Chapter IV: Part 4

CAPTAIN T. M. ELLIS, son of Dr. W. H. Ellis, formerly of Ravenshaw, Carleton, Skipton, was killed in action in France on April 18th, 1915. Captain Ellis, who was unmarried, saw service in the South African War in the 33rd Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. In 1909, he returned to Bradford and acted as Adjutant to the 6th Bn. West Yorkshire Regt. (T.). At the expiration of his term of office, he rejoined the 2nd Bn. Duke of Wellington’s, then stationed at Dublin. At the outbreak of war, the “Duke’s” had a rough experience, and at the battle of Mons, Captain Ellis and a few others penetrated right through the German lines and were unable to retrace their steps, being posted by the military as missing. For days, Captain Ellis and his companions were befriended by Belgian peasants, being disguised and hidden in straw in barns. They were conducted across country by night, and eventually reached the coast. Captain Ellis embarked at Ostend and reached England in safety, subsequently enjoying a brief furlough at his father’s house, Oak Avenue, Manningham. When next he crossed to France, he was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment, with which he was serving when he met his death.

CAPTAIN G. H. ERMEN, of the 2/6th Bn. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Milton House, Gargrave, who, in civil life, was general manager of the Belle Vue Mills of the English Sewing Cotton Company at Skipton, died at his residence on May 4th, 1915, aged 38 years. At the outbreak of war, Captain Ermen relinquished his position to take up military duties. He had previously held a commission in the 6th Bn. Manchesters, with which regiment he saw service in the South African War. He was gazetted Captain in the first Reserve Bn. of the 6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, which was raised at Skipton under Colonel R. E. Williamson, V.D., and remained at Headquarters until the battalion was transferred to Derby. While stationed at Doncaster, Capt. Ermen was appointed Adjutant to the Battalion, but had not long enjoyed this distinction before he was compelled to return home on sick leave and died, as stated, to the sincere regret of many sorrowing friends. Capt. Ermen took a keen interest in the National Reserve Movement, and was Officer Commanding the Skipton Companies, in the organization of which he took a prominent and useful part.

LIEUT. HEDLEY KNOWLES, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, the first Skipton officer to give his life for King and Country. Lieut. Knowles was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Knowles, The Arches, Skipton. The news of his death was received with very deep regret, for he had, by his geniality of disposition, earned the affection of a wide circle of friends. The deceased officer, who was twenty-two years of age, was destined for the legal profession, and had before him a career of much promise. The outbreak of war saw him, with typical British patriotism, eager to take his part in the momentous struggle. He had joined the 6th Bn. Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1913, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. It was while training in camp at Marske that the Territorial Force was ordered to mobilize, and he went with his Bn. to Immingham, where they went into training, and accompanied them later to Healing, Riby and Doncaster. Later he accompanied his Battalion to France, where he proved himself a thorough and capable officer. It was while acting as instructor to a school of bomb throwing that he met his sad end, being killed by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade on May 30th, 1915. Death was instantaneous, and the whole regiment sincerely grieved the loss of one who had made himself a general favourite with both officers and men. As one of the officers, in communicating the painful news to his parents, said, “He was an excellent soldier and a thorough sportsman. He had no fear, his only wish being to serve his King and Country, for which he has given his life.”

2ND LIEUT. GEORGE BARGH, the King’s Liverpool Regiment, son of Mrs. Bargh, of Procter’s Farm, Wray, near Lancaster, reported killed in action on May 10th, 1915. News reached Mrs. Bargh from Col. Wallace, 1st Suffolk Regt., who was a prisoner of war in Germany, that on that date her son was shot in the head, just before the Germans took the trenches, as he was bandaging a wounded soldier, and was killed instantly. Lieut. Bargh received his early education at Halifax, and subsequently obtained his B.Sc. at University College, Reading. He afterwards became a teacher at Hawes Council School. He accepted his commission in the King’s Liverpool Regiment early in 1914.

LIEUT. R. F. MORKILL, East Lancashire Regiment and Royal Flying Corps, second son of Mr. J. W. Morkill, J.P., of Newfield Hall, Bell Busk, met his death on June 22nd, 1915, following injuries received in a flying accident at Gosport, and the sad event cast a deep gloom over the Craven District, where the family is well known and highly respected. Lieut. Morkill, who was attached to the East Lancashire Regiment, went to the front in Sept. 1914, and was on active service continuously up to February, 1915. On returning to England, he was transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a probationer and qualified as an aviator only a week before he met his untimely end. Two years previously, Lieut. Morkill had obtained a Pilot’s Certificate at the Eastbourne Flying School. On June 22nd, he was ordered to make the flight from Gosport to Shoreham and back. The machine was certified to be in perfect order. According to the evidence at the inquest Lieut. Morkill was preparing to start on the return journey from Shoreham. The engine was running satisfactorily, but a leak was observed in the oil cistern. After a new pipe had been fitted the journey was commenced. When up about 200 feet, the engine missed once or twice and appeared to stop, due, as was subsequently ascertained, to a mechanical fracture. The aeroplane came to the ground and Lieut. Morkill was found to have been crushed by the wreckage. He died as the result of his injuries in his 23rd year. He married in Sept. 1914, Ellen Mary, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. L. Wilkinson, Neasham Abbey, Darlington.

2ND LIEUT. NELSON WIDDUP PETTY, Lancashire Fusiliers, brother of Mr. James Petty, Gordon Street, Sutton. Lieut. Petty enlisted nearly eleven years before the war as a private in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and had seen service in Malta, Egypt, Aden, South Africa and India. When war was declared, he returned from India as a sergeant, but was promoted in January, 1915, to the rank of 2nd Lieut. After a short stay in training he went out with the British Forces to the Dardanelles, where he met his death on the 28th June, 1915.

LIEUT. ANTHONY E. K. SLINGSBY, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. J. A. Slingsby, J.P., and Mrs. Slingsby of Carla Beck, Carleton, Skipton, was killed in action in France on July 14th, 1915. Lieut. Slingsby, who was well-known and very popular in the Craven district, was first at School at St. Edmunds, Hindhead, Surrey, and subsequently at St. Peter’s College, Radley, near Oxford. He then won an Exhibition at Exeter College, Oxford, where he remained in residence four years. During his stay, Lieut. Slingsby was Captain of Boats and President of the College Committee. Returning to Carleton, he interested himself in the Boy Scout movement; became, subsequently, a District Scout Commissioner, and later was attached to the Headquarter Staff. The interrupted manœuvres at Marske in July, 1914, were the first Lieut. Slingsby attended as a Territorial Officer. Lieut. Slingsby, who was 26 years of age, was one of five brothers serving their King and Country in the great war, two of whom afterwards gave their lives in the same great cause.

2ND LIEUT. J. A. C. SPENCER, 9th West Yorkshire Regiment, was reported missing in August, 1915. He was 24 years of age and was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Spencer, of Lydget, Keighley. Before joining the Army he was connected with the firm of P. W. Spencer, Lothersdale. He obtained a commission early in September, 1914, and in July, 1915, he left for Gallipoli, and took part in the landing at Suvla Bay in the following August. All hope of his safety was soon given up, as two brother officers, who were quite near him at the time, stated that at dawn on the 9th August, after leading his men up to the firing line, he was hit and fell without a sound and never moved again. These officers were certain that he was killed instantaneously: half an hour later the ground was given up and was never re-taken. Nothing further could be heard of him, and in July, 1916, it was officially reported that he was “killed in action.”

LIEUT. E. J. C. SUPPLE, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, youngest son of Mr. E. K. Supple, late of the Irish Constabulary, was formerly a Master at Skipton Grammar School; he died of wounds received in action. Lieut. Supple joined the 6th Bn. in March, 1909, as a private. In 1911 he was promoted Lance Corporal and took his discharge in 1913. After the outbreak of war he obtained a commission and rejoined his old regiment. Lieut. Supple was a keen sportsman, and for some seasons played half-back with the well-known London Irish Team. Lieut. Supple was admitted to Wimbereux General Hospital on August 22nd, 1915, suffering from gunshot wounds through both thighs, and died the same day.

LIEUT. THE HON. C. A. LISTER, Royal Marines, of the Hood Battalion, was wounded in Gallipoli, August 24th, 1915, and succumbed to his injuries on August 28th, 1915. Lieut. Lister was the only surviving son and heir of Lord Ribblesdale, of Gisburne Park. His elder brother was killed in action at Vidballi in Somaliland in 1904. Lieut. Lister went to the Dardanelles in the Spring of 1915 to take up a post as interpreter on board one of the warships there. Formerly in the Diplomatic Service, his first position was in the British Embassy at Rome, whence he was transferred to Constantinople, where he was stationed at the outbreak of war. He joined the Royal Naval Division with which he went to the Dardanelles. His mother, the late Lady Ribblesdale, was a daughter of the late Sir Charles Tennant, Bart., a sister of Mrs. Asquith, wife of the Ex-Prime Minister.

LIEUT. SURTEES SHEFFIELD, 2nd Hampshire Regiment, who was reported missing on August 6th, 1915, was afterwards officially reported to have been killed on that date. Lieut. Sheffield had only left hospital at Alexandria five days before he met his death. At the outbreak of war he was rubber planting in Malaga, and at once returned to England to take up his commission, which he had resigned after the South African War. For that campaign he held the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, and the King’s Medal with two clasps, the former being personally presented to him by King Edward at Buckingham Palace in July, 1901, in recognition of his distinguished gallantry at Retief’s Nek. Lieut. Sheffield was in his 38th year, and was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Sheffield, and brother of Mrs. Wayte Hicks, of West House, Dent.

CAPTAIN MORRISON, 6th Bn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, formerly of Bentham, died of wounds received in the Dardanelles, August, 1915. For over twenty years, Capt. Morrison was a Presbyterian, but latterly became an earnest Churchman. He was studying for the Church when war was declared, under the Vicar of St. Margaret’s, Bentham, and he acted as Hon. Lay Reader for about five years at Sacriston, Durham. For a few months he acted at Bentham in the same capacity, and made many friends there. Capt. Morrison was 30 years of age, and came from Sacriston with Mr. Bartley, when the latter was appointed Vicar of St. Margaret’s Church.

LIEUT. LESLIE BROOKS, 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment, the youngest son of Mr. J. B. Brooks, Finstall, Bromsgrove, who married, on November 14th, 1914, Blanche, elder daughter of Mr. A. J. Birley, J.P., of Throstle Nest, Thornton-in-Craven, was killed in action in France on September 25th, 1915. Lieut. Brooks was educated at Uppingham and Clare College, Cambridge. He joined the 4th West Yorkshire Regiment, Special Reserve, on the outbreak of war, was attached to the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment in May, 1915, and then went to the front.

2ND LIEUT. J. C. MCINTYRE, 2nd Yorkshire Regiment, son of Mr. A. McIntyre, of Ings Avenue, Skipton, was reported wounded and missing on September 25th, 1915, and died a prisoner of war in Germany. Lieut. McIntyre was a former Captain of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, and St. John’s College, York. He enlisted as a private in the Gordon Highlanders shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, and was first stationed at Aberdeen. Subsequently he transferred to the Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, with which he trained at Stirling and Salisbury Plain. He attained the rank of sergeant, and also held a gymnastic instructor’s certificate, having passed through the school at Aldershot. Early in April, 1915, he was gazetted to the 11th South Lancashire Regiment, but was later transferred to the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment, with which regiment he went to the front.

CAPTAIN P. C. PRESTON, 7th Norfolk Regiment, of Shrublands, Swaffham, Norfolk, second son of the late Captain John Norcliffe Preston, Flasby Hall, Gargrave, was killed between the 12th and 15th October, 1915. Captain Preston had seen previous service in Lumsden’s Horse in the South African War and possessed two medals. He joined the Forces soon after war broke out and proceeded to France. For several years he lived in Swaffham, being head of the firm of Chamberlayne & Co., merchants. He interested himself in many branches of sport, and was an enthusiastic cricket and tennis player.

2ND LIEUT. BASIL SPENCER JENNINGS, 14th West Yorkshire Regiment, son of Mrs. J. S. Jennings, of Cononley Hall, died from wounds received in action in Gallipoli, on the 7th November, 1915. Lieut. Jennings, who was 25 years of age, was in Morocco when the war broke out; he returned to England and enlisted in King Edward’s Horse, and was afterwards given a commission in the 14th West Yorkshire Regt. He went out to Suvla Bay in September, 1915, attached to the 6th Yorkshire Regiment. He gave his life in a noble deed. On the night of the 5th November, 1915, he went to the trenches to rescue a wounded soldier; he was sniped and died from his wounds two days later. Lieut. Jennings was for some years connected with the firm of P. W. Spencer, quarry owners, Lothersdale. He was educated at Sedbergh, and for a few seasons he played Rugby Union in the Skipton team. This officer and his cousin, Lieut. J. A. C. Spencer, of whom we give a portrait and biography in this book, were grandsons of the late Mr. Peter William Spencer, of Raygill, Lothersdale.

LIEUT. T. S. WHITAKER, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, only son of the late Mr. Thomas Whitaker, J.P., and Mrs. Whitaker, Walton House, Burley-in-Wharfedale, was killed in action in France, on 7th November, 1915. Lieut. Whitaker, who was an old Sedberghian, obtained his commission in the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s Regt. from the O.T.C. in August, 1914, and went to France with the Batt. in April, 1915. Originally he was Machine Gun Officer, but latterly had charge of the bombers.

2ND LIEUT. T. W. CARSON, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mrs. Carson, Salisbury Street, Skipton, who was reported missing since December, 28th, 1915, was afterwards officially presumed killed. Lieut. Carson joined the 2/6th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in September, 1914, relinquishing an appointment with a firm of solicitors in North Wales. He went to France on November 1st, 1915, and for a time was attached to an Entrenching Battn. He had only joined the ⅙th Battn. about a fortnight prior to being reported missing. He was 31 years of age and educated at Lancaster Grammar School and the Merchant Tailors’ School, Liverpool. He was prominently identified with the Boy Scout movement.

CAPTAIN ARTHUR MORRIS SLINGSBY, M.C., 56th Punjaubi Rifles, second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Slingsby, of Carla Beck, Carleton, fell in action on March 8th, 1916, in Mesopotamia. Captain Slingsby was with General Aylmer’s force proceeding to the relief of General Townshend and his beleaguered army at Kut. Educated at Aysgarth School and Wellington College, Sandhurst, Captain Slingsby, who was 30 years of age, chose the Army as his profession, and passed into the Indian Army in February, 1904. He was a noted climber and a member of the Alpine Club, and did much survey work, particularly of virgin peaks in India, under Government orders. He was in India when war broke out, and his first experience of fighting was in Egypt, where he took part in the battle of Ismaliu.

2ND LIEUT. HARRY THORNTON PICKLES, 3rd Bn. Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment (S.R.). second son of Mr. Stephen Pickles, J.P., C.C., of Raysgill, Barnoldswick, was killed in action on April 26th, 1916. He was 26 years of age. Lieut. Pickles joined the army in September, 1914, enlisting as a private in the 10th Duke of Wellington’s Regt. After a period of training at Frensham Camp, he was promoted to the rank of 2nd Lieut. and transferred to the 3rd Res. Bn. at North Shields. He was drafted out to France in January, 1916. Educated at Silcoates School, near Wakefield, where he spent five years, leaving at the age of 17, he went to Victoria University, Manchester, taking his B.A. degree with honours before the age of 20. The M.A. degree was conferred upon him the following year. He was married at Lewisham the week before leaving England, his bride being Miss Ada Heuf, of New Eltham, Kent.

LIEUT. CHRISTOPHER W. BROWN, Royal Scots Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on April 30th, 1916. Lieut. Brown was the youngest son of the Rev. C. V. and Mrs. Brown, of Embsay Vicarage, near Skipton, and grandson of the late Mr. J. R. Wilkinson, of Burnside, Skipton. He was born at Embsay on November 15th, 1892, and educated at Skipton and Pocklington Grammar Schools. At Pocklington, he gained a Dolman Exhibition tenable at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He entered St. John’s College in October, 1911, and three years later took honours in the Historical Tripos. On the outbreak of war, he at once volunteered for service and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve of Officers, eventually being gazetted to the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was wounded at Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, and again at Hooge in September, 1915. He was promoted Lieut. in the summer of 1915, and at the time of his death was in command of a company.

LIEUT. EDMUND BROWNSWORTH, Leicestershire Regiment, youngest son of the late Mr. David Brownsworth, artist, and Mrs. Brownsworth, of Skipton, died in the 10th Casualty Clearing Station at Abule, on May 29th, 1916. He received the first rudiments of education under Mr. Alfred Hartley at the Skipton National School and, later, after a period of training, was apprenticed to the Merchant Service. After many extended cruises, he left the sea on account of ill-health. Later, he joined the army and rose to the rank of Sergeant in the Leicestershire Regiment, and in that capacity went out to France in November, 1914. He so distinguished himself that the Brigadier-General recommended him for a commission. He was gazetted to his old regiment in April, 1915, as a 2nd Lieut., being advanced in November to a Temporary Lieutenancy.

LIEUT. STEPHEN SLINGSBY, H.M.S. “_Defence_,” fourth son of Mr. J. A. Slingsby and Mrs. Slingsby, Carla Beck, Carleton, was killed in action in the North Sea in June, 1916. The deceased officer was born on the 20th June, 1892, and was educated at St. Edmund’s School, Hindhead, and underwent training for his career in the Navy at the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth, and on H.M.S. “_Cornwall_.” His ships included the “_Warrior_,” “_Cochrane_,” “_Comet_,” and the “_Defence_.” At the outbreak of war he was Sub-Lieut. on the “_Comet_,” a destroyer, and was posted to the “_Defence_” as Lieut. (E) in September, 1915. He was the holder of the Medal of the Royal Life Saving Society, which he won at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, in July, 1909.

LIEUT. WILLIAM ELLIS GOMERSALL, 22nd Manchester Regiment, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gomersall, of 69, Queen’s Road, Urmston, Manchester, and nephew of the late Rev. W. J. Gomersall, was killed in action on July 1st, 1916. Lieut. Gomersall was born at Hellifield and was 21 years of age. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and passed his Classical Matriculation in 1911. He was a member of the Grammar School O.T.C. and Lieut. in the Urmston (Manchester) Company of the Church Lads’ Brigade. He also held the certificate of the Royal Life Saving Society and St. John Ambulance Society. Soon after outbreak of war, he enlisted as a private in the Public Schools Brigade, Manchester Bn. After several months’ training at Epsom, he was selected for a commission in the 23rd Bn. Manchester Regiment, but was afterwards transferred to the 22nd Bn. After being promoted to full Lieut. on May 11th, 1915, he entered a course at the Royal Staff College, Camberley, and eventually accompanied his regiment to France where he met his death.

MAJOR JOHN CHAYTER METCALFE, Cheshire Regiment, killed in action July 3rd, 1916. The deceased officer, who was 34 years of age, was the only son of the late Major John A. Metcalfe, of Ings House, Hawes, and resided at King Edward’s Place, Wanborough, Wilts. He served with the 3rd West Yorkshire Regiment during the South African War, where he was for some time temporary Aide-de-Camp to the late Lord Cloughton. He afterwards received a commission in the 13th Hussars. He left the army in 1906, took up racing, and was a successful amateur steeplechase rider and breeder of thoroughbred horses. When the war commenced, he enlisted in the Public Schools Corps, and in October, 1914, received a commission in the Cheshire Regiment, being gazetted Temporary Major in September, 1915. His grandfather, who resided at Hawes, was Chaplain to the Duke of Wellington, and his uncle, the late Dr. Parker, was for years the vicar of Hawes.

LIEUT. HENRY BRYAN FISHER, 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, the younger son of Dr. G. E. Fisher, of Skipton, died in hospital from severe wounds in both thighs, in July, 1916. The deceased officer, who was only 20 years of age, was educated at Colwall School and Winchester College, and afterwards went to Canada, where he was engaged in farming with his uncle, Mr. Arthur Fisher. After the outbreak of war, he returned to England to enlist, and receiving a commission was gazetted to the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.

2ND LIEUT. ERNEST PARSONS, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment (attached 1st Welsh Regt.), died from fever in the Malaria Hospital, at Salonica, on July 24th, 1916. Lieut. Parsons left Chili in November, 1914, where he had an excellent railway appointment, with twenty-eight other Englishmen, who had come along with him 11,000 miles to offer their services to the country. They drilled daily on board ship, and on arrival in England enlisted early in 1915. Lieut. Parsons received his commission, and after being stationed at Woolwich, Aldershot and Basingstoke, he sailed for Egypt in November, 1915. In May, 1916, he was transferred to Salonica. Lieut. Parsons was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Parsons, School House, Rathmell, where he was born. He was 25 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. FRANK DINSDALE, York & Lancaster Regiment, son of Mr. & Mrs. Jas. Dinsdale, Show Cote, Askrigg, was reported wounded and missing on July 1st, 1916, and afterwards officially presumed killed in action. Lieut. Dinsdale received his commission from the Leeds University O.T.C. in Sept. 1915, and went to France in June 1916.

2ND LIEUT. JAMES W. FRYER, Northumberland Fusiliers, only son of the late Major J. W. Fryer and Mrs. Fryer, now of “Kingarth,” Fenham, Newcastle, and formerly of Hawes, killed in action on July 1st, 1916. He joined the Northumberland Fusiliers shortly after the outbreak of war. Prior to joining the forces he was articled clerk to Messrs. Dickinson, Millar & Turnbull, Solicitors, Newcastle, and had successfully passed his first examinations, and was hoping to qualify his final when he joined the Colours.

MAJOR S. BROADBENT MAUFE, West Yorkshire Regt., died of wounds on July 5th, 1916. The late Major Maufe was the eldest son of Frederick Broadbent and Helen Mann Maufe, of Warlbeck, Ilkley, and husband of Hilda Maufe, of Acomb, York. He was educated at Uppingham and Clare College, joined the army in 1910, and was mentioned in despatches.

CAPTAIN CEDRIC F. HORSFALL, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, eldest son of Sir John and Lady Horsfall, of Hayfield, Glusburn, was killed in action in France on September 18th, 1916. Captain Horsfall, who was a popular figure in Craven, joined the Army at the outbreak of hostilities. Prior to doing so, he was in partnership with his father at Hayfield Mills. When his regiment went to the front, he was a 2nd Lieut., and a few months’ service gained him his Captaincy, but not before he had been wounded twice. It was in May, 1916, that he returned to active service. Up to joining the forces he had taken a deep interest in politics. He was a member of the Sutton Baptist Church, and was 26 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. ARTHUR C. GOODALL, Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), nephew of Mr. and Mrs. J. Goodall, of “New Zealand,” Crosshills, killed in action in France, November 6th, 1916. Lieut. Goodall was a member of the Durham Light Infantry (T) when hostilities broke out. Shortly after the outbreak, he was promoted to non-commissioned rank and went to the Front in April, 1915. In December, 1915, he received a well-earned commission, but in March, 1916, he was invalided home. Lieut. Goodall was well-known in the Crosshills district, where he resided for some time.

LIEUT. G. C. H. CUTLIFFE HYNE, Irish Guards, only son of Mr. C. J. Cutliffe Hyne, of Kettlewell, the well-known Yorkshire novelist, died on November 21st, 1916, at the home of the Hon. Mrs. F. Guest, used as a Military Hospital, in Park Lane, London. The interment took place on November 25th, 1916, with military honours, at Kettlewell. Lieut. Hyne, who was in his 19th year, figured in a notable deed of gallantry, which resulted in the saving of all his guns, but seventeen men out of twenty-five in his gun company became casualties. He was wounded about the middle of September, 1916, and taken to the hospital named above.

LIEUT. JASPER WHITFIELD SNOWDEN, Worcestershire Regiment, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Snowden, of the Garth, Embsay, and grandson of the late Rev. John Snowden, Vicar of Ilkley, was born at Bradford, in 1896. The deceased officer commenced his education at the Bradford Grammar School, and in 1909 went to Rossall School. He took a keen interest in sport and the study of natural history, and gained several prizes from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. From the very first he was an enthusiastic and active member of the Officers’ Training Corps, and was in Camp at Tidworth when war broke out. He volunteered for service and was given a commission in the above regiment, was sent to France on February 17th, 1915, and was wounded at St. Eloi, in May. In September he was sent to the Dardanelles where, owing to an attack of dysentery, he went into hospital. He soon rejoined his Bn. in Egypt, and later was drafted to Mesopotamia where he was again wounded on April 5th, 1916. He was afterwards sent to India where he was for some months on sick leave. He returned to the Tigris Line at the end of January, and fell in action on February 25th, 1917.

LIEUT. ALEC. WILSON, 1st Herefordshire Regiment (T.F.), son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Wilson, J.P., of Lothersdale. Lieut. Wilson, whose stay at Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, extended from 1906 to 1913, and included the honoured position of Captain, was articled in the estate office of the Marquis of Abergavenny. When war broke out he at once joined the above regiment as 2nd Lieut. He went out to the Dardanelles in August, 1915, and went through that trying and devastating campaign. Following the evacuation, Lieut. Wilson was sent to Egypt, where he was killed on March 26th, 1917.

LIEUT. FRANK WHALEY, Yorkshire Regiment, the youngest son of the Rev. F. W. Whaley, Vicar of Horton-in-Ribblesdale, was killed in action on March 31st, 1917. He joined the Royal Fusiliers (Public Schools Battalion) as a private soon after the outbreak of war, and, after serving at the Front in France for six months in 1915-1916, was sent home to train for a commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. on 26th September, 1916. He joined his regiment in France early in November, 1916.

2ND LIEUT. THOMAS D. BROUGHTON, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, son of the late Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, of Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton, died in hospital in April, 1917, from wounds received in action. After leaving school, Lieut. Broughton attended the Technical College, Bradford, for several years, and subsequently joined the firm of Messrs. H. A. Gray & Co., Valley Mills, Bradford. He joined the Artists’ Rifles in November, 1915, and after the usual training at Camberley Staff College, was given a commission in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.

2ND LIEUT. ERIC G. GOODMAN, Dorsetshire Regiment, who was killed in action in France on April 12th, 1917, was a son of Dr. and Mrs. T. H. Goodman, 39, High Street, Haverhill, Suffolk, and a relative of Nurse Beresford, of Skipton. Twenty-two years of age, Lieut. Goodman received his education at Epsom College and Skipton Grammar School, being at the latter School Captain of the Rugby and Cricket teams and sports champion in 1910. In 1913, he joined the Civil Service Rifles, and on August 4th, 1914, he volunteered for service. He went to France in March, 1915, and was twice wounded.

LIEUT. T. B. BELLAMY, King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bellamy, Chapel Hill, Skipton, died from wounds received in action in Mesopotamia on April 30th, 1917. Formerly a traveller for Mr. John Mollet, ironmonger, Bradford, Lieut. Bellamy enlisted as a private in the R.F.A. a month after the outbreak of war, and in 1915 accepted the offer of a commission, and was posted to the regiment named. After taking part in the opening operations in Mesopotamia, he went to India on sick leave, but returned to the Near East at Christmas, 1916, and, along with two other officers of an advanced guard, was the first to enter Baghdad.

CAPTAIN CYRIL HOOK, Manchester Regiment, who was killed in action on April 23rd, 1917, was the second son of Sergt.-Major and Mrs. Hook (late of Bangalore), and grandson of the late Sergt.-Major Hook, of Settle. He was 21 years of age, and joined the Manchester Regiment as a 2nd Lieut. He went to the Front in November, 1915, being wounded in the July advance, but returned to active service again in November, 1916. Before the outbreak of war he was with Messrs. Mather & Platt, of Manchester, and a member of the Broughton Park Rugby Club.

CAPTAIN JAMES BRUCE MACKAY, West Yorkshire Regiment, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mackay, 11, High Street, Skipton. Thirty-two years of age, he enlisted as a private in the Hussars during the month following the outbreak of war, and, after twelve months’ training at Colchester, accepted a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., being posted to the West Yorkshire Regt., proceeding to France in July, 1916. He took part in the battle of the Somme, and his promotion to the rank of Captain came on the battlefield. He was killed in action on May 3rd, 1917. He was educated at the Skipton Grammar School, and prior to enlisting was an Inspector in the London district for Messrs. Freeman, Hardy & Willis, boot manufacturers.

2ND LIEUT. ERIC MARLOR, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. Frank Marlor, Close House, Settle. Joined the Artists’ Rifles, December 15th, 1915, as a private. He afterwards entered the Cadet School, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. of the 2/6th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., in September, 1916. In December of the same year he was attached to the 2/7th Duke of Wellington’s Regt., and went to France in January, 1917. He was reported missing May 3rd, 1917, in the attack on Bullecourt, and was last seen passing through the German wire at the head of his men. Neither 2nd Lieut. Marlor nor any of his men reported missing on that day have ever been traced or heard of, and the War Office has officially presumed their deaths.

CAPTAIN CLAUDE D. BENNETT, 2/6th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, was the son of the late Mr. John Bennett, of Airedale Terrace, Skipton. The deceased officer was wounded in May, 1917, but he made a good recovery and returned to France on Wednesday, July 11th, 1917, exactly a week before he received the wounds which resulted in his death the same day. After leaving Skipton Grammar School, Captain Bennett served an apprenticeship to the teaching profession with the late Mr. W. H. Walker, of the Water Street Council School, Skipton, and later went to Westminster College to complete his training. Afterwards, for a time, he was a teacher at the Water Street School, where he remained about twelve months. From this school he was transferred to the staff of the Old British School at Skipton, and afterwards was for four years assistant master at the Brougham Street Council School, Skipton. Subsequently he was appointed headmaster of Langcliffe Council School. Captain Bennett, who was 30 years of age, started service in the Army as 2nd Lieut., and his promotion was rapid.

2ND LIEUT. FRANK HUBERT GILL, West Yorkshire Regiment, met his death in action on August 16th, 1917. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gill, of Park Avenue, Skipton. Twenty-three years of age, deceased was educated at the Water Street Wesleyan Higher Grade School, and Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton. Before the war, he held a commission in the local Cadet Corps, but on the outbreak of hostilities, he joined the ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a private, with which he served in France for twenty-three months. Subsequently he was granted a commission, and returned home in the early part of 1917 to undergo the necessary training for his new duties in a school at Fleet. Afterwards he was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment, and again proceeded to the front about five weeks before he met his death.

2ND LIEUT. B. G. LODGE, Durham Light Infantry, was killed in action on August 24th, 1917. Deceased, who was 23 years of age, joined the Royal Fusiliers in December, 1914. After training at several camps, he went to France with his regiment in November, 1915, returned to England in April, 1916, and was gazetted on the 9th August, 1916, as 2nd Lieut. in the Special Reserve D.L.I. In September, 1916, he again went out to France, and after acting as Company Bombing Officer, he was Battn. Bombing Officer and Intelligence Officer until he was killed. He was educated at the Minster Yard School, York, Yorebridge Grammar School and Giggleswick School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.

CAPTAIN M. D. W. MAUDE, Yorkshire Regiment, younger son of Lt.-Col. and Mrs. Maude, The Fleets, Rylstone-in-Craven, died in a military hospital at Dover, on October 14th, 1917, from wounds received in action. Captain Maude went to France in 1914 with the seventh division, and was in the first battle of Ypres. He was mentioned in despatches after the battle of the Somme. He was 27 years of age, and was attached to the West Yorkshire Regiment (Special Reserve).

CAPT. G. W. E. MAUDE, died of pneumonia at Peshawar, India, November 5th, 1919. Gerald William Edward Maude was the elder and only surviving son of Lieut.-Colonel W. W. and Mrs. Maude, The Fleets, Rylstone-in-Craven. Capt. Maude had served eight years in India with his regiment, the 1st Battalion, A.P.W.O., Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), and in the spring of 1919 he was badly wounded by a bullet penetrating one of his lungs near Fort Dekka in Baluchistan. After three months sick leave in Kashmir, he recovered sufficiently to resume duty. On being granted a year’s leave he was hoping to embark for England on November 7th, 1919, but unfortunately he contracted a cold, which probably affected the injured lung. Pneumonia developed, and Captain Maude died on November 5th at the Military Hospital, Peshawar. He leaves a widow and one little son, and was 30 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. H. T. STYLES, M.C., Manchester Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Styles, Harden Cottage, Austwick, was killed on October 2nd, 1917, aged 23 years.

2ND LIEUT. WM. ALBERT RODWELL, M.C., Royal Engineers, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Rodwell, of West Ville, Skipton, was killed in France on Nov. 9th, 1917. Twenty years of age, Lieut. Rodwell was educated at the Skipton Wesleyan Higher School. He was offered and accepted a commission in the army in October, 1915. He was then attached to the 20th Bn. Durham Light Infantry, and went to France in May, 1916.

2ND LIEUT. RALPH O. GLADSTONE, Royal Engineers, of Holme Road, Crosshills, was killed in action on November 2nd, 1917, in France. Shortly before the outbreak of war, he was working in Spain for the British Thomson-Houston Co., of Rugby, and, immediately on the outbreak of hostilities he joined the Royal Engineers as a private, and went to France in 1914. He was wounded at the first battle of Ypres. He was 27 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. G. W. A. WATSON, Royal Air Force, eldest son of the late Mr. James Watson, Conistone-with-Kilnsey, was killed in action on March 7th, 1918. Lieut. Watson was only 20 years of age, and when war broke out he enlisted as a seaman in the Royal Naval Division. Later he joined the Royal Air Force, and went to France only a fortnight before he died. The deceased officer, who had a genius for invention, was formerly an engineering student at Leeds University, and a new fuse and engine have been made to his designs.

2ND LIEUT. VICTOR R. ATKINSON, ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, was killed in action in France on November 23rd, 1917. He was the son of Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson, of “Bowerley,” Settle, and grandson of the late Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Leeds and Harrogate. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School, where he was in the O.T.C. He was 20 years of age.

CAPTAIN WILLOUGHBY JOHN LITTLEDALE, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, only son of Mr. Willoughby Aston Littledale, formerly of Bolton-by-Bowland, was killed in action on March 23rd, 1918. Born in 1896, he was educated at Copthorne School and Eton, and was accepted for entrance at Trinity College, Oxford, but on the outbreak of war proceeded instead to Sandhurst, receiving his commission in December, 1914. He went to France in May, 1915, and was wounded in November, 1916. He afterwards rejoined his regiment and was killed, as stated above, when commanding his company in the front line.

FLIGHT LIEUT. R. B. BROOKES, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. John Brooks, Greta Villas, Ingleton, officially presumed to have been killed on March 13th, 1918.

MAJOR E. WALLING, M.C., CROIX DE GUERRE, West Yorkshire Regiment, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Walling, Ferncliffe, Ingleton, was killed in action at Kemmel Hill on April 23rd, 1918. Major Walling, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches, had a brilliant scholastic career. Obtaining a County Minor Scholarship, he went to Giggleswick Grammar School, and there passed his Matriculation, 1st division, and took a County Major Scholarship and a Natural Science Exhibition at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was at Oxford four years, and was in the hockey and football teams. He was a keen golfer and a member of the Leeds and Ingleton Clubs. Leaving college he went as master at Dulwich, Oxford High School, Sheffield Grammar School, and Leeds Grammar School, where he was Senior Science Master. Prior to the war he held a commission in the Territorial Force (Leeds Rifles), and was in camp at Scarborough when war broke out. He joined his regiment in France early in 1915, and served there until he was killed.

LIEUT. W. PETTITT, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, of Settle, was killed during April, 1918.

LIEUT. GEORGE PROCTER, Lancashire Fusiliers, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Procter, Greystones, Gisburn, killed in action on April 7th, 1918, aged 24 years.

LIEUT. C. C. CHORLEY, M.C., Lancashire Fusiliers, of Sedbergh, killed in France April 27th, 1918. Awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.

LIEUT. J. W. N. A. PROCTER, M.C., ⅙th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Procter, Manor House, Rylstone, died from wounds on May 2nd, 1918, aged 23 years. From a letter read by the bereaved family from Brigadier General Lewes, commanding the 147th Brigade, it appears that Lieut. Procter, who possessed a loveable and winning personality, was wounded in battle on April 29th, 1918, and he died at one of the base hospitals to the deep regret of his fellow officers and men. The Brigadier General added: “Your son was a model of an English officer and gentleman. As regards his work, I cannot speak too highly of him; he was most able and devoted to his duty; he was of the greatest assistance to me and my commanding officers, and I shall be quite unable to replace him.... Your son died doing his duty in a way that could not have been done better. We sadly mourn his loss.”

2ND LIEUT. TOM D. STOCKS, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. James Stocks, of Airedale Villa, Silsden, died from wounds received in action on April 16th, 1918. Educated at the Bradford Grammar School, Lieut. Stocks, who was 21 years of age, was formerly an assistant scoutmaster of the Silsden Parish Church Troop. Joining the Westmoreland and Cumberland Yeomanry as a private in April, 1915, he afterwards successfully undertook a course of training for higher rank.

LIEUT. JOHN ILLINGWORTH, M.C., West Yorkshire Regiment, of Skipton, formerly assistant to Mr. E. G. Whittaker, registration agent for the Skipton Division Conservative and Unionist Association, was killed on June 3rd, 1918, aged 26 years.

LIEUT. E. J. C. KIDD, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. W. Kidd, head-master of the National School, Addingham, was fatally injured on April 9th, 1917, while acting as observer.

2ND LIEUT. J. G. CAMPBELL, Yorkshire Regiment, officially reported missing since an engagement on May 7th and 8th, 1918, was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Town Head, Austwick. He enlisted in May, 1915, in the West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), and went to Egypt in December the same year. He was transferred to France the following March, where he joined the cyclist section, in which he stayed up to about November, when he came home to take up a commission. He had only returned to France three weeks when he met his death. Prior to the war he was a clerk in the employ of the Midland Railway Co. He was 24 years of age.

CAPTAIN NORMAN MULLER, West Yorkshire Regt., younger son of Colonel G. H. Muller, of Park Grove, Frizinghall, Bradford, was killed in action on the Western front, on July 28th, 1918. Capt. Muller married in January, 1915, Miss Doris Spencer Jennings, only surviving daughter of the late Mr. J. S. Jennings, formerly of Keighley and Harrogate, and Mrs. Jennings, of Cononley Hall. At the outbreak of war he was a Lieut. in the West Yorkshires, and went to France shortly after his marriage in charge of the transport of the ⅙th West Yorkshire Regt. After service on the Ypres front he was invalided home, but returned to France, and for a time was acting Major of his Bn. In August, 1916, he was again invalided home, and for a time was given duty in England, but in the spring of 1918 he was once again given orders for service abroad. He was killed while reconnoitring. He was 32 years of age.

2ND LIEUT. C. F. BUTLER, Royal Field Artillery, of Huddersfield, a former three-quarter back for the Skipton Rugby football team, and an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, was killed in action during July, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. H. ALLEN, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen, Gayle, Hawes, missing since August 10th, 1918, after bombing the German lines.

2ND LIEUT. J. V. LEE, Royal Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lee, Belmont Bridge, Skipton, was killed in action in August, 1918, aged 22 years.

LIEUT. THOMAS FATTORINI, Royal Air Force, second son of Mr. T. Fattorini, “Rockwood,” Skipton, fell in action on August 13th, 1918, whilst flying over the enemy’s lines on a voluntary photographic reconnaissance, aged 19 years.

LIEUT. WILLIAM PATRICK BARRY, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Barry, 29, Bright Street, Skipton, was killed on August 28th, 1918, aged 23 years. Had been awarded the Certificate of Merit in recognition of conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the night of September 6th, 1917, and had been recommended for the Military Cross. He was an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton.

LIEUT. J. R. JACKMAN, Royal Air Force, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackman, Hughenden, Long Preston, reported missing June 17th, 1918, since presumed killed. Educated at Sedbergh, he was in business with his father as a wool merchant when the war broke out. He volunteered and joined the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, going to France in April, 1915. He was transferred to the R.F.C. in 1917.

LIEUT. W. H. BRASSINGTON, M.M., Tank Corps, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Brassington, Ribble View, Settle, killed in action near Bapaume on August 23rd, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. L. V. BURROWS, Sherwood Foresters, was the first to enlist from the office staff of Belle Vue Mills, Skipton. Killed in action September 1st., 1918, aged 26 years.

2ND LIEUT. J. H. B. THORNTON, Labour Corps, of Keswick, who was classical master at Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, from September, 1914, to March, 1917, was killed in action on the Western front on September 28th, 1918. He frequently acted as instructor to the Skipton V.T.C. in its early days.

2ND LIEUT. HARLEY BENTHAM, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Hellifield, died in France from wounds received in action on September 13th, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. JOSEPH BRYAN BUSHBY, South Staffordshire Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bushby, Schoolhouse Farm, Marton, died on October 9th, 1918, from wounds received on the Western front on October 4th, 1918. He was 26 years of age, and an “Old Boy” of Ermysted’s Grammar School, Skipton, and St. John’s College, York. He was a teacher at the Brougham Street School, Skipton, at the time he joined the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment as a private, in September, 1914.

2ND LIEUT. NORMAN CROWTHER, Cheshire Regiment, only son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Crowther, “Brooklyn,” Grassington, was killed in action in France on October 14th, 1918, only two days after his return from leave, aged 27 years. Educated at Pannal Ash College, Harrogate, he left there to enter the banking profession, and when war broke out had secured a good position in the chief office, at Leeds, of the National and Provincial Bank of England. Enlisting in 1915, he joined the 5th Bn. The Buffs, was granted a commission in June, 1917, and transferred to the 3rd Cheshire Regiment, and afterwards sailed for Egypt, being one of the expedition that went to Palestine. Had it not been for sickness, he would have been with General Allenby at his entry to Jerusalem. He was recalled to France in May, 1918, and saw much severe fighting in the neighbourhood of Merville, being with the Division which was mentioned for gallantry in action. At the time of his death he was attached to the 15th Suffolk Yeomanry. He and one of his men were sheltering in a shell hole when a shell buried them. When help arrived both were dead. Lieut. Crowther was buried in a cemetery near Chateau-de-la-Valee, about 12 miles from Lille.

2ND LIEUT. RICHARD WELBURY SHUTTLEWORTH, Royal Air Force, son of Mrs. Shuttleworth, Beech Cliffe, Earby, was accidentally killed whilst flying in England, on August 24th, 1918, aged 24 years.

LIEUT. J. W. LUMB, M.C., ¼th Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Skipton formerly in practice as a solicitor in Barnoldswick, died of wounds in France on October 30th, 1918, aged 34 years.

LIEUT. T. F. H. TORNEY, son of Captain Hastings Torney, R.A.M.C., was a nephew of Mrs. Sam H. Walton, Skipton, and was killed in action September 3rd, 1918.

2ND LIEUT. LAWRENCE MATTHAUS, Royal Field Artillery, formerly engaged in farming with Mr. Jas. Gill, Yarlsber Farm, Ingleton, was killed in action on October 16th, 1918.

LIEUT. GORDON SANDERSON, 2nd Gurkhas, Machine Gun Section, only son of Mr. William Sanderson, of Rathmell, Settle, was killed in action in France. The deceased officer was 28 years of age. At the outbreak of war, he was offered an appointment as A.D.C., but refused it, and took charge of the Machine Gun Section of the 2nd Gurkhas. Lieut. Sanderson was a clever architectural draughtsman, being formerly engaged in Government work in Egypt. He subsequently worked in Edinburgh, and later was appointed superintendent of the Archæological Survey of the North East Provinces of India. Prior to going to India, Lieut. Sanderson was married to Miss Cowie, daughter of the late Mr. A. Cowie, of Mentone Gardens, Edinburgh.

LIEUT. JOHN BARTLEY GLIBBON, Canadian Mounted Rifles, died of wounds in France. He was the only son of Mr. A. E. Glibbon, who was manager of the Old Bentham Mills Spinning Co., and also manager at Bentham Mills for the Hemp Yarn Cordage Combine before its liquidation, and a well-known figure in Bentham. The late Lieut. Glibborn was born at Bentham House in 1887. His mother was Miss Baldwin, a member of as well-known Scotforth family. He emigrated to Canada, and married a French Canadian lady who belonged to an old French Republican family. The deceased officer obtained his early education at Miss Wilson’s private school at Bentham, after which he went to Ackworth Friends’ Schools, near Wakefield.

2ND LIEUT. J. LESLIE BERRY, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berry, 48, Broughton Road, Skipton, who enlisted in September, 1914, at the age of seventeen, as a private, fell in action on October 12th, 1918.

LIEUT. GORDON CARRUTHERS, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Carruthers, of Skipton, died of wounds received in action in France on November 20th, 1918. Lieut. Carruthers, who had been in France about three years, was, prior to the war, assistant master at Glusburn Council School.

CAPTAIN ROBERT CLEMENT PERKS, D.S.O., Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, of Hebden, killed in action on October 27th, 1918, on the Italian front.

DR. PHILLIP D. PICKLES, H.M.S. “_Russell_,” and formerly of Earby, died in hospital at Malta as the result of injuries received during the sinking of his ship in the Mediterranean. A son of Dr. J. J. Pickles, Camp Road, Leeds, he was the eldest of six brothers, all trained in the medical profession. Deceased was a member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was called up for duty on the “_Russell_” on August 2nd, 1914. As Surgeon in the R.N.V.R., he took part in the grand review at Spithead, and joined H.M.S. “_Russell_” on August 2nd, 1914. Dr. Pickles was one of five brothers who joined H.M. Forces--three in the Army and two in the Navy--four of them being medical officers. He was 33 years of age and unmarried.

LIEUT. H. W. EDWARDS, West Yorkshire Regiment (Bradford Pals), killed in action in France, resided at Manor Hill, Sutton, for a few years, and was very well-known and popular in the village. He formed an excellent troop of Boy Scouts in connection with St. Andrew’s Church, Kildwick, devoted his spare time to furthering the Boy Scout movement in the district, and for a time was District Commissioner. For over ten years he was on the staff of the Bank of Liverpool at Keighley, and was also manager of the Crosshills branch for a few years. At the outbreak of hostilities he joined the ranks of the West Yorkshire Regiment, rising to the rank of Sergeant. After about twelve months’ foreign service with the “Pals” in Egypt and France, he was promoted to commissioned rank. His father was a Vicar of Nelson.