First World War Roll of Honour

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1 The following members of Bedford Modern School lost their lives during the Great War. They are commemorated on the School s War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 in the Memorial Hall of the School s Harpur Street building, and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December A second memorial plaque was added at a later date to include additional names missing from the original memorial. When the School moved to new premises in Manton Lane in 1974 the memorial tablets were removed and now hang on the wall in Memorial Court. The Roll of Honour has been compiled using sources in the School s Archives and the records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, including details of where individuals are buried or commemorated and date and area of death (in italics), where known. In memory of the Old Boys of this School who, as in duty bound, laid down their lives in a great cause : Abigail, Edward Arnold (BMS, ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Marine Artillery (17 Mar. 1916, Belgium) Adams, Ralph Stuart ( ), Able Seaman, Royal Navy (18 Mar. 1915, Dardanelles) Agassiz, Harold Romilly G. ( ), Pte, Canadian Infantry (26 Sep. 1916, Somme) Allen, Stephen Dexter ( ), 2nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (27 Aug. 1918, Pas de Calais) Andrews, Horace G. ( ), Capt, Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment (7 Jun. 1917, Ypres) Apthorpe, Harold Wakeley ( ), Cpl, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1 Jul. 1916, Somme) Armstrong, George Pierce ( ), Lt, Sikh Pioneers (2 Jul. 1915, France Nord) Ball, Ernest William ( ), Pte, Lincolnshire Regiment (12 Jun. 1918, Berlin) Barcock, Harry William ( ), Pte, Training Reserve (6 Apr. 1917, Kent) Bennett, James Hampton, M.C. ( ), 2 nd Lt, R.Munster Fusiliers (22 Sep. 1916, Somme) Blackwell, Cyril ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Fusiliers (20 Jul. 1915, Somme) Boon, John Charles ( ), Pte, Machine Gun Corps (16 Nov. 1916, Somme) Adinkerke Churchyard Extension Chatham Naval Memorial Courcelette British Cemetery Vis-en-Artois Memorial Bedford House Cemetery Estaires Communal Cemetery Berlin South-western Cemetery Dover (St. James) Cemetery Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery

2 Bowick, Charles Graham ( ), Civilian, YMCA (3 May 1918, France) Bourne, Ralph ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Field Artillery (10 Sep. 1917, Ypres) Brickdale, John Bancel ( ), Pte, Auckland Regiment, NZ Infantry (4 Oct. 1917, Ypres) Brookes, Henry Richard ( , Lt, Indian Grenadiers (4 Nov. 1914, Tanzania) Brookes-Ball, Julian ( ), Sgt, Australian Infantry (29 Jul. 1916, Somme) Bull, Basil Walker ( ), Pte, Canadian Labour Corps (1 Aug. 1917, Ypres) Buxton, Richard Percy ( ), Capt, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry (15 Jun. 1918, Asiago, Italy) Campion, Walter Ernest ( ), Maj, East Yorkshire Regiment (28 Oct. 1914, France - Nord) Chapman, Albert Douglas Melvin ( ), LCpl, London Regiment (23 Dec. 1917) Chase, Archibald Alderman, D.S.O. ( ), Major, Royal Engineers - Died 11 Mar Christie, Wilfrid Sydney ( ), Asst Motor Engineer, Mercantile Marine Reserve (26 Nov. 1918) Clare, Alfred Frederick ( ), LCpl, Royal Fusiliers (14 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Copinger, John Patrick ( ), 2 nd Lt, Ox& Bucks Light Infantry (10 Sep. 1917, Ypres) Crane, H.E (Modern Languages, ), Pte, Royal Fusiliers (27 Oct. 1916, Lincoln) Daking, Ernest Albert ( ), Rifleman, London Regiment (14 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Dann, Tom Vincent, ( ), 2 nd Lt, South Staffs Regiment (13 Oct. 1915, Pas de Calais) Darrington, Sydney Samuel ( ), Pte, Sherwood Foresters (18 Aug. 1918, France) Deacon, William Archie ( ), Pte, Royal Army Medical Corps (26 Sep. 1917, Ypres) Denham, William Malcolm ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Air Force (3 Jan. 1918, Bedfordshire) Dick, Norman Brabazon ( ), 2 nd Lt, Middlesex Regiment (28 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Dickins, Arthur Herbert ( ), Sgt, Canadian Infantry (24 May 1915, Pas de Calais) Dinsley, Francis Hugill ( ), 2 nd Lt, Coldstream Guards (8 Mar. 1919, Bedfordshire) Lapugnoy Military Cemetery Coxyde Military Cemetery Tyne Cot Memorial Tanga Memorial Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery Bleuet Farm Cemetery Boscon British Cemetery Ration Farm Military Cemetery Jerusalem War Cemetery Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension Bedford Cemetery Bois-Carre British Cemetery New Irish Farm Cemetery Lincoln (Newport) Cemetery Bootham Cemetery Loos Memorial Mont Huon Cemetery Ypres Reservoir Cemetery Bedford Cemetery Vimy Memorial Harrold (St Peter and All Saints)

3 Dix Stephen Hamilton, MC ( ), Lt Col, Leinster Fusiliers (4 Oct. 1917, Ypres) Dover, John Percy Newton ( ), Pte, Royal Bucks Hussars (10 Nov. 1917, Israel & Palestine) Drake, Robert John ( ), LCpl, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (26 Oct. 1917, Ypres) Drummond, Eric Grey ( ), Maj, 4 th Guerka Rifles, Indian Army (14 Nov. 1914, Pas de Calais) Edwards, Arthur David James ( ), LCpl, East Surrey Regiment (18 Sep. 1918, Somme) Ekins, Albert Walter ( ), Air Mechanic 2 nd Class, Royal Flying Corps (6 May 1917, France, N) Eustace, William Williamson ( ), Trooper, Australian Light Horse (7 Aug. 1915, Gallipoli) Everitt, Harold Richard ( ), LCpl, Canadian Infantry (22 Apr. 1916, Pas de Calais) Evans, William Prince ( ), Cpl, Bedfordshire Regiment (11 Feb. 1917, Somme) Farrar, Sir George Herbert, D.S.O. ( ), Col, Active Citizens Force (20 May, 1915, S. Africa) Felts, Percival Claude ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Flying Corps (23 Jul. 1917, Belgium) Freear, Eric Charles ( ), 2 nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (15 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Goldsmith, Hubert Excel ( ), Pte, Bedfordshire Regiment (12 Oct. 1918) Grant, Charles Alfred Richard ( ), Pte, Royal Army Service Corps (28 Nov. 1918, France) Grantham, George Henry ( ), LCpl, London Regiment (15 Sep. 1916, Somme) Gray, George Henry ( ), Rifleman, King s Royal Rifles (29 Jan. 1915, Pas de Calais) Greaves, Thomas ( ), Capt, Sherwood Foresters (1 Jul. 1918, Pas de Calais) Hammond, Lionel G. ( ), Pte, London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) (30 Oct. 1917, Ypres) Harper, Harold S. ( ), LCpl, London Regiment (1 Jul. 1916, Somme) Harrison, Tom Massicott ( ), Lt, Northumberland Fusiliers (3 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Hart, Sidney Arthur ( ), Rifleman, London Regiment (10 Sept. 1918, Pas de Calais) Harvey-Kelly, Hubert Dunstervill, D.S.O. ( ), Maj, Royal Flying Corps (29 Apr. 1917, France) Tyne Cot Cemetery Beersheba War Cemetery Tyne Cot Memorial Bethune Town Cemetery Ste. Emilie Valley Cemetery Douai British Cemetery Lone Pine Memorial Étaples Military Cemetery Bedford Farm Cemetery Lijsenthoek Military Cemetery Bailleul Road East Cemetery Gosforth (St Nicholas) Churchyard Auberchicourt British Cemetery Le Touret Memorial Pernes British Cemetery Tyne Cot Memorial Étaples Military Cemetery Terlincthun British Cemetery Brown's Copse Cemetery

4 Hatt, Arthur Beach, M.C. ( ), Capt, Somerset Light Infantry (1 July 1916, Somme) Hawkes, Frederick James ( ), Pte, South African Infantry (24 Mar. 1918, Somme) Haynes, Albert Edward ( ), LCpl, London Regiment (6 Sep. 1916, Somme) Holding, Leonard de Wilde ( ), LCpl, Royal Engineers (18 July 1917, France Nord) Hopkins, Lionel Raymond ( ), Pte, Middlesex Regiment (27 Apr. 1916, India) Horton, Paul Frederick ( ), Pte, Royal Scots (28 Sept. 1917, Ypres) Howard, Cedric Stewart ( ), 2 nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (28 Sept. 1916, Somme) Howe, Claude Arthur ( ), Capt, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (30 Nov. 1917, France - Nord) Humphrey, Ernest Graham ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Flying Corps (29 Mar. 1918, Somme) Ingram, Arthur Charles ( ), Capt, Bedfordshire Regiment (26 Mar. 1918, Pas de Calais) James, Arthur Leslie ( ), Pte, 1 st Norfolk Regiment (29 Sept. 1918, France Nord) John, Lenox William McClure ( ), 2 nd Lt, Lincolnshire Regiment (24 Sep. 1916, Somme) Johnston, Alfred Roy ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Flying Corps (24 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Kemp, Frederick Sydney Albert ( ), Sapper, Royal Engineers (18 Dec. 1918, Italy) Kenealy, Michael ( ), Sgt, London Regiment (23 Feb. 1918, Uganda) Kerr, Henry ( ), Pte, Royal Scots (28 Jun. 1915, Turkey) King, Oliver Charles ( ), LCpl, Northamptonshire Regiment (25 Sep. 1915, Pas de Calais) Knox, Andrew Ronald ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Engineers (12 Dec. 1915, Somme) Knox, James Meldrum, D.S.O. and Bar ( ), Lt Col, Royal Warwicks Regiment (23 Sep. 1918) Lake, Osmond ( ), Pte, Honourable Artillery Company (9 Nov. 1917, Ypres) Laughton, Joseph Thornton ( ), 2 nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (29 Sep. 1918, France) Lees, Thomas Prior ( ), Maj, London Regiment (Q. Victoria s Rifles) (21 Apr. 1915, Ypres) Gordon Dump Cemetery Hem Farm Military Cemetery Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery Kala Khan Cemetery Mendinghem Military Cemetery Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval Cambrai Memorial Doullens Communal Cemetery Arras Flying Services Memorial Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery Heilly Station Cemetery Arras Flying Services Memorial Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension Kampala (Nakawa Road) Cemetery Helles Memorial Loos Memorial Albert Communal Cemetery Extension Granezza British Cemetery Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery St Sever Cemetery Extension

5 Legge, Hubert Charles ( ), Sapper, Royal Engineers (1 Dec. 1917, Belgium) Linnell, Robert McGheyne ( ), Capt, Royal Army Medical Corps (17 Mar. 1915) Lutyens, Charles Graeme ( ), Capt, East Lancashire Regiment (9 Aug. 1915, Turkey) Manton, Henry Hector ( ), Sgt, Army Veterinary Corps (12 Jan. 1917, Somme) Marshall, Augustus De La Pere ( ), 2 nd Lt, East Lancs Regiment (22 May 1915, Belgium) Marshall, John Hamilton ( ), 2 nd Lt, East Lancashire Regiment (23 Oct. 1916, Somme) Martin, Guy Stanislaus ( ), Cpl, Royal Engineers (25 Aug. 1918, Pas de Calais) McPherson, D.W ( ), Maj, 62 nd Punjabis, Indian Army (16 Nov. 1916, Egypt) McWha, A.J ( ), Lt, Royal Flying Corps (5 Jan. 1917) Miles, Robert Patrick ( ), Capt, King s Shropshire Light Infantry (30 Dec. 1914, France N) Mobbs, Edgar Robert, D.S.O. ( ), Lt Col, Northamptonshire Regiment (31 Jul. 1917, Ypres) Monypenny, P.B.S.G, M.C. ( ), Lt, Royal West Kent Regiment (26 Aug. 1918, France - Nord) Mouat-Biggs, John Alborough ( ), Capt, Royal Irish Regiment (22 Mar. 1918, France - Nord) Muller, Charles William Albert ( ), 2 nd Lt, Worcestershire Regiment (5 Oct. 1916, France) North, Neville Mariott, M.C. ( ), Capt, Northumberland Fusiliers (27 May 1918, France) Odell, Percy John, M.M. ( ), Pte, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (9 Oct. 1916, Pas de Calais) Oliver, Egbert Conrad ( ), Lt, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (5 Feb. 1917, Pas de Calais) Owen, Thomas ( ), Pte, Royal Sussex Regiment (30 May 1915) Parr, Denis Fillingham ( ), 2 nd Lt, Sherwood Foresters (7 Jul. 1916, Somme) Parr, Edgar Bryan ( ), 2 nd Lt, South Lancashire Regiment (21 Oct. 1916, Somme) Parsons, Edward Osmond ( ), Petty Officer Motor Mechanic, R.N.A.S. (10 Oct. 1915, Malta) Paul, Edgar Newton ( ), Capt, King s Royal Rifle Corps (28 Dec. 1917, Belgium) Bleuet Farm Cemetery Bedford Cemetery, Beds NZ No. 2 Outpost Cemetery, Turkey Heilly Station Cemetery Ploegsteert Memorial Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension Suez War Memorial Cemetery Shorncliffe Military Cemetery Estaires Communal Cemetery Thiennes British Cemetery Honnechy British Cemetery Vermelles British Cemetery Soissons Memorial Bancourt British Cemetery Queens Cemetery Bedford Cemetery, Beds Dartmoor Cemetery Pieta Military Cemetery Tyne Cot Memorial

6 Paul, Herbert James ( ), 2 nd Lt, King s Royal Rifle Corps (20 Nov. 1917, France - Nord) Pentelow, Frank ( ), Pte, Northamptonshire Yeomanry (5 Feb. 1915, Pas de Calais) Pettit, William Henry ( ), Pte, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (28 Apr. 1916, Bucks) Philbrick, Bertie Raymond ( ), Capt, Canadian Infantry (9 Sept. 1916, Belgium) Philbrick, E.H ( ), Lt, Royal Field Artillery (6 Nov. 1918, Essex) Phillpot, Francis Edward ( ), Pte, East Surrey Regiment (9 May 1915, France) Cambrai Memorial Vieille-Chapelle New Military Cemetery Sherington (St.Laud) Churchyard Ridge Wood Military Cemetery South Shoebury (St.Andrew) Church Phipps, George Alfred ( ), Lt, Royal Sussex Regiment Pollard, Alfred Gordon ( ), 2 nd Lt, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (16 May 1917, France) Pollard, G.H. ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Flying Corps (7 Jun. 1917, Belgium) Ponting, Daniel ( ), Air Mechanic, 2 nd Class, Royal Flying Corps (1 Jun. 1917, Iraq) Prentice, Howard ( ), Pte, Middlesex Regiment (30 Nov. 1917, France - Nord) Proctor, Claud Ambrose ( ), Pte, Canadian Infantry (10 Aug. 1917, Ypres) Ricketts, James Vincent ( ), (Lionel James?) Pte, Canadian Infantry (22 Jun 1918, Pas de Calais) Roberts, Algernon Bruce ( ), Pte, Grenadier Guards (25 Sep. 1916, Somme) Robinson, James Allan ( ), Pte, Northumberland Fusiliers (11 Apr. 1918, Belgium) Robson, Edgar ( ), Capt, South Lancashire Regiment (3 Dec. 1917, France - Nord) Rolfe, William Lionel Steward ( ), LCpl, Royal Fusiliers (9 Sep. 1918, France) Rose, Algernon Winter, MC ( ), Capt, Royal Air Force and Essex Yeomanry (29 Oct. 1918) Rosher, John Henry ( ), LCpl, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (20 Mar. 1915) Saunders, Reginald Arthur, MC ( ), Capt, Royal Field Artillery (14 Mar. 1916, Belgium) Sedgwick, Arthur Edward ( ), Lt, London Regiment (10 Sep. 1916, Somme) Sedgwick, Harold ( ), Pte, Northamptonshire Regiment (27 Sep. 1915, Pas de Calais) Brown's Copse Cemetery Harlebeke New British Cemetery Basra Memorial Cambrai Memorial Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension Bellacourt Military Cemetery Ploegsteert Memorial Bailleul Communal Cemetery St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Quendon Churchyard Voormezeele Enclosure No.3 La Clytte Military Cemetery La Neuville British Cemetery Loos Memorial

7 Setchell, Alfred Knight ( ), 2 nd Lt, Norfolk Regiment (21 Mar. 1918, Pas de Calais) Shelton, Kenneth ( ), Capt, The Buffs, East Kent Regt (14 Feb. 1918, Somme) Shouler, Edward James Battams ( ), Lt, Royal Navy (29 Jan. 1916, HMS Viking) Sims, Harry Ernest ( ), Pte, Royal Army Medical Corps (25 Sep. 1914, France) *Smith, Frederick John ( ), 2 nd Lt, London Regiment (2 Oct. 1916, Somme) *Smith, Frank Wareing ( ), Sapper, Royal Engineers (31 Jan. 1915, Pas de Calais) Smith, George Lander ( ), Lt, Canadian Infantry (29 May 1916, Pas de Calais) Spiller, William John ( ), Pte, Royal Fusiliers (14 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Stafford, Claude Charles ( ), Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (13 Oct. 1914, Pas de Calais) Steele, Robert H. L. ( ), Sgt, Middlesex Regiment (29 Mar. 1918, Pas de Calais) Stewart, Gerald ( ), Capt, Seaforth Highlanders (9 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Stewart, W[eston?] ( ), Capt, Seaforth Highlanders (27 Mar. 1918, Pas de Calais) Stimson, Frank Molyneux ( ), Pte, King's Own Yorkshire LI (23 Oct. 1918, France - Nord) Stoddart, Frederick William ( ), Capt, Wiltshire Regiment (27 Oct. 1914, Pas de Calais) Chevalier of the Legion of Honour Swaffield, Hugh ( ), Pte, East Kent Regiment (22 Nov. 1916, Pas de Calais) Symonds, Bertram Oliver ( ), 2 nd Lt, Machine Gun Corps (21 Aug. 1918, Belgium) Taylor, Albert Alexander ( ), Pte, Bedfordshire Yeomanry (12 Feb. 1916, Pas de Calais) Taylor, Gordon Annesley ( ), Capt, Leinster Regiment (14 Feb. 1915, Ypres) Taylor, Lancelot Fredrick (1887), Master, Royal Naval Reserve (14 Dec. 1916, at sea) Thompson, Frederic George ( , 2 nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (11 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Thompson, Philip Aloysius Xavier Murray (1903-5), 2 nd Lt, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (21 Aug. 1915) Roye New British Cemetery Portsmouth Naval Memorial La Ferte Sous Jouarre Memorial Le Touret Military Cemetery Boulogne Eastern Cemetery Le Touret Memorial Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension Maroeuil British Cemetery Beaulencourt British Cemetery Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension Le Touret Memorial Philosophe British Cemetery Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery Vermelles British Cemetery Tower Hill Memorial Helles Memorial

8 Thomson, Frank Palmer ( ), LCpl, Royal West Kent Regiment (7 Jul. 1917, Pas de Calais) Thomson, Wardlaw Ivor ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Air Force (6 Jun. 1917) Trapp, Andrew ( ), Lt, Royal Field Artillery (23 Apr. 1918, Pas de Calais) Trevor-Roper, Charles Cadwaladr ( ), Capt, Hampshire Regiment (3 Aug. 1917, Ypres) Turner, Montagu Alwyne Fisher ( ), LCpl, Northumberland Fusiliers (25 Apr. 1918, Ypres) Walker, John Croxton ( ), 2 nd Lt, Cambridgeshire Regiment (3 Sept. 1916, Somme) Walker, Walter Arthur Beaumont ( ), 2 nd Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (30 Oct. 1914, Somme) Warden, Edmund Oscar ( ), Capt, Essex Regiment (28 June 1915, Gallipoli) Wareing, Eric Neal ( ), Pte, Middlesex Regiment (10 Apr. 1917, Pas de Calais) Watson, Henry James Arthur (1903/09-13), Lt, Bedfordshire Regiment (23 Aug. 1918, Somme) Webb, Charles Parker, MC ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal West Kent Regiment (23 July 1917, Belgium) Webb, John Timms ( ), 2 nd Lt, London Regiment (9 May 1915, Pas de Calais) Wheeler, George Godfrey Massey, VC ( ), Maj, Indian Army (13 Apr. 1915, Iraq) White, Vivian Robert ( ), LSgt, Machine Gun Corps (9 Aug. 1918, Pas de Calais) Whiteman, George Worley ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Field Artillery (30 July 1917, Belgium) Wighton, Charles ( ) Capt, Newfoundland Regiment (25 Nov. 1915, Turkey) Wiley, Evelyn Otley Scarlett ( ), Lt, Durham Light Infantry (7 Nov. 1918, Italy) Williams, Leonard Vincent ( ), Capt, South Wales Borderers (26 May 1917, Greece) Windsor, Leslie St Lawrence ( ), 2 nd Lt, Suffolk Regiment (10 Jun. 1915, Ypres) Windsor, Mark Gillham ( ), 2 nd Lt, Devonshire Regiment (10 Mar. 1915, Pas de Calais) Young, George Walter ( ), Capt, East Yorkshire Regiment (27 May 1918, Aisne) Young, Marcus Ernest ( ), 2 nd Lt, Royal Field Artillery (24 Mar. 1918, Aisne) Sunken Road Cemetery Camberwell Old Cemetery Anzin-St. Aubin British Cemetery Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery Bedford House Cemetery Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil Martinsart Bethune Town Cemetery Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery Adanac Millitary Cemetery Bus House Cemetery Brown's Road Military Cemetery Basra War Cemetery Vis-en-Artois Memorial La Clytte Military Cemetery Azmak Cemetery Tezze British Cemetery Karasouli Military Cemetery Vieille-Chapelle New Military cemetery Soissons Memorial Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension

9 * Due to the lack of contemporary detailed sources, some assumptions have had to be made in cross-referencing the names on the School s Roll of Honour and Memorial with records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Included on the WWI Memorial but not in the printed Roll of Honour produced afterwards. A George Phipps, aged 22, died in March 1917 according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, but his age does not correlate with the BMS Phipps. R Shelton on memorial and printed Roll of Honour, but BMS dates and service details in the latter suggest this was actually Kenneth Shelton ( ), Royal Flying Corps, attached to the 3 rd Bn, East Kent Regiment.