L-8170 PTE R.W.BRYANT 4/MIDDX.R.
Robert William Bryant
To France 14/8/14 with 4th Middlesex Regiment & qualified for the Aug-Nov 1914 Clasp
Nine days later in The Battle of Mons 23/8/14 the 'Diehards' lived up to their name when they held up the German 1st Army near Obourg Station on the Mons-Condé canal. This was the first major action of the Great War & the 4th Middlesex sustained some 460 casualties; the total British Army casualties this day were just over 1,600 all ranks, killed, wounded & missing
Pte Bryant was taken POW in 1914 - quite possibly at Mons - and his name appears in this list of the 397 Middlesex Regt soldiers taken POW before Christmas 1914 - Click here
With copies of his MIC & Medal Rolls
Condition: GVF