1902. He _m._ at Colgate, Faygate, Sussex, 25 Nov. 1909, Elsie

Clifton, 3rd dau. of Col. James Clifton Brown, and had three children: Sir Edward Montagu Andrew, now 3rd Bt., _b._ 30 Nov. 1910; Ridley Lewkenor, _b._ 11 April, 1912, and Donald Clifton, _b._ 22 May, 1914. [Illustration: =Sir Evelyn R. Bradford.=] =BRADFORD, GEORGE RICHARD=, 2nd Engineer, No. 773, H.M. trawler Tern, _s._ of William Bradford, Labourer; _b._ 1878; was lost in the trawler Tern off the west coast of Scotland, 23 Feb. 1915, while mine sweeping. He _m._ at Hull, 28 June, 1898, Alice Edith (78, Day Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of Robert Dibnah, Lamplighter, and had two sons, George Thomas, _b._ 16 Feb. 1904, and Charles Henry, _b._ 5 April, 1912. [Illustration: =George Richard Bradford.=] =BRADLEY, ERIC JATINGA=, Private, No. 140, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., eldest _s._ of James Bradley, of Grovehill, Suckley, co. Worcester, Tea Planter; _b._ London, 28 June, 1892; educ. Rottingdean, Rugby and Pembroke College Cambridge (Honours); entered at the Inner Temple, but on the outbreak of war at once enlisted; he proceeded with his battn. to France 4 Nov., and was mortally wounded with four others in the early morning of 5 Dec. by shrapnel, which burst on the parapet of the trench. He died the same day at No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, being buried in the cemetery there (No. 149); _unm._ =BRADLEY, REGINALD JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =BRADLEY, THOMAS=, Trooper, No. 13/296, Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Benjamin Bradley, of Christchurch, formerly of co. Lincoln; _b._ Papains, Christchurch, New Zealand, 16 June, 1884; educ. Christchurch High School; joined the Mounted Rifles, 10 July, 1914; went to the Dardanelles in May, and was killed in a night attack at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 19 May, 1915; _unm._ He was buried on Walker’s Ridge there. =BRADSHAW, FRANK SEYMOUR=, Capt., 1st Battn. Prince Albert’s Somerset L.I. (the old 13th), only _s._ of the late Major Frank Boyd Bradshaw (13th Somerset L.I.), by his wife, Catherine Douglas, dau. of Capt. Loftus Nunn, late 99th Regt., and great-grandson of Gen. Lawrence Bradshaw, some time commanding 13th L.I.; _b._ Weston-super-Mare, co. Somerset, 4 Dec. 1883; educ. East Sheen, Harrow and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 23 Jan. 1904, and promoted Lieut. 12 June, 1906, and Capt. Nov. 1914. He was killed in action at Ploegsteert Wood, 19 Dec. 1914, and was buried near Somerset House there; _unm._ One of Capt. Bradshaw’s men wrote: “His death is much regretted by the whole company, because they could always trust him. He would never send his men where he would not go himself. He was an exceptionally brave man, and knew his work, and it will be very difficult to find his equal.” [Illustration: =Frank Seymour Bradshaw.=] =BRADSHAW, GEORGE RAMSON=, Stoker, 1st Class, E. 12797 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRADSHAW, MATTHEW=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12547, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRADY, EDMUND=, L.-Corpl., No. 9118, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd _s._ of Patrick Brady, of 102, Waterloo Street, Crumpsall, Manchester, Labourer, by his wife, Anne; _b._ Miles Platting, Manchester, 2 Sept. 1881; educ. St. Edmund’s R.C. School there; enlisted 9 Dec. 1904, and served eight years in India, winning a silver spoon for shooting. An attendant at the Crumpsall Workhouse when war was declared, he was called up, and was killed instantaneously in action, during the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being struck in the forehead by a bullet; _unm._ =BRAIK, JOHN=, Sergt., No. 22961, 12th, later 4th, Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Adam Braik, of Kemnay, co. Aberdeen, Mill Owner, by his wife, Helen, dau. of John Ingram; _b._ Garthy, co. Aberdeen, 5 Oct. 1868; educ. Kemnay Public School, and was a mill owner. He joined the 4th Volunteer Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders in 1880, and obtained a commission in the same in 1896. On the outbreak of the South African War he enlisted as a Private in the 2nd Scottish Horse and served through the latter part of that campaign, receiving the medal. He was subsequently attached to the R.G.A. as Instructor of Military Signalling, and was shooting in the wilds of British Columbia when the European War began. He immediately hastened several hundred miles through the North-West to the nearest recruiting office and volunteered for service. He was offered a commission in the second contingent, but declined to wait, and was one of the last recruits entered for the first contingent, and came over with them in Oct., crossing to France in Feb. He subsequently returned to England to convey machine guns to the Front, and was given charge of one on his return. He was seriously wounded 18 June, 1915, by a shrapnel shell which burst above his gun, and was invalided to England, where he died in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 5 Aug. following. He was buried in Heroes Corner, Greenwich Cemetery. [Illustration: =John Braik.=] =BRAITHWAITE, JOSEPH=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRAMALL, HORACE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7357, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRAMLEY, HAROLD=, 2nd Lieut., 2/5th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (T.F.), previously L.-Corpl. (C Squad.) Leicestershire Yeomanry, 2nd _s._ of the Rev. Cyril Richard Bramley, M.A. (Oxon.), Vicar of St. John’s, Donisthorpe with Moira (St. Hilda); _b._ Manchester, 9 Feb. 1894; educ. St. John’s School, Leatherhead, 1904; devoted himself to farming, and after a two years’ course on a farm in Snarestone, went to Canada for nine months to see the conditions of farming there; returning in Dec. 1913, he went to Kidlington, near Oxford, to take charge of a farm, but on the outbreak of war immediately rejoined the Leicestershire Yeomanry (in which he had been 1911–12); went with them to the Front in Nov. 1914, was in several engagements, being promoted L.-Corpl. Feb. 1915, and 2nd Lieut. a week before he was killed in action near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ =BRAND, ERNEST STANLEY=, Capt., Royal Fusiliers, attd. West African Rifles, _s._ of William Burmann Brand, of 19, Linzee Road, Hornsey, N.; _b._ Stoke Newington, 3 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 Jan. 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Jan. 1900, and Capt. 19 Oct. 1904. He was seconded for service with the Chinese Regt. at Wei-hai-Wei from 20 April, 1901, to 19 April, 1906; was employed with the West African Regt. from 14 July, 1906, to Dec. 1910, and again from 19 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the European War he was ordered to the Cameroons and was acting second in command when killed in action during the fighting around Jabassi on 8 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was buried at Dibandi. A picture of the cross erected to his memory appeared in the Sketch for 5 June, 1915. Capt. Brand was a clever Chinese linguist. =BRANDON, JOHN COOPER=, 340733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRANTINGHAM, GEORGE=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 155692 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRASH, PRENTISE STEPHEN=, Petty Officer, 180365, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BRASHAW, JOSEPH ARTHUR=, Capt., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd _s._ of Harry Brashaw, of Perth and Dudley House Farm, Kwelkam, Kununoppin, West Australia, by his wife, Sebra, dau. of John White, of Coventry, and nephew of Joseph White, of The Woodlands, Cowper Road, Bournemouth; _b._ Woalingham, New South Wales, 1891; educ. Bunbury, West Australia; joined the forces as a cadet when 17 years of age, and was later transferred to the Militia. He worked his way up through the ranks and received his lieutenancy in 1913. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service, and was sent to Melbourne to assist in training the New Forces. Here he contracted typhoid fever, and returned to West Australia, leaving for the front in charge of reinforcements for the 16th Battn. He arrived in time to take part in the historic landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was subsequently wounded during the heavy fighting on 17 May. When convalescent he was given the opportunity of being invalided to England as his foot had not fully recovered, but pleaded to be allowed to rejoin his unit, and returned to duty on 17 July, being gazetted Capt. on the 29th. Nine days later, on 7 Aug. 1915, he was killed in action at Suvla Bay; _unm._ [Illustration: =Joseph Arthur Brashaw.=] =BRASHIER, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2436, D Coy., 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I., 2nd _s._ of James Brashier, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Hugh McKee; _b._ Durham, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. there; enlisted after the outbreak of the war, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 14 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._ =BRASIER, LEONARD GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2406), 219840, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRASS, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 6/807, South Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of James Gilles Brass, of Kirkwall, Farmer, by his wife Isabella Balfour, dau. of James Bews; _b._ Harray, Orkney, 27 Dec. 1889; educ. Rendall Parish School, Orkney, went to New Zealand in Dec. 1908, enlisted at Christchurch on the outbreak of war, left with the main force and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 26 April, 1915; _unm._ Brass was the well-known Mount Cook Guide, and had been a member of the Scottish Garrison Artillery before going to New Zealand. He was a personal friend of Richmond, the guide who was lost with Mr. King in the descent from Mount Cook. Brass, with Mr. Turner, made an ascent on the same day, and the two parties were to have met on the top. They passed over the avalanche which killed the others, tracing their steps down to it. Subsequently it was Brass who found the mangled body of Richmond, and his great strength was a considerable factor in bringing it down to the hut in that terrible journey in which the guides had to take it in turns to carry it on their backs down a mountain side in the dark, a feat which seems almost incredible when the place is gone over in the daylight. [Illustration: =William Brass.=] =BRATTLE, WILLIAM=, Chief Stoker, 277368, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRAY, CECIL HERBERT=, Private, No. 2801, 1/9th Battn. (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regt., _s._ of Thomas Bray, Engineer’s Draughtsman, by his wife, Frances, dau. of John Drewry Codling; _b._ Harringay, N., 22 Nov. 1892; educ. Haverstock Hill Orphanage; enlisted two days after the declaration of war, 7 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at Voormezeele, near St. Eloi, 17 July, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Cecil Herbert Bray.=] =BRAY, GEORGE=, A.B., 216585, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BRAY, DERRICK REGINALD PAMPHILON=, Corpl., No. 1553, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Reginald Alfred Bray, of 49, Orlando Road, Clapham Common, S.W., formerly of Jersey, by his wife, Lissa, dau. of the late Stephen Algir Pamphilon, of Lea Hall, Hatfield Broad Oak, Harlow, co. Essex; _b._ Clapham Common, 20 Sept. 1895; educ. private school, and Wix’s Higher Grade School; joined the 1st City of London Regt. 7 April, 1913; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, was sent to Malta for five months, and proceeded to France, 10 March, 1915. He was killed in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and was buried in Rue Pettilon, near Picantin; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “At the time he was gallantly leading his section in an advance under very severe fire, and by his death, we all realise that we have lost a brave comrade, who has done his duty and whom we all miss dreadfully. His sense of duty was most real, as events have proved.” Corpl. Bray was very proud of the fact that every man of his family of fighting age joined the colours early in the war. His uncle, Lieut. Ede, Royal Marine Artillery, was mentioned in Despatches while serving with the Egyptian Army in 1896. [Illustration: =Derrick R. P. Bray.=] =BRAY, HORACE=, Private, No. 9241, 3rd Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 16 April, 1915; _m._ =BRAZIER, ALFRED=, Private, No. 9499, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., _s._ of James Brazier, of 22, Stewarts Lane, Battersea; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 April, 1915. =BRAZIER, BENJAMIN WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 8949, 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., eldest _s._ of Wallace Brazier, Lieut. and Quartermaster 6th Service Battn. and late Regimental Sergt.-Major 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., by his wife, Mary Jane (4, Pentland Villas, Juniper Green, Midlothian), dau. of William Paddon, late R.N.; _b._ Bareilly, N.W.P., India, 30 Nov. 1893; educ. Cowley, and East Oxford Council School, Oxford; joined the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I. in Sept. 1908, attended the Kneller Hall Royal School of Music from Oct. 1913 till Aug. 1914, and on the outbreak of war rejoined his battn., served in France and Flanders; was twice wounded, the second time at the Battle of the Aisne, and was killed in action during the night attack, 15–16 May, 1915, at Richbourg L’Avoue; _unm._ His company commander wrote: “During the time I was out in France he was in my company, and I looked upon him as a promising N.C.O. He was always cheerful, ready to help in anything there was to be done, and during the three rather hard days fighting, 21–23 Oct., he did a lot of most excellent work, and looked after the men round him admirably. Everyone who knew him will miss him, and the regt. has lost a N.C.O. who would in time have risen to the highest rank. He was a gallant lad,” and the Quartermaster: “He was a brave lad, the best of soldiers, and would, I am certain, had he been spared, have risen to a high position. There is not one but will mourn his loss.” Corpl. Brazier was a keen sportsman and football player, in which latter sport he won two medals. [Illustration: =Benjamin W. Brazier.=] =BRAZIER, FREDERICK OWEN=, Private, No. 3198, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Frederick Brazier, of 29, St. George’s Road, Hastings; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 9 May, 1915. =BRAZIER, JAMES=, Private, No. 6282, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BRAZIER, WALTER ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, Chatham, 311704, H.M.S. Laertes; killed in action in Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. =BREACH, JOHN=, Private, No. 4770, 5th Dragoon Guards, 3rd _s._ of William Breach, of Lowestoft, Fishing Smack Owner, by his wife, Sarah; _b._ Lowestoft, 5 April, 1879; educ. at the Board and Technical Schools there; joined the Army, 16 April, 1898; served with his regt. in India, and went through the Boer War, for which he was awarded the medal. At the outbreak of the European War he was farming in Canada, and was recalled to join his regt. He died of wounds received in action at Hill 60, in 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 11 June, 1915. He _m._ at Kirkley Parish Church, Lowestoft, 28 March, 1910, Agnes Maud (Ivydene, Kitchener Road, Ipswich), yst. dau. of John William Hadenham, of Ipswich, District Superintendent Insurance Company; _s.p._ Private Breach was a lifelong abstainer, a keen football player, and an expert cricketer, and held several good conduct medals. His three brothers are all now (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =John Breach.=] =BREAM, CHARLES=, Drummer, No. 7248, 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., _s._ of Charles William Bream, of Nassington, co. Northants; _b._ Nassington, 5 Dec. 1883; educ. there; joined the 1st Northamptons (D Coy.), 1903, and saw active service on the Indian Frontier in 1904, for which he received two medals and two bars. He afterwards became a Police Constable in the Durham County Constabulary, and was stationed at South Moor, in the Lancashire and Consett Petty Sessional Division, when he was called up on the outbreak of war. He left with his regt. for France, 17 Aug. 1914, taking part in the retreat from Mons and several other engagements, and was killed in a bayonet charge at Festubert, 21 Dec. 1914. In a letter to a friend at South Moor he said: “You will have heard about the battle on the Aisne. We were in the trenches for a month, and the first week it never ceased raining, and we had to stick it.” Later, writing from Festubert, he said that they had had several engagements with the Prussian Guard, but had got through them, doing six bayonet charges in ten days. He _m._ at Yarwell, Nassington, 8 Oct. 1913, Carrie, dau. of (--) Mould, of Nassington. =BRECKELL, RALPH LEICESTER=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) South Lancashire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Edward John Blease Breckell, of Holmdene, Alexandra Road, Waterloo, near Liverpool, by his wife, Emilia Mary, only child of the late Charles Oddie, of Everton, Liverpool; _b._ West Derby, near Liverpool, 16 April, 1890; educ. Ellesmere College, Shropshire; was Resident Secretary in Liverpool for the British Crown Insurance Company, but on the outbreak of war joined the 18th Service Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt. in Sept. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd South Lancashires, 20 Feb. 1915, being later attached to the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers at the front; killed in action on the canal between Pilkem and Boesinghe, during the severe fighting between 5 and 9 July, 1915; _unm._ His orderly, Private E. Murphy, wrote: “He died fighting like a true English gentleman, being in charge of a party of bomb throwers who held on to such a purpose that they were piling themselves on top of one another, and I am very pleased to tell you that he did not suffer more than a minute, just calling my name like this, ‘Oh, Murphy’; then I caught him and laid him down and as near as I could make out he said a few prayers, and then passed peacefully away looking as if he had gone to sleep,” and added that he was killed by a piece of shrapnel in line with his left shoulder striking his heart. [Illustration: =Ralph L. Brecknell.=] =BREED, GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 444310, 55th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late William Breed, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Julia (Papworth Everard, Cambridge), dau. of James Paine, of Croydon, co. Cambridge; _b._ Hatley St. George, co. Cambridge, 14 Feb. 1892; educ. there, and at Papworth Everard; went to Canada, 1 March, 1912; volunteered for service overseas on the outbreak of war, and died in the Military Hospital at Bramshott, Liphook, Hants., 10 Dec. 1915, of influenza contracted while going through his course of training; _unm._ [Illustration: =George Alfred Breed.=] =BREEZE, JOHN=, Private, No. 10505, 1st Battn. South Wales Borderers, _s._ of John Breeze, of 6, Durham Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, Labourer, by his 1st wife, Caroline, dau. of Thomas Morris; _b._ Tenbury, co. Worcester, 9 March, 1887; educ. National School, Monmouth; enlisted in 1911; killed in action at Langemark, 21 Oct. 1914; _unm._ =BREMER, FRANCIS AUGUSTUS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3921), 167964, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BREMNER, HENRY SADLER=, Private, No. 138, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd _s._ of James Bremner, of 137, Canongate, Edinburgh, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Robert Sadler, of North Shields; _b._ Edinburgh, 30 Oct. 1885; educ. Milton House School there; went to Australia in 1912; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 2 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Henry S. Bremner.=] =BREMNER, JAMES=, Private, No. 8834, 1st Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of John Bremner, of Edinburgh, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Wilson; _b._ Edinburgh, 30 Sept. 1886; educ. there; enlisted in Jan. 1904, and served three years with the Colours, acting part of the time as Assistant Schoolmaster at the Depôt (Glencorse). At the outbreak of war he was in the employ of the North British Railway Co. at Edinburgh; was called up on mobilisation in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines, 16 Nov. 1914, by a shell when entering a trench; _unm._ =BRENAN, BYRON EDWARD=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Gloucestershire Regt., yst. _s._ of Edward Vincent Brenan, of Poulton, Sneyd Park, Bristol, late Commissioner Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (died July, 1915), by his wife, Marion Mabel, dau. of Major-Gen. John Thornhill Watson, B.S.C.; _b._ Hong-Kong, 22 March, 1895; educ. Clifton College, was in the O.T.C. there; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Gloucestershire Regt. 15 Aug. 1914. On 19 March he was attached to the 2nd battn. at the front, and was killed while leading his men to repair a trench which had been absolutely destroyed by a shell, 18 April, 1915; buried at Ypres; _unm._ [Illustration: =Byron Edward Brenan.=] =BRENCHLEY, ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman, 215494, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRENCHLEY, GEORGE CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6640), 223932, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRENCHLEY, ROBERT HENRY=, 1st Class P.O. Blacksmith, No. 156247, H.M.S. Cressy, _s._ of Henry Brenchley, of St. Peters, Thanet, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of James Epps; _b._ 25 Jan. 1868; educ. St. Peter’s National School; served in the Navy for twenty-two years, and in 1912 became an attendant at the Broadstairs Cinema. On the outbreak of the war was recalled, 3 Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Broadstairs, 11 Nov. 1903, Louisa (20 Albion Street, Broadstairs), dau. of Henry Mawlings of Walford, near Ross, co. Hereford, and left a dau., Mary Louise, _b._ 7 May, 1905. [Illustration: =Robert Henry Brenchley.=] =BRESLIN, ANDREW=, Private, No. 3103, 1st Battn. Irish Guards, _s._ of Patrick Breslin, of Ballyorr, near Londonderry, Labourer; _b._ St. Johnston, co. Donegal, 4 Dec. 1885; enlisted Aug. 1908, served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action during a charge on a strong enemy position, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =Andrew Breslin.=] =BRESLIN, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8656), S.S. 105078, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRETT, CHARLES=, A.B., 162505, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRETT, CHARLES=, Private, No. 1707, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Walter Brett, of Lodge Farm, Wingfield, Harleston, Norfolk, Farmer, by his wife, Sarah Jane, dau. of the late John Welsh Berry, of Great Yarmouth; _b._ Styleham, Suffolk, 22 Oct. 1886; educ. Brockdish Council School, Norfolk; emigrated to Australia in July, 1911; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 9 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action between 9 and 11 Aug. 1915, at Gallipoli; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles Brett.=] =BRETT, CHARLES ARTHUR HUGH, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 2nd Battn. The Suffolk Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Arthur Brett, A.P.D., formerly of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), by his wife, Georgina, dau. of Hugh Hannay, Paymaster R.N. (who served through the Napoleonic War and was taken prisoner at Verdun in 1812); _b._ Muttra, India, 28 March, 1865; educ. privately and at Sandhurst; entered the Army as Lieut. 9 May, 1885; was promoted Capt. 15 June, 1894; Major, 24 Feb. 1906, and Lieut.-Col., 24 Feb. 1914. From Jan. 1895–Jan. 1899, he was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. of the Suffolk Regt., and of the 4th Battn. at Ely in 1900, and from Dec. 1909 to Dec. 1912 was in command of the Depot at Bury St. Edmunds. He served in the Hazara Expedition in 1888 and received the medal with clasp, and in the South African War, 1899–1901. He was in command of one of the four companies of the 1st Suffolks which, on 5 Jan., made the night attack on a ridge in the Colesberg district, and when they suffered repulse he found himself in charge of the party of 107 which was cut off, and after making a gallant resistance, until their ammunition gave out, and during which Capt. Brett was severely wounded, had no alternative but to surrender. After his release he rejoined his regt. and saw service in the operations east of Pretoria, and in the Orange River Colony, from July to Oct. 1900. He was mentioned in the general’s despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], and received the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and also the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Le Cateau, France, 26 Aug. 1914. The 2nd Battn. of the Suffolks arrived at Le Cateau about 7 p.m. on the 25th, and bivouacked at the barn, and made themselves comfortable for the night, although the Germans were following close on their heels. The remainder of the Brigade was fairly close at hand. On the 26th the Suffolks had breakfast at 3 a.m., and fell in at 4 a.m. to take up their allotted positions, which were about half a mile to their rear. Two of the battns. (Nos. 3 and 4) of the Brigade were to occupy the trenches which had already been prepared for them, and the Suffolks (No. 1 Battn.) and the 4th Battn. of the Brigade was placed in reserve. Afterwards the Suffolks were moved out in front of the battery and No. 4 Battn. to the right, to protect the guns. The Suffolks had barely taken up their position and commenced to use the web equipment entrenching tool when the Germans opened fire on the battery and dropped a shell right among them. The fight developed and the regt. hung on, protecting the guns, but had to put up with a good deal of shelling which was intended for the battery. They also came in for a good deal of enfilading fire from the German guns. This went on for several hours. It was very difficult to feed the firing line with ammunition, especially when the German infantry drew near. Our infantry and maxim guns simply mowed them down, but still they pressed on, and for a time they recoiled, and then came on again. The battery at one time was firing at them at about 800 yards range, and some of our men, especially of C Coy. (Capt. Orford), got hit with our own shells. Nothing could show itself in the open without drawing a terrible fire from the enemy. The first line of transport was ordered to retire and get away the best way it could. The batteries and the infantry brigade stuck to their positions, and continued the fire, hoping to be reinforced, as General Sir Charles Fergusson had given out that 40,000 French troops were expected. Eventually the order to retire was given, but the old Suffolks had little ammunition left, and the casualties were enormous; very few men were able to retire. In the early part of the fight about 50 wounded Suffolks were carried to the dressing station and to the field hospital. These, together with the other wounded, were shown as “missing,” with the exception of Col. Brett, who was killed early in the fight by a shell. Col. Brett was buried on the battlefield and was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. 1914. A brother officer wrote: “If ever there was a commanding officer that I would wish to have gone on service with, it was he whose loss we now mourn. The one consolation is that he fell as a soldier at the head of his regt. for whom he did so much, and who, everyone of them, looked up to him, admired him. and tried to follow his grand example in everything. His life was noble and straight, and his death was the same. We of the regt., or what is left of it, mourn his loss as the best of comrades”; and another one wrote: “I don’t suppose there was a single commanding officer in the service more beloved by the officers and men. We had all so looked forward to his getting command, and were delighted at the prospect of serving under him. His loss to the regt., as it is to you, is absolutely irreparable.... It will be a long time before we cease to grieve for a gallant soldier, and one of the best and kindest of men.” One of his former subalterns also wrote: “I thought I would like to write to you to tell you that I was his subaltern that night at Colesberg in 1900 when he was shot, and to say that he was a very gallant fellow. Though shot through the lungs, he kept up command of his Coy., and actually charged the Boer trenches in this state, until he fell exhausted from loss of blood. I have no doubt he was just as brave in France when he met his glorious death, and I write these few words in the hope that should they be shown to his wife, it may console her just a little to know that there are a few of his comrades of that night left, who will remember him always as one of old England’s most gallant sons.” Col. Brett was fond of travel and astronomy, and joined when on leave Sir W. Christie’s party to Sfax, Tunisia, 1905, to witness the Eclipse, and received thanks from the Admiralty for his assistance to the Astronomer Royal. During other leave he visited Mesopotamia, and was interested in exploring Muscat, Bagdad, Babylon, and other places. He _m._ at St. Mary-at-the-Walls Church, Colchester, 6 Jan. 1909, Enid Geraldine (The Cottage, Lexden, Colchester), eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Harry Hamersley St. George, Senior Ordnance Officer, Scottish District (and sister of Lieut. G. S. W. St. George, 1st Gurkha Rifles, who was killed in action, 27 April, 1915, see his notice), and had one dau., Ione Moncrieff St. George, _b._ 10 Oct. 1909. [Illustration: =Charles Arthur H. Brett.=] =BRETTELL, SAMUEL THOMAS=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 210526, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BREWER, FRANK=, A.B., 207025 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BREWER, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 169, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of John Brewer, late Worcester Regt., by his wife, Emily Isabella Margery, dau. of John Harley Bedford, late Superintendant of Post Offices, Bombay Presidency; _b._ Poona, India, 7 June, 1892; educ. Church School, Liskeard, Cornwall, and on leaving there served as an errand boy with Mr. Rapson, the Mayor for three years there; joined the Duke of Cornwall’s L.I. in 1908, and two years later emigrated to Australia, where he was employed at the Parkside Tannery, Preston, until the outbreak of the war when he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Harold Brewer.=] =BREWER, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 10398, 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of George Brewer, of 81, Shamrock Cottage, Chippenham, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Neate, of 42, Wood Lane, Chippenham; _b._ Chippenham, co. Wilts, 19 May, 1893, and educ. British School there; an old Territorial he enlisted in the Wilts Regt. 1 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres 13 Nov. 1914; _unm._ A comrade wrote: “The officer called for volunteers to rush a road, and he was the first to leave trench, and by so doing was killed with a Maxim gun.” Private Brewer was a well-known Wiltshire footballer, and was formerly a captain of Chippenham Town, but in 1913 signed on for Swindon and played one match with the first eleven. [Illustration: =William Arthur Brewer.=] =BREWIN, WILLIAM HENRY FRANK=, Private, No. 1749, 7th Battn, Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Henry Brewin, of 90, St. Loys Road, Bruce Grove, Tottenham, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Henry Calvert; _b._ Stoke Newington, 12 May, 1896; educ. Earls Mead School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials about 1911; volunteered for foreign service Aug. 1914; went to France the last week in Feb., and was killed in action there, 13 April, 1915; _unm._ =BREWSTER, HERBERT JOHN=, Ship’s Corpl., 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4774), 169829, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRIAN, HERBERT CECIL=, 2nd Lieut. 59th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, eldest _s._ of Hyla Edwin Brian, Military School, Cairo, and of Holmbury, Berkhampstead, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Charles Elliott; _b._ Abbassieh, Cairo, Egypt, 23 Dec. 1891; educ. Berkhampstead School, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted to the 18th Battery 20 Dec. 1912, with which he served in England until June, 1914, when he left to join the 59th Battery in India, and returned the following Dec. to Portsmouth, and went from there to the Front early in March, 1915. He was present and took part in the action of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, while performing the duty of forward observing officer in the trenches, 9 May, 1915. He was _unm._ and was buried in an orchard near where he fell. His commanding officer wrote of him: “He was a splendid officer and absolutely fearless in the execution of his duty.” [Illustration: =Herbert Cecil Brian.=] =BRICE, HENRY COPELAND=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Francis Strange Brice, of Middlemeade, Stoughton Drive, Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Alice, dau. of Thomas Henry Downing; _b._ Leicester, 28 Nov. 1893; educ. Mill Hill School, London; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 10 May,