4175), S.S. 102841, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel,
on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=ANSTISS, HENRY CECIL=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15448, H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANSTEY, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Devonshire
Regt., elder _s._ of Major William Frederick Anstey, late 71st
Highland L.I., by his wife Isabella Frances Alexandra, dau. of George
Alexander Whitla, late Capt. Royal Antrim Rifles; _b._ Ulundi
Lodge, Curragh Camp. Ireland, 29 Feb. 1888; educ. Wellington College,
from where, having received an Hon. King’s Cadetship, he passed into
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Nov.
1908, and promoted Lieut. 7 June, 1911, and Capt. 21 June, 1915. He
accompanied his regt. to the Front at the end of August, 1914, and
was wounded at La Bassée and invalided home in Oct. 1914. He returned
to the Front in Jan. 1915, and on 17 June, 1915, he was temporarily
attached to the 2nd Cheshire Regt., and had been with them one week
when he was killed in the trenches in Flanders by a sniper at 1.45
a.m. 24 June, 1915. He was buried near Dickebusch in the 2nd Cheshire
cemetery; _unm._ Major Walter Goodwyn, 1st Devonshire Regt., in
temporary command of the 2nd Cheshire Regt., wrote: “It was at 1.45
a.m. this morning that your son’s senior subaltern, Beckett, rang
up on the telephone to say that his company commander had just been
shot through the head whilst standing at the parapet in the trenches.
I understand from his subalterns, Beckett and Jones, that he wished
to give some of the latest joined lads in his company confidence in
manning the parapet and replying to the enemy’s fire. These infernal
snipers though have rifle batteries sighted and clamped on certain
spots for night firing, and your boy must have most unluckily struck
one of these places, as he had two bullets in head and neck. The
trenches were roughly 150 feet apart (_i.e._, German and British)
where he was hit, and it was a fairly dark night with little or no
moon.” And Lieut. Beckett himself wrote: “I was an officer in his
company and came up only a minute afterwards. He was firing with a
rifle over the parapet and was hit in the neck by a rifle bullet, and
died at once without any pain at all. He was wonderfully cool, and
during the short time he was with the regiment had done an awful lot
to pull the company together. We are awfully sorry to lose so good an
officer.” Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Fergusson, C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O.,
commanding 2nd Army, in a letter to Capt. Anstey’s father, said that
“Gen. Bulfin, who commanded the Division to which he was temporarily
attached, told him that in the few days Capt. Anstey had served with
the Cheshires he had shown himself a really first-rate officer, and had
put new life into them.”
[Illustration: =George Alexander Anstey.=]
=ANSTICE, JOHN SPENCER RUSCOMBE=, Lieut., 2nd Royal Fusiliers,
only child of Col. Sir Arthur Anstice, K.C.B., V.D., J.P., D.L.,
cos. Salop and Gloucester, by his wife, Agnes Pauline, dau. of the
late Ferdinand Unna, of Lancaster Gate, W.; _b._ Marnwood, co.
Salop, 13 Feb. 1894; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
Royal Fusiliers 17 Sept. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 21 Jan. 1915. At
the outbreak of war he was with his regt. in India. He took part in
quelling the Sikh riots at Budge-Budge, near Calcutta, in Sept. 1914,
and brought home their Sikh banner. Returning home he joined the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force with his regt., took part in the
memorable landing from H.M.S. Implacable of the 29th Division on the
Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April, 1915; distinguished himself at the
Battle of the Five Beaches, and when ammunition was urgently wanted
carried 161 lbs. at a time to the firing line under a murderous fire,
and finally took a trench and prisoners, receiving special mention in
Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept. He was killed in action at the
Dardanelles, 2 May, 1915, and was buried near the spot where he fell.
[Illustration: =John S. R. Anstice.=]
=ANTILL, ALFRED MANSFIELD=, Private, No. 18889, 2nd Battn. South
Wales Borderers, _s._ of George William Antill, of Carisbrooke
Road, Newport, Monmouth, by his wife, Harriett, dau. of Elisha Sant;
_b._ Newport, 25 Jan. 1895; educ. Maindee Board School there;
enlisted in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 28
June, 1915. He had been acting as orderly to Capt. Fowler.
[Illustration: =Alfred Mansfield Antill.=]
=ANTROBUS, EDMUND=, Lieut., Grenadier Guards, only _s._
of Col. Sir Edmund Antrobus, 4th Bart., of Antrobus, co. Chester,
of Amesbury Abbey, co. Wilts., and Rutherford, co. Roxburgh, late
Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Florence Caroline Mathilde, dau. of the
late Jules Alexander Sartoris, of Hopsford Hall, co. Warwick; _b._
Eaton Square, S.W., 23 Dec. 1886; educ. Eton and in France; gazetted
as 2nd Lieut. to the Grenadier Guards from the Militia, 27 May, 1908;
became Lieut. 21 Nov. 1908; killed in action at Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914.
Buried in the orchard of a small farmhouse in the village of Keghside;
_unm._ Lieut. Antrobus was reported a very keen and courageous
officer, and highly popular.
[Illustration: =Edmund Antrobus.=]
=APLIN, ELPHINSTONE D’OYLEY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire
Regt., _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Hugh Morgan Aplin, Royal Naval Ordnance
Dept.; _b._ Upnor Castle, Rochester, 14 June, 1892; entered the
Army Feb. 1913; promoted Lieut. 31 Oct. 1914; was severely wounded in
action near Ypres 9 May, and died at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station,
13 May, 1915; buried Bailleul Cemetery. He was complimented by the
Major-Gen. Commanding ... Division B.E.F. for distinguished conduct in
the field.
[Illustration: =Elphinstone D’Oyley Aplin.=]
=APPLEYARD, WALTER D’ANCIE=, Private, No. 14789, D Coy., 7th
Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of William Appleyard, one
time secretary to the National Children’s Hospital, Dublin (_d._
5 April, 1903), by his wife, Mary (32, Sandford Road, Dublin), dau.
of Stuart Corrie Chambers; _b._ Dublin, 21 Dec. 1884; educ. High
School, Dublin, where he won honours, prizes, and exhibitions, and
was afterwards employed in the Irish Land Commission. On the outbreak
of war enlisted in the 7th Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and left for
the Dardanelles with D Coy. 10 July, 1915, arriving at Gallipoli 6 Aug.
and landing at Suvla Bay on Saturday, the 7th inst. The moment they
landed the troops were in action, and D Coy. leading they advanced over
the open plain a target for heavy shell fire and snipers, at evening
driving the Turks out at the point of the bayonet and capturing Hill
53. Private Appleyard escaped without a scratch, though a bullet passed
through the leg of his trousers. Later he was with three or four men
in a small post without ammunition; the enemy were throwing bombs on
them. It was while throwing back these bombs that he was shot through
the heart, 16 Aug. 1915, on the ridge Kislagh Dagh. He was buried in
Gallipoli at the foot of Dublin Hill (Hill 53); _unm._ Letters
from his comrades are unanimous in extolling his bravery, devotion to
duty, self-sacrifice, and good comradeship. His brother, George, is now
(1916) serving with the Leinsters at the Front.
[Illustration: =Walter D’Ancie Appleyard.=]
=ARBUTHNOT, KENNETH WINDHAM=, Major, 2nd Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders, 6th _s._ of William Reierson Arbuthnot, late of
Plawhatch, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, by his wife, Mary Helen, dau. of
Philip Anstruther, late Colonial Secretary of Ceylon (by his wife, née
Stewart-Mackenzie, of Kintail, granddau. of Francis Lord Seaforth, and
a descendant of the Sir Walter Scott who originally raised the Seaforth
Highlanders); _b._ 23 July, 1873; educ. privately, at Bath College
and Sandhurst; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Seaforth
Highlanders, 19 July, 1893, and was promoted Lieut. 3 July, 1895; Capt.
29 April, 1900; Brevet Major 22 Aug. 1902; and Major 10 June, 1909.
He took part in the operations in Chitral in 1895, serving with the
Relief Force and receiving the medal with clasp; and with the Sudan
Expedition, 1893. He was present at the Battle of Khartoum, and for his
services received the King’s medal with clasp and the Egyptian medal.
In the South African war, 1901–2, he was employed with the Mounted
Infantry, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony (Feb. 1901),
the Orange Free State (Feb.-March, 1901), and the Transvaal (March,
1901–31 May, 1902). He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette,
29 July, 1902], given the brevet of Major and the Queen’s medal with
five clasps. After his return to England he acted as Adjutant of the
4th Volunteer Battn. of his regt., 10 Aug. 1907, to 31 March, 1908,
and of the Territorials, 1 April, 1908, to 9 June, 1909, and was
Brigade-Major, Gordon Infantry Brigade (Scottish Command), 12 Oct.
1911, to 9 Aug. 1914. On the declaration of war he rejoined his regt.,
went to the Front in Nov., and was killed in action at the second
Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915. He was buried on the left side of the
St. Jean-St. Julien Road, about 1,000 yards south of St. Julien. Major
Arbuthnot _m._ on 26 April, 1911, Janet Elspeth, dau. of Major
Sinclair Wemyss, Gordon Highlanders, and had two children: John Wemyss,
_b._ 11 Feb. 1912, and Robert Michael Wemyss, _b._ 9 March,
1914.
[Illustration: =Kenneth W. Arbuthnot.=]
=ARCHER, FRED=, Private, No. 5229, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards,
_s._ of Charles Archer, of 163, St. Anne’s Well Road, Nottingham;
_b._ Nottingham; enlisted 24 Oct. 1903; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was
killed in action at Rental, 28 Oct. 1914.
=ARCHER, GEORGE=, Private, No. G 8965, 4th Battn. The Middlesex
Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders;
killed in action, 10 Oct. 1915.
=ARCHER, JOHN WILLIAM BUTTS=, Lieut., The Buffs (East Kent
Regt.), only _s._ of the Rev. George Archer, Rector of Stilton,
Peterborough, by his wife, Beatrice, dau. of Capt. William Pitt Butts,
The Buffs; _b._ Longfield, Halifax, co. York, 14 March, 1890;
educ. Stubbington, in France, and at the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5 Oct. 1910, and Lieut. 9 March, 1912;
served at Singapore 1910–12, and in India, 1912–14. Recalled to England
at the outbreak of war, he arrived home late in Dec. and spent a few
days at his home at Stilton before proceeding to France on 16 Jan. The
regt. was at once moved up to the firing line, he was wounded in the
fighting at Ypres 15 Feb. 1915, and died the following day; _unm._
The story of his death is told in a letter of his Commanding Officer.
It appears that on the night of 15 Feb. (almost exactly a month after
he went to France), Lieut. Archer was sent out with his men to the
relief of a regiment which was holding a trench which had been attacked
by the Germans in the dark. He succeeded in fighting his way to the
trench at the expense of half his men and of his own gallant life. The
effort to hold the trench was successful. It was Lieut. Archer’s task
thus to take the lead in the counter-attack which the Brigade made
to retake the trenches which had been lost, but the other regiments
were so badly knocked about by a bitter shell fire that they could
not get up to support him and his gallant little handful of men, and
so the work was splendidly done by this small company themselves.
When he fell, mortally wounded, they carried him at enormous risk
to themselves, into a dug-out in the trench, and here he died about
twenty-four hours afterwards, for it was impossible to get him out of
the trench and into hospital in face of the terrible fire which was
maintained.
[Illustration: =John William Butts Archer.=]
=ARCHIBALD, WILLIAM=, Major, 2nd Lowland Field Co., R.E. (T.F.),
29th Division, _s._ of the late William Richmond Archibald, of
Mossend, Schoolmaster; educ. at Glasgow High School; was with Messrs.
William Jacks & Co., of Glasgow, iron and ore merchants; joined the
old 2nd Lanarkshire R.E.V. after the Boer war, and in 1908, when the
Volunteers were reorganised, became attached to the Works Company of
the Lanarkshire Fortress Engineers at Bellshill, being given the rank
of Lieut. Subsequently after the disbandment of this unit, he was
posted as supernumerary to the 2nd Lowland Field Co., became Captain,
12 Sept. 1914, and Major Commanding 26 Jan. 1915; served with the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles; was wounded
on the evening of the 18 June, 1915, while on his way to visit the
section officers, and died the same day. A brother officer wrote:
“The death of Major Archibald is a great loss to the country; he was
an exceptional soldier and officer.” Major Archibald _m._ at
Dundyvan, Coatbridge, co. Lanark, 9 Aug. 1911, Helen Gibson, dau. of
the late James Mitchell, of Coatbridge, iron master and had issue two
daus.: Margaret Allan, _b._ 5 June, 1912, and Elizabeth Campbell
McLellan, _b._ 25 Sept. 1914.
[Illustration: =William Archibald.=]
=ARGENT, WILLIAM ROBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10426), 229038, H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ARLAIN, EDWIN=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off
Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=ARMES, JOHN HENRY=, A.B., R.F.R., B. 1756, 211569, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov 1914.
=ARMITAGE, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 157690, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ARMSTRONG, ELLERAY FRANCIS=, L.-Corpl., No. 63046, 3rd Battn.,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of Elleray Armstrong, of
Eastmoor Drive, Carlton, Nottingham, by his wife, Jane Davidson, dau.
of the late Walter Watson Walker, of Manchester; _b._ Stretford,
near Manchester, 9 Feb. 1893; educ. Elmswood College and Sale Grammar
School; went to Canada in 1912, and settled down to business in
Montreal, returning for a short visit in June, 1914, for a deferred
celebration of his twenty-first birthday; volunteered after the
outbreak of war, and enlisted, 9 Nov. 1914; came over with the Second
Contingent, landing in England, 7 March, 1915; went to France, 1 May,
and was killed in action at Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, during an attack
on the German lines. He was buried near Givenchy, 500 yards east of
Duck’s Bill; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote that he “was a
grand soldier and man.”
=ARMSTRONG, GEORGE LEIGHTON=, Private, No. 18186, 1st Battn. Royal
Welsh Fusiliers, _s._ of the late Edward Armstrong, 16th (Queen’s)
Lancers, by his wife, Isabella (Methuen Street, Wavertree), dau. of
John Smart, and grandson of the late Col. Edward Armstrong, of Bedford;
_b._ at Edge Hill, Liverpool, 3 March, 1884; educ. at Sefton Park
School; joined the Army after the outbreak of war, 22 Nov. 1914, and
died of wounds at Neuve Chapelle, 15 March, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =George L. Armstrong.=]
=ARMSTRONG, JAMES=, Stoker P.O., 294264 H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=ARMSTRONG, JOHN=, A.B., J. 3996, R.N., killed in action at
Tsing-tau, 22 Aug. 1914, on board H.M. Destroyer Kennet while engaged
in chasing the German Destroyer S 90.
=ARMSTRONG, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2706, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Robert Armstrong; _b._ Marylebone, London;
enlisted 1 June, 1899; served in South Africa, 23 May, 1900, to 6
Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with three clasps: “Belfast,” “Cape Colony,”
“Orange Free State”; and King’s medal with two clasps: “South Africa,
1901,” “South Africa, 1902”); and with the Expeditionary Force in
France and Flanders, 12 Aug. 1914, to 13 Feb. 1915, when he was killed
in action at Cuinchy. Buried in the rear of the trenches there. He
_m._ at Marylebone Parish Church, 1 Jan. 1905, Elizabeth (56,
Ashmill Street, Lisson Grove, N.W.), dau. of (--) Leonard, and had four
children: Charles, _b._ 1 Jan. 1908; Thomas, _b._ 1 May,
1914; Elizabeth, _b._ 4 Oct. 1905; and Annie, _b._ 1 Nov.
1909.
=ARNELL, JAMES ALEXANDER=, Private, No. A. 34446, 10th, formerly
50th, Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of John
Arnell, of Calgary (who joined the 56th Battn., 1 May, 1915, as a
Military Policeman, and died on active service at Calgary, 27 Dec.
following), by his wife, Jessie G. (805, Fifth Avenue, West Calgary,
Alberta), dau. of (--) Taylor; _b._ Calgary, 25 Oct. 1894;
educ. Calgary, Woodstock College, Ontario, and Mount Royal College
(diploma), Calgary; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 23 Jan.
1915, and was killed in action in France, 30 Sept. 1915, by a rifle
grenade; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote speaking highly of
his conduct. He was a keen sportsman, and had won two medals for Rugby
football.
[Illustration: =James Alexander Arnell.=]
=ARNOLD, CHARLES EDGAR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9600),
S.S. 106981, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=ARNOLD, FERDINAND FRANCK WILLIAM=, Capt. 1st Batt. Suffolk (The
12th) Regt., elder _s._ of Franck Thomas Arnold, of the University
College of South Wales, M.A. Trin. Coll. Cambridge, by his wife Edith
Maud, dau. of Samuel William Kelly, and grandson of the Rev. Charles
Thomas Arnold, of Rugby; _b._ Penarth, near Cardiff, 19 March,
1888; educ. Rugby, and after going through Sandhurst, was gazetted
to the 1st Battn. of the Suffolk Regt., 29 Aug. 1906, being promoted
Lieut., 6 Mar. 1909, and serving with the Battn. in Malta and Egypt.
When war broke out, he was in Khartoum, and acted as Italian Censor,
for which he received a letter of thanks from the Sirdar. In Dec.
1914, he was given his company, and on going to the Front in Jan.
was appointed Machine-gun Officer to the 84th Infantry Brigade, but
afterwards returned to regimental work, taking command of a double
company owing to shortage of officers. He was killed in action, near
Zonnebeke not far from Ypres, being shot in the trenches, which were
enfiladed by the enemy, 23 April, 1915; unm.; buried in the garden of
a farmhouse, near Zonnebeke. Capt. Arnold belonged to an old Suffolk
family, from a branch of which Dr. Arnold of Rugby was also descended.
Many of his forebears served with distinction in the Royal Navy. Capt.
Thomas Arnold distinguished himself in 1718 by boarding and taking the
colours of the Spanish flagship Royal St. Philip, which are still in
the possession of his family. The son of the latter, Thomas Arnold,
sailed round the world as midshipman on the Centurion, under Lord
Anson, and in 1782, and Aldous Charles Arnold (great-great-grandfather
of Capt. F. F. W. Arnold) was present as midshipman in the Royal
William at the Siege of Gibraltar. Capt. Arnold was a keen sportsman,
and letters from brother officers bear witness to the value that was
set upon him in the regt., both as a soldier and as a friend. One
wrote: “He was always merry and cheerful, even under the most adverse
circumstances, and set an example to officers and men alike.” The late
Major Maycock, D.S.O. (late of the 1st Suffolks), wrote as follows:
“As you know, your son was my subaltern for two years, and I had the
highest opinion of his ability as a soldier. He was a thoroughly keen
and efficient officer, and would have gone far had he been spared. I
am expecting to go to the Front immediately, and if I rejoin the 1st
Battn. I shall miss your son very much. I felt I must write to you both
to say how grieved I was to hear of your loss, and to let you know the
high opinion I had of your son, personally and professionally.”
[Illustration: =Ferdinand F. W. Arnold.=]
=ARNOLD, HARRY RICHARD=, Private, No. 13058, 2nd Battn. Coldstream
Guards; eldest _s._ of Harvey Arnold, of 251, High Street, Henley
in Arden, co. Warwick, boot and shoe maker, by his wife Ellen, dau.
of John Mills, of Yew Tree View, Henley in Arden; _b._ Henley
in Arden, 3 Feb. 1895; educ. Council School there; enlisted 5 Oct.
1914; went to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at
Cambrin, by a rifle grenade which fell in the trench, badly wounding
him in the back, and breaking his left leg, 6 July, 1915; _unm._
He was buried at Cambrin. Capt. Lloyd, writing to Mrs. Arnold, said
that though her son had not been out long, he had proved himself an
excellent soldier, and that by his death the Company had lost one of
its best and pleasantest members.
[Illustration: =Harry Richard Arnold.=]
=ARNOLD, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9798), 297700,
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ARNOLD, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16953, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ARTHUR, CHARLES=, Rifleman, No. 1770, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria
Rifles) The London Regt. (Machine Gun Section), only _s._ of the
late Richard Arthur, for several years manager at Messrs. Busvines,
4, Brook Street, London, W. [2nd son of James Arthur, of Great
Treveryan Farm, Tynardreath, Cornwall], by his wife Emily (Pentillie,
Lostwithiel, co Cornwall), dau. of the late Alderman Charles Taylor
Cheesman, of Hove, Sussex; _b._ Regent’s Park, London, N.W., 2
July, 1890; educ. Brighton Grammar School and London Orphan School,
Watford, at which latter he passed all the local Cambridge Exams,
(three with honours), also earning the scholarship given by Mr. J.
Debenham for two years’ tuition in Switzerland; he was in the employ of
Messrs. Debenham & Co., of Wimpole Street; joined Queen Victoria’s in
1908, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered for foreign
service. He was killed in action near Ypres, 5 Jan. 1915, being buried
at Neuve Eglise; _unm._ When at Watford he was Captain of the
1st Eleven cricket team. He also won the championship for swimming,
and while in Switzerland gained a diploma for football. At Messrs.
Debenham’s Sports Ground he won the silver cup in a tennis tournament.
[Illustration: =Charles Arthur.=]
=ARTHUR, HERBERT GEORGE=, Private, No. 1357, D Coy., 1st (Royal
Fusiliers) Battn. The London Regt., 3rd _s._ of Harry Reginald
Arthur, of 5, Kingswood Avenue, Kilburn, by his wife, Lydia Arthur,
dau. of Benjamin Wyatt; _b._ Kilburn, N.W., 7 Nov. 1895; educ.
Kingsgate Road L.C.C. School there, where he was top boy of the school
in chemistry, and afterwards obtained a berth in the Haberdashers’
School, Cricklewood, as science master’s assistant. He remained here
for three years, and then went to Messrs. Burroughs & Wellcome,
chemical manufacturers, Dartford, where he was employed until the
outbreak of war. He had joined the 1st Battn. London Regt. in 1911,
and, volunteering for active service, left with his regt. for Malta,
4 Sept. 1914, and returned after having passed as a first-class shot.
After a few days’ leave, he went to France, and was killed in action,
17 May, 1915; _unm._ His officer, Lieut. H. A. Eiloart, wrote:
“He died a soldier’s death in the face of the enemy, being shot in the
head and dying instantaneously while firing from our trench. He was in
my Half-company and in my platoon from the time we left for Malta up
to the time of his death, and I feel his death most keenly, both as
a soldier and a man.” His two elder brothers are now (1916) serving
in the Army: Gunner H. Arthur, R.M.A., on board H.M.S. Colossus, and
Corpl. J. R. Arthur, with the 1st Australian Expeditionary Force.
[Illustration: =Herbert George Arthur.=]
=ARTHUR, RICHARD VICTOR=, L.-Corpl., No. 8118, 3rd Battn.
Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of John Meredith Arthur, of 46,
Aston Lane, Handsworth, Grocer, by his wife, Emma Jane; _b._
Shirley, co. Warwick, 9 Feb. 1892; educ. Small Heath Secondary
School, Birmingham; enlisted on or about 5 Oct. 1908, and was killed
in action at Landrecies, 8.30 p.m., 25 Aug. 1914, during the retreat
from Mons. He _m._ at St. Michael’s Church, Camberley, 27 July,
1912, Margaret Emily (12, The Mews, Watchetts Road, Camberley), dau.
of Thomas Herridge, of Camberley, and had two sons: Richard John,
_b._ 23 Nov. 1913, and Victor George, _b._ 28 Jan. 1915.
[Illustration: =Richard Victor Arthur.=]