Remember the Fallen: October

Posted: 10/10/2018

With the 100th anniversary of WWI ending in 2018, we remember the fallen Old Bromsgrovians who were killed during the month of October.


1915
Wilfred Hugh Holroyd, d. 13/10/1915 aged 23
At School: 1906-1910
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment
Buried: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Reginald Hartley, d. 26/10/1915 aged 24
At School: 1903-1910
Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
Buried: Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Ian Vaughan Brembridge Melhuish, d. 27/10/1915 aged 23
At School: 1907-1911
Regiment: Prince Albert's
Buried: Rue-Du-Bacquerot 13th London Graveyard, Pas de Calais, France


1916
William Henry Francis Burrows Lloyd, d. 03/10/1916 aged 21
At School: 1907-1912
Regiment: Devonshire Regiment
Buried: Philosophe British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France

Samuel Cecil Webb, d. 03/10/1916 aged 30
At School: 1902-1903
Regiment: Royal Munster Fusiliers
Buried: Struma Military Cemetery, Greece

Robert Lancelot Gibbs Hunt, d. 07/10/1916 aged 21
At School: 1909-1912
Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried: Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Some, France

Leonard Cameron Kidd, d. 12/10/1916 aged 23
At School: 1905-1910 Gordon
Regiment: Royal Flying Corps
Buried: Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Military Cross with Bar

Walter John Gerald Hoare, d. 25/10/1916
Regiment: Royal Fusiliers
Buried: Courcelette British Cemetery, Somme, France Awarded DSO


1917
Frederick Bentley, d. 04/10/1917 aged 42
At School: 1890-1894
Regiment: The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Henry William Pearman, d. 05/10/1917
At School: 1908-1910
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Buried: Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France

Donald Court Halsall, d. 09/10/1917 aged 19
At School: 1910-1916
Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers
Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium

Gerald Aubrey Pilcher, d. 26/10/1917 aged 21
At School: 1909-1914
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Buried: Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium


1918
Stuart Leslie Keppel-Palmer, d. 03/10/1918
At School: 1907-1911
Regiment: Royal Tank Corps
Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Aisne, France Awarded Military Cross

Harvey Gerald Carminow Carter, d. 08/10/1918 aged 22
At School: 1908-1914
Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
Buried: Hargicourt Communal Cemetery, Aisne, France

Vernon Dockeray Johnson, d. 19/10/1918
At School: 1912-1913
Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
Buried: Dunhallow Ads. Cemetery, Belgium
Master at the School, joined Elmshurst in May 1912 and stayed until July 1913

Charles Holbrook Rosling, d. 22/10/1918
At School: 1917-1918
Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Buried: Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, France
Attached to our OTC for instructional purposes

Maurice Neville Meredith, d. 26/10/1918 aged 23
At School: 1909-1913
Regiment: Duke of York's Own Lancers
Buried: Beirut War Cemetery