Lieutenant, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers. Born 21 September 1891, he was a regular Army Officer and in 1911 was a 2nd Lieutenant, stationed in Canterbury, Kent. The regiment’s participation in the final ‘lance on lance’ action of the First World War on 7 September 1914 at Moncel led to his death. The following newspaper extract states: ‘7th Sept 1914. Lt. Frederick de Vere Allfrey, 9th Lancers, only son of Frederick Vere Allfrey and grandson of Mrs Bruce of Arborfield Court, was killed aged 22. He was shot by a wounded German after he had dismounted to extract a lance from a wounded comrade’s leg’. Son of Frederick and Maud, of Ashridgewood, Wokingham, Berkshire. He is buried in the Fretoy Communal Cemetery, Seine-et-Marne, France. West corner of the Churchyard.

Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service. 25 February 1884 at Castlewellan, Kilmegan, County Down. He was educated at Ascham St. Vincent's Preparatory School, Eastbourne. Eton College, Windsor and Trinity College, Cambridge. He succeeded as Earl on 15 December 1908. Prior to joining 2 (Naval) Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service at Eastchurch, he distinguished himself serving with the R.N.A.S. Armoured Car ivision, with his armoured motorcar in helping to check the advance of the Germans on Brussels and in the defence of Antwerp. He was last seen alive on 6 November 1914 leaving Eastchurch, England in a Bristol T.B.8 biplane, serial 1220, flown by Flight Lieutenant C.F. Beevor, R.N.A.S., bound for France / Flanders. They were never seen again. His death was presumed on 2 December 1914 by Mr. Justice Astbury. Two German prisoners had been interrogated and it was established that the two aviators had been shot down when a German shell had hit the petrol tank of their aircraft and it had fallen in flames near Diksmuide. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley and Mabel Wilhelmina Frances Markham. Husband of Evelyn Hester Annesley. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Medway, Kent, Plot: 8 and also on the Eton College Roll of Honour.

Captain, 6th Battalion, Oueen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He was born on the 25th September, 1877 in Eaton Hall, Congleton, Cheshire. He was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion Cameron Highlanders in 1899, but he was seconded to the 1st Battalion with whom he served in the Second Boer War. He received the Queen’s Medal with five clasps for his service. After the Boer War, Antrobus worked for a time as a mining engineer in the copper mines of Salt Lake City, before re-joining the Cameron Highlanders at the outbreak of the Great War, as a Major attached to the 6th Battalion. He was killed in action, aged 38 years, on the 26th September, 1915 during the Battle of Loos. Son of the late John Coutts Antrobus and Mary Egidia Antrobus, of Eaton Hall, Congleton. His brother Charles Alexander Antrobus also fell. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Loos-en-Gohelle Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Panel 119 to 124. He is also commemorated in the Charterhouse School Memorial Chapel, Godalming, Surrey.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, volume 2, page 9:

ANTROBUS, CECIL HUGH, Capt., 6th Battn. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 6th s. of John Coutts Antrobus, of Eaton Hall, Congleton, J.P., and High Sheriff (1868), Hon. Lt.-Col. (ret.) of the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry [nephew of Sir Edmund Antrobus, 2nd Bt.], and 2nd s. by his 3rd wife, Mary Egidia, yr. dau. of the late Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir James Lindsay, K.C.M.G. [2nd s. of James, 24th Earl of Crawford, etc.], and brother of Captain Charles Antrobus, killed in action at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 (q.v.); b. Eaton Hall, Congleton, co. Chester, 25 Sept. 1877; educ. Charter-house; served in South African War 1900-1, as Capt. 3rd (Militia) Battn. Cameron Highlanders; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900, including actions at Vet River (5 and 6 May) and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11 and 12 June); operations in Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1 to 29 July) and Ladybrand (2 to 5 Sept.); operations in the Transvaal, Jan. to April, 1901; in Orange River Colony, 30 Nov.1900, to Jan. 1901 (Queen's Medal with five clasps; Hon. Lieut. in the Army, 5 Dec. 1900). On the conclusion of the campaign he resigned his commission and went to Canada, and when the European War broke out, he enlisted in the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, and was given a commission as Capt. in the 6th Battn. of his old regiment, Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from July, 1915, and was killed in action at Loos, Flanders, 25 Sept. following; unm.

Lieutenant Colonel, Seaforth Highlanders attached to 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Born on 27th March 1875, he was a professional soldier in the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders who was attached to, and in command of, the 1st /7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the same brigade (10th) of the 4th Division from March 1915. He died of wounds 'received in action near Ypres, on 25th May'. Son of Sir John Carden, 4th Baronet, of Templemore, Ireland, and of the late Lady Carden, of Westown, County Kildare. Aged 40 years. He is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Hazebrouck Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, II. B. 10.

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Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Born in 17th October, 1893, at 22 London Street, Calcutta, India. He was shown on the 1901 census as living at 14-16 Loscelles Terrace, Eastbourne, in the care of Florence Mellish, whose occupation was listed as "carer of Indian children". About 1911 he went to work for Parr’s Bank, the London Cavendish Square branch. At the outbreak of the First World War Cunliffe volunteered for the army, leaving his job at the bank and in October, 1914, he left for France with Queen's Westminsters, having previously joined the regiment as a volunteer. In March of 1915 he was gazetted as Second Lieutenant on the Special List. Cunliffe was killed in action aged 21 years on the 9th May 1915, in what was to become known as the Battle of Aubers Ridge. Son of Agnes Cunliffe, of "Corylus", Radlett, Hertfordshire, and the late Alfred Edward Cunliffe. His body was never found, and he is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing, Ploegsteert, Arrondissement de Mouscron, Hainaut, Belgium, Panel 7 and 8. He is remembered on the ‘RBS Remembers 1914-1918’ website, the All Saints School, Bloxham, Great War website and commemorated on a memorial in the Parish Church of All Souls, Eastbourne.

Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Born on the 6th May, 1894 in Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London. He was Mentioned in Despatches. He was killed in action, aged 20 years at Neuve Chappelle, on the 11th March 1915. Son of Alfred E. W. and Frederica L. J. Darby, of Adcote, Little Ness, Shrewsbury. Nephew of George Arthur of Adcote Hall. He is buried in the Parish Church of St Martin’s Churchyard, Little Ness, Shropshire. South-West of Church. The inscription on his gravestone reads “In proud and loving memory of Maurice Darby, whose body having lain for four days on the battlefield of Neuve Chapelle was, after a long night search in front of the enemy lines, recovered and brought home by his uncle George Arthur to be laid to rest at this spot”. He is also commemorated on the Coalbrookdale War Memorial and the Little Ness War Memorial, both Shropshire. The Eton College War Memorial, Bournemouth St Clements and the Shrewsbury Mill Mead School Old Boys War Memorial.

Lieutenant, Royal Engineers. Died Between 11th October, 1915 and 13th October, 1915. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Panel 4 and 5.

Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Wilfred Jervis Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1891, the son of the late Dr Robert Davis and his wife Ellen, of Frinningham Lodge, Maidstone Kent; late of Darrickwood, Orpington, Kent. He had two brothers, Robert and Guy and three sisters Phyllis, Gwen and Ruth. All three brothers served in the army whilst the three girls were nurses. In 1911 Wilfred was living at Preston and was a medical student. He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers and served in France and Flanders as a lieutenant. He was acting Captain when he was killed on 30th June, 1916 in Belgium. Less than 2 years later, his brother Guy, also a Lieutenant in The Northumberland Fusiliers was killed in action in France. Wilfred is buried in the La Laiterie Military Cemetery, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium, VI. A. He is commemorated on the Orpington, Kent War Memorial.

Lieutenant, 1st Company, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Born in Cairo on the 20th November, 1895. Educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, Eton College, Windsor, Christ Church, Oxford and finally in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Gazetted Second Lieutenant on the 20th February, 1915 and promoted First Lieutenant on the 1st January, 1916. Served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the 1st May, 1915. Fought at Festubert, Ypres, the Somme and was killed in action at Ginchy on the 15th September 1916. He died when a shell exploded at his feet. Son of Plato and Julia Dilberoglue, of The Lodge, 19, Southfields Road, Eastbourne. Buried in the Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Departement de la Somme Picardie, France, Special Memorial 32. Also commemorated on the Eton College Roll of Honour, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Chapel and on the Eastbourne War Memorial (Town Hall).

Lieutenant, 3rd (King's Own) Hussars. Born 13th January, 1894 in Cairo, Egypt. Educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, Summerfield School, Oxford, Eton College, Windsor, and Christ Church, Oxford where he was in his first year when war broke out. He obtained a commission in the Special Reserve Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment on the 15th August, 1914. He was subsequently offered, and accepted a vacancy at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He passed out of Sandhurst in July, 1915 and was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 3rd (King's Own) Hussars. He served with his regiment at Shornecliffe. Ireland and the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders. He was killed in action aged 24 years near Domart, (south east of Amiens) on the 1st April 1918. Son of Plato and Julia Dilberoglue, of The Lodge, 19, Southfields Road, Eastbourne. He is buried in the Hourges Orchard Cemetery, Domart-sur-la-Luce, Domart-sur-la-Luce, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France, against south-east wall. Also commemorated on the Eton College Roll of Honour, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Chapel and on the Eastbourne War Memorial (Town Hall).

Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment). Born on June 29, 1897 and named as Otto Emanuel to German Jewish parents, his father Max Emanuel, was a china and glass manufacturer and importer in London from about 1886 -1914. He attended Ascham St. Vincent's Preparatory School, Eastbourne and then Eastbourne College, and finished his education in Lausanne. He changed his name to Oliver by deed poll in May, 1914. He was a member of the Cadet Corps at the College and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers a territorial regiment) in 1913. He was serving near Southampton at the outbreak of war and was promoted to Lieutenant shortly afterwards. In the meantime, he received a cadetship at Sandhurst, resigning his commission to attend the Royal Military College, and he was gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 1st Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) on March 17th, 1915 as a Gentleman Cadet from the Royal Military College. He was killed in action at Hooge, Germany on the 25th September, 1915. He was posthumously appointed Lieutenant. Son of Max and Alivina Emanuel, brother of Manfred Emanuel, 28, Belsize Park, N.W. Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium, Panel 53. He is also commemorated on the East Ham Cemetery Roll of Honour (United Synagogue).

Note: The family placed an obituary notice in the Times every year from 1916 to 1952.

Lieutenant, No 2 Pontoon Park Home Command, Royal Engineers. Born on the 6 Aug 1895 in Vacoas, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius. In 1901, Keith and his family were living at 17, Albany Road, Bexhill on Sea. He was educated at Ascham St Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, Eastbourne College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He received his commission in the Royal Engineers in 1914, and was promoted Lieutenant in August 1915. He went to the Front with the Second Pontoon Park in 1915, and was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s dispatch of 1 January, 1916. He died of pneumonia, contracted while on active service and died in the Aldershot Military Hospital on the 10th May 1917. Son of the Rev. Arthur Kington Finnimore (Hon. C. F.), and Mary Elizabeth Finnimore, of "Limehurst," Painswick Road, Cheltenham. He is buried in the Aldershot Military Cemetery, Aldershot, Rushmoor Borough, Hampshire. AG. 364.

Lieutenant, H.M.S. Simoom, Royal Navy. Born July 13, 1892 at Euston Hall, Brecks, East Anglia. Edward joined the Royal Navy on 1906, and was at various training establishments until as a midshipman he joined HMS Vanguard, and was with her until January 1914, being promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant on 15th September 1913. There is then a gap in records until he joined HMS Centurion on 6th May 1914, promoted to Sub Lieutenant on 15th June 1914 and posted to Phaeton (depot ship for TB-8) from 29th July 1914 to 10th February 1915. On 10th February 1915 he joined HMS "Dido", the depot ship for HMS "Mentor". Promoted to Acting Lieutenant on 15th May 1916, he was then posted to HMS "Simoom" and promoted Lieutenant on 15th June 1916. His records show his senior officers considered him hard working but plodding at first, going on to be slow but reliable. Still slow he was then considered to be good with the men. Eventually he was deemed to be a promising officer with considerable force of character. He was killed in action on the 23rd January 1917. HMS Simoom was sunk in an engagement between British and German destroyers in the Flanders Bight on the night of January 22nd, 1917. The ship belonged to the Harwich Force under Commander R. Y. Tyrwhitt which had put to sea on the 22nd to intercept a German flotilla, under command of Commander Max Schultz. The rival forces made contact between the North Hinder Light and the Maas at 2.45 a.m. on the 23rd. In the fight which ensued the S 50, which had lost touch at about 4 a.m. ran into a line of four British destroyers of which the Simoom was the leading ship. There was a sharp exchange of salvoes and the S 50 discharged a torpedo which struck the Simoom and exploded her magazine, causing heavy casualties. The S 50 then escaped in the darkness. The destroyer Morris took off all the Simoom´s survivors and she was then torpedoed and sunk by the Nimrod on Commander Tyrwhitt´s orders. The Simoom carried a complement of 90. Son of Reverend Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy and Ismay Mary Helen Augusta FitzRoy. Brother of Victoria Alexandrina Mabel Seymour; Violet Freddie Wilson; Charles Alfred Euston FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton; Lady Anna Ismay Ethel Byron and Lord John Percy Samuel FitzRoy. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Medway, Kent. Panel 20.

17 (Training) Squadron, Royal Air Force, formerly Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Coldstream Guards, formerly The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment). Born in London on 24th July 1884, baptised at the Parish Church of All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge on the 4th November 1884. Educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne and Harrow, London. He married Auriol Margaretta Brougam in 1913 and had three children, John Charles William Fitzroy (later 9th Duke of Grafton); Lady Margaret Jane and Lady Mary Rose. He first enlisted in The Buffs, The Royal East Kent Regiment. He was then commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, and he was in France/Flanders by the 11th November 1914 (no clasp claimed for the 1914 Star). He was wounded and eventually repatriated suffering from shell shock. Then, although over age for flying, he joined the Royal Flying Corps. Late in 1917 he had flown DH6 and RE8 on a course at Winchester. 22nd November 1917 he passed-as an Observer. On 1st February 1918 he was recorded as fit to be an Artillery Pilot. The Royal Air Force was formed on 1st April 1918 and on 20th April he was in 17 Training Squadron at RAF Yatesbury, near Calne, in Wiltshire. He was killed on the 23rd April, 1918 in a plane crash aged 33 years. Son of Alfred Henry Maitland Fitzroy, 8th Duke of Grafton and Lady Margaret Rose Fitzroy née Smith. Husband of Viscountess Ipswich, Potterspury House, Stoney Stratford, Buckinghamshire. He is buried in the Parish Church St. Genevieve Churchyard, Euston, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk.

Note: His cousin, Edward Henry Fitzroy, had been killed in 1917 on HMS "Simoom".

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Major, Acting Lieutenant Colonel, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Division. Born on the 5th May, 1885 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He enlisted in the Regular Army in 1906. Resident at 75 Enys Road, Eastbourne. He was killed in action, aged 32 years on the 28th September, 1917 in Mesopotamia (Iraq). Son of Hastings Norman Victor and the late Anna Mary Harington, of Edgewood, Arrow Lakes, British Columbia, Canada. Buried in the Baghdad War Cemetery (North Gate), Baghdad, Iraq, II. E. 5.

Note: Whilst the current climate of political instability persists it is extremely challenging for the Commission to manage or maintain its cemeteries and memorials located within Iraq. Alternative arrangements for commemoration have therefore been implemented and a two volume Roll of Honour listing all casualties buried and commemorated in Iraq has been produced. These volumes are on display at the Commission's Head Office in Maidenhead and are available for the public to view.

Second Lieutenant, 3rd and 12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, attached 127th Brigade H/Q. Born in December 1896 in Thames Ditton, Surrey. Educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne and Charterhouse School, Godalming. He was killed in action on the 20th December, 1917 aged 22220 years, at the third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. Son of Alwyn Ernest and Constance Ethel Lasenby, of the Old House, Esher, Surrey. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium, Addenda Panel. He is also commemorated on the Charterhouse School Roll of Honour.

Captain, 1st Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles. Born on the 4th March, 1883, in India. He was at Marlborough College from January 1897 until April, 1900. In his last year he was in the School Hockey X1. He then continued his education at Royal Military College, Sandhurst. The London Gazette for the 17th January, 1902 lists his commission to the Unattached List. Then on 21 July, 1903 he is listed again as a Second Lieutenant. On 23 Sept 1904 his promotion to Lieutenant was gazetted and he is listed as '16th Rajputs (the Lucknow Regiment)'. He joined the 9th Gurkha Rifles later that year. The regiment moved to Dehra Dun, in the Doon Valley in the foothills of the Himalayas, in early 1905. During 1907-1908 he was involved with Famine Relief work in Bengal. He was promoted to Captain in 1911. From 1912 to 1914 he was Station Staff Officer, Bareilly (possibly an appointment outside his regiment). He married his wife, Grace Edith Savage in Bombay in July 1913. His only child, a son, was born in Ireland in September 1915. The ship carrying the battalion from France 'arrived at Basra on the morning of 4th January, 1916, exactly a month after they had embarked at Marseilles. Here Captain F.N Maclaran, with a draft from the Depot, joined the Battalion.' He was killed in action attacking the Turkish trenches at Beit Aiessa, on the 15th April 1916. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Blayney Maclaran; husband of Grace Edith Maclaran, (nee Savage) now Mrs. E. R. Casement, of Rarkmoyle, Cushendall, County Antrim. He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, AL Basrah, Basra, Iraq, Panel 51. He is also commemorated on the Marlborough College’s Roll of Honour.

Note: Whilst the current climate of political instability persists it is extremely challenging for the Commission to manage or maintain its cemeteries and memorials located within Iraq. Alternative arrangements for commemoration have therefore been implemented and a two volume Roll of Honour listing all casualties buried and commemorated in Iraq has been produced. These volumes are on display at the Commission's Head Office in Maidenhead and are available for the public to view.

Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps and 18th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Born in 1893. Educated at Ascham St. Vncent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and at Uppingham School, Rutland. In 1911, he was living in Huntingdon and he was a Solicitor Articled Clerk. He was killed, aged 24 years, on the 6th February 1917 while serving as an observer with 20 Squadron, flying with pilot, 2nd Lieutenant M. E. Woods (wounded and a P.O.W.). They were shot down by an enemy fighter south-east of Gheluvelt, while on a photographic reconnaissance. Younger son of John Percy Maule, Clerk of the Peace, Huntingdon County Council and of Mrs. Percy Maule, The Views, Huntingdon. He is buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium, XV. L. 13. He is also commemorated on the Huntingdon Town Hall War Memorial and the Parish Church of All Saints War Memorial, Huntingdon, and Huntingdon St Marys.

Extract from England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966:

MAULE Edward Barry of Huntingdon and Ripon died 6 February 1917 at Gweluvelt France Administration (with Will) London 21 November (1917) to John Percy Maule solicitor.
Effects £184 6s. 9d.

Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Born on the 10th March, 1893, in Chelsea, London. Educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, and Eton College, Windsor. At his preparatory school he was a member of both the football team and cricket Xl. He also won prizes for billiards, chess and draughts. At Eton he won his House Colours for cricket and football. In India he also had many successes in Brigade sports, winning the inter-regimental Sabre v. Sabre at Jubbulpore in 1913. With his brother he won the open doubles rackets, also in 1913. He was second in Poona at the Hurst Point-to-point, won the Calcutta Light Horse Sports tent pegging, and the Golf Silver Challenge Bowl. He returned to England with his battalion in 1915, moving onto Dardanelles as part of the 29th Division, landing at Gallipoli Peninsula on the 25th April, 1915. He was Signalling Officer for the battalion and after the first week of landing he became acting Adjutant until the 6th June, 1915, when he was reported missing. After a year it was presumed that he had been killed in action on that date. Youngest son of Major Stanley Mundey and Gwendolyn Beresford Mundey (nee O'Reilly). He is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey. Also commemorated on the Eton College Roll of Honour.

Note: An account of Mundey’s gallantry can be found in the ‘Twenty-Ninth Division in Gallipoli’ by the Rev. O Creighton C.F.

Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion attached to the 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, 6th Division. Born in Folkestone, Kent on 9 December 1897. Killed in action, aged 21 years, during the March Retreat on the 21st March, 1918. Son of Sir Francis Osborne, 15th Bart., and Lady Osborne, of Framfield Grange, Uckfield, Sussex. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Arras, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Bay 8. He is also commemorated on the Framfield, Sussex War Memorial.

Note: The ‘March Retreat’ of 1918 is remembered as one of the worst defeats in the history of the British army. ‘It was still dark on the morning of March 21st [1918] when a terrific German bombardment began – “the most terrific roar of guns we have ever heard” … The great push had started and along the whole of our front gas and high-explosive shells from every variety of gun and trench mortars were being hurled over. Everyone [in 54th Brigade] realized that the great ordeal for which they had been training and planning for weeks was upon them.’

Ministry of Munitions. Born in London in 1881, his name at that time was Graham Prockter Smith. After his father died when he was three years old and Graham and his mother went to live with his uncle, William Gage Spicer in Chistlehurst, Kent. He was educated at the Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne. In May, 1897 The Times newspaper reported that Graham Prockter Smith-Spicer had passed his preliminary exams for the Law Society. He must have changed his mind because in 1901 he is employed as a paper maker in Carlton Hill, London. He drops the Smith part of his name and joins the Spicer Brothers (Ltd.), and moves to Malden. He is involved in collecting money for the British and Foreign Bible Society and was a long-standing committee member of the London City Mission. In 1912 he became Managing Director of the Spicer Brothers. He was elected to the local council in 1913, and in 1914 he was adopted as the Liberal candidate for the Epsom district. (He was also adopted as Liberal candidate for Enfield in 1917). As he was rejected for active service (due to an injury) he took up a post in the Ministry of Munitions as liaison officer to the Belgium Government. He was also on a committee that decided on what sort of work conscientious objectors should undertake. He had the idea of getting Belgians, especially men rendered unfit for active service, to work in munitions, and this idea resulted in three thousand Belgians coming to the UK in order to make shells, cartridge cases etc at Birtley, near Newcastle upon Tyne. They called the village Elizabethville. In the time the men worked in munitions, they did much more than they were expected to: at the production rate set by the British government they would have made just over 1 million shells by the end of the war, but instead turned out 2¾ million … and this from a workforce comprising 85% 'war-wounded'. For his work in the construction and maintenance of the village, he was awarded the Belgium Crown, and he received the notification two days before his death. He died of complications of influenza on the 3rd November, 1918.

Note: The Graham Spicer Institute (GSI) is a Charitable Trust based in New Malden, Surrey, providing local people with excellent sporting facilities & venue hire which includes hall hire & function room hire for meetings

Lieutenant, H.M.S. Tartar, Dover Destroyer Flotilla, Royal Navy. Born on the 4th September, 1888 in Lindfield, Sussex. Educated at Ascham St. Vincent’s Preparatory School, Eastbourne, Eastbourne College and Britannia College, Dartmouth. On 15th September, 1905 he was appointed a Midshipman; 1909 a Sub Lieutenant; 1911 a Lieutenant his promotion being on the last day of the year. Twiss was appointed in command of the Tribal Class destroyer Tartar on 4 June, 1917. He was killed, aged 28 years, along with forty-two other men, when Tartar struck a mine in the Channel on the 17th June, 1917. Son of Vice-Admiral Guy Ouchterlony Twiss and Margaret Louisa Twiss. He was buried privately at the Walstead Cemetery, Lindfield, West Sussex, 1633. Also commemorated on the Lindfield, Sussex War Memorial.

Second Lieutenant, 56 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Born on the 21 Jun 1898. Killed in action whilst flying over enemy lines on the 10th October, 1917, aged 19 years. Wilkinson's inscription says no more than his parents knew about his death; it repeats the official information they received. No one knew exactly what happened to him. However, the fact that he was originally buried by the Germans indicates that he was probably shot down by German artillery. Pilots on both sides did their best to identify the planes they brought down in order that they could claim them as victories - even making contact with the enemy squadron for confirmation. No one claimed Wilkinson as a victory so presumably he wasn't brought down by a plane. He was gazetted second lieutenant in April 1917, reported to have been wounded in June 1917, obviously recovered, and died in unknown circumstances on 10TH October, 1917. Wilkinson originally served with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and at the time of his death was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, Son of Henry Wall Wilkinson and Ada Eliza Wilkinson, of 14 Creffield Road, Ealing, London. Buried in the Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, IV. H. 29.

Note: His brother John also fell (see below). His elder brother, Alan Machin Wilkinson, was a Royal Flying Corps ace with 19 victories to his credit. He finished the war as a Group Captain with a DSO and bar - he was 27 years of age.

Lieutenant, 1st/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment attached to Dunsterforce. Born 1995 in Eastbourne, Sussex. Wilkinson, a Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment, was a member of Dunsterforce. This early special forces unit hoped to organise local resistance to Ottoman advances into the Caucasus and Central Asia. The region was a powder keg of competing Bolshevik, nationalist, Ottoman and British interests. Wilkinson was killed when Jangalis, Iranian nationalists, attacked a small detachment of British forces in the town of Rasht on the 20th July, 1918.. He was 23 years of age. Son of Henry Wall Wilkinson and Ada Eliza Wilkinson, of 14 Creffield Road, Ealing, London. Originally buried in Rasht Armenian Cemetery, his name is now commemorated on the Tehran War Memorial, Tehran, Iran, Panel 3. Column 1.

Note: His brother Geoffrey also fell (see above). His elder brother, Alan Machin Wilkinson, was a Royal Flying Corps ace with 19 victories to his credit. He finished the war as a Group Captain with a DSO and bar - he was 27 years of age.