Chapter XXVII: Part 27

=DONNAN, JOSEPH GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Sergt., No. 357, B Coy., 1/6th Battn. The King’s Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late Joseph Donnan, of Aigburth, Liverpool, Merchant Tailor, by his wife, Margaret Webster (172, Upper Warwick Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late George Lawrenson, of Aigburth; _b._ Dingle, Liverpool, 1 Nov. 1881; educ. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic School there; was a clerk with Messrs. J. H. & S. Johnson, Wholesale Druggists, Liverpool, and had completed his fifteenth year with this firm when war was declared. He had joined the King’s (Liverpool Rifles), then the 2nd Battn. King’s Liverpools (T.F.) in 1903, and at once volunteered for foreign ser.ce. He left for France, 24 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 30 March, 1915, by a sniper while on duty in the trenches; _unm._ He was buried on the side of a railway cutting at Zillebeke. In a letter from one of his Sergts. he was spoken of as being a “most conscientious N.C.O., and one of the best.” During his twelve years’ service in the King’s Liverpool Rifles he became one of its crack shots, and won many prizes, in addition to two silver shooting cups. In July, 1912, he won the “Queen Mary” prize at Bisley.

=DONNELLEY, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2248, 1/4th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.) eldest _s._ of Philip Donnelley, Labourer, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Johnson McGuire; _b._ Hexham, 2 March, 1877; educ. St. Mary’s Catholic School there; was a Labourer; enlisted 11 Nov. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 April, 1915. He _m._ at Hexham, 9 Aug. 1902, Annie Oliver (Gilesgate, Hexham), dau. of Frank Young, of Hexham, and left seven children: Frank, _b._ 7 Dec. 1904; James William, _b._ 10 May, 1907; Johnson McGuire, _b._ 26 June, 1908; Edward, _b._ 20 Jan., 1912; Jane Anne, _b._ 6 March, 1906; Mary, _b._ 25 March, 1913; and Elizabeth, _b._ 25 Sept. 1914.

=DONNELLY, HUGH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8868), S.S. 105635, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DONOVAN, ALFRED NORMAN=, Corpl., No. 12033, 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., _s._ of the late William John Donovan, of Ballygoran, Celbridge, co. Kildare, Coachman, by his wife, Rose Frances Emma, dau. of the late David Richard Ellis, of West Kensington, Dyer and Cleaner; _b._ Dublin, 6 Feb. 1894; educ. Christian Brothers’ School, Inchicore; enlisted at Glasgow, 30 Sept. 1912; gained Third Class Certificate of Education, 12 Dec. following, and Second Class, 3 May, 1913; promoted L.-Corpl. Dec. 1913, and Corpl. 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 21 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action there, 17 May, 1915; _unm._ His brother William, A.B., No. 239892, R.N., is now (1916) on active service.

=DOONER, ALFRED EDWIN CLAUD TOKE=, Lieut. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of Col. William Toke Dooner, of Ditton Place, near Maidstone, J.P., late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Chief Staff Officer, Thames District, by his wife, Augusta, 5th dau. of William Paul Metchim, of Petersham Lodge, Surrey; _b._ Victoria Barracks, Portsmouth, 3 April, 1892; and went to the King’s School, Rochester, in 1902, from which he gained a scholarship at Tonbridge in 1905. There he became Coy. Sergt.-Major in the O.T.C., and afterwards Cadet Officer in 1909. He was in the shooting eight, 1907–10, and in 1908 and 1909 won the Warner Challenge Cup, and in the latter year helped to win with a record score--66 out of 70--the Hansard Cup for his House. In 1908, 1909 and 1910 his House won the Mitchell Cup, the section being under the command of Lieut. Dooner. In 1910 he represented the School in the contest for the Spencer Cup. He was also in the School XV. He passed third into Sandhurst from Tonbridge in 1910, and joined the Woolwich Coy., where he gained the drill prize, also the prize for German. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Fusiliers, 20 Sept. 1911; was promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1912; and became Adjutant of the 1st Battn. in July, 1914. He passed as a first-class interpreter in German in 1912, having previously, in 1908, when at Tonbridge, gained the first prize in that language in the examination open to all members of all public schools. He went to Belgium with his regt., 4 Oct. 1914, landing at Zeebrugge, and was reported as missing after the fighting on 30 Oct. 1914, and later information was received from the German Government that he had been killed in action on or about that date at Zandvoorde, near Ypres. From reports received from officers and men who were present on this occasion, it would appear that on the date mentioned, the struggle at Zandvoorde was most severe--as the Germans were endeavouring to get through to Calais, and the line occupied by the 7th Division was extended and thinly held. On the right of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers there were some trenches occupied by dismounted cavalry fighting as infantry, and how well these trenches were held is described by an officer, who says it was “one of the finest feats of the war.” So well did the cavalry fight that nearly all were killed or wounded, and the trenches were eventually captured, thus leaving the right flank of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers open to a flank attack. Lieut. Dooner, seeing the danger, ran across a fireswept piece of ground to the company on the right, and, having carried out his instructions, was returning to rejoin his commanding officer, when he was seen to fall wounded. Lieut.-Col. Cadogan, commanding the battn., then ran to his assistance, accompanied, it is stated, by Sergt. H. Evans, D Coy. They found that Lieut. Dooner had been killed, and as they were returning Sergt. Evans states that Lieut.-Col. Cadogan was also shot down about 10 yards from the trenches. The 7th Division, since its disembarkation, had now lost over 80 per cent. of its strength, and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers belonging to it was left with only one officer--Capt. Parker, the Quartermaster--and 86 men out of a total of 31 officers and 1,100 rank and file which left Lyndhurst for the seat of war on 4 Oct. Lieut. Dooner at the time of his death was the youngest Adjutant in the Regular Army. He was a member of the Junior United Service Club, and _unm._

=DOPSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O. (Pensioner, R.F.R., A. 3401), 152717, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOREY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. 6064 (R.F.R., B. 843), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _m._

=COTTRELL-DORMER, CHARLES MELVILLE, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd and elder surviving _s._ of Charles Walter Cottrell-Dormer, of Rousham Hall and Middle Aston, co. Oxford, and of Heath House and Stapleton Park, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L., Capt. late 13th Hussars, by his wife, Ursula, yst. dau. of Thomas Robert Brook Leslie-Melville-Cartwright, of Melville House, co. Fife, J.P., D.L., and of Lady Elizabeth, née Leslie-Melville, his wife; _b._ 18 Feb. 1892; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Coldstream Guards, 6 Jan. 1912; was posted to the 3rd Battn. 10 June, 1914; and promoted Lieut.; went to France with his regt.; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French on 8 Oct., and was awarded the D.S.O., the official announcement recording that “after all his men had been driven out of the trenches by enfilade fire he remained to the last, and got his wounded men away.” He was invested with the Order by the King 13 Jan. 1915; returned to the Front, and died 8 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Bethune; _unm._ His eldest brother was killed in action 27 Oct. 1914 (see following notice).

=COTTRELL-DORMER, CLEMENT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest _s._ of Charles Walter Cottrell-Dormer, of Rousham Hall and Middle Aston, co. Oxford, and of Heath House and Stapleton Park, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L., Capt. late 13th Hussars, by his wife, Ursula, yst. dau. of Thomas Robert Brook Leslie-Melville-Cartwright, of Melville House, co. Fife, J.P., D.L., and of Lady Elizabeth, née Leslie-Melville, his wife (see previous notice); 6 Feb. 1891; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served one year with the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry); was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, 1 Feb. 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Krusick, near Ypres, 27 Oct. 1914; _unm._

=DORMER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 6548, 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of Charles Dormer, of Wood Cottage, Courser’s Farm, Colney Heath, co. Herts, by his wife, Dorcas, dau. of Charles Yarrington; _b._ Waterferry Common, co. Oxford, 25 June, 1890; educ. Roydon, Essex, and had worked as a farm labourer for Mr. W. C. B. Giddins at Courses, and Mr. W. B. Field, of Bowmans Green, London Colney, and at the time war broke out was in the service of Messrs. Adams & Sons, Cartage Contractors, St. Albans. He was on the Special Reserve of the 4th Bedfords, and was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, going to the Front the same month with a draft for the 2nd Battn., to which he was then attached. He was killed in action at Festubert, 18 May, 1915; _unm._ Several of his brothers are (1916) on active service.

=DORNING, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4010), S.S. 102101, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DORRAM, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 112173, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOUGALL, ANDREW=, [Private, No. 2474, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), 4th _s._ of Andrew Dougall, of 8, Wolsey Place, Edinburgh, _s._ of the late John Dougall, of Househill, Larbert, Farmer, by his wife, Christina Marshall, dau. of the late Robert Taylor; _b._ Edinburgh, 16 Aug. 1896; educ. Parson’s Green School there; unlisted 8 Sept. 1914; left with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 May, 1915; _unm._

=DOUGALL, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2137), 170245, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOUGLAS, ALFRED SYDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15466, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOUGLAS, LESLIE HALL=, Lieut., 2nd Field Coy. Northumbrian Divisional R.E. (T.F.), only _s._ of John Douglas, of 33, Brighton Grove, Newcastle, by his wife, Dorothy Jane, dau. of Thomas Hall, Civil and Locomotive Engineer; _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne, 14 Nov. 1887; educ. Royal Grammar School and Armstrong College there, and qualified as a Marine Engineer, being Assistant Surveyor with Messrs. Swan & McFarlane, Newcastle-on-Tyne. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Sept. 1914. He went to the Front, 16 April, 1915; was promoted Lieut. 12 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Dranoutre, Belgium, 9 July, 1915; _unm._ A brother officer wrote: “He has done excellent work for us under the most trying and dangerous conditions. He was a brave, painstaking officer. His loss is greatly felt not only by his company and me, but particularly by his section, which he commanded so well.”

=DOUGLAS, LESLIE STUART=, Corpl. and Despatch Rider, No. 1624, Signal Coy. 2nd London Divisional Engineers. R.E. (T.F.), _s._ of James Henry Douglas, of Dalry, Cossington Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, by his wife, Florence Helen, dau. of George Turner; _b._ Holloway, London, N., 30 Oct. 1893; educ. Stationers’ School, London; was a Bank Clerk; joined the 15th London Regt. (P.W.O. Civil Service Rifles) in March, 1911; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war and was transferred to the 2nd London Divisional Engineers in Jan. 1915; went to France, March, 1915, and died at Bethune, 24 Sept. 1915 from a fractured skull, while carrying Despatches; _unm._

=DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SHOLTO=, Major, R.E., of the Headquarters Staff, only _s._ of Col. John Charles Douglas, of Lansdowne House, Bath, late Worcester Regt., and nephew of General Sir Charles Douglas, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; _b._ St. Peter’s, Jersey, 18 Sept. 1875; educ. Bath College; joined the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut. 22 Oct. 1895; promoted Lieut. 22 Oct. 1898, Capt. 22 Oct. 1904, and Major, 30 Oct. 1914; was attached to the Egyptian Army, 1898; served with the Nile Expedition, 1899 (Egyptian medal and clasp), and in the South African War, 1899–1900, being present during the operations in the Orange Free State, including the actions at Wittebergen (1 to 19 July), where he was slightly wounded while destroying arms (Queen’s medal with two clasps). On his return home at the end of 1900 he was specially employed in the Intelligence Department at Headquarters, and from Aug. 1910, to 28 May, 1912, he was Assistant Director of Army Signals (2nd Division) at Aldershot, when he was appointed General Staff Officer (3rd Grade), Scottish Command (29 May, 1914). On the outbreak of war he was appointed to the Headquarters Staff of the 7th Division, Expeditionary Force, was badly wounded in the action at Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914, and died at Boulogne 14 Nov. following. He was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915. Major Douglas _m._ King’s Walden, Herts, 21 Oct. 1903, Gladys Mary, elder dau. of Thomas Fenwick Harrison, Lord of the Manor and Patron of King’s Walden, and had an only child, John Willoughby Sholto, _b._ 17 Jan. 1906; died 13 Dec. 1913.

=BLACKER-DOUGLASS, ROBERT ST. JOHN, M.C.=, Lieut., Irish Guards, elder _s._ of Maxwell Vandeleur Blacker-Douglass, of Bellevue Park, co. Dublin, and Elm Park, co. Armagh, and Lareen, co. Leitrim, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Alice, only child of the late Robert MacGeough, of Silver Bridge, co. Armagh; _b._ Dublin, 30 Nov. 1892; educ. Hazelwood, Surrey, Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Irish Guards, 7 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 27 Jan. 1913. He went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; served through the retreat from Mons; was wounded at Compiègne on 1 Sept. and invalided home, but rejoined his regt. in Flanders on 22 Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, 1 Feb. 1915. “He continued to lead an attack after being wounded, and in so doing was killed” [official record, London Gazette, 11 March, 1915], and was awarded the Military Cross. His commanding officer, Major Trefusis, Irish Guards, wrote: “He was ordered with some men to retake a post which had been lost in the early morning of 1 Feb. He gallantly led his men to the attack and was soon wounded, but in spite of this he got up and shouted, ‘Come on, the Irish Guards,’ and was immediately killed. I feel it may be some comfort to all to know that he met his death in a very gallant manner, and by his example thoroughly inspired the men to make a great attack later on which was completely successful. I can only say what a loss he is to the regt. I have known him ever since he joined.” Lieut. Blacker-Douglass was _unm._, and was buried in Cuinchy Cemetery.

=DOVE, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4086), 213475, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronet, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOW, ANDREW THOMAS=, Private, No. 81226, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of Peter Dow, of Bankfoot, co. Perth, Farmer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Liston; _b._ Airntully, co. Perth, 29 May, 1891; educ. Murthly Public School and Sharp’s Institution, Perth; went to Canada in Nov. 1911, and settled at Winnipeg. After the outbreak of war he enlisted in Oct. 1914, came over in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 21 May, 1915; _unm._

=DOWDEN, STEPHEN WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 9604, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of William Dowden, Salesman at Covent Garden, by his wife, Christina Emma Beatrice, dau. of William Reynolds Floyd; _b._ Peckham, 13 April, 1885; educ. Wimbledon and Leatherhead; enlisted in May, 1912; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne, etc.; was wounded in action and invalided home in November; returning to the Front on 16 Dec. and died in No. 13 General Hospital, 28 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action four days previously. He was buried in the Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne, in Trench A/248, No. 1008; _unm._

=DOWLING, JOHN JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 10005, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _m._

=DOWLING, JAMES THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 7086, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, eldest _s._ of James Thomas Dowling, of 25, Mundesby Street, Reading, Working Painter, by his wife, Patience, dau. of John Sanders; _b._ Reading, 7 Nov. 1880; educ. St. Giles’ Elementary School there; enlisted and was eight years with the Colours and eight in the Reserve; served through the Boer War (medal with five bars), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was shot through the body in a communication trench at Neuve Chapelle, 1 May, 1913, and died in No. 16 General Hospital at Le Treport on the 31st; _unm._ He was buried in the Military Cemetery there. His younger brother, Albert John, Royal Scots, is now (1916) on active service.

=DOWLING, WILLIAM EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 22588, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOWN, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2469B, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _m._

=DOWNES, ALBERT ERNEST=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, L. 3873, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DOWNES, ANDREW=, Driver, No. 6190, Army Service Corps, 4th _s._ of Thomas Hodgson Downes, of Sunderland, Cab Driver, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Thomas Liddle, of Philadelphia; _b._ Sunderland, 6 May, 1888; educ. Rectory School there; was groom to Mr. T. Parrington, of Southwick-on-Wear; enlisted 27 Feb. 1915, and died of pneumonia in No. 5 Stationary Hospital at Dieppe, 3 April, 1915, while on Active Service. He _m._ at Southwick-on-Wear, 6 March, 1909, Emma (18, Morgan Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Thomas Hall, of Seaham Harbour, and had three children: Thomas, _b._ 22 Dec. 1912; Andrew, _b._ 18 Jan. 1915; and Violet, _b._ 6 Sept. 1910.

=DOWNES, ARCHER CHERNOCKE=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt., 4th yst. and last surviving _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Charles Villiers Somerville Downes, of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, co. Beds, E. Lancashire (59th) Regt., by his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Anne, dau. and h. of Frederick Thompson, of Wimbledon Park; _b._ Aspley House aforesaid, 5 Aug. 1892; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford; obtained his commission in the 1st Battn. Cheshire Regt. 2 Sept. 1913, went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and died at Poperinghe, Flanders, 20 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Neuve Eglise, near Bailleul. He had left the trench to help a wounded man of his regt. when he was shot. He was _unm._, and was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, Lieut. V. C. Downes, was killed in action, 18 Oct. (see following notice).

=DOWNES, VILLIERS CHERNOCKE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 3rd and elder surviving _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Charles Villiers Somerville Downes, of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, co. Beds, E. Lancashire (59th) Reg., by his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Frederick Thompson, of Wimbledon Park (see previous notice); _b._ Aspley House aforesaid, 5 March, 1891; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, and was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), 15 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war he was posted to the 1st Battn. 4 Aug. 1914; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was instrumental in saving three guns. He died at St. Omer, 18 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action, and was buried in the cemetery there; _unm._ Lieut. Downes had passed as a musketry instructor, and was nearly due for his captaincy.

=DOWNEY, JOHN MICHAEL=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 16000, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DOWNIE, JAMES=, Private, No. 17098, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., eldest _s._ of John Downie, of 479, Stretford Road, Manchester, by his wife, May, dau. of James Curley; _b._ Peebles, 15 Aug. 1884; educ. St. Joseph School, Peebles; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DOWNIE, PETER HOUSTON=, Private, No B/9021, 11th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 2nd _s._ of Thomas Downie, of 41, Annette Street, Glasgow, Journalist, by his wife, Isabella Mitchell, dau. of the late Peter Houston; _b._ Glasgow, 1 Dec. 1893; educ. Annette Street Public School and Albert Road Academy, Glasgow; was Shipping Clerk to J. & R. Tennent, Brewers; enlisted in the 4th Highland L.I. 6 Sept. 1914, and after serving at home for 10 months, was transferred to the 11th Battn. of his regt. and went to France in June, 1915. He was badly wounded in both legs at the Battle of Loos on 25 Sept., and was assisted into a crater by a comrade, who then started to crawl back to obtain material to bind up the wounds. He never returned, being probably killed on the way, and Downie lay on the field for two days before he could be brought in. He died in Rawal Pindi General Hospital at Wimereux on 6 Nov. 1915, after three operations; _unm._ Lady Hadfield, who nursed him in hospital wrote: “He lived well and he died well.”

=DOYLE, JOHN JOSEPH=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 4th _s._ of Joseph James Doyle, of Fairview, Clontarf, P.L.G., Merchant, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Edward Fegan, of Broadfield, Naas; _b._ Clontarf, co. Dublin, 13 March, 1893; educ. Blackrock College, Dublin, and the National University of Ireland, where he was an engineering student and was within a year of being qualified. When war broke out he volunteered, joined the Trinity College (Dublin) O.T.C., 6 Aug. 1914, and was given a 2nd Lieut.’s commission in the Dublin Fusiliers on 19 Sept. following, and promoted Lieut., 5 Feb. 1915. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles on 9 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 Aug. 1915; _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Col. P. Cox, wrote: “He fell early on the morning of the 9th when most gallantly leading his platoon. His death must have been instantaneous, as the poor boy was shot through the temple. His death is a great loss to me and the regt. He was a right good boy, who was always keen, always did his very best, loved his work, and had no idea what the word ‘Fear’ meant. Your son and his young brother subalterns have done splendid work for the regt., and it is due to their great devotion to duty that the regt. has done so well.” Lieut. Doyle was a well-known footballer. His two brothers, Capt. E. C. Doyle, A.V.C., and Lieut. F. H. Doyle, A.V.C., are (1916) on active service.

=DRAKE, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113476, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DRAKE, THOMAS HAROLD=, Trooper, B Squadron, East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker’s Horse), yr. _s._ of the late Arthur John Drake, of Stratford, co. Essex, Surgeon, by his wife, Emily (Wyke Hill House, Winchester), dau. of William Courtney; _b._ Stratford, co. Essex, 2 Dec. 1883; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, and Marlborough College; went out to East Africa as a settler in 1906; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the East African Mounted Rifles on formation, and was killed in action in the Longido Hills, German East Africa, 3 Nov. 1914; _unm._ He was buried where he fell, and a stone was erected by his friends to his memory and that of seven others who fell on the same day.

=TYRWHITT-DRAKE, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 15678, 19th Hussars, elder _s._ and heir of William Wickham Tyrwhitt-Drake, of Shardeloes, co. Bucks, J.P., late Master of the Old Berkshire Fox Hounds, by his wife, Augusta, 3rd dau. of the late Rev. Herbert Richard Peel, of Thornton Hall, co. Bucks (Baronet coll.); _b._ Thornton Hall, 10 Oct. 1885; educ. Uppingham and Eton; enlisted in the 19th Hussars in Aug. 1914 on the outbreak of war, with several other gentlemen jockeys, went to France, and died in the General Hospital, Boulogne, 11 March, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service. He was buried in Wimereux Cemetery; _unm._ He was a well-known amateur jockey and a brilliant cross-country rider, and came of a great hunting family, and when only 16 years of age won a point-to-point race over 4 miles on a horse called Old Berkeley. As a gentleman huntsman he gained some distinction with the Old Berkeley (West) Hounds during the Mastership of his father, Mr. W. W. Tyrwhitt-Drake. He won many races under National Hunt Rules, and trained some of the winners himself, including his father’s Irish Mail, on whom he won the valuable Lancashire Steeplechase at Manchester, the horse being sold a little later to Sir C. Assheton-Smith. Mr. Drake rode Carsey into fourth place in the Grand National in 1912, and into third place in the same race in the following season.

=DRAPER, HARRY THOMAS=, Stoker (R.N.R.), S. 1901, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of George Draper, of 32, Faulder Road, Long Hill, near Hartlepool; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DRAY, THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 8510, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt., _s._ of James Dray, of 1, Albert Lane, Hythe; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 11 April, 1915.

=DRAYNER, WILLIAM BRUCE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6684), 205138, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DREDGE, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. 14589, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DREVER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 4655, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of George Drever, of 6, Warrens Walk, Victoria Street, Kirkwall, Orkney; enlisted 8 Nov. 1902; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; died 27 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action.

=DREW, ALAN APPLEBY=, Lieut., 4th (Reserve), attd. 2nd, Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), yr. _s._ of the late Daniel Drew, of Lowerhouse, Burnley, a partner in the Lowerhouse Printing Works; _b._ 1884; educ. Charterhouse, 1904–7; left England in 1907 to go into business with a firm of merchants in Shanghai. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Cameronians, 16 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 4 Nov. following; left England on 13 Feb. to join his regt. at the Front, and was killed in action, 10 March, 1915; _unm._

=DREW, ALBERT JAMES=, Private, No. 3178, 3rd Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, _s._ of Stephen Drew, of Portland Road, Kingston, Surrey; served with the Expeditionary Force, and died on service, 6 March, 1915, of cerebro-spinal meningitis.

=DREW, EDWIN JOSEPH=, Private, No. 7787, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 May, 1915; _m._

=DREW, LEONARD VICTOR=, Private, No. 10969, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, only child of Thomas Drew, of Stert, Devizes, Ganger on Great Western Railway, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of John Trueman, of Trowbridge, Wilts; _b._ Bradford-on-Avon, co. Wilts, 17 May, 1897; educ. Christ Church School, Bradford-on-Avon; Church School, Stert; and St. James’ School, Devizes; was engaged as Porter at Holt Station, Great Western Railway; enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; left Windsor for France, 13 Nov. following, and was killed in action at Vermelles, Belgium, 19 Oct. 1915, during the Battle of Loos; _unm._ He was buried in Lillers Cemetery the following day.

=DREW, WILLIAM REGINALD CAPLE=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 345737, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=DREWETT, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./9628, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=DRISCOLL, CORNELIUS=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 1911), 159919, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DRIVER, ARTHUR MAURICE=, A.B., J. 14398, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DRIVER, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9724), 202065, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=DROLET, NARCISSE EDOUARD=, Private, No. 61584, 22nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Augustine Drolet, of 108, Latourelle, Quebec, Canada; _b._ Quebec, 7 Jan., 1880; educ. Christian Brothers’ School there; enlisted at St. Jean d’Iberville, P.Q., 15 April, 1915, and died at Monks Horton, co. Kent, 22 July, 1915, from heart failure, while training at Shorncliffe, and was buried at Shorncliffe. He _m._ at Montana, 22 Nov. 1910, Ida, dau. of (--) Guertin; _s.p._

=DRUITT, EVERARD JOSEPH=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., only _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Edward Druitt, of 91, Iverna Court, Kensington, W., late R.E., by his wife, Christina, eldest dau. of Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld, of Chideock Manor, co. Dorset, G.C.M.G.; _b._ Gillingham, co. Kent, 7 July, 1895; educ. Downside; joined the Honourable Artillery Company at the outbreak of the war, 14 Aug. 1914, and served in the 1st Infantry Battn. in France from 18 Sept. 1914, to 1 March, 1915. He was then recommended for a commission, and went through the Cadet School of Officers at Bailleul during March, and received his commission in the Royal Berkshire Regt. 4 April, 1915, and was killed near Fromelles, 9 May, 1915, while leading his platoon into action. He was buried behind the regimental breastwork; _unm._ Capt. C. Nugent wrote: “He died as I am sure he would like to have died, that is, the first man of his platoon towards the enemy. His death was very merciful, as he was shot through the heart, and he died instantaneously.... Although he had only been a short time with us, he had endeared himself to the men, who simply loved him and would have followed him anywhere”; and Sergt. J. A. Gray: “I was with your son when he fell, and I felt sure you would like to know how he died. Mr. Druitt had only been with us a short time, but I can honestly say that every man in the platoon loved him, and would have followed him anywhere, as, during our few tours of duty in the trenches, he had proved himself to be absolutely without fear, and had gained the assured confidence and respect of his men. On the morning of the attack he was full of confidence, and when the order came for us to assault the position he was first over the parapet at the head of his platoon, and was smiling and cool as if on parade. He shouted ‘Come on, boys!’ and started to lead us across the open, but had only advanced a few yards when he fell dead, shot straight through the heart. He was killed instantaneously, and I am sure he suffered no pain, for I looked at him as I went on, and I saw that the smile was still on his face, and he was quite dead.”

=DRUMMOND, ERIC GREY=, Major, late 4th Gurkha Rifles, attached 3rd Gurkha Rifles, 4th _s._ of the late Major-General Henry Drummond, R.E. (Bengal), by his wife, Annette Macpherson, dau. of Capt. Charles Henry Gascoyne Boisragon, and gdson. of the late Col. John Drummond, of Strageath, Abernchill and Balquhandy, Perthshire, C.B.; _b._ Simla, India, 10 Sept. 1875; educ. Bedford and Sandhurst (passing in and out with honours); gazetted 2nd Lieut. Somerset L.I., 28 Sept. 1895; served on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897–8, during the operations in the Mohmand country; took part in the engagement near Shabkadr, 9 Aug. 1897 (severely wounded; medal with clasp); gazetted Lieut. Indian Staff Corps, 16 Nov. 1898, and posted to the 4th Gurkhas, 1 April, 1900; promoted Capt. 28 Sept. 1908, and Major, 28 Sept. 1913; was A.D.C. on the Staff of the Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, 6 March, 1902–7; to the General Officer Commanding Quetta Division, and (18 Oct. 1907) to the Governor of Bombay; retired 13 Nov. 1913, and was appointed a King’s Foreign Service Messenger in 1914. At the outbreak of war was at Constantinople with despatches from the Foreign Office. He had some difficulty in returning to England with despatches from the British Ambassador at Constantinople owing to the activities of the Goeben, but managed to do so and arrived in England viâ Alexandria and Port Said. He immediately offered his services and was appointed to the 60th Rifles. After serving at Sheerness crossed to France on 8 Nov. 1914; and was ordered to join the 2/3rd Gurkha Rifles then in the trenches near Bethune. He only reached his new regt. on 13 Nov., and was killed the same night; _unm._ The Rev. Ronald Irving wrote: “Your brother, Major Drummond, arrived here on Thursday last (12 Nov.) and stayed the night in the same mess as I am. On Friday I had to go out to the Brigade Headquarters in which the 2/3 Gurkhas are, so I took him out in a car at 3 p.m. ... and he went into the trenches that evening. At 9 p.m. the regt., with the ‘Garhwals,’ had to make an attack on the German trenches. Things did not go too well, and the Major, who was the C.O., volunteered to lead the men out of the trench, and he had only gone a few yards when he was killed outright from a bullet wound. His body was recovered and I took it yesterday to Bethune Cemetery for interment.” Major Drummond was thus only six days in France, and a little over six hours in the trenches when he was killed while gallantly leading his men.

=DRUMMOND, FREDERICK JOHN=, Trooper, East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker’s Horse), eldest _s._ of Major John William Ainslie Drummond, of 27, Stanhope Gardens, London, S.W., and Hollycombe, Englefield Green, late Scots Guards, a Partner in Coutts’ Bank [E. of Perth coll.], by his wife, Florence Charlotte dau. of John George Blencowe, of Bineham, Sussex; _b._ Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 15 June, 1891; educ. Evelyn’s and Eton; settled in East Africa; joined the East African Rifles on formation in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action in the Longido Hills, 3 Nov. 1914; _unm._

=DRUMMOND, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 1889, A. Coy., 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of the late David Kininment Drummond, Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Henrietta Mabel (70, Cambridge Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham), dau. of William Goodman Porter, of Liverpool; _b._ Acocks Green, co. Warwick, 30 April, 1893; educ. Wellesbourne House School, Acocks Green, and King Edward’s Grammar School, Edgbaston; joined the London Scottish in June, 1913, and with the whole battn. volunteered for foreign Service after the outbreak of war, and went to France, 15 Sept. 1914. He took part in the famous charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 31 Oct. 1914, and died at the Base Hospital, Boulogne, 27 Jan. 1915, of wounds received in action five days previously. He was buried in the cemetery there; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “We were all very fond of him, he was a splendid fellow, very quiet and unostentatious and absolutely reliable; if he had a job to do he always did well.... You have many unknown to you who share your sorrow.”

=DUCAT, RICHARD=, Major, 20th Infantry (Brownlow’s Punjabis), Indian Army, 3rd _s._ of the late Major-General Charles Merewether Ducat, Bombay Staff Corps; _b._ Ahmedunggar, India, 12 July, 1871; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 13 Aug. 1892; promoted Lieut. 31 Aug. 1894, and transferred to the Indian Army, 31 Aug. 1896; became Capt. 13 Aug. 1901 and Major, 13 Aug. 1910; served on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, where he took part in the fighting at Malakand, Utman Khel, Buner, and in the attack on, and capture of, the Tanga Pass (medal with clasp); in China (medal) 1900, and in Tibet (medal), 1903–4. After the outbreak of the European War he accompanied his regt. to the Persian Gulf and died 11 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Fao. He was buried at San-i-yek, on the Shat-el-Arab River, Persian Gulf. His commanding officer wrote: “In the position your husband’s companies occupied when he fell, he was rendering me an invaluable service in protecting the left of the regt., and left me free to operate with confidence on the right. His last words to his men before he became faint from loss of blood, were ‘push on and don’t mind me.’” Major Ducat _m._ at St. Mary Abotts, Kensington, 5 Jan. 1910, Dora Margaret, 2nd dau. of the late Bayley Moore Collyns, of Morebath House, Somerset; _s.p._

=DUCK, ALBERT EDWIN=, Chief S.B.S., 350302, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUCK, EDWARD=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16642, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=DUCKETT, JAMES THOMAS=, Private, No. 7840, 3rd, att. 1st, Battn. Norfolk Regt., _s._ of Samuel William Duckett, by his wife, Matilda; _b._ Norwich, 12 March, 1869; educ. Carrow School there; enlisted in the 4th Battn. Norfolk Regt., 10 March, 1889, and re-enlisted 30 April, 1900, and again in the 3rd Battn. Norfolk Regt., 10 Aug. 1914; went to France, 19 Sept.; was killed in action at Givenchy, near Festubert, 25 Oct. 1914. He _m._ at St. Mary’s Church, Norwich, 25 Dec. 1889, Catherine Eleanor, only dau. of William Rix, and left nine children: William, _b._ 10 July, 1891; James, _b._ 26 Jan. 1896; Samuel, _b._ 10 Jan. 1899; George, _b._ 1 May, 1902; Edward, _b._ 9 May, 1910; Eleanor, _b._ 6 Feb. 1890; Alice, _b._ 21 Feb. 1894; Martha, _b._ 31 May, 1904; and Kitty, _b._ 13 May, 1908.

=DUDDY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4784), S.S. 104153, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUDLEY, DAVID=, Capt., 91st Punjabis, attached 2nd Jats, _s._ of the Rev. Francis Dudley, late Vicar of St. Thomas’, Overmonnow, Monmouth, by his wife, Alice (24, Gordon Avenue, St. Margarets-on-Thames), dau. of the Rev. John Dixon Frost; _b._ Wrenthorpe Vicarage, Wakefield, 14 March, 1881; educ. Monmouth Grammar School (1892–1900); received his commission from the Militia in the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., 27 Aug. 1902, and served in the South African War, receiving the Queen’s medal with four clasps. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1904, and transferred to the Indian Army in Feb. 1906, and was gazetted to the 91st Punjabis. He was appointed Double Company Officer, 12 Feb. 1906, and became Capt. 27 Aug. 1911. At the outbreak of the European War, Capt. Dudley was one of those selected for service in the Expeditionary Force in France, and arriving at Marseilles in Dec. 1914, he proceeded to the Front, where he was attached to the 6th Jats. He took part in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, after which his commanding officer wrote: “I had very great pleasure in recommending him for reward for the work which he had done, whether granted or not, he thoroughly earned it.” He was killed in action in the attack on the Auber’s Ridge, 9 May, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: “He led his men with his accustomed gallantry, but in the first few yards was mown down by the enemy’s machine-gun fire. He was a very sterling fellow, a most excellent officer of great personal courage, and a charming and modest companion.” He was buried in the Military Cemetery at Neuve Chapelle; _unm._ Capt. Dudley was a good all-round athlete, a fine Rugby footballer, a good cricketer, oarsman and swimmer. In Burma he won the Indian Army Hockey Medal, and was one of the best polo players, winning many cups both for that and for tennis.

=DUDLEY, JOHN EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4329), S.S. 103188, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=DUDLEY, LEONARD GREY=, Capt. and Adjutant, 6th Jat L.I., Indian Army, 2nd _s._ of William Edmondson Dudley, of 18, Portland Place, Bath, Brigade Surgeon, Lieut.-Col. A.M.S. (retired), by his wife, Anne Marion, dau. of General George Prince Sealy, R.A.; _b._ Poonah, India, on Lady Day (which that year was also Easter Day), 25 March, 1883; educ. Bath College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he gained a good place in the Competitive Examination, came out in the Honours List as 3rd of those winning commissions and was awarded the prize for Military History. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list for the Indian Army, 27 Aug. 1902, and on arriving in India, 10 Dec. following, was appointed to the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, then at Calcutta. They left there in Oct. 1903, for Poona, where he served with them till 3 Jan. 1904, when he was posted to the 6th Jats at Meerut. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Nov. 1904, and Capt. 27 Aug. 1911, being appointed Adjutant, 19 July, 1911. The Jats were moved to Jhansi in 1905 and then to Secunderabad in 1910, and on the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, formed part of the Meerut Division which went with the Indian Expeditionary Force to France. He died at Festubert, 24 Nov. 1914, of wounds received four hours previously in recapturing a trench from the Germans, in the early morning. He was keen on all sports, and the 6th Jats were noted for their triumphs in hockey, cricket and tennis. Capt. Dudley _m._ in Bombay Cathedral, 12 Nov. 1908, Ada De la Mere Doveton, only dau. of William John Deane, and had two children: John Leonard Grey, _b._ (posthumous) 18 March, 1915, and Monica Vivian Grey, _b._ 29 March, 1913.

=DUFFIELD, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 3437, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd _s._ of John Duffield, of Station Road, Watlington, near Downham Market, Norfolk, State Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Page; _b._ Watlington, co. Norfolk, 29 May, 1879; educ. there; enlisted 16 March, 1900; served in the South African War (Queen’s medal with three clasps), 1901–2, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 13 Aug. 1914–25 Jan. 1915, on which latter day he was killed in action at La Bassée; _unm._ He was buried under the south wall of Cuinchy Church.

=DUFFUS, THOMAS EDWARD=, Private, No. 3354, 1st/14th Battn. (The London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of William Duffus, of 7, Hafer Road, Battersea Rise, S.W., Commercial Traveller, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late Thomas Edward Watkins, of Brighton, Builder; _b._ Lavender Hill, Battersea, 10 June, 1892; educ. Wix’s Lane Institute, Lavender Hill; was in the employ of Messrs. Clark, Jewellers, of Brixton, but after the outbreak of war volunteered and enlisted in the London Scottish in Oct. 1914. After going through his training at Dorking, he went to France, 7 March; was wounded at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and died at 6 Ambulance Field Hospital on the 28th; _unm._ He was buried at Noeux Le Mines Cemetery (Row C., Grave 25). For his good work at the Front he had been nominated for a commission. He had submitted two inventions, one for a bomb carrier to carry 40 bombs, and the other in connection with a sapping machine, and shortly before his death he had been summoned by telegram from headquarters to appear before Sir Douglas Haig, Major-Gen. Hakin, and the Inventions Committee, by whom they were approved and forwarded to London.

=DUGGAN, CON=, Private, No. 5470, G Coy., 3rd Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd _s._ of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal), dau. of Michael Duggan, of Denybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; _b._ Annagry, co. Donegal, 22 March, 1893; educ. Mullaghduff National School; was an electric tram car driver, Lanarkshire Tramway. Enlisted, 14 Jan. 1916, and was killed during the fighting in Dublin about 30 April, 1916; _unm._ Buried in the grounds of the Royal Hospital there, 2 May. His yr. brother was killed at Loos (see following notice).

=DUGGAN, GEORGE GRANT=, Capt., 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of George Duggan, of 5, College Street, Dublin, and Ferney, Greystones, co. Wicklow, Manager, Provincial Bank of Ireland, Ltd., Dublin, by his wife, Emilie Asenath, dau. of Col. Charles Coote Grant, late Bedfordshire Regt. (died 23 Aug. 1914); _b._ Birr, King’s Co., 12 April, 1886; educ. High School, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1908; and on leaving there entered the service of the Irish Lights Commissioners. He was one of the original members of the Dublin University O.T.C., and was one of the first N.C.O. to be appointed, being promoted Corpl. 1910, and the following year was one of the small body of N.C.O. and Cadets, specially selected for exceptional efficiency and smartness, to attend the coronation. He subsequently (27 Jan. 1912) received a commission on the unattached list (T.F.) for service with the D.U.O.T.C., and was promoted Lieut. 8 Feb. 1913. He qualified at the School of Musketry, Hythe, in March, 1914, and was appointed to the command of a platoon in the School of Instruction for officers of the new Armies established in Trinity College in Sept. of the same year. On the temporary closing of this school, about the middle of the following month, he joined the 5th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers as Lieut., and was at once promoted to the command of a company, with the rank of temporary Capt., 28 Oct. 1914. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles, early in July, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug. 1915, and in the severe fighting there during the following ten days; was severely wounded on the 16th on the Ridge over the Bay, and died the same day on board H.M. hospital ship Gloucester Castle. Buried that night in the Ægean Sea. His yst. brother fell in action there the same day (see following notice). Capt. Duggan, of a bright and genial disposition, was one of the finest long-distance runners that Trinity College has ever possessed, and it would be no light task to compile a list of his many triumphs in the College Park, with the D.U. Harriers, in inter-University and in International contests. For several years he organised the College Races, and managed the affairs of the Dublin University Athletic Union with conspicuous success. But his greatest work was, undoubtedly, the inauguration of Trinity Week, an enterprise to which he devoted himself heart and soul, and of the original Committee of which he was the foremost member. He was also a former Scoutmaster of the 6th South County Dublin (Leeson Park) troop; a member of the Executive of the County Dublin Association and an active member of the Sea Scout Committee, in whose interests he worked until the outbreak of war. He _m._ at Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin, 24 Aug. 1910, Dorothy Isabella Tuthill (12, St. Keven’s Park, Rathgar, Dublin), only child of the late Henry Johnson, of Oaklands, Upper Assam, and had two sons: George Villiers Grant, _b._ 31 May, 1911; and Dermot Harry Tuthill, _b._ 5 July, 1912.

=DUGGAN, JOHN ROWSELL=, Lieut., 5th Battn. (Pioneers) The Royal Irish Regt., 5th and yst. _s._ of George Duggan, of 5, College Street, Dublin and Ferney, Greystones, co. Wicklow, Manager, Provincial Bank of Ireland, Ltd., Dublin, by his wife, Emilie Asenath, dau. of Col. Charles Coote Grant, late Bedfordshire Regt. (died 23 Aug. 1914); _b._ Dublin, 31 Oct. 1894; educ. The High School, Dublin, where he won a 1st Class Scholarship, and passed into Trinity College, Dublin, in 1912. There he joined the Medical School and became, like his brother, a prominent Member of the O.T.C. On the outbreak of war he relinquished his medical studies and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 5th Royal Irish Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 28 Jan. 1915. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles early in July, 1915, as part of the 10th Division, and was killed in action on the Karakol Dagh Spur, above Suvla Bay, 16 Aug. 1915; _unm._ He was at first reported wounded and missing and no officer saw him fall, but the Medical Officer of the Dressing Station at Suvla Bay, to whom Lieut. Duggan went when shot through his (left) wrist and with shrapnel injury to face and side, told him he should go to the Hospital Ship. He said his men were without an officer so he rejoined them in the firing line, and the subsequent story is briefly told by his Sergt. P. J. Nolan (on whose testimony his death was officially reported). “He left the firing line, had his wounds dressed and returned shortly afterwards, when he was hit in the face with an explosive bullet and killed.” To his father, Sergt. Nolan wrote: “Your son could have saved his own life, but he was always good to his men and he died encouraging them to fight till the last”; and his Col., the Earl of Granard, wrote: “I am sorry to tell you that your son has been missing since 16 Aug. He went with his company into action on that date, and we have not seen him since. I have enquired from several of the men of his company and they all tell me that he was wounded whilst gallantly leading his men. I sincerely hope that he is a prisoner, and it is always a consolation to know that the Turks treat their prisoners with the greatest consideration. I have now soldiered for a great many years and can honestly say that I never came across a better subaltern; and as regards his social qualifications, he was beloved by all ranks of the regt.” Lieut. Duggan was a noted rifle shot and won many medals and prizes, including “Daily Express” and “Lord Roberts’” Medals; Adjutant’s Cup of Trinity College, O.T.C., and he was presented with a rifle for the highest aggregate score in Leinster Schools, 1912.

=DUGGAN, PATRICK=, Private. No. 871, C Coy., 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 4th _s._ of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, co. Donegal), dau. of Michael Duggan, of Denybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; _b._ Annagry, co. Donegal, 18 June, 1896; educ. Mullaghduff National School; enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to France on 13 May, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.

=DUKE, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1306, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Michael Duke, of Iona, by his wife, Mary (Fox Harbour, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland), dau. of William Whiffin; _b._ Iona, Placentia Bay, 28 May, 1894; educ. there; was a Fisherman; volunteered and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force, 22 March, 1915; left for England, 6 April; went to the Dardanelles, and died at Alexandria, 26 Dec. 1915, of meningitis, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Military Cemetery there (Grave No. 139); _unm._

=DUMMA, JAMES=, Private, No. 4377, 1st Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Ypres, 26 April, 1915.

=DUNBAR, FRANCIS GRANT=, Deckhand, No. 533 D.A., Trawler Section R.N.R.; lost when the mine-sweeping trawler, No. 106 (Crathie, of Aberdeen), was sunk by a mine, Aug. 1914.

=DUNBAR, JOHN MAXWELL=, Private, No. 8823, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of Joseph Dunbar, of 63, St. Andrew’s Street, Kilmarnock; _b._ Skye; enlisted 13 Jan. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914.

=DUNCAN, ALEXANDER ROBERTSON=, Stoker (R.N.R.), S. 2872, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=DUNCAN, GEORGE=, Private, No. 51138, Princess Patricia’s Canadian L.I., _s._ of George Duncan, General Delivery, Toronto, Canada; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 March, 1915.

=DUNCAN, JOHN HOPKIRK=, Private, No. 1498, 6th, att. 1/8th, Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.) (T.F.), _s._ of the late William Duncan, of Edinburgh, Coachman, by his wife, Beatrice (Craigewan, Peebles); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 May, 1915, aged 19.

=DUNCAN, STUART=, Capt. 3rd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., yst. _s._ of the late James Duncan, of 24, Chester Street, S.W., M.D.; _b._ 25 May, 1865; obtained his commission as Lieut. 1st Gloucesters, 6 Feb. 1891 and promoted Capt., 31 Dec. 1891; served through the South African War, 1899–1900, taking part in the operations in Natal, 1899, including the actions at Reifontein and Lombards Kop, where he was slightly wounded, and in the subsequent operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1900, and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps. He retired, 16 April, 1904, and joined the Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, he volunteered his services and was posted to the 3rd Gloucesters, from which he was sent out to the 2nd South Lancashires at the Front. He was killed in action in France, 13 Nov. 1914; _unm._