BERKELEY Philip Charles Oswald Major

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Surname: BERKELEY;

Forename(s): Philip Charles Oswald;

Initials: PCO;

Rank: Major;

Previous Regiment: Dorset Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 16-Mar-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 123 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 40 Bn;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 41 Bn;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 29-Sep-1918;

Other Data: See Article about, Emma Gee, Summer 2003, p 40
disch to Commsn 17/11/1915 - Dorset Regt
address: Ashford Lodge, 36 Grosvenor Rd,Gunnersbury
joined 123 Coy 3/6/1917 - war diary - wounded 7/6/1917
recommended for gallantry and leadership - war diary 40 Bn (narrarive of operations) 9-16 Apr 1918
war diary 63 Bn - noted in war diary for rendering good service, 23/8/1918
war diary "killed by fragment of a stray shell";

Other Notes: BERKELEY, Major, P C O, 123rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Inf). Killed in action 29th September 1918. Age 27. Son of Charles Clement Berkeley and Amy Julia Berkeley (nee Oswald). III. B. 28. Hermies Hill British Cemetery - Pas De Calais, France.

(Almost certainly 123 Coy - no 123 Bn existed - but 123 Coy amalgamated into 41 Bn 17/3/1918);

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