DOUGLAS WILLIAM ARMITAGE, Second Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment, was the youngest son of Dr J Auriol Armitage, late of Wolverhampton.  He was born on February 8th 1893, and came to us from the Rev. Arthur Johnson’s School at Cranmore House in January 1902.  In September 1904 he went to Temple Grove, Isleworth, and later to Oundle with a scholarship.  At Oundle he was Captain of fives and football, a member of the O.T.C and (in 1912) head of the school.  Going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1912, he won his College Divinity and reading prizes in his second year and became Secretary of the Martletts Society and of the College Mission.  In September 1914 he enlisted in the Public Schools Brigade and after six months was gazetted to the Sussex Regiment.  Early in September 1915 he was sent to France and was immediately appointed reserve machine gun officer.  Three weeks of excessively trying operations brought him to the disastrous battle of Loos on September 25th.  There, tired, cold and hungry, he was last seen fighting with his fists and since then no more has been heard of him.