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AUGUST 15, 1918. Casualties. Lieut. FRANK ALLYN BENITZ, R.A.F., who was killed in action on August 5th. aged 25, was the second son of the late Wm. O. Benitz and Mrs. Benitz, Estancia " La California," Santa Fe, Argentine. Lieut. JAMES JEFFERY DAWE, R.A.F., who was reported missing on June 7th, and now believed killed on that date, aged 19, was the only son of Sydney and Emily A. Dawe, Ashlyns, Rickmansworth, ""* Lieut. ROY JAMES FITZGERALD, M.C., Glouc. Regt., attached R.A.F., who was killed while acting as observer at the front on July 1st, was the son of the late William Crowthers Fitz- Gerald, of Wellington, New Zealand. He enlisted in the Gloucester Regiment in September, 1914, and very shortly afterwards received his commission, proceeding to the front with the regiment in 1915. He twice led companies in success- ful assaults, being awarded the M.C. for gallantry and leader- ship. During an attack in May, 1917, he was wounded, and captured by the Germans whileinsensible and after five months in hospital and a prisoners' camp in Germany he, together with another officer, escaped, and after several adventures reached Holland on October 8th. On arrival in England, he was sent for by the King, who invested him with the M.C. won in the previous year. Although granted three months' leave, he gave up two months of this in order to rejoin his regiment on another front, where he again distinguished himself, and was recommended for a Bar to his Military Cross. In the spring of this year he joined the R.A.F. and was killed while acting as observer, having volunteered for a dangerous task. He was married in 1916, and leaves a widow. Lieut. WILLIAM SCOTT ROBERTSON, R.A.F., who has been killed in action, aged 20, was the son of Mr. William Robert- son, editor of the North-Eastern Daily Gazette, Middlesbrough. Lieut. Robertson was educated at the Middlesbrough High School, and later was a student in naval architecture at the Armstrong College, Newcastle. Lieut. PHILIP JAMES STUART-SMITH, Lord Stratheona's Horse, attached R.A.F., who was previously reported missing, and now reported by the German Government killed, or died of wounds, was the elder son of James and Mrs. Stuart-Smith, and husband of Claire Stuart-Smith. Lieut.-Col. JOHN HENRY MORRIS ARDEN, D.S.O., Worcester Regiment, who died at Cairo on July 23rd, was born in 1875, and was the son of the late Rev. A. H. Arden. He was educated at Malvern College, entered the Army in 1897, and became captain in 1900. He joined the Egyptian Army, from which he retired after a distinguished career in 1912. He obtained the brevet of major in 1915, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1916. He served in the South African war, 1899-1902 (Queen's Medal, with three clasps, and King's Medal, with two clasps), and the Sudan in 1912 (medal and clasp, and 2nd Class Osmanieh). At the outbreak of the present war he rejoined the Worcestershire Regiment as captain. He was twice mentioned in despatches, and held the 1914 Star. He won his D.S.O. at Neuve Chapelle in March, 1916. He was badly wounded in July, 1915, and again on July 1st, 1916, when in command of the Northumber- land Fusiliers. After his recovery he was given a Staff appoint- ment and was made commandant of an R.F.C. Cadet Wing. Having been asked to undertake an important work of military organisation in the Near East, he is now reported to have died at Cairo shortly after his arrival in Egypt. Lieut. ARTHUR WILMOT CARR, R.A.F., who was drowned while bathing at Aboukir on July 6th aged 35, was the eldest son of the late Rev. Henry Bryan Carr, of St. John's College, Cambridge, Educated at Westminster City School, he offered himself for service at the outbreak of war in August, 1914, and obtained a commission in the Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1915. • * Sec. Lieut. MOWBRAY NOURSE CLOETE, • R.A.Fi, who was accidentally killed while flying oh August 6th, aged 18, was the only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Cloete, of Rhodesia, South Africa. Capt. THOMAS COLVILL-JONES, R.A.F., who died on May 24th at Limberg, Germany, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Colvill-Jones, of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Flight-Cadet OSCAR FISHER, R.A.F., previously 5th Sea- forth Highlanders, who was killed on July 30th, while flying, was the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Fisher, of Grimsby. Major CYRIL E. FOGGIN, R.A.F., who is reported to have been killed while on service in France, in a motor-car acci- dent, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Foggin, Richmond Villas, Gosforth, Newcastle. Sec. Lieut. DOUGLAS MACKENZIE, R.A.F., who died on August 4th, as the result of an accident wmle flying, aged 24, was the only child of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mackenzie, of Honan, North China, and Toronto, Canada, and nephew of Lieut.-Col. W. Grant Morden, of Heatherden Hall, Iver Heath, Bucks. Lieut. H. S. RICHARDS, Essex Regiment, attached R.A.F., who was accidentally killed while flying in England, was the 1914 Rhodes Scholar (New Zealand University). He was educated at the Rangiora High School and Canterbury University College, where he had a distinguished career^, taking his M.A. degree with double-first class honours in mathematics, the senior scholarship in r*athematice, and the Cook memorial mathematical prize. He repre- sented his college at the University tournaments in 1913- 14-15. After entering Balliol in 1915, he was commissioned to the Essex Regiment, with which he served during the- Somme battle until wounded in the attack upon Thiepval in September, 1916. On being discharged from hospital at the end of 1917 he transferred to the R.A.F., and was instructing as a pilot at the time of his death. He is the third New Zealand Rhodes Scholar to fall in this war. Sec. Lieut. ALLAN GIBBS RIDOUT, who was killed on July 28th, aged 19, while flying in England, was the second son of Mr. A. W. Ridout, of Regina, Sask., Canada, and a great-grandson of the late Capt. William Swabey, R.H.A., who fought in the Peninsular Campaign and at Waterloo. He was born in Eastern Canada, but received the greater part of his school training in the great Canadian West. He had just completed his course in the High School at Regina, which prepared him for a university career, when he decided to enlist as a cadet in the R.A.F. He joined the Air Force in October, 1917, and entered the large training camp for Cadets near Toronto, Ontario. He passed successfully through all the training schools of the Air Force in Canada, and eventually became a pilot. Later he came to England as a commissioned officer, and soon became a successful pilot here. Throughout his career he liad never broken a machine before his first crash, which ended in his death. Lieut. PETER WOLFERSTAN RYLANDS, Instructor R.A.F., who was killed while flying on August 9th, aged 19, was the eldest son of T. Kirkland and Bertha N. W. Rylands, of The Down House, Tockington, near Bristol. Lieut.-Col. SPARKS. R.A.F., who was killed in an aviation accident, was the eldest son of Mr. George Austen Sparks, of Streatham, and grandson of Mr. Josiah Knights, timber merchant, London. Before he became an aviator, Colonel Sparks had a career of world-wide adventure, and was en- gaged in ranching in the Argentine. His early boyhood was spent in Glasgow with his aunt, Mrs. Dalglish Porter, founder of the Lome Registry. He was not only an fntrepid airman, but was an authority on the science of aeronautics. Lieut.-Col. Sparks leaves a widow and an infant son. His brother, Commander J. B. A. Sparks, R.A.F., returned from France on special leave to attend the funeral. Capt. JOHN CHAMPAIN TANNER, R.A.F., who was killed on August 1st in an aeroplane accident while instructing: was the eldest son of the Rev. Maurice and Mrs. Tanner, of Eversley Rectory, Hants, and was born at Cheltenham 92O
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