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10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
10th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was raised in the City of London in August 1914 as an independent unit named The Stockbrokers Battalion. In September 1914 they joined 54th Brigade, 18th (Eastern) Division in the Colchester area, when it was raised as part of Kitchener's Second New Army, and became Army troops in the same division in October. In March 1915 the 10th Fusiliers transferred to 111th Brigade, 37th Division, moving in April in Cholderton on Salisbury Plain where the division was concentrating and proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on the 30th of July 1915 and concentrating near Tilques. They went into action in The Battle of the Ancre. In 1917 they fought in The First Battle of the Scarpe, including the capture of Monchy-le-Preux, The Second Battle of the Scarpe and The Battle of Arleux. They were in action during the Third Battles of Ypres. In 1918 They were in action on The Somme, in the Battles of the Hindenburg Line and the Final Advance in Picardy. At the Armistice the Division was in the area of Le Quesnoy. Demobilisation began on Boxing Day and was complete by 25 March 1919.
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1st March 1918 Extracts from the Diary of Brevet-Colonel G.S.collison, D.S.O. Pt.10.
1st March 1918 Extracts from the Diary of Brevet-Colonel G.S.collison, D.S.O. Pt.11.
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Those known to have served with10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Benge Cecil John. Sgt.
- Benge Cecil John. Sgt.
- Blake Harry Douglas. Pte (d.8th Dec 1915)
- Brash Albert Carlisle. Pte. (d.25th April 1917)
- Brown James Harrison. L/Cpl. (d.26th Apr 1917)
- Drughorn William Frederick. Pte. (d.15th July 1916)
- Duke MM and bar Oriel St.Arnaud. Sgt.
- Elliott George. Pte. (d.9th Oct 1918)
- Fowles Charles Henry. Pte. (d.23rd Apr 1917)
- Howard Robert Percy. L/Cpl. (d.17th Nov 1916)
- Marshall Leonard Charles. Pte.
- Meadowcroft MM. Ernest Foale. Pte.
- Mills Alfred. Fus.
- Miners Jack Conway. Sgt
- Norman David. Pte. (d.28th Oct 1918)
- Parker Edward George. Pte. (d.25th August 1918)
- Prentice MM. Walter. Sjt.
- Proctor Frank Arthur. Pte. (d.25th August 1918)
- Rance William Charles. Pte. (d.23rd Apr 1917)
- Rance William Charles. Pte. (d.23rd April 1917)
- Rose Albert Samuel. Private (d.26th May 1916)
- Saunders Edwin John. Pte. (d.31st Aug 1918)
- Sermons Arthur Frank. Pte. (d.12th Feb 1916)
- Sharp Christopher Maurice. Capt.
- Sharp Percival Maurice. Cpt.
- Uwins MM. William Cecil. WO2.
- West George Fredrick. Pte. (d.9th April 1917)
- Wombwell Harry. Pte. (d.8th Oct 1918)
- Wooler James Cleave Todd. Pte. (d.14th Sept 1918)
- Wooler James C. T.. Pte. (d.14th Sep 1918)
- Wooler James C.T.. Pte. (d.14th Sep 1918)
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Sgt. Oriel St.Arnaud "Konks" Duke MM and bar 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers  Oriel St.Arnaud Duke was the second son of Mansergh Pace and Emily Duke. He was known by the family as "Konks". He was born on 22 June 1896 in Montserrat, British West Indies, the second eldest of ten children. The Colonial Directory records that Oriel entered government service in May 1913 when he was still 16 years old in the administration of St.Kitts-Nevis. He may have been inspired to join up by his elder brother Valentine who had joined the navy in 1911. His other brothers were too young to join up.
Oriel volunteered (although he was exempt from conscription being domiciled in the Dominions). He enlisted in the British West India Regiment and was a Lance Corporal in 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers when he was awarded the M.M. & bar. He ended the war as a sergeant. About 16,000 enlisted from the West Indies.
The 10th Battalion’s War Diary gives us some insight to the occasion on which the Military Medal was awarded. On 28th October 1917 the Diary reads:
“The Corps Commander awarded the Military Medal to the under mentioned:-
B Coy No STK 1857 L/Cpl. O.St.Arnaud Duke ....for courage and devotion to duty Septr. 27th to Octr. 6th 1917, East of Ypres.â€
This was the Third Battle of Ypres. The 10th Battalion had relieved the 13th Royal Sussex at 2.15am on 27th September. Two days later the Germans attacked the 13th Royal Fusiliers on their right flank near the Menin Road and they were hit by that barrage too. On 1st October the enemy advanced but were repulsed. By the 2nd October the battalion was relieved. This respite was short lived and they were soon back in the thick of it, though not on the front line.
“Our barrage opened at Zero, and the enemy immediately put down a light barrage on our support line, and on support position on front line. This gradually intensified and became the heaviest we experienced in the sector. Men were continually being buried but prompt action saved many casualties.â€
This action appears to have taken place at Polygon Wood, adjacent to the Menin Road. The Battalion suffered 11 casualties – not many compared to earlier engagements: 67 in July 1916 at Longueval during the Battle of Bazentin; 72 in April 1917 during the 1st Battle of the Scarpe; or 61 during the 2nd Battle of the Scarpe. Or during later engagements: 21 on 25th August 1918; 21 on 14th September or the 39 lost at Cambrai on 8th October 1918 .Oriel was demobilised in February 1919 and he departed London for Trinidad & Tobago on 27th March 1919 on board SS Quillota giving his occupation as clerk aged 22. He was accompanied by his brother Mansergh Valentine Duke Lt RN aged 24. Alas, they were not to see their father again as he had died that February.
Oriel returned to the West Indies on demobilisation in 1919. It is not known whether he entered the police service in the Leeward Islands straight away but was established in the service in the early 1920s. The MBE was presented by the Administration of Dominica 1st January 1932 for quelling a riot. By this time Oriel was Inspector of Police, Dominica, Leeward Islands. In 1935, Oriel was awarded the King George V Jubilee medal and indeed he attended the celebrations in London. He was also awarded the King George VI Coronation medal in 1936.
Oriel was posted to Barbados in 1939 as Inspector of Police and Commandant of local forces during WWII. In April 1976 he made his final visit to England where he had arranged a hip operation. There he was able to hold his great-great niece before he went to hospital where he sadly died.
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Pte Harry Douglas Blake 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (d.8th Dec 1915)  Harry Douglas Blake was the Son of Dr Edwin Henry and Adeline Maude Blake, of The Cottage, Sible Hedingham, Essex. He was a day boy at Bancrofts and grew up in a household with his mother and father and older brother Gerald and younger sister Irene. His uncle was also an Old Bancroftian and veteran of the Boer War – Dr P R Blake. He was also the cousin and close friend of Robert Dunham Tibbs - Harry’s mother being Robert Tibbs’ aunt.
The boys were the same age and would spend time in each other’s houses in their youth. Harry lived with his family at ‘Hillside’ Stag lane, Buckhurst Hill. It was here that his father died in 1906. At school Harry played inside right for the school’s football eleven achieving his colours in in the 1908-9 season.
Harry was also a reasonable middle order batsman for the cricket first eleven and capable swimmer in the annual inter-house swimming contests. His chief interest however was Athletics where he was with the likes of Leonard Alfred Whillier on the committee organising the annual games.
The Spring of 1909 brought several athletic laurels. First he was victorious in the crosscountry race for his House that took its course from the school through the forest to High Beech and back. Then came the Athletics Championship on Saturday May 8th 1909. As the Bancroftian reported.
No mean feat, all competed for on the same day in the kit of the Edwardian boy athlete. We are fortunate indeed to have these triumphs and particularly that of his second place in the Mile (Open) immortalised on film. Otherwise Harry played his full part in the school, appearing in plays such as the Merchant of Venice where he played Salanio the friend of Antonio - Frederick Stephen Boshell and Bassanio - Percy Montague Phillips.
That same year 1909 Harry passed his matriculation in the Second Division and left school for a job in the City. Mother and sister Irene were to move to Eastbourne where they opened a guest house.
On the outbreak of war Harry enlisted straight away in the 10th battalion the Royal Fusiliers which was called the ‘Stockbrokers battalion’ as it was predominantly made up of new recruits from the City professions. They initially mustered in the Colchester area as part of Kitchener’s New Army then in the following Spring in the midst of training transferred to Salisbury Plain. So full of talent was the battalion, that questions were asked in the House of Commons suggesting it be used as a reserve from which young officers could be commissioned en masse to make good the officer losses of 1914.
The battalion’s main strength landed at Boulogne and Harry with them on the 31st July 1915, concentrating around Tilques, near St Omer.
From September to the end of 1915 elements of the Battalion were put into the line in the vicinity of Foncquevillers (Funky Villas as it became known to the British Tommy). The village overlooked the German lines around the village of Gommecourt that would feature so heavily in the fighting of the 1st July 1916 on the opening day of the Somme battle.
The work was arduous and dangerous, repairing trenches, hewing timber from nearby woodland, digging out trenches constantly as the increasingly wet weather caused them to subside and the intermittent shelling blew them apart.
In the front line or in the service trenches which led to them snipers kept up a desultory fire picking off those too exposed for safety.
It was here as December closed in Harry met his end. Not as far as can be told in a large planned assault upon the enemy, not on a sprint between the lines taking full advantage of his athletic prowess but in the wet and mud on the 8th December 1915. That his body was recovered suggests his being hit by a sniper’s bullet or lethal shrapnel. His uncle hearing the news wrote to his old school. 
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Pte. David Norman 1st Btn London Regiment (d.28th Oct 1918) David Norman served with the 5th South Staffordshire Regiment, 12th Royal Fusiliers, 10th Royal Fusiliers and 1st London Regiment.
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Pte. William Charles Rance 10th (City of London) Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.23rd April 1917)  William Rance was my great-uncle. He was my paternal grandmother's eldest brother. Sadly, my grandmother died in January 1940 from the effects of TB, and the connection to William was lost. I rediscovered him whilst researching my family history.
William volunteered in October 1915 and after training was drafted to the Western Front. He fought and was injured during the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. After recovering and rejoining his unit, he fought in the (second, I think) Battle of Arras where he was killed on 23rd of April 1917. He was entitled to the 1914 - 1915 Star, General Service and Victory Medals. I don't know if his parents ever claimed them. William is buried in the small Chili Trench Cemetery at Gravrelle in France. Unfortunately, although he has a name marker there, his exact resting place has been lost due to damage done to the cemetery during WW2. His marker records his rank as Private but the National Roll of The Great War records his rank as Lance Corporal as does the write-up in his local newspaper written by his friend Private W Bouchard. I am not sure if the higher rank was a temporary issue or if the official promotion had not been processed at the time of his death and so his memorial recorded him on the lower rank.
Like so many young men killed in WW1, his name has all but disappeared from history.
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Pte. Edward George Parker 10th (Stockbrokers) Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.25th August 1918) Edward Parker served with the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers in WW1. He died 10th of August 1918 aged 18 years and is buried Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension in France. Son of Mrs. Jane Parker, of Monk Soham, Framlingham, Suffolk.
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Pte. Harry Wombwell 10th Btn Royal Fusiliers (d.8th Oct 1918) Harry Wombwell served with the London Regiment and 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers in WW1. He died 8th of October 1918 and is buried Bois-des-Angles British Cemetery at Crevecoeur-sur-l'Escaut in France.
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Sgt. Cecil John Benge 10th (Stockbrokers) Btn. Royal Fusiliers Mt Grandfather, Cecil John Benge served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
I have his medals but no service records
I believe he was wounded twice and married Catherine Ross in Dingwall, Scotland in 1918
They both worked on the buses where as Cecil was very active in the founding of the LTW&GW Union in 1924 with Ernest Bevan.
After the war he lived in Glossop Road, Sanderstead, Surrey until his death
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WO2. William Cecil Uwins MM. 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers My maternal Grandfather William Uwins served in WW1 with the 10th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.
William was awarded the MM in May 1917 and the Bar in August of 1918. I have been trying to find out more about the Battalions' service and his war record but have so far drawn a blank.
My grandfather survived the war to marry and have a family of two boys and a girl (my mother).
He died in 1961 at the age of 66 before I was born.
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Pte. William Charles Rance 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.23rd Apr 1917) William Rance was my Great Uncle and eldest brother of my paternal Grandmother, Edith May Smith.
William was 22 years old when he was killed during the Battle of Arras.
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Pte. Charles Henry Fowles 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.23rd Apr 1917) Charles Fowles rests in the Chili Trench Cemetery, Gavrelle.
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Pte. Frank Arthur Proctor 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (d.25th August 1918) Frank Proctor was born on 2nd of October 1899 in Surbiton. He joined up on 13th of January 1917, aged barely 17, only 5 foot tall, weighing 6 1/2 stone, a mere boy. So very sad.
His younger sister, Nancy, used to talk of him with great affection. He was killed right near the end of the war, at Favreuil, on 25th of August 1918, and is buried at the Railway Cutting Cemetery at Courcelles-le-Comte in France.
His nephew, Clive Strutt, laid a wreath on his grave on the centenary of his death. We wish we could have known him. Rest in Peace, Uncle Frank.
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Pte. Leonard Charles Marshall 6th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Our grandfather Leonard Marshall was educated at Stationers' College and had commenced his banking career prior to WWI.
Enlisting in late 1915 he served in France, where he suffered a serious head injury in late 1916, requiring one month's hospitalisation. This ended his war service.
His injuries meant that he was unable to insure his life, which lead to great family hardship upon his death in 1947.
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Pte. Ernest Foale "Meddy" Meadowcroft MM. 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Ernest Meadowcroft was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field following D Coy's raid on night of 31st of August, 1st of September 1917.
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Pte. George "Douglas" Elliott 10th (Stockbrokers) Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.9th Oct 1918) My great grandfather George Elliott, also known as Douglas was with the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He died during the war and is buried in the Beaulencourt British Cemetery Ligny-Thilloy, France.He was married in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada to Irene Vincent while stationed there. He moved her to England where they had 4 children. My grandmother was the 4th child, Irene Elliott. Upon his death, my great grandmother and her 4 children moved back to Canada settling in Newfoundland around Woody Pointe. My great grandmother married a Mr Cultler and went on to have 10 more children. I am so very interested in the Elliott side of my family. No one ever kept in touch with the Elliotts from England.
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L/Cpl. Robert Percy Howard 10th (Stockbrokers) Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.17th Nov 1916) Robert Howard's name appears in the Holy Trinity Church, Bow, and I am carrying out research into his and all the names thereon.
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Pte. William Frederick Drughorn 10th (Stockbrokers) Batallion Royal Fusiliers (d.15th July 1916) William Frederick Drughorn (b Rotterdam 8th July 1895) signed up, as a private, soon after war was declared on 4th August 1914, presumably in the City as he joined 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, service no STK76. By 21/8 there were 210 men rising to 1,600 by 27/8.
He was working for his father, (my great grandfather) John Frederick Drughorn (JFD), who was a prosperous shipowner (of Rhine barges) and shipbroker. Father and son had moved from Rotterdam c1901, Drughorn Senior abandoning a wife and a daughter but with his new companion and their four daughters plus William and two sons from the first marriage. Originally they lived in Beckenham together, had a house in Piccadilly and bought Ifield Hall c1913; I have his naturalisation certificate signed by Home Secretary Reginald McKenna. In 1915 JFD was prosecuted for trading with the enemy (probably stitched up by competitors) and fined 1/-; he lost all his Rhine barges to the Germans.
William was killed in action at Pozieres, Somme on 15th July 1916, aged just 21.
In 1922 his father, JFD, was knighted for his considerable charitable work but probably paid Lloyd George's honours broker Maundy Gregory a large sum of money for a baronetcy; that contributed to the collapse of the last ever Liberal government. Why he wanted a baronetcy is a mystery as all his sons were dead by 1922 (I assume he was trying to divorce his wife, who had lost an infant boy to meningitis in 1907 and expected his mistress to marry him and produce a son and heir - he was cited in a highly publicised divorce case); He had married his Dutch girl ((my great grandmother Elizabeth) only in 1906 presumably because the first wife held out for more money in Holland)). The first wife died in Sobibor within a few days of Sir John passing in his bed at Ifield aged 80 in 1943; the Dutch daughter and her husband survived Sobibor and Aushwitz to claim against the estate from 1945 to 1951 as he had left large estate. Two mistresses also claimed!!
William's death caused Lady Drughorn to live apart from Sir John, she in Beckenham and he at Ifield; JFD also had a love nest called the Wigwam in Gorleston on Sea where he built a golf course, still open. He also built Ifield golf course and was a great benefactor of Crawley. William is commemorated six times! His war grave at Pozieres Military Cemetery, the sundial that was at Ifield Hall is now in the family's possesion, on the war memorial in Ifield Church, on the war memorial plaque at The King's School Canterbury, on the Memorial gates to the park in Crawley town centre and on the gravestone of his three brothers (two who predeceased him and one who died in 1919) in Beckenham Cemetery. Douglas Denham St Pinnock
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Sgt Jack Conway Miners 2nd Btn Worcester Regiment Jack Miners was the son of Clara Arnold through her second marriage to Harold Beverley Miners. The couple married in Kidderminster (Clara's home town) in 1886 but moved to London shortly afterwards. Jack was born in Pancras, London circa 1890 and was educated at Wellington House School. In 1911 he was a general merchant.
He enlisted in 10th Btn Royal Fusiliers (Stockbrokers Battalion) in 1914 and went to France with the unit in 1915. In March 1916 he was commissioned into the Worcestershire Regiment and served the rest of the war in that regiment's 2nd Battalion.
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Sgt. Cecil John Benge 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Cecil Benge married Catherine Ross in 1918 in Croydon, she was a clippie with Tillies and my grandfather then became involved with the same company as a Clippie. He was also instrumental with the starting up of the LTWU with Ernest Bevin in 1924. I have no real idea of his service history.
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Capt. Christopher Maurice "Sharpie" Sharp 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt) My grandfather, Captain Percival Maurice Sharp, was in the 10th Royal Fusiliers. He was in Colchester in 1915 when he joined up. He went to France with the Regiment. He went to Amiens and was wounded in the leg. He went back to England where he was told that it would not have to be cut of. He went back to France and served till 1918. After the war he went to Russia to help out against the revolution. He worked for Coutts Bank before the war and again after the Second War. He did a desk job during the Second World War. He became a Canon at Rochester Cathedral. He died in office in 1978 aged 84.
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Cpt. Percival Maurice Sharp 10th Btn. Royal Fusillers My grandfather, Percival Maurice Sharpe, was in the 10th Btn. and was injured at Poziers in Northern France and was hit in the arm. He was told that the arm had to come off but as luck would have it he was sent home to England the arm was saved.
Then he went out again to France he was promoted from Lieutenant to Captain. He served from 1915 - 1918. He survived the War.
In 1918 he went to Russia to help out there to stop the fighting and the revolution. He returned to England. After the war he went back to Coutts then he became a cannon at Rochester Cathedral in Kent until he died in 1978 aged 84 having been born in 1894.
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