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JANUARY 24, 1918. Casualties. PTjSecond Lieutenant EDWARD SIVEWRIGHT BACON, R.F.A. and R.F.C., who was previously reported missing on August 31st, 1917, and now officially presumed killed in action on that date, was the third eon "of W. C. F. Bacon, Shawbrook Lodge, Burnage Lane, Withington, Lancashire. He was aged 22. Second Lieutenant ALAN SCOTT BALFOUR, R.F.A., at- tached R.F.C., who was killed in action on January 13th, was the younger son of Sir Robert Balfour, Bt., M.P. for the Partick Division of Lanarkshire, and of Lady Balfour, of Langham Hall, Langham, Essex, and 7, Prince's Gate, W. Born in 1884, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and got his commission in the Artillery in August, 1916, subsequently going into the R.F.C. Last year he married Edna Winifred, daughter of Mr. Frederick P. S. Harris, of 47, Buckland Crescent, Belsize Park, N.W. Second Lieutenant FREDERICK EWAN BALDWIN FALKINER,M.C., Royal Irish Rifles and R.F.C., who was reported missing on August 21st, 1917, and has now been officially reportedkilled, was the eldest son of the late Henry Baldwin Falkiner, solicitor, and Mrs. Falkiner, of Greenoge, Terenure, Dublin.He was born in 1895, and was educated at St. Stephen's Green School, Dublin, and St. Columba's College, Rath-farnham, where he played in the Rugby fifteen. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1913. At the outbreak of the warhe enlisted in the 7th Battalion (" Pals ") Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and was corporal of their machine gun section atthe Suvla Bay landing at Gallipoli. He continued to serve as N.C.O. in the Serbian campaign of the winter of 1915,for which he received the bronze medal for military valour conferred by the King of Italy. After some months spentat Salonica as sergeant instructor in a machine gun school, he was recommended for a commission, and was in January,I9i7i gazetted to the Royal Irish Rifles. He was at the taking of Messiaes Ridge, and was awarded the Military Cross forhis gallantry in capturing a machine gun position. Subse- quently he joined the R.F.C. His next younger brother,George Stride Falkiner, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was killed in action five days earlier. Observer Sub-Lieutenant ARCHIBALD GORDON, R.N., whowas drowned while on active service patrol on January 7th, was the younger and last surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.Gordon, of 71, Oakley Street, Chelsea, S.W. He was born in May, 1897, and was educated at Temple Grove and West-minster, where he was elected a resident King's Scholar in 1911, and when he left in 1916, he was a monitor, secretary to" The Elizabethan," and a member of the school O.T.C. In December, 1916, he was granted a commission as sub-lieu-tenant in the R.N.V.R. for the R.N.A.S., and after some months' training he went abroad on active service last June,having been gazetted observer sub-lieutenant R.N., with seniority dated March 16th, 1917. His elder brother waskilled in action in Flanders last August. Lieutenant ROBERT LYNEDOCH GRAHAM, R.F.A. andR.F.C., was the second son of the Hon. T. Lynedoch Graham, Judge President of the Eastern Districts Courts, Grahams-town, South Africa. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and at Clare College, Cambridge,where he was an undergraduate when war was declared. Volunteering in January, 1915, he received a commission inthe R.F.A., and went to France in the following May. In 1916 he transferred to the R.F.C., and was severely woundedin April. He was reported missing on September 16th, and a message dropped by German airmen on Christmas Daystated that he had been killed on that date. He was 22 years of age. Flight Observer WILLIAM BASIL LOXDALE JONES, R.N.,who was drowned while on active service patrol on January 7th, was the only son of the late Bishop of St. David's, ofGwynfryn, Taliesin, Cardiganshire. He was born in 1890 and educated at Harrow and Oxford. He obtained a com-mission in the Royal Marines on September 24th, 1914, and immediately went to France. He served with the R.N.A.S.in France and the Eastern Mediterranean, and was mentioned in despatches. He was recently gazetted Flight Observer,R.N., his promotion dating from December 31st, 1916. Captain E. H. G. SHARPLES, R.F.C., who was killed while flying on January 19th, aged 19 years, was the only surviving son of Rev. H M and Mrs. Sharpies, of Finghall Rectory, Yorkshire. The Rev. W. T2esdale-Mackintosh, Chaplain to the Troops, Preston Barracks, Brighton, and Mrs. Mackintosh, 5, Alfred Road, Brighton, have received news that their youngest son, Second Lieutenant DOUGLAS F. MACKINTOSH, R.F.A., attached R.F.C., who was reported missing on October 2nd, 1917, is now officially reported killed in action on that date. He was educated at The Wick, Furze Hill, and Brighton College. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 7th Bat- talion 2nd Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces, and took part in the landing at Gallipoli, where he was shot through the throat and temporarily blinded. Returning to England for medical treatment, Second Lieutenant Mackin- tosh received a commission in the R.F.A. Special Reserve. Going to the Western front early in 1916, he remained there till December, when he came home on sick leave, and went out again in March, 1917. He joined the R.F.C. in the field on June 22nd, and served as an observer till his death some three months later. Second Lieutenant LAWRENCE CASTELL STANLEY TATHAM, R.F.C., B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, who was killed in action on January nth in his 23rd year, was the second surviving son of the late Stanley Tatham, of Branksome Park, Bournemouth, and of Frances Emma Constance Tatham, at 2, St. George's Court, Gloucester. Second Lieutenant A. MCDOWALL, East Lancashire Regi- ment, attached R.F.C., who was accidentally killed in England on January 12th, was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McDowall, of Loughton, Essex. Lieutenant GEORGE HEASMAN, who was killed on January 21st while flying on Salisbury Plain, was born at East Grinstead in 1890, and was the son of Mr. H. Heasman, the well-known owner of race horses. He was taught to ride by his father, and afterwards spent a season with the Foxhill trainer, W. T. Robinson. His first success was in 1911, when he won a hurdle race at Kempton Park January Meeting on his father's horse Jeanne la Folle. Afterwards he rode with success in Austria, as well as in this country. Lieutenant Heasman was originally in the Hussars, but in the summer of 1915 was appointed to King Edward's Horse, and went to France. He received his commission in the Flying Corps last spring. Lieutenant FRANCIS HOPE PATTEN, R.F.C., who died atNorwich War Hospital on January 14th, the result of an aeroplane accident, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs.Hugh Patten, 37, Manor Place, Edinburgh. His age was 19 years and four months. Second Lieutenant ARTHUR CHARLES PERRYMAN, Middlesex Regiment, attached R.F.C., only son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Perryman, of 5, Alwyne Square, Canonbury, was accidentally killed in an aeroplane accident on January 7th, aged 29. He was educated at the Mercer's School, and joined the A.S.C., M.T., in August, 1914. He obtained his commission in the Middlesex Regiment, in 1916, and volunteered for the R.F.C. the same year. He was in the retreat from Mons and the second battle for Thiepval. All his service was at the front. Brigadier-General GORDON S. SHEPHARD, who has beenkilled in an aeroplane accident in France, Was the second son of Sir Horatio and Lady Shephard, was educated at Summer-fields and Eton and, after passing through Sandhurst, obtained a commission in the Royal Fusiliers in 1905. Before the warhe did a great deal of yachting. He became a member of the Royal Cruising Club, and made some rather remarkable cruisesin a small sailing yacht, on two occasions gaining the challenge cup of the club. In July, 1912, he joined the Royal FlyingCorps, and flew over to France with the first five squadrons on August 13th, 1914. He received the Legion of Honour fromGeneral Joffre for good reconnaissance work during the retreat from Mons, and in January, 1915, he won the MilitaryCross. Subsequently he was promoted brevet-maj or and brevet lieutenant-colonel, received the D.S.O., and was five timesmentioned in despatches. For the last year he has been in command of a brigade of the R.F.C. IO8
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