CAMPBELL, CHARLES, 2nd Lieut.. 11th (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), yst. s. of the late Lieut. Charles Campbell, Assistant Paymaster in the Army Pay Department, by his wife, Rose (-); b. London, 10 June, 1892; educ. privately, and at the Stationers’ School, Hornsey, N.; was a Traveller; volunteered for active service soon after the outbreak of war, and enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 1915; received a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers in Dec. 1917; took part in some severe fighting during the retreat from St. Quentin and died at Amiens 20 April, 1918, of wounds received there by the bursting of a shell. Buried in the Cemetery of St. Pierre. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had been through some hard fighting, and had always shown himself a gallant officer. He is a great loss to his men and to the battalion.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BURLING, WILLIAM GEORGE, Private. No. 69803, 1st Battn. (2nd Foot) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), s. of William Albert Burling, of 21. Rigby Street. Colne, by his wife, Alice Mary, dau. of William Denney, of Gosfield, co. Essex b. Forest Gate, co. Essex, 2 Jan. 1899; educ. Colchester, and Colne: was a Weaver: enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers 7 May, 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 28 Jan. 1918, and was killed in action at St. Waast 6 Nov. 1918. Buried at La Vallée. St. Waast. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your dear son was one of our best men and very popular. He bravely did his duty on all occasions, and it grieves me very much to lose him,” and his Sergt.: “He was one of the best in the platoon, and we all miss him greatly. He died doing his duty bravely, like a man, when we were in a particularly tight corner.” Unm

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BROWN, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 11309, 1st Battn. (7th Foot) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), s. of Charles William Brown, of Ilopton, Thetford, by his wife, Mary; b. Shepdham, co. Norfolk, 27 Sept. 1885; educ. Council School there; was a Butcher; enlisted 31 May, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following Dec.; was reported missing after the fighting at Ypres 31 July, 1917, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or since that date. He m. at Shipdham, 26 Dec. 1908, Zoraida (Church Road, Brandon, co. Suffolk), dau. of Arthur Eastick, and had three sons: Alec Charles, b. 4 April, 1910; Stanley Eastick, b. 24 Sept. 1912, and Ernest Frank, b. 2 July, 1917.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BRADBERRY, CYRIL CHRISTOPHER DAVID, Private, No. 2630, D. Coy., 24th (Service) Battn. (Sportsman’s) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), elder s. of the late Rev. Thomas Christopher Bradberry, M.A., Curate of Hayton and Talkin, by his wife, Edith Alice (Garth Foot, Castle Carrock, How Mill, Carlisle), dau. of the late George Sedgwick; b. Longton, co. Stafford, 25 June, 1893; educ. Grosvenor College, Carlisle, and Brompton Secondary School; joined the Sportsman’s Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers 15 Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Nov. 1915, and was killed in action at Beaumont Hamel 13 Nov. 1916. His Captain wrote: “He died bravely fighting for King, Home and Country.” Unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BOUGHTON, FREDERICK WILLIAM, Private, No. 29013, 8th (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), s. of William Boughton, of Wellington Road. Eye, by hs wife, Julia, dau. of George Nobbs, of Alburgh: b. Eye, co. Suffolk, 1 Feb. 1884 educ. National School there; enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers 27 March, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following July: was reported wounded and missing after the fighting on 27 Nov. 1917, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date: unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Boote J A L/Cpl 68857 24th Royal Fusiliers

BOOTE, JOHN ARTHUR, L.-Corpl., No. 68857, 24th (Service) Battn. The Royal Royal Fusiliers (City (City of of London London Regt.), only s. of John Henry Boote, of 47, Hillfield Avenue, Hornsey, London, N., by his wife, Edith Mary, dau, of Thomas Powell, of Burton-on-Trent; b. Hornsey aforesaid, 2 July, 1898; educ. there, and at Owen’s School, Islington, N., where he matriculated; was a Clerk at Barclay’s Bank; enlisted in Aug. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Oct. 1917, and was killed in action near Arras 25 Aug. 1918. Buried at Behagnies; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

BIRD, CLEMENT EUSTACE, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), yst. s. of the late Henry Bird, by his wife, Maud Katharine (Morrab Terrace, Penzance), dau. of the late Capt. T. R. Stawell, 38th Regt.; and brother to Private H. G. Bird and L.-Corpl. R. de B. Bird (see Vol. IV., pp. 13-14); b. Millbrook, co. Cornwall, 24 Nov. 1897; educ. Cathedral School, Exeter; joined the 2/4th Devonshire Regt. 1 Dec. 1914; left for India on the 21st of that month; quickly attained the rank of Sergt., and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers 16 Nov. 1915, when he returned to England; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from July, 1916; was wounded on the Somme in Oct., but after two months rejoined his regiment; took part in the Battle of Arras, and was killed in action at Monchy-le-Preux 28 June, 1917. Buried in the Military Cemetery there; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Bentley A F J Pte 61686 17th Royal Fusiliers 

BENTLEY, ARTHUR FRANCIS JOHN, Private, No. 61686, 17th (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), 8. of Arthur Charles Bentley, of Wood Green, N., by his wife, Ellen, dau. of James Cutts; b. Wood Green, London, N., 23 March, 1891; educ. there was a Cloth Spreader; enlisted 13 June, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 10 Nov. following, and was killed in action 30 Nov. 1917. He m. at St. Michael’s, Bowes Park, N., 10 June, 1916, Emma (10, Green Brae, Tottenhall Road, London, N), dau. of Frederick Eaton; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Balbirnie J V E 2nd Lt 23rd Royal Fusiliers

BALBIRNIE, JOHN VICTOR ELPHINSTONE, 2nd Lieut., 23rd (Service) Battn. The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), only surv. s. of the late Hugh De Vaux Balbirnie, Doctor of Medicine, by his wife, Rosa Katherine, dau, of the late Squire Heaton, of Sheffield: b. Upper-thorpe, Sheffield, co. York, 30 May, 1887; edue. Central Secondary School, Sheffield; was in the Sheffield Banking Company, Ltd..; volunteered for active service, and joined the 31st Royal Fusiliers in Feb. 1916; served in 6th and 32nd Royal Fusiliers from Oct. 1916; trained in the 15th (Artists’ Rifles) Officers’ Cadet Battn. at Romford in Sept. 1917; received a commission 51st (Grad.) Battn. (Newmarket) and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers in Jan. 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Sept. 1916, till July, 1917, also from Aug. 1918, and was killed in action between Daignes and the Canal du Nord 7 Sept. 1918. Buried where he fell, near the village of Dernicourt.

His Commanding Officer wrote: ” He fell when most gallantly leading forward his men. He was such a promising officer, a great favourite with us all, and we miss him so much,” and a brother officer “…..This caused a check, and your husband, upon getting to know what had happened, immediately took entire charge, and urged the men to proceed. He, too, exposed himself, and was shot through the head, and killed instantly ……your husband’s death was caused by his devotion to duty, and by his prompt action he kept up the morale of the remaining men.”

He m. at Sheffield, 26 Dec. 1917, Isabella Elizabeth (2, Ashgate Road, Sheffield), dau. of the late Thomas (and Elizabeth) MacDonald, of Liverpool, and had a son, John Patrick Elphinstone, b. 3 Feb. 1919.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

Ozanne E G Captain 3rd Royal Fusiliers

CAPTAIN E, G, OZANNE

3RD BATTALION THE ROYAL FUSILIERS (CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT)

EDWARD GRAEME OZANNE was the only son of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, Attorney-General of Guernsey, and of Frances Hind his wife, of Le Platon, Guernsey.

He entered the School in 1896, and passed on to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, in 1900. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1904, and Captain in 1912. He served with the Mounted Infantry in the South African War, 1902, and was present at the operations in the Transvaal, the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, and received the Queen’s Medal with four Clasps.

He was killed in the trenches, near Ypres, by a shot which came right through the parapet, on February 14th, 1915. Age 32.

The Lieut.-Colonel Commanding the Battalion wrote:-

“In the few weeks we have been out here we realised how splendid he was as a soldier. It was touching to see the confidence the Subalterns and men had in him. He was splendidly brave and calm under trying circumstances. We took over very bad trenches, regular death-traps, and our loss has been heavy in proportion, and the test of the steadiness of the men has been a very severe one. But ‘Sam’s’ Company’ stood it absolutely, entirely owing to his example, and the men would have stood anything if he were there.  Everyone has lost a friend, and the Battalion has lost a fine soldier.”

He married Aline Hume, daughter of Lieut-Gen. J. G. Cloete, Indian Army.

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

OZANNE, EDWARD GRAEME, Capt., 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only s. of Edward Chepmell Ozanne, of Le Platon, Guernsey, Bailiff of Guernsey, by his wife, Frances; b. Guernsey, 5 April, 1883; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Royal Fusiliers, 8 May, 1901, and promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1904, and Capt. 23 April, 1912; served in the South African War, 1902; took part in the operations in the Transvaal, and in those of the Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, Feb.-31 May, 1902 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); and with the Expeditionary Force in France from 18 Jan. to 14 Feb. 1915; and was killed in action in trenches at Ypres on the latter date. Buried in the Ramparts there. He m. at Bombay, India, 17 Oct. 1913, Aline (52, Lower Sloane Street, S.W.), dau. of the late Lieut.-General Josias Gordon Cloete, Indian Army; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1