COLONEL LIONEL THOMAS CAMPBELL TWYFORD, LATE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGT. G.O.C. 57TH INFANTRY BRIGADE, 1914-16. DIED AUGUST 24TH, 1920, OF ILLNESS DUE TO ACCIDENTAL INJURY RECEIVED IN FRANCE IN 1916. AGED 55. At the School 1877—81 (Hill Side). Colonel L. T. C. Twyford was the second son of the late Captain Ennis Twyford, who gave his life at the age of about thirty-two in a gallant attempt to succour a cholera-stricken village in India, and was a descendant of Sir Nicholas Twyford, who was head of the Goldsmiths' Company and Lord Mayor of London in about 1347, and who, according to the family tradition, was the doughty knight who knocked down Wat Tyler " in the market place " for sedition. His elder brother, an officer of the Cameronians, served with distinction in the Boer War. Colonel Twyford entered the School in May, 1877, and was in the Football XV, in 1880 and 1881. Passing into Sandhurst he was gazetted to the 2nd Battn. of the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1884. He was Adjutant of the 2nd Battn. 1892—95, and for the three following years Adjutant to the Provisional Battalion. He then became Inspector of Musketry in the North Eastern District, till he went to South Africa, where he served on the Staff as District Commandant. In 1909 he was appointed to command the 1st Battn. of his Regiment, and was promoted Colonel, October 30th, 1912. but had retired on r.p, on April 5th, 1913. He had become a partner in the business of George Brettle & Co., Ltd., of Belper, on the death of his uncle Colonel H. R. Twyford, and in the following year became chairman of the company. Soon after the outbreak of war he raised and comnmnded the 57th Infantry Brigade of the 19th (New Army) Division, his appointment as Temporary Brigadier- General being dated September 14th, 1914. In the following July he took the Brigade to France, and commanded it at the front till June 16th, 1916. During this period the Brigade was for long holding trenches between Festubert and Laventie, and took part, with the Indian Corps, in the Battle of Loos in September and October, 1915. He was " mentioned " in Field Marshal Sir D. Haig's Despatch dated April 30th, 1916. He married in 1918 Vera Geraldine, daughter of the Rev. Frederic Wood, M.A., Rector of Erwarton-cum-Wolverstone, Suffolk, and widow of. the late H. W. Lochnis, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Unfortunately, whilst in France he had met with an accident that ultimately proved much more serious than it appetured at the time. A consignment of mules had arrived for his Brigade, and, whilst he was inspecting them, they were stampeded by a shell that fell in their midst. In the confusion that ensued he received a severe kick in the groin, and, though he made light of it then, his fatal illness was unquestionably caused by it. Those who knew him bear eloquent testimony to his qualities as a man and to his gallantry and efficiency as an officer.