LIEUT.-COLONEL WILLIAM TANKERVILLE MONYPENNY REEVE, C.M.G., 2ND BATTN. LEINSTER REGT. DIED SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1915, FROM ILLNESS CONTRACTED WHILST SERVING IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. AGED 49. At the School 1880—84 (Day Boy). Lt.-Col. W. T. M. Reeve, who was the third and last surviving son of the late Captain John Milward Reeve, R.N., a Crimean Veteran, on leaving Sandhurst in 1887 joined the 2nd Battn. of the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), and obtained his Captaincy in 1894—-was Adjutant for four years, 1895—99. In 1900 he was employed with the Gold Coast Constabulary in General Willcocks's Expeditionary Force against the Ashantis, and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the medal. At the conclusion of the operations he remained on the West Coast, serving with the Constabulary and with the West African Frontier Force, until 1905, and was largely responsible for the conversion of the Constabulary into the Gold Coast Regiment, of which he was second in command. He returned to West Africa in February, 1909, at the special invitation of the Colonial Office, to take command of the Regiment, and served with the Frontier Force until 1911. He became Colonel of his own Regiment, the 2nd Leinsters, in 1912, and shortly after the outbreak of the war took the Battalion to France in time to come in for a full share of the severe flighting round Armentieres in October and November, 1914. He received a severe wound on November 19th, which occasioned the loss of his left forearm, at L'Epinette, near Armentieres. He was mentioned in Despatches and his services were further rewarded with a C.M.G., dated June 3rd, 1915. Notwithstanding his disablement, he returned to the Front on June 1st and remained there for some weeks; but the loss of his arm was considered too great a handicap for trench warfare and he was, in consequence, temporarily attached to the newly-formed lst Garrison Battn. Essex Regiment as Commanding Officer. He took this Battalion out for service on the lines of communication in the Dardanelles, and he contracted his fatal illness in Lemnos almost immediately after their arrival. He died at Millbank Military Hospital in London and was buried in Brompton Cemetery. He left his widow with two sons, J. N. Reeve, bom March 22nd, 1912, and W. T. N. Reeve, born December 26th, 1913, both of whom are entered for the School. Always a keen soldier, he had been adjutant of his old regiment, having previously acted in that capacity for a long period during the illness of his predecessor, and had also been Garrison Adjutant at Bermuda. His foreign service included such widely distant stations as Calcutta, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Mauritius, Malta, Bermuda, South and West Africa, while besides he had had several years' experience of soldiering in Ireland and England. All the time he was invalided he was quietly eager to get back to his men. "They asked me if I had tied my tie myself," he told a relative on coming away from a Medical Board. "I said 'yes.' It was true," he added with an almost apologetic smile, "though my wife did have to straighten it out a little." Such was the spirit of the man.