=BERRIDGE, HARRY=, Private, No. G. 1712, 3rd Battn. Middlesex Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 2 May, 1915.
=BERRIDGE, JOHN FREDERICK HARRY=, Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch. 12245, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=BERRY, ALFRED=, Private, No. 10405, 2nd Battn. Royal West Surrey Regt., _s._ of Ephraim Berry, of Clayton’s Farm, Mayfield, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; _d._ 1 Nov. 1914, of wounds received in action.
=BERRY, ALFRED EDWARD=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; _d._ 3 June, 1915, of wounds received in action.
=BERRY, ALFRED ROBERT=, Private, No. 1819, H. Coy, 4th Battn. Suffolk Regt., only child of Alfred Berry, of Leiston, co. Suffolk, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of William Cole Feree; _b._ Leiston, 30 Dec. 1896, joined the Army, 26 Jan. 1914, and was killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March, 1915, being shot through the body and head. His commanding officer spoke most highly of his conduct.
[Illustration: =Alfred Robert Berry.=]
=BERRY, EDWARD ALFRED=, Private, No. 9681, 2nd Battn. Royal Scots, _s._ of Ernest Albert Berry, of 37, Euston Street, Euston Square, London, N.W., by his wife, Emily, dau. of George Groves; _b._ Marylebone, 26 July, 1887; educ. Lancing Street School, Somers Town; enlisted in the 1st Battn., 23 Aug. 1906, was transferred to the 2nd Battn., and was killed in action, 3 June, 1915; _unm._ The Chaplain wrote that he “was brought into our Field Ambulance (No. 9) last night severely wounded in the head. He died this morning without having become conscious, and I have buried him with the Church Service in the graveyard outside the Asylum here at Ypres, and have marked his grave with a cross inscribed with his name, etc.”
=BERRY, IRA SIDNEY=, Gunner (Immed. Class, R.F.R., 94), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BERRY, THOMAS=, Gunner, No. 7455, Royal Field Artillery, 4th _s._ of James Donkin Berry, of Sunderland, Plater’s Helper, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Pratt, of Portsmouth; _b._ Southwick-on-Wear, co. Durham, 1 Jan. 1892; educ. Southwick Board School; was employed at Thompson’s Yard, Sunderland; enlisted 8 March, 1915, and died on active service at Tedworth Hospital, 28 Sept. 1915, of septic peritonitis; _unm._
[Illustration: =Thomas Berry.=]
=BERRY, THOMAS SIDNEY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7823), S.S. 103290, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BERRYMAN, JAMES=, P.O. (N.S.), 189999, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BERRYMAN, SYDNEY=, Private, No. G. 933, 7th (Service) Battn. Royal Sussex Regt., _s._ of Philip Berryman, of Sunnymount Lodge, Haywards Heath, Sussex; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 28 Aug. 1915.
=BERTIE, NINIAN MARK KERR=, 2nd Lieut., 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Regt.), 4th and yst. _s._ of Rev. the Hon. Alberic Edward Bertie, M.A., Rector of Gedling, Notts, by his wife, Lady Caroline Elizabeth, née McDonnell, eldest dau. of Mark, 5th Earl of Antrim, and grandson of Montagu, 6th Earl of Abingdon; _b._ Rutland Gate, London, 19 Nov. 1896; educ. Evelyns and Winchester, and on the outbreak of war was admitted to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was posted to the 60th Rifles, 23 Dec. 1914. He was attached to the 6th Reserve Regt. till March, when he joined the 4th Battn. at the Front. He was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, and was buried there. The commanding officer wrote: “I will not say more now than that I sympathise with you (and with my regiment) over the loss of one of the finest and most fearlessly capable lads I ever met. He was quite exceptional.”
[Illustration: =Ninian Mark K. Bertie.=]
=BERTRAM, PHILLIP=, Stoker, 1st Class, 363940, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=BEST, HERBERT=, Acting Leading Stoker, 309591, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BETTIS, ALBERT=, Private R.M.L.I., Ch. 14607, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BETTS, GORDON W. G.=, Private, 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._ of the late L.-Corpl. Thomas Henry Betts (who _d._ on active service, 20 June, 1915, see his notice), by his wife, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West, Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage; _b._ 16 April, 1899; volunteered on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, and joined his father’s regt., and was accidentally shot, 27 Aug. 1914, while on guard duty at Soulanges Canal, the first Canadian to lose his life on active service in the European War.
[Illustration: =Gordon W. G. Betts.=]
=BETTS, JOHN WILLIAM=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. The Welsh Regt.; _b._ Ketteringham, Norfolk, 4 Aug. 1887; and educ. there. He joined the Norfolk Regt. in Sept. 1905, and was posted to the 2nd Battn.; served in South Africa, Gibraltar and India. He obtained his discharge to the Reserve in Oct. 1912, and on returning to England joined the Lincolnshire County Constabulary, and was stationed at Ouston Ferry. On the outbreak of war he rejoined the 1st Battn. and proceeded to Ireland. He was promoted to Sergt., and went to the Front with the Expeditionary Force, serving through the retreat from Mons, etc. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 20 Nov. 1914 [London Gazette, 17 Feb. 1915], and was afterwards promoted on the field for gallantry and obtained his commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Welsh Regt. 12 Dec. 1914. He was killed in action at L’Epinette, on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while leading a charge. He _m._ at Birmingham, 6 Dec. 1913, Emma Elizabeth (53, Manchester Street, New Cleethorpe, Grimsby), dau. of (--) Read, of Ketteringham, and had issue a dau., Irene Elsie Maud, _b._ 17 Nov. 1914.
=BETTS, THOMAS HENRY=, L.-Corpl., No. 894, Canadian Army Service Corps, _s._ of Joseph Betts; _b._ Montreal, 26 Nov. 1870; educ. St. Anne’s School there; served for over 20 years with the 5th Royal Highlanders of Montreal, and on the death on service of his son, Private G. W. G. Betts, decided to volunteer for Imperial service, and joined the Canadian A.S.C. in April, 1915. He left for England 13 May following, and _d._ in Newingreen Camp, England, 20 June, 1915, of haemorrhage of the heart. He _m._ at St. Patrick’s Church, Montreal, 23 Aug. 1897, Margaret Jane (121, Prince Arthur Street West, Montreal), dau. of (--) Armitage, and had three children: Gordon W. J., _b._ 16 April, 1899, killed on service (see his notice); Helena E. J. and Armitage H. A., _b._ 10 Oct. 1904.
[Illustration: =Thomas Henry Betts.=]
=BEVAN, ERNEST VICTOR=, Private, No. 744, 6th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co. Middlesex, 18 Dec. 1891; went to Australia in 1914 to take up farming, and volunteered after the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in Sept. 1914; left for Egypt with the main force in Oct. 1914; went to the Dardanelles, April, 1915, and was killed in action there, 8 May, 1915, being bayoneted in a Turkish attack on the trenches at Anzac; _unm._
=BEVAN, GORDON FREDERICK=, Private, No. 16861, 7th Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late James Frederick Bevan, of Stanwell (who died 25 Feb. 1895), by his wife, Hannah (62, Kingston Road, Teddington), dau. of Samuel Parker; _b._ Stanwell, co. Middlesex, 3 Aug. 1888; educ. Croydon High School; went to Canada in Sept. 1907; volunteered on the outbreak of war, and joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Aug. 1914; came over with the first contingent; went to France, Feb. 1915, and was killed in action there, 16 March, 1915, being shot by a sniper; _unm._
=BEVAN, PERCY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4894), S.S. 104327, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=BEVAN, REGINALD JAMES=, Private, No. 1881, 26th Battn. 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest _s._ of James Bevan, of Henalt Hay Road, Builth Wells, Brecon, a Carpenter on Lord Glanusk’s estate, by his wife, Agnes, dau. of Thomas Wasley, of Bishop Cleeve, near Cheltenham; _b._ Builth Wells, 9 Sept. 1894; educ. Builth Wells School; at the age of 16 worked his passage out to Australia on s.s. Gothic; was employed at the Bull and Mouth Hotel in Melbourne, afterwards as a waiter in Sidney. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the 3rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action near Sari Bair, Anzac, Gallipoli, 24 Oct. 1915; _unm._ Buried in cemetery attached to 7th Field Ambulance, A Section.
=BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT=, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, _s._ of Richard Bevan, of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc., Alderman of Hammersmith; _b._ Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where he gained the Huxley scholarship; was in the St. Paul’s O.T. Corps, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 1911. At the time he was called up with his regt., he was a medical student and Huxley Scholar at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and was an undergraduate of the London University. He was shot, while in “Plugstreet” Wood with his section, 10 Dec. 1914, and died two days later at Bailleul Clearing Hospital from his wounds; buried in Bailleul Cemetery; _unm._ Bevan was in the Gymnasium eight at St. Paul’s and reserve man at the Aldershot Public School Competition. He played Rugby for the Old Pauline A team and for the Charing Cross Hospital Rugby team.