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=CAMERON, THOMAS ALBERT=, L.-Corpl., 2nd Kimberley Regt., South
African Force, _s._ of Thomas Cameron, of Kimberley, Diamond
Miner, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late John Richardson, of
Frizington, co. Cumberland; _b._ Bridgefoot, Cumberland, 2 June.
1891; went to Kimberley with his parents in 1895, and was educ. at the
Boys’ High School there. He afterwards returned to England and worked
as an electrician with Messrs. Dick, Kerr & Co., of Preston; but in
1911 returned to Kimberley, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914,
joined General Botha’s Army. He was killed in action at Trekkopjies,
German South-West Africa, 26 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer, Col.
Rodgers, wrote: “He was cut down in the act of doing a very brave deed.
Ammunition was urgently required at one of the most exposed trenches.
Volunteers were called for to carry the same, and without the slightest
hesitation your gallant husband came forward, took the case of
ammunition and had just put it down where wanted when he was killed. He
died without any pain. We all--officers and men--mourn with you in your
loss. His conduct was such that I, in my official report to the Officer
Commanding, brought his name to official notice, as in my opinion such
a deed of gallantry deserved recognition.” He played for Oldham in the
Northern Rugby Union. He _m._ at Preston, 9 March, 1910, Grace,
dau. of the late Alexander White, of Frizington, Cumberland, and had
two sons: Thomas Alexander, _b._ Frizington, 9 May, 1911, and John
Head, _b._ Kimberley, South Africa, 12 Sept. 1914.
=CAMERON, WILLIAM MATHESON=, Lieut., A Coy., 2nd Battn. Transvaal
Scottish, yst. _s._ of Duncan Cameron, of Balbair, Edderton,
Ross-shire, Bank Agent at Tain, Ross-shire (_d._ Nov. 1915);
_b._ Thurso, 17 June, 1870; educ. Tain Royal Academy, and
George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and entered the Commercial Bank,
Glasgow, leaving it on the outbreak of the South African War to join
the Imperial Yeomanry. He served throughout that war, was given a
commission as Lieut., and received two medals and five clasps. After
the war he settled in Johannesburg, where he was secretary to the
manager of the Angelo Section of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, and
on the outbreak of the European War volunteered and was appointed
Lieut. in the Transvaal Scottish. He served under General Botha in
German West Africa, and was killed in action by a shell, at Trekkopjis,
on the morning of 26 April, 1915. He _m._ (--), dau. of John
Munro, Manager for Barnato Bros., and ex-President of the Transvaal
Chamber of Mines, and left a dau., Constance, _b._ 1912. Lieut.
Cameron was an excellent tennis player, and for several years held the
Singles Championship of the East Rand Club.
[Illustration: =William M. Cameron.=]
=CAMFFERMAN, ALEXANDER=, Corpl., No. 1581, 1/7th Battn. Middlesex
Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of John James Camfferman. of Sunnyside,
Whetstone, Nurseryman, by his wife, Bertha, dau. of Charles Athron;
_b._ Whetstone, co. Middlesex, 7 April, 1895; educ. Christ’s
College, Finchley; was a Nurseryman in his father’s business; joined
the 7th Middlesex Territorials on his seventeenth birthday, and was in
camp when war was declared. He volunteered for foreign service, and
went out with his regt. to Gibraltar at the beginning of Sept. 1914,
with one of the earliest convoys of Territorials for foreign service.
The Battn. returned to England in Feb., and crossed to France, 12
March, 1915, and he was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles,
9 May, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in Rue Petillon La Cordonerie,
France. His commanding officer wrote: “He was an excellent soldier, a
fine shot, a clean liver and speaker, in short a young Englishman of
the best type. I wish we had more like him.” Passionately fond of the
rifle, he soon became the best shot in the Battn., and was the winner
of many prizes.
[Illustration: =Alexander Camfferman.=]
=CAMFIELD, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 310864, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914;
_m._
=CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 283219, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=CAMPBELL, COLIN FREDERICK FITZROY=, Capt., 1st Battn. Scots
Guards, only _s._ of Major-Gen. Frederick Lorn Campbell, of
Highfield House, West Byfleet, co. Surrey, late Scots Guards (of the
Melfort family, Argyll), by his wife, Caroline, dau of John Alexander
Smyth, and gdson. of Rear-Admiral Frederick Archibald Campbell;
_b._ London, 29 Sept. 1880; educ. Stubbington and Haileybury;
obtained his first commission in the Cameron Highlanders from the
Militia, 5 Jan. 1901; became Lieut. 3 Aug. 1904; transferred to the
Scots Guards, 29 March, 1905; was Adjutant of the Guards Depot at
Caterham from 1911 to 1913, being promoted Capt. 29 Oct. 1914, the same
day on which he was killed in action close to the village of Gheluvelt,
near Ypres. He _m._ at the Guards’ Chapel, London, 11 June, 1914,
Helen Margaret, eldest dau. of Charles John Stewart, of 32, Eccleston
Square, S.W., by his wife, Lady Mary Graham, née Toler; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Colin F. F. Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, DONALD, M.B.=, Lieut., R.A.M.C., attd. 2nd Battn. East
Yorkshire Regt., 3rd _s._ of the late John Campbell, for 43 years
Tenant of Blair Mills, by his wife, Isabella (Fincastle, Bridge of
Tilt, Blair Atholl), dau. of Alexander McBeath; _b._ Blair Atholl,
20 Jan. 1887; educ. at Blair Atholl Public School, Pitlochry Higher
Grade School, where he won the County Council Bursary, and George
Watson’s College (1904–6), from which he entered Edinburgh University
as an Arts Student in 1906, gaining the same year the McDougal Bursary.
He graduated M.A. in 1909, and M.B. Ch.B in 1913. In 1910 he shared the
Vans Dunlop Scholarship with another student. When war broke out he was
house surgeon in Sheffield Royal Hospital, and receiving a commission
in the R.A.M.C. 16 Dec. 1914, went to the Front in Jan. as Medical
Officer to the 2nd East Yorks Regt. He was killed on 17 Feb. 1915, near
the village of Zillebeke while going to the assistance of a wounded
man, and was buried at St. Eloi; _unm._ An officer of the 2nd
East Yorks Regt. wrote: “He was only with me a short time, but it is
no exaggeration to say that he left behind him not mere acquaintances,
but real friends, who mourn his loss more than I can tell you. He
lived always in the same billet with me and the headquarters staff,
and shared all our rough food, delicacies and hardships just as they
came, and for my part I find he has left a blank that will take a long
time to fill. He met his death going up to the front to help a wounded
man. A stretcher-bearer was with him at the time, and as they crossed
an open space they came under the fire of the enemy in a house some
200 yards away, and both were shot dead.” For two years he was joint
secretary for the Edinburgh University Musical Society, was a keen
golfer, and for several years was a member of the Edinburgh Northern
Hockey Club.
[Illustration: =Donald Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, DONALD HENRY BRUCE=, Sergt., No. 6999, 1st Battn.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 4th surviving _s._ of Alexander
Campbell, of Highland Grove, Ontario, Canada, Proprietor and Farmer, by
his wife, Helen Isabella, dau. of Alexander Grant, of Blackhill, Bower,
Caithness; _b._ Dalnacloich, Rosskeen, co. Ross, 11 Dec. 1894;
educ. Munlochy and Arpafeelie Episcopal (where he was Dux and won the
silver medal for head scholar, etc.) Schools, Ross; went to Canada with
his parents in March, 1910; joined the Canadian Territorials in 1912,
and was given the rank of Sergt. then; volunteered for service overseas
on the outbreak of war; left Canada with the first contingent; went to
France in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June,
1915; _unm._ His company officer, Lieut. R. R. Brown (who was
himself wounded on this occasion) wrote that Campbell was his platoon
sergt. and that he had a very high opinion of him, adding: “During the
attack circumstances were such that I had to leave my own men under
another officer (Lieut. Sims) while I took command of men of another
company, thereby failing to witness the fate of so many of my brave
men. During the fight one of my own men came up to me (I could not say
who it was) and said Sergt. Campbell had just been killed.”
[Illustration: =D. H. B. Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, DUNCAN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Black Watch (Royal
Highlanders), elder _s._ of Col. Edward Parker Campbell, of South
Hall, co. Argyle, J.P., D.L., Major, The Black Watch, by his wife,
Alice Isabel, 3rd dau. of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Goulbourn Parker, of
Browsholme, co. York, and Alkincoats, co. Lancaster; _b._ South
Hall aforesaid, 24 Oct. 1880; educ. Rugby; joined the 3rd (Royal Perth
Militia) Battn. of The Black Watch, Dec. 1899, and on the outbreak
of the Boer War volunteered for active service. He was gazetted 2nd
Lieut. The Black Watch, 27 Oct. 1900, and served in South Africa with
the 2nd Battn. from 27 Oct. to 22 Dec. 1900, when he was transferred
to the 1st Battn. in India. He served with them again in South Africa
from 6 Dec. 1901, to 27 Oct. 1902, and took part in the operations in
the Transvaal and Orange Free State from Dec. 1901, to 31 May, 1902,
and was promoted Lieut. 24 May, 1902, and received the Queen’s medal
with five clasps. From 16 Sept. 1905, to 29 Sept. 1910, he served in
Northern Nigeria with the West African Force, and in 1906 took part in
the Hodeija Campaign (medal with clasp). Promoted Capt. 8 Jan. 1910, he
was in 1912 transferred back to the 2nd Battn. of his regt. in India
and proceeded with the battn. to France with the Indian Expeditionary
Force in the autumn of 1914. He was wounded in December and invalided
home, but rejoined early in 1915; was present at the Battles of Neuve
Chapelle, Richebourg, etc., and in all the other engagements in
which his battn. took part. He was killed in action in the trenches
near the Bois-de-Biez, 18 May, 1915, by a shell which burst on the
parapet of the trench, the repair of which he was directing. Letters
from his commanding officers speak most highly of him as an officer
and testify to the love and respect entertained for him by his men.
He was _unm._ His yr. brother, Lieut. Patrick Colin Campbell,
Royal Flying Corps, is now (1916) on active service with the British
Expeditionary Force in France.
[Illustration: =Duncan Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, FREDERICK JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4781),
S.S. 104136, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast
of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _m._
=CAMPBELL, GEORGE EDWARD FORMAN=, Lieut., 2/10th Gurkha Rifles,
yst. and only surviving _s._ of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, C.B.,
C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin
Bensley; _b._ Strathyre, Balquhidder, 27 Aug. 1893; educ. at
Edinburgh Academy and Sandhurst, and gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 Aug. 1912.
A year later he was appointed to the Indian Army, and posted to the
2nd Battn. of the 10th Gurkha, 23 Nov. 1913. He was promoted Lieut. 24
Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, on Rhododendron
Spur, Chanak Bair, 7 August, 1915, in a charge on the Turkish trenches
with two battns. of New Zealanders (Auckland). He was mentioned in
Dispatches by Sir Ian Hamilton, 22 Sept. 1915; _unm._ His elder
brother, Capt. R. C. C. Campbell, died of wounds received at Ypres (see
his notice).
[Illustration: =George E. F. Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, GEORGE JACKSON=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8270),
S.S. 104251, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the
North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=CAMPBELL, HAROLD EDGAR=, Cook’s Mate, M. 2482, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=CAMPBELL, JAMES=, Private, No. 4121, 1st Battn. Irish Guards,
3rd _s._ of Michael Campbell, of Tubberfin, Drogheda, Labourer,
by his wife, Jane, dau. of the late Patrick Kelly, of Howth; _b._
Sheephouse, Drogheda, 20 July, 1890; educ. Donore National Schools;
enlisted 20 May, 1912, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 11 March,
1915; _unm._
=CAMPBELL, JOHN=, Private, No. 19984, 4th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of the late Archibald Campbell,
by his wife, Helen Hogg (1, St. Ninian’s Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of
the late James Lawson; _b._ Glencorse, Midlothian, 24 Dec. 1878;
educ. George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh; joined the Army and served
with the Irish Guards, 1900–3, and afterwards went to British Columbia
gold mining. He joined the 4th Battn. 1st Canadian Contingent, 1914,
and died at No. 1 Canadian Field Ambulance, 24 May, 1915, of wounds
received in action; _unm._
=CAMPBELL, JOHN DAVIES=, Lieut., L Battery, R.H.A., eldest
_s._ of John Davies Campbell, of Howden Court, Tiverton;
_b._ Tacna, Chili, 1 March, 1883; educ. Cheltenham College and
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered the Army, 21 Dec. 1901, was
promoted Lieut. 21 Dec. 1904, and was killed in action at Nery, near
Compiégne 1 Sept. 1914. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s
Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914.
=CAMPBELL, JOHN GORDON=, Private, No. 4296, 2nd Battn. The Royal
Scots, 3rd _s._ of Hugh Campbell, of 852, New City Road, Glasgow,
and Clam Cottage, Cloverhill, Glasgow, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of
James Munro; _b._ at North Woodside Road, 16 Sept. 1876; educ.
Henderson Street School, Glasgow; enlisted 1891, and was a Reservist
when called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914; killed in action at
Kemmel, 22 April, 1915. He _m._ at Glasgow, 20 Feb. 1903, Alice
(Clare Cottage, Clover Hill, Drumchapel, Glasgow), dau. of Alexander
McDonald, and had a dau., Isabella Munro, _b._ 6 Aug. 1906.
[Illustration: =John Gordon Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, KEITH MOREHEAD GUNNING=, Sub-Lieut., R.N., yst.
_s._ of Col. Gunning Campbell, Royal Marine Artillery, by his
wife, Sophia Charlotte Jean, dau of the Rev. George Barber Peregrine
Viner, M.A., and great-gdson, of William Campbell, of Fairfield;
_b._ Eastney Barracks, Portsmouth, 23 Dec. 1892; educ. Haskoll’s
School, Folkestone, Suffolk House, Cheltenham, Pelham House,
Folkestone, and the Osborne (15 Sept. 1905, to 14 Sept. 1907) and
Dartmouth (15 Sept. 1907, to 14 Sept. 1909) Royal Naval Colleges,
being Chief Cadet Capt. at the latter. He served on H.M.S. St. Vincent
(May, 1910–June, 1911); the Cochrane, which formed one of the escort
on the occasion of the King’s visit to India (June, 1911–May, 1912),
the Achilles (May, 1912–Sept. 1913), and the Albemarle, joining H.M.S.
Lawford in the spring of 1914. He was present at the sinking of the
Konigin Louise, and the engagement off the Bight of Heligoland. He was
commissioned to the Arrogant on 30 Nov. 1914, for submarine service,
and died between 4 and 12 Jan. the following year while on Active
Service on Submarine C 31; _unm._ A fine Rugby three-quarter back,
he several times played in the Royal Navy and United Services Fifteens,
his last important match being in the R.N. officers’ team against the
Harlequins at the turn of the season of 1913–14 at Queen’s Club.
[Illustration: =Keith M. G. Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, KENNETH JAMES=, 2nd Lieut., 9th Battn. Argyll and
Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of Robert Story Campbell,
of Achnashie, Rosneath, co. Dumbarton, retired East Indian Merchant,
by his wife, Evelyn Rose, dau. of the late Rev. William Henry Stokes,
Vicar of Goring, a nephew of the late Sir James Campbell, K.C.I.E.
(of the Bombay Civil Service and compiler of the Bombay Gazetteer),
and, gdson. of the late Rev. John Macleod Campbell, D.D.; _b._
Bombay, 4 Jan. 1891; educ. at Rottingdean and Marlborough, he proceeded
with a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took his
degree with honours in History in 1912, and in “Greats” in 1914. He
had originally intended to take orders in the Church of England, and
on leaving the University in 1913 joined the Magdalen College Mission
in the Euston Road. On the outbreak of war, however, having been
for eight years a cadet in the O.T.C. at Marlborough and Oxford, he
applied for a commission, and on 2 Sept. was gazetted to the 1/9th
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, leaving Bedford with his regt. on
19 Feb. for France. He was killed in action near Ypres, being struck
by a shell while in charge of machine guns, 10 May. 1915; _unm._
His commanding officer wrote that he died “doing his duty nobly.” His
platoon Sergt. that “He was a brave young officer and the pride of all
the platoon.” A brother officer, writing on 13 May, stated: “I was
myself slightly wounded the same day, so was not on the spot when he
was killed, but I understand that he was wounded by a shell, but that
he continued to serve the gun until a second shell killed him.” He was
stroke of his college boat in the Torpids when Magdalen was head of the
river in Feb. 1913.
[Illustration: =Kenneth James Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, KENNETH McKENZIE=, Corpl., No. 17101, 7th Battn.
(British Columbia Regt.) Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._
of James Campbell Campbell, of Dublin, by his wife, Jane Davidson,
dau. of the late John Christie, of Bankhead, Aberdeen, and gdson. of
the late Sergt. and Master Tailor Alexander Campbell, 93rd Sutherland
Highlanders (who served 28 years); _b._ Dublin, 3 Aug. 1884;
educ. Hardwicke National School there; went to Canada in April, 1906;
enlisted on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; came over with the first
contingent; was wounded at Festubert, 23 April, 1915; and promoted
Corpl. on his return to duty, 16 May following, but was killed in
action at Givenchy eight days later, 24 May, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Kenneth M. Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, MALCOLM DRING=, Lieut., R.N.V.R., 3rd _s._ of
the Rev. Herbert Ernest Campbell, of The Abbey, Carlisle, Canon of
Carlisle; _b._ St. George’s Vicarage, Millom, 5 Sept. 1890; educ.
Loretto; was a Cotton Broker in the firm of Bushby Bros., Liverpool,
but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914. joined the R.N.V.R. He
served through the siege of Antwerp, and was afterwards sent to the
Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 2 May, 1915; _unm._
He was a good sportsman, played football for Birkenhead Park, and rowed
for the Mersey Rowing Club.
=CAMPBELL, MALCOLM JAMES=, Private, No. 53323, 18th Battn.
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of the late Malcolm
Campbell, of Lismore, co. Argyle, by his wife, Mary (Backwater School
House. Dykends, by Alyth, co. Perth), dau. of George M. Forrester, of
Tayport; _b._ Tayport, co. Fife, 4 Aug. 1894; educ. at Tayport;
emigrated to Canada in Oct. 1912, and after the outbreak of war
enlisted at Kingsville in Nov. 1914. After going through a course of
training at London, Ontario, he came to England in May, 1915, and was
in camp at Sandling, Kent, till Sept., when the battn. went to the
Western Front. Private Campbell was killed in action near Ypres, 13
Oct. 1915; unm. The Chaplain wrote that he “had indeed proved himself
a very faithful soldier,” and had “done his part always well.” He was
buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Dickebusch, south-west of Ypres, Belgium.
[Illustration: =Malcolm James Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, ROBERT=, Private, No. 2105, 4th Battn., 1st Brigade,
Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Kenneth Campbell, of
Wick, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of David Sutherland, of Duncansbay;
_b._ Wick, 13 Jan. 1873; educ. there; went to Australia in 19--,
and settled at Sydney. After the outbreak of war he joined (Feb. 1915)
the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Lone
Pine, Gallipoli, between the 6–9 Aug. 1915. He was one of the few who
took the Turkish trench, and was found beyond it. A letter from the
Chaplain said: “He fought like a hero, and died as such, and they
buried him a few days later in the military cemetery at Burrows Dip.”
He _m._ at Barry, co. Glamorgan, 6 Aug. 1904, Flora Hannah (9,
Trenwith Terrace, St. Ives, Cornwall), dau. of the Rev. Henry Roe, and
had a dau., René, _b._ 7 Aug. 1905.
[Illustration: =Robert Campbell.=]
=CAMPBELL, ROBERT CHARLES COWBURN=, Capt., 3rd King’s Own Scottish
Borderers, _s._ of Col. Robert Neil Campbell, of Elsieshields,
Lochmaben, co. Dumfries, C.B., C.I.E., M.B., I.M.S. (ret.), by his
wife, Ethel, dau. of Benjamin Bensley; _b._ Shillong, Assam,
India, 26 March, 1889; educ. Dollar Institution, Edinburgh Academy
and King’s College, Cambridge. He entered the Bombay Burma Trading
Corporation, Ltd., in 1910, and was home on leave when war broke out.
He volunteered, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd King’s Own
Scottish Borderers, 4 Sept. 1914, being promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914,
and Capt. 5 Feb. 1915. He was attached to the 2nd Highland L.I., and
served with them in the trenches from Dec. 1914, to March 1915, and at
Givenchy and Neuve Chapelle. He reverted to the 2nd King’s Own Scottish
Borderers in April, 1915; was in the attack and capture of Hill 60, and
was wounded in the counter-attack at Ypres on 23 April, 1915. He died
at Queen Alexandra’s Hospital for Officers, Highgate, 19 May following;
_unm._ He was in the Rugby and cricket teams of the Edinburgh
Academy, and obtained his Blue at Cambridge for Rugby football, and was
in the King’s College Rugby and soccer football, cricket and hockey
teams. His yst. and only surviving brother, Lieut. G. E. F. Campbell,
was killed in action at the Dardanelles (see his notice).
[Illustration: =Robert C. C. Campbell.=]
=CANDY, PHILIP SADLER=, Midshipman. R.N., 2nd _s._ of John
Alfred Sadler Candy, of Kingston, Angmering, co. Sussex, by his wife,
Emily Louisa French, dau. of Capt. Edward Holland Hills, R.N., of
Littlehampton, co. Sussex; _b._ 24 Feb. 1899; educ. Charlecote,
Worthing; entered the Osborne Class on H.M.S. Conway, Jan. 1911, and
afterwards went through a course of training at Dartmouth. He became
Midshipman in Aug. 1914, and was lost on H.M.S. Monmouth in the naval
action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A tablet to his
memory was placed in Ferring Parish Church, near Worthing.
[Illustration: =Philip Sadler Candy.=]
=CANHAM, HERBERT=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 861), H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=CANN, CHARLES=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4211, H.M.S. Hogue,
_s._ of Robert Cann, of 81, Percy Place, Dublin; lost in action in
the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=CANN, ROBERT HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14258, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=CANNON, CHARLES EDWIN=, Private, No. 1972, 5th Battn. Queen’s
Royal West Surrey Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late (--) Cannon,
by his wife, S. (Felix Cottages, Updown Hill, Windlesham, Surrey);
_b._ Windlesham, co. Surrey, 16 April, 1885; educ. Windlesham
Board School; joined the Surrey Territorials in 1912; volunteered
for foreign service after the outbreak of war; left England with the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force ....; was severely wounded in the
chest at the Dardanelles and sent to Alexandria, and died on the
hospital ship Asturias on his way back to England at 2 p.m. 23 Sept.
1915; unm. Buried at sea.
=CANNON, HUGH STANLEY=, Corpl., No. 28754, and Motor
Despatch Rider, R.E., 2nd _s._ of the late Alfred Cannon, of
Sandford-on-Thames, Oxford; _b._ Sandford-on-Thames, 15 Oct. 1888;
educ. Roysse’s School and Magdalen College, Oxford. On the outbreak
of war enlisted in the R.E., was promoted Corpl., attached to the 6th
Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division (as despatch rider), and left for
the Front, 6 Oct. 1914; served in France and Flanders, and was killed
whilst on his motor bicycle carrying Despatches at the First Battle
of Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was buried at Ypres Menin. His
commanding officer wrote: “He was one of the nicest men to work with I
have ever met, and all the officers on the staff think the same. He was
always cheerful and keen to do his best, which was very good.”
[Illustration: =Hugh Stanley Cannon.=]
=CANNONS, FRANK JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3952), S.S.
101990, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=CANTON, CHARLES JOHN=, Gunner, No. 2/299, 1st Battery New Zealand
Field Artillery, 3rd _s._ of the late George Canton, of Palmerston
North, New Zealand, Farmer, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Roberts,
of Nelson, New Zealand; _b._ Ngatimoti, Nelson, New Zealand, 22
Aug. 1876; educ. Public School there. On the outbreak of war joined
the New Zealand E.F., 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the
Dardanelles, 19 May, 1915; _unm._ Col. Meldrum wrote he “was hit
and killed instantly by a Turkish bullet on the 19th., I met him two
days previously, he had put in three weeks’ work with his guns. He
was happy and elated, he was having the time of his life”; and Major
McGilp, O.C. 1st Battery: “His grave is on the heights of Anzac, in a
nice spot close to the battery, which enables our men to keep it in
proper order. We obtained a large wooden cross from Egypt, which will
answer the purpose until a more permanent memorial can be erected.” He
was a County Councillor, member of the Wellington Land Board, etc., and
a keen and enthusiastic sportsman.
[Illustration: =Charles John Canton.=]
=CANTON, HERBERT WESTRUP=, Lieut., 1st Battn. East Lancashire
Regt., only _s._ of Frank Canton, Merchant (of a Huguenot family),
by his wife, Florence; _b._ Walton-on-Thames, 6 March, 1892; educ.
Magdalen College School, Oxford, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13
March, 1912; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.
1914; first came under fire at Le Cateau, where his platoon suffered
heavy casualties; took part in the retreat from Mons, and was present
at the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne. Through the winter of 1914
he was with his regt. in the trenches near Armentières, and was killed
in action in the trenches near Ypres, 13 May, 1915, after repelling a
strong German attack. He was buried at Wieltje; unm. Though promoted to
the command of his company from 5 Mar. 1915, his appointment to rank as
from 31 March, 1915, was only gazetted after his death.
=CAPELL, ARTHUR GEORGE CONINGSBY=, Capt., 2nd Northamptonshire
Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. George Marie Capell, Rector of
Passenham, co. Northampton (_d._ 1 Feb. 1915), by his wife, Annie,
dau. of Peter Stanley Lowe, of Whitehall Churchstow, co. Devon, and
gdson. of the Hon. Adolphus Capell, brother of Arthur Algernon, 6th
Earl of Essex; _b._ Passenham, Stony Stratford, 28 June, 1879;
educ. by private tutor; joined the Northamptonshire Imperial Yeomanry
in Jan. 1900, sailing with them for South Africa, 16 March the same
year; took part in the operations in the Transvaal (Queen’s medal
with five clasps); returned in June, 1901, and 12 months later joined
3rd Battn. Northants Militia, obtaining one of the late Earl Roberts’
commissions, 17 May, 1902, for which he was specially recommended by
his Adjutant. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Feb. 1904, and obtained his
company 20 Nov. 1910. On the outbreak of war he was with his regt.
in Alexandria; they returned to England and went to France, 4 Nov.
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