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WILTS OBITUARY. 

 Major-General Sir John Rumsay Slade, C.B., died 



at Crane Lodge, Salisbury, September 4th, 1913, aged 70. Buried at 

 Ryde, after a military funeral service at the Roman Catholic Church 

 at Salisbury. Born March 16th, 1843, in Wiltshire, eldest son of Gen. 

 Sir Marcus Slade and Charlotte, d. of the Hon. Andrew Ramsay. 

 Lieut. Royal Artillery, 1861 ; Capt. 1875 ; served through the Bazar 

 Valley expedition in Affghanistan, 1878 ; in the operations of the 

 Peshawar Valley Field Force in 1879, when he was mentioned in 

 despatches ; and in the second Bazar Valley expedition in 1880. At 

 the disastrous action of Maiwand on July 27th iu that year against the 

 army of Ayoob Khan, he took command of the Battery of Horse 

 Artillery which covered the retreat of the British force and carried off 

 many of the wounded on his guns. " Undoubtedly he rendered a 

 signal service to British arms and prestige at a very critical moment " 

 (Times.) He fought later in the siege and battle of Kandahar. He was 

 Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General in the, Transvaal during the 

 Boer War of 1881, and was Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Sir Thomas Baker. 

 1887, as Lieut. -Col., he was military attache" to the British Embassy at 

 Rome, served as military attache with the Italian troops in Abyssinia, 

 and was decorated by King Humbert. Major-General, 1899, in command 

 of the army of occupation in Egypt, 1903. Retired 1905, and became 

 one of H.M.'s Gentlemen Ushers. He was knighted 1910. Married, 

 1871, Lucie, d. of Signor Ramos, of Madrid, who died 1872 ; married, 

 secondly, Janet, d. of Gen. Blucher Wood. He leaves one daughter. 

 Obit, notice, Times, reprinted in Wiltshire Times, Sept. 13th, 1913. 



Levi Lapper Morse, died Sept. 10th, 1913, aged 60. Born at 

 Stratton St.Margaret,1853,educated at the Old Grammar School in Belle 

 Vue, Swindon, and started business in Regent Street, Swindon, which 

 eventually grew into a large concern with twenty branches. In 1896 

 he purchased The Croft, Swindon, and had since lived there. Married, 

 1878, Winifred, d. of Mr. I. Humphries, of Broad Hinton, who, with 

 two sons and four daughters, survives him. He was for fifteen years 

 a member of the Swindon School Board, and for thirteen years vice- 

 chairman of it. He was one of the first aldermen of Swindon, and the 

 secondjjmayor, in 1902. A member of the County Council since 1892, 

 and a county alderman at the time of his death. J.P. for Wilts, 1893. 

 Liberal M.P. for S. Wilts 1906 — 1910. He was a prominent and very 

 generous supporter of all Primitive Methodist enterprises, both in the 

 town and the surrounding districts, being especially connected with 

 the Regent Street P.M. Church, and his loss will be severely felt in | 

 the connection. 

 Obit, notice and portrait, Wiltshire News, Sept. 12th, 1913. 



