Second-Lieutenant Aubrey F. A. Patterson, R.F.C., who is unofficially reported as having died of wounds while a prisoner of war in Germany, was born in 1895. He was the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Patterson, of 40 Cleveland Square, Hyde Park. Educated at Berkhamsted and Eastbourne College, he distinguished himself as an athlete, and won the swimming championship at Eastbourne when he was sixteen. Within a few days of the commencement of the war he enlisted in the H.A.C., and went out to France at the end of 1914. Returning invalided to England in 1915, he was appointed to a commission in the West Yorkshire Regiment, and was subsequently attached to the R.F.C. He went back to the front in 1916, and became actively engaged in bombing operations, in which he did ‘excellent work.’ He was brought down on September 17 by a numerous German squadron, and died of his wounds at Osnabrück. Second-Lieutenant Robert Shirley Osmaston, M.C., was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Osmaston, of Stoneshill, Limpsfield, and grandson of Mr. John Osmaston, late of Osmaston Manor, Derby. He was born in 1894, and educated at Earleywood Preparatory School, Ascot, and Winchester College (Kingsgate House), where he gained the gold medal for gymnastics in 1912. He had a short course of agricultural training after leaving Winchester, and when the war broke out enlisted as a private in the U.P.S. Brigade. In May, 1915, he obtained his commission in the Royal Sussex Regiment, and went to the front on December 1, 1915. Early this year (1916) he was an instructor of Lewis gun training, and later acting-adjutant of his brigade, and was attached to brigade head quarters learning staff work. In April he conducted a raid into the enemy trenches very successfully and without any casualties, and was shortly afterwards awarded the Military Cross. In July he transferred to the R.F.C., and served as observer till he was killed.