Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booknter 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. =BEVERIDGE, DAVID ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 54th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 4th _s._ of Erskine Beveridge, LL.D., of St. Leonard's Hill, Dunfermline, and Vallay, North Uist, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Owst, of Wilberfoss, co. York; _b._ Dunfermline, 4 Nov. 1886; educ. St. Ninian's, Moffat; Loretto; and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1908); and when war broke out was studying for the Scottish Bar in Edinburgh. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 10 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 7 July, 1915, and died at St. Andrew's Hospital, Malta, 13 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; buried at Valletta; _unm._ He was a keen Rugby footballer, playing for his schools and college. Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his brother-in-law, Lieut. Alexander B. Innes, 1/7th Gordon Highlanders, and two uncles, Capt. and Adjutant David Inglis, 1/4th Gurkha Rifles, and Lieut. Charles N. D. Inglis, 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, were killed in action. [Illustration: =David A. Beveridge.=] =BEVERIDGE, JOHN=, Private, No. 14555, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 14 Sept. 1915. =BEVERIDGE, ROBERT McAUSLAN=, Private, No. 401, 1st Battn. Black Watch (42nd Royal Highlanders), _s._ of Alexander Beveridge, of Perth, Builder and Valuer (died 4 Jan. 1914); _b._ Cherrybank, Perth, 7 Jan. 1887; educ. Public School there, enlisted 30 Oct. 1905, stationed Fort George 1905-6, and in India 1906-Dec. 1912, being in charge of Regimental Police 1909-12; formed one of their Majesties' Bodyguard on the occasion of the Durbar, 1911, and received the King's medal. On the outbreak of war he was called up 6 Aug. and was badly wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in No. 3 General Hospital, St. Nazaire, 28 Sept. 1914; buried there; _unm._ [Illustration: =Robert McAuslan Beveridge.=] =BEVERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 14024, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regt., 2nd _s._ of Bethel Beverley, of 54, Savile Park Street, Halifax, Professor of Music, by his wife, Sarah Isabel; _b._ Halifax, 4 Dec 1893; educ. Halifax Secondary School; left his work as an electrical engineer and volunteered after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914, and was at first attached to the 3rd Battn. of the West Riding Regt. After seven months' training he went to France with a draft to the 2nd Battn. He was only there three weeks when he died 5 May, 1915, from the effects of gas poisoning at Hill 60, and was buried on the Ypres and Poperingue Road; _unm._ =BEVIS, EDWARD ALBERT FRANK=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26776 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =BEVIS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10259, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 16 March, 1915. =BEYFUS, HAROLD EMANUEL=, Private, No. 225, 5th Battn. (Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., yr. _s._ of Albert Lewis Beyfus, of 3, Park Place Villas, Maida Hill, W., Precious Stone Merchant and Broker, by his wife, Essie, dau. of Benjamin de Frece, of New York, U.S.A.; _b._ Maida Hill, W., 26 April, 1886; educ. Gower St. University School, and Kahn's Institute, Brussels; joined the London Rifle Brigade after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was wounded in the head, in action at Hill 60, 1 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne two days later; _unm._ [Illustration: =Harold Emanuel Beyfus.=] =BEZER, REUBEN=, Private, No. 3387, A. Coy., 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.); a native of Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne; left Blyth for the Front, 20 April, 1915, was in action on 26 April, and was posted as missing the following day. =BIBB, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Armourer, 342183, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BIBBY, JOHN PATRICK=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd _s._ of Col. Alfred Bibby, late 4th Hussars; _b._ 9 Nov. 1892; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Dec. 1913, and promoted tempy. Lieut., 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action there 10 March, 1915; _unm._ =BICKERTON, FREDERICK RICHARD=, Sergt., No. 1110, A Coy. 1st/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Samuel Richard Bickerton, of 58, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N., Builder's Clerk, by his wife, Fanny Cinclar, dau. of John Spiller Standen, late of 60, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N.; _b._ 22 Sept. 1893; educ. Montem Street Elementary and Higher Grade Schools (passed Oxford Local Junior Exam. 1908, with 3rd class honours); was a shipping clerk in the City of London, and joined the 3rd City of London Regt. in 1911. On the outbreak of war he was sent to guard the railway line near Fleet, Hants, and from thence to Malta for four months, reaching France in Jan. 1915. He went through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle where his Coy. were badly cut up, was promoted Sergt. in March, 1915, and was afterwards slightly wounded but recovered and rejoined. He died at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station 18 Aug. |