The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lieutenant Colonel F W Burbury

Lieutenant Colonel Francis William BURBURY, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 24th Battalion, Rifle Brigade), died, 11th September 1919.

Born 1st November 1864, St John's Wood, London.

Father of 2nd Lieutenant John Francis BURBURY

Commemorated at Karachi 1914-1918 War Memorial, Pakistan.

Wisden on the Great War: The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-1918

Lieutenant Colonel Francis William BURBURY, (Rifle Brigade late Royal West Kent Regiment, died in Hospital at Murree on September 11. He was educated at Marlborough and Shrewsbury, and was in the latter Eleven in 1881, 1882 and 1883 and Captain in 1884. He was a good batsman and a first rate field. In 1885 he played in the Freshmen's match at Cambridge. He was born at on November 1, 1864. He was commissioned from the Royal Military College Sandhurst into The Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) in August 1886. Having retired from the Royal West Kent Regiment, he commanded the 24th (Home Counties) Territorial Battalion of the Rifle Brigade from its formation in 1915; it reached Agra in February 1916 and went on to Sialkot with detachments, at different periods at Jullundur, Amritsar, Lahore and Ferozpore for internal security duties, and finally dispersed on November 29, 1919. His name is on the Karachi War Memorial. His first son, 2nd Lieutenant John Francis BURBURY, was killed in Belgium on February 23, 1915, age 19. His second son, Lt-Col Richard Percival Hawksley Burbury was killed during the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.

Pembroke College, Cambridge - Son of the lawyer and scientist, S.H.B. [D.N.B.] Enlisted 1886, retired 1896, was a linen manufacturer before serving again in WWI. Whether or not as a result of the war he died at Sialkot, Punjab, and is buried at Gharial in the Murree Hills. Commemorated on the Karachi 1914-1918 War Memorial.

London Gazette 26th March 1915.

The undermentioned appointments are made -HEADQUARTERS OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND DEPARTMENTS.

Administrative Commandants - (Graded for purposes of pay as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-Generals). Dated 18th January, 1915. Major F. W. Burbury, 3rd Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment).

London Gazette 16th July 1915.

Deputy Assistant Directors of Railway Transport - (Graded for purposes of pay as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-Generals.) Dated 16th June, 1915.

Major Francis W. Burbury,.The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

London Gazette 22nd November 1915.

Major Francis William Burbury, The Royal West Kent Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary). Dated 23rd November, 1915.

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