Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookough, 8 May, .... Sarah (21, Hadden Street, Aberdeen), dau. of (----) Newcombe; _s.p._ His half-brother, Private John Cahill, 45th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force is now (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =Arthur Edwin Clarkson.=] =CLARKSON, ERNEST=, E.R.A., 4th Class, 272189, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLARKSON, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., only _s._ of the late Col. Frederick William Clarkson, 39th Dorsetshire Regt., by his wife, Ella Rosa (who _m._ 2ndly, Col. Sir Augustus Riversdale Warren, 5th Bart., of Warren's Court, co. Cork), dau. of Major-General John Octavius Chichester, 39th Regt.; _b._ Dorchester, 6 Oct. 1883; became a cadet H.M.S. Britannia, in 1899; Midshipman within four months, Sub-Lieut. in 1892, Lieut. in 1904 and Lieut.-Commander, 1912. He was lost in H.M.S. Hawke when that ship was torpedoed 15 Oct. 1914; _unm._ [Illustration: =Frederick W. Clarkson.=] =CLARKSON, GERALD RICHARD=, Corpl., No. 4, 525, Divisional Signal Coy., New Zealand Engineers, elder _s._ of the late Richard Potts Clarkson, M.A., Director of Technical Education, Hawkes Bay District, and Headmaster, Napier Technical College; by his wife, Rosina, dau. of (----) O'Shaughnessy, and nephew of John Bowes Clarkson, of Christchurch, New Zealand; _b._ Palmerston North, New Zealand, 26 Oct. 1893; educ. Normanby Public School, Stratford High School, and Napier Technical College; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 24 May, 1915, while patrolling Telegraph Lines in "No Man's Land"; _unm._ Buried with three other New Zealanders near where he fell before a general Cemetery was decided on. [Illustration: =Gerald R. Clarkson.=] =CLARKSON, ROBERT=, Signalman, 190401, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLARRICOATES, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, P.O., 306293, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLAW, SIDNEY THOMAS=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9334), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLAXTON, EDWIN ARNOLD=, Officer's Steward, 2nd Class, Pensioner, 157283; reported missing after the sinking of H.M.S. Speedy by a mine 30 miles off the East Coast, 3 Sept. 1914. =CLAY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3895), S.S. 101752, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLAY, FRANK=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110996, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CLAY, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8970), S.S. 105678, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLAYDON, JAMES LEMARQUE=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1105), R.M.A. 11040, 4th _s._ of William Tilbrook Claydon, of Cambridge, by his wife, Emily; joined the Royal Marine Artillery in Nov. 1904; purchased his discharge in March, 1911, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve; was called up for service on the outbreak of hostilities, and was lost in action in H.M.S. Hogue in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CLAYHILLS, GEORGE, D.S.O.=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt., 4th _s._ of Thomas Clayhills, of Invergowrie, co. Forfar, and Thornton-le-Moor, co. York, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Rob, of Catton Hall, co. York; _b._ Darlington; educ. Cheltenham College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Received his commission and joined the 4th Militia Battn. of the Cheshire Regt. 8 Sept. 1896, from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st Battn. East Lancashire Regt. 4 Jan. 1899; promoted Lieut. 4 June, 1900; and Capt. 8 Feb. 1908; and was Adjutant from April, 1906, to April, 1909. He went with his regt. to South Africa and served with the 8th Mounted Infantry during the war 1900-2, and took part in the operations at Paardeberg, and actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, Karee Siding, Vet River and Zand River, being twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901, and 17 May, 1902], and receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps, and the D.S.O. On the outbreak of the European War he left with his regt. for the Front, served in France and Flanders, took part in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, and was killed in action at the first Battle of Ypres, 2 Nov. 1914; _unm._ He was buried about three miles north of Armentières, one mile east of the Ploegsteert-le Cheir Road. [Illustration: =George Clayhills.=] =CLAYTON, ARTHUR GARDNER=, Private, No. 18000, Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I., 2nd _s._ of Arthur Gardner Clayton, of the Colonial Secretary's office, Ceylon, by his wife, Lucy, dau. of the late Ven. R. Sutton, Archdeacon of Lewes and Vicar of Pevensey; _b._ Belize, British Honduras, 2 July, 1893; educ. King's School, Bruton, co. Somerset, and was afterwards a clerk in the Saskatoon branch of the Bank of Montreal. On the outbreak of the European War he enlisted in Princess Patricia's Canadian L.I., and was killed in action at Dickebusch, near St. Eloi, 15 Feb. 1915; _unm._ =CLAYTON, GERALD EDWARD CRIRIE=, of Penarwel, Llanbedrog, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, 2nd Lieut., Royal Marines, R.N.D., only _s._ of Ralph Cririe Clayton (grandson of Ralph Clayton, of Leyland and Crooke Hall, co. Lancaster), by his wife, Caroline, only dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. John Ffolliott Crofton; _b._ Liverpool, 27 Dec. 1879; educ. at Liverpool College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. and M.A., and was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1904. He was for three years a Lieut. in the Army Motor Reserve, but this corps was disbanded in Dec. 1913. After the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered with his motor car as a Despatch Rider, and was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, 24 Sept. 1914. He went to France and subsequently to Belgium, and was in the retreat from Antwerp in Oct. 1914, his motor car being the last British car but one to leave that city. On the return of the Naval Brigade he was stationed at the Crystal Palace training the Naval Reserves, and while on Active Service there in Feb. 1915, contracted epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, from which he died at The Little Manor, Hertingfordbury, 2 Sept. following. He _m._ at St. James', Spanish Place, W., 28 April, 1908, Ione (Penarwel, Llanbedrog, Pwllheli, North Wales), dau. of Major Oscar William de Satgé de Thoren, 45th and 38th Regt., and granddau. of Oscar Joseph de Satgé, 13th Baron de Thoren, of the Château de Thoren, Pyr. Or., France, and had three children: Ralph Dominic de Satgé, _b._ 18 Feb. 1909; Aymar Sinclair Joseph de Satgé, _b._ 6 July, 1912; and Eveline Mary Alice de Satgé, _b._ 26 May, and died 10 June, 1910. [Illustration: =Gerald Edward C. Clayton.=] =CLAYTON, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./13470, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that sh |