6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. L to Z.
Kitchener New Army Battalion, (K1). Formed at Bedford in August 1914.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 655 recorded WW1 deaths for the 6th (Service) Bedfordshire Regiment.
LEWIN, A. Private, 19127. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Gommecourt British Cemetery No.2, Hebuterne, Pas-de-Calais, France. 03-04-1918.
LILLEY, Edmund Arthur Howe. Captain. (Lieutenant)? 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Attached To :- 112th Trench Mortar Battery. St. Amand British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. Killed in action. 31-07-1918.
MABBOTT, R. Private, 19708. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Waggon Road Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France. 16-11-1916.
MEADER, Fred. Corporal, 13066. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12-08-1916. Age 22. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Meader of Scott Buildingd, Caledonian Road, London. Native of Islington, London, UK.
Murray, Francis Joseph. Private, 9654. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Locre Hospice Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 22-07-1917. Age 21. Son of Michael & Ellen Murray of St. George's Road, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "Jesus Mercy, Mary Pray. R.I.P.".
NEAL, J.W. Private, 16989. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle, Somme, France. 10-07-1916.
OSLER, Clifton David. Private, 17424. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 29-07-1916. Age 23. Son of Frank & Jane of Bedmond, King's Langley, Hertfordshire, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "Gone But Not Forgotten".
PAGE, William Albert Charles. Lance Corporal, 33071. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Etaples Military cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 16-05-1917. Age 19. Son of Albert & Annie of High Street, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK. Born at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, UK. Stone Inscription :- "Some Day We Hope To Meet Him Never To Part Again".
PAINE, C. Private, 204240. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Tank Cemetery, Guemappe, Pas-de-Calais, France. 23-05-1917.
Stone Inscription :- "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out".
PATTEN, A.W. Private, 32151. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 04-05-1917. Age 24. Son of Alfred & Mary E. Patten of Ash Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "Gone But Not Forgotten".
PAYNE, W.H. Private, 18221. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 25-06-1916. Husband of F.M. Payne of Bell Lane, Stoke, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
PEEL, Geoffrey. Captain. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Pond Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Killed in action. 17-07-1917. Age 22. Fifth son of the late Edward Lennox Peel & of Amy Peel of 15, Mount Avenue, Ealing, London, UK. Native of Bedford. Educated at Bedford School. Scholar of Trinity College Oxford, UK. On the night of the 17th/18th July 1917 he was out in no-man's land on a recon patrol when he was killed. Stone Inscription :- "He That Loses His Life For My Sake Shall Find It".
PLEDGER, Stacey John. Serjeant, 8156. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 22-06-1916. Age 33. Son of Charles & Mary Pledger. Husband of D.S. Pledger of Somerset Road, Tottenham, London, UK. Native of Saffron Walden, Essex, UK. Stone Inscription :- "My Dear Beloved Husband".
PRICKETT, Joseph Foster. Private, 13566. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 13-07-1916. Age 21. Son of Arthur & Sarah Prickett of Westend, Stagsden, Bedford. UK.
Stone Inscription :- "In God He Had Put His Trust".
RUTLAND, Bertie John George. Lance Corporal, 17735. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 27-06-1916. Age 27. Son of John & Jane Rutland of Roxton, Bedfordshire, UK.Husband of Martha May Rutland of Willow Dene, Clapham, Bedford.
SHARP, G. Corporal, 13821. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Tank Cemetery, Guemappe, Pas-de-Calais, France. 21-05-1917. Age 32. Husband of Sarah Sharp of "Glenview", Putters Way, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK. Born at Hitchin.
Stone Inscription :- "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out".
SHELTON, Isaac Arthur. Private, 27588. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 12-05-1918. Age 37. Son of William & Louisa Shelton of Offord D'Arcy, Huntingdonshire, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "Jesu Grant That We May Meet There Adoring At Thy Feet".
SMITH, A. Private, 19910. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. St. Amand British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 04-05-1916.
SMITH MASTERS, George Arthur. Second Lieutenant. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Dranoutre Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Killed in action. 19-08-1915. Age 20. Son of John Ernest & Eliza Margaret Smith Masters of Camer, Meopham, Kent, UK. His brother Captain B.S. Smith Masters (MC). of 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment fell on 01-07-1916 aged 24 & is buried at Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France. Native of Kidmore End, Oxfordshire, UK. Stone Inscription :- "Obedient Unto Death For God, King And Country. Requiescat Pace".
TURNER, Harry Cresswell. Private, 14868. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Waggon Road Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France. 16-11-1916. Age 35. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Rose Turner of "Avoca" South Ford Road, Dartmouth, Devon, UK. Native of Babbacombe, Torquay, Devon.
WALLIS, Leonard Percy. Private, 41440. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 18-04-1918. Age 19. Son of W. & H. Wallis of Tollgate Lane, Bury-St. Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "To Live In Hearts We Leave Behind Is Not To Die".
WOOLLARD, Joseph Henry Private, 14307. "D" Company. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 26-06-1916. Age 22. Son of Joseph & Margaret Woollard of Lyndhurst Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "He Heard The Call And For The Land He Loved He Gave His All".
WRIGHT, L. Private, 43213. 6th (Service) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, Nord, France. 20-08-1917.