Part 17

=PACK-BERESFORD, CHARLES GEORGE=, Major, 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd _s._ of Denis William Pack-Beresford. J.P., D.L., of Fenagh House, Bagnalstown, co. Carlow, by his wife, Annette Caroline, only dau. of Robert Clayton Browne, of Browne’s Hill, co. Carlow; _b._ London, 21 Nov. 1869; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. the Queen’s Own, 20 Nov. 1889, became Lieut. 1 Feb. 1893, Capt. 18 Dec. 1899, and Major 21 March, 1908, being Adjutant 1897–1900, an instructor at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1903–6, and Major in command of 3rd Battn., Regimental Depôt, Maidstone, 1911–14; served with the Malakand and Buner field force on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the action at Landakai, the operations in the Mamund country and Buner, also during the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass (medal with clasps); in the South African War, 1899–1901, including the operations in the Orange Free State, Sept. 1900–July, 1901, and in Cape Colony in Aug. 1901, Sept. to Dec. 1901 (Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901];] Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Wasimes, near Mons, 24 Aug 1914; _unm._

=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11113, Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Voorstraat, 17 Feb. 1915.

=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11787, 2nd Battn. Highland Light Infantry; killed in action, 17 May, 1915.

=BERKELEY, MAURICE KENNETH FITZ-HARDINGE=, Bombardier, 5th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, 1st Canadian Contingent, only _s._ of Maurice Julian Berkeley, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, British Guiana, by his wife, Mary Bruce, dau. of Alleyne Pilgrim Murray; _b._ Barbados, West Indies, 10 Dec. 1893; educ. Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and on leaving the latter joined the Merchant’s Bank of Canada at Montreal. On the outbreak of war he volunteered as a Gunner, came over with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded in action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne on 1 May; _unm._

=BERLEIN, CHARLES MAURICE=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Oxford and Buckingham L.I., eldest _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Kimberley, South Africa, 4 May, 1888; educ. Charterhouse and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1910); was engaged in chemical research, and was in charge of a laboratory, but on the outbreak of war received a commission as temporary Lieut. in the Oxford and Buckingham L.I., 22 Aug. 1914, and fell in action near Hoogh, 16 June, 1915, leading his men through a heavy shrapnel fire, a few paces from the enemy’s trenches; _unm._

=BERLEIN, LESLIE HERMAN=, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., yst. _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Johannesburg, 30 June, 1893; educ. Charterhouse, Berkhamsted School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, but following the outbreak of war, was gazetted temporary Lieut. in the Berkshires, 19 Sept. 1914. His battn. was selected to lead the attack near Hulluch on 25 Sept. 1915. In the assault his company was leading, and Lieut. Berlein was the first out of the trenches. He was killed on the front of the enemy’s trenches, leading his platoon; _unm._

=BERNARD, ROBERT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of the Most Rev. John Henry Bernard. D.D., D.C.L., Lord Archbishop of Dublin, by his wife, Maud, 2nd dau. of the late Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., Dep. Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; _b._ Dublin, 20 Dec. 1891; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Marlborough College (where he was in the O.T.C.) and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Dublin Fusiliers, 13 March, 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Nov. 1913. He served in the 2nd Battn. at Gravesend, April to Aug. 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, serving with them at Ahmednagar and Madras to Nov. 1914, when the regt. returned home, afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles. Lieut. Bernard landed in one of the open boats on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, when many officers were killed and wounded. His Captain was wounded in the landing, so that he was left in command of his company for twenty-four hours, when they lay out under slight cover on “V.” beach. The next morning the Dublins and the Munsters were ordered to storm the village of Sedd-el-Bahr, which they successfully accomplished. Lieut. Bernard was killed when gallantly leading his men in a bayonet charge. Lieuts. Bernard and Andrews were together with about twenty men of the X and Y companies, and they took cover behind a wall five and a half feet high. They were being fired at from a house in the village. Andrews stood in a gap made by a shell and was directing the fire when he was killed. Lieut. Bernard then called on the others to follow him, and saying “Come on, boys,” he dashed through the gap, when he was shot dead by a Turkish rifleman. He and his brother officers were buried close to the beach in a large rectangular grave.

=BERNHARDT, MARTIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8682), S.S. 1933, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BERRIDGE, HARRY=, Private, No. G. 1712, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 2 May, 1915.

=BERRIDGE, JOHN FREDERICK HARRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12245, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BERRY, ALFRED=, Private, No. 10405, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., _s._ of Ephraim Berry, of Clayton’s Farm, Mayfield, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; _d._ 1 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=BERRY, ALFRED EDWARD=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; _d._ 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action.

=BERRY, ALFRED ROBERT=, Private, No. 1819, H. Coy, 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., only child of Alfred Berry, of Leiston, co. Suffolk, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Cole Feree; _b._ Leiston, 30 Dec. 1896, joined the Army, 26 Jan. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, being shot through the body and head. His commanding officer spoke most highly of his conduct.

=BERRY, EDWARD ALFRED=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, _s._ of Ernest Albert Berry, of 37, Euston Street, Euston Square, London, N.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Groves; _b._ Marylebone, 26 July, 1887; educ. Lancing Street School, Somers Town; enlisted in the 1st Battn., 23 Aug. 1906, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action, 3 June, 1915; _unm._ The Chaplain wrote that he “was brought into our Field Ambulance (No. 9) last night severely wounded in the head. He died this morning without having become conscious, and I have buried him with the Church Service in the graveyard outside the Asylum here at Ypres, and have marked his grave with a cross inscribed with his name, etc.”

=BERRY, IRA SIDNEY=, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 94), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BERRY, THOMAS=, Gunner, No. 7455, Royal Field Artillery, 4th _s._ of James Donkin Berry, of Sunderland, Plater’s Helper, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Pratt, of Portsmouth; _b._ Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 1 Jan. 1892; educ. Southwick Board School; was employed at Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 8 March, 1915, and died on active service at Tedworth Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915, of septic peritonitis; _unm._

=BERRY, THOMAS SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7823), S.S. 103290, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BERRYMAN, JAMES=, P.O. (N.S.), 189999, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BERRYMAN, SYDNEY=, Private, No. G. 933, 7th (Service) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Philip Berryman, of Sunnymount Lodge, Haywards Heath, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 Aug. 1915.

=BERTIE, NINIAN MARK KERR=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Regt.), 4th and yst. _s._ of Rev. the Hon. Alberic Edward Bertie, M.A., Rector of Gedling, Notts, by his wife, Lady Caroline Elizabeth, née McDonnell, eldest dau. of Mark, 5th Earl of Antrim, and grandson of Montagu, 6th Earl of Abingdon; _b._ Rutland Gate, London, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Evelyns and Winchester, and on the outbreak of war was admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was posted to the 60th Rifles, 23 Dec. 1914. He was attached to the 6th Reserve Regt. till March, when he joined the 4th Battn. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and was buried there. The commanding officer wrote: “I will not say more now than that I sympathise with you (and with my regiment) over the loss of one of the finest and most fearlessly capable lads I ever met. He was quite exceptional.”

=BERTRAM, PHILLIP=, Stoker, 1st Class, 363940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=BEST, HERBERT=, Acting Leading Stoker, 309591, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BETTIS, ALBERT=, Private R.M.L.I., Ch. 14607, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BETTS, GORDON W. G.=, Private, 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of the late L.-Corpl. Thomas Henry Betts (who _d._ on active service, 20 June, 1915, see his notice), by his wife, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West, Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage; _b._ 16 April, 1899; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined his father’s regt., and was accidentally shot, 27 Aug. 1914, while on guard duty at Soulanges Canal, the first Canadian to lose his life on active service in the European War.

=BETTS, JOHN WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt.; _b._ Ketteringham, Norfolk, 4 Aug. 1887; and educ. there. He joined the Norfolk Regt. in Sept. 1905, and was posted to the 2nd Battn.; served in South Africa, Gibraltar and India. He obtained his discharge to the Reserve in Oct. 1912, and on returning to England joined the Lincolnshire County Constabulary, and was stationed at Ouston Ferry. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the 1st Battn. and proceeded to Ireland. He was promoted to Sergt., and went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the retreat from Mons, etc. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was afterwards promoted on the field for gallantry and obtained his commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Regt. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at L’Epinette, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while leading a charge. He _m._ at Birmingham, 6 Dec. 1913, Emma Elizabeth (53, Manchester Street, New Cleethorpe, Grimsby), dau. of (--) Read, of Ketteringham, and had issue a dau., Irene Elsie Maud, _b._ 17 Nov. 1914.

=BETTS, THOMAS HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 894, Canadian Army Service Corps, _s._ of Joseph Betts; _b._ Montreal, 26 Nov. 1870; educ. St. Anne’s School there; served for over 20 years with the 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, and on the death on service of his son, Private G. W. G. Betts, decided to volunteer for Imperial service, and joined the Canadian A.S.C. in April, 1915. He left for England 13 May following, and _d._ in Newingreen Camp, England, 20 June, 1915, of haemorrhage of the heart. He _m._ at St. Patrick’s Church, Montreal, 23 Aug. 1897, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West, Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage, and had three children: Gordon W. J., _b._ 16 April, 1899, killed on service (see his notice); Helena E. J. and Armitage H. A., _b._ 10 Oct. 1904.

=BEVAN, ERNEST VICTOR=, Private, No. 744, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co. Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1891; went to Australia in 1914 to take up farming, and volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915, being bayoneted in a Turkish attack on the trenches at Anzac; _unm._

=BEVAN, GORDON FREDERICK=, Private, No. 16861, 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co. Middlesex, 3 Aug. 1888; educ. Croydon High School; went to Canada in Sept. 1907; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 16 March, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._

=BEVAN, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4894), S.S. 104327, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BEVAN, REGINALD JAMES=, Private, No. 1881, 26th Battn. 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of James Bevan, of Henalt Hay Road, Builth Wells, Brecon, a Carpenter on Lord Glanusk’s estate, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Thomas Wasley, of Bishop Cleeve, near Cheltenham; _b._ Builth Wells, 9 Sept. 1894; educ. Builth Wells School; at the age of 16 worked his passage out to Australia on s.s. Gothic; was employed at the Bull and Mouth Hotel in Melbourne, afterwards as a waiter in Sidney. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the 3rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action near Sari Bair, Anzac, Gallipoli, 24 Oct. 1915; _unm._ Buried in cemetery attached to 7th Field Ambulance, A Section.

=BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT=, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, _s._ of Richard Bevan, of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc., Alderman of Hammersmith; _b._ Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where he gained the Huxley scholarship; was in the St. Paul’s O.T. Corps, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 1911. At the time he was called up with his regt., he was a medical student and Huxley Scholar at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and was an undergraduate of the London University. He was shot, while in “Plugstreet” Wood with his section, 10 Dec. 1914, and died two days later at Bailleul Clearing Hospital from his wounds; buried in Bailleul Cemetery; _unm._ Bevan was in the Gymnasium eight at St. Paul’s and reserve man at the Aldershot Public School Competition. He played Rugby for the Old Pauline A team and for the Charing Cross Hospital Rugby team.

=BEVERIDGE, DAVID=, Private, No. 17241, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland Light Infantry, _s._ of M. Beveridge of 216, Mathieson Street, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=BEVERIDGE, DAVID ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 54th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 4th _s._ of Erskine Beveridge, LL.D., of St. Leonard’s Hill, Dunfermline, and Vallay, North Uist, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Owst, of Wilberfoss, co. York; _b._ Dunfermline, 4 Nov. 1886; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat; Loretto; and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1908); and when war broke out was studying for the Scottish Bar in Edinburgh. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 10 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 7 July, 1915, and died at St. Andrew’s Hospital, Malta, 13 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; buried at Valletta; _unm._ He was a keen Rugby footballer, playing for his schools and college. Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his brother-in-law, Lieut. Alexander B. Innes, 1/7th Gordon Highlanders, and two uncles, Capt. and Adjutant David Inglis, 1/4th Gurkha Rifles, and Lieut. Charles N. D. Inglis, 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, were killed in action.

=BEVERIDGE, JOHN=, Private, No. 14555, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 14 Sept. 1915.

=BEVERIDGE, ROBERT McAUSLAN=, Private, No. 401, 1st Battn. Black Watch (42nd Royal Highlanders), _s._ of Alexander Beveridge, of Perth, Builder and Valuer (died 4 Jan. 1914); _b._ Cherrybank, Perth, 7 Jan. 1887; educ. Public School there, enlisted 30 Oct. 1905, stationed Fort George 1905–6, and in India 1906–Dec. 1912, being in charge of Regimental Police 1909–12; formed one of their Majesties’ Bodyguard on the occasion of the Durbar, 1911, and received the King’s medal. On the outbreak of war he was called up 6 Aug. and was badly wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in No. 3 General Hospital, St. Nazaire, 28 Sept. 1914; buried there; _unm._

=BEVERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 14024, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., 2nd _s._ of Bethel Beverley, of 54, Savile Park Street, Halifax, Professor of Music, by his wife, Sarah Isabel; _b._ Halifax, 4 Dec 1893; educ. Halifax Secondary School; left his work as an electrical engineer and volunteered after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914, and was at first attached to the 3rd Battn. of the West Riding Regt. After seven months’ training he went to France with a draft to the 2nd Battn. He was only there three weeks when he died 5 May, 1915, from the effects of gas poisoning at Hill 60, and was buried on the Ypres and Poperingue Road; _unm._

=BEVIS, EDWARD ALBERT FRANK=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26776 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BEVIS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10259, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 16 March, 1915.

=BEYFUS, HAROLD EMANUEL=, Private, No. 225, 5th Battn. (Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., yr. _s._ of Albert Lewis Beyfus, of 3, Park Place Villas, Maida Hill, W., Precious Stone Merchant and Broker, by his wife, Essie, dau. of Benjamin de Frece, of New York, U.S.A.; _b._ Maida Hill, W., 26 April, 1886; educ. Gower St. University School, and Kahn’s Institute, Brussels; joined the London Rifle Brigade after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was wounded in the head, in action at Hill 60, 1 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne two days later; _unm._

=BEZER, REUBEN=, Private, No. 3387, A. Coy., 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.); a native of Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne; left Blyth for the Front, 20 April, 1915, was in action on 26 April, and was posted as missing the following day.

=BIBB, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Armourer, 342183, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BIBBY, JOHN PATRICK=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd _s._ of Col. Alfred Bibby, late 4th Hussars; _b._ 9 Nov. 1892; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Dec. 1913, and promoted tempy. Lieut., 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action there 10 March, 1915; _unm._

=BICKERTON, FREDERICK RICHARD=, Sergt., No. 1110, A Coy. 1st/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Samuel Richard Bickerton, of 58, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N., Builder’s Clerk, by his wife, Fanny Cinclar, dau. of John Spiller Standen, late of 60, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N.; _b._ 22 Sept. 1893; educ. Montem Street Elementary and Higher Grade Schools (passed Oxford Local Junior Exam. 1908, with 3rd class honours); was a shipping clerk in the City of London, and joined the 3rd City of London Regt. in 1911. On the outbreak of war he was sent to guard the railway line near Fleet, Hants, and from thence to Malta for four months, reaching France in Jan. 1915. He went through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle where his Coy. were badly cut up, was promoted Sergt. in March, 1915, and was afterwards slightly wounded but recovered and rejoined. He died at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station 18 Aug. 1915, from wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, and was buried in Merville Cemetery, France (Grave H. 46); _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Capt. Noel, wrote: “I can honestly say that he was a fine soldier. I especially owe him a debt of gratitude, because if it had not been for him, I should probably not be alive now. I was rather badly wounded at Neuve Chapelle, and your son bandaged me up under heavy fire; he then practically carried me and put me in a shell hole, and later in the day came back to me when my life was in danger from shells, and helped to carry me back to our lines. I mentioned his name to the Colonel directly I was able to write, and he would surely have earned some decoration if he had lived, because both in the trenches and at Neuve Chapelle he showed great bravery and indifference under fire. He was popular all round and regretted by everyone, and I am proud to say he was in my company.”

=BIDDLECOMBE, EDWARD GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.A., 8781, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BIGGE, HON. JOHN NEVILLE=, Capt., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only _s._ and _h._ of Arthur John, 1st Lord Stamfordham, P.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., Private Secretary to his Majesty the King, by his wife, Constance, dau. of the late Rev. William Frederick Neville, Vicar of Butleigh, Somerset; _b._ London, 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Evelyn’s, Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was Page of Honour to Queen Victoria and to King Edward VII., and on leaving Sandhurst obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, at Colchester, 6 Oct. 1906, afterwards proceeding with them to India. He became Lieut. 10 March, 1909, was for a short time acting A.D.C. to the Earl of Minto when Viceroy of India, and to Viscount Hardinge for the Coronation Durbar; was transferred to the Egyptian Army, 8 July, 1913, and appointed A.D.C. to Sir Reginald Wingate, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. On the outbreak of war he was unable, according to the conditions of service, to leave the Egyptian Army, but in Sept. 1914, he was appointed A.D.C. to Gen. the Hon. Julian Byng, then nominated to the command of the 3rd Cavalry Division of the Expeditionary Force. He landed at Ostend on 7 Oct., was promoted Capt. 1 March, and remained on Gen. Byng’s Staff until the end of April, 1915, when at his own request he returned to regimental duty and joined the 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, then attached to the 6th Brigade, 2nd Division. On the occasion of the night attack carried out by the 1st Army on 15–16 May, he was in command of the C Company. Soon after the advance began he was seen to be wounded in the leg, but refused assistance from one of his men, said he was all right, and told the rifleman to go on. He was never seen again.