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Helsdon, Harold Leofric, eldest son of Horace John Helsdon, F.R.I.B.A., of Regent's Park, by Flora, eldest daughter of W. Franklin Dickson, of Hendon, Middlesex; b. Nov. 18, 1896; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 22, 1910 (A); left Easter 1915; entered the Inns of Court O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) Dorsetshire Regt. July 28, 1915; was attached to 1/7th Batt. Royal Warwickshire Regt., and went out to the western front in June 1916; acted first as bombing officer, and afterwards as intelligence officer; killed in night patrol work near Butte de Warlencourt Nov. 25-6, 1916; unm.

Hepburn, George, brother of Jonathan King Hepburn (q.v.); b. March 3, 1888; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (R); left July 1905; readm. Jan. 1906; left July 1906; passed into the Technical Coll., South Kensington, 1906; took B.Sc., and won a nomination to the R.E. at Chatham for one year 1909; obtained an appointment at Rosyth 1910; entered the Indian Public Works Dept. as asst. engineer 1911; returned to England May 1916; 2nd Lieut. R.E. July 1916; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1918; went out to the western front Feb. 1917, and served with the 98th Field Co.; killed in action at Driencourt, near Peronne, France, March 22, 1918; umm.

Hicks, Eric Raymond, second son of Charles Oliver Hicks, of Ealing, by Ellen Louisa, daughter of William Hedges, of Ealing; b. March 3, 1897; adm. May 4, 1911 (A); left July 1914; joined the Inns of Court O. T. C. Aug. 1, 1915; 2nd Lieut. R. F. A. Nov. 26, 1915; Lieut.; served on the western front July to Nov. 1916, at Salonika Nov. 1916 - May 1917, and sub­ sequently in Palestine, where he acted as Intelligence Officer on Headquarters Staff and as A.D.C. to Generals Drake and Robinson; M.C. Jan. 1, 1917; d. of pneumonia at 17th Military Hospital, Alexandria, Dec. 25, 1918; unm.

Hobson, Geoffrey Hamilton, brother of Eric Hamilton Hobson (q.v.); b. Sept. 1898; adm. Sept. 28, 1911 (A); left Dec. 1913; entered Melle Coll., near Ghent, where he remained until the outbreak of Great War I; enlisted in the 28th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Artists' Rifles) Jan. 11, 1915, and went out to the western front in Aug. 1915; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. the Hampshire Regt. Nov. 6, 1916; d. April 14, 1917, of wounds received in action at Arras April 9, 1917; umm.

Hodgson, George William Houghton, eldest son of the Rev. William George Courtenay Hodgson, Rector of Distington, Cumberland, by Catharine Mary, only daughter of William Harrison, of Penrith, barrister-at-law; b. Oct. 21, 1888; adm. Jan. 15, 1903 (G); left July 1907; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1912; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. the Border Regt. Sept. 19, 1911; Lieut. Oct. 17, 1914; mentioned in Sir John French's despatch of Jan. 14, 1915; d. in the Military Hospital, Boulogne, Nov. 6, 1914, from wounds received in action Nov. 2, 1914; unm.

Hook, Valentine, fourth son of Bryan Hook, of Churt, Farnham, Surrey, by Catherine Moseley, daughter of John Dewrance, of Tilford, in the same co.; b. May 22, 1895; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left July 1913; went to Cirencester Agricultural Coll. with a view to farming in British East Africa; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.) Nov. 2, 1914; went out to the western front in the summer of 1915; Lieut. Sept. 17, 1915; wounded at Montauban in July 1916; Capt. Nov. 1916; mentioned in despatches; killed in action at Cherisy, near Arras, May 3, 1917; unm.

Hubback, Francis William, second son of John Henry Hubback, of Rock Ferry, Cheshire, by Mary Page, daughter of the Rev. George Ingram, of Chedburgh, Suffolk; b. April 19, 1884; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 30, 1897; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Triplett) July 1903, having previously obtained a minor scholarship there while at school; major scholar 1905; Lees Knowles Exhibitioner 1906; 1st class (div. 2) Classical Tripos, pt. I, 1905; 1st class Historical Tripos, pt. II, 1907; B.A. 1907; asst. lecturer in Classics at Cardiff and Liverpool Universities, and lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association at Manchester Univ.; a junior examiner, Elementary Education Branch, Board of Education, 1912; 2nd Lieut. 6th (City of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Rifles) July 7, 1915; went out to the western front; m. Aug. 31, 1911, Eva Marian, daughter of Meyer Adam Spielman, of Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London; d. at the 43rd Casualty Clearing Station, France, Feb. 12, 1917, of wounds received in action Feb. 4, 1917.

Hughes, Eric James Walrond, only son of the Rev. James Hughes, LL. D., Vicar of St. John with St. Paul, Battersea, Surrey, by Ethelhina Walrond, daughter of Francis Walrond Middleton Abadam, of Middleton Hall, co. Carmarthen; b. Feb. 25, 1892; adm. Jan. 15, 1903 (R); left July 1907; a clerk in the office of the Asiatic Petroleum Co.; was sent to Hankow, China, in 1912, but returned home in 1915 to enlist; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. the Sherwood Foresters April 20, 1915; went out to western front in Feb. 1916; acting Capt. July 1917, commanding the 154th Machine Gun Co.; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1918; killed in action at Poelcapelle Sept. 20, 1917; unm.