The Bedfordshire Regiment in the Great War

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Photographs and biographies


Bedfordshire regiment

Follow these links to see photographs and biographies from each of the battalions within the regiment.

1st Battalion:

Short biographies of Officers who fell in the 1st battalion

1st Battalion Officers (1)

1st Battalion Other Ranks (1)

1st Battalion group photo's (1)

Biography of Private 7602 Edward Warner who won the Victoria Cross on Hill 60 in May 1915

Second Lieutenant Paul CHRISTIE photo, biography and diary


2nd Battalion:

Short biographies of Officers who fell in the 2nd battalion

2nd Battalion Officers photos and bios

2nd Battalion "Other Ranks" photos and bios

Biography of Captain Charles Foss, V.C. who won the Victoria Cross at the battle of Neuve Chapelle in March 1915

4th Battalion:

Short biographies of Officers who fell in the 4th battalion

4th Battalion photographs

Biography of Lt-Colonel Collings-Wells, V.C., D.S.O. who won the Victoria Cross near Albert on the Somme in 1918


5th Battalion:

Short biographies of the Officers who fell whilst serving in the 5th battalion

5th Battalion Officer photo's and bio's (1)

5th Battalion Officer photo's and bio's (2)

5th Battalion "Other Ranks" photo's and bio's (1)

5th Battalion group photos (1)

2/Lt Leonard Leader Brereton's personal diary, 1917

2/Lt Leonard Leader Brereton's personal photo album

Biography of Private 203329 Samuel Needham, V.C., who won the Victoria Cross in Palestine in 1918

6th Battalion:

Short biographies of the Officers who fell whilst serving in the 6th battalion

6th Battalion photographs

Biography of Lieutenant Frederick Hedges, V.C. who won the Victoria Cross attached to the 6th battalion, the Northamptonshirte Regiment in 1918


7th Battalion:

Short biographies of the Officers who fell whilst serving in the 7th battalion

7th Battalion photographs

Biography of Second Lieutenant Thomas Edwin Adlam V.C. who won the Victoria Cross at Thiepval and the Schwaben Redoubt in September 1916

Biography of Private 13908 Christopher Cox, V.C. who won the Victoria Cross at Achiet le Grand in 1917


8th Battalion:

Short biographies of the Officers who fell whilst serving in the 8th battalion

8th Battalion photographs


'Other' photographs and biographies:

Short biographies of the Officers who fell whilst attached to other units or regiments

Home, Garrison and Training Battalions photographs

Pre war photographs

Biographies of the Colonels of the Regiment between 1688 and 2009

Hertfordshire regiment

Follow these links to see photographs and biographies from the Hertfordshire regiment:

Short biographies of the Officers who fell in the Hertfordshire regiment

Officer photographs

Other Rank photographs

Group photographs