[1] Major Herbert Stepney, Irish Guards, was killed while commanding the
Battalion in the first Battle of Ypres.
[2] Major Osbert Clinton-Baker, of Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire,
Second-in-Command 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, gazetted Colonel of
the Regiment in May, about two months after Colonel Laurie fell. He was
mortally wounded and missing at Fromelles on May 9th, 1915.
[3] Capt. Haliburton Laurie fell in the South African War at
Philippolis, on a kopje, while rescuing a wounded patrol.
[4] Afterwards Brigadier-General Napier. Previous to the war he
commanded the 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles in Aldershot and Dover. He was
killed while landing troops in Gallipoli during the summer of 1915.
[5] Sir Nevil Macready, at this time Adjutant-General of our Forces.
[6] The number of killed amounted to 44 and 88 wounded.
[7] Colonel Horsborgh was taken ill suddenly on the transport returning
from Aden, and he was buried at sea by Colonel Laurie.
[8] See page 119.
[9] General Laurie and his brother. Colonel Dyson-Laurie, went to the
Crimean War when quite young boys, aged respectively 18 and 15. Appended
is an article written by the former, and is of interest in drawing a
contrast between the conditions of war in 1854 and those of the late
war.
[10] Brigadier-Gen. Lowry Cole fell in action at the Battle of
Fromelles, May 9th, 1915.
[11] General Bird commanded the 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Rifles, and was
through the severe fighting of the Battle of the Aisne and the Retreat
from Mons, where he was terribly wounded and lost his leg.
[12] Lieut. W.F.E. Denison (Sherwood Foresters) served in the Great War,
and fell mortally wounded in the last German advance near Cambrai on
March 24th, 1918.
[13] Civil and Military.
[14] See page 29.
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