Ciaran Byrne Posted 5 January , 2006 Share Posted 5 January , 2006 Does anyone have indea what happened to the Lancashire Yeomanry (Hussars) on 10/10/18. having looking up SDGW several of their number were killed at sea. Was of their troopships torpedoed or something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Holmes Posted 6 January , 2006 Share Posted 6 January , 2006 Ciaran, the 1st/1st Lancashire Hussars were amalgamated to the 18th King's on the 24th September 1917 in the 21st Brigade, 30th Division, having been retrained as infantry. On the 10th October they were in the 199th Brigade, 66th Division so your men could possibly be returning after leave or joining the battalion. I hope this helps you. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran Byrne Posted 6 January , 2006 Author Share Posted 6 January , 2006 Ah, thanks for that. I know that a lot of Yeomanry units were rushed to France as from August to act as Brigade cavalry for the various Infantry brigades, I thought that some disaster might have befallen the regiment when it sailed to France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 6 January , 2006 Share Posted 6 January , 2006 Ciaran At a guess, they were on board the SS Leinster which was the mail packet boat between Ireland and Anglesey. One of my Stockport chaps drowned. I havnt fully researched him yet, so only have sketchy details, but the possible link is he was also Yeomanry (Westmoreland). The Manchester Guardian, 11/10/18 "Leinster was torpedoed and sunk this morning on the voyage from Kingston to Holyhead. There were some 700 people on board and over 400 are missing. The boats were got out and some of the passengers were taken off then. Other were picked up from rafts. Some of them were on the rafts and hour before they were rescued. Destroyers and other naval craft went to the help of the leinster people. Men, women 7 children were struggling in the water, others clinging to the rafts and bodies and wreckage were floating about." The 4th engineer, a Mr Jones, had told the Guardian that the first torpedo hit the vessel forward, near the mail sorting office and the second, a couple of minutes later, hit midships. My understanding is that the ship owners (City of Dublin Steam Packet Compnay) had been warned it might be a target and had made several requests for a naval escort. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Caldecott Posted 7 January , 2006 Share Posted 7 January , 2006 Hi, Is this the same Regiment? Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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