GONNE, Charles Hugh Melvill Captain, R.A.S.C. (S.R.) 
Enlisted in 25th London Territorials, Aug. 1914.
Obtained Commission in R.G.A., Dec. 1914. Lieutenant, 9th June, 1915. 
Transferred to A.S.C. (M.T.), 26th March, 1917. 
Captain, March, 1918. 
Elder son of Henry Gonne, Esq., and his wife Grace Staveley [Marsden]. 
Educated at Bradfield College. 
Enlisted Aug. 1914; obtained Commission, Dec. 1914; while on home service was mostly on Anti-Aircraft duties, and at Whitely Bay fired at and hit a Zeppelin, destroying a propeller, and setting a petrol- tank on fire. This Zeppelin is supposed to have been subsequently found at sea, in a disabled condition, and destroyed. Suffered from deafness while serving with a siege battery, and therefore transferred to the R.A.S.C. and went to France with a S.B. Am. Col., and saw much fighting at different points, from Lens to Vermand. In Nov. 1917, was in the retreat from Bourlon Wood, and in March, 1918, the retreat from Cambrai, where he successfully withdrew all the guns of his battery, which had been firing over open sights, the enemy getting to within a few yards of the last gun. He is said to have driven the last lorry through Bapaume. When all telephone communication had been shot away, he reconnoitred enemy positions, and destroyed abandoned munitions, stores, &c., and was ordered to make his report in person, to the General commanding the R.A. For his services he was promoted to Captain ; participated in the British victorious advance, until he was invalided home from Le Cateau, a week before the Armistice was signed.

Lieut. -Colonel Lockhart, commanding 51st Brigade, R.G.A., writes in a letter dated 22nd Sept. 191 8 : -
'Captain Gonne has latterly proved himself quite fearless during the preparations for the operations of the 18th inst., when he took upon himself to superintend the supply of ammunition to the batteries moved up close to the front line.' 

(On 18th Sept. the Third and Fourth Armies captured Epehy on the outer Hindenburg defences. — Times 1st Jan. 1919.) 
British War Medal and Victory Medal.

'The Melvill Family Roll of Honour' by E. J. Joubert De La Ferte [pgs. 139 & 140].