Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookAXWELL= (_alias_ =ROBERTS=), =BERTRAM JESSE=, Chief Petty Officer, No. 282914, R.N., _s._ of Louisa (now wife of Robert Roberts, of 19, Clarendon Road, Havant), dau. of the late George Maxwell; _b._ Eastbourne, co. Sussex, 10 May, 1878; educ. St. Faith's, Havant, was adopted and brought up by his stepfather; entered the Navy under the name of Roberts, 1896; but afterwards resumed his own name; served in China (medal); and was lost in H.M.S. Invincible in the Battle off Jutland, 31 May, 1916. He _m._ at Langrish, 31 April, 1904, Agnes, dau. of Thomas (and Annie) Nash, of Stroud, Petersfield, and had two daus.: May, _b._ 11 April, 1906, and Gladys, _b._ 14 Sept. 1913. His half brother, L.-Corpl. F. W. Roberts was killed in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915 (see his notice). [Illustration: =B. J. Maxwell= (_alias_ =Roberts=).] =MAY, EDWARD THOMAS=, Petty Officer (C.G.), 142724 (Dev.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MAY, FRANK JUBILEE=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4586), S.S. 103696, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MAY, JOHN=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 16137, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =MAY, JOHN EDWARD=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 8452, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MAY, SIDNEY CHARLES=, Sapper, No. 1507 Kent (Fortress) R.E. (T.F.), _s._ of William May, of Elm Cottage, Oxonhoath, West Peckham, Tonbridge; _b._ Oxonhoath aforesaid; educ. there; joined the Navy, 27 Oct. 1914; and was lost when H.M.S. Hythe was sunk in the Ægean Sea, 27 Oct. 1915; _unm._ =MAY, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1089), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MAY, WILLIAM RICHARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10340), S.S. 108083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MAYCOCK, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (B. 4858), S.S. 104278, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MAYLIN, FREDERICK FRANCIS=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26753, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =MAYNARD, DANIEL=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 862), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MAYNARD, JOHN WILMOT=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, yr. _s._ of Edmund Anthony Jefferson Maynard, of Hoon Ridge, co. Derby, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Blanche, elder dau. of Robert Sacheverell Wilmot-Sitwell, of Stainsby House, Derbyshire, J.P., D.L.; _b._ Eastbourne, 8 June, 1896; educ. St. Peter's Court, Broadstairs, and Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 Dec. 1914; went to France in March, 1915, and was killed in action during the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. Buried in the north-west corner of the Polygone de Zonnebeke Wood, 5 miles due east of Ypres. [Illustration: =John Wilmot Maynard.=] =MAYO, GEORGE PATRICK=, Petty Officer, 210642, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MEAD, BERNARD WALLACE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, yst. _s._ of Henry John Mead, of 27 Ladbroke Gardens, Kensington, W., Solicitor, by his wife, Edith Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev. Joseph Gifford, Vicar of Newport, Barnstaple; _b._ Kensington, W., 2 Aug. 1893; educ. Cranleigh School, and on leaving joined the staff of the Sun Fire Office. He had belonged to the 28th London Regt. (Artists' Rifles) for some years, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service and went to France with them in Oct. 1914. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. on the unattached list, 5 April, 1915, and immediately afterwards appointed to the 4th Royal Fusiliers, a corps which had been in the thick of the fighting since the Battle of Mons. On the night of 30 May, 1915, near Ypres, he received orders to relieve another officer in a trench about 25 yards from the German lines. While on his way, accompanied by his Capt. and a N.C.O., the party met two other officers belonging to another Corps. The enemy sent up a flare and opened fire upon the group of five and Lieut. Mead fell mortally wounded. He died three days later (2 June) at Bailleul, and was buried in the Military Cemetery there; _unm._ [Illustration: =Bernard Wallace Mead.=] =MEAD, CHRISTOPHER=, Lieut., A Coy. 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., 2nd _s._ of John Phillips Mead, of the firm of Mead & Co., 2, King's Bench Walk, Inner Temple, and of St. Mary's, Teddington, Solicitor, by his wife, Maud Helen Kate, dau. of Samuel King Church; _b._ Fopstone Road, Earl's Court, S.W., 10 May, 1888; educ., Street Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Charterhouse (Bodeites); was admitted a Solicitor in 1913, and was a junior partner in his father's firm; joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1910, and after serving in it four years, joined the Reserve. He rejoined on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 4th Battn., East Surrey Regt., 15 Aug., and promoted Lieut. 8 Sept. [London Gazette, 11 Nov.], 1915; trained at Devonport; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and was there attached to the 2nd Battn.; served through the gas attack on Whit Monday, his regiment being in the front trenches, and was shot in the temple by a bullet in July, but remained on duty at the time; was given five days' leave in Aug., and was killed in action in the assault on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, Vermelles, 28 Sept. 1915, while leading a bombing party of A Coy., and after having been throwing bombs incessantly for over three hours; _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Col. F. Montague Bates, wrote: "Your son was killed by a bomb on the 28th. He was commanding A Coy. at the time of his death and was gallantly leading a bombing party of his men forward when he was hit by a German bomb and killed instantaneously. I thought a great deal of him, he was an excellent soldier, daring and gallant; he was beloved by his men and popular with all ranks; his loss to me as commanding officer is a great blow. He was brave as a lion and died a glorious death"; and in a later letter: "Your boy was killed by a bomb in a trench leading out of the Hohenzollern Redoubt; he was running up a trench towards the Germans, who were in the same trench, and throwing bombs and driving the Germans back. He, of course, was in the thickest of the fighting." Capt. A. Dowler of his regt. wrote: "Doubtless you know how popular Mead was with everybody and his work in the Hohenzollern would undoubtedly have earned him some distinction"; and Major F. Clifford, of The King's Liverpool Regt., wrote from Egypt: "Today the Colonel of the East Surrey Regt. was here, he told me that young Mead had behaved in a very gallant manner and that he probably would be awarded some posthumous honour." Lieut. Mead was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 30 Nov. 19 |