[1896] Capt., R.A.M.C. M.C. V.C.1. Killed in action 11 Aug. 1917

Ext6ract from the – Supplement to The London Gazette, 6 September 1917:

“For most conspicuous bravery. During recent operations Capt. Ackroyd displayed the greatest gallantry and devotion to duty. Utterly regardless of danger, he worked continuously for many hours up and down and in front of the line tending the wounded and saving the lives of officers and men. In so doing he had to move across the open under heavy machine gun, rifle and shell fire. He carried a wounded officer to a place of safety under very heavy fire. On another occasion he went some way in front of our advanced line and brought in a wounded man under continuous rifle and machine gun fire. His heroism was the means of saving many lives, and provided a magnificent example of courage, cheerfulness and determination to the fighting men in whose midst he was carrying out his splendid work. This gallant officer has since been killed in action.”

[1904] Captain, Royal Engineers. Drowned when H.M.S. Hythe sank after a collision 28 October 1915. Born Tunbridge Wells crica 1885. Son of Sir David Lionel Goldsmith-Stern-Salomons and Lady Laura Julia of Hyde Park Gate, London. Educated Eton College. Left Eton College in 1904. Resident Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 24 to 26 or 325 to 328. See also HMS Hythe 1/3rd Field Company Royal Engineers

Prior to the war he was known as Reginald or Reggie to his family and friends, the third David Salomons was brought up at Broomhill and educated at Eton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which had also been his father's college. He then started training as a lawyer.After Cambridge he travelled widely; first to France, Italy and Spain, and then to the East. In 1910 he and his cousin, Arthur Paget, spent two and a half months exploring Japan, travelling many hundreds of miles by train, horse, rickshaw, boat and on foot. Arthur had previously travelled in Japan, and married there in 1911. Reginald was greatly impressed by the people and the scenery and, on his return to England, took lessons in Japanese and established links with the Japanese consulate. Reginald wrote an account of his travels, "An Outsider's Impression of Japan", under the name R. Nagano. Although never published, it gives an interesting description of the Japan of 1910 and of his reaction to the country and its peoples. [Source: Lives Of The First World War 1914-1918]

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, page 268:

GOLDSMID- STERN -SALOMONS, DAVID REGINALD HARMAN PHILLIP, M.A., Capt., 1 /3rd Kent (Fortress) R. E. (T.F.), only s. of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart., of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells, and of 49, Grosvenor Street, London, W., M.A., D.L., J.P., Hon. Col. Kent (Fortress) R.E., by his wife, Laura Julia, sister to Herbert, 1st Lord Michelham, K.C.V.O., and yr. dau. of the late Baron Hermann de Stern ; b. Tunbridge Wells, co, Kent, 13 Oct. 1885 ; educ. Eton ; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in History ; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Kent (Fortress) R.E. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 15 Aug. 1913, and Capt. 31 Oct. 1914 ; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 ; left for Gallipoli, and was drowned in the Aegean Sea 28 Oct. 1915, while in command of troops on H.M.S. Hythe, when that ship was sunk by collision with H.M.S. Sarina. He refused to leave the ship until his men were safely off, and was lost with about 130 of his company. He took a keen interest in working up the Cadet Force in Tunbridge Wells and Chatham, and was the prime mover of the Territorial Cadet Institution and Kent Territorial Cadet Institution ; unm.

Obituary from Jewish Chronicle Obituary - 19 November 1915:

THE LATE CAPT. SALOMONS.

In the course of a letter to the Editor of the above-quoted journal, Sapper Perry writes: The men who had not left the ship were all huddled up in the stern, and one after another you could see them drop off like flies into the water. Altogether about 140 went down. and among them, I am sorry to relate, was our Captain. Capt. D. R. Salomons, who was beloved by his men. He stood on the bridge to the last with the Sergt.-Major of our Company, and went down with the ship.

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