Aitchison T F Bmdr 344652 Royal Garrison Artillery

AITCHISON, THOMAS FRANK, Bombardier, No. 344652, 376th Siege Battery R.G.A., 8. of the late Thomas Aitchison, Brewer, by his wife, Euphemia, dau. of G. Ritchie, Brewer; b. Edinburgh, 7 July, 1880; educ. Loretto, Musselburgh; was Director of Messrs. John Aitchison & Co., Ltd., Brewers, Edinburgh joined the R.G.A. in Feb. 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, being posted to the 376th Battery at Ypres in June, 1917, an isolated position which they held until Dec., after which they were sent to Arras, and became mobile during the retreat in March, 1918. In June they were attached to the Guards, and at the time of the Armistice being signed were at Maubeuge, when only 26 men and one officer were left out of the original 160. He was invalided home in Dec., and died at Edinburgh Castle Hospital 14 Jan. 1919, after an operation rendered necessary owing to illness contracted while on service in France. Buried in St. Cuthbert’s Churchyard, Edinburgh. Не m at St. Cuthbert’s Church, Edinburgh, 17 Jan. 1906, Beatrice Anne (10, Ann Street, Edinburgh), dau, of the late William Bladworth Hardie, of Edinburgh, Merchant, and had two children: William Francis Bladworth, b. 22 Aug. 1907, and Elizabeth Beatrice, b. 12 March, 1910.

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AGLIONBY, ARTHUR HUGH, M.C., Major (Acting), 219th Siege Battery, Dorsetshire Royal Garrison Artillery (T.F.), 4th s. of the Rev. Dr. Francis Keyes Aglionby, Vicar of Newbold Pacey, co. Warwick, by his wife, Amy, dau. of the Right Rev. E. H. Bickersteth, some time Bishop of Exeter; 6. London, 4 Nov. 1885; educ. Hastings: Westminster School, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a Second Class in Lit. Hum.; was a Preparatory Schoolmaster at St. Andrew’s, Bournemouth, and subsequently at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; joined the Dorset R.G.A. in 1912; ; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war was promoted Lieut. in Dec. 1914, Capt. in 1917, and Acting Major, May 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1916, and died at Roubais 7 Nov. 1918, of wounds received in action at Moen-on-the-Scheldt. Buried at Monvaux. A brother officer wrote: The story of his extraordinary courage and coolness during the retreat has been told a hundred times in the battery mess.” He was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1919], for gallantry in the field, during the Battle of the Scheldt, when his battery: “Fired from the open at 1,000 yards’ range, got on to masses of Germars trying to advance, and completely broke them up, and the attack utterly failed.” Unm.

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Adler H G V Major Royal Garrison Artillery

ADLER, HARRY GEORGE VERGOT-TINI, Major, R.G.A., eldest s. of WilliamHenry Adler, of 66, Gloucester Crescent, Regent’s Park, N.W., by his wife, Cecilia, dau. of George Vergottini; b. at Winburg, South Africa; educ. Army House, Neunheim College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, but resigned after two years to study Mining and Metallurgy at the School of Mines, South Kensington, subsequently becoming a member of the Institutes of Civil Engineers and of Mining and Metallurgy, and held important positions in South Africa, Canada and Australia; returned to England in 1915; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. R.G.A.; was promoted Capt. in 1916, and Major 6 June, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from May, 1916, and was killed in action at Ypres 21 June, 1917. He m. at St. Mary Abbot’s, South Kensington, S.W., Ruby, yst. dau. of the late Edmund Escombe.

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