Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookon in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POWELL, ARTHUR CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 1720), 124746, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POWELL, ARTHUR THOMAS=, Gunner, R.M.A., 10190 (R.F.R., I.C. 40), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =POWELL, CHARLES VICTOR=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111772, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =POWELL, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 113461, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POWELL, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, No. 7183, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of the late Frank Powell, Postman, by his first wife, Winifred, dau. of Joseph Tracey, of Gloucester; _b._ Longdon, near Tewkesbury, co. Gloucester, 29 Nov. 1889; enlisted 21 Feb. 1907; went to the Front with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at St. Julien, 21 Oct. 1914. He _m._ at St. Michael's Church, Stonebridge Park, Willesden, 22 Feb. 1914, Emily Annie (106, Goldhurst Terrace, South Hampstead), eldest dau. of David Harper, of 31, Winchelsea Road, Harlesden, N.; _s.p._ [Illustration: =George Edward Powell.=] =POWELL, HAROLD OSBORNE=, 2nd Lieut., 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, only _s._ of Hubert John Powell, of Hill Lodge, Lewes, Land Agent, by his wife, Mabel, dau. of Charles Francis Trower, Barrister-at-Law; _b._ Lewes, co. Sussex, 20 Aug. 1888; educ. Winchester; was a Land Agent in his father's office in Lewes; joined the Sussex Yeomanry in 1908, and the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, and was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug. 1914; gazetted as attd. to the 4th Reserve Regt. of Cavalry on the 22nd; went to France 8 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines, during the First Battle of Ypres, 31 Oct. following; _unm._ Buried in a cottage garden at Messines. His commanding officer at Tidworth, where he went through his training, wrote: "I considered him one of the smartest and quite the most able of the young officers here, that was the reason why I selected him as the first of his class to go to the Front. He had a charming personality and was always full of energy." His commanding officer at the Front also wrote: "He was fighting in the town of Messines guarding a barricade at very close quarters with the enemy. I sent him with a message to the Queen's Bays on my left, and while carrying the message he was shot by a sniper"; and the officer commanding his squadron: "I had many opportunities of seeing your son's behaviour under fire--it was in the highest sense praiseworthy. He showed himself in this his first and only action to be a very cool and efficient officer." At Winchester he was a member of the Commoner football XV, 1903-06, and captain of Commoner VI, 1905-06. [Illustration: =Harold Osborne Powell.=] =POWELL, JOHN=, A.B., S.S. 1861, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =POWELL, RHYS CAMPBELL FFOLLIOTT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Highland L.I., only child of Major-Gen. Charles Herbert Powell, of the Lower House, Wickham, co. Hants, C.B., Indian Army, by his wife, Alice, dau. of the late James Mackenzie, of Auchenheglish, co. Dumbarton, and grandson of Capt. Williams Wellington Powell, 9th Regt.; _b._ Dharamsala, Punjab, 24 July, 1892; educ. St. Clare, Walmer; Winchester College, and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Highland L.I., 3 Sept. 1912; went to France, 13 Aug. 1914, with the Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action at Verneuil, 14 Sept. 1914, during the Battle of the Aisne; _unm._ [Illustration: =Rhys C. F. Powell.=] =POWELL, WILLIAM ARCHIE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 3821, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =POWELL, WILLIAM JOHNSON=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 284603, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =POWER, HERBERT=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. Frederick Edward Power (died Sept. 1915), late Northamptonshire Regt., by his wife, Ellen Matilda (7, Newsteine, Brighton), dau. of the late Charles James Barnett, of 12, Chichester Terrace, Brighton, J.P. and D.L. for Gloucestershire; _b._ Northampton, 14 March, 1886; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, and St. Paul's School, London (Scholar); gazetted 2nd Lieut., Northamptonshire Regt., 24 Jan. 1906, and promoted Lieut. 1 Dec. 1908, and Capt. 15 June, 1913; appointed Adjutant, 20 Nov. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried just outside Neuve Chapelle. Capt. Power was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 5 April [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. [Illustration: =Herbert Power.=] =POWER, JOYCE=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 9324), 308879, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =POWNALL, GEORGE HARLEY=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N., only _s._ of the late Frank Pownall, of 7F, Bickenhall Mansions, W., Barrister-at-Law, Registrar of the Royal College of Music, by his wife, Helen Augusta, yst. dau. of Sir William Henry Stephenson, K.C.B.; _b._ London, 30 Aug. 1883; educ. Evelyns, and Cheltenham College, and subsequently went to the Britannia, passing in third on the list and first out; became Midshipman 15 Sept. 1899, Sub-Lieut. 1902, Lieut. 1903, and Lieut.-Commander 1912; served in China as Midshipman, H.M.S. Terrible, under Sir Percy Scott, and on coming home took his "five firsts." He chose the submarine branch of the service, and after serving in B.1, and having the charge of the A boats at Fort Block House and serving in C.9, he was eventually appointed to the Onyx at Plymouth and finally 1st Lieut. to the Egmont, with command of the Malta Submarine Flotilla. He was second in command of landing operations at V Beach, Gallipoli, during the landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was struck while giving orders from his picket boat. He was carried on board a transport where he died in a few hours, being buried at sea. He _m._ at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, 17 Dec. 1910, Vera, dau. of Henry Chichester, of Verbeer, Cullompton, Devon. =POWRIE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 2852, 17th Battn. (Poplar and Stepney Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Thomas Powrie, Private, No. 9754, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers (now on active service in France), by his wife, Emily (58, Canal Road, Mile End, London), dau. of the late Edwin Beard; _b._ Mile End, London, 18 Dec. 1896; educ. Harford Street L.C.C. School there; was employed in the firm of Messrs. Remington, typewriter manufacturers, as a mechanic; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 21 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, 25 March, 1915; was in the actions at La Bassée and Neuve Chapelle, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, 14 Nov |