Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book. Leede, commanding the 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. wrote on 20 Dec. 1914: "I am deeply grieved to have to write and tell you that your son Lieut. Bruce was killed yesterday, during a night attack. He met his death in a German trench which we had taken, he was shot through the chest and killed instantly.... Until Col Fenner was killed, your son was my company officer, and I was very fond of him indeed, and I am more grieved than I can say to have to tell you of his death. I consider him to have been a young officer of most exceptional promise, and I have seen him under fire off and on for two months. Will you please accept the very sincere sympathy and condolence of the whole regt." Capt. Anderson of 59th Scinde Rifles F.F. writing on 20 Dec. 1914, to Gen. J. R. B. Atkinson, said. "A N.C.O. of mine got back last night. He had been with Bruce, who was the first man into his part of the trench, and died most gallantly holding it. He (the N.C.O.) says he told his men to retire, but they said the Sahib had ordered them not to, so they died there." Lieut. C. J. S. Le Cornu, 56th Punjab Rifles F.F. with the 33rd Div. Sig. Coy., writing on 27 Dec. 1914, said: "I had a long talk with Anderson, the Adjutant. He said to me: 'If you are writing to Bruce's people do tell them how very fond we all of us in the regt. were of him, and that he died doing an extremely plucky thing....' He was leading a bombing party, ... and the men who were with and near him that night cannot speak too highly of him.... Every single officer and man in the 59th I saw to-day had a word of sympathy for you, and they one and all said how very pluckily your son had died." Capt. Scales, attached to the 59th Scinde Rifles, who was very severely wounded in the same attack, wrote on 9 Jan. 1915: "Your son was with me just a minute or two before we left our trenches to attack the German trenches, he was in splendid spirits and ready for anything.... His loss will be felt by everyone in the regt. as he was the best of good fellows, and absolutely fearless." =BRUMPTON, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A., 5923, (R.F.R., B. 547), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRUNS, THOMAS JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13363, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRYANT, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 10225, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRYANT, HENRY EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4220), S.S. 102908 H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRYANT, JOHN WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8959), 207950, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRYANT, RICHARD=, Chief Armourer, 168951, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRYANT, THOMAS HENRY=, Armourer's Crew, M. 7291, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BINGHAM-BRYDEN, EDWARD CARRUTHERS=, Private, No. 1137, D Coy., 4th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of the late Edward Carruthers Bryden, of Birklees, Goulburn, New South Wales, Dental Surgeon, by his wife, Anna Maria (Birklees, Goulburn, New South Wales), dau. of the late Henry Bingham, of Annagh House, co. Mayo [2nd _s._ of Robert Augustus Bingham, of Bingham Castle, co. Mayo]; _b._ Birklees, Goulburn, 30 July, 1894; educ. Goulburn and afterwards at an Agricultural College, and when war broke out was on a station learning farming previous to taking up land for himself; volunteered for Imperial service at the end of Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force on the Euripides, 19 Oct. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the following day; _unm._ His company officer wrote: "He was in my company and under me since we left Sydney. I wanted you to know he died as a true soldier. His body was buried on the battlefield." [Illustration: =E. C. Bingham-Bryden.=] =BUCHANAN, DUNCAN ALLAN=, Private, No. 1837, 1/8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Thomas Watters Buchanan, of Oak Bank, Oban, Sheep Farmer, by his wife, Jane Cooper, dau. of the late William Allan, of Morningside, Edinburgh; _b._ Colisnacone Farm, Glencoe, co. Argyle, 19 Dec. 1894; educ. Oban High School; prior to the outbreak of the war was in the employment of Messrs. Hosack & Sutherland, Lawyers at Oban, but volunteered his services immediately and enlisted in the Cycle Corps of the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, going with his regt. to Flanders in May. On 11 June, 1915, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were in the trenches near Festubert, and as the men were short of rations, parties of ten from each platoon were organised to go to the rear for the purpose of obtaining food. No. 16 platoon, of which Buchanan was a member, went first. The firing trench was only between 50 and 100 yards from the enemy, and the men had to run about 100 yards across the open to get into the communication trench. When they were about half way across the Germans opened fire. Buchanan was badly wounded by a bullet in the thigh. He was brought home and died in Netley Hospital 6 July, following, from haemorrhage caused by the rupture of an artery. In all the letters from officers and comrades, also the nurses and orderlies, reference was made to his brightness and to his cheerful obliging disposition under all circumstances. He was _unm._ [Illustration: =Duncan Allan Buchanan.=] =BUCHANAN, JAMES HERBERT=, Lieut., 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers, attached 1st Battn. Leinster Regt., only _s._ of George Buchanan, of Prospect House, Ballyward, Banbridge, co. Down, retired teacher and farmer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Robert Ochiltree; _b._ Ballyward, 12 Aug. 1892; educ. Excelsior Academy, Banbridge, and Queen's University, Belfast, where he studied with a view to entering the ministry of the Presbyterian Church. While at Queen's University he was for three years a member of the O.T.C. and rose to the rank of Sergt. On 24 June, 1914, he was gazetted 2nd Lieut., being posted to the 4th Battn. Royal Irish Fusiliers. After joining he spent some time training at Carrickfergus, was promoted Lieut. 2 Nov. 1914, and on 16 Feb. left for France with a draft of 200 men. They arrived on the 18th and spent five days at the base. He was then attached to the Leinster Regt. and served with them in the trenches until 15 March, when he received his fatal wound. Writing of his death his Captain said: "On the evening of 14 March he led his men against a German trench, and with great valour took it and held it till morning when it was found to be untenable. At daylight the order was given to retreat, and while assembling his men he was shot twice through the body by snipers." He was carried to the Field Hospital where he died next morning (16 March, 1915) at 11 o'clock and was buried the same evening in the officers' cemetery at |