Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookat Messines, and in the gallant defence of the trenches at Zillebeke, and was killed in action in the trenches at Givenchy, 23 Dec. 1914. Buried in a disused part of the trench; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "He was without fear, and his whole thought was to do his duty for those at home." [Illustration: =Bernard Douglas Tod.=] =TODD, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 9580), 200339 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TODD, JOHN WRIGHT=, L.-Corpl., No. 11308, 2nd Battn. King's Own Scottish Borderers, grandson of John Todd, of Main Street, Norham-on-Tweed; _b._ Norham-on-Tweed, 14 Feb. 1894; educ. there; was a Baker; enlisted in 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers, Oct. 1911; left for France, 14 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, 9 April, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Wright Todd.=] =TODD, ROBERT FREDERICK=, Chief Ship's Cook, 344299, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TODDERINGHAM, WILLIAM=, 1st Class Stoker, No. K. 12824, R.N., eldest _s._ of the late William Todderingham, Seaman, by his wife, Bridget (40, Tredegar Street, Cardiff), dau. of (--) Landers, of Cardiff; _b._ Cardiff, 10 May, 1892; educ. St. Peter's R.C. Schools there; entered the Navy, 1909, and was lost when H.M.S. Monmouth was sunk in the Battle off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._ =TODRICK, THOMAS=, W.S., Capt., 1/8th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), elder _s._ of Robert Todrick, Agent for the Bank of Scotland at Haddington, Hon. Sheriff Substitute, by his wife, Marianne Somerville, dau. of the late Rev. John Stevenson, of Wigtown; _b._ Haddington, 26 Dec. 1879; educ. Knox Institute; Leys School, Cambridge, and Edinburgh University, at which latter he took his law course, and was admitted, in 1904, a Writer to the Signet. Apprenticed for a time in the offices of Messrs. J. & J. Turnbull, W.S., Edinburgh, he afterwards started business there on his own account. He received his first commission in the 7th (Haddingtonshire) Vol. Battn. of the Royal Scots, 1900, and was appointed to the command of the Headquarters Coy. at Haddington, 1908, which command he held till 1913, and then joined the Reserve of Officers. Early in 1914 he accepted the offer to take command of the Dalkeith Coy., and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. It was expected that the Service Battn. of the 8th Royal Scots would be called upon to leave Britain about Christmas, but on 1 Nov. they received orders to entrain the following day. Within a few days they were in France, and by the 15th of the same month in the firing line. Capt. Todrick took a prominent part in the operations, and was killed in action 15 Dec. 1914. A few nights before his death he crept from the British across to the German trenches, went under the wire entanglements and came back on that occasion in safety. A few days later the General in command asked that listening patrols should be sent out at night, and Capt. Todrick went out with three men himself. On reaching a certain point he asked them to lie in a ditch, as he thought he saw figures moving in front; he went on alone and fired his revolver. Doubtless the flash revealed him; an answering shot struck him in the neck, and his death was practically instantaneous. His men brought back his body, and he was buried in a little French cemetery while shells passed overhead. One of his brother officers wrote: "Poor Todrick has gone, best of comrades and bravest man in the battn.; no officer could have been more beloved by the others of all ranks in the battn." Capt. Todrick was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He _m._ at Blackheath, 27 Aug. 1910, Brenda (30, Regent Terrace, Edinburgh), dau. of John List, chief engineer of the Union-Castle Line, and had a son and dau.: Archibald, _b._ 25 April, 1912; and Elizabeth, _b._ 5 Feb. 1914. [Illustration: =Thomas Todrick.=] =TOLHURST, WALTER=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1852), 157015, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =TOLLEMACHE, BEVIL DOUGLAS=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of the Hon. Douglas Alfred Tollemache, of Southbeach, Felixstowe, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of the late John Heath, and grandson of John, 1st Baron Tollemache; _b._ Melton, Woodbridge, co. Suffolk, 11 April, 1889; educ. Wixenford and Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the 1st Coldstream Guards, 15 Aug. 1914; left for France in Oct., and was killed in action at Givenchy on the morning of 22 Dec. following; _unm._ [Illustration: =Bevil Douglas Tollemache.=] =TOMBS, JOHN BERNARD EVELYN=, Corpl., No. 2367, 2/9th Battn., attd. 2/10th Battn., The Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of Thomas Charles Tombs, of 60, Harrow View, Harrow, Middlesex, by his wife, Mary Frances, dau. of John Airey, of Oakdene, Holly Park Gardens, Finchley, N.; _b._ Aylesbury, co. Bucks, 28 Jan. 1894; educ. Holmwood House School, Hampstead, and the William Ellis Endowed School, Gospel Oak; was in the employ of the Sun Life Office, Threadneedle Street, E.C., and was a Probationer of the Institute of Actuaries; volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the 2/9th Middlesex in Sept. 1914; trained at Staines, Cambridge and Bedford; left England for the Dardanelles, 17 July, 1915, and was attached to the 2/10th Battn.; was in action at Suvla Bay, 8-12 Aug. 1915, when he was invalided to Alexandria and died there in the 15th General Hospital, 23 Sept. 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the Chatby Military Cemetery. [Illustration: =John Bernard E. Tombs.=] =TOMLIN, HENRY=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 1517), 201734, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TOMLIN, JOHN=, Canteen Assistant, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TOMLINSON, FREDERICK WALLACE=, A.B., J. 7909, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TOMLINSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2240), 301735, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TOMPKINS, EDWIN=, Private, No. 54, 8th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of Henry James Tompkins, of 133, St. James' Road, Northampton, by his wife, Mary Anne, dau. of William Griffin; _b._ Great Houghton, co. Northampton, 30 March, 1891; educ. Kingsthorpe and Council School, St. James' End; was an employee in Wolverton Carriage Works, and joined the Oxford and Bucks Territorials in May, 1913; emigrated to Australia in July, 1913, and settled in Victoria as a Farm Hand; joined the Australian Imperial Force after the outbreak of the European War, 1 Sept. 1914; left for Egypt, 19 Oct 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, and died in King's College Hospital, London, 16 Aug. 1915, of wounds received in Gallipoli the previous May; _unm._ [Illustration: =Edwin Tompkins.=] =TOMPKINS |