Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book20 Nov. 1896; educ. Oldfield Road School, Willesden; enlisted 22 Feb. 1911, and was killed in action at Festubert, 9 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Harry Walter Burns.=] =BURNS, JOHN=, Private, No. 77984, 15th Battn., Canadian Expeditionary Force, 2nd _s._ of the late Robert Burns, of Dublin, by his wife, Lizzie (20, Longford Street, Dublin); _b._ Dublin, 10 April, 1890; educ. there; went to Canada about 1907, and settled in Victoria, British Columbia; volunteered after the outbreak of war; joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Oct. 1914; came over with the second contingent; went to France, and was killed in action at Festubert, 20 May, 1915. Buried first line trenches, north-east of Festubert village, about 500 yards from church. He _m._ at Victoria, B.C., 16 Nov. 1912, May (Box 934 Nelson, British Columbia, Canada), dau. of Thomas Carlisle, and had a son: John Carlisle, _b._ 15 June, 1914. =BURNS, MICHAEL=, Private, No. 5973, 2nd Battn, The Border Regt.; served through the South African War with the 1st Border Regt. (Queen's medal with four clasps and King's medal with two clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915; _unm._ Previous to the outbreak of the European War he was employed at the Ravensworth Colliery, Gateshead. =BURNS, THOMAS=, Private, No. 10646, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Patrick Burns, of 4, Spring Row, Knowle Park, Keighley, Yorkshire; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; reported missing 29 Oct. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action that day. =BURNS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 3321, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.), _s._ of Thomas Burns, of 299, Hilltown, Dundee; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; died in the 13th General Hospital at Boulogne, 28 May, 1915, from wounds received in action. =BURNS, WILLIAM GORDON=, L.-Corpl., No. 9217, 1st Section, 2nd Battn. Durham L.I., _b._ Dumfries, 14 Sept. 1885; educ. there; enlisted after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Ypres, 5 Aug. 1915. He was buried north of Hop Store, just outside Vlamertinghe, on the Poperinghe Road. He _m._ at Wallsend-on-Tyne, Northumberland, Jennie (now training as a Nurse), eldest dau. of John Steele, of Wallsend-on-Tyne; _s.p._ [Illustration: =William G. Burns.=] =BURR, HAROLD=, A.B., J. 2742, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BURRARD, NORMAN SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 14263 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BURRELL, ALEXANDER=, Private, No. 13676, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of John Richard Burrell, of 70, Victoria Street, Shotton Colliery, Durham, Miner, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of William Keen, of Haswell; _b._ Haswell, co. Durham, 2 May, 1894; enlisted at Sunderland, 14 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action near Vermelles, 29 Sept. 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Alexander Burrell.=] =BURRELL, FREDERICK=, A.B., 192688, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BURRELL, JOHN WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 1519, B Coy., 9th Battn. 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of Richard William Burrell, of 46, Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton, N., Confectioner, by his wife, Louisa Matilda, dau. of George Watling; _b._ Islington, 19 Sept. 1895; educ. Chequer Street School, E.C.; went to Australia, and enlisted there in Aug. 1914, after the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli, 28 June, 1915; _unm._ His elder brother was killed in France in Sept. (see following notice). [Illustration: =John William Burrell.=] =BURRELL, RICHARD GEORGE=, Corpl., No. 1197, D Coy., 7th Battn. The London Regt., 47th London Division (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Richard William Burrell, of 46, Croyland Road, Lower Edmonton, N., and elder brother of the preceding; _b._ St. Luke's, E.C., 13 July, 1893; educ. Chequer Street School, E.C.; enlisted in June, 1911, and was killed in action at the Battle of Loos, 25 Sept. 1915. He _m._ at Watford, 16 March, 1915, May, dau. of Henry Knowles, of King's Road, Fairfield Road, Edmonton. [Illustration: =Richard George Burrell.=] =BURRELL, WILLIAM MATTHEW=, of Broome Park, co. Northumberland, and Hampton Court, co. Hereford, Major, Northumberland Hussars Yeomanry, elder _s._ of William John Burrell, by his wife, Helena Elizabeth, 2nd dau. of Major Alexander Browne, of Doxford Hall; _b._ Glen Allen, Alnwick, co. Northumberland, 2 Feb. 1876; educ. Harrow; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 12th Royal Lancers, 15 May, 1897, and promoted Lieut. 1900, and Capt. 22 Nov. 1902; served in South African War, 1899-1902; took part in advance on, and relief of, Kimberley, including action at Maggersfontein; operations in the Orange Free State, Feb. to May, 1900; operations in the Transvaal, May and June, 1900, including actions near Johannesburg and Diamond Hill; operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 Nov. 1900; operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Lindley, Bethlehem and Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, 30 Nov. 1900, to July, 1901; and in Cape Colony, July, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (Queen's medal with four claps and King's medal with two clasps); and retired 15 May, 1907. He then joined the Northumberland Yeomanry Hussars; was Adjutant for three years, and became Major, 7 June, 1913. On the outbreak of war he was _en route_ for France with his regt. when he contracted pneumonia at Southampton, and died of septic pneumonia at a nursing home in Bath, 10 Nov. 1914. He _m._ at Carham, 13 May, 1903, Nancy (Hampton Court, Leominster, Herefordshire), 2nd dau. of the late Charles Perkins, of Carham Hall, Coldstream, N.B., and Birkley Hall, co. Durham, and had four children: Michael, _b._ 8 July, 1909, _d._ 4 Jan. 1910; Charles Dominic (now of Broome Park), _b._ 11 Aug. 1914; Cornelia Mary, _b._ 12 Jan. 1911; and Philippa, _b._ 25 Aug. 1912. [Illustration: =William Matthew Burrell.=] =BURRIDGE, ARTHUR CHARLES=, L.-Corpl., East African King's Mounted Rifles, elder _s._ of the late Arthur Francis Burridge, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Vice-President of that Society, by his wife, Emily (Elmington, Bexley, Kent), dau. of Major-Gen. Charles James Green, R.E., for many years Chief Engineer of Mysore; _b._ Bedford Park, W., 7 Jan. 1883; educ. Rugby 1896-99, winning his house cup for running; entered Huth's Bank 1899, and joined the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps; but in 1910 emigrated to British East Africa, where he took up a large tract of land; became a coffee planter, and started the raising of the Legion of Frontiersmen. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in C Squadron, King's Mounted Rifles, was made L.-Corpl., and took part in the fighting along the British-German frontier during Sept. On 25 Sept. he was one of a small party, 30 in number, of the Rifles who were attacked in the Ingito Hills by |