=BENTLEY, GERALD WILSON=, Major, 4th Battn. The Duke of Cambridge’s Own Middlesex Regt., 3rd _s._ of Lieut.-Col. Alfred Wilson Bentley, of The Grove, Monken Hadley, Middlesex, J.P., by his wife, Catherine Edith, dau. of John Rogers; _b._ at 16, Addison Road, Kensington, 1 Aug. 1879; educ. Haileybury; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Middlesex Regt. from the Militia, 20 May, 1899, and promoted Lieut. 14 March, 1900, Capt. 12 Oct. 1901, and Major, 8 Oct. 1914. He served in the South African War, 1899–1902, taking part in the relief of Ladysmith, including the operations of 17 to 24 Jan. 1900, and action at Spion Kop, in which he was severely wounded, his rifle, struck by a shell, being broken and causing serious injuries to his head. He recovered and was present at the operations on the Tugela Heights (26 to 27 Feb. 1900), and the action at Pieters Hill, and was awarded the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps. He became Superintendent of Gymnasia in the Northern Command, 23 April, 1912, and held this appointment till the outbreak of war, when he rejoined his regt. He was killed in action at Croix Barbée, 13 Oct. 1914. A noted boxer in the Service, he was in 1910 the heavyweight champion of the Army and Navy. A man of grand physique, those who fought with him in the ring knew of the power of that right punch of his; he was content to submit to punishment while waiting for the chance to score with it.
=BENTLEY, KENNETH HADDON=, Private, No. 3047, 14th Battn. (London Scottish) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of A. Bentley, of Lauriston, Leicester Road, New Barnet; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and joined the London Scottish, 2 Sept 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc. and was killed in action, 12 June, 1915.
=BENTZON, SYDNEY MALCOLM=, Private, No. 411, 15th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915; killed in action there the following day.
=BENYON, GODFREY BERKELEY JOHN=, Lieut. Commander, R.N., yr. _s._ of Augustus William Benyon, of Ashe, Windsor, by his wife, Mary Beatrice, dau. of the late William Chambers, of Hafod, co. Cardigan, J.P., D.L.; _b._ 10 Sept. 1883; educ. Temple Grove, East Sheen, Surrey; joined the old Britannia as a naval cadet in May, 1898, became Sub-Lieut. 1903, Lieut. 1905, and Lieut.-Commander June, 1913. He saw foreign service in China and the Cape, and was also with Admiral Fisher in H.M.S. Renown. Being a first-class draughtsman, he specialised in the Navigating Department; was assistant surveyor in H.M.S. Mutine in Bermuda. After the outbreak of war, he was appointed to H.M.S. Good Hope on 17 Aug., and was lost when that ship went down with Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock and his gallant crew in the action off the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. A memorial window was erected to his memory in All Saints’ Church, Windsor. He _m._ at Marylebone Church, 1 Nov 1911, Beatrice Lindley, dau. of the late Henry Lindley White, and had issue a son and dau., John Lindley, _b._ 23 Dec. 1912, and Elizabeth Hope, _b._ at Bermuda on Christmas Day, 25 Dec. 1914, and christened on board the s.s. Transylvania in mid-Atlantic.
[Illustration: =Godfrey B. J. Benyon.=]
=BÉRARD, CHARLES DELPHIS=, Private, No. 23628, Cyclists Corps, Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Louis Amedée Bérard, of St. Mathias de Rouville, P. Quebec, Canada, by his wife, Délia, dau. of Joachim Létourneau; _b._ St. Mathias, Rouville co., 9 July, 1892; joined the 85th Montreal Regt. in Aug. 1914; left Quebec with the first Canadian contingent, 30 Sept., and was accidentally killed in England, 2 Dec. 1915; _unm._
[Illustration: =Charles Delphis Bérard.=]
=PACK-BERESFORD, CHARLES GEORGE=, Major, 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., 3rd _s._ of Denis William Pack-Beresford. J.P., D.L., of Fenagh House, Bagnalstown, co. Carlow, by his wife, Annette Caroline, only dau. of Robert Clayton Browne, of Browne’s Hill, co. Carlow; _b._ London, 21 Nov. 1869; educ. Wellington College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. the Queen’s Own, 20 Nov. 1889, became Lieut. 1 Feb. 1893, Capt. 18 Dec. 1899, and Major 21 March, 1908, being Adjutant 1897–1900, an instructor at the R.M.C., Sandhurst, 1903–6, and Major in command of 3rd Battn., Regimental Depôt, Maidstone, 1911–14; served with the Malakand and Buner field force on the North-West Frontier of India, 1897–8, including the action at Landakai, the operations in the Mamund country and Buner, also during the attack and capture of the Tanga Pass (medal with clasps); in the South African War, 1899–1901, including the operations in the Orange Free State, Sept. 1900–July, 1901, and in Cape Colony in Aug. 1901, Sept. to Dec. 1901 (Despatches [London Gazette, 10 Sept. 1901];] Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France; killed in action at Wasimes, near Mons, 24 Aug 1914; _unm._
[Illustration: =C. G. Pack-Beresford.=]
=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11113, Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Voorstraat, 17 Feb. 1915.
=BERESFORD, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 11787, 2nd Battn. Highland Light Infantry; killed in action, 17 May, 1915.
=BERKELEY, MAURICE KENNETH FITZ-HARDINGE=, Bombardier, 5th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery, 1st Canadian Contingent, only _s._ of Maurice Julian Berkeley, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, British Guiana, by his wife, Mary Bruce, dau. of Alleyne Pilgrim Murray; _b._ Barbados, West Indies, 10 Dec. 1893; educ. Bradfield College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and on leaving the latter joined the Merchant’s Bank of Canada at Montreal. On the outbreak of war he volunteered as a Gunner, came over with the first Canadian Contingent, was severely wounded in action at Ypres, 27 April, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne on 1 May; _unm._
[Illustration: =M. K. F. Berkeley.=]
=BERLEIN, CHARLES MAURICE=, Lieut., 5th (Service) Battn. Oxford and Buckingham L.I., eldest _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Kimberley, South Africa, 4 May, 1888; educ. Charterhouse and New College, Oxford (B.A. 1910); was engaged in chemical research, and was in charge of a laboratory, but on the outbreak of war received a commission as temporary Lieut. in the Oxford and Buckingham L.I., 22 Aug. 1914, and fell in action near Hoogh, 16 June, 1915, leading his men through a heavy shrapnel fire, a few paces from the enemy’s trenches; _unm._
=BERLEIN, LESLIE HERMAN=, Lieut., 8th (Service) Battn. Royal Berkshire Regt., yst. _s._ of Julius Berlein, of Cross Oak, Berkhamsted, co. Herts, J.P.; _b._ Johannesburg, 30 June, 1893; educ. Charterhouse, Berkhamsted School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, was a member of Lincoln’s Inn, but following the outbreak of war, was gazetted temporary Lieut. in the Berkshires, 19 Sept. 1914. His battn. was selected to lead the attack near Hulluch on 25 Sept. 1915. In the assault his company was leading, and Lieut. Berlein was the first out of the trenches. He was killed on the front of the enemy’s trenches, leading his platoon; _unm._
=BERNARD, ROBERT=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 2nd _s._ of the Most Rev. John Henry Bernard. D.D., D.C.L., Lord Archbishop of Dublin, by his wife, Maud, 2nd dau. of the late Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., Dep. Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; _b._ Dublin, 20 Dec. 1891; educ. Arnold House, Llandulas, Marlborough College (where he was in the O.T.C.) and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Dublin Fusiliers, 13 March, 1912, and promoted Lieut. 12 Nov. 1913. He served in the 2nd Battn. at Gravesend, April to Aug. 1912, and then joined the 1st Battn. in India, serving with them at Ahmednagar and Madras to Nov. 1914, when the regt. returned home, afterwards proceeding to the Dardanelles. Lieut. Bernard landed in one of the open boats on Sunday, 25 April, 1915, when many officers were killed and wounded. His Captain was wounded in the landing, so that he was left in command of his company for twenty-four hours, when they lay out under slight cover on “V.” beach. The next morning the Dublins and the Munsters were ordered to storm the village of Sedd-el-Bahr, which they successfully accomplished. Lieut. Bernard was killed when gallantly leading his men in a bayonet charge. Lieuts. Bernard and Andrews were together with about twenty men of the X and Y companies, and they took cover behind a wall five and a half feet high. They were being fired at from a house in the village. Andrews stood in a gap made by a shell and was directing the fire when he was killed. Lieut. Bernard then called on the others to follow him, and saying “Come on, boys,” he dashed through the gap, when he was shot dead by a Turkish rifleman. He and his brother officers were buried close to the beach in a large rectangular grave.
[Illustration: =Robert Bernard.=]
=BERNHARDT, MARTIN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 8682), S.S. 1933, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.