Tuesday 14th November 1916 From our Correspondent in the Field
During the
day today 4th Bedfords have been counting their losses whilst acting as
carrying parties taking bombs, sand-bags and other accoutrements to the men in
the front line in front of the village of Beaucourt. This afternoon they
withdrew to their second line trenches of yesterday.
The commanding officer told me today that he
reckons nine officers and 57 other ranks were killed yesterday(1). Five
officers, including the Medical Officer have been wounded. 108 other ranks have
been wounded and 16 are missing. The officers killed were:
- Captain F G C Ashmead-Bartlett
- Lieutenant Bartlett L S Frere
- Lieutenant Richard H Boys
- Lieutenant William A Turnbull
- Second Lieutenant John Brodie
- Second Lieutenant Harold B Hudson
- Second Lieutenant Sydney H Agate
- Second Lieutenant Thomas H Hill
- Second Lieutenant L S Wilkinson
Source: X550/5/3
(1) The total
killed actually seems to have been 81.
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