BRAITHWAITE.—Killed in action, on the 23rd September, Captain Philip Pipon Braithwaite, Indian Cavalry, son of Canon Braithwaite, Winchester.

BRAITHWAITE Philip Pipon of 9 the Close Winchester lieutenant acting captain Indian Army Reserve of officers attached 36th Jacobs Horse died 23 September 1918 in Palestine Probate Winchester 5 May to William Douglas Braithwaite esquire. Effects £3435 16s. 4d.

CAPT. K. A. BROOKE MURRAY (O.C.).

Capt. Kenneth Algernon Brooke Murray, of the Royal Flying Corps, who was wounded on the 16th inst., is the son of Major H. Brooke Murray, late Indian Army, of 7 Painswick-lawn, Cheltenham. He is 24 years of age, and during his four years at Cheltenham College was in the Shooting VIII. He has been on active service from the day the war broke out.

2nd LIEUTENANT FREDERICK JOHN NOEL CLARKE, 3rd BATTN. THE WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT, born on the 21st October, 1895, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. P. Clarke, of Runnymede, Jersey.

He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and on leaving College obtained a commission, in April, 1913, in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Militia, Island of Jersey, and was mobilised with the battalion on the outbreak of war in August, 1914. Wishing to take a more active part in the war, he entered Sandhurst, whence he obtained a commission on the 12th May, 1915. He joined the 6th (Reserve) Battalion of his regiment at Devonport, proceeding soon afterwards to the Continent, where he was posted to the 3rd Battalion, serving in front of Ypres. 2nd Lieutenant Clarke was killed at Hooge on the 30th June, 1915, while taking his men out of a trench which had been blown up by German shells, and was the first officer of the 3rd Battalion, Jersey Militia, to fall in the war.

The following appeared in Battalion Orders, 6th July, 1915: “The Commanding Officer learned with deep regret that 2nd Lieutenant F. J.N. Clarke, of the Worcester Regiment, who resigned his commission in the battalion at the end of last year in order to join the Regular Army, has been killed in action in Flanders. He feels sure that his regret at the loss of this gallant young officer will be shared by the officers and all ranks of the battalion. . . . 2nd Lieutenant Clarke has set a fine example of devotion to duty and sacrifice, which might well be followed by many young men in the island.”

The Adjutant of the Reserve Battalion wrote: “I was very much impressed by him. . . . Very bright and active, with a career in front of him . . . . A most promising soldier.”

2nd Lieutenant Clarke was a keen sportsman, and had played for the Jersey Island Rugby Football XV.

DE STE. CROIX WILFRED HUNGERFORD, 2nd Lieut., Army Service Corps, 2nd s. of Philip Charles de Ste. Croix, of 12, Kenilworth Road, Ealing, London, W., Retired Cashier, by his wife, Anne Frances, dau. of James Hungerford Morgan; b. St. Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands, 19 Feb. 1882; educ. privately; succeeded his father as Principal Cashier to Messrs. Kennedy, Ponsonby, Ryde & Co., Solicitors, 45, Russell Square, London, W.C. ; joined the Middlesex Volunteers early in 1916, and after training in the Army Service Corps O.T.C. at Aldershot, was gazettect 28 Feb. 1917; served with the Indian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia, and died of fever and sunstroke in the Officers' Hospital, Bagdad, 24 July, 1917. Buried in the North British Cemetery, Bagdad. His Commanding Officer wrote: "We all very much regret your son's sudden death. He had not been long at this depot, but he was very much liked by his brother officers. He was a very capable officer, and had just been selected for some important work," and a brother officer: " . . His quiet, genial manner made him many friends; he took a great interest in his work, and it grieved me very much when I heard that I had lost such a good friend." Unm.

MAJOR FRANCIS TAYLOR DUHAN, 19th,PUNJABIS, LATE 19th (PUNJAB) BENGAL INFANTRY, INDIAN ARMY, fourth son of the late Harry Reilly Duhan, Esq., and a brother of Colonel W. W. T. Duhan, R.A., was born in Calcutta on the 3rd January, 1873.

He was educated at Bedford Grammar School, of which he was Head Boy in 1892, and after passing through the R.M.C., Sandhurst, was gazetted to the Unattached List for the Indian Army in October, 1891. He carried out his training with the Hampshire Regiment, and joined the 24th Punjabis in January, 1896, being afterwards transferred to the 19th Punjabis. He was promoted Lieutenant in January, 1897, and in that and the following year saw active service on the North West Frontier of India, being present at the relief of Malakand and Chakdara, the action at Iandakai, and at operations in Bajaur, and in the Mamund country. He received the medal and two clasps for the campaign.

He was promoted Captain in October, 1903, in which year he was on service in Thibet, receiving the medal. In 1908 he was again on the North West Frontier, taking part in operations in the Mohmand Country, for which he received the medal with clasp, and in October, 1912, he received his Majority.

Major Duhan belonged to the United Service Club, and. was a good cricketer and a great fisherman.

On active service in the war with Germany he was attached to the 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force), and was killed in action on the 26th April, 1915, near Ypres, where he was buried.

FAIRLIE—CRITCHLEY-SALMONSON.—On the 10th Oct., at St. Saviour's-on-the-Cliff, Shanklin, I.W., James Gordon, elder son of Com. H. J. Fairlie, R.N., of Beauvoir, Jersey, to Margaret Constance, elder daughter of Mr. Arthur Critchley-Salmonson, of Apple Cliffe, Shanklin.

L.N.L. COLONEL KILLED.

Lieut.-Colonel James Gordon Fairlie, Loyal North Lancashire Regt., is announced to have fallen in action on April 21st-22nd. Born in March, 1877, he was the eldest son of Commander H. J. Fairlie, R.N., and of Mrs. Fairlie, Fantaisie, Jersey. He joined the Loyal North Lancashire Regt. on February 20th. 1897, and was adjutant of the 2nd Battalion from 1906 to 1909. He afterwards joined the depot staff of the regiment at Preston, where he was stationed up to the outbreak of war. Upon mobilisation he was attached to the 3rd Battalion Reserves until the formation of the 6th (Service) Battalion, when he was made second in command (October 22nd. 1914), and promoted lieut-colonel. Later he took command of the battalion on active service.

He landed in Gallipoli in July last, and v:ith his regiment took part in the fighting, in August. He was among the last to leave Sulva at the evacuation. Lieut.-Colonel Fairlie married, in 1911, Margaret Constance, daughter of Arthur Critchley-Salmonson, of Appley Cliffe, Shanklin, and leaves a son.

FAIRLIE James Gordon of 23 Cambridge-terrace Hyde Park Middlesex lieutenant-colonel H.M. Loyal North Lancashire regiment died 22 April 14916 in Mesopotamia Administration London 25 September to Margaret Constance Fairlie widow.
Effects £747 16s. 9d.

HEWAT, ANTHONY MORRIS COATS, Capt., 2nd Battn. (1st Foot) The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Roper-Curzon Hewat, late Royal Scots Fusiliers; b. Secunderabad, India, 27 Oct. 1884; educ. Victoria College. Jersey, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Scots 2 May, 1903; promoted Lieut. 11 March, 1905, and Capt. 15 July, 1913; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action at the Battle of the. Manic 8 Sept. 1914. He m. Stella Eleanora, dau. of the Rev. Rhys Bishop, and had a dau., Diana Geraldine Eleanora, b. Aug. 1913.

CAPTAIN ANTHONY MORRIS COATS HEWAT, 2nd BATTN. THE ROYAL SCOTS LOTHIAN REGIMENT), who was killed on the 8th September, 1914, at the battle of the Marne, was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Roper-Curzon Hewat, late Royal Scots Fusiliers, and of Mrs. Jessie McKenzie Hewat.

He was born at Secunderabad, India, on the 27th October, 1884, and was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and the R.M.C., Sandhurst. He entered the Army in May, 1903, becoming Lieutenant in March, 1905, and Captain in July, 1913.

Captain Hewat married Stella Eleanora, daughter of the Rev. Rhys Bishop, and left a daughter, Diana Geraldine Eleanora, born August, 1913.

He was keen on all kinds of sport, both at home and in India, especially hunting, polo, shooting (large and small game), and fishing.

HEWAT Anthony Morris Coats of Crown Hill Barracks Crown Hill South Devonshire captain. Royal Scots died 8 September 1914 at Orlay in France Confirmation of Messrs. Cox and Co. bankers. Sealed London 3 July.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MONDAY.

The following elections have been to-day male at Pembroke College : To a Dorothea Wightwick Scholarship, A. S. Pim, of Cheltenham College. To an Exhibition on the foundation of King Charles I., W. It. Kidd, of Victoria College, Jersey.

Mr. Edward S. Hudson, of Victoria College, Jersey, has been to-night elected to a Scholarship on the foundation of King Charles I. (for French) at Exeter College.

HUDSON —Died of wounds, on the 13th February, Edward Stanley Hudson, (formerly scholar of Exeter CoIlege, Oxford, First Class, Final School of Modern Languages, 1914), Second-Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment, elder son of the Rev. F. W. and Mrs. Hudson, of Saunton, North Devon, and grandson of the late Canon Carver, of Dulwich College, aged 24 years.

HUDSON, EDWARD STANLEY, 2nd Lieut., 11th (Service), attd. 10th (Service) Battn., The Devonshire Regt., elder s. of the Rev, Edward Francis Williams Hudson, of Saunton, Braunton, North Devon, M.A., by his wife, Constance Lyle, dau. of the Rev. Canon Alfred James Carver, D.D., formerly Head Master of Dulwich College; b. Selsley, near Stroud, co. Gloucester, 20 Oct. 1802; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, 1900-11, and Exeter College, Oxford, 1911-14 (Scholar), where he graduated B.A. in 1914, and obtained First Class in Honours School of Modern Languages, with distinction In French; joined the University and Public Schools Battn. 19th Royal Fusiliers 7 Sept. 1914, after the outbreak of war; obtained a commission in the Devonshire Regt. 12 May, 1915; left for Egypt 22 Nov. following; served at Lemnos, Egypt and Salonika, and died 13 Feb. 1917, from wounds received in action the previous day, during a trench raid near Lake Doiran. Buried in Janes Military Cemetery. His Colonel wrote: “To a delicate lad and a scholar, brought up to follow so different a path in life, the hardships of trench warfare and the brutal side of fighting must have been particularly repugnant. Yet he carried out his duties conscientiously and well, and with a courage and judgment which do him credit.” Unm.

HUDSON Edward Stanley of Saunton Braunton Devonshire died 13 February 1917 in Macedonia Administration London 7 December to the reverend Edward Francis Williams Hudson clerk. Effects £1805 1s. 6d.

DEATHS

HUDSON.—April 24, killed in action, Major Godfrey Hudson, M.C., M.G.C., only surviving child of the Rev. E. F. W. and Mrs. Hudson, of Saunton, aged 24 years.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1918:

HUDSON Godfrey of Saunton Braunton Devonshire major Machine Gun Corps died 12 April 1918 in France Administration Exeter 24 December to the reverend Edward Francis Williams Hudson clerk. Effects £329 13s. 8d.

HUMPHRYS Charles Edward of 25 Monmouth-road North End Portsmouth died 31 May 1916 at sea Administration. London 14 February to Elsie Margaret Humphrys widow. Effects £509 10s. 8d.

LEWIS, GEORGE ARTHUR DUNALLEY, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. South Staffordshire Regt., attd. 1st Battn. Royal Warwickshire Regt., elder s. of Col. Arthur William Drummond Lewis, of 31, Midvale Road, Jersey, by his wife, Emilie Mary, dau. of Mark Morris, and grandson of the late Hon. Arthur James Lewis, Advocate-General of Bombay, member of Council, .., and of Guestling Lodge, Sussex; b. St. Helens, Hastings, 24 Jan. 1895 ; educ. Victoria College, Jersey, where he was for four years a member of the O.T.C.; was employed as a Clerk in the Capital and Counties Bank at Weymouth, but on the outbreak of war obtained a commission in the South Staffords, 3 Oct. 1914; trained at Jersey; passed through a machine-gun course during the winter and was machine-gun instructor to the battn.; went to France in May, 1915, when he was attached to the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was killed In action, 8 July, 1915, just after having got his men into position to go to the relief of the Lancashire Fusiliers; unm. He was buried on the banks of the Yser Canal, north of Ypres and south of Pilken. The officer commanding the 1st Warwlcks wrote; “We all admired him, he had made himself very popular and we all deplore his loss. His Adjutant, Company Commander and servant all speak in the highest praise of his character, bravery and cheerfulness when under fire, and that he was a fine soldier, and beloved by all ranks.”

Lieutenant James Edward Thornhill Nelis, 5th Inniskilling Fusiliers, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles on August 15th last, was the only son of Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Nelis, 1 Seaview Terrace, Donnybrook. Lieut. Nelis was educated at Haileybury. He subsequently entered Trinity College, Dublin, and became a member of the Officers' Training Corps. Shortly after the outbreak of the war he received his commission in the Inniskillings.

NELIS, JAMES EDWARD THORNHILL, lieut., 5th (service) Battn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, only s. of Lieut.-Col. James Alexander Nelis, of 1, Seaview Terrace, Donnybrook, late I.M.S., by his wife, Anna, dau. of the late Cudbert Bensley Thornhill, C.S.I.. Indian Civil Service; b. Abbottabad, India, 31 Dec. 1891; educ. at Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Inniskilling Fusiliers, 26 Sept. 1914, and promoted Lieut. 19 Nov. following; left for the Dardanelles, 10 July, 1915, and was killed in action there, 15 Aug. following; unm.

PEYTON, MONTAGU FRANK, 2nd Lieut., 16th (Service) Battn. The Northumberland Fusiliers, yr. s. of Capt. Frank Peyton, of East Horndon, Broadstairs, R.N., by his wife, Janet Wynyard, dau. of the late J. E. Barker, K.C.; b. Plymouth, 2 March, 1898; educ. Oakfield Preparatory School, Rugby; Lancing College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Northumberland Fusiliers 26 Oct. 1916; trained at East Boldon; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 16 Dec. following, and was killed in action at Nieuport 11 July, 1917. Buried in Nieuport Military Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote: "I can't tell you how sorry I am; he was one of my very best officers," and a brother officer: "Your son was in my company, and was, I think, my most trusted officer; he was always so keen, and took such a great interest in his work, and could always be relied upon to perform any work given to him. He was greatly liked by the men of his platoon and company, and was one of the most popular officers in this battalion, and in the line had proved himself a very gallant officer. . . ." Another officer also wrote: "I took the company into action on the night of the 10th, during which time one of my officers was killed and the other gassed; your son was the only other left with me to 'carry on.' He did wonderful work in helping to reorganize. We were together on the morning of the 11th, just after he had regained the second line. He went to reconnoitre the second line, and had not been gone many minutes before I received a message saying he was hit. . . . He was a tremendous loss to us all, and to me a loss I shall always regret," and his servant: "He was a real gentleman and a very keen soldier. He died a hero's death. . . . A finer officer it would be hard to find." Unm.

PEYTON, JOHN ALGERNON WYNYARD, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. The Norfolk Regt., elder s. of Capt. Frank Henry Peyton, of East Horndon, Broadstairs, R.N., by his wife, Janet Wynyard, dau. of the late John Edward Barker, of Brooklands, Bakewell, K.C., some time Recorder of Leeds; and brother to Lieut. Montagu Frank Peyton (see Vol. III., p. 216 above); b. Southsea, 2 Nov. 1892; educ. Rugby; Cheltenham, and Keble College, Oxford; joined the University and Public Schools Battn. 26 Dec. 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut. The Norfolk Regt. in May, 1915: promoted Lieut. in March, 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from April, 1916; was wounded on the Somme the following month; on recovery in Jan. 1917, returned to Franc ; was again wounded and invalided to England; proceeded to France in April, 1918, and was killed in action on the Somme 22 Aug. following. Buried at Ribemont-sur-Ancre. An officer wrote: "He was a very brave soldier, and I do not think he knew what fear was." He m. at Swanscombe, co. Kent, 27 July, 1915, Helen Melville (Westcroft, (Gravesend), dau. of Capt. F. M. Tuke. R.N.R.. and had a dau., Anne Wynward, b. 18 July. 1916.

LIEUT.-COLONEL POINGDESTRE.

The death occurred suddenly on Thursday of Lieut.-Col. A. Poingdestre, commanding the 2nd Royal Militia of Jersey. Educated at Victoria College, the late officer entered the army in 1882, and after serving in the South Staffordshire and the Suffolk Regt. he joined the Indian Staff Corps in 1807. He commanded the 44th Merwara Infantry, Indian Army, and was appointed to the Jersey Militia three years ago. Col. Poingdestre saw service in the Egyptian expedition of 1882, and received the medal and bronze star.

DEATH OF COL. POINGDESTRE.

The Jersey “Morning News” announces the death of Lient.-Colonel A. Poingdestre, commanding the 2nd. Bn. Royal Jersey Militia, which occurred yesterday morning at his residence, Havro-des-Pas. The cause of death was double pneumonia, following a chill. The deceased officer, who was 54, after serving a term in the Jersey Militia, joined the South Staffords, and was promoted Lieutenant in 1882. The following year he was transferred to the Suffolk Regiment. Subsequently he was attached to the Indian Army, where he passed through the stages to Lieut.-Colonel, remaining in India until 1912, and on Februsry of the followign, year he suceeeded the late Lient.-Col. R. F. Lindsell, C. B., as Commanding Officer of the East Battalion R.M.L.J.

Our congratulations to Mr. Everard C. Stent, of the Pupil Teachers' Centre, who has passed the London University Matriculation exam. Mr. Everard Stent is a son of Mr. T. C. Stent, headmaster of St. Luke's Schools.

PUPIL TEACHERS' CENTRE.
EXAMINATION RESULTS

The annual distribution of certificates to pupils attending the Pupil Teachers' Centre took place this morning at the Royal Court House, the Bailiff handing the awards to the following —

Mabel Florence Mattier, St. Lawrence; Ethel Florence Aylward, St. Mary; Everard Chandler Stent, St. Luke, Elsie Margaret Poch, National; Edith Mary Le Sueur, St. Mark; Irene Gladys Bree, National; Fred. Charles Le Blancq, St. Matthew; Annie Marie Goaziou, S.S. Mary and St. Peter; Ethel Rachel Srre. National.

FINAL.

John Vaudin, St. John; Phoebe Malzard, St Simon; Doris May Amy, St. Martin; Lilian Grace Kay, St. Brelade; Lasca Jane Le Gresley, St. Peter; Grace Lisette Le Roux, St. Paul; Mabel Ann, Le Coufllard Orouville.

TOMS, ARTHUR WOODLAND, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Devonshire Regt. (Special Reserve), attd. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd s. of Frederick Woodland Toms, of 1, Claremont Terrace, Jersey, F.I.C., Official Analyst, by his wife, Emily, dau. of the late Frazer Hopwood, of Fauresmith, Orange River Colony; b. St. Helier's, Jersey, 25 April, 1891; educ. Victoria College there; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 3rd Devonshire Regt. (Special Reserve), 7 Feb. 1912, and promoted Lieut. 14 Feb. 1914. For some time before the outbreak of war he had been preparing for service under the Colonial Office, and received the offer of an appointment in West Africa from the Secretary for the Colonies three days before the declaration of war. He went to France, Nov., and was accidentally killed, 27 Nov. 1914, while on active service, and was buried in the cemetery at Estaires, Nord; unm. The officer commanding 3rd Devonshire Regt. wrote: "He was a great favourite in the regt. and a most capable officer." In 1913 and 1914 Lieut. Toms captained the "Young Soldiers' " shooting team of his regt.

LIEUTENANT ARTHUR WOODLAND TOMS, 3rd BATTN. DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT, attd. 2nd BATTN. THE CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES), who was accidentally killed on the 27th November, 1914, while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders. aged twenty-three, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodland Toms, of Jersey, and a grandson of the late Mr. Frederick Toms, formerly Editor of "The Field."

He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion (Reserve) Devonshire Regiment in February. 1912, being promoted Lieutenant in February, 1914.

Mr. Toms was a keen football and hockey player and a very promising golfer. He was a good shot, and on six occasions represented his school at Bisley in the Ashburton and the Public Schools' Veterans competitions. In 1913 and 1914 he was captain of the Young Soldiers shooting team of his battalion.

For some time he had been preparing for service under the Colonial Office, and had been offered an appointment in West Africa a few days before the declaration of war.

The Commanding Officer of the 3rd Devons described him as "a great favourite in the regiment and a most promising officer." He is buried in the cemetery at Estaires, North France.

WAKLEY Alfred Edward of 50 Bellair-road Peverell Plymouth chief engine room artificer Royal Navy died 31 May 1916 at sea Administration Exeter 20 July to Lily Kate Walley widow. Effects £207 5s.