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Roll of Honour of Officers of the South Wales Borderers

Who Died in the Great War

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Roll of Honour

Surnames   -   B

(25 officers)

 

BAILEY, The Hon. John Lancelot

Captain.   1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion.   Died of illness in India on 26th October 1918.   Aged 39.

 

BARRY, Gerard Thomas Joseph

Major, C de G (F).   OIC Detention Barracks Cork, formerly 1st Battalion.   Accidentally killed in Ireland on 8th April 1921.   Aged 38.

 

BEARDSHAW, Reginald Dudley

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 21st October 1916.   Aged 33.

 

BEDBROOK, Ernest Arthur St. George

Major.   Attached to British Military Mission, New York.   Died of illness in USA on 1st May 1918.   Aged 39.

 

BEHRENS, Robert Philip

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in Gallipoli on 25th April 1915.   Aged 21.

 

BELL, Aveling Francis

Second Lieutenant.   4th Battalion.   Killed in action at Gallipoli on 12th August 1915.   Aged 20.

 

BENCE-TROWER, Edward

Major, MC.   5th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 30th May1918.   Aged 27.

 

BENNETT, Herbert Sydney

Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 18th October 1918.   Aged 26.

 

BEST, Frank Harrington

Lieutenant.   4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 13th February 1917.   Aged 22.

 

BEST, Stephen Wriothesley

Lieutenant, MiD.   4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 30th April 1917.   Aged 28.

 

BIGGERTON-EVANS, Arthur Basil George

Captain.   3rd (Reserve) Battalion.   Died of illness in Bulgaria on 17th December 1919.   Aged 26.

 

BILL, John Francis

Captain.  1st Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 28th March 1915.   Aged 33.

 

BIRCH, Frederick William

Major.   4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 17th April 1916.   Aged 48.

 

BLACKALL-SIMONDS, George Prescott

Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 26th September 1914.   Aged 33.

 

BLAXLAND, John Bruce

Captain.   4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 24th January 1917.   Aged 25.

 

BOWYER, George Henry

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 1st July 1916.   Aged 26.

 

BRADLEY, John Frank

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of wounds in Malta on 2nd July 1915.   Aged 27.

 

BRICKNELL, Ernest Thomas Samuel

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 20th October 1916.   Aged 20.

 

BROWN, Harold James

Captain, MC.   Retired List.   Died of illness in UK on 10th January 1920.   Aged 24.

 

BUDD, Wrinch Joseph Charles

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in Gallipoli on 28th June 1915.   Aged 40.

 

BULLOCK, Gervas Frederick

Second Lieutenant.   11th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 31st July 1917.   Aged 36.

 

BUNCE, George Owen

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in Gallipoli on 9th May 1915.   Aged 31.

 

BURMESTER, Charles Mansel

Captain.   Attached to 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry.   Died of wounds in France on 8th October 1918.   Aged 43.

 

BURRELL, Percy Edmund

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in Gallipoli on 21st August 1915.   Aged 33.

 

BYRNE, Edmund James Widdrington

Captain.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 29th April 1916.   Aged 35.

 

 

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