Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder _s._ of the Rev. Alexander
Ramsay, B.D., Minister of the Highgate Presbyterian Church, London, N.,
by his wife, Ella Euphemia Barbara, dau. of the Rev. William Clark, of
Barshead; _b._ Coatbridge, co. Lanark, 9 Aug. 1887; educ. City
of London School, and Caius College, Cambridge, and on leaving there
entered the Board of Education as a Junior Examiner; gazetted 2nd
Lieut. in the Reserve of Officers, 10 June, 1912, promoted Lieut. 25
March, 1915; was attd. to the 5th Royal Fusiliers on the outbreak of
war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the 1st Warwickshires, 21 Oct.;
served in the trenches at Houplines, St. Yvon and Messines, and died
a prisoner of war in a German Field Hospital, at Roulers, 28 April
following, from wounds received in action at St. Julien, on the 25th,
during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried at Roulers. His Col. wrote:
“He died gallantly leading his men against the German trenches on 25
April. He had done many gallant deeds since he has been with us, and we
have all learnt his value as a man and as an officer”; and his Capt.,
who was wounded in the same engagement: “I had the luck to have him as
one of my subalterns, and got to know him intimately since 1 Feb. I
liked him immensely, and so did everyone else in the Battn. There was
no one who looked after his men or got to know them like he did. I did
not see him killed, but I feel sure he died a gallant death, leading
his men in the attack in which we all suffered so.” A fellow officer,
now (1916) on Headquarters Staff, also wrote: “Ramsay came to me when
he first joined the Royal Warwicks, my regt., and I have no words to
express the admiration I have always felt for him. He has been splendid
out here, and I know all my men loved him, and we are all feeling his
death as a personal loss. When I left my regt. and came to the Brigade
Staff he asked me to write to you if anything happened, and that is how
I know your address. He was thought highly of by everyone, and I know
that his name has already gone forward in the honours list made up by
the General some weeks ago.” While at Cambridge he took a double first
(classics and history), was President of the Union, and obtained the
Winchester Reading Prize.
[Illustration: =Alexander Ramsay.=]
=RAMSAY, LEWIS NEIL GRIFFITT=, M.A., B.Sc., 2nd Lieut., 3rd
(Special Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2nd _s._
of Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, of 41, Braid Avenue, Edinburgh,
formerly Professor of Humanity in Aberdeen University, Professor of
Classical Archæology in Oxford, Victoria Gold Medallist of the Royal
Geographical Society, Medallist of the Royal Scottish Geographical
Society, and one of the original Fellows of the British Academy,
by his wife, Agnes Dick, 2nd dau. of the Rev. William Marshall, of
Kirkintilloch; _b._ Aberdeen, 3 Feb. 1890; educ. Merchiston Castle
School, Edinburgh; Aberdeen University; Christ’s College, Cambridge,
and the Imperial College of Science. He graduated M.A. at Aberdeen
in 1910 and B.Sc. in 1913, with special distinction in Botany, and
was about to submit a piece of research work for his Cambridge B.A.
During 1914 he acted as Assistant to the Professor of Natural History
at Aberdeen, and shortly before the outbreak of war he had been made a
Beit Memorial Fellow and had begun work at the Imperial College. He had
been a keen Volunteer and Territorial, and applied for a commission on
11 Aug. 1914; rejoined his old unit, the 4th Battn. Gordon Highlanders
(T.F.), as a Private early in Sept. 1914, and was at once promoted to
his former rank of Colour-Sergt. In reward for his services in drilling
he was (18 Nov.) given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Special
Reserve) Battn., and early in Dec. was sent to France to the 2nd
Battn., then at the Front. He was killed in action on Sunday, 21 March,
1915. His Battn. had taken part in, and suffered loss at, the Battle of
Neuve Chapelle, and were engaged in consolidating the position after
the battle when he was shot by a sniper. He became engaged a few weeks
before war began to V. Grace, dau. of the late Major Ferguson, I.M.S.,
and of Mrs. Ferguson, Aberdeen, and granddau. of Colonel Hunter, C.B.,
C.S.I. His orderly wrote: “On 21 March, about noon, I placed out in
the sun a chair for him to write a letter while I was making his
lunch, and about ten minutes after a man of our company was struck on
the head at a low part of our trench, so Mr. Ramsay jumped up at once
and went and dressed him. That was what caused his death. He knew it
was a very dangerous part, but that was always his first thought, the
safety of his men. So Mr. Ramsay gathered together all sandbags which
were lying about, and started to put them up. It was while doing that
that he was struck by a sniper. As soon as he fell I was beside him,
for he was only working at about a few yards from me at the time. I
got out his field dressing and bandaged him up the best I could, then
I sent for the Doctor, who arrived a few minutes after; but he was
beyond all aid. We made him as comfortable as possible until the end.
He was unconscious the whole five hours and passed away peacefully.
It was a great blow to his platoon for they thought the world of him,
and myself I knew had lost a great friend and good master. He was
taken away at night by the stretcher-bearers and buried in Estaires
with full military honours, and laid to rest beside our dear old Col.”
[Grave No. 524.] He had been a devoted student of field Zoology, and
especially ornithology, from his earliest childhood, and had amassed
a great amount of data regarding the ornis of Aberdeenshire. On the
more technical side may be mentioned his notes on the moult of the
herring-gull and on the collections made by the Scottish National
Antarctic Expedition. He himself had travelled considerably, and
had made valuable collections not only of birds but also of mammals,
insects, and botanical specimens in various places, notably in Asia
Minor in the summer of 1907. In addition to his work on birds, Mr.
Ramsay left unfinished a “Revision of the Nereidac,” a piece of work
which was expected by competent judges who knew its substance to become
a classical paper on that group of marine worms. Latterly he had turned
to entomology with a view to studying it from the economic side. A
list of his published work appears in “British Birds,” IX, 1, 1915, p.
17 f., prepared by his friend, Lieut. A. L. Thomson, A. and S.H. He
played the Highland pipes well, and was a member of the Aberdeen Pipers
Society. He represented Aberdeen University for several years in long
distance running and in swimming.
[Illustration: =Lewis Neil G. Ramsay.=]
=RAMSDEN, ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6557), 186587, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RANCE, WILLIAM JOHN=, Petty Officer, 201566, H.M.S. Cressy; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RANCOMBE, MARCUS ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1593, 1/3rd Battn.
Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of William John Rancombe, of
15, Cwm Cottages, Abertillery, co. Monmouth, by his wife, Elizabeth,
dau. of Amos Buckle, of Waddesdon, Bucks; _b._ Abertillery, 14
April, 1895; educ. there; joined the 3rd Monmouthshire’s Territorial
Regt., 25 June, 1913, and prior to the outbreak of the war was engaged
at the Six Bells Colliery. He volunteered for foreign service; went
to the Front, 16 Feb. 1915; was badly wounded in action near Messines
Ridge, 16 March, 1915, and died at Bailleul, on Easter Monday, 5 April
following; _unm._ He was buried in Bailleul Cemetery. His Company
Officer wrote that he was one of his most reliable and useful men, a
thorough good shot, signaller and despatch rider, one who could ill be
spared.
[Illustration: =Marcus E. W. Rancombe.=]
=RANDALL, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, No. 2093, 14th Battn. (London
Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of Charles William
Randall, of Barton Bendish, Alderton Hill, Loughton, co. Essex,
Merchant, by his wife, Emma, dau. of Edward Witton, of South Lopham,
co. Norfolk; _b._ Norwich, 29 Feb. 1892; educ. Sidcup College;
was engaged in his father’s business as Managing Director of Hamburg
(German) branch and Director of C. W. Randall & Co., Ltd., London;
joined the London Scottish, 15 June, 1914; volunteered for foreign
service on the outbreak of war in Aug., went to France 15 Sept. with
the first batch of Territorials to leave for the Front, and was killed
in action at Messines, 1 Nov. following, during the famous charge of
the London Scottish; _unm._ Buried there. A window was erected to
his memory in Woodford Parish Church.
[Illustration: =George Edward Randall.=]
=RANDALL, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6831, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=RANDELL, CHARLES WESTLEY=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 196243,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=RANDLE, DONALD=, Rifleman, No. 2916, 21st Battn. (1st Surry
Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of the late George
Beavis Randle, W.G., Manufacturers’ Agent, by his wife, Sarah
(Shandwick, Hazelwood Lane, Palmer’s Green, N.), dau. of the late John
Mitchell, of Dorking, Norfolk; _b._ Wood Green, 13 March, 1894;
educ. there; was a Clerk with Messrs. Kirwan & Co., Hatton Garden;
volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the Surrey Rifles in
Sept. 1914; went to France, 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action
at Givenchy, 25 May following; _unm._ Four of his brothers are on
active service; the eldest an officer in A.S.C., another in R.F.C., and
two in Royal Bucks Hussars.
=RANGECROFT, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Acting Chief Stoker, 283745, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=RANDS, WILLIAM FREDERICK=, Rifleman, No. 3057, 1/16th Battn.
(Queen’s Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of
William Rands, of 108, Florence Road, Wimbledon; _b._ Battersea,
12 Feb. 1892; educ. Queen’s Road School, Wimbledon, and on leaving
there in 1906 entered the shipping firm of Messrs. McEwan & Co., of
97, Cannon Street, E.C., in whose employ he was when war broke out in
Aug. 1914; volunteered and joined the Queen’s Westminsters, 4 Sept.
1914; went to France with the first draft; was wounded in action at
Armentières 3 May following, and died two days later in No. 8 Casualty
Clearing Station; _unm._ Buried in the Bailleul Annex (Grave No.
816).
=RANKEN, HARRY SHERWOOD, V.C.=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps,
elder _s._ of the Rev. Henry Ranken, B.D., Minister of Irvine,
by his wife, Helen, dau. of Mathew Morton; _b._ Glasgow, 3 Sept.
1883; educ. Irvine Royal Academy and Glasgow University, where he
graduated M.B., Ch.B. “with commendation” in 1905, and became M.R.C.P.,
London, 1910; was for some time House Physician and House Surgeon,
Western Infirmary, Glasgow, and Assistant Medical Officer, Brook Fever
Hospital, Metropolitan Asylums Board; gazetted Lieut., R.A.M.C., 30
Jan. 1909, and promoted Capt. 30 July, 1912; transferred to Egyptian
Army, Aug. 1911; Member of the Sudan Government Sleeping Sickness
Commission, and in charge of the Sleeping Sickness Camp at Yei, Western
Mongalla, 1911–14; came home on leave, July, 1914, and volunteered for
war service, and was restored to British establishment, Aug. 1914;
went to the Front, 12 Aug. 1914, attd. to the 1st King’s Royal Rifle
Corps; created a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the President of
the French Republic “for gallant conduct from 21 to 28 Aug. 1914,”
and decorated with the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 16 Nov. 1914]
“for tending wounded in the trenches under rifle and shrapnel fire
at Hautevesnes on 19 Sept. and on 20 Sept., continuing to attend to
wounded after his thigh and leg had been shattered”; died of his wounds
at Braisne, 25 Sept. 1914; _unm._ The Times History of the War,
Pt. 41, p. 44, says: “It is a safe statement that no man ever won
the Victoria Cross more nobly than did Capt. Harry Sherwood Ranken,
R.A.M.C. Capt. Ranken was severely wounded in the leg whilst attending
to his duties on the battlefield. He arrested the bleeding from this,
and bound it up, and then continued to dress the wounds of his men,
sacrificing his chances of salvation to their needs. When finally he
permitted himself to be carried to the rear, his case had become almost
desperate. He died within a short period.” Col. Northey, commanding 1st
Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, wrote to his parents of his personal
loss and the loss the whole Battn. has sustained. Several other of his
brother officers wrote in the same strain. The P.M.O. of the Egyptian
Army regarded his death as a great loss to science. Sir William
Leishman deplored the loss of a friend, and wrote of him as a man who
thought nothing of doing three men’s work. In collaboration with Dr.
H. E. Plimmer and Capt. Fry he prepared a series of “Reports on the
Experimental Treatment of Trypanosomiasis.”
[Illustration: =Harry S. Ranken.=]
=RANKEN, JOHN=, Corpl., No. 1839, A Coy., 1/4th Battn. The Royal
Scots (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of William Ranken, of 11, Spence Street,
Edinburgh, Glass Manufacturer, surviving partner of John Ford & Co.,
of Edinburgh, by his wife, Pauline Catherine, elder dau. of the late
William Ford, of Ferreyside, Liberton, Midlothian; _b._ Edinburgh,
13 March, 1881; educ. George Watson’s College there (1886–98); was
apprenticed to Messrs. Belfrage & Carfrae, C.E., Edinburgh, later
seeking further professional experience in the west of Scotland and
in the north of England, and eventually became Director and Joint
Manager of the firm of Firth, Dunlop, and Ranken, Leeds, one of the
largest steel stock firms in the north of England. He joined the
Queen’s Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade, Royal Scots, on 16 Nov.
1899; served with them till 6 Jan. 1904, and on the outbreak of war,
rejoined his coy. on 5 Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles 13 June, and
on 28 June brilliantly led a bombing party in a successful attack on
the Turkish trenches, and for his conduct was mentioned in Gen. Ian
Hamilton’s Despatch [London Gazette, 5 Nov. 1915]; wounded in this
attack he might, with honour, have sought hospital shelter, but he hung
on and subsequently died before reaching the Hospital Ship, 29 June,
1915; _unm._ The following passage occurs in “The Story of the
Royal Scots” (p. 243), “Bomb-throwing played an important part in the
action, and is shown by the account of Private Herbert T. Grant, of B
Coy.: ‘I noticed a communication trench at right angles to the one we
held, and a little further down choked with Turks, so I grabbed the bag
of bombs again and went down to the place. Fortunately Corpl. Ranken
(Grenade Corpl.) was there, and we threw them at the Turks as fast as
I could light them. There was an explosion which sent me flying. I
managed to crawl up the trench a bit, and a fellow bandaged me up.’”
Buried in Gulley Beach Cemetery. As a school boy he was a keen cyclist;
captained his school club, and carried off its chief awards at the
sports, under the auspices of that club, held at Powderhall in 1898.
He was a well-known International runner in Scottish cross-country
championships; captained the first Scottish cross-country International
team, and represented his country on five or six different occasions;
twice won the Scottish cross-country championship, and several times
ran for Scotland in the International athletic championship against
Ireland in the one mile and four miles events.
[Illustration: =John Ranken.=]
=RANKIN, JAMES=, Officer’s Steward, 1st Class, L. 4351 (Dev.),
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=RANKING, JAMES GABRIEL LANCASTER=, Capt., Assistant Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf, Indian Political Department, late Indian
Army, elder surviving _s._ of Lieut.-Col. George Speirs Alexander
Ranking, late I.M.S. now R.A.M.C., (T.F.), Administrator, 3rd Southern
General Hospital, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Maunsell, yr. dau.
of the late John Duncan, Assistant Inspector General, Royal Irish
Constabulary, Commandant of the R.I.C. Depôt, Phoenix Park, Dublin;
_b._ Tunbridge Wells, 14 Oct. 1883; educ. Tunbridge and Aldenham
Schools, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
(unattd.) Indian Army, 21 Jan. 1903; served his first year with the
2nd East Lancashire Regt.; posted to 46th Punjabis, 23 April, 1904;
and promoted Lieut. 21 April, 1905, and Capt. 21 Jan. 1912; selected
as probationer, Indian Political Department, 17 Dec. 1908; confirmed
as Political Assistant, 5 Oct. 1911; appointed H.M. Consul at Ahwaz,
and Assistant to Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, 26 April,
1914; killed in action there, near Bushire, 12 July, 1915; _unm._
On that day, information having been received at the Residency that
a concerted attack was to be made on the Residency that night, a
reconnoitring party of 26 Sepoys and 6 Sowars, under the command of
Major Oliphant, 96th Infantry, and Capt. Ranking, set out to verify
the report. The cavalry party under Capt. Ranking came suddenly upon a
strong body of the enemy (Tangistanis) in a garden, who opened fire at
close range. The horse ridden by one of the Sowars was brought down.
Capt. Ranking pulled up and dismounted to extricate the Sowar who lay
pinned beneath his fallen horse. This he did, but it cost him his life,
as he was shot down and killed. Major Oliphant coming to his rescue was
also shot dead. The bodies of the two officers were recovered on the
following day and brought into Bushire, and buried in the Telegraph
Cemetery at Sabzabad. The Foreign Secretary to the Government of India
wrote to Lieut.-Col. Ranking: “His Excellency desires me to say that
the Political Department of which he is the Head, have lost in your
son a most keen and promising officer, and one who had already done
much good work for the Empire in remote and isolated parts of Persia,”
and Major Trevor, Resident, Persian Gulf: “Your son and I went through
some stormy times together in Arabistan at the beginning of the year,
and then we both came here, and found things getting very lively. In
the circumstances. I got to know your son very well and felt his loss
a very great deal myself. I found him a most excellent assistant, and
think that in addition to your having lost a dear son, his friends have
lost a good friend and gallant gentleman. The Government has lost a
very valuable officer.”
[Illustration: =James G. L. Ranking.=]
=RANSOM, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Officers’ Steward, 1st Class, L. 2595,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=RATCLIFFE, GIBSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 4848),
300320, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RATE, RICHARD AUSTIN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7516),
S.S. 102766, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=RATTENBURY THOMAS ERNEST=, Corpl., No. 1413, 18th Battn. (London
Irish Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Thomas
Charles Rattenbury, by his wife, Annie (4, Besborough Place, London,
S.W.), dau. of Henry Abrams; _b._ Westminster, S.W., 13 Sept.
1893; educ. St. Matthews School, Westminster; was engaged as a Clerk
with Pathé Frères; joined the London Irish Rifles in 1913; volunteered
for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; trained at St.
Alban’s; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action during
the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. following, while gallantly advancing with
his platoon to the attack on the German trenches; _unm._
[Illustration: =Thomas E. Rattenbury.=]
=RAVEN, JOHN ROBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3923), 184171, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=RAWLINGS, CECIL GEORGE SANDBROOK=, L.-Corpl., No. 1784, 12th
Battn. (The Rangers), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of
George Rawlings, of Rosemont, Salisbury, by his wife, Ida, eldest
dau. of William Sandbrook, of The Mount, Market Drayton, co. Salop;
_b._ Salisbury, co. Wilts, 11 June, 1894; educ. Salisbury School
and Denstone College, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; was employed
with Messrs. Story & Co., at Kensington, and later with Messrs. Waring
& Gillow; joined the Rangers, Oct. 1913; volunteered for foreign
service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France on the
following Christmas Eve, and was killed in action near Ypres, 15 Feb.
1915; _unm._ Capt. Arbuthnot in sending the news to his parents,
wrote: “Just as it was getting light on the morning of the 15th, two
platoons under Major V. Hoare were sent out to obtain information for
the Brigade Gen., and to act as supports to some troops in front. It
was not an easy task to move across the open in daylight, but Major
Hoare’s leading was skilful, and he found the way into the shelter of a
trench. When he had got about three-quarters of the men in the trench a
shell burst right in the trench, and I most deeply regret to say killed
Major Hoare and three men, one of those killed I grieve to say was your
son. He was killed in action doing his duty. When darkness came on in
the evening we buried him about 30 yards behind the trench. A Capt. of
the King’s Royal Rifles read the burial service, abbreviated, by the
light of an electric torch, while we stood round in a half-circle to
prevent the Germans seeing the light and firing on us. I can assure you
that your son’s death is a real loss to the company; he always did his
work so calmly and efficiently, and at the same time he was a great
favourite with the whole platoon.”
[Illustration: =Cecil George S. Rawlings.=]
=RAWLINGS, FRANK HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3848), 190362, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=RAWLINGS, JOSEPH EASTOE=, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8926), S.S.
105702, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RAWLINS, CLIFFORD ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9107, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RAWLINSON, CURWEN VAUGHAN=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st,
Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., only _s._ of the late Charles William
Rawlinson, of Court House, Winchfleld, a Master of the Supreme Court,
by his wife, Amy Vaughan (Shapley Heath, Winchfield, Hants), dau. of
the late Alfred Fowler, of Down Hall, Kent; _b._ Kensington, 19
Aug. 1890; educ. Rugby; was reading Law with Messrs. Buck, Mellor and
Norris, of 45, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, but after the outbreak of war
joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in Nov., and obtained a commission, 16
Dec. 1914. He was killed in Flanders in the front trenches at Hill 60,
21–22 May, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Curwen V. Rawlinson.=]
=RAWORTH, WILLIAM ALFRED=, Private, No. 2414, 13th Battn.
(Princess Louise’s Kensington) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of
William Raworth, R.N. (now serving in a monitor off the Belgian Coast),
by his wife, Marion Helen (21, Pear Tree Cottages, James Street,
Hounslow), dau. of the late Alfred French; _b._ Notting Hill,
London, 17 Nov. 1894; educ. Spring Grove Council School, Isleworth;
after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Kensingtons, 1 Sept. 1914,
served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, including
the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and was shot by a sniper while leaving a
dug-out for the trenches, 10 April, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in
the churchyard at Fleurbaix.
[Illustration: =William Alfred Raworth.=]
=RAY, GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.A. (R.F.R., A. 0761), H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RAY, JAMES HENRY=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 22054, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=RAYNER, CHARLES ALFRED=, A.B., (R.F.R., B. 6901), S.S. 1083,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=RAYNER, FRANK=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26354 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=RAYNER, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5071), 179317,
H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=RAYNES, ALBERT BRAINERD=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex
Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., eldest _s._ of
Albert Edward Raynes, of 201, Denman Street, Nottingham, by his wife,
Alice Mary, dau. of the late Anthony Terzza, of Nottingham; _b._
New York City, U.S.A., 21 Nov. 1894; educ. High Pavement School,
Nottingham, and Nottingham University College, where he was in the
O.T.C., and on the outbreak of war was given a commission in the 3rd
Royal Sussex Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, attd.
to the 2nd Royal Berkshires, and was killed in action during the
bombardment preceding the attack at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915;
_unm._ He was struck by a shell towards the end of the bombardment
and wounded, and shortly afterwards was killed instantly by another
shell. A brother officer wrote: “I very much enjoyed his company during
the time we were together.... He died like a British officer and a
gentleman.” He was very fond of music and a good amateur photographer.
[Illustration: =Albert Brainerd Raynes.=]