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1/1st Battalion, West Somerset Yeomanry 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 If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 1/1st Battalion, West Somerset Yeomanry? There are:5234 items tagged 1/1st Battalion, West Somerset Yeomanry available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 1/1st Battalion, West Somerset Yeomanry during the Great War 1914-1918. Lock John James Mansfield. Tpr. Tolley Bertram Gordon. Cpl. 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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.   Cpl. Bertram Gordon Tolley 1st/1st West Somerset Yeomanry Bertram Tolley was born in 1885 in Reeds & Hamlets Kingsnympton the son of James Fisher Tolley and Dinah Hulland Adams. He along with the rest of the family moved from Kingsnympton to Upottery Nr. Honiton in 1895 to Lambpark farm. In 1903 he joined the West Somerset Yeomanry, todays TA. When war broke out in 1914 he was moblised and sent to Colchester for training, the West Somerset Yeomanry were attached to the Hussars. He sailed on the RMS Olympic from Liverpool in September 1915, the West Somerset Yeomanry were attached to the Hussars, and saw action in Suvla, Gallipoli. Initially they were to dig trenches but by November they were fighting in the front line having taken over the Anzac trenches, they were evacuated in late November, early December, to Alexandria Egypt. On his return to the UK, Bertram asked to be discharged and this was granted due to the number of years of service he had done prior to the war. He lived at Kings Lease in Upottery until at least 1919, this was another property attached to Lambpark farm. In 1917 he married Mary Ellen Dimond, formally of Gordhayes Farm Upottery, in Bermondsey London, the reason being Mary's sister Elizabeth Pearcy lived in London but were about to move to Chelows Park, estate which Tom Pearcy had purchased. Bertram and Mary lived at Old Chellows, Nr. Lingfield, Surrey, from around 1919/20, this was part of the estate owned by Tom and Elizabeth Pearcy. Mary and Bertram lived here until the untimely death of Mary in 1928. Tom and Elizabeth had returned to London in the early 30's due to financial losses endured by the crash, they died there in 1940 but are buried in the same grave as Mary Ellen Tolley, in Lingfield. Bertram then moved and purchased Brick Kiln Farm in Great Totham Nr. Maldon Essex, in 1929. He had been billeted near here when he was called up for WW1 service. He later sold this around 1937/38 to the Keyes family, he was still at Great Totham in Kelly's directory at this time, and moved to 41 North Street this appears to have been lodgings according to the 1939 register listed as a retired farmer. He later purchased and moved to 37 Church Street Maldon, Essex, he then worked for the council as a recreation ground attendant. Bertram died at the age of 65 in 1950 at Maldon Hospital. He left his money and property to his brother Fred, who lived in Boreham a few miles away. Bertram was buried in Maldon Cemetery in London Road, Essex in Row h43 v78 plot 6615 on the 17th March 1950. There is no headstone. Simon Tolley Add to this record.   Tpr. John James Mansfield Lock Crewkerne Sqn 1st/1st West Somerset Yeomanry 698 Private John James Mansfield Lock was a Trooper with the 1st/1st West Somerset Yeomanry and Sapper 229th Brigade Signals Section, Divisional Signals Company Royal Engineers, 74th (Yeomanry) Division Jack Lock joined the West Somerset Yeomanry on the 3rd March 1913 at Crewkerne, Somerset. He attended two summer camps, with his own horse on Salisbury Plain in May 1913 and at Porlock in May 1914. The Regiment was embodied on the 5th August 1914 and was soon deployed to Essex on anti-invasion duties. The WSY finally deployed overseas in the infantry role, landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 9th October 1915. They were evacuated from Gallipoli with the rest of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force the WSY landed at Alexandria, Egypt on 31st of December 1915. The WSY served in Eygpt against a native rebellion and it was in January 1917 that the WSY became the 12th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry. On the 21st February 1917 Jack was transferred to the Royal Engineers as a member of the Brigade Signals Section. The 74th (Yeomanry) Division served with distinction in General Allenby’s Palestine campaign against the Turks and was still engaged in operations there when the German March 1918 offensive was launched on the Western Front. The Division was moved to France and part of the desperately needed reinforcements from Palestine. The Division was fully engaged in the final 100 days. Jack was discharged from the Army in July 1919 and returned to Somerset to become a farmer as many generations of his family had done before him. He passed away peacefully in his sleep in Sept 1979 when I was 12 years old. He talked briefly to me about his experiences, showing me a few photos from his time in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine. He never spoke of his service to my father his son and gave me his three campaign medals, still in their boxes having never been worn. He lost many of his good friends and was clearly deeply effected by his experiences, my Grandmother said he often experienced dreadful nightmares. As a Linesman in the Signals Troop it would have been his job to have repaired severed telephone lines, cut by artillery fire, often whilst still under fire. Nick Lock Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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