The Times

[Pettsy]

I can't find an obituary for either of the above, Pettsy.

The Times generally only carried obituaries for the "Great and the Good", so unless the stories were particularly topical, even the middle-classes would not really get a mention unless in the short paid for obituary sections.

Steve.

Thank you for looking Steve,

I thought Kinner might have as he was mentioned in the local paper in Chelsea by the then Prime Minister.

Pettsy

[Pettsy]

Looking at your other men, only one is picked up by the online Search:

Pioneer A W Munn shows up in the Times of 8-10-1915 as Died of Wounds.

The others may well be there (at least those prior to the end of 1917)but the Search is more unreliable than the London Gazette!

Steve.

Hi Steve,

Thank you for looking for the Munn brothers.

If I give you my e mail address you you scan over piece on A W MUNN please so I can copy it and show my father.

Thank you.

Pettsy

[stiletto_33853]

Steve,

Wonder if you might be able to assist me with a RB officer. 2nd Lieut. John Whiteley Mallinson, 6th Battalion, Killed in Action on 14/2/16 I believe attached to the MGC but not 100% on this.

The Rifle Brigade Appendix to the WW1 History has him down as M.I.D. but no date and I cannot seem to find him in the Gazette (nothing new there) and is there anything in the Times on him.

Any assistance you might be able to render here would be gratefully received.

Many thanks

Andy

[Stebie9173]

I have a J W Mallinson granted a £60 scholarship to Marlborough College, Cambridge in 1915 for Classics.

Times of 26-2-1916 records:

Reported from General Headquarters under date February 19th.

Wounded and Missing.

Mallinson, Sec. Lt. J. W., 6th Rifle Brigade, att. Machine Gun Corps.

The Times of 15-4-1916 carried:

Also try here for his MID (found through Forum Search). Possibly a posthumous award.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...mp;hl=mallinson

His gazetting of his Commission just in case:

The undermentioned Cadets and ex-Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be Second Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 8th June, 1915: —

They are to attend the School of Instruction at Chatham, commencing on 12th June, 1915.

John Whiteley Mallinson, 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade.

Leonard Saunders Chamberlen, 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade.

Clarence Willett Tait, 6th Battalion Rifle Brigade.

Francis Billington, 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade.

Frank Dalziel Adam, 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveVi...;selHonourType=

Also:

LG 1-1-1916

The undermentioned are seconded for service with the Machine Gun Corps: —

Dated 22nd November, 1915.

The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own).

Lieutenant Robert W. H. Moline.

Second Lieutenants—

John W. Mallinson.

Henry R. Maiden.

Dated 29th November, 1915.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveVi...;selHonourType=

Steve.

[stiletto_33853]

Steve,

You absolute star, you beauty. I cannot thank you enough, this really helps me.

I am so glad that you have your head around the London Gazette as it drives me crazy sometimes.

Thank you once again, much appreciated.

Andy

[Pettsy]

Looking at your other men, only one is picked up by the online Search:

Pioneer A W Munn shows up in the Times of 8-10-1915 as Died of Wounds.

The others may well be there (at least those prior to the end of 1917)but the Search is more unreliable than the London Gazette!

Steve.

Hi Steve would you be able to scan to page with A MUNN on so I canread it please

Thank you.

Pettsy

[BDelf]

Hi

Hope you can help. Can you see if there is anything for:

Gunner Alexander Robert Delf MM

D Corp, 69th Battery, 9th Brigade RFA

KIA 13th October 1918

RSM Leonard Edward Delf

Various RGA Batteries

Died March 1962

Donald Alexander Robert Delf OBE

Merchant seaman

Awarded the OBE in 1976 or 1977

Died between 1995-2000

Thank you.

Hi Steve,

Have you had any luck on the Times search for these, thanks.

[gnr.ktrha]

Hello,

Can you check to see if there is any mention in the Wounded lists for-

1102 Sergeant John D Williams, Durham Light Infantry

He was wounded [lost a leg] at the 2nd Ypres in 1915, his service papers have not survived, so I am hoping that maybe he appears in a list and that might help to narrow the date down a bit.

Many thanks,

Stewart

[Simon R]

Can I ask if one Cecil de Pree has a Times obit. or any references?

I think he ended as Lt. Col. 8th Labour btn but I do not have dates.

Many thanks.

[Stebie9173]

Sorry, folks.

There will have to be a (hopefully) short intermission on the Times look-ups while I cross all available parts of my anatomy whilst my home computer has jumper leads attached to it by the Techie people.

From the quick search I can get away with here, I can't see J D Williams.

Nor any of the Delf's, I'm afraid.

Steve.

[Stebie9173]

Ok, short one for Lt Col de Pree.

DEATHS.

DE PREE - On 10th Feb, 1946 at a nursing home in Edinburgh, Lt-Col. CECIL GEORGE DE PREE, late of 15th King's Hussars, and of the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, of Beech Hill, Haddington, East Lothian.

There is a full one on Major-General Hugo de Pree, d. 30-3-1943, possibly related?

Steve.

[BDelf]

Sorry, folks.

There will have to be a (hopefully) short intermission on the Times look-ups while I cross all available parts of my anatomy whilst my home computer has jumper leads attached to it by the Techie people.

From the quick search I can get away with here, I can't see J D Williams.

Nor any of the Delf's, I'm afraid.

Steve.

Ok thanks for looking. Hope you can get it sorted.

[Simon R]

Fan-dabby-double-dozie (sic), thanks for the de Pree obit., that really is most useful!

Fantastic, thanks a lot.

[Guest Futuregen]

Paul, when you have the time ... please will you see if there is anything for Edward Arthur Sampson. 34248 Bombr, 94th Brigade RFA, then 249807 Corp/Serjeant 21st Signal Coy, RE. Died 1 August 1919, Aberford.

MM: London Gazette supp. 3 6 1916, when Bombr RFA. Theatre France

Bar: when Corp in RE, LG supp. 2 8 1918, awarded 6 8 1918. Theatre France

Thank you kindly.

Pam

[stu]

Hi Steve,

Could you please look up for me,Captain Daniel Edgar Hickey,Tank Corps.

I already have his LG annoucements for the war,its post war upto his death that I'm looking for.

Captain Hickey was the author of Rolling into Action(pub 1936),his memoirs as a section commander in the T.C.,he also I believe made some radio broadcasts of his wartime experiences,this was sometime in the early to mid 30s.

I believe he may have lived into the 1990s.

Anything you have will a great help.

Many thanks.

Stuart

Hi Steve,

I will be very grateful if you can look up for me Capt Daniel Edgar Hickey(details are above)

Many thanks for any help you can give me.

Stuart

[oak]

Paul,

I'd be very grateful if you would be kind enough to search for three men who were killed on 25 April 1915 in the landing at Sedh-el-Bahr/V Beach, Gallipoli.

They are Lt. Col. Richard Alexander Rooth, C.O. of the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Captain William Frederick Higginson, 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Lt. Col. Herbert Carrington Smith C.O. of the 2nd Hampshire Regiment.

Being really, really, cheeky could I also ask for a search please for Richard Goodwin Rooth? The son of Lt. Col. Rooth, he joined the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers around 1920. When the regiment was disbanded he joined the West Yorks Regiment. He was married on 3 November 1933.

Regards,

Philip

[John Butt]

Hi Paul,

Would it be possible to have details of the following:

Times 30/10/1916 Notice of Deatrh of Harold Bernard Dowdell, (Pte 4296 15th (County of London) Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles.

Times 3/11/1916 Appointment of Ernest George Dowdell to 2nd Lt

Times 13/4/1918 Notice of 2nd Lt E.G. Dowdell's death (Border Rgt)

Many thanks

John

[Stebie9173]

John,

I have located the page with Harold Dowdell on it. It is just a notification of death along with hundreds of other men. If you e-mail me by clicking on my name I will send you a PDF of the page.

Sec. Lt. Dowdell's entry is a notification of death. I can send a PDF page or an image, also his commission.

Here is a link to his Commission in the London Gazette.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveVi...;selHonourType=

Steve.

[Stebie9173]

Philip,

Carrington-Smith

Times 3-5-1915

Haven't found the RDF men but there is a Major Edwyn Fetherstonhaugh, 1st RDF.

Steve.

[Stebie9173]

Lt-Col Rooth and other Dublin Fusiliers, Times 4-5-1915 :

Steve.

[Stebie9173]

Higginson, Time 7-5-1915

Richard Goodwin Rooth was commissioned as a Second Lieutnenant on 16th July 1920 from the Royal Military College into the Royal MUNSTER Fusiliers, according to the Times.

Then,

LG 12-8-1920

War Office, 12th August, 1920.

REGULAR. FORCES.

INFANTRY.

R. Dub. Fus.—2nd Lt. R. G. Rooth, from R. Muns. Fus., to .be 2nd Lt., with seniority as from 16th July 1920, next below 2nd Lt. K. E. Hegan.

{Can't find his promotion to Lieutenant in the RDF but presumably he was promoted on 16-7-1922, as alluded to below}

LG 11-8-1922

W. York. R.—The undermentioned to be Lts. 12th Aug. 1922: —

Lt. R. G. Rooth, from. R.D. Fus., 12th Aug. 1922, with seniority 16th July 1922.

LG 27-7-1931

W. York R.—Lt. R. G. Rooth is restd. to the estabt. 26th Jan. 1931.

{This implies that he was attached elsewhere other than the West Yorkshire Regiment}

LG 14-6-1932

W. York R.—Lt. R. G. Rooth to be Capt. 4th May 1932.

{Can't find promotion to Major....}

LG 5-8-1938

The undermentioned Majs. are secd, 1st Aug. 1938:—

W. York R.

R. G. Rooth.

LG 25-6-1948

W. York R.

Maj. R. G. ROOTH (12096) retires on ret. pay, 24th June 1948.

LG 20-11-1951

W. York. R.

Maj. R. G. ROOTH (12096) having exceeded the age limit of liability to recall, ceases to belong to the Res. of Offrs., 21st Nov. 1951.

Steve.

[oak]

Many thanks Steve,

I am very grateful for all that information. I'm interested in it all. I had only asked for three officers, in case I would be thought greedy!

As you mentioned Major Edwyn Fetherstonhaugh, I wonder would it also be possible to get the information on him, please?

Kind regards,

Philip

[andrew pugh]

Good Evening Paul.

Is there any mention of the crew members which were lost on H. M. S Vehement sunk in 1918?

Best Regards

Andy

[eltoro1960]

I don't know if you can assist me, my Grandfather Pte 64457 John Duncan RAMC was wounded in action sometime during 1916, I have tried researching the Scotsman Archives to find out when but without success, because he was a Corps man and not serving with a 'Scottish' unit , they no longer listed the rest of the UK casualties due to paper shortages at the time. Thank you.

[Stebie9173]

I've had a bit of a look John, and I'll look further but not found him yet.

Philip,

Missed your mention of Fetherstonhaugh:

Steve.