The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : A biographical record of all members of His…
1915. His Col. wrote very highly of him and his work.
[Illustration: =Frank Harold Elwin.=]
=EMERY, WILLIAM JAMES=, A.B., 195662 Chatham, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=EMMERSON, WALTER=, Acting Leading Stoker, K. 7698, H.M.S. Good
Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=EMMOTT, JOHN BARLOW=, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Oldham) Battn. Manchester
Regt. (T.F.). yr. and only surviving _s._ of George Henry Emmott,
M.A., LLM., Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple, Queen Victoria
Professor of Law, and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Liverpool University,
by his wife, Elizabeth, 4th dau. of Joseph Bevan Braithwaite,
Barrister-at-Law, and nephew of Alfred, 1st Baron Emmott of Oldham,
P.C., G.C.M.G.; _b._ at Nantucket, Mass., U.S.A., 9 Aug. 1888;
educ. Birkenhead School and Victoria University of Manchester; was
studying the cotton spinning and manufacturing business in the mills
of Messrs. Emmotts and Wallshaw, Ltd., Oldham; obtained a commission
as 2nd Lieut. in 10th Manchester Territorials, 9 March, 1914;
volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; served with
the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles from May to 4
June, 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action at Achi Baba,
Gallipoli. He _m._ 27 Aug. 1913, Doris Lees, sister of 2nd Lieut.
R. G. L. Ascroft (killed in action the same day as his brother-in-law),
dau. of the late James Henry Ascroft, of Oldham, Solicitor; _s.p._
=EMPSON, RICHARD WILLIAM HENRY MACARTNEY=, Lieut., Royal Marine
L.I., elder _s._ of John Empson, of Knock-na-cree, Milborne Port,
Somerset, M.D., late Surgeon North Somerset Yeomanry, by his wife,
Esther Katherine, 2nd dau. of the Rev. Charles Morgan Watling, Rector
of Upcerne, Dorset; _b._ Milborne Port, co. Somerset, 26 May,
1896; and was educ. at Connaught House, Weymouth, Marlborough College
and Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He passed into the Royal Marines in
June, 1913; served with them during the siege of Antwerp, also at Lille
and Lierre, and was promoted Lieut. 17 Sept. 1914. He sailed for the
Dardanelles, 27 Feb. 1915, and was killed in action, 1 May, 1915, at
Gaba Tepe. He was mentioned in Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch of 22 Sept.
1915, and his commanding officer, Col. Luard, wrote: “The young officer
in command, Lieut. Empson, displayed great gallantry up to the time
when he was killed”; and in a further report, stated: “Lieut. Empson
was wounded on 30 April, and continued to actively direct the defence
of the trench until he was killed on 1 May, while delivering fire on
the enemy at close range. I beg to recommend him for a posthumous
honour for his services on 29 and 30 April,” Capt. Syson also wrote: “I
cannot rate Lieut. Empson’s defence of his isolated trench too highly.
From the reports of those who survived him, he never let there be any
doubt as to his procedure should ammunition give out and the hundreds
who were attacking them reach this trench. He upheld their courage and
called forth the qualities which made them stand up to attack by day
and by night, exist with little or no sleep, food or water, and face
the fact that their chance of relief from outside was very small.” He
played for the Royal Naval College in the Kent Cup Final in March,