Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookery sorry to lose him." And Colonel Woodhouse, 4th Dorsetshire Regt., declared: "I knew him very well, and always found him one of the best, he never spared himself to do his men good and was just the same in civilian life. Unfortunately, there are very few such men to be found now, and I am sure he will be greatly missed in his regt."; a brother officer also wrote: "I always looked on him as a friend from whom I could get advice and help in my work. The last time I saw him, which was on the destroyer before we landed, he did me a good turn which I shall not forget. Earlier in the evening I, being orderly officer, had to see to the issuing out of hot coffee to the men, and it was a long job, as the space is very cramped. Later in the evening there was an issue of rum to be served out. It really fell to my lot to superintend this, but your husband, with his usual kindness of heart, relieved me of it. I am sorry to say I was not near him at the end. It was before we had got off the beach." Lieut. Eason _m._ at St. Simon's Church, Southsea, 5 Dec. 1907, Mabel Ellen (Southsea), yst. dau. of the late James Lewis Adams, C.C.S., late District Magistrate of Flat and Gabriel Islands, Mauritius; _s.p._ [Illustration: =Sampson Eason.=] =EAST, ALFRED CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9621), 199377, H.M.S Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EAST, GEORGE=, Rifleman, No. 3098, 21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of the late Joseph East, of Westminster, London, by his wife, Susan (36, Grosvenor Terrace, Camberwell, S.E.), dau. of Francis Smallcombe; _b._ London, 24 May, 1893; educ. L.C.C. School, Westminster; enlisted, 30 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =George East.=] =EASTERBROOK, WILLIAM THOMAS=, A.B., 206711 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EATON, ARTHUR ERNEST WILSON=, Private, No. 1335, 11th (West Australian) Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of George Wilson Eaton, of Park Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gardener, by his wife, Harriett Elizabeth, dau. of Frederick Arthurs; _b._ Tiddington, near Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, 27 March, 1892; went to Perth, Western Australia, in 1913, and was employed as a farm hand; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 2 Nov. 1914; left Australia with the second reinforcements; and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 1 Aug. 1915; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "He was killed outright on 31 July, 1915. The sad event happened at night. Although he was wounded, he volunteered to carry ammunition for a machine gun. It was while doing this he met his death. He was buried at Anzac and a wooden cross was erected with the names of those who fell in the taking of Leans trench." =EATON, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Stoker, P.O., 302154, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =EBSARY, FREDERICK ERNEST=, Private, No. 1138, 1st Newfoundland Regt., 5th _s._ of Newman Ebsary, of St. John's, Newfoundland, Engineer, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of the late Joseph Hinds, of Cupid, Newfoundland, and granddaughter of the late Alexander Hinds, of Whitehaven, England; _b._ South Side, St. John's, Newfoundland, 30 Aug. 1898; educ. St. Mary's C.E. School there; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the 1st Newfoundland Regt., 19 Feb. 1915; left for England on 20 March, 1915, and died at Cairo, 23 Sept. 1915, of Tubercular Meningitis contracted while on active service. Two of his brothers, Regtl. Sergt.-Major S. J. Ebsary and Private H. Ebsary, are both now (1916) on active service with the Newfoundland Regt. =EBY, ALEXANDER RALPH=, Private, No. 13627, No. 2 Coy. 5th Battn. 2nd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of the late Alexander Eby, of Berlin, Ontario, Foreman of Glove Manufactory, by his wife, Nellie, dau. of the late James Bennett Watson, of England, and gt. gt. gdson. of Bishop Benjamin Eby, of the Mennonite Connection, who was _b._ in Pennsylvania in 1785 and settled in Canada in 1807, and founded the town of Berlin; and 6th in descent from Christian Eby who came to Pennsylvania from Switzerland as a boy in 1715; _b._ Berlin, Ontario, 3 Aug. 1891; educ. Berlin Public and High Schools, matriculating at the latter in 1908, and two years later took up a homestead at Abbey, Saskatchewan. He enlisted for Overseas service at Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in Aug. 1914; left Valcartier for England with the first Contingent in Oct., and after training on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914-15, crossed to France in Feb., 1915, and was killed in action there, 21 March, 1915; _unm._ Major G. S. Pragnell wrote: "He was one of the best and most willing men of the Company and at the time that he was actually shot he was working hard helping to strengthen the trench"; and Lieut. L. F. Page: "Ever since your brother came under my commission at Valcartier I always found him most cheerful and willing. He was making a good soldier and always doing his duty well." Three of his comrades also wrote: "Your brother's death was severely felt by the remainder of the boys of his company as he was a general favourite with all who knew him. He was buried [at La Boutillerie Chateau, a few miles east of Laventie, France] in the evening of March 21, by the chaplain of our Battn., beside two of his comrades." [Illustration: =Alexander Ralph Eby.=] =ECCLESHARE, THOMAS BERNARD=, Cook's Mate, M. 4167, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Thomas Eccleshare, of 10, Merchant Street, Derby; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =EDBROOKE, FRANK THOMAS=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 5159, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EDDISON, JAMES=, Corpl., No. 9446, C Coy., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., eldest _s._ of James Eddison, of Aberdeen, by his wife, Jemina, dau. of (--) Wilson; _b._ Aberdeen, ... March, 1886; educ. there; enlisted 31 May, 1904; served three years with the Colours and then passed into the Reserve and worked as a Packing Case Maker; mobilised 4 Aug. 1914; went to France and was killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ Buried in Givenchy Cemetery. Eddison was well-known in Aberdeen Football circles and played for the Regimental Football Team and the Shamrock Club. He _m._ 9 Oct. 1908, Jeannie (55, Gallowgate, Aberdeen), dau. of William Sutherland, of Aberdeen, Contractor, and had two children: James, _b._ 27 July, 1912; and Martha Sutherland, _b._ 23 May, 1909. [Illustration: =James Eddison.=] =EDDISON, JOHN RADLEY=, 2nd Lieut., 1/8th Battn. Sherwood Foresters (T.F.), yst. _s._ of Robert Eddison, of Mount Vernon, Retford, Notts; _b._ Woodlands, near Worksop, 6 March, 1889; educ. Stancliffe Hall, near Matlock, Giggleswick, and Pembroke College, Cambridgeshire, at which latter he was in the O.T.C. He was gazetted into the Sherwood Foresters, 14 Oct. 1914, went with his regt. to the front, served in Fr |