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First World War (1914-1918)

Gascoyne-Cecil, John Arthur, 1893-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-07684
  • Person
  • 1893-1918

Gascoyne-Cecil, John Arthur, brother of Randle William Gascoyne-Cecil (q.v.); b. March 28, 1893; adm. May 4, 1905 (A); left July 1912; entered Vickers' works; 2nd Lieut. 5th Kent (Howitzer) Battery R. F. A., 4th Home Counties Brigade, July 27, 1913; Lieut. Oct. 17, 1914; went out to the western front with his brigade, which was converted into a Divisional Ammunition Column in Dec. 1914; attached to a Regular Battery of the R. F. A. and given a section; Adjutant Oct. 31, 1915; joined the Salonika Expeditionary Force Jan. 1916; Capt. May 1917; Brigade Major; returned to the western front Aug. 10, 1918; mentioned in des­ patches; M.C. Jan. 1, 1918; killed in action Aug. 27, 1918; unm.

Gascoyne-Cecil, Randle William, 1889-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-07685
  • Person
  • 1889-1915

Gascoyne-Cecil, Randle William, son of the Right Rev. Lord Rupert William Ernest Gascoyne­Cecil, Bishop of Exeter, by Lady Florence Mary Bootle-Wilbraham, daughter of Edward, 1st Earl of Lathom; b. Nov. 28, 1889; adm. Jan. 15, 1903 (A); left Dec. 1905; Univ. Coll. Oxon., rnatric. Michaelmas 1908; successively a secretary, a journalist, and an actor; emigrated to Vancouver; enlisted in the Mountain Rangers, and arrived in this country with the second Canadian contingent in Feb. 1915; went out to the western front with the Scottish Canadians in April; 2nd Lieut. Warwickshire R. H. A. June 13, and returned to England on obtaining his commission; went out again to the western front in Feb. 1916; Lieut. July 17, 1917; attached to a Trench Mortar Battery; was thrice slightly wounded in July and Sept. 1916, and in July 1917; m. 1916 Elizabeth Claire Turner, of Birmingham; killed in action at Masnieres Dec. 1, 1917.

Gascoyne-Cecil, Rupert Edward, 1895-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-07686
  • Person
  • 1895-1915

Gascoyne-Cecil, Rupert Edward, brother of Randle William Gascoyne-Cecil (q.v.); b. Jan. 20, 1895; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (A); left July 1913; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1913; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. (Extra Reserve) Beds Regt. Aug. 15, 1914; was attached to 1st Batt. and went out to the western front May 11, 1915; wounded May 28; Lieut.; killed in action near Ypres July 11, 1915; unm.

Gates, Eric Chasemore, 1890-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-07706
  • Person
  • 1890-1915

Gates, Eric Chasemore, elder son of Percy George Gates, M. P., of Kensington, solicitor, by Mabel Anna Jane, daughter of the Rev. George David William Dickson, Vicar of King's Somborne, Hants; b. July 20, 1890; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (R); left Easter 1908; adm. a solicitor 1913; Lieut. 13th (Co. of London) Princess Louise's Kensington Batt. the London Regt. Sept. 1914, Capt. Feb. 1915; went out to the western front Dec. 1914; killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, France, March 12, 1915; unm.

Geare, William Duncan, 1890-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-07728
  • Person
  • 1890-1917

Geare, William Duncan, brother of Henry Leslie Geare (q.v.); b. Nov. 28, 1890; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (H); left July 1909; Queens' Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1912; M.A. 1916; Leeds Clergy School 1913, ord. 1913; Curate of St. Margaret, Ilkley, Yorks, 1913; temp. Chaplain to the Forces May 1, 1916; went out to the western front, being attached to the 7th and 9th Batts. of the King's (Liverpool) Regt., in Sept. 1916; killed while ministering to the wounded on the battlefield near Ypres July 31, 1917; unm.

Gee, Geoffrey Richard Dudley, 1896-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-07735
  • Person
  • 1896-1917

Gee, Geoffrey Richard Dudley, son of Raymond Gee, of Geraldton, Western Australia, resident magistrate, by Annie Alderson, of Summergangs, Pinjarrah, Western Australia; b. Sept. 17, 1896; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (A); exhibitioner 1910; K.S. 1911; Mure Scholar 1913; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1915; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. the Royal Sussex Regt. July 31, 1915; went out to the western front in Aug. 1916; was transferred to the R. F. C. in Jan. 1917 as observer; went up in his aeroplane near Ypres. June 4, 1917, and was never seen again; unm.

Gifford, John Daniel, 1872-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-07794
  • Person
  • 1872-1917

Gifford, John Daniel, third son of Robert Gifford, of Estancia, Biachuelo, Colonia, Uruguay, by Annie, eldest daughter of the Rev. Evan Eugene Hughes, Rector of Llanddeiniolen, Carnarvonshire; b. March 10, 1872; adm. April 1884 (A); left July 1890; returned home after fourteen years in Argentina; enlisted in the 25th (Service) Batt. the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) July 24, 1915; d. at Retford, Notts, while on active service July 8, 1917; unm.

Gilmour, Archibald Keltie, 1892-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-07826
  • Person
  • 1892-1916

Gilmour, Archibald Keltie, eldest son of Thomas Lennox Gilmour, of Hampstead, barrister­ at-law, by Elizabeth Hervey, daughter of John Scott Keltie, LL. D., secretary of the Royal Geographical Society; b. July 21, 1892; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (G); left July 1911; Balliol Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1911; adm. to the Middle Temple April 1913; enlisted in the London Scottish Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. the King's Own Scottish Borderers Sept. 19, 1914; Lieut. Feb. 1, 1915; went out to the western front in. June 1915; was wounded at Loos and invalided home; Capt. Sept. 27, 1915; returned to the front April 22, 1916; killed in the trenches between Fricourt and Bicourt, near Albert, Aug. 15, 1916; unm.

Gonne, Michael Edward, 1898-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-07931
  • Person
  • 1898-1918

Gonne, Michael Edward, younger son of Henry Gonne, of Ringwood, Rants, barrister-at-law, by Grace Staveley, daughter of Henry Marsden, of Bombay; b. Oct. 23, 1898; adm. Jan. 18, 1912 (H); left Easter 1914; R. M.C. Sandhurst May - Oct. 1916; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Oct. 27, 1916; was at once attached to the R. F. C. and in March 1917 went to Egypt and thence to France in June following; Acting Flight-Cdr. Jan. 9, 1918; M.C. Feb. 1, 1918; injured while testing a machine in Feb. 1918, and was invalided to England, where, on resuming duty, he acted as gunnery instructor; rejoined his old squadron on the western front Aug. 7, 1918, and on the following day volunteered for the flight from which he never returned; was last seen Aug. 8, 1918, at the height of 2000 feet over the Somme crossings at Brie, and is said to have died in the German Field Hospital at Villers-Carbonnel; unm.

Goodman, Gilbert Anthony, 1895-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-07975
  • Person
  • 1895-1918

Goodman, Gilbert Anthony, only son of Alfred William Goodman, of Belvedere, Kent, barrister-at-law, by Penelope Mary, daughter of Edwin Alfred Everett, of Erith, Kent; b. July 5, 1895; adm. April 29, 1909 (A); left July 1913; London Univ., matric. Sept. 1913; enlisted in the Universities and Public Schools Batt., but subsequently exchanged into the Inns of Court O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. 10th (Service) Batt. the Loyal North Lancs Regt. Dec. 24, 1914; went out to the western front May 11, 1916; was mistaken for another officer of the same name and reported by the War Office April 11, 1917, as killed; seriously wounded in the thigh while leading his men in an unsuccessful assault on Greenland Hill April 29, and was invalided home; joined the Air Force on his recovery in the autumn of 1917, and was gazetted to a permanent lieutenancy in the army July 12, 1918, with seniority from Sept. 1915; having received his wings as a pilot he was ordered to the Italian front Sept. 11, 1918; killed while fighting two Austrian machines over an aerodrome at Pianzana, North Italy, before the rest of his patrol could get to his assistance, Oct. 28, 1918; unm.

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