March 1916

Bedfordshire Regiment Roll of Honour

1st March 1916  

Killed in Action  

8th Battalion: front line trenches near Ypres 

• 3/8430 Private Arthur Thomas EVERITT, 36, born Luton, husband of Rosa of 62 Apsley End [Hertfordshire] (Menin Road South MIlitary Cemetery) 

2nd March 1916 

Killed in Action  

8th Battalion: front line trenches near Ypres 

• 16737 Private William Stanley JENKINS, 21, born Saint Pancras [London], son of William Jenkins of 31 Saint Paul's Crescent, Camden Town [London] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

5th March 1916 

Died  

1st Battalion 

• 9360 Sergeant F DEVEREUX (Arlesey (Saint Peter) Churchyard) 

7th March 1916  

Killed in Action  

7th Battalion: front line trenches near Carnoy 

• 18225 Private Victor John FURNELL born Upwood [Huntingdonshire] resided Wood Walton [Huntingdonshire] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

Died  

1st Battalion 

• 8702 Private Harold Gurth LOVEDAY, 28, son of Edward Charles and Emily Loveday of 52 Parkfield Road, South Harrow [Middlesex] (Wembley Old Burial Ground) 

10th March 1916 

Died of Wounds 

7th Battalion 

• 18176 Private Alexander GOLLIN born Saint Pancras [London] resided Leigh-on-Sea [Essex] (Carnoy Military Cemetery) 

11th March 1916 

Killed in Action 

1st Battalion: shot through the head by a sniper in front line near Saint-Laurent Blangy 

• Temporary Second Lieutenant Charles Adam COOK, 24, son of W H Cook of Hertford (Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez) 

2nd Battalion: shelling in front line near Maricourt 

• 4/6575 Private Henry BEACH, born and resided Old Southgate [Middlesex] (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

• 16396 Private Charles CHAPMAN, born and resided Shingay [Hertfordshire] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery)  

Died of Wounds 

8th Battalion 

• 16792 Private Frederick William SUTHERLAND, 37, born Penkhull [Staffordshire] son of W Sutherland of 40 Darnley Street Shelton [Staffordshire] (Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery) 

12th March 1916  

Killed in Action 

8th Battalion: front line trenches near Ypres 

• 16744 Private Frank Herbert KEMP, born Clerkenwell [London], resided Barnsbury [London] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

• 16844 Private William George MILTON, 23, son of David and Edith Milton of Mill House, Great Gransden [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

Died 

3rd Battalion 

• 26094 Private William RICHARDSON, 19, born and resided Warboys [Huntingdonshire], son of Mary Richardson of Mill farm, Alconbury [Huntingdonshire] (Warboys Church Cemetery) 

13th March 1916 

Killed in Action  

8th Battalion: front line trenches near Ypres 

• 17353 Lance Corporal Arthur AKERS born Little Amwell [Hertfordshire], resided Hertford Heath [Hertfordshire] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

14th March 1916 

Killed in Action  

2nd Battalion: shelled in Maricourt Defences 

• 10092 Corporal Lewis HILL, born and resided Luton (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

• 10207 Private Charles James SIMMS, 20, son of Alfred and Laura Simms of Bedford (Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez) 

• 6507 Sergeant Walter SMITH born Sandon [Hertfordshire] resided Hitchin [Hertfordshire] (Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery) 

Died of Wounds  

8th Battalion 

• 19607 Private George WILSON born and resided Southwark [London] (Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery) 

15th March 1916 

Died 

3rd Battalion 

• 26111 Private George Edward SAVAGE, son of Firman and Catherine Savage of Glatton [Huntingdonshire] (Glatton (Saint Nicholas) Churchyard) 

16th March 1916 

Killed in Action  

7th Battalion: front line trenches near Carnoy 

• 13891 Corporal Albert JORDAN, 33, born Birmingham [Warwickshire], husband of Phyllis Mary Ann Hoare (ex-Jordan) of Mytrle Hill, Pill [Somerset] (Carnoy Military Cemetery)  

8th Battalion: relieved from front line trenches near Ypres 

• 20785 Private Albert CHILDERLEY born Fenstanton [Huntingdonshire] resided Great Stukeley [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

• 8316 Company Sergeant Major Claude Richard COAN born and resided North Heigham [Norfolk] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

• 17459 Corporal Ernest DEVEREUX born and resided Campton (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

• 19922 Private Frederick Thomas UNDERWOOD born and resided Ickleford [Hertfordshire] (Menin Road South Military Cemetery) 

17th March 1916 

Died  

2nd Battalion 

• 3/7719 Private F WEST husband of Eliza of High Street, Henlow, he served in the 2nd Boer War (Arlesey (Saint Peter) Churchyard) 

19th March 1916 

Killed in Action 

4th Battalion 

• Temporary Lieutenant Antrobus Taft HARRIS, attached 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentières) 

20th March 1916 

Died  

3rd Battalion 

• 22082 Private Heber BRIGHTMAN, 37, born Berkhamstead [Hertfordshire], resided Watford [Hertfordshire], husband of Florence of 65 Vale Road, Bushey [Hertfordshire] (Watford Cemetery) 

21st March 1916 

Died of Wounds  

7th Battalion 

• 16549 Private Edgar HARRIS, 23, D Company, son of Alfred and Sarah Harris of Flint Cottage, Flamstead [Hertfordshire] (Corbie Communal Cemetery) 

22nd March 1916  

Killed in Action 

10th Battalion 

• Temporary Second Lieutenant Charles Walter Fyfe WOOLNOUGH, attached 69th Company, Machine Gun Corps, aged 20 (Tranchée de Mecknes Cemetery, Aix-Noulette) 

Died 

6th Battalion 

• 17731 Private Reginald Sidney WILDMAN, 22, born and resided Riseley, son of Samuel Wildman of Ringstead Road, Denford [Northamptonshire] (Sainte-Marie Cemetery, le Havre) 

26th March 1916 

Died of Wounds  

1st/5th Battalion 

• 4083 Corporal Sydney Francis WARING, 31, husband of Mary of 26 Elizabeth Street, Luton (Luton General Cemetery, Rothesay Road) 

27th March 1916 

Died  

10th Battalion 

• 25143 Private George Aubrey CHURCH, 17, son of Thomas and Eliza Church of New Street, Irchester [Northamptonshire] (Dovercourt (All Saints) Churchyard) 

29th March 1916 

Killed in Action  

1st Battalion: on patrol near Arras and his body could not be recovered from No man's Land 

• Lieutenant Frederick WHITTEMORE (Arras Memorial) 

30th March 1916 

Killed in Action  

1st Battalion: front line near Arras 

• 15577 Private William GAMBLE born Hemel Hempstead [Hertfordshire] resided Boxmoor [Hertfordshire] (Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras) 

Died  

Bedfordshire Yeomanry  

• 1922 Private Ephraim William MOORING, 20, son of Arthur Harry and Elizabeth Ann Mooring of 21 Regent Street, Dunstable, resided Bedford (Dunstable Cemetery) 

31st March 1916  

Killed in Action  

1st Battalion: relief from front line near Arras 

• 20136 Private Frederick George WILSON, born and resided Little Hallingbury [Essex] (Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras) 

Died of Wounds  

1st Battalion 

• 8198 Corporal Alfred WHEATLEY, born Beeston, resided Langford (Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras) 

Died  

3rd Battalion 

• 27007 Private Horace William LILLYWHITE, 34, born Connington [Huntingdonshire] resided Ramsey [Huntingdonshire] (Felixstowe New Cemetery)