H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BENTLEY, CLARENCE LESLIE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn Manchester
Regt., yst. _s._ of the late Alderman and Sheriff William
Bentley, of Fulford Grange, York, J.P., Lord Mayor of York (1907), by
his wife, Anne Mary (Fulford Grange, York), dau. of Ewen Cameron, of
Fort William, Inverness; _b._ York, 8 Aug. 1894; educ. Mill Hill
School, N.W., and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received
his commission in the Manchester Regt. 8 Aug. 1914 (his 20th birthday),
and served with the 3rd Battn. on the Humber defences till early in
Sept., when he took out a draft for the 2nd Battn. at the front. He
was killed in action near Festubert, 29 Oct. 1914, and was buried at
La Quinque Rue; _unm._ Lieut. Bentley was a bright and talented
youth, and was keen on sport, having won all his school colours. He
entered Sandhurst as the 195th cadet, and made such good progress that
on leaving after the usual course he passed 55th in the 1st Division,
and also won his blue for hockey. While serving with the Expeditionary
Force he saw a great deal of heavy fighting, and the Captain of his
company, in speaking of him, said how much he felt his loss, as he was
of such an exceptional and outstanding character. His brother, Lieut.
Ronald Cameron Bentley, Green Howards (2nd Battn. Yorkshire Regt.)
joined the Expeditionary Force in 1915, and is still (1916) on active
service. His eldest brother, Capt. W. W. Bentley, returned from Ceylon,
where he held an appointment under Government, early in 1915. He
rejoined the Heavy Artillery, in which he had a commission, and is now
serving with the Expeditionary Force as Capt. and Adjutant.
[Illustration: =Clarence Leslie Bentley.=]
=BENTLEY, FREELAND MARTELL=, Lieut., 3rd Battn. Gordon
Highlanders, _s._ of Capt. Thomas Kellor Bentley, of Port
Greville, Nova Scotia, by his wife, Flora Agusta, dau. of Fraser
Hatfield; _b._ Port Greville, 19 May, 1887; joined the Army on
the outbreak of war, being given a commission as Lieut., 17th Canadian
Infantry (Nova Scotia Regt.), 22 Sept. 1914. He was transferred to
the 3rd Battn. Gordon Highlanders, 2 April, 1915, and was killed in
action near Festubert, 18 June following. His brother, Capt. Lloyd Omen
Bentley, served through the war with the Canadian Field Artillery.
[Illustration: =Freeland Martell Bentley.=]
=BENTLEY, GEOFFREY MALCOLM=, Capt., 1st Battn. Northamptonshire
Regt., 5th _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The
Grove, Hadley, Barnet, Herts., J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith,
dau. of John Rogers; _b._ London, 3 May, 1883; educ. Wellington
College. He joined the Militia, and served in the South African War,
1900–1, took part in the operations in Cape Colony in 1901, and in the
following year was sent for guard duty to St. Helena when the Boer
prisoners were quartered there, receiving the Queen’s medal with two
clasps. On 28 Jan. 1903 he was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 2nd Battn.
Northamptonshire Regt., served in India, and was promoted Lieut. 3 Dec.
1904, and Capt. 7 May, 1910, when he joined the 1st Battn. at Aden. He
was afterwards stationed at Devonport and Blackdown. On the outbreak
of the European War he went to the front with the Expeditionary
Force, and was shot through the head by a sniper in leaving a trench
immediately after the Battle of Pilkem, 24 Oct. 1914. He died at Ypres
29 Oct. following without recovering consciousness, and was buried in
the cemetery there. Capt. Bentley was mentioned in Sir John French’s
Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915 “for gallant and distinguished service in the
field.” He _m._ at Bangor, co. Down, 21 Oct. 1908, Edith Marie,
only surviving dau. of William Henry Gallway, of Sheila Von, Bangor,
and left a dau., Maureen Sheila, _b._ 29 Aug. 1911.
=BENTLEY, GERALD WILSON=, Major, 4th Battn. The Duke of
Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., 3rd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred
Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, J.P., by his
wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; _b._ at 16, Addison
Road, Kensington, 1 Aug. 1879; educ. Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut.
Middlesex Regt. from the Militia, 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 14
March, 1900, Capt. 12 Oct. 1901, and Major, 8 Oct. 1914. He served
in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the relief of
Ladysmith, including the operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action
at Spion Kop, in which he was severely wounded, his rifle, struck by
a shell, being broken and causing serious injuries to his head. He
recovered and was present at the operations on the Tugela Heights (26
to 27 Feb. 1900), and the action at Pieters Hill, and was awarded the
Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He
became Superintendent of Gymnasia in the Northern Command, 23 April,
1912, and held this appointment till the outbreak of war, when he
rejoined his regt. He was killed in action at Croix Barbée, 13 Oct.
1914. A noted boxer in the Service, he was in 1910 the heavyweight
champion of the Army and Navy. A man of grand physique, those who
fought with him in the ring knew of the power of that right punch of
his; he was content to submit to punishment while waiting for the
chance to score with it.
=BENTLEY, KENNETH HADDON=, Private, No. 3047, 14th Battn. (London
Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of A. Bentley, of
Lauriston, Leicester Road, New Barnet; volunteered after the outbreak
of war, and joined the London Scottish, 2 Sept 1914; served with the
Expeditionary Force in France, etc. and was killed in action, 12 June,
1915.
=BENTZON, SYDNEY MALCOLM=, Private, No. 411, 15th Battn.
Australian Imperial Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles,
25 April, 1915; killed in action there the following day.
=BENYON, GODFREY BERKELEY JOHN=, Lieut. Commander, R.N., yr.
_s._ of Augustus William Benyon, of Ashe, Windsor, by his wife,
Mary Beatrice, dau. of the late William Chambers, of Hafod, co.
Cardigan, J.P., D.L.; _b._ 10 Sept. 1883; educ. Temple Grove,
East Sheen, Surrey; joined the old Britannia as a naval cadet in May,
1898, became Sub-Lieut. 1903, Lieut. 1905, and Lieut.-Commander June,
1913. He saw foreign service in China and the Cape, and was also with
Admiral Fisher in H.M.S. Renown. Being a first-class draughtsman, he
specialised in the Navigating Department; was assistant surveyor in
H.M.S. Mutine in Bermuda. After the outbreak of war, he was appointed
to H.M.S. Good Hope on 17 Aug., and was lost when that ship went down
with Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and his gallant crew in the
action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A memorial window was
erected to his memory in All Saints’ Church, Windsor. He _m._ at
Marylebone Church, 1 Nov 1911, Beatrice Lindley, dau. of the late Henry
Lindley White, and had issue a son and dau., John Lindley, _b._
23 Dec. 1912, and Elizabeth Hope, _b._ at Bermuda on Christmas
Day, 25 Dec. 1914, and christened on board the s.s. Transylvania in
mid-Atlantic.
[Illustration: =Godfrey B. J. Benyon.=]
=BÉRARD, CHARLES DELPHIS=, Private, No. 23628, Cyclists Corps,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Louis Amedée Bérard, of St.
Mathias de Rouville, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Délia, dau. of
Joachim Létourneau; _b._ St. Mathias, Rouville co., 9 July, 1892;
joined the 85th Montreal Regt. in Aug. 1914; left Quebec with the first
Canadian contingent, 30 Sept., and was accidentally killed in England,
2 Dec. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Charles Delphis Bérard.=]
=PACK-BERESFORD, CHARLES GEORGE=, Major, 1st Battn. Queen’s Own
Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd _s._ of Denis William Pack-Beresford.
J.P., D.L., of Fenagh House, Bagnalstown, co. Carlow, by his wife,
Annette Caroline, only dau. of Robert Clayton Browne, of Browne’s
Hill, co. Carlow; _b._ London, 21 Nov. 1869; educ. Wellington
College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. the Queen’s Own, 20 Nov.
1889, became Lieut. 1 Feb. 1893, Capt. 18 Dec. 1899, and Major 21
March, 1908, being Adjutant 1897–1900, an instructor at the R.M.C.,
Sandhurst, 1903–6, and Major in command of 3rd Battn., Regimental
Depôt, Maidstone, 1911–14; served with the Malakand and Buner field
force on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the action
at Landakai, the operations in the Mamund country and Buner, also
during the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass (medal with clasps);
in the South African War, 1899–1901, including the operations in the
Orange Free State, Sept. 1900–July, 1901, and in Cape Colony in Aug.
1901, Sept. to Dec. 1901 (Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901];]
Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in
France; killed in action at Wasimes, near Mons, 24 Aug 1914; _unm._
[Illustration: =C. G. Pack-Beresford.=]
=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11113, Royal Scots (Lothian
Regt.); served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in
action at Voorstraat, 17 Feb. 1915.
=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11787, 2nd Battn. Highland
Light Infantry; killed in action, 17 May, 1915.
=BERKELEY, MAURICE KENNETH FITZ-HARDINGE=, Bombardier, 5th
Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, 1st Canadian
Contingent, only _s._ of Maurice Julian Berkeley, Senior Puisne
Judge of the Supreme Court, British Guiana, by his wife, Mary Bruce,
dau. of Alleyne Pilgrim Murray; _b._ Barbados, West Indies, 10
Dec. 1893; educ. Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College,
Cambridge, and on leaving the latter joined the Merchant’s Bank of
Canada at Montreal. On the outbreak of war he volunteered as a Gunner,
came over with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded in
action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne on 1
May; _unm._
[Illustration: =M. K. F. Berkeley.=]
=BERLEIN, CHARLES MAURICE=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Oxford
and Buckingham L.I., eldest _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak,
Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Kimberley, South Africa, 4
May, 1888; educ. Charterhouse and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1910); was
engaged in chemical research, and was in charge of a laboratory, but
on the outbreak of war received a commission as temporary Lieut. in
the Oxford and Buckingham L.I., 22 Aug. 1914, and fell in action near
Hoogh, 16 June, 1915, leading his men through a heavy shrapnel fire, a
few paces from the enemy’s trenches; _unm._
=BERLEIN, LESLIE HERMAN=, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal
Berkshire Regt., yst. _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak,
Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Johannesburg, 30 June,
1893; educ. Charterhouse, Berkhamsted School and Magdalene College,
Cambridge, was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, but following the outbreak
of war, was gazetted temporary Lieut. in the Berkshires, 19 Sept.
1914. His battn. was selected to lead the attack near Hulluch on 25
Sept. 1915. In the assault his company was leading, and Lieut. Berlein
was the first out of the trenches. He was killed on the front of the
enemy’s trenches, leading his platoon; _unm._
=BERNARD, ROBERT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers,
2nd _s._ of the Most Rev. John Henry Bernard. D.D., D.C.L.,
Lord Archbishop of Dublin, by his wife, Maud, 2nd dau. of the late
Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., Dep. Inspector-General of Hospitals and
Fleets; _b._ Dublin, 20 Dec. 1891; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas,
Marlborough College (where he was in the O.T.C.) and Sandhurst;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. Dublin Fusiliers, 13 March, 1912, and promoted
Lieut. 12 Nov. 1913. He served in the 2nd Battn. at Gravesend, April to
Aug. 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, serving with them
at Ahmednagar and Madras to Nov. 1914, when the regt. returned home,
afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles. Lieut. Bernard landed in one
of the open boats on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, when many officers were
killed and wounded. His Captain was wounded in the landing, so that he
was left in command of his company for twenty-four hours, when they
lay out under slight cover on “V.” beach. The next morning the Dublins
and the Munsters were ordered to storm the village of Sedd-el-Bahr,
which they successfully accomplished. Lieut. Bernard was killed when
gallantly leading his men in a bayonet charge. Lieuts. Bernard and
Andrews were together with about twenty men of the X and Y companies,
and they took cover behind a wall five and a half feet high. They were
being fired at from a house in the village. Andrews stood in a gap
made by a shell and was directing the fire when he was killed. Lieut.
Bernard then called on the others to follow him, and saying “Come on,
boys,” he dashed through the gap, when he was shot dead by a Turkish
rifleman. He and his brother officers were buried close to the beach in
a large rectangular grave.
[Illustration: =Robert Bernard.=]
=BERNHARDT, MARTIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8682), S.S. 1933, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BERRIDGE, HARRY=, Private, No. G. 1712, 3rd Battn. Middlesex
Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in
action, 2 May, 1915.
=BERRIDGE, JOHN FREDERICK HARRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12245,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=BERRY, ALFRED=, Private, No. 10405, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey
Regt., _s._ of Ephraim Berry, of Clayton’s Farm, Mayfield, Sussex;
served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; _d._ 1 Nov.
1914, of wounds received in action.
=BERRY, ALFRED EDWARD=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. The Royal
Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France,
etc.; _d._ 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action.
=BERRY, ALFRED ROBERT=, Private, No. 1819, H. Coy, 4th Battn.
Suffolk Regt., only child of Alfred Berry, of Leiston, co. Suffolk, by
his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Cole Feree; _b._ Leiston, 30
Dec. 1896, joined the Army, 26 Jan. 1914, and was killed in action at
Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, being shot through the body and head.
His commanding officer spoke most highly of his conduct.
[Illustration: =Alfred Robert Berry.=]
=BERRY, EDWARD ALFRED=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots,
_s._ of Ernest Albert Berry, of 37, Euston Street, Euston Square,
London, N.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Groves; _b._
Marylebone, 26 July, 1887; educ. Lancing Street School, Somers Town;
enlisted in the 1st Battn., 23 Aug. 1906, was transferred to the
2nd Battn., and was killed in action, 3 June, 1915; _unm._ The
Chaplain wrote that he “was brought into our Field Ambulance (No. 9)
last night severely wounded in the head. He died this morning without
having become conscious, and I have buried him with the Church Service
in the graveyard outside the Asylum here at Ypres, and have marked his
grave with a cross inscribed with his name, etc.”
=BERRY, IRA SIDNEY=, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 94), H.M.S.
Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1
Nov. 1914.
=BERRY, THOMAS=, Gunner, No. 7455, Royal Field Artillery, 4th
_s._ of James Donkin Berry, of Sunderland, Plater’s Helper,
by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Pratt, of Portsmouth; _b._
Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 1 Jan. 1892; educ. Southwick Board
School; was employed at Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 8 March,
1915, and died on active service at Tedworth Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915,
of septic peritonitis; _unm._
[Illustration: =Thomas Berry.=]
=BERRY, THOMAS SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7823), S.S.
103290, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BERRYMAN, JAMES=, P.O. (N.S.), 189999, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in
the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BERRYMAN, SYDNEY=, Private, No. G. 933, 7th (Service) Battn.
Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Philip Berryman, of Sunnymount Lodge,
Haywards Heath, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France,
etc.; killed in action, 28 Aug. 1915.
=BERTIE, NINIAN MARK KERR=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Royal
Rifle Corps (60th Regt.), 4th and yst. _s._ of Rev. the Hon.
Alberic Edward Bertie, M.A., Rector of Gedling, Notts, by his wife,
Lady Caroline Elizabeth, née McDonnell, eldest dau. of Mark, 5th Earl
of Antrim, and grandson of Montagu, 6th Earl of Abingdon; _b._
Rutland Gate, London, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Evelyns and Winchester, and
on the outbreak of war was admitted to the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst, from which he was posted to the 60th Rifles, 23 Dec. 1914.
He was attached to the 6th Reserve Regt. till March, when he joined
the 4th Battn. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near
Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and was buried there. The commanding officer wrote:
“I will not say more now than that I sympathise with you (and with
my regiment) over the loss of one of the finest and most fearlessly
capable lads I ever met. He was quite exceptional.”
[Illustration: =Ninian Mark K. Bertie.=]
=BERTRAM, PHILLIP=, Stoker, 1st Class, 363940, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=BEST, HERBERT=, Acting Leading Stoker, 309591, H.M.S. Cressy;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BETTIS, ALBERT=, Private R.M.L.I., Ch. 14607, H.M.S. Hogue; lost
in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BETTS, GORDON W. G.=, Private, 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of the late L.-Corpl.
Thomas Henry Betts (who _d._ on active service, 20 June, 1915,
see his notice), by his wife, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur
Street West, Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage; _b._ 16 April,
1899; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined his
father’s regt., and was accidentally shot, 27 Aug. 1914, while on guard
duty at Soulanges Canal, the first Canadian to lose his life on active
service in the European War.
[Illustration: =Gordon W. G. Betts.=]
=BETTS, JOHN WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt.;
_b._ Ketteringham, Norfolk, 4 Aug. 1887; and educ. there. He
joined the Norfolk Regt. in Sept. 1905, and was posted to the 2nd
Battn.; served in South Africa, Gibraltar and India. He obtained his
discharge to the Reserve in Oct. 1912, and on returning to England
joined the Lincolnshire County Constabulary, and was stationed at
Ouston Ferry. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the 1st Battn. and
proceeded to Ireland. He was promoted to Sergt., and went to the Front
with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the retreat from Mons,
etc. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch
of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was afterwards
promoted on the field for gallantry and obtained his commission, being
gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Regt. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in
action at L’Epinette, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while leading a charge.
He _m._ at Birmingham, 6 Dec. 1913, Emma Elizabeth (53, Manchester
Street, New Cleethorpe, Grimsby), dau. of (--) Read, of Ketteringham,
and had issue a dau., Irene Elsie Maud, _b._ 17 Nov. 1914.
=BETTS, THOMAS HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 894, Canadian Army Service
Corps, _s._ of Joseph Betts; _b._ Montreal, 26 Nov. 1870;
educ. St. Anne’s School there; served for over 20 years with the 5th
Royal Highlanders of Montreal, and on the death on service of his son,
Private G. W. G. Betts, decided to volunteer for Imperial service, and
joined the Canadian A.S.C. in April, 1915. He left for England 13 May
following, and _d._ in Newingreen Camp, England, 20 June, 1915,
of haemorrhage of the heart. He _m._ at St. Patrick’s Church,
Montreal, 23 Aug. 1897, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West,
Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage, and had three children: Gordon W. J.,
_b._ 16 April, 1899, killed on service (see his notice); Helena E.
J. and Armitage H. A., _b._ 10 Oct. 1904.
[Illustration: =Thomas Henry Betts.=]
=BEVAN, ERNEST VICTOR=, Private, No. 744, 6th Battn. Australian
Imperial Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of
Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston
Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co.
Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1891; went to Australia in 1914 to take up farming,
and volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth
Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force
in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, April, 1915, and was killed in
action there, 8 May, 1915, being bayoneted in a Turkish attack on the
trenches at Anzac; _unm._
=BEVAN, GORDON FREDERICK=, Private, No. 16861, 7th Battn. Canadian
Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of
Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston
Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co.
Middlesex, 3 Aug. 1888; educ. Croydon High School; went to Canada in
Sept. 1907; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian
Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent;
went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 16 March,
1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._
=BEVAN, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4894), S.S. 104327,
H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of
Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BEVAN, REGINALD JAMES=, Private, No. 1881, 26th Battn. 7th
Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of
James Bevan, of Henalt Hay Road, Builth Wells, Brecon, a Carpenter on
Lord Glanusk’s estate, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Thomas Wasley, of
Bishop Cleeve, near Cheltenham; _b._ Builth Wells, 9 Sept. 1894;
educ. Builth Wells School; at the age of 16 worked his passage out to
Australia on s.s. Gothic; was employed at the Bull and Mouth Hotel in
Melbourne, afterwards as a waiter in Sidney. On the outbreak of war
he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the
3rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action near Sari Bair, Anzac,
Gallipoli, 24 Oct. 1915; _unm._ Buried in cemetery attached to 7th
Field Ambulance, A Section.
=BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT=, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The
London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, _s._ of Richard Bevan,
of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc.,
Alderman of Hammersmith; _b._ Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893;
educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where
he gained the Huxley scholarship; was in the St. Paul’s O.T. Corps, and
joined the London Rifle Brigade, 1911. At the time he was called up
with his regt., he was a medical student and Huxley Scholar at Charing
Cross Hospital Medical School, and was an undergraduate of the London
University. He was shot, while in “Plugstreet” Wood with his section,
10 Dec. 1914, and died two days later at Bailleul Clearing Hospital
from his wounds; buried in Bailleul Cemetery; _unm._ Bevan was
in the Gymnasium eight at St. Paul’s and reserve man at the Aldershot
Public School Competition. He played Rugby for the Old Pauline A team
and for the Charing Cross Hospital Rugby team.
[Illustration: =Richard Vincent Bevan.=]
=BEVERIDGE, DAVID=, Private, No. 17241, 10th (Service) Battn.
Highland Light Infantry, _s._ of M. Beveridge of 216, Mathieson
Street, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.;
killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.