Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookd near Krithia. An officer of the 12th Royal Warwickshire Regt. wrote: "The Hampshires were fine and stuck to the trench. The position of the trench in which your son was, was in low ground so that he could not see the enemy advancing on the left; so kneeling on the parados he was directing their fire with good effect; I was passing just underneath him when he fell with a bullet through the head, death being absolutely instantaneous and just as he was in the middle of an order. It was due to officers like your son that the regt. stood firm in a very critical situation, and we also had a hand in recapturing the lost trenches." During his last year at Victoria College he was head prefect, won the King's Gold Medal for classics, was Colour-Sergt. of the Corps, Capt. of the shooting eight, and shot for the Oxford University during the summer term of 1914. =REGAN, EDWARD=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2224), 157652, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =REID, FRANCIS JACKSON=, Private, No. 19765, 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of Surgeon-Gen. Sir Adam Scott Reid, of 10, Zetland House, Chenistan Gardens, Kensington, W., K.C.B. M.B., M.Ch., I.M.S. (ret.), late P.M.O. Punjab Command, by his wife, Sidney Vaughan, dau. of Sidney Vaughan Jackson, of Ballino, co. Mayo; _b._ Hounslow, 11 Nov. 1881; educ. Bedford Grammar School; went to Canada about 1906; and was employed on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in Ontario and Winnipeg; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, and joined the 10th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force; came over with the first contingent, went to France in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action near Ypres, on the night of 24-25 April following, while attempting (with some of the survivors of his Battn., which, with the Canadian Scottish, had charged through a wood during the night), to dig himself in; _unm._ Buried there. A comrade wrote telling of his death, and added how much he had been liked by the officers and men of his Battn. [Illustration: =Francis Jackson Reid.=] =REID, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 5348), 184847, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =REID, GEORGE WHITELEY=, Capt. and Adjutant, 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., elder _s._ of the late George Reid, of Oporto, Portugal, by his wife, Alice Georgina (Oporto), dau. of the late Rev. Edward Whiteley, M.A.; _b._ Campo Alegre, Oporto, 20 Sept. 1879; educ. Charterhouse, and Oriel College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., 4 Dec. 1901, and promoted Lieut., Sept. 1904, and Capt., 17 July, 1909, and appointed Adjutant, 21 March, 1912; served in the South African War (Queen's medal with four clasps) 1902, and with the 88th Brigade, 29th Division, at the Dardanelles, 1915; landed at V Beach from the River Clyde on the night of 25 April, and took part in the subsequent capture of Sedd-el-Bahr village and Hill 141, and was killed in action during the advance on Krithia on the night of 1 May, 1915; _unm._ =REID, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 652, 1/8th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), eldest _s._ of John Reid, of Forth View, Preston, Prestonpans (who served with the Cameron Highlanders in the Nile Expedition, 1884-5; operations in Upper Nile, 1885-6, and in the South African War, 1900-1), by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Sutherland; _b._ Tranent, East Lothian, 16 July, 1894; educ. Tranent Public School; was employed as an Engineer with the Edinburgh Collieries at Bankton Colliery; joined the Royal Scots (T.F.) in March, 1911; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, in Aug. 1914; trained at Haddington; went to France, 2 Nov. following, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried there, about 400 yards S.W. of Picantin. His Capt. wrote: "I many a time admired your son's coolness and courage, and had always the utmost confidence in him. He was very keen on his duty, and let nothing come between himself and it; in fact, I can sum him up no better than by saying 'he was a true soldier.' He was a favourite with his comrades, and admired and much esteemed by myself and other officers of the Prestonpans Company." [Illustration: =James Reid.=] =REID, ROBERT LOGAN=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers, 2nd _s._ of Robert Logan Reid, of 3, Newark Drive, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Teacher of Music, by his wife, Agnes Hood, dau. of James Pattison; _b._ Pollokshields, aforesaid, 21 Jan. 1890; educ. High School there, and Glasgow Royal Technical College; served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Underhill & Ritchie, Electrical Engineers, and was for some time their travelling representative, subsequently being in the employ of Messrs. Allan Arthur & Ure, as manager of their North Berwick Depôt; joined the Glasgow Territorials in Jan. 1908; served with them four years and after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, obtained a commission in the 35th Signal Coy., Royal Engineers, 14 Oct. following; went to the Dardanelles, 3 June, 1915, unattd., and was there connected chiefly with the 29th Division, and was killed in action 8 Aug. 1915; _unm._ Three of his brothers are now (1916) on active service. =REID, WILLIAM BRAMICH=, A.B., J. 1591, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =REID, WILLIAM LEONARD=, Capt., 2nd Battn. The Dorsetshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of the Rev. John Reid, M.A., Minister of Foulden Parish, co. Berwick, by his wife, Martha Craig, dau. of John G. Gilchrist, of San Francisco; _b._ Foulden, 28 May, 1889; educ. St. Mary's School, Melrose; Celle, Hanover, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Dorsetshire Regt., 6 Nov. 1909, promoted Lieut. 4 Jan. 1912, and Capt. 23 Jan. 1915; joined his regt. in Madras, India, 5 Jan. 1910; qualified for, and obtained, an interpretership in German while home on furlough in 1912; appointed Station Staff Officer, and Cantonment magistrate at Deolali, Bombay, on his return to India, but resigned this position on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and, rejoining his regt., went to the Persian Gulf with the Indian Expeditionary Force; took part in the fighting at the Shat-el-Arab, and the capture of Basra, subsequently being appointed German Interpreter to the Force, in which capacity he proved himself of the greatest use to the Expedition. During March, 1915, when a large body of Turks were concentrating round Basra, at his own request and that of his Col., he was permitted to leave the Indian Government Office, where he had been engaged, and return to his regt. The Turks were attacked and completely routed at Shaiba, but it was during this attack that he was wounded, 14 April, 1915, and he died the following morning; _unm._ Buried there. The Adjutant in describing his death wrote: "Reid was about 50 yards to my right, and I saw him directing his men very cool and collected, and about two o'clock when Cushing was mortally hit, Reid wen |