1915. He _m._ at Montreal, 19 Dec. 1894, May L. (791, University

Street, Montreal, Canada), dau. of (--) Romeril, and had three children: William, _b._ 25 Dec. 1902; Enid, _b._ 17 Sept. 1895; and Doris, _b._ 17 Feb. 1898. [Illustration: =William Herbert Evans.=] =EVANS, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B., 221679, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =EVASON, WILLIAM DODD=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1131), 162903, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EVATT, GEORGE RALEIGH KERR=, Capt., 1st Battn. (57th Foot) Middlesex Regt., only _s._ of Surgeon-General George Joseph Hamilton Evatt, of Wayside, Camberley, co. Surrey, late of the Army Medical Staff, and Hon. Colonel of the Home Counties Division Territorial R.A.M.C., M.D., C.B., by his wife, Sophie Mary Frances, dau. of William Walter Raleigh Kerr, Treasurer of Mauritius, and granddau. of Major-Gen. Lord Robert Kerr [4th _s._ of William John, 5th Marquis of Lothian, K.T.]; _b._ Royal Military Academy, at Woolwich (where Surgeon-Gen. Evatt held the post of Medical Officer in Charge), 30 Sept. 1883; educ. Cheltenham College, and afterwards prepared by private tutor for University Matriculation. He entered the Middlesex Regt. as a University candidate 12 March, 1904, having passed through the necessary studies at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where his tutor was Sir Donald MacAlister, now principal of Glasgow University; was promoted Lieut. 9 May, 1906, and Capt. Sept. 1914. He served with the West African Frontier Force from April, 1909, to Dec. 1914, when he came home and rejoined his regiment. He was killed while in the trenches only 400 yards from the German lines, near La Boutillerie, about 3¼ miles south of Armentières, by a bullet in the temple, fired by a German sharp-shooter, 13 Nov. 1914, and was buried in the grounds of a private château near the trenches; _unm._ At the time of his death he was in command of A Coy. of the same battn. (57th Foot) in which his great-grandfather, Capt. John Hamilton Evatt, served at the battle of Albuera, in Spain, 1811, and who was severely wounded in that desperate fight. In the 301 years that have elapsed since the Evatt family passed over to Ireland in 1613 not less than 21 members of the family have served in the British army. While several were wounded, only two, however, were actually killed in action on the field of battle, viz., Capt. George R. K. Evatt, the subject of this notice, and Capt. Henry Evatt, of the 16th Lancers, who served in the revolutionary war in America (1775–7), and was eventually shot dead on the gate of Lord Moira’s House in the battle of Ballinahinch in 1798 by the Presbyterian rebels while serving with the Monaghan militia. [Illustration: =George R. Kerr Evatt.=] =EVERALL, EDWARD HENRY=, A.B., 233891, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EWELL, LESLIE=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 269768, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EWEN, ERNEST CECIL=, Ordinary Seaman, S.S. 4650, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EYERS, WILLIAM JAMES=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4768), 195096, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EYKYN, GILBERT DAVIDSON PITT=, Capt. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), attached 4th Battn. Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regt., only _s._ of the late Rev. Pitt Eykyn, sometime Vicar of Magor-cum-Redwick, co. Monmouth, and at the time of his death Chaplain of Parel, Bombay, India, by his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth (82, Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.), dau. of James Davidson, Bengal Civil Service; _b._ France Lynch Parsonage, co. Glos., 22 Aug. 1881; educ. Haileybury College and Clayesmore School. He received his first commission in the 3rd Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., 1899, was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Manchester Regt., 4 May, 1901; was promoted Lieut., 24 Dec. 1901; transferred to Indian Army, 12 Feb. 1904; joined the Royal Scots, 4 Feb. 1905; was appointed Adjutant to the 4th Yorkshires (T.F.), 13 Feb. 1913, and promoted Capt. Royal Scots, 26 June following. He served for 11 years in India, and in the South African Campaign, taking part in the operations in the Orange River Colony and in the Transvaal, for which latter services he received the Queen’s medal with three clasps (Cape Colony, Wittenbergen and Transvaal). Capt. Eykyn fell in the first engagement of the 4th Yorks at the Second Battle of Ypres, after only a few days at the Front, while gallantly leading his regt. into action at the storming of St. Julien, 24 April, 1915, and was buried in a wood to the left of the reserve trenches. Col. Maurice Bell wrote to his wife: “Remember this, he trained the battn. and the General (Plumer) has personally thanked us for our behaviour at a critical moment. His is the credit”; and Corpl. Wearmouth: “It is only natural we looked up to our Adjutant, as he was responsible for all our training whilst at home, and naturally he having been through the African Campaign we followed him. The Adjutant never drew his revolver, all he thought about was the regt.’s first conduct under fire, and I am glad to say that we are mentioned in the General’s despatches, and it was all due to our Adjutant. The loss is being avenged, as every shot fired by our lads, they say as they pull the trigger ‘There’s one for the Adjutant.’” The following is an extract from the “Yorkshire Evening Post,” 29 April, 1915: “Capt. Eykyn was an ardent worker on behalf of the military forces long before the war broke out, and he addressed public meetings on the advantages of joining the service. He was also an amateur actor of considerable talent, and took part in playlets given on behalf of the National Service League.” The “Green Howards” Gazette for May, 1915, said: “The splendid work that he did as Adjutant has borne fruit in the gallantry displayed by the battn. in action, and the death of this fine young officer is deplored by all.” Capt. Eykyn had passed examinations in Hindustani and Russian, also as an Instructor of Gymnasia, and had obtained a D in Musketry. He _m._ at Bombay Cathedral, 28 Nov. 1902, Constance (The Cottage, Northallerton, co. Yorks), elder dau. of the late Arthur Norton, of Guildford, and had one son: Duncan Arthur Davidson, _b._ 11 Aug. 1906. [Illustration: =Gilbert D. Pitt Eykyn.=] =EYRE, JOHN=, 2nd Yeoman of Signals (R.F.R., B. 425), 174716, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EYRE, WILLIAM=, Capt., 12th Battn. Welsh Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only _s._ of William Eyre, of 21, Babworth Road, Retford, retired Miller, by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late John Pagdin, of Morton, Gainsborough, Merchant; _b._ Creswell, co. Derby, 25 March, 1879; educ. King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford, and Sheffield University. He took the B.Sc. degree at London University with honours in chemistry, and returned to Retford Grammar School as Science Master, where he was for several years, and, after a short period in a similar capacity at Cranbrook School, joined in 1907 the staff of Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, as Science Master and House Master of Thornton B., where he remained until the outbreak of the war. An In Memoriam notice in “The Blue” said: “As an officer in the O.T.C., as president of the Natural History Society, in the house and in the playing fields, he worked hard for the good of Christ’s Hospital. His whole-hearted interest in all that would make for the good of the boys or of his colleagues and his affection for the ‘lads’ of this House, are known to us all. He was a most valuable member of our community.” He was appointed 2nd Lieut. in the Christ’s Hospital O.T.C. (T.F.), 17 July, 1908, and volunteered on the outbreak of war, and was gazetted Capt. in the 8th (Service) Battn. of the Welch Regt. 14 Dec. 1914. He was afterwards transferred to the 12th Battn., and subsequently attached to the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers, with which he went to the Dardanelles, 17 July, 1915. He was wounded near Gully Beach, Gallipoli, 6 Aug. 1915, and died in the 19th General Hospital at Alexandria on the 19th, being buried in the English cemetery there; _unm._ Col. Ommanney, 12th Battn. Welch Regt., wrote: “During the five months he was with us he not only did his work well, but made himself respected and beloved by all ranks. I feel I have lost in him a real friend, and I know that this feeling is shared by very many of his brother officers.” [Illustration: =William Eyre.=] =FADE, HAROLD=, A.B., 219145, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. =FAGG, ALBERT=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1846), 154116, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FAIR, ROY NICHOLS=, L.-Corpl., No. 6914, 1st Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the Rev. Hugh James Fair, of Arkona, Ontario, Methodist Minister, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of Henry Nichols; _b._ Londesborough, Ontario, 17 May, 1894; educ. Exeter and Watford High Schools and Albert College, Belleville; was a Bookkeeper; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the First Contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; _unm._ =FAIRCHILD, EDWARD JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5973 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FAIRCLOUGH, JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10324), 203995, 3rd _s._ of the late Thomas Fairclough, of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, by his wife, Sarah (20, Bearton Road, Hitchen, co. Herts), dau. of William Rawlinson; _b._ Holmfield, Aigburth, Liverpool, 19 Jan. 1884; educ. Beachwood, co. Herts; joined the Navy at the age of 18 in 1899, and served his full time, passing into the R.N.R. 19 Jan. 1914. On the outbreak of war he joined H.M.S. Cressy, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Fairclough.=] =FAIRES, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3911), 194391, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =FAIRS, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9551, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Fairs, of 32, Beaconsfield Road, Croydon, Surrey, Joiner, by his wife, Ellen Sarah, dau. of Skillington Medwell; _b._ Banstead, co. Surrey, 15 Dec. 1895; educ. Sydenham Road Council Schools, Croydon, and was employed at Messrs. Giddy & Giddy, Regent Street, Auctioneers & Estate Agents; joined the London Rifle Brigade in Aug. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914; went to France, 5 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 3 May, 1915, and buried at Forturn; _unm._ [Illustration: =Ernest William Fairs.=] =FAIRWEATHER, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6889, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FAIRWEATHER, JOHN=, 2nd Engineer, R.N.R., yst. _s._ of William Fairweather, Gas Engineer to the Corporation of Kilmarnock, by his wife, Marjory, dau. of Peter Young, of Glamis, Forfarshire; _b._ Kilmarnock, 25 Jan. 1887; educ. Kilmarnock Academy; served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Andrew, Barclay, Sons & Co., Ltd., taking his second certificate as a marine engineer, and gaining considerable experience not only in shipbuilding yards on the Clyde, but in the service of the British India Co. and the Red Star Line; he was afterwards engaged in transport service between Canada and Liverpool, and after the outbreak of war joined the Royal Naval Reserve at the end of Oct. 1914. He was posted to the Clan MacNaughton which left Birkenhead just after Christmas, 1914, on her first patrol. The last signal made by her was at an early hour on the morning of 3 Feb. following, and it is supposed, according to the Admiralty report, that she was lost during the bad weather which prevailed at that time. Fairweather was _unm._ [Illustration: =John Fairweather.=] =KEAY-FALCONER, WILLIAM=, Jun., Lieut., 7th Battn. Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), only _s._ of William Keay-Falconer, Clerk of Lieutenancy and Sheriff-Clerk and County Clerk of Kinross-shire, by his wife, Margaret More, dau. of James Thomson Morrison, of Coatbridge; _b._ Kinross, 29 Nov. 1894; educ. Edinburgh Academy (1907–13), where for the last two years he served in the O.T.C., and at the Institut Polyglotte, Namur; afterwards being employed in his father’s office. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 20 Sept. 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 7 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of war he immediately volunteered for service abroad, went to France with his regt. in Dec. following, and was killed while leading his men in a charge against the enemy, at Ypres, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ The Brigade of which his battn. was a unit had been called from a rest camp to help the Canadians whose flank was exposed through the troops acting with them having fallen back owing to gas. Col. Craig wrote: “While I was with the battn. in France I had many conversations with him on the subject of his work and have frequently remarked to Capt. Murdoch, and others who interested themselves in him, upon his coolness. He knew his work well, and was devoted to it. He didn’t know what fear was, and he seemed fully to realise the responsibility of his men’s comfort that rested upon him as a platoon commander, and the men were devoted to him.... I will never forget your son’s interest in his work, and his valuable services from the time of mobilisation in Aug. last till I left the battn. on 11 March.” Col. Carden who succeeded Col. Craig, wrote: “During the short time I have been in command of the battn. I had formed the highest opinion of your son’s military capabilities. He died bravely leading his men, and is mourned by all his brother officers”; and Capt. Murdoch: “Keay fell like a hero in front of his men.” Lieut. Keay-Falconer was a keen golfer, and a member of Edinburgh Academical Golf Club. He was also a prominent and enthusiastic member of Kinross Club, and held both the gold and silver medals for 1914. He spoke French fluently, and was consequently of much use to his comrades when abroad. Memorial brasses were erected to his memory in the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Princes Street, Edinburgh, and in St. Paul’s Church, Kinross. The tablet in the former church was placed there by the children of the church to perpetuate Lieut. Keay-Falconer’s memory, as he was Warden of their special services during the greater part of his school days in Edinburgh. The last five words of the inscription on the brass sum up his character as the subscribers to the memorial knew it: “Gallant and true and tender.” The brass in St. Paul’s Church, Kinross, was dedicated by the Bishop of St. Andrews on 1 Feb. 1916. [Illustration: =W. Keay-Falconer, Jun.=] =FARDELL, HUBERT GEORGE HENRY=, Lieut., 3rd, att. 2nd, Battn. East Surrey Regt., only child of Hubert Askew Fardell, of 16, Brechin Place, S.W., late Capt. 4th East Surrey Regt., by his wife, Henrietta Alice, dau. of Henry Woods, of Warnford Park, Hants; _b._ London, 7 July, 1895; educ. Eton (R. S. de Havilland’s House), where he was Sergt. in charge of G Coy. in the O.T.C.; left there on the outbreak of War to join the Inns of Court O.T.C., and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd East Surrey Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut., 9 March, 1915; went to the Front, 23 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Zonnebeke during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 23 April, 1915. He was killed instantaneously, about 2.30 in the afternoon, whilst passing through a communication trench to see how one of his brother officers was faring as the shelling had been heavy. His servant wrote: “He was a very brave man, one of the bravest I’ve seen out of my seven months in the trenches.” He was buried in the graveyard by the ruined church just behind the firing lines. His C.O., Col. Shipley, wrote: “Your son showed such great promise of being a very capable officer and leader of men.” He had been intended for the Diplomatic Service, his strong intellect and quickness in acquiring foreign languages, clearly marking him out for such a career. “The Eton College Chronicle” of 20 May, 1915, said: “Mr. Fardell did well at Eton, both in school and on the river. He was in the boats, rowing in the Victory in 1914. He won Junior Sculling in 1913, and did well in School Sculling the following year. As a coach he had a wonderful power of getting the utmost out of a crew, and was an admirable captain of a football team. In fact, as a coach and as a leader he found the work that suited him. Had he lived he would undoubtedly have been a very valuable officer and a first-rate leader.” =FARMER, HORACE=, Colour-Sergt., R.M.L.I., 6271A., (R.F.R., Ch. A. 640), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FARMER, HENRY CHARLES MACLEAN=, 2nd Lieut., 6th, attd. 4th, Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, yr. _s._ of the Rev. James Edmund Gamul Farmer, Rector of Waddesdon with Upper Winchendon, Aylesbury, Bucks, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Captain Charles Bampfield Yule, R.N.; _b._ Arundel Vicarage, co. Sussex, 8 Aug. 1892; educ. Summerfields, near Oxford; Eton (Mr. Ramsay’s House), and Trinity College, Cambridge; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and applied for a commission, and while waiting for it enlisted in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 3 Sept. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6th King’s R.R.C., 22 Sept. following; went to the Front in March, 1915, to join the 4th Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action near Ypres, 10 May, 1915. He was buried at the East Boundary of Bellewaarde Wood; _unm._ Col. Brownlow, K.R.R.C., wrote: “He worked hard down here (Sheerness) and was very keen to get to the Front”; and Capt. Field: “He was in my company the whole time he was at Sheerness, and King’s Ferry; a most excellent, cheery fellow, and a very conscientious, good, young officer.” [Illustration: =Henry C. M. Farmer.=] =FARNDON, WILLIAM=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26735, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =FARNSWORTH, JOHN=, Private, No. 562, 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 4th _s._ of Henry Farnsworth, of the Buck Hotel, High Street, Clay Cross, Wine and Spirit Merchant, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Joseph Cutts, Builder & Contractor; _b._ High Street, Clay Cross, co. Derby, 3 Sept. 1880; educ. Board School, Clay Cross, and Collegiate School, Kettering; emigrated to N.S.W., Australia, 25 Sept. 1903, and worked for a year and a half in the copper mines at Cobar. He then took a position on the G.W. Ry. under his uncle, Mr. B. Farnsworth, Inspector of Permanent Way, which he held until war was declared in Aug. 1914. He immediately proceeded to Sydney, and joined the Australian Imperial Force, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, 2 May, 1915, while repelling an attack by the Turks on the Australian trenches; _unm._ Sergt.-Major E. H. Stone wrote the following description of the incident: “I daresay you read in the papers about our Coy. relieving the marines, and how our Major got his D.S.O. Well, for the next two days, the Turks were persistent in their attacks, and it was as much as we could do to beat them back. On the afternoon of 2 May, they made a very determined attack which lasted about two hours. We manned the parapet and fired into them as fast as we could load, and after we had beaten them back turned and found many of our own lads in the bottom of the trench, and among them, John, shot through the head--not a moments’ pain, thank God. We took them out to the back of the trenches and buried them and put up a large wooden cross over them. I can safely say there is not a man in the Battn. who is more regretted than John.” [Illustration: =John Farnsworth.=] =FARQUHARSON, LEWIS SHAW=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots, only _s._ of the Rev. Alexander Farquharson, of Spital, Aberdeenshire, and 41, Camden Square, London, N.W., by his wife, Mary Walker, dau. of Lewis Shaw, of Chesterfield; _b._ Chesterfield, co. Derby, 23 April, 1884; educ. Cottesmore, Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 10 Oct. 1903, and promoted Lieut. 5 April, 1906, and Capt. 31 Aug. 1914; served in India successively as Station Staff Officer at Kamptee, and as A.D.C. to General Keir, and was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. from 28 Aug. 1911 to 28 Aug. 1914. He also had the honour, with Col. D. G. Wemyss, of being selected to represent the regt. as extra A.D.C. to the King in Calcutta, during the Durbar tour. On the outbreak of war Capt. Farquharson was in India, and he went to the Front with his Battn. early in 1915. He saw much fighting, went through the varying phases of the long and severely contested Second Battle of Ypres, and had different narrow escapes. On 11 May, 1915, when the British line had been broken and a trench captured, on his own initiative Capt. Farquharson led forward his company, from the reserve line, drove back the enemy, and regained and held the lost ground. For his promptness and gallantry on this occasion he received the special thanks of his C.O., and Gen. Allenby sent his congratulations for what he described as “a splendid and successful counter attack.” Early the following morning (12 May) while superintending fresh protections for the shattered trench, he was shot through the head and killed instantly. He was subsequently mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch [London Gazette, 1 Jan. 1916] for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He was buried in Valmertinghe Cemetery, near Ypres. Col. Callander wrote that the whole regt. mourned his loss and that Capt. Farquharson was in every sense, one of the best of the younger officers in the Army and the most sterling good fellow he had ever known. Gen. Sir John Keir also wrote saying that “his future as a soldier had been assured, and that his name would be honoured for all time.” At school and college he took many prizes and represented each of them at both cricket and football. He played cricket twice for All India. [Illustration: =Lewis Shaw Farquharson.=] =FARR, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3525C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FARRAR, SIR GEORGE HERBERT=, 1st Bart., D.S.O., Col. and Assistant Q.M.-General, Central Force, Union Defence Forces, late Hon. Col. South African Light Horse, _s._ of the late Charles Farrar, of Chatteris, co. Cambridge, M.D., by his wife, Helen (The Crescent Lodge, Bedford), sister of Sir Frederick Howard, and dau. of John Howard; _b._ Chatteris, 17 June, 1859; educ. Bedford Modern School, and on leaving there entered the engineering business of his uncle Sir Frederick Howard, going in 1879 to South Africa to the Port Elizabeth and East London Branches. Eight years later he and his brothers established themselves at Johannesburg, where in a few years he became one of the leading men in the mining industry of the Witwatersrand. His chief enterprise was the formation of the East Rand Proprietary Mines, of which he was chairman from its inception to the day of his death. He was for some time a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Transvaal and Leader of the Opposition. For his share in the Jameson Raid he was tried for treason and sentenced to death, but the sentence was remitted on payment of a fine of £25,000. When the South African War broke out he raised two regts. of South African Horse, and was appointed Major, Kaffrarian Rifles, 1 Dec. 1900, and served in this campaign as Major on the Staff of the Colonial Division, 1899–1900. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, including the defence of Wepener; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, Aug. to Sept. 1900; operations in Orange River Colony 1900, including actions at Wittebergen (1–29 July), and in Cape Colony, south of the Orange River. His services were mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 16 April, 1901], and he was awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the D.S.O. (1900). After the conclusion of peace in 1902 he took an active part in the work of re-organisation, and when Responsible Government was granted to the Transvaal, he was unanimously elected leader of the Progressive Party in the House of Assembly, in opposition to the Ministry of General Botha. In 1903 was elected President of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines, and took a leading part in the negotiations which led up to formation of the Union of South Africa. He had been knighted in 1902, and on 2 Feb. 1911 was created a Baronet for his services on this occasion. He was M.P. for Georgetown in the first Parliament of the Union of South Africa, 1910–11, but in Dec. 1911 business demands in connection with the East Rand Co. compelled him to retire from political work in order to devote his whole energies to the re-organisation of that enterprise. When the European War broke out he was in England on a visit and was about to join General Sir Hubert Hamilton’s Staff with the Army in Belgium, but the day before he was to have left he was ordered by the authorities to South Africa. On arrival he was appointed to General McKenzie’s Force with the rank of Col., and was despatched to German South-West Africa as Assistant Q.M.-General. Proceeding to Luderitz Bay in advance of the main force he was engaged in the organisation of the base camp, and subsequently had charge of the restoration of the railway and of providing the water supply to the force, an operation of primary importance in that country. On 19 May, 1915, he was returning from a tour of inspection when the motor trolley in which he was travelling collided with a construction train at Kuibis, near Gidson, German South-West Africa, and Sir George succumbed to his injuries early next morning. Sir George Farrar was one of the best-known men in South Africa, to whose advancement he had, by legislative work, by attention to mining progress, and to practical sympathy with agriculture, powerfully contributed. He m. at Johannesburg, 3 June, 1893, Ella Mabel (Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, Bucks; Bedford Farm, near Johannesburg, Transvaal), dau. of the late Charles William Waylen, I.M.S., and had six daus.: Helen Mabel, _b._ 2 Oct. 1894; Muriel Frances, _b._ 6 April, 1896; Gwendoline, _b._ 14 July, 1897; Georgina Marjorie, _b._ 17 Aug. 1901; Kathleen Elizabeth, _b._ 9 May, 1907; and Ella Marguerite, _b._ 28 April, 1911. [Illustration: =Sir George H. Farrar.=] =FARRAR, JOHN=, Private, No. 7725, 4th Battn. Durham Light Infantry, only _s._ of William Farrar, of Southwick-on-Wear, by his wife, Treaser, dau. of Matthew Crawford, of Sunderland; _b._ Southwick, co. Durham, 12 Aug. 1890; educ. St. Benett’s R.C. School, Monkwearmouth; enlisted in 1907 in the Special Reserve of the Durhams and was discharged in 1913, when he rejoined for another term and was called up on mobilisation, 5 Aug. 1914, went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in France, 5 Dec. 1914, while on sentry duty; and was buried on a farm, Du-Bix; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Farrar.=] =FARRAR, LUKE=, Private, No. 10735, 2nd Battn. Durham Light Infantry, 4th _s._ of Luke Farrar, of Southwick-on-Wear, Shipyard Labourer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Clark, of Southwick; _b._ Southwick, co. Durham, 25 July, 1884; was employed in Pickersgill’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 26 Sept., 1914; trained at South Shields; killed in action “somewhere” in France, 6 Feb. 1916, and was buried in Rotize Cemetery. He _m._ at Sunderland, 22 May, 1906, Mary Jane (4, Stoney Lane, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of James Foster, of Sunderland, and had four children: Luke, Burliss, _b._ 8 June, 1912; James, _b._ 13 April, 1915; Sarah Elizabeth, _b._ 19 July, 1905; and Esther Jane, _b._ 13 Sept. 1908. [Illustration: =Luke Farrar.=] =FARRER, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, No. 7152, 2nd East Lancashire Regt., _s._ of John Edward Farrer; _b._ 28 Jan. 1879; educ. Brunswick Day School, Burnley; was a Weaver; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 18 Sept. 1914; went to France, 26 Dec. following, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 14 March, 1915. He was formerly a cornet player in the local Volunteers. He _m._ at Gannow, Burnley, 4 June, 1904, Clara (37, Haslam Street, Burnley), dau. of William Sagar, and had two children: William Edward, _b._ 5 Nov. 1905; and Hilda, _b._ 4 May, 1914. =FAUGHNAN, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 2972, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of John Faughnan, of Briskillbeg, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Patrick McAvey; _b._ Briskillbeg, Newtonforbes, co. Longford; educ. Cloonteagh National School, Newtonforbes; enlisted after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action on the Western front, 17 Nov. 1915; _unm._ =FAUGHNAN, PATRICK=, Private, No. 2707, 1st Battn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, _s._ of John Faughnan, of Briskillbeg, Farmer, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Patrick McAvey; _b._ Briskillbeg, Newtonforbes, co. Longford; educ. Cloonteagh National School, Newtonforbes; enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action on the Western front, 10 Oct. 1915; _unm._ =FAULKNER, VICTOR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16023, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =FAULKS, PHILIP ALBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27543 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, s. of John Thomas Faulks, of 4, Cobden Street, Loughboro’; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =FAWCETT, ROBERT HEATH=, 2nd Lieut., 4th (Special Reserve), attached 1st, Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Henry Heath Fawcett, of Berkhampsted, and of the War Office, by his wife, Colina, dau. of John Colin Sharp; _b._ Wimbledon, co. Surrey, 5 March, 1893; educ. Hillside, Godalming; Uppingham, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (where he was an Exhibitioner, and a member of the O.T.C.); gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 15 Aug. 1914; went to Flanders 10 April, 1915, where he was attached to the 1st Battn., and was killed in action near Ypres, 26 April, 1915; _unm._ He was buried at Zillebeke, near Ypres. =FAWLEY, FRANCIS HENRY BUCKLEY=, Private, No. 1862, Honourable Artillery Company, _s._ of Henry John Buckley Fawley, of 35, Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, Stoke Newington, N., Journalist, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late James (and Eliza) Smith, of Lordship Lane, Wood Green, N., formerly of Sittingbourne, Kent; _b._ Harringay, London, 16 Aug. 1895; educ. Finsbury Park College, London, was on the clerical staff of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways Company; joined the H.A.C. after the outbreak of the war in the beginning of Sept. 1914, went to France, 23 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, 15 May,