Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookry nasty wound. The doctor attended immediately and we soon got him to hospital. The news from there was very good at first, but later reports were not so hopeful, and the news came through this morning that he died peacefully at 6.30 a.m." =BURNET, ROBERT=, Lieut.-Col. and Sanitary Staff Officer, 1st Wessex Division, R.A.M.C. (T.F.), 4th _s._ of George Burnet, of Wigan, co. Lancaster; _b._ 9 Feb. 1875; educ. King William's College, Isle of Man, and University College, Liverpool, graduating B.Sc. Hons. 1897, M.B., Ch.B., 1900, and M.Sc. 1904. Four years later he qualified D.P.H., Birmingham. After holding appointment as House Surgeon to the Rawcliffe Hospital, Chorley, he secured the appointment of Medical Officer of Health for the County Borough of Bury, and Medical Superintendent, Bury and District Joint Hospital Board, Fever and Smallpox Hospital, and Aitken Sanatorium for Consumption. Later he was appointed Medical Officer of Health for Cornwall and Principal Medical Officer, Cornwall Education Committee. He joined the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) in 1907, was for some time Capt. 2nd Wessex Field Ambulance, and in Feb. 1913 was promoted Major upon appointment as Divisional Sanitary Officer to the 1st Division. On the outbreak of war he joined his unit for active service, and was promoted Lieut.-Col. On the afternoon of Thursday, 28 Jan. 1915, he was riding between Newton St. Cyres and Exeter, accompanied by Col. H. J. Mackay, when his horse was frightened by some colts in a field near the roadway, and bolted. Half a mile further on Col. Burnet was thrown and died within a few minutes from injuries caused by a fracture of the skull. He was buried at Chorley, Lancashire, the family burial place. An order issued by Brig.-Gen. G. S. McD. Elliott, Commanding R.A.M.C. (T.F.), Wessex Division said: "Lieut.-Col. Burnet was an officer of very high professional attainments, and these he devoted unceasingly with never-failing energy and earnestness to the welfare of the Division. By his death the Army has been deprived of the services of an officer who can ill be spared, and those who knew him have lost a valued friend." Col. Burnet was a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and a member of the British Medical Association, and had held the offices of Senior Steward in Phœnix Lodge of Honour and Prudence, No. 331, Truro, and of Junior Steward in the Royal Cornubian Chapter, No. 331, Truro, of Royal Arch Masons. He was author of "Poliomyelitis and Dust Nuisance," in The British Medical Journal, 1911; and "Poliomyelitis, as illustrated by an English Epidemic," Paris Health Congress, 1913. He _m._ at Whalley Range, Manchester, 2 April, 1903, Alice, 3rd dau. of Thomas Thornber, of Vivary Bridge, Colne, co. Lancaster, and Westbourne, Rusholme, Manchester, and had three children: Gordon, _b._ 29 Sept. 1904; Georgina, _b._ 28 Jan. 1906; and Monica, _b._ 12 June, 1912. [Illustration: =Robert Burnet.=] =BURNETT, CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 10276), 204551, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BURNETT, FRANCIS=, Private, No. 8578, 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of J. Burnett, of Slew House, Broadwood Widger, Difton, Devon; _b._ Ashwater, Holsworthy, co. Devon; enlisted 19 March, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Dec. 1914. =BURNETT, GEORGE=, Private, No. 7591, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of George Burnett of Chichester; served with the Expeditionary Force; reported missing and now assumed to have been killed in action between 29 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1914. =BURNETT, NOEL FLETCHER=, Private, No. 6/18, Machine Gun Section, 1st Canterbury Infantry Battn. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, yst. _s._ of James Burnett, M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer, New Zealand Government Railways, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of Wilson Gibson, of Waitangi Station, South Canterbury, New Zealand; _b._ Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 Dec. 1889; educ. Wellington College, Victoria College and Canterbury College (all New Zealand), where he was in his last term at the Engineering School when war broke out; volunteered and enlisted in the Expeditionary Force; left for Egypt with the main body in Oct. 1914; took part in the repulse of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal in Feb. 1915; in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25-26 April, and in the great attack on Krithia, where he was severely wounded by a bullet in the lung; was six weeks in hospital at Alexandria, and was then invalided to England, where he was in various hospitals till Oct., when he rejoined at the Base Camp, Weymouth; went out with a draft, 15 Nov., and returned to the trenches early in Dec. and was shot at Chunock Bair, near Anzac, on the 13th of that month, and died the same day on board the hospital ship Dunluce Castle. Buried at sea between Anzac and Lemnos the same night; _unm._ His College Professor wrote: "He was a thoroughly sterling character, and commanded alike the respect and affection of his fellow-students and teachers. It was really his great influence which led to many College men enlisting after he had set the example. As a power for good and a standard for manliness amongst the students I shall greatly feel his loss." He was a keen sportsman and athlete, member of his college football fifteen for three years, and secretary of the College Engineering Society. [Illustration: =Noel Fletcher Burnett.=] =BURNHAM, CHARLES RICHARD=, Private, No. 1791, 4th Battn. West Riding Regt., _s._ of John Burnham, Commercial Traveller; _b._ Halifax, 16 Oct. 1872; educ. there. He was a member of the National Reserve, and on the outbreak of war joined the 4th Battn. West Riding Regt., 8 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action in France, 4 May, 1915, while carrying rations and water from the headquarters to the trenches. He was buried in the Military Burial Ground, Sailly. He _m._ at the Parish Church, Halifax, 19 May, 1894, Mary Emma, dau. of Isaiah Tawton, and had a dau: Ivy Eastwood, _b._ 16 May, 1907. =BURNS, ALBERT HORACE=, Private, No. 10720, 2nd Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., _s._ of Harry Walter Burns, of 97, Chingford Road, Walthamstow, Silversmith, by his wife, Emma Esther, dau. of Richard Rolph; _b._ Camden Town, 4 Feb. 1899; educ. Oldfield Road School, Willesden; joined the Army at the outbreak of the war, 11 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Festubert, 14 May, 1915, five days after his brother, Drummer Harry Walter Burns (see his notice); _unm._ [Illustration: =Albert Horace Burns.=] =BURNS, DAVID=, Private, No. 9413, 1st Battn. Scots Guards; _b._ Keith, co. Banff; enlisted 23 Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., and died a prisoner of war, 27 Jan. 1915, and was buried at Pont-a-Vendin, Pas de Calais, by the German authorities. =BURNS, HARRY WALTER=, Drummer, No. 1441, 3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Harry Walter Burns, Silversmith, by his wife, Emma Esther, dau. of Richard Rolph; _b._ Kentish Town, London, |