Border Regt., 4th and yst. _s._ of James Moffat, of Ken Ervie,
co. Kirkcudbright, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Capt. Robert Skirving
of Croys; _b._ Castle Douglas, co. Kirkcudbright, 14 Nov. 1867;
educ. Craigmount, Edinburgh, and in Switzerland; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to
2nd Border Regt. from the Militia, 10 Nov. 1888; and promoted Lieut. 9
July, 1890; Capt. 26 Aug. 1896; Major, 20 Oct. 1909, and Lieut.-Col.
(posthumous) 22 June, 1915, to rank as from 3 May, 1915, and from
June 1899, to June, 1903 was Adjutant. He served in the Waziristan
Expedition of 1894–95, and received the medal with clasp. At the end
of 1909 he joined the 1st Battn. of his regt. in India, and shortly
afterwards proceeded to Burma, where he was second in command when
war broke out. The battn. was ordered home and arrived in England in
Jan. 1915, when he proceeded to France, and rejoined the 2nd Battn. as
second in command. He was killed in action whilst leading a charge,
during the Battle of Festubert, 16–17 May, 1915, and was buried near
the spot where he fell. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord)
French’s Despatches of 30 Nov. 1915. Lieut.-Col. Moffat excelled in all
outdoor games and sports, and did much to encourage athletics among the
men of his regt. Almost all his leaves were spent in big game shooting,
and he had a fine collection of trophies. He _m._ at Newara-Eliya,
Ceylon, 27 April, 1912, Marjorie Armstrong, dau. of Arthur Jadick Just,
of Morireby, Newara-Eliya, Ceylon, and had a son: Archibald James,
_b._ (posthumous), 18 Aug. 1915.
[Illustration: =Archibald S. W. Moffat.=]
=MOFFET, JOHN LEESON=, B.Sc. (Hons.), A.M.I.E.E., 2nd Lieut., 3rd
Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, elder _s._ of Thomas Moffet, of
Ingleside, Kingsfield Road, Watford, Assistant Estate and Land Agent to
the London & North-Western Railway Co., Chairman of the Watford Public
Library and a member of the Watford Urban District Council, by his
wife, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of the late John Leeson, of Rugby; _b._
Watford, co. Herts, 17 May, 1888; educ. Watford Grammar School, City
and Guilds of London Technical College, Finsbury, and Manchester
University, where he graduated B.Sc. (Engineering) with honours.
On leaving there he became an Engineering Assistant at the Horwich
Locomotive Works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co. and in
1913 left there to take a position as Electrical Expert to the Chloride
Electrical Storage and Battery Co., Clifton, Manchester. At Manchester
University he had been in the O.T.C. for four years and a half, and
had obtained certificates A and B; on the outbreak of war he applied
for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Royal Scots
Fusiliers, 5 Sept. 1914, and at this date was at Portland in charge of
electrical work on a submarine. He went to France on 26 Jan. 1915, and
was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March following; _unm._
His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was a most promising officer, keen
and anxious to learn. He had a high sense of duty and had plenty of
confidence in himself”; and another officer: “I last spoke to your son
on the morning of March 10 while we were waiting for the artillery
bombardment to cease. He was then quite cheery, and certainly not as
nervous as a good many of us.” “I was in the same company as your son,”
wrote another officer, “and only ten yards away when he was killed.
We had been advancing in extended order just after the capture of
the German first line of defence, when we suddenly struck some heavy
rifle fire. Your son was in front of me with his platoon, and had just
given the order to his men to lie down, when he was struck by a bullet
through the left lung and died at once, without speaking. He died a
noble death, leading his men into action, and it was through turning
round himself to warn his men to take cover that he himself was hit.”
Lieut. Moffet was an Associate Member of the Institution of Electrical
Engineers, and while in training at Greenock received a unanimous
invitation to accept the Chairmanship of the Manchester Students’
Section of the Institution. He was awarded the Premium Prize of the
Institution for a paper on “Possibilities of Electrical Traction on
Railways.” His younger brother, Lieut. Thomas Arthur Moffet, King’s
Liverpool Regt. is now (1916) a Railway Transport Officer with the
Expeditionary Force in France.
[Illustration: =John Leeson Moffet.=]
=MOGG, FREDERICK HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7907), S.S. 103585,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MOGGRIDGE, ROBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16964, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MOHR, JOHN CARL BERNHARDT=, No. G. 1420,2nd Battn. Sussex Regt.
s. of Charles Mohr, of 91, Sumner Road, Peckham; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 4 Feb. 1915.
=MOIR, ARCHIBALD GIFFORD=, Lieut., 7th Battn. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), elder _s._ of Archibald Patrick
Moir, of Marshill, Alloa, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Robert
Gifford, of London; _b._ Alloa aforesaid, 17 March, 1890;
educ. Edinburgh Academy, Banstead Hall, Surrey, and Fettes College,
Edinburgh, and on leaving there studied law, qualifying in 1914,
with the intention of joining his father in business. He was given a
commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
12 May, 1914, and promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. following; volunteered for
Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug.; went to France in
Dec., and was killed in action at Ypres, near Hill 60, 25 April, 1915;
_unm._ Buried near St. Jean. Col. Carden, who was killed shortly
afterwards, wrote: “He was the most popular officer in the regt. and
the best at his work;” and one of his men: “You were asking about Mr.
Moir, he was the finest officer in the Battn., everybody liked him.
When he fell he was leading us. I have been to his grave, it is behind
the firing trench. Everyone of us miss him. We have had other officers,
but none like him. All he thought of was his men.” Lieut. Moir was
mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May [London
Gazette, 22 June], 1915. At Banstead Hall he was captain of the School,
and gained all the important athletic prizes; at Fettes College he
gained the gold medal in 1908, as the best athlete of his year; was
captain of the Cricket XI; was also a brilliant three-quarter back at
football, and seemed to be marked out for International honours, but
an accident to his knee while playing for the Edinburgh Academicals
stopped his football career. He played for his county regularly at
cricket, and had many brilliant innings.
[Illustration: =Archibald Gifford Moir.=]
=MOIR, JAMES=, Private, No. 1794, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial
Force; served in Egypt, and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 8
Aug. 1915.
=MOIR, JOHN ANDREW ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders, elder _s._ of Andrew John Moir, of 15,
Clive Row, Calcutta, Merchant and Skipper; _b._ London. 1 Dec.
1897; educ. in Germany, and at Southport Modern School, and St. John’s
College, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, where he was a Prefect, and on the
outbreak of war, at once volunteered and joined the London Scottish
(14th London Regt.), 28 Aug. 1914; went to the Front with them in 28
Nov. following; served in the trenches during the winter of 1914–15,
and was selected for a commission and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders, 5 April, 1915. He fell leading an attack
on a small party of Germans in the early morning of 16 June, 1915. His
Col., Lieut.-Col. Gore, wrote of him: “I cannot tell you how sorry I
am to have lost him. He was a most promising young officer and brave
almost to recklessness, and, though he had been with us only a short
time, was much liked and esteemed by all his comrades.” He was buried
in Ration Farm Cemetery (Bois Grenier), near Armentières. He was an
excellent horseman, motor cyclist and swimmer, and founded and managed
the Thamesmouth Football Club until it was disbanded on the outbreak of
war.
[Illustration: =John Andrew A. Moir.=]
=MOLE, HERBERT=, Sergt., No. 6067, 1st Battn. Queen’s Royal West
Surrey Regt., _s._ of Henry Mole, of Charlecote, Warwick; served
with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died 27 Oct. 1914, of
wounds received in action.
=MOLESWORTH, ERNEST KERR=, Major, Royal Engineers, attd. 2nd
Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners, Indian Army, 3rd _s._ of
Lieut.-Col. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, of 3, Priory Street, Cheltenham,
and of Cruicksfield, Duns, Berwickshire, late R.A., by his wife, Ann
Elizabeth, yst. dau. of Major William Hope Smith, H.E.I.C.S., and
gdson. of Capt. Anthony Oliver Molesworth, R.A., [brother of Richard
Pigott, 7th Viscount Molesworth]; _b._ Montrose, 28 March, 1878;
educ. privately and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted
2nd Lieut. R.E. 23 March, 1898, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1901;
Capt. 23 March, 1907 and Major 30 Oct. 1914. He took part in the Tibet
Expedition of 1903–4, and was present at the Delhi Durbars (medals). In
1907 he was attd. to the 2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers and Miners,
Indian Army, with headquarters at Bangalore, being appointed Company
Commander, April, 1911. He left with the Indian Expeditionary Force
for France, 16 Oct. 1914, and was accidentally shot at St. Hilaire, on
31 Dec. following. Major Molesworth _m._ in London, 31 May, 1905,
Hilda Rosalie, dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Henry Alexander Brownlow, R.E., and
had two children: Brownlow David, _b._ 10 Feb. 1913; and Mollie
Rosalie, _b._ 11 March, 1907.
=MOLINEUX, GEORGE KING=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Northumberland
Fusiliers, elder _s._ of Major Harold Parminter Molineux, of
The Cottage, Isfield, Sussex, late Essex (56th) Regt., by his wife,
Ross Eugenie Katherine, 2nd dau. of the late Henry King, of Isfield
Place, Sussex; _b._ Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 15 April, 1887; educ.
Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford; after serving two
years in the 3rd Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. he was gazetted 2nd
Lieut. 2nd Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 11 Dec. 1909, and served in
England with his Regt. until Sept. 1913, when he proceeded with it to
India, being promoted Lieut. 1 Nov. 1913, and Capt. 16 Jan. 1915. He
was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, then Viceroy
of India, in Aug. 1914, but resigned this appointment in Nov. 1914 in
order to accompany his regt. to France on active service. He landed
in France in Jan. 1915, and was engaged in transport work for a short
time previous to going into the trenches in the Ypres district. On the
7 and 8 May, the Germans concentrated their guns on the salient held
by the Brigade in advance of Ypres, the bombardment of the trenches
being exceptionally severe. In the assault by the enemy which followed,
owing to the giving way of a unit on the right of the Northumberland
Fusiliers, the right flank of that regt. was overwhelmed, and Capt.
Molineux was last seen wounded and unconscious in his trench, between
Wieltje and Frezenberg, by the survivors who retired. He was most
popular in his regt. and was beloved by all who knew him. He was
_unm._ At Winchester he was in the cricket eleven in 1906, and
was captain of Commoner Football. He gained his Harlequin colours at
Oxford, and played in several matches for the University, also for
Gentlemen of England against Oxford University and for the M.C.C. He
was a first-class cricketer, shot, horseman, fisherman, and a good
naturalist.
[Illustration: =George King Molineux.=]
=MOLLOY, CHARLES=, Chief Petty Officer (R.F.R., B. 2975), 171847,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=MOLONEY, JOHN LAWRENCE=, Sergt.-Major, Warrant Officer (1st
Class), No. 68888, 22nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, _s._ of
Michael Moloney, Sergt. Sussex Regt., by his wife, Mary; _b._
Chichester, co. Sussex, 17 June, 1873; enlisted, 24 Sept. 1888; served
in the South African War (wounded at Lindley; Queen’s medal with two
clasps); and with the 7th Division of the Expeditionary Force in
France and Flanders from 5 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near
Gheluvelt, Belgium, 29 Oct. following. An officer wrote: “We were in a
position near the village of Gheluvelt and were being heavily shelled.
The Brigade Staff horses were in a farm shed behind our position, and
as a shell set it on fire, Mr. Moloney ordered the horses to be taken
out. He saw all safely out and led out the last one himself. Before
he was ten yards away from the building, another shell burst near him
killing him almost instantly. As you will see from this he died doing
his duty; he is buried near where he fell, and the spot is marked by
a cross bearing his name. You have all our sympathy, and his loss
was deeply felt by all ranks.” Sergt.-Major Moloney was an all-round
sportsman and had won many cups and medals for riding and jumping,
tentpegging and shooting. He had the Silver Medal for best Man-at-Arms,
Bombay Army, won at Poona, 1903, and was for many years a successful
competitor at the London Military Tournament. He had the Good Conduct
medal. He _m._ at Wimborne, Dorset, 17 Jan. 1905, Janet Christine
(14, New Boro’, Wimborne), twin dau. of Samuel and Isabella Foster, of
Homeleigh, Wimborne; _s.p._
[Illustration: =John Lawrence Moloney.=]
=MOLLOY, MICHAEL VALLANCEY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Sherwood
Foresters, elder _s._ of the Rev. Eben Molloy, Vicar of Shenstone,
B.A., by his wife, Harriet Rachel Emily, dau. of the late Rev. Thomas
Maule Wetherall, Rector of Pelham Parva, M.A. [gdson. of Lieut.-Gen.
Vallancey, R.E.]; _b._ Keyston Rectory, co. Huntingdon, 29 Sept.
1894; educ. Mr. Strahan’s School, Hythe, and Rossall School (Mr.
Furneaux’s House), where he was in the O.T.C., and obtained Certificate
“A”; later joined the Birmingham University O.T.C., and was gazetted
2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of Officers, 15 Aug. 1914, being at
his own request attd. to the 3rd Sherwood Foresters; went to France
early in Jan. 1915, attd. to the 2nd Battn., as Machine Gun Officer,
and in April was given a commission in the regular Army; and was killed
in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, while attending to his guns in a
captured German trench; _unm._ Buried in Sanctuary Wood, Hooge.
Gen. Congreve, V.C., wrote: “I knew him better than almost any of the
young officers. I don’t quite know how, and feel I have myself lost a
friend. He was an excellent officer--chosen because he was so, for the
machine gun command, and he was killed when looking after the guns in
a battle in which his brigade did everything it was asked to do”; and
Major C. I. D. Hobbs, the commanding officer: “He is a great loss to
the regt., as, in addition to being such a keen young officer, full of
pluck, he was universally popular with officers and men. He was shot
by a bullet through the heart while leading his men against the enemy,
and must have been killed instantaneously.” Capt. Chidlow-Roberts,
officer commanding C Coy., also wrote: “Everybody is most awfully cut
up about it, as he was a top-hole fellow and a jolly good soldier. He
was a great friend of mine. The word of it was he was too brave, and
shouldn’t have gone down to see about the gun”; and Capt. Noel Chance,
R.A.: “Mollie (as we all called him) was to me as dear as a younger
brother. No loss has affected me so much in this war, and it has caused
a gap that cannot be filled. You must, indeed, be proud to have such a
son; brave, extraordinarily courteous, and always anxious to help and
be a pleasure to others. He died a death we should all prefer, and he
could have felt nothing. I have had two short letters from the regt.,
and in each case (one from Major Hobbs, the commanding officer, and one
from Roberts), the outstanding comment is the loss of ‘Mollie.’ I have
never known a boy of his age have so many friends among both senior and
junior officers.”
[Illustration: =Michael Vallancey Molloy.=]
=MOLSON, ERIC ELSDALE=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots, 2nd
_s._ of Major John Elsdale Molson, of Goring Hall, Worthing,
and 3, Morton Terrace, Gainsborough, J.P., R.A.M.C. (T.F.), by his
wife, Mary, dau. of Dr. Arthur Edmund Leeson, M.A., M.D., Trinity
College, Dublin; _b._ Chelmsford, co. Essex, 26 March, 1894; educ.
Cheltenham College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd
Lieut., Royal Scots, 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915;
went to France, 21 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action in Flanders, 1
April, 1915, while on duty in a gap between two trenches; _unm._
Buried behind the trenches where he fell. His Colonel wrote: “I had a
great admiration for the boy. He was universally popular. We should
have considered ourselves very fortunate to get him to come into
the regt. permanently. He was such a delightful type of an English
gentleman, I often used to think when I looked at him”; and another:
“He was very popular with everyone in the battn. and especially with
his own platoon. Although he was a strict disciplinarian and insisted
on things being thoroughly done, he always did the most dangerous work
himself, such as going in front of his trench to put up the barbed
wire, with the result that his men had absolute confidence in him.
He did some particularly daring sniping work, which resulted in his
being twice grazed by the German snipers, once in the head. For this
work his name was sent in to the General.” While at Cheltenham he was
captain of the College Football XV, 1912–13, a Prefect of the College
and winner of the Hornby Prize. His father is (1916) on active service
at Newhaven, attached to Military Hospital and Garrison, and his two
brothers are (1916) Harold Elsdale Molson, 2nd Lieut., King’s Royal
Rifles, who has been wounded, and Gerald Elsdale Molson, Sub-Lieut. in
the Royal Navy.
[Illustration: =Eric Elsdale Molson.=]
=MONCK, THE HON. CHARLES HENRY STANLEY=, Capt., 3rd Battn.
Coldstream Guards, elder and only surviving _s._ of Henry Power
Charles Stanley, 5th Viscount Monck, late Capt., Coldstream Guards,
by his wife, Lady Edith Caroline Sophia, née Scott, dau. of John, 3rd
Earl of Clonmell; _b._ London, S.W., 9 Nov. 1876; educ. Eton;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Coldstream Guards from the Militia, 15 May,
1897, and promoted Lieut., 9 Nov. 1898, and Capt., 21 Nov. 1903; served
in the South African War, 1899–1902; took part in the advance on, and
relief of, Kimberley, including actions at Belmont, Enslin, Modder
River and Magersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb.-May,
1900, including actions at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Vet
River and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and June,
1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill;
operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July to Oct. 1900,
including action at Belfast; operations in the Transvaal, west of
Pretoria, Nov. 1900; in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1900;
in the Transvaal, Nov. to Dec. 1900; and those in Cape Colony, Dec.
1900, to 31 May, 1902; receiving the Queen’s medal with seven clasps
and the King’s medal with two clasps; went to France with the British
Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. 1914; was wounded in the thigh, 8 Sept.,
but rejoined his regt. on the 24th, and was killed in action at St.
Julien, 21 Oct. 1914. Buried there. He _m._ at Wellington Barracks
Chapel, London, 16 Feb. 1904, Mary Florence, 2nd dau. of Sir William
Wyndham Portal, of Laverstoke, 2nd Bart., and had three children: Henry
Wyndham Stanley, _b._ 11 Dec. 1905; Elizabeth Noel, _b._ 25
Dec. 1908; and Mary Patricia, _b._ 22 June, 1911.
[Illustration: =Hon. C. H. S. Monck.=]
=MONCKTON, MARMADUKE HENRY=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Garrison Artillery,
attd. Royal Flying Corps, elder _s._ of Commander Henry Grant
Monckton, by his wife, Maud Lilian, dau. of the Rev. John W. Hallowell;
_b._ Clifton, Bristol, 31 May, 1891; educ. Cheltenham College and
the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.G.A., 23
Dec. 1910; went to France, 1914, in charge of an anti-aircraft gun,
and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, 19 March, 1915. He was
killed in action on 9 July, 1915, while flying over the enemy’s line
near Bailleul. Buried at Bailleul; _unm._ His commanding officer
wrote: “He was killed at mid-day to-day, while flying over the enemy’s
lines. The attendant circumstances will never be accurately known,
but it seems probable from evidence of onlookers that the machine, a
Bristol scout, was hit by a fragment of shell and became uncontrollable
from about 4,000 feet. Your nephew’s death was instantaneous. He was a
gallant pilot and a fine, fearless soldier”; and in a later letter he
spoke of his faithful and loyal services to himself.
[Illustration: =Marmaduke H. Monckton.=]
=MONCUR, GEORGE CLARK=, L.-Corpl., No. 3457, 9th Battn. (Queen
Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John William
Moncur, of Aberdeen, Hotel Proprietor (retired), by his wife, Elizabeth
S. M., dau. of James S. Paterson; _b._ Aberdeen, 5 Feb. 1894;
educ. Ashley Road School there; was a Window Dresser; joined the Queen
Victoria Rifles, 11 Nov. 1914, and on the outbreak of war volunteered
for foreign service; went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in
action at Hill 60, 25 April, 1915. Buried at Headquarter Farm (c. 16–3,
Reference Map, Belgium 281/40,000); _unm._ His brother, Sergt.
Nicol Moncur, Dragoons, went to France with the Expeditionary Force in
Aug. 1914, and is still (1916) serving there.
[Illustration: =George Clark Moncur.=]
=MONDAY, TOM=, Farrier-Sergt., No. 769, 1st Battery, 2nd
Northumbrian Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late
George Monday, of 59, East Cheap, Hull, by his wife, Fanny, dau.
of Tom Auckland; _b._ Hull, 7 Nov. 1878; educ. Collier Street
School, Hull; was a Farrier Blacksmith; enlisted 23 March, 1908; was
promoted Sergt. about Aug. 1912; went to the Front, 18 April, 1915;
was killed in action at Ypres, 24 May following, and was buried there.
He _m._ at St. Stephen’s Church, Hull, 1 May, Susanna (Waterloo
Cottage, The Dene, Stainland, near Halifax), dau. of Jim Hardwick, and
had ten children: George, _b._ 31 Dec. 1900; Jim, _b._ 24
Dec. 1905; Tom, _b._ 20 Dec. 1907; John, _b._ 2 Dec. 1913;
Arthur, _b._ (posthumous), 25 Aug. 1915; Florence, _b._ 19
Feb. 1892; Fanny Elizabeth, _b._ 2 Dec. 1895; Sarah, _b._ 4
Dec. 1903; Alice, _b._ 19 Jan. 1909; and Edith, _b._ 26 Nov.
1911.
[Illustration: =Tom Monday.=]
=MONEY, HENRY IRONSIDE=, Capt., 1st Battn. 1st King George’s
Own Gurkha Rifles, the yr. _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Ernie
Edmund Money, Commandant, 9th Bengal Lancers (who was killed in India
in command of his regt., 20 Dec. 1894), by his wife, Alice Mary
(Gardenia, Torquay Road, Paignton, South Devon), sister of Major Eric
Grey Drummond, killed in action, 13 Nov. 1914, and dau. of the late
Major-Gen. Henry Drummond, Bengal R.E., and gdson. of the late Rev.
William Money, of Walthamstow, and Lea Marston, co. Warwick; _b._
Kasauli, Punjab, India, 21 Sept. 1883; educ. Marlborough College, and
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (unattd.),
Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902; served his first year with the Somerset
L.I.; and joined the 1/1st Gurkha Rifles 18 Jan. 1904; was promoted
Lieut. 27 Nov. following, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911; passed and received
his certificate in the Maxim Machine Gun Examination at the Erith
Works, 29 Oct. 1909; attended the manœuvres near Wetzlar, Germany,
in 1909, and those in Switzerland in the spring of 1914; was home on
leave, when the European War broke out, and joined his regt. in Egypt
during Aug. 1914; landed with them at Marseilles at the end of Nov.,
and was killed in action at Givenchy, 20 Dec. 1914; _unm._ He
was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for
gallant and distinguished service in the field. A brother officer
wrote: “Since we have been in France he has been in charge of our
bomb-throwers, and has done magnificent work. Had he lived he would
have been recommended for the D.S.O.”; and another: “He was last seen
fighting most valiantly and with the greatest coolness. His name has
gone in for D.S.O., and richly he deserved it.” Another: “He proved
himself to be a magnificent soldier, and literally covered himself with
glory. One can say that he died as he would have wished--leading and
encouraging his men with whom he was enormously popular.”
[Illustration: =Henry Ironside Money.=]