The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : A biographical record of all members of His…

post of honour, and led the memorable charge on the night of 22–23 April, which is said by Sir John French “to have saved the situation.” In the action Lieut. Ball was mortally wounded, and he died in No. 7 Stationary Hospital at Boulogne on the 29th of that month; _unm._ His body was taken back to Canada for burial. [Illustration: =Albert Ransome Ball.=] =BALL, JAMES=, Sergt., 11659 (Plym.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BALL, SOLOMON=, Stoker, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BALL, WILLIAM ORMSBY WYNDHAM=, M.B., Lieut., R.A.M.C., _s._ of the late Henry Wyndham Ball, of the Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin; _b._ Dublin, 27 Sept. 1889; educ. St. Andrew’s College and Dublin University; obtained his colours on the Hockey XI. two years in succession, and represented Ireland in six international hockey matches. Gazetted Lieut. R.A.M.C., 24 Jan. 1913, and on the outbreak of war was attached to the 2nd Battn. S. Staffords, and proceeded to the Front with them 13 Aug. He was killed by a shell at Sonpir on the Aisne, 26 Sept. 1914, when attending the wounded there, being buried at Sonpir Farm; _unm._ [Illustration: =William Ormsby Wyndham Ball.=] =BALL, WILLIE=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 10509), 226180, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BALLAM, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 6060, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BALLANTYNE, DANIEL=, Private, No. 4264, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, _s._ of the late Daniel Alexander Ballantyne, of 38, India Place, Edinburgh, Watchmaker, by his wife, Jane, 3rd dau. of Angus Kennedy; _b._ Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 18 March, 1878; educ. Hamilton Place School, Edinburgh; enlisted in the Royal Scots, 1 Oct. 1896, and spent six years in India and eight years in the Reserve. He joined the National Reserve, and transferred about 1912 to the Kames Gunpowder Works (Messrs. Curtis’s & Harvey, Ltd.), and raised branches of the National Reserve in Kames, Tighnabruaich and Millhouse. On the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, he got up rifle competitions in aid of the local Red Cross Society, and received the thanks of the Society for the sum of money he thereby raised. He re-enlisted in his old regt. in Sept., and while at Glencorse did good recruiting work. He went to the Western Front in Jan. 1915, and died 27 April of wounds received in action at Hill 60, and was buried at La Clytte Reninghelst, Belgium. He had been in the trenches on Thursday, the 26th, until midnight, when he left to have a cup of tea, and while partaking of it a bullet entered his left shoulder passing across the back and injuring his spine. He was taken down to the hospital, but only lived a few hours. His letters from the trenches were published in “The Buteman and West Coast Chronicle.” In the last one written on the 21st, just five days before his death, he said: “You were asking how we could be so cheery in the trenches. Well, it’s like this. There is no use in being sad, and the cheerier you are the better, for one never knows when it may be his turn to stop laughing for a long, long time. We do not think on half the things those at home bother about, and consider our duty our ordinary course of work, as it certainly is; and there you are! Some may not come back, but we get accustomed to that thought, and think nothing of it. It may be our turn next, but we know that if it does come we have tried to the best of our ability to do our duty to our people at home and King and country.” Ballantyne _m._ at Edinburgh, 16 Oct. 1906, Mary Jane (187, Gala Park Road, Galashiels), dau. of the late James Donaldson, and had a son and five daus.: Daniel, _b._ 23 Oct. 1911; Jane Kennedy, _b._ 29 March, 1908; Alice Weddell, _b._ 24 April, 1909; Mary Alexandrina, _b._ 17 July, 1910; and Margaret Inglis, _b._ 19 Jan. 1913. [Illustration: =Daniel Ballantyne.=] =BALLANTYNE, THOMAS=, Private, No. 7114, 1st Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, _s._ of Thomas Ballantyne; _b._ Dunston-on-Tyne, 28 Feb. 1886; educ. St. Dominic’s Schools, Newcastle-on-Tyne; joined the 5th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers, 22 June, 1905, and re-enlisted 2 Aug. 1908. On the outbreak of war he was drafted to the 1st Battn. at the Front, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 1 March, 1915. He _m._ at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 6 June, 1906, Margaret Nathans (44, Byron Terrace, Shieldfield, Newcastle), dau. of C. H. Dagg, and had issue two sons and two daus.: Thomas Hubert, _b._ 28 Jan. 1907; Edward, _b._ 3 Nov. 1912; Sarah Elizabeth, _b._ 16 Aug. 1910; and Margaret Alina, _b._ 12 Dec. 1914. Private Ballantyne held several certificates for service. [Illustration: =Thomas Ballantyne.=] =BALLARD, CHARLES FREDERICK=, Commander, R.N., yr. _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col. John Fane Ballard, Duke of Cornwall’s L.I., by his wife, Mary (The Grove, Kingston Blount, Oxford), dau. of Arthur Henry Clerke Brown, of Kingston Blount, Oxford; _b._ Rock, Washington, co. Sussex, 23 March, 1879; educ. Herbert Bull’s, Westgate-on-Sea, and Littlejohn’s, Blackheath. Joined the Britannia in 1892, passing in eighth; became Midshipman, Jan. 1895; Sub-Lieut., July, 1898; Lieut., Nov. 1900, and Commander, June, 1913. Served in China, 1900, as Sub-Lieut. on the Aurora, and was present at the taking of Tientsin, being mentioned in Despatches and specially promoted. He was appointed to the Formidable in Aug. 1913, and was lost in that vessel 1 Jan.