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Show BAMON LUCAS IS AMONG MISSING London, Nov. 9. 5:45 p. m. Baron Lucas of Crudwell, a member of the Royal Flying corps and former parliamentary parlia-mentary undersecretary of state for war, has either been captured or killed by the Germans on the French battlefield, battle-field, according to the Evening Star Lord Lucris was reconnoltering in France in an aeroplane, the newspaper newspa-per says, and was obliged to descend behind the German lines, owing to a gale. Lord Lucas was born in 187G and succeoded as fifth Baron Dingwell and eighth Baron Lucas of Crudwell in 1005. The baron was a captain of the Hampshire yeomanry, a flying officer in the military wing of the Royal Flying Fly-ing corps, and for some time was hon-' orary colonel of the flampshire royal garrison artillery. From 1905 to April, 190S, Lord Lucas Lu-cas was private secretary to tho then Secretary for War Haldane, and in 1908-11 was parliamentary undersecretary undersec-retary of state for war and a member of the array council. He was appointed appoint-ed undersecretary of state for the colonies col-onies in 1911 and parliamentary secretary secre-tary of the board of agriculture and fisheries in October, 1911, becoming president of that board in 1914. nn |