CAPT. RICHARD FITZPATRICK WORTHINGTON, 5TH BATTN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGT. (T.F.). DIED MAY 4TH, 1917, OF WOUNDS RECEIVED IN ACTION AT BIHECOURT, NEAR ST. QUENTIN, APRIL 7TH. AGED 36. At the School 1895—1900 (Day Boy and Hill Side). CAPTAIN OF THE SCHOOL 1899—1900. Capt. R. F. Worthington was the fourth and youngest son of the late Richard Burton Worthington, M.A., Bombay Civil Service and of Mrs. R. B. Worthington, of The Steps, Cam, near Dursley, Gloucester. His eldest brother, E. H. B. Worthington (D.B. 1885—90), was in the Sixth 1889—90, and the XV. 1888 and 1889, and tied for the Swimming Points Cup in 1889, and he holds the Humane Society's Medal. At Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was in the Eight in 1892—93 and took his degree in 1893. After being a schoolmaster till 1900 he served in the South African War and then joined the S.A. Constabulary. In 1906 he became a schoolmaster in the Transvaal, but afterwards took up farming and served in the South African Defence Force in the War till it was disbanded. The second son, A. F. Worthington (D.B. 1887—93), was in the Sixth 1890—93, won a Judd Exhibition and a Classical Scholarship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and took his degree in 1896 with a 2nd Class in the Classical Tripos. He is in the Colonial Civil Service in the Federated Malay States and was a member of the Volunteer Defence Force in the F.M.S. The third C. R. Worthington (D.B. 1890—95), was in the Sixth 1893—95 ; the XV. in 1894 ; the XI. 1895, and tied for the Athletic Points Cup in 1895. He took his B.A. at Caius College, Cambridge in 1898 and proceeding to St. Mary's Hospital took his B.C. in 1903. He served in the South African War, and after serving as M.O. in Southern Nigeria under the Colonial Office, became a Surgeon in the Royal Navy. At the outbreak of war he was in Canada, and came over as a Corporal in the Canadian Infantry and went to the Front with them, but became a Captain in the Canadian A.M.C. in February, 1917, and served in this capacity in France and Germany from July, 1918, to May, 1919. He subsequently received a temporary commission as Captain, R.A.M.C., and served in Egypt till June, 1920, when he relinquished his commission. R. F. Worthington was elected to a Foundation Scholarship, and entering the School as a Day Boy in September, 1895 left in July, 1900, having been in Hill Side in his last year. He became a School Praepostor in September, 1898, and Captain of the School in September, 1899 He was in the XI. 1898—1900 (Captain in 1900) and in the XV. 1898—99 In the Cadet Corps he became a Sergeant in January, 1899, Col.-Sergt. in the following September, and Lieutenant his last Term. He won the Greek Prose Prize and the Smythe Exhibition at the Summer Exam, in 1900, and had gained a Classical Scholarship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He took a 2nd Class (1st Div.) in the Classical Tripos in his second year, intending to work for the I.C.S., but was obliged to relinquish this on account of his eyesight. He took a very leading part in the Athletics of the College, representing the College at Cricket, Football and Athletics, and playing in the Freshmen's and Seniors matches, and was a keen member of the University Volunteer Corps. After working in Cambridge he held Assistant Masterships between 1904 and 1912 at Bradfield College, at the Lycee Carnot at Dijon, in Hamburg and Lubeck and in Antwerp. He played cricket for Belgium v. Holland, receiving a gold medal for his score of 102 out of 175, and also v. France. In 1912 he went to Canada and worked at Edmonton University and in Vancouver Island and Porcher Island until June, 1915. He had previously held a commission in the Gloucestershire Territorials, and he now returned and was Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant August 5th, 1915, and promoted Temp. Lieut. June 20th, 1916, and Temp. Capt. June 28th. In that month the Battalion went to France, where he went through the Battle of the Somme, and where he remained, with the exception of a week's leave in January, until he was wounded on April 7th, 1917, at Vivivian Ridge, Bihecourt, six miles N.W. of St. Quentin. He reached Birmingham University Hospital on the 16th and seemed to be going on well, but, after an unsuccessful operation with a view to the extraction of some metal, septicaemia set in and he died on May 4th. The Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt. Rev. H. Russell Wakefield, C.F. (P.H. 1872), told at the War Memorial Meeting, on July 18th, how when he was visiting the Hospital as Hon. Chaplain, on the very day on which he had received the invitation to preside at the meeting, Capt. Worthington had stopped him and informed him that he too was an O.T., and how at his next visit he found that Capt. Worthington had passed away. The Battalion had lost very heavily in officers, and little information has been obtainable as to Capt. Worthington's services and the circumstances under which he was wounded, except from the letter of an N.C.O. of his Company, who wrote:— " At 12.0 midnight we made an attack on the enemy line and were very much surprised to see the amount of wire which prevented us from reaching the trench except in a few places. During the time we were held up Capt. Worthington met with his first wound. Enemy machine guns were causing us much trouble; so out brave Captain rallied a few men and tried to capture one of these guns. In this attempt he was again hit and fell. A stretcher bearer went to his aid, but the Captain sent him to attend to the others first, and in the meantime managed to crawl back about 200 yards, when he was attended to and sent to the Casualty Clearing Station."