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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Dorsetshire Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

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Roll of Honour

Surnames   -   B

(31 officers)

 

BAILLIE, Humphrey John

Lieutenant, MC.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 2nd March 1916.   Aged 23.

 

BAKER, Gordon Lennox

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 11th August 1918.  Aged 29.

 

BAKER, Walter Percy

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 1/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment.   Killed in action in France on 14th July 1916.   Aged 28.

 

BALL, Alec Radford

Second Lieutenant.   5th Battalion.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 17th August 1917.   Aged 20.

 

BAMKIN, Carl Jocelyn

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 12th Battalion Norfolk Regiment.   Killed in action in France on 19th August 1918.   Aged 20.

 

BARKER, Cecil Noel

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 19th November 1916.   Aged ?.

 

BARTLETT, Tom Brensley

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 1/8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment.   Killed in action in Palestine on 19th September 1918.   Aged 23.

 

BARTON, Albert Ernest

Major, MiD.   6th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 24th May 1917.   Aged 32.

 

BAXTER, Walter Herbert

Lieutenant Colonel, MiD, TD.   Commanding Officer 1/4th Battalion.   Died of illness in India on 18th May 1917.   Aged 51.

 

BAYLY, Vere Talbot

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 8th May 1916.   Aged 19.

 

BEAUCHAMP, Eric Westgate

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 2/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment.   Died of wounds in Palestine on 23rd November 1917.   Aged 23.

 

BIRKS, Alfred Owen

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 13th March 1918.   Aged 26.

 

BISHOP, Edwin Maurice

Lieutenant.  Attached to 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.  Killed in action in France on 18th October 1914.   Aged 23.

 

BLAKEWAY, Noel Carleton

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 27th March 1916.   Aged 20.

 

BLANCHARD, Neville

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of illness in Mesopotamia on 26th July 1917.   Aged 36.

 

BLENCOWE, Ernest Cecil Blencowe

Captain, MiD.   6th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 16th February 1916.   Aged 36.

 

BOILEAU, Edward Bulmer Whicher

Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 3rd October 1918.   Aged 20.

 

BOLES, Noel Henry

Lieutenant.   Seconded to 3rd (Naval) Wing RNAS.   Killed in aerial action at Gallipoli on 11th January 1916.   Aged 23.

 

BORROUGH, Horace William

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 18th August 1916.   Aged 21.

 

BOWES, Stanley Ward

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers.   Killed in action in France on 29th September 1915.   Aged 25.

 

BROAD, Alfred Evans

Lieutenant, MC.   6th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 2nd March 1916.   Aged 26.

 

BROOKE, Cyril Thomthwaite

Captain.   Attached to 6th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry.   Killed in action in Belgium on 22nd August 1917.   Aged 26.

 

BROWNLEE, Wilfrid Methven

Second Lieutenant.   3rd (Reserve) Battalion.   Died of illness in UK on 12th October 1914.   Aged 24.

 

BUDDEN, Henry Richard

Lieutenant.   Attached to 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.   Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.   Aged 19.

 

BULL, Arthur Henry

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of illness in Egypt on 14th December 1918.   Aged ?

 

BULL, John Edward

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers.   Killed in action in France on 29th September 1915.   Aged ?

 

BULLOCK, Thomas William

Lieutenant Colonel.   Commanding Officer 1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 4th April 1918.   Aged 43.

 

BURFOOT, William Martin

Second Lieutenant.   Seconded to 37th Squadron RAF.   Accidentally killed whilst flying in UK on 22nd May 1918.   Aged 23.

 

BURTON, Garnet Cory

Second Lieutenant.   Reserve of Officers (previously 7th Battalion).   Died of illness in Jersey, CI, on 25th February 1917.   Aged 32.

 

BUSH, James Cromwell

Lieutenant, MC.   Seconded to 22nd Squadron RFC.   Killed in aerial action in France on 7th October 1917.   Aged 26.

 

BUTCHER, Charles Geoffrey

Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 2nd May 1915.   Aged 23.

 

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