PTE HUMFREY TEMPLE BABINGTON, 32ND BATTN. AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY. DIED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN FRANCE, MAY 1ST, 1917. AGED 32. At the School 1898—1903 (Day Boy and Manor House). Humfrey Temple Babington was the younger son of the Rev. John Albert Babington, Vicar of Tenterden since 1903. who after being an assistant Master at Marlborough 1867—75 and Headmaster of Lincoln Grammar School, 1875—80, was an Assistant Master here for 23 years, 1880—1903, and held Judde House from 1880 to 1892. Entering the School from Mr. C. J. M. Wanton's, Tonbridge Castle School, in September, 1898, H. T. Babington reached the Upper Sixth in September, 1901. He had been appointed a House Praepostor in the previous May, was appointed a School Praepostor in September, 1902, and left in July, 1903, having been in Manor House for his last Term after his father resigned his mastership and left Tonbridge to take up his work as Vicar of Tenterden. It was mentioned in the notice in the local paper that " he was a very brilliant reader and would long be remembered in Tenterden for his beautiful reading of the lessons in the Parish Church." He had been for some time a clerk in the Union Bank of Australia, at 71, Cornhill, and left for Australia in February, 1914. Having enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1915, he proceeded to Egypt in March, 1916, and thence to Marseilles in the following June. He had therefore been at the Front in France for nearly a year when he died of acute bronchitis at a Casualty Clearing Station on May 1st, 1917.