1915. A brother officer wrote: “I can assure you your husband was a

great credit to our Army, fearless and brave. He was never happy unless in a position to be at the head of our regt., and at the time he was killed we were in a very tight corner, and it meant at the time British determination to withhold the severe Turkish attack, and he was one of those to show a great example to the men.” Major Crofton _m._ at Mussoorie, India, 26 Dec. 1901, Catherine Mary (Culverley, Goda Road, Littlehampton), dau. of the late Charles Frederick Waverley Stowell, and had two children: Hugh Charles Henry, _b._ 19 Feb. 1915; and Kathleen Louisa, _b._ 23 Dec. 1902. [Illustration: =Charles Woodward Crofton.=] =CROMIE, MAURICE FRANCIS=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd, att. 2nd, Battn. Hampshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Capt. Charles Francis Cromie, C.M.G., 37th Regt., Consul-General for Congo Free State at the time of his death, by his wife, Joanna Angela (Alresford, Hants), dau. of Julian Bargus Yonge, of Otterbourne, Hants, J.P., M.A. [Cadet of Yonge of Puslinch, Devon]; _b._ London, 29 July, 1895; educ. Blundell’s, Tiverton, and Dover College, where he was in the O.T.C.; obtained his commission, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, 4 June, 1915: _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: “Lieut. Cromie’s loss was really a bitter blow to the regt. I had only known him a few days, and he had charge of the machine guns. When we went up to the front trenches prior to the assault he came twice with me on expeditions, and was so keen and cheerful about it all that I got him to come and live in my dug-out, and there we stayed together until the day. How it happened I do not know, but what I do know is that his guns arrived in the nick of time and later were instrumental in saving the situation.” [Illustration: =Maurice Francis Cromie.=] =CRONK, FRIEND=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3574), 187623, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CRONK, WILLIAM GUY=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (The Buffs) East Kent Regt. att. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only _s._ of William Henry Cronk, of Suffolk Place, Sevenoaks, by his wife, Winifred Ruth, dau. of Lieut.-Col. C. N. Kidd; _b._ Sevenoaks, co. Kent, 28 April, 1893; educ. Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. East Kent Regt., 14 March, 1914, and attd. to the King’s Royal Rifles; went to France early in Oct., and was killed in action two miles S.E. of Zonnebeke, 26 Oct. 1914, while leading his platoon in an attack on the enemy trenches; _unm._ [Illustration: =William G. Cronk.=] =CROOK, ALBERT GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5113), 196640, H.M.S. Good Hope, lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CROOK, JOSEPH=, Painter, 2nd Class, M. 3641, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CROSBY, JOHN CLIFFORD=, A.B., Ch. J. 2146, H.M.S. Cressy, only _s._ of the late Robert Crosby, Constable, North Riding Police Force, by his wife, Eleanor (112, Holden Street, Grangetown, Yorkshire), dau. of James Pease; _b._ Halifax, 18 May, 1892; educ. Grangetown Council School; joined the Navy, 11 Aug. 1908, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Clifford Crosby.=] =CROSLAND, JOHN HENRY=, A B. (R.F.R., B. 1661), 205430, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CROSLEY, CECIL=, 2nd Lieut. and Acting Adjutant, 5th (Service) Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers, formerly 5th Lancers, _s._ of John Mechi Crosley, of 5–6, Great Winchester Street, E.C., Stockbroker and member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Mary May, dau. of E. Candler, of Bexhill; _b._ Purley, co. Surrey, 29 Oct. 1892; educ. Uppingham School, and then proceeded to the McGill University, Montreal, with the idea of taking up engineering. Abandoning this, he returned to England in 1913 and joined his father. He had joined the Reserve of Officers, 23 July, 1913, and on the outbreak of war was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 5th Lancers, Aug. 1914 and trained with them at Dublin. Being anxious, however, to go to the Front, he transferred to the 5th Royal Irish Fusiliers in May, 1915, and went out to the Dardanelles with them. He took part in the historic landing at Suvla Bay, was appointed Acting Adjutant early in August, and was killed in action at Keretch Tepe on the 16th of that month; _unm._ Shortly before his death. Lieut.-Gen. B. Mahon wrote; “Your Commanding Officer and Brigade Commander have informed me that you have distinguished yourself by good conduct in the field. I have read their report with much pleasure and have forwarded it to higher authority for recognition;” and Capt. E. M. Ilwaine wrote to his father: “From the moment we landed (at Suvla Bay) under shrapnel fire I was struck by your son’s coolness. He volunteered to remain beside the barge in which we came ashore, organised a party and unloaded the ammunition and stores in it, although the Turkish gunners had got the range and were shelling it steadily. Whenever I saw him during the few rests we had I found him cheery and apparently quite happy in his work, and I noticed that he had quite obtained the confidence of the men of his platoon, who followed him willingly. Personally I soon learned to put absolute trust in his knowledge and judgment, and he took over the command of the company when I was wounded. Two of our officers who were wounded after I was, both made exactly the same remark to me while on the hospital ship, ‘Crosley is doing good work.’” And later (12 Feb. 1916) he wrote again; “I have received a letter from one of our officers--Bennett--who was near your son when he was killed. With the exception of Bennett all the officers present were wounded, went to hospital in Alexandria or Malta, and rejoined the regt. in Serbia direct from hospital. I quote Bennett’s letter. The occasion he refers to is the one mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s despatch, when he says that the 5th Battn. held on to the ridge until only one officer was left, and then retired when ordered to do so from the rear. I might mention that Cecil was appointed Adjutant--after Kelly, the Adjutant, was hit--some days previously.” On Monday, 16 Aug., we advanced up a ridge overlooking the Bay of Saros. This ridge was Keritch Tepe Sert, and sloped down to the water’s edge. Our officers going into action were Johnson, Crosley, Bartley, Duggan, Fitzgerald, Blood, Figgis Kidd and myself. Kidd followed B Coy, with first half of D, and I followed with the remaining two platoons of D. I met Crosley when we got into position, and he instructed me to send D along to Kidd and take command of B, as both Duggan and Blood had been hit. B Coy. were lining a ridge and firing half left. The remainder were a little ahead and lining the ridge facing inland, also holding a small trench at right angles to the ridge and on the sea side of it. It was in this little trench that Crosley, Hartley, Sergt.-Major Mulligan and many others were killed. I was not actually in this place, but Fitzgerald and Kidd explained it clearly afterwards. Crosley, Hartley and Mulligan were all hit in the head. At about 8.30 p.m. we were instructed that we were to withdraw, and that two naval boats--which had helped us with their fire all day--would commence to shell the enemy at 8.45 p.m. The enemy were on a little knoll and entrenched about 20 or 15 yards in front of the trench we held. We withdrew in good order. Fitzgerald and Kidd were in the little trench all day, and, indeed, Fitzgerald got a bullet through his helmet at the same spot, for it was very closely sniped. Crosley was not up in this position for long, but was passing along the line and learning how matters stood. When I reached the position and was talking to Crosley two aeroplanes were overhead dropping bombs about, and he told us that the fumes from one bomb were all about him as he bandaged up Blood, who was hit in the shoulder. I chatted to him for a time, and he wanted me to take one of his famous automatic pistols, but as I had a rifle I refused. From where we were on to the ridge the ground sloped right to the sea, and this slope was covered with thick scrub, which scrub was fairly full of snipers, so we had a fire on both sides and plenty of shells. Crosley was, of course, very cheery, and his last word to me was ‘Keep down and don’t expose yourself. There are all sorts of things flying about here.’ I left him arranging about water and ammunition with Mulligan. I heard from Kelly, in Alexandria, something of how well Crosley had done, and from all he told me I am not surprised to see his name in the Despatch. He would seem to have merited that honour highly. This is the only first hand information I have been able to secure. If I obtain any more I shall forward it to you.” He was mentioned in Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 11 Dec. 1915 [London Gazette, 28 Jan. 1916]. At Montreal he was instrumental in introducing and organising Rugby rules for the University football matches and was prominent in boxing, winning the amateur middle-weight championship of Canada. On his return to England he became a member of the London Rowing Club, and represented that club in eights at Henley and other Regattas. [Illustration: =Cecil Crosley.=] =CROSS, DANIEL=, Private, No. 81195, 2nd Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late (--) Cross, and gdson. of Daniel Cross, of Harleston, co. Northants; _b._ Harleston, 9 July, 1894; educ. there; went to Canada in March, 1911, and settled at Killarney, Manitoba; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force after the outbreak of war, and came over with the first contingent, going to the Western Front in April, 1915. He died on Active Service in No. 11 General Hospital, Boulogne, 25 Aug. 1915, of appendicitis. He was buried in the English cemetery there; _unm._ =CROSS, DAVID RONALD=, M.C., Lieut. 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, only _s._ of Adam Cross, of Brixworth Hall, co. Northampton, by his wife, Annie, dau. of David Guthrie; _b._ Midlothian, 18 Oct. 1889; educ. Marlborough and Christ Church, Oxford, at which latter he took his degree with honours. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 16 Lancers, 16 Aug. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1913. On the outbreak of war he went to France with his regt., was wounded in Oct., but after being in England for a few weeks rejoined, and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Cross was twice mentioned in F.M. Sir John French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 20 Oct. 1914, and 17 Feb. 1915], and was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915]. He was a smart rider to hounds, and was well known in the Pytchley country. In 1914 he won his two regimental races at the Curragh, Lord Annaly’s Cup at the Pytchley point-to-point races, and at Punchestown the two military steeplechases in April. [Illustration: =David Ronald Cross.=] =CROSS, EDWIN=, Officer’s Cook, 2nd Class, 141381, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CROSS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4853), S.S. 104223, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CROSSIN, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6960, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CROUCH, JOHN WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman (R.N.V.R.), 5/193 (Sussex), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CROUSAZ, CECIL FRANCIS=, Lieut., 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., yst. _s._ of William de Prelaz Crousaz, of 8, de Beauvoir Terrace, Guernsey, jurat of the Royal Court, Guernsey, by his wife Emma Arnold, dau. of John LeCappellain; _b._ Guernsey, 7 Dec. 1888; educ. Elizabeth College (Sandhurst entrance), Guernsey; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. South Staffordshire Regt. 6 Nov. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 28 March, 1912. He served with both the 1st and 2nd Battns. of his regt. in South Africa and Gibraltar, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke, near Ypres, 31 Oct. 1914. Buried at Hooge; _unm._ His commanding officer, Col. R. M. Ovens, wrote to his father: “Your boy was in command of our scouts and was a most valuable officer--energetic and keen, and a splendid disciplinarian. His exceptional strength and keenness made him a great asset to his regt. I last saw your boy leading his men forward near Gheluvelt Village, under a heavy fire, and encouraging them by voice and example. He was a brave and determined soldier.” He won the featherweight boxing championship at Aldershot in 1913. [Illustration: =Cecil Francis Crousaz.=] =CROWTHER, LESLIE TAYLOR=, 2nd Lieut., 1/5th Battn. The Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Norman Crowther, of Viso House, Huddersfield, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of John Henry Sykes, of Huddersfield, J.P.; _b._ Viso House, Huddersfield, 27 Sept. 1892; educ. Wild’s, Huddersfield, and after leaving school taught there for a time, and after his death his master wrote: “Leslie was such a splendid boy, so vigorous and cheerful, so conscientious and reliable, and it must have been so constant a joy to you both to see how by his own steady efforts he was making his way to a good position in life, and winning the respect of all with whom he had to deal.” He had joined the 1/5th (Territorial) Battn. of the West Riding Regt. in 1909, and volunteering for Imperial service after the outbreak of the war, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the same, 21 Oct. 1914. He went to France with his regt., and was killed in action at Fleurbaix, 15 June, 1915, during a reconnaissance. His company officer, Lieut.-Col. Wilson, wrote: “When I recommended your son for a commission I felt certain I was doing the right thing, and I am pleased to say he has turned out a thoroughly efficient officer and keen soldier. The N.C.Os. and men in his platoon had become very much attached to him, and would follow him anywhere. Our loss is also very great. Every officer in the battn. admired and loved him.... He was always keen to go patrolling, and did his work well” and the following particulars were given by Lieut. A. B. Stott, who writing 16 June said: “Yesterday afternoon a reconnaissance was decided on. The party was to consist of Capt. Wheatley, Lieut. Leslie Liddell, and two men. During the evening Capt. Wheatley’s foot went very sore, so I took his place. Just before we left Leslie asked to be included in the party.... We got about 120 yards out from our trench quite easily. As the grass was very dry I then decided to go on alone with a man for about 40 yards more. I left Leslie and Liddell to guard our left flank. We were just about to return to them when we heard revolver shots, and a German patrol in full flight. Unfortunately. this was not the only patrol out, and another German patrol threw a bomb which gave Leslie his death wound. There was naturally some trouble to get him back to the lines, but he was carried in by a stretcher party, covered by a strong party of men, but he was dead before the lines were reached. The Doctor said that nothing could have saved him, and that he must have been unconscious almost from the first. He was buried the same day in the corner of a field, a quarter of a mile behind the firing line, where the officers and men of the 5th and 7th Duke’s have been buried, and lies near to his old school friend, 2nd Lieut. L. M. Tetlow. Ten officers and 20 men of his own company attended to the simple ceremony which marks these occasions, together with a number of men of his old A Coy., and Col. Wilson officiated at the service.... As my sub. in old C Coy., and as a platoon commander in D Coy., he has always been a splendid and devoted officer.” The D.C.M. was afterwards conferred on Sergt. Convoy for this act, he being in charge of the stretcher bearers. [Illustration: =Leslie Taylor Crowther.=] =CROXSON, HENRY THOMAS=, 1st Class Ship’s Corpl., No. 350161, H.M.S. Formidable, _s._ of the late Jonathan Croxson, of Ipswich; _b._ Ipswich, 31 Dec. 1869; educ. there; entered the Navy, 31 July, 1888, and was lost on H.M.S. Formidable, 1 Jan. 1915. He received the Long Service and Good Conduct medal, 27 Nov. 1903. He _m._ at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich, 26 Oct. 1896, Mary Ann (156, Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich), dau. of John Hindle, of Ipswich, and had one dau.: Ethel May, _b._ 23 Feb. 1898. [Illustration: =Henry Thomas Croxson.=] =CROZIER, JAMES CYRIL BAPTIST=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, only _s._ of the late Rev. Henry Wilcocks Crozier, Vicar of St. Matthew’s, Stockport, M.A. (T.C.D.), by his wife, Susan Sinclair, dau. of James Spence, J.P., Birkenhead, and gdson. of the Rev. Baptist Barton Crozier, of Rockview House, Ballyhaise, co. Cavan, B.A.; _b._ Bowden, co. Chester, 24 Oct. 1890; educ. Loretto School, Edinburgh, leaving there for Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine for two years. He was gazetted to the 3rd Royal Scots (Special Reserve), 10 July, 1912, from which regt. he was transferred to the 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 June, 1914, and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, near Etreux, 27 Aug. 1914; _unm._ In a letter to Archbishop Crozier, Primate of All Ireland, Capt. H. S. Jervis (a prisoner in Germany) described in detail the trying day through which the regt. passed on 27 Aug., being eventually cut off from the main body, and proceeded: “B Coy. extended at once, and an attack on the enemy’s position commenced. Your nephew was on the left--or east--of the attacking company, and was very much to the fore; a part of A Coy. extended the line eastwards, continued by my men (D Coy.) The enemy was holding a railway cutting in front of us, so D Coy. tried to rush this, the remainder of the men in that part of the field helping with rifle fire. Owing to lack of cover all my men in this part of the field save two were shot down before the hedge was reached, and the attempt failed. Crozier pushed on ahead of his men, clambered out of a hollow lane which he had just reached, and recklessly exposing himself in the open, shouted out, ‘There they are; come on, men,’ at the same time pointing out the enemy. As he ceased speaking he fell, killed instantaneously by a bullet through the body. It was noticed that he never moved once he fell. It is, therefore, a sad consolation to know that his death was painless, and he died with words on his lips which any of his brother officers would have been proud to be their last also.” [Illustration: =James Cyril B. Crozier=] =CROZIER, WILLIAM KERR=, L.-Corpl., No. 9576, Machine Gun Section 2nd. Battn. Royal Scots, eldest _s._ of the late Walter Wright Crozier, by his wife, Robina (13, Tolbooth Wynd, Leith), dau. of the late William Kerr, of Leith; _b._ Portobello, 22 March, 1887; educ. Couper Street School there; enlisted 1905; served three years with the Colours, then passed into the Reserve, and worked as a Plaiter’s Labourer; rejoined on mobilisation 4 Aug. 1914; went to France Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ Sergt. C. Hiles wrote: “When we charged the Germans he was in charge of a machine gun team. His gun was put out of action and poor Will came back to me for another gun. He had to cover over 600 yards of ground beaten by murderous shell and rifle fire, for this act he has been recommended for the D.C.M. After getting his gun he went back to the trenches we had captured from the Germans. Just as he was about to enter the trenches he got wounded. He got his gun in action, and when he was found he was beside my gun. He was a good soldier and a very promising non-commissioned officer, and had he lived he would probably have been promoted.” =CRUIKSHANKS, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12869, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CRUISE, PETER=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111533 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CULLINAN, ROBERT HORNIDGE=, B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Capt., 7th Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd surviving _s._ of John Cullinan, of 6, Bindon Street, Ennis, Solicitor, by his wife, Martha Frances, dau. of the Rev. Francis Faris, Rector of Dovena, co. Wicklow; _b._ Ennis, co. Clare, 9 Aug. 1881; educ. Tipperary Grammar School, and having obtained Senior Erasmus Smith Exhibition, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in Oct. 1899. Here he gained numerous honours and prizes in History and Political Science and Logic, and obtained on leaving a Senior Moderatorship with gold medal for History and Political Science. He was called to the Irish Bar in Trinity Term, 1904, and was a member of the Munster Circuit. On the outbreak of war he offered his services and secured a commission in Sept., being gazetted Lieut. to the 7th Munsters, 18 Nov. 1914, and as Tempy. (afterwards confirmed) Capt. 27 Feb. He was killed in action after the landing at Suvla Bay, 8 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Major Drage, commanding C Coy., wrote: “Capt. Cullinan, C Coy., with D on its left, and the 6th Munsters on the right of it, had to advance early on Saturday afternoon along, below and parallel to a high ridge, on which were many skilful Turkish snipers. Your son, on the 7th, commanded the first line of C Coy., and went on leading his men under heavy fire most determinedly and gallantly, till he got to an open patch, where he was struck down, mortally wounded. 2nd Lieut. Bennett bravely went to his side, to find Capt. Cullinan riddled with five or six bullets and dead.” And Major Hendricks: “I was in the firing line with him not half an hour before he was shot. We were in a thunder storm together and were wet to the skin. Suddenly I received an order to reinforce our other battn. on a flank, and sent Major Drage’s company, to which your son belonged, to carry out the duty. Your son died, as he had lived, a noble hero, never thinking for one moment of himself, telling the men to go on and leave him. He was then shot through the head. His death was practically instantaneous. After the 12 months I have known your son, I must say I looked on him as a dear pal, and one of the best officers in the regt. He had endeared himself to one and all.” At Dublin University he was a member of the Rugby football club, and played for the first fifteen for three years, obtaining his colours in the year 1900–1, and was also record secretary of the University Historical Debating Society. [Illustration: =Robert Hornidge Cullinan.=] =CULLIP, ALEXANDER GEORGE HOLLIS=, Bugler, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 16865, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CUMMING, COLIN EDWARD=, M.A. (Hons. Edin.), Lieut., 103rd Battery, R.F.A. 31st Brigade (28th Division), 2nd _s._ of Robert Charles Cumming, of Edinburgh, formerly of Stafford, retired Bank Manager, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of the late David Duff, of Calcutta, and grandson of the late Capt. John Cumming, 26th (Cameronians), 4th (King’s Own) and 80th Foot; _b._ Stafford, March, 1890; educ. at Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1902–7 (“Dux” in 1907 and gold medallist in Latin, Greek and French), and Edinburgh University (M.A. with first-class honours in Classical Literature, 1911). At the University, where he was highly esteemed and beloved, he was an active member of the O.T.C., and got his commission in the R.F.A. Reserve, 16 Sept. 1909. While preparing for the Indian Civil Service he was offered an engineering cadetship in the Transvaal gold-mining industry, and, solely with a view to the family interests, he accepted this, relinquishing his Indian aspirations, and went to Johannesburg in 1913. His one year in Africa gave promise of rare success, but, at his country’s call, he gained permission to come home with the Imperial troops, and, going straight to the Scottish R.F.A. headquarters, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Sept. 1914, and was soon selected as Adjutant. Appointed to the 103rd Battery, then stationed at Winchester, where he did further strenuous work, he accompanied the Battery to the Front in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action by shell near Ypres, 24 Feb. 1915; _unm._ The Major in command (now Lieut.-Col. Hope, D.S.O.), wrote that they had been shelled for about an hour. Their dug-out was hit, and when the Major, himself wounded, became conscious, Cumming was trying to help him out of the débris when another shell arrived and they were both knocked senseless. Lieut. Cumming died during the night in hospital, never having regained consciousness. He was buried in the cemetery at Poperinghe. After his death he was gazetted to a full Lieutenancy, to rank as from 8 Dec. 1914. [Illustration: =Colin Edward Cumming.=] =CUMMING, THOMAS SUMMERS=, Private, No. 14807, A Coy., 12th Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of Archibald Matheson Cumming, of 9, Dobbies Loan, Glasgow, by his wife, Barbara, dau. of Walter Buchanan; _b._ Glasgow 3 June, 1896; educ. there; enlisted Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ From information supplied by the Red Cross, it appears that he was shot through the head when he had just got over our own parapet preliminary to the charge. =CUNLIFFE, THOMAS HENRY WITHERS=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only _s._ of the late Robert Ellis Cunliffe, of The Croft, Ambleside, Solicitor, by his wife, Helen (The Croft, Ambleside), dau. of Henry Sharp, of Townend, Deepcar, Yorks; _b._ Pendleton, Manchester, 9 July, 1885; educ. Bilton Grange and Rugby; obtained his commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers from the Militia, 29 Nov. 1905, and was promoted Lieut. 6 Feb. 1910, and Capt. 17 March, 1915. Capt. Cunliffe was with his regt. in India when war broke out, and proceeded with it to Gallipoli, where he was killed in action on Gurkha Bluff, 4 June, 1915, while in charge of the machine gun section of his regt. He was buried in the regimental cemetery at Lancashire Landing; _unm._ Col. Ormond, Lancashire Fusiliers, wrote: “His handling of the machine guns, in the position after the Turks had been charged, was, I understand, masterly. He was well in front of the line screened from the enemy’s view by a bushy shrub. His guns pointed across the front of our position, so that when the Turks charged at night he raked their ranks right and left. His knowledge of his work, his command of his company and his great natural gifts marked him out for a great career.... The very gallant Cunliffe worked his machine guns and was killed. His great courage and skill had been of the utmost value in the operations.... Capt. Cunliffe was launched into deep water at the landing on the Peninsula, and swam to shore fully equipped with rifle and pack under heavy fire, a feat which only a very fine swimmer could have accomplished. His guns could not be landed, but he collected his gun teams on the beach and marched them up to fill the gap between Capt. Haworth and Capt. Shaw’s detachments, so linking up the battn. and restoring its internal communications.” [Illustration: =Thomas H. W. Cunliffe.=] =PICKERSGILL-CUNLIFFE, JOHN CUNLIFFE=, of Cobb Court, Cootham, Pulborough, Sussex, Capt., 6th, attached 4th, Battn. Worcestershire Regt., elder _s._ of the late Charles Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Beacon Hill Park, Hindhead, Surrey, by his wife, Audrey (Crossways, Cootham, Pulborough, Sussex), dau. of Charles Hoskins Master, and nephew of Harry Pickersgill-Cunliffe, of Staughton Manor, Huntingdon; _b._ Barrow Green House, Oxted, co. Surrey, 27 Jan. 1884; educ. Haileybury College; joined the Sussex Militia in 1898, and served in the South African War, 1901–2, receiving the Queen’s medal with clasp. He was gazetted to the 2nd Worcesters from the Militia, 4 July, 1903, and promoted Lieut., 4 April, 1907; served in Africa, Ceylon and India, and retired 1 July, 1913. He went on the Cape to Cairo Motor Expedition, arriving at Cape Town, 5 Aug. 1913, and leaving Broken Hill, Jan. 8, 1914. On mobilization, 4 Aug. 1914, he rejoined his old regt., was promoted Capt., 1 Sept., went to France, 27 Aug. 1914, and was wounded in action near Lille, 24 Oct. following, and invalided home. On recovery he left 12 May, 1915, to join his regt. at the Dardanelles and was killed in action there 4 June, 1915; _unm._ A comrade who was with him at the time he was killed wrote: “Cunliffe arrived with a few men who wavered under the hot fire, but he jumped on the parapet and told them he would show them the way. There he stood with the bullets whistling all round him while they climbed over. Later on as he was looking over the parapet a bullet struck him in the head and he died with a smile on his face and a cheery word for his men at the head of the advance”; and the Colonel: “If he had been spared I am confident he would have earned great distinction. I was not very near when the regiment made their most successful attack and all accounts tell of his coolness and dash, he is a great loss to us.” He was a keen sportsman and big game shot. [Illustration: =J. C. Pickersgill-Cunliffe.=] =CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 18044, 4th Battn. (The King’s) Liverpool Regt., _s._ of Mark Cunningham; _b._ Liverpool, 24 Aug. 1893; educ. St. Anthony’s School there; enlisted following the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; was wounded in the chest, and died in Boulogne Hospital 10 days later, 10 May, 1915; _unm._ =CUNNINGTON, ERNEST=, Stoker, P.O., 304513, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CURRIE, JOHN MCLEAN=, Private, No. 46131, D Coy., 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of John David Currie, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, High Sheriff for Hants co., by his wife, Bessie, dau. of the late James Cutting, of Truro N.P.; and gdson. of the late John Currie, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Pine Hill Theological College, Halifax, Nova Scotia; _b._ Maitland, Hants Co. N.S., 18 Oct. 1896; educ. Maitland High School and Windsor Academy, N.S.; enlisted in No. 1 Coy. Royal Nova Scotia Regt. (17th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force), in Aug. 1914, on the declaration of war; left Windsor for Valcartier, P.Q. on the 20th of that month, went to England with the first Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter and after the 17th Battn. was disbanded, joined the 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) under Col. John Currie; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 23 April, 1915; _unm._ =CURRIE, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./11225, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CURRIE, WILLIAM PERRY=, Gunner, No. 42467, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Bartlett Lingely Currie, of Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, by his wife, Martha J., dau. of Valentine Haines; _b._ Niagara-on-the-Lake, Lincoln, co. Ontario, 15 July, 1895; educ. Niagara afsd.; was a Painter; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; went to France 7 April, was wounded in action at St. Julien, and died in Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, 4 May, 1915; _unm._ =CURRY, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1644, Royal Marine L.I. (Reserve), eldest _s._ of Henry Curry, Drill Instructor, by his wife, Martha, dau. of James Slack; _b._ Kilburn, 5 April, 1880; educ. Nunhead Passage School; joined the Marines, 28 April, 1898; served on H.M. ships Majestic, Ocean and Empress of India, and two years at Devonport Dockyard, obtaining his discharge, 1 June, 1906, with the highest character. He was called up from the Reserve on mobilisation, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Peckham, S.E., 19 Dec. 1900, Mary Ann (41, Herman Road, Old Kent Road, S.E.), dau. of George Stout, and left five children: Henry William Felix, _b._ 20 Sept. 1904; John R. J., _b._ 20 Dec. 1905; Benjamin, _b._ 19 April, 1912; Sydney, _b._ 14 Sept. 1915; and Ivy Ethel, _b._ 1 June, 1902. [Illustration: =John William Curry.=] =CURRY, LEON HALL=, Capt., 42nd Battn. (affiliated to the Black Watch), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the Hon. Nathaniel Curry, of Montreal, Canada, Senator, President of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co., by his wife, Mary, dau. of David Hall; _b._ Amherst, Nova Scotia, 21 Oct. 1885; educ. Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., and was an official of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co. He had received a commission as Lieut. in the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada (Militia), 2 Jan. 1913, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered and was gazetted Capt. 42nd Battn. in March, 1915. He left Canada 10 June, 1915, crossed to France early in Oct., went into the trenches with his company, 19 Oct. 1915, and was killed the same night, with two brother officers, by the bursting of a trench mortar. His Colonel wrote: “He was one of the most reliable and painstaking officers, who by his intelligence and thoroughness could always be depended upon to carry through successfully any duty that might be given to him, we all realise we have lost a most valuable officer as well as a true friend and lovable companion.” He was buried in the English cemetery at Armentières, and a stone was erected by his brother officers and company. He _m._ at Wimbledon, England, 9 July, 1913, Marion, dau. of John McKeen, Manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S., and had a son, _b._ 21 April, 1914, died in infancy. [Illustration: =Leon Hall Curry.=] =CURTIS, ROBERT HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3887), 183944, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =CURTIS ROY BARNETT=, Private, No. 6202, No. 2 Coy., 1st Battn. (7th Fusiliers of London), 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1st _s._ of the late Richard John Curtis, of London, Ontario (_d._ 1913), by his wife, Annie Maria (396, Ridout Street, London, Ontario, Canada), dau. of the late Samuel Barnett, of Logan Township; _b._ London, Ontario, 23 Feb. 1897; educ. St. George’s and Talbot Street Schools there; volunteered for overseas service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for England with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb.; was wounded at the Battle of Ypres, 23 April, invalided and sent into hospital at Calais and Boulogne, but returned to duty in two weeks, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915. A comrade wrote that they had taken the second line of trenches, and that besides the fire from the Germans in the third line trenches, some men were wounded by our own guns before word could be sent to our gunners to correct their range. It was then that Curtis was killed instantaneously by a wound just above the heart. [Illustration: =Roy Barnett Curtis.=] =CURTIS, WALTER=, P.O. (N.S.), 179917, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CURTIS, WALTER ARTHUR=, Private, No. 7676, 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., _s._ of Samuel Curtis, of 5, Pump Court, Lavenham, Suffolk, by his wife, Alphence, dau. of James Simpson; _b._ Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, 2 Oct. 1888; educ. Lavenham Council School; enlisted in the Suffolks, 24 Feb. 1908, and was with his regt. in Egypt when war broke out, and with it went to the Front in Jan. 1915. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle 16 March following; _unm._ The commanding officer of his company wrote that he “was doing his turn of duty in the trenches, and at 5.30 p.m. volunteered to go to a spring near his trench and fetch some water. He obtained the water and was on his way back when he was shot by a German sniper. Two of his comrades--one of whom was wounded in the attempt--went out and brought him back but it was seen at once that he was very dangerously wounded, and he had been hit through both buttocks, just below the body, and he died quite peacefully at 7 p.m. on the same day whilst being removed to the dressing station on a stretcher. He was buried the next day in a wood about one-and-a-half miles west of Ploegstraat, in Belgium; _unm._ A wooden cross, with his regimental number, was erected over his grave.” [Illustration: =Walter Arthur Curtis.=] =CUSACK, ERIC ATHANASIUS=, Private, No. 513, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of the late James Holmes Cusack, of Sydney and Melbourne, by his wife, Jessie Mabel (Toorak, Melbourne), dau. of (--) Austin, and gdson. of Samuel Athanasius Cusack, of Merrion Street, Dublin, M.D., F.R.C.S.; _b._ Sydney, 29 Jan. 1894; educ. Melbourne Grammar School; enlisted in Aug. 1914; left Australia with the 1st Division, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 3 or 4 May, 1915; _unm._ A N.C.O. wrote: “He was killed in a reinforcing action, for which his party was specially thanked by the General of a British regt.” [Illustration: =Eric Athanasius Cusack.=] =CUSSELL, SIDNEY WILLIAM=, Blacksmith, 343850, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CUTFIELD, HAROLD=, Trooper, No. 6006, 16th Lancers, 3rd _s._ of the late Arthur Cutfield, of Ross, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., B.Sc.; _b._ Ross, co. Hereford, 3 May, 1895; educ. Eastman’s, Southsea, and Cheltenham College; enlisted on the outbreak of war, Aug. 1914, and was blown up with many others of his regt. in a trench near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915. =CUTHBERTSON, NORMAN WILLIAM=, Major, Reserve of Officers, late Royal Highlanders, 4th _s._ of William Gilmour Cuthbertson, by his wife, Jane Agnes, dau. of James Lister; _b._ at Shanghai, 21 Oct. 1861; educ. Trinity College, Glenalmond; entered the Army as Lieut. Royal Highlanders, 9 Sept. 1882; and was promoted Capt. 7 Dec. 1888, and Major 13 July 1898; passed through the staff College 1894; was Instructor Royal Military College, 25 Aug. 1897 to 21 Oct. 1899; served in the Egyptian Campaign (medal and bronze star), and in the South African War in the 2nd Battn. Royal Highlanders; took part in the advance on Kimberley, including the action at Magersfontein, at which he was severely wounded, and also those at Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, Driefontein and Vet River, and afterwards served on the Staff (mentioned in despatches, Queen’s medal with five clasps), retiring in