Name
Philip Burnet Bass
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Cheshire Regiment
5th (Earl of Chester’s) Bn.
'A' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born in 1895 in St. Saviours, Jersey son of Col. Philip de Salis Bass C.M.G. and Fanny Burnet (Craigie) Bass later of 8 Madeley Road, Ealing, London.
Educated at the United Services College and the Imperial Service College 1909-13 and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 4 May 1915 and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Additional Information
United Services College, Westward Ho, Devon amalgamated with Imperial Service College in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
