Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookoccasion he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the official record stating [London Gazette, 23 June, 1915]: "On 26 April, 1915, subsequent to a landing having been effected on the beach at a point on the Gallipoli Peninsula, during which both Brig.-Gen. and Brigade Major had been killed, Lieut.-Col. Doughty-Wylie and Capt. Walford organised and led an attack through and on both sides of the village of Sedd-el-Bahr on the Old Castle at the top of the hill inland. The enemy's position was very strongly held and entrenched, and defended with concealed machine guns and pompoms. It was mainly due to the initiative, skill and great gallantry of these two officers that the attack was a complete success. Both were killed in the moment of victory." Col. Doughty-Wylie _m._ 1 June, 1904, Lilian Oimara, widow of Henry Adams-Wylie, Lieut. Indian M.S., and eldest dau. of the late John Wylie, of West Cliffe Hall, co. Hants; _s.p._ He assumed the additional name of Wylie by Deed Poll in 1904. [Illustration: =C. H. M. Doughty-Wylie.=] =WYLLIE, HENRY=, Pte., No. 2547, 6th Battn. Highland Light Infanttry; _s._ of A. Wyllie, of 181, East Main Street, Armandale; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915. =WYLLIE, JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 7409, 5th Battn. Royal Scots Fusiliers; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; killed in action in Gallipoli, 12 July, 1915. =WYLLIE, JAMES BULLOCH=, Private, No. 12/2162, Auckland Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of A. Wyllie, of Belmont Road, Quinfoes Green, Midlothian; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; reported missing, 8 Aug. 1915, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day. =WYLLIE, SIDNEY ALFRED=, Private, No. 3382, 1st Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 2nd _s._ of Frederick William Wyllie, of 105, Kirkwood Road, Peckham (now on service in France), by his wife, Alice, dau. of Alfred Charles Yates; _b._ Port Sunlight, Cheshire, 13 June, 1899; educ. Stafford Street Wesleyan Council School, Peckham, S.E., was a Clerk; volunteered and joined the 1st London Regt., 9 Jan. 1915; went to France 16 April, and was killed in action there, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Sidney A. Wyllie.=] =WYLLIE, WILLIAM=, Stoker, 1st Class, 308390, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =WYNDER, JOHN=, L.-Corpl., No. 6570, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt.(The Buffs), _s._ of William Wynder, of 37, Staunton Street, Deptford; served with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action, 3 May, 1915. =WYNN, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 17348, 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers, eldest _s._ of Michael Wynn, of Southwick-on-Wear, Caulker, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of Thomas Storey, of Southwick; _b._ Southwick, 29 Jan. 1880; educ. Board School there; was employed at Priestman's Yard, Sunderland, and was Secretary of the Southwick Football Club; enlisted 11 Feb. 1915, and trained at Newcastle and East Boldon. After the Battle of Hill 60 at Ypres on 24 May, 1915, he was officially reported missing and is now assumed to have been killed that day. He _m._ at Southwick Parish Church, 1 Jan. 1907, Ada (15, Ogle Terrace, Southwick-on-Wear), dau. of Edward Arthur Hatley, of Southwick, and had three children: Michael, _b._ 10 Dec. 1913; William, _b._ 29 June, 1915; and Ruth, _b._ 15 April, 1912. [Illustration: =William Wynn.=] =WYNNE, EDWARD=, Private, No. 1425, 13th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; a native of co. Gloucester; served in Egypt and at the Dardanelles; killed in action, 9 Aug. 1915. =WYNTER, FRANCIS CONSTANTINE WILLIAM=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire L.I., yst. _s._ of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt. Bengal Army, and for 35 years a Queen's Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Augustus Dillon [4th _s._ of Henry Augustus, 13th Viscount Dillon]; _b._ The Hays aforesaid, 25 April, 1888; educ. Cothill; Harrow and Hertford College, Oxford (of which he had a Founder's Kin Scholarship); received a University commission as 2nd Lieut., Oxford and Bucks L.I., 19 May, 1911, and was promoted Lieut. 22 March, 1914, and Tempy. Capt. Sept. 1915; joined 2nd Battn. at Aldershot, and was posted to the 1st Battn. in India, 7 Feb. 1912; was appointed General Staff Officer (third grade), Indian Expeditionary Force, Dec. 1914, and was killed in action at Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915; _unm._ His eldest brother, Capt. P. C. Wynter, was killed in France in April (see his notice). [Illustration: =Francis C. W. Wynter.=] =WYNTER, PHILIP CECIL=, Capt., 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest _s._ of the late Philip Henry Massie Wynter, of The Hays, Ramsden, co. Oxon, Capt., Bengal Army, and for thirty-five years a Queen's Foreign Service Messenger, by his wife, Constance Louisa, dau. of the Hon. Constantine Dillon, 7th Dragoon Guards and 17th Lancers [4th _s._ of Henry, 13th Viscount Dillon]; _b._ London, 31 Jan. 1880; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 1st East Surreys from the Militia, 4 Dec. 1901, and joined his battn. at Lucknow the following year; promoted Lieut. 30 Nov. 1903, and Capt. 26 Jan. 1910; went to France the end of Oct., was invalided home the beginning of Dec. and returned to France 18 Feb., and was killed in action at Hill 60, 20 April, 1915; _unm._ He was a first-rate horseman and a good cricketer and played for the Free Foresters. His yst. brother, Capt. F. C. W. Wynter, was also killed in action (see his notice). [Illustration: =Philip C. Wynter.=] =YARD, JOSEPH=, Stoker, H.M.S. Hood Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the roast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =YARDE, FRANK=, L.-Sergt., No. 3197, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of Page Yarde, of Buckland St. Mary, near Chard, by his wife, Susan, dau. of James Yarde; _b._ Staple Hill, Buckland St. Mary, Chard, co. Somerset, 3 June, 1880; educ. Buckland St. Mary village school; enlisted 8 Jan. 1900; became L.-Corpl. 9 Nov, 1914; Corpl. 11 April 1915, and L.-Sergt. 12 July following; served in South Africa, 26 Nov. 1901, to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen's medal with three clasps); in Egypt, 29 Sept. 1906 to 29 Jan. 1908; and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 30 Aug. 1914 to 28 Sept. 1915, and was killed in action that day, near Vermelles, during the Battle of Loos. He was in a hastily dug trench in the firing line, when a shell burst and the nose cap caught him just above the forehead, killing him instantly. Letters from his comrades speak very highly of his conduct and of how much he was loved and respected by all. He was buried at the foot of the western slope of Hill 70, 300 yards from the village of Hulluch, Belgium. He _m._ at St. George's, Hanover Square, W., 1905, Agnes Mary (Drill Hall, London Road, Camberley), yst. dau. of the late James (and Elizabeth) Knight, of Marden, near Devizes, and had issue: Frank, _b._ |