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Colonel HERBERT CLIFFORD BERNARD

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Irish Rifles

Commanding 10th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 July 1916

Age 50 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MARTINSART BRITISH CEMETERY

I. A. 16.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Born at Cheltenham. Son of Robert Bernard, M.D., R.N., Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets, and Sarah Augusta Clifford. Served in the Burmese War (1885-1891). Commanded the 45th (Rattray's) Sikhs from 1909 to 1914, after which he retired from the Indian Army.
  • Personal Inscription MILES GENEROSUS COMITATE FIDELITATE, VIRTUTE PARITER IUSIGUIS.
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Buried or commemorated at

MARTINSART BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 488
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