Part 60

=DICKSON, GEORGE=, Private, No. 11295, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 24 Nov. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action at Kemmel on or about that date.

=DICKSON, GEORGE=, Private, No. 3405, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ co. Perth; enlisted 9 May, 1900; served in South African War (medal), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 1914; killed in action, 18 Nov. 1914. He _m._ at Edinburgh, 21 May, 1907, Emma (48, Dundee Street, Edinburgh), dau. of (--) Johnson, and had two children: William George, _b._ 5 April, 1908; and Mary Gerrand, _b._ 30 Oct. 1909.

=DICKSON, GEORGE AITKEN=, Private, No. 11295, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of the late William Dickson, Carter, by his wife, Christina (13, Melburne Place, North Berwick), dau. of George Aitken; _b._ North Berwick, 11 March, 1895; educ. Public School there; enlisted 6 Nov. 1912, and is supposed to have been killed in action during the retreat from Mons. Official letters give the date as 24 Nov. 1914, though a private communication says he was killed on 26 Aug. 1914.

=DICKSON, JAMES=, Private, No. 2700, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action near Ypres, 20 July, 1915.

=DICKSON, JAMES STRUTHERS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6192), 185733, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DICKSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 6283, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Musselburgh, co. Midlothian; enlisted 29 Dec. 1905, aged 18; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing, 11 Nov. 1914; _m._ at Edinburgh, 14 April, 1911, Mary Ann (16, Sandfont Street, Leith), dau. of (--) Brown.

=DICKSON, THOMAS=, Driver, No. 86791, 18th Battery, 5th Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Richard Dickson; _b._ Upper Ballinderry, co. Antrim, 26 April, 1881; educ. Village School there; served with the 83rd Battery, R.F.A., in the South African War, was invalided home after one year and ten months’ service, but later went out again and served till 31 May, 1902, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps; obtained his discharge and went to Canada; acted as a Recruiting Sergt. from the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 to 12 May, 1915, when he joined for service overseas; came over with reinforcements and died while on service in England, 13 Oct. 1915. Buried in the Military Cemetery, Shorncliffe. He _m._ at Ballinderry Parish Church, 25 Dec. 1901, Lillee (Rayanton P.O., Manitoba, Canada), dau. of Robert Cairns, late Colour-Sergt., York and Lancaster Regt. (served in Egyptian War), and had seven children: Alfred W., _b._ 3 Sept. 1903; Robert C., _b._ 7 Aug. 1905; Lewis Meighin, _b._ 16 Sept. 1911; Terance Richard, _b._ 6 March, 1913; Thomas, _b._ 18 Aug. 1914; Kathleen M. E., _b._ 21 Sept. 1906; and Beatrice McKeown, _b._ 9 March, 1908.

=DIEHL, RALPH=, Bombardier, No. 2/1613, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd but elder surv. _s._ of the late Gustav Diehl, of Wellington, by his wife, Anna Jane (7, Elizabeth Street, Wellington, New Zealand), dau. of the late John Mitchell; _b._ Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 July, 1892; educ. Wellington; was a Clerk and Bookkeeper; volunteered after the outbreak of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, April, 1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements, 13 June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles, 21 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there 23 Oct. 1915; _unm._

=DIGBY, JOHN KENELM, B.A.=, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn. Norfolk Regt., elder _s._ of Algernon Digby, of Highfield, Fakenham, Norfolk, M.A., Solicitor [nephew of Edward St. Vincent, 9th Lord Digby], by his wife, Richenda Catharine, eldest dau. of the late Capt. Philip Hamond, 34th Regt.; _b._ Fakenham, co. Norfolk, 21 Nov. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, and after taking his degree there, joined the lay staff of the Mission at Edmonton, Alberta, under the Archbishop’s Western Canada Scheme, and worked there for a year and a half until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914. He then volunteered and enlisted as a private in the 9th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept., being afterwards promoted L.-Corpl. He came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct., and trained with them on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914–15, and on 20 Feb. 1915, was given a commission in the 7th Norfolks. He went to the Front, May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ploegsteart, Flanders, 4–5 Aug. 1915; _unm._

=DIGGLE, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 2510, 6th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James Edward Diggle, of Liverpool; _b._ Liverpool, 10 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Margaret’s Higher Grade School, Anfield; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 March, 1915; buried, Zillebeke.

=DILKE, HUGH STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2107, Polytechnic Coy., 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th and yst. _s._ of Charles Wentworth Dilke, of Park Avenue North, Hornsey, N., co. Middlesex [a cadet of Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, co. Warwick], by his wife, Ellen, dau. of William Smith, of Cheddleton, co. Stafford; _b._ 7, Vincent Road, London, N., 2 Dec. 1889; educ. North Harringay School, London; and prior to the outbreak of war he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Napier Motors, Ltd., Acton Vale, W. He had joined the Rangers in 1908, but had retired in 1913, having completed his term of five years, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, immediately rejoined and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France 25 Dec. 1914, and after five weeks’ training at St. Omer went into the trenches at Ypres. He was wounded in the left foot while on patrol duty at Zillebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915. A brother officer wrote: “Bob went up again to the trenches, and was unlucky enough to get hit very slightly. We were happily able to tie him up on the spot, and take him to the nearest hospital. He called out to us quite cheerily as he passed us in an ambulance waggon.” After three operations in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, he was sent home, and died in Queen Mary’s Hospital, Southend, 21 March, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He was always so cheery, and did his work so well that we miss him sorely. He did his duty nobly.” He was _unm._, and was buried in the Sutton Road Cemetery at Southend with full military honours on 24 March.

=DILKES, SAMUEL RICHARD=, Private, No. 5298, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of John Dilkes, of Rose Cottage, South Croxton, near Leicester, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of Richard Clarke, of Great Dalby, Melton Mowbray; _b._ Barsby, near Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, 9 March, 1885: educ. Gaddesby, near Leicester; enlisted 28 Dec. 1903; served in Egypt, 9 March, 1906, to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 25 Aug. to 14 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date, at the Battle of the Aisne; _unm._

=DILLON, LESLIE FRANK=, Private, No. 1330, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of John Dillon, of Constantia, Houghton, formerly of Millbrook; _b._ 1894; went to Australia; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war, left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles; was at first reported missing, but later information showed that he was killed on active service.

=DIMMOCK, CHARLES=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, 192556, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DING, DOUGLAS GEORGE=, L.-Corpl. No. 12435, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of William Ding, of Sutterton, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Bull; _b._ Kenure Park, Rush, co. Dublin, 27 Feb. 1892; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to France in a draft in Feb., and was killed in action during the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915, while making a reconnaissance with two men in front of the Guards position near the Chalk Pit, north of Loos; _unm._ An officer wrote: “The late Capt. of this coy. was very sorry to lose such a valuable man as Corpl. Ding, who was a very good and brave man.”

=DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 533, B Coy., 19th Battn., 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, dau. of the late William Turnbull Dobson; _b._ Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ. Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson’s College, Edinburgh; went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his battn. in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; _unm._ Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.

=DIPPER, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Private, No. 5550, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Frank Dipper, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stockman, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Edward Turrall, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore; _b._ Stretton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby, 24 Nov. 1884; educ. there; enlisted 6 May, 1904, and after serving seven years passed into the Reserve. On mobilisation he rejoined, left England with his regiment early in Aug., and served through the retreat from Mons and the various subsequent engagements on the Aisne and Marne. On 2 Nov. he had a narrow escape, a bullet going through his coat, and after striking a tin he was carrying in his breast pocket, passed along his chest, and came out the other side of his coat. He was wounded in the foot on 2 Dec., and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 28 Feb. 1915, by the explosion of two shells close to his head. His brother, Private George Dipper, was standing by his side at the time, but escaped with a few scratches. He was buried at Cuinchy, near La Bassée. He _m._ at Coventry, 20 July, 1911, Annie, dau. of George Wall, of West Bromwich, co. Stafford, and had a son, George, _b._ 5 Nov. 1913.

=DISSPAIN, JOSEPH CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9027), S.S. 2090, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DIVERS, PATRICK=, Private. No. 13689, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots. 2nd _s._ of James Divers, of 248, Charles Street, St. Rollox, Glasgow, employee in the Steel Works of Scotland (Blochaim, Ltd.), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Patrick O’Neil, of co. Tyrone; _b._ Glasgow, 28 Oct. 1895; educ. St. Mungo’s R.C. School, Glebe Street, Glasgow, and St. Rock’s R.C. School, Townhead, Glasgow; was working with Hyde Park Locomotive Works before the war. Enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec. 1914. and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ While at St. Rock’s R.C. School, he was captain of the football team, and that year they won the Glasgow Observer Cup and the Petershill F.C. Tournament for elementary schools; he also won a five-a-side football badge the month before he enlisted.

=DIXON, THOMAS=, Private, No. 18636, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. _s._ of John Dixon, of the Foundry, Castle Eden, co. Durham, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Andrew Hunter, of Middle Rainton; _b._ Castle Eden, 18 July, 1892; educ. there; went to Canada in 1912, and settled at Edmonton; enlisted in Aug. 1914, after the declaration of war; went to the Front, 26 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; _unm._ He was buried at Duck’s Bill, Givenchy. For their conduct this day, the deceased company officer, Lieut. F. W. Campbell, was awarded the V.C.; the official report stating: “For most conspicuous bravery on 15 June, 1915, during the action at Givenchy Lieut. Campbell took his two machine guns over the parapet, arrived at the German first line with one gun, and maintained his position there under very heavy rifle, machine gun and bomb fire, notwithstanding the fact that almost the whole of his detachment had been killed or wounded. When our supply of bombs had been exhausted, this officer advanced his gun still further to an exposed position, and, by firing about 1,000 rounds, succeeded in holding back the enemy’s counter attack. This very gallant officer was subsequently wounded and has since died.”

=DOBEDOE, HERBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2017), 204430, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOCKER, LEONARD GEORGE=, Private, No. 13106, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5th _s._ of Oliver Atkins Docker, of 155, Grosvenor Road, Rugby, by his wife, Martha, dau. of Simon Freer; _b._ Rugby, 7 July, 1896; educ. Murray Street School there; went to Canada and settled at Boissevain, Manitoba. On the outbreak of war, he immediately came home (paying his own passage) and enlisted at Birmingham, 8 Oct. 1914, the day after he landed. He went to the Front early in May, and was killed in action at Cambrin on 7 July, 1915, his nineteenth birthday.

=DODDS, VINCENT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4611 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DODMAN, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 6822, 1st Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 8 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action; _m._

=DODS, WILLIAM HENRY GORDON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt.; _s._ of the late Major William Sandars Dods, of Uvedale, Norfolk Regt., by his wife, Emmie Alice Gordon (Glengariff, Roundham Road, Paignton), dau. of Col. Henry Charles Wright, Indian Staff Corps; _b._ Uvedale, Needham Market, co. Suffolk, 27 Oct. 1891; educ. Bishops Stortford and Marlborough College, and was afterwards sent with a company of 60 cadets to Woolwich (there being no room that year for the cadets at Sandhurst), where he was promoted Colour-Sergt., and received the Sword of Honour and Coronation medal. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Leicester, 11 Sept. 1911, and joined 25 Oct.; commanded the King’s Guard of Honour at the Pavilion at Aldershot in May, 1912, and was promoted Lieut. 18 May, 1913. On the outbreak of war he went with his regt. to France, and was killed in action near Armentières, France, 21 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was buried at La Houssaie, in the angle formed between La Houssaie-Wez Macquart Road and Armentières Ecquingham Railway. Lieut. Dods played in the final of the Rugby Army match, won by the Leicester Regt. in 1912, and passed the test as marksman in the musketry course in 1914.

=DOE, ALFRED=, Private, No. 9525, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of John Doe, of 16, William Street, Brighton; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Troyon, 7 Oct. 1914.

=DOEL, JAMES=, Private, No. 11205, 1st Battn. Highland L.I., _s._ of James Doel, of 1, Brougham Street, Brockhurst, Gosport; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 16 May, 1915.

=DOHERTY, CHARLES=, Private, No. 16959, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DOIDGE, GEORGE=, Stoker, P.O., 299015 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOLAN, BERNARD=, Private, No. 2452, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Zillebeke, 20 May, 1915.

=DOLLER, COLIN=, Private, No. 8370, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Croix Barbée, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DOLPHIN, ERIC JOHN WESTERN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., 4th and yst. _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Harry Edmund Dolphin, of Oak Lodge, Guildford, late Royal Artillery, by his wife, Margaret Louise, dau. of Capt. James Dolphin, Rifle Brigade; _b._ The Glen, Queenstown, Cork Harbour, 27 Dec. 1885; educ. Stubbington (Mr. Foster), co. Hants, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the Hampshire Regt., 24 Jan. 1906; promoted Lieut. 9 May, 1907, and (accelerated promotion to) Capt. 23 Oct. 1914. He was killed in action near Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, 8 Nov. 1914, and was buried in the Cemetery there; _unm._ Major Parker wrote: “Your son was killed yesterday morning. He is a very great loss to the regt., just one of those who could ill be spared. He was one of the best of comrades and a real good soldier, always cheery and putting his best into all his work.”

=DOLPHIN, JOSEPH SAMUEL=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 268386, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOMINEY, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 8827, 2nd Battn. The Scots Guards, only _s._ of the Rev. George William Dominey, Rector of St. Vincent’s, Edinburgh, by his wife, Ellen Maud, dau. of the late Richard Roberts, of Sherborne; _b._ Stoughton, Guildford, co. Surrey, 19 April, 1891; educ. King’s College, London; enlisted in The Scots Guards, 14 Jan. 1914; promoted Corpl. 24 Aug. 1914; went to the front, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Armentières, 18 Dec. 1914; _unm._

=DONACHEY, WALLACE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10413), 299952, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=DONALD, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 7118, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I.; _b._ Port Glasgow, co. Renfrew, 1880; was a French Polisher; enlisted in the 1st Battn. Highland L.I. at Hamilton, 3 Jan. 1900; served in the South African War (King’s medal with two clasps, “1901,” “1902”), and obtained his transfer to the Army Reserve at Gosport, 2 Jan. 1908, on completion of his eight years with the Colours, of which 6 years and 41 days was abroad. Mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action there, 14 Nov. 1914. He _m._ at Glasgow, 31 Dec. 1909 (--) (11, Martin Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow), dau. of (--), and had two children: Christina Smith Smart, _b._ 5 Nov. 1910; and Thomasina Smart, _b._ 1 Nov. 1914.

=DONALD, MARTIE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10346), 107927, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=DONALDSON, JOHN=, Private, No. 1714, 6th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), only _s._ of James Donaldson, of 45, Jordan Street, Edinburgh, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Steel, of Kirkmuirhill, co. Lanark; _b._ Edinburgh, 7 Aug. 1895; educ. South Morningside Board School there; was an engineer and oven builder with D. Thomson. Ltd., of Edinburgh, Engineers; joined the Territorial Battn. of the Royal Scots, mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 2 Nov. 1914, and was killed at Festubert, 18 May, 1915; _unm._ He was a member of St. Matthew’s Parish Church, Edinburgh.

=DONKIN, REGINALD LYONS=, Private, No. 817, 1st Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Edward Francis Donkin, formerly of Wyfold Court, co. Oxford, and afterwards of Maitland, Australia, by his wife, Grace, dau. of (--) Lyons, of Melbourne, and great-grandson of General Sir Rufus Shawe Donkin, K.C.B., Governor of Port Elizabeth, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances, dau. of the Most Rev. William Markham, Archbishop of York; _b._ Victoria, Australia, June, 1895; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 15 Aug. 1915; _unm._

=DONNAN, JOSEPH GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Sergt., No. 357, B Coy., 1/6th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late Joseph Donnan, of Aigburth, Liverpool, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Margaret Webster (172, Upper Warwick Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late George Lawrenson, of Aigburth; _b._ Dingle, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1881; educ. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic School there; was a clerk with Messrs. J. H. & S. Johnson, Wholesale Druggists, Liverpool, and had completed his fifteenth year with this firm when war was declared. He had joined the King’s (Liverpool Rifles), then the 2nd Battn. King’s Liverpools (T.F.) in 1903, and at once volunteered for foreign ser.ce. He left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 30 March, 1915, by a sniper while on duty in the trenches; _unm._ He was buried on the side of a railway cutting at Zillebeke. In a letter from one of his Sergts. he was spoken of as being a “most conscientious N.C.O., and one of the best.” During his twelve years’ service in the King’s Liverpool Rifles he became one of its crack shots, and won many prizes, in addition to two silver shooting cups. In July, 1912, he won the “Queen Mary” prize at Bisley.

=DONNELLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2248, 1/4th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.) eldest _s._ of Philip Donnelley, Labourer, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Johnson McGuire; _b._ Hexham, 2 March, 1877; educ. St. Mary’s Catholic School there; was a Labourer; enlisted 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 April, 1915. He _m._ at Hexham, 9 Aug. 1902, Annie Oliver (Gilesgate, Hexham), dau. of Frank Young, of Hexham, and left seven children: Frank, _b._ 7 Dec. 1904; James William, _b._ 10 May, 1907; Johnson McGuire, _b._ 26 June, 1908; Edward, _b._ 20 Jan., 1912; Jane Anne, _b._ 6 March, 1906; Mary, _b._ 25 March, 1913; and Elizabeth, _b._ 25 Sept. 1914.

=DONNELLY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8868), S.S. 105635, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DONOVAN, ALFRED NORMAN=, Corpl., No. 12033, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., _s._ of the late William John Donovan, of Ballygoran, Celbridge, co. Kildare, Coachman, by his wife, Rose Frances Emma, dau. of the late David Richard Ellis, of West Kensington, Dyer and Cleaner; _b._ Dublin, 6 Feb. 1894; educ. Christian Brothers’ School, Inchicore; enlisted at Glasgow, 30 Sept. 1912; gained Third Class Certificate of Education, 12 Dec. following, and Second Class, 3 May, 1913; promoted L.-Corpl. Dec. 1913, and Corpl. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action there, 17 May, 1915; _unm._ His brother William, A.B., No. 239892, R.N., is now (1916) on active service.