Lieutenant-Colonel John Arnold Cuthbert QUILTER who was killed at the front. He was for some time in Australia as the ADC to Lord Denman.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Arnold Cuthbert QUILTER, a 40 year old old Soldier from Bawdsey Manor, Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was a serving soldier in the Grenadier Guards and was allotted as Commanding Officer, Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division which embarked from Avonmouth, United Kingdom, on board HMT Grantully Castle on 28 February 1915. During the attack at Krithia QUILTER subsequently was Killed in Action, 6 May 1915 while carrying an ‘oversized walking stick’ as he lead his men in the attack on Krithia. The following verse was written to his memory:

All honour to Colonel Quilter,
The Battalion mourns his loss.
The only things we could give him
Were a grave and a wooden cross.

Sydney Mail, 26 May 1915, p. 28.