Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookhim at the time he was killed wrote: "Cunliffe arrived with a few men who wavered under the hot fire, but he jumped on the parapet and told them he would show them the way. There he stood with the bullets whistling all round him while they climbed over. Later on as he was looking over the parapet a bullet struck him in the head and he died with a smile on his face and a cheery word for his men at the head of the advance"; and the Colonel: "If he had been spared I am confident he would have earned great distinction. I was not very near when the regiment made their most successful attack and all accounts tell of his coolness and dash, he is a great loss to us." He was a keen sportsman and big game shot. [Illustration: =J. C. Pickersgill-Cunliffe.=] =CUNNINGHAM, JOSEPH=, Private, No. 18044, 4th Battn. (The King's) Liverpool Regt., _s._ of Mark Cunningham; _b._ Liverpool, 24 Aug. 1893; educ. St. Anthony's School there; enlisted following the outbreak of war, Sept. 1914; was wounded in the chest, and died in Boulogne Hospital 10 days later, 10 May, 1915; _unm._ =CUNNINGTON, ERNEST=, Stoker, P.O., 304513, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CURRIE, JOHN MCLEAN=, Private, No. 46131, D Coy., 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders), 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of John David Currie, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, High Sheriff for Hants co., by his wife, Bessie, dau. of the late James Cutting, of Truro N.P.; and gdson. of the late John Currie, D.D., Professor of Hebrew, Pine Hill Theological College, Halifax, Nova Scotia; _b._ Maitland, Hants Co. N.S., 18 Oct. 1896; educ. Maitland High School and Windsor Academy, N.S.; enlisted in No. 1 Coy. Royal Nova Scotia Regt. (17th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force), in Aug. 1914, on the declaration of war; left Windsor for Valcartier, P.Q. on the 20th of that month, went to England with the first Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter and after the 17th Battn. was disbanded, joined the 15th Battn. (48th Highlanders) under Col. John Currie; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Langemarck, 23 April, 1915; _unm._ =CURRIE, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./11225, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CURRIE, WILLIAM PERRY=, Gunner, No. 42467, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Bartlett Lingely Currie, of Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, by his wife, Martha J., dau. of Valentine Haines; _b._ Niagara-on-the-Lake, Lincoln, co. Ontario, 15 July, 1895; educ. Niagara afsd.; was a Painter; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914; came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; went to France 7 April, was wounded in action at St. Julien, and died in Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, 4 May, 1915; _unm._ =CURRY, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 1644, Royal Marine L.I. (Reserve), eldest _s._ of Henry Curry, Drill Instructor, by his wife, Martha, dau. of James Slack; _b._ Kilburn, 5 April, 1880; educ. Nunhead Passage School; joined the Marines, 28 April, 1898; served on H.M. ships Majestic, Ocean and Empress of India, and two years at Devonport Dockyard, obtaining his discharge, 1 June, 1906, with the highest character. He was called up from the Reserve on mobilisation, and was lost on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Peckham, S.E., 19 Dec. 1900, Mary Ann (41, Herman Road, Old Kent Road, S.E.), dau. of George Stout, and left five children: Henry William Felix, _b._ 20 Sept. 1904; John R. J., _b._ 20 Dec. 1905; Benjamin, _b._ 19 April, 1912; Sydney, _b._ 14 Sept. 1915; and Ivy Ethel, _b._ 1 June, 1902. [Illustration: =John William Curry.=] =CURRY, LEON HALL=, Capt., 42nd Battn. (affiliated to the Black Watch), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the Hon. Nathaniel Curry, of Montreal, Canada, Senator, President of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co., by his wife, Mary, dau. of David Hall; _b._ Amherst, Nova Scotia, 21 Oct. 1885; educ. Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S., and was an official of the Canadian Car and Foundry Co. He had received a commission as Lieut. in the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada (Militia), 2 Jan. 1913, and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, volunteered and was gazetted Capt. 42nd Battn. in March, 1915. He left Canada 10 June, 1915, crossed to France early in Oct., went into the trenches with his company, 19 Oct. 1915, and was killed the same night, with two brother officers, by the bursting of a trench mortar. His Colonel wrote: "He was one of the most reliable and painstaking officers, who by his intelligence and thoroughness could always be depended upon to carry through successfully any duty that might be given to him, we all realise we have lost a most valuable officer as well as a true friend and lovable companion." He was buried in the English cemetery at Armentières, and a stone was erected by his brother officers and company. He _m._ at Wimbledon, England, 9 July, 1913, Marion, dau. of John McKeen, Manager of the Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S., and had a son, _b._ 21 April, 1914, died in infancy. [Illustration: =Leon Hall Curry.=] =CURTIS, ROBERT HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3887), 183944, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =CURTIS ROY BARNETT=, Private, No. 6202, No. 2 Coy., 1st Battn. (7th Fusiliers of London), 1st Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1st _s._ of the late Richard John Curtis, of London, Ontario (_d._ 1913), by his wife, Annie Maria (396, Ridout Street, London, Ontario, Canada), dau. of the late Samuel Barnett, of Logan Township; _b._ London, Ontario, 23 Feb. 1897; educ. St. George's and Talbot Street Schools there; volunteered for overseas service with the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for England with the 1st Contingent in Oct.; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb.; was wounded at the Battle of Ypres, 23 April, invalided and sent into hospital at Calais and Boulogne, but returned to duty in two weeks, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915. A comrade wrote that they had taken the second line of trenches, and that besides the fire from the Germans in the third line trenches, some men were wounded by our own guns before word could be sent to our gunners to correct their range. It was then that Curtis was killed instantaneously by a wound just above the heart. [Illustration: =Roy Barnett Curtis.=] =CURTIS, WALTER=, P.O. (N.S.), 179917, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CURTIS, WALTER ARTHUR=, Private, No. 7676, 1st Battn. Suffolk Regt., _s._ of Samuel Curtis, of 5, Pump Court, Lavenham, Suffolk, by his wife, Alphence, dau. of James Simpson; _b._ Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, 2 Oct. 1888; educ. Lavenham Council School; enlisted in the Suffolks, 24 Feb. 1908, and was with his regt. in Egypt when war broke out, and |