Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart., M.P.;
_b._ Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 12 June, 1878: educ. Rugby and
New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1900 with honours in the
History School, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1902,
and practised on the Northern Circuit in the Palatine Chancery Court.
He was returned as Liberal Member for Heywood at the General Elections
in Jan. 1910, and again in Dec. the same year, and was Parliamentary
Private Secretary to Mr. Runciman, at the Board of Education, March,
1910, to Nov. 1911, and to Mr. McKenna at the Home Office from Nov.
1911 to Aug. 1914. He joined the Mounted Infantry Company of the old
2nd Manchester Volunteers (now the 6th Manchester Regt.) in 1904, and
became Capt. 1 June, 1913. On the declaration of war he volunteered
for foreign service, and went to Egypt in Sept. 1914, as A.D.C.
to Major-Gen. Douglas, commanding the East Lancashire Territorial
Division. In Aug. he exchanged the comparative safety of Divisional
Headquarters for the fighting line, and was killed in action at the
Dardanelles, 24 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the Lancashire
Cemetery at Gallipoli. His Colonel wrote: “When we went to the front
line it was greatly due to his coolness and bravery that the men
were kept cool and every one in his place when we had a very large
mine blown up just against our trench;” and the Right Hon. C. F. G.
Masterman: “Courage, mental and physical, was the outstanding element
in Harold Cawley’s character. In the House of Commons he commenced by
advocating an unpopular cause in his constituency and opposed those who
desired to effect economies through retrenchment in the Navy. He made
short speeches, putting his points with lucidity and ability.” In a
letter to a friend, Capt. Cawley wrote: “I told the General I wanted to
join the Battn., and he has sent the application forward; I was ashamed
of being behind here whilst all those fellows were being killed.” Capt.
Cawley was a good sportsman, and he was known as a hard rider. He won
the North Hereford point-to-point in 1913 and the Bar point-to-point in
1914. He was the third Member of the Commons killed in action. His next
yr. brother, Major J. Stephen Cawley, was killed in action in France
(see following notice).
[Illustration: =Harold Thomas Cawley.=]
=CAWLEY, JOHN STEPHEN=, Major, 20th Hussars, and Brigade-Major,
1st Cavalry Brigade, 3rd _s._ of Sir Frederick Cawley, 1st Bart.,
M.P.; _b._ Crumpsall, co. Lancaster, 27 Oct. 1879; educ. Lockers
Park, Rugby and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and obtained his
commission in the 20th Hussars, 3 Aug. 1898, joining them at Mhow,
India. He became Lieut. 8 Jan. 1900, and obtained his troop, 12 Oct.
1906. He served in the South African War, going to the Cape in 1901;
was signalling officer to General Lowe’s Column, being present at the
operations in the Orange Free State and Cape Colony, for which he
received the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He subsequently served
in Egypt, and was Adjutant of his regt. 7 Nov. 1903 to 6 May, 1907;
and after passing through the Staff College, he became instructor at
the Cavalry School at Netheravon, 8 Aug. 1910, and the following year
(12 Aug. 1911) was appointed General Staff Officer at the War Office,
an appointment he held till 15 April, 1913. On 16 April, 1913, he was
made Brigade Major of the 1st Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, and on
the outbreak of war accompanied it to France. He was killed in action
at Nery during the retreat from Mons, 1 Sept. 1914; was buried there;
_unm._ A brother officer gave the following account of his death:
“Our brigade was attacked soon after dawn at Nery by a force double
our number--a cavalry division with 12 guns. Owing to thick mist
they managed to get within 600 yards of us; 350 horses of the ‘Bays’
stampeded and their men went after them, and the L Battery was cut to
pieces. The occasion was one which called for personal example, and
Major Cawley, by permission of the General, went to help to restore
order and get the broken remnants in their places. The situation being
met and every one being in his place, he joined the advance line and
was almost immediately killed by a piece of shell. The splendid manner
in which he met his death in deliberately facing the awful fire to help
others where he really need not have done so, is only what his whole
life has led us to expect.” And a well-known cavalry officer, in a
letter to “The Times,” said: “We had billeted in a village, and when
day broke there was a thick mist. Our patrol came back saying that a
German force was close by. My regt. got the warning first, and we had
time to get our men into position behind some, thick walls; but the
Artillery and the ‘Bays,’ who had picketed their horses in the open,
were too late and were caught by a terrific fire. All the officers of
the battery were killed or wounded, and the ‘Bays’ had nine casualties
amongst their officers. They were very hard pressed, and Cawley, who
was in the village, ran out into the open to try and collect some
men and take them up into support. Just then a shell burst, and he
was hit in the head. He was unconscious from the moment he was hit,
and died in about a quarter of an hour.” General Briggs, commanding
the Brigade, wrote of him: “He has been a true friend and always a
conscientious staff officer to me for nearly two years, and it is
needless to say how much I feel his death. He proved himself to be a
real fighter in war, and was always cool and collected.” Major Cawley
was a good all round sportsman. He was in the Rugby football team and
shooting eight at Sandhurst, and in the hockey team, and was whip to
the Drag at the Staff College; played for his regt. at polo when they
won the Inter-Regimental Cup in India (Meerut), 1901; the Clements Polo
Cup in South Africa (Pretoria), 1903; and the Inter-Regimental Cup
(Hurlingham), 1906 and 1907. He won the Officers’ Riding and Jumping
prize at the Royal Military Tournament in 1905, and was well known with
the North Hereford and Whaddon Chase Hunts.
=CAWSE, SAMUEL GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 13420, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=CAWTHRA, HAROLD=, Private, No. 3739, 1/10th Battn. (Liverpool
Scottish) The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of the late
Carl Barber Cawthra; _b._ Arwick Green, Manchester, 10 June, 1895;
educ. Claughton Higher Grade School, Birkenhead; joined the Army at the
outbreak of the war, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Hill
60, 13 March, 1915; _unm._
=CAYME, BERNARD GLYDE=, Private, No. 81142, 10th Battn. (Western
Canada Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of Harry
Cayme, of The Red House, Horndean, co. Hants, by his wife, Minnie
Annie, dau. of Edward Culver, of 9, Amhurst Park, Stamford Hill, N.;
_b._ Stamford Hill, 17 Feb. 1891; educ. Ardingly College, Haywards
Heath, in 1908 emigrated to Canada to take up farming, and eventually
settled at Manson, Manitoba, where he purchased land. On the outbreak
of war he joined the 3rd Battn. Western Canada Regt., came to England
with the 2nd Contingent early in the spring of 1915, was quartered at
Shorncliffe, and ordered to France to reinforce the Canadians after
the first memorable attack of gas by the Germans in April, being then
transferred to the 10th Battn. He was killed in action at the Battle of
Festubert, 22 May, 1915, being killed instantly with some 10 comrades
by shrapnel; _unm._ Officers and men alike wrote in high praise
of his courage and constant cheerfulness under any circumstances
however difficult, and being the only man of his platoon who could
speak French he was in constant request whilst in billets. He has been
offered promotion in Canada, and on four occasions at the Front, all
of which he refused, declining to forsake his comrades. The Caymes are
of Huguenot descent and settled at Rye after the Revocation of the
Edict of Nantes in 1685, and Bernard Glyde Cayme, who was the last of
the name in the male line, now lies in the land from which his family
originated.
[Illustration: =Bernard Glyde Cayme.=]
=CECIL, GEORGE EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Grenadier Guards,
only _s._ of Lord Edward Cecil, K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Brevet Col.,
Coldstream Guards, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government since
1912, by his wife, Violet Georgina, 2nd dau. of Admiral Frederick
Augustus Maxse, of Dunley Hill, Surrey, and gdson. of Robert Arthur
Talbot, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., P.C.; _b._ 20, Arlington
Street, W., 9 Sept. 1895; educ. Winchester, and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, where he took a prize cadetship in 1912, passing
out at the end of 1913. He passed his examination for a French
cadetship in Jan. 1914, and was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. Grenadier
Guards, 25 Feb. following. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, the 2nd
Battn. went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and Lieut.
Cecil acted as orderly officer to General Scott Kerr at the Battle of
Landrecies. He was killed in the severe action fought by the rearguard
of the 4th Brigade, near Villers-Cotterets, 1 Sept. 1914; _unm._
=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.
[Illustration: =Rupert E. Gascoyne-Cecil.=]
=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).
[Illustration: =Frederick J. Chadwick.=]
=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._
[Illustration: =Richard M. Chadwick.=]
=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.”
[Illustration: =Alan Crawhall Challoner.=]
=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.”
[Illustration: =R. H. Ingles-Chamberlayne.=]
=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._
[Illustration: =Victor A. R. Champion.=]
=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.
[Illustration: =Henry N. Chandler.=]
=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.