Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookorious work with the Royal Engineers." Chief Engineer, Capt. Frank L. Giles, wrote: "He was always so cheery and bright, and yet his keenness and energy for his work were inexhaustible, and with this were combined technical skill and absolute thoroughness and reliability and complete fearlessness." [Illustration: =Herbert Hugo Schneider.=] =SCHOFIELD, THOS.=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2864), S.S. 186, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SCHREIBER, VIVIAN GEORGE EDWARD SPENCER=, Midshipman, H.M.S. Monmouth, only child of the late Major Julian Meade Schreiber, 12th Battn. Suffolk Regt. (Vol.), by his wife Hilda Rose (Patcham Place, Patcham, Sussex), 2nd dau. of the late S. B. Abinger, of Hampton House, Hampstead, N.W.; _b._ Thames Ditton, co. Surrey, 21 Feb. 1899; educ. Holyrood House, Bognor (Naval Preparatory School), Osborne and Dartmouth; appointed Midshipman to H.M.S. Monmouth, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, 4 Aug. 1914, and was lost when the Monmouth was sunk in the battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. following; _unm._ [Illustration: =Vivian G. E. S. Schreiber.=] =SCHURER, LOUIS HENRY=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., A. 1935), 134774, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SCHWABEN, HENRY ROBERT=, Private, No. 1984, 10th Battn. Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), attached 2nd Battn. Norfolk Regt., 3rd _s._ of the late Hans Walter Schwaben, Engineer and Artist (_b._ Gelsenkirchen, Germany; came to England with his parents in 1875, became denationalised in 1875, and died in London, 25 May, 1914), by his wife, Helena Geraldina (5, Fairfax Road, Bedford Park, W.), dau. of Peter Henry Jordan, 60th Rifles (who served through the Crimea and Indian Mutiny); _b._ Edinburgh, 17 July, 1889; educ. Birmingham and London; was a Traveller; served for some years in the King's Royal Rifle Cadets, and then for three or four years in the Royal Bucks Hussars (Volunteers) Yeomanry; volunteered and enlisted in the 10th Middlesex, the second week in Aug. 1914; was one of 16 selected for the Scout Section of the battn.; went to India in Oct.; volunteered for service in the Persian Gulf in Feb. 1915; went there attached to the 2nd Norfolks, and died of dysentery while on active service, 29 July, 1915; _unm._ Buried at Asaui, 14 miles below Nasaryeh. An officer wrote: "I know that his section officer in the Middlesex thought very highly of him, and told me he was giving me one of his best men." [Illustration: =Henry Robert Schwaben.=] =SCINDEN, ALFRED=, Private, R.M.L.I. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 846), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SCOTT, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 9689, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Barony, co. Lanark; enlisted 2 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Forces in France, etc.; killed in action between 4 and 12 Nov. 1914. He _m._ at Leith, 4 April, 1893, Rachel (3, Cavendish Place, Edinburgh), dau. of (--) Cavanagh, and had a son John, _b._ 9 Dec. 1902. =SCOTT, CHARLES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2930 A., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SCOTT, CHARLES EDWARD ARTHUR=, Leading Seaman, 218970, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =SCOTT, DAVID CAMERON=, Private, No. 1389, 5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), _s._ of James Scott, of 2, Glenorchy Place, Edinburgh, Baker, by his wife, Isabella C.; _b._ Edinburgh, 29 July, 1895; educ. London Street School there; joined the Boys' Brigade connected with the Greenock Parish Church; became Staff Sergt., and, in 1912, joined the Royal Scots (T.F.); volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, 27 May following; _unm._ Buried there. =SCOTT, EDWARD CLAUD=, 2nd Lieut., 28th Coy. Royal Garrison Artillery, only surviving _s._ of the late Gen. Hugh Aboukir Scott, R.A., by his wife, Laura Millicent (The Garth, Winchester), dau. of Henry Wells Allfrey; _b._ Jersey, 15 May, 1892; educ. Repton; gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.G.A., 23 Dec. 1911; joined the 5th Siege Battery, 19 Feb. 1912; left for France, 27 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Armentières, 21 Nov. following. Buried at Fleurbaix, near Armentières; _unm._ [Illustration: =Edward Claud Scott.=] =SCOTT, FRANCIS WILLIAM=, Sapper, No. 5203, Canadian Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, late Lieut., R.N., yr. _s._ of the late Hon. Henry Robert Hepburne-Scott, of Knipton, Grantham, by his wife, Lady Ada, née Douglas Home (Nisbet Mill, Ancrum, Roxburghshire), dau. of Cospatrick, 11th Earl of Home; _b._ Springhill, Coldstream, 19 Aug. 1886; educ. Remenham, Henley-on-Thames, and Ascham School, Bournemouth; entered the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet on H.M.S. Britannia, 24 May, 1901, became Sub-Lieut. March, 1907, and Lieut. 31 Dec. 1908; and was invalided out of the service in Aug. 1912, owing to deafness. He then went to British Columbia and when war broke out was at Kitselas, on the Skeener River, Prince Rupert. He immediately went to Vancouver City and joined the 1st Coy. Canadian Engineers. He came over with the first contingent, Oct. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and died, 4 May, 1915, in Boulogne Hospital, from wounds received in action on the Ypres Canal two days previously. He was buried in the British Military Division, Boulogne Cemetery (Grave No. 1885); _unm._ He received the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving life at sea, 15 Jan. 1910, while acting as Lieut. on H.M.S. Hindustan off Spithead. [Illustration: =Francis William Scott.=] =SCOTT, GEORGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 11518, A Coy., 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), _s._ of Charles Scott, of 2, Hawthorn Vale, Leith, Engineer, by his wife; _b._ Leith, 8 Aug. 1895; educ. North Fort Street School there; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 6 June, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and was killed in action at Hooge, 26 Sept. 1915; _unm._ =SCOTT, HENRY FRANK=, Private, No. 12490, 1st Battn. Somersetshire L.I., _s._ of Samuel Scott, of Lansdown View, Rush Hill, Bath, Labourer, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of William Green; _b._ Camerton, near Radstock, 25 Oct. 1890; educ. Church School there; enlisted Sept. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Henry Frank Scott.=] =SCOTT, RICHARD THOMAS FOLLIOTT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., eldest _s._ of the Rev. Richard Curtis Folliott Scott, Rector of Hulcote and Salford, co. Bedford, by his wife, Edith Marion, dau. of Thomas R. Wilson, of Newlands, Hitchin, co. Herts; _b._ Arlesey Vicarage, co. Bedford, 8 Dec. 1893; educ. The Knoll, Woburn Sands, and Lancing College; gazetted 2nd Lieut., East Yorkshire Regt., 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted Lieut. 30 Oct. 1914; went to France in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Hooplines, 16 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried in Hooplines Cemetery. =SCOTT, ROBERT FRASER=, Pri |