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The Old Derbeian Society
Lawrence Vernon Bennett – 1908 to 1911
L. V. Bennett, Royal Fusiliers, was killed in action in France on Oct. 1st 1918 in his 24th year. A clerk in a bank when war broke out he joined the Army and posted to the 2/4th Northumberland Fusiliers. He went to the front and there contracted dysentery; was invalided home, and after recovery eventually went out again. He was of quiet and retiring disposition, good natured, and much liked by those who were intimate with him.
Arthur Fletcher Bentley – 1907 – 1909
A. F. Bentley died on March 11th 1916 at No. 1 Red Cross (Duchess of Westminster) Hospital,, Le Touquet, France, from wounds received in action on March 4th and was interred at Etaples Military Cemetery, March 13th.
He came to School in January 1907 and gained the respect and affection of all by his good and estimable character and cheerful pleasant ways.
On leaving school he entered a bank and on the outbreak of war obtained a commission as 2nd Lieut in the 11th (Service) Battn. Sherwood Foresters and was in France attached to the 10th Battn. of the same Regiment. He took part in the engagement at the beginning of March in which the 10th Sherwoods suffered so severely and on March 4th was severely wounded by shrapnel in the left side penetrating the lung.
Herbert Clifford Bernard – 1880 to 1883
Born in 1865, Colonel Herbert Clifford Bernard was killed in action on July 1st 1916, during the advance on the Somme. He was the only surviving son of the late Robert Barnard, MD., RN., of Haverfordwest.
Educated first at Llandovery School, he came to Derby School in May 1880: he obtained 1st XI football colours and rowed in the first boat in 1882. In 1883 he qualified as a Queen's cadet for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst passing first of all candidates in French, and played football for the College Association Team. He was gazetted to the 67th (Hampshire) Regt. In 1884, joined the Indian Army in 1885 and served in Burmah until 1905, when he joined the Rattray's (45th Sikhs) as second-in-command. He commanded this regiment from 1909 to 1914. His war service included the Burmese Expedition (1885-89), for which he obtained the medal with two clasps, Manipur Expedition (1891), Chinook Expedition (1891), for each of which he obtained another clasp, and the Burmese War (1889-1892).
On the outbreak of the present war he was given command of the 10th Service Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and was mentioned in dispatches of April 30th 1916.
Percy Boam
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