Private, 11th (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale), Border Regiment. Died of gas related problems 6 July 1918. Aged 31. His death was registered in the West Ward Registration District, Westmorland (Vol No, 10B, Page 833). Buried in ST LAURENCE'S CHURCHYARD, Morland. Grave 326.

Extract from a local newspaper, Mid Cumberland and North Westmorland Herald Saturday 20 July 1918:

Private J. Brown., Morland.

       The death took place at Morland on Thursday week after a long illness of Private John Brown, late of the Lonsdale Battalion. He was severely gassed and was discharged from the army some time ago. Private Brown was before enlisting employed by the Earl of Lonsdale, and joined the battalion of the Border Regiment which his lordship established.
       The funeral took place at Morland on Monday, and was accompanied by military honours, a detachment of about fifty men from the Canadian Camp at Cliburn attending under Lieut. And Adjutant Reeve. The coffin was covered with the Union Jack, was surmounted with the deceased’s cap and belt, and was borne by four soldiers. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. J. F. Walton, and at the conclusion of the burial service the firing pary fired the customary volleys and the Last Post was sounded.

Major, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Died of wounds 26 October 1914. Aged 44. Born 15 October 1870 in West Cowes, Isle of Wight. Baptised 24 November 1870 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Son of Col. William Thomas Markham and Anne Emily Sophia Markham, of The House, Melton Mowbray. Twice Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Spoke French and Arabic. Promoted to Second Lieutenant 3 December 1890, Lieutenant 26 August 1896, Captain 1897, Major 1903, Lieutenant-Colonel 1911. Religious denomination Church of England. Height 5 feet 10½ inches. In the 1871 census he was newborn, born Isle of Wight, Hampshire. son of William T and Annie E S Markham, resident Sir F Grants Lodge, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. In the 1881 census he was aged 10, born Isle of Wight, Hampshire, a school boarder, resident Palmer Flatt Boarding School, Aysgarth, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (North Riding). In the 1911 census he was aged 40, born West C owes, Isle of Wight, unmarried, a serving soldier, Major, 2nd Battalion, Cioldstream Guards, resident Marlborough Lines, Aldershot, Farnborough, Hampshire. Buried in SYSONBY CHURCHYARD, Leicestershire. See also Lord's Cricket Ground World War 1 Memorial and Charterhouse School

From the Charterhouse Register, Oration Quarter 1884:

Markham, Ronald Anthony. b. 15 Oct., 1870. (Daviesites); Left C.Q., 1887.-Joined Coldstream Guards, 1890; Capt., 1899; served in Nile Expedition, 1899; employed with Egyptian Army, 1899; A.D.C. to the Sirdar; Order of the Medjidie (4th Class).

Extract from Bond of Sacrifice: Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1916, volume 1, page 255:

MAJOR RONALD ANTHONY MARKHAM, 2nd BATTALION COLDSTREAM GUARDS, was the only surviving son of the late Colonel W. T. Markham, of Becca Hall, Yorkshire, who served in the Crimean War in the Rifle Brigade and Coldstream Guards, and grandson of Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.

He was born on the 15th October, 1870; educated at Charterhouse; and joined the Coldstream Guards from the Militia in December, 1890, becoming Lieutenant in August, 1896, and Captain in December, 1899.

He served with the first advance against the Khalifa in the Nile Expedition of 1899, for which he received the Egyptian medal and clasp. From August, 1899, to August, 1903, he was employed with the Egyptian Army, acting as A.D.C. to the Sirdar from April, 1900, to December, 1902, for which he received the Insignia of the 4th Class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidieh. He was promoted Major in 1907.

He was shot through the head at St. Julien, France, on the 25th October, 1914, and, at the time of his death was Second in Command of his battalion. He was mentioned in Sir John. French's Despatches of the 8th October, 1914, and the 14th January, 1915.

He was a member of the Guards', Nulli Secundus, and the Turf Clubs; also of the M.C.C. and I Zingari. He was fond of cricket and shooting, and was a very keen and hard rider to hounds. He was born at Melton Mowbray, from which place he had hunted all his life, and where his interment took place.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1915:

MARKHAM Ronald Anthony of the Guards Club Pall Mall and 68 Curzon-street Mayfair both in Middlesex major in His Majesty's Coldstream Guards died 25 October 1914 at the Allied Forces Base Hospital Boulogne France Probate London 15 January to Archibald Francis Fletcher Smith and Alan Herbert Davidson esquires.
Effects £8039 9s. 1d.

Private 24863, 8th Battalion, Border Regimkent. Killed in action 5 June 1917. Born Kirby Thore, enlisted Appleby, resident Tebay. In the 1911 census he was a farm Labourer Servant on farm, born Kirby Thore, resident Clickem Inn, Brampton, Appleby. Buried in ST. QUENTIN CABARET MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II. Row K. Grave 6.

Extract from a local newspaper, Saturday 16 June 1917:

Private M. Shaw, Appleby

From Private Geo. Graham, Scrogg Bank, Appleby, at the tine "somewhere in France," word was eceived on Tuesday morning by Mr. John Shaw, of Holme-street, Appleby, that his brother, Matthew, has been killed. As a private in the Border Regiment he took part in an attack on 5th June, when he was fatally wounded and died a few hours afterwarss. Prior to his enlistment he worked on various farms in the neighbourhood of Appleby.