The Roll of Honour, Volume 1 : A biographical record of all members of His…
1906. Quartermaster-Sergt. Finch had the Long Service and Good Conduct
Medal.
[Illustration: =Leonard E. Finch.=]
=FINCH, SYDNEY GEORGE=, Stoker P.O. (R.F.R., B. 4716), 280524,
H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FINDLAY, GEORGE HALLIDAY=, W.T. Operator, 2nd Class, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=FINDLAY, NEIL DOUGLAS=, C.B., Brig.-Gen., Commanding Royal
Artillery, 1st Division, Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of Thomas
Dunlop Findlay, of Easterhill, co. Lanark; _b._ Easterhill,
co. Lanark, 7 May, 1859; entered Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
19 Jan. 1877; gazetted Lieut., 18 Dec. 1878, and promoted Capt., 28
April, 1887; Major, 21 Dec. 1896; Brevet Lieut.-Col., 29 Nov. 1900;
Lieut.-Col., 1 Sept. 1904; Brevet Col., 15 Oct. 1905; Col., 2 March,
1908; and Temp. Brig.-Gen., 14 July, 1910; and was Adjutant R.A., 1
March, 1894, to 14 Jan. 1896. He served with the Hazara Expedition in
1888, being mentioned in the despatches, and receiving the Medal and
Clasp; and in the South African War, 1899–1900. He took part in the
operations in Natal in Dec. 1899; the relief of Ladysmith; operations
in Natal, March-June, 1900; and in the Transvaal, East of Pretoria,
July to Nov. 1900. For his services in this campaign he was twice
mentioned in despatches [London Gazette, 8 Feb. and 22 Feb. 1901],
and twice by General Sir R. H. Buller (30 March and 9 Nov. 1900),
and received the brevet of Lieut.-Col. and the Queen’s medal with
six clasps. On his return from the Cape he was immediately (5 March,
1901) appointed Brigade Major, Royal Artillery, Aldershot, 1st Army
Corps, which post he held till 14 April, 1904. He was A.A.G. at the War
Office, 2 March, 1908 to 1910, and on 14 July, 1910, was appointed to
the command of R.A. 1st Div. Aldershot Command, consisting of the 25th,
26th, 39th and 43rd Field Artillery Brigades. Brig.-Gen. Findlay took
the Royal Artillery (1st Division) to France with the Expeditionary
Force, 15 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action, near Courchamp, 10 Sept.
1914, while directing the fire of the batteries. He was made a C.B. in