Royal Field Artillery, 2nd _s._ of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of
Rathmoyle, Edenderry, King’s co., Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of
the late Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; _b._
Rathmoyle, afsd., 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby
School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
R.F.A. 18 Dec. 1907, and promoted Lieut. 18 Dec. 1910; went to South
Africa in Oct. 1910, with the 100th Battery, R.F.A. and afterwards
proceeded to India and was home on leave from India when war broke out.
He was employed for some weeks in training men in various places, being
promoted Capt. 30 Oct. 1914, and on 6 Nov. left for France with “G”
Battery, R.H.A., but was subsequently transferred to the 41st Battery,
R.F.A. In April, 1915, he was given the command of a Trench Howitzer
Battery, with which he went into the trenches near Wieltje on 6 May,
and was killed in action on the 13th, being shot through the head by a
German sniper whilst carrying bombs to his guns. Buried in the trenches
close to the spot where he fell; _unm._ The General Officer
Commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade, wrote: “I have been informed that
you would like a few particulars of the gallant work done by your son
and the 22nd Trench Mortar Battery while they were under me in the hard
fighting of May 9 to 13, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. Your son was
posted in the trenches to the left of a building, named by the troops
‘Shelltrap Farm,’ which was about the hottest part of the line, and his
duty was to assist the infantry in keeping back the enemy from sapping
up to the farm buildings, and to endeavour to blow in their saps. The
enemy’s shelling was so intense that time after time the trench mortars
were silenced and the crews buried, but they were dug out and started
on again, and they refused to be relieved. Cooke, the subaltern, was
hit and his shoulder dislocated, but he refused to go to hospital, and
the whole battery displayed a similar spirit all through the fighting,
the severity of which may be judged from the fact that Shelltrap Farm
was lost and retaken with the bayonet three times in twenty-four
hours.” And the General Officer Commanding the 4th Division: “I
remember Rait-Kerr and his 22nd Trench Mortar Battery well. It was the
best battery of that sort that we ever had with the 4th Division, and
under him it did invaluable service in the front trenches during the
fighting from the 6th to the 13th of May (1915), which was some of the
worst we had in France. I know he was a great loss to the Division and
to the service.” The officer in charge of the Trench Howitzer School,
2nd Army Corps, wrote: “He had done magnificently with his Trench
battery and had received the congratulations of the Divisional and
Brigade commanders to whom his battery was attached. He was a great
friend of mine, and without doubt the finest officer who had passed
through the Trench Howitzer School. There was no officer in the British
Army who could have done it better. He was a gallant fellow. He was the
ideal British officer, a real tiger with his men, but loved and admired
by them. In this Army (the 2nd) he _made_ trench howitzers. He
was, of course, recommended for a decoration, and he richly deserved
it,” and the subaltern under him in his battery wrote: “His death was a
great blow to all of us in the battery. He was a splendid fellow, and
did not know what fear was. He was recommended to General Commanding
4th Division for gallantry during the action by officer commanding the
2nd Monmouths, who told me he had upheld the best traditions of the
Royal Artillery.” His brother, Capt. W. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in
action at Veldhoek, 10 Nov. 1914 (see following notice).
[Illustration: =Sylvester C. Rait-Kerr.=]
=RAIT-KERR, WILLIAM CHARLES, D.S.O.=, Capt., 57th Howitzer
Battery, R.F.A. eldest _s._ of Sylvester Rait-Kerr, of Rathmoyle,
Edenderry, King’s co. Ireland, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late
Major-General Charles Scrope Hutchinson, C.B., R.E.; _b._
Rathmoyle, afsd. 6 Aug. 1886; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Rugby
School, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
R.F.A. 23 July, 1907; and promoted Lieut. 23 July, 1910, and Capt.
30 Oct., 1914; went to France 16 Aug. 1914, with the 1st Division,
commanded by Sir Douglas Haig, as Lieut. in 57th Howitzer Battery, 43rd
Brigade, R.F.A.; took part in the Battle of, and retreat from, Mons,
the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and the 1st Battle of Ypres,
and was killed in action at Veldhoek, near Ypres, 10 Nov. following,
whilst in charge of an advanced gun 250 yards from the enemy, being
shot through the head by a German sniper. The rest of his battery had
gone to the rear to rest and refit, having been out since the beginning
of the war. Buried at Veldhoek, beside the gun “he had commanded so
well”; _unm._ He was awarded the D.S.O. “For gallant conduct in
bringing up a gun to within 250 yards of the enemy in a wood, and
blowing down a house in which the enemy were working a machine-gun”
[London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1914]; and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now
Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. His Colonel wrote: “He was
in charge of a gun which had for some days been placed in a forward
position for a special purpose, to destroy some houses from which some
German snipers were causing heavy losses in our trenches. He had been
doing splendid work, which had been specially noticed by the General,
and only the day before his death the Commander of the French troops
on our left had sent a letter of thanks for one particularly useful
lot of shooting which he had put in and destroyed some German trenches
in front of them. He was a brave and excellent officer and man. He had
just appeared in the Gazette as Capt. and was so delighted that I had
been able to get him posted to one of my batteries.” Another officer
wrote: “He was up in the infantry trenches with one gun close behind,
in communication by telephone with him. He was there about a fortnight,
and in that time did very fine work, knocking houses down with Germans
and machine-guns in them, and various other jobs. He was highly
praised by all the people up there, and by the General in command of
the Infantry Brigade. He had a very rough time from both shell and
rifle fire, but had done great execution in spite of it.” His brother,
Capt. S. C. Rait-Kerr, was killed in action 13 May, 1915 (see previous
notice).
[Illustration: =William C. Rait-Kerr.=]
=KERRAY, JAMES=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3918), 284967,
H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KERRISON, ARTHUR JAMES=, Boy Servt., L. 4831, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=KERWIN, ALBERT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115602 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=KESSELL, HARRY=, Lieut., Commanding Machine-Gun Section, 15th
Infantry Battn. (Queensland), Australian Imperial Force, only _s._
of Thomas Norman Kessell, of Leederville, Western Australia, by his
wife, Sophia: _b._ Leamington Spa, co. Warwick, 13 Jan. 1874;
went to New Zealand with his parents and was educ. at the Normal
School, Dunedin, afterwards settling in Australia. He joined the
Victorian Rangers, 11 Dec. 1892, as a gunner in the Nordenfelt Battery;
became Senior Sergt. 17 April, 1893; Lieut. G Coy., 23 Nov. 1895,
Acting Signalling Inspector, 1 May, 1896, and after obtained the Flag
Signalling Certificate (No. 600) 1 Aug. 1896, Signalling Instructor.
He passed for promotion to the rank of Capt. Victorian Rangers, 10
Oct. 1897, and for the Militia with Special Certificate, No. 78, and
obtained the extra Musketry Certificate, No. 12, 22 Oct. 1898, and
re-qualified as Flag Signaller, 17 Dec. 1898. He served through the
South African War, was appointed Lieut. to the 5th Victorian Mounted
Rifles: at Middleberg, 1901, acting as Troop Leader and Squadron
Commander on various occasions, and was mentioned by Lord Kitchener
in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and awarded the Queen’s
medal with four clasps. After the close of the campaign he acted as
Adjutant for the returning Australian Troops on board H.M.S. Britannia.
On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, he joined the
Australian Imperial Force, serving with the 15th Infantry Battn.
(Queensland), and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Heliopolis, 3rd July,
1915, of shrapnel wounds received in action in Gallipoli on May 9;
_unm._ Of Lieut. Kessell’s last hours an Army chaplain wrote as
follows: “He was grand, a regular inspiration to some other patients,
who ceased worrying over their own troubles in the presence of a man
who suffered greater things and yet never ceased to be a cheerful
pattern to them.”
[Illustration: =Harry Kessell.=]
=KETTERIDGE, JAMES WILLIAM=, Bombardier, No. 63852, 11th Battery,
R.F.A., and First-Class signaller, _s._ of William Ketteridge, of
Waggon Lane, Lower Tottenham, co. Middlesex, Munition Worker; _b._
there 5 Nov. 1891; educ. St. James’ School, Fore Street, Upper
Edmonton, enlisted, 12 Jan. 1911; awarded 2nd Class Certificate at Army
School, 27 June, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France
and Flanders, and while reconnoitring at midnight on 21 Aug. 1914 at
le Cateau was shot by the French by mistake. He _m._ at Kildare
Parish Church, 1914, Mary Florence, dau. of Benjamin Robert Singleton,
late of the Northamptonshire Regt., and had one child, Rosary Annie Le
Cateau, _b._ 20 Dec. 1914.
[Illustration: =James W. Ketteridge.=]
=KIDBY, ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 2894, C Coy., 9th Battn. (Queen
Victoria’s Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd _s._ of Frederick Arthur
Kidby, of 19, Hertford Road, Hoddesdon, Clerk, Building Department,
Hoddesdon Brewery, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Stephen Elkins; _b._
Hoddesdon, co. Herts, 4 Jan. 1896; educ. Hoddesdon Church of England
School and Broxbourne, Herts; was Clerk in wholesale drapery trade;
joined Queen Victoria’s Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Jan.
1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem 3 March following;
_unm._ His company commander, Capt. Herbert Fleming, wrote: “He
was shot through the head on the 3rd inst. during a heavy burst of fire
from the German trenches. He had only been here a short time, but he
proved himself a keen and brave soldier. I deplore his loss more than
I can say. I was with your boy when he died; he was unconscious, and
only lived for a few minutes after he was shot. He has been buried in
the churchyard at Wulverghem, and I will see that a cross is erected
to his memory.” Private Kidby was a good athlete, and was captain of
his school football team. He had a good voice and was a member of the
Hoddesdon Church choir.
[Illustration: =Arthur Kidby.=]
=KIDD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), 299560,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KILBEY, ALBERT JOHN=, Private, No. 2881, 7th Battn. The London
Regt. (T.F.); only _s._ of John Charles Kilbey, of 11, Royston
Street, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, Waterside Labourer, by his wife,
Harriet Rossetta, dau. of George Frederick Walker; _b._ Bethnal
Green, 29 March, 1895; educ. Wolverley Street School there; joined
the 7th London, 23 Sept. 1914; left for France, 17 March, 1915, and
was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 17 May following;
_unm._
=KILBOURNE, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16154, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=KILGOUR, WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 615, 51st Signal Coy., Highland
Division, Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder _s._ of William Thomas
Kilgour, of Tighnabruaich, Fort William, co. Inverness, by his wife,
Annie Hossack, dau. of William Macdougall, of Fort William; _b._
Fort William, 23 Nov. 1895; educ. Fort William; gained a very high
place in the competitive examination for entrance to the Post Office
service and was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at
Grangemouth, Bo’ness, Linlithgow and Fort William; volunteered and
joined 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), in Aug. 1914, and, while
training at Bedford, transferred from that corps to the 51st Signal
Coy., Highland Division, R.E. (T.F.); left for France, 30 April, 1915,
and was killed in action at La Coutiere, 27 May, 1915, by a high
explosive shell, death being instantaneous. Buried at Vieille Chapelle;
_unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “As your son worked his
instrument in the same room that I occupy myself, I had the opportunity
of watching him closely, and without any exaggeration I can truthfully
say that he was one of the finest young soldiers I ever met. He was
always willing and ready to do his work at any time, and when we were
very busy he was quite pleased to work his 12 hours on end without
grumbling. He had such a happy disposition that we all feel we have
lost a very good comrade and an excellent worker.”
[Illustration: =William Kilgour.=]
=KILLICK, ALFRED HENRY=, C.E.R.A. (Pensioner), 154516, H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KILLING, JOHN WILLIAM=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269868, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=KIMBERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 11904, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KING, ALEXANDER DUNCAN CAMPBELL=, Tempy. Lieut., 11th Reserve
Regt. of Cavalry, attd. 18th Hussars, _s._ of Robert King, of
Craigpark, Torphichen, co. Linlithgow, by his wife, Sara, dau. of
Duncan Campbell, of Paisley; _b._ Torphichen aforesaid, 20 May,
1886; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University; received a
commission as 2nd Lieut. in 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, 20 Sept.
1914; promoted Tempy. Lieut., 24 Feb. 1915; left for France, 17 May;
was attached there to the 18th Hussars, and died at Hooge, near Ypres,
24 May, 1915, from the effects of poisoned gas, which on that day was
employed by the enemy against the British front between Shelltrap Farm
and the Bellewaerde Lake for 4½ hours without intermission, the cloud
in some places rising to a height of 40 feet. Buried west of Ypres,
between Poperinghe and Vlamertinghe; _unm._
[Illustration: =Alexander D. C. King.=]
=KING, ALFRED CHARLES LAWRENCE=, Stoker, 2nd. Class, K. 17463,
H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20
miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=KING, CHARLES GLAZIER=, Private, No. 9936, 3rd Battn. Coldstream
Guards, _s._ of Henry King, of Lower Vobster, Coleford, near Bath;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in
action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914.
=KING, CHARLES SEALY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers,
yr. _s._ of Charles Sealy King, of Richmount, Bandon, co. Cork,
J.P., by his wife, Beatrice Ada, dau. of William Jocelyn Bradford,
M.D., T.C.D.; _b._ Bandon, 18 Aug. 1894; educ. Catherington House
Preparatory School, Hordean, Hants, from which he gained a scholarship
to St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate; passed his Army Qualifying
Examination in 1911; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th
(Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 27 Jan. 1912, and after
serving six months’ probation with the 2nd Battn. was promoted Lieut.
22 Aug. following, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted 2nd Lieut.
to the 2nd Munsters, 14 Aug. 1914; was promoted temporary Lieut. from
30 Aug. 1914, and substantive Lieut. from 30 Nov. 1914; joined his
Battn. in France, 18 Feb. 1915 and was killed in action at the Rue du
Bois, near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ His Adjutant, Capt. T.
W. Filgate, wrote: “During an attack on the German trenches just south
of Neuve Chapelle on Sunday morning your son was killed while gallantly
leading his platoon. He was perfectly wonderful, and as cool and
collected as if nothing was happening. He dashed forward ahead of his
men, and was killed right up against the German parapet. It may be a
little consolation to you to know that it was very largely owing to his
and a few others’ gallant leading and dash that we were the only regt.
in the brigade of which part reached the first line German trenches. We
are all very proud of the gallant fellows that fell, and their names
will never be forgotten in the regt. We were not able to recover your
son’s body, which is close up to the German trenches.”
[Illustration: =Charles Sealy King.=]
=KING, EDWARD=, Private, No. 7647, 1st Battn. Scots Guards;
_b._ Marston, Bedford; enlisted 24 May, 1910; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was severely wounded
in action in the arm and thigh, admitted to the 3rd London General
Hospital, Wandsworth, 3 Nov. 1914, and died there on the 16th of that
month.
=KING, EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 22608, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KING, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1949, 3rd Battn. (Royal
Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John King, of 97, Sumatra
Road, West Hampstead, Bootmaker, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles
Chaffey; _b._ South Hampstead, 8 Feb. 1898; educ. Broomleigh
Street Council School, West Hampstead; joined the 3rd Battn. London
Regt. June, 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10
March, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Reeves in giving some particulars of
the action wrote: “F. A. King was under me when he was killed, I saw
him lying right on top of the captured German trench--I believe he was
killed by a high explosive, because I noticed his face was black. He
was quite a good youngster.”
=KING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7995), S.S. 103737,
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KING, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1419U., H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KING, HORACE ANDREW=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9004), 190503, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KING, JAMES=, Private, No. 4444, 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn.
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, _s._ of John King, of Blackhill,
Cookstown, Millworker, _b._ Clogog, Cookstown, co. Tyrone, Aug.
1893; educ. Cookstown; joined 3rd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8 Aug 1914;
left for the Dardanelles with a draft for the 1st Battn., and died 14
Aug. following, of wounds received at Suvla Bay; _unm._
=KING, NICHOLAS MAINGER=, Stoker, R.N.R., U. 1640, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=KING, ROBERT NEAL=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only
_s._ of the late Robert King, M.D., F.R.C.P., London, by his
wife, Esther, dau. of Thomas Case; _b._ in London, 14 Sept. 1874;
educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lincolns, from Militia, 6 June,
1896; promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1899, and Capt. 19 Nov. 1904; served
in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battle of the
Atbara (medal; Egyptian medal with clasp); in the South African War,
1902, where he was employed with Mounted Infantry in operations in
the Transvaal and Cape Colony, April and May, 1902, and in the Orange
River Colony, Jan. to March, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps);
and from 24 Dec. to 31 Dec. 1901, was on special service. He retired
21 June, 1911, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, but rejoined
his regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France, Sept. 1914, and
was reported killed in action at Wystchaete, 1 Nov. following. Capt.
King _m._ at St. George’s, Hanover Square, London, 19 Dec. 1910,
Klara Alice Fanny, 2nd dau. of Robert Shand Kynoch Shand, of Hillside,
co. Kincardine, and the Linn Keith, co. Banff, and had two sons:
Robert McKerrell, _b._ 24 Nov. 1911, died 3 Nov. 1914; and Philip
Marshall, _b._ 23 March, 1914.
[Illustration: =Robert Neal King.=]
=KING, SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5284), 203896, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=KING, SIDNEY HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15574, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=KING, THOMAS=, Sailmaker, 175250, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=KING, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110209, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KINGSTON, SYDNEY=, S.B.S., 2nd Class, 351152, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=KINKEAD, RICHARD CROFTON GEORGE MOORE=, M.B., M.Ch., B.A.O.
Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 10th Royal Hussars, only
_s._ of Richard John Kinkead, of Galway, M.D., Dublin, J.P.,
Professor, Queen’s College, Galway, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John
Hubert Moore; _b._ Galway, 12 June, 1883; educ. Erasmus Smith’s
School, Galway; Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; Queen’s College,
Galway, and Royal University of Ireland, where he graduated, M.B.,
M.Ch. and B.A.O. While a student at the University he joined and went
through a course of training in the South of Ireland Yeomanry (now
the South Irish Horse). After serving for a year as house surgeon to
the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, he passed into the R.A.M.C.,
being gazetted Lieut., 31 July, 1909, and promoted Capt. 31 Jan. 1913.
He was stationed in the Cork district, Ireland, 1909–11, and in South
Africa, Jan. 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he was recalled to England with
the regular troops and attd. to the 10th Royal Hussars. He left for
France with that regt. which formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Division, 7
Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, during the 1st
Battle of Ypres on the 31st of the same month; _unm._ Lieut.-Col.
Barnes, commanding the 10th Hussars, wrote: “He was a gallant officer
and loved and respected by all ranks of the 10th Hussars. I especially
asked that he might go to the war with the regt. and so I feel that
fate has scarcely been kind.” Major the Hon. C. B. O. Mitford, D.S.O.,
of the same regt. wrote: “He with two other officers got one of my men
and myself out of the trenches at considerable personal risk. He was
just as cool helping the wounded under fire as if he was in a surgery.
I hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know how he will be
missed in the regiment and that his good work was appreciated by all.”
Major, afterwards Lt. Col. Shearman, wrote: “You will be proud to know
that he was possessed of great personal courage and his one thought
here was his duty and care of the wounded, which he in many cases
personally collected. Your son was buried by the Rev. C. S. Ensell, in
the cemetery at Ypres. His grave is next that of Lord Charles Nairne,
who was killed at the same time.” And a colonel of the R.A.M.C. wrote:
“Capt. Kinkead was regarded as a daring and fearless soldier, with
strikingly attractive qualities, and was immensely popular with the
men of the regiment. Over and over again he risked his life in the
discharge of his duties in the field.”
[Illustration: =R. C. G. M. Kinkead.=]
=KINNAIRD, HON. DOUGLAS ARTHUR=, Master of Kinnaird, Capt., 2nd
Battn. Scots Guards, eldest _s._ of Arthur Fitzgerald, 11th Lord
Kinnaird, K.T., by his wife, Mary Alma Victoria, dau. of Sir Andrew
Agnew, of Lochnaw, 8th Baronet; _b._ Rossie Priory, Inchture, co.
Perth, 20 Aug. 1879; educ. Cheam School, Surrey; Eton, and Trinity
College, Cambridge (B.A. 1901, M.A. 1905); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd
Scots Guards, 22 May, 1901. and promoted Lieut. 1 Feb. 1904, and Capt.
3 Feb. 1912; transferring to the 2nd Battn. when the 3rd was disbanded;
went to Antwerp with his Battn. in the 7th Division; served through the
retreat from that place and was killed in action, 23 Oct. 1914, during
one of the numerous rearguard actions, to protect the retirement of
the Belgian Army. Buried with another officer at Zonnebeke Farm, near
Poligne, Belgium; _unm._ Capt. Kinnaird was in the Volunteer Corps
at Eton and Cambridge, and travelled much on the Continent to study Art
and Literature. In 1906, he went to East Africa for big game shooting,
and made a large collection of heads and trophies. He also visited
India for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi in 1911.
[Illustration: =Douglas Arthur Kinnaird.=]
=KINNAIRD, FRANCIS JOSEPH=, Capt., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire
Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Francis Henry Kinnaird, of London;
_b._ London, 16 March, 1875; educ. privately; obtained a
commission in the 4th South Stafford in 1907; passed the School of
instruction and qualified as Instructor of Musketry; became Capt. 4
Nov. 1910; went to France 16 March, 1915; was wounded in action at
Richebourg, 16 May, 1915, and died in King Edward’s Hospital, London,
10 June, following; buried at Astley, Worcestershire. He _m._ in
London, 5 Oct. 1901, Gertrude (16, Titchfield Terrace, Regent’s Park,
N.W.), dau. of Robert Green, and had a dau.: Mary Gertrude, _b._
21 Sept. 1904.
=KIPLING, THOMAS WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 4772 B., H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KIRKBY, BERTRAM JAMES=, 1st Writer, 220342, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=KIRBY, HENRY JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8167), S.S.
103966, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=KIRBY, JOHN RUSSELL=, Private, No. 2517, 13th Battn. (Princess
Louise’s Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the
late John William Kirby, of Ivy House, Wortham, co. Suffolk, Farmer, by
his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Rash; _b._ Wortham, 13 Nov. 1886;
educ. Eye Grammar School; was a Motor Bodymaker at Messrs. Barkers &
Co., Kensington; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the
Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; left for France, 7 Feb. 1915, and died at
No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 27 March, 1915, of wounds received
at Neuve Chapelle on 10–12 March. Buried at Boulogne; _unm._