1911. At the outbreak of war he volunteered, and was killed in action

during the landing operations in Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ A comrade writing said that he was shot through the head by a sniper whilst going to the assistance of a wounded officer. [Illustration: =Arthur Davies Bagley.=] =BAGSHAWE, LEONARD VALE=, Capt., 3rd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, yr. _s._ of Rev. William Vale Bagshawe, of Moorlands, Calver, Sheffield, formerly Assistant Master at Repton School, Master of the Uppingham Lower School, Vicar of Isel and Rector of Pitchford, by his wife, Alice Katharine, dau. of Edward Otto Partridge; _b._ Highfield, Uppingham, 30 Nov. 1877; educ. Lower School, Uppingham, Shrewsbury, and Christ Church, Oxford. After taking his degree he entered the service of the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, and later became one of their forest managers. Being home on leave when the war broke out he applied at once, with three other members of the company’s staff, for a commission in the King’s Own Scottish Borderers, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 30 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. following. He trained at Portland and Sunderland, left with a draft on 4 Dec., and was attached to the 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers near Ypres, where, having acted as Capt. of his company for several months, he was gazetted to that rank 5 May, 1915. He was killed in action at Hooge, in Flanders, 16 June, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Edward Partridge wrote from Ypres: “His example enabled his men to carry the position and retain it against counter attacks, and they all speak so highly of his pluck and resource.” And Private Pike, Northumberland Fusiliers, from the Base Hospital at Sheffield: “I was with your son when he got killed in the great charge at Hooge, near Ypres, on 16 June. I was very proud to be led by such a brave and noble man--for he led the company as if he were in the streets of England.” Private Pike also said that “Capt. Bagshawe and his men were in the fighting in March at St. Eloi, St. Julien, and Hill 60. One night he had 18 men in a trench which was shelled by the Germans preparatory to an attack; 16 men were killed or wounded. Capt. Bagshawe mounted the parapet and fired into the attacking enemy. He and his two men held the trench through the night until daylight caused the Germans to relinquish the attack.” The adjutant of his Battn. said: “... He was as popular with his men as with the officers.... He was from the first in a responsible position, which he filled with great energy and tact.... We were attacking, and I heard that he got into the first line of the enemy’s trenches, and I think he was hit in the actual assault. He will have been buried close to where he fell, which is just south of the Ypres-Roulers Railway, about three miles east of Ypres.” Capt. Bagshawe was a keen and successful all-round sportsman. At college he rowed in the eight and represented Christ Church in the crew which competed for both Thames and Ladies in 1897 at Henley. They were beaten in the semi-final of the Ladies Plate by Emmanuel, and in the final of the Thames Cup by Kingston after a good race. [Illustration: =Leonard Vale Bagshawe.=] =BAILEY, ARCHIBALD ERNEST=, L.-Corpl., No. 9592, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt., _s._ of Samuel Bailey, of 16, Blackwall Road, Willesboro Lees, near Ashford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 28 Sept. 1915. =BAILEY, ARTHUR EDWARD=, Private, No. 9703, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of William Bailey, of Hyam Cottages, Malmesbury, Wilts., Farm Labourer, by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Matthew Clark, of Malmesbury; _b._ Brokenborough, near Malmesbury, co. Wilts., 2 Aug. 1890; educ. Malmesbury National School; enlisted 31 July, 1912, and was killed in the fighting round Ypres, Oct. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =Arthur Edward Bailey.=] =BAILEY, FREDERICK JOSEPH=, Acting Sergt.-Major, No. 4640, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.); killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 May, 1915. =BAILEY, GEORGE HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 220337, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. His brother, Wallace J. Bailey, was lost in the Cressy. =BAILEY, JOHN JAMES=, Private, No. 2280, 7th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late (--) Bailey; b. Sunderland, co. Durham, ... Aug. 1887, and was employed at Foster’s Forge, Sunderland; joined the 7th (Territorial) Battn. of the Durham L.I., and trained at Gateshead; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action “somewhere” in France, 15 May, 1915. He _m._ at Sunderland, 24 Aug. 1912, Elizabeth Jane (who died 16 June, 1914), dau. of William Chambers Farley, of Sunderland, Machine Driller, and had an only child, Catherine (15, Victoria Street, Southwick, Sunderland), _b._ 9 Jan. 1913. [Illustration: =John James Bailey.=] =BAILEY, THOMAS DISMORE=, Private, No. 3189, B Coy., 1/5th Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., yr. _s._ of Samuel Bailey, Coachman to Mr. J. H. Sykes, of Bryancliffe, Edgerton, Huddersfield, by his wife, Selina, dau. of Thomas Dismore; _b._ Marsh, Huddersfield, 29 Dec. 1895; was a cutter’s apprentice at Messrs. Bairstow, Sons & Co., Ltd., Clothiers, but on the outbreak of war joined the Army as a Stretcher-bearer and First Aid Ambulance man, 6 Oct. 1914, and was killed while attending to the wounded at Fleurbaix at 12.15 p.m., 14 June, 1915; buried at La Croix Marchal; _unm._ Writing to his parents his Commanding Officer, Capt. J. E. Eastwood, said: “We had just had one man badly wounded, and your son as a stretcher-bearer was attending to him, when I heard that we had another man wounded higher up the trenches, so your son set off to attend to him, and while doing so was shot dead on the spot.” And Lieut. A. L. McCully, of the R.A.M.C., wrote: “As you know, I have not been very long in charge of the Ambulance Section, but I have heard nothing but praise of your son from Sergt. Flood and his late comrades. He was always willing to do his share of whatever was in hand, and the fact of his at once going out to a dangerous place to help a wounded man shows that he had the very highest conception of what his duty was.” He was a member of the choir at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield. [Illustration: =Thomas Dismore Bailey.=] =BAILEY, WALLACE JAMES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2467A, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. His brother, George Henry, was lost in the Pathfinder. =BAILEY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7729), S.S. 103118, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILEY, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 576), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILEY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9459), S.S. 106853, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILLIE, DOUGLAS ANDERSON=, Leading Seaman, 230740, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAILLIE, SIR GAWAINE GEORGE STUART=, 5th Bart., of Polkemmet, Lieut., 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), elder _s._ of the late Sir Robert Baillie, 4th Bart. (who commanded the Australian Squadron of the King’s Colonials), by his wife, Isabel (Polkemmet, Whitburn, Linlithgow), dau. of the late David Elliot Wilkie, of Ratho Byres, Midlothian; _b._ Victoria, Australia, 29 May, 1893; educ. St. David’s, Rufalt, Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 2nd Dragoons, 4 Sept. 1912, being stationed at York till the war broke out. He went to France with the Expeditionary Force Aug. 14; was promoted Lieut., and was wounded in the hand in Aug., but insisted on returning to the firing line, although unable to use it. He was killed in action at Rebais on 7 Sept. 1914, when the onward rush of the Germans was stopped at the Marne. In the words of a brother officer: “Unable to draw any weapon himself, he died charging the enemy like the gallant English gentleman he was.” His body was brought home and buried in the family burial ground: _unm._ Numerous letters were received from his brother officers and the men of the regt. testifying to his gallantry and to the high esteem and popularity in which he was held by the whole regt. =BAILLIE, IAN HENRY=, Capt., 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late Lieut.-Gen. Duncan Baillie, formerly of the Royal Horse Guards, by his wife, Anna Glentworth (Lochloy, Nairn, N.B.), dau. of the Rev. Gustavus Burnaby, of Somerby Hall, Leicestershire; _b._ Househill, co. Nairn, 3 Sept. 1870; educ. Wellington College; was for some time a Lieut. in 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted Capt. to the 4th Battn. of the Cameron Highlanders, 20 Nov. 1914. He was wounded at Festubert, 18 May, 1915, and _d._ in hospital at Rouen four days later; _unm._ An elder brother, Capt. Alan Baillie, Seaforth Highlanders, was killed at Atbara in 1898, and another brother, Major Hugh Baillie, D.S.O., of the Seaforth Highlanders, was wounded in the early part of the war, and has now (1916) a staff appointment abroad. A third brother, Major Duncan Baillie, 2nd Lovat Scouts, is serving abroad with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. [Illustration: =Ian Henry Baillie.=] =BAILWARD, THEODORE=, Lieut., 26th King George’s Own Native L.I., 3rd _s._ of Thomas Henry Methuen Bailward, of Horsington Manor, co. Somerset, B.A. Oxford, J.P., C.C., by his wife, Margaret Eliza, dau. of Henry Hobhouse, of Hadspen House, Castle Cary, J.P.; _b._ Horsington Manor, 9 March, 1888; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford, Rugby and Sandhurst; received commission in Somerset L.I., then quartered at Poona, 1907. The following year he passed into the Indian Army, joining the 26th Native Cavalry at Bangalore, and in 1913 was appointed A.D.C. to the Governor of Madras (Lord Pentland), and became Master of the Ootacamund Hounds, which office he held until the outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. He was attached to the 7th Lancers, and with them joined the Indian Expeditionary Force in the Persian Gulf in March, and was killed, with two other officers and some men, at Imanzadeh Ali Ibuhussin, 18 miles due east of Awaz, when on a reconnaissance, 29 April, 1915. He was buried there; _unm._ [Illustration: =Theodore Bailward.=] =BAINBRIDGE, THOMAS LINDSAY=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, attd. Northumbrian Signal Coy. R.E., 3rd _s._ of the late Thomas Hudson Bainbridge, of Eshott Hall, co. Northumberland; _b._ Holmwood, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 April, 1882; educ. privately and Dr. Osborn’s, Colwyn Bay; qualified as an electrical engineer, and then entered the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, at Wallsend. He received his first commission in 1913 as commander of a signalling section, and was in the Special Reserve of Officers. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and after being stationed at Blyth left for the Front about the middle of April, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres on the 26th of that month; _unm._ The following is an extract from a letter read at the Newcastle Wesleyan Synod at Durham on 13 May: “Last night, after dark, we buried Lieut. Bainbridge and others. It was the most impressive ceremony I have ever attended. It was a beautiful moonlight night as we carried the bodies down the lines wrapped in blankets and lying on stretchers. As we passed each entrenched battn. the men stood to ‘Attention.’ At about a quarter of a mile from the trenches, on a piece of ground where about six other officers lie buried, we laid them to rest. The guns were roaring on every side, and the huge fire-balls the Germans threw into the air illuminated the sky. Lieut. Bainbridge was a plucky and good fellow.” Prior to Lieut. Bainbridge being gazetted to the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers he had held a commission in the Engineers Volunteers, and subsequently was a Cadet in the Senior Division, Durham University O.T.C. During his service in the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers he endeavoured to qualify himself in every way to become as efficient a soldier as possible, and with this in view he did a month’s tour of duty at the regimental depôt, receiving a good report on his work during that tour. He also prepared himself to qualify, and qualified in examination “B” for promotion to Capt. He took a month’s course in signalling at Bulford Camp, at the end of which he qualified most satisfactorily. After this he became battn. signalling officer, and never spared himself in bringing his signallers into as high a state of efficiency as possible in all branches of military signalling. He also became interested in “wireless,” and provided himself with an apparatus, which he studied with great zeal and ability. When the war broke out he commanded the Northumbrian Divisional Signalling Coy., and was consequently attached to the Northumbrian Divisional R.E. He was a popular officer with all ranks, was a keen rifle shot, and in 1913 won the revolver championship of Northumberland. He was also a very keen motorist, and, in fact, an all-round sportsman. [Illustration: =Thomas L. Bainbridge.=] =BAIRD, COLIN=, Sergt., No. 2768, D Coy., 1st/14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt., _s._ of Thomas Baird, of 25A, Wood Street, E.C., by his wife, Lucy Maria, dau. of Mark Williams; _b._ West Norwood, 5 Nov. 1886; educ. Lancaster College, West Norwood; killed in action near Loos, 13 Oct. 1915, while in charge of a party sent out to cut wire entanglements; _unm._ [Illustration: =Colin Baird.=] =BAIRD, STANLEY CHARLES=, Probationary 2nd Cook’s Mate, No. Ch. M. 7600, H.M.S. Cressy, 4th _s._ of George Alexander Baird, of 4, Pleasant View, Farnborough, of the Metropolitan Water Board, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of Francis Balchin; _b._ Farnborough, co. Kent, 11 June, 1893; educ. Farnborough Board School; joined the Royal West Kent Territorials, 1912; entered the Navy, 12 May, 1914; lost in H.M.S. Cressy in North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ =BAIRD, WILLIAM FRANK GARDINER=, Capt., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., yr. _s._ of Sir William James Gardiner Baird, of Saughton Hall, Midlothian, 8th Bt., J.P., Lieut.-Col. Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry, formerly 7th Hussars, by his wife, the Hon. Arabella Rose Evelyn Hozier, dau. of James Henry Cecil, 1st Lord Newlands; _b._ Inch House, Liberton, Midlothian, 15 April, 1885; educ. Castlemount, Eton and Sandhurst. Served in the 7th Dragoon Guards and Scots Guards. On the outbreak of war he received a commission from the Reserve of Officers as Capt. in the 4th Bedfordshires, 11 Aug. 1914, and went to the Front attached to the 1st Lincolnshire Regt. He _d._ 5 Nov. 1914, in hospital at Boulogne, from wounds received in action, and was buried there. Capt. Baird _m._ at Ware, 24 Nov. 1910, Violet Mary, dau. of the late Richard Benyon Croft, of Fanham’s Hall, and had three children: James Richard Gardiner, _b._ 12 July, 1913; William Henry Gardiner, _b._ 11 Oct. 1914; and Lilias Mary, _b._ 26 Sept. 1911. =BAKER, EDWARD JAMES=, P.O., 1st Class, 164169, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, EDWIN JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6773), 189515, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 44, 54th Field Coy., R.E., _s._ of the late Frederick William Baker, of 118, Denmark Road, and Commercial Road, Lowestoft, General and Shipsmith, by his wife (--), dau. of (--) Naunton; _b._ Lowestoft, 8 Dec. 1876; educ. there; was apprenticed to his father, and was an old Volunteer in the Lowestoft Rifles; joined the R.E. as a sapper at Chatham, 2 March, 1895; served in the Bermudas, Canada, at Aldershot and in South Africa, and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action near Fleurbaix, 7 Jan. 1915, being shot by a sniper. He was buried at Fleurbaix on the Bois Grenier Road. Sergt. Baker held the Long Service and Good Conduct medal with the crossed guns, and Lieut.-Col. D. S. MacInnes, D.S.O., wrote: “Sergt. W. Baker, when I knew him, was section sergt. of the 54th Field Coy., R.E. He was particularly capable and resourceful, and inspired great confidence in the men of his section. His bravery when making wire entanglements in the face of the enemy, and in other dangerous work was beyond all praise.” He _m._ at Broadstairs, 26 Nov. 1904, Maud Elizabeth (The Ridge Cottage, Crawley Hill, Camberley), dau. of William Fisher, Dockyard Pensioner, and had issue three sons and two daus.: Frederick William Naunton, _b._ 25 Nov. 1906; Montague Reginald, _b._ 1 Aug. 1908; Robert Naunton, _b._ 15 July, 1913; Elsie Maud, _b._ 29 Sept. 1905; and Irene Naunton, _b._ 23 Oct. 1910. [Illustration: =Frederick William Baker.=] =BAKER, GEORGE BRANDON=, Elect. Art., 3rd Class, M. 399, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, HENRY TILLET=, Armourer, 345914, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BAKER, JAMES HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 971, 8th Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd _s._ of Samuel Baker, of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, ex-Police Constable, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of Thomas Durrance; _b._ Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, 21 Aug. 1875; educ. St. Andrew’s School, Clapham. He was a postman, and had done 25 years’ service at Brixton. He joined the old 24th Middlesex Volunteers in 1896, and afterwards passed into the Post Office Rifles. On the outbreak of war he volunteered with his battn. for foreign service, and _d._ of wounds received in action at Festubert, 26 May, 1915. A comrade wrote “he was wounded severely in my company on Wednesday night (25th) at Festubert, and have just now received official information that he died in Bethune Hospital on the 26th, and was buried in Bethune cemetery. I knew he was terribly wounded, but did not think he was dangerously wounded, as I had the sad task of attending to his wounds; the latter were in both legs, from the knees downwards.” And his Colonel, in writing to express his sympathy with Mrs. Baker, spoke of the “Many kind things he did to help one.” Baker _m._ at St. Saviour’s, Brixton, 12 Jan. 1901, Eliza Susan (114, Cornwall Road, Brixton Hill, S.W.), dau. of Alfred Mills, of Thurlow, Suffolk, and had two children: James Alfred, _b._ 7 Dec. 1904; Constance Sophia, _b._ 31 Dec. 1901. [Illustration: =James Henry Baker.=] =BAKER, JOHN=, A.B., No. 1402D, Royal Naval Reserve, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5353), S.S. 100106, _s._ of the late Daniel Baker, Labourer; _b._ Chislet, Kent, ... 1868; educ. there; joined the Navy 1904; was called up at the outbreak of the war, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Chislet, 17 April, 1906, Margaret A., dau. of ..., and had three children: John William Henry, _b._ 1910; Annie, _b._ 1907; and Ivy, _b._ 1908. [Illustration: =John William Baker.=] =BAKER, MARSHALL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3734), 166055, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BAKER, OSBERT CLINTON-=, Lieut.-Col., 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, 3rd _s._ of the late William Clinton-Baker, of Bayfordbury, co. Herts., by his wife, Edith Mildmay Ashhurst (Bayfordbury, Hertford), dau. of the Rev. Henry Lewis Majendie, Vicar of Great Dunmow, co. Essex; _b._ Bayfordbury, 25 Sept. 1869; educ. at Winchester and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, receiving his first commission in the Royal Irish Rifles 1 March, 1890. He obtained his step 18 Nov. 1894, and his company 24 Feb. 1900, being promoted to field rank 22 Sept. 1906, and succeeding to the command of the 1st battn. of his regt. 15 March, 1915, on the death of Lieut.-Col. G. B. Laurie, who fell in action at Neuve Chapelle. From Jan. 1896 to 31 Dec. 1899 he was Adjutant to his regt. and from Feb. 1905 to Sept. 1906 he occupied a similar position in the Militia. He served in the South African War, and in May, 1902, obtained the command of the 21st Battn. of the Mounted Infantry, and held that position until the end of the war, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps, and the King’s medal with two clasps. After this he was for some years in India and Burmah, accompanying his regt. as 2nd in command to the front in Nov.