Prince of Wales’ Own (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.),
3rd _s._ of Francis Taylor, of 6, Church Street, Leominster,
Postmaster there, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of the late John
Andrew Brewer, of Poulteney Gardens, Bath; _b._ Chippenham,
co. Wilts, 9 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s National School, and
Wiltshire County Secondary School, Chippenham; was a Civil Service
2nd Division Clerk in Comptroller and Accountant General’s Department
of the G.P.O.; joined the Civil Service Rifles, in March, 1914; was
in camp when war was declared on 4 Aug. 1914; went to France, 17
March, 1915, and died there, 25 July, 1915, of wounds received from
an accidental bomb explosion; _unm._ Buried at the Military
Cemetery, Noeux-les-Mines. Lieut. Scott wrote that he was wounded on
Saturday afternoon at about 3.30 p.m. and that although he lived till
morning was unconscious the whole time, and continued: “It may be some
consolation to you to know that he was one of the very best soldiers
and one of the very best men in my platoon. He was always entirely
reliable, and always willing and eager to undertake any job that was
going. He proved his worth, especially on night patrols between our
lines and the Germans, for which he would always volunteer whenever it
fell to our platoon to furnish one. His loss is deeply felt by all his
comrades whose admiration and affection he had soon won.” On the day
before the accident he wrote to his mother: “The battalion has now done
16 days in the trenches and came out last night, I believe. I left on
the 14th day with a small party to come here for a course of four days
at a bombing school. Bombs are fast becoming a most important factor in
trench warfare, so a good many men are being trained to use them. It is
a nice change after a fortnight’s trench life, and very interesting,
too.” Private C. H. Taylor, was a keen student of Economics, and in an
examination held by the Society of Arts in 1914 he won first place in
all England.
[Illustration: =Clement Harold Taylor.=]
=TAYLOR, DANIEL JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1325), 201149, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=TAYLOR, ERNEST=, Painter, 1st Class, 166048, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, ERNEST EDWIN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, Chatham 295559,
H.M.S. Laertes; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.
=TAYLOR, FRANCIS ROBERT=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2265B, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, FRANK=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 270109, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Officers’ Steward, 2nd Class, L. 3147,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 9793, 1st Battn. Essex Regt., 6th
_s._ of Thomas Joseph Taylor, of 4, Reed’s Bank, Ocklynge Road,
Eastbourne, retired Civil Servant, by his wife, Mary White, dau. of the
late Henry Seward; _b._ Tottenham, N., 8 June, 1892; educ. West
Green Road Board School; joined the Middlesex Special Reserve about
April, 1911, and transferred in Aug. following to the 2nd Essex; was
sent with draft to Mauritius to join the 1st Battn. in Oct., 1913; left
for the Dardanelles on the Caledonia from Avonmouth, 22 Feb. 1915;
was appointed L.-Corpl. on the field, died through wounds received in
action at the Saghir Dere, Gallipoli, 29 June, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Henry Taylor.=]
=TAYLOR, JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3628), S.S. 101257,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=TAYLOR, JOHN ALFRED=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26367 (Ports.), H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=TAYLOR, LEO LAMBERT=, Mechanician, 298742, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, MILES BRUNSKILL=, Private, No. 7155, 3rd Battn.
Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Thomas Taylor, for many years a railway
guard on the London & North Western Railway, by his wife, Mary, dau.
of Miles Thompson; _b._ Lancaster, 18 Oct. 1886; educ. Christ
Church School, Lancaster; enlisted in the 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards,
26 Feb. 1907. In the Reserve on the outbreak of war he was called up
on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; served in France and Flanders, passing
unhurt through engagements at Mons, Landrecies, Lowey and Fontenay,
but was seriously wounded by shrapnel, 8 Sept. 1914, and died at La
Tretoire the same day. He _m._ at Christ Church, Lancaster, 30
Sept. 1912, Margaret (4, Trafalgar Road, Lancaster), yst. dau. of the
late Robert Turner, of Maze Lisburn, Ireland, and had two daus.: Hilda
Irene, _b._ 21 June, 1913; and Annie Norah Myles, _b._ 30
Dec. 1914. Three of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and
one a munition worker.
[Illustration: =Miles Brunskill Taylor.=]
=TAYLOR, RONALD FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 5th Battn. King’s Shropshire
L.I. 4th _s._ of Alfred Taylor, of Starston Place, Harleston,
Norfolk, J.P., by his wife, Anna Enfield, dau. of Septimus Dowson,
of Southtown, Great Yarmouth; _b._ Starston Place, afsd., 29
Feb. 1888; educ. St. Andrew’s School (Rev. E. L. Browne), Eastbourne;
Malvern College, and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1909); and after
a short period as an assistant master at St. Andrew’s School, joined
the firm of Oslers, Birmingham; volunteered on the outbreak of war,
and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 5th Shropshire L.I. 28 Sept. 1914;
went to France 21 May, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 9
Aug. 1915, during the attack on Hooge. He was in command of an advance
trench, a shell killing him instantaneously while he was endeavouring
to bind up the wound of one of his corporals. Lieut. Taylor was a good
athlete, and an all-round sportsman. He was a member of the Malvern
College Cricket XI, and a fine shot.
[Illustration: =Ronald Francis Taylor.=]
=TAYLOR, THOMAS=, Sick Berth Steward (Pensioner), 121820, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, THOMAS JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 404), late
Ch./6355, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TAYLOR, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4250), S.S.
102958, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TAYLOR, WALTER WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 604, 1/21st Battn. (1st
Surrey Rifles), The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of William
Taylor, Verger and Guide at St. Paul’s Cathedral, by his wife, Clara,
dau. of James Fensome; _b._ Brixton, London, S.W., 19 June, 1888;
educ. St. Saviour’s School there; was a Porter in the Goods Department
of the S.E. and C. Railway; joined the Surrey Rifles, 1 Aug. 1909;
volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914;
went to France, 12 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy,
25 May, 1915; being buried there. He _m._ at St. Paul’s Church,
Herne Hill, S.E., 1910, Maud (99, Milkwood Road, Herne Hill), dau. of
Ernest Ward, and had two children: Walter William, _b._ 17 June,
1913, and Maud Ethel, _b._ 11 Jan. 1911.
[Illustration: =Walter William Taylor.=]
=TAYLOR, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13522, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=TAYLOR, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3554), S.S. 956, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=GAWAN-TAYLOR, FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster
Regt., 2nd _s._ of His Honour Judge (Henry) Gawan-Taylor, of
Croftlands, Heads Nook, Cumberland, County Court Judge of Circuit
No. 3, Cumberland and Westmoreland, by his wife, Rachel, 3rd dau.
of the late Thomas Joseph Candler, of Low Hall, West Ayton, co.
York; _b._ Darlington, 27 Aug. 1892; educ. Rossall (Scholar and
Exhibitioner), and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (Scholar, 1913);
was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Special
Reserve), 16 Jan. 1915; was attd. to the 2nd Battn.; went to France, 1
June, 1915, and was killed in action near Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, during
the British advance north and west of Hooge; _unm._ Buried
there. While at Rossall School he was a member of the O.T.C.; was a
keen athlete and ran in the mile race for Cambridge in 1914, when the
Oxonian, A. N. S. Jackson, beat him by eight yards. His Commanding
Officer wrote of him: “Your son was one of my subalterns; he was a
very promising young officer and was doing very well. We had to take
some German trenches.... I had two subalterns hit on the way there,
but your son was there after we got into their trench. It was while
directing the consolidating of their trenches that he was hit by a
bullet through both temples. The men of his platoon greatly regret his
loss, as they had learned to love him.” He was engaged to be married to
Alyson May Estcourt Boucher, dau. of the Rev. Canon Boucher, Rector of
Frolesworth, Lutterworth.
[Illustration: =Francis Gawan-Taylor.=]
=TEHAN, EDMUND FREDERICK=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3718), S.S. 1029,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=TEMPLE, JOHN=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 270540, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TEMS, WALTER EDGAR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7841), S.S.
103270, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TENNANT, CHARLES GRANT=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Batt. Seaforth
Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of James Tennant, of Fairlie,
Ayrshire, and formerly of Newcastle-on-Tyne, J.P., by his wife,
Henrietta Grant, dau. of Alexander Andrew Fergusson; _b._ Lowfell,
co. Durham, 23 July, 1882; educ. Charterhouse, Godalming, where he
was a senior scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an
exhibitioner; and on finishing his education, became a Director of
the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Co., Ltd., and of Alexander Fergusson
& Co., Ltd., Glasgow, Lead Manufacturers. On the outbreak of war in
Aug. 1914, he volunteered and joined the Public Schools Battn. and was
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, 1 Oct.
1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Neuve
Chapelle, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote: “After
less than four months soldiering his name was sent to the War Office
for promotion to Capt.; that fact shows what a born soldier he was. On
every occasion that we were under fire he was always the same, cool and
collected. He declined promotion, as he wished to remain with the men
with whom he had trained.”
[Illustration: =Charles Grant Tennant.=]
=TERRY, CHARLES HENRY=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 293803, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=TERRY, FRANK ALBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15464, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TERRY, FREDERICK JOHN CORTORPASSI=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 20300,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TERRY, HARRY=, Sailmaker, 158515, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TERRY, WILLIAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9015), 208316, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TESTER, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4068), 190099, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TETLEY, ARTHUR NORMAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 304, B Squadron, 8th
Australian Light Horse, 3rd Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force,
3rd _s._ of William Tetley, of Berwick, Gippsland, Victoria,
Squatter, by his wife, Kate, dau. of Arthur Noyes; _b._ in
Victoria, 19 Feb. 1889; educ. C. E. Grammar School, Melbourne;
volunteered on the outbreak of war, being the first to do so in his
district; left for Egypt with the main force; went to the Dardanelles
15 May; was wounded in action at Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli, 7 Aug., and
died at sea on board the hospital ship Delta, 8 Aug. 1915; _unm._
Sergt. C. H. Lyon wrote: “I saw a good deal of him over at Gallipoli,
and he did splendidly from beginning to end. I know men in his troop
thought a lot of him, and it was only owing to lack of vacancies that
he didn’t get rapid promotion. On June 23 Norman got shaken up pretty
badly. The Turks were shelling us pretty heavily with French 75’s and
high explosives. Where Norman was stationed they got it very badly;
he wasn’t actually hit, but the shells bursting near him peppered his
face with gravel. He got over it, however, without going away, but
when the attack came on 7 Aug. he was very run down. From that I heard
the doctor had advised him not to go out, but like many others he was
keen on being with his troop and couldn’t stand the idea of being left
behind. For three days we were expecting the attack, and on the evening
of 6 Aug. we were taken out into the left hand sap on Walker’s Ridge.
All night we sat there not knowing what moment we would be called on,
and towards daylight the men-of-war and cruisers bombarded the Turkish
trenches right in front of us. The 8th were divided into the 1st and
2nd lines of attack. A squadron and two troops out of B formed the 1st
line (including Norman), and C Squadron with the other half of B formed
into 2nd line. The 10th Regt. formed the 3rd and 4th. The Turkish
trenches were about 25 yards from us, and the whole front not more than
150 yards long. At 4.30 a.m. the bombarding stopped and the attack
commenced. Owing to a misunderstanding, my troop was late in moving up,
and just as we got into the front sap, our officer was shot through
the hand and retired. I was left in charge, and being unable to jam
past the men, jumped up and ran round to the front of the sap, calling
on them to follow, but just as we got out, the 1st line fell back,
nearly all wounded, with orders to retire. As we dropped back into the
sap, I saw Norman lying just out in front, and with the assistance
of others, got him in and laid him on the bottom of the trench. His
leg was in a fearful state, a machine-gun had got on to him, but he
stood it wonderfully and a 10th man applied first aid. The stretcher
bearers were fearfully busy, and we were in an out of the way place and
he had to lie there over two hours before it was possible to get him
away. The loss of blood must have been very great. Of 318 of our our
men that went out that morning, 154 were killed, and 80 odd wounded.
The Turks had 34 machine-guns playing on the narrow strip between the
trenches, and only one of our men, a sergt. in A Squadron, ever reached
their trenches. All but two of our officers that went out were killed,
including Col. White, Major Retford, and our Adjutant.”
[Illustration: =A. Norman Tetley.=]
=TEUMA, GIOVANNI=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, Chatham 356340,
H.M.S. Arethusa; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914.
=THACKERAY, ALFRED WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 6865, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=THAKE, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12817, H.M.S. Hawke; lost
when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=THAL, MORRIS MARCUS VAN=, Rifleman, No. Z2641, B Coy., 25th
Brigade, 8th Division, Rifle Brigade, Interpreter to Commanding
Officer, only child of Marcus van Thal, of 91, Addison Gardens,
Kensington, employee at the War Office, by his wife, Marie, dau. of
Meyer Poole; _b._ Catford, co. Kent, 10 Oct. 1897; educ. St.
John’s College, Southend-on-Sea, Brussels, and Hanover, and passed the
Senior Cambridge Local Exam., with also oral French and German, 1913;
enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 11 Sept. 1914; went to France, March,
1915, and was killed in action at Fromelles, 9 May, 1915. Corpl. Leigh
Knight wrote: “I was your son’s section commander, and am very sorry
to have to tell you that I myself saw him fall. He was a good soldier,
and when we charged he went forward very gallantly. He was killed by a
German shell, and it was practically instantaneous death”; and Rifleman
E. Allen wrote: “On 9 May we made an attack on Fromelles, where I saw
your son carrying a machine-gun into action. I could not say whether he
was killed, but I saw him go under, when I was wounded.”
[Illustration: =Morris Marcus van Thal.=]
=THEOBALD, WILLIAM GEORGE MORLEY=, Private, No. 792, No. 2 Coy.
14th Battn. 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest
_s._ of George Theobald, of Littleport, Cambs, Superintendent of
Fen Drainage, Littleport, and Downham District, by his wife, Hannah
Jackson, dau. of James Hardwick, of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia;
_b._ Little Downham, Isle of Ely, 12 Nov. 1894; educ. March
(Cambs.) Grammar School; joined the Cambridgeshire Territorials in
1913; went to Australia, 18 April, 1914, and when war broke out
volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force at the end
of Oct., 1914; left Melbourne for Egypt with the 2nd Reinforcements,
23 Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, 25
April, 1915, and was killed in action at 10 the same morning while out
sniping with four others. He was _unm._ A comrade wrote: “He was
not out long before he was shot, but he did some good work before he
was hit.” Another comrade wrote: “Every one of us was grieved when poor
Tommy was killed, for all were agreed that Tommy was a gentleman.”
[Illustration: =William G. M. Theobald.=]
=THICK, JOHN CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12173, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=THOMAS, ANDREW READ=, Chief Armourer, 340547, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=THOMAS, AUBREY JOCELYN NUGENT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lancashire
Fusiliers, elder _s._ of Jocelyn H. W. Thomas, of Belmont, Carlow,
Ireland, formerly Capt., Scots Fusiliers Guards; _b._ Belmont,
co. Carlow, 23 Sept. 1888; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd
Lieut., 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, 16 Aug. 1905, and promoted Lieut.
29 May, 1909, and Capt. 20 Jan. 1915; served with the Mediterranean
Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the landing of the
Lancashire Fusiliers at Beach W., Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; _unm._
=THOMAS, CHARLES HERBERT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. South Staffordshire
Regt., only child of Howard Thomas, of 10, Westminster Palace
Gardens, S.W., by his wife, Ethel, dau. of the late William Baker,
of Sneyd Park, Bristol, and grandson of the late Charles Thomas,
of Stoke Bishop, Bristol, J.P., D.L.; _b._ Charlton, Henbury,
co. Gloucester, 25 April, 1880; educ. at Clifton; Abbotsholme, and
Edinburgh University; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Somerset L.I., 21 April,
1900, from the militia, and promoted Lieut. 16 Dec. 1901, and Capt.
8 Jan. 1909. He served in the South African War, 1899–1901, with the
Somerset L.I., receiving the Queen’s medal with clasp, and in Feb.
1901, was transferred to the South Staffordshire Regt. then in India;
was on leave, 1904–05; at Depôt, Lichfield, 1906–08, and in South
Africa 1908–1911, where, in 1909, he was given the command of the
Mounted Infantry Coy. of his Regt. then at Harrismith, and returned
to Lichfield in 1911. On the outbreak of the European War he went to
France with the Expeditionary Force, 11 Aug. 1914; served through
the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne;
was severely wounded in action near Ypres, 27 Oct., and died at the
Hotel Crystal Hospital, Boulogne, 5 Nov. 1914. He was buried in the
English quarter of the cemetery there. Capt. Thomas was mentioned in
Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 18 Feb. 1915, for gallant and
distinguished conduct in the field, and his Col. wrote: “I had hoped
that your gallant and beloved son might have been the recipient of our
most coveted decoration on the strength of my recommendation.” He was
an expert horseman and a keen polo player. He _m._ at Winsford,
Exmoor, 4 June, 1912, Dorothy Catherine, only dau. of Philip Everard,
of Miltons, Dulverton, co. Somerset, and had issue a son, Charles
Richard, _b._ 15 June, 1913.
[Illustration: =Charles Herbert Thomas.=]
=THOMAS, EDWARD THOMAS=, Rifleman, No. 9867, 3rd Battn. Rifle Brigade,
eldest _s._ of John Thomas, Shearer, Raglan Bays Works, Briton Ferry,
by his wife, Susanah, dau. of David Hopkins; _b._ Pontarddulais, co.
Glamorgan, 2 Feb. 1884; educ. Hammanford; was employed at Port Talbot;
enlisted in the Rifle Brigade, 5 May, 1903; served three years with the
Colours; and then joined the Reserve; was called up on mobilisation in
Aug. 1914; went to France in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the
Battle of the Aisne, 23 Oct. 1914. Buried near Chapelle d’Armentières.
He was a member of the Silver Band, Briton Ferry. He _m._ at Neath, 6
March, 1909, Catherine (Lowther Street, Briton Ferry, Glamorgan), dau.
of David Hopkins, and had four children: Thomas Ivor Gwyn, _b._ 18 Dec.
1913; Edward Ypres, _b._ (posthumous), 16 April, 1915; Jane Ellen, _b._
9 Jan. 1910; and Mary Catherine, _b._ 27 April, 1911.
=THOMAS, JOHN ARLOE EDWARD=, Leading Carpenter’s Crew, 345555,
H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Charles Thomas, of 17, St. Thomas Green,
Haverfordwest; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=THOMAS, JOHN BAKER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9863), S.S.
106671, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=THOMAS, MAURICE=, Private, No. 1715, 1/4th (Service) Battn. the
Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late Thomas Henry Thomas,
of Worthing, by his wife, Ellen (11, Stanhope Road, Worthing), dau. of
William Knight, of Washington, Sussex; _b._ Worthing, co. Sussex,
4 April, 1897; educ. St. Andrew’s Higher Grade School there, and on
leaving became a messenger boy at the Worthing G.P.O. and had passed
his examinations for the staff when war broke out. He had joined the
Royal Sussex Territorials, 14 Aug. 1913; was called up 4 Aug. 1914, and
volunteered for foreign service, and left England for the Dardanelles
in July, 1915. He was attd. to the machine-gun section of his battn.,
landed at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. and was killed in action there four days
later, 12 Aug. 1915, as his battn. was retiring after being relieved
from the front trenches. The Turks opened a heavy machine-gun fire on
them, and he was hit and killed almost immediately. He was buried where
he fell at Anafarta Sagir, 1.20-000-105H, near Track to Chocolate Hill
between 4–7 p.m. He was a prominent member of the Holy Trinity Church
Lads’ Naval Brigade.
[Illustration: =Maurice Thomas.=]
=THOMAS, PHILLIP PERCIVAL=, A.B., 231687, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=THOMAS, THOMAS JAMES=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B.
3800), 189482, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept.
1914.
=THOMAS, WALTER JAMES=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Po./10970, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=THOMPSON, ALBERT RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1994), 211537, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=THOMPSON, ARCHER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8602), S.S.
104956, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=THOMPSON, BERNARD HARRY LEOPOLD=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 175938,
H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20
miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=THOMPSON, EDWARD=, A.B., 226948, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action
off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.