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France with the Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action at Nèry,
near Compiégne, France, 1 Sept. 1914. "The Brigade was hotly engaged,
and on the Bays fell the brunt of the fighting on 1 Sept. Norman,
with a few men, was holding an important tactical point, and he held
it till every man was killed or wounded. No man could have done more,
few would have done so much," wrote General Allenby. He was mentioned
in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 4 Dec. 1914, for
gallant and distinguished service in the field. A brilliant horseman
and polo player, and a former Master of the Aldershot Beagles; he was
very handy with the gloves, having boxed in the Army Championships
both at home and in India. While at Sandhurst he won that much coveted
trophy "The Saddle," and was champion swimmer at Hawtrey's. Lieut, de
Crespigny _m._ in London, 7 Sept. 1913, Rose Olive, only dau. of
Capt. Albert Edward Gordon, Roberts' Horse, and a grandniece of General
Gordon, of Khartoum; _s.p._
[Illustration: =C. N. C. de Crespigny.=]
=DEED, JOHN CYRIL=, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., 3rd _s._ of the
Rev. John George Deed, D.D., Vicar of Nuneaton, co. Warwick, Canon of
Coventry and Rural Dean of Atherstone, by his wife Elizabeth, dau. of
William Snowdon Gard, of Hampstead; _b._ St. Albans, co. Herts,
22 May, 1876; educ. St. Albans Grammar School, and Greenwich College;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Marines, 1 Feb. 1894; promoted Lieut.
1 Jan. 1895, and Capt. 10 Oct. 1900. He served in H.M. ships Alexandra,
16 Jan. 1896-17 Jan. 1897, Coast Guard; Royal Arthur, Wallaroo, and
Katoomba, 4 Feb. 1898-6 June, 1901, Australian Station; Minotaur, 20
June, 1902-19 Dec. 1902, Portland; and Vulcan, 22 Dec. 1902-5 Feb.
1905, and Suffolk, 6 Feb. 1905-18 Dec. 1905, Mediterranean Station;
when he retired and joined the Reserve of Officers. He subsequently
went to British Columbia, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914,
he was asked to raise and command the 1st East Kootenay (Fernie)
Contingent. He trained and commanded this till Sept. 1914, when he
was ordered to return to England. He rejoined his old corps at Deal,
10 Oct. 1914, and was posted to H.M.S. Formidable, 16 Nov. 1914, and
was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the Channel, 1 Jan. 1915;
_unm._
[Illustration: =John Cyril Deed.=]
=DEIGHTON, FREDERICK HAMILTON= ("Jackie"), Lieut., 1st Battn.
King's Own Scottish Borderers, eldest _s._ of Hamilton Deighton,
Superintendent Imperial Police, Burmah, by his wife, Janet, dau. of
the late Col. John Robertson, of Liddington Hall, Guildford, C.I.E.;
_b._ Akyab, Burmah, 10 Sept. 1892; educ. Bedford Grammar School
and Berkhamstead, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He passed
out of the latter in two terms, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 4 Sept.
1912, and posted to the 1st Battn. at Lucknow, and was promoted Lieut.,
15 Nov. 1914. While in India he passed his signalling course at Kasauli
and a transport class with honours, and received "D" Certificate. On
the outbreak of war the battn. was sent to Egypt and then to Rugby,
where he passed the one-man range finder, the Vickers new machine gun,
and the explosives of bomb throwing courses. The Scottish Borderers
afterwards formed part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and
took part in the landing at Y beach, Gallipoli, on 25-26 April, 1915.
Deighton was shot through the lung in the big advance on 4 June, and
was taken to Malta, where he died in the hospital of the Blue Sisters
on 18 June, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Frederick H. Deighton.=]
=DELAMAIN, HENRY CRESWELL=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Dorsetshire
Regt., eldest _s._ of George Creswell Delamain, of Devona,
Lymington, Hants, formerly a Cattle Ranchman in Mexico, by his wife,
Annie Rosabel, yst. dau. of the late William Robinson Hill, of
Lymington, M.D., and cousin of Major-Gen. W. S. Delamain, C.B., D.S.O.;
_b._ San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 19 Aug. 1896; educ. King's
School, Bruton, co. Somerset; joined the O.T.C. at the age of 13, and
on the outbreak of war applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd
Lieut. to the 3rd Dorsets, 19 Oct. 1914. He was severely injured while
on active duty at Boscombe on Friday, 16 April, 1915, and died the
next day in the Royal Boscombe and West Hants Hospital. His machine
skidded on the tram lines and threw him under a passing motor car. The
Bruton School magazine, "The Dolphin," said: "There were two points
about him which deserve record. One was his intense keenness alike
in school and the playing field. The second was his extraordinary
popularity. We shall never forget the ovation which his name evoked
last Corpus Christi, the spontaneous testimony of his schoolfellows to
the sterling qualities and natural charm which endeared him to all.
That those qualities were fully appreciated by his regt. was shown by
the testimony given to him by his Colonel and by the great gathering of
brother officers at his funeral, which took place with full military
honours at Lymington."
[Illustration: =Henry Creswell Delamain.=]
=DELANEY, ERNEST=, Corpl., No. 1414, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots,
3rd _s._ of Christopher Delaney, Band Sergt., 1st Somerset L.I.,
by his wife, Annie, dau. of James Richard Weaver and Elizabeth (42,
Penrose Street, North Road, Plymouth), his wife; _b._ Plymouth, 25
Oct. 1886; educ. St. James-the-Less Church School, Millbay there; was
an engineer for tugboats, Queensbury, Scotland; enlisted 5 Sept. 1914;
went to the Front, 7 April, 1915, and was killed in action at Neuve
Chapelle, 26 May, 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Ernest Delaney.=]
=DELÉPINE, HELENUS GEORGE SHERIDAN=, M.Sc., 2nd Lieut., D
Coy., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Duke of Cornwall's L.I., only _s._
of Sheridan Delépine, of York Place, Rusholme, Manchester, and 15,
Well Walk, Hampstead, N.W., M.B., M.Sc., Professor of Public Health
at Manchester University, by his wife, Florence, dau. of Frederic
Rose; _b._ Chapel Place, Cavendish Square, London, 21 Oct. 1888;
educ. Woodlands School, Manchester, spent a year in Geneva studying
languages, and entered the University of Manchester in 1907, where
he was one of the ablest of an exceptionally capable set of men in
the Honours School of Engineering and took a good place in the final
examination. After graduating in 1910, he went to Canada in order to
gain further experience, and for one session was a Demonstrator in
Engineering at McGill University. During this time he undertook, under
the direction of Prof. MacKay, an elaborate investigation into the
stress distribution of a certain type of built-up column. In April,
1911, he accepted a post as Assistant Engineer in the office of Messrs.
Waddell and Harrington, of Kansas City, and became Principal Assistant
in the Estimating Department. In 1903 he returned to Manchester, having
been appointed Junior Instructor in Drawing and Demonstrator in the
Engineering Department of the University. Whilst here he assisted
Prof. Petavel in some of the experimental work |