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Bullock, Michael, son of Sir Ernest Bullock CVO MusD FRCM FRCO, Director Roy. Coll. of Music, sometime organist of Westminster Abbey, and Margery, daughter of George Hope Newborn, solicitor, of Epworth, Lincs; b. 5 Aug. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H); left July 1939; RAF in WW2; house man. Arts Theatre Cambridge 1963-4; man. Saville Theatre London 1964-70; admin. Coventry Theatre 1971-9; exec. council TMA 1976-80; an actor under the name of Michael Hanbury 1980-; d. Apr. 1999.

Bunting, Paul Lidgett, brother of Christopher Evelyn Bunting (qv); b. 29 Dec. 1926; adm. Sept. 1941 (H); left July 1944; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1944; RN (FAA); accidentally killed on active service 5 July 1946.

Paul Lidgett Bunting was born at Queen’s Road, Bayswater, London on the 29th of December 1926 the son of Sheldon Arthur Steward Bunting MA, MBE, MICE, BSc an engineer for the Indian Public Works Department, and Kathleen (nee Collett) Bunting of 33, Kingsley Way, Hampstead, London N2 and of Northleach, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1941 to July 1944. He matriculated for Trinity College, Cambridge on the 1st of October 1944 as a Royal Navy Officer Cadet. He was posted to the Royal Naval School of Music near Burford, Oxfordshire.
On the night of the 4th/5th of July 1946, Paul Bunting was one of a number of Marines who were traveling in a lorry while returning from leave in Cheltenham to their base at Burford. At midnight the lorry was in collision with a civilian lorry at Hangman’s Stone, near Northleach. He died at the scene from a fracture to the base of his skull; his body was taken to Northleach mortuary.
The dead and injured were: -
Musician Charles Walter Montgomery (Died from injuries at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford) Musician G. De Peyer (Injured)
Musician Paul Lidgett Bunting
Musician B. Farmer (Injured)
Marine L. Midham (Head injuries)
Coporal C.W. Freeland

An inquiry was held into the accident which concluded that the naval lorry had been traveling over the centre line of the road at a speed of 30-35 miles per hour when the collision occurred. The Coroner concluded: - “There is no evidence here of undue speeding, and I think of the two drivers concerned, Ogden, the Royal Marine driver, was to blame for the collision. Whatever carelessness there was on his part amounts to nothing more than to justify me recording a verdict of misadventure.”
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 94.

Burford, Jack William, son of Alfred William Burford AMICE, of Lee, Kent, and Fanny Louisa, d. of Charles Demière of Lausanne; b. 19 Aug. 1903; adm. Sept. 1917 (H), (G) from Jan. 1919; left July 1921; Univ. of Lerds, BA 1927; ordained deacon 1928, priest 1929 (Southwark); Curate St Luke Richmond, Surrey, 1928-31, St James Camberwell, 1931-3, Tarrant Gunville, Dorset, 1933-6; Rector of Stoney Stanton, Leics, 1936; Vicar of St Matthew Leicester, 1942; Vicar of Brixworth, Northants, 1952; retd 1969; m. 5 Jan. 1929 Annie Lister, d. of John Henry Lister Austick, draper, of Leeds; d. Aug. 1990.

Burges, John Roger, son of Group Capt. Roger Burges OBE RAF (previously Cdr. RN), and Olivia Mary, sister of Kenneth Edward Champness (qv); b. 18 Oct. 1919; adm. Jan. 1932 (H); left Apr. 1936; GEC Res. Labs 1936-40; Univ. of Lond. 1936-9 and 1946-8, BSc; PO (A&SD) RAFVR Sept. 1940; transf. Tech. Branch Dec. 1940; Flt Lieut. Sept. 1941, Sqdn Ldr Apr. 1945, Wing Cdr. Sept. 1955, Group Capt. Sept. 1960, Air Cdre Feb. 1969, retd. Oct. 1974; RAF Tech. Coll. 1954-5, Staff Coll. 1958-9; FIEE 1963, FRAeS 1968, CEng; MIL 1980; engineering consult. 1977-87; m. 4 Aug. 1951 Rosalind, d. of T. R. Turner, admin. civil servant; d. 17 Aug. 2015.

Burges-Bayly, Archibald Robert, son of the Rev. Robert Burges-Bayly, Rector of Bosbury, near Ledbury, co. Hereford, by Emma, daughter of Edward Whistler, of Clapham Park, Surrey; b. March 31, 1874; adm. Jan. 18, 1888 (H); left Dec. 1890; Clare Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1893; ordained deacon 1887, priest 1889; held several curacies; Vicar of Sundon and Streatley, Beds. 1907-8; curate in charge of the Holy Cross Mission, Raynes Park, 1908-10; was received into the Roman Catholic Church 1910; engaged in social work in Liverpool; Lieut. 1st Batt. Herefordshire Regt. (T. F.) July 1, 1917; m. Nov. 16, 1899, Susannah, second daughter of the Rev. Edward James Talbot Laughlin, Rector of Willingham, Cambs.

BUTSON, WILLIAM EDWARDS STRANGE, son of Lieut. -Col. W. Strange Butson, Upper Gloucester Place, Dorset Square, London; b. 7 Aug 1869; adm. (H) 31 May 1883; left Aug 1885; an estate agent in North Wales; served during 1914-18 war in Forage Department; temp. Lieut. , RASC 1 Dec 1915.

BUTTAR, SIDNEY GEORGE, brother of Charles Buttar (qv); b. 12 Mar 1869; adm. (H) 23 Sep 1880; left 1884; RMA Woolwich 1886; d. from the effects of a fall while sliding at Woolwich, 20 Dec 1886.

Byam Shaw, George, eldest son of John Byam Liston Shaw, of Kensington, artist, by Caroline Evelyn Eunice, daughter of John Nott Pyke-Nott, of Bydown House, North Devon; b. Oct. 6, 1900; adm. April 30, 1914 (H); left July 1917; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1919; 2nd Lieut. Royal Scots Dec. 23, 1921; Lieut. Dec. 23, 1923; Capt. Nov. 9, 1934; Major, Dec. 23, 1938; killed in action in France May 1940; unm.

George Byam-Shaw was born at Kensington, London on the 6th of October 1900 the eldest son of John Byam Liston Shaw, an artist, and Evelyn Caroline Eunice (nee Pyke-Nott) Byam Shaw, an artist, of 62, Addison Road, Kensington. He was christened at St Barnabus’ Church, Kensington on the 1st of November 1900.
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from the 30th of April 1914 to July 1917. He went on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst where he boxed for the College at featherweight against Woolwich in 1921. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Scots (Royal Regiment) on the 23rd of December 1921. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 23rd of December 1923 and to Captain on the 9th of November 1934. He was promoted to Major on the 23rd of December 1938.
Following the outbreak of war the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots deployed to France on the 21st of September 1939. On the 10th of May 1940 the Germans invaded France and the Low Countries. That morning the Battalion was at Lecelles and, as a number of officers were away on leave, George Byam-Shaw was appointed as the second in command of the Battalion. The day was spent packing to leave and the bulk of the Battalion departed for Overysche at 9.15pm with George Byam-Shaw leading the remainder of the men away at 11.10pm that night.
By the 20th of May, the Battalion was at Froidmont when it received orders to make a reconnaissance of the banks of the River Escaut near Calonne, to the south of Tournai where they were to relieve the 8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment that night. The handover was made at around midnight and was carried out under shell and mortar fire with several casualties being suffered. On the 21st of May 1940, the Battalion was heavily shelled and mortared throughout the morning by the end of which their flank was exposed. D Company carried out several counterattacks which eased the situation but the shelling continued through the afternoon. George Byam-Shaw was killed outright while pausing to have a cigarette during the fighting. By the end of the day the Battalion had suffered 150 casualties but had held their ground. The Padre buried some of dead during the night and buried George Byam-Shaw the next morning.
Only a handful of men from the Battalion were eventually evacuated from Dunkirk.
He is buried at Bruyelle War Cemetery Plot II, Row A Grave 1.

Byam Shaw, Glencairn Alexander, brother of George Byam Shaw (q.v.); b. Dec. 13, 1904; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (H); left July 1923; an actor; first appeared on the London stage 1923 and in New York 1927; played a number of leading parts in productions of Sir John Gielgud (q.v.); Director of the Old Vic 1947-51; Director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, 1952-60; member of the Drama Panel of the Arts Council 1953; C.B.E. Jan. 1, 1954; Hon. D. Litt. (Birm.) 1959; 2nd Lieut. Royal Scots Jan. 3, 1940; m. Madelina Angela (the actress under the name of Angela Baddeley), daughter of William Herman Clinton Baddeley; 29 Apr. 1986.

Byam Shaw, John James, brother of George Byam Shaw (q.v.); b. Jan. 12, 1903; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 23, 1915 (H); K.S. (non-resident) 1917; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1921, matric. Michaelmas 1921; B.A. 1925; M.A. 1928; lecturer and asst. to the director, Courtauld Institute of Art, London Univ. 1933-4; joined the firm of P. & D. Colnaghi, picture dealers, 1934; a director since 1936; 2nd Lieut. Royal Scots Jan. 12, 1940; Major; wounded; author of The Drawings of Francesco Guardi (1951), The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo (1962); m. ISt April 10, 1929, Eveline, daughter of Capt. Arthur Dodgson, R. N.; 2nd July 23, 1945, Adeline Margaret, daughter of Arthur George Saunders, of Taunton, Somerset.