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Bindloss, Edward Alexander Morgan, son of the Rev. Edward Bindloss by Maria, daughter of Felix Clarke, of Archangel, Russia; b. Aug. 22, 1875; adm. May 10, 1888 (H); left April, 1892; A.M.I.C.E. Feb. 3, 1903; practised as an electircal engineer in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Birmingham; served in the South African War with the Northumberland Fusiliers; Hon. Lieut. in the Army July 8, 1902; Capt. 5th Batt. Royal Warwickshire Regt. (T. F.) Jan. 1, 1912; temp. Major June 17, 1915; mentioned in despatches Jan. 6, 1919; m. April 29, 1909, Margery Emily, younger daughter of John Rendell, of Newton Abbot, Devon; killed in action June 15, 1918 on the Asiego Plateau.

Bird, Eric Hinckes, brother of Ashley Hinckes Bird (q.v.); b. Sept. 27, 1894; adm. Jan. 17, 1907 (R); left July 1912; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 4, 1912; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) Aug. 30, 1914; temp. Lieut. Feb. 11 - April 15, 1915; "Lieut. April 16, 1915; was invalided home after some six months on the western front; subsequently attached to the 25th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps as an Observer, and returned to France in June 1916; d. June 27, 1916, of wounds received in an air fight on the western front the previous day.

Bonser, Winfield Joyce, only son of the Right Hon. Sir John Winfield Bonser, of Eaton Place, London, sometime Chief Justice of Ceylon, and subsequently a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, by his first wife Bertha M. L., second daughter of John Nanson, of Carlisle; b. Jan. 12, 1886; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 18, 1900; left July 1904; Christ's Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. Oct. 1, 1904, scholar Nov. 7, 1906); 1st class (div. 3) Classical Tripos, part 1, 1907; B.A. 1907; called to the bar at the Inner Temple June 28, 1911; 2nd Lieut. 11th (Service) Batt. Rifle Brigade Sept. 25, 1914; Lieut. 12th (Service) Batt. Feb. 3, 1915; Capt. March 12, 1915; went out to the western front in July 1915; killed in action at Fauquisert, near Estaires, Sept. 25, 1915.

Bowes-Scott, Harry George Rodney, only son of Henry Bowes-Scott, of Chelsea, by Alice Henrietta Rodney, eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Owen, Bart., by his second wife; b. May 15, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Easter 1903; a civil engineer at Calcutta; 2nd Lieut. Infantry Reserve of Officers, Indian Army, Aug. 7, 1915; attached 29th Punjabis Sept. 4, 1915; killed in action at Soko River, German East Africa, March 21, 1916.

Bowman, Arthur William, son of the Rev. Arthur Gerald Bowman, Vicar of St. Mark's, Kensington; b. May 1, 1887; adm. from Eton Jan. 17, 1901 (A); left July 1905; New Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1905; joined the army in Aug. 1914; served on the western front as Corporal 23rd Batt. London Regt.; m.; d. a prisoner of war at Valenciennes April 12, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Bristowe, Vivian Ernest John, brother of Leonard Syer Bristowe (q.v.); b. June 12, 1874; adm. Sept. 24, 1885 (H); left July 1892; became a stock jobber and went out to South Africa shortly before Great War I; enlisted in the South African Medical Corps in Nov. 1915, and joined the East African Expeditionary Force in Jan. 1916; d. while on active service at Rug, Rufigi River, East Africa, April 14, 1917; unm.

BRUCE, CHARLES THOMAS, eldest son of Hon. Thomas Charles Bruce MP, and Sarah Caroline, eldest dau. of Thomas Thornhill, Riddlesworth Hall, Norfolk; grandson of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine (S) (qv); b. 21 Feb 1865; adm. (H) 15 Jun 1876; left Mar 1880; Magdalene Coll. Cambridge, matr. Mich. 1883; attached to Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople and Egypt, 1885-6; member, Royal Company of Archers, Scotland; went out to Flanders Sep 1915 as Commandant of a Belgian field hospital; m. 1st, 8 Jul 1897 Edith Mary, eldest dau. of Samuel Sandbach Parker, Aigburth, Lancs.; m. 2nd, 7 Jul 1914 Gwendolen Mary, eldest dau. of Robert Thomas Napier Speir DL, Burnbrae and Culdees, Perthshire; d. in London 23 Oct 1915, from enteric fever contracted in Flanders.

Buckman, James Leslie, only son of James Buckman, of East Dulwich, Surrey, Borough Treasurer of Bermondsey, by Mary Jane, daughter of James Neighbour, of London; b. Nov. 11, 1892; adm. May 2, 1907 (A); left Dec. 1910; Wadham Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1911; adm. to the Middle Temple April 5, 1911; 2nd Lieut. 8th (Service) Batt. Gloucs, Regt. Nov. 14, 1914; Lieut. Feb. 13, 1915, 12th (Service) Batt. (Bermondsey) East Surrey Regt. June 29, 1915; Capt. Oct. 9, 1915; went out to the western front May 1, 1916; killed in action at Fiers, France, Sept. 15, 1916; unm.

Bull, Roland John Howard, eldest son of Henry John Howard Bull, of Hammersmith, solicitor, by Bertha Frances, daughter of Frederick John Nash, of Tulse Hill, Surrey; b. April 10, 1892; adm. Jan. 19, 1905 (A); left July 1907; adm. a solicitor Dec. 1913, and became a partner in the firm of Bull and Bull, of London and Hammersmith; joined the Artists' Rifles Feb. 24, 1909; 2nd Lieut. 16th (co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Queen's Westminster Rifles) Aug. 26, 1914; Lieut. June 25, 1915; Capt. May 24, 1917; went out to the western front Sept. 29, 1915; attached to the R.E. for Army Signal Service Sept. 13, 1916, and subsequently to 8th Heavy Artillery; killed accidentally July 13, 1917; unm.