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Barr Samuel Tudor
British Lieutenant 3rd King's Own Hussars 31 2 may 1883 , Liverpool 23 february 1915 Son of Sir James and Lady Barr, of Otterspool Bank, Aigburth Vale, Liverpool Single Educated at Liverpool College and RMC Sandhurst Hooge Crater Cemetery Special Memorial , Row A , Stone 8 |
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18 january 1902 6 june 1905 January 1909 1912 October 1914 25 november 1914 23 february 1915 |
Gazetted Second Lieutenant Served with his Regiment in India and South Africa Promoted Lieutenant Come home on leave and while on a holiday in Switzerland met with an accident , falling down a crevasse, from which his father succeeded in extricating him. They afterwards missed their way , were discovered by a search party of Swiss guides the following morning and brought down in the afternoon. He suffered severely from frost bite and lost all his toes, nevertheless he rejoined his Regiment in South Africa towards the latter part of the year, but finding the work too much for him in the then sensitive condition of his feet, he resigned in 1910. He then joined the South Irish Horse , and being a very keen and succesful polo player, took a farm and trained polo ponies. This not being a financial success, he retired from the Army and went to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with the view of settling there. On the outbreak of war he at once came home , travelling 10.000 miles at his own expense. He reached England and at once volunteered, Gazetted Second Lieutenant He was first engaged training cavalry reserves at Shorncliffe, then joined the Reserve of his old Regiment, the 3rd Hussars at Rouen and from there attached to the 20th Hussars then in the trenches. Killed in action at Zillebeke Colonel Kennedy , of the 3rd Hussars wrote: ' In the old days in India, your son was always in my squadron, and he was a capital officer and one who , I am sure, would have been to the fore in this war, had he been spared. It was bad luck that when he came out we were full up with officers , and this is the reason why he volunteered to go temporarily to the 20th Hussars. You grive for an only son, and we for a brave and gallant comrade." |
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Brown William Sandilands
Scottish Captain 3rd Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment 26 1891, Bellahouston, Glasgow 14 october 1918 Son of The Very Rev. Dr. Brown and Margaret Romanes Brown, of "Romanhouse," Hallhead Rd., Edinburgh Educated at High School , Glasgow * Athletics M.A. 1902 and the University of Edinburgh * Student of Law 1912-14 Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot XVII , Row L , Stone 5 |
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September 1914 March 1915 January 1916 February 1916 July 1917 14 october 1918 |
Enlisted as Private in the 15th Bn. Royal Scots Promoted Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment Promoted Lieutenant Proceeded to France Promoted Captain Killed in action |
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Buxton Charles Henry
British Private Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) formerly 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers 20 6 october 1917 Son of Charles and Sarah Ann Buxton, of 32, Carlton Rd., Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot XV , Row D , Stone 8 |
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Collingwood Cecil Herbert Mowlam
British Private 15th Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) 13 august 1917 After leaving school he was for six years an Electrical Engineer Apprentice at the Portsmouth Dockyard, which he left in February, 1915, on becoming an Officer of Customs and Excise Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot V , Row J , Stone 12 |
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2 march 1917 june 1917 13 august 1917 |
He enlisted in the Civil Service Rifles, 15th London Regiment After three months' training he was sent to France Killed by a shell in a night attack near Glencorse Wood, Ypres His Commanding Officer wrote : "He was one of my most promising men, and I shall miss him very much." |
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Dudderidge Herbert Orlando
British Private 123rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 29 26 september 1917 Son of Robert Dudderidge, of Hillfarrance, Taunton, Somerset Husband of Mary Dudderidge, of 20, Kimberley Terrace, Malpas Rd., Newport, Mon. Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot VII , Row K , Stone 12 |
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Feast Thomas
British Private 4th Bn. Middlesex Regiment 38 19 january 1918 Son of Frederick and Arm Feast, of Marsh Green, Eden Bridge Husband of Ethel Ellen Feast, of 33, Church St., Eden Bridge, Kent Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot II , Row J , Stone 12 |
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Martin Charles James
British Serjeant 34th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 22 14 october 1918 Son of Edward and Elizabeth Martin, of 34, Spring Lane, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot XVII , Row L , Stone 12 |
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Nisbet John Andrew
Scottish Captain 2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers 26 28 september 1918 Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Nisbet, of 33, Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh. Educated at the Royal High School , Edinburgh( 1908) Hooge Crater Cemetery Plot V , Row G , Stone 2 |
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June 1916 November 1917 28 september 1918 |
Gazetted Second Lieutenant to the 3rd Royal Scots Fusiliers Promoted Captain and transferred to the 2nd Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Invalided homebut returned to France Killed in action |

Royal High School , Edinburgh