Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookave done so, but because I am a trained man. I know a fellow has his duty to his home as well as his country, and if you say I have not to volunteer I shall not. Of course, I know you won't want me to go, but it's the same with every fellow, and someone must do it." He went with his regt. to France early in Nov, and was killed in action, being shot through the head by a sniper at Armentières, 10 Dec. 1914; _unm._ He was buried in Chapelle d'Armentières Cemetery. His commanding officer wrote of him to his mother in the highest terms of appreciation, both as his commanding officer and as a member of the firm whose company was proud to include him amongst its members. Sergt.-Major A. H. Davis wrote to his father: "He was such a good chap, and had the making of a splendid soldier. He was very keen at everything he had to do." [Illustration: =Harold Henry Saxton.=] =SAYER, ROBERT WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10872, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., eldest _s._ of James Sayer, of Sunderland, Labourer, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of William Burn Moore, of Sunderland; _b._ Millfield, Sunderland, 6th June, 1879; educ. Bishopwearmouth; enlisted in the 1st Durham L.I.; was seven years with the Colours and five with the Reserve; served through the South African War (Queen's and King's medals with bars for the relief of Ladysmith), 1899-1902, and in India; was then employed at Osborne, Graham; re-enlisted for the war, 5 Oct. 1914, and died 7 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in action at Ypres. He _m._ at St. Bennett's, Sunderland, 1907, Agnes (8, Clarendon Street, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of John Tunney, of Mayo, and had four children: John James, _b._ 7 March, 1912; Robert William, _b._ 23 Sept. 1914; Margaret Agnes, _b._ 1 Aug. 1907; and Emily, _b._ 13 Sept. 1909. [Illustration: =Robert William Sayer.=] =SAYER, STANLEY KILBOURNE=, Ordinary Signalman, J. 21993, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SCAMATON, PATRICK=, Ship's Steward's Assistant, 347430, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SCARFE, JOHN WILLIAM= (_alias_ =ERIC GREY=), Chief Stoker, 177681, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SCARTH, JOHN WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10683, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of John William Scarth, of 10, Prospect Terrace, Neville's Cross, Durham, formerly A.B., R.N., by his wife, Annie, dau. of the late Thomas Atkinson, Verger at Durham Cathedral; _b._ Durham, 27 Feb. 1895; educ. Crossgate Parish School there; enlisted 15 April, 1914, and died in No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne, 15 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action at Rentel on 29 Oct.; _unm._ Buried in Boulogne Cemetery. [Illustration: =John William Scarth.=] =SCATCHARD, THOMAS=, Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps, yst. _s._ of Thomas Edward Scatchard, of Boston Spa, co. York, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., by his wife, Martha, dau. of Robert Theakston; _b._ Boston Spa, 6 July, 1878; educ. Epsom College; gazetted Lieut. in the R.A.M.C., 31 July, 1905, and promoted Capt. 31 Jan. 1909; joined his regt. at Aldershot, where he served for 18 months, then proceeded to India and was there for 5½ years, being stationed at Lucknow, Agra, Kailana and Ranikhet; returned to England, and served the nine months' course at Millbank, London, for promotion to Major, and then a year at Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, where he was when war was declared in Aug. 1914; went to France with the 26th Brigade, R.F.A., 16 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Sablonnières on 8 Sept. following. Buried in the Cemetery there. He _m._ at Agra, India, 12 Nov. 1907, Ada Mary, yst. dau. of Col. Hugh de la Motte Hervey, and granddau. of Gen. Hervey, C.B., and had a dau.: Phyllis May Lindsay, _b._ 20 Dec. 1908. [Illustration: =Thomas Scatchard.=] =SCHLEIDER, GEORGE JAMES WILLIAM=, Rifleman, No. 1882, 1/21st Battn. (1st Surrey Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Jacob Thomas Schleider, of 2, Darlington Road, West Norwood, late R.E.; _b._ Dulwich, 12 March, 1898; educ. Gipsy Road School, West Norwood; volunteered and joined the 1st Surrey Rifles, 15 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Givenchy, 25 May, 1915, by the bursting of a shell. =SCHMIDT, HENRY=, Car. Crew, M. 1936, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Henry Schmidt, of 49, Bowen Road, Harrow, co. Middlesex; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =SCHMIDT, HENRY JOHN=, Corpl., No. 1047, 14th Battn., 4th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of the late Henry Charles Schmidt, Baker and Confectioner, by his wife, Annie (now wife of William Godfrey Fish, of 70, Woodstock Street, Canning Town, London, Bootmaker), dau. of Eli Benn; _b._ Plaistow, London, E., 3 May, 1895; educ. Holy Trinity Schools there; went to Australia in 1912, and settled at Melbourne as a Clerk; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; left for Egypt, 24 Dec. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, April, 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, 7 Aug. 1915 following; _unm._ Buried there. Capt. Andrew Gillison, Chaplain to the 14th Battn. wrote: "After reaching the position by a night advance, the Battn. took up the post and dug in on the morning of that date. The enemy, who were holding a ridge opposite, were firing on our men, and Corpl. Schmidt was unfortunately hit by a bullet which passed through his body. He was very cheery and we thought he might pull through, but shortly afterwards he became unconscious and death ensued very speedily. He was such a bright cheery fellow and a general favourite ... [he] was buried with an officer and another comrade near the place where he fell." [Illustration: =Henry John Schmidt.=] =SCHNEIDER, HERBERT HUGO=, 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers (S.R.), 2nd _s._ of Theodore Schneider, of Granville House, Overhill Road, Dulwich, S.E., Merchant; _b._ East Dulwich, 5 Feb. 1888; educ. Bedales School, Petersfield, Hants, and at the Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering; was assistant to the firm of Messrs. Barry, Leslie & Egerton, 1907-9; elected a Graduate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1909, and an Associate Member, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of Officers, R.E., 8 Jan. 1910; went to West Africa, 1911, and served as Assistant Engineer on the Lagos Railway Northern Extension, Northern Nigeria; returned to West Africa in 1912, after leave of absence, as Assistant Engineer on the Sierra Leone Government Railway; appointed Surveyor to the Survey of Northern Nigeria, 1914, and was holding this post when war broke out; joined the West African Frontier Force, Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Lum, near Molle Bridge, in the Cameroons, 5 Dec. following; _unm._ The General Officer Commanding wrote: "Lieut. Schneider was killed instantaneously. His loss is much felt, as, in addition to his attractive personality, he was a most capable young officer, and had done previously particularly merit |