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OCTOBER 12. j 916. Casualties. Lieutenant DONALD BECK. R.F.A., attached R.F.C., reported killed, joined the Motor Cycje Corps (Territorials) on August 5th, 1914, and after a month obtained lit^ OOBV mission in the Royal1 Field Artillery. In May. 1015, he went to Egypt, and thence to Salonica, and at the beginning of 1916 he joined the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, in Egypt. He came home in June, and passed the first part of his pilot's certificate with distinction, and was completing hi^ flying courses when he met his death on September 21st. He was the only child of Commander O. L. Beck, R.N., and Mrs. Beck. Second Lieutenant JOHN HAMPSON DODGSHON, Surrey Yeomanry and R.F.C., son of the late Edmund Dodgshon, of Manchester, was killed on October 1st whilst flying m England, at the age of 2$. He was educated at Westminster, and was a member of the school cadet corps. He joined the H.A.C. in July, 1913, and played Rugby football for the corps. He went abroad with the H.A.C. in September, 1914, and spent the first winter of the war fighting in Flanders and France. He was invalided home, and on his recovery was gazetted a commission in the Surrey Yeomanry. He served for six months in Egypt, and was at the Dardanelles as Assistant Military Landing Officer. On his return to England ' he declined a post as Assistant Equipment Officer in the Royal Flying Corps, as he felt he ought to take a more active part in the war. He obtained his " wings " last August, and was made an instructor. Second Lieutenant CYRIL HBNRY MARSHALL KING, R.F.C., who fell on September 30th, was the youngest son of the Rev. E. G. King, D.D., Rector of Gayton, Northamptonshire. He was educated at the Preparatory School, Sherborne, Alden- ham, and Birmingham University, where he studied engineer ing and gained a scholarship for research in his final B.St. examination. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Universities and Public Schools Brigade, and afterwards obtained a commission in the R.G.A. He went to the Front in 1915. transferred after some months to the R.F.C., and was gazetted as an Observer. Last June he came to England for his pilot's course, and he returned to the Front in August. Captain KEITH LUCAS, Sc.D.. F.R.S.. R.F.C., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has died as the result of injuries received in a collision of aeroplanes on October 5 th* A corre spondent of the Times writes : " He had already acquired a world-wide reputation as one of the most promising physio logists of the younger generation. The older methods of research have in certain directions ceased to be fruitful ; they are no longer adequate to settle the problems which present themselves. These problems require not only an intimate knowledge of physiology, but a most delicate com mand of instrumental methods. In designing instruments for investigation and in ability in handling them Keith Lucas stood alone." Dr. Lucas, who was born in 1879. was the son of Francis Robert Lucas, and was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a Fellow in 1904. He was elected F.R.S. in 1913, and was invited to give the Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society even a year before his election to it. Before the war he was fully engaged in both teaching and research work at Cambridge, and was, moreover, one of the directors of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co. But on the outbreak of war all this was put aside in order that he might devote his rare instrumental skill and inventiveness to the Air Service. As testimony to his success we quote the following from the report of the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as published in the Times of August 9th last; " A close study of the conditions affecting the aeroplane compass, with a view to its develop ment and improvement, was undertaken at the Royal Air craft Factory by Dr. Keith Lucas, F.R.S. As a result a type of instrument specially adapted for employment on an aero plane under the varying conditions which arise in flight w*» ultimately produced and standardised. This is the R.AI. Mark II compass, which is now being made in Urge numbers. Flyers are much indebted to Dr. Lucas tor the success attained in this investigation." But the compass was l>\ M mean* his only achievement, and he became more and more engrossed in the work as time went on. Dr. Lucas married, in 1009, Alys, daughter of the Rev. C. E. Hubbard, and leaves three sons. Second Lieutenant PHILIP J SMYTH. Connaught Ranger*, attached R.F.C.. killed in action, was a son of Mrs. Bridget Smyth. Kinawley, Co Fermanagh. Married and to be Married. A marriage has been arranged between Captain (Temporary Major) CUTHBERT KUAN CHARLES RABACLIATI, King'* Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and R.F.C. M.C., younger son of Andrea C. Rabagliati, MA,. M.D., of Whmbrae. Ben Rhyd ding, York*, and grandson of the late Duncan McLaren, MP. for Edinburgh, and MONICA, only daughter of JOSEPH CHILD PRIBSTLKY. K.C.. of Tatmore Place. Hihhm. and grand daughter of the late Sir William Overcnd F*rie»tley. M.D., of 17. Hertford Street. Mayiair, and MP. for Edinburgh and St. Andrews Universities. An engagement is announced between Captain ALEXANDER W. RUTHVEN STUART, Gordon Highlander* and R.F.C.. younger son of the late William Whitewright Stuart and of Mr*. Ruthven Stuart, of js. Sloane Garden*. S.W., and grandson of the late James Stuart and of James Alexander Ruthven, al»o great-nephew of the late William Whitewright, and STELLA MARION GRANT-DUFP-AINSLIS, eldest daughter of Julian Grant-Duff-Ainxhe. of the Old Hill House, Hel- lingly, Sussex, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ainslie, of Delgaty Castle, Aberdeenshire. An engagement is announced between Captain HUOH TOMLINSON. M.C., R.F.C.. son of the late G. W. Tomiin»on, i P., and Mrs. Tomlinson, 65, Iverna Court, Kensington, and AIJELEINE DE LACY (MADOE), eldest daughter of Captain C. A. WICXHAM. R.A.M.C.. and Mr*. WICKHAM, Willesborough, Ashiord, Kent. Items. Second Lieutenant A. DE B. BRANDON, M.C., R.F.C., Special Reserve, who has also been apjiomte.I Companion to the D.S.O., was born in New Zealand in 1884. Educated at Wellington College, New Zealand, and Trinity Hall, Cam bridge, he was called to the Bar in 1006, and after a short period in England returned to New Zealand, where he had been practising until the war broke out. Soon after the declaration of war he came to England, and eventually he joined the Flying Corps in December, 1915. Mr. BttMM receive* the D S.O. for gallant conduct and for devotion to duty, and not for destroying or assisting to destroy any par ticular Zeppelin. On the night of March jitt-Apnl 1st, when Zeppelins dropped nearly 200 bomb*, causing 109 casualties, he dropped several bombs over one of the (alders at a height of 9,000 ft., and his aeroplane was hit many times by machine-gun bullet*. This was the occasion when the L.is came down off the Thame* Estuary, and another raider was hit and dropped part of its equipment in one of the Eastern Counties. Mr. Brandon also had a share in the destruction of the Zeppelin which was brought down on Sunday. Some time ago he dropped several bom I is on an enemy seaplane at Dover. Lieutenant E. M. GILBERT. R.F.C, who wa* recently awarded the Military Cross, was, at Enfield on Saturday, presented with a sword by munition workers in the Lea Valley. Second Lieutenant F. SOWREY, R. Fusilier*, attached R.F.C., who has been appointed Companion to the D.S.O., is 33 years old, having been born at Gloucester on August 25th, 885
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