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Leicestershire Regiment
Regular Battalions: - 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 3rd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Territorial Force: - 4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 2/4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 2/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 3/4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 3/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Kitchener's New Army: - 1st Garrison Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 9th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 10th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 11th (Midland Pioneers) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 12th (Reserve) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 13th (Labour) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 14th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 51st Graduated Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 52nd Graduated Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
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1206295 L/Cpl. Charles Frederick Yates 1st/5th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.14th Oct 1918) Charles Yates died 14th October 1918 and is buried in the Vadencourt British Cemetery in France.
he was the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Yates, of 16 Seagrave Rd., Sileby, Leicester.
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1206288 Pte. William Buckingham VC 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.15th September 1916) William Buckingham was killed in action on 15th September 1916, aged 29 and is commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial in France.
he was the son of Mrs. A. Buckingham, of 35 York St., Bedford.
An extract from The London Gazette dated 28th April, 1915, records the following:-"For conspicuous acts of bravery and devotion to duty in rescuing and rendering aid to the wounded whilst exposed to heavy fire, especially at Neuve-Chapelle on 10th and 12th March 1915.
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1206023 Pte. Albert Edward Mee 9th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.20th Aug 1917) Albert Mee served with the 9th Leicestershire Regiment.
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264892 L/Cpl. Robert Gutteridge Cowling 4th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.15th Oct 1915) Robert Cowling enlisted into the Army at the Magazine, Leicester, on 31st of August 1914. He was assigned to the 4th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, part of the Territorial Force.
His medical card records that he was 18 years, 6 months and 11 days old on the day of enlisting, that he was 5ft 8 inches in height and weighed 10 stone and 9 pounds. The records also reveal that he had a tattoo on his left arm and that he was an apprentice in the boots and shoes trade.
Robert's war record shows that he was posted to France on 25th of June 1915 and that he was promoted from Private to Lance Corporal on 9th of August 1915. He was wounded and admitted to the Field Ambulance at Fonquieres on 14th of October 1915 and died of his wounds at 7.25am on 15th of October 1915.
He was posthumously awarded the Star British War Medal Victory Medal. His remains are laid to rest at Sailly Labourse Communal Cemetery in France.
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264364 Pte. Thomas W. Curtis MM. 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.14th Nov 1918) Thomas Curtis died in the Giessen POW camp hospital 3 days after the armistice.
His older brother was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, and died in France in 1916
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264133 Pte. John Green 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.29th May 1918) My grandfather John Green was born in Boston Lincolnshire.
He worked on the railway before he joined up at Long Eaton in 1916.
He went to France in early 1916 in the 2nd wave of the Somme offensive.
He was also at Cambrai and Passchendaele.
He went back to the Somme in 1917 and when the German offensive
started in 1918.
His regiment was moved to the Reims area to rest and was involved in the 3rd Battle of Aisne.
Johns was was killed on 29th of May 1918 on Hill 202. He is buried in Hermonville Military Cemetery near Reims and is commemorated on plaque on Derby Railway Station
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263853 Sgt. George Balderson Mitchell CdG. 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment George Mitchell came from Wilford, Nottinghamshire. As a Lance-Corporal in the Leicestershire Regiment he entered the France and Flanders theatre of war on 30th of July 1915. As a Sergeant with the 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, he served as a member of the Special Intelligence Police of the Fourth Army. As a Lance-Corporal in the Royal Fusiliers he was awarded the French Medal of Honour, 2nd Class in Silver with swords (London Gazette 29th January 1919). His last rank and unit on the m.i.c. is given as Acting Company Sergeant Major with the Royal Fusiliers. After the war, still working for military intelligence, he was employed in Barcelona, Spain, possibly in operations to track down military deserters, many of whom ended up in that neutral country.
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263785 Lt. Ambrose Henry Thomas Crowson Leicestershire Regiment Ambrose Crowson was my Great Grandfather.
At the time of the second world war he was the manager of the Birch Coppice colliery, I believe he was living in the Atherstone area at the time.
Ambrose was a former officer of the Leicestershire Regiment during WW1, having been commissioned as 2nd Lt early in 1918.
During the German spring offensive of May 1918 he was captured, suffering from shell shock, in his trench after a heavy and sustained German bombardment.
He was captured on 27th of May 1918, along with some of his fellow 8th Battalion and 4th Battalion officers, and was subsequently interred at the Schweidnitz officers P.O.W. camp in Germany (this is now part of modern day Poland).
He was repatriated in 1919.
I know little of his 2nd World War service, other than his willingness to volunteer once again to 'do his bit'
I know that he had commanded a home guard unit, despite the fact he was working at the coal mine 7 days a week.
I obtained his Home Guard unit information, I'd always believed he commanded the Dorden and Grendon home guard, but this may not be the case.
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263560 Pte. Wilfred Patrick 35th Btn. Machine Gun Corps (d.15th Apr 1918) Wilfred Patrick, was born in Lubenham, Leicestershire, in 1897 and baptised at All Saints Church, Lubenham on 2nd July 1897.
He was the 2nd youngest child of Thomas and Sarah Patrick.
The Patrick family can be traced back to the late 1600s in Lubenham. His father, Thomas was a farm hand labourer who died in 1905 when Wilfred was only 8. Thomas had married Sarah Ann Sayer from Coventry in All Saints Church Lubenham in 1888 and they had 7 children.
In the 1911 Census the family were living in Back Lane (now known as Rushes Lane), with Sarah as the head of the household and working as a weaver in the local factory.
Before the War, Wilfred was employed as a farm hand labourer.
Wilfred enlisted in Market Harborough in the Leicestershire Regiment. At some point he was transferred to 35th Battalion Machine Gun Corps.
The Machine Gun Corps was formed in October 1915, when it was realised that machine guns needed to be in larger units and crewed by specially trained men. The Germans had already shown how effective machine guns were when properly sited and used.
Wilfred Patrick died on 15th Apr 1918 aged 21.
He is buried at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension in the Somme Department, France. The extension to the cemetery contains 1331 Commonwealth burials from WW1, 2 from WW2 and 18 German graves).
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263124 Pte. Sidney Wilfred Harper 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Sidney Harper was wounded in the head by shrapnel in 1917 and hospitalised in Aberdeen. He survived the war, married in 1922 and had 1 son.
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262897 Pte. Jack Middleton 2/5th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Jack Middleton volunteered to join the Army in World War 1.
He served in the Leicestershire Regiment (known as The Tigers). Jack served in France and Flanders with the 2/5th, 1/4th and 6th Battalions.
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262709 Pte. Vincent Taylor 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (d.16th Apr 1918) My Great-Uncle Vincent Taylor's Paybook with his last Will & Testament were returned to his Mother in 1925. A Lady, non-relative, was on holiday in Germany when a German man came forward from the crowd and gave the lady a package, requesting that has she was English could she ensure that this package was returned to the Family. She duly complied, and that is how the kindness of a German citizen ensured that the belongings of Vincent, and his last wishes were returned to Vincent's family five years after the War, to end all Wars.
Vincent was the younger brother of our Granddad Harry Taylor, part of Vincent's story is treasured by relatives, and remembered. He sacrificed his life that we may have our tomorrow. We Shall Remember them. Vincent was killed on the 16th April 1918, we believe at Kemmel Ridge, protecting Ypres, which was not occupied by the Germans. We believe he was killed defending the Line in the battle of Lys in 1918.
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262395 Pte. Hugh Barber 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Hugh Barber was my great-grandfather. Before the war, he played for Manchester City. A gunshot to his leg during the war prevented him playing again. After the war, he ran his own successful business in Broadheath and donated a large sum of money to war veterans.
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261992 Pte. Harold Jackson Wyatt 9th Btn. Essex Regiment (d.18th Oct 1916) Harold Wyatt served with the Leicestershire Regiment and 9th Essex Regiment.
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261181 Pte. Thomas Marshall 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.9th Oct 1915) Thomas Marshall was a relative of mine and I found his grave record in Berles-au-Bois Churchyard Extension in France. He was born in October of 1894 in Loughborough, Leicestershire to Albert Marshall and Sarah Ann Gould. He enlisted on the 15th of August 1914.
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260531 Pte. James Alfred Barnes 8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (d.3rd May 1917) My Grandmother's first husband, James Barnes was killed while serving with the 8th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment.
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260086 Pte. Jack Winson 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment (d.21st July 1918) Jack Winson served with the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment.
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259030 Pte. Sidney George Hickman 3rd Btn. Leicestershire Regiment (d.4th Nov 1918) I know of Sidney's death only from the National Army Museum Soldiers' Effects Records. It seems he enlisted, but died without serving overseas. Sidney's father Henry John Hickman also enlisted. He survived three years' service overseas and died in 1973 aged 94 at High Wycombe.
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258518 L/Cpl. Robert McFarlane Bramley 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Robert Bramley joined up on the 16th of January 1912.
He was recalled on the 5th of August 1914 and arrived in France 9th Sept 1914 and took part in the Battle of the Aisne.
Robert was discharged (Christmas Day) 25th of December 1917.
He was awarded Silver War Badge no. 348038.
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257859 Pte. James William Pawley 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment James Pawley joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and went to Ireland. After that he joined the Leicestershire Regiment. He was discharged as medical unfit.
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