Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookN.Z.; volunteered for Imperial service on the outbreak of war, and joined the N.Z.E.F. Aug. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force, and from there went to the Dardanelles, where he was killed in action during a night sortie, 5 June, 1915; _unm._ He was mentioned in Despatches with his Coy. Sergt.-Major, for bringing in a wounded man under heavy fire. He was for a long time reported as missing, and Sapper L. J. Poff wrote: "The last that was seen of Jim as far as I can ascertain was that he was by himself in a Turkish trench. I hope he was taken prisoner rather than that he has been killed, for he has proved himself as brave as a lion. I sought out the Sergt.-Major of Jim's company, who was with him in bringing in a wounded man, of which I wrote some time ago. He tells me that they were both 'Mentioned in Despatches' for it. The Sergt.-Major says that the sortie in which Jim became missing was a purely voluntary one, but practically the whole of his section went. They sallied out, did their work, and what was left returned with the wounded. The dead they could not bring in then. A few nights afterwards a party went out and gathered the identity discs of those who were killed. They also procured those of the men whose dead bodies were thrown out of the Turkish trenches, accounting for all but six. Jim's disc was not among them, so let us hope he is a prisoner," but later he was officially returned as killed in action, 5 June, 1915. [Illustration: =Gilbert J. B. Cairnie.=] =CAIRNS, JOHN=, Sergt., No. 3515, 2nd Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, _s._ of the late Thomas Cairns, Gunner, Mid-Ulster Artillery, by his wife, Phoebe (Ballygawley, co. Tyrone), dau. of James Montgomery, of Feddan, Ballygawley, co. Tyrone; _b._ Ballygawley, co. Tyrone, 12 May, 1891; educ. National School there; enlisted originally in 1909, was called up on mobilisation, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Messines 31 Oct. following; _unm._ His brother, Private William Cairns, No. 17584, 9th Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, is now (1916) on Active Service. [Illustration: =John Cairns.=] =CALE, ALBERT=, P.O., 2nd Class (R.F.R., A. 2006), 143929 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =CALLANDER, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2332, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), 6th _s._ of the late Thomas Edward Callander, late of Richmond, Surrey, by his wife, Mary Ann Henrietta, dau. of the late Edward Faggetter; _b._ Richmond, Surrey, 21 June, 1886; educ. Commercial Travellers' Schools, Pinner; was manager of the costume department at Messrs. Green & Co., Oxford Circus Mansions; volunteered after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined the London Scottish; went to France in March, and was killed in action, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Arthur W. Callander.=] =CALLEY, OLIVER JOHN=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. Wiltshire Regt., only _s._ of the Rev. John Henry Calley, Vicar of Figheldean, Salisbury, by his wife, Elizabeth Isabella Maria, yst. dau. of Major John Haverfield; _b._ Chiseldon, 4 July, 1892; educ. at The Old Ride, Branksome, Bournemouth, and St. John's School, Leatherhead; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Territorial Force to the Wiltshire Regiment, 4 Dec. 1912, joining at Tidworth in Jan. 1913, and being transferred the following Sept. to the 2nd Battn. at Gibraltar. He was promoted Lieut. 27 Oct. 1914; went to the Front the same month, and was invalided home a few weeks later. He left for the Front again in Dec., and was killed in action, 12 March, 1915; _unm._ Buried, Spanbrock Molen. His Colonel said of him that he deplored the loss of such a valuable and trustworthy officer. [Illustration: =Oliver J. Calley.=] =CALROW, WILLIAM ROBERT LAUNCELOT=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Loyal North Lancashire Regt., _s._ of Gerald Walton Calrow, of Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas, U.S.A., by his wife, Mabel Selina Elizabeth, dau. of the late Edmund King, formerly of Bury St. Edmunds and later of Boerne, Texas, and gdson. of the late Robert Calrow, of Cuzgarth, Adel, Leeds; _b._ San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., 12 March, 1895; educ. Seascale, The School House, Rugby, and Sandhurst; received his commission 17 Sept. 1913, joined his regt. early in Nov. 1913, and accompanied it to France, 12 Aug. 1914. He was in the retreat from Mons, the Battles of the Marne and the Aisne, at which latter he was killed by a high explosive shell, 7 Oct. 1914. He was buried near Vendresse, on the Aisne, about 12 miles from Braye; _unm._ Letters from his superior officers testify to his great courage, his capability, and the esteem in which he was held in the regt. [Illustration: =William Robert Launcelot Calrow.=] =CALVERLEY=, JAMES, Armourer, 342978, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CALVERLEY, LAWRENCE BASIL=, Ordinary Seaman, J. 13727, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =CALVERT, HERBERT EDWIN=, Private, No. 6994, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Edwin Calvert, ex-Police Constable; _b._ Lincoln, 13 Dec. 1888; enlisted Oct. 1906; served in Egypt Jan. 1908 to April, 1911; was badly wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in hospital in Paris following the amputation of his leg, 24 Sept, 1914. Private Blanchard, who was severely wounded the same day, writing from hospital at Woolwich, said: "I sincerely hope Calvert is not dead. He was one of my best friends. He was the one that carried me to safety." Calvert _m._ Lincoln, 13 April, 1914, Alice Maud, dau. of James Barnes, of Norwich, and had a posthumous son, Herbert Edwin, _b._ 14 Dec. 1914. =CALVERT, JOHN DUTTON=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Rifle Brigade, elder _s._ of Edmund Percy Calvert, of The Manor House, Spexhall, Halesworth, by his wife, Susan May, eldest dau. of the late Col. the Hon. Charles Dutton, of Twigworth Lodge, Gloucester [5th _s._ of James Henry Legge, 3rd Baron Sherborne]; _b._ Abbotswood, Romsey, 26 Feb. 1891; educ. Winton House, Winchester, Osborne, Dartmouth and Sandhurst (1909); was gazetted to the Rifle Brigade 20 Sept. 1911, joined the 4th Battn. in Cairo in Nov. 1911, and proceeded with it a year later to India. He was promoted Lieut. 16 April, 1914, and left Dagshai with his battn. the following Oct. for Winchester, and from there went to Flanders 20 Dec. 1914. Lieut. Calvert was killed in action near Ypres, 15 Feb. 1915, during a heavy bombardment. He came out of his dug-out to help a wounded man, and was killed instantaneously by a shrapnel shell. A few days previously he had assisted to bring in a wounded rifleman under difficult conditions, owing to the mud and wet, and that it was a fairly bright night, with Germans sniping. He was buried at Dickebusch; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Dutton Calvert.=] =CAMBRIDGE, GEORGE WILLIAM=, Private, No. 6235, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of William James Cambridge, of 2, Brocks Cottages, Fairfield Sout |