SANDERS, John Frederick. 660. Acting Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 23rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers 29/01/1918 (London Gazette 22/02/1908). Awarded Military Medal. Died of Wounds 6/08/1918. Buried in GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, France.
SANDY, L. E. A. Second Lieutenant 2KEH promoted to Lieutenant 19/02/1915 (Monthly Army List). Attached Gloucestershire Yeomanry from 5/11/1915. No Medal Index Card or Medal Roll entry identified.
SANSOM, Thomas Henry. 1934. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 3/02/1916. Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61268 then Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302851. Discharged 22/1/1919. Prior service 14 years with 19th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers. Born in Holloway, Middlesex, England in 1887. Lived in Golders Green, London. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
SAUNDERS, Ernest Gordon. Private 2KEH. Served in Ireland in 1917. Enlisted from the Imperial Yeomanry Cadets. Likely to have been discharged on disbandment of the 2KEH in August 1917 due to injury. Born Twickenham, Middlesex on the 29th/06/1899 and died in Hereford on the 27/01/1972. Photographs of 2KEH and KEH comrades including senior NCOs together with service anecdotes were kindly provided by his son Peter from a section of his father's original photograph album entitled "Memories of service with 2KEH".
SAUNDERS, Harry Alfred. 226. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Enlisted 25/08/1914 and entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 14/10/1916 due to sickness and awarded Silver War Badge 81407. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio.
SCALLON, Ernest Wilmot. 1172. Private. Enlisted at Hounslow, London. KIA 23/05/1915 at the Battle of Festubert aged 24. He was born in January 1891 at Great Malvern, Worcestershire the son of Edward Brand and Frances Bradley Scallon and was educated at Malvern College as a day boy 1907 – 1909 at House IV. He was a school prefect and Head of House. On leaving school he went out to an uncle in the Argentine and for two or three years held a good post on one of the estancias (cattle ranches) there. A fearless horseman, he and several hundred others sailed for England when War broke out; after visiting his parents in Malvern, he refused two commissions and joined as a Trooper in the 2nd King Edwards Horse. Arrived in France 4/05/15 and later in May 1915, after the Canadians were so badly cut up in their famous charge, the Lord Strathcona’s and 2KEH volunteered to act as infantry, Trooper Scallon was amongst these volunteers and was killed by a shell blast on the 23rd May. A friend later wrote to his parents: “I can assure you that his death was instantaneous and that he was doing his duty at the time.” He was the third son of the Master and Secretary to Malvern College, Mr Edward Brand Scallon and Frances Bradley Scallon of St Martins, Malvern and nephew of Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Scallon of the Indian Army and Mr H B Bennet of Malvern Link. Malvern News 5/6/15, 12/6/15, Malvern College Register. Commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France. Entitled to 1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.1914/15 Star returned as per King's Regulations. British War Medal held in a private collection in the UK. Portrait as a Private in 2KEH shown.
SCOTT, David. 1351. Private. Enlisted 2/01/1915 at Whitehall, London. Entered France 2/07/1915. Transferred to Armstrong Whitworth & Co on Munitions work 26/01/1916 as was an engineer by trade. Transferred back to 2KEH16/10/1917. Attached to 24th Officer Cadet Battalion 4/05/1918. Transferred to 18th County of London Battalion 26/09/1918 and discharged 19/12/1918. Born in 1885 in Northumberland, England, married 27/07/1903 in Layton, Essex and living in West Jesmond, Newcastle on enlistment. Awarded Silver War Badge B89024 due to illness on service. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Trio.
SCOTT, John Arthur Alderson. 981. Private. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Royal Army Service Corps 2/03/1916 later Lieutenant. Brother of Private George Scott, 982. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and medals applied for c/o father Mr. M. A. Scott, 'The Trenches', Middle Green, Slough, England. Born 9/03/1893 in Langley, Buckinghamshire, England.
SCOTT, George. S. A. 982. Private. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Royal Army Service Corps 3/12/1915. Eligible for Silver War Badge. Brother of Private John Scott, 981. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and medals applied for from Balfour House, Finsbury Pavement, London the 'The Trenches' . Born 23/03/1891, in Langley, Buckinghamshire, England and died in June 1969 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England, at the age of 78.
SCOTT, Harry James. 252. Private 2KEH. Acting Company Serjeant Major, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 40598 then Acting Company Serjeant Major, 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 39825 then Acting Company Serjeant Major, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302814. Sustained a shrapnel wound to right arm 1/10/1917. Awarded the Military Medal with the Tank Corps for conspicuous gallantry at Boyelles 23/08/1918 when in command of his tank knocking out five enemy machine guns and a large number of enemy infantry then while on foot he directed the pulling out a bogged tank under fire. Discharged 25/03/1919. Prior service with Sussex Imperial Yeomanry including service in Boer War 24/01/1901 to 16/08/1902 and Johannesburg Mounted Police in the Transvaal 29/12/1905 to 30/06/1908. Born 19/10/1880 at St. John's, Hackney, London, Middlesex and died 18/09/1947 at 3 Chaseville Park Road, Winchmore Hill, London. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Civilian photograph and Military Medal citation shown on accompanying page courtesy of his grandson Robert Scott.
SCOTT, Robert. 1433. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Lance Corporal, Machine Gun Corps 22987. Temporarily attached to the 93rd Company, Machine Gun Corps from 28/07/1916 and saw action at Neuve Chapelle. Likely to be in the Frank Vans Agnew photograph of 2KEH draft to the MGC taken 21/06/1916. Discharged 19/02/1919. Awarded Military Medal and 1914/15 Star trio.
SCOTT, Walter G. 1131. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps 25/09/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Trio.
SCRIVEN, Joseph Bernard. 1430. Private. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 7th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment 112762. Born in 1888 in Aberford, Yorkshire, England and died 5/07/1960 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Does not appear to be related to Corporal William John Scriven.
SCRIVEN, William John. 1535. Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 2/07/1915. Transferred as Corporal, 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61240 then Corporal, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302793. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Does not appear to be related to Corporal Joseph Bernard Scriven.
SELLIER, Numa Joseph. 1839. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 18/11/1915. Transferred to RAF 139295. Discharged medically unfit. Repatriated. Was part of the 1st Caribbean Merchant & Planters Contingent. Born 1887 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and died there in 1947. Not related to Private Ferdinand Sellier, KEH.
SEVILLE, Richard. 1515. Private 2KEH. Enlisted in Dublin 10/04/1915. Discharged 19/06/1915. Prior service with 74th (Dublin) Company, Imperial Yeomanry. Born 1879 and married 18/03/1901 in Dublin. No Great War medal entitlement.
SHARP, C. Basil C. 1125. Lance Corporal 2KEH, Serjeant Tank Corps 309545, Serjeant attached Machine Gun Corps 22988. Discharged 22 Feb 1919. Crouch and Sharp were both awarded the DCM while serving with the 93rd Coy MGC. The 93rd Coy war diary entry for 14 August 1916 reads: ‘A/Sergt SHARP and a/L/Cpl CROUCH informed that they had been awarded D.C.M. for good work on 27/28 July.’ Corroborating this, the 2KEH war diary entry for 15 October 1916 reads: ‘1152 Pte CROUCH (initials undecipherable), 1125 L/Cpl SHARP B. 2ND K.E.H. attached 93rd Machine Gun Company awarded D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry. Pte CROUCH and L/Cpl SHARP remained with their gun in an exposed position under heavy shell fire and when the enemy advanced repulsed the attack aided by 20 infantrymen. 28 of the enemy’s dead were counted later.’ Information courtesy of Ray Mitchell.
SHAW, Frank. 1623. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 15/07/1915. Discharged 27/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SHAW, Robert. 1780. Private 2KEH. Entered France 30/09/1915. Transferred as Private. Army Service Corps M/354265 on 25/01/1918. Discharged 14/06/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SHEED, O. J. 1728. Private 2KEH. Entered France 14/10/1915. Transferred as Private, 5th Battalion, Tank Corps 78798. Born 7/11/1891 in Camberwell, London and died 23/11/1964 in Hertfordshire, Hertford, England. Awarded Meritorious Service Medal 17/06/1918 as Corporal (Acting Serjeant). Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to the Tank Corps.
SHELDON, George Baudinet. 1572. Private. Enlisted in Liverpool having traveled back to England from Valparaiso, Chile in March 1915. Entered France 20/07/1915. KIA 23/09/1915 while carrying despatches for his Colonel. Youngest son of the late Mr Edward and Mrs Sheldon and was born in 1892. Employed at Sydney Merritt and Co, Valparaiso, Name commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Belgium. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. Portrait photograph courtesy of the South Pacific Mail.
SHERRIS, Guy. 1279. Private. Enlisted Hampton Court, London and entered France 4/05/1915. KIA 23/05/1915 at the Battle of Festubert. Born in Catford, Kent, England and worked for the Argentine railways. Name commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France. Noted in 'Veteran Volunteer: Memoir of the Trenches, Tanks & Captivity, 1914–1919' by Jamie Vans. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. Civilian photograph shown courtesy of "A Street Near You".
SHERWOOD-KELLY, Edward. Private 2KEH. Younger brother of John Sherwood-Kelly VC. Prior service in the Ulster Volunteers.
SHERWOOD-KELLY, John. Private 2KEH. John Sherwood-Kelly VC was born in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa on 13/01/1880 and served from the age of 16 in various corps in the Matabele War, Boer War, Somaliland Campaign, Zulu Bambatha Rebellion, Ulster Volunteers, First World War (Gallipoli and Western front), and briefly in the invasion of North Russia. He enlisted in the 2KEH in Aug 1914 and within days was transferred to the Norfolk Regiment as a Lieutenant given his prior military service. On 22/04/1916, he married Nellie Elizabeth Crawford Greene, the sister of a fellow Private in the 2KEH William Pomeroy Crawford Greene (KEH not 2KEH). He was 37 years old when, as an Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in the Norfolk Regiment, he assumed command of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 20/11/1917, during the Battle of Cambrai at Marcoing, France. When he returned from Russia and wrote letters published by the Express newspapers in Sep-Oct 1919, the Army prosecuted him for a breach of King's Regulations. Although his letters openly opposed the war against the Bolsheviks it was decided that the substance of the charges against him would be confined to communicating his opinions to the press 'without special authority'. He was found guilty at his court martial on 28/10/1919, was awarded a severe reprimand. Kelly retired several weeks later with the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He died aged 51 on 13/08/1931 and is buried in Brookwood Cemetery, London. His Victoria Cross is in the collection of the National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg, South Africa. Portrait photograph shown in uniform of the Norfolk Regiment.
SHUTTLE, David Charles. 1678. Private. 2KEH. Enlisted 9/06/1915. Entered France 15/07/1915. Gassed and hospitalised 9/04/1918. Transferred to Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302837 then Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61266. Born in Froxfield, Wiltshire in 1883 and died in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire in 1945. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SHINNER, Edgar. 1071. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Corporal, 1/5th then 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 61249. Likely to have been born 11/04/1896 in London, England and died in 1963 in Bunbury Western Australia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SIMMONDS, Derwent Gerald. 1207. Private. Entered France 5/05/1915. Commissioned 1st Battalion, South Wales Borderers (attached 45th Battalion Royal Fusiliers) 24/07/1915 later Captain. Born 16/03/1896 in Bloomsbury, London and died 6/05/1980 in Gosforth, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland. Applied for 1914/15 Star Trio from Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
SIMPSON, Ronald Everest. 1490. Private 2KEH. Came from Canada to join 2KEH.Entered France 15/07/1915. Private 18th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers 45503. KIA 16/04/1918 aged 32. Youngest son of Henry Simpson, of Oxton, Birkenhead. MARTINSART BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France. Commemorated on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio all named to Lancashire Fusiliers.
SINNOTT, Edwin. 1263. Private 2KEH. Enlisted at Hampton Court. Transferred as Private, 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers 40600. Entered France 4/05/1915. KIA 9/10/1917. Born in Bradford, Yorks and lived in Harrogate, Yorks. Name commemorated on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Belgium. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio all named to Lancashire Fusiliers.
SKEY, Arthur James. Private. 232. Major Arthur James Skey M.C. and Bar, A Battery, 58th Brigade Royal Field Artillery was born on 9/05/1886 in Kilburn, London, the son of Arthur and Edith Amy Skey. In 1891 the family were living in Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, and in 1901 were in Amersham, Bucks where the 14-year old Arthur James Skey was working as a printer’s apprentice. Later, he acted as assistant to Harold H Child, then editor of the literary periodical, “The Academy”, before taking over as editor when Child retired. He was living at Grange House, Cuffesgrange, County Kilkenny when he joined 2KEH as a Trooper on 25/09/1914 with service number 232 and was then based at Hounslow Barracks. On 21/11/1914 he applied for a commission hoping to join the cavalry or the RFA and was commissioned into the RFA as a temporary 2/Lt on 17/12/1914.He was posted to C/60 Bde RFA and sailed from Devonport on 4 Jul 1915, arriving in Alexandria on 19/07/1915. He spent 16-30/08/1915 in hospital in Port Said before sailing from Alexandria on 18 Oct 1915, disembarking at Suvla Bay on 25/10/1915. When British forces withdrew from Gallipoli, he re-embarked at Suvla Bay on 18/12/1915, arriving back in Alexandria on 22 Dec 1915. He was granted temporary rank of Lt on 25/02/1916, though this does not appear to have been officially confirmed until 4 May 1916. When the brigade moved to France, he sailed with them from Alexandria on 2 Jul 1916, arriving in Marseilles on 10/07/1916. A few days later he was posted as an instructor at the Trench Mortar School on 16/07/1916 and was therefore appointed A/Capt the following day. In his role which he described as being the Divisional Officer Trench Mortars he attended a demonstration of Toby Mortars on 31/07/1916 during which 2/Lt Atwill of X/11 Trench Mortar Battery was slightly wounded and so gave evidence at the subsequent enquiry. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in the New Year’s Honours of 1917 and was appointed Staff Capt for 11 Division Artillery on 25/01/1917, replacing Capt A F B Cottrell. He was attached to A/58 on 21/06/1917 and formally left the post of Staff Capt on 23/07/1917 when he was posted to join A/58 at which point he was replaced as Staff Capt by Lt H L Farrar. He was posted for a month to 59 Bde RFA, serving with them between 28/07 and 21/08/1917, after which he returned to A/58 to learn how to be a battery commander. On 5/09/1917 he was appointed an A/Maj since he was now in command of A/58, a 6-gun battery, and was granted 10 days’ leave to the UK on 10 Sep 1917. While he was on leave, he was appointed T/Capt on 18/09/1917 (though was still an A/Maj). Shortly after his return he was slightly wounded on 27/09/1917 but was able to remain at duty. He returned to the UK to attend the Overseas Artillery Course on 23/11/1917, rejoining his battery on 8 Jan 1918. Along with many other members of the brigade he was gassed on 9 Apr 1918 and retired to the wagon lines. Although he returned to duty two days later, on 11 Apr 1918, he appears not to have been fit because three days after that, on 14 Apr 1918 he was admitted to 1 Corps Officers’ Rest Station with debility, rejoining his unit on 2 May 1918. When 58 Bde held a Horse Show on Sunday 23 Jun 1918, Maj Skey acted as the “Hon. Secretary, Stakeholder and Clerk of the Course”. The following month he stood in for the 11 Divisional Artillery Brigade Major when that officer went on leave on 23 Jul 1918. As the Germans started falling back and mobile warfare started again, Maj Skey was detached from 58 Bde to command a mobile battery comprising four 18pdrs of A/58 and 2 howitzers of D/58 on 26 Aug 1918. The guns would be pulled by mobile traction, rather than by horses and the battery, designated “A” Mobile Battery was attached to the Cavalry Corps. He returned to 58 Bde on 26 Oct 1918, and was awarded a bar to his MC “For conspicuous gallantry and determination during operations from 4th to 11th November, 1918, at Estinne. He handled his battery with great courage and skill, keeping up with the advancing infantry, and constantly going forward to obtain information under heavy machine-gun fire”. The day after the Armistice was posted from the brigade on 12 Nov 1918 to join 8 Division Artillery on 15 Nov 1918 to command 1/45 Bde RFA. He was granted leave to the UK between 2 and 16 Jan 1919 and in March 1919 he was instructed to return to the UK and report to SD 4 in Room 270 at the War Office because he was required for duty in Russia. The London Gazette reported that he relinquished the acting rank of Maj on 29 Mar 19 presumably because that was when he ceased to command 1/45 Bde and was posted to Russia. This caused him subsequent difficulties because he joined the ill-fated Northern Russian Intervention at Murmansk on the understanding that he would still do so as a Major. There he formed and acted as Commandant of a new White Russian Artillery School where he trained, equipped and put into action five White Russian artillery batteries. After the British withdrawal from Murmansk that autumn, he went to the Officers’ Dispersal Unit in London on 28 Nov 1919 for demobilisation. He then found it difficult to find employment and so wrote to the War Office on 9 Nov 1921 believing there to be opportunities to re-enlist and serve in the Tank Corps in Egypt, but the rumour turned out not to be true: the War Office had no such plans. Instead, he set up a school, Southminster Grammar School in Southminster, Essex, and on 1 Feb 1922 was successful in his application to join the Reserve of Officers, though since he did not report he was moved from Class I to Class II in the Reserve of Officers in 1925. Arthur Skey married three times: on 8 Dec 1905 he married Elizabeth Rutherford Riddell in the Presbyterian Church on Highgate Hill in London; in 1925 he married Margaret Beatrice Marion Dewhurst in St George’s Church, Hanover Square, London and they had a son, Giles Skey Brindley, born on 30 Apr 1926 in Woking, Surrey; in about 1930 he abandoned his wife and son, and on 2 Feb 1933 he married Henrietta Maria Lilian Shaw. Arthur Skey died 3 years later on 12 Feb 1936, aged 49. British War Medal and Victory Medal sold on eBay UK in March 2021 and image of medals shown.
SLADE, Alfred. 1626. Private. Discharged physically unfit 23/08/1916. 1914/15 Star named to 1626 PTE A. E. SLADE K. EDW. H. Enlisted 20/05/1915 and entered France 15/7/15 and discharged sick 23/8/16. Awarded Silver War Badge 86,328 and 1914/15 Star trio. 1914/15 Star sold by greatwarmedals.com in 2018. Photograph of Star shown.
SLOMAN, William. 243. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps 674063. Discharged 7/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Labour Corps.
SLY, Alec Foreshaw. 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. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio. Applied for medals from Commercial Road, Portsmouth. Listed on the Australian War Memorial as having served with 2KEH. Noted in 'Under Friendly Flags' by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having served with KEH (actually 2KEH).
SMITH, Arthur C. G. Captain. 2KEH. Transferred as Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery (RFA) 8/12/1914 (London Gazette 8/04/1915). Awarded 1914/15 Star trio named to RFA.
SMITH, Frederick Walter. 690. Private 2KEH. Transferred to KEH as Private 2048. Enlisted at White City, London in 2KEH and entered France 4/05/1915. KIA 9/04/18 at Defence of Vieille Chapelle. Son of Catherine and Hilton Smith and had five brothers and six sisters. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Born in Faversham, Kent and lived in Croydon, London.
SMITH, George Ernest Turner. 1327. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred and then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps 22989 on 26/10/1917. Temporarily attached to the 93rd Company, Machine Gun Corps from 28/07/1916 and saw action at Neuve Chapelle. Likely to be in Frank Vans Agnew photograph of a 2KEH draft to the MGC dated 21/06/1916. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Winnipeg, Canada.
SMITH, George Macfarlane Ogilvie. 1781. Private 2KEH. Entered France 2/10/1915. Transferred as Acting Corporal, 4th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 45504. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SMITH, Joseph. 1861. Private 2KEH. Transferred as a Private, 1/4th Battalion then 1/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61241. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
SMITH, Malcolm Lees. 1911. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 24/11/1915. Transferred as Private, 12/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 40114. Discharged 20/01/1919 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge B92864. Born 17/02/1884 in Longsight, Lancashire and died Sep 1970 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
SMITH, Percy N. 1245. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred to Royal Flying Corps (RFC) 7/04/1917 as Private 78354. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to RFC.
SMITH, R. E. T. Private 2KEH. Entered France May 1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SMITHERS. Charles Frederick. Private 2KEH. 1209. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as a Private, Roads and Quarries, Royal Engineers WR163 then Private, Machine Gun Corps 112270 then Private, King's Liverpool Regiment 85732 and then Private, Royal Engineers 323494. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Royal Engineers. Born in 1883 and died 1932. Photograph of family gravestone shown.
SMYTH, Charles Douglas. 1658. Private 2KEH. Entered France 15/07/1915. Commissioned Leinster Regiment 19/03/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SORZANO, Fermando. 1412. Private 2KEH. Entered France 2/07/1915. Transferred as Private, Liverpool Regiment 85685. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SPENCER, George Edward. 1043. Serjeant 2KEH. Commissioned 30/04/1917 as a Second Lieutenant later Captain. Entered France 4/05/1915 and commissioned 30/04/1917 as a Second Lieutenant later Captain. Prior service in the 15th Company (Northumberland and Durham), 5th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry) as Private 3289 enlisted 12/01/1900 and discharged 18/06/1901 having served in South Africa. Born in 1877. Applied for 1914/15 Star Medal trio from an address in Gosforth, Newcastle on Tyne.
STACEY, Reginald Howard. 1115. Lieutenant R. H. Stacey, Royal Air Force, late King Edward’s Horse, Royal Sussex Regiment and Bedfordshire Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps, who was seriously wounded in a combat over Bailleul in May 1918. 1914-15 Star (1115 Pte., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.). Reginald Howard Stacey was born at Houghton, near Arundel, Sussex in October 1892 and was educated at Haileybury. Lieutenant R. H. Stacey, Royal Air Force, late Private King Edward’s Horse, Royal Sussex Regiment and Bedfordshire Yeomanry and Royal Flying Corps, who was seriously wounded in a combat over Bailleul in May 1918. 1914-15 Star (1115 Pte., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut., R.A.F.). Reginald Howard Stacey was born at Houghton, near Arundel, Sussex in October 1892 and was educated at Haileybury. Enlisting in the Royal Fusiliers in September 1914, he transferred to 2KEH as a Trooper in the following month and served in the same capacity out in France from 4/05/1915 to January 1916, when he returned to the U.K. and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2/4th Royal Sussex Regiment 14/01/1916. Having then transferred to the Bedfordshire Yeomanry, he applied to the Royal Flying Corps for pilot training and qualified for his “Wings” in February 1917 (Certificate No. 4405). He subsequently served out in France in 29 and 11 Squadrons, May to August 1917, but was invalided home to hospital in the latter month. Returning to duty in the U.K. with No. 85 Squadron that November, he transferred to No. 41 Squadron, an S.E. 5a unit out in France, shortly afterwards, and must have flown numerous sorties prior to being seriously wounded in a combat over Ecquedecques in the early evening of 11 May 1918, most probably by enemy ace Leutnant Kurt Monnington of Jasta 18. His wounds - caused by a brace of machine-gun bullets - resulted in the amputation of his left leg below the knee, and he was invalided out of the Royal Air Force in April 1919, following a special medical board held at Caxton Hall in London. Lived post war in Southern Rhodesia. Awarded Silver War Badge 117299 and 1914/15 Star trio and applied for in 1921 from an address in Horsham, Sussex. Medals sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK in June 2008.
STAFFORD, Arthur Heneage. A Second World War O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Heneage Stafford, Fiji Defence Force, late Machine Gun Corps and King Edward’s Horse, latterly Chief of Staff, Fiji Military Forces. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953, these unnamed; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Fiji, reverse inscribed, ‘Mjr. A. H. Stafford’, mounted as worn; together with National Rifle Association Medal, obverse, an archer and a rifleman (Capt. A. H. Stafford, Fiji Defence Force 1934). O.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1946; Fiji Royal Gazette 21 June 1946. Arthur Heneage Stafford was born on 23 November 1895, and was educated at Chatham House School, Ramsgate. During the Great War he served in the Army. As an Officer Cadet, he was granted a commission in the Special Reserve of Officers as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd King Edward’s Horse, 21 December 1916. He was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 14 January 1918; he was promoted Lieutenant, King Edward’s Horse, 21 June 1918. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 23 April 1918. He resigned his commission on 1 April 1920 and retained the rank of Lieutenant. Stafford then spent the next 30 years in Fiji, being ‘temporarily and provisionally and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Adjutant, Fiji Defence Force, with effect from 1st February 1924’ (Fiji Royal Gazette 1 February 1924). From the same date he was appointed Secretary of the Fiji War Pensions Board. Ranked as a Captain, he was confirmed as Adjutant in June the same year. Captain Stafford was appointed an Honorary A.D.C. to His Excellency Administering the Government on 19 November 1932; and again on 11 May 1934 when he was appointed an Honorary A.D.C. to His Excellency the Governor. As a Major, Stafford was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Fiji), published in the Fiji Royal Gazette of 30 April 1937. In the same year he was awarded the Coronation Medal (Fiji Royal Gazette 12 May 1937). During the Second World War he was actively engaged with the Fiji Defence Forces. On 6 November 1940 he was appointed Second in Command of the 2nd Battalion Fiji Defence Force and early in 1941 he was appointed temporarily Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion, and he was also Commandant of the Natabua Training Camp. In June 1941 he was transferred to the 1st Battalion as Second in Command. In 1942 he became Staff Officer, Administrative H.Q., and later on in August 1942 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed C.O. of the 2nd (T) Battalion. From 1 June 1943 he commanded the Base Training Depot and in October 1944 he was appointed to Administrative H.Q. as Senior Staff Officer. For his military services during the war he was awarded the O.B.E. After the War he was Acting Commandant of the Fiji Military Forces and later Chief of Staff. In 1953 he was awarded the Coronation Medal (Fiji Royal Gazette 2 June 1953). Lieutenant-Colonel Stafford, O.B.E., E.D., was placed on the Retired List on 20 November 1954. The Efficiency Decoration, by J. M. A. Tamplin, lists a total of 25 Efficiency Decorations (Fiji) listed in the Fiji Royal Gazette between 1936-74. Sold at auction with copied photograph and copied research, including extracts from The History of the Fiji Military Forces 1939-1945 which have reference to Stafford by Dix Noonan Webb, UK in March 2009.
STANFORD, Frederick Edward Gordon. 1441. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Second Lieutenant Royal West Surrey Regiment 28/01/1916. Born 18/10/1888 in New Malden, Surrey, England and died 18/12/1958 in Surrey Mid eastern, Surrey, England. Applied for 1914/15 Trio from Hampton Hill, Middlesex and Palestine medal in 1941 from Carshalton, Surrey in 1941 but was ineligible. Civilian photograph shown on accompanying page.
STANNING, Thomas Graham. 1520 Private 2KEH. Enlisted in Winnipeg, Canada 3/03/1915 and returned to England in Apr 1915. Entered France 5/05/1915 with 2KEH. Transferred as Acting Corporal, 168th Protection Company, Royal Defence Corps (RDC) 68942 in Oct 1917. Discharged 15/02/1919. Returned to Canada post-war. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to RDC.
STARK, Lawrence Edward. 1937. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 20/05/1916 and discharged 25/05/1918. Transferred as a Private, 18th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 45507. Born in 1886 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England and died Mar 1938 in Hammersmith, London. Awarded Silver War Badge 391093. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
STARLING, Arthur Henry. 1392. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps 112264 then Serjeant, Northumberland Fusiliers 39903 then Serjeant, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 40597. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 24/09/1918 later Lieutenant. Likely to have been born 21/10/1897 in St Pancras Kentish, London, England and died Dec 1976 in Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Kentish Town, London, England.
STEWART, . 131477. Serjeant. 2nd Troop, 2KEH. From burnt portion of 2nd Troop, 2KEH Nominal Roll.
STEWART, Charles R. H. 990. Warrant Officer Class 2. 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Royal Naval Air Squadron 25/02/1916 later Captain. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio and applied for medals from an address in Mowbray Road, North West London.
STEWART, Christopher Henry. 1438 Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/07/1915. Transferred as Acting Lance Serjeant, Northumberland Fusiliers 61173. Entitled to 1914/5 Star trio named to Northumberland Fusiliers.
STEWART, Frank Algernon. 845. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Lieutenant 3rd/1st Norfolk Yeomanry 27/07/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal Trio. Applied for medals from an address c/o Belfast War Hospital, Belfast in May 1919 and then from Bickley, Kent in 1921.
STONARD, Jack William. 1845 Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private, 2nd/8th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (KLR) 85729. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to KLR.
STONE, James Bruce. 216. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 31/08/1914 and entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred to Labour Corps as Private 230743. Discharged 11/11/1917 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 278856. Born in 1875. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
STONER, Henry Blackett. 1250. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 14/12/1914 and entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 112179. Discharged 16/02/1919. Born in 1887 in Charlwood, Surrey, England and died 22/03/1963 in Devon, England. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio which was sold in February 1987 in the UK by Great War Medals.
STOW, Sidney. 1617. Private 2KEH. Entered France 17/10/1915. Transferred as Private, 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers 59077 then Private, 21st then 12/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 59637. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
STRATFORD, Charles J. Private 2KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
STRATTON, George W. 1505. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 19/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
STRONG, John. 220. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred to Labour Corps as Corporal 385230. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
STUART-FORBES, Hugh. 1762. Private 2KEH. Entered France 13/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 21st Battalion, London Regiment 25/06/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
STUDDY, Robert Frank Barton. 835. Private 2KEH. Entered France 14/11/0915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant , 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment 9/03/1917. Awarded Silver War Badge and 1914/15 Star trio.
SULLY, Frederick Stanley. 1609 Private 2KEH. Enlisted 5/05/15. Entered France 15/07/1915. Transferred as Private 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61264 on 27/08/1917. Transferred as Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302836 on 21/02/1918 but earmarked for transfer 7/08/1917. Discharged 10/02/1919. Born in 1893 in Kingston on Thames, London. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio as added to Tank Corps roll and note Medal Index Card states British War and Victory Medal. His brother Private John Sully, 18th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers born 1899 and KIA 1/06/1918 in Flanders, France and buried at Pozieres.
SUMMERHAYES, Joseph William. 1097. Private. Enlisted 13/10/1914 at Langley Park, Slough. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged being a minor American citizen 8/11/1915. Born Montreal, Canada in 1894. Application for Silver War Badge declined as ineligible in 1917. Died in New York 21/01/1923 of tuberculosis and army pension applied for. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
SWAIN, Alec John. 733. Private. Enlisted in London. Entered France 4/05/1915. DoW 04/07/1915. Born North Killworth, Warwickshire. Buried in MAPLE LEAF CEMETERY, Belgium. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio.
SWAIN, Robert Ernest. 1355. Private. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Royal Welsh Fusiliers 12/03/1916. KIA 8/07/1916. Commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. 1914/15 Star Trio applied for 5/11/1920 by his sister T. L. Swain of Hampton Road, Forest Gate, London.
SWEENEY, William. 1541. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 21/04/1915 and entered France 14/10/1915. Returned to Ireland 7/08/1917. Transferred to Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps (Tank Corps) 7/08/1917 then served as a Private Army Service Corps Motor Transport section M/404885. Discharged 18/02/1919. Born in County Dublin, Ireland in 1894.
SWINFEN, Albert. 905. Private 2KEH having enlisted in September 1914. Discharged 5/09/1915. Photograph of Private Swinfen, 2KEH from Kelmarsh, UK on horseback shown in Figure 165b from the Market Harborough Advertiser of 8/09/1914 courtesy of W. R. (Bob) H. Hakewill, a published local historian in Market Harborough, UK.
SWINLEY, Gordon Noel Balfour. 1113. Private 2KEH. Enlisted in Aug 1914 and then commissioned as a Lieutenant 3rd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers in Dec 1914 and entered France 21/05/1915. KIA 22/06/1915 whilst attached to the 2nd Battalion at Ypres. Born in Assam, India in July 1890 the son of Gordon and Margaret Swinley from Newbury, Berkshire, England. Acting British Vice-Consul in Marrakesh. Buried in New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal sold at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK on 24/25 Jun 2009.
SMYE, William T. 1646. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 23/05/1915 at Cork, Ireland. Transferred as Acting Serjeant 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61226 then Acting Serjeant 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302781. Discharged 17/02/1919. Born 1892 and resided in Cork, Ireland. Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal (London Gazette 15/11/1918) and 1914/15 Star trio.
