Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booktch, 24 Feb. 1898; educ. St. Monica's R.C. School, Hoxton Square, W.; joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles about Sept. 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to the front in March, 1915, and was killed in action at Loos, 26 Oct. 1915. A companion wrote that he and the officer whose servant he was, went to the rescue of some men who had been buried by the explosion of a shell, and while they were digging them out another shell came and blew the two to pieces. =DEVEREUX, CHARLES EMILE=, Private, No. 2359, Machine Gun Section, 1/5th Battn. The Manchester Regt., 2nd _s._ of Patrick James Devereux, Accountant, Great Western Railway, Cardiff, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of John Morgan, of Gower; _b._ Cardiff, 20 Feb. 1894; educ. Roath Park Board School there, and prior to the outbreak of war was employed as Machine Attendant, Semet Solvay Coke Ovens, Wigan Coal and Iron Co. He joined the 5th Manchesters in Sept. 1914, and after training in Egypt, went with his battn. to the Dardanelles, and was killed instantaneously in action there, 1 June, 1915; _unm._ Writing to his sister, Mrs. McQuillan, of Pemberton, Private William Rowland, A Coy., said: "On Monday night last, 31 May, I, along with several comrades belonging to A Coy., 1/5th Manchesters, were ordered to dig ourselves in at a certain distance. This we did, and whilst we were digging ourselves in two gun sections belonging to our battn. advanced, and with one of these sections came your brother, Private C. Devereux. He took up a position four or five yards away from myself and commenced digging in. He had been thus engaged about two hours, and was getting nicely covered in, when, whilst on his knees, and apparently in the attitude of reaching something, a bullet from a Turkish rifle entered his body near the heart and emerged beneath his right armpit." He was buried close to where he fell, and a small wooden cross with his name was erected by his comrades. =DEVONSHIRE, ALFRED JOHN=, Painter, 1st Class, 341934, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DE VOY, JAMES WILSON=, E.R.A., 1st Class, R.N.R., 249EB, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _m._ =DEWAR, THOMAS CLARK=, Private, No. 20295, C Coy., 3rd, attd. 12th, Battn. Royal Scots, 2nd _s._ of Alexander Dewar, of 41, Naysmith Place, Kelty, Fife, Colliery Worker, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of the late Thomas Clark; _b._ Kelty, co. Fife, 9 May, 1895; educ. Public School there; was a coal miner; enlisted 21 Jan. 1915; trained four months at Weymouth and four months at Edinburgh; was selected as a signaller; went to France, 10 Oct., and was killed in action there, 19 Dec. 1915; _unm._ His company officer, Capt. W. Skinner, wrote: "Last Sunday morning, about 5.45 a.m., we were submitted to a severe shelling, concurrently with a gas attack delivered on our left. Private Dewar and another man were standing speaking to one of my officers. A shell burst amongst them, and Private Dewar and the other men were killed, the officer having his right arm blown off. I regret the casualty very much, as Private Dewar was a most promising man and one who gave no trouble, and was of exemplary conduct." [Illustration: =Thomas Clark Dewar.=] =DEWEY, NOBLE=, Corpl., No. 1357, 1st Battn. Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.) 5th _s._ of the late Thomas Henry Dewey, of Chesterton, co. Cambs., by his wife, Elizabeth (6, Serle Street, Chesterton), dau. of William Rayner, of Old Chesterton; _b._ Cambridge, 28 Sept. 1885; educ. St. Luke's School, Chesterton; joined the 1st Cambridge Territorials in Jan. 1912; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war, went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action 4 March, 1915. He was shot by a sniper, and died about 5.30 a.m. His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. C. E. F. Copeman, in a letter to "The Cambridge Chronicle," said: "Corpl. Dewey was shot through the lungs as he was getting into a trench, and died a few hours afterwards. He was most plucky and never once complained, his only regret being that he could not get at the Germans"; and in a letter to Mrs. Dewey he wrote: "His platoon commander tells me he was the best N.C.O. that he had, and I know that he was one of the most useful men in the Battn." He was buried in the churchyard at Dickebushe. Corpl. Dewey was a well-known Cambridge athlete, a member of the Town and County Cycling Club, and earned a great reputation as a trainer. [Illustration: =Noble Dewey.=] =DE WINTON, WALTER=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, elder _s._ of Major Walter de Winton, of Maesllwch Castle, co. Radnor, J.P., D.A.A.G. to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 1915, formerly (1882-92) Lieut. 1st Life Guards, by his wife, Hylda Therise Jane, 2nd dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Marshall, K.C.M.G.; _b._ London, 22 Feb. 1893; educ. Wixenford School, Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd. Lieut. 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 5 Feb. 1913; went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force in Aug.; served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Marne, 6 Sept. 1914. He was buried in the garden of Monsieur Muraband, at La Fortelle, Rosoyen Brie, Seine et Marne; _unm._ [Illustration: =Walter de Winton.=] =DEXTER, GEORGE HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, 309475, H.M.S. Liberty; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. =DIBSDALL, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., 13195 (R.F.R., B. 1421), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. _m._ =DICK, SAMUEL THOMAS=, P.O., 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 1680), 122365, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DICKENSON, LAURENCE AUBREY FIENNES WINGFIELD=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., attached 1st Royal Irish Rifles, only _s._ of the Rev. Francis Wingfield Dickenson, Rector of Inworth, Kelvedon, Essex, by his wife, Florence A., dau. of the late Rev. Henry Battiscombe, M.A., and gdson. of the late Frederic Boughton Newton Dickenson, of Siston Court, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L.; _b._ Inworth Rectory, 1 Feb. 1894; educ. Forest School, Walthamstow, and Selwyn College, Cambridge; obtained his commission through the O.T.C. 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front, 19 March, 1915, and died in No. 6 Casualty Station, 10 May, 1915, of wounds received at the Battle of Ypres, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ =DICKESON, HENRY EDMUND=, Rifleman, No. 3143, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Robert Walter Dickeson, of 41, Hardinge Street, Stepney, employee at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, W., by his wife, Esther, dau. of John Thomas Maloney; _b._ Stepney, 30 May, 1893; educ. Cable Street Secondary L.C.S. School; was a clerk in the employ of the Apollinaris Co., Ltd., and joined the Poplar and Stepney Rifles after the outbreak of war, 8 Sept. 1914. He went through his training at the White City, Hatfield and St. Albans, left for France on 10 Mar |