Family :

Education & Career :

He was educated at Cheltenham College and New College, Oxford, where he rowed in the College VIII in 1906, 1907, and 1908. Took his degree of B.A. in 1909. Subsequently he studied for the Bar, and while so engaged joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1911. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1912. He was a member of the Public Schools' and Leander Clubs, and of the Hardwicke Debating Society. He frequently spoke on eugenics and woman suffrage.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

19 October - 22 November 1914. Following the failure of the German Schlieffen Plan in August and September 1914, both sides engaged in a series of linked battles as they sought to outflank each other. The climax of these manouvres was at Ypres in November 1914 when the might of the German Army attempted to break the much outnumbered British Expeditionary Force. The political importance of Ypres, being the last town of any size in Belgium that remained in allied hands, established its importance for both sides and ensured a series of battles over four years.

The First Battle of Ypres in 1914 is characterised by a series of linked heroic stands by outnumbered British soldiers in conditions of confusion and weary endurance. The Germans never knew how close they had come to winning - at one point just the clerks and cooks were the last line of defence for the BEF. By the end of the battle the magnificent original BEF, composed of professional regular soldiers, had been all but destroyed and already the Territorial battalions were called into battle. From the end of 1914 a 'Regular' battalion was in terms of its compostion little different to a Teritorial or later Service Battalion. The professional soldiers had all but vanished.

Detail :

At the time of his death he was serving at the front with the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment. He was shot through the head on the 15th November, 1914 while helping to defend trenches three miles south of Ypres.

Masonic :

He was made a Freemason in the Apollo Lodge at Oxford, and in 190S held the office of Assistant Grand Pursuivant in the Provincial Grand Lodge of Oxfordshire.

PPAGP Oxon

The contribution record is endorsed ... "Killed in action 10-11-14"

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley