Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookn the head. Our ranks were, indeed, terribly thinned by that attack, but as we have been told by Gen. Anderson that it was our brigade who stopped the whole of the German line advancing, we feel very proud, and my deepest regret is that Charlie was not spared to share the honours; but you can all feel proud of him. He died like a man, and a better friend or braver soldier there was not." At Felsted he made a name for athletics, winning the junior steeplechase one year and the senior twice. He also took the championship for sports. He _m._ at Hillingdon, West Uxbridge, 25 Oct. 1911, Brenda Grant, dau. of Edward Bailey, 9, Belmont Road, Uxbridge, and had issue a dau., Angela Mary, _b._ 1 Nov. 1913. [Illustration: =Charles Byron Amos.=] =AMPHLETT, EDWARD BAYLIE=, M.A., Capt., 12th Battn. Worcestershire Regt. (T.F.), attd. 2nd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yr. _s._ of John Amphlett, of Clent, co. Worcester, by his wife, Eliza Anne, only dau. of Edward Biven Baylie, of Stourbridge; _b._ Clent, 15 Jan. 1877; educ. Marlborough and Worcester College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar, going on the Oxford Circuit. He saw service with Paget's Horse in South Africa, and in 1912 was appointed Police Magistrate in the island of Grenada, W.I., a post he resigned to volunteer for the war. He was given the temporary rank of Lieut. in Nov. 1914, and was gazetted Capt. on 15 Jan. 1915, when he was also appointed Adjutant. He went out in May, 1915, to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, being attached to the Royal Fusiliers, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 4 June, 1915; _unm._ He was well-known in musical circles in Worcestershire and Birmingham. [Illustration: =Edward Baylie Amphlett.=] =AMPLEFORD, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9079, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =AMY, RAULIN ANTHOINE JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 63057, 4th (formerly 23rd) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Raulin William Amy, of 39, D'Artigny Street, Quebec, Canada, Accountant, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of James Clark; _b._ Grand Bay, co. Saguenay, Quebec, 29 March, 1893; educ. Victoria and Boys' High Schools, Quebec. At the age of 15 years he entered the employ of the Jonquiere Pulp Co., manufacturers of paper and cardboard, and when this company was absorbed by Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., of Quebec, continued in their employ, being transferred to their large paper mill at Kenogami. Here he remained until 1914, and was then transferred to the company's main office at Quebec, attached to the paper sales department. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for service overseas, and joined the 23rd Battn. 15 Nov. 1914. He came over with the Second Contingent in March, 1915, went to the Front, 1 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 31 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Raulin Anthoine J. Amy.=] =ANCILL, HARRY PEARCE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4796), S.S. 104187, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ANDERSON, ABDY FELLOWES=, Capt. 3rd Battn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), attd. 2nd Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd _s._ of the late Col. James Alexander Anderson, 14th Regt. (West Yorkshires), by his wife, Catherine (19, Gloucester Square, W.), dau. of William Campbell; _b._ near Melbourne, Australia; educ. Harrow and Sandhurst; passed into the 13th Hussars for five years; saw service as Lieut. during the S. African campaign in the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers, for which he received the Queen's medal with two clasps; later joined 4th Border Regt. as Capt., and retired on its disbandment in 1908. On the outbreak of the European war he joined 3rd Scottish Rifles as Capt. 5 Sept. 1914, and was attached to the 2nd Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers in Oct. 1914. He was killed in action near the village of St. Jean, on the Yser Canal, 23 April, 1915, while his battalion was supporting the Canadians in the first gas attack. Capt. Anderson's company was the first to reach Hill 60 when it was captured by us on 17-18 April, 1915. He _m._ St. George's, Hanover Square, W., Phyllis Evelyn Carr (32, Walpole Street, Sloane Square, S.W.), only child of William Morris Fletcher, Burley Beacon, co. Hants, J.P., late I.C.S., and granddau. of Henry Alworth Merewether, Bowden Hill, Lacock, Wilts, Q.C., and had two sons: David Allan Fletcher, _b._ 2 May, 1904, and Gerald Donald, _b._ 29 Jan. 1908. [Illustration: =Abdy Fellowes Anderson.=] =ANDERSON, ALEXANDER CLAIRMONTE=, Capt., 6th Jat L.I., Indian Army, _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alexander Anderson, of Pitt House, Dawlish, late R.A.M.C.; _b._ Muttra, N.W. Provinces, India, 28 April, 1885; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock, and Sandhurst; gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regt. 28 Jan. 1905; joined the Indian Army in 1907, became Lieut. 1908, and Capt. Jan. 1914, and was accidentally killed in the trenches at Festubert, 23 Nov. 1914, by the premature explosion of a hand bomb which he was about to throw; _unm._ He was buried in the cemetery near Bethune. =ANDERSON, CHARLES ALEXANDER KENNETH=, 2nd Lieut. 1st Battn. The King's Royal Rifle Corps, attd. to the 1st Battn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers, only _s._ of Alexander Richard Anderson, F.R.C.S., of Nottingham, by his wife, Edith, dau. of the late C.... E.... Tuck, J.P. co. Norfolk, and grandson of the late Col. Richard Anderson, H.M. 56th Regt. He was born at Nottingham on 31 May, 1893; educ. at Harrow (1907-11) and Pembroke College, Cambridge; gazetted as University candidate to the 1st Battn. The Royal Scots Fusiliers on 4 Aug. 1914, and transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 14 Aug. 1914, but having already left for France with the Royal Scots Fusiliers he remained attached to that regt. He took part in the Battles of Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, and the first Battle of Ypres, and was killed in action about 3 a.m. on 12 Nov. 1914, while leading his men in a night attack on the German trenches near the Chateau Harantalge, on the Ypres-Menin road, being at the time in command of half of C Coy. 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles A. K. Anderson.=] =ANDERSON, FREDERICK KINLOCH=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 4th _s._ of the late William Joseph Kinloch Anderson, of the City of Edinburgh, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Mary, dau. of the late James Wilson, of Edinburgh; _b._ Edinburgh, 7 April, 1880; educ. George Watson's College there; was a Civil Engineer in the Engineers' Department of the North British Railway Co., and after joining the 9th Battn. of the Royal Scots (T.F.) at the outbreak of war, was given a commission in the 4th Black Watch, 2 March, 1915. He was killed in action near Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, and was buried at Pont du Henn; _unm._ =ANDERSON, HENRY KEMP=, Private, No. 12/297, 6th Hauraki Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Alexander Anderson, formerly of Perth, Scotland, School Teacher, by his wife, Elizabeth (Balmoral |