Thursday, 5 October 2017

Roll of Honour - 5th October 1917


Killed in Action

1st Battalion: 3rd Battle of Ypres: front line near Veldhoek
  • 8325 Private Alfred George BARKER, 31, born Clapham, resided Bedford, husband of C E Barker of 6 Gun Street, Sheringham [Norfolk] (Bedford House Cemetery)
  • 43253 Private William Arthur HAROLD or HARROLD, 20, ex-2286 Essex Regiment, son of Louisa Harold or Harrold of 7 Cranbourne Road, Barking [Essex] (Tyne Cot Memorial)

2nd Battalion: 3rd Battle of Ypres: front line along the Ypres-Commines Canal
  • Acting Captain Lawrence Alexander Lewis FINK MC, 26, son of Major G H and Edith L Fink of 38 Onslow Gardens, Muswell Hill [London] Kemmel-Château Military Cemetery)

6th Battalion: 3rd Battle of Ypres: front line south of the Menin Road
  • 204012 Private Edward Victor APPLETON, 20, ex-328936 Cambridgeshire Regiment, son of George Frederick and Rosina Mary Appleton of 5 Saint Mary’s Road, Lower Edmonton [Middlesex] (Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery)
  • 17055 Corporal Albert Edwin WOOD, 29, born Clerkenwell [London], resided Holloway [London], son of William George and Sarah Wood (Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion
  • 7780 Lance Corporal Walter Harveland BRAY, 32, born Acton [London], husband of Lottie of 20 Milton Avenue, Harlesden [Middlesex], son of Haverland and Fredrica Bray; landed in France in August 1914 (Godewaersvelde British Cemetery)
  • 33605 Private Alfred Cecil BURRIDGE, ex-2451 Bedford Yeomanry, born Bedford, resided Kennington [London], brother of T Burridge of 44 Magdalene Street, Glastonbury [Somerset] (Godewaersvelde British Cemetery)

1st/5th Battalion
  • 203163 Private Fred ALFORD, 33, born West Wellow [Hampshire], son of Robert William Alford of Lych Gate Cottage, Bovingdon [Hertfordshire] and late Elizabeth Alford (Deir-el-Belah War Cemetery)
  • 200195 Sergeant Eustace George CLIFFORD MM, son of Edward John and Emily Minnie Clifford of Hope Cottage, Chapel Street, Stow-on-the-Wold [Gloucestershire], resided Biggleswade (Gaza War Cemetery)



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