Lieut. T. F. H. Torney, son of Captain Hastings Torney, R.A.M.C., was a nephew of Mrs. Sam H. Walton, Skipton, and was killed in action September 3rd, 1918.
2nd Lieut. Matthaus.
2nd Lieut. Lawrence Matthaus, Royal Field Artillery, formerly engaged in farming with Mr. Jas. Gill, Yarlsber Farm, Ingleton, was killed in action on October 16th, 1918.
Lieut. Sanderson.
Lieut. Gordon Sanderson, 2nd Gurkhas, Machine Gun Section, only son of Mr. William Sanderson, of Rathmell, Settle, was killed in action in France. The deceased officer was 28 years of age. At the outbreak of war, he was offered an appointment as A.D.C., but refused it, and took charge of the Machine Gun Section of the 2nd Gurkhas. Lieut. Sanderson was a clever architectural draughtsman, being formerly engaged in Government work in Egypt. He subsequently worked in Edinburgh, and later was appointed superintendent of the Archæological Survey of the North East Provinces of India. Prior to going to India, Lieut. Sanderson was married to Miss Cowie, daughter of the late Mr. A. Cowie, of Mentone Gardens, Edinburgh.
2nd Lieut. Berry.
2nd Lieut. J. Leslie Berry, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berry, 48, Broughton Road, Skipton, who enlisted in September, 1914, at the age of seventeen, as a private, fell in action on October 12th, 1918.