CAPT. CLAUD ROMAKO a BECKETT TERRELL, M.C., 15TH BRIGADE, R.H.A. DIED JUNE 10TH, 1917, OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION AT MONCHY, NEAR ARRAS, ON THE 8TH. AGED 33. At the School 1897—1903 (Judde House). Capt. C. R. a  B. Terrell was the younger son of the late Arthur a Beckett Terrell, O.T. (D.B. 1862—5), and of Mrs. Terrell, of 12, FitzJames Avenue, Baron's Court, S.W., and Ashmansworth, Hants. His father was in the Sixth 1864—65, and in the XL 1865. He was a Barrister in practice at 11, Stone Building, Lincoln's Inn, and was for long a very prominent member of the Old Tonbridgian Society, of which he was President 1914—18. He died in November, 1922. The elder son, Capt. A. E. a  B. Terrell (J.H. 1895—1900), was elected to a Foundation Scholarship in 1895, to which he added the Judd Scholarship in 1896, was appointed a School Praepostor in September, 1898, and left in July, 1900, with an open Classical Exhibition at Exeter College, Oxford, and a Judd Leaving Exhibition of £80 for four years. Taking his degree in 1904 with a 2nd class in the Final Classical School, he became a Liveryman of the Skinners' Company in 1905, and is a member of the Pellipar Lodge of Freemasons, was called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1906, and, going out to Singapore to the firm of Messrs. Drew and Napier, became an Advocate and Solicitor of the Straits Settlements. He enlisted in the Cavalry Squadron of the Inns of Court O.T.C., on August 6th, 1914, and his commission in a Territorial Brigade, R.F.A., was dated November 20th 1914, and his full Lieutenancy June 29th 1917. He served in France for a short time in 1916 with the 297th Brigade, R F.A., and for eight months in 1917 with the 286th Brigade, being Acting Captain second in command of a Battery from May l0th, 1917, till he was gassed at Langemarck on October 30th, 1917, in the Battles of Ypres. Going out again in November, 1918, he was for three months Education Officer, 2nd Division, at Duren, and on relinquishing his commission he was granted the rank of Captain. Entering the School in September, 1897, G. R. a B. Terrell was a member of the Cadet Corps, as it then was, became a House Praepostor in September, 1902, and a School Praepostor in his last Term, and left from the Classical Lower Sixth in July, 1903. He had soon shown very considerable mathematical ability, and on Skinners' Day, 1902, he won the 1st prize for Mathematics and was awarded the Parcel Gilt Pen, the Silver Medal, and the Second Judd Leaving Exhibition of £80 for four years. In 1903 he again won the 1st prize for Mathematics, and was also elected to an open Mathematical Scholarship at B.N.C., Oxford. At the University he took a 1st class in Mathematical Moderations, 1905, and took his degree with a 2nd class in the Final Mathematical School in 1997. One of the B.N.C. Tutors writes of him : " He remains in my memory as a singularly lovable man." From 1907 to 1911 he was in London, being admitted a Solicitor in 1910, and becoming a Liveryman of the Skinners' Company. During these years he was a member of the Inns of Court Mounted Infantry, and an officer who was with him in the Squadron writes:— " Of all the first-rate men in the old Inns of Court Squadron, I knew of none who was more thoroughly respected or beloved, or who more thoroughly deserved the esteem and love of his fellows." In 1911 he went to Singapore to join his brother with Messrs. Drew and Napier, and one of the firm has testified to the excellence of his work and wrote : " I shall always think of him as one of the most lovable men I have known," adding that such was the feeling he had heard many others there express many a time both since and before he gave his life. Having joined the Cyclist Scouts in Singapore, he saw active service in the suppression of the mutiny of the native Regiment stationed there, and at Christmas, 1915, he returned to England to take up a commission in the Special Reserve of the R.F.A. This commission was dated January 12th, 1916, and, with his mathematical ability and knowledge, he soon qualified for active service, and in the following April went out to the Front to a Howitzer Battery of the R.H.A., and with the exception of ten days' leave in January, remained at the Front till his death. On April 9th, in the absence of the Major, he was in command of the Battery during a long and furious bombardment preparatory to and in support of an infantry attack. The Battery suffered heavily in men and in guns, a dump of some 3,000 shells was blown up, and he was the only officer who did not become a casualty. He testified to the splendid behaviour of his men, and he was himself awarded the M.C. for his gallantry on this occasion, the paragraph that appeared in the Gazette with the award being as follows :— " For conspicuous gallantry in action. His guns were subjected to very severe shell fire, and five of the six detachments were disabled. "With great skill and courage he supported the infantry with his only undamaged guns, being the whole time under heavy fire." Note.—This was at the Battle of Arras, April 9th, 1917. His promotion to Acting Captain was dated April 24th, 1917. About 4.30 p.m. on June 8th he was wounded by a piece of shell whilst on his way back from an O.P., and was quickly got away to a casualty clearing station, where an operation was performed that evening. Hope was entertained that he would recover, but he passed away peacefully on the morning of Sunday, June 10th, 1917. On the previous day the Staff Captain and another friend had motored over and been able to tell him of the award of the M.C., news of which had just reached H.Q. He was buried in the British Cemetery at Agnez-les-Duisans,' near Arras. His Brigade Commander, who was absent wounded at the time, wrote:— " Popular with all ranks, and a capable and experienced officer, he was of a type that we can ill spare." The Acting CO. of the Brigade also wrote:— " He has greatly distinguished himself since he has been with us. . . . He was a most delightful companion to us all, and his happy disposition under the trying circumstances of the last two months a help to everyone about him." A Subaltern wrote:— " The men in the Battery miss your son very much. They all loved him because he did so much for them, and he was such an extraordinarily fine officer. He was quite the best and easily the keenest 'gunner' in the Division. All the gunnery I know I learned from him. He, as you know, had just been on a Battery Commander's course. I met one of the Instructors the other day, and he said that they thought very highly of him at the School. The Battery was everything to him, and he spared no effort to keep up its efficiency." The letter of his old Battery Commander contained the following:— " He became such an excellent officer and served me so well and loyally all the time. He picked up everything so quickly that it was a pleasure to teach nim. When I was ordered home I felt that I could leave the credit of the Battery very safely in his extremely competent hands, and my trust was not misplaced. I often used to hear how well he was doing. . . . He was always cheerful under any difficulties, and always managed to do the right thing." Finally, the Chaplain's testimony concluded with :— " He will be greatly missed, and not least by me, for I had grown very, very fond of him, and he was a great help to me in my work."