Honourable Artillery Coy., only _s._ of George Graham Stewart
Grundy, of Whernside, Headingley, Leeds, Iron and Steel Merchant, by
his wife, Joanna, only dau. of George Taylor, of Leeds and Ripon, and
grandson of the late Edmund Grundy, of Bridge Hall, Bury; _b._
Leeds, co. York, 1 Dec. 1886; educ. Rugby, and on leaving there was
articled to Messrs. Barr, Nelson & Co., Solicitors, of Leeds. He was
admitted a Solicitor in Jan. 1911, and at the time war broke out
was with Messrs. Spyer & Sons, Austin Friars, E.C. He immediately
volunteered and joined the H.A.C., 6 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19
Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 11 April, 1915;
_unm._ He was buried in the grounds of the Château Elzenwalle,
Voormezeele. His Platoon Commander, Capt. M. M. Schiff, wrote: “He
was a great favourite, as he was always so cheerful and bright, under
the worst conditions. He was on guard at the time, in the trench,
that is, standing with his head above the parapet, keeping a look-out
against the Germans. Unfortunately, a shot caught him, and his death
was practically instantaneous. He suffered no pain at all. He was taken
down by the stretcher bearers, and was buried next evening in the
grounds of a chateau, some distance behind the line”; and a comrade
(Private M. Phillips, who was killed exactly one month later, 14 May):
“We had a most terrible time on the above-mentioned night, the Huns
mined a trench on our left, and that started it, rifles, machine guns,
artillery, trench mortars and a few other atrocities, and for about
three-quarters of an hour we were very lively. It died down after a
bit; but, unfortunately, during that time poor old Grundy went under
(my special chum, of whom I was very fond, and I have mentioned him
many times to you in my letters); he was on the ‘look-out’ and took
a bullet straight through the head, dying instantaneously; it was
perfectly awful, as he was next to me in the trench, and was joking and
laughing up to the very minute. He was such a topping good fellow.”
[Illustration: =Geoffrey Stewart Grundy.=]
=GRUNDY, GEORGE EDWARD=, Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. Royal
Warwickshire Regt., yr. _s._ of the late Rev. William Grundy,
Headmaster of Malvern College, by his wife, Margaret (School House,
Abingdon), dau. of Adam Mitchell, of Heathcot, Kincardineshire;
_b._ School House, Warwick, 26 Feb. 1883. He was educ. at
Malvern College, where he got his cricket colours. He won a Classical
Scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford, and took a second class
in Classical Moderations. He was captain of his College cricket and
football elevens and represented the University at golf for three
years, being captain of the team in 1906. He played cricket for the
Authentics. For a year he was a master at Pocklington School, and while
there he played cricket for the Yorkshire Gentlemen. In 1908 he was
appointed to Haileybury College and became House master of “Batten.”
He was appointed 2nd Lieut., Haileybury College O.T.C., 16 Nov. 1910,
and, volunteering on the outbreak of war, was gazetted Lieut. to the
9th Warwicks, 4 Sept. 1914. He left for Dardanelles in H.M.S. Royal
Edward, June, 1915, and was killed in action in the front trenches at
Gallipoli, 22 July, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in Trolley Ravine,
on the edge of the Ægean Sea. A wooden cross was put up by the men of
his regt. Col. Palmer, who was killed two days later and buried beside
him, wrote: “He was one of my best officers. He was always thinking of
the welfare of his men and was much loved by his comrades, who could
not fail to appreciate his unselfish devotion to their interests.”
Major Gordon, who succeeded Col. Palmer in command of the regt., wrote:
“Mr. Grundy was a splendid officer, energetic, capable, cheerful and
brave.” His influence with his men is illustrated by the following
extract from a letter: “He does everything for us and we would do
anything for him.” A brother officer concludes his letter: “Let it be
some consolation that his end was worthy of his life and that he left
behind him an example that we should like to follow.” The Master of
Haileybury College wrote of him: “He was a keen scholar; he was a fine
athlete; but what we loved him for was the boyish laugh, the unfailing
cheeriness, the constant goodness of his heart. He had that real charm
of ‘personality’ which is given to but few men; but it is perhaps the
best of God’s good gifts. I cannot put my feelings better than in the
words one wrote to me: ‘All the sunshine seems to have gone out with
Grundy’s death.’”
[Illustration: =George Edward Grundy.=]
=GRUNDY, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1442), H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GRYLLS, DESSE EDGAR=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1849U, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GUERNSEY, HENEAGE GREVILLE FINCH, LORD=, Capt., 1st Battn.
Irish Guards, eldest _s._ and _h._ of Charles Wightwich,
8th Earl of Aylesford, by his 2nd wife, Ella Victoria, widow of Capt.
James Wingfield Linton, of Hemingford, Hunts, yst. dau. of John Ross,
of Benena Abbots; _b._ 2 June, 1883; educ. Eton; joined the
Militia, Aug. 1901; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Irish Guards, 4 June, 1902,
and was promoted Lieut. 1 Sept. 1904; served in St. Helena during
South African War, 1901 (Queen’s medal); was A.D.C. to Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of Gibraltar, 1 Sept. 1905; retired 1906, became
Capt. Warwickshire Yeomanry, Aug. 1910; and Capt., Reserve of Officers,
15 April, 1914; rejoined the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war; went
to France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed while leading his coy. into
action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at St. Michael’s, Chester
Square, London, 11 June, 1907, the Hon. Gladys Cecil Georgina, née
Fellowes (9, Sussex Square, W.), 2nd dau. of William Henry, 2nd Baron
De Ramsey, and had a son, Heneage Michael Charles, Lord Guernsey. His
brother-in-law, Major Eustace Crawley, 13th Hussars, was killed in
action, 2 Nov. 1914.
[Illustration: =Lord Guernsey.=]
=GUEST, RICHARD THOMAS=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 1103, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=GUEST, SUNNY FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10259), 239771, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GUILL, RAYMOND JAMES=, Petty Officer Telegraphist, J. 269, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=GUMBRELL, CHARLES EDWARD LEOPOLD=, A.B. (B. 1630), 206977, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=GUMMER, FRANK EDWARD=, A.B. 232154, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that
ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=GUNN, FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 8687), 206529, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=GUNN, JOHN ANGUS=, Private, No. 3781, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, eldest _s._ of Peter Gunn, of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland,
by his wife, Alice dau. of James Ridley; _b._ ----; enlisted 18
Sept. 1900, and served 12 years; re-enlisted 17 Feb. 1915; went to
France 7 May following, and was killed in action at Cambrin, 21 June,
1915, while on sniping duty. He _m._ Mary Ellen (26, Washington
Street, Sunderland), dau. of (--). His 3rd brother, Peter, was killed
in action, 29 Oct. 1914 (see his notice), and his 2nd brother, James,
is now (1916) on active service with the R.F.A. The yst. brother,
Albert, Durham L.I., was wounded at Ypres, 28 June, 1915, and invalided
home.
=GUNN, JOHN HEDLEY=, Corpl., No. 3160, 13th Battn. (Princess
Louise’s Kensington Battn.) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._
of James Hedley Gunn, of 54, Solent Road, West Hampstead, one of
the Head Office Staff of the Prudential Assurance Company and
retired Colour-Sergt. of the original 4th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers
(Kensington Rifles), with long service (24 years) medal, by his wife
Sarah Jane, dau. of the late James Downer, of Alum Bay, Isle of
Wight; _b._ West Hampstead, 23 Aug. 1890; educ. privately and
at the Haberdashers’ School, passed the Students’ and Intermediate
Examinations, becoming an Associate of the Auctioneers and Estate
Agents’ Institute, and was in business as Managing Clerk of a firm of
auctioneers and surveyors. After the declaration of war he joined the
Kensingtons, 3 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Aubers Ridge,
Fromelles, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ He was last seen leading his
platoon and calling out, “Come on, boys of A Coy.--let them have it!”
[Illustration: =John Hedley Gunn.=]
=GUNN, PETER=, Private, No. 7007, 1st Battn., Coldstream Guards,
3rd _s._ of Peter Gunn, of Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, by his wife,
Alice, dau. of James Ridley; _b._ Sunderland, 12 June, 1886;
educ. Garden Street School there; enlisted 2 Nov. 1906; went to the
Front with the first Expeditionary Force, and was reported missing
after the heavy fighting at Ypres on 29 Oct. 1914. Later his widow was
advised from Geneva that he was on the German list as dead, and he is
now assumed to have been killed on the above date. He _m._ at
All Saints’, Clapton, 15 Jan. 1910, Margaret (86, Bayston Road, Stoke
Newington, N.), dau. of John Simons, and had two sons: Peter, _b._
18 June, 1911; and John, _b._ 23 April, 1913.
[Illustration: =Peter Gunn.=]
=GUNTER, HENRY THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7275, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=GURDEN, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17119, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GURNEY, BERNARD FRANK=, Private, No. 1536, 3rd Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, 5th _s._ of James Gurney, of Chalfont St. Giles,
F.S.I., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late James Stratton, of
Princes Risborough; _b._ Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, 16 March,
1890; educ. Selhurst Park College, Norwood, and on leaving there
was articled to an elder brother, R. G. Gurney, P.A.S.I., Ledbury;
emigrated to New South Wales in 1910, and took up farming; volunteered
on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth
Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main Force in the 1st
Brigade; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April,
1915, and was killed in action there three days later, on the 29th;
_unm._ Buried at Anzac.
[Illustration: =Bernard Frank Gurney.=]
=GURR, JOHN HENRY=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class, No. Ch. 190332,
Royal Navy, 3rd _s._ of John Gurr, of 2, Galley Hill Road,
Northfleet, Kent, General Dealer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of
William Bullock; _b._ College Street, Northfleet, Kent, 20 Jan.
1881; educ. Board School there; joined the Navy, 7 Aug. 1896; was
promoted ship’s Corpl., Sept. 1907, and was lost in the North Sea when
H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed by a German submarine, 22 Sept. 1914. He
_m._ at St. Mark’s Church, Gillingham, Kent, 13 Aug. 1905, Eva
(14, Melbourne Road, Chatham), dau. of Arthur Robert Sutcliffe, of
Rochester, and had three children: John Arthur, _b._ 30 Sept.
1906; George Herbert, _b._ 27 Sept. 1908; and Thelma, _b._ 17
Oct. 1910.
[Illustration: =John Henry Gurr.=]
=GURR, STEPHEN=, Second Cooper, 296892. H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=GUTHRIE, WILLIAM CAMPBELL=, Petty Officer, 156609, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GUTTRIDGE, DAVID WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15789, H.M.S.
Cressy, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GUY, ARTHUR CHARLES JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2606), 181667,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GUY, HARRY ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6191), 181815, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=GUY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109628, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=GWYDIR, THE VERY REV. CANON ROBERT BASIL, O.S.B.=, Acting
Chaplain, R.N., Rector of St. David’s, Swansea, only child of the late
Robert Clarke Gwydir, of Cartron, Longford, by his wife, Sarah Annie
(20, Quex Road, West Hampstead), dau. of Benjamin Jackson; _b._
Cartron aforesaid, 20 Jan. 1867; educ. Breewood, co. Stafford, and the
English College, Douay (1878–87), and on leaving there went to Belmont
Monastery, Hereford. After spending four years here he returned to
Douay, where he distinguished himself as a clever professor in classics
and English, and by his exceptional intellectual gifts. In 1899 he
started his career as a mission priest at St. Augustine’s, Liverpool,
and after some time there he was moved to St. David’s, Swansea, and
later became Rector, and in 1914 was made a Canon of the Diocese of
Newport. When war began Canon Gwydir immediately offered his services
as a Naval Chaplain, these were accepted, and he left Swansea in Sept.,
and after serving in several ships, was appointed to H.M. Hospital Ship
Rohilla, and was drowned when that ship was wrecked off the Yorkshire
coast, 30 Oct. 1914, when on her way to Belgium to bring back wounded
soldiers. It is stated that when the impact came Canon Gwydir was on
deck. He realised the danger immediately and hurried below to the
sick-bay where a man (Naval Gunner) lay helpless with a fractured leg.
He had hardly gone below when a huge wave struck the vessel and damaged
her so severely that the infirmary was flooded. The Canon being drowned
before he could complete his noble task. His body was recovered same
day when the ship finally broke up. He was buried in the Benedictine
Priory at Belmont. An eloquent preacher and a brilliant scholar, he
read a paper at the National Catholic Congress at Cardiff in July,
1914, and had also read one before the International Eucharistic
Congress at Vienna.
[Illustration: =Robert Basil Gwydir.=]
=GWYNNE, JOHN FITZGERALD, M.B., Ch.B.=, Capt., Royal Army Medical
Corps, elder _s._ of the late Charles Nelson Gwynne, M.D., M.A.
(Trinity College), Senior Surgeon of Christ Hospital, Sheffield, by
his wife, Grace Maunsell (11, Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea
Park, S.W.), dau. of Samuel Hanna, Resident Magistrate, co. Wicklow;
_b._ Sheffield, 29 Aug. 1888; educ. Stancliffe Hall, co. Derby
(1899–1901), Loretto, Musselburgh (Choral Scholarship, 1901–6), and
Sheffield University (Scholar M.B. 1906–11); was House Surgeon at
Sheffield Royal Infirmary, 1911–13, and afterwards Assistant Medical
Officer of the Southwark Union Infirmary, East Dulwich. He first served
in the Territorial Force, in which he was gazetted Lieut. 3 June, 1912,
being transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps 3 Feb. 1914, and was
promoted Capt. 30 March, 1915. On the outbreak of war he served with
Field Ambulance in Flanders, and was attached to 1st Hampshire Battn.
at Ligny, 2 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action in the execution of his
duty at Ypres, 9 July, 1915; _unm._; and was buried in Division
IV Cemetery, Bosinghe. The “Hampshire Regimental Journal” (Aug. 1915),
says: “We have to record another heavy loss to this battn., which has
suffered so many. Our ‘doctor,’ Capt. Gwynne, was shot through the
head by a sniper when on an errand of mercy. On the night of 8–9 July,
the battn. was relieved ... in the trenches captured by the brigade
from the Germans on the 6th. Capt. Gwynne went up to the trenches
shortly after daybreak, to ascertain whether all the wounded had been
evacuated. Several had not been observed in the dark, and he attended
to each of them. He was informed that a bomber of the Rifle Brigade
was lying with his hand blown off in a shallow trench, which was not
approachable in daylight. Reckless as ever of his personal safety when
a wounded man was in question, he proceeded there and had accomplished
his task, when a sniper shot him through the head. Capt. Gwynne, with
one exception, was the senior member of the battn. in point of service
out here, he having joined us at the Chateau de Fontenelles, near
Ligny, during the retreat. We all considered him as one of the battn.,
and for a long time he had been performing the thankless task of Mess
President. A friend of all, with the true sympathy to suffering, as
all doctors have, we regarded his death as our last and one of our
greatest sacrifices to the Ypres salient.” A brother officer wrote:
“Gwynne seems to have made an enormous reputation for his courage. The
whole district round here resounds with his name. The men who knew
him here will talk of him to their dying day. I’ve heard of him all
along the Front now. Everywhere he has been excellent at his work,
and made a tremendous reputation for courage. And it requires courage
to do the things he has done.” Capt. Gwynne was mentioned in F.M. Sir
John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, and was awarded the Military
Cross. The incident which won him this decoration was the rescue of
a soldier under heavy shell fire, whose leg he saw was shot off by a
“Jack Johnson,” whilst his comrade was blown to pieces. Capt. Gwynne
instantly rushed out and carried the man to safety. His yr. and only
brother, Lieut. Owen Perrott Gwynne, 92nd Punjabis, was killed on
active service at Mesopotamia six months later at the age of 25.
[Illustration: =John Fitzgerald Gwynne.=]
=GWYNNE, OWEN PERROTT=, 2nd Lieut., 92nd Punjabis, Indian Army,
_s._ of the late Charles Nelson Gwynne, M.D., M.A., Senior
Surgeon, Christ Hospital, Sheffield, etc., by his wife, Grace Maunsell
(11, Prince of Wales’ Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.), dau. of the late
Samuel Hanna, Resident Magistrate, co. Wicklow; _b._ Sheffield, 19
May, 1890; educ. Lorretto, Musselburgh (1903–7) and afterwards had five
years’ training in engineering at the Sheffield University Technical
School and with Vickers, Maxim & Co., Sheffield. On leaving there in
1913 he was appointed Engineer to the Dunsinane Tea Plantation, Ceylon.
On the outbreak of the European War he joined the Ceylon Planters’
Rifle Corps, 7 Sept. 1914, and was sent to Suez. He was gazetted 2nd
Lieut. to the 92nd Punjabis, 7 Jan. 1915; accompanied the relief
Expedition sent to Mesopotamia, 11 Dec. 1915, and was killed in action
there, 7 Jan. 1916, being shot through the head while in charge of two
machine guns at Sheik Saad, on the Tigris; _unm._
[Illustration: =Owen Perrott Gwynne.=]
=HABBLETT, HAROLD=, Private, No. 396, B Coy., 16th Battn. 4th
Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of the late George
Habblett, of Goole, Platelayer on North Eastern Railway, by his wife,
Hannah, dau. of Anson Bowskin, of Barrow-on-Humber, Lincolnshire;
_b._ Goole, co. York, 1 March, 1892; educ. Skelton; emigrated
to Western Australia in 1911; worked in the bush; volunteered on the
outbreak of war; left for Egypt with the second contingent; took part
in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and died at sea on
board H.M. Hospital Ship Gascon, 4 May following, of wounds received in
action there.
=HACK, CHARLES EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Connaught Rangers,
2nd _s._ of the late William Lionel Frederick Hack, of Silk
Willoughby, by his wife, Emily Elizabeth Louisa (The Cottage, Thruxton,
Andover), dau. of the Rev. Jacob Montagu Mason, Rector of Silk
Willoughby (by his wife, Louisa Maria, eldest dau. of Sir Joseph Burke,
of Glinsk, 11th Bart.); _b._ Silk Willoughby, co. Lincoln, 29
Aug. 1877; educ. Bedford School, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st
Connaught Rangers from the Sligo Artillery (Militia), 1 Dec. 1897; and
promoted Lieut. 9 April, 1900, and Capt. 17 May, 1904. He served in the
South African War, 1899–1902, took part in the advance on and relief
of Ladysmith, including the action at Colenso; the operations of 17–24
Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; operations of 5–7 Feb. 1900, and
action at Vaal Kranz; operations on Tugela Heights (14–27 Feb. 1900,
including the assault of Hart’s Hill, when the Connaughts’ casualties
were over 600), and action at Pieter’s Hill, operations in Natal, March
to April, in Cape Colony, April; in the Orange Free State, May; and
in the Transvaal, May and June, and east of Pretoria, July to Dec.
1900, including action at Riet Vlei; also in those in Cape Colony and
the Orange Free State, Dec. 1900 to June, 1901, and in Cape Colony,
June, 1901, to 31 May, 1902, and was mentioned in Despatches [London
Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and awarded the Queen’s medal with five clasps
and the King’s medal with two clasps. From June, 1911, to 1914, he was
Adjutant of his battn. in India, and had the Delhi Durbar medal, and
on the outbreak of war left for France with the Indian Expeditionary
Force, under Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Willcocks, in Sept. 1914. He was
killed in action while leading an attack on the German trenches near
Laventie on the night of 4–5 Nov. following; _unm._ He fell in the
enemy’s trench, and his body was not recovered. His commanding officer,
Lieut.-Col. Ravenshaw, C.M.G., wrote: “No braver or more well-liked
officer ever served in the Connaught Rangers, and though personally I
only knew him for a short time, there was no officer in the regt. of
whom I had a higher opinion.” And the Acting Adjutant wrote: “It is
useless to try and express what we feel, to all of us as it were he
represented the battn.”
[Illustration: =Charles Edward Hack.=]
=HACKER, ARTHUR ALFRED=, Trooper, No. 13/487, 3rd Auckland Mounted
Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Thomas Hacker;
_b._ Swindon, co. Wilts, 29 Dec. 1886; educ. Sandford Street
School there; went to New Zealand; volunteered and joined the New
Zealand Expeditionary Force in the autumn of 1914; left for Egypt in
Oct., took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and
was killed in action there, 19 or 26 May following; _unm._
=HACKETT, JOHN HENRY=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 2433),
205808, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HADFIELD, WILFRID JOHN MACKENZIE=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Prince
of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., only _s._ of
Major-Gen. Charles Arthur Hadfield, by his wife, Florence Elizabeth,
dau. of the late Rev. Octavius Bathurst Byers, Vicar of Christ Church,
Croydon; _b._ Southsea, 11 Jan. 1889; educ. Norman’s Preparatory
School; “The New Beacon,” Sevenoaks; Repton School; “Army School,”
Stratford-on-Avon, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted
2nd Lieut. to the South Lancashire Regt. 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted
Lieut. 17 April, 1912; went to France with his battn. as Battn.
Transport Officer, and was seriously wounded in the Battle of the
Marne on 6 Sept., dying in the Civil Hospital at Angers, France, four
days later, 10 Sept. 1914; _unm._ Buried in cemetery at Angers
the following day, the French garrison attending and rendering full
military honours. Lieut.-Col. C. Wanliss, commanding his battn., wrote:
“He was a splendid officer, and his loss to the regt. is irreparable.
He worked day and night with the transport, and had he lived would
certainly have received special recognition”; and Lieut.-Col. G.
Ashworth, who succeeded to the command, declared: “Whenever he was
ordered to do anything he did it thoroughly, and put all his energies
into it.” Brig.-Gen. D. G. Prendergast, who had previously for four
years commanded the battn., wrote from Cairo: “Wilfrid was a splendid
soldier and an English boy. I took the greatest interest in him because
I could see he meant to go ahead and rise to the top of his profession
if possible.” Lieut. Hadfield was a keen rifle shot, and winner of the
first prize at the Officers’ Competition, Salisbury Rifle Meeting, in
July, 1914.
[Illustration: =Wilfrid John M. Hadfield.=]
=HADLEY, ALFRED THOMAS=, S.P.O. Stoker, P.O., 305457, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HAGGARTY, PATRICK=, Private, No. 16717, A Coy., 11th (Service)
Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of John Haggarty; _b._ Greenock,
2 Nov. 1885; educ. St. Mary’s Public School there; enlisted 24 Dec.
1914; and was killed in action at Ypres, at 8 a.m., 4 July, 1915, by a
shell. “He had just drawn his breakfast and was on his way back to his
part of the trench, when a high explosive shell came over and struck
him in the mouth, killing him and the Sergt. of his Coy. They were both
buried beside the Headquarters about 30 yards from where they were
killed.” His commanding officer, Capt. R. Wemyss-Campbell, wrote that
“he was a good soldier and did his duty to the last.” He _m._ at
Greenock, 17 Feb. 1911, Helen (34, Shaw Street, Greenock), dau. of (--)
(and Mary, née McIntyre) Sweeney; _s.p._