Sapper 2192, 1st/3rd Kent Field Company, Royal Engineers. Drowned when H.M.S. Hythe sank after a collision 28 October 1915. Aged 30. Son of William S. Arnold, of Greenfield; husband of Edith Elizabeth Arnold, of Greenfield, Bedford. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 24 to 26 or 325 to 328. See also Greenfield, Bedfordshire

Extract from National Roll of the Great War Section V - Luton

Note: In actual fact he died when HMS Hythe and HMS Sarnia collided. There was no torpedo. Hythe was on her way into Cape Helles, Sarnia was coming out empty. Despite last minute course corrections, both ships were going too fast and running without lights and Sarnia hit Hythe in the middle. Sarnia was much bigger and had just a hole above the water line. Hythe sank within 15 minutes. Some lucky men managed to scramble from Hythe onto Sarnia.

Driver 75333, M Lines Communication Signal Company, Royal Engineers. Drowned when H.M.S. Hythe sank after a collision 28 October 1915. Born Aberdeen, resident Renfrew, enlisted Glasgow. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 24 to 26 or 325 to 328.

** On the ship but not 1st/3rd Kent Field Company ***

Second Lieutenant, 67th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Drowned when H.M.S. Hythe sank after a collision 28 October 1915. Aged 30. Enlisted 15 December 1914 at Darlington. Son of Sir Thomas and Lady Richardson, of Kirklevington Grange, Yarm, Yorks. Attested aged 29 years 9 months, a Rancher by trade, unmarried, height 5 feet 9¾ inches, chest 37-39 inches, originally Pioneer 59667, 67th Company, Royal Engineers 15 December 1914, appointed Lance Corporal 15 March 1915, with Mediteranean Expeditionary Force 2 July 1915, discharged 7 October 1915 to a commission. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 24 to 26 or 325 to 328. Also listed on St Martin War Memorial, Kirklevington, Yorkshire (North Riding).

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1916:

RICHARDSON Ernest Benbow of Kirklevington Grange Kirklevington Yorkshire died 28 October 1915 at sea Administration London 27 April to Thomas Richardson barrister-at-law. Effects £111.

Captain, Royal Engineers. Drowned when H.M.S. Hythe sank after a collision 28 October 1915. Born Tunbridge Wells crica 1885. Son of Sir David Lionel Goldsmith-Stern-Salomons and Lady Laura Julia of Hyde Park Gate, London. Educated Eton College. Left Eton College in 1904. Resident Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells. No known grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Panel 24 to 26 or 325 to 328. See also Cambridge University, Gonville & Caius College

Prior to the war he was known as Reginald or Reggie to his family and friends, the third David Salomons was brought up at Broomhill and educated at Eton and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which had also been his father's college. He then started training as a lawyer.After Cambridge he travelled widely; first to France, Italy and Spain, and then to the East. In 1910 he and his cousin, Arthur Paget, spent two and a half months exploring Japan, travelling many hundreds of miles by train, horse, rickshaw, boat and on foot. Arthur had previously travelled in Japan, and married there in 1911. Reginald was greatly impressed by the people and the scenery and, on his return to England, took lessons in Japanese and established links with the Japanese consulate. Reginald wrote an account of his travels, "An Outsider's Impression of Japan", under the name R. Nagano. Although never published, it gives an interesting description of the Japan of 1910 and of his reaction to the country and its peoples. [Source: Lives Of The First World War 1914-1918]

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, page 268:

GOLDSMID- STERN -SALOMONS, DAVID REGINALD HARMAN PHILLIP, M.A., Capt., 1 /3rd Kent (Fortress) R. E. (T.F.), only s. of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart., of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells, and of 49, Grosvenor Street, London, W., M.A., D.L., J.P., Hon. Col. Kent (Fortress) R.E., by his wife, Laura Julia, sister to Herbert, 1st Lord Michelham, K.C.V.O., and yr. dau. of the late Baron Hermann de Stern ; b. Tunbridge Wells, co, Kent, 13 Oct. 1885 ; educ. Eton ; Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated in History ; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Kent (Fortress) R.E. 1911, and promoted Lieut. 15 Aug. 1913, and Capt. 31 Oct. 1914 ; volunteered for Imperial Service after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914 ; left for Gallipoli, and was drowned in the Aegean Sea 28 Oct. 1915, while in command of troops on H.M.S. Hythe, when that ship was sunk by collision with H.M.S. Sarina. He refused to leave the ship until his men were safely off, and was lost with about 130 of his company. He took a keen interest in working up the Cadet Force in Tunbridge Wells and Chatham, and was the prime mover of the Territorial Cadet Institution and Kent Territorial Cadet Institution ; unm.

Obituary from Jewish Chronicle Obituary - 19 November 1915:

THE LATE CAPT. SALOMONS.

In the course of a letter to the Editor of the above-quoted journal, Sapper Perry writes: The men who had not left the ship were all huddled up in the stern, and one after another you could see them drop off like flies into the water. Altogether about 140 went down. and among them, I am sorry to relate, was our Captain. Capt. D. R. Salomons, who was beloved by his men. He stood on the bridge to the last with the Sergt.-Major of our Company, and went down with the ship.