2ND LIEUT. ROBERT FULWELL SAWYER, 17TH BATTN. KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, NR. HOLLEBEKE, AUGUST 24TH, 1917. AGED 31. At the School (Ferox Hall), 1899—1903. Robert Fulwell Sawyer was the eldest son of the late Charles Sawyer. His younger brother, C. G. Sawyer (F.H. 1904—8) served from October to December, 1914, with a British Red Cross Mobile Ambulance Unit attached to the 1st French Cavalry Corps, and then, being invalided and rejected for military service, became Secretary of the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John. Entering the School in January, 1899, R. F. Sawyer left at Easter, 1903, after being in the Scientific Sixth from September, 1901. After spending twelve months in Berlin and six months in Paris, he entered his father's business, the Autotype Company, West Ealing, in 1904, and had been works manager for some years. On April 22nd, 1908, he had married Kittie, the youngest daughter of John Harrison Wickins, of Faversham, Kent, who survives him. He joined the Inns of Court on December Ist, 1916, and becoming an Officer Cadet in January, 1917, received a temporary commission, dated May 30th, 1917, in the K. R. Rif. C, and joined the 5th Battalion at Sheemess on July 5th. Going out to France on July 24th, he was transferred to the 17th Battalion, and was Acting Company Commander at the Base from July 30th till he left for the Belgian front. Entering the fighting line near Hollebeke on August 22nd, he was wounded and reported missing apparently whilst leading a patrol or raiding party in " No Man's Land." It was not till early in 1920 that the War Office reported that an isolated grave had been located, with a cross bearing his name.