Styles J Pte 6484 3rd Coldstream Guards

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Styles J Pte 6484 3rd Coldstream Guards

STYLES, JOHN, Private, No. 6484, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 3rd s. of Harry Styles, of Alderton, near Chippenham, co. Wilts, by his wife, Martha; b. Corston, co. Wilts, 13 Oct. 1883; educ. Malmesbury Public School; enlisted in the Wiltshire Regt. 25 March, 1901; became L.Corpl. 19 May, 1904, and Corpl. 23 June, 1904; transferred to the Coldstreams, 13 Dec. 1905; served during the South African War, guarding prisoners at St. Helena, 20 June, 1901, to 11 Sept. 1902 (medal); and in Egypt, 31 Oct. 1907 to 23 March, 1911, and returned to England for King George’s Coronation; was called up with the Reserves on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 12 Aug. and was killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914, during the retreat from Mons; unm. Private Styles received the cross guns and stripe.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Sulivan P H 2nd Lt Royal Munster Fusiliers

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Sulivan P H 2nd Lt Royal Munster Fusiliers

SULIVAN, PHILIP HAMILTON, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 4th s. of Col. Ernest Frederic Sulivan, now commanding 10th (late commanding 4th) Battn. East Surrey Regt., formerly of the Hampshire Regt., by his wife, Florence Mary, dau. of James Houldsworth, of Coltness, Lanarkshire; b. Mayfield Hall, Ashbourne, co. Derby, 27 Aug. 1894; educ. Malvern, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Munster Fusiliers, 25 Feb. 1914; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in a rear-guard action at Etreux, France, 27 Aug. following, during the retreat from Mons. Buried by the Germans at cross roads, near Etreux, with eight of his brother officers who fell the same day; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Source : The Graphic 7th Sep 1914

Styles F E Lt 2nd Royal Muster Fusiliers

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Styles F E Lt Royal Munster Fusiliers

LIEUTENANT F. E. STYLES Royal Munster Fusiliers Moretons 98-99

Aged 30 Aug. 27th, 1914

ELDEST son of Frederick Styles, late Chairman of “Horrockses,” Cotton Spinners, of Preston, Lancashire, and Helena A. W. Styles, of Blackmoor, Edenbridge, Kent.

R.M.C., Sandhurst.

Lieutenant Styles was gazetted to the Munster Fusiliers in 1903. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1906, and retired in April, 1914, but rejoined his Regiment just before the outbreak of the War. He went to France on August 13th, 1914, and was killed at Etreux fourteen days afterwards, while gallantly leading his men under a heavy fire.

Captain Wise, his Adjutant, now a prisoner of war at Torgau, wrote:- “You will already have heard that poor Fred was shot on Thursday, 27th of August. At the time he was gallantly leading his men under a heavy fire, and had he survived would certainly have been mentioned in Despatches. I was not actually present when he was hit, but I have been told by those who were on the spot that his death was painless and instantaneous. When I saw him a few minutes later he was lying peacefully, as though asleep. As this letter will be censored by the German authorities I am unable to give you any details as to the action, or the situation of the battlefield. All the officers who fell were buried in one grave, and a service was conducted by a German clergyman. Fred’s loss is infinitely regretted by all of us who survive, and I wish to convey to you, on behalf of the Regiment, the utmost sympathy of all ranks with Miss Styles and yourself.”

Source : Harrow Memorials Of The Great War 1914-1918 Vol 1

Styles F E Lt Royal Munster Fusiliers

Source : Our Heroes Mons To The Somme August 1914-July 1916

STYLES, FREDERICK ERNEST, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest s. of the late Frederick Styles, of Preston, Lancashire, and 49, Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, W., by his wife, Helena Alice Wellington (124, Knightsbridge, S.W.; Blackmoor, Four Elms, Kent), widow of Capt. L. B. A. Poynter, 7th Hussars, and dau. of John Brophey; b. 27 Jan. 1884; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Munster Fusiliers 13 May, 1903, and promoted Lieut. 9 Jan. 1906. He retired in April, 1914, but rejoined his regt. just before the outbreak of war. He was killed in action at Etreux, 27 Aug. 1914; unm.

Capt. Wise, the Adjutant of the regt., writing to Mrs. Styles, said: “You will already have heard that poor Fred was shot on Thursday, 27th inst. At the time he was gallantly leading his men under a heavy fire, and had he survived would certainly have been mentioned in Despatches. I was not actually present when he was hit, but I have been told by those who were on the spot that his death was painless and instantaneous. When I saw him a few minutes later he was lying peacefully as though asleep. As this letter will be censored by the German authorities, I am unable to give you any details as to the action, or the situation of the battlefield. All the officers who fell were buried in one grave, and a service was conducted by a German clergyman.” An interesting account of the doings of the Munsters and of their great stand this day will be found under the notice of Lieut. C. E. V. Awdry. The eight officers who fell this day were buried by the Germans in one grave, and the N.C.Os. and men in another, side by side, near the railway station of Etreux, on the right-hand side of the road. 400 yards north of the level crossing. They also erected crosses to mark the spot.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Sturrock D D Cpl 1845 9th Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders

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STURROCK, DAVID DUFF, Corpl., No. 1845, 9th Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), elder s. of Peter Sturrock, of Drummaird, Lenzie, L.R.C.P., and S. Ed., Lieut. R.A.M.C., by his wife, Helen Amelia, dau. of James Swirles, of Edinburgh; b. Jedburgh, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Jedburgh Grammar School and Lenzie Academy; was an Analytical Chemist; joined the 9th Territorial Battn. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 13 April, 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; went to France, 19 Feb. 1915; was wounded 18 March, 1915, but returned to duty 9 May, and was killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, on the 10th; unm. Buried near Ypres.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Groves L A Lt 11th Royal Sussex Regiment

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Groves L A Lt 11th Royal Sussex Regiment

L IEUTENANT LEONARD ALLOWAY GROVES, Royal Sussex Regiment, was the son of Aubrey Groves of Ramsgate, and was born in 1878. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1904, trading under his own name.

On the outbreak of war he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and eventually received his commission in the 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment.

He went to France early in 1916 and was killed while leading his men to the attack on Beaumont Hamel on September 3rd. For a long time he was reported as missing, but it was finally ascertained that he was killed instantly.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Graham A C Captain 1st Grenadier Guards

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Graham A C Captain 1st Grenadier Guards

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER CECIL GRAHAM, Grenadier Guards (S.R.), was the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Graham of Palace Gate, and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

During the South African War, he acted first as a War Correspondent and later joined General French’s Scouts, being wounded and captured at Lindley. On his return to England he went on the Stock Exchange and, joining the firm of H. K. Paxton, became a member in 1905.

In September 1914, he joined the Naval Division as Sub- Lieutenant in the “Hood” Battalion, and went with them to Antwerp. In October of the same year, he was promoted Lieutenant- Commander, and appointed Adjutant of his Battalion. He went to Gallipoli, where he was wounded on 2 May 1915.

In December Captain Graham received a commission in the Grenadier Guards as Captain, Special Reserve, and proceeded to the front in April. He was killed at Ginchy on 12 September 1916, when commanding his company during the battle of the Somme.

Captain Graham married in 1904, Dollie, only daughter of the late H. K. Paxton of the Stock Exchange.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Goschen C G Captain 4th Grenadier Guards

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Goschen C G Captain 4th Grenadier Guards

CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER GERARD GOSCHEN, son of Henry Goschen of Addington, Surrey, was born in 1881 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1903. He was called to the Bar in 1905, but relinquished his work there after a few years to enter the Stock Exchange, of which he became a Member in the Spring of 1910. He joined the firm of Cohen, Laming, Goschen and Co. in that year and remained with them until the outbreak of war, when he obtained a commission in the Grenadier Guards and went to the Front shortly before Christmas, 1914.

During the months that followed he took part in the fighting at Festubert and Neuve Chapelle and in some of the most arduous operations in the Ypres Salient and elsewhere. Soon after he was promoted to a captaincy in the 4th Battalion.

He was twice wounded. On the second occasion he was so anxious to get back to the Front that he refused the sick leave that was offered to him. He rejoined his regiment on 24 September 1916 and was killed on the following day while leading his men in a very severe action during the battle of the Somme.

His Commanding Officer wrote: “Chris’s loss to the regiment is indeed a great one. He was loved by his brother officers and esteemed and respected by his men. He has done extremely well and I have rarely seen a man who took hold of the hearts of all with whom he was associated like he did. His place amongst us will not easily be filled.”

A brother officer concludes a letter about him by saying “he was one of the best and truest of English gentlemen, was so straight and an example to the younger ones.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Goschen C G Captain 4th Grenadier Guards

Christopher Gerard Goschen

He was the son of Henry Goschen, of Heathfield, Addington, and nephew of the first Lord Goschen. At Eton he was in Mr. A. C. Benson’s House, and they were always great friends. Chris came up to Balliol in 1899, a slight and rather shy boy, but during his four years at Oxford he developed a great deal physically and mentally. He took a First in History in 1903. He was not good at games, but he was a keen sportsman, going nearly every year to the Highlands, and loving out-door and country life. He was fond of travel, of wandering about in France or Italy with friends, but he was happiest of all at home, devoted to his family and enjoying with his father a delightful companionship. He made great friends at Oxford and kept them for the rest of his life. During the ten years or so between Oxford and the war he was almost the centre of a group of Balliol friends, one of whom, Ambrose Mavrogordato, died during that time, and many of whom fell in the war.

After leaving Oxford he spent some years at the Bar, but ultimately he became a partner in an important financial firm, where his sound judgment and knowledge of men made him very effective. On the outbreak of war he received a Commission in the Grenadier Guards and went to the Front at the end of 1914. Except for an interval when he was at home recovering from a wound he remained with his battalion till his death in September 1916, going through the battles of Festubert and Neuve Chapelle and some of the heaviest fighting round Ypres. This was a long period of active service compared with that of most of his fellow-officers in those sorely-tried battalions of the Guards. Thoughtful and sensitive, older, and in a short time more experienced than most Company Officers, he could be both an admirable soldier and yet fully alive to the tragedies of war. These he hated, and, quoting Miss Lawless, would long to go to the place of green fields “where old Leisure sits knee-deep in grass.” Yet when at home on leave he was always anxious to get back to play his part. In May 1916 he was given his Captaincy, and was proud to command No. 1 Company in the 4th Battalion of His Majesty’s First Regiment of Foot Guards. The thought of his responsibility and of his men was never really out of his mind. His letters are full of admiration for them, and they were devoted to him. The younger officers found in him constant help and sympathy. Quite early in his time at the Front he refers to “the strange and rather splendid feeling of comradeship which one reveres.”

On September 11, 1916, he was wounded, though slightly, in the head and was sent to a base hospital near Boulogne. But he made every effort to return to his Company rather than be invalided home, and he rejoined on September 24. Next day he was killed while leading his men in a severe but successful action at Les Boeufs.

Source : Balliol College War Memorial Book 1914-1919

Grenadier Guards Officers

ALL IN THE ROLL OF HONOUR.

This photograph of six officers in the Grenadier Guards, which was taken shortly before they left for the front, has a pathetic interest today. All have been either killed or wounded. The three in the back row, Second-Lieut. C. Creed (left), Second-Lieut. the Hon. E. W. Tennant, and Second-Lieut. C. Goschen were killed, and in the front row Second-Lieut. J. Denny was wounded, Second-Lieut. P. Battye was twice wounded, and Second-Lieut. C. Guthrie was seriously wounded. (Photographed by Langfier.)

Source : The Graphic

Gilson G 2nd Lt 5th London Regiment Attd 2/4th London Regiment

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Gilson G 2nd Lt 5th London Regiment Attd 2/4th London Regiment

SECOND LIEUTENANT GEORGE GILSON, 2/4th London Regiment, son of Joseph Gilson of Southend-on-Sea, as born in 1880 and educated at Christ’s Hospital, where he was a keen Rugby footballer. He was connected for twenty years with the Stock Exchange and became a member in 1904, being a partner in the firm of Isaacs and Bray. An amateur actor, he was for many years associated with the Southend Operatic and Dramatic Society.

He was twice medically rejected before being passed fit for general service in December 1916. He enlisted in the 3rd Bedfordshire Regiment and trained with them at Felixstowe. Having been made a N.C.O., he was recommended for a commission and sent to the O.T.C. at Oxford. He was gazetted to the London Rifle Brigade in January 1918 and left for France on 2 August, being transferred to the 2/4th London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).

A month later he was killed at the head of his men, on his first day in action, near Beaucheresnes on the Bapaume-Peronne road.

“Everyone,” wrote his Colonel to his widow, “speaks most highly of the gallant way in which he behaved during the attack. His platoon fought splendidly and gained their objective in a brilliant fashion.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Giles G 2nd Lt 2nd Gordon Highlanders

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Giles G 2nd Lt 2nd Gordon Highlanders

SECOND LIEUTENANT GEOFFREY Gordon Highlanders, was born in 1888. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1911.

He had been a member of the Artists Rifles before the war, and rejoined at the outbreak of war.

Early in 1915 he was given a commission in the 2nd Gordon Highlanders and was wounded in May of that year.

After recovering from his wounds he returned to the Front and was killed on 1 July 1916-the fiercest day in the history of the British army-in the attack on Mametz.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Gibbs W L Paymaster Army Pay Corps

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Gibbs W L Paymaster Army Pay Corps

ACTING PAYMASTER WALTER LESLIE GIBBS, Army Pay Department, son of Clement Gibbs, was born in 1875 and educated privately.

He joined the firm of Beckhusen and Gibbs in 1891, and became a partner and a member of the Stock Exchange in 1899.

Soon after war broke out he was taken seriously ill and forced to take a year’s rest.

In September 1915 he was appointed Acting-Paymaster and served in the Pay Office at Preston.

He died of pneumonia on 22 December 1916, and left a widow.

His Commanding Officer spoke of his keenness and loyalty to duty, and a brother officer wrote of his lovable nature which had endeared him to all those under him and to his colleagues who had the privilege of his friendship.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918