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This Memorial Volume is dedicated to Old Novocastrians of all generations who in it may learn how much they owe to those brave men, who, at the call of duty, fought for the honour of their country, and, following the great example, willingly laid down their lives for others.
 
AITCHISON, OSWALD ('07) N , joined the forces soon after the outbreak of war as a Private in the 16th Commercial Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He was wounded in 1915, and was again wounded in the attack on Thiepval on July 1st, 1916. He died a week later and lies buried in Doullens Cemetery.
 
ALLAN, ALEXANDER HUGH ('93), joined the forces on March 1st, 1915, in the A.S.C., went to Rouen in November of the same year, and was there until September, 1917, when he was transferred to the Artists' Rifles. He was killed in the battle for the Passchendaele Ridge on October 30th, 1917.
 
ALLEN, ROBERT ('97), volunteered on the outbreak of war for service in the Navy, and early in November, 1914, received his commission as Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., and was appointed to the Tyne Patrol. He was later transferred to the Nore Forces and there engaged in mine-laying and patrol work. Early in 1918 he was lent to the Dover Patrol and was engaged in the English Channel and on the Belgian coast. During the operations against Zeebrugge on St George's Day, 1918, he was one of the four mine-layers of Captain Collins' unit which directed the Vindictive and screened her while she was alongside the Mole. After these operations he returned to the Nore Patrol. Late in November, 1918, while on patrol he contracted a severe chill which developed into pneumonia, and on November 23rd, 1918, he died in the R.N. Hospital, Chatham. " Kindly, unaffected and straight in every act, Robbie Allen won the love and respect of all who knew him."
 
ANDERSON, FRANCIS WILLIAM ('95), served with the forces through the South African War and the campaign in East and West Africa. He died at the Military Hospital, Durban, on April 26th, 1917.
 
ATKINSON, F. P. ('06), enlisted as a Private in the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He has been officially reported as missing since the Somme Battle of July, 1916.
 
BAILES, FRANK G. ('04), Lieutenant, D.L.I., died of wounds after the fight at Ypres.
 
BARNES, HARRY SCOTT ('06), received his commission as Second-Lieutenant, 16th Northumberland Fusiliers in September, 1914, and served with the battalion until it left for France in November of the following year, when he was transferred to the training camp at Hornsea. In January, 1917, he was sent to France to join the 1st Batt., and on Easter Monday of that year he was killed in action at Arras, and was buried in the cemetery there, aged 19 years.
 
BARTRAM, FRANK ('08), enlisted in the Public Schools' Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and went to France with them on July 23rd, 1916. Serving first as a Bomber, he became later a Lewis-gunner, and was wounded whilst attacking the German lines on April 16th, 1917. He died of his wounds and was buried at Fontaine-les-Croiselles.
 
BASTOW, NORMAN ('09), had served his apprenticeship at Wallsend Slipway. He obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the 3rd West Yorks and went to France, where he was attached to the French Mortar Battery. He went to the front in June, 1915, being temporarily attached to the Northumberland Fusiliers He was killed in action, December 23rd, 1916. His Commanding Officer writes : "  He was leading his section, and, utterly regardless of his personal safety, got out of the trench the better to supervise operations, when he was shot through the heart and died immediately."
 
BELL, WILLIAM MARCUS ('09), enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters, April 15th, 1917, and after two serious illnesses left Dover for France on August 23rd, 1918. He was wounded and gassed at the battle of Cambrai on October 25th, 1918, and died on the following day in the General Hospital at Etaples, aged 19 years.
 
BLENKINSOP, WILLIAM M. ('05), joined the Durham University O.T.C. in October, 1914, and was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 12th D.L.I. before the end of the year. In January of the following year he was serving with his regiment as Transport Officer at Aldershot. Promoted Lieutenant he was sent to France, and after a year's service there, proceeded to Italy. He was twice mentioned in despatches. On October 29th, 1918, he was severely wounded in the head and died ten days afterwards. He lies buried at Carita, near Treviso, in Italy.
 
BOOKLESS, ALEXANDER FREDERICK ('10), joined as a Private in the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers in August, 1917, went overseas in April, 1918, and was taken prisoner near Rheims a few weeks later. He died of dysentery in the Trelon Hospital on September 10th, 1918, aged 19 years.
 
BROWN, GEORGE RUSSELL ('09), enlisted in September, 1914, received his commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers a month later, and in November, 1915, was ordered to join a battalion of his regiment at the Dardanelles. After serving for some time on the Suez Canal, he was in France in 1916 with a Trench Mortar Battery, and during the attack at Mouquet Farm was wounded and invalided home. In the following year he was again in France and served with his regiment in the fighting at Passchendaele Ridge and Cambrai. He attended a Lewis-gun course at the base, and returning to his regiment served with it near Arras until February 11th, 1918, when he was killed while in command of his company. He was in charge of a working party engaged by day at a spot under distant observation of the military lines. They had to take cover from shell fire several times during the afternoon, and, according to the account of one of the men, Lieutenant Brown, having given orders to cease work for the day, ordered the men under cover, and waited to see them in their places before taking cover himself. He was hit by a bursting shell and was killed instantaneously. " He was a jolly good pal," an officer writes, " one of the very best, with ever a cheery word and a smile when the ` dumps ' were prevalent." His soldier servant relates that among the men he was best known as " Old Cucumber," on account of his coolness when under fire.
 
BULLEN, HARRY STANLEY T. ('06), received his commission in the Northumberland Howitzer Brigade, R.F.A., in September, 1915, and went to France a few months later. He was promoted Lieutenant in March, 1917, and was killed at the battle of Arras, April 14th, 1917, aged 20 years, and is buried in Beaurains Cemetery, near Arras.
 
BURKE, WILLIAM H. ('08), joined the 6th Northumberland Fusiliers on June 26th, 1916. He was soon in France and wrote on October 6th, 1916, from the base that he was ready to leave for the trenches at any moment. He died on December 7th, 1916, from wounds received November 15th, in the battle of the Somme. " He was a brave and plucky lad," writes the Q.M.S., " and even when he was hit displayed the greatest courage. After being attended to by the Medical Officer he walked to the advance clearing station; in fact he came back to the Sergeant-Major's dug-out and squared everything up, even to putting into good order some effects of other poor lads who had paid the full penalty." Private Burke showed much promise as a scholar, and had been reading for Classical Honours at Armstrong College. He had qualified by examination for the B.A. degree, taking the prize for French. Of a modest and retiring disposition he had exercised much influence for good and had won the respect of both dons and undergraduates.
 
BURN, JOHN CULBERTSON ('09), enlisted in the 2/1st Northumberland Hussars when 18 years of age, and proceeded to France in March, 1917. He was gassed at Ypres on July 13th, and on his recovery was posted to the 9th N.F., with which battalion he served until a few days after the evacuation of Armentieres, when on April 18th, 1918, he was wounded and invalided home. He was again drafted to France about the end of July when he joined the 12/13th N.F., and was killed in action on August 22nd, 1918, on Beaucourt Ridge.
 
BURTON, REGINALD COOKSEY, B.Sc. ('05), gained a Science Research Scholarship while at Armstrong College, and was later appointed Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Geological Survey. Eight months after the outbreak of war he was permitted to join the Indian Army, and proceeded to Mesopotamia. On April 7th, 1916, a month after he had obtained his Second-Lieutenancy, he was shot in the head by a Sniper, and died after remaining unconscious for two days. His brother officers and also the Chief of Survey in India bore testimony of his brilliance and foresight in whatever he did.
 
BUY, KENRIC E. G. ('04), joined the Northumberland Hussars and went to France in 1917. He obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Border Regiment. He fell " while gallantly leading his men into action," and died on the field near Bellenglise, on the Hindenburg line, October 1st, 1918.
 
CAMPBELL, IAN STUART ('06), joined the 16th (Commercial) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers on its formation in August, 1914, and was commissioned as Second-Lieutenant in the 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Scottish) in the following October. He went to the front with his regiment in the early part of 1916, and was killed on Thursday, June 29th, during a night raid, planned anticipatory to the big attack of July 1st, 1916. He was seen lying in " No Man's Land," but next day he was missing, and nothing has been heard of him except an unconfirmed report that he had been buried near Albert.
 
CHAPMAN, JOHN CLIFFORD ('06), was an aviation pupil and was killed while on a trial flight for his certificate as Pilot. On May 10th, 1916, he was flying on a Hall-Cauldron at Hendon when his machine touched the wing-tips of a biplane which was undergoing a test by Mr Courtenay, the newly-appointed instructor. The two machines fell from a height of about two hundred and fifty feet and Chapman was killed.
 
CHAPMAN, WILLIAM A. ('91), joined up in September, 1914, and went to France with the 5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in April of the following year, when that battalion went straight into action at Ypres. He was invalided home towards the end of the year, but returned to France two months later. He was killed during the fight on the Somme on September 15th, 1916.
 
CHAPPY, ATHOL I. ('11), Royal Military College, Sandhurst, was commissioned Second-Lieutenant May, I917, in the Essex Regiment, and served in Egypt (February, 1918). He returned to France in June of that year, and was killed on September 24th, 1918, while his regiment was attacking a strong and intricate point which was eventually captured.
 
CHRISTOPHER, RICHARD ('07), enlisted in the 27th N.F., and was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in November, 1916, in the Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Section) for service in the Tanks. Later he was promoted lieutenant and attached to the 16th Battalion Tank Corps, and served in France on the Cambrai, on the St Quentin front, and on the Hindenburg line. He was killed in action on September 29th, 1918.
 
COULL, JAMES C. ('98), Second-Lieutenant in the 3/1st Northumberland R.F.A., was promoted Lieutenant July, 1917, and later posted to the R.F.A. signalling training centre. He died of pneumonia on February 13th, 1919, at the Gosforth War Hospital.
 
CURRY, PERCY J. ('00), was a Lance-Corporal in the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He was reported missing on July 1st, 1916, and the authorities have sent the information that he was killed in action on that day
 
CURTICE, FREDERICK RUSSELL ('05), joined the R.F.A. soon after the outbreak of war and served eighteen months in France. He held the rank of Lieutenant in 1916, and died on November 17th of that year of wounds received three weeks previously just before the last advance on Beaumont Hamel. A brother officer stated that he left the gun position in order to go to the observation post where he was to register the battery's guns for the bombardment. The road was a very dangerous one and stretched across a mile and a half of country so thick with mud that one had to keep above the trenches and not in them as they were simply running rivers of clay and water. For at least two hundred and fifty yards he was under direct observation from the German side, and it was while crossing this most dangerous part of the road that he received the shell wounds that unfortunately proved fatal.
 
DAVIDSON, ROBERT CHRISTOPHER ('04), went to France in 1915 as a Sapper in the R.E. From May, 1916, he was attached to the 35th Division R.E., and was engaged in the Somme battle of 1916, the German retreat, 1917, and the Ypres to Renaix offensive, 1918. He died in France on March 14th, 1919.
 
DAVISON, CHARLES MONTAGUE ('09), finished a creditable career at school as a prefect and Company Sergeant-Major in the O.T.C. He early answered the call to military service, and obtained a commission in the 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in March, 1917. In the Army he was eminently successful, and at the front was loved and trusted by his men as he had been by the boys at school. By his kindly nature, his sympathy with and his interest in others, his courage and consistency, he won on the battlefield the reputation as an officer of sterling qualities and a gentleman.
   He went to the front in May, 1917, and died on April 10th, 1918, of wounds received that day in action. The chaplain of his battalion writes : " He was one of the most loved of our officers, partly for his boyishness, partly for his delightful personality and manners—some of us called him the Prince '—but chiefly for his fine soldierly qualities. Few officers were more courageous in the line."
 
DAWSON, WILLIAM ATKINSON ('06), was training with the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in September, 1914, and went to France with the 50th Division in April of the following year. He was wounded at the battle of St Julien, and during the second advance on the Somme he was killed at High Wood, September 15th, 1916. " I see him now," said a friend, " as he was then, calmly binding up the wounds of the injured (he was a stretcher-bearer), and unselfishly helping them under that awful death-hail. He always did his work well and was indeed a brave man."
 
DITCHBURN, W. ('05), Private, 6th N.F., reported missing, presumed killed in action, April 27th, 1915.
 
DIXON, CHARLES JOHN ('08), on leaving school Commenced the study of music in which he attained some success. On returning to Newcastle he obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the D.L.I. on May 8th, 1917. He went to France in the following June, and a fortnight later, on June 22nd, was killed by a bomb while in the trenches with a working party.
 
DIXON, GEORGE ('92), was manager of collieries in Nottingham, but enlisted immediately after the outbreak of war in the Coldstream Guards, and was in France early in 1915. His abilities were soon recognised, for in the April following, he held a commission as Second-Lieutenant, R.E., in the Second Division, 1st Army Corps. He was killed in action at Cuinchy, August 6th, 1915, and was buried in the Military Cemetery at Cambrai. " No matter how hard the work to be done," says one who knew him, " he always went straight on with it—thoroughness characterised all his work." " He was greatly beloved, a gallant gentleman who humbly and nobly did his duty." " He was one of the most unselfish men I have known," said another, " and he was always ready to help others and do them a good turn."
 
DIXON, JOHN G. ('10), served at first as a Private in the 6th Battalion N.F., and on the completion of his training was sent to Lichfield Cadet School. He obtained his commission in the 3rd Battalion N.F., but was afterwards attached to the 13th Battalion He was killed while leading his company in an attack on Fontaine-les-Croiselles on June 16th, 1917. " It was his first time of leading and his behaviour was that of an old soldier."
 
DOBSON, SYDNEY ('05), joined the forces as a Private and was soon promoted Sergeant Instructor in the M.G.C. He was drafted to France in July, 1917, and was reported missing on March 21st, 1918. For some time it was thought that he was a prisoner of war in Germany, but in November his parents received word that he had been killed. He had been captured along with others, and as they were being marched away a German machine-gun opened fire and Sydney was mortally wounded.
 
DODDS, JOHN H. ('94), enlisted as a Private in the 23rd N.F., and was killed in action on July 1st, 1916, at the battle of the Somme.
 
DOUGLAS, LESLIE HALL ('95), after leaving school became an assistant surveyor of shipping, and was one of the first to volunteer his services when hostilities commenced, enlisting as a private in the 2nd Field Co., Northumberland Div., R.E. In September, 1914, he held the rank of Second-Lieutenant, and went to France in April, 1915 He was later promoted Lieutenant, but on July 9th, 1915, he was killed in action near Dranoutrè, Belgium.
 
DOUGLAS, ROBERT ('04), joined the 15th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1915. He was twice wounded at the battle of the Somme. Later he served with the British troops at the crossing of the Piave river. On the night of October 26th, 1918, the Northumberland Fusiliers were engaged in action, and during the advance on the following morning Corporal Douglas was one of the first to fall—shot through the heart.
 
DOUTHWAITE, ERNEST E. ('92), joined the forces in Canada where he had been living for several years, and was attached to the 27th Canadian Battalion of Infantry. He was killed in action on April 10th, 1917. An officer writes : " We captured a trench on Vimy Ridge quite close to Farbus, a small village in Farbus Wood. The trench was our objective on the 9th, and we held it until the 11th when we were relieved. The trench was furiously shelled for five hours, and the enemy had the exact range; consequently we lost a lot of then. Douthwaite was killed during those five hours. Before he was killed the boys saw him do a very fine piece of work with a rifle grenade. He put out of action a German machine-gun which had been very troublesome, and so saved many of our men's lives."
 
DOWNIE, PHILIP ('03), served as a Private in the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers He was officially reported missing on July 1st, 1916, and in June, 1917, he was reported as having been killed on that day in the Somme Battle. He lies buried at Lonsdale Cemetery, north-east of Albert.
 
DRYDEN, NORMAN MCLEOD ('95), obtained his Commission as Second-Lieutenant in the old 3rd (Vol. Batt.) Northumberland Fusiliers On the outbreak of war this battalion became part of the 6th Battalion N.F., and he was then Captain of " A " Company. The 1/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers will always be remembered for its glorious work when first in action in April, 1915. On the 24th of that month they were moved up to the Ypres salient to hold what had become at that time a serious situation. On the morning of the 25th, the 6th and other N.F.'s, together with the D.L.I. and Yorkshire Regiments, went into action at St Julien. Captain Dryden was severely wounded in this engagement. Later in 1915 he was appointed to the signalling section of the Farnley Park Bombing and Signalling School at Otley. He died of meningitis, contracted at Otley, on November 23rd, 1915, while on a visit to his brother at Selby, and was buried there with full military honours.
 
DUNFORD, ROY CRAIG ('96), became a chartered accountant on leaving school and later acted as secretary to various companies. Being an old volunteer he obtained a commission in the Northumberland Fusiliers at the outbreak of war. He went to France in May, 1915, was wounded slightly, but returned in the January following. In September, 1916, he was engaged near High Wood, and on the 15th got his company out of an awkward predicament, showing wonderful courage and resource. For this he was awarded the D.S.O.-" For three days prior to an attack he directed the digging of assault trenches under heavy shell fire. During the attack his personal direction of his company resulted in heavy losses to the enemy and the capture of a hundred and fifty prisoners. Finally he was shot through the body whilst organising his defences." On November 10th, 1916, he succumbed to these wounds in the spine.
 
DUNN, ARTHUR GIBSON, M.D., B.S. ('95), had had a most promising career at the Medical College, Newcastle, and having qualified as M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. he became resident Medical Officer at the Newcastle Dispensary. After being for some time at the Northumberland War Hospital, he joined the R.A.M.C. in 1917 and was attached, as Lieutenant, to the 129th Field Ambulance. He was killed on September 5th, 1917, at Alonette Farm, near Langemarck, by a shell bursting near the dug-out door. Only one hour before his almost instantaneous death he had taken the post of a Medical Officer wounded in action.
 
DUNN, FREDERICK 0. ('98), joined the forces immediately after war was declared, and was commissioned in the 4th Battalion Tyneside Scottish (23rd N.F.). Early in March, 1916, he attained his First-Lieutenancy and was appointed Brigade Bombing Officer. On March 19th, 1916, while engaged on a new test with a trench catapult and a percussion bomb, the latter exploded prematurely and killed him instantaneously. He lies buried at Erquinghen, France.
 
DYSON, NORMAN R. ('97), served as a Gunner in the West Lancashire Regiment R.F.A. early in 1916, and went to France in February, 1917. Later he was attached to the 315th Brigade R.F.A. and saw much active service in many parts of the western front. He was offered a commission but preferred to remain as a Private. His influence for good was much appreciated by the men of his regiment, and his officers had the very highest regard for him. He was killed in the Cambrai sector on September 10th, 1918.
 
FARTHING, ALFRED ('09), joined the 31st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in November, 1915, and proceeded to France on July 3rd, 1916, where he was transferred to the 1/4th Battalion K.O.Y.L.I. (Signalling Section). He took part in the first battle of the Somme, and during the fight at Nieuport on July 22nd, 1917, he was gassed, and died two days later while being conveyed to hospital. He lies buried in Le Treport Military Cemetery, France.
 
FLETCHER, JAMES NEVILLE ('98), enlisted in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in September, 1914, and went to France as Corporal in April of the following year. He was wounded in the head at St Julien, and died at Chatham on May 28th, 1915.
 
FOGGIN, GEORGE W. D. ('10), trained for an infantry commission and later transferred to the R.A.F. He was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in September, 1917, and attached to the 48th Squadron. Killed in action in France, July 14th, 1918, aged 19 years.
 
FOTHERBY, REGINALD S. ('07), Driver, 2nd Field Company R.E. (Northumberland Division). After eighteen months' service in France he was wounded in September, 1916, at the battle of the Somme. He was sent to Mesopotamia in April, 1917, and died of dysentery at Basra on March 16th, 1918, aged 25 years.
 
FOX, CEDRIC EARLE ('05), Flight Sub-Lieutenant, R.N. Born December 27th, 1894. Drowned January 7th, 1918. Cedric Fox was a law student and had passed his intermediate examination when he joined the University and Public Schools' Batt.-2Ist Royal Fusiliers in September, 1914. He went to France in 1915, and was recommended for a commission in April, 1916. After having trained at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was gazetted to the N.F., but transferred to the R.N.A.S. which he had long been keen to join. He took a first class certificate as pilot and was attached to H.M.S. Manxman—a sea-plane carrier. Later he was loaned to the 6th Wing, stationed at Taranto, Italy.
   On January 7th, 1918, an enemy submarine was sighted and Sub-Lieutenant Fox took out a machine with an observer in pursuit. He left the station about 2 p.m., and a wireless message was received from them about an hour later. They must have had mechanical trouble about 3.45 p.m. when they had to make a forced landing which they did in spite of a heavy sea. A pigeon was liberated with this message : " Down on surface seven miles S.S.W. Saseno." Unfortunately, owing to the storm or darkness the pigeon did not land at the station, forty miles away, until the next morning. When the boats reached the spot they found nothing but wreckage, which, however, was identified.
 
FUTERS, NORMAN RATCLIFFE (' 10), on the outbreak of war was a first year's engineering student at Armstrong College. He joined the Durham University O.T.C., and was commissioned on November 26th, 1915, to the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Reserve of Officers). In July, 1916, he was in France attached to the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He was wounded during the attack on Nieuport in July, 1917, and for some time was in the Military Hospital at Glasgow. Recovering he returned to France in the following November, and was posted to the loth Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and promoted Acting Captain. The break up of the battalion, however, saw him reduced to the rank of Lieutenant once more with the 18th Pioneer Battalion Later he served with the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers where he commanded " W " Company, being gazetted Acting Captain on September 17th, 1918. He was killed whilst leading his company in the
advance on Ribecourt on September 27th, 1918. A fellow-officer writes : " He was commanding " W " Company at the time, and his company contributed very materially to the magnificent success which the battalion achieved on that day."
 
GANDY, CLEMENT JOSEPH, M.C. ('00), received a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers on October 1st, 1914, and later joined the Royal Engineers. After special preparation at Chatham he was sent to France. In December, 1916, he was awarded the Military Cross for work thus described in the London Gazette—" He led his section and working party by compass bearing all night through heavy fire to the newly captured line. He and his party worked hard throughout the night consolidating the trenches won." He was killed on July 31st, 1917, by a shell, while reconnoitring in the Steenbeck Valley, near St Julien.
 
GIBB, JOHN HARDIE ('08), joined an O.C.B. in 1916, received his commission in the King's Royal Rifles, and went to the front in May, 1917. He took part in the battle for Messines Ridge, and was killed on July 31st, 1917, when leading his men in an attack on the village of Hollebeke. Aged 19 years.
 
GIBSON, GEORGE H. ('05), went to sea as an engineer and was off Constantinople when war broke out. After reaching home he took the first opportunity of entering the Naval Service (December, 1914) as an Engineer Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.R. on H.M.S. Vicknor, an auxiliary cruiser, which, it is feared, was lost on January 25th, 1915, in the Irish Sea.
 
GIBSON, JOHN ('97), on leaving school took up motor racing. In 1912 he had a serious accident while racing in the Isle of Man. At the outbreak of war, however, he enlisted in the 2/7th Devon Cyclist Corps as a despatch rider, and served with that regiment for over eight months, being present at the Hartlepool bombardment. He was then gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the same regiment, serving as Transport Officer. He was next transferred to the R.A.F., and early in 1916 was sent to France where he was accidentally killed on June 19th, 1916. He was commencing a flight and on leaving the ground his machine collided with a hay-mower. The aeroplane was completely smashed, the observer sustained only a few bruises, but Lieutenant Gibson was so injured that he died almost immediately.
 
GILCHRIST, FRANK ('90), Private in the Canadian Infantry, killed in action.
 
GRAY, J. MARSHALL ('01), enlisted as a Private on September 3rd, 1914, in the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He proceeded with his battalion to France in November, 1915, and was killed by a bomb on March 21st, 1916, while his battalion was holding the line in front of Albert.
 
GREEN, CHARLES ARTHUR, M.C. ('06), only son of the late Arthur Green, M.B., B.S., of Gateshead, was born on April 28th, 1897. He became a member of the school O.T.C. on its inception, and a few years later obtained a scholarship to Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire. When war broke out he was a classical scholar of Worcester College, Oxford. He joined the Royal Horse Guards, O.T.C., in February, 1916, and was gazetted Second-Lieutenant Special Reserve of Officers on August 11th, and attached to the R.G.A. after two months' training at Shoeburyness.
  He was in France in January, 1917, attached to the Lowland Heavy Battery as forward Observation Officer, and during the battle of Arras in April and May gained great distinction and was awarded the Military Cross. The London Gazette for June 26th, 1917, says : " Charles Arthur Green, Second-Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery, Special Reserve : For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst forward Observation Officer with Infantry during attack. Four times he came back with valuable information through the heavy enemy barrage and, at a critical moment when our attack was strongly held, once more returned through the barrage, and informed the Infantry Brigade Commander that reinforcements were urgently required, thus relieving a very serious situation."
Seventeen days later (July 13th, 1917) he fell in action at Arras. He and others belonging to his battery were a little way from their guns when a German shell burst close to them, killing him and two of his men, and seriously wounding several others. His Colonel wrote : " He was our best Observing Officer, and did excellent work in all the operations near Arras in April and May, 1917. He displayed great gallantry on several occasions for which I am glad to see that the Military Cross was awarded. Cheerful at all times and willing to undertake any work, he was much respected by both men and officers and we all regret his loss. He has been buried close to the spot where he was killed."
 
GUTHRIE, HERBERT ('97), joined up as a Private in the R.M.L.I. on January 4th, 1917. He was killed at Passchendaele, October 26th, 1917, aged 33 years.
 
HALL, CHARLES EDW. RUSSELL ('09), when war broke out was at the Bank of Montreal in British Columbia: He immediately enlisted, then eighteen years of age, in the Medical Corps of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He suffered from two attacks of trench fever, and was subsequently transferred to the 3rd Battalion Field Ambulance for service in France and Flanders. In this work of succouring the wounded he sacrificed his life near Cambrai on September 27th, 1917, aged 22 years.
 
HALL, GEORGE HANNAY ('06), joined the London Scottish in 1912. When war was declared he volunteered for service and went to France with the 1st Battalion in September, 1914. In September, 1915, he was wounded at Loos, and on recovery was given a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the 24th Middlesex Regiment. He joined, however, the Indian Army Reserve of Officers, and in May, 1917, was ordered to India, being attached to the 1/39th Garhwal Rifles. On the outbreak of trouble on the North-West Frontier he was sent there with the 4/39th Battalion Garhwal Rifles, and remained there till ordered to proceed to England for demobilisation. He unfortunately contracted enteric and died on board the S.S. Manora in the Red Sea on December 6th, 1919. His rank was then that of Captain.
 
HALL, PERCY GEORGE ('04), on leaving school joined the Merchant Service, and was at sea when war broke out. On his return he obtained his commission in the Tyneside Scottish in 1915, and went to France with them in January, 1916. In the early part of June the Brigade was moved to the front line trenches at La Boisselle in contemplation of the Somme offensive. On June 28th, 1916, it was found that German wire entanglements in front of their lines had remained untouched by our artillery fire owing to the formation of the ground. Engineers were detailed to go out at midnight to clear the ground of these obstacles, but previously a raid on a large scale was conducted by Tyneside Scottish troops which raised the German fire and activity. Volunteers were called for, to act as a covering party to the Engineers. Second-Lieutenant Hall immediately offered and was accepted, and the men of his platoon were eager to go with him. He made his dispositions so well that the operation was successfully accomplished, but while leading his men Lieutenant Hall was shot by a Sniper and died a few minutes later. His comrades, officers, and men paid a high tribute to his skill, courage, and care. As an instance of his fearlessness in leading, his Company Commander subsequently reported that, in the dispositions for the opening of the battle on July 1st, the 4th Batt., being close to the German lines, was ordered to lead the Brigade into action, with Lieutenant Hall's platoon (the nth of " C " Company) in the van, for his men would follow him anywhere.
 
HALL, WILLIAM B. ('06), joined the D.U.O.T.C. in the early part of 1915 and was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion Tyneside Scottish. He was transferred to the Army Cyclists' Corps for the 34th Division when it was first formed, went to France in January, 1916, and was with this corps till it was disbanded in March, 1918, when he was Captain and Lewis-gun Instructor. He was severely wounded on August 22nd when he was serving with the 24th Battalion London Regiment, and died on August 25th, 1918.
 
HALL, WILLIAM GASTON DUVAL ('06), enlisted in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers a few days after war was declared and served in France until March 23rd, 1918—a very disastrous day for the 6th Northumberlands. He was engaged as a runner and after having taken despatches, had returned and taken more. It is officially presumed that he was killed on that day.
 
HAMER, ARTHUR DERRICK ('04), on leaving school, proceeded to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was reading for the theological tripos with a view to ordination and work in the foreign mission field, when war broke out at the end of his first year. He offered his services on the day war was declared and soon afterwards received his commission in the Northern Cyclists' Battalion. He was gazetted Captain in June, 1917, and went with the Manchester Regiment to France three months later. His Commanding Officer writes : " He was killed in an attack on the morning of November 6th, 1918, near Maubeuge, leading his company with unequalled bravery. He showed an absolute disregard for his own safety, his one thought being to lead his men and to gain his objective, and as a soldier and a Christian he was an example to all of us."
 
HANSON, JOHN ('05), was a Private in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in August, 1914, and died of wounds received during the attack on St Julien, in the second battle of Ypres, April 28th, 1915. He was buried at Bailleul in France.
 
HARKER, GEORGE ERNEST ('03), became a mining engineer after leaving school. He obtained a commission in the R.F.A. in October, 1914, and was promoted Lieutenant in February, 1916. He went to the front in January, 1915, and was wounded on February 16th, 1917, and again two months later. On May 19th, 1917, he was killed in action, aged 24 years.
 
HARKER, GEORGE ALFRED ('88), joined the Northumberland Fusiliers on October 6th, 1916, and was transferred on November 16th following to the Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment. He went to France in January, 1917, and was reported missing at Bullecourt on May, 3rd, 1917, aged 44 years.
 
HARRISON, EDWARD ('09), obtained a commission in the R.E., afterwards being transferred to the R.A.F. In May, 1918, his squadron, the 24th, was stationed in the Somme district. Units scouted daily, making bomb attacks on Chaulnes, at that time about twelve miles within the enemy lines. On the 17th, Lieutenant Harrison and eight others, were attacked by enemy machines while returning to their base. They rose to seventeen thousand feet when Lieutenant Harrison was shot down, near East Vermando Villas.
 
HARVEY, WILLIAM ('09), was commissioned as Second-Lieutenant 3rd Northumberland Fusiliers on October 12th, 1915. He had been in France about four months and had been engaged in some of the heaviest fighting on the Somme front when he was severely wounded on October 12th, 1916. Writing a few days later his Commanding Officer says : " It is with great regret that I have to write and tell you of the death of your splendid boy. On the evening of the 12th inst. he was one of four officers and a hundred men detailed to make a raid on the enemy trenches. He went
off in most splendid spirits and it was due to his fine example that the party did so well. He was badly wounded just above the knee, and his Sergeant who was also wounded, brought him out into ' No Man's Land,' and then our Padre went out and fetched him in. He was taken to the hospital at Armentiers and next day sent to the Australian hospital at ' Trois Arbres,' Steenwerck. I went over to see him on the 13th but was not able to do so. I regret to say he died the same night. I saw the poor lad laid to rest alongside many another good fellow who had made the supreme sacrifice for his country."
 
HASLAM, ARTHUR DIXON ('03), was Captain both of the school cricket and football teams and on leaving was awarded the Collingwood prize. When war was declared he was holding a science scholarship at Armstrong College. He was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers on September 15th, 1914, and a week later was transferred to the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He gained his Lieutenancy June 1st, 1915, and went to France with the 9th N.F.. in July, 1915. He was wounded in February, 1916, while fighting in the International Trench at " The Bluff." After being in hospital at Boulogne he was invalided home but returned overseas in September, 1918. He was severely wounded in October of that year and died on November 2nd, 1918, aged 26 years.
An Old Boy writes : " ' Kiddy '—we shall always remember him by that name. At its every mention we recall the little interesting scenes of our school-boy life. It was chiefly upon the playing fields that we knew him and watched the development of his manhood. There he was an example of self-forgetfulness, and we never knew him hesitate to sacrifice, that we might gain. Not of strong physique, he possessed something greater which we call ' pluck.' But the secret of the nature which made us love ' Kiddy,' and which made him the confidant of many a schoolboy secret, was his quiet reserve. We can fully believe from our knowledge of him that in a critical time he would serve for duty and usefulness rather than ` showiness.' We accept the mystery of his call to a Higher Service in the knowledge that he would humbly make the great sacrifice with the highest sense of duty."
 
HAVELL, ERIC TUNBRIDGE ('09), entered the service of the London County Council in 1913, and soon after the declaration of war, on October 9th, 1914, joined the loth Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. Some time was spent in training at home and it was not until the end of August, 1915, that he was sent to France. At the battle of Loos, on the 25th of the following month, the 9th Royal Sussex was one of the battalions in reserve, and in the early afternoon was moved up into the trenches. In the evening the battalion received orders to take part with the rest of the Brigade to which it belonged in relieving the troops who had taken " Fosse Eight " near the Hohenzollern Redoubt. On the following morning the Brigade was heavily bombarded by the Germans, and just before midday Private Havel was hit by a bursting shell. He was instantly killed, September 26th, 1915, aged 22 years.
 
HAVELL, REGINALD BEAUMONT ('08), after leaving school went as a farm pupil in Cumberland and then to Uckfield, intending subsequently to settle in New Zealand. He joined the Middlesex Regiment in June, 1916, and went to France in the November following, just after his nineteenth birthday. He returned home in April, 1917, suffering from blood poisoning, but was back again at the front in August. He was posted as a bomber in the 2nd Middlesex Regiment. After being in the heavy fighting at Passchendaele with the 8th Division he spent four months in hospital in France. He rejoined his regiment in May, 1918, and became a Lewis-gunner. He fell mortally wounded in the German attack near Rheims on May 28th, 1918.
 
HEDLEY, JOHN RALPH, D.S.O. ('84), was born in Berkshire and came to the Grammar School on coming to live in Gateshead. On leaving school he entered the firm of Messrs Anderson & Lee, autioneers, and finally became a partner in the firm. About 1896 he obtained a Lieutenancy in the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (volunteers). He left Newcastle in 1910 to take up an important government appointment at Hull but still kept up his connection with his old regiment. The outbreak of war found him a Captain in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He was soon made Major and went with them to the front, and was with them when they went so gallantly into action at the second battle of Ypres in April, 1915. " In that action outside St Julien the territorials lost their Commander, Brigadier General Riddell, and the story of the battle is one which will always redound to the credit of the fighting sons of Northumbria." After surviving the dangers of the Ypres salient, Hooge and Vimy Ridge, he obtained his Lieutenant-Colonelcy and was attached to the 5th (Cumberland) Battalion Border Regiment. He had been four times mentioned in despatches, and in June, 1916, he was awarded the D.S.O. He returned to France with the Borderers and a year later, on July 15th, 1917, laid down his life in the service of his country. " To his friends he had qualities of kindness, loyalty, straightforward speech and thought, which secured him unalloyed regard, even when we failed to acquiesce in all his views," says his friend the Right Honourable Walter Runciman. " He loved the open air, whether on a cricket field or on a golf course, on horseback, or with a gun. He hated crooked methods and low standards and everything unclean, and he has left with his friends the memory of an upright, wholesome man."
 
HENDERSON, FRANK ('12), enlisted at the age of seventeen in the R.M.S.M. and trained at Aberdeen, Cromarty Bay and the Tyne, and then transferred to the R.M.L.I., training at Plymouth and Deal, He applied for a commission in the Navy and while waiting to know the result of his application he volunteered for the naval raid on Zeebrugge. He was killed during the raid, April 23rd, 1918, aged 19 years, and now lies in the family burial ground at Wallsend.
 
HERBERT, CHARLES STANLEY, M.C. ('IO), was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the D.L.I. in January, 1915 ; proceeded to France, October 1st, 1915, and was transferred to the 15th Battalion D.L.I. He was mentioned in despatches July 1st, 1916, and won the Military Cross on Passchendaele Ridge on October 5th, 1917, being promoted to Captain on the same day. On October 9th, 1918, he obtained a Bar to the Military Cross on Kemmel Hill. He was killed in action on May 27th, 1918.
 
HOGG, ROBERT WALLACE ('11), Northern Cyclists' Batt., served in Lincolnshire until December, 1916. He then joined the M.G.C. (Heavy Brigade)—afterwards the Tank Corps—and went with it to France on July 22nd, 1917, being for a few months on the Ypres section and then in the Cambrai front where he was engaged in the big attack in November of that year. He attained the rank of Sergeant, and was engaged as a Gunner in the heavy fighting near Bray-sur-Somme. He was in action from March 21st, 1918, till the afternoon of the 25th inst. when he was killed.
 
HOLDSWORTH, ERNEST ('12), served in a cadet unit of the R.A.F. in October, 1916, and received his commission as Second-Lieutenant in February, 1917, gaining his wings three months later. He went to France in July and was killed while engaged in an air-fight in Flanders on September 23rd, 1917. He had been mentioned in despatches, and his Commanding Officer wrote : " He was a very efficient officer, and did excellent work whilst at the front. Upright in character, noble-minded and generous-hearted, pure and bold in purpose, devoted to his duty, he was found faithful unto death in his country's cause."
 
HOLDSWORTH, WESLEY COPE ('07), received his commission as surgeon probationer when he had passed his second examination as a medical student of Glasgow University. He joined H.M.S. Begonia on September 19th, 1917, and wrote on the 27th of that month that he had returned to port, and that all had gone well. On October 15th information was sent from the Admiralty that the Begonia was missing—feared lost with all on board. A sailor in a sister-ship informed Lieutenant Holdsworth's father —the Rev. J. Forster Holdsworth—that they were in search of the Begonia for several weeks, and all they could learn was that she was " spoken " in mid-Atlantic on October 6th. Six months later, word was sent from the Admiralty that Lieutenant Holdsworth was killed on or about October 6th, 1917.
 
HUGHES, JOHN, B.A., B.Sc. ('01), joined the Northern Cyclists' Battalion in 1915, was drafted to France, attached to the 25th Battalion N.F., and took part in the actions near Albert. On the night of September 8th, 1916, he was sent out with a covering party to a position near Contalmaison, on the Somme. It was a brilliant moonlight night, but they had to go forward. The Germans waited till they got within range, and then let go a hail of shell-fire for twenty minutes. The Lieutenant signalled his men to retire, sending Lance-Corporal Hughes and another to bring up stragglers. Neither ever returned. The war office records : " Lance-Corporal Hughes, presumed killed in action September 8th, 1916." An officer of his battalion says : " He has proved himself an Englishman in every sense of the word. He had the respect of every one of us in " D " Company, officers and men alike." He was a teacher under the Newcastle Authority, and had devoted much time to voluntary work among the children.
 
HUNTER, ARNOLD COLTMAN ('94}, decided on leaving school to take up work in Canada. After a period on a farm he joined the Royal North-West Mounted Police for three years. When the King's proclamation reached Canada he enlisted in the 152nd Battalion Canadian Infantry and was promoted Sergeant. He reached France on the 16th February, 1917. His last entry in his diary states : " 28th March, 1917. Practising going over to-day and left for trenches at 6 a.m." He was killed next day, March 29th, 1917, near Villers-au-Bois. His Commanding Officer writes : " Although he had been with the company but a little time " (he had been transferred to the 46th Canadians), " I had come to regard him very highly. No task was too unpleasant, and everything he did was done cheerfully."
 
HUNTER, ARTHUR LAWRENCE ('03), volunteered as a Private in August, 1914, in the 9th Battalion N.F., and went to the Ypres front in July, 1915. After a short training at home he was gazetted Second-Lieutenant, February, 1918, in the 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers and again went overseas. He was killed on August 8th, 1918, in the advance near Morlancourt.
 
HUNTER, GEORGE EDWARD ('96), became an architect on leaving school. Later he joined his father's firm, and in 1913 became a partner in the business of Hunter & Henderson, Stockbrokers of Newcastle. He received his commission in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1904 and was gazetted Captain in 1908. He went overseas with that battalion, and was killed in action near St Julien in the second battle of Ypres, April 26th, 1915. A brother officer writes : " He led his men with great courage and a total disregard for himself, and was right in front of the enemy's position when he was killed by a shell fired at short range."
 
HUNTER, HOWARD TOMLIN, M.B., B.S. ('96), became a medical student on leaving school. He qualified for the M.B., B.S., in 1910, and afterwards studied surgery at St Bartholomew's, London, and in Vienna. He received his commission in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1906 and was gazetted Captain in 1912. A writer in the Durham College of Medicine Gazette says : " We have all heard with pride and aching heart of his entry into action. The first torrent of bullet and shell only seemed to increase his absolute indifference to danger, and his example and courage infected the whole company. He led his men through a crossfire of machine-guns and shrapnel, trying to reach the German trenches by a series of rushes. When close to his objective he was struck on the leg but stuck to his job, gamely cheering on his men. We can imagine his bitter disappointment when he had to fall out so near the end of his task. While being helped to the rear he was struck again in the chest and almost immediately dropped dead." This was in the action near St Julien on April 26th, 1915, at the second battle of Ypres.
 
HUTCHINSON, GEOFFREY D. ('08), served in the 2lst Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Corporal. He was wounded on September 15th, 1916, and died three days later in hospital at Amiens, aged 20 years.
 
HUTTON, ANDREW DONALD, M.A. ('01), was a student of Glasgow University when he was sixteen years of age, and showed much promise of being an unusually able man. His arts course was just completed when war broke out, and it was while he was in training as a soldier in 1915 that he graduated M.A. He intended to practise law at the Scottish bar, and in addition to his successes in arts he had been equally successful in the work for his LL.B. degree. He went to France in November, 1915, as a Subaltern in the 15th Battalion Highland Light Infantry. There he attained the rank of Captain, and while leading his company on the morning of July 3rd, 1916, he was killed at Thiepval on the Somme. He lies buried in the Military Cemetery at Bouzincourt.
 
IRVIN, THOMAS WILLIAM ('97), soon after leaving school commenced to study for the ministry in the Presbyterian Church of England, but gave it up for a business career and became a director of Richard Irvin & Sons, one of the largest fishing-vessel firms in England. In Deoember, 1914, he obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders and was promoted Lieutenant in May, 1915. In the January following he crossed to France, and was in the front line till his death on May 10th, 1916. The circumstances which preceded his death were tragic. His company had to go to a rest camp for a week, but the relieving company was short of officers and Lieutenant Irvin volunteered to remain. Some of his men were wounded by a trench mortar, and while attending to them he was himself wounded. While being carried out of the trench he begged his bearers to look after those who were worse off than himself. This was on May 15th. He died five days later. An officer wrote : " So pure in life and lofty in ideal, he has lived and died for those great aspirations which he cherished."
 
JACKSON, HERBERT WM. ('09), joined the D.U.O.T.C. in 1915, was commissioned to the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers as Second-Lieutenant in August, and went to France in May, 1916, attached to the 13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Towards the end of the year he was promoted Lieutenant, and posted to the 97th Field Company R.E. He served with his battalion until January 10th, 1918, when he was killed in action while under shell fire in the Cambrai district. An officer writes : " He had done splendid work with the R.E. We shall all miss him, for in addition to being a most gallant leader, he was a true comrade dearly loved by both officers and men. He always
did his best for the regiment of which he thought so much. He died as he has lived a brave and gallant representative of the Fifth Fusiliers."
 
KNOTT, ROBERT CECIL ('07), enlisted in the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers on September 6th, 1914, and received his Second-Lieutenancy in the 19th Battalion three months later, being placed in charge of the Signalling Company. He was promoted Lieutenant in April, 1915, and Captain on June 15th of that year. On his recovery after an operation for appendicitis he went to France on July 11th, 1916, and was attached to the 20th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Scottish). He was killed in action on August 14th, 1916, and was buried with military honours at Cabaret Rouge near Souchez. Captain Knott had a very lovable disposition, and was a favourite with all who knew him. His Colonel wrote : " I loved him as if he were my own son."
 
LITTLEFAIR, JOHN JAMES ('10), enlisted as a Private in the 7th N.F., and was killed at Ypres on April 26th,
1915.
 
LONG, ARTHUR WM. EMMANUEL ('10), joined the colours on December 24th, 1914, as a Private in the i5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and received his commission in the 8th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment in September, 1915. In June, 1916, he proceeded overseas and was killed in action on the Somme, near Albert, on August 24th, having served with his regiment in France less than two months. The Chaplain wrote : " In the great attack he raced over the open, followed by his platoon and was killed instantaneously by a shell. His gallant conduct largely helped to make the attack a great success. He impressed every one with his singular courage and devotion to duty."
 
LONGHURST, ROY CRESSY ('97), was a member of the D.U.O.T.C. in August, 1914, and a few months later received his commission in the 23rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (4th Tyneside Scottish). He was promoted Captain while undergoing preliminary training at Alnwick, and went to the front in January, 1916. He was engaged in the heavy fighting at Arras, Albert, and La Boisselle, and was gazetted Major on the field and subsequently acting Lieutenant-Colonel. In October, 1917, he was granted six months' leave of absence in England and appointed Commandant of the Training School for the Durham Auxiliary Volunteer Forces being attached to the 3rd Batt Northumberland Fusiliers He had been mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of November 13th, 1916, and during his Colonel's illness was personally complimented by Sir Douglas Haig for his work. He was accidentally killed on March 8th, 1918, whilst on military service, by colliding with a tramcar, when travelling on his motor-cycle from Newcastle to Benton during a snowstorm at night. His Colonel said : " I need not tell you how I appreciated and valued Major Longhurst as a comrade at the front, but far beyond that was his splendid loyalty and affection for his regiment, and all ranks of the 4th Battalion Tyneside Scottish have lost one of their very best friends. You perhaps do not know how he devoted his spare time to the men's comfort and well-being and what valuable work he did in this way.
 
LUNN, HERBERT CHARLES, B.A. (Cambridge) ('98), was a Private in the Public Schools' Battalion in September, 1914, and rose to the rank of Sergeant. He obtained his commission in the Tyneside Scottish in 1915 and at the beginning of the following year was transferred to the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots Regiment. He proceeded to France, attached to the 11th Batt., was wounded at the battle of the Somme in July, 1916, being mentioned in despatches for his work at this time, and was reported wounded and missing in a raid near Arras on
March 21st, 1917—nothing has since been heard of him. He was twenty-four years of age.
 
MCARTHUR, WILLIAM ('05), joined the R.F.A. and was killed at Arras during the night of August 21st/22nd, 1918. He was then serving in the 123rd Brigade, 37th Division, and held the rank of Bombardier.
 
MACLAGAN, JAMES G ('07), was at the Armstrong College when he applied for a commission. Failing to obtain it he joined the ranks and was drafted to the R.A.M.C. at Aldershot, being at that time unfit for foreign service. In January, 1916, he was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and beink passed fit was sent to France attached to the 4/5th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in February, 1917. In the following autumn he was promoted Lieutenant, working hard and gaining the esteem and affection of officers and men alike by his cheerful evenness of temper and devotion to duty. Recovering from an attack of trench fever, he was again sent into the front line, and was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell while leading his company in an attack near Arras on August 1st, 1918.
 
MARKS, JAMES ALBERT ('07), was sent to the East soon after receiving his commission as Second-Lieutenant in the loth (now 7th) Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. While in Mesopotamia he was twice wounded, at the attempt to relieve General Townsend, besieged at Kut, and subsequently contracted enteric fever. He spent several months at Bombay, in India, and was afterwards ordered again to Mesopotamia where, gallantly leading his men in some of the severest fighting, he met his heroic death before Baghdad on February 25th, 1917.
 
MARKS, JOHN ('08), trained with the D.U.O.T.C. and was commissioned as Second-Lieutenant in the D.L.I. in May, 1917. He was wounded during the German offensive on March 21st, 1918, and went overseas again immediately after his recovery at home. He was killed in action on October 23rd, 1918.
 
MARKS, LEONARD GEORGE ('07), joined the 12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and was transferred to the 17th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. He was a Corporal when he went to France in August, 1917, and was killed in action while serving near Armentiers on October 10th, 1918.
 
MERSON DAVID ('00), served as a Private with the Australian Imperial forces and was killed in action April 16th, 1918.
 
MERSON, JAMES LESLIE ('97), joined the Australian forces and attained the rank of Sergeant. He was killed in action on August 31st, 1916.
 
METCALFE, FRANK, M.B., B.S. ('00), joined the 1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance in September, 1914, as a Lieutenant, and was promoted to the rank of Captain six months later. He went to Flanders in April, 1915, and was mentioned in despatches for his splendid work. In September of the following year he was invalided home and was treated at Newcastle. He made an apparent recovery, and although he knew he had not long to live, he returned to France at his own request in the Autumn of 1917. He went through the fighting of the following winter and also the German offensive of March, 1918, but was again invalided home. He died at Framlington House, Newcastle, on July 10th, 1918. A writer in the Durham College of Medicine Gazette says : " Metcalfe was of a very retiring disposition, but the quiet exterior concealed a strength of character that he only revealed to his intimate friends. He was kind, genial, and possessed of considerable moral courage and grit and staying power; yet his outstanding characteristic was his strict sense of honour. No man played the game better than Francis Metcalfe."
 
MILLER, HERBERT ('96), received his commission as an Assistant Paymaster R.N.R. in November, 1914, and after a few weeks spent at Portsmouth was sent to the Lowestoft Naval base. In July, 1917, he was promoted Paymaster-Lieutenant, and early in the following year was appointed secretary to Commodore Alfred A. Ellison, C.B., R.N., Senior Naval Officer at Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth naval bases. He died of pneumonia supervening a bad attack of influenza on December 6th, 1918.
 
MILVAIN, CHARLES EDWARD FRANCIS ('97), took up the profession of an electrical engineer and in April, 1912, went out to Canada. On the outbreak of war he joined the 1st Canadian contingent. On reaching England he received a commission as Sub.Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. and was attached to the " Hawke Battalion " which sailed for Gallipoli in May, 1915. He, after some weeks of severe fighting, was wounded on June 19th while leading his men in a night attack on the Turks. During the whole time they were under heavy shell fire and only one Officer of the company was left. Lieutenant Milvain was removed to Ras-el-Tin hospital, Alexandria, where he arrived on his thirty-first birthday, and died on the following day, June 25th, 1915. A brother Officer wrote: " During the time he was with us we had learned to appreciate him, to value his efficiency as an Officer and to esteem him as a good comrade.
 
MOFFAT, WILDON DAVID ('04), joined up at the 62nd Casualty Clearing Station, R.A.M.C., on March 10th, 1915, and proceeded to France on January 9th, 1917. He was promoted Sergeant, and appointed senior and confidential clerk to his Colonel. Whilst he was stationed at the 62nd Casualty Clearing Station, near Haringhe, Belgium, the hospital was bombed by enemy aircraft on November 29th, 1917, and he was mortally wounded. His Colonel wrote: " The death of your son is a personal loss to me; his work in life requires no praise, and his death is beyond all praise."
 
MORLAND, ALBERT ('12), joined the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards as a Private on February 15th, 1917. He was drafted to France in the October following after training at Windsor. While taking part in the Cambrai action of November, 1917, he was wounded in the head. He fell in action to the east of Cambrai on October 9th, 1918.
 
MORRISON, EDWARD FITZHENRY ('99), after leaving school went out to New Zealand where he joined the forces. He was a Corporal in Lord Liverpool's Own Regiment when he was sent to France in 1917. After being transferred to the Rifle Brigade he was employed as a stretcher-bearer. While engaged in his duty he was hit in the head by a bursting shell and died fourteen days later.
 
MORTON, WILLIAM A. ('05), enlisted in the Ist Life Guards in December, 1915, and was trained at Windsor. He went to France in November, 1916, and was killed in action on December 10th of that year.
 
MURRAY, ARTHUR ERNEST ('07), was a medical student when he joined the D.U.O.T.C. in 1914. He served in France with the 2/8th Battalion London Regiment and was killed near St Julien on September 5th, 1917.
 
NESBITT, FRANK WALLACE ROWLANDS ('10), was commissioned as Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion D.L.I. He was wounded on the morning of April 12th, 1918, while in action near Melville on the Lys and was taken prisoner. According to a report received seven months later he died in the Polytechnic Hospital, Lille, on April 19th, 1918. 
OLLIFF, WILLIAM ('98), volunteered in the Victoria Rifles, in British Columbia in 1914, and came to England in the following year, being one of a hundred picked men for Princess Patricia's Light Infantry. Drafted to the Canadian Scottish (Gordon Highlanders) he went with them to France in 1915 and was killed by an explosive shell on the night of April 26/27th, 1915.
 
ORD, B. PAGET ('05), Private in the 9th Battalion N.F., was killed in action on October 2nd, 1915, at " Hill 60 " whilst rescuing a wounded comrade whose life he saved but lost his own in so doing. A comrade writes : " He was a splendid fellow, always cheery and a real help. His death was a fine one-he went to help another man who was wounded and was shot whilst helping him." Another comrade says : " This was a bad day for the Quaysiders as early in the morning we lost a couple of men. Paget Ord, who was held in high esteem by all, was said to be ' the little man with the big heart,' and quite true, as he had no fear whatever when in the trenches."
 
PARK, ANDREW ('01), joined as a Private in the Tyneside Commercials (16th Battalion N.F.) on September 8th, 1914, and proceeded to France with the rank of Second-Lieutenant. He was killed in action at Ovillers on July 14th, 1916, aged 25, after only eight months' service in France.
 
PAXTON, SAMUEL T. ('12), joined up in the 6th Northumberland Fusiliers in November, 1914, when only 17 years of age. In January, 1916, he obtained his Second-Lieutenancy in the 9th Battalion D.L.I. He went to France with them five weeks later and was killed in action at Butte de Warlencourt on November 5th, 1916.
 
PIRRIE, ROBERT BOURN ('04), was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in August, 1914, and attached to the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He was posted to the 3rd Battalion Border Regiment and obtained his Lieutenancy. A few weeks later he was serving in France, and during an assault on the Hooge trenches on August 10th, 1915, he met his death, aged 21. A writer in the College of Medicine Gazette says : " His keen sense of humour, his warm responsive nature, his great love of all true sport, and above all, his unfailing cheerfulness endeared him to us, and earned for him the wide popularity which he enjoyed from the time of his entrance into the College. No one was keener to do his duty, no one more determined to fight than ` young Pirrie ' as we always called him."
 
PRESTON, WALTER ('12), joined the forces in the early part of 1917, and after training at Hornsea was posted to the 9th Battalion D.L.I. He went overseas in January, 1918, and was engaged in the battle of the Marne in July of that year. He was killed whilst fighting with the Durhams at La Maisonette on July 23rd, 1918. " Always bright and cheerful he endeared himself to all who knew him," said one who knew him well.
 
PRINGLE, GEORGE ('07). A few weeks after leaving school in February, 1914, he joined the 6th Battalion N.F., and was called out on mobilisation, becoming attached to the machine-gun section. He left England with the Northern Division in April, 1915, and went straight into the fighting of the second battle of Ypres. In September, 1916, he was prevailed upon to take a commission, and was about to return to England for training. On November 14th he was engaged, being then Sergeant, in a heavy charge near Butte de Warlencourt. Twice on that day he was seen to be wounded, but was able to attend to his wounds. Nothing has since been heard of him.
 
PRITCHARD, RALPH BROOMFIELD, D.S.O., M.C. ('02), enlisted as a Private in the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in September, 1914, and was commissioned to the 27th Battalion in May of the following year. He was promoted Captain in February, 1916, and Acting-Major in October, 1917. He took part in the " Big Push " on the Somme front in July, 1916, and was awarded the Military Cross for his gallantry and good work on July 1st, being also mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of the 4th January following. While engaged in the hard fighting near Ypres on April 16th, 1918, he was severely wounded and died ten days later. He was at this time attached to the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment, and for his work was awarded the D.S.O. in May, 1918, and mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch of December 27th, 1918. The London Gazette says : " When the battalion was ordered to fill a gap in the front line, this officer, in charge of the advance guard, acted with such dash that it was mainly through his fine work that his battalion was able to do so. Later he advanced again and occupied the old line, getting in touch with the flanks, and capturing three men of an enemy patrol. He held the line for the next four days while under heavy fire, and was severely wounded when leading his company in a counter-attack when it gained its first objective.
 
PRITCHARD, WILLIAM ALWYN ('02), enlisted as a Private in the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in January, 1916. He was wounded at the battle of the Somme in July, 1916, and in November, 1917, was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion D.L.I. After the fight at Mont Kemmel on April 26th, 1918, the day on which his brother, Major Pritchard, died of wounds received in action, he was missing, and the authorities have concluded that he was killed on that day. He was at that time attached to the 1st Wiltshire Regiment.
 
PROCTER, CHARLES GORDON ('08), joined the Royal Air Force, and was gazetted Flight-Lieutenant. On Sunday, February 20th, 1916, he was taken up twice, on the first occasion for half an hour's instruction in flying, and afterwards for instruction in landing. He had full control of the machine the whole time, framed well and was very promising. Being considered proficient he then went up alone, and rose to the height of three hundred feet, when going round the aerodrome the second time, the machine nose-dived to the ground. Lieutenant Procter must have fallen out as the machine turned over in mid-air, for he was picked up fifty yards from the wrecked machine. He was buried on February 24th in Benton Churchyard.
 
RAYNES, ROBERT ('07), joined the Duke of Wellington's Regiment as a Private in August, 1914, and obtained his commission in the 14th Battalion D.L.I. in January, 1915. In the following September he proceeded to France, and within ten days of landing was engaged in the attack on Loos, when he was shot in the head. A fellow-officer carried him to the shelter of a haystack where he remained for thirty hours. He died at Le Treport, near Loos, on September 28th, 1915.
 
RICHARDSON, ARTHUR ('02), joined the R.A.F. in Canada and was accidentally killed in Deseronto on October 4th, 1918.
 
RIDLEY, PATTISON REAY, M.C. ('93), joined the Northern Cyclists' Battalion in 1912, and volunteered for service overseas with the 62nd Division in July, 1916, having attained the rank of Lieutenant. He was later on attached to the 2/5th West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellington's), and while with them was awarded the Military Cross. " On the evening of the 27th/28th February, 1917," says the Gazette announcement, " he was in charge of three officers' patrols, of one officer and one hundred and fifty ranks, detailed to rush Orchard Valley from Gudgeon Trench. Lieutenant Ridley was responsible for maintaining the direction, marching on a compass bearing for five hundred yards across unknown and difficult country. This officer led his party with great dash, shooting one German and capturing another on entering the trench. He showed considerable coolness and ability in the attack and in organising the defence of the trench." The Commanding Officer heartily congratulated him on being the first officer of the battalion to be awarded an honour for distinguished service in the field.
On May 3rd, 1917, Lieutenant Ridley was reported wounded and missing, and since that date no further news has been received.
 
ROBINSON, ARTHUR ('05), entered the accountants' department of the North Eastern Railway after leaving school, and on November 10th, 1915, enlisted as a Private in the Argyll and Sutherland Regiment. After training at Edinburgh he went to France on Good Friday, April 21st, 1916. He was posted to the 2nd Batt., and went into action near High Wood on the Somme. On August 18th, 1916, he made the supreme sacrifice. He went into action on that day, and was last seen crossing " No Man's Land." Many letters received from his associates in the Army testify that he had earned their good will to a very high degree.
 
ROBINSON, GEORGE ('05), Quartermaster-Sergeant, Army Cyclist Corps, died.
 
ROBSON, ERNEST WEATHERSTONE ('97), was a resident student at the Hartley Primitive Methodist College and Victoria University, Manchester, when, with twenty-five others, he enlisted in the 135th Division, Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., in October, 1915. He went overseas on June 1st, 1916, and died of wounds received while acting as stretcher-bearer in the battle of Cambrai, November 24th, 1917, aged 25. Many letters have come to hand since his death which reveal how greatly he was admired and loved.
 
ROSS, JOSEPH ('09), Private in the 15th Welsh Regiment in 1917, was later on promoted Lance- Corporal. He was killed in action May 10th, 1918, and was buried near Martinsart, north of Albert.
 
ROUTLEDGE, JOHN FREDERICK ('94), joined the Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry when war broke out and was afterwards gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Later he was attached to the Nigerian Regiment and served in the Cameroons. He proceeded to France early in 1917, and was killed in action on September 3rd of that year, aged 34 years.
 
SAUNDERS, KENNETH ('99), obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers (Commercial Battalion) and was in training at Alnwick. On New Year's Eve, 1914, he went out with a fellow Officer on a motor-cycle, and when returning in the early evening from Newton-on-the-Moor, the cycle, after skidding several times, eventually overturned. Lieutenant Saunders was found dead beneath the machine on the road side. He was buried at St Andrews' Cemetery, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
 
SELLERS, JOHN HARRISON ('09), held a scholarship at Armstrong College, had passed his 1st B.Sc. examination and was at Messrs Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson's works when war broke out. He was one of the first of the D.U.O.T.C. to apply for a commission, which he obtained on August 15th, 1914. He had joined the 3rd Battalion N.F., but was attached to the 2nd Battalion and left England for France on May 12th, 1915. He was killed on May 24th, 1915, on the eve of the eighteenth anniversary of his birthday.
 
SHACKLETON, WILLIAM LAUNCELOT COLLIER ('97), received a commission as Second-Lieutenant 26th Northumberland Fusiliers (3rd Tyneside Irish) in December, 1914, and was promoted Lieutenant in April, 1915. He proceeded with his battalion to France in January, 1916, was wounded, and returned to England in May of the same year. On his recovery he resumed duties at Hornsea, and then went to France again in October, 1916. He was again wounded on April 23rd, 1917, and, after having his wounds dressed, rejoined his men, and fell mortally wounded on the following day.
 
SHUTTLEWORTH, WILLIAM M. ('12), joined the forces as a Private in the 15th Battalion D.L.I. From June to September, 1918, he had seen much fighting. On September 9th, 1918, he was killed while going over the top during an attack on Chapel Hill, near Villiers Guislain, aged 19 years.
 
SMALLWOOD, ROBERT (ROBIN) HENRY ('07), joined the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Commercials) as a Private in October, 1914. He received his commission in the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in September, 1915, and went to France in May of the following year. He was engaged in the great attack against Thiepval on July 1st, 1916, when he was slightly wounded, but remained on duty. Before the end of the month he was suffering from trench fever and was sent home. He was gazetted Lieutenant on March 18th, 1917, and went overseas in the following September attached to the 4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Later he was Acting-Captain with the 5oth Division, and while engaged at the Chemindes-Dames on May '27th, 1918, he was severely wounded, and died after being taken prisoner. Writing of him, the Chaplain says : " He was a man of real capacity and force of character, and soon won and sustained his place."
 
SMITH, WILLIAM DAVIDSON, B.A. ('03), being rejected for a fighting unit, enlisted in the R.A.M.C. on Whit Monday, 1915, was promoted Corporal and proceeded to France with the 92nd Field Ambulance. He was engaged in hospital work in Albert and was sent with his unit to the advanced dressing-station on July 1st, 1916, when the great advance on the Somme began. About eleven p.m. on that day he was killed by a piece of German shell while engaged in dressing the wounds of a soldier in the open field. He lies buried at Bouzincourt, near Albert.
 
SPENCER, HARRY JOHN ('86), joined the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers (Commercial Batt.) in September, 1914, and a few weeks later was promoted Sergeant. He obtained his commission as Second-Lieutenant in the D.L.I. in November, 1914. In July of the following year he went overseas and served in the Ypres salient. He was severely wounded in June, 1916, whilst fighting in the neighbourhood of Kemmel, and was sent home. He returned to France in September, 1916, and was promoted Captain, being transferred to the 15oth Brigade, Trench Mortar Battery, Northumbrian Division. He was killed while fighting near High Wood on the Somme on November 17th, 1916, aged 42 years.
 
STEPHENS, LINDSAY NELSON ('05), was one of the first to commence training under Colonel W. H. Ritson on the outbreak of war. He joined up in the Quaysiders Company of the 9th Northumberland Fusiliers and went to France with that battalion. On Saturday, May 6th, 1916, he was out in charge of patrol, putting out wire in front of the trenches, when he was shot and instantly killed. His Captain says of him : " I had hoped that he might get his commission any day, and no one deserved to get one more than he. He did extraordinarily well when in the trenches and I knew his sterling worth. No one worked harder than he for the welfare of the battalion and I owe a great debt of gratitude to him for his help. His was indeed a splendid disposition and a fine character."
 
STEPHENSON, ROBERT BREWIS, M.C. ('10), enlisted as a trooper in the Northumberland Hussars before the outbreak of war. He went to France in January, 1915, and was transferred in August, 1916, to an Officers' Cadet Battalion He obtained his corn-mission as Second-Lieutenant in the N.F., returned to France and was wounded on June 6th, 1917. He won the Military Cross on October 10th, 1917, and shortly afterwards was reported as dangerously wounded. A few days later his death in hospital was announced. The Gazette announcement of the M.C. is as follows'; " Second-Lieutenant R. B. Stephenson for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in leading his men to the attack at Passchendaele. As soon as the objective was reached he pushed forward with his platoon, harassing the enemy as they retired, and inflicting heavy casualties. He afterwards, on his own initiative, organised two bombing posts and beat off a counter attack."
 
STEWART, VERNON F. ('07), joined the D.L.I. shortly after war broke out and was for a time Battalion Bombing Officer. He transferred to the R.A.F. in May, 1916, and obtained his wings in a little more than two months. Before going to the front he was in the London Night Flying Squadron. By November, 1916, he was Second-Lieutenant, R.A.F., and in France. He took part in the heavy aerial fighting during the May offensive of 1917, and was brought down on several occasions with damaged machine. He was killed in action on May 13th, 1917, aged 24. His Commanding Officer writes : " He was always keen and thorough, and has done splendid work during the eight months he has been with the squadron. I could always rely on his carrying out efficiently any duty which I gave him, and in many cases he succeeded in his work in the face of hostile opposition which would have justified him in abandoning all attempts."
 
STOPHER, F. C. ('12), joined the D.U.O.T.C. and then volunteered for the R.A.F., but on being sent to Hastings for training for a commission, was rejected on account of ear defects. He was transferred, first to the 19th, and later to the 29th, London Regiment. He died of pneumonia in Colchester Military Hospital, December 17th, 1918.
 
STROUD, HENRY CLIFFORD, B.A. (Cambridge), B.Sc. (Durham) ('05), spent two years in the D.U.O.T.C. and was then gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the Northumbrian Division, R.E., in June, 1912. On the outbreak of war he volunteered immediately for foreign service. He went to France with the 1st Field Company, N.R.E., and was severely wounded on February 8th, 1915. He was in hospital at Versailles until April 3oth, 1915, when he was sent to Birmingham and thence to Newcastle. On his recovery he acted as Instructor in field engineering, and from November, 1915, to July, 1916, was engaged in the Northern Command Bombing School, and was promoted Captain, June, 1916. As his wounds prevented his engagement in active field work he felt it his duty to join the R.F.C. This he did in July, 1916, and by September 22nd he had qualified for his wings and been gazetted Pilot. In the early autumn of 1917 he joined the defence of London, and was stationed at Rochford Aerodrome. He was engaged in practically every raid till the penultimate one, on the moonless night of March 7/8th, 1918, when he was killed in action.
 
TANNER, ARTHUR EDWARD ('09), was a Lance-Corporal in the 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers on August 4th, 1914, and was engaged on defence work between Newcastle and the coast. He went to France as Company-Sergeant-Major in April, 1915, and took part in the second battle of Arras. Invalided home in July, 1915, he returned to Franoe as Second-Lieutenant in September, 1916, and was attached to the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He served in the Beaumont Hamel and Serre districts, afterwards taking part in the advance on St Quentin. He fell mortally wounded on June 10th, 1917, during the heavy attack on Nieuport.
 
TAYLOR, RONALD WOODHOUSE ('04), was a medical student when war broke out. He was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in March, 1915, to the 11th Battalion N.F., and went to France a few months later,
From that time onward he was engaged in much fighting, not only through the autumn, but through a long and trying winter. At length, on July 7th, 1916, in the battle of the Somme, he went over the top for the last time in the third wave of a direct attack upon the German lines. He was struck by machine-gun bullets in the chest, and as he lay dying, just before losing consciousness, he said to a companion who survived, " Anyhow, we have taken the trench." It was thus he gave his life for his country. His Commanding Officer wrote : " He was a gallant lad and died a gallant death. He was a great favourite with everyone." He had taken the Collingwood prize on leaving the school.
 
TELFORD, HILTON R. ('02), went to France with the Northumberland Hussars in October, 1914. He was transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Scottish) and received his commission as Second-Lieutenant, acting as Transport Officer to the battalion. Twice he was invalided home but again went overseas in February, 1917, and took part with the Northumberlands in their brilliant attack on September 8th, 1917, when he was fatally wounded. Captain Telford lies buried in the British Cemetery at Tincourt.
 
TELFORD, ROBERT BERNARD ('88), volunteered for France in 1917 as a surveyor of road construction, being attached as Second-Lieutenant to the D.L.I., and was transferred to the R.E. with the rank of Lieutenant. He came home on February 16th, 1919, and died five days later of pneumonia caused by exposure during an eleven days' journey from Spa.
 
TELFORD, WILLIAM ('93), served as a Private in the Gordon Highlanders, and was killed in France, September 10th, 1917.
 
THOMPSON, ARTHUR ('05), joined the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in September, 1914, and on obtaining a commission was gazetted to the 24th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers He had attained the rank of Captain when he was killed in France on July 1st, 1916, at La Boiselle.
 
THOMPSON, WILFRID TAYLOR ('07), was in the D.U.O.T.C. when war broke out, and was soon after commissioned to the 14th Battalion D.L.I. During the following winter he was promoted Lieutenant, having come under the notice of the General commanding the division while drilling his men. He crossed to France on September i Ith, 1915, and the division was rapidly brought forward to the firing line prior to the great attack upon Loos and " Hill 70." In spite of hardship and privation the division fought magnificently, though advancing more or less in the open. At dawn on Sunday, September 26th, Wilfrid Thompson shared command of the first line reserves, and led his men to the charge with great dash and courage. There was no holding him back. He was seen rallying his men after three successive assaults in the last of which a ridge of Hill 7o was taken. Unhappily, when firing over the parapet of the captured trench he was shot in the head and instantly killed. One who met him speaks of him as " A fine fellow, dignified, reserved, always a gentleman, and an example of what a man and a soldier should be." A brother officer says: " He had sound judgment and winning ways, with brains and will power enough to do well and wisely in any circumstances."
 
THWAITES, HARRY HUTCHINSON ('97), joined the Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry on the declaration of war, and went with them to the front as a Trooper. He was in the thick of the fighting in the vicinity of Ypres, and it was not far from that town that he met his death on November 6th, 1914, through the bursting of a shell whilst having their first night's rest after nineteen days hard fighting.
 
TRIMMER, E. H., M.C., B.Sc. ('10), on leaving school entered Armstrong College. He obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the East Lancashire Regiment, and was subsequently promoted Lieutenant. He was mentioned for his good work in Sir Ian Hamilton's despatch of February, 1916, and was subsequently given the Military Cross. He died of wounds received in action.
 
VINCENT, THOMAS ARUNDEL COLLIER (' 10), was a Private in the 14th Leicestershire Regiment before he was seventeen years of age. He was killed on October 13th, 1915, in an attack led by the 4th Leicesters on the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
 
WALLER, HERBERT WILLIAM, M.C. ('00), obtained his commission as Second-Lieutenant in the 21st Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish) on March 8th, 1915. He went to France in January of the following year, having attained the rank of Captain, and took part in the memorable battle of the Somme. In January, 1917, he was awarded the Military Cross. Concerning the attack on Vimy Ridge, General Ferna says : " Captain H. W. Waller, who had returned to duty with the 2nd Battalion as a Company Commander, on one of those occasions (i.e., when an attempt was made to drive us off the ridge) greatly distinguished himself both by the excellence of his dispositions and by his gallantry and initiative in a personal encounter which had disastrous results for the Huns." At the battle of Arras on April 10th, 1917, he had taken his men into action and had gained his objective. Of the battle General Ternon writes : " To my extreme regret, among the officers killed, alas, was Captain H. W. Waller, a serious loss indeed not only to his battalion, but to the Brigade. Owing to his being from time to time attached to the Brigade Staff one had got to know him well and to value his sterling qualities. Always deeply interested in his work, high principled, greatly liked and respected by his superior officers and his subordinates as a brave and thoroughly efficient officer, he had made his mark and his advancement was assured. He met his death while engaged in hunting down an enemy Sniper who had been giving trouble on the top of the ridge, after the enemy had retired and the battle was over."
 
WALLER, THOMAS WILLIAM ('09), was a Private in the N.F., and after serving twelve months in France was drafted to Italy where he was killed in action on October 27th, 1918. He had become a Signaller, and during the advance on the Piave, an Austrian gun, hidden behind a house, opened fire, and he was shot through the head.
 
WARRENER, G. V. ('05), joined the Australian Army Medical Corps in September, 1914, and three months later was sent to Egypt. He served in the Dardanelles, and in November, 1916, was attached to the 4th Australian Field Ambulance in Belgium and later in France. He was killed at the battle of Messines, June 7th, 1917, while carrying a wounded comrade.
 
WATSON, NORMAN OCTAVIUS ('08), joined the 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers (Commercials) in August, 1914, and was drafted to France in 1915. He was killed in action on March 3rd, 1916, and was buried at Millencourt, near Albert.
 
WATSON, RAYMOND VICTOR (' 10), was in the D.U.O.T.C., but decided to join the ranks. He was later transferred from the 6th Northumberland Fusiliers to the West Yorkshire Regiment, and went with them to France in August, 1916. He was gassed at Thiepval, and returned to England towards the end of the year. At the beginning of 1917 he was gazetted Second-Lieutenant and attached to the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers On June 24th he left with a draft for France, and fell in action at St Julien on August 16th, 1917. " Your son was killed," says a fellow-officer, " while leading his men into action. All who were with him when he fell are either killed or wounded. He was a good soldier and a good comrade; always keen and eager to do his best, he worthily upheld the traditions of his regiment and his country—even unto death."
 
WEST, H. M. PELHAM ('07), carried with him the Collingwood prize when he left school for Hertford College, Oxford. When war broke out he applied for a commission, and in November, 1914, was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers In the June following he was promoted Lieutenant, and went with his battalion to France in August, 1915. He was later invalided home with trench fever, but returning, was wounded during the battle of the Somme. He again rejoined his battalion at the front, holding then the rank of Captain. On September 10th, 1917, his battalion was called upon to attack a very strong position. During the fight he was twice wounded, but refused to go back. He gained his objective, but was fatally hit soon after.
 
WILKINSON, MAURICE HEWSON, M.C. ('87), was engaged in mining work in China at the outbreak of the war. He returned home and obtained a cornsion in the South Wales Borderers, afterwards transferring to the R.E. He went to the front in June, 1915, and after two years' service, during which he was wounded and gassed, had attained the rank of Major, and had won the Military Cross. He fell in action on July 31st, 1917.
 
WILKINSON, THOMAS HERBERT ('09), joined the Army Cyclists' Battalion when he was 18 years of age, and was afterwards transferred to the Loyal North Lancashires with whom he went to France. He died of wounds received at Messines on June 7th, 1917.
 
WILSON, JOHN BRADY ('98), served with the Royal Scots and with them went to the front. He was killed in action on September 20th, 1917.
 
WOOD, THOMAS CHARLTON ('98), left his farm in Canada in March, 1915, and joined the 191st Battalion Canadians. He went overseas, attached to a reserve of the 50th Battalion While acting as stretcher-bearer after the great fight for Passchendaele Ridge he was wounded in the head and died a fortnight afterwards at Carniers Hospital, and was buried in Etaples.
 
WOODMAN, W'. E. ('00), joined the Northumberland Fusiliers as a Private and was recommended for a commission. Before he was gazetted he was ordered to proceed to France—he was then Lance-Corporal. Six days after leaving England, he fell in action at St Julien, on April 26th, 1915, while carrying a message to his General during heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, for which he was subsequently mentioned in despatches. His Captain wrote : " He was a gallant soldier and one who was always the first to do any work that was required."
 
WOOLF, BERTIE GORDON ('00), was with the 2nd Brigade Canadian Field Artillery prior to going to the front in September, 1916. He was wounded in April, 1917, and had just rejoined his battery when he was killed in action at Vimy Ridge on May 9th, 1917.
 
YEAMAN, DENIS JOHN (' 10), was gazetted Second- Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers in June, 1915, and in the following autumn was transferred to the 21st King's Royal Rifles. He went to France in September, 1916, and three weeks later, on October 6th, was killed in action at Flers, north-east of Albert.
 
 
We record with much regret the loss of those old boys of the School, whose names follow. They lost their lives subsequent to leaving the Army or after the close of the War, but in most cases from sickness engendered by the War.
 
BELL, WILLIAM ('03), M.B., B.S., joined in February, 1915, as Surgeon, R.N., being attached to H.M.S. Victory at Haslar Hospital, Portsmouth. Two months later he was transferred to the light cruiser, H.M.S. Talbot, and left for the Dardanelles. He returned to England in October, 1916, and after serving eighteen months at Portsmouth, joined H.M.S. Thunderer in the Grand Fleet, till demobolised August, 1919. He then went through a special medical course at Oxford, but his health had been so undermined that he succumbed to an attack of pneumonia January 6th, 1922.
 
BATES, JOHN ('93), enlisted in the Northumberland Yeomanry but was discharged as unfit for further service. He emigrated to Australia, where he was accidentally killed on the railway at Culcairn, N.S.W., on May 3oth, 1919.
 
FINNEY, HENRY GEORGE R. ('I I), was a Sapper in the Northumberland Division, R.E., but was discharged as unfit for further service. He died June IIth, 1918.
 
GIBSON, CHARLES ('68), M.D., J.P., was Physician at the Royal Baths Hospital at Harrogate. During the war he organised the Medical Board at Ripon, was Consulting Physician at the Furniss Auxiliary Hospital for Officers, and Honorary Secretary of the local Medical War Committee. He died at Harrogate on October 1st, 1921.
 
KENT, GORDON ('05), obtained a commission as Second-Lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers and went to France in June, 1916, being attached to a trench mortar battery. He resigned in May, 1917, on account of ill health, and died on July 8th, 1918, from pneumonia.
 
LISTER, G. D. ('86), youngest son of the late Canon Lister, chose the army as a career. He was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 3rd D.L.I. Militia in November, 1892, and in 1896 was transferred to The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment. He fought through the campaign in South Africa, and proceeded to France as Captain with his regiment on August 23rd, 1914. He was badly wounded and taken prisoner at Mons. After suffering severely at the hands of the Germans he returned to England in June, 1918. He was given command of the battalion, and proceeded with it to Calcutta in February, 1920. There he had two severe illnesses, and on returning to England Lieutenant-Colonel Lister died at Netley Hospital, on November 21st, 1921.
 
 

The School deeply regrets the loss of one member of the staff.

 
MACKENZIE, B. S. M., Second-Lieutenant in the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, was killed in action on March 28th, 1918.
 
 
 

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