WB/Green5/6/1

Colour Photograph of brass plaque commemorating J.W.Green Limited employees who died in World War One [details from Commonwealth War Graves Commission in square brackets], being: - Lt.Reginald Cumberland Green, [1st Battalion] Bedfordshire Regiment, [18 May]1916, [aged 31, buried Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras]; - Pte.Horace G[eorge]Bird, [C Company, 1st Battalion], King's Own Shropshire Light Infantry, [20 Apr]1918 [aged 32, son of George William and Emily Jane of 20 Gloucester Road, Luton; buried Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres]; - Pte.William Burkitt, [136 Field Ambulance], Royal Army Medical Corps, [28 Apr]1917 [buried Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-le-Grand]; - Pte.William Cherry, [2nd Battalion], Essex Regiment, [9 Apr]1917 [buried Fampoux British Cemetery]; - Pte. Ernest J.Elsdon, [8th Battalion], Bedfordshire Regiment, [12 Jul]1917 [aged 20; commemorated on Loos Memorial, brother of Miss L.Elsdon of 40 Collingdon Street, Luton]; - Pte.Thomas Richards, [2nd Battalion], Bedfordshire Regiment, [12 Mar]1915 [aged 33; son of Charles and Sarah Elizabeth of 147 Hitchin Road, husband of Emma of 178 Park Street, served in Boer War, commemorated on Le Touquet Memorial]; - Cpl.Charles Smith, [1st Battalion], Bedfordshire Regiment, [8 May] 1915 [buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension]; - Pte.Percy Thurlow, [1st/5th Battalion] Bedfordshire Regiment, [20 Jul] 1917 [buried in Gaza War Cemetery]

1915-1918

From: 1915 To: 1918

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Green, Reginald Cumberland,
Bird, Horace George,
Bird, George William,
Bird, Emily Jane,
Burkitt, William,
Cherry, William,
Elsdon, Ernest J.,
Elsdon, L.,
Richards, Thomas,
Richards, Charles,
Richards, Sarah Elizabeth,
Smith, Charles,
Thurlow, Percy

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