Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookllege, Cambridge. He passed his "Little Go" at the age of 16, but remained at Uppingham till old enough to go to Cambridge. He graduated with honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1912, and during his three years there, he obtained sixteen medals, two silver spoons, a cup, and three oars, for Boxing, Rifle and Revolver Shooting and Sports. He was the 'Varsity champion heavy weight boxer in 1910, for which he received his half blue, and gained another half blue for Rifle Shooting. He only became a "wet bob" his last year, but so excellent an oarsman was he that he narrowly missed inclusion in the Cambridge Crew of that year; as it was, he was awarded the Trial Eights Cup. He was Captain of the 'Varsity Revolver Team and obtained the ninth place in the International Revolver Championship, N.R.A., at Bisley in 1912; he made a remarkable record in marksmanship with a revolver, by scoring 82 out of a possible 84, under service conditions. On leaving Cambridge he became actively associated with the firm of Messrs. Peter Stubs, Ltd., File and Steel and Tool Manufacturers, Warrington, of which his uncle, Mr. F. A. Frost, was Chairman and Managing Director. The following year, 1913, he went to France with the object of perfecting his knowledge of the language and coming into touch with the Continental trade of the Company. He received a commission in the 4th (Territorial) Battn. South Lancashire Regt., 1 Nov. 1912, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, was promoted Lieut. 24 Sept. 1914; went to France 11 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, Flanders, 16 June, 1915; _unm._ On this occasion his Battn. with three other regts. assaulted the German position at Hooge, and carried three trenches at the point of the bayonet, and the Brigadier-General, addressing the Battn. after the battle, said: "The Battalion did splendidly. You have proved that the 4th South Lancashires can never be broken." Lieut. Frost was shot through the head, and though he lived three-quarters of an hour, never regained consciousness. He was buried in Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres. Major Crosfield wrote: "I was speaking to him only ten minutes before, and though we were in the thick of it, he was just as bright and cheery as ever. The whole Battalion mourns his loss." The Rev. W. Bracecamp, Chaplain to the Battn., wrote: "When the Battalion left to make the charge he was thoroughly cheery and said to me, 'Good-bye, Padre. We shall soon meet again.' Your son was one of the finest characters it has ever been my privilege to meet. He was beloved by officers and men alike. His fine physique, his noble character, endeared him to everybody. He was one of the noble fellows whose life could not be spared, but he has voluntarily laid it down in a noble cause for God, King, and Country." Lieut. Frost had travelled a great deal in company with his father, both in Europe, America, and the Far West. [Illustration: =Edmund Lionel Frost.=] =FROST, GERARD GARTON STACY=, Private, No. 2692, 16th Platoon, D Coy., 9th (Highlanders) Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Charles Edward Frost, of 30, St. Mark's Terrace, City Road, Lakenham, Norwich, Private House Agent for Bullard & Sons, Ltd., Brewers, by his wife, Annie; _b._ Lakenham, Norwich, 20 Nov. 1884; educ. Norwich, and had been in business in Manchester, holding a very good position with Vincent Smethurst there. After the outbreak of war he joined the Royal Scots with his great friend Charles Newsham (who was afterwards killed by the same shell as himself), 10 Nov. 1914, and after training at Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, left for the Front towards the end of Feb.; he lost his life during the bombardment of Ypres, three shells dropping into the billets of his company and killing him and six of his comrades as they lay sleeping, 7 April, 1915. He was buried on the ramparts of Ypres close to the Porte de Lille; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. R. S. Blair, commanding 9th Royal Scots, wrote: "He died a soldier's death, and we are grateful and proud of his courage and devotion to duty and his Corps." Private Frost was a member of the Cheadle Golf Club, and was well known in the amateur rowing world of the North, being for two or three years captain of the Didsbury Rowing Club, the junior four of which he stroked to victory at the Northwich, Agecroft and Lancaster regattas in 1912. He was also on the committee of the Norwich Swan and Dolphin Swimming Clubs and winner of many swimming trophies; his two younger brothers are in a Canadian regt. [Illustration: =Gerard G. Stacy Frost.=] =FROST, KENNETH=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., yr. _s._ of Ralph Frost, of Wandsworth Common, London, Managing Director of J. Miles & Co., Ltd., 68-70, Wardour Street, member of the Westminster City Council, by his wife, Sarah (died 1895), dau. of John Bolton, of Manchester; _b._ London, 28 April, 1892; educ. Reading School, and afterwards entered the employ of a firm of wholesale stationers in London. He joined the Artists' Rifles in 1909, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and as a corporal left with his Battn. for France, 22 Oct. 1914. Three months later he was given a commission in the South Staffordshire Regt., being transferred to the 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., 16 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Zillebeke, Flanders, 22 Feb. 1915; _unm._ His Commanding Officer in the South Staffordshire Regt. described him as one of the promising young officers in his command both for resource and bravery. [Illustration: =Kenneth Frost.=] =FRY, HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7348), 291257, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FRY, JAMES=, Sergt., No. 7267, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of the late John Fry, of Timsbury, Bath, Farm Labourer and ex-soldier, by his wife, Emily; _b._ Southstoke, co. Somerset, 21 Oct. 1889; educ. Marksbury National School, near Bath; enlisted 24 Feb. 1907; went to France with the Expeditionary Force; killed in action at Langemarck, near Ypres, during the Battle of the Aisne, 23 Oct. 1914. He _m._ at Greenwich, Amelia Ann (100, Brookmill Road, St. John's, S.E.), dau. of Henry George Shephard, and had two children: James Arthur George, _b._ posthumous, 12 Dec. 1914; and Ida Edith, _b._ 30 April, 1913. =FRYER, EDWIN SAMUEL=, Rifleman, No. 2902, B Coy. 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd London Infantry Brigade, only surviving child of Samuel Fryer, of the Harvest Home, Bury Cross, Alverstoke, Hants, Beer Retailer, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of James Day, of Manwell, Somersetshire; _b._ London, 20 Jan. 1887; educ. Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School, London; and after a short time in the Civil Service, left at the age of 21 to enter a private firm. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France 4 Nov., and was killed in action at Lindenhock, 18 Dec. 1914; _unm._ Buried at Lin |