Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Books returning to rejoin his commanding officer, when he was seen to fall wounded. Lieut.-Col. Cadogan, commanding the battn., then ran to his assistance, accompanied, it is stated, by Sergt. H. Evans, D Coy. They found that Lieut. Dooner had been killed, and as they were returning Sergt. Evans states that Lieut.-Col. Cadogan was also shot down about 10 yards from the trenches. The 7th Division, since its disembarkation, had now lost over 80 per cent. of its strength, and the Royal Welsh Fusiliers belonging to it was left with only one officer--Capt. Parker, the Quartermaster--and 86 men out of a total of 31 officers and 1,100 rank and file which left Lyndhurst for the seat of war on 4 Oct. Lieut. Dooner at the time of his death was the youngest Adjutant in the Regular Army. He was a member of the Junior United Service Club, and _unm._ [Illustration: =A. E. C. T. Dooner.=] =DOPSON, WILLIAM=, Stoker, P.O. (Pensioner, R.F.R., A. 3401), 152717, H.M.S Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =DOREY, WILLIAM HENRY=, Gunner, R.M.A. 6064 (R.F.R., B. 843), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914; _m._ =COTTRELL-DORMER, CHARLES MELVILLE, D.S.O.=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd and elder surviving _s._ of Charles Walter Cottrell-Dormer, of Rousham Hall and Middle Aston, co. Oxford, and of Heath House and Stapleton Park, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L., Capt. late 13th Hussars, by his wife, Ursula, yst. dau. of Thomas Robert Brook Leslie-Melville-Cartwright, of Melville House, co. Fife, J.P., D.L., and of Lady Elizabeth, née Leslie-Melville, his wife; _b._ 18 Feb. 1892; educ. Eton; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Special Reserve of the Coldstream Guards, 6 Jan. 1912; was posted to the 3rd Battn. 10 June, 1914; and promoted Lieut.; went to France with his regt.; was mentioned in Despatches by F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French on 8 Oct., and was awarded the D.S.O., the official announcement recording that "after all his men had been driven out of the trenches by enfilade fire he remained to the last, and got his wounded men away." He was invested with the Order by the King 13 Jan. 1915; returned to the Front, and died 8 Feb. 1915, of wounds received in action at Bethune; _unm._ His eldest brother was killed in action 27 Oct. 1914 (see following notice). =COTTRELL-DORMER, CLEMENT=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Scots Guards, eldest _s._ of Charles Walter Cottrell-Dormer, of Rousham Hall and Middle Aston, co. Oxford, and of Heath House and Stapleton Park, co. Gloucester, J.P., D.L., Capt. late 13th Hussars, by his wife, Ursula, yst. dau. of Thomas Robert Brook Leslie-Melville-Cartwright, of Melville House, co. Fife, J.P., D.L., and of Lady Elizabeth, née Leslie-Melville, his wife (see previous notice); 6 Feb. 1891; educ. Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; served one year with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry); was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, 1 Feb. 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Krusick, near Ypres, 27 Oct. 1914; _unm._ =DORMER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Private, No. 6548, 4th Battn. Bedfordshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of Charles Dormer, of Wood Cottage, Courser's Farm, Colney Heath, co. Herts, by his wife, Dorcas, dau. of Charles Yarrington; _b._ Waterferry Common, co. Oxford, 25 June, 1890; educ. Roydon, Essex, and had worked as a farm labourer for Mr. W. C. B. Giddins at Courses, and Mr. W. B. Field, of Bowmans Green, London Colney, and at the time war broke out was in the service of Messrs. Adams & Sons, Cartage Contractors, St. Albans. He was on the Special Reserve of the 4th Bedfords, and was called up, 5 Aug. 1914, going to the Front the same month with a draft for the 2nd Battn., to which he was then attached. He was killed in action at Festubert, 18 May, 1915; _unm._ Several of his brothers are (1916) on active service. [Illustration: =William Charles Dormer.=] =DORNING, ARTHUR=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4010), S.S. 102101, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =DORRAM, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, S.S. 112173, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DOUGALL, ANDREW=, [Private, No. 2474, 1/5th Battn. The Royal Scots (T.F.), 4th _s._ of Andrew Dougall, of 8, Wolsey Place, Edinburgh, _s._ of the late John Dougall, of Househill, Larbert, Farmer, by his wife, Christina Marshall, dau. of the late Robert Taylor; _b._ Edinburgh, 16 Aug. 1896; educ. Parson's Green School there; unlisted 8 Sept. 1914; left with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles, 7 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Andrew Dougall.=] =DOUGALL, WALTER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 2137), 170245, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DOUGLAS, ALFRED SYDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 15466, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DOUGLAS, LESLIE HALL=, Lieut., 2nd Field Coy. Northumbrian Divisional R.E. (T.F.), only _s._ of John Douglas, of 33, Brighton Grove, Newcastle, by his wife, Dorothy Jane, dau. of Thomas Hall, Civil and Locomotive Engineer; _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne, 14 Nov. 1887; educ. Royal Grammar School and Armstrong College there, and qualified as a Marine Engineer, being Assistant Surveyor with Messrs. Swan & McFarlane, Newcastle-on-Tyne. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8 Sept. 1914. He went to the Front, 16 April, 1915; was promoted Lieut. 12 June, 1915, and was killed in action near Dranoutre, Belgium, 9 July, 1915; _unm._ A brother officer wrote: "He has done excellent work for us under the most trying and dangerous conditions. He was a brave, painstaking officer. His loss is greatly felt not only by his company and me, but particularly by his section, which he commanded so well." [Illustration: =Leslie Hall Douglas.=] =DOUGLAS, LESLIE STUART=, Corpl. and Despatch Rider, No. 1624, Signal Coy. 2nd London Divisional Engineers. R.E. (T.F.), _s._ of James Henry Douglas, of Dalry, Cossington Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, by his wife, Florence Helen, dau. of George Turner; _b._ Holloway, London, N., 30 Oct. 1893; educ. Stationers' School, London; was a Bank Clerk; joined the 15th London Regt. (P.W.O. Civil Service Rifles) in March, 1911; volunteered for foreign service after the outbreak of war and was transferred to the 2nd London Divisional Engineers in Jan. 1915; went to France, March, 1915, and died at Bethune, 24 Sept. 1915 from a fractured skull, while carrying Despatches; _unm._ [Illustration: =Leslie Stuart Douglas.=] =DOUGLAS, WILLIAM SHOLTO=, Major, R.E., of the Headquarters Staff, only _s._ of Col. John Charles Douglas, of Lansdowne House, Bath, late Worcester Regt., and nephew of General Sir Charles Douglas, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; _b._ St. Peter's, Jersey, 18 Sept. 1875; educ. Bath College; joined the Royal Engineers as 2nd Lieut. 2 |