Captain, 3rd Battalion attached 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Killed in action 26 August 1914. Aged 24. Son of the Rev. Charles and Annie Bass, of Steeple Claydon Vicarage, Bucks. In the 1891 census he was aged 1, born Surrey, son of Charles and Annie Bass, resident Cambridge Road, Lee, Lewisham, London & Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 21, born Streatham, Surrey, living on Private means, resident The Vicarage, Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire. Buried in NAVES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France. Plot III. Row E. Grave 9.

Major, "A" Battery, 46th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died of wounds 2 December 1917. Aged 30. Only son of Florence and the late Hugh Dunbar McMaster First joined 48th Brigade in 1907, at Dundalk; Ireland. Seriously wounded in 1914 and in 1916. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) and Military Cross (M.C.). Buried in WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot IV. Row J. Grave 2.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 4, page 124:

McMASTER, HUGH, D.S.O., Major, Royal Field Artillery, only s. of the late Hugh Dunbar McMaster, J.P., of co. Down, by his wife, Florence, dau. of the late Major-General George Harper Saxton, Madras Stall Corps; b. Gilford. co. Down, 11 March, 1887; educ. Tyttenhanger Lodge; Rugby, and Royal Military College, Woolwich ; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Field Artillery July, 1907; promoted Lieut., Capt.- October, 1914, Acting Major in 1916, and Major July, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders front the beginning of Aug. 1914; was severely wounded at Braisne, on the Aisne, 1) Sept. following ; on recovery returned to France. and was again wounded Sept. 1916, and died at Boulogne Hospital 2 Dec. 1917, front severe wounds received in action at Grafenstafel, near Passchendaele, on the 29th of the previous month. Buried at Wimereux. His Brigadier-General wrote: "I feel very deeply the loss to his battery and to the country of one of the very finest types of officer I have ever met. He has always shown the most extraordinary devotion to duty," and another officer: "The greatest loss the Royal Regt. has had in this war." Another also wrote: "He was the model of efficiency—noted for his energy, determination and firmness in command of men—yet full of sympathy, kindness, and ever ready to do anything for the welfare of his battery." Major McMaster was three times mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes, 15 June, 1916 ; 15 May, and 14 Dec. 1917) by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was awarded the D.S.O. (London Gazette. 31 Dec. 1917), for gallant and distinguished service in the field, and the M.C.. for gallantry and devotion to duty. Major McMaster was an enthusiastic sportsman, particularly keen on hunting, steeplechasing and yachting ; unm.

Extract from the Distinguished Service Order 1916-1923, page 298:

McMASTER, H. (D.S.O. L.G. 1.1.18); b. 11.3.87 ; s. of H. D. McMaster J.P., and Florence McMaster; d. of Major-General Saxton; educ. at Tyttenhanger Lodge; at Rugby; R.M.A., Woolwich; entered R.F.A., July, 1907; Capt., Oct. 1914; Major, July, 1917; served Europ. War; proceeded to Belgium, Aug. 1914; took part in the Retreat from Mons; was severely wounded in the subsequent advance on 15.9.14; then trained a new battery and went out in command of it in May, 1915; was again seriously wounded on 15.9.16, and was fatally wounded on 29.11.17, dying of his wounds on 2.12.17; Despatches several times; M.C.

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