Worcestershire Regiment Men - Absent Voters List 1918-1919

Surnames starting with B

LIST WAS LAST UPDATED ON THE 18th OCTOBER 2013

Surname

Forename/s

Parish

Rank

Battalion

Number

Notes

Badham

Albert John

Hampton, Great and Little

Pte.

-

64050

 

Badhams

Horace Harold

Upper Mitton

Pte.

6th

14691

 

Badland

Rainshaw Thomas

Kidderminster

Pte.

3rd

203432

 

Baggott

Sidney

Wollaston

Cpl.

6th

12160

 

Bagnall

Reginald

Oldbury

Pte.

9th

7010

 

Bailey

Charles

Stourbridge

Pte.

2nd

547185

(D. Coy 1st Dispersal Unit)

Bailey

Frederick George

Evesham St. Lawrence

Pte.

11th

27174

 

Bailey

Frederick George

Evesham St. Peter Bengeworth

Pte.

11th

27174

 

Bailey

Ralph

Oldbury

Pte.

10th

-

 

Bailey

William Charles

Evesham All Saints

Bandsman

2/8th

241192

 

Baker

Arthur

Wollescote

-

1/7th

1781

 

Baker

Jack Alexander

Hasbury

Pte.

6th

66332

 

Baker

Jesse

Hill and Cakemore

Pte.

6th

63411

 

Baker

Richard

Kidderminster

Pte.

9th

27674

 

Baker

Theodore

Oldbury

Pte.

9th

29016

 

Baker

William Wilfred

Lower Mitton

-

10th

200750

 

Baldwin

Francis John

Hanley Castle

-

9th

12630

(C Coy)
attd. 78th Trench Motor Bty.

Baldwin

Joseph William

Evesham All Saints

Pte.

9th

17902

 

Ball

Alfred George

Kidderminster

L/Cpl.

2nd

12814

 

Ball

Charles

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

200255

Signaller

Ballard

Albert

Bromsgrove

-

8th

-

 

Ballard

Frank

Wythall

Cpl.

9th

17187

 

Ballard

Henry Thomas

Inkberrow

-

1/8th

-

 

Ballinger

Harry

Pershore Holy Cross

Pte.

9th

240803

 

Banfield

Horace

Kidderminster

Pte.

2nd

518229

 

Banford

Percival Edgar

Great Malvern

Pte.

8th

240277

 

Banks

Noah

Lye

Pte.

-

84105

 

Banner

Ernest

St John-in-Bedwardine

Sgt..

-

12108

 

Banner

George

North Bromsgrove

L/Cpl.

9th

27546

 

Banner

Thomas

North Bromsgrove

L/Cpl.

-

23755

 

Banner

William

Bromsgrove

Sgt.

1/8th

20022

 

Bannister

Alfred John

West Malvern

Pte.

3rd

46254

 

Bannister

Robert

Hill

Pte.

14th

37745

 

Barclay

Edward DeBell

North Bromsgrove

Lieut.

4th

-

 

Barker

Alfred

Kidderminster

Pte.

8th

242434

 

Barker

Charles

Kidderminster

Sgt.

3rd

7824

Missing

Barker

Ernest

Webheath

-

4th

38274

 

Barker

Harold

Kidderminster

L/Cpl.

4th

45977

 

Barker

Thomas Frederick

Kidderminster

Pte.

1st

35198

 

Barley

Harry

North Bromsgrove

Pte.

11th

16601

 

Barley

John Charles

Stock and Bradley

Pte.

1st

27622

 

Barnbrook

John

Hasbury

-

9th

13945

 

Barnbrook

John

Hasbury

-

9th

13945

 

Barnbrook

Joseph

Stourbridge

-

9th

21958

 

Barnbrook

William

Cradley

-

2nd

44355

 

Barnes

Edwin Albert

Claines North

-

-

25214

 

Barnfield

Bert

Wribbenhall

2/Lieut

1st

-

 

Barradell

John Leonard

Lower Mitton

Pte.

9th

203901

 

Barradell

Percy

Lower Mitton

-

5th

50667

 

Barrell

William Jesse

Stourbridge

-

9th

27157

 

Barrett

Frank William

Redditch

Pte.

1/8th

59278

 

Barrett

William

Oldbury

-

6th

35329

 

Bartlett

Wilfred Edward

Feckenham

Pte.

9th

19261

 

Basford

William Albert

Oldbury

-

8th

20487

 

Bashford

David

Lye

L/Cpl.

4ths

34569

 

Bashford

Ernest

Lye

Pte.

4ths

46097

 

Bashford

Richard

Wollescote

-

11th

18587

 

Bashford

Thomas

Lye

-

-

34569

 

Bassett

Sydney James

Kidderminster Foreign

-

4th

19185

 

Bastable

Noah Ernest

Hill and Cakemore

Pte.

9th

29585

 

Bastable

Samuel

Oldbury

-

11th

27865

 

Bastafield

John Henry

Hill

-

1/8th

572661

 

Basterfield

Fred

Hasbury

-

14th

38152

 

Basterfield

Henry

Hunnington

L/Cpl.

1st

10673

 

Bastin

Sydney

Bromsgrove

Pte.

1st

240329

 

Batchelor

Ernest George

Salwarpe

L/Cpl.

4th

27860

 

Batchelor

George Harry

Bromsgrove

Pte.

9th

35280

 

Bateman

George

Hill and Cakemore

-

11th

16823

 

Bateman

George

Lye

-

13th

26975

 

Bateman

Stephen Thomas

Upper Swinford

-

7th

-

 

Bateman

Frederick

Birlingham

-

-

202013

 

Bateman

James

Droitwich St. Nicholas

-

14th

45980

 

Bateman

Samuel

Birlingham

-

-

38260

 

Bateman

Thomas

Droitwich St. Nicholas

-

9th

27668

 

Bates

Harry

Chaddesley Corbett

-

-

24168

 

Bates

William Frederick

Grimley

Pte.

9th

31005

 

Batson

Frank Joseph

Redditch

-

9th

37873

 

Baverstock

Arthur John

Tenbury

Sgt..

11th

15850

 

Bavington

Samuel

Oldbury

Pte.

11th

30837

 

Baxter

John

Salwarpe

Lieut.-Col.

6th

-

 

Baxter

Kenneth Charles

Kidderminster

Lieut.

1/7th

-

 

Baxter

William

Stourbridge

-

5th

81834

 

Baylis

Alfred Colin

Redditch

Pte.

2nd

36027

 

Baylis

Charles

Evesham All Saints

-

5th

17751

 

Baylis

Frank William

Pershore St. Andrew

Pte.

9th

35337

 

Baylis

George

Lower Mitton

Pte.

-

202375

 

Baylis

William George

Astley

Pte.

11th

48207

 

Bayliss

James

Kidderminster

Sgt.

1/7th

220122

 

Bayliss

William Henry

Stone

-

6th

5187

 

Baynham

Thomas

Bewdley

-

4th

46043

 

Bays

Percy Alwyn

Hartlebury

Pte.

9th

13804

 

Beale

Allen Victor

Stock & Bradley

Pte.

2/8th

242499

 

Bearcroft

Albert

Evesham St. Lawrence

-

2/8th

241507

 

Bearcroft

Charles Norris

Evesham St. Lawrence

Pte.

2/8th

240066

 

Bearcroft

Edward

Evesham St. Peter Bengeworth

Pte.

2nd

19620

 

Bearcroft

John Charles

Evesham St. Lawrence

Pte.

1st

49628

 

Beard

Percy

Littleton, South

Pte.

9th

25859

 

Beasley

Benjamin

Cradley

-

3rd

36240

 

Beazer

Archibald Harold

Lower Mitton

2/Lieut.

10th

-

 

Bebb

George

Tenbury

Pte.

9th

22812

 

Bedenham

Harry Leonard

Evesham All Saints

Pte.

1/8th

30836

 

Bedenham

William Albert

Evesham St. Lawrence

Pte.

7th

40702

 

Bedhall

Frank

Kidderminster

Pte.

11th

31152

 

Bedlington

George Francis

Guarlford

-

2/7th

203381

 

Beechey

Reginald George

Evesham St. Lawrence

Pte.

2nd

35961

 

Bell

George Thomas

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

200488

 

Bell

John

Shrawley

Pte.

2/8th

263171

 

Bell

John Thomas

Kidderminster

Drummer

1/8th

241623

 

Bell

William George

Pershore Holy Cross

-

6th

550007

 

Bellamy

Albert Victor

Malvern Link

Lieut.

8th

-

 

Bendall

William

Kempsey

-

3rd

9642

 

Benfield

Edward Stanley

Hampton, Great and Little

2/Lieut.

2/8th

-

 

Bennett

Albert

Kidderminster

Pte.

11th

22903

 

Bennett

Alfred Charles

Kidderminster

L/Cpl.

4th

36675

 

Bennett

James

Hill

-

2nd

20108

 

Bennett

John, (Junior)

Evesham St. Lawrence

L/Cpl.

3rd

13292

 

Bennett

Noah George

Stoke Prior

Pte.

3rd

52490

 

Bennett

Percy Leonard

Stoke Prior

Pte.

9th

27082

 

Bennett

William George

Evesham St. Peter Bengeworth

Pte.

7th

240425

 

Bennett

William Richard

North Bromsgrove

L/Cpl.

15th

45626

 

Bentley

William

Kidderminster

Cpl.

1/7th

1744

 

Beresford

Joshua

Bentley Pauncefoot

-

7th

203745

 

Beresford

Walter Ernest

Kidderminster

Pte.

8th

242391

 

Berrow

Thomas William

Wichenford

Pte.

9th

241026

 

Best

John Leslie

Droitwich St. Peter

-

7th

202845

 

Best

William

North Bromsgrove

Pte.

14th

263025

 

Bett

William Thomas

Wythall

Pte.

9th

36142

 

Betterton

Edgar

Reddtch North

-

-

17122

 

Bevan

John Thomas

Wollaston

-

11th

48226

 

Bick

Joseph William

Pershore St. Andrew

Pte.

18th

240500

 

Bickerton

Arthur Thos.

Kidderminster

Pte.

9th

27214

 

Bickerton

George

Kidderminster

Pte.

7th

242328

 

Biddle

Harry

Ripple

Pte.

4th

46898

 

Biggerstaff

William

Blockley

Pte.

5th

66334

 

Biggs

Albert

Ripple

Pte.

2/8th

241196

(Transport Sect.)

Biggs

George

Redditch

Pte.

Worcs

9692

Labour Corps

Biggs

George

Feckenham Urban

Pte.

11th

16627

 

Biggs

William Edward

West Malvern

Pte.

9th

27047

 

Bilboe

Harold John

Kidderminster

Pte.

9th

27210

 

Billingham

Handel

Cradley

-

5th

16481

 

Billingham

John Edward

Not given

-

7th

204028

 

Bills

John

Not given

-

9th

39671

 

Bingham

Arthur

Kidderminster

Sgt.

1st

200523

 

Birch

Alfred

Hampton, Great and Little

Pte.

2/8th

258

 

Birch

Joseph

Cropthorne

Pte.

9th

30285

 

Birch

Stanley

Kidderminster

L/Cpl.

6th

19146

 

Birch

Victor

Kidderminster

Pte.

7th

201334

 

Bird

Thomas Charles

Malvern Link

Pte.

5th

63442

 

Birkinshaw

William Henry

Oldbury

Pte.

10th

30587

 

Bishop

Benjamin

Bewdley

-

11th

33951

 

Bishop

Benjamin

Bewdley

Pte.

9th

13899

 

Bishop

Benjamin

Bewdley

Pte.

12th

33951

 

Bishop

Charles

Astley

Pte.

10th

27551

 

Bishop

Ernest

Wribbenhall

-

4th

202344

 

Bishop

George Edward

Bromsgrove

Pte.

1/7th

36319

 

Bishop

Henry

Shrawley

-

9th

203994

 

Bishop

John

Kidderminster

Cpl.

9th

8282

 

Bishop

Joseph

Hill and Cakemore

-

9th

35342

 

Bishop

Joseph

Oldbury

-

9th

35342

 

Bishop

Sydney

Wribbenhall

Cpl.

1st

14461

 

Bishop

Thomas Albert

Oldbury

-

Depot

18383

 

Bishop

Walter

Wichenford

Pte.

-

247151

 

Bishop

Wilfred

Wribbenhall

Cpl.

11th

16689

 

Bishop

William

Broadway

-

10th

203259

 

Bishop

William Ernest

Kempsey

Pte.

11th

18883

 

Bissell

Joseph

Oldbury

-

2nd

46953

 

Blades

William Henry

Evesham All Saints

Pte.

9th

27205

 

Blakeway

Walter

Wollaston

-

6th

606078

 

Blaynee

Christopher Jun

Wythall

Pte.

2nd

45234

 

Blick

John Gilbert Ernest

Feckenham

Pte.

9th

27301

 

Bloomer

Harold

Cradley

-

Worcs.

37896

in Hospital

Bloomer

Wilfrid

Cradley

-

7th

36074

 

Blount

Harry

Upper Swinford

-

2nd

203408

 

Blunt

Donald

Hill

-

4th

45912

 

Bolton

James

Hill

Pte.

10th

203435

 

Bond

Walter Francis

Rock

Pte.

7th

200353

 

Book

William

Kidderminster

Pte.

10th

200639

Missing

Boraston

Walter

Bayton

Pte.

5th

53008

 

Borse

Charles David

Oldbury

L/Cpl.

9th

46270

 

Botham

William

Whittington

Pte.

3rd

20412

 

Bott

Alfred William

Upper Ipsley

Pte.

8th

240301

 

Boulter

Harry

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

200553

 

Boulter

Harry Victor

Pershore Holy Cross

-

1st

15386

 

Boulton

William Thomas

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/8th

63530

 

Bourne

Frederick Thomas

Guarlford

-

1/8th

242391

 

Bourne

Harold

Lower Mitton

-

3rd

202687

 

Bourne

Henry

Droitwich St. Nicholas

-

1/8th

240154

 

Bourne

John

Powick

Pte.

2nd

49270

Missing

Bourne

William

Droitwich St. Nicholas

-

2nd

49302

 

Bourne

William

Lower Mitton

Pte.

1st

200406

 

Bowen

John Thomas

Lower Mitton

Pte.

6th

241064

 

Bowen

Thomas Henry

Oldbury

Pte.

1/8th

59400

 

Bowen

William Charles

Kidderminster

Pte.

9th

37866

 

Bowen

William Charles

Kidderminster

Pte.

9th

175099

 

Bowyer

George

Hampton, Great and Little

L/Cpl.

1/8th

240484

 

Bradbury

Thomas

Cradley

Pte.

9th

13901

 

Bradley

Benjamin jun

Kidderminster

Pte.

4th

200313

 

Bradley

Bertram

Rock

Gunner

Worc.

831267

& R.F.A.

Bradley

Edwin

Kidderminster

Pte.

14th

200313

 

Bradley

James

Oldbury

Sgt.

10th

38323

 

Bradley

Thomas Percy

Astley

Pte.

9th

241815

 

Bradley

William

Wribbenhall

2/Lieut.

8th

-

(M.G.C)

Bradley

Frederick Percy

Stock and Bradley

Cadet

7th

12315

(Officers Cadet)

Bradshaw

Cecil Fisher

Redditch

Pte.

9th

31404

 

Brain

Arthur Cecil

Ombersley

-

2nd

31199

 

Brain

Herbert Edward

Shipston on Stour

-

9th

37785

 

Brazier

Francis Jonathan

Bromsgrove

Capt.

-

-

 

Brazier

Frederick James

Claines North

-

-

241288

 

Brazier

George

Dodderhill

-

11th

48220

 

Brazil

Francis Harold

Upper Ipsley

Pte.

1/7th

203815

 

Brent

George

Hasbury

Pte.

9th

200396

 

Bretherton

Walter John

Wollaston

L/Cpl.

1st

325584

 

Brettell

Edward Douglas

Pedmore

Pte.

4th

49229

 

Brettell

Geoffrey Parkes

Stourbridge

Lieut.

5th

-

 

Brettell

William Norman

Stourbridge

Lieut.

5th

-

 

Brettle

James

Cradley

-

2/7th

3383

 

Brewster

Harold Norman

Redditch

-

7th

346639

 

Brewster

Hubert David

Redditch

-

10th

40787

 

Bridge

William

Tibberton

-

1st

30413

 

Bridges

William John

Leigh

Pte.

2/8th

241155

 

Bridgewater

Sidney

Oldbury

Pte.

11th

45101

 

Bridgewater

Sydney

Hill and Cakemore

Pte.

11th

45101

 

Bridgwater

Harvey

Hawne

Pte.

4th

202084

 

Brigden

Lawson Joseph

St John-in-Bedwardine

Capt.

10th

-

 

Briggs

Arthur William

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

830221

 

Briggs

Joseph

Oldbury

Pte.

1/8th

52961

 

Brighton

Alfred

Kidderminster

L/Cpl.

2nd

200257

 

Brighton

Walter

Bromsgrove

Sgt.-Major

11th

-

 

Brigstock

Sydney Joseph

Upper Swinford

2/Lieut

7th

-

 

Brittain

Arthur

Halesowen

-

1st

51201

 

Brittain

John

Halesowen

-

2nd

203058

 

Bromage

Samuel

St John-in-Bedwardine

Pte.

11th

4600

(A Coy)

Bromwich

Arthur Frank

Wribbenhall

-

7th

263055

 

Brookes

Albert

Cleeve Prior

Pte.

4th

17272

(Transport Section)

Brookes

Arthur

Elmley Lovett

Pte.

11th

20631

 

Brookes

Edwin

Elmley Lovett

Pte.

2/8th

241074

 

Brookes

Frederick

Stourbridge

Pte.

1/8th

241632

 

Brookes

Leonard

Redditch

Pte.

9th

30860

 

Brooks

Frederick Edward

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

242329

 

Brooks

Frederick Edward

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

242329

 

Brooks

Frederick Francis

Kidderminster

Pte.

6th

33756

 

Brooks

James Frederick

Ombersley

Pte.

9th

19279

 

Brooks

Joseph

Stourbridge

Pte.

2nd

52276

 

Brooks

Joseph

Wollaston

Pte.

7th

201184

 

Brooks

Leonard William

Bromsgrove

Pte.

6th

38178

 

Brooks

William john

Ombersley

Pte.

5th

49415

 

Broome

Arthur

Oldbury

Pte.

9th

23946

 

Broome

Edwin Henry

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

200215

 

Broome

Miller

Kidderminster

-

2/7th

200760

 

Broomfield

Harold

Kidderminster

Sgt.

2nd

200462

 

Brotherton

Alfred

Evesham Saint Lawrence

Pte.

9th

15034

 

Brotherton

Francis Charles

Evesham Saint Lawrence

Pte.

9th

39723

 

Brotherton

Frederick James

Evesham Saint Lawrence

Pte.

9th

39723

(Agric Unit)

Brough

Alfred

Redditch

Pte.

9th

202928

 

Brown

Albert

Malvern Link

Pte.

13th

20730

 

Brown

Dennis

Stone

-

3rd

34545

 

Brown

George

Hasbury

Pte.

-

19110

 

Brown

George Harold

Astley

Pte.

7th

235290

 

Brown

John

Rock

Pte.

A.L.C. Worc.

591643

 

Brown

Leonard George

Kidderminster Foreign

-

2/7th

201935

 

Brown

William John

Lye

Pte.

4th

39725

 

Brown

William Joseph

Stourbridge

L/Cpl.

4th

49420

 

Brown

George William

Blockley

Pte.

5th

63515

 

Browning

George Henry

Kidderminster

Pte.

1/7th

3656

 

Brush

Ernest

Ripple

-

7th

204052

 

Bruton

Harold Bruce

Upper Swinford

Signaller

5th

31293

 

Bruton

William

Salwarpe

-

2nd

31105

 

Bubb

Sidney

Lye

-

3rd.

-

 

Buckland

Henry William

Hunnington

Pte.

9th

35270

 

Buckland

Herbert

Hunnington

Pte.

9th

35268

 

Buckley

Thomas Herbert

Kidderminster

Pte.

7th.

200076

 

Buckley

William Henry

Kidderminster

Pte.

7th

4753

P.O.W.

Bull

William

Crowle

-

-

15437

 

Bullas

Samuel

Malvern Link

Pte.

-

494484

 

Bullock

Ellis James

Wollescote

-

9th

27125

(D Coy)

Bullock

Edward

Upton Snodsbury

-

6th.

36654

 

Bullock

Lawson Harold

Hampton, Great and Little

Pte.

2/8th

241424

 

Bunn

Charles

Hill and Cakemore

-

-

131990

 

Bunn

John

Upper Ipsley

Pte.

4th

46037

 

Bunn

Percy Collin

Comberton, Great

-

5th

52955

 

Burden

Wilford

Evesham All Saints

Pte.

1/8th

529648

 

Burford

Charles

Redmarley d'Abitot

Pte.

1st

202402

 

Burford

Frank

Bromsgrove

Pte.

8th

435627

Trans. to R.A.M.C.(T.F.)

Burgess

Fred

Hagley

-

9th

15493

 

Burgess

John

Cradley

Pte.

9th

19403

 

Burke

Thomas

Norton-Juxta-Kempsey

Bandsman

3rd

12461

 

Burman

Heber Mark

Bricklehampton

-

9th

17855

 

Burrow

William Charles

Hallow North

-

1st

40825

 

Burrows

William

Cradley

Pte.

10th

203528

 

Burson

Alfred Henry

Cradley

Sgt..

6th

10284

 

Burson

Alfred Henry

Cradley

Sgt..

7th

10284

(D Coy)

Burton

Charles Henry

Lower Mitton

-

1st

200400

 

Burton

George

Bromsgrove

Pte.

1st

49370

 

Butcher

Alan Herbert

Kidderminster

Major

1/7th

-

 

Butcher

William

Upper Mitton

Pte.

2/2 Worc.

241425

 

Butler

Archie

Lye

-

2/8th

203694

 

Butler

Edward George

Upton Snodsbury

Sgt.

-

19909

 

Butler

Francis Gilbert

Ombersley

-

-

52836

 

Butler

Ralph

Cradley

Pte.

9th

23937

 

Buttery

William

Kidderminster

Cpl.

7th

200178

 

Byng

Alfred

Hasbury

-

1/8th

242599

 

Byng

Alfred

Hasbury

-

2/8th

242599

 

Byng

Frederick

Bromsgrove

Pte.

5th

46773

 

Byrch

Alfred

Norton-Juxta-Kempsey

Pte.

2/8th

241576

 

Byrd

Albert

Evesham All Saints

Pte.

5th

278757

 

 

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