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Household Cavalry


RogerV

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Hi all, I've now come to join this happy few in an effort to add to my self imposed task.

I'm in the process of creating an online memorial for the four regiments which now constitute the Household Cavalry, vis the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards, the 1st (Royal) Dragoons, the Household Battalion, the first three Guards Machine Gun Regiments and the Household Siege Artillery.

The Commonmwealth War Graves Commission have been kind enough to create a series of excel reports for me. However, much of the information is a bit scant.

If anyone has info on individual soldiers that they would like to contribute, including photos, I would be happy to add it to their record.

This memorial will cover all those who have died in service, not only WW1.

My interest arises from the fact that I served in The Life Guards in the early seventies.

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http://www.hambo.org/kingscanterbury/view_man.php?id=128

Here is a link to an officer from the King's School Canterbury memorial website which you are very welcome to (It's my site!). No doubt you are aware that there is a history of the Household Battalion which (from memory) has a roll of honour in it

If you send me a PM with your email address (think you need ten posts to use the facility) then I have another officer with bio and photo to pass on as well

Finally, are you just doing the Great War or WW2 as well as I have a bio of an officer killed in Normandy.

Good luck with the research

John

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Thanks for the offer Hambo,

I'm covering, eventually, the entire history of all regiments from 1660 to date.

The details of the WW2 casualty would be very welcome.

A technical question if I may, what software did you use to create your php pages from the database?

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A mate of mine built the site so I'll have to ask him.

In the meantime to save doing the posts

my email is (in a bid to avoid the spammers) jcdothamblinatbtopenworlddotcom

Send me a mail and I'll send it all over

John

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Papers of William Frank Smith http://www.flickr.com/photos/11226331@N05/sets/72157626680111327/ - http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=303008

You are aware that there's a virtually complete set of papers for all men of the Household Cavalry from the early 19th century in WO 400 at The National Archives?

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Forgot to state my own interest in William Frank Smith, he was a bellringer at Reigate parish church, and is named on the rolls of honour of the Surrey Association of Church Bell Ringers, http://www.surreybellringers.org.uk/sites/default/files/Memorial_WW1.pdf and of the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/casualties/details.php?warID=1&casID=303008 (the original paper version of this is kept ar St Paul's Cathedral)

I also have background info on him from censuses etc

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All I have are the basic GWGC records and related info from the "Soldiers Died In The Great War" books.

If you are willing to contribute more details about William I'd be delighted to add them to his record.

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Drop me a PM and I'll send what I have. If you look at the CCCBR website I linked to above, you'll see it's possible to get a report on the ringers killed listed by regiment. If you do that, you'll see that George Kenner Hawkins and Archie Reginald Silver were also Household Cavalrymen and bell ringers

I've also today noticed this book about the Household Battalion http://tna.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=22595

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the Household Siege Artillery.

Do you have any information on this unit ?

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Do you have any information on this unit ?

'fraid not. I hadn't heard of it until reading it in a casualty list.

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'fraid not. I hadn't heard of it until reading it in a casualty list.

Only thing i can find about it is that it was 520th Siege Battery, RGA formed from the Household Cavalry

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Only thing i can find about it is that it was 520th Siege Battery, RGA formed from the Household Cavalry

Nigel

Many thanks ....just spotted it at the bottom of the Siege Batteries on the Long Long Trail.

Bit of Googling....

520thSiege Battery embarked at Southampton on the 31 March 1918 and disembarked atLe Havre on the 1 April 1. On the 11th November 1918 it was part of Forst Army Artillery. Their BC is an interesting fellow, John Jacob Astor, gold medalist in 1908 Olympis and lost a leg at Cambrai in 1918.

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