RogerV Posted 23 September , 2011 Share Posted 23 September , 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambo Posted 24 September , 2011 Share Posted 24 September , 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerV Posted 24 September , 2011 Author Share Posted 24 September , 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambo Posted 24 September , 2011 Share Posted 24 September , 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin spof Posted 24 September , 2011 Admin Share Posted 24 September , 2011 Hi Roger The 1913-19 LSGC Rolls for some of your units are online here: 1st Life Guards http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Long_Service_and_Good_Conduct_%28LSGC%29_Medal_Register_%E2%80%93_1st_Life_Guards_1913-1919 2nd Life Guards http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Long_Service_and_Good_Conduct_%28LSGC%29_Medal_Register_%E2%80%93_2nd_Life_Guards_1913-1919 1st Dragoons http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Long_Service_and_Good_Conduct_%28LSGC%29_Medal_Register_%E2%80%93_1st_Dragoons_1913-1919 Cheers Glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerV Posted 24 September , 2011 Author Share Posted 24 September , 2011 Excellent Glenn. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 26 September , 2011 Share Posted 26 September , 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerV Posted 26 September , 2011 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2011 I wasn't Dave. That's a very useful lead, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 26 September , 2011 Share Posted 26 September , 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerV Posted 26 September , 2011 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Underdown Posted 26 September , 2011 Share Posted 26 September , 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerV Posted 26 September , 2011 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2011 Thanks for that David, see PMs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjonesncl Posted 26 September , 2011 Share Posted 26 September , 2011 the Household Siege Artillery. Do you have any information on this unit ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerV Posted 26 September , 2011 Author Share Posted 26 September , 2011 Do you have any information on this unit ? 'fraid not. I hadn't heard of it until reading it in a casualty list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepper Posted 26 September , 2011 Share Posted 26 September , 2011 '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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianjonesncl Posted 26 September , 2011 Share Posted 26 September , 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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