Part 204

=DOUGHTY-WYLIE, CHARLES HOTHAM MONTAGU, V.C., C.B. C.M.G.=, Lieut.-Col., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, elder _s._ of Henry Montagu Doughty, of Theberton Hall, Suffolk, J.P., formerly R.N., by his wife, Edith Rebecca, only child of David Cameron, Chief Justice of Vancouver Island; _b._ 23 July, 1868; educ. Winchester and Sandhurst (1888–89); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 21 Sept. 1889, and promoted Lieut., 23 Sept. 1891; Capt. 9 Sept. 1896; Major 21 Aug. 1907, and temp. Lieut.-Col. 31 March, 1914; served (1) in the Black Mountain Expedition, 1891 (severely wounded; medal with Hazara clasp); (2) with the Chitral Relief Force as transport officer on the Staff of Gen. Gatacre, 1895 (medal with clasp); (3) with the Nile Expedition, 1898–9, being employed with Egyptian Army, 22 May, 1898, to 1 March, 1900; was Brigade Major, Infantry Brigade, Flying Column: took part in the Battle of Khartoum, and in the operations resulting in the final defeat of the Khalifa (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 30 Sept. 1898, and 30 Jan. 1900]: Sudan medal; Egyptian medal with three clasps; order of the Medjidieh); (4) in the South African War, 1899–1900; in command of a Battn. of Mounted Infantry; took part in operations in the Orange Free State, May-29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), and Vredefort (severely wounded; Queen’s medal with three clasps); (5) at Tien-Tsin, where he raised a regt. of Mounted Infantry; and (6) as Special Service Officer with Somaliland Field Force, 14 Jan. 1903, to June, 1904 (medal with clasps). From 26 Sept. 1906 to 3 Dec. 1909, he was acting Vice-Consul at Mersina and Konia, Asia Minor, and during his tenure of this appointment occurred the massacre by the Turks of Armenians at Adana. Of his services on this occasion, a correspondent wrote: “On his own responsibility he assumed the practical command of the city of Adana, and his courage and capacity saved the lives of hundreds--indeed, it was believed by those best able to judge, thousands--of many nationalities. Wearing his military uniform, he rode through the town with a half company of Turkish troops, compelling the raging mob to stop the killing, and posting guards over particular houses. His right arm was broken by a bullet, but this did not prevent him from riding out again, and in the second and worst outbreak of massacre again saving more hundreds of lives. The then British Ambassador at the Porte, Sir Gerard Lowther, afforded him a generous meed of support and encouragement, and Major Doughty-Wylie’s services were recognised by the award of the C.M.G. He also received the warm thanks of many foreign Governments and public bodies. He afterwards organised a system of relief to the destitute--22,000 persons, exclusive of refugees in his own house, and exclusive also of the inmates of three hospitals which were managed by Mrs. Doughty-Wylie. On 4 Dec. 1909, he was appointed Consul at Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, where he rendered important services, acting as Chargé d’Affaires for considerable periods. Being home on leave in 1912, he was, with the consent of the Government, appointed Director-in-Chief of the Red Cross units with the Turkish Forces during the Balkan War, and from 29 Aug. to 21 Dec. 1913, was British representative on the International Commission for the delimitation of the Southern Frontier of Albania, of which Commission he was elected President. For his services he received the Companionship of the Bath, and the second class of the Medjidieh from the Sultan. On his return to England he was appointed to the General Staff (2nd grade), and in 1915 went to the Dardanelles on the Staff of Sir Ian Hamilton. During the landings at the Beaches 25 and 26 of April, 1915, he represented the Staff in the steamship River Clyde, which had been specially prepared for running on shore on V Beach, and which carried 2,200 troops of the 29th Division. This landing had almost failed, owing to the raking Turkish fire from the Castle and village and both sides of the bay, and no progress was made on the 25th, in spite of the desperate valour of the Munster and Dublin Fusiliers and the Hampshire Regt., but on the 26th Col. Doughty-Wylie obtained leave to land, and collecting the brave survivors of the above-named regts., with the assistance of Capt. Walford, organised an attack, and in some hours’ fighting took the Castle and village of Sedd-el-Bahr, and finally led his handful of troops in a bayonet charge up Hill 141, since known as Col. Doughty-Wylie’s Hill. The Turks fled before them, and they occupied the old Fort on the crest, but Col. Doughty-Wylie fell at the moment of victory. An eye witness wrote: “All he carried was a small cane and from a band he wore round his arm the men gathered he was Staff Officer. He walked about in the open under a continuous fire, talking to the men, cheering them up, and rallying them together. Then when all was ready for the bayonet charge, he placed himself in front of them all, and armed simply with a small cane led them in a great charge up the hill. No braver man ever lived. He had no business to be there as a Staff Officer, but the loss among officers in landing had been so great and the necessity for making headway quickly was so essential, that he felt his duty lay in leading the men, so he went forth fearlessly to his death and the hill will be a lasting monument to his self-sacrifice and great valour. The magic of his personality and example infused the men with new resolution and they pressed the attack home.” For his services on the occasion he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915]: “On 26 April, 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both Brig.-Gen. and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieut.-Col. Doughty-Wylie and Capt. Walford organised and led an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd-el-Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. The enemy’s position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine guns and pompoms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory.” Col. Doughty-Wylie _m._ 1 June, 1904, Lilian Oimara, widow of Henry Adams-Wylie, Lieut. Indian M.S., and eldest dau. of the late John Wylie, of West Cliffe Hall, co. Hants; _s.p._ He assumed the additional name of Wylie by Deed Poll in 1904.

=WYLLIE, HENRY=, Pte., No. 2547, 6th Battn. Highland Light Infanttry; _s._ of A. Wyllie, of 181, East Main Street, Armandale; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915.

=WYLLIE, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 7409, 5th Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915.

=WYLLIE, JAMES BULLOCH=, Private, No. 12/2162, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of A. Wyllie, of Belmont Road, Quinfoes Green, Midlothian; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; reported missing, 8 Aug. 1915, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day.

=WYLLIE, SIDNEY ALFRED=, Private, No. 3382, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Frederick William Wyllie, of 105, Kirkwood Road, Peckham (now on service in France), by his wife, Alice, dau. of Alfred Charles Yates; _b._ Port Sunlight, Cheshire, 13 June, 1899; educ. Stafford Street Wesleyan Council School, Peckham, S.E., was a Clerk; volunteered and joined the 1st London Regt., 9 Jan. 1915; went to France 16 April, and was killed in action there, 9 May, 1915; _unm._

=WYLLIE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308390, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=WYNDER, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 6570, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.(The Buffs), _s._ of William Wynder, of 37, Staunton Street, Deptford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915.

=WYNN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 17348, 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of Michael Wynn, of Southwick-on-Wear, Caulker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Storey, of Southwick; _b._ Southwick, 29 Jan. 1880; educ. Board School there; was employed at Priestman’s Yard, Sunderland, and was Secretary of the Southwick Football Club; enlisted 11 Feb. 1915, and trained at Newcastle and East Boldon. After the Battle of Hill 60 at Ypres on 24 May, 1915, he was officially reported missing and is now assumed to have been killed that day. He _m._ at Southwick Parish Church, 1 Jan. 1907, Ada (15, Ogle Terrace, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Edward Arthur Hatley, of Southwick, and had three children: Michael, _b._ 10 Dec. 1913; William, _b._ 29 June, 1915; and Ruth, _b._ 15 April, 1912.

=WYNNE, EDWARD=, Private, No. 1425, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Gloucester; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 9 Aug. 1915.

=WYNTER, FRANCIS CONSTANTINE WILLIAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yst. _s._ of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt. Bengal Army, and for 35 years a Queen’s Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Augustus Dillon [4th _s._ of Henry Augustus, 13th Viscount Dillon]; _b._ The Hays aforesaid, 25 April, 1888; educ. Cothill; Harrow and Hertford College, Oxford (of which he had a Founder’s Kin Scholarship); received a University commission as 2nd Lieut., Oxford and Bucks L.I., 19 May, 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1914, and Tempy. Capt. Sept. 1915; joined 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, and was posted to the 1st Battn. in India, 7 Feb. 1912; was appointed General Staff Officer (third grade), Indian Expeditionary Force, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915; _unm._ His eldest brother, Capt. P. C. Wynter, was killed in France in April (see his notice).

=WYNTER, PHILIP CECIL=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt., Bengal Army, and for thirty-five years a Queen’s Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Dillon, 7th Dragoon Guards and 17th Lancers [4th _s._ of Henry, 13th Viscount Dillon]; _b._ London, 31 Jan. 1880; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st East Surreys from the Militia, 4 Dec. 1901, and joined his battn. at Lucknow the following year; promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1903, and Capt. 26 Jan. 1910; went to France the end of Oct., was invalided home the beginning of Dec. and returned to France 18 Feb., and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; _unm._ He was a first-rate horseman and a good cricketer and played for the Free Foresters. His yst. brother, Capt. F. C. W. Wynter, was also killed in action (see his notice).

=YARD, JOSEPH=, Stoker, H.M.S. Hood Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the roast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=YARDE, FRANK=, L.-Sergt., No. 3197, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of Page Yarde, of Buckland St. Mary, near Chard, by his wife, Susan, dau. of James Yarde; _b._ Staple Hill, Buckland St. Mary, Chard, co. Somerset, 3 June, 1880; educ. Buckland St. Mary village school; enlisted 8 Jan. 1900; became L.-Corpl. 9 Nov, 1914; Corpl. 11 April 1915, and L.-Sergt. 12 July following; served in South Africa, 26 Nov. 1901, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps); in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1908; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 30 Aug. 1914 to 28 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action that day, near Vermelles, during the Battle of Loos. He was in a hastily dug trench in the firing line, when a shell burst and the nose cap caught him just above the forehead, killing him instantly. Letters from his comrades speak very highly of his conduct and of how much he was loved and respected by all. He was buried at the foot of the western slope of Hill 70, 300 yards from the village of Hulluch, Belgium. He _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover Square, W., 1905, Agnes Mary (Drill Hall, London Road, Camberley), yst. dau. of the late James (and Elizabeth) Knight, of Marden, near Devizes, and had issue: Frank, _b._ 2 May, 1906; William James, _b._ 11 April, 1909; Walter Cameron, _b._ 29 Aug. 1911; John, _b._ 13 May, 1914; and Margaret Elizabeth, _b._ 9 Dec. 1912.

=YARDLEY, FREDERICK GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., yst. _s._ of Joseph Yardley, of the Cedars, Bescot, Walsall, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Joseph Cockram; _b._ Darlaston, 19 Oct. 1887; educ. King Edward’s High School, Birmingham and Queen’s College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1910; was for three years classical master at Bishop’s College School, Lennoxville, Canada, and then went to Vancouver, and entered the legal profession; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the 16th Canadian Scottish (72nd Highlanders); came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct. 1914; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th North Staffords, 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, 17 July, and died in Hospital at Calais, 17 Sept. following, of wounds received whilst superintending trench digging operations near Neuve Chapelle on 22 Aug.; _unm._

=YARROW, ERIC FERNANDEZ=, 2nd Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), yst. _s._ of Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, of the Homestead, Hindhead, Surrey, Engineer and Ship Builder, by his wife, Minnie Florence; _b._ Blackheath, London, S.E., 5 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Eastbourne; The School, Oundle, Northamptonshire, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was on the outbreak of the war. He joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 16 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915. Buried on canal bank, near Ypres. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

=YATES, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9270). S.S. 106512, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YATES, GEORGE WALTER=, Ordinary Telegraphist, J. 17213 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of James Yates, of Luggvale, Stanhope Street, Hereford; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=YATES, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5597), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=YATES, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1845), 305453, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=YATES, LENHAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12517, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YORK, WILLIAM LEONARD=, Corpl., No. 482, 1/8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 3rd _s._ of the late William York, Painter and Decorator; by his wife, Jennie; _b._ St. John’s Wood, N.W., 30 March, 1886; educ. West Hampstead School; was a post office official at the Western District Post Office, and when recruits were called for from that department immediately volunteered and joined the Post Office Rifles, Sept. 1914; went to France 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May following. Buried there. He _m._ at St. John’s Congregational Church, Croydon 23 April, 1910, Lilas Wilkins (53, Northboro Road, Norbury, S.W.), dau. of James Smith, and had a son, William Andrew Smith, _b._ 17 Sept. 1911.

=YOUNG, ALFRED=, Gunner, R.M.A., 9891, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YOUNG, ARCHIBALD EDGAR=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2077), 163559, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YOUNG, ARTHUR=, Major, 2nd Battn. 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles, eldest _s._ of Colonel George Young, of Broomhill, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Indian Army (ret.), formerly Commanding 1st Gurkha Rifles, by his wife, Harriet Rose, dau. of the Rev. James Weir, Drainie, Elgin, Scotland; _b._ Dharmsald, Punjab, India, 3 Dec. 1876; educ. Royal Academy, Tain; Blair Lodge School, Polmont, Stirlingshire, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, 5 Aug. 1896, and promoted Lieut. 3 Jan. 1899; Capt. 5 Aug. 1905; Double Company Commander 23 April, 1907, and Major 5 Aug. 1914. He was attached to the Gordon Highlanders for his first year in India and served with them throughout the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8; took part in the actions at Chagree Kotal and Dargai and the capture of the Sampagha and Arkanga Passes, the operations in the Waran Valley and action on 16 Nov. 1897, and those in the Bara Valley 7 to 14 Dec. following, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 June, 1898] and awarded the medal with two clasps. He joined the Indian Army in 1899, and was posted to the 1st Gurkha Rifles and later passed through the Staff College and on 1 June, 1912, was appointed Brigade Major to the Garhwal Brigade, 7th (Meerut) Division. On the outbreak of the European War, the 1st Gurkha Rifles formed part of the Indian Expeditionary Force and left India for France Sept. 1914. Major Young was wounded in action near Richebourg L’Avouée, 13 Dec. 1914, and died the following day: _unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17th Feb. 1915], for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field, and was buried in Lillers Cemetery.

=YOUNG, CHARLES STANLEY=, Private, No. 336, 6th Cyclist Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), 3rd and yst. _s._ of James Young, now R.A.M.C. Shoeburyness (served under General Buller in the South African War), by his wife, Francis (83, Western Road, Hove), dau. of Charles George Mealand; _b._ Hove, co. Sussex, 9 May, 1898; joined the Cyclist Corps of the Sussex Territorials in July, 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, but after nine months’ training on the East Coast, was taken ill and died in the Military Hospital at Brighton, 13 Sept. 1915.

=YOUNG, GEORGE EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8081), S.S. 103987, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=YOUNG, GEORGE NEVILLE PATRICK, M.C.=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), 2nd _s._ of George Lawrence Young, of Culdaff House, co. Donegal, and Millmount, Randalstown, co. Antrim, J.P., by his wife, Annie, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Gardiner Harvey, of Islandnahoe, co. Antrim; _b._ Millmount, 17 March, 1893; educ. Mourne Grange Preparatory School; St. Columbia’s College, co. Dublin, and Dover College, from which he entered Sandhurst in 1912, obtaining a Prize Cadetship; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leinsters 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 6 Nov. 1914; went to France with his Regt. in Sept. 1914, as part of the first Expeditionary Force, and died in No. 14 General Hospital at Wimereux, 26 July, 1915, from wounds received in action near Hooge on 12 July: _unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches of 20 Nov. 1914–14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], for conspicuous bravery at Soupir and elsewhere, and was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 18 Feb., 1915]. The Officer formerly Commanding the 2nd Leinsters wrote: “He was such a dear, natural, cheerful boy, and the bravest of the brave. He was my subaltern for the first four months of the war, until I came to this battn., and I want to tell of instances of his bravery. The first one was at Soupir, when he was sent out with half of his platoon. I do not mean sent, he volunteered to go; it was not necessary, but I did not like to stop him--to find out the German strength opposite. Every man in the two section was hit except himself. He ordered those near him back, and remained himself out all day, from 11 a.m. till nearly 6 p.m. with his badly wounded men. He dug shelter pits for them, and got them under cover, although fired at all the time, and finally carried one man in on his back at night, when he met him quite a long way from our trenches. He must have been within 150 yards from the Germans all the time. The other occasion was in our terrific fight on 20 Oct., when the whole battn. had fallen back or been cut to pieces except one coy., and the mainstay of the whole defence was your son’s platoon, which made two extremely spirited counter attacks, in one of which they recaptured 300 yards of trenches which had been captured by the Saxons. The Saxons never got round our coy. until 2 p.m. Had it not been for these counter attacks I would have been attacked from the rear at a much earlier hour, and the result, not only to ourselves but to the troops on our right, might have been most serious. My diary tells a better story of these deeds than I can now, and I will have it forwarded to you. Do not think the lad has died in vain; he has gone, but deeds such as his never die, and years after we are dead and gone his deeds will stand out in a bright light among the many brilliant and brave deeds of the war.” His yr. brother, Lieut. Guy Young, is (1916) with the Royal Irish Rifles. His elder brother, Robert C. Young, B.L., is a Lieut. in the R.N.V.R.

=YOUNG, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 282952, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=YOUNG, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4677), S.S. 103445, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.