Part 171

=SEWELL, WILLIAM FANE DALZELL DALRYMPLE=, Private, No. 2053, B Coy., 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), attd. Dehra Dun Brigade, Meerut Division, Indian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of William George Dalrymple Sewell, of 20, Balcombe Street, N.W., by his wife, Edith Maud, dau. of the late Robert Dalzell, grandson of Col. Henry Fane Haylett Sewell, Indian Army, and great-grandson of the late Gen. Sir William Henry Sewell, K.C.B., Hon. Col. 79th Cameron Highlanders; _b._ Valparaiso, Chili, 24 March, 1896; came home to England, 11 May, 1906; educ. at Mr. Charles D. Pridden’s at Walton-cum-Felixstowe, Suffolk, and at Lancing College, Shoreham-on-Sea, Sussex. Joined the O.T.C. at Lancing, and rose to be Bugler L.-Corpl. in the band. Entered Great Northern Railway service, 1 May, 1913. Enlisted 4 Sept. 1914, joining regt. at Bedford, which left for France on 5 Nov. 1914, being the first Highland Territorial unit to cross. Killed in action at Neuve Chapelle on 11 March, 1915, while his battn. were pushing forward an attack in front of the Bois de Biez, he having been hit by shell. From all his superiors and comrades the highest testimony came of this boy, who was just completing his nineteenth year. A comrade wrote: “He was a popular and brave soldier, and we miss him exceedingly.” The officer commanding of B Coy. wrote: “He was a good soldier, and always carried out his orders promptly and well. We buried him on the field of battle.” His Major wrote: “Young Sewell is shaping well, is a favourite and will be a fine soldier. We’ve got our eye on him.” His Colonel wrote: “The boy’s associations with the regt. were of the very best kind from start to finish, and it was a very real pleasure to do anything I could for him as regards his commission.... The last time I saw your dear son alive was when I took him to see our General about his commission. Would that it had been possible for him to have got his commission before the fight. I know he would have made a good officer and done well for his King and Country.” In civil life his keenness for duty and the right was of the soundest. His chief superior on the Great Northern Railway wrote thus concerning him: “I deeply regret the tragic end of so young and promising a life. Your son was a most likeable fellow, and everyone with whom I placed him spoke most highly of his capability and personality. I can only hope you may be consoled by the thought that he died like a man, and in furthering the great cause so near to all our hearts. His letters are typical of all that is best and bravest in British youth.”

=SEYMOUR, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (Coastguard), 212477 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHADRAKE, CHARLES=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 306734, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHAFFOND, CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 85), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHAKERLEY, ERIC PIERS=, Capt., King’s Royal Rifles, yst. _s._ of Capt. Geoffrey Joseph Shakerley, of Weddington Hall, Nuneaton, late R.H.A., by his wife, Emma, 2nd dau. of Sir Richard Pierce Butler, of Ballin Temple, co. Carlow, 9th Bart.; _b._ Shrewsbury, 8 March, 1885; educ. Clifton College and Cooper’s Hill, 1904–6; and on leaving the latter accepted an appointment in the Soudan Irrigation Service in preference to entering the Indian Public Works Department, and went out to the Soudan in the autumn of 1906. A little later he was put in charge of the works then in progress in the Sudd region of the Upper Nile, and remained in charge of this work till he retired from the Service early in 1913, to join a firm of horticultural chemists at Alperton. For his services in the Soudan he received the Medjideh (4th class) in 1912. Immediately on the outbreak of war he applied for a commission in the Army, and was gazetted Lieut. in the 6th (Reserve) Battn. King’s Royal Rifles, 15 Aug. 1914, obtaining his Captaincy 24th Nov. following. After three months training with the regt. at Sheerness he left for the Front on 13 Nov. 1914, and was attached to the 1st Battn. then in the trenches. On 10 March, 1915, he commanded an assaulting party in an attack upon the enemy’s trenches at Givenchy. The party came under a heavy fire from rifles and machine guns suffering very severe casualties, notwithstanding which, headed by Capt. Shakerley, it succeeded in reaching the wire entanglements, which had not been breached, but here Capt. Shakerley was shot dead, 5 yards from the enemy’s trench; _unm._ Capt. Shakerley was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 22 June, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

=SHANNON, IAN HERBERT CROAL=, Private, No. 2713, 1/7th Battn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (T.F.), elder _s._ of Rev. John Alexander Shannon, M.A., Minister of Balbirnie U.F. Church, Markinch, co. Fife, by his wife, Annie Molyson, dau. of the late James Croal, of the Haddington Courier; _b._ Balbirnie U.F. Manse, Markinch, 11 Feb. 1895; educ. George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; and Royal Technical College, Glasgow, of which latter he was an Associate, having taken his diploma in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) in the Spring of 1914; was in the employment of James Howden & Co., Engineers, Glasgow, when the war broke out, and immediately enlisted in 1/7th Battn. Black Watch, being attd. to the Machine Gun Section; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action while dressing the wounds of a comrade at Festubert, France, 16 June, 1915; _unm._

=SHANNON, WILLIAM HENRY=, Colour-Sergt.-Major, No. 9019, 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of William Henry Shannon, of 42, Mountjoy Street, Dublin, late Corpl. 2nd Middlesex Regt., and Warder, Prisons Service, by his wife, Bridget, dau. of Rodger McGoldrick, of Dromahair, co. Leitrim; _b._ Rangoon, British Burmah, 15 March, 1882; educ. St. George’s and Marlboro’ Street National Schools, Dublin; was for a short time in the Prisons Service, then for about a year in the A.M. Corps; enlisted 5 Dec. 1902; served at Aldershot, Dublin, Butafant, Fermoy, Naas, and Gravesend, and was then posted to 1st Battn. in India; returned home end of Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 12 July following. He _m._ at Gravesend Military Church, 18 Jan. 1915, Ada Amy (5, Albion Road, Gravesend), dau. of Charles Fennell, of 5, Albion Road, Gravesend; _s.p._

=SHAPTER, LEWIS HENRY=, Capt., 3rd Special Reserve (West Suffolk Militia) Battn. Suffolk Regt., _s._ of Lewis Shapter, of Barnfield Crescent, Exeter, M.D.; by his wife, Elizabeth Charlotte, dau. of Capt. Edgar Bayly, Suffolk Regt., and great grandson of Col. Richard Bayley, of the same regt., and nephew and adopted _s._ of Col. Charles Edward Brown, and of his wife, Frederica Louisa (Kahun, Talbot Hill, Bournemouth), née Bayly; _b._ Exeter, 7 Sept. 1886; educ. Stourwood College, near Bournemouth; obtained a commission in the West Suffolk Militia; promoted Lieut. 18 March 1905, and Capt.; had passed the School of Instruction and qualified as an Instructor of Musketry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, attd. to the 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., and was killed in action near Ypres, 31 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Buried in the Military Cemetery, Chateau Rosenberg, Croix le Blanc.

=SHARMON, FREDERICK=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 2009), 163555, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHARP, ARTHUR=, Gunner, R.M.A., R.M.A. 12711, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHARP, JOHN=, Private, No. 2330, 1/8th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John Sharp, of 26, Gloucester Road, Hounslow Heath, Middlesex, Agricultural Labourer, by his wife, Louiza Annie, dau. of George Lovegrove; _b._ Station Road, Hounslow, 14 Sept. 1884; educ. there; was a Stone and Earthenware Carver; had joined the Middlesex Territorials, 11 Nov. 1913, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for active service; went to France, 8 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Poljitze, 23 May following; _unm._

=SHARP, VIVIAN KING=, Sapper, No. 67686, Royal Engineers, (Railway Section), yr. _s._ of Sidney Sharp, of The Grove, Ealing (formerly of Tangleymere, Chilworth, Surrey), Consulting Engineer, by his wife, Ellen Blanche, dau. of William Eager, of Whipley, Wonersh, Surrey; _b._ Surbiton, 6 Feb. 1891; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School, and was a keen oarsman and rowed in his House boat. In 1909 he entered the General Manager’s Office of the Great Western Railway, and from the outbreak of war was engaged on military work in connection with the railway. He volunteered for the Front in Nov. 1914, was accepted in March following, his detachment being sent to France at the end of the month. After much good work he was invalided into hospital on 12 June, sent over to England to the 1st London General Hospital on the 18th, and died on the 20th; _unm._

=SHARP, WILLIAM CHARLES JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12874, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHARRATT, SIMEON=, Private, No. 11391, No. 3 Coy. 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Simeon Sharratt, of 1, High Fields Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire, Felt Hat Maker, by his wife, Elizabeth; _b._ Nuneaton, 21 Sept. 1894; educ. Nuneaton and Hinckley Church Schools; was a Gardener; enlisted 3 Sept. 1914, went to France, 22 Dec., was wounded in action near La Bassée, 24 Jan. 1915, and died on the 26th; _unm._ He was buried at Bethune. Sergt. V. White wrote: “A Private Clarke was badly hit by a sniper on 24 Jan. 1915, and your son went to his assistance, when he was shot, probably by the same sniper, through the wrist and stomach.”

=SHATTOCK, MONTAGU DE MANCHA=, Capt., No. 4 Coy., 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Henry Foster Shattock, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Charlotte Rice (88A, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, W.), dau. of James Allerton; _b._ Broad Green, Croydon, co. Surrey, 9 Oct. 1867; educ. St. John’s, Hurstpierpoint, and King’s College, London, and was afterwards a member of the Stock Exchange. He enlisted in the Queen’s Westminsters in Nov. 1892, and after passing through the ranks as Corpl., Sergt and Colour-Sergt., obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 April, 1902, and was promoted Lieut. 6 June, 1903 and Capt. 21 March, 1905. He afterwards went through the Hythe musketry courses and became musketry instructor for the regt., under Lieut.-Col. A. Shoolbred, whose firm provides a company in the corps. He had resigned some time before the war broke out, but rejoined, and obtained his company again, 5 Aug. 1914. He went with his regt. to the Front, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, presumably by a German sniper, in the trenches near River Lys, Armentières, France, 9 Jan. 1915, and was buried there behind the trenches; _unm._ In 1905 he captained the team of the Queen’s Westminsters which defeated a team of the 7th New York National Guard at Bisley. In the following year he took a team to New York, the return match being won by the Americans.

=SHATTOCK, THOMAS HENRY=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 5731, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHAVE, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5822), 187872, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHAW, ALFRED=, Private, No. 2023, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of John Hellawell Shaw, of 36, George Street, Milnsbridge, Huddersfield, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Wood; _b._ Marylebone, London, 13 June, 1871; educ. Huddersfield, co. York; went to Australia in March, 1910, and settled at Worsley Bush, Worsley, and worked on the Railways; joined the 11th Battn., 27 Jan. 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements, 27 April; went to the Dardanelles, 1 July; and was killed in action there, 1 Aug. following, during an early morning charge; _unm._ Buried there.

=SHAW, BERNARD HENRY GILBERT=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Prince of Wales’s Own West Yorkshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of the Right Rev. Edward Domett Shaw, Lord Bishop of Buckingham, D.D., by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Alfred Gilbey, of Wooburn Park; _b._ Bishop’s Stortford, co. Herts, 11 Oct. 1893; educ. Marlborough College (Foundation Scholar), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. West Yorkshire Regt., 3 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 6 May, 1914; went to France 4 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 19 Dec. following; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “Your boy died most gallantly, fighting in a German trench, which had been taken during the night.” While at Marlborough he was in the cricket eleven, 1911, scoring 94 against Rugby at Lords, and at Sandhurst was captain of the hockey and cricket eleven. His yr. brother, Lieut. A. G. Shaw, Sherwood Foresters, was killed in action, 24 Dec. 1915; and his eldest brother, Lieut. E. A. Shaw, Oxford and Bucks L.I., fell in Oct. 1916. The only surviving brother, R. G. Shaw, is a Midshipman, R.N.

=SHAW, HUGH JAMES=, Capt., 5th, attd. 1st, Battn. Royal Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of the late William Sissmore Shaw, of Madras, India, Merchant, by his wife, Violet Amy Yule (now wife of Robert Francis Chiappini de Winton, of The Grange, Folkestone), dau. of Major-Gen. Arthur Thaddeus Searle; _b._ Madras, India, 16 May, 1886; educ. Warren Hill, Eastbourne, and Harrow; obtained a 2nd Lieutenancy in the Special Reserve of the Royal Fusiliers in 1908; promoted Lieut. 1 Oct. 1910, and Capt. 26 Sept. 1914; went to France attd. to the 1st Battn. in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Fleurbaix, 12 Nov. following, being suffocated by falling earth in his dug-out; _unm._ Buried where he fell. His brother, Capt. R. P. Shaw, was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 27 Nov. 1915 (see his notice).

=SHAW, MANFRED SAMUEL=, Private, No. 8820, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of the late Joseph Camm Shaw, by his wife, Mary Ann (now wife of William Sedgwick, of 50, Station Road, Handsworth, Birmingham), dau. of Manfred Ball, Farmer; _b._ Sheffield, 26 April, 1893; educ. Handsworth, Birmingham; was employed at the Lorry Works; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 12 Aug. 1910; served three years with the Colours, then joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at St. Vaast, Belgium, 11 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Buried near Richebourg St. Vaast. His brother, Corpl. Jesse Shaw, is now (1916) serving with the R.G.A.

=SHAW, RAYMOND PUGH=, M.A., Capt., 5th, attd. 2nd, Battn. Royal Fusiliers, _s._ of the late William Sissmore Shaw, of Madras, India, Merchant, by his wife, Violet Amy Yule (now wife of Robert Francis Chiappini de Winton, of The Grange, Folkestone), dau. of Major-Gen. Arthur Thaddeus Searle; _b._ Madras, India, 15 Aug. 1887; educ. Warren Hill, Eastbourne; Harrow; Cheltenham College, and Trinity College, Cambridge (graduated M.A.), and was afterwards a partner with Mr. R. F. de Winton in a Preparatory School at Gore Court, Sittingbourne, and The Grange, Folkestone, but on the outbreak of war was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914, promoted Lieut. 13 March, 1915, and Capt. Oct. 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 27 Nov. following, being shot dead on leaving his trench to go to the help of a wounded man in the open; _unm._ Buried there. His brother, Capt. H. J. Shaw, was killed in action in France, 12 Nov. 1914 (see his notice).

=SHEA, BATT=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 284107 Devonport, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHEA, JAMES HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A., 8154, B. 1114, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHEARIN, EDWARD=, Private, No. 12711, 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of James Shearin, of 10, Albert Street, Govan, Glasgow; _b._ 25 Nov. 1896; educ. St. Saviour’s School, Govan; enlisted in the Royal Scots, Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and died 31 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._

=SHEARMAN, SAMUEL=, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, 343091, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHELBOURNE, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4614), S.S. 103732, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHELDON, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7115, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=SHEPHEARD, RICHARD JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9919), 297749, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHEPHERD, CHARLES ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10101), 208670, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHEPHERD, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 2101, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHEPHERD, GERALD ALEXANDER GASELEE=, Capt., 57th Wilde’s Rifles, F.F., Indian Army, eldest _s._ of the late Major Alexander Innes Shepherd, 4th Punjab Infantry, F.F. (now 57th Wilde’s Rifles), who died on active service 1884, by his wife, Agatha (Wychcote, Somerville Road, Bournemouth), dau. of the late Rev. John Gaselee; _b._ Kasauli, India, 14 July, 1882; educ. Bedford, and Dover College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Suffolk Regt., 8 May, 1901; transferred to the Indian Army, 3 Sept. 1902; promoted Lieut. 8 Aug. 1903, and Capt. 8 May, 1910; served (1) on the North-West Frontier of India, 1902; took part in the operations against the Darwesh Khel Waziris; (2) in Tibet, 1903–4, action at Niana; took part in the operations at and around Gyantse, including the march to Lhassa (medal with clasp), and (3) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, from end of Oct. to 22 Dec. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action at La Bassée; _unm._ Buried in Bethune Cemetery.

=SHEPHERD, JAMES=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 187749, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=SHEPPARD, CHARLES EDWARD=, Leading Stoker, 310548, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHEPPARD, ISAAC=, Private, No. 11369, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of the late Frederick Sheppard, of Bower Chalk, by his wife Sarah (Bower Chalk, Salisbury), dau. of William Feltham, of Bower Chalk; _b._ Bower Chalk, co. Wilts, 6 May, 1889; educ. National School there; was a carter; enlisted 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 7 Dec., and was killed in action at Richebourg, Belgium, 5 May 1915; _unm._ He was buried on a farm on the west side of the road from Rue des Benceaux to Rue du Bois.

=SHEPPARD, REGINALD=, Private, No. 6124, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of Thomas Sheppard, of Salisbury, co. Wilts, by his wife, Martha, dau. of Amos Hallett; _b._ Salisbury, co. Wilts, 30 May, 1886; educ. St. Edmund’s School; was a Small-holder; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 27 Feb. 1905; served in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1908; passed into the Reserve, 26 Feb. 1908; rejoined his old regt. on mobilisation in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug.; took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, the fighting in the Ypres salient, and was killed in action in the trenches at Zillebeke, 20 Nov. 1914. He _m._ at Salisbury, 18 Sept. 1909, Mary Jane (40, Wingford Road, Clapham Park, S.W.), dau. of Dathan Sumbler; _s.p._

=SHEPPEE, FREDERICK JOHN=, alias Frederick Johnson, Private, No. 1371, C Coy. 2nd Battn. 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Frederick John Sheppee, of Clapham, S.W. [of a family of French origin], by his wife, Mary, sister of William Adams, of The Towers, Taroona, Tasmania, and dau. of John Adams; _b._ London, 25 April, 1873; educ. Emanuel School, Wandsworth Common; was in New Zealand when the war commenced, and immediately tried to enlist there, but was refused as over age. He then went to New South Wales and joined the Australian Contingent under the name of Frederick Johnson; left for Egypt with the second reinforcements, was wounded in the thigh in the first landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was for some time in hospital in Egypt, but returned to duty, and was killed in Gallipoli between 7 and 14 Aug. 1915; _unm._

=SHERGOLD, GEORGE HENRY=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4881), 195173, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=SHERRING, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 3077, 1/17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Frederick William Sherring, of 80, Clinton Road, Bow, by his wife, Mary Ellen, dau. of William Johnson; _b._ Forest Gate, Essex, 2 March, 1896; educ. Malmesbury Road Council School, Bow; entered the employ of Messrs. H. S. King & Co., of Cornhill, Bankers, on leaving school, and joined the Territorials, 8 Sept. 1914. He volunteered for foreign service, left for France in March, 1915, was in several engagements, including the Battle of Loos (25 Sept.), and was killed in action in the trenches at Loos by shell fire, 30 Oct. 1915; _unm._ He was buried at Fort Tosh, north of Loos, on the Loos-Hulluck Road.

=SHERWOOD, SIDNEY WILLIAM=, Private, No. 3260, 13th Battn. (Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Harry Leslie Sherwood, H.B.M. Consul at Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., by his wife, Adeline Myra, dau. of the late Robert Taylor, of Brighton; _b._ London, 27 Sept. 1892; educ. privately, and studied at School of Musical and Dramatic Art, 1907–10. He played the part of Elf Pickle in “Pinkie and the Fairies,” His Majesty’s Theatre, Dec. 1908; in “Where Children Rule,” Garrick Theatre, 1909–10; Kiffin in “Vice-Versa,” Comedy Theatre, 1910–11; in “The Great Name,” Prince of Wales’ Theatre, 1911; in “Where the Rainbow Ends,” Savoy Theatre, 1911–12, and Garrick Theatre, 1912–13 and 1913–14; and in the plays produced by the Play Actors’ Society at the Court Theatre, “The Demagogue” and “Hester” and others. Immediately after the outbreak of war he threw up his many private interests and enlisted in the Army. He left England in Feb. 1915, and soon afterwards went into the trenches. Was present at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and fell, during the terrible fighting, in the attack on the German trenches at Aubers Ridge, Sunday, 9 May, 1915. It was a perfect Spring morning, with sunshine and a blue sky. The Kensingtons were ordered out to take part in what was thought to be a great attack. They went forward from trench to trench in the face of the deadliest fire, and, with a regt. of Regulars, succeeded in dislodging the enemy from their positions. They maintained their hardly-won position for a number of hours, and then were ordered to withdraw, having lost eight officers and 89 men killed. He was _unm._

=SHIELDS, THOMAS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 112628, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.