Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booklbourne University; and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Nov. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 11 March, 1900, Capt. 8 Jan. 1908, and Brevet Major 22 June, 1914. He served in the South African War, 1899-1902; took part in the operations in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899-1900, including actions at Colesberg (1-29 Jan.); the advance on, and relief of, Kimberley; in the operations in the Orange Free State, including operations at Paardeberg (17-26 Feb.); actions at Poplar Grove, Dreifontein, where he was dangerously wounded; Vet River (5-6 May) and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill (11 and 12 June); operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, including actions at Frederickstad (17-25 Oct.); operations in the Transvaal and Cape Colony, 30 Nov. 1900, 31 May, 1902; during which actions he was with the Mounted Infantry, and received the Queen's medal with six clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. He then served with his regt. in India, Burma and Baluchistan for about eight years. On his return to England he did duty at Warley with the 3rd Essex Regt. (the old Essex Rifles Militia), where he gave great attention to flying, and was attd. to the Air Battn. R.E., 10 April-12 May, 1912, at Farnborough, and later was appointed to command the 4th Aeroplane Squadron at Durrington on Salisbury Plain. He went to the Front about 13 Aug. 1914; carried out air work at Mons, the Marne, the Aisne and Ypres, and was killed at Dunkirk, 20 Jan. 1915, by the falling of his aeroplane, after his return from a raid on Ostend on the night of the 19th; _unm._ Buried in Dunkirk Cemetery. While on Salisbury Plain Major Raleigh flew from there, in two stages, to France, and many of his flights were exceptional both for speed and altitude. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 8 Oct. [London Gazette, 19 Oct.], 1914, and again after his death in that of 31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. [Illustration: =George Hebden Raleigh.=] =RALPH, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7430), S.S. 102654, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =RALPH, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4812), 296311, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =RAMBERG, KARL ANDRES=, A.B., J. 14096, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =RAMSAY, ALEXANDER=, Lieut., 5th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, attd. 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder _s._ of the Rev. Alexander Ramsay, B.D., Minister of the Highgate Presbyterian Church, London, N., by his wife, Ella Euphemia Barbara, dau. of the Rev. William Clark, of Barshead; _b._ Coatbridge, co. Lanark, 9 Aug. 1887; educ. City of London School, and Caius College, Cambridge, and on leaving there entered the Board of Education as a Junior Examiner; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the Reserve of Officers, 10 June, 1912, promoted Lieut. 25 March, 1915; was attd. to the 5th Royal Fusiliers on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; went to France with the 1st Warwickshires, 21 Oct.; served in the trenches at Houplines, St. Yvon and Messines, and died a prisoner of war in a German Field Hospital, at Roulers, 28 April following, from wounds received in action at St. Julien, on the 25th, during the Second Battle of Ypres. Buried at Roulers. His Col. wrote: "He died gallantly leading his men against the German trenches on 25 April. He had done many gallant deeds since he has been with us, and we have all learnt his value as a man and as an officer"; and his Capt., who was wounded in the same engagement: "I had the luck to have him as one of my subalterns, and got to know him intimately since 1 Feb. I liked him immensely, and so did everyone else in the Battn. There was no one who looked after his men or got to know them like he did. I did not see him killed, but I feel sure he died a gallant death, leading his men in the attack in which we all suffered so." A fellow officer, now (1916) on Headquarters Staff, also wrote: "Ramsay came to me when he first joined the Royal Warwicks, my regt., and I have no words to express the admiration I have always felt for him. He has been splendid out here, and I know all my men loved him, and we are all feeling his death as a personal loss. When I left my regt. and came to the Brigade Staff he asked me to write to you if anything happened, and that is how I know your address. He was thought highly of by everyone, and I know that his name has already gone forward in the honours list made up by the General some weeks ago." While at Cambridge he took a double first (classics and history), was President of the Union, and obtained the Winchester Reading Prize. [Illustration: =Alexander Ramsay.=] =RAMSAY, LEWIS NEIL GRIFFITT=, M.A., B.Sc., 2nd Lieut., 3rd (Special Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2nd _s._ of Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, of 41, Braid Avenue, Edinburgh, formerly Professor of Humanity in Aberdeen University, Professor of Classical Archæology in Oxford, Victoria Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, Medallist of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and one of the original Fellows of the British Academy, by his wife, Agnes Dick, 2nd dau. of the Rev. William Marshall, of Kirkintilloch; _b._ Aberdeen, 3 Feb. 1890; educ. Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh; Aberdeen University; Christ's College, Cambridge, and the Imperial College of Science. He graduated M.A. at Aberdeen in 1910 and B.Sc. in 1913, with special distinction in Botany, and was about to submit a piece of research work for his Cambridge B.A. During 1914 he acted as Assistant to the Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen, and shortly before the outbreak of war he had been made a Beit Memorial Fellow and had begun work at the Imperial College. He had been a keen Volunteer and Territorial, and applied for a commission on 11 Aug. 1914; rejoined his old unit, the 4th Battn. Gordon Highlanders (T.F.), as a Private early in Sept. 1914, and was at once promoted to his former rank of Colour-Sergt. In reward for his services in drilling he was (18 Nov.) given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn., and early in Dec. was sent to France to the 2nd Battn., then at the Front. He was killed in action on Sunday, 21 March, 1915. His Battn. had taken part in, and suffered loss at, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, and were engaged in consolidating the position after the battle when he was shot by a sniper. He became engaged a few weeks before war began to V. Grace, dau. of the late Major Ferguson, I.M.S., and of Mrs. Ferguson, Aberdeen, and granddau. of Colonel Hunter, C.B., C.S.I. His orderly wrote: "On 21 March, about noon, I placed out in the sun a chair for him to write a letter while I was making his lunch, and about ten minutes after a man of our company was struck on the |