NEVILE Bernard Philip

Bernard Philip Nevile was born on 1st August 1888 at Wellingore Hall, Lincolnshire, the youngest of 4 sons of Ralph H.C. and Mildred Frances Nevile.  He was educated at Downside from April 1902 to July 1905 where he was a good all-round athlete playing for the First XIs in soccer, hockey and cricket.  He studied engineering in Birmingham before going up to trinity College, Cambridge in 1910.  He won a blue for golf and graduated in 1913.  Bernard was an excellent cricketer playing for Worcestershire County Cricket Club where he headed the bowling average in 1913.

At the outbreak of war Bernard volunteered and was commissioned in September 1914, promoted Lieutenant in November and Captain in January 1915.

Source: In Continuing and Grateful Memory, The Menin Gate

Bernard arrived in Boulogne, France on 14th July 1915 and was killed in action on 11th February 1916.  He was awarded the 1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and these were sent to his brother G.H. Nevile Esq., Wellingore Hall, Lincoln.

Bernard Nevile has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial.