Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookern Canada Scheme, and worked there for a year and a half until the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914. He then volunteered and enlisted as a private in the 9th Battn. of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Sept., being afterwards promoted L.-Corpl. He came over with the 1st Contingent in Oct., and trained with them on Salisbury Plain during the winter of 1914-15, and on 20 Feb. 1915, was given a commission in the 7th Norfolks. He went to the Front, May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ploegsteart, Flanders, 4-5 Aug. 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Kenelm Digby.=] =DIGGLE, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 2510, 6th Battn. King's Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of James Edward Diggle, of Liverpool; _b._ Liverpool, 10 Jan. 1895; educ. St. Margaret's Higher Grade School, Anfield; enlisted following the outbreak of war, 19 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 29 March, 1915; buried, Zillebeke. =DILKE, HUGH STANLEY=, L.-Corpl., No. 2107, Polytechnic Coy., 12th Battn. (The Rangers) The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th and yst. _s._ of Charles Wentworth Dilke, of Park Avenue North, Hornsey, N., co. Middlesex [a cadet of Dilke of Maxstoke Castle, co. Warwick], by his wife, Ellen, dau. of William Smith, of Cheddleton, co. Stafford; _b._ 7, Vincent Road, London, N., 2 Dec. 1889; educ. North Harringay School, London; and prior to the outbreak of war he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Napier Motors, Ltd., Acton Vale, W. He had joined the Rangers in 1908, but had retired in 1913, having completed his term of five years, but on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, immediately rejoined and volunteered for foreign service. He went to France 25 Dec. 1914, and after five weeks' training at St. Omer went into the trenches at Ypres. He was wounded in the left foot while on patrol duty at Zillebeke, during the second Battle of Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915. A brother officer wrote: "Bob went up again to the trenches, and was unlucky enough to get hit very slightly. We were happily able to tie him up on the spot, and take him to the nearest hospital. He called out to us quite cheerily as he passed us in an ambulance waggon." After three operations in No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne, he was sent home, and died in Queen Mary's Hospital, Southend, 21 March, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: "He was always so cheery, and did his work so well that we miss him sorely. He did his duty nobly." He was _unm._, and was buried in the Sutton Road Cemetery at Southend with full military honours on 24 March. [Illustration: =Hugh Stanley Dilke.=] =DILKES, SAMUEL RICHARD=, Private, No. 5298, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of John Dilkes, of Rose Cottage, South Croxton, near Leicester, by his wife, Henrietta, dau. of Richard Clarke, of Great Dalby, Melton Mowbray; _b._ Barsby, near Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, 9 March, 1885: educ. Gaddesby, near Leicester; enlisted 28 Dec. 1903; served in Egypt, 9 March, 1906, to 23 March, 1911, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 25 Aug. to 14 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action on the latter date, at the Battle of the Aisne; _unm._ =DILLON, LESLIE FRANK=, Private, No. 1330, 10th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, only _s._ of John Dillon, of Constantia, Houghton, formerly of Millbrook; _b._ 1894; went to Australia; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force on the outbreak of war, left for Egypt; went to the Dardanelles; was at first reported missing, but later information showed that he was killed on active service. =DIMMOCK, CHARLES=, Ship's Corpl., 1st Class, 192556, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =DING, DOUGLAS GEORGE=, L.-Corpl. No. 12435, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of William Ding, of Sutterton, co. Lincoln, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Bull; _b._ Kenure Park, Rush, co. Dublin, 27 Feb. 1892; enlisted Sept. 1914; went to France in a draft in Feb., and was killed in action during the Battle of Loos, 27 Sept. 1915, while making a reconnaissance with two men in front of the Guards position near the Chalk Pit, north of Loos; _unm._ An officer wrote: "The late Capt. of this coy. was very sorry to lose such a valuable man as Corpl. Ding, who was a very good and brave man." =DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM=, Private, No. 533, B Coy., 19th Battn., 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, dau. of the late William Turnbull Dobson; _b._ Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ. Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson's College, Edinburgh; went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his battn. in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; _unm._ Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos. =DIPPER, ARTHUR WILLIAM=, Private, No. 5550, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Frank Dipper, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Stockman, by his wife, Matilda, dau. of Edward Turrall, of Stretton-on-Dunsmore; _b._ Stretton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby, 24 Nov. 1884; educ. there; enlisted 6 May, 1904, and after serving seven years passed into the Reserve. On mobilisation he rejoined, left England with his regiment early in Aug., and served through the retreat from Mons and the various subsequent engagements on the Aisne and Marne. On 2 Nov. he had a narrow escape, a bullet going through his coat, and after striking a tin he was carrying in his breast pocket, passed along his chest, and came out the other side of his coat. He was wounded in the foot on 2 Dec., and was killed in action at Cuinchy, 28 Feb. 1915, by the explosion of two shells close to his head. His brother, Private George Dipper, was standing by his side at the time, but escaped with a few scratches. He was buried at Cuinchy, near La Bassée. He _m._ at Coventry, 20 July, 1911, Annie, dau. of George Wall, of West Bromwich, co. Stafford, and had a son, George, _b._ 5 Nov. 1913. [Illustration: =Arthur William Dipper.=] =DISSPAIN, JOSEPH CHARLES=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9027), S.S. 2090, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DIVERS, PATRICK=, Private. No. 13689, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots. 2nd _s._ of James Divers, of 248, Charles Street, St. Rollox, Glasgow, employee in the Steel Works of Scotland (Blochaim, Ltd.), by his wife, Mary, dau. of Patrick O'Neil, of co. Tyrone; _b._ Glasgow, 28 Oct. 1895; educ. St. Mungo's R.C. School, Glebe Street, Glasgow, and St. Rock's R.C. School, Townhead, Glasgow; was working with Hyde Park Locomotive Works before the war. Enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France, 18 Dec. 1914. and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915; _unm._ While at St. Rock's R.C. School, he was captain of the football team, and that year they won the Glasgow Observer Cup and the Petershill F |