Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book-7; and at Dover, 1907-10, when he transferred to the 4th Battn. at Bareilly, India. He came home on leave in February, 1914, and on the outbreak of war was ordered to join the 3rd Battn. at Tidworth, 4 Aug. and went with it to France, 13 Aug. He served through the retreat from Mons, and was killed in action at Soissons, during the Battle of the Aisne, 19 Sept. 1914, and was buried at Maison Rouge, Vailly, in the valley of the Aisne; _unm._ Lieut. Graham-Gilmour was an enthusiastic cricketer, hockey player, and steeplechase rider, had played cricket for the gentlemen of Worcester, and on two occasions won regimental point-to-point races in Ireland and England, and was third in the Army Cup in India on "Exchange" in 1912. [Illustration: =H. J. Graham-Gilmour.=] =GIRARDOT, PAUL CHANCOURT=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., only child of the late Lieut.-Col. John Francis Girardot, 43rd Oxfordshire L.I., J.P., by his wife. Mary I. (10, Waterloo Crescent, Dover), dau. of the late James Evans, of Trevaughan, co. Carmarthen; _b._ Southampton, 17 Nov. 1895; educ. Ashampstead, Eastbourne; Cheltenham College (where he was a member of the School VIII at Bisley), and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 52nd Oxford and Bucks L.I., 25 Feb. 1914; went to France, 12 Aug., and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 16 Sept. 1914; _unm._ He was buried at Soupir-sur-Aisne. 2nd Lieut. Girardot's father was one of the survivors of the Birkenhead disaster in 1852. [Illustration: =Paul Chancourt Girardot.=] =GIROUX, THEODORE=, Private, No. A 871, 1st Battn. (33rd Regt.), (Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Napoleon Giroux, of Tilbury, Essex co., Ontario, Canada, by his wife, Philomene, dau. of Antoine Barrette; _b._ St. Joachim, Ruscom, Ontario, 7 March, 1894; was a Farmer; enlisted 15 Feb. 1915; came over with the 2nd Contingent, and was killed in action in Flanders, 13 Oct. 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Theodore Giroux.=] =GLADDISH, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3826), 290188, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =GLADMAN, JOHN OWEN=, Private, No. 2874, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of John Owen Gladman, of 21, Tower Street, Eastbourne, Gardener, by his wife, Elizabeth Ellen, dau. of George Griffin, Baker at Ardingly College for 39 years; _b._ Ardingly, co. Sussex, 20 June, 1896; educ. Christ Church School, Eastbourne; was employed in the Glass Houses at Compton Place; volunteered on the outbreak of War and enlisted 9 Nov. 1914; trained at Hastings; went to France, 14 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Richebourg L'Avoué, 9 May, 1915. [Illustration: =John Owen Gladman.=] =GLADSTONE, WILLIAM GLYNNE CHARLES=, of Hawarden Castle, M.P., 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers, only _s._ of the late William Henry Gladstone, M.P., by his wife the Hon. Gertrude, née Stuart (41, Berkeley Square, W.), 4th dau. of Charles, 12th and last Lord Blantyre, and gdson. of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, P.C., M.P., the distinguished statesman; _b._ 41, Berkeley Square, London, 14 July, 1885; educ. Eton, and New College, Oxford, and was President of the Oxford Union in 1907. He succeeded his grandfather in the Hawarden Estates, 19 May, 1898, and was assistant Private Secretary to the Lord Lieut. of Ireland, 1909, and an Honorary Attaché to the British Embassy in Washington, 1911. In 1911 he entered Parliament as Liberal Member for Kilmarnock Burghs, and when in the following year he made his first speech in Parliament, in seconding the motion for an address in reply to a speech from the Throne, he frankly acknowledged that it was a handicap to bear the name of Gladstone, observing: "I feel that every effort is doomed to fall short of the expectation which may conceivably and very incautiously be formed by some of one who bears the name that I do." During the short time he had been a member, however, he had already by his own marked individuality gained the attention of the House, and given evidence of abilities which promised a distinguished future. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Flintshire, and President of the County Territorial Association in 1911, and after the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914; and promoted Lieut. 7 April, 1915; went to the Front, 15 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Laventie in France, on Tuesday, 13 April, 1915, being shot dead while in the trenches endeavouring to locate a sniper. A doctor was with him immediately but he never regained consciousness. His body was brought back and interred in the Churchyard at Hawarden, 23 April. He was _unm._ Writing to his mother from the trenches he said: "You will be wrong if you regret my coming, for I am very glad and proud to have got to the Front. It is not the length of existence that counts, but what is achieved during that existence, however short." [Illustration: =William G. C. Gladstone.=] =GLANVILLE, ALBERT ANDREW=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12208, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =ROBERTSON-GLASGOW, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM=, Capt., 2nd Battn. 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army, yst. _s._ of the late Robert Bruce Robertson-Glasgow, of Mountgreenan, co. Ayr, J.P., D.L., formerly 74th Highlanders, by his wife, Deborah Louisa Grace, 2nd dau. of Simon George Purdon, of Tinerana, co. Clare, _b._ Mountgreenan afsd., 24 May, 1880; educ. Wellington House School, Westgate-on-Sea (Sept. 1889 to July 1894), Marlborough College (Sept. 1894 to Dec. 1897), and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (Jan. to Dec. 1898); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the unattd. list for the Indian Army, 25 Jan. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 25 April, 1901, and Capt. 25 Jan. 1908. He was attd. to the Royal Scots, and was posted to the 16th Bombay Infantry in April, 1901, and appointed Double Company Officer, 1 Aug. following, and the same year took part in the operations against the Ogaden Somalis in Jubaland, British East Africa, and received the medal with clasp. On his return from this expedition he was transferred to the 39th Garhwal Rifles. He left India with his regt. in the 7th Meerut Division for France, 21 Sept. 1914, and on arrival was detailed Railway Transport Officer until early in Nov. when he rejoined his regt. in the trenches. He was killed in action at Bethune a few days later, 13-14 Nov. 1914. Numerous letters from his brother officers all bear witness to his splendid qualities. His Col. wrote: "He had charged right up most valiantly to the enemy's trench and in a yard or two more would have been in it.... The regiment has suffered a double loss in losing a first-rate officer and generous hearted friend." and a brother officer: "I spent a good time on the afternoon of that disastrous night attack with him. He was as cheery as ever, and told me all about |