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Bedford Modern School - Alumni Serving in the Commonwealth Forces
Bedford Modern School - Alumni Serving in the Commonwealth Forces
A number of Old Bedford Modernian's served in the ANZAC, Canadian, Indian and South African Forces during WW1. Headmaster of the day Cecil Kaye is quoted on Speech Day 1905 as saying "... he fancied he saw people present from India, South America and South Africa. They had come to Bedford because in its schools it offered exceptional advantages..."
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Born 1898
British Army 53028 Corporal Canadian Infantry Battalion/Western Ontario Regiment
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Born 1895
Died 1972
Canadian Expeditionary Force 9536 Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant
More about Edward Clarence Berrall -
Born 1894
Died 1917
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 12/1899 Private Auckland Infantry Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1966
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 10/1752 Private Wellington Infantry Battalion
More about Edward Brickdale -
Born 1891
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 103163
Canadian Expeditionary Force 103163 Private Canadian Infantry
More about Claud Ambrose Proctor -
Born 1890
Died 1915
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1128
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1128 Lance Corporal Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
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Born 1880
Australian Imperial Force 306 Corporal 2nd Light Horse Brigade 5th Light Horse Regiment
More about Sydney Augustus Marshall -
Born 1892
Died 1915
Canadian Expeditionary Force 13583
Canadian Expeditionary Force 13583 Sergeant Canadian Infantry 5th Battalion
More about Arthur Herbert Dickins -
Born 1888
Died 1949
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Colonel Canadian Infantry 24 Battalion
More about Ronald Okeden Alexander -
Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 154102 Sapper 1st Battalion, Canadian Pioneers
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
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Born 1886
Died 1957
Canadian Expeditionary Force 401465 Private 49th Battalion
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Born 1882
Died 1952
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant 228th Construction Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major 6th Battalion, Railway Troops Light Railway Construction Engineer, 3rd Army
More about William John Duane Reed-Lewis -
Born 1891
Canadian Expeditionary Force 430124 Private 48th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 430124 Second Corporal 5th Army Troops Company, CEF
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Born 1894
Died 1934
Canadian Expeditionary Force 187134 Private 90th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 187134 Private 27th Battalion
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Born 1884
Died 1940
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major 228th Battalion
More about Ellis Watmough Reed-Lewis -
Born 1894
Died 1949
Canadian Expeditionary Force 20814 Private Canadian Infantry 10th Battalion, CEF
British Army Second Lieutenant Middlesex Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Middlesex Regiment
More about Douglas Arthur Rosher -
Born 1895
Died 1916
Australian Imperial Force 577 Sergeant 7th Infantry Brigade 26th Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1956
South African Services 14346 Private South African Infantry 4th Battalion
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Born 1883
Canadian Expeditionary Force 2382085 Private Canadian Infantry 78th Battalion
More about Thomas Harold Gibson Andrews