Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book=DENISON, BERTRAM NOEL=, Capt., 2nd Battn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, yr. _s._ of Admiral John Denison, of Rusholme, Alverstoke, R.N. by his wife, Florence, dau. of William Ledgard, of Roundham, Yorkshire, and nephew of Col. George Taylor Denison, of Toronto, author of "Modern Cavalry"; _b._ Greenock, 21 Dec. 1883; educ. Eagle House, Sandhurst and Harrow; and entered the Navy in Dec. 1898, passing at the head of the list in and out of H.M.S. Britannia. He served as a midshipman on H.M.S. Doris during the South African War, 1900, and was aide-de-camp to Capt. Bearcroft, R.N., with the Naval Brigade. He took part in the operations in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria, including action at Belfast (26-27 Aug.) and in the Orange Free State, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 12 March, 1901], and received the Queen's medal with 3 clasps. Later he was transferred to the Army, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. Yorkshire Light Infantry, 8 Jan. 1902, and promoted Lieut., 15 Nov. 1905, and Capt., 5 Aug. 1914. He served in Ireland, South Africa, and Crete; and was seconded for services in Canada, from 1906 to 1908, and on his return became Adjutant to the 2nd Battn. K.O.Y.L.I. In 1912 he went to the Staff College, which he left in December 1913, receiving a Staff Appointment at the War Office shortly before the European War broke out. He immediately rejoined his regiment, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, and was dangerously wounded in action at Le Cateau on 26 Aug. 1914, and died there of his wounds 15 Sept. following. He was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Denison _m._ at St. James's Cathedral, Toronto, 2 Oct. 1907, Gladys, dau. of Albert Nordheimer, of Toronto, and had a dau. (Gladys Audrey) Yvonne, _b._ 12 Dec. 1908. [Illustration: =Bertram Noel Denison.=] =DENMAN, CLARENCE BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 25944, C Coy., 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of Walter Frederick Denman, of 2321, Hutchinson Street, Montreal, Canada [_b._ London, 5 Jan. 1857, 3rd _s._ of the late William Henry Denman, Chaser and Embosser, who went to Canada in 1859], by his wife, Amelia Mary, dau. of Christopher Fryer; _b._ Outremont, Montreal, 18 Jan. 1893; educ. Outremont Lower Grade School and St. François College, Quebec; was a clerk in Electrical Supplies Store, Richmond; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France 12 Feb., and died in the Military Cottage Hospital, Holmsfirth, near Huddersfield, 25 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Battle of Langemark on 27 April; _unm._ He was buried in St. John's Churchyard there. =DENNIS, CLARENCE FRANCIS VICTOR=, Stoker, 2nd Class, S.S. 115546, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =DENNIS, EDWARD HENRY=, A.B. (B. 305), 148120, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =DENNIS, RICHARD HENRY=, Senior L.-Corpl., No. 6675, C Coy., 1st Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Richard Henry Dennis, of Barnfield Place, Plumstead, near London, by his wife, Mary; _b._ Bexley Heath, co. Kent, 29 July, 1871; educ. All Saints' Church School, Plumstead; went to Canada, 28 July, 1907; was for a number of years an employee of the Pere Marquette Railroad; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 12 March, 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 15 June, 1915. He _m._ at Woolwich Church, 26 March, 1892, Margaret (117, Wellington Street E., Chatham, Ontario, Canada), dau. of John William Hazlett (a Crimean veteran), and had three sons: Richard Henry, Junior, L.-Corpl. 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _b._ Plumstead, 29 March, 1893, now (1916) on active service in France; John William, Private, 186th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _b._ Plumstead, 21 March, 1898; and George Arthur, _b._ Plumstead, 23 Feb. 1903. [Illustration: =Richard Henry Dennis.=] =DENNIS, RUSSELL=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./14052, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DENNY, BARRY MAYNARD RYND=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King's Liverpool Regt., 2nd surviving _s._ of the Rev. Edward Denny, of Moorstown, co. Tipperary, and Drumlone, co. Fermanagh, M.A., Rector of Codford St. Peter's, Bath, formerly Vicar of St. Peter's, Vauxhall, and Member of the L.C.C. [gt.-gt.-gdson. of Col. Edward Denny, M.P., yr. brother of Sir Barry Denny, of Tralee, 1st Bart.], by his wife, Alma Mary, dau. of Charles John Chesshyre, of Bennington, co. Gloucester; _b._ at Pontrewydd, co. Monmouth, 2 Jan. 1885; educ. King's College, Taunton, and London University, where he graduated B.A. in 1909. He took a leading part as an officer in Worksop College Cadet Corps, and trained for a commission in the Army Special Reserve at York in 1913 and at Aldershot, obtaining the highest place in the respective examinations. Gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the King's (Liverpool) Regt. (Special Reserve), 4 April, 1914, he was shortly afterwards given the command of a fort at Crosby, in the north of England. Subsequently he went to the Front in command of a hundred men, being specially selected for the post, and was mortally wounded near Ypres, 24 Oct. 1914, and died two days later. The following account of the action is taken from information given by officers and men of his regt.: The Liverpools were required to take a village occupied by the enemy, between Ypres and Roulers. Advancing to the attack they found that all the houses were filled with Germans, who greeted them with a devastating fire. After four days' fighting the position was taken, but at a terrible sacrifice of life. Of the officers, five, including the Col., were killed, and six wounded, only a Capt. and a subaltern being left. Lieut. Denny 'gallantly led a charge not only once, but a second time against some houses strongly held by the enemy,' and fell mortally wounded in the second charge, with his last words urging on his men. His three brothers, Edward Maynard Coningsby Denny, 2nd Lieut., Duke of Cornwall's L.I.; Mowbray Charles Maynard Denny, Lieut., 11th King's Liverpool Regt.; and Michael Maynard Denny, Sub-Lieut., H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, are all (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =Barry M. R. Denny.=] =DENNY, ROBERT EDMUND BARRY=, Private, No. 28612, 50th Gordon Highlanders, 16th (Canadian Scottish) Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of Edmund Barry Denny, of Barkwith House, co. Lincoln, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.E., by his wife, Emily Barclay, dau. of Henry Colclough Allen, and gdson. of the late Rev. Henry Denny, of Churchill Rectory, Tralee, B.A. [3rd son of Sir Edward Denny, of Tralee, 3rd Bart., M.P.]; _b._ Wragby, co. Lincoln, 19 March, 1891; educ. Sutton Valence School, Kent; after which he was a medical student for some time at the London Hospital, but went out to British Columbia in May, 1913. There he enlisted, with a brother, |