MILNES, EDMUND, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4099), S.S. 1312, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MILNES, JESSE, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5824), 206965, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MINIHAN, PATRICK, Boatman C.G., 284271, Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

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

MINTER, FREDERICK, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4556), 172760, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MINTON, WILLIAM, Private, R.M.L.I., 11718, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MITCHELL, ALBERT CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9137), 203369 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, ARTHUR JAMES, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 3202 (Dev.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, AUGUSTUS JAMES, A.B., J. 3087, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, BERTIE FREDERICK, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8923), 200567, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, FREDERICK EUGENE HOBART, A.B., J. 3975, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, GEORGE JOHN, Carpenter’s Mate (Pensioner), 157320 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, JAMES BANNERMAN, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8054), S.S. 103779, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MITCHELL, JOHN MONFRIES, Capt., 1/7th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), yr. s. of the late Alexander Mitchell, Senior Partner in the firm of John Mitchell & Co. Timber Merchants, Leith, by his wife, Annie (101, Trinity Road, Edinburgh), dau. of Alexander Alexander, of Leith; b. Leith, 24 Sept. 1882; educ. Royal High School Edinburgh, and Blairlodge School, Polmont, and was a partner in his father’s firm. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th (then the 5th Vol.) Battn. Royal Scots, 18 Feb. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 31 March, 1908, and Capt. 17 April, 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, but was killed on his way to the Front in the railway disaster at Gretna, 22 May, 1915; unm.

MITCHELL, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Corpl., No. 8/437, 8th Southland Coy. Otago Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. s. of David Mitchell, of Southland, New Zealand, Manager, Ocean Beach Freezing Works there, by his wife, Ann, dau. of William Crabb, of Laverock Hall, Carmyllie, Scotland; b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 29 Sept. 1891; educ. Bluff Public School and the Southland Boys’ High School; was on the staff of the mercantile firm of J. G. Ward & Co., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the 8th Southland Coy. 12 Aug. 1914. He was wounded in the fighting at the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915, and died at Alexandria, 29 May following; unm. He was buried in the Military Cemetery there. L.-Corpl. J. McLeary wrote: “When I was wounded on Sunday night (May 2) I had to crawl back to the Red Cross, and on my way I met Alic Mitchell. He said ‘I will see you up this rise,’ but he had no sooner spoken than he was moaning on the ground, shot in the mouth and arm. He seemed very bad, but we managed to get back without further injury, though the bullets from Turkish rifles and machine-guns were ploughing up the dirt all around us.” Corpl. Mitchell was a keen Territorial and a prominent athlete. For many years he represented Southland at Association football as half back. He was also a Rugby and tennis player and a member of the Bluff Cricket Club.

MITTEN, THOMAS HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15477, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOFFAT, ARCHIBALD SKIRVING WOOLERY, Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., 4th and yst. s. of James Moffat, of Ken Ervie, co. Kirkcudbright, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Capt. Robert Skirving of Croys; b. Castle Douglas, co. Kirkcudbright, 14 Nov. 1867; educ. Craigmount, Edinburgh, and in Switzerland; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Border Regt. from the Militia, 10 Nov. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1890; Capt. 26 Aug. 1896; Major, 20 Oct. 1909, and Lieut.-Col. (posthumous) 22 June, 1915, to rank as from 3 May, 1915, and from June 1899, to June, 1903 was Adjutant. He served in the Waziristan Expedition of 1894–95, and received the medal with clasp. At the end of 1909 he joined the 1st Battn. of his regt. in India, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Burma, where he was second in command when war broke out. The battn. was ordered home and arrived in England in Jan. 1915, when he proceeded to France, and rejoined the 2nd Battn. as second in command. He was killed in action whilst leading a charge, during the Battle of Festubert, 16–17 May, 1915, and was buried near the spot where he fell. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 30 Nov. 1915. Lieut.-Col. Moffat excelled in all outdoor games and sports, and did much to encourage athletics among the men of his regt. Almost all his leaves were spent in big game shooting, and he had a fine collection of trophies. He m. at Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, 27 April, 1912, Marjorie Armstrong, dau. of Arthur Jadick Just, of Morireby, Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, and had a son: Archibald James, b. (posthumous), 18 Aug. 1915.

MOFFET, JOHN LEESON, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.E.E., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, elder s. of Thomas Moffet, of Ingleside, Kingsfield Road, Watford, Assistant Estate and Land Agent to the London & North-Western Railway Co., Chairman of the Watford Public Library and a member of the Watford Urban District Council, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of the late John Leeson, of Rugby; b. Watford, co. Herts, 17 May, 1888; educ. Watford Grammar School, City and Guilds of London Technical College, Finsbury, and Manchester University, where he graduated B.Sc. (Engineering) with honours. On leaving there he became an Engineering Assistant at the Horwich Locomotive Works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. and in 1913 left there to take a position as Electrical Expert to the Chloride Electrical Storage and Battery Co., Clifton, Manchester. At Manchester University he had been in the O.T.C. for four years and a half, and had obtained certificates A and B; on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 5 Sept. 1914, and at this date was at Portland in charge of electrical work on a submarine. He went to France on 26 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March following; unm. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a most promising officer, keen and anxious to learn. He had a high sense of duty and had plenty of confidence in himself”; and another officer: “I last spoke to your son on the morning of March 10 while we were waiting for the artillery bombardment to cease. He was then quite cheery, and certainly not as nervous as a good many of us.” “I was in the same company as your son,” wrote another officer, “and only ten yards away when he was killed. We had been advancing in extended order just after the capture of the German first line of defence, when we suddenly struck some heavy rifle fire. Your son was in front of me with his platoon, and had just given the order to his men to lie down, when he was struck by a bullet through the left lung and died at once, without speaking. He died a noble death, leading his men into action, and it was through turning round himself to warn his men to take cover that he himself was hit.” Lieut. Moffet was an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and while in training at Greenock received a unanimous invitation to accept the Chairmanship of the Manchester Students’ Section of the Institution. He was awarded the Premium Prize of the Institution for a paper on “Possibilities of Electrical Traction on Railways.” His younger brother, Lieut. Thomas Arthur Moffet, King’s Liverpool Regt. is now (1916) a Railway Transport Officer with the Expeditionary Force in France.

MOGG, FREDERICK HARRY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7907), S.S. 103585, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOGGRIDGE, ROBERT, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16964, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOHR, JOHN CARL BERNHARDT, No. G. 1420,2nd Battn. Sussex Regt. s. of Charles Mohr, of 91, Sumner Road, Peckham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 4 Feb. 1915.

MOIR, ARCHIBALD GIFFORD, Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), elder s. of Archibald Patrick Moir, of Marshill, Alloa, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert Gifford, of London; b. Alloa aforesaid, 17 March, 1890; educ. Edinburgh Academy, Banstead Hall, Surrey, and Fettes College, Edinburgh, and on leaving there studied law, qualifying in 1914, with the intention of joining his father in business. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 12 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. following; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; went to France in Dec., and was killed in action at Ypres, near Hill 60, 25 April, 1915; unm. Buried near St. Jean. Col. Carden, who was killed shortly afterwards, wrote: “He was the most popular officer in the regt. and the best at his work;” and one of his men: “You were asking about Mr. Moir, he was the finest officer in the Battn., everybody liked him. When he fell he was leading us. I have been to his grave, it is behind the firing trench. Everyone of us miss him. We have had other officers, but none like him. All he thought of was his men.” Lieut. Moir was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. At Banstead Hall he was captain of the School, and gained all the important athletic prizes; at Fettes College he gained the gold medal in 1908, as the best athlete of his year; was captain of the Cricket XI; was also a brilliant three-quarter back at football, and seemed to be marked out for International honours, but an accident to his knee while playing for the Edinburgh Academicals stopped his football career. He played for his county regularly at cricket, and had many brilliant innings.

MOIR, JAMES, Private, No. 1794, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; served in Egypt, and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 8 Aug. 1915.

MOIR, JOHN ANDREW ALEXANDER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, elder s. of Andrew John Moir, of 15, Clive Row, Calcutta, Merchant and Skipper; b. London. 1 Dec. 1897; educ. in Germany, and at Southport Modern School, and St. John’s College, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, where he was a Prefect, and on the outbreak of war, at once volunteered and joined the London Scottish (14th London Regt.), 28 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with them in 28 Nov. following; served in the trenches during the winter of 1914–15, and was selected for a commission and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5 April, 1915. He fell leading an attack on a small party of Germans in the early morning of 16 June, 1915. His Col., Lieut.-Col. Gore, wrote of him: “I cannot tell you how sorry I am to have lost him. He was a most promising young officer and brave almost to recklessness, and, though he had been with us only a short time, was much liked and esteemed by all his comrades.” He was buried in Ration Farm Cemetery (Bois Grenier), near Armentières. He was an excellent horseman, motor cyclist and swimmer, and founded and managed the Thamesmouth Football Club until it was disbanded on the outbreak of war.

MOLE, HERBERT, Sergt., No. 6067, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., s. of Henry Mole, of Charlecote, Warwick; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 27 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action.

MOLESWORTH, ERNEST KERR, Major, Royal Engineers, attd. 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, 3rd s. of Lieut.-Col. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, of 3, Priory Street, Cheltenham, and of Cruicksfield, Duns, Berwickshire, late R.A., by his wife, Ann Elizabeth, yst. dau. of Major William Hope Smith, H.E.I.C.S., and gdson. of Capt. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, R.A., [brother of Richard Pigott, 7th Viscount Molesworth]; b. Montrose, 28 March, 1878; educ. privately and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E. 23 March, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1901; Capt. 23 March, 1907 and Major 30 Oct. 1914. He took part in the Tibet Expedition of 1903–4, and was present at the Delhi Durbars (medals). In 1907 he was attd. to the 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, with headquarters at Bangalore, being appointed Company Commander, April, 1911. He left with the Indian Expeditionary Force for France, 16 Oct. 1914, and was accidentally shot at St. Hilaire, on 31 Dec. following. Major Molesworth m. in London, 31 May, 1905, Hilda Rosalie, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Henry Alexander Brownlow, R.E., and had two children: Brownlow David, b. 10 Feb. 1913; and Mollie Rosalie, b. 11 March, 1907.

MOLINEUX, GEORGE KING, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, elder s. of Major Harold Parminter Molineux, of The Cottage, Isfield, Sussex, late Essex (56th) Regt., by his wife, Ross Eugenie Katherine, 2nd dau. of the late Henry King, of Isfield Place, Sussex; b. Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 15 April, 1887; educ. Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford; after serving two years in the 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 11 Dec. 1909, and served in England with his Regt. until Sept. 1913, when he proceeded with it to India, being promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1913, and Capt. 16 Jan. 1915. He was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, then Viceroy of India, in Aug. 1914, but resigned this appointment in Nov. 1914 in order to accompany his regt. to France on active service. He landed in France in Jan. 1915, and was engaged in transport work for a short time previous to going into the trenches in the Ypres district. On the 7 and 8 May, the Germans concentrated their guns on the salient held by the Brigade in advance of Ypres, the bombardment of the trenches being exceptionally severe. In the assault by the enemy which followed, owing to the giving way of a unit on the right of the Northumberland Fusiliers, the right flank of that regt. was overwhelmed, and Capt. Molineux was last seen wounded and unconscious in his trench, between Wieltje and Frezenberg, by the survivors who retired. He was most popular in his regt. and was beloved by all who knew him. He was unm. At Winchester he was in the cricket eleven in 1906, and was captain of Commoner Football. He gained his Harlequin colours at Oxford, and played in several matches for the University, also for Gentlemen of England against Oxford University and for the M.C.C. He was a first-class cricketer, shot, horseman, fisherman, and a good naturalist.

MOLLOY, CHARLES, Chief Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2975), 171847, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MOLONEY, JOHN LAWRENCE, Sergt.-Major, Warrant Officer (1st Class), No. 68888, 22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, s. of Michael Moloney, Sergt. Sussex Regt., by his wife, Mary; b. Chichester, co. Sussex, 17 June, 1873; enlisted, 24 Sept. 1888; served in the South African War (wounded at Lindley; Queen’s medal with two clasps); and with the 7th Division of the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 5 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Gheluvelt, Belgium, 29 Oct. following. An officer wrote: “We were in a position near the village of Gheluvelt and were being heavily shelled. The Brigade Staff horses were in a farm shed behind our position, and as a shell set it on fire, Mr. Moloney ordered the horses to be taken out. He saw all safely out and led out the last one himself. Before he was ten yards away from the building, another shell burst near him killing him almost instantly. As you will see from this he died doing his duty; he is buried near where he fell, and the spot is marked by a cross bearing his name. You have all our sympathy, and his loss was deeply felt by all ranks.” Sergt.-Major Moloney was an all-round sportsman and had won many cups and medals for riding and jumping, tentpegging and shooting. He had the Silver Medal for best Man-at-Arms, Bombay Army, won at Poona, 1903, and was for many years a successful competitor at the London Military Tournament. He had the Good Conduct medal. He m. at Wimborne, Dorset, 17 Jan. 1905, Janet Christine (14, New Boro’, Wimborne), twin dau. of Samuel and Isabella Foster, of Homeleigh, Wimborne; s.p.

MOLLOY, MICHAEL VALLANCEY, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Sherwood Foresters, elder s. of the Rev. Eben Molloy, Vicar of Shenstone, B.A., by his wife, Harriet Rachel Emily, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas Maule Wetherall, Rector of Pelham Parva, M.A. [gdson. of Lieut.-Gen. Vallancey, R.E.]; b. Keyston Rectory, co. Huntingdon, 29 Sept. 1894; educ. Mr. Strahan’s School, Hythe, and Rossall School (Mr. Furneaux’s House), where he was in the O.T.C., and obtained Certificate “A”; later joined the Birmingham University O.T.C., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of Officers, 15 Aug. 1914, being at his own request attd. to the 3rd Sherwood Foresters; went to France early in Jan. 1915, attd. to the 2nd Battn., as Machine Gun Officer, and in April was given a commission in the regular Army; and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, while attending to his guns in a captured German trench; unm. Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge. Gen. Congreve, V.C., wrote: “I knew him better than almost any of the young officers. I don’t quite know how, and feel I have myself lost a friend. He was an excellent officer—chosen because he was so, for the machine gun command, and he was killed when looking after the guns in a battle in which his brigade did everything it was asked to do”; and Major C. I. D. Hobbs, the commanding officer: “He is a great loss to the regt., as, in addition to being such a keen young officer, full of pluck, he was universally popular with officers and men. He was shot by a bullet through the heart while leading his men against the enemy, and must have been killed instantaneously.” Capt. Chidlow-Roberts, officer commanding C Coy., also wrote: “Everybody is most awfully cut up about it, as he was a top-hole fellow and a jolly good soldier. He was a great friend of mine. The word of it was he was too brave, and shouldn’t have gone down to see about the gun”; and Capt. Noel Chance, R.A.: “Mollie (as we all called him) was to me as dear as a younger brother. No loss has affected me so much in this war, and it has caused a gap that cannot be filled. You must, indeed, be proud to have such a son; brave, extraordinarily courteous, and always anxious to help and be a pleasure to others. He died a death we should all prefer, and he could have felt nothing. I have had two short letters from the regt., and in each case (one from Major Hobbs, the commanding officer, and one from Roberts), the outstanding comment is the loss of ‘Mollie.’ I have never known a boy of his age have so many friends among both senior and junior officers.”

MOLSON, ERIC ELSDALE, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd s. of Major John Elsdale Molson, of Goring Hall, Worthing, and 3, Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, J.P., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Dr. Arthur Edmund Leeson, M.A., M.D., Trinity College, Dublin; b. Chelmsford, co. Essex, 26 March, 1894; educ. Cheltenham College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Scots, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; went to France, 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action in Flanders, 1 April, 1915, while on duty in a gap between two trenches; unm. Buried behind the trenches where he fell. His Colonel wrote: “I had a great admiration for the boy. He was universally popular. We should have considered ourselves very fortunate to get him to come into the regt. permanently. He was such a delightful type of an English gentleman, I often used to think when I looked at him”; and another: “He was very popular with everyone in the battn. and especially with his own platoon. Although he was a strict disciplinarian and insisted on things being thoroughly done, he always did the most dangerous work himself, such as going in front of his trench to put up the barbed wire, with the result that his men had absolute confidence in him. He did some particularly daring sniping work, which resulted in his being twice grazed by the German snipers, once in the head. For this work his name was sent in to the General.” While at Cheltenham he was captain of the College Football XV, 1912–13, a Prefect of the College and winner of the Hornby Prize. His father is (1916) on active service at Newhaven, attached to Military Hospital and Garrison, and his two brothers are (1916) Harold Elsdale Molson, 2nd Lieut., King’s Royal Rifles, who has been wounded, and Gerald Elsdale Molson, Sub-Lieut. in the Royal Navy.

MONCK, THE HON. CHARLES HENRY STANLEY, Capt., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder and only surviving s. of Henry Power Charles Stanley, 5th Viscount Monck, late Capt., Coldstream Guards, by his wife, Lady Edith Caroline Sophia, née Scott, dau. of John, 3rd Earl of Clonmell; b. London, S.W., 9 Nov. 1876; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Coldstream Guards from the Militia, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut., 9 Nov. 1898, and Capt., 21 Nov. 1903; served in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb.-May, 1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Vet River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900, including action at Belfast; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Nov. 1900; in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900; in the Transvaal, Nov. to Dec. 1900; and those in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900, to 31 May, 1902; receiving the Queen’s medal with seven clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; was wounded in the thigh, 8 Sept., but rejoined his regt. on the 24th, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914. Buried there. He m. at Wellington Barracks Chapel, London, 16 Feb. 1904, Mary Florence, 2nd dau. of Sir William Wyndham Portal, of Laverstoke, 2nd Bart., and had three children: Henry Wyndham Stanley, b. 11 Dec. 1905; Elizabeth Noel, b. 25 Dec. 1908; and Mary Patricia, b. 22 June, 1911.

MONCKTON, MARMADUKE HENRY, 2nd Lieut., Royal Garrison Artillery, attd. Royal Flying Corps, elder s. of Commander Henry Grant Monckton, by his wife, Maud Lilian, dau. of the Rev. John W. Hallowell; b. Clifton, Bristol, 31 May, 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.G.A., 23 Dec. 1910; went to France, 1914, in charge of an anti-aircraft gun, and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, 19 March, 1915. He was killed in action on 9 July, 1915, while flying over the enemy’s line near Bailleul. Buried at Bailleul; unm. His commanding officer wrote: “He was killed at mid-day to-day, while flying over the enemy’s lines. The attendant circumstances will never be accurately known, but it seems probable from evidence of onlookers that the machine, a Bristol scout, was hit by a fragment of shell and became uncontrollable from about 4,000 feet. Your nephew’s death was instantaneous. He was a gallant pilot and a fine, fearless soldier”; and in a later letter he spoke of his faithful and loyal services to himself.

MONCUR, GEORGE CLARK, L.-Corpl., No. 3457, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of John William Moncur, of Aberdeen, Hotel Proprietor (retired), by his wife, Elizabeth S. M., dau. of James S. Paterson; b. Aberdeen, 5 Feb. 1894; educ. Ashley Road School there; was a Window Dresser; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 11 Nov. 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 25 April, 1915. Buried at Headquarter Farm (c. 16–3, Reference Map, Belgium 281/40,000); unm. His brother, Sergt. Nicol Moncur, Dragoons, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and is still (1916) serving there.

MONDAY, TOM, Farrier-Sergt., No. 769, 1st Battery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late George Monday, of 59, East Cheap, Hull, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Tom Auckland; b. Hull, 7 Nov. 1878; educ. Collier Street School, Hull; was a Farrier Blacksmith; enlisted 23 March, 1908; was promoted Sergt. about Aug. 1912; went to the Front, 18 April, 1915; was killed in action at Ypres, 24 May following, and was buried there. He m. at St. Stephen’s Church, Hull, 1 May, Susanna (Waterloo Cottage, The Dene, Stainland, near Halifax), dau. of Jim Hardwick, and had ten children: George, b. 31 Dec. 1900; Jim, b. 24 Dec. 1905; Tom, b. 20 Dec. 1907; John, b. 2 Dec. 1913; Arthur, b. (posthumous), 25 Aug. 1915; Florence, b. 19 Feb. 1892; Fanny Elizabeth, b. 2 Dec. 1895; Sarah, b. 4 Dec. 1903; Alice, b. 19 Jan. 1909; and Edith, b. 26 Nov. 1911.

MONEY, HENRY IRONSIDE, Capt., 1st Battn. 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, the yr. s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Ernie Edmund Money, Commandant, 9th Bengal Lancers (who was killed in India in command of his regt., 20 Dec. 1894), by his wife, Alice Mary (Gardenia, Torquay Road, Paignton, South Devon), sister of Major Eric Grey Drummond, killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914, and dau. of the late Major-Gen. Henry Drummond, Bengal R.E., and gdson. of the late Rev. William Money, of Walthamstow, and Lea Marston, co. Warwick; b. Kasauli, Punjab, India, 21 Sept. 1883; educ. Marlborough College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.), Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902; served his first year with the Somerset L.I.; and joined the 1/1st Gurkha Rifles 18 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. following, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911; passed and received his certificate in the Maxim Machine Gun Examination at the Erith Works, 29 Oct. 1909; attended the manœuvres near Wetzlar, Germany, in 1909, and those in Switzerland in the spring of 1914; was home on leave, when the European War broke out, and joined his regt. in Egypt during Aug. 1914; landed with them at Marseilles at the end of Nov., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 20 Dec. 1914; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. A brother officer wrote: “Since we have been in France he has been in charge of our bomb-throwers, and has done magnificent work. Had he lived he would have been recommended for the D.S.O.”; and another: “He was last seen fighting most valiantly and with the greatest coolness. His name has gone in for D.S.O., and richly he deserved it.” Another: “He proved himself to be a magnificent soldier, and literally covered himself with glory. One can say that he died as he would have wished—leading and encouraging his men with whom he was enormously popular.”

MONK, GEORGE BERTRAM FIFIELD, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., yr. s. of Dr. Charles James Monk, of 15, Harley Street, W., and 3, Linnell Close, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., Surgeon Dentist; b. Wiesbaden, Germany, 15 Sept. 1891; educ. St. George’s, Harpenden, Herts; Michigan University, U.S.A., and Guy’s Hospital, London, and was a Medical Student. He had joined the 28th Battn. (Artists’ Rifles) London Regt. in Jan. 1914; volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them, 27 Oct. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Warwicks (7th Division, 4th Corps), 11 Nov. 1914. He was killed in action in an attack on the enemy’s trenches near Armentières on 18 Dec. following; unm. Capt. I. H. G. White wrote: “Your son died a very gallant death. He was found, together with four other officers and 34 men, within a few yards of a German machine gun, and it was obvious that he was one of a party that had made an extraordinary gallant effort to capture the gun and prevent it killing their comrades who were coming up behind. We buried him the next morning on the spot on which he fell”; and an officer of the 2nd Queen’s: “On the 28th a general attack was ordered on the German position with a view to keeping the attention of the enemy fixed while important operations took place elsewhere. I was on duty in the trenches when the attacking party went out. Bertram went up the scaling ladder with a smile on his face. The moment the enemy’s fire broke out it was clear that no one could live in such a storm. Our men were assailed with a torrent of rifle bullets, machine-gun fire and hand grenades. The bravest might have blenched before this awful ordeal. As the fire died down the wounded began to crawl back to our lines; our patrols devotedly went out, helping them in. As the night wore on and I saw nothing of the officers of your son’s regt., I began to fear he was amongst the killed or was lying too badly wounded to come in. At daybreak the Germans made signs to us to come over and pick up our wounded. I went out; after a long search I found your brave son just where I should have expected. He was lying dead within 30 yards of the German trenches, half-way across the wire entanglements, his right hand outstretched as though pointing the way to his men. Death must have been instantaneous, for his head was pierced by two bullets from the machine gun. He was buried between the English and German trenches with his comrades. On Christmas Day we had another armistice to finish clearing the ground, and a funeral service was held, attended by a large gathering of German and English officers. It was a strange and impressive sight.” Capt. Bare, Artists’ Rifles, also wrote: “The following is an extract from a letter written by the Divisional General to our Colonel: “2nd Lieut. G. B. Monk was killed right on the enemy’s wire entanglement, well in front of his battn. and opposite a machine-gun position.... While deeply deploring the loss of these most promising young officers, it must be satisfactory for you to know that they gloriously upheld the traditions of your regt....’ The Colonel has ordered the General’s letter to be read to all the men in the regt., and we are proud to remember that your son belonged to C Coy. and to know that he could not have died a finer death.” Lieut. Monk was an excellent athlete, he represented his school at cricket and Rugby football and was in the Guy’s Hospital Rugby football team. A poem was written in 2nd Lieut. Monk’s honour by Canon Rawnsley and published in a book entitled ”The European War, 1914–1915.”

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

MONK, OSWALD FRANK, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10558, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MONTGOMERY, ADAM, Private, No. 20231, 2/5th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd s. of the late William Montgomery, of Possilpark, Glasgow, Road Surfaceman in the employ of the Glasgow Corporation, by his wife, Margaret (378, Garscube Road, Glasgow), dau. of Gilbert Connell; b. Dunoon, co. Argyle, 15 July, 1884; educ. Dunoon Grammar School, was a Plumber in the employ of R. Munro & Son, Springburn; enlisted 25 Jan. 1915; joined at Glencorse Barracks on Monday the 29th; was sent to Weymouth the following Wednesday for training; crossed to France, 1 May; was wounded in action on the 16th of that month and invalided into hospital; discharged from there 21st and was back in the firing line on the 23rd, and was killed in action at Ypres, 26 May, 1915; unm.

MONTGOMERY, SIDNEY GEORGE, Signaller, No. 9857, 6th (Service) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., s. of George Montgomery, formerly of the 2nd Battn. of that Regt., by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Grundy, of Lincoln, Machine Fitter; b. Lincoln, 5 June, 1893; educ. St. Martin’s School there; was a Clerk in Messrs. Dawson’s Leather Works at Lincoln, but enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; unm.

MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM SPROAT, Capt., 6th (Rifle) Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Hugh Montgomery, of The Allports, Bromborough, Cheshire, member of the firm of Simmonds, Hunt & Montgomery, of Liverpool; b. Liverpool, 25 May, 1881; educ. Liverpool College. He had joined the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the King’s Liverpool Regt., 14 March, 1909, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He passed the School of Instruction and obtained his company, 8 Sept. 1914, and went to France, 22 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres, 13 March, 1915; unm. He was a well-known Rugby football player, and played for his county of Lancashire and the Liverpool Rugby Football Club, which he captained in the season of 1908–9 and in which for several years he held the post of Secretary. He was also a member of the Racquet and the Royal Liverpool Clubs. It was said of him: “In business life and in private life, as well as in the battn. of which he was a member, Capt. Montgomery was persona grata to all with whom he came in contact.”

PIGOT-MOODIE, CHARLES ALFRED, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yst. s. of the late George Pigot-Moodie, of Westbrooke, Rondebosch, Cape Colony; M.L.C. of Cape Colony, and sometime Surveyor-General of the Transvaal, by his wife, Rose, dau. of Stephen Spranger, F.R.C.S. Eng., and gdson. of Lieut. Donald Moodie, R.N. Colonial Secretary of Natal (1845–49), and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1857) [3rd s. of Major James Moodie, 9th Laird of Melsetter, Orkney]; b. Westbrooke, 30 May, 1890; educ. Windlesham House, Brighton, Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, Belgium, 13 Jan. 1915; unm. His elder brother, Lieut. George Frederick Arthur Pigot-Moodie, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), is now on active service in France. He was wounded on 12 Sept. 1914, at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was awarded the Military Cross, and the 3rd class Order of St. Anne of Russia (with swords).

MOODY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Chief Armourer (Pensioner), 154309, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914

MOODY, ROBERT RONALD, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24634 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

MOOR, CHRISTOPHER, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest s. of the Rev. Charles Moor, D.D., sometime Vicar of Barton-on-Humber and of Gainsborough and Canon of Lincoln, by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Robert Moon, M.A., Barrister-at-Law; b. at Barton-on-Humber, 2 Feb. 1892; educ. at Abbotsholme, at Bradfield. and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took his degree with honours in Mechanical Science, afterwards taking a post-graduate course at McGill University, Montreal. He was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Hants Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. and sent to Gallipoli in May, 1915. After being invalided to Egypt, he returned to the front in July and took part in a very gallant charge at Krithia on 6 Aug. 1915, when he was one of the few to reach the Turkish trench, where he fell on the parapet, shot through the heart. He had given early promise of distinction in various fields of human culture and was a keen student of engineering, of architecture and of literature. He taught himself to read hieroglyphic writing and had compiled for his own use a vocabulary of ancient Egyptian words and was deeply interested in the history of Egypt. In his short military career he had trained the signaller of several battns. and was regarded as an extremely keen and promising officer

MOORE, ALFRED, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./10271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MOORE, ANTHONY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13950 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

MOORE, ARTHUR, Private, No. 1990, 5th Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force; s. of Henry Albert Moore, of Park House, Whatley, near Frome, Somerset, by his wife, Elizabeth Thurzia, dau. of James Burge Whatley; b. 9 April, 1879; educ. Warminster Grammar School; went to Australia in 1900, and settled at Melbourne and Sydney; enlisted at Melbourne in Feb. 1915; was wounded at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, and invalided home to England, and died in King George’s Hospital, 29 Feb. 1916; unm.

MOORE, CHARLES JAMES, Private, No. 1772, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), s. of Francis Moore, of Nile Street, St. Luke’s, Picture Framer, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of Thomas Richard (and Elizabeth) Wells; b. St. Luke’s, London, 13 Dec. 1888; educ. Old Street Parochial School there; and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs. Badcock, Golden Lane, City, Tailor, for whom he worked as a cutter for fifteen years. He joined the 7th London on 6 Aug. 1914, two days after war broke out; went to France 17 Feb. 1915, and died in hospital at Bethune, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received in action on the 14th. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; unm.

MOORE, FREDERICK, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 177856, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

MOORE, GEORGE, A.B., J. 5422, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOORE, HENRY GLANVILLE ALLEN, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (Pioneers), only s. of the late Rev. Henry Dawson Moore, Vicar of Misterton, 1858–80, subsequently Vicar of Hornby, co. York, and Private Chaplain to the 9th Duke of Leeds, by his wife, Harriet Louisa (Roydwood, Kirkburton, co. York), dau. of the Rev. William Richards, M.A. Oxon., Vicar of Dawley Magna, Salop; b. Misterton, co. Nottingham, 28 Oct. 1865; educ. Aysgarth, Bedale, from which he gained an open junior scholarship for Rossall, at the age of 13; on leaving the latter in 1883 he was for three years a student at the Sussex County Hospital, and being then too old to enter the Army in any other way, enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1886; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Warwickshire Regt., 2 Sept. 1891, and promoted Lieut., 3 March, 1893; Capt., 21 Sept. 1898; Major, 21 Feb. 1908; and Lieut.-Col., 19 Aug. 1914; was Adjutant of his battn., 28 Jan. 1894 to 8 Dec. 1896, and of the King’s Own Malta Militia, 24 Sept. 1902 to 23 Sept. 1907; took part in the Egyptian Campaign, 1898 (medal, Egyptian medal with clasp); transferred to the East Yorks Regt., 8 July, 1908; was on half-pay, 3 Sept. 1910 to 28 Aug. 1911, and on the outbreak of war was appointed Lieut.-Col. commanding the 6th Battn., constituted as Pioneers in Nov. following; went to the Dardanelles, 22 July, 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 7–11 Aug. 1915, from a bayonet thrust in a skirmish after the landing there. He was specially selected to raise the 6th Sappers of the New Army in Aug. 1914, and was mentioned in Despatches by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916] for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Lieut.-Col. Moore m. at the Cathedral, Kandy, Ceylon, 3 June, 1893, Julia Margaret (Dorset Lodge, Tonbridge), 7th dau. of the late William Parry-Okenden, of Turnworth, co. Dorset, and had two daus.: Marjorie Gladys, b. 18 April, 1894; and Katherine Georgina, b. 4 Feb. 1899.

MOORE, HENRY JOHN, E.R.A., 2nd Class, 272213, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

MOORE, JOHN THOMAS WARREN, 2nd S.B.S., 154465, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

MOORE, REGINALD HENRY HAMILTON, Capt., 1st Battn. Border Regt., eldest s. of the late Col. Joseph Henry Moore, of Easterlands, Wellington, Somerset, R.A.M.C., by his wife, Jessie, dau. of John Pope; b. Bareilly, India, 2 Dec. 1884; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Border Regt., 10 Oct. 1903; promoted Lieut., 16 Nov. 1905, and Capt., 29 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 16 March, 1915, with the 29th Division, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 11 June, following; unm. Buried in Gully Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote: “On 10 June we captured a trench; early the following morning the Turks counter-attacked, and in the confusion it seemed as if they would probably drive our men back. Your son, who was at the time acting as Adjutant, volunteered to lead an assaulting party back. Those with him say how magnificently he behaved, and at the head of his men he re-took the lost portion of the trench in a few minutes. He was the best type of officer and had proved himself several times in action”; and a brother officer: “For a short, but critical, period in the Gallipoli operations he commanded the battn., and his quiet and firm command earned the respect and confidence of all ranks....” Another wrote: “On this occasion he again displayed that personal courage and coolness in danger which had been an example to his men from the commencement of the campaign.” Capt. Moore was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 12 June, 1915.