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gazetted Lieut., 22 Oct. 1914, and died at Bailleul, France, 12 June,
1915, of wounds caused by the premature explosion of a rifle grenade at
Dranoutre, Belgium. He was buried at Bailleul. His commanding officer
wrote: “I cannot forbear saying how profoundly I regret his death, and
how great a loss he is to the battn. He was the Grenade Officer and had
charge of the bomb throwers. His work in that position was of a high
quality. He was absolutely fearless, and I believe that his men would
have followed him anywhere. He was of the type of which leaders are
made, and the Army can ill afford to lose such men.”
[Illustration: =Henry Copeland Brice.=]
=BRICKETT, RALPH=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 7013), S.S.
101618, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BRICKWOOD, ARTHUR CYRIL=, Lieut., 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st
Battn. York and Lancaster Regt., elder _s._ of Sir John Brickwood,
of Southsea and Hindhead, by his 2nd wife, Jessie, dau. of the late
John Cooper, of Burghfield; _b._ Southsea, 1 Nov. 1896; educ.
Twyford, near Winchester, and Charterhouse; entered Sandhurst, Feb.
1914; gazetted to York and Lancaster Regt., 30 Sept. and was engaged on
coast defence at Cleadon and South Shields. On 2 Feb. 1915, he took out
drafts of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders to France, and on arrival
was sent to Rouen Hospital suffering from a sharp attack of influenza.
On recovery he rejoined, and was in and out of the trenches seven
times. He was taken ill in the trenches with septic throat, 11 April,
and was sent back to the base hospital at Boulogne, where, after two
operations, he died 15 April, 1915; buried at Grayshott.
[Illustration: =Arthur Cyril Brickwood.=]
=BRIDGELAND, HUBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 11478, 1st Battn.
Coldstream Guards; 5th _s._ of the late John George Bridgeland,
of St. Leonards-on-Sea, Carpenter, by his wife Eliza (16 Silverlands
Road, Silver Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea), dau. of George Dearing, of
St. Leonards-on-Sea; _b._ Hastings, 8 Feb. 1897; educ. Tower Road
Board School; enlisted the last week in Aug. 1914; went to France 8
April 1915, and was killed in action at Vermelles, 27 Sept. 1915;
_unm._ A comrade wrote: “It was while we were advancing that he
met his fate, a shell exploding just in front of him, the shock proving
fatal. He was neither hit nor wounded, it was purely the shock.”
[Illustration: =Hubert Edward Bridgeland.=]
=BRIERLY, ALWIN HUARD=, Private, No. 1281, 25th Battn., 7th
Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, _s._ of the late Sir Oswald
Walters Brierly, Marine Painter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by his
2nd wife, Louise Marie, eldest dau. of Louis Huard, of 37, Onslow
Square, S.W., and Brussels; _b._ London, 26 Jan. 1877; educ. in
London; went to South Africa as a lad in 1895, and after some years
there left for New Zealand, and finally settled in Australia about
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