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October 1914

Bedfordshire Regiment Roll of Honour

 

12th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: occupation of Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée

  • 10923 Corporal Walter George ANDREWS, 30, son of Emily and the late Walter Andrews of Tamworth [Staffordshire], he lived at Bicester [Oxfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7766 Private Richard ASHLEY, born Kennington [London], resided South Acton [Middlesex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • Second Lieutenant Charles Ockley BELL, 23, son of Alfred Frederick and Sarah Susanna Bell (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8237 Sergeant Thomas William Walden HAYCROFT, 28, D Company, husband of Florence Elizabeth of 21 saint Mary’s Road, Colchester [Essex], son of Thomas Haycroft of 58 College Road, Keyham [Devon]; born Marylebone [London], resided Cheshunt [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)

13th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: German recapture of Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée

  • 7083 Private John BILLINGHAM, born and resided in Marylebone [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8464 Private George Herbert Lawrence CARROLL, 24, son of George W Carroll of 48 Baildon Street, Deptford [London], husband of Emily C Follings (ex Carroll) of 51 Thurston Road, Lewisham London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8055 Private William John CLIFFORD, 29, son of John and Emily Clifford of East End, Charlton Kings [Gloucestershire], husband of Charlotte Winnifred Clifford of 1 Moreton Place, Charlton Kings (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7906 Private Walter COLLINS, 27, son of George Collins; husband of Ethel Eliza Beaver (ex Collins) of 207 Camberwell Grove [London]; he was born and resided in Peckham [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8503 Private Robert James Alfred DAVIS, born Westminster [London], resided Swaffham [Norfolk] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10222 Private Arthur William DERBYSHIRE, born West Ham [Essex], resided at Royden [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8617 Private Bertram Alexander EDLIN, 31, of C Company, son of the late Henry Edlin and Louisa Hagger (ex Edlin), born Linton [Cambridgeshire, resided South Woodford [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7833 Private William FISHER, 30, son of John Fisher of 34 Allhallows Lane, Bedford (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7570 Private Frank GRIBBLE, born and resided in Northampton (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8168 Private William James GRIMWOOD, 29, son of Mary Mann of 35 Angel Street, Hadleigh [Suffolk] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8196 Private Charles Nicholas HUTCHINSON, 28, son of Charles and Ann Hutchinson of Everton Road, Potton (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7338 Private Jack LANE, born in Faversham [Kent], resided at New Cross [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6972 Private Charles William LAW, 30, B Company, son of Mr and Mrs Law of 37 Shaftesbury Road, Watford [Hertfordshire], husband of Florence Emily Law of 5 Drake Street, Enfield [Middlesex], on the staff of H M Stationery Office (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8463 Lance Corporal Frederick Reginald MACKENZIE, born Cheshunt [Hertfordshire], resided Sheerness [Kent] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7560 Private Herbert MEYER, 28, husband of Jane Murtagh (ex Meyer) of 4 Shotley Street, Fulham [London]; born Fulham, resided Hammersmith [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7985 Private Frederick PAGE, 30, husband of Leah Page of 17 Birstall Street, Leicester (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10059 Private Frederick James Henry PARKER, born Little Munden [Hertfordshire], resided Hertford (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10253 Private James William RAINBIRD, 20, son of James end Elizabeth Rainbird of 78 Dunmow Road, Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6985 Sergeant Edward REILLY, 32, husband of Mary Reilly of 28 Saint Albans Road, Dublin [Ireland], born Shorncliffe [Kent] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7476 Private Frank Aston ROBERTSON, born Swindon [Wiltshire], resided Reading [Berkshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • Lieutenant Claude Charles STAFFORD, 23, son of Florence and the late Charles Calvert Stafford of Bedford (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10271 Lance Corporal Richard Henry STEVENS, born Willesden [Middlesex], resided Harrow [Middlesex] (le Touret Memorial) 

14th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: front line 300 yards in the rear of Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée

  • 7489 Private William Thomas DAY, born and resided Harpenden [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10380 Private Walter Frederick ELLIS, born Weston [Hertfordshire], resided Stevenage [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 9582 Private Albert James HODGSON, 24, son of Henry and Elenor Emma Hodgson of 62 Ravenhurst Camp Hill, Birmingham (Gorre British and IndianCemetery)
  • 6462 Company Sergeant Major Levi John KIMBLE, 32, son of George and Mary Ann Kimble of Loughton [Buckinghamshire]; he resided at Kensworth (Bois-GuillaumeCommunalCemetery, Rouen)
  • 10246 Private William James SAMUELS, 19, son of James and Louisa Samuels of Hoddesdon [Hertfordshire] (BethuneTownCemetery)
  • Second Lieutenant James Reginald SHIPPEY, 23, son of Frederic Shippey of Pietermaritzberg [Natal] (BethuneTownCemetery)

18th October 1914

Killed in Action

2nd Battalion

  • 9389 Private Sidney Fary DICKENS or DICKINS, born and resided at Upper Dean (HarlebekeNewBritishCemetery)
  • 3/6914 Private Leonard LIVETT, born and resided Little Staughton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • Lieutenant Villiers Chernocke DOWNES, 23, son of Catherine and the late Lieutenant-Colonel C Villiers Downes of Aspley House, Aspley Guise (Longuenesse (Saint-Omer) SouvenirCemetery)

19th October 1914

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • Second Lieutenant Leonard Wyndham RENDELL, 23, son of Wyndham H and Annie D Rendell of Taunton [Somerset], he was mentioned in despatches (Bethune Town Cemetery)

20th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: in trenches at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée

  • 10091 Private Ernest James TAYLOR, 20, son of Mr and Mrs J Taylor of 10 Gloucester Street, Cambidge, born in Chesterton [Cambridgeshire] (le Touret Memorial)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 7670 Private George WELLS, 29, son of Arthur Wells of Ivinghoe [Buckinghamshire]; husband of Gertrude of 1 Fairfax Road, Colchester [Essex] (Ivinghoe churchyard)

22nd October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: abortive attack at Violaines

  • 8238 Sergeant Richard William ALLSOPP, born Stoke Albany [Northamptonshire], lived Yardley Hastings [Northamptonshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 9999 Lance Corporal William BROWN, 20,  born Aspley Guise, resided Luton, brother of F C Brown of 15 York Street, Luton, B Company (le Touret Memorial)
  • 9527 Private John Henry CHAPMAN, 24, son of William Chapman of 5 Nutholt Lane, Ely [Cambridgeshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7485 Private Robert CLARK 32, son of Ellen Clark of Broxted [Essex], born Henham [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • Lieutenant William Saint John COVENTRY, 22, son of John and Emily Mary Coventry of Burgate Manor, Fordingbridge [Hampshire]; he was mentioned in despatches (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8580 Sergeant William FRESHWATER, born Norwich [Norfolk], resided Woolwich [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 9656 Sergeant Beverley KEABLE, son of Ernest Keable of 41 Sunbury Lane, Walton-on-Thames [Surrey], born Great Yarmouth [Norfolk], resided Balham [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • Second Lieutenant John LITCHFIELD (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 7092 Private James MUMFORD, B Company, son of the late William and Mahala Mumford; born and resided Luton; husband of Emily Helen of Peter's Green [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7374 Private Charles PETTS, 29, husband of Eliza of Vine Cottages, Much Hadham [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6967 Private Albert RANN, born Stoke Newington [London], resided Hartford [Huntingdonshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6956 Private Leonard SPRIGGINS, 36, son of the late James and Louisa, husband of Ellen Elizabeth of Aston [Hertfordshire], he served in the 2nd Boer War (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7829 Private George TEAR, 31, son of Frederick and Grace Tear of 128 Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, born Gamlingay [Cambridgeshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7628 Private Edward THOMAS, born Wrexham [Denbighshire], resided Liverpool [Lancashire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10114 Private John William TYLER, 17, B Company, son of John and Annie Tyler of Birch Green [Hertfordshire], born Tewin [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10262 Lance Corporal Thomas VINCENT, 19, son of Maria and the late Thomas Vincent of 106 Railton Road Herne Hill [London], born Lambeth [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8386 Private George Ernest WILSON, 26, son of Caroline and the late Joseph of 64 Meadows Dwellings, Bethnal Green [London] (le Touret Memorial)

23rd October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: front line trenches one mile east of Festubert

  • 8124 Acting Corporal Albert Samuel SIMANTS, 28, son of Samuel and Louisa Simants of 16 Gladstone Street, Bedford, born Kempston (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - an abortive advance towards Beselare and around Geluveld

  • Second Lieutenant Dudley Luis de Tavora FERNANDES, 21, son of Thomas Weddell Luis Fernandes of Scarborough [Yorkshire]; he was mentioned in despatches (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9301 Private John LILLEY, born and resided Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Second Lieutenant George Drennan Cron WRIGHT, 23, son of George and Letitia S Wright (DadizeeleNewBritishCemetery)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 7531, Private Kenneth MARTIN, 30, son of Arthur and Sarah Martin of Anstey [Hertfordshire], husband of Kate of Wydial [Hertfordshire] (Leeds (Lawnswood) Cemetery)

2nd Battalion

  • 9518 Private Charles Ernest CRACKNELL, 32, son of Stephen and Alice Cracknell of Charity Farm, Whittlesford [Cambridgeshire] (YpresTownCemetery)

Died

4th Battalion

  • 14583 Private Albert Henry EVANS, son of Samuel Evans of 58 Mount Pleasant Terrace, Bedminster [Bristol], resided Bristol (HarwichCemetery)
    Saturday 24th October 1914

Killed in Action

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - in the front line around Geluveld

  • 8955 Lance Corporal Arthur Frederick ADAMS, 22, son of James and Jane Adams of 32a Bellot Street, East Greenwich [London], born Lambeth [London] (Menin Gate Memorial)
  • 8867 Lance Sergeant Thomas George HUNTLEY, born Clapton [London], resided Hackney [London] (PerthCemetery (China Wall) Ypres)
  • 9755 Private William KIRBY, 24, son of William and Rosetta Kirby of 42 Hereford Street, Brighton [Sussex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 7769 Lance Corporal Arthur PAYNE, 28, husband of Emily May of Colney Heath [Hertfordshire] born North Mimms [Hertfordshire] (BoulogneEasternCemetery),

2nd Battalion

  • 9271 Private Herbert HUTCHINSON, born and resided Potton (YpresTownCemetery)
  • 9315 Private Arthur STEELE, 22, son of Mr and Mrs J Steele of 63 Muswell Road, Bedford, he was born in Kempston (Menin Gate Memorial)
  • 9569 Private Samuel STILES, born Peckham [London], resided Fulham [London] (YpresTownCemetery)

25th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: front line trenches one mile east of Festubert

  • 7458 Private Frank BLAND, born Kensworth, resided Layer-de-la-Haye [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10274 Private Arthur DOWNES, 23, son of Robert Downes of 3 White Entry Yard, Norwich [Norfolk], born Thorpe Hamlet [Norfolk] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 9752 Private Richard Leonard FREEMAN, born and resided Luton (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8332 Private David GROOM, born Whitwell [Hertfordshire], resided Kimpton [Hertfordshire] (GuardsCemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
  • 8289 Private Walter HURRICKS, 28, son of Walter and Ellen Hurricks of 8 Tanners Lane, Ipswich [Suffolk] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8873 Private Charles Bridgestock JONES, born Southwark [London], resided Bermondsey [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8972 Private James Sainsbury MOULD, 28, son of William Mould of 33 Upper Park Place, Marylebone Road [London], he was born and resided in West Ham [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8902 Private Reginald Herbert SINDEN, 25, son of James Sinden of Fairtrough Cottages, Pratts Bottom [Kent], he was born in Sevenoaks [Kent] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8190 Private William SKINNER, son of Fred Skinner, born and resided Kensworth (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7960 Lance Corporal Charles Karrell WARRELL, 31, son of C and E Warrell of Solesbridge Lane, Chorley Wood [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7354 Private George WILDMAN, 36, husband of Annie Rose of 36 Millbrook Road, Bedford, he had been born in Riseley (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7506 Lance Corporal Edmund William WILSHER, born and resided Canning Town [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 10216 Private Sidney CLARK, born and resided Lilley [Hertfordshire] (Lilley churchyard)

2nd Battalion

  • 6689 Sergeant Drummer William Charles DYER, 29, C Company, son of William and Eliza Jane Dyer of 42 Saint John's Street, Bedford, he was born Colchester [Essex] and resided Ware [Hertfordshire] (Longnuenesse (Saint-Omer) SouvenirCemetery)

26th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: relieved from front line trenches one mile east of Festubert

  • Lieutenant Saint John Alan CHARLTON, 25, son of Saint John and Elizabeth Bronwen Charlton of 9 Sloane Gardens [London] (Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez)
  • 8142 Private Lewis DYER, resided Luton (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10160 Private Percy REEVE, 20, A Company, son of Mrs S Reeve of 50 Pix Road, Letchworth [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres: abortive advance from Geluveld on Beselare

  • 3/6189 Private Alfred BRIGHTMAN, born Streatley, resided Great Bramingham (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8421 Sergeant John Charles BROWN, born and resided Dunstable (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8138 Private Thomas Robert BULLOCK, 26, son of Thomas Bullock of 2 Saint Anne Street, Hanley [Staffordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9377 Lance Corporal Horace CHALKLEY, 24, son of William Chalkley of 5 Church Street, Slip End, he was born and lived in Markyate [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9426 Corporal Frank Hector CHURCH, born Ilford [Essex], resided Leytonstone [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9251 Private George COOK, born and resided Hatfield Broad Oak [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9525 Private Morris Edward COOPER, born Steeple Bumpstead [Essex], resided Bury Saint Edmund's [Suffolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8512 Private William Frederick CORKETT, 28, son of Elizabeth Corkett of 52 Wyke Road, Old Ford, Bow [London], born and resided Bromley [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9791 Private George Henry GOODSHIP, 22, son of Mrs M A Rook of Upper Caldecote, born Barnsley [Yorkshire] (HarlebekeNewBritishCemetery)
  • Captain Arthur Gordon HALL, 34, commander of D Company, son of the late Edward and  Anna Hall, born in Mysore [India]; he was mentioned in despatches and served in the Second Boer War (Perth Cemetery (China Wall) Ypres)
  • 9020 Private Michael HAWLEY, 24, brother of Peter Hawley of 6 War Seal Mansions, Fulham [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8773 Lance Corporal Alfred Mathew KEIRLE, 25, son of George Mathew and Elizabeth Ann Keirle of 10 Windsor Street, Paddington [London], born Brighton [Sussex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8526 Private Charles William MEAD, 27, son of George and Eliza Mead of Gosfield [Essex], a native of Great Parndon [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9087 Sergeant John Henry MORTER, 25, B Company, son of John Morter of 89 Ashville Road, Leytonstone [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 7294 Private Harry NEWMAN, born and resided Great Staughton [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10119 Private Walter O'BRIEN, 20, son of Edwin James and Elizabeth O'Brien of 65 Warwick Road, Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 7202 Private Frederick ROBINSON, born Hammersmith [London], resided East Ham [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9456 Private William ROBINSON, born Overstone [Northamptonshire], resided Linslade (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9088 Private Augustus SPELLER, born Henham [Essex], resided Hertford (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9537 Private Henry WALLINGER, born and resided Fenny Stratford [Buckinghamshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9508 Private Herbert WEBSTER, born and resided Norwich [Norfolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

27th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: at billets in Gorre

  • 7691 Private George SMITH, husband of Elizabeth of Biggleswade, born Sutton (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7080 Private William YOUNG, 37, husband of Florence of 7 Saint Andrews Place, Northampton (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion

  • Lieutenant William BASTARD, 23, son of William and Helen Bastard; he was mentioned in despatches (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Private 3/6099 Jack Clarke YOUNG, 27, son of Frank Turvey and Elizabeth Seymour Young of Wellington Terrace, Dunstable (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 9840 Private Jack WEEDON, 21, son of Jethro and Sarah Ann Weedon of Luton (BethuneTownCemetery)

28th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: in Festubert at night as support to the front line

  • 8444 Private Albert George BRAND, born and resided Fulham [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8869 Private John BRANT, born Lewisham [London], resided Sydenham [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7973 Private Albert William ROACH, 27, son of Mr and Mrs W Roach of 72 Westbourne Road, Bedford, born Wantage [Berkshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8969 Private Ernest STAPLETON, born and resided Bedford (le Touret Memorial)
  • 7410 Private Arthur James STONEBRIDGE, 32, son of George and the late Sarah Rachel of 42 Cronham Road, Rotherhithe [London], born Bermondsey [London] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8109 Private Edward John TEW, 30, son of Emma and the late Henry Tew of Billington Crossing (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8370 Private William VIGUS, born Southwark [London], resided Bermondsey [London] (le Touret Memorial) 

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - relieved from positions between Zandvoorde Chateau and the Menin Road

  • 3/7094 Private Ernest BARKER, 21, son of Sarah Barker of 21 Back Street, Luton, born Earl's Barton [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

29th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: assisting the Manchester Regiment regain lost trenches at Festubert

  • 8665 Private Frank Herbert BAYFORD, born Little Hadham [Hertfordshire], resided Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (Cabaret-RougeBritishCemetery, Souchez)
  • 8391 Acting Corporal Joseph Alfred MALLETT, 26, son of William Mallett of 62 Napier Street, Norwich [Norfolk] (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - a counterattack in the area of Zandvoorde

  • 9506 Private Alfred Arthur BLOGG, 23, son of Alfred and Eliza Blogg of 57 Denmark Road, New Catton [Norfolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Lieutenant Edmund Elgood PUNCHARD, 24, son of Canon and the late Catherine Mary Punchard of Ely [Cambridgeshire]; he was mentioned in despatches (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9667 Private Fred SPARY, born Markyate [Hertfordshire], resided Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9455 Corporal Alfred Albert STAPLES, born and resided Horsham [Sussex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

2nd Battalion

  • 9833 Private William Alexandra CLARKE, born and resided Grimsbury resided [Oxfordshire] (Ypres Town Cemetery Extension) 

Died

1st Battalion

  • 7903 Private Amos ROGERS, 34, son of Ambrose Rogers of Furneaux Pelham [Hertfordshire], husband of E Ball (ex Rogers) of 29 Trinity Street, Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (Porte-de-ParisCemetery, Cambrai)

30th October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: assisting in recapture of trenches lost by the 8th Ghurkhas east of Festubert

  • 8483 Private Maurice MAUNDERS, 25, son of Mark and Lucy Maunders of Dagnall [Buckinghamshire] (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - successful German attack on Zandvoorde

  • Lieutenant Wilfred Cruttenden ANDERSON, 22, only son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel W T Anderson, 2nd battalion, South Staffordshire regiment (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9374 Corporal Arthur BYGRAVE, 25, son of Arthur and Susan of Symonds Green, Stevenage [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9946 Private Richard Turney ELMORE, born and resided Bedford (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Major Robert Percy STARES, 47, son of John Twynam Stares of Upham Manor [Hampshire]; he was mentioned in despatches (PerthCemetery (China Wall) Ypres)
  • Major John Murray TRAILL, 49, son of James Christie and Julia Traill of Rattar [Caithness]; he was mentioned in despatches (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10019 Private Dick Richard WILLETT, born Henham [Essex], resided Birchanger [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 7951 Private William GULLIVER, 28, A Company, son of Joseph and Mary Gulliver of East End, Flitwick, husband of Mary Emmeline of 7 Church Walk, Kempston (Bethune Town Cemetery)
  • 8143 Private Alfred HANKIN, 28, son of Mr and Mrs Hankin of 64 Ivy Road, Luton, a native of Dunstable, served nine years in the 2nd Battalion (Bethune Town Cemetery)

2nd Battalion

  • 9504 Private Cecil Stanley Reginald Stephen Aylott ALLSOPP or ALLSOP, son of Lilian A Aylott Allsop of 94 Dalmally Road, Addiscombe [Surrey], born and resided Brighton [Sussex] (Ypres Town Cemetery Extension)
  • Second Lieutenant Walter Arthur Beaumont WALKER, 22, son of Richard BeaumontWalker (BethuneTownCemetery)

31st October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: assisting in recapture of trenches lost by the 8th Ghurkhas east of Festubert

  • 3/7245 Private Horace Edward GINN, 38, son of Martha and the late John Ginn, born and resided Bedford (le Touret Memorial)
  • 8025 Private Horace MOUSE, 28, son of Mary Mouse of 207 High Street, Dunstable, husband of Lily Mabel of 33 Church Street, Dunstable (le Touret Memorial)
  • 3/6459 Corporal Jeffrey TEARLE, 24, son of Sarah Jane Tearle of 9 Alfred Street, Dunstable; born Eaton Bray; shot through the head by a sniper (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - retirement from the Geluveld-Zanvoorde Road to the Menin Road

  • 9602 Sergeant Arthur BALDOCK, born Welwyn [Hertfordshire], resided Clifton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/6127 Private Wilfred John BARRS, 25, husband of Elizabeth Sarah of 145 Winstanley Road, Wellingborough [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/7145 Private Samuel Arthur BELFIELD, 24, husband of Ethel of 7 Chesterfield Road, Belper [Derbyshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9253 Private James BRAZIER, brother of Maud Thrale of High Street, Wheathampstead [Hertfordshire], born in Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/6308 Private Michael BRESNAHAN, born and resided Deptford [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9838 Private Eric William BROWN, born Lowick [Northamptonshire], resided Wellingborough [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9046 Private William BURNS, born and resided Tilbrook [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10076 Private Edgar BUTCHER, 21, son of Mrs F Butcher of 43 Raingate Street, Bury Saint Edmund's [Suffolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/7393 Private Sidney CAIN, 28, son of Mr and Mrs Cain of 54 Duke Street, Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10130 Private James Walter CRAFT, born Wooburn Green [Buckinghamshire], resided Watford [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9540 Private Charles Henry GODFREY, born Cotton [Suffolk], resided Walton [Suffolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9242 Private Robert John HARRIS, born and resided Great Hallingbury [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9874 Private James Nelson HICKMAN, 24, son of Henry John and Mary Jane Hickman of 31 Brook Street, Daventry [Northamptonshire], born Badby [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9052 Lance Corporal Henry Charles HOLLIDGE, born Marylebone [London], resided Pimlico [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9308 Private Edward HOOD, born Ditchenham [Norfolk], resided Waltham Cross [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/6130 Private Alfred HUCKLE, 23, son of W Huckle of 4 Common Road, Stotfold (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9671 Lance Sergeant Jack Fransham KEABLE, 21, son of Ernest Burroughs Keable of 41 Sunbury Lane, Walton on Thames [Surrey] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9921 Lance Corporal Benjamin LANGFORD, born and resided Stretham [Cambridgeshire]
  • Captain Ernest Hugh LYDDON, 27, son of F S and I W Lyddon of Clifton, Bristol (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9596 Private Herbert James NORMAN, 25, son of James Norman of Northill, born in Sandy (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9975 Private Emmanuel OLNEY, born Hatfield Hyde [Hertfordshire], resided Enfield [Middlesex] (HarlebeekeNewBritishCemetery)
  • 3/6816 Private Frederick ROWLETT, 19, son of William and Mary Ann Rowlett of 32 Sun Street, Biggleswade (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 7684 Private Tom SHARP, 24, son of Annie Sharp of Salisbury Street, Semilong [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9352 Private Albert SMART, born and resided in Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 7792 Lance Sergeant Frederick STAINES, 30, son of Jessie May Crone (ex Staines) of 103 Spruce Hill Road, Walthamstow [Essex], born Felstead [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/6861 Private Sidney John STRINGER, 21, son of Alfred and Margaret Stringer of Water End, Flitwick (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9252 Private George THOMASON, born and resided Biggleswade (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Lieutenant Donald Godrid Campbell THOMSON, 21, son of D G P and Clara Thomson of Penrith [Cumberland] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/6995 Private Sidney THOROUGHGOOD, 19, son of Samuel Thoroughgood, born Ampthill, resided Bedford, (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 7765 Private Frederick THURSTON, born West Ham [Essex], resided Stratford [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8502 Lance Corporal Thomas Alfred TOMPKINS, 27, son of Mary Ann Tompkins of New Alley, Limehouse [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9226 Corporal William Jepthah John WHITE, born Canning Town [Essex], resided Bassingbourne [Cambridgeshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 9353 Lance Corporal Percy Edward WOODCROFT, 23, son of Edwin and Sarah Annie Woodcroft of 73 Ivy Road, Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 3/7108 Private George Herbert WRIGHTON, 20, son of Mrs A Wrighton of 53 Cromwell Street, Rushden [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

  • 7677 Private Joseph POULTON, born Tring [Hertfordshire], resided Berkhamstead [Hertfordshire] (Glasgow (Lambhill) Cemetery)

2nd Battalion

  • 8932 Private Henry CLARK, 24, husband of H Walsh (ex Clark) of de Waal Road, Cape Town [South Africa], born and resided in Esher [Surrey] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres) 
  • 9270 Private George William PINDRED, 24, son of James and Harriet Pindred of Market Square, Saint Neots [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)