Remembering the following five officers and 12 men of the 16th Lancers who lost their lives 100 years ago today on the 21st February 1915. Only five of these men have known graves, the remainder being commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.
3838 Private Frederick Charles Adam
5714 Private Charlie Alderson
1017 Corporal George Annett
3270 Private Walter Oliver Basson
Lieutenant Rowland Auriol James Beech
Lieutenant David Ronald Cross MC, MiD (below)
6006 Private Harold Cutfield
5595 Lance Corporal William Futrill
L/4937 Private Giles
316 Corporal Alfred Jackson
4529 Private George Henry Jones
Lieutenant Nathaniel Walter Ryder King
5402 Lance Serjeant Gilbert Percy Liggins
5045 Private Charles Alfred Lindsey
Captain Edward Radcliffe Nash (above)
Major Arundell Neave MiD (above)
5685 Lance Corporal Sydney Leonard White
Obituaries on this post are taken from the online version of De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour published on Ancestry.
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