BACK       GREAT WAR LIST: BERMUDIANS IN BRITISH, IMPERIAL, COMMONWEALTH OR ALLIED FORCES
Smith, Allan Chalmers          Capt.                            R.F.A.                                                 (As for Maj. C.G.G. Gilbert, above, )
                                                                                                                                                  Allan Smith was a Bermuda Rhodes
                                                                                                                                                   Scholar, studying Law at Oxford, before
                                                                                                                                                  the War. Oxford O.T.C. Noted as gaz.
                                                                                                                                                  2/Lt., R.F.A., 14 Jan., 1915. Awarded
                                                                                                                                                   MC. Served post-War as Capt. in
                                                                                                                                                   BVRC. Knighted (1953?).
Smith, Bernard Valentine S.  Lt.                      Royal Flying Corps.                                   Wounded in 1916, but managed to land
                                                                                                                                                   behind British trenches. Awarded
                                                                                                                                                   Military Cross, 1916.
Smith, Donald Christopher    Lt.                      R.F.A., Worcs. Brig., TA, 42 Div.             Brother of Allan Smith, above. Memoirs
                                                                                                                                                   are in Bda. Library. Left Oxford to
                                                                                                                                                   serve as volunteer hospital orderly (with
                                                                                                                                                  Serbs), in Macedonia, 1915.
                                                                                                                                                  Commissioned into RFA, serving at
                                                                                                                                                  Front, then as instructor in England.
Smith, Frederick Lea                                        Grenadier Guards.                                     Working as an engineer in New Jersey
                                                                                                                                                  on outbreak of War. Enlisted while still
                                                                                                                                                  in New York. Sent to UK, asked to join
                                                                                                                                                  BVRC Cont., but this was not possible.
Smith, Wilfred S.E.                                           Queen's Own Rifles (Canada).                  Went to France as a Machine Gunner,
                                                                                                                                                  1914.
Spurling, A. Rowe                 S/Ldr.                 Royal Air Force.                                         Went to France with 1st. BVRC Cont.,
                                                                                                                                                  1915. Commissioned into RFC. Won
                                                                                                                                                  D.F.C., 1918, for single-handed attack
                                                                                                                                                  on 30 German fighter-planes, downing 5.
Stone, Stanley St.Clare          2/Lt.                   Royal Air Force .                                        Went to France with 1st. BVRC Cont.,
                                                                                                                                                  1915. Commissioned into RFC.
                                                                                                                                                  Wounded, 11th. Oct., '18.
Tear, Alfred G.                                                   3 Bedfords.                                                 Was in New York at start of war & went
                                                                                                                                                  to England to enlist in 6 Bedfords.
                                                                                                                                                  Transf. to 3 Batt. and sent to Front, 12
                                                                                                                                                  Jan., 1915.
Trimmingham, H.G.L.          2/Lt.                   16 London Regt. Attached 1st. Lincolns. Attached to B.V.R.C. Contingent from
                                                                                                                                                 10th. Jan., 1916. Invalided from Front,
                                                                                                                                                 1916.
Trimmingham, J. Harvey                                Royal Navy                                                 Commisioned Eng. Dept.
Tucker, Edmund                                               1st. Heavy Battery, C.F.A., C.E.F.           Went to France, 1914.
Tucker, Edward                                                C.E.F.                                                          Enlisted together with Brown, Ewart,
                                                                                                                                                 above, Aug., 1914. Both had worked for
                                                                                                                                                 Bank of Montreal at St. John, N.B.
Tucker, Ewing                        Pte.                    C.E.F.                                                          Killed in action, 1916?
Walker, Herman Walter                          6th Regt., Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles.  2 C.E.F. Commissioned 2/Lieut. and
                                                                                                                                                 transferred to Royal Welch Fusiliers,
                                                                                                                                                 Sept., 1915. Promoted to Capt.
Waddington, Thomas Thewall                        1 Sportsman's Bn.                                     Gaz. Oct., 1915, Lieut., 7 Bn., Royal West
                                                                                                                                               Kents. Awarded Military Cross, 1916
                                                                                                                                                (while a Captain).
Wadson, S.P.                         2/Lt.             6 Royal West Surrey Regt.                              Went to France in 2nd. BVRC Cont.,
                                                                                                                                                1916. Commissioned into 'Queen's' (West
                                                                                                                                                Surrey). Killed in action, 10th. August,
                                                                                                                                                1918.
Wailes, G.C.                                               Royal Fusiliers.                                                 Was reported wounded at Ypres, 17 Nov.,
                                                                                                                                                1914, at  which time he was a Corporal,
                                                                                                                                                attached to "C" Coy., 2 Lincolns.
                                                                                                                                                Formerly, a Hamilton Police Constable.
Wainwright, Charles Barron                   Royal Canadian Navy Vol. Res.; RAMC.      Surgeon. Noted as joined the hospital ship
                                                                                                                                                Prince George, for the War, 18 August,
                                                                                                                                                1914. Promoted Captain, June, 1916.
Wainwright, Darrell C.F.A.
Ward, E.S. Remsen                                  Machine Gun Corps (Navy Branch).              Commissioned, 26 Jan., 1917. Died from
                                                                                                                                                physical breakdown, 7 December, 1918.
Wilkinson, Campbell                               C.F.A.
Wilkinson, Henry Bernard Logier         Royal Air Force.
Winter, W.V. Ross                                   C.E.F.                                                                  C.E.F. 1914-1918. R.C.A.S.C., D.S. &
                                                                                                                                                T.O. M.D. 7. St. John, New Brundswick.
                                                                                                                                                1918-1924. Retired Captain, 23 June,
                                                                                                                                                1924.
Young, C.H.                     Sergt.               Royal Flying Corps .                                          Went to France with BVRC 1 Cont.,
                                                                                                                                                1915. Transferred to R.F.C., 2 August,
                                                                                                                                                1916.
Zuill, Herbert
Zuill, Wm. Edward Sears  Pte.               301st. Field Signals Bn., US Army.

                                                                                
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The period list that forms the basis of this one divided Black islanders. As this is useful, today, in correcting the common assumption that Blacks' contributions were limited to the BMA, this segregation has been maintained, though the  names of many have been added to the main body of the list, and there is no ability to make similar distinction among these.

Anderson, Charles Adolphus         Pte.               10th. Reserve Bn., C.E.F.
Doers, Ivan                                   Pte.               163rd. Bn., C.E.F.
Jackson, Lionel Arnot                    Pte.               187th. Bn., C.E.F.                                                Wounded and discharged as medically
                                                                                                                                                    unfit.
Johnston, Harold Clifford             Pte.               163rd. Bn., C.E.F.
Lopex, Rufus H. Samuel                                   Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve.                               Served at Antwerp. Taken prisoner on
                                                                                                                                                   Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Released.
                                                                                                                                                   Joined King's Royal Rifle Corps.
                                                                                                                                                   Wounded, Sept., 1916. Transferred to
                                                                                                                                                   West India Regiment.
O'Neil, Herbert Arthur                 L/Cpl.            No. 2 Cons. Coy., US Army.
Ratteray, William Alpheus            Pte.                10th. Reserve Bn., C.E.F.
Robinson, W.R.                           Pte.                Canadian Army Medical Corps.
Smith, William Edmund              1/Class Cook   Royal Navy.                                                          Lost on H.M.S. Aboukir, 22nd. Sept., 1914.
                                                                                                                                                    First Bermudian KIA in Great War.
Symons, Cecil James                     Pte.                South Lancashire Regiment.
Symons, Joseph                                                                                                                             Killed in action, about 20th. Oct., 1918.
Trott, Harold T.                           Clerk              318th. Supply Corps, U.S. Army.                           Promoted Sergeant, 25/5/19.
Vallis, Alfred Hoare                      Pte.                116th. Bn., C.E.F.                                                 Killed in action, 27th. August, 1918.
Williams, Lawson                         Pte.                3 Welsh Regiment.
Williams, Reuben C.                     Pte.                17th. Can. Reserve Bn.


                                                                                  
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