LIEUT. ALAN RANDALL AUFRERE LEGGETT, NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT. KILLED IN ACTION NEAR ARMENTIERES, OCTOBER 30TH, 1914. AGED 21. At the School 1907—11 (School House). Lieut. A. R. A. Leggett was the fourth and youngest son of Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Octavius Leggett, O.T. [Sc. 1860—65] and Mrs. Leggett, formerly of Underhill House, Shomcliffe, and now of High Grange, Hythe, Kent. His father served as Ordnance Officer with the Ashanti Expedition of 1895—96, and after being Chief Ordnance Officer on the Staff in Egypt, 1896—1901, and then for the S.E. District, retired in 1903. His two eldest brothers, both Old Wellingtonians, also gave their lives. The eldest. Major W. N. Leggett, R.G.A., was killed in action whilst commanding a Siege Battery in France on July 14th, 1916. The second son. Major Eric H. G. Leggett, D.S.O., R.F.A., who was commanding a Battery of the 188th Brigade, died at St. Omer Hospital on July 30th, 1917, and in addition to the award of the D.S.O. he had been three times mentioned in Despatches. A. R. A. Leggett entered the School in September, 1907, from Mr. C. C. Lynam's Preparatory School at Oxford, was appointed a House Praepostor in May, 1911, and passed into Sandhurst as a King's Cadet in the summer of that year. His commission in the North Staffordshire Regiment was dated September 4th, 1912, and his promotion to Lieutenant as from September 13th, 1914, was gazetted after his death. He landed in France with the 1st Battn. of the North Staffordshire Regiment, 17th Brigade, 6th Division, on September 14th, 1914, and took part in the Actions on the Lys and the Aisne, and then from October 13th in the Battle of Armentieres. He distinguished himself on October 20th, when Major Mather, of the 2nd Battn. Leinster Regiment, reported to H.Q. that  '2nd Lieut. Leggett, who was sent with a Platoon to his support, by steadiness and good leadership held up an attack, and by well-considered action enabled him to resume the offensive and drive back the enemy.' He was appointed to command the Machine Gun Section of his Regiment, probably about October 22nd, and was killed in action near Armentieres, just after midnight, on the night of October 30th, 1914. He was mentioned in the Despatch dated January 14th, 1915. No immediate awards were then made, as was the case later on, and his father was officially informed that posthumous awards other than the Victoria Cross were not sanctioned, but that had Lieut. Leggett survived he would undoubtedly have been considered for distinction for his valuable services.' His body was brought home and laid to rest close to his old home, in the churchyard of St. Martin's, Cheriton, where a beautiful chancel screen has been erected to the memory of the three brothers.