List of Soldiers in my family tree

[trishedst]

5797 C.S.M Thomas Joseph Brien Royal Irish Fusiliers 1^st Bn Boer War, Sudan 1898 Expedition to Khartoum /2^nd Bn India, /8^th Bn WW1 KIA 11/6/1916

5253 Cpl Charles Edward Thompson East Surrey Regiment 2^nd Bn Boer War

6771 Q.M.S Joseph Thurlow Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1^st Bn Boer War and WW1 Gallipoli KIA 26/5/1915

6807 Cpl John Thurlow Royal Irish Rifles 2^nd Bn WW1 Wounded twice GSW leg GSW Arm (Arm Amputated)

21731 Sgt William Thurlow Royal Dublin Fusiliers WW1

17295 GDSN Sydney Kimble Easley Grenadier Guards 2^nd Bn WW1 KIA 17/2/1915 Flanders

7905 Pte Andrew Hutchinson Royal Irish Rifles 2^nd Bn WW1 KIA 8/11/1914 Flanders

2407 Pte Daniel Hutchinson Leinster Regiment and 157036 M.G.C

3621 Sgt Laurence Hutchinson 5^th Leinster Regiment 5^th Bn WW1 and 2877 1^st Leinster Regiment Boer War

3700 Pte Michael Hutchinson S/ Leinster Regiment WW1 and 3802 1^st Leinster Regiment Boer War

6477 Pte Joseph Hutchinson 1^st Leinster Regiment 5years 3mts, Royal Dublin Fusiliers 5^th Bn 5years and 1819 6^th Service Bn Leinster Regiment WW1

5633 Pte Patrick Hutchinson 3^rd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Leinster Regiment 3^rd Bn WW1

4816 Pte Bernard Sutton 2^nd Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers WW1 KIA 26/4/1915 Ypres France

2951 Pte Thomas Sutton 1^st Bn Leinster Regiment WW1

11898 Pte John Morrissey 6^th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers WW1 KIA 21/8/1915 Gallipoli

11967 Pte John Morrissey 6^th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers WW1 KIA 8/12/ 1915 Balkans

13/915 L/Cpl Harold R Richardson 13^th S/Bn and 1^st Barnsley Bn York and Lancaster Regiment WW1 Died of Wounds 12/4/1918 Flanders

10672 Pte Frederick J Wright West Kent Regiment 12 years and The Buffs Regiment WW1 East Kent Regiment 30 Days discharged not likely to become a efficient soldier.

----- Gunner William Drury Wright Royal Navy HMS Good Hope 6^th Cruiser Squadron. HMS Good Hope was sunk in the battle of Coronel on the 1^st Nov 1914 off the Chilean coast with the loss of her entire compliment of 900 hands.

21711 Sgt William Lewis Richardson 1846-1867 Royal Artillery, H.R.H The Duke of Cambridge Regiment, Crimean War,

295484 Pte Herbert C Brightman London Regiment 4^th ( city of London ) Bn ( Royal Fusiliers ) Formerly 3510 20^th London Regiment, KIA 26/11/1917 Flanders

565047 Rifleman Alfred H Brightman London Regiment 16^th Bn ( Queens Westminster ) Formerly 20^th London Regiment KIA 28/3/1918 Flanders

11823 Gnr Sydney J Brightman Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery WW1 discharged from Army 1917 due to deafness.

4943 Pte Gary Kehoe Irish Guards Regiment WW1 Was gassed during war but not discharged till 1919.

157203 Gnr Herbert H Banham Royal Garrison Artillery WW1

9487 Pte Thomas Richardson 3^rd R/Bn Royal Irish Rifles, served in India, also 4^th Bn RDF Militia.

7846 Pte Arthur Richardson Royal Irish Rifles, 231192 Pte, 664 th Emp Coy, also 4^th Bn RDF Militia.

6853443 Pte Thomas Patrick Sutton 2^nd (Airborne) Bn Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, WW2 Died of Wounds 26/3/1945 Reichswald Forest Germany

-------- Jackie Brien British Army 1939-1945 ( Wounded in the stomach by Shrapnel )

--------- James Sutton British Army 1939-1945

-------- Alfred J Drohan U.S Army Drafted for WW1 and WW2

-------- Ted Graves Royal Navy WW2

Please somebody find for me a WW1 service record of any of the soldiers who died in my list. Can't find any on ancestry or findmypast. Are they kept somewhere else?

[Sandie Hayes]

No, sadly they are not kept anywhere else. I think you must be very unlucky if you can't find service records for, at least, a few of them. The ratio is about 1 in 5 (about 1 record in every 5 was saved from a fire in WW2). I rarely have any luck and I know I'm not alone.

Reading this will explain and may help you: http://www.1914-1918.net/grandad/records.htm

Your men from 1939 - 45 will not be included, obviously, but you have to apply for their records, they are not online.

It's not simple, quick or cheap. Have a look here:http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/army.html

Sandie

[kevinrowlinson]

I think you can still download the records for naval personnel. This link should give you the records for William Drury Wright, if not search the Nat. Archives site.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D7597318

Kevin

[Sandie Hayes]

Do you have this photograph of William Drury Wright? http://www.coronel.org.uk/crew/photos/William%20Drury%20Wright,%20RN.jpg

The Coronel Memorial: http://www.coronel.org.uk/crew_photos_goodhope.php

[trishedst]

Thanks for your help lads,I'll just have to give it another go wish me luck

Regards

Ed

[Wexflyer]

How wide are you casting the definition of family? Just grandparents and siblings, or including their first cousins, second cousins, etc? The wider the net, the higher the numbers go, of course.

In my case, taking my grandparents and their siblings, out of eleven military age men, precisely zero served in the British forces. My grandmother served in the Irish forces, as did a great-uncle. Another great-uncle was deported and imprisoned without trial in England. It is only when you get to my grandparents first cousins that that there are any Irish family members who took the King's shilling, but even then, they number just two out of scores (one of whom died). Of these two, only one actually volunteered during the war - the other was a member of the RNVR, purely as an extra income source, and never had any idea that it would later lead to him being involved in nastiness and shipped off to Gallipoli...

British cousins served, of course, and I have posted here about a Welsh cousin who died.

[little bob]

There are two pages of a Service Record for Joseph Thurlow, born Dublin 1881 . He enlisted in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 4th July 1899. Is this your man?

Bob

[Old Tom]

An impressive list! My father served in WW1 in the RFA, I had an uncle in the MGC and two distant relations, Hampshire Regt (my mothers cousins, I think) who were drowned on the way to Gallipoli.

Old Tom

[trishedst]

Well done Bob, I magnified his number and it looks like 6771 to me,the record says 614. Joe was born in the parish of St James in Dublin, his family are on the 1891 census living in Westham and he is aged 7, his mother dies 1895 and family move back to Dublin, maybe his parish in Westham was St Marys I'll have to check. I think we are on a winner Bob.

Many thanks

Ed

[little bob]

13/915 Harold R Richardson Yorks and Lancs born Derbyshire 1893 has a service record on Ancestry. Drop the 13 and just enter service number 915.

Bob

[trishedst]

That's two Bob, Joe Thurlow lived in the St James parish which is on the south side of Dublin but was baptized in St Marys Pro Cathedral on the north side, I found a birth record for him, 1884 north Dublin.

Joined Army aged 15, in Boer War aged 17.

Found Harold Richardson Record thanks Bob

Regards

Ed

[trishedst]

21711 Sgt William Lewis Richardson 1846-1867 Royal Artillery, H.R.H The Duke of Cambridge Regiment, Crimean War

William is my GGF his No;21711 is the number given to him on his pension record, I found Medal Records for a William Richardson No 711 Crimean War. Is this the same William ?