OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 9

OBITUARY

LORD HORNE INVENTOR OF “CREEPING- " BARRAGE.” Press fAaociatiou —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 14. (Received August 15, at 1.30 p.m.) The death is announced of Lord Horne.—Australian Press Association. [General Lord Horne, G.C.8., K.C.M.G., was sixty-eight years of age. He was born in Caithness, entered the Army in 1881, and specialised in gunnery. He served in the South African War. He distinguished himself in Mons and the battle of the Marne. Was promoted major-general “for distinguished service in _ the field ” in October, 1914, and appointed to the command of an army corps. The K.C.B. was conferred on him in October, 1916. His great success at Vimy Ridge and in the Arras offensive in, April, 1917, drew general attention to his qualities of leadership. He invented the “ creeping barrage.” He was appointed to the Eastern Command in June, 1919, until Juno, 1923, Mid received a peerage and a grant of £30,000 in August. Ho retired from active service in 1926.] CYRIL KEIGHTLEY WELL-KNOWN ACTOR. NEW YORK, August 1-1. (Received August 15, at 10 a.m.) Cyril Keightley, the Australian actor, died yesterday at Seattle.—Australian Press Association. [Cyril Keightley was fifty-four years of age. He was born at Wellington, New South Wales, and was educated at Geelong Grammar' School. He studied for the Bar in Adelaide He went straight into an engagement witlj a travelling company in Australia, first appearing in Seymour, Victoria, with Dan Barry in repertoire. He then joined George Rignold at His Majesty’s Theatre, Sydney, remaining about five years under his management. In 1896 "ho toured the colonies with Albert Norman, and in the following year visited New Zealand, playing the lead in'‘The Land of the Moa.’ Ho also had a short engagement with Brough and Boucicault in the same year, followed by a long engagement with J. C. Williamson, lie arrived in England in 1902, and made his first appearance on the London stage at the A del phi as Mac in ‘Magda’ with Nance O’Neil. He stayed in England till 1908. when ho went to America, and appeared there, returning to England the following year. He went to the United States again in 1912, and since then appeared in many plays throughout the country. He married Ethel Daiic.J