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First World War (1914-1918)

Dunlop, James Wilkie, 1890-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-06497
  • Person
  • 1890-1917

Dunlop, James Wilkie, eldest son of DavidJugurtha Dunlop, of Beckenham, Kent, a Rangoon merchant, by Laura Frances, daughter of John Beddard, of Dudley, Worcs; b. Jan. 18, 1890; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (H); left Dec. 1906; went out to Argentina in Oct. 1912, where he was in the service of the Buenos Ayres Western Railway; returned home, and rejoined the London Scottish, which then formed the 14th (Co. of London) Batt. of the London Regt., Sept. 9, 1914; went out to the western front Sept. 13, 1914; was wounded at Messines Oct. 31 following and invalided. home; 2nd Lieut. 11th (Reserve) Batt. the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) June 3, 1915; was attached to 5th (Service) Batt. (Pioneers) the Royal Irish Regt. in Oct., and went out to Salonika Nov. 5, 1915; invalided home Dec. 3, 1916, and had to resign his commission on account of his health in the following month; d. from the effects of his wound March 5, 1917; unm.

East, Allred Tomlin, 1877-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-06592
  • Person
  • 1877-1915

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.

Edwardes, Thomas, 1897-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-06657
  • Person
  • 1897-1918

Edwardes, Thomas, son of the Rev. George Edwardes, Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, by Ethel Mary, daughter of Frederic Lassetter, of Sydney, Australia; b. Feb. 17, 1897; adm. April 26, 1912 (H); left July 1915; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. York and Lancaster Regt. Aug. 4, 1915; Lieut. July 1917; went out to the western front in Jan. 1917; killed in action at Steenwerke, near Ypres, April 12, 1918; unm.

Edwards, Colin Hyde, 1897-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-06664
  • Person
  • 1897-1917

Edwards, Colin Hyde, youngest son of Frederick William Hyde Edwards, of Westminster, by Julia Annie, daughter of James Arthur Humphrey, of Addlestone, Surrey; b. Jan. 25, 1897; adm. April 29, 1909 (A); left Easter 1911, and went to Bradfield Coll.; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. East Surrey Regt. May 12, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915; reported missing May 8, 1917; d. May 22, 1917, a prisoner of war in the War Hospital of Shelotille, Douai, of wounds received near Fresnoy; unm.

Estall, Arthur Cecil, 1890-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-06848
  • Person
  • 1890-1917

Estall, Arthur Cecil, only son of Thomas Estall, of Kensington, by Emily, daughter of George Tilly, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey; b. Oct. 3, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (H); left July 1902; readm. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; became a clerk in the Bank of England and subsequently went into the bill broking business; joined the H. A. C. in 1909, and was promoted Corporal 1914; went out to the western front in Sept. 1914 and was invalided home in Jan. 1915; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. March 22, 1915; Lieut. Sept. 16, 1915; Capt. May 2, 1916; returned to the front Sept. 18, 1916; d. Aug. 8, 1917, at the 7th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received in action, north of Ypres, Aug. 6, 1917; in 1935 his mother gave £1000 to the War Memorial Fund, the interest to be used in assisting in the education of boys at the school; unm.

Faire, Eric Leslie, 1893-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-06932
  • Person
  • 1893-1916

Faire, Eric Leslie, brother of Washington Morley Faire (q.v.); b. Sept. 30, 1893; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (G); left Easter 1909; went to Lausanne, Switzerland, for the purpose of studying languages; enlisted in 25th (Co. of London) Cyclist Batt. the London Regt. at the outbreak of World War I; went out to the western front inJuly 1916; acted as Interpreter for his own Batt. for a short time, but was afterwards transferred to the 9th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Queen Victoria's Rifles); killed in action at Maurel Oct. 8, 1916; unm.

Faulkner, Eric William Scarlett, 1898-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-06989
  • Person
  • 1898-1918

Faulkner, Eric William Scarlett, elder son of William Bowler Faulkner, of New Malden, by Louisa, daughter of James Scarlett, of Hanworth Park, Middlesex; b. Oct. 15, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); non-resident K.S. 1913; joint Mure Scholar 1915; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1916; enlisted in the 5th (City of London) Batt. London Regt. (London Rifle Brigade) Oct. 20, 1916; went out to the western front Nov. 7, 1917, where he joined the 2nd Batt., and early in 1918 was transferred to the 28th Batt. (Artists' Rifles); d. July 26, 1918, at the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital at Dovelleris of wounds received in action at Aveling Wood, Englebelmer, near Albert, July 24, 1918; unm.

Featherstone, Reginald Benjamin, 1881-1914

  • GB-2014-WSA-07027
  • Person
  • 1881-1914

Featherstone, Reginald Benjamin, b. Nov. 28, 1881; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (A); left Dec. 1898; 2nd Lieut. Devonshire Regt. from the Militia Dec. 4, 1901; Lieut. Dec. 7, 1904; Adjutant (T. F.) Nov. 18, 1909 - Nov. 17, 1912; Capt. Devonshire Regt. Oct. 3, 1914; served in the S. African War 1902; killed in action Dec. 18, 1914.

Ferguson, John White, 1890-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-07066
  • Person
  • 1890-1915

Ferguson, John White, second son of John Ferguson, of Regent's Park, by Katherine Pickersgill; b. May 13, 1890; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; left July 1908; apprenticed to his father in the shipbuilding trade 1908; Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Clyde Div.) April 2, 1913; served in the Antwerp Expedition Oct. 1914; D. C. M. 1915; attached to the Hood Batt. R. N. R. in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force March 1915; killed in action near Krithia, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, June 7, 1915; unm.

Fisher, Charles Dennis, 1877-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-07145
  • Person
  • 1877-1916

Fisher, Charles Dennis, sixth son of Herbert William Fisher, of Hove, Sussex, sometime Vice-Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, by Mary Louisa, second daughter of John Jackson, M. D., of Brighton, Sussex; nephew of Cecil Edward Fisher (q.v.); b. Aug. 4, 1877; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 15, 1891; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1896, matric. October 1896; Slade Exhibitioner 1897; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1908; 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1900; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1903; lecturer and tutor at Ch. Ch. 1901; official student 1903; censor 1907-14; played cricket for Oxford against Cambridge 1900, and for Sussex 1901; a Governor of the School from 1908; also a member of the Governing Body of Christ's Hospital School; being disabled from joining the army, Fisher, on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, learned to drive a motor, and enlisted in the R.A.M.C. Ambulance Corps; served in Flanders for a year and was mentioned in despatches for his bravery under fire; obtained a commission as Lieut. in the R. N. V. R. Aug. 16, 1915, and was appointed to H. M. S. Invincible; edited the text of Tacitus in the Oxford series of Scriptores Classici, and was engaged in writing a commentary of the Histories of Tacitus; drowned on board H. M. S. Invincible when it went down in the battle of Horn Reef, off Jutland, May 31, 1916; The Chivalry of the Sea was dedicated to his memory by the Poet Laureate; unm.

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