New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of the late Rev.
William Henry Hughes, Vicar of St. Hilary, Marazion, Cornwall, by his
wife, Kathleen, yst. dau. of the late Charles Gumm, of White Hall,
Chingford, Essex; _b._ Trevarthian, Marazion, 25 Sept. 1887; educ.
Kelly College, Tavistock; settled in New Zealand; joined the Wellington
Mounted Rifles on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba
Tepe, Gallipoli, 30 May, 1915; _unm._
=HUGHES, LIONEL HOLFORD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st.
Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., only _s._ of the late Allen
Edward Hughes, of Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Earthenware
Manufacturer (died 15 April, 1916), by his wife, Evelyn Emma, yst. dau.
of The Rev. Samuel Plant, Vicar of Weston-on-Trent and Prebendary of
Lichfield; _b._ Wychdon Lodge, near Stafford, 25 July, 1895; educ.
St. Ronan’s, Worthing, and Lancing College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
3rd North Staffords, 6 March, 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914,
where he was attd. to the 1st Battn. and was killed in action near the
Rue du Bois, 29 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. de Falbe, C.M.G.,
D.S.O., commanding 1st North Staffords, wrote: “He was killed to-day,
by a shell in the trenches near Rue du Bois, a small village two miles
south of Armentières. He was killed instantaneously, and is buried
on the west side of the Armentières-Wavrin Railway, and 300 yards
north-west of the level crossing at Rue du Bois. The grave is marked
with a cross inscribed with his name and regiment.”
[Illustration: =Lionel Holford Hughes.=]
=HUGHES, PRYCE=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, Brecknockshire Battn. (24th)
South Wales Borderers (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Hughes, of New Inn
Hotel, Merthyr, Licensed Victualler; _b._ Brecon, 8 Feb. 1874;
educ. Butcher’s Grammar School there; joined the 1st Brecknockshire
Volunteer Battn. South Wales Borderers (No. 2498), 27 Feb. 1893, and
passed into the Territorial Force (No. 30) 3 April, 1908; became Sergt.
12 Dec. 1908, and later Coy. Sergt.-Major. He served in the South
African War with the South Wales Borderers (Queen’s medal), and on the
outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service; went to
Aden with his Battn. 29 Oct. 1914, and died on active service there, 19
June, 1915; _unm._ Buried in Government Cemetery there. He had the
Long Service Medal.
=HUGHES, SIDNEY ISAAC=, L.-Corpl., No. 12481, 1st Battn. The
Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of the late William Edgar Hughes,
of Leigh Farm, Woodlands, St. Mary, Hungerford, Farmer, by his wife,
Catherine (Berkeley Road, Newbury, Berks), dau. of Henry King,
of Woodlands, St. Mary, Farmer; _b._ Woodlands, St. Mary,
Hungerford, co. Berks, 15 July, 1891; educ. Newbury Church School; was
an Engineer’s Fitter and Erector; volunteered after the outbreak of
war, and enlisted in the Coldstreams, 10 Sept. 1914, with two of his
brothers; appointed L.-Corpl., Dec.; went to France, 9 Jan. 1915, and
was reported missing after the fighting at Cuinchy, 25 Jan. 1915, and
is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; _unm._
[Illustration: =Sidney Isaac Hughes.=]
=HUGHES, THOMAS JOSEPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8019),
S.S. 103750, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=HUGHES, THOMAS HECTOR=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt.,
_s._ of Frederick Hughes, of Wallfield, Reigate; _b._ there,
16 July, 1881; educ. Repton and Sandhurst; received his commission as
2nd Lieut. in the Worcesters, 3 May, 1901; gazetted Lieut. in May,
1903; acted as Adjutant from Nov. 1910 to Nov. 1913; obtained his
company, 28 June, 1911, and was killed in action near Richebourg St.
Vaast, 15 Oct. 1914, being buried 250 yards north of that place. He
was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan., 1915,
for gallant and distinguished service in the field. Capt. Hughes was
an excellent cricketer, and played for Hampshire and the Aldershot
Command. When his battn. went to Tidworth in 1911 he gave much
attention to sport and rendered assistance to Capt. Whitty towards
winning the Queen Victoria Cup in 1913. In a letter to the Daily
Telegraph, dated 21 Oct. 1914, Col. Rowland Hill, President of the
Grindelwald Sports Meeting, said: “He was for years our champion ski
expert, the capt. and centre-forward of our hockey team, one of the
best of our curlers, the capt. of our rifle team against the Swiss
marksmen. The cheeriest and best of comrades, always to the front in
any fun or sport, he will be missed and sincerely mourned by hundreds
of friends.” Capt. Hughes _m._ at Hythe, co. Kent, 4 May, 1911,
Gertrude Mary, dau. of Charles Frederick Dobson, of Nottingham, and
had two children: Thomas Frederick, _b._ 15 March 1914; and Joan
Winifred, _b._ 22 June, 1912.
=HUGHES, WALLACE JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 305429, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=GORDON-HUGHES, GORDON STONHOUSE (“DICK”)=, Corpl., No. 677, 8th
Battn. 90th Winnipeg Rifles (“Little Black Devils”), and posthumous
Lieut. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Gordon
Gordon-Hughes, Capt., 92nd Gordon Highlanders, afterwards Col. and
Adjutant of the Breconshire Rifle Volunteers, by his second wife,
Elise Elizabeth (now widow of Algernon Walford Spencer, B.A.), dau. of
George Summers Griffiths, of Marl Hill, Cheltenham, and Maida Vale,
London, W., J.P., Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple and Oxford Circuit,
and gdson. of Gen. Samuel Hughes, C.B., of the Indian Army; _b._
Hampstead, 1 July, 1890; educ. Abingdon and Streatham Colleges; went
to Canada in 1904, and purchased a farm in Manitoba. In 1911 went to
Winnipeg where he became a Chartered Accountant. He had just received
his final diploma when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, and
he immediately volunteered for Imperial service and joined the 90th
Winnipeg Rifles. He left Valcartier with the first contingent, arrived
in England in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain, Col. Lipsett
specially selected him as Regimental Scout. Went to France in Feb.
1915; took part in the Second Battle of Ypres, after which he was
promoted Corpl., and in the engagements at Langemarck (St. Julien),
where he was wounded in the head, gassed and crushed under sand bags,
but refused to go into Hospital; and Festubert, where, on 22 May, 1915,
he was mortally wounded. He died in Hospital at Boulogne on the 25th,
and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 2251) on the
27th; _unm._ Col. (now Gen.) Lipsett wrote: “In losing your son
I felt I had lost one of my very best, most reliable, and promising
men, the commission for which I recommended him was gained entirely on
his own merits, and for very good work done; a son to be proud of”;
and Major A. W. Woods: “The boys of No. 2 Coy. never wavered for an
instant, it was one of the finest instances of endurance that could
be imagined, they were in a perfect inferno of shell fire. Your boy,
though terribly wounded, uttered no word of complaint, and exhibited
the most magnificent fortitude.” Lieut. J. P. MacKenzie wrote: “Corpl.
Gordon-Hughes was an exceptionally gallant young man, he was very
highly thought of, and liked, by every officer and man in the Battn.
I believe he did more than one brave act, which entitled him to
promotion, high mention, and reward, but the officers of his Coy., who
saw and knew of these brave acts were all killed or prisoners, and
there was no one left to bring these conspicuous acts of bravery, etc.,
before the O.C. Battn.” He was gazetted Lieut. shortly after his death.
A bed in the Mackenzie Military Hospital, Winnipeg, was endowed by the
T.O.D.E. and named the “Dick Gordon-Hughes” in his memory.
[Illustration: =G. S. Gordon-Hughes.=]
=HUGO, LAWRENCE WILLIAM ALBERT=, Lieut., Wellington Infantry
Regt., _s._ of William Eugene Hugo, and of his wife, Mary (3,
Rossmore Crescent, Wellington, New Zealand); _b._ Napier, New
Zealand, 28 March, 1885; educ. Terrace School, Wellington; joined the
Volunteers in March, 1903, and on the introduction of the Territorial
system received a commission and was posted to the Technical College
Cadets. He was in charge of the Cadets from Nov. 1911, until the
outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, when he volunteered for
Imperial service. He was gazetted Lieut. 1 Sept. following; left for
Egypt with the main force in Oct.; took part in the landing at the
Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Walker’s
Ridge 4 May following. He was a crack rifle shot, and while in the
Volunteers was Instructor of the Squads which won the Physical Drill
and Bayonet-fighting Championships at the Military Tournaments.
[Illustration: =Lawrence W. A. Hugo.=]
=HULBERT, HAROLD JOHN=, Private, No. 13507, 5th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of George Reginald Hulbert, of
Bethany, Manitoba, by his wife, Amy, dau. of John Woodcock, of
Netherhampton, Wiltshire; _b._ Bethany, 1 Oct. 1894; educ.
Minnedosa High School; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force
directly war broke out; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.
1914, and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter, went
to the Front in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of
Ypres, 24 April, 1915; _unm._ He was buried near St. Julien. Major
Dyer, D.S.O., wrote: “Your boy was killed by shell fire on the hill
of Gravenstaffel, while his company was advancing to support the 8th
Battn. and help fill the gap left by the retiring Turcos.... We were
holding the trenches against 15,000 Germans with less than 1,000 men
... for the last two days without food or water, but we were all there
was between the Germans and Calais.”
[Illustration: =Harold John Hulbert.=]
=HULME, SIDNEY=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., I.C. 42), H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HUME, ARTHUR GRENVILLE=, Major, Wellington Infantry, New Zealand
Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Arthur Hume, late 79th
Cameron Highlanders and Inspector of Prisons, N.Z., by his wife, Raby,
dau. of Dr. Macintire, Inspector-General of Hospitals; _b._
Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, 3 Oct. 1873; educ. Wellington College, and
Wanganui College, New Zealand; was an Engineer; had been for many
years in New Zealand Territorials and was Major, Garrison Artillery,
when the European War broke out in Aug. 1914; volunteered for Imperial
service and left for Egypt with the fourth reinforcements in April,
1915; served at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at Suvla
Bay, 8 Aug. 1915. He _m._ at Bath, 8 April, 1902, Amy Charlotte
(8, Kensington, Bath), dau. of William Rogers, and had a son, Philip
Waldron Grenville, _b._ 31 July, 1903.
=HUME, ISAAC=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1267), 141118, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=HUMFREY, WILLIAM KNOX=, of Cavanacor, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn.
Lancashire Fusiliers, eldest surviving _s._ of the late Col.
Benjamin Geale Humfrey, of Cavanacor, co. Donegal (who commanded the
3rd Leicestershire Regt. in the South African War), by his wife, Emily
Anne (Cavanacor, Ballindrait, co. Donegal), 2nd dau. of William Knox,
of Clonleigh, co. Donegal, N.E., I.C.S. [gdson. of the Right Rev.
and Hon. William Knox, D.D., Lord Bishop of Derry, yr. brother of
Thomas, 1st Earl of Ranfurly]; _b._ Narborough, co. Leicester, 14
May, 1891; educ. Bedford Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
Lancashire Fusiliers, 5 Oct. 1910; succeeded his elder brother in the
family estates, 23 May, 1912; promoted Lieut. 3 Sept. 1914; went to
France, 21 Aug. 1914, was appointed Machine-Gun Officer, and was killed
in action at the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1914; _unm._ Buried
at Esnes.
[Illustration: =William Knox Humfrey.=]
=HUMPHREY, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1134), 276452,
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HUMPHREY, EDMUND WILLIAM ALFRED=, Acting Lieut., Royal Naval
Reserve, _s._ of Edmund Humphrey, of Boughton-under-Blean and
Westgate-on-Sea, Schoolmaster, by his wife, Emma Lynch, dau. of William
Andrews; _b._ Boughton-under-Blean, co. Kent, 11 July, 1880; educ.
Wreight’s School, Faversham, and Margate School of Art; and joined
the Merchant Service in 1895, being apprenticed to the Shaw, Saville
and Albion Coy. and acquired his first knowledge of seacraft in the
old-fashioned sailing ships, gradually working his way to a master’s
ticket. He afterwards entered the service of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Coy. becoming 2nd officer, and in 1898 was nominated by the
late Lord Goschen, then First Lord of the Admiralty, to a commission
as Midshipman, R.N.R., and received his annual training in H.M.S.
President, becoming Sub-Lieut. 10 April, 1904; just prior to the war
was accepted for a year’s training in a battle ship, and appointed to
H.M.S. Formidable, 1914, in which he was serving as acting Lieut. when
she was torpedoed in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915. A brother officer who
survived, wrote: “Humphrey was popular with his shipmates and certain
to have done his duty to the end.” He _m._ at the Presbyterian
Church, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1908, Annie McIlwrick Neilson (28, Hampstead
Road, Elm Park, Liverpool), dau. of James Neilson Sproul, of Paisley
and Liverpool, and had a dau., Joan, _b._ 7 July, 1915.
[Illustration: =Edmund W. A. Humphrey.=]
=HUMPHREYS, GEORGE GEOFFREY PENDERGAST=, Major, 127th Regt.
Queen Mary’s Own Baluchis L.I., yst. _s._ of the late Thomas
William Drumond Humphreys, J.P., of Donoughmore House, Castlefin,
co. Donegal, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Dr. Thomas Thomson, of
Leamington; _b._ Milltown house, Strabane, co. Tyrone, 17 Feb.
1873; educ. All Hallow’s School, Honiton, and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst (1891–2); gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Welsh Regt.
13 July, 1892; transferred to the Indian Staff Corps as Lieut. 13
July, 1895, and promoted Capt. 13 July, 1901, and Major, 13 July,
1910; was Staff Officer to the Officer Commanding the troops in East
Africa Protectorate and Uganda, 1897–8 (medal with clasp); and Double
Coy. Officer, 130th Baluchis, with China Field Force in 1901; was
Adjutant Sind Volunteer Rifles, 1 May, 1908, to 1 May, 1911; Double
Coy. Commander, 17 April, 1910; and an extra A.D.C. to H.M. King George
V, for the Delhi Durbar, 2 Dec. 1911 to 10 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak
of war he went to France attd. to the 129th D.C.O. Baluchis, sailed
from India 24 Aug., and died at Hollebeke, Belgium, 30 Oct. 1914, of
wounds received in action. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord)
French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. He _m._ at Holy Trinity Church,
Karachi, India, 30 Nov. 1903, Olive Muriel (The Cottage, Rowledge,
Farnham), only dau. of Major-Gen. Sir James Bell, K.C.V.O., and had two
sons and two daus.: Patrick William, _b._ 14 May, 1905; George
James Alexander, _b._ 16 Dec. 1906; Olive Phylis, _b._ 14
July, 1909; and Lorna Isobel, _b._ 9 May, 1913.
[Illustration: =G. G. P. Humphreys.=]
=HUMPHREYS, JOHN THOMAS=, Sergt., R.M.A., 7273, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HUMPHRIES, GEORGE WILLIS=, L.-Corpl., No. 1344, 12th Battn. (The
Rangers) London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of William Humphries; _b._
Newington, London, 2 Aug. 1877; joined The Rangers, 1911, and was
killed by a shell which exploded in the trenches, 14 Feb. 1915, while
serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France. Humphries
was the winner of the Light Weight Amateur Boxing Championship in
1900 and was for 20 years connected with the Battersea Athletic Club.
He _m._ at Balham, 4 Oct. 1902, Margaret (32, Strathville Road,
Earlsfield, S.W.), dau. of Thomas Cooper, and left four children:
George Stanley, _b._ 16 Feb. 1907; Margaret Dorothy, _b._ 12
Aug. 1904; Florence Ellen, _b._ 5 Nov. 1908; and Ivy Gertrude,
_b._ 2 July, 1912.
[Illustration: =George Willis Humphries.=]
=HUNT, ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9624), K. 536,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._
=HUNT, ALFRED EDWARD=, Rifleman, No. 2894, 1/8th Battn. (Post
Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Alfred
Hunt, of 35, Balfour Road, Lower Edmonton, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau.
of Edward Eldridge; _b._ Old Kent Road, S.E., 10 Nov. 1895; educ.
Croyland Road Board School, Lower Edmonton; was a Postman at Winchmore
Hill and Finchley; joined the Post Office Rifles early in Sept. 1914;
went to France, 17 March, 1915; and was killed in action at Festubert
in the course of a bomb attack upon the German trenches. 2nd Lieut. W.
N. Kirkland wrote: “I have known your son since he joined the Battn. in
Sept. last, and since the beginning of this year, when the double-coy.
organisation was adopted, he has been in my Platoon. Your son was one
of the coy. bombers, and when we were ordered to attack a portion of
the German trench, he went forward with the bombers in order to drive
out the Huns. While doing this he unfortunately was killed. I am sure
his death has caused a great loss to the Coy., as bombers are of the
utmost importance when attacking the enemy’s trench and it is difficult
to find brave and capable men for this.”
[Illustration: =Alfred Edward Hunt.=]
=HUNT, FRANK ERNEST=, Private, No. 2057, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 2nd
_s._ of Simeon Hunt, of 5, Lancaster Road, Brighton, Architect and
Surveyor, by his wife, Charlotte, 2nd dau. of Thomas Stanley Wakeley,
of Rainham, Kent; _b._ Brighton, 7 Sept. 1892, and was educ. at
Brighton Grammar School and Brighton Municipal Technical College.
He passed the Cambridge Local Examination as a junior in 1st Class
Honours with two distinctions in 1907, the Matriculation Exam., London
University, 1910, and the Intermediate Exam, in Faculty of Engineering,
London University, in 1912, but, owing to a severe nervous breakdown
in 1913, he was unable to sit for the final B.Sc. (Eng.). Concerning
this his master wrote: “Your son worked like a Trojan, and but for
the collapse (which I feared) he would have passed. I should like you
to be convinced of this.” After the outbreak of war, he volunteered
and joined the Sussex Yeomanry in Sept. 1914, and after training at
Brighton, Canterbury, and Maresfield, left England, 23 Sept. 1915 for
the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 17 Dec. 1915, by a
chance Turkish bullet fired at night from a considerable distance. The
regt. was in reserve at the time some distance from the firing line,
and Hunt was standing just outside his dug-out emptying sandbags when
hit. Immediate medical attention was given, but the bullet had passed
through the lung and death occurred within about half an hour. He was
buried in East Anglia Gully Cemetery; _unm._ His troop officer
wrote: “When he came to this regt. in Sept. he was placed in my troop,
and although I had thus been his Troop Officer only for a few months
they were more than ample to enable one to judge of his good qualities
and to feel that, in addition to the thoroughness and loyalty which he
always put into his work as a soldier in the form of warfare that we
have been through, he would have given a good account of himself in
open battle if the opportunity had been allowed him.”
[Illustration: =Frank Ernest Hunt.=]
=HUNT, GEORGE HENRY=, Bugler, R.M.L.I., Ch./11450, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HUNT, HARRY=, Private, No. 8921, R.E., eldest _s._ of the
late Firth Hunt, of Market Place, Barton-on-Humber, by his wife, Alice,
dau. of Thomas Cash; _b._ Barton-on-Humber, co. Lincoln, 22 Dec.
1883; educ. Wesleyan School there; enlisted 29 April, 1901; served
through the South African War, 1899–1902 (medal with five clasps), and
passed into the Reserve, 27 Feb. 1909; mobilised 5 Aug. 1914; went to
France 28 Aug. and was killed in action at Armentières, 13 Dec. 1914.
In addition to the South African medal he had two Good Conduct medals.
He _m._ in Malta, 7 Aug. 1905, Concerta (30, White Cross Street,
Barton-on-Humber, near Hull), dau. of Lorenzo Deprossimo, of Malta;
_s.p._
=HUNT, PERCY HENRY HART=, L.-Sergt., No. 1426, 21st Battn. (1st
Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late
Henry Hunt, Gas and Hot Water Engineer, by his wife, Agnes (39,
Dekker Road, Dulwich Village, S.E.), dau. of the late George Hart;
_b._ Chelsea, 24 May, 1892; educ. Dulwich Hamlet School, Dulwich;
became a telegraph boy at the age of fourteen, and was subsequently
promoted to sorting; joined the 1st Surrey Rifles, 11 April, 1913;
appointed L.-Corpl. shortly before war broke out, and promoted Corpl.
on mobilisation; volunteered for Imperial service and left for France,
15 March, 1915, where he was appointed L.-Sergt. and died at No. 1
Casualty Clearing Station, 28 May, 1915, from shrapnel wounds in the
abdomen received in action at Givenchy on the 25th, while leading his
men over a parapet. Buried in British New Cemetery, Chocques (grave
No. 202); _unm._ From information furnished his relatives by a
Sergt.-Major who assisted to carry him in, it appears that he was
left on the field for twenty-four hours, and when they picked him up,
although so badly wounded, was quite cheerful, and remarked “I’ve
had it.” His Coy. Commander, Capt. A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was
extremely popular with his men, and expressed his personal regret at
the loss of such a promising and straightforward N.C.O.
[Illustration: =Percy Henry Hart Hunt.=]
=HUNTER, GEORGE RUPERT=, Gunner, No. 40190, 12th Battery, 3rd
Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd but only surviving _s._
of Richard Harrison Hunter, of 418, Gilmons Street, Ottawa, Canada,
Civil Servant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of George Cooper, of London,
England; _b._ Aylmer, P. Quebec, 7 Nov. 1890; educ. Ottawa;
volunteered for service overseas and joined the Canadian Expeditionary
Force, at Winnipeg, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of
war; came over with the first contingent, and died at Netheravon, 10
Feb. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while going through his course of
training; _unm._
=HUNTER, HUGH=, Private, No. 2000, 1/4th Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd surviving _s._ of the late Robert Hunter,
Engineer and Manager, Chester Gas Works, Member of the Society of
Engineers, by his wife, Ann Martha (16, Durand Gardens, S.W.), yst.
dau. of the late Henry Carne; _b._ Whitefriars, Chester, 21
June, 1892; educ. Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, where he was
a L.-Corpl. in the Cadet Corps, and on leaving entered the employ
of a firm of Motor Engineers, afterwards Patent Agents in London;
volunteered after the outbreak of war, joined the 4th Seaforths in
Sept. 1914, and after two months’ training at Bedford, went to the
Front with them in Nov. He was shot through the head while acting as
observer to his Capt. in the advance on Neuve Chapelle, in the early
morning of 11 March, 1915, and died before reaching the dressing
station; _unm._ He was buried with several comrades in the garden
of a house at Neuve Chapelle (Edgware Road), S.5.d.3.5. Letters from
his Commanding Officer and the Chaplain testify of his being most
popular with his comrades and a good soldier.
[Illustration: =Hugh Hunter.=]
=HUNTER, JAMES ANDREW=, L.-Corpl., No. 982, 2nd Battn. Seaforth
Highlanders, only _s._ of the late James Hunter, of Murdoch
Terrace, Edinburgh, and 10, Bryson Road, Edinburgh, Hay and Straw
Merchant, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Duncan, of Edinburgh,
Coal Merchant; _b._ Edinburgh, 18 March, 1895; educ. Merchiston
Public School; enlisted, 10 Jan. 1912; went to France, 22 Aug. 1914,
and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 22 Oct. 1914, of wounds received at
Steenwerk on the 20th; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote that he
was wounded while taking part in a bayonet charge and bravely driving
back the enemy, for which his coy. (B) was highly complimented.
[Illustration: =James Andrew Hunter.=]