[Illustration: =Richard Vincent Bevan.=]
=BEVERIDGE, DAVID=, Private, No. 17241, 10th (Service) Battn. Highland Light Infantry, _s._ of M. Beveridge of 216, Mathieson Street, Glasgow; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915.
=BEVERIDGE, DAVID ALEXANDER=, 2nd Lieut., 54th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 4th _s._ of Erskine Beveridge, LL.D., of St. Leonard’s Hill, Dunfermline, and Vallay, North Uist, by his wife, Mary, dau. of John Owst, of Wilberfoss, co. York; _b._ Dunfermline, 4 Nov. 1886; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat; Loretto; and Pembroke College, Cambridge (B.A. 1908); and when war broke out was studying for the Scottish Bar in Edinburgh. He was gazetted 2nd Lieut., R.F.A., 10 Oct. 1914; left for the Dardanelles, 7 July, 1915, and died at St. Andrew’s Hospital, Malta, 13 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service in Gallipoli; buried at Valletta; _unm._ He was a keen Rugby footballer, playing for his schools and college. Two of his brothers are now (1916) on active service, and his brother-in-law, Lieut. Alexander B. Innes, 1/7th Gordon Highlanders, and two uncles, Capt. and Adjutant David Inglis, 1/4th Gurkha Rifles, and Lieut. Charles N. D. Inglis, 2/8th Gurkha Rifles, were killed in action.
[Illustration: =David A. Beveridge.=]
=BEVERIDGE, JOHN=, Private, No. 14555, 13th (Service) Battn. Royal Scots (Lothian Regt.); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action at Hooge, 14 Sept. 1915.
=BEVERIDGE, ROBERT McAUSLAN=, Private, No. 401, 1st Battn. Black Watch (42nd Royal Highlanders), _s._ of Alexander Beveridge, of Perth, Builder and Valuer (died 4 Jan. 1914); _b._ Cherrybank, Perth, 7 Jan. 1887; educ. Public School there, enlisted 30 Oct. 1905, stationed Fort George 1905–6, and in India 1906–Dec. 1912, being in charge of Regimental Police 1909–12; formed one of their Majesties’ Bodyguard on the occasion of the Durbar, 1911, and received the King’s medal. On the outbreak of war he was called up 6 Aug. and was badly wounded at the Battle of the Aisne, and died in No. 3 General Hospital, St. Nazaire, 28 Sept. 1914; buried there; _unm._
[Illustration: =Robert McAuslan Beveridge.=]
=BEVERLEY, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 14024, 2nd Battn. Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regt., 2nd _s._ of Bethel Beverley, of 54, Savile Park Street, Halifax, Professor of Music, by his wife, Sarah Isabel; _b._ Halifax, 4 Dec 1893; educ. Halifax Secondary School; left his work as an electrical engineer and volunteered after the outbreak of war in Sept. 1914, and was at first attached to the 3rd Battn. of the West Riding Regt. After seven months’ training he went to France with a draft to the 2nd Battn. He was only there three weeks when he died 5 May, 1915, from the effects of gas poisoning at Hill 60, and was buried on the Ypres and Poperingue Road; _unm._
=BEVIS, EDWARD ALBERT FRANK=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 26776 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke, lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.
=BEVIS, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 10259, 1st Battn. Royal West Kent Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action 16 March, 1915.
=BEYFUS, HAROLD EMANUEL=, Private, No. 225, 5th Battn. (Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., yr. _s._ of Albert Lewis Beyfus, of 3, Park Place Villas, Maida Hill, W., Precious Stone Merchant and Broker, by his wife, Essie, dau. of Benjamin de Frece, of New York, U.S.A.; _b._ Maida Hill, W., 26 April, 1886; educ. Gower St. University School, and Kahn’s Institute, Brussels; joined the London Rifle Brigade after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; was wounded in the head, in action at Hill 60, 1 May, 1915, and died in hospital at Boulogne two days later; _unm._
[Illustration: =Harold Emanuel Beyfus.=]
=BEZER, REUBEN=, Private, No. 3387, A. Coy., 6th Battn. Northumberland Fusiliers (T.F.); a native of Jesmond, Newcastle-on-Tyne; left Blyth for the Front, 20 April, 1915, was in action on 26 April, and was posted as missing the following day.
=BIBB, GEORGE FREDERICK=, Armourer, 342183, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BIBBY, JOHN PATRICK=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd _s._ of Col. Alfred Bibby, late 4th Hussars; _b._ 9 Nov. 1892; gazetted 2nd Lieut. from the Special Reserve to the 2nd Cameronians, 10 Dec. 1913, and promoted tempy. Lieut., 15 Nov. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action there 10 March, 1915; _unm._
=BICKERTON, FREDERICK RICHARD=, Sergt., No. 1110, A Coy. 1st/3rd Battn. (Royal Fusiliers) The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Samuel Richard Bickerton, of 58, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N., Builder’s Clerk, by his wife, Fanny Cinclar, dau. of John Spiller Standen, late of 60, Moray Road, Tollington Park, N.; _b._ 22 Sept. 1893; educ. Montem Street Elementary and Higher Grade Schools (passed Oxford Local Junior Exam. 1908, with 3rd class honours); was a shipping clerk in the City of London, and joined the 3rd City of London Regt. in 1911. On the outbreak of war he was sent to guard the railway line near Fleet, Hants, and from thence to Malta for four months, reaching France in Jan. 1915. He went through the Battle of Neuve Chapelle where his Coy. were badly cut up, was promoted Sergt. in March, 1915, and was afterwards slightly wounded but recovered and rejoined. He died at No. 7 Casualty Clearing Station 18 Aug. 1915, from wounds received in action at Aubers Ridge, and was buried in Merville Cemetery, France (Grave H. 46); _unm._ His Commanding Officer, Capt. Noel, wrote: “I can honestly say that he was a fine soldier. I especially owe him a debt of gratitude, because if it had not been for him, I should probably not be alive now. I was rather badly wounded at Neuve Chapelle, and your son bandaged me up under heavy fire; he then practically carried me and put me in a shell hole, and later in the day came back to me when my life was in danger from shells, and helped to carry me back to our lines. I mentioned his name to the Colonel directly I was able to write, and he would surely have earned some decoration if he had lived, because both in the trenches and at Neuve Chapelle he showed great bravery and indifference under fire. He was popular all round and regretted by everyone, and I am proud to say he was in my company.”
[Illustration: =Frederick R. Bickerton.=]
=BIDDLECOMBE, EDWARD GEORGE=, Sergt., R.M.A., 8781, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BIGGE, HON. JOHN NEVILLE=, Capt., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, only _s._ and _h._ of Arthur John, 1st Lord Stamfordham, P.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., Private Secretary to his Majesty the King, by his wife, Constance, dau. of the late Rev. William Frederick Neville, Vicar of Butleigh, Somerset; _b._ London, 14 Oct. 1887; educ. Evelyn’s, Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; was Page of Honour to Queen Victoria and to King Edward VII., and on leaving Sandhurst obtained his commission as 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, at Colchester, 6 Oct. 1906, afterwards proceeding with them to India. He became Lieut. 10 March, 1909, was for a short time acting A.D.C. to the Earl of Minto when Viceroy of India, and to Viscount Hardinge for the Coronation Durbar; was transferred to the Egyptian Army, 8 July, 1913, and appointed A.D.C. to Sir Reginald Wingate, Gov.-Gen. of the Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army. On the outbreak of war he was unable, according to the conditions of service, to leave the Egyptian Army, but in Sept. 1914, he was appointed A.D.C. to Gen. the Hon. Julian Byng, then nominated to the command of the 3rd Cavalry Division of the Expeditionary Force. He landed at Ostend on 7 Oct., was promoted Capt. 1 March, and remained on Gen. Byng’s Staff until the end of April, 1915, when at his own request he returned to regimental duty and joined the 1st Battn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps, then attached to the 6th Brigade, 2nd Division. On the occasion of the night attack carried out by the 1st Army on 15–16 May, he was in command of the C Company. Soon after the advance began he was seen to be wounded in the leg, but refused assistance from one of his men, said he was all right, and told the rifleman to go on. He was never seen again.
[Illustration: =Hon. John Neville Bigge.=]
=BIGGS, GEORGE EDWARD=, Private, No. 26058, 14th Battn. (Royal Montreal Regt.), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 5th _s._ of the late Edward Biggs, of Rainham, Essex, by his wife, Eliza; _b._ Dagenham, co. Essex, 27 Jan. 1885; educ. Rainham; emigrated to Canada in 1910, and settled in Toronto. He enlisted immediately on the outbreak of the war in Aug. 1914, came over with the first Canadian Contingent, and after training during the winter on Salisbury Plain, left for France, 3 April, 1915. He was eighteen days in the trenches during the Battle of Hill 60, and was killed in action at Richebourg, 20 May, 1915, while acting as bomb thrower, and was buried near Festubert. He _m._ at Rainham, 17 Aug. 1907, Daisy Constance (Anglo Cottages, Purfleet, Essex), 2nd dau. of Frederick Allen; _s.p._