Lieutenant Nathanial George Beauchamp Halhed died at Khartoum after being mauled by a lion on 6.4.1914. He was commissioned into the 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Light Infantry in August 1901 from the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, and served in South Africa from March 1900 to the end of the War, latterly as Adjutant of the 3rd Battalion, Mounted Infantry. Employed with the Egyptian Army in October 1907, at the time of his death he was the Commandant, Military School, Khartoum, to which he had been appointed in 1910.