Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book, Higham Hill, Walthamstow; joined the 3rd Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. in March, 1911; transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, with which he proceeded to the Front on the outbreak of war; took part in the Battles of Mons and the Marne, and was killed in action at the Aisne while going to the assistance of his superior officer, who had been seriously wounded, 20 Sept. 1914. Buried above the village of Paissy Soissons; _unm._ His elder brother is now (1916) serving in Egypt. =CHALLIS, WALTER=, Leading Signalman, 224820, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHALLONER, ALAN CRAWHALL=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Duke of Cornwall's L.I., only _s._ of Frederick Charlton Turner Challoner, of Ealing, co. Middlesex, by his wife, Elspeth, dau. of the late Joseph Crawhall; _b._ Ealing, 18 Dec. 1892; educ. St. Paul's School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; obtained his commission in the Duke of Cornwall's L.I. 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Hooge, 30 July, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the Sanctuary Wood, in front of Hooge, Flanders, with six brother officers. Col. M. Stokoe wrote: "Ever since your son went to France he had done splendidly. He was brave and fearless, and always was a great assistance in attending the wounded owing to his medical knowledge. He was extremely popular with the men and handled them excellently. He was just the stamp of man to make an officer and leader of men, and we shall have great difficulty in replacing him." Major Carew Barnett also wrote, saying: "He was doing splendidly, and at the time of being wounded he was in command of a company, all the officers of which had been killed or wounded. The gap he creates is, indeed, a hard one to fill, both as an officer and a friend." A few days before he was killed, Lieut. Challoner got permission to do a little reconnoitring on his own account in a wood to the north of Menin Road, and was warned not to show himself, as it was shelled by the enemy on the least suspicion of the presence of any English; going up with one of his men he came upon a number of dead British and German soldiers, a large number of accoutrements, and in a dug-out about 100 rounds of trench mortar shells, etc., also the body of an English officer of the rank of Capt., Royal Fusilier badge and ribbon of the Military Cross, which he took steps to have buried. Subsequent inquiry proved the identity of the officer who had been killed by a shell five weeks earlier evidently by concussion as the body was found lying close to a shell hole but unwounded by a doctor and party, who removed it to a place of safety for burial, but on returning later it had disappeared, and was not found until Lieut. Challoner came upon it in the wood. Its presence and the bodies of the British and German soldiers, etc., remain a mystery. Returning to camp with as many of the mortar shells as he and his man could carry, Lieut. Challoner's attention was drawn to the fact that the wood was being heavily shelled. When he observed, "Yes, I know, before leaving I showed myself at the edge of the wood to draw the enemy's fire, which they are wasting quite satisfactorily." [Illustration: =Alan Crawhall Challoner.=] =CHALMERS, WILLIAM ROBERT=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24697 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Robert Chalmers, of 11, Linton Street, Leicester; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =INGLES-CHAMBERLAYNE, RUPERT HENRY=, Midshipman, R.N., only _s._ of the late Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne, J.P., by his wife, Louisa Grace (The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold), dau. of the Rev. Charles Dallas Marston, Vicar of St. Paul's, Onslow Square, S.W.; _b._ Maugersbury Manor, Stow-on-the-Wold, 4 July, 1897; educ. Winton House, Winchester, and the Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges. He was appointed to H.M.S. Hawke, 14 Aug. 1914, and was lost in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914, when that ship was torpedoed. His late tutor at Dartmouth wrote: "His pleasant, open smiling face was so very attractive. The first glance I had of it left no doubt in my mind of his character and his upbringing, and all that I ever saw or heard of him merely strengthened my first impression. He was a clean-hearted English gentleman, and worthy of the great service to which you so generously gave him." And Lieut.-Commander R. R. Rosoman, R.N., H.M.S. Hawke: "I feel certain the boy stuck to his post to the very last, because he was a splendid fellow." [Illustration: =R. H. Ingles-Chamberlayne.=] =CHAMBERS, EDWARD=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 1151), 276444, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHAMBERS, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 10030), 107623, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHAMBERS, WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 17362, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =CHAMP, FRANCIS LOGAN=, Sergt., R.M.L.I. (R.F.R.), Ch. 2978, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =CHAMPION, EDWARD THOMAS=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21840, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =CHAMPION, VICTOR ALFRED RICHARD=, Bugler, No. 1468, 13th (Princess Louise's Kensington) Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of Frank Champion, of 36, Portnall Road, Paddington, by his wife, Anna, dau. of John Sawyer, of Lincolnshire; _b._ Woodfield Place, Harrow Road, Paddington, 2 March, 1897; educ. Moberley Board School there; joined the Kensingtons, 13 June, 1913; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war; went to France 2 Nov. 1914; was wounded in action at Aubers Ridge, 9 May, 1915, and died in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, two days later; _unm._ [Illustration: =Victor A. R. Champion.=] =CHAMPS, SIDNEY=, Chief Stoker (R.F.R., A. 2058), 163578, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CHANCE, JOSEPH=, Leading Stoker, K. 1158, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =CHANCELLOR, SAMUEL=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 110580, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =CHANDLER, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 8271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =CHANDLER, HENRY NORMAN=, L.-Corpl., No. 59, 3rd Coy. Divisional Engineers, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Henry Chandler, Plumber, by his wife, Elizabeth (71, Eldon Road, Wood Green, London), dau. of Joseph Newman; _b._ Twickenham, co. Middlesex, 8 March, 1891; educ. Hammersmith; emigrated to Australia in 1911, and was employed on the Broken Hill mines as a carpenter. On the declaration of war in Aug. 1914, he volunteered, left Australia with the first contingent, and received promotion at the Dardanelles. He was killed in action there, 1 Aug. 1915; _u |