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25th (Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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Sgt. Robert Read DCM. 25th (Welsh Horse) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.31st Oct 1917) My great-uncle, Robert Read, enlisted along with three of his brothers in 1915. They were a family of butchers owning a business in Blaengwynfe, Glamorganshire.
During his service, Robert was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and then was awarded the DCM for going to save a wounded officer whilst under fire although he himself had been shot in the knee and the side of his body. He was later redeployed after recovering from his injuries, but was killed in action during the third, successful, attempt at taking Beersheba in what was then Egypt and is now Israel.
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Pte. Frederick William White 25th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.21st Oct 1917) Frederick White was the youngest sibling of my grandmother Annie White (5 children in total). Their parents were Robert White and Annie.
Frederick and his siblings were born in Walton on the Hill Liverpool, where their father had a dry salting business.
By 1901 the whole White's family have moved from Liverpool to Chirbury Shropshire. Robert now ran the Herbert Arms Hotel and farmed. As Frederick was late 20's when he signed up he was possibly at home helping on the farm and in the hotel.
His closest in age brother Charlie called his first born son Frederick. This Frederick was always known as Fred, so possibly my great uncle went by the same name. Family story goes that he was riding camels went out in Gaza, I have not found any information to confirm this as yet.
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Pte. George Henry Woods 25th (Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers George Woods served with 25th (Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers with the MEF. He was formerly Pte 67 with the 1/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry. His medals were lost or stolen.
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Sgt. Alfred Boyes 25th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.30th November 1917) Alfred Boyes was born on 26th November 1890. He was the son of John and Margaret (née Thomas) Boyes, Denbigh.
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Pte. George Smith 25th (Montgomeryshire & Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.18th Sep 1918) George Smith was killed in action 18th September 1918, aged 25 and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, of Hopton Heath, Aston-on-Clun, Salop.
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Sgt. William Herbert Waring VC, MM. 25th (Montgomery and Welch Horse Yeomanry) Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers (d.8th Oct 1918) Wiliam Waring died of wounds on the 8th of October 1918, aged 33 and is buried in the Ste. Marie Cemetery in France.
An extract from the "London Gazette," dated 31st Jan., 1919, records the following:- "He led an attack against enemy machine guns and, in face of devastating fire from the flank and front, rushed a strong point single handed, bayoneting four of the garrison and capturing twenty others with their guns; then under heavy shell and machine gun fire, he re-organized his men, led and inspired them for another 400 yards, when he fell mortally wounded."
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Sgt. Ernest Larwood MM. 25th Batallion Royal Welch Fusiliers (d.8th Sept 1918) Ernest Larwood was born in Yarmouth Norfolk 1898 but the family moved to London. He originally enlisted in Middlesex Regiment S/16102 and won the Military Medal.
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