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NOVEMBER I, 1917, Casualties. The death ia action is reported of Lieutenant ARMAR SOMERSET BUTLER, South Lancashire Regiment, for three years attached to the Wiltshire Regiment, and within the last six weeks to the R.F.C. He was the son of the Rev. Pierce Butler and Mrs. Pierce Butler, East Stoke Rectory, Wareham. Lieutenant Butler had served for two years in - the Balkans, was recently severely wounded, and on his recovery volunteered for the R.F.C. He belonged to a distinguished military family, being the grandson of the late General the Hon. H. E. Butler, a Peninsular hero and nephew of Major James Armar Butler, known as the " Hero of Silis- tria" at the beginning of the Crimean War. Lieutenant Butler is the second son of the Rev. Pierce Butler to fall in the war, his youngest brother having lost his life in his Majesty's ship Hampshire in June, 1916. Two other brothers are serving. Lieutenant ALEXANDER NEVE LEESON, D.S.O., R.H.A., attached R.F.C., who was killed on October 22nd, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Leeson. He was born in 1895, and was educated at Clifton Bank, St. Andrew's, Bengeo School, Hertford, and Rugby, where he was in the Army class and a cadet officer in the O.T.C. In August, 1914, he entered ' Woolwich, where he was under-officer, and was awarded the Tombs Memorial Prize. He got his commission in the R.F.A. in February, 1915, and joined his battery in Ireland. In July, 1915, he went to the Dardanelles with the 13th Division. He was invalided with scarlet fever to Mudros, rejoined his regiment in Egypt, and in February, 1916, went to another front. After several months of active service he was trans- ferred to the R.H.A., and was awarded the D.S.O. Last August he became attached as an observer to the R.F.C. Lieutenant DAVID RHYS CADWGAN LLOYD, R.F.C., was killed on June 16th, aged 20. After passing through the O.T.C. at Oakham, he served in Belgium and France with the Essex Yeomanry in 1914, and with the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1915 and 1916, when he was wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He joined the R.F.C. the same year. Lieutenant Lloyd was the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Llewelyn Lloyd, of Kirby-le-Soken, Essex. Captain FREDERICK DESPARD PEMBERTON, R.F.A. and R.F.C., who was formerly reported missing and is now known to have been shot dead from an enemy aeroplane on August 21st, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Pemberton, of Mountjoy, Victoria, British Columbia. He was educated at Haileybury and the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada. He received his commission in the R.F.A. during the summer of 1915, and on coming to England was attached to the R.F.C., in which his abilities as a skilful and courageous pilot earned him rapid promotion. Captain W. V. TREVOR ROOPER, Yeomanry, attached R.F.C., who was killed in the air on October 9th, aged 20, was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Rooper, of Poppy's Corner, Redhill, and formerly of The Elms, Gresford, Den- bighshire. He was educated at Bilton Grange and Charter- house, and enlisted in the Yeomanry on the outbreak of war, at the age of 17. After five months he was granted a com- mission in the Yeomanry, and was attached jto the R.F.C. in September, 1916. He went to the front last April, and was gazetted captain and flight commander in. August. H Second Lieutenant GERALD HUDDART SWANN, R.F.C., killed on October 18th, aged 18, was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Swann, of Hangerfield, Witley, and grandson of the late James Huddart, of Melbourne and London. He was educated at Cordwalles (Maidenhead) and Rugby, where he was for some years a member of the O.T.C., leaving from the sixth form in December last. He at once joined the R.F.C., and, obtaining his commission in May, proceeded to the front in August. Second Lieutenant GEOFFREY NIELD WHITEHEAD, R.F.C., who was killed on October 15th, was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Whitehead, of Langley, Baildon, Yorks. He was educated at Shrewsbury and Christ Church, Oxford, and before joining the Army was associated with his father in the business of Messrs. W. and J. Whitehead, New Lane, Mills, Laisterdyke, Yorks. He married in 1913 Kathleen, daughter of the late W. M. McLaren and Mrs. McLaren, of Bradford, and leaves a soa. •-••• ; Second Lieutenant" HUGH HOLTOM WHYTEHEAD, R.F.C., who was killed in action on July 12th, aged 21, was the only son of the late Mr. Hugh Whytehead and Mrs. Whytehead, The Hermitage, Stratford-on-Avon. Second Lieutenant GEORGE GRANT CAMERON, GordonHighlanders, attached to R.F.C., who was killed in a flying accident on October 16th, aged 21 years, was the only son ofthe late G. L. Cameron, Earlswells, Bieldside, and Mrs. Cameron, 2, Forest Road, Aberdeen, and dearly-beloveclgrandson of the late Mrs. Cameron, 20, Shaa Road, East Acton. Second Lieutenant CHARLES WILLIAM HOMER, R.F.C., who died on October 27th as the result of an aeroplane accident, was the son of Mrs. Miller, Pinewood, Maidenhead, and the husband of Mona Homer. Lieutenant A. D. STEWART, R.F.C., who was accidentally, killed while flying in England on October 19th, was the youngest son of the late Capt. M. P. Stewart, J.P., of Plas Lodwig, Bangor, North Wales, and Mrs. Stewart, Colmac, Parkstone, Dorset. He was educated at Cheltenham College. In 1914 he was offered a post in the War Land Department, which he held until the present year, when, at his own request, he was transferred to the R.F.C. In 1914 he married Miss Dorothy Stella Adams, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Adams, " The Heath," Petersfield. His second brother, Capt. Norman Stewart, Royal Scots, was killed at Hooge in September, 1915. Sub-Flight Lieutenant PETER CRAWFORD WOOD, R.N., who was killed whilst flying on October 23rd, was the only surviving son of J. Crawford Wood, Alkerton House, near Banbury, Oxfordshire. Married. On October 5th, at Watton, Norfolk, Lieutenant J. C. BURNEY-CUMMING, Gordon Highlanders and R.F.C., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Cumming, St. Albans, was married to CONSTANCE, youngest daughter of Lieut, and Mrs. G. H. BODELL, Temple Gardens, Golders Green. The marriage between Second Lieutenant WILLIAM ILAN VANE HUNT, R.F.C., only son of the late Rev. William Hunt, Senior Moderator, Trinity College, Dublin, and of Rathnapish, Co. Carlow, and MURIEL, elder daughter of Mr. A. W. SOAMES, M.P., 18, Park Crescent, W. 1, took place on October 28th, at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, at 10 a.m. The marriage of Captain T. R. IRONS, R.F.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Irons, of Sydney, Australia, and the Hon. WINIFRED SMITH, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Colwyn, of Queen's Lodge, Colwyn Bay, took place on October 24th at St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square. On September 12th at the District" Registry Office, and on the 23rd October, 1917, at the Parish Church, Folkestone, Second Lieutenant F. G. ST. C. KEITH, Royal Fusiliers, attached R.F.C., was married to FLORENCE, only daughter of J. H. LEWES, of Calcutta. The marriage arranged between Major BASIL H. TURNER, of the F.R.C., and HELEN, eldest daughter of the late Sir GEORGE FARRAR, Bt., D.S.O., took place on November 1st, at St. Luke's, Chelsea. The marriage of Lieutenant HAROLD M. TYSOE, Lancers, attached R.F.C., elder son of the late Mr. Joseph Tysoe, C.E., and Mrs. Tysoe, Colwyn, Westcourt Park Road, S.E., to STELLA MAUD ASHBY, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. PERCY W. ROLLS, of Blackheath, S.E., took place on October 20th at Holy Trinity-Church, Blackheath Hill, S.E. To be Married. An engagement is announced between Lieutenant ADRIAN DE LAVISON, London Regiment, attached R.F.C., youngest son of the late Count de Lavison, of Cairo, and of Countess de Lavison, and grandson of Colonel H. H. St. Leger, D.S.O., and JOYCE WINIFRED MARY, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard RAPP, of Elton Park House, Ipswich. The engagement is announced between Second Lieutenant JAMES H. L. PURKESS, Hampshire Regiment, attached R.F.C., son of the late James Purkess, general manager of the Mid- land and South-Westeru Railway, and of Mrs. Purkess, of Culmstock, Devonshire, and Miss ELIZABETH ADELINE (ELLA) TYSOE, only daughter of the late Joseph Tysoe, M.Inst.C.E., and of Mrs. Tysoe, of Colwyn, Blackheath, S.E. 1145
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