Great War Lives Lost

Chaplain James Shine

Lieutenant (Honorary Captain) Arthur Roy Brown DSC (Royal Air Force) while leading a patrol of six scouts attacks a formation of twenty hostile scouts.  He personally engages two Fokker triplanes, which he drives off; then, seeing that one of our machines is being attacked and apparently hard pressed, he dives on the hostile scout, firing the entire time.  This scout, a Fokker triplane, nose dives and crashes to the ground.  This is the official Royal Air Force version of the death of Manfred von Richtofen.

Today’s losses include:

• The son a Justice of the Peace and former Member of Parliament
• A man whose brother was killed in February 1917
• The son of a member of the clergy
• The son of a Justice of the Peace and former Member of Parliament
• A family that will lose two sons in the Great War
• The son of a member of the clergy
• A Military Chaplain

Today’s highlighted casualties include:

• Captain Charles Roper Gorell Barnes DSO MC (Rifle Brigade and General List) the son of ‘Sir’ Frederick Barnes JP a former Member of Parliament dies of wounds at age 22.
• Commander Bernard Henry Ellis DSO (Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) is killed in action at age 33. His brother had been killed in February 1917.
• Lieutenant Harold Barkley Winton (General List attached Royal Air Force) dies of injuries at age 25. He was an exhibitioner by proxy at Cambridge in 1915.
• Second Lieutenant Percy Stuart Gaster (Royal Air Force) is killed at age 18. He is the son of the Reverend Percy Gaster Vicar of St Paul’s Greenwich.
• Chaplain the Reverend James Shine (attached Middlesex Regiment) dies of wounds at age 37.