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Bagguley J L Lt 13th Durham Light Infantry

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BAGGULEY, JAMES LIONEL, Lieut., 13th (Service) Battn. The Durham Light Infantry, elder s. of George Thomas Bagguley, of Newcastle, co. Stafford, by his wife, Edith, dau. of James Rogers; b. 4 Oct. 1903; educ. the High School, Newcastle-under-Lyme; was in his father’s business, which, as a Bookseller, has a history of over 250 years; joined the 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regt.) on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Durham Light Infantry, Feb. 1915, and Lieut. Dec. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Nov. 1915, and was temporarily attached to a Pioneer Battn.; after a few months’ service on the Flanders front, he rejoined his own battalion, and later was attached to the Trench Mortar Battery; took part in the operations on the Somme from the beginning of July to early in Oct. 1915, going through much heavy fighting, including Fricourt, Contalmaison, Pozières, Martinpuich and Le Sars; in Oct. he was sent as an Instructor on the light trench-mortar gun to one of the Army schools in France for a period, after which he rejoined his battery. His last action was Messines Ridge. In June, 1917, he sat for a Division Examination for Instructorship, and, coming out first, was appointed Instructor at the 10th Corps School; came home on leave in Oct., when he returned for the winter course, and was accidentally killed 6 Dec. 1917, by the premature explosion of a trench-mortar shell. Buried in Westoutre Cemetery, near Ypres. He was twice recommended for the Military Cross. While at school he had a brilliant career; won a Governor’s Scholarship, 1907; Mayer Exhibition, 1908; C.C. Scholarship, Minor C., 1905, and Intermediate, 1909. In Oxford Seniors, 1911, he passed in Class 1 with several distinctions, being placed second in England in higher mathematics, twelfth in physics, and forty-first in mathematics. He was a Præpostor, and in the first Fives couple, Hockey X., Rugby XV., and Cricket XI. He played in the Cricket XI. from 1908, and was captain in 1910 and 1911. As a batsman, he made the record for aggregate of runs while in the eleven, being the only one to make over 1,000 runs, which record was marked by a presentation from O.N. cricketers. He was Corpl. in the School O.T.C.; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Percival A J-B Major DSO Northumberland Fusiliers

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Percival A J-B Major DSO Northumberland Fusiliers

MAJOR (TEMPORARY LIEUT.-COL.) A. J.-B. PERCIVAL, D.S.O.

THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS

ARTHUR JEX-BLAKE PERCIVAL, D.S.O., was the youngest surviving son of the Right Reverend John Percival, D.D., Bishop of Hereford.

He entered Marlborough College in 1885, but came on to Rugby in 1887, when his father was appointed Headmaster of the School. He was in the XV in 1889. He was gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1892, and promoted Lieutenant in 1894. He served in the Nile Expedition of 1898, taking part in the Battle of Khartum and receiving the Egyptian Medal with Clasp.

In the South African War, 1899-1902, he was in the actions of Belmont and Modder River, and was afterwards on the Staff, being three times men-tioned in Despatches, and receiving the D.S.O., 1900, and the two Medals with six Clasps. He was promoted Captain in 1900. He saw active service in the Egyptian Army under Lord Kitchener from 1903 to 1908, was in command of the Camel Corps, and served in operations against the Nyam-Nyam tribes, and in southern Kordofan, adding two Clasps to the Egyptian Medal and receiving the 4th Class of the Medjidich.

He was promoted Major in 1908, and later was employed on the Staff at the War Office and at the Staff College.

He went to the Front at the beginning of the War, as General Staff Officer to Major-General Munro, Commander of the 2nd Division of the First Army Corps, and during the first eleven weeks of the War was twice mentioned in Despatches, and was one of the first English officers to receive the Cross of the Legion of Honour (Croix d’Officier). A week before his death it was decided that he was to be given a Brigade immediately. He was told of this, but did not live long enough to be gazetted.

He was killed by shell, with four other officers of the Staff of the First and Second Divisions, who had met for a conference in the Château of La Hooge. General Lomax (O.R.), who was present at this conference, was wounded, and subsequently died of his wounds. He fell on October 31st, 1914, in his 44th year.

Officers of all ranks testified to the gallantry of this eminent soldier, and the loss which his death caused to the Nation and the Army.

Field-Marshal Lord Methuen, G.c.n., G.C.V.O., C.M.G., wrote:-

“I had no officer serving under me in the South African War whose service as a Regimental Officer I valued more highly. He was a born leader of men, of splendid courage, and possessing a character which inspired all with whom he came in contact.”

General Gorringe, cCB., C.M.G., D.S.O., said:-

“He was the best Staff Officer I have ever had. I don’t say this only now. I have said so for some time, and had he been given, as he deserved, a Command during the War, he would have won still higher honours.”

A brother Officer wrote:-

“He and I were in the Egyptian Army together, and I learnt out there to admire his wonderful energy and great strength of character. I shall never forget the day he rode quietly into Wau, in the Bahr el Ghazal, on the date he said he would arrive, after the most extraordinary journey, in which his great qualities had had full play. His Arabs simply worshipped him. By his death we have lost one of the best officers in the Army, and at a time when men of his type are priceless.”

Others spoke in these terms:

“A very gallant soldier, loyal, straight, and the best of friends, with never an unkind word.”

“He was one of the few men I have ever met who apparently did not know fear.”

“The whole Army knew his splendid qualities. I always used to talk of him as the bravest man I have ever known. He simply knew no fear.”

He married, in 1907, Cecil, daughter of Charles Henry Henland, but left no children.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

 

Percival A J B Lt Col DSO Northumberland Fusiliers

Source : The Illustrated London News 21st Nov 1914

Peace H K Lt 3rd York And Lancs Regiment

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Peace H K Lt 3rd York And Lancs Regiment

LIEUTENANT H. K. PEACE

3RD BATTALION THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT

HUBERT KIRKDY PLACE was the youngest son of Hugh Kirkby Peace, head of the firm of W. K. and C. Peace, Steel and File Manufacturers, Sheffield.

He entered the School in 1896, and left in 1899. After leaving Rugby he entered his father’s office, and when the latter died, in December, 1906, he became Managing Director of the firm. It had always been his ambition to join the Army, and he took a great interest in the Volunteers, serving for ten years in the 4th (Hallamshire) Battalion. of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He retired from the Territorial Force a year before the outbreak of War.

In August, 1914, he received a Commission as Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment (Reserve of Officers), and on October 3rd he was sent to the Front attached to the 1st Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment.

Ilis first action was in the attack on the village of Herlies, which ended in the complete rout of the enemy at the point of the bayonet. On October 15th our line moved forward towards the village of Aubers.

Lieut. Peace was in command of a platoon in the first line of trenches, where they were under a withering fire from machine guns and rifles, and seeing that it was imperative that the supports should be hurried up he volunteered to go back himself for this purpose. He succeeded in his object, but on his return to the firing line he was shot in the neck by a sniper from a farmhouse on the flank. He never regained consciousness and died the next morning, October 16th, 1914, on his 33rd birthday.

Both his brother Officers and his men agreed in stating that Lieut. Peace’s action in fetching up supports not only saved the platoon from being wiped out, but also turned the tide of battle in their favour, and aided in ultimately driving the Germans from their position.

Lieut. Peace married, in August, 1906, Grace Mary, daughter of C. H. Weller, of St. Leonards, and left one son, five years old.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

PEACE, HUBERT KIRKBY, Lieut., 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., 3rd s. of the late Hugh Kirkby Kirkby Peace, of Springfield House, Sheffield, Steel Manufacturer, by his wife, Emmeline (Sandygate, Sheffield), dau. of James Fawcett; b. Sheffield, 16 Oct. 1881; educ. Rugby; became Managing Director of his father’s firm, W. K. & C. Peace, File Manu-facturers, Feb. 1906; joined the 1st Volunteer Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. (Doncaster Militia), afterwards the 4th (Hallamshire) Battn., and served 10 years retiring in May, 1913, but, after the outbreak of war, was given a commission in 3rd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt. as Lieut., 4 Sept. 1914, and went to France attd. to the 1st Lincolnshire Regt., on 3 Oct. 1914; and died in hospital at Aubers, on the morning of 17 Oct., of wounds received in action near Lille, the previous day. Buried there. He had gone to the rear to hurry up supports, and he succeeded in getting them, but as he was returning he was wounded in the neck by a shot fired from a farm which it was supposed had been cleared by the French. A wounded soldier in Leeds Base Hospital, belonging to the Coldstream Guards said: “He died fighting to the last in trying to save his platoon from being cut to pieces, and many will never be able to give full praise and admiration for so gallant a deed.” He m. at St. Leonards-on-Sea, 2 Aug. 1906, Grace Mary (Thurgoland, Sheffield), dau. of Charles Weller, and had a son, George Hugh Kirkby, b. 15 Dec. 1909.

Source : De Ruvigmy’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Ozanne E G Captain 3rd Royal Fusiliers

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Ozanne E G Captain 3rd Royal Fusiliers

CAPTAIN E, G, OZANNE

3RD BATTALION THE ROYAL FUSILIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT)

EDWARD GRAEME OZANNE was the only son of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, Attorney-General of Guernsey, and of Frances Hind his wife, of Le Platon, Guernsey.

He entered the School in 1896, and passed on to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1900. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1904, and Captain in 1912. He served with the Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1902, and was present at the operations in the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, and received the Queen’s Medal with four Clasps.

He was killed in the trenches, near Ypres, by a shot which came right through the parapet, on February 14th, 1915. Age 32.

The Lieut.-Colonel Commanding the Battalion wrote:-

“In the few weeks we have been out here we realised how splendid he was as a soldier. It was touching to see the confidence the Subalterns and men had in him. He was splendidly brave and calm under trying circumstances. We took over very bad trenches, regular death-traps, and our loss has been heavy in proportion, and the test of the steadiness of the men has been a very severe one. But ‘Sam’s’ Company’ stood it absolutely, entirely owing to his example, and the men would have stood anything if he were there.  Everyone has lost a friend, and the Battalion has lost a fine soldier.”

He married Aline Hume, daughter of Lieut-Gen. J. G. Cloete, Indian Army.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

OZANNE, EDWARD GRAEME, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, of Le Platon, Guernsey, Bailiff of Guernsey, by his wife, Frances; b. Guernsey, 5 April, 1883; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 23 April, 1912; served in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, and in those of the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, Feb.-31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 18 Jan. to 14 Feb. 1915; and was killed in action in trenches at Ypres on the latter date. Buried in the Ramparts there. He m. at Bombay, India, 17 Oct. 1913, Aline (52, Lower Sloane Street, S.W.), dau. of the late Lieut.-General Josias Gordon Cloete, Indian Army; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Orr R C Captain Somerset Light Infantry

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Orr R C Captain Somerset Light Infantry

CAPTAIN R. C. ORR

3RD BATTALION PRINCE ALBERT’S (SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY)

ROBERT CLIFFORD ORR was the second son of Robert Harrison Orr, of Belfast, Solicitor, and of Cassandra Marchaise his wife.

He entered the School in 1895, and left in 1897. He was admitted a Solicitor in 1903, and practised in Belfast and Ballymena. In 1910 he was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve) of the Somerset Light Infantry, and was promoted Captain in October, 1914.

He was attached to the 1st Battalion in October, and was killed while leading his men in an attack on the German trenches outside Ploegsteert Wood, in Flanders, on December 19th, 1914. Age 34

The Adjutant of the Regiment wrote:- “There is no doubt that he must have very gallantly led his men practically into the German trenches, but we could not establish ourselves there, although we were able to advance our lines some distance as the result of the attack.”

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

Norwood J Captain VC 5th Dragoon Guards

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Norwood J Captain VC 5th Dragoon Guards

CAPTAIN J. NORWOOD

5TH (PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES’S) DRAGOON GUARDS

JOHN NORWOOD was the only son of John and Lucy Norwood, of Pembury Lodge, New Beckenham, Kent.

He entered the School in 1891, and was in the Shooting VIII which won the Ashburton Shield at Bisley in 1894. In the same year he went up to Exeter College, Oxford.

He received his Commission as a University Candidate in the 5th Dragoon Guards in 1899. He went to India in the same year, and to South Africa on the outbreak of the Boer War. He was present at the Battle of Elandslaagte (October 21st, 1899), and on the eve of the Battle of Lombard’s Kop (October 31st), in which he took part, performed the act for which he was subsequently given the Victoria Cross. He served through the Siege of Ladysmith, during which he was attacked by enteric fever. After a short interval at home he returned to South Africa, and remained in active service until the end of the War. For his services he received the Queen’s Medal with Four Clasps and the King’s with Two.

The Official record of the services for which he received the Victoria Cross was as follows:-

Sec. Lieut. John Norwood, 5th Dragoon Guards.

“On the 30th October, 1899, he went out from Ladysmith in charge of a small patrol of the 5th Dragoon Guards. They came under a heavy fire from the enemy, who were posted on a ridge in great force. The patrol, which had arrived within 600 yards of the ridge, then retired at full speed. One man dropped, and Second Lieutenant Norwood galloped back about 300 yards through heavy fire, dismounted, and picking up the fallen trooper carried him out of fire on his back, at the same time leading his horse with one hand. The enemy kept up an incessant fire during the whole time that Second Lieutenant Norwood was carrying the man until he was quite out of range.”

Between 1902 and 1909 he served in India, England, South Africa, and Dublin, and then left the Army. He was offered the post of King’s Messenger, but was unable to accept it.

After he left the Regular Army he was still keenly interested in everything connected with it. In the course of a busy life he found time to organize and work the Old Comrades’ Association in connection with his old Regiment. He trained annually with the Territorials, and at the outbreak of War was attached to the Westminster Dragoons. He worked hard to help get them ready, but, at the request of the Colonel then Commanding the 5th Dragoon Guards, he rejoined his old Regiment, and left for France on August 15th, 1914.

He was in the Retreat from Mons and in the advance to the Marne. On his 38th birthday, September 8th, 1914, he was given his Company Squadron. On that day a half Squadron of the 5th Dragoon Guards was acting as advanced guard, and had reached the bank of the Petit Morin River, near Sablonnières, when it came under a heavy fire. One of his Sergeants was wounded, and Captain Norwood managed to reach him and bind him up. He was trying to reach the horses, left in the rear, in order to send for a doctor, when he was shot and died instantly. Age 38.

He married, in 1904, Lilian, only daughter of Major-General Sir Edwin Collen, K.C.I.L., C.B., and left two sons and one daughter.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

North K C Lt 4th Hussars

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North K C Lt 4th Hussars

LIEUTENANT K. C. NORTH

4TH (QUEEN’S OWN) HUSSARS

KENNETH CROFT NORTH was the eldest son of Arthur North, The Close, Knaresborough.

He entered the School in 1901, and was in the Running VIII in 1905 and 1906. In 1906 he passed into the R.M.C., Sandhurst, from which he joined his Regiment in South Africa in 1907. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1910.

He commandod the machine guns of the 4th Hussars from the commencement of the War. While defending the crossing of the Hollebeke Canal near Ypres, he was twice hit by shell, and, mortally wounded, died on October 31st, 1914. Age 27.

He was mentioned in Despatches of October 8th, 1914, and a second time in those of January 14th, 1915.

Brigadier-General P. Howell, c.м.о., wrote as follows:- “I want to record that, in my opinion, your husband was the best Officer of his rank with whom I have ever had to deal, and certainly the most gallant. During the period we have been out here, I had learnt to place absolute confidence in his commonsense and judgment. Nothing seemed to upset him, and I could always feel confident that the Maxim guns required no orders, because they were invariably employed in the best possible way to suit the circumstances of the moment. Though all our Officers have done well, and many brilliantly, when it came to choosing one name for the D.S.O. I had no hesitation whatever in selecting that of K.C. Half a dozen different acts of gallantry entitled him to more than that.”

(a). On August 25th he remained behind his Brigade to right a waggon which had been overturned. Under heavy shell fire he succeeded in bringing it away.

(b). On September 1st, during a rearguard action, Lieut. Col. Hogg, D.S.O., was wounded in the rear fighting line, during wood fighting. Lieut. North took back his waggon, when the Germans were at short range, and brought Lieut.-Col. Hogg into Haramont village.

(c). On his own initiative, on October 17th, the day after the 4th Hussars had driven the Germans out of Bas Warneton, Lieut. North returned there, climbed the church tower, and made a sketch of the German trenches on the south. This sketch was forwarded by the 2nd Cavalry Division for the use of the Artillery.

“d). At Hollebeke, on October 30th, when other troops had retired, Lieut. North was left isolated with his Maxim gun detachment. He obtained a wheelbarrow and got both of his guns away, the men of his detachment covering the retirement themselves for over a mile.

(e). On October 31st, at the canal bridge, north of Hollebeke, one Squadron of the 4th Hussars and the Maxim gun detachment were shelled by guns of all calibres and attacked by Infantry. The enemy were unable to reach the bridge, largely owing to Lieut. North’s handling of his machine guns. One of these was knocked to bits and Lieut. North was killed. The bridge remained in our possession till the 4th Hussars were relieved.

“The above constitute but a part of the exceptional work of this Officer.”

He married in December, 1911, Frances Evelyn, second daughter of Henry Berry, of Donisthorpe House, Moor Allerton, Leeds.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

 

Munby E J 2nd Lt Royal Engineers

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Munby E J 2nd Lt Royal Engineers

SECOND LIEUTENANT E. J. MUNBY

EAST ANGLIAN FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS, T.F.

ERNEST JOHN MUNBY was the second son of the Rev. G. F. W. Munby (O.R., 1846), Rector of Turvey, Bedfordshire.

He entered the School in 1888, and after leaving went to America, where he took his degree as a Mechanical Engineer. He worked as a Mining Engineer in Colorado and Borneo, and on the tunnels under the Hudson River at New York.

He obtained a Commission in the Royal Engineers, in October, 1914, went to the Front at Christmas, was killed on January 31st, near Bethune, and was buried in the cemetery of Le Touret. His section was working at night. They had finished work, and had gone into an old farm building, when a bullet crashed through the wall and caused his instantaneous death. Age 40.

One who knew him in civilian life wrote:- “The thing that struck me most was the fact that whenever there was work involving much danger, he always took the dangerous place, rather than allow the men to take it, and this seems to have been the keynote of his life, self-sacrifice for the good of others.”

Another wrote “He always had the truest spirit of self-sacrifice, and his death seemed a fitting end to a life that was always full of courage and enthusiasm.”

He married in 1905 Emily Louisa Ann, widow of Captain Herbert Turner Turner-Emery, R.A., of Baddow Park, Essex, only daughter of Charles Henry Coxhead.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

 

Munby E J 2nd Lt Royal Engineers

Source : The Illustrated London News 13th Feb 1915

MUNBY, ERNEST JOHN, 2nd Lieut., 1st East Anglian Field Coy., R.E. (T.F.), 2nd s. of the late Rev. George Frederick Woodhouse Munby, Rector of Turvey, Bedford (1869-1905), by his wife, Harriet Louisa, dau, of the Rev. Canon Linton; b. Turvey Rectory, 19 May, 1875; educ. Rugby and Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., where he took his degree as Mechanical Engineer, and became M.Am. S.M.E. and A.I.M. and M. As a Mining Engineer, he worked in Colorado and Borneo, and was subsequently engaged with Lord Cowdray (then Sir Weetman Pearson) in constructing the tunnel under the Hudson River to New York. He was afterwards employed by the Gardner Electric Drill and Hammer Company, and had latterly been engaged at the St. John’s Mine, Montezuma, Colorado. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and applied for a commission. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Anglian Coy., R.E., 14 Sept. 1914; went to France at the end of Dec., and was killed in action near Bethune, 31 Jan. 1915, being buried at Le Touret. He m. at Croydon, 7 Nov. 1905, Emily Louisa Ann, widow of Capt. Herbert Turner Turner Emery, of Baddow Park, Essex, and dau. of Charles Henry Coxhead; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Miller G L 2nd Lt Royal Engineers

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Miller G L 2nd Lt Royal Engineers

SECOND LIEUTENANT G. L. MILLER

ROYAL ENGINEERS

GODFREY LYALL MILLER, born at Cawnpore, was the eldest surviving son of Sir John O. Miller, K C.S.I., of the Indian Civil Service, at one time Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, and Member of the Governor-General’s Council, and of Mary Evelina, daughter of the Right Honble. Sir

Alfred Lyall, C.C.I.E., K.C.B. He entered the School in 1906, became a Cadet Officer of the School O.T.C., and left for the R.M.A., Woolwich, in 1911, passing in 12th.

In December, 1912, he passed 1st out of Woolwich and entered the Royal Engineers. At Woolwich he gained the King’s and Pollock Gold Medals, besides other prizes, and later, at Chatham, a Haynes Memorial Medal for Field Engineering.

At the outbreak of War, August 4th, 1914, he was appointed to the 11th Field Co. R.E., forming part of the 2nd Division.

He was killed on September 14th, 1914, at Pont Arcy, on the Aisne, 14 miles east of Soissons. Age 21. On this day he was in charge of a damaged bridge over a canal, in rear of the pontoon bridge at Pont Arcy. The 2nd Division had crossed the canal and river bridges on the evening of the 13th and morning of the 14th. In the afternoon of the latter day an ammunition train returning from the north of the river attracted the German fire to the bridge, where Lieut. Miller and one Sapper were killed, and ten others severely wounded, some of them succumbing later. His Commanding Officer wrote:-

“He was held in high esteem by the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the Company, and we all liked him. From the moment he joined me on mobilisation at Aldershot, he showed signs that he would make a good Officer, and the more I knew him the better I liked and put confidence in him. I now miss him very much, and am extremely grieved that such a promising young life has been cut short.”

Several men of his Company spoke warmly of his thoughtfulness and kindness, and their regret at losing “a fine and brave Officer, and a thorough gentleman,”

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

MILLER, GODFREY LYALL, 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers, elder s. of Sir John Ontario Miller, of Rowley Lodge, Arkley, Herts, K.C.S.I., late Indian Civil Service, by his wife, Mary Evelina, dau. of the late Sir Alfred Lyall; b. Cawnpore, India, 14 Feb. 1893; educ. Warden House School, Deal, Rugby, and Woolwich, where he gained the King’s Gold Medal; was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.E., 20 Dec. 1912; visited Germany twice during leave to study the language was appointed on mobilisation to the 11th Field Coy. R.E. attd. to the 2nd Division, with which he left for France on 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action while in charge of a bridge over a canal at Pont Arcy, 14 Sept. 1914, during the crossing of the Aisne: unm. Buried where he fell.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Michell J C Captain 12th Lancers

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Michell J C Captain 12th Lancers

CAPTAIN J. C. MICHELL

12TH (PRINCE OF WALES’S ROYAL) LANCERS

JOHN COLLORYAN MICHELL was the eldest son of John Michell, 1.s.O., Consul-General at Petrograd.

He entered the School in 1886. He joined the Militia in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in 1889, and resumed his Commission in 1894 as a Captain.

He served in the Matabele Rebellion in 1896 as a Lieutenant in the Maxim Gun Section. In the South African War, 1899-1902, he joined the Salisbury Contingent, which formed part of Colonel Plumer’s Column, and with it took part in the Relief of Mafeking, and was present at the Battle of Eland’s River. He was mentioned in Despatches, and received the Queen’s Medal with four Clasps, and the King’s Medal with two.

He went to the Front with the First Expeditionary Force and took part in the Retreat from Mons. He was killed at Moy (Aisne) while gallantly leading his Squadron in what proved to be a most successful charge against German Cavalry on August 28th, 1914. Age 43-

He married, in 1910, Ella, eldest daughter of Alfred Macnaghten, but left no children.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1