Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booke then in the trenches. The last letter received from him, dated 20 May, 1915, concludes with "I have just received orders to go and bomb some Germans out of a trench, so must say good-bye." From subsequent information it appears that the actual attack took place on the night of 21-22 May in the trenches running through Ferme Du Bois, 3,000 metres north-east of Festubert and 2,500 metres south-west of Neuve Chapelle; 1,000 metres west of the main road from La Bassée to Estaires. The attack was a comparatively small local affair. He was leading and was described by the observation officer as being well in front of his men, and deliberately cut a large gap through the wire and then, thinking his men were just behind him, jumped over into the German trench. The German fire was so intensely hot that the men had to lie down, and never reached the trench; the casualties were all the European officers and 45 per cent. of the men killed and wounded. The India Office record "2nd Lieut. R. S. Gamble, 7th East Lancashire Regt., attached 1st Gurkha Rifles, officially reported missing, believed killed 22 May." [Illustration: =Richard Sumner Gamble.=] =GAMBRILL, JOHN=, Chief Stoker, 167791, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GAMMON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O., 301382, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GAMMON, HARRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3801), 231151, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov 1914. =GAMMON, WILLIAM STANLEY ARGYLE=, Private, No. 14107, 4th Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of William Gammon, of Divinity Road, Oxford, retired Civil Servant, by his wife, Eva Lizzie; _b._ Oxford, 26 Nov. 1893; educ. Cowley St. John's Higher Grade School and City Technical School there; was for some time an apprentice with Mr. A. C. Vivian, Cornmarket Street, Oxford, and later with Mr. J. Vincent, High Street, Oxford, and previously to enlisting was with Messrs. Cowell & Co., Wholesale Stationers, etc., of Ipswich; enlisted 9 Dec. 1914; went to France, 7 Aug., and died in Hospital at St. Omer, 15 Sept. 1915, of acute pneumonia contracted while on active service. He was buried in the Souvenir Burial Ground one and a half miles from St. Omer; _unm._ [Illustration: =William S. A. Gammon.=] =GANDAR, BERTRAM JAMES=, Petty Officer, 196244, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =GANDY, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Sergt., No. 392, North Riding Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Northumbrian Brigade, 2nd _s._ of the late John Henry Gandy, of George Street, Whitby, Carver and Gilder, by his wife, Hannah; _b._ Little Gonerby, Grantham, 24 July, 1880; educ. St. Hilda's R.C. School, Whitby, and was a Carver and Gilder. He joined the 1st East Riding R.G.A. Volunteers, 11 March, 1903, and afterwards the R.G.A. Territorials; was called up at the outbreak of the war, and volunteered for foreign service; went to France, 19 April, 1915; and was mortally wounded and gassed near Ypres on 24 May, and died in Hospital at Bailleul, 25 May, 1915. Buried in the New Military Cemetery, Bailleul. Sergt. Gandy _m._ at S. Hilda's R.C. Church, Whitby, 3 Aug. 1900, Sussanah Theresa, dau. of the late Thomas Elliott; and had three sons and three daus.: George Gregory, _b._ 15 July, 1905; Frederick William, _b._ 24 Oct. 1907; Robert Henry, _b._ 13 Aug. 1911; Mary Gertrude, _b._ 2 Nov. 1901; Mary Josephine, _b._ 18 March, 1903; and Hannah Theresa, _b._ 2 Dec. 1909. [Illustration: =Frederick George Gandy.=] =GANT, HENRY=, Sergt., No. 2310, 2nd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yst. _s._ of George Gant, of 24, Grove Street, Bath, Cab Proprietor, by his wife, Mary Sophia, dau. of Richard Stanley, of Cirencester; _b._ Bath, 22 March, 1880; educ. Bathwick Boys' School there, and was a chemist with John Barker, Kensington. He served three years (1897-1900) with the 1st Somerset Light Infantry (Bath) Volunteers, and was afterwards for four years in the A.S.C. Woolwich Territorials. He served through the Boer War as Signaller in 27th Imperial Yeomanry (medal with three bars), and when the European War broke out, volunteered and joined the 2nd London Regt., 1 Sept. 1914. He was appointed Corpl., left for Malta three days later (4 Sept.); went to France in Jan. 1915; was promoted Sergt. in April, and died at Rouen, 26 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Armentières on the 19th. Buried at St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. He _m._ at Walcot, Bath, 7 June, 1903, Ada Emily (172, Trevelyan Road, Tooting, S.W.), eldest dau. of Harry Brewer, of Walcot, and had two sons and a dau.: Stanley Herbert, _b._ 15 June, 1905; Lewis Henry, _b._ 4 April, 1907; and Phyllis Margaret, _b._ 15 Dec. 1910. [Illustration: =Henry Gant.=] =GARBUTT, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Petty Officer, Tel., 230021, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GARD, ALFRED WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O., 311869 (Devon); H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GARDINER, ALEC=, Major, R.E., elder _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Richard Gardiner, of 28, Barkston Gardens, S.W., R.E. (ret.), by his wife, Agnes Hay, dau. of Major-Gen. Alexander Irving, C.B., Royal Artillery, who served right through the Siege of Sebastopol from start to finish; _b._ Ulwar, Rajputana, India, 28 June, 1873; educ. privately and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the R.E., 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut., 24 July, 1894, Capt., 24 July, 1902, and Major, 24 July, 1911. After completing the usual courses at Chatham he was ordered to India, and joined the Railway Branch of the Government of India, and continued to serve on the Construction and Administration of Railways up to the outbreak of the present War, with a short interval of war service at Suakin (British and Egyptian medals). When War was declared in Aug. 1914, Major Gardiner was officiating Agent (Chief Administrative Officer) of the Oudh and Rohilkund State Railway, and had been since 1909 Lieut.-Col. commanding that railway's Volunteer Rifle Corps, devoting his spare time to training the Corps to a recognised state of efficiency while under his command. The services of Major Gardiner were placed at the disposal of the Military Department, and he was ordered to England, but was intercepted in the Mediterranean, and sent straight to the Front, where he was appointed a field engineer, and was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915]. He was reported to have been last spoken with near the fighting line on the morning of 20 Dec. 1914, when the Germans broke through and carried the British lines up to Givenchy village. He was included in the list of missing, and it was long hoped he might be in the enemy's hands, but his fate was ultimately set at rest through the discovery of his body by the 176th Mining Company, R.E., d |