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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

BRAINE Communal Cemetery (Aisne France)

P. B. Maxwell - H. S. Ranken - A. C. F. Royle - J. A. S. Mitchell


Cpt Bertrand Stewart 01/10/1872 - 12/09/1914 He was born in London, only son of Charles and Eva Stewart of Achara, Appin, Argyllshire, and of London. Bertrand waseducated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1908, the Stewart family owned Castle Stalcaire, a ruin that had once been the hunting seat of James lV of Scotland until he was killed at Flodden Field. On 1st August 1905 he married Daphne, the daughter of Colonel Osmond Priaulx of The Mount, Guernsey and they set up home in London. During the Boer War, Bertrand served with the West Kent as a Private and was commissioned in 1904, he had served in the ranks of the Imperial Yeomanry, seeing action at Cape Colony, Orange River and the Transvaal. In 1906 he was commissioned in the West Kent Yeomanry. While travelling in Germany, he was arrested at Bremen on 02/08/1911 and charged with espionage, on 31/01/1912, after four days he was found guilty and sentenced to detention in a fortress for 3 years and 6 months but this was soon reduced by 4 months because he had already been in prison for a considerable time. He was tried in Leipzig in 02/1912 and sent to serve his sentence in Glatz, a fortress prison, he was released by the Kaiser in 05/1913. In 08/1913 was promoted Captain in the West Kent Yeomanry. When war broke out shortly afterwards he was immediately appointed to the Intelligence Department on the Staff of Major General Allenby and left for France with the Cavalry Division. Bertrand was the first Territorial Soldier to be killed in the Great War. A memorial stone to Captain Stewart can be found inside Castle Stalker, Argyll, Scotland, restored and currently owned by the Allward family www.castlestalker.com

78 casualties

ALEXANDER H
United Kingdom Private 11081Welsh Regiment18/09/1914 A. 11. (Sp. Mem.).
ALLEN WILLIAM
United Kingdom Gunner 67726Royal Field Artillery19/09/1914 A. 26. (Sp. Mem.).
ATKINSON JOHN
United Kingdom Rifleman 8891King's Royal Rifle Corps15/10/1914 Age: 24 B. 4. (Sp. Mem.).
BALCOMBE W
United Kingdom Serjeant L/8004Royal Sussex Regiment18/09/1914 B. 3. (Sp. Mem.).
BATE THOMAS
United Kingdom Private 9544Worcestershire Regiment20/09/1914 A. 18. (Sp. Mem.
BOLTON J
United Kingdom Private 2575Coldstream Guards08/10/1914 Age: 35 A. 11. (Sp. Mem.).
BRADSHAW F
United Kingdom Private 6632South Wales Borderers28/09/1914 B. 7. (Sp Mem.).
BRETT P
United Kingdom Private 9621Royal Dublin Fusiliers07/10/1914 A. 4. (Sp. Mem.).
BROADLEY G
United Kingdom Rifleman 6611King's Royal Rifle Corps30/09/1914 B. 3. (Sp. Mem.).
BROWN ROBERT
United Kingdom Private 6938Scots Guards20/09/1914 Age: 25 A. 8. (Sp. Mem.).
BURNETT J
United Kingdom Lance Serjeant 1493 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars21/09/1914 B. 8. (Sp. Mem.).
CAHILL J J
United Kingdom Sapper 13248Royal Engineers05/10/1914 B. 4. (Sp. Mem.).
CARDEN G C H
United Kingdom Driver 18318Royal Engineers02/10/1914 A. 27. (Sp. Mem.).
CLARKE J
United Kingdom Driver 42403Royal Field Artillery29/09/1914 B. 1. (Sp. Mem.).
CLINT A
United Kingdom Private 179 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)15/09/1914 A. 1.
CONNOR T
United Kingdom Gunner 71494Royal Field Artillery21/09/1914 A. 27. (Sp. Mem.).
COOKE J
United Kingdom Lance Corporal 8518South Wales Borderers28/09/1914 A. 22. (Sp. Mem.).
COOPER W
United Kingdom Private 6464Coldstream Guards07/10/1914 Age: 32 A. 4. (Sp. Mem.).
COX W G L
United Kingdom Private 9975The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)21/09/1914 Age: 21 A. 15. (Sp. Mem.).
CUTTS ARTHUR HENRY
United Kingdom Corporal 9974Middlesex Regiment26/09/1914 Age: 25 A. 21. (Sp. Mem.).
DAVIES A T
United Kingdom Gunner 38050Royal Field Artillery09/10/1914 Age: 29 A. 26. (Sp. Mem.).
DONOHUE P
United Kingdom Private 10885Royal Irish Regiment26/09/1914 Age: 25 A. 5. (Sp. Mem.).
DONOVAN W
United Kingdom Private 7631Devonshire Regiment22/09/1914 A. 13. (Sp. Mem.).
DRURY J
United Kingdom Private 9390South Staffordshire Regiment20/09/1914 A. 14. (Sp. Mem.).
ELLIS CHARLES
United Kingdom Private 9143Coldstream Guards18/10/1914 Age: 24 A. 19. (Sp. Mem.).
ELLIS ROBERT
United Kingdom Private 9976Coldstream Guards08/10/1914 Age: 24 A. 14. (Sp. Mem.).
FORSYTH JOHN CUSACK
United Kingdom Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery22/09/1914 Age: 31 B. 8/9. (Sp. Mem.).
FOWLER WILLIAM
United Kingdom Company Serjeant Major 3617Scots Guards08/10/1914 Age: 31 A. 25. (Sp. Mem.).
GARLAND CHRISTOPHER OSCAR
United Kingdom Private 7226Coldstream Guards22/09/1914 Age: 27 A. 18. (Sp. Mem.).
GRAHAM JAMES STEPHEN
United Kingdom Private 8443Leicestershire Regiment27/09/1914 Age: 24 B. 5. (Sp. Mem.).
GURD ALBERT
United Kingdom Private 6914Wiltshire Regiment23/09/1914 Age: 29 A. 12. (Sp. Mem.).
HANDFORD ERNEST REGINALD
United Kingdom Private 6878South Staffordshire Regiment24/09/1914 Age: 34 B. 8. (Sp. Mem.).
HAWKINS THOMAS JOHN
United Kingdom Private 10895Welsh Regiment19/09/1914 Age: 21 A. 19. (Sp. Mem.).
HILLIER E A
United Kingdom Private 9275Coldstream Guards04/10/1914 Age: 22 A. 15. (Sp. Mem.).
HINES GEORGE HENRY
United Kingdom Private L/10942Royal Fusiliers23/09/1914 Age: 36 B. 5. (Sp. Mem).
HUTTON GEORGE ADOLPH
United Kingdom Lieutenant Royal Engineers19/09/1914 Age: 23 A. 23.
JEWSON F
United Kingdom Company Serjeant Major 6260Royal Berkshire Regiment27/09/1914 A. 21. (Sp. Mem.).
KEMPSON J
United Kingdom Private 9280South Staffordshire Regiment05/10/1914 A. 7. (Sp. Mem.).
KENDRICK J E
United Kingdom Private L/7679The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)29/09/1914 Age: 29 B. 9. (Sp. Mem.).
KILGANNON JOHN
United Kingdom Drummer 9028Devonshire Regiment20/09/1914 Age: 34 B. 2. (Sp. Mem.).
KNOTT GEORGE
United Kingdom Private 7349West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)25/09/1914 Age: 30 A. 17. (Sp. Mem.).
KYRKE-SMITH ARTHUR KYRKE
United Kingdom Captain The King's (Liverpool Regiment)23/09/1914 Age: 36 A. 24.
LODDER A
United Kingdom Serjeant 7269Wiltshire Regiment21/09/1914 B. 1. (Sp. Mem.).
LORING G F
United Kingdom Lance Corporal L/10200The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)27/09/1914 A. 20. (Sp. Mem.).
LOWIE W G
United Kingdom Private 12178Highland Light Infantry14/10/1914 A. 6. (Sp Mem.).
MATTHEWS CHARLES EDWARD
United Kingdom Private 8458Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry26/09/1914 Age: 25 B. 10. (Sp. Mem.).
MATTHEWS W H
United Kingdom Private 9709Durham Light Infantry24/09/1914 Age: 27 B. 10. (Sp. Mem.).
MAXWELL PETER BENSON
United Kingdom Captain East Yorkshire Regiment24/09/1914 Age: 33 A. 40.
McCORMACK J
United Kingdom Rifleman 10065Royal Irish Rifles20/09/1914 B. 2. (Sp. Mem.).
McGRANE G
United Kingdom Rifleman 8367Royal Irish Rifles22/09/1914 A. 13. (Sp. Mem.).
MEDLAM E J
United Kingdom Corporal 3789 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)12/09/1914 A. 1.
MITCHELL JULIAN ALAN SPENCER
United Kingdom Captain King's Shropshire Light Infantry28/09/1914 Age: 28 A. 54.
MOGER A
United Kingdom Private 7614Devonshire Regiment21/09/1914 A. 10. (Sp. Mem.).
NUTTER C
United Kingdom Private L/6809The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)29/09/1914 B. 6. (Sp. Mem.).
PARFITT GEORGE
United Kingdom Private L/8641The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)07/10/1914 Age: 26 A. 7. (Sp. Mem).
PATTERSON J
United Kingdom Private 7740Cameron Highlanders18/10/1914 A. 9. (Sp. Mem.).
PERRY ROBERT alias PETERS ROBERT
United Kingdom Private L/8835Royal Fusiliers20/09/1914 A. 8. (Sp. Mem.).
PESTELL PERCY
United Kingdom Corporal 8971West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)27/09/1914 A. 20. (Sp. Mem.).
POWIS JOHN
United Kingdom Private 11104South Wales Borderers28/09/1914 Age: 21 A. 17. (Sp. Mem.).
PUTLAND WALTER EDWARD
United Kingdom Private 9440East Yorkshire Regiment28/09/1914 Age: 22 B. 11. (Sp. Mem.).
RANKEN HARRY SHERWOOD
United Kingdom Captain Royal Army Medical Corps25/09/1914 Age: 31 A. 43.
RAYNER JAMES
United Kingdom Private L/6786The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)07/10/1914 Age: 33 A. 6. (Sp. Mem.).
ROGERS T J
United Kingdom Private 7447South Wales Borderers03/10/1914 B. 12. (Sp. Mem.).
ROWDON REUBEN FREDERICK
United Kingdom Private 8997Coldstream Guards08/10/1914 Age: 23 A 9 (Sp. Mem).
ROYLE ARTHUR CLEGG FANSHAWE
United Kingdom Lieutenant North Staffordshire Regiment27/09/1914 Age: 31 A. 50.
RUDD W
United Kingdom Private 9272Coldstream Guards01/10/1914 Age: 20 A. 16 (Spec. Mem.).
SAMUELS J
United Kingdom Private 7784Lincolnshire Regiment21/09/1914 A. 12. (Sp. Mem).
SHADBOLT HERBERT WILLIAM
United Kingdom Serjeant 4694Royal Garrison Artillery04/10/1914 Age: 42 B. 6. (Sp. Mem.).
SHILLING THEODOSIUS JOHN
United Kingdom Private 7644Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)08/10/1914 Age: 32 A. 5. (Sp. Mem.).
SINGLETON GEORGE
United Kingdom Private 6177Lincolnshire Regiment16/09/1914 Age: 31 A. 16. (Sp. Mem.).
SNAPE W
United Kingdom Private 1269The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment24/09/1914 B. 7. (Sp. Mem.).
SPRINGFIELD GEORGE PATRICK OSBORN
United Kingdom Captain 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)12/09/1914 Age: 42 A. 2.
STEVENS WILLIAM
United Kingdom Private 7029Wiltshire Regiment21/09/1914 Age: 31 A. 10. (Sp. Mem.).
STEWART BERTRAND
United Kingdom Captain West Kent Yeomanry (Queen's Own)12/09/1914 Age: 42 A. 3.
THOMPSON G
United Kingdom Private 8960Royal Munster Fusiliers02/10/1914 B. 11. (Sp. Mem.).
WEDLAKE FRANK ALBERT
United Kingdom Gunner 58662Royal Field Artillery21/09/1914 A. 22. (Sp. Mem.).
WHITING PHILIP ALFRED
United Kingdom Lance Serjeant 8471Coldstream Guards11/10/1914 A. 25. (Sp. Mem.).
WOOTTEN ALFRED
United Kingdom Private 6995Coldstream Guards01/10/1914 Age: 29 B. 9. (Sp. Mem.).

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