Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookate Seaforth Highlanders, now commanding the London Division
of the Corps of Commissionaires (who served through the South African
War, wounded at Paardeberg, 18 Feb. 1900, Queen's medal three clasps,
King's medal two clasps), and his wife, Edith Margaret, 2nd dau. of the
late Sir Henry Cockburn MacAndrew, of Aisthorpe, Inverness; _b._
Drummuie House, Golspie, co. Sutherland, 27 Aug. 1895; educ. the New
Beacon, Sevenoaks, Wellington College ("Blucher"), and Sandhurst (Prize
Cadet) and on passing out from the last was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the
2nd Seaforth Highlanders, 12 Aug. 1914, and was ordered to join the 3rd
Battn. at Cromarty on the 25 Aug. On 12 Sept. he went to France with a
draft joining the 2nd Battn. on the Aisne. He moved from there with the
4th Division in the middle of Oct. to the Belgian frontier, and took
part in the severe fighting around Frehlingham and Messines during the
end of October and beginning of November, and spent five months with
his regt. in the trenches near Messines. He came home on a week's leave
in Feb., returning to his regt. on the 10th of that month, and was
killed in action on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, during the attack on St.
Julien, in the second Battle of Ypres. His C.O. wrote: "You know how
your son was loved by us all, he was so brave, so gallant, so cheery,
and beloved by his men.... On the morning of 25 April I reached the
right of the line about 9 a.m., and was close to your son when he was
killed.... We have lost many gallant officers, but none more gallant
than your son"; and the second in Command: "We advanced at dawn on
Sunday, 25 April. The old Corps were as steady as ever.... our losses
were very severe. Your son was killed instantaneously while doing his
duty most well and gallantly.... We were all so fond of him, he was an
absolutely first-class officer with any amount of initiative and 'go'."
A fellow subaltern also wrote: "I was with John most of the night of
the 24th and 25th, and he was very cheery then and full of spirits. I
did not see him in the actual attack until we were about 40 yards from
the German trenches, when he helped me to straighten out the company
behind a defensive position. I was hit then, so did not see him again."
He was buried at Burnt Farm on the left of the St. Jean-St. Julien
Road, with four of his brother officers, including the Capt. of his
company.
[Illustration: =Granville J. H. Feilden.=]
=FELLOWES. ARTHUR ROSS=, Private, No. 6/226, 12th Nelson Regt.,
Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Robert
Ross Fellowes, of Stoke, Nelson, New Zealand; _b._ Takaku, Nelson,
14 Sept. 18..; educ. at Wakefield, Nelson; volunteered on the outbreak
of war, leaving home to join up 12 Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the
Main Force in Oct., took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on
the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915, and in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25
April, and was killed in action near Gabe Tepe, between 25 April and 1
May, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._ As a school cadet and in
Egypt he proved himself a remarkably good shot, winning several prizes.
He was the first Wakefield man to fall in action.
=FELLOWES, WILLIAM JOHN=, Sick Berth Steward, 350884, H.M.S.
Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct.
1914; _m._
=FELTHAM, ARTHUR=, Signalman, J. 14117, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost
when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5
Sept. 1914.
=FENDLEY, JOHN ROBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 5634), 284849,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FENERAN, FRANK EDWARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. King's Liverpool
Regt., 2nd _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Edward Feneran, 1st
Northamptonshire Regt, (who served in the Crimea), by his wife,
Caroline Elizabeth, dau. of the late Charles Herring-Cooper, and gdson.
of Col. Francis Feneran, Derbyshire Regt. (who served at Waterloo);
_b._ Kensington, 23 April, 1881; educ. privately and at the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted to the King's Liverpool Regt.,
12 Aug. 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 21 July, 1900, and Capt. 18
Sept. 1909. From April 1904 to April 1907, he was Ordnance Officer
(4th class) and in 1911 was appointed Adjutant to the Special Reserve.
He passed the school of signalling and in 1914 the examination for
the Staff College. On the outbreak of the European War, he went to
France with his regiment, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve
Chapelle, 10 Mar. 1915, while leading his men; _unm._ A brother
officer, writing to Lord Derby, graphically described the heroism of
the Liverpool Regt. at Neuve Chapelle, stating A Coy. was commanded by
Capt. Feneran, who was killed leading his men, adding that he was a
very sad loss indeed to the Regt. in which he had spent his life, but
that his was a gallant end. Capt. Feneran was mentioned in F.M. Sir
John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June],
1915.
[Illustration: =Frank Edward Feneran.=]
=FENN, DAVID=, Private, 10906, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards,
_s._ of Harry Fenn, of 36, Leader Road, Hillsboro', Sheffield;
_b._ co. York; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,
etc.; killed in action at Richebourg, 2 April, 1915. Buried Rue des
Berreaux, Bethune.
=FENNELL, JOHN=, Chief Petty Officer (R.F.R., A. 907), 121737,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FENNESY, RICHARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., B. 603), H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914].
=FENWICK, BASIL MIDDLETON=, Sergt., No. 109, A Squadron, 10th West
Australian Light Horse, only _s._ of Charles Richard Fenwick, of
Ben Rhydding, Yorks, and 26, Park Row, Leeds, M. Inst. C.E., F.S.I.,
by his wife, Margaret, dau. of William Middleton, Solicitor; _b._
Pool, co. York, 3 Sept. 1885; educ. Haileybury College; went to West
Australia in 1909 to the Murchison Goldfield; volunteered on the
outbreak of War in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary
Force; left for Egypt in Feb. 1915, went to the Dardanelles;
volunteered for special duty on 30 May, 1915, in the counter attack
at Quinn's Post, was there wounded and invalided into Hospital at
Alexandria, being mentioned by his C.O., Maj. Thomas J. Todd, in his
report; was promoted Sergt. June or July; returned to duty at Anzac in
Aug. and was killed in action there a few days later, 7 Aug. 1915, on
Russell's Top, in the attack on the Turkish position at Walker's Ridge.
In this terrible charge some 700 men were killed in the course of a few
minutes. Major Todd wrote, 22 Oct. 1915: "It may be a consolation to
know that your son was specially mentioned for conspicuous bravery and
I had him picked out for a commission, he was indeed a fine soldier."
Sergt. Arundel in hospital told a friend: "Sergt. Fenwick was one of
the bravest, finest men on the Peninsula, a born soldier--a hero--he
first distinguished himself at Quinn's Post, bomb throwing in the most
extraordinary brave way. He picked up and returned live b |