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I have been a very close friend of Reid's for the last three years, and he makes a great gap here, though we cannot but be proud of the manner of his death. He was the most fearless man I've known." [Illustration: =William L. Reid.=] =REILLY, RALPH ALEC=, Lieut., 31st Punjabis, attd. 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force), yst. _s._ of Col. Bradshaw Lewis Phillips Reilly, of Oak Grange, Pangbourne, Indian Army, by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Thomas White, of Eastry, Kent; _b._ Jubbulpore, Central Provinces, India, 7 Jan. 1889; educ. Bedford Grammar School; Cheltenham College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. unattd. Indian Army, 9 Sept 1908; served his first year with the Sherwood Foresters, being posted to the 31st Punjabis in Dec. 1909, and promoted Lieut. 9 Dec. 1910; was appointed Quartermaster 10 Oct. 1912; served at Fort Sandeman, and received high commendation from general officer commanding Quetta District for his services in that appointment; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, landing at Marseilles, 12 Oct. 1914, attd. to the 58th Vaughan's Rifles, and was killed in action near La Bassée, 23 Nov. following, while attempting, with only six sepoys, to stop the attack of the 112th German Infantry Regt. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; _unm._ Major C. E. D. Davidson Houston, Commanding 58th Rifles, wrote: "I write on behalf of the officers of the regt. and myself to express our very great sympathy with you in the death of your son about noon on the 23rd inst. His loss will be very keenly felt by us all, for I have seldom seen a young officer so thoroughly keen and efficient and so dependable. I have had many opportunities of seeing his work as he was in my double company till I succeeded to the command on Col. Venour's death, and I should have been only too glad to have had him with us permanently. Early on the 23rd, I heard rumours of the line away to our left being very hard pressed, so I sent up your son to the trenches with extra ammunition, and to bring back any reports he could from our officers of the exact situation. He arrived there safely, but, unfortunately, the crisis developed very rapidly, and as he was returning along the covered way a mass of Germans swept over the regt. on our left and reached the covered way. The last seen of your son alive was leading the half-dozen men he had with him against an overwhelming number of Germans--as honourable a death as is possible for a soldier"; and Major Thomson: "I would like to say how sorry we all were to have lost your son. In the short time he was with us we were able to see how good an officer he was. It will be some consolation to you to know that he died in a most plucky attempt to stop the enemy with a handful of men." =RENDEL, REGINALD DACRES=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yr. _s._ of the late Leopold Joseph Rendel, Engineer at Elswick, and English Manager of Armstrong's Works at Potzzuoli, Italy (died 1896), by his wife, Gertrude Maria (Arverne, Crowborough, co. Sussex), dau. of the Rev. Frederick Fleming Beadon; _b._ Potzzuoli aforesaid, 3 May, 1896; educ. Crowborough; Summerfields, Oxford; Wellington College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Oxford and Bucks L.I., 12 Aug. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 15 Nov. following; went to France, 25 Nov., and was killed in action at Richebourg St. Vaast, 16 May, 1915; _unm._ =RENNIE, JOHN=, Private, No. 9891, 1st Battn. Royal Scottish Fusiliers; accidentally drowned while on active service with the Expeditionary Force, 18 Aug. 1914. =RENTON, HARRY NOEL LESLIE=, Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, 2nd _s._ of James Henry Renton, of Aspley Guise, co. Beds, formerly of Colombo, Ceylon, F.R.C.I.; _b._ Colombo, Ceylon, 18 Dec. 1894; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, and Harrow School, matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in April, 1913, and was to have entered into residence in Oct. 1914, but, on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, obtained a commission in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 Sept. 1914; was promoted Lieut. 13 Feb. 1915; went to France 20 May, and was killed in action near Hooge 30 July, 1915, during the capture of a German trench; _unm._ Buried there. Major Hennessy, of the 9th Battn., wrote: "I think you know what affection I had for your son, and the high esteem in which I held him. He was a real soldier through and through, absolutely fearless, painstaking, trustworthy, and his men loved him. He was my right hand in everything, and however difficult the task set him I could always be absolutely sure he would see it through all right"; and Capt. Young: "All through the day Noel behaved with the greatest coolness, and I do not know what we should have done without him, as there were only three of us. He never paid the slightest attention to danger, and he was tremendously pleased when I ordered the charge. Not only his own platoon but the whole company were devoted to him, and would have followed him anywhere--as they did. As you know he and I were great friends since last Sept., and there is nothing I can say except how fond we all were of him, and that he died as well as a man could." At Harrow he was a monitor of the School, head of his house; house cricket and football captain, a member of the school cricket XI. He was a fine cricketer, and kept wicket for the School in the Eton and Harrow match at Lord's in 1914. [Illustration: =Harry Noel Leslie Renton.=] =RENVOIZE, ALBERT JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9562), 212151 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =REVELEY, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 11753, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =REVITT, ALFRED=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 111883 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =REYNELL, CAREW=, Lieut.-Col., 9th Imperial Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Walter Reynell, of Reynella, South Australia, Vineyard Proprietor, by his wife, Emily, dau. of William Bakewell, of Shirley, Payneham, South Australia, and gdson. of John Reynell, of |