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JULY 26, 1917. Casualties. Second Lieutenant TOM LITTLER, R.F.C., was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. John Littler, of Simla, Brixham. He was killed in an aerial action on July 3rd, aged 19. He was educated at Paignton College, and after some experience at the engineering works of the Great Western Railway Co., Swindon, joined the Artists' Rifles O.T.C. in November, 1916, and transferred to the R.F.C. as cadet last March. He obtained his commission on April 12th and his " wings " on May 18th. At the time of his death he had been three weeks at the front. Observer Sub-Lieutenant CHARLES BERNARD ORFEUR, R.N., reported to have died of wounds abroad, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Orfeur, of Colchester, and was in his 26th year. He was educated at the Colchester Royal Grammar School. He joined the Royal Naval Division in September, 1914, and served through the Gallipoli cam- paign until he was invalided to Malta with enteric fever. On returning to England he was given a commission in the Royal Naval Division, and he afterwards transferred to the R.N.A.S., in which he was serving as observer at the time of his death. Mr. Orfeur has three other sons, all of whom are serving. News of the death of Lieutenant SEVERS, R.F.C., whilst acting as observer at the front, has reached his father. At first he was reported through the Queen Victoria Jubilee Association at Geneva to be a prisoner at Stroben, but later his pilot, Lieutenant Norman L. Knight, R.F.C., writing from Stroben under June 8th, dispelled any doubt as to Lieutenant Severs' death. Lieutenant^ Knight writes : " He had been with me three or four times over the lines before the day we were brought down. . . . On March 28th we were attacked by hostile machines and were outnumbered by five to one. We fought for over 10 minutes, and in that time your son's courage and nerve was marvellous. But luck was against him. Even when he was hit he stood u] and fired until guns were useless. The bullets pierced head and he was dead before I reached the ground." Lieutenant STUART FOWDEN TROTTER, Canadian Infantry, attached R.F.C., who has died of wounds, was the second son of Mr. J. Glass Trotter, of Stanstead Road, Forest Hill, who recently retired from the assistant clerkship of the Mansion House Police Court. Second Lieutenant JOHN EDWARD ROSTRON YOUNG, R.F.C., who was killed during the raid on London on July 7th, aged 19, joined the Artists' Rifles in June, 1916, and received his commission in the R.F.C. last February. Second Lieutenant Young was the fourth son of Mr. William S. Young, of 76, Mitcham Lane, Streatham, and of the late Mrs. Young, and grandson of the late Mr. J. S. Young, of Abbot Hall, Kents Bank, North Lancashire, and nephew of the late Lieutenant-Colonel R. R. Young, 2nd Black Watch, and of Major T. S. Young, retired, I.A., and late 10th Suffolk Regiment. He was educated at Streatham Grammar School, and before joining was with the British Bank of Northern Commerce. . Naval honours were paid last week at Plymouth to the memory of Flight Sub-Lieutenant H. LAWRENCE CROWE, of the R.N.A.S., whose death in an accident to the machine which he was flying was announced on June 25th. Flight Sub-Lieutenant Crowe was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Crowe, of Toronto, Canada, was a gradimtie -~x>f St. Andrew's College, Toronto, and qualified for his pilot's certificate at the Curtis Aviation School, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A. He was on special patrol duty when he was killed. Flight Sub-Lieutenant RONALD BECKETT MORRISON, R.N., who was accidentally killed while flying in England on July 12th, aged 22, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. John Morrison, of Dunthorpe, Bickley, Kent. He was educated at Charterhouse, and on leaving there entered, the works of an engineering firm. When war was declared he joined the R.N.A.S. as a dispatch rider with the armoured cars, and went to Belgium at the beginning of October, 1914, since when he served continuously in France and Gallipoli until he returned to England in February, 1916. He took up his commission as a flight sub-lieutenant, R.N., in the following June, qualified as a pilot, and went out to the front again in December, and remained there until early in July, when be returned to take up a home appointment.. Second Lieutenant W. J. THOMSON, R.F.C., who was killed on June 6th as the result of a flying accident in England, was the only son of W. B. Thomson, of Wynberg, Cape Town, the old Blackheath and international three-quarter of the nineties. He joined the London Rifle Brigade at 17 years of age, and after two years' training, as he was not sent abroad, he transferred to the R.F.C., and had only been flying for one month when he was killed. He was a keen athlete, and a member of the Bedford Modern School fifteen, and was regarded as having the making of a good pilot. Lieut.-Col. CLIVE MAITLAND WATERLOW, R.E., a Wing Commander of the R.N.A.S., who has been killed in an acci- dent in the Eastern Counties while assisting to moor a naval airship, was one of the most enthusiastic and active airship pioneers in Great Britain. Born in 1886, he was the only son of TWr. David Sydney Waterlow, formerly M.P. for Islington, and grandson of the late Sir Sydney Waterlow. He entered at Woolwich and passed into the Royal Engineers at Chatham from which he went on to the balloon factory at Farnborough under Col.—now General—C. B. Capper. Col. Waterlow held the third airship pilot's certificate issued by the Royal Aero Club, which he obtained on Feb. 14th, 1911. He had made a long study of the airship and its possibilities as a military weapon, and on the airship squadron of the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps being transferred to the Naval Wing in January, 1914.be went with it, and it is an open secret that he has rendered brilliant service in that connection since the outbreak of war. Col. Waterlow was only married as recently as June 9th last, his bride being Miss Joan Clare, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clare, Farlands Croft, Farnham. Missing. Lieutenant A. P. (VAL) MATHESON, R.F.C., who is reported missing on July 13th, is the surviving son of Mrs. Alec Matheson, of Ardarun, Littlehampton, whose two sons, Captain Ian Matheson, Seaforth Highlanders, and Lieutenant Koy Matheson, Royal West Kent Regiment, have been killed within the last eight months. Married and to be Married. The marriage between Miss LORNA LODGE and Mr. ROBERT LANGLEY, R.F.C., will take place at St. George's, Edgbaston, at 11.45 on Saturday, July 28th. The marriage arranged between Squadron-Commander A. J. MILEY, R.N., only surviving son of Dr. and Mrs. Miley, Haven Hill, St. Mary Bourne, Andover, and Mile. ROBERTE LEGAL, youngest daughter of M. and Mme. Legal, Chateau de Tulock, Guerande, France, will take place at St. George's, Bloomsbury, on Monday, July 30th, at 12 o'clock. All friends will be welcome at the church. A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between the Hon. CONSTANTINE SMITH, R.F.C., younger son or Lord and Lady Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, and MARJORIE METHWOLD, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur BIRKETT, 22, Warwick Gardens, Kensington. A marriage has been arranged, and will take place at the church of SS. Cadoc and Illtyd, Cadoxton-Barry, Glamorgan, at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 27th, between Captain ALFRED MARSHALL THOM, M.C., R.F.C., elder son of Mrs. James Thom, Maryland, Dyce, Aberdeenshire, and EDITH MARJORIE, youngest daughter of Mrs. A. W. NEWMAN, of 108, Holton Road, Barry, Glamorgan. , r--.~~,-, • . .-..:;..=.._...-.; •-.-,. Items. The will has been proved of the late ARTHUR EDWARD ELLIS KNOX, of Kingswood, Cavendish Road, Bournemouth, who died on February 26th, aged 79, son of the late Hon. John . and Lady Mabella Knox, at ^8,781 gross—^8,371 net. The testator left /50 to his nephew. Count Conrad Zeppelin, who was a curate at Bexhill until 1887, when, owing to defective eyesight, he returned to Germany. Count Conrad is a cousin of the late Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, of airship notoriety, his mother, the late Mr. Knox's sister, having married a brother of Count Ferdinand's father. Captain JOHN PALETHOBPE, who has recently been awarded the M.C., and who has just been reported wounded, is the second son of Mr. Charles H. Palethorpe, of Northfield, near Birmingham, and was educated at Willeshall College, near Wolverhampton. He joined the R.F.C. about 18 months ago after being on active service in France. 762
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