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3rd Battalion, Border Regiment
The 3rd Battalion, The Border Regiment was a reserve battalion, it remained in UK throughout the war as a depot and training unit. At the outbreak of war in August 1914 they were based in Carlisle but moved to Shoeburyness on mobilisation and then in January 1916 to Conway, in November 1916 to Barrow and finally in March 1917 to Great Crosby for duty with the Mersey Garrison.
29th Aug 1914 3rd Borders at Pembroke Dock 3rd Battalion Border Regiment are based at Pembroke Dock on defensive duties.
20th February 1915 Awards published
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
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Those known to have served with3rd Battalion, Border Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Abram Robert. 2nd Lt. (d.26th Oct 1917)
- England James. Pte. (d.23rd June 1916)
- Evans John Francis. Pte. (d.17th Aug 1916)
- Griffiths Robert Handel Mendelsohn. Pte. (d.29th Aug 1914)
- O'Brian James. (d.2nd Sep 1914)
- Parsons Robert William. L/Cpl.
- Taberner John. L/Cpl. (d.19th August 1918)
- Todhunter Jeremiah. A/Cpl.
- Wood Edward. Pte. (d.19th Feb 1917)
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A/Cpl. Jeremiah Todhunter 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Jeremiah Todhunter enlisted in the Border Regiment, at Carlisle on the 15th of September 1902 at the age of 19 years and 6 months.
During his time in the Army, he served abroad in India, from February 1904 to December 1904, and in South Africa, from December 1904 to September 1905.
As a member of the 2nd Battalion in World War One, he was deployed in France from the 25th of November 1914 to 19th of March 1915. During this time, he was wounded in action on the 12th of March 1915 during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (10th - 13th of March 1915), and then transferred to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion which remained in the United Kingdom.
He was was medically discharged on the 14th of September 1915. Despite this, later during the war, in 1917, he attempted to re-enlist, but was denied on medical grounds. Et servivit honeste.
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L/Cpl. John Taberner 3rd Btn. Border Regiment (d.19th August 1918) John Taberner was my grandfather. He served with the Border Regiment 3rd Battalion in WW1 and this appears on my aunt's birth certificate.
John was killed on 19th of August 1918 serving with the Border Regiment as a Lance Corporal. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. I have no other information about him as my mother was a young girl when he died and nothing was spoken about him or other family members.
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Pte. James England 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.23rd June 1916) James England of 15 Sherwood St, Newton died of his wounds on 23rd June 1916. He was the only child of Herbert and Frances England. A colliery banksboy at Tibshelf Colliery in 1911, he enlisted with the Royal Army Medical Corps on his 19th birthday on 20th February 1915 at Chesterfield. Having passed his nursing class in May 1915 he transferred to 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment and in January 1916 to the 2nd Battalion, disembarking in France that same month. He was serving with the 2nd when, on 19th June 1916, he received a gunshot wound to his chest from which he died four days later. His parents travelled to see his grave in 1920 on a pass from the Foreign Office.
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Pte. John Francis Evans 1st Battalion Border Regiment (d.17th Aug 1916) John Evans was born in 1897, he enlisted and trained with C Coy. 3rd Bn., Border Regiment. Posted to France, he transferred to 1st Battalion, Border Regiment. He was then posted to Gallipoli on the 30th of June 1915, where he was wounded in the neck. He returned home on the 3rd of Sept 1915, to hospital. This wound caused his death in 1916 aged 19
having served 1 year and 257 days. John is interred in St Josephs Cemetery Moston, Manchester.
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Pte. Edward Wood 3rd Btn. Border Regiment (d.19th Feb 1917) Edward Wood served with the 3rd Border Regiment.
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James O'Brian 3rd Btn. Border Regiment (d.2nd Sep 1914) Boy soldier James O'Brian 10400 of the 3rd Btn Border Regiment who died on the 2nd September 1914 is buried at Pembroke Dock Military Cemetery.
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Pte. Robert Handel Mendelsohn Griffiths 3rd Btn. Border Regiment (d.29th Aug 1914) Robert Handel Mendelsohn Griffiths was a Boy Soldier who trained as a Musician at Gordon's Boys Home, Woking, Surrey (which was a home for children from impoverished families). This is also where he enlisted. He and a fellow Border Regiment Boy Soldier James O'Brien 10400 were travelling to join their battalion on August 29th 1914, but they never made it. They died as a result of leaning out of the window of their troop train compartment whilst it rapidly passed through Lamphey Station. They were hit by an open carriage door. Griffiths died instantly, and O'Brien died in Tenby Cottage Hospital a few days later. They were both 17 years old, and are both buried in Pembroke Dock Military Cemetery.
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