[Illustration: =Edward Silvester Andrews.=]
=ANDREWS, FREDERICK CHARLES=, 2nd Lieut., 3rd Battn. (Reserve Battn.), att. 2nd Battn., Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regt. (Royal Canadians), only _s._ of Charles Henry Andrews, of 26, Mapleside Avenue, Hamilton, Canada (_b._ Hammersmith, London, 22 April, 1862), by his wife Frances Cowan, dau. of John James Matthews; _b._ Toronto, Canada, 7 Oct. 1888; educ. St. Andrew’s College, Toronto, and Toronto University (B.A. & D.Sc.). He was working on the Dome Gold Mine, Porcupine, Ontario, but on the outbreak of war came to England, and was gazetted to the 3rd Reserve Battn., Nov. 1914. He was killed in action near Armentières, 16 March, 1915, and was buried at La Bitterne Farm, Armentières; _unm._ The Adjutant, Capt. C. E. Harman, wrote: “He was a great class of man, the best of all the young officers we had; keen and able to handle men, and as gentle as a child, at the same time as hard as iron.” Another Adjutant of the 2nd Battn., to which he was attached, Capt. W. D. Murphy, said: “Andrews was most popular with both officers and men, and his death is a great loss to the Regiment. I might mention a few days previous to his death, your son was detailed for a particular ticklish duty, which he accomplished with great skill and credit, and it was a deed that would have stood him had he lived.”
[Illustration: =Frederick Charles Andrews.=]
=ANDREWS, FREDERICK GEORGE=, Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Liverpool Regt.; _b._ Christchurch, New Zealand, 2 Dec. 1872; educ. there; gazetted Lieut. 4th Battn. Liverpool Regt., 10 Aug. 1914; killed in action on the Western Front, 21 Oct. 1914; _unm._
=ANDREWS, FREDERICK JOHN=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 3726), S.S. 1023, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=ANDREWS, JAMES=, Sergt., R.M.L.I., Ch. 6945, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANDREWS, JAMES JOSIAH=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 4206), 162842, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANNABELL, FREDERICK FELIX=, Private, No. 10/1175. Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Joseph Robert Annabell, of Wanganui, Surveyor, by his wife Theresa; _b._ Wanganui, New Zealand, 23 Oct. 1890; educ. there; volunteered Nov. 1914 and was killed in action at Walker’s Ridge, Gallipoli, 27 April, 1915; _unm._ Lieut. F. K. Turnbull wrote of him: “He had been in my platoon since he joined the main body in Egypt, and was quite one of my best men.”
=ANNAND, WALLACE MOIR=, Lieut.-Commander, R.N.V.R., and Acting Major, Collingwood Battn., Royal Naval Division, 4th _s._ of Robert Cumming Annand, Managing Director Northern Press and Engineering Co., Ltd., of South Shields, Proprietor of the Shields Daily Gazette, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of John Young; _b._ South Shields, 23 Aug. 1887; educ. South Shields High School, 1896–1904, and Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne; on leaving there in 1904 joined the Northumberland Fusiliers as a Private: served two years, and then joined the R.N.V.R. as Midshipman, 11 April, 1907, being attached to H.M.S. Satellite on the Tyne, in which he took great interest and spent much time and labour creating greater efficiency. On the creation of the Royal Naval Division he was promoted Lieut., and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service, and was employed training men until appointed to the Collingwood Battn. Just before leaving the camp at Blandford he was gazetted Lieut.-Commander, 8 May, 1915. He was killed near Achi Baba, Gallipoli, and was buried on the battlefield. He represented the Northern Press Co. in South Africa and at home for some years, and had recently become a Director. He _m._ at South Shields 10 Jan. 1914, Dora Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Chapman, of Seacroft, South Shields, and had a son: Richard Wallace, _b._ 5 Nov. 1914.
[Illustration: =Wallace Moir Annand.=]
=ANNESLEY, HON. ARTHUR=, Capt., 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars, eldest _s._ of Arthur, Viscount Valentia, C.B., M.V.O., M.P., late 10th Hussars, by his wife, Laura Sarah, widow of Sir Algernon William Peyton, 4th Bart., yst. dau. of Daniel Hale Webb, of Wykeham Park, co. Oxford; _b._ Bletchington Park, Oxford, 24 Aug. 1880; educ. Eton; joined the 3rd (Militia) Battn. Oxford and Bucks L.I. in 1898, and was gazetted into the 10th Hussars during the War, 4 April, 1900, being promoted Lieut. 16 Nov. 1901, and receiving his company 6 April, 1907. He served in the South African War, principally in the Transvaal, 1900–2, receiving the Queen’s medal with three clasps and the King’s with two clasps, and afterwards went to India with the regt., being stationed at Mhow, Rawal Pindi, and other places; and when the regt. was transferred to South Africa, was appointed A.D.C. to Major-Gen. the Hon. Julian Byng, General Officer Commanding the Forces in Egypt, 1912. On the outbreak of war, Capt. Annesley left Cairo, rejoined his regt., and was killed in action at Klein Zillebeke 16 Nov. 1914; _unm._ Capt. Annesley, like his father, was a distinguished polo player. In 1907 he played at No. 1 for the 10th Hussars, when they won both the Inter-Regimental and the Subaltern Tournament of India, and, excepting in 1909, he was always at No. 1 in the team, which between 1907–12 ran up such a remarkable series of successes in the Indian Inter-Regimental tournaments. He also assisted the 10th Hussars to win the Indian Championship at Calcutta.
=ANNESLEY, FRANCIS=, 6th Earl, Sub-Lieut. Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, only _s._ of Hugh, 5th Earl Annesley, Lieut.-Col. Scots Fusilier Guards, by his first wife, Mabel Wilhelmina Frances, eldest dau. of Col. William Thomas Markham, of Cufforth Hall, co. York; _b._ Castlewellan, co. Down, 25 Feb. 1884; educ. Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; suc. his father in the peerage, 15 Dec. 1908; volunteered his services on the outbreak of the European War in Aug. 1914, and was gazetted a Sub-Lieut. Royal Naval Air Service, R.N.V.R., 20 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force and rendered valuable services in the operations in Belgium, Oct.-Nov., and was shot down by the Germans at Ostend, 5 Nov. 1914, and killed instantaneously, together with Lieut. Brevor, when returning to Belgium in an aeroplane from Sheerness. He _m._ at the Savoy Chapel, 14 Sept. 1909, Evelyn Hester (Castlewellan, co. Down; Donard Lodge, co. Down), sometime 1st wife of the late Hugh Robert Edward Harrison, of Caerhowel, dau. of Alfred Edward Miller Mundy, of Shipley Hall; _s.p._
=ANNING, HUBERT PERCY=, Sergt., No. 1492, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, _s._ of Owen Hubert Charles Anning, of 23, Hale Gardens, West Acton, and of the Chief Office Staff, Prudential Assurance Co., by his wife, Fanny May, dau. of John Challice, of Cowley, Devon; _b._ Brook Green, Hammersmith, 7 Oct. 1889; educ. Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith; was a Fruit Farmer at Canterbury; joined the East Kent Mounted Rifles in the spring of 1912, and in his first camp won six prizes including Troop Challenge Shield for shooting and the Lloyd Lindsey Prize; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, being promoted Sergt. shortly afterwards; left with his regt. for the Dardanelles in Sept. 1915, and after being in the trenches for six weeks was taken ill with jaundice and was sent to St. George’s Hospital, Malta, where he died 28 Nov. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Hubert Percy Anning.=]
=ANNIS, ROBERT=, Sergt., No. 8258, 1st Battn. The Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 Sept. 1915; _m._
=ANSELL, ALBERT=, Private. No. 10948, 2nd Battn. East Surrey Regt., _s._ of George Ansell, of Maple Road, Ashstead; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action, 25 April, 1915.
=ANSELL, CHARLES HART=, Armourer’s Mate, M. 2728, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANSELL, CHARLES WILLIAM=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 3025), 182981, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANSELL, WALTER=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch., B. 8976), 198896, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANSELL, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 7482, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards; _b._ co. Middlesex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Souper, 14 Sept. 1914; _m._
=ANSELL, WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4175), S.S. 102841, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=ANSTISS, HENRY CECIL=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch. 15448, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ANSTEY, GEORGE ALEXANDER=, Capt., 1st Battn. The Devonshire Regt., elder _s._ of Major William Frederick Anstey, late 71st Highland L.I., by his wife Isabella Frances Alexandra, dau. of George Alexander Whitla, late Capt. Royal Antrim Rifles; _b._ Ulundi Lodge, Curragh Camp. Ireland, 29 Feb. 1888; educ. Wellington College, from where, having received an Hon. King’s Cadetship, he passed into the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4 Nov. 1908, and promoted Lieut. 7 June, 1911, and Capt. 21 June, 1915. He accompanied his regt. to the Front at the end of August, 1914, and was wounded at La Bassée and invalided home in Oct. 1914. He returned to the Front in Jan. 1915, and on 17 June, 1915, he was temporarily attached to the 2nd Cheshire Regt., and had been with them one week when he was killed in the trenches in Flanders by a sniper at 1.45 a.m. 24 June, 1915. He was buried near Dickebusch in the 2nd Cheshire cemetery; _unm._ Major Walter Goodwyn, 1st Devonshire Regt., in temporary command of the 2nd Cheshire Regt., wrote: “It was at 1.45 a.m. this morning that your son’s senior subaltern, Beckett, rang up on the telephone to say that his company commander had just been shot through the head whilst standing at the parapet in the trenches. I understand from his subalterns, Beckett and Jones, that he wished to give some of the latest joined lads in his company confidence in manning the parapet and replying to the enemy’s fire. These infernal snipers though have rifle batteries sighted and clamped on certain spots for night firing, and your boy must have most unluckily struck one of these places, as he had two bullets in head and neck. The trenches were roughly 150 feet apart (_i.e._, German and British) where he was hit, and it was a fairly dark night with little or no moon.” And Lieut. Beckett himself wrote: “I was an officer in his company and came up only a minute afterwards. He was firing with a rifle over the parapet and was hit in the neck by a rifle bullet, and died at once without any pain at all. He was wonderfully cool, and during the short time he was with the regiment had done an awful lot to pull the company together. We are awfully sorry to lose so good an officer.” Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Fergusson, C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O., commanding 2nd Army, in a letter to Capt. Anstey’s father, said that “Gen. Bulfin, who commanded the Division to which he was temporarily attached, told him that in the few days Capt. Anstey had served with the Cheshires he had shown himself a really first-rate officer, and had put new life into them.”