Captain Leslie Charles, R.F.C., who was killed in action on July 30, 1916, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Stafford Charles, of Broomfield, Stanmore. He was educated at Stanmore Park, where he took a Mathematical Scholarship for Harrow. At Harrow he became a member of the O.T.C. and the Philatelic Club, and was also head of his house. He left Harrow in July, 1914, and in the following month received a commission in the Worcestershire Regiment. In May, 1915, he was sent to Gallipoli, and was present at the battles of June 4-9. He was subsequently invalided home, and was gazetted Captain on November 20, 1915. Early in 1916 he joined the R.F.C., and took his pilot’s certificate in April. He left for active service on July 5 and lost his life in a combat in the air over the German lines. Second-Lieutenant J. Hampson Dodgshon, who lost his life on October 1, 1916, at the age of twenty-five, was educated at Westminster, and was a member of the school cadet corps. He joined the H.A.C. in July, 1913, and played Rugby Football for the corps. He went abroad with the H.A.C. in September, 1914, and spent the first winter of the war fighting in Flanders and France. He was invalided home, and on his recovery was gazetted to a commission in the Surrey Yeomanry. He served for six months in Egypt, and was at the Dardanelles as Assistant Military Landing Officer. On his return to England he declined a post as Assistant Equipment Officer in the R.F.C., as he felt he ought to take a more active part in the war. He obtained his ‘wings’ in August, and was made an instructor. His commanding officer writes of him: ‘His memory will be green for ever.’ Captain Brooke-Murray, another heroic officer to lose his life in action, was educated at Cheltenham College. At school he was a very good shot, and was in the Cheltenham Bisley Eight of 1908, 1909, and 1910. Entering Sandhurst in September, 1910, he was gazetted to the A.S.C. in 1911. He went to France in August, 1914, with the first Expeditionary Force, and took part in all the operations of the 19th Brigade from Mons to the Marne and Aisne, Ypres and Armentières. From April to July, 1915, he was adjutant of the advanced Horse Transport, and from July to October, 1915, he was staff captain, G.H.Q. Afterwards he became embarkation officer, Marseilles, and officer to the Divisional Ammunition Park (April to June, 1916). He was then flying officer observer to the date of his death from wounds received in action on September 16 in an air combat against three enemy aviators.