Part 73

=FLOOD, ARTHUR HENRY=, Corpl., No. 25671, 14th Battn. (1st Grenadier Guards of Montreal), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of Samuel Flood, late of Balham, Carpenter and Joiner; by his wife, Sophia; _b._ Balham, London,] 7 Jan. 1891; educ. there; went to Canada in June, 1911, and was an engineer with the Marconi Wireless Co. in Montreal, and gained his N.C.O. certificate; volunteered after the outbreak of war, left Canada with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France, 10 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action in the attack on Hill 60, 29 April, 1915. He _m._ at Montreal, 15 Aug. 1914, Jennie Bowes (Delorimier Avenue, Montreal), dau. of the late William Brown, of Auldtree, Townend, Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Hairdresser; _s.p._ Two of his brothers--Leonard John and Charles Percy--are now (1916) serving in the Royal Navy, and a third brother, Walter Christopher, is in the Grenadier Guards of Montreal.

=FLOOK, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 3119, 15th Battn. (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Joseph Thomas Flook, of 56, Crooke Road, Deptford, S.E., Paperhanger (for 22 years a member of the 3rd Vol. Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.), by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late Thomas Lowe, Watchmaker and Jeweller, Citizen and Freeman of London; _b._ Rotherhithe, 2 June, 1893; educ. Deptford Park School and Christ’s Hospital, Horsham; and on leaving there became articled to Mr. William Strachan, F.S.A.A., of Messrs. Martin, Farlow & Co. He passed the preliminary examination in May, 1911, and took the first place and prize. At the intermediate examination in May, 1914, he was placed third, but was awarded the 1st prize, the first and second candidates being over age. After the outbreak of the war he joined the Civil Service Rifles in Sept. 1914, went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915; _unm._ He went out with a party of about 60 at 2 o’clock in the morning to carry some trench mortar bombs up to the breastworks. The last piece of road was under frequent shell fire, and the party sustained several casualties, Flook and two others being killed. His body was subsequently recovered, and buried at Festubert by two of his old schoolfellows, and a cross, with an inscription, was erected over his grave. His Platoon Sergt. (W. B. Lambert) wrote: “He was one of my best men, keen, willing and coolly bold.” Two of his brothers are (1916) on active service.

=FLOWER, WILLIAM EVELYN FRANCIS DI DELLE=, Lieut., 6th Hauraki Regt., Auckland Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late George Flower, by his wife, Annie (Heatherleigh, Alexandra Road, Parkstone, Dorset); _b._ Maida Vale, London, 26 Jan. 1885; educ. Winchester College, joined the New Zealand Territorials in Oct. 1912; was appointed 2nd Lieut. 24 Feb. 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for Egypt in Oct.; was promoted Lieut. there and was killed in action during the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915. He _m._ at Renwicktown, Marlborough, New Zealand, 12 May, 1913, Margaret Isobel (Gray Street, Shortland, Thames, New Zealand), dau. of James Brydon, and had issue a son, Richard Evelyn, _b._ Oamaru, New Zealand, 22 Feb. 1914.

=FLOWERDAY, SAMUEL=, A.B., 219736, H.M.S. Liberty; died of wounds received in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.

=FLOWERS, GEORGE=, Joiner, 341781, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLOYD, WILLIAM=, Colour-Sergt., No 6350, Royal Marine L.I., Marine Brigade, Portsmouth Battn., only _s._ of the late William Floyd, of 25, Haymarket, London, and York Road, Weybridge, for over 30 years with Messrs. Garrads & Co., Crown Jewellers, by his wife, Martha (Yarborough Villa, Sandown, Isle of Wight), dau. of Henry Jones, of Westbury Leigh, Wilts; _b._ Pimlico, London, 1 Sept. 1873; educ. Weybridge, Surrey, and after working for a few years with a firm of Goldsmiths in London, joined the Royal Marines, 23 April, 1894. He became Colour-Sergt. 1909, left England for France with Marine Brigade in the early days of the war, and returned to Dover after the fall of Antwerp; went to the Dardanelles the following March, took part in the landing there 25–26 April, and was killed in action, 10 June, 1915; _unm._ An officer wrote that “he felt he had lost a brother, let alone a comrade, as they had been together since the formation of the Battn.”; and another officer wrote of him as “a gallant and well-beloved old soldier whom the whole Battn. mourned.”

=FLUCKER, THOMAS=, A.B., 213727, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=FLUKE, ARTHUR CHARLES=, Lieut., 116th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, elder _s._ of Arthur John Fluke, of Nunnery Road, Canterbury, by his wife, Sarah; _b._ Nasirabad, India, 9 Sept. 1891; educ. King’s School, Canterbury, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 19 July, 1912, and promoted Lieut. shortly before his death; went to France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 10 Jan. 1915; _unm._ He met his death while rallying some men of another regt., their own officers having all been killed or wounded. Lieut. Fluke, with one N.C.O., stuck to his mortar, and continued to work it till it was put out of action, although he himself was wounded in four places, and then, unarmed and wounded as he was, he rallied the men who had been driven out of their trenches and led them back to the attack, only to fall himself by the fifth and fatal wound at the moment of success. Capt. Guy B. Oliver wrote: “I felt I must write you a few lines to tell how very greatly I feel for you in the terrible loss you have sustained. I am the only representative now in the Battery who has been with it since the beginning of the war, and before that at Aldershot, and the loss of your brave son has been a great personal loss to me, and as I know to all ranks in the Battery, for his presence had helped to reduce the various trials of this campaign. Much as we deplore his loss, the Battery is proud in the knowledge of the very gallant way your son conducted himself, and it is very sad indeed to think that he has not been spared to enjoy the honour he so richly deserved. Major Charlton has, I know, written to you and given you details. I am so sorry that none of us were with him at the last, but, as you know, the particular work he was on took him right away from the Battery. From what I can gather, he cannot have suffered much, and his death must have been almost instantaneous.” He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, and Major C. A. Graham Charlton, Commanding 116th Battery, wrote he “was killed yesterday evening in rallying some men of the 60th Rifles, who were driven out of their trenches after all their officers had been killed or wounded. I have not heard many details yet, but, from what I hear, your son behaved in a very gallant manner, and, had he been spared, I am sure his heroism would have been rewarded. Many artillery officers have been trained in the use of trench mortars, and yesterday afternoon an order came for your son to proceed to the front trenches, occupied by the 60th Rifles, with one of these mortars. He had an artillery non-commissioned officer with him. There had been an attack earlier in the day, when this particular trench had been taken from the Germans. After dark the latter counter-attacked, and the 60th were driven out of their forward trenches after all their officers had been killed or wounded. Your son, however, with his N.C.O., stuck to his mortar and continued to work it, although he was wounded in four places. The mortar was then put out of action, and he then, wounded as he was, rallied some men of the 60th and led them back to the attack. He died, being wounded in five places. I cannot tell you how much all his brother officers feel his loss, and on behalf of them I send you our deepest sympathy. The only consolation I can offer you in your great sorrow is that he died a noble and gallant death, a credit to his Battery and his regt.” He was in the XI and XV at King’s School, Canterbury. He was third in the batting averages in 1908 with 38·23, second in 1909 with 30·11. and first in 1910 with 39·40. He was also in the XI at Woolwich, and was a member of the famous Woolwich Rugby XV in 1911, which K. F. Q. Perkins, of the Engineers, captained.

=FLUX, HENRY JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9068), S.S. 2129, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FLUX, HENRY JOHN=, Leading Cook’s Mate, M. 65, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FLYNN, JAMES=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1894T, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOLEY, MARTIN=, Private, No. 19717, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of James Foley, of Kilmurry, Kenmare, co. Kerry, Shoemaker, by his wife, Margaret; _b._ Killarney, co. Kerry, 15 June, 1874; educ. there; went to Canada, 10 May, 1911, settled at Brandon, Manitoba, was a Butcher; enlisted, 4 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 21 May, 1915. He _m._ at Kenmare, 2 Sept. 1902, Elizabeth, dau. of Timothy Callaghan, and had five children: James, _b._ 8 Sept. 1903; Timothy, _b._ 20 Sept. 1904; Mary Angela, _b._ 15 Sept. 1906; Margaret, _b._ 20 June, 1908; and Elizabeth, _b._ 10 April, 1911.

=FOLEY, THOMAS ALGERNON FITZGERALD=, Lieut., 1st Battn. The Norfolk Regt., only _s._ of the late Vice-Admiral Francis John Foley, by his wife, Frances Jane (The Moat, Britford, Salisbury), dau. of De La Bère P. Blayne, and gdson. of Admiral the Hon. Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley [4th _s._ of Thomas, 3rd Baron Foley, P.C.]; _b._ Egerton Gardens, London, S.W., 29 Dec. 1889; and went to Eton (Mr. F. H. Rawlins’ and Mr. H. de Havilland’s Houses) in 1904. There he was in the Army Class, took prizes for history, mathematics, etc., and was in the O.T.C. From Eton he passed direct into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1908, passing first in order of merit in the Junior Trials; he was in the revolver team in 1909 which won many competitions, and he himself made the highest score against Woolwich. He passed sixth out of Sandhurst and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in The Norfolk Regt. 18 Sept. 1909, joining the 1st Battn. at Brentwood, from which it went to Aldershot; there he shot successfully in several of the Aldershot rifle meetings, and was in the company’s team for the Inter-Regimental Grand Challenge Shield, which they retained, and was promoted Lieut. 14 Oct. 1911. On 3 Aug. 1914, his battn. being then at Holywood, Belfast, he was sent to take charge of Grey Point Fort; on the 6th he was recalled for mobilisation to his battn., and sailed with it for the Front, 14 Aug. 1914, landing at Havre. The battn. almost immediately proceeded to Dour in Belgium and was in action there. He took part in the retreat from Mons, and was in every action after proceeding to Dour, including Le Cateau, the Marne and the Aisne, till he fell at Festubert on 25 Oct. 1914. The following account of the circumstances of his death was given by the Colonel and others: “He had just made a most gallant advance to the trenches with his men under a very heavy fire, and had reached there safely. He was in the very foremost of the British lines when he fell, and he died at the head of his men, driving back a most desperate attack by overwhelming numbers of the enemy. He was buried, like a soldier, where he fell. The actual place where he was laid to rest is close to the most advanced trenches, as our line in that part of the battlefield has not advanced a yard since the day when he fell gallantly defending it.” Lieut. Foley was a keen soldier, an excellent shot and horseman. He was _unm._

=FOLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS=, Sick Berth Attendant, M. 5213, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=FOLJAMBE, HUBERT FRANCIS FITZWILLIAM BRABAZON=, Major, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 3rd _s._ of the Right Hon. Francis John Savile Foljambe, P.C., by his wife, Lady Gertrude Emily, née Acheson. eldest dau. of Archibald, 3rd Earl of Gosford, K.P.; _b._ in London, 16 Nov. 1872; educ. Eton; gazetted to the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 6 March, 1895, and promoted Lieut., 18 Feb. 1898, Captain, 20 July, 1901, and Major, 17 July, 1912. He served in the South African War, 1900–2; took part in the operations in Natal, May, 1900, also in those in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to 31 May, 1902, and was for some time Commandant at Helvetia. For his services he was awarded the Queen’s medal with two clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. When the European War broke out, Major Foljambe went out with the first Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action on the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914. Our troops had crossed the river and he was leading his men in a flanking movement when he fell. Major Foljambe was a typical regimental officer and Company Commander, sincerely attached to his men and by them deeply loved and implicitly trusted. His Colour-Sergt. wrote: “He was killed instantly. He was brave and I miss him. The men all loved him.” He was a good shot and rider, and a very keen cricketer, and played for the Eton Ramblers, Free Foresters and “Greenjackets.” He _m._ at Sprotborough, co. York, 16 Nov. 1909, Gladys, dau. of Gen. Robert Calverley Alington Bewicke-Copley, of Sprotborough Hall, co. York, C.B., J.P., D.L., and had a son, John Savile, _b._ 6 Oct. 1911.

=FOLLOWS, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 11742, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Richard Follows, of Sunny Bank, Ansley Village, near Atherstone, Miner; _b._ Norton Canes, co. Stafford; educ. Church Schools there; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Guinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, the same day as his brother Richard, who had enlisted with him; _unm._

=FOLLOWS, RICHARD=, Private, No. 11743, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Richard Follows, of Sunny Bank, Ansley Village, near Atherstone, Miner; _b._ Norton Canes, co. Stafford; educ. King Edward’s Grammar School, Nuneaton; enlisted 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Guinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, the same day as his brother Arthur, who had enlisted with him; _unm._

=FOOT, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4259), S.S. 102948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FOOTITT, JACK FREDERICK LIONEL=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27414, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=FORBES, DUNCAN=, Corpl., No. 1003, D Coy., 12th Battn. 3rd Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 5th _s._ of Roderick Forbes, of Muirton Cottage, Fairburn, Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Gamekeeper, by his wife, Jessie, dau. of the late Duncan McKay, of Knockfarrel, Dingwall; _b._ Fairburn, aforesaid, 6 Jan. 1892; educ. Marybank School, Urray, Ross-shire; went to Western Australia in Oct. 1910, and settled at Pingelly; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main force, was promoted Corpl., 25 April, 1915; landed at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed there, 25 May, 1915, while returning to the trenches from patrol duty; _unm._ He was buried in Anzac Cove. Corpl. Forbes was mentioned in despatches by Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field. Capt. J. A. W. Kayser, the Officer Commanding his Company, wrote: “Duncan was under my command since I took over the command, and my report on him is that he was a brave, trustworthy, honourable soldier and gentleman, and I cannot speak too highly of the way he carried out every mission entrusted to him”; and Archdeacon Richard, Chaplain, 12th Battn.: “His Company Commander told me yesterday, ‘I have lost one of my most reliable men. I have known him for nine months and I have never heard him say or seen him do anything that was unbefitting the character of a true soldier.’ His brother, T. Finlay Forbes, Private, No. 998, who enlisted in the same Company with him, has been missing since 2 May, 1915, and three other brothers are (1916) on active service, one being a 2nd Lieut. in the 1st Seaforths.

=FORBES, GEORGE FRANCIS REGINALD=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 1st Battn. The Royal Irish Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Col. the Hon. William Francis Forbes, Resident Magistrate at the Curragh, by his wife, Phillis Gabriella, 2nd dau. of John Rowe, of Ballycross, co. Wexford, D.L., and grandson of George, 6th Earl of Granard; _b._ Castle Forbes, co. Longford, 6 Sept. 1866; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Irish Regt. (which was raised by the 1st Earl of Granard in 1684) from the Militia, 6 July, 1889, and promoted Lieut., 25 March, 1891; Captain, 30 Jan. 1895; Major, 7 Sept. 1904; and Lieut.-Col., 12 March, 1912. He served through the Tirah Campaign, 1897–8, including operations on the Samana, and received the medal with two clasps; was Adjutant of the Bombay-Baroda Railway Volunteers, 17 May, 1899, to 16 May, 1904, and Staff Capt. No. 12 (South Irish) District, 1 June, 1905, to 31 May, 1909. He succeeded to the command of the 1st Battn., then serving in India, 12 March, 1912, and after the outbreak of war came home with his regt., Nov. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec. 1914, and died at Bailleul, 17 March, 1915, of wounds received at St. Eloi three days previously, and was buried at Bailleul. Col. Forbes was mentioned in Field-Marshal Sir John French’s despatch of 31 May, 1915, for distinguished conduct. He _m._ at Windsor, 4 Aug. 1904, Agnes Margaret, dau. of the late Walter Ewing Crum, of Thornliebank, Renfrewshire, and had a son, Walter Arthur Hastings Forbes, _b._ 18 Dec. 1905.

=FORBES, SPENCER DUNDAS=, Commander, R.N., yr. _s._ of the late George Edward Forbes, of Colinton, Queensland, by his wife, Louisa Lillias (4, Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh), dau. of Archibald Trotter, of Dreghorn, co. Midlothian; _b._ at Keswick, 29 May, 1874; educ. at St. Ninian’s, Moffat; Aysgarth, Yorks; and at Mr. Littlejohns’; entered the Royal Navy as a Cadet in 1887, and became a Midshipman two years later, serving in the Cordelia, on the Australian station, Feb. 1889, and in the Immortalité, in the Channel Squadron, Oct. 1891. As an acting Sub-Lieut. he was lent to the Galatea for the naval manœuvres of July, 1894, and in Feb. 1895, was confirmed as Sub-Lieut. and appointed to the Collingwood, on the Mediterranean Station. He became a Lieut. 30 Sept. 1896, and in the following month was transferred to the Melita on the same station. For nearly four years he was associated with the training service, as watch-keeper in the Volage, Dec. 1898, and in the Juno, Oct. 1899 (both in the training squadron), and as 1st Lieut. in the Cruiser, sailing training vessel for ordinary seamen in the Mediterranean, April, 1900, to Aug. 1902. After a short course at Whale Island he was first and (G.) of the Hermes in the Channel Fleet and as tender to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, April, 1903, and of the Eclipse, which relieved her in the latter duty, Jan. 1906. On 31 Dec. 1907 he was promoted Commander, and served in the Suffolk, in the Mediterranean Cruiser Squadron, from April, 1908, to May, 1910. In Sept. 1910, he joined the war course at Portsmouth, which was followed by a course at the Military Staff College, Camberley, Jan. to June, 1911. He was Commander of the London, as flagship of Rear-Admiral Cradock in the Atlantic Fleet, Aug. 1911, and of the Hibernia, as flagship of the same officer and of Rear-Admiral Thursby in the Third Battle Squadron, May, 1912, to Aug. 1913. During the last four months of 1913 he was member of a Committee, presided over by Rear-Admiral Hood, on the question of training young seamen and boys in sea-going ships. Previous to her being commissioned by Capt. Brandt at the end of July, he commanded the Monmouth, in the Third Fleet at Devonport, from 30 Jan. 1914, and went down in her when, with the Good Hope, Rear-Admiral Cradock’s flagship, she was lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. He _m._ at Malta, 21 Feb. 1913, Ethel, yst. dau. of Col. Selby Walker, late of the Black Watch, and had a son, Spencer Malcolm Edward, _b._ 17 Nov. 1914.

=FORD, ATHOLE STANLEY=, Rifleman, No. 1993, 16th Battn. (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Stanley Ford, of 1, Ardlui Road, West Norwood, S.E., by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of William Armstrong; _b._ Dulwich, S.E., 9 March, 1896; educ. Dulwich College, where he was a corpl. in the O.T.C. and a member of the “Gym” Six; joined the Queen’s Westminsters for foreign service, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war; trained at Hemel Hempstead, went to France, 1 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915. One of his officers wrote that he “made a fine, plucky little soldier and was universally popular”; and his Corpl.: “He was a good lad, a fearless soldier, a splendid comrade--one I was proud to call my friend. By his courage, sympathy and cheerfulness, even under the most trying circumstances during all these months, he endeared himself to us all, and deeply we feel his loss.”

=FORD, FRANCIS JOHN=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., 3592), 196782, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=FORD, FRANK=, Private, No. 6713, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of the late Elijah Ford, by his wife, Emily Jane (Bathpool, near Taunton), dau. of John Wilkins, of West Monkton, Somerset; _b._ Gosport, co. Hants, 21 March, 1888; educ. West Monkton, Somerset; enlisted 22 March, 1906, and served seven years with the Colours, then going to the Reserve. He joined the Cardiff City Police, and prior to the war was stationed at Canton. On mobilisation he rejoined, left Windsor for France on the last day of Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 25 Oct. 1914; _unm._

=FORD, GEORGE=, Stoker, P.O., 285093, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.