* The two Contingents together numbered 122 officers and men, though that number was never assembled at any one time, of which 40 were killed, or died of wounds, and many more were wounded.
** Bermudians and Newfoundlanders , unlike Canadians and many other trans-oceanic British citizens, served under the same Conditions of Service as those from the UK-proper. This meant that, whereas Canadians could receive leave only to travel within Europe (due to the complications and expenses of allowing each to cross the Atlantic,) Bermudians and Newfoundlanders were
entitled, Like Englishmen and others born nearer the Front, to periodic Home Leave: this, despite the time and expense of reaching Bermuda from Europe, which involved travel to North America by ship, then waiting about Halifax, or New York to find passage to Bermuda on another vessel. This was particularly complicated as, with the suspension of the peace-time tourism industry and the redirecting of the merchant fleet and navy, including the pre-war liners that had served Bermuda, to serve the war effort. Bermuda�s only passenger and freight service was eventually provided by a de-navalised cruiser, H.M.S. Charybdis.
*** �Above The Trenches�, Christopher Shores, Norman Franks & Russell Guest. Fortress Publicatios, Stoney Creek, Ontario. 1990. (Courtesy of Allan Magnus, of the Air Aces Home Page).
**** Lt. Cecil Montgomery-Moore, who had taken leave from the BVRC in Bermuda, in 1917, travelling to Canada to join the RFC, returned to the Island at War�s end, with three aerial victories and a DFC of his own, at the tender age of nineteen. He re-entered the voluntary forces and was a Major, in command of the Bermuda Volunteer Engineers (and the Bermuda Flying School) throughout the Second World War. Another Bermudian Great War aviator, Henry B. L. Wilkinson, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War.
R. C. Earl, who was a C/Sgt. when the First Contingent went to France in 1915, was commissioned into the Lincolns, became the C.O. of the BVRC and continued to give valuable service during and after the Second World War. Rifleman E. L. Ward, of the BVRC
Second Contingent of 1916, travelled to the front again as a Sergeant in the second of the two drafts the BVRC sent to the Lincolns during World War Two. He served in a second liberation of Belgium, as well as of the Netherlands and the invasion of Germany.