Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookn, it appears that he was left on the field for twenty-four hours, and when they picked him up, although so badly wounded, was quite cheerful, and remarked "I've had it." His Coy. Commander, Capt. A. Hutchinson, wrote that he was extremely popular with his men, and expressed his personal regret at the loss of such a promising and straightforward N.C.O. [Illustration: =Percy Henry Hart Hunt.=] =HUNTER, GEORGE RUPERT=, Gunner, No. 40190, 12th Battery, 3rd Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd but only surviving _s._ of Richard Harrison Hunter, of 418, Gilmons Street, Ottawa, Canada, Civil Servant, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of George Cooper, of London, England; _b._ Aylmer, P. Quebec, 7 Nov. 1890; educ. Ottawa; volunteered for service overseas and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, at Winnipeg, 6 Aug. 1914, the day following the declaration of war; came over with the first contingent, and died at Netheravon, 10 Feb. 1915, of pneumonia, contracted while going through his course of training; _unm._ =HUNTER, HUGH=, Private, No. 2000, 1/4th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), 3rd surviving _s._ of the late Robert Hunter, Engineer and Manager, Chester Gas Works, Member of the Society of Engineers, by his wife, Ann Martha (16, Durand Gardens, S.W.), yst. dau. of the late Henry Carne; _b._ Whitefriars, Chester, 21 June, 1892; educ. Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex, where he was a L.-Corpl. in the Cadet Corps, and on leaving entered the employ of a firm of Motor Engineers, afterwards Patent Agents in London; volunteered after the outbreak of war, joined the 4th Seaforths in Sept. 1914, and after two months' training at Bedford, went to the Front with them in Nov. He was shot through the head while acting as observer to his Capt. in the advance on Neuve Chapelle, in the early morning of 11 March, 1915, and died before reaching the dressing station; _unm._ He was buried with several comrades in the garden of a house at Neuve Chapelle (Edgware Road), S.5.d.3.5. Letters from his Commanding Officer and the Chaplain testify of his being most popular with his comrades and a good soldier. [Illustration: =Hugh Hunter.=] =HUNTER, JAMES ANDREW=, L.-Corpl., No. 982, 2nd Battn. Seaforth Highlanders, only _s._ of the late James Hunter, of Murdoch Terrace, Edinburgh, and 10, Bryson Road, Edinburgh, Hay and Straw Merchant, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of James Duncan, of Edinburgh, Coal Merchant; _b._ Edinburgh, 18 March, 1895; educ. Merchiston Public School; enlisted, 10 Jan. 1912; went to France, 22 Aug. 1914, and died in Hospital at Boulogne, 22 Oct. 1914, of wounds received at Steenwerk on the 20th; _unm._ His Commanding Officer wrote that he was wounded while taking part in a bayonet charge and bravely driving back the enemy, for which his coy. (B) was highly complimented. [Illustration: =James Andrew Hunter.=] =HUNTER, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 2134, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of James Hunter, of 67, Charlotte Street, Fraserburgh, Aberdeen, Postman for 28 years in New Deer and Fraserburgh, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of George Forbes; _b._ Auchreddie, New Deer, 17 Sept. 1888; educ. New Deer and Fraserburgh Public Schools; served his time as a Draper with Mr. Anderson, Fraserburgh, and was afterwards for six years in the employ of Mr. Millar, cabinet-maker, as salesman and timekeeper; emigrated to Australia, June, 1911; enlisted, Sept. 1914, and trained at Broadmeadows, Victoria; sailed for Egypt, 24 Dec. 1914, and died on 26 April, 1915, of wounds received in action the previous day, during the landing of the Anzacs near Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli; _unm._ [Illustration: =John George Hunter.=] =HUNTER, LESLIE=, Sergt., 14th Platoon, D Coy., No. 75976, 29th (Vancouver) Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, 3rd _s._ of Edward Hunter, Manager of Lloyd's Bank, Compton Street, Ashbourne; _b._ Ashbourne, co. Derby, 21 June, 1886; educ. Grammar School there; went to Canada in March, 1910; joined the 104th Regt. Jan. 1912; volunteered for service overseas after the outbreak of war, was transferred to the 29th Battn., and was killed in action in France, 11.35 a.m. on 30 Sept. 1915. Capt. P. H. Smith, his commanding officer, wrote that "there was no man in his company for whom he had a higher regard," and one of his platoon (B. G. Wolfemerton): "He was killed in the discharge of his duty a few feet from myself; he and Corpl. Moorhouse had gone to a ruined house to attempt to locate a sniper who was a source of danger to our lines, and on his way back was shot by probably the sniper he was in search of, through the heart; he died instantly and suffered no pain." Hunter _m._ at Derby, 14 Feb. 1910, Ethel (Compton Street, Ashbourne), dau. of Joseph Watson, and had a dau., Gladys Evelyn, _b._ 18 July, 1911. [Illustration: =Leslie Hunter.=] =HUNTER, ROBERT=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8375), S.S. 104449, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =HURLBERT, REXFORD=, Private, No. 10773, 2nd Battn., 1st Brig. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yr. and only surviving _s._ of William Benjamin Hurlbert, by his wife, Bessie, dau. of (--) Race, and nephew of Almina, née Hurlbert, wife of George Alfred Whiting, of Smith's Falls, Ontario (by whom he was brought up); _b._ Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 29 May, 1895; educ. Smith's Falls, Ontario; enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1915, and was killed in action in the trenches, 29 Nov. 1915, by a bullet through the head; _unm._ He was buried N.E. of R.E. Farm, Wulverghem. [Illustration: =Rexford Hurlbert.=] =HURT, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 8922), 196582, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =HURT, SEYMOUR FREDERICK AUCKLAND ALBERT=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of Albert Frederick Hurt, of Alderwasley, co. Derby, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Alice, 3rd dau. of Frederic Peter Delmé Radcliffe, of Hitchin Priory, co. Herts; _b._ The Outwoods, near Duffield, co. Derby, 18 Oct. 1879; educ. Hazelwood, Limpsfield, Surrey (1890-93), Harrow (J. Stogden's House, 1893-98); joined the Militia Oct. 1899, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 18 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 4 Sept. 1901, and Capt. 24 Jan. 1911; went to the Front, 5 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near La Bassée during the First Battle of Ypres, 18 Oct. following, while leading his coy. in a charge; _unm._ He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914-14 Jan. 1915 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915]. Capt. Hurt was in the Harrow cricket XI and the football XI, 1897-98; and took great interest in the cricket and football teams in the R.S.F.; was a keen sportsman, devoting himself to polo, pig-sticking, and big game shooting while in India, where he served the greater part of his time. When at home he acted as field master to his brother's (Mr. Hurt's) pack of fox hounds in Derbyshire. =HUSBAND, |