The History, Uniforms, Badges, Medals and Nominal Rolls of the King's Colonials, King Edward's Horse and 2nd King Edward's Horse

The Second Boer War had proven a very difficult political and military campaign for Great Britain to positively conclude. By 1900 the combination of the vastness of the South African veld and the ravages of disease and hard soldiering for men and horses meant that more men were required to be released from home service units to fight overseas. Patriotic fervour was running high across the British Empire and many citizens from the British Colonies had enlisted to serve in Lord Roberts, Commander in Chief’s army in South Africa. As described by Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James DSO in his history of the unit (The History of King Edwards Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1921), George Hamilton (Figure 1), a solicitor and a member of the Committee of the Colonial Club in London, suggested that there should be a home defence yeomanry unit, raised purely from overseas volunteers’ resident in England.

Figure 1: Lieutenant Colonel George Hamilton (wearing Officers Service Dress uniform with the cap bearing the later King Edward's Horse headdress badge) who first conceived of the formation of the King’s Colonials, circa 1910-12.  He joined the King’s Colonials upon its formation in 1901 and although having retired in 1912, he served extra-regimentally during the Great War (Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James. The History of King Edwards Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1921).

Together with fellow Committee member, Lieutenant Colonel Nesbit Willoughby Wallace (Figure 2) they sought endorsement of the proposal from all the Colonial representatives in London of the senior members of the Empire: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and India. Although supportive, the New Zealand Agent General had doubts that there were sufficient numbers of New Zealanders living in England to enlist.

Figure 2:  Lieutenant Colonel Nesbitt Willoughby-Wallace, first Commanding Officer of the 4th County of London (King’s Colonials) Imperial Yeomanry 1901-04 (Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James. The History of King Edwards Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1921). 

Some seventy men came forward as being willing volunteers when a recruiting advertisement was run in the London papers in the summer of 1900. Having gained the approval of Lord Roberts, the 4th County of London Imperial Yeomanry (King’s Colonials) was formed on the 29th November 1901 at Charing Cross, London. The Regiment was 50th in precedence within the yeomanry. The Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, Lord Fife become Colonel in Chief and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and York, K.G. (later King George V) became the Regiment’s Honorary Colonel in December 1901 (see Figure 3). His Royal Highness was the first Officer gazetted to the Regiment and his enthusiastic support saw the unit fulfill numerous ceremonial duties as a highly-popular overseas Dominion unit raised in the County of London. The King’s Colonials have the distinction of being the only Colonial unit administered from Whitehall.

Figure 3:  His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Officers of the 4th County of London (King's Colonials) Imperial Yeomanry in Full Dress uniform at the Inspection and  Official Opening of  the Drill Hall in the King's Road, Chelsea on 6th May 1902 (Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James. The History of King Edwards Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1921).

By 1906, recruitment had stalled and so the catchment for volunteers was expanded with subsequent addition of detachments in Cambridge and Oxford plus a Liverpool Troop from the Dominion residents of Liverpool. Today there is little physical evidence of the association of the King's Colonials with these localities or for that matter their headquarters in London except mementos like that shown in Figure 7. The Liverpool Troop were attached to ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) for training and housed in the Headquarters of the Liverpool Scottish.  

The entry from the 1911 edition of Gore's Liverpool Directory provides the address of the Liverpool Troop as King Edwards Horse, The Kings Overseas Dominions Regiment, Northern District Detachment, HQ 2 Church Street W, Liverpool under the command of Captain W. Bancroft Pearch.

The King's Colonials Rifle Club had been formed and the Freeman Challenge Cup was competed for annually for the best shot in the Regiment. In 1906, the winner was Corporal H. C. Cramhall and a photograph of his silver medal can be seen against his entry in the Nominal Roll section of this website.

Figure 7: A repoussed silver sugar shaker given as a wedding gift to Trooper Edward Thornton, 776 engraved by his comrades of the Liverpool Detachment of the King’s Colonials (Courtesy of The saleroom.com).

Political maneuvering within the War Office by 1907 led to several of the self-governing Dominions seeing advantage in recognising the value of the King’s Colonials as a volunteer force in which they could be boldly represented. This then led to several alliances being formed between Colonial units namely the 8th (Princess Louise’s) New Brunswick Hussars in 1907 and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th Australian Horse and Border Light Horse (Cape Colonial Forces) in 1908. The year of 1908, saw changes to the structure of the Army and the creation of the Territorial Force which led to the Regiment no longer being administered through the County of London Territorial Force Association but under its own association.

In 1909, due the Crown Colonies having gained Dominion status, the term ‘Colony Squadrons’ was abolished. From this time on the Squadrons were mixed in composition with new recruits allocated to the Squadron best suited to their training needs rather than on the traditional Dominion association or origin. At this time, the Regimental strength stood at 27 Officers and 444 Other Ranks. From April 1909 to January 1913, the Commanding Officer was Colonel H. Fortescue CBE, late of the 17th Lancers.

Figure 8: Church parade of an Officer, Serjeant (wearing the earlier Australasian Squadron headdress badge as an NCO arm badge) and Other Ranks 'C' Squadron (Australian) King's Colonials in Full Dress uniform circa 1907 (Photograph courtesy of David Knight). 

Figure 9: King's Colonials Coronation detachment in Full Dress uniform marching to Church Parade circa 1905-1910 (Gale and Polden series postcard). 

Lieutenant Colonel Victor Sandeman (Figure 13), having seen service in the 17th Lancers joined the King’s Colonials on the 20th July 1904.  He became Commanding Officer of the 4th County of London Yeomanry, King Edward's Horse (the King's Overseas Dominions Regiment) from January 1913 to June 1914 and again after a period of ill health from the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 to June 1916.

Figure 13: Lieutenant Colonel Victor Sandeman, Commanding Officer from January 1913 to June 1914 and August 1914 to June 1916. One of his King Edward's Horse collar badges is evident in the photograph. 

Figure 14: King George V inspecting a Guard of Honour furnished by the King Edward's Horse July 1913 (Courtesy of The Daily Mirror).  

The King Edward’s Horse was mobilised for war on the 4th August 1914. For many it was a card to loved ones and off to ‘the grand adventure’ (Figure 15).

Figure 15: A mounted Trooper (Ernest ---) of King Edward’s Horse writes home to his sister as he sets off to war. He is equipped with a .303 Short Medium Lee Enfield Mark 1 rifle (in its holster) and 1908 pattern cavalry sword (Image from an online auction site).

Figure 19: Lieutenant Colonel Victor Sandeman (seated centre front row, as shown in Figure 13) with Captain R. D. Furse (third from left front row) and other Officers as named of King Edwards Horse at Bishop’s Storford in April 1915 (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletin. Number 20: 12, 1953).   

• Numbered 1st King Edward’s Horse but served with the Divisional Cavalry as independent Squadrons until 1st June 1916.

In April 1915, the Regiment was split up:

• ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) was attached to 12th Division at Aldershot from 23rd May 1915 and landed at Havre, France on 2nd June 1916 to join IV Corps Cavalry Regiment
• ‘B’ Squadron (Canadian) landed at Havre on 22 April 1915 and joined 48th (South Midland) Division and then IV Corps Cavalry Regiment on 1st June 1916.

Figure 20: Self signed postcard of Private Arthur Mathias Roberts, 1038 in June 1915 showing his service Dress complete with British 1899 Pattern Cavalry Trooper’s Sword and his slung Lee Enfield SME Rifle. 

Figure 21: A Corporal and Lance Corporal with several Privates of the King Edward's Horse outside their tent circa 1914-16. All un-named.

Figure 31: Group of Australians serving in the Reserve Squadron of King Edward’s Horse taken at Longford, Ireland in 1916. The Officers are captioned as MacBean? and Moffat. The Private on the far right in the front row is identified as John Gardiner (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Old Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletin. Number 19, 13, 1952). 

In 1917 the Reserve Squadron was commanded by Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Martin Foster Dick (Figure 32). Major Dick had been the Officer in Command of the Mounted Party of the King Edward’s Horse at the 1911 Coronation Parade. He went on to commanded the Regiment in France in 1917-18.
 
Figure 32: Major (Temporary Lieutenant Colonel Martin Foster Dick who commanded the Reserve Squadron of King Edward’s Horse in Ireland in 1917 (Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James. The History of King Edwards Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1921).  

Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James returned to command the Reserve Regiment in 1917-18.

Figure 33: Marlborough Barracks Dublin 1918. Back row: 2/Lt. Swaine, 2/Lt. Brownell, 2/Lt. Freeman, 2/Lt. Bolus, Lt. Tutt, 2/Lt. Alexander, 2/Lt. Crompton, 2/Lt. Campbell and 2/Lt. Meikle.  Sitting: Lt. Patell, Capt. Bradburn (Adjt.), Lt.-Col. L. James (C.O.), Capt. Ramsey and Capt. Hope. Front row: 2/Lt. Orr-Ewing, 2/Lt. Churchouse, 2/Lt. Herapath, 2 Lt. Baker and 2/Lt. Cox. (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Old Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletin. Number 14, 1947).  

There was an additional King Edward’s Horse Regiment formed as cavalry in 1914 and it bears no relation to the original King Edward’s Horse Regiment of yeomanry.  The Regiment became known as the 2nd King Edward's Horse which resulted in references to the original King Edward's Horse during the Great War being sometimes referred to as the (1st) King Edward's Horse.  I have chosen not to adopt this nomenclature for the original King Edward's Horse.  

The 2nd King Edward's Horse was raised by John (later Sir John) Norton-Griffiths (see Nominal Roll for a short biography), a colonial adventurer and Captain/Adjutant of the bodyguard of Lord Robert’s as Commander-in-Chief in the Second Boer War, at his own expense (40,000 pounds).  A very good short history of the 2nd King Edward’s Horse was written by David Miller (Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 83: 1-10, 2005) and I have drawn heavily on that article for the summary which follows.

The 2nd King Edward’s Horse assembled in White City, London from the 10th August 1914 and initially trained at Langley Park between Slough and Uxbridge. The Earl of Lonsdale became their Colonel-in-Chief and they were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Montagu Cradock CB CMG (see Nominal Roll). In December 1914 they replaced the Essex Yeomanry in the Eastern Mounted Brigade of the 1st Mounted Division whilst stationed in Essex. On the 1st February 1915 they transferred to the Canadian Cavalry Brigade at Maresfield. The Brigade was later called 1st Canadian Cavalry Brigade but since there were no others raised they were commonly just called the Canadian Cavalry Brigade.
 
Figure 37: Copy of a recruiting poster for the 2nd King Edward’s Horse circa 1915. 

The Canadian Cavalry Brigade was made up of the 2nd King Edward's Horse, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, Lord Strathcona's Horse and the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery.  The Brigade deployed to France on 4th May 1915 and the 2nd King Edward’s Horse Regiment fought dismounted as Seely’s Detachment attached to the 1st Canadian Division until September 1915 before re-joining the Canadian Cavalry Brigade.

From January 1915 until January 1916 they were brigaded with the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry until they were replaced by the Fort Garry Horse. The 2nd King Edward’s Horse acquired a Talbot armoured car in 1915 but it was not used overseas on active service (Figure 38). On the 27th January 1916, the 2nd King Edward’s Horse re-gained their mounts and formed as a two Squadron Cavalry Regiment with General HQ troops. In 1915, the 2nd King Edward’s Horse Regimental HQ and ‘A’ Squadron remained with General HQ whilst ‘B’ Squadron went to the 56th Division as Divisional cavalry on the 23rd March 1916 until 30th May 1916.

Figure 38: Photograph of the 2nd King Edward’s Horse Talbot armoured car acquired in 1915 but not used overseas on active service (Original copyright of the Tank Museum, Bovington and reproduced by David Miller in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 83:1-10, 2005).
 
In June 1916, the 2nd King Edward’s Horse were expanded with the addition of a Service Squadron of the 21st Lancers from England and became XIV Corps Cavalry Regiment. The unit became broken up in August 1917 with the 2nd King Edward’s Horse leaving France for Wareham, England on the 5th August 1917 to be absorbed into the Tank Corps. The Squadron from the 21st Lancers went to No. 5 Base Depot on the 29th August 1917 and was broken up.

A Reserve Squadron was formed which crossed to Ireland in July 1915. This Squadron was expanded to a Regiment being stationed at Kilkenny in 1917.

The biographical narrative of Private Osborne Lean in the 2nd King Edward's Horse Nominal Roll section of this website provides a tremendous insight into the background and service experiences of a soldier in the Regiment.

Figure 39: Postcard of NCOs and Other Ranks of the 2nd King Edward’s Horse on church parade at Hampton Court Palace.  Many of the Privates are wearing Service Dress caps without cap badges consistent with them being new recruits. The postcard is dated May 1915 and sent to a Master Leslie Read, Sussex. 

The annual camp was an important training activity for all British army regiments especially the volunteers. A fortnight under canvas annually was supplemented for the King’s Colonials by intermediate trainings at Easter and Whitsuntide holidays which became annual features from 1904.

The first annual camp of the newly formed King’s Colonials was held at Sidcup in Kent from 14th to 29th June 1902. The Regiment in camp totaled fourteen Officers and 201 Other Ranks with a strong Squadron released under the command of the Adjutant for the Coronation Review. Figures 41, 41a & 42 are photographs taken from that first annual camp.

Figure 41: Some of the attendees of the Sidcup camp, 1902. 

Privates Foster (four possibilities from KEH Nominal Roll but with 202 Other Ranks enrolled by 1903 it is unlikely to be any of these as the Regimental numbers are all higher - 603, 652, 731 and 1373), Henry S. Cubit, 32 (enlisted 4/01/1902) and Price (possibly Elias W. Price, 415 but again unlikely) with Herbert MacIntosh, 57 (standing). Private Herbert MacIntosh was from New Zealand (note the New Zealand flag proudly displayed on their tent) and went on to be a Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant and his photograph appears as Figure 105 with his uniform depicted in Figures 103-104 and 106-111.

Figure 41a: Named attendees of the Sidcup camp, 1902. Private Kennedy-Bouch, Collins, Carter and Woodford.

Figure 42: Quarter Guard at Sidcup Camp being mounted by several Troopers of the Australasian Squadron.

Figure 58: Rifle training in St Albans camp in 1904. Trooper DuFoy is the individual named wearing the distinctive Lemon-Squeezer headdress of the New Zealand armed forces and later adopted by the Canadian forces.    

Figure 59: Corporal Percy Alfred Ely (left) with Troopers Pemberton and Liddle stand to their horses. Corporal Ely was born in 1884 and went on to serve as a Lieutenant in King Edward’s Horse. He was attached to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as Assistant Paymaster to the New Zealand Forces and died of pneumonia on 17/11/1918. All three Troopers were from New Zealand and were members of the 3rd Troop (New Zealand) of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) of the King's Colonials in 1904.  

The annual camps for the King’s Colonials were held at Churn Camp, near Blewbury, Oxfordshire in 1907 and 1908.  The 1907 camp was attended by 21 Officers and 375 Other Ranks this time swelled by the addition of the Cambridge and Oxford detachments.  Attendance was much lower in 1908 with 19 Officers and 294 Other Ranks.  A feature of these particular camps was the inclusion of a Machine Gun Troop within the Regiment.  A Dundonald carriage was used for transporting a Maxim gun and it's ammunition as shown in Figure 64.

Figure 64: Machine Gun Troop of the King’s Colonial Imperial Yeomanry at Churn Camp in 1907 (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Comrades Association Annual Bulletin. No 20: 15, 1953).  

We know from the attendance of one of the more famous members of the King’s Colonials, J.R.R. Tolkien who as an undergraduate student of Oxford University attended their annual camp in 1909 at Pond Farm Camp, Tidworth Pennings on Salisbury Plain (John Garth: Tolkien and The Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. London: HarperCollins, 2003).  Here they were camped as a Brigade with the other four mounted regiments of the London Command and were in strength with 24 Officers and 415 Other Ranks.

The 1910 camp was also held on Salisbury Plain at Shorncliffe Camp with reduced numbers at 20 Officers and 327 Other Ranks. This was the first camp for the Regiment as King Edward's Horse.

Figure 65: Officers and Other Ranks from ‘A’ Squadron, King Edward’s Horse at Shorncliffe Camp in 1910 (R. J. Smith collection). The headdress badge being worn is the new pattern of the King Edward’s Horse see later section of the website.  

Figure 66: King Edward’s Horse at Shorncliffe Camp in 1910 (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Comrades Association Annual Bulletin. No 14: 1947).  

Figure 70: Postcard of the King Edward's Horse training at Aldershot in 1911.

The July-August 1912 annual camp of King Edward’s Horse was held at Dibgate Plateau, Shorncliffe in Kent with severe gales a noted feature.

Figure 71: Unique photographs of ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ Squadrons of King Edward’s Horse assembled in mounted and dismounted order at annual camp on Dibgate Plateau, Shorncliffe in Kent in July-August 1912 (R. J. Smith collection).

Figure 72: Postcard of a group of King Edward's Horse training at annual camp at Aldershot in 1911 including Private Wally Elliott, 43 C' Squadron.

The last annual camp of the King Edward's Horse was held in Canterbury in the summer of 1914.

Figure 75a: Troopers of King Edward’s Horse at camp in Canterbury in 1914 (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Old Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletin. Number 20: 12, 1952).

The Undress uniform of the Officers of the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry was a Second Pattern, peaked blue cloth forage cap with a scarlet band bearing a gilt Regimental badge, scarlet piping around the crown seam and black patent leather peak and chin strap held in place with two gilt Regimental pattern buttons. Plain blue trousers with turn-ups and black ankle boots completed the Officer’s Undress uniform. Field Officers had a gold embroidered edge to the peak of the forage cap; a blue serge coat with optional shoulder chains with four patch pockets, five gilt buttons to the front, one on each breast pocket and two buttons on each cuff.

The Undress uniform of the Other Ranks of the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry was as per the Full Dress uniform except that a khaki forage cap with scarlet band but no piping and a dark brown leather peak and chin strap with brass buttons and a brass Regimental pattern badge. The King’s Colonials were one of the first regiments to be equipped with the khaki forage caps which became widespread throughout the British Army from about 1906. The forage caps were often worn with a white oilskin cover to protect the top of the cap from finger marks and foul weather. This uniform was also worn as Walking Out Order with the addition of a khaki cape, tan leather gloves and a whip. 

The Service Dress uniform worn by the 4th County of London (King’s Colonials) Imperial Yeomanry from 1901-1904 was of a plain regular cavalry pattern khaki tunic with a stand-and-fall (Prussian) collar and overalls for Officers and Other Ranks. In Officers Service Dress only the Sam Browne belts were worn with the whistle attached to the shoulder brace. The distinctive scarlet cap lines worn by all ranks in Full Dress were dispensed with. From 1901 to 1904 a plain khaki peaked cap was worn with three scarlet welts. Other Ranks wore webbing bandoliers without cartridge covers.

Service Dress was first introduced into the British Army in 1902 and became largely universal from 1903. From 1904, a new khaki Service Dress was adopted with a second pattern, scarlet and khaki peaked cap.

Figure 91: A group from the 1st or 2nd Troop (British African) and 3rd Troop (New Zealand) of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) of the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry circa 1904. They are wearing the Service Dress uniform with the second pattern khaki forage cap. The Officer of the 3rd Troop in the centre of the front row is wearing  his Undress uniform with the Australasian Squadron headdress badge. To his immediate left is the Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant wearing a Second Pattern Regimental pattern headdress badge. The Squadron Sergeant Major of the 1st or 2nd Troop with the ‘D’ Squadron (British African) headdress badge is at the very left of the front row. Sergeant MacIntosh is seated second from the right-hand end in the front row. Several of the Other Ranks are equipped with Boer War pattern, 50-round Mills equipment webbing bandoliers.  

Figure 92: Comparison of the King's Colonials tunic and headdress for a Private, Full Dress 1902 (left panel) and Service Dress 1904 (right panel) (D. J. Knight and R. J. Smith. The Uniforms of the Imperial Yeomanry 1901-1908. The Military Historical Society, Arrow Press, London, 2009).

In 1905, the regimental title was simplified to the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry and a less flamboyant Second Pattern of headdress known as the ‘Sombrero hat’ was introduced for the Full Dress uniform. The Sombrero hat had a significantly reduced crown now in proportion and was a light shade of drab felt with a wide brim bound with drab silk. The brim was curled around the edge sweeping up on the left side.  A scarlet silk puggaree made up of three deep folds was worn around the base.  A plume socket on the left side brim held a plume of long black cock’s feathers which swept down to the wearer’s left shoulder Bersaglieri fashion. The plume of black cock’s feathers was longer for Officer’s relative to that of the Other Ranks. The cap lines disappeared and all bar one of the headdress badges was dispensed with as detailed in a later section. Officer's swords were now carried on parade in a steel scabbard from leather slings beneath the tunic.  

Figure 99: Photograph showing the Second Pattern headdress being worn as part of the Full Dress uniform of the 3rd (New Zealand) Troop of ‘D’ (South African) Squadron of the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry mounted circa 1905-06 (David Stewart collection).

The tunic depicted here bears a label with the name MacIntosh on it with a D for 'D' Squadron and SMS for Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant signifying that it belonged to Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant (SQMS) Herbert MacIntosh of the 3rd (New Zealand) Troop of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) of the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry. The tunic, trousers and leathers were acquired in New Zealand together with several copies of The King Edwards Horse Senior and Junior Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletins. This style of tunic does not bear breast pockets and buttons.

The manufacturers label sewn into the King’s Colonials’ Service Dress overalls was that of Hobson and Sons of London. Hobson and Sons are still in business today in Golden Grove, London and were a preferred manufacturer of Officer’s and Other Rank’s British and Colonial regimental and ceremonial, uniforms and buttons. It is noted that the uniforms of the Australian Contingent attending the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902 were also manufactured by Hobson and Sons. There may have been other manufacturers of the uniforms of the King’s Colonials which is certainly true for the buttons on their tunics.

The King's Colonials uniform shown was originally accompanied by a New Zealand Squadron water bottle with felt cover and leather strap. The felt cover was marked on the front with 'KC 57' (which is assumed to be SQSM MacIntosh's Regimental Number) and the top of metal stopper marked 'NZ'.

Figure 105: Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant Herbert MacIntosh of the 3rd (New Zealand) Troop of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) of the 4th County of London (King’s Colonials) Imperial Yeomanry.  He is wearing his Full Dress tunic (shown in the photographs which follow) and Second Pattern, Sombrero hat (without the plume of cock’s feathers) bearing the New Zealand headdress badge, khaki overalls and tan wrist gloves and leather gaiters. This photograph was taken after his visit to England in 1939 (The King Edwards Horse Senior and Junior Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletin. 15: 22, 1948).   

The public interest in the King’s Colonials was considerable thanks to their prominence in many parades and ceremonial occasions coupled with the richness of their Full Dress and Undress uniforms. These two postcards illustrate how the uniforms and demeanour of the King’s Colonials was expressed in caricature.

Figure 112: Postcard of a caricature of a King’s Colonial circa 1906.

Figures 113-114: Front and reverse of a postcard depicting a tongue in cheek caricature of a King’s Colonial posted in 1910.  The sender writes ‘of course no one suggests you look like this’.  

The Officers and Other Ranks Full Dress uniform (except for the headdress and collar badges, shoulder titles and buttons remained unchanged in 1910 when the Regimental title changed to King Edward’s Horse. In 1913, a girdle of gold lancer pattern was introduced for Officer’s Full Dress with two crimson silk outer horizontal stripes and Other Rank’s Full Dress made of web striped ¼” inch yellow, ½ inch in red, 1 inch khaki, ½ inch red and ¼ inch in yellow.

The accompanying photographs show a KEH Officer's tunic worn in 1914 by Lieutenant William Charles Phillips Harvey, an Australian (see KEH Nominal Roll entry) who was seconded to the Colonial Office following the outbreak of war. His tunic and trousers are in excellent condition and have his name on the Hobsons and Sons makers label. The uniform came with his lancer-style girdle made by Appleton & Sons and marked 1914 and named to Sykes (as yet unidentified KEH Officer). The hat that came with the uniform bears the correct plume and 1910 'spikey' crown KEH cap badge. The cap badge is incorrectly positioned to the side of the correct scarlet pagri. That hat itself is not original but is a 1944 dated slouch hat. The 20mm tunic breast buttons and 16mm cuff buttons are all KEH pattern marked Hobson & Sons The tunic is missing his shoulder pips and shoulder titles.

The KEH Other Ranks were equipped with the British 1899 Pattern Cavalry Trooper’s Sword. This pattern sword was introduced on the 19th October 1899, eight days after the Second Boer War broke out. It was intended to be a refinement on the 1890 Pattern, with a slightly shorter blade, greater protection for the hand and a longer grip. Users generally considered it on the heavy side and much more effective in the thrust than the cut: this cemented the growing consensus that cavalry swords should be built entirely for thrusting. Photographs taken on active service show that KEH troopers carried the 1899 Pattern sword into WW1. This was not uncommon for reserve units – the newer 1908 Pattern was issued first and foremost to the regular cavalry and older patterns were retained as long as they were serviceable. The sword shown in the following page is marked with the post-1910 form of the unit’s name, KEH and this combined with its grey-green field paint scheme, makes it even more likely to be one of these WW1-used examples. The sword and scabbard bear different markings and are not an original pair, although their similar condition suggests they have been together a long time. It may well be the case that the regiment used the same swords it was initially supplied with in 1901 as the King's Colonials through to the end of WW1. Photograph and information courtesy of Richard Breislin www.blackthorn-antiques.com


 

The Officers and Other Ranks Undress uniform of King Edward's Horse was as per that of the King’s Colonials (1905-10) except with new Regimental badges and buttons were worn with the forage cap and tunic.  

Figure 142: The Undress uniform tunic of a Sergeant of the King Edward’s Horse with Lancer pattern girdle shown draped over the shoulder. Noted on the tunic are a khaki proficiency trade badge of a harness maker above a King Edward’s Horse cap badge worn as a senior NCO's arm badge above gold rank chevrons, a pair of ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) collar badges and brass King Edward’s Horse tunic buttons. The medal ribbons denotes that the wearer had served in the Great War and were awarded the 1914/15 Star trio. Great War service medals were not awarded until the early 1920s (Electronic auction site image). 

Figure 143: The Undress uniform tunic of a Sergeant of the King Edward’s Horse with a khaki proficiency trade badge of a harness makers above a King Edward’s Horse arm badge above gold rank chevrons, a pair of ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) collar badges and gilding metal King Edward’s Horse tunic buttons circa 1910-14 (Peter Nemaric collection). The harness maker's badge was originally to distinguish the trade of a collar maker but was more broadly used over time for saddle maker, saddle tree maker and harness maker. Referenced as 3A in Denis Edwards's and David Langley's: British Army Proficiency Badges. The Sherwood Press Nottingham, 1984.   

Figure 143a: The Service Dress forage cap of the King Edward's Horse. Khaki with scarlet band and piping with brown leather peak and chinstrap, lining marked "V.V. Pedlar King Edwards Horse". This example is fitted with a King Edward's Horse Officer's Service Dress cap badge in bronze  attached with east-west loops (authors collection).  V. V. Pedlar was Vyvian Vercoe Pedlar see Nominal Roll entry. 

The Service Dress of the King Edward’s Horse remained unchanged from 1910 through to the disbandment of the Regiment in 1924. This uniform for both Officers and Other Ranks was of standard cavalry pattern of khaki forage cap, tunic and overalls. Shoulder chains were dispensed with for Service Dress.

Officers of the King Edward's Horse and 2nd King Edward's Horse wore the 1896 Pattern Cavalry Officer's Sword, as one would expect for the time periods. Although only part of Major John Howard's sword can be seen in Figures 304-305, this is also an 1896 Officer's pattern from the blade shape and period (Information courtesy of Richard Breislin www.blackthorn-antiques.com). The Officer's swords were privately purchased often with an engraved blade (as shown for an earlier King's Colonial sword of Major Howard in Figures 304-305) and they were also armed with a service revolver. The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Top-Break Revolver or Webley Self-Extracting Revolver) was the most common pistol carried by Officers. The Webley is a top-break revolver and breaking the revolver operates the extractor, which removes cartridges from the cylinder. The Webley Mark IV rose to prominence during the Boer War of 1899–1902 and would have been carried in 1914 and was replaced by the Mark VI in 1915. Firing large .455 Webley cartridges, Webley service revolvers are among the most powerful top-break revolvers ever produced. Other Ranks were equipped with .303 SMLE Mark 1 rifles and 1903 pattern, Mounted Infantry leather 50 round bandoliers. The leather bandolier was 50 inches long and 3.25 inches wide and held 50 .303 cartridges. It was made up of four sections each x ten cartridges, plus one section x six cartridges and one section x four cartridges. Towards mobilisation for war in 1914, Other Ranks were equipped with the 1908 pattern cavalry sword which was basically the same as the Officer's 1912 pattern cavalry sword with a plain blade and simpler grip and guard. The Officer's 1912 pattern and Other Ranks 1908 pattern cavalry swords were described as 'cut and thrust' weapons with a blade length of 34 3/4 inches which with an extended sword arm could counter a lance or rifle bayonet.

The Officer's of the King Edward's Horse wore a standard tunic with brass KEH buttons instead of bronzed OSD buttons with Sam Browne belt and cloth rank badges (single crown of a Major) on the shoulder lapels. The tunic shown in Figures 145-147 is of a Staff Officer with red gorget patches to the front lapels of the tunic.

Figures 145-147. Staff Officer's (Major) Service Dress tunic 1914-18 (courtesy of Victor Taboika).

As a unit raised only for service during the Great War they did not wear a Full Dress uniform. The Officers and Other Ranks of the 2nd King Edward’s Horse wore standard cavalry pattern khaki Service uniforms with and without shoulder chains and Undress khaki uniforms. Khaki forage caps were worn with a 2nd King Edward’s Horse Regimental headdress badge. Box spurs and puttees were worn by Other Ranks. As a war-raised unit, the Service Dress uniform of the 2nd King Edward’s Horse was all that was functionally required. The Service Dress uniform was not distinct from that of the Full Dress uniform. There are no records of Mess Dress for the 2nd King Edward’s Horse and as a unit raised for service in the Great War it is unlikely there was a Mess Dress uniform.

The headdress badges of the King’s Colonials and later as King Edward’s Horse (the ‘Regiment’) have been extensively copied. The Regiment was a volunteer unit and the uniforms, headdress and collar badges were all privately purchased and are of a superior quality and finish. Copies of the Regimental headdress badges although generally of an inferior quality and finish can be difficult to distinguish from an original badge without experience. This is especially the case when looking at badges offered for sale on the internet where the images may not show the fine details particularly well. There is no real substitute for having the actual badge in your hand for close-up examination under a magnifying loop. To date the Regiment’s collar badges, shoulder titles and buttons do not appear to have been copied. All the examples of collar badges and shoulder titles examined to date have been of a high quality and lacking imperfections in their finish and loop attachment that commonly occur when badges are copied. Anecdotally, the collar badges and shoulder titles unlike headdress badges are much harder to find being offered for sale, consistent with them not having been copied.

Purchasing headdress badges of the Regiment without provenance and/or from other than a reputable dealer without close inspection is not recommended unless you are buying a copy to perhaps use as a representative badge or gap filler.

A significant problem with authenticating headdress badges to the Regiment is to determine what are correct reference sets of genuine badges to compare them with. It is possible that pattern cards exist (or existed) for the badges of the Regiment. Figure 163 shows a collection of the Regiment’s headdress and collar badges from the J. R. Gaunt & Son Ltd Pattern book circa 1904 on a red background. This set was sold a number of years ago by John Burridge Military Antiques, Australia. These headdress badges have a distinctive gilt finish and are Officer’s badges except for the later King Edward’s Horse headdress badge (bottom left hand corner) which was worn by Other Ranks. The collar badge in the top left hand is also an Officer’s gilt badge whereas the collar badge towards the centre is gilding metal and is assumed to be an Other Rank’s collar badge. This set was originally sold at auction in the United Kingdom in 2011 by auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb.

Figure 163: A collection of King’s Colonials and King Edward’s Horse headdress and collar badges from the J. R. Gaunt & Son Ltd. Pattern book on a red background (Photograph courtesy of John Burridge Military Antiques, Australia).

A collection of the Regiment’s headdress and collar badges and shoulder titles was donated by R. C. Whittock to the National Army Museum (Figure 164) and were described in an article by him (R. C. Whittock: The Military Historical Society, XVII: 61-65, 1967). These badges also have a distinct gilt finish or yellow brass finish.

Figure 164: A collection of King’s Colonials and King Edward’s Horse headdress, collar badges and shoulder titles donated by R. C. Whittock to the National Army Museum on a black background (Photograph courtesy of Griff Morgan-Jones).

Several of the King’s Colonials headdress and collar badges in the authors collection were part of a display set of badges manufactured but not marked by Firmin of London. To date the only other maker ascribed, genuine Regimental headdress or collar badges that have been noted are the first pattern King Edward’s Horse headdress badge (annotated as number 14) made by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths and Co. London in the collection of W. Y. Carman (a respected author and authority on British badges and military uniforms), illustrated in Figure 165 and the King Edward's Horse Officers circlet pattern headdress and collar badges in bronze. A Jennens & Co London marked Officer's circlet headdress badge is shown in Figure 338 and Figure 339 shows one marked by Firmin London. Officer's Circlet collar badges are also maker marked by Jennens & Co London. Given that the Regiment was predominantly based in London in addition to Goldsmiths and Silversmiths, Jennens & Co and Firmin it is likely that other manufacturers of genuine King's Colonials and King Edward's Horse badges are likely to include J. R. Gaunt & Son and Bent & Parker.

Figure 165: The W. Y. Carman collection of King’s Colonials and King Edward’s Horse headdress and collar badges with the annotations of R. J. Smith (R. J. Smith collection).

Many of the King's Colonials and King Edward's Horse badges featured on this website came from Keith Hook's original collection. Photographs of these actual badges were used by Arthur L. Kipling and Hugh L. King for their treatise 'Head-dress Badges of the British Army 1800-1918: v.1'.  The badges featured were for the most part Officer's gilt examples.  I have only seen a handful of examples outside of this collection and these have been in auction lots shown on the following page. 

One of the key considerations with determining whether a King’s Colonial headdress badge is genuine or not is in relation to what type of loops it has. The loops used to fasten the King’s Colonials badges to the uniform on genuine badges were made of copper wire and were brazed onto the back of the badge by hand. These loops have a shank with an end which has the same or only marginally greater, cross-sectional area as the shank itself.

Figure 169 shows a selection of different loops used in the manufacture of badges by J. R. Gaunt & Sons in London from a salesman’s catalogue circa 1904 (Rob Miller: British and Commonwealth Badge Forum). Several of these loops have small feet and several have no feet at all. Copies of King’s Colonials headdress badges that have been made from the genuine dies have been finished off by brazing on loops with a different shape than the genuine loops. The loops on copy badges (Figure 170) have a broader base with a larger contact area on the rear of the badge as compared with genuine loops (Figure 171). The loops on copies are often referred to as being footed.

The issue of knowing what is a genuine badge to use as a reference again comes into play. I have been fortunate to acquire a number of original King's Colonials Officers gilt and Other Ranks gilding metal badges which came from a collection started in the 1940s before their was large scale copying of badges from the original dies. The badges in this collection are actually the Regimental and Squadron headdress badges of the King's Colonials and the Regimental badges of the King Edward's Horse and 2nd King Edward's Horse which were loaned to Arthur L. Kipling and Hugh L. King for photographing when they were preparing their 'definitive' reference book ‘Headdress Badges of the British Army. Volume I; up to the end of the Great War’ (Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1978). These badges serve as a reference set. Additionally, the King’s Colonials collar badges have not been copied to date and the loops on these badges were produced in the same period as would genuine headdress badges. Close examination of forty or so King’s Colonials collar badges reveals that none have broad-footed loops. The conclusion which can be drawn from this is that genuine King’s Colonial headdress badges should lack broad-footed loops.

The brazing solder on genuine badges was of the same basic composition of the badge with a golden braze on Officer's badges and a yellow-brass on Other Ranks badges which is often darkened with age more so than the golden braze of Officer's badges. This is because the solder was made from the trimmings, filing or sawdust produced during the manufacture of badges from sheet brass. The solder was sparingly applied to genuine badges but sufficient to hide any trace of the base of the loop and often extends into the gap between the two arms of the loop. On copy badges the solder rarely covers the footed loop especially those with more pronounced broad feet. The types of loops and solder used on genuine headdress badges is difficult to fully validate given the inherent difficulty in authenticating a genuine headdress badge as a reference. However, the type of loop and solder used on collar badges which have not been copied serve as a surrogate for the headdress badges. Hence, the photographs and images of King’s Colonials headdress and collar badges which follow generally include an angled view of the rear of the badge to more clearly show the loops and brazing solder.

Figure 169: Selection of different loops used in the manufacture of badges by J. R. Gaunt & Sons in London from a salesman’s catalogue circa 1904-08 (Courtesy of Rob Miller: British and Commonwealth Badge Forum).  

Figure 170: Close-up of a non-footed loop with golden braze between the arms of the loop and at its base on a genuine badge and a footed loop on a copy badge. 
 
Contemporary photographs serve as a guide as to what was worn and when provided of course the photographs themselves are or can be dated. However, the quality of the strike and details of the loop positions on badges cannot be determined from photographs of them being worn unless it is an exceptionally high resolution portrait photograph.
 

The second pattern Regimental headdress badge bears the 'KC' cypher surmounted by Prince of Wales’s plumes and coronet all resting on a tri-part scroll inscribed “Regi Adsumus Coloni” (Colonials venturing for the King) (KK 1371). This badge was worn beneath the first pattern Regimental badge on both the front and on the turned-up, left brim of the first pattern Full Dress felt hat by Officer’s of the Regimental Headquarters staff from 1901 to 1905. It was also worn on the front of the Undress uniform first pattern forage cap from 1901 to 1905 by Officers of the Regimental Headquarters staff as shown in Figure 184.  

Figure 184: Close-up image from the group photograph in Figure 91 of the second pattern Regimental headdress badge (KK 1371) being worn on the Undress peaked cap with matching collar badges by the Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant of the King’s Colonials circa 1905 (Courtesy of David Knight).

From 1905, the second pattern Regimental headdress badge was worn on the turned-up side of the second pattern Full Dress bush hat and on the front of the Undress second pattern peaked service cap by Officers of the Regimental Headquarters Staff. In 1909-10, when the Squadron badges were abandoned as the Dominion associations and designations were lost (as noted in the section on the Regimental history), they were said to have been replaced by the second pattern Regimental headdress badge (KK 1371) on the Full Dress bush hat and Undress peaked service cap. The photographic evidence, however, supports that the Squadron badges were worn up until the Regiment became the King Edward's Horse in 1910 and then King Edward's Horse headdress badges were worn from that time onward.

Kipling and King state that the second pattern Regimental badge (KK 1371) were made in gilt, bronze, and gilding-metal and in two sizes. The reference to two sizes stems from Kipling and King who noted that the second pattern Regimental badge worn on the upturned side of the Full Dress headdress was smaller than the one worn on the front of the headdress. Furthermore, the smaller version of the badge was also worn on the front of the Undress forage and peaked caps. To date, no genuine examples of different sizes of this headdress badge have been identified. The Officer's pouch belt badge is the same size as the headdress badge as shown in Figures 185-6, however, a small version of this badge with screw posts was worn on the Officer's pouch as shown in Figures 286-287. This badge is the same size as an Officer's collar badge and It could have been this smaller sized pouch badge which Kipling and King were referring to.

Second pattern Regimental headdress badges are found in either gilt or bronze metal finishes for Officers and in gilding metal for Other Ranks. Figure 185 shows a genuine second pattern Regimental headdress badge in Officer's gilt. The badge is die struck and of exceptional quality with three loops that lack feet. Additional examples of Officer's badges in both gilt and bronze finishes are shown on the following page.

A genuine second pattern Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1371) in gilding metal is shown in Figure 190. This badge is die struck and has three loops that lack feet. The strike is very crisp and the lettering is very distinct at the edges.  

Figure 191 is a copy of the second pattern Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1371) in die struck, gilding metal with two loops.

This copy has only two lower loops which are positioned east-west and lacks the third loop normally positioned behind the Prince of Wales' feathers. The badge is a poor strike relative to a genuine badge lacking the detail especially with the lettering of the motto. Another characteristic of poorer copies of this badge are the quality of the void at the base of the Prince of Wales feathers with voided/cut away area between the feather quills being irregular in shape and instead of being between the quills on the genuine example it cuts into the quills on poor copies. Copies of the second pattern Regimental headdress badge (KK 1371) in gilding metal are also known with a slider fitted to the rear behind the Prince of Wales' feathers. Based on my experience, sliders were not fitted to any genuine King's Colonials headdress badges.

The quality of the strike; differences in weight and size; and the number, positioning and presence of broad footed loops (or sliders) are all characteristics of copies of the second pattern Regimental headdress badges.

From 1901 until 1905 the Other Ranks of the King’s Colonials wore a pair of unique Regimental collar badges with a ‘KC’ monogram inter-twined in gilding metal. These collar badges were worn as a non-opposing pair as shown in Figure 196 in a close-up image of Private Angel. These collar badges are referenced by Churchill and Westlake as 4th County of London (King’s Colonials) Imperial Yeomanry first pattern in gilding metal (Churchill and Westlake  Ref No 114) and are shown in Figure 263. A stylised version of this collar badge is also depicted in an Edwardian-period Gaunt catalogue.

Figure 196: Close-up image of the first pattern Regimental Other Ranks collar badges of the King’s Colonials (Churchill and Westlake Ref No 114) being worn by Private Angel circa 1904 (Courtesy David Knight).

The first pattern Regimental collar badges were manufactured as die-struck badges with a flat back in gilding metal and are fitted with north-south copper loops as shown in Figure 197.

Figure 197: First pattern Regimental Other Ranks collar badge of the King’s Colonials (Churchill and Westlake Ref No 114) worn 1901-05.

As a distinction of Other Ranks attached to the Regimental Headquarters (1901-05), the first pattern die-struck collar badges were worn with square-shaped, scarlet backing cloths. These cloth backed collar badges can be seen in the photograph of Private Angel (Figure 196). These also featured in part of the Colin Churchill collection, sold by C & T Auctioneers in November 2015 (Figure 197).

Figure 197: A pair of first pattern Regimental Other Ranks collar badges in gilding metal with scarlet backing cloths worn by when attached to the King’s Colonials Regimental Headquarters (Churchill and Westlake Ref No 114) among a selection of King's Colonials and later King Edward's Horse collar badges from an auction lot of part of the Colin Churchill collection (Images reproduced with kind permission C&T Auctioneers, United Kingdom).

On the hat-band of the first pattern, tall-felt hat introduced in 1901 and worn until 1905, all Squadron members wore a distinctive Squadron headdress badge. These were worn in gilt for Officers and gilding metal for Other Ranks. Figure 196 shows the headdress badges of the Squadrons in Officer's gilt as: ‘A’ (British Asian) elephant; ‘B’ Squadron (British American) beaver; ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) kangaroo on a backing of ferns when it was a combined Australian and New Zealand Squadron; ‘D’ Squadron (British African) ostrich; later 'C' Squadron (Australian) kangaroo (Other Ranks gilding metal) and the short lived 'E' Squadron (New Zealand) fern badge which once disbanded in 1903 continued to be worn by the 3rd New Zealand Troop of ‘D’ Squadron. The Squadron badges were worn on the front of the second pattern Regimental Full Dress Sombrero hat from 1905-1910. They were also worn on the Undress and Service Dress first and second pattern caps from 1901-1910.

Figure 196: Photograph of the Squadron badges of the King's Colonials. These are Officer's badges in gilt with the exception of the Australian Squadron kangaroo which is an Other Ranks badge in gilding metal. 

The King’s Colonials group photograph (Figure 197) shows five different Squadron headdress badges being worn, many with matching pairs of collar badges.

Figure 197: A group of Officers and Other Ranks from all of the different Squadrons of the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry showing the second pattern Forage Cap in khaki with a white cap cover circa 1906-07. The Officer, second from left in the middle row is denoted as a Field Officer as he bears gold braid to the peak of his forage cap. Captain Sir Hamar Greenwood (later Viscount Greenwood), ‘B’ Squadron (British American) is third from the left in the rear row holding a cane (Peter Nemaric collection).

From 1905, the first pattern Regimental collar badges worn by Other Ranks were replaced by Squadron collar badges of a similar pattern to the Squadron headdress badge. Officers continued to wear the second pattern Regimental collar badges.

The Squadron collar badges were worn as facing pairs with the heads of the Australian kangaroo, Asian elephant, Canadian beaver and African ostrich all facing inwards. The tips of the New Zealand Squadron fern leaf on their collar badges face outwards. The loops on genuine collar badges also lack broad feet. The one notable exception to the wearing of matching collar badges was the Australasian Squadron. Photographs of Troopers of ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) do not show them to be wearing a collar badge modelled on the Australasian Squadron headdress badge (KK 1376). There has been no photographic evidence identified of Australasian collar badges being worn nor have any ever appeared on the market or in private or publicly available collections. Contemporary photographs show that the Australasian headdress badges were either worn without collar badges or with the first pattern Regimental inter-twined KC collar badges or with the later Australian Squadron collar badges.

In 1909, the term "Colony Squadrons" was abolished and consequently the wearing of Squadron headdress and collar badges was to be discontinued. All ranks were now to wear the smaller King’s Colonials second pattern Regimental headdress badge (KK 1371) on the bush-hat and the newly introduced khaki service dress cap with matching second pattern Regimental collar badges. I have seen no photographic evidence of these badges being adopted by all ranks.  Squadron collar badges continued to be worn beyond the change of title of the Regiment from King’s Colonials to King Edward’s Horse in 1910. There are several photographs of members of the King Edward’s Horse wearing the former Squadron collar badges. Additionally, the King Edward’s Horse tunic shown in Figure 142 has a pair of the ‘C’ Squadron collar badges (KK 1376) with a King Edward’s Horse headdress badge as a NCO arm badge and KEH buttons.

The King’s Colonials Squadron headdress and collar badges are arguably among some of the most iconic and emblematic badges worn within the British Dominions. The choice of native animals as icons of the senior members of the Dominions was fitting as the members of the King’s Colonials were recruited from Dominion residents in Great Britain amidst the patriotic fervour evoked by the Second Boer War.

A significant distinction between the genuine headdress badge in Figure 211 and the copy in Figure 212 is the positioning of the loops. On this copy they are incorrectly positioned relative to genuine examples of this Squadron headdress badge. Another readily identifiable feature on copies of the ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) headdress badge is that the tip of the elephant’s trunk is not voided where it curls back up towards the head. On the genuine badge in Figure 211 the trunk is voided. The quality of the strike particularly the voided sections like the trunk, positioning of the loops and differences in the weight and sizes can all be used to differentiate between genuine and copies of the ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) headdress badge.

There are three distinct irregularly-shaped voids between the bottom of elephant’s stomach and the tops of the trees. These three voids are often not present on poorer quality copies which have been incompletely struck from the old dies. The lines on the elephant’s body and detailed folds where the ear meets the head are sharp and clearly defined on the genuine badge but are blurred and less-well defined on the copy in Figures 212-213 and on additional copies. There are also a pair of curved skin folds on the left-hand side of the belly of the elephant on the genuine badge which are absent on the copies. Poorer quality copies also do not have a distinct void between the elephant’s tail and its hindquarters. The stars at the ends of the scroll are also very distinct on genuine badges and are less angular on poorer quality copies.

A pair of genuine 'A' Squadron (British Asian) collar badges are also shown in Figure 211. They are die struck in gilding metal with copper loops positioned east-west and were worn as a facing pair. There is a continuous void between the elephant’s stomach and the tree tops. The curl of the elephant’s trunk is voided but the tail and hindquarters are not.

Figure 211: A genuine ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) Other Ranks’ headdress badge (KK 1373) with matching collar badges all in gilding metal.

Figure 212: A copy of an ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) Other Ranks’ headdress badge (KK 1373) in gilding metal. 

An additional copy shown in Figure 213 is marked to the rear as being silver, which it is not, and has blades as to suggest it is an Officer’s headdress badge. Silver or white metal headdress badges were not worn by the King's Colonials.

Figure 213: A copy of an ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) headdress badge (KK 1373) in white metal and marked silver to the reverse and fitted with blades for attaching to the cap.

An ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) headdress badge in white metal with east-west loops and a non-voided tail has also been noted. It was sold as a commemorative badge and is also a copy.

Figure 217 shows a genuine ‘B’ Squadron Officer’s headdress badge which is semi die-cast gilt with three blades remaining from the original two sets of attaching blades. One set of blades is located at the base of the maple leaf and the other at the ends of the title scroll. The edges of the maple leaves on this badge are sharp and finish at distinct points and the vein details are very crisp.

Figure 217: A genuine example of a ‘B’ Squadron (British American) Officer’s headdress badge (KK 1374) in gilt with three of the four original blades to the rear. 

Figure 218 shows a genuine ‘B’ Squadron Other Rank's headdress badge with a pair of collar badges. The Other Rank's headdress badge is die-struck gilding metal with non-footed loops that are positioned east-west. The collar badges are die-struck in gilding metal with copper loops positioned north-south.

Figure 218: A genuine example of a ‘B’ Squadron (British American) Other Rank's headdress badge (KK 1374) in gilding metal with a pair of collar badges in gilt and gilding metal.

Figure 219 shows a copy ‘B’ Squadron Other Rank's headdress badge in darkened gilding metal with footed loops.

Figure 219: A copy of a ‘B’ Squadron (British American) Other Rank's headdress badge (KK 1374) in darkened gilding metal.

Examples of a genuine and a copy of the ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) Other Ranks’ headdress badge are shown in Figures 229-230. Compared with the genuine badge in Figure 229, the copy badge has a darkened metal finish unlike the gilding meal finish of the genuine example. The copy also lacks the fine lines on the sun’s rays and leaves, and the background of the Australasian scroll is seeded on the front but the seeding does not carry through in the striking to the rear of the badge, and has footed loops.

The ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) headdress badge is one of the most difficult to authenticate among the King’s Colonials badges. In the late 1970's copies of this badge first really became apparent to collectors in Australia mainly as a result of the increased numbers of examples appearing on dealer's mail order lists and at militaria shows. An article by K.R. White from 1980 notes that copies of this badge were of a copper gold irregular colour relative to the light gold finish of die-struck genuine badges (Sabretache: Journal of the Australian Military Historical Society, 21 (3):14-15, July-September, 1980). Although die-struck the copy in the article lacked the fine detail of the genuine and was of a different size.  

As with all King's Colonials headdress badges the quality of the strike is very good guide to whether the badge is genuine or not as is the position of the loops and their lack of feet. As noted on the first of three copies the lack of seeding is a characteristic of the badge not being genuine. Collectively these are important characteristics that can be used to help differentiate between a copy and a genuine ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) headdress badge. In my own opinion, the most readily identifiable and reliable feature on a genuine example are the fingers on the front paws of the kangaroo which can clearly be seen in Figure 241 (left image) as individual fingers versus the copy in Figure 242 (right image) with clubbed and indistinguishable fingers.

Figure 241, left image: Close-up image of the fine detail of the fingers of the front paw of the kangaroo of the genuine 'C' Squadron (Australasian) headdress badge.

Figure 242, right image: Close-up image of the lack of fine detail of the clubbed front paw of the kangaroo of the copy 'C' Squadron (Australasian) headdress badge.


Figure 229: A genuine ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1376) in gilding metal with east-west, non-footed-loops.

Figure 230: A copy of the ‘C’ Squadron (Australasian) Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1376) in darkened gilding metal with east-west, footed-loops.

The British African headdress and collar badges bear an ostrich with a background of mountains and a scroll at the base inscribed British African.  In gilt, bronze and brass finish (KK 1372). This badge has a similar background design to the Australasian Squadron headdress badge.

The headdress badge and matching collar badges worn by ‘D’ Squadron (British African) are shown in the close-up image (Figure 244) taken from the group photograph of King’s Colonials (Figure 121).

Figure 244: Close-up image of the ‘D’ Squadron (British African) headdress badge (KK 1372) worn by several Other Ranks with the Private on the right hand end wearing matching collar badges.

The headdress badge shown in Figure 245 is a genuine Officer’s headdress badge which is a die struck in rich gilt with loops also in gilt positioned east-west which lack feet.

Figure 245: A genuine ‘D’ Squadron (British African) Officer’s headdress badge (KK 1372) in gilt.

The headdress badge shown in Figure 246 is a genuine Officer’s headdress badge from the Firmin display set. It is a die struck badge in rich gilt with loops also in gilt positioned east-west which lack feet.

Figure 246: A genuine ‘D’ Squadron (British African) Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1372) with matching pair of collar badges all in gilding metal. 

The pair of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) ostrich collar badges shown in Figures 246 are die-struck in gilding metal and were worn as a facing pair. They have copper loops which lack feet and are positioned east-west.

As with the bronzed OSD versions of the 'A' (British Asian), 'B' (British American) and 'E' (New Zealand) Squadron collar badges, in my collection I have a pair of bronzed OSD  'D' Squadron (British African) collar badges.

The ‘E’ Squadron – (an entirely New Zealand Squadron) headdress and collar badges depict a fern-leaf inscribed with the letters NZ.  In brass (KK 1377).

The silver fern headdress badge first appears in photographs of the Kings’ Colonials at their annual camp in St. Albans in the summer of 1904. In 1903 an attempt to create an entirely New Zealand ‘E’ Squadron proved unsuccessful due to insufficient numbers of New Zealanders being recruited. By the summer of 1904, the New Zealanders constituted the 3rd Troop of ‘D’ Squadron (British African).

The ‘E’ Squadron (New Zealand) headdress badge is shown being worn in Figure 250.

Figure 250: The ‘E’ (New Zealand) Squadron headdress badge (KK 1377) and matching collar badges being worn by a group of New Zealand Squadron Officers and Other Ranks circa 1907. Serjeant Herbert MacIntosh is seated third from the right with the marksman badge to his left sleeve. (Photograph courtesy of Dave Stewart).

Figure 251 shows the New Zealand collar badges on a King's Colonials tunic collar as worn by Serjeant Herbert MacIntosh circa 1907.

Figure 251: The New Zealand collar badges on a King's Colonials tunic collar as worn by Serjeant Herbert MacIntosh circa 1907.

Figure 252 shows a genuine ‘E’ Squadron (New Zealand) Officer's headdress badge in gilt. The headdress badge is die struck and has prominent full stops after the letters N and Z and the veins on the silver fern leaf are sharp and crisp. The east-west positioned loops are an old replacement with pairs of wire loops.

Figure 252: A genuine ‘E’ Squadron (New Zealand) Officer's gilt headdress badge (KK 1377) with an old replacement of the loops with pairs of wire loops. 
 

In the Colin Churchill collection there were two pairs of die-struck ‘A’ (British Asian) Squadron and 'B' (British American) Squadron collar badges in bronze with east-west copper loops (Figures 205-206) together with a single ‘E’ (New Zealand) Squadron cast bronze collar badge. An example of another New Zealand Squadron bronze collar from my own collection is shown in Figure 207. On a previous page, there is a photograph of my pair of bronze collar badges for the British African Squadron with a matching headdress badge in bronze. Bronze collar badges have not been identified for the Australian Squadron. The bronze British African Squadron headdress badge is the only bronze Squadron badge I have seen to date but it is possible that examples exist for the other Squadrons. As already noted, these bronze badges were for wear with Officer's Service Dress (OSD).

The Colin Churchill collection also contained a single King’s Colonials second pattern Regimental collar badge in bronze with a flat back and I have shown my own example earlier. There is photographic evidence of the bronze second pattern Regimental headdress badge being worn but not bronze Squadron badges.

Figure 205: Front and rear images of a ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) Officer’s collar badge in bronze (Images reproduced with kind permission C&T Auctioneers, United Kingdom).

Figure 206: Front and rear images of a ‘B’ Squadron (British American) Officer’s collar badge in bronze (Images reproduced with kind permission C&T Auctioneers, United Kingdom).

Figure 207: Front and rear images of an 'E' Squadron (New Zealand) Officer's collar badge in bronze with a flat back.

The wearing of arm badges by NCOs of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) may be evident in Figure 274.

Figure 280: Photograph of a group of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) Troopers at annual camp in 1904 with two Sergeants wearing what appears to be 'D' Squadron (British African) headdress pattern badges above their rank chevrons as NCO's arm badges. The shape of the badge looks slightly different on the angle of the photograph and it may be that these are trade badges and not NCO's' arm badges.  

Figure 281 shows an NCO's arm badge of ‘E’ Squadron (New Zealand) on the tunic of Sergeant MacIntosh. The arm badge is die-struck gilding metal with non-footed loops. It is of the same size as that of the headdress badge.

Figure 281: An NCO's arm badge of ‘E’ Squadron (New Zealand) on the tunic of Sergeant MacIntosh.

Photographic evidence of the ‘E’ Squadron (New Zealand) arm badge actually being worn by an NCO has not been identified.

A close up from the postcard from the annual camp of the KEH at Aldershot in 1911 (Figure 70) shows that the Serjeant is wearing his KEH Regimental pattern cap badge (likely to be the first pattern 'Saxon' crown variety KK 1506) as they changed to this pattern of headdress badge with the name change from King's Colonials to KEH in 1910. What is fascinating is that he is wearing an Australian 'C' Squadron headdress badge as his NCOs arm badge (KK 1375) and what looks to be matching Australian 'C' Squadron collar badges.

It is the first photograph I have found of this Squadron headdress badge (1905-1910) being worn as an NCOs arm badge. This is not when he was a pre-1910 King's Colonial and wearing a Squadron headdress badge but after he should have changed over to a KEH headdress and KEH NCOs arm badge. The wearing of Squadron collars with KEH headdress badges is well represented in photographs on this website but not NCOs arm badges.

To me this illustrates the pride they showed in their Squadrons and iconic badges of the Dominions they represent.

Figure 282: An NCO's arm badge being worn by a Serjeant of ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) King Edward's Horse from  a close up of Figure 70.

Unlike other yeomanry or cavalry senior NCO arm badges it is interesting that the King’s Colonials wore an arm badge of the same size and pattern as the headdress badge. It is also likely that these arm badges have the same fixing loops as the headdress badge. The tradition of cavalry and yeomanry senior NCOs wearing arm badges above or on their rank chevrons started in the late 19th century and is carried on today (Linaker, David and Dine, Gordon: Cavalry Warrant Officers And Non-Commissioned Officers Arm Badges. Military Historical Society, London 1997).

Shoulder titles were worn by the King’s Colonials on both Full Dress, Undress and Service Dress directly on the tunic or on shoulder chains as shown in Figure 283.  

Figure 289: Close-up image of the KC shoulder title worn by an NCO of ‘B’ Squadron (British American) from the King’s Colonial group photograph (Figure 215) circa 1905-06 (Peter Nemaric collection).

The first type of shoulder titles worn were the letters ‘KC’ in gilding metal (Figures 290-291). These have loops positioned east-west which lack feet. This pattern of shoulder title is referenced, but not illustrated or numbered in Westlake under King Edward’s Horse. This pattern of shoulder titles were worn from 1901-10.
 
Figures 290-291: Pair of King’s Colonials shoulder titles in gilding metal with loops. 

A KC stylised and intertwined gilding metal shoulder title (see the bottom of Figure 167) has been incorrectly attributed to the King's Colonials, however, it is actually a Kinross-shire Constabulary shoulder title.

The King’s Colonials Full Dress and Service Dress tunic breast and cuff buttons were in gilt for Officers and brass for Other Ranks. They are referenced as Ripley Ref No 419 for the cuff button and as Ripley and Darmanin Ref No 140 for the tunic button under KEH. They are of the same design as the second pattern Regimental badge with the Prince of Wales’s plumes over ‘KC’ letters and Regimental motto “REGI ADSUMUS COLONI”. A selection of different size King’s Colonials buttons are shown in Figure 295.

Officer's gilt buttons are noted by Keith Hook as being rimmed and in three sizes and different makers: 26mm QVC wreath and Firmin; 20mm QVC wreath and Firmin, and Hobson; and 16mm QVC wreath and Firmin. He has also noted Other Ranks buttons as an brass un-rimmed 26mm Hobson, 20mm Hobson, 18mm brass rimmed with a blank back and a 15mm blank back.

Ripley and Darmanin note that there are also white metal King’s Colonials tunic buttons. These would be consistent with the white metal King’s Colonials shoulder titles noted in Figure 286 thought to have been manufactured and worn for ceremonial occasion/s. To date I have not seen a white metal King's Colonial button. A further note from the authors describes a domed button with silver Regimental device on gilt which may have been for an Officer’s cap or Mess Dress. This actual button is shown at the bottom of Figure 295 and it is a three-piece button with the white metal Prince of Wales’s plumes over ‘KC’ letters and Regimental motto “REGI ADSUMUS COLONI” pinned to the front of the sealed back button. The button measures 16mm.

Figure 295: King’s Colonials Officer's and Other Rank's brass tunic breast and cuff buttons (Ripley and Darmanin Ref No 140) with a King's Colonials Officer's cap or Mess Jacket bi-metal button by Firmin & Son.

King’s Colonials sweetheart badges are commonly brooched versions of their collar badges. The first example of these is shown in Figures 301 which is a brooched (north-south) version of a die-struck, second pattern Regimental collar badge (as per Figures 271-272). There are also similar versions of the flat backed, die cast, Officer's second pattern Regimental collar badge worn with an east-west brooch fitting as a sweetheart badge. Another example, the rear of which is shown in Figure 303 is a brooched 'A' Squadron (British Asian) collar badge.

Figure 301: Rear image of a brooched version of a die-struck, second pattern Regimental collar badge worn as a Regimental sweetheart badge. 

Another type of sweetheart badge is in the form of a cravat pin (Figure 302) similarly fashioned from a flat-backed, die-cast, Officer’s second pattern Regimental collar badge (Figures 269-270). This is the second of these cravat pins that I have seen and this may not be surprising as cravat pins were popular items of an Edwardian gentleman’s attire. These are not converted collars as there are no stumps from loops having been once attached but were made as sweetheart badges from the casting moulds of the collar badges.

Figure 302: Composite image of the front and rear of a King’s Colonial cravat pin fashioned from a flat-backed, die-cast, Officer’s second pattern Regimental collar badge. 

Figure 303: Rear image of a brooched version of a die-struck ‘A’ Squadron (British Asian) collar badge worn as a Regimental sweetheart badge. 

There are three different patterns of the King Edward’s Horse headdress badge. The first and second patterns differ in the style of the crown on a large shield badge and the third pattern is a small circlet design referred to hereafter as the circlet pattern. These three patterns of headdress badges were all worn with pairs of matching collar badges as shown on this page (Figures 307-09) with the badges described and depicted on the following pages.

The first and second pattern King Edward's Horse headdress badges were in gilt for Officer's Full Dress, in bronze for Officer's Service Dress and gilding metal for Other Ranks. These are large badges which depict a shield of the Royal Standard to the centre of a wreath of oak and laurel that bears the names of the Commonwealth countries involved, surmounted by the Royal Crest. Beneath the Crown there is a scroll bearing the title and to the lower edge the motto and tablet "KODR" for the King’s Overseas Dominion Regiment (KK 1506).

The first pattern headdress badge shown being worn in Figure 307 is surmounted with a distinctive ‘spikey’ Saxon Crown not found on any other headdress badge worn by the British army. This badge was referred to as the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths pattern by collectors from the 1940s as the trial badge for this pattern was made by Goldsmiths & Silversmiths of London as noted in the collection of W. Y. Carman (labelled as badge 14 in Figure 171). This badge was worn with a matching pair of Saxon crown collar badges of the same design as the headdress badge.

Figure 307: The first pattern King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1506) in gilding metal worn by Private Jim Kerr, 379 circa 1914 (Peter Nemaric collection).

The crown on the second pattern headdress badge (Figure 308) is a regular Imperial crown synonymous with the period 1902-1952 and is generally referred to as the King's or Imperial crown. This headdress badge was most often worn with first pattern collar badges but I have a single collar badge in the second pattern with an Imperial crown.

Figure 308: Portrait photograph of Private John (Jack) Ryther Steer Bowker, 8 showing the second pattern King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks headdress badge (KK 1507) © Imperial War Museum (HU 118517).

The third pattern King Edward's Horse headdress (Figure 309) and collar badges were only worn by Officer's and was for wear on Service Dress. These headdress and collar badges were small circlet badges bearing the KEH cypher surrounded by the Regimental motto and were only produced in bronze for officer's Service Dress.

Figure 309: Major Humphrey Swann of King Edward’s Horse wearing an Officer’s circlet headdress badge (KK 1509) with a pair of second pattern collar badges in non-voided bronze ©Imperial War Museum (HU 118798). 

The first pattern headdress badges were worn from the re-naming of the Regiment to King Edward's Horse in 1910 until at least 1916. The second pattern headdress badge was worn from 1916 by Other Ranks and the circlet pattern by Officer's from 1916.

The Officers of the King Edward's Horse adopted the first pattern headdress badge (KK 1506) in bronze for Service Dress. An example of this badge is shown in Figure 310 on a Bandsman's Service Dress cap.

Figure 310: A first pattern King Edward's Horse Officer's headdress badge (KK 1506) on a Bandsman's Service Dress Cap circa 1913. This particular badge is secured to the cap with loops and is believed to be original to the cap (Victor Taboika collection).

The Officer's version of the first pattern headdress badge can be found fitted with blades or loops (Figure 312) and was worn with a pair of bronzed collar badges (Figure 311) which are either voided or non-voided (Figures 312 and 314) with east-west or north-south copper loops.

Figure 311: Portrait photograph of Lieutenant Colonel C. Harding KCMG, King Edward's Horse showing the non-voided first or second pattern collar badge ©Imperial War Museum (HU 120500).

Figure 312: A first pattern King Edward's Horse Officer's headdress badge (KK 1506) die cast in bronze with north-south loops and a pair of non-voided first pattern collar badges, one that is die struck cast in bronze and the other die cast in gilding metal with the front surface bronzed, both with north-south loops circa 1910-16.

Officers of the King Edward's Horse in Full Dress wore the first pattern headdress badge with matching collar badges which were either voided or non-voided again all in yellow brass. The first pattern collar badges with Saxon Crown as of the style of the voided headdress badge (KK 1506) are referenced as Churchill and Westlake Ref No 116 in yellow brass. In photographs of King Edward’s Horse dating from 1910 like Figure 316 senior NCOs in Full Dress wore first pattern King Edward's Horse headdress badges (and as senior NCOs arm badges) with original King's Colonials Squadron collar badges reflecting their pride in their Dominion heritage and service with the former King's Colonials. The King Edward's Horse collar badges are only being worn by the Quarter Master Serjeant Major on the far left and these look to be yellow brass.

Figure 316:  'B' Squadron (British American) senior NCOs in walking out order (Full Dress) circa 1911 (Courtesy David Knight).

Two different examples of the Other Ranks first pattern headdress badge and matching collar badge/s are shown in Figures 317 and 318. The headdress badges are die-struck with north-south or east-west loops. To date, I have not come across a version of the first pattern headdress badge (KK 1506) with a slider fitting.

Figure 317: A genuine first pattern King Edward’s Horse Officer’s headdress badge (KK 1506) in yellow brass with east-west loops and matching pair of non-voided first pattern collar badges in gilding metal circa 1910-16. 

Figure 318: A genuine first pattern King Edward’s Horse Officer’s headdress badge (KK 1506) in yellow brass with north-south loops and a single example of a voided first pattern collar badge in gilding metal circa 1910-16.  

The King Edward’s Horse second pattern headdress badge has been extensively copied.  Copies were first noted by Laurence Archer in the 1970's and are referenced by Kipling and King. Thankfully the copies are relatively easy to distinguish from an original badge. The most commonly encountered copy is a die-struck badge in white metal with a slider or loops as shown in Figure 322.

Figure 322: A copy of a King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks’ headdress badge in die-struck white metal with a rounded King’s Crown (KK 1508), variant Ausumus spelling and east-west lugs.  

The Australian War Memorial has a copy of the King Edward’s Horse headdress badge (KK 1507) i n its online collection which is in die-struck, white metal with a slider marked JR. GAUNT.LONDON in a large font. An example of a Gaunt marked copy of the KEH badge is shown in Figure 323. Frederick Wilkinson in his book 'Cavalry and Yeomanry Badges of the British Army 1914' (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1973) shows both a gilding metal (Ref No 2350 and white metal version (Ref No 236). The white metal version is a copy.

Figure 323: A copy of a King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks’ headdress badge in die-struck white metal with a rounded King’s Crown (KK 1508), variant Ausumus spelling and Gaunt marked slider.  

Other copies of this badge can be found in die-struck, gilding metal and either lacking the voids around the central shield and within the Crown. On some gilding metal copies the voids in and around the crown look as if they have been drilled as they are circular holes rather than the irregular shaped voids on original badges.

There is evidence from the diaries of King Edward’s Horse members that at least some of the Regiment continued to wear their old King’s Colonials Squadron headdress and collar badges through into the Great War. Lieutenant Allan Wettenhall Lade writes in a letter to his mother on the 13th December 1914, ‘I have just bought one of my own a very smart affair riding breeches and now have collar badges of Australian birth…the Kangaroo. Every man in our troop has the distinctive badge of his Colony – India an Elephant, Africa an Ostrich, Canada a beaver and so on.’ Corporal Brian (Frederick) Wade, King Edward’s Horse writes: ‘For some time I have been trying to obtain a cap-badge to complete the set, and tonight I am posting to you a set of three; cap, collar and shoulder badges (Brian Wade. Peace, War & Afterwards (1914-1919). Halifax: Sentinel Projects, 1996). The largest is worn on the front of the cap, the smallest on the collar-lapel, and the numerals on the shoulder- badge mean “King Edward’s Horse = “Kings Overseas Dominions Regiment”. The collar badges are, I think, the most interesting, the ostrich with a background of ‘koppies’ and mountains backed by the sun which is so typically South Africa.’  

The photograph in Figure 340 of Trooper Godfrey John Buckland, King Edward’s Horse shows the ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) kangaroo collar badges being worn with a King Edward’s Horse headdress badge. The ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) collar badges are also shown on the King Edward’s Horse tunic in Figure 143. The original King’s Colonials Squadron collar badges were still favoured by some members of King Edward’s Horse up until at least 1915.

Figure 340: Photograph of Private Godfrey John Buckland (Regimental number 583) of King Edward’s Horse in Service Dress uniform circa 1914 with 1903-pattern, Mounted Infantry leather 50 round .303 bandolier and King Edward’s Horse Regimental headdress badge and ‘C’ Squadron (Australian) collar badges (Peter Nemaric collection).

Officer's wore the third pattern circlet headdress badge with either the circlet pattern collar badges or with earlier first or second pattern collar badges as in the photograph of Lieutenant Colonel James shown in Figure 341.

Figure 341: Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James DSO wearing a King Edward’s Horse (KK 1509) Officer's circlet headdress badge with first or second pattern collar badges (Lieutenant Colonel Lionel James The History of King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). London: Sifton, Praed & Co, 1921).

Collar badges were generally not worn by Other Ranks of the King Edward’s Horse from 1915 onwards (Figure 342).

Figure 342: Sergeant G. H. Tiplady (seated centre of the second row) and his Troop of ‘A’ Squadron of King Edward’s Horse at Canterbury in August 1914 without collar badges (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Comrades Association Annual Bulletin. Number 20: 13, 1953). 

The senior NCOs of the King Edward's Horse continued the practice of the senior NCOs of the King's Colonials in wearing the Regimental badge also as an arm badge above their rank chevrons. Figure 346 is an image of the King Edward’s Horse tunic (originally shown in Figures 142-143) of Sergeant with an arm badge about the rank chevrons and below the trade badge (harness maker on this tunic) of the right sleeve. The arm badge is in the same style as the ‘spikey’ Saxon Crown headdress badge (KK 1506) (Figures 310-312) and it would follow that arm badges may also be found of the pattern of the later King’s Crown headdress badge (KK 1507). The senior NCO arm badges would have had been modified from a slider to loops so that the badge was retained on the upper arm of the tunic.

Figure 346: Close-up photograph of the upper right arm of the Undress uniform tunic of a Sergeant of the King Edward’s Horse (from Figures 136-137) circa 1914. A khaki trade proficiency badge for a harness maker is worn uppermost on the right sleeve above the gilding metal King Edward’s Horse Regimental badge (KK 1506) and above the gold on khaki backing cloth rank chevrons (Peter Nemaric collection).

Figures 347: A group photograph (with wrinkles from a covering that was coated onto the original photograph) of King Edward's Horse serjeants in 1911 (Courtesy of David Knight). The KEH headdress badge is being worn above the chevrons. 

Officers and Other Ranks of the King Edward’s Horse wore a distinctive two-tier shoulder title in gilding metal bearing KEH over KODR for King Edward’s Horse - King’s Own Dominion Regiment (Westlake Ref No 204). The shoulder titles were worn on the Full and Undress tunics on the shoulder chains (Figure 347) or directly on the Service Dress tunic (Figure 348).

Figure 348: A shoulder title of the King Edward’s Horse in gilding metal on shoulder chains of the Undress tunic (Figures 142-143) circa 1914 (Peter Nemaric collection). 

The tunic large-sized breast (25mm), medium-sized cuff (19mm) and small cap (17mm) buttons of King Edward’s Horse all depict a King’s Crown surmounting the letters KEH as shown in Figure 352.

Figure 352: A selection of King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks Full Dress brass tunic breast and cuff buttons (Ripley Ref No 420) and an Officer's gilt cap button. Makers marks are Hobson & Son, London; Firmin & Sons, London and JR Gaunt & Sons, London. 

The cuff button is referenced as Ripley Ref No 420 as King Edward’s Horse (The King’s Overseas Dominion Regiment) 1910-24 with a similar depiction in Ripley and Darmanin Ref No 141 who note gilt for Officers and brass for Other Ranks.

The buttons shown in Figure 352 have sealed backs with either fixed or floating shanks. The button back marks for King Edward's Horse identified to date are Hobson & Son, London; JR Gaunt & Sons, London; Firmin & Sons, London and Jennens & Co, London. Some King Edward's Horse buttons are unmarked. A KEH 19mm cuff button has been noted which has as a back mark of a laurel wreath surmounted by Queen Victoria's crown see Figure 352a.

A simple version of a sweetheart badge is shown in Figure 353 which is a King Edward’s Horse brass button made by Hobson and Son of London which has the shank replaced by a brooch fitting.

Figure 353: A King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks Full Dress tunic button in brass converted with a brooch fitting to a sweetheart badge. 

To date only a single example of KEH trench art has been identified. Like many pieces of theatre produced trench art this is an 18 pounder shell case with an etched KEH badge, King Edward' Horse 1914-1918 and battle honours of ARRAS, CAMBRAI and VALENCIENNES. It was sold at auction in the UK in 2023 and is shown in the centre of Figure 357a.

The headdress badge was in bronze for Officers and in gilding metal for Other Ranks. An example of Officers' headdress badge and matching pair of non-voided collar badges is shown in Figure 359. These bronzed badges were worn with the Officers Service Dress uniform.

Figure 359: A 2nd King Edward's Horse Officer’s headdress badge and pair of non-voided collar badges all in bronze. The headdress badge is die-cast with east-west blades and the collar badges are also die cast with east-west copper loops circa 1915-1917. One of the collar badges looks to have been polished and is lighter bronze tone than the other principally because it is a gilded metal badge which has only had its front surface bronzed rather than the badge being cast in bronze as is the other collar badge and the headdress badge. It is apparent that the practice in the field later in the war to polish OSD collar badges back to the base gilded metal finish. 

Figure 360 shows an additional Officer's headdress badge with a single voided collar badge all in bronze. This example of the headdress badge is again die cast but has loops rather than blades. The die cast collar badge has east-west loops and there are examples fitted with coffin shaped lugs as shown in Figure 361.

Figure 360: A 2nd King Edward's Horse Officer’s headdress badge and a voided collar badges all in bronze.

Figure 361: A pair of Officer’s voided collar badge of 2nd King Edward’s Horse in die cast bronze with hexagonal loops circa 1915-1917 (With permission The Irish Grenadier).

The 2nd King Edward’s Horse Officers and Other Ranks wore a distinctive gilding metal shoulder title of 2 over KEH (Westlake Ref No 205) which is shown being worn on the Service Dress tunic in Figure 370 and on a shoulder chain in Figure 372. A pair of 2KEH shoulder titles are shown in Figure 371.  

Figure 370: An unknown Private of 2nd King Edward’s Horse wearing a voided headdress badge and 2KEH shoulder titles (Westlake Ref No 205) on his shoulder chains circa 1915-17.  

Figure 371: A pair of 2nd KEH shoulder titles (Westlake Ref No 205) in gilding metal with rounded loops circa 1915-17.  

Figure 372: A 2nd KEH shoulder title (Westlake Ref No 205) shown as worn on a shoulder chain.  

The 2nd King Edward's Horse buttons were in gilt for Officers and brass for Other Ranks (Figure 376) with a simple design of 2 over KEH (Ripley and Darmanin Ref No 142). They have sealed backs and fixed shanks. Ripley and Darmanin only note a brass button and do not differentiate between Officers and Other Ranks. The buttons are in two sizes, 25mm for the breast of the tunic and 17mm for the cuff.

The buttons of the 2nd King Edward's Horse have been noted with back marks for Armfield & Co, Birmingham and Firmin, London. There are also examples with a back mark pattern which is often referred to as the 'Hammer' or 'Hammer-key' see Figure 377. There is no definite answer as to which manufacturer used this pattern and why they didn't use their own name. One thought was that they were cheaper/lower quality than the buttons usually produced and the manufacturers didn't want their name associated with the cheap/low quality buttons. It could be a Firmin produced button as they seemed to use the same button dies (information courtesy of Ian Baker).

Figure 376: Front and back of a pair of 2nd King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks brass tunic buttons (Ripley and Darmanin Ref No 142). 

Figure 377: The back of a 2nd King Edward’s Horse Other Ranks brass tunic button with 'hammer -key' pattern. 

The King Edward’s Horse Old Comrades Association held their first annual reunion in 1919 and these continued until the last in 1972.  Branch gatherings were also held in Argentina, South Africa and Australia.

A King Edward’s Horse Old Comrades (Senior and Junior) Annual Bulletin was first produced in 1933. The Annual Bulletin contained a member’s contact list and ran until Bulletin 39 in 1972.

The first Reunion dinner of the King Edward’s Horse was held on the 1st August 1919 at the Holborn Restaurant in London and the menu card (shown on the following page) is signed by several of the attendees including Colonel Lionel James CB DSO and Major Sir Ralph D. Furse KCMG DSO and Bar.

The accompanying photograph is of a King Edward's Horse regimental tie worn for occasions like the reunion dinners.  

Selections of King’s Colonials and King Edwards Horse uniforms, badges and mementos were originally on display at the National Army Museum which opened in Sandhurst in 1960. Among the items on display were a King Edward’s Horse Sergeant’s tunic and a King Edward’s Horse Recruiting Poster. Noted as being in storage was an Officer’s Mess Dress uniform, sundry items of uniform and a case of Regimental badges mainly of the King’s Colonials period that had been presented in memory of F. G. Corbett.

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum in London had on display a King's Colonials headdress badge, shoulder titles and two buttons in its Badge Room.

Today there is no permanent display of King’s Colonials, King Edward’s Horse and 2nd King Edward’s Horse uniforms or badges at either the National Army Museum or the Imperial War Museum. The collections of both museums list and detail a number of King’s Colonials, King Edward’s Horse and 2nd King Edward’s Horse items but the images are not available on-line. The majority of these items are photographs, uniforms, badges and some correspondence and these are tabulated below:


The majority of the badges tabulated above are noted within this website. The R. C. Whittock collection of King's Colonials badges are held by the National Army Museum (see Figure 173 under Badge Manufacture). I would be delighted to hear from anyone if they get an opportunity to visit and obtain clear photographs of any of these items which they could do by arranging to see these objects in advance.

The Australian War Museum lists a single King Edward’s Horse headdress badge in its collection but it is not available to view on-line. The badge is actually a copy with a Gaunt makers mark on the slider.

Figure 385: A photograph of a three foot long brass and timber plaque of the King Edward's Horse that was thought to have hung in the barracks of the Liverpool Troop in Aigburth, Liverpool. It was purchased by Chris Owen, a member of the Great War Forum about 20 years ago from a pawn brokers shop in North Wales where it had sat on the wall for 30 years.

Regimental Silver

The Regimental silver of the King’s Colonials and later King Edward’s Horse was donated for custodial safe-keeping and display on special occasions to the Haileybury and Imperial Service College in the UK.

The items held are:

• King’s Colonials Bowl
• Challenge Cup for Posts and Heads
• Cup presented to the Asian Squadron by Colonel H. Fortescue
• Hotchkiss Rifle Competition Cup
• Reconnaissance Challenge Cup
• Musketry Field Firing Challenge Cup
• Table Candelabrum
• Cape Town Challenge Cup
• Officer’s Mess Cup – Wrestling on Horseback.

The school has in its safe-keeping the Dewar Shield and the Australia Shield again competed for by the Squadrons of the King's Colonial/King Edwards Horse. There is also a large painted wood representation of the King Edward’s Horse headdress is on display in the School and is shown in Figure 460.

Figure 386: A large painted wood representation of the King Edward’s Horse headdress badge at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College (Darren O’Brien collection). 

2nd King Edward's Horse Memorial Plaque

There is a 1990 photograph taken by Colin Mctyre of a memorial plaque (Figure 387) to the 2nd King Edward's Horse that was on the wall at the New Zealand High Commission in Haymarket, London. In subsequent renovations to the building the plaque was lost.

Figure 387: A 2nd KEH Memorial Plaque

Australian who served in the King's Colonials (KC) and/or King Edward's Horse (KEH) or 2nd King Edward's Horse (2KEH)

Unless indicated with 2KEH the individual served in KC/KEH.

Image of an unknown Australian serving in the Australian Squadron, King's Colonials (dates to 1903-10 from Squadron headdress badge) photograph courtesy of the Upway Museum, Victoria (with thanks to the late Phil Garland). 

ABBOTT, Bertie. 1517. Private. Born in New South Wales, Australia in 1895. Discharged to the Reserve 18/06/1919. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Lived in Bauple, Queensland post-War.

ALLEN, Albert E. 1373. Private. Transferred to the Reserve 27/06/1919. Noted in Old Comrades Bulletin No 1. as living in Adelaide, Australia.

ANTHONY, A. L. 2055. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France Nov 1915. Served with KEH pre-war possibly whilst at university in England. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps and applied for 1914/15 Star trio named to RAMC from Ashanti, West Africa. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having been Australian and had served with KEH.

ARCHIBALD, William Rae. 1064. Private. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Discharged 18/06/1919. Born in 1887 in Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia the son of Barbara Rae and John Archibald. He married Nellie Elizabeth (Nell) Barrington in 1938 in Victoria. He took up a Soldier's Settlement of 370 acres of land at Pomonal, Victoria which was sold on in 1940. He died in 1958. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal.

BENNETT, Walter. Private. No records identified.

BERCOVITZ, Solomon. 1104. Private KEH. Entered France 15/09/1915. Taken Prisoner of War at Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Interred Dulmen Camp, Westphalia, Germany. Repatriated 29/11/1918. Discharged 22/06/1919. From Perth, West Australia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BLACK, J. G. Private. No records identified.

BOILEAU, Gilbert Elliot. 1075. Corporal. Entered France 14/09/1915. Severely injured his leg 13/11/1918 and discharged 25/06/1919 due to the injury. Prior service in the Boer War with the Border Horse as Corporal 1473 and awarded Queen's South Africa (QSA) medal with Transvaal clasp. Born in 26/12/1875 in Mt Moriac, near Geelong, Victoria the son of Edmund William Pollen Boileau and Bridget Mary Walsh. Brother John Peter Boileau born 29/03/1876 in Mitiamo, Victoria also served with the Border Horse as a Trooper 1474 (John Pollen Boileau on QSA medal roll with Pollen being a middle name of his father) and awarded Queen's South Africa medal with Transvaal clasp. The brothers obviously enlisted together given their service numbers are consecutive. Gilbert died in 1952 in Cheltenham, Victoria and his brother John died in 1951.

BOWKER, John (Jack) Ryther Steer. 8. Private. Entered France 27/07/1915. Discharged 14/12/1918. Born 29/07/1888 in Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia to Florence Mary Marks and Dr Robert Steer Bowker (surgeon). He was educated at Barker College, Sydney 1902-06 and then studied medicine like his father at Middlesex Hospital, England in 1909. He married (unofficially) Elsie Emily Boyten in 1915 in England whom he met when he was boarding with her grandmother's family when he was in England studying to become a doctor. They had a daughter Beryl S. Bowker Boyten born in 1919. After living in Middlesex he then moved to Sydney without his family. He died on the 29/06/1944 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. Biography courtesy of Robin Hyland. Full length portrait photograph of a postcard sent to Elsie in 1915 courtesy of Robin Hyland under Nominal Roll entry and another photograph of him on enlistment in 1914 is shown in Figure 307.

BROOKER, Harry Hill. 1162. Private. Entered France Jun 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers 26/06/1917. Later Lieutenant. From Wilkawatt, South Australia.

BROOKMAN, Charles J. 498. Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant. Served pre-war KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Was with 'B' Squadron up until 1916 and then 'A' Squadron and then back to 'B' Squadron in 1918. Discharged 7/03/1919. Mentioned in Despatches as Serjeant. Born in Australia and lived in England post-war.

BUCKLAND, Godfrey John. 583. Private. Born in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia on the 30/01/1893 and enlisted on 26/08/1914 in England. He was killed in action by a German rifle grenade on 7/08/1915 after seeing action at Ploegsteert Wood in July 1915. Buried in the RIFLE HOUSE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Portrait photograph shown in Nominal Roll (courtesy of Peter Nemaric). Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.  

BUCKNELL, William Wentworth. 537.  Private. Enlisted when at Cambridge University. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery Jan 1915. Promoted to Lieutenant. KIA 10/08/1917 'A' Battery 103rd Brigade from shellfire. Mentioned in Despatches. Born in Lewisham, Sydney, Australia in 1891. The son of Mr and Mrs William Wentworth Bucknell, Quambone Station, Coonamble, New South Wales. Portrait photograph of him pre-war under Nominal Roll entry. 

BULL, George. 1603. Private KEH. Discharged 9/05/1919. Served in same Troop as Lieutenant Francis 529. Australian. Married in 1936. Friend of Private Reginald (Bill) Wilson 456 and corresponded in 1957 whilst living on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Entitled to British Medal and Victory Medals.

BULTEAU, Victor Horace. 1879. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private,12/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 39988. Born 21/04/1892 in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales and died 16/08/1978 in War Veterans Home, Narrabeen, New South Wales, Australia. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BUTLER, Geoffrey Travers. Private KEH. Entered France 8/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 48th Field Artillery Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Later Captain. Served in Volunteer Defence Corps WW2 as a Captain in 2nd Tasmanian Battalion. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on 15/03/1890 the son of Charles William Butler and Beatrice (nee Travers). He married firstly Constance Lee and secondly Beatrice Gore Jones (nee Jones). He had one daughter Janet to his first marriage. When he returned to Tasmania he became a farmer at several places including Bagdad and Rowella. Claimed his 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal from an address in Sandy, Bay, Hobart, Tasmania. He died 6/03/1962. Extensive series of his letters in the Tasmanian Library Archives.

CAMERON, Donald Keith. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant KEH 4/09/1914. Attached to Machine Gun Service 7-29/05/1915. Temporary Captain 26/07/1915. Entered France 15/01/1917. Transport Officer and Quarter Master 17/03/1917 - 17/11/1917.  Attached to the Honourable Artillery Company 9/04/1918. Transferred to the Cameron Highlanders (Special Reserve) 23/04/1918 then 1st Battalion 17/06/1918 as Acting Captain. Staff Captain 4/01/1919 - 12/01/1920 as General Staff Officer at Army Headquarters in Germany. Captain 11/05/1920. Mentioned in Despatches 28/05/1918 for service in Italy. Born 1/05/1888 in Chudleigh, Tasmania the son of Donald Norman Cameron and Anne Lillias Scott and returned in 1931. In 1934 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Wilmot, holding his seat until his defeat in 1937. He died In Nunawading, Victoria on 6/06/1967.  Photograph on kingedwardshorse.net and as a Lieutenant in 1915 see Figure 19.

CHENERY, Harold. 1608. Private 2KEH. Died of a self-inflicted wound 3/11/1917 aged 24 at Moore Park Camp, Kilworth, County Cork, Ireland whilst attached to the 7th Officer Cadet Battalion. Correspondence from his Australian family to the Army regarding his place of burial indicate that his death by discharge of his rifle to his head was regarded as an accident. Harold was the son of Charles and Alice Chenery of the The Cedars, 24 Hillside Crescent, Launceston, Tasmania. He was born at Shoreham, Sussex and is buried in the KINGSTON-UPON THAMES CEMETERY, Surrey, UK with his body being repatriated for burial in Surrey by his relatives. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.  

CHURCHOUSE, Reginald Rufus. 995. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 22/02/1918. Born in Aston, Warwickshire, England in Oct 1892, emigrated to Australia 1911 and worked in Queensland and returned post-war to Sydney. He married Laura Ballard in 1920 in Queensland and was married again this time to Josephine Isaacson in 1941 in Sydney and died there on 8/01/1957. Shown in a group photograph taken at Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33.

CLAREY, John Charles Lee. 1788. Prior service in the British East Africa campaign potentially as a Private in the Northumberland Fusiliers 40115. Private 2KEH and transferred as a Private to the 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302868. Died of Wounds 1/04/1918 aged 24. Born in Bairnsdale, East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia the son of John King Clarey and Emma Beatrice Clarey of Fernbrook, Western Australia. Buried in Roclincourt Military Cemetery, Roclincourt, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France. Photograph of gravestone available online.

COOKE, Ewin Edgar. 1580 Private. On 12 April 1918 Ewing sustained a gunshot wound to his leg and elbow in the Defence of Vieille Chapelle. He was admitted to 24th General Hospital, Etaples, France. Discharged from KEH 13/02/1919. Born on 22/01/1892 in Bexhill, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia the son of Samuel Robert Cooke and Isabella King. Married Dorothy Francis Hunter 31/03/1925 and they had one daughter Lorna Jean Cooke. Ran a champion dairy cattle stud at Bexhill, Lismore, New South Wales and died there on 4/01/1972.

CORLETTE, Hubert Christian. The Honourable. Second Lieutenant 1902. Commanded 3rd Troop (Australian) 'A' Squadron (British Asian) King's Colonials as Lieutenant 1/02/1903. Major in command of the Reserve Squadron KEH 11/06/1914. Placed on half pay 5/06/1915 and transferred as Temporary Major Royal Field Artillery, East Anglia Brigade 14/11/1915. He served as a Staff Officer in the RFA until the end of the war. He was born on 26/06/1869 in Concord, New South Wales, Australia the son of Reverend James Christian Corlette and Frances Edith (nee Manning) Corlette and educated at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney University, London University and the Slade School. He married Florence Gwynnedd Davies Berrington on 7/10/1903 in Llanfair Kilgeddin, Monmouthshire and worked as an architect and was awarded an Order of the British Empire. They had three children during their marriage. He died on 23/04/1956 in Hendon, Middlesex, at the age of 86. Brother was Brigadier General James Montagu Christian Corlette AIF awarded CMG DSO. Photograph of Major H. C. Corlette see Figure 4 and portrait photograph as a Major in 1917 wearing his KEH headdress badge shown under Nominal Roll entry courtesy of the Norfolk Museums Collection.

CRAMPTON, Vivian Moore. 1896. Private 2KEH. Entered German West Africa 20/10/1914 as Private 82 in the Rhodesia Regiment then transferred to 2KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion attached to 2/4th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment attached to 496th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Born 1/05/1890 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and died 5 /05/1957 in South Africa. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Durban, South Africa and not entitled to 1914 Star.

CRESWICK, Harry Forbes. Captain. 'A & B' Squadrons. Born in Brighton, Victoria, Australia on 24/01/1886. Arrived in England Aug 1906 and was a Second Lieutenant in the KEH in 1907 then Lieutenant in 1910. Commissioned Lieutenant 11/06/1914 (London Gazette 7/09/1914) later Captain. Married Alice Reid in 1910. Major attached to Australian Light Horse in 1935. Killed in a motor vehicle accident 17/08/1935 in Melbourne, Australia where he lived in Toorak. Captain in 1915 see Figure 19.

CROWLEY, John Nicholas. 1425. Corporal. Born 6/05/1894 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Enlisted KEH 17/01/1916 and arrived in France 12/09/1916. Posted to the Reserve 21/02/1919. WW2 Corporal DROEC 15/01/1941-30/07/1941. Died April 1950 in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Five family members served in WW1 of whom three (father, his brother and one of the three sons were KIA/DOW). See Nominal Roll entry for a portrait photograph from a montage entitled 'Fighting for the Flag, circa 1916' courtesy of the Australia War Memorial.

CUNINGHAME, Charles Lennox. Second Lieutenant 9th Cavalry Reserve, KEH, Lieutenant 3rd Hussars, Captain Reserve Regiment of Cavalry. Applied for medals from an address in East Africa. Awarded 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Born in 1877 in Australia and died 8/04/1931 in Bayonne, France.

DAVIDSON, Douglas. 640. Private. 'B' Squadron. KIA 09/04/18 at Defence of Vieille Chapelle aged 34. Killed with Lieutenant Pinckney when trying to break through the German troops who had enveloped the bridge head at Vieille Chapelle. One of three sons of George D. and Emma Davidson, of "Geraldra", Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. Name commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Portrait photograph shown in Nominal Roll entry. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.  

DAWSON, Oswald Charles. 1106. Corporal. Enlisted after arriving in England 22/05/1915. Entered France 2/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers attached Royal Flying Corps 3/11/1916. Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross 8/02/1919 when acting as Observer supporting the Desert Mounted Corps 19-26/09/1918 attached to 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Brother of Private Robert Dyer Dawson 1526 who also served in the KEH. Born Bombala, New South Wales, Australia on 1/01/1887 the son of Robert Weston Dawson and Eleanor Mary Bowler. Married Kathleen Elsie Fedden in Fiji on 17/03/1920. He died on 1/05/1974.

DAWSON, Overend William James. 1668. Private. KIA 27/10/17. Buried in BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Born 11/11/1881 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia the son of Robert Potter and Louisa Potter and grew up in Lancashire, England. Not related to the Dawson brothers, above and below. Photograph of gravestone shown under Nominal Roll entry.

DAWSON, Robert Dyer. 1526. Corporal. Discharged 22/06/1919. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Brother of Corporal Oswald Charles Dawson 1106 who also served with KEH. Born in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia on 5/07/1884 and died in 5/03/1955 in Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia.

DEARLOVE, John George. 1017. Corporal. Enlisted 23/03/1915 and entered France 2/10/1915. Wounded at Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and awarded Silver War Badge 458230. Discharged 6/01/1919. Possibly born in Kooringa, South Australia on 23/11/1896 and died in Broken Hill in 1938.

DEVINE, Edward Feron. 1128. Discharged 14/04/1919. Born in South Shields in 1893 and went to South Shields Marine School. Then at 15 was serving on the merchant vessel Pythomene. He followed his elder brother, also a mariner, to Australia in about 1905 and both settled in Sydney, followed by his wife and her mother in 1911. His brother Charles Lawford Devine volunteered for the Royal Naval Reserve and as a Lieutenant Commander on the monitor HMS M-28 was killed on 20/01/1918 aged 30 by a direct hit from the battlecruiser Goeben when it and the light cruiser Breslau sought to escape from the Dardanelles. Charles and Edward were the sons of Charles Feron Divine and Ellen R. L. Divine of 'Primera', Ryde Road, Hunters Hill, New South Wales; Australia. Charles was the husband of Joan Divine, of Buckfastleigh, Devon, England and is commemorated on a Memorial at the Lancashire Landing Cemetery. Edward died on 26/10/1937 when 5 days earlier he fell into the hold of the postal ship Olympia in Sydney Harbour. His wife never got over it. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Photograph of Edward in maritime uniform circa 1908 and biographical information courtesy of Giles F. Russell, descendant.

DIGHT, Alfred. 474. Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Lieutenant Wiltshire Yeomanry 6/09/1916. Born 31/10/1877 from New South Wales, Australia, married Mary H. Rose on 22/01/1913 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and died in 1941 in Paddington, London, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and applied for his medals from an address in Rawlings Street, Chelsea, London.

DRYSDALE, Cluny Leslie. 1206. Private. 'B' Squadron. Injured in railway accident 13/03/1918. Discharged 15/03/1919. Born Armadale, Victoria, Australia 1895 the son of George Russell Drysdale and Mary Drysdale Russell and died in Herbert, Queensland 4/07/1931.

DUNSTAN, John Llewellyn. Private. Served pre-WW1 KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Artillery and served in WW2 as a Private 31 with the Australian Garrison Battalion 1941-1944.

DUUS, William Hanson. 892. Lance Corporal. Enlisted in London. Born in Chewton, Victoria, Australia and KIA 23/05/1915 aged 31 at the Battle of Festubert. Name commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France. 

EASTICK, Arthur George. 49. Serjeant. Serjeant. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 8/03/1911 from Melbourne, Australia aged 22 having been a British citizen. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 7/03/1916. Chemist by trade. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. Brother of Private Arthur George Eastick, 379 and Serjeant John Clare Newland Eastick.

EASTICK, Arthur George. 379. Private. Enlisted 8/03/1911 aged 19. Chemist by trade with his Father's John Joseph Eastick & Sons business. Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia and service with the Armadale School Cadet Corps. British citizen and resided in Clapham Common, London at enlistment. Died 24/04/1922 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Brother of Private Arthur Gerald Eastick, 49 and Serjeant John Clare Newland Eastick.

EASTICK, John Clare Newland. 51. Serjeant. Went to France with 1st Troop, 'B' Squadron as a Serjeant 22/4/15 and was commissioned on 14/09/ 1915 as a Lieutenant KEH after Officer training and instructed on Anti-Gas and Poisonous Gas being a chemist by trade. Lieutenant in a caption of a photograph of him taken at Longford in 1915. His promotion to Captain 14/5/19 published in the London Gazette. He was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England on 4/03/1889 and emigrated with his family to Australia in 1890 returning to England in 1906. He died in London in 1971. Medal address 137 Upper Clapton Road, London on MIC. Brother of Private Arthur Gerald Eastick, 49 and Private Arthur George Eastick, 379. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio. Serjeant on British War Medal which was sold with his sweetheart badge on an electronic auction site in 2019. He sent the postcard shown in Figures 17 and 18.

ELLIOTT, G. M. Private. Australian died 4/03/1957 noted in Old Comrades Bulletin.

EVANS, Rupert. Private. Not on Medal Rolls but Rupert could have been a nickname for Private Gerard Evans 1183.

FEARNLEY, William George. 1503. Private. Died of Wounds 26/08/1917 aged 25. Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Fearnley of 31 St. James St., Leeds. Born in Norwich, Norfolk, England in 1892. Returned from Australia in 1915 to enlist. Buried in Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium. Brother of Private Ernest Walter Fearnley, 1504 KIA 31/07/1917. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.  

FIELDING, Morris Glanville. 201. Corporal. 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron KEH 1915. Joined the Oxford University Troop of KEH 2/01/1912. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 5/05/1916, Captain from Jan 1917 in the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Wounded three times and awarded the Military Cross 13/11/1916 for gallantry at Beaumont Hamel. Born in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia on 30/06/1892 and after being ordained he worked as Curate then Rector in Sydney before his death there on 27/11/1972. Taken from an excellent article on Captain Fielding MC by Peter Nemaric published in the 'Sabretache' XXXVII: 34-36, 1996 with several photographs of him.

FITZ-HERBERT, John Aloysius. 326. Private KEH. Born in Launceston, Tasmania on 19/05/1892. Enlisted in KEH in 1913 whilst at Trinity College, Cambridge and originally attended Sydney University. Arrived in France 22/04/1915 with 'C' Squadron. Commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery 20/10/1915 and absorbed into Anti-Aircraft Section, Royal Artillery 7/06/1916. Lieutenant 1/07/1917. Seconded to Royal Flying Corps 31/08/1917. Observor with 15 Squadron RAF 1/04/1018 and wounded 2/05/1918 in aeroplane crash near Amiens. Returned to England 3/06/1918 and transferred to Royal Garrison Artillery 3/06/1918. Awarded Military Cross 1917 and Mentioned in Despatches. Became a Professor at Adelaide University from 1928 and died in South Australia 15/04/1970. Commemorated on Sydney University Roll.

FRANCIS, Ernest (Jim) William. 529. Private. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 14/09/1915. Lieutenant KEH. Same Troop as Private George Bull. Born 6/02/1891 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. Ran a riding school at Cranbourne, Victoria. Two sons one of whom was killed in WW2. Served in the Citizen Military Forces in WW2. Died 21/09/1960 in Moorooduc, Victoria.

FRASER, John Neville (known as Neville). Private. Enlisted KEH 24/08/1914. Entered France 24/08/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery attached to 'D' Battery, 105th Brigade, 23rd Division. Promoted to Lieutenant in Jan 1916. Wounded 25/08/1917. Promoted to Captain in 1918. Returned to Victoria, Australia on 24/12/1918. Born the son of the Honourable Simon Fraser, Senator for Victoria on 6/08/1890 in Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, before going up to Trinity College, Melbourne. From there he studied in England at Magdalen College, Oxford and became a first class cricketer. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force in WW2 and he died in the Sydney suburb of Lindfield in January 1962. His son Malcolm would serve as the Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.

FULLER, Charles S. Lieutenant. Corporal. 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment 24/10/1916. Second Lieutenant 1st Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Awarded Military Cross.  KIA 11/11/1917 while on an offensive patrol  when the wings of Nieuport Scout aircraft B6798 folded and collapsed during a dive on Dickebusch Lake, the aircraft crashed and he was drowned. Born 21/12/1887 in Hobart, Tasmania the son of Sidney Holgate Fuller and Emma Davis. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France. Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll.

GARDINER, Jack D. G. (Puss). 1323. Private. Australian transferred to reserve 17/06/19. Likely to have been born in 1885 (David Jack Gardiner) and married on 16/11/1929 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to Jessie Hedwig Eustazia de Kierski. Died in Sydney 1/06/1951. Photograph see Figure 31.

GREEN, Roland. Private. Australian. No records identified beyond note in Old Comrades Association bulletin.

GREGORY, Warwick E. C. Private. Living in Sydney in 1950. No records identified beyond note in Old Comrades Association bulletin.

HADDIN, John Stanley (Jack). 1224. Sergeant. Born in Albion Park, New South Wales, Australia on 10/07/1894 the son of James Fleming Haddin and Sophie Mary King. Discharged 4/11/1919. Married Stella Hilditch Mayne on 28/02/1921 at Tamworth, New South Wales. Died in St. Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales in 1967. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Shown in photograph of Australians in the 4th Troop of the Reserve Squadron at the Curragh in 1915 (Figure 28).

HAGGER, Robert Lawrence. Private. King's Colonials for a year and 68 days prior to 1910. Enlisted in Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) 27/02/1917 as Private 18111 in the Army Medical Corps and was discharged 21/10/1919. Next of kin on AIF enlistment papers given as his wife Leonora G. Matilda Young who lived in Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia having emigrated in 1910. Born in March 1885 in Royston, Cambridgeshire, England and died in Sydney in 1978.

HAM, Frank Livingstone. Second Lieutenant.  Commissioned 22/07/1915. Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Vctoria, Australia on 25/05/1878 the son of The Honourable Cornelius Job Ham and Hattie White Latham. Attended Geelong Grammar School and death reported in 'The Corian' School magazine May 1916. Died suddenly in service 13/02/16 of acute laryngitis reported dead in his quarters by Lieutenant Alan W. Lade. Full military funeral. Buried in CURRAGH MILITARY CEMETERY, IRELAND. Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll.

HARRIS, Hubert Lacell. 133. Private KEH. Acting Company Serjeant Major Royal Engineers. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers 29/05/1917. Royal Field Artillery. Lieutenant . He was born at Leichardt, Sydney in 1866 and educated at James-street School and Perth Technical. He was married to Marjorie Arrow, daughter of Lena and the late James Arrow, on the 27/03/1915. He was mobilised with the KEH in England in August, 1914, and proceeded to France as a Private on the 21/04/1915. In December, 1916, he returned to England and went through a Cadet School, and was later posted to No. 17 Officer Cadet Battalion, and three months later was gazetted to the Northumberland Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant. From the 4/10/1917 until the 6/12/1917 he passed through the Army Signal School at Dunstable, obtaining Officer Instructor' s Certificate. He was then drafted to France, and posted to the 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, but on the 6/07/1918, returned to England to go through six months signal course at Hayne Park, Signal Depot, Bedford. Later he was transferred to the Royal Engineers Signal Section. He was gazetted Lieutenant on the 30/11/1918, and demobilised on the 15/02/1919. He left Newcastle-on-Tyne for Australia in May, 1919. Settled in Claremont, Western Australia and died in 1967. His brother Lieutenant Ernest William Harris born in 1889 in New South Wales was KIA on 5/5/1917 at Bullecourt, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France with the 3rd Australian Machine Gun Corps.

HARVEY, William Charles Phillips. Lieutenant. Served in pre-war KEH. Promoted from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant in 11/06/1913. Seconded to the Colonial Office 24/08/1914. Born in Newtown, New South Wales, Australia in 1881 and died in 1961 in Victoria.

HANCOCK, Albert Leslie. 1191. Private.  Commissioned 21/10/1915 as a Second Lieutenant, 1/7th London Regiment. KIA 21/05/1916. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Born in 1891 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. His father J. B. Hancock applied for medals from Warracknabeal, Wimmera, Victoria.

HAWKINS, Thomas. 1219. Private. Enlisted 11/08/1915 and wounded at Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and discharged 11/09/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge 16881. Born 31/03/1895 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Served in WW2 with the Australian Salvage Section 1941-44. Died in Brisbane on 19/06/1953. Identified in a photograph take at The Curragh in 1915 shown in Figure 28.

HELLMAN, Arthur L. 1936. Private. Served in the Australian Imperial Force as a Driver 62 in the 1st Divisional Signal Company from 17/08/1914 until discharged on medical grounds on 20/04/1916. Supported troop landings at Gallipoli and return of wounded to Mudros, did not go ashore but was shelled. Applied for Gallipoli medallion. Served with South African Expeditionary Force from 17/10/1916 until Oct/1917. Discharged in England he then joined KEH and served in France until discharged 9/05/1919. He then served with the Malay States Volunteer Regiment from 1920-32 being commissioned as a Captain in 1928. Further served in WW2 1940-43 as a Warrant Officer Class 2 NX14481 seeing action at Tobruk with 2/17th Battalion, Signal Section where he was wounded. He was born on 4/07/1892 in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and married in 1945 in Katoomba, New South Wales. He died on 11/08/1976 in Sydney.

HESP, George. Private. Born 8/02/1865 in West Heslerton, Yorkshire, England and died 29/09/1953 in Gordonvale, Queensland, Australia.

HOPE, Roland Wallace (Rowlie). 1048. Lieutenant. Enlisted 21/04/1915 and entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 10/07/1915. On 5/10/1915 went back to Hare Park Camp, The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland for further training until late in 1916. Severely wounded neck and shoulder with gunshot wounds 9/04/1918 at Defence of Vieille Chapelle and admitted 14th General Hospital, Wimereux. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1919. Born 2/01/1896 the son of George Hope and Agnes Gray nee Wallace of ‘Gnotuk’, Camperdown and died 9/11/1970. Educated at Camperdown Grammar School and Geelong College. Lived in Geelong, Victoria, Australia post-war and served as a Lieutenant Colonel 6th Battalion, Volunteer Defence Corps in WW2. Captain in photograph taken at Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33.

JEFFREY, Sidney William. 1831. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 9/11/1915. Discharged 14/09/1916. 'Came from Australia in March 1915' noted on British War Medal Roll which is his sole entitlement. Born in 1892. Applied for British War Medal from Wellington, New Zealand.

JONES, Harry. 1750. Private 2KEH. Acting Serjeant Royal Engineers WR12815, 205598. No 205598 served in Inland Water Transport section. Died in service 30/4/18 on board H.M.A.T. "Suevic" en-route to Australia of lymphadenonia. Next of Kin, Mr W. Jones, Salop Street, North Kensington, Adelaide and Mrs. J. Lawn (Aunt), Main Street, Mordialloc, Victoria. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

JONES, Robert W. 1888. Private. Discharged 14/04/1919. Did not serve in France. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Noted as being from Australia.

JONES, Wilfred. 1560. Private. Enlisted 15/06/1916. Wounded at the Battle of Paschendaele, France in 1917 with a gun shot wound to the hand, which damaged his nerves in the his hand and it became almost a claw. Discharged in Longford, Ireland on 28/08/1918 due to being classed as physically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 16880. Born 1897 in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, married Catherine Stewart in Longford, Ireland in 1917 and he died in Putney, England. Appears to have emigrated to Australia.

JUDD, William Mouatt. 1261. Private. KIA 09/04/1918 at the Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. The son of W. H. Judd from Mittagong, New South Wales. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE.

KENDALL, Harry Wilson Hume. 1374. Private KEH. 3rd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Enlisted 13/12/1915 and discharged 5/02/1918 physically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 325,147. Born on 24/01/1872 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and emigrated to England prior to marriage their in 1897. Served in the Boer War with 51st (Paget's Horse) Company, 12th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony clasp. Harry died 27/07/1936 in Brooklyn Hospital, New York, USA. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

KEYS, John Hunt. 1602. Private. 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Transferred to Rifle Brigade S/29116 Dec 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 12th Battalion Cheshire Regiment 3/08/1917. Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1881, claimed British War Medal and Victory Medal in 1920 from an address in Bengalla, New South Wales in 1920.

KIBBLE, Sydney George. 1228. Sergeant Major. Serjeant then Acting Warrant Officer Class 2. Born in Redfern, New South Wales on 19/05/1876, educated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College and was a grazier at Mt Tambourine in Queensland. He served as Private 122 in the 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry and saw service in the 2nd Boer War having enlisted on 1/01/1900 in Brisbane. He sailed to South Africa on the 13/01/1900 aboard the S.S. Maori King. He transferred to the Transvaal Mounted Police on the 19/06/1900 and returned to Australia on 3/05/1901 and was discharged 17/05/1901. He enlisted in the King Edward's Horse on the 11/08/1915 and was in 1st Section of the 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron in June 1917. Shot and wounded in the knee by a sniper at Pilkem Ridge, Passchendale on 31/07/1917 and discharged physically unfit on 6/10/1917. Awarded Silver War Badge 304,165. He died of natural causes in Battersea, London in March 1944. Photograph in the uniform of the King Edward's Horse from "The Australasian Traveller" dated 4/03/1916. Courtesy of the State Library of Queensland and biographical information from the Virtual War Memorial, Sydney https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/786363.

KING, Charles Stanley. Private 2KEH. Served with pre-war KEH from 1911 whilst a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. Entered France 10/09/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery later Lieutenant. .Awarded Military Cross as Forward Observation Officer at the Battle of Loos. Mentioned in Despatches. WIA twice with wounds received at Battle of Messines resulting in 12 month hospitalisation. Born in 1890 and educated at Hutchins School, Tasmania, Australia and died in Montagu Bay, Tasmania 26/04/1959. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

KINSMORE, Samuel Lincoln. 1122. Corporal KEH. Discharged 5/04/1919. Born 10/10/1869 in Bright, Victoria, Australia and died 10/10/1948 in Thurrock, Essex, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. His brother Edwin Kinsmore born 1871 in Bright, Victoria, Australia and KIA 8/06/1917 as Private 1489, 35th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces in West Flanders and commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

LADE, Allan Wettenhall. 710. Corporal. 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 11/08/1915 later Lieutenant. Brother of Sam Wade 711. Born 27/03/1890 in Ringarooma, Tasmania, Australia the son of the son of John Harvey Lade Snr. and Mrs Edith Maria Warde Wettenhall (nee Wilks) and died 12/07/1974 at Balnarring Beach, Victoria.

LADE, John Harvey (Sam). 711. Private. 'C' Squadron KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Warwickshire Yeomanry 14/08/1916 attached to 1/5th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment. Brother of Allan Wade 710. Died of Wounds 5/10/1917. Buried at DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

LAMB, Harold Benjamin. 22. Squadron Sergeant Major. Served pre-war KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Leutenant 22/10/1915 and Temporary Captain 24/10/1917 with the Army Service Corps Entered France Jan 1917. Awarded Territorial Forces Efficiency Medal 1/07/1913. Born Turnham Green, Middlesex, England on 3/06/1883 and died in Manly, New South Wales, Australia on 6/07/1939. Awarded British War and Victory medals as a Captain in the Army Service Corps. Territorial Forces Efficiency Medal held in a private collection in Australia.

LAVERS, H. H. 6. Lance Corporal. Awarded Coronation medal 1911 as a Private (Trooper). Became an Infantry Officer and served in France. Possibly with Royal West Kent Regiment as a Lieutenant.

LAWRENCE, Dennis Herman. 1422. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Enlisted 1/03/1915 in Hamstead and entered France 5/05/1915. Twice WIA 25/08/1915 and 29/09/1918. Transferred as Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 112024. Born on 8/06/1892 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and his father was a doctor in Collins Street, Melbourne. Dennis died in Perth, Australia. Discharged 19/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.

LEAKE, Edward (Ned) J. 1220. Serjeant 'A' Squadron. Born in Warnambool, Victoria, Australia. Brother of Leslie. Enlisted 11/08/1915 and awarded the Military Medal, French Croix de Guerre and the French Medaile Militaire as a Lance Serjeant. Posted to the Reserve 5/04/1919. Photograph of Serjeant Leake mounted 5/11/15 (Courtesy Great War Forum) shown under Nominal Roll entry.

LEAKE, Leslie 1221. Serjeant. Born in 1894, brother of Edward. Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal. Posted to the Reserve 5/4/19.

LOADER, Ernest. 976. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Sniper at La Bourse 18/03/1916. Discharged 26/04/1919 from Trench Mortar Battery. From Australia.

LOWE, Rupert. 1943. Private. Served as Lance Corporal, 552, 4th Victorian Mounted Rifles in the Boer War before KEH. Born in Geelong, Australia. Saw service with Citizen's Military Forces in WW2. Died 22/07/1965 aged 86. Further details in an article by Peter Nemaric: 'Sabretache': XLI, 8-14, March 2000.

LUCAS, Frederick J. 648. Lance Corporal KEH. Private Corps of Hussars 80211, Private 13th Hussars 535929. Entered France 21/04/1915. Noted as being an Australian and wounded at Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 with head arm and leg shrapnel and gunshot wounds. Noted as serving as a Private in 13th Hussars in Jan 1920 in medal roll. Mentioned in Van Agnew's book 'Memoirs of a Veteran Volunteer'.

MACBEAN, Ian Bryce. 121. Sergeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned KEH 24/11/1915 as a Second Lieutenant KEH upon return to the Curragh, Ireland. Lieutenant Royal Air Force.  Address on Medal Index Card is form the Mercantile Club, Durban, South Africa. Born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England in 1888 the son of John MacBean and Marion Watt (Hendrie) MacBean and left from Claremont, Western Australia to enlist  ('The Daily News' newspaper, Perth, 3/02/1916).  Brother Second Lieutenant Colin Hendrie MacBean, 10th Australian Light Horse Mentioned in Despatches was born 1892 in Fairfield, Victoria but grew up in Claremont was KIA 29/08/1915 at Gallipoli. Photograph of Ian B. MacBean as a Lieutenant shown in Figure 31.

MacDONALD, John Norman. Major. Sergeant of the Cambridge troop in 1907. Second Lieutenant 'C' Squadron KEH 1910. Major in command of 'B' Squadron during WW1. KEH 1910. Captain in 1915 see Figure 19. Wounded at Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Awarded Mentioned in Despatches. Studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Caius College, Cambridge. Born in Australia 8/04/1888 at Woollhara, New South Wales, Australia; married Iris Hughes in Bombay, India on 28/01/1926 and died 2/04/1972 at Eastbourne, England.

MACINTOSH, E. Private. No records identified.

MacKINNON, Donald. Captain. Served pre-war KEH. 'A, B and C' Squadrons. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant March 1914. Entered France 04/1915. Promoted to Lieutenant 5/06/1915. Attached to 21st London Regiment and sustained shrapnel wound 29/03/1916 and was invalided to England. In 1916-17 he commanded reserve units in Ireland. He returned to France as a captain in 1918 and, following the Armistice, again embarked for Ireland. At All Saints Church, Grangegorman, Dublin, on 12/06/1917 he had married Minella Beatrice Seymour. Discharged 25/03/1919. He was born on 30/04/1892 at Prahran, Melbourne, eldest of six children of Victorian-born parents Donald MacKinnon, barrister, and his wife Hilda Eleanor Marie, née Bunny. Attended Geelong Grammar School, Victoria and New College, Oxford, England 1911-13 and served with the KEH University Troop from 1911. Post-war he lived in England then South America and attended the third KEH re-union there in 1945. Awarded a Companion of the British Empire in 1958 and served as the Australian Ambassador to Brazil in 1957. He died on 2/05/1975 in Terang, Victoria. Photograph as a Lieutenant in KEH in 1915 see Figure 19.

MARTIN, Cecil Charles. 1725. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private 389719 to the 655th Company, Labour Corps in Jul 1917. Enlisted 2KEH 12/07/1915 at Hampton, London. Invalided from France 20/02/1916 with rheumatism. Prior service with New South Wales Imperial Bushmen as Private 818 in the Boer War. Born in Madely, Staffordshire, England 27/12/1874. Traveled to England to enlist from Mudgee, New South Wales on SS 'Mooltan' 27/06/1915. Medals received by his brother 25/08/1921 as Cecil died 24/02/1921.

MAXWELL, A. 2057. Private. Australian. No records identified.

McARTHY, Justin Ernest. 1101. Private. Entered France 19/10/1915. Private Labour Corps 424157. Discharged 8/06/1919. Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on 24/12/1878 and died 10/05/1929 in Moss Vale, New South Wales.

McCRACKEN, Edward. 1105. Sergeant. Entered France 8/09/1915. Discharged 3/04/1919. Australian. Awarded Military Medal and bar. Bar to Military Medal awarded for gallantry at the Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. No additional records identified - several E. McCracken arrivals in Australia from England circa 1890.

McCULLOCH, William B. (Wally). 1047. Lieutenant. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 21/12/1915. Commanded 1st Troop 'C' Squadron in 1918. Awarded the Military Cross as a Lieutenant for gallantry 9/11/918 at Maulde. Born 17/03/1889 in Warbreccan, Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia, educated at Geelong College, married Mary Viola Molly Atherton on 5/01/1926 and died in 1/11/1969 at Balranaid, New South Wales.

McGREGOR Alan W. 1130. Private. Entered France 20/10/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. From Australia.

McINTOSH, Alexander James. 1046. Acting Corporal. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 16/02/1917 later Lieutenant. Born 10/12/1890 in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Attended Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia. Traveled to England on RMS 'Medina' Aug 1914 to enlist in KEH. Married Islay Stewart McArthur (from South Yarra, Victoria) in Dublin, Ireland on 28/05/1917. Applied for medals from England in 1921. Noted in Old Comrades Association as active in Australia in 1965. Died in 25/05/1973 in Armadale, Victoria.

McLAY, James. 1499.  Lance Corporal KIA 9/04/18 at the defence of Vieille Chapelle. Born in Marong, Victoria, Australia on 23/10/1883 the son of Mrs. and the late J. McLay of Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia. Worked in Argentina and left there in Aug 1916 to enlist in England. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal. Remembered on the Honour Roll of the Marong Presbyterian Church and the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.  

MENKENS, William Edgar. 1568. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 3/05/1915 at Hampton Court. Transferred as Serjeant, Royal Engineers (Railways) WR/275822, 306757 on 1/05/1917. Born on 13/12/1884 in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia and resided in Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia working for the Western Australian Railways pre-war then in the Traffic Department, Campana, Argentine as Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged 8/05/1919. Awarded Meritorious Service Medal named to Royal Engineers. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

MOFFAT, Leslie Palmer. 'C' Squadron. Commissioned as a Temporary Second Lieutenant KEH on 9/12/1915. Awarded the Military Cross as a Lieutenant for gallantry at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Transferred as a Lieutenant to the 31st Lancers, Indian Army. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal and Indian General Service Medal with clasps for Afghanistan and North West Frontier 1919. May have married Elizabeth Aloysius Doyle in March 1920 in Baltinglass, Wicklow, Ireland and had a son in Australia. Lieutenant Palmer is known to have lived in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and applied for his medals from there in 1925. Photograph shown as Figure 31.

MONTGOMERY, John McLean. 1049. Private. Enlisted in 1915 and entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 12/07/1915. Temporary Lieutenant Mar 1917. Lost his commission and was Court Martialed in April 1918 as a result of chronic alcoholism after the death of his father 1916. Born in Balaclava, Melboure, Victoria, Australia on 12/01/1890 the son of Dr J. P. Montgomery who practiced in Camperdown, Victoria and he died 9/09/1922 in Terang, Victoria. AIF attestation papers for service abroad.

MOORE, Albert William (Bertie). 1091. Serjeant. Entered France 15/09/1915. Served with 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron in 1916. Gunshot wound to right hand sustained in Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 17/01/1919. Born in 1881 in Fremantle, Western Australia (WA) and married Dora Margaret (Daisy) FERGUSON on 5/02/1908 in Swan, WA and he died in the Williams District, WA on 9/03/1957.

MURRAY, Eric Moray. 966. Private. Lieutenant. Australian. 'C' Company. Arrived in France 22/04/1915 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the KEH 15/04/1917 later Lieutenant. A sniper who had a lucky escape when a shot by a German sniper passed down the barrel of his own rifle as he was about to take a shot. Born in North Adelaide, South Australia 13/05/1894 and died 23/07/1953. A series of his letters to his fiancee Miss Jean Marjorie Knox whilst in the KEH are (held by the Australian War Memorial) whom he married on 17/02/1918 in Manhattan, New York, USA. The letters contain little detail of his military service but provide an interesting insight into the hopes for peace and a return to 'normal' lives.

MURTON, Herbert Murray 1093. Private. 'C' Squadron KIA 16/01/16 aged 29 by shellfire. A sniper and entered France 16/06/1915. Son of Mr. W. A. Murton of "Kerribree" 661 Inkerman Road, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia. Born in Rochester, Kent, England on 8/12/1886 and attended Hamilton College, Victoria. Buried in MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY, FRANCE.  Entitled to 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial. 

NOTT, Edward Ross. Private. Entered France 11/09/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 10th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment before transferring to the 9th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Severely wounded at the Battle of Loos in Sep 1915 and invalided back to England. Returned to France Apr 1916. Served as Intelligence Office and commanded Battalion snipers. DoW 13/07/1916 received on the first day of the Battle of the Somme 1/07/1916. Buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery, the Somme, Picardie, France. Awarded Military Cross 25-26/09/1915 for gallantry at Hill 70. Mentioned in Despatches. Medals claimed by his father A. R. Nott, c/o David Jones Ltd, Finsbury Court, London, England. Born in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia on 15/11/1893 and his mother was Alice May (Ross) Jones. Portrait photograph and notice of his death in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' newspaper 18/07/1916 shown under Nominal Roll entry.

O'HALLORAN-GILES, Hugh (Hew). Private. Pre-war King's Colonials/KEH with University Troop whilst attending Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1909-12 studying law after attending Tonbridge School, England 1907-08. Enlisted 1914 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in Dec 1914. Entered France 19/08/1915. Served in Salonika with 'C' Battery, 114th Brigade, 26th Division 1916-19. Promoted to Major and awarded French Croix de Guerre and Mentioned in Despatches 11/06/1918. Born 27/10/1889 in Mitcham, Adelaide, South Australia. Served in WW2 as a Major, 57th Brigade Royal Field Artillery SX24509, Australian Military Forces. Died 7/04/1987 at the age of 97 as one of the last of the King's Colonials/KEH. Brother of Second Lieutenant Robert O'Halloran Giles KEH.

O'HALLORAN GILES, Robert. Private Hussars 34111. Second Lieutenant KEH promoted to Lieutenant Dec 1917. Taken Prisoner of War 9/04/1918 at defence of Vieille Chapelle with 4th Troop, 'A' Squadron and DOW 26/04/18 aged 21. Son of Thomas O'Halloran Giles and Jean O'Halloran Giles, of Adelaide, Australia. Attended Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia. Buried in TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION, BELGIUM. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial. Brother of Hew O'Halloran Giles, KEH.
Hew. Lieutenant. Portrait photograph on www.kingewardshorse.net

PAIN, Kenneth Wellesley. 225. Private KEH. Article in Sydney Morning Herald in 1916 states that in August 1914 he re-joined the King Edward's Horse indicating prior-service in pre-war 1914 possibly whilst attending Cambridge or Oxford University. From Australia. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery (RFA) 8/12/1914. Embarked for France 19/09/1915. Served in Salonika as Adjutant to 117th Brigade RFA from Feb 1916. Severely wounded 27/02/1916. Captain RFA on British War Medal and Victory Medal roll. Mentioned in Despatches. Born 18/01/1889 in Sydney New South Wales the son of the Bishop of Gippsland, Sale, Victoria, Australia and married Mabel Naish 19/08/1915 in Woking, England and died 01/02/1959 in Sydney. Lived in Concord, Sydney in 1924. His son Graeme Kenneth KIA with the Royal Australian Air Force in 1944. Named in 'Our Forgotten Volunteers: Australians and New Zealanders with Serbs in World War One' by Bojan Pajic.

PEEL, A. R. (John). Private. Australian. No records identified.

PHILP,  Richard William Manning Haigh. 495. Private. Commissioned 9/11/1914 as a Captain 91st Brigade Royal Field Artillery and entered France 21/07/1915. KIA 5/10/1916. Buried in Carnoy Military Cemetery, Piacardie, the Somme, France. Born 9/11/1888 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia the son of Richard Philp and Gertrude Manning from Geelong, Victoria.  Married Kathleen Philp in Sussex, England in Jan 1915. Awarded 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medals and Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette) 4/01/1917. Medals claimed by his widow from an address in Toorak, Melbourne. Commemorated on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.

PORTUS, Garnet Vere (Jerry). Private King's Colonials. Served 1909 from comments made about serving under the same Serjeant-Major as Watson Douglas Shennen in his obituary in 1937. Born 7/06/1883 in Morpeth, New South Wales and died 15/06/1954 in Adelaide, South Australia. An academic historian, author and theologian who studied at Sydney University and Oxford University 1909-1911 where no doubt he enlisted in the King's Colonials. A Rhodes scholar and played rugby for England.

PRIESTLEY, Charles. 1095. Private. Entered France 15/09/1915 and discharged 4/04/1919. Australian. Shown in photograph in Figure 22 of Hotchkiss Machine Gun team at Valhuon in 1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

RANDERS, Harold K. 1722. Private. 'B' and 'C' Squadron. Posted as missing at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 15/03/1919. Born in Denmark but grew up pre-war in Australia. Settled in Argentina after the war. Died 13/02/1943 after being attacked by a co-worker on a ranch. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal.

ROSS, Outram (Rossie). 703. Acting Corporal. 2nd Troop 'B' Squadron in 1915. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant Machine Gun Corps 27/05/1917 later Temporary Lieutenant Tank Corps. Born in the Cedars near Mackay, Queensland, Australia 27/05/1886 the son of Henry Ross. Was in America when war was declared and went to England to enlist. Married Sylvia May Burbidge in Brisbane 11/08/1919. Settled in New Zealand where he died in KatiKati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in 1961.

SADLIER, John Raymond. 1102. Private. Entered France 18/11/1915. Commissioned 26/03/1918 as a Second Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry. Born in Grange, South Australia in 1893 the son of Nicholas Clarke and Johanna Georgina (nee' Sturgess) Sadlier and he was raised in the McLaren Vale, Onkaparinga, South Australia. Educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide, South Australia and employed as a Bank Clerk. He left for England to enlist in February 1915. He was later invalided to England suffering from trench fever and when it was determined he was not likely to recover sufficiently to return to the firing line, was posted to the Palace Barracks in Belfast, Ireland as an instructor. He died of a war related illness in England on 26/11/1918.  He was buried in Grantham Cemetery, Lincolnshire. Commemorated on the Adelaide National War Memorial, Hackney St Peter's College Fallen Honour Board and the Australian Virtual War Memorial (with portrait photograph). Note that his name is incorrectly recorded as Sadleir on many documents. Brothers DeVere and Charles both enlisted from the Argentine and served in the British Army and their sister Angela served in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve.

SAILL, Edward C. 935. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 5/04/1918. Born 25/05/1891 in Croydon, Surrey, England, married Lillian Rose Rice and lived post-war Peakhurst, Sydney, Australia until his death on 4/07/1976. Portrait photograph as a Lieutenant in the KEH shown under Nominal Roll entry.

SAYER, William Thomas. Private.  Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 160th Field Company, Royal Engineers 20/09/1915. KIA 5/06/1916 while preparing to set mines close to German workings at Vermilles. Born in 1888 and raised in Geelong, Victoria, Australia educated at Geelong Grammar School and Ballarat School of Mines. He was a mine manager in Queensland before travelling to the United States of America in 1912 to further his mining experience. Second son of the late J. W. Sayer and Mrs. Sayer, Newtown, Geelong. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France and the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial. Photograph shown under Nominal Roll entry.

SIMPSON, Brian George Cannon. Private KEH. Second Lieutenant, 20th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, B.E.F., France. Enlisting in England, where he was studying sculpture, 4th August, 1914, joined KEH and later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Horse Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division, volunteering for Trench Mortar Section. Early education at Sydney Church of England Grammar School. Later at St. Paul's College, University of Sydney 1910-1912 Bachelor of Arts. He gave his life through an act of initial bravery, climbing a tree in full view of the German Lines to shoot a sniper and was hit coming down. Died of Peritonitis 29/07/1915 ensuing from wounds received on 22nd July aged 22. Son of the late George Hamilton Cassan Simpson and Lilian Thompson of Sydney New South Wales. Born 1 Nov 1892 in New South Wales, Australia and buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium. Photograph in RHA uniform.

SIMPSON, George Barre Goldie. Private. King's Colonials 1906-09. Born in Woolahra, New South Wales in 1887. Served with 'A' Company 4th Battalion AIF as Lance Corporal 866. Embarked Australia 20/10/1914. KIA at Gallipoli 6/09/1915. Son of Archibald Henry and Alice Marion Simpson. Buried in Johnston's Jolly Cemetery.

SLY, Alec Foushew. 873. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment 8/03/1916, later a Lieutenant in the Nigeria Regiment. Australian but unable to identify any additional records.

SMITH, John. 1397. Private. Enlisted 11/01/1916 and entered France 7/09/1916. Wounded at the Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918 with gun shot wound shoulder and face. Commissioned as a Reverend in the Australian Imperial Force 6/02/1919. Born in Stewarton, Ayrshire, Scotland in 1875. Applied for medals from Kattaning, Western Australia where he was a Minister pre and post-war. British War Medal and Victory medal held by the Western Australian museum. Brother Private David Smith, 1427 with the 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force was KIA at Gallipoli on 8/08/1915 and buried in Johnston's Jolly Cemetery.

STEWART, William Malcolm. 918. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 6/04/1915. Entered France 5/01/1916. Later Captain attached to the 23rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps. He attended St Peter’s College, Adelaide 1894 -1899 and sometime after leaving went to South Africa, where at 19 years of age he joined the Natal Light Horse. He subsequently joined the Third Australian Contingent. After being present in several engagements he returned to the Commonwealth with them. Captain Stewart obtained a commission in the Rhodesian Military Police, and thence went to England to enlist. Died of Wounds  27/10/1916 at the Battle of Flers-Courceletteon on the Somme. Mentioned in Despatches. Born in Port Pirie, South Australia in Apr 1881 the son of Robert Walter and Gertrude Theodora Fydell Stewart (nee Lindsay). Buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France. Commemorated on the Hackney St Peter's College Fallen Honour Board.

STRETCH, Samuel Alexander Cliffe. 1218. Private. Enlisted 6/08/1915. Discharged 12/07/1919. Served in WW2 as Corporal V236291 with 7th Volunteer Defence Corps 1942-45. Born 23/06/1894 in Rokewood, Victoria, Australia and educated at Geelong College. Married Agatha Mary Crawford in 1924 in Victoria and they had two children during their marriage. He died 5/07/1957 in Ballarat, Victoria.

SULLIVAN, Kevin Irving. 1216. Acting Corporal. Enlisted 13/08/1915. Promoted to Acting Corporal 17/03/1916 and reverted to Lance Corporal on being charged with gambling in Corporals Room 19/03/1916 at Curragh with 4th Troop, Reserve Squadron. Served in France from 17/07/1916, promoted to Lance Corporal 17/04/1917 as a Machine Gunner. Served in Italy 20/12/1917 until 10/03/1918. Taken Prisoner of War 5/11/1918 having been and posted as Missing in Action 9/04/1918 and interred in a camp at Gardelegen, Germany. Treated for Exposure incurred whilst a Prisoner of War at Lille Hospital. Repatriated to Dover 19/11/1918. Discharged 22/06/1919. Born in Glebe, New South Wales in 1894 and was employed as a farmer at a a cattle station at Coonamba, New South Wales and family home was at Darling Point, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Post war worked in Queensland and died in 1955 in Newtown, New South Wales. Details from Service papers and Red Cross Missing In Action and Wounded record, Australian War Memorial. Appears in photograph of 4th Troop Reserve Squadron, Curragh, 1915 as shown in Figure 28.

SYME, David Allan. Private. 'C' Squadron. Born in Kew, Victoria, Australia in 1893 the son of Mr and Mrs Francis Syme. Educated at Brighton Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge. Went to England in 1913. Enlisted KEH and likely to have seen service with University Troop pre-War whilst at Cambridge. Commissioned in KEH and went to France and then transferred to Tank Corps where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and then promoted to Captain. Trained in England before returning to France and wounded in 1917. Served post war in the Berkshire Regiment then joined Royal Tank Regiment as a Major. KIA 8/08/1944 in Normandy as a Lieutenant Colonel and buried in BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France. Awarded Military Cross. Obituary in the 'Melbourne Age' newspaper 31/08/1944. Brother Sergeant Noel Herbert Syme born in January 1892 in Palmerston North, New Zealand and KIA 10/05/1917 with 1st Australian Divisional Supply Column. Noel is buried in the Grevillers British Cemetery, Grevillers, France.

TEARE, John Stewart. 437. Private KEH. Entered France Dec 1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the attached to 108th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Awarded the Military Cross in 1916. KIA 31/07/1917.  Born in Blawyn, Victoria, Australia in 1893 the son of John Corlett and Marion Melville Teare of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was working for Bennie, Teare and Co. and he enlisted in England in 1914, when he was at Birmingham University studying electrical engineering. His name is commemorated on the Menin Gate, Belgium and the Australian War Memorial. His elder brother, Athol M. Teare, served in the Australian Imperial Force, New South Wales Division and gained an Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was wounded in this action and hospitalised in England before returning to the front. He returned to Australia after the war. His younger brother Philip Teare joined the Australian Imperial Force becoming a Captain in the artillery. Photograph of John Teare in the uniform of the RFA available.

THOMAS, David Lewis. 1280. Private KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 253rd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers Sep 1916. KIA 30/03/1918. Born in 1881 the son of William and Ann Thomas of Happy Valley, Victoria, Australia and was educated at the Dana Street School, Buley's Grenville College and then the Ballarat School of Mines. He went to South Africa in 1906 and managed a gold mine in Rhodesia where he enlisted as a Private in the KEH. Buried in the ADELAIDE CEMETERY, VILLERS-BRETONNEUX, France. Biography and civilian portrait photograph can be found at https://bih.federation.edu.au/index.php/David_L._Thomas. His brother William Thomas noted as in service in West Africa.

THOMSON, Ninian Alan. 1065 Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 20/07/1915 KEH. Lieutenant KEH 08/1916 and became Signaling Officer HQ staff 04/1917 to 10/1918. Lived in Queanbeyan, New South Wales. Director of Mauri Brothers and Thomson. Died 2/04/1952 in Sydney.

TOOGOOD, Percy William. 653. Private. KIA 25/08/1915 aged 27. Percy was born at Rosehill, Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales on 15th June, 1888 to parents Laurence William and Eliza Toogood (nee Jones). From newspaper reports Percy was practising dental surgery in the town of Condobolin, in the central west region of New South Wales, between 1911 & 1912. From newspaper reports Percy went to New Zealand then on to England & had arrived in England a fortnight before war broke out. In early January, 1915, Percy wrote to Mr Stenmark, for whom he had worked for in his dental practice at Parramatta, advising that he joined the KEH in London & expected to be on active service soon. Percy enlisted at Watford with the Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line. Percy died on 25/08/1915 at Much Hadham, Hertfordshire. Information from UK Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects records that Percy committed suicide, however, Australian newspaper reports state that he died from wounds received in action. The death of Percy was registered in the September quarter, 1915 in the district of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Private Percy William Toogood was buried in St. Andrew’s Churchyard, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England. He has a private headstone – marble cross & curb but his death is still acknowledged by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Percy is remembered on the Pitt Row Public School Roll of Honour which is located in what is now Parramatta at the West Public School, Parramatta, NSW. He is also remembered on the Parramatta and District Great War Roll of Honour located at Parramatta Town Hall, Church Street, Parramatta, NSW and on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial. Photograph shown in Nominal Roll entry.

TWOPENY, Richard Ernest Noel. Major. 'C' Squadron. Awarded Military Cross (London Gazette 11/05/1917) and bar (Reported in the 'Observer' newspaper 18/08/1917) as a Lieutenant. Major Twopeny was born on 25/11/1893 in Hammond, South Australia and schooled at St Peter's College, Adelaide. He was commissioned into the KEH on 25/05/1915 as a Second Lieutenant and returned to Australia on 13/04/1920 .He married Edna Nancie Deeley in 1927 in Sydney, New South Wales. He died on 8/04/1946 in Adelaide having worked as a journalist in Melbourne. Served in the Citizen Military Forces in WW2. Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board, Quorn Remembrance of Those Who Served in the Great War Honour Board. His brother Private Thomas Nowell Twopeny was born in 1891 in South Australia and Died of Wounds on 23/10/1917 with the 13th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF in France. He was buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, Etaples, Nord Pas de Calais, France. Major Twopeny's portrait photograph courtesy of Peter Nemaric is also shown as Figure 331.

WADDY, Richard Granville. Second Lieutenant KEH 1910, Lieutenant KEH. Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps, Captain Special Reserve. Entered France 25/05/1915. Born in 1885, attended St Paul's College, University of Sydney 1905-09. Rhodes Scholar. Worked as an ophthalmologist in Egypt pre-war. Lived in Sydney after the war and died in 1974.

WELBOURN, Herbert. 674. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Promoted to Serjeant 23/01/1919. Discharged 19/02/1919. Born 6/04/1887 in Jamestown, South Australia. Married Jessie Thomas in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England on 23/02/1911. Churchwarden at St. Mary's pre- and post-war and Clerk Bottesford Parish Council, Leicestershire, England. Died 30/01/1956 in Nottingham, England. 1914/15 Star trio sold on eBay UK.

WHITEMAN, A. K. From New South Wales, Australia on Old Comrades Association members list No. 1 in 1933.

WILSON, Reginald. 456. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 4/04/1919. Born 22/07/1889 at West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia and married Victoria Olga Williams on 20/04/1922 in Sydney. They had three children during their marriage. Reginald died 17/02/1971 in Balmain, Sydney. Two photographs on kingedwardshorse.net

WITTHERS, Ivan. 678. Private. Enlisted 12/11/1914 at Watford and discharged 18/12/1916 due to sickness (epilepsy). Awarded Silver War Badge 115731. Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1887. Married Ellen Brown 7/09/1914 in Newcastle, England.

New Zealanders who served in the King's Colonials and/or King Edward's Horse or 2nd King Edward's Horse

Unless indicated with 2KEH the individual served in KC/KEH.

ABRAHAM, Lionel Martyn.  Serjeant KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 4/12/1914 (London Gazette). Entered France 24/08/1915. Wounded once. Born in July 1893 in Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand the son of Lionel Augustus Abraham and Constance Palgrave Martyn OBE and attended Wanganui College 1907-12. He saw service in the King Edward's Horse joining the University Squadron in 1912 when at Pembroke College, Cambridge.  Was living in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1914 and returned post war. 1914/15 Star trio medal entitlements confirmed on MIC. Served as a Second Lieutenant with the 12th Company, National Reserve in New Zealand in 1940. Died in New Zealand 31/12/1986. Portrait photograph of Second Lieutenant Abraham in the Royal Field Artillery courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

ADAMS, Noel Percy. Captain. Transferred to New Zealand Field Artillery. Awarded Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) on 4 June 1917. Barrister in civilian life. Promoted to Colonel and became Commandant of the Military Training Camp at Featherston, Wairarapa, New Zealand during the First World War. See image on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

ARMSTRONG J. Private. New Zealander who enlisted in 1902 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonials in 1903 and shown with that rank on 1905 Officer's List.

ARTHUR, Beckham Paikawa. 111. Serjeant KEH. 2nd Troop, 'A' Squadron at Hutton Bridge, Hertfordshire noted in the 'Auckland Star' newspaper 9/03/1915. Saw service in the Boer War with the NZ Mounted Rifles (Rough Riders) as Serjeant 1383 and embarked with the 4th Contingent on the SS 'Gymeric' 31 March 1900 and also served as Captain with the 9th Contingent leaving on the SS 'Devon' 19 March 1902. Gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in March 1915, and posted to Motor Machine Gun Service (of the Royal Artillery) at Bisley. Promoted Captain June 1915, entered France 8/07/1915, Major March 1916 and Lieut-Colonel November 1918 to command the 1st Motor Brigade Machine Gun Corps. Wounded at Loos September, 1915. Awarded Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) 26 July 1918 and Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) Three Times. Born in 1876 in Tokomaru Bay the son of Alexander Creighton Arthur & Mere Inoi nee' Ward of Tokomaru Bay & Gisborne hence of Maori descent. He married Pheroze Sorabji in 1902 in London. He died in Devon, England on the 11/03/1922. Entitled to Queen's South Africa and King's South African medals and 1914/15 Star WW1 trio. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph with family records and photographs added and the South African War Memorial, Gisbourne, New Zealand. Photograph shown under Nominal Roll entry.

BAKER, Richard Henry. Private KEH. May have transferred to Royal Field Artillery then served as a Gunner 79439, 43rd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 2/10/1918-5/12/1918 sailed on HMNZT 111 'Matatua'. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BALE, F. J. Private. From New Zealand, worked in Peru, South America and returned to England to enlist. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BANKS, Donald William. 2134. Private. Born at Kimbolton, Wellington, New Zealand 24/11/1898 the son of William Banks. Enlisted 2/04/1918, served in Ireland and discharged 3/02/1919. Joined Royal Army Ordnance Corps 24/04/1919 as a Private 5/9361 and served in Russia 12/05/1919 and discharged 12/02/1920. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BARRY, A. V. 335. Serjeant KEH. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Royal Army Service Corps M/41355 (Auckland Online Cenotaph). Entered France 22/04/1915. Likely to be Serjeant Barry who was severely wounded whilst patrolling at Anneux near Cambrai on 20/11/1917 when Major Tutt was also severely wounded. Wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918.

BAXTER, Gordon Eyre. 929. Private. Enlisted 5/02/1915 and entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 26/06/1917. Prior service Royal East Kent Yeomanry 1908-11. Born Hinton, Ashton Steeple, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. Son of Stanley Eyre Bagter and Emma Louisa Baxter, of Waranga, Omapere, Hokianga, New Zealand. Educated at South Eastern Agricultural College Wye, Ashford, Kent, England. KIA 8/10/1918 near Arras aged 28 and buried in St. Nicholas British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Two brothers also KIA. Bernard Eyre Baxter born 2 July 1893 - died 29 April 1915 served as Private 10/275 West Coast 'A' Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, Emigrated to New Zealand 1909 with family. Cadet at Weraroa Agricultural Farm. Fought at Turkish attack on Suez Canal Feb 1915 before serving at Gallipoli where he was killed. Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial. Cedric Eyre Baxter 22/08/1895 - died 29/04/1915 (same day as his brother Bernard) unable to find further details. Gordon and Bernard are commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BELL, Cheviot Wellington Dillon. 2104 Private. Served pre-WW1 KEH. Promoted to Corporal in 1913. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 15/08/1914 in KEH. Transferred to 10th Royal Hussars and then Royal Flying Corps and crashed aircraft nine times and promoted to Captain. Became a Squadron Leader in WW2 with RNZAF 1944 OTC Blenheim. Born 18/08/1892 the son of the Hon. Sir Francis Bell, G.C.M.G. (NZ Prime Minister 1925), and Lady Bell. Married Dorothy Mary Newton 21/04/1920 and died in Masterton, NZ in 26/09/1960. Brother of William Bell who also served with KEH and was KIA.

BELL, William (Hal) Henry Dillon. Serjeant commissioned as a Lieutenant pre-war KEH. Served as a Staff Officer (Captain) 1/10 with the New Zealand (NZ) expedition to Samoa in 1914. Rejoined KEH, entered France 21/04/1915 promoted to Captain and KIA 31/07/17 aged 33 shot by a German sniper at Ferdinand Farm whilst in temporary command of 'C' Squadron during the great attack on Passchendael Ridge. Mentioned in Despatches. Born 1/03/1884 in Wellington, NZ, the son of Hon. Sir Francis Bell, G.C.M.G. (NZ Prime Minister 1925), and Lady Bell. Brother of Cheviot Bell who also served with KEH. Hal went to school at Wellington College. On completion of his schooling he went to England and studied at Cambridge University. From Cambridge he read for the bar at the Inner Temple and was admitted as a barrister in 1908. While in England he got married, to Gladys on 8 March 1907. He also held a temporary commission in the KEH. Bell and his wife returned to New Zealand in late March 1908. He became a member of NZ Parliament for Wellington and the first Member of Parliament to go on active service in WWI rejoining the KEH in December 1914 as a Lieutenant. Name commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. Photograph of him mounted on his charger from Miss Enid Bell shown in Nominal Roll entry. Commemorated on a plaque at Trinity College Cambridge, the Auckland Online Cenotaph and is included among the names on the memorial bronze tablet to lawyers and law clerks in the Wellington Library of the New Zealand Law Society. Photograph of him as Lieutenant in KEH in 1915 see Figure 19.

BLACK, Ralph (Ralf) Wemyss. 1070. Private KEH. Born in New Zealand in 1874 the son of James Black and Mary Harcourt and died 1/10/1962 in Auckland. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Brother Trooper Colin Black, Auckland Mounted Rifles, 22nd Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Died of Wounds 17/11/1917 in Palestine. Colin was the fifth son of Mr. James Black, "Telpal," Prospect Terrace, Mt. Eden. He was an old Grammar School boy, and for many years has been on the clerical staff in the firm of Buckland and Co. Colin Black is buried in Deir el Belah War Cemetery, Palestine, Israel. Brother Hugh Black served with Australian Light Horse in Palestine. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BRENNAN, John. 1069. Serjeant KEH. 3rd Section, 1st Troop 'C' Squadron. Wounded Passchendaele Jul 1917. Transferred to Tank Corps 305381. From New Zealand.

BRIDGEMAN, Robert J. J. 1335. Private. Discharged 13/04/1919. From New Zealand. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph

BRISTED, Geoffrey Thornborrow. 329. Lance Corporal. 'C' Squadron. Enlisted KEH 22/08/1913 with University Troop whilst at Cambridge University, promoted to Lance Corporal 20/08/1914 and Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 13/11/1914 10th Regiment Cavalry Reserve which was affiliated with the 4th and 8th Hussars. Transferred to Royal Engineers (RE) on 8/08/1915 and went to Aldershot to attend a 3-week course, probably in field engineering. Upon completion of the course he was posted to the 3rd Field Squadron, RE, a mounted unit of the R.E. assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Division. He entered France 25/11/1915. Mentioned in Despatches 4/01/1917. Promoted to Captain 18/05/1918 and discharged 21/10/1919. Served in Iraq 1920-22. Awarded General Service Medal with IRAQ clasp. Born 16/01/1891 in Wellington, New Zealand the son of Richard Bower and Constance Bristed. Geoffrey was living with his mother and his siblings in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1901 and studied at Clifton College, Bristol 1906-08 where he served with the Engineering Cadet Corps as a Cadet Sapper then worked in South America before entering King's College Cambridge 1913. His father also served in WW1 as Major R.B. Bristed, RE. His occupation post war was as a banker in London and he died on 7/11/1969. Geoffrey is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. See a full biography of Captain GEOFFREY THORNBORROW BRISTED, Royal Engineers, (formerly Trooper, King Edward's Horse) by Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis http://www.reubique.com/GTBristed.htm with an image of his medals held in that authors collection.

BROMFIELD, Sydney Lewis (Sid). 62. Private in pre-war KEH.  Serjeant entered France 22/04/1915 and commissioned 26/06/17 Acting Captain Lincolnshire Regiment. Lived/born in New Zealand then lived with parents at 636 Fishponds Road, Fishponds, Bristol.  Attended annual camp 1913. Went to France 22/04/15. Captain in the Middlesex Regiment Home Guard in WW2. He was living at Iver Heath in 1946.  Serjeant Bromfield (far right) sent this postcard of his section to his mother to 636 Fishponds Road, Fishponds, Bristol after having 'a very good time' attending annual camp in Bulford in July 1913. He is wearing 'B' Squadron (British American) collar badges of the King's Colonials. He is also shown with his section in Figures 146 and 149 attending signal training. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

CHENNELLS, Cyril Alfred. Private KEH. Transferred to the British section of the NZEF. 8/01/1916-8/02/1916 to Suez, Egypt on HMNZT 37 'Maunganui' as a Private 11/2057, Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles, 'B' Squadron, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Born in 1892 in Masterton, New Zealand with stated occupation of shepherd and next-of-kin on embarkation roll his uncle William Boyce Chennells a Land Agent in Masterton. Cyril died in 1965. Name recorded on Wanganui Collegiate and Auckland Online Cenotaph.

CHING, William Thorne Wilmot. Sergeant KEH. Private KEH. Born in Remeura, New Zealand in 1888 and attended King’s College, Auckland and embarked on a promising architectural career in the offices of A.B. Wilson before setting sail for the UK, where he is first recorded as an Architects Association (AA) member in 1909. From 1911-13 he attended the AA’s Evening School, followed by a final year at the Day School in 1913/14. On the outbreak of war, Ching volunteered for the King Edward’s Horse, received a Lieutenant’s commission in the 351st Brigade, 5th Division Royal Field Artillery and was sent to the front in March 1915. He saw action at the infamous battle of ‘Hill 60’, near Ypres, where he gained the Military Cross for heroism, rescuing two injured colleagues trapped with burning ammunition in a gun pit under severe enemy shelling. He himself was the victim of a poison gas attack and, remarkably enough, was seriously injured three times within the space of two years. After recuperation, Ching returned to the AA and in 1919 he was appointed ‘House Master’, his duties including overseeing the administrative and logistical arrangements for the AA studios and atelier within the newly acquired Bedford Square premises. Ching’s stint as House Master stretched only for four years and in 1923 he resigned in order to set up a firm of heating engineers with F. Broadhurst Craig. He married later that year but in the summer of 1924 went into hospital for an operation to mitigate the side-effects of the war-time poison gassing, only to die on the 21st July, 1924 after a second, unsuccessful operation. See Nominal Roll entry for a photograph of William Ching under his name and also in a group of four Aucklanders in the KEH under John Hellaby. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

COOPER, Henry Mark Hugh. Lieutenant. 'B' Squadron. Embarkation date 21/05/1915. Died of Wounds 29/07/1915 age 29 and buried in Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, London, United Kingdom. Son of Emma Elizabeth Freeman (formerly Cooper), of Reefton, Westland, South Island, New Zealand, and the late Rev. H. S. Cooper, of St. George's, Canterbury, England. Date of birth: 10th March 1886. He was born at Lancing College on the 10th of March 1886, the eldest son of the Reverend Henry Samuel Cooper, house master of Seconds House at Lancing, and Emma Elizabeth (nee Green later Foreman) later of 26 St George's Place, Canterbury. He was christened at Lancing on the 11/04/1886. He was educated at the Junior King's School from September 1898 and at the King's School Canterbury from September 1899 to June 1901. He worked in the Canadian Pacific Railway offices before joining the Cranbrook Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce as a junior on the 6th of February 1905. In 1907 he transferred to Vancouver in Canada where he worked as a clerk but he left their employ on the 31st of December 1909 and returned to the UK on board the SS "Campania", landing at Liverpool on the 4th of May 1910. On his return he worked as a clerk for the stockbrokers W. H. Trott. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the KEH on the 5/041913 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 28/11/1914. He embarked for France at Southampton with his Squadron on board the Transport “Palm Branch" on the 21/04/1915 and arrived at Le Havre at 2.30am the following morning. Disembarkation was complete by 8.15am and the troopers made their way up the hill to No. 6 Base Camp. On the 23rd of April they entrained for Steenwerek in Belgium; they then marched to Nieppe where their Division was headquartered. On the evening of the 29/04/1915 the Squadron was ordered to employ all available men for the construction of a strong point behind the front line at Wulverghem about 200 yards northwest of La Plus Douvre Farm. They paraded at 6.30pm and marched up to within half a mile of the position where their horses were picketed. As soon as it was dark they moved up and began work that night. Henry Cooper was in command of fifty men who were detailed to construct a redoubt. They were engaged in this construction for about nearly four weeks during which time they suffered six casualties. Henry Cooper was wounded on the 13/05/1915, becoming the first officer casualty of the Squadron, and was evacuated back to England where he died two months later at the 1st London General Hospital in Camberwell. He is commemorated on the war memorial at the King's School Wimbledon, the memorial at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and  on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

COX, Alfred Graeme. 64. 2KEH. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant. Commissioned Royal Army Service Corps 5/03/1917. From New Zealand.

DARREL, Richard (Dick) Frederick William. 1051. Serjeant. Entered France 20/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Tank Corps 3/02/1918. Died 26/02/1919.  Son of William Darrel, of New Zealand; husband of Annie Darrel, of Bangkok, Siam. Medals claimed by widow living in Siam. Buried in Manor Green Cemetery, England. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

DENNISTON, John Geoffrey. 221. Lieutenant. 3rd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Served in re-War KEH with University Squadron. Mobilised 4/08/1914, promoted to Corporal 11/10/1914, Serjeant 5/01/1915, entered France 22/04/1915 and commissioned 9/09/1915 as a Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant 1/7/1917. Served in Italy after France and Ireland. Discharged 3/12/1918. Born in 1890 to His Honour John Edward Denniston, Supreme Court in Canterbury, New Zealand. Studied at Christ's College Cambridge University. Returned to teach in Australia and New Zealand in Christchurch. Died in 1965. Noted in 'Southland Times' newspaper article 17/09/1915 as having been offered a commission and had served pre-War with the Regiment.

DONALD, Walter Alan. Sergeant KEH. Student at University College, Oxford University. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 2nd Reserve of Cavalry, transferred to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. Entered France 17/10/1915. Noted in the 'Otago Witness' newspaper 21/04/1915. From Auckland, New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

DRUBE, Frederick Peter. 524. Lance Corporal. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. From New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

EARLE, Lionel. 700. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. From New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

EARLE, Robert (Bob) Charles. 1319. Private. Born 14/12/1871 in Wanganui, New Zealand the son of the late Dr Robert Charles and Mrs. Eliza Ellen (Mason) Earle and died 17/05/1964. 'Wanganui Herald' newspaper 21/076/1918 reported he was wounded and presumed to have been killed in action at Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. He was taken prisoner having been shot in the stomach and right elbow. He had served in Ireland in 1916 then France and Italy. Discharged 5/03/1919 after receiving medical treatment in Cologne. Commemorated on the WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ROLL OF HONOUR 1914 - 1918, attended 1882-84. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

ELY, Percy Alfred. 4. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant, King's Colonials. Corporal Ely was born in 1884 and went on to serve as a Lieutenant in KEH. Freemason in King's Colonials Masonic Lodge. He was attached to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as Assistant Paymaster to the New Zealand Forces and died of pneumonia on the 17/11/1918 aged 34.  Son of George and Louisa Ely (nee Valentine); husband of Lillian Ely (nee Hunt). Buried in KENSAL GREEN (ALL SOULS) CEMETERY, UK. Photograph from 1904 camp shown in Nominal Roll entry.

FEARNLEY, Ernest Walter. 1504. Private. Killed in Action. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

FEARNLEY, William George. 1503, Trooper. Killed in Action. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

FETHERSTON, Guy. Private KEH. Entered France 2/1915. Reported in Auckland Star 11/01/1915 that he had joined KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 45th Brigade, 8th Division Royal Field Artillery. Later Major (as noted in the Chronicles of the NZEF, 2/05/1917) and awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 6/11/1918) and was Mentioned in Despatches. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from the Department of Overseas Trade, Whitehall, London.

GRACIE, T. S. Private. Transferred to East Lancashire Regiment. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

GRAY, Roland. Sergeant. From Wellington, New Zealand. Commissioned Royal Field Artillery later Captain. Engineering student in South Kensington, London. Noted as serving in the KEH in the Taranaki Herald 1/10/1914. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HANDFORD, J. R. Second Lieutenant, 3rd Troop 'C' Squadron KEH in Aug 1914. Entered France 13/04/1915. Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment later Captain. Studied at Queen's College, Cambridge University noted in 'The Dial' No. 22, 1915. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HANNAY, James. 578. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 16th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps 27/03/1917. Wounded. Awarded Military Cross 18/03/1918. Prisoner of War 16/04/1918 and repatriated Dec 1918. From New Zealand and commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HARRISON, Charles Fancourt. Sergeant. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron KEH 2/07/1915 on Probation. Commissioned as a Lieutenant 10/06/1916 and by 1918 Captain and Adjutant 6th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Awarded Military Cross. Captain Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry then Major in WW2. Son of Charles Fletcher Harrison and grandson of Archedeacon Fancourt, Wellington, New Zealand. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand and studied at Cambridge University and likely to have served with the University Troop of KEH pre-war. Married Gertrude Alice Pryor on 5/12/1918. Died in 1964 in Cheshire, England. Commemorated on the Wanganui Collegiate School Roll of Honour and Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HAYTER, Frank Goodenough. 607. Private KEH. Second Lieutenant 5/07/1916 then Lieutenant 4th Battalion, Manchester Regiment . Entered France 22/04/1915. Article in the 'Temuka Leader' newspaper 17/05/1917 states that he was wounded fighting in the Balkans campaign in December 1916 and is in a London hospital and has had an operation to remove a bullet. Born in Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand on 4/04/1887. Son of Francis & Eugenie Elizabeth (nee HUDDLESTON) HAYTER, of Rollesby Station, Burkes Pass, Fairlie. Brother Cyril HAYTER born 4/02/1891 - KIA 28/08/1915 as a Lieutenant 7/63 in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, Mentioned in Despatches and is buried in the Hill 60 Cemetery at Gallipoli. Brother Chilton Goodenough HAYTER born 1/02/1889 - died 14/12/1967 also served in WWI as a Major 7/1167, awarded Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches also in the Canterbury Mounted Rifles. Late father was Captain HAYTER, naval officer. 17/10/1918 he married Muriel MORTIMER-SCOTT, at St Mary Abbot's Church, Kensington, London, England. At this time he was Lieutenant. On active service from beginning of the war & considerable service practically throughout the war. His only child, Joyce, was born in 1919 in England. April 1920 returning to New Zealand. Discharged January 1920. Died in Devon, UK 12/12/1941. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HELLABY, Frederick Allen. Private KEH. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 1914 From Officers Training Battalion. Entered France 18/12/1914. Mentioned in Despatches 1/1/1916. Lieutenant 3RD (AUCKLAND) REGIMENT (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY'S OWN) NZEF 1917. Also noted a Captain later Major Frederick Allan Hellaby awarded Military Cross with the Auckland Machine Gun Corps. From Auckland, New Zealand one of four brothers.

HELLABY, John. Private KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Horse Artillery, 2nd Indian Cavalry Division 27/02/1915 later Lieutenant. Mentioned in Despatches. Noted in 'The Wellingtonian' 1919, Wellington College, New Zealand. See photograph under Nominal Roll entry.

HELLABY, Richard Sydney. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 129th Battery, Royal Field Artillery 27/02/1915. Entered France 14/11/1915. Promoted to Temporary Captain 15/04/1916 later Captain. Mentioned in Despatches 23/12/1918. Born in 1887. Son of Richard Hellaby (1849-1902) and Amy Maria (nee Briscoe) (1864-1955). Richard was the founder with his brother William, of R & W Hellaby’s, the great New Zealand meat processors. When war broke out in 1914 all the young Hellaby men joined the army. Amy Hellaby sold Bramcote and took her two younger unmarried daughters to London for three years, buying a house in Bayswater to provide a home for the men when they were on leave. Educated at Wellington College. Civilian occupation as an artist. Living in Auckland in 1951 and died in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa. Noted in a 'Hail to the Hellabys' article in the 'Fielding Star' newspaper in Auckland 7/09/1915 as one of four brothers all serving as Commissioned Officers. Lieutenant J. Arthur B. Hellaby serving with the Royal Engineers. Richard first took up art seriously when he joined the Lambeth School of Art, London. Later he studied at the Julian Academy and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. After serving in the war he exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1923-24 he visited New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, exhibiting and studying, and on his return to England he held a one-man exhibition of the work he had done on his tour. He has exhibited extensively in England and France. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph. See photograph under Nominal Roll entry.

HELLABY, Frederick Allen. Private KEH. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 1914 from Officers Training Battalion. Entered France 18/12/1914. Mentioned in Despatches 1/1/1916. Lieutenant 3RD (AUCKLAND) REGIMENT (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY'S OWN) NZEF 1917. Also noted a Captain later Major Frederick Allan Hellaby awarded Military Cross with the Auckland Machine Gun Corps. From Auckland, New Zealand one of four brothers. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HELLABY, Richard Sydney. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 129th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Entered France 14/11/1915. Promoted to Captain. Mentioned in Despatches 23/12/1918. Born in 1887. Son of Richard Hellaby (1849-1902) and Amy Maria (nee Briscoe) (1864-1955). Richard was the founder with his brother William, of R & W Hellaby’s, the great New Zealand meat processors. Educated at Wellington College. Civilian occupation as an artist. Living in Auckland in 1951 and died in 1971 in Cape Town, South Africa. Noted in a 'Hail to the Hellabys' article in the 'Fielding Star' newspaper in Auckland 7/09/1915 as one of four brothers all serving as Commissioned Officers. Lieutenant J. Arthur B. Hellaby serving with the Royal Engineers. Richard first took up art seriously when he joined the Lambeth School of Art, London. Later he studied at the Julian Academy and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. After serving in the war he exhibited at the Royal Academy. In 1923-24 he visited New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, exhibiting and studying, and on his return to England he held a one-man exhibition of the work he had done on his tour. He has exhibited extensively in England and France. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HELLABY, John. Trooper. Transferred to Royal Field Artillery. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HERAPATH, Basil Arthur Conrad. 371. Serjeant. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant KEH 24/09/1917, promoted to Lieutenant. Born 6/11/1886 in New Zealand. Second Lieutenant in photograph at Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Died in Sep 1937 in Wellington, New Zealand. One of three Herapath brothers from Auckland, New Zealand who served in the KEH, all sons of Samuel March and Clara Herapath. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HERAPATH, Cyril Alexander. 94. Private. Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1891. Served in KEH 1/11/1910 to 28/02/1913. Re-enlisted 1/03/1913 in Colchester, promoted to Corporal 31/01/1914, Sergeant 30/11/1914 and discharged 31/11/1915. Studied at Queen's College, Cambridge University (The Dial No. 22, 1915) likely to have been in University Troop. Died in Oxford in 1952. One of three Herapath brothers from Auckland, New Zealand who served in the KEH, all sons of Samuel March and Clara Herapath.

HERAPATH, H. L. Private. KEH. 'D' Squadron. One of three Herapath brothers from Auckland, New Zealand who served in the KEH, all sons of Samuel March and Clara Herapath. Immigration records show a H. C. C. Herapath aged 24 arrived in England in 1912 from New Zealand and likely to be same person.

HINDLE, Harold Burn. 332, Trooper. "Educated here until 1912 and afterwards at Cambridge, was in camp with King Edward's Horse when war broke out. He was given a commission in the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) as early as December, 1914, and went over to France two months later. The following September he was wounded at Loos, but returned to France, after six months, with a howitzer brigade. He subsequently received two appointments as officer orderly, and in October went to England on short leave. His health giving way he was unable to get back, and during March of last year was appointed instructor in a cadet school at Bournemouth. In six months time the school closed and he re-joined the R.F.A., being appointed Staff-Captain on Christmas Day, 1917. Returning in February, he stayed in the firing line until he was killed on March 29th, 1918 (with G Battery Royal Horse Artillery). He was in the School XV. for three years in succession." (In Memoriam, 1914-1918 [Wanganui Collegiate School]). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website gives Hindle's date of death as 27 March 1918. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. 

HINDLESMITH, Arthur. 563. Private. Enlisted KEH 12/08/1914 and promoted to Serjeant 1/04/1916. Entered France 22/04/1915. Posted to No. 7 Officers Cadet Battalion 9/03/1917 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 29/05/1917 in the 3rd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Transferred as a Second Lieutenant 2nd Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment 28046, New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 6/05/1918. Born to Edmund and Florence Hindlesmith on 27/07/1889 in Dunedin, New Zealand where he spent 14 years prior to emigrating to London. Married Doris Beard in Hornsey, North London on 6 June 1918 and left for the front the next day. Wounded 29/09/1918 with gun shot wound to head and Died of Wounds on 1/10/1918. Buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph with detailed records of service available.

HINDLESMITH, H. B. 332. Sergeant.

HOBBS, Charles R. Private KEH. Driver then Gunner Royal Field Artillery 47237 and entered France 19/09/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 84th Brigade RFA in 1915 later Captain. Born in Hastings the son of Reverend J. Hobbs and lived in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. Died in 1966 in Bristol, UK. Student at Cambridge University. Noted as having served with KEH prior to RFA in wedding notice as best man at the wedding of Second Lieutenant Kenneth W. Pain 1915 also ex-KEH and RFA. Portrait photograph in RFA (IWM HU 115689) available. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

HOMANN, Leslie Roy. 1406. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred to Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Section) as a gunner reported in the Chronicles of the NZEF 2/05/1915. 7th Battalion, Tank Corps as Acting Serjeant 69846. Born 7/04/1887 in Nelson, New Zealand and died 21/11/1963 in Stratford, Taranaki, New Zealand. Awarded 1914/15 Star Trio.

IZARD, Theodore Arthur (Pongo). Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 6/12/1914 in the KEH and promoted to Lieutenant in 1915 later Captain before transferring at that rank to the Machine Gun Corps. Entered France 21/04/1915 as a Second Lieutenant. Born 20/10/1882 in the Bay of Islands, New Zealander. Prior service as a Lieutenant in 'B' Squadron the Amuri Mounted Rifles (North Canterbury Mounted Rifles) 1909-11. Named in KEH photograph taken at Longford in 1915 as a Lieutenant from the Old Comrades Association Bulletin. Became an Assistant District Officer in Nigeria, West Africa. British War Medal sold at auction in the UK in 2010. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

JACOB, Arthur Cecil. Private. From Fielding, New Zealand. Student at Cambridge University and likely to have been in University Troop. Entered France 29/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 65th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Born in 1890 the son of William Frederick and Henrietta Marie Jacob of Te Marama, Kiwitea, Fielding, educated at Whanganui Collegiate College. Address for receipt of 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal provided as 14 O'Connell Street, Auckland, New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

JEFFERY, Sidney William. 1831. Private. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

JOHNSTON, Guy Featherston. 2KEH Farrier Serjeant may have served KEH prior. Served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant 1363 with 8th Company, 4th New Zealand Contingent Left Wing 19/06/1901 after four years in 'D' Battery, New Zealand Artillery. Sailed on the 'Gymeric' 31/03/1900. Captain in the New Zealand Militia in 1902. After serving in France with 2KEH returned to New Zealand as a Lieutenant 12701 in the 13th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 15/12/1915 with an embarkation Date 27 May 1916 on HMNZT 54 'Willochra'. From Wellington, New Zealand in Boer War and Auckland in WW1. Born 2/9/1872 the son of Hon. C. J. Johnston, MP, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand and died 2/01/1941.Brother of Brigadier-General Francis Earl Johnston, CB KIA 7/08/1917. Born in Wellington, he was educated in England. Joining the British Army, he served with the Prince of Wales’s North Staffordshire Regiment in the Sudan and later in the Second Boer War in South Africa. In New Zealand on secondment to the New Zealand Military Forces when the First World War began, he was posted to the NZEF as commander of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. He led the brigade through most of the Gallipoli Campaign. Later, on the Western Front, he commanded the 1st Infantry Brigade and, for a brief period, the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He died as a result of sniper fire on 7 August 1917, one of three New Zealand brigadier generals killed during the war. Lieutenant Johnston noted as serving in the 2KEH in the Taranaki Herald 1/10/1914. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

JONES, Fred. 445. Lance Corporal. From New Zealand. KIA 13/03/1918. Accidentally killed in a railway accident. Buried in ST. GERMAIN-AU-MONT-D'OR COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

KELLY, . Private. Footballer from Wellington. One of three possible Kelly's in Nominal Roll.

KINDER, Thomas Harry. Private. A son of Mr Harry Kinder who lived in Arney Road in Remuera, Thomas had his secondary education at Wanganui Collegiate where he served as head prefect in his last year. He then went to study at Caius College in Cambridge. When war was declared, he signed up with KEH and transferred to the 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and went to France. He was killed in action at the Somme on the 3 July 1916. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Authuile, Somme, France and by a memorial plaque, St Mark’s Anglican Church, 95 Remuera Road, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. 

KING, Charles Stanley. Private 2KEH. Served with pre-war KEH from 1911 whilst a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. Entered France 10/09/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery later Lieutenant. .Awarded Military Cross as Forward Observation Officer at the Battle of Loos. Mentioned in Despatches. Born in 1890 and educated at Hutchins School, Tasmania, Australia and died in Montagu Bay, Tasmania 26/04/1959. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

KINGSFORD, Arthur. 979. Serjeant. From New Zealand. Entered France 5/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 176th Tunneling Company, Royal Engineers 10/09/1915. Later Acting Captain. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

KRO(U)GH, Henry (Shorty) Charles. 1377. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant. 'A' Squadron. Born in 1896 in Napier, New Zealand. Awarded Military Medal as a Lance Corporal for actions at Vieille Chapelle Nov 1918. Discharged 19/10/1919. Died 3/06/1967 in Rotorua, New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

LIGHTBOUND, Austin. 9. Serjeant 'A' Squadron. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 8th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment 12/03/1916 later Captain. Entered France 1/06/1915. Mentioned in Despatches 4/01/1917. Invalided out of service. Born in New Zealand. Commemorated on the Merseyside Roll of Honour and Auckland Online Cenotaph.

MACONNELL, Connal. Trooper. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

MACDONALD, Ritchie. 2019. Private 2KEH. Injured in fall from horse in training in Kilkenny, Ireland in 1916. From Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. Born 8/09/1895 in Scotland and died 14/03/1987 in Auckland, New Zealand. Was a politician of the Labour Party. Would have been one of the last 2KEH to have passed away. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph as incorrectly having served KEH.

MACDOUGALL, Thomas M. 990 Private. From New Zealand. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 18th Battalion London Regiment 5/03/1916.

MACINTOSH, Herbert. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant (SQMS). 3rd (New Zealand) Troop of ‘D’ Squadron (British African) of the 4th City of London (King’s Colonials) Imperial Yeomanry. Born in Nelson, New Zealand on 2/12/1870 and served with the King’s Colonials from 1902 until 1906 and died in Christchurch on 10/12/1956. He married Alice Maude Barker in 1897 in England and they had two sons. An engineer by profession, he returned to England for a holiday in 1939. SQMS MacIntosh wrote proudly in the Old Comrades Association Bulletin in 1946 that he still prized owning his tunic and was disappointed not to be able to wear it and ride in the Procession as part of the Christchurch Centennial Celebrations in 1950 (The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Old Comrades Association Bulletin. 18: 18, 1951). The Full Dress tunic he wore is shown in Figures 60-66. See photograph under Nominal Roll entry.

McCOMB, William (Will) Collingwood. 806. Private. Born in 1881 in England, enlisted Legion of Frontiersman in 1909 in Liverpool. Discharged KEH 8/04/1919. Owned a printery in Auckland in 1950. Died 17/02/1961 in Auckland. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

McCONNOL, . Private 2KEH.

McCORMACK, Percy James. 1278. Serjeant. (Possibly photograph Figure 23). Awarded Military Medal 20/08/1919 as a Corporal. Discharged 17/06/1919. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Also known as Percy James McCallum. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

McDOUALL, Philip Hastings. 959. Lance Serjeant. Acting Corporal. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 185th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers 29/01/1916 later Lieutenant. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 7/07/1919). Born on 29/08/1884 in Ammaroo, New Zealand and died in Alphington, Exeter, England 17/04/1978. Attended Waitaki High School, educated with a Bachelor of Engineering and serving KEH December 1914. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and applied for from Alphington, Exeter.

McKEAN, Archie. 384. Serjeant. From New Zealand. Entered France 22/04/1915. Wounded at the Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Rank of Acting Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant on medals. Discharged 19/04/19. Photograph on www.kingedwardshorse.net. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

McLEAN, Frank S. Private KEH. From Wanganui, New Zealand. Student at Cambridge University. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 117th Brigade Royal Field Artillery (RFA). Disembarked for France 20/09/1915. Lieutenant RFA on British War Medal and Victory Medal roll. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

McLEAN, John A. 780. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Army Service Corps 26/07/1918. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

MOUTRAY-READ, Hugh Arthur. Private 2KEH. Noted as being at camp with 2KEH at Melton Hutments near Woodbridge, Suffolk. Born 15/03/1876 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England one of six children (three boys and three girls) born to Colonel John Moutray Read and Edith Isabelle Read. Lived in Auckland, New Zealand and worked as reporter. Married Florence Jane Islip in 1904 in Lambeth, London. Served in Boer War arriving in South Africa 20/01/1900 on SS 'Waiwera' as a Private, 529, 1st Company, New Zealand Mounted Rifles (NZMR), 2nd Contingent. Awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps Johannesberg, Cape Colony and Orange Free State (with correspondence on entitlement to Diamond Hill clasp) and King's South Africa medal with class South Africa 1901-02. Discharged from NZMR 20/06/1900 and then served as a Private with the with South African (Transvaal) Constabulary after discharge from 2nd Contingent. Living in Folkestone, England in 1906 and died in 1939. His brother Captain Anketell Moutray-Read VC (1884–1915) was born on 27/10/ 1884 and was commissioned in the Gloucestershire Regiment in November 1903 and served in India until 1911. While in India he was the Army’s heavyweight boxing champion eight times and middleweight twice. On the outbreak of WWI, he was transferred to France with the 9th Lancers. Wounded in September 1914 during an engagement on the Aisne, he recovered and returned to France with the 1st Northamtonshire Regiment in May 1915. Captain Read’s citation read: "On 25th September 1915 near Hulluch, France, Captain Read, although partially gassed, went out several times in order to rally parties of different units which were disorganized and retiring. He led them back into the firing line and regardless of danger to himself, moved about under withering fire, encouraging them, but he was mortally wounded while carrying out this gallant work." He was buried in the Dud Corner Cemetery at Loos. As he had never married, his Victoria Cross was presented to his mother at Buckingham Palace by King George V on November 29, 1916. His VC is held in the Northamptonshire Regimental Museum, Abington Park, Northamptonshire. Hugh is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

MUIR, James McLean. 287. Lance Corporal. Enlisted at White City, London.  KIA 10/08/1915. Born in Kinross, Scotland and emigrated to South Dunedin, New Zealand. Entered France 4/05/1915. Buried at LA PLUS DOUVE FARM CEMETERY, Hainaut, Belgium. Gratuity claimed by Miss Maud McLean Muir. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

NATHAN, Harold Lawrence. Private KEH. From Auckland, New Zealand. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery. Entered France 9/04/1916. Later Captain. May have been Mentioned in Despatches but no record found as noted on Medal Index Card. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

NICCOL, George (Tally) McLaughlin. 499. Private KEH. Entered France 22/07/1915, Acting Captain Royal Field Artillery 91st Brigade, 20th Division. Mentioned in Despatches 18/05/1917 and awarded Military Cross. Died in England 30/10/1918 of Spanish flu exacerbated due to the effects of being gassed twice and is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery, London. Son of Ada Beatrice and George Turnbull Niccol of Auckland, New Zealand and husband of Enid Norma Reed, whom he married in New Zealand, 1918. He attended King's College from 1898 to 1900 and is commemorated in their Roll of Honour. George Niccol appears on the list of New Zealanders in other forces. Born in Auckland in 1888 he entered Auckland Grammar School in 1900. Commemorated Devenport School, Auckland. Auckland Online Cenotaph has good detail and photographs from his family. He is also in a group photograph of Aucklanders in the KEH under John Hellaby in the Nominal Roll.

NORTHCOTE, Thomas (Tom) Francis. 324. Private. Enlisted KEH 4/08/1914 aged 18. Corporal 13/11/1914. Sergeant KEH 27/12/1914. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 25/05/1915. Went to France Jan 1916. Transferred to Royal Flying Corps Sep 1916 as an Observer/Air Gunner. Wounded by machine gun bullet to the leg in aerial combat Jan 1917. Returned to flying Nov 1917. Mentioned in Despatches. Discharged 20/08/1919. Lieutenant on British War Medal and Victory Medal. Attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge and likely to been in University Troop KEH. Born 10/04/1894 in Wellington, New Zealand and died 15/06/1977 in Christchurch. Photograph as Second Lieutenant KEH available on www.kingedwardshorse.net

OLIVER, Charles Frederick. 424. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Chronicles of the NZEF of 2/05/1917 notes that he has been wounded and is in hospital in France. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Tank Corps 23/10/1918. Awarded Military Medal. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and medals applied for from an address in Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand.

PERRY, C. M. Private. From Masterton, New Zealand. Army Lists note he served as Lieutenant 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles 1912-1918. Service with KEH noted in list of New Zealander's serving with Imperial Forces.

PHILLIPS, Ernest Ivor. 238. Private. Born in 1890 in Christchurch, New Zealand as recorded on Attestation papers. Enlisted pre-war KEH 11/06/1913 and attended annual training camp. Discharged as medically unfit 13/08/1914. Re-enlisted South Irish Horse and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 30/07/1915 and later promoted to Temporary Lieutenant. Died 20/03/1937 in Bath, Somerset, England. Brother of Horace Vivian Phillips 237 KEH who was born in London. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

PINCKNEY John (Jack) William. 505. Corporal, Lieutenant KIA 11/04/1918 aged 23 in defence of Vieille Chapelle. Entered France 21/04/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 14/09/1915. Born in 1895 in Orari Bridge, Canterbury, New Zealand. Son of George and Edith Howard Pinckney, of Waikaia, Southland, New Zealand. Buried in BAILLEUL ROAD EAST CEMETERY, ST. LAURENT-BLANGY, FRANCE. Name commemorated on plaque in St Peters Church, Buntingford, East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK.

PRYCE, E. O. Private. From Halcombe, New Zealand. Studied at Cambridge University and likely to have been in the University Troop. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery. Entered France 6/08/1915. Temporary Lieutenant 2/11/1917 later Major on British War Medal and Victory Medal Rolls. Awarded Military Cross 3/05/1919 as Temporary Lieutenant.

PYE, Allan. 1154. Private. From New Zealand. Wounded at Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 27/03/1919. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal.

RIDGEWAY, William Kemp. 1593. Private KEH. From New Zealand. Enlisted 28/07/1916 in Longford with Reserve Squadron after service with New Zealand forces having resigned to serve overseas 14/03/1916. Discharged 19/03/1917 through illness and awarded Silver War Badge #39056.  Born in 1889  the son of Thomas Gamage Ridgeway who was living in Surrey, England post-war. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

ROBBIE, Alexander Bertram. 1053. Private. From New Zealand. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 4/01/1918. Born 17/10/1881 in New Plymouth, New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand and died 19/01/1951 in Waitomo, Waikato, New Zealand. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ROBERTON, James Basil Wilkie. Private KEH. Born 29/01/1896 at Wright St-Clair, Auckland, New Zealand. Studied at King's College, Auckland and then started in medicine at Cambridge University 1913. Likely to have served with the University Troop of KEH. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Wounded twice and served as a Signal Officer in France and Italy. Awarded Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1918. After returning to Cambridge after the war he became a doctor in civilian life in New Zealand. He then served as a Major in World War 2 attached to the Headquarters of the New Zealand Medical Corps, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Service Number 462018. Was an authority on Maori history and culture. Died aged 99 January 1996 at Te Awamutu, Waikato. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

ROGERS, Harry William. 1440. Lance Corporal. Killed in action 9/04/1918 at Defence of Vieille Chapelle. Buried in VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE, FRANCE. Lance Corporal Harry William Rogers KEH was born in Feilding, New Zealand and grew up in South Africa and is commemorated on a grave in Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

RUSSELL, George Gray. Lieutenant Colonel. Born in New Zealand and attended Wanganui Collegiate School and then University of Cambridge from 1902. He served in the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps prior to joining the Oxford University Troop of the King's Colonials. He appears on the 1910 Officers Nominal Roll as a Second Lieutenant and was promoted to Captain on the 5/11/1912.  As Major Russell he commanded 'A' Squadron of King Edward's Horse in France before being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in command of the combined KEH.  He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order 4/02/1918 and Mentioned in Dispatches three times. Lieutenant Colonel Russell died on the 7 August 1965. See Nominal Roll entry for photograph taken as a Captain circa 1912-August 1914. Captain in 1915 see Figures 19 and 135. A solicitor in civilian life.  

SAUNDERS, Ernest Valdrent. 1265. Lance Corporal. 4th Troop 'B' Squadron. KIA 9/04/18 at Defence of Vieille Chapelle from direct hit from minewerfer shell on Hotchkiss gun team he was in charge of. Buried in the CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, FRANCE. Awarded Queens South Africa Medal (Orange Fee State, Cape Colony and Transvaal clasps) and King's South Africa Medal, British War Medal and Victory Medal, Croix de Guerre (Belgium) as a Lance Corporal KEH. Prior service as Trooper 1435 New South Wales Imperial Bushmen Mounted Rifles and Quarter Master Serjeant 3080 Canadian Scouts. Born in 1875 the son of Alfred Godfrey Saunders and Anna Connell in Hereford, England and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

SHENNAN, Watson Douglas. 508. Lance Corporal KEH. Captain Royal Engineers. Born 30 June 1887 in Dunedin, New Zealand where his father Watson Shennan was a prominent pastoralist in Otago. Student at Cambridge University 1908 and joined the University Troop of the King's Colonials. Obituary notes he was serving with them in 1909. He became a Barrister in London. Re-enlisted KEH aged 27 on 8/08/1914 at Alexandra Palace. 17/11/1914 appointed Lance Corporal. 4/02/1915 commissioned Second Lieutenant Signalling Section of the Royal Engineers, 47th (London) Division. Entered France Jun 1915. Promoted to Lieutenant 8/04/1916 and Captain 8/06/1918 Royal Engineers. Awarded Military Cross at Loos 26/09/1915 and Mentioned in Despatches 30/11/1915. After the Armistice saw service in Egypt. Came to South Australia in 1921 via New Zealand and took over a vineyard at Modbury. Married Miss Florence Ellison, of Melbourne and had two children, Richard and Mary. He died in Melbourne on 25/10/1937. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. See Nominal Roll for portrait photograph whilst serving with the Royal Engineers.

SHERMAN, W. D. Private. no records found. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

SMEETON, Warwick James. Private KEH. 3rd Troop 'C' Squadron in Aug 1914. After 4 months transferred to 13th Battery, 123rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (RFA). Entered France 28/07/1915. Promoted to Captain then Major. Awarded Military Cross. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 11/12/1917). Born in Auckland, New Zealand on 29/09/1895 and died 1/11/1970 in Waikato, New Zealand. Attended St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Waikato and was in the School Cadets for 7 years. Arrived in England 9/05/1914 on a family holiday. Noted in article in the New Zealand Herald 14/12/1914 as serving in the KEH and then in the Auckland Star 10/02/1915 as commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the RFA. Lieutenant Colonel in New Zealand Staff Corps in WW2. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

STEWART, John (Jack) Francis. 1376. Corporal. 'A' Squadron. Wounded at the Defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 5/04/1919. Of Maori heritage, born in 1894 the son of David (Heta Reweti) Stewart and Emere (Emily) Apanui Mair from Thames, North Island of New Zealand. Died in Auckland, New Zealand 18/10/1968. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. A younger brother David (Pareiha) Apanui Stewart was born in 1895 and Died of Wounds received at Gallipoli with the 6th Hauraki Company, New Zealand Maori Contingent and was buried at sea 16/08/1915 while being evacuated to Lemnos Island. Photograph of John Stewart shown under Nominal Roll entry (courtesy of Derek Wignall shared on Ancestry). Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

SUNDERLAND, Geoffrey. 509. Sergeant. 'C' Squadron KEH. Served with pre-war KEH whilst attending Cambridge University as part of the University Troop. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in 'C' Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Feb 1916 later Captain. Wounded at the battle of High Wood in Aug 1916, and invalided to England returning to to France June 1917. KIA 24/09/1918 at Gricourt, St Quentin. Born 21 May 1889 in Swarthmoor, Poverty Bay, New Zealand. Enlisted 1914. Son of John William and Agnes Henrietta Sunderland; husband of Grace Lilian Sunderland of Ambletts Cottage, Chithurst, Petersfield, Hants (married 3/10/1916) Buried at BERTHAUCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, PONTRU, Aisne, France.

TOMLINSON,  David Mitchell. 75. Private 2KEH. Died of wounds received on active service 13/05/1916. His name was recorded in the General Headquarters Casualty List published in the press on 22/05/1916. He was 37 years of age, and his progress in the army had been rapid and striking. He joined as a Private in the 2KEH, early in the war and entered France 9/07/1915, and was soon advanced to Lance-Corporal. After 6 months he was awarded a commission in the 13th Battalion Royal Scots and so rapid was his promotion that at the time of his death, 14 months later, he had reached the rank of Major. Son of Thomas and Annie P. Tomlinson, of New Zealand. Mentioned in Despatches. He was educated in New Zealand, and was an Associate in mining of Otago University School of Mines. He also held a B.Sc. in metallurgical engineering of New Zealand University. In 1906, Mr. Tomlinson went to New South Wales in the capacity of assayer at the cyanide works of the Australia Gold Recovery Co. at Lucknow, and remained in the district until 1908, when he went northwards to Queensland to take up an appointment as manager of a gold mine at Gympie, which he held for about a year. He then returned to New South Wales, and while he was there passed the State examination for a certificate as mine manager. His last appointment, which he held from May, 1910, until April, 1914, was that of geologist to the Collbran-Bostwick Development Co. at Doten, Korea. He had been in London for about three months when war broke out and evoked his prompt response to the country’s demand for volunteers. Buried at BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Biography courtesy of the Northern Mines Research Society.

WATSON, W. E. Sergeant. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

WHITCOMBE, E. A. H. Private. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force.

WILDING, A. F. Second Lieutenant King's Colonials 4/08/1905 recorded in 'Hart's Annual Army List' 1908. From New Zealand.

WILLIAMS, Samuel (Sam) Roy. 184. Corporal. From New Zealand. Served pre-war KEH. 3rd Troop, 'C' Squadron Aug 1914. Entered France 28/07/1915. 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron 1916. Discharged 28/02/1919. Educated at Huntley School, Wanganui Collegiate School and Caius College, Cambridge. Born Pukehous 7/02/1893 the son of William Temple of "Te Aute" Station and Annie Matilda Sophia (nee Puckey) Williams. At Cambridge when war broke out and served in France, Ireland and Italy with the KEH 'C' Squadron entirely made up of Oxford & Cambridge men. Came back to NZ in Oct 1919 farmed at Hawkesbury College then settled on Mangakuri Station at Hawkes Bay on the Mangakuri river originally purchased by his grandfather Rev Samuel Williams. Married: Joyce daughter of Patrick Burr farmer of Pakowhai NZ 4/07/1924 and had two sons John Samuel, Patrick and one daughter Jennifer Mary. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

WILLIAMS, Selwyn Coldham. Private. Transferred to Royal Field Artillery, 189th Brigade, 'C' Battery and promoted to Lieutenant. "At School here from the beginning of 1906, left with a number of others in May 1912, to go to Cambridge. While there he joined King Edward's Horse, and being liable for service abroad, expected to be called upon immediately the war broke out. With others, however, he was given a commission in the R.F.A., and for a time did special work at Home before going to France. He saw active service near Armentieres, in September 1915, but was invalided home again in the following January. Returning in April to the Somme front, he was associated with the New Zealanders in the attack on Fleurs, where, on his senior officer being wounded, he took command of his battery, and was recommenced [sic] for a decoration, which was never granted. His unit was later moved to some other part of the front, where he was killed on January 18th, 1917." (In Memoriam, 1914-1918 [Wanganui Collegiate School]). He is buried in Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

YOUNGHUSBAND, Leigh Norman. Trooper. Transferred to Royal Field Artillery and promoted to Major. Mentioned in Despatches. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

British West Indies

Members of King Edward's Horse (not noted against rank) and 2nd King Edward's Horse (specifically noted as 2KEH against rank) known to have left Trinidad for England in the Great War with whereabouts in 1946 if known (King Edward's Horse Senior and Junior Old Comrades Association Bulletin 14: 1947) and names from Caribbean Roll of Honour with contingent number.

To England before 18/10/15

BISHOP, Wilfred. Private KEH. Commissioned as a Temporary Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion Border Regiment then transferred to the 11th Battalion after training with Inns of Court Officer's Training Corps 25/10/1916. DoW 06/07/1917 from indirect machine gun fire whilst on a working party midnight 5/07/1917 in the Nieuport sector. Eldest son of the late Clement Bishop and Emily Maud Garcia born 24/04/1884 in Oxford Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Buried in RAMSCAPPELLE ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, Belgium. Commemorated on Port of Spain Cenotaph. Educated at the College of the Immaculate Conception (now called St Mary's College) in Trinidad. Portrait photograph shown of Second Lieutenant Bishop in the uniform of the Border Regiment circa 1916 courtesy of Angela Owens, Ancestry. 

DIAS, Stephen Smeethe. 1454. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as  Private Tank Corps 112182. KIA 23/08/1918. Born on 10/06/1888 in Jamaica, West Indies the son of David Mortimer Dias and Medora Jane Dias, of Trelawney, Jamaica. Buried in CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, FRANCE. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps. 

 HERRERA, Lionel Ralph Martin. 949. Private KEH. Entered France 1/06/1915 and served with them until 30/03/1917. Private 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers 59126 from 12/10/1917 until 14/10/1917 then 24th Battalion 15/10/1917 until discharge on 21/03/1919. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on 30/01/1897 and left Trinidad for UK before 18/10/1915. Living in Trinidad in 1946. Died 28/06/1977 in Perth, Western Australia. Photograph available on www.kingedwardshorse.net

LANGE, Marc. 1094. Private KEH. Royal Fusiliers G/59466, Private 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment G/26244, Sapper Royal Engineers 361856 with Field Survey Corps. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad 29/07/1887 and left Trinidad for UK before 18/10/1915. Living in Trinidad in 1946.

JOHNSTONE, Robert Philip. 1312. Private KEH then 2KEH. Enlisted 23/12/1914. Entered France 5/05/1915. Discharged 2/09/1916 due to wounds with Silver War Badge 177,131. Awarded OBE for cultural activities in Trinidad. Born in 1890 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and died in 1967. Brother of Corporal Romer Johnstone, 1316 KEH. Awarded 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medals. Information courtesy of Helen Pollock.

SHORT, Walter Mayhow Burgoyne. 1549. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 9/05/1918. Later Lieutenant KEH. Left Trinidad for UK before 18/10/1915. Prior service with Royal North West Mounted Police. Born in Trinidad in 1893, living their in 1946 and died in 1951 in England.

Left Trinidad for England 18/10/15:               

BALFOUR, Cecil. 1298. Corporal KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Served with KEH 21/09/1916 until 11/11/1918. Military Mounted Police P/12933. Awarded Military Medal Nov 1917. Living in Canada 1946.

BYNOE, Clive Vickers. B/200735. Private 2KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 8/12/1915 and claimed prior service Trinidad Light Horse. Entered France 29/11/1916, gassed and discharged medically unfit 31/05/1917. Repatriated 27/07/1917. Tried to re-enlist with 15th Contingent 20/03/1918 but rejected. Born in San Fernando, Trinidad in 1895.

CAMPBELL, James Alphonse. 1311. Private KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged 5/07/1919. Living in Trinidad in 1946.

CLARKE, Stanley Radcliffe. 1855. Private 2KEH. From Trinidad with 1st Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent 18/10/1915. Transferred as a Private Northumberland Fusiliers 61215 then Private Tank Corps 302872.

COLLINS,  Victor Leon Monier. 1308. Lance Corporal. Killed in Action in France at Defence of Vieille Chapelle 09/04/1918. Son of F. A. Collins, Deputy Registrar of the Courts, Trinidad. Born 25/09/1896 at Port of Spain. Educated Queens Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sailed with the 1st Caribbean Merchants and Planters Contingent on 18/10/1915. Buried in the CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, France. Commemorated on Port of Spain Cenotaph. Awarded 1914/15 Star medal trio. Photograph from Jerome Lee's Caribbean Roll of Honour under Nominal Roll entry.

DE GANNES, Raphael. 1302. Private. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron Jun 1917. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Wounded Bourlon Wood 26/11/17. Discharged 8/10/1918.

DE NOBRIGA, Joseph Oliver. 1295. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 6/111/1915. Served with machine gun section. Discharged medically unfit 14/08/1918 with Silver War Badge, B24035 awarded and returned to Trinidad 6/11/1918. Born in Trinidad in 1897 and died there prior to 1946.

DE SOUSA, Alexander Ramsay. 1306. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged 3/11/1919. Brother of George De Souza, 1305.

DE SOUSA, George. 1305. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Taken prisoner of war 9/04/1918 and returned to England 20/11/1918. Discharged 5/07/1919. Brother of Alexander Ramsay De Souza, 1306.

DE VERTEUIL, Leo. 1828. Private KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 5/11//1915. Transferred to Tank Corps as Lance Corporal 302933 7/08/1917. Transferred to 4th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers 27/09/1917. Transferred Royal Army Medical Corps 17/01/1918. Discharged 29/03/1919. Born 1894 in Brasso, Trinidad.

FAHEY, Frederick O'Brien. 1315. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Served in France and Italy, gassed. Discharged physically unfit 13/06/1919. Born in Trinidad in Jul 1891 and noted as living there in 1946.

FERREIRA, Edwin Lionel. 1296. Private. From Trinidad having sailed 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Served in France and Italy. Discharged to Reserve 13/04/1919. Died Sep 1948 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Named in photograph of Hotchkiss Gun team at Valhuon 1916 see Figure 22. Brother potentially Private Albert Joseph Ferreira, 2nd/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment, 2nd Contingent.

GALT, Kenneth Victor. 1309. Private. 'A' Squadron. From Trinidad having sailed 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Wounded at Savy Wood near Arras, France on 22/3/17. Transferred to the Reserve 15/07/1919. Born on 4/10/1894 in Chaguanas, Trinidad, British West Indies and died Aug 1979 in Monticello, Piatt, Illinois, USA.

GONZALES, Andres. 1307. Private KEH. Private Labour Corps 414475. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Died in Trinidad in 1945.

HALE, William. 1294. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 15/03/1918 then Lieutenant, Labour Corps. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Awarded Member of the British Empire medal.

INCE, Louis. 1299. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 9/11/1915. Returned 07/1916 upon discharge as medically unfit with chronic lung disease. Born 1896 in Trinidad. Living in USA in 1946.

JOHNSTONE, Romer Frank. 1316. Corporal. 'B' Squadron. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted Nov 1915 and entered France 30/12/1916. Wounded Ypres 1917 and Battle of Lys 04/1918. Discharged 8/06/1919. Born in 1881 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago. Died in 1963 in San Fernando General Hospital, Trinidad. Brother of Private Robert Philip Johnstone OBE, 1312 KEH and then 2KEH. Information courtesy of Helen Pollock.

KNOX, Wilfred Sidney. 1826. Private 2KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Private Northumberland Fusiliers 61244, Private Royal Army Ordnance Corps 043721. Discharged to the Reserve 21/02/1919. Did not serve in France and entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Born 29/05/1895 and died in Goodwood, Trinidad and Tobago. Brother of Harold (Harry) Dudley Knox, 1827.

KNOX, Harold (Harry) Dudley. 1827. Private 2KEH. 'A' Squadron. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. DoW 3/06/1917 aged 22. Born in 1895 the son of William and Celeste Knox, of William's Ville, Trinidad, British West Indies and educated at St. Mary's College, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Buried at DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN, Pas de Calais, France. Brother of Wilfred Sidney Knox, 1826. Portrait photograph shown under Nominal Roll entry.

McINROY, William. 1330. Lance Corporal. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent and discharged 14/04/1919. Died in Scotland prior to 1946.

O'CONNOR, Brian. 1300. Lance Corporal. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent and discharged 3/11/1919. Wrote a vivid account as a machine gunner in the fighting at the Defence of Vieille Chapelle in 'Letters from the Front (From the War Memorial Number, CIC St. Mary's College Annual, 1919). Born 18/02/1895 in Caura, Trinidad, British West Indies and died 23/01/1984 in San Fernando, Trinidad. Brother of Roderick O'Connor, 1301.

O'CONNOR, Roderick. 1301. Private. 'A' Squadron. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent, wounded at Defence of Vieille Chapelle and discharged 5/07/1919. Born 12/09/1889 in Trinidad where he died in Feb 1970. Brother of Brian O'Connor, 1300.

RODRIGUEZ, George Harold. 1304. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged 8/07/1919.

SEHEULT, Andre. 1310. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent and discharged 3/11/1919. Died in Trinidad. Brother of Robert Seheult.

SEHEULT, Robert.1303. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent and discharged 30/07/1919. Died in Trinidad in 1946. Brother of Andre Seheult.

SELLIER, Numa Joseph. 1839. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 18/11/1915. Transferred to RAF Private 139295. Discharged medically unfit. Repatriated. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent. Born 1887 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and died there in 1947.

To England after 1917:

AGOSTINI, Edgar Barnard. Private. Oxford University OTC then KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 17/10/1917 with 11th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Home service 08/1917 to 11/11/1918. Did not serve overseas as was born in 1900 and too young. Living in USA in 1946.

AGOSTINI, J. Leon. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 5/06/1917 with 6th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent.

BELGRAVE, Donald Carlisle. 76098. Private 2KEH. Left Trinidad for UK with 7th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 2/08/1917 1st Hussars then transferred to Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry 32111 on 18/04/1919 then the Sherwood Rangers. Discharged 26/12/1919. Born on 7/07/1896 in Georgetown, British Guiana and died in New York, USA on 8/11/1947. Granted an Army pension as a result of contracting malaria during military service in Egypt. Awarded Silver War Badge 454,860.

COLLINS, V. N. Trinidad

CONTANT, Lionel E. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 20/03/1918 with 15th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Living in USA in 1946.

COX, Hampden Trevor Ashby. 2090. Private. Left Trinidad with 10th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent 3/10/1917. Prior service with the Naparima Light Horse. Born in Barbados, West Indies on 9/03/1895. Died of pneumonia whilst serving in in Ireland 09/05/18. Buried in GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY, Ireland. 

ESPINDULA, Felix. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 27/05/1918 with 16th Caribbean Planters and Merchants Contingent. Living in Trinidad in 1946.

HAMEL-SMITH, Eugene Sidney. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 3/10/1917 with 10th Caribbean Merchants and Planters Contingent. Brothers Lionel Hamel-Smith, 14th Contingent served with King's Royal Rifles and Arnold Harcourt Hamel-Smith, 1st Contingent served as a Second Lieutenant 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment before transferring to the RAF. Eugene died in Trinidad.

HATT, Ernest Leslie. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 20/03/1918 with the 15th Caribbean Merchants and Planters Contingent. Served in Dublin.

MARQUES Noble. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 20/03/1918 with 15th Caribbean Merchants and Planters Contingent. Living in Trinidad in 1946.

SELLIER, Ferdinand. Private. 15th Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent. Residing in the USA in 1946.

SOWLEY, Sidney Carlton. 1099. Private. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 17/05/1915 at Bishops Stortford and entered France 14/09/1915. Posted as Missing in Action at Defense of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918. Interred as a Prisoner of War in Germany from 11/04/1918 - 18/11/1918. Discharged 17/04/1919 with address of 52 Albany Rd, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Member of the St Andrew Company of the Jamaica Reserve Regiment prior to departing to England to enlist in May 1915. Born on 29/11/1893 in Kingston, Surrey, Jamaica and died 4/05/1984 in South Miami, Miami-Dade, Florida, USA. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

SPENCER, Hugh. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 20/03/1918 with 15th Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent.

THREADKELL, Edwin. Private 2KEH. Born in Trinidad. 27/06/1917 traveled to England to enlist with 7th Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent. Served in Ireland.

South Americans who served in the KEH/2KEH - (KEH unless individual is specifically denoted as 2KEH)

A list of Anglo-Argentine Railway men who came to England to enlist has been used to extract the majority of the following names. These men were entitled to a special lapel badge as per Army Order no 1067, War Office dated 27 September 1918.

1. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of a special badge to be worn by those officers and soldiers who were residing in South America (inc. Central America and Mexico) at the outbreak of the war and who voluntarily came to this country to join the Army.

2. The badge consists of the letters B.V.L.A. (British Volunteer Latin America) in a diamond worked in yellow on a blue ground. It will be worn on the right breast, immediately above the breast pocket of the service dress jacket.

BOWEN, Horace Courthorpe. 628 Corporal KEH. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 7/09/1914 at Watford. Entered France 21/04/1915. Promoted to Lance Corporal 1/03/1917. Served in Italy 10/12/1917 to 9/03/1918. Taken prisoner at Defense of Vieille Chapelle 19/04/1918. Interred as a Prisoner of War from 9/04/1918 to -2/12/1918. Discharged 2/05/1919 physically unfit to parents address of 14 Castletown Road, Kensington, United Kingdom. Born in Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana in 1884. and died in 1952 in the UK. Educated at Bloxham School, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Prior service with Royal North West Mounted Police and Penang Volunteers, Malaya where he worked as a rubber planter. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CARR, Talbot (Tiny) Effingham. 921. Private. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 27/01/1915, entered France 1/06/1915 and served in Trench Mortar section. Discharged 29/05/1917 due to sickness. Served overseas. Born 1883, lived in Argentina and died there in 1968.

CHADWICK, Clifford Norman. 623. Serjeant. 4th Troop, 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Wounded at defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918. Discharged 2/03/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Born in Southern Rhodesia and died there in 1946.

CLANCY, William M. Joseph. 1297. Private KEH. Private 1/10th Battalion Liverpool Regiment 91433 in 1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Army Service Corps in 1917. Entered France 5/05/1015. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Died in hospital of meningitis 16/10/1918 aged 38. Son of John and Winifred Clancy of Moore Street, Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland. Buried in GREENWICH CEMETERY, United Kingdom.

COLE, Arthur Diggs. 900. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

COOPER, Herbert James. 735. Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Awarded Military Service Medal 3/06/1918. Discharged 22/02/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

DAVIE, Algernon M. 994. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

DAVIS, William. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged medically unfit.

DINWOODIE, Edwin Maxwell. 896. Private. 'C' Squadron. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged 27/03/1919. Lived in South America and attended third re-union in 1945. Brother Allegne Maxwell Dinwoodie was also with the Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff and served with Army Service Corps.

DODDS, Reginald Charles. 1562. Private 2KEH. Private 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 39906, Private Lancashire Fusiliers 40553, Private 11th Tank Corps 302777. Entered France 7/07/1915. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Living In Hounslow, London in 1919. 1914/15 Star medal Trio.

DOHERTY, Joseph. 1273. Private. Royal Engineers 193768, WR/126881. Did not serve in France. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

EDWARDS, Frederick (Fred). 1266. Serjeant. 3rd Troop 'A' Squadron. From Bolivia. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged 31/05/1919. Not entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Lived in South America and attended the third re-union there in 1945.

FELLGETT, Sidney James.1642. Serjeant. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

FINKLE, James. 1565. 2KEH. Corporal. Transferred as a Corporal Tanks Corps 302860 then Corporal Northumberland Fusiliers 61225. Argentinian who enlisted from Argentinian Railway staff.

GEPP, Charles William. 1322. 2KEH. Private. Enlisted at Hampton Court, London. KIA 9/07/1915. Born in Valparaiso, Chile. Buried in LA PLUS DOUVE FARM CEMETERY, Hainaut, Belgium.

GIBBS Richard Tysdall. 1456. 2KEH. Private. Enlisted 29/03/1915, entered France 5/05/1915 and discharged 16/06/1916 due to wounds. Awarded British War Badge B10540. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

GOULD, John Ringrose. 1008. 2KEH. Private. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned 2KEH 1/10/1915. Second Lieutenant then Major Royal Air Force. Wounded 8/7/16. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 15/05/1917). Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and applied for medals from West Byfleet, Surrey. Worked for the BUENOS AYRES WESTERN RAILWAY, LTD prior to enlistment.

GRIFFIN, Arthur Owen. 977. Private. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 5/04/1919. Anglo-Argentinian railway staff. Entitled to 1914-15 Star Medal trio.

HAWTON, Robert Bond. Private. Anglo-Argentinian railway staff.

HAYHOW, William (Bill). 914. Serjeant 1st Troop, 'A' Squadron. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Entered France 17/06/1916 and discharged 4/04/1919. Awarded Military Medal.

HEARNE, Guillermo. Ramon. 1233. Lance Corporal. Accidentally killed 10/10/1915. Born in Buenos Ayres, Argentina. Buried in BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD, France.

HOLTUM, Robert W. Private. Anglo-Argentinian railway staff.

HOWE, Trevor Guy. 2247. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Enlisted 6/11/1918 aged 32. Wounded and discharged 6/01/1919. Claimed Silver War Badge No. B127054.

MACDONALD, Charles Edward Victor. 617. Private. 'A' Squadron. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal as Corporal. Attended third re-union in South America in 1945.

MARR, James (Jimmy) Edward. 1511. Corporal. 2nd Section 1st Troop 'C' Squadron. Wounded in the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 23/05/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Born in Cuba and attended re-union in South America in 1946. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal.

McCRIMMON, John Thomas. 1889. Private. The Anglos South American Depot, London on 28/04/1917 on enlistment papers. Transferred as a Private 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers then as a Private 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment 26249 later 1st Battalion. Granted 90 days leave to return to Chile 25/03/1918. and British War Medal and Victory Medal issued to him in that Regiment. Discharged 26/02/1919. Born 1882 in Valperaiso, Chile, South America.

MCPHERSON, Herbert. 1210 Private. KIA 22/3/17 at Savy. Born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1878. Name commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE.Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal.

MENKENS, William Edgar. 1568. Private KEH. Serjeant Royal Engineers WR/275822, 306757. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

O'DONNEL, Charles Francis. 1587. Lance Corporal. Charles was an Irishman who came over to enlist from Argentina in 1916.  Arrived from La Plata, Argentina, into Falmouth, 20/07/1916, on the SS DRINA.  His occupation was “Traffic Inspector” and he was aged 33 years. He enlisted in the King Edwards Horse as Private 1587 in Liverpool. He then transferred to the Rifle Brigade. His entitlement was BWM and Victory Medal.  He is listed as S/29108 Private Charles F. O’Donnell on MIC and BWM and VM Roll. He served with the 13th and 2nd Rifle Brigades. He was born 25/2/1883. Unpaid L/Cpl.  KIA 17-19 November 1917. Widow was Kathleen (Bray), Rathmullen, Ireland and they had two children Charles Joseph (DOB 10/10/13) and John Patrick (DOB 7/6/17). He emigrated to Argentina shortly after his marriage in 1911. His wife joined him a year later. Their first child seems to have been born in Argentina in 1913. His second child was born in June 1917. Name commemorated on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Belgium. Information courtesy of Gerry Rogers, Charles was his great uncle.

OLIVER, Harry James Gordon. 1269. Private. 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant Tank Corps 8/10/1918. Wounded. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

PARSONS, Henry Arthur. 903. Private KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers 30/01/1918. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

PEARCE, Edward Lithgow. Lieutenant. Anglo-Argentinian railway staff.

PERRIER, James Black. 1064. Private. Enlisted at Langley Park, London. Died in service 19/01/1915. Buried at HESTON (ST. LEONARD) CHURCHYARD, Middlesex, United Kingdom. Born in Tongaz, Chile. 

RICHARDS, Richard. 1627. Private KEH. Private Royal Engineers WR/285721. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Did not serve in France and awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal.

ROBERTS, Arthur Mathias. 1038. Lance Corporal. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Enlisted 12/04/1915 and entered France 28/07/1915. Discharged on account of wounds 24/01/1917 aged 26. Awarded Silver War Badge No. B24036 (Photograph shown in Figure 20).

SHELDON, George. 1572. Private. Enlisted in Liverpool having traveled back to England from Valparaiso, Chile. KIA 25/09/1915. Name commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Belgium.

TUDOR, W. J. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

TURNER, Edward G. 1872 Private KEH. Enlisted 23/03/1916. Transferred to Machine Gun Corps Heavy Branch 7/08/1917. Private Northumberland Fusiliers (NF) 61210 27/08/1917. Transferred 7th Battalion NF 14/11/1917. Transferred as Private Tank Corps 302785 1/02/1918. Discharged 24/03/1919. Born in Nuninco, Chile in 1898.

WALROND,  George Basil Stewart. Private KEH. Commissioned in the 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry later Captain. Prior service in the Boer War. Entered France 20/05/1915. KIA 19/03/1916 and buried in Agny Military Cemetery, France. Born in 1876. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Son of the late Colonel Walrond of Dulford House, Cullomton, Devon; husband of Mabel Walrond (nee Bloxsome) of Poley Street, London.  Mentioned in Despatches and entitled to 1914-15 Star medal trio.

WARNER, Stanley (Bill) Edward. 797. Private. 'C' Squadron. Mentioned in Despatches. Anglo-Argentine Railway staff. Returned to South America and attended third South American re-union in 1945.

WEITZEL Reginald Harben Private KEH. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Deccan Horse. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

WILLIAMS, Horace N. S. 1342. Private KEH. Serjeant Tank Corps 302823. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

WILLIAMS, Ivor. 1242. Private KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Private Military Mounted Police P/14035. Discharged 11/11/1918. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

WORTHINGTON, James Edward. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff.

AAGAARD, Andrew (Anders). 1008. 'A' Squadron. Private. Entered France 22/05/1915 and commissioned Second Lieutenant, KEH on 22/02/1918. Originated from Argentina. Died in 1957. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph of him attending the third re-union of South American KEH members in 1945 available.

ABBOTT, Bertie J. 1517. Private. Born in New South Wales, Australia in 1895. Australian. Discharged to the Reserve 18/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Lived in Bauple, Queensland post-War.

ABRAHAM, Lionel Martyn. Serjeant KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 4/12/1914 (London Gazette). Entered France 24/08/1915. Wounded once. Born in July 1893 in Palmerston North, Wellington, New Zealand the son of Lionel Augustus Abraham and Constance Palgrave Martyn OBE and attended Wanganui College 1907-12. He saw service in the King Edward's Horse joining the University Squadron in 1912 when at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was living in Palmerston North, New Zealand in 1914 and returned post war. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Served as a Second Lieutenant with the 12th Company, National Reserve in New Zealand in 1940. Died in New Zealand 31/12/1986. Portrait photograph of Second Lieutenant Abraham in the Royal Field Artillery courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. 

ABSON, D. Member of KEH Old Comrades Association in 1933 with address of Shepperton, England.

ADAMS, Frank. 1913. Private. Discharged 30/10/1919. Awarded British War and Victory Medals which were re-issued in 1931.

ADAMS, Lionel L. 1433. Serjeant. Discharged 26/06/1919. Awarded British War and Victory Medals now held in a private collection with image shown of his Victory Medal when sold on electronic auction site 2013. His address was recorded as Bristol on the 1933 KEH Old Comrades Association Member's List.

ADAMS, Noel Percy. Captain. A New Zealander who served in 'A' Squadron of the King Edward's Horse from 1909 after service in command of the Cambridge University Mounted Rifles as Lieutenant. Commanded the four University troops as a Squadron. Returned to New Zealand in 1916 as Colonel of the Base Training Camp for which he was awarded the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG). Died in Clevedon, New Zealand in 1951. Referenced in KEH History. Photograph courtesy of the Auckland War Memorial.  

ADAMS, Norman (Bill) Clarke. 670. Serjeant. Entered France 20/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal West Surrey Regiment 5/02/1919. Served with 6th Battalion, Dorset Regiment (Home Guard) in WW2. Born 28/09/1886 in Reading, Berkshire, England and died in 1975 in Parkstone, Poole. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio, and 1939-45 Star and Defence Medal pair held in a private collection. Serjeant Clarke received a 'token of esteem' gift of a silver cigarette case and two pipes from the Australian members of No. 4 Troop in May 1918. Pictures of the accompanying note and case are shown on the accompanying page. His Full Dress and Service Dress marksman badges and Serjeant chevrons are shown under the KEH uniform photographs section of this website. These items and photographs are from a private collection. 

ADAMSON, W.  From Argentina - details not confirmed on MIC but noted in Old Comrades Association bulletins. 

ADDISON, Noel Goodricke. 191. Private. Born in Natal on 25/12/1892 the son of W. H. and Florence Addison, of Natal, South Africa. Educated at New College, Oxford and joined the Oxford Troop of KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 12/11/1914 and arrived in France on 1/06/1915 with 'A' Squadron KEH. Killed in action 9/04/1918 at the defence of Vieille Chapelle aged 25 as a Lieutenant. His name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France and on a plaque at New College, Oxford. Awarded a posthumous Military Cross. Mentioned in Despatches. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Lieutenant in 1915 see Figure 19.

AFFLECK, Johnson Morris. 724. Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 29/12/1916 later Lieutenant. Awarded Military Cross 18/01/1918. Born 17/10/1886 in Gateshead, England and went to St. Bees School 1900-03. Emigrated to Canada in 1906. Enlisted in British Columbia but was told his poor eyesight would preclude him from active service. Paid for his own passage to England and enlisted in KEH. Escorted German POWs back to Germany when the war ended and discharged late 1919 and returned to Canada in 1920. He died 10/1971. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

AGATE, Ronald W. 969. Private. 'A' Squadron. Canadian. Entered France 2/06/1915. Wounded in defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 17/03/1919. He died in Oct 1947 in British Columbia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

AGOSTINI, Edgar Barnard. Private. Joined Oxford University OTC then KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 17/10/1917 with 11th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Home service 08/1917 to 11/11/1918. Did not serve overseas as was too young having been born in 1900. Living in USA in 1946. Likely to be a relative of J. Leon Agostini. Named in Stonyhurst College War Record in which he enrolled in 1911.

AGOSTINI, J. Leon. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 5/06/1917 with 6th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Likely to be a relative of Edgar B. Agostini.

AINSWORTH, C. Member of KEH Old Comrades Association in 1933 with address of Oxton, Cheshire, England.

AIREY, George R. Private KEH. D/17046. Transferred to KEH from 3rd Dragoon Guards as Private D/17046. Later transferred to Corps of Dragoons as Private D/17046. Discharged 18/10/1919. Awarded British War and Victory Medals named to Corps of Dragoons.

AITCHISON, Hugh James. Lieutenant KEH. Joined as a Scottish Volunteer as Lieutenant 6th Volunteer Battalion, The Royal Scots from 1895 to 1900. He then joined the Imperial Yeomanry as Sergeant, 12559 being promoted in the field to Lieutenant. He served with the 70th (Sharpshooters) Company, 18th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and awarded a QSA with four clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and Rhodesia. He was also awarded a KSA with two clasps. His address for his medals was recorded as Elsmwood, Loanhead, Midlothian, Scotland. He stayed in South Africa after the Boer war in the Thaba Nuchu Commando through to the 1914 Rebellion and then in German East Africa from May 1916 with the 9th South African Horse as Serjeant, 2991 then Lieutenant. He then served as a Lieutenant in France with the KEH and was Mentioned in Despatches in October 1918. In the Second World War, he was a Captain in the Reserve Brigade, South African army from 1940 to 1943. Awarded Efficiency Decoration in 1940. Born 1/07/1877 in Loanhead, Scotland and died on 22/11/1944 in Likatlong, Orange Free State, South Africa. Photographs of Hugh in the uniform of the KEH, his medals and Mentioned in Despatches courtesy of Debra Brock, his granddaughter.

AITCHISON, Philip Arnold. 107. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant. Enlisted King's Colonials 7/12/1905. Commissioned into the Staffordshire Yeomanry 17/01/1916. Awarded Indian General Service Medal (Afghanistan, North West Frontier 1919 clasps) whilst attached to 2nd/4th Border Regiment as Lieutenant Staffordshire Yeomanry. Awarded the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct medal named to P. A. Aitchison 107 SQMS KEH (King's Colonials/KEH) May 1921 and Special Constable Long Service and Good Conduct medal as a Sub. Commander. He was not entitled to the British War Medal. Medals held in a private collection in Australia. Image courtesy British Medal Forum. 

AITKEN, D. B. Private KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps later Captain. Ineligible for 1914/15 Star recorded on Medal Index Card with service number not recorded. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

ALBERTSON, Armand Harold. 1003. Private KEH. 'A' then 3rd Troop 'B' Squadron in 1916. Entered France 13/09/1915. Wounded at Savy in 1917. Transferred as Private Machine Gun Corps 107480. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 'C' Company, 2nd Battalion, Tank Corp 20/12/1917. KIA 9/08/1918 and buried Rosieres Communal Cemetery Extension, the Somme, France. Born in 1893 in Western Australia and lived in Rhodesia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ALBRECHT, Frederick. Private KEH. D/10936. Transferred from Corps of Dragoons as Private D/10936. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ALDERSON, E. C. 1276. Private KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred to Military Mounted Police as P/12405. Discharged 19/06/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ALDERTON, Charles Frederick Carruthers. 490. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant. 'B' and then 'C' Squadron. Entered France 21/04/1915. Accidently killed 08/05/16 when thrown from his horse and run over by a lorry. Buried in QUATRE-VENTS MILITARY CEMETERY, ESTREE-CAUCHY, FRANCE. Born on 18/09/1880 in Chislehurst, England. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Charterhouse Square, London from 1891 - 1896. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph of headstone shown on the accompanying page.  

ALEXANDER, Frederick Vionee. 4. Private. 'A' Squadron. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers 28/10/1915 later Lieutenant. Entered France 1/06/1915. Born 13/06/1892 in Liverpool, Lancashire, UK. Married 27/01/1917 Lived with his wife Ina Florence Limerick Alexander in Colne , Lancashire. Died 16/07/1963 in Lancashire. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Son Lieutenant Derrick Vionee Alexander, 155 Battery, 52nd Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery KIA on 26/04/1941 at Raffina Beach, Greece.

ALEXANDER, Ralph Douglas. 958. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 10/05/1918 and shown in photograph taken at Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Member of KEH Old Comrades Association in 1933 with address of British West Indies.

ALEXANDER, William. Corporal. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. No Medal Index Card or Medal Roll located.

ALEXANDRA, Walter. 862. Private KEH. Enlisted 3/09/1914 at White City, London. Entered France 5/05/1915. Appointed Trumpeter 11/03/1916. Transferred as Private, 39969, 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in Aug 1917 then Private Army Service Corps R/41311. Discharged 25/04/1919. Born in Mar 1891 in Windsor, Berkshire, England and died 11/08/1990 in Fulham, London, England having resided in Fulham, London at time of enlistment. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Would be the last KEH soldier to die from the Great War.

ALLAN, James. 1293. Private. Died by accidentally drowning on 15/05/16 during the Easter Rising. Buried in Longford Presbyterian Churchyard, Co. Longford, Ireland and now commemorated on a Memorial Wall in Grangegorman Military Cemetery. James Allan was born c.1873 (1871-1875) in Dundee, Scotland, and was the fourth son in his family; his father, William, was a shipmaster. Private Allan enlisted in the Household Cavalry in London. He died close to the bridge in Carrick-on-Shannon, in a drowning accident. At the time Allan was in Carrick as part of a flying column from Longford barracks like for the purpose of investigating and arresting potential rebels after the Easter Rising. When Allan died, he was on night-time sentry duty and fell into the river at around midnight on the 14 May 1915. An inquest was held and no evidence of foul play noted. It was noted that he had taken alcohol, and that he had arrived in Carrick for the first time that day (Sunday) and was unfamiliar with the town and the river. His brothers, William and David were listed as his next-of-kin. No Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry located but would have been entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph of his name on the Memorial Wall in Grangegorman Military Cemetery wall shown. 

ALLAN, John. 1427. Private KEH. Entered France 15/07/1915. Commissioned Machine Gun Corps 14/04/1916 as a Second Lieutenant and then Captain, Machine Gun Corps. Transferred Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps 26/4/16 (London Gazette). Awarded Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in action at Courcellette on 9/06/1917 (London Gazette 15/9/17) whilst commanding Tank C6 (Cordon Rouge) attacking Messines Ridge. DoW 9/06/1917. Buried at Bailluel. From Aberdeen. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ALLEN, Albert E. 1373. Private. Transferred to the Reserve 27/06/1919. Noted in Old Comrades Bulletin No 1. as living in Adelaide, Australia.

ALLEN, Ernest Rawson. 1032. Private KEH. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 172nd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers 29/10/1915 (London Gazette 27/11/1915. Promoted to Lieutenant May1916. Awarded Military Cross (Edinburgh Gazette 18/05/1915. Born 21/10/1888 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and died there. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

ALLEN, Hamilton J. 557. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 23/2/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ALLIOTT, John Alfred. 1086. Private KEH. Discharged 7/06/1919. Prior service South African Constabulary in the Boer War and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps. Born JULY 1878 in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England and died 9/06/1923 in South Africa. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ALLUM, Ephraim. 1926. Private. KIA 08/11/18. Buried at ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, FRANCE. Born in Oct 1887 in Langley, Langley Marish, Eton District, Buckinghamshire, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of headstone.

ALMACK, Alfred. 1346. Private. Discharged 7/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ALSOP, George. 282. Private. Enlisted 14/08/1913 and discharged 06/10/1914 due to sickness and did not serve overseas. Awarded Silver War Badge 19194.

ALSOP, John W. Private, former Private 1st Dragoons D/18482, Private Corps of Dragoons D/18482. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

AMBROSE, Herbert. 543. Private. Entered France 21/04/1915. Discharged 10/08/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

AMOTT, John. Private in 1918

ANDERSON, Andrew. 1875. Private. Discharged 10/08/1919. British War Medal and Victory Medal awarded and listed for sale in Feb 2021 on eBay UK. Photograph of his medals shown in accompanying page. 

ANDERSON, Claude W. 1693. Corporal. Discharged 10/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ANDERSON, Donald Alex. 169. Serjeant. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 1/03/1913 and entered France 1/06/1915. Discharged 19/12/1916. Awarded Silver War Badge 100909 due to sickness. Born 19/01/1893 in Birkenhead, Cheshire and died 20/09/1952 in Wirral, Cheshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Served in WW2 as a Captain, No. 8 Anti Aircraft Rocket Z Battery, Royal Artillery.

ANDERSON, George Reid. 1245. Serjeant. Awarded Military Medal (London Gazette 20/08/1919). Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Discharged 6/04/1919.

ANDERSON, Henry Peter Shiels. 152766 Corporal. Served with the KEH Reserve Regiment in Ireland. Enlisted 8/11/1915 in Edinburgh. Transferred from 2nd Scottish Horse 30/03/1917. Discharged from KEH 14/02/1919. Did not serve overseas and no service medal entitlement.

ANDERSON, John M. 754. Private. Discharged to re-enlist in Royal Flying Corps (RFC) as Private, 14315 on 22/12/1915. Entitled to British War and Victory medals administered by RFC.

ANDERSON, Peter. Bandmaster. King's Colonials and King Edward's Horse 1902-1914. Died in 1940. Photograph shown in Figures 118 - 121. Peter Anderson was well known in his day as a bandmaster; a cornet, trumpet, coach horn and post horn soloist as well as a pioneer recording artist both as a soloist and conductor of military bands. Anderson was born in Edinburgh on 8/08/1874. He began his musical career in the Royal Scots Greys then at Newbridge enlisting in May 1891. He became Colonel’s trumpeter in March 1892 before moving into the band, eventually becoming the solo cornet player. Due to a riding accident with left him with a hernia, Peter Anderson was discharged medically unfit in June 1894. His medical pension record states, “Fit to earn his living at any light occupation and at his former trade.” He received a pension of 6d a day in 1895 rising to £15/10/6 per year from September 1936. By 1901 Peter Anderson had moved to Barnes in London and was earning his living as an instrumental musician.  At some subsequent date he become Bandmaster of 4th County of London Imperial Yeomanry (The King’s Colonials). This band, under Anderson, enjoyed a high reputation and its performances included two command concerts, played to great acclaim, for Edward VII at Buckingham Palace. The King’s Colonials could also furnish a string band if required and as such, in July 1909, under Anderson’s direction, performed at a Board of Trade Garden Party for a fee of twelve guineas. Anderson recorded a number of 78rpms on the Edison Bell and Pathe labels (among others) before World War One with the King Edward’s Horse/King’s Colonials Band. Anderson would still appear to be bandmaster in 1912, as one of the 78s under the King Edward’s Horse Band title and conducted by Anderson has been dated to that year. Peter Anderson’s debut as a solo recording artist (cornet and post horn), on cylinders in those days of course, was in 1904 for Electra Records and he went on to record with various bands and orchestras on a number of labels including Sterling Gold Moulded Cylinder Records from 1905; Pathe Disques in 1908; Polyphon, Klingsort, Favourite and Jumbo records in 1909 and Edison Bell from 1910. In 1913 Anderson was appointed Musical Director for Odeon, Fonotypia and Jumbo recording companies until the Great War put paid to their activities. Anderson was never out of the recording studio and except for years 1918, 1919 & 1920 appeared on records as a solo artist until close of the 1920s. In April 1918 Anderson took on the role as the first Director of Music of the London Fire Brigade Band, a post he held until 1932. Together with Sir Landon Ronald, then Principal of the Guildhall School of Music, Anderson provided musical training for the band at the Guildhall School of Music where he was also Professor of Trumpet, rehearsing the band four days a week beginning at 9.30am. At the same time he was playing with Sir Thomas Beecham’s Orchestra in Birmingham, which meant a considerable amount of daily commuting between London and Birmingham. By 1922 the London Fire Brigade Band, under his direction, were rehearsing daily and making great strides. The band soon became part of the London musical scene, giving weekly concerts on the bandstand at the Brigade’s HQ plus regular public performances in the London parks as well as playing at Brigade and public events. An annual concert was also presented at the Queen’s Hall, Westminster. Under Anderson the band made a number of 78s on Piccadilly and Crystalato labels recording such items as Martial Moments and a selection of Leslie Stuart songs. Anderson was also engaged at this time as principal cornet at a leading London theatre as well as teaching privately. As well as principal trumpet in Sir Thomas Beecham’s Opera Orchestra, Anderson played in the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra and Orchestra of Philharmonic Society among others. He was also conductor of a number of other bands including the London Military Band and  his own Anderson’s Military Band, (which often recorded under other names), which was certainly in existence by 1932 and made up of professional musicians, which recorded on 78s on the Imperial label and was regularly employed by the London County Council in the parks; Anderson’s Symphonic Orchestra, Imperial Military Band (for Imperial record label), Peterson Band, the British Legion (Balham & South Clapham Branch) Military, his local band as he was living in Balham at this time which was another band made up of professional musicians which played in the London Parks c1932; London County Council Tramways Band (appointed conductor in 1935) and Reigate Town Brass Band leading them to a 1st prize in the 2nd section of the 1937 Southern Counties Contest where he also conducted the massed brass bands at the evening concert following the contest. Peter Adamson died on 23rd May 1940 aged sixty-five in Battersea, London. Biography courtesy of Phil Mather published IMMS UK Branch Newsletter 75, March 2008. Revised and updated 1st October 2020.

ANDERSON, William Louis. 215. Serjeant. Served pre-war KEH while attending Cambridge University. 3rd Troop, 'C' Squadron Aug 1914. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service 9/05/1916 later promoted to Captain, Royal Flying Corps. Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross (London Gazette 20/07/1917) for sinking an enemy submarine. Transferred to the Royal Navy and became Bishop of Salisbury. Born on 11/02/1892 in Assam, India. Attended wedding of Richard St Barbe Baker (ex-KEH) in 1946. Died 5/03/1972 Fordingbridge, England. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Cambridge, England.

ANDREWS, Leonard H. D/16438. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons. Discharged 20/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ANGEL, . Private. King's Colonials. Portrait photograph in Full Dress uniform walking out order circa 1902.

ANSTEY, Herbert L. 967. Private. Entered France 28/07/1915. Discharged 6/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ANTHONY, A. L. 2055. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France Nov 1915. Served with KEH pre-war possibly whilst at university in England. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps and applied for 1914/15 Star trio named to RAMC from Ashanti, West Africa. Private Anthony is noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as Australian and had served with KEH.

ARCHDALL, Montgomery. Private. Transferred to KEH as Private, 6th Dragoons D/21216. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ARCHIBALD, William R. 1064. Private. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Discharged 18/06/1919. Born in 1887 in Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia the son of Barbara Rae and John Archibald. He married Nellie Elizabeth (Nell) Barrington in 1938 in Victoria. He took up a Soldier's Settlement of 370 acres of land at Pomonal, Victoria which was sold on in 1940. He died in 1958. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ARGENT, Edward Albert. 1061. Private. Enlisted 22/09/1914 and discharged 18/11/1914 due to sickness. Born in Toppers Field, Halstead, Essex in 1876 and had served in the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers as Private 4746 from 1895 to 1907 with last 5 years in the Reserves. Saw active service in the Sudan Expedition 1898, Occupation of Crete 1898, South Africa 1898-1900, 1900-02. Wounded whilst fighting in the Transvaal 25/02/1902. Awarded Sudan Medal 1898 with clasp Khartoum, Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps Belmont, Modder River, Transvaal, Orange Free State and King's South Africa with clasps 1901 and 1902. Died 26/12/1957 in Kensington, London. No Great War Medal entitlement.

ARGENT, W. K. Serjeant Major KEH in 1911

ARIZA, Louis Francis 1110. Private. Discharged 28/05/1915 as Private 315 from 18th (Service Battalion), West Yorkshire Regiment. Enlisted 29/05/1915 and entered France 14/09/1915. Sustained a gun shot wound to arm at defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918. Discharged 2/11/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge B44307. Born in 1888 in Bradford, Yorkshire and was killed 12/05/1935 in Argentina when shot by a drunk whilst working as Anglo-Argentine railways staff. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ARKELL, William J. 1345. Private. Discharged 15/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ARMOUR, Donald J. Lieutenant and Surgeon KEH 1910

ARMSTRONG, Frederick.1209. Private. Discharged 13/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. An excerpt from the book "South Pacific Mail War Memorial Number 1914-1918" notes that a Frederick Armstrong left Valparaiso, Chile in June 1915 and enlisted in KEH. Served in Ireland after France and after being hospitalised in 1918 suffering from nephritis he was invalided out of the army. He was the son of Mr. William Armstrong of Talea and was educated at Mackay's School in Valparaiso. He is returning to Chile and holds the rank of Second Lieutenant. 

ARMSTRONG, James. Private. New Zealander who enlisted in 1902 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonials in 1903 in command of 1st Troop (New South Wales), 'C' Squadron (Australasian) and shown with that rank on the 1905 Officer's List. Living in the South Island, New Zealand in 1946. One of the first fifty to enlist in KEH.

ARMSTRONG, John W. Private. D/17279. Transferred to KEH as Private, 1st Dragoons then Private, Corps of Dragoons. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ARNOLD, Charles. Private. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. Likely to be entitled to 1914/15 Star trio but no Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry located.

ARNOLD, Jack. 991. Private 'B' Squadron. Born in South Africa. Entered France on 15/09/1915 and was discharged 9/07/1919.  Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Medals sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK, March 2014). 

ARNOTT, John. 1482. Private. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 8/03/1916 and discharged due to sickness 31/08/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge 28212 and born 1898. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ARTHUR, Beckham Paikawa. 111. Serjeant KEH. 2nd Troop, 'A' Squadron at Hutton Bridge, Hertfordshire noted in the 'Auckland Star' newspaper 9/03/1915. Saw service in the Boer War with the NZ Mounted Rifles (Rough Riders) as Serjeant 1383 and embarked with the 4th Contingent on the SS 'Gymeric' 31 March 1900 and also served as Captain with the 9th Contingent leaving on the SS 'Devon' 19 March 1902. Gazetted as Second Lieutenant in March 1915, and posted to Motor Machine Gun Service (of the Royal Artillery) at Bisley. Promoted Captain June 1915, entered France 8/07/1915, Major March 1916 and Lieutenant Colonel November 1918 to command the 1st Motor Brigade Machine Gun Corps. Wounded at Loos September, 1915. Awarded Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) 26 July 1918 and Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) Three Times. Born in 1876 in Tokomaru Bay the son of Alexander Creighton Arthur & Mere Inoi nee' Ward of Tokomaru Bay & Gisborne hence of Maori descent. He married Pheroze Sorabji in 1902 in London. He died in Devon, England on the 11/03/1922. Entitled to Queen's South Africa and King's South African Medals and 1914/15 Star trio. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph with family records and photographs added and the South African War Memorial, Gisborne, New Zealand. Photograph from Auckland Online Cenotaph of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur, DSO, Motor Machine Gun Corps. 

ASHDOWN, James Reginald. 1618. Corporal. Enlisted 11/08/1916. Promoted to Lance Corporal 6/04/1916 and entered France 8/04/1917. Discharged 25/05/1919. Prior service with Durban Light Infantry and discharged in 1915. Born in 1896 and resided in Durban, South Africa after the Great War. Served in South African army in WW2 and saw action in Italy. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ASLETT, G. Noted in Old Comrades Association as having served with King's Colonials or KEH. Prior service with T Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in the Boer War under the alias of Gunner E. Tansome, 76279 and awarded King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and 1902 clasps. Died Oct 1940.

ASTLEY, William P. 807. Acting Corporal KEH. Entered France 2/06/1916. Discharged 24/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ATKINS, John. 567. Private KEH. Enlisted 12/08/1914. Entered France 22/02/1916. Transferred as Private, 47th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers GS/142659 in 1919 on discharge from KEH on 9/07/1919. Eight years prior service with 6th Dragoon Guards,. Born in 1880 in Ealing, Middlesex, England and died there in Jun 1951. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ATKINS, Leslie J. 1327. Private KEH. Enlisted 16/11/1915 whilst employed in England as an electrical engineer. Discharged 16/02/1919. Born in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia on 23/11/1893 and died 5/07/1986 in Daw Park, South Australia. Served as a Corporal, S69458 in the 2nd Australian Imperial Force from Apr 1942 to Oct 1945. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ATKINSON, R. F. G. 1050. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Served pre-war KEH. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as an Australian having served with KEH.

AUDY, P. J. 271. Serjeant. King's Colonials. Awarded Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Aug 1908.

AUSTEN, Cecil Alexander. 987. Private KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant (31/07/1917) and later Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Born 7/04/1897 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa and died 29/09/1954 in Que Que, Rhodesia. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio.

AYLWARD, Gordon. 1371. Private KEH. Discharged 13/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BACON, Herbert. 785. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 6/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio

BACKUS, Alfred L. 1020. Corporal KEH. In Jan 1915 he sailed from from Valparaiso, Chile, South America to England to enlist in Mar 1915. Entered France 28/07/1915 and fought at Loos and Paschendaele Ridge. He was invalided home in Nov 1917 to Bournemouth Hospital in England. From Dec 1917 he served in Ireland until discharged 6/02/1919 and then he returned to South America. He was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Backus. His short biography and the accompanying photograph are courtesy of the "South Pacific Mail War Memorial Number". Corporal Backus was awarded the 1914/15 Star trio which was sold by Dyas Coins & Medals in the UK in February 1989.

BAGNALL, George William. 2042. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 20/05/1916 as Private 1933 2KEH then transferred to KEH 15/06/1916. Entered France 6/07/1917. Taken Prisoner of War at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and interned at Leuze, Germany. Discharged 21/05/1919. Born 11/09/1892 in Westwell Manor, Burford, Oxfordshire, England and died 20/9/1953 in Suipacha, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BAILEY, Alexander F. Private KEH. Transferred from 6th Dragoon Guards as Private 8209. Entered France 6/08/1914. Awarded 1914 Star trio with 1914 Star named to 6th Dragoon Guards.

BAILEY, Edward. 1712. Private KEH. Entered France 18/08/1915. Transferred as Private, Lincolnshire Regiment, 50111. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BAILLIE, Robert Alexander. Captain Sir Bart. 'C' Squadron. 4th Baron of Polkemmet. An original Officer in the King's Colonials having joined 1/02/1903 and commanded 'C' Squadron (Australasian). Born 24 August 1859 in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland and died 16/10/1907 in Colchester, Essex, England. Named in a group photograph of Officers in 1902 see Figure 4.

BAILLON, Cyril Bernard. 768. Private KEH. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 13/05/1919. Born 2/04/1887 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England and died 21/11/1977 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph of headstone shown noting his KEH service.

BAILLON, Joseph Aloysius. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted in 1912. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, South Staffordshire Regiment (London Gazette 1/02/1915). Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. Extensive service in WW2 and promoted to Major General and awarded OBE, CBE, CB. Died in Ireland in April 1951. Portrait photograph shown on enlistment in 1912 (Old Comrades Association Bulletin No 16, 1949).

BAKER, Arthur M. 26. Private KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private MR/478830 later T4/343298, Royal Army Service Corps (RASC). Applied for his 1914/15 Star trio named to RASC.

BAKER, Augustine. Enlisted August 1914 KEH. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in December 1914 with the Royal Field Artillery and promoted to Lieutenant in April 1915 then Captain in September 1915, A/Maj May 1917, A/Lt Col September 1918, retired 1919. Awarded Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 3 June 1918) & Bar (LG 16 September 1918). Military Cross (LG 19 November 1917). Mentioned in Despatches (x3) (LG's 15 June 1915, 21 May 1918, 23 December 1918). Died 1937 in Shanghai.

BAKER, Charles F. 1631. Private KEH. Entered France 30/09/1915. Transferred as Private 61205, Northumberland Fusiliers then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps (MGC). Applied for his 1914/15 Star trio named to KEH whilst serving with MGC.

BAKER, Frederick. 115. Private. Discharged 11/01/1919. British War Medal issued by the Admiralty with later service in the Royal Navy and his 1914/15 Star and Victory Medal sold at auction in the UK March 2020 by Dix Noonan Webb and photograph shown on the accompanying page. 

BAKER, George Norman. 1073. Corporal KEH. Entered France 4/10/1915. Discharged 27/04/1919. Born in 1894 in East Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and died 6/11/1977 in Cheltenham, Charles Sturt City, South Australia, Australia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BAKER, James H. 800. Private KEH. Entered France 1/06/1915. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps 340258. Discharged 10/07/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BAKER, Ralph Cleighton. 1711. Private. Transferred to KEH as Private, Hertfordshire Yeomanry 2205 on 22/06/1915. Arrived Egypt 12/11/1914. Awarded Silver War Badge 25542 with Herts Yeomanry due to sickness. Lived in Sedwitch, Hertfordshire.

BAKER, Richard Henry. Private KEH. From New Zealand. May have transferred to Royal Field Artillery then served as a Gunner 79439, 43rd Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. 2/10/1918-5/12/1918 sailed on HMNZT 111 'Matatua'. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BAKER, William H. 1969. Private KEH. Discharged 10/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BAKER, William J. 743. Acting Corporal KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 24/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BALE, F. J. Private KEH. From New Zealand, worked in Peru, South America and returned to England to enlist. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BALFOUR, Cecil. 1298. Corporal KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Served with KEH 21/09/1916 until 11/11/1918. Transferred to the Military Mounted Police as Private P/12933. Awarded Military Medal in Nov 1917. Residing in Canada in 1946.

BALL, B. Corporal. Served in the King's Colonials and was proprietor of the Fox and Hounds Inn, Bourne End. The Fox and Hounds is depicted in a King's Colonials postcard with members of a Troop having their lunch in the garden of the Inn.

BALL, Samuel A. D/14418. Private KEH. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons. Discharged 2/04/1920. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BALLARD, Arnold. 482. Private. Entered France 1/06/1915. Noted as part of the Machine Gun Section in 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, King's Shropshire Light Infantry 10/07/1918 then transferred as a Second Lieutenant, South Wales Borderers. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Southbourne, Hants.

BANCROFT (WILSON), Douglas. 1002. Private. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Essex Regiment 29/01/1918. Eligible for Silver War Badge 27/11/1919. Changed his name by deed poll to Douglas Bancroft Wilson prior to application for 1914/15 Star trio from Liverpool, England with 1914/15 Star re-named.

BANKES, Robert W. L. 744. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 24/02/1919. Served in WW2. Awarded Special Constabulary Medal and 1914/15 Star trio. These medals together with his WW2 Defence Medal are held in a private collection.

BANKS, Donald William. 2134. Private. Born at Kimbolton, Wellington, New Zealand 24/11/1898 the son of William Banks. Enlisted 2/04/1918, served in Ireland and discharged 3/02/1919. Joined Royal Army Ordnance Corps 24/04/1919 as a Private 5/9361 and served in Russia 12/05/1919 and discharged 12/02/1920. Commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph. No service medal entitlement.

BANNERMAN-SMITH, John. 2207. Private. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 16/08/1918. Discharged 24/01/1919 after suffering from bouts of malaria and influenza. No medal entitlement recorded.

BANNOCK, William Herbert. 1363. Serjeant. Discharged 23/02/1919. Born in 1890 in England and died in South Africa in 1961. Applied from Durban, Natal, South Africa for British War and Victory Medals.

BARBER, Basil Hastings. Major. 'C' Squadron. Born 11/05/1890 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and matriculated from Oxford University in 1911, commissioned KEH 22/7/11, to France Apr 1915, appointed T/Major while seconded 13/4/18, appointed Third Secretary in Diplomatic Service 17/11/19, Second Secretary 15/12/20, relinquished commission 7/6/24, he died aged 35 in Poland of scarlet fever while serving as First Secretary and Charge d'Affaires at the British Legation Warsaw on 29/07/1925 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. Lieutenant in 1915 see Figure 19. WWI Military Cross, 1914-15 Star trio and French Croix de Guerre with Star to Major B.H. Barber (MC un-named as issued, Lieut B.H. Barber K. Edw H. on star). Basil Hastings Barber's MC was announced in the London Gazette dated 1/01/1919 with KEH attached British Mission French GHQ, his Croix de Guerre was announced in the London Gazette dated 10/10/1918. His medals were sold at auction by Warwick & Warwick in Dec 2015 and are held in a private collection. Photograph of his medals and gravestone shown. 

BARBER, Joseph A. 1527. Private. Discharged 26/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BARKER, Augustine. Private KEH. Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery. Entered France 22/09/1915. Awarded Distinguished Service Order G.V.R. (London Gazette 3/06/1918) with Second Award Bar (London Gazette 16/09/1918); Military Cross, G.V.R. (London Gazette 19/11/1917); 1914-15 Star (Lieut.); British War and Victory Medals M.I.D. Oakleaf (Lt. Col.). Lieutenant Colonel Augustine Barker D.S.O., M.C. (1887-1937), entered the Royal Artillery as a Temporary Second Lieutenant 4.12.1914; Temporary Lieutenant 8/04/1915; Captain 9/09/1915; Acting Major Commanding C/156 R.F.A. 22/05/1917; Acting Lieutenant Colonel 24/09/1918 in command of 33rd Division R.F.A. (reverts to Acting Major 25/09/1918); Mentioned in Despatches three times (London Gazette 15.1.1916, 21/05/1918 and 23/12/1918) and wounded at Zonnebeke, 25/04/1918; relinquished commission 13/03/1919, retaining the rank of Major. Only eight combinations of D.S.O. and Bar, and M.C. to the Royal Artillery for the Great War.

BARKER, William. Private KEH. D/15087. Transferred from 3rd Dragoon Guards as Private GS/14786. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons as Private D/15087 from KEH. Discharged 16/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Corps of Dragoons.

BARLOW, Geoffrey Petrie. 287. Private KEH, Second Lieutenant 6th Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment. Born at Southport 16/05/1895 the son of John James and Emily Barlow. Educated at Holmwood School, Freshfield, Formby, Liverpool and at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. Employed at the Head Office of the Royal Insurance Company in Liverpool. Joined the Liverpool Squadron of the KEH in 1913 and was at camp in Canterbury when the war broke out. Served in France from June 1915 and returned to England for training in March 1916 at Lichfield and gazetted Second Lieutenant Sherwood Foresters on 5/09/1916. Joined Battalion in France Nov 1916 and wounded at Gommecourt 9/03/1917. Awarded Military Cross for trench raid with 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters 25/06/1917 (London Gazette 18/10/1917). KIA by machine gun fire whilst supervising a wiring party near Hulluch, France 2/09/1917. Buried in the Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Photograph of pre-war student at Haileybury College and as a Second Lieutenant, Sherwood Foresters.

BARNARD, William H. Private KEH.  Private, Corps of Dragoons D/13185. Discharged 11/10/1919. Awarded British War and Victory Medals. Victory Medal in the authors collection (courtesy of Ed Parsons, Gradia Militaria) and shown with box of issue.

BARNES, William C. D/17098. Private KEH. Transferred from 3rd Dragoon Guards then Corps of Dragoons, retained service number throughout transfers. Discharged 15/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BARRATT, Gaston Frederick Sharpe. 1420. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, Royal Engineers 313096. Born in 1875 in Kingwilliamstown, South Africa and died 08/03/1940 in Rhodesia, Salisbury. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BARRETT, Archibald. 1431. Private. Discharged 15/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BARRETT, Reginald Thomas. 1729. Corporal. Transferred to the Labour Corps as Warrant Officer Class 2, 679732. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BARRY, Arthur V. 335. Serjeant KEH. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Transferred to Royal Army Service Corps as Private M/41355 (Auckland Online Cenotaph) in late 1918. Entered France 22/04/1915. Serjeant Barry was severely wounded whilst patrolling at Anneux near Cambrai on 20/11/1917 when Major Tutt was also severely wounded. Wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BARTLETT, Ashmead. Lieutenant attached from 1st Regiment of Cavalry, former British South African Police.

BARTON, William L. 1151. Private. 3rd Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron in 1918. Discharged 2/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Named in photograph shown as Figure 23. 

BATES, George E. 2040. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, Corps of Hussars 56048. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BATES, Joseph (Joe) C. 720. Acting Staff Quarter Master Serjeant. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 22/02/1919. Mentioned in Despatches as a Serjeant. Lived in Margate, Kent and died in 1965. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Portrait photograph shown on the accompanying page from the Old Comrades Association Bulletin No. 6, 1939. In the portrait photograph he is wearing King's Colonials Squadron collar badges and so he would have served in the King's Colonials prior to them becoming King Edward's Horse in 1910. 

BATTERBURY, William Charles. 19. Lance Corporal. Second Lieutenant 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 26/06/1917. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 1/01/1919. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Westcliff-on-sea, Essex, England. Biography available on www.kingedwardshorse.net.

BATTENSBY, Eric William. 885. Serjeant. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 29/12/1914, entered France 1/06/1915 and discharged 28/01/1918. Born on 21/01/1891 in Fulham, London, England and died fleeing Singapore on 13 /02/1942 in Banka Straits, Malaysia when HMS "Giang Bee" was sunk by a Japanese destroyer. He was wounded in the chest in the shelling of the ship and subsequently drowned. He was a plantation manager in Malaya. Parents were Jane and William Battensby of Berkshire, England. Awarded Silver War Badge 325229. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BAUER, Leonty N. 1666. Private. 'B' Squadron. Discharged 21/05/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BAXTER, Gordon Eyre. 929. Private. Enlisted 5/02/1915 and entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 26/06/1917. Prior service Royal East Kent Yeomanry 1908-11. Born Hinton, Ashton Steeple, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. Son of Stanley Eyre Baxter and Emma Louisa Baxter, of Waranga, Omapere, Hokianga, New Zealand. Educated at South Eastern Agricultural College Wye, Ashford, Kent, England. KIA 8/10/1918 near Arras aged 28 and buried in St. Nicholas British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Two brothers also KIA. Bernard Eyre Baxter born 2/071893 and KIA 29/04/1915 served as Private 10/275 West Coast 'A' Company, Wellington Infantry Battalion, Emigrated to New Zealand in 1909 with the family. Cadet at Weraroa Agricultural Farm. Fought at Turkish attack on Suez Canal in Feb 1915 before serving at Gallipoli where he was KIA. Bernard is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial. Cedric Eyre Baxter 22/08/1895 and KIA 29/04/1915 (on the same day as his brother Bernard) unable to find further details. Gordon and Bernard are commemorated on Auckland Online Cenotaph.

BAYLEY, Lewis S. 513. Private. Entered France 23/08/1915. Discharged 8/08/1919. Born 8/04/1886 in Birmingham, Warwickshire and died Sep 1962 in Birmingham, South, Warwickshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. British War Medal - 513 PTE. L. S. BAYLEY. K. EDW. H. and Victory Medal - 513 PTE. L. S. BAYLEY. K. EDW. H. shown with a copy of the Medal Index Card on the accompanying page. His 1914/15 Star was noted as missing. Image is from an electronic auction site, UK, 2013.  

BAYLIS, Gerald William. Quarter Master & Lieutenant. Gerald William Baylis was 20 years old when he attested in May 1889 into the 19th Hussars. He was discharged September 1909 after 18 years of service. He had served in the East Indies for eight years and South Africa for five and a half years. His place of discharge was Norwich with intended residence of the Maidenhead Advertiser Officer, Maidenhead, Berkshire. His award of the clasps Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Cape Colony is confirmed on the Medal Roll of the 19th Hussars. Hart’s Army List 1915 states - ‎retired military personnel entry – Gerald William Baylis to be QC. Mr. with honourary rank of Lt. (London Gazette 5/02/1915). Baylis re-enlisted for Great War service as Lieutenant Quartermaster, King Edward’s Horse. His address is given on the Medal Index Card at Mayoville, Furze Platt, Maidenhead. Entered France 2/06/1915. Evacuated to England in Feb 1918 and awarded Silver War Badge 84054 on 1/07/1918. Group of seven named medals comprises – Queen’s South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Laing’s Nek, Belfast and Cape Colony clasps ( 3437 Serjt. G.W. BAYLIS. 19 / Hrs. ), King’s South Africa Medal with SA 1901, SA 1902 clasps ( 3437. QR. MR. SERJT. G. W. BAYLIS. 19TH HUSSARS. ). 1914/15 Star ( Q.M. & LIEUT. G. W. BAYLIS. K. EDW. H. ), British War Medal and Victory Medal pair ( Q.M. & LIEUT. G. W. BAYLIS. ), Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (GVR) ( 3437 Q. M. SJT. G. W. BAYLIS. 19 / HRS. ), Meritorious Service Medal ( GVIR) ( Q.M. SJT. G.W. BAYLIS. 19 – HRS.) Born on 20 Mar 1866 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, married in 1905 in Naas, Kildare, Ireland and died on 1st Mar 1942 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Accompanying photographs as a Lieutenant in KEH in 1915 (also shown as Figure 19), his medal group and in civilian clothes courtesy Ancestry. Medals listed for sale on Medals and Memorabilia https://www.medalsandmemorabilia.com/product/19th-hussars-king-edwards-horse-medal-group/ and some biographical information and medal image courtesy of this site.

BAYLISS, Louis. 1099. Serjeant KEH. Transferred as Serjeant, Yorkshire Dragoons 3681 then Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps Cavalry 100103. Awarded Silver War Badge (record not located) and British War and Victory Medal.

BAXTER, James Philip. 1892. Private. Enlisted 25/05/1917. Transferred to 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment as Private 26208 on 14/10/1917. Also served in the 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as Private 59095 prior to transfer to the East Surrey Regiment. WIA with gunshot wound right leg resulting in amputation of his limb. He and his two brothers were born in Brazil and James resided in Bermondsey, London prior to enlistment. Discharged 9/09/1919 and emigrated to Brazil where he married in 1923 and died. Awarded Silver War Badge B301179 and British War and Victory Medals.

BEALE, Cecil George. 635. Serjeant KEH. 4th Troop, 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915, wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918 with gunshot wound to his leg and discharged 13/04/1919. Born 23/09/1887 in Chatham, Kent, England and died 15/05/1967 in Rustington, Sussex, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Contributed a photograph taken at the Colchester camp in 1911 of Serjeant Freeman and a number of named Corporals to the Old Comrades Association bulletin suggesting that he himself was serving from at least 1911.

BEALL, Leonard  Grierson. 2045. Private KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred to KEH from 2KEH as Private 87. Discharged 24/02/1919. Born in 1876 in Billericay, Essex, England, Father William Grierson Beall (1842-1915) and mother Mary Annie Lucas (1846 -). A brother Lawrence L. Beall (1878 –) and a sister Janet Mary Beall (1884–1931). Prior service with Cape Mounted Rifles and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony clasp. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Photographs of medals courtesy of Rory Reynolds.

BECKETT, Arthur Henry Frederick. 1682. Private. 'A' Squadron. Discharged 25/04/1919. Born in Gorleston on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England on 6/04/1898 and lived in South America post-war and attended third re-union in 1945. Died in 1963 in Buenos Aires. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

BECKMAN, George E. 996. Private. Discharged 2/09/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BEDFORD, Alfred. 298. Corporal KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Transferred as Corporal, Royal Engineers 91590. Discharged 19/07/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Prior service with pre-war KEH as Staff Serjeant. Additional prior service with Prince of Wales Light Horse in the Boer War as Private 33733 and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 clasp. Prior to this he served as Private 547 with the Kaffrarian Rifles. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as an Australian having served with KEH. Alfred's prior service with the Prince Of Wales Light Horse is consistent with him being an Australian either by birth or by upbringing.

BEENKEN, Frederick Carl. 850. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 19/12/1914 and entered France 1/06/1915. Discharged 29/05/1917 as physically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 217,928. Resided in Stretford post service. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and his Victory Medal was sold in the UK by Great War Medals in Nov 1987.

BEGBIE, Alfred Vincent 960. Private. 'C' Company. Entered France 21/04/1915. Sniper spotted for Lieutenant Murray 966 KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders 27/09/1916. Became a Bombing Officer after attending Cadet School at Blenderques in 1916. Born on 7/04/1894 the son of Rev. Alfred John Begbie. Educated at Haileybury College 1897-99. Lived at Simla, Bloomfield Park, Bath before he emigrated to Kelowa, British Columbia, Canada in 1902 and returned to England in 1914 to enlist in KEH. KIA 11/04/1917 leading his men at Monchy-le-Preux and was buried at Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras (listed on Arras Memorial). Commemorated on the Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, England. Photograph in the uniform of Cameron Highlanders from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour.

BELL, Cheviot Wellington Dillon. 2104 Private. Served pre-WW1 KEH. Promoted to Corporal in 1913. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 15/08/1914 in KEH. Transferred to 10th Royal Hussars and then Royal Flying Corps and crashed aircraft nine times. Promoted to Captain and he became a Squadron Leader in the Second World War with RNZAF 1944 OTC Blenheim. Born 18/08/1892 the son of the Hon. Sir Francis Bell, G.C.M.G. (NZ Prime Minister 1925), and Lady Bell. Married Dorothy Mary Newton 21/04/1920 and died in Masterton, NZ in 26/09/1960. Brother of William Bell who also served with KEH and was KIA.

BELL, Percy. 753. Private. Enlisted 1/12/1914 and entered France 1/06/1915. Discharged 26/03/1919. Born in 1887. Awarded Silver War Badge 183292. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BELL, Thomas Davie. 741. Private. Entered France 21/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, KEH on 22/02/1918 from London Gazette not 1915 as shown on British War and Victory Medal Roll. Born Deanland, Haddington, Lincolnshire on 15/02/1892 and died in Dublin in Mar 1956. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio c/o Kingston, County Dublin, Ireland.

BELL, William (Hal) Henry Dillon. Serjeant commissioned as a Lieutenant pre-war KEH. Served as a Staff Officer (Captain) with the New Zealand (NZ) expedition to Samoa in 1914. Rejoined KEH, entered France 21/04/1915  promoted to Captain and KIA 31/07/17 aged 33 shot by a German sniper at Ferdinand Farm whilst in temporary command of 'C' Squadron during the great attack on Passchendaele Ridge. Mentioned in Despatches. Born 1/03/1884 in Wellington, NZ, the son of Hon. Sir Francis Bell, G.C.M.G. (NZ Prime Minister 1925), and Lady Bell. Brother of Cheviot Bell who also served with KEH. Hal went to school at Wellington College. On completion of his schooling he went to England and studied at Cambridge University. From Cambridge he read for the bar at the Inner Temple and was admitted as a barrister in 1908. While in England he married Gladys on 8/03/1907. He also held a temporary commission in the KEH. Bell and his wife returned to New Zealand in late March 1908. He became a member of NZ Parliament for Wellington and the first Member of Parliament to go on active service in WWI rejoining the KEH in December 1914 as a Lieutenant. Mentioned in Despatches. Name commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. Photograph of him mounted on his charger from Miss Enid Bell. Commemorated on a plaque at Trinity College Cambridge, the Auckland Online Cenotaph and is included among the names on the memorial bronze tablet to lawyers and law clerks in the Wellington Library of the New Zealand Law Society. Photograph of him as Lieutenant in KEH in 1915 see Figure 19.

BELLMAN, Henry E. 1324. Private KEH. Attached to Stockwell's Force Oct-Nov 1918. Gassed 9-11/11/1918.. Discharged 25/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BELSON, Frederick. 1487. Acting Corporal. Discharged 22/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BENDAL, J. Private. Prior service with the Natal Police, South African Constabulary and the South African Mounted Rifles, 1337 and saw active service in the Boer War 1899-1902. Named in photograph of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916, (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.

BENN, William W. 1253. Private. Discharged 30/08/1919. From Rhodesia and was servant to Lieutenant Alan W. Lade. Resided in Holbeck, Leeds, England post-war. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BENNETT, Arthur W. 1357. Private. Discharged 19/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BENNETT, C. 239. Private KEH. No Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry identified and so is likely to have been pre-war KEH. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having been an Australian who served with KEH.

BENNETT, H. C. S. 2063. Private KEH. No Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry identified and so is likely to have been pre-war KEH. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having been an Australian who served with KEH.

BENNETT, James Henry. 947. Private KEH. Entered France 19/10/1915. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps 423041. Discharged 17/06/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BENNETT, John Frederick. 55. Serjeant KEH. 'B' Squadron. Entered France 21/04/1915. Discharged 21/03/1919. Mentioned in Despatches. WIA and taken prisoner of war at the defense of Vieille Chapelle 8-11/04/1918. Prior service with Orange River Colony Police. Lived in Eltham Park, London post-war. Served in the same Troop as Private F. S. Gardner. Member of the King's Colonial Lodge. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Named in a photograph of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916 (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.

BENSTEAD, Geoffrey. 668. Serjeant KEH. 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Entered France 21/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment. Born 15/10/1886 at Hermannsburg Mission Finke River, Northern Territory, Australia. His full name was Julian Geoffrey Barrow Benstead but he was generally known as Geoffrey Benstead. Married Gladys Mary Isabel Fleming in London in 1930. In 1939 he was a Film Distribution Agent living in Fulham, London. He died in Westminster, London, England in 1951. A talented snooker player and played regularly in British Amateur Snooker Championships. In fact, he made quite a name for himself by developing a one-handed technique, which was the subject of the Pathé news film https://www.britishpathe.com/video/one-handed-snooker. Serjeant Benstead's 1914/15 Star trio is held in a private collection. 

BERCOVITZ, Soloman. 1104. Private KEH. Entered France 15/09/1915. Taken Prisoner of War at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Interred Dulmen Camp, Westphalia, Germany. Repatriated 29/11/1918. Discharged 22/06/1919. From Perth, West Australia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BERKELEY, John Ernest Lee. 982. Corporal. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Awarded Belgian Decoration Militaire as a Private KEH (London Gazette 15/04/1918). Discharged 9/03/1919. Born 7/07/1888 in St Saviour Southwark, London, England and died 9/19/1957 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph of him with his wife Elizabeth taken post-war in Canada where they farmed, courtesy of Ancestry.

BERRY A. G. Lieutenant. King's Colonials 1902. Commanded 3rd Troop (Victoria) 'C' Squadron (Australasian) in 1903 (Photograph see Figure 4).

BERRY, Alfred Richard. 792. Lance Serjeant. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 3/12/1914, entered France 1/06/1915 and was wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and discharged 24/07/1919. Awarded Silver War Badge 494533. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Lived in Argentina and born in 1886. Also noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having been an Australian who served with KEH and likely to have ben born in Australia and emigrated to Argentina post-war.

BERTRAM, Cyril Robertson. Second Lieutenant KEH. Transferred as Flying Officer, Royal Flying Corps with 26 (South African) Squadron. Died in aircraft accident, at M'buyini 26/06/1916. Born 25/04/1892 in Johannesburg, South Africa the son of Robertson Fuller Bertram and Elizabeth Maude Bertram, of High Constantia, Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa. Originally buried at Korogwe, Tanganyika and re-interred in Dar er Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania. His mother applied for his British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of his gravestone shown.

BESTOW, Frederick W. 1001. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 7/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BESWICK, Rodney Knight. 664. Private KEH. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant (19/12/1915), later Lieutenant then Captain, 21st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, transferred as Captain, 52nd Manchester Regiment. Born 1890 in London, Middlesex, England and died Jun 1953 in Liverpool South, Lancashire, England. Awarded Military Cross and Bar, 1914/15 Star trio.

BETHELL, Frank. 422. Private. Entered France 2/06/1915. Transferred and then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps 104491 on 25/09/1917. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Middlesex.

BETTINGTON, John H. G. 646. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 1st Reserve (Garrison) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment 12/05/1917, Lieutenant 11/1917. Born in Canada and died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1950.

BETTS, Walter Bowden. Private. Enlisted after arriving from Shanghai in Dec 1914. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Field Artillery 9/06/1915. Entered France 2/09/1916. Wounded and applied for Silver War Badge. Died in 12/05/1921 and 1914/15 Star trio applied for by his brother G. Betts.

BETTS, Reginald John. 1044. Corporal. Enlisted 15/04/1915 having traveled to England as part of the "SS Suwa Maru" contingent from Shanghai on 16/10/1914 where he was working in the Shanghai Municipal Council, Electricity Dept. Entered France 28/07/1915. Wounded by shell blast at Maissemy Ridge. Discharged 29/10/1917, awarded Silver War Badge. Born in England in 1880, one of seven siblings and died 12/05/1921 in Rochester, England. Photo taken in 1916 at home courtesy of Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BEVAN, Percy. 659. Serjeant. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted Nov 1914 in Maidstone, Kent and entered France 22/04/1915. "Sergt. P. Bevan, King Edward's Horse, of the Central Hotel, Ramsgate, is home on leave from France, and is receiving the congratulations of his friends on having been awarded the Military Medal. The honour was conferred for gallantry in carrying despatches to his troop leader under heavy fire" from the Thanet Advertiser Saturday 15 June 1919. Discharged 4/02/1919. Born in 1880 and died in Sep 1960. Award of Military Medal for gallantry at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 published in London Gazette 16/07/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio with 1914/15 Star named as Private and British War and Victory Medals as Serjeant. His group of four medals are held in a private collection in the UK.

BEYNON, R. T. 1816. Private. Private KEH. Private Royal Air Force 319759 and discharged 26/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BIDDLES, Graham A. 1013. Private. 3rd Troop, 'A' Squadron. Entered France 28/07/1915. Discharged 24/03/1919. Resided in South America and attended third re-union there in 1945. Died 6/09/1966. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BILLMAN, Walter Melville. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, 16th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion attached 1st Battalion 9/05/1915. Died of Wounds 5/11/1916 and buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, the Somme, France. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1892 the son of James and Grace Billman. Attended Dalhousie University and then was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1913. His brother Ralph S. Billman, Military Cross was a Lieutenant Colonel with the Canadian Artillery. 

BINGHAM, William. Private. D/10855. KEH. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons D/10855. Photograph of British War and Victory Medals named to Corps of Dragoons from auction sale.

BINKS, Harris Jonathan. Private. KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers. Resided in Salisbury, South Africa after the Great War and served in the Special Reserve, South African Army in WW2.

BIRD, Henry. 1006. Corporal. 'C' Squadron. Enlisted late Feb 1915 at Great Scotland Yard and entered France 1/06/1915. Born in 1890 and resided in South African pre-war and in Bristol post-war. Discharged 1/12/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BISHOP, Hugh Seddons. 461. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Tank Corps on 23/11/1916 later Captain. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Bedford Park, London.

BISHOP, Wilfred. Private KEH. Commissioned as a Temporary Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment then transferred to the 11th Battalion after training with Inns of Court Officer's Training Corps 25/10/1916. DoW 06/07/1917 from indirect machine gun fire whilst on a working party midnight 5/07/1917 in the Nieuport sector. Eldest son of the late Clement Bishop and Emily Maud Garcia born 24/04/1884 in Oxford Street, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Buried in RAMSCAPPELLE ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY, Belgium. Commemorated on Port of Spain Cenotaph. Educated at the College of the Immaculate Conception (now called St Mary's College) in Trinidad. Portrait photograph shown of Second Lieutenant Bishop in the uniform of the Border Regiment circa 1916 courtesy of Angela Owens, Ancestry.  

BIZLEY, Walter Carter. 1485. Trumpeter. Transferred as Private, 14th London Regiment. Discharged 19/04/1919. Resided in St Johns Wood, London, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BLACK, Hugh K. 1965. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, Royal Army Medical Corps 135536. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BLACK, Ralph (Ralf) Wemyss. 1070. Private KEH. Born in New Zealand in 1874 the son of James Black and Mary Harcourt and died 1/10/1962 in Auckland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother Trooper Colin Black, Auckland Mounted Rifles, 22nd Reinforcements, Mounted Rifles Brigade, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Died of Wounds 17/11/1917 in Palestine. Colin was the fifth son of Mr. James Black, "Telpal," Prospect Terrace, Mt. Eden. He was an old Grammar School boy and for many years has been on the clerical staff in the firm of Buckland and Co. Colin Black is buried in Deir el Belah War Cemetery, Palestine, Israel. Brother Hugh Black served with Australian Light Horse in Palestine. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Photograph of Ralf Black in KEH uniform courtesy of J. Kang.

BLACKBURN, Edward H. 723. Serjeant. 3rd Troop, 'A' Squadron KEH at defense of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 14/02/1919. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (named to Serjeant) published in the London Gazette 3/09/1919 and Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). 1914/15 Star trio named as Private on 1914/15 Star and Serjeant on British War and Victory Medals. MBE unnamed as issued. Awarded civilian OBE in 1953. Born in British Columbia, Canada and died in 1968. Photograph from Old Comrades Bulletin of Serjeants of 'A' Squadron in 1918 in France. Serjeant Blackburn is stood on the left at the back. His group of five medals are held in a private collection in the UK with photographs of them with their courtesy shown on the accompanying page.

BLACKWELL, Arthur E. D/12610. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, 7th Dragoon Guards D/12610. Discharged 24/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BLAKER, Geoffrey Beckett. 651. Private. Entered France 21/04/1915. Promoted to Acting Corporal. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 22/02/1918. Second Lieutenant in photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Served in the RAF in South Africa in WW2. Born 15/03/1893 in Petersfield, Hampshire, England and died 2/05/1963 at Chase Cottage, West Bergholt, Essex, England. His brother Lieutenant Arthur Wilfred Blaker, Royal Navy was born 27/03/1889 in Lewes, Sussex, England and DoW 19/03/1915 received after HMS "Inflexible" was involved in the attack on the Dardanelles, Turkey. Geoffrey applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Colchester, Essex, England.

BLAMEY, Marshall. 1916. Private. 'A' Squadron. Discharged 9/06/1919. Died Apr 1947 in Natal, South Africa. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Named in a South African reunion photograph from 1938 shown on accompanying page from Old Comrades Association Bulletin No 6, 1939.

BLANCHARD, James F. J. 222. Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 20/09/1915. Transferred to Canadian Field Artillery later as a Captain. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Winnipeg, Canada.

BLAYLOCK, Johnathan A. 1270. Private. 'C' Squadron. Discharged 31/05/1919. Died Buenos Aires in 1946. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BLETSOE, William Bruce. Serjeant KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 18th Hussars. Noted as serving as a Captain in the Indian Army in 1922. Medal entitlement not confirmed.

BLISS, William Stanley. 787. Corporal (Trumpeter). Enlisted Nov 1914 and served in France and Italy. Awarded Military Medal London Gazette 1918 for action at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 23/02/1919. Born 11/05/1898 and died 13/02/1980 in Watford, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BLOUNT, Maurice Bertie. 1542. Private. Enlisted 11/05/1916 and discharged due to sickness 25/01/1917 with chronic dysentry. Awarded Silver War Badge 45745. Born in Clapham, London in 1887, lived in Winbourne, Dorset and had served with the Ceylon Planters Rifles for 5 years whilst working as a tea planter. No WW1 service medal entitlement.

BOILEAU, Gilbert Elliot. 1075. Corporal. Entered France 14/09/1915. Severely injured his leg 13/11/1918 and discharged 25/06/1919. Prior service in the Boer War with the Border Horse as Corporal 1473 and awarded Queen's South Africa (QSA) Medal with Transvaal clasp. Born in 26/12/1875 in Mt Moriac, near Geelong, Victoria the son of Edmund William Pollen Boileau and Bridget Mary Walsh. His brother John Peter Boileau born 29/03/1876 in Mitiamo, Victoria also served with the Border Horse as a Trooper 1474 (John Pollen Boileau on QSA Medal roll with Pollen being a middle name of his father) and awarded QSA Medal with Transvaal clasp. The brothers obviously enlisted together given their service numbers are consecutive. Gilbert died in 1952 in Cheltenham, Victoria and his brother John died in 1951.

BOLLARD, John Cyril. 1255. Acting Serjeant. Enlisted 18/09/1915. Transferred as Acting Serjeant, Labour Corps 443401. Prior service with Shanghai and Hong Kong Volunteer Corps. Born in 1893. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BOLTON, George William. 872. Serjeant (Saddler). 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron in 1916. Entered France 22/04/1915. Wounded at defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 10/04/1919. Born in Apr 1891 in Radcliffe, Northumberland and died Jun 1945 in Blyth, Northumberland, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BOLUS, Walter 1481. Private. Arrived in France June 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of Officers on 23/02/18 after attending an Officers Cadet Unit, see Figure 33 for photograph as a Second Lieutenant in 1918. Promoted to Lieutenant 23/8/19 and resigned his commission 1/4/19. Born 4/07/1900 in London, London, England and died 14/04/1976 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Awarded British War and Victory Medals from Johannesburg, South Africa. Photographs and family history from his grandson Walter Stevens regarding his grandfather's service and noting his riding trophies. Lieutenant Bolus won many Irish Show Jumping Championships as shown in the accompanying photograph taken of him competing at the Irish War Counties Hospital in September 1918. He was devastated not to be able to have his mount, Japie released to him from the Army. The family retain Lieutenant Bolus's stirrups and riding trophies.  

BOND, Ernest E. 381. Corporal. Temporary Regimental Serjeant Major (T. R. S. MJR). Entered France 2/06/1915. 'A' Squadron, Transport Warrant Officer Class 1. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal as Regimental Serjeant-Major for gallantry in the advances at St Quentin, Cambrai and Fosse in 1917-18. Discharged 16/01/1920. Died in Southport, England on 3/03/1957. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio. Distinguished Conduct Medal held in a private collection in the UK and named to T. R. S. MJR. E.E.BOND 1/K.ED.H with photographs of his medal shown on the accompanying page.

BONESS, George. Private KEH. Transferred from 1st Dragoon Guards as Private D/18387 then KEH to Corps of Dragoons as Private D/18387. Discharged 16/02/1919. Born 10/04/1886 in Bulwell, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and died there on 12/09/1961. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BONNER, Thomas. Private KEH. Transferred from 7th Dragoon Guards as Private D/17034 then after KEH to Corps of Dragoons as Private D/17034. Discharged 3/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BOOR, Alexander Richard. 1043. Private. A' Squadron. Enlisted 15/04/1915 and entered France 16/06/1915. Discharged 10/03/1919. Born on 28/12/1882 in Snow Hill, Ocho Rios, Saint Ann, Jamaica and died 26/12/1929 in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Civilian portrait shown courtesy of Ancestry. 

BORLEY, Geo. D. Private KEH. Enlisted 2/05/1915, transferred as Private and Labour Corps 585703 discharged due to sickness 6/12/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge B197046 and no medal entitlement.

BORNS, Frank. 1336. Private. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred to Lancashire Fusiliers 40533. Entitled to 1914/15 trio. Medals to be destroyed noted on Medal Index Card.

BOTHWELL, Edwin I. 1891. Private KEH. Discharged 19/05/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BOTTLE, Harry C. 340. Serjeant KEH later Warrant Officer Class 2. Entered France 15/05/1915. Prior service 1905-13 with the Civil Service Rifles. Played clarinet in the military band. Became Orderly Room SQMS. Staff Officer, Ministry of Health in civilian life. In group photograph of Warrant Officers and Sergeants at Bishop's Stortford. Discharged 10/11/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BOUCH, W. Kennedy. 11. Serjeant. Served in pre-war KEH. Awarded the Territorial Forces Efficiency Medal 1/04/1912.

BOUCHER, Henry. 74. Serjeant. Enlisted 25/08/1914 and discharged 7/11/1917 as medically unfit. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal.

BOWEN, Horace Courthorpe. 628 Corporal KEH. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 7/09/1914 at Watford. Entered France 21/04/1915. Promoted to Lance Corporal 1/03/1917. Served in Italy 10/12/1917 to 9/03/1918. Taken prisoner at the defense of Vieille Chapelle 19/04/1918. Interred as a Prisoner of War from 9/04/1918 to -2/12/1918. Discharged 2/05/1919 physically unfit to parents address of 14 Castletown Road, Kensington, United Kingdom. Born in Georgetown, Demerara, Guyana in 1884. and died in 1952 in the UK. Educated at Bloxham School, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Prior service with Royal North West Mounted Police and Penang Volunteers, Malaya where he worked as a rubber planter. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BOWKER, John (Jack) Ryther Steer. 8. Private. Entered France 27/07/1915. Discharged 14/12/1918. Born 29/07/1888 in Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia to Florence Mary Marks and Dr Robert Steer Bowker (surgeon). He was educated at Barker College, Sydney 1902-06 and then studied medicine like his father at Middlesex Hospital, England in 1909. He married (unofficially) Elsie Emily Boyten in 1915 in England whom he met when he was boarding with her grandmother's family when he was in England studying to become a doctor. They had a daughter Beryl S Bowker Boyten born in 1919. After living in Middlesex he then moved to Sydney without his family. He died on the 29/06/1944 in Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Biography courtesy of Robin Hyland. Full length portrait photograph of a postcard sent to Elsie in 1915 courtesy of Robin Hyland and another photograph of him on enlistment in 1914 shown on the accompanying page.

BOYCE, Percy. Private. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio but no Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry located.

BOYER, Charles Joseph. 1082. Private. Enlisted 12/05/1915 and entered France 13/09/1915. Transferred as Sapper, Royal Engineers 359692 on 28/02/1918. Prior service with British Columbia Horse for two years. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BOX, Thomas. 552. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 15/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRADBURN, William Ernest Horatio. Colonel W. E. H. Bradburn, Inspector-General of Police, British Guiana, late 8th Hussars and King Edward’s Horse. The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer (Brother) silver breast badge; King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Col. William E. H. Bradburn, Insp-Gen. of Police, British Guiana); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (1556 Tpr., S.A.C.); 1914-15 Star (13319 Pte.-A-Cpl., 8th Hrs.); British War and Victory Medals (13319 A.Cpl., 8/Hrs.). K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1932. The recommendation states: ‘Has a specially distinguished record in administrative and detective services. Has successfully organised the Police Force of the Colony.’ William Ernest Horatio Bradburn was born in Derby on 26 May 1884, son of a pattern maker. As a young man of some 17 years of age, he served during the Boer War, with the Imperial Yeomanry in 1901, and later in the ranks of the South African Constabulary until October 1907. On the outbreak of the Great War, Bradburn joined the 8th Hussars and served overseas with this regiment until April 1917. Bradburn was granted a commission from an Officer Cadet Unit as a Second Lieutenant in King Edward’s Horse on 17 April 1917. He was appointed Adjutant of the Reserve Regiment of King Edward’s Horse in September 1917, with acting rank of Captain, but appears to have remained stationed in Ireland for the remainder of the war. He was promoted Lieutenant in the regiment in October 1918, and subsequently returned to their pre-war Head Quarters in Chelsea. In July 1919 he was selected for an appointment in the Cyprus Military Police, and in the following October was appointed a local Commandant. He served in Cyprus until 1927, and held a number of appointments there during this period, including those of Deputy Coroner, in the district of Larnaca, and later Nicosia, a Member of the Prison Board, and a Visitor of the Central Prison. He held acting and deputy appointments as Chief Commandant of the Cyprus Police at various times, as well as acting as A.D.C. to the High Commissioner on several occasions, becoming Honorary A.D.C. from October 1924. In August 1926 he was nominated an Official Member of the Legislative Council. In January 1927, Bradburn was appointed Inspector-General of Police and Commandant of the Local Forces in British Guiana, and from May to December 1927 he was in addition acting Inspector of Prisons. He was nominated Official Member of the Legislative Council from August 1928 to June 1930, and of the Executive Council from May to December 1929. During his tenure in British Guiana, Bradburn did much work with and for the St John’s Ambulance Association, and for his services was appointed an Officer (Brother) of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, as notified in the London Gazette of 25 June 1935. Bradburn held the rank of Colonel in the British Guiana Militia, and was President of the British Guiana Local Forces Rifle Club. His only son, William Stewart Bradburn, was later an officer in the Trinidad Police, and as a Sub-Inspector was killed in riots in Trinidad during 1937. He was shot in the chest and killed on 21 June of that year in rioting in South Trinidad in the course of a strike by 5000 oilfield workers over higher wages and shorter hours. Colonel Bradburn retired in 1937 and the following year approval was granted for him to retain his rank with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. In due course he returned to England and in 1968 was living in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Medals sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK in April 2003 bu no image available. Captain and Adjutant in photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Extensively researched by Diane Moss as part of https://www.sixstreetsderby.org/local-history/lest-we-forget.

BRADNEY, . Private served in Dublin

BRAGG, Robert (Bob) Charles. 227. Corporal KEH. Commissioned as a Temporary Second Lieutenant, 'A' Battery Royal Field Artillery (RFA), 58th Brigade. Disembarked at Gallipoli 14/07/1915. DoW sustained to both legs from a shell hitting his dugout 1/09/1915 at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. He was evacuated to a hospital ship but died the next day on the voyage to Malta. He had served in the pre-war KEH.  Born 25/11/1892 in North Adelaide, South Australia. Son of Sir William Bragg KBE and Lady Bragg, The Royal Institution, London. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Robert’s father, Professor William Henry Bragg came to Adelaide from Cambridge in 1885 and was professor of mathematics and physics at the university for more than twenty years. In 1899, Professor Bragg designed a two-storey home on East Terrace Adelaide where no doubt, Robert and his siblings enjoyed many happy days together exploring the open land nearby which is today the East Park land. Robert and his brother William later attended the School and while there William proved to be a highly gifted student and Robert distinguished himself as a sportsman. Following the example of his father, William Lawrence Bragg showed an early interest in science and mathematics while Robert, also a good student  made the most of his spare time playing football and rowing. Robert developed into an outstanding sportsman and this along with his happy disposition ensured he was always popular among his peers. Due to his brilliant scientific research into alpha, beta, and gamma rays, Robert’s father was offered a professorship at Leeds, England. In 1909, he accepted the post, Robert, and William continued their studies at Trinity College Cambridge. While there, Robert rowed in the Cambridge University Eight but by 1910, while at Oundle School in Northamptonshire he wrote back to his friends in Adelaide telling them how he was not enjoying his new school nearly as much as he had enjoyed his time at St Peter's. Upon completing his studies at Cambridge, William collaborated with his father and in 1915 jointly published a paper, X-Ray and Crystal Structure, for which they gained the highly prized Barnard medal. William served as a technical adviser with the British General Headquarters in France and Flanders and was overseas when it was announced that he and his father had been jointly awarded the Nobel Prize (Physics) for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. Both were later knighted and remain at the time of writing, the first and only father and son team to be jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics; William was only 25 years of age.  Bob is commemorated on the Hackney St Peter's College Fallen Honour Board and the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli. Biography and portrait photograph in RFA uniform courtesy Australian Virtual War Memorial.

BRAGG, William Lawrence. Private KEH. Served pre-war KEH 1909-13. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery and worked in a Royal Engineers section using sound waves to locate German artillery. Awarded Order of the British Empire, Apr 1918 and Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Born in North Adelaide, South Australia on 31/03/1890. Educated at St. Peter's College, and University of Adelaide, South Australia then Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Son of William Henry BRAGG and Gwendoline nee TODD. Jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with his father William in 1915. Professor W. L. Bragg, M.A., has been appointed to the Langworthy Chair of Physics, Manchester University. He is the son of Professor W. H. Bragg (who from 1885 to 1908 filled the Chair of Mathematics and Physics in the Adelaide University), and the grandson of the late Sir Charles Todd, F.R.S., - who was during many years Postmaster-General of South Australia. Professor W. L. Bragg was born in South Australia, and educated at St. Peter's College and the Adelaide University, where he graduated B.A. in 1908. In conjunction with his father, he was awarded, in 1915, the Nobel Prize, and also the Barnard Medal from Columbia University, for work on X-rays and crystals.  At Manchester he has succeeded Sir Ernest Rutherford, one of the most distinguished of living physicists, who is a native of New Zealand, and has recently taken the place of Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M., as Cavendish Professor at Cambridge. Brother of Corporal later Second Lieutenant Robert Charles Bragg KIA. Commemorated on the Hackney St Peter's College Honour Board. Civilian photograph courtesy of the Nobel Foundation. 

BRAKE, Francis Joseph Edwin. 56. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant, 'C' Squadron. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 24/03/1917 in the Royal Field Artillery later 18th Wing, Royal Air Force. Entered France 22/04/1915. Born 10/12/1889 in Hong Kong and died 13/06/1960 in Westminster, London. Awarded 1953 Coronation medal and became a Knight of the Bath in 1946 for service as Controller of Construction and Regional Services and served on the Air Supply Board in WW2. Senior roles in the aviation and telecommunications industries. Life governor of Haileybury and ISC. An aluminium dog tag impressed to F. Brake, Service No. 56 noted as having been acquired by a member on the Great War Forum in 2005. His brother Frederick Carlton James Brake was born in 1894 and KIA 21/03/1918 as Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Sir Francis Brake applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Grove Park, London in 1921.

BRAKELL, James Forster. 410. Serjeant. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, KEH on 14/9/1915. Taken Prisoner of War 31/07/1917 and repatriated 23/12/1918. Served in the Mersey Division, Royal Navy and awarded a silver medal (sold on electronic auction site Feb 2020) for "Interpart of Ship Heavy Gun Competition 1908" to Able Boatman J. F. Brakell. Applied for 1914/15 Star from Liverpool.

BRAND, Jonathan. 1530. Private. Discharged 7/03/1919. Died in 1960. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BRANDON, Frederick. 574. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 15/2/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRANT, Arthur. 626. Serjeant. 'B' Squadron. Entered France 21/04/1915. Discharged 10/03/1919. Born 7/09/1887 in East Dulwich, London, England and died 9/10/1972 in Lewisham, Greater London, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Civilian portrait shown on accompanying page.

BRANWOOD, Alfred J. 917. Private Entered France 2/06/1915. WIA at the defense of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 24/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRAVERY, Charles. 519. Private. 1st Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Entered France 27/07/1915. Hotchkiss gunner and fought at the defense of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 supporting 'A' Squadron. Discharged 9/08/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRAZIER, Dyckon C. (E. on letter to family and C. on Medal Index Card and Medal Roll). 1384. Lance Corporal. 'B' Squadron. Taken prisoner of war at the defense of Vieille Chapelle. Lived in South America post-war and attended the third re-union 1945. Wrote to Lieutenant Pinckney's family regarding his death at Vieille Chapelle on 9/04/1918. Discharged 31/03/1919. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as being an Australian having served with KEH but unable to substantiate this. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BREBNER, Norman G. 1601. Corporal. Discharged 9/09/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BREBNER, William Masson. 1640. Private. Enlisted 8/09/1916. Transferred as Private, 542nd Home Service Company, Labour Corps 416793. Discharged 28/03/1919. Prior service in the Infantry from Oct 1914 to Aug 1916 in West Africa and suffered shell shock and deafness after being blown up by a shell. Born 29/09/1889 in Aberdeen, Scotland and died 1/07/1962 in Cape Province, South Africa. Applied for British War Medal as sole entitlement.

BRENCHLEY, Mark. 1071. Private KEH. Enlisted 6/05/1915 and entered France 28/07/1915. WIA at Passchendaele Jul 1917. Discharged 16/10/1917 due to wounds. Born in 1888 in Cliffe, Kent and died in 1962 in Chatham, Kent, England. Awarded Silver War Badge 323,101 and 1914/15 Star trio.

BRENNAN, John. 1069. Serjeant KEH. 3rd Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Wounded Passchendaele Jul 1917 Transferred to Tank Corps 305381. From New Zealand. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Tank Corps.

BRENT, Stewart. 558. Private. Entered France 21/04/1915. Reported as Missing in Action at Defense of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918. Discharged 7/4/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRETON, Albert. Private KEH. Transferred from 1st Dragoon Guards, as Private D/17023 then after KEH to the Corps of Dragoons. Discharged 18/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BRETT, Thomas. 1204. Private. Discharged 19/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BRETT, William. 1156. Private. Reported as MIA at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1919. Discharged 1/05/1919. Entitled to British War ad Victory Medals.

BREWSTER, John A. 2111. Entered France 4/09/1915. Transferred from 2KEH as Private 25. Discharged 23/05/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRICE, Cyril Sidney. 488. Private. Enlisted 8/08/1914 and discharged 22/10/1914 as medically unfit. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1893. No medal entitlement. Name commemorated on the Auckland online Cenotaph.

BRIDGEMAN, Robert J. J. 1335. Private. Discharged 13/04/1919. From New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BRIDGER, David Edgar. 738. Private. Enlisted at Watford in late 1914 and died of cerebral meningitis at Bishop Stortford, England 19/04/1915. Born in 1892 in Uruguay the ninth son of the late Robert Bridger, of Greywell, Winchfield, Hants. On leaving school he went to the Argentine, where he was employed at Estancia " La Argentina," Cuenca, and on 30/11/1914 returned to England to enlist and refused a commission. Educated at St George's College, Quilmes, Argentina and the Manor House, Tonbridge, England 1905-09. Buried in BIGGLESWADE CEMETERY, UK. Civilian photograph on www.ukphotoarchive.org.uk  Not eligible for medals with short service. Civilian photograph courtesy of Tonbridge School. Not eligible for service medals with short home service. His was the first death in the KEH during the war.

BRIDGES, Herbert Throsby. 1207. Private. Discharged 8/4/1919. Born in 1873 in Australia and died 20/01/1934 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BRIGGS, Bertram H. 1486. Private. Discharged 9/07/1919. Residing in Essex in 1970. Awarded British War and Victory Medals with Victory medal sold on an electronic auction site in 2020.

BRINN, John Frederick Thomas. 256. Serjeant. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 5/04/19. Born 7/04/1882 in St James, London, England and died 28/01/1951 in London. Enlisted with address of Pimlico, South West London. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Portrait photograph in uniform of KEH courtesy of Ancestry.

BRISTED, Geoffrey Thornborrow. 329. Lance Corporal. 'C' Squadron. Enlisted KEH 22/08/1913 with University Troop whilst at Cambridge University, promoted to Lance Corporal 20/08/1914 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 13/11/1914 with the 10th Regiment Cavalry Reserve (affiliated with the 4th and 8th Hussars). Transferred to Royal Engineers (RE) on 8/08/1915 and went to Aldershot to attend a 3-week course, probably in field engineering. Upon completion of the course he was posted to the 3rd Field Squadron, RE, a mounted unit of the R.E. assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Division. He entered France 25/11/1915. Mentioned in Despatches 4/01/1917. Promoted to Captain 18/05/1918 and discharged 21/10/1919. Served in Iraq 1920-22. Awarded General Service Medal with IRAQ clasp. Born 16/01/1891 in Wellington, New Zealand the son of Richard Bower and Constance Bristed. Geoffrey was living with his mother and his siblings in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1901 and studied at Clifton College, Bristol 1906-08 where he served with the Engineering Cadet Corps as a Cadet Sapper then worked in South America before entering King's College, Cambridge in 1913. His father also served in WW1 as Major R.B. Bristed, RE. His occupation post war was as a banker in London and he died on 7/11/1969. Geoffrey is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. See a full biography of Captain Geoffrey Thornborrow Bristed, Royal Engineers, (formerly Trooper, King Edward's Horse) by Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis at http://www.reubique.com/GTBristed.htm with an image of his medals held in that authors collection.

BRISTOW, Charles. Private. 'C' Squadron. Served with Cambridge University Squadron, King's Colonials and in the pre-war KEH. Acting Governor of India and knighted.

BRISTOW, Wilfred Holditch. 2049. Originally Private 1135 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred to KEH as Private 2049. Died of Wounds 30/10/17 aged 33. Son of Henry Barnes Bristow (former British Consul in China) and Kathleen Sara Bristow (nee Holditch) of The Chantry House, Steyning, Sussex. Born in King's Lynn Norfolk, UK and lived in Canada as a farmer pre-war. Buried in DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Photograph of Casualty letter to family shown and photograph of his gravestone available online. Name commemorated on the Canadian On-line War Memorial, Bedford School Memorial Panel and Steyning War Memorial, St. Andrew's Church, Surrey. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRITTON, Thomas S. D/18316. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons D/18316. Discharged 7/11/1919. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio with his British War and Victory Medals sold by Dyas Coins & Medals in the UK in August 1989.

BRITTS, Malcolm. H. G. 319. Private. Entered France 19/04/1915. Corporal, Royal Engineers 94042. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Service Corps (Supply Transport) 7/06/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio issued by the Indian Army Office

BROADHEAD, William Smithson. 705. Private KEH. 2nd Troop, C Squadron. Entered France 24/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Reserve Regiment of Cavalry 14/02/1919 and discharged in 1920. Made sketches during service with KEH as per the one shown of KEH drilling. Wounded in France and invalided home. Studied at the Sheffield School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Became a famous horse painter after working as an illustrator for 'Cosmopolitan' and other magazines in the UK, USA and Canada. Born 24/11/1888 in Barrow-In-Furness, England and died 17/06/1960 in Winchester, Frederick, Virginia, USA. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Chelsea, London, England. Additional photograph shown of Private Broadhead in Watford in 1914 as a new recruit dressed in fatigues with named members of his Troop courtesy of Stuart Shaw (relative). 
   
BROCKWELL, Francis J. 1661. Private KEH. Entered France 30/09/1915. Transferred as Private, Corps of Hussars 56040. Discharged 12/06/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BROMFIELD, Sydney Lewis (Sid). 62. Private in pre-war KEH. Serjeant entered France 22/04/1915 and commissioned 26/06/17 Acting Captain Lincolnshire Regiment. Born in 1891 in New Zealand then lived with parents at Fishponds, Bristol until he married Elizabeth Emma Howard Collins on 26/07/1921. They had one child during their marriage. Attended annual camp 1913. Went to France 22/04/15. He served as a Captain in the Middlesex Regiment Home Guard in WW2. He was living at Iver Heath in 1946 and died in 1972. Serjeant Bromfield (far right in the accompanying postcard) sent the postcard of his section to his mother to 636 Fishponds Road, Fishponds, Bristol after having 'a very good time' attending annual camp in Bulford in July 1913. He is wearing 'B' Squadron (British American) collar badges of the King's Colonials. He is also shown with his section in Figures 146 and 149 attending signal training. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. 

BROOKER, Harry Hill. 1162. Private KEH. Entered France June 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers 26/06/1917 later Lieutenant. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Wilkawatt, South Australia.

BROOKMAN, Charles J. 498. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant KEH. Served pre-war KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Was with 'B' Squadron up until 1916 and then 'A' Squadron and then back to 'B' Squadron in 1918. Discharged 7/03/1919. Mentioned in Despatches as Serjeant. Born in Australia and lived in England post-war. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Worshipful Brother Charles J. Broockman was Master of the King's Colonials Lodge in 1938 as per accompanying photograph from the Old Comrades Association Bulletin No 6, 1938.

BROOM, William. 1061. Private KEH. Transferred as Rifleman, King's Royal Rifle Corps R/34551 then Sapper, Royal Engineers 311025. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BROSTER, Harold Broughton. 363. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, King's Royal Rifle Corp 27/03/1917. Acting Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery. KIA 30/11/1917 with 11th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps at Cambrai.  Born in 1886 the son of Charles and Lois Broster of Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. Name recorded on the Cambrai Memorial. 1914/15 Star trio applied for by Mrs E. Broster in 1919 from Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa. Portrait photograph shown in the uniform of the King's Royal Rifle Corps courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. 

BROWN, Charles Frederick. 358. Private KEH. Enlisted 11/11/1913 and transferred to East Kent Regiment 10/07/1917 then The Buffs, Leinster Regiment then 15th Battalion, Essex Regiment 24/07/1918. Prior service with 1st Battalion, The Buffs Regiment from 23/05/1890 until discharged 4/06/1908 with service in India, Burma and Aden. Also served with 2nd City of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons) in which he enlisted in Jun 1912. Born in 1872 and resided in Islington, London. Discharged 19/02/1919. Awarded India General Service Medal with 3 clasps. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

BROWN, George Gordon. 964. Private KEH. Enlisted 19/02/1915, entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 16/01/1918 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 317902. Born in 1891, resided in Paxton, Berwick-upon-Tweed initially post war and died in 1952 in Bella Vista, Argentina. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BROWN, George William Farrer. 1080. Serjeant. Transferred as Private, Northumberland Fusiliers 63245 then Serjeant, Royal East Kent Regiment 1080. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from London. His brother Lieutenant Claude Joseph John Brown, 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment attached 1st/2nd King African's Rifles died in service 18/11/1918 in Nairobi, Kenya aged 32 the son of George Henry and Rosamond Amy Brown of Crouch Hill, London.

BROWN, John. 1426. Private KEH. DOW 23/04/20 aged 42. Son of Margaret and the late Henry Brown of Cresswell House, Station Road, Cullercoats, Northumberland. Buried in WHITLEY BAY (ST. PAUL) CHURCHYARD, UK. No Great War Medal entitlement suggesting that he did not serve in France. 

BROWN, Orlando Moray. 682. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers 22/08/1915 later Temporary Captain then Major. Born in 1880 in Perthshire, Scotland and died 10/08/1965 in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, Canada. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Queen Camel, Somerset. His brother Captain Alan Moray Brown, Military Cross, 47th Sikhs who was born 6/09/1881 in Torquay, Devon, England was KIA 12/03/1915 having served with them from 1900 and is buried in GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY, France.

BROWN, . Lance Corporal. Named in a postcard which belonged to Private Broadshaw taken at Watford in 1914 with fellow members of 2nd Troop, C Squadron. Could be George William Farrer Brown, 1080 or Orlando Moray Brown, 682. Postcard notes he enlisted from Mexico. 

BROWNE, Austin Elmitt. 1386. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, West Riding Regiment 26/06/1917. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BROWNE, William Edward. 904. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Awarded the French Croix de Guerre as a Serjeant KEH. Discharged 19/06/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BROWNELL, Charles William. 1344. Private, Acting Serjeant, Second Lieutenant, Lieutenant. A South African who served with the 5th South African Mounted Rifles / Imperial Light Horse in 1915. Previously 5517 Private, South Lancashire Regiment (entitled to 5 Clasp QSA - OFS, T’Vaal, Tug Hts, RofL & L’Nek + KSA, clasps 1901 & 1902). Landed in France 24/04/1916 with KEH. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant 22/02/1918 and named in a KEH photograph taken at Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 as a Second Lieutenant see Figure 33. Applied for his medals in 1921 with an address in Swaziland, South Africa. WW1 Medal trio correctly named to him as follows: 1914-15 Star (SJT C.W. BROWNELL 5TH M.R); British War and Victory Medals (1344 A.SJT. C.W. BROWNELL. K.EDW.H.). Photograph of WW1 trio and service details courtesy of Owen Dobson. 

BROWNING, Harry G. 2107. Private former 1st Royal Dragoon D/3709. Died in service 27/01/19. Gravestone located in GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY, IRELAND. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BROWNLESS, Alfred R. 1251. Private. Discharged 5/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BROXUP, John H. 906. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 5/04/1919. Resided in South America and attended third re-union in 1945. Died in 1959. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BRUCE, Hugh M. 1714. Private. Discharged 12/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BRYANT, Ernest William C. 1290. Acting Serjeant. Enlisted 1/11/1915 and discharged 9/02/1917 as medically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 22964. Prior service in the 16th Lancers for 12 years. Born in 1875 in Harlesden, London.

BUCHANAN, George Frederick. 1242. Corporal, KIA 13/03/18 aged 42 as a Private. Son of George and Caroline Buchanan. Buried in the ST. GERMAIN-AU-MONT-D'OR COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, FRANCE.

BUCKLAND, Godfrey John. 583. Private. Enlisted on 26/08/1914 in England and entered France 2/06/1915. He was killed in action whilst standing by his dugout by a German rifle grenade on 7th August 1915 after seeing action at Ploegsteert Wood in July 1915.  Buried in RIFLE HOUSE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Born in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia on the 30/01/1893. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio which is held in a private collection. Portrait photograph circa 1914 wearing a King Edward's Horse headdress badge and Australian Squadron collar badges (courtesy of Peter Nemaric). 

BUCKLEY, Herbert Morris. 473. Private. Enlisted 8/08/1914 and discharged 6/09/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge 129565. His address when he requested his medals is stated as the 'Bull Dog' Soldiers Club and lived in Chiswick, London, England.

BUCKLEY, M. Francis. Private (Sapper) KEH. Commissioned and promoted to Major, Royal Field Artillery. Unable to confirm medal entitlements. Only his ranks and units are shown on his Medal Index Card. Applied for his medals from Halifax, Yorkshire presumably his British War and Victory Medals.

BUCKNELL, William Wentworth. Private. Enlisted when at Cambridge University. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery in Jan 1915. Promoted to Lieutenant and was KIA 10/08/1917 'A' Battery, 103rd Brigade from shellfire. Mentioned in Despatches. Born in Lewisham, Sydney, Australia in 1891. The son of Mr and Mrs William Wentworth Bucknell, Quambone Station, Coonamble, New South Wales. Portrait photograph of him pre-war. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

BULL, George. 1603. Private. Discharged 9/05/1919. Served in the same Troop as Lieutenant Francis, 529. He married in 1936 and was a friend of Private Reginald (Bill) Wilson, 456 and corresponded in 1957 whilst living on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BURBIDGE, Herbert John Charles (Bert). Private KEH. Served for four years in the pre-war KEH. Emigrated to Australia and enlisted at Keswick, South Australia on 28/06/1915 in the Australian Imperial Forces as Private 411 with the 32nd Battalion. KIA 20/07/1916 as Serjeant. Born in London in 1888. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France. He is also commemorated on the Adelaide National War Memorial and the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour. Photograph courtesy of https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P11075565.

BURGE, Frank. 707. Corporal KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 2/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BURGESS, Charles Frederick. 1002. Private. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 19/03/1915 and entered France 1/06/1915. Severely wounded in several places 24/06/1915 when defending trench from German attack at Steenwerck. Awarded Silver War Badge 81,406. Discharged 17/08/1916. Name commemorated on the Leighton Buzzard Roll of Honour. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BURGESS, John. 1616. Private. Discharged 6/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BURNETT, Sidney C. 1212. Private. Enlisted 8/08/1915 and discharged 22/10/1917 physically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 279,245. Born in 1890. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BURNIE, Charles. 848. Private. Part of Shanghai Contingent on board the "SS Suwa Maru" 16/10/1914 and was serving with the Shanghai Municipal Police since 1908. Discharged 6/04/1919. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

BURNSIDE, Joseph Augustus. 667. Private KEH, Corporal Royal Engineers 57422. Entered France 9/11/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant then Acting Captain 1/4th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

BURTON, Richard Newton. R. 1445. Private KEH. Acting Warrant Officer Class 2, Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers 213817, WR/354913 then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 17/11/1918. Deceased recorded on Medal Index Card. British War and Victory Medals applied for by his widow Mrs. L. Burton in 1931 from Carshalton-on-Hill, Surrey.

BUSH, Robert W. 1817. Corporal. Transferred as Corporal, Royal Defence Corps 71971. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BUTLER, Geoffrey Travers. Private. Entered France 8/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 48th Field Artillery Battery, Royal Field Artillery later Captain. Served in Volunteer Defence Corps WW2 as a Captain in 2nd Tasmanian Battalion. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on 15/03/1890 the son of Charles William Butler and Beatrice (nee Travers). He married firstly Constance Lee and secondly Beatrice Gore Jones (nee Jones). He had one daughter Janet to his first marriage. When he returned to Tasmania he became a farmer at several places including Bagdad and Rowella. Claimed his 1914/15 Star trio from an address in Sandy, Bay, Hobart, Tasmania. He died 6/03/1962. Extensive series of his letters in the Tasmanian Library Archives.

BUTLER, Adrian Illingworth. 936. Corporal KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915. Active as a sniper at La Bourse 18/03/1916. WIA twice. Transferred as a Corporal, Royal Engineers 198254. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery 6/03/1917 later Lieutenant. Awarded the Military Cross for gallantry for his actions on 24 Apr 1918 (General List, 263799). He was born 8/07/1896 in Tiverton, Devon, England and died 20/03/1945 in Tehran, Iran with the rank of Captain. Son of Samuel Illingworth and Sarah Butler; husband of Vera Beatrice Butler of Staffordshire, England. His father was Headmaster at the Blue Coat School in Reading where Private Butler was educated. He returned to England from Canada where he was working with the Grand Trunk Railway. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Reading, Berkshire, England and entitled to WW2 service medals. Accompanying photograph and biography courtesy of Reading Borough Library Collection (Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 4. p 817, 1919).

BUTLER, Robert William (Bertie). 1367. Private. Discharged 22/02/1919. Born 24/09/1880 in Wiltshire, England, and educated at Cranleigh. Settled in British Columbia from 1900 and died there in July, 1948. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

BUTLER, William Mahoney. Major KEH. Entered France 27/06/1915. Later Lieutenant Colonel, 9th Tank Battalion. Served with Imperial Yeomanry 1900-02 and awarded Queen's South Africa medal with three clasps Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and Transvaal and King's South Africa medal with two clasps. Mentioned in Despatches and awarded Distinguished Service Order 18/12/1918. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Callan in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Name commemorated on the Callan Great War Memorial and on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland.

BUTTERFIELD, Ernest. 699. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Transferred as Acting Corporal, Royal Engineers, 311020. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Royal Engineers.

BUTTERWORTH, Christian name possibly C. from name on manufacturers label in bandsman's tunic, 1913.

BUXTON, Gordon Ottford (Buckin). 500. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Born in England. Man servant to Lt Col Hermon from 1908 and up until his death in Apr 1918 with the 24th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Gordon then returned to the KEH. Discharged 14/02/1919. Born 11/04/1884 at Wimbledon, Surrey, England and died 28/10/1951 in Brighton, East Sussex. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BUXTON, Hugh Forster. Second Lieutenant KEH on probation 1/09/1914. Transferred to 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade and deployed to France 8/12/1915. Transferred to the 5th Battalion and was promoted to Lieutenant 30/03/1916. DoW 3/11/1916 at 34 Casualty Clearing Station during the Battle of the Somme. Buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France. Born 6/04/1882 at St George Hanover Square, London, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

BUXTON, V. H. Major. KEH. Resided in Salisbury, South Africa after the Great War and served in the Special Reserve, South African Army in WW2.

BYNOE, John Eayre Kellman. 1. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant (SQMS). 'B' Squadron. Born in Barbados in 1867 and died on 19/05/1935 in Depford, London. Awarded 1911 Coronation Medal and Territorial Forces Efficiency Medal 1/04/1912 as Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant. He did not serve with the KEH in France during the Great War. He was a member of the King's Colonial Masonic Lodge from 1924 until his death in 1935 and his family have his regalia. He worked as a school master until 1918 when he began to work as a dentist, unqualified, from his home in Loampit Hill, Lewisham, London. He was buried in Greenwich Cemetery. There were two Bynoe brothers who served with the King's Colonials from 1902. The junior of which had a son who served in France 1915-19 presumably Private Ronald L. Bynoe. The accompanying photograph courtesy of a family relative Michael Chalk, is of J.E.K. Bynoe's wedding to Annie Kathleen Gore which took place at Lewisham High Road Congregational Church on 5/04/1913. Note the members of the KEH who formed a guard of honour for the occasion including Regimental Serjeant Major Daniel Fegan, 274 on the right with his medal group. SQMS Bynoe is also shown in Figure 209.

BYNOE, Ronald Lashley. 532. Private. Entered France 27/07/1915. Discharged 13/04/1919. Born 4/07/1896 in Southsea, Hampshire, England and died Mar 1970 in Harrow, Greater London, England. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio now held by the National Army Museum.

BYSOUTH, Sydney. Private KEH. Enlisted 6/12/1915. Transferred to 653rd Company Labour Corps as Private, 416807 on 13/10/1917. Discharged 2/04/1918 as no longer physically fit for service with an army pension. Born in 1882 and resided in Romford, England. Married to Amelia Margaret Clark with one child Lawrence William Frederick Bysouth. No service medal entitlement as did not serve overseas, awarded Silver War Badge B904802.

CADIC, Joseph Edward. 1097. Private KEH. Enlisted 17/05/1915, entered France 20/10/1915 and discharged 16/07/1918 as physically unfit. Born in 1878 and died 2/06/1964. Awarded Silver War Badge 427986 and 1914/15 Star Trio. Victory Medal listed for sale on dracomedals.com and corresponding photograph with their courtesy.

CAILES, Stephen Lyall. 893. Acting Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Marine Light Infantry 29/05/1917 later Lieutenant. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CALNAN, George. 330. Private. Enlisted 9/09/1914 and discharged 23/08/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 117844. Did not serve overseas. From St Peters, Buckinghamshire. No Great War Medal entitlement.

CALVERT, Harry Campbell. 279. Squadron Serjeant Major, 'A' (British Asian) Squadron, King's Colonials. He served for ten years with the King's Colonials and King Edward's Horse with his last day of service being 24/04/1914. Eighteen years and 201 days prior service with the Royal Garrison Artillery and then with 'J' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery in the Boer War as Serjeant 42817 having enlisted as a boy when he was 14 ½ years in 1884. Discharged at his own request 10/12/1902 and joined the King's Colonials. On 30/08/1914 he transferred back to the Royal Horse Artillery as Serjeant 88002 with 15th Brigade. He entered France 6/10/1914 and fought in Flanders from Oct 1914 to Feb 1915 an then on the Somme until Dec 1915. He was promoted to Regimental Serjeant Major, 114th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery 3/03/1915. Harry served in Salonika from Jan 1916 to 19/07/1916 where he was wounded. Discharged to commission 7/11/1916. Commissioned as a Lieutenant and Quartermaster 13/11/1916. Transferred to Royal Air Force (RAF) on 1/07/1918 as Lieutenant. Promoted to Staff Officer, 3rd Class, RAF on 2/02/1919. Demobilised as a Lieutenant 11/06/1919. Total service 33 years and 84 days. Harry was awarded the Queen's South Africa and King's South Africa Medals with seven clasps (Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902), a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Special Reserve) in July 1914, 1914 Mons Star trio and a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal (Regular Army). His medals were lost from the family upon the death of his second wife in 1968 and the family property in Wimbledon was sold. He published a book entitled "Yeomanry Vade Mecum" in 1913. Harry was born 7/11/1869 in Galle, Ceylon. Harry married Agnes Louisa Morrison and they had five children: Hector Morrison Calvert 1893 died in infancy, Dorothy May Calvert 1894-1979, Cyril Hugh Trevor Calvert 1897-1917, Victor Campbell Calvert 1898-1904 and Marjorie Winifred Calvert 1899-1992. His son Cyril Hugh Trevor Calvert was KIA on 7/10/1917 while serving with the Royal Field Artillery in France as Corporal (Gunner) 940310. Harry Campbell Calvert is the son of Henry Buchanan Calvert b.1847 Southampton, England (Royal Artillery) and is the son of Duncan Campbell Calvert b. 1822 Canterbury, England (Royal Artillery) and is the son of Duncan Campbell Calvert b.1792 Quebec, Canada (Royal Artillery) and is the son of William Calvert b.1776 Tollerton, England (Royal Artillery) and is the son of Joseph Calvert b.1748 (Royal Scots Regiment). Hence five generations of Harry's family had prior service in the British Army and two further generations have also served which is a remarkable family service record. Harry died in 11/03/1941 in Wimbledon, London and was interred at St Mary's Churchyard, Merton. Accompanying photographs of Harry as a Lieutenant in the RHA, his King's Colonials Certificate of Service (the only one that I have seen), details of his book entitled "Yeomanry Vade Mecum" and biography courtesy of James Morgan (grandson) and Rob Bull (2x grandson). Rob identified a photograph of Harry on this website as an un-named Squadron Serjeant Major.

CALVIN, . Private. KEH. From South America. Named in the accompanying postcard of Private Broadhead along with fellow members of 2nd Troop, C Squadron taken at Watford in 1914.

CAMERON, Arthur Garfield. Lieutenant KEH 1910 who joined as Rhodes scholar at Oxford university. Second Lieutenant in 1907 in command of the Oxford university detachment attached to 'D' Squadron. Rejoined the KEH at the outbreak of WW1 as a Lieutenant in command of a Troop of 'A' Squadron and become Acting Major in command of 'C' Squadron KEH. Transferred as a Major in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1918. Born 6/03/1882 on Prince Edward Island and died 1/04/1965 in Trail, British Columbia, Canada. Accompanying photograph shown of him as a Lieutenant in KEH in 1914 at Hunton Bridge. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. 

CAMERON, Donald Keith. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant KEH 4/09/1914. Attached to Machine Gun Service 7-29/05/1915. Temporary Captain 26/07/1915. Entered France 15/01/1917. Transport Officer and Quarter Master 17/03/1917 - 17/11/1917. Attached to the Honourable Artillery Company 9/04/1918. Transferred to the Cameron Highlanders (Special Reserve) 23/04/1918 then 1st Battalion 17/06/1918 as Acting Captain. Staff Captain 4/01/1919 - 12/01/1920 as General Staff Officer at Army Headquarters in Germany. Promoted to Captain 11/05/1920. Mentioned in Despatches 28/05/1918 for service in Italy. Born 1/05/1888 in Chudleigh, Tasmania the son of Donald Norman Cameron and Anne Lillias Scott and returned in 1931. In 1934 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Wilmot, holding his seat until his defeat in 1937. He died In Nunawading, Victoria on 6/06/1967. Photograph on kingedwardshorse.net and as a Lieutenant in 1915 see Figure 19.

CAMERON, Herbert J. 984. Private/ Promoted to Lance Corporal and attached to Trench Mortar Battery. Entered France 2/06/1915. Awarded Military Medal as Lance Corporal, KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers on 9/09/1916 and transferred as a Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from London address of his father, Richard.

CAMLIN, Edward. Private. D/17238. Transferred as a Private, Royal Dragoons D/17238 to KEH, then as a Private, Corps of Dragoons. Discharged 18/10/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CAMPBELL, James Alphonse. 1311. Private KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged 5/07/1919. Living in Trinidad in 1946. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CAMPBELL, Nigel Harry. Second Lieutenant. From Officer Cadet Unit to Second Lieutenant 10/05/1918 (London Gazette). Served in Russia May - Sep 1919. Born in 1899 in Natal, South Africa and died 6/09/1981 in Barberton, Transvaal, South Africa. Applied for British War and Victory Medals. Named in photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33.

CAMPBELL, Richard. Acting Captain. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry not located but likely to be entitled to 1914/15 Star trio unless incorrectly recorded Christian name on the Kilkenny War Memorial see Nigel Harry Campbell above.

CAMPION, Austin Bernard Lodge. Private KEH and served pre-war. Re-enlisted 1914. Entered France 24/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Welsh Regiment later Lieutenant. He served with his four brothers, Captain Rowland B. Campion, RAMC; Captain Gifford Campion, RFA; Lieutenant Oliver St. Leger Campion, RAMC; Lieutenant Jasper T. Campion, RGA all of whom survived the war. Austin served in WW2 with the Australian Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers as Corporal 76937. Born 15/06/1893 in Bulimba, Queensland, Australia and died 28/05/1942 in service at Concord West, New South Wales. His father C. A. B. Campion, London Manager, Commonwealth Bank of Australia applied for his 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph in uniform of the Welsh Regiment and with his brothers courtesy of the Great War Forum.

CANNON, William (Tom). 1168. Private. WIA and posted Missing in Action at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 3/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CAPPER, Isidore Alfred. 433. Private. Transferred as Acting Corporal, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61202. Alfred Capper was born Alfred Friedlander and changed his name by deed poll Nov 1914 because of his surnames Germanic tone. He served in the 2nd King Edward's Horse as a Private later transferring to the King Edward's Horse as a Private 433 with him appearing in Figure 22 in a Hotchkiss machine gun section of King Edward's Horse in 1916. He finally transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers as an Acting Corporal 61202. He was rumoured to have worked in South Africa and this could have been sufficient connection for the appeal of the 2nd KEH as it was made up of Colonial volunteers. The family recall that although he didn't speak about his wartime experiences at one stage he was shot off his horse and buried by the earth thrown up by the shell but escaped unscathed, and that eventually they had to fight dismounted.  Alfred died in 1945 and was awarded the 1914/15 Star trio. The family retain his 2nd King Edward's Horse cap badge (With thanks for the portrait (shown in the 2nd King Edward's Horse Nominal Roll section) and other photograph and correspondence from his maternal grandson Robert Cruickshank).

CARLTON, Edward. Private KEH. D/15338. Former Private, 1st Dragoons D/15338 then following KEH transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons D/15338. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CARR, George. 1049. Serjeant. Born at St. Anne's, Nottingham in 1877 the son of George Edmund and Eliza Carr in 1894. KIA 21/11/1917. Served in Boer War and enlisted 20/12/1899 with the 12th Company (South Nottingham), 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, 3362 and discharged 15/06/1907 having transferred from South Notts Yeomanry Cavalry. Awarded Queen's South Africa medal with South Africa 1899-02, Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal clasps. Buried in Anneux British Cemetery, France. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CARR, Isaac. Private KEH. D/352. Entered France 31/10/1914. Former Private, 3rd Dragoon Guards D/352. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CARR, Talbot (Tiny) Effingham. 921. Private. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 27/01/1915, entered France 1/06/1915 and served in the Trench Mortar section. Discharged 29/05/1917 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge. Born in 1883, lived in South America and died there in 1968. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from the Argentine.

CARRIG, Edward. 1260. Private. Enlisted 26/09/1915 and discharged 9/02/1917 as medically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 273709 and did not serve overseas. Born 1868 in Secunderabad, India. Prior service as Private 4379, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment from 16/12/1879 until discharged in 1901 and awarded Egypt Medal and Nile clasp 1884-85, Khedives Star, India General Service Medal with Naga 1889-90 Clasp and South Africa Medal 1899-1900. Died of natural causes on 27/05/1919 at Clondra, Longford, Ireland. No WW1 medal entitlement.

CARSON, Robert Edward. 152204. Private 2/1st Scottish Horse 4057. Entered the Balkans 1/09/1915. Transferred as Private, KEH 152204 then Private, 6th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 59098 and then Private, 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment 260587. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CARSON,  William (Harry) Henry Lambert. Serjeant KEH in Sep 1914. Estranged from his father, Sir Edward Carson. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment in the Boer War having initially joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from Rhodesia where he had been working on a farm since leaving school in Dublin. He resigned his commission in 1903 and then served with the Cape Mounted Police. He served in the Great War initially as a Serjeant with King Edward's Horse then the Rifle Brigade. He refused a commission and preferred to serve in the ranks. Severely wounded by a sniper's explosive bullet to the right shoulder in June 1917 at Ypres he then returned to England. After the war he joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps as a clerk. Born 2/10/1880 in Dublin, Ireland the son of Sir Edward Carson (Baron Carson, an Irish Unionist leader and barrister) and died penniless on 5/05/1930 in Northamptonshire, England. William's brother was Hon. Walter Seymour Carson who was a Commander in the Royal Navy in WW1. Harry was named in group photograph of Nationalists and Ulstermen in Sep 1914 from the front page of The Daily Citizen (Manchester) - Monday 14 September 1914 shown on the accompanying page.

CARTER, Bertrand Stanley. 544. Serjeant KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps later Lieutenant, Tank Corps. Bertrand Stanley Carter was born on 28/01/1878 and educated at a Public School in England and was employed by an English company which had an interest in coffee plantations in Malaya well before World War 1. Soon after the commencement of hostilities he, like many of his colonial Malayan compatriots, travelled back to the ‘old country’ as he felt the country was in great danger and joined the KEH. He first entered the Theatre of War in France on 2/06/1915. He was subsequently commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps on 25/01/1917, and later as Captain, Tank Corps. He was appointed Temp. Lieutenant on 26/07/1918 and advanced to the rank of Acting Captain when he was appointed as Reconnaissance Officer finally relinquishing this rank when he ceased to be Reconnaissance Officer (28/03/1919). After the end of the War he acted as Demobilization Officer. His Military Cross was presented by H.M. King George V to Captain B.S. Carter, Tank Corps for Distinguished Service in France”, May 8th 1919); 1914/15 Star 544 Cpl. B.S. Carter, K. Edw. H.; BWM; AVM (Brit) Capt. B.S. Carter. He was recommended for the the immediate award of a Military Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Meteren on 16 April 1918. It would seem that confirmation of this was gazetted on 3/06/1918 in which the award is referred to as a Bar to a Military Cross. The award of a Military Cross was later published in the Supplement to London Gazette dated 16/09/1918 - it would seem probable that this further act of gallantry preceded his immediate award during the Battle of Meteren in April 1918. (For the action during the Battle of Cambrai 23/11/1917). Information courtesy of the British Medal Forum.

CARTER, Edwin Righton. 1409. Trumpeter. Died at Sea with the sinking of the 'SS Connemara' after colliding with another vessel when sailing between Glenoore and Anglesey 03/11/16. Son of R. A. Carter of 13 Somali Road, Cricklewood, London. Buried in CARLINGFORD (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCH OF IRELAND CHURCHYARD, IRELAND and name commemorated on the Grangegorman Military Cemetery Memorial Wall, Dublin.

CARTER, Herbert Thompson. 92. Private. Enlisted 25/08/1914. Discharged 16/05/1915. due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 238687. No medal entitlement as he did not serve overseas.

CARTER, . Private. Served in the King's Colonials. Named in a photograph taken at the Sidcup camp in 1902 (Old Comrades Association Bulletin, No. 8, 1940).

CARTY, John Benedict. 1150. Private Discharged 5/03/1919. Born 15/10/1895 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. His brother Lance Corporal Augustus Leo Carty, 10811 (born 1/06/1897) was KIA 10/10/1915 with the 1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. John was awarded the British War and Victory Medals. His Victory Medal is held in a private collection having been sold on an electronic auction site in the UK in 2013.

CASEY, Reginald. 540. Private. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 10/08/1914 and entered France 21/04/1915. Discharged 24/05/1919. Likely to have been born 2/04/1891 and died in 1948 in Littlemore, Oxfordshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CASTLE, Archibald Crisp. Private KEH. Entered France Jun 1916. Transferred from 13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade as Private S/29094. After service with KEH transferred to 10th Cadet Battalion before being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment on 3/08/1917. Applied for British War and Victory Medals named to Leicestershire Regiment from London, England.

CASTLE, Gordon. 2069. Private KEH. Transferred from 2KEH as Private 2010. Discharged 8/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CASTLE, William Stephen. 704. Private KEH. Enlisted 18/11/1914, entered France 1/06/1915, returned to England 12/08/1917 and discharged 13/02/1918 as physically unfit. Born on 20/10/1890 in Ramsgate, Kent, England and died at Thanet, Kent in Mar 1958. Awarded Silver War Badge 364421 and 1914/15 Star trio. Newspaper photograph of him as a driver for Prince of Wales on his visit to Ramsgate in 24/11/1926.

CAVANAGH, Albert John. 1018. Private. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 26/03/1915. Entered France 16/06/1915. Posted as Missing in Action at defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and then noted as Prisoner of War repatriated 25/03/1919. Discharged 29/08/1919. Born on 8/06/1894 in Waterloo, Sydney and died 6/06/1934 in Randwick, Sydney, Australia. Awarded 1914/5 Star trio which is held in a private collection.

CHADWICK, Clifford Norman. 623. Serjeant. 4th Troop, 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918. Discharged 2/03/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Born in Southern Rhodesia and died there in 1946. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio

CHAFEN, Harold S. D-13012. Private KEH. Prior service as Private 'B' Squadron 5th Dragoon Guards 10681. Born in 1899. British War Medal and Victory Medals named to KEH and sold by C&T Auctioneers, UK in June 2020 together with his Dragoon Guards identity disc and his wife's VAD Nursing medals and badges.

CHALKLEY, Albert William. 553. Private. Enlisted Aug 1914 and entered France 2/06/1915. Died of heart disease in hospital in Rouen 12/06/1918 and had been attached to the Northumberland Hussars. Buried in ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, FRANCE. Born APR 1892 in St Ippollitts, Hertfordshire. The son of William George and Agnes Chalkley. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Commemorated on the St Ippolyts Village Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church. Portrait photograph shown courtesy of Herts at War. 

CHAMBERLAIN, Arthur Henry. 859. Acting Corporal. 'B' Squadron. Born in Warwickshire on 23/12/1891, a Private in 1914 at Watford having enlisted 15/12/1914 and entered France 21/04/1915. Part of Shanghai Contingent on board the 'SS Suwa Maru' 16/10/1914 and was serving with the Shanghai Municipal Police since 1911. Discharged 21/11/1918 as physically unfit with Silver War Badge 74387 after being wounded in the arm at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Interred by the Japanese in Shanghai in WW2 as Police Superintendent. Living in Birmingham, UK in 1946 and died in 1958. Awarded 1914-15 Star (859 Pte. A. H. Chamberlain, K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (859 A. Cpl. A. H. Chamberlain. K. Edw. H.); Shanghai Municipal Council Emergency Medal 1937, bronze, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear, with riband bar. His medals were sold with photograph of recipient in uniform on horse, damaged letter of reference from the Colonel Commanding King Edward’s Horse, dated 15/02/1922, and a typed resume of recipient’s service career by Dix Noonan Webb auctioneers, UK in Nov 2020.

CHAMBERS, Alexander E. 725. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Transferred as Private, King's Shropshire Light Infantry 8192 then Private, Military Mounted Police, P12039. Discharged 27/06/1919. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Montreal, Canada. Named in a postcard which belonged to Private Broadhead of named members of 2nd Troop, C Squadron taken at Watford in 1914, courtesy of Stuart Shaw, his relative. Private Chambers returned from the Gold Coast, South Africa to enlist.

CHAPPELL, Cyril Thomas. 1946. Corporal. Born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire and died of wounds on the Western Front 11 March 1918. Buried in St Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France. Image of memorial plaque (death penny) shown from when it was sold at auction February 2019. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. 

CHARLES, B. Staff Serjeant Major KEH since 1910 and retired in 1912 but returned to the Regiment and probably an original member of the King's Colonials since 1902.

CHARLES, John. 1905. Private KEH served pre-war. Entered France 24/02/1916. Transferred as Private, Expeditionary Force Canteens, Army Service Corps. Discharged 16/06/1917. Awarded the Territorial Forces War Medal which was issued in 1942. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CHARTER, Walter G. 1567. Private. 4th Troop, 'C' Squadron in 1918. Discharged 27/04/1919. Died in June 1946 in the Transvaal, South Africa (Figure 23). Awarded British War and Victory Medals now in a private collection.

CHASE, Percival. 1894. Private. KIA 09/04/18 at the defence of Vieille Chapelle. Name recorded on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Born in 1885 in Bungay, Suffolk, England. Commemorated on the Bungay Roll of Honour. Awarded British War and Victory Medals with his Victory Medal being sold on an electronic auction site in the UK in 2013.

CHEESEMAN, James Alfred. 894. Private. 'A' Squadron. Part of Shanghai Contingent on board the 'SS Suwa Maru' 16/10/1914 and was serving with the Shanghai Municipal Police since 1908. Entered France 20/10/1915 and wounded by rifle grenade at La Bourse 24/03/1918. Discharged 7/03/1919. Returned to Shanghai after the war and worked as a draper for Weeks & Co. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

CHEETHAM, Arthur R. 712. Private. Arrived France 21/04/1915. Deserted 20/07/1916. Forfeited his WW1 service medals.

CHENNELLS, Cyril Alfred. Private KEH. Transferred to the British section of the NZEF. 8/01/1916-8/02/1916 to Suez, Egypt on HMNZT 37 'Maunganui' as a Private 11/2057, Reinforcements, Wellington Mounted Rifles, 'B' Squadron, New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Born in 1892 in Masterton, New Zealand with stated occupation of shepherd and next-of-kin on embarkation roll his uncle William Boyce Chennells a Land Agent in Masterton. Cyril died in 1965. Name recorded on Wanganui Collegiate and Auckland Online Cenotaph.

CHEYNE, James D. 901. Private. . 3rd Troop 'B' Squadron then 'A' Squadron in 1917. Entered France 22/04/1915. Wounded at Savy on 21/03/1917. Discharged 15/03/1919. Served in West Surrey Regimental Home Guard in WW2 as a Serjeant. Born in 1880. From the Transvaal, South Africa and died in Surrey, UK in October 1946. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CHILD, Arthur J. 1498. Private. Discharged 11/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CHING, William Thorne Wilmot. Private KEH. Born in Remeura, New Zealand in 1888 and attended King’s College, Auckland and embarked on a promising architectural career in the offices of A.B. Wilson before setting sail for the UK, where he is first recorded as an Architects Association (AA) member in 1909. From 1911-13 he attended the AA’s Evening School, followed by a final year at the Day School in 1913/14. On the outbreak of war, Ching volunteered for the King Edward’s Horse, received a Lieutenant’s commission in the 351st Brigade, 5th Division Royal Field Artillery and was sent to the front in March 1915. He saw action at the infamous battle of ‘Hill 60’, near Ypres, where he gained the Military Cross for heroism, rescuing two injured colleagues trapped with burning ammunition in a gun pit under severe enemy shelling. He himself was the victim of a poison gas attack and, remarkably enough, was seriously injured three times within the space of two years. After recuperation, Ching returned to the AA and in 1919 he was appointed ‘House Master’, his duties including overseeing the administrative and logistical arrangements for the AA studios and atelier within the newly acquired Bedford Square premises. Ching’s stint as House Master stretched only for four years and in 1923 he resigned in order to set up a firm of heating engineers with F. Broadhurst Craig. He married later that year but in the summer of 1924 went into hospital for an operation to mitigate the side-effects of the war-time poison gassing, only to die on the 21/07/1924 after a second, unsuccessful operation. Photograph of William Ching (centre), G.M. Niccol (left) and unknown Private all in KEH uniform from Auckland Weekly News 14/01/1915.

CHIRNSIDE, R. M. Second Lieutenant, King's Colonials in 1905

CHITTY, John. 571. Private KEH. Entered France 28/04/1915. Discharged 14/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CHRISTERSON, Cecil C. 2143. Private KEH. From South Africa. Entitled to British War Medal only.

CHRISTIE, James Vigne. 1331. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron. KIA 09/04/18 aged 38 at defence of Vieille-Chapelle. Born 22/03/1881 the son of James John and Teresa Christie (nee Vigne) in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. Buried in VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE, FRANCE. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of headstone shown. Portrait photograph courtesy of Alison Christie on Ancestry. 

CHUBB, W. S. R. Saddler. 1881. Casualty. British War and Victory Medals sold at auction. Details not confirmed on MIC.

CHURCHOUSE, Reginald Rufus. 995. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 22/02/1918. Born in Aston, Warwickshire, England in Oct 1892, emigrated to Australia 1911 and worked in Queensland and returned post-war to Sydney. He married Laura Ballard in 1920 in Queensland and was married again this time to Josephine Isaacson in 1941 in Sydney and died there on 8/01/1957. Shown in a group photograph taken at Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

CHURCHWARD, Hubert Alan. Serjeant KEH. Lieutenant H. A. Churchward, Royal Flying Corps, late 2nd County of London (Westminster Dragoons) Yeomanry, an R.E.8. pilot who was KIA during a photo-reconnaissance operation near Boesinhge, 16/08/1917. Hubert Alan Churchward was born in Aldershot, 25/11/1891, and was educated privately and at Corpus Christi, Cambridge. He joined the 2nd County of London Yeomanry in September 1914, having formerly served with the West Kent Yeomanry and King Edward’s Horse. Attaining the rank of Sergeant with the County of London Yeomanry in October 1914, he was discharged to a commission in the regiment on 20/05/1915. He entered the Gallipoli theatre of war on 16/10/1915, and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps for training as a pilot in May 1917. Churchward was posted as a pilot for operational service with 9 Squadron (R.E.8’s) at Quevenvillers in July 1917. He was driven down by an enemy aircraft whilst carrying out a photo-reconnaissance operation with Lieutenant W. Nuttall as his Observer near Boesinghe, 12/08/1917. Just four days later, Churchward was killed in action over France, aged 25 years. 1914/15 Star (2. Lieut. H. A. Churchward. 2/Co. Of Lond. Y.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. H. A. Churchward.); Memorial Plaque (Hubert Alan Churchward) sold at auction in the UK by Dix Noonan Webb, December 2010. Name is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial.

CHURCHYARD, Archibald. 1510. Enlisted 24/03/1916. Transferred from Sapper, Royal Engineers 229154 (Territorial Army) then KEH then Royal Engineers Railway Transport Department WR/287661. Discharged 5/08/1919 with Silver War Badge. Repatriated to Jerilderie, New South Wales, Australia in 1919 with army disability pension with wife and infant son. Born in 1887 in East Ham, London, England and died on 23/03/1953 in DeeWhy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals and Territorial Decoration.

CHURMS, William H. 351. Lance Corporal. Entered France 22/04/1915. Played side drum in the KEH band. Discharged 10/11/1919. Civil Servant in the Colonial Office and died of TB 3/05/1938 in East Dulwich, London. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CLANCY, William (John) M. Joseph. 1297. Private KEH. Private 1/10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment 91433 in 1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps in 1917. Entered France 5/05/1015. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Died in hospital of meningitis 16/10/1918 aged 38. Son of John and Winifred Clancy of Moore Street, Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland. Buried in GREENWICH CEMETERY, United Kingdom. Civilian portrait photograph courtesy of the Activities-of-the-british-community-in-argentina-during-the-great-war-1914-1919. 

CLARK, Reginald. 1622. Acting Corporal. Discharged 25/01/1919. Resided in London. Died in 1965. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CLARK, William D. 804. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Durham Light Infantry 28/02/1917 and later promoted to Lieutenant, Royal Air Force. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Jamaica, British West Indies.

CLARKE, Albert Edmond (Nobby). 1405. Corporal KEH.  'A' Squadron. DOW 15/03/19 received at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918. A policeman who returned from Shanghai to enlist. Buried in GOOLE CEMETERY, UK. His father applied for his British War and Victory Medals. 

CLARKE, Eric Ossulston. 952. Private. Entered France 21/04/1915. WIA at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 8/06/1919. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Dublin, Ireland.

CLARKE, Horace Vernon. 1120. Private. Entered France 19/11/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps 28/01/1918 later Captain. Mentioned in Despatches. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Ilfracombe, Devon, England.

CLEGG, Reginald A. D/11696. Private. Transferred as Private, Company of Dragoons. Discharged 8/11/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CLYNE, Joseph Vincent. 2050. Private KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred to KEH as Private 2050, 'B' Squadron. Posted as Missing in Action at the defence of Vieille Chapelle but was taken prisoner of war and interred in Lindburg Camp. Discharged 5/04/1919. Born in 12/10/1886 in Longford Ireland, lived in Argentina, South America pre- and post-war and died in 1960. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. 1914/15 Star earned with 2nd KEH and British War and Victory Medals to KEH.

COATES, Charles. 406. Private. 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron in 1916. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 31/03/19. Born 23/10/1894, educated at Emanuel School, London from 1904-11 (possibly with an elder brother Walter John Coates) and died 1963-64. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COATES, James Henry Smith. 751 and 151187. Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Resided in Cheltenham, Gloucester and enlisted in Dunkeld, Scotland on 9/09/1914 in 3rd Reserve Regiment of Scottish Horse as Private, 491. Transferred to 2KEH on 30/01/1917 as Serjeant, 2088. Transferred back to Scottish Horse on 14/06/17 as Serjeant, 491. Transferred to KEH 14/01/1918 as Serjeant, 751 with 'B' Squadron. Missing at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9/04/1918 and reported as a Prisoner of War. Returned to KEH 6/12/1918 and discharged 13/03/1919 as Serjeant, 151187. Awarded Silver War Badge 209311. 9 years prior service as a Serjeant, 3681 with the 1st King's Dragoon Guards having enlisted 10/10/1893 in Dublin and served in South Africa during the Boer War from 31/01/1899 to 30/08/1902. Awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and South Africa 1901 clasp and King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1902 clasp. Born in Bloxham, Oxford, England on 7/02/1873 and died in Nottingham on 8/02/1944. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio which are held in a private collection.

COCKER, William Edward. 875. Private. Enlisted 21/12/1914 and discharged 28/04/1915 due to sickness and did not serve overseas. Awarded Silver War Badge 19191. No service medal entitlement.

COETZEE, Hendrick S. 1321. Private KEH. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron in Jun 1917. Wounded in Action at Passchendaele 31/07/1917. Discharged 22/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COGHLAN, Alfred John Patrick. 858. Warrant Officer Class 2 KEH. 'C' Squadron. Part of Shanghai Contingent on board the SS Suwa Maru 16/10/1914 and was serving with the Shanghai Municipal Police since 1908 with prior service in the South African Constabulary 1902-07. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 23/08/1919. Returned to Shanghai Municipal Police service until 1933. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. Born in England 25/02/1878 and died in Bournemouth, England on 29/11/1940.

COGHLAN, Gerald Nicholas Patrick. 981. Private KEH. Enlisted in Liverpool, England. KIA 19/08/17 aged 22 at Passchendaele. Son of Matthew Patrick and Mary Ellen Coghlan, of New Rath Lodge, Waterford, Ireland born 9/12/1984 in Cavan, Ireland. Buried in GWALIA CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. 

COLE, A. Squadron Serjeant Major KEH. Transferred from the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards appointed as Staff Serjeant Major KEH in 1911.

COLE, Arthur Diggs. 900. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged 25/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COLEMAN, John James. 1118. Lance Corporal KEH. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 27/08/1915. Awarded Military Medal for action with a Lewis gun at defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 (London Gazette 16/07/1918). Discharged 12/10/1919. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Born 11/05/1893 at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands and died 6/04/1965 in Buenos Aries, South America. His Military Medal is held in a private collection.

COLLEY, Frank W. 1080. Private KEH. Reported missing at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 18/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COLLINS, . Private. Served in the King's Colonials. Named in a photograph taken at the Sidcup camp in 1902 (Old Comrades Association Bulletin, No. 8, 1940).

COLLINS, Vernon N. 2040. Private. Left Trinidad for England to enlist on 5/06/1917. Discharged 4/04/1920. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COLLINS, Victor Leon Monier. 1308. Lance Corporal. Killed in Action in France at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 09/04/1918. Son of F. A. Collins, Deputy Registrar of the Courts, Trinidad. Born 25/09/1896 at Port of Spain. Educated Queens Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sailed with the 1st Caribbean Merchants and Planters Contingent on 18/10/1915. Buried in the CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, France. Commemorated on Port of Spain Cenotaph. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Image from Old Comrades Association Bulletin.

COLLINS, William L. (Lottie). 695. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 4/04/1919. Resided in South Africa post-war. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COLLYMORE, Robert. Private KEH. Robert Collymore initially served in the ranks of King Edward’s Horse and the 5th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, London Regiment on 2 January 1915. He was promoted Lieutenant on 1 July 1915, and temporary Captain on 22 September 1915, and served during the Great War on the Western Front from January 1917. Group of four medals: Captain R. Collymore, 2nd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers), London Regiment. British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. Collymore.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. R. Collymore. 2-Lond. R.); Defence Medal, the first three mounted for wear, the last loose; together with the related four miniature awards sold at Noonans Auctions in the UK in Oct 2023 and accompanying photograph with their courtesy.

COLVIN, Jonathan MacDonald. 689 Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Special Reserve, East Lancashire Regiment on 29/05/1917 later Lieutenant. Awarded Military Cross. Born 10/09/1887 in Alves, Moray, Scotland and died 8/03/1976 in Bexhill, Sussex, England. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Bromley, Kent, England.

CONDER, Albert Edward. Private from Argentina. Employee Hume Hnos. Buenos Aires. Died of Wounds received in Nov 1918 (age 33). Taken from The Roll of Honour in the "Activities of the British Community in Argentina During the Great War 1914 - 1919".

CONNELLY, John. 810. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Lieutenant, RNVR on 29/05/1917. Awarded Silver War Badge 15/08/1918. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Leicester, England.

CONTANT, Lionel E. 2197. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 20/03/1918 with 15th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Living in USA in 1946. British War Medal is sole entitlement.

COOK, Frederick James. 466. Corporal.  Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, Border Regiment. Entered Gallipoli 7/10/1915 and DOW 30/11/1915 while attached to 1/4th Battalion (Queen Edinburgh Rifles), Royal Scots. Born 31/01/1870 in Java, Dutch East Indies and was a South African cricketer who played one test against England in 1896. He was buried in Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles. The son of John Groom Cook and Emily Cook and his widow Mrs Mary Ames Cook of Hilbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa applied for his 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph in his cricket whites courtesy of the Imperial War Museum's "Lives of the First World War".

COOK, William Stanley. 854. Private. Enlisted in the KEH 15/12/1914 having sailed to London from Shanghai on board the "SS Suwa Maru" on the 16/10/1914. Born 10/08/1873 in London and educated St. John's College, Hurstpierpoint and King's College, London. Served in Cape Mounted Rifles 1894-97 then KEH 1914-16 for 1 year and 8 months and did not serve in France. Discharged 15/08/1916 due to sickness and awarded Silver War Badge 19193. Died 7/03/1956 in Hamstead, England.

COOKE, C. H. Squadron Serjeant Major. 'A' Squadron (British Asian) King's Colonials. Portrait photograph circa 1905-09.

COOKE, Ewin Edgar. 1580 Private. On 12 April 1918 Ewing sustained a gunshot wound to his leg and elbow at the defence of Vieille Chapelle. He was admitted to 24th General Hospital, Etaples, France. Discharged from KEH 13/02/1919. Born on 22/01/1892 in Bexhill, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia the son of Samuel Robert Cooke and Isabella King. Married Dorothy Francis Hunter 31/03/1925 and they had one daughter Lorna Jean Cooke. Ran a champion dairy cattle stud at Bexhill, Lismore, New South Wales and died there on 4/01/1972. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COOKE, James Edward. 1444. Private. Enlisted 23/03/1915, entered France 5/05/1915 and discharged 4/07/1916 as physically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge 265844. Born in 1886 in Derby, England and married in Hong Kong in 1915. Prior service in a South African Colonial regiment. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COOKE, John Edwin (Ed). 1254. Private. KIA 09/04/18. Born 29/09/1888 in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE and the Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.  

COOMBES, Valentine Henry. 493. Serjeant, Warrant Officer Class 2.  'B' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. KIA 22/03/1917 aged 28 at Savy as Squadron Serjeant Major. Son of Frank Crouchman Coombes and Priscilla Margaret Coombes, of "Cronulla", Dufferin Terrace, Church Path, Deal, Kent; husband of Elsie Coombes of Tooting, London. Born at Notting Hill, London and employed as a Junior Assistant, Kensington Public Libraries. Buried in SAVY BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE. Commemorated on the British Librarian's Roll of Honour. The Kensington News and West London Times of 13/04/1917, page 6 (BNA), reports: “PUBLIC LIBRARIES OFFICIAL KILLED IN ACTION". Councilor Bruce-Johnston moved the reception of the Finance Committee’s reports in which they stated that the War Office have notified that Mr V.H. Coombes, a junior assistant in the Public Libraries since 1904, who has been serving with the Army in France for over two years, must be regarded as having been killed on or about March 22nd. Mr Coombes, who was the son of Mr F. C. Coombes, one of the Relieving Officers in the service of the Kensington Guardians, was in the 1st King Edward’s Horse, and had attained the of Sergeant-Major in his Squadron being described by his superior officers as one of the best Non-Commissioned Officers in the Regiment. The blow to the parents is intensified by the fact that another son, who at the outbreak of the war joined HM Navy, went down in HMS “Indefatigable”. The committee recommended “That the Council do pass a vote of condolence with the relatives of the deceased in their bereavement” This was unanimously agreed to.” Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Portrait photograph shown. 

COOPER, Christopher Laird. 78. Private. Joined King's Colonials as Private, 196 on 7/10/1908 for four years service. Attended 1909, 1910 and 1911 annual camps. Discharged 28/02/1913. Re-enlisted 15/05/1913 and entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 5/10/1915 at term of engagement. Born in Jan 1886 in South Hornsey, Middlesex, England and died Apr 1921 in Military Hospital in Hackney, London, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COOPER, E. 207. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant. Awarded the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1915 which was sold by Dixon's Medals.

COOPER, Henry Mark Hugh. Lieutenant. 'B' Squadron. Embarkation date 21/05/1915. Died of Wounds 29/07/1915 age 29 and buried in Nunhead (All Saints) Cemetery, London, United Kingdom. Son of Emma Elizabeth Freeman (formerly Cooper), of Reefton, Westland, South Island, New Zealand, and the late Rev. H. S. Cooper, of St. George's, Canterbury, England. Date of birth: 10th March 1886. He was born at Lancing College on the 10th of March 1886, the eldest son of the Reverend Henry Samuel Cooper, house master of Seconds House at Lancing, and Emma Elizabeth (nee Green later Foreman) later of 26 St George's Place, Canterbury. He was christened at Lancing on the 11/04/1886. He was educated at the Junior King's School from September 1898 and at the King's School Canterbury from September 1899 to June 1901. He worked in the Canadian Pacific Railway offices before joining the Cranbrook Branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce as a junior on the 6/02/1905. In 1907 he transferred to Vancouver in Canada where he worked as a clerk but he left their employment on the 31/12/1909 and returned to the UK on board the SS "Campania", landing at Liverpool on the 4/05/1910. On his return he worked as a clerk for the stockbrokers W. H. Trott. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the KEH on the 5/041913 and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 28/11/1914. He embarked for France at Southampton with his Squadron on board the Transport “Palm Branch" on the 21/04/1915 and arrived at Le Havre at 2.30am the following morning. Disembarkation was complete by 8.15am and the Troopers made their way up the hill to No. 6 Base Camp. On the 23rd of April they entrained for Steenwerek in Belgium; they then marched to Nieppe where their Division was headquartered. On the evening of the 29/04/1915 the Squadron was ordered to employ all available men for the construction of a strong point behind the front line at Wulverghem about 200 yards northwest of La Plus Douvre Farm. They paraded at 6.30pm and marched up to within half a mile of the position where their horses were picketed. As soon as it was dark they moved up and began work that night. Henry Cooper was in command of fifty men who were detailed to construct a redoubt. They were engaged in this construction for about nearly four weeks during which time they suffered six casualties. Henry Cooper was wounded on the 13/05/1915 with a gunshot wound near his spine which paralysed him. He was the first Officer casualty of the Squadron and was evacuated back to England where he died two months later at the 1st London General Hospital in Camberwell. He is commemorated on the war memorial at the King's School Wimbledon, the memorial at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Lieutenant in KEH in 1915 see Figure 19 and weathered gravestone show on accompanying page. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COOPER, Herbert J. 735. Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Awarded Military Service Medal 3/06/1918. Discharged 22/02/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COOPER, Thomas Wilson. 2328. Corporal. Enlisted in Aug 1914 and entered France 20/09/1914 as Private, 9724, 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment and discharged on 17/02/1916 with Silver War Badge noted on Medal Index Card but unable to identify record for it being awarded. Wounded twice noted on Roll of the Great War. Re-enlisted in KEH. British War and Victory Medals forfeited recorded on Medal Index Card. Entitled to 1914 Star. Roll of the Great War has him awarded 1914/15 Star trio and invalided in 1917. Further research required.

COOTE, Andrew L. 1953. Private. Discharged 1/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COOTE, Ralph Algernon. Sir (13th Bart). Adjutant and Captain in KEH 1910-12. Prior service with the North West Mounted Police from 1894 and then 17th Lancers from 1898 -1913 retiring as Captain and Adjutant. Re-enlisted in Aug 1914 in 17th Lancers and seconded to Royal Flying Corps as Temp. Captain. Transferred to Royal Naval Air Service. Promoted to Captain in the Technical Branch, Royal Air Force in Apr 1918. Born in London in 1874 and died in Carmel, California, USA on 2/07/1941. Awarded 1914 Star trio.

COPE, John Raymond. 1203. Private. WIA Mar 1917 with injury to abdomen sustained during shelling. Discharged due to injuries 1/09/1917. Born in 1868 with prior service with Imperial Guides during Zulu Rebellion, Transvaal Rebellion and German West Africa Campaign. Resided in the Transvaal, South Africa post-war. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CORBETT, Frank G. 59. Serjeant KEH. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 4/04/1919. Born 18/09/1887 and served in the KEH pre-war. Served in the Surrey Home Guard in WW2. Died in London 3/04/1955. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CORLETTE, Hubert Christian. The Honourable. Second Lieutenant 1902. Commanded 3rd Troop (Australian) 'A' Squadron (British Asian) King's Colonials as Lieutenant 1/02/1903. Major in command of the Reserve Squadron KEH 11/06/1914. Placed on half pay 5/06/1915 and transferred as Temporary Major Royal Field Artillery, East Anglia Brigade 14/11/1915. He served as a Staff Officer in the RFA until the end of the war. He was born on 26/06/1869 in Concord, New South Wales, Australia the son of Reverend James Christian Corlette and Frances Edith (nee Manning) Corlette and educated at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney University, London University and the Slade School. He married Florence Gwynnedd Davies Berrington on 7/10/1903 in Llanfair Kilgeddin, Monmouthshire and worked as an architect and was awarded an Order of the British Empire. They had three children during their marriage. He died on 23/04/1956 in Hendon, Middlesex, at the age of 86. Brother was Brigadier General James Montagu Christian Corlette AIF awarded CMG DSO. Portrait photograph of Major H. C. Corlette as a Major in 1917 wearing his KEH headdress badge shown (courtesy of the Norfolk Museums Collection) and additional photograph of him see Figure 4.

CORNISH, Charles Herbert. 971. Private KEH. Enlisted 24/02/1915 and entered France 1/06/1915. Discharged 30/08/1918 as physically unfit. Awarded Silver War Badge B5582. Born in 1877. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COSTELLO, Patrick. 1131. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 20/10/1915. Discharged 19/04/1919. Lived in South America and attended third re-union there in 1945. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COSTER, Thomas Edmund. 1083. Private KEH. Died in service in an asylum in Cork, Ireland on 27/10/18 aged 33. Buried in CORK MILITARY CEMETERY PARK, IRELAND. Name commemorated in the Ilford War Memorial Gazette and on the Ilford War Memorial Hall, London. No medal records identified. 

COTMAN, Robert A. 1364. Private. Entered France 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Essex Regiment 30/04/1916 then Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps. KIA 23/06/1918. His 1914/15 Star trio was claimed by his Mother, Mrs Victoria A. Cotman from Buenos Aires.

COTTON, Frederick C. 1676. Private. Discharged 8/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COUNLEY, Harry. 1045. Private. Discharged 10/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COUPAR Charles. 954. Corporal. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 22/02/1919. Born 4/11/1890 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland and died 12/12/1958 in Middlesex, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

COUVE, Noel. 264. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps 24/01/1917 later Lieutenant. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Paris. Rejoined the RAF in World War 2 as a Lieutenant (Flying Officer) 28/08/1939.

COWAN, Eric Hamilton. 393. Lance Corporal KEH, Second Lieutenant ex-Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) Territorial Force. Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club member – full-back in the legendary 1913-14 XV. Joined King Edward’s Horse in February 1914 and was a Lance-Corporal by the outbreak of war. London Gazette: 6/4/15: to be 2/Lieut, 1st Lancs RGA, dd. 1/4/15. A younger brother, D.W. Cowan, Lieut., Royal Field Artillery is commemorated on the same grave and an elder brother, G.K. Cowan, served in the Liverpool Scottish (10th Battalion), King’s Liverpool Regiment. E.H. and D.W. Cowan are commemorated on the Liverpool College chapel memorial. G.K. Cowan was also at Liverpool College. Post & Mercury 2/3/16: Eric Cowan was with the Liverpool firm of Balfour, Williamson, merchants. Eric Cowan named on the memorial at Liverpool CC, Aigburth. Like his brothers, Eric was educated at Liverpool College. On his KEH service record the place of birth - Melbourne, Australia. This may have been necessary to join an outfit which had so many Empire connections, but his birth was registered in the Toxteth Park district of Liverpool in 1894, and the 1901 and 1911 censuses show him, and his brothers, as born in Liverpool. Died at Canterbury after an operation and buried with full military honours 28/02/1916 in LIVERPOOL (TOXTETH PARK) CEMETERY. Son of George R. Cowan of 28 Sydenham Avenue, Sefton Park, Liverpool.

COWELL, Stanley Thomas. 1625. Private. Enlisted 26/08/1916. Ex-Sapper, Royal Engineers 229156 and then transferred to Railway Transport Depot as Sapper W.R.263359. Discharged 16/07/1919. Born in 1890. Awarded Silver War Badge 260,907. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

COWIE, Graham Robertson. 503. Corporal. Served in pre-war KEH whilst at Oxford University studying medicine and promoted to Corporal, 1570, 'C' Squadron in Mar 1913. Re-enlisted 8/08/1914 at Alexandra Palace and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on 26/12/1914. Entered France May 1915. Mentioned in Dispatches at the Battle of Loos. Returned to England in June 1916 to complete his studies and graduated 1917 as a medical doctor. Captain, South African Medical Corps. DoW 3/12/1918 whilst serving as a Medical Officer to South African Royal Garrison Artillery. Born in Natal, South Africa to Dr John Cowie (Senior) and Elizabeth Cowie of Upper Norwood, South Africa. 

COX, Frederick Leslie. 610. Private. 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Entered France 21/ 04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in KEH 22/02/1918. Born in Liverpool in 1895. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Silverton Station, Manitoba, Canada. In WW2 was a Staff Serjeant Rand Light Infantry and wounded at Battle of El-Alemein 23/10/1942 and served throughout the war. Awarded Africa Star 39-45 Star, British War Medal, African Service Medal and Victory Medal for WW2. Medals in a private collection. Brother in-law of Serjeant R. Ewbank, KEH, 775, DCM and bar. Shown in group photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Commemorated on the Liverpool College, Sefton Park Memorial Service Roll.

COX, Hampden Trevor Ashby. 2090. Private. Left Trinidad with 10th Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent 3/10/1917. Prior service with the Naparima Light Horse. Born in Barbados, West Indies on 9/03/1895. Died of pneumonia whilst serving in in Ireland 09/05/1918. Buried in GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY, Ireland. No service medal entitlement.

CRAM, Jonathan. 1007. Private KEH. Saw service with the British Columbia Horse then enlisted in KEH as a Private on 20/03/1915 with occupation stated as rancher and arrived in France 20/10/1915. Wounded with gun shot wound to the leg before injuring both arms when his horse reared and fell on him. Born 1886 in Newport, Fifeshire, Wales and lived in Canada. Died circa 1965-66. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CRAMHALL, H. C. Corporal. King's Colonials. Winner of the Freeman Challenge Cup from the King's Colonials Rifle Club in 1906. Photograph of his commemorative medallion is shown which was sold at Noonan's auction in London in May 2023.

CRAMPTON, Vivian Moore. 1896. Private KEH. Born in Rhodesia and served as a Private 82 in the Rhodesia Regiment then KEH then commissioned Second Lieutenant, 2/4th Dorsetshire Regiment attached to 496th Field Company, Royal Engineers.

CRANSTON, Herbert David. 856. Lance Corporal KEH. Enlisted as a Private in the KEH having sailed to London on board "SS Suwa Mara" 16/10/1914. Entered France 1/06/1915 and deployed as a Regimental sniper. Wounded in action at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 as a Lance Corporal and discharged 4/04/1919. Born in Manchester, England in 1885 and worked as an Apprentice Maritime Engineer in Shanghai. Returned to Shanghai post war. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CRAWFORD, Charles A. 795. Private KEH discharged 23/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CRAWFORD-GREENE, W. P. Born in England and served KEH. Died in 1959.

CRAWSHAY, Lionel R. 1066. Private KEH. Entered France 28/07/1915. Transferred to Royal Engineers as Private 312892 and served as an Instructor with Computations, Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers. Born Honiton, UK on 9/07/1868 and educated at Harrow and then Oxford university 1903-05. Served as Colonial Officer in the Bahamas, retired 1934 and died 9/07/1968. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CRAYFORD, William. 1116. Serjeant. Discharged 5/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CRESSWELL, Charles Edward. 2046. Private. Reported missing at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 22/05/1919. Resided in Leyland, Lancashire, England post-war. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CRESWICK Henry Forbes. Captain. 'A' & 'B' Squadrons. Born in Brighton, Victoria, Australia on 24/01/1886. Arrived in England Aug 1906 and was a Second Lieutenant in the KEH in 1907 then Lieutenant in 1910. Commissioned in the KEH as Lieutenant 11/06/1914 (London Gazette 7/09/1914) later Captain. Entered France 1/06/1915. Married Alice Reid in 1910. Served as a Major attached to Australian Light Horse in 1935. Tragically killed in a motor vehicle accident 17/08/1935 in Melbourne, Australia where he lived in Toorak. Captain in 1915 see Figure 19. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio.

CROFTS, Gordon. Born in England and served KEH.

CROMPTON, Robert (Bobbie) Allen. 399. Corporal. Entered France 21/04/1915, Serjeant 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron in 1916 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 22/02/1918. Second Lieutenant in photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. His Father, Robert Crompton was a Queen's Counsel and was made a Companion of the British Empire for his services to civil administration in Fiji. Robert A. Crompton was born in Fiji, became Chief Commissioner of the Fiji Islands Group and died there in 1965. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CRONE, Percy Alexander. Private. Entered France 6/09/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Posted as MIA then confirmed KIA 8/09/1916 in Salonika, Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece. Born in 894 in Waterford, Ireland. 1914/15 Star trio applied for by his Father Reverend Alexander Crone from County Cork, Ireland.

CRONJE, S. W. Private King's Colonials. Attended the 1908 annual camp as part of the Oxford University detachment. Born in South Africa and was a nephew of the Boer General Cronje.

CROSBY, Harold Parker. 44. Private KEH. Enlisted 25/08/1914 and discharged 29/07/1915 on medical grounds and did not serve overseas. Awarded Silver War Badge 147563.

CROSS, Reginald George Whitfield. 530. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 10/08/1914 and arrived in France 1/06/1915. Discharged 29/11/1915 due to sickness and awarded Silver War Badge 5195. Born Jul 1887 in New Cross, Surrey, England and died 4/04/1935 at the Government Hospital, Durban, South Africa. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and his Victory Medal is held in a private collection.

CROSSLAND, Frank James. 1096 Private KEH. Entered France 1/10/1915. Transferred as a Private, 4th Battalion then 24th Battalion then 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers GS/59100 on 12/10/1917 until discharge 10/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CROWE, Walter William. 577. Lance Corporal KEH. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915 and then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, East Yorkshire 21/01/1916. Promoted to Lieutenant 22/07/1917. Placed on retired Officer's list 21/08/1919 due to wounds. Eligible for Silver War Badge 15/08/1919 published in London Gazette 20/08/1919. Born 14/04/1887 and educated Brentwood School, Brentwood, Essex from Sep 1897 to Aug 1903. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Auckland, New Zealand. 1914/15 Star (K.Edw.H), British War and Victory Medals sold by Sotherby's auctioneers, UK on 23/11/2004.

CROWLEY, John Nicholas. 1425. Corporal KEH. Born 6/05/1894 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Enlisted KEH 17/01/1916 and arrived in France 12/09/1916. Posted to the Reserve 21/02/1919. WW2 Corporal DROEC 15/01/1941-30/07/1941. Died April 1950 in Darlinghurst, Sydney. Five family members served in WW1 of whom three (father, his brother and one of the three sons were KIA/DOW). Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Portrait photograph from a montage entitled 'Fighting for the Flag, circa 1916'  courtesy of the Australia War Memorial.

CROWTHER, Owen 1945. Private. Born Cape Town, South Africa in 1898. Ex-5th South African Infantry 3857, served in German East Africa and discharged 9/04/1917. Enlisted KEH 9/06/1917 and did not go to France as he was vision impaired as a result of malaria which he contracted whilst serving in German East Africa in 1916.

CUBITT, Henry S. 32. First enlisted recruit of the King's Colonials on 4/01/1902. No MIC record for the Great War.

CULLEN, Fred. 1999. Private. Born in Hong Kong and served with the Hong Kong Royal Garrison Artillery until at least 1927 after service in KEH. Applied for British War Medal as sole entitlement.

CULVERHOUSE, Edward. 1011. Private KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915. Transferred as Private, Corps of Lancers L/18297. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Corps of Lancers with Star named to 5th Lancers despite having deserted twice on 28/09/1918 and 17/03/1919 and discharged 13/11/1919.

CUMMING, H. L. KEH

CUMINGS, Frank G. 633. Corporal. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 13/02/1919. Born in Southern Rhodesia and died there 03/1946. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CUNINGHAME, Charles Lennox. Second Lieutenant 9th Cavalry Reserve, KEH promoted to Lieutenant, 3rd Hussars, Captain Reserve Regiment of Cavalry. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from East Africa. Born in 1877 in Australia and died 8/04/1931 in Bayonne, France.

CUNNINGHAM, Cecil Robert. 54. Lance Corporal/Trumpeter. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted in the King's Colonials on 19/03/1909 in Colchester as Trooper, 309. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 18/03/1916 and died 29/10/17 aged 30. Born in Crondall, India in 1886, the son of John Cunningham of Tufnell Park, London. HIGHGATE CEMETERY, LONDON, UK. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

CUNNINGHAM, Hugh P. L. Born in England and was a Corporal in the 1st Troop, 'A' Squadron King's Colonials/KEH 1909-12. Served as Medical Officer in the Royal Naval Division in WW1. Died in 1960.

CURLING, Aubrey Frank John. 1400. Private. Transferred as Private, Ordnance Corps 040723. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

CURTIS, Stanley William. 2099. Private born in Madras, India in 1898 and enlisted in the KEH 21/02/1918. Transferred to the Rifle Brigade RB/82203 and discharged 29/01/1919. No service medal entitlement.

CUTHILL, George H. 1998. Born in Hong Kong and saw service in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps after service with the KEH until at least 1927. Applied for British War Medal as sole entitlement.

CUTLACK, Frederick Morley. Private in the pre-war KEH. Born in England in 1886. Commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery and became a war correspondent and visited Australia in 1913. Supported Australian war historian C. E. W. Bean and worked in the Australian Prime Minister's office in the 1920s. Died in the UK in 1967.

CUTLER, Thomas. Private, 1672, 'B' Squadron. Killed in Action 9/04/1918 in the defense of Vieille Chapelle, Huits Maisons and Fosse Bridgeheads. Born in Weybridge in 1895. Youngest son of Mrs Annie Cutler, 2 Yew Cottages, Military Road, Dover. Name recorded on the Dover War Memorial. (Reference - Lionel James: The History of King Edward's Horse (The King's Overseas Dominions Regiment). Sifton, Praed, 1921. (Gravestone photograph courtesy of Pierre Vandervelden). Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DAINES, Lionel. R. Private. Enlisted in the King's Colonials on 17/03/1905 and discharged from service 17/03/1914. Served in the Indian Army in WW1. Saw extensive service in WW2 at Dunkirk, North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Normandy and the Rhine. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the South African Army and was living in Rhodesia in 1951. Awarded Military Cross. Named in a photograph at Colchester camp in 1911 see Figure 67.

DALE, Thomas W. 975. Corporal KEH. 3rd Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Entered France 8/09/1915 and discharged 4/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DALGARNO, William A. 840. Acting Corporal KEH. 3rd Troop 'B' Squadron. Enlisted in the KEH having sailed to London on board "SS Suwa Mara" 16/10/1914 from Shanghai. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 13/04/1919 and returned to Shanghai. Born in Gateshead in 1887 and emigrated to Shanghai as a boy. Served with Light Horse SVC from 1904 until the outbreak of the war and post-war until retiring with the rank of Serjeant Major in 1928. Served as a Private in the 6th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in WW2. A popular horse racing identity. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DALTON, Harry. 721. Serjeant KEH. 'C' Squadron. Enlisted 23/11/1914 and entered France 21/04/1915. Promoted to Lance Corporal 8/02/1916, Corporal 25/05/1917 and Serjeant 13/12/1917. WIA at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 with Gun Shot Wound to his right hand and returned to England 13/04/1918. Discharged 1/03/1919. Born 1891 in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DALTON, Henry (Dickie) Joseph. 948. Private. 1st Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Born in 1880 and died April 1949 in London. Master of Regimental Masonic Lodge. Discharged 5/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Discharge certificate available on Imperial War Museum website.

DANIEL, C. P. C. 19. Serjeant. King's Colonials.

DARE, Arthur Charles Coker. 1533. Private. Entered France 26/12/1916 and served in KEH until 4/12/1917. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Somerset Light Infantry. Died 24/11/1929. Applied for British War and Victory Medals whilst serving in the Alberta Provincial Police, Canada. Prior service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1911-1916. Named in two photographs of Ex Royal North-West Mounted Police serving in KEH taken at Longford, Ireland in 1916. (CU184577). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.

DARE, Geoffrey. 992. Serjeant. Entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 8/03/1919. Died in 1968. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DARREL, Richard (Dick) Frederick William. 1051. Serjeant KEH. Entered France 20/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Tank Corps 3/02/1918. Died 26/02/1919 of pneumonia. Son of William Darrel, of New Zealand; husband of Annie Darrel, of Bangkok, Siam. His 1914/15 Star trio claimed by his widow who was living in Siam. Buried in Manor Green Cemetery, England. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

DAVENPORT, Anthony. 726. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. WIA and interred as a POW at Bois d'Holnon, Savy on 23/03/1917. Discharged 16/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAVEY, Albert. Private KEH. Transferred from 1st King Dragoon Guards as Private D/17020 to KEH then to Corps of Dragoons as Private D/17020. Discharged 1/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DAVIDSON, Douglas. 640. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. KIA 09/04/18 at the defence of Vieille Chapelle aged 34. KIA with Lieutenant Pinckney when trying to break through the German troops who had enveloped the bridge head at Vieille Chapelle. One of three sons of George D. and Emma Davidson, of "Geraldra", Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. Name commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and Medal Index Card notes 1914/15 Star issued to next-of-kin 22/10/1982. Photograph shown in 'War Services of Old Melbournians' compiled and edited by J. Beacham Kiddle OBE. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.  

DAVIE, Algernon M. 994. Private. Entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. Argentinian who enlisted from Argentinian Railway staff. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAVIES, Frederick R. 69. Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 28/02/1915. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAVIS, Harold Brereton. Private, 1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry then transferred as Private, King Edward's Horse. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, Royal Field Artillery. Awarded Military Cross. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Transvaal, South Africa.

DAVIS, Harold N. 265. Warrant Officer Class 2. 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Enlisted in 1913 in pre-war KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 1/07/1919. Born in Bath, England on 29/10/1891 and died 12/05/1977. Photograph on kingedwardshorse.net. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAVIS, Henry G. 1214. Private. Discharged 3/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DAVIS, Hugh Campo. 2215. Private. Enlisted 2/09/1918. Discharged 30/04/1919. Born 12/09/1895 in Araucania, Chile and died 13/09/1980 in Chester, England. Shown in KEH uniform in 1918 in a group photograph and portrait courtesy of Ancestry. No Great War service medal entitlement.

DAVIS, William. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged medically unfit.

DAVISON, Edward Summer. 1031. Private. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers 28/10/1915 (London Gazette 27/11/1915). Serving with 81st Wing, Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1919 as a Lieutenant when he applied for his 1914/15 Star trio administered by RAF c/o a Canadian address.

DAVISON, William. 1459. Private. Discharged 10/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DAWS, Reginald John. 595. Private. Enlisted in KEH in 1910. 'B' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 10/03/1919. Born 17/11/1890 in Beckenham, Bromley, Kent, England and died 31/12/1973 in Salisbury, Rhodesia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAWSON, Guy 'Pop' Harnett. 675. Corporal. 'B' and 'C' Squadrons. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders 23/1/1916. Promoted Captain, Labour Corp. Prior service with Border Horse as Lance Corporal and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Wepener, Wittebergen, Cape Colony and Transvaal clasps. Born 13/11/1888 in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia and died 24/01/1962 in San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina. Attended 3rd KEH reunion in South America. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

DAWSON, James. 1452. Private. Entered France 14/07/1915. Transferred as Private, Army Service Corps M/354262 on 25/01/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAWSON, Oswald Charles. 1106. Corporal. Enlisted after arriving in England 22/05/1915. Entered France 2/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers attached Royal Flying Corps 3/11/1916. Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross 8/02/1919 when acting as Observer supporting the Desert Mounted Corps 19-26/09/1918 attached to 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Brother of Corporal Robert Dyer Dawson 1526 also in KEH. Born in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia on 1/01/1887 the son of Robert Weston Dawson and Eleanor Mary Bowler. Married Kathleen Elsie Fedden in Suva, Fiji on 17/03/1920. He died on 1/05/1974. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DAWSON, Overend William James. 1668. Private. KIA 27/10/17. Buried in BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Born 11/11/1881 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia the son of Robert Potter and Louisa Potter and grew up in Lancashire, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. 

DAWSON, Robert Dyer. 1526. Corporal. Discharged 22/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother of Corporal Oswald Charles Dawson 1106 who also served with KEH. Born in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia on 5/07/1884 and died in 5/03/1955 in Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia. Victory Medal held in a private collection.

DAWSON, Thomas. 1226. Private. Discharged 13/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DAY, F. P. Second Lieutenant KEH in 1910 having joined as a Rhodes scholar while at Oxford University. Became a Professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, USA in the early 1920s.

DEADMAN, Ernest H. 1730. Entered France 14/10/1915. Transferred as a Private, Army Pay Corps 24936. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Selhurst, London, England.

DEARLOVE, John George. 1017. Corporal. Enlisted 23/03/1915 and entered France 2/10/1915. Wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and awarded Silver War Badge 458230. Discharged 6/01/1919. Possibly born in Kooringa, South Australia on 23/11/1896 and died in Broken Hill in 1938. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DE BALLARDIE, J. 5. Private. King's Colonials. Awarded Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Nov 1907.

DE COSTA, Errold. 2059. Private KEH. Discharged 9/04/1919. Entitled to British War Medal only.

DE GANNES, Raphael. 1302. Private. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron Jun 1917. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. WIA at Bourlon Wood 26/11/17. Discharged 8/10/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DEMPSTER, Chas Henry. 1483. Private. Enlisted 6/04/1915 and discharged 23/08/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 228676 and did not serve overseas. No Great War service medal entitlement.

DENBIGH, Arthur E. 320. Warrant Officer Class 2. 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Reported as Missing in Action at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 6/11/1919. From Wrexham in North Wales. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DENING, Douglas Montgomery. Private. Entered France Feb 1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery Dec 1915 later served as a Captain No 1 Balloon Section, Royal Flying Corps from Aug 1917. WIA twice. Awarded Military Cross 26/07/1918. Discharged 10/08/1919. Born in 1877 and married Mary Elizabeth Glenton-Kerr on 7/09/1904, in Brixton, Surrey, England. They had one child during their marriage. He died as a result of accidental drowning on 7/11/1922 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DENNISTON, John Geoffrey. 221. Lieutenant. 3rd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Served in the pre-war KEH with the Cambridge University Squadron. Mobilised 4/08/1914, promoted to Corporal 11/10/1914, Serjeant 5/01/1915, entered France 22/04/1915 and commissioned 9/09/1915 as a Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant 1/7/1917. Served in Italy after France and Ireland. Discharged 3/12/1918. Born in 1890 to His Honour John Edward Denniston of the Supreme Court in Canterbury, New Zealand. Studied at Christ's College Cambridge University. Returned to teach in Australia and New Zealand in Christchurch. Died in 1965. Noted in 'Southland Times' newspaper article 17/09/1915 as having been offered a commission and had served pre-War with the Regiment. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DE NOBRIGA, Joseph Oliver. 1295. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 6/111/1915. Served with machine gun section. Discharged medically unfit 14/08/1918 with Silver War Badge, B24035 awarded and returned to Trinidad 6/11/1918. Born in Trinidad in 1897 and died there prior to 1946. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DE ROUX, Louis Herbert Austin Evelyn. 1691. Acting Corporal. Entered France 28/09/1915. Transferred to Northumberland Fusiliers as Private 61200. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant (General List) 8/03/1919. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Jamaica then Toronto, Canada.

DE SOLLA, Phillip. 736. Private. Enlisted 5/02/1917. Discharged 3/03/1919. Born in 1882, married in 1905 and resided at West Cliff on Sea. Prior service as Private 28700 with 51st Paget's Horse (Imperial Yeomanry) in the Boer War and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and South Africa 1902 clasps. No WWI service medal entitlement as did not serve overseas.

DE SOUSA, Alexander Ramsay. 1306. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged 3/11/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother of Private George De Souza, 1305, KEH.

DE SOUSA, George. 1305. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Taken prisoner of war 9/04/1918 and returned to England 20/11/1918. Discharged 5/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother of Private Alexander Ramsay De Souza, 1306, KEH.

DETTLEFF, William 1408. Private. Discharged 31/05/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DEVINE, Edward Feron. 1128. Private. Discharged 14/04/1919. Born in South Shields in 1893 and went to South Shields Marine School. Then at 15 was serving on the merchant vessel Pythomene. He followed his elder brother, also a mariner, to Australia in about 1905 and both settled in Sydney, followed by his wife and her mother in 1911. His brother Charles Lawford Devine volunteered for the Royal Naval Reserve and as a Lieutenant Commander on the monitor HMS M-28 was killed on 20/01/1918 aged 30 by a direct hit from the battlecruiser Goeben when it and the light cruiser Breslau sought to escape from the Dardanelles. Charles and Edward were the sons of Charles Feron Divine and Ellen R. L. Divine of 'Primera', Ryde Road, Hunters Hill, New South Wales; Australia. Charles was the husband of Joan Divine, of Buckfastleigh, Devon, England and is commemorated on a Memorial at the Lancashire Landing Cemetery. Edward died on 26/10/1937 when five days earlier he fell into the hold of the postal ship Olympia in Sydney Harbour. His wife never got over it. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of Edward in maritime uniform circa 1908, sweetheart badge (see Figure 351) and biographical information courtesy of Giles F. Russell, descendant.

DE WHALLEY, John Joseph Arthur. 76. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 14/02/1916 at term of engagement and eligible for an army pension. Student of University of London. Born March 1891 in Greenwich, London, England and died April 1973 in Maidstone, Kent. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio but forfeited due to desertion.

DICK, Martin Forster. 46. Lieutenant Colonel KEH. As Corporal Dick he originally served in the King's Colonial and served throughout Great War in KEH. Only Corporal Dick and Lionel James achieved this. Corporal Dick had seen service in the Boer War with Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Canadian Horse) before joining the King’s Colonials in 1902. He was commissioned in 1906 as a Second Lieutenant, Lieutenant KEH 1910 and Major in 1913. Commanded 'B' Squadron, KEH in France 1915-16. Rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and commanded the Reserve Regiment 1917-18 and then commanded the KEH for the last three months of the Great War. Born 3/01/1877 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England and died 17/12/1932 in London. Awarded Queen's South Africa medal and 1914/15 Star trio and Mentioned in Despatches twice. Medals held in a private collection. Portrait photograph shown as Figure 48.

DICKINSON, Michael W. 988. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron in 1916. Discharged 5/03/1919. Died in Braunton, Devon in 1943. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DIDSBURY, Albert B. 1402. Private KEH. Discharged 5/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DIMMOCK, Thomas. 693. Private KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 7/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DINES, Ernest. 1051. Trumpeter. Enlisted 21/09/1914 and discharged 16/08/1915 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 157035. Died in London 8/07/1955. No Great War medal entitlement.

DINWOODIE, Edwin Maxwell. 896. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 20/10/1915. Discharged 27/03/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff and returned to South America post-war and attended third re-union there in 1945. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. His brother Allegne Maxwell Dinwoodie was also with the Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff and served with the Army Service Corps.

DODDS, Walter Melbourne. 1005. Entered France 7/01/1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, Born 20/05/1885 in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne. Died 14/10/1918 as a Prisoner of War. Buried in the Poland Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery, Poland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of headstone shown on accompanying page. 

DOHERTY, Joseph. 1273. Private. Transferred as Sapper, Royal Engineers 193768, WR/126881. Did not serve in France. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

DONALD, James William. 924. Private. Enlisted 2/02/1915 and discharged 10/04/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 22965 and did not serve overseas. No Great War medal entitlement.

DONALD, Walter Alan. Sergeant KEH. Student at University College, Oxford University. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 2nd Reserve of Cavalry, transferred to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. Entered France 17/10/1915. Noted in the 'Otago Witness' newspaper 21/04/1915. From Auckland, New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DONALD, William. 1840. Private. Enlisted 5/08/1914 in Kintore, Aberdeenshire with 1st/2nd Scottish Horse as Private, 4300 then 152167 at Gallipoli landing from 1/09/1915 until evacuated to Egypt serving there until 1/10/1916. Hospitalised 12/10/1916 to 11/12/1916 with shortness of breath. Transferred to KEH as Private 1840 but on some records as Private 152167 on 30/03/1917 until discharged 6/05/1919. Born 1890 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medal as Acting Corporal 1/2nd Scottish Horse 152167.

DONNELLY, John Lawler. Private pre-war KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 24th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 1/06/1915 then Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment from Dec 1916. Entered France Jan 1916. Discharged 16/11/1919. Commissioned in the Indian Army Medical Services from 1926 and rose to rank of Lieutenant Colonel by 1940. Born 15/03/1896 in Widnes, Lancashire, England and died in Mar 1962 in Tunbridge Wells, England. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Liverpool. Applied for Territorial Forces Medal but ineligible.

DORMAN, James. 2113. Serjeant KEH. Transferred as a Private 1558 from 2KEH. Entered France 14/07/1915 and discharged 21/07/1919. Sergeant 1558 on British War and Victory Medals. Pictured are his British War and Victory Medals with a KEH gilding metal headdress badge in an oak frame. Entitled to 1914/15 Star to complete trio (Photograph courtesy of Margaret Gledhill).

DOUGLAS-HILL, Arthur Percy. 762. Private. Enlisted 1/12/1914 and discharged 12/07/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 65160 and did not serve overseas. Born in 1882 in Urmston, Cheshire, England. No Great War medal entitlement.

DOWDING, William Elliott. Private KEH. Served in Ireland before transferring to Rifle Brigade as Private S/29117. Entered France Aug 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment 27/06/1917. Born 6/04/1884 in Southampton, Hampshire, England and died 30/12/1970 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Liverpool, England.

DOWLE, Maurice. 2070. Private. Transferred to KEH as Private, 2051 with 2KEH. Discharged 31/01/1919. Born 29/05/1891 in Southgate, London, England and died Jan 1975 in Worthing, West Sussex. Awarded British War and Victory Medals with the pair sold by Capital Medals in July 1983 and then again by the Medal Centre in Jan 2022 as per accompanying photograph.

DOWLING, Geoffrey B. 412. Private KEH. Entered France 17/06/1915. Discharged 14/12/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DOWN, Albert H. 715. Private KEH. Entered France 21/04/1915. Deserted 12/10/1915. Forfeited his 1914/15 Star trio entitlement.

DOWNES, Leonard A. D/13356. Private KEH. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons, Private D/13356. Discharged 1/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Corps of Dragoons.

DOWNIE, Harry. 749. Acting Corporal KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915 and rank changed to Sapper. Discharged 23/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DOWNING, Edward James. 1578. Private KEH. Discharged 10/07/1919. Resided in Holloway, London. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DOWNS, Alfred. 1713. Private KEH. Discharged 18/06/1919. Shanghai Municipal Police 1909-10. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Missouri, USA.

DRAPER, William E. 518. Private KEH. Enlisted 10/08/1914 and entered France 1/06/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 242,692 . Discharged as physically unfit 6/06/1917. Born in 1890 and lived in New Brighton, Cheshire where he died in 1947. Name commemorated on Liverpool College Roll of Honour. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DRENNAN, J. E. 24. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant, King's Colonials.

DREW, Thomas Kenneth. 1248. Private. Enlisted 15/09/1915 and discharged 14/02/1918 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 337155. Born on 29/11/1897 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada and died in July 1957. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DRUBE, Frederick Peter. 524. Lance Corporal. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. From New Zealand. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

DRUMMOND, Oswald. 1416. Acting Serjeant. Discharged 20/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DRURY, Charles James. 2015. Private 4th Dragoon Guards 5561. Entered France 23/11/1914. Transferred as Private, Dorsetshire Regiment 14049. Commissioned as a Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment, 6/12/1915 then transferred to the KEH as a Private. Transferred to Royal Engineers on 11/01/1917 as Sapper 228674, 312095 and 613905. Discharged 5/09/1918. Born in 1873. Awarded Silver War Badge 445966 and 1914 Star trio applied for from London.

DRYSDALE, Cluny Leslie. 1206. Private. 'B' Squadron. Injured in railway accident 13/03/1918. Discharged 15/03/1919. Born Armadale, Victoria, Australia 1895 the son of George Russell Drysdale and Mary Drysdale Russell and died in Herbert, Queensland 4/07/1931. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DUDLEY, Thomas. Private. Private, 1st Dragoons, Transferred to KEH then Corps of Dragoons. Discharged 11/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DUFF, Peter. Private. Transferred to KEH from 3rd Dragoon Guards as Private D/18470. Then transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons. Discharged 23/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DUFOY . Private. New Zealander who served with King's Colonials (see Figure 52, 1904).

DUIRS, Mearns William. 379. Entered France 10/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. KIA 25/09/1915 at Loos. Born 23/01/1893 at Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa the son of Dr David Peter Duirs and Agnes Emily Norman. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

DUKES, Sydney Owen. 999. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 15/04/1919. Born 17/05/1890 in Tisbury, Wiltshire and died Sep 1976 in Kingsclere and Whitchurch, Hampshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DUNCAN, Alec. 763. Private KEH. Entered France 16/06/1915 and discharged 22/03/1919. Was a Temporary Major in the Royal Field Artillery in WW2. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and British War Medal sold on eBay Sep 2021.

DUNCAN, Thomas Mitchell. Second Lieutenant KEH. Served pre-war KEH. Entered France Aug 1915. Promoted to Major, Royal Field Artillery. Discharged 5/06/1919. From Blundellsands, Liverpool, England and died in Stroud, England 15/07/1956. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

DUNCKLEY, Percy St. John. 834. Served in the King's Colonials from 1902. Part of Shanghai Contingent on board the "SS Suwa Maru" 16/10/1914 from Shanghai and was employed in the Shanghai Municipal Council. Went to France 22/04/1915 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters 29/12/1915 then Lieutenant, 1/3rd Battalion, Ghurka Rifles. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to KEH

DUNKIN, Alfred Davey Hoskins. 1144. Private KEH. Enlisted 14/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment 29/01/1918. KIA 3/10/1918. Born 12/12/1889 in Camborne, Cornwall and buried in BELLICOURT British Cemetery, Aisne, France. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

DUNN, H. Private. Prior service with South African Constabulary. Named in a photograph of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916, (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.

DUNSTAN, John Llewellyn. Private. Served pre-WW1 KEH. Served with AIF 30th Battalion in France 22/07/1915 until discharged on medical grounds 14/05/1918 from 29th Battalion. Served in WW2 as a Private 31 with the Australian Garrison Battalion 1941-1944. Born 16/01/1896 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and died 22/07/1959. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals issued by the Australian Army.  

EARLE, George Hughes. Captain and Adjutant King's Colonials 1905 and retired in 1910 (named in London Gazette 1/04/1908). Former 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and rejoined them in WW1 and served as a Captain. Born 30/11/1877 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England and died 20/12/1930 in Monaco. A brother Frances William Earle, DSO MID was Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment in WW1.

EARLE, Lionel. 700. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. From New Zealand. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

EARLE, Robert (Bob) Charles. 1319. Private KEH. Born 14/12/1871 in Wanganui, New Zealand the son of the late Dr Robert Charles and Mrs. Eliza Ellen (Mason) Earle and died 17/05/1964. 'Wanganui Herald' newspaper 21/076/1918 reported he was wounded and presumed to have been killed in action at Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. He was taken prisoner having been shot in the stomach and right elbow. He had served in Ireland in 1916 then France and Italy. Discharged 5/03/1919. Commemorated on the WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ROLL OF HONOUR 1914 - 1918 which he attended from1882-84. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

EAST, Reginald Walter. 620. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 14/07/1919. Born Jul 1894 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England and died there on 3/04/1965. He is noted in the 1950 edition (No. 17) of the KEH Old Comrades Association Bulletin as having benefited from the KEH Endowment Fund in 1950. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio now in authors collection with images shown on accompanying page together with a photograph of him with other KEH members in France in Feb 1919 including Serjeant 'Molly' Morgan DCM MM from the same edition of the Old Comrades Association bulletin.

EASTICK, Arthur George. 49. Serjeant KEH. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 8/03/1911 from Melbourne, Australia aged 22 having been a British citizen. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 7/03/1916. Chemist by trade. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Brother of KEH members Private Arthur George Eastick, 379 and Serjeant John Clare Newland Eastick, 51.

EASTICK, Arthur George. 379. Private KEH. Enlisted 8/03/1911 aged 19. Chemist by trade with his father's John Joseph Eastick & Sons business. Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia and service with the Armadale School Cadet Corps. British citizen and resided in Clapham Common, London at enlistment. Died 24/04/1922 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Brother of Private Arthur Gerald Eastick, 49 and Serjeant John Clare Newland Eastick, 51.

EASTICK, John Clare Newland. 51. Serjeant KEH. Went to France with 1st Troop, 'B' Squadron as a Serjeant 22/4/15 and was commissioned on 14/09/ 1915 as a Lieutenant KEH after Officer training and instructed on anti-gas and poisonous gas being a chemist by trade. His promotion to Captain 14/5/19 published in the London Gazette. He was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England on 4/03/1889 and emigrated with his family to Australia in 1890 returning to England in 1906. He died in London in 1971. He applied for his medals from Upper Clapton Road, London. Brother of Private Arthur Gerald Eastick, 49 and Private Arthur George Eastick, 379. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Serjeant on British War Medal which was sold with his sweetheart badge on an electronic auction site in 2019. He sent the postcard shown in Figures 17 and 18. Lieutenant in a caption of a photograph of him taken at Longford in 1915 as shown on accompanying page.

EATON, Roland Wynne. 441. Private KEH. Roland Wynne Eaton served in France from 1/06/1915. He started his service as a Private in KEH and was commissioned from the rank of Acting Corporal into the Royal Garrison Artillery as a Second Lieutenant on 6/07/1916. Address given as 41 North John Street, Liverpool. Military Cross engraved to Lieutenant R. W. Eaton announced in the London Gazette 01/01/1919. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and 1937 Coronation Medal. Died 29/12/1957. Medals sold at auction by Dixons Medals, dixonmedals.co.uk, 2018. 

EDDOWES, Cecil Stanton. 2242. Private KEH. From Chile. Born May 1900 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. British War Medal as sole entitlement.

EDGCOMB, Percival Arthur. 1962. Private KEH. Enlisted 12/06/1917 in Dublin. Transferred to 653 Company, Labour Corps as Private H16808 on 13/10/1917 then 1st London Regiment as Private G/98533 then 206243 from 29/10/1918 to 12/12/1918. Prior service In German East Africa as 1st Lieutenant, East African Transport from Apr 1916 to Sep 1916. Discharged 19/01/1919 suffering from recurrent malaria from service in German East Africa. Born in Durban in 1893 and worked for railways in Durban pre-war and was married there 2/12/1916. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to 1st London Regiment.

EDKINS, Raymond J. 1176. Private KEH. Enlisted 14/07/1915. Discharged 24/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

EDWARDS, Albert. Lieutenant. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry not located.

EDWARDS, Francis W. 286. Serjeant. Entered France 2/06/1915. Discharged 8/09/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

EDWARDS, Frederick. 1266. Serjeant. 3rd Troop, 'A' Squadron. Discharged 31/05/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals and noting that his Medal Index Card noted medals to be destroyed. Returned from Bolivia to enlist and was an Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff member. Lived in South America post-war and attended third KEH re-union in South American in 1945.

EDWARDS, Harry. 779. Corporal. Entered France 20/10/1915. Discharged 4/04/1919. Corporal H. Edwards, King Edward’s Horse, late Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (7618 Pte., L.N. Lanc. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (779 Pte., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (779 Cpl., K. Edw. H.). Medals sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK, March 2015 and photograph shown with their courtesy.

EDWARDS, John G. D/14515. Private KEH. Transferred as Private, 3rd Dragoon Guards GS/13226 to KEH then Corps of Dragoons as Private D/14515. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ELLENBERG, Martin. 1848. Private KEH. Enlisted 22/11/915 and transferred as a Private Labour Corps 230737 on 7/07/1917. Discharged 7/06/1919. Born in 1883 in London, England. Brother of Private Edward Albert Ellenberg, 1737, 2KEH who was KIA 28/12/1917 with the 1/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. Private Martin Ellenberg was entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ELLIOTT, G. M. Private KEH. Australian died 4/03/1957 noted in the Old Comrades Bulletin.

ELLIOTT, Walter (Wally). 43. Private KEH. 'C' Squadron. Born 18/12/1886 at Weudy Side, Durham, England, married Maude Emily Newling on 24/12/1917 and he died 23/05/1976 in Bexhill, Surrey, England. One of several photographs taken in 1910/1911 as a Private in Undress uniform of the Australian 'C' Squadron with Squadron kangaroo headdress badge and collars worn pre-1910 as the King's Colonials. Marksman arm badge on lower left sleeve. 43/C Squadron written by Wally on the back of a postcard.

ELLIS, John H. 1955. Private. Enlisted 11/06/1917 and discharged 27/11/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge 520607 and did not serve overseas. Born in 1886.

ELLIS, Lyle Fullam. 154. Serjeant later Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant KEH. 'C' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 9/08/1917 later Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery. Awarded Distinguished Service Order (DSO) 16/09/1918. Mentioned in Despatches 23/12/1918. Born 5/09/1887 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England and died Sep 1951 in Crosby, Lancashire. Lived in Grassendale, Liverpool post-war. Educated at the Liverpool Institute and worked for the Bank of Liverpool. Award of his DSO reported in the 'Liverpool Echo' newspaper 10/07/1918. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio.

ELLIS, Rowland. 1257. Private. Transferred as a Private, Labour Corps 416787 then Acting Serjeant, Royal Engineers 369295. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ELLISON, Arthur David. Private. KEH. Born 2 June 1894 in Dunga Gali, India. Attended Cambridge and Enlisted in the King Edwards Horse 4.8.1914 and obtained a commission in December 1914 as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. Promoted Captain in 1917 he took part in the battles of Vimy, Loos, Somme, Ypres, Messines, Sanctuary Wood and Menin Road, in October 1917 he was severely wounded and gassed, returned to France in October 1918 as Acting Major and discharged in 1919. Awarded Military Cross. In August of 1919 he sailed to Siam as the Surveyor to the Siamese Government, in 1921 he transferred to the Borneo Company. He died from burns received during the destruction of the Borneo Companies Office by fire in Siam 21/01/1924.

ELMORE, Leslie John. 1112. Private. Enlisted 31/05/1915, wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and discharged 8/10/1918. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

ELY, Percy Alfred. 4. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant, King's Colonials. Corporal Ely was born in 1884 and went on to serve as a Lieutenant in King Edward’s Horse. Freemason in King's Colonials Masonic Lodge. He was attached to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as Assistant Paymaster to the New Zealand Forces and died of pneumonia on the 17/11/1918 aged 34. Son of George and Louisa Ely (nee Valentine); husband of Lillian Ely (nee Hunt). Buried in KENSAL GREEN (ALL SOULS) CEMETERY, UK. Photograph from 1904 camp. 

EMERY, Harold. 2012. Private. Enlisted 1/03/1916, posted to Dublin 26/04/1917 and discharged 14/12/1918 due to sickness. From Congleton, Cheshire, England and born in 1891. No Great War Medal entitlement as did not serve overseas.

EMOND, George. 1030. Private. Entered France 13/09/1915. KIA 22/3/17. Born in Montreal, Canada on 2/01/1894. Did not use his Christian name (Joseph). Commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, FRANCE (photograph shown) and Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

EMTAGE, William Lashley. 97. Private KEH attached 3rd Dragoon Guards. Entered France Oct 1914. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, British West Indies Regiment. Ineligible for 1914/15 Star and awarded British War and Victory Medals having applied for a trio from Harrow, England.

ENGLAND, Russell. 1353. Private. Enlisted 21/11/1914 and discharged 28/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ENGLEY, Ernest Robert. 845. Private. Enlisted in the KEH 15/12/1914 having sailed to London from Shanghai where he was serving with the Shanghai Municipal Police on board the "SS Suwa Maru" on 16/10/1914. Invalided due to sickness 24/02/1915 with Silver War Badge 71626 and did not serve overseas. Returned to Shanghai and in 1918 commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Supply and Transport Corps (Remount Office) and then Lieutenant. Awarded Indian General Service Medal with Iraq clasp. Born on 25/07/1885 in Marylebone, London and died in Shanghai on 14/10/1944.

ERSKINE, James M. D/17243. Private. Transferred as Temporary Corporal, Corps of Dragoons D/17243. Discharged 10/11/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ESCHINI, Eschilo (Edward). 661. Private KEH. Served pre-war KEH. Enlisted 10/11/1914 and entered France 21/04/1915. Transferred to Royal Engineers as Sapper, 244932. Discharged 3/04/1919. Born in Drayton, Somerset in 1888. Employed as a cartoonist for Vanity Fair. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Royal Engineers. British War Medal sold on eBay in 2015.

ESPINDULA, Felix. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 27/05/1918 with 16th Caribbean Planters and Merchants Contingent. Living in Trinidad in 1946.

ESSAYIE, Joseph H. 424. Private. 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 15/05/1914 in re-war KEH. Entered France 21/04/1915. Shrapnel wound to the head. Discharged physically unfit 1/06/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge 411,808. Born in Bombay on 5/12/1896, resided in southwest London post war and died on 19/02/1989 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA having emigrated in 1931. He was married three times. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio with Victory medal sold on eBay in 2015. With his passing in 1989, Joseph would be one of the most long lived of those who served in the KEH in the Great War.

EVANS, Claude Victor. 1260. Serjeant. Enlisted 15/12/1914 and discharged 14/09/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 52326 and did not serve overseas.

EVANS, Eric. 849. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 17th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps on 23/11/1916. Resided in Rhodesia post-war. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

EVANS, Ernest W. 1424. Transferred as Private, King's Royal Rifle Corps 34560 then Private, Royal Engineers 247743 and later WR266781. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

EVANS, Gerald. 1183. Private. Discharged 27/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

EVANS, Harry Percival. 862. Private. Enlisted in the KEH 15/12/1914 having sailed to London from Shanghai where he was with the Shanghai Customs Service on board the "SS Suwa Maru" on 16/10/1914. Invalided due to sickness 28/04/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 107483 and did not serve overseas. Re-enlisted with Royal Flying Corps. Born in 1892. No medal entitlement.

EVANS, Herbert C. 2041. Private KEH. Discharged 30/04/1919. From South Africa. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

EVANS, Rupert. Private KEH. Australian not found on Medal Rolls but Rupert could have been a nickname for Private Gerard Evans 1183.

EVERILL, Jack V. 973. Private KEH. Discharged 5/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

EWBANK, Reginald R. 775. Serjeant KEH. Enlisted in Nov 1914 and entered France 2/06/1915. Recommended for the Victoria Cross he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) (London Gazette 3/09/1918) to which he was awarded a bar (London Gazette 12/03/1919). Discharged 10/02/1919. He was born in Liverpool in 1890 and worked in New Zealand, Australia and Canada before enlisting in the KEH. After the war he served in the North West Mounted Police, then farmed in Wales before settling to farm in South Africa where he died on 20/7/53. Serjeant Ewbank's DCM and 1914/15 Star trio are held in a private collection in Australia. Obituary and photograph from Old Comrades Association Bulletin.

EWELS, Ernest Rae. Second Lieutenant KEH. Entered France 29/06/1918. Born in 1892 in South Africa and died there in 1943. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Cape Province, South Africa.

(ORR-) EWING, Arthur (Dick) George. 507. Private. Noted in the Regimental history as being one of the first to enlist at the outbreak of war. Entered France 22/04/1915. Promoted to Serjeant then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 5/04/1918 in KEH. Born in Jamalpur, India on 5/04/1893 and died Jan 1975 in Poole, Dorset, England. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and General Service Medal with Iraq clasp. Applied for medals from Calcutta, India where he was employed as an engineer having gone to study at Cambridge after the war and dropping Orr from his real surname of Orr-Ewing. Awarded Medal of the British Empire for his services in Iraq. Noted in Joseph Gray's "Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception".

FAHEY, Frederick O. 1315. Private KEH. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Served in France and Italy and gassed. Discharged physically unfit 13/06/1919. Born in Trinidad in July 1891 and noted as living there in 1946. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FAIRBROTHER, Walter Henry. 250. Staff Serjeant. Entered France 22/04/1915. Awarded the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1917 as Shoeing Smith Corporal. Discharged 1/07/1920. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FAIRBURN, Frederick A. 953. Private. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 63rd Royal Naval Division Reserve on 26/06/1917. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

FALCONER, Reginald Keith. 255. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 5/04/1919. Born in 1892 and died on 27/01/1959. Photographs of his 1914/1915 Star trio are shown on the accompanying page (author's collection).

FANNIN, Valentine Gowen. Second Lieutenant then Lieutenant KEH. 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron attached to 1st Army Corps, 55th Division in October 1918. Prior service with Umvoti Mounted Rifles 1912-14 then as a Second Lieutenant, 4th South African Horse in East Africa but not eligible for 1914 or 1914/15 Star. Lieutenant Colonel in South African Army in WW2. Born 14/02/1884 and died 23/09/1961 in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

FARRANT, R. Private. Prior service with the South African Constabulary. Named in a photograph of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916 (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.

FARRELL, Joseph. 1556. Private. Born in County Longford, Ireland in 1876. Discharged in February 1919. No Great War Service Medal entitlement with home service.

FAWCETT, Frank Edward. 986. Private. 1st Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron in 1917. Enlisted in 1914 and entered France 8/09/1915. WIA. Discharged 5/04/1919. Emigrated to Bolivia and worked on the Bolivian Railway returning to England to enlist. Died La Paz, Bolivia in 1948. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FAWCETT, Reginald. 1884. Private. Discharged 4/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FEARNLEY, Ernest Walter. 1504. Private. KIA 31/07/1917 aged 26. Son of Mr. R. and Mrs. F. Fearnley of Leeds. Commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. Private Ernest Walter Fearnley, born around 1890 in Norwich, Norfolk, served with the KEH during the Battle of Passchendaele. In July 1917 all KEH Squadrons were positioned near Watou, under direct command of the XVIII corps. “A” Squadron was instructed to control traffic. “B” Squadron came under orders of the 39th Division and “C” Squadron under the 51st Division. The following days were spent preparing for the operation on 31st July. The 39th Division would be on the right of the 51st Division and would attack the village of St Julien, so at 10 pm, 30th July, “B” Squadron moved to Hospital Farm. The 51st Division would be on the left and advanced towards Maison Bulgare. “C “Squadron moved an hour later to Trois Tours. As the 39th Division met its objective with relative ease, there had been no need to deploy “B” squadron during the operation. “C” Squadron on the other hand, was called upon and went via Below Farm to Gournier Farm, where they arrived around 11am. At 12.30 pm the 1/6th Seaforths called on the “C” Squadron after they had crossed the Steenbeek stream. The squadron mounted and hurried past Vanackert Farm to Ferdinand Farm, where they veered left to cross the Steenbeek. Just before they could cross the stream, heavy machine-gun fire was opened from Maison Du Rasta. The Squadron dismounted and dug in along the road to Ferdinand Farm. At 11.30 p.m. an order was sent that said that the horses and as many men as could be spared were to return to Essex Farm. Only 10 men and the Hotchkiss gunners were left at Ferdinand Farm. At 8 a.m. they also withdrew and at 11 a.m. the whole squadron was sent to Essex Farm, where they mounted and returned to Watou. Private Ernest Walter Fearnley was presumably killed near Ferdinand Farm, when “C” Squadron tried to cross the Steenbeek. He was the only man from the other ranks who was killed in action on the 31st. Captain William Henry Dillon was also killed during the operation, Major Swann was wounded, and Second Lieutenant Brakell went missing. Seven other ranks were wounded, two were injured and 51 horses were either killed or went missing. Ernest has no known grave and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His brother, William, was killed nearly a month later, while working on a road near Ypres. Civilian photograph of both brothers shown. Ernest was entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.

FEARNLEY, William George. 1503. Private. KIA 26/08/1917 aged 25. Son of Mr. R. and Mrs. F. Fearnley of 31 St. James Street, Leeds. Born Norwich, Norfolk. Returned from Australia in 1915 to enlist. After partaking in the opening day of the offensive on the 31st of July 1917, the KEH was stationed near Watou. The troops were engaged in working parties and were ordered to regulate traffic. But the supply routes along which the men were to regulate traffic were well known by the Germans and the roads were frequently shelled by the German artillery. In the period up until 27th August, four men were killed during traffic control duty. On August 27th it was reported that three men died of their wounds. These three soldiers were probably Trooper William George Fearnley, Trooper Percy Welstead H. Noble and Trooper James McCloskey. All three of them seem to have been wounded while being on a road construction party near Ypres. They were brought to Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station, where they died of their wounds. The three soldiers were buried at Duhallow A.D.S. cemetery, Ypres, Flanders. Brother of Private Ernest Walter Fearnley 1504 and tragically both KIA within a month of each other. Remembered on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial. Civilian photograph of both brothers shown. William was entitled to the British War and Victory Medals. 

FEGAN, Daniel. 13. Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM). RSM Fegan was born in 1851 in Ireland and saw service with the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, the King’s Colonials and then King Edward’s Horse. He saw out the final years in service as a Yeoman of the Guard. Photograph of RSM Fegan, 274 (his KEH service number) in Full Dress uniform of ‘B’ Squadron, KEH circa 1911 (Image Copyright Imperial War Museum Q 69197). Image of medals worn by RSM Fegan with a set of miniatures: the 1902 and 1911 Coronation Medals; Egypt Medal with ‘Tel-el-Kebir’ bar, Khedives Star; Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; Army Meritorious Service Medal and the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (Reproduced courtesy of Richard Winterton Auctioneers Ltd, UK). Photograph of RSM Fegan in Ireland in 1917 courtesy of Peter Saunders from his father's (Private Ernest Gordon Saunders) album of KEH and 2KEH photographs taken during his service in Ireland in 1917. 

FEILDING, Henry Simon. The Honourable. Lieutenant in KEH in 1915 see Figure 19. Accidentally wounded 30/06/1915 at Divisional Bombing School. Second Lieutenant later Captain Coldstream Guards. KIA 11/10/1917 aged 23 with 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards. Son of the Earl and Countess of Denbigh of Newnham Paddox, Lutterworth, Rugby. Buried in DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

FELL, David N. Farrier Serjeant. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Navy commanding submarine A12 reported 20/02/1915. Lieutenant Commander, Central Reserve Minesweepers on 20/02/1920. Served in the Boer War. Son of Mr. A. Fell, Member of Parliament, New Zealand. Born 30/11/1886 in Wimbledon, Surrey and died 17/07/1948 in Suffolk, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.

FELLGETT, Sidney James. 1642. Serjeant. 'B' Squadron. Enlisted 29/08/1916 and entered France 5/04/1918. Discharged 24/06/1919. Born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, England in 1899 and returned from the Argentine to enlist from the Argentinian Railway staff. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FELLOWS, E. J. F. Lieutenant KEH. Prior service as Private, 64 with Northern Rhodesian Rifles. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio with Lieutenant E. Fellows named on British War and Victory Medals. Sold in the UK in March 1993.

FERGUSON, Thomas. 2114. Private KEH. Transferred to KEH as Private 1487 from 2KEH. Arrived in France 30/07/1915 and discharged 29/07/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FERREIRA, Edwin Lionel. 1296 Private. From Trinidad having sailed 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Served in France and Italy. Discharged to Reserve 13/04/1919. Died Sep 1948 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Named in photograph of Hotchkiss Gun team at Valhuon in 1916 see Figure 22. His brother was potentially Private Albert Joseph Ferreira, 2nd/6th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, 2nd Contingent.

FERRIER, Alexander. 2071. Private. Transferred from 2KEH as Private 2058. Discharged 25/10/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FETHERSTON, Guy. Private KEH. Entered France 2/1915. Reported in Auckland Star 11/01/1915 as being from Auckland and that he had joined the KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 45th Brigade, 8th Division, Royal Field Artillery. Later Major (as noted in the Chronicles of the NZEF, 2/05/1917) and awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 6/11/1918) and was Mentioned in Despatches. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from the Department of Overseas Trade, Whitehall, London.

FEZAN, . Regimental Serjeant Major, King's Colonials in 1902 with prior service with 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards (Photograph see Figure 5).

FFRENCH, V. T. H. 372. Private. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Naval Air Service 22/03/1918.

FIELDING, Morris Glanville. 201. Corporal. 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron KEH 1915. Joined the Oxford University Troop of KEH on 2/01/1912. Entered France on 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 5/05/1916, promoted to Captain from Jan 1917 in the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Wounded three times and awarded the Military Cross 13/11/1916 for gallantry at Beaumont Hamel. Awarded Silver War Badge B230838. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio. Born in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia on 30/06/1892 and after being ordained he worked as Curate then Rector in Sydney before his death there on 27/11/1972. Biography from an excellent article on Captain Fielding MC by Peter Nemaric published in the 'Sabretache' XXXVII: 34-36, 1996 which includes several photographs of Captain Fielding.

FILLIS, Cecil Edward. 1941. Private. Prior service in WW1 as Corporal, 126 with 4th Mounted Rifles. WIA at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Born 7/11/1892 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, resided in Durban, South Africa and died 26/10/1962 in Malvern, Victoria, Australia. Discharged 13/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FILMER, Geoffrey F. 863. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/05/1915. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant later Acting Captain, Surrey Yeomanry 14/01/1916. Severely wounded upper arm 22/06/1915. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FINCH, William. 1384. Private. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons as Private D/32095. Discharged 13/08/1920. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FINLAY, Alan Gordon. Second Lieutenant KEH. Prior service as a Second Lieutenant, Gordon Highlanders and transferred to KEH on 4/09/1914. After service with the KEH he was promoted to Temporary Captain, 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment 12/1914 and then later Captain, Grenadier Guards. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and enquired about his eligibility for the Coronation Medal.

FINLAY, Reginald Gedye. Second Lieutenant, King's Colonials in 1905 and then Lieutenant on 1/05/1907. Lieutenant KEH 1910. Captain on the Special List on 2/04/1913 KEH. KEH attached to 6th Dragoon Guards Cyclist Division and arrived in France 8/11/1914. Born in England, lived Henley-on-Thames and died 20/02/1952 aged 70. Lieutenant in 1915 see Figure 19. Awarded 1914 Star trio.

FINNELLY, William Abel. 1634 Private. Discharged 14/12/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FINNEY, A. Private. Born in South Africa and died in 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Noted in Old Comrades Bulletin and service in King's Colonials more likely than Great War with no matching Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry identified with King Edward's Horse.

FINNEY, Vincent Joseph. 1223. Private KIA 09/04/1918 aged 42 defending Vieille Chapelle. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Lude Finney of 19 Witham Road, Isleworth, Middlesex born Apr 1875. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Commemorative plaque from Commonwealth War Graves Commission shown.

FISH, Joseph. 499. Private. Enlisted 26/08/1914 and discharged due to illness 25/02/1916 and did not serve overseas. Awarded Silver War Badge 19187 as sole entitlement.

FISHER, Alexander. 436. Staff Serjeant. Arrived in France 22/04/1915 with 4th Troop, 'C' Squadron and discharged 5/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. (Possible photograph see Figure 23).

FISHER, Edward Henry. 397. Private. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 26/01/1917 'B' Squadron. Orderly Officer 'A' Squadron when he was KIA 09/04/1918 aged 21 defending Vieille Chapelle. Son of Henry Edward and Matilda Ann Fisher of 64 Westover Road, Wandsworth, London. Also served in Italy. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Name commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. (Possible photograph Figure 23). 

FISHER, Hyman. 202169 Private. Enlisted 25/9/1917 and deserted 24/10/1917 and discharged. Medal Index Card notes additional Regimental number of 202169. No medal entitlement.

FISHER, Walter. 1125. Private KEH. Enlisted 31/05/1915 and entered France 1/10/1915. Transferred as Private, Machine Gun Corps 71547. Discharged 18/08/1917 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 133,907. Born in 1886. (Possible photograph Figure 23). Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FISHER-DEANE, . Private. Service with the King's Colonials from 1904-07 with 'B' Squadron and then pre-war KEH.

FISHLOCK, Aynsley Charles. 1621. Lance Corporal KEH. Transferred as Private, 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards 393869. From Ireland. Awarded Military Medal (London Gazette 20/08/1919). Transferred to the Reserve 7/03/1919. Born 12/07/1894 in Green Lane, Liverpool, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Portrait photograph in Dragoon Guards uniform shown on accompanying page.

FITTON, John. 1098. Private. 'B' Squadron 1916. Transferred to Reserve 18/02/1919. Private (Trooper) in accompanying photograph at the Curragh, Ireland alongside Trooper Mulley, KEH in 1915. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FITZGERALD, William Patrick Gerald. 1313. Private. 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Enlisted in Blackpool, England. Awarded Military Medal (London Gazette 23/07/1919). Discharged 13/04/1919. Born in Ireland. Saw service in the Boer War in the Uganda Police and British East African Police. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Brixton, London. Portrait photograph from an account he wrote for the "The World Wide Magazine" published in 1920 entitled "The Maddest Exploit of the War" shown on the accompanying page with photographs of his Military Medal courtesy of a UK private collector. Also named in a photograph shown on the accompanying page of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916, (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary

FITZ-HERBERT, John Aloysius. 326. Private KEH. Born in Launceston, Tasmania on 19/05/1892. Enlisted in KEH in 1913 whilst at Trinity College, Cambridge and originally attended Sydney University. Entered France on 22/04/1915 with 'C' Squadron. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery 20/10/1915 and absorbed into Anti-Aircraft Section, Royal Artillery 7/06/1916. Lieutenant 1/07/1917. Seconded to Royal Flying Corps 31/08/1917. Observer with 15 Squadron RAF 1/04/1018 and wounded 2/05/1918 in an aeroplane crash near Amiens. Returned to England 3/06/1918 and transferred to Royal Garrison Artillery 3/06/1918. Awarded Military Cross 1917, Mentioned in Despatches and 1914/15 Star trio. Became a Professor at Adelaide University from 1928 and died in South Australia 15/04/1970. Commemorated on the Sydney University Roll.

FITZPATRICK, Clement. 983. Private. Born in England in 1882, enlisted 1/03/1915 and arrived in France 21/04/1915 with 'C' Squadron. Attended Cadet School 8/09/1916 and commissioned Second Lieutenant 20/10/1916 in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers. Prior service of two years with Uttar Pradesh Light Horse Volunteers and occupation on enlistment with KEH stated as Police Officer. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FITZWATER, Charles F. Private. D/12428. Transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons D/12428. Discharged 18/10/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FLASHMAN, Frank Francis. 6. Saddler Serjeant. Enlisted 7/04/1913, entered France 2/06/1915 and discharged 2/07/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Trio. Born circa 1879 in Lambeth, Surrey, England and married 10/06/1905 to Nellie Mills with two children. Prior service in the Royal Artillery as Gunner 99042 from 1/09/1893 until 31/08/1909 including service in Gibraltar. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FLEMING, Royd. 1189. Private. 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron in 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 15th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment 27/05/1917. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FLIGHT, Frederick Herbert. 2084. Private. Discharged 27/03/1919. Awarded the Territorial Forces War Medal, British War and Victory Medals.

FLOYD, Sidney. 1058. Private. Entered France 4/05/1915. Private Corps of Dragoons D/32706. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Medals applied for c/o requested from The Office of the Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa.

FOGARTY, Harry Richard. 1632. Private. WIA at the defense of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 14/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FORD, Frank E. 1726. Signaller. Discharged 14/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals with Medal Index Card noting they were to be administered by the Metropolitan Police.

FORD, Stanley. 1115. Corporal. 'B' Squadron. Entered France 15/09/1915. Wounded at Savy 21/03/1917 and awarded the Military Medal. Discharged 16/04/1919. Attended third KEH re-union in South America in 1945. Died in 1966 in South America. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Dublin, Ireland.

FORD, William Henry. 25. Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant. Regimental number 100 with KEH. Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant Major William Henry Ford was born on 18/04/1874 in Berrington, Surrey, England and served with the 106th (Staffordshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry as Farrier Serjeant, 20679 in the Boer War before enlisting in the King’s Colonials Imperial Yeomanry on the 16th March 1903. His enlistment papers state prior service in the Royal Field Artillery. He re-enlisted in King Edward’s Horse on 1st March 1913, was embodied 5th August 1914, landed in France 2nd June 1915 and was discharged on the 15th March 1916 due to his age. Awarded Silver War Badge 71432 and 1914/15 Star trio. Shown in accompanying photograph with his field blacksmith's forge at Latimer Camp in 1903.

FORREST, Harold Archibald. 940, Private. 1914-15 Star (940 Pte. H. A. Forrest. K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (940 Pte. H. A. Forrest. K. Edw. H.). Harold Archibald Forrest was born in Streatham in 1889 and attested for General Service on 4/09/1914, giving his profession as Assistant Riding Master. He served during the Great War with KEH on the Western Front from 5/05/1915. Having subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, was discharged on account of wounds on 9/08/1918 (entitled to Silver War Badge). He died in Rochford, Essex, in 1948. His 1914/15 Star trio sold by Dix Noonan Webb auctioneers, UK in 2017.

FORT, George Seymour. Honourable. Lieutenant King's Colonials 1902 and commanded 2nd Troop (New South Wales), 'C' Squadron (Australasian) in 1903 (Photograph see Figure 4). Captain in King's Colonials 2/07/1904.

FORTESCUE, Henry. Senior Major, King's Colonials 1905 joined 20/07/1904. Colonel, Commanding Officer April 1909 - January 1913, late 17th Lancers. Awarded Coronation Medal 1911. Born in Pimlico, Middlesex 15/05/1856, enlisted 17th Lancers 15/07/1876 and died 23/07/1940 in Weybridge, Surrey, England. (Photograph from The King Edward’s Horse Senior and Junior Comrades’ Association Annual Bulletin.19: 1952).   

FOSTER, David. 603. Private KEH. Discharged 19/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FOSTER, Henry. 652. Acting Corporal KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 25/09/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FOSTER, Theodore. 731. Private KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery on 22/06/1917 then transferred as Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FOTHERGILL, William H. 961. Private. 'A' Squadron. Private. 'A' Squadron. Emigrated to Argentina before the Great War and returned to join up in 1914/15. Entered France 28/07/1915 and discharged 3/03/1919. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and a note on the Great War Forum indicates that his British War and Victory Medals are held in a private collection having been sold in December 1995 in the UK by the Collectors Gallery in Shrewsbury. William's brother Captain Reginald Hannay Fothergill, Royal Army Medical Corps was Mentioned in Despatches as a Temporary Lieutenant (London Gazette 1/01/1916) and survived the war. He served in Battle of Loos in the Hohenzollern redoubt area for over a year before moving down to the Somme where he was wounded. Captain Fothergill never claimed his medals and was with the 36th Field Artillery, 12th Division, 7th East Surrey Regiment and 134th Field Artillery.

FOTHERGILL, Reginald Hannay. Private. 'A' Squadron. Brother of William Hannay Fothergill noted on Great War Forum as having been hospitalised.

FOUNTAIN, Anthony P. 1715. Serjeant. Transferred as Serjeant, Royal Engineers 206086 then Serjeant WR/553257 with Inland Water Transport Section. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FRANCIS, Ernest (Jim) William. 529. Private. Entered France 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 14/09/1915 later Lieutenant with KEH. Same Troop as Private George Bull. Born 6/02/1891 in South Yarra, Victoria, Australia. Ran a riding school at Cranbourne, Victoria. He had two sons, one of whom was killed in WW2. Jim served in the Citizen Military Forces in WW2. Died 21/09/1960 in Moorooduc, Victoria. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio.

FRANKLIN, Brian. 425. Corporal. 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Entered France 20/10/1915. Discharged 13/02/1919. Served in home guard in WW2. Born JULY 1889 in Fareham, Hampshire, England and 27/11/1956 in Ealing, Middlesex. His brother Lance Serjeant Geoffrey Franklin, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment was born in Oct 1891 also in Fareham, Hampshire, England and was KIA 19/10/1914 in France and commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. Brian was awarded 1914/15 Star trio and WW2 Defence medal and these are held in a private collection.

FRANKLIN, John G. 1422. Private KEH. Transferred as Sapper, Royal Engineers 229158 and later Sapper, Royal Engineers WR263360. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FRASER, Douglas Galloway. Lance Corporal. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FRASER, Ernest F. 1921. Private. Transferred as Private, Machine Gun Corps (Motor) 80437. Discharged 15/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FRASER, John Neville (Neville). Private. Enlisted KEH 24/08/1914. Entered France 24/08/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery attached to 'D' Battery, 105th Brigade, 23rd Division. Promoted to Lieutenant in Jan 1916. Wounded 25/08/1917. Promoted to Captain in 1918. Returned to Victoria, Australia on 24/12/1918. Born the son of the Honourable Simon Fraser, Senator for Victoria on 6/08/1890 in Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, before going up to Trinity College, Melbourne. From there he studied in England at Magdalen College, Oxford and became a first class cricketer. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force in WW2 and he died in the Sydney suburb of Lindfield in January 1962. His son Malcolm would serve as the Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.

FRASER, William. S. 879. Private. Entered France 2/05/1915. Discharged 5/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FRAZER, Donald. 974. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Enlisted 26/02/1915 at Liverpool on return from USA and entered France 1/06/1915. Discharged 19/04/1919. Born in 1890 in Brighton, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FREEMAN, Frank. 1645. Private KEH. KEH. Reported as Missing in Action at defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged 17/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FREEMAN, H. I. 103. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant, King's Colonials then KEH. Serjeant Freeman pictured at Colchester Camp 1911 see Figure 61. Second Lieutenant in photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. Awarded Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal April 1914.

FREEMAN, John Christian. 1565. Private. 3rd South African Mounted Rifles, 2329. Served in South West Africa. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 22/02/1918 KEH. Prior service in the Boer War with 1st Imperial Light Horse as Private, 1033 and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1900 clasp. Born 17/11/1893 in Steenkoolspruit, South Africa and died 14/10/1953 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio with 1914/15 Star issued by the South African Ministry and British War and Victory Medals by the British Army. Named in a photograph of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916 (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary. Post war portrait photograph also shown on accompanying page in South African Army uniform courtesy of Ancestry.

FRODSHAM, Henry Freer. 852. Private KEH. Record identical to Private John William Thompson, 852 on Medal Index Card.

FRODSHAM, Hugh Rose Swire. 584. Serjeant KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry at Maulde on 9/11/1918 and 1914/15 Star trio. Discharged 14/04/1919. Born in Bengal, India on 5/12/1883 and died at Bridport on 13/02/1950. Served in pre-war KEH after service with South African Constabulary and North West Mounted Police. He served as the Chief Royal Observer, Dorset in WW2.

FRY, James Leslie Rood. 1235. Private. Enlisted 19/08/1915. Discharged 17/06/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge B4615 after service in France. Had enlisted 12/06/1915 in No. 2 Depot Company, AIF and discharged at own request 26/06/1915. Born in Armadale, Victoria in 1891 and died on 11/08/1961 in Gembrook, Victoria, Australia. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. His brother Lieutenant George Vincent Fry, AIF also served in the Great War.

FULLER, Charles C. 141. Corporal. 'A' Squadron. Entered France 1/06/1915. Later promoted to Serjeant. Served in pre-war KEH and March 1913 Regimental Orders show him as Shoeing Smith, 1128. Discharged 8/05/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Brother of Shoeing Smith Thomas C. Fuller, 248, KEH and they were both promoted to Shoeing Smith in March 1913 in the pre-war KEH as Troopers 1128 and 1129.

FULLER, Charles Drury. Private, Flying Officer Royal Air Force

FULLER, E. A. 47. Farrier Serjeant. Awarded the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal April 1917.

FULLER, Percy. 536. Shoeing Smith, Serjeant. Entered France 21/04/1915. Discharged 19/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FULLER, Stanley. 28. Farrier Staff Serjeant, Farrier Quarter Master Serjeant. Originally in King's Colonials enlisted 20/07/1906. With 'A' Squadron when entered France 22/04/1915 then 3rd Troop 'B' Squadron in 1916 and discharged 19/07/1916. Awarded Silver War Badge 255364 and the Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in April 1917. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph and biography available www.kingedwardhorse.net. Father or brother of E. A Fuller and/or Percy Fuller and/or Thomas C. Fuller?

FULLER, Thomas C. 258. Shoeing Smith, Corporal. 'A' Squadron. Pre-war service in KEH with Regimental orders for March 1913 noting Trooper T. C. Fuller 1129 to be Shoeing Smith. Entered France 22/04/1915. Reported Missing in Action at the defense of Vieille Chapelle 9-11.04/1918. Discharged 6/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Brother of Farrier Serjeant Charles C. Fuller, 141, KEH and they were both promoted to Shoeing Smith in March 1913 in the pre-war KEH as Troopers 1128 and 1129.

FURSE, Ralph Dougnon. He was Private when attending training camp in 1908 as part of the Oxford university detachment. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant KEH 1910, Lieutenant, Captain, as a Major commanded a Squadron of the KEH in WW1. Major Sir Ralph Furse, Colonial Service, late King Edward's Horse. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE, K.C.M.G., neck badge and breast star in silver, gilt and enamels, the set contained in its Garrard case of issue, some minor chips to the enamel on the reverse of the badge, DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, G.V.R., with second award bar suspension ring re-soldered; 1914-15 STAR (Capt., K. Edw. H.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, Mentioned in Despatches (twice) (Major); JUBILEE 1935; CORONATION 1937, the group mounted as worn and sold with a copy of his autobiography 'Aucuparius - Recollections of a Recruiting Officer' London, 1962. DSO., London Gazette 26th July, 1918: 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during a hostile attack when he held for over five hours, 900 yards of a system with a hundred men and a weak company of infantry, ultimately withdrawing in good order, in spite of hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches. His skill and courage were most marked.' Bar to DSO., London Gazette, 8th March, 1919: (details 4th October, 1919). 'He handled the advance guard of Corps Mounted Troops in a most skillful and dashing manner during the advance from Lille to the Escaut on the 18th and 19th October, 1918. Under heavy machine-gun fire he turned the enemy's flanks and drove them out with the loss of one man killed and one wounded. He showed cool courage and able leadership throughout.' M.I.D., London Gazette, 20th December, 1918 and 5th July 1919. Major Sir Ralph Dolignon Furse, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., made a unique personal contribution to the history of the British Colonial Service. Born in September, 1887, the son of J. H. M. Furse, he was educated at Eton and Balliol College. In 1909 he was brought into touch with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lewis Harcourt, who was looking for an additional Assistant Private Secretary, to help his co-called 'patronage' work. Up to that time apart from the Eastern Cadetships, which were filled by competitive examination, recruitment for the Colonial Service had been sporadic and not on such a scale as to call for any special organization. The rapid development from 1900 onwards, of the hitherto un-administered inland territories of Tropical Africa changed all that. When Furse came to the Colonial Office in 1910 the administrative staffs alone of the Tropical African Dependencies had increased from a mere handful to a total of nearly 500. To deal with this situation was the task offered to Ralph Furse, he undertook it with alacrity. Though in form a personal Private Secretary to the Minister, and liable to discharge on a change in the incumbency, he was too good to lose, and he was kept on until 1914, by which time he had established a close relationship with University Appointments Boards and other sources of supply and had built up a system of selection based on the candidate's personal record and the impression made by him at interview. After his service in King Edward's Horse in the First World war, the Colonial office again turned to Furse, and in 1919 he was once more installed as Assistant Private Secretary (appointments). From 1919 onwards, Furse, though still holding no official position and still nominally a member of the personal entourage of the Secretary of State, was in practice the head of an efficient and growing Recruitment Department. The separation of the Dominions Office from the Colonial Office in 1925, and the appointment of a Colonial Governor, Sir Samuel Wilson, as Permanent Under-Secretary of State, enabled attention to be given to the need for reorganization of the office. Furse felt that satisfactory recruitment would be made possible only if the Colonial public services could be unified on a functional basis instead of being regarded as entirely separate territorial organizations. Largely as a result of Furse's representations that Leo Amery, as Secretary of State, decided in 1929 to set up a committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Warren Fisher to go into the question of recruitment. As a result of this committee's recommendation, the policy of unification was accepted by the succeeding Secretary of State, Lord Passfield; a Personnel Division was set up in the Colonial Office and Furse, along with his team of assistants, was admitted by special dispensation to the established Civil Service to form that half of the new division which was to be responsible for recruitment and training. Furse took a full share in the subsequent working out of the unification policy, and under his direction (he was now styled Director of Recruitment) the staffing of the Colonial Service went ahead until the outbreak of war in 1939. One of Furse's major concerns was the establishment of Colonial Administrative Service courses at Oxford and Cambridge, and also, subsequently, at London University. During the Second World War he initiated further study of the problem which was undertaken by a committee under the chairmanship of the late Duke of Devonshire when Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. As a result the well known 'Devonshire' courses were established after the war. Furse retired officially in 1948 but continued until 1950 to act as part-time adviser to the Colonial Office on training questions. He published 'Aucuparius: Recollections of a Recruiting Officer' in 1962 and died in Exeter on the 1st October, 1973 aged 87. Only four DSO's were awarded to the KEH during the Great War and only Furse went on to win a bar to the decoration. Eleven uniform and equipment items of Major Furse's are held in the National Army Museum. His medals were sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK in December 1992. Photograph of Major Furse taken at the Royal Review 5th July, 1953 (King Edward's Horse Senior and Junior Old Comrades Association Bulletin 20: 1953) and in 1915 see Figure 19.

FUTCHER, Cyril (G.H.C. initials noted on Shirburnian record). 1380. Corporal. KEH 1915-17. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, (10th Battalion shown on 'Old Shirburnian Navy and Army List, 1914-19' and attended Sherborne School, Dorset 1905-07) Notts & Derby Regiment 30/04/1918. Applied for his British War and Victory Medals from Salisbury, England.