Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookfield and Ramsbury, Wilts; was employed in the garden at Capel House; joined the Middlesex Territorials, 6 March, 1914; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 12 March, 1915, and died at No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Merville, 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May previous; _unm._ Buried in Merville Cemetery. [Illustration: =Albert Henry Martin.=] =MARTIN, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16124, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MARTIN, AYLMER RICHARD SANCTON=, Lieut.-Col. Commanding 2nd Battn. King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt., _s._ of the late Rev. H. Martin, Vicar of Thatcham, Newbury, Berkshire; _b._ Newbury, co. Berks, 19 Nov. 1870; educ. Bradfield College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the Royal Fusiliers, 4 March, 1891, and Lieut. 26 June, 1892 and later the same year transferred to the Royal Lancaster Regt.; became Capt. 25 Jan. 1900, Brevet Major 29 Nov. 1900, Major 8 Sept. 1906, and Lieut.-Col. 13 Dec. 1912; served through the South African War, 1899-1901, including the relief of Ladysmith and the actions at Spion Kop, Vaal Kranz, Tugela Heights (14-22 Feb. 1900, wounded) and Laing's Nek, and acted as Adjutant to the 2nd Battn., 2 Nov. 1899 to 8 Jan. 1900, and 25 Jan to 15 Sept. 1900 (twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 10 Sept. 1910], Queen's medal with six clasps, Brevet of Major). On his return to England, after passing through the Staff College he was attached to the General Staff at the War Office from 1904 to 1906 and from 1907 to 1912 was Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Scottish Command. In 1912 he was given the command of the 2nd Battn. of the King's Own, then in India. Col. Martin was killed in action at Frezenberg during the fighting around Ypres, 8 May, 1915. He _m._ at Surbiton, 21 July, 1896, Mary Beatrice, dau. of General Charles Terrington Aitchison, C.B., Indian Army, and had a dau., Eileen, _b._ 15 Oct. 1898. [Illustration: =Aylmer R. S. Martin.=] =MARTIN, BASIL CUTHBERT DANVERS=, 2nd Lieut., 13th (Service), attd. 4th, Battn. The Worcestershire Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. Henry Basil Martin, Rector of Pudleston, Leominster, co. Hereford, by his wife, Gertrude May, eldest dau. of the Rev. Thomas Hannington Irving Child, formerly Rector of Stratton, co. Gloucester; _b._ Sunhill Ranch, Loomis, Placer Co., California, U.S.A., 6 Oct. 1896; educ. Wolborough Hill School, Newton Abbott, South Devon, and Lancing College, Sussex; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 13th Worcesters, 14 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 20 May, 1915, where he was attached to the 4th Battn., and was killed in action there, 4 June following; _unm._ His commanding officer wrote: "I was not near him at the time, but those who were said that he showed perfect coolness and courage all the time. During the few days he was with us I especially noticed him for his keenness and desire to get on and feel very sure that if he had been spared he would have done well." While at Lancing he was a keen member of the O.T.C., shooting twice at Bisley, where he helped to gain the Cadets' Challenge Trophy in 1913, and the Public Schools Rapid in 1914, besides gaining several other medals at school, his first being Lord Roberts's Miniature Rifle Clubs Society, which he won at Wolborough Hill School at the age of 13. [Illustration: =Basil C. D. Martin.=] =MARTIN, CECIL TAYLOR=, Assistant Clerk, R.N., elder _s._ of George Martin, of 4, Park Terrace, Silloth, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I., by his wife, Margaret Emily, dau. of Robert Taylor; _b._ Silloth, co. Cumberland, 15 June, 1897; educ. Preparatory School there, Cherbourg, Malvern, and St. Bee's School, Cumberland; joined the Navy as Assistant Clerk, 1 Aug. 1914; was appointed to H.M.S. Monmouth, and was lost when that ship was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. [Illustration: =Cecil Taylor Martin.=] =MARTIN, CHARLES=, Private, No. 8758, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 30 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MARTIN, CHARLES EDWARD JOHN=, Private, No. 7974, 1st Battn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regt., _s._ of Charles Martin, of 41, Ashbrooke Road, Upper Holloway; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died, 4 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action. =MARTIN, CHARLES HERBERT GEORGE=, M.A., F.Z.S., Lieut., 3rd Battn. Monmouthshire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late Edward Pritchard Martin, of The Hill, Abergavenny, Mining Engineer and Colliery Owner, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of C. H. James, of Merthyr; _b._ Dowlais, co. Glamorgan, 5 Oct. 1882, and was educ. at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a high standard of efficiency in biology and obtained his degrees. He was demonstrator in Zoology to the University of Glasgow, and Lecturer at Oxford, and was well-known at Cambridge and at Naples, and was a scientist of European reputation. At Glasgow he joined the University O.T.C. and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. (T.F.), 12 Oct. 1909, and posted to the 3rd Monmouths, 5 June, 1912. He was promoted Lieut. 29 Aug. 1914, being subsequently machine-gun officer. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and was killed in action N.E. of Ypres, 2 May, 1915. He was buried between St. Julien and Freezenberg. He published several books on protozoology. When war broke out he was preparing papers for the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden. He was also an ardent all-round sportsman, a keen follower of the Monmouthshire Hounds, and was Master of the Crickhowell Harriers. He _m._ at St. Mary's Church, Abergavenny, 11 June, 1912, Beatrice Elise (The Hill, Abergavenny), only child of Ferdinand Packington John Hanbury, of Nantoer, Abergavenny, J.P., D.L., co. Monmouth, and had a son, Charles Edward Capel, _b._ 21 April, 1913. [Illustration: =Charles H. G. Martin.=] =MARTIN, HERBERT EDWARD=, A.B., J. 11840, H.M.S. Laurel; killed in action in the Heligoland Bight, 28 Aug. 1914. =MARTIN, JOHN=, Private, No. 7875, 1st. Battn. Royal West Kent Regt., _s._ of John Martin, of 79, Mill Road, Lewisham; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 26 Oct. 1914. =MARTIN, JOHN WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 7909, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chill, 1 Nov. 1914. =MARTIN, JOSEPH EDWARD=, Chief Stoker, (R.F.R., A. 1793), 152383, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MARTIN, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11808, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MARTIN, WILLIAM HERBERT=, Private, No. 1522, E Coy. 7th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of William Albert Martin, of 10, Shakespeare Road, Edmonton, Labourer at Woolwich Arsenal, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Robert Rawlinson; _b._ Sawston, co. Cambridge, 8 June, 1896; educ. Bruce Grove Board Schools, Tottenham; w |