SDGW Lookup request

[eilish67]

Can somebody please do a check for Tom Weatherhog in the SDGW. Gunner 99463 RHA/RFA. He was born in Lincolnshire but Im curious to find where he enlisted and any other little tidbits there might be.

Im actually interested in any other Weatherhog/gs if there aren't too many.

Thanks heaps

Ann

Sydney, Oz

[chaz]

Hi Ann

only the two and no officers

[chaz]

2nd

[chaz]

although 5 on cwgc site with 3 with extra g nome with s

[stevemfc]

hi ann have the following BORN SOTBY LINCS(1901)CENSUS ENLISTED LINCOLN RESIDENCE BARKWITH LINCS SERVED IN B/BTY 15THBDE WAS AGED 15 IN 1901 CENSUS SON OF JOHN/HARRIET OF SOTBY LINCS IF YOU NEED ANY MORE INFO LETME KNOW OK

[Kath]

Tom - Enlisted: Lincoln

Res. Barkwith, Lincs.

KIA: F&F

Fred WEATHERHOG

Lincs. Reg. 5th. Bn

Pte. 3239

Bn Louth, Lincs.

Enlisted: Louth

KIA: F&F 16/08/15

WEATHERHOGG, Joseph Queen's Own(RoyalWest Kent Regt)

L/Cpl. G/30636

Bn Islington, Mddx

Enlisted: Holloway, Middx.

DoW F&F 1/10/18

Formerly 6568 London Regt.

WEATHERHOGG, William Harry Lincolnshire Regt. 4th. Bn.

L.Cpl. 201906

bn. Deeping, Lincs.

Enlisted:Spalding

KIA F&F 15/4/18

Kath.

[eilish67]

Thanks guys!

Information very helpful, appreciate you all taking the time.

Ann

Sydney, Oz

[Steve Bramley]

Ann,

Fred Weatherhog was a Private in the 1/5th Battalion Lincs Regt. He was born in Louth, Enlisted at Louth between 29.08.14 and 03.11.14, and lived in Watts Lane, Louth. He was in B Company. On the 16th August 1915 the 1/5th were holding the line near to Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient. They were due to be relieved that night by the 1/4th Leicestershires. Two men were killed on the 16th, the other man being Pte 1442 Charles Burrows of Rudland Road Skegness. There were also ten men wounded.

One man was killed and six others wounded at 6.15 p.m. when a solitary 'whiz-bang' landed directly in trench 47s (support). Pte Burrows is also commemorated on the Menin Gate. It is probable that both Burrows and Weatherhog would have received proper burials close to where they fell, but their graves may have been lost in subsequent fighting over the same land.

Interestingly a small article in the Louth and North Lincs Advertiser a couple of months later named a young lady who was contesting Fred Weatherhog's will. Also interesting that CWGC have Fred's date of death wrong.

Regards,

Steve.

[bloxwichteam]

I have a Thomas Weatherhog who served as a driver for the Red Cross https://vad.redcross.org.uk/Card?hosp=bloxwich&page=2&id=217372 also there is a record for him on IWM's lives of the great war https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4667159 but I know nothing else about him.

Neither do I know anything about a Percy Weatherhog who was named as enlisting in our church magazine on 1/8/1916.

Both are interesting to me as they are both from Bloxwich in the West Midlands.

I would be interested in any details you have of these men.

I have them listed on my web site http://bloxwichteam.wixsite.com/bloxwich-remembers/copy-of-ww1-enists-v

 

George