Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookrd came to me to enlist, and said he was determined in his course and that I could rely on him to 'play the game.' He died as he declared to me in my office 'playing the game.'" The "Winnipeg Telegram" said: "'Red' Ford was a character of the great West, and in the days to come he will be remembered as a first-class sporting editor, a fighter and a hero." His brother, Ernest Kendall Ford, is a Sub-Lieut. in the Royal Naval Division. [Illustration: =Horace Fisher Ford.=] =FORD, PERCY GORDEN=, Rifleman, No. 3250, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F), 2nd _s._ of John William Fletcher Ford, of 57, Friday Street, London, E.C., and Rozel, Roydon, Essex, Linen Merchant, by his wife, Catherine, dau. of Thomas Strout; _b._ Hornsey, London, 11 Sept. 1891; educ. Tollingham School and Christ's College, Finchley; was a Traveller; joined the Queen Victoria Rifles immediately on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914; went to France, 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, Flanders, 24 April, 1915; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "He was in hospital when we went up to Hill 60, but joined us up there in the dug-outs when we had been relieved from the firing line. I remember him, Claude, coming up to me and saying, as we shook hands, 'By Jove, Ashford, old man, I'm glad to see you; you fellows have had a rough time.' Not a word about the narrow escape _he_ had had with our transport in Ypres. We left on the Thursday morning, 10 men at a time; they were shelling us and it was dangerous to offer too large a target. We assembled outside the hospital at Ypres and Smith-Dorrien inspected us. We marched back to huts as we thought to a well-earned rest. The huts were not completed and we had to bivouac. About 6.30 p.m. we saw the French coming pell mell across country, a regular rout, we spoke to them and found they were retreating. We had to fall in and dig ourselves in by hedges in some fields near. We did not know which way the Germans were supposed to be coming, and had to change our position three times during the night. We were fagged out and had had no proper sleep since the Saturday previous--we couldn't get much at Hill 60. At about 2.30 a.m. we had orders to stop digging; marched back some way and spent the remainder of the night in a field. In the morning we had to sit in ditches along the road, in order to be out of sight of aeroplanes, awaiting orders. The cookers came up and we had some tea, I remember as well as if it were yesterday; Percy gave me some of his condensed milk, and I sat down beside him and we laughingly arranged to go to Golder's Green in the afternoon. Shortly afterwards we had to march off with the rest of the 13th Brigade, to which we were attached. We were in support on the banks of the Yser. The Canadians had driven the Germans back after the French retreat. During the night we had to go up to the firing line, but only for a few hours. The morning of Saturday found us on the banks of the Yser, awaiting orders. We had dug ourselves in as a protection against shrapnel. We moved off about 11 o'clock in single file along the banks of Yser, towards Ypres, then we cut inland and gradually wound our way forward, moving in zig-zag manner, taking as much advantage of hedges, etc., as we could. Shells were flying all around, but Percy was there then, and that was Saturday. Amy tells me you were told Friday; I feel certain that it was Saturday. Well, we must have marched about 3 to 4 miles and we then got right into the thick of it, it was raining shells. We deployed and were told to take shelter behind some semicircular parapets. The Germans seemed to have them taped and dropped shells right in amongst us. It was flat country and evidently they could see us approaching and shelled us very heavily indeed, the air was thick with shells. We advanced by short stages about 100 yards, and then I got hit by a shell in the right shoulder, and missed Percy then; he was in the right half platoon and I was in the left half, so that we got separated. Those that were comparatively lightly wounded were the fortunate ones, Claude. I am sorry that I cannot give you more news of Percy; the last I saw of him was coolly smoking a cigarette as we marched along over those fields in that awful hail of shells." He was junior sidesman in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Finchley. [Illustration: =Percy Gorden Ford.=] =FORD, ROBERT JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., 15137 (R.F.R., B. 1785), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FORD, WILLIAM FRANK=, A.B., 212470, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =FORD, WILLIAM GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1469), 211586, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =FOREMAN, SAMUEL JOHN=, Private, No. 1713, 12th Battn., Australian Imperial Force, 3rd _s._ of the late Samuel Foreman, Carter, by his wife, Anne; _b._ Ladywood, Birmingham, 27 Feb. 1875; educ. Foundry Road Board School there; went to Australia, and was an employee with the Commonwealth Salt Company in Kangaroo Island; enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war, and died at the 10th Australian Clearing Station, 14 June, 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._ =FOREST, HENRY SCOTT=, Private, No. 41781, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of John Forest, of Coaticook, Quebec, Canada, Farmer and Teamster, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of Neil McGeehan; _b._ Coaticook, Quebec, 8 Oct. 1897; educ. Coaticook Academy; enlisted July, 1914; left Canada with the first contingent; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ Buried on the St. Julien Road. =FORFEITT, FREDERICK WILLIAM LAWSON=, Private, No. 2739, 1st Battn. Hertfordshire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Frederick Joseph Forfeitt, of Medburn, Elstree, A.C.P., Schoolmaster, by his wife, Lucy Jane, dau. of Charles Cooper; _b._ Elstree, co. Herts, 22 July, 1889; educ. Medburn School (his father's), and St. Alban's School (Scholar and Member of the Cadet Corps), and on leaving there entered Messrs. Barclay's Bank, St. Albans. After the outbreak of war he joined the 1st Hertfordshire Regt. 4 Sept. 1914, went to the Front 5 Nov. following, and died 20 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Festubert the previous day; and was buried in Bethune Cemetery; _unm._ A letter from a comrade showed that he met his death in a most gallant fashion. His friend had been killed near him, and though sorely wounded he said: "Never mind me, have a look at poor old 'Mal,' I'm afraid he's gone." Another wrote: "I have never known a man bear a wound more bravely than he"; and his Capt., writing later, described him as being "much loved by us all, and one of the bravest men in his company." [Illustration: =Frederick W. L. Forfeitt.=] =FORREST, JOHN=, Private, No. 13451, 12th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, eldest _s._ of Rober |