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[rflory]

Brian wrote:

By chance would you have the Kneller Army School of Music (Kneller Hall)? My grandfather Stephen Filbey attended sometime between 1899 and WW1.

Brian:  Sorry, but I do not have anything on the Kneller Army School of Music.  Dick

[Stephenb]

Dick,

do you have anything for 2.Lieut Harold Brassington Lever, 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (attached to the 24th Light Trench Mortar Battery). Died of Wounds 23rd October 1918 whilst a Prisoner of War.

Attended Oakfield Prep School in Rugby. I am lead to believe he went to Rugby School from prep.

Regards,

Steve

[rflory]

Steve wrote:

do you have anything for 2.Lieut Harold Brassington Lever, 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (attached to the 24th Light Trench Mortar Battery). Died of Wounds 23rd October 1918 whilst a Prisoner of War.
Attended Oakfield Prep School in Rugby. I am lead to believe he went to Rugby School from prep.

He is not listed in either the Memorials to Rugbeians nor the Rugby School Register. I will look around and see what I can find on him.   Dick

[Stephenb]

Thanks Dick. Appreciate anything you can uncover.

[Simon Jones]

Dick

What do you have on an RGA officer, Robert Temple Chevallier Cream?
Notes on the Battle of the Ancre film at the Imperial War Museum state that '57th Siege Battery, (O/C Captain Cream)' is shown.  I found the above officer on the Campaign Medal Index and London Gazette as an RGA officer, he seems to be the only Cream. One of his medal cards (he has about five) gives 25th Siege Battery.
Can you confirm that he was with 57th Siege Battery?

Many thanks
Simon

[rflory]

Simon wrote:

What do you have on an RGA officer, Robert Temple Chevallier Cream?
Notes on the Battle of the Ancre film at the Imperial War Museum state that '57th Siege Battery, (O/C Captain Cream)' is shown. I found the above officer on the Campaign Medal Index and London Gazette as an RGA officer, he seems to be the only Cream. One of his medal cards (he has about five) gives 25th Siege Battery.
Can you confirm that he was with 57th Siege Battery?

Simon:  I can confirm that he went to France in 1915 with 25 Siege Battery, RGA but I don't have anything to confirm that he served with 57th Siege Battery, RGA.  Dick

[Simon Jones]

Simon wrote:

Simon:  I can confirm that he went to France in 1915 with 25 Siege Battery, RGA but I don't have anything to confirm that he served with 57th Siege Battery, RGA.  Dick

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Many thanks, I make that about 26 minutes for a transatlantic lookup.
Regards
Simon

[bobpike]

Dick,
This links with a thread on 'Soldiers,' for George A Mackinlay, but do you have anything for Perth Academy? It seems he was Assistant English Master in Perth Academy till he enlisted in the 5th Scottish Rifles.
Thank you.

[rflory]

Bob wrote:

This links with a thread on 'Soldiers,' for George A Mackinlay, but do you have anything for Perth Academy? It seems he was Assistant English Master in Perth Academy till he enlisted in the 5th Scottish Rifles.

Sorry Bob, I have nothing on Perth Academy.  Dick

[bobpike]

Dick
Thank you. As on the Soldiers thread, have you access to the University Roll of Honour. please? Off to France tomorrow so may be unable to further respond for a while.

[Terry]

Hi Dick,
   Do you have any reference for Robert Joseph Selbie, 13th Bn.,CEF, KIA 13 June,1916? He attended Perce School, Cambridgeshire, and Wadham College,Oxford, graduating in July,1914.

[rflory]

Terry:  Have nothing for Perce School and the only thing in the Oxford University Roll of Service that you haven't  noted in your message is that he got a BA from Wadham College in 1910  Dick

[Terry]

Thanks Dick. His father was principal of another of the Oxford colleges apparently.

[LtColSki USMC0302]

Dick,

  Anything on a Cecil Moncrieff Eales? Educated at Dulwich College and Sandhurst. Born 1861 and commissioned 1881. He actually retired in 1907 but was recalled in 1914. Thanks.

Regards,
~Dan

[rflory]

Dan wrote:

Anything on a Cecil Moncrieff Eales? Educated at Dulwich College and Sandhurst.

Lt.-Col. Cecil Moncrieff Eales
Born 28 Feb 61 at Plasqwyn
Educated at Dulwich College from 1 May 72 to Jul 77 where he played on the 3rd XV on 1876-77, and at RMC Sandhurst in 1879
Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, Scots Fusiilers on 22 Jan 81
Lieutenant, Indian Army, 1 Jul 81
Capt, 22 Jan 92
In 1900 married Aileen Corsfield of Warrington, Cheshire
Major, 1901
Lt. Col., 1907
Retired 23 Jan 07
Served with the 5th and 2nd P. I. and 41st Dogras
Miranzai, 1891; Waziristan, 1894-95; Tirah, 1897-98
During the Great War was a Lt.-Col., Labour Corps
Regards.  Dick

[LtColSki USMC0302]

Thanks Dick! I appreciate the quick turn. I take it that the info is from the Dulwich College records? I was hoping that it might mention something about his time in the Interpreters Corps. His MIC indicates that he served there prior to the South Staffs Labor Battalion. Still, some great info! Thanks again.
Regards,
~Dan

[rflory]

Dan:  The material on Eales was from the "Dulwich College Register, 1619 to 1926" and "Dulwich College War Record, 1914-1919."  Nothing about his service with the Interpreters Corps.   Dick

[geoff501]

Dick,
Do you have anything on Lt. Frederick Selwyn Walduck? I don't know the school, but he may be in your RA index.
Thanks,

[rflory]

Geoff wrote:

Do you have anything on Lt. Frederick Selwyn Walduck? I don't know the school, but he may be in your RA index.

Frederick Selwyn Walduck, MC, RFA SR
Educated at Bromsgrove School from 1908-1914
Served with 3rd South Midland Brigade, RFA TF (242nd Brigade, RFA TF) during the Great War
MC, London Gazette 23 May 18 "for conspicuous gallanry and devotion to duty. On a tunnel in which the personnel of the battery was sheltering being blown in, he volunteered to lead a party for 400 yards over a shell swept area to aid in extricating the buried men. Though the whole area was being heavily shelled he continured to dig in order to extricated the buried men until his task was completed. He displayed marked courage, determination and contempt of danger."  (He was serving with B Battery, 242 Brigade, RFA TF at the time).
MID (London Gazette 7 Jul 19 for service with B Battery, 108 Army Brigade, RFA
The first source listed below indicates that he died during the war but the second reference indicates that in 1920 he joined 68th Brigade, RFA TA.  I believe that the second reference is correct.  Regards.  Dick

Sources: [I]Bromsgrove School at War 1914-1918; Before the Echoes Die Away, NDG James.

[geoff501]

The first source listed below indicates that he died during the war but the second reference indicates that in 1920 he joined 68th Brigade, RFA TA.  I believe that the second reference is correct.  Regards.  Dick

Dick,
Thanks, this is excellent info. He is actually on a local memorial, which I think only has names of The Fallen, so it was a mystery to me when he actually died.

[geoff501]

2/Leiut. Cyril Decimus Field
4th Worcestershire Regt. (KIA June 4, 1915 Gallipoli)
Educated-St. Pauls School, where he was in the OTC
Lieut. Howard Field
4th Worcestershire Regt. (KIA August 6, 1915 Gallipoli)
Educated-St. Pauls School, where he was in the OTC
Any information would be brilliant. Thanks in advance.

David,
From Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger August 1915:

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cheers,

[Spud Trevor]

Dick,
I would be grateful if you could check for Walter Samuel Peto, a pre-war
architect educated at Rugby School.
Thanks, for any help.
Regards,
Spud

[rflory]

Spud wrote:

I would be grateful if you could check for Walter Samuel Peto

Sapper Walter Samuel Peto, RE
Born 31 May 1890, the younger son of Frank Kelsall Peto, a Wollen Manufacturer, of The Rangers, Dursley, Gloucestershire and his wife Cecilia Emma Peto.
Educated at Rugby School from Sept 03 to 1907 and then took classes at the London Architectural College.
Before the war was an Architect with Whiting & Peto, Bedford Row, London
In August 1914 he enlisted in the RAMC after being rejected by the other branches of service due to his short sight.  He served as a Field Ambulance Driver with the RAMC, going to Flanders in Jan 1915 and serving there until May 1916 when he went to the Salonika front.
In Jan 1917 he  tranferred to the Royal Engineers as a Sapper and served with 506th Field Company, RE
Accidentally killed on the Struma Front in the Balkans on 26 Dec 17 when running over rough ground in the mountains of the Struma Front he fell and was killed by the discharge of hi rifle.  He was 27.

I have attached his photo below (from the last listed source).  

Sources: Rugby School Register, Annotated, 1892-1921; Rugby School War Register;
Memorials to Rugbeians Who Fell in the Great War, Volume VI.

Regards.  Dick Flory

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[Spud Trevor]

Dick,
Thank you very much for your help, I knew the chap had been killed accidentally but didn't know how - Thanks for the answer.
Regards,
Spud.

[Hindoo Stan]

Dick, Can you help me with Geoffrey Wallace Mitchell MILLER of the Royal Scots who went to Charterhouse about 1910. He may have been there at the same time as Robert Graves which is intriguing. Thanks for all this hard work. Tim Whitcombe.