MAJOR CLARENCE EVELYN BEERBOHM, LIEUT. 12TH LANCERS (S.R.), ACTING MAJOR 162ND BDE., R.F.A. KILLED IN ACTION NEAR YPRES, SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1917. AGED 32. At the School 1899—1900 (Ferox Hall). Major C. E. Beerbohm was the only son of the late Julius Beerbohm and of Mrs. Julius Beerbohm, of 48, Upper Berkeley Street, W., great-grandson of the Right Hon. John Hobson and grandson of the late Richard Davies, of the Vigia, Madeira, and of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He married, in 1909, Elizabeth Hamilton Anderson, daughter of the late David Anderson, of Sydney, and left a son aged seven. He joined the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) in 1904, and was for some time attached to the 14th Hussars, but leaving the Service after his father's death made his first appearance on the stage in 1907. He met with an immediate success in his first important part, but though he subsequently appeared in a variety of parts and went on tour with the late Mr. Lewis Waller to the United States, Canada, and Australia, the career, we are told, never appealed to him, and he never quite repeated his first success. He was far more keen on soldiering, and on the outbreak of war immediately volunteered and received a commission in the Special Reserve of the 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers. From September 8th he was employed on recruiting duties, but applying for a transfer to the Artillery was gazetted a Temporary Captain, R.F. A., May 5th, 1915, and posted to the 30th Brigade, 3rd Division. For a time he commanded ammunition columns in the Ypres sector. Then he was appointed to the command of a Trench Mortar Battery and received a message of appreciation from Sir Herbert Plumer for his work. He was twice " blown up " by shells, and after his recovery went out to German East Africa as Artillery Staff Captain to General Forestier Walker. This appointment he held from December 21st, 1915, to December 23rd, 1916. He had been promoted Lieutenant in the 12th Lancers (S.R.), April 18th, 1916, and having returned to the R.F.A. in the Ypres sector at the end of 1916 was promoted to be Acting Major, September 20th, 1917. A week later, on September 27th, he was killed in action near Ypres, and was buried in the neighbourhood of Dickebusch.