Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookuperintended getting the boats out, and had ordered as much wood as possible to be thrown overboard for the men to cling to. A survivor narrates that he met the Commander, who told him to tell everybody to keep cool. He then gave the command to get the boats out. He _m._ at St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 15 July, 1913, Violet Hazel, dau. of Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., and had one dau., Margaret Charley, _b._ 29 Dec. 1914. [Illustration: =Charles Frederick Ballard.=] =BALMAIN, JOHN=, Officer's Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4470, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BAMFORD, EDWIN SCOTT=, Capt. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Arthur Bamford, of Misterton Hall, Lutterworth, by his wife, Annie (who re-_m._ Capt. the Hon. Harold Brooke Hawke), dau. of John Nash, of Chicago; _b._ Bromborough, co. Chester, 23 April, 1885; educ. Uppingham and afterwards in Switzerland, and joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Leicestershire Regt., from which he passed into the York and Lancaster Regt. 6 July, 1907, becoming Lieut. 1 Feb. 1909. In that year he passed the Signalling Course at Poona, and obtained a certificate for Field Telephoning; in 1911 he took the Musketry and Machine Gun Course at Satara, and in 1912 the Physical Training and Swordsmanship at Poona, where he was Gymnastic Superintendent for eight months, serving altogether seven years (1908-14) in India. On 12 March, 1913, he was appointed Adjutant of his battn. with which he joined the Expeditionary Force in France in Jan. 1915. He had been promoted Capt. 5 Sept. 1914, and was mortally wounded in action on his birthday, 23 April, 1915, during a charge at the second Battle of Ypres, and _d._ at the Poperinghe Clearing Station the following day. The following abbreviated account of the circumstances attending his death was received from a brother officer: "On the morning of April 22 the battn. was resting--the men playing football--when the French troops came hurrying back completely overcome by asphyxiating gases. Immediately, on their own initiative without any command, our men fell in and moved off by companies from trenches near St. Jean, with fixed bayonets, across open country in broad daylight, with only two guns to support them, to fill in the gap left by the French, which the Canadians were unable to protect with their flank. They made the attack through a hail-storm of high velocity shell fire and machine guns at short range, which nearly wiped out the whole battn., leaving 300 out of the original 1,200. In spite of the heavy casualties, they pushed on, as a Canadian officer remarked: 'As if they were on parade,' and eventually reached a field which was under still heavier fire. At the top of the field was a hedge on which the enemy's fire was concentrated; very few of the battn. got past it. It was here that the Colonel was killed outright and Capt. Bamford, having done magnificent work during the whole attack, was mortally wounded. Some days after, Gen. Plumer came to see the few survivors and congratulated them on their gallant attack. Had it not been made the Germans would have broken through. To use the General's own words: 'They had saved the situation.'" Capt. Bamford was a keen sportsman and a first-class shot. He _m._ London, 1 Jan. 1913, Lulu, only dau. of the late Edwin Whitney Smith, of Bath; _s.p._ [Illustration: =Edwin Scott Bamford.=] =BAMPTON, WILLIAM=, 2nd Ship's Steward, 347283, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BANBURY, CHARLES WILLIAM=, Capt., Coldstream Guards, only _s._ of the Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick George Banbury, of Warnford Place, Highworth, co. Wilts., 1st Bt., M.P. for the City of London, by his wife, Elizabeth Rose, dau. and co-heir of the late Thomas Barbot Beale, of Brettenham Park, co. Suffolk; _b._ 19, Grosvenor Street, London, W., 11 Feb. 1877; educ. Eton and University College, Oxford; gazetted to the Coldstream Guards, 9 Aug. 1899, and promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1901, and Capt. 27 March, 1909. He served in the South African War, receiving the Queen's medal with three clasps, and the King's medal with two clasps. From March, 1909-Aug. 1910, he served as A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding 1st Division, Aldershot Command, and from March, 1912, to the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command. He _d._ at Soupir, near Soissons, 16 Sept., 1914, from wounds received in the Battle of the Aisne two days previously, and was buried at Soupir. He _m._ at the Guards' Chapel, 29 April, 1913, Joseph Marguerite (Wadley Manor, Faringdon, Berks), dau. of Jose Reixach, and had a son and a daughter: Charles William, _b._ 18 May, 1915, and Mary Heritage, _b._ 28 March, 1914. Capt. Banbury won the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown, riding Capt. Christie Miller's Sprinkle Me two years in succession, 1909 and 1910, and also the Grand International Steeplechase on the same. He won the Aldershot Gold Cup, and the United Service Hunter's Cup both twice on horse Noble Roy, and the Coldstream Plate twice (1903 and 1904) on his own horse Casino, and once (1911) on Noble Roy, besides many other races. He rowed in the University College four and in the eight, and played polo for the Coldstream Guards. [Illustration: =Charles William Banbury.=] =BANFIELD, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4170), S.S. 102835, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BANKES, EDWARD NUGENT=, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 5th and yst. _s._ of the late Henry Hyde Nugent Bankes, of Wraysbury, co. Bucks, by his wife, the Hon. Lalagé, née Vivian, dau. of Richard Hussey, 1st Lord Vivian, P.C., G.C.B., and grandson of the Right. Hon. George Bankes, of Kingston Hall, Dorset, M.P.; _b._ Wraysbury, 3 Oct. 1875; educ. Charterhouse. During the South African War he served in the ranks with Lumsden's Horse, and was afterwards employed with Imperial Yeomanry; took part in the operations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal, May, 1900, including action near Johannesburg, and in those in the Transvaal, March, 1901, to Jan. 1902, and was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 20 Aug. 1901], and awarded the Queen's medal with five clasps. He was given a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (the Queen's Bays), 25 Dec. 1901; became Lieut. 25 Dec. 1902, and Capt. 12 Sept. 1908, and was Remount Officer in South Africa, 29 Sept. 1905, to 12 March, 1907, and Staff Officer there, 13 March, 1907. He retired 4 Dec. 1912, and joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battn. of the Dublin Fusiliers. On the outbreak of the European War he was called up, and joined the 2nd Battn. in France on 16 March, 1915, and was killed in action near St. Julien, 26 April following. He was buried close to a farm about 500 yards on the Ypres side of St. Julien. His commanding officer wrote: "He came safely through our big action of 25 |