[Illustration: =Arthur Wills Adlam.=]
=ADMANS, WALTER GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 13092, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Walter William Admans, of Sunnyside Cottage, Newbury, Farmer, by his wife (1st son), Jane Sophia, dau. of (--); _b._ Kentish Town, London, 3 Dec. 1889; educ. Charlton Road School there; enlisted 6 Oct. 1914; was severely wounded in the head at the Battle of Hooge, 10 Aug. 1915, and _d._ at Calais, 13 Aug. following, being buried in the Southern Cemetery there. He _m._ at Oxford, 26 July, 1909, Alice Elizabeth (Avon Villas, Avon Street, Stoke, Coventry), dau. of Eli John Greenwood, of Magdalen Road, Oxford, and had two children: Walter William John, _b._ 25 Jan. 1910, and Dorothy Mary Alice, _b._ 30 July, 1912.
[Illustration: =Walter George Admans.=]
=ADSHEAD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 12294, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of Thomas Adshead, of 47, Ermott Street, Stepney, E.; killed in action on the Western Front, 15 Feb. 1915.
=AFFLECK, LEWIS ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 8494, 1st Battn. Scots Guards, _s._ of George Affleck, of Loanhead, Midlothian; _b._ Lesmahagow, co. Lanark; killed in action on the Western Front, 12 Nov. 1914.
=AGER, JAMES ALFRED=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 19331, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=AGNEW, NATHANIEL=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 8676), S.S. 105083, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=AIKENHEAD, ROBERT=, Private, No. 27853, 15th Battn. (48th Canadian Highlanders), Canadian Expeditionary Force, elder _s._ of Major Frank Aikenhead, commanding The (Somerset) R.H.A., by his wife, Mabel, dau. of the late Major-Gen. Edward Andrée Wylde, R.M.L.I., and grandson of the late Robert Aikenhead, of Otterington Hall, near Northallerton; _b._ Southsea, 22 April, 1892; educ. Cheltenham College. Was Commercial Editor of the “Toronto News,” but on the outbreak of war enlisted in the 48th Highlanders, and was killed in the second Battle of Ypres, 24 April, 1915. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He displayed the greatest gallantry and courage, and though severely wounded and gassed, continued fighting till killed by a bullet in the head. He was always brave and cheerful, and one of the best.” A memorial tablet has been erected to his memory in the Great Elm Parish Church, Somerset.
[Illustration: =Robert Aikenhead.=]
=AINAND, CHARLES=, Private, No. G. 5942, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; killed in action on the Western Front, 30 April, 1915; _m._
=AINDOW, FRANK NORMAN=, Sapper, No. 47873, 14th Division, 89th Field Co., R.E., 2nd _s._ of George Aindow, of 10, Cunard Road, Litherland, Liverpool, Bricklayer, by his wife, Eliza, 3rd dau. of Thomas Potts; _b._ Litherland, near Liverpool, 6 Dec. 1896; educ. Church School there; enlisted 4 Sept. 1914; killed in action at Ypres while working in the first line of trenches; buried at Cambridge Road Junction, Ypres; _unm._
=AINGE, GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. G. 845, 1st Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt.; killed in action on the Western Front, 16 May, 1915; _m._
=AINGER, HAROLD=, 1st Class Boy, C.Y. 27513, H.M.S. Hawke, 2nd _s._ of Charles Ainger, of Horsley Cross, Mistley, Essex, Horseman on Farm, by his wife, Annie, dau. of James Goby; _b._ Horsley Cross, 16 Nov. 1897; educ. St. John’s School there; entered H.M.S. Ganges at Shotley, 15 Sept. 1913; was transferred to H.M.S. Hawke at Chatham in Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed, 15 Oct. 1914; _unm._
=AINGER, JOHN=, Corpl., No. 11337, 2nd Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of Christopher Ainger, of 14, Southern Road, Fulham; killed in action on the Western Front, 23 Dec. 1914.
=AINLEY, CHARLES ERNEST=, Private, No. 1638, 4th Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of George Frederick Ainley, of 51, Cogan Street, Hull; _b._ Hull, 9 March, 1896; educ. South Myton School there; joined the Army, 18 Aug. 1912, and was shot through the head during a battle of Hill 60 by a sniper whilst leaving a trench and instantaneously killed on 1 May, 1915; _unm._ Before entering the Army he was an apprentice with Messrs. King & Co.
[Illustration: =Charles Ernest Ainley.=]
=AINSLEY, GEORGE HENRY=, Private, No. 7834, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; was reported missing after the fighting on 31 Oct. 1914, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. He _m._ Susan (254, Bensham Road, Thornton Heath).
=AINSLIE, DENYS ALFRED LAFOUE=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Devonshire Regt., 3rd _s._ of William Langstaff Ainslie, of Hanworth House, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, by his wife, Jane, dau. of Alfred Lafoue; _b._ Hanworth Park, 21 May, 1894; educ. Wellington College, Berks. Joined 3rd Reserve Battn. Devonshire Regt. in Jan. 1911, promoted Lieut. 25 April, 1913; gazetted to the 1st Battn. as 2nd Lieut. 14 Aug. 1914, killed in action at Givenchy 24 Oct. following; buried there. He was promoted Lieut. (after death) March, 1915. Col. Boles (commanding 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt.) wrote: “We deplore the loss of a capable and gallant officer, and one who was most popular with all ranks.” And the chief of the Tutorial Staff of the Law Society says: “No one who knew Ainslie could fail to be impressed by the charm of his character, and attracted by his personality.”
[Illustration: =Denys Alfred Lafoue Ainslie.=]
=AINSLIE, EDWARD=, Private, No. 5860, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; killed in action on the Western Front, 15 Dec. 1914; _m._
=AINSWORTH, PHILIP=, Private, No. G 4661, 2nd Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., killed in action on the Western Front, 9 May, 1915.
=AINSWORTH, WILLIAM=, Sergt., No. 3198, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards; _b._ Leicester; enlisted 8 Jan. 1900; became L.-Corpl. 14 March, 1910; Corpl. 11 July, 1912; L.-Sergt. 18 July, 1914, and Sergt. 9 Aug. following; served in South Africa, 16 Jan. to 6 Oct. 1902 (Queen’s medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914; killed in action, 13 Sept. 1914.
=AITCHISON, RONALD ANDREW COLQUHOUN=, Lieut. 1st Battn. The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., only _s._ of Gowrie Colquhoun Aitchison, of South Collingham, Newark-on-Trent, Lieut.-Col., 2/5th Battn. Sherwood Foresters, by his wife, Rose Mabel, dau. of Thomas Smith Woolley; _b._ Burbage, co. Derby, 27 Dec. 1894; educ. at Hillside, Godalming, Charterhouse, and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the King’s Own, 17 Sept. 1913, and promoted 9 Dec. 1914. Went to France with his regiment in Aug. 1914; was first in action at Cambray on 26 Aug., and was through all the subsequent actions in which the regiment was engaged, including the Battle of the Marne and the crossing of the Aisne; wounded in action near Armentieres, 14 Dec. 1914, and died a few hours later; _unm._ He was buried in the convent garden at Le Bizet. He had been recommended for accelerated promotion to Capt. about a month before his death, and a Staff Officer wrote: “Ever since the beginning of the war your son has done splendidly, his bravery was well known.... The men I know were devoted to him.... He was recommended on two separate occasions for gallantry on Aug. 26, and since then was again mentioned.”
[Illustration: =Ronald A. C. Aitchison.=]
=AITKEN, JAMES HOME=, Private, No. 6/4, 1st Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 4th _s._ of James Home Rigg Aitken, of Canterbury, New Zealand (8th _s._ of John Aitken, of Cupar, Writer, and great-grandson of John Aitken, of Thornton, co. Fife), by his wife, Jessie, dau. of Stanley Bouchier, of Tipperary, and nephew of Col. Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken, V.C., one of the defenders of Lucknow; _b._ Christchurch, N.Z., 15 Dec. 1887; educ. Christ’s College there, and Canterbury College. Was attorney and chief agent in Christchurch of the Northern Insurance Co., and of the Indemnity Mutual, and also a member of the firm of Aitken Bros., sharebrokers, of Hereford Street. He had for a number of years been Capt. Commanding the Queen’s Cadets, but had relinquished his command owing to pressure of business, and when war broke out, no commissions being available, he joined the ranks rather than remain behind and await his chance of receiving one. He was killed near Quinn’s Post, Gallipoli, 5 May, 1915: _unm._ Writing to his brother, Gen. Sir A. J. Godley said: “He had been my special orderly since we landed here, and had been invaluable to me. On the 5th, the day he was killed, he was with me as usual, carrying my telescope, as he always did, and with his rifle, acting as my escort. We happened to be in one of the most forward posts when it was attacked in the afternoon by a considerable body of Turks, who, in addition to heavy rifle fire, were also throwing bombs. Some of the men were rather shaken by the explosion of a bomb in their midst, and Aitken was most cool and plucky in helping to rally them. He then helped me to extend some supports that came up, and shortly afterwards, the attack having been repulsed and having died away, I started to walk down the hill, thinking he was following me, and it was not until I reached the foot of the hill that I missed him. I then sent word back to let him know that I would walk slowly on down the valley and that he would catch me up, and it was not till I had gone some way and met Tahu Rhodes, that we began to be uneasy about him, and sent back again, with the result that, to my great grief, I heard he had been hit in the chest and had a lacerated wound, evidently from a bomb, and had died on the stretcher on which he was being brought down the valley. My two A.D.Cs., Major J. H. Hughes and Lieut. Tahu Rhodes, have carved a wooden cross, which will be placed on his grave.” Aitken was a member of the ’Varsity first fifteen, and one of the best half-mile, mile, and cross-country runners Canterbury has ever produced. He served for several years as secretary of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association, and he was also actively connected with the United Tennis Club and the Hagley Golf Club. His next elder brother, Edward Bouchier Aitken, served in Egypt, and is now (1916) serving in France with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.