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There are:6599 items tagged Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) 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 Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) during the Great War 1914-1918. Ballard Henry. 130th Brigade Hammond MC. Arthur William. Lt. Mackintosh Angus Alexander. Capt. (d.13th Oct 1918) Millin Arthur James. Cpl. Webb Richard Henry. Pte. 4th Btn Wilby Harry. Tpr. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please. Add a Name to this List More Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) records. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 263551 Henry Ballard 130th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Henry Ballard served with the Royal Horse Guards an d 130th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. D Maguire Add to this record. 254836 Tpr. Harry Wilby Royal Horse Guards My father Harry Wilby, born in April 1898, Leeds, enlisted in the Royal Horse Guards in Leeds, on the 24th of October 1914. Although his enlistment papers have his declared age as 18 years & 204 days, he was actually 16 years & 178 days. Harry was stationed in the UK until 31st of May 1916, being transferred to 8th Machine Gun Squadron in the field on the 30th of June 1916, after a short period at the RHG Depot at Etaples, France. Harry was transferred with his unit to the 7th Machine Gun Squadron on the 6th of October 1916. After a short period of hospitalisation early in 1917 in Etaples he returned to the 7th Machine Gun Squadron on 13th of April 1917. On the 20th of April 1918 he rejoined his original RHG Cavalry unit and was assigned to the 3rd MG Battalion. Harry returned to the UK on 28th of February 1919 to No.1 Dispersal Unit Clipstone to await being discharged 30th March 1919 and returned home in Leeds. Harry died aged 73 in August 1971. Raymond Wilby Add to this record. 225485 Lt. Arthur William Hammond MC. Royal Flying Corps Arthur Hammond was born on 29 August 1890 in Walton on the Hill, Lancashire. He was the son of Henry and Alice (née Kincaid) Hammond. His father was a Master Mariner. Hammond joined the Royal Horse Guards as a trooper, but in October 1915 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer in the Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 biplane. Whilst the prime purpose of his duties was reconnaissance, he was also the aircraft's gunner and engaged in ground attack. Hammond received the Military Cross for action on the 22nd of April 1918 “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When acting as observer on photographic work, though his machine was attacked by six enemy aeroplanes, he with great coolness shot down two of these. On two later occasions a large number of hostile battery positions were photographed, engaged and successfully silenced, as well as some of our long range batteries calibrated on hostile targets. The eminently satisfactory manner in which all these tasks were accomplished is due to this officer's keenness, conscientiousness and devotion to duty." He was awarded a bar to his Military Cross for action on the 26 July 1918: “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in aerial fighting. Whilst attacking hostile troops at about 500 feet he was encountered by eight triplanes, which dived from all directions, firing their front guns. He fired bursts at each machine in turn, shooting three of them down out of control. He was wounded himself six times, but continued the action until his machine caught fire. The pilot, although wounded five times, with great skill and coolness managed to climb to the left hand bottom plane and controlled the machine from the side of the fuselage, side-slipping to the ground. The machine crashed in "No Man's Land," and the pilot managed to extricate Hammond from the flames and dragged him to a shell-hole, from which they were rescued by the infantry." His pilot on this mission (mentioned in this citation) was Alan McLeod, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for the same action. Hammond lost a leg due to his wounds and left the RFC. At the end of the war, he emigrated to Canada. In the Second World War, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He died in Victoria, British Columbia, on 22 December 1959, aged 69 Add to this record. 224730 Capt. Angus Alexander Mackintosh Royal Horse Guards (d.13th Oct 1918) Angus Alexander Mackintosh (Younger of Mackintosh) was born on 6 August 1885, the son of Alfred Donald Mackintosh of Mackintosh, 28th Chief of the Clan Chattan and Harriet Diana Arabella Mary Richards. He married Lady Maud Louisa Emma Cavendish, daughter of Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and Lady Evelyn Emily Mary FitzMaurice, on 3 November 1917, at Ottawa, Canada. They had a daughter, Anne Peace Arabella Mackintosh, 30th Chief of Clan Chattan, daughter of Angus Alexander Mackintosh of Mackintosh and Lady Maud Louisa Emma Cavendish. Born 24 September 1918 Cartierville, Montreal. He served as Captain, Royal Horse Guards, L.4140, Southern Div. Officer's Sec. and died in Washington, D.C. on 13th October 1918. As World War I was in progress, he was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. s flynn Add to this record. 209155 Cpl. Arthur James Millin Royal Horse Guards Arthur Millin served with The Blues from 1910 to 1921. Arthur then served with police force at Newport, Mon for 20 years and joined the retired police officers association (Brighton Branch). He lived on South Coast Road in Peace Haven Michael Heath Add to this record. 142761 Pte. Richard Henry Webb 4th Btn East Yorks Regiment Richard Henry Webb was my mother's father, he was born in Bermondsey 1st Feb 1896 (to a family with roots in both East London and Hull). He lost his father in 1899, and his mother in 1906, and grew up in the family of his aunt in Hull. He enlisted 7th Nov 1912 with 4th Bn East Yorks Regt and served with Army Cyclist Corps and Royal Horse Guards. On the back of his cycling map he has written the following: "V Corps Army Cyclist", "My Best Friend in France and Belgium 1915-1918", "Landed April 17th 1915", "Ypres 2nd Battle", "R.H.Webb". His Movement Order (in very frail condition) is dated 11 December 1917, and bears the stamps "Poperinghe" "Hazebrouck". By late January 1918 he was convalescing,I don't know any details of his injuries, in Stamford, Lincs, where he struck up a relationship with Cathie Piggott, my grandmother, just before his 22nd birthday. The relationship started very suddenly, and became serious so quickly that Cathie ditched her current boyfriend just as he had decided to propose to her! They became engaged in May, and were married by licence on 23rd October in Stamford, his address on the Bishop's Licence was "The Parish of Great Bentley, Colchester in the county of Essex". Dick Webb transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, taking the Service Number 3157, in February 1919, and was disembodied on April 21st. He enlisted with the Territorials at Stamford in 1920, and stayed with them until 1923. He died in October 1936, on their 18th wedding anniversary, when he collapsed with a heart attack at his garden gate, having just been to his allotment to get some vegetables for Sunday lunch. My grandmother noted that the doctor told her "his arteries were like a man of 60, and it would be aggravated by his war service". He left a widow and four children aged 5 to 15. His only son, Arthur, died aged 19 in December 1944 on the Arctic Convoy when his ship HMS Cassandra was torpedoed near Murmansk. John Riley Add to this record.

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