Magnificent Record of Clergyman Boys

Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 May 1918, Page 4

Magnificent Record of Clergyman Boys

To "Tlie Times' a correspondent contributes tlio magniiicent record of the five sons of the Rev. H. J. Humphreys, vicar of Thornley, Tow Law, Durham: —Captain Noel Forbes Humphreys, M.C., joined, in August, 1914, as a despatch rider, was transferred to M.Gr.C. in January, 1915, went to France in May, and is now section commander of tanks in France. He has been mentioned in despatches, and has won tho M.C. Ho was severely wounded on Easter Monday 1917. Captain Herbert Philip Wynne Humphreys was in the far north of Canada on a Government survey when war broke out, but returned to England as soon as possible, and in November, 1914, joined the Inns of Court 0.T.C., from which he obtained a commission in the R.F.A., proceeding to France in July, 1915. He was awarded the M.C. in August, 1917. Henry St. Giles Humphreys was in Los Angeles in August, 1914, and as soon as he could settle his affairs started for home to enlist, but met his death in the Lusitania, on the way. John Theodore Gordon Humphreys went to Sandhurst straight from school in 1915, and obtained a commission in the Indian draft in January, 1917, and was killed in action at Narumgombe in July, 1917. A. Owen Humphreys came from Canada with the C.F.C., and is now serving as a private. -