Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookt. Giles, F.S.I., by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of the late James Stratton, of Princes Risborough; _b._ Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, 16 March, 1890; educ. Selhurst Park College, Norwood, and on leaving there was articled to an elder brother, R. G. Gurney, P.A.S.I., Ledbury; emigrated to New South Wales in 1910, and took up farming; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main Force in the 1st Brigade; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25-26 April, 1915, and was killed in action there three days later, on the 29th; _unm._ Buried at Anzac. [Illustration: =Bernard Frank Gurney.=] =GURR, JOHN HENRY=, Ship's Corpl., 1st Class, No. Ch. 190332, Royal Navy, 3rd _s._ of John Gurr, of 2, Galley Hill Road, Northfleet, Kent, General Dealer, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Bullock; _b._ College Street, Northfleet, Kent, 20 Jan. 1881; educ. Board School there; joined the Navy, 7 Aug. 1896; was promoted ship's Corpl., Sept. 1907, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed by a German submarine, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at St. Mark's Church, Gillingham, Kent, 13 Aug. 1905, Eva (14, Melbourne Road, Chatham), dau. of Arthur Robert Sutcliffe, of Rochester, and had three children: John Arthur, _b._ 30 Sept. 1906; George Herbert, _b._ 27 Sept. 1908; and Thelma, _b._ 17 Oct. 1910. [Illustration: =John Henry Gurr.=] =GURR, STEPHEN=, Second Cooper, 296892. H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GUTHRIE, WILLIAM CAMPBELL=, Petty Officer, 156609, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GUTTRIDGE, DAVID WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./15789, H.M.S. Cressy, lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GUY, ARTHUR CHARLES JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2606), 181667, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GUY, HARRY ALBERT=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 6191), 181815, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =GUY, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 109628, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =GWYDIR, THE VERY REV. CANON ROBERT BASIL, O.S.B.=, Acting Chaplain, R.N., Rector of St. David's, Swansea, only child of the late Robert Clarke Gwydir, of Cartron, Longford, by his wife, Sarah Annie (20, Quex Road, West Hampstead), dau. of Benjamin Jackson; _b._ Cartron aforesaid, 20 Jan. 1867; educ. Breewood, co. Stafford, and the English College, Douay (1878-87), and on leaving there went to Belmont Monastery, Hereford. After spending four years here he returned to Douay, where he distinguished himself as a clever professor in classics and English, and by his exceptional intellectual gifts. In 1899 he started his career as a mission priest at St. Augustine's, Liverpool, and after some time there he was moved to St. David's, Swansea, and later became Rector, and in 1914 was made a Canon of the Diocese of Newport. When war began Canon Gwydir immediately offered his services as a Naval Chaplain, these were accepted, and he left Swansea in Sept., and after serving in several ships, was appointed to H.M. Hospital Ship Rohilla, and was drowned when that ship was wrecked off the Yorkshire coast, 30 Oct. 1914, when on her way to Belgium to bring back wounded soldiers. It is stated that when the impact came Canon Gwydir was on deck. He realised the danger immediately and hurried below to the sick-bay where a man (Naval Gunner) lay helpless with a fractured leg. He had hardly gone below when a huge wave struck the vessel and damaged her so severely that the infirmary was flooded. The Canon being drowned before he could complete his noble task. His body was recovered same day when the ship finally broke up. He was buried in the Benedictine Priory at Belmont. An eloquent preacher and a brilliant scholar, he read a paper at the National Catholic Congress at Cardiff in July, 1914, and had also read one before the International Eucharistic Congress at Vienna. [Illustration: =Robert Basil Gwydir.=] =GWYNNE, JOHN FITZGERALD, M.B., Ch.B.=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, elder _s._ of the late Charles Nelson Gwynne, M.D., M.A. (Trinity College), Senior Surgeon of Christ Hospital, Sheffield, by his wife, Grace Maunsell (11, Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea Park, S.W.), dau. of Samuel Hanna, Resident Magistrate, co. Wicklow; _b._ Sheffield, 29 Aug. 1888; educ. Stancliffe Hall, co. Derby (1899-1901), Loretto, Musselburgh (Choral Scholarship, 1901-6), and Sheffield University (Scholar M.B. 1906-11); was House Surgeon at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, 1911-13, and afterwards Assistant Medical Officer of the Southwark Union Infirmary, East Dulwich. He first served in the Territorial Force, in which he was gazetted Lieut. 3 June, 1912, being transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps 3 Feb. 1914, and was promoted Capt. 30 March, 1915. On the outbreak of war he served with Field Ambulance in Flanders, and was attached to 1st Hampshire Battn. at Ligny, 2 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action in the execution of his duty at Ypres, 9 July, 1915; _unm._; and was buried in Division IV Cemetery, Bosinghe. The "Hampshire Regimental Journal" (Aug. 1915), says: "We have to record another heavy loss to this battn., which has suffered so many. Our 'doctor,' Capt. Gwynne, was shot through the head by a sniper when on an errand of mercy. On the night of 8-9 July, the battn. was relieved ... in the trenches captured by the brigade from the Germans on the 6th. Capt. Gwynne went up to the trenches shortly after daybreak, to ascertain whether all the wounded had been evacuated. Several had not been observed in the dark, and he attended to each of them. He was informed that a bomber of the Rifle Brigade was lying with his hand blown off in a shallow trench, which was not approachable in daylight. Reckless as ever of his personal safety when a wounded man was in question, he proceeded there and had accomplished his task, when a sniper shot him through the head. Capt. Gwynne, with one exception, was the senior member of the battn. in point of service out here, he having joined us at the Chateau de Fontenelles, near Ligny, during the retreat. We all considered him as one of the battn., and for a long time he had been performing the thankless task of Mess President. A friend of all, with the true sympathy to suffering, as all doctors have, we regarded his death as our last and one of our greatest sacrifices to the Ypres salient." A brother officer wrote: "Gwynne seems to have made an enormous reputation for his courage. The whole district round here resounds with his name. The men who knew him here will talk of him to their dying day. I've heard of him all along the Front now. Everywhere he has been excellent at his work, and made a tremendous reputation for courage. And it requires courage to do the things he has done." Ca |