Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookHe had rushed right on using the bombs till the Germans turned the machine-gun on to him. No man could have done more. The trench was won. [Illustration: =Albert J. F. Tracey.=] =HANBURY-TRACEY, HON. FELIX CHARLES HUBERT=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, yst. _s._ of Charles Douglas Richard, 4th Baron Sudeley, P.C., by his wife, Ada Maria Katherine, dau. of the Hon. Frederick James Tollemache; _b._ Buckingham Gate, S.W., 27 July, 1882; educ. Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 10 Nov. 1907; retired in 1907 and joined the Reserve of Officers; gazetted to the 3rd Battn. of his regt. on the outbreak of war, 5 Aug. 1914; went to France, 7 Nov., and died of wounds received in an attack on the German trenches near Fromelles, on the night of 18-19 Dec. 1914. He was wounded slightly at the commencement of the attack, but still led his men. When again wounded fatally on the parapet of the German trench, some of his men attempted to carry him back to safety, but he ordered them to leave him where he was and to go on, as he did not wish them to risk their lives in saving him. The Germans shortly afterwards re-took their trench, and he died a few hours later in their hands, and was buried by them. He _m._ at Lacock, Wiltshire, 11 June, 1908, Madeline Llewellyn (13, Queen's Gate Place, S.W.), only dau. of Col. George Llewellyn Palmer, of Lackham, Lacock, Wilts, and had two sons: Michael David Charles, _b._ 29 March, 1909; and Ninian John Frederick, _b._ 7 Dec. 1910. [Illustration: =F. C. H. Hanbury-Tracey.=] =TRAHERNE, LLEWELLYN EDMUND=, of Coedarhydyglyn, near Cardiff, J.P., Lt.-Commander, R.N., eldest _s._ of the late Llewellyn Edmund Traherne, of Coedarhydyglyn, by his wife, Mary, dau. of Henry Hogard; _b._ Paris, 14 Sept. 1863; joined the Britannia in Jan. 1877, and left in Dec. 1878, having taken the first prize in seamanship that year, he was appointed to H.M.S. Charybdis, then on the China Station, and took passage to her in the Encounter. He served in many stations and qualified in gunnery, gaining 1st Class Certificate in 1890, retiring in 1897. On the outbreak of the European War, at the age of 51, he rejoined as Lt.-Commander (G.) Emergency List, and was promoted to Acting-Commander of the Excellent, 12 Oct. 1914, and died while on active service, of pneumonia, at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, 14 Oct. 1914. He was buried in the Churchyard of the village of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff. Lt.-Commander Traherne _m._ at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London, 16 April, 1907, Dorothy Emma Olivia, elder dau. of George Felix Standish Sinclair, of 3, Manson Place, London, S.W., and granddau. of the late Sir John George Tollemache Sinclair, of Ulbster, 3rd Bart., M.P., and had two sons and one dau.: Cennydd George, now of Coedarhydyglyn, _b._ 14 Dec. 1910; John Rhodri Llewellyn, _b._ 24 Sept. 1913; and Margaret Agnes Mary, _b._ 1 Dec. 1908. [Illustration: =Llewellyn E. Traherne.=] =TRAVERS, ALBERT JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14738 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TRAYNOR, THOMAS=, Stoker, R.N.R., S. 2922, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =TREHANE, GEORGE=, Leading Stoker, K. 1240, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =TREVELYAN, WILFRED=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, 2nd _s._ of Sir Ernest John Trevelyan, of 1, Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, D.C.L., Reader in Indian Law to the University of Oxford, etc. [gdson. of the Ven. George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, 3rd _s._ of Sir John Trevelyan, of Nettlecombe, 4th Bart.], by his 2nd wife, Julia Isabel, dau. of Edward Walhouse Mark, late Consul at Marseilles; b. Calcutta, 10 Oct. 1893; educ. Rugby, and at Manchester University; gazetted from the Officers' Training Corps to the 5th (Reserve) Battn. Rifle Brigade, 15 Aug. 1914, was transferred to the 4th Battn. 8 Sept. following, served with his regt. in France and Flanders, and died at Ypres, 5 May, 1915, from wounds received in action the previous day. He was buried in the grounds of Hooge Chateau, France; _unm._ [Illustration: =Wilfred Trevelyan.=] =TREVENA, FREDERIC WILLIAM=, Private, No. 931, A Coy., 1/5th Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (T.F.), only surviving _s._ of Richard Charles Trevena, of 33, Lakeside Road, Palmer's Green, N., by his wife, Eliza Barnicoat, dau. of the late John Robins, of Penryn, Cornwall; _b._ London, 22 Oct. 1892; educ. Bowes Road School, was a member of the Clerk's Department of the Southgate Urban District Council Office; joined the Seaforth Highlanders, 14 Sept. 1914; went to France, 1 May, 1915, and was killed on the 21st of that month, by shell fire, while the battn. was resting in an orchard about three miles from the firing line, some miles N.E. of Bethune. Buried in the orchard; _unm._ The Chaplain, the Rev. D. Macfarlane wrote: "We were encamped and he and others were simply resting in their bivouac when the shells came raining across on us. We had been shelled the day before farther up the line and had left it to come here for safety as this place had never been shelled before. But this time the shells had a message, and it was your dear Frederic that they came to. He could have suffered nothing, as death was instantaneous. The others were spared, though they got a shock. We feel keenly parting so suddenly from a good comrade and a brave man." [Illustration: =Frederic W. Trevena.=] =TREVENER, WALTER JOHN=, Leading Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2277), 289209, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =TREVOR, HARRY SPOTTISWOODE=, Lieut., Royal Engineers, _s._ of Sir Arthur Charles Trevor, K.C.S.I., late of the Indian C.S., Revenue Member of the Bombay Government (1892-95) and Public Works Member of the Government of India (1896-1901), by his wife, Florence Mary, 2nd dau. of Col. Cyril Jackson Prescott, Bombay S.C., and grandson of Captain Robert Salusbury Trevor, 3rd Bengal Cavalry (who was murdered at Kabul in Dec. 1841, with the British Envoy, Sir William Macnaghten); _b._ Karachi, India, 19 July, 1899; educ. Marlborough College, where he was in the sixth form. Prefect and Head of his house, and a member of the house and school football teams, and the School Shooting Eight. From Marlborough he passed direct into Woolwich, became a member of R.M.A. Football XV, and gained his commission in the R.E., after an 18 months course, 1 Oct. 1909. After the usual period of training at Chatham he was ordered to India, served for a time in the Military Works Department at Jullunder, in the Punjab, and was then transferred to the Engineering Staff of the North-Western State Railway at Lahore, and promoted Lieut. 28 Jan. 1912. On the outbreak of the war he was attached to the 1st K.G.'s O. Sappers and Miners, and proceeded with the 4th Field Company of the battn. as part of the Meerut |