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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kyle, George

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​KYLE. (Retired Commander, 1837. f-p., 19; h-p., 32.)
George Kyle entered the Navy, 22 June, 1796, as Midshipman, on board the Viper sloop, Capts. John Scoffln and H. H. Parker, on the Cork station; and from Sept. in the same year until Oct. 1800 was employed on Channel service, the last three years as Master’s Mate, in the Chapman armed ship, Capts. Wm. Cumberland, Robt. Keen, and Thos. Browne. He then joined the Elephant 74 Capts. Thos. Foley and Geo. Dundas, in which ship, after participating under Lord Nelson in the action off Copenhagen, 2 April, 1801, he proceeded to the West Indies, where, in 1803, he assisted at the blockade of Cape François, St. Domingo, and witnessed the capture of a squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army on board. Removing next to the Hercule 74, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth, Mr. Kyle, in Jan. 1804, served on shore with the seamen and marines in the unsuccessful attempts upon Curaçoa. On 7 of the following July, after having acted for nearly ​four months as Lieutenant, he was confirmed in that rank in the Vigilante alias Suffisante sloop, Capts. Wm. Croft and Henry Laroche. His last appointments were, 16 Jan. 1806 and 24 Oct. 1811, to the Kangaroo sloop, Capts. H. Laroche, John Baker, John Bradley, and John Lloyd, and Aboukir 74, Capts. Geo. Parker, Thos. Browne, and Norborne Thompson. During his attachment to the Kangaroo, besides cruizing in the Channel, he attended the expedition to the Walcheren, and was employed in escorting convoys to Spain, Portugal, and the West Indies; and while in the Aboukir he commanded a gun-boat on the rivers Dwina and Aa during the defence of Riga in 1812, and was present at the siege and capture of Genoa in 1814. He went on half-pay in Sept. 1815, and accepted the rank he now holds 25 Jan. 1837.
Commander Kyle married, 4 Nov. 1817, Bliss Mary Irwin, and has issue two children.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ladd, Charles Pybus

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​LADD. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 25; h-p., 17.)
Charles Pybus Ladd, born 17 June, 1790, at Dover, co. Kent, is son of the late Edw. Ladd, Esq., who, in conjunction with his brother Henry, raised, during the first American war, and partly equipped, a volunteer corps of Light Artillery for the defence of their native town. The latter gentleman (who was for many years Captain of Archcliffe Fort, and died at the age of 93) received a silver salver from the then Duke of Richmond, as an acknowledgment of the services he rendered on the occasion.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Utrecht 64, Capt. Thos. Seccombe, bearing the flag in the Downs of Vice-Admiral John Holloway; and, from May, 1806, until Oct. 1809, was employed on the Channel and Mediterranean stations, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Glatton 50, commanded at first by Capt. Seccombe, and afterwards by Capts. John Clavell, Henry Hope, and Geo. Miller Bligh. We next find him, until confirmed in his present rank 7 Feb. 1815, serving in 12 different vessels on the Home station; during which period he six times performed the duties of Acting-Lieutenant. His succeeding appointments were – 5 Aug. 1831, to the Skylark packet, the command of which he retained, on the Falmouth station, for upwards of nine years – 8 Sept. 1841, to the Redwing steam-packet, Capt. Thos. Bevis, under whom he was for three years and a half employed at Liverpool – and, 21 May, 1845, to the command of the Zephyr steamer, in which vessel, stationed as a packet between Holyhead and Kingstown, Dublin, he still serves. Lieut.
Ladd married in 1823, and has issue.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lafargue, Charles Augustus

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​LAFARGUE. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Charles Augustus Lafargue passed his examination 4 July, 1821; obtained an appointment in the Coast Guard 2 June, 1842; and was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant 25 June, 1845. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kynaston, Augustus Frederick

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​KYNASTON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Augustus Frederick Kynaston entered the Navy 30 Sept. 1830; passed his examination 27 April, 1837; and served as Mate in the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dann, Phoenix steamer, Capt. John Kichardson, Agincourt 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. John Cochrane, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and Shearwater steamer, Capt. John Washington, on the Mediterranean and Home stations. He obtained a commission 10 Nov. 1842; was appointed, on 28 of the same month, to the Madagascar 44, Capt. John Foote, on the African station; and since 24 July, 1844, has been employed in the Pacific on board the Collingwood 80, flagship of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/La Touche, Ashley

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​LA TOUCHE. (Lieutenant, 1840.)
Ashley La Touche is one of the 14 children of the late Peter La Touche, Esq., of Bellevue, co. Wicklow, by the Hon. Charlotte Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Viscount Hawarden. His grandfather, the Right Hon. David La Touche, of Marlay, co. Dublin, was for many years Member in the Irish Parliament for his own borough of Newcastle and other places.
This officer entered the Navy 3 Feb. 1825; served as Midshipman of the Blonde 46, Capt. Edm. Lyons, at the bombardment of the Morea Castle in 1828; and passed his examination in 1832. Becoming Mate of the Imogene, Capt. Price Blackwood, he proceeded in that ship to China, where he assisted, in 1834, in forcing the passage of the Boca Tigris. For his services on the coast of Syria and at St. Jean d’Acre in the Revenge 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave, Mr. La Touche was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 4 Nov. 1840. His appointments haye since been, on the North America and West India station – 21 April, 1841, as Additional, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey – 27 Aug. 1841, to the Vestal 26, Capt. John Parker, with whom he returned home and was paid off in 1842 – 19 Sept. 1843, again as Additional, to the Illustrious 72, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Adam – 1 Jan. 1844, as First, to the Scylla 16, Capt. Robt. Sharpe – and, 17 Nov. 1844, in a similar capacity, to the Imaum 72, bearing the broad pendants of Commodores Alex. Renton Sharpe, Dan. Pring, and Geo. Robt. Lambert at Jamaica, where he is still employed. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lacon, Henry James

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​LACON. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 19; h-p., 5)
Henry James Lacon, born 27 Nov. 1810, is third son of the late Sir Edm. Knowles Lacon, Bart., of Ormesby House, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, by Elinor Dixon, eldest daughter and co-heir of Thos. Beecroft, Esq., of Saxthorpe Hall, co. Norfolk.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 5 Nov. 1823; and embarked, 22 June, 1825, as a Volunteer, on board the Doris 42, Capt. Sir John Gordon Sinclair, with whom he was for four years employed, part of the time as Midshipman, on the South American station. He then joined the Childers 18, Capt. Wm. Morier, attached to the force in the North Sea, where he cruized until Nov. 1829, in the course of which month he passed his examination. Between Jan. 1830 and his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant 21 March, 1835, Mr. Lacon served on the West India, Home, and Mediterranean stations, in the North Star 28, Capt. Lord Wm. Paget, Firefly schooner, Lieut.-Commander John M‘Donell, Shannon 46, Capt. Benj. Clement, Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, Vestal 26, Capt. Wm. Jones, and Portland 52, Capt. David Price. His succeeding appointments were – 28 Sept. 1835 and 20 Jan. 1837, to the Castor 36 and North Star 28, both commanded by Lord John Hay, under whom he served for five years on the north coast of Spain, and was constantly employed on shore with the Naval Brigade – 5 April, 1841, to the Cornwallis 72, fitting for the flag of Sir Wm. Parker, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies – and, 22 Jan. 1842, as Senior, to the Blonde 42, Capt. Thos. Bourchier. For his services in the latter ship at the capture of Chapoo and in all the operations to the northward of that place he was advanced to the rank he now holds 23 Dec. 1842. He has officiated, since 13 Nov. 1846, as Second-Captain of the Vanguard 80, Capt. Geo. Wickens Willes, and is at present in the Mediterranean.
Commander Lacon married, 9 July, 1844, Carolina Louisa Bartlett, second daughter of the late J. Roberts, Esq., of Buckingham. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Lacy, Edward

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​LACY. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Edward Lacy entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 5 June, 1839; and served as Mate in the Hastings 72, Capt. John Lawrence, Calcutta 84, Capt. Geo. Fred. Rich, Excellent gunnery-ship, Capt. Sir Thos. Hastings, and for two years and a half in the Cormorant steam-sloop, Capt. Geo. Thos. Gordon, on the Mediterranean, Home, and South American stations. He obtained his commission 13 Dec. 1845, and has been ever since attached to the Collingwood 80, flag-ship in the Pacific of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Kortright, Alfred

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​KORTRIGHT. (Lieutenant, 1828.)
Alfred Kortright entered the Navy 18 May, 1822; and obtained his commission 11 Sept. 1828. His appointments have since been – 28 Nov. 1828, to the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye – 22 Nov. 1831, to the Aetna surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Belcher, employed on the coast of Africa, whence he returned in Aug. 1832 – for a few months in 1835, to the San Josef 110, and Royal Adelaide 104, bearing each the flag of Sir Wm. Hargood at Plymouth – 4 May, 1842, to the command of the Columbia surveying-vessel, on the North American station, where he was superseded in Oct. of the same year – and 28 April, 1845, to the Vindictive 50, bearing the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, under whom he is now employed on surveying service on the North America and West India station.
Lieut. Kortright is married and has issue. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Laffer, Nathaniel

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​LAFFER. (Retired Commander, 1847. f-p., 15; h-p., 34.)
Nathaniel Laffer was born in 1781.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 July, 1798, as Second-cl. Boy, on board the Cambridge 80, guardship at Plymouth, Capt. Poger. Removing in April, 1799, to the Melpomène 38, Capt. Sir Chas. Hamilton, he served in that ship in the ensuing expedition to the Helder, and was present in her at the capture of the African island of Gorée in April, 1800. In the course of the latter year he successively became Midshipman of a schooner and armed ship, bearing each the name of Gorée, and commanded, the first by Lieut. Chas. Chamberlayne Irvine, and the second by Capt. Thos. Tidy, with whom he served on the coast of Africa and in the West Indies until Dec. 1801. During the next seven years he presents himself to our notice as employed on the Home and South American stations in the Puissant 74, Capt. Wm. Syme, Clyde 38, Capt. John Larmour, Reindeer 18, Capt. John Fyffe, Lapwing 28, Capt. Clotworthy Tipton, and London 98, Capts. Sir Harry Neale and Thos. Western. While in the latter ship he contributed, in company with the Amazon 38, to the capture, 13 ​March, 1806, of the Marengo of 80 guns, hearing the flag of Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, after a long running fight in which the London sustained a loss of 10 men killed and 22 wounded. He also, in 1807-8, escorted the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils. On leaving the London, as above, Mr. Laffer was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Agamemnon 64, Capt. Jonas Rose, from which ship he was confirmed, 10 May, 1809, into the President 38, Capt. Chas. Marsh Schomberg. He invalided home from South America in April, 1810, and was next appointed – 8 April, 1811, to the Plantagenet 74, Capt. Thos. Eyles, under whom, during a servitude of 21 months in the Baltic, he came frequently into contact with the Danish gun-boats – and, 22 Nov. 1813 and 26 Sept. 1814, to the Royal Sovereign 100, and Goldfinch 10, Capts. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild and John Foote, on the Mediterranean and Channel stations. He went on half-pay in May, 1815, and accepted his present rank in July, 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Richmond Park

RICHMOND PARK
THE thorns were blooming red and white, The blue air throbbed with May's delight; To live was joy. Loud sang the lark Of peace and love in Richmond Park.
Our crippled soldiers took the sun, Glad that their bloody work was done; Being free to feel the morning's charm, They grudged no loss of leg or arm.
The yaffles dipped from glade to glade— Quick gleams of gold and green. I made A song in my heart. Each hour inspires Lit by the rhododendron fires.
The cuckoo called: his ancient note Stirred the world's soul; and mine it smote With pain. He quested in sad trees Whose dead limbs shewed their tragedies.
​Yet something of a happier time— When oaks could flourish in the prime Of spring—came back to all who heard The morning voiceful in that bird.
Suddenly boomed a gun. Less bright The landscape grew: a droning flight Of man-birds scared a singing lark, And a yaffle laughed in Richmond Park.
Rowland Thirlmere
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Riddles, R.F.C.

RIDDLES, R.F.C.
(1916)
HE was a boy of April beauty; one Who had not tried the world; who, while the sun Flamed yet upon the eastern sky, was done.
Time would have brought him in her patient ways— So his young beauty spoke—to prosperous days, To fullness of authority and praise.
He would not wait so long. A boy, he spent His boy's dear life for England. Be content: No honour of age had been more excellent.
John Drinkwater
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Rupert Brooke

RUPERT BROOKE
I
YOUR face was lifted to the golden sky Ablaze beyond the black roofs, of the square As flame on flame leapt, flourishing in air Its tumult of red stars exultantly To the cold constellations dim and high: And as we neared the roaring ruddy flare Kindled to gold your throat and brow and hair Until you burned, a flame of ecstasy.
The golden head goes down into the night Quenched in cold gloom—and yet again you stand Beside me now with lifted face alight, As, flame to flame, and fire to fire you burn . . . Then, recollecting, laughingly you turn, And look into my eyes and take my hand.
II
Once in my garret—you being far away Tramping the hills and breathing upland air, Or so I fancied—brooding in my chair, I watched the London sunshine feeble and grey Dapple my desk, too tired to labour more. When, looking up, I saw you standing there Although I'd caught no footstep on the stair, Like sudden April at my open door.
​Though now beyond earth's farthest hills you fare, Song-crowned, immortal, sometimes it seems to me That, if I listen very quietly, Perhaps I'll hear a light foot on the stair And see you, standing with your angel air, Fresh from the uplands of eternity.
III
Your eyes rejoiced in colour's ecstasy, Fulfilling even their uttermost desire, When, over a great sunlit field afire With windy poppies streaming like a sea Of scarlet flame that flaunted riotously Among green orchards of that western shire, You gazed as though your heart could never tire Of life's red flood in summer revelry.
And as I watched you, little thought had I How soon beneath the dim low-drifting sky Your soul should wander down the darkling way, With eyes that peer a little wistfully, Half-glad, half-sad, remembering, as they see Lethean poppies, shrivelling ashen grey.
IV
October chestnuts showered their perishing gold Over us as beside the stream we lay In the Old Vicarage garden that blue day, Talking of verse and all the manifold Delights a little net of words may hold, While in the sunlight water-voles at play Dived under a trailing crimson bramble-spray, And walnuts thudded ripe on soft black mould.
Your soul goes down unto a darker stream Alone, O friend, yet even in death's deep night Your eyes may grow accustomed to the dark And Styx for you may have the ripple and gleam Of your familiar river, and Charon's bark Tarry by that old garden of your delight.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Resurrection (Hagedorn)

RESURRECTION
NOT long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain. We fell, we lay, we slumbered, we took rest, With the wild nerves quiet at last, and the vexed brain Cleared of the wingèd nightmares, and the breast Freed of the heavy dreams of hearts afar. We rose at last under the morning star. We rose, and greeted our brothers, and welcomed our foes. We rose; like the wheat when the wind is over, we rose. With shouts we rose, with gasps and incredulous cries, With bursts of singing, and silence, and awestruck eyes, With broken laughter, half tears, we rose from the sod, With welling tears and with glad lips, whispering, "God." Like babes, refreshed from sleep, like children, we rose, Brimming with deep content, from our dreamless repose. And, "What do you call it?" asked one. "I thought I was dead." "You are," cried another. "We're all of us dead and flat." "I'm alive as a cricket. There's something wrong with your head." They stretched their limbs and argued it out where they sat. And over the wide field friend and foe Spoke of small things, remembering not old woe Of war and hunger, hatred and fierce words. They sat and listened to the brooks and birds, And watched the starlight perish in pale flame, Wondering what God would look like when He came.
Hermann Hagedorn
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Rheims Cathedral, 1914

RHEIMS CATHEDRAL—1914
A WINGÈD death has smitten dumb thy bells, And poured them molten from thy tragic towers: Now are the windows dust that were thy flowers, Patterned like frost, petalled like asphodels. Gone are the angels and the archangels, The saints, the little lamb above thy door, The shepherd Christ! They are not, any more, Save in the soul where exiled beauty dwells.
But who has heard within thy vaulted gloom That old divine insistence of the sea, When music flows along the sculptured stone In tides of prayer, for him thy windows bloom Like faithful sunset, warm immortally! Thy bells live on, and Heaven is in their tone!
Grace Hazard Conkling
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Ruins

RUINS (Ypres, 1917)
RUINS of trees whose woeful arms Vainly invoke the sombre sky,— Stripped, twisted boughs and tortured boles, Like lost souls,— How green they grew on the little farms!
Ruins of stricken wall and spire, Stretched mile on desolate mile along,— Ghosts of a life of sweet intent, Riven and rent By frantic shell and searching fire.
Ruins of soldiers torn and slain, English bodies broken for you: Burned in their hearts the battle-cry! . . . Forspent they lie, Clay crumbling slow to clay again.
George Herbert Clarke
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Retreat

RETREAT
BROKEN, bewildered by the long retreat Across the stifling leagues of southern plain, Across the scorching leagues of trampled grain, Half-stunned, half-blinded, by the trudge of feet And dusty smother of the August heat, He dreamt of flowers in an English lane, Of hedgerow flowers glistening after rain— All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet.
All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet— The innocent names kept up a cool refrain— All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet, Chiming and tinkling in his aching brain, Until he babbled like a child again— "All-heal and willow-herb and meadow-sweet."
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Romance

ROMANCE
OLD orchard crofts of Picardy, In the high warm winds of May, Tossed into blossomed billowings, And spattered the roads with spray. Over the earth the scudding cloud, And the laverock whistling high, Lifted the drooping heart of the lad At one bound to the sky. France! France! and the old romance Came over him like a spell; ​Homesickness and his weariness Shook from him then and fell; For he was again with d'Artagnan; With Alan Breck and d'Artagnan; And the pipes before him gleefully Were playing airs of Pan.
Through dust that in a mist uprose From under the trampling feet, He saw old storied places, dim In the haze of the summer heat. Menace and ambush, wounds and death, Lurked in the ditch and wood, But he, high-breasted, walked in joy With a glorious multitude; Great hearts that never perish, Nor grow old with the aches of Time, Marched through the morning with him, All in a magic clime; But loved of all was d'Artagnan, And Alan the kith of kings, Fond comrades of his childhood's days, Still on their wanderings.
From miry clefts of the wintry plain He leapt with his platoon, The morion on his forehead, And the soul of him at noon; With head high to the hurricane He walked, and in his breast He knew himself immortal, And that death was but a jest A smile was on his visage When they found him where he fell, The gallant old companions, In an amaranthine dell. "Lad o' my heart!" cried Alan Breck, "Well done thy first campaign!" "Sleep thou till morn," said d'Artagnan, "When we three march again!"
Neil Munro
# A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919/Rupert Brooke (In Memoriam)

RUPERT BROOKE
(In Memoriam)
I NEVER knew you save as all men know Twitter of mating birds, flutter of wings In April coverts, and the streams that flow— One of the happy voices of our Springs:
A voice for ever stilled, a memory, Since you went eastward with the fighting ships, A hero of the great new Odyssey, And God has laid His finger on your lips.
Moray Dalton