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Pte. Thomas Brindley
British Army. 7th Btn. London Regiment
Thomas Brindley was my late Father. He was taken prisoner of War on 28th August 1918 and the forms that I have in my possession say that at the time he was serving with the 7th London Regiment(Middlesex). It would appear that he enlisted with the South Staffordshire Regiment on 2nd March 1916 and was called up on the 4th April 1918.
I am trying to establish (if possible)where he was captured as I would like to visit the site. I recall when I was younger that he refered to the Shiny Seventh Londoners and that when he was captured he was one of only twenty eight men who survived. He was discharged in May 1918 and then re-enlisted with the Lincolnshire Regiment.
Pte Frederick Brinkley MM
British Army 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:King's Lynn
(d.30th October 1917)
Pte. Robert Franklin Plato Brinkley
British Army 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.24th July 1917)
Robert Brinkley joined the 2nd Btn West Yorkshire Regiment aged just 15. He lied about his age as many did. He was killed on the 24th July 1917 age 18. The youngest son of Alice and the late Plato Brinkley.
Pte. Stelvio Reginald Brinkworth
British Army Yorkshire and Lancaster
from:Hotwells Bristol
(d.4th December 1915)
Stelvio Brinkworth was born in Bristol in 1895, his parents were Leopold and Sarah Jane Brinkworth. He died at Gallipoli and is buried at Hill 10 Cemetery.
Rfm. Felix John Brinn
British Army 16th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Acton, Middlesex
(d.17th Apr 1918)
Felix Brinn is the brother of my great-granny, who died aged 21 near Ypres in 1918. He had married Gladys Allen the year before in Barnet. His body was never found and his name is on the Tyne Cot memorial.
In 2002 I went on a school trip to Belgium to visit the war graves. Those rows of graves and names on walls really illustrated the huge numbers of people killed and showed us the real lives that had been affected. Our bus driver played the bagpipes whilst our teacher read out the names of our ancestors that had been killed in the war. It was very moving and everyone was crying by the end, because although we were only 14, we had respect for these people who had to cope with unimaginable horrors and we were and still are grateful for the lives we live today.
Pte. George Brinsley
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Stockport
(d.29th Apr 1917)
Gunner William Samuel Brinton
British Army 214th Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Smethwick
Cpl. Alfred Edward Briscoe MiD.
Australian Imperial Force 20th Battalion
from:Greta, NSW, Australia
Alfred Briscoe joined the Australian Imperial Army with his brothers Leopold, Walter and half brother George Brooker. Alfred was a miner aged 28 years and was living in Gosford, NSW with his wife Mrs C T B Briscoe when he enlisted on 30th of October 1915. His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 9th of April 1916. He was promoted to Corporal within the 20th Battalion AIF.
On 14th of November 1916 he was wounded in action sustaining a gunshot wound to his arm and shoulder. The next day he was transferred to the 38th Casualty Clearing Station, then on 16th November he was transferred to the 11th Stationery Hospital at Rouen. From there transferred to England on 27th November. He was later discharged from hospital and returned to Australia on 1st of July 1919.
Alfred received the British War Medal, Star 1914/15 and Victory Medal. He was also Mention in Despatches: Awarded, and promulgated, London Gazette No. 31089 (31st of December 1918) and Commonwealth Gazette No. 61 (23rd of May 1919).
Of the brothers, all returned except Leopold, formerly of the 13th Battalion AIF and then of the 30th Infantry Battalion AIF. He was killed in action at the Battle of Fromelles on the 20th of July 1916.
Drv. Edward Briscoe
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Dublin
(d.23rd Oct 1918)
Edward Briscoe served with the Royal Horse Artillery and with the Royal Field Artillery. He died in India on the 23rd October 1918.
2nd Lt. Henry Whitby Briscoe
British Army 3rd Garrison Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Bray, Co. Wicklow
(d.15th Apr 1917)
Henry Briscoe served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers. His unit is recorded as the 3rd Garrison Battalion but that unit served only within the UK and would have provided reinforcements to other regular battalions. It is likely that he served with either the 5th or 6th Battalions as both were involved in the Gallipoli Campaign and then moved to Salonika.
He was the son of Arthur Wellesley Briscoe, of Leinster Rd., Rathmines, Dublin and husband of Mary Zoe Briscoe, of 6, Duncairn Terrace, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Henry was a Civil Servant (Irish Land Commission), barrister-at-law. He was drowned at sea age 34 when the HM Transport Arcadian was torpedoed and sunk on the 15th April 1917 while en route from Salonika to Alexandria. He is remembered on the Mikra Memorial in Greece.
Pte. Samuel Henry Niblett Briscoe
British Army 6th Btn. The Buffs (East Kent) Regiment
from:Wadhurst, Kent
(d.3rd May 1917)
Pte. Charles George Ernest Briselden
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Deptford, London
(d.30th June 1916)
Charles Briselden was a prisoner of war at the Siege of Kut. One of the unfortunates given up by Townshend, after suffering the experience of starvation whilst under Siege. He was then marched off as a prisoner of war but never made the destination of I believe Basra he was among the soldiers that died of dysentery according to the Army.
However, a friend survivor (name of whom we do not know) reported back to my grandfather, Ernest Briselden brother of Charles, that Charles was in fact flogged to death by the Turkish Army while in captivity. How true this is we will never know but his grave is unknown. He is remembered on the Basra Memorial.
This awful experience is still remembered and passed on within the family now in 2018. I have his dead man's penny and a wooden boot that he whittled whilst at the Siege of Kut. He was also a boxing champion within the Queens Own Royal West Kents when he was serving in India along with his brother Ernest before 1914. They enlisted as teenagers in London.
Pte Henry Bristow
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:56, Webster's Villas, Cave Lane, East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorks
(d.22nd Aug 1918)
Bristow, Henry. Private, 66479, Killed on 22nd August 1918. Aged 19 years.
Buried in Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, in grave II. C. 7.
Son of William and Eva Bristow, of 56, Webster's Villas, Cave Lane, East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorks.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. Sidney Marcus Bristow
British Army 4th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Haddenham, Cambridgeshire
(d.26th Sep 1917)
Sidney Bristow was born in London in 1880, but by the 1911 census was living in Haddenham, Cambridgeshire with the Russell family, where he worked as a gardener. He was very much involved with the local community, singing in the church choir and taking an active role in the local branch of the Church of England Men's Society. He applied for exemption from military service in March 1916, which was refused as he did not attend the hearing, and joined the 4th Battalion Suffolk Regiment in April 1916, arriving in France on 23rd May 1917.
In a letter from his brother, Mrs Russell heard about Sydney's death on 26th September 1917. He had been killed in action by a shell, instantaneously. Not long before, Sidney had sent a copy of his will to his brother with a note to say that he had a presentiment that something would happen. His name is recorded on the Haddenham War Memorial.
Pte Amos Albert Britnell
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Cadmore Common,High Wycombe
(d.25th Sept 1915)
Amos was born in 1890, the 4th child of the family of 10 belonging to Amos Britnell (sen) and Jane Plested. He was still living at home with his parents and siblings when he joined the Army.
He was killed in France and is commemorated at the Ploegsteert Memorial at Hainaut in Belgium. 11,000 servicemen from the UK and South Africa are remembered here as they have no known graves. They were mainly killed in day to day trench warfare.
Pte. William Brittle
British Army 1st Btn. King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
from:Gospel End, Sedgley
(d.29th Oct 1918)
Sgt. Albert Britton
British Army 7th (West. and Cumb. Yeomanry) Btn. Border Regiment
from:Bristol
(d.25th March 1918)
Pte. C. Britton
British Army 1/5th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:England
(d.12th Sep 1917)
Private C Britton served with the 1/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment during WW1. He was executed for desertion on the 12th September 1917 and is buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Pte. Frederick William Britton
British Army 8th Battalion Border Regiment
from:Terrington St John, Norfolk
(d.21st March 1918)
Frederick Britton had previously served in the Boer War with the 3rd Norfolk Regiment. He enlisted with the same regiment on 17th of July 1915 but was transferred to the 10th Battalion of the Border Regiment on 9th November 1915 and then transferred to 8 Battalion of the Border Regiment on 30th of December 1915 and was promptly posted to France.
The battalion took part in many actions on the Western Front and he was killed in action on 21 March 1918 leaving a widow and six children. He is commemorated at the Arras Memorial Records have his surname variously spelled Britton/Britain/Brittain
Pte. Frederick William Britton
British Army 8th Battalion Border Regiment
from:Terrington St John, Norfolk
(d.21st March 1918)
Frederick Britton joined the 3rd Battalion the Norfolk Regiment in 1898 when he was 18 and served in South Africa during the Boer War leaving the Army in 1904 to marry and start a family.
He re-enlisted in the same regiment on 7th of July 1915. On 9th of November 1915 Frederick was transferred to the 10th Battalion, Border Regiment and then further transferred to the 8th Battalion in France on 30th of December 1915. He remained in France with the Battalion until his death on 21st of March 1918.
Pte. Harry George Britton
British Army Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Hambleden, Oxon
Lt. Thomas Henry Britton MC.
Australian Imperial Force 34th Battalion Australian Infantry
(d.21st Jun 1918)
Thomas Britton was born in Dublin, the son of John and Elizabeth Britton. He served with the 34th Battalion Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. He was awarded the Military Cross. He died of wounds on the 21st June 1918, aged 26 and is buried in the Officers section of St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen in France.
Pte. Thomas Henry Britton
British Army 7th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
from:3 Cemetery Lane, Broseley
(d.14th July 1916)
Thomas Britton died with his neighbour, John Elliott Brazier, and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Thomas had been employed at the (famous) Maw & Co. Encaustic Tile Manufacturer of Jackfield and is also remembered on the company's very beautiful War Memorial within the Ironbridge Gorge Museum's Jackfield Tile Works site.
Pte. D. A. Broad
Australian Imperial Force 42nd Btn.
(d.10th Jun 1917)
Flt.Sub.Lt. Dennis Gurney Broad
Australian Imperial Force Royal Naval Air Service Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (Tropical)
from:Australia
(d.27th Apr 1916)
Flight Sub-Lieutenant Dennis Gurney Broad was born at Aylesbury, England in 1883. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was living in Australia and gave his occupation as a commercial traveller. With his only previous military service being in the London Rifle Brigade, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 11th August 1914. Broad departed Sydney aboard HMAT Berrima on 19th August 1914 as part of the Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (Tropical Unit).
In December 1914, wishing to return home, Broad requested to be discharged from the AIF. He returned to England and joined the Royal Naval Air Service and was given the rank of flight sub-lieutenant and assigned to HMS Killingholme. Broad received his Aviators certificate on 30th July 1915 from Royal Naval Air Station at Eastbourne, England while flying a Maurice Farman Biplane. Broad was killed in action during an engagement with a submarine in the North Sea on 27th April 1916. Dennis Broad is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, England.
Private James Broad
British Army 11th Bn Suffolk Regiment
from:Islington, London
(d.17th Nov 1918)
I am contacting you to let you know that my Grandfather is listed on a Memorial wall at what was called the Royal Northern Hospital in Islington North London. I have often wondered why my Grandfather who lived in London all his life ended up serving in the Suffolk Regiment.He is buried in Mont Huon cemetery in Le Treport France.
Pte. Walter James Broad
British Army 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
from:St.Albans
(d.10th Oct 1917)
My great great grandfather, Walter Broad, was born Nov. 1883 Woodford Bridge, Essex. Walter married Emily Elizabeth Barnard 13th Sept. 1903 at Woodford Bridge, Essex. Their only son, Stanley, was born in 1913. Walter enlisted at Bedford, he was resident 32, Castle Rd., Fleetville, St. Albans and the bus ran to Bedford from the end of his road.
G/32330 Private Broad served with 1st & 9th Battalions East Surrey Regt. His Regimental number seems to show a mid-November 1915 enlistment and is prefixed with G/. shows a wartime short attestment as men enlisting with the East Surrey Regiment for wartime service only were given numbers from a separate series prefixed with the letter G/. He was killed in action aged 35 between 2nd July 1917 -10th October 1917: Maybe at Passchendaele, 3rd Battle of Ypres as his death date is noted as 10th October 1917 which was the last date of the Battle, presumably missing in action before then (see note on effects ledger.) His remains are buried in Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium. Emily never remarried & was fortunate that her only son grew up, avoided the 2nd War by being in a protected profession. Stanley married Gertie (who also lost her father in the war). Stanley was my partner's Grandad.
As far as I've been able to ascertain so far, 1st Battalion landed at Le Havre 15th August 1914, remaining in France to 12th January 1916 in 5th Division. November 1917 moved with the Division to Italy but returned to France in April 1918.
The 9th (Service) Battalion East Surrey was formed at Kingston-upon-Thames in September 1914 as part of K3 and came under orders of 72nd Brigade in 24th Division.They were moved to billets in Worthing & in April 1915 to Shoreham & Blackdown, Aldershot in June 1915, landing at Boulogne 1 September 1915 & straight into battle at Loos with heavy casualties for green novice troops. The Battalion remained on Western Front until the Armistice.
I may be wrong though so any help or tips on tracing his war very much appreciated.) I have traced some documents but have no pictures of him...yet Walter James Broad is listed on the St. Albans City World War 1 Memorial in St Peter's Street which lists 634 names of men who died from St. Albans in the Great War.
Unrelated but also commemorated on St Albans memorial: William Raymond Corley, Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action 27 March 1918. Aged 23. Son of William and Marian Corley, of 2, Selby Avenue, St. Albans. Mentioned in Despatches. No known grave. Commemorated on Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.
Pte. Sidney Victor Broadbear
British Army 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regt.
from:51 Beresford Rd. Reading
(d.28th Apr 1917)
Sidney Broadbear joined the Worcester Regiment and transferred to 10th Lincolnshire Regiment, he was killed on the 28th of April 1917 aged 21 and lies in Roeux British Cemetery.
Pte. Leonard Broadbelt
British Army 2/7th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.4th March 1917)
Leonard Broadbelt death is well recorded and he has a grave at Puchvillers in France. He died prior to the battle of Arras, on 4th of March 1917 at age 22. No enlistment records can be found for him. His father was Sam Broadbelt and his mother was Jane Emily Broadbelt (nee) Nettleton. He had nine brothers and sisters, one of whom was my grandmother, Ruth Ann. He and his father have sometimes been recorded under the surname of Broadbent.
Cpl. Tom Broadbelt
British Army 7th Battalion Border Regiment
from:Fellbank, Silecroft, Cumberland
(d.28th October 1917)
Tom Broadbelt was the son of William and Margaret Broadbelt of Fellbank, Silecroft, Cumberland and husband of Mary Broadbelt of Nether Burrow, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth. He is commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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