1902. He played in the Freshman’s Association Match at Cambridge, 1902,

and in the Seniors’ Match, 1903, 1904, played regularly for the Trinity Harrovians A.F.C., and was secretary of the club from 1903 till its extinction. He won the Freshman’s middle-weight boxing, 1902, the C.U. middle-weight boxing, 1903, and the same event for Cambridge v. Oxford, 1903–1904 (beating Gardner in 1903, and Sheepshanks in 1904). He hunted with the Fitzwilliam, the Oakley and the Drag, and also played polo at Cambridge; won the Fairwell Cup at Cottenham on Mr. Pemberton’s “Hector,” and rode the same horse against Oxford over the Whaddon Chase Country, 1907, &c. He hunted with the Old Berkshire, V.W.H. and Lord Bathurst’s hounds after leaving Cambridge. His elder brother, Lieut. J. S. B. Gething, South Wales Borderers, was killed in the South African War. [Illustration: =Hugh Bagnall Gething.=] =GIBB, WILLIAM ALEXANDER=, M.D., Lieut.-Col., Royal Army Medical Corps, eldest _s._ of Alexander Gibb, of the Capital and Counties Bank, Ipswich, J.P., by his wife, Jessie Violet, dau. of Donald Coghill, of Wick, Caithness; _b._ Ipswich, 17 June, 1872; educ. Ipswich School, Edinburgh University, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, London University, and Vienna; Matriculated at Edinburgh and London, 1889; M.B., C.M., 1895; M.D., 1900, and was successively House Surgeon, Royal Infirmary and Skin Dispensary, Edinburgh; Gloucester Royal Infirmary and Eye Institution, and Noble Hospital, Douglas, Isle of Man; Clinical Assistant to the Ear, Throat and Nose Hospital, Golden Square, and the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. He then took up practice in Ipswich about 1900 and became Assistant Hon. Surgeon to the Ipswich and Suffolk Hospital, and Public Vaccinator for Ipswich Union; Member of the Red Cross Council of the County of Suffolk and the Scout Council; District Staff; District St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Lecturer to St. John Ambulance Association. While at Edinburgh he joined the University Coy. of the 1st V.B. Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers in 1898, serving for four years in the ranks, and later becoming Lieut. in the Harwich Infantry Brigade Bearer Company, R.A.M.C. He was gazetted Capt. to the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance at its formation, and on 16 July, 1912, was transferred to the 6th (Cyclist) Battn. Suffolk Regt. as Medical Officer. He was promoted Major, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 3 Dec. 1913, and after the outbreak of the War, was made Lieut.-Col. of the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station, 22 Dec. 1914. He raised the unit solely through his personal influence, both with regard to officers and men. He died at the Eastern General Hospital, Birmingham, 10 March, 1915, of pleurisy and pneumonia, contracted on active service. Dr. Gibb received the Coronation medal and was Honorary Associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. He _m._ at St. George’s Church, Hanover Square, London, 20 Sept. 1905, Rosina Sarah, only dau. of James Bullock, of Westbury, co. Wilts; _s.p._ [Illustration: =William Alexander Gibb.=] =GIBB, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 12/1214, 2nd Auckland Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of David Neneen Gibb, of Karanganake, Thames, New Zealand; _b._ Auckland, New Zealand, 1886; educ. Thames Gold Fields, New Zealand; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and enlisted 1 Nov. 1914; went to Egypt, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; _unm._ [Illustration: =William James Gibb.=] =GIBBARD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. G. 3504, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., _s._ of William Gibbard, of 12, Bride Street, Kilburn; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 25 April, 1915. =GIBBINS, HENRY EDWARD=, Private, No. S. 5356, 4th Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of William Gibbins, of 61, Mansfield Street, Kingsland Road, N.E.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died at Boulogne, 15 Feb. 1915, of enteric fever while on active service. =GIBBINS, JOHN=, Signalman, J. 3246, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GIBBONS, CHARLES=, Private, No. G. 120, 7th (Service) Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 28 July, 1915; _m._ =GIBBONS, CHARLES WILLIAM CROWNE=, Private, No. 1518, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of the late Charles William Gibbons, by his wife, Emily Marion (now wife of Charles Emery, of 35, Wandle Road, Wandsworth Common, S.W.), dau. of William Johnstone Harris; _b._ London, 2 Dec. 1884; educ. Tennyson Street Council School, Queen’s Road, S.W.; enlisted, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 7 Oct. 1914, and was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres, 29 Oct. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles W. C. Gibbons.=] =GIBBS, ALBERT WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7975), S.S. 103638, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GIBBS, ALFRED=, Officer’s Steward, 3rd Class, L. 5326, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIBBS, ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9189, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GIBBS, RONALD CHARLES MELBOURNE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Scots Guards, yr. _s._ of the late Hon. Henry Lloyd Gibbs, of 10, Lennox Gardens, London, partner in the firm of Anthony Gibbs & Sons, of 22, Bishopsgate, E.C., by his wife, Alice Mary (10, Lennox Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Gen. Charles Crutchley, of Sunninghill Park, Ascot, co. Berks, and gdsn. of Henry Hucks, 1st Baron Aldenham; _b._ Salisbury, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, 26 Aug. 1894; educ. Wellington House, Westgate-on-Sea, and Eton College (P. L. Broke’s House, where he was in the O.T.C. and received certificate A); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Special Reserve of Officers, 27 Sept. 1913; served with 1st Battn. Scots Guards at Aldershot; and on declaration of war with 3rd Battn.; passed Army Examination, 1914; posted to the 2nd Scots Guards, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, 4 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; _unm._ Buried at Chateau Gheluvelt. His Commanding Officer, Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox, wrote: “He was a splendid young officer.... He had a charming disposition, and showed such keenness and ability as an officer that the blow was all the harder. Liked by everybody he came in contact with, both officers and men, his death has been a great loss to the Regt.” 2nd Lieut. Gibbs rowed in the boats at Eton, 4 June, 1913, and also rowed when their Majesties visited Eton, 16 June, 1913. [Illustration: =Ronald C. M. Gibbs.=] =GIBBS, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 12701, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIBBS, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4719), 205068, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GIBSON, ALBERT EDWARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5181), 207006, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIBSON, JOHN=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1638T., H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GIBSON, MUNGO CAMPBELL=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N.V.R., eldest _s._ of the late Campbell Gibson, of Messrs. George Gibson & Co., of Leith, Shipowners; _b._ Edinburgh. 11 May, 1890; educ. Cargilfield, Loretto, and in France; was before the war employed in his father’s firm; hon. secretary of the Leith Dock Labour Employers’ Association from its formation, and Commissioner of the Leith Boy Scouts. On the formation of the Forth Division, R.N.V.R., he was appointed its commanding officer, and in Sept. 1914, was promoted Lieut.-Commander of the Nelson Battn., with which he served in the Antwerp Expedition, and afterwards in the Dardanelles. He was killed in action near Cannon’s Post, Gaba Tepe, while leading his company at daybreak, 3 May, 1915, and was buried where he fell. Writing to his father, the Colonel of the Nelson Battn. said: “Your son was a keen and zealous officer and was doing splendidly.” He _m._ Edinburgh, 11 July, 1914, Isabel Esmé (23, Dean Park Crescent, Edinburgh), yr. dau. of James Cornwall, late Postmaster-General of the United Provinces, India, and left a dau., Helen Valerie, _b._ 18 April, 1915. [Illustration: =Mungo Campbell Gibson.=] =GIBSON, ROBERT=, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, Capt., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Scottish Borderers, eldest _s._ of James Gibson, of 28, Park Gardens North, Glasgow, M.A., late Headmaster of Woodside Higher Grade School, Glasgow; by his wife, Grace, dau. of William Gott; _b._ Glasgow, 30 Nov. 1885; educ. Glasgow High School, and Glasgow University, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Classics in 1908. He gained the Snell Exhibition and Newlands Scholarship and entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated at the end of his course with First Class in Moderations and Greats, and was elected a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol. He was a member of the O.T.C. there, and when war broke out, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards attd. to the 2nd Battn. He was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. 1914, and Capt. ... and was killed in action near Hill 60, 5–6 May, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Gibson was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 14 Jan. [London Gazette, 17 Feb.] 1915. =GIDNEY, EDWIN=, Engineer Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Empress of Russia, R.N.R., _s._ of Charles Gidney, of Jarrow-on-Tyne, Builder, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Allison, of Sunderland, Engineer; _b._ Jarrow, 23 Dec. 1873; educ. Higher Grade School there; and served his apprenticeship at Messrs. Palmer’s Engineering and Shipbuilding Works, where he was highly esteemed and gained considerable experience in destroyers and torpedo boats. He was afterwards a Marine Engineer, and was latterly employed by the C.P.R. After the outbreak of war he was appointed to H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser Empress of Russia, and died on her 10 June, 1915, from syncope, following wounds received in action while serving in the Persian Gulf; _unm._ He was buried at sea with full naval honours. [Illustration: =Edwin Gidney.=] =GIFFORD, GEORGE EDWARD=, Leading Stoker (C.G.), 300296 (Devon.), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GIGG, HENRY ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1293), 206559, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GILBANK, CHARLES=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 112085, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GILBERT, JAMES WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2362, 7th Battn. The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Horace Gilbert, of Lower Edmonton, Cabdriver, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Locke; _b._ Holborn, London, 26 Oct. 1882; educ. Holborn Council School; worked for some time as an engraver in Fetter Lane, and was then for three years a Packer at Gamage’s, and then for two years at Selfridge’s, leaving there to enlist on the outbreak of War in Aug. 1914; went to France, March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 25 Aug. 1915. He was buried in the Beauchamp Military Cemetery (Grave No. 47). His Lieut. wrote: “I had known him for the whole time he had been in the Battn. and one could not have wished for a better or a braver soldier.” He _m._ at Holborn, 25 Sept. 1904, Clarissa (4, Studd’s Cottages, Montague Road, Edmonton, N.), dau. of James Wright, and had issue: Horace Bert William, _b._ 30 Nov. 1914; Mary Elizabeth, _b._ 22 Jan. 1906; Dora, _b._ 16 June, 1908; Eugene Margaret, _b._ 11 Dec. 1909; and Ada Martha, _b._ 1 July, 1912. [Illustration: =James William Gilbert.=] =GILBERT, NELSON=, Sapper, No. 2167, R.E., _s._ of Nelson Gilbert, of 31, Waterloo Road, Tonbridge, Carpenter, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of George Longley; _b._ Cranbrook, co. Kent, 20 March, 1895; educ. Council School there; was a Grocer’s Assistant; enlisted 19 April, 1915; left England, 11 Oct. 1915, and was drowned on H.M.S. Hythe, 28 Oct. 1915; _unm._ =GILBERT, WILFRED VALENTINE=, Sub-Lieut., Royal Naval Division, 3rd _s._ of the late John Brettell Gilbert, of Longfleet House, Poole, co. Dorset, formerly of Chadwick Manor, co. Warwick, by his wife, Sara Elizabeth (Ferndene, Parkstone, co. Dorset), dau. of John Suckling; _b._ Abergwynant, Dolgelly, North Wales, 2 March, 1889; educ. Eastmans, Southsea; and when War broke out, was a member of the staff of the Rio Tinto Co. in Spain. He immediately returned to England and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 7 Oct. 1914, and joined the Nelson Battn. He was with the first party to land in Gallipoli, 25 April, 1915, and was four times wounded whilst carrying ammunition to the firing line, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915, whilst superintending the digging of a trench linking up the firing line of the Naval Division and the 42nd Division, the enemy trench at that time being about 250 yards distant, and about 1,200 yards S.S.W. of Achi Baba, or about ... S.S.E. of Krithia. On this occasion they had gallantly gone to the support of the Lancashire Division, which had advanced further ahead and now found itself exposed to an enfilade fire. The Nelson men got between the enfilading Turks, and the right of the Lancashire Division joined up the line and dug themselves in under fire on a front of about 500 yards. The trench was completed that night, and was for a time a permanent force of our front line. He was buried in the rear of this position in a small burial ground at the back of the Reserve Trenches; _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Lieut.-Col. Evelegh, wrote of him, and of his brother, Sub-Lieut. Robert Evelyn Gilbert, who was severely wounded: “The loss of these two good officers was a severe blow to the battn. I always said W. V. had a charmed life. He was wounded through the nose on the 3rd May. On the 1st June he had a very narrow escape, a large shell bursting within a few yards of him. I am glad to say he was unhurt. On the morning of the 4th June he was shot through the head whilst superintending some work in the firing line. His death was almost instantaneous.” He was very fond of painting, and exhibited several of his pictures in Spain. His seven brothers are all serving. Commander Archibald Gilbert, R.N., has specialised in gunnery and is at present on Sir Percy Scott’s Staff for the Defence of London; 2nd. Lieut. Vivian Gilbert, Machine-gun Corps, is at the Front; Lieut. Robert Evelyn Gilbert, R.N.V.R., was seriously wounded in Gallipoli, since recovery transferred to the Admiralty; Lieut. Gilbert Richard Gilbert, R.N.R., in command of H.M. Torpedo Boat 077; Lieut. Guy Gilbert, 7th Dorset Regt. attd. to Royal Flying Corps; Lieut. Geoffrey Gilbert, R.N.V.R., Nelson Battn. Royal Naval Division, now at the Front; Private Garnett Gilbert, Inns of Court O.T.C., at present stationed at Berkhampstead. [Illustration: =Wilfred Valentine Gilbert.=] =GILBEY, ERIC=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yr. _s._ of Sir Walter Gilbey, 2nd Bart., by his wife, Ella, dau. of the late John Coutts Fowlie, of Surbiton; _b._ London, 26 Dec. 1888; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; joined the Grenadier Guards in 1910, but afterwards resigned. On the outbreak of war he was gazetted Lieut. in the 5th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 23 Oct 1914; went to the Front with the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; _unm._ Writing to Sir Walter Gilbey, Corpl. W. Smith said: “I am proud to say that I was in Lieut. Gilbey’s platoon from the day he joined us until the time he fell, a few feet from my side. We considered ourselves, with your son as our leader, the luckiest platoon in the regt., if not in the whole Army. He was just like a father to us, and our interests were always his first thought. Each one of us would have followed him in the most forlorn hope, had he wanted us. He was the bravest man I ever saw, and I am sure you will know by now that it was while performing a brave deed that he fell. When we had made the charge at 2 p.m. on 12 March, we were met by the most awful fire of shells and bullets, and Lieut. Gilbey was the first to leap over the parapet, and shouted to us to make for another parapet 100 yards in front. Lots of men fell in that 100 yards, but Lieut. Gilbey, Sergt. Rann, the majority of the men and myself reached cover safely. The next instant I happened to look round, and there was your son, who had run back for about 10 yards, in the open. He was bending over a young fellow, and the next second he fell. I am sure there never was more feeling shown over the fall of an officer than there was by No. 10 Platoon. He had been badly wounded some hours previously, but refused to go to the dressing-room, and so home to England invalided, saying, ‘Where my men go, I go.’” [Illustration: =Eric Gilbey.=] =GILBEY, WILLIAM EDWARD=, A.B., 221975, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GILBRIDE, THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5154), 210720, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GILCHRIST, ROBERT CROOKS=, Capt., 46th Punjabis, Indian Army, yr. _s._ of Brig.-Gen. Robert Alexander Gilchrist, Indian Army; _b._ Aurangabad, Deccan, India, 24 June, 1878; educ. Dover College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he passed with honours; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Indian Army, 4 Aug. 1897, promoted Lieut. 4 Nov. 1899, and Capt. 4 Aug. 1906. He was appointed to the 33rd Punjabis, and afterwards to the 46th Punjabis when that regt. was raised. Served for five years with the Burma Military Police, and took part in two frontier expeditions, and was awarded the King’s Police Medal for service in the Burmo-China Boundary Delimitation Commission. When war broke out he was attached to the 59th Scinde Rifles in France, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 19 Dec. 1914, when most gallantly leading a storming party up a German sap under heavy fire. He was buried in Beuvry Cemetery, near Bethune; _unm._ Writing to his father, Major T. L. Leeds, commanding 59th Scinde Rifles, said: “Your son was killed yesterday morning in a night attack on the German trenches. He was most gallantly leading a storming party up a German sap under heavy fire when he was hit in the head by a rifle bullet and killed at once. He was officiating as my second in command, and was an exceptionally able and gallant officer, and he is a great loss to us,” and Col. J. ffrench Mullen, Deputy Inspector-General Military Police, Burma, wrote: “He served under me in the Myitkyina Battn. for five years and on two expeditions, so I had occasion to know of his sterling qualities and character.... I have never heard anything but the most kindly mention of him, and his death is mourned by his old battn., the Military Police.” [Illustration: =Robert Crooks Gilchrist.=] =GILDERTHORP, HARRY STANLEY=, L-Corpl., No. 9771, 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., _s._ of Benjamin Gilderthorp, of Birmingham, National Reserve, late Sergt., 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt.; _b._ Hockley Hill, Birmingham, 3 Oct. 1886; educ. Lozells Street Board School there; enlisted in Nov. 1903; transferred to the Reserve in 1906; was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 2 May,