breame1 Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 I'm looking to identify this soldier, I'm not familiar with the cap badge or uniform. I've tried to identify him through the death date against my family tree, but so far no luck. Kind regards, J West Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 30 June , 2019 Admin Share Posted 30 June , 2019 He could be 9th Lancers? Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Definitely a Lancer maybe 9th or 16th, but I cannot find any CWGC entries for Lancers and the given date, what are the family names you’re working on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire22 Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Yes, a cavalry regiment but which one. Have you looked at the CWGC website for any clues you know the date and he was rewarded for bravery in the field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breame1 Posted 30 June , 2019 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2019 (edited) 28 minutes ago, jay dubaya said: Definitely a Lancer maybe 9th or 16th, but I cannot find any CWGC entries for Lancers and the given date, what are the family names you’re working on? That's interesting, in that case it's more likely to be either connected with surnames Binks, Grant, Pearce and / or Pulford... I'm working on the surname Breame as well but I don't think this is a Breame family member. Edited 30 June , 2019 by breame1 Adding missed surname Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breame1 Posted 30 June , 2019 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2019 5 minutes ago, Cheshire22 said: Yes, a cavalry regiment but which one. Have you looked at the CWGC website for any clues you know the date and he was rewarded for bravery in the field I haven't no, will give that a look. Thanks for helping. It's one of those things I think many people will sympathise with, it's so important to write names on the backs of photos!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollerbeadle Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Dorset Yeomanry? If that's the case then a contender would be Robert Leslie Burnell DCM - Killed in Action - 9/6/1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire22 Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 No next of kin on the CWGC website sdithgw states born at Gillingham, Dorset and also enlisted at Gillingham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollerbeadle Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Next of kin was his wife Louisa Kate Burnell according to Ancestry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 30 June , 2019 Admin Share Posted 30 June , 2019 https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/71733/binks,-bernard-edward/ I don't have access to SDGW so can't see if he's a formerly Lancers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollerbeadle Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 (edited) There is no further Information on SDGW for Binks other than he was born in Brentwood Essex...enlisted Carlisle ...resided in Ipswich Edited 30 June , 2019 by Rollerbeadle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 (edited) The cap badge and plastron tunic is 9th Lancers, as Michelle first said, presumably he completed a short engagement in the regular army with that regiment and was then with the TF Dorset Yeomanry subsequently. Edited 30 June , 2019 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire22 Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Robert Burnell was born in 1888 at carrington, Somerset the older son of Jesse Robert and Alice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breame1 Posted 30 June , 2019 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2019 9 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said: The cap badge and plastron tunic is 9th Lancers, as Michelle first said, presumably he completed a short engagement and was then with the TF Dorset Yeomanry. Thanks for identifying it as 9th Lancers. Although we have a problem, the chap in my photo was killed in action 8th June, not 9th as mentioned here... The plot thickens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollerbeadle Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Thats true but if he was involved and killed in a skirmish on the 8th its possible that his death was not reported until the 9th and thus the 9th would be stated as official. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire22 Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 You need to take the date with a pinch of salt, as the old saying goes. A soldier may have been killed on the 8th but sometimes the death was reported on the 9th. Because the date reported, was sometimes accepted as the date of death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipman Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Just had a quick look at this and not certain but if this is the same man, it looks like Burnell? Click Click If am wrong, just ignore me. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 The citation for his DCM can be found here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Am I the only one who thinks that this fellow on the left looks very similar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 26 minutes ago, FROGSMILE said: Am I the only one who thinks that this fellow on the left looks very similar? There is is a good resemblance there for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Didn’t see Skipman’s post earlier, nice find Mike. Robert’s 3 digit service number (781) looks to have been issued sometime between 5th February 1914 (724) and the 7th August 1914 (800) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 1 hour ago, jay dubaya said: There is is a good resemblance there for sure The picture is ostensibly for sale via pic-clic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breame1 Posted 30 June , 2019 Author Share Posted 30 June , 2019 1 hour ago, jay dubaya said: There is is a good resemblance there for sure Named or unknown soldiers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 I haven’t seen the listing, Frogsmile has but I suspect it to be unnamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorporalPunishment Posted 30 June , 2019 Share Posted 30 June , 2019 Sorry if I'm upsetting the apple cart but the man in the opening post is not 9th Lancers, he is 16th Lancers. The angle of the lance pennons is the clear giveaway. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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