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1915. Buried in the Military Cemetery, Shorncliffe. He _m._
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at Ballinderry Parish Church, 25 Dec. 1901, Lillee (Rayanton P.O.,
Manitoba, Canada), dau. of Robert Cairns, late Colour-Sergt., York
and Lancaster Regt. (served in Egyptian War), and had seven children:
Alfred W., _b._ 3 Sept. 1903; Robert C., _b._ 7 Aug. 1905;
Lewis Meighin, _b._ 16 Sept. 1911; Terance Richard, _b._ 6
March, 1913; Thomas, _b._ 18 Aug. 1914; Kathleen M. E., _b._
21 Sept. 1906; and Beatrice McKeown, _b._ 9 March, 1908.
[Illustration: =Thomas Dickson.=]
=DIEHL, RALPH=, Bombardier, No. 2/1613, New Zealand Field
Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2nd but elder surv.
_s._ of the late Gustav Diehl, of Wellington, by his wife, Anna
Jane (7, Elizabeth Street, Wellington, New Zealand), dau. of the late
John Mitchell; _b._ Oamaru, New Zealand, 9 July, 1892; educ.
Wellington; was a Clerk and Bookkeeper; volunteered after the outbreak
of war and enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, April,
1915; left for Egypt with the fifth reinforcements, 13 June, 1915; went
to the Dardanelles, 21 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action there 23
Oct. 1915; _unm._
=DIGBY, JOHN KENELM, B.A.=, 2nd Lieut., 7th (Service) Battn.
Norfolk Regt., elder _s._ of Algernon Digby, of Highfield,
Fakenham, Norfolk, M.A., Solicitor [nephew of Edward St. Vincent, 9th
Lord Digby], by his wife, Richenda Catharine, eldest dau. of the late
Capt. Philip Hamond, 34th Regt.; _b._ Fakenham, co. Norfolk, 21
Nov. 1890; educ. Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, and
after taking his degree there, joined the lay staff of the Mission at
Edmonton, Alberta, under the Archbishop’s Western Canada Scheme, and
worked there for a year and a half until the outbreak of the European
War in Aug. 1914. He then volunteered and enlisted as a private in
the 9th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept., being
afterwards promoted L.-Corpl. He came over with the 1st Contingent
in Oct., and trained with them on Salisbury Plain during the winter
of 1914–15, and on 20 Feb. 1915, was given a commission in the 7th
Norfolks. He went to the Front, May, 1915, and was killed in action at
Ploegsteart, Flanders, 4–5 Aug. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =John Kenelm Digby.=]
=DIGGLE, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 2510, 6th Battn. King’s
Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James Edward Diggle, of Liverpool;
_b._ Liverpool, 10 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Margaret’s Higher Grade
School, Anfield; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 19 Sept. 1914,
and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 March, 1915; buried, Zillebeke.
=DILKE, HUGH STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2107, Polytechnic Coy., 12th
Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th and yst. _s._
of Charles Wentworth Dilke, of Park Avenue North, Hornsey, N., co.
Middlesex [a cadet of Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, co. Warwick], by his
wife, Ellen, dau. of William Smith, of Cheddleton, co. Stafford;
_b._ 7, Vincent Road, London, N., 2 Dec. 1889; educ. North
Harringay School, London; and prior to the outbreak of war he was a
clerk in the employ of Messrs. Napier Motors, Ltd., Acton Vale, W.
He had joined the Rangers in 1908, but had retired in 1913, having
completed his term of five years, but on the outbreak of war in Aug.
1914, immediately rejoined and volunteered for foreign service. He went
to France 25 Dec. 1914, and after five weeks’ training at St. Omer went
into the trenches at Ypres. He was wounded in the left foot while on
patrol duty at Zillebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 Feb.
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