Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookelp a wounded man of his regt. when he was shot. He was _unm._, and was buried in Poperinghe Cemetery. His brother, Lieut. V. C. Downes, was killed in action, 18 Oct. (see following notice). =DOWNES, VILLIERS CHERNOCKE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 3rd and elder surviving _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Charles Villiers Somerville Downes, of Aspley House, Aspley Guise, co. Beds, E. Lancashire (59th) Reg., by his wife, Catherine Elizabeth Anne, dau. of Frederick Thompson, of Wimbledon Park (see previous notice); _b._ Aspley House aforesaid, 5 March, 1891; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, and was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt. (T.F.), 15 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war he was posted to the 1st Battn. 4 Aug. 1914; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was instrumental in saving three guns. He died at St. Omer, 18 Oct. 1914, of wounds received in action, and was buried in the cemetery there; _unm._ Lieut. Downes had passed as a musketry instructor, and was nearly due for his captaincy. =DOWNEY, JOHN MICHAEL=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 16000, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DOWNIE, JAMES=, Private, No. 17098, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., eldest _s._ of John Downie, of 479, Stretford Road, Manchester, by his wife, May, dau. of James Curley; _b._ Peebles, 15 Aug. 1884; educ. St. Joseph School, Peebles; enlisted 8 Sept. 1914, and was killed, 25 Sept. 1915. =DOWNIE, PETER HOUSTON=, Private, No B/9021, 11th (Service) Battn. Highland L.I., 2nd _s._ of Thomas Downie, of 41, Annette Street, Glasgow, Journalist, by his wife, Isabella Mitchell, dau. of the late Peter Houston; _b._ Glasgow, 1 Dec. 1893; educ. Annette Street Public School and Albert Road Academy, Glasgow; was Shipping Clerk to J. & R. Tennent, Brewers; enlisted in the 4th Highland L.I. 6 Sept. 1914, and after serving at home for 10 months, was transferred to the 11th Battn. of his regt. and went to France in June, 1915. He was badly wounded in both legs at the Battle of Loos on 25 Sept., and was assisted into a crater by a comrade, who then started to crawl back to obtain material to bind up the wounds. He never returned, being probably killed on the way, and Downie lay on the field for two days before he could be brought in. He died in Rawal Pindi General Hospital at Wimereux on 6 Nov. 1915, after three operations; _unm._ Lady Hadfield, who nursed him in hospital wrote: "He lived well and he died well." [Illustration: =Peter Houston Downie.=] =DOYLE, JOHN JOSEPH=, Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn., Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 4th _s._ of Joseph James Doyle, of Fairview, Clontarf, P.L.G., Merchant, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Edward Fegan, of Broadfield, Naas; _b._ Clontarf, co. Dublin, 13 March, 1893; educ. Blackrock College, Dublin, and the National University of Ireland, where he was an engineering student and was within a year of being qualified. When war broke out he volunteered, joined the Trinity College (Dublin) O.T.C., 6 Aug. 1914, and was given a 2nd Lieut.'s commission in the Dublin Fusiliers on 19 Sept. following, and promoted Lieut., 5 Feb. 1915. He left with his regt. for the Dardanelles on 9 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 Aug. 1915; _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Col. P. Cox, wrote: "He fell early on the morning of the 9th when most gallantly leading his platoon. His death must have been instantaneous, as the poor boy was shot through the temple. His death is a great loss to me and the regt. He was a right good boy, who was always keen, always did his very best, loved his work, and had no idea what the word 'Fear' meant. Your son and his young brother subalterns have done splendid work for the regt., and it is due to their great devotion to duty that the regt. has done so well." Lieut. Doyle was a well-known footballer. His two brothers, Capt. E. C. Doyle, A.V.C., and Lieut. F. H. Doyle, A.V.C., are (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =John Joseph Doyle.=] =DRAKE, THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113476, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DRAKE, THOMAS HAROLD=, Trooper, B Squadron, East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker's Horse), yr. _s._ of the late Arthur John Drake, of Stratford, co. Essex, Surgeon, by his wife, Emily (Wyke Hill House, Winchester), dau. of William Courtney; _b._ Stratford, co. Essex, 2 Dec. 1883; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, and Marlborough College; went out to East Africa as a settler in 1906; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the East African Mounted Rifles on formation, and was killed in action in the Longido Hills, German East Africa, 3 Nov. 1914; _unm._ He was buried where he fell, and a stone was erected by his friends to his memory and that of seven others who fell on the same day. [Illustration: =Thomas Harold Drake.=] =TYRWHITT-DRAKE, HERBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 15678, 19th Hussars, elder _s._ and heir of William Wickham Tyrwhitt-Drake, of Shardeloes, co. Bucks, J.P., late Master of the Old Berkshire Fox Hounds, by his wife, Augusta, 3rd dau. of the late Rev. Herbert Richard Peel, of Thornton Hall, co. Bucks (Baronet coll.); _b._ Thornton Hall, 10 Oct. 1885; educ. Uppingham and Eton; enlisted in the 19th Hussars in Aug. 1914 on the outbreak of war, with several other gentlemen jockeys, went to France, and died in the General Hospital, Boulogne, 11 March, 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while on active service. He was buried in Wimereux Cemetery; _unm._ He was a well-known amateur jockey and a brilliant cross-country rider, and came of a great hunting family, and when only 16 years of age won a point-to-point race over 4 miles on a horse called Old Berkeley. As a gentleman huntsman he gained some distinction with the Old Berkeley (West) Hounds during the Mastership of his father, Mr. W. W. Tyrwhitt-Drake. He won many races under National Hunt Rules, and trained some of the winners himself, including his father's Irish Mail, on whom he won the valuable Lancashire Steeplechase at Manchester, the horse being sold a little later to Sir C. Assheton-Smith. Mr. Drake rode Carsey into fourth place in the Grand National in 1912, and into third place in the same race in the following season. [Illustration: =H. W. Tyrwhitt-Drake.=] =DRAPER, HARRY THOMAS=, Stoker (R.N.R.), S. 1901, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of George Draper, of 32, Faulder Road, Long Hill, near Hartlepool; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =DRAY, THOMAS=, Corpl., No. 8510, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt., _s._ of James Dray, of 1, Albert Lane, Hythe; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 11 April, 1915. =DRAYNER, WILLIAM BRUCE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6684), 205138, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DREDGE, WILLIAM GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. 14589, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in |