Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookme, and our little group would sit in a quiet corner and have a quiet read of some of St. Paul or the Ninety-first Psalm. Your son was a good and true soldier." His three brothers are all on active service, two with the Divisional Ammunition Column, and the third as a baker in the A.S.C. [Illustration: =Edwin John Chivas.=] =CHOLMLEY, GEORGE FRANCIS=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., 2nd _s._ of Alfred John Cholmley, of Place Newton, Rillington, co. York, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of the Rev. Francis Simpson, of Foston, co. York; _b._ Place Newton, 1 Sept. 1882; educ. Summerfield's 1893-5, and Mann's Preparatory School for Navy 1895-7; joined the Britannia, 1897, was appointed to the Barfleur, Rear-Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald's flagship, on the China Station in Sept. 1898, and served through the China War, for which he received the medal; was on the Niobe from Dec. 1900, to May, 1902, and after passing through Greenwich, entered the submarine service in 1903. He was serving as Sub-Lieut. with A 1 when she was sunk in 1904. On the day she was lost he had been sent to take temporary charge of another submarine, and was returning to A 1, about 4.30 p.m., when no trace of her could be found. After the A 1 was raised he was given six months' promotion, being made Lieut. and put in command of her; afterwards commanded B, C and D boats, and from Feb. 1907, to March, 1909, served on the Bedford on the China Station, and in July of the latter year was appointed to the command of Submarine C 27. On 31 March, 1912, he was promoted Lieut.-Commander, and in May appointed to the Alecto for duty with submarines, and in 1913 received an expression of the Lords of the Admiralty's high appreciation of the way in which he had handled his ship when towing H.M.S. Jackal into Dundee Harbour during a storm. He was given command of Submarine E 3 in June, 1914, and was killed in action in the Bight of Heligoland, 18 Oct. 1914. In Sept. he picked up a German seaplane which had been in the water for 20 hours about 30 miles off the Island of Borkum, and after destroying the remains of the seaplane he brought the officer and his mechanic as prisoners to Harwich. Lieut.-Commander Cholmley _m._ at St. Saviour's Church, Mayfair, London, 9 Sept. 1911, Violet Penelope Munro (Hillcot, Shakespeare Road, Worthing), dau. of Robert James Trown Thomson, Indian P.W.D., by his wife, May Forbes, dau. of the Very Rev. Principal William Robinson Pirie, D.D., Aberdeen; _s.p._ [Illustration: =George Francis Cholmley.=] =CHOLMONDELEY, CHARLES ALMERIC JOHN=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Border Regt., yr. _s._ of the late Lord Henry Vere Cholmondeley (2nd _s._ of William Henry Hugh, 3rd Marquis of Cholmondeley), by his wife, Frances Isabella Catherine, 2nd dau. of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. George Augustus Spencer [2nd _s._ of Francis Almeric, 1st Baron Churchill, and gdson. of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough]; _b._ London, 5 March, 1880; educ. Charterhouse; gazetted to the Border Regt. from the Militia, 4 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1902, and Capt. 23 July, 1910. In the Army Exercise at Northampton, 1913, Capt. Cholmondeley had a small command in the skeleton force under Major-General Munro, which operated so well from Daventry Heights. He was killed in action near Ypres, 28 Oct. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =C. A. J. Cholmondeley.=] =CHORLEY, DUDLEY CECIL=, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., 2nd _s._ of Charles John Chorley, of The Grange, Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Wine Merchant, by his wife, Florence, dau. of William John Noad: _b._ Dulwich, 7 July, 1889; educ. St. Dunstan's College; spent several years in Chili, Peru, Bolivia, and other parts of South America; was afterwards connected with the Union-Castle Line of steamships, and became their youngest purser, being in charge of the Gloucester Castle. On the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Naval Reserve as an Assistant Paymaster, 8 Sept. 1914; was commended by the commander of his first ship, H.M.S. Royal Arthur, and after three months' service in this cruiser was appointed Assistant Paymaster (in charge) on H.M.S. Bayano, the youngest then holding that office in His Majesty's Fleet. The Bayano left Glasgow on a Wednesday, and was torpedoed the following morning at 5 a.m., 11 March, 1915. His body was never recovered. He was a member of the Purley Cricket and Lawn Tennis Clubs, and a good sportsman. His marriage was fixed for his next return to port. [Illustration: =Dudley Cecil Chorley.=] =CHOWN, HERBERT=, Private, R.M.L.l. (R.F.R., B. 1828), 186777, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHRISTOPHER, LEONARD DE LONA=, Capt., 40th Pathans, Indian Army, elder _s._ of Major-General Leonard William Christopher, C.B., Indian Army (retired), of Harcourt House, Camberley, by his wife, Florence, 4th dau. of the late Major-Gen. Charles Stuart Lane, C.B., and gdson. of the late Major-Gen. Leonard Raisbeck Christopher; _b._ Mansfield, Iver Heath, co. Bucks, 21 Oct. 1883; educ. Wellington College and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. then in India, 9 Jan. 1904; was promoted Lieut. 2 March, 1905, being the same month transferred to the Indian Army and posted to the 40th Pathans. He obtained his company 9 Jan. 1913; was Adjutant 12 April, 1911, to April, 1915, and took part in the operations in the Mohmand country (medal with clasp), 1908. On the outbreak of the European War he came home with his regt., served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action in the Second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915; buried in a farm three-quarters of a mile north-east of the village of St. Jean. His colonel wrote: "The regt. was in the first line of attack, and had to cross over open ground for over 1,000 yards under a fearful fire of machine guns and shells, both front and flank.... A native officer of ours near him loosened his belt for him, and Chris said "Mehrbani" and died.... He performed his duty nobly to the end." And a brother officer: "He was dearly loved in the regt., and died a very gallant death at the head of his men, and helped to make the regt. he loved so well famous in that reckless charge." Capt. Christopher _m._ at East Barnet, co. Herts, 4 June, 1913, Edith Marian, 4th dau. of Albert Robinson Bulman, of Trevor Hall, East Barnet, co. Herts, late of Indian Civil Service. [Illustration: =Leonard de L. Christopher.=] =CHRYSTIE, JOHN=, Major, 3rd Battery, Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, R.G.A., 2nd _s._ of Col. George Chrystie, of Shortheath Lodge, Farnham, J.P., Supernumerary List, Indian Army, who served in the Indian Mutiny in 1858 (medal), by his wife, Helen Anne Thomasine, dau. of William Robertson Myers, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica; _b._ Mangalore, India, 9 March, 1872; educ. Surrey County School, Cranleigh, and Portsmouth Grammar School; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1894, Capt. 8 Nov. 1899, and Major 7 Oct. 1911, and was Adjutant in the Vol |