Captain, 3rd Battalion attached 8th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Killed while leading a night attack 31 May 1917. Attended Aberdeen University, commemorated in their Roll of Service 1914-1919. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 6.

Extract from University of Aberdeen - Roll of Service in the Great War 1914-1919:

BURNETT, IAN ALISTAIR KENDALL: Captain, 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment; son of W. Kendall Burnett, advocate; born Aberdeen, 20 June 1885; educated Aberdeen Grammar School; graduated MA, 1907; took First Class Honours, Modern Languages, 1908; appointed Assistant Librarian, Royal Scottish Museum, 1909; held a similar post in the British Museum from 1910 until the outbreak of war. Burnett was a member of the Inns of Court OTC and was mobilized, August 1914. In December he was gazetted to the 3rd Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, in April 1915 went to France, and saw much heavy fighting, being gassed once and wounded twice. In January 1917 he was promoted Captain, and four months later was killed while leading a night attack, 31 May 1917. To think of I. A. K. B. is to recall a hundred characteristic episodes in which the humours and contradictions of his wayward spirit are enshrined. But the central unity from which these bewildering contradictions radiated baffles the enquirer, as indeed it seemed to baffle the possessor himself, forever in pursuit of his own reality. In that final synthesis strange and alien elements coalesced, the tender and mocking irony of the Abbe Coignard did not disdain communion with the austerity of Calvin, the freshness of the child met the experience of the sage, and the scoffer embraced the votary. And, like a radiant vestment to his inward riches, none could fail to be struck by his unique courtesy. This quality alone, were but all its implications apprehended, might be truly said to symbolise and epitomise his whole nature. “O anima cortese!” is epitaph enough.

To the Memory of the Men
Who went from this museum
And fought and fell in the War
1914-1918
They shall grow not old
As we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them.

A Captain with the 28th County of London, then Major with Royal Army Medical Corps during WW1, Ernest Edward Austen was born in 1869, and died on January 16th, 1938. His entry in Who's Who 1924 page 98 includes: served South Africa 1900 (Queen's Medal 4 clasps) European War 1914-18 (despatches twice, 1914 Star, DSO). He joined the staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in 1889 and was Keeper of the Department of Entomology from 1927 until 1932 when he retired. A complete bound set of his papers dealing with systematic entomology is in the library of the British Museum (Natural History).

(Thank you to Richard Phillips and Philip Wilson for the above photographs).

Private 4187, 13th Kensington Battalion, London Regiment. He enlisted in Kensington, and died, aged 18 years on the 17th September, 1916. Son of Henry and Flora Pagnoni (nee Bendall). Buried in the Kensal Green (All Souls') Cemetery, 213. 6. 9. (Screen Wall.).

Note: Kensal Green (All Souls') Cemetery contains burials of both wars. Half of the 473 first World War graves form a plot in the south-west section of the cemetery, the rest form small groups or are scattered throughout the cemetery. All of the 51 Second World War graves are scattered. There are also 2 non war burials here. A screen wall in the First World War plot (Sect. 213) records the names of casualties of both wars whose graves could not be individually marked. Also recorded on the wall are the names of five servicemen whose remains were cremated in Kensal Green Crematorium.

Military Cross Award 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain) London Regiment, Walter Campbell Smith. Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January, 1917, 41.

M.C., M.A., F.G.S., Assistant-Keeper in the Mineral Department of the British Museum.
(Thank you to Archangel and Daggers from the Great War Forum for their considerable help on the Military Cross recipients).

Lance Corporal 1283, London Regiment. Temporary 2nd Lieutenant, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry. Infantry Captain, Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry.

Military Cross Award. Temporary 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Arthur Knyvett Totton, Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry. For conspicuous gallantry in action. Though wounded early in the day, he led on to the first objective, where he bombed the enemy dug-outs and was again hit by a bomb. He then went on to the second objective, being wounded a third time on the way. Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette, November 16th, 1916, 2093.

The Silver Medal for Military Valour Award. 2nd Lieutenant (temporary Captain) Arthur Totton., London Regiment. The Edinburgh Gazette, June 1, 1916, 1034.

"Temporary Lieutenant A. K. Totton, M.C., relinquishes his commission on account of ill-health caused by wounds, and is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant 5th April, 1918." Supplement to the London Gazette, 4th April, 1918.

"Temporary Lieutenant (acting Captain) A. K. Totton,
M.C., relinquishes his commission on account of ill-health caused by wounds, and is granted the honorary rank of Captain 5th April, 1918." (Substituted for the notification in the Gazette of 4th Apr. 1918.) Supplement to the London Gazette, 26th August, 1918.