bout Mons, the Marne and the Aisne, and all
"those brave days of old." One chap, now acting as a clerk at
Headquarters, wears the ribbons of the D.C.M. and French Medaille
Militaire for swimming a river (on the retreat from Mons) amid a
tempest of shot and shell, and giving warning to a party of our
people on the other side who were in the greatest danger of being
surrounded--and quite oblivious of the fact--by the Boches who
had forced the passage of a bridge some way off. This brave
fellow led his menaced comrades to another bridge, and so enabled
them all to get clear.

The Supply Officer of one of our brigades is F. P. Knox, a
Dulwich man, who captained the old school at cricket back in 1895
or so and I believe led Oxford to victory after that. His brother
you may know--N. A. Knox, the famous fast bowler.

I was horrified to see in a recent casualty list among the killed
the name of Second Lieutenant H. O. Beer. I remember him as a
rather clever, quiet, inoffensive, distinctly popular fellow in
Doulton's House. He left at the end of July, 1914, without
getting any colours, but after doing quite well in all games. He
won a Junior Scholarship, but failed to get a Senior. He was made
a School Prefect in September, 1913, and you will see him in the
very middle of the back row of the photo of the Prefects that we
have--a markedly good-looking fellow, with light hair brushed
across his forehead. What a wealth of tragedy and yet also of
honour is expressed in the last line of his obituary notice in
_The Times_--"He fell leading his platoon, aged twenty years."
Only yesterday, as it were, we were at school together--I
remember handing him off with great vigour on the football
field--and now! It was just the same with poor Reynolds[2] and
Bray.[3] But I mustn't go on in this strain.

[Footnote 2: James Reynolds, head of the Modern Side for two
years. The first Dulwich boy to take the London B.A. degree
while still at school. Born, 1893. Killed in action in
Belgium, May 2nd, 1915, while serving with the London Rifle
Brigade.]

[Footnote 3: Frederick W. Bray, only son of Mr. W. Bray, West
Norwood. One of the keenest members of the O.A.F.C. Quitting
his engineering studies, he joined the 1st Surrey Rifles at