PTE. RICHARD WHITEHEAD, 2ND RHODESIAN REGIMENT, S. AFRICAN DEFENCE FORCE. DIED JULY 30TH, 1917, AS THE RESULT OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA ON JUNE 5TH, 1915. AGED 47. At the School 1887—89 (Judde House). Richard Whitehead was the second son of the late Sir Charles Whitehead, J.P., D.L., O.T., who left the School in 1848, and who was a Fellow of the Linnean, Geographical, Antiquarian and Geological Societies, a Vice-President of the Royal Agricultural Society, Agricultural Adviser to the Agricultural Department, and Technical Adviser to the Board of Agriculture. His three brothers were also all in Judde House. The eldest, Charles Balston Whitehead, 1882—85, was in the XV. in 1886, and went to Worcester College, Oxford. The third, William Kingston Whitehead, 1887—92, who went to Oriel College, Oxford, and subsequently became a solicitor, served as a Recruiting Officer for West Kent from 1915 to 1917. The youngest, Herbert Mansfield Whitehead, served with distinction in the War as an officer of the 7th Robin Hood Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, was awarded the O.B.E. (Military) and a French Order, and was mentioned in despatches for services in France. He relinquished his commission in the T.F. Reserve in 1921 with the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. After leaving School in 1889 Richard Whitehead joined the 4th Battn. of the Q.O. Royal West Kent Regiment, and was promoted Major in 1902. In the Register of 1910 he was reported a complete invalid, but the War found him farming in South Africa, and he immediately enlisted in the 2nd Rhodesian Regiment, and, serving in German East Africa, was severely wounded at Mbuzini on June 5th, 1915. From the effects of this wound he never recovered, and died on July 31st, 1917.