H. R. Burvill Service no. PS/1794 Private, Middlesex Regiment, 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment, attd. 22nd Battalion Died age 24 on 2 September 1916 Son of Harry and Eliza Burvill, of 15 Hubert Grove, Stockwell, London. Born in Kilburn, north London. Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France British Army WWI Service Records 1914-1920 Harry Burvill was […]
John Henry Burns
J. Burns (listed on the Memorial as J. Burns)Corporal, Royal Army Medical Corps, 15th Field AmbulanceService no. 6003. Died on 20 April 1918, aged 28 Remembered at Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, France Chris Burge writes: John Henry Burn was born in 1890 and baptised on 15 January at St Mary the Less, Lambeth, the first […]
Harry George Burls
H. G. Burls Service no. 15147 Gunner, Royal Field Artillery, “B” Bty. 211th Bde. Died of wounds age 25 on 25 October 1918 Born in Stockwell, enlisted at Camberwell Son of George and Elizabeth Burls, of 25 Moat Place, Stockwell, London. Buried at Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, France National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 […]
Charles Henry Burchell
C. H. Burchell Service no. SD/3529 Private, Royal Sussex Regiment, 13th Battalion Killed in action aged 22 on 30 June 1916 Son of Thomas and Harriett Burchell, of Mate’s Nest, Balcombe, Sussex. Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France This is a tentative association. This is the only British-resident C. H. Burchell in the […]
William Bunyan
W. BunyanService no. 7848Serjeant, York and Lancaster Regiment, 2nd BattalionKilled in action age 34 on 20 July 1915Son of the late William and Mary Elizabeth Bunyan; husband of Ellen Eliza Bunyan, of 8 Andalus Road, Landor Road, Stockwell, London. Native of Bengeo, Herts.Remembered at New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium and on the war shrine […]
John Bunn
J. Bunn Service no. R/32876 Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, “C” Coy. 10th Battalion Formerly TR/13/29465, T.R. Battalion Died of wounds age 30 on 10 August 1917 Son of the late Thomas and Jane Harriett Bunn. Remembered at New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium Information from the 1911 census In 1911 John Bunn’s widowed mother, […]
Sidney Alfred Bunker
S. A. Bunker Service no. G/8995 Private, Middlesex Regiment, 11th Battalion Killed in action at about age 21 on 18 October 1915 Remembered at Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Information from the 1911 census The Bunker family lived at 4 Richmond Street, Kennington, Lambeth (the street has now disappeared). Henry Bunker, 51, was a […]
Henry Bull
H. Bull Service no. 393397 Private, Labour Corps, 179th Coy. Died age 33 on 14 July 1918 Son of Frederick and Isabell Bull, of 3, Tregothnan Rd., Clapham, London. Born at St. Pancras, London. Remembered at Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France This is a somewhat tentative identification as there are two men named […]
William Valentine Brown
W. V. Brown Service no. G/10746 Lance Corporal, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), “B” Coy. 11th Battalion Died age 49 on 15 November 1916 Born in South Lambeth, lived in Lambeth Remembered at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium
John Edward Brown
J. E. BrownPrivate, Middlesex Regiment, 18th BattalionDied 22 June 1916, aged 23Service no. PW/2950Remembered at Gorre British And Indian Cemetery Chris Burge writes: John Edward Brown was born in Peckham in 1893, one of five children and the only son of Mark Edward and Alice (née Spash) Brown, who were married in 1891 at St […]
