Lancashire Regt., _s._ of John Raynor, by his wife, Eliza (now
wife of William Cardwell, of 13, Cowel Street), dau. of George Fish;
_b._ Blackburn, 9 Dec. 1894; educ. St. Paul’s School there;
enlisted 9 Aug. 1914; went to France, Dec. 1914, and was killed in
action at Ypres, 9 May, 1915; _unm._
=READ, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1618U, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=READ, WILLIAM=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 312525, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=READER, HENRY FRANK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6719), 186352, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=READING, WILLIAM ERNEST=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B.
1389), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=REARDON, GEORGE HERBERT=, A.B., 236287, H.M.S. Arethusa; killed
in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.
=REARDON, SAMUEL MICHAEL=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 156685, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=REASON, PATRICK EDWARD=, 2nd Writer, 345759, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=REDDOCK, SAMUEL ALLAN=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Toronto Regt.)
Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of ---- Reddock; _b._
Toronto, Canada, 5 April, 1885; educ. Dutferin School, and the Central
Business College, Toronto; joined the 2nd Queen’s Own Rifles of
Canada as a Private in 1906, and became successively Corpl., Sergt.,
Colour-Sergt.; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of
war; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France,
Feb. 1915; was promoted Lieut., 12 May, 1915, after the battle of St.
Julien, and died in No. 7 Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 26 May, 1915,
of wounds received in action at Festubert; _unm._ Buried Eastern
Cemetery, Boulogne.
[Illustration: =Samuel A. Reddock.=]
=REDHEAD, THOMAS=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off
Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=REDMAYNE, JAMES=, Sergt., No. 2017, 7th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of William Redmayne, of 7, Cecil Street,
Barnoldswick, co. York, Farmer, by his wife, Isabella Jane, dau. of
Thomas Parker; _b._ Kirkby Malham, near Bell Busk, co. York, 2
June, 1879; educ. Wigglesworth, near Settle, co. York; was employed
with Messrs. Bateman, Wholesale Provision Merchants, of Colne, co.
Lancaster, for several years, but went to Australia in Jan. 1908;
settled at Kyogle, and worked at a Sawmill for Messrs. Munro & Lever;
volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of the European War in
Aug. 1914, and joined the Australian Imperial Force in Jan. 1915; left
for Egypt in April; went to the Dardanelles in the beginning of June,
and died on Hospital Ship Gascon, 11 July following, of wounds received
in action there; _unm._
[Illustration: =James Redmayne.=]
=REDMOND, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8209), S.S.
104015, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=REDPATH, JAMES THOMAS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King’s Own
Scottish Borderers, eldest _s._ of the late James Alexander
Redpath, Northumberland Constabulary, by his wife, Hannah (now wife
of Police Supt. Robert Henry Taylor, of Hexham), adopted dau. of
Thomas and Hannah Mattison, of South Lodge, Blagdon, Northumberland;
_b._ Haddon-on-the-Wall, co. Northumberland, 15 July, 1887; educ.
Morpeth; enlisted in Feb. 1903; promoted Sergt. in 1906, and was given
a commission, 11 Feb. 1915, in his own Battn.; served in Egypt and
India, and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; took part in
the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and was killed in action at
Y. Beach the following day. A commanding officer wrote: “His was a
promising young life cut down. He had the brains and ability to rise
to anything he wished”; and a comrade: “He was one of the best and
died like a soldier. Twice he was wounded, had his wounds dressed and
returned to the firing line between the time of landing on Y. Beach, on
25 April and 26 April, when he was killed gallantly leading his men. He
behaved most coolly and well all through.” He was for two years running
the Battn. shot, and held certificates for efficiency; took a keen
interest in shooting, and hunting big game. He _m._ at Rothbury.
19 Oct. 1906, Agnes McMillan (16, Comely Bank, Edinburgh), dau. of
William Macdonald, of Edinburgh, and had two children: Alexander
William, _b._ 4 Sept 1909; and Rosalind Constance, _b._ 27
Feb. 1915.
[Illustration: =James Thomas Redpath.=]
=REED, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Chief Stoker, 295282, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=REED, JAMES McGREGOR=, A.B., 233483, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=REED, JOHN ARTHUR=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5263), S.S. 1916, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=REED, JOSEPH JOHN=, Private, No. 10903, No. 3 Coy., 1st Battn.
Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of Joseph Reed, of 30, Cleaveland
Street, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, Brass Dresser, by his wife,
Comfort Thurza, dau. of John Miles, of Deepfields; _b._
Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, 28 Oct. 1893; educ. St. Mark’s Chapel Ash,
Wolverhampton; was a Grocer’s Assistant at Burges & Coulbourn’s, Team;
enlisted on the outbreak of war, 8 Aug. 1914; went to France on 26 Nov.
1914, and died in No. 4 Clearing Hospital, 26 Dec. following, of wounds
received in action at Givenchy, on the 21st; _unm._ Buried in
cemetery at Lillers.
=REED, OLIVER=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3790), S.S. 1028, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=REED, REGINALD JOSEPH=, Leading Seaman, 234667, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=REED, WILLIAM ELLIS=, Private, No. 8571, 1st Battn. The Bedford
Regt., eldest _s._ of William Reed, of The Mount, Royston, co.
Herts, formerly of Whaddon, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Ellis (and
Jane) Smith, of Whaddon; _b._ Whaddon, co. Cambridge, 9 Oct.
1887; educ. National School there; enlisted 3 July, 1906; served five
years in Gibraltar, Africa and Bermuda, and passed into the Reserve,
13 March, 1913; was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; landed
in France on the 13th of that month; took part in the retreat at La
Bassée, and round Ypres, also in various other engagements during the
winter of 1914–15, and was killed in action near Ypres, 30 March, 1915;
_unm._
[Illustration: =William Ellis Reed.=]
=REEVES, GEOFFREY FREDERICK JOHN=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, attd. 2nd
Battn. The Hampshire Regt., only _s._ of Edward John Reeves, of
The Cottage, Chandler’s Ford, co. Hants, Civil Engineer, by his wife,
Erica Mary, dau. of the Rev. F. Young, of South Sheen; _b._ St.
Leonards-on-Sea, 12 Oct. 1894; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, and
Jesus College, Oxford (Scholar); gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Hampshires,
15 Aug. 1914; joined his regt. on the 31st, and was attd. to the 2nd
Battn.; landed at the Dardanelles, 26 May, 1915, and was killed in
action there, 6 June following; _unm._ Buried near Krithia. An
officer of the 12th Royal Warwickshire Regt. wrote: “The Hampshires
were fine and stuck to the trench. The position of the trench in which
your son was, was in low ground so that he could not see the enemy
advancing on the left; so kneeling on the parados he was directing
their fire with good effect; I was passing just underneath him when
he fell with a bullet through the head, death being absolutely
instantaneous and just as he was in the middle of an order. It was due
to officers like your son that the regt. stood firm in a very critical
situation, and we also had a hand in recapturing the lost trenches.”
During his last year at Victoria College he was head prefect, won the
King’s Gold Medal for classics, was Colour-Sergt. of the Corps, Capt.
of the shooting eight, and shot for the Oxford University during the
summer term of 1914.
=REGAN, EDWARD=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2224),
157652, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=REID, FRANCIS JACKSON=, Private, No. 19765, 10th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Adam Scott
Reid, of 10, Zetland House, Chenistan Gardens, Kensington, W., K.C.B.
M.B., M.Ch., I.M.S. (ret.), late P.M.O. Punjab Command, by his wife,
Sidney Vaughan, dau. of Sidney Vaughan Jackson, of Ballino, co. Mayo;
_b._ Hounslow, 11 Nov. 1881; educ. Bedford Grammar School; went to
Canada about 1906; and was employed on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in
Ontario and Winnipeg; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak
of the European War in Aug. 1914, and joined the 10th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent, went to
France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, on the night
of 24–25 April following, while attempting (with some of the survivors
of his Battn., which, with the Canadian Scottish, had charged through
a wood during the night), to dig himself in; _unm._ Buried there.
A comrade wrote telling of his death, and added how much he had been
liked by the officers and men of his Battn.
[Illustration: =Francis Jackson Reid.=]
=REID, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5348), 184847, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=REID, GEORGE WHITELEY=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Hampshire
Regt., elder _s._ of the late George Reid, of Oporto, Portugal,
by his wife, Alice Georgina (Oporto), dau. of the late Rev. Edward
Whiteley, M.A.; _b._ Campo Alegre, Oporto, 20 Sept. 1879; educ.
Charterhouse, and Oriel College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., 4 Dec. 1901, and promoted Lieut., Sept.
1904, and Capt., 17 July, 1909, and appointed Adjutant, 21 March, 1912;
served in the South African War (Queen’s medal with four clasps) 1902,
and with the 88th Brigade, 29th Division, at the Dardanelles, 1915;
landed at V Beach from the River Clyde on the night of 25 April, and
took part in the subsequent capture of Sedd-el-Bahr village and Hill
141, and was killed in action during the advance on Krithia on the
night of 1 May, 1915; _unm._
=REID, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 652, 1/8th Battn. The Royal Scots
(T.F.), eldest _s._ of John Reid, of Forth View, Preston,
Prestonpans (who served with the Cameron Highlanders in the Nile
Expedition, 1884–5; operations in Upper Nile, 1885–6, and in the South
African War, 1900–1), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Sutherland;
_b._ Tranent, East Lothian, 16 July, 1894; educ. Tranent Public
School; was employed as an Engineer with the Edinburgh Collieries
at Bankton Colliery; joined the Royal Scots (T.F.) in March, 1911;
volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914;
trained at Haddington; went to France, 2 Nov. following, and was killed
in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried there,
about 400 yards S.W. of Picantin. His Capt. wrote: “I many a time
admired your son’s coolness and courage, and had always the utmost
confidence in him. He was very keen on his duty, and let nothing come
between himself and it; in fact, I can sum him up no better than by
saying ‘he was a true soldier.’ He was a favourite with his comrades,
and admired and much esteemed by myself and other officers of the
Prestonpans Company.”
[Illustration: =James Reid.=]
=REID, ROBERT LOGAN=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers, 2nd _s._
of Robert Logan Reid, of 3, Newark Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow,
Teacher of Music, by his wife, Agnes Hood, dau. of James Pattison;
_b._ Pollokshields, aforesaid, 21 Jan. 1890; educ. High School
there, and Glasgow Royal Technical College; served his apprenticeship
with Messrs. Underhill & Ritchie, Electrical Engineers, and was for
some time their travelling representative, subsequently being in the
employ of Messrs. Allan Arthur & Ure, as manager of their North Berwick
Depôt; joined the Glasgow Territorials in Jan. 1908; served with them
four years and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, obtained a
commission in the 35th Signal Coy., Royal Engineers, 14 Oct. following;
went to the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915, unattd., and was there connected
chiefly with the 29th Division, and was killed in action 8 Aug. 1915;
_unm._ Three of his brothers are now (1916) on active service.
=REID, WILLIAM BRAMICH=, A.B., J. 1591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=REID, WILLIAM LEONARD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Dorsetshire
Regt., 2nd _s._ of the Rev. John Reid, M.A., Minister of Foulden
Parish, co. Berwick, by his wife, Martha Craig, dau. of John G.
Gilchrist, of San Francisco; _b._ Foulden, 28 May, 1889; educ.
St. Mary’s School, Melrose; Celle, Hanover, and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Dorsetshire Regt., 6 Nov.
1909, promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1912, and Capt. 23 Jan. 1915; joined his
regt. in Madras, India, 5 Jan. 1910; qualified for, and obtained, an
interpretership in German while home on furlough in 1912; appointed
Station Staff Officer, and Cantonment magistrate at Deolali, Bombay,
on his return to India, but resigned this position on the outbreak of
war in Aug. 1914, and, rejoining his regt., went to the Persian Gulf
with the Indian Expeditionary Force; took part in the fighting at the
Shat-el-Arab, and the capture of Basra, subsequently being appointed
German Interpreter to the Force, in which capacity he proved himself
of the greatest use to the Expedition. During March, 1915, when a
large body of Turks were concentrating round Basra, at his own request
and that of his Col., he was permitted to leave the Indian Government
Office, where he had been engaged, and return to his regt. The Turks
were attacked and completely routed at Shaiba, but it was during this
attack that he was wounded, 14 April, 1915, and he died the following
morning; _unm._ Buried there. The Adjutant in describing his death
wrote: “Reid was about 50 yards to my right, and I saw him directing
his men very cool and collected, and about two o’clock when Cushing was
mortally hit, Reid went over and attended to him. Later I had occasion
to go over past him, and he asked me to send along more ammunition.
About 4 p.m. the long desired artillery support began, and we started
forward again. Reid was about the first to dash on with some few men.
Then I saw him come back for more. I kept seeing him at intervals in
the rushes till we were about 200 yards from the enemy, when we fixed
bayonets. After the trench was taken I asked where he was, and was told
he had been shot through the body in the last rush just before bayonets
were fixed. Fortunately the regimental doctor was close up, and seeing
he must be in considerable pain at once gave him some morphia. We put
him in a cart with another wounded officer, and he died in the Field
Hospital at Shaiba early next morning. I have been a very close friend
of Reid’s for the last three years, and he makes a great gap here,
though we cannot but be proud of the manner of his death. He was the
most fearless man I’ve known.”
[Illustration: =William L. Reid.=]
=REILLY, RALPH ALEC=, Lieut., 31st Punjabis, attd. 58th Vaughan’s
Rifles (Frontier Force), yst. _s._ of Col. Bradshaw Lewis Phillips
Reilly, of Oak Grange, Pangbourne, Indian Army, by his wife, Eleanor,
dau. of Thomas White, of Eastry, Kent; _b._ Jubbulpore, Central
Provinces, India, 7 Jan. 1889; educ. Bedford Grammar School; Cheltenham
College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
unattd. Indian Army, 9 Sept 1908; served his first year with the
Sherwood Foresters, being posted to the 31st Punjabis in Dec. 1909,
and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1910; was appointed Quartermaster 10 Oct.
1912; served at Fort Sandeman, and received high commendation from
general officer commanding Quetta District for his services in that
appointment; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, landing at
Marseilles, 12 Oct. 1914, attd. to the 58th Vaughan’s Rifles, and was
killed in action near La Bassée, 23 Nov. following, while attempting,
with only six sepoys, to stop the attack of the 112th German Infantry
Regt. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; _unm._ Major C. E. D. Davidson
Houston, Commanding 58th Rifles, wrote: “I write on behalf of the
officers of the regt. and myself to express our very great sympathy
with you in the death of your son about noon on the 23rd inst. His loss
will be very keenly felt by us all, for I have seldom seen a young
officer so thoroughly keen and efficient and so dependable. I have had
many opportunities of seeing his work as he was in my double company
till I succeeded to the command on Col. Venour’s death, and I should
have been only too glad to have had him with us permanently. Early on
the 23rd, I heard rumours of the line away to our left being very hard
pressed, so I sent up your son to the trenches with extra ammunition,
and to bring back any reports he could from our officers of the exact
situation. He arrived there safely, but, unfortunately, the crisis
developed very rapidly, and as he was returning along the covered way
a mass of Germans swept over the regt. on our left and reached the
covered way. The last seen of your son alive was leading the half-dozen
men he had with him against an overwhelming number of Germans--as
honourable a death as is possible for a soldier”; and Major Thomson: “I
would like to say how sorry we all were to have lost your son. In the
short time he was with us we were able to see how good an officer he
was. It will be some consolation to you to know that he died in a most
plucky attempt to stop the enemy with a handful of men.”
=RENDEL, REGINALD DACRES=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and
Buckinghamshire L.I., yr. _s._ of the late Leopold Joseph Rendel,
Engineer at Elswick, and English Manager of Armstrong’s Works at
Potzzuoli, Italy (died 1896), by his wife, Gertrude Maria (Arverne,
Crowborough, co. Sussex), dau. of the Rev. Frederick Fleming Beadon;
_b._ Potzzuoli aforesaid, 3 May, 1896; educ. Crowborough;
Summerfields, Oxford; Wellington College, and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Oxford and Bucks L.I., 12
Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; went to France, 25
Nov., and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 16 May, 1915;
_unm._
=RENNIE, JOHN=, Private, No. 9891, 1st Battn. Royal Scottish
Fusiliers; accidentally drowned while on active service with the
Expeditionary Force, 18 Aug. 1914.
=RENTON, HARRY NOEL LESLIE=, Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. King’s
Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd _s._ of James Henry Renton, of Aspley
Guise, co. Beds, formerly of Colombo, Ceylon, F.R.C.I.; _b._
Colombo, Ceylon, 18 Dec. 1894; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, and
Harrow School, matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in April,
1913, and was to have entered into residence in Oct. 1914, but, on the
outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, obtained a commission in the King’s Royal
Rifle Corps, 23 Sept. 1914; was promoted Lieut. 13 Feb. 1915; went
to France 20 May, and was killed in action near Hooge 30 July, 1915,
during the capture of a German trench; _unm._ Buried there. Major
Hennessy, of the 9th Battn., wrote: “I think you know what affection
I had for your son, and the high esteem in which I held him. He was a
real soldier through and through, absolutely fearless, painstaking,
trustworthy, and his men loved him. He was my right hand in everything,
and however difficult the task set him I could always be absolutely
sure he would see it through all right”; and Capt. Young: “All through
the day Noel behaved with the greatest coolness, and I do not know what
we should have done without him, as there were only three of us. He
never paid the slightest attention to danger, and he was tremendously
pleased when I ordered the charge. Not only his own platoon but
the whole company were devoted to him, and would have followed him
anywhere--as they did. As you know he and I were great friends since
last Sept., and there is nothing I can say except how fond we all were
of him, and that he died as well as a man could.” At Harrow he was a
monitor of the School, head of his house; house cricket and football
captain, a member of the school cricket XI. He was a fine cricketer,
and kept wicket for the School in the Eton and Harrow match at Lord’s
in 1914.
[Illustration: =Harry Noel Leslie Renton.=]
=RENVOIZE, ALBERT JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9562), 212151 Chatham,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=REVELEY, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11753, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=REVITT, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111883 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.