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Those known to have served with 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) during the Great War 1914-1918. - Barnett Harry. Pte.
- Bryant Richard Ernest. Tpr.
- Carton VC, DSO. Adrian. Lt.Gn.
- Cooper Charles Frederick Leslie. Pte.
- Cornall Richard Norton. L/Cpl.
- Scott John. Pte. (d.3rd July 1917)
- Taysom CdG. Thomas George Willis. Sgt.
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256617 L/Cpl. Richard Norton Cornall 4th Dragoon Guards My father, Richard Cornall was in the 4th Dragoon guards presumably part of the cavalry action at Audrenies right at the beginning of the war
We have no further details except a 1916 Greetings Card from Giessen Prisoner of War camp in 1916 and 2 cards from Holland on 22nd of February 1918 Portvrij and 9th of March 1918 with an address 27 Van Bevernig Shweningen Holland
There is also a photograph of the Irish Prisoner of War Dramatic Club Football team at Limburg 1916 with my dad looking fit and well
They also appeared to put on musical entertainments. I have a programme
Mother told me he was down to 6 stone at the end of the war and took a long time to recuperate before rejoining in the AEC in 1919
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248039 Pte. Charles Frederick Leslie Cooper Royal Irish Dragoon Guards Charles Cooper is my grandfather.
According to the National Roll of the Great War, he saw action at Mons, La Bassee and Neuve Chapelle. He was attached to the 4th Meerut(Indian) Cavalry Division as a guide.
He was wounded by a gunshot to his head in March 1915 and was invalided to England. He was discharged as being medically unfit in October 1915, he obtained the Silver War Badge No 98011 in 1916. I believe he was awarded the Mons Star, the General Service and Victory Medals.
He was born on 1st September 1893 in Battersea, he married Mary Ann Jane Mackintosh on 6th June 1920, and died in February 1954 at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton
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246203 Pte. John Scott 4th Dragoon Guards (d.3rd July 1917) Private John Scott of Morecambe, served with 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) attached to 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers He was killed in action on 3rd July 1917.
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237327 Tpr. Richard Ernest Bryant 4th Irish Dragoon Guards Dick Bryant joined the Irish Dragoon Guards around 1911 at Preston Barracks and with regiment was part of the BEF. He was in Captain Hornby's section at the Battle of Mons on 22nd of August 1914 when they were the first British troops to engage the German Troop of Uhlans.
He was gassed and badly wounded in 1917 at Arras while a mounted runner - needing a metal plate in his skull. He received an honourable discharge in 1920 and eorked for Southern Railway after the war as a ticket collector. He died in Horsham in 1923 of TB.
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213274 Pte. Harry Barnett 4th Dragoons Guards  Harry Barnett enlisted Swansea 30 April 1913. 8091 Private 7th dragoon guards. He went to France with BEF, now he's with the
4th dragoons guard m.g.c 51358 dragoons of the line. I have a couple of pages of his experience of modern war fare. He told me a few things, he was gassed but put a sock in a puddle then held over mouth. His best friend was shot in the head by a sniper, he died right by his side. He once was out in no mans land, he pretended to be dead, and lay still for hours before creeping back to the line. His first action was a shell exploding in yard where horses and men were. He helped pick up pieces of horses and limbs of men. Harry had seen terrible things, men burned and laying dead.I n one village, the mayor was caught giving positions of troops to Germans, he was shot. His only war wound was a black toe nail, his horse
stood on his big toe. Other things you do not hear about, the Germans left
diseased women in towns and villages, so troops were warned not to touch. I can not tell all, it needs an expert to work out where he went, in one paragraph he mentions a coal box, I later found out it was a German shell. Harry survived the war and lived to 89. He only once mentioned firing his machine gun, he said the officer said looking through field glasses, "There's Gerry let them have it", and holding his hands up holding the gun he gestured firing. He gave the impression what a grim and awful waist of life, it all was and never felt comfortable talking about it. His medals look like they have not seen the light of day for years, his Mons star ribbon is still on the card.
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209533 Lt.Gn. Adrian Carton VC, DSO. 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart was a British officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He received the Victoria Cross when he was 36 years old, and a lieutenant-colonel in the 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish) attached to the Gloucestershire Regiment, commanding the 8th Battalion, on 2/3 July 1916, at La Boiselle, France:
"For most conspicuous bravery, coolness and determination during severe operations of a prolonged nature. It was owing in a great measure to his dauntless courage and inspiring example that a serious reverse was averted. He displayed the utmost energy and courage in forcing our attack home. After three other battalion Commanders had become casualties, he controlled their commands, and ensured that the ground won was maintained at all costs. He frequently exposed himself in the organisation of positions and of supplies, passing unflinchingly through fire barrage of the most intense nature. His gallantry was inspiring to all."
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