Lieutenant Norman Champion de Crespigny of the Queen's Bays, who was killed in action at Nery, near Compiegne in France on 1 September 1914. He was killed while leading his men against advancing Germans, and, while trying to take German guns with a revolver in his hand he was hit by shrapnel. He was buried at Nery but disinterred later and returned home to be buried in the family mausoleum at Champion Lodge, Maldon, Essex. He was one of the few officers whose body was returned to England before the practice was forbidden in 1915.