandson of the late Rev. Allan Smith-Masters, of Camer, Kent, J.P.; b. Kidmore End, co. Oxon, 29 Dec. 1894, and after receiving his early education at Eversley School, was elected to a scholarship at Haileybury College. He matriculated at Keble College, Oxford, in Jan. 1914, intending to prepare for Holy Orders, but on the outbreak of war applied for a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Oxford University O.T.C. on 21 Aug. 1914, and left England with his regt. 30 July, 1915. He had always taken a great interest in the Church Lads’ Brigade, and had been appointed Lieut. in the 5th Oxford Cadet Corps (C.L.B.) in July, 1914. In the early days of the war he was, with his father, in charge of the lads of the Stewkley Coy. of C.L.B. in their work of guarding bridges on the main line of the London & North Western Railway by day and night. He went out near midnight on 19 Aug. 1915, along with a Sergt. to endeavour to locate shots which were endangering the lives of his men employed in digging trenches, and was shot through the heart by a sniper. His Colonel wrote to his mother: “Your dear son was a favourite with us all, and there was not an officer or a man who stood with me round his grave who did not feel they had lost a personal friend. He was such a charming boy, a God-fearing, straight-living English boy. An English gentleman, he died doing his duty, a very brave action. Col. des Vœux, who commands the operations there, said that nobody but one of the best and bravest would have attempted to do what your son wished to do.” His company officer wrote: “One thing you will be proud to know is that he died doing his duty in an exceptionally brave manner, not in broad daylight, when it is easier to be brave, but in the dead of night, a mile behind the firing line. The whole of his company was able to attend his last parade, when we laid him to rest yesterday evening.” A drummer of his company wrote home: “He was a great favourite with us all, both with the other officers and with us men. He was the best officer in the battn.; he was something like a brother might be, and was missed quite as much.” He was buried in the English cemetery at Dranoutre, the Service being taken by the Senior Chaplain of the Brigade. The General and officers from all the regiments in the Brigade were present, his uncle, Col. J. S. Melville, commanding 8th E. Lancs. Regt., attending as chief mourner.

MATHER, JAMES, Private, No. 8884, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of James Charles Mather, of 25, Fraser Street, Bolton, Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Hough, Stripper and Grinder; b. Halliwell, Bolton, co. Lancaster, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. Brownlow-fold Council School; enlisted 3 Oct. 1910, and was killed in action at Rentel, Belgium, 2 Nov. 1914; unm.

MATHER, JOHN KEARSLEY, Lieut., 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 5th s. of Arthur Mather, of Avonhill, Cheltenham, by his wife, Ethel Madeline, dau. of the late Rev. Charles Francis Willis, M.A.; b. Cheltenham, 25 Jan. 1890; educ. Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (Sandhurst Division); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st York and Lancaster Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, and joined his battn. at Quetta, India, in the following Dec.; served in India five years, being promoted Lieut. 8 Dec. 1911; came home with his battn. in Dec. 1914; went to France, 15 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action by shell fire near Ypres, 18 Feb. 1915, and buried at Verbranden Molen; unm.

MATHERRON, EDWARD JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8050), S.S. 103773, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MATHESON, JOHN RODERICK FLETCHER, Private, No. 8919, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., s. of the Rev. Dugald Matheson, United Free Church of Scotland, Minister of Tarbat; b. Kiltearn, co. Ross, June, 1880; educ. Tarbat Old Public School and Inverness; enlisted in the Highland L.I. in 1909, served through the South African War, and obtained his discharge in 1913. On the outbreak of war he was in Canada, but immediately re-enlisted, came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent, obtained his transfer to his old regt.; went to the Front at the end of Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915. He m. at Winnipeg, Canada, 1909, Bella, dau. of D. M. Davidson, of co. Inverness, but had no children.

MATHEWS, ALFRED FELTON, Rifleman, No. 2657, 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of William Felton Mathews, of Highworth, Wilts, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Shewry, of Southampton; b. 2 Sept. 1894; educ. Carlton Road Council School and Polytechnic, Regent Street; and was on the staff of Messrs. H. I. Nicoll & Co., of Regent Street, London, W., when war broke out, but was intending to enter a missionary college as a student. He joined the Rangers on 5 Sept. 1914, went to France on the following Christmas Day, and was killed in action near Ypres on 5 May, 1915. He was acting as a stretcher-bearer when a shell burst close to him, wounding him in the arm; but he pluckily refused to give in until quite exhausted, when he laid his groundsheet down and fell asleep. Shortly afterwards, another shell came and killed him. Buried in the grounds of the Asylum, Ypres; unm.

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

MATHWIN, DOUGLAS GATECLIFF, 2nd Lieut., 1/9th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), only surviving s. of the late Henry Mathwin, of Bickerton House, Birkdale, Southport, Schoolmaster, M.A., by his wife, Agnes (3, Bickerton Road, Southport), dau. of John William Gatecliff; b. Bickerton House, afsd., 9 June, 1885; educ. Bickerton House School; and was a Chartered Accountant; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1/9th Liverpools, 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Richebourg l’Avoué on 9 May, 1915, being buried behind the trenches; unm. He was acting captain at the time of his death.

MATRAVERS, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3204), S.S. 100832, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MATSON, CLIFFORD, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10394, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MATTHEWS, CHARLES HENRY, Private, No. 5533, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of William Henry Matthews, of 42, Butlin Street, Nechells, Birmingham, Millwright, by his wife, Frances; b. 24 June, 1885; educ. Cromwell Street Council School; enlisted 30 April, 1904; went to France, 17 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing after the severe fighting on 29 Oct. 1914, on which day the 2nd Coldstreams and the rest of the 1st Division were at one time driven from their trenches near Gheluvelt; and is now assumed to have been killed on that day. He m. at St. Clement’s Church, Nechells, 3 Oct. 1909, Charlotte (18, Brighton Grove, Great Francis Street, Birmingham), dau. of Samuel Woodin, Painter, and had two children: Charles Henry, b. 9 Feb. 1915, d. 9 Jan. 1916; and Edna Francis, b. 9 Dec. 1910.

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

MATTHEWS, FRANK, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12178, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MATTHEWS, FRANK GEORGE, Midshipman, R.N., yr. s. of Brig.-Gen. Frank Broadwood Matthews, of Old Raven House, Hook, co. Hants, C.B., D.S.O., late commanding 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Regt., and his wife, Edith Mabel Warner, dau. of the late Ralph George Price, of 26, Hyde Park Gardens, London, W.; b. Lichfield, co. Stafford, 9 Feb. 1898; educ. Parkside, Ewell, Surrey (Mr. A. Vaughan Pott); Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. following.

MATTHEWS, HAROLD CAREY, Major, 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) (T.F.), eldest s. of Frederick William White Matthews, of Low Hall, Sinnington, Yorks, J.P., formerly manager of Barclay’s Bank, at Leyburn; by his wife, Ellen Georgiana, dau. of the late Rev. Hewett Carey; b. Hawes, Wensleydale, co. York, 25 April, 1879; educ. The School, Aysgarth, Yorks, entered Barclay’s Bank, and at the time of the outbreak of war was second in charge of their Market Weighton Branch. He had joined the London Rifle Brigade as a Private in 1897, and was afterwards given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th Yorks Regt., and served in the South African War in command of the 2nd Service Company of that Regt. For his services he received the Queen’s medal with five clasps and was made an Hon. Lieut, in the Army, 26 July, 1902. He was promoted Capt. 30 April, 1904, and on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service, and was gazetted Major, 29 Aug. 1914. He left for France on 17 April, and was killed in action at St. Julien, north of Ypres, a few days later, 25 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed in action leading his men in work which earned the compliments of the General.” Major Matthews m. at Dringhouses Parish Church, York, 12 July, 1911, Marjory Phyllis, yst. dau. of Gervas Woodhouse, of 196, Mount Vale, York, and had issue: Frederick Gervas, b. 24 Dec. 1912; and Marjory Phyllis, b. posthumous, 13 Oct. 1915.

MAUGHAN, JOHN, Mechanician, 284270, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov., 1914.

MAULE, ROBERT, Lieut., 5th, attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt., T.F.), only s. of Sir Robert Maule, of Ashbrook, Edinburgh, J.P., by his wife, Janet, dau. of Robert McIntosh, of Leith; b. at Trinity, Edinburgh; 1884; educ. Morrison’s Academy, Crieff; the Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ’s College, Cambridge (M.A. 19..); and on leaving the University joined his father’s firm, Robert Maule & Son, Princes Street, Edinburgh, and became a director in 1913. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots, 24 Nov. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; was promoted Lieut. 16 Sept. 1914, and attd. to 1st Battn.; went to Egypt with his Battn. in March, 1915, and was there nominated by his Commanding Officer, Col. J. T. A. Wilson, to command the section to form an escort to the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, but at his own request was allowed to rejoin his regt.; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was killed in action there, 29 May, 1915; unm. His brother-in-law, Capt. Edgar Walker, 1st East Yorks, was also killed in action.

MAUNDER, LEONARD, Rifleman, No. 7692, 3rd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, s. of Henry Maunder; b. Downley, High Wycombe, co. Bucks, 29 Aug. 1883; enlisted in March, 1899; served in France and Flanders from 9 Sept. to 29 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date. Buried the Quarries by Champs d’Ering, near Soupir. He m. at St. Peter’s, Winchester, 2 Aug. 1909, Ada Susan (2, Middle Brook Street, Winchester), dau. of Alfred Charles Dillow, and had a son Leonard Charles, b. 12 June, 1910.

MAURICE, FRANCIS DENNISON, Lieut., 1st (Canterbury) Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest s. of Frank Augustus Maurice, of 41, Alma Square, St John’s Wood, London, N.W., R.A.M., Can. Coll., Professor of Music and Singing, by his 1st wife, Gertrude, dau. of John Gibbs Hart, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and great-grandnephew of the Rev. Peter Maurice, D.D., Rector of Oxford; b. Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 Aug. 1891; and was educ. at Temuka High School, and Canterbury College, New Zealand. He was a brilliant scholar, winning the Junior Scholarship at the age of 12, coming out third of the whole of Canterbury, and the Senior two years after, coming out second. He matriculated when 15 years of age, so he paid for all his education; and at the age of 18 was assistant master at Burnham Industrial School; and at 19, Head Master at Longridge, Southland. He was five years in the Senior Cadets, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the formation of the New Zealand Universal Training Army, and Lieut. just before the war broke out, and had passed his captaincy examination. He volunteered for Imperial service, left New Zealand for Egypt with the first reinforcements on R.M.S. Athenic in the following Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and died 10 May, 1915, on H.M.S. Braemar Castle, of wounds received two days previously in Gallipoli. He was buried at sea; unm. For over two years he was a master of the Waimate District High School, where a memorial tablet was erected to his memory. He was an enthusiastic hockey player and instructor; his Waimate ladies’ team of six-a-side winning the championship, and was on the Committee of the South Canterbury Hockey Association.

MAW, WILLIAM FRANCIS, A.B., J. 12612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAXTED, THOMAS, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7844), S.S. 1471, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MAXWELL, AYMER EDWARD, Younger of Monreith, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 4th (Collingwood) Battn. 1st brigade, R.N. Division, only surviving s. of the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Bart., P.C., F.R.S.; b. Edinburgh, 26 Oct. 1877; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Grenadier Guards, 8 Sept. 1897; served in South African War 1899–1900; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the actions at Belmont and Enslin (Queen’s medal with clasp); invalided home, 1900; and retired with rank of Captain, 4 Sept. 1907, joining the Reserve of Officers; Capt. Lovat’s Scouts (Yeo.), 1911. On mobilisation, Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined the Grenadier Guards, and subsequently volunteered for service as Adjutant and second in command in the newly-formed Royal Naval Division. He received command, with the rank of Lieut.-Col. of the Collingwood Battn. then in camp at Walmer, and with it accompanied the expedition to Antwerp. He was wounded in the head by the first shell of the bombardment of 8 Oct. after four days and nights of ceaseless exertion, almost entirely without sleep or rest, and died the following day in the Military Hospital there, being buried in the garden. The officer commanding the Brigade, wrote: “His death is a severe loss to my brigade. I personally have lost a friend, the whole brigade has lost one of its finest officers. His energy, earnestness and singleness of purpose inspired his whole Battn., and both his officers and men were animated by his fine spirit from the moment he assumed command of them.” He was gazetted temporary Lieut.-Col. Royal Marines (10 Nov.) after his death. Colonel Maxwell was a J.P., D.L. and County Councillor for Wigtownshire, a Director of the Crichton Royal Institution and author of various works and articles on sporting subjects. He m., London, 20 Oct. 1909, Lady Mary Percy, dau. of Henry George, 7th Duke of Northumberland, K.G., P.C., by his wife, Lady Edith Campbell, eldest dau. of George, 8th Duke of Argyll, K.G., K.T., P.C., and had issue three sons and a dau.: Aymer, b. 7 Dec. 1911; Eustace, b. 24 Feb. 1913; Gavin, b. 15 July, 1914; and Christian, b. 31 July, 1910.

MAXWELL (alias ROBERTS), BERTRAM JESSE, Chief Petty Officer, No. 282914, R.N., s. of Louisa (now wife of Robert Roberts, of 19, Clarendon Road, Havant), dau. of the late George Maxwell; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 10 May, 1878; educ. St. Faith’s, Havant, was adopted and brought up by his stepfather; entered the Navy under the name of Roberts, 1896; but afterwards resumed his own name; served in China (medal); and was lost in H.M.S. Invincible in the Battle off Jutland, 31 May, 1916. He m. at Langrish, 31 April, 1904, Agnes, dau. of Thomas (and Annie) Nash, of Stroud, Petersfield, and had two daus.: May, b. 11 April, 1906, and Gladys, b. 14 Sept. 1913. His half brother, L.-Corpl. F. W. Roberts was killed in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 (see his notice).

MAY, EDWARD THOMAS, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142724 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MAY, FRANK JUBILEE, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4586), S.S. 103696, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAY, JOHN, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16137, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MAY, JOHN EDWARD, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8452, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MAY, SIDNEY CHARLES, Sapper, No. 1507 Kent (Fortress) R.E. (T.F.), s. of William May, of Elm Cottage, Oxonhoath, West Peckham, Tonbridge; b. Oxonhoath aforesaid; educ. there; joined the Navy, 27 Oct. 1914; and was lost when H.M.S. Hythe was sunk in the Ægean Sea, 27 Oct. 1915; unm.

MAY, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1089), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAY, WILLIAM RICHARD, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10340), S.S. 108083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAYCOCK, GEORGE, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4858), S.S. 104278, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MAYLIN, FREDERICK FRANCIS, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26753, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MAYNARD, DANIEL, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 862), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MAYNARD, JOHN WILMOT, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard, of Hoon Ridge, co. Derby, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Blanche, elder dau. of Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell, of Stainsby House, Derbyshire, J.P., D.L.; b. Eastbourne, 8 June, 1896; educ. St. Peter’s Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the north-west corner of the Polygone de Zonnebeke Wood, 5 miles due east of Ypres.

MAYO, GEORGE PATRICK, Petty Officer, 210642, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MEAD, BERNARD WALLACE, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yst. s. of Henry John Mead, of 27 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington, W., Solicitor, by his wife, Edith Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev. Joseph Gifford, Vicar of Newport, Barnstaple; b. Kensington, W., 2 Aug. 1893; educ. Cranleigh School, and on leaving joined the staff of the Sun Fire Office. He had belonged to the 28th London Regt. (Artists’ Rifles) for some years, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them in Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list, 5 April, 1915, and immediately afterwards appointed to the 4th Royal Fusiliers, a corps which had been in the thick of the fighting since the Battle of Mons. On the night of 30 May, 1915, near Ypres, he received orders to relieve another officer in a trench about 25 yards from the German lines. While on his way, accompanied by his Capt. and a N.C.O., the party met two other officers belonging to another Corps. The enemy sent up a flare and opened fire upon the group of five and Lieut. Mead fell mortally wounded. He died three days later (2 June) at Bailleul, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

MEAD, CHRISTOPHER, Lieut., A Coy. 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., 2nd s. of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; b. Fopstone Road, Earl’s Court, S.W., 10 May, 1888; educ., Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites); was admitted a Solicitor in 1913, and was a junior partner in his father’s firm; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1910, and after serving in it four years, joined the Reserve. He rejoined on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn., East Surrey Regt., 15 Aug., and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. [London Gazette, 11 Nov.], 1915; trained at Devonport; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and was there attached to the 2nd Battn.; served through the gas attack on Whit Monday, his regiment being in the front trenches, and was shot in the temple by a bullet in July, but remained on duty at the time; was given five days’ leave in Aug., and was killed in action in the assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Vermelles, 28 Sept. 1915, while leading a bombing party of A Coy., and after having been throwing bombs incessantly for over three hours; unm. His Commanding Officer, Col. F. Montague Bates, wrote: “Your son was killed by a bomb on the 28th. He was commanding A Coy. at the time of his death and was gallantly leading a bombing party of his men forward when he was hit by a German bomb and killed instantaneously. I thought a great deal of him, he was an excellent soldier, daring and gallant; he was beloved by his men and popular with all ranks; his loss to me as commanding officer is a great blow. He was brave as a lion and died a glorious death”; and in a later letter: “Your boy was killed by a bomb in a trench leading out of the Hohenzollern Redoubt; he was running up a trench towards the Germans, who were in the same trench, and throwing bombs and driving the Germans back. He, of course, was in the thickest of the fighting.” Capt. A. Dowler of his regt. wrote: “Doubtless you know how popular Mead was with everybody and his work in the Hohenzollern would undoubtedly have earned him some distinction”; and Major F. Clifford, of The King’s Liverpool Regt., wrote from Egypt: “Today the Colonel of the East Surrey Regt. was here, he told me that young Mead had behaved in a very gallant manner and that he probably would be awarded some posthumous honour.” Lieut. Mead was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916], for conspicuous gallantry in the field. At Charterhouse he was in the Cricket and Football Elevens in 1906. His brother, Corpl. G. P. Mead, died on active service (see following notice), and two surviving brothers are now (1916) serving with the British Forces.

MEAD, GEOFFREY PHILLIPS, Corpl., No. 54268, Despatch Rider, 32nd Signal Section, Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, E.C., and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; b. London, 28 Oct. 1892; educ. Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites), where he matriculated in the first class; studied surveying, and held a post under the Egyptian Government Survey Dept. from March, 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he returned to England to join the Army. He enlisted as a Motor Cyclist Despatch Rider, and after training at various camps, went to the Eastern Front in Aug. 1915, and died while on active service in the Military Hospital at Alexandria, 2 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia, following enteric fever, which he contracted while carrying despatches in Egypt; unm. He was buried with military honours at Chatby Cemetery, Alexandria. His brother, Lieut. C. Mead, was killed in action two months previously (see preceding notice).

MEAD, HENRY GEORGE FREDERICK, D.C.M., Private, No. 6926, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., s. of Henry Robert Mead, Carpenter; b. Edgware, 1 April, 1882; educ. Kilburn; served eight years with the Colours, and five and a half with the Reserve; took part in the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with four bars), and was called up from the Reserve on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action, 5 Nov. 1914. Buried in Croix Barbée Cemetery. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 1 April, 1915] “for conspicuous gallantry on 5 Nov. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in attempting to rescue a wounded non-commissioned officer from in front of the enemy’s trenches. He was killed in the attempt.” He was also given the Russian medal of St. George (3rd class). He m. at St. Anne’s Church, Wandsworth, 10 Oct. 1909, Ethel Maud (84, Larch Road, Bedford Hill, Balham), eldest dau. of the late J. E. Sheldon, Private, No. 3446, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, and had two children: Henry Edwin, b. 8 April, 1912; and Ethel Violet Lilly, b. 21 July, 1910.

MEADOWS, ERNEST, Private, No. 1188, 14th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of William Henry Meadows, of 61, Mountford Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, Baker; b. Vaughan Street, Birmingham, 26 Sept. 1883; educ. Clifton Road Church School there; went to Australia, 9 March, 1914; enlisted on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and died in the General Hospital, Alexandria, 14 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli; unm.

MEADOWS, JAMES HORATIO, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 488), 278492, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MEAKIN, HERBERT, Gunner, No. 26735, 75th Battn. R.F.A., s. of Jacob Meakin, of 18, Vine Street, Rotherham, Bricklayer, by his wife, Maggie, dau. of Neri (and Elizabeth) Irons, of Ilkeston; b. at Nottingham, 7 May, 1884; educ. Rotherham; enlisted R.F.A., 3 Sept. 1902, and on completing his term of service with the Colours was employed as a cleaner of machinery in a mill at Huddersfield. On the outbreak of war he rejoined his battery, and was killed in action near Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried near Ypres. He m. at Huddersfield, 13 April, 1906, Susannah (11, Heath House, Golcar, near Huddersfield), dau. of James David Giles, Stone Mason, and had a dau., Katie, b. 29 June, 1912.

MEAKINGS, JAMES WILLIAM, Rifleman, No. 1625, 2nd Battn. The Rifle Brigade, only s. of John William Meakings, of 305, Brantford Road, Ipswich, Carpenter, formerly for 19¾ yrs. in the R.A., by his wife Ellen, dau. of William Firman, for 33½ yrs. a member of the Ipswich Borough Police Force; b. Shoeburyness, co. Essex, 25 Feb. 1888; educ. Bramford Road School, Ipswich; enlisted in the 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 26 March, 1906, and afterwards transferred to the 3rd Battn., then stationed at Malta. In Dec. 1907, he left Malta to join the 2nd Battn. in India, where he remained until his battn. was ordered to France on the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between 10 and 14 March, 1915; unm. A comrade wrote of him: “There was no better soldier in the British Army.” He belonged to the Army Temperance Association in India, and received two medals. He was also in the Garrison Military Police at the Delhi Durbar.

MEARNS, WILLIAM MELLIS, M.B., Surgeon, R.N., eldest s. of William Mearns, of Berwick Road, Gateshead, M.A., M.D., V.D., J.P., late Lt.-Col. R.A.M.C. (T.F.), now attached Royal Engineers, by his wife, M. A., dau. of John Mellis, Surgeon; b. Gateshead-on-Tyne, co. Durham, 7 Dec. 1884; educ. Aldenham School, Elstree, Herts, and Aberdeen University, graduating M.B., Ch. B., 1908. He entered the Navy the same year; served in H.M. Ships Pembroke, 1909; Action, 1909–10; Redbreast, in the Persian Gulf, 1910–11; Pembroke, 1911; Teal, in the Upper Yangtse River, China, 1911–14; and had only returned from abroad ten days when the European War broke out. He was ordered to join H.M.S. Formidable, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915; unm.

MEAUTYS, THOMAS GILLIAT, Lieut., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorks Regt., elder s. of Thomas Arrowsmith Meautys, of Hammonds Place, Burgess Hill, Sussex, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple, M.A. Oxon, J.P., Surrey, for some time Chairman of the Wimbledon Petty Sessional Division, by his wife, Ellen Gertrude, 3rd dau. of Gilliat Hatfield of Morden Hall, Morden, Surrey, b. Wimbledon, co. Surrey, 13 June, 1889; educ. Marlborough, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1908); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, but transferred to the 1st Battn., and went to India in Dec. following. He was promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1910. In Sept. 1914 he went with his Battn. which formed part of the 18th Brigade, in the 6th Division, to France to reinforce the Expeditionary Force, then on the Aisne, and was in charge of the machine gun section. He died on the 22nd of that month of wounds received on the 20th, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was buried in Troyon Churchyard. A brother officer wrote: “He was conspicuous for his bravery and coolness under fire.... He conveyed an officer of the Horse Guards (who was wounded and afterwards died) back under cover, although he was under fire the whole time.” While at Marlborough he was in the Rugby Football XV (1906); won the School Boxing Competition in his class in two successive years, and represented Marlborough in the Public Schools’ Competition at Aldershot. He m. at the Parish Church, Hambledon, Hants. 16 June, 1914, Norah Nell, only dau. of the late Herbert Hotblack, of Brighton, and had a son, Thomas Gilliat, b. posthumous 29 April, 1915.

MEDHURST, JOHN EDWIN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7839). 298939, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MEDHURST, WILLIAM RICHARD, Leading Stoker, 8958 R.F.R., O.N. 291342, Royal Navy, eldest s. of William Gayner Medhurst, of Leytonstone, by his wife, Charlotte, dau. of (—) Weller; b. Old Ford, 18 April, 1881; educ. Leyton; joined Royal Navy, 1 Feb. 1899; and was lost in H.M.S. Cressy when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He m. at West Ham, 1 Oct. 1995, Ellen Rose (55, West Road, Portway, West Ham), dau. of Robert Taylor Jamieson, of 56, Woodstock Road, Upton Park, E., and had three children: William Albert, b. 23 Aug. 1907; Edward George, b. 19 June, 1909; and Ellen Beatrice, b. 16 Aug. 1912.

HASTINGS-MEDHURST, FRANCIS LESLIE, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of the late Francis Hastings-Medhurst, of 20, Hampstead Lane, Highgate, N., by his wife, Mary (11, St. Dunstan’s Road, Baron’s Court, W.), dau. of the Rev. Robert Leslie Morris, of Rothes, Hampton Hill; b. 7, Campden Hill Square, Kensington, 28 July, 1895; educ. Malvern College (where he was house prefect) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Prize Cadet), and was to have entered the Indian Army, but on the outbreak of war, he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the Worcestershires, 14 Aug. 1914. He went to France, 26 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Illies, near La Bassée, 17 Oct. 1914. On this occasion the Worcesters had suffered severely, and he had volunteered to go for reinforcements. He was almost in safety when he was killed by a maxim gun, but fortunately the forces coming up saw him and were in time to succour the few left alive. He had been wounded in the head three days previously, but refused to go into hospital, owing to shortage of officers. He was buried by his men the same night, 700 yards north-west of Illies Church; unm. His Colonel wrote to his widowed mother that he was a most promising officer, loved by all his men, and a real loss to his regiment; and another officer wrote: “We all loved him, and his men were very fond of him and would go anywhere with him. He was always so cheerful and extremely cool in action. As an officer remarked to me, ‘an awfully nice fellow, a most promising soldier and one we can ill afford to lose.’”