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Gagger & Co, Auckland; volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Dec. 1914; left with the third reinforcements for the Dardanelles; was killed in action at Cape Helles during the Battle of Achi Baba, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ He was a keen sportsman and an enthusiastic member of the Otahuka Football Club. [Illustration: =William M. Carter.=] =BONHAM-CARTER, GUY=, Capt., 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars, 3rd _s._ of the late Alfred Bonham-Carter, C.B., sometime Referee of Private Bills in the House of Commons, by his wife, Mary, dau. of George Warde Norman, of Bromley Common; _b._ London, 25 May, 1884; educ. Horris Hill, Winchester, and Magdalen College, Oxford; joined the 19th Hussars as 2nd Lieut. 29 Nov. 1905; promoted Lieut. 9 March, 1907, and Capt. 4 Sept. 1912; served with Mounted Infantry in Northern Nigeria (1910-11), and was appointed Adjutant of Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 17 Feb. 1913; proceeded with that regt. to the Front in Sept. 1914, and was killed in action near Ypres, 14 May, 1915; buried at Vlamertinghe. Capt. Bonham-Carter was mentioned in F.M. Sir John French's Despatch of 31 May, 1915. He _m._ at Cromford, co. Derby, 18 Oct. 1911, Kathleen Rebecca, only dau. of Frederic Arkwright, of Willersley, Matlock, co. Derby, and had a son and dau.: John Arkwright, _b._ 27 March, 1915; and Diana, _b._ 31 Jan. 1913. [Illustration: =Guy Bonham-Carter.=] =CARTLEDGE, EVERITT PERCIVAL JOHN=, Leading Signaller (R.F.R., B. 2618), 201260, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CARTWRIGHT, JOHN DIGBY=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., eldest _s._ of the Rev. William Digby Cartwright, Rector of Aynhoe, by his wife, Lucy Harriette Maud, dau. of Edward Bury, and gdson. of Col. Henry Cartwright, Grenadier Guards, J.P., M.P. [7th _s._ of Lieut.-Col. William Ralph Cartwright, of Aynhoe Park, M.P.]; _b._ Aynhoe, co. Northants, 23 June, 1895; educ. Durnford, Wellington College and Sandhurst; received his commission in the 3rd Reserve Battn. of the Durham L.I., 10 Nov. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. He went to the Front, 15 June, 1915, and was killed in action at Hooge, 9 Aug. 1915, being buried there; _unm._ He was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch dated 30 Nov. 1915. [Illustration: =John Digby Cartwright.=] =CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM=, Gunner, R.M.A., 12222, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =CARVER, BERTRAM JOHN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 90), 117768, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CARVIL, ERNEST=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./16260; H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CASE, HENRY=, Stoker (R.F.R., B. 302), 277037, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CASEY, JAMES=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 205528, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CASH, GEORGE RICHARD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26705, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CASLEY, HUGH DE CHASTELAI=, Lieut. 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., only _s._ of Wilbraham John Braddick Casley, of Coatham, Redcar, co. York, Civil Engineer; _b._ Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 31 Aug. 1886; educ. Coatham Grammar School and Charterhouse, where he was in the O.T.C. He was articled to Head, Wrightson & Co., Ltd., of Stockton-on-Tees, as an engineer, leaving that firm to go to Dorman, Long & Co., Ltd., of Middlesbro', and became a member of the Cleveland Institute of Engineers. At the outbreak of war he was gazetted as 2nd Lieut. to the 6th (Service) Battn. Yorkshire Regt., 17 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 2 Feb. 1915, and appointed to the command of the machine gun section. He left England in July for the Dardanelles, and landed 6 Aug. at Suvla Bay with his battn., which was the first to land there. He survived the fierce fighting on that day on Lala Baba, where so many of the officers and men of his regt. fell, but he was killed on the following day (7 Aug) whilst leading his men across the Salt Lake to the attack on Anafarta; he was buried where he fell at the foot of Chocolate Hill; _unm._ [Illustration: =Hugh de C. Casley.=] =CASSIDY, CYRIL MARTIN=, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. King's Royal Rifle Corps, yst. _s._ of Thomas Cassidy, of Church End, Finchley; _b._ Ilford, co. Essex, ... Jan. 1893; educ. Mercers' School, London, and King's College, from which latter he obtained, by open competition, a clerkship in the Estate Duty Office, Somerset House; joined the Artists' Rifles in Oct. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left for France with the 1st Battn. 27 Oct. 1914, and after passing through the Cadet School at Bailleul was given a temporary commission in 1st King's Royal Rifle Corps, 23 April, 1915. He was mortally wounded during the advance near Richebourg l'Avoué, in the Battle of Festubert, on the night of 15-16 May, 1915, while leading his platoon over the parapet of a German trench, and died in the Field Ambulance the following night. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune, 18 May, 1915; _unm._ =CASTLE, GEORGE PHIL=, Private, No. 1925, 2nd Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late George William Castle, L.L.C. Fireman, by his wife, Annie (now wife of P.C. Harry Hebborn, of 10, Police Station, Paddington Green, W.); _b._ Faraday Road Fire Station, North Kensington, 1 Nov. 1889; educ. St. Peter's Schools, Paddington; and went to Australia. He had been a member of the Paddington Rifles (10th London Regt.), and after the outbreak of war volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Feb. 1915, and was killed in action at Lone Pine, Anzac, between 6-9 Aug. 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =George P. Castle.=] =CASTLE, JOHN=, Shipwright, 1st Class, 343174, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CASTLE, JOHN GEORGE=, Private, No. 2375, 1/5th Battn. West Yorks Regt., _s._ of the late John Buckle Castle, Stationmaster; _b._ Church Fenton, 19 Oct. 1894; educ. Higher Grade School, York; was in the employ of Councillor |