Tom Seagrove Serjeant 3rd Dragoon Guards No 3876 KiA 6 Nov 1914

[Guest Baldfrog]

G'day to all and my thanks for your consideration.

I am researching the above. I would like to know

1. The role of the Cavalry in this conflict (I am pretty obviously a novice - it does strike me as odd that cavalry should be deployed in trench warfare, but perhaps that phase came later in WW1)

2. What the 3rd Dragoon Guards were doing on 6th November 1914 and thus the circumstances of Tom Seagrove's death

3. Whether he was killed outright, in the field, or wounded and died in a field hospital

I hope any responses will be notified to me by email but I will check the site from time to time. Apologies in advance for any delay in thanking respondents.

In passing, I am pretty fluent in French and would be pleased to help with any translations. Also I visit Paris quite often and could pop in to the museum of the Legion d'Honneur if anyone wanted any data from there.

Tony

[anthony P]

Hi Tony

Welcome to the Forum

Tom Seagrove Number 38763, 3876. Born Hunslett Leeds 1878. Enlisted London, Residence Deptford

Landed France 31st October 1914,on to Ypres. moved up to the front with 6th Cavalry, 3rd Cavalry Division, 4th November. Killed in Action 6th

November 1914.

Memorial Panel 3 Menin Gate, Ypres Monument.

Next of kin, wife Alice (nee Pickering)and 2 sons, George and Tom. 95, Shardeloes Road Deptford.

Parents George and Elizabeth Seagrove.

For information on how Tom actually died, you will need the Regiment's War Diaries.

Hope this is of help.

All the best

Tony

[GraemeClarke]

Morning

The War Diary is here

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7351530

Someone, however, may already have it so I would hang on for a short time as it is only 4 days you want.

PS

If anyone does have the diary I have just found out I need the entry for

Tuesday 25 January 1916,

Many thanks and cheers

Graeme