CAPT. DAVID HENRY HARMAN CORNFOOT, 9TH (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTN. LONDON REGT. (QUEEN VICTORIA'S RIFLES) (T.F.). DIED AT NETLEY RED CROSS HOSPITAL, MAY 2ND, 1916, OF ILLNESS CONTRACTED ON ACTIVE SERVICE IN FRANCE. AGED 46. At the School 1883—86 (Day Boy). Capt. D. H. H. Cornfoot was the eldest son of the late David Cornfoot, of 20, Lancaster Gate, W., formerly of the Manor House, Tonbridge. He married in 1900 Olive, the second daughter of the late Arthur Houston, KG., of 22, Lancaster Gate, W. Leaving School young, at the age of 17, he commenced work in the City with a firm of stockbrokers, and later became a member of the Stock Exchange. Always keen on soldiering, he joined the 20th Middlesex (Artists) Rifles, now the 28th (County of London) Battn. London Regt. (Artists Rifles) (T.F.), as a private, and served for many years in this Corps, rising to the rank of Sergeant. Later on he took a commission in the 19th Middlesex (Bloomsbury) Rifles, which in 1908, under the Territorial scheme, were merged with the 1st Middlesex (St. George's) Rifles and became the 9th (County of London) Battn., the London Regt. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) (T.F.), and rose to the rank of Captain. He subsequently resigned his commission, but on the outbreak of war he rejoined, was gazetted September 6th, 1914, Temporary Lieutenant in the 2/9th London Regt., and was promoted Temporary Captain November 21st, 1914. For many months he did splendid work in training drafts for the 1st Battn., but urgently petitioned to be allowed to go to the Front, in spite of his age. In July, 1915, he went to France and joined the 4th Entrenching Battn., of which as Senior Captain he took command in February, 1916. Hard work, and the severe conditions under which it was performed during the winter of 1915—16, told upon his health, and eventually resulted in acute pleurisy, which necessitated his being invalided home on April 10th, and he died at Netley Red Cross Hospital, Southampton, on May 2nd, 1916. He was a capable officer and popular alike with his brother officers and with the men. A brother officer, writing to Capt. Cornfoot's widow, says :— " In France one finds out a man's worth very quickly, and I can't say how much I admired your husband and the splendid way he stuck to his work. He was a sportsman in every way, and I feel I have lost a lifelong pal, though I only served with him for three months."