Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Councill, Bernard B., 1918 

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BERNARD BRYAN COUNCILL

BERNARD COUNCILL DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE

   Corporal Bernard Bryan Councill, son of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Councill of 
this community, the Franklin soldier who was seriously wounded September 29, 
1918. in action in France, died in an American hospital in the land for which 
he gave his life October 10, 1918. 

   The news of his being wounded reached his parents last week in a letter 
from the nurse in General Hospital 18, and yesterday morning of this week the 
following letter from another nurse in the same hospital conveyed the sad 
intelligence that the young man had passed away. 

   Base Hospital No. 12, U.S.A., No. 18 General Hospital, B.E.F. France, 
October 10, 1918.

   Dear Mrs. Councill - I am very sorry to report that your son passed away in 
this hospital yesterday afternoon.  He had been getting along quite nicely for 
several days, but yesterday he had a severe hemorrhage from the wound in his 
thigh, and he lost a great deal of blood.  An attempt was made to transfuse 
blood but he died during the operation. 

   He will be buried with full military honors tomorrow,, October 11, 1918, in 
the Etaples Military Cemetery. 

Very truly yours, ISABELLE E. CARRUTHERS, Assistant Chief Nurse, A.N.C.U.S.A. 

   He was the first white soldier boy from Franklin to give his life for 
Democracy; his parents while having the universal sympathy of our people in 
their loss, are nevertheless to be congratulated that their boy, obeying 
duty's call, offered himself freely upon the altar of his country's need and 
has paid the ultimate sacrifice as a brave man and a hero should. At the 
proper time due and fitting recognition will be given him together with such 
other gallant spirits from Southampton as may "Keep their rendezvous with 
death at some disputed barricade:, for the sake of the freedom of civilization 
and humanity - we may say of him as of the kindred spirits of our Nations 
bravest and best who, with him have passed - poem... 


Cpl. Bernard Bryan COUNCILL, 
WIA 29 Sep 1918, d. 9 Oct 1918, France, 
interred in Etaples Military Cemetery, France, 11 Oct 1918, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 8, 1918, p. 1 

He is listed with his parents in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin - 
   Section 2, Plot 54A.  Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 9, 1938) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c524r1ob.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 23, 1930), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c524j4ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c524b1ob.txt