British Roll of Honour (WWI)

[nshighlander]

Hi

I found this book today at a yard sell.It`s white and purpel cover.May British and Canadian names plus pictures.Does any know of this book.No author.

Cheers

Thanks for the help.

Dave

[David Blue]

Is this it?

If so, I have always had the same questions...Mainly why were those show in this book selected, and who published it?

I bought mine many years ago, and it has helped me in my research many time.

Good find!

regards

David

[nshighlander]

That`s it.Anyone have an idea?Thanks for the pic Dave.Is there anything you don`t have?

Cheers

Dave

[rflory]

I have three of them, all different, and I have no idea how many different volumes were printed. It appears that they were sold on subscription and when they had enough biographies they put them in a volume. Here are the names of the men on the first page of each of my volumes: Lieutenant C K Anderson, Acting Captain Douglas J. Aldridge, and Major Norman Macleod Adam. Do your volumes have the same starting names or are they different? Regards. Dick Flory

[MartinWills]

There were about 13 different volumes in this series. They were "by subscription" and have the air of vanity publishing - whether realtives simply subscribed or paid a premium I do not know. Certainly they are not very common. Do be careful with copies as the colour does run with the slightest damp.

As for the information I have found that it is not necessarily very accurate.

Martin

[nshighlander]

Hi Dick

Mine has Major Adam.Plus the ink has run on mine.

Cheers

Dave

[David Blue]

Dick,

Mine has Lieut. Dudley Alan Herbert Acheson

Wouldnt it be great to have the whole set!?

David

[rflory]

David: Does your volume have any Royal Artillery officers in it. Is so, I would appreciate knowing their names. Regards. Dick

[David Blue]

Dick,

I know it has at least one: Lieut. Harold Stratton Matthews 1st Brigade CFA

(I have his 1914-15 Trio, Memorial Cross & Scroll)

A quick flip through shows also:

Lieut. H. L. McNaughton RFA

Lieut. M. A. P. Noble RFA

Hope that helps,

David

[rflory]

David: Thank you. A little more information for my database. Regards. Dick Flory

[Kate Wills]

We have Lt. C K Anderson as well and the ink has not run!

For some reason these volumes, beautifully produced as they are, seem to sell for "silly money" and we have seen copies between £100 and £200. They are a lovely thing to have but can be pricey unless you are lucky.

Here are the names from our volume (which Dick also has).

Kate

Lt C K Anderson Royal West Kent Regt

Cpl John Frederick Andersson 10th Highland Light Infantry

Lt Basil Claudius Ash 2nd Sherwood Foresters

Commander Charles F Ballard R N HMS Formidable

Major James Barrow 7th Cameron Highlanders

Capt John Henry Strude Batten Kings (Liverpool) Regt

Lt Robert Philip Behrens 2nd South Wales Borderers

2/Lt Hastings F Boles 17th Lancers (attd. RFC)

Lt Henry Joseph Burke 1st South Staffordshire Regt

2 Lt Frederick Bonham Burr 3rd Worcestershire Regiment

Col Henry Townsend Butcher Royal Field Artillery

Capt C E W Bland Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Capt The Hon. Ernest William Maitland Molyneux Brabazon DSO 2nd Coldstream Guards

Capt Edward Henry Brocklehurst 6th Liverpool Regiment TF

Capt George Clark Briggs 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers

Capt G Cuthbert 8th Middlesex

Capt Arthur Craven Charrington 1st Royal Dragoons

2nd Lt Harold Percy Clarke 6th (att. 2nd) The Rifle Brigade

2nd Lt Algernon Percy Clarke 1st/23rd London Regt. TF

Major Hubert Francis Crichton 1st Irish Guards

2nd Lt Cyril A W Crichton 3rd London Regt. Royal Fusiliers. TF

Lt Edward Charles Daun 2nd Royal Sussex Regt (Asst. Adj.)

Capt W Richard Aston Dawes Wiltshire Regt

2nd Lt H G S Delepine Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Lt-Comm Edward Ogle Disney Royal Navy

Major Thomas Philip Godman Dorrington Royal Dragoons

Col. Adrian Grant Duff C.B. 1st Black Watch

Capt Rosslyn Curzon Evelegh 52nd Ox. & Bucks Lt. Infantry

2nd Lt D L De T Fernandes Beds Regiment

Lt Col Herbeert Maxwell Finch DSO 2nd Royal Berks

2nd Lt Geoffrey Herbert Fisher 8th Sherwood Foresters

Lt Col Laurence Fisher-Rowe 1st Grenadier Guards

Capt Alan Fowler Queens Own Cameron Highlanders

Lt Cecil Dashwood Milman Fowler 1st Queens Royal West Surrey Regt

2nd Lt Wilfred Armstrong Fox 1/4th Lincolnshire

Capt Thomas Brittain Forwood 2nd Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regt

Lt Edmund Lionel Frost 4th South Lancs

Lt William Hyde Eagleson Gordon 8th Gordon Highlanders

Capt Lachlan Gordon-Duff Gordon Highlanders

2nd Lt Ivan Hamilton Learmonth Gilchrist 2nd Northumberland Fusiliers

Capt Sir James Ogilvie Grant 5th Cameron Highlanders

Capt E M Grantham 3rd Lincolnshire Regt

Capt Francis Octavius Grenfell VC 9th Lancers

Capt Riversdale Nonus Grenfell attd. 9th Lancers

Midshipman S G Hancock HMS Viknor

Capt Lord Arthur John Hamilton Irish Guards

Lt J C Henderson Hamilton 9th Black Watch

Lt Gerald Percy Hall 2nd Highland Light Infantry

Maj Archibald Bellairs Higgon L d'Honneur Royal Field Artillery

2nd Lt D E Hodge Suffolk Regt

Maj Henry Charles Walter Hoskyns DSO Lincolnshire Regt

Capt S F A A Hurt Royal Scots Fusiliers

2nd Lt Aubrey Gordon Irving Royal Engineers

Brevet-Major H Cecil Johnson DSO Kings Royal Rifle Corps

Capt Robert Warren Johnson RN HMS Cressy

Lt D Kerr 14th Cheshire Regt

2nd Lt Thomas Pakenham Law 2nd Irish Guards

2nd Lt Alan Langlands 1st South Wales Borderers

2nd Lt F H Lambert 1st Hampshire Regt

Capt Malcom Leckie DSO Royal Army Medical Corps

Lt Gerald Lomax 3rd Welsh Regiment

Capt Charles Graeme Lutyens East Lancs Regt

Capt John Addis Markham 1st East Yorks Regt

Lt Charles Herbert George Martin 3rd Monmouthshires

2nd Lt E A Matthews Northants

Capt William McLeod McMillan Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Capt Alexander Nicol Milne 6th Manchesters

Lt J D G Miller 9th Black Watch

Lt Eric Elsdale Molson 3rd Royal Scots

Lt William Brian Mortimer 4th Durham Light Infantry

Lt Edmund Mortimer Northumberland Fusiliers

Capt John Francis Mott 2nd Yorks and Lancs Regiment

Lt Col The Hon. George Henry Morris Irish Guards

Capt W S Montgomery 6th The Liverpool Rifles

Capt W E Murray 1st Gordon Highlanders

Capt Edward Graham Mylne 1st Irish Guards

Major Harry Nickson 1/4th Loyal North Lancs Regt

Lt Charles Francis Nunneley 3rd Northumberland Fusiliers

Lt Robert Evelyn Orlebar 2nd Middlesex Regt

Capt C G W Peake Licolnshire Regt

Lt Commander J S S Penrose HMS Bulwark

Capt B L Perry Monmouthshire Regt

Lt Evelyn Walter Copland Perry Royal Flying Corps

2nd Lt T C Pearson 2nd Bedfordshire Regt

2 Lt William Murray Porritt 3rd South Lancashire Regt

Lt Geoffrey Cowper Spencer Pratt RH & RFA No 14 (Hqtrs) Anti-Aircraft Sect

Lt F G Prichard East Yorkshire Regt

Lt R G Prichard Suffolk Regt

Lt Harry Noel Leslie Renton 9th Kings Royal Rifle Corps

Lt John Stanser Rich 3rd (att. 1st) Kings Liverpool Regt

Major William James Rowan-Robertson 1st Kings Shropshire Light Infantry

Capt A W Robertson-Glasgow 39th Garwhal Rifles

Major Andrew Roddick Essex Yeomanry

Lt Col Henry Louis Rosher Dorset Regt

Lt W B R Rhodes-Moorhouse VC Royal Flying Corps

2nd Lt T F C Salt 11th South Wales Borderers

Capt Robert Montefiori Sebag-Montfiori Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles

George Schack-Sommer 12th Artirsky Hussars

Lt J V Scudamore Royal Fusiliers

2nd Lt Philip Haldane Shaw 8th Black Watch

Lt Col Herbert Stoney Smith DSO 1st Leicestershire Regt

Capt George Smith 6th Gordon Highlanders

Lt Charles Noble Stacey 7th Middlesex Regiment

Lt Col John Raymond Evelyn Stansfield DSO 2nd Gordon Highlanders

2nd Lt Leonard H Stern 13th London Regiment (Kensigntons)

Capt Ronald Walter Sutherland Stiven 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers

Lt Gordon Noel Balfour Swinley 3rd (attd. 2nd) Kings Own Scotish Borderers

Major George Dighton Probyn Swinley 14th (KGO) Sikhs, Indian Army

Capt Ainslie Douglas Talbot 1st Lancashire Fusiliers

Lt Christopher Cecil Tower MA FRGS Essex Yeomanry

Lt Commander Richard Chase Turner RN HMS Pegasus

Lt William Stuart Turner 10th Scottish Kings Liverpool Regt

Lt Frederick Harding Turner 10th Scottish Kings Liverpool Regt

Lt Arthur William Winterton Turnour 2nd The Rifle Brigade

2nd Lt John Collett Tyler Royal Field Artillery

The Hon. Frederick Ivor Thesiger Royal Artillery

Lt Robert West Thornton 4th The Royal Fusiliers

Capt Edward Gerald Mylton Thornycroft Kings African Rifles

Capt Cecil Francis Harvey Twining Hampshire Regt

Capt John Franks Vallentin VC 1st South Staffordshire Regt

Lt Col Charles Augustus Vivian 15th Ludhiana Sikhs

2nd Lt Archibald Charles Mark Walsh Royal Horse Artillery

Brevet-Major Philip Stafford Gordon Wainman 6th (Attd. 2nd) Worcestershire Regt

Lt R Walmsley Yorkshire Regt

2nd Lt Edmund Basil Walker Royal West Kent Regt

2nd Lt Horace Holmes Watkins 3rd (attd. 1st) South Wales Borderers

Capt Vivian Holmes Watkins 1/2nd Monmouthshire Regt

Capt A St. John M Warrand Black Watch

Capt Lionel West 8th London Regt

2nd Lt Walter de Winton 3rdf Coldstream Guards

2nd Lt William Spencer Joseph Wolseley 3rd East Lancs Regt

Capt The Lord Worsley Royal Horse Guards

Gentleman Cadet Arthur Guy Worthington Indian Army

Lt Kenneth Herbert Clayton Woodroffe 6th (Sp. Res) The Rifle Brigade

2nd Lt Sidney Clayton Woodruffe VC 8th The Rifle Brigade

2nd Lt I N Woodiwiss 1st (Attd. RFC) Lincolnshire Regt

2nd Lt George Clinton Wright 2nd Devonshire Regt

[ianw]

It would seem an ideal project for someone to get all the volumes together, digitise them and produce a CD Rom or DVD. I wonder how many names would be covered by all the volumes ?

[Simon_Fielding]

Kate - any chance of the details on the 'Viknor' Midshipman please??

Simon

Sorry about the size of my avatar - it's the best I can do!!

Ooer missus!!

Simon

[Kate Wills]

Simon,

Yes - though could you please bear with me, as I don't want to slam the book onto a photocopier, so the obvious alternative is a digital photo. Now, I can take digital photos, it is the next bit that foxes me, so your request will form part of my digital education.

Also, could you let me have your postal address via PM, as I have the promised piece on Mott of the Artists Rifles.

[christine liava'a]

Lt W B R  Rhodes-Moorhouse VC  Royal Flying Corps

If these were vanity books, it would be interesting to know what is said about Rhodes-Moorhouse. Does it include the fact that he was 1/2 Maori?

[Kate Wills]

No Christine, it does not mention that fact. It mentions his father, but not his mother (although this is the case with many of the entries). By the time of his death he was married with a daughter, and his entry ends with some of the cerrespondence his wife received from his friends and colleagues.

Can you tell us something about his Maori family?

[Conor Dodd]

How rare are these books and how much do the fetch ?

[Clive Maier]

... By the time of his death he was married with a daughter, and his entry ends with some of the cerrespondence his wife received from his friends and colleagues. ...

Rhodes-Moorehouse had an infant son who was to die 25 years later when his Hurricane was shot down over Tunbridge Wells. The aircraft crashed near Southborough but Willie Rhodes-Moorhouse DFC is not listed on the Southborough memorial. Rhodes-Moorehouse senior was one of the very few Great War dead to be repatriated. Father and son are buried side by side in the grounds of the family home in Dorset.

[bernardmcilwaine]

there was one of these going on e.bay the other day,i dont know if its still up for grabs[not looked],but i think the binding was red not purple,bernard

[FredJCarss]

Cant find it.

Guess someone else was lucky

Fred

[Jim Strawbridge]

Mine starts with Captain Arthur Addenbrooke, R.War.R. So between us we have five of the volumes which for ease of listing has the first entry as :-

Capt. A Addenbrooke

Lt. C.K. Anderson

Act. Capt. D.J. Aldridge

Major N.M. Adams

Lt. D.A.H. Acheson

Any more?

[archangel9]

Reviving an old topic here

Kate, Any chance of getting the details for "Capt Ronald Walter Sutherland Stiven 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers" ?

Also any Connaught Rangers in these volumes?

Cheers.

John

[Patrick H]

Kate, is there any more information on

Lt Christopher Cecil Tower MA FRGS Essex Yeomanry

Is he from the Tower family of South Weald

Many thanks in advance

Patrick

[Peridot]

From recollection there was another similar series called "The National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918", or are these the same ones?

Peridot

[Old Owl]

Hi,

No, these are definitely two totally different publications. The British Roll of Honour was a very high quality publication and all entries were paid for by the deceased officer's family. Certain officers do have entries in more than one volume and by that I mean in volumes which are not identical, if you see what I mean!! I can only assume that these duplicate entries were made by a further subscription from the families involved to boost and aid publication of subsequent volumes which were short of subscribers? I believe that entries for some officers do appear in up to five different volumes, although these numbers make up a very small minority.

The National Roll contains entries which are mainly for survivors and have very brief service details, medal entitlements and home addresses. There are no portraits included and the publication was definitely more of a budget publication and was produced by certain cities and areas unlike the British Roll of Honour.

Robert