2ND LIEUT. JOHN MORDAUNT FOORD-KELCEY, 3RD BATTN. THE QUEEN'S (ROYAL WEST SURREY REGT.) (S.R.), ATTD. 2ND BATTN. KILLED IN ACTION AT MAMETZ, JULY 1ST, 1916. AGED 22. At the School 1908—11 (Hill Side). 2nd Lieut. J. M. Foord-Kelcey was the only son of the late William Foord-Kelcey, O.B.E., for forty-four years Instructor and Professor of Mathematics, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, who died on January 3rd, 1922, and of Mrs. Foord-Kelcey, of Brent House, Woolwich. He came to Tonbridge in 1908, and on leaving in 1911 went into the business of Messrs. Thomas, Cumberlege & Moss, tea-brokers, 27, Mincing Lane. He joined the Infantry of the H.A.G. in the autumn of 1912, and volunteering on the outbreak of war with the 1st Battn. for foreign service, served with them in France from September, 1914, till he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel at Messines on February 15th, 1915. On recovering from his wound he received a commission, dated July 22nd, 1915, in 3rd (Special Eeserve) Battn. of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Eegt.), and joined the 2nd Battn. in France in November, 1915. He was killed in action at Mametz on July 1st at the beginning of the great Somme offensive in 1916. The head of his business firm wrote of him :— " He was an universal favourite and an example to all by his cheerful good nature and readiness to put his hand to anything, whether his own work or another's." The following are extracts from the letters of two General Officers:— " I saw him on his way out to his Battalion, and I remember how delighted I was with the way he had developed into just the right stamp of young officer that one wants in these hard times." " Whenever I saw him in France he was doing his bit, and was proud to be doing it, and was doing it for all he was worth." The following from those of two of his brother officers:— " He was doing so well in the regiment and was generally popular. . . . I saw him before he went up to the trenches on the Ist and he was in the best of spirits and full of courage." " We miss him, as he was always in everything, football, fighting, or whatever was on. I wish we had more like him." His Commanding Officer also wrote :— " Your son was a most hard-working officer, who took the greatest interest in his work, and was liked by both officers and men."