Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookning Australian Troops on board H.M.S. Britannia. On the outbreak of the European War, in Aug. 1914, he joined the Australian Imperial Force, serving with the 15th Infantry Battn. (Queensland), and died at No. 1 General Hospital, Heliopolis, 3rd July, 1915, of shrapnel wounds received in action in Gallipoli on May 9; _unm._ Of Lieut. Kessell's last hours an Army chaplain wrote as follows: "He was grand, a regular inspiration to some other patients, who ceased worrying over their own troubles in the presence of a man who suffered greater things and yet never ceased to be a cheerful pattern to them." [Illustration: =Harry Kessell.=] =KETTERIDGE, JAMES WILLIAM=, Bombardier, No. 63852, 11th Battery, R.F.A., and First-Class signaller, _s._ of William Ketteridge, of Waggon Lane, Lower Tottenham, co. Middlesex, Munition Worker; _b._ there 5 Nov. 1891; educ. St. James' School, Fore Street, Upper Edmonton, enlisted, 12 Jan. 1911; awarded 2nd Class Certificate at Army School, 27 June, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and while reconnoitring at midnight on 21 Aug. 1914 at le Cateau was shot by the French by mistake. He _m._ at Kildare Parish Church, 1914, Mary Florence, dau. of Benjamin Robert Singleton, late of the Northamptonshire Regt., and had one child, Rosary Annie Le Cateau, _b._ 20 Dec. 1914. [Illustration: =James W. Ketteridge.=] =KIDBY, ARTHUR=, Rifleman, No. 2894, C Coy., 9th Battn. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) The London Regt., 2nd _s._ of Frederick Arthur Kidby, of 19, Hertford Road, Hoddesdon, Clerk, Building Department, Hoddesdon Brewery, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Stephen Elkins; _b._ Hoddesdon, co. Herts, 4 Jan. 1896; educ. Hoddesdon Church of England School and Broxbourne, Herts; was Clerk in wholesale drapery trade; joined Queen Victoria's Rifles, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 20 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action near Wulverghem 3 March following; _unm._ His company commander, Capt. Herbert Fleming, wrote: "He was shot through the head on the 3rd inst. during a heavy burst of fire from the German trenches. He had only been here a short time, but he proved himself a keen and brave soldier. I deplore his loss more than I can say. I was with your boy when he died; he was unconscious, and only lived for a few minutes after he was shot. He has been buried in the churchyard at Wulverghem, and I will see that a cross is erected to his memory." Private Kidby was a good athlete, and was captain of his school football team. He had a good voice and was a member of the Hoddesdon Church choir. [Illustration: =Arthur Kidby.=] =KIDD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7865), 299560, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KILBEY, ALBERT JOHN=, Private, No. 2881, 7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.); only _s._ of John Charles Kilbey, of 11, Royston Street, Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, Waterside Labourer, by his wife, Harriet Rossetta, dau. of George Frederick Walker; _b._ Bethnal Green, 29 March, 1895; educ. Wolverley Street School there; joined the 7th London, 23 Sept. 1914; left for France, 17 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert, 17 May following; _unm._ =KILBOURNE, FREDERICK=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 16154, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KILGOUR, WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 615, 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, Royal Engineers (T.F.), elder _s._ of William Thomas Kilgour, of Tighnabruaich, Fort William, co. Inverness, by his wife, Annie Hossack, dau. of William Macdougall, of Fort William; _b._ Fort William, 23 Nov. 1895; educ. Fort William; gained a very high place in the competitive examination for entrance to the Post Office service and was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Linlithgow and Fort William; volunteered and joined 4th Battn. Cameron Highlanders (T.F.), in Aug. 1914, and, while training at Bedford, transferred from that corps to the 51st Signal Coy., Highland Division, R.E. (T.F.); left for France, 30 April, 1915, and was killed in action at La Coutiere, 27 May, 1915, by a high explosive shell, death being instantaneous. Buried at Vieille Chapelle; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: "As your son worked his instrument in the same room that I occupy myself, I had the opportunity of watching him closely, and without any exaggeration I can truthfully say that he was one of the finest young soldiers I ever met. He was always willing and ready to do his work at any time, and when we were very busy he was quite pleased to work his 12 hours on end without grumbling. He had such a happy disposition that we all feel we have lost a very good comrade and an excellent worker." [Illustration: =William Kilgour.=] =KILLICK, ALFRED HENRY=, C.E.R.A. (Pensioner), 154516, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KILLING, JOHN WILLIAM=, Ch. E.R.A., 2nd Class, 269868, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =KIMBERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ply. 11904, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KING, ALEXANDER DUNCAN CAMPBELL=, Tempy. Lieut., 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, attd. 18th Hussars, _s._ of Robert King, of Craigpark, Torphichen, co. Linlithgow, by his wife, Sara, dau. of Duncan Campbell, of Paisley; _b._ Torphichen aforesaid, 20 May, 1886; educ. Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University; received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in 11th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry, 20 Sept. 1914; promoted Tempy. Lieut., 24 Feb. 1915; left for France, 17 May; was attached there to the 18th Hussars, and died at Hooge, near Ypres, 24 May, 1915, from the effects of poisoned gas, which on that day was employed by the enemy against the British front between Shelltrap Farm and the Bellewaerde Lake for 4½ hours without intermission, the cloud in some places rising to a height of 40 feet. Buried west of Ypres, between Poperinghe and Vlamertinghe; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alexander D. C. King.=] =KING, ALFRED CHARLES LAWRENCE=, Stoker, 2nd. Class, K. 17463, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =KING, CHARLES GLAZIER=, Private, No. 9936, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Henry King, of Lower Vobster, Coleford, near Bath; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Soupir, 14 Sept. 1914. =KING, CHARLES SEALY=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, yr. _s._ of Charles Sealy King, of Richmount, Bandon, co. Cork, J.P., by his wife, Beatrice Ada, dau. of William Jocelyn Bradford, M.D., T.C.D.; _b._ Bandon, 18 Aug. 1894; educ. Catherington House Preparatory School, Hordean, Hants, from which he gained a scholarship to St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate; passed his Army Qualifying Examination in 1911; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 4th (Extra Reserve) Battn. Royal Munster Fusiliers, 27 Jan. 1912, and a |