Roll of Honour - Monday 17th May 1915

Killed in Action

2nd Battalion: Battle of Festubert – unsuccessful attack

• 10347 Private William ADDINGTON, son of J Addington of 19 Baker Street, Northampton (le Touret Memorial)
• 10732 Private Sidney ASHFORD, 19, born and resided Chelsea [London] (le Touret Memorial)
• 9760 Acting Corporal William BARTLETT DCM, 23, C Company, husband of L V Bartlett of 27 Downing Street, Farnham [Surrey], born Caversham [Berkshire] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 9143 Private Edward James BLADON, born Potten End [Hertfordshire], resided Boxmoor [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 14276 Private Albert BLEWITT, born Dudley [Worcestershire], resided Brierley Hill [Staffordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/7361 Private William BOON, born and resided Luton (le Touret Memorial)
• 10425 Private Harold BRICKNELL, 19, son of John and Annie Bricknell of  4 Thames Street, Saint Aldates, Oxford (le Touret Memorial)
• 8310 Sergeant Arthur Sydney BROWN DCM, 26, C Company, son of Keziah Brown of 1 Castle Hill Cottages, Bedford, born Mogerhanger, resided Lower Grafham [Huntingdonshire] (le Touret Memorial) [information later received that he had been promoted to Second Lieutenant 2nd Cheshire Regiment]
• 4/6189 Private John William BROWN, born and resided Watford [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 4/5723 Corporal Charles CHALKLEY, born and resided Hitchin [Hertfordshire] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 12716 Private John CONLON, 33, son of John Conlon of West Street, Castleblayney [Monaghan], born Sheeterham [Monaghan] (le Touret Memorial)
• 13005 Private Thomas Henry COTTS, 33, son of William Thomas and Elizabeth Cotts of Station Road, Holt [Norfolk] (le Touret Memorial)
• 4/6740 Private Walter EVERETT, born and resided Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 13353 Private William Ward Clement FOWLES, 35, son of Emma Fowles of 19 Nelson Street, Ryde [Isle of Wight] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/7906 Private John James GENTLEMAN, born and resided Hackney [London] (le Touret Memorial)
• 9158 Private Bert HACKETT, 28, son of Tom and Mary Ann Hackett of Great Staughton [Huntingdonshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/7282 Private Alfred HARPER, born Cranfield, resided Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 4/6760 Lance Corporal Frank HARRADINE, 21, son of Arthur Butler and Emma Harradine of High Street, Ashwell [Hertfordshire] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 3/7781 Private Edward Francis HARRIS, 21, son of John and Florence Harris of Sundon Road, Harlington (le Touret Memorial)
• 4/6145 Private Ernest Godfrey HARVEY, 25, son of Mary Ann Woolner of 65 Sunnyside Road, Hitchin [Hertfordshire], born Newport [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
• 13843 Private Alfred HERRING, born and resided Apsley End [Hertfordshire] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 16496 Private Ernest Charles HODSDEN, 20, son of Charles and Margaret Hodsden of Woodside, Potten End [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• Captain Harold Edwards HUNTRISS, son of William Huntriss JP and Charlotte E Huntriss (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 3/7196 Private Stanley JEFFS, born Stoke Goldington [Buckinghamshire], resided Kempston (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 13450 Lance Corporal Horace Courtney LITCHFIELD, 24, son of William and Elizabeth Louisa Litchfield of 64 Mount Pleasant Road, Lewisham [London], resided Walthamstow [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
• 7772 Private Arthur LOAD or LOAN, born and resided Tiptree [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/7802 Private James LOFT, born Cardington, resided Bedford (le Touret Memorial)
• Major John MACKENZIE VC, 44, native of Contin [Rossshire] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy), his VC citation reads: "On the 6th June, 1900, at Dompoassi, in Ashanti, Sergeant Mackenzie, after working two Maxim guns under a hot fire, and being wounded while doing so, volunteered to clear the stockades of the enemy which he did in the most gallant manner, leading the charge himself and driving the enemy headlong into the bush."
• 13952 Private Harry MOCKRIDGE, born Southwark [London], resided Hoxton [London] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 14701, Private Harry MOULE, son of H Moule of Aspenden [Hertfordshire], born Stratford [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)
• 14464 Lance Corporal Nimrod OAKINS, 23, son of George and Lucy Oakins of 29 Mill Street, Apsley End [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/7550 Private Henry Samuel PARISH, 25, son of Samuel and Sarah A Parish of 41 Offa Road, Bedford (le Touret Memorial)
• 12969 Private Thomas PAYNE, 22, son of Joseph Payne of 73 Fearnley Street, Watford [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 9153 Acting Corporal William PEARSON, 28, son of John and Charlotte Pearson of 16 Inkerman Row, Sudbury [Suffolk] (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 4/6983 Private William Harry PETTS, born and resided Hertford (Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy)
• 4/7087 Private James Walter SCOTT, born Ware [Hertfordshire], resided Cheshunt [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/7255 Private Frederick Charles SMITH, born and resided Aspley Guise (le Touret Memorial)
• 13718 Private William Thomas TAYLOR, born Bedminster [Bristol], resided Hardwick [Northamptonshire] (le Touret Memorial)
• 3/6747 Private Herbert Henry TYSOE, son of Mr and Mrs Tysoe of 18 Greenhill Street, Bedford, born Kempston (le Touret Memorial)
•  3/7731 Private Charles WILKINSON, 20, son of James and Elizabeth Jane Wilkinson of Beauchamp Roding [Essex] (le Touret Memorial)

Died of Wounds

2nd Battalion

• 10479 Private John CREW, 19, son of James Crew of 53 West Hyde, born Newmill End, Hyde (Bethune Town Cemetery)