Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History BookR, JOHN HAROLD=, Private, No. 169, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of John Brewer, late Worcester Regt., by his wife, Emily Isabella Margery, dau. of John Harley Bedford, late Superintendant of Post Offices, Bombay Presidency; _b._ Poona, India, 7 June, 1892; educ. Church School, Liskeard, Cornwall, and on leaving there served as an errand boy with Mr. Rapson, the Mayor for three years there; joined the Duke of Cornwall's L.I. in 1908, and two years later emigrated to Australia, where he was employed at the Parkside Tannery, Preston, until the outbreak of the war when he joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force. He was killed in action in Gallipoli, 8 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =John Harold Brewer.=] =BREWER, WILLIAM ARTHUR=, Private, No. 10398, 1st Battn. Wiltshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of George Brewer, of 81, Shamrock Cottage, Chippenham, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of William Neate, of 42, Wood Lane, Chippenham; _b._ Chippenham, co. Wilts, 19 May, 1893, and educ. British School there; an old Territorial he enlisted in the Wilts Regt. 1 Sept. 1914; and was killed in action at Ypres 13 Nov. 1914; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "The officer called for volunteers to rush a road, and he was the first to leave trench, and by so doing was killed with a Maxim gun." Private Brewer was a well-known Wiltshire footballer, and was formerly a captain of Chippenham Town, but in 1913 signed on for Swindon and played one match with the first eleven. [Illustration: =William Arthur Brewer.=] =BREWIN, WILLIAM HENRY FRANK=, Private, No. 1749, 7th Battn, Middlesex Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of William Henry Brewin, of 90, St. Loys Road, Bruce Grove, Tottenham, by his wife, Louisa, dau. of Richard Henry Calvert; _b._ Stoke Newington, 12 May, 1896; educ. Earls Mead School there; joined the Middlesex Territorials about 1911; volunteered for foreign service Aug. 1914; went to France the last week in Feb., and was killed in action there, 13 April, 1915; _unm._ =BREWSTER, HERBERT JOHN=, Ship's Corpl., 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4774), 169829, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRIAN, HERBERT CECIL=, 2nd Lieut. 59th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, eldest _s._ of Hyla Edwin Brian, Military School, Cairo, and of Holmbury, Berkhampstead, by his wife, Annie, dau. of Charles Elliott; _b._ Abbassieh, Cairo, Egypt, 23 Dec. 1891; educ. Berkhampstead School, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted to the 18th Battery 20 Dec. 1912, with which he served in England until June, 1914, when he left to join the 59th Battery in India, and returned the following Dec. to Portsmouth, and went from there to the Front early in March, 1915. He was present and took part in the action of Neuve Chapelle, and was killed in action near Fromelles, while performing the duty of forward observing officer in the trenches, 9 May, 1915. He was _unm._ and was buried in an orchard near where he fell. His commanding officer wrote of him: "He was a splendid officer and absolutely fearless in the execution of his duty." [Illustration: =Herbert Cecil Brian.=] =BRICE, HENRY COPELAND=, Lieut., 4th Battn. Leicestershire Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of Francis Strange Brice, of Middlemeade, Stoughton Drive, Leicester, J.P., by his wife, Margaret Alice, dau. of Thomas Henry Downing; _b._ Leicester, 28 Nov. 1893; educ. Mill Hill School, London; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 10 May, 1913. When war was declared he volunteered for Imperial Service, was gazetted Lieut., 22 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, France, 12 June, 1915, of wounds caused by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade at Dranoutre, Belgium. He was buried at Bailleul. His commanding officer wrote: "I cannot forbear saying how profoundly I regret his death, and how great a loss he is to the battn. He was the Grenade Officer and had charge of the bomb throwers. His work in that position was of a high quality. He was absolutely fearless, and I believe that his men would have followed him anywhere. He was of the type of which leaders are made, and the Army can ill afford to lose such men." [Illustration: =Henry Copeland Brice.=] =BRICKETT, RALPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7013), S.S. 101618, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRICKWOOD, ARTHUR CYRIL=, Lieut., 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., elder _s._ of Sir John Brickwood, of Southsea and Hindhead, by his 2nd wife, Jessie, dau. of the late John Cooper, of Burghfield; _b._ Southsea, 1 Nov. 1896; educ. Twyford, near Winchester, and Charterhouse; entered Sandhurst, Feb. 1914; gazetted to York and Lancaster Regt., 30 Sept. and was engaged on coast defence at Cleadon and South Shields. On 2 Feb. 1915, he took out drafts of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to France, and on arrival was sent to Rouen Hospital suffering from a sharp attack of influenza. On recovery he rejoined, and was in and out of the trenches seven times. He was taken ill in the trenches with septic throat, 11 April, and was sent back to the base hospital at Boulogne, where, after two operations, he died 15 April, 1915; buried at Grayshott. [Illustration: =Arthur Cyril Brickwood.=] =BRIDGELAND, HUBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 11478, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; 5th _s._ of the late John George Bridgeland, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Carpenter, by his wife Eliza (16 Silverlands Road, Silver Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea), dau. of George Dearing, of St. Leonards-on-Sea; _b._ Hastings, 8 Feb. 1897; educ. Tower Road Board School; enlisted the last week in Aug. 1914; went to France 8 April 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 Sept. 1915; _unm._ A comrade wrote: "It was while we were advancing that he met his fate, a shell exploding just in front of him, the shock proving fatal. He was neither hit nor wounded, it was purely the shock." [Illustration: =Hubert Edward Bridgeland.=] =BRIERLY, ALWIN HUARD=, Private, No. 1281, 25th Battn., 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, Marine Painter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by his 2nd wife, Louise Marie, eldest dau. of Louis Huard, of 37, Onslow Square, S.W., and Brussels; _b._ London, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. in London; went to South Africa as a lad in 1895, and after some years there left for New Zealand, and finally settled in Australia about 1907. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and enlisted at Mackay, North Queensland, in Oct. 1914, and after training at Enogerra Camp, Brisbane, from March to Aug. 1915, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements. He died in No. 27 General Hospital at Mudros, 1 Jan. 1916, from uremia, brought on by exposure in the trenches, and was buried in the cemetery there; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alwin Huard Brierly.=] =BRIGGS, CHARLEY=, Private, No. 6479, 1st Battn. West Yorkshire Regt., 1st _s._ of Samuel Briggs, of 1, Ganny Yard, Elland Road, by his wife, Emma; _b._ Brighouse, co. York, 9 Jan. 1 |