2ND LIEUT. ERNEST LUMLEY HAMMICK, INDIAN ARMY RESERVE OF OFFICERS, ATTD. 73RD CARNATIC INF. DIED OF FEVER AT BANGALORE, MAY 16TH, 1916. AGED 26. At the School 1904—8 (Day Boy). Ernest Lumley Hammick was the third son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hammick, formerly of Hanover House, Tonbridge, and now of St. Stephen's, Plympton, Devon. He entered the School in January, 1904, and left at Easter, 1908, having been a Corporal Drummer in the Cadet Corps, and having been a House Praepostor since May, 1907. His eldest brother, St. Vincent Frederick Hammick (D.B. 1900—4), is a Major in the 13th Rajputs (The Shekhawati Regt.), and was mentioned in Despatches for services in German East Africa; the second brother, Eustace Hammick (D.B. 1903—6), became a Captain in the 17th Inf. (The Loyal Regiment), I.A., and died at Cairo, October 8th, 1918, of wounds received at Khel Jibeit, Palestine, on September 20th. He had been mentioned for services in German East Africa ,and was also awarded the Croix de Chevalier of the Belgian Order of the Crown. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry on the day on which he was fatally wounded. After leaving School Ernest Hammick entered as a pupil the workshop of a mechanical engineer, in preparation for a tea planter's life, and at the same time took a commission in the 4th Battn. of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regt. (T.F.), devoting himself energetically to his duties as an officer, until he left England in October, 1909, whilst still under 20, to take up a five years' appointment with a firm of tea-planters on the hills of Travancore. There he managed with tact gangs of coolies numbering at times upwards of 400, throwing himself into the work of the estate with energy and success. He rapidly became proficient in Tamil, a very difficult language. Hunting and shooting were his chief recreations, and as often as his work permitted he was out on the hills after ibex, sambhar or bison. Soon after his arrival he had joined the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles, and in 1914—15 was seventh in the list of 173 marksmen. In local competitions he held the challenge cup for the best shot with gun and revolver, was three times in the winning Lloyd-Lindsay team, and won the half-mile and quarter-mile and other events in the sports. On the outbreak of war he wished to come home to serve, but his engagement with his employers prevented this. On its expiration he applied for a commission in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers (Infantry Branch), hoping for service in Mesopotamia or in East Africa, where his two brothers in Indian Regiments were serving, was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant January 27th, 1916, and after a course of training at Sialkot was posted to the 73rd Camatic Infantry, stationed at Trichinopoly. A few weeks later he was attacked by malarial fever. An attempt was made to move him to the more healthy climate of Bangalore, but he died on reaching that place and was buried with full military honours in the Ulsoor Cemetery. His Commanding Officer wrote of him :— " He was much liked by his brother officers, and I myself thought very well of him and was well pleased at the manner in which he carried out his duties, so much so that I had the pleasure of reporting him to Headquarters as being fit in every way to go on active service, though he had been with us so short a time." One who knew him and his work intimately has written :— " He has taken with him the deep love and respect of all who worked with him and most of all of the natives who worked under him. Strength and unselfishness such as he possessed never fail."