Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknly arrived the previous day, and was commanding a company on the day the Germans attacked the trenches near St. Eloi, and during the attack was moving by a communication trench from one of his trenches to another when he was shot through the head and killed instantaneously," and Major F. A. Dickenson: "He was doing extremely well when he was killed. When we were attacked in force he collected some of his men and rushed up a communication trench and held on for a long time, and so helped stave off the attack, which gradually dwindled away till we re-took the last trenches by a vigorous counter attack." Lieut.-Col. B. R. Graham, Commanding 3rd King's African Rifles, wrote from Nairobi: "I am very grateful for the sad details regarding your son's death. He was a very gallant soldier who did not know the meaning of the word 'fear' and we all tender our very genuine sympathies in the loss you have suffered, and which we share," and an officer who served with him in British East Africa: "I have known him for the last few years well. He was a soldier, a sportsman, and a man, and it was with grief I read of his death to-day." He won the officers' championship cup at the Garrison rifle meeting at Gibraltar in 1906, while serving with the Duke of Cornwall's L.I., and played in the polo team of that Battn. [Illustration: =Arthur C. Saunders.=] =SAUNDERS, FREDERICK=, Private, No. 9920, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Edwin Saunders, of Cadbury, Thorverton, Farm Labourer, by his wife, Mary; _b._ Cadbury aforesaid, 31 May, 1893; educ. Cadbury School; was a Farm Labourer; enlisted in the Coldstreams, 1 Jan. 1913; went to France in Aug. 1914, and died in Aldershot Hospital, 11 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action on 29 Oct.; _unm._ =SAUNDERS, RICHARD=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3799), 202656, Chat., H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SAUNDERS, ROBERT EDWARD=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 4184), 193887, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =SAUNDERS, STANLEY ROLAND=, L.-Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ports./11383, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SAUNDERS, WALTER LAYTON=, Private, No. 7075, 3rd Battn. Worcestershire Regt., only _s._ of William Walter Saunders, of 136, Muirkirk Road, Catford (professionally known as Walter Fullerton, Humourist), Letter Sorter at G.P.O, by his wife, Anne, dau. of Thomas Morgan; _b._ at Walworth, S.E., 17 Oct. 1883; educ. Hollydale Road Board School, East Lambeth; enlisted in 3rd Worcesters, 8 July, 1902, and served three years with the Colours and nine with the Reserve; being for more than two years in the Officers' Mess. His time with the Reserve expired on 7 July, 1914, but on the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service with his old battn., left for France, 30 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near La Bassée, 27 Oct. following. He was much liked and esteemed in his regt. His commanding officer, on his leaving the service, wrote that he had found him "an excellent lad in every way." He _m._ at St. Mary Magdalene Church, Southwark, 7 Jan. 1911, Olivia Sophia (49, Surrey Square, Walworth, S.E.), only dau. of William Monk Wheeler, and had a son: Walter Ernest Louis, _b._ 3 Oct. 1912. [Illustration: =Walter Layton Saunders.=] =SAUNDERS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10912, 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, _s._ of the late Richard Saunders; _b._ Dublin; educ. St. John's School there; enlisted 5 Aug. 1910; joined the 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, and was drafted to the 1st Battn. in India; returned to England with his regt., arriving 23 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, 6 March, 1915, and was killed in action there, 14 May following; _unm._ Buried on the Beach there. =SAVAGE, ARTHUR HENRY=, Private, No. 2000, 4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Henry Savage, of Sutton, Pulborough, Sussex. Gamekeeper to Lord Leconfield, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Henry Carver, of Tillington, Petworth, Sussex; _b._ Tillington, Petworth, co. Sussex; was a Gamekeeper on Lord Leconfield's estate; enlisted 24 Aug. 1914; trained at Newhaven; left England with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 12 Aug. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in a cornfield at Anafarta Sagir, 1:20,000, 105 H Furrow. [Illustration: =Arthur Henry Savage.=] =SAVAGE, EDWIN=, Petty Officer (N.S.), 202244, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SAVAGE, HARRY=, Chief Armourer, 340576, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SAVAGE, JOHN ARDKEEN=, Capt., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., elder _s._ of the Rev. Francis Forbes Savage, Vicar of Flushing, Falmouth, by his wife Ethel Margaret; _b._ Chatham, 16 Sept. 1883; educ. Kelly College, Tavistock; obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd (Militia) Battn. West Riding Regt., Oct. 1899, and served with it in the South African War, 1900-1, taking part in the operations in Cape Colony, Dec. 1900, to June, 1901 (Queen's medal with four clasps); gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Garrison Regt., 22 Nov. 1902, and promoted Lieut. 30 May, 1904; transferred to the 1st Northamptons (then in India), 8 July, 1905, and became Capt. 28 March, 1912; served with the West African Frontier Force from June, 1909, to Nov. 1913; left for France, 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Troyon, during the Battle of the Aisne, 17 Sept. 1914; _unm._ Buried near Troyon. =SAVIN, THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 13859, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =SAWKINS, CLAUDE THOMAS=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22753, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Oscar Joseph Sawkins, of Kingsland Cottage, Fingringhoe, near Colchester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =SAWYER, THOMAS HENRY=, M.A.A., 150159, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =SAXTON, HAROLD HENRY=, Rifleman, No. 1641, A Coy., 16th (Queen's Westminster Rifles) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of George Henry Saxton, of Church Street, Eastwood, co. Notts., by his wife, Mary Wilcockson, dau. of Henry Bircumshaw, and grandson of Henry Saxton, J.P.; _b._ Eastwood, 15 March, 1895; educ. Heanor Secondary School and Grosvenor School, Nottingham. Later he took up a business appointment in London with Messrs. Shoolbreds, when he was invited by the management to join A Coy. of the Queen's Westminsters, of which Lieut.-Col. Rupert Shoolbred was commanding officer, and accepted. On the outbreak of war he wrote to his parents intimating that the Brig.-Gen. had promised the Grey Brigade for foreign service, when needed, and went on to say, "The Queen's Westminster Rifles is one of the regts. that form the Grey Brigade, and practically all the fellows have volunteered to go abroad if necessary. I feel it my duty to do so, not because the others h |