2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)

[manningchris]

Hi

Could anyone help with this question my Grandmothers brother was killed on the 31st October 1914 at Ypres

He was Private Frederick William Clarke D4685 

His name is on Menin gate 

I have found out a little about the action that day where he may have been involved and the family were told that he was making his way back to the hospital as he had been wounded and thst the hospital unit was shelled that day killing him.

my question is     is there anyway to verify that....

 

Thanks for any help

[BFBSM]

The Queen's Dragoon Guards Museum has information available from their archives on Frederick. I do not know what is available, but it may contain some answers, it does incur a £40.00 administration charge (donation to the museum) to cover all costs.

 

Mark

[Loader]

I think such was possible. A relatively small area with shells raining down & making one's way back through the barrage I'm sure many who left for the rear never made it. I read of a CEF officer in 1915 who was being taken back wounded in a car & his head was blown off on the road back & only discovered when they arrived at the aid post.

[Steven Broomfield]

At the time, the bays were in the 1st Cavalry brigade (with the 5th DG and the 11th Hussars) at Messines. I doubt very much that the veracity of the story can be confirmed - the fighting was very confused and close-range, and I doubt anyone would be watching what an individual Private was up to. That said, the museum may well have background information, such as entries from regimental gazettes pre-war and so on.

[manningchris]

Thank you for replies I think the museum is the answer as a suplimentry question and showing my ignorance I can't find where he's buried  at all, in the records I have seen it just says his name is on the 3rd panel at Mennin nothing else

Edited 30 December , 2017 by manningchris
Poor grammar

[Steven Broomfield]

Presume that means his body was not found and he is commemorated on the Menin gate at Ypres (Ieper)

[alan1830]

There is a war diary on ancestry covering 31/10/14.I read it and it does name an officer (Maj JA Browning killed by shellfire and other officers wounded are named.There is a Times entry on Nov 9th naming all these officers).The casualty list for that day are other ranks killed 15,wounded 49,missing 2.This diary  records desperate fighting and heavy shellfire and chaos.hope this helps.

 

[manningchris]

thank you for your help