Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookieut., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., only child of Charles Edward Paget, of Great Houghton House, near Northampton, by his wife, Ethel Pilkington, dau. of the late Rev. Canon William Harper Brandreth, Rector of Standish, Lancs.; and gdson. of the late Sir George Edward Paget, K.C.B., M.D., F.R.S.; _b._ North Bentcliffe, Eccles, co. Lancaster, 6 April, 1891; educ. St. Andrew's School, Eastbourne (1901-05), and Charterhouse (1905-08); joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. of the Northamptonshire Regt. as 2nd Lieut., 29 April, 1908, and was promoted Lieut. in the Special Reserve, 26 July, 1910; gazetted 2nd Lieut, to the 1st Battn., 14 Aug. 1914, having crossed with it to France on the 12th; served through the retreat from Mons and the Battle of the Marne, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914; _unm._ "His Coy. were attacking under a very heavy shell fire and rifle fire also," wrote Lieut. Farrer. "They had just halted in a bit of a dip, where they were out of rifle fire; he moved forward to see if they could go on, when he was hit. The men of his Platoon say he didn't seem to mind the lead that was flying round, and was urging them on all the time." The Adjutant, Capt. Lloyd, also wrote: "You know he died doing his duty, and that his name will be handed down to posterity, amongst the others of the Regt., as being one who assisted to uphold the glorious traditions of our Regt., and who emulated the deeds of times gone by." His body was not recovered, but was seen on 17 Sept. about 40-50 yards from the German trench, when a Coldstream officer succeeded in getting some letters out of his pocket by which his body was identified. The body was lying about 300 yards in front of our trenches. [Illustration: =George G. B. Paget.=] =PAINE, CHARLES PERCIVAL=, Corpl., No. 554, Army Service Corps. (Motor Transport Section), _s._ of Charles Paine, Master Tailor, by his wife, Emma; _b._ Old Kent Road, E., 19 May, 1876; educ. Dulwich; joined the 22nd Middlesex Volunteers about 1894; attaining the rank of Sergt.; served in the South African War, 1899-1900, with the C.I.V. Mounted Infantry (Queen's medal with three clasps); joined the Motor Transport Special Reserve in Oct. 1912; was called up on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the Expeditionary Force on the 6th; was promoted Corpl. in Dec. for valuable services rendered in the field, and died in No. 10 Military Hospital, St. Omer, 17 Feb. 1915, from cerebro-spinal meningitis. Buried in the Cemetery of Remembrance there. He _m._ at the Baptist Church, Attleborough, 17 Sept. 1901, Harriet Jane (52, Thorpebank Road, Shepherd's Bush, W.), eldest dau. of Francis (and Harriet) Smith-Newby, of Attleborough, co. Norfolk, and had four children: Francis Percival, _b._ 11 Oct. 1902; Charles George, _b._ 21 Oct. 1905; Geoffrey Herbert, _b_. 24 Feb. 1908; and Evelyn Hattie, _b._ 16 Feb. 1904. [Illustration: =Charles Percival Paine.=] =PAINE, CHARLES WILLIAM STANLEY=, Capt., Royal Marine L.I., eldest _s._ of William Henry Paine, of Derwent House, Canterbury, by his wife, Mary, dau. of James Buss; _b._ Canterbury, 22 Dec. 1876; educ. Tonbridge (The School House, 1891-95); and on leaving there qualified as an Electrical Engineer. After being some time in Queensland, he went to South Africa, and took part with the Border Police in putting down the native rising in Bechuanaland. When the South African War broke out he was in England. He volunteered and went out with the Electrical Engineers, serving later with Steinecker's Horse, and receiving the Queen's medal with four clasps. At the end of the war he returned to England, and was for some time once more at the electrical power station in the Isle of Thanet. In May, 1905, he returned to South Africa, and cleared and farmed a large tract of land in Mashonaland. Towards the end of 1909 he returned to England, and was farming in Hampshire when war began. The day after war was declared he left home to serve with the Legion of Frontiersmen, but after three months of duty at Southampton, finding that the Legion had little chance of being sent to the Front, he applied for a commission and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.N.D., 19 Nov. 1914. He was promoted Lieut., R.M. attd. R.N.D., 23 Nov., and Capt., R.M., on 8 Dec. 1914. He went out to the Dardanelles in May with the Benbow Battn. of the R.N.D., and was in action almost immediately. On the disbanding of the Benbow Battn. he was transferred to the Hood Battn., and was instantaneously killed in action, 17 July, 1915, being shot by a sniper while attempting to get help for a wounded man. He was buried in the trench--Ferril Gap, where he fell. "He was," wrote one who knew him well, "a thorough sportsman, a man of unfailing courage and cheerfulness, equally ready to share his purse and his last meal, not only with friends, but with anyone who seemed in need of either. No one has ever more cheerfully and unassumingly lived the golden rule than he, as scores of men down on their luck, and many a tired animal too, could testify." He had a distinct literary and poetical bent, and published, as a rule, anonymously, a good many things, mostly short stories, both in English and in Rhodesian magazines. Two of his short poems, one entitled "The Dead," appeared in the "Westminster Gazette" in 1915. He _m._ at St. George's Cathedral, Capetown, 24 Aug. 1908, Lilian Josephine (Barnfield, Medstead, Hants), 2nd dau. of the late Joseph Naylor, of Hull, and had three children: Geoffrey William Wright Halden, _b._ Umbali, Rhodesia, 27 Aug. 1909; Catherine Mary, _b._ 27 Dec. 1910; and Josephine Halden, _b._ 8 Feb. 1914. [Illustration: =Charles William S. Paine.=] =PAINE, SYDNEY WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Divisional Field Coy. New Zealand Engineers, only _s._ of William John Paine, of Ashton Road, Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand, Accountant, by his wife, Constance, dau. of Shadrick Moordaff; _b._ Auckland, 9 April, 1891; educ. Maungakaramea County School, Wellesley Street City School, and Auckland Grammar School; joined the New Zealand Engineers (Volunteers) in 1906, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in No. 3 (Auckland) Coy. 21 Feb. 1911; volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the Expeditionary Force as a Sapper, but was shortly afterwards given a commission, and was killed in action in Gallipoli, 20 May, 1915; _unm._ Buried there. Lieut.-Col. Pridham wrote: "It may be some consolation to you to know that he had done wonderfully good work ever since he landed here, and the loss to the Engineers will be very severely felt. He was absolutely trusted by the men under him and was, I think, the most unconcerned under fire of us all. He died on duty, reconnoitring for a fresh advance against the enemy"; and Capt. W. Limm: "Your son was with me--I knew him really well, and he was a personal friend of mine and was a splendid chap. I cannot tell you all I know of him in a letter, but you can be very pro |