2nd Lt Kellie was transferred to the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in 1915.
On 19 April 1915 he was injured in the thigh while defending a trench at Hill 60, but was killed by a shell while being stretchered away.
A letter sent home to his parents by Lt Col Griffith DSO described him as a “most courageous and useful officer… very popular with all in the regiment”.
2nd Lt Kellie was buried on Hill 60, but later moved to Railway Dugouts burial ground in West Flanders.
2nd Lt Hopkins arrived in France in October 1914 and moved between battalions of the Bedfordshire Regiment.
At the time of his death in May 1915 he was attached to the 1st Battalion, who were engaged in the struggle for Hill 60.
In 1922, an unknown British Officer of the Bedfordshire Regiment was reburied at Bedford House cemetery.
