June 1916

Bedfordshire Regiment Roll of Honour

3rd June 1916 

Killed in Action  

7th Battalion: B Company barge fatigue 

• 17400 Private Walter SLADE, born Trowbridge [Wiltshire], resided Westbury [Wiltshire] (Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme) 

8th Battalion: front line trenches at Yser Canal bank 

• 19560 Private William PICKARD, born Bury [Huntingdonshire], resided Great Whyte [Huntingdonshire] (Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres) 

4th June 1916

Killed in Action  

1st Battalion: front line near Arras 

• 13164 Private Sidney Thomas FLECKNEY, 23, born King's Walden [Hertfordshire], resided Luton, son of George and Hannah Fleckney (Arras Memorial) 

• Second Lieutenant Vincent Stanton SANDERS, 19, C Company, son of Henry F and Amelia Sanders of 67 Seymour Road, Hornsey [Middlesex] (Thiepval Memorial)  

• 18328 Private Edwin Charles SAUNDERS, 24, son of Edwin Thomas Saunders of 34a Church Street, Baldock [Hertfordshire] (Arras Memorial) 

• 7500 Sergeant Leonard TRIGG, 30, born Manuden [Essex], resided Whitechapel [London], husband of Annie of 8H Peabody Buildings, Glasshouse Street, Upper East Smithfield [London] (Arras Memorial)  

15th June 1916 

Killed in Action  

8th Battalion: front line at Yser Canal bank 

• 3/7562 Private Artemas PARKER, born and resided Bletsoe (Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres) 

18th June 1916  

Killed in Action  

4th Battalion  

• Second Lieutenant Edgar George Butlin MILLSON, 28, son of George Millson OBE, MRCS, LRCP of 90 Angell Road, Brixton [London] and Sarah Ellen Millson (Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras)  

Died  

4th Battalion 

• 27383 Private George GREEN (real name P C Simpson), born and resided Colchester [Essex] (Felixstowe New Cemetery) 

7th Battalion: shot himself 

• 23738 Private John GRIFFIN, 26, born Alwalton [Huntingdonshire], resided Alconbury [Huntingdonshire], son of Rose Griffin of 22 Green Lane Road, Leicester (Saint-Pierre Cemetery, Amiens) 

20th June 1916 

Died  

2nd Battalion 

• 9078 Corporal William EADE DCM, born Tottenham [Middlesex], resided Islington [London] (Chipilly Communal Cemetery Extension) 

21st June 1916 

Killed in Action 

2nd Battalion: front line near Maricourt, shelling 

• 4/7230 Private Ernest WHITE, 29, son of Mrs H Burton of 5 Brook Cottages, Turnford [Hertfordshire] (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

22nd June 1916 

Died of Wounds  

6th Battalion 

• 8156 Sergeant Stacey John PLEDGER, 33, born Chrishall [Hertfordshire], husband of D S Pledger of 110 Somerset Road, Tottenham [Middlesex], son of Charles and Mary Pledger (Étaples Military Cemetery) 

Died 

3rd Battalion 

• 23746 Private Edward OAKLEY, born and resided Eversholt (Eversholt (Saint John the Baptist) Churchyard) 

24th June 1916 

Died  

1st Garrison Battalion 

• 23852 Private Henry CHAPLIN, 27, ex-8260 Royal Sussex Regiment, son of William and Annie Chaplin of South Hill Park, Bracknell [Berkshire] (Landour General Cemetery, India) 

25th June 1916  

Killed in Action 

2nd Battalion: front line near Maricourt 

• 17803 Private George Henry SEABROOK, 23, born Croxley Green [Hertfordshire], son of Jane Seabrook of 27 Souldern Street, Watford [Hertfordshire] (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery)

6th Battalion: Bienvillers 

• 12866 Lance Corporal Stanley Herbert LEETE, 21,son of Ernest and Mary Leete of 57 Walsworth Road, Hitchin [Hertfordshire] (Bienvillers Military Cemetery) 

• 17821 Private John Crossford RISELEY, born Huntingdon, resided Papworth Everard [Cambridgeshire] (Bienvillers Military Cemetery) 

7th Battalion: front line near Carnoy 

• 18154 Private Frederick John EVANS, husband of L M Evans of 24 Upper Heath Road, Saint Albans [Hertfordshire] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

• 15643 Private James Edward ILES, born North Kensington [London], resided Willesden [Middlesex] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

• 19564 Private John PEPPER, born Padley [Lincolnshire], resided Great Whyte [Huntingdonshire] (Carnoy Military Cemetery)  

Died of Wounds  

6th Battalion 

• 17161 Private Thomas Frederick HARRIS, 28, D Company, born Bricket Wood [Hertfordshire], resided Slip End, husband of Annie E Cooper (ex-Harris) of 22 Vernon Drive, Harefield [Middlesex] (Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty) 

• 17600 Private Alexander MCLAREN, born Knightsbridge [London], resided Leytonstone [Essex], husband of A J McLaren of 64 Driffield Road, Bow [London] (Bienvillers Military Cemetery) 

• 18221 Private Watson Heathcote PAYNE, born and resided Saint Albans [Hertfordshire], husband of F M Payne of 30 Bell Lane, Stoke [Suffolk] (Bienvillers Military Cemetery) 

Died  

Battalion Unknown 

• Private A H ISAAC (Ashford Cemetery) 

26th June 1916 

Killed in Action  

2nd Battalion: front line near Maricourt 

• 18729 Private Walter Frederick BODDY, C Company, born Saint Pancras [London], son of John George and Mary Boddy of Kentish Town [London], husband of Elizabeth of 126 Weedington Road, Kentish Town (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

7th Battalion: shell fell on C Company's Officers' Mess in front line near Carnoy as well as other areas 

• Temporary Second Lieutenant Reginald BADEN, 23, son of Herbert Edwin and Blanche Ada Baden of 5 Grange Road, Ealing [Middlesex] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

• 19537 Private Richard Edward BALDOCK, born and resided Warboys [Huntingdonshire] (Carnoy Military Cemetery)  

• 15737 Lance Corporal Arthur James BLOOMFIELD, 21, son of William Edward and Mary A Bloomfield of 45 Sutherland Street, Pimlico [London] (Carnoy Military Cemetery)  

• 13794 Sergeant Frank BUNCE, born and resided Watford [Hertfordshire] (Thiepval Memorial)  

• 3/7993 Private Henry Sidney MORTIMER born Forton [Hampshire], resided Greenwich [London] (Carnoy Military Cemetery)  

• 22056 Private John PAVEY, 28, son of Frederick G and Emily Pavey of 58 Liverpool Road, Watford [Hertfordshire], husband of Mabel of 37 Saint Mary's Road, Watford (Carnoy Military Cemetery)  

• 15550 Sergeant Richard John TYERS, 28, born Watford [Hertfordshire], husband of Mary Elizabeth of 136 Villiers Road, Oxhey [Hertfordshire], son of Eliza Tyers (Thiepval Memorial)  

• 16511 Private Andrew WILLIAMSON, born Walthamstow [Essex], residec Kimpton [Hertfordshire] (Carnoy Military Cemetery)   

9th Battalion: shell fell on Officers' Mess of C Company, 7th Battalion in front line near Carnoy 

• Temporary Second Lieutenant Gordon Beverley HASLER, attached 7th Battalion, 19, son of John and Jessie Hasler of 68 Lonsdale Road, Barnes [Surrey] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

Died of Wounds 

6th Battalion 

• 14307 Private Joseph Henry WOOLLARD, 22, D Company, born Stopsley, son of Joseph and Margaret Woollard of 57 Lyndhurst Road, Luton (Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty) 

27th June 1916 

Killed in Action  

7th Battalion: front line near Carnoy 

• 20612 Private Leonard GRAY, 39, born and resided Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire], son of Lawrence and Louisa Gray (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

• 3/8156 Sergeant Albert Edward HAYNES, 29, attached trench mortar battery, son of Andrew and Alice Haynes of  Little Berkhamstead [Hertfordshire] (Crnoy MIlitary Cemetery) 

• 14819 Private Charles STOKES, 21, C Company, born Nailsea [Somerset], son of Charles and Sarah Ann Stokes of Oaklands, Wraxall [Somerset] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

Died of Wounds  

6th Battalion 

• 17735 Lance Corporal Bertie RUTLAND, 27, born Roxton, resided Chawston, son of John and Jane Rutland of Roxton, husband of Martha May of Willow Dene, Clapham (Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty) 

28th June 1916 

Died of Wounds  

2nd Battalion 

• 7612 Company Sergeant Major Percy CHANDLER, 31, son of William and Jane Chandler of Spaldwick [Huntingdonshire] (Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec) 

Died  

1st/5th Battalion 

• 5349 Private Herbert LEWIN, 38, husband of Amelia of 33 Brunswick Street, Luton (Suez War Memorial Cemetery) 

29th June 1916  

Killed in Action  

2nd Battalion: front line near Maricourt  

• 9272 Private Harry BACCHUS, born and resided Luton (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

• 8838 Sergeant Augustus Henry LAYCOCK MM, 29, born Plumstead [London], son of Henry Laycock of Gillingham [Kent] (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery)  

Died of Wounds 

1st Battalion 

• 9495 Sergeant Edwin BARBER, 23, son of John and Mary Jane Barber of Northwood End, Haynes (Avesnes-le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension) 

Died  

1st/5th Battalion 

• 3629 Private Henry George CUSTANCE, 21, son of Sarah Ann Custance of 15 King's Road, Luton (Suez War Memorial Cemetery) 

30th June 1916 

Killed in Action  

2nd Battalion: front line near Maricourt  

• 18534 Private Albert Ernest CHILDERLEY, born and resided Eaton Socon (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

6th Battalion: Bienvillers 

• 12250 Private Reginald FRANKLIN, born Chalton, son of Mrs M Hammett of 45a Windsor Road, Luton (Bienvillers Military Cemetery)  

Died  

1st Garrison Battalion 

• 24152 Private Ernest Edward BOTTING, ex-3/14815 East Surrey Regiment, born West Dean [Sussex], resided Epsom [Surrey] (Delhi War Cemetery)