Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookf of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; joined the London Scottish Jan. 1913; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war; left for France, 15 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in the charge of the London Scottish at Messines, 1 Nov. following. He was at first reported missing, and it was not until the 15 Feb. 1915, that definite news that he had fallen was received. He was _unm._ =KYNOCH, COLIN SMITH=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Durham L.I. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Robert Kynoch, of Stocksfield-on-Tyne, by his wife, Jennie, dau. of Silvanus Smith; _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne, 8 Sept. 1883; educ. at a Private School, Newcastle-on-Tyne; was a Traveller in the Corn and Flour Trade; volunteered on the outbreak of war and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 6 Oct. 1914; went to France, 19 April, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, Ypres, 26 April, 1915. Buried near Hill 60; _unm._ [Illustration: =Colin Smith Kynoch.=] =KYTE, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Private, No. 9332, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of James Kyte, of Horton, near Devizes, co. Wilts, a pensioner, Royal Marines, by his wife, Eliza Jane, dau. of James Wiltshire; _b._ Easterton, co. Wilts, 9 Dec. 1893; educ. Easterton National School; joined 1st Coldstream Guards, 18 Nov. 1911; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; was wounded and invalided home in Nov.; returned to the Front, 17 Dec., was reported missing after the fighting at Givenchy, 22 Dec. following, and is now assumed to have been killed in action that day; _unm._ =LACEY, CHARLES=, Gunner, R.M.A. (R.F.R., B. 1250), late R.M.A. 11447 H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =LACEY, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4724), S.S. 104080, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =LACK, PERCY EDMUND=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4868), S.S. 104284, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =LACY, FRANCIS PRIOR, M.C.=, Capt., Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, attd. 170 Coy. Royal Engineers, _s._ of Dyson Lacy, Hobart, Tasmania, by his wife, Francis Amelia, dau. of Capt. J. Irwin, R.N.; _b._ Mackay, North Queensland, Australia, 28 Jan. 1887; educ. Stubbington, also Felsted, Essex, England, and the Royal School of Mines, Kensington, London; on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, 14 Oct. 1914, and was killed by a counter mine, 13 Aug. 1915; _unm._ He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatches [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915], and awarded the Military Cross. [Illustration: =Francis Prior Lacy.=] =LACY, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 11087, Royal Marines, only _s._ of Frederick Lacy, Sweep; _b._ 1882; lost in the North Sea on H.M.S. Cressy, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Stepney Parish Church, 19 Oct. 1913, Sarah Catherine (115, Shandy Street, Stepney, E.), dau. of Thomas John Dobson, and had a dau., Sarah Elizabeth, _b._ 24 June, 1915. =LADD, ERNEST WILLIAM=, A.B., J. 18430, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =LADD, ROBERT JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3295 A., H.M.S. Cressy, _s._ of the late Edward Ladd, of Southwold, Mariner, by his wife, E. (3, School Green, Southwold); _b._ Southwold, 13 Nov. 1888; educ. National Schools there; joined the R.N.R. in 1909; lost in action in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed, 22 Sept. 1914; _unm._ =LADDS, FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3435C, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =LAFONE, CLAUDE ALEXANDER, D.S.O.=, Capt., 2nd Battn. Devonshire Regt., elder _s._ of Alfred William Lafone, of Springfield, Walton-on-Thames, by his wife, Harriet, dau. of the Rev. James Lawrence, M.A., _b._ Hanworth, co. Middlesex, 24 Feb. 1877; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to 2nd Devons from 3rd Devon Militia, 1 Dec. 1897; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1899, and Capt. 20 Dec. 1901; served in the South African War, 1899-1902; took part in the Relief of Ladysmith, including action at Colenso; in operations of 17-24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop; in operations of 5-7 Feb. 1900, and action at Vaal Kranz; in operations on Tugela Heights (14-27 Feb. 1900), and action at Pieters Hill; in Natal, March to June, 1900, including action at Laing's Nek (6-9 June); in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901], Queen's medal with five clasps and King's medal with two clasps); went to France, 8 Nov. 1914, and on 26 Jan. following was awarded the D.S.O., "for conspicuous gallantry on the night of 18 Dec. 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, in capturing a trench from the enemy" [London Gazette, 18 Feb. 1915], and was killed in action at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Claude A. Lafone.=] =LAIDLAW, CHARLES GLASS PLAYFAIR=, Private, No. 3375, D Coy. 1/14th (The London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th _s._ of the late Dr. Robert Laidlaw, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., sometime Medical Government Officer in the Seychelles Islands, by his wife, Elizabeth (Woodside, Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge), dau. of Patrick Playfair, of Ardmillan, co. Ayr; _b._ Stoke Newington, London, N., 13 Dec. 1887; educ. The Perse School, Cambridge, from which in Dec. 1906, he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Natural Science at St. John's College. At school he was football capt., sergt. in the cadet corps, a member of the cricket team, and head of the school. While still at school he played water polo for the university when the team was one short. Later he played, lacrosse for his college and sometimes for the University. He commenced residence in Oct. 1907. He obtained a First Class in Part 1 of the Natural Science Tripos in 1909, and in June of that year was elected a Foundation scholar of the College. He took the Second Part of the Tripos in 1910, obtaining a First Class for Botany. In June, 1911, he was elected a Hutchinson Student of the College, and took up research in Plant Physiology at the Botany School of the University, under the direction of Mr. F. F. Blackman, the University Reader in Botany. The subject of his research was an electrical method of determining carbon dioxide in relation to photo-synthesis. In 1912 he was elected by the governing body of Gonville and Caius College to a Frank Smart Studentship, a recognition of the promising nature of his investigations. At the same time he was offered a Research Scholarship by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; after some hesitation he accepted this latter offer, which necessitated his removal to London. From the autumn of 1912, until the outbreak of war, Laidlaw worked at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under the direction of Prof. V. H. Blackman. Here he entered on an investigation of the Physiological conditions of plants forced under glass, working also at the effect of temperature on the rate of growth of a fungus, Sclerotinia libutiana. On the outbreak of war he vo |