Name
Bernard Edmond Lee
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
518
Royal Fusiliers *1
8th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham, St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham, Individual plaque in St John the Baptist Church, Aldenham, Letchmore Heath Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham, St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham, Letchmore Heath Village Memorial, Ind. plaque on 2 Pegmire Lane, Patchetts Green,
Pre War
Bernard Edward Lee was born in 1891, in Fenny Stratford, Bucks, son of Henry and Agnes Mary (nee Hill) Lee. One of eight children one died in infancy.
1901 Census records Bernard aged 9, living with his parents, and four siblings in, Victoria Road, Fenny Stratford, Bucks, his father’s occupation is given as a Master Butcher.
1911 Census records Bernard aged 20, working as a Gardener, living with his parents, and five siblings at, Delrow Farm, Delrow, Aldenham, where his father was the Farm Forman.
Wartime Service
Bernard enlisted at Hammersmith, London, posted to the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) with the service number 518.
The 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was raised at Hounslow, on 21st August 1914, as part of Kitchener’s First Army. Bernard with his Battalion landed in France in May 1915.
He was Killed in Action on 7th July 1916, aged 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
The 8th Battalion was part of the 36th Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division.
Additional Information
His mother Agnes received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6th November 1918.
*1 More correctly (City of London) Bn. London
Regiment (Post Office Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
