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Pte. Reuben Giles Bashford
British Army 13th Btn., 39th Div. Royal Sussex Rgt.
from:16 Chapel Fields, Worthing
(d.30th June 1916)
Reuben Bashford was living with his widowed mother Emily and sister Lucy at 16 Chapelfields (known as back of Portland Road) in a five-roomed house. He was a fisherman.
He has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, which forms the side and back of the Dud Corner Cemetery, which stands on the site of a German strongpoint on the Lens Road redoubt, which was captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on the first day of the Battle of Loos. It is located on the west of the village on the N43, the main Lens to Bethune Road. Reuben is commemorated on panel 69 to 73.
He is also in the book of remembrance in the Royal Sussex Regiment chapel in Chichester Cathedral. Reuben was born and enlisted in Worthing.
Willie Bashforth
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Sheffield
(d.27th March 1916)
Willie Bashford is buried in Belgium. He died from a gun shot wound to the chest, age of death 19.
Lascar Ahmad Bashir
Royal Indian Marine
(d.26 May 1916)
Ahmad Bashir served in Remembered at . WW1
S/Sgt. George Lewis Basinger
British Army Royal Army Ordance Corps
from:Tottenham, Middlesex
Staff Sergeant (Armourer) George Basinger was a member of the (Royal) Ordnance Corps attached to the 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment.
He saw action on the Western Front at the Somme, Arras, Cambrai and Lys. In 1917 the Battalion was rapidly move to northern Italy to repel the Austrian army and he saw action at the Battle of the River Piave and Treviso. During the Italian campaign he captured an Austrian officer's walking stick as a memento. He was also greatly moved by the miserable sight of the poor young wretches, some of whom were barely children, who had suffered terrible injuries fighting with the Austrian army.
In 1919 the Battalion was in Rome, Italy, awaiting demobilisation and return to England. When the Prince of Wales visited the Battalion in Rome they arranged a concert for him during which Staff Sergeant (Armourer) Basinger, who was a good baritone, gave a performance.
Pte. William E. Basketfield
British Army 3rd Btn. Coldstream Guards
from:Coleshill. Warwickshire
(d.11th October 1917)
William Basketfield served with the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in WW1. He died 11th of October 1917 aged 24 years and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. Son of William and Mary Anna Basketfield of Coventry Road, Coleshill, Birmingham. His brother Arthur Oliver Allan also fell.
Pte. Harold Baskeyfield
British Army 24th Battalion London Regiment
from:Stoke-on-Trent
My Grandad Harry Baskeyfield told me once that he played football with the Germans on Christmas day (1914?) We have his medals & badges (including Mutton Lancer cap badge & crossed rifles one). It says South Staffs around the edge of his medals I also have his service number & a medal card image.
Rfm. Edward Hudson Basnett
British Army 11th Btn. Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
from:Woolwich, Kent
(d.4th Apr 1917)
Edward Basnett was born in Dublin and enlisted in Woolwich, Kent. He landed with his battalion at Boulogne in July 1915. Edward Basnett died of wounds in France during the Allied pursuit of the Germans to the Hindenburg Line. He is buried in Neuville-Bourjonval British Cemetery.
Pte. Arthur Henry Bason
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
from:High Ercall, Shropshire
(d.2nd May 1918)
L/Cpl. Matthew Henry Bass
British Army 10th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corp
from:Canning Town
(d.20th September 1917)
The family story is that Matthew Bass was sent out on water carrying duties as a punishment. His remains were never found. He was a talented pianist who allegedly played the New Cross Empire to accompany silent movies and in music hall.
Pte. Charles Bassett
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Cpl. Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett VC.
New Zealand Expeditionary Force New Zealand Divisional Signal Company
from:New Zealand
Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett was 23 years old, and a corporal in the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, New Zealand Expeditionary Force when he was awarded the VC.
On 7th of August 1915 at Chunuk Bair Ridge, Gallipoli, Turkey, after the New Zealand Brigade had attacked and established itself on the ridge, Corporal Bassett, in full daylight and under continuous fire, succeeded in laying a telephone line from the old position to the new one on Chunuk Bair. He also did further gallant work in connection with the repair of telephone lines by day and night under heavy fire. He is quoted "I was so short that the bullets just passed over me"
Sgt. Raymond Bassett
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:St. John's Terrace, Allesley St., Aston, Birmingham
(d.25th Sept 1915)
Pte. Sampson Edward Bastable
British Army 9th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:306 Halesowen Road, Old Hill, Staffs.
(d.4th Jan 1917)
Sampson Bastable was the son of Charles Edward and Ruth Bastable, sibling to Charles, Mary, William and Samuel. He was born 31st December 1885 in Smethwick, was educated at Old Hill Council School. He enlisted on the 5th of April 1916 and fought from the 6th August 1916. He is buried at Munich Trench Cemetery at Beaumont-Hamel.
Pte. Sampson Edward "Samson" Bastable
British Army 9th (Service) Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:306 Halesowen Road, Old Hill
(d.4th Jan 1917)
He was a bricklayer, a single man. According to the Civil Registration Birth Index 1837-1915, he was born in 1883, somewhere between January and March. According to the De Ruvigny Roll of Honour, he was born 31st December 1885, but I have found this to be wrong, as proved by the 1891, 1901, and 1911 censuses. I wonder why or how they got the date wrong. On some records though he is listed as Samson (without the p) instead of Sampson. He has two service records. One says he was Soldier Number 23343, Private, South Staffordshire Regiment. The other says he was Soldier Number 30195, Private, 9th Service Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. He is buried at the Munich Trench British Cemetery at Beaumont-Hamel, plot C 22.
Pte. William Edwell Baston
British Army 1st Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:9 Burgess Road, Basingstoke
(d.1st Jan 1918)
William Baston was with the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment but was attached to the 14th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. He was servant to Lt J W Griffin.
'Your husband was killed only a few yards from me, and was hit by a small piece of shell in the throat, lost all consciousness almost immediately, and died in my arms only a few seconds afterwards, at about 7.45am' Lieutenant J W Griffin MG.
Pte. Arnot Ramsay Batchan
British Army 5th (Service) Btn. Cameron Highlanders
from:Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
(d.19th Jul 1918)
Arnot Batchan was born on the 11th December 1891, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.
Having enlisted into the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) on the 4th of September 1914, Arnot was transferred to the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders on the 6th November 1914. Arnot returned to Edinburgh to marry Elizabeth D. White, at St. Mungo's church, on the 23rd March 1917. He returned to the 5th Battalion and is listed as 'Killed in action, somewhere in France or Belgium' on the 19th July 1918.
Pte. Charles Henry Batchelor
British Army 27th Btn. (Tyneside Irish) Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.25th April 1917)
Pte. Ernest George Batchelor
British Army 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Amesbury, Wilts
(d.15th June 1915)
Ernest Batchelor served with the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. I know very little, except the story that my Nan told me, that his mother, Aunt Flo, kept the peel of the last orange he ate before he left to go to war.
Pte. Herbert Batchelor
British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
(d.3rd May 1917)
Isaac Batchelor
Royal Navy HMS Au Fait Royal Naval Reserve
from:Lowestoft, Suffolk
Isaac Batchelor was my great-grandfather, born in Lound, Suffolk in 1878. He was a fisherman on smacks out of Lowestoft and joined the RNR in 1914. He crewed an Admiralty drifter laying submarine nets off the Belgian coast. On 24th of April 1916, his vessel, the steam-driven screw ketch Au Fait (Admiralty No. 763), was sunk by German e-boats off Zeebrugge. He and his crew-mates were captured and taken to the port, processed, and sent as POWs to Giessen in Germany. He returned home early in 1919 and died in 1940.
Pte. Robert Batchelor
Britsh Army 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:54 Graham Rd., West Green, South Totenham
(d.28th April 1917)
Pte. William Batchford
British Army 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Nottingham
(d.21st October 1918)
William Batchford was the son of Enoch and Mary Ann Batchford, of 3 Dane St., Alfred St. Central, Nottingham. He is remembered in Nottingham General Cemetery.
Pte. William Batchford MM.
British Army 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Kalamunda
(d.21st Oct 1918)
I am researching information on WW1 from the St Anns Well Rd area of Nottingham. The honour roll in the local church was destroyed during the 1970s, so I am working on a virtual memorial. I came across William Batchford during this search. He was awarded the Military Medal.
Lt. Albert Francis Bate
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin
(d.14th Mar 1915)
Alfred Bate, son of Edward Reginald and Charlotte Frederica Bate (nee Bell), of 2 Eden Park, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, was born in Kingstown (now known as Dun Laoghaire), Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, achieving a B.A., and also studied Law at King's Inns, Dublin. When the war began he was preparing for call to the Irish Bar.
In addition to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers he was also attached to Leinster Regiment 2nd Battalion. Lieutenant Bate was killed in action in France aged 22, and is buried in Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery. He is commemorated on the War Memorial Plaque inside the 1937 Reading Room of Trinity College, Dublin.
Pte. Leonard Bate
British Army 1st Btn. D Coy Leicestershire Regiment
from:Leicester
Len Bate was posted to France in autumn of 1914. He was 26 years old. On 21st October, the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment arrived at the line near Armentieres to relieve the 1st Battalion West Yorks.
Len, a member of D Company, was wounded and taken prisoner in the attack on the level crossing south of La Houssoie station on 25th October. He was to spend the next four years as a POW, initially at Cassel and from December 1916 at Langensalza.
After the war he returned to his wife and daughter in Leicestershire, moved to Staffordshire, where his son was born in 1921, before immigrating to Ontario, Canada where he became a successful businessman and well known amateur artist. He made regular return visits to his family in Leicester until his death in 1971.
Pte. Richard Brenton Bate
British Army 6th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
from:Tavern House, Tavern Hill, Padstow, Cornwall
(d.31st July 1915)
I know very little about Richard Bate, though I do know he served in Ypres in 1915, with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. I believe his main task was to secure and safeguard the Hazebrouck-Poperinghe railway line, which became vital in June 1915 for British Casualty Clearing Stations.
He died on Saturday, 31st of July 1915 at the age of 34, and my family is forever grateful for his service and sacrifice.
Pte. W. T. Bate
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 5th Btn.
from:Millpool, Cardinham, Cornwall
(d.15th Dec 1918)
Private W Bate was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Bate of Haygrove Cottage, Millpool, Cardinham, Cornwall. He was 27 when he died and is buried in the Viborg Cemetery in Denmark.
Pte. William Booth Bate
British Army 5th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Bolton
One of the wounded men was a Private William Booth Bate of Bolton rank no 2058 who, for the rest of his life, had to use two sticks. He died in 1970 of complications of his wounds. He was my grand father who I am very proud of.
Capt. Arthur Cyril Bateman MM.
British Army att. 7th Btn. Cameron Highlanders Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
(d.28th Mar 1918)
Arthur Bateman was the son of Godfrey Bateman, LL.D., and Frances Emily Bateman, of 28 Clarinda Park East, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 7th Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders. He died aged 27 in March 1918 in France, and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Pte. Frank Bateman
British Army 1/4th Btn. Yorks & Lancs Regiment
from:Sheffield,
(d.10th Sep 1918)
Frank Bateman was executed for desertion 10/09/1918 age 28 and buried in Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, France. He as the son of Mr. C. Bateman, of 3 Kilton St., Sheffield
Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes in their book "Shot at Dawn state that Frank was initially posted to 1/4 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (49 West Riding Division) at the end of June 1915. The Battalion served at Ypres in the Autumn of 1915 and then transferred to the Somme in 1916. Frank was wounded in the summer of that year and after recovery was posted to 1/5 Battalion. He first deserted in 1917 and received a sentence of one year’s imprisonment that was suspended. Later that year he was returned to England with this time a self inflicted wound.
Returning to his original Battalion in 1918 (1/4 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) he deserted again and received a fifteen year sentence again suspended. In June 1918 he went missing yet again and received the death sentence at the subsequent court martial. The sentence was carried out on 10th September 1918. Frank was the sixth and final soldier from Sheffield to be executed. It was of course just two months from the end of the war.
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