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Want to know more about the King Edwards Horse ? There are:6620 items tagged King Edwards Horse available in our Library
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Those known to have served withKing Edwards Horse during the Great War 1914-1918. - Affleck MC. Johnson. Lt. 7th Btn.
- Bowker John Ryther Steer. Pte.
- Carter Edwin Righton. Tptr. (d.3rd November 1916)
- Crowley John Nicholas.
- Fahey Frederick O'Brien. Pte
- Fothergill William. Pte
- Hunt Stanley Brookes. Tpr.
- Watt Norman Lindley. 2nd Lt. (d.27th July 1917)
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258706 Pte. John Ryther Steer Bowker King Edwards Horse (Overseas Dominions Regiment) Born the 29th July 1888 in NSW, Australia, John Bowker travelled to London in 1909 to study to become a doctor. There, he joined the Military in 1914, enlisting as a private with King Edward's Horse (Kings Oversea Dominions Regiment). He was discharged from the Military on the 14th December 1918, whereupon he returned to Australia.
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253474 Pte Frederick O'Brien Fahey King Edwards Horse Frederick joined the Army in Trinidad, although unwell with what seemed to be depression. He became more ill as the war developed and was admitted to hospital in London where he met his wife-to-be who was a mental nurse at that time.
The Caribbean roll of honour website said he served in France and Italy and was "gassed".
He survived the war and returned to Trinidad July 1919.
He continued to be treated for depression throughout the rest of his life.
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248867 Lt. Johnson Affleck MC. 7th Btn. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers My father, Johnson Affleck was born in Gateshead in 1886, he was at St Bees from 1900-1903 and, after a period learning pioneering skills went out to Canada in 1906 where he was when WWI was declared.
He joined up in British Columbia but was told his eyesight would probably preclude active service. He resigned, travelled under his own steam to Europe where he enlisted in the King Edward’s Horse as a cavalryman.
In 1916 he was selected for officer training and at the end of 1916 was commissioned into the 7th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers with whom he saw service around Ypres and Passchendaele, service for which he was awarded the Military Cross.
After the war he stayed in the Army escorting German POWs on their marches back to Germany. He was discharged late in 1919 and made his way back to Canada in 1920.
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237737 Tptr. Edwin Righton Carter 1st King Edward's Horse (d.3rd November 1916) Trumpeter Carter was the Son of R. A. Carter, of 13, Somali Rd., Cricklewood, London.
He is buried north-east of the church in the Carlingford (Holy Trinity) Church of Ireland Churchyard in Co. Louth, Ireland.
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231763 2nd Lt. Norman Lindley Watt (d.27th July 1917) Norman Lindley Watt was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford, as was his younger brother Bill. He was born in the Orange Free State at the town of Lindley. Their father, an Irish doctor, had been a Boer Medical Officer in the Boer War, including the siege of Ladysmith. Medical officers were non-combatant but he had been captured by the British.
Norman Watt, like many Southern Hemisphere soldiers, joined King Edward's Horse, and then later transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, as did his brother. Norman was killed in July 1917; he is remembered by inscriptions in Rhodes Hall and in St. Columba's church in Oxford. Bill survived the War although he was badly wounded. Many mementoes of Norman Watt have been kept by his sister, Fay and her family.
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211091 Tpr. Stanley Brookes Hunt King Edward's Horse My grandfather was Stanley Brookes Hunt 1898-1955, my Dad has a spoon engraved with Trooper S B Hunt 2KEH think it had marksman on. Grandad died just after I was born in 1955, he never spoke much about his WW1 service. We believed he was injured and also went to Ireland where he was the only soldier to come out of a hospital ward alive. We haven't found his medal card or any records so far. Dad doesn't have any medals.
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