Part 39

=CASTLE, JOHN=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 343174, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CASTLE, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 2375, 1/5th Battn. West Yorks Regt., _s._ of the late John Buckle Castle, Stationmaster; _b._ Church Fenton, 19 Oct. 1894; educ. Higher Grade School, York; was in the employ of Councillor W. Lee, of Millgate, Selby; volunteered and enlisted 7 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 July, 1915; _unm._ His Capt. wrote: “I was very sorry to lose him, as I have known him for some time now and was able to appreciate his soldierly qualities. He is buried in our little cemetery, and we are having a cross put over his grave”; and the Sergt.-Major: “He was a member of my platoon during the whole of his service, so that I am in a position to judge and desire to testify to his sterling qualities as a soldier. This, together with his general disposition, won for him the respect of all with whom he came in contact.”

=CASTLEDINE, MONTAGU CYRIL=, Private, No. 9261, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of George Henry Castledine, of 55, Lyndhurst Grove, Peckham, S.E., Lithographic Artist, by his wife, Emma Eleanor, dau. of Thomas Austin Blake, H.M.C.: _b._ Camberwell, S.E., 16 Feb. 1889; educ. Bancrofts School, Woodford, co. Essex. Prior to the outbreak of the war he was for eight years in the London County and Westminster Bank, and at the time of his enlistment, 11 Nov. 1914, was cashier at the Sudbury branch, Suffolk. After four months’ training at the Duke of York’s Military School, Dover, he was sent with a draft to the Front early in March, 1915, and was killed in action in the Battle of Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915; _unm._

=CATT, BERT=, Private, No. 2641, 5th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., 2nd _s._ of William Catt, of Hayes Farm, Beckley, by his wife, Elizabeth Caroline, dau. of William Feilder, of Oak Hill, Beckley; _b._ Beckley, co. Sussex, 15 June, 1898; educ. Udimore Council School; enlisted. 28 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Feb., 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 20 March, 1915. He was buried in a garden near Festubert.

=CATT, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6389), 189109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CATT, PERCY HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R. Ch. B. 9112), 198317, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CAULFEILD, JAMES CROSBIE=, Lieut., 2nd Manchester Regt., 4th and yst. _s._ of Brig.-Gen. James Edward Wilmott Smyth Caulfield, of Corozal, Jersey, commanding 8th Reserve Infantry Brigade [4th in descent from the Hon. Toby Caulfeild, of Clone, 3rd _s._ of William, 5th Lord and 1st Viscount Charlemont], by his wife, Sophia Morley, dau. of William Alexander Parker, late Chief Justice of British Honduras; _b._ Southsea, 21 Feb. 1892; educ. Bradfield College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. 9 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 9 Sept. 1914. He went to France in 6th Divisional Train, 20 Aug. 1914, and was transferred at his own request to 2nd Manchester Regt., 20 Oct. 1914. He took part in the great retreat from Mons, and was killed in action near Wulverghem, 18 Nov. 1914, while in command of C Coy.; _unm._

=CAUTLEY, WILLIAM OXENHAM, D.S.O.=, Major, 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Capt. William Thompson Cautley, 1st South Staffordshire Regt. (who died of typhoid while on Active Service in Egypt, 1883), by his wife, Emily Marion, dau. of Henry Oxenham, nephew of the Rev. Proby Littler Cautley, Rector of Quainton, co. Bucks, and gdson. of Major-Gen. George Cautley, 8th Bengal Cavalry; _b._ Gosport, 7 Oct. 1875; educ. Bradfield College, where he distinguished himself in athletics, and was known in particular as a fast sprinter, his favourite races being the 100 yards and the half-mile. He joined the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Suffolks in Nov. 1894, and received a commission in the 3rd Hussars in May, 1897. He subsequently rejoined the 3rd Suffolks, a battn. that was chosen for service at the time of the Boer War, though instead of going to South Africa it was sent, to the disappointment of all concerned, to do garrison work in the Island of Alderney. At the outbreak of war last Aug. the 3rd Suffolks had become a reserve battn. under the new system, and Major Cautley, joining his unit and acting as a Capt. with the honorary rank of Major, was for some while in charge of a fort at Felixstowe. Volunteering for service on the Continent, he left at the end of Oct. for France, being first attached to the Sussex Regt., and then to the 1st Northamptons, who had lost many of their officers. Throughout the remainder of the year he saw a great deal of severe fighting, his company particularly distinguishing itself during the furious German attack on the night of 22 Dec., the following special Brigade Order being issued later by General C. B. Westmacott: “The Brigadier-General desires to take this opportunity of congratulating D Coy., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., on its gallant and steady behaviour during the action of 22 Dec. The manner in which, under the command of Major Cautley, of the 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., it resisted the German counter attack, and the steadiness with which it finally withdrew in face of superior numbers and eventually occupied a position in the rear to cover the gap made in the line was worthy of all praise, and adds fresh laurels to the fine record of the old 48th. The Brigadier-General has heard of numerous individual gallant exploits in this engagement, and congratulates himself on having such a gallant body of men in his Brigade. He desires that this Order be read out to the battn. on parade.” In Jan. last Major Cautley was gazetted Major; while for his services on 22 Dec. he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, the announcement in the London Gazette of 10 March reading as follows: “For conspicuous gallantry on 22 Dec. 1914, near La Quinque Rue, when he handled his men with great skill under very critical circumstances.” There were a series of furious attacks and counter attacks from Thursday to Saturday night during the week ending 8 May, and early on Sunday morning, the 9th, Major Cautley was wounded while leading his men against the German trenches, and no sooner had he been attended to than another bullet struck him, death being instantaneous. In the Battn. Orders issued by Lieut.-Col. S. E. Hussy Lloyd, commanding 3rd Battn. Suffolk Regt., Felixstowe, under date 20 May, appears the following: “It is with deep regret that the Commanding Officer has to announce the death of Major W. O. Cautley, D.S.O., killed in action. Major Cautley by the keen interest he always took in the welfare of the battn., endeared himself to all ranks, and in the end brought a great distinction not only to himself, but to the battn. to which he was so devoted. The Commanding Officer has lost a personal friend, and the Suffolk Regt. a brilliant soldier.” Major Cautley _m._ at Blairgowrie, co. Perth, 10 April, 1901, Agnes, second dau. of the late Charles Hill-Whitson, of Park Hill, Blairgowrie, late Scots Greys, and had a son and two daus.: William Hill, _b._ 25 Aug. 1906; Beatrice Sylvia Aimée, _b._ 25 May, 1902; and Marian Agnita, _b._ 16 Oct. 1904.

=CAVELL, FRANK CORNELIUS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3860), 180672, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=CAVENDISH, GODFREY LIONEL JOHN=, Capt., 97th Deccan Infantry, attd. 9th Bhopals, Indian Army, eldest surviving _s._ of Reginald Richard Frederick Cavendish, of Willand, Devon [gdson. of General the Hon. Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish, Col. 2nd Dragoon Guards, 3rd _s._ of Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and nephew of William, 5th Duke of Devonshire, K.G.], by his wife, Mary Constance, dau. of the late Rev. Harry Dupuis, Vicar of Richmond, Surrey; _b._ Eastbourne, 30 March, 1884; educ. Framlingham and Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Manchester Regt., then stationed at Singapore, 22 April, 1903. Two years later he received his Lieutenancy (5 Aug. 1905), and was transferred to the Indian Army, 97th Deccan Infantry, and became Capt. 22 April, 1912. At the outbreak of war he was recalled from leave to rejoin his regt., which was remaining in India, but so keen was he to serve in the great war, that at his special request he was attached to the Reserve of Officers and sent to France in Nov. 1914. He was temporarily attached to the 1/9th Gurkha Rifles until 15 Dec., when he was transferred to the 9th Bhopal Infantry. He had only joined the latter regt. five days when he received the wounds from which he died two days later in a field hospital at Lillers, and was buried in the Lillers Cemetery on 23 Dec. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “On 17 Dec. the half battn. he was commanding was ordered up to the support trenches at Givenchy. We remained in support until the morning of 20 Dec., when Capt. Cavendish received orders to take us up to support the regt. ahead of us, which was being attacked. On the way up he received orders to halt, and Capt. Cavendish went forward a few yards to find out what was wanted when he was hit by a rifle bullet in the neck. We tied up his wound, and were all relieved to think, as he did, that the wound was slight. He walked back two miles to the hospital apparently quite cheery and not in much pain. It was a great blow to us to hear a few days later that he had died of his wounds in the hospital on 22 Dec. During the few days we were under fire together he was always cheery, and helped us when we were ‘down in our luck.’... He pulled together both officers and men under him by his cheery stories and sense of humour.” A writer in the “East Anglian Daily News” (6 Jan. 1915), said: “He left Framlingham at the end of the summer term, 1901. He was one of those fellows who pass through a public school without attaining any particular distinction in either work or games but at the same time gain a certain position and influence by virtue of outstanding personality, and I remember that, though he had not a very large number of intimate friends, anything he said or did was of interest to quite a large circle. He was a kinsman of the Duke of Devonshire, and also connected with the earldom of Clare, and it was often remarked among his contemporaries that he possessed a remarkable family likeness, both in facial appearance and in character, to what may almost be called the Cavendish tradition of which the late Duke was so conspicuous an example.” Capt. Cavendish _m._ at Long Melford, Suffolk, 22 March, 1911, Cora Grace Graham, yst. dau. of Joseph Alphonsus Horsford, of Long Melford, co. Suffolk, M.R.C.S., and had two sons: Godfrey Herbert Richard, _b._ 14 Jan. 1912; and Hubert Gordon Compton, _b._ 26 Feb. 1913.

=CAVENDISH, LORD JOHN SPENCER, D.S.O.=, Major, 1st Life Guards, brother of Victor, 9th Duke of Devonshire, P.C., G.C.V.O., 3rd _s._ of the late Lord Edward Cavendish, M.P., by his wife, Emma Elizabeth (6, Carlos Place, W.), dau. of the Right Hon. the Hon. William Sebright Lascelles, P.C., and grandau. of Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood; _b._ 25 March, 1875; and was educ. at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. After serving in the Militia he was given a commission in the 1st Life Guards, 3 Feb. 1897, and was promoted Lieut. 2 April, 1898, Capt. 23 Aug. 1902, and Major 12 April, 1911. He served with distinction on the staff in the South African War 1899–1906, being divisional Signalling Officer to the 2nd Infantry Division 9 Oct. 1899 to 18 June, 1900, and Brigade Signalling Officer, 19 June to 12 Oct. 1900; took part in the relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900; and action at Spion Kop; the operations of 5 to 7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; the operations on Tugela Heights (14 to 27 Feb.); the engagement at Pieter’s Hill; and the subsequent march from Bloemfontein to Pretoria; including actions at Zand River, near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11 to 12 June), also in the Transvaal west of Pretoria; actions at Eland’s River (4 to 16 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, actions at Bethlehem (7 July) and Wittebergen (15 to 29 July). His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 1 Feb. 1901] and he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Queen’s medal with six clasps. He was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 29 June, 1907, to 6 Sept. 1910. After his brother’s succession to the title he was granted precedence as son of a Duke of Royal Warrant, Nov. 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force and was killed in action 20 Oct. 1914; _unm._

=CAVEY, SIDNEY=, Corpl., No. 357, B Coy., 13th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of William John Cavey, of 198, Cromwell Road, Peterboro’, Farmer, by his wife, Catherine Martha, dau. of John Barker; _b._ Plumstead, 9 Jan. 1884; educ. Woolwich Polytechnic; joined the Bedfordshire Yeomanry in 1906, and rose to the rank of Sergt. He afterwards emigrated to Australia in Feb. 1912, and was engaged in farming when war was declared. He at once joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and died in hospital at W. Mudros, Lemnos Island, of pneumonia, 11 Oct. 1915. He was buried in the military cemetery there; _unm._

=CAWLEY, HAROLD THOMAS=, M.P., Capt., 6th Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; _b._ Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 12 June, 1878: educ. Rugby and New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1900 with honours in the History School, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1902, and practised on the Northern Circuit in the Palatine Chancery Court. He was returned as Liberal Member for Heywood at the General Elections in Jan. 1910, and again in Dec. the same year, and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mr. Runciman, at the Board of Education, March, 1910, to Nov. 1911, and to Mr. McKenna at the Home Office from Nov. 1911 to Aug. 1914. He joined the Mounted Infantry Company of the old 2nd Manchester Volunteers (now the 6th Manchester Regt.) in 1904, and became Capt. 1 June, 1913. On the declaration of war he volunteered for foreign service, and went to Egypt in Sept. 1914, as A.D.C. to Major-Gen. Douglas, commanding the East Lancashire Territorial Division. In Aug. he exchanged the comparative safety of Divisional Headquarters for the fighting line, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the Lancashire Cemetery at Gallipoli. His Colonel wrote: “When we went to the front line it was greatly due to his coolness and bravery that the men were kept cool and every one in his place when we had a very large mine blown up just against our trench;” and the Right Hon. C. F. G. Masterman: “Courage, mental and physical, was the outstanding element in Harold Cawley’s character. In the House of Commons he commenced by advocating an unpopular cause in his constituency and opposed those who desired to effect economies through retrenchment in the Navy. He made short speeches, putting his points with lucidity and ability.” In a letter to a friend, Capt. Cawley wrote: “I told the General I wanted to join the Battn., and he has sent the application forward; I was ashamed of being behind here whilst all those fellows were being killed.” Capt. Cawley was a good sportsman, and he was known as a hard rider. He won the North Hereford point-to-point in 1913 and the Bar point-to-point in 1914. He was the third Member of the Commons killed in action. His next yr. brother, Major J. Stephen Cawley, was killed in action in France (see following notice).

=CAWLEY, JOHN STEPHEN=, Major, 20th Hussars, and Brigade-Major, 1st Cavalry Brigade, 3rd _s._ of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.; _b._ Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 27 Oct. 1879; educ. Lockers Park, Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and obtained his commission in the 20th Hussars, 3 Aug. 1898, joining them at Mhow, India. He became Lieut. 8 Jan. 1900, and obtained his troop, 12 Oct. 1906. He served in the South African War, going to the Cape in 1901; was signalling officer to General Lowe’s Column, being present at the operations in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony, for which he received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He subsequently served in Egypt, and was Adjutant of his regt. 7 Nov. 1903 to 6 May, 1907; and after passing through the Staff College, he became instructor at the Cavalry School at Netheravon, 8 Aug. 1910, and the following year (12 Aug. 1911) was appointed General Staff Officer at the War Office, an appointment he held till 15 April, 1913. On 16 April, 1913, he was made Brigade Major of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, and on the outbreak of war accompanied it to France. He was killed in action at Nery during the retreat from Mons, 1 Sept. 1914; was buried there; _unm._ A brother officer gave the following account of his death: “Our brigade was attacked soon after dawn at Nery by a force double our number--a cavalry division with 12 guns. Owing to thick mist they managed to get within 600 yards of us; 350 horses of the ‘Bays’ stampeded and their men went after them, and the L Battery was cut to pieces. The occasion was one which called for personal example, and Major Cawley, by permission of the General, went to help to restore order and get the broken remnants in their places. The situation being met and every one being in his place, he joined the advance line and was almost immediately killed by a piece of shell. The splendid manner in which he met his death in deliberately facing the awful fire to help others where he really need not have done so, is only what his whole life has led us to expect.” And a well-known cavalry officer, in a letter to “The Times,” said: “We had billeted in a village, and when day broke there was a thick mist. Our patrol came back saying that a German force was close by. My regt. got the warning first, and we had time to get our men into position behind some, thick walls; but the Artillery and the ‘Bays,’ who had picketed their horses in the open, were too late and were caught by a terrific fire. All the officers of the battery were killed or wounded, and the ‘Bays’ had nine casualties amongst their officers. They were very hard pressed, and Cawley, who was in the village, ran out into the open to try and collect some men and take them up into support. Just then a shell burst, and he was hit in the head. He was unconscious from the moment he was hit, and died in about a quarter of an hour.” General Briggs, commanding the Brigade, wrote of him: “He has been a true friend and always a conscientious staff officer to me for nearly two years, and it is needless to say how much I feel his death. He proved himself to be a real fighter in war, and was always cool and collected.” Major Cawley was a good all round sportsman. He was in the Rugby football team and shooting eight at Sandhurst, and in the hockey team, and was whip to the Drag at the Staff College; played for his regt. at polo when they won the Inter-Regimental Cup in India (Meerut), 1901; the Clements Polo Cup in South Africa (Pretoria), 1903; and the Inter-Regimental Cup (Hurlingham), 1906 and 1907. He won the Officers’ Riding and Jumping prize at the Royal Military Tournament in 1905, and was well known with the North Hereford and Whaddon Chase Hunts.

=CAWSE, SAMUEL GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13420, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CAWTHRA, HAROLD=, Private, No. 3739, 1/10th Battn. (Liverpool Scottish) The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of the late Carl Barber Cawthra; _b._ Arwick Green, Manchester, 10 June, 1895; educ. Claughton Higher Grade School, Birkenhead; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 13 March, 1915; _unm._

=CAYME, BERNARD GLYDE=, Private, No. 81142, 10th Battn. (Western Canada Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of Harry Cayme, of The Red House, Horndean, co. Hants, by his wife, Minnie Annie, dau. of Edward Culver, of 9, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N.; _b._ Stamford Hill, 17 Feb. 1891; educ. Ardingly College, Haywards Heath, in 1908 emigrated to Canada to take up farming, and eventually settled at Manson, Manitoba, where he purchased land. On the outbreak of war he joined the 3rd Battn. Western Canada Regt., came to England with the 2nd Contingent early in the spring of 1915, was quartered at Shorncliffe, and ordered to France to reinforce the Canadians after the first memorable attack of gas by the Germans in April, being then transferred to the 10th Battn. He was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 22 May, 1915, being killed instantly with some 10 comrades by shrapnel; _unm._ Officers and men alike wrote in high praise of his courage and constant cheerfulness under any circumstances however difficult, and being the only man of his platoon who could speak French he was in constant request whilst in billets. He has been offered promotion in Canada, and on four occasions at the Front, all of which he refused, declining to forsake his comrades. The Caymes are of Huguenot descent and settled at Rye after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and Bernard Glyde Cayme, who was the last of the name in the male line, now lies in the land from which his family originated.

=CECIL, GEORGE EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, only _s._ of Lord Edward Cecil, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Brevet Col., Coldstream Guards, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government since 1912, by his wife, Violet Georgina, 2nd dau. of Admiral Frederick Augustus Maxse, of Dunley Hill, Surrey, and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C.; _b._ 20, Arlington Street, W., 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Winchester, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he took a prize cadetship in 1912, passing out at the end of 1913. He passed his examination for a French cadetship in Jan. 1914, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards, 25 Feb. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, the 2nd Battn. went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and Lieut. Cecil acted as orderly officer to General Scott Kerr at the Battle of Landrecies. He was killed in the severe action fought by the rearguard of the 4th Brigade, near Villers-Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914; _unm._