Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookWilliam James Davis; _b._ Greta House, Finchley, 18 Jan. 1889; educ. Christ's College, Finchley, and London University (where he was in the O.T.C.), and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 6th Battn. of the Middlesex Regt. in 1912, and promoted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1912. On the outbreak of war he was transferred to the 4th Battn. which was one of the first regts. to go to the Front; was at the Battle of Mons, 23 Aug. 1914, also at Cambray and Le Cateau, 26 Aug. 1914; afterwards in the retreat, and then at the Battle of the Marne and on the Aisne, and was killed in action at Croix Barber, 14 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was a fine hockey player, and played back for the Hendon Hockey Club, also for Middlesex and the Philistines on many occasions. He was also a good cricketer, and was president of the Golder's Green Working Men's Club. [Illustration: =Claude D. Sneath.=] =SNEDDON, JAMES=, Private, No. 18547, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), _s._ of John Sneddon; _b._ Bellshill, co. Lanark, 11 July, 1887; educ. Bellshill; enlisted at Stirling, 19 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died in No. 1 Casualty Clearing station, 8 Feb. 1916, from wounds received in action the previous day. He _m._ at Bellshill, 30 Nov. 1906, Christina Leggatt (2, St. Mary's Wynd, Stirling), dau. of (--) Graham, and had issue: Andrew Graham, _b._ 20 Nov. 1909; John Graham, _b._ 23 Dec. 1911; Euphemia, _b._ 22 Oct, 1907; and Christina Clark, _b._ 26 May, 1914. [Illustration: =James Sneddon.=] =SNELGROVE, SIDNEY HENRY=, Lieut., 14th (Service) Battn., attd. 7th Battn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, yr. _s._ of John Sidney Snelgrove, of Kingswood, Tunbridge Wells, Barrister-at-Law, by his wife, Gertrude Emily, dau. of the late John Henry Chatteris; _b._ Tunbridge Wells, 7 Dec. 1891; educ. Hurstleigh, Tunbridge Wells; Rugby (Mr. Brooke's House), and Trinity College, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 14th Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, 21 Nov. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915; was attd. 7th Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, and went to France 16 July following, and was killed in action 31 July, 1915, while leading his platoon under heavy shell fire in support of another company, in the counter-attack at the Chateau Hooge. Buried Sanctuary Wood, south of Hooge: _unm._ Lieut.-Col. G. A. P. Rennie, D.S.O., Commanding 7th King's Royal Rifle Corps, wrote: "He was leading his men splendidly at the time," and Lieut.-Col. Sir Thomas Milborne-Swinnerton-Pilkington, Bart., Commanding 14th Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps: "... one of my smartest officers. I was quite sure he would distinguish himself when he went to the Front." Letters from other officers and men all speak in the highest terms of his courage, energy and great capability. At Hurstleigh he was head of the School and captain of the cricket and the hockey elevens, and at Rugby was in his house eleven, and a signaller in the O.T.C. His elder brother, Capt. John Sidney Norman Snelgrove, Royal West Kent Regt., is now (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =Sidney Henry Snelgrove.=] =SNELL, GEORGE NOWELL=, Stoker, 3rd Class, K. 21993, H.M.S. Monmouth; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SNELL, WILLIAM JOHN=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12869, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SNEYD, THOMAS HUMPHREY=, Capt., 4th. attd. 2nd. Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers, only _s._ of Major-Gen. Thomas William Sneyd, of Ashcombe Park, Belmont, and Onecote, co. Stafford, late Commanding Queen's Bays (1877-82), by his wife, Charlotte Marion, dau. of Capt. William Wheatley Repton, Bengal N.I.; _b._ Lightoaks, near Cheadle, co. Stafford, 20 Oct. 1883; educ. Sandroyd, Wellington College, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), 22 April, 1903; and promoted Lieut. 14 May, 1904; joined his regt. in South Africa in Aug. 1903, and acted as A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. Sir Henry Hildyard; retired in July, 1910, and after a year and a half spent in the Argentine, returned to England in Jan. 1912, and joined the 4th (Special Reserve) Battn. Lancashire Fusiliers as Capt. 30 Oct. 1912; went to France attd. to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action at Ploegsteert, Belgium, 2 Nov. 1914. Buried in Ploegsteert Wood. He _m._ at St. John's Church, Forfar, 3 June, 1914, Phœbe Marianne, yr. dau. of John Sharp Callender-Brodie, of Idvies, Forfar, and had a dau., Averil Marion Anne, _b._ 7 April, 1915. [Illustration: =Thomas Humphrey Sneyd.=] =SNOSWELL, THOMAS EMDEN=, Petty Officer, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1467), 146107, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SNOW, WILLIAM CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 4628), 195194, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SNOWDEN, HARCOURT JOHN=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Hertfordshire Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of the Rev. Harcourt Snowden, of St. Peter's, Broadstairs, by his wife, Augusta, dau. of Martin Daniel; _b._ Ramsgate, 12 Dec. 1887; educ. Hildersham House, St. Peter's; Parkfield, Haywards Heath; Rugby and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Hertfordshire Regt. under Lieut.-Col. Viscount Hampden's command, 2 June, 1913, and was promoted Lieut. 26 Sept. 1914. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, served in France and Flanders, and was killed in action while visiting sentries early in the morning of 11 Jan. 1915; _unm._ He was buried near Richebourg l'Avoué. His Major said: "I had such confidence in him that, when I knew that he was the officer on duty, I never went round the posts to see that all was well." Another officer wrote: "He was a fine example to us all of a good and straight living Englishman." [Illustration: =Harcourt John Snowden.=] =SOLLEY, ALFRED JOHN GEORGE=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 20426, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SOLLITT, GEORGE WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 3544), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =SOMERTON, CHARLES ENOS=, Ship's Steward, 341939, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =SOMERTON, FREDERICK CHARLES=, Private, No. 1342, A Coy. 1st Newfoundland Regt., _s._ of Frederick Somerton, of Trinity, Newfoundland, Magistrate, by his wife, Caroline Augusta, dau. of Charles Soule Hibbert, of Bromley, Kent; _b._ Bruges, Newfoundland, 31 March, 1888; educ. Bishops Field College, St. John's, Newfoundland, and on leaving there engaged in Scholastic pursuits and taught for three years at Salvage, Newfoundland, and afterwards at Cape Ray. He then went to Canada, but when the European War broke out returned home; volunteered and joined the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force in Feb. 1915; left for England in April, 1915; went to the Dardanelles Sept. and died on board the Guildford Castle, 25 Nov. 1915, of wounds received in action at Gallipoli on the 20th; _unm._ [Illustration: =Frederick C. Somerton.= |