[Illustration: =William Noel Atkinson.=]
=ATTERBURY, WILLIAM JAMES=, Private, No. 9583, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt., eldest _s._ of William Atterbury, of 3, Spencer Road, Mitcham; _b._ Carshalton, co. Surrey, 7 Oct. 1888; enlisted 5 June, 1908; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 7 Oct. 1914, and was killed in action there, 24 Nov. following.
=ATTLEE, JAMES MERVYN=, Private, No. 3152, 1st/23rd Battn. The London Regt., only surviving _s._ of James Attlee, of Hillcrest, Chart Lane, Reigate, formerly partner in the firm of C. & J. Attlee, Tooting Brewery, by his wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Thomas Butler; _b._ Wandsworth, 6 June, 1883; educ. New College, Eastbourne, and Crystal Palace School of Engineering, where he won the medal of the School of Art, Science, and Literature. Held a good position in the Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co., but on the outbreak of war threw this up and enlisted, 19 Sept. 1914. He was killed in action at Givenchy, 26 May, 1915, in the attack on the German trenches led by Major Streatfeild, and was buried at Festubert; _unm._
[Illustration: =James Mervyn Attlee.=]
=ATTREALL, ALBERT=, Corpl., No 8032, 2nd Battn. The Sussex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action at Richebourg l’Avoué, 9 May, 1915.
=ATTREE, BENJAMIN=, Private, No. 8745, 2nd Battn. The Sussex Regt., s. of Cornelius Attree, of 88, Beaconsfield Avenue, Toronto, Canada; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and died of wounds, 27 Jan. 1915.
=ATTREL, ERNEST CHARLES=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 27515 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, _s._ of Frank Attrel, of 2, Bampfield Terrace, Southern Cross, Portslade, Brighton; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=ATTWATER, RICHARD=, Leading Stoker, (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8422), 294694, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=ATTWOOD, ALGERNON FOULKES=, Capt., 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only _s._ of Llewellyn Carless Foulkes Attwood, of Pandy, co. Monmouth, and of Llay Gresford, co. Denbigh, J.P., and his wife, Rachel Edith, dau. of Arthur Alexander Corsellis, of Wandsworth, co. Surrey; _b._ Wandsworth, 17 May, 1880; educ. Haileybury and Christ Church College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. (as a University candidate) in 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, 4 May, 1901; promoted Lieut. 15 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 1 March, 1912. In the spring of 1914, after undergoing a course of instruction in aviation at Upavon, he was recommended for an appointment in the Royal Flying Corps, but rejoined his regt. on its mobilisation in Aug. of that year. This was one of the first units of the British Expeditionary Force to arrive on the Belgian frontier in that month. He took part in the Battle of Mons, the retreat to the Marne, and the subsequent advance to the Aisne. On 14 Sept. 1914, however, he was reported severely wounded and missing, and it was afterwards ascertained that at Vailly, near Soissons, at the Battle of the Aisne, “while skilfully and gallantly withdrawing his men from an advanced position which could not be held he was hit twice in rapid succession and fatally wounded.” He _d._ _unm._, and was the only male of the last generation of the family of Attwood, formerly of Hawne House, Corngreaves Hall, and The Leasowes, Worcestershire.
[Illustration: =Algernon Foulkes Attwood.=]
=ATTWOOD, ARTHUR=, Private, No. G 7559, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt., _s._ of James Attwood, of Dale View, Hackney, near Matlock; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action, 30 Sept. 1915.
=ATTWOOD, ARTHUR CHARLES=, Gunner, R.F.R., 26, Immed. Class, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=ATTWOOD, CHARLES=, Private, No. 26, 8th Battn. (90th Winnipeg Rifles) Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldest _s._ of Henry Mark Attwood, Superintendent of Police, Somerton Division, Somerset, by his wife, Emma Matilda, dau. of the late James Coles Taylor, of Weston-super-Mare; _b._ Bishopsworth, near Bristol, 5 Oct. 1893; educ. at various schools in Nailsea, Chard, Taunton, and Somerton, and was afterwards apprenticed to Mr. J. G. Williams, Somerton, to learn the trade of printing. At the termination of his indenture he left for Canada, where at the outbreak of war he held a good position as a printer in Winnipeg, Canada. He immediately volunteered, and joined the 90th Winnipeg Rifles on 6 Aug. 1914, coming over with the first Canadian Contingent. After training at Salisbury during the winter he went to the Front, 10 Feb. 1915 (sailed from Avonmouth), was slightly wounded by a splinter at Neuve Chapelle, but, in his own words when writing home, “It was not enough to stop me,” and took part in the memorable charge at Ypres on 23 April, 1915, when the Canadians, in spite of heavy odds, recaptured the guns which the retirement of the French before the asphyxiating gas (then used for the first time) had left in the hands of the Germans. He was killed in action at Langemarck the following day, and as the trenches held by his company had to be evacuated shortly afterwards his body was not recovered. Attwood was a fine athlete and a member of the Somerton Rifle Club, and later of the Winnipeg Rifle Club. He was _unm._
[Illustration: =Charles Attwood.=]
=AUBIN, ALFRED CHARLES=, Capt., East Lancashire Regt. (attd. West African Field Force), _s._ of Alfred Jackson Aubin, of Belle Vue, Lower King’s Cliff, Jersey, by his wife, Christiana Spark; _b._ 16 Oct. 1878; educ. Bedford Grammar School and Oxford Univ.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Militia to the East Lancashire Regt. 21 April, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 11 Sept. 1901, and Capt. 12 Feb. 1913; served in South Africa with the Mounted Infantry as a Railway Staff Officer, 1899–1902, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (Queen’s medal with three clasps and King’s medal with two clasps); employed with the West African Frontier Force (local Capt. 11 Jan. 1911) from July, 1904, to Feb. 1909, and again from Jan. 1911; killed in action at Garua, in the Cameroons, 30 Aug. 1914; _unm._
[Illustration: =Alfred Charles Aubin.=]
=AUSTEN, WILLIAM FRANK=, Ord. Seaman, J. 13723, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=AUSTIN, CYRIL FREDERIC=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Louis Frederic Austin, of 48, Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, W., the well-known journalist, by his wife, Wilhelmina, dau. of Richard Robinson, C.E.; _b._ Bedford Park, W., 6 Oct. 1884; educ. in Belgium and Germany; was on Reuter’s editorial staff, and had been a member of the Artists’ Rifles since 1907. Went to the Front with them in Oct. 1914, and was given his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Queen’s 15 Nov. following; served continuously in the trenches during the winter of 1914–15, came home for the week-end in Feb. for his marriage, returning to the Front the following day, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 10 March, 1915; buried at Laventie. While serving at the Front he sent home several graphic sketches of soldier life, which were printed as “From a subaltern in the trenches.” He was mentioned for important and dangerous reconnaissance work in ascertaining the whereabouts of enemy saps by F.M. Sir John French in his Despatch of 31 May, 1915. The Medical Officer of the battn., writing with reference to his death, said: “For some time he and his men occupied a small position of the utmost importance to our line, a position constantly sniped and bombarded by the enemy. I well remember going down to see a wounded man in this isolated post after the German trench mortars had blown the defences about their ears. Austin--wet, muddy, but cheerful--crawled out of the ruins and displayed the utmost concern about his wounded man. Brave, cool, and fearless himself, he would go out of his way to show me a safe way out of the trenches and where I could avoid ploughing through too much mud and water. I was talking to him a few minutes before he was hit, and it was a terrible blow to me that when I was called to him his condition was such that no treatment was available.” While a member of the Artists’ Rifles Sec. Lieut. Austin won cups with the Tent Pitching Team, and for five years was in the Bayonet Team, taking part in the Naval and Military Tournament at Olympia in 1913 and 1914, and winning many spoons and cups. The chairman of Reuter’s at the annual general meeting on 3 June, 1915, described him as “one of our most promising young editors.” He _m._ at St. Ippolyt’s, Herts, 27 Feb. 1915, Margaret Elizabeth (Gosmore, Hitchin), elder dau. of Samuel Bridgman Russell, of Gosmore, Hitchin, Herts.
[Illustration: =Cyril Frederic Austin.=]
=AUSTIN, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Private, No. 9726, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, _s._ of Edward Austin; _b._ Birmingham, 13 Dec. 1884; educ. St. Mary’s Schools there; served seven years in India; went to France with the first Expeditionary Force, and was killed in action during the retreat from Mons, 26 Aug. 1914; _unm._