Chapter LXXXI: Part 81

=THURLOW, ARTHUR GEOFFREY=, 2nd Lieut., 8th Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., only _s._ of the late Arthur James Thurlow, of The Rookery, High Wycombe, co. Bucks, by his wife, Florence; _b._ High Wycombe, 8 Nov. 1891; educ. Norfolk House School, Beaconsfield; Felsted School, and won an open classical scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (where he graduated B.A. with classical honours, June 1914); gazetted 2nd Lieut., 8th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., 9 Sept. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 1 June, 1915; took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, 6 Aug.; was wounded 21 Aug., and died at Alexandria, 29 Aug. 1915, of his wounds; _unm._ Buried at Alexandria. He was a fine athlete; was Captain of his College football team, and a member of The Wanderers Club, and played hockey for the University.

=THURSTON, SIDNEY GEORGE=, A. B. (R.F.R., B. 9808), 203210, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIBBO, JAMES JOSEPH=, Private, No. 1017, D Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., 2nd _s._ of Richard Tibbo, of 7, Lime Street, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Labourer, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Richard Roach; _b._ St. John’s aforesaid, 12 Nov. 1894; educ. St. Patrick’s Hall and Holy Cross Christian Brothers’ Schools; was a Seaman; joined the Newfoundland Regt. 13 Jan. 1915; left for England, 20 March; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 1 Dec. 1915, while gallantly assisting a stretcher bearer to remove the wounded; _unm._

=TIDBURY, ALFRED HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9670), S.S. 107002, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIDMAN, THOMAS JAMES SAMUEL=, Petty Officer, 196090, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TIERNEY, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9535), S.S. 106901, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIGHE, BERNARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4818), S.S. 1738, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TILBURY, DAVID=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 548), late R.M.A., 5982, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TILDESLEY, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3195), S.S. 100853; H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TILLETT, JAMES ALFRED=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (O.S.), 178794, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TILLEY, HENRY PERCIVAL=, Private, No. 8669, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Parkstone, co. Dorset; enlisted 5 Aug. 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914.

=TILLEY, JAMES CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A., 1288, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TIMBRELL, GORDON=, Sergt., No. 225, 3rd Light Horse, Australian expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of the late Samuel Timbrell, for many years Manager of the Central Station Hotel, Glasgow, by his wife, Charlotte Whyte (now wife of Anderson Rodger, of 59, Longridge Road, Earl’s Court, S.W.), dau. of George Gordon, of Aberdeen; _b._ Glasgow, 13 April, 1891; educ. Glasgow High School, and on leaving there in 1906 went to Stubbington House, Fareham, to be prepared for entrance in the Royal Navy as an Engineer Cadet. This idea had to be abandoned owing to the new age limit (12 years) coming into force, bringing Engineers under the same regulations as the Executive Cadets. Shortly afterwards he entered the office of a shipping firm in Stettin, with the purpose of learning the German language in combination with business training, and on leaving there, returned to Glasgow where he served a brief apprenticeship in a stockbroker’s office, and then went to Australia in 1910. He first took up sheep farming, but city life lured him, first to Melbourne, where he gained some experience in the wool trade, and then to Adelaide, where he managed the shipping department of Messrs. Bagot, Shakes & Lewis, Ltd. He had been with them three years when war broke out. He immediately volunteered and joined the Light Horse as a private, but being a fluent speaker of French and German, and a hard and fearless worker, he quickly won promotion and was appointed Sergt. early in March. He was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 1 July, 1915; _unm._ In a letter from Sergt. Smith under date of 26 June, printed in the Glasgow High School Magazine, Dec. 1915, p. 37, is the following passage: “My outlook on the world and things in general just now is even brighter than usual. Timmy (Sergt. Gordon Timbrell) is a wonderful boy and yesterday secured all manner of good things. We dined last night on turtle soup, thick mutton stew, pineapple, cakes, dates and coffee, and wound up with cigarettes. This morning for breakfast we had porridge and milk as a preliminary to what was in itself a splendid ‘feed.’ When Timmy is purveyor we are sure to be all right. The hardships of war! They have not existed so far.” And in a later letter he wrote: “You will no doubt have heard of poor Timmy’s death. He was killed in the trench last Thursday evening. You don’t know how I miss him. We have been the best of pals all the time. He was as game as you make ’em.” The secretary of his firm wrote: “He was a courageous and chivalrous young fellow, and had done uncommonly well in our firm. We were only awaiting his return, and the return of something like normal conditions to give him that lift which he had so well earned.”

=TIMMINGS, EDWARD ALBERT JOHN=, Electrical Artificer, 4th Class, M. 4098 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=TIMMINS, JOHN LLEWELLYN=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 611), late Ch./4514, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TIMMINS, WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, 187758, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=TINKLER, GILBERT=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1883T, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TINNE, ERNEST PERCY JAMES=, Lieut., R.N.R., 4th _s._ of John Ernest Tinne, of Liverpool, Merchant; _b._ Aigburth, Liverpool, 30 Dec. 1882; educ. Liverpool College, and H.M.S. Conway; joined the R.N.R., and became Lieut. Oct. 1909; joined H.M.S. Hogue at Chatham, 3 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Paignton, South Devon, 4 May, 1907, Annie Amelia Kate, dau. of (--) Bartlett, and had three children: Maurice Herman James, _b._ 21 Feb. 1914; Hester Petronella, _b._ 26 Feb. 1908, and Margery Bertha Denise, _b._ 31 Oct, 1909.

=TIPPER, GEORGE=, Private, No. 7730, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only child of Fred Tipper, of 7, Back, 11, Blythe Street, Ladywood, Birmingham, Builder’s Labourer, by his wife, Ada, daughter of Isaac Morgan; _b._ Selly Oak, co. Worcester, 14 Feb. 1889; educ. St. Barnabas’ Church School, Ryland Street, Birmingham; enlisted, 4 March, 1908; went to France, Aug. 1914, and was killed at Givenchy, France, 16 April, 1915; _unm._ He was relieved from sentry duty in the trenches, at 6 a.m. that morning, and then went to attend a class for bomb throwing and at 11 a.m. a bomb exploded in his hand killing him and Lieut. Crawford. He was buried by the Bishop of Khartoum, just behind the firing-line.

=TIPPINS, JOHN=, Corpl. and Acting Sergt., No. 3105, 2nd Battn. Essex Regt., _s._ of Luke R. Tippins, of Mistley, Essex, Schoolmaster and Rifle Expert; _b._ Winsford, co. Somerset, 10 March, 1887; educ. Norman School, Mistley, and privately; served first in 2nd Vol. Battn. Essex Regt., then in the 5th Essex (T.F.) as Machine Gun Sergt., and finally in 8th Essex (T.F.) as Motor Cycle Sergt.; joined 2nd Battn. as Private 18 Sept. 1914, in order to get at once to the Front, and was appointed Corpl., and left for France the following day, and was killed in action at a farm near Armentières, 26 Nov. 1914, having been appointed Acting Sergt. in charge of a machine gun a few days previously. Buried in 2nd Essex Cemetery, near Armentières; _unm._ John Tippins was one of the finest rifle shots in the United Kingdom. He qualified for the final stage of the King’s Prize Competition at Bisley in the years 1908–11 inclusive and in 1913; he won the Wimbledon Cup, 1910, the Association Cup, 1909, the Aggregate Service Rifle Championship, 1911, and took first place in the second stage of the Albert Competition the same year. He shot in the Elcho, Mackinnon, and Challenge Trophy teams, and was one of the Empire Team chosen to go out to Australia, whose departure was prevented by the outbreak of war. On the night he fell, he had gone himself to get water for the Maxim in his charge, as it was a dangerous job in daylight, and was killed on his return. Capt. Binstead (since killed) wrote: “He had already gained for himself a reputation as a daring sniper and splendid shot, which had spread far beyond his own regt., and which, had he not been shot, would, I feel sure, have obtained for him a coveted distinction.”

=TITE, CHARLES JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111796, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TITTERINGTON, LESLIE=, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272194, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TITTERINGTON, ROGER=, Private, No. 11281, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st _s._ of James Titterington, of Elim Grove, Bowness on Windermere, co. Westmoreland, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Roger Aldren, of Carnforth, Lancs.; _b._ Bowness on Windermere, 30 March, 1894; educ. Bowness Elementary School; enlisted 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rue de l’Epinette, 31 Dec. 1914; _unm._ Buried in Soldiers’ Cemetery, Rue du Bois, on road from Bethune to Richebourg, about a mile beyond Le Touret.

=TOCHER, JOHN LESLIE=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 215576, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOD, BERNARD DOUGLAS=, Private, No. 1828, A Coy. 1/14th Battn. (London Scottish) London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of James Tod, of 7, Bennochy Terrace, Kirkcaldy; _b._ North Berwick, East Lothian, 30 Jan. 1896; educ. Kirkcaldy High School (where he was a member of the O.T.C.), and Rouen; was a member of the staff of Messrs. Steel Bros. & Co., Ltd., East India Merchants, of 6, Fenchurch Avenue, E.C.; joined the London Scottish about March, 1913; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war, and left for France, 15 Sept. 1914; took part in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, and in the gallant defence of the trenches at Zillebeke, and was killed in action in the trenches at Givenchy, 23 Dec. 1914. Buried in a disused part of the trench; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “He was without fear, and his whole thought was to do his duty for those at home.”

=TODD, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9580), 200339 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TODD, JOHN WRIGHT=, L.-Corpl., No. 11308, 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, grandson of John Todd, of Main Street, Norham-on-Tweed; _b._ Norham-on-Tweed, 14 Feb. 1894; educ. there; was a Baker; enlisted in 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Oct. 1911; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 9 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._

=TODD, ROBERT FREDERICK=, Chief Ship’s Cook, 344299, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TODDERINGHAM, WILLIAM=, 1st Class Stoker, No. K. 12824, R.N., eldest _s._ of the late William Todderingham, Seaman, by his wife, Bridget (40, Tredegar Street, Cardiff), dau. of (--) Landers, of Cardiff; _b._ Cardiff, 10 May, 1892; educ. St. Peter’s R.C. Schools there; entered the Navy, 1909, and was lost when H.M.S. Monmouth was sunk in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._

=TODRICK, THOMAS=, W.S., Capt., 1/8th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), elder _s._ of Robert Todrick, Agent for the Bank of Scotland at Haddington, Hon. Sheriff Substitute, by his wife, Marianne Somerville, dau. of the late Rev. John Stevenson, of Wigtown; _b._ Haddington, 26 Dec. 1879; educ. Knox Institute; Leys School, Cambridge, and Edinburgh University, at which latter he took his law course, and was admitted, in 1904, a Writer to the Signet. Apprenticed for a time in the offices of Messrs. J. & J. Turnbull, W.S., Edinburgh, he afterwards started business there on his own account. He received his first commission in the 7th (Haddingtonshire) Vol. Battn. of the Royal Scots, 1900, and was appointed to the command of the Headquarters Coy. at Haddington, 1908, which command he held till 1913, and then joined the Reserve of Officers. Early in 1914 he accepted the offer to take command of the Dalkeith Coy., and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. It was expected that the Service Battn. of the 8th Royal Scots would be called upon to leave Britain about Christmas, but on 1 Nov. they received orders to entrain the following day. Within a few days they were in France, and by the 15th of the same month in the firing line. Capt. Todrick took a prominent part in the operations, and was killed in action 15 Dec. 1914. A few nights before his death he crept from the British across to the German trenches, went under the wire entanglements and came back on that occasion in safety. A few days later the General in command asked that listening patrols should be sent out at night, and Capt. Todrick went out with three men himself. On reaching a certain point he asked them to lie in a ditch, as he thought he saw figures moving in front; he went on alone and fired his revolver. Doubtless the flash revealed him; an answering shot struck him in the neck, and his death was practically instantaneous. His men brought back his body, and he was buried in a little French cemetery while shells passed overhead. One of his brother officers wrote: “Poor Todrick has gone, best of comrades and bravest man in the battn.; no officer could have been more beloved by the others of all ranks in the battn.” Capt. Todrick was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He _m._ at Blackheath, 27 Aug. 1910, Brenda (30, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of John List, chief engineer of the Union-Castle Line, and had a son and dau.: Archibald, _b._ 25 April, 1912; and Elizabeth, _b._ 5 Feb. 1914.

=TOLHURST, WALTER=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1852), 157015, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=TOLLEMACHE, BEVIL DOUGLAS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of the Hon. Douglas Alfred Tollemache, of Southbeach, Felixstowe, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late John Heath, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Tollemache; _b._ Melton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 11 April, 1889; educ. Wixenford and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the 1st Coldstream Guards, 15 Aug. 1914; left for France in Oct., and was killed in action at Givenchy on the morning of 22 Dec. following; _unm._

=TOMBS, JOHN BERNARD EVELYN=, Corpl., No. 2367, 2/9th Battn., attd. 2/10th Battn., The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of Thomas Charles Tombs, of 60, Harrow View, Harrow, Middlesex, by his wife, Mary Frances, dau. of John Airey, of Oakdene, Holly Park Gardens, Finchley, N.; _b._ Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 28 Jan. 1894; educ. Holmwood House School, Hampstead, and the William Ellis Endowed School, Gospel Oak; was in the employ of the Sun Life Office, Threadneedle Street, E.C., and was a Probationer of the Institute of Actuaries; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the 2/9th Middlesex in Sept. 1914; trained at Staines, Cambridge and Bedford; left England for the Dardanelles, 17 July, 1915, and was attached to the 2/10th Battn.; was in action at Suvla Bay, 8–12 Aug. 1915, when he was invalided to Alexandria and died there in the 15th General Hospital, 23 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery.

=TOMLIN, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1517), 201734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOMLIN, JOHN=, Canteen Assistant, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOMLINSON, FREDERICK WALLACE=, A.B., J. 7909, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOMLINSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2240), 301735, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOMPKINS, EDWIN=, Private, No. 54, 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Henry James Tompkins, of 133, St. James’ Road, Northampton, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of William Griffin; _b._ Great Houghton, co. Northampton, 30 March, 1891; educ. Kingsthorpe and Council School, St. James’ End; was an employee in Wolverton Carriage Works, and joined the Oxford and Bucks Territorials in May, 1913; emigrated to Australia in July, 1913, and settled in Victoria as a Farm Hand; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of the European War, 1 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt, 19 Oct 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died in King’s College Hospital, London, 16 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli the previous May; _unm._

=TOMPKINS, GEORGE CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109430, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOMPKINS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Ordinary Signalman, No. J20250, R.N., H.M.S. Triumph, only _s._ of Thomas Tompkins, of 14, College Park Terrace, Willesden Junction, N.W., Gardener in Hyde Park under H.M. Office of Works, by his wife, Annie Ellen, dau. of Robert Margetts; _b._ Faringdon, co. Berks, 14 Feb. 1897; educ. Kenmont Garden Council School, College Park, N.W.; joined Royal Navy, 22 Sept. 1912; was drafted to Portsmouth Depot, 30 Aug. 1913; and sailed for the Dardanelles in H.M.S. Irresistible, 19 Feb. 1915. This ship was sunk by a drifting mine during the attack on the Narrows, 18 March following. He was saved and taken on board H.M.S. Ocean, which was also sunk in the same way immediately afterwards. Saved for the second time that day, he was appointed to H.M.S. Triumph, and was drowned when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire off Gaba Tepe, 25 May, 1915. His body was recovered by a trawler (705) and taken to H.M.S. Blenheim, from which it was buried at sea; _unm._ The Chief Yeoman of Signals of the Triumph wrote: “He was a very promising young fellow, and would have done well in his profession. I cannot say too much for him.” At school he won two scholarships and also the L.C.C. first prize for carpentry.

=TOMS, ARTHUR WOODLAND=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt. (Special Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd _s._ of Frederick Woodland Toms, of 1, Claremont Terrace, Jersey, F.I.C., Official Analyst, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Frazer Hopwood, of Fauresmith, Orange River Colony; _b._ St. Helier’s, Jersey, 25 April, 1891; educ. Victoria College there; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Devonshire Regt. (Special Reserve), 7 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1914. For some time before the outbreak of war he had been preparing for service under the Colonial Office, and received the offer of an appointment in West Africa from the Secretary for the Colonies three days before the declaration of war. He went to France, 6 Nov., and was accidentally killed, 27 Nov. 1914, while on active service, and was buried in the cemetery at Estaires, Nord; _unm._ The officer commanding 3rd Devonshire Regt. wrote: “He was a great favourite in the regt, and a most capable officer.” In 1913 and 1914 Lieut. Toms captained the “Young Soldiers’” shooting team of his regt.

=TOMS, JOHN=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 170693, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TONKINSON, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., I.C. 599), S.S. 805, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOGOOD, ALFRED=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3730), 191822, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOLEY, JOHN JAMES=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13005, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TOOMER, CECIL WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 10181, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOMEY, ARCHIBALD ROCHE=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), eldest _s._ of Archibald Montgomery Toomey, of 20, Palmerston Park, Dublin, by his wife, Nina, dau. of Surg.-Major James Roche Nagle; _b._ Dublin, 17 Dec. 1891; educ. St. Stephen’s Green School; Portora Royal School, and Trinity College, Dublin (Medical School); volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 6th Leinsters, 26 Aug. 1914; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from 5 Aug. 1915, to 10 Aug. 1915; killed in action at Suvla Bay on the later date; _unm._

=TOOP, EDWARD CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5115), 195218, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOOSEN, ENDOXIL=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOPHAM, GEORGE SAMUEL=, L.-Corpl., No. 1358, 1/5th Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs) (T.F.), yst. _s._ of William Topham, of Arlesey, co. Bedford, Engine Driver, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Bowskill, of Arlesey; _b._ St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, 2 Feb. 1896; educ. Arlesey Council School, and was apprenticed to Messrs. Levitt & Sons, Outfitters, of Arlesey, and then moved to Luton, later going to Cranbrook, Kent. Volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined The Buffs on or about 6 Aug. 1914; left for India, 29 Oct., where he remained until Nov. 1915, when he was ordered to the Persian Gulf, and died there 17 Jan. 1916, of wounds received in action on the 6th: _unm._

=TOPHAM, HENRY ANGRAVE CECIL=, 2nd Lieut., Indian Army, attd. 1st Battn. The Welsh Regiment, elder _s._ of John Henry Topham, of Morley Hall, co. Derby, by his wife, Dorothy Marion, dau. of George Henry Angrave; _b._ Derby, 14 Oct. 1891; educ. Malvern and Clare College, Cambridge (graduated B.A., Dec. 1913), and was in both the school and college O.T.C. He obtained a university commission as 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 21 Jan. 1913, and his rank was made substantive, 5 Aug. 1914. He was on the point of sailing for India when war was declared, but was posted to the 4th Sherwood Foresters at Backworth, Northumberland, where he remained until the end of Feb. 1915, when he was sent to France, being attached for the period of the war to the 1st Battn. Welsh Regt. He took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, and on 24 May, his regt. being ordered to join in a counter-attack, he was severely wounded in the head by a piece of high explosive shell, near Ypres, dying the next day, 25 May, 1915, at Bailleul Clearing Hospital, where he had been taken, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there (No. 1125). An officer wrote: “We were all so fond of him and he is indeed a great loss. He was of great assistance to me in the field, for I could rely on him, and in addition he had the happy knack of commanding men.”

=TOSH, WILLIAM=, L.-Corpl., No. 551, 8th Australian Light Horse, only _s._ of James Tosh, of Third Part, Crail, Fife, by his wife, Jessie Christine (Mansefield, Anstruther), only dau. of Alexander Campbell Macandie; _b._ 30 Sept. 1885: educ. Clifton Bank School, St. Andrews, and afterwards learnt sheep-farming in one of the Border counties; then proceeded to Australia and acted as assistant to the owner of Barunah, one of the largest sheep-runs in the Colony of Victoria. After a short visit home in 1910, he returned to Australia and started farming on his own account, but on the outbreak of war disposed of his property and joined the Australian Light Horse. He was wounded in action at Anzac, Gallipoli, and died half an hour afterwards, 7 Aug. 1915, being buried in the 8th L.H. Burial Ground, on the beach; _unm._ Major McLaurin wrote: “He was a splendid soldier and much beloved by the regt.”

=TOVEY, FREDERICK JOHN=, Private, No. 10724, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of John Tovey, of Walk Cottages, Heythorpe, co. Oxon, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Reuben Stanger; _b._ Milton under Wychwood, co. Oxon, 22 Oct. 1898; educ. Village School there; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 1914 at Coventry; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and was reported missing, 25 Jan. 1915 and is now assumed to have been killed in action about that date.

=TOWLE, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4859), S.S. 1767, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOWNEND, FRANCIS WHITCHURCH=, Capt., 35th Divisional Signal Coy. Royal Engineers, 3rd _s._ of the Rev. Alfred John Townend, Chaplain to the Forces, by his wife, Margaret Wiseman, dau. of the late William James Stairs, of Nova Scotia; _b._ Halifax, Nova Scotia, 10 July, 1885; educ. Dulwich College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and on leaving there spent two years at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.E., 21 Jan. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 24 Sept. 1906, and Capt. 30 Oct. 1914; went to India in 1906, and was there attached to the 3rd Sappers and Miners; left for France with the Indian Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, reaching the front in Oct. and died at Bethune, 29 March, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day, while laying telephone wires; _unm._ Buried in Bethune Cemetery. A motor ambulance driver wrote the following account of the incident to his Mother [Morning Post, 12 April, 1915]: “After dinner I commenced a letter, but was interrupted by a shell bursting somewhere in the vicinity and a man yelling for bandages. Of course I rushed to see if I could be of any use, and found that the shell had burst at the side of the road about forty yards away, right in the midst of a party of Indian engineers who were inspecting the telegraph wires. T. and I grabbed stretchers from our car, and with some others rushed for the Indians. I was late in starting owing to my litter, and all the Indians were being attended to when I arrived on the scene. However, I saw someone in the shell hole which was on the side of the road opposite from where the men had been hit, and so had escaped notice. In it was a man, the white officer of the Indians, who appeared to have his legs half buried in the debris of the hole. He told us to attend to the others first; he was all right. And then as we moved him we saw that he was standing on the stumps of his legs. Both had been shot off at the knee. (I’m telling you this story, horrible as it is, because of the extraordinary courage the man showed--such courage as I’ve never seen before, and hardly imagined. It’s worth while bearing the horror of it to realise that we are officered by such men.) He was perfectly conscious and calm, and spoke as though he were a medical officer and someone else the victim. He looked at his legs as we moved him on to the stretcher and asked me quietly (he was not in the least excited, and his handsome face showed no pain) to tie something tight round both thighs to stop the bleeding. I did what I could with my handkerchief, and another I requisitioned, and we took him to our billet. We had to move hurriedly, of course, as a second shell had followed and we wanted cover in case any more arrived. There were two R.A.M.C. men with us, and they attended to the subsequent first aid. They discovered another horrible wound in his arm, and while they were dressing it he told them that he thought he would give up football next year. We then took him to the nearest hospital; he was still conscious and perfectly collected, and laughed quietly and talked, apologising for the trouble he was causing, while on the way to the hospital. And I came back thinking of that tag in some book or other ‘I have seen a man.’ The poor fellow died in hospital.” While at Woolwich he played for the Association Football XI, and was a well-known Army cricketer, having several times represented the Royal Engineers against the Royal Artillery at Lord’s; he also played for the Free Foresters, the Bombay Presidency, and the Indian Army. Capt. Townend was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John French [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915].

=TOWNER, FREDERICK ARTHUR ALBERT=, Private, Signaller, No. 148, 7th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Horace Frederick Towner, of 22, Alfred Street, St. Leonards-on-Sea, Cabinet Maker, by his wife, Isabel, dau. of William McLeod; _b._ St. Leonards, 6 July, 1890; educ. Christ Church School there; went to sea in 1906 and was twice wrecked, first on the John Shelley, in Nov. 1907, and secondly with the sailing ship Enterprise, in the North Sea, Oct. 1908, being on this last occasion the sole survivor; in 1912 went to Australia and took up farming, but after the outbreak of war enlisted in the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 4 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915; _unm._

=TOWNSEND, CHARLES=, Armourer’s Mate (Pensioner), 342373, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOWNSEND, HENRY CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B., 239251, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TOWNSHEND, ALFRED=, A.B., 236174, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TOWNSHEND, CHARLES HENRY=, A.B., 229079, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TRACEY, ALBERT JAMES FREDERICK=, Private, No. 1940, 15th Battn. (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 4th _s._ of Joseph Thomas Tracey, of 24, Belmont Road, South Norwood, S.E., formerly Sergt. 1st Border (34th) Regt., by his wife, Caroline, dau. of Richard Frederick Hill; _b._ Caterham, co. Surrey, 11 April, 1891; educ. Garrison School, Fort George, N.B.; South Norwood Council School, and Whitgift Middle School, Croydon; served as a registered Boy Clerk at the Board of Education, Whitehall, from 27 May, 1907, to 16 July, 1911, and as an assistant clerk, 17 July, 1911, to Aug. 1914. He joined the 23rd London Territorials in March, 1909; became Sergt. in Sept. 1912, but transferred to the Civil Service Rifles, April, 1914, giving up his stripes; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 25 May following, while bombing a German trench; _unm._ He was buried at Festubert. Capt. H. H. Kemble, of his Coy., wrote: “Your son led the way along the parapet and used his bombs with such effect, that the trench was taken the next day. A report of his bravery has been forwarded to Head Quarters. He was always thorough and efficient, and always quiet and gentle”; and Sergt. F. C. Robertson said that when they found him next day he had used all his bombs. He had rushed right on using the bombs till the Germans turned the machine-gun on to him. No man could have done more. The trench was won.

=HANBURY-TRACEY, HON. FELIX CHARLES HUBERT=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. _s._ of Charles Douglas Richard, 4th Baron Sudeley, P.C., by his wife, Ada Maria Katherine, dau. of the Hon. Frederick James Tollemache; _b._ Buckingham Gate, S.W., 27 July, 1882; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 10 Nov. 1907; retired in 1907 and joined the Reserve of Officers; gazetted to the 3rd Battn. of his regt. on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Nov., and died of wounds received in an attack on the German trenches near Fromelles, on the night of 18–19 Dec. 1914. He was wounded slightly at the commencement of the attack, but still led his men. When again wounded fatally on the parapet of the German trench, some of his men attempted to carry him back to safety, but he ordered them to leave him where he was and to go on, as he did not wish them to risk their lives in saving him. The Germans shortly afterwards re-took their trench, and he died a few hours later in their hands, and was buried by them. He _m._ at Lacock, Wiltshire, 11 June, 1908, Madeline Llewellyn (13, Queen’s Gate Place, S.W.), only dau. of Col. George Llewellyn Palmer, of Lackham, Lacock, Wilts, and had two sons: Michael David Charles, _b._ 29 March, 1909; and Ninian John Frederick, _b._ 7 Dec. 1910.

=TRAHERNE, LLEWELLYN EDMUND=, of Coedarhydyglyn, near Cardiff, J.P., Lt.-Commander, R.N., eldest _s._ of the late Llewellyn Edmund Traherne, of Coedarhydyglyn, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Henry Hogard; _b._ Paris, 14 Sept. 1863; joined the Britannia in Jan. 1877, and left in Dec. 1878, having taken the first prize in seamanship that year, he was appointed to H.M.S. Charybdis, then on the China Station, and took passage to her in the Encounter. He served in many stations and qualified in gunnery, gaining 1st Class Certificate in 1890, retiring in 1897. On the outbreak of the European War, at the age of 51, he rejoined as Lt.-Commander (G.) Emergency List, and was promoted to Acting-Commander of the Excellent, 12 Oct. 1914, and died while on active service, of pneumonia, at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 14 Oct. 1914. He was buried in the Churchyard of the village of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff. Lt.-Commander Traherne _m._ at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, 16 April, 1907, Dorothy Emma Olivia, elder dau. of George Felix Standish Sinclair, of 3, Manson Place, London, S.W., and granddau. of the late Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, of Ulbster, 3rd Bart., M.P., and had two sons and one dau.: Cennydd George, now of Coedarhydyglyn, _b._ 14 Dec. 1910; John Rhodri Llewellyn, _b._ 24 Sept. 1913; and Margaret Agnes Mary, _b._ 1 Dec. 1908.

=TRAVERS, ALBERT JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14738 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TRAYNOR, THOMAS=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2922, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._

=TREHANE, GEORGE=, Leading Stoker, K. 1240, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=TREVELYAN, WILFRED=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd _s._ of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan, of 1, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, etc. [gdson. of the Ven. George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, 3rd _s._ of Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe, 4th Bart.], by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabel, dau. of Edward Walhouse Mark, late Consul at Marseilles; b. Calcutta, 10 Oct. 1893; educ. Rugby, and at Manchester University; gazetted from the Officers’ Training Corps to the 5th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, was transferred to the 4th Battn. 8 Sept. following, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 5 May, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. He was buried in the grounds of Hooge Chateau, France; _unm._

=TREVENA, FREDERIC WILLIAM=, Private, No. 931, A Coy., 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only surviving _s._ of Richard Charles Trevena, of 33, Lakeside Road, Palmer’s Green, N., by his wife, Eliza Barnicoat, dau. of the late John Robins, of Penryn, Cornwall; _b._ London, 22 Oct. 1892; educ. Bowes Road School, was a member of the Clerk’s Department of the Southgate Urban District Council Office; joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed on the 21st of that month, by shell fire, while the battn. was resting in an orchard about three miles from the firing line, some miles N.E. of Bethune. Buried in the orchard; _unm._ The Chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane wrote: “We were encamped and he and others were simply resting in their bivouac when the shells came raining across on us. We had been shelled the day before farther up the line and had left it to come here for safety as this place had never been shelled before. But this time the shells had a message, and it was your dear Frederic that they came to. He could have suffered nothing, as death was instantaneous. The others were spared, though they got a shock. We feel keenly parting so suddenly from a good comrade and a brave man.”

=TREVENER, WALTER JOHN=, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2277), 289209, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TREVOR, HARRY SPOTTISWOODE=, Lieut., Royal Engineers, _s._ of Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, K.C.S.I., late of the Indian C.S., Revenue Member of the Bombay Government (1892–95) and Public Works Member of the Government of India (1896–1901), by his wife, Florence Mary, 2nd dau. of Col. Cyril Jackson Prescott, Bombay S.C., and grandson of Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (who was murdered at Kabul in Dec. 1841, with the British Envoy, Sir William Macnaghten); _b._ Karachi, India, 19 July, 1899; educ. Marlborough College, where he was in the sixth form. Prefect and Head of his house, and a member of the house and school football teams, and the School Shooting Eight. From Marlborough he passed direct into Woolwich, became a member of R.M.A. Football XV, and gained his commission in the R.E., after an 18 months course, 1 Oct. 1909. After the usual period of training at Chatham he was ordered to India, served for a time in the Military Works Department at Jullunder, in the Punjab, and was then transferred to the Engineering Staff of the North-Western State Railway at Lahore, and promoted Lieut. 28 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak of the war he was attached to the 1st K.G.’s O. Sappers and Miners, and proceeded with the 4th Field Company of the battn. as part of the Meerut Brigade to France, where he landed in Oct. 1914, and where he served, throughout the fighting at Givenchy, Festubert, Neuve Chapelle, and elsewhere on the front between La Bassée and Lille, till he was killed in action in the trenches near Laventie, 15 Aug. 1915. Buried in the British Cemetery at Vieille Chapelle; _unm._ He was mentioned in Despatches, 30 Nov. 1915. General Nanton, C.R.E., Indian Contingent (under whom Lieut. Trevor had served in the Military Department in India, as well as at the front), wrote: “I have watched your son since he was with us in Jullunder. In this war I have noted his bravery and skill on so many occasions. We have lost a brave and good officer. He was buried with our other R.E. officers at Vieille Chapelle. He was shot whilst arranging a fixed rifle rest with his usual care, and he did not suffer for an instant”; and Col. Twining, late C.R.E. Meerut Division: “Your son worked under my orders from the time he came to France until March last. I had a high opinion of him as an officer and a strong regard for him as an individual, and I deplore his loss to the Service as well as to his relations and friends. He went through much hard and dangerous work--never spared himself in the slightest and was always cheery and ready for anything. I remember one occasion in particular last Dec. when I had to send him with another young officer out on a very difficult and dangerous task--they had been out through very severe fighting for 36 hours consecutively and were very much done, but your lad stuffed a little food into his pockets and went off again, full of cheer, with a smile. You will be glad to hear of this--it was his usual attitude and we have lost a valuable officer and a much-loved comrade.” The late Col. Davidson Houston, Commanding 58th Rifles F.F., also wrote: “I trust you will excuse an entire stranger writing to you, but on behalf of both my officers and myself I wish to tender our deepest sympathy with you in the loss of your son last month. He was, when he met his death, working in my section of the front line, as he had frequently done before, and I had always found him a most able and hard working adviser on technical points connected with the defences--always cheerful, always ready to help, never sparing himself, we shall miss him greatly and the R.E.’s have lost one of their most promising young officers. Your son had been lunching with me and discussing a rifle rest he had invented, a specimen of which he had had made and given to my regiment. He said he would like to test this particular specimen as he had not had time to do so before sending it to us. He asked if he might use my observation post to shoot from and he and my adjutant went there for the purpose. The post is raised up on a platform. Your son raised his head to look over the little breastwork and was immediately shot. We much regretted being unable, owing to the Military situation, to attend his funeral and mark our respect for him as a soldier and a comrade.” An officer of high professional promise, he was also a music and book lover, a talented designer and draftsman, and had a somewhat notable turn for the devising of contrivances “for the further discomfiture of the enemy,” to use the words of a brother officer. One of the first, if not absolutely the first, trench mortar used by the British, to counter the German Minenwerfer, was made on his initiative and under his orders, of 9 inch iron piping, in the company’s workshops, and proved very effective, and it was in arranging to test a portable contrivance of his own for enabling fire to be kept up on any desired point in the dark and without exposure, that he met his death. With reference to this contrivance the O.C. 2nd Black Watch wrote in a note found among Lieut. Trevor’s papers: “We have tried your rifle rest, and found it very good.”

=TRIGGS, WOODMAN GEORGE=, Ship’s Corpl. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3710), 163287, H.M.S. Aboukir: lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TRIMMER, GILBERT FREDERICK=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 3359, 2/4th Battn. The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of John Trimmer, of Guildford, by his wife, Alice Katurah, dau. of J. Dawes Esher; _b._ Guildford, co. Surrey, 18 April, 1876; was by trade a Tailor; served in South Africa, 1900, with the City Imperial Volunteers and was invalided, home; after the outbreak of the European War enlisted 2 Nov. 1914; went to the Dardanelles with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, 9 Aug. 1915. He _m._ at St. Mary’s, Guildford, 10 Feb. 1902, Grace Eleanor (38, King John Terrace, Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne), dau. of the late George Hewett, of Guildford; _s.p._

=TRIMMER, WILLIAM DOUGLAS MACLEAN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Hampshire Regt., only child of Edward Douglas Trimmer, of Oakrigg, Walton-on-Thames, Solicitor, and his wife, Mary Kate, dau. of John Lauchlan Maclean, late of Haremere Hall, co. Sussex; _b._ Surbiton, co. Surrey, 29 Dec. 1891; educ. Aldenham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Hampshires, 20 Sept. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 18 March, 1914; left for France, 22 Aug. 1914, in the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division, served through the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed in action with his whole platoon, in an advanced and isolated trench at Ploegsteert Wood, during the First Battle of Ypres, 30 Oct. following. Buried in Ploegsteert Churchyard; _unm._ Lieut. J. F. Gwynne, Medical Officer to the Hampshires, wrote: “He died like a hero--he _was_ a hero, and the way he and his men fought to the last is one of the finest acts I have heard of in the whole war. He was found in his trench, wounded fatally in the head, grasping unexpended cartridges in his hand--game to the last. He must have died immediately on receiving the fatal shot.” Capt. Clive Garsia, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “The simplest truth about him, uninfluenced by the natural wish to speak well of the dead, is that he was one of the very best subalterns I ever knew. From the day he joined he devoted himself whole-heartedly to work and to play, and exhibited pluck and endurance I have never seen excelled. His success as a cross-country runner was due solely to grit, because he was not the cut of a runner, but he had the heart to stay the pace however hot they made it. As a loyal subordinate who played up to me whole-heartedly on every occasion I should like to pay his memory humble tribute of acknowledgment. I knew when the war broke out that he would do well, and I have frequently asked men coming down wounded for news about the regt. and different officers. The first news I heard was about the retreat from Mons, when a sergt. told me that Mr. Trimmer and the General were the only two that wouldn’t lie down. Several told me that ‘the blokes said they’d follow him anywhere’”; and in a subsequent letter he added “the specially heroic circumstances attending the last stand of Douglas and his platoon are fully appreciated. I am now on the Divisional staff and have frequently heard the Chief Staff Officer say how well my regt. has done all through, instancing the way Douglas’ platoon stuck it to the last man.” And Capt. Douglas Johnston, 1st Hampshires, wrote: “On the Aisne he [Lieut. Trimmer] did his work perfectly, and I myself was particularly struck with the quiet courage he showed when on really dangerous patrol work. He was far from well there, but got better before we moved. When poor Major Connellan was struck, your boy dashed out and brought him into cover, and the next day, the 21 Oct., he told me about it. It is unnecessary for me to add that he was extraordinarily popular with his men.” Mr. Connellan in a letter to Mr. Trimmer said: “I have heard from Capt. Thurn and I will tell you all that he told me about your son, but I am afraid it is very little. He says, about 28 Oct. he was holding an advanced trench with his platoon in front of Ploegsteert Wood; he was very heavily shelled and attacked by infantry all day, losing most of his platoon. He sent back for reinforcements but apparently there were none to be had, anyhow none were sent. He held his men together and stuck to his trench all day, being finally killed by a shell towards the evening. The remains of his platoon, nine men out of about 40, stuck on and were finally all killed by German infantry, except, I believe, one man who is now wounded and prisoner. The only survivor of his platoon, the messenger he sent back, was killed about two months after. Young Trimmer certainly held his trench very gallantly and I know his name was sent on from the battn.” He was a good all-round athlete. When at Aldenham he won the School Mile and Half Mile, in 1910, creating school records in both instances. He was also a good cross-country runner, coming in fourth at the R.M.C. in 1911, and he ran in the 1st Hampshire Regimental Teams in 1912, 1913 and 1914, which won the Aldershot Command (twice) and the Eastern Command, Cross Country Runs. In other sports he was a useful Rugby Football and Hockey player, a plucky swimmer and a good horseman.

=TRINEMAN, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Staff Sergt., No. 62, 18th Battn. 5th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late William Trineman, Gardener; _b._ Exeter, 28 March, 1882; educ. Seaton Council School; joined the 27th Devonshire Yeomanry, and served with them through the South African War, 1899–1902 (Queen’s medal with five clasps); afterwards went to Australia; joined the Australian Imperial Force on the outbreak of war; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 21–25 Aug. 1915. He had, just previous to his death, given a cooking demonstration at Victoria Barracks, on one of the Travelling Kitchens to be used by the troops, and was then presented with a gold wristlet watch. For many years he was golf professional and groundsman at the Axe Cliff Golf Links. He _m._ at Seaton, Devon, 28 Jan. 1903, Amelia (Southfield, New Road, Water Orton, near Birmingham), dau. of John Harley Boddy, and had a dau.: Nora Amelia, _b._ 13 March, 1904.

=TRITTON, ROBERT EDMUND=, Leading Seaman, 227159, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=TROTMAN, SYDNEY=, Private, No. 3155, 2/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late George Hayman Trotman, of Brooklands Lodge, Cambridge, by his wife, Agnes (35, Norwich Street, Cambridge), dau. of Edward Godfrey; _b._ Cambridge, 18 April, 1886; educ. St. Paul’s School, Cambridge; was a Clerk; joined 2/3rd Royal Fusiliers, 8 Dec. 1914; left for Egypt, in April, and died of heatstroke at Khartoum, 3 June, 1915; _unm._ Buried at Khartoum. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was buried with all military honours and the Sirdar (Sir Reginald Wingate) has written asking me to express his sympathy to his relatives and the men of his company”; and another officer: “Your son was a good man and soldier, and will be deeply missed by officers and men alike.”

=TROTT, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21850, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.

=TROTTER, ALEXANDER NIGEL=, Lieut. 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), only _s._ of Alexander Pelham Trotter, of 181, Ashley Gardens, London, S.W., Electrical Adviser to the Board of Trade, by his wife, Alys Fane, dau. of Maurice Keatinge, and a nephew of Lieut.-Col. Sir Henry Trotter, K.C.M.G., C.B.; _b._ Cottesmore Gardens, London, W., 17 Sept. 1894; educ. Packwood Haugh, and Clifton College, where he was a member of the O.T.C., shot in the Bisley VIII, and was one of the best boxers in the school; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 3rd Royal Scots, 21 Dec. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 9 July, 1914; acted as Transport Officer for the 3rd Battn. on the outbreak of war; left for France in charge of a draft of 100 men for the 2nd Battn., 30 Aug. 1914; the Royal Scots left the trenches at the Aisne about 26 Sept. and arrived in position near Bethune 11 Oct., and Lieut. Trotter was killed in action at La Fosse, near Vieille Chapelle, 12 Oct. 1914, while engaged in attacking a wood strongly held by the enemy. The ground over which the British had to advance was intersected by small irrigation canals crossed by plank bridges, on which the officers and men offered a good target. Lieut. Trotter is believed to have been first hit while crossing one of these bridges, and after advancing three-quarters of a mile fell with two more wounds. He was buried on the farm of Zelobes, near La Fosse, north of Bethune; _unm._ His Coy. Commander, Capt. (now Major) F. C. Tanner, D.S.O., wrote: “Everyone is unanimous that Nigel died like a hero, and knowing him I could not suppose it otherwise. I saw him under fire at the beginning of the action”; and a man in his company: “I can assure you all the men were sorry to lose him, for he seemed to have no fear and was a good leader of men.” On the cross put up on his grave by the mobile column of the Red Cross, some of his comrades wrote: “A very gallant gentleman.”

=TROTTER, JAMES KEITH=, Lieut. 1st Battn. Gordon Highlanders, only _s._ of Major-General Sir James Keith Trotter, of Aislaby Lodge, Sleights, co. York, K.C.B., C.M.G., by his wife, Alice, yst. dau. of Francis James Crow, of Haughton-le-Skerne, co. Durham; _b._ Malta, 19 Dec. 1888; educ. Wellington College (where he was prefect, 1906, and head of the Rifle Corps), and the Royal Military College Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Gordon Highlanders, 23 Jan. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1910; was A.D.C. to his father, Major-General Sir J. K. Trotter, Commanding Southern Coast Defences, from 3 Nov. 1910, to 23 July, 1911; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Audencourt, near Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1915, being shot in the head while watching the fire of his machine-guns through field-glasses; _unm._ He was buried at Audencourt. Lieut. Trotter was the winner of 100 and 200 yards races at Wellington College, and was second in quarter of a mile race at Army Championship Meeting, Aldershot, 1909.