Part 40

=GASCOYNE-CECIL, RUPERT EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 4th, attd. 1st, Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 4th _s._ of the Rev. Canon Lord William Rupert Ernest Gascoyne-Cecil, Rector of Hatfield, by his wife, Lady Florence Mary, née Bootle Wilbraham, 3rd dau. of Edward, 1st Earl of Lathom, G.C.B., P.C., and gdson. of Robert Arthur Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O.; _b._ St. Audrey’s, Hatfield, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; joined the Public School Corps on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914, and obtained his commission in the 4th Bedfordshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action near Ypres, 11 July, 1915, during a bombardment succeeding the blowing up of a very big mine by the Germans between the trenches, and was buried close to the Ypres-Cominis line, in the brigade headquarters cemetery; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “Your son was only with us unfortunately for a very short time, but he had endeared himself to all who knew him by his cheerfulness and soldierly qualities.” Capt. Curtis also wrote: “The Germans exploded a very large mine between two of our trenches about 7.15 p.m. and then shelled us heavily. On hearing the explosion your son immediately tried to get up to the fire trench, of which he was in charge, but unfortunately he was struck on the head by a fragment of shell, and was killed instantaneously.... He was always beloved by all his fellow officers, and above all by his men, who had a great respect for him. We all feel the loss which the regt. has sustained by his death but we are proud he was doing his duty so nobly when he was killed. A good many men were stunned and confused by the explosion, but your son remained cool and met his death going to his post.” 2nd Lieut. Cecil rowed in the Torpids at Oxford, and was keenly interested in bell-ringing. His three brothers are all now (1916) on Active Service: Randle William, 2nd Lieut. 93rd Brigade, R.F.A.; Victor Alexander, Capt., Hampshire Regt. (twice wounded); and John Arthur, Lieut. and Adjutant, 19th Brigade, R.F.A.

=CHADD, BENJAMIN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4134), S.S. 102612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHADWICK, FREDERICK JAMES=, Capt., 104th Wellesley Rifles, Indian Army, eldest _s._ of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., by his wife, Amy (Westfield, Dorchester), yst. dau. of the late Rev. Charles Torkington; _b._ Chetnole, co. Dorset, 31 Aug. 1883; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth, Cheltenham College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Aug. 1903, and attd. for a year to the 59th Foot, then stationed at Poona; was appointed to the 104th Wellesley Rifles in Nov. 1904, being promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. 1905, and after serving with his regt. in the Mekran (gun-running) Expedition of 1911, Capt. 19 Aug. 1912. He died of wounds received the same day while leading his machine gun section at the Battle of Shaiba, Mesopotamia, 13 April, 1915; buried at Shaiba; _unm._ Capt. Chadwick was mentioned in Despatches [published in India in Feb. 1915] “for gallantry,” and recommended for reward. His yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. R. M. Chadwick, died of wounds, 13 May, 1915 (see following notice).

=CHADWICK, RICHARD MARKHAM=, 2nd Lieut., 11th Siege Battery, R.G.A., 3rd and yst. _s._ of the late Col. Edward Frederick Chadwick, 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) Regt., etc. (see preceding notice); _b._ Chetnole, co. Dorset, 20 Nov. 1894; educ. Connaught House, Weymouth; Wellington College and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery, 19 Dec. 1913; joined the 10th Coy. R.G.A. at Spike Island, Feb. 1914; went to Lydd for a Siege Course in Dec., and left for France with the 11th Siege Battery towards the end of April, 1915; he was seriously wounded while on observation duty for his battery, and died the following day, near Bethune, France, 13 May, 1915; buried Bethune; _unm._

=CHAFER, HERBERT JOHN=, Sergt., No. 5342, C Coy., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., _s._ of George Chafer, by his wife, Evelina, dau. of G. Houlton; _b._ Broughton, near Brigg, co. Lincoln; educ. at Broughton; joined the Army, 16 June, 1899, served through the South African War (Queen’s medal with bars), and afterwards in India. On completing his eight years with the Colours in 1907, joined the Reserve, and became a dock policeman at Immingham; but on mobilisation rejoined, was promoted Sergt. while at the Front, 1 Oct. 1914, and is reported to have been killed in action, 27 Oct. 1914, while serving with the Expeditionary Force in France. He _m._ at Sheffield, 19 April, 1908, Elizabeth W. (14, Storm Street, Chippinghouse Road, Sheffield), dau. of James Candow, and had three sons: Leslie James, _b._ 31 Jan. 1909; Sydney Herbert, _b._ 6 June, 1911; and Reginald George, _b._ 4 Jan. 1914.

=CHALLIS, FRANK WALTER=, P.O. (N.S.), 203516, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHALLIS, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Gunner, No. 71677, 114th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. _s._ of William Isaac Challis, of 212, Fulbourne Road, Forest Road, Walthamstow, House Decorator, by his wife, Maude Mary, dau. of William Holloway, of Harefield Road, Uxbridge; _b._ Tottenham, 3 March, 1894; educ. St. Andrew’s Road Board School, Higham Hill, Walthamstow; joined the 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. in March, 1911; transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, with which he proceeded to the Front on the outbreak of war; took part in the Battles of Mons and the Marne, and was killed in action at the Aisne while going to the assistance of his superior officer, who had been seriously wounded, 20 Sept. 1914. Buried above the village of Paissy Soissons; _unm._ His elder brother is now (1916) serving in Egypt.

=CHALLIS, WALTER=, Leading Signalman, 224820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHALLONER, ALAN CRAWHALL=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., only _s._ of Frederick Charlton Turner Challoner, of Ealing, co. Middlesex, by his wife, Elspeth, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall; _b._ Ealing, 18 Dec. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; obtained his commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hooge, 30 July, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, in front of Hooge, Flanders, with six brother officers. Col. M. Stokoe wrote: “Ever since your son went to France he had done splendidly. He was brave and fearless, and always was a great assistance in attending the wounded owing to his medical knowledge. He was extremely popular with the men and handled them excellently. He was just the stamp of man to make an officer and leader of men, and we shall have great difficulty in replacing him.” Major Carew Barnett also wrote, saying: “He was doing splendidly, and at the time of being wounded he was in command of a company, all the officers of which had been killed or wounded. The gap he creates is, indeed, a hard one to fill, both as an officer and a friend.” A few days before he was killed, Lieut. Challoner got permission to do a little reconnoitring on his own account in a wood to the north of Menin Road, and was warned not to show himself, as it was shelled by the enemy on the least suspicion of the presence of any English; going up with one of his men he came upon a number of dead British and German soldiers, a large number of accoutrements, and in a dug-out about 100 rounds of trench mortar shells, etc., also the body of an English officer of the rank of Capt., Royal Fusilier badge and ribbon of the Military Cross, which he took steps to have buried. Subsequent inquiry proved the identity of the officer who had been killed by a shell five weeks earlier evidently by concussion as the body was found lying close to a shell hole but unwounded by a doctor and party, who removed it to a place of safety for burial, but on returning later it had disappeared, and was not found until Lieut. Challoner came upon it in the wood. Its presence and the bodies of the British and German soldiers, etc., remain a mystery. Returning to camp with as many of the mortar shells as he and his man could carry, Lieut. Challoner’s attention was drawn to the fact that the wood was being heavily shelled. When he observed, “Yes, I know, before leaving I showed myself at the edge of the wood to draw the enemy’s fire, which they are wasting quite satisfactorily.”

=CHALMERS, WILLIAM ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24697 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Robert Chalmers, of 11, Linton Street, Leicester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=INGLES-CHAMBERLAYNE, RUPERT HENRY=, Midshipman, R.N., only _s._ of the late Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne, J.P., by his wife, Louisa Grace (The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold), dau. of the Rev. Charles Dallas Marston, Vicar of St. Paul’s, Onslow Square, S.W.; _b._ Maugersbury Manor, Stow-on-the-Wold, 4 July, 1897; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed. His late tutor at Dartmouth wrote: “His pleasant, open smiling face was so very attractive. The first glance I had of it left no doubt in my mind of his character and his upbringing, and all that I ever saw or heard of him merely strengthened my first impression. He was a clean-hearted English gentleman, and worthy of the great service to which you so generously gave him.” And Lieut.-Commander R. R. Rosoman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke: “I feel certain the boy stuck to his post to the very last, because he was a splendid fellow.”

=CHAMBERS, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1151), 276444, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMBERS, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10030), 107623, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMBERS, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMP, FRANCIS LOGAN=, Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 2978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=CHAMPION, EDWARD THOMAS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21840, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHAMPION, VICTOR ALFRED RICHARD=, Bugler, No. 1468, 13th (Princess Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Frank Champion, of 36, Portnall Road, Paddington, by his wife, Anna, dau. of John Sawyer, of Lincolnshire; _b._ Woodfield Place, Harrow Road, Paddington, 2 March, 1897; educ. Moberley Board School there; joined the Kensingtons, 13 June, 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914; was wounded in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, two days later; _unm._

=CHAMPS, SIDNEY=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 2058), 163578, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHANCE, JOSEPH=, Leading Stoker, K. 1158, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=CHANCELLOR, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110580, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHANDLER, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=CHANDLER, HENRY NORMAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 59, 3rd Coy. Divisional Engineers, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Henry Chandler, Plumber, by his wife, Elizabeth (71, Eldon Road, Wood Green, London), dau. of Joseph Newman; _b._ Twickenham, co. Middlesex, 8 March, 1891; educ. Hammersmith; emigrated to Australia in 1911, and was employed on the Broken Hill mines as a carpenter. On the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered, left Australia with the first contingent, and received promotion at the Dardanelles. He was killed in action there, 1 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Before enlisting he was secretary of the Broken Hill Congregational Church Choir, and also took part in the singing. He was a foundation member of the Young Men’s Christian Society of the same church. He belonged to the Y.M.C.A., in the work of which association he took an active part.

=CHANDLER, JOHN KELLMAN=, Private, No. 25935, H Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of John Kellman Chandler, Planter and Proprietor of Sugar Cane Plantation, Barbados, by his wife, Mary Ida, dau. of Samuel Chandler; _b._ Barbados, B.W.I., 9 Sept. 1889; educ. Combermere School, Bridgetown, Barbados; and on leaving there spent a few years as an Overseer on various Sugar Plantations in Barbados. In May, 1913, he went to Canada and joined the Staff of the C.P.R., but on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and joined the Royal Montreal Regt. 11 Aug. 1914. He came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent in Oct. 1914 and while training on Salisbury Plain preparatory to going to the Front contracted spinal meningitis and died at Bulford Cottage Hospital, 23 Jan. 1915; _unm._ Major Gault McCombey wrote: “Kellman joined my company of the Royal Montreal Regt. in Aug., and I had formed a very high regard for him as he was one of my most reliable and best men.”

=CHANDLER, NORMAN=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHAPLIN, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3573), S.S. 101235, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=CHAPLIN, CHARLES SLINGSBY=, Lieut-Col., 9th (Service) Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, _s._ of the late Clifford Waterman Chaplin, of Burrough Hill, Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Rosa, dau. of William Chaplin, M.P.; _b._ Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, 31 May, 1863; educ. Eton and Pembroke College, Oxford; joined the City of London Regt. in May, 1885, from the Militia, and was transferred the same month to the “Green Jackets,” and gazetted Capt. to the King’s Royal Rifles 1894; served with the Chitral Force under General Low (medal with clasp); and in the South African war as Special Service Officer for Mounted Infantry; and later, from Aug. 1901, in command of the 1st Regt. of Mounted Infantry, doing excellent work in the Transvaal and the line of the Orange River (mentioned in Despatches, medal with five clasps). After the campaign he obtained his majority in 1903, and was posted to the 2nd Battn. King’s Royal Rifles at Gharial, in the Punjab; he succeeded to the command of the 3rd Battn. 18 March, 1908, at Crete, and later took the battn. to Malta, afterwards returning to India and serving at Umballa. From half-pay in 1912 he retired, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, being at the top of the list when mobilisation took place, and was one of the big batch of officers who were given command on 19 Aug. 1914. He was killed in action after a 12 hours’ fight, when he and his men had just captured a trench, being shot through the head at Hooge, in Flanders, at 3.30 p.m. 30 July, 1915. He was buried at Chateau Hooge, close to where he fell. The following telegram was sent to the 9th Service Battn. from Headquarters, 2nd Army, at 1 p.m. on 31 July, 1915: “The Army Corps Commander wishes you to convey to the officers and men of the 9th Battn. King’s Royal Rifles his appreciation of the way in which they carried out the attack on the trenches north of the Menin Road yesterday afternoon, and maintained themselves under heavy artillery fire.” Lieut.-Col. Chaplin _m._ at Bombay, India, 29 Sept. 1905, Gwladys Hamilton (Erbistock House, Ruabon), dau. of Col. Stanley Creek, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and had three sons and a dau.: Clifford, _b._ 23 Sept. 1906; Nigel Gilbert Forbes, _b._ 9 Jan. 1908; Patrick Slingsby, _b._ 4 July, 1910; and Zara, _b._ 18 March, 1914.

=CHAPLIN, EDWARD ROBERT=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 6421), 223109, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPLIN, HUMPHREY MARMADUKE=, Lieut. 3rd, attd. 2nd, Battn. Cheshire Regt., 3rd _s._ of the late Marmaduke Kaye Chaplin, of Etwall, co. Derby; _b._ Etwall, 8 Jan. 1892; educ. Glyngarth School, Cheltenham, and Rossall School, and was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and a member of the O.T.C. He received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Cheshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914; was attached to the 2nd Battn. on its return from India in Jan. 1915, and left for the Front the same month, being promoted Lieut. Feb. 1915. He was slightly wounded 13 March, and rejoined a month later (19 April). The battn. was moved up immediately afterwards to the advanced trenches in the Ypres salient, from which only a few men returned after the termination of the second battle for Ypres. Lieut. Chaplin was posted missing 11 May, 1915, and was afterwards reported as having been killed in action near Ypres on 8–9 May. He was buried by the Germans near St. Julien; _unm._ Lieut. Chaplin was a Craven scholar, and had gained a first in Moderations, and was a Charles Oldham Prizeman.

=CHAPMAN, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10042), S.S. 112062, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CHAPMAN, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Capt., 3rd Battn. East Surrey Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Thomas Chapman, of Croydon; _b._ Croydon, 20 April, 1873; educ. Whitgift School; joined the Volunteers (Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.) as a Private in 1888; was Trooper in the Hampshire Carabiniers (Yeomanry) from 1893 to 1897, and 2nd Lieut., to the 3rd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt. ... 1899, from which he resigned owing to ill-health. He afterwards joined the 1st Battn. Surrey National Reserve as Lieut. in 1910, was promoted Capt. ... 1912, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 volunteered for foreign service. After a period of training with the 3rd East Surreys, he was attached as a Lieut. (13 Sept. 1914) to the 1st Hampshires, and spent the winter with them in the trenches, being promoted Capt. 2 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He won for himself a place in the hearts of his men and of the officers in the regt. during the few short months he was with us, that made his loss one of the worst blows we have received during the war. His solicitude for his men exceeded anything I have ever seen before.... All through the winter in the Plug Street trenches he was simply indefatigable, and withal as cheery as a sandboy--rain, mud, cold and German snipers were individually and collectively unable to subdue his good spirits. I was not with his regt. when the fighting in the Ypres Salient took place, but I have heard the story of that particular day’s fighting in which he was killed. The regt. was ordered to support the 28th Division, which had become exposed by the retirement of the Canadians. It reached a position an hour before dawn, and dug itself in. A small post in a house on the left flank of the line was rushed by Germans, who were thereby able to enfilade our trenches. It was thus we lost Capt. Sandeman, your husband and many men.... He set an example of devotion to the highest ideal of duty which is possible for any one to do in giving his life for his country, when only his own unbending sense of duty was there to urge him forward.” Capt. Chapman was one of the founders of modern Coulsdon. Going there nearly a dozen years ago he purchased the land which now forms the Smitham Downs Estate, and proceeded to at once develop it. He took an active interest in the formation of St. Andrew’s district in the year 1906, and became one of the first churchwardens of the temporary church. At the time of his death he was still serving as sidesman. He was married, but had no issue.

=CHAPMAN, CLEMENT=, Sailmaker’s Mate (R.F.R., B. 3220), 169201, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.