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AUGUST IO, 1916. Casualties. Lieutenant G. V. RANDALL, attached R.F.C., son of Mr. W. B. Randall, engineer, and secretary to the Waltham Abbey and Cheshunt Gas Co., has been killed in action. He was 19 years of age, and went straight from college after the outbreak of war to the Military College at Camberley. Lieutenant DOUGLAS BIRCH RICHARDSON, Royal Engineers and R.F.C, who has been killed, was the son of the late Mr. R. Richardson and of Mrs. Dunlop Anderson, 18, Ingestre Road, Oxton. He went to the Front with the Royal Engineers shortly after the outbreak of war, and was invalided home in the following May. Later he joined the Royal Flying Corps, and returned to active service in March last. Lieutenant ivn hardson was educated at Gresham College, Holt, Norfolk, . 1 ii<I at the Liverpool University, afterwards joining a London linn of engineers. Second Lieutenant JOHN RAYMOND BOSCAWEN'SAVAGE, R.F.C., aged 17, killed on June 18th, was educated at Mr. John's, Winton House, Winchester, and at Oundle. He joined the R.F.C. on his seventeenth birthday, received his pilot's certificate on October 18th last, his wings on Feb ruary 3rd, and went to the Front in March. He was the last of the direct line of a fighting race—the Savages of the Ards, County Down. His father, Major Arthur Raymond Boscawen Savage, R.F.A., is fighting in the present war; his grand father. Colonel Henry John Savage, 91st Highlanders, fought m South Africa against both Boers and Kaffirs ; his great grandfather, General John Boscawen Savage, R.E., fought in the Peninsular War ; and his great-great-grandfather, General Sir John Boscawen Savage, K.C.B., K.H., commanded the Marines in the battle of the Nile. His uncle, Colonel Henry Savage (South Staffordshire), who is now the head of the family, has fought in the Zulu and South African campaigns. Lieuton.int Savage was shot by the German airman Immel- maim. in Immelmann's last fight. Captain ARTHUR E. STONE, Royal Field Artillery (killed in action on July 24th), aged 37, was well known in Bristol from his connection with Messrs. George White and Co., in whose office he had been for about 20 years. At the outbreak of the Boer War, in 1809, he volunteered for active service in South Africa, and served with the North Somerset Imperial Yeomanry, and was one of those who formed the guard of honour when Lord Roberts entered Pretoria. Captain Stone will be remembered as Sir George White's private secretary for many years. He possessed exceptional business qualities, and rendered valuable services at the time of the formation of the London United Tramways, and later, when the business of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Co. began to develop, tie was selected to control the financial arrangements, and was actively engaged in that capacity up to the time of the out break of war. He was an old artilleryman, and had always taken a great interest in the Bristol Artillery Volunteers, in which he served Successively as gunner, bombardier, sergeant and later obtained his commission. On the outbreak of war he was one of the most vigorous recruiting officers in the South Midland Royal Field Artillery. Shortly after his brigade left for France he was promoted captain, and he had recently been appointed to the command of a battery. His brigadier-general, in writing to his relatives, speaks of him " as a gallant officer and an excellent battery commander, in whom he placed the greatest confidence." Second Lieutenant C. I. SANDYS THOMAS, R.F.C. (killed in action on July 20th) was the younger son of Violet and the late Walter Sandys Thomas, of Llanthomas, Breconshire. He was 19 years of age, and was gazetted to the R.F.C. in June, 1916. Major HERBERT PHILLIPS FLETCHER, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., A M.I.C.E., Middlesex Hussars, attached R.F.C., of Park House, Marden, Kent, died on August 2nd as the result of an accident while on duty, aged 44. He was in partnership with his brother, Mr. Banister F. Fletcher, as an architect, and was a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple. At the outbreak of the war he was with his regiment, the Middlesex Hussars, and went with it to Egypt. He was then seconded to the French, and did reconnaissance work from Aden and Palestine on French seaplanes for some months, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, both Military and. Naval, for conspicuous bravery under fire. He was afterwards the officer com manding a British Observers' School at Port Said, and returned to England to take his pilot's certificate for future work with the R.F.C. Major Fletcher was the son of the late Professor Banister Fletcher, F.R.LB.A., formerly M.P. for N.W. Wilts, and Mrs. Banister Fletcher, of Anglebay, West Hampstead. Temporary Second Lieutenant JOHN ROBERT GOBERTUS WHITEHEAD, R.F.C., killed in an aeroplane accident on August 3rd, was the eldest son of the late John Whitehead, of Fiume, Hungary, and grandson of Robert Whitehead, of Paddockhurst, Sussex, the inventor of the Whitehead torpedo. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and married in April, 1912, Suzanne Bechet de Balan, and leaves one daughter. Being unfit for active service at the outbreak of war, he took up a position at the Whitehead Torpedo Works at Weymouth, which he relinquished as soon as his health permitted him to serve in a more active manner. He was gazetted to the R.F.C. last March. Wounded. Flight-Lieutenant WILLIAM BRYMER. R.F.C., who has been wounded, is the youngest son of Mr. G- Brymer, of Meifod. Lieutenant Brymer obtained a transfer to the Flying Corps from the Royal Garrison Artillery a few months ago. Married and to be Married. The marriage arranged between DONALD, Second Lieutenant R.F.C., fourth son of Mr. S. DAVID COATES, J.P., and Mrs. COATES, Homefield, West Dulwich, and CAROL, youngest daughter of Mr. B. J. GREENWOOD, Shoreham, Kent, took place on August 3rd at the "King's Weigh House Chapel, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square. Items. Flight-Lieutenant LAURENCE IRVING, who has a Fokker to his credit, is a son of Mr. H. B. Irving. Lieutenant G. K. G. KERR, Shropshire Light Infantry, attached R.F.C., who was wounded in an air fight with two Fokkers in France, is now in hospital in London, and doing well. Lieutenant Kerr is the young actor who played with Mr. du Maurier in " Outcasts " at Wyndham's Theatre, and resigned his engagement to join the Army soon after war broke out. He had been in the trenches with the Shropshires for nearly a year, and joined the Flying Corps at Easter. He is the only son of Mr. Frederick Kerr. Lieutenant JAMES DOUGLAS LATTA, R.F.C., who has been awarded the Military Cross for attacking two observation balloons, which fell in flames, is the younger son of Mr. J. G.Latta, a director of Messrs. G. andJ.Weir (Ltd.), Cathcart. He was educated at University College School, London. On the outbreak of war he and his brother, Captain John Latta, also of the R.F.C., joined the London Scottish, but their inelination and mechanical bent drew them eventually to the Royal Flying Corps. He took his pilot's certificate in November, 1915. and has been on active service since. Lieu tenant Latta has on several occasions fought Fokkers, his own machine being badly damaged more than once. We learn from Mr. A. Browning-Paterson, the father of N. A. BROWNING-PATERSON, R.A., attached R.F.C., who is reported missing, that although he is officially described as Lieutenant, he was gazetted Flight-Commander to act as Temporary Captain whilst so employed from July 3rd last, in accordance with the official notification which appeared in " FLIGHT " July 27th. Captain LIONEL WILMOT BRABAZON REES, R.A. and R.F.C., who has been awarded the Victoria Cross, is a native of Carnarvon. His father, Mr. Charles H. Rees, was for many years colonel of a Volunteer battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Last year Captain Rees received the Military Cross for bringing down three German aeroplanes though fighting at great odds. Captain D. C. SYMINGTON, R.F.C., who had a serious accident recently while flying near Ashford, Kent, when, owing to engine failure, his machine came down and he was sevarely injured, is in the V.A.D. Hospital, Ashford, Kent, suffering from head injuries and serious concussion. 678
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