Edward Turner, of Sherbourne Lodge, Leamington, retired I.C.S., by
his wife, Georgiana, dau. of T. A. N. Chase, late I.C.S.; _b._
Madora, South India, 12 Jan. 1884; educ. Stubbington House, Fareham,
Hants; entered H.M.S. Britannia in 1898, and became Midshipman, 1900;
Sub-Lieut. 1903; 1st. Lieut. 1905 and Lieut.-Com. 31 Dec. 1914; served
on H.M. ships Ocean, Triumph, Swiftsure, Pandore (1908–11 on South
African Station), and Blonde (1911–13), and was appointed Gunnery
Lieut. to H.M.S. Pegasus, 1 March, 1913. The Pegasus rendered useful
services after the outbreak of war, including the destruction of
the Wireless Station at Dar-es-Salaam carried out under Lieut.-Com.
Turner’s command, and when attacked by the German cruiser Konigsberg
off the coast of Zanzibar on 20 Sept. 1914 was having her boilers
cleaned. In this action Lieut.-Com. Turner was mortally wounded and
died the same day in hospital at Zanzibar. He was _unm._ and was
buried in the English Cemetery there. The Commander of the Pegasus
wrote: “In a small ship of this sort everything depends on the tact,
energy, straightforwardness and professional knowledge of the 1st
Lieut., with all of which he was so highly endowed. The men loved him,
and would have done anything that was humanly possible to bring him
success. The little ship, though old and out-classed, was kept as fit
as was possible to do anything that was required, and it was due to
him to a great extent that she was able to get about as she did in the
early part of the war.” He was a Freemason, and was Master of Lodge No.
900, Simon’s Town, Kilwinning, Cape Colony.
=TURNER, ROBERT NATHANIEL=, Leading Seaman, 179019, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TURNER, WALTER=, Private, No. 1204 (Barton Coy.), 1/5th Battn.
Lincolnshire Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Charles Henry Turner, of
Halton Villa, New Holland, Hull, Signal Lineman, G.C. Railway, by his
wife, Mary Ann, dau. of the late George Parker; _b._ New Holland,
co. Lincoln, 19 July, 1893; educ. there; was an Engine Cleaner, G.C.
Railway; joined the Lincolnshire Territorials, 5 March, 1911, and
on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 at once volunteered for foreign
service; trained at Luton and Stanstead, Aug. 1914 to Feb. 1915. during
which time he was orderly to Lieuts. Fieldsend and Riggall; went to
France, 26 Feb.; was doing his third period in the trenches when he
was taken ill with spotted fever and died 15 days later in No. 10
Stationary Hospital, St. Omer, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried in
the Souvenir Cemetery there. Capt. Wilson wrote: “Personally I feel his
death very much, as he was one of the members of my company who had
been with me for several years, and was one of the original band who
joined from New Holland, and who have all turned out to be splendid
fellows. I liked him very much--he was a good soldier and he must have
been a good son”; and Lieut. Fieldsend: “I can assure you that no man
in the company was more popular and more respected by both officers and
men than your son.” Lieut. Riggall also said: “He was an excellent man,
one of the best and nicest in the company. He was always cheerful and
willing, never grumbled and would do anything for anyone. We shall all
feel his loss intensely and myself especially.”
[Illustration: =Walter Turner.=]
=TURNER, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1459), 114371, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TURNER, WILLIAM=, Leading Stoker, 288305, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost
in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TURNER, WILLIAM STEWART=, Lieut., 1/10th (Liverpool Scottish)
Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), elder _s._ of William Neil
Turner, of Mossley Hill Drive, Sefton Park, Liverpool, by his wife,
Jessie Stewart, dau. of the late Thomas Holder, of Liverpool, J.P.;
_b._ Liverpool, 19 March, 1883; educ. Greenbank School, Liverpool,
and Sedbergh (Mr. Wilson’s House, 1898–1901), and on leaving there
entered the firm of Turner & Dunnett, of Liverpool, of which his father
is senior partner. In Aug. 1914, when war broke out, he enlisted in the
Liverpool Scottish and received his commission in the Reserve Battn.
17 Nov. just before the regt. left for the Front. He was in England
when his yr. brother, Lieut. F. H. Turner, was killed in action, and
it was immediately after this that he proceeded to the Front (18 Jan.
1915), where, following upon a petition from the men, he was attd. to
the platoon with which his brother had been so popular an officer.
He was killed in action while leading his men in the advance on
Bellewarde Farm, Hooge, 16 June, 1915. They had just captured a German
trench, when a heavy shell burst, killing him and Sergt. J. B. Jones
instantly He had been promoted Lieut. May, 1915, and was _unm._
Like his brother, Lieut. W. S. Turner was a keen athlete. He was in
the cricket, and Rugby football teams at both Greenbank and Sedbergh,
and gained both his cricket and football colours the year he left
Sedbergh, being a useful three-quarter and a good cricketer. Afterwards
he played regularly at cricket and football for the Liverpool Club,
and was captain of the latter club in the season 1909–10. In 1908 the
two brothers did a remarkable performance against Sedbergh in the Old
Sedberghian Match; in the first innings W. S. took 5 wickets for 8 runs
and F. H. 5 for 16, then after scoring 66 runs between them, they took
9 wickets in the second innings, F. H. taking 7 for 26 and W. S. 2 for
10--in all taking 19 wickets for 60 runs.
[Illustration: =William Stewart Turner.=]
=TURNER, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Po./12728, H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov.
1914.
=TURNOR, CHRISTOPHER RANDOLPH=, Lieut., 10th Royal Hussars, 2nd
_s._ of Algernon Turnor, of 9, Clarges Street, Mayfair, W., C.B.,
J.P., late Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and Private Secretary
to the Earl of Beaconsfield from 1874 to 1880, by his wife, Lady
Henrietta, née Stewart, 6th dau. of Randolph, 9th Earl of Galloway,
and grandson of Christopher Turnor, of Stoke-Rochford, co. Lincoln,
J.P., D.L., M.P.; _b._ 37, Pont Street, London, S.W., 16 Aug.
1886; educ. at the Rev. the Marquis of Normanby’s Private School at
Mulgrave Castle; Eton, and Christ Church, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut.,
10th Hussars, 30 Dec. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1910; joined
his regt. at Rawal Pindi, India, in Jan. 1909; served with it there and
in South Africa, returning to England in Sept. 1914. The 10th Hussars
embarked at Southampton on 6 Oct. 1914, and landed at Ostend on the
8th, and were immediately engaged in the fierce struggle near Ypres
which stemmed the advance of the Germans to the coast. Lieut. Turnor
was killed in action in the trenches at Zandvoorde, near Ypres, on 26
Oct. 1914, while trying to locate with his glasses an enemy’s field
gun, and was buried in the Churchyard at Zandvoorde, quite close to
the village Church, a cross marking his grave. His Col. wrote of him:
“He was a universal favourite, and a very good officer, and is a great
loss to the regt. and to the country”; and the Major: “He is a very
great loss to us as an educated and thoroughly grounded soldier and
officer, and also from his personal charm, which endeared him to all
ranks.” The Eton Chronicle, recording his death, said: “He was a boy of
strong character, high principles, and considerable ability.” He was a
keen all-round sportsman, a good rider to hounds, and fond of shooting,
especially big game shooting, which latter pursuit he followed
successfully in Kashmir, Central India, and British East Africa. He was
devoted to his profession, a great student of Military History, as well
as a lover of books and music. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Christopher R. Turnor.=]
=TURPIN, THOMAS COBB=, Ch. E.R.A., 1st Class, 268940, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=TURRELL, ALFRED=, Private,No. 2347, 1/7th Battn. The Middlesex
Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Charles Turrell, of East Finchley,
Mason, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Hill; _b._ Finchley,
London, 7 Nov. 1888; was a Labourer, Priory Road, High Street, Hornsey;
enlisted 4 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 21 March,
1915. He _m._ at Holloway, 31 Jan. 1909, Lillian, dau. of Edward
Maton, and had two children: William George, _b._ 18 Nov. 1915;
and Alice Louisa, _b._ 8 March, 1910.
=TURRELL, ARTHUR SIDNEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 23459 (Ports.),
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=de TUYLL, BARON MAURICE ARTHUR=, Capt., 10th Royal Hussars,
yr. _s._ of the late Baron Carlo de Tuyll, Lieut., Royal
Gloucestershire Hussars, by his wife, Louise Emily (now wife of Henry
Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort), dau. of William Henry Harford, of
Oldown, co. Gloucester, D.L.; _b._ London, 1 Nov. 1888; educ.
Pinewood School, Farnborough, Stubbington (being originally intended
for the Navy), privately with Mr. W. Trevor, Lathbury, Newport Pagnell,
and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 19 Sept.
1908, and promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. 1909, and Capt. 1 Jan. 1914; went
to France with regt. Oct. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres,
Thursday, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ He was leading his squadron in a
counter-attack that morning and fell when crossing road from Ypres to
Menin. He was buried in the garden of the Château de Poljitze.
[Illustration: =Baron M. A. de Tuyll.=]
=TWEDALE, JOHN JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7339),
308093, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TWINE, ARCHIBALD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2291), 225355, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TWINE, ERNEST HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4857), 195908, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=TWORT, JACK=, Chief Stoker, 170842, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action
in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=TYLER, ELIAS GEORGE=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21415, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=TYLER, JOHN COLLETT=, 2nd Lieut., 122nd Battery, Royal Field
Artillery, yr. _s._ of Col. John Charles Tyler, of 8, Cambridge
Road, Colchester, late Royal Engineers, by his wife, Florence Mary,
only dau. of the late General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, K.C.B.,
C.S.I., and gdson. of the late Sir Henry Whateley Tyler, M.P., and
great-gdson. of General Sir Charles Pasley, K.C.B., R.E. (the father
of Lady Tyler), who founded the School of Military Engineering at
Chatham, and who in early life was extra A.D.C. to Sir John Moore at
the time of his death and burial at Corunna; _b._ Roorkee, India,
9 Dec. 1893; educ. Wellington College, where he was head of the school
and captain of football, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
where he was senior under-officer and obtained the Sword of Honour,
July, 1914, the Commandant in his report on that occasion, observing
that he would specially mention Senior under-officer J. C. Tyler, who
had shown in his present responsible position that he possessed in a
high degree those qualities which were looked for in the best type
of officer; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. 17 July, 1914, and joined at
Woolwich, 9 Aug. 1914, left for Dundalk, Ireland, on the 10th, and
embarked for France on the 17th, and was killed in action at Hill 60,
18 April, 1915; _unm._ The Major Commanding his battery wrote on
21 April: “There is a big battle going on here now which started at 7
p.m. on the 17th, John and I went forward that day to observe. I had
to send John and a signaller on by night, to the newly captured trench
to let me know if the Germans were counter-attacking and to observe by
day. This job he did in his usual gallant way. Three times he came back
to me under heavy fire and great difficulties to mend the telephone
wires. He was shot at dawn, a rifle bullet clean through the forehead.
He died as he lived, doing his duty gallantly and well. Had he lived
he would have certainly had the D.S.O. He was killed in the foremost
trench captured from the Germans. Just after he was killed the Germans
re-took the trench and held it for about 12 hours. We then took it back
again.” And the General Officer Commanding wrote a few days later: “I
had already sent in his name for good service. His cheery, gallant
example was worth everything at these times.”
[Illustration: =John Collett Tyler.=]
=TYNDALL, JOSEPH CHARLES=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Dublin
Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of the late Joseph P. Tyndall, of 2, Eaton
Square, Monkstown, Solicitor; _b._ Dublin, 18 May, 1892; educ.
Castleknock College, co. Dublin; joined the Special Reserve, Royal
Dublin Fusiliers, 17 Oct. 1910; and was gazetted Lieut. 20 April, 1912;
afterwards went to Australia; but on the outbreak of war returned home
and rejoined his old Battn.; went to France and was attd. to the 2nd
Royal Irish Rifles in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Kemmel, 2
March, 1915, after a fortnight in the trenches; _unm._ His elder
brother, Surgeon William Tyndall, R.A.M.C., is now (1916) on active
service in France.
=UDEN, FREDERICK EDWIN=, A.B., J. 7028, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=UNDERHAY, GEORGE THEODORE=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8930),
222560, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=UNDERHILL, CLARENCE GORDON=, Leading Seaman, 208615, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=UNDERHILL, FREDERICK TOM=, Private, No. 1109, 5th Battn. (London
Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late
Frederick Tom Underhill, of Aptor Marldon, co. Devon, by his wife,
Emily (6, Killieser Avenue, Streatham Hill, S.W.), dau. of James
Stidston; _b._ Aptor Marldon, 22 July, 1886; educ. Bancrofts
School, Essex, and was afterwards employed in the City. On the outbreak
of war he enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, and was later transferred
to the London Rifle Brigade, with which he went to the Front, 6 Nov.
1914. He saw five months of service with his regt. in France and
Flanders, and was killed in action in the Ploegsteert trenches, 29
March, 1915, having been nominated for promotion just previous to his
death. He was buried in the Rifle Brigade cemetery, in the Ploegsteert
Wood; _unm._ Letters from his officers and comrades all testify
to his wonderful cheerfulness under the greatest of discomforts, his
helpfulness, and his readiness for any and every fatigue duty. His
brother, Lieut. G. Underhill, 9th Devons, is now (1916) on active
service.
[Illustration: =Frederick Tom Underhill.=]
=UNDERHILL, RAYMOND BENWELL=, Private, No. 1685, 13th Battn.
(Princess Louise’s Kensingtons) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._
of William Richardson Underhill, Watchmaker and Jeweller, by his
wife, Annie (123, Holland Park Avenue, W.), dau. of James Benwell, of
Knightsbridge; _b._ Kensington, W., 9 Oct. 1881; educ. St. Mary
Abbotts Higher Grade School there; joined the 4th Middlesex Volunteers
afterwards, in 1907, the 13th London Territorials, and served eight
years; went to Canada in March, 1907; returned to England in 1909, and
went into business as a watchmaker and jeweller at 39, Earl’s Court
Road, Kensington; rejoined his old regt. immediately war was declared;
volunteered for foreign service; went to France in Oct., and died at
No. 6 Clearing Station, Merville, 11 Feb. 1915, from appendicitis
contracted while on active service; _unm._ Buried in Merville
Cemetery, France (Grave No. E 10)
[Illustration: =Raymond B. Underhill.=]
=UNDERWOOD, JOSEPH SAMUEL GEORGE=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 17076,
H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20
miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=UNWIN, ROBERT, HENRY=, Leading Signalman (R.F.R., B. 3500),
164358, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=UPFOLD, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1797),
353621, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North
Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._
=UPRICHARD, CHARLES EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10810),
S.S. 108911, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the
North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=UPTON, HON. ERIC EDWARD MONTAGU JOHN=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd
Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, elder _s._ and heir of Henry
Edward Montagu Dorington Clotworthy, 4th Viscount Templetown, of
Castle Upton, Templepatrick, co. Antrim, by his wife, Lady Evelyn,
née Finch Hatton, dau. of George William, 10th Earl of Winchilsea and
Nottingham; _b._ Steventon, co. Hants, 8 March, 1885; educ. at
Eton (Mr. H. E. Luxmoore’s) and Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst
with honours, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Aug. 1905, and joined the 2nd
Battn. King’s Royal Rifles in India, being promoted Lieut. 3 Oct. 1908,
and returning with them in 1910. He was assistant Adjutant, 1910–13,
and was appointed Adjutant, 1 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war the 2nd
Battn. mobilised on the Chobham Ridges and went out under Lieut.-Col.
Pearce Serocold in the 2nd Infantry Brigade under Major-Gen. Bulfin.
Capt. Upton served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the
Marne and the Aisne. He was wounded at the first Battle of Ypres, was
twice mentioned in Despatches, 31 May and 30 Nov. 1915 [London Gazette,
22 June, 1915, and 1 Jan. 1916], and promoted Tempy. Capt. 15 Nov.
1914. He was killed near Rue de Bois during the action of 9 May, 1915.
His Colonel wrote of him: “Besides being an exceptionally gallant
officer, the work he has done for the battn. will live and be felt by
it for years. I need hardly say there was no more popular officer in
the regt., and I personally have lost a very dear and loyal friend, and
those who knew him well realised that his character and abilities had
marked him out for a great career in the Service.” A good cricketer
and football player, and an experienced big game shooter in India, and
deeply devoted to his regt., he had a remarkable power of gaining the
affection of all with whom he came in contact, rich and poor alike, and
his loyalty to his friends was one of his most marked characteristics.
He was _unm._, and was buried in the Soldiers’ Cemetery, near the
Rue de Bois, Richebourg St. Vaast. His yr. brother, the Hon. Henry
Upton, is now (1916) on active service as a 2nd Lieut. in the Royal
East Kent Yeomanry.
[Illustration: =Hon. E. E. M. J. Upton.=]
=UPTON, RICHARD=, Sergt., No. 2356, The Royal Flying Corps,
3rd surviving _s._ of the late Capt. Richard Upton, 4th Battn.
Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regt.), and of the Political and Secret
Department of H.M. India Office, by his wife, Harriet Frances (92,
Tooting Bee Road, S.W.), dau. of the late Richard Clayton Strelley,
of Oakerthorpe, co. Derby; _b._ Finchley, 11 Sept. 1881; educ.
privately, and deciding upon a sea career, passed through the stages of
his apprenticeship in a sailing boat, and eventually became a captain
and master mariner in the Straits S.S. Service, L.F., being regarded as
the commodore of the fleet of 17 boats. While home on leave in July,
1914, he obtained his first-class flying ticket in the Grahame-White
School of Flying, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, joined the
Legion of Frontiersmen; went to France, where he did good work as a
free lance with the Red Cross Society. He then joined the R.F.C., was
promoted Sergt., and died in Tidworth Military Hospital, 3 May, 1915,
of pneumonia, contracted while on active service; _unm._
[Illustration: =Richard Upton.=]
=UPTON, WILLIAM JAMES THOMAS=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 19637,
H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=UREN, GEORGE THOMAS=, L.-Corpl., No. 8/1149, 14th Otago Regt.,
New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of William Uren, of Clyde,
Otago Central, New Zealand, formerly of St. Ives; _b._ Clyde,
Otago, New Zealand, 2 April, 1887; educ. there; was by trade a
Printer; volunteered on the outbreak of war; joined the New Zealand
Expeditionary Force 28 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in
Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; _unm._ He was a well known athlete in
Central Otago and was a member of the C.U. Fire Brigade.
=URQUHART, EDWARD FREDERICK MALTBY=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Black
Watch (Royal Highlanders), only _s._ of the Rev. Edward William
Urquhart, of 82, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W., M.A., formerly Vicar
of King’s Sutton, co. Northampton, by his wife, Caroline Mary, dau.
of William Harris, of Plumley, Bovey Tracey, Devonshire; _b._
Edinburgh, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. West Bournemouth and Cheltenham College;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Highlanders, 20 Feb. 1897, and promoted
Lieut. 24 May, 1899, and Capt. 17 April, 1902; served in the South
African War, 1901–2; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, Dec.
1901, and in those in the Orange River Colony, Dec. 1901, to 31 May,
1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps), was assistant superintendent
of gymnasia in the Irish command, 9 Nov. 1906 to 19 Feb. 1907, and
superintendent of the same, 20 Feb. 1907 to 9 Nov. 1910, and later
Inspector of Physical Training, Northern Army, India, from March, 1913,
to date of his death; went to France, 22 Sept. 1914, and was killed in
action at Pilken, 23 Oct. following, during the fighting in the Ypres
salient; _unm._ Buried in Boesinghe Churchyard.
=USHER, SEBASTIAN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4074), 220488, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.