Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookand Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A., where he took his degree as Mechanical Engineer, and became M.Am. S.M.E. and A.I.M. and M. As a Mining Engineer, he worked in Colorado and Borneo, and was subsequently engaged with Lord Cowdray (then Sir Weetman Pearson) in constructing the tunnel under the Hudson River to New York. He was afterwards employed by the Gardner Electric Drill and Hammer Company, and had latterly been engaged at the St. John's Mine, Montezuma, Colorado. On the outbreak of war he returned to England and applied for a commission. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Anglian Coy., R.E., 14 Sept. 1914; went to France at the end of Dec., and was killed in action near Bethune, 31 Jan. 1915, being buried at Le Touret. He _m._ at Croydon, 7 Nov. 1905, Emily Louisa Ann, widow of Capt. Herbert Turner Turner Emery, of Baddow Park, Essex, and dau. of Charles Henry Coxhead; _s.p._ =MUNDAY, JAMES=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10124), S.S. 107841, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MUNDEN, WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., A. 3767), 148102, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MUNN, DUNCAN=, Painter, 2nd Class, 183670, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =MUNN, GEORGE ANDERSON=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 340648, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =MUNRO, DAVID SINCLAIR=, Sergt., No. 8/678, 4th (Otago Infantry) Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Sinclair McKay Munro, of 21, Selwyn Road, N.E. Valley, Dunedin (a native of Wick, Caithness), Storeman; _b._ Dunedin, N.Z., 13 Aug. 1895; educ. N.E. Valley School, Dunedin; volunteered and enlisted, 13 Aug. 1914; was promoted Sergt.; left for Egypt with the Main Body in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 9 May following, being shot through the temple in an attack on a Turkish position. Buried, Cape Helles, Gallipoli; _unm._ =MUNRO, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Farrier, No. 13/106, 4th Troop, 3rd Regt. Auckland Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of John Alexander Munro, of Clevedon, Blacksmith, by his wife, Maria, dau. of Franz Bartosh, and great grandson of Robert Munro, who served through the Peninsula War; _b._ Clevedon, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 Dec. 1893; educ. there; joined the 3rd Regt. of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, 1 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 18 May, 1915; _unm._ =MUNRO, RODERICK=, E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 4519, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =MUNTON, FRANK BOUGHTON=, Sergt., No. 1958, 13th (Princess Louise's Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Field Boughton Munton, of 10, Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, Ironmonger, by his wife, Jenny, dau. of George Blair, of Queen's Road, Bayswater; _b._ Shepherd's Bush, 23 Jan. 1869; educ. Westbourne Park School, and was a Builder by trade. He joined the 18th Middlesex Volunteers in 1899. This, on the introduction of the Territorial system, became the 10th County of London Regt., and for some years he was Sergt.-Instructor of the Maxim-Gun Team, and was Quartermaster-Sergt. when the regt. was disbanded in 1912. Much of the work which the disbandment entailed fell to his share, and he was presented with a silver cup and a set of silver spoons by his old comrades. On the outbreak of war, notwithstanding that he was 45 years of age, he at once volunteered, and joined the Kensingtons as a Private, leaving a well-established business and large family to do so. He was promoted Sergt. early in March, 1915; went to France, 3 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action by machine-gun fire on 9 May, 1915, in the attack delivered by the 8th Division upon the German position at Fromelles and the northern part of the Aubers Ridge, on which occasion the Kensingtons most brilliantly distinguished themselves and sustained heavy losses. He was a first class shot and his Commanding Officer wrote saying how greatly his help would be missed, adding, "he was invaluable to me." He _m._ at St. James Norlands, London, 14 Feb. 1890, Elizabeth (23, Caxton Road, Shepherd's Bush, W.), dau. of Charles Hazard, and had three sons and five daus.: Frank Boughton, _b._ 25 Dec. 1899; Clifford Arthur, _b._ 17 April, 1904; Ernest Percy, _b._ 30 May, 1906; Jeannette Frances, _b._ 13 July, 1891; Constance May, _b._ 17 April, 1894; Irene Elizabeth, _b._ 27 May, 1897; Phyllis, _b._ 28 Nov. 1901; and Marjorie Joyce, _b._ 1 April, 1910. [Illustration: =Frank Boughton Munton.=] =MURGATROYD, WALTER ERNEST=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14723, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MURIEL, SIDNEY HERBERT FOSTER=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Border Regt., only _s._ of the late Rev. William Carter Muriel, Vicar of Fulham (_d._ 30 March, 1916), by his wife, Lucie, 2nd dau. of the late Edmond Foster, of Cambridge; _b._ Cambridge, 9 Sept. 1877; educ. St. George's, Harpenden, Westminster, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Border Regt. 16 Feb. 1898, and promoted Lieut. 27 Aug. 1901; and Capt. 13 April, 1909. From 1 Oct. 1904, to 30 Sept. 1907, he was Adjutant of his battn. and of the Territorial Force from 13 April, 1909, to 12 April, 1912. He served with his regt. in the South African War, 1899-1902, took part in the operations in Cape Colony, South of the Orange River, 1899; operations in Natal, including the relief of Ladysmith and operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900 (slightly wounded 20 Jan.); operations in the Orange Free State, April to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, June, 1900, and in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, July, and west of Pretoria, July to Nov. 1900, and in the Transvaal from 30 Nov. 1900, in which he was slightly wounded, and afterwards in the operations in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony. For his services he was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 29 July, 1902] and received the Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. In 1915 the Border Regiment formed part of the 29th Division of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and Capt. Muriel left England with his regt. on 8 March, took part in the landing at the Dardanelles on 25-26 April, 1915, and was killed in action there four days later (30 April); _unm._ Buried near Sedd-el-Bahr. =MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yr _s._ of the Rev. Canon Richard William Murphy, M.A., Rector of Clifden, Connemara, and formerly of Tuam, by his wife, Mary Louisa, dau. of the late Christopher Mulvany, C.E.; _b._ Dublin, 17 May, 1889; educ. Abbey School, Tipperary, and Trinity College, Dublin; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Oxford and Bucks L.I., from the R.F.A., Special Reserve, 7 Dec. 1910; promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1914; went to |