Buick D Sergt MM 65295 Royal Engineers

BUICK, DAVID, M.M., Sergt., No. 65295, Royal Engineers, s. of the late William (and Mary) Buick, of Mornity Farm, Alyth; b. Alyth, co. Perth, 26 April, 1889; educ. Public School there; was a Carpenter; came from Canada in Dec. 1914; enlisted in the Royal Engineers 25 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 8 Sept. following: was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at Epéhy 22 March, 1918, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery and devotion to duty in the field; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Brown C A Captain Royal Engineers

CLIVE ANDREWS BROWN was born in Glasgow on the 26th June, 1890, and died on service at the Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, on the 7th November, 1918. He was a Captain and Adjutant in the Royal Engineers (T.F.).
Educated at Dulwich College, he later studied engineering science at King’s College and University College, London, and at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He applied himself to municipal work before joining the forces, acting as Resident Engineer on the South Norwood sewage-disposal works.
He was elected an Associate Member of the Institution in December, 1917.

Source : The Institution Of Civil Engineers Memorial Volume 1914-1919

Born 26th June, 1890. After leaving the College he studied engineering at King’s and University Colleges, and while there served in the London University Officers Training Corps. At the outbreak of war he went into training with the London Scottish (14th Battalion London Regi-ment), having joined them when he left University College. In September, 1915. he obtained his commission in the 3/1st London Royal Engineers (T.F.). being stationed at Esher. In June, 1916, he was promoted Lieutenant and a year later was appointed Adjutant with acting rank of Captain at Canterbury, where he remained until taken ill in October. It was always a source of regret that he was never able to join his younger brother in France, but he was not passed fit for General Service and passed all his time at home, where he did much useful work up to the time of his death on 7th November, 1918, at the Military Hospital, Shorncliffe. He was buried at Bandon Hill Cemetery.

Source :  Dulwich College War Record 1914-1918

BROWN, CLIVE ANDREWS, A.Μ.Ι.Ο.Ε… Capt. and Adjutant, C.R.E. Kent Force. Canterbury, elder and only surv. s. of George Andrews Brown, of Croydon and brother to Capt. H. A. Brown (q.v.); b. Glasgow, co. Lanark, 26 June, 1890; edue. Dulwich College, and University College, London, where he was a member of the O.T.C.: joined the London Scottish in in Sept. 1912: was called up on mobilization 4 Aug. 1914; received a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 3 1st London Divisional Royal Engineers (T.F.) in Sept. 1915: promoted Lieut. 1 July, 1916, and Capt. and Adjutant, June, 1918; served with the C.R.E. Kent Force at Canterbury from June, 1918, and died at the Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, 7 Nov. following, of pneumonia following influenza. Buried in Brandon Hill Cemetery, Croydon. His Major wrote: “Clive did a tremendous lot of hard work for me, which I shall always remember, and I am indeed sorry that he has not been spared to share the national rejoicings for that great victory for which he truly and faithfully worked so hard, although he did not go to the front,” and the Chaplain: “I miss your son very much. He was just the kind of man I should have been proud to have called friend, and to be so called.” A brother officer also wrote: “Though he was debarred from coming out here, on medical grounds, he has given his life for our great cause, just as truly as though he had died on the field of battle. We who have been privileged to know him intimately and to work with him, realize this. I shall always remember him affectionately as a good friend, a genial comrade, and as an officer who always sacrificed himself entirely to a thoroughly high sense of duty.” He m. 17 April, 1915, Winifred Edith, dan. of Richard Cowan, of Newhaven, and had a dau.. Maureen Andrews, b. 21 July, 1917.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Bovet W Lt Col Royal Engineers

Source : The Sphere 3rd Aug 1918

Bovet W Brevet Lt Col Royal Engineers

BOVET, WILLIAM, Brevet Lieut. Col., Royal Engineers, 2nd s. of the late Frederick Bovet, of London, and Shanghai, China, Merchant, by his wife, Mary L. (33, Addison Gardens, London, W.), dau. of Charles S. Haden; b. 3. Victoria Street, Westminster, London, S.W., 15 Aug. 1874; edue. Grosvenor School, Twickenham: University College School, Gower Street, London, W.C., and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, S.E.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Engineers 25 July, 1893; promoted Lieut. 25 July, 1896, Capt. 1 April, 1904, Major 25 July, 1913, and Brevet Lieut. Col. 1 Jan. 1917: proceeded from Chatham to India in 1895, where he joined the Bombay Sappers and Miners; served as Commander, Royal Engineers, in the Mekran operation, 1898: in Jan. 1903, was ordered to Somaliland, being there attached to General Manning’s Column; returned to India in the autumn of 1904, and took part in the action at Jidvalli (men-tioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 2 Sept. 1904): Medal and two clasps); was engaged in training officers and reecruits, and Acting Commander, Royal Engineers, at Kirkee from Aug. 1914, to Jan. 1916, when he proceeded to Egypt; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from March, 1916, where he served with the Anzac Division, and later was appointed Commander, Royal Engineers, of the 12th Division at Arras; was wounded 30 Nov. 1917; returned to duty the following month, and died at No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station 5 July, 1918, from wounds received in action at Bouzincourt that day. Buried in the British Military Cemetery, Doullens. He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazettes, 4 Jan. 1917, and 11 Dec. 1917) by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, for gallant and distinguished service in the field; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BOURNE, ROBERT STANLEY, Sergt.. No. W. R. 251147. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of William Bourne, of 256, High Street, Cheltenham: b Cheltenham, 24 Dec. 1881: educ. Christ Church Higher Grade School, Cheltenham; was a Plumber: volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and joined the Territorials 13 Oct. 1914; was transferred to the Royal Engineers 25 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from April, 1915; was brought over to England 10 Sept. 1918. and died at Stoke-upon-Trent Military Hospital on the 28th, of shell-shock, contracted while on active service. Buried in Cheltenham Cemetery. He m. at All Saints’, Gloucester. 3 July, 1907, Emily (10. Blenheim Road, Gloucester), dau. of George Cresswell, and had one son, Samuel Stanley. b. 28 July, 1912.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BOTHWELL, DUNCAN WILLIAM, Sapper, No. 402949, Royal Engineers (Highland), elder s. of William Bothwell, of Northaw, Whetstone, London, N., by his wife, Margaret Emma, dau. of the late Isaac Riches; b. North Finchley, London, N., 23 April, 1887; educ. Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Barnet; was a Clerk; joined the Royal Engineers 1 Nov. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from June, 1918, and was attached to the 98th Field Company at Beauquesne, Mailly, Labarque, Manancourt, etc., and died at Etaples 19 Oct. following, of wounds received in action at Banteaux (St. Quentin Canal), on the 8th. Buried at Etaples. He m. at Aberdeen, 11 April, 1914, Winifred Annie, dau. of W. G. Adams, of Montrose and Aberdeen.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BLOGG, EDWARD BASIL, D.S.O., Major, Royal Engineers (T.F.), s. of the late Rev. Fowler Babington Blogg, formerly Rector of Great Mongeham, near Deal, by his wife (-) (Shearfold, Brede, co. Sussex); b. Walmer Vicarage, co. Kent, 31 July, 1887; educ. West Wratting Park, co. Cambridge; was appointed to the Lord Chamberlain’s Office in 1907, and joined the Territorial Force in 1909; gazetted Lieut. 3 July, 1911; on the outbreak of war he volunteered for active service; promoted Capt. in March, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, and on the death of his Major, April, 1915, took command of 1/4th Coy. Royal Engineers. While on short leave in England, his company had been moved up to the line north of the Hulluch Road, and he was killed in action near that road, 16 March, 1916, when in the front-line trenches. Buried at Bethune. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service at the Battle of Loos 25 Sept. 1915, and was twice mentioned in Despatches, for gallant and distinguished service in the field; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BIRTLES, WALTER VALENTINE FREEMAN, Sapper, No. 489929, Signal Service, Royal Engineers, elder s. of the late Walter William Birtles, by his wife, Alice (303, Beverley Road, Hull), dau. of Alfred Copley, of London; b. Balham, London, S.W., 23 March, 1884; educ. Hymer’s College, Hull; was a Clerk in the Anglo-American Oil Company, Ltd.; volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the R.F.A. 25 May, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 21 Oct. following; transferred to the Royal Engineers in Aug. 1917, and died at Valenciennes 24 Nov. 1918, of influenza, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Communal Cemetery there. He m. at Holy Trinity Church, Darlington, 3 April, 1915, Nettie, dau. of Robert Saggs, of Bridlington.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Smeatham J M Lt Royal Engineers

LIEUTENANT J. M. SMEATHΜΑΝ

ROYAL ENGINEERS

JULIAN MISSENDEN SMEATHMAN was the second son of Lovel and Frances Smeathman, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

He entered the School in 1902, and passed on to the R.M.A., Woolwich, in 1905. After a course of training at Chatham and Newcastle-on-Tyne, he received an appointment at the War Office, and was, in 1910, sent out to South Africa, where he was stationed at Pretoria.

On the outbreak of War he returned, with the 7th Division, to England, went to the Front in October, and was killed in action in the first Battle of Ypres, on October 24th, 1914, on the same day that his younger brother, Lieutenant C. Smeathman (O.R.), died of wounds. Age 26.

His Colonel wrote:-

“His death has been a great blow to us. His Captain had previously told me that he was the best Subaltern he had ever had, and that he could not wish for a better. I, too, had remembered him as a youngster at Chatham, and had marked him then as an Officer of much promise.”

A brother Officer said:-

“Professionally I had a good deal to do with him, and a better Officer in that Regiment of distinguished Officers it would have been impossible to find.”

He married in 1914, during his few weeks in England, Gladys Monica, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Gordon Browne, D.D., Vicar of Lymp-stone, Devon.

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

BARTLETT, GEORGE, M.M., L.-Corpl., No. 402806, 404th Highland Field Coy. Royal Engineers, eldest s. of George Bartlett, of 183, Great Northern Road, Woodside, Aberdeen, by his wife, Annie, dau. of John Duncan; b. Glentanar, 21 Sept. 1888; educ. there; went to the United States in March, 1912, and settled at Cape Ann, Gloucester, Massachusetts, as a Mason; returned to England in Jan. 1915; enlisted 11 Dec. following; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Oct. 1916; took an active part in the Battle of Arras April, 1917; was wounded at Ypres the following July on recovery in Sept., returned to his unit; saw much fighting during the following April at La Bassée, and died at No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station 11 July, 1918, from pneumonia supervening influenza, contracted while on active service. Buried in the Aubigny Cemetery. He was awarded the Military Medal for gallant and distinguished service in the field at Doignies, on the Somme, 21 March, 1918; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5