Coldstream Guards, _s._ of William Henry Matthews, of 42, Butlin
Street, Nechells, Birmingham, Millwright, by his wife, Frances;
_b._ 24 June, 1885; educ. Cromwell Street Council School; enlisted
30 April, 1904; went to France, 17 Aug. 1914, and was reported missing
after the severe fighting on 29 Oct. 1914, on which day the 2nd
Coldstreams and the rest of the 1st Division were at one time driven
from their trenches near Gheluvelt; and is now assumed to have been
killed on that day. He _m._ at St. Clement’s Church, Nechells,
3 Oct. 1909, Charlotte (18, Brighton Grove, Great Francis Street,
Birmingham), dau. of Samuel Woodin, Painter, and had two children:
Charles Henry, _b._ 9 Feb. 1915, _d._ 9 Jan. 1916; and Edna
Francis, _b._ 9 Dec. 1910.
[Illustration: =Charles Henry Matthews.=]
=MATTHEWS, FRANCIS=, Stoker H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off
Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MATTHEWS, FRANK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12178, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914;
_m._
=MATTHEWS, FRANK GEORGE=, Midshipman, R.N., yr. _s._ of
Brig.-Gen. Frank Broadwood Matthews, of Old Raven House, Hook, co.
Hants, C.B., D.S.O., late commanding 2nd Battn. The King’s Own Regt.,
and his wife, Edith Mabel Warner, dau. of the late Ralph George
Price, of 26, Hyde Park Gardens, London, W.; _b._ Lichfield,
co. Stafford, 9 Feb. 1898; educ. Parkside, Ewell, Surrey (Mr. A.
Vaughan Pott); Royal Naval College, Osborne, and Royal Naval College,
Dartmouth; entered the Navy, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S.
Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22
Sept. following.
[Illustration: =Frank George Matthews.=]
=MATTHEWS, HAROLD CAREY=, Major, 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of
Wales’ Own Yorkshire Regt. (The Green Howards) (T.F.), eldest _s._ of
Frederick William White Matthews, of Low Hall, Sinnington, Yorks, J.P.,
formerly manager of Barclay’s Bank, at Leyburn; by his wife, Ellen
Georgiana, dau. of the late Rev. Hewett Carey; _b._ Hawes, Wensleydale,
co. York, 25 April, 1879; educ. The School, Aysgarth, Yorks, entered
Barclay’s Bank, and at the time of the outbreak of war was second in
charge of their Market Weighton Branch. He had joined the London Rifle
Brigade as a Private in 1897, and was afterwards given a commission as
2nd Lieut. in the 4th Yorks Regt., and served in the South African War
in command of the 2nd Service Company of that Regt. For his services he
received the Queen’s medal with five clasps and was made an Hon. Lieut,
in the Army, 26 July, 1902. He was promoted Capt. 30 April, 1904, and
on the outbreak of the European War volunteered for foreign service,
and was gazetted Major, 29 Aug. 1914. He left for France on 17 April,
and was killed in action at St. Julien, north of Ypres, a few days
later, 25 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed
in action leading his men in work which earned the compliments of the
General.” Major Matthews _m._ at Dringhouses Parish Church, York, 12
July, 1911, Marjory Phyllis, yst. dau. of Gervas Woodhouse, of 196,
Mount Vale, York, and had issue: Frederick Gervas, _b._ 24 Dec. 1912;
and Marjory Phyllis, _b._ posthumous, 13 Oct. 1915.
[Illustration: =Harold Carey Matthews.=]
=MAUGHAN, JOHN=, Mechanician, 284270, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov., 1914.
=MAULE, ROBERT=, Lieut., 5th, attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots
(Lothian Regt., T.F.), only _s._ of Sir Robert Maule, of Ashbrook,
Edinburgh, J.P., by his wife, Janet, dau. of Robert McIntosh, of Leith;
_b._ at Trinity, Edinburgh; 1884; educ. Morrison’s Academy,
Crieff; the Leys School, Cambridge, and Christ’s College, Cambridge
(M.A. 19..); and on leaving the University joined his father’s firm,
Robert Maule & Son, Princes Street, Edinburgh, and became a director
in 1913. He obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th (Queen’s
Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots, 24 Nov. 1912, and on the outbreak of
war volunteered for foreign service; was promoted Lieut. 16 Sept.
1914, and attd. to 1st Battn.; went to Egypt with his Battn. in
March, 1915, and was there nominated by his Commanding Officer, Col.
J. T. A. Wilson, to command the section to form an escort to the
Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, but at his own request was
allowed to rejoin his regt.; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was
killed in action there, 29 May, 1915; _unm._ His brother-in-law,
Capt. Edgar Walker, 1st East Yorks, was also killed in action.
[Illustration: =Robert Maule.=]
=MAUNDER, LEONARD=, Rifleman, No. 7692, 3rd Battn. The Rifle
Brigade, _s._ of Henry Maunder; _b._ Downley, High Wycombe,
co. Bucks, 29 Aug. 1883; enlisted in March, 1899; served in France and
Flanders from 9 Sept. to 29 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the
latter date. Buried the Quarries by Champs d’Ering, near Soupir. He
_m._ at St. Peter’s, Winchester, 2 Aug. 1909, Ada Susan (2, Middle
Brook Street, Winchester), dau. of Alfred Charles Dillow, and had a son
Leonard Charles, _b._ 12 June, 1910.
=MAURICE, FRANCIS DENNISON=, Lieut., 1st (Canterbury) Battn.
New Zealand Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Frank Augustus
Maurice, of 41, Alma Square, St John’s Wood, London, N.W., R.A.M., Can.
Coll., Professor of Music and Singing, by his 1st wife, Gertrude, dau.
of John Gibbs Hart, of Christchurch, New Zealand, and great-grandnephew
of the Rev. Peter Maurice, D.D., Rector of Oxford; _b._ Linwood,
Christchurch, New Zealand, 4 Aug. 1891; and was educ. at Temuka High
School, and Canterbury College, New Zealand. He was a brilliant
scholar, winning the Junior Scholarship at the age of 12, coming out
third of the whole of Canterbury, and the Senior two years after,
coming out second. He matriculated when 15 years of age, so he paid for
all his education; and at the age of 18 was assistant master at Burnham
Industrial School; and at 19, Head Master at Longridge, Southland. He
was five years in the Senior Cadets, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the
formation of the New Zealand Universal Training Army, and Lieut. just
before the war broke out, and had passed his captaincy examination.
He volunteered for Imperial service, left New Zealand for Egypt with
the first reinforcements on R.M.S. Athenic in the following Oct.; took
part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25–26 April, and died 10 May,
1915, on H.M.S. Braemar Castle, of wounds received two days previously
in Gallipoli. He was buried at sea; _unm._ For over two years he
was a master of the Waimate District High School, where a memorial
tablet was erected to his memory. He was an enthusiastic hockey player
and instructor; his Waimate ladies’ team of six-a-side winning the
championship, and was on the Committee of the South Canterbury Hockey
Association.
[Illustration: =Francis D. Maurice.=]
=MAW, WILLIAM FRANCIS=, A.B., J. 12612, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MAXTED, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 7844), S.S. 1471, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MAXWELL, AYMER EDWARD=, Younger of Monreith, Lieut.-Col.
Commanding 4th (Collingwood) Battn. 1st brigade, R.N. Division, only
surviving _s._ of the Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Bart.,
P.C., F.R.S.; _b._ Edinburgh, 26 Oct. 1877; educ. Eton and
Sandhurst; gazetted to the Grenadier Guards, 8 Sept. 1897; served in
South African War 1899–1900; took part in the advance on Kimberley,
including the actions at Belmont and Enslin (Queen’s medal with clasp);
invalided home, 1900; and retired with rank of Captain, 4 Sept. 1907,
joining the Reserve of Officers; Capt. Lovat’s Scouts (Yeo.), 1911. On
mobilisation, Aug. 1914, he immediately rejoined the Grenadier Guards,
and subsequently volunteered for service as Adjutant and second in
command in the newly-formed Royal Naval Division. He received command,
with the rank of Lieut.-Col. of the Collingwood Battn. then in camp
at Walmer, and with it accompanied the expedition to Antwerp. He was
wounded in the head by the first shell of the bombardment of 8 Oct.
after four days and nights of ceaseless exertion, almost entirely
without sleep or rest, and died the following day in the Military
Hospital there, being buried in the garden. The officer commanding
the Brigade, wrote: “His death is a severe loss to my brigade. I
personally have lost a friend, the whole brigade has lost one of its
finest officers. His energy, earnestness and singleness of purpose
inspired his whole Battn., and both his officers and men were animated
by his fine spirit from the moment he assumed command of them.” He
was gazetted temporary Lieut.-Col. Royal Marines (10 Nov.) after his
death. Colonel Maxwell was a J.P., D.L. and County Councillor for
Wigtownshire, a Director of the Crichton Royal Institution and author
of various works and articles on sporting subjects. He _m._,
London, 20 Oct. 1909, Lady Mary Percy, dau. of Henry George, 7th Duke
of Northumberland, K.G., P.C., by his wife, Lady Edith Campbell, eldest
dau. of George, 8th Duke of Argyll, K.G., K.T., P.C., and had issue
three sons and a dau.: Aymer, _b._ 7 Dec. 1911; Eustace, _b._
24 Feb. 1913; Gavin, _b._ 15 July, 1914; and Christian, _b._
31 July, 1910.
[Illustration: =Aymer Edward Maxwell.=]
=MAXWELL= (_alias_ =ROBERTS=), =BERTRAM JESSE=, Chief Petty Officer,
No. 282914, R.N., _s._ of Louisa (now wife of Robert Roberts, of
19, Clarendon Road, Havant), dau. of the late George Maxwell; _b._
Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 10 May, 1878; educ. St. Faith’s, Havant, was
adopted and brought up by his stepfather; entered the Navy under the
name of Roberts, 1896; but afterwards resumed his own name; served in
China (medal); and was lost in H.M.S. Invincible in the Battle off
Jutland, 31 May, 1916. He _m._ at Langrish, 31 April, 1904, Agnes,
dau. of Thomas (and Annie) Nash, of Stroud, Petersfield, and had two
daus.: May, _b._ 11 April, 1906, and Gladys, _b._ 14 Sept. 1913. His
half brother, L.-Corpl. F. W. Roberts was killed in the landing at the
Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 (see his notice).
[Illustration: =B. J. Maxwell= (_alias_ =Roberts=).]
=MAY, EDWARD THOMAS=, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142724 (Dev.), H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=MAY, FRANK JUBILEE=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4586), S.S. 103696,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=MAY, JOHN=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16137, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=MAY, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8452, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=MAY, SIDNEY CHARLES=, Sapper, No. 1507 Kent (Fortress) R.E.
(T.F.), _s._ of William May, of Elm Cottage, Oxonhoath, West
Peckham, Tonbridge; _b._ Oxonhoath aforesaid; educ. there; joined
the Navy, 27 Oct. 1914; and was lost when H.M.S. Hythe was sunk in the
Ægean Sea, 27 Oct. 1915; _unm._
=MAY, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1089), H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MAY, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10340), S.S.
108083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MAYCOCK, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4858), S.S. 104278,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=MAYLIN, FREDERICK FRANCIS=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26753, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MAYNARD, DANIEL=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 862), H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MAYNARD, JOHN WILMOT=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. King’s Royal Rifle
Corps, yr. _s._ of Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard, of Hoon
Ridge, co. Derby, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Blanche, elder dau. of
Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell, of Stainsby House, Derbyshire, J.P.,
D.L.; _b._ Eastbourne, 8 June, 1896; educ. St. Peter’s Court,
Broadstairs, and Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Royal Rifle
Corps, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in
action during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the
north-west corner of the Polygone de Zonnebeke Wood, 5 miles due east
of Ypres.
[Illustration: =John Wilmot Maynard.=]
=MAYO, GEORGE PATRICK=, Petty Officer, 210642, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MEAD, BERNARD WALLACE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers,
yst. _s._ of Henry John Mead, of 27 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington,
W., Solicitor, by his wife, Edith Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev.
Joseph Gifford, Vicar of Newport, Barnstaple; _b._ Kensington, W.,
2 Aug. 1893; educ. Cranleigh School, and on leaving joined the staff of
the Sun Fire Office. He had belonged to the 28th London Regt. (Artists’
Rifles) for some years, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered
for foreign service and went to France with them in Oct. 1914. He
was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list, 5 April, 1915, and
immediately afterwards appointed to the 4th Royal Fusiliers, a corps
which had been in the thick of the fighting since the Battle of Mons.
On the night of 30 May, 1915, near Ypres, he received orders to relieve
another officer in a trench about 25 yards from the German lines. While
on his way, accompanied by his Capt. and a N.C.O., the party met two
other officers belonging to another Corps. The enemy sent up a flare
and opened fire upon the group of five and Lieut. Mead fell mortally
wounded. He died three days later (2 June) at Bailleul, and was buried
in the Military Cemetery there; _unm._
[Illustration: =Bernard Wallace Mead.=]
=MEAD, CHRISTOPHER=, Lieut., A Coy. 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt.,
2nd _s._ of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2,
King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple, and of St. Mary’s, Teddington,
Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church;
_b._ Fopstone Road, Earl’s Court, S.W., 10 May, 1888; educ.,
Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites); was
admitted a Solicitor in 1913, and was a junior partner in his father’s
firm; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1910, and after serving in
it four years, joined the Reserve. He rejoined on the outbreak of war
in Aug. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn., East Surrey
Regt., 15 Aug., and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. [London Gazette, 11 Nov.],
1915; trained at Devonport; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and was
there attached to the 2nd Battn.; served through the gas attack on
Whit Monday, his regiment being in the front trenches, and was shot
in the temple by a bullet in July, but remained on duty at the time;
was given five days’ leave in Aug., and was killed in action in the
assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Vermelles, 28 Sept. 1915, while
leading a bombing party of A Coy., and after having been throwing
bombs incessantly for over three hours; _unm._ His Commanding
Officer, Col. F. Montague Bates, wrote: “Your son was killed by a
bomb on the 28th. He was commanding A Coy. at the time of his death
and was gallantly leading a bombing party of his men forward when
he was hit by a German bomb and killed instantaneously. I thought a
great deal of him, he was an excellent soldier, daring and gallant;
he was beloved by his men and popular with all ranks; his loss to me
as commanding officer is a great blow. He was brave as a lion and
died a glorious death”; and in a later letter: “Your boy was killed
by a bomb in a trench leading out of the Hohenzollern Redoubt; he was
running up a trench towards the Germans, who were in the same trench,
and throwing bombs and driving the Germans back. He, of course, was
in the thickest of the fighting.” Capt. A. Dowler of his regt. wrote:
“Doubtless you know how popular Mead was with everybody and his work in
the Hohenzollern would undoubtedly have earned him some distinction”;
and Major F. Clifford, of The King’s Liverpool Regt., wrote from Egypt:
“Today the Colonel of the East Surrey Regt. was here, he told me that
young Mead had behaved in a very gallant manner and that he probably
would be awarded some posthumous honour.” Lieut. Mead was mentioned in
Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette,
1 Jan. 1916], for conspicuous gallantry in the field. At Charterhouse
he was in the Cricket and Football Elevens in 1906. His brother, Corpl.
G. P. Mead, died on active service (see following notice), and two
surviving brothers are now (1916) serving with the British Forces.
[Illustration: =Christopher Mead.=]
=MEAD, GEOFFREY PHILLIPS=, Corpl., No. 54268, Despatch Rider,
32nd Signal Section, Royal Engineers, 3rd _s._ of John Phillips
Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King’s Bench Walk, Inner Temple,
E.C., and of St. Mary’s, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen
Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; _b._ London, 28 Oct. 1892; educ.
Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites), where he
matriculated in the first class; studied surveying, and held a post
under the Egyptian Government Survey Dept. from March, 1912, to Sept.
1914, when he returned to England to join the Army. He enlisted as a
Motor Cyclist Despatch Rider, and after training at various camps, went
to the Eastern Front in Aug. 1915, and died while on active service
in the Military Hospital at Alexandria, 2 Dec. 1915, of pneumonia,
following enteric fever, which he contracted while carrying despatches
in Egypt; _unm._ He was buried with military honours at Chatby
Cemetery, Alexandria. His brother, Lieut. C. Mead, was killed in action
two months previously (see preceding notice).
[Illustration: =Geoffrey Phillips Mead.=]
=MEAD, HENRY GEORGE FREDERICK, D.C.M.=, Private, No. 6926, 4th
Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of Henry Robert Mead, Carpenter;
_b._ Edgware, 1 April, 1882; educ. Kilburn; served eight years
with the Colours, and five and a half with the Reserve; took part in
the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with four bars), and
was called up from the Reserve on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in
action, 5 Nov. 1914. Buried in Croix Barbée Cemetery. He was awarded
the Distinguished Conduct Medal [London Gazette, 1 April, 1915]
“for conspicuous gallantry on 5 Nov. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in
attempting to rescue a wounded non-commissioned officer from in front
of the enemy’s trenches. He was killed in the attempt.” He was also
given the Russian medal of St. George (3rd class). He _m._ at St.
Anne’s Church, Wandsworth, 10 Oct. 1909, Ethel Maud (84, Larch Road,
Bedford Hill, Balham), eldest dau. of the late J. E. Sheldon, Private,
No. 3446, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, and had two children: Henry
Edwin, _b._ 8 April, 1912; and Ethel Violet Lilly, _b._ 21
July, 1910.
=MEADOWS, ERNEST=, Private, No. 1188, 14th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, _s._ of William Henry Meadows, of 61, Mountford
Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, Baker; _b._ Vaughan Street,
Birmingham, 26 Sept. 1883; educ. Clifton Road Church School there; went
to Australia, 9 March, 1914; enlisted on the outbreak of war; served
in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and died in the General Hospital,
Alexandria, 14 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli; _unm._
=MEADOWS, JAMES HORATIO=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B. 488),
278492, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MEAKIN, HERBERT=, Gunner, No. 26735, 75th Battn. R.F.A.,
_s._ of Jacob Meakin, of 18, Vine Street, Rotherham, Bricklayer,
by his wife, Maggie, dau. of Neri (and Elizabeth) Irons, of Ilkeston;
_b._ at Nottingham, 7 May, 1884; educ. Rotherham; enlisted R.F.A.,
3 Sept. 1902, and on completing his term of service with the Colours
was employed as a cleaner of machinery in a mill at Huddersfield.
On the outbreak of war he rejoined his battery, and was killed in
action near Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried near Ypres. He _m._ at
Huddersfield, 13 April, 1906, Susannah (11, Heath House, Golcar, near
Huddersfield), dau. of James David Giles, Stone Mason, and had a dau.,
Katie, _b._ 29 June, 1912.
[Illustration: =Herbert Meakin.=]
=MEAKINGS, JAMES WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 1625, 2nd Battn. The
Rifle Brigade, only _s._ of John William Meakings, of 305,
Brantford Road, Ipswich, Carpenter, formerly for 19¾ yrs. in the R.A.,
by his wife Ellen, dau. of William Firman, for 33½ yrs. a member of
the Ipswich Borough Police Force; _b._ Shoeburyness, co. Essex,
25 Feb. 1888; educ. Bramford Road School, Ipswich; enlisted in the 4th
Battn. Rifle Brigade, 26 March, 1906, and afterwards transferred to the
3rd Battn., then stationed at Malta. In Dec. 1907, he left Malta to
join the 2nd Battn. in India, where he remained until his battn. was
ordered to France on the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at
Neuve Chapelle, between 10 and 14 March, 1915; _unm._ A comrade
wrote of him: “There was no better soldier in the British Army.” He
belonged to the Army Temperance Association in India, and received two
medals. He was also in the Garrison Military Police at the Delhi Durbar.
[Illustration: =James William Meakings.=]
=MEARNS, WILLIAM MELLIS=, M.B., Surgeon, R.N., eldest _s._
of William Mearns, of Berwick Road, Gateshead, M.A., M.D., V.D., J.P.,
late Lt.-Col. R.A.M.C. (T.F.), now attached Royal Engineers, by his
wife, M. A., dau. of John Mellis, Surgeon; _b._ Gateshead-on-Tyne,
co. Durham, 7 Dec. 1884; educ. Aldenham School, Elstree, Herts, and
Aberdeen University, graduating M.B., Ch. B., 1908. He entered the Navy
the same year; served in H.M. Ships Pembroke, 1909; Action, 1909–10;
Redbreast, in the Persian Gulf, 1910–11; Pembroke, 1911; Teal, in the
Upper Yangtse River, China, 1911–14; and had only returned from abroad
ten days when the European War broke out. He was ordered to join H.M.S.
Formidable, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the Channel, 1 Jan.
1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =William Mellis Mearns.=]
=MEAUTYS, THOMAS GILLIAT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Prince of Wales’s
Own West Yorks Regt., elder _s._ of Thomas Arrowsmith Meautys,
of Hammonds Place, Burgess Hill, Sussex, Barrister-at-Law, Middle
Temple, M.A. Oxon, J.P., Surrey, for some time Chairman of the
Wimbledon Petty Sessional Division, by his wife, Ellen Gertrude, 3rd
dau. of Gilliat Hatfield of Morden Hall, Morden, Surrey, _b._
Wimbledon, co. Surrey, 13 June, 1889; educ. Marlborough, and the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst (1908); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd
West Yorkshires, 18 Sept. 1909, but transferred to the 1st Battn., and
went to India in Dec. following. He was promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1910.
In Sept. 1914 he went with his Battn. which formed part of the 18th
Brigade, in the 6th Division, to France to reinforce the Expeditionary
Force, then on the Aisne, and was in charge of the machine gun section.
He died on the 22nd of that month of wounds received on the 20th,
during the Battle of the Aisne, and was buried in Troyon Churchyard.
A brother officer wrote: “He was conspicuous for his bravery and
coolness under fire.... He conveyed an officer of the Horse Guards (who
was wounded and afterwards died) back under cover, although he was
under fire the whole time.” While at Marlborough he was in the Rugby
Football XV (1906); won the School Boxing Competition in his class
in two successive years, and represented Marlborough in the Public
Schools’ Competition at Aldershot. He _m._ at the Parish Church,
Hambledon, Hants. 16 June, 1914, Norah Nell, only dau. of the late
Herbert Hotblack, of Brighton, and had a son, Thomas Gilliat, _b._
posthumous 29 April, 1915.
[Illustration: =Thomas Gilliat Meautys.=]
=MEDHURST, JOHN EDWIN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7839).
298939, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.