LIEUT.-COL. HENRY LOUIS ROSHER, O.C. 2ND BATTN. DORSET. REGT. KILLED IN ACTION AT SHAIBA, MESOPOTAMIA, APRIL 14TH, 1915. AGED 48. At the School 1880—82 (School House). Lieut.-Col. H. L. Rosher was the eldest son of the late Alfred Rosher, J.P., of The Grange, Rosherville, near Gravesend, and married Lilian, daughter of Dr. Hall, of Hillside, Headingley, Leeds. Obtaining his commission in the Dorsets in February, 1885, he became Captain in 1891. In 1897 he was Station Staff Officer in an Indian district, being afterwards graded as a Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General under Sir George Wolseley in Madras until March, 1902. He obtained his majority in the Ist Battn. in 1902, whilst serving in the Punjab, but came home to command the Depot at Dorchester, and did duty with the 8rd Battn. In 1910 he was promoted to be Lieut.-Colonel and to command the 2nd Battn. in India. He served in the Poona Division under Lieut.-Gen. Sir Arthur Barrett, and was under orders to leave Poona for Bombay when the Battalion was ordered to the Persian Gulf. He fell at the Battle of Shaiba on April 14th, 1915. He was twice mentioned in despatches for his services in Mesopotamia, first for his services up to the surrender of Basrah, and again for his services during the operations in the vicinity of Shaiba and in the three days' battle of Shaiba, in which he gave his life. He was referred to in the Despatch as " An able and most gallant Commanding Officer, whose death is a great loss to the Service." He was much beloved by his officers and men, who were most enthusiastic about their Colonel. Though the family cannot be called a military family, many of his ancestors had shown their readiness to take their part in the defence of their country in time of need. His greatgrandfather and great-uncles held commissions in the Militia at the time of the Napoleonic wars. His great uncle, Colonel Gladdish, was the first Colonel of the Kent Artillery Volunteers and Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Kent. Through his grandmother, Mrs. Henry Rosher, he was descended from a family that gave many soldiers to the State in successive generations, the Lauders of Lauder and Bass, from the time of the first Baron, Robert Lauder, who distinguished himself fighting for his King at the battle of Birnam Wood. Another knightly Lauder was the faithful companion of Sir William Wallace. Windows in memory of Lieut.-Col. Rosher's father and of other members of the family have been placed in St. Mark's Church, Rosherville, which was built and endowed by the family. On March 24th, 1915, the Admiralty reported a successful air raid by five machines of the Dunkirk Squadron on the German submarines being constructed at Hoboken, giving the names of the two successful pilots. Of these two one was an O.T., Squadron Commander Ivor T. Courtney (Hillside 1900). The other was a young cousin of Lieut-.Colonel Rosher, Lieut. Harold Rosher, R.N.A.S, who subsequently gave his life in the service of his country, being killed on February 27th, 1916.