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I/HGHTI AUGUST 17, 1916. Casualties. Second Lieutenant L. LATIMER CLARK, K.H.A., attached R.F.C., the only son of Mr. Lyonel Clark, M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.N.A., and Mrs. Clark, of 105, Grosvenor Road, S.W., was born in 1898. He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in March last year, was gazetted in August to the Leicestershire K.H.A., and was attached to the R.F.C. as observer last spring. He went with his squadron to the front six weeks ago, and got his Observer's wings after a successful recon naissance in which he brought down a Fokker. He was on similar duty on August 2nd, when his machine was hit by anti-aircraft fire, and crashed down behind the enemy's lines. He was educated at Bedales and Clayesmore Schools. Second Lieutenant HUGH COURTNEY DAVIS, Royal Berk shire Regiment, attached R.F.C., was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Davis, of Dalhousie Square, Calcutta. He was in his twentieth year, and was educated at Oundle, where he held a scholarship. Here he gained distinctions in football, cricket and hockey. In the spring of 1915 he received a commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, and last March he was attached to the R.F.C. and received his wings in July. He went to the Front on August 1st, and met with a fatal accident on returning to his aerodrome on August 5th. Commander HUMPHREY FINCH DAWSON, R.N., whose death is officially announced as having taken place at the Naval Hospital, Chatham, was 40 years of age, and entered the Navy in January, 1890. He was sub-lieutenant on board the " Thrush " during the Sierra Leone trouble of 1898, and was employed in keeping open the lines of communication in the Sherbro district. During the South African War he served on the Delagoa Bay blockade as lieutenant in the " Widgeon," and afterwards patrolled the south coast of Cape Colony, receiving for his services the South African medal. Commander Finch Dawson, who had specialised in navigation, retired in May, 1912, but had latterly been attached to the Royal Naval Air Service. Captain WILLIAM ASSHETON SUMMERS, 18th Hussars and R.F.C., who is believed to have been killed by a direct hit from an anti-aircraft gun on August 1st, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Summers, of Froyle Place, Alton, and was 20 years of age. He was educated at Eton and Sand hurst, and received a commission in the 18th Hussars in March, 1914, and went out with his regiment in the early days of the war. He transferred to the R.F.C. in May, 1915, and was promoted flight-commander in March, 1916. On July 28th he was awarded the Military Cross. His Brigadier writes : " Your boy was quite the most stout-hearted in a very brave lot of pilots, and our superiority in the air here is largely due to him and to the example he set to others. I liad his name down tor further reward for his extraordinarily fine work in this battle." News has come to East Yorkshire of the death in one .of the base hospitals in France of Lieutenant DAVID WILSON, of the R.F.C., previously of the East Yorkshire Regiment, who succumbed to injuries suffered during a flight on Sunday, July 30th. He was awarded the Military Cross in May of this year, and had just been posted flight-commander and detailed for duty with another squadron, being under orders to transfer the next day. He was the son of the late Rev. David Wilson, and a nephew of the first Lord Nunburnholmc and of the late Mr. Arthur Wilson, of Tranby Croft, East Yorkshire. Second Lieutenant GERALD LOVELL BACKHOUSE, Norfolk Regiment, attached R.F.C., who was killed on August 2nd in a flying accident, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Backhouse, of 14, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, and Dundalk. Be_was educated at Shrewsbury, where he was in the O.T.C. He~"went to Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment at the age of 17. He was later attached to the R.F.C. His commander, in a letter to Lieutenant Back house's friends, spoke in the highest terms of his ability. Second Lieutenant C. DE FRECE, who met his death last week in the regrettable collision in mid-air recorded elsewhere, was the only son of Mr. Alfred De Frece, solicitor, 2, Devon shire Square, E.C., and was barely 19 years of age. Educated at the Haberdashers' School, Taplow, the London Grammar School, and Brussels, he was intended to become an electrical engineer, and to that purpose was a pupil of Professor Silvanus Thompson. In October of last year, shortly after his eighteenth birthday, he joined the Middlesex Yeomanry, and in June obtained a commission in the R.F.C. He was regarded as a very promising flight officer. Lieutenant GEORGE ROGERS., who was the unfortunate pilot of the machine which met with the collision in mid-air last week, was a member of*a well-known Canadian family, his home being at Barrie, Ontario. He was a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 23 years of age, and a pilot of considerable experience and skiH. Second Lieutenant MARTYN TULLOCH VAUGHAN-LEWES, Welsh Regiment and R.F.C., who died on July 22nd from injuries received in a flying accident on July 15th, was the son of the late Captain Price Vaughan-Lewes, R.N., C.B-, D.S.O., and Mrs. Vaughan-Lewes, Glenroy, West Lulworth. He got his commission in the Welsh Regiment in August, 1914, and went to the Front in the spring of last year, and was wounded. On resuming duty he was attached to the R.F.C. Wounded. — When pursuing a Fokker machine, at a height of 12,000 ft., Second Lieutenant JOHN BERNARD HINCHCLIFF, attached to the R.F.C., stood on his petrol tank the better to obtain a view of his foe, and was struck in his back by a piece of shrapnel, fired from an anti-aircraft gun. He is now in hospital in London. Lieutenant Hinchcliff is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Hinchcliff, residing in Carleton Grove, Pontefract. Married and to be Married. An engagement is announced between Capt. N. A. BOLTON, R.F.C., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, Highcroft, Sutton, and ETHEL, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thring, 1, Springfield Place, Bath. The marriage arranged between Captain IAN DUFF, of the Dorsetshire Regiment and R.F.C., and Miss KATHLEEN CHINNERY-HALDANE, will take place at 2 p.m. on August 30th at St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. All friends will be welcome at the church and afterwards at the Roxburghe Hotel, Charlotte Street. A marriage has been arranged, and will take place at noon on September 14th, at the Chapel Royal, Savoy, between Flight-Lieutenant CECIL H. HAYWARD, son of the late Mr. James Hayward and Mrs. Hayward, of Ceylon, and Neroberg, Ventnor, I. of W., and DORIS, youngest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR GARD, of Belvedere, Kent, and Up lands, Ealing. An engagement is announced between Captain E. F. NORRIS, R.F.C., only son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel E. E. NORRIS. R.F.A., and of Mrs. Norris, Harrow Weald, and ILEENE, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. HENRY ASTE, of Carlton Hill, N.W Second Lieut. WILLIAM WITCOMB STAINER, R.F.C., only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stainer, of Hove, Sussex, was married at Christ Church, Edinburgh, on August 12th, to BEATA GWENLLIAN, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. KILMISTER, of Edinburgh. *" An engagement is announced between Major SANDFORD W'YNNE-EYTON. R.F.C., younger son of Col. Wynne-Eyton, of Plas-Issa, North Wales, and FRANCES, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. CARBUTT, of 122, Westbourne Terrace, W. _^^j Items. Included in the party of British prisoners from Germany, which arrived at Berne from Constance on August 12th, was Capt. F. WrlLSON, R.F.C. He has gone toMiirren.
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