Storer R T Pte 237 5th London Regiment

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Storer R T Pte 237 5th London Regiment

STORER, RAYMOND TRITTON, Private, No. 237, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Henry Norris Storer, of Belle Grove, Welling, Kent, Market Gardener and Fruit Grower, by his wife, Ellen Eliza, dau. of William Rush Tritton; b. Welling, 16 Feb. 1894; educ. Hope Lodge, Welling, and Roam School, Greenwich, and on leaving the latter entered the employ of Mr. V. A. Litkie, Diamond Merchant. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 31 Aug. 1914, and after six months’ training at Haywards Heath and Crowborough, sailed for France on his twenty-first birthday. They were sent up to the trenches, and he was killed two months later at the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. It was on this occasion that a General, speaking of the London Rifle Brigade, remarked that he had never seen a finer regiment. Storer was buried at Fortuin; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stonehouse C B Pte 13612 6th East Yorkshire Regiment

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Stonehouse C B Pte 13612 6th East Yorkshire Regiment

STONEHOUSE, CHARLES BROWELL, Private, No. 13612, 6th (Service) Battn. E. Yorks Regt., 7th and yst. s. of John James Stonehouse, of Sunderland, Bricklayer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Ann Browell, of Sunderland; b. Bishopwearmouth, co. Durham, 2 Jan 1878; educ. there; was employed at the Hylton Colliery; enlisted 16 Oct. 1914; trained at Grantham, arrived at the Dardanelles, 6 Aug., and was killed in action there three days later, 9 Aug. 1915. He m. at Southwick-on-Wear, 31 July, 1904, Ada Jane (30, Nelson Street, Southwick- on-Wear), dau. of John Griffin, of Sunderland, and had issue: Charles Browell, b. 15 Jan. 1909; Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1914; Margaret, b. 22 May, 1905; Christine, b. 19 July, 1906; Lilian, b Nov. 1907; Annie, b. 22 Aug. 1910; and Ada Jane, b. 19 May, 1915.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stone J W Pte 5510 2nd Coldstream Guards

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STONE, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, No. 5510, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of the late James Stone, Maltster, by his wife, H. (43, Albert Street, Horncastle), dau. of John Would; b. Horncastle, co. Lincoln, 1 March, 1883; educ. there; was a Maltster and Labourer before he enlisted in the Coldstreams, 7 April, 1904; went to France, 26 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel 12 Nov. following. Buried in the woods there. He m. at Horncastle, Harriet (43, Albert Street, Horncastle), dau. of John Would, and had a son, James Walter, 5. 12 July, 1913.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stokes H D Lt 2nd Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

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Stokes H D Lt 2nd Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

LIEUT. HALDANE DAY STOKES, M.V.O. 2ND BATTN. THE KING’S OWN ROYAL LANCASTER REGT.

KILLED IN ACTION AT THE TUILLERIES, ZILLEBEKE, FEBRUARY 17TH, 1915. AGED 29.

At the School 1896-1902 (School House).

Lieut. H. D. Stokes was the only son of Lieut.-Col. Henry Haldane Stokes, late R.A.M.C., of Devonshire House, Cowley, Oxford, who retired in 1902, after serving with distinction in India, and grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. P. D. Stokes, of Tralee, Co. Kerry.

Entering the School in May, 1896, he left from the Army Class at Christmas, 1902, as a Lance-Corporal in the Cadet Corps, as it then was, and joined the Militia in 1904, receiving a commission in the Militia Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. In 1905, on the occasion of the presentation of Colours to the 3rd and 4th Battn., he and another O.T., Captain, then 2nd Lieut., Percy Bruce Lendon (Sc. 1897-1901), who also gave his life in the War, being killed on October 21st, 1914, carried the King’s Colours of these Battalions, and they were both appointed to the 5th Class of the Victorian Order.

In 1907 he transferred to the line, and was posted to the 2nd Battn., with which he served at Colchester, in Jersey, at Dover, and in India. He was promoted Lieutenant June 26th, 1910, and he was serving with the 2nd Battn. in India when war broke out. He left India with his Battalion on November 19th, 1914, and served with it in France in the 83rd Brigade, 28th Division, mainly in the trenches near Ypres, from January 16th, 1915, till he was killed in action at the Tuilleries, at Zillebeke, on February 17th, 1915.

Source : Tonbridge School And The Great War Of 1914-1919

STOKES, HALDANE DAY, M.V.O., Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., only s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Haldane Stokes, of Devonshire House, Cowley, co. Oxford, late R.A.M.C., by his wife, Florence, dau. of Samuel Browne, and grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. Patrick Day Stokes, of Tralee, co. Kerry; b. Dublin, 21 Sept. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; joined the Earl of Derby’s 3rd Royal Lancaster (Militia) Regt. in 1904, and received a regular commission in the 2nd Battn. 6 July, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 26 June, 1910; served in India, and returned with his regt. after the outbreak of the European War, landing in England 23 Dec. 1914; left for the Front 15 Jan. following, and was killed in action near Ypres, 17 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Zillebeke. He received the fifth class of the Victorian Order in June, 1905, when only 19 years of age.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Eccles J V W 2nd Lt Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

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Eccles J V W 2nd Lt Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

L IEUTENANT JOHN VIVIAN WILLIAM ECCLES, King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, the eldest son of the late John Lamont Eccles of Trinidad, was born in 1879 and educated at St. John’s College, Hurstpierpoint.

At the age of seventeen he joined the firm of Price Bros. and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1904. A member of Coombe Hill and Acton Golf Clubs, he was a keen golfer and won many prizes in competitions. On the outbreak of war he immediately enlisted in the H.A.C. and obtained his commission in the 8th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancasters in the December following. He went out to Egypt and Salonica in January 1916, being attached to the 9th Battalion of his regiment. In November of that year he was transferred to G.H.Q., Salonica.

He came home on leave in April 1917, and on his return to Salonica in H.M. Transport Transylvania, the vessel was torpedoed on 2 May. Lieutenant Eccles was among those reported “Missing.”

“Both I and my Staff are deeply shocked at the news,” wrote his Chief at G.H.Q., Major-General Webb Gillman. “I miss him greatly, as he was so reliable. His work, though perhaps tedious, was one of great responsibility and he never betrayed the trust that was imposed on him.”

An officer who served with him at home and in Egypt and Salonica wrote: “After he came down from the line (where his job, I know none of the easiest, was well done) he became a frequent and always welcome visitor. . . . We all feel his loss personally and keenly, and all are absolutely sure that he died gallantly and consistently with his quality, which, by some considerable experience, we have found to be of the finest.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Driver G D Lt Army Service Corps

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Driver G D Lt Army Service Corps

LIEUTENANT GRAHAM DUDLEY DRIVER, Royal Army Service Corps, son of Sheldon Dudley Driver, a member of the Stock Exchange, was born in 1872 and educated at Dover College. He himself became a member in 1894.

An enthusiast in all sports he was especially keen on tennis, lawn tennis and squash racquets. He competed in and won many prizes at lawn tennis tournaments, and was a member of Hurlingham and Queen’s Clubs.

Though over forty when war broke out, he enlisted in September 1914, in the Sportsmen’s Battalion, the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, and in March of the following year received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps.

He died of spotted fever at the age of forty-three, within a few weeks of obtaining his commission, on 5 May 1915.

He married Evelyn, youngest daughter of the late William Blencowe of Brackley, Northants, and left one daughter.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

De Rutzen A F J Lt Baron Pembroke Yeomanry Attd Imperial Camel Corps

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De Rutzen A F J Lt Baron Pembroke Yeomanry Attd Imperial Camel Corps

L IEUTENANT ALAN FREDERICK JAMES, BARON DE RUTZEN, son of the late Sir Albert de Rutzen, the famous Metropolitan Magistrate at Bow Street, was born in 1876. He was educated at Eton and in 1904 became a member of the Stock Exchange.

He succeeded his uncle as Baron de Rutzen in 1915. At the outbreak of the war he joined the Pembroke Yeomanry, being gazetted in August 1914, and went with them to Egypt in March 1916. Whilst there, he volunteered for and became attached to the Imperial Camel Corps, with which he was serving at the time of his death. He fell leading a company of the Camel Corps against the Turks near Katia.

The following extract, testifying to his great ability as an officer and leader of men, is from a letter of an officer of the Camel Corps to the Colonel of the Pembroke Yeomanry: “You will probably have heard, before this reaches you, that Baron de Rutzen was killed yesterday. He was in command of this company and the amount of confidence he put into his men helped considerably towards holding a very tight corner.”

“A brave man and a real topper in the field and out of it. His men simply adored him, as did all his brother officers.”

Baron de Rutzen had travelled extensively. He was greatly interested in horses, hunting and agriculture, and was a keen fisherman.

He married, in 1908, Eleanor Etna Audley, the only child of Captain Pelham Thursby Pelham of Abermarlais Park, Carmarthenshire, and Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Donald A P Lt Royal Engineers

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Donald A P Lt Royal Engineers

L IEUTENANT ANDREW PATRICK DONALD, Royal Engineers, was a son of the late Dr. James Turner Donald, and a native of Paisley. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1910 and a partner in the firm of Durham Stokes and Co.

Though over forty years of age when war broke out, and though he had already served his country in the South African War, he would not rest content until he had once again been accepted for service. He was in South Africa twenty years ago with the C.I.V. Mounted Infantry and held the Queen’s Medal with four clasps.

From 1914 onwards he made repeated attempts to rejoin, but was again and again rejected, on medical grounds, until finally in 1917 he was accepted for the Royal Defence Corps. Later he was transferred to the Royal Engineers and it was as a “sapper” lieutenant that he at length reached the Front. While on active service in France he contracted pleurisy and was invalided home. He died at Wandsworth Military Hospital on 1 February 1918, at the age of forty-four.

Lieut. Donald left a widow and four children.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Dawson W L 2nd Lt 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment

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Dawson W L 2nd Lt 6th Royal Warwickshire Regiment

SECOND LIEUTENANT WILFRED LEEDHAM DAWSON, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was born in 1882. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1913.

A partner in the firm of Bragg, Stockdale, Hall and Co., he joined the Artists’ Rifles and received his commission in the 7th Worcester Regiment in 1916.

Immediately on being gazetted, he went to France and was then attached to the 2/6th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, being transferred to that regiment in the following year.

He met his death in the operations following the repulse before Cambrai in November 1917, being killed in action while holding the line near La Vacquerie on 3 December.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Davies R F Captain 9th London Regiment

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Davies R F Captain 9th London Regiment

MAJOR ROBERT FFINDON DAVIES London Regiment was the son of Frederick Herbert Davies, a member of the Stock Exchange. He was born in 1877 and educated at Marlborough College. On leaving school he joined that famous shooting corps, the 1st Middlesex V.R.C. and fought in the South African War, where his company was attached to a battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He was awarded the South African medal with four clasps.

He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1898. Though he had already given great proof of his skill as a rifle shot, his victory in the King’s Prize at Bisley in 1906 was a surprise to everyone except his friends. From that time onward he was recognized as one of the finest and most enthusiastic marksmen in the country. He did much to keep alive interest in rifle shooting before the opening of Lord Roberts’ campaign, and he helped greatly to make the Bisley meeting an enjoyable social event.

He reached the final stages of the King’s Prize on four occasions, shot for England in 1910 and 1911 at Bisley and represented his country at the Olympic games at Stockholm in 1912.

Major Davies had retired with an Honorary Captaincy in the regular army in 1908, but he rejoined at the outbreak of war, served for two years in England and went to the Front in 1916. He was killed at the head of his men on 9 September of that year.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918