Bradley, C. M.
Cyril Montague Bradley had served with the Territorials and was a Lieutenant in the 237th Brigade (CWGC says HQ 296th) of the Royal Horse Artillery/the Royal Field Artillery. He was killed in action near Peronne, France, on 2nd April 1917, aged 20. He is buried at Tincourt New British Cemetery in France. 

His parents were Sir Augustus Montague Bradley and his mother was Hilda, formerly Payn, associated with the solicitors' firm in Dover. They married in 1894. Their address was Grovedale, Natal, South Africa. The index card gives a note of "G" (or possibly "C") as the initial of a parent.

Bradley, G. L. H.
George Lynton Howis Bradley was born in Dover, early 1888, the eldest son of Edwin, corn merchant, and Emmeline Bradley, then from 4 Castlemount Terrace. He was a Dover College boy (an "Old Dovorian"), and, like his brothers, one of the Bisley Shooting Eight.

He was an AMICE, and during the Great War, he served in the Royal Engineers as a Second Lieutenant.  He had been invalided home after the Battle of Loos, and had been seriously ill for some time. He never completely regained his health. He died on Monday, 11th August 1924 at Leyburn House, Dover, and according to a contemporary report, "at the end, death came suddenly". His funeral was on Thursday, 14th August, and he was buried at St James.  

He was brother to Geoffrey, below.

with thanks to Joyce Banks for death and college details

Bradley, G. M.
Geoffrey Montagu Bradley was a Lieutenant from the 6th battalion of the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), attached to Welsh Rifles. In a communication from the War Office, around April 1915, his father, Edwin, was informed that Lt Bradley was reported missing, and believed killed, on 21/22 December 1914 after taking part in a night attack on the enemy position at Festubert, France. He was last seen under  heavy fire. He was 21, and is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.

Before enlisting he had been an Old Dovorian (Dover College boy), and had attended Jesus College, Cambridge. There he had been Captain of the University Shooting Eight. Baptised at St James on 27th April 1893, he was the son of Edwin and Emmeline Mary Bradley of Leyburn House, Dover,  also 21 Fougate Street, Stafford, Dnd brother of George, above.

The cross above is at St James. It reads:

George Howis Bradley, AMICE Late Lieut RE Died 11th Aug 1924, aged 36 years	Also of Geoffrey M Bradley BA Lieut Rifle Brigade Killed in Action Festubert France Dec 21st 1914 aged 21 years
There is a further inscription beneath, mainly obscured. It may say: Beloved sons of Edwin and Emmeline Mary Bradley beneath are further words, of which "We Commit" are the only ones readable
Edwin Bradley JP died 3rd Dec 1945 aged 87 years	Emmeline Mary Bradley died 30th Dec 1956 aged 91 years

with thanks for transcription to Joyce Banks

Brand, B. J.
Benjamin James Brand, S/32, enlisted in Dover and was a Sergeant in 6th battalion of The Buffs. He was killed in action at the battle of Loos on 26th September 1915. Aged 42 he was the son of Benjamin John and Ellen Brand, of 30 Oxenden Street, Dover, born at John's, Chatham. He was a widower as his wife Maggie had previously died.

He had been living in Chatham (Soldiers Died says Gravesend) and was a soldier who had served also during the Boer War. He lies at the Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery, Belgium

Brann, R. J.
Richard Joseph Brann, T/2443, was killed in action on 7th January 1916 at the age of 19 when serving as a Private with the 5th battalion of the Buffs in the Persian Gulf. 

An extract from the war diary that day reads: "D" company returned from outpost at 6.0am and joined 2nd line. Artillery fire started at 8am. Big engagement. We advanced. Heavy casualties. Fight lasted until 6.0pm. Took up fresh(?) position 200 yds in rear of original firing line. Adjutant and other officers killed. Colonel, 2nd in Command and others wounded. Heavy firing at right from enemy."

Private Brann was born at Charlton, Dover on 6th July.  Living in Dover, he was a conductor on the Dover Corporation trams before enlistment in Dover on 27th August 1914. He was sent to India in October 1914.

He was the son of the late Mr Joseph Brann and Mrs Brann, of Endeavour Place, Buckland, Dover. He lies now at Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, XXXI B 12. 

The poem below appeared in the Dover Express, September 1916

To Private Richard Brann - killed in action January 18^th(sic) 1916.

H. E. (a Schoolmate)
transcription with thanks to Joyce Banks

Breeze, A. R.
Alfred Richard Breeze, 400393, was  Private in the 13th battalion of the Essex regiment. He was killed in action on 30th November 1917 at Cambrai, France, and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.

He had been born at Buckland, Dover and lived there until 1912. He lived in Tonbridge and enlisted there, and his wife lived at 15 Albert Road, Tonbridge.

His brother Bertie served also, but survived, and on his return took over Alfred's job at the draper's in the Co-operative. .

Brett, C. M.
Charles Michael Brett, 47046, was born in Rochester and enlisted at Ryde, Isle of Wight. He was a Rifleman in the 3rd Company, 18th battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. He was 22 when he died of wounds on 3rd October 1918. 

His wife, Evelyn Violet Brett, lived at Myrtle Cottage, Trinity Street, Ryde, Isle of Wight, and his parents, Mr and Mrs E. G. Brett, at Dover. He is buried at the Haringhe (Bandaghem) Military Cemetery, Belgium, III B 49.

The Haringhe cemetery was called Bandaghem by the Tommies. It is one of three, along with Dozinghem and Mendinghem, that have nicknames of a Belgian flavour reflecting the treatment given to injured soldiers (Bandage Them, Dosing Them, Mending Them)..    

Brewer, A.
Albert Brewer, S/8278, was a Private in the 6th battalion of The Buffs. He was killed in action on the Somme on 3rd July 1916, and is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery, France, VIII A 10 

He was born at Buckland, Dover, and lived in Dover, but enlisted at Shorncliffe. His next of kin was H. G. Brewer, of 20 Clarendon Place

Brice, G. F.
George Frederick Brice, 7101, was one of thousands who have no known grave, and he is commemorated on the Thiepval memorial in France (pier and face 9c, 9d, 12c, 13c). He was a Corporal in the 19th (County of London) battalion (St Pancras) of the London Regiment (formerly 2823 2/4 The Buffs) and he died between 22nd September and 2nd October 1916 in France.

He was born in Waltham, Kent, but brought up in Dover, and attended Barton Road school, after which he worked for the East Kent light railway company. He enlisted in Dover.

He was mourned by his "sorrowing sweetheart, Ivy" and his family. His father was Mr Brice of 31 Pretoria Terrace, Dover (also John  F. Brice, 65 Glenfield Road, Buckland, Dover) and William Brice, below, was his brother.

Brice, W. C.
William Charles Brice, 7115. He, like George above, who was his brother, has no known grave and is commemorated in the same place on the Thiepval memorial in France, having served as a Private in the same London regiment and having died in the same period. He enlisted in Canterbury. He was also 2/4 Buffs, as number 2766.

He was born in Thannington, Kent, but was brought up in Dover and attended Barton Road school. His next-of-kin was John F. Brice, of 65 Glenfield Road, Buckland, Dover. 

Bridger, F. E.
Frank Ernest Bridger - there is an Ernest Frank Bridger, aged 4, in the 1901 census, which is the only known record of him. He was born at Marden, Kent, and was the son of Thomas Bridger, a rural postman, and his wife, Frances. He had an older brother (Cauford?) and a younger, John

There is an Ernest Frank Bridger, 17314, Lance Corporal in the Machine Gun Corps, 9 Company, who died of wounds on 28 July 1916. He is buried in the Abbeville Communal cemetery, VI E 2.He enlisted in Southend and lived in Stanford-le-Hope; however he was born at Kemsing, Kent.  

Brightmore, H.
Horace Brightmore, 9451. He enlisted in Woolwich, and was a Company Sergeant Major in the 3rd battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment. Already having been wounded twice, he was killed, aged 28, by a sniper on 20th June 1915 in Flanders. He had been attempting to rescue two officers who had already been hit by the sniper, 2nd Lieutenant Macade (probably Meade)*, who was killed, and 2nd Lieutenant Barfoot, who had attempted to rescue 2nd Lieutenant Macade, and who was mortally wounded. A fourth member of the same regiment, Lance Sergeant Gordon, then attempted to aid all three, and was himself killed. the order was then given that the bodies would not be recovered until after dark.

CSM Brightmore had been promoted just three days before his death. He lived in West Ham, Essex, where he had been born. He left a fiancee, Miss C(assandra?) Gilbert, who lived at 14 Market Street, and whom he had met while stationed in Dover.

Horace Brightmore is buried at the Hooge Crater Cemetery, XVI H 1. Those who died with him were Wakefield Waldo Meade*, 19 years old, buried at the Sanctuary Wood cemetery, II F 34, George Allen Barfoot, buried at Hooge Crater, XV H 14, and John Gordon, aged 20, commemorated on the Menin Gate.

Brinkworth, J. W.
John William Brinkworth, CH/20337, was in the Royal Marines Light Infantry, at Deal. He is buried in the cemetery there, in grave reference 2. 1346. He died of pneumonia on 15th January 1916, aged 18.

He was the son of John C. and Ellen E. Brinkworth of 58 Longfield Road, Dover. They may have been John Christopher Brinkworth, aged 30 in 1901, a Sergeant in the Royal Garrisson Artillery, born in Malta, and his wife Ellen, aged 25, born in Deal. They were living in Newhaven, Sussex, and at that time had three children, John W. Brinkworth, aged 3, born in Gravesend, as was his younger sister, Ellen, then one, and Henry, aged 5, and born in Sheerness. 

There is a burial record on 12 March for John Christopher Brinkworth, an Army Pensioner aged 69, of 9 Longfield Road,  at St James 18 DR

census with thanks to Joyce Banks

Broadbridge, L.
Lionel Arthur Broadbridge, 240883, was an Old Pharosian, and is commemorated on the memorial window at his school, Dover Grammar. He was a Serjeant in the 7th battalion of the Buffs. He was killed in action on 7th August 1918, at the age of 26, being buried in the Beacon cemetery, Sailly-Laurett, France, II D 5.

The son of Jane Broadbridge of 21 Richmond Avenue Merton Park London and of the late Captain Broadbridge (HMS Monarch), he was born at Leytonstone, London. He lived in Woking, Surrey, and before enlisting at Guildford he worked as a clerk in the London, Country, and Westminster Bank.

Brockman, A.
Albert Brockman, G/40914, was a Private in the 4th battalion of the (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment (formerly 2359 Royal West Kent Regiment). He enlisted in Dover. When he was killed in action at the age of 29 on 28th April 1917 he left a widow, Mary Tucker Brockman, who lived at 35, Longfellow Road, Dover. He is commemorated on the Arras memorial in France.

His mother, Mrs A. Brockman, lived at The Buttway, Cliffe-at-Hoo, Rochester, Kent, and he was born in Tiverton, Devon.  

(for family tree see faded genes by Dave Dixon)

Bromley, C. P. J.
Cecil Percy John Bromley, 1312, was a Serjeant (Pilot) in the 7th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. He died on 2nd November 1916, when he was 20. His parents were Percy R. and A. A. Bromley, who lived at 85 High St., Dover. He is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial in France.

Bromley, G. J.
Gordon John Bromley was in the Australian Imperial Force, as a Private in the Infantry 1st battalion. He died on 5th November 1916, and is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux memorial.

Brooks, S. J.
Sidney James Brooks, G/18227, was a Private in the 1st battalion of  The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). He was killed in action on 3rd May 1917, at the age of 24. He is commemorated on the Arras memorial in France.

He was born in Margate, and enlisted in Dover, where his mother, Mrs E Brooks, continued to live. He was the husband of M. H. Brooks of 15 Wood Street, Dover, Kent.

Brown, A.
Alfred Brown, K/17384, was a 1st Class Stoker in the Royal Navy, serving on the HMS Formidable. Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, he was lost in the English Channel off Devon on New Year's Day, 1915 after the vessel was torpedoed by submarine U24.

Aged 21 when he died, he was the eldest son of Henry and Marion Brown, of 11, Winchelsea St., Dover. The Formidable was noted as the first British battleship lost in the Great War, and two thirds of her 750 strong crew were lost.

announcement of death, 1915  

Brown, G. A.
George Ambrose Brown, 306510, was the husband of Laura May Brown when he was killed in action on 15th October 1914. He was a Petty Officer Stoker, and his vessel, the HMS Hawke, was torpedoed by submarine U9. The second torpedo hit the magazine and the vessel sank rapidly. This loss was but a month after the destruction of the "Live Bait" Squadron, and now ships accompanying vessels struck were under orders not to rescue survivors in the water, for fear that they too would be destroyed.

He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval memorial. Mrs Brown later remarried, and became Mrs Pearce, living at 17 Selbourne Terrace, Dover. 

*Brown, R.
Robert Brown, G/42932, was born in Knowle Hill, Berkshire, and lived at Addlestone, Surrey. He enlisted in Dover and became a Private in the 16th battalion (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Middlesex Regiment. He was killed in action on 9th October 1917, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial in Belgium.

He was the son of Edward and Eleanor Brown, of 3, Hexton Villas, South Ascot, Berks.

Brown, R.
Richard Brown, 10318, came from Dover, but his mother, Esther Rye, had moved to London and he enlisted and lived in Woolwich. He is buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, having died of wounds on 29th May 1917 when he was 21. He had been serving as a Private in the 7th battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). 

Brown, V. A. E.
Victor Albert E. Brown, 23410, was an Old Pharosian and is commemorated on the memorial window at his school, the Dover Grammar. He was a Corporal in the Lancashire Fusiliers, and died on 1st July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. He is commemorated on the Thiepval memorial in France.

In 1896 he was born in Dover, and enlisted there, but lived in Sheffield. His next of kin was George Brown, who lived at 54 Monins Road, Dover.

Brown, W. C.
William Charles Brown was called up when the Great War began. He was a reservist, having left the Royal West Kents in 1911. Given his commission in 1917, he was a Lieutenant in the 387th Siege Battery, the 103rd Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery.  

Lieutenant Brown was 29 when he died just before the Armistice on 7th November 1918. He had contracted dysentery in the trenches, and was sent home to recover. Sadly he developed pneumonia and died a month later at Sandy Lane VAD. He is buried at St Paul's, in Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells. His parents, William and Alice lived at Rusthall, at 38 Erskine Park Road. They had three further sons serving, all of whom survived.

Lieutenant Brown's wife, Emma Elizabeth Brown, nee Bonnage (above, right), lived at 22 Templar Street, Dover. She later moved to 19 Union Road, Dover. She was born at 3 Magdala Road, and they had married in Dover in 1908. After Lieutenant Brown's death Mrs Brown brought up their three sons, Peter, Stanley, and Leslie, (left) on her own. She died in 1949, and in photographs of her until her death in 1949 she wears a locket. Inside were two miniature pic-tures of her late husband. 

with thanks to Barbara Hall

Brown, W. J.
William James Brown, S/13654, was a Rifleman in the Rifle Brigade. He was 41 when he died on 17th September 1919. His widow, Maria Brown, of 30 Granville Street, Dover, later 13 Spring Gardens, buried him at Buckland, Dover.

Browning, E. O.
Easter Oliphant Browning, L or C/8205, was a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. He was 28 when he was killed in action on 9 May 1915 as part of the BEF, and is commemorated on the Le Touret memorial.

He enlisted and lived in Dover, and, born in Paddington, was the son of .Mrs. A. M. Browning, of 120  London Road, Buckland, Dover.

Browning, T. J.
Thomas Jekin/Jaken Browning, 23835, was a Sergeant of the 1st  battalion of Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regiment) died from wounds received in action on 20th March 1916, in India. He is buried in the Kut War Cemetery, Iraq, E 7.

He was formerly of the Royal Sussex Regiment, but bought himself out of that regiment while serving in India. He enlisted in India, at Rawalpindi.

Born and living originally in Dover, he was the son of Mr and Mrs W H Browning of 20 York Street, Dover.  

Bruce, H. K.
Harry Kendall Walpole Bruce was an Indian Major, in the 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles). He was 37 when he died on 1st February 1917, and is buried at Amara in Iraq. He was the son of Lieutenant General Le Geyt Bruce, KCB, and Lady Bruce.

*Brunton, E. W.
Edward William Brunton/Braunton, 52673, was a Private in the 32nd battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (formerly 36378 in the 2nd Royal Scots). He was killed in action on 7th June 1917 when he was 25, and is buried in the Bus House cemetery in Belgium, B 22.

He was born in Tottenham, and enlisted and lived in Shepherd's Bush. His mother was Mrs Amelia Bruntion of 3 Loftus Road, Shepherd's Bush, London

*Burley, H.
This may be Henry Burley, 276014, who was born at Battersea, London in December 1870. He was a Chief Stoker, and had obtained a long service and good conduct medal.

He left a widow, Rose Burley, of the Four Oaks Cottages, Luddenham, Faversham. His parents were Hony and Louisa Burley of Wandsworth, London. 

Burnett, G. H.
George Harold Burnett :CWGC says Harold George), 42243, enlisted in Rugby and was a Sapper in the 70th Field Company, Royal Engineers. He was 26 when he was killed in action on 24th September 1918. He is buried at Villers Hill British Cemetery, Villers-Guislain. France, III A 2

 He was born in Dover, and his parents were Luke and Mary Burnett, 2 Albert Road, Dover.

Burrows, H. B.
Henry Basil Burrows, 75373, is commemorated on the Salem Baptist Church Roll of Honour. He was a Private in the 13th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (formerly 5637 of the East Surrey Regiment), and died on 7th June 1918, at the Third General Hospital, Treport, France, after undergoing a leg amputation made necessary by severe wounds on April 6th. He is buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France.

He was born on 1st October 1885 at 162 Clarendon Place, Dover. His parents were  Henry Burrows, a tailor journeyman, and Emma, (nee Sheppard). On 24th March 1913 he married Flora Lily Kettle at the Salem Chapel, Biggin Street. She came from 244 Folkestone Road, but he by then was living at Shoreham Lodge, Granville Road, Sevenoaks, working as a tailor's assistant.

He was still living in Sevenoaks when he enlisted. When he was killed his wife was living at  "Wisteria", 56 Bradbourne Road. Her father, William, formerly a grocer and then a food inspector, and mother (probably Sarah Jane, nee Mullins) were then living at Ruskin Cottage, Minerva Avenue, Dover.   "Loved by all."

Henry is also commemorated also on the Sevenoaks memorial.

The inscription at the bottom of Henry Burrows' headstone at Mont Huon reads: "never forgotten by his loving wife Lily of Sevenoaks, Kent, England"
June 1918

with thanks to David Irving

Bushell, A. G.
Albert George Bushell, G/12279, was born at River, the son of Eliza Bushell, who, by 1901, was widowed. The family then lived at 9 Oswald Road  Albert became a time-keeper at Wiggins Teape & Co, Buckland paper Mill. He became a Private in the Queens (Royal West Surrey), reported as being in the training reserve; on enlistment he was living at 3 Pretoria Terrace, Dover. He had suffered pulmonary tuberculosis for some considerable time, and died on Thursday, 7th June 1917, aged 38, at 26 Radigunds Road..

He was buried on 11th June at Buckland cemetery, Dover in the United Kingdom, with full military honours. . Most of the mourners were cousins, sending also floral tributes. One floral tribute was from his brother Alfred, serving in the North Sea, whom he had named as next of kin.

Butcher, J. W.
John William Butcher, 27449, enlisted in London and was a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Charlotte of Wales' Royal Berkshire Regiment (formerly 2587 of the Rifle Brigade). He died of wounds at the age of 25 on 24th September 1916 (or 1915). He is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, in France 

Born at Charlton, Dover, and living in Dover, he was the son of H. F. and M. A. Butcher of 46 Eaton Road, Dover.

Butler, R. E. H.
Robert Edward Hubbard Butler, K20676, was a 1st class Stoker, who died on 9th July 1917 while serving in the Royal Navy on HMS Vanguard.  He is commemorated on the Chatham Memorial in the United Kingdom. The Vanguard suddenly exploded at Scapa Flow forty minutes before midnight, and it is probable that a fire detonated her magazine. Most of the 800 or 900 men on board were lost.

He was the son of Mrs Burrows, of 12 Widred Road, Dover.

Buttifint, H. W.
Henry William Buttifint served in the Buffs. He was 25 when he was killed in action on 25th September 1916. His father lived at 59 Lowther Road, Tower Hamlets, Dover.

He is recorded in the CWGC and Soldiers Died as Henry William Butterfield, S/9721, a Private in the 1st battalion of The Buffs, killed in action on 25th September 1916. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, 5D

He was born in Kearsney (1901 census says River), and enlisted at Dover, and he lived at Tower Hamlets.