Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookunteer Forces, Nov. 1905, to March, 1907. He served in India with A Mountain Battery and R.G.A. from 1896 to 1905; was Instructor in Gunnery to the Hoogly Defences, 1901-5, and made three tours in Sierra Leone between 1907 and 1912 as Instructor in Gunnery. He left for France in command of No. 3 Battery, 1st Medium Siege Artillery Brigade, on 17 Sept. 1914; took part in the Battle of the Aisne, and on 12 Oct. was moved to the neighbourhood of Ypres. He was killed in action in the First Battle of Ypres at Zillebeke, near Ypres, on 17 Nov. 1914; and was buried in Ypres Cemetery. His colonel wrote of him: "He left behind him the lasting memorial of a shining example, of how we ought to live and die, and we shall not forget it. He came to this brigade at my invitation, stayed in it at my invitation, and so far as we all are concerned he remains in it for ever. We shall not see his like any more." Major Chrystie was a keen sportsman, and won the Silver Spear of the Allahabad Tent Club in 1897 for pig sticking. His great-uncles, Lieut. John Chrystie, R.N., and Capt. Thomas Chrystie, R.N., served under Nelson. The former was in the Victory immediately before Trafalgar, but was transferred on promotion. The latter was at Trafalgar in the Defiance. His twin brother, Major George Chrystie, 25th Cavalry, Frontier Force, Indian Army, was killed in a raid on the North-West Frontier of India on 2 May, 1913. Major Chrystie _m._ at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, London, 15 Jan. 1913, Mignonne Muriel Maude (5, Portland Terrace, Southsea), dau. of Charles Lennox Brice Cumming, late of the Indian Civil Service, and had a dau.: Leslie Mignonne Comyn, _b._ 6 June, 1914. [Illustration: =John Chrystie.=] =CHUDLEY, JOHN FREDERICK=, Coy. Sergt.-Major, No. 330, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers), The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of John Chudley, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of Jesse Hattam; _b._ Sydenham, 8 Sept. 1875; educ. St. Mary's School, Brook Green, London; enlisted in the 1st Royal Fusiliers (Volunteers) in 1894, and served through the Boer war, receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps. On the outbreak of the European War he volunteered for foreign service, and died of wounds caused by an explosion of a bomb in the trenches at Merville, 12 June, 1915, and was buried in the cemetery there. He _m._ at St. Paul's Church, Wimbledon Park, S.W., 29 Jan. 1910, Charlotte Susannah (206, Balvernie Grove, Southfields, S.W.), yst. dau. of James Thomas Mortimer, and had one dau., Doris, _b._ 13 April, 1912. Capt. Glover wrote: "I personally have known the Sergt.-Major for nearly thirteen years, and a soldier with a keener sense of duty and a man straighter in all dealings I have never met. By his death I have lost a friend and a comrade, and one who has never failed me in any circumstances." Besides the South African medal, Sergt.-Major Chudley had the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal. [Illustration: =John Frederick Chudley.=] =CHURCHILL, DAVID EDWIN STANLEY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 16325, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHURCHILL, JOHN WILFRED=, L.-Corpl., No. 8109, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., _s._ of Nehemiah Churchill; _b._ Netherton, near Dudley, 6 June, 1885; enlisted Jan. 1905, and was killed in action at Paradis, 18 Oct. 1914; _unm._ =CHUTE, CHALLONER FRANCIS TREVOR=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 3rd _s._ of the late Francis Blennerhassett Chute, of Chute Hall, Tralee, co. Kerry, J.P., by his wife, Cherry Herbert (22, Ashburton Road, Southsea), dau. of Norcott D'Esterre Roberts, of Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin; b. Chute Hall, Tralee, 2 April, 1885; received his commission from the Militia in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 28 Nov. 1905 and was promoted Lieut. 9 Feb. 1908. Reported "missing" after the Battle of Mons, it was afterwards officially announced that he was killed in action near Etreux, France, 27 Aug. 1914. Capt. H. S. Jervis, the senior surviving officer of the battn., gave the following account of the fight on 27 Aug. in which Lieut. Chute met his death: "The regt. was left in a somewhat exposed position, and the orders for a withdrawal seem to have gone astray. Chute, with his guns which he handled during the day with wonderful skill, covered the withdrawal of my company at mid-day. It was pouring with rain, and with entire disregard to personal comfort, characteristic of him, he lay down in six inches of water to manipulate his guns better. The Germans were crossing the front, and he never neglected an opportunity of delaying their advance. He withdrew them from one position to another all day, forming an invaluable escort to the two field guns we had attached to us. The withdrawal continued through a village at about 5.30 p.m., and at the other side of it he came into action again, firing right down the road, on both edges of which Capt. Rawlinson's company was withdrawing. Owing to the help of your husband's guns the company got safely through, and rejoined the battn. The enemy were now on three sides of us, and their artillery opened fire. Chute brought his machine guns back at the gallop along the road under a positive hail of lead. It was a splendid feat, and was successfully accomplished, and once again the guns were placed in position. We were now completely surrounded, and your husband crossed the road to try to find a target to aim at. As he crossed he was shot in the right side and thigh, and fell dead. Up to the last he was cheery and full of spirits as ever; in fact, he was the life and soul of the mess. He was looked upon as the best machine gun officer of the brigade, and his work during the day only served to confirm this view. Yesterday, the 28th, the Germans allowed us to send out a burial party of our own men, and they found Chuty and buried him with the eight other officers of the regt. who were killed in a grave separate from the men. He was buried with all his personal effects on him. His heavier kit is with the regimental transport, the only part of the regt. to escape." Lieut. Chute _m._ 29 June, 1911, Maud Emily St. Clair, only dau. of the late Edward O'Brien Hobson, of Myler's Park, co. Wexford, and had two sons: Desmond, _b._ 10 Aug. 1913; and Challoner, _b._ 18 March, 1915. [Illustration: =Challoner F. T. Chute.=] =CLAIR, WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1406U, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept., 1914. =CLAPP, ALBERT GEORGE=, Po. /16499, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLARE, SAMUEL JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8218), 293806, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARK, EDWARD=, Private, No. 13619, 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force. 4th _s._ of the late Edward Clark, of Morley, co. York (died 28 April, 1909), by his wife, Mary, dau. of William Walker Clark, of Morley; _b._ Morley, 8 Feb. 1888; educ. Queen Street Wesleyan School there; went to Canada about 1906, and settled |