Remembering the 2nd Buffs at 2nd Ypres - 3rd May 1915

According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 629 British Army officers and men lost their lives on the 3rd May 1915, one hundred years ago today.

The 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) lost particularly heavily on this day with 143 men paying the ultimate sacrifice. Of these 141 men, only six have known graves, the remaining 135 men all commemorated by name on the Menin Gate.

The 2nd Buffs who died that day are all listed below and their regimental numbers show a range of experience - or inexperience.  The L/ prefix men are all regular soldiers, career soldiers like the first L/ man on this list, George Allen who had arrived in France on the 7th October 1914.

 

George's number reveals that he had joined The Buffs in August 1903. This was at the time when regular terms of enlistment into the infantry were for three years with the colours and nine on the reserve. In all probability then, George had been transferred to the Army Reserve in August 1906 (or perhaps August 1907 had he been serving abroad). Men joining at the same time as George did had seen the usual service at the regimental depot and then with the home battalion before shipping out to South Africa in 1905. Getting back into khaki and army routine seven or eight years after they had last shouldered a rifle would have been a challenge for a lot of men.

 

The vast majority of the men killed on 3rd May 1915 were career soldiers. The newest recruit was 21 year old Charles Williams who had enlisted for seven and five after Britain went to war in August 1914, while Privates William Ward Sunderland and Charles James Burns had originally joined the regiment in 1894. Both had seen service in India and both held the India General Service Medal with a clasp for the Punjab Frontier 1897-1898.

 

The men with an S/ prefix are men of the Special Reserve and there are two number series in play here. The low two digit and three digit S/ numbers are men who joined the Special Reserve for wartime service only. Their numbers are often presented on attestation papers as SR/EK/GS or Special Reserve / East Kent / General Service. The men with four and five digit S/ numbers have service ranging from 1908 to August 1914.

 

G/ prefix men are Kitchener volunteers, men who answered the call for King and Country. There are 37 of these men whose regimental numbers indicate that they enlisted between August 1914 and March 1915. The CWGC notes that Thomas Twyman's number is G/14651. This can't possibly be correct as the number would not be issued until much later in the war. His number was G/4651.



G/4851 Private Ernest Charles Adams
G/5015 Private Harry Thomas Akhurst
L/7633 Private George Allen
G/5019 Private Arthur Edward Appleton
G/4953 Private William Walter Appleton
S/10530 Private Henry Baker
G/1008 Lance Corporal James Alfred Bell
L/9669 Private William James Blewitt
L/7677 Private William Bolton
L/9225 Lance Corporal Albert Broughton
G/146 Lance Corporal John Brown
L/8140 Private E Brunger
G/4406 Private Herbert Edward Burcham
S/684 Private Thomas Burgess
L/4672 Private Charles James Burns
L/8476 Private William Butcher
L/8306 Private Charles Carr
S/60 Private John Carthew
L/8489 Private Albert James Clark
G/1381 Private Spencer Arthur Collins
S/10704 Private Thomas George Collins
G/4831 Private Joseph G. Cork
L/8242 Private Ernest Augustus Corry
G/4478 Private John Henry Coulbeck
S/849 Private Thomas James Couzens
L/9337 Corporal William John Cremer
L/8657 Private George Albert Crickett
G/4677 Private James Stanley Croft
L/10144 Private Ernest D'Oyley
G/4601 Lance Corporal A Day
L/8254 Private John Wildman Dennis
S/585 Private Richard Dray
L/8367 Corporal Arthur Percy Duckworth
L/9888 Private Christopher Elliott
L/9418 Private Frank Erridge
L/7072 Private G F Excell
S/10765 Private Frederick Albert Fallowes
L/7529 Private William Francis Fendom
S/357 Private John Finn
L/8707 Private John Thomas Fishenden
L/9231 Private John Edward Flick
G/676 Private Robert Folley
G/4763 Private John Henry Fordham
L/7991 Private Frank Brook Foster
L/9653 Private Frederick William Fowler
L/9651 Private James Henry Fremlin
L/9894 Lance Corporal Thomas Edward Fruin
L/9112 Private Edward Gambell
L/8361 Serjeant Harry Goddard
L/9092 Private William George Thomas Gouge
S/491 Private Charles Gurr
L/9365 Private William George Hall
S/307 Private Joseph Edward Hambrose
G/5107 Private George William Hance
G/4624 Private George Henry Handy
G/5449 Private Michael Nicholas Hannon
L/9371 Private Alfred William Harlow
L/8406 Serjeant John Harris
S/9151 Private Arthur Charles Reginald Hart
S/10274 Private Benjamin Thomas Hawkins
L/8436 Private William Hayward
S/52 Private Ernest William Hazeldin
G/1008 Private Ernest Head
S/8398 Lance Corporal Henry Thomas Hines
G/5815 Private George Hird
L/9716 Private George Hoare
L/9067 Private Thomas Hoare
G/4679 Private George William Verney Holmes
S/605 Private William Thomas Hope
S/9594 Private Arthur Hoper
L/10176 Private Joseph Horrigan
L/9021 Private Leonard Ingram
G/5186 Private Arthur John Jarvest
G/4657 Private Ernest Jones
L/9031 Lance Corporal Edgar Judd
S/802 Private Alfred Charles Kendall
G/889 Private Arthur William King
L/9139 Private William Charles Knight
L/8011 Serjeant Percy George Lancaster
S/10688 Private Harry Lane
G/3429 Private Henry Arthur Leslie
S/10662 Private William George Lewis
L/9799 Private Bernard William Francis Lott
G/4595 Private William John Maloney
G/5731 Private Richard Mannings
L/8430 Private Frederick Charles Manser
L/9420 Private Harold Masey
L/8971 Private Percy William Millard
L/7548 Lance Corporal Percy James Mills
L/9166 Corporal Maurice Mitchell
L/9380 Private Bernard Moore
L/9601 Private William James Mount
G/1092 Private Patrick Michael Valentine Mccarthy
G/4404 Private Owen Mcnamara
S/673 Private Charles Oclee
L/10204 Lance Corporal John Palmer
L/9246 Corporal Henry Pankhurst
G/787 Private William Parker
L/8300 Private Hedley Parsons
L/9784 Private John Francis Payne
S/10780 Private John George Pearson
L/8632 Serjeant Ernest Henry Petts
G/4680 Private Sidney Pippard
L/9473 Private George Potter
L/8750 Private Louis Frederick Quittenden
L/9251 Bandsman William Stephen Redman
L/8505 Private Vincent Daniel Richardson
L/6030 Private Alexander Ridlington
L/5668 Private Alexander Rowe
S/10560 Lance Corporal John Henry Russell
L/8715 Private Edward Rye
S/414 Private A C Saxby
L/8416 Private George John Scotchbrook
S/9609 Serjeant William Richard Semark
L/9570 Private Edward George Shorter
L/8397 Lance Corporal John Shrubsole
L/10036 Lance Corporal Arthur Thomas John Smith
G/4912 Private Frederick Smith
L/9391 Private William Thomas Smith
L/9098 Lance Corporal Albert James Stuckey
L/4621 Private William Ward Sunderland
L/9989 Private George Taylor
L/8421 Private Edward Terry
L/8780 Private Leonard Terry
L/9419 Private George Tomlin
G/4693 Private Henry Thomas Tompsett
G/4878 Private William Charles Twinn
G/4651 Private Thomas Twyman
G/1380 Private James Veness
G/831 Private Arthur John Vincent
L/7239 Private James Edward Waghorn
L/8624 Private William James Richardson Ward
S/229 Private Benjamin Watson
G/885 Lance Corporal Horatio Edwin Weeden
L/10316 Private Charles Williams
L/8239 Private Wesley Wise
L/9065 Private Alick Henry Wood
S/10736 Private Bernard Joseph Woodward
L/9071 Private Alexander William Wotherspoon
L/8540 Lance Corporal George Alexander Wyatt
L/6570 Lance Corporal John Wynder

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

 

 

The image on this post is The Second Battle of Ypres by Richard Jack. Medal index card, courtesy of Ancestry. For help making sense of regimental numbers in the British Army, visit my Army Service Numbers blog or drop me a line.

 





Remembering 2nd Ypres - 23rd April 1915

On 22nd April 1915 the German IV Army launched a surprise attack on Allied Lines, an attack that saw the use of poison gas for the first time. The men listed below - 485 of them in total - all lost their lives the following day, 23rd April 1915. All of these men died in Belgium and the vast majority of these in or around the Ypres Salient in what came to be known as the Second Battle of Ypres.

One hundred years on, I remember the men who gave their lives that day. Casualties are ordered alphabetically by cemetery.  Note that a number of aliases are present in the following roll call. In each case the assumed name is the name given first; thus John Smith ALIAS Jones implies that the man's real name was John Jones but that he enlisted as John Smith.

Aeroplane Cemetery

Captain William Arthur Rowe Carter 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

Bedford House Cemetery

Captain Karl Ferdinand Franck W. Arnold 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
9207 Private C W Chapman 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Lieutenant Hubert George Henry Fardell 3rd attd. 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
7295 Serjeant L Foulkes 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
1330 Rifleman T Kift 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment
Second Lieutenant Norman Sawers Scott 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Berks Cemetery Extension

1666 Private J A Myring 1st/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery

8732 Private James Parr 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

Chester Farm Cemetery

2362 Private William Burton 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
9484 Private John Gavin 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
6473 Serjeant Richard Hamblett 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
2147 Private Michael Ryan 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment
5538 Serjeant Herbert Tunnicliffe 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment

Dickebusch New Military Cemetery

Lieutenant Robert William Sterling 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Divisional Cemetery

8590 Private H Delvin 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

Hagle Dump Cemetery

9415 Private Herbert David Jenner 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Hooge Crater Cemetery

32896 Gunner Percy Tudor Bladen 130th Battery, 24th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
31435 Acting Bombardier E J Tucker 130th Battery, 30th Bde. Royal Field Artillery

Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery

2237 Private Harold Stevenson 1st/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

La Clytte Military Cemetery

8552 Private William Cullum 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
7675 Private Patrick Mcdonald 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery

8936 Private Archibald Robb Bertram Baird 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/16674 Private James Douglas 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/14459 Private J Elrick 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/12711 Private Daniel Halloran 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/16030 Lance Corporal Thomas Henderson "C" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/16355 Private John Lamont 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
8094 Corporal G Mansfield 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/12409 Private J Mcalpine 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
8333 Lance Corporal W Mcdiarmid 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
6961 Private J Mckenzie 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
8453 Private W Mclean 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
7016 Private James Mcnab 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/15545 Private John Mearns 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
5312 Serjeant John Nield 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
8935 Private W M Ronaldson 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders

Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery

1321 Private T. Harry Chapman "F" Coy. 1st/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment

New Irish Farm Cemetery

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur George Burt Cdg. 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
Second Lieutenant Stanley Edwyn Callard 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
7044 Lance Corporal J I Cameron 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
18051 Private F Copeland 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
11466 Private F Curry ALIAS Wharton
9920 Private W Fenn 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3273 Private T P Jones 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
6639 Private Charles Kent 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
1360 Private S Mckail 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots
17242 Private J Morcom 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9577 Private C E Munford 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
17513 Private Thomas Richard Place 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
10267 Private J Whitehead 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9582 Private A E Williams 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment

Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery

7/801 Rifleman J G Donovan 4th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
1852 Private William Howie 1st/9th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
7519 Corporal Frederick Charles Jackson 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/5073 Lance Corporal Ernest John Linge 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Packhorse Farm Shrine Cemetery

2735 Private Horace Pratt "D" Coy. 1st/4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment

Perth Cemetery (China Wall)

16728 Private Adam Henderson 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

Ploegsteert Memorial

S/10630 Private George Kitts 1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery

97 Private A H Spong 1st/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery

Captain Edwin Scott Bamford 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
15539 Private Alfred William Barrett 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
6431 Lance Corporal J H Bristow 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
7502 Private J W Bunting Army Ordnance Corps
4286 Sub-Conductor William Henry Cutler Army Ordnance Corps
28300 Driver Thomas Fletcher 20th Battalion, Ammunition Col. Royal Field Artillery
7712 Private T Galbraith 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
7717 Private Samuel Augustus Harris Army Ordnance Corps
4167 Sub-Conductor Arthur Joseph Lamb Army Ordnance Corps
1248 Lance Corporal T F Latham Military Foot Police Military Police Corps
20657 Corporal John Alexander Ramsay ALIAS Alexander
S/16334 Private A Robertson 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
2096 Private Norman Howard Small "B" Coy. 1st/9th Battalion, Royal Scots
80617 Driver F Smith 20th Bde. Ammunition Col. Royal Field Artillery
S/4634 Sub-Conductor Ernest Bertram Trowell Army Ordnance Corps
Captain Francis John Wyley 1st Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)

9841 Private J Hilborn 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Seaforth Cemetery, Cheddar Villa

Captain Bertie Noel Lumsden 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders

Spoilbank Cemetery

6954 Private E Rooke 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
7511 Corporal H Standerline 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

Tuileries British Cemetery

9827 Private C Boote 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
11375 Private J Burns 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery

6484 Private John Cudbertson 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
38338 Driver R Gammie 15th Bde. Ammunition Col. Royal Field Artillery
10892 Private Robert Alexander Grant "C" Coy. 1st Battalion, Royal Scots
9713 Private S Hawkey 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
93 Private T Larkin 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
887 Private A J F Pride 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Lieutenant N M Young "A" Coy., 1st Battalion, Royal Scots

Voormezeele Enclosure No.3

463 Company Serjeant Major R U Green Honourable Artillery Company

Woods Cemetery

3/6975 Private E G Blake 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Of the 485 men who died in Belgium on April 23rd 1915, 393 have no known grave and are commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres.

9504 Lance Corporal Frederick George Leonard Abrams 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9606 Private Alfred Adams 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2069 Private Edward Adams 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
6140 Private George Allan 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
TF/1315 Company Quartermaster Serjeant Sidney Allies 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Captain Abdy Fellowes Anderson 3rd Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
6348 Private Joseph Anderson 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
10697 Lance Corporal Joseph Willis Armitage 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
3/3964 Lance Corporal George Thomas Ashmore 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8861 Lance Corporal James Ashton 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10090 Private Joseph Atack 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9362 Private Ernest Atkin 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8562 Private Alfred J. Austin 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9499 Private Samuel Bailey 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
71214 Bombardier George Baker 61st Battery, Royal Field Artillery
9016 Serjeant William Baker 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
16907 Private William Richard Baker 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1386 Private George Edward Balderstone 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
11359 Private George Bandy 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9696 Private Charles Barber 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
5623 Private George Henry Barry 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
L/8131 Private Alfred John Bartley "D" Coy. 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
S/180 Private John Thomas Bean 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
1363 Private George Beckett "A" Coy. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
7176 Private James Bendorffe 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
12368 Lance Corporal John Bennett 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
S/9244 Private William Bennett 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
6754 Private Arthur Edward Birch 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9536 Lance Corporal Walter Bishop 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8000 Private John H. Bladon 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9490 Corporal William Edmund Blake 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
Captain Charles Ernest William Bland 3rd Battalion, attd. 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
13424 Private Joseph Arthur Bond 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
15906 Private James Bonser 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10145 Private Walter Boyes "D" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9987 Lance Corporal Harry Bradley 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9915 Private Herbert Bradley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
Lieutenant Philip Warden Bradley 3rd Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
G/4705 Private Herbert Bramble 1st Bn Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
3/4651 Private Ernest Bray 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
G/5119 Private William Breze 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
8806 Private John Edwin Brinkley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
7177 Private Robert John Brittain 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
8987 Private George Broadley 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9096 Lance Corporal Charles Brotherton 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9501 Private Albert Brown 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
L/10347 Private Thomas William Martin Brown 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
8853 Private Thomas Buckton 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
17463 Private Enoch Cornelius Bull 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
16656 Private Harry Bull 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
10060 Private John Burns 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
1512 Lance Corporal Thomas Burrow 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
3/6508 Private George Butterfield 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Captain James Robert Caird 3rd Battalion, attd. 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
3/2347 Private John Calligan 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3279 Private James Carey 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
7796 Serjeant Fred Caris 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
8954 Private James Carney 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
11047 Private James Carrington 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2093 Private George Cathcart 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
316612 Private John Caveney 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Lieutenant Cyril Kinnaird Chamier 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
S/8557 Private Alfred John Chandler 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9782 Private Arthur Clark 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
18330 Private H Clarke ALIAS Cohen
9640 Private Sydney Thomas Clarke 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9348 Private Albert Cockaday 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Major Harold Kelway Colston 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
17333 Private Charles Henry Cook 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
10068 Lance Corporal George James Cook 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8716 Private James Cooke 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
L/7568 Private F Coomber 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9707 Private William Cooper ALIAS Quin
S/15343 Private James Copeland 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
12900 Private Cecil Blatch Cox 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
4356 Private Charles John Cox 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9272 Corporal Arthur James Crabb 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1767 Private Joseph Cragg 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
7706 Private John Craven 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
8831 Private Percy William Crocker 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8559 Private Maitland Crolley 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
3/3859 Private George Jesse Henry Cross 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
16762 Private Jonathan Croydon 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
11757 Private Hugh John Cullen 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
16778 Private Robert Cunningham 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
7126 Company Serjeant Major Edward Curson 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Second Lieutenant Giles Robert Daubeney 3rd Battalion, attd. 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
8619 Serjeant Frederick Davis 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
17327 Private Ernest Lincoln Dean 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
TF/2383 Private Elias Dear 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
2688 Private William Dennis 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
S/1051 Private Thomas Dodson 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
6960 Private E Dornan 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
9839 Private James Draycott "B" Coy. 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
S/8982 Private James Samuel Edwards 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
S/8964 Private Joseph James Edwards 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
13903 Private Percy Martin Edwards 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9754 Private John William Elliott 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
13882 Private Patrick Elmore 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
17354 Private Albert Elson 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/5487 Lance Corporal Albert English "C" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 3/5478 Private Charles English 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
7731 Private Thomas Farrar 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/4161 Lance Corporal George Edward Fazackerley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
28958 Private J R Ferguson ALIAS Hickingbottom
3/3760 Private Joseph Fields 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8264 Lance Corporal Thomas Fisher 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9936 Private Charles Flannagan 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
15928 Private John Flinders 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
S/16333 Private Peter Forbes 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9370 Private James A. Ford 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9948 Private Freddy Fox 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
S/15489 Private Francis Freeburn 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
6901 Private John Freeman 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
S/8694 Private Leonard George Frost 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
8100 Private John Gemmell 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
G/7441 Lance Corporal Charles Giles 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
13558 Private James Gill 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
3/7744 Private Robert Gill 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
1964 Lance Corporal William Goby 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
11399 Lance Corporal J Good ALIAS Spence
8930 Lance Corporal Francis Rueben Gorbey 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
11268 Private Frederick Grant "D" Coy. 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9596 Private Albert Edward Grayling 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
14153 Private William Greenhalgh 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9931 Private Burwell Harrison Greenwood 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9085 Private Reginald Grego 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
L/12331 Private Henry John Griffiths 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
8244 Private John W. Grimshaw 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9741 Private Walter Oscar Grundy 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
TF/1717 Private Albert William Hall 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
9923 Private George Frederick Hall 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment Lieutenant John Raphael Hamilton-Dalrymple 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
10109 Lance Corporal John Hammersley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
TF/2137 Private Ernest Hancock "B" Coy 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
5877 Private Michael Hannon 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
2319 Private Gordon Hardie "C" Coy. 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
9135 Private Frederick Hare 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
12906 Private George Hargreaves 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9165 Private Edward Clarence Harris 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/4288 Private James Edward Harris 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9105 Lance Corporal William Hartley 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
13010 Private W Harvey 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Lieutenant Frederick Haswell 3rd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
S/12105 Private James Hay 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
G/932 Private Edward Hayward 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
10065 Private Frank William Herne 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
18357 Private Thomas Heron 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
10088 Private William Hobson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
5554 Private Henry Hocking 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8525 Private George W. Holding 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
14959 Private William A. Holliday 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
1683 Private J Hook 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
6967 Private J Houston 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
2197 Private Richard Huartson 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Second Lieutenant Francis Stanley William Hubbert 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10601 Private William A. Hughes 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
7334 Private Hugh Hunter 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9390 Lance Corporal James Thomas Cecil Hurst 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
2384 Private Henry Huyton 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
14008 Private E Ireson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9032 Private George Jackson 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/6782 Private Walter Jewitt 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10386 Private Arthur Edward Johnson 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9377 Private Harry Johnson 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1505 Private John Septimus Johnston 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
3/4536 Lance Corporal Marks Joseph 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
7552 Private Alexander Kemp 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
8723 Private Thomas Kennedy 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2526 Private William Kent 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
3/6349 Private Alfred Kerry 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
1653 Private Victor Keyworth 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
8376 Drummer William King 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8288 Private Talbot Kirkwood 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
7656 Private Charles Knight 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3219 Private Thomas George Knight 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8855 Private Samuel Knowles 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
2105 Private William Laing 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
16768 Private Richard Lamb 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
6631 Private John Lauder "C" Coy. 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
8839 Private James Wilson Lawson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
12902 Private J Laybourn 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
8608 Serjeant William Leggett 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
1908 Private Vernon Lennon 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
8277 Private Frederick Levett 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
11084 Private Eric Lewins 2nd Bn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
2462 Private Alexander Cameron Lindsay 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
8135 Lance Corporal John Linkston 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
3/7081 Private George Lishman 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
S/12423 Private William Littlehales 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
G/5048 Private Walter James Long "B" Coy. 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9718 Private John Robert Lovell 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
16033 Private Thomas Lowthorpe 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
TF/4295 Private James Lucie 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
8171 Private J Lyall 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
902 Lance Serjeant Neil Mackay 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
315587 Private John Macrae 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/8329 Private John Mapp 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9210 Lance Serjeant William Mardell 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
8886 Private William George Mason 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8857 Lance Serjeant Tom Mathers 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
G/873 Private Sidney Cocking Matthews "D" Coy. 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
S/11 Private Alfred Ernest Maynard 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8691 Private John Mcaskill 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
8012 Lance Corporal George Mccabe 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
17318 Private John Mccauley "A" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers
9409 Private Duncan C. Mcclymont 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
S/17420 Private G Mcdade ALIAS McDonald
8516 Lance Corporal Donald Mcdonald 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
S/17420 Private George Mcdonald 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
8932 Private R Mcdonald 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
8256 Lance Corporal Robert Mcgill 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
S/12842 Private Samuel Mckelvie 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9153 Private Archie Mckenzie 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
6636 Private J Mcpherson 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
S/16356 Private Robert Mercer 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9921 Private William Meyerhoff 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/6656 Private Robert William Middleton 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
8203 Serjeant John Milgrew 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
S/15549 Private Robert Miller "A" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9383 Private William Milne "C" Coy. 1st Battalion, Royal Scots
15740 Private James Mitchell 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
8605 Serjeant Adam Monro "B" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
3/5181 Private Thomas S. Mooney 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
14711 Private John E. Moore 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
TF/2031 Private Charles Morris 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Second Lieutenant Henry Gage Morris 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8825 Lance Corporal Ernest Moseley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3266 Lance Corporal William New 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
10112 Private Thomas Y. Newbegin 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
8903 Lance Corporal Robert Ney 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
G/1141 Lance Corporal Ernest Edward Nickes 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
L/9778 Serjeant Albert Frank Noakes 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
3/6401 Private Richard Nolan 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
13827 Private James Nutman 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/686 Serjeant George Charles Oates 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
10482 Private George William Oates 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3202 Private James Oates 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
7868 Private William Oates "B" Coy. 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
5604 Rifleman Charles Fredrick O'Donnell 3rd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
L/8570 Private William Ogilvie 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
14181 Private Benjamin Ogle 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/3684 Private Edwin Owen 1st Battalion, formerly 3rd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
7237 Private Joseph Painting 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
S/9212 Private Alfred Pallott 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
18584 Private Daniel Parker 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
313770 Private Frederick Parker 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2321 Private Arthur Parkinson 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
7261 Private Alfred Parsons 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
5481 Private William Paton 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
3/16353 Lance Corporal Andrew Joseph Paulesen "B" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
11287 Private Mark Payne 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
TF/4125 Private Frank Penfold 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
8562 Serjeant Josiah John Perkins 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9191 Private William Perrin 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
6/983 Rifleman Alfred Pickering 3rd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
8439 Private Ernest Pilley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9814 Private Albert Edward Pilsbury 2nd Bn Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/4732 Lance Corporal Henry Pinnock 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
10415 Private Harry Pittock 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/7735 Private George Precious 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
11979 Private Nathaniel Price 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
19762 Serjeant W Prince ALIAS Eadie
9707 Private William Quin 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
11391 Private John Rae 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
2305 Private John Johnston Reekie "C" Coy. 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
2785 Private George Henry Renals 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment
9285 Private Harry James Resbury 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8991 Lance Serjeant Frederick George Retchford 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry L/13701 Private Charles Henry Revell "A" Coy. 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
12926 Private Joseph Henry Ridley 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2248 Private Peter Rimmer 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
L/9205 Private George Tomlin Ring 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
312836 Private Joe Roberts 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9506 Private Willie Roberts 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
17282 Private Charles Louis Bruce Robertson 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9241 Private William Rogers 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/3247 Private William Rollinson 1st Bn York and Lancaster Regiment
Captain James Mcbain Ronald 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
3/6370 Private Robert Rook 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
4908 Private Albert Rosser 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9860 Private Ernest Edwin Rout 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10095 Private George William Rowan 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
16600 Private Richard Blake Rowe 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8844 Serjeant William Russell 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
15437 Private John R. Rutter 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
S/8956 Private Richard Saint 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
100 Private W Sanders ALIAS Blenner-Hassett
3/6070 Private Richard Henry Sandoe "B" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9977 Private Albert Saunders "C" Coy. 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
L/10181 Private Albert Vincent Saunders 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
7896 Serjeant James Savage 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
S/637 Lance Corporal William Timothy Scriven 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8381 Serjeant Ernest Sellars 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
15431 Private Fred Seymour 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10159 Private William Seymour 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3905 Private Mark Sharkey 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
10253 Private Reginald John Sharp 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/4219 Private John Shaw 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
8826 Private James E. Sheridan 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/7258 Private John Sheridan 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
G/1463 Private Joseph Silk 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
3/3348 Private George Henry Silverwood 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9511 Private Frederick Hugh Simester 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1515 Private James Simpson 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
8446 Private James Sinclair 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
10198 Private William Sinfield 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
6490 Private Samuel Slater "A" Coy. 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
568 Private Thomas Slater 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
17319 Private Walter William John Smart 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
239 Private A Smith 5th Div. Cyclist Coy. Army Cyclist Corps
S/1243 Private George Smith 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9327 Lance Corporal Harry Smith 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
33132 Private John Smith 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
5951 Lance Corporal John Humfread Smith 2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
10405 Corporal Norman Smith 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
2004 Private Thomas Smith 9th Battalion, Royal Scots
3/7493 Private Joseph Snow 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
5961 Private William Hall Snowdon 2nd Bn King's Own Scottish Borderers
11399 Lance Corporal Norman Charles Spence 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
240628 Private Reginald Stamper 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1144 Private Walter W. Standen "A" Coy. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
35616 Corporal Arthur Herbert Stanton 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
5978 Private James Stark 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
7608 Corporal Joseph Stead 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers Lieutenant Colonel Ernest William Rokeby Stephenson 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
L/9821 Private Thomas Stevens 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
9100 Lance Corporal John Stevenson 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
Lieutenant Herbert Stewart 3rd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
16825 Private Peter Stewart 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
7906 Company Serjeant Major Owen A. Stimpson 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9895 Private William Stirling 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
3/5952 Private George Stokes "B" Coy. 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/3891 Private Thomas Stonebanks 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/4075 Private Thomas Stoner 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
17353 Private Edward Ernest Strickland 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
7606 Private George Sutherland 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
3/3520 Private Charley Sykes 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
4997 Private Andrew Symington 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
Captain Basil Owen Tatham 3rd Battalion, attd. 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
10515 Private John William Taylor 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
11644 Private William Taylor 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
1324 Private William Henry Theobald "A" Coy. 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
8344 Private Joseph Thorpe 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/7184 Private Percy Thurgill 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment
9601 Private William Tidd 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
L/9996 Private Alfred George Tierney 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
16575 Private Thomas Tippett 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
3/3419 Private Daniel Toulson "A" Coy. 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9535 Lance Corporal Henry William Townsend 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9255 Lance Corporal Thomas Tranter 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
L/10448 Private John George Truman 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
3/2370 Private Percy Chipling Tucker 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9426 Private George Henry Turner 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
G/4665 Serjeant William Albert Turner 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
TF/1117 Serjeant William Herbert Lewis Turner 1st/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Lieutenant Zouch Austin Turton 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment
6575 Private Sydney Tyzack 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
12791 Private Frank Usher 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
17779 Private Arthur Wager 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1381 Private Henry Ernest Waite 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
11319 Private Arthur James Wakefield 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
9704 Private Charles Henry Walker 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
9407 Private William Walker 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
15302 Private George Waller 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
17725 Private Wilson Watson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
3/3837 Private George James Watts 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
S/1117 Private George Joseph Watts 1st Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
9654 Private James W. Weaving 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
8819 Private Victor John Webber 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
3/5706 Private James Weldon 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
6423 Private Alexander Scoular White 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
3/7295 Private George White 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
14312 Private Harry White 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
313333 Lance Corporal Samuel White 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
Second Lieutenant Frederick Ashburnham Hooker Whitfeld 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
L/11046 Private Henry Whybrow 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
S/16347 Private Hugh Mcdonald Williamson 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
9287 Private Archibald Wilson 2nd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders
16088 Lance Corporal Arthur Henry Wilson 2nd Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
3/3467 Private James Arthur Wilson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
10259 Lance Corporal Leonard Wilson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
18394 Private William Ewart Wilson 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
G/5247 Private William Stephen Winchester 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
12901 Private John Hutley Winnan 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
9120 Private Herbert H. Winter 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
Captain Kenrick Talbot Woodmass 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment
2037 Private Douglas C. Wright 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
3/4526 Private Malin Wright 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
10072 Lance Corporal Frederick Wroot 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
9248 Private Arthur Yates 1st Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
18587 Private George York 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1558 Rifleman Victor H. Young 1st/9th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)

Ypres Reservoir Cemetery

9067 Serjeant C Smith 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment

The information  above has been downloaded from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. A total of 551 officers and men from the United Kingdom died on 23rd April 1915 but the roll call above just concentrates on those who lost their lives in Belgium.

Menin Gate image courtesy of Wikipedia.

 

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

1st Northumberland Fusiliers - 1st March 1915

Remembering the following 14 men who were all serving with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers when they lost their lives one hundred years ago today on the 1st March 1915. Only four of the men have known graves, the other ten all remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres.

7114 Private Thomas Ballantyne
4826 Private Edward Conroy
7634 Private Coombes
3/7874 Private Albert Fanning
7931 Private Henry Graham
8579 Private Henderson
9454 Private John Thomas Innis
1212 Private Jones
9306 Lance Corporal Albert Victor Pettitt
7914 Private Pickett
8190 Private John Scrimshaw
891 Private Arthur William Shearman
6011 Private Thornton
798 Serjeant Thomas Wadsworth

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

The image above, depicting the construction of the Menin Gate Memorial is copyright of the Government of Australia.

The 16th Lancers at Ypres, 21st February 1915

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.

2nd East Surrey Regiment - 14th February 1915

One hundred years ago today, on Sunday the 14th February 1915, 44 men from the East Surrey Regiment laid down their lives for King and Country. They are listed below, courtesy of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

With the exception of 6934 Colour Sergeant Andrew McGee (Depot) who died in England and AR/7204 Sergeant Frederick Farmer (1st Battalion) who died of wounds in Boulogne, all of the men were serving with the 2nd Battalion and only five have known graves, their companions all being remembered on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

The men were killed in an assault to re-capture a lost trench on the south side of the Ypres-Combines canal. 300 men took part in the attack which was launched at 2.30pm but by 4.30pm it was clear that the men had suffered heavy losses and were unable to advance further. Support was called for by the 2nd Buffs (East Kent Regiment) who found the remaining men of the East Surreys about 800 yards from the trench.

By 7pm the Buffs had reached to within about 500 yards of the trench but by now it was dark and, according to the 2nd East Surrey's war diary, "No one could tell us the position of the trench or the nature of the ground over which we had to proceed, and as it seemed possible that we should advance against the main German position and not the one trench intended, the OC decided to postpone the attack until some reconnaissance could be made and some guides could be obtained."

By the time the remains of the battalion reported back to headquarters it was 11.30pm and they had been floundering in mud and filth for nine hours. Little wonder then that the majority of those who died were subsequently lost in the mud or their bodies blown to pieces by shellfire.

9766 Corporal HENRY JAMES ADAMS
9817 Private CHARLES LOT BENNETT
Second Lieutenant ERNEST JOHN WILFRED BIRNIE
6441 Private FREDERICK BOOTH
8865 Private FRANCIS EDWARD BOWYER
10265 Private GEORGE JOSEPH BRITTEN
9755 Private SIDNEY EDWIN CHANDLER
9986 Private HAROLD DEAN DAVIS
9826 Private DAVISON
3197 Private FRANCIS ROBERT DOUGHTY
AR/7204 Serjeant FREDERICK CHARLES FARMER
10269 Private PHILLIP FERRICK
10280 Private GEORGE HENRY FULLER
8621 Corporal FREDERICK BARRY GAUNTLETT
10296 Private HARRY SIDNEY GEORGE
6533 Private CHARLES HAYWARD
10246 Private ARTHUR HINES
9757 Private JAMES WILLIAM HOBSON
9888 Private HERBERT HOUSEGO
9564 Private JOHN LANE
9016 Private ALBERT LAWTHER
9607 Private LEAREY
8700 Private WILLIAM LENTON
7168 Private MAURICE MARSHALL
8794 Private JOSEPH MORLEY
6934 Colour Serjeant ANDREW McGEE
10019 Lance Corporal McGREGOR
9886 Lance Corporal WALTER ALFRED NAYLOR
10199 Lance Corporal CHARLES NORRIS
9985 Private JOSEPH DICK OFFORD
4022 Private WALTER REDMAN
Captain CHARLES SIMMS REEVE
9467 Serjeant RIDDY
Second Lieutenant ROBERT FRANCIS SHONE
8666 Private FREDERICK WILLIAM SORRELL
10237 Lance Corporal FREDERICK STANDRING
10175 Private TIBBS
7228 Private ALFRED JAMES TIDY
9513 Serjeant EDWARD GEORGE TURNER
8030 Serjeant WILLIAM JAMES WAGSTAFF
8810 Private ALFRED JAMES WHITE
10189 Private JAMES FREDERICK WOODGATE
10021 Private CHARLES HENRY WOODHOUSE
10477 Private HERBERT PERCY WOODS

Pictured on this post, 2nd Lt Birnie who was shot in the chest on the 14th.  His last reported words to his sergeant were, "Sergeant Oliver, cheer the platoon up and look well after them. Goodbye, I have done my best."

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

5875 Pte Josiah Hall, 1st Bn, Lincolnshire Regiment

According to Soldiers Died in The Great War, 746 British Army officers and men lost their lives on this day, 1st November, in 1914. The 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment suffered particularly heavy losses on this day, taking part in a counter-attack on Wystschaete and coming under "murderous fire". The battalion war diary records that seven officers and 293 other ranks were killed, wounded or reported missing.

5875 Pte Josiah Hall was one of the men killed. He was born in Eastville, Boston in 1882 and was living in Pudsey, Leeds when he enlisted (although his place of enlistment is recorded as Louth). His regimental number dates to 1901 which suggests that he was probably a Section D Reservist when Britain went to war in August 1914. His medal index card indicates that he did not sail with the Battalion in August but arrived in France on the 13th September.

Both Soldiers Died in the Great War and The Commonwealth War Graves Commission record this man as Joshua Hall. However, his medal index card, birth index entry and census returns record his name as Josiah Hall. He appears on the 1891 census as an eight-year-old living with his parents and three siblings at 17 Priory Road, Louth (pictured above). His father was George Hall, a 41 year old labourer, married to Eliza Hall (aged 47). Josiah was the eldest of four children, followed by Sarah (aged seven), Harry (aged five), and Arthur (aged three).  On the 1911 census he is probably the same Josiah Hall (aged 27) recorded with the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment in Aden. He has the trade of "carpenter" entered against his name.

Josiah has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial in Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

10110 L/Cpl William Charles Axon,1st Royal Scots Fusiliers

Remembering today, 10110 L/Cpl William Charles Axon of the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers who was killed in action 100 years ago on the 27th October 1914.

William Axon was born at Umballa, India on the 6th April 1889 and baptised in Dagshai on the 5th May that year. His father, John Samuel Axon, was a colour sergeant with the 21st Regiment of Foot (later Royal Scots Fusiliers) and was stationed in India at the time of his son's birth.

William's regimental number dates to around the 5th October 1909 (when he would have been twenty years old), and his medal index card indicates that he arrived overseas on the 14th August 1914. A brief entry in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour notes that he was killed in action "near Ypres" whilst the war diary notes that between the 27th and 31st October, three men were killed and four wounded, "chiefly from snipers". The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website notes that William was serving with B Company and that he was the son of John and Eliza Axon of 74 Slateford Road, Edinburgh. He is buried in the Royal Irish Rifles Graveyard at Laventie, his body having been re-buried there after it was removed from another location: map reference 36 - M23 - D3.3. His parents paid for the inscription, THY WILL BE DONE to be added to his headstone.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

 

I've borrowed the image on this post from the Panoramio website. The photo was taken by Werner Van Caneghem.

Captain John Henry Strode Batten, 1st King's (Liverpool Regiment)

Captain John Henry Stride Batten of the 1st King's (Liverpool Regiment) was killed in action 100 years ago today. He was a married man aged 38 and had previously seen action during the Boer War. A detailed biography appears in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour (below).

 

Captain Batten has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres.

 

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

 

Portrait photograph courtesy of Footsteps 1914-1918. De Ruivigny's extract from Ancestry.

8546 Pte Maurice E Hirons, 2nd Bn, Ox and Bucks LI

8546 Private Maurice Edward Hirons of the 2nd Battalion, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, died of wounds on the 7th November 1914. He was one of 722 British Army officers and men to die on this date.

Maurice was born in Bicester and he enlisted in Oxford in late September or early October 1907. He was therefore possibly coming to the end of his seven years service with the colours when Britain went to war in August 1914. His medal index card indicates that he arrived in France on the 14th September 1914 whilst the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that he has no known grave and is recorded on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

4231 Pte John Smyth, 1st Bn, Irish Guards

4231 Private John Smyth of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards was killed in action on the 6th November 1914. He was born in Straid, County Mayo and enlisted in Manchester around the 11th October 1912. He was 20 years old, the son of Michael Smyth of Straid, Foxford, Co. Mayo. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

John Smyth was one of 88 Irish Guardsmen to die on this date, a day which saw 370 British Army officers and men laying down their lives for King and Country.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

50143 Gnr William H Birks, RGA

50143 Gunner William Henry Birks of the 19th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery was killed in action on the 19th October 1917, one of 475 British Army officers and men to lose his life on this date. He was born in Lewisham and was living there when he enlisted at Woolwich. At the time of his death he was 21 years old, the son of William and Kate Birks, of 13 Bedford Grove, Eastbourne, Sussex. He is buried in Canada Farm Cemetery near Ypres in Belgium.


At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

7606 Cpl Hugh McGuckian, 2nd Bn, Royal Scots

7606 Corporal Hugh McGuckian of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots, was killed in action on the 2nd June 1915. He was a career soldier, born in Wolsingham, County Durham, who had originally attested at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 17th June 1901, and joined at Glencorse the following day. His terms of enlistment were three years with the colours and nine on the reserve. At the time of his enlistment he was 18 years and four months old and working as a miner. He was five feet, four inches tall with a fair complexion, brown eyes and brown hair. He had a scar on the middle of his back, and tattoo marks on his left forearm.

Hugh McGuckian served in South Africa in 1902 and later in India. His surviving service record is quite extensive and I attach one page of it, above.

Hugh's stations look like this:

Home: 17th June 1901 to 16th July 1902
South Africa: 17th July 1902 to 13th March 1903
Home: 14th March 1903 to 19th September 1904
India: 20th September 1904 to 8th March 1909
Home: 9th March 1909 to 9th August 1914
BEF France: 10th August 1914 to 2nd June 1915.

At the time of his death, Hugh was a married man with three children, two from his marriage to Mabel Lavinia Chalmers Sloggie (married 23rd August 1912) and one, a daughter - Mary, born in 1910 - from a former marriage. His two boys, James and Harry, would have been one year old and two months old when he died.

Hugh McGuckian has no known grave and is one of over 54,000 men commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was 33 years old, the son of Hugh McGuckian of Dunston-on-Tyne, and the late Mary McGuckian, and the husband of Mabel L C McGuckian of 3 Brandfield Street, Edinburgh.

Hugh McGuckian's name does not appear on the Wolsingham memorial in County Durham, presumably because he had moved out of the area some time before his death.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The image reproduced on this page is Crown Copyright.

2nd Lt John Lauderdale Stewart-Richardson, 2nd Bn, Coldstream Gds

Second Lieutenant John Lauderdale Stewart-Richardson of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, died on the 17th May 1916. He is buried in the Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery at Ypres.

The Peerage website states:

"Lieutenant John Lauderdale Stewart-Richardson was born on 18 January 1878.1 He was the son of Sir James Thomas Stewart-Richardson of Pitfour, 14th Bt. and Harriett Georgina Alice Cochrane. He married Nora Joyce Rigby daughter of William Rigby on 6 May 1916. He died on 17 May 1916 at age 38, killed in action."

The Peerage states that he gained the rank of Lieutenant, although both Soldiers Died in The Great War and The Commonwealth War Graves Commission give his rank as Second Lieutenant.

The Cambridge Museum in New Zealand gives additional information:

"Sergeant 11/360 John Lauderdale Stewart Richardson Son of Sir James and Lady Harriet Stewart Richardson. Born 18 January 1879. Commission Agent. Enlisted 15 August 1914. Wellington Infantry. Killed in Action 17 May 1916." There is also a photo of a very young-looking J L Stewart-Richardson, and a photo of his headstone which is clearly Coldstream Guards, although the Cambridge Museum makes no mention of this.

The London Gazette notes that John Stewart-Richardson was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) on the 6th November 1915 and his service record, which survives at the National Archives, would of course give the full picture.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Peerage
The London Gazette
The Cambridge Museum

8563 Pte George Haley, 1st Bn, East Surrey Regt

8563 Private George Haley of the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, was killed in action on the 20th April 1915. He was born in Mile End, east London, and enlisted in London as an eighteen-year-old on the 28th June 1905. He has no known gave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2755 Pte Edmund Arthur Baker, 1st Bn, Cambs Regt

2755 Private Edmund Arthur Baker of the 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 13th April 1915. He was 22 years old, the son of Walter and Martha Baker of Hatley Street, George, Sandy in Bedfordshire. Edmund's number indicates that he joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment in September 1914, and his medal index card states that he arrived overseas in France on the 14th February 1915. No service record appears to survive.

Edmund Baker has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

10730 Pte Alexander Trotter, 2nd Bn, KOYLI

10730 Private Alexander Trotter of the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, died on the 7th April 1915. He was 27 years old, the son of Susannah Campbell (formerly Trotter) of 8 Monk Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and the late Alexander Trotter. He was born at Hebburn, County Durham and enlisted at Jarrow.

Alexander was a regular, career soldier who enlisted around August or September 1912. He arrived in France on the 13th September 1914 and is buried in the Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate, at Ypres.

Soldiers Died in The Great War states that Alexander was killed in action, although his medal index card notes that he died of wounds.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

L/12280 Pte Albert Wiggins, 3rd Bn, Middx Regt

L/12280 Private Albert Wiggins of the 3rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, was killed in action on the 15th February 1915. He was one of 216 British Army soldiers to die on this date and one of 63 Middlesex Regiment men.

Albert was born in Willesden and joined the army at Mill Hill on the 7th September 1908. He was 20 years and one month old and was working as a carman. His surviving attestation papers show that he initially joined the Royal Irish Regiment and then transferred to The Middlesex Regiment on the 23rd September. Albert was five feet, four inches tall, had a fresh complexion, brown eyes and light brown hair.

Initially attached to the 6th (Extra Reserve) Battalion, Albert was posted to the 4th Battalion on the 28th September 1908 and then to the 3rd Battalion on the 1st October 1909. The same day he sailed for Singapore and would remain there until December 1910 when he moved west into India. He left for India on the 19th December 1910 and would remain there until the 18th November 1914 when he sailed for the UK. He was in England for a few months until he sailed again, this time for France, arriving there on the 18th January 1915.

Albert's papers record his next of kin as his parents: Henry and Lydia Wiggins of 5 Junction Terrace, Harlesden. It is also noted that he had three older brothers: Ernest, Charles and William; and two younger brothers: John and Henry.

A note on Albert's file states that he was killed in action between the 12th and 15th February 1915, but that his presumed date of death was the 15th. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

6170 Pte William Rennie, 2nd Bn, KOSB

6170 Private William Rennie of the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, was killed in action on the 20th December 1914. William, serving with H Company, was 26 years old at the time of his death. He was born in Annan, Dumfrieshire and enlisted at Dumfries.

William's number dates to around August 1908 and belongs to the series issued to men joining the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion of the KOSB. He almost certainly transferred to the 2nd Battalion in the autumn of 1914 and, retaining his 3rd Battalion number, arrived in France on the 26th October that year.

William was the son of William and Agnes Rennie, of Fish Green Lodge, Auchencairn, Castle Douglas. He has no known grave, and like so many others who fell in the Ypres salient, is commemorated on the Menin Gate.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

4907 Rfm George Denham Massy, 18th Bn, London Regiment

4907 Rifleman George Denham Massy of the 18th Battalion, The London Regiment (London Irish Rifles) was killed in action on the 15th December 1916. George had originally joined the 6th London Regiment back in 1908, and before that - in all probability - was serving with the 2nd London Volunteer Rifle Corps. His number with the 6th Londons - 205 - indicates that he was one of the initial intake into that battalion, almost certainly joining within the first two weeks of April 1908.

Soldiers Died in The Great War records that George was living at Fulham and enlisted at Ealing. There is no place of birth recorded and I have been unable to find him on English census returns. Given his surname and the fact that he would later join the London Irish Rifles, it seems a possibility that he was born in Ireland and later moved to England, probably for work.

George's 18th Londons number dates to late March or early April 19156 and it would appear that shortly after Britain went to war with Germany in 1914, George was posted to a second or third line battalion of the 6th Londons before being transferred later on to the 18th Londons. He probably went overseas shortly after that transfer - probably within a matter of days - and he lost his life in the great WW1 killing zones around Ypres. He is one of 2033 men buried in the Railway Dug-outs Burial Ground close to that town.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

3/7710 Pte Alfred Samuel Hordle, 1st Bn, Dorsetshire Regt

I was travelling yesterday and therefore had no opportunity to update this blog.

3/7710 Private Alfred Samuel Hordle of the 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 25th November 1914. His number indicates that he joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battlion of the Dorsetshire Regiment and this is confirmed by his partial service record which survives in the WO 363 series at the National Archives.

Alfred joined the 3rd Battalion on the 21st August 1914. He was 36 years old, was a serving member of the National Reserve and already had prior service with the 3rd Battalion. He was a married man and was living in Poole, Dorset. Alfred was five feet five inches tall, had a fresh complexion, hazel eyes and brown hair.

Alfred's wife is recorded as Ellen Isabella Hordle although by the time Alfred's British War and Victory medals were sent to her in 1921, she had re-married and her surname was Foot. This information is also included on Alfred's entry in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's register. Ellen had previously received his 1914 Star (in 1919 when she was still Ellen Hordle) and also, in April 1915, Princess Mary's gift to the troops. Read about the history of the Princess Mary tin here.

Alfred was posted to the 1st Battalion on the 23rd October 1914 sailed for France the same day. He was killed just over a month later. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

When Ellen Hordle lost her husband she also lost her income and Alfred's surviving papers bear testimony to the obvious hardships that she suffered. There is a note in his files dated June 1915 which states that she was in distressed circumstances, and a later appeal, undated and subsequently fire-damaged which gives a little more detail. It states that Ellen (aged 39) was receiving a pension of ten shillings a week, that she was crippled and also extremely deaf and therefore unable to earn a living for herself. The recommendation, signed by the recruiting officer at Poole, was that she should be receiving a pension of at least one pound per week and that her lameness was likely to get worse rather than better. There is no record on file as to whether Ellen Hordle's appeal was successful.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War