Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookfter serving six months' probation with the 2nd Battn. was promoted Lieut. 22 Aug. following, and on the outbreak of war was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Munsters, 14 Aug. 1914; was promoted temporary Lieut. from 30 Aug. 1914, and substantive Lieut. from 30 Nov. 1914; joined his Battn. in France, 18 Feb. 1915 and was killed in action at the Rue du Bois, near Festubert, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ His Adjutant, Capt. T. W. Filgate, wrote: "During an attack on the German trenches just south of Neuve Chapelle on Sunday morning your son was killed while gallantly leading his platoon. He was perfectly wonderful, and as cool and collected as if nothing was happening. He dashed forward ahead of his men, and was killed right up against the German parapet. It may be a little consolation to you to know that it was very largely owing to his and a few others' gallant leading and dash that we were the only regt. in the brigade of which part reached the first line German trenches. We are all very proud of the gallant fellows that fell, and their names will never be forgotten in the regt. We were not able to recover your son's body, which is close up to the German trenches." [Illustration: =Charles Sealy King.=] =KING, EDWARD=, Private, No. 7647, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Marston, Bedford; enlisted 24 May, 1910; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was severely wounded in action in the arm and thigh, admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth, 3 Nov. 1914, and died there on the 16th of that month. =KING, EDWARD=, Signal Boy, J. 22608, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KING, FREDERICK ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1949, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of John King, of 97, Sumatra Road, West Hampstead, Bootmaker, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Charles Chaffey; _b._ South Hampstead, 8 Feb. 1898; educ. Broomleigh Street Council School, West Hampstead; joined the 3rd Battn. London Regt. June, 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. Reeves in giving some particulars of the action wrote: "F. A. King was under me when he was killed, I saw him lying right on top of the captured German trench--I believe he was killed by a high explosive, because I noticed his face was black. He was quite a good youngster." =KING, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7995), S.S. 103737, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KING, HENRY WILLIAM=, Stoker, R.N.R., 1419U., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KING, HORACE ANDREW=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9004), 190503, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KING, JAMES=, Private, No. 4444, 3rd (Reserve), attd. 1st Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, _s._ of John King, of Blackhill, Cookstown, Millworker, _b._ Clogog, Cookstown, co. Tyrone, Aug. 1893; educ. Cookstown; joined 3rd Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8 Aug 1914; left for the Dardanelles with a draft for the 1st Battn., and died 14 Aug. following, of wounds received at Suvla Bay; _unm._ =KING, NICHOLAS MAINGER=, Stoker, R.N.R., U. 1640, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =KING, ROBERT NEAL=, Capt., 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., only _s._ of the late Robert King, M.D., F.R.C.P., London, by his wife, Esther, dau. of Thomas Case; _b._ in London, 14 Sept. 1874; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut., 1st Lincolns, from Militia, 6 June, 1896; promoted Lieut. 31 July, 1899, and Capt. 19 Nov. 1904; served in the Nile Expedition, 1898, and was present at the Battle of the Atbara (medal; Egyptian medal with clasp); in the South African War, 1902, where he was employed with Mounted Infantry in operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, April and May, 1902, and in the Orange River Colony, Jan. to March, 1902 (Queen's medal with four clasps); and from 24 Dec. to 31 Dec. 1901, was on special service. He retired 21 June, 1911, and was placed in the Reserve of Officers, but rejoined his regt. on the outbreak of war; left for France, Sept. 1914, and was reported killed in action at Wystchaete, 1 Nov. following. Capt. King _m._ at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, 19 Dec. 1910, Klara Alice Fanny, 2nd dau. of Robert Shand Kynoch Shand, of Hillside, co. Kincardine, and the Linn Keith, co. Banff, and had two sons: Robert McKerrell, _b._ 24 Nov. 1911, died 3 Nov. 1914; and Philip Marshall, _b._ 23 March, 1914. [Illustration: =Robert Neal King.=] =KING, SAMUEL=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5284), 203896, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KING, SIDNEY HORACE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15574, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =KING, THOMAS=, Sailmaker, 175250, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =KING, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110209, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =KINGSTON, SYDNEY=, S.B.S., 2nd Class, 351152, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =KINKEAD, RICHARD CROFTON GEORGE MOORE=, M.B., M.Ch., B.A.O. Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, attd. 10th Royal Hussars, only _s._ of Richard John Kinkead, of Galway, M.D., Dublin, J.P., Professor, Queen's College, Galway, by his wife, Emily, dau. of John Hubert Moore; _b._ Galway, 12 June, 1883; educ. Erasmus Smith's School, Galway; Portora Royal School, Enniskillen; Queen's College, Galway, and Royal University of Ireland, where he graduated, M.B., M.Ch. and B.A.O. While a student at the University he joined and went through a course of training in the South of Ireland Yeomanry (now the South Irish Horse). After serving for a year as house surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, he passed into the R.A.M.C., being gazetted Lieut., 31 July, 1909, and promoted Capt. 31 Jan. 1913. He was stationed in the Cork district, Ireland, 1909-11, and in South Africa, Jan. 1912, to Sept. 1914, when he was recalled to England with the regular troops and attd. to the 10th Royal Hussars. He left for France with that regt. which formed part of the 3rd Cavalry Division, 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke, during the 1st Battle of Ypres on the 31st of the same month; _unm._ Lieut.-Col. Barnes, commanding the 10th Hussars, wrote: "He was a gallant officer and loved and respected by all ranks of the 10th Hussars. I especially asked that he might go to the war with the regt. and so I feel that fate has scarcely been kind." Major the Hon. C. B. O. Mitford, D.S.O., of the same regt. wrote: "He with two other officers got one of my men and myself out of the trenches at considerable personal risk. He was just as cool helping the wounded under fire as if he was in a surgery. I hope it may be some slight consolation to you to know how he will be missed in the regiment and th |