Name
Bernard Sawyer
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/1666
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 99 to 101
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Hitchin Town Memorial, St Saviour's Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
He was born (baptised?) at St. Saviour's Hitchin and enlisted in St. Albans.
Address given as 1 Camp View Road, St Albans.
Wartime Service
He was given the Regimental Number G/1666 and posted to the 3rd Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. The Battalion was part of the 85th Brigade in the 28th Division of I Corps in the 1st Army. He was killed in action in France after having been reported as missing.
His death coincides with the Battle of Loos when, on the 27th September 1915, the Battalion moved up to the Hohenzollern Redoubt and Vermelles. They arrived at 1.00pm and had to remain in the open until they moved up in support at 2.00am on the 28th September 1915. Casualties were heavy.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panels 99-101 of the Loos Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
