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CAPTALN CECIL STANLF.Y MEAUES. 



Captain C. S. Meares was killed whilst leading his 

 Company into action on July 30th, 1916. Born in 

 November, 1883, he was the youngest son of Thomas 

 Meares of Clive Hall, Shrewsbury, and was educated 

 at Bilton Grange and Uppingham, where he was top 

 of the school in mathematics. He represented his 

 school at Bisley for several years in the shooting 

 VIII., and on one occasion tied for the coveted Public 

 Schools' Prize, the " Spencer Cup," and lost on the tie 

 being shot off, by one point. 



He was a chartered accountant by profession, and 

 had practised in the City of London for some years. A 

 keen and most energetic sportsman, from his earliest 

 days he had always been particularly fond of the study 

 of British birds, their habits, nests and eggs. As an 

 indefatigable and observant field ornithologist, he had 

 few equals. He made, together with his brother T>. H. 

 Meares, an excellent scientific collection of British birds' 

 eggs, which contained perfect clutches of eggs, of nearly 

 every British breeding bird, supplemented by profuse 

 and accurate data of their localities, notes and habits. 

 In the course of his rambles he penetrated most of the 

 out-of-the-way haunts of rare birds in the British Islands, 

 including the Orkneys, and during recent years made 

 special studies of such rare birds as the Dotterel, Hobby, 

 Marsh- Warbler, Montagu's Harrier. Greenshank, Kentish 

 Plover, Quail and Garganey. The only record of the 

 Siskin breeding in Shropshire mentioned in Mr. H. E. 

 Forrest's " Fauna of Shropshire " was made by him. 

 An excellent paper, " British Breeding Ducks," was 

 written by him and printed in Transactions of the 

 London Natural History Society, 1914. This paper was 

 reviewed in British Birds, Vol. IX., pp. 277—8. 



On the outbreak of war, Meares enlisted in the Public 

 Schools and University Corps, afterwards called the 

 " 19tli Service Battalion Royal Fusiliers," and was 



