KILLED IN ACTION.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3234, 3 April 1917, Page 7

KILLED IN ACTION.

UoO WAR LOSSES IX FAMILIES INCLUDED IX DEBRETT. The new issue of " DebrettV Peerage. Baronetage, Knightage, and Com pan. ionage" for 1917, issued recently, states that the Roll of Honour from families usually noticed in the volume now minil»er 1450 who have heen killed in action or have died from wounds. The list includes one member of the Royal Family, 14 peers, 21 baronets, 9 knights, 9 M.P.'s, 290 companions, 114 sons of peers, 110 sons of baronets, and 150 sons of knights. Among the losses are Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, "the eldest son and two half-brothers of Lord Penrhyn, two soiipi of Lord Desborough, two of Sir (Jeorge Dashwood, Bart., two of Sir Lulhanl Pound, Bart., two of Sir Henry Edward St. Lawrence Clarke, Bart., and two of Lord St. Davids; Sir Charles Rodney Blanc, Bart., and his two brothers (title now extinct) : two successive heirs to the Earldom of Loudoun, and two to the Barony of Stratheden: while, by the death of Lord Worslev the succession of three separate peerages (the Earldom of Yarborough and the Baronies of Fauconberg and Conyers) was affected."