Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookI may briefly add the circumstances under which 2nd Lieut. Elrington met his fate. Near Festubert, on the night of the 30th to 31st, a company of this battn. was ordered to co-operate with the Sikhs in recovering a trench captured by the Germans the previous night. 2nd Lieut. Elrington was leading his platoon in this attack, and was shot through the head within a few feet of the trench. The trench was not taken, but I assured myself later that he was quite dead, and his burial was carried out by the officers of the Sikh (58th Rifles) company in the trench later on." [Illustration: =Gerard G. C. Elrington.=] =ELSON, GEORGE EDWARDS=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4845) S.S. 104229, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ELVES, THOMAS=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R.. B. 5123), 292957, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =ELWIN, FRANK HAROLD=, 2nd. Lieut., 2nd Battn. Duke of Edinburgh's Wiltshire Regt., only _s._ of James Elwin, Tea Planter, Manager of the Kuttal Tea Estate, Cachar, India, by his wife, Isabel Mary, dau. of John Henry Weaver; _b._ Darjiling, India, 22 Sept. 1895; educ. Shrewsbury School, and left there in July, 1914, with the intention of going on to King's College, Cambridge, to study Science, a subject in which he had shown considerable ability. On the outbreak of war, the following month, however, he enlisted in the Shropshire L.I., 9 Sept. 1914. On 7 Nov. following he was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Reserve) Battn. of the Wiltshires, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn.; he went to France on 24 Feb., and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle on the early morning of 12 March, 1915. His Col. wrote very highly of him and his work. [Illustration: =Frank Harold Elwin.=] =EMERY, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B., 195662 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EMMERSON, WALTER=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 7698, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =EMMOTT, JOHN BARLOW=, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Oldham) Battn. Manchester Regt. (T.F.). yr. and only surviving _s._ of George Henry Emmott, M.A., LLM., Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, Queen Victoria Professor of Law, and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Liverpool University, by his wife, Elizabeth, 4th dau. of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, Barrister-at-Law, and nephew of Alfred, 1st Baron Emmott of Oldham, P.C., G.C.M.G.; _b._ at Nantucket, Mass., U.S.A., 9 Aug. 1888; educ. Birkenhead School and Victoria University of Manchester; was studying the cotton spinning and manufacturing business in the mills of Messrs. Emmotts and Wallshaw, Ltd., Oldham; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 10th Manchester Territorials, 9 March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from May to 4 June, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Achi Baba, Gallipoli. He _m._ 27 Aug. 1913, Doris Lees, sister of 2nd Lieut. R. G. L. Ascroft (killed in action the same day as his brother-in-law), dau. of the late James Henry Ascroft, of Oldham, Solicitor; _s.p._ =EMPSON, RICHARD WILLIAM HENRY MACARTNEY=, Lieut., Royal Marine L.I., elder _s._ of John Empson, of Knock-na-cree, Milborne Port, Somerset, M.D., late Surgeon North Somerset Yeomanry, by his wife, Esther Katherine, 2nd dau. of the Rev. Charles Morgan Watling, Rector of Upcerne, Dorset; _b._ Milborne Port, co. Somerset, 26 May, 1896; and was educ. at Connaught House, Weymouth, Marlborough College and Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He passed into the Royal Marines in June, 1913; served with them during the siege of Antwerp, also at Lille and Lierre, and was promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914. He sailed for the Dardanelles, 27 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 1 May, 1915, at Gaba Tepe. He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatch of 22 Sept. 1915, and his commanding officer, Col. Luard, wrote: "The young officer in command, Lieut. Empson, displayed great gallantry up to the time when he was killed"; and in a further report, stated: "Lieut. Empson was wounded on 30 April, and continued to actively direct the defence of the trench until he was killed on 1 May, while delivering fire on the enemy at close range. I beg to recommend him for a posthumous honour for his services on 29 and 30 April," Capt. Syson also wrote: "I cannot rate Lieut. Empson's defence of his isolated trench too highly. From the reports of those who survived him, he never let there be any doubt as to his procedure should ammunition give out and the hundreds who were attacking them reach this trench. He upheld their courage and called forth the qualities which made them stand up to attack by day and by night, exist with little or no sleep, food or water, and face the fact that their chance of relief from outside was very small." He played for the Royal Naval College in the Kent Cup Final in March, 1914. He was only 18, and was _unm._ [Illustration: =Richard W. H. M. Empson.=] =EMPTAGE, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2960), 160112, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =ENFIELD, CHARLES JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2781), S.S. 77, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ENTWISTLE, BENJAMIN=, Pte., No. 5791, 2nd Battn. East Lancashire Regt.; was in the employ of Proctor Bros., Cotton Manufacturers, Wheatley Lane Mills, Burnley; enlisted, went to France, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, April, 1915; _unm._ =EPPS, WILLIAM JOHN=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 2nd Class C.G., (R.F.R., Ch. A. 1834), 154131, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SWEET-ESCOTT, MURRAY ROBERTSON=, Lieut., 1st Battn. King's Liverpool Regt., yr. _s._ of the Rev. Edward Herbert Sweet-Escott, of Hartrow Manor, Taunton, a Master of Dulwich College, S.E., by his wife, Anna Frances, dau. of Henry Robertson, of Over Stowey; _b._ Over Stowey, Bridgewater 14 Dec. 1887; educ. Dulwich College, and Marlborough; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. King's Liverpool Regt. (Special Reserve), in Dec. 1909, and, after a year's training with the Irish Fusiliers, was promoted Lieut. 24 Feb. 1911. Three years later he was seconded for service as A.D.C. to Sir E. B. Sweet-Escott, K.C.M.G., the Governor of the Leeward Islands, and in the same year followed him in the same position to Fiji. He returned in the autumn of 1913, and on the outbreak of war at once volunteered for foreign service, being transferred to the 1st Battn. 5 Aug. 1914. He went with his battn. to the Front, and was killed in action on the Aisne, close to Missy and near the town of Brayne, 20 Sept. 1914, and was buried where he fell; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: "Your son was killed while leading his platoon to repel a very heavy attack made on my battn. by six German battns.; and |