Captain, 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Killed in action 26 September 1914. Aged 37. Son of Gen. Sir William Gordon Cameron, G.C.B., of Nea House Christchurch, Hants; husband of Constance Geraldine Cameron, of Fairley, Countesswells, Aberdeenshire. Buried in BOURG-ET-COMIN COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Aisne, France. Grave 1.

Extract fron De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Volume 2 Page 55:

CAMERON, NAPIER CHARLES GORDON, Capt., 1st Battn. (79th Foot) The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, s. of the late General Sir William Gordon Cameron, of Nea House, Christchurch, co. Hants, G.C.B. ; b. Gibraltar, 14 Dec. 1876 ; joined Lord Strathcona's Horse in 1900, obtaining a commission in the Scottish Horse the following year, with whom he served in the South African War 1900-2, where he was severely wounded (mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 3 Dec. 19011) ; was gazetted Lieut. Northumberland Fusiliers 21 June, 1902 ; transferred to the Cameron Highlanders 5 Feb. 1908, and was promoted Lieut. in Sept. 1914 ; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne 25 Sept. 1914. He m. 4 Nov. 1913, Constance Geraldine, eldest dau. of Capt. Harry Brooke, of Fairley, Countesswells, co. Aberdeen, D.L., late Gordon Highlanders, and had a dau., Honor Napier Gordon, b. (posthumous) 31 Dec. 1914.

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916 Volume 1:

CAPTAIN NAPIER CHARLES GORDON CAMERON, 1st BATTN. THE QUEEN'S OWN CAMERON HIGHLANDERS, was born at Gibraltar on the 14th December, 1876, being the son of the late General Sir William Gordon Cameron, G.C.B.,of Nea House, Christchurch, Hants, who served in the Crimea.
Captain Cameron began his military career by joining Strathcona's Horse in 1900 ; in the following year he received a commission in the Scottish Horse, and served with them during the remainder of the South African war, in which he was wounded. For his services he was mentioned in Despatches and received the Queen's medal with four clasps. In June, 1902, he was gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers, and when the battalion was disbanded in 1908, obtained a commission in the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders as a Lieutenant,.
With this battalion he served in the Great War, being promoted Captain in September, 1914. On the 14th of that month he was reported wounded and missing, but rejoined his regiment after two days. On this occasion he owed his escape from capture by the Germans by feigning death, and lay for sonic time on the ground while German soldiers cut off his belt and removed his claymore and revolver. Later on, while waiting till darkness to return to the regiment, with some private soldiers, they heard an officer of the Black Watch calling for help, and Captain Cameron with a private in the Camerons went out and brought him in under heavy fire.
He was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne on the 25th September, 1914.
On the 4th November, 1913, Captain Cameron married Constance Geraldine, eldest daughter of Captain Harry Brooke, D.L., late Gordon Highlanders, of Fairley, Countesswells, Aberdeenshire, and grand-daughter of the late Sir Arthur Brooke, Bart., of Colebrooke, County Fermanagh, Ireland, and left one child, Honor Napier Gordon Cameron, born on the 31st. December, 1914, after her father's death.
Captain Cameron was a member of the United Service Club. He took his Flying Certificate at Brooklands in July, 1913

Lieutenant-Colonel, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General. B.E.F., Royal Artillery. Died 31 May 1915. Aged 47. Son of Mr. E.H. and Lady Maud Hooper, of Shelly Hill, Christchurch, Hants; husband of Georgina Dora Hooper. Former military correspondent for 'The Times'. Cadet 19 January 1886, 2nd Lieutenant 23 July 1887, Lieutenant 23 July 1890. Captain 19 January 1898. Buried in HIGHCLIFFE (ST. MARK) CHURCHYARD, Dorset. South Section 4. Grave 3.

Extract fromBond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916:

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL STUART HUNTLY HOOPER, DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADJUTANT - GENERAL, B.E.F., HON. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL RESERVE OF OFFICERS, late CAPTAIN ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY died on the 31st May, 1915, in the Royal Free Hospital, London, from illness contracted in France. He was buried at Highcliffe, Hants.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hooper was the elder son of Mr. E. H. and Lady Maud Hooper, of Shelly Hill, Christchurch, Hants, Lady Maud being the daughter of the fourth Earl of Castlestuart. He was born at Brook House, Marchington, Staffordshire, on the 20th December, 1867, and was educated Winchester.
He entered the R.M.A., Woolwich, in 1886 and in 1887 was, on passing out, posted to the Royal Field Artillery, and later to the Horse Artillery, with which he served in India from 1888 to 1894, obtaining his promotion to Lieutenant in 1890. From 1896 to 1900 he was Adjutant of the Suffolk Artillery Militia, having been promoted Captain in January, 1898. He retired from the Active List in 1901 and joined the Staff of "The Times" in 1906 as a writer on military subjects, and represented that paper at Bisley, at naval and military tournaments, and at manoeuvers.
After retiring he joined the Reserve of Officers, when he was given his Majority in the Special Reserve of the Royal Artillery, and subsequently the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1910 he became editor of the "Army and Navy Gazette," a position he held till the beginning of the war, and was also managing director of the company which owns that paper.
An appreciative memoir of the late officer was published in the "Army and Navy Gazette," in which it was stated that, but for an accident, he would probably have taken up the post of “Eye Witness” to the Expeditionary Force, for which "his descriptive talent and powers of literary expression would have specially fitted him." Lieutenant-Colonel Hooper's wide grasp of military matters was of the greatest use to him in his adopted calling of journalism. In addition the business aptitude displayed in the management of the "Army and Navy Gazette,"
his tact and urbanity, and his most kind and sympathetic disposition assured for him the regard of his colleagues, who deplore his untimely death.
On the 4th March, 1915, Lieutenant-Colonel Hooper was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General with the Army in the field, and worked to within three weeks of his death, though he must have known the grave risk he was running. When sent home it was too late to do anything, as he was too seriously ill.
He married in 1896, in London Georgina Dora, daughter of the late Colonel William Eliott-Lockhart, Royal Artillery, and left a daughter, Vanda Eveline, born January, 1898, and a son, Ivor Stuart Huntly, born April, 1907. Lieutenant-Colonel Hooper was a member of Cavalry and United Service Clubs.

THEIR NAME
LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

1939 - 1945

BONE Leslie John of 14 Gordon-road Highcliffe Hampshire died 1 December 1944 on war service Administration Winchester 8 February to Emily Alice Bone widow.
Effects £481 15s. 9d.

Note: Songkurai (also known as Sonkrai) was a World War II Japanese Prisoner of War Camp located close to the Thai/Burma border.

GARRETT—WILKINSON.—On June 5th, 1935, at St. Mary's Church, Hampton, Middlesex, by the Rev. R. T. Brode, C.F., Peter J. N. Garrett, son of Captain. R. B. Garrett, C.B.E., R.N., and the late Mrs. Garrett, of Greyshaw, Ellesmere-road, Weybridge, Surrey, to "Biddy," youngest daughter of H. J, Wilkinson, Esq., of Lavender Cottage. 28, Gloucester-road, Hampton, Middlesex.

GOULD Charles Robert of Wellisford House Links-road Winchester died 4 April 1944 on war service Administration (limited) Gloucester 1 December to Mary Gould widow.
Effects £228 5s. 3d.

Sergeant 14510796, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Died in Far East 23 December 1945. Aged 32. Born 9 June 1913 in Lancashire, resident Hampshire. Son of Hugh Lambert Greenhalgh and Martha Greenhalgh; husband of Geraldine Honor Greenhalgh (nee Newby-Stubbs), of Highcliffe, Christchurch, Hampshire, married 15 July 1939 in Christchurch Priory Church, Dorset. F.B.O.A. In the 1939 Register he was an Optician Manager, married to Geraldine H Greenhalgh, resident Woodcot The Grove, Iford, Christchurch M.B., Hampshire. Buried in KUALA LUMPUR (CHERAS ROAD) CIVIL CEMETERY, Malaysia. Grave 863. See also Christchurch Priory

GREENHALGH William Proctor of Sunnyhill Highland-avenue Highcliffe near Christchurch Hampshire died 23 December 1945 on war service Administration Winchester 7 September to Geraldine Honor Greenhalgh widow. Effects £515 7s. 8d.

THE wedding was solemnised at Christchurch Priory on Saturday between Mr. William Proctor Greenhalgh, F.B.O.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Greenhalgh, of "The Ferns," Christchurch Road, Barton-on-Sea, and Geraldine Honor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Newby-Stubbs, of "Sunny Hill," Highland Avenue, Highcliffe.

The service was conducted by the Vicar of Christchurch, the Rev. Canon Gay, R.D., and the hymns, "Thine for Ever, God of Love," and "Now thank we all our God," were sung, and the organist played the Bridal March from "Lohengrin,' also Mendelssohn's Wedding March.

The bride, who was given away by her father, was attired in a dress of ivory slipper satin, with a three-yard train. Her tulle veil, four yards long, was trimmed with orange blossom, and held in position by a coronet of orange blossom, and she carried a sheaf of lilies. Her crystal and silver cross and chain was a gift from her brother.

Her two bridesmaids, the Misses Lola Platt and Doris Harker (friends) wore orchid moire silk taffeta dresses, tulle veils with accessories to match. They carried shower bouquets of pink roses and lilies of the valley.

Mr. Eric M. Kerr, friend of the bridegroom, carried out, the duties of best man.

The bride and bridegroom are members of the New Forest Players Operatic and Dramatic Society, from whom they received a coffee table. The bridegroom was manager of Messrs. Bateman's, opticians, at Lymington, for several years, and was hon. treasurer of the Lymington Rovers Football Club.

A reception was held in the home of the bride's parents. The honeymoon is being spent in the Lake District. The bride travelled in a dusky pink silk two-piece, with accessories to tone.

The bride and bridegroom were the recipients of over a hundred presents.

Sister, Malayan Nursing Service. She unfortunately died in a bombing raid, being hit by shrapnel on board S.S. Kuala as the hospital was being evacuated at Singapore 13 February 1942. Aged 27. Born 14 February 1915. Daughter of James William and Annie Enterkin Macfarlane, of Lymington Road, Highcliffe-on-Sea, Hampshire. In the 1939 Register she was a Nursing Sister, single, daughter of James W and Annie E MacFarlane, resident The Pharmacy, Lymington Road, New Milton, Christchurch M.B., Hampshire. She was one of the many civilians of the Commonwealth whose deaths were due to enemy action in the 1939-1945 War, the names of some 67,092 are commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour, located near St. George's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London. See also Christchurch Priory

MACFARLANE Olive Lees of Lymington-road Highcliffe Christchurch Hampshire spinster died 13 February 1942 Administration Llandudno 3 September to James William Macfarlane draper and outfitter. Effects £298 0s. 8d.

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Macfarlane, of Lymington-road, Highcliffe, have received the very sad news of the death of their only child, Miss Olive Lees Macfarlane, S.R.N., S.C.M., by enemy action off Singapore on her 27th birthday, 14th February last.

Miss Macfarlane attended the Bournemouth School for Girls, where she matriculated, until the age of 18 when she went to the Middlesex Hospital, London, to train as a nurse, atterwards gaining further experienre at the Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow.

Her aim was to work abroad, to work for something wider and bigger than service at home could provide, and she studied hard with this object, gaining a certificate in tropical diseases.

On 11th December, 1939, Miss Mactarlane went out to Malaya as a sister at Bangsar Hospital, Kuala Lampur and as she had done at school and during her hospital training, quickly gained the love and appreciation of everyone she became associated with. She became engaged whilst in Malaya and was to have been married in December next.

She spent two happy years in her work at Kuala Lampur and a recent letter from the matron of the hospital spoke of her splendid character and of the thoroughness in her work.

Miss Macfarlane was at one time rconnected with St. Mark’s Church, Highcliffe, and was the leader of a Brownie Pack.

Mr. and Mrs, Macfarlane came to Highcliffe in 1927, and they will receive the sincerest sympathy in their very deep loss.

MACINTYRE Michael Robert of Enniscrone Solent-road Highcliffe-on-Sea Hampshire died 12 November 1940 on war service Administration Llandudno 24 February to Mary Jane Macintyre widow. Effects £209.

Private 7385533, 196 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died as a Japanese Prisoner of War 20 July 1945; captured 15 February 1942 in Singapore, died at Changi Hospital, Singapore from the effects of beriberi. Aged 25. Born 13 January 1920, and resident, Sussex. In the 1921 census he was aged 1, born Bexhill, Sussex, son of Arthur and Florence McCartney, resident with his grandparents, John and Hannah Morley, at The Barrows, Bexhill, Sussex. In the 1939 Register he was born 13 January 1920, single, a Market Gardener, resident with his parents, Andrew and Florence A McCartney, at Homeland Gunter's Lane, Bexhill, Bexhill M.B., Sussex. Pre-war he worked with his father as a market gardener. He enrolled with the St John Ambulance Brigade. His younger brother Peter William Streeter McCartney died on air operations in 1943 (see below). Originally buried 21 July 1945 inm Wing Loon Cemetery, Changi reburied 4 May 1946 in KRANJI WAR CEMETERY, Singapore. Plot 16. Row E. Grave 2. See also Bexhill-on-Sea

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1946:

PALMER. — In December, 1944, killed in action, Burma. Lieut. John H B. Palmer, R.A (Jakes), aged 21, younger son of Mrs., Palmer and the late Brig-General C. E Palmer. C.B., D.S.O., R.A., of Verno, Christchurch, Hants.
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