Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookn a crevasse, from which his father succeeded in extricating him. They afterwards missed their way, were discovered by a search party of Swiss guides the following morning, and brought down in the afternoon. Tudor Barr suffered severely from frost bite and lost all his toes, nevertheless he rejoined his regt. in South Africa towards the latter part of the year, but finding the work too much for him in the then sensitive condition of his feet, he resigned in 1910. He then joined the South Irish Horse, and being a very keen and successful polo player, took a farm and trained polo ponies; this not being a financial success, he retired from the Army in 1912 and went to Rhodesia with the view of settling there. On the outbreak of war he at once came home, travelling 10,000 miles at his own expense. He reached England early in October, at once volunteered, and was gazetted Lieut. 25 Nov. 1914. He was first engaged training cavalry reserves at Shorncliffe, then joined the Reserve of his old regt., the 3rd Hussars, at Rouen, and from there attached to the 20th Hussars then in the trenches. He was killed in action, near Zillebeke, 23 Feb. 1915; _unm._ Col. Kennedy, of the 3rd Hussars, wrote: "In the old days in India, your son was always in my squadron, and he was a capital officer and one who, I am sure, would have been to the fore in this war, had he been spared. It was bad luck that when he came out we were full up with officers, and this is the reason why he volunteered to go temporarily to the 20th Hussars.... You grieve for an only son, and we for a brave and gallant comrade." And Col. Edwards, of the 20th Hussars: "Your son had been attached to the 20th Hussars for some two months and did excellent work with us. He was a most energetic and keen officer, and had he been spared would, I am sure, have done very well indeed." Another officer wrote: "A braver soldier or a truer friend never lived." [Illustration: =Samuel Tudor Barr.=] =BARR, THOMAS HENRY=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 11508, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARRASS, ALFRED LEONARD=, Private, No. 6014, 3rd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., eldest _s._ of Alfred Barrass, of Hull, Private, 3rd East Yorkshire Regt., by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of William Leonard Brown; _b._ Hull, 15 Sept. 1894; educ. Warnes Street Board School there; enlisted 23 June, 1911; placed on the Reserve, Dec. 1911; called up on the outbreak of war, and transferred to the 1st Battn. at the front. He was killed in action in France, 8 Dec. 1914, being shot by a sniper when fetching water; _unm._ =BARRATT, CHARLES WYLLY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3160), S.S. 100828, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BARRATT, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9500), S.S. 106889, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARRATT, PERCIVAL JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7811), S.S. 103275, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARRETT, CHARLES JOHN CHARD=, Capt., 1st Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of the late Major William Barrett, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Charlotte Maria Herring (Moredon, North Curry, Taunton), dau. of William Wheaton Chard, of Mount Tamar, Devon, and nephew of Col. John Rouse Merriott Chard, V.C., R.E., the hero of Rorke's Drift; _b._ Moredon, North Curry, co. Somerset, 26 Aug. 1873; educ. at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he won the riding prize, "The Saddle." He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 10 Oct. 1894, becoming Lieut. 12 Nov. 1896, and Capt. 2 May, 1900, and was Adjutant of the 1st Battn. 12 Sept. 1903 to 7 March 1904. He served in the South African war, beginning with the operations in Natal in March, 1900, also in the operations in the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony, and the action of Ruidam. He also raised a company of Mounted Infantry on active service, and gained the Queen's medal with three clasps. He was Adjutant of the 1st Volunteer Battn. of the Welsh Regt. from Jan. 1905 to 1908. While stationed in Dublin with his regt. in 1909 he won the Irish Grand Military at Punchestown with his horse Scarlet Runner. He had nearly completed four years as an officer of gentlemen cadets at Sandhurst, to which he was appointed, 1 Feb. 1911, and had raised a new company (L Coy.), which he was commanding when he was called to join the 1st Battn. of his regt. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 14 Nov. 1914, when in temporary command of the battn., and was buried in the grounds of Héronthage Château, Hooge. He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. He _m._ at London, 26 Nov. 1904, Lena, only dau. of the late Albert Vaucamps, of 34, Queen's Gate. His brother Donald, who was in the same regt., was accidentally drowned, 28 May, 1891, while fishing in the River Dee during the time he was serving on the Queen's Guard of Honour at Ballater. [Illustration: =Charles John C. Barrett.=] =BARRETT, HUGH HENRY GUY=, Private, No. 27589, 15th Battn. (48th King's Canadian Highlanders) 3rd Infantry Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder _s._ of William Henry Barrett, of 127, Kenilworth Court, Putney, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of James Redgrove; _b._ West Dulwich, London, 10 Sept. 1894; educ. Lynchmere School, Eastbourne, and Dover College. Being in Canada when war was declared, he volunteered immediately, enlisting at Grimsby, Ontario, 15 Aug. 1914, and came over with the 1st Canadian Contingent. He went through the heavy fighting at Ypres on 22-23 April, 1915, and was mortally wounded on Saturday, 24 April. It was on this occasion that the Germans first used asphyxiating gases which caused the French to retire and left the Canadian left exposed. The 48th suffered very severely. Barrett was removed to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died 27 April; _unm._ He was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. [Illustration: =Hugh Henry Guy Barrett.=] =BARRETT, JOSEPH=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8954, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARRETT, ROBERT SIMON=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.) 7048, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BARRETT, WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., A.E. 4468, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARRETT, WILLIAM GEORGE JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R. 2677B, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARRINGTON, NOEL SCOT=, Lieut. 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles, only _s._ of Fourness Barrington, M.S. (Edin.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Lecturer in Obstetrics, University of Sydney, Surgeon Royal Hospital for Women and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals; _b._ Edinburgh, 20 May, 1892; educ. Mostyn House and Worcester College, Oxford (1912); gazetted as University candidate to be 2nd Lieut. Royal Irish Rifles, 26 Aug. 1914, and p |