Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    WB/Green5/6/1
  • Title
    Colour Photograph of brass plaque commemorating J.W.Green Limited employees who died in World War One
  • Date free text
    1915-1918
  • Production date
    From: 1915 To: 1918
  • Scope and Content
    [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]
  • Language
    English
  • Level of description
    item
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