2nd
Lt. Frederick Braham Burd
1890 - 1917 Frederick
Braham Burd was the sixth child and youngest son of Braham and Sarah Ellen
Burd. Born in Cork on April 16th 1890 he moved with his mother
to Sheffield in 1901 when his father became ill and died in 1901. Educated
at the Crookesmore Council School and the Central Secondary School in
Sheffield he traveled to Canada in 1913 and studied Theology and Divinity
at the University of Saskatchewan. Returning to England in 1915 on the
13th of December he enlisted in the 13th Bn of the London Regt.
He was living with his sister in Richmond at the time. Completing training
on the 6th of April 1916 he was appointed unpaid L/Cpl. Presumably
this rank was for the purposes of leading men during the transfer from
the 3rd Bn (Training Bn) to the 1st Bn as he reverted
to Pte. on joining the 1st Bn, in France, on the 22nd of April
1916. Receiving a gunshot wound in the shoulder, in the field on the 4th
of July 1916, he passed from a Light Aid station to the Military Hospital
in Etretat from where he was invalided to England on the 7th
of July 1916. Transferred to the Reserve Bn on the 24th of
October after recovering he was promoted to L/Cpl on the 28th
of October and he continued to serve with the Bn until his application
for a commission was approved in 1917. Reporting to the 5th
Officers' Cadet Bn in Cambridge he entered Officer training on 3rd
January 1917. Receiving his commission as a 2nd Lt., on the
10th of April he returned to 13th Bn London Regt.
which was serving in France. Some weeks later he was sent to the 4th
Bn the London Regt as an "attached officer". He was killed at
St. Julienne ,along with another 2nd Lt. named Bundle and 2 enlisted men
from the 13th, named Beauchamp & Griffiths, on the Western Front in
the battlefields of Ypres. His body was never found and was presumed missing
on the 20th of September 1917. Document Gallery
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