CAPT. HAMILTON STEWART WALFORD, WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT, ATTD. 4TH BATTN. THE WELCH REGT. (T.F.). KILLED IN ACTION AT BERRY-AU-BAC, MAY 27TH, 1918. AGED 33. At the School 1900—3 (Judde House). Capt. H. S. Walford was the second son of the late Rev. William Stewart Walford and Mrs. Stewart Walford, of Dallinghoo, Suffolk. Entering the School from Hurst Court in January, 1900, he was in the Cricket XI. in 1903, and left in July of that year. After farming for a time in Ireland, and then nursery gardening in Devonshire, he went out to Ceylon in 1909 to learn tea planting, and was for some time on Kirawana Estate, Galaha, Ceylon. When war broke out he was on Amakal Estate, South India, and immediately came home to serve. He was gazetted to a temporary commission, dated October 30th, 1914, in the 11th (Service) Battn. of the Worcestershire Regiment, and was promoted Temporary Lieutenant July 11th, 1915. On January 3rd, 1916, he sailed for Egypt, and on May 1st of that year was promoted Acting Captain in command of a company in a Regular Battalion, but was subsequently attached to a Territorial Battalion, the 4th Battn. of the Welch Regiment, in which he was a Company Commander and Acting Captain till December 20th, 1916. In March, 1917, he was invalided home, and it was not till April 19th, 1918, that he returned to the Front. There he once more became a Company Commander in the 4th Battn. of the Welch Regiment, and was gazetted Acting Captain from May 11th, 1918. Little more than a fortnight later he was killed in action, on May 27th, 1918, at Berry-au-Bac on the first day of the Battle of the Aisne, 1918, the German final offensive in Champagne. On that day the Germans by a surprise attack broke through the trench lines, and the 4th Welch and also the 1st Worcesters, who were close to them, suffered terrible losses. His fate was at first doubtful, but eventually it was reported that he had been killed instantaneously by a shell.