BURN, CUTHBERT, Lieut., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. The Leicestershire Regt.. s. of the late Right Rev. William John Burn, Bishop of Quappelle, Canada. by his wife, Mary Maud. Frederica (26 Beaconsfield Road, Clifton, Bristol), dau. of the Rev. S. Banks, of Cottenham Rectory, Cambridge; b. Sydenham, London. S.E., 6 June, 1893 educ. Clifton College Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; was gazetted 2nd Lient. The Leicestershire Regt. in Sept. 1914, and promoted Lient. in Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Oct. 1914; was wounded at Ypres 7 Nov. following on recovery returned to France the following March; was again wounded near Ypres, on a bombing expedition, in Aug. 1915; went back to France in June, 1917, and was killed in action at Polygon Wood, Passchendaele, 1 Oct. following. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was held in the highest respect both by officers and men he fell showing a great example of how an Englishman should die.” Unm

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Smeatham C Lt 1st Leicestershire Regiment

LIEUTENANT C. SMEAΤΗΜΑΝ

IST BATTALION THE LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT

CECIL SMEATHMAN was the third and youngest son of Lovel and Frances Smeathman, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

He entered the School in 1903, and won his Football Cap in 1907. He passed on to University College, Oxford, in 1908, and took his degree and entered the Army, as a University Candidate, in 1913.

He went to the Front in September, 1914, was wounded by shell in the trenches at Rue du Bois on October 23rd, and died in the Base Hospital at Bailleul on October 24th, 1914, on the same day that his elder brother, Lieut. J. M. Smeathman (O.R.), was killed. Age 25.

His Adjutant wrote:-

“He was an Officer whose loss is very much felt, not only professionally, for he was of exceptional capability, but also as a very great personal friend of us all.”

A brother Officer said:-

“He was one of the most popular Officers here, and is universally regretted by all of us who survived those four terrible days. His Platoon was terribly upset about him. I know they would have followed him anywhere.”

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

Viney P E Captain 1st Leicstershire Regiment

Source : The Sphere 9th Jan 1915

Viney P E Captain 1st Leicestershire Regiment

Source : The Illustrated London News 9th Jan 1915

VINEY, PHILIP ERNEST, Capt., 1st Battn. Leicestershire Regt., 2nd s. of Josiah Ernest Viney, of Cintra, Swanage, formerly of Harcourts, Chertsey, M.D., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S. Eng. ; b. 23 April, 1888; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the Leicesters, 8 Feb. 1908, and was promoted Lieut. 16 May, 1910, and Capt. 24 Aug. 1914. He served with the 1st Battn. at Shorncliffe, and later with the 2nd Battn. at Belgaum, and 5 Oct. 1911, was seconded for service with the Gold Coast Regt., and did good work in West Africa. He was A.D.C. to Sir Hugh Clifford, but on the outbreak of war came home and rejoined his regt., and died in the field hospital at Bailleul, 17 Dec. 1914, of wounds received in action; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1