SMITH, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, No. 10/1036, B Coy. (East Coast Regt.), Wellington Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, s. of William Smith, of Regent Street, Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand, formerly of Wakefield, co. York, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of J. S. Meiklejohn, of Melbourne, Australia, and nephew of the late James Sim Benyon, proprietor and Editor of the “Kumara Times”; b. Hokitika, West Coast, South Island, 4 Nov. 1879; educ. Kumara High School, after which he served as an apprentice in a grocery business in the same town. He then joined the Justice Department of the New Zealand Government, and was appointed to H.M. Prisons, being ultimately transferred to the Survey Department. On the outbreak of war he joined the main body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, took part in the defence of the Suez Canal, and was killed in action, 2 May, 1915, eight days after landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula; unm.

SMITH, JOHN, Private, No. 2484, 5th Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), s. of the late James Smith, of Battenhurst Farm, Stonegate, Farm Bailiff, by his wife, Eliza (Mabbs Hill, Stonegate, Sussex); b. Stonegate, co. Sussex, 24 June, 1890; educ. Stonegate School; was employed as gardener at Afterglow, Wadhurst; joined 5th Sussex Territorials Sept. 1914, and died of pulmonary tuberculosis at his home, Mabbs Hill, Stonegate, 25 July, 1915; unm.

SMITH, JOHN, stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115515, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SMITH, JOHN, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13677 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, JOHN ACKLAND, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20594 (lev.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, JOHN ALEXANDER HAY, B.A., LL. B., Lieut., 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, only s. of the late William Smith, of Calcutta, Jute Merchant, by his wife, I. Seath (now wife of W. G. Mair, of Clifton Bank, St. Andrews), dau. of Alexander Nicoll, of Dundee, Merchant; b. Darjeeling, India, 17 Nov. 1890; educ. Stanley House, Bridge of Allan, Clifton Bank, St. Andrews, and Pembroke College, Cambridge graduated B.A. Hons. and LL.B. 1912), and was continuing the study of law in London, when war broke out in Aug. 1914; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 11th Royal Scots on the 27th of that month, and was promoted Lieut. shortly before his death; went to France in April, 1915, and was killed in action at La Touret, near Festubert, 14 Aug. 1915; unm. Buried at Hinges. He was the heir and one of the residuary legatees of the late Mr. John Smith, of Adderley, Forfarshire, but by the terms of the bequest was only to have a life interest up to the age of 25. As he was only 24 years of age his share of the residue went to the Dundee Infirmary and the Dundee Victoria Hospital for Incurables.

SMITH, JOHN ARTHUR, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16726, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, JOHN CHARLES, Private, No. 11098, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Joseph Smith, Park Lane Corner, Berkswell, Sawyer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Thomas Gibbs; b. Temple Balsall, near Knowle, co. Warwick, 12 April, 1893; educ. at Burton Green, Kenilworth, and Temple Balsall, near Knowle; enlisted 18 Aug. 1914; went to France early in Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following; unm.

SMITH, MALCOLM ST. AIDAN, Private, No. 286, A Coy., 10th Battn., 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, s. of Henry Teesdale Smith, of Arthur’s Seat, Crafers, South Australia, Railway Contractor, by his wife, Lydia Kate, dau. of Samuel Johnson, of Melbourne, Victoria, and great grandson of Major Henry Teesdale, who was killed at the Battle of Meeanee, and whose services are mentioned in Sir William Napier’s “Conquest of Sind”; b. Torquay, Tasmania, 31 May, 1890; educ. Cordwalles, Maidenhead, England, and Guildford Grammar School, Western Australia; and was an assistant engineer in the construction of the Minnipa Hill railway on Eyre’s Peninsula and on a section of the East-West line. On the outbreak of the European War he immediately volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary force, went to Egypt with them; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there two days later. He was wounded twice, but refused to go back. An officer in another Battn. wrote to his father: “He was a member of the Battn. that deserved all the praise for the initial landing, and the way they waded ashore and cleared the first hill is simply incredible. On the Tuesday after our big advance, I found my way to the beach late at night, and at once enquired at the Dressing Station, but they could only say they thought a Malcolm Smith had been killed. There is no sentiment (or time for it) on the field, but his friends in the Company say he died as they hope to die, right in the middle of it.”

SMITH, PERCY LOWE, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4670, H.M.S Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7495), S.S. 102811, H.M.S. Hawke, s. of William Smith, of Eastward, Carnwyllie, Arbroath; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

SMITH, ROBERT, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 2922, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

SMITH, ROBERT ERNEST, Private, No. 5761, 4th Battn. Worcestershire Regt., s. of Alfred Smith; b. Cookley, co. Worcester, Jan. 1880; educ. Wolverly Parish Schools there; enlisted in March, 1900; served in the South African War, 1901–2 (Queen’s and King’s medals), and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 15 May, 1915; unm.

SMITH, ROBERT JOSHUA, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17440, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, SIDNEY, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4434, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, SIDNEY CHARLES, Blacksmith, 343371, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, SIDNEY JOSEPH, Private, No. 12331, No. 3 Coy., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, yr. s. of Francis Louis Smith, of 35, Alfred Street, Neath, Gardener, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Julia O’Leary, of Caerleon, Monmouth; b. Newport, co. Monmouth, 6 Feb. 1888; educ. Brynock National Schools; enlisted 1 Sept. 1905; went to France with the Expeditionary Force about 12 Aug. 1914; took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battle of the Marne and the advance to the Aisne, and was killed in action at Zillebeke, 7 Nov. 1914. Buried 1½ miles east of Zillebeke, near Ypres. His company officer the late Capt. Alwyn Gosselin, D.S.O., wrote expressing regret at his loss, and added: “Your son was always cheerful under the very trying conditions of the campaign, and he is a great loss to his comrades.” He was at one time considered the Army champion in bayonet exercises. He m. at St. Joseph R.C. Church, Neath, South Wales, 16 Nov. 1913, Mary Anne (Crythan Road, Neath), dau. of John (and Eliza) Singleton.

SMITH, STANLEY IVAN, A.B., J. 3081, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, SYDNEY, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2564), 186020, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914

SMITH, SYDNEY HENRY, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9317), S.S. 106555, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, THOMAS, Private, No. 10229, 4th Reserve, attd. 3rd. Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest s. of the late Thomas Smith, of Hull, by his wife, Minnie; b. Hull, 14 March, 1894; enlisted July, 1913; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914; was wounded in March and invalided home, and died in King George’s Hospital, Stamford Street, S.E., 16 Sept. 1915, of wounds and appendicitis; to an inquiry as to whether he would wish to go to the Front again he wrote: “I am willing if I am needed, as duty to my King comes before pleasure. I am proud I have been able to do a little.” He m. at St. Peter’s Church, Drypool, Hull, Daisy Mary (149, Seaford Road, West Ealing), eldest dau. of John Henry White, of Wandsworth, now Private, No. 074568, A.S.C.M.T; s.p.

SMITH, THOMAS GRIFFIN, Gunner, R.M.A., 4798, B. 100, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, THOMAS SYDNEY, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., elder s. of the Rev. Sydney Edward Smith, Rector of Sprotborough, Doncaster, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of Major-Gen. Augustus Arthur Currie, C.B.; b. Womersley Vicarage, co. York, 31 March, 1895; educ. Hill House, St. Leonards-on-Sea; Radley, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., 19 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 11 Oct. 1914.

SMITH, TOM, Private, No. 337, T. Coy., 7th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, s. of the late Eli Smith, by his wife, Hannah (now wife of William Ward, of Ginfield Ully, near Dursley; b. 18 Aug. 1886; educ. Dursley, co. Gloucester; served some time in the Navy; went to Australia; on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for Imperial service; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 9 May, 1915. His brother was one of the Dursley Volunteers who volunteered for foreign service during the Boer War, and was killed in that campaign.

SMITH, WALTER PALMER, Stoker, R.N.R., T. 2168., H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; m.

SMITH, WALTER SIDNEY, Private, Ports./14879, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SMITH, WALTER WYVILLE, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 2nd s. of Robert Harris Smith, late of the Old Manor, Feltham, by his wife, Rosa Louisa, dau. of John Bashford, of Byfleet; b. Feltham, co. Middlesex; educ. with the Rev. F. Cavalier at Wramplingham Rectory, and at King’s College School, Wimbledon, where he entered the Training Corps, being later Capt. of the Feltham Rifle Club; after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers in Sept. 1914, was promoted 2nd Lieut. 30 Dec. 1914, and killed in action at Loos, 18 Oct. 1915; buried Vermelles Cemetery; unm. His Commanding Officer, Major S. Gubbins, sent the following account to his parents: “Your son was killed last night about half-past six, while leading a bombing section in an attack which fully gained its objects, and the result of which you will have seen reported in the papers before this reaches you. So well was his work done, and so excellent his plans, that although 200 yards of trench of vital importance to us was gained, hardly any of his men were killed, although nearly all were wounded. Your son’s loss is a very heavy blow to the regt., and also to the Division. The qualities he showed were rare, and were far more than mere courage. A bombing officer of the very first class is almost impossible to replace under months of training. Your son was killed instantaneously by a bullet through the heart just as the men had succeeded in capturing the trenches they were attacking. His body is now with his company, and will be taken to-night for burial in ... Cemetery. I hope it may be some consolation to reflect that he died a fine death, the finest death of any in the battn. yet, and that when many before had failed, he was successful. The whole regt. shares your loss.” His company officer, Capt. N. B. Ellis Cooper, added: “Your son first of all commanded the company bombers. Our bombers co-operated with those of the Essex regt. in an attack on a German trench. Soon after the attack the officer in charge was wounded, and your son was in command. He displayed the utmost resource and gallantry, and the attack was completely successful before he was finally killed. The attack was a very fine affair, and has brought the utmost credit to our battn., and I think that we owe this credit to your son’s skill in training the bomb-throwers previous to the attack, and his gallantry in leading them during the action.”

SMITH, WILLIAM, Chief Petty Officer, No. 148381, Royal Navy, eldest s. of Alfred William Smith, by his wife, Louisa; b. Bridport, co. Dorset, 22 Dec. 1873; educ. at Northallington School, Bridport; joined the Navy, 22 Dec. 1891; served in the Witu Expedition, Aug. 1893 (Ashanti medal with Witu clasp), and in the European War; was lost on H.M.S. Goliath, 13 May, 1915, when that ship was torpedoed at the Dardanelles. He m. at Devonport, 27 Dec. 1897, Alice Maud (27, Alexandra Road, Ford), eldest dau. of John Stribley, R.N., and had four children: Alfred William, b. 28 Sept. 1899; George Reginald, b. 25 Oct. 1906; Ernest Leslie, b. 5 July, 1909, and Phylis Dorrien, b. 5 Jan. 1915.

SMITH, WILLIAM EDMUND, Officer’s Cook, 1st Class, 1874, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, WILLIAM GERALD FURNESS, Lieut., 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., 2nd s. of the Rev. George Furness Smith, M.A. (Oxon.), of 14, Riverdale Road, East Twickenham, Chaplain of Royal Naval School, East Twickenham, and Editorial Secretary of Church Missionary Society (1893–1915), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Armstrong Hayes, of Edmondstown Park, Rathfarnham, co. Dublin; b. Surbiton, co. Surrey, 7 July, 1888; educ. Birkenhead School, Clare College, and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He took his B.A. (2nd Class Classical Tripos) in 1910, with a second Class in the Theological Tripos in the next year; in Dec. 1911 he went to India to serve on the staff of St. John’s College, Agra, where Bishop Durrant subsequently testified to the value of his influence and his teaching ability; on returning to England in 1913 he became a tutor at St. Aidan’s Theological College, Birkenhead, and was to have been ordained Deacon in Sept. 1914, but having been a member of the O.T.C., he volunteered, and enlisted in the Public Schools’ Battn. After a few weeks’ training at Epsom, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., North Staffordshire Regt., 6 Oct. 1914, left for France 16 March, 1915, and was promoted Lieut. 24 June the same year. He died of wounds received in action close to Ypres, after recovering a trench when in charge of a party of bomb-throwers, 5 July, 1915. The following passage in F.M. Sir John French’s Report, dated 6 July, appears to refer to this: “On the morning of the 5th a party of Germans rushed a barricade on the Ypres-Roulers railway after a two hours’ artillery bombardment, but a prompt attack by our troops immediately recaptured the positions.” Lieut. Smith was buried in the military cemetery, close to Poljitze, about one mile north-east of Ypres; unm. Gen. Allenby wrote to Gen. Sir John Keir: “Will you please convey to the officers commanding the North Staffordshire Regt. our appreciation of, and gratitude for, the gallant behaviour of Lieut. Smith of that regt., with his grenadier party who came to the support of the 41st Brigade yesterday morning, and in a counter attack on the Germans who had demolished a barricade and rushed a trench in the left of our line. I would also express our deep sorrow on hearing that this brave officer has died of his wounds, and would offer our sympathy to his regt.” In forwarding this to Gen. Harper, Sir John Keir wrote: “Will you please communicate this to the officer commanding North Staffordshire Regt., and say how well deserved I know this appreciation to be. I hope to see Col. de Falbe personally to express to him my feeling with regard to the good work done by this fine battn. I sympathise in the sad loss they have sustained.”

SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY, Mechanician, 292066, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, WILLIAM OLIVER, Stoker, 1st Class, 307471, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SMITH, WILLIAM WILTON, A.B., 235327, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SMITH, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Mechanician, 283349, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

BRICE-SMITH, JOHN KENNETH, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., yst. s. of the Rev. Brice Brice-Smith, Rector of Hameringham, with Winceby, Horncastle, by his wife, Kate Emily, 3rd dau. of the late John Middleton, of Benton House, Newcastle-On-Tyne; b. Hameringham, co. Lincoln, 2 Nov. 1894; educ. Quy Vicarage, Cambridge; Cranleigh School, Surrey, and entered at St. John’s College, Cambridge; after the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the 7th Lincolnshires, 27 Nov. 1914; went to France in July, 1915, and died 11 Sept. following, from wounds received in action the previous day, S.W. of Ypres; unm. Buried at Poperinghe. While at Cranleigh he was senior prefect, Colour-Sergt. in the O.T.C., a member of the School Shooting Eight, and captain of both cricket and football teams.

BROADLEY-SMITH, ALAN FRANCIS, Major, 5th Battn. Border Regt. (T.F.), only s. of William Herbert Broadley-Smith, of Ambleside, by his wife, Mary Matilda, dau. of Capt. Arthur Trollope, 36th Foot; b. Derby, 24 March, 1876; educ. Repton and Bruges; joined the 5th Border Regt. (T.F.) as a 2nd Lieut., 28 Jan. 1909, and was promoted Lieut. 24 Dec. following; Capt. 8 Aug. 1910, and Major 18 April, 1915; acted as Instructor of Musketry from 1910 to 1915; and was Intelligence Officer and Provost Marshal for the Barrow District; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and was appointed a General Staff Officer of the 3rd Grade, on the 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 25 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Hooge, 16 June, 1915, while making a reconnaissance; unm. Buried on the outskirts of Zouave Wood, near the Chateau there. Lieut.-Col. J. A. Milburn, Commanding 5th Border Regt. wrote: “Not only was he a great personal friend of mine, but also he was my best officer, and his death has come as a very great shock to me. His company would have followed him to the ends of the earth, and he was loved by both officers and men of the Battn. alike.” He was a fine all-round sportsman, and held the position of amateur huntsman to Mr. Curwen’s (Workington Hall) Foxhounds.

COMPTON-SMITH, ROGER NOEL, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Compton-Smith, of Tudor Place, Richmond Green, co. Surrey, LL.B., Barrister-at-Law of the inner Temple; b. Hampton Court, 16 July, 1894; educ. Horton School, co. Bedford, and Heidelberg College; entered the Manchester House of Tootal Broadhurst Lee Company, Ltd., on leaving school, and in July, 1914, had arranged a tour with the representative of the firm throughout America and Canada, but, war breaking out in the following Aug. he volunteered and was given a commission in the 6th Manchesters, 5 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt a few days later; went to the Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915, and was killed in action there on the 27th. He was at the time warning his men to evacuate the trench they were in, as it had been condemned as dangerous, being enfiladed by the enemy; unm. Brig.-Gen. Noel Lee, who was himself shot on 4 June, and died in Malta, wrote on the 25 May: “In his duties since he joined the regt., there are none who have done better and very few as well. His whole heart was in what he undertook and as an officer he was one of the most useful and dependable in a regt. which is noted for efficiency. With the mess he was always popular and more than respected on account of his character. His men of No. 15 Platoon literally worshipped him, as he was not only their officer but their leader, who never spared himself, and their friend upon whom they could always rely for help and assistance in their work. His loss is great indeed.” While spending his school holidays at Brixham, he became a bold and skilful small boat sailor and a strong swimmer, and at Alexandria saved the life of one of his men who, while bathing, had ventured beyond the reef. He was a good all-round athlete, and a keen fisherman.

DENROCHE-SMITH, ARCHIBALD JOHN, Lieut., 18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Hussars, elder s. of Thomas Denroche-Smith, of Balhary, Meigle, co. Perth, late Judge Bengal Civil Service, by his wife, Florence Elizabeth, dau. of the late Gen. John Bayly, C.B., Col. Commandant, R.E.; b. Balhary, aforesaid, 30 Sept. 1890; educ. Evelyns; West Drayton, and Cheltenham College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 18th Hussars, 23 Feb. 1910, and promoted Lieut. 10 April, 1912; went to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Vendresse, during the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914, while leading his troop to the assistance of the 4th Dragoon Guards; unm. His Col. wrote: “As a soldier he had a very good chance of rising high in his profession, as he was very fond of his work, and we shall greatly miss him from among our circle, as a friend, as a soldier and as a sportsman. We had great hopes of his success in the polo world,” and his Squadron Major: “I never want to have a better officer in my squadron in time of war or peace. He was the best young officer that had joined us for a long time. I had recommended him for a decoration given by the French Government to our officers. I only hope I may meet death as gallantly as your son did, if it comes my turn.” He was Captain of the 18th Hussars polo team; had jumped at Olympia on several occasions, and won point-to-point races, and also steeplechases.

LAWSON-SMITH, JOHN, Lieut., 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., yr. s. of Edward Maule Lawson-Smith, of Colton Lodge, Tadcaster, B.A., J.P., by his wife, Ethel Mary, dau. of the late Gen. Sir William Davies; b. Colton, co. York, 24 March, 1892; educ. Warren Hill, Eastbourne; Stubbington (Foster’s); Royal Naval College, Osborne (Cadet, 1902–3); Repton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. West Yorkshire Regt., 3 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. Oct. 1914; went to France in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Bois Grenier, 20–21 Oct. following; unm. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished service in the field. His brother, Lieut. T. E. Lawson-Smith, was killed in action, 30–31 Oct. 1914 (see following notice).

LAWSON-SMITH, THOMAS EDWARD, Lieut., 13th, attd. 11th, Hussars, eldest. s. of Edward Maule Lawson-Smith, of Colton Lodge, Tadcaster, B.A., J.P., by his wife, Ethel Mary, dau. of the late Gen. Sir William Davies; b. Colton, co. York, 14 March, 1889; educ. Warren Hill, Eastbourne, Stubbington (Foster’s), Harrow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13th Hussars, 15 Sept. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 6 Dec. 1913; went to France attd. to the 11th Hussars, Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Messines, 30–31 Oct. following; unm. His brother, Lieut. John Lawson-Smith, was killed in action, 20–21 Oct. 1914 (see preceding notice).

MANNERS-SMITH, FREDERICK, Major, 2nd Battn. 3rd (Queen Alexandra’s Own) Gurkha Rifles, yst. s. of the late Surg.-Gen. Charles Manners-Smith, formerly of Oakfield, Kempsey, co. Worcester, I.M.S., by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Dr. Samuel Davies; b. Kempsey, 15 Nov. 1871; educ. Norwich and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Gloucester Regt., 2 May, 1891, promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1892, transferred to the Indian Army in 1893, and joined the 3rd Gurkhas in 1895; became Capt. 10 July, 1901, and Major 2 May, 1909, being Adjutant of his battn. 1901–5; served with the relief force in the Chitral Campaign, 1895 (medal with clasp), and with the Expeditionary Force in France, 1914; died of wounds received the same day in the trenches near La Bassée, 3 Nov. 1914; buried at Bethune. He m. at Lucknow, 25 Jan. 1902, Hilda Clara Frances, yst. dau. of the late Henry Carnsew, formerly of Summers Place, Billingshurst, co. Sussex; s.p.

SOMERS-SMITH, RICHARD WILLINGDON, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, eldest s. of Robert Vernon Somers-Smith, of Bur Lea, Walton-on-Thames, J.P., C.C., Clerk to the Grocer’s Company, by his wife, M. Gertrude, dau. of John A. Radcliffe, of Cobham; b. Hersham, co. Surrey, 27 Oct. 1882; educ. Eton, and Merton College, Oxford; went to Ceylon, and became a Tea Planter, but on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, returned to England, and obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifles, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action near Hooge, 30 June following, while running forward to help dig out some of his men who were buried by a shell; unm. Buried there. Like his father and brother, he was a distinguished Eton and Oxford athlete. At Eton he rowed in the Eight at Henley, and at Oxford, during his first year he won the Freshmen’s miles, rowed in the “Trials,” stroked his Torpid up five places, stepped straight from the Torpid into the ’Varsity eight, where he rowed two, stroked his College eight, and won the University pairs with Graham, of Balliol. The next year he stroked his College into the final of the coxwainless fours, coached the Torpid up three, rowed bow in the winning University crew, rowed seven to Bucknall’s stroke in the College eight, reached the final of the University pairs with Brocklebank, and only lost to a heavier pair by re-rowing after a dead heat with only a short rest, and as captain, rowed in four events at Henley for his College, besides sweeping the board at the College sports. He had his rowing Blue and was also offered his running Blue, but could not both row and run. His brother, Capt. John Robert Somers-Smith, London Regt., gained the Military Cross at the Second Battle of Ypres, 13 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Gommecourt, 1 July, 1916.

SELBY-SMYTH, MILES BURY, Capt., 4th Battn. The Rifle Brigade, only s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Edward Guy Selby-Smyth, of Darby House, Sunbury-on-Thames, Royal Irish Rifles, by his wife, Georgina Florence (42, Cornwall Gardens, London, S.W.), 2nd dau. and co-h. of Capt. the Hon. John James Bury, R.E. [2nd s. of Charles William, 2nd Earl of Charleville], and grandson of Gen. Sir Edward Selby-Smyth, K.C.M.G.; b. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 17 Nov. 1884; educ. Rottingdean (Mr. Stanford’s) and Bradfield College, co. Berks; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade, from the Militia, 16 May, 1908, and promoted Lieut. 23 Jan. 1911, and Capt. 30 Nov. 1914; was A.D.C. (extra) to the Governor of Western Australia from 20 April, 1910, to 10 Feb. 1912; went to France, 20 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Eloi, 15 March, 1915, leading his company in a counter-attack on the Germans. Buried near the Church of Dickebusche. He m. in London, 8 Oct. 1912, Violet Emily (4, Tite Street, Chelsea, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Capt. Cecil Drummond, R.B., and had a dau.: Pamela Dorothy Beaujolois, b. 25 Aug. 1913.

SMYTH, RICHARD ALEXANDER NOEL, Capt., Royal Garrison Artillery, 2nd s. of Lieut.-Col. Frederick Augustus Smyth, of Weymouth, Brig.-Surgeon, I.M.S., late of Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles (who served in the Afghan, Burma, Chin Lushai and Chitral Campaigns, also in the attack and siege of the Malakand), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. John Cole, Vicar of Isle Brewers, Somerset; b. Morar, Gwalior, India, 18 Dec. 1888; educ. Weymouth College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.G.A., 31 July, 1902, and promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1905, and Capt. 30 Oct. 1914, was for some time on garrison duty in England, and then served for six years in Ceylon; went to the Front with the 5th Battery Siege Artillery, in Sept. 1914, doing valuable work as “forward observing officer,” and was killed in action, being shot by a sniper, while in the act of helping a wounded infantry soldier, near Armentières, France, 7 Nov. 1914; unm. Buried at Bac St. Maur on the River Lys. Lieut.-Col. M. B. Roberts, Commanding 2nd Siege Brigade, wrote: “If he was as good a son as he was an officer, you have every reason to be very proud of him. I can truthfully say ever since we have been in action (a fortnight) your son had been doing most excellent work—cheerfully, keen and always ready for anything, and for some days past I had fully made up my mind to forward his name to higher authority for the manner in which he carried out his work. I miss the best of officers—the very best in the battery, his loss is irreparable.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]; but both honours were gazetted in error to Lieut. R. A. E. Smyth, Antrim Reserve R.G.A., who had never been at the Front. As Capt. Smyth has been killed and the Military Cross is not conferred posthumously the latter announcement was cancelled.

SNARE, ALBERT, S.P.O. (R.F.R., A. 936), 125421, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

SNEATH, CLAUDE DAVIS, Lieut., 4th Battn. Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., s. of George Sneath, of Gloucester Lodge, Golder’s Green, Hendon, J.P., by his 2nd wife, Marian Eliza Harriett, dau. of Charles William James Davis; b. Greta House, Finchley, 18 Jan. 1889; educ. Christ’s College, Finchley, and London University (where he was in the O.T.C.), and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. in 1912, and promoted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1912. On the outbreak of war he was transferred to the 4th Battn. which was one of the first regts. to go to the Front; was at the Battle of Mons, 23 Aug. 1914, also at Cambray and Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1914; afterwards in the retreat, and then at the Battle of the Marne and on the Aisne, and was killed in action at Croix Barber, 14 Oct. 1914; unm. He was a fine hockey player, and played back for the Hendon Hockey Club, also for Middlesex and the Philistines on many occasions. He was also a good cricketer, and was president of the Golder’s Green Working Men’s Club.

SNEDDON, JAMES, Private, No. 18547, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of John Sneddon; b. Bellshill, co. Lanark, 11 July, 1887; educ. Bellshill; enlisted at Stirling, 19 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died in No. 1 Casualty Clearing station, 8 Feb. 1916, from wounds received in action the previous day. He m. at Bellshill, 30 Nov. 1906, Christina Leggatt (2, St. Mary’s Wynd, Stirling), dau. of (—) Graham, and had issue: Andrew Graham, b. 20 Nov. 1909; John Graham, b. 23 Dec. 1911; Euphemia, b. 22 Oct, 1907; and Christina Clark, b. 26 May, 1914.

SNELGROVE, SIDNEY HENRY, Lieut., 14th (Service) Battn., attd. 7th Battn., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. s. of John Sidney Snelgrove, of Kingswood, Tunbridge Wells, Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Gertrude Emily, dau. of the late John Henry Chatteris; b. Tunbridge Wells, 7 Dec. 1891; educ. Hurstleigh, Tunbridge Wells; Rugby (Mr. Brooke’s House), and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 21 Nov. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; was attd. 7th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, and went to France 16 July following, and was killed in action 31 July, 1915, while leading his platoon under heavy shell fire in support of another company, in the counter-attack at the Chateau Hooge. Buried Sanctuary Wood, south of Hooge: unm. Lieut.-Col. G. A. P. Rennie, D.S.O., Commanding 7th King’s Royal Rifle Corps, wrote: “He was leading his men splendidly at the time,” and Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington, Bart., Commanding 14th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps: “... one of my smartest officers. I was quite sure he would distinguish himself when he went to the Front.” Letters from other officers and men all speak in the highest terms of his courage, energy and great capability. At Hurstleigh he was head of the School and captain of the cricket and the hockey elevens, and at Rugby was in his house eleven, and a signaller in the O.T.C. His elder brother, Capt. John Sidney Norman Snelgrove, Royal West Kent Regt., is now (1916) on active service.

SNELL, GEORGE NOWELL, Stoker, 3rd Class, K. 21993, H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SNELL, WILLIAM JOHN, Gunner, R.M.A., 12869, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SNEYD, THOMAS HUMPHREY, Capt., 4th. attd. 2nd. Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only s. of Major-Gen. Thomas William Sneyd, of Ashcombe Park, Belmont, and Onecote, co. Stafford, late Commanding Queen’s Bays (1877–82), by his wife, Charlotte Marion, dau. of Capt. William Wheatley Repton, Bengal N.I.; b. Lightoaks, near Cheadle, co. Stafford, 20 Oct. 1883; educ. Sandroyd, Wellington College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), 22 April, 1903; and promoted Lieut. 14 May, 1904; joined his regt. in South Africa in Aug. 1903, and acted as A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Sir Henry Hildyard; retired in July, 1910, and after a year and a half spent in the Argentine, returned to England in Jan. 1912, and joined the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers as Capt. 30 Oct. 1912; went to France attd. to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, Belgium, 2 Nov. 1914. Buried in Ploegsteert Wood. He m. at St. John’s Church, Forfar, 3 June, 1914, Phœbe Marianne, yr. dau. of John Sharp Callender-Brodie, of Idvies, Forfar, and had a dau., Averil Marion Anne, b. 7 April, 1915.

SNOSWELL, THOMAS EMDEN, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1467), 146107, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SNOW, WILLIAM CHARLES, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4628), 195194, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SNOWDEN, HARCOURT JOHN, Lieut., 1st Battn. Hertfordshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of the Rev. Harcourt Snowden, of St. Peter’s, Broadstairs, by his wife, Augusta, dau. of Martin Daniel; b. Ramsgate, 12 Dec. 1887; educ. Hildersham House, St. Peter’s; Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Hertfordshire Regt. under Lieut.-Col. Viscount Hampden’s command, 2 June, 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 26 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action while visiting sentries early in the morning of 11 Jan. 1915; unm. He was buried near Richebourg l’Avoué. His Major said: “I had such confidence in him that, when I knew that he was the officer on duty, I never went round the posts to see that all was well.” Another officer wrote: “He was a fine example to us all of a good and straight living Englishman.”

SOLLEY, ALFRED JOHN GEORGE, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20426, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SOLLITT, GEORGE WILLIAM, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3544), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SOMERTON, CHARLES ENOS, Ship’s Steward, 341939, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SOMERTON, FREDERICK CHARLES, Private, No. 1342, A Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., s. of Frederick Somerton, of Trinity, Newfoundland, Magistrate, by his wife, Caroline Augusta, dau. of Charles Soule Hibbert, of Bromley, Kent; b. Bruges, Newfoundland, 31 March, 1888; educ. Bishops Field College, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and on leaving there engaged in Scholastic pursuits and taught for three years at Salvage, Newfoundland, and afterwards at Cape Ray. He then went to Canada, but when the European War broke out returned home; volunteered and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force in Feb. 1915; left for England in April, 1915; went to the Dardanelles Sept. and died on board the Guildford Castle, 25 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action at Gallipoli on the 20th; unm.

SONES, HERBERT JAMES, Signal Boy, J. 24586, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SORSBY, WILLIAM, Private, No. 4637, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; b. co. York; enlisted 19 March, 1902; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from 30 Aug. 1914; killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914; m.

SOURBUTTS, RICHARD, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269610, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SOUGHTON, THOMAS EDWARD, Gunner, No. 686, 2nd Home Counties, 1/6th Battery, R.F.A. (T.F.); b. Hellingly, co. Sussex, 23 March, 1893; educ. Horsebridge, Hellingly; was an employee in the firm of Messrs. Howard Bros., Hellingly; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, Oct. 1914; went to India, and died in Ferozepore Barracks there, 3 Dec. 1915, from internal injuries caused by a fall from an ammunition wagon on the 1st, while on service; unm.

SOUTER, CHARLES JESSE, Chief Petty Officer, 169027, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SOUTH, FREDERICK, Leading Seaman, 224839, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SOUTHERN, HENRY WALTER, Boy, 1st Class, J. 25688, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

SOUTHERN, JOHN GEORGE, Private, No. 3097, 7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest s. of the late George Southern, of Southwick, Miner, by his wife, Alice (Walter Tom Street, Southwick, Sunderland), dau. of John Lathon; b. Southwick, 27 March, 1891; educ. High Southwick Council School; was employed at the Hylton Colliery; enlisted 9 Nov. 1914; trained at Sunderland, and went to the Front, 19 April, 1915, coming into action a few days later at Ypres on Whit Monday, when the 7th Durhams were severely cut up. He was killed in action at Armentières, 31 July, 1915; unm. He was a regular Sunday School teacher at a Primitive Methodist Church, and was engaged in Christian Endeavour work. His great ambition was to become a foreign missionary, and a few days before his death he wrote intimating that if spared to return home his future would be devoted to that cause. One of his officers, writing to his mother, said: “In the past his presence among us inspired all that was good. In the future, if God spares us, we will retain a lasting memory of his goodness.”

SOUTHERTON, HARRY PERCY, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14664 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SOUTHWICK, CHARLES THOMAS, Sergt., No. 1212, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Charles Southwick, of Heatherlands, Poole, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Mary Annie, dau. of the late Thomas Harland; b. Kinson, co. Dorset, 27 Feb. 1887; educ. Secondary School, Broughty Ferry, and St. Mark’s College, Chelsea, and on leaving there became Assistant Master at the Vineyard School, Richmond, under Mr. Lancaster; joined the 13th Kensingtons in 1907; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France, 3 Nov., and was killed in action in the attack on Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915. In letters received from the Front it was stated that in this action Sergt. Southwick with his platoon reached the second German trench, where a piece of shrapnel broke the glasses he was wearing. Then, a volunteer being called for to return to the English lines for reinforcements, he undertook the dangerous task, was seen to start on his errand, and from that time seems to have completely disappeared. He had a fine baritone voice, and was successively bass singer in the Petersham, Chelsea (Sidney Street), and St. Peter’s (Bayswater) Choirs, and also a member of the Queen’s Hall Choir. He m. at Stratford, Essex, 12 Sept. 1914, Lilian Francis (Ashleigh, The Bridle Path, Woodford Green), dau. of William Webster, of Ashleigh, Woodford Green; s.p.

SOUTHWOOD, HORACE GEORGE, E.R.A., 4th Class, 271932, H.M S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

SPACKMAN, HAROLD JOHN, Private, No. 13845, 10th (Service) Battn. Devonshire Regt., s. of Frederick William Spackman, of The Dairy, Manningford, Bohune, by his wife, Eliza Catherine, dau. of Alfred Manners, of Heddington, Calne, Wilts; b. Manningford, Bohune, Pewsey, co. Wilts, 24 May, 1897; educ. Woodborough School; enlisted 17 Sept. 1914, and died at the Red Cross Hospital, Bath, 12 March, 1915, of meningitis contracted while on service; unm.

SPAIN, EDWARD SYDNEY STEPHEN, Leading Seaman, 235099, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

SPALDING, FRANK, Coy. Quartermaster-Sergt., No. 6896, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, s. of John Spalding, of 70, Scorer Street, Lincoln; b. Lincoln, 1890; educ. there; was apprenticed to Messrs. Robey, Blacksmiths, but before his time expired gave this up and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 20 Aug. 1906; was appointed L.-Corpl. 19 Aug. 1907; Corpl. 17 Oct. 1908; L.-Sergt. 17 March, 1910; Sergt. 15 Aug. 1913, Pioneer Sergt. the same day; and acting Coy. Quartermaster-Sergt. (for meritorious conduct at the Front), 20 Nov. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and died at Ecquedecques, Belgium, 1 Jan. 1915, from an accident while on active service. Buried in field opposite Delalean Farm, Ecquedecques, about 2 kilometres from Lillers. He was an enthusiastic footballer, being at one time a member of the Lincoln Wednesday Team, and while in the Army was one of the Battn.’s Soccer representatives; he was also a member of the old Lincoln Volunteers for some time. Coy. Q.M.-Sergt. Spalding m. at St. Thomas’s, Lambeth, 6 Aug. 1911, Kate (128, Ash Street, Walworth, London), dau. of (—) Skinner, and had two sons: Eric Arthur, b. 23 July, 1912; and Leslie Stuart, b. 30 Oct. 1914.

SPARKES, CHARLES, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12476, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SPARKS, HARRY ROBERT, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8408), S.S. 104457, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

SPEAREY, FREDERICK WILLIAM, A.B. (Coastguard), 194745, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

SPEKE, THE REV. HUGH, Major, 10th (Service) Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 7th s. of the Rev. Benjamin Speke, Rector of Dowlish Wake, by his wife, Caroline Sophia, elder dau. of John Bird Fuller, of Neston Park, Wilts, grandson of William Speke, of Jordans, co. Somerset, J.P., D.L., and nephew of John Hanning Speke, the African Explorer; b. Dowlish Wake, co. Somerset, 24 Feb. 1878; educ. Uppingham, and Keble College, Oxford; served in the South African War, 1899–1901, with the Wiltshire Yeomanry; afterwards continuing his preparation for Holy Orders at Wells Theological College in 1901. He was ordained at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Advent, 1902; was for three years curate at St. Michael’s, Bromley-by-Bow, and was then Vicar of Curry Rivel from 1905 to 1910, and in the autumn of that year left to take up work in Western Canada, where he was on the Mission Staff at Edmonton, and subsequently worked at Bow Island, Alberta, and was finally in charge of the district of Athabasca, but, after the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he returned to England in Oct.; and was given a commission as Capt. in the 3rd Battn. of the Somerset L.I., 23 Oct. 1914. He transferred to the 9th Battn., and was promoted Major 21 Dec. following, and after training with it at St. Austell and Wareham, exchanged into the 10th Lancashire Fusiliers in July, 1915, in order to go to the Front. He went to France at the end of the month, and was killed on reconnaissance at Vierstaat 11 Aug. following. Buried in the cemetery at Dickebusch. A brother officer wrote: “It happened about 11.30 on Wednesday night. He went out to reconnoitre the German trenches with a Sergt.; he was away about an hour and a half, and procured some very useful information; they were on their way back when he was shot; he must have been shot at least three times in the head and neck, and can have suffered no pain”; and another: “He was one of the bravest and best, and in the short time he had been with us had endeared himself to everybody. I am sure there is not an officer or man who does not feel his loss. His own company is cut up terribly.” Another also wrote: “We laid the Major to rest reverently with a short service last night (Thursday) in a small cemetery near here and placed a wreath on the grave, and are putting up a cross in a few days so as to mark it. All the officers and the whole company are very cut up over our loss as we were all very fond of him indeed. One of the men remarked in a letter referring to the death of Major Speke, ‘he was a brave and fearless man,’ which is very true, and we all had a great respect for him,” and: “Your gallant husband died, not merely doing his duty, but, as I judge, for another, for I feel pretty sure that he undertook a dangerous job which he would not let one of his junior officers undertake.” In Canada he proved himself a born pioneer. Even the small prairie towns were irksome to him, and he would contrive to spend most of his time in a shack out on the far-flung prairie. As though his own wide field were not large enough he would, from time to time, find that his duty called him on an expedition to the Sweet Grass Hills, across the boundary line to the south, to the Cypress Hills away to the east, or to the irrigated belt away to the north. Loth as he was to leave S. Alberta, it was the same spirit that led him to accept the offer to establish a pioneer mission in Athabasca, and so patiently to face the vexing difficulties raised by others that would have led most men to draw back before embarking on the task, and later to resign when the conditions of service were so changed. One winter he spent in a tiny shack measuring 10 ft. by 8 ft., having as his companion a lad from his own village at home who in days gone by had carried his gun. He m. at Tarrant Crawford Church, Dorset, 8 April, 1915, Ruth Lettice, dau. of the Rev. Charles Lewis Kennaway, of Stephen’s Plot, Spetisbury, Blandford, late Rector of Garboldishham, co. Norfolk; s.p.