Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookromoted Lieut. 23 Jan. following; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Noel Scot Barrington.=] =BARRY, JAMES=, A.B. (R.F.R., 34 Immed. Class), 189368, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BARRY, JOHN FRANCIS=, Officer's Steward, 3rd Class, L. 4274. H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =BARSBY, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9097), 210354, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARSON, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 9083, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARSTOW, JOHN BAILLIE=, Major, R.E., eldest _s._ of Henry Clements Barstow, of Hazelbush, York, late Bengal Civil Service, by his wife, Cecilia Clementina, 3rd dau. of Rev. the Hon. John Baillie, M.A., Canon Residentiary of York [brother of George, 10th Earl of Haddington]; _b._ Allahabad, India, 31 Oct. 1872; educ. Clifton College and Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 24 July, 1891, and promoted Lieut. 24 July, 1894, Capt. 24 July, 1902, and Major 24 July, 1911. Killed in action near Bailly, 31 Aug. 1914; buried in the cemetery there. He _m._ at Killiney, 31 Oct. 1906, Ethel Constance, dau. of John Richards Orpen, of St. Leonard's, Killiney, co. Dublin, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, and had three sons and one dau.: John Michael Orpen, _b._ 15 Dec. 1907; Henry Stewart Peregrine, _b._ 21 April, 1909; George Baillie, _b._ 29 Aug. 1912; Cecilia Mary Penelope, _b._ 11 Feb. 1914. =BARTER, HARRY STANLEY=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26050, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =BARTER, WILLIAM CHARLES=, Stoker, P.O. (R.F.R., A. 891), 119878, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARTHROPP, SIDNEY ALFRED NATHANIEL SHAFTO=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., only _s._ of Major Alfred Shafto Barthropp, of Newport House, Essex (now serving on the Depôt Staff of the Norfolk Regt. at Britannia Barracks, Norwich), by his wife, Ellen Ada Wentworth, 2nd dau. of the late Capt. Sidney Wentworth Stanley, of Longstowe Hall, co. Cambridge, J.P., D.L., and nephew of the late Philip George Barthropp, for many years Master of the Essex and Suffolk Foxhounds; _b._ Kensington Court, W., 25 March, 1892; educ. at Winchester, where he played for "Commoners XVs." in Nov. 1909, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. After taking his degree in Nov. 1913, he went to the Bishop's Hostel, Farnham, Surrey, with the intention of studying for Holy Orders, and on the outbreak of war joined the 3rd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (Special Reserve) then at Dover. He subsequently joined the 2nd Battn. of the regt. in France, and had only been out there a fortnight when he was killed in action in the trenches in the brickfields, near Cuinchy, on 29 Jan. 1915. In announcing his death to his parents, Col. E. W. B. Green, officer commanding the regt., wrote: "He was killed on 29 Jan. during an attack by the Germans upon a portion of the line which we were holding and in which the company with which your son was serving put up a very gallant defence, and beat off a very determined attack. He died a soldier's death in the very front of the fight. In him we feel we have lost a comrade who was bound to do well, and who, during the short time he had been with us, had endeared himself to all. He is buried in the graveyard at Cuinchy, near Bethune." He was confirmed in his rank as 2nd Lieut. the day he was killed. Lieut. Barthropp was a thorough sportsman, and while at Cambridge whipped in to the Trinity Foot Beagles from March, 1911, until he left the University. Mr. Barthropp also whipped in to the Eastern Counties Otter Hounds from Aug. 1911, during the Mastership of Mr. Rose, until the retirement of the latter gentleman in Dec. 1914, when he succeeded Mr. Rose as Master, which position he occupied at the time of his death. His fondness for, and eager participation in, all sorts of outdoor pursuits earned him amongst his fellow students at Farnham the name of "The Squire," and one of them, writing of the healthy and manly influence he exercised over men of his own age, said: "It is good to have been with him here." He was _unm._ [Illustration: =S. A. N. S. Barthropp.=] =BARTLETT, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Seaman, R.N.R., 1858D, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARTLETT, GEOFFREY EDWARD ROSE=, Midshipman, R.N.R., elder _s._ of the late Edward Noel Napier Bartlett, J.P., co. Bucks, by his wife, Dorothy (St. Margaret's Cottage, Penn, Bucks), dau. of Sir Philip Rose, 2nd Bt. of Rayners; _b._ London, 8 Oct. 1895; educ. St. John's, Beaumont, Old Windsor; was for three years on H.M.S. Conway, and two years a cadet on the White Star s.s. Mersey, going round the world twice, 1912-13 and 1913-14; joined H.M.S. Bulwark 29 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was blown up at Sheerness, 26 Nov. following. Bartlett was a great-great-grandson of Admiral James Noble, who served as Act.-Lieut. of the Agamemnon under Commodore Nelson in 1795, and was promoted to Commander in 1797 through the influence of Nelson after the battle of St. Vincent, where he was very dangerously wounded. [Illustration: =Geoffrey Edward R. Bartlett.=] =BARTLETT, HENRY ARTHUR=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21843, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BARTLETT, JOE=, Armourer's Crew (Pension, No. 19272), 135647, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARTON, ERNEST=, Corpl., No. 7380, 1st Battn. King's Shropshire L.I., _s._ of Thomas Barton, by his wife, Sarah Ann, dau. of James Crossley; _b._ Ashton-under-Lyne, 3 July, 1884; educ. St. Peter's School there; enlisted 9 Sept. 1903; on outbreak of war was called up from the Reserve and was killed in action near Lille, 23 Oct. 1914. Major W. A. Payn (his commanding officer), writing to his widow, described how, on the evening of 22 Oct. they were in the trenches near Lille, with the Germans 600 yards away. When day broke on the 23rd they saw the Germans entrenching 100 yards away. Volunteers were called to creep up to the ditch to turn the Germans out with the bayonet, and Barton, with six others, volunteered at once, and proceeded to crawl towards the trench. They had not gone far when the Germans saw them, and opened fire. Barton unluckily was hit in the head and killed. Before the war Corpl. Barton was employed as a grinder at the Park Road Spinning Company's Mill, Dukinfield, and was one of the bellringers at St. Peter's Church, where a tablet has been erected to his memory. He _m._ at Ashton, 13 Jan. 1908, Mary Jane (195, Portland Street, Ashton-under-Lyne), dau. of the late John Edward Wolstencroft, and had issue a dau., Hilda, _b._ 17 Nov. 1911. [Illustration: =Ernest Barton.=] =BARTON, GILBERT JOHNSON=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 5356), S.S. 100, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BARTON, HAROLD WILLIAM FERG |