Ian Bowbrick
Feb 2 2003, 01:23 PM
Just a suggestion but how about starting a post inviting members to list relatives who served in the war and their units, or just their units?
It might come to light that some members had relatives who served in the same Battalions/Coys at the same time?
Ian
{Edit: If members go to post numbers 420 to 426, you will find a list of relatives who served in alphabetical surname order }
Chris_Baker
Feb 2 2003, 01:30 PM
Good idea. Why not start right here?
BRIAN TALMER
Feb 2 2003, 04:38 PM
I had two great uncles who served in the Great War:
Private Harry Talmer 265937 who served with the 1st/1st Bucks Battalion, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry. Killed in action at Pozieres 21/7/1916 and Private Charlie Talmer 5772 who served with 70th coy. Machine Gun corps. Infantry. Died of wounds age 18 24/9/1916.
Conor Dodd
Feb 2 2003, 04:49 PM
Sgt. William Dodd 2nd Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (served from the very start of the war Killed on the 01/07/1916)
Pte. Patrick Roe M.M. 2nd Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers (served from the very start of the war wounded and later had his leg amputated on the 01/07/1916)
Gnr. Daniel Roe Royal Field Artillery (I don't know what Bt
Micheal Roe
Pte. Stephen Mealy 1st Batt. Leinster Regiment (Killed the 12/05/1915)
Spr. John Mealy Royal Engineers
Gnr. H. Tresson Royal Field Artillery
Conor
Ian Bowbrick
Feb 2 2003, 04:51 PM
Two great-uncles:
1599 Pte Charles Bowbrick 9th Bn East Surrey Regt - Fought at the Battle of Loos & then right through to the Armistice.
106259 Pte John Bowbrick 178th Coy Labour Corps (Prev 35160 1st Infantry Labour Coy Hampshire Regt)
Grandfather:
62029 Cpl William Bowbrick 26 & A Flight 110 Sqd RFC/RAF
Their Cousins:
5518 Pte Sidney Bowbrick 5th Duke of Cornwalls LI - Western Front 1914-1918
178887 Pte Gerald Bowbrick MGC - Missed the Western Front but went to Russia
SD/1690 Pte Albert Grenyer 12th Bn Royal Sussex Regt - Killed in Action 30 June 1916 at Loos
Wife's Grandfather:
33081 Pte Geoffrey Hall 185th & 187th Coy MGC - Mespot (Prev 18985 2nd Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers - Western Front)
Wife's Great-Uncle:
Pte Reginald Latter Hampshire Regt - Egypt
Ian
Chris_Baker
Feb 2 2003, 05:16 PM
Gunner Frank Wilson, 3rd South Midland (242) Brigade Royal Field Artillery, with 48th (South Midland) Division.
Private Jim McSloy, 14th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, the Pioneers of 21st Division. Died of wounds received somewhere near L'Epinette, in CCS in Bailleul, January 1916. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
Private William Townsend, 5th (Service) battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, 42nd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division.
Private Gabriel Townsend, same. Killed in action near Bellewaarde on 25th september 1915. Commemorated on the Menin Gate.
Albert Baker. Saw much service in the Crocodile Works in Aston near Birmingham. Believed to have been making bayonets and other edged weapons and tools.
Annette Burgoyne
Feb 2 2003, 06:32 PM
My father’s Uncle
Pte. Trow, Sidney, 19662, 6/K.S.L.I.
My Grandfather’s Uncle
Pte. Powell, Charles, 23864, 1/K.S.L.I., K. in A. 20/11/17.
My Grandmother’s Cousin
Pte. William, Mellor, 14480, 11/Ches., K. in A. 3/7/16.
My Grandmother’s Uncle
Pte. Harold, Hewitt, 2293, 1/6/Ches., K. in A. 14/10/16.
Descendants of my Great Great Grandfather
Cpl. Trow, Daniel, 18661, 9/Worcs. D. of W. 9/8/15.
L/Cpl. Trow, Edwin Albert, 16639, 11/Worcs. K. in A. 19/12/17.
Pte. Trow, Thomas Walter, 18937, 11/Worcs. Regt., died 27/10/18 at Depot.
Sgt. Trow, George, 62016, R.F.A.
Pte. Trow, Benjamin, 40892, 9th Leics. (P.O.W.).
Husband’s Grandfather
Pte. Everall, James, Shropshire Yeomanry
Husband’s Great Grandfather
Pte. Burgoyne, Thomas, 1/4/K.S.L.I.
Terry Denham
Feb 2 2003, 06:38 PM
Here is my contribution
Grandfather
Pte Albert Ferguson, Essex Regt, Wounded 1917 Ypres - survived
Great Uncle
Pte George Joseph Denham, 1 Bn Essex Regt KiA 16.08.17 Ypres
My wife's family
Dvr Frederick Hall, RHA, Served Aug 1914 to Nov 1918 in F&F
Cpl John Hall MM, 'Z' 5th TM Bty RFA KiA 04.06.16 Arras
Sjt Thomas Howarth, 10 Bn Loyal North Lancs KiA 11.08.16 Somme
John Milner
Feb 2 2003, 06:50 PM
My grandfather:
10879 Rifleman, Horace Womble, 11th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
Transferred to the Labour Corps late 1917/early1918.
John Milner
Jonathan Saunders
Feb 2 2003, 07:06 PM
Great Grandfather was CYS Oscar Charlton Cox - died when HMS Vanguard blew up at anchor 9 July 1917. My Great Grandmother remarried CSM (I think) Harry Lethbridge RE who was invalided back to Blighty after being gassed.
Of the Cox family Private Percy Leopold Cox 1/Royal Berks killed in action in the attack on Arleux 29 April 1917. (Percy's son won MM in May 1940 with 1/Royal Berks - possibly first MM of WW2). Another Cox brother, Leonard Alfonso Cox is believed to have been in the first BEF - Regiment unknown at present.
Great Grandmother's brother-in-law was Chief Stoker Francis Newcombe who served aboard the famous HMS Shark and was one of a handful of survivors in what is now known as the "Shark's Dash at Jutland". Commander Loftus Jones received a posthumous VC. Unfortunately Francis Newcombe died of his wounds about 6 hours after landing at Hull. The six survivors that lived were all awarded the DSM.
Her brother George Wilson was part of the first BEF. He was taken prisoner in either 1916 or 1917. Regiment unknown at present. (As a matter of interest her mother survived the Indian Mutiny when hidden under an apple barrel by her ayah at a critical moment - her Grandfather then being a Gunner in the Bengal Horse Artillery).
My Grandfather - Albert Victor Saunders - joined RMLI 14 October 1914 and from March 1916 served aboard HMS Achilles that was involved in the saving of the Dundee when she sank the German raider Leopold in 1917. (He also served a period as batman to Louis Mountbatten during WW2 and for all but 2 months in mid-1939 did 31 years unbroken service in the RM and had a very poor pension for it!)
One of my Grandfathers brothers - George Saunders - was in the first BEF with the Wiltshire Regiment. I am nit sure of the other brothers but his sister married an AIF - Fred Percival - who joined up in June 1916 thus missing Gallipoli, proceeded to France and was accidently shot in the hand (!!) having been in the field for just 1 week. He served the rest of his war in England.
bydand
Feb 2 2003, 07:58 PM
Here is my contribution :
Grandfather :
6143 Dvr. Archibald Neill Drysdale
52nd. Lowland Divisional Train, A.S.C.
Served in Gallipoli and Egypt.
Great Uncle :
2/Lt ( promoted Captain ) John Drysdale M.C.
4th. Bn. ( Territorial ) Gordon Highlanders.
K.I.A. 11th. April 1918 near Vielle Chapelle whilst defending a Bridgehead.
London Gazette 26th. July 1918.
Neil Drysdale
Kate Wills
Feb 3 2003, 01:09 AM
My grandfather:
Pte Alfred Ernest Lines, 7th Ox & Bucks until mid 1917, then 660 MT Coy ASC (mostly Salonika; survived)
Husband's grandfather:
Francis (Frank) White, Pte 1/20 Londons (wounded 25/9 Loos) and subsequently Lt RE Signals attd. RFC and RAF (Wireless Experimental Establishment Joyce Green Dartford and later at Biggin Hill) (survived)
CROONAERT
Feb 3 2003, 06:59 AM
36224 Pte.John Lavin , 7/Border Regt ,1917-18 (survived)
15558 Sgt. James O'Mara , 11/East Lancs. ,1914-18 (survived)
michaeldr
Feb 3 2003, 07:24 AM
My grandfathers:
AB Daniel Dunn, RNVR (number:TZ 89) served 11 Sep 1914 to 19 Mar 1919
in Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division, wounded (B. W. Neck) Gallipoli
4 Jun 1915 and in Hawke Battalion, Royal Naval Division from 1917
survived
Pte George Thomas Robson (number: DM2-179565) served in A.S.C.
further details to be ascertained
survived
re photographs: r to l; Daniel c1914, George [and Michael] c1950
Hill_60
Feb 3 2003, 09:25 AM
My great grandfathers:
10311 Pte George William Dean, RAMC. Enlisted 15 October 1914, Discharged 23 April 1917 (unfit).
59312 Pte Samuel Farmer, 21st Bn CEF. Enlisted 6 November 1914, Discharged 31 January 1917 (shell shock).
Great Uncles:
6946 Pte Edward Swain, 12th Bn Royal Fusiliers. Enlisted in 1914. KiA at Sanctuary Wood, Ypres on 2 February 1916. First saw action at Loos in 1915.
Buried: Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ypres, grave I.F.11.
41652 Pte William George Swain, (last Bn served in) 2nd Bn Bedfordshire Regiment. Enlisted underage (15 years) in 1914. Wounded (shot in foot) and gassed in 1915 and sent home. Discharged when his real age came to light but recalled in 1917 and killed in action 21 March 1918. He had considered deserting but was talked out of it by his sister (my Nan) who 'escorted' him and his mate to Southall Railway Station; she was the last family member to see him alive.
Buried: Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, France, grave IV.A.14.
Grandfather:
22379 A/Cpl George Bradbury, 7th Bn (?) The Buffs. Enlisted in 1917. Severely wounded in 1918. After recovering he was transferred to the Labour Corps but, in his words, "Rode round on an 'orse and guarded Germans in a camp, prodded a few with a bayonet an' all".
HERITAGE PLUS
Feb 3 2003, 09:38 AM
My maternal grandmother's uncles:
Pte.Charlie FIllis 3/301 6 Wilts d. 6 Nov. 1916 age 42
Bro of A.F.Fillis, 15 Church Walk, Devizes, Wilts
Puchevillers Brit. Cem III.C.18
Pte.Eli Fillis 202228 'C' Coy 1/4 Wilts d. 5 May 1918 age 37
Son of Aaron Fillis, 6 Sutton Place, Devizes, Wilts
Kantara Memorial E145
AndrewThornton
Feb 3 2003, 11:18 AM
My maternal GreaT-Grandfather and his three brothers:
1612/240107 CSM William Thompson M.M.
Joined C Coy, 6th North Staffords at Tamworth in January 1912
Served with 1/6th North Staffords in France and Flanders 3/3/15-11/7/17
Awarded Military Medal for acts of gallantry during unit's attack on "Nash Alley", S.E. of Loos on 24th May 1917
Wounded 6/6/17
9686/242565 Lance Corporal John Thompson
Joined C Coy, 6th North Staffords at Tamworth January 1912
Enlisted into 15th Hussars at Lichfield January 1913
Transferred to 1st Bn North Staffords January 1914
Landed in France 12/9/14
Wounded August 1915 (Hooge) and Wulverghem on 30/4/16
Posted to D Coy 1/6th North Staffords January 1917
Killed in Action 24th May 1917
17714 Private Walter Thompson
Joined 7th North Staffords in Autumn 1914
Served at Suvla - evacuated with frostbite November 1915
Posted to 1st North Staffords - wounded at Delville Wood August 1916
Wounded "near Bapaume" - March 1917
Gunner Joseph Thompson
Royal Garrison Artillery - evacuated with frostbite January 1917
David_Bluestein
Feb 3 2003, 06:31 PM
My great uncle:
6244 Private Samuel BLUESTEIN 1st Bn., London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)
Killed on the Somme, 15 September 1916 . Age 28.
Bob Coulson
Feb 3 2003, 08:03 PM
My Grandfather,
Gunner Herbert Coulson.
280th Siege Battery
Royal Garrison Artillery.
Gassed but survived the war and came home in 1919.
Grandma and my Dad got dressed up to meet him off the train home but he wasn't on it so they went home.
He arrived on a later train and apparently gave Grandma a rollicking for not waiting for him.
This told to me by my Dad a few years ago just before he died.
Stoner
Feb 4 2003, 12:07 AM
My Grandfathers
43169, Driver, Thomas Arthur Stone, Royal Horse Artillery
Served 4 years 173 days, also served 6 years 182 days with the colours, Discharged 31st March 1920 at Woolwich
Sydney Augustus Herbert, South Wales Borderers
jim_davies
Feb 4 2003, 03:01 AM
My great-grandfather Sidney James Lee, (Royal Artillery), India and later Western Front. 1916-1918.
Great grand-uncle Fred Lee, (Leceisters) 1917-1918.
Great grand-uncle L/Clp Charles Jarvis, (5/ Connaught Rangers), KIA 27.8.1915, Gallipoli.
Great grand-uncle George Jarvis (no idea of which unit !)
Great grand-uncle George William Boyall, (1/ Lincolns), KIA 29.9.1918. F & F.
Grandfather William Davies and great uncles Tom and Sam Davies, Mercantile Marine.
sbull
Feb 4 2003, 11:21 AM
(1) My grandfather Arthur Harold Lincoln
Royal Sussex Regiment and then C Battalion Tank Corps.
In the Tank Corps he won
MM on 9th April 1917 in the attack on The Harp.
Bar to MM on 23/4/1917, probably in the attack on the chemical works at Roeux.
I believe him to have been the first man to win an MM and Bar, both received during service with the Tank Corps. (Others may have received an MM before joining the Tank Corps and a Bar in the Tank Corps before he received his Bar).
He was taken prisoner on 24/4/1918 during the attack by the whippet tanks at Cachy.
He died in 1982.
(2) My great grandfather Charles Bull.
Served in the RAMC at Benenden TB Hospital in Kent. Believed never to have left England, but contracted TB and died in 1922 leaving a wdow and four children. His widow lived to the age of 107 and died in 1994, having brought up her four sons and never re-married. She outlived 3 of her 5 children (one had died before my great grandfather died)
My great great uncle Michael Weston. Known to have served, but no idea in which unit. He survived the war. He lived in the Birmingham area.
Simon Bull
Cynthia
Feb 4 2003, 01:48 PM
Although they are not blood relatives, I have been made an honourary family member, so I very much feel they are part of my own family:
G/7190 Pte Robert James Stark, 7th Battalion, The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment. Enlisted London, November 15, 1915. Posted January 21, 1916 to 3rd Queen's. To France August 24, 1916. Posted to 7th Queen's September 3, 1916 at Magnicourt et Comte. KIA September 28, 1916 at the Schwaben Redoubt at the age of 23.
Driver HMT 349980 Sydney Charles Stark, Army Service Corps, 69th Steam Company. Service 1916-1920. Died at the age of 98 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Thanks to Ian Whitlock, I was able to obtain Robert's service record at the PRO, but not his brother Sydney's. It was an amazing experience to follow Robert's final steps through Magnicourt, Lucheux and Puchevillers, before being sent to Blighty Valley and then the killing fields near Thiepval. I felt as close to him as if he were my own flesh and blood.
Cynthia
Alison Arnold
Feb 4 2003, 05:21 PM
Here is my contribution
24486 Pte George ARNOLD 11 BN Cheshire Reg KIA 3rd July 1916
G/1822 Pte A H Bourne 8 BN Royal Sussex Reg Died 13th May 1917.
Ali
peter johnson
Feb 5 2003, 08:19 PM
Great Uncle
75174 Gunner Edward Coupe
"A" Battery, 28th Brigade
Royal Field Artillery
Died: Wednesday, 22 August 1917, Age 21
Chris Noble
Feb 5 2003, 09:18 PM
Lance Corporal James Drane, 1st West Yorks, P.OW. 1915
Private Reginald Dean, 21st West Yorks, missing, 1/7/1916.
Terry_Reeves
Feb 5 2003, 11:06 PM
Grandfather, Thomas Job Reeves
Enlisted Bournville Lane, Birmingham 10 Dec 1915, his 21st Birthday
Posted to 3/8 Worcesters (Pte 4643), Weston Super Mare Jan 1916 and thence to 1/8th Bn on the Somme.
Gassed on Albert/Poziers Rd night 19/20 July after which the whole Bn had to be taken out of line. Hospitalised on 4.8.16 as the result of above.
Transferred to 10th Lincolns on 1.9.16 (Pte 43707) and wounded Le Point du Jour, Arras 9.4.17. Wounded again at Passchendaele 19.10.17.
Transferred to 3rd Bn Lincolns, Cork 12.1.18 having been medically downgraded with varicose veins.
Transferred 1.9.18 to RE Horse Transport Depot, Aldershot (307046 Driver RE)
Absent without leave 6.9.18 - 9.9.18 - Admonished and fined 3 days pay
Absent without leave 18.12.18 - 27.12.18 - 168 hrs detention, 9 days loss of pay.
Discharged from No 2 Dispersal Camp, Chiseldon, Wiltshire 21.1.19 and happy to be out of it.
Terry Reeves
Alan Lines
Feb 6 2003, 07:14 PM
Not one of my Parents/Grand Parents/Uncles/Great Uncles etc. etc. have fought in any war!
Does this make me unique amongst Forum members????
munce
Feb 6 2003, 08:58 PM
Great uncles:
2/Lt Daniel McBeth Muncie, 53rd Battery, 2nd Brigade RFA (ex Ayrshire Yeomanry), kia 3/12/17 Cambrai
ERA James Rae Muncie, Royal Navy (later to be Lt Cmdr, RNVR, and killed in Bari 1945)
Grandfather:
Pte William Richmond Muncie, 2 Royal Scots 1917/18
Great-grandfather:
Cpl Charles Edward Handley, MM, RASC attchd 99th Siege Battery Ammunition Column, RGA
Andrew P
Feb 7 2003, 04:05 AM
Some of my relatives that served in the war;
Lt Thomas Clifton Pittaway MC
34th Bn AIF(ex 36th Bn) Wounded 3 times at Messines, Passchendale & on the Amiens front 30th March 1918;
Pte Phillip George Pittaway
27th Bn Served at Gallipoli & KIA 05/11/16 at Flers, France - No Known Grave
Pte George William Pittaway MM
30th Bn
Pte Leslie Stephen Pittaway
5th DAC(ex light horse)
Pte Henry Joseph Pittaway
18th Bn
Sgt John Rogan
2nd Light Horse Reg - served throught Gallipoli & the Desert campaign
paul guthrie
Feb 7 2003, 03:00 PM
My favorrite uncle, Charles S. Guthrie born Carbon Hill, Walker County Alabama, lived almost all of his life in Harlan COunty, Kentucky pilot trainee `1918, never left the USA.
He continued to fly into his 70s.
RoyEvans
Feb 13 2003, 01:40 PM
My Grandfather
Private Christopher Warner
Enlisted 11/12/15 in 2nd South Staffords No. 23852
Discharged 12/12/17 (wounded) from 7th Norfolks No. 40533
Date of transfer unknown
(survived)
cooper
Feb 20 2003, 06:57 PM
Dedicated to my Great Uncle
80718 Gunner John Cooper
'A' Battery 70th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
- Attached to the 15th (Scottish) Divsion.
Born and enslisted in York.
Killed in action February 20th 1916.
No other known details of service but anxious to find some.
James
Helen
Feb 20 2003, 09:48 PM
My Great Uncle
Private Samuel Greer 6/2143
1st Bn Canterbury Regiment (2nd Coy) NZEF
Joined 13 Feb 1915
Died of Wounds 2 October 1916
Buried Etaples Cemetery
Staffsyeoman
Feb 22 2003, 09:55 AM
Maternal grandfather,
Pte George Cotton, 2nd Bn South Staffs 1915-19
ASC 1919-20
Served in 5th South Staffs in the 20s and again in the RASC TA in late 30s. Recalled in September 1939, but discharged PDQ on age/health grounds!
ttd0
Feb 22 2003, 08:47 PM
Great Uncles...(Great Grandfather served in India 1897 - 1908)
5117 Pte Thomas Wiltshire 1/Wilts
Born 1881, enlisted into Wiltshire Regt in 1899. Taken POW in September 1914 and spent the entire war in captivity.
7638 William Wiltshire 1/Wilts
Enlisted underage in 1905, POW September 1914 and spent the war in captivity.
7972 Herbert Wiltshire 2/Wilts
Enlisted underage in 1904, bought out in 1905 then enlisted again in 1907. Killed in action 8th July 1916 Bernafay Wood,Somme and buried in the British Cemetary.
George Ernest Wiltshire R.F.A.
Overseas November 1915. Gassed and apparantly sent to Italy. Begged to come home to die and was sent to Beaufort House, Bristol. Amazingly lived and was a ARP '39-'45. Church Warden in Bristol and died in 1951.
Frederick Richard Wiltshire Devon Regt
Born 1899 overseas late in war.
Alison Arnold
Mar 12 2003, 02:11 PM
Hi,
Can I add another one. Pte Albert Charles Grenyer 12 Bn Royal Sussex Regiment died 30 June 1916.
I have just found him lurking on my family tree.
Ali
Myrtle
Mar 12 2003, 03:30 PM
Hi Ali
Is that the same Albert Grenyer that Ian Bowbrick has on his family tree ?
laughton
Mar 29 2003, 02:27 AM
Wow, this is getting ahead of me ... how do we keep up with all of this information Chris? Some how we need to have this great forum to have a database for all of these topics. You have had such a great success it is hard to know where to start when you log onto the system. I am probably spoilt because I joined at the time of the switch to your new system and there was a lot of 0ne-on-one interaction, now it is so diverse. I know that there is no simple answer to all of this, just as when I suggested a database for the books or references on battle sites .... the problem of you having created a great success. How do we manage all of this information?
Mark Hone
Mar 29 2003, 07:08 AM
My great-uncles:
76320 Private Cyril Evans from Glovers Road, Small Heath Birmingham 10th Royal Welch Fusiliers. Wounded in German gas attack at St. Eloi March 1916. Survived 'friendly fire' incident when battalion was shot up by Essex Regt in Delville Wood, July 1916. KIA Serre, November 13th 1916 aged 19. Thiepval Memorial
721 Private John Hone, 1st Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regt. from Wellesbourne Warwickshire. 13 year pre-war regular, called up as a reservist in 1914, fought from Le Cateau onwards. Killed (probably by 'friendly fire') in the battalion's last action of the war on 24th October 1918. St Souplet CWGC Cemetery near Le Cateau.
Chris_Baker
Mar 29 2003, 07:40 AM
QUOTE (laughton @ Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:27:55 +0000)
How do we manage all of this information?
I think the real answer to this is that you can
not manage it. This kind of information is very fast-flowing and unstructured. However, the forum technology does provide a number of tools to help you track through it, see what's happening and find stuff when you need it.
The MyAssistant tool and View New Posts functions (in the menu at the top right of every screen) allow you to keep up with latest topics and posts.
The Search facility is very powerful, having lots of options for looking for specific or broad-ranging matters.
Paul Carter.
Mar 29 2003, 04:27 PM
What a marvellous idea.
The first soldier was not a relative but he was engaged to the lady who was to become my Grandmother later in her life.
The second soldier was the chap who did marry the previously mentioned lady and became my Grandfather.
Soldier 1.
Signaller Ernest Grime, L/8911.
149th. (County Palatine) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Born on 22nd. March, 1897 at 32 Springfield Street, Darwen, Lancs.
Served from March 1915 until his death on 9th. October, 1918.
A gas shell landed at the entrance of his dug-out. The explosion rendered other soldiers in the dug-out unconcious but, unfortunately, he died of his wounds.
He is buried in La Laiterie Military Cemetery, near Ypres.
Soldier 2.
Charles William Lester.
11th. (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars.
Joined up in 1916 at the age of 16. He survived the war.
Sadly my Grandfather died before I became interested in the First World War, so I didn't find out much else about what he did. His service record was destroyed in the blitz so I am unable to find out exactly what he did other than what he told his daughter, my Mother. I do have a copy of the War Diary of the 11th. Hussars but, obviously, it is not a personal diary.
Simon_Fielding
Mar 29 2003, 07:01 PM
The soldier who is listed below was my maternal great-grandfather and it a brief mention of his death in the Battle of the Somme that triggered my interest in the Great War.
Also, my wife's paternal grandfather was Stanley Adams HOUGHTON who served in the 23rd London Regiment and was wounded in the Battle of Festubert in May 1915. He returned to service with a commission in the Labour Corps, and he survived the war, dying in 1995.
My paternal grand uncle William Fielding seems to have served with the Derbyshire Yeomanry in the Middle East before transferring to the Mounted Military Police. He too survived the war, with his son Raymond serving in thr Fleet Air Arm in WW2.
shinglma
Mar 30 2003, 04:27 PM
My grandfather
Sgt James Todd MM - 135 Siege Battery RGA who survived the war
and my great uncle
Lance Corporal William Johnson Weatherley - 8th Btn KRRC - KIA 02/07/16 at Roclincourt and buried in the Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery at Arras.
Martin Hornby
Apr 2 2003, 06:25 PM
My paternal Grandfather Walter Hornby, served with the Machine Gun Corps.
He won the Military Medal at the Battle of Arras whislt serving in 45 Company MGC.
He eventually made the Rank of Sergeant.
He survived the War.
Martin
RichardM
Apr 6 2003, 06:45 PM
7981 Pte Patrick Costigan, 2nd Duke of Wellington's.
79273 Pte Thomas Mann, E.Yorks Regt & 2nd Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. J. G. Hume, York and Lancaster Regiment
8063 L/Cpl Peter Costigan, 1st Leinster Regiment. Killed 5th May 1915.
Broznitsky
Apr 6 2003, 10:34 PM
Paternal grandfather Private Kiril or Karl Broznitsky (aka Broznitzky) 417854, 41st Battalion CEF, 3rd Pioneer Battalion CEF, 29th Vancouver Battalion CEF, 24 + 19 Companies, Canadian Forestry Corps.
1895-1977.
Maternal grandfather John Mitson, who served in a British unit. Just beginning research on him!
laughton
Apr 11 2003, 02:10 AM
QUOTE (Chris_Baker @ Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:40:57 +0000)
QUOTE (laughton @ Sat, 29 Mar 2003 02:27:55 +0000)
How do we manage all of this information?
I think the real answer to this is that you can [colour=blue]not[/colour] manage it. This kind of information is very fast-flowing and unstructured. However, the forum technology does provide a number of tools to help you track through it, see what's happening and find stuff when you need it.
The MyAssistant tool and View New Posts functions (in the menu at the top right of every screen) allow you to keep up with latest topics and posts.
The Search facility is very powerful, having lots of options for looking for specific or broad-ranging matters.
Thanks Chris! I have used the SEARCH function a lot and that works well. Honestly, I did not know about "MY ASSISTANT" and so I have now checked that out and it is great. Thanks for the tip.
I just sent a friend (Gary Loftus) to your web site today who is a WWII buff, so he could see what is here for the Great War. Do you know if there is a similar site to this for WWII?
armourersergeant
Apr 28 2003, 06:56 AM
here we go.
Armourer-staff Sergeant Albert Edward Leader, originally west somerset yeomanry then transfering to AOC.
Jack Leader,Royal Artillery discharged at some point from gassing. Rank unknown at present.
Eric Leader Royal engineers( poss royal sigs at some point.) rank unknown at present.
Arm
jemimajane
Jan 8 2004, 01:01 PM
Found this topic whilst doing a "search" - and if it is not too late, would like to add the following :
Leonard Charles Quarry - Corporal RGA No: 88437 - 449 Siege Battery
Died 6-1-1919 Military Hospital, Gravesend
Frederick George Quarry - Corporal RGA No: 16498
David Harold Sutton - 10th Bn London Regt (No: 422890) and 4th Bn London
Regiment (No: 295543)
Henry George Phillips - South Wales Borderers No: 9165 )on reserve, recalled
August 1914, made a POW 21.10.1914 - released late
1918/early 1919