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The Bedfordshire Regiment can be traced back to 1688. During the Great War he regiment saw action in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine as well as France and Flanders including at the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, Marne, Ypres, Suvla, Somme, Passchendaele and Arras. In 1919 it became the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment which, in 1958, was amalgamated with the Essex Regiment to become the 3rd East Anglian Regiment
Battalions during the Great War.
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd Battalion
- 4th Battalion
- 5th Battalion
- 2/5th Battalion
- 3/5th Battalion
- 6th Battalion
- 7th Battalion
- 8th Battalion
- 9th Battalion
- 10th Battalion
- 11th Battalion
- 12th Battalion
- 13th Battalion
- 51st Battlion
- 52nd Battalion
- 1st Garrison Battalion
- 2nd Garrison Battalion
- 3rd Garrison Battalion
- 1st Volunteer Battalion
- 2nd Volunteer Battalion
- 1st/1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire Regiment The Hertfordshire Guards
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Please note we currently have a large backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site.
Those known to have served with The Bedfordshire Regiment during the Great War.
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- Pte. Reginald Ernest Abbey 1st Btn. (d.15th Nov 1918)
- Pte. Albert Fordham Abbott 1st Btn. (d.4th Sep 1916)
- Pte. Arthur John Abbott 1st Btn. (d.28th Aug 1916)
- Pte. Harold Campbell Abbott 1st Btn. (d.17th Apr 1915)
- Pte. Sidney Abraham 1st Btn. (d.21st Apr 1915)
- 2nd Lt. Paul Norman Jones Christie 1st Btn. C Coy (d.9th Oct 1917) Read their Story.
- Pte. Sidney Charles Clark 1st Btn. (d.23rd Apr 1917) Read their Story.
- Pte. William James Cornell 15th Battalion (d.14th Oct 1918) Read their Story.
- Pte. Richard George Pateman 1st Btn. (d.19th Nov 1914) Read their Story.
If you have any names to add to this list, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch.
Pte. William James Cornell 15th Battalion (d.14th Oct 1918)
My Great-Uncle, William James Cornell joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on 28th May 1915, aged 15, using his elder brother Frank's date of birth. He was transferred into the Bedford Regiment and eventually into the 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters on 4th April 1918.William was killed in action on 14th October 1918, aged just 18, taking part in an attack on Cable Copse, Belgium. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Tyne Cot memorial. If anyone knows anything about the action at Cable Copse, or about William, I would be grateful for any extra information.
Pte. Richard George Pateman 1st Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment (d.19th Nov 1914)
Richard Pateman was killed in action on Monday 19th November 1914 in France, aged 28. He was born and was resident in Wootton and enlisted in Ampthill. Son of Frederick and Fanny Pateman, of Church Row, Wootton, Beds. He is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, and in the National Roll of the Great War Section XII - Bedford & Northampton, as follows:Pateman, R.G., Private, Bedfordshire Regiment. Mobilised at the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was immediately ordered to the Western front. There he participated in the Battle of Mons and the subsequent Retreat, and also took part in the Battles of the Marne, the Aisne, La Bassée and Ypres, where he fell in action on November 19th, 1914. He was the first Wootton man to make the supreme sacrifice in the war. He was buried at Ypres, and was entitled to the Mons Star, and the General Service and Victory Medals.
"He passed out of the sight of men by the path of duty and self-sacrifice."
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