Bird, Eric Hinckes, brother of Ashley Hinckes Bird (q.v.); b. Sept. 27, 1894; adm. Jan. 17, 1907 (R); left July 1912; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 4, 1912; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Aug. 30, 1914; temp. Lieut. Feb. 11 - April 15, 1915; "Lieut. April 16, 1915; was invalided home after some six months on the western front; subsequently attached to the 25th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, and returned to France in June 1916; d. June 27, 1916, of wounds received in an air fight on the western front the previous day.

Day, Maurice, brother of Harold Benjamin Day (q.v.); b. Dec. 21, 1891; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (A); left July 1909; was articled to an architect, and was just out of his articles when Great War I began; enlisted in the 28th Batt. London Regt. (Artists' Rifles) and went out to the western front in the autumn of 1914; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire) Regt. March 20, 1915; killed in action in France May 9, 1915; unm.

East, Allred Tomlin, only son of Sir Alfred East, R. A., of Hampstead, President of the Royal Society of British Artists, by Annie, daughter of Henry Heath, of High Wycombe, Bucks; b. July 13, 1877; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left April 1895; became an engineer; A. M. I. C. E. Dec. 3, 1907; special assist. engineer to the Bombay Municipality Waterworks; enlisted in the Indian Marines at Bombay at the outbreak of Great War l; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army (Reserve of Officers) 1915; was attached 17th Co. 3rd Sappers and Miners in July 1915, and left Bombay with the Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia in the following month; d. Dec. 25, 1915, of wounds received in action at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, Dec. 18, 1915; unm.

Bristowe, Vivian Ernest John, brother of Leonard Syer Bristowe (q.v.); b. June 12, 1874; adm. Sept. 24, 1885 (H); left July 1892; became a stock jobber and went out to South Africa shortly before Great War I; enlisted in the South African Medical Corps in Nov. 1915, and joined the East African Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1916; d. while on active service at Rug, Rufigi River, East Africa, April 14, 1917; unm.

BRUCE, CHARLES THOMAS, eldest son of Hon. Thomas Charles Bruce MP, and Sarah Caroline, eldest dau. of Thomas Thornhill, Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk; grandson of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S) (qv); b. 21 Feb 1865; adm. (H) 15 Jun 1876; left Mar 1880; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1883; attached to Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople and Egypt, 1885-6; member, Royal Company of Archers, Scotland; went out to Flanders Sep 1915 as Commandant of a Belgian field hospital; m. 1st, 8 Jul 1897 Edith Mary, eldest dau. of Samuel Sandbach Parker, Aigburth, Lancs.; m. 2nd, 7 Jul 1914 Gwendolen Mary, eldest dau. of Robert Thomas Napier Speir DL, Burnbrae and Culdees, Perthshire; d. in London 23 Oct 1915, from enteric fever contracted in Flanders.

Buckman, James Leslie, only son of James Buckman, of East Dulwich, Surrey, Borough Treasurer of Bermondsey, by Mary Jane, daughter of James Neighbour, of London; b. Nov. 11, 1892; adm. May 2, 1907 (A); left Dec. 1910; Wadham Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1911; adm. to the Middle Temple April 5, 1911; 2nd Lieut. 8th (Service) Batt. Gloucs, Regt. Nov. 14, 1914; Lieut. Feb. 13, 1915, 12th (Service) Batt. (Bermondsey) East Surrey Regt. June 29, 1915; Capt. Oct. 9, 1915; went out to the western front May 1, 1916; killed in action at Fiers, France, Sept. 15, 1916; unm.

Garvin, Roland Gerard, only son of James Louis Garvin, of Kilburn, editor of the Observer, by Christina, daughter of Robert Wilson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; b. Oct. 12, 1895; adm. April 30, 1908 (H); won the Public Schools Foils Championship at Aldershot 1913; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1914; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancs Regt.) Sept. 19, 1914; Lieut. July 3, 1915; went out to the western front July 15, 1915; Capt. July 15, 1916; killed in action near Bazentin le Petit July 22, 1916; unm.