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r saw him again. He was taken to the 25th Field
Ambulance at Estaires and died there. He was shot by a rifle bullet
in the chest." While at Clare College he was first secretary and then
captain of the Clare Rowing Club, and under his leadership Clare rowing
improved so greatly that the well-known footer college was placed in
the first division on the river for the first time for many years.

 [Illustration: =Harry Vivian Byatt Byatt.=]

=BYE, FRANK EDWIN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17384, H.M.S. Hawke;
lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.

=BYHAM, EDWARD ARTHUR GEORGE=, Private, R.M.L.I. (Ports.), 12937,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.

=BYRNE, HERBERT HENRY=, Leading Seaman, 184370, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=BYRNE, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 2235), 204649, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.

=BYRNE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 5334, 2nd Battn. Royal Dublin
Fusiliers, _s._ of the late Thomas Byrne, Royal Irish Rifles,
by his wife, Anne (Castledermot, co. Kildare), dau. of James Grace;
_b._ Carlow, 14 Aug. 1895; educ. Castledermot; joined the Army in
Aug. 1911, and was killed in action at Ypres, 13 Jan. 1915; _unm._

=CADGER, WILLIAM LAW=, Leading Stoker (R.F.R., B. 4793), 293766
(Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.

=CADMAN, ISAIAH=, Private, No. 10213, 3rd Battn. Cheshire Regt.,
_s._ of the late Samuel Cadman, of Bilston, co. Staffs, Collier,
by his wife, Ann (9, Taylor's Buildings, Heywood, Lanes, Manchester),
dau. of Joseph Reynolds; _b._ Awsworth, co. Notts. ...; educ.
Bilston; enlisted 12 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec., and was killed
in action at Neuve Chapelle, 13 March, 1915; _unm._

=CAESAR, AUGUSTUS BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 1896, 1st Battn.
(Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of the late
Julius Cæsar, of 49, Chippenham Road, Elgin Avenue, W., formerly of
Southampton, M.P.S., F.S.M.C., by his wife, Emma (49, Chippenham Road,
Elgin Avenue, W.), dau. of James Baker; _b._ at 49, Chippenham
Road aforesaid, 12 April, 1897; educ. at Vale College, Maida Vale, W.,
afterwards at the City of London Freeman's School, where he obtained
the bronze medal for rifle shooting at Bisley; he was an optician and
microscopical demonstrator attached to the firm of H. F. Angus & Co.,
Wigmore Street, W.; joined the 1st City of London Regt., 17 Aug. 1914;
trained at Croydon; left for Malta, 19 Sept. 1914; returned to England,
Feb. 1915; went to France, 9 March, 1915, and was killed in action on
Sunday, 9 May, 1915, at the Battle of Aubers Ridge.

=CAFFYN, HAROLD HUNT=, Capt., 1st Battn., North Staffordshire
Regt., eldest _s._ of Stephen Mannington Caffyn, of 6, Cedar
Gardens, S.W., M.D., by his wife, Kathleen, Novelist (Iota) (Lacey
Green, Princes Risborough), dau. of William de Vere Hunt, of Waterloo
House, co. Tipperary; _b._ at Mount Sandria, South Australia,
10 Feb. 1882; educ. Rugby and Sandhurst; gazetted second Lieut.,
unattached, 8 Jan. 1901; posted to the 2nd North Staffordshires 9
March following and promoted Lieut., 16 Feb. 1904; served in the South
African War (Queen's medal with 2 clasps) 1901-2, and afterwards in
India and retired in 1912. Subsequently he was for eighteen months
Private Secretary to Sir Wilfred Collett, Governor of British Honduras,
but after the outbreak of war volunteered and was gazetted Capt., 14
Nov. 1914. He rejoined his old regiment in Jan., went to France, 7
Jan., 1915, and was killed in action in front of the trenches near
Armentières, 21 March, 1915, while reconnoitring; _unm._

=CAHILL, HENRY THOMAS=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 1709), 152629,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914; _m._

=CAINAN, DAVID WALTER=, Corpl., No. 9866, 2nd Battn. Rifle
Brigade, 4th _s._ of William Cainan, of 49, Albert Street,
Llanelly, South Wales, Marine Engineer, by his wife, Catherine, dau.
of William Perrott, of Llanelly; _b._ Llanelly, 9 April, 1886;
educ. Copper Works School; joined the Army 4 May, 1903, and after being
stationed at Malta for 12 months, he went to India, where he did 11
years' service, returning to Europe with his regt. after the outbreak
of war. He was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, between the 10-14
March, 1915; _unm._ He was an all-round athlete, having gained the
light-weight boxing championship of India, as well as a record for long
jump and high jump.

=CAIRD, JAMES ROBERT=, Capt., 2nd Battn. King's Own Scottish
Borderers, _s._ of Major Lindsay Henryson Caird (late Border
Regt.), Assistant to Colonel in charge of Records, No. 2 District, by
his wife, the late Janet Laura, 5th dau. of the late Rowland Hunt,
of Boreatton Park, co. Salop, and Kibworth Hall, co. Leicester, and
grandson of the late Right Hon. Sir James Caird, of Cassencary,
Kirkcudbrightshire; _b._ Dalhousie, India, 4 Nov. 1892; educ.
Bedford and Carlisle Grammar Schools; was in the office of the
Australian Mercantile Land & Finance Co., Ltd., but when war broke out
at once applied for a commission, and being a member of the Inns of
Court O.T.C., was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3rd Battn. K.O.S.B. 15 Aug. 1914.
He was promoted Lieut. 9 Nov. following, and went to the Front in Dec.,
being attached to the 2nd Highland L.I. until March, when he came home
on short leave. On his return to the Front he was posted to the 2nd
Battn. of his regt., and was killed in action while leading his platoon
over open ground in the advance upon St. Julien, near Ypres, 23 April,
1915; _unm._ He was promoted Capt. after his death to rank as from
2 Feb. 1915. Major Hilton, who was in command of the battn. during the
action and was himself seriously wounded, wrote: "Capt. Caird was a
gallant fellow, and we can ill afford to lose his kind.... I didn't
get much detail of the manner of his death as I was also knocked over,
but I know enough to say that he died game and led his men well until
killed." And Sergt. Hugh McMurchy, in a sworn statement, declared: "I
saw Lieut. Caird killed on 23 April in the advance at St. Julien. He
was advancing in front of me and was shot through the forehead, being
killed instantaneously." Capt. Caird's experience of active service
had brought him to the conviction that he preferred a military to a
civil career, and his application for a permanent commission had been
sent in before his death. His last letter to his father contained an
interesting account of the assault and capture of Hill 60, in which he
took part.

 [Illustration: =James Robert Caird.=]

=CAIRNIE, GILBERT JAMES BRYAN=, Corporal, No. 12/50, A Coy.,
3rd Auckland Infantry, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._
of James Bryan Cairnie, of Taranaki, New Zealand, retired Farmer;
_b._ Lymington, near Kilmarnock, co. Ayr, 5 June, 1881; educ.
Tarbolton, Ayr, and Higher Grade School, Deansgate, Manchester; went
to New Zealand and was Computing Draughtsman, Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland,

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