Army, only _s._ of Harry Macaulay FitzGibbon, of Greystones, co.
Wicklow, Barrister-at-Law, formerly Capt. and Instructor of Musketry
in the 4th (late 5th) Battn. Connaught Rangers, and now serving on
the Musketry Staff as Capt. and Brigade Musketry Officer, by his
wife, Helen Rebecca, dau. of John Kellock Barton, Surgeon; _b._
Dublin, 5 July, 1889; educ. Strangway’s School, Dublin, Lickey Hills
Preparatory School, Barnt Green, and Radley College, from which latter
he entered Christ Church, Oxford, taking his B.A. degree in 1911. On
6 Jan. 1912, he was appointed to the Unattached List for the Indian
Army, and--after serving for a year with the 3rd Battn. of the Royal
Fusiliers in India--he was appointed a double company officer in
the 128th Pioneers, 5 Jan. 1913, and later went through a course of
engineering with the Sappers and Miners at Rurkee, India, becoming
Lieut. 17 April, 1913. He was in charge of the escort to the Artillery
Regt. near Tussoum, on the Suez Canal, and was attacked at about 3.30
a.m. 3 Feb. 1915, when the Turks attempted to cross the Canal. His
men sank the first pontoon boat, but the second got across. Though
wounded quite early in the fight, after a short retirement to the rear
to bind up his wound he returned and continued to direct his men. Some
two hours or so later it became necessary to transmit an important
message to the commander of the artillery. Lieut. FitzGibbon undertook
to take it himself, and crossing an open space of about a quarter
of a mile--all the while exposed to heavy fire--he delivered the
message. Not till then did he mention that he was wounded. His wound on
receiving attention was found to be serious, and he was removed to the
Signal House at Tussoum Ferry, where, after being bright and cheerful
all day, he succumbed early next morning, 4 Feb. 1915. He was buried
with full military honours in the Ismalia Cemetery, the New Zealanders
furnishing the firing party (as his own regt. was at Serapeum). He
was especially mentioned in Gen. Sir John Maxwell’s Despatch, dated
16 Feb. 1915 [London Gazette, 21 June, 1916], as follows: “128th
Pioneers, Lieut. R. A. Fitzgibbon behaved with conspicuous gallantry.
When severely wounded he ran a considerable distance under fire with a
message to the 5th Egyptian Battery. He has since died of his wounds.”
He was also mentioned in the second list of recommendations, dated
Army Headquarters, Cairo, 19 Aug. 1915. Lieut. FitzGibbon, who was
_unm._, was a keen sportsman, and twice coxed the Radley boat at
Henley Regatta; he was also for a time cox of Christ Church, Oxford,
and subsequently stroke of their second eight. He was a member of the
Leander Rowing Club.
[Illustration: =Richard Apjohn Fitzgibbon.=]
=FITZHERBERT, CHARLES EDWARD=, Private, No. 1496. 15th Battn.
Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of Archibald Malcolm
Fitzherbert, of St. George Maranoa, Queensland, by his wife, Bridget
Agnes, dau. of Michael Lacken; _b._ Charleville, Queensland, 14
Feb. 1888; educ. Brisbane; enlisted in the Australian Expeditionary
Force in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 4 May, 1915;
_unm._
=FITZMAURICE, MAURICE ALEXANDER ROSS GERALDINE=, Lieut., R.E. 21st
Field Coy., 3rd Sappers and Miners, Lahore Division, elder _s._
of the late John Day Stokes Fitzmaurice, Judge of Dharwar, Bombay
Presidency, Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Emily Grace Ellen (The
Haven, Haslemere), dau. of the late Professor Samuel Cooke, M.A., etc.,
Principal Coll. of Science, Poona, India; _b._ Satara, India, 9
June, 1892; educ. South Lodge, Lowestoft, Felsted School, Essex (where
he gained entrance and leaving scholarships), and the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.E., 23 Dec. 1911; joined the
School of Military Engineering, Chatham, 1 April, 1912, and on passing
out in Dec. 1913, elected to go to India. He was promoted Lieut. 31 Jan
1914, and was attached to the 3rd Sappers and Miners, Kirkee, in March
following. When war broke out he was employed as Garrison Engineer
at Bareilly, and was recalled to the 3rd Sappers and Miners, Lahore
Division, joining the 21st Field Company. He went to France with the
Indian Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; was severely wounded in the
fighting at Neuve Chapelle on 28 Oct. 1914, and was invalided home,
the 20th and 21st Field Cos., 3rd S. and M., being specially mentioned
in the despatch of 20 Nov. 1914. He returned to the Front on 19 Feb.
1915; took part in the storming of Neuve Chapelle Village on 10 to 15
March, and was with the Lahore Division in the fighting for Ypres at
the end of April, 1915, being for a time in command of his company,
all the other officers being wounded. He was killed when on night duty
at an outpost near Neuve Chapelle, 6 Aug. 1915, by a stray bullet:
_unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s
Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in
the field, and his commanding officer. Col. Coffin, R.E. said of him:
“His loss to us is very great; always devoted to his work and cheery,
he was a great favourite with all with whom he came in contact.” His
company commander, Capt. Rawlence, R.E., also wrote; “His loss will be
deeply felt in the company in which he has always set such an example
of hard work and cheery endurance. He was shot between the shoulders
whilst supervising the construction of loopholes in a post just behind
the firing line at 2 a.m. on 6 Aug.” He was buried in the Cemetery at
Vieille Chapelle, side by side with Capt. Glenday, R.E., of the same
company, who was killed two nights later, at the same spot.
[Illustration: =M. A. R. G. Fitzmaurice.=]
=FITZPATRICK, WILFRED=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary
Force, _s._ of the Rev. Henry Fitzpatrick, of Hyderabad, Deccan,
India, Chaplain of St. George’s Church there; _b._ Hyderabad
aforesaid, ... March, 1877; educ. in England and India; settled in
Canada; served through the South African War as a trooper, and on
the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, joined the Canadian
Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the Second Battle
of Ypres, 24 April, 1915, being buried near where he fell; _unm._
=FITZROY, EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2509), 194087, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=FLACK, FREDERICK JAMES=, Gunner (R.F.R., B. 368), late R.M.A.,
6403 H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FLAHERTY, ROY LESLEY=, Private, No. 18495, 1st (Western Ontario)
Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of the late John
Edward Flaherty, of St. John’s, New Brunswick, Canada, by his wife,
Elizabeth, dau. of Patrick McGrath, of Cork, Ireland; _b._ St.
Stephens aforesaid, 24 Dec. 1879; educ. St. Malachi’s School, St.
John’s, N.B.; went West about 1907, and finally settled at Grouard,
Alberta, and had a homestead of 160 acres at Dunvegan in that province,
and land in Price River Crossing, Alberta. When war broke out in Aug.
1914, he was with a Dominion survey party in the Peace River district,
200 miles north of Edmonton, and, with eight of his comrades, he set
out at once for Edmonton and joined the 9th (101st Edmonton Fusiliers)
Battn. After training at Valcartier he was transferred to the 1st
Battn., left with the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary
Force in Oct., and after spending the winter on Salisbury Plain, went
to the Front on 4 Feb. 1915. He took part in the actions at Neuve
Chapelle, Hill 60, Langemarck, and was wounded in the thigh at the
Battle of Festubert, 24 May, 1915, and died at Rawal Pindi, British
General Hospital, Wimereux, two days later; _unm._ He once rode
700 miles from Missoula, Mont., over the mountains to Calgary, in 17
days, a feat which attracted some attention in the West. One of his
brothers, Private Fred E. Flaherty, No. 111175, is now (1916) on active
service in France, with the Hospital Staff, D Coy., 4th Battn., C.M.R.,
8th Brigade.
[Illustration: =Roy Lesley Flaherty.=]
=FLAXMAN, CHARLES, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, 11031, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FLAXMAN, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 2666, 1st Life Guards, eldest
_s._ of Arthur Charles Flaxman, of Burgh Castle, Suffolk, Thatcher
and Reed-layer, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Sergt. John Ellis, 52nd
Oxford L.I. (who served in the Crimean War and lost his right arm in
the Indian Mutiny); _b._ Bradwell, co. Suffolk, 26 Sept. 1888;
educ. there; enlisted in the 1st Life Guards, 9th March, 1908, promoted
Corp., 14 Oct. 1913; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed in
action at Ypres, 13 May, 1915, by a shell; _unm._ His commanding
officer wrote that he was “a real good soldier, and a great loss to B
Squadron.”
=FLEMING, GEOFFREY MONTAGUE MASON=, M.B., T.C.D., Lieut., Royal
Army Medical Corps, only _s._ of Alfred George Fleming, of
Beechfield, Blackrock, co. Dublin, Deputy Cashier, Bank of Ireland;
_b._ Wilton Lodge, Blackrock, co. Dublin, 8 Feb. 1890; and was
educ. Avoca School, Blackrock, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he
graduated with a Moderatorship in 1911, and subsequently obtained the
degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. with honours. At the outbreak of the war he
was House Surgeon of the Meath Hospital and Co. Dublin Infirmary, and
volunteering was gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C. 16 Aug. 1914. He was sent to
Egypt to meet the Indian Troops, and was attached to the Lahore Indian
General Hospital at Marseilles, Boulogne and Montreuil. Subsequently he
joined the 26th Field Ambulance, was in the attack on Fromelles 9–10
May, 1915, and was killed in action near Givenchy, 16 June, 1915, while
attending to the wounded. He was buried in the Guards Cemetery there;
_unm._ His Col. wrote: “He was loyal and devoted to his profession
and gallantly performed his duties with us. He had endeared himself to
all of us, and we all deplore his loss most sincerely.”
[Illustration: =Geoffrey M. M. Fleming.=]
=FLEMING, GEORGE JAMES=, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, L. 4352,
Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=FLEMING, MALCOLM JAMES HENDERSON=, Lieut., 1/5th Battn. Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of James Fleming, of
Kilmory, Skelmorlie, co. Ayr, J.P., by his wife, Jane, dau. of Andrew
Henderson, of Glasgow, merchant, and grandson of James Fleming, of
Newlandsfield, co. Renfrew, J.P.; _b._ Kilmory, 27 April, 1883;
educ. Boutenburn Raspur School, Largs; and Fettes College, Edinburgh;
afterwards going to Hanover for six months, and then to Lausanne
for a like period, to perfect his German and French. He served his
apprenticeship as an engineer with engineering firms in Paisley, and
with Siemens, Berlin, and on returning home was offered a post with
Messrs. Fleming, Reid & Co., Worsted Spinners, Greenock, and at the
time of the outbreak of the war had become a sub-manager with them.
He had joined the 5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 11 June,
1911, and obtained his commission as Lieut., 30 Oct. 1912, and on the
outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service. He left Dunfermline
with his regt. for Egypt, 31 May, 1915; went to the Dardanelles at the
end of June; was wounded at Achi Baba on 12 July, and died on board
the hospital ship Asturias, 14 July, 1915. He had volunteered to lead
a bombing party, and it was while doing that that he was hit. He was
_unm._, and was buried at sea. His Commanding Officer wrote that
“he went forth to the arduous work full of courage and determination
and was an inspiration to his men.” After he was wounded he greatly
lessened his chance of recovery by insisting on giving up his place
to others at the dressing station. One of his men who met him being
carried to the surgeon spoke to him saying: “Sir, I am sorry you have
been hit.” Lieut. Fleming replied: “Marvellous charge. Glorious death.”
Another wrote: “He was a splendid officer. He was daring, and feared
not death. He was most thoughtful of his men.”
[Illustration: =Malcolm J. H. Fleming.=]
=FLETCHER, EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./8922, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=FLETCHER, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Private, No. 1014, 8th Battn. (90th
Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Richard
Fletcher, of Hill Farm, Steventon, co. Berks, Labourer, by his wife,
Sarah, dau. of William Denton, of Steventon; _b._ Hill Farm,
Steventon, 4 April, 1891; educ. there; went to Canada in July, 1913,
and settled at Portage La Prairie as a mill hand; enlisted on the
outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent in
Oct. 1914, and trained on Salisbury Plain. He went to France, 17 Feb.
1915; served through the Battles of Ypres and Langemarck, when the
Canadians, to use Lord French’s words, “saved the situation,” and was
killed in action at Langemarck, 24 April, 1915, while returning from
binding up a comrade’s wounds; _unm._
=FLETCHER, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110730 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FLETCHER, REGINALD WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Field Artillery,
yst. _s._ of Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher, of Norham End,
Oxford, formerly Fellow of All Souls’ and Magdalen Colleges; _b._
Oxford, 19 March, 1892; educ. Eton, and Balliol College, Oxford, and
was gazetted, with a University Commission, to the 8th Brigade, R.F.A.,
on the day war was declared; went to France, 20 Aug., and was killed in
action at Veldhoek, Belgium, 31 Oct. 1914, while serving with the 118th
Battery. He was stroke of a Trial Eight at Oxford in three successive
years, 1911–12–13, and also for four years stroke of his college boat;
he rowed in the Leander Four at Henley Regatta in 1913, and in the
Oxford University Eight in March, 1914.
=FLETCHER, WALTER BELL=, Private, No. 445, 4th Platoon Coy., 14th
Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._
of James Fletcher, of 2, Fletcher Street, Cockermouth, by his wife,
Isabella, dau. of John (and Elizabeth) Atkins; _b._ Cockermouth,
co. Cumberland, 11 April, 1879; educ. Board School, Cockermouth,
afterwards joining the Cockermouth Volunteers when 18 years of age. He
went to Australia in 1911, and settled at Traralgon, Victoria, and on
the outbreak of war he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force;
left for Egypt with the main force, and was killed in action at the
Dardanelles, 5 May, 1915. He had been 10 days in the trenches at Gaba
Tepe, and was shot by a sniper when going for water. He _m._ in
Edinburgh 15 years ago, (--) (Ethel Street, Lock Park, Traralgon,
Victoria, Australia), dau. of John Walker, of Portobello, and had three
sons and two daus.: James, _b._ 1902; John William, _b._
1906; Walter, _b._ 1908; Winifred, _b._ 1904; and Emily
Isabel, _b._ 1913.
=FLETCHER, WALTER GEORGE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher, of Norham
End, Oxford, formerly Fellow of All Souls’ and Magdalen Colleges;
_b._ Oxford, 7 Jan. 1888; educ. Eton (1901–6, rowed No. 7 in the
Eton VIII. at Henley in 1906, and was Capt. of the School, 1906, and
won the Jelf Verse Prize); and Balliol College, Oxford (1907–10, rowed
in the Balliol College VIII. in 1907); was for six months in 1910–11
teacher of English in the Real-Gymnasium at Schleswig, and in the
autumn of the latter year went as a classical master to Shrewsbury
School. In September, 1913, he became an assistant classical master at
Eton College, and on 22 Oct. 1913, was gazetted a 2nd Lieut. in the
Eton O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he was selected as an interpreter
in the Intelligence Corps (6 Aug. 1914). He went to the Front with the
first contingent on Aug. 12, served through the retreat from Mons,
and in the subsequent advance to the Aisne. In Sept. he was attached
to the 2nd Battn. of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, in which regt. he was
constantly employed on patrol work, his accurate knowledge of German
proving of great service. He was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now
Lord) French’s Despatches, those of 14 Jan. and 31 May, and was killed
in action near Bois Grenier, France, 20 March, 1915; _unm._ His
yst. brother, 2nd Lieut. R. W. Fletcher, was killed 31 Oct. (see his
notice).
=FLEURY, LEOPOLD M’CLINTOCK=, A.B., No. T.Z./359, C Coy., Hood
Battn., R.N.V.R. (2nd R.N. Brigade), 5th _s._ of the Rev. Louis
Richard Fleury, of 4, Seafield Terrace, Castle Avenue, Clontarf,
Dublin, M.A., late Rector of Kilworth Parish and Chaplain to the
Forces at Kilworth Camp and Moore Park, by his wife, Alice Dora, dau.
of the late Rev. Canon Robert Gilbert Eccles, and grandson of Capt.
John Franquefort Fleury, 36th Regt.; _b._ The Glebe, Kilworth,
co. Cork, 25 Feb. 1892; educated privately, Elphin Grammar School, and
Dublin, and having just completed his course of Marine Engineering on
the Tyne when war broke out, volunteered in the Hood Battn., R.N.V.R.,
in Oct. 1914. He left England with that corps for the Dardanelles
in March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 6 May, 1915, being
shot through the brain; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “He is deeply
missed, as he was such a fine fellow, and he was very much liked both
by officers and men.” An elder brother, Assistant Paymaster Richard
Chenevix Fleury, is (1916) on the Staff of Vice-Admiral Sir F. D.
Sturdee, on board his Flagship in one of the Squadrons of the Grand
Fleet in the North Sea, while his two yst. brothers, John Charles,
4th Battn. New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and Hugo Valentine, 95th Battn.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, are, respectively on active service in
France and at Shorncliffe Camp, Kent.
=FLINTOFF, ARTHUR JOHN=, Private, No. 1121, 4th Battn. Australian
Contingent, 5th _s._ of the late Churchill Flintoff, of Hill
House, Alnwick, Dentist, by his wife, Susan H. (West House Haighington,
Darlington), dau. of the Rev. Francis P. Gladwin Miss; _b._
Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 17 March, 1886; educ. Grammar School
there, and Padcroft School, West Drayton; went to Australia in 1909,
and on the outbreak of war joined the Australian Imperial Force, going
to Egypt with the 4th Battn. in April, 1915, and shortly afterwards
to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action 1 May, 1915. He
_m._ at Sydney, Australia, 13 June, 1913, Ida, dau. of the late
(--) Reid; _s.p._
=FLINTOFT, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11658, 2nd Battn.
Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of John Flintoft, of Lastingham,
Sinnington, Hull, Stonemason, by his wife Mary Jane, dau. of Charles
Ward; _b._ Lastingham, co. York, 26 Nov. 1891; educ. Darley
Memorial School; was an Asylum Attendant; enlisted, 7 Sept. 1914; went
to France, 22 Jan. 1915, and died in No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station,
Choques, 6 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action. Buried in Choques
Cemetery.
=FLIPP, CHARLES COLLINS=, S.P.O. (R.F.R., B. 3465), 294461, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=FLITTER, JESSE=, Private, No. 10056, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of David Flitter, of Drury Lane, Mortimer, Reading,
Labourer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Bushnell, late 33rd Regt.
of Foot (with 21 years 7 months service); _b._ Mortimer, co.
Berks; educ. there; enlisted 31 March, 1913; went to the Front with his
regt. in Aug. 1914; was wounded while assisting some wounded comrades 7
Sept., and died at No. 10, Station Hospital, Orleans, 4 Oct. 1914, of
wounds received in action at the Marne; _unm._ He was buried in
the Grand Cemetière, Orleans.
[Illustration: =Jesse Flitter.=]
=FLOCKHART, ADAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27403 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=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.
[Illustration: =Thomas Edward Flook.=]
=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.
[Illustration: =W. E. F. di D. Flower.=]
=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.”
[Illustration: =William Floyd.=]
=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.