2nd Lt. Frederick Braham Burd
1890 - 1917

13th Bn London Regt. capbadgeFrederick 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.

For a reconstruction of the last hours of Frederick Burd, in the 3rd battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) click here

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