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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 1883
Canadian Expeditionary Force 76015 Sergeant 29th Battalion D Company
More about Geoffrey Nelson Slaughter -
Born 1890
Died 1915
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1128
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1128 Lance Corporal Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
More about John Henry Rosher -
Born 1884
Died 1940
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major 228th Battalion
More about Ellis Watmough Reed-Lewis -
Born 1894
Died 1977
Canadian Expeditionary Force 129383 Private 4th Canadian Division Machine Gun Corps
Canadian Expeditionary Force 129383 Corporal Canadian Infantry 72nd Battalion (Seaforth Highlanders)
More about Percy Howe Nesbitt -
Born 1890
Died 1931
Canadian Expeditionary Force 41439
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Field Artillery
More about Wynn Bagnall -
Born 1895
Died 1916
Australian Imperial Force 577 Sergeant 7th Infantry Brigade 26th Battalion
More about Julian Brookes-Ball -
Born 1872
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 5th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Mounted Rifles. Canadians
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major Canadian Infantry 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
More about Allan Fairfax Crossman -
Born 1896
Died 1974
Australian Imperial Force 19036 Gunner 7th Field Artillery Brigade
More about Thomas Gerard Abigail -
Born 1871
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 490565
Canadian Expeditionary Force 490565 Private Canadian Labour Corps
More about Basil Walter Bull -
Born 1890
Died 1956
South African Services 14346 Private South African Infantry 4th Battalion
More about Harry Laver -
Born 1879
British Army 881 Private 2nd Rhodesia Regiment
More about Melville Hooton Brookes -
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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More about Norman Anthony Roff Spencer -
Born 1884
South African Services Corporal Rand Light Infantry
South African Services Captain Rand Light Infantry
More about Percy Edward Hastings -
Born 1878
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 193592
Canadian Expeditionary Force 193592 Private Canadian Infantry 15th Battalion
More about Henry Roland Garnault Agassiz -
Born 1878
Died 1936
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Canadian Infantry 113 Battalion
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Born 1891
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 75418
Canadian Expeditionary Force 75418 Lance Corporal Canadian Infantry 29th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 75418 Lance Corporal 29th Vancouver Regiment
More about Harold Richard Everitt -
Born 1886
Died 1957
Canadian Expeditionary Force 401465 Private 49th Battalion
More about Gordon Spence -
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 1893
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 5/179a Corporal Army Service Corps British Section
More about Harold John Evelyn Woods