RADDON, Kenneth Hugh Hunter. 1339. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 30/12/1914 and discharged 21/09/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 65155. Awarded 1914/15 Star Trio and applied for by New Zealand Treasury, Wellington. Served with New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War 2 as 414544. Listed as 17747 RADDON Kenneth Hugh Hunter, Pioneer on Legion of Frontiersmen (New Zealand) Command website and was awarded Legion Pioneer Axe [1957] and Legion Long Service & Efficiency Medal [1957]. Born 6/03/1885 Papanui, Christchurch, New Zealand, died 20/02/1963 in Christchurch, New Zealand and was buried there. Photograph shown as a young man with his sister and mother taken by his father Charles Alfred Winn, an early New Zealand photographer.
RADFORD, Herbert Charles. 1643. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 25/05/1915 at Hampton Court, London. Entered France 5/07/1915. Discharged 22/12/1915. Born in 1896 and living at Mount Road, New Malden, Surrey on enlistment. Discharged as being under 17 years of age at enlistment as had stated 19 years old. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
RAINBOW, Arthur George. 1667. Private 2KEH. Entered France 15/07/1915. Transferred as Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61274 then Private 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302835. Died of Wounds 13/04/1918. Born in Oct 1887 the son of George and Mary Rainbow of Potter's Bar, Middlesex. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Name commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
RAINER, Christopher. 912. Private 2KEH. Transferred to KEH as 2125. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 23/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
RANSSON, Sidney Leon. 1627 Private 2KEH. Enlisted 20/05/1915 at Hampton Court and entered France 15/07/1915. Transferred as a Private Machine Gun Corps 300510 on 7/08/1917 then Private, 3rd Battalion, Liverpool Regiment 85734 on 27/08/1915 then Sapper Royal Engineers WR/42276 from 11/04/1918. Discharged 28/02/1919. Born in 1873 and resided London Wall, London at enlistment. Prior service in Boer War with Imperial Buchland Horse, Cape Town Police, Warwick's Scouts and Lieutenant, 58, Western Province Mounted Rifles and was awarded Queen's South Africa and King's South Africa Medals with South Africa 1901 and 1902 clasps. Entitled to 1914/15 Star named to Royal Engineers.
RAPSEY, Horace Edwin. 1203. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as a Private, Machine Gun Corps 22985 then Sapper, Royal Engineers 246398. Discharged 7/02/1919. Born 15/11/1892 and died 25/12/1947 in British West Indies. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Royal Engineers.
RAW, Richard Trotter. 2060. Private 2KEH. Transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers as Lance Corporal, 61196. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps 9/03/1918 (London Gazette 16/03/1918). Entered France 27/04/1917. Temporary Flying Officer, RAF in 1939 and Flying Officer RAF 8/10/1940. Born 11/08/1897. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals and service medals for WW2.
RAY, Edward Percy. 1723. Corporal 2KEH. Enlisted 13/07/1915. Transferred as a Corporal, 3rd Battalion then 13th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment 85787. Saw action in France from Apr 1917 and WIA Oct 1918 with a gunshot wound to his chest and side, resulting in his capture. Released as Prisoner of War in Dec 1918, then Corporal, Army Service Corps A/454648 and discharged 13/05/1919. Re-enlisted Royal Army Service Corps 18/07/1919 and discharged 24/06/1920. Prior service as Private 38849 with 130th (Westminster Dragoons) Company, 28th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry enlisted 1/01/1902 and discharged 20/12/1902. Awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and South Africa 1902 clasps. Born 17/11/1878 in Brentwood, Essex, England and died on 7/02/1949 in Lambeth, London. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
RAYBOULD, Walter Ebenzer. 1721. Corporal 2KEH. Transferred as Corporal 10th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment then Corporal 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302776. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Accompanying portrait photograph courtesy of the Imperial War Museum 'Lives of the First World War'.
REARDON, Jos D. 1251. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Enlisted 14/12/1914. Transferred as Lance Corporal, Labour Corps, Irish Command 329908. Discharged 4/02/1918 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 323220. Born in 1870. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
REDFERN, Thomas. 423. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Private 1/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (NF) then 12/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61276. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio with Star named to 2KEH and British War and Victory medals named to NF.
REES, Caesar D. 1434. Private 2KEH. Entered 4/05/1915. Commissioned Liverpool Regiment 19/03/1916.Born circa 1890 in Tenbury, Worcestershire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Trio.
REEVES, Alfred Henry. Captain 2KEH. Quarter Master. Honourary Lieutenant (Temporary) 15/03/1917 enlisted 24/08/1914. 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.
REEVES, William George. 1798. Corporal 2KEH. Transferred as Corporal 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61195 then Corporal, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302794. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
REID, Hugh Douglas. 220. Acting Regimental Serjeant Major 2KEH. Enlisted at White City, London. Entered France 4/05/1915. Died of a Self Inflicted Wound 20/02/1917 at 34 Casualty Clearing Station Grovetown with a diary entry of Brought in Dead. Buried in Grovetown Cemetery, Meaulte near Albert, France. Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal 1/01/1917 (London Gazette) as a Squadron Serjeant Major and published with citation 13/02/1917 (London Gazette) which reads 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has shown himself a most efficient N.C.O. throughout the campaign'. Born 5/07/1873 at St Hellier, Jersey, United Kingdom. Enlisted in 3rd Volunteer Battalion, King's Royal Rifles in 1890. Then saw service as 3444 Hugh Douglas Reid, 3rd Dragoon Guards enlisted on 20/06/1891 in Canterbury, England and awarded Boer War medals with 1st Imperial Light Horse, 3127 for his King's South Africa medal with South Africa 1902 clasp and Cape Police Department, Serjeant 650 (11/10/1899 to 11/1/1902) Queen's South Africa medal with Defence of Mafeking, Orange Free State and Transvaal clasps. He served in Natal 1893-1895 then home 1895 to 1898 and then on A/Reserve until 1903. Married in 1904 to Marguerite Ada Gladstone. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio with SSM/RSM on 1914/15 Star and A/WO1 on British War Medal and Victory Medal. 1914/15 Star returned as per King's Regulations. Photograph of gravestone shown.
REID, Victor Irvine Ernest. 2248. Private 2KEH. Son of the late Robert Reid of Valparaiso, Trooper Victor I.E. Reid was born in the south of Chile, and was 26 years of age. He left Valparaiso with his parents in 1905 for Buenos Aires, where he was employed with Messrs. Gibson Hermanos. At the end of 1916 he left Buenos Aires to volunteer for service in the British Army. On arrival at London, he enlisted in the 1st Royal Dragoons and commenced his training at Dunbar, Scotland. Next, he was sent to York and from there he went to Tidworth, near London. He passed all is training exams A1 being a crack shot and a good horseman He asked to be transferred into 2KEH, where he met several of his South American school mates. In this Regiment he was stationed for several months in Kilkenny, Ireland, the yeomanry then doing guard during the troublesome uprising of the Sinn Feiners. He was next transferred into the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as Private 59075 and drafted to France from Dover on 12/10/1917. Arriving at the front along with several others Reid was put into the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment as Private 26270, and was not three weeks in the trenches when, at the Battle of Cambrai in charge of a Lewis Gun along with other two comrades on 7/11/1917, he met his death. He was buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Trooper Reid was very musical and had a well trained tenor voice and was much in demand at concerts, etc., and had the honour of singing at a concert in Kilkenny Castle. His eldest brother John P. Reid late of Valparaiso, resides at Rancagua being employed at the offices of the Braden Copper Co. Two brothers, Robert William, and Irvine George, reside in Buenos Aires, while his four sisters live in Glasgow, Scotland. Biography and photograph in 1st Royal Dragoons courtesy of Royal Dragoons historian, Jim Lees.
RELIHAN, Matthew. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 14/04/1915 and entered France 5/05/1915. At Vendin lez Bethune on 25/06/1915 received a promulgated sentence of one years hard labour having been found guilty of “Using threatening language to a superior officer.” Transferred as Private, 662nd Home Service Company, Labour Corps 23075. Discharged 5/03/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge 336,869 due to sickness. Born in 1886. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Labour Corps.
REYNOLDS, Francis Orpen. 1838. Private 2KEH. Enlisted in London and was living in Piccadilly at the time. KIA 1/05/1917 aged 26 at the Second Battle of Arras. Buried in FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS, France. Entitled to British War Medal and Victory Medal. Photograph of gravestone shown.
RICHARDS, . Private 2KEH. Photograph captioned as Trooper Richards courtesy of Peter Saunders from his father's (Private Ernest Gordon Saunders) photograph album taken in Ireland in 1917.
RICHMOND, Frank George. 1121. Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps 22986. Discharged 18/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
RICHMOND, Robert. 1567. Private 2KEH. Entered France 26/10/1915. Discharged 15/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Trio.
RING, John. 1534. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/07/1915. Transferred as Private 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 39915 then Private 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 40592 then Private 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302811. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
RIPPINGALE, Ernest. 746. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant 2KEH. Warrant Officer Class 2. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 2KEH 27/06/1917. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. Requested medals from an address in Tooting, London.
RITCHIE, Ernest. 1763. Serjeant 2KEH. Transferred as a Serjeant 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 112012. DoW 2/09/1918 aged 40. Buried in LIGNY-ST. FLOCHEL BRITISH CEMETERY, AVERDOINGT, FRANCE. Born in Umtata, Cape Colony, South Africa on 18/10/1883 the son of Mr and Mrs Adam Ritchie. Prior service in the Boer War with Gorringe's Flying Column as Corporal, 13. British War and Victory Medals applied for by his widow Mrs. D. A. Ritchie from Fratton, Portsmouth, England.
ROACH, Robert Bain. 1349. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Northamptonshire Regiment 23/11/1916. Lieutenant Tank Corps. Awarded Silver War Badge 13653 17/10/1918. Applied for 1914/15 Star Trio c/o SMC Electricity Department, Shanghai. Born in 1893. Killed in a flying accident 18/07/1944 as a Major in the Royal Indian Engineers and is buried in Karachi Cemetery, Pakistan. His son Robert James Bain Roach served with the RAF in WW2 as a Spitfire pilot and fought in the Battle of Britain.
ROBBIE, Alexander Bertram. 1053. Private 2KEH. 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.
ROBERTS, Joseph Ensley. 1086 Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Corporal 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 39969 then Corporal 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 40595 then Corporal 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302813. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. (Possible photograph Figure 23).
ROBINSON, Philip. 1951. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Acting Serjeant, 2nd/8th Battalion then 2nd/6th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (KLR) 85719. Pension record shows him residing at Kingstown, Cumbria, England post-war. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to KLR.
RODGERS, Allan M. 721. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 8/05/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio.
ROGERS, Frederick Clyde. 1543. Private 2KEH. Entered France 15/07/1915. Transferred as Acting Serjeant Tank Corps 112005. Discharged 28/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
ROLLS, John. 283. Serjeant 2KEH. Enlisted at White City, London 25/08/1914 and was living in Surrey. Entered France 4/05/1915. Posted Machine Gun Corps Heavy Branch 9/08/1917 then re-posted as a Serjeant Lancashire Fusiliers 45519 on 27/08/1917. Discharged 18/03/1918 as no longer fit for active service. Re-enlisted Royal Engineers as Serjeant, 1858867 on 11/08/1918 and discharged 31/03/1921. Mentioned in Despatches with 2KEH 15/05/1917. He was born in 1874. Attestation papers for 2KEH note prior service with Plummer's Horse, 7th Hussars 24/10/1891 as Private, 3623 and 14th Hussars with 11 years service for pension entitlement. Awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps and King's South Africa Medal with 1901 and 1902 clasps. Awarded Silver War Badge 357,842 and 1914/15 Star Medal trio named to Lancashire Fusiliers.
ROUGHTON, John W. 1234. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 23/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
ROWEN, Frederick Joseph. 1488. Private, 'A' Squadron, 2KEH. Enlisted in Donegal, Ireland. DoW 25/09/1915 aged 20. Born in Bonnybrook, Dublin, Ireland in 1895 and arrived in France 20/07/1915. Son of Thomas T. A. and Helena M. Rowen, of Bonnybrook House, Santry, Dublin. Buried in TROIS ARBRES CEMETERY, STEENWERCK, Nord, France. Noted in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 and in St Johns Great War Memorial, Church of St. John the Evangelist, Tonlegee Road, Coolock, Dublin. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. Standing portrait photograph, photograph with 2KEH pals including Private William QUINN 1447 KIA 27/11/1915 and headstone shown on accompanying page. The close up phototroph of his standing portrait shows him to be wearing a 2KEH tunic button in place of his cap badge in his service cap. He had either lost his or hadn't been issued with one. He is wearing 2KEH shoulder titles. Images courtesy of Kelly/Rowen/McDermott families as shown on ancestry.
RUSSELL, Richard Somerville. Private 2KEH. Entered France 28/05/1918. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers. Lived in Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, Scotland and was a Commercial Traveler by occupation as listed on daughter's birth certificate. Information courtesy Great War Forum post by a relative.
RYAN, John Hayes. 1486. Private 2KEH. Entered France 2/10/1915. Transferred as Serjeant 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 112109. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.
RYAN, Morgan. 1577. Private 2KEH. Entered France 30/07/1915. Discharged 18/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
RYAN, Patrick. 1530. Lance Corporal. Enlisted 15/04/1915, entered France 15/07/1915 and discharged 2/11/1917 aged 34 due to disability with his residence given as the Dublin Police Station. Awarded Silver War Badge 354961 as a Lance Corporal. Awarded 1914/15 Star Trio and British War Medal and Victory Medal named to Private P. Ryan K.Edw.H. Victory Medal held by his family.
