Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookf the Colony, by his wife, Gertrude, dau. of the late William Blencowe, of Brackley, Northants; _b._ Bath, co. Somerset, 8 May, 1894; educ. Beach Lawn, Leamington Spa; Westminster (1908-13, King's Scholar); and Magdalene College (Exhibitioner), Cambridge. He joined the Cambridge O.T.C., Aug. 1914, and was gazetted to the 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade Nov. following, joining the 4th Battn. on active service in France,--March, 1915, and was killed in action at or near St. Eloi between 8 and 11 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =William B. W. Durrant.=] =DURWARD, QUENTIN=, Private, No. 9552, 3rd Battn. (Queen's Own Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of William Durward, Manager, Anglo-American Cable Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne; _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne, 24 Oct. 1895; educ. Northumberland; went to Toronto, Canada; joined the Queen's Own Rifles of Toronto at the end of 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; trained on Salisbury Plain during the winter; went to France in Feb., and was killed in action at Givenchy, 15 June, 1915; _unm._ His Capt. wrote: "He was a splendid soldier, always first and never shirking his duty." =DUSTIN, CLAUDE=, Corpl., No. 10/1229, 7th Wellington Regt., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of William Samuel Dustin, Pastrycook and Confectioner, Managing Director of Dustin, Ltd., Wanganui and Palmerston North, by his wife, Celia; _b._ Wanganui, New Zealand, 19 Dec. 1892; educ. High School, Wanganui; was for three years a Sergt. in the Wanganui Guards (T.F.), and on the outbreak of war volunteered for Imperial service, 8 Oct. 1914. After some months in Egypt, he took part in the famous landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action on the 27th, being shot through the forehead while rescuing a wounded comrade at Walker's Ridge; _unm._ [Illustration: =Claude Dustin.=] =DUTCH, WILLIAM BENJAMIN=, Sergt., No. 83812, 47th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, _s._ of William Dutch, of Bladud House, Bath, Accountant, by his wife, Alice, dau. of Alderman Alfred Taylor, of The Red House, Bath; _b._ Lower Weston, Bath, 21 April, 1894; educ. Bathforum, and Bath City Secondary School (3 years' Scholarship), and was employed in the engineering works of Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., of Bath. He joined the Army, 17 Aug. 1914; was made Bombardier, 1 Nov. 1914; Corpl., 14 Nov. 1914; and Sergt., 1 Jan. 1915; and died at the Thornhill Isolation Hospital, Aldershot, 11 April, 1915, of septic scarlet fever; _unm._ He was buried at Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath, with full military honours. His Capt. wrote: "I cannot exaggerate the loss he is to me personally and to the whole battery, had picked up a wonderful knowledge of gunnery and his work in general, was out and out the best sergeant I had, and would have gone far in the service." He was a keen sportsman and a popular football player. [Illustration: =William Benjamin Dutch.=] =DUTFIELD, WALTER THOMAS=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./14094, H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of James Dutfield, of 37, Randall Place, West Greenwich, S.E.; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =DUTTON, CHARLES EDMUND FERGUSON=, Rifleman, No. 2366, 1 Coy., 1st/16th Battn. (Queen's Westminster Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of the late Edmund Alfred Dutton, of 53-55, Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, W., Boot Manufacturer, by his wife, Susannah Spencer Biggs (21, Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, W.), dau. of the late Joseph Henry Ferguson, of Dublin; _b._ Notting Hill Gate, 22 July, 1890; educ. St. Mary Abbots Higher Grade School, Kensington; entered the employ of the Fore Street Warehouse Company, Ltd., in 1907, and at the time war was declared held a good position in the blouse department; volunteered, and enlisted in the Queen's Westminsters, 18 Aug. 1914; went to France, 24 Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Houplines, Flanders, on the night of 7 March, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in the cemetery there in the Rue Emile Zola by the Rev. Webb Peplow. The Sergt.-Major wrote that he "was such a nice boy and one of our best ... and is a great loss to his company and also to the battn." [Illustration: =Charles Edmund F. Dutton.=] =DUTTON, RALPH=, Leading Seaman (R.F.R., B. 5172), 177334, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =DUVAL, GEORGE LOUIS JOSIAH=, M.D., Major, Commanding No. 1 Coy., Field Ambulance, C.A.M.C., only _s._ of the late Louis Duval, of Grande Ligne, P. Quebec, Canada; _b._ Grande Ligne aforesaid, 10 March, 1876; educ. Filler's Baptist Institute there; entered as a Medical Student at McGill University in 1894, and graduated there with honours, 17 June, 1898; practised in Waltham, Mass., U.S.A., and then in St. John's, Quebec, later going to St. John's, New Brunswick; joined the C.A.M.C., at St. John's, P. Quebec, in April, 1908, being given a commission as Lieut., and was promoted Capt. June, 1911, and Major, in France, April, 1915; transferred to No. 8 Field Ambulance on going to St. John's, N.B., and in 1914 became M.O. 28th N.B. Dragoons; volunteered for overseas service on the outbreak of war, and his own unit not going, he was given charge of the section of No. 8 F.A., leaving his home and practice at a day's notice; left Valcartier for England with No. 1 F.A., 30 Sept. 1914; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was severely wounded in both legs during the Second Battle of Ypres, on Sunday, 25 April, 1915. At this action the Canadians suffered heavily, and No. 1 F.A. were ordered to open an advanced dressing station, which Major Duval did at St. Jean; later it had to be abandoned, and he had just succeeded in evacuating the last patient when he was hit about 8.30 p.m. by an explosive shell which burst about 20 yards from him. He was sent from Vlamertinghe to hospital at Boulogne and from there invalided to England, and died in London, 26 Aug. 1915. Col. Foster wrote: "No braver officer ever lived or would be found in our Division, and I shall always remember him for his splendid work at Ypres." Gunner H. T. Warene, who was wounded in this action and invalided back to Canada, said: "When I was struck Doctor Duval was the first to rush to my aid. We were both exposed to the fire, but he did not seem to mind. He was a kind, gentle and capable surgeon, and the boys all liked him and admired him as a physician, a soldier, and a man. I was most sorry to learn of his death." He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 5 April/31 May [London Gazette, 22 June], 1915. His body was being taken to Canada for burial on board the Hesperian when she was torpedoed and sunk. He _m._ at Montreal, 23 Oct. 1901, Maude (330, Charlotte Street, St. John's West, New Brunswick, Canada), dau. of Andrew Byrd, of Montreal, Building and Bridge Contractor, and had two children: Charles Louis Neville, _b._ 18 July, 1906; and Irene Byrd, _b._ 9 Sept. 1902. [Illustration: =George Louis J. Duval.=] =DWE |