December 1914

Bedfordshire Regiment Roll of Honour

1st December 1914

Killed in Action

2nd Battalion: digging new fire trenches south-west of Fleurbaix

• 9681 Private Charles Alfred TITMARSH, son of William John Titmarsh of 8c Dolphin Yard, Hertford (Ploegsteert Memorial)

2nd December 1914

Killed in Action

2nd Battalion: digging new fire trenches south-west of Fleurbaix

• 4/6692 Corporal John HIPGRAVE, 42, son of Elizabeth Hipgrave of Roe Green [Hertfordshire] (RationFarmMilitaryCemetery, la Chapelle-d'Armetières)

3rd December 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: front line trenches north-west of Wulvergem

• 3/6053 Private William James DAWSON, born and resided Leighton Buzzard, (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
• 8779 Private Daniel or David DELANEY, born Camberwell [London], resided Peckham [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)  

4th December 1914

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

• 7217 Private Charles HART, born Tiptree [Essex], resided Maldon [Essex] (BailleulCommunalCemetery)
• 8210 Private Thomas JACQUES, 27, son of Francis and Sarah Jacques of Weald, Saint Neots born Eynesbury [Huntingdonshire] (Dranouter Churchyard) 

Died

7th Battalion

• 3/8439 Private Charles KING, born Woolwich [London], resided Holloway [London] (AldershotMilitaryCemetery)

5th December 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: relieved from front line trenches north-west of Wulvergem

• 3/6632 Private Charles HOLES, born and resided Saint Albans [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

8th December 1914

Died of Wounds 

1st Battalion

• 9310 Sergeant William John NOLAIS, 24, husband of Gertrude Eileen of 20 Wellesley Terrace, Saint Helier [Jersey] (Saint Sever Cemetery, Rouen)

9th December 1914 

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: frot line trenches north-west of Wulvergem

• 8900 Lance Corporal Frederick Charles MAY, 27, husband of Edith C of 2 Pretoria Cottages, Foots Cray [Kent], born Dartford [Kent] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

• 3/8155 Private Markham HAMMOND, born and resided Ely [Cambridgeshire] (Dranouter Churchyard)

Died

1st/5th Battalion

• 4643 Private George PATTEN, 20, son of Alfred and Mary E Patten of 109 Ash Road, Luton (Luton Church Burial Ground, Crawley Green Road)

10th December 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion; patrolling in front of front line trenches north-west of Wulvergem

• 6664 Private Albert CRAWLEY, 36, son of Samuel and the late Hannah Crawley, husband of Florence Mahalath Crawley of 9 Poplars, High Road, Arlesey (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
• 8976 Acting Corporal Frederick LAIRD, 28, son of Frederick and Sophia Laird of 88 Bower Street, Bedford, husband of Julia of High Street, Silsoe (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)  

11th December 1914

Died

2nd Battalion

• 9346 Private Ernest H TITMARSH, born Hoddesdon [Hertfordshire], resided Hertford (Manchester Southern Cemetery)

13th December 1914

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

• 9288 Acting Company Sergeant Major Bernard GAMBLE, husband of Lilian of 2 Austins Lane, Ampthill, born Hopton [Yorkshire], formerly 6787 Royal Warwickshire Regiment (BailleulCommunalCemetery)

14th December 1914

Died of Wounds

2nd Battalion

• Captain Charles Sidney GARNETT-BOTFIELD, 27, son of Rev Charles Ramsey and Ida Mary Garnett-Botfield of Moreton Rectory [Shropshire]; he was mentioned in despatches (Moreton Churchyard)
• 8126 Private William HYAM or HYAMS, brother of Thomas Alfred of 66 Glenister Road, East Greenwich [London], born Walworth [London], resided Lewisham [London] (Boulogne Eastern Cemetery)

17th December 1419

Died

2nd Battalion

• 8547 Private Thomas Stanley DENNIS, 27, born Clerkenwell [London] (Felixstowe (Walton) Cemetery)

7th Battalion

• 15145 Lance Corporal Charles Malcolm William ERWOOD, 25, D Company, son of Francis William and Kate Anson Erwood of 47 Whitworth Place, Plumstead [London], a London County Council schoolmaster (Woolwich Cemetery)

20th December 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: shelled in front line trenches north-west of Wulvergem

• 10072 Private Edward John WINDSOR, 20, son of Edward and Florence of 161 Ossington Buildings, Marylebone, he was born and resided Shoreditch [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

2nd Battalion: in trenches south-west of Fleurbaix

• 3/7323 Private Frank Walter TOULL, 20, son of F W Toull of 11 King's Parade, High Road, Tottenham [Middlesex] (memorial in Rue David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix)

Died

1st Battalion

• 8590 Private Frederick PALMER, born and resided Bermondsey [London] (Glasgow Western Necropolis)

25th December 1914

Died

1st Battalion

• 9618 Lance Corporal Arthur Bertram WEBB, 21, son of William and Sarah Elizabeth Webb of 1 Green Farm Cottage, Upper Dovercourt [Essex], born in Ramsey [Essex] (Ramsey (Saint Michael) Churchyard)

28th December 1914

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

• 3/6732 Private George William BROCK, born Huntingdon and resided Bedford (BailleulCommunalCemetery)
• 7594 Private Edward LEGGETT, 34, son of Sarah and the late David Leggett of 76 New Street, Woodbridge [Suffolk], born and resided Ufford [Suffolk] (WoodbridgeCemetery)

30th December 1914

Died of Wounds

2nd Battalion

• 4/6849 Private Albert William SHAMBROOK, 18, born and resided Ware [Hertfordshire] (BoulogneEasternCemetery)

31st December 1914

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

• 9307 Private Albert Henry BIRD, 24, son of William and Lizzie Bird of Start Hill, Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (WimereuxCommunalCemetery)
• Lieutenant Edwin Allen James EDWARDS, 19, son of Herbert Edwards of Surbiton [Surrey] (Long Ditton Churchyard, Surrey)

Died

6th Battalion

• 18203 Private George RAINBOW, 20, son of Isaac and Arabella Rainbow of Meppershall (Meppershall (Saint Mary) Churchyard)