Roll of Honour 31st October 1914

Killed in Action

1st Battalion: assisting in recapture of trenches lost by the 8th Ghurkhas east of Festubert

·        3/7245 Private Horace Edward GINN, 38, son of Martha and the late John Ginn, born and resided Bedford (le Touret Memorial)

·        8025 Private Horace MOUSE, 28, son of Mary Mouse of 207 High Street, Dunstable, husband of Lily Mabel of 33 Church Street, Dunstable (le Touret Memorial)

·        3/6459 Corporal Jeffrey TEARLE, 24, son of Sarah Jane Tearle of 9 Alfred Street, Dunstable; born Eaton Bray (le Touret Memorial)

2nd Battalion: First Battle of Ypres - retirement from the Geluveld-Zanvoorde Road to the Menin Road

·        9602 Sergeant Arthur BALDOCK, born Welwyn [Hertfordshire], resided Clifton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/6127 Private Wilfred John BARRS, 25, husband of Elizabeth Sarah of 145 Winstanley Road, Wellingborough [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/7145 Private Samuel Arthur BELFIELD, 24, husband of Ethel of 7 Chesterfield Road, Belper [Derbyshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9253 Private James BRAZIER, brother of Maud Thrale of High Street, Wheathampstead [Hertfordshire], born in Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/6308 Private Michael BRESNAHAN, born and resided Deptford [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9838 Private Eric William BROWN, born Lowick [Northamptonshire], resided Wellingborough [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9046 Private William BURNS, born and resided Tilbrook [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        10076 Private Edgar BUTCHER, 21, son of Mrs F Butcher of 43 Raingate Street, Bury Saint Edmund's [Suffolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/7393 Private Sidney CAIN, 28, son of Mr and Mrs Cain of 54 Duke Street, Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        10130 Private James Walter CRAFT, born Woodburn Green [Buckinghamshire], resided Watford [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9540 Private Charles Henry GODFREY, born Cotton [Suffolk], resided Walton [Suffolk] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9242 Private Robert John HARRIS, born and resided Great Hallingbury [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9874 Private James Nelson HICKMAN, 24, son of Henry John and Mary Jane Hickman of 31 Brook Street, Daventry [Northamptonshire], born Badby [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9052 Lance Corporal Henry Charles HOLLIDGE, born Marylebone [London], resided Pimlico [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9308 Private Edward HOOD, born Ditchenham [Norfolk], resided Waltham Cross [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/6130 Private Alfred HUCKLE, 23, son of W Huckle of 4 Common Road, Stotfold (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9671 Lance Sergeant Jack Fransham KEABLE, 21, son of Ernest Burroughs Keable of 41 Sunbury Lane, Walton on Thames [Surrey] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9921 Lance Corporal Benjamin LANGFORD, born and resided Stretham [Cambridgeshire]

·        Captain Ernest Hugh LYDDON, 27, son of F S and I W Lyddon of Clifton [Bristol] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9596 Private Herbert James NORMAN, 25, son of James Norman of Northill, born in Sandy (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9975 Private Emmanuel OLNEY, born Hatfield Hyde [Hertfordshire], resided Enfield [Middlesex] (Harlebeeke New British Cemetery)

·        3/6816 Private Frederick ROWLETT, 19, son of William and Mary Ann Rowlett of 32 Sun Street, Biggleswade (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        7684 Private Tom SHARP, 24, son of Annie Sharp of Salisbury Street, Semilong [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9352 Private Albert SMART, born and resided in Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        7792 Lance Sergeant Frederick STAINES, 30, son of Jessie May Crone (ex Staines) of 103 Spruce Hill Road, Walthamstow [Essex], born Felstead [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/6861 Private Sidney John STRINGER, 21, son of Alfred and Margaret Stringer of Water End, Flitwick (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9252 Private George THOMASON, born and resided Biggleswade (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        Lieutenant Donald Godrid Campbell THOMSON, 21, son of D G P and Clara Thomson of Penrith [Cumberland] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/6995 Private Sidney THOROUGHGOOD, 19, son of Samuel Thoroughgood, born Ampthill, resided Bedford, (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        7765 Private Frederick THURSTON, born West Ham [Essex], resided Stratford [Essex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        8502 Lance Corporal Thomas Alfred TOMPKINS, 27, son of Mary Ann Tompkins of New Alley, Limehouse [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9226 Corporal William Jepthah John WHITE, born Canning Town [Essex], resided Bassingbourne [Cambridgeshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        9353 Lance Corporal Percy Edward WOODCROFT, 23, son of Edwin and Sarah Annie Woodcroft of 73 Ivy Road, Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

·        3/7108 Private George Herbert WRIGHTON, 20, son of Mrs A Wrighton of 53 Cromwell Street, Rushden [Northamptonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion

·        7677 Private Joseph POULTON, born Tring [Hertfordshire], resided Berkhamstead [Hertfordshire] (Glasgow (Lambhill) Cemetery)

2nd Battalion

·        8932 Private Henry CLARK, 24, husband of H Walsh (ex Clark) of de Waal Road, Cape Town [South Africa], born and resided in Esher [Surrey] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres) 

·        9270 Private George William PINDRED, 24, son of James and Harriet Pindred of Market Square, Saint Neots [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)