Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booke, York), dau. of Ewen Cameron, of Fort William, Inverness; _b._ York, 8 Aug. 1894; educ. Mill Hill School, N.W., and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his commission in the Manchester Regt. 8 Aug. 1914 (his 20th birthday), and served with the 3rd Battn. on the Humber defences till early in Sept., when he took out a draft for the 2nd Battn. at the front. He was killed in action near Festubert, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried at La Quinque Rue; _unm._ Lieut. Bentley was a bright and talented youth, and was keen on sport, having won all his school colours. He entered Sandhurst as the 195th cadet, and made such good progress that on leaving after the usual course he passed 55th in the 1st Division, and also won his blue for hockey. While serving with the Expeditionary Force he saw a great deal of heavy fighting, and the Captain of his company, in speaking of him, said how much he felt his loss, as he was of such an exceptional and outstanding character. His brother, Lieut. Ronald Cameron Bentley, Green Howards (2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt.) joined the Expeditionary Force in 1915, and is still (1916) on active service. His eldest brother, Capt. W. W. Bentley, returned from Ceylon, where he held an appointment under Government, early in 1915. He rejoined the Heavy Artillery, in which he had a commission, and is now serving with the Expeditionary Force as Capt. and Adjutant. [Illustration: =Clarence Leslie Bentley.=] =BENTLEY, FREELAND MARTELL=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, _s._ of Capt. Thomas Kellor Bentley, of Port Greville, Nova Scotia, by his wife, Flora Agusta, dau. of Fraser Hatfield; _b._ Port Greville, 19 May, 1887; joined the Army on the outbreak of war, being given a commission as Lieut., 17th Canadian Infantry (Nova Scotia Regt.), 22 Sept. 1914. He was transferred to the 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2 April, 1915, and was killed in action near Festubert, 18 June following. His brother, Capt. Lloyd Omen Bentley, served through the war with the Canadian Field Artillery. [Illustration: =Freeland Martell Bentley.=] =BENTLEY, GEOFFREY MALCOLM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., 5th _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Hadley, Barnet, Herts., J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; _b._ London, 3 May, 1883; educ. Wellington College. He joined the Militia, and served in the South African War, 1900-1, took part in the operations in Cape Colony in 1901, and in the following year was sent for guard duty to St. Helena when the Boer prisoners were quartered there, receiving the Queen's medal with two clasps. On 28 Jan. 1903 he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn. Northamptonshire Regt., served in India, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec. 1904, and Capt. 7 May, 1910, when he joined the 1st Battn. at Aden. He was afterwards stationed at Devonport and Blackdown. On the outbreak of the European War he went to the front with the Expeditionary Force, and was shot through the head by a sniper in leaving a trench immediately after the Battle of Pilkem, 24 Oct. 1914. He died at Ypres 29 Oct. following without recovering consciousness, and was buried in the cemetery there. Capt. Bentley was mentioned in Sir John French's Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 "for gallant and distinguished service in the field." He _m._ at Bangor, co. Down, 21 Oct. 1908, Edith Marie, only surviving dau. of William Henry Gallway, of Sheila Von, Bangor, and left a dau., Maureen Sheila, _b._ 29 Aug. 1911. =BENTLEY, GERALD WILSON=, Major, 4th Battn. The Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regt., 3rd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; _b._ at 16, Addison Road, Kensington, 1 Aug. 1879; educ. Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Middlesex Regt. from the Militia, 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1900, Capt. 12 Oct. 1901, and Major, 8 Oct. 1914. He served in the South African War, 1899-1902, taking part in the relief of Ladysmith, including the operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop, in which he was severely wounded, his rifle, struck by a shell, being broken and causing serious injuries to his head. He recovered and was present at the operations on the Tugela Heights (26 to 27 Feb. 1900), and the action at Pieters Hill, and was awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. He became Superintendent of Gymnasia in the Northern Command, 23 April, 1912, and held this appointment till the outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. He was killed in action at Croix Barbée, 13 Oct. 1914. A noted boxer in the Service, he was in 1910 the heavyweight champion of the Army and Navy. A man of grand physique, those who fought with him in the ring knew of the power of that right punch of his; he was content to submit to punishment while waiting for the chance to score with it. =BENTLEY, KENNETH HADDON=, Private, No. 3047, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of A. Bentley, of Lauriston, Leicester Road, New Barnet; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the London Scottish, 2 Sept 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc. and was killed in action, 12 June, 1915. =BENTZON, SYDNEY MALCOLM=, Private, No. 411, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; killed in action there the following day. =BENYON, GODFREY BERKELEY JOHN=, Lieut. Commander, R.N., yr. _s._ of Augustus William Benyon, of Ashe, Windsor, by his wife, Mary Beatrice, dau. of the late William Chambers, of Hafod, co. Cardigan, J.P., D.L.; _b._ 10 Sept. 1883; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, Surrey; joined the old Britannia as a naval cadet in May, 1898, became Sub-Lieut. 1903, Lieut. 1905, and Lieut.-Commander June, 1913. He saw foreign service in China and the Cape, and was also with Admiral Fisher in H.M.S. Renown. Being a first-class draughtsman, he specialised in the Navigating Department; was assistant surveyor in H.M.S. Mutine in Bermuda. After the outbreak of war, he was appointed to H.M.S. Good Hope on 17 Aug., and was lost when that ship went down with Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and his gallant crew in the action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A memorial window was erected to his memory in All Saints' Church, Windsor. He _m._ at Marylebone Church, 1 Nov 1911, Beatrice Lindley, dau. of the late Henry Lindley White, and had issue a son and dau., John Lindley, _b._ 23 Dec. 1912, and Elizabeth Hope, _b._ at Bermuda on Christmas Day, 25 Dec. 1914, and christened on board the s.s. Transylvania in mid-Atlantic. [Illustration: =Godfrey B. J. Benyon.=] =BÉRARD, CHARLES DELPHIS=, Private, No. 23628, Cyclists Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Louis Amedée Bérard, of St. Mathias de Rouville, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Délia, dau. of Joachim Létourneau; _b._ St. Mathias, Rouville co., 9 July, 1892; joined |