Part 63

=DUGGAN, PATRICK=, Private. No. 871, C Coy., 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 4th _s._ of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal), dau. of Michael Duggan, of Denybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; _b._ Annagry, co. Donegal, 18 June, 1896; educ. Mullaghduff National School; enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to France on 13 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DUKE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1306, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Michael Duke, of Iona, by his wife, Mary (Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland), dau. of William Whiffin; _b._ Iona, Placentia Bay, 28 May, 1894; educ. there; was a Fisherman; volunteered and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 22 March, 1915; left for England, 6 April; went to the Dardanelles, and died at Alexandria, 26 Dec. 1915, of meningitis, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 139); _unm._

=DUMMA, JAMES=, Private, No. 4377, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Ypres, 26 April, 1915.

=DUNBAR, FRANCIS GRANT=, Deckhand, No. 533 D.A., Trawler Section R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler, No. 106 (Crathie, of Aberdeen), was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

=DUNBAR, JOHN MAXWELL=, Private, No. 8823, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of Joseph Dunbar, of 63, St. Andrew’s Street, Kilmarnock; _b._ Skye; enlisted 13 Jan. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914.

=DUNCAN, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON=, Stoker (R.N.R.), S. 2872, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DUNCAN, GEORGE=, Private, No. 51138, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., _s._ of George Duncan, General Delivery, Toronto, Canada; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 March, 1915.

=DUNCAN, JOHN HOPKIRK=, Private, No. 1498, 6th, att. 1/8th, Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), _s._ of the late William Duncan, of Edinburgh, Coachman, by his wife, Beatrice (Craigewan, Peebles); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915, aged 19.

=DUNCAN, STUART=, Capt. 3rd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., yst. _s._ of the late James Duncan, of 24, Chester Street, S.W., M.D.; _b._ 25 May, 1865; obtained his commission as Lieut. 1st Gloucesters, 6 Feb. 1891 and promoted Capt., 31 Dec. 1891; served through the South African War, 1899–1900, taking part in the operations in Natal, 1899, including the actions at Reifontein and Lombards Kop, where he was slightly wounded, and in the subsequent operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1900, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He retired, 16 April, 1904, and joined the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered his services and was posted to the 3rd Gloucesters, from which he was sent out to the 2nd South Lancashires at the Front. He was killed in action in France, 13 Nov. 1914; _unm._

=DUNDAS, CECIL HENRY=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Welsh Regt., yst. _s._ of Sir George Whyte Melville Dundas, of Beechwood, 5th Bart., by his wife, Matilda Louisa Mary, dau. of Minden James Wilson; _b._ Birkenhead, 7 Jan. 1892; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and Fettes College, Edinburgh; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt. 20 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 13 Aug. 1913; served at Cairo, Khartoum, in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 20 Feb., 1915, of wounds received while making a reconnaissance the previous day. He was buried there; _unm._ His Capt. wrote: “He was in my company at Cairo, Khartoum and in India, and has always been one of the best. His nature was so bright and sunny and nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. In the trenches he was always cheery and his good spirits infected his platoon, who were always a happy crowd and used to sing under even the most trying conditions.” In 1913, he and another officer of his regt. were sent from Khartoum to find a channel between the Rivers Toole and Jur to facilitate communication with Wau and Khartoum, this entailed their going through country where no European had ever been before.

=DUNDAS, HON. KENNETH ROBERT=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., Anson Battn. Royal Naval Division, 4th _s._ of Charles Saunders, 4th Viscount Melville, I.S.O., by his wife, Grace Selina Marion, only child of William Scully; _b._ Teneriffe, Canary Islands, 10 May, 1882; and was educ. in Hamburg until 1897, and then at Christiania, 1897–1906, when his father was H.M.B. Consul-General at these places. From Norway he joined the Civil Service, and at the early age of 24 went out to British East Africa as Assistant District Commissioner. There he did much useful work, taking a very great interest in the native tribes, whose laws and customs he studied. His unique collection of their many strange customs was published by the Royal Anthogeological Society. In 1906 Lieut. Dundas was appointed political officer to the Nandi Field Force, for which he received a medal and clasp. In 1907 he became District Commissioner. In Jan. 1915 he returned to England with five months’ leave due to him. Finding there was so much for every Britisher to do, he felt he must try and do his best, so it was arranged he should be seconded from the Colonial Office to the Admiralty for the duration of the war. He was then given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, and appointed to the Collingwood Battn. After training at the Crystal Palace and at Blandford, the battn. left England in May, sailing for the Dardanelles. Four days after Lieut. Dundas landed the Collingwood Battn. went into action on 4 June. Exceedingly heavy fighting took place, and the battn. was almost “wiped out.” The Col. and 12 officers were killed, 9 were wounded and 4 missing, whilst the men suffered greatly also. Lieut. Dundas and two other officers were the sole survivors. After this Lieut. Dundas was transferred to the Anson Battn., as the Collingwood ceased to exist. For two months he served on the Gallipoli Peninsula, enduring great hardships and toil, but always hopeful and uncomplaining, till the morning of 7 Aug., when he was killed at the landing at Suvla Bay. He was buried on the Kuchuk Kemikli promontory of Anafarta Bay. He _m._ at St. Paul’s, Brighton, Anne Claudia Whalley (Melville Castle, Lasswade, Midlothian), yr. dau. of the late Capt. Charles Edward Foot, R.N., and had issue a son, Claud Kenneth Melville, _b._ Machakos, British East Africa, 6 July, 1911.

=DUNK, ALFRED AUGUSTUS=, 1st Class Torpedo Gunner (No. 201234), H.M.S. Cressy, _s._ of John Osmond Dunk, of 24, Thorold Road, Ilford, Carpenter, by his wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Alfred Selman; _b._ St. Peter’s Square, Hackney, N.E., 7 Oct. 1882; entered the Royal Navy 1898, serving in H.M. Ships Magnificent, Sutlej, London, Edgar, Furious, &c.; discharged 1914; called up on mobilisation Aug. 1914, took part in the action off Heligoland Bight and was lost in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914, when serving in submerged torpedo-flat; _unm._ While serving in H.M.S. London, he assisted in rescuing the passengers (including the Duke and Duchess of Fife) in the wreck of s.s. Delhi off Cape Sparta in Dec. 1911, for which he was presented with the medal for saving life by H.M. the King at Buckingham Palace, 10 Oct. 1912. He took part in the competitive gun crews of the Royal Naval Military Tournaments of 1908 and 1912, and was also one of those who formed two gun crews of H.M.S. Pembroke and completed a record march from Chatham to Portsmouth, with field guns, of 110 miles in four days.

=DUNLOP, FREDERICK CLEAVE STRICKLAND=, Capt., 1st Battn. Manchester Regt., 4th _s._ of the late Andrew Dunlop, of Belgrave House, Jersey, M.D. (died 30 Dec. 1915), by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Joseph Strickland; _b._ St. Helier, Jersey, 14 Dec. 1877; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the Manchester Regt. 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 11 March, 1899, and Capt. 12 March, 1901, serving as Adjutant from April, 1902 to April, 1905, also as Adjutant to an Indian Volunteer battn. (Malabar Rifles) from Nov. 1906 to Nov. 1911; served in the South African War 1899–1901, taking part in the defence of Ladysmith, and in the operations in the Transvaal, Feb. to Aug. 1901, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action while in the trenches, near La Bassée, 8 Nov. 1914. Capt. Dunlop _m._ at St. Helier, Jersey, 13 Oct. 1902, Maud, dau. of the late Deputy Surgeon-Gen. Williams, of Heathfield, Jersey, Madras Medical Service, and had a son and dau.: Andrew, _b._ 2 Feb. 1907; and Mavis, _b._ 22 Aug. 1905. His next elder brother, Capt. J. S. S. Dunlop, had been killed in action 24 Oct. previous, and his yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. K. S. Dunlop, was killed 26 Sept. 1915 (see the following notices). Another brother, Valentine, died in Ladysmith during the siege.

=DUNLOP, GEORGE ARTHUR=, Canteen Manager, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNLOP, JULIAN SILVER STRICKLAND=, Capt. 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 3rd _s._ of the late Andrew Dunlop, of Belgrave House, Jersey, M.D., by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Joseph Strickland; _b._ St. Helier, Jersey, 15 Sept. 1876; educ. Victoria College, Jersey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Royal Jersey Militia to the South Staffordshire Regt. 7 Dec. 1895; promoted Lieut. 1 May, 1898, and Capt. 9 Feb. 1904. In Oct. 1899, he was appointed A.D.C. to the Lieut.-Governor of Burma, a post he held until 31 March, 1903, and was from 1905–10 Adjutant of the South Staffordshire Militia and Special Reserve. On the outbreak of war he accompanied his regt. to the Front, as part of the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action while leading a bayonet charge, near Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

=DUNLOP, KENNETH STRICKLAND=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., 8th _s._ of the late Andrew Dunlop, of Belgrave House, Jersey, M.D., by his wife, Alice, dau. of John Joseph Strickland; _b._ St. Helier, Jersey, 17 Aug. 1882; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, and University College, London; went to South America in 1905, was engaged first in the nitrate industry, then as a mining engineer, and when the war broke out was manager of a mine in Bolivia; he returned home in the spring, 1915, qualified as machine-gun officer, went to the front early in Aug. and was attached in that capacity to the 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. there. He was killed in action on the Western front, 26 Sept. 1915, and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Vermelles; _unm._

=DUNN, ALFRED=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1794S, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNN, FRANK=, Leading Seaman, 200087, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=DUNN, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11888, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUNN, ROBERT WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3849), 187689, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNN, SPOTTISWOODE ROBERT=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), (T.F.), _s._ of the late Robert Dunn, who saw service in the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny; _b._ Pimlico, London, 7 June, 1863; educ. London; going to Scotland in 1882, he joined the Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles, and in 1893 was gazetted 2nd Lieut. He was appointed Capt. and Instructor of Musketry, June, 1899; served through the South African War, 1901–2, as Commandant, Howard’s Mine, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Cape Colony and Orange Free State, being awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps. In 1902 he was appointed Major of the 4th Battn. of the Royal Scots, being given the rank of Hon. Capt. in the Army, 9 Oct., having previously received the Volunteer and Territorial Decorations, and in the following year he was awarded the Long Service medal. In 1906 he was Brigade-Major of the 1st Lothian Volunteer Infantry Brigade, became Hon. Lieut.-Col. 25 June, and on the formation of the Territorial Force was appointed Secretary of the Mid-Lothian Association. Here his powers of organisation soon became apparent, and throughout recent years his administration was quoted as an example. When mobilisation was declared the perfection of his work was seen, when the units affiliated to his Association took the field, equipped, complete in every detail. With mobilisation completed, his duties as Secretary of the Territorial Association practically terminated, and, on the call of the military authorities, he became, in the absence of the Colonel through ill-health, Colonel Commanding the 4th Battn. The Royal Scots (Queen’s Edinburgh Rifles). He raised the battn. to a high state of efficiency before going out with it to Gallipoli in 1915. On 16 Jan. 1915, he was gazetted to the command of the 14th Battn. The Royal Scots, was wounded in his first action, on 28 June, 1915, and died on the following day; buried at sea. Colonel Dunn _m._ Edinburgh, 18 July, 1890, Jane, dau. of the late Thomson Kirkwood, of Glasgow; _s.p._

=DUNN, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 19386, Machine Gun Section, 11th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., eldest _s._ of Robert Dunn, of 320, Cornish Row, Gartsherrie, Coatbridge, Iron Worker at Gartsherrie Works, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William King; _b._ Gartsherrie, 30 April, 1894; educ. Gartsherrie Public School; was an Iron Worker at Gartsherrie Works; enlisted, 1 Sept. 1914; trained at Bordon Camp, Aldershot; went to the front, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 26 Sept. 1915; _unm._ His company officer, Lieut. C. A. Scott, wrote “besides being one of the most valuable gunners I had, he was a real nice boy and one for whom I had a great liking”; and a comrade: “It was after our boys had made the attack the Sunday night the 26 Sept. we got word the Germans were making a counter attack, so we had to mount our gun; your brother was in the act of doing so when he was hit with a bullet, and he died almost immediately after.”

=DUNN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2730, 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Edward Greevis Dunn, of 97, Baring Street, South Shields; _b._ South Shields, 27 Dec. 1890; educ. Weston Senior School; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914; went to France, and died 29 June, 1915, of wounds received while on listening post duty. Buried at Bailleul; _unm._

=DUNN, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, 150585, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=DUNNE, PATRICK=, Private, No. 73537, D Coy., 28th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th _s._ of Patrick Dunne, of Mountainstown, Wilkinstown, Navan, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Denis O’Neill; _b._ Slane, co. Meath, 11 Feb. 1893; educ. Fletcherstown School, co. Meath; went to Canada, 12 July, 1913; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the 28th Battn., went to France, 15 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there, 8 Oct. 1915; _unm._ On that day “D Coy. were occupying trenches G1 and G2. About 5 p.m. the Germans blew up two mines under our front trench, and Private Dunne was immediately after reported ‘Missing’ along with a number of others. His body was found a day or so afterwards a considerable distance away from the scene of the explosion, and was buried in Kemmel Cemetery. As he was on duty at the time of the explosion in a section of the trench where one of the explosions occurred, there is no doubt that he met his death through the explosion.”--Canadian Official Report.

=DUNSDON, SIDNEY JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109428, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DUNSTER, ARCHIBALD FRANK (NIP)=, Private, No. 2070, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Frank Charles Dunster, of Sunnyside, Cinque Ports Street, Rye, by his wife, Lottie Julia, dau. of Albert Smith; _b._ Rye, co. Sussex, 21 Dec. 1890; educ. Rye Grammar School; was an Artist; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted 11 Aug. 1914; trained at Dover and was then stationed at the Tower and was for some time on guard at Olympia; went to France, 18 Feb., and died at Bethune, 21 March, 1915, from wounds received in the trenches the previous day; _unm._ When Dunster was wounded, Private J. Adams ran to his assistance, and was himself wounded, and he was eventually carried in by Private Baker Guy, son of the Organist of All Saints’, Hastings. The portrait here reproduced is from a drawing made of him by a German artist interned at Olympia while Dunster was on guard there.

=DURAND, FRANCIS WILLIAM=, Capt., 3rd, attached 2nd, Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of the late Rev. Havilland Durand, for 13 years Vicar of Earley, co. Berks, by his wife, Mary (Moulin Huet House, Guernsey), dau. of the Rev. Montague John Gregg Hawtrey; _b._ Earley Vicarage, 29 Jan. 1875; educ. Elizabeth College, Guernsey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Royal Guernsey L.I. (Militia), 1891; joined the Rhodesian Horse in 1895, and took part in the Matabeleland Campaign with Gwelo Field Force in 1896 (medal, “Matabeleland, 1896”) and the Mashonaland Campaign in 1897 (clasp, “Mashonaland, 1897”). From 1899 to 1901 he served with the African Transcontinental Telegraph Survey through German East Africa, under O. Berringer, Chief Surveyor, Northern Rhodesia, and in 1901–2 with the Tanganyika Concessions Expedition to Katanga, Congo Free State. In 1903 he was employed as Secretary and A.D.C. to the First Minister of the Zanzibar Government. He obtained his company in the 3rd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 Feb. 1906, to remain seconded under the Foreign Office for service in Zanzibar. He was employed under both the military and civil administration of Zanzibar until 1913, being successively Acting-Commandant, Zanzibar Military Police, and Acting-Governor, Central Jail, 1907; 2nd Class Magistrate and Governor of District Jail, 1909; 2nd in Command, Zanzibar Armed Constabulary, 1911. He received the Zanzibar Orders of El Aliyeh (4th class) in 1907 and the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (3rd class) in 1913, in which year he retired on a pension. He had passed the School of Musketry at Hythe in 1908 and in all subjects for promotion to rank of Field Officer in 1912, being one of only five officers specially mentioned in the Examiner’s Report (May) to the Army Council. On mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, he joined his regt., the 3rd Munster Fusiliers, and on 8 Sept. 1914, was attached to the 2nd Battn. in France. He was present at the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and also at Ypres, and was killed in action between Givenchy and Festubert, 22 Dec. 1914, while leading his men in an attack to retake trenches lost the day before. On the evening of 20 Dec. 1914, the 2nd Munsters, commanded by Col. A. M. Bent, were billeted in the outskirts of Bailleul, when at 5 p.m. an urgent message was received by Col. Bent that the 3rd Brigade, to which the battn. belonged, was to be ready to march “as soon as possible.” They started at 6.15 p.m., and after marching for six hours in a tearing blizzard of rain and hail, over roads ankle deep in mud, they reached Merville, where a short halt was called. At 8 a.m., outside Bethune, the battn. halted again, awaiting orders. By 3 p.m. orders were received that the battn. was to occupy the trenches at Festubert vacated by the Indians; the leading brigade deployed for attack and, shortly after, the 3rd Brigade, consisting of the 2nd Welsh Regt., the 1st Gloucester, the Munsters, the 1st South Wales Borderers and the 4th (T.) Royal Welsh Fusiliers, was placed on the left of the 1st Guards Brigade. The brigade then resumed its march, through Gorre to Festubert, where the battn. remained in reserve, but on the night of the 21st received orders that there was to be a general attack upon the German line. All that night the Munsters waited, and all that night it rained and snowed and stormed, until the hour arrived when the battn., led by Col. Bent, started to the attack. The men swarmed over the parapets and raced across the fields, carrying their heavy equipment and following their officers over the shell-scarred, churned-up earth. Strands of barbed wire beset their way and the ground was broken by great shell holes. Before them, from the German trenches, the machine guns hammered out their deadly message of welcome; and the men went gamely on, most splendidly led by their officers. Major Thomson, second in command, fell across the first German trench, but would not permit himself to be removed, continuing to issue orders from where he lay; he was wounded again, the second wound proving fatal. Col. Bent fell in the earlier part of the charge, desperately wounded; Major Day was killed a little later, and Capt. Hugh O’Brien fell as he shouted to his company, “Get a bit of your own back, boys.” Not 20 yards from where Capt. O’Brien fell, Capt. Durand met his death, leading at the extreme point of the advance made by C Coy., under fierce enfilading fire. Men fell on the right and left, and again and again they rallied and stumbled over the broken ground, holding steadily on under the wail of tearing shrapnel, and at last the Munsters reached their goal, the given point, and in the fierce counter-attack they did not lose an inch of what they had taken. Capt. Durand _m._ at St. Mary Abbotts Church, Kensington, 4 June, 1903, Geraldine Vesey (40, Arundel Gardens, Kensington Park Road, W.), yst. dau. of the late Rev. John William Hawtrey, of Aldin House, Slough; _s.p._