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3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
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Those known to have served with3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bowker Herbert Henry. Gdsmn.
- Clarke Noah. Gdsm. (d.18 Oct 1918)
- Clarke Noah. Pte. (d.18 Oct 1918)
- Corbin Louis. L/Cpl. (d.27th Nov 1917)
- Hamilton Frank Sherrat. L/Cpl. (d.24th July 1917)
- Rhodes VC. DCM and bar John Harold. Sgt. (d.27th Nov 1917)
- Scripps Arthur. Pte. (d.3rd Nov 1918)
- Yapp James. Grdsmn. (d.27th Nov 1917)
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Sgt. John Harold Rhodes VC. DCM and bar 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.27th Nov 1917) John Rhodes died on 27th November 1917, aged 26 and is buried in the Rocquigny-Equancourt British Cemetery in France.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 30400, dated 23rd Nov., 1917, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery when in charge of a Lewis gun section covering the consolidation of the right front company. He accounted for several enemy with his rifle as well as by Lewis gun fire, and, upon seeing three enemy leave a "pill-box," he went out single handed through our own barrage and hostile machine-gun fire, and effected an entry into the "pill-box." He there captured nine enemy including a forward observation officer connected by telephone with his battery. These prisoners he brought back with him, together with valuable information."
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Grdsmn. James Yapp 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.27th Nov 1917) James Yapp was killed in action on the 27th of November 1917, aged 22 and is commemorated on The Cambrai Memorial in France.
He was the son of James & Sarah Yapp of 44 Stable Row, Lightmoor, Dawley, Shropshire and had enlisted into the KSLI Territorials (4th Bn.) in June 1913 aged 17 years 10 months and had been discharged as unfit for duty in Oct 1914 only to immediately re-enlist into the Guards
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Gdsmn. Herbert Henry Bowker 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards  Herbert Bowker attested on the 12th of December 1915, Age 25, Height 5ft 9¼in, Chest 35 in. He was mobilised on the 9th of January 1917 and posted to the Depot at Caterham, Surrey two days later. He joined 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards and crossed to France on the 3rd of April 1918
On the 27th of April he attended the Lewis Gun School in the field and returned to his battalion on the 11th of May.
On the 20th of July 1918 he suffered a wound to the scalp and was hospitalised at Frevent, Trouville and Harfleur in France
Henry returned fit to his battalion on the 4th of October 1918. He was granted UK leave from the 5th to 26th of February 1919 and was discharged to Class Z Reserve on the 8th of March 1920 with no pension awarded.
The family was based in Leeds but moved to Blackburn early in the 20th century because Herbert's father had got work as a skilled carpenter in the town centre. Before the war (1911 census) my uncle worked in the cotton industry as a mule piecer cotton. Post WW1 he was employed as a railway passenger porter.
His death on 7th of June 1921 is attributed to Acute Brights Disease (kidneys). He is buried in Blackburn Old Cemetery in a unmarked grave, which also holds his sister Hilda Florence and father Albert William. As a child I remember visiting the grave with his surviving sisters my aunt Ethel and my mother Gertrude. It was summer so I assume it was 7th June or very close.
Herbert's proud parents' living room was dominated by an about A3 size studio photographic photograph of their son in Grenadier Guards dress uniform which had brass lapel badges in the form of a ball shape with flames emerging.
Two medals were in a small box (with other items) in a sideboard drawer. I remember the end of WW1 rainbow ribbon - the other would have been service related. Decades after they were awarded they looked rather neglected.
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L/Cpl. Frank Sherrat Hamilton 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.24th July 1917) Frank Hamilton is buried in the Belgium war cemetery at Dozinghem. He served on the front in France and Belgium, and like most soldiers he was given a service medal for France and one for Belgium, and also the Dead Man's Penny as it was called.
As far as I know he died of shrapnel poisoning, but the rest is a mystery. I do not know what hospital (if that was the case) or if he died on the front. His rank was Lance Cpl, age 23 Grenadier Guards joined up in 1915 and serving until to 24th of July 1917 when he died, as did so many young guys. I am still trying to find information on my great uncle.
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Pte. Arthur Scripps 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.3rd Nov 1918) Arthur Scripps enlisted in Royston and joined the 3rd Battalion The Grenadier Guards. He died in the Capelle region of Flanders near Bapaume, on the 3rd of November 1918, only eight days before the Armistace. He is buried at Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny
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L/Cpl. Louis Corbin 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.27th Nov 1917) My Grandfather, Louis Corbin, died in WW1 on 27 November 1917. He was in the Grendier Guards, 3 Btn. Quite a sad story really. My grandmother, Maggie Corbin, was born in a remote location in the north west corner of Ireland in County Donegal. She had been married and had a child who had died probably in childbirth and in the 1911 Census she was living in Donegal in her parent's house because her husband had already died. That was a pretty poor situation for a woman in those days in that area where there was virtually no employment for men, never mind woman, she was also 37 years of age and her prospects would not have been good, but she was strong woman like the rest of her family.
Anyway, she made her way to London and met Louis Corbin and they married in 1915. Louis Corbin was from Nynehead near Wellington in Somerset. They lived in Battersea and he was based in Wellington Barracks according to their marriage certificate. Louis Corbin went off to war and sent postcards home etc and came back on leave, my grandmother became pregnant and my mother, Eileen Corbin, was born on 6 Dec 1917. Louis Corbin at this time was in France and had taken part in the battle of Cambria and according to the records died on 27 Nov 1917 so he never saw his child and my mother never met him. I don't think my grandmother became aware of his death immediately and she would have no family members in London so must have been quite a shock. According to my mother all my grandmother knew was that the whole battalion had been wiped out and all bulldozed into a mass grave.
It such a shame that these two people could not have lived happily ever after but that's the reality of war. Louis Corbin would have been looking forward to seeing his child in a few weeks but it was not too be.
My grandmother moved back to Ireland with her child and raised her next door to her own parents in Donegal in a beautiful spot. My grandmother lived in Donegal from about 1918 until her death in 1957 and never married again.
The sad thing is my grandmother never knew where my grandfather's grave was, and neither did my mother. All her life my mother never knew where he was buried, she had an idea that he was from a region around South Wales in a place called Port Talbot and travelled there a few times to see if she could find out anything about him but could never find anything. She never even knew where he was buried. There was no Google then. My sister then, in the eighties, tracked him down to Somerset and travelled there. But could find no relatives or where his grave was. My mother died in 1984 and never found out anything about her father, although she searched all her life. You have to remember the area my mother was brought up in in Donegal was very remote, no electricity till the seventies, no running water till the seventies, no phones in houses till late seventies, so when my grandmother was living in the 20's to 40's it was almost impossible to communicate in any meaningful way.
I was named after my grandfather and I wish I knew more about him but of course now we have the Internet and I finally found his grave. Well, I did not, a friend of mine saw my grandfather's medals and typed the info into the Internet and The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website came up and revealed his resting place in the Louvrral Memorial in Northern France. I visited his grave in 2005 and it was sad to think that the poor man had lain alone here for so many years before some one came to visit him, not for the want of caring but because we never knew where he was and I am happy I know where he is now. I have inscribed his name on my mother's gravestone in Donegal so at last they are united in a strange way.
I feel sorry for these people imaging what they went through and not knowing whether they would be alive the next day.
I would like to know more about my grandfather and where he was before the war and where his battalion was based. If anyone could help I would be most grateful. He will be dead 100 years in 2017. It would be great if I could find some of his descendants to let them know he is not forgotten.
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Pte. Noah Clarke 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.18 Oct 1918) Noah Clarke joined up in May 1899. He served in South Africa from Jan to Oct 1902 earning the Kings South African medal with clasp. He then transferred to the army reserve. In March 1911 he was re-engaged. He was mobilised August 1917 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion in France. He was killed in action on the 18th of October 1918. The battalion was fighting on the Hindenburgh Line at the time.
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Gdsm. Noah Clarke 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.18 Oct 1918) Noah Clarke was born 1880 in Cheshire. In 1899 he joined the Grenadier Guards. He then served with the regiment in South Africa (Cape Colony). He then joined the reserves 1902. He re-engaged March 1911 was mobilised August 1914 posted to France October 1917. He was killed 18th October 1918 fighting on the Hindenburgh line. His grave is at St.Hilaire-les Cambria British Cemetery.
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