Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookin Oxfordshire when war broke out; joined the H.A.C. 6 Aug. 1914; left for France, 30 Dec. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 6 March, 1915. Buried at Kemmel; _unm._ =JAMIESON, ALEXANDER=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308993, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =JAMIESON, HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7287), S.S. 102309, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =JAMIESON, MABEL ELIZABETH=, Staff Nurse, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, yst. dau. of Thomas Jamieson, of Seddon Street, Kumara, Westland, South Island, New Zealand, Gold Miner, by his wife, Frances Jane, dau. of the late Capt. Thomas Payne; _b._ Kumara, 21 July, 1881; educ. Kumara District High School, and while there passed Senior Civil Service and Matriculation Examinations; entered Kumara Hospital as a probationer, 1904, and two years later joined Staff of Palmerston North Hospital, where she remained until her professional training was completed; was Sister in Grey River Hospital for four years, and then took up private nursing in Wellington; joined New Zealand Army Nursing Service, 12 April, 1915, at which time she was in charge of the Berhampope Military Hospital, Wellington; left for Egypt in the Hospital Ship Maheno, 10 July, 1915, and was stationed in No. 1 New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Port Said; left for Salonika in the transport Marquetta, 19 Oct. following, and was lost when that ship was sunk by torpedo fire in the Ægean Sea on the 23rd. [Illustration: =Mabel Elizabeth Jamieson.=] =JANASZ, JAMES GEORGE GEE=, 2nd Lieut. 3rd (Reserve) Battn. Dorsetshire Regt., attd. 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., only _s._ of Józef Janasz, of Boscombe, co. Hants; _b._ London, 4 Jan. 1893; educ. Sherborne (where he was for several years in the O.T.C.) and Corpus Christi College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 3rd Dorsets, 4 Nov. 1914; left for France, 24 March, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 15 June following, while leading his platoon in an attack on the German trenches; _unm._ His commanding officer, Lieut.-Col. W. S. Brown, wrote: "I must express to you our great admiration of your son. He died gallantly leading his men against the enemy, and was shot through the head about 200 yards in front of the German trenches. His Capt., who is the only officer not hit in the two leading companies, could not say enough in his praise to-day." =JARDINE, JAMES MAXWELL MULLIN=, Private, No. 16642, 13th (Service) Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), eldest _s._ of Robert Maxwell Jardine, of 101, Blackburn Street, Plantation, Glasgow, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of James Maxwell Mullin; _b._ Glasgow, 3 July, 1896; educ. St. Saviour's School, Summerton Road, Glasgow; joined the 13th Royal Scots, 18 Dec. 1914; left for France early in Sept. 1915; and was killed in action on the 17th of that month; _unm._ [Illustration: =J. M. M. Jardine.=] =JARRAM, ERNEST=, A.B., 206322, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =JARRETT, AYLMER VIVIAN, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., 4th _s._ of Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett, South Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, C.I.E., by his wife, Agnes Delacour, dau. of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal C.S.; _b._ Calcutta, 11 July, 1879; educ. Stonyhurst College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 2nd York and Lancaster Regt. 12 Aug. 1899; promoted Lieut. 16 Dec. 1900; and Capt. 1 Jan. 1906; was Adjutant of his Battn. from 1 Dec. 1904, to 3 Nov. 1907, and from 29 Aug. 1908, to 19 Oct. 1911, was att. to the West African Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French [London Gazette, 22 June, 1915] for gallant and distinguished service in the field and awarded the D.S.O. [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], his name having been sent up four times for special recognition, and died on 22 June, 1915, at Vlamatinghe of wounds received in action the same day near Ypres. Buried near Vlamatinghe; _unm._ His elder brother, Major C. H. B. Jarrett, was killed at the Dardanelles (see following notice). [Illustration: =Aylmer Vivian Jarrett.=] =JARRETT, CHARLES HARRY BROWNLOW=, Major, 1st Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of Col. Henry Sullivan Jarrett, of South Lodge, East Grinstead, co. Sussex, C.I.E., by his wife, Agnes Delacour, dau. of the late Francis Beaufort, Bengal C.S.; _b._ Calcutta, 26 Nov. 1874; educ. Stonyhurst College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, 10 Oct. 1894, and promoted Lieut. 2 Aug. 1897; Capt. 14 Jan. 1902, and Major, 19 Aug. 1914; served in the South African War, 1901-2, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal, April to 31 May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to April, 1902, and May, 1902 (Queen's medal with four clasps); and with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; and was killed at Beach V, Gallipoli, during the Battle of the Landing, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Charles Harry B. Jarrett.=] =JARROLD, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Ordinary Seaman, R.N.V.R. (Sussex), 1/296, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =JARVIS, EDWARD WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 311111, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =JARVIS, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 4636 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =JASPER, WILLIAM=, A.B., 214626, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =JAY, CHRISTOPHER=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 9637), 202532, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =JAY, JOHN HENRY=, Chief Electrician, 2nd Class, 345147, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =JAYES, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4071), 191019, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =JEFFERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9649, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =DUNNINGTON-JEFFERSON, WILFRED MERVYN=, 2nd Lieut., 7th, attd. 3rd, Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), yst. _s._ of the late Capt. Mervyn Dunnington-Jefferson, 33rd Regt., by his wife, Louisa Dorothy (Ashcroft, Old Nunthorpe, York), dau. of the Rev. J. Barry, Rector of Great Smeaton, Yorkshire; _b._ at Middlethorpe Hall, York, 2 April, 1892; educ. Radley, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honours; entered the Inner Temple, 1912; volunteered on the outbreak of war; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 7th Royal Fusiliers, 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front in April, 1915, attd. to the 3rd Battn., and was killed in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, 25 April, 1915; _unm._ His elder brother, Major J. A. Dunnington-Jefferson, is (1916) serving on the Headquarters Staff with the Expeditionary Force in France. |