Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookin action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HAGGARTY, PATRICK=, Private, No. 16717, A Coy., 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots, _s._ of John Haggarty; _b._ Greenock, 2 Nov. 1885; educ. St. Mary's Public School there; enlisted 24 Dec. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres, at 8 a.m., 4 July, 1915, by a shell. "He had just drawn his breakfast and was on his way back to his part of the trench, when a high explosive shell came over and struck him in the mouth, killing him and the Sergt. of his Coy. They were both buried beside the Headquarters about 30 yards from where they were killed." His commanding officer, Capt. R. Wemyss-Campbell, wrote that "he was a good soldier and did his duty to the last." He _m._ at Greenock, 17 Feb. 1911, Helen (34, Shaw Street, Greenock), dau. of (--) (and Mary, née McIntyre) Sweeney; _s.p._ =HAGUE, JAMES=, Private, No. 10890, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., _s._ of the late George W. Hague, of Newcastle, by his wife, Katie; _b._ Newcastle, 4 June, 1884; educ. Gateshead; was a Miner; served six years in the Army; re-enlisted 3 Oct. 1914; went to France 24 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action 12 June, 1915. He _m._ at Mount Pleasant, Gateshead, 4 June, 1904, Jane (21, Derwent View, Rowlands Gill, Newcastle), dau. of the late John (and Isabella) Holmes, and had five children: John, _b._ 8 Feb. 1907; Katie, _b._ 2 Oct. 1905; Florence, _b._ 29 July, 1909; Maud, _b._ 18 Sept. 1912; and Jenny Armentières, _b._ 4 June, 1915. =HAGUE, OWEN CARSLEY FREDERIC=, Lieut., 7th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, eldest _s._ of Frederic Hague, of Montreal, Advocate, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Samuel Carsley, of Montreal; _b._ Montreal, 23 Feb. 1889; educ. High School, Montreal, and McGill University, where he took the degree of B.Sc. in 1909, and M.Sc. in 1914. He was an electrical engineer, and practiced his profession in Montreal. He joined the 2nd Brigade, Field Artillery, in 1912, and with the rest of that Brigade volunteered for active service as soon as the first Canadian Contingent was formed, going to the Front with the 7th Battery. His brigade took part in the severe fighting in April and May, 1915, near Ypres. It was on 2 May he was killed. On the morning of that day he was near his battery on the bank of the Yser Canal, St. Julien, with Lieut. Helmer, of Ottawa, when a German heavy shell burst near them. Lieut. Helmer was killed instantly, and Lieut. Hague died that evening. He was buried at Hazebrouck; _unm._ Col. J. J. Creelman, commanding the 2nd Brigade, wrote as follows: "It is with extreme regret that I write with regard to the death of your son, and let me express my sincere sympathy with you in your great loss. Between 22 and 28 April, when I went into hospital, Owen had done really wonderful work as Section Commander and Forward Observing Officer. His work was splendid, and he showed an absolute disregard of personal safety at those times when his duties required that he expose himself. When in hospital at Rouen I took occasion to write to General Burstall calling attention officially to your son's excellent services and marked bravery during the first six days of the fight at Ypres." [Illustration: =Owen Carsley F. Hague.=] =HAIGH, JOHN HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4803), S.S. 104151, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HAINES, ALEXANDER CRICHTON COOPER=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, only _s._ of John Crichton Haines, of St. James's Gate, Dublin, London Manager, Messrs. A. Guinness, Son & Co., Ltd., by his wife, Caroline Anne, elder dau. of Austin Damer Cooper, of Drumnigh House, St. Douloughs, co. Dublin, J.P.; _b._ Dublin, 9 Dec. 1894; educ. Cholmeley House, Eastbourne, and Elstow School, Bedford; volunteered as a motor despatch rider in Sept. 1914, and after a week at Chatham and another at Aldershot, went straight to the Front. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 1 Nov. 1914, and was promoted Lieut. in April, 1915; was dangerously wounded at St. Julien during the Second Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915, and was put into a "Jack Johnson" crater by some men of his platoon and lay there many hours before being picked up by the ambulance. He died of wounds at No. 7 Base Hospital, Boulogne, 8 May following, and was buried in the military cemetery there; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alexander C. C. Haines.=] =HALDANE, ROBERT PATRICK=, Lieut., 6th (Perthshire) Battn. Black Watch, eldest _s._ of Sir William Haldane, of 55, Melville Street, Edinburgh, and Foswell, Auchterarder, co. Perth, W.S., Crown Agent for Scotland, by his wife, Edith, dau. of Thomas Nelson, of Ach-na-Cloich, Argyleshire, and nephew of Richard Burdon, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan; _b._ Edinburgh, 21 July, 1893; educ. Edinburgh Academy, and Balliol College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 26 Jan. 1915; went to France 2 May, 1915, and died in the Field Hospital at Locon, 13 June, 1915, of wounds received the same day in the trenches near Festubert, France. Buried in the British Military Cemetery at Locon; _unm._ [Illustration: =Robert Patrick Haldane.=] =HALE, FREDERICK THOMAS=, Rifleman, No. 2466, 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria Rifles) The London Regiment (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Thomas Gardiner Hale, of Salisbury, Woodriffe Road, Leytonstone, by his wife, Beatrice Mary, dau. of the late Edgar Adams, of Brixton; _b._ New Cross, London, S.E., 29 April, 1892; educ. privately, and Leyton Technical Institute, and on leaving there entered the service of Henry S. King & Co., Bankers, 65, Cornhill; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Queen Victoria Rifles in Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 27 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Hill 60, 21 April, following; _unm._ [Illustration: =Frederick Thomas Hale.=] =HALEY, RICHARD ERNEST=, Chief Shipwright, 166625, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HALFACRE, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3269), S.S. 787, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HALIBURTON, BORTHWICK=, Sapper, No. 4/1247, 1st Field Coy. New Zealand Engineers, yst. _s._ of the late Thomas Haliburton, Milton, Estate Overseer, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of the late George Bruce, of Haddington; _b._ Dunoon, co. Argyle, 15 July, 1888; educ. Dunoon; went to New Zealand in April, 1910, and settled at Napier, Hawkes Bay; was a Road Contractor; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Oct. 1914; left for Egypt with the second reinforcements; went to the Dardanelles, 12 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 11 Dec. 1915; _unm._ Buried in Connaught Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli. =HALL, ALBERT=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4562), 293310, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =HALL, ARCHIE CLYDE=, Private, No. 18775, No. 4 Co |