when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MORSE, GORDON THOMAS HARCOURT=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Middlesex
Regt., 2nd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Richard Edward Ricketts Morse,
of Chargrove House, near Cheltenham, by his wife, Kathleen, dau. of
the late Col. Neville Hill Shute (64th), North Staffordshire Regt.;
_b._ Mian Meer, Punjab, India, 6 Dec. 1893; educ. Cheltenham
College (Sept. 1908–Dec. 1912), and Royal Military College, Sandhurst
(12 Feb. 1913–July, 1914), where he was an Hon. King’s Cadet; was
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Middlesex Regt., 8 Aug. 1914; went to
France, 12 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 13 Oct.
1914; _unm._ He was buried at Rouge-Croix, France. His Col. wrote
that he was killed instantaneously being shot while leading his platoon
in an attack, and that “during the short time he was with the regiment
he had become popular with both officers and men.” At College he rose
to be a prefect, and his house-master said of him: “He was industrious
at work, fearless at games, loyal to his friends, and esteemed by all.”
[Illustration: =Gordon Thomas H. Morse.=]
=MORSE, GURTH STEPHEN=, 2nd Lieut., 34th Batty. Royal Field
Artillery, yst. _s._ of Amyas Morse, of The Bourne, Bourne End,
Bucks, late Superintending Engineer, Indian Public Works Department,
by his wife, Rose, dau. of the late Rev. Henry John Maddock; _b._
Lahore, Punjab, India, 20 March, 1894; educ. Ashampstead, Eastbourne;
Clifton College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted
2nd Lieut. R.F.A., 18 July, 1913; went to France, 12 Sept. 1914, and
died in Hospital at Bailleul, on 9 Dec. following, of wounds received
in action on the 4th, while observing for his battery at Bois Grenier,
near Armentières. He was buried in the Communal Cemetery, Bailleul;
_unm._
[Illustration: =Gurth Stephen Morse.=]
=MORTAR, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10391, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MORTIMER, HARRY BROOKS=, Private, No. 2731, 13th Battn. (Princess
Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of the
late William Henry Mortimer, of Heaton Moor, near Stockport, by his
wife, Mary Ann (Oakin Clough, Limehurst, Ashton-under-Lyne), dau. of
the late Samuel Brooks; _b._ Longsight, Manchester, 31 Jan. 1883;
educ. Grammar School, Longsight, and was a Manager of a Restaurant for
John Lewis, Oxford Street, London. On the outbreak of war he joined
the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France on 3 Nov.; took part
in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in March, 1915, and in the attack on
the German position near Fromelles on 9 May, in which his Battn. most
brilliantly distinguished itself, and died in No. 6 Clearing Station,
Merville, 12 May, 1915, from wounds received at the latter. He was
buried in Merville Cemetery; _unm._
[Illustration: =Harry Brooks Mortimer.=]
=MORTON, EDGAR DOUGLAS=, Trooper, No. 1391, 1st (Service)
squadron, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles (Yeomanry), only _s._ of
Edgar Morton, of The Studio, Kennington, Ashford, Kent, by his wife,
Eleanor Jane, dau. of Edward John Wall, of Great Chesterford; _b._
London, 7 June, 1895; educ. Ashford Grammar School (Sept. 1906, to
Easter, 1913), and on leaving there entered the Canterbury Motor Works,
where he was when war broke out. He joined the Waldershare Troop of
the East Kent Yeomanry, 7 Sept. 1914, and was quartered with the regt.
in huts on the Military Polo Ground at Canterbury during the autumn
and winter. He died in the Canterbury V.A.D. Hospital, 22 Feb. 1915,
from pneumonia and pleurisy contracted while on service. He was a good
all-round sportsman and a crack shot. At Ashford he was the school
prefect, and Capt. of the football team, and twice won the Strathcona
shooting trophy. His former Headmaster (Mr. A. S. Lamprey) wrote: “One
of the best, straightest, pluckiest boys I have ever known,” and Major
Ffrench Blake “He was a general favourite, and we all mourn the loss of
a young but keen soldier.”
[Illustration: =Edgar Douglas Morton.=]
=MORTON, HENRY=, Private, No. 1790, 1st Sussex Yeomanry, 3rd
_s._ of the late Thomas Morton (who served 21 years in India
with the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers, and received the Good Conduct medal,
etc., and afterwards for 15 years on the staff of the old Wicklow
Rifles); _b._ Wicklow, 15 Dec. 1867; educ. Wicklow Church School;
enlisted in the Royal Artillery, 15 June, 1887; transferred into the
Grenadier Guards, 1 Oct. following, and was posted to the 3rd Battn.
He served through the South African War, 1899–1902, receiving the
Queen’s medal with six bars (Belmont, Modder River, Dreifontein,
Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast) and the King’s medal with two
bars (1901, 1902), and obtained his discharge at his own request
in Sept. 1906, after being with the Colours 19 years and 87 days,
when he was awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct medal. He was
servant to Capt. Weller-Poley, re-enlisted in the Sussex Yeomanry the
day war was declared; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force in Sept., 1915, and was killed in action, 13 Nov.
1915; _unm._ He was buried in Anglesea Gully, Gallipoli. Writing
to his brother, Mr. George Morton, of 4, North Road, Prestwich,
Manchester, Capt. Weller-Poley said: “I feel that I have lost a true
friend and trusted servant who can never be replaced,” and Mr. Thomas
Weller-Poley, of Chichester, J.P.: “Your brother Henry had been with us
so long and was so much liked and respected by everyone, that the news
of his death is a genuine sorrow to us and to the whole establishment.”
[Illustration: =Henry Morton.=]
=MORTON, JAMES FAIRFAX AMPHLETT=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve Battn.,
attd. 2nd, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd _s._ of James Amphlett
Morton, of Puxton House, Kidderminster, by his wife, Edith Mary, dau.
of the Rev. John Garland, Vicar of Ombersley, Worcestershire; _b._
Puxton House, afsd., 6 May, 1892; and was educ. at Repton and Clare
College, Cambridge, where he rowed stroke in his college boat in the
May Races, 1914. On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a
commission through the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to
the 7th (Service) Battn. K.R.R.C., early in Sept. 1914. After spending
three weeks at a training camp for officers at Royston, Herts, he
joined his battalion at Aldershot, but was subsequently transferred
to the 6th (Reserve) Battn. at Sheerness. He left for France at the
end of Nov. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd K.R.R.C. (2nd Brigade,
1st Division). He was killed in action near La Bassée, 10 Jan. 1915,
during a counter-attack by the enemy to recover one of their trenches
against which he had just led a successful assault. Buried in a garden
at Cuinchy; _unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord)
French’s Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915.
[Illustration: =James F. A. Morton.=]
=MORTON, WILFRED=, Private, No. 2581, 1/7th Battn. Durham Light
Infantry (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Morton, of 47, Otto
Terrace, Sunderland, Quantity Surveyor, by his wife, Evelyn Mary, dau.
of Lancelot Steel; _b._ Sunderland, 1 Dec. 1895; educ. Great
Ayton, Sunderland, and Ackworth; was a pupil in his father’s office;
enlisted 6 Sept. 1914; went to the front, 19 April, 1915, was wounded
and taken prisoner at Hooge, on Whit Monday, and was afterwards
officially reported to have died, whilst a prisoner of war, in the
Krieg Lazarette, Rossclare, 30 May, 1915, from wounds, and was buried
at Rossclare; _unm._
=BOYD-MOSS, ERNEST WILLIAM, D.S.O.=, Major, 4th, attd. 9th,
Battn. Worcestershire Regt., yr. _s._ of the late Matthew Henry
Moss, of Belsize, Worthing; _b._ 26 Sept. 1876; educ. Tonbridge;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. Worcestershire Regt. from the
Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 2 Jan. 1900; Capt. 6 Feb. 1901,
and temp. Major of the Battn., 22 Oct. 1914; was attd. to the West
African Frontier Force, 12 Nov. 1904, to 11 July, 1907; served (1)
in West Africa, 1898–9; took part in the operations in Sierra Leone
(medal with clasp); (2) in the South African War, 1900–2, took part in
the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations
in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at
Ladybrand, 2–5 Sept, for which he was awarded the D.S.O.; operations in
the Transvaal, Jan.-June, 1901; operations in Orange River Colony, 30
Nov. 1900–Jan. 1901, and June, 1901–Feb. 1902 (mentioned in Despatches
[London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901]; Queen’s medal with three clasps and
the King’s medal with two clasps); and (3) with the Mediterranaean
Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action at
Sari Bair, 10 Aug. 1915. Major Boyd-Moss _m._ at Christ Church,
Gorakhpur, U.P., India, Mary Elizabeth Grace (Elsie), dau. of Frank
Middliton Howard, of Zehra, Gorakhpur, aforesaid, and had a son, Deryck
Frank, _b._ 11 April, 1913.
=MOSS, HERBERT=, Private, No. 126, A Coy., 8th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Herbert Moss, of 182, Queen’s
Road, Upton Park, by his wife, Emily Ann, dau. of the late John Samuel
Field; _b._ New Eltham, co. Kent, 29 June, 1894; educ. Stock
Street Schools, Albert Road, Plaistow; went to Australia, 6 May, 1912,
and when war broke out was employed on a farm belonging to Mrs. J.
Greenbank, in Snake Valley, Victoria. He at once volunteered and joined
the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; sailed for Egypt; took part
in the landing at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915, and was killed in
action there the same day, being shot through the forehead in a charge;
_unm._ Letters from his former employer and from his officers and
comrades speak very highly of him.
=MOSS, HORACE GEORGE=, Signalman, J. 12422, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=MOSS, SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3653), 177261. H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MOTRONI, PETER GEORGE=, Private, No. 8727, 2nd Battn. Suffolk
Regt., 2nd _s._ of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street,
Ipswich, by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina,
Italy; _b._ Colchester, co. Essex, 1 July, 1895; educ. St. Pancras
R.C. School, and St. Mary’s Convent School, Ipswich; enlisted 4 April,
1913; went to France, 11 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at
Hooges, near Ypres, 19 July, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Peter George Motroni.=]
=MOTRONI, UMBERTO AMEDIE=, Corpl. No. 1756, Suffolk Regt., 3rd
_s._ of Anthony Motroni, of 14, Permit Office Street, Ipswich
by his wife, Carmela, dau. of Dominico Marcantonio, of Atina, Italy;
_b._ at Ipswich, 1898; enlisted 7 Oct. 1913; went to France,
6 Nov. 1914, was promoted Corpl. in March, 1916, and was killed in
action, 15 July, 1916; _unm._
[Illustration: =Umberto Amedie Motroni.=]
=MOTT, GEORGE=, Chief Petty Officer (N.S.) (R.F.R., A. 1944),
148075, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MOUCHER, THOMAS HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4009),
291032, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MOULD, ALBERT ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 1487, 12th Battn. (The
Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of William Arthur
Mould, of 3, Buckingham Terrace, Notting Hill, W. (who served for 25
years with the 18th Middlesex Volunteers), by his wife, Emily, dau.
of George Harris, Jeweller; _b._ London, 6 Feb. 1891; educ.
Buckingham Terrace Public School; was a Porter at a Court Milliner’s,
joined the Rangers in Sept. 1910; volunteered for foreign service on
the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France in Dec. following, and
died in the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton, 25 May, 1915, of
wounds received in action during the Second Battle of Ypres; _unm._
[Illustration: =Albert Arthur Mould.=]
=MOULL, WILLIAM DANIEL=, Chief Sick Berth Steward, 350416, H.M.S.
Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MOUNTAIN, GEORGE=, Acting Leading Stoker, 306050, H.M.S. Hawke,
_s._ of James Mountain, of 3, Thomas Street, Craghead; lost when
that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MOXEY, CHARLES GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6819), S.S. 1043, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MUCHALL, GEORGE WILLIAM STEWART=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The
King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., _s._ of the late Colour-Sergt.
William Angus Muchall, who served for 21 years in the 8th Battn.
King’s Liverpool Regt.; _b._ Orford Barracks, Warrington, 12
June, 1881; enlisted in the King’s Own, 4 Jan. 1901, reached the rank
of Colour-Sergt., and was serving with his Regt. in India when the
European War broke out in Aug. 1914. He came home with his regt.,
reaching England at Christmas; was given a commission as 2nd Lieut.,
in the 2nd King’s Own, 9 Jan. 1915; went to France, and was killed in
action in the desperate fighting on the Frezenberg Ridge, near Ypres, 8
May, 1915. Lieut. Muchall was three years Battn. Champion shot, and in
1909 he won the J. H. Steward Jewel for judging distance at Bisley, and
was fourth in the grand aggregate. He _m._ at Scotforth Church,
Lancaster, 6 Jan. 1906, Elizabeth (15, Cheltenham Road, Lancaster),
dau. of William Jackson, of 15, Cheltenham Road, Lancaster, and had
three children: William J., _b._ 18 Feb. 1907; George, _b._
13 Aug. 1914; and Lilian M., _b._ 6 April, 1911.
[Illustration: =George W. S. Muchall.=]
=MUDDIMAN, OLIVER=, L.-Corpl., No. 4868, 1st Battn. Coldstream
Guards, 4th _s._ of the late Alfred Muddiman, 3rd Battn. Rifle
Brigade, by his wife, Kate, dau. of William and Sarah Burgess;
_b._ Winchester, 1 June, 1883; educ. Winchester Council School;
enlisted 22 Oct. 1902; promoted L.-Corpl., 9 Aug. 1914; went to France
with the Expeditionary Force, 21 Aug., and was reported wounded and
missing after the fighting at La Cour de Soupir on the Aisne, 14 Sept.
1914, and is now assumed to have been killed on that date. He _m._
at Fulham, 5 Oct. 1907, May Louise (19, Dunton Road, Leyton, Essex),
dau. of John Charles Everett, Engine Driver, G.N.R., and had two sons:
Oliver, _b._ 17 July, 1908; and Eric Charles, _b._ 31 Jan.
1914.
[Illustration: =Oliver Muddiman.=]
=MUDFORD, WALTER=, Bombardier, R.M A. (R.F.R., I.C. 15), 9004,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=MUIR, GEORGE CHALMERS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 5821),
285210, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=MUIR, GEORGE WATSON=, Midshipman, R.N., elder _s._ of
Andrew Gray Muir, of 17, Grosvenor Crescent, Edinburgh, writer to the
“Signet,” by his wife, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Thomson Henderson, of
Leghorn, and great-grandson of the Rev. John Muir, of St. Vigeans, co.
Forfar; _b._ Edinburgh, 2 May, 1899; educ. Edinburgh Academy;
Stubbington, Hampshire; and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval
Colleges; appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost when
that ship was sunk in action in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
[Illustration: =George Watson Muir.=]
=MUIRHEAD, JAMES GRAHAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17214, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MULADY, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5091, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=MULHOLLAND, ARTHUR=, 2nd Ship’s Steward, 344220, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MULLEN, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9230), S.S.
106287, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MULLIGAN, ALEXANDER=, Private No. 7462, 1st Battn. Royal
Inniskilling Fusiliers, _s._ of Alexander Mulligan, of 16,
Newport Street, Dublin, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of Adam Russell;
_b._ Ellen Field, Drumcondra, Dublin, 16 Sept. 1882; educ. St.
James’ Schools, Dublin; joined the Army, 22 Dec. 1902, and was killed
in action, being shot through the head at the Battle of the Aisne, 13
Sept. 1914. He _m._, Dublin, 15 Jan. 1908, Elizabeth Beatrice (12,
St. John’s Cottages, High Road, Kilmainham, Dublin), dau. of the late
John Sadleir, and had issue a son and dau., Alexander John, _b._
14 June, 1911, and Annette Rosabella, _b._ 14 June, 1909.
[Illustration: =Alexander Mulligan.=]
=MULLINS, JOHN OLLIS=, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Reserve) Battn. Middlesex
Regt., attd. Royal Flying Corps, 3rd _s._ of the late Edwin Roscoe
Mullins, of London, Sculptor, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late John
Pelton, of Croydon; _b._ London, 6 March, 1892; educ. University
College School, London (where he was captain of the school, and
Colour-Sergt. of the O.T.C.); gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2 April, 1913; attd.
to the 6th Middlesex, 6 Aug. 1914, transferred to Royal Flying Corps, 1
Feb. 1915, and was killed in an aeroplane accident at Upavon, 29 March,
1915, while going through a course of instruction there; _unm._
His Adjutant wrote that he was “a promising young officer, who in his
short career in the 6th Middlesex had already shown a marked capacity
for the handling of men.”
[Illustration: =John Ollis Mullins.=]
=MULLOY, JOHN THOMAS=, Signalman, (R.F.R., B. 5053), 204138,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=MUMFORD, GEORGE=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, L. 4183, H.M.S.
Hawke; _s._ of George Felix Mumford, of 28, Albury Grove Road,
Waltham Cross; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=MUMFORD, HARRY=, A.B., J. 13954, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MUNBY, ERNEST JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st East Anglian Field Coy.,
R.E. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of the late Rev. George Frederick Woodhouse
Munby, Rector of Turvey, Bedford (1869–1905), by his wife, Harriet
Louisa, dau. of the Rev. Canon Linton; _b._ Turvey Rectory, 19
May, 1875; educ. Rugby and Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey,
U.S.A., where he took his degree as Mechanical Engineer, and became
M.Am. S.M.E. and A.I.M. and M. As a Mining Engineer, he worked in
Colorado and Borneo, and was subsequently engaged with Lord Cowdray
(then Sir Weetman Pearson) in constructing the tunnel under the Hudson
River to New York. He was afterwards employed by the Gardner Electric
Drill and Hammer Company, and had latterly been engaged at the St.
John’s Mine, Montezuma, Colorado. On the outbreak of war he returned
to England and applied for a commission. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to
the 1st East Anglian Coy., R.E., 14 Sept. 1914; went to France at the
end of Dec., and was killed in action near Bethune, 31 Jan. 1915, being
buried at Le Touret. He _m._ at Croydon, 7 Nov. 1905, Emily Louisa
Ann, widow of Capt. Herbert Turner Turner Emery, of Baddow Park, Essex,
and dau. of Charles Henry Coxhead; _s.p._
=MUNDAY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10124), S.S.
107841, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=MUNDEN, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3767), 148102, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=MUNN, DUNCAN=, Painter, 2nd Class, 183670, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=MUNN, GEORGE ANDERSON=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 340648, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=MUNRO, DAVID SINCLAIR=, Sergt., No. 8/678, 4th (Otago Infantry)
Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Sinclair McKay
Munro, of 21, Selwyn Road, N.E. Valley, Dunedin (a native of Wick,
Caithness), Storeman; _b._ Dunedin, N.Z., 13 Aug. 1895; educ.
N.E. Valley School, Dunedin; volunteered and enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914;
was promoted Sergt.; left for Egypt with the Main Body in Oct.; took
part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed
in action there, 9 May following, being shot through the temple in
an attack on a Turkish position. Buried, Cape Helles, Gallipoli;
_unm._
=MUNRO, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Farrier, No. 13/106, 4th Troop, 3rd Regt.
Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._
of John Alexander Munro, of Clevedon, Blacksmith, by his wife, Maria,
dau. of Franz Bartosh, and great grandson of Robert Munro, who served
through the Peninsula War; _b._ Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand,
28 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 3rd Regt. of the Auckland Mounted
Rifles, 1 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 18 May,
1915; _unm._
=MUNRO, RODERICK=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4519, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=MUNTON, FRANK BOUGHTON=, Sergt., No. 1958, 13th (Princess
Louise’s Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._
of Field Boughton Munton, of 10, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd’s Bush,
Ironmonger, by his wife, Jenny, dau. of George Blair, of Queen’s
Road, Bayswater; _b._ Shepherd’s Bush, 23 Jan. 1869; educ.
Westbourne Park School, and was a Builder by trade. He joined the
18th Middlesex Volunteers in 1899. This, on the introduction of the
Territorial system, became the 10th County of London Regt., and for
some years he was Sergt.-Instructor of the Maxim-Gun Team, and was
Quartermaster-Sergt. when the regt. was disbanded in 1912. Much of
the work which the disbandment entailed fell to his share, and he
was presented with a silver cup and a set of silver spoons by his
old comrades. On the outbreak of war, notwithstanding that he was 45
years of age, he at once volunteered, and joined the Kensingtons as a
Private, leaving a well-established business and large family to do so.
He was promoted Sergt. early in March, 1915; went to France, 3 Nov.
1914, and was killed in action by machine-gun fire on 9 May, 1915, in
the attack delivered by the 8th Division upon the German position at
Fromelles and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, on which occasion
the Kensingtons most brilliantly distinguished themselves and sustained
heavy losses. He was a first class shot and his Commanding Officer
wrote saying how greatly his help would be missed, adding, “he was
invaluable to me.” He _m._ at St. James Norlands, London, 14 Feb.
1890, Elizabeth (23, Caxton Road, Shepherd’s Bush, W.), dau. of Charles
Hazard, and had three sons and five daus.: Frank Boughton, _b._
25 Dec. 1899; Clifford Arthur, _b._ 17 April, 1904; Ernest Percy,
_b._ 30 May, 1906; Jeannette Frances, _b._ 13 July, 1891;
Constance May, _b._ 17 April, 1894; Irene Elizabeth, _b._
27 May, 1897; Phyllis, _b._ 28 Nov. 1901; and Marjorie Joyce,
_b._ 1 April, 1910.
[Illustration: =Frank Boughton Munton.=]
=MURGATROYD, WALTER ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14723, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.