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[Dave_59]

do you need to know the place of study to find them?
is there a photo of roderick?
thanks
dave

[bedfordyeoman]

Dick,

Many thanks for your efforts in respect of George Evans. Much appreciated.


Regards

David

[rflory]

Dave wrote:  

do you need to know the place of study to find them?
is there a photo of roderick?

Dave:  Yes the name of a school would be useful.  I have over 450+ school registers and rolls of honor and do not have the time to go through each volume looking for a name.   I have a database indexing all the Royal Artillery officers in those volumes but not officers from other regiments.   There was no photo of Roderick.   Dick

[Dave_59]

okay, thanks very much.
dave

[Duncan]

Hi,
Do you have Worcester King's Cathedral School?
Cheers
Duncan.

[Simon Jones]

Dear Dick
I would be very grateful if you could look up in Monkton Combe School:
Captain Thomas Charles Richardson, RE SR, killed in action 4/2/16 as OC 185th Tunnelling Company.  This is for a book on mining at La Boisselle.
Many thanks in advance.
Simon

[rflory]

Duncan wrote:  

Do you have Worcester King's Cathedral School?

Sorry; nothing on that school.  Dick

[rflory]

Simon wrote:  

I would be very grateful if you could look up in Monkton Combe School:
Captain Thomas Charles Richardson, RE SR, killed in action 4/2/16 as OC 185th Tunnelling Company.

Captain Thomas Charles Richardson, RE SR
Born on 27 Jul 84, the elder son of Thomas Arthur Richardson of Clifton Park Road, Clifton, formerly of Croydon, Surgeon, and his wife Jane, daughter of T. Gristock
Educated at Croydon High School; at Monkton Combe School from Summer 1900 to April 1901; and at Crystal Palace Engineering School where he took the medal on leaving.
AMICE 1909; AMIMCE in 1911
Worked at Dover and then as Borough Engineer in Birmingham.
Went to Rio de Janeiro in 1910 and worked for the Rio City Improvement Company.
Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, RE SR on 26 June 1909
Lieutenant, RE SR, 26 Jun 14
Went to France in Dec 1914; attached to 173 Company, RE
Captain, RE SR, 14 Jul 15
Acting Major, Jan 1916; OC, 185 Company, RE
Military Cross, London Gazette 14 Jan  16
Twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette22 Jun 15 and 1 Jan 16.
Killed in action by a mine explosion near Albert on 4 Feb 16. "At the time of his death he was in a mine with another officer (also killed), when the enemy exploded a mine, causing poisonous gasses to circulate in the galleries, which overcame the Captain, and death was quick and painless."

Sources: Monkton Combe School Register 1868-1964; Supplement to Royal Engineer Journal, 1916; The Roll of Honour, Volume II; Croydon and the Great War.

Regards.  Dick

[Simon Jones]

Simon wrote: 

Captain Thomas Charles Richardson, RE SR
Born on 27 Jul 84, the elder son of Thomas Arthur Richardson of Clifton Park Road, Clifton, formerly of Croydon, Surgeon, and his wife Jane, daughter of T. Gristock
Educated at Croydon High School; at Monkton Combe School from Summer 1900 to April 1901; and at Crystal Palace Engineering School where he took the medal on leaving.
AMICE 1909; AMIMCE in 1911
Worked at Dover and then as Borough Engineer in Birmingham.
Went to Rio de Janeiro in 1910 and worked for the Rio City Improvement Company.
Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, RE SR on 26 June 1909
Lieutenant, RE SR, 26 Jun 14
Went to France in Dec 1914; attached to 173 Company, RE
Captain, RE SR, 14 Jul 15
Acting Major, Jan 1916; OC, 185 Company, RE
Military Cross, London Gazette 14 Jan  16
Twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette22 Jun 15 and 1 Jan 16.
Killed in action by a mine explosion near Albert on 4 Feb 16. "At the time of his death he was in a mine with another officer (also killed), when the enemy exploded a mine, causing poisonous gasses to circulate in the galleries, which overcame the Captain, and death was quick and painless."

Sources: Monkton Combe School Register 1868-1964; Supplement to Royal Engineer Journal, 1916; The Roll of Honour, Volume II; Croydon and the Great War.

Regards.  Dick

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Dick
That is absolutely FANTASTIC, more than I got by travelling from Liverpool to Colindale!
Incidentally, he was killed either by the violence of the explosion or by burns from the secondary ignition of gas.
Thank you.
Simon

[Woody]

Dick - I would be very grateful if you could look up John Laidlaw Armstrong in the Hillhead High School War Memorial Volume, Page 120. He was a Sgt in the 16th HLI.

Very Many Thanks in Advance

Woody

[rflory]

Woody wrote:

Dick - I would be very grateful if you could look up John Laidlaw Armstrong in the Hillhead High School War Memorial Volume, Page 120. He was a Sgt in the 16th HLI.

Woody:  Sorry but I do not have that volume.  Regards.  Dick

[Paul Nixon]

Hello Dick

You've helped me once before whith an RA officer from Chailey in Sussex and I wonder whether you could also help me with the following five officers and one O/R who also have connections with the village.  

I would be much obliged if you could look in the relevant school registers and rolls of honour and see if biographies of the following individuals are mentioned.  Biographical details listed below:

DRUMMOND, 126 Trooper, Frederick John
East African Mounted Rifles (Bowker’s Horse)
Born: 15th June 1891
Killed in Action: 3rd November 1914
Next of Kin: Major John William Ainslie Drummond (father)

Education:
Evelyn’s & Eton,

[Listing in De Ruvigny's]


INGRAM, Lieutenant Gerald Sclater
2nd Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment
Born: July 1890
Killed in Action: 21st October 1914
Next of Kin: Unknown, parents deceased

Education:
Wnchester and Christ Church, Oxford

[Listing in Bond of Sacrifice, Vol 1]


MACCULLOCH, 2nd Lieutenant, Sigurd Harold
2nd Seaforth Highlanders
Born: 3rd October 1894
Died of Wounds: 20th December 1915
Next of Kin: J J MacCulloch (father)

Education:
Eton (1913) & Trinity
Oxford undergraduate


POWNALL, Lieutenant Lionel Henry Yorke
1st Royal West Kent Regiment
Born: 23rd August 1895
Killed in Action: 21st March 1915
Next of Kin: Mrs Henry Harrison Pownall

Education:
Rottingdean School
Clifton College (Rugby XI)
Royal Military College Sandhurst (Second XI)

[Listing and photograph in Bond of Scrifice Vol II and London Illustrated News 1915]


ROBERTSON, Captain Magnus Rainier MC
2nd Essex Regiment (attached 9th Essex)
Born: 26th August 1887
Died of Wounds: 22nd August 1918
Next of Kin: Mary Robertson (Mother)

Education:
Seaford Boys’ School (Sussex) + ???

[I am assuming he must have gone on to another public school and university, but the reference to Seaford Boys' School is the only educational establishment I have found to date.]


WOOD, 2nd Lieutenant, Thomas Victor
7th Royal Sussex Regiment
Born: 9th July 1893
Killed in Action: 4th August 1916
Next of Kin: Wallace Wood (father)

Education:
University of London OTC in Dec 1914


Many thanks

Paul

[rflory]

Paul Nixon wrote:

You've helped me once before whith an RA officer from Chailey in Sussex and I wonder whether you could also help me with the following five officers and one O/R who also have connections with the village.

Paul:  Here is what I have:

DRUMMOND, 126 Trooper, Frederick John
Eldest son of Major J W A Drummond, Scots Gurards of Hollycombe, Englefield Green, Surrey and 27 Stanhope Gardens, SW
Educated at Eton from 1905 to 1910
Before the war was a farmer in British East Africa
Served as a Trooper in Bowker’s Horse in 1914
Killed in action at Longido, East Africa on 3 Nov 1914
Unmarried

Sources:  Eton School Register, Vol. VII, 1899-1902; List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War.

INGRAM, Lieutenant Gerald Sclater
Born on 24  July 1890, the only son of William R Ingram, sculptor, and Beatrice Eleanor, the daughter of Major Edmund Crofts, R Welch Fusiliers.
Educated at Winchester College from 1904 to 1909 and at Christ Church College, Oxford in 1910.
2nd Lieut, 2nd Bn, The Queen’s, R West Surrey Regiment
Killed on 21 Oct 1914 at Zonnebeke

Sources: Wykehamist War Service Roll, 1915, 1917, 1919; Winchester College Register, 1884-1924; Oxford University Roll of Service, 1920.

MACCULLOCH, 2nd Lieutenant, Sigurd Harold
Son of J J Macculloch of South Courtfield Gardens, South Kennsington
Student at Eton School from 1909-1913; played on Eton VIII in 1913.
Studied at Trinity College, Oxford from 1913-1914
2nd Lieut., Highland Light Infantry
Lieut., Seaforth Highlanders
Died of wounds, received at Albert, on 20 Dec 15

Sources: List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War; Oxford University Roll of Service, 1920; Eton School Register, Part VIII, 1909-1919.  

POWNALL, Lieutenant Lionel Henry Yorke
Son of Henry Harrison Pownall of Chailey
Educated at Clifton College from 1909 to 1913 and at RMC, Sandhurst
2nd Lieut., Royal West Kent Regiment
Killed in Action 21 March 1915

Sources:  Clifton College Registers, 1862-1925 and 1862-1947.

ROBERTSON, Captain Magnus Rainier MC
I have not found anything beyond what you already have.

WOOD, 2nd Lieutenant, Thomas Victor
Son of Mrs. Rhoda Wood of Haywards Heath
Educated at Goldsmith’s College
University of London OTC
2nd Lieut, Royal Sussex Regiment
Served in France from March to August 1916
Killed in action near Pozieres on 4 Aug 1916

Source: University of London OTC, Roll of War Service, 1914-1919.

Regards.  Dick

[Paul Nixon]

Dick

Thank you very much for taking the trouble to look through your collection for information on these six men.

Paul

[Steve Mattock]

Dick

Would you see if you have information on the following:

Arthur Ernest Young - Second Lieutenant  “D" Bty. 108th Bde., Royal Field Artillery.  Died of wounds 21st May 1918.

Thanks very much

Steve

[Hambo]

Dick
Although you seem terribly overworked I wondered if you could look up a couple of old Etonians for me to see what you might have.

They are:- Lt R.C.G.Leveson-Gower Died of wounds 1st of August 1917 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards aged 21
and
Lt W.G.C. Leveson-Gower Killed in action on the 9th of October 1918 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards aged 35

Any information would be gratefully received
Thanks Hambo

[rflory]

Hambo wrote:  

I wondered if you could look up a couple of old Etonians for me to see what you might have.
They are:- Lt R.C.G.Leveson-Gower Died of wounds 1st of August 1917 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards aged 21
and
Lt W.G.C. Leveson-Gower Killed in action on the 9th of October 1918 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards aged 35

Lieut. Ronald Charles Granvile Gresham Leveson Gower, Coldstream Guards
Born 23 May 1896, the second son of Major Granville Charles Leveson Gower, MA, JP, DL, of Titsey Place, Limpsfield, Surrey, and his wife Evelyn Mildred, daughter of Henry Arthur Brassey, MP, JP, DL. of Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent.
Educated at Eton from 1909 to 1914; Junior Rosebery History Prize, 1910
Served with the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1914-1916
Served with Special Reserve of the Coldstream Guards in 1916-1917
Died on 1 August 1917 of wounds received in action at Boesinghe.

Sources: The Old Public School Boys Who's Who, Eton; List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War 1914-1919; Eton College Register, Part VIII, 1909-1919.  

Lieutenant William George Gresham Leveson Gower, Coldstream Guards
Eldest son of A F G Leveson Gower of Clifford Lodge, Windsor
Educated at Eton from 1896 to 1901; Captain of the School, 1901
Scholar of Christ Church, Cambridge, MA; 1st Class, Mods, 1903; 2nd Class, Lit Hum,  1905
Clerk in the House of Lords, 1908
Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1911
Joined the Inns of Court OTC as a Private, Mounted Infantry On 12 Jan 1907
Promoted to Serjeant, Inns of Court OTC on 1 Jan 1910
2nd Lieutenant, Squadron, Inns of Court OTC on 11 Oct 1911
Lieutenant, Inns of Court OTC on 21 May 1914
Captain, GSO3, Eastern Command, 1915-16
GSO3, 67th Division, 1916-17
Lieut., 1st Coldstream Guards, France 1917-1918
Killed in action at Awoingt, near Cambrai on 9 Oct 1918
Sources: List of Etonians Who Fought in the Great War 1914-1919; Eton College Register, Part VII, 1899-1909; Oxford University Roll of Service; Inner Templars Who Volunteered and Served in the Great War;  The Inns of Court O. T. C. during the Great War.

[rflory]

Steve wrote:

Arthur Ernest Young - Second Lieutenant “D" Bty. 108th Bde., Royal Field Artillery. Died of wounds 21st May 1918.

Steve:  Sorry, but I don't have anything beyond what you have.   Dick

[Steve Mattock]

Dick

Thanks very much for looking.

Steve

[Hambo]

Dick
Simply fantastic, thankyou so much. Could I trouble you for one more, being:

Alan Brodie-Hoare, Captain, 1/5th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. KIA 26.10.17 aged 35 went to Harrow

Many thanks Hambo

[rflory]

Hambro wrote:

Could I trouble you for one more, being:
Alan Brodie-Hoare, Captain, 1/5th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. KIA 26.10.17 aged 35 went to Harrow

Captain Alan Brodie Hoare, N Lancs
Born in 1882, youngest son of Edward Brodie Hoare, Esq., MP,  a Banker, and his wife Katharine Brodie Hoare, of Tenchleys, Limpsfield.
Educated at Harrow School from 1896 to 1901 and at Pembroke College, Cambridge
Before the war he worked with the Bleachers' Association at Firwood, Bolton
In 1916 he married Audrey Lois Collier
Went to France in Feb 1917
Once wounded.
During the battle of Messines his Battalion was in support of the right flank of Ploegsteert Wood
Killed in action on 26 Oct 17, while leading his Company into action in an attack near Poelcappelle.

I have attached a photo of him from the second listed source.

Sources: Harrow School Register, Vo. II, 1885-1925, Harrow Memorials of the Great War, Volume V,  War Supplement to The Harrovian, December 14, 1918;  Pembroke College, Cambridge, War List 1914-1918.

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[Hambo]

Dick
That is simply great
Thankyou so much
Hambo

[Harbourart]

Dick,

Is there any chance of a lookup for a Pvt William Harbour at Bolton Board School?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Pete

[Orion]

Hi Dick,

Thanks for the generous offer of your time to all!
By chance would you have the Kneller Army School of Music (Kneller Hall)? My grandfather Stephen Filbey attended sometime between 1899 and WW1.
Cheers,
Brian

[rflory]

Pete wrote:  

Is there any chance of a lookup for a Pvt William Harbour at Bolton Board School?

Pete:  Unfortunately I do not have anything on that school.   Dick