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City of London (Rough Riders) Yeomanry
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Want to know more about the City of London (Rough Riders) Yeomanry? There are:6601 items tagged City of London (Rough Riders) Yeomanry available in our Library
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Those known to have served withCity of London (Rough Riders) Yeomanry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allen Thomas William. QMSgt. (d.29th March 1919)
- Andrews Ernest William. L/Sgt.
- Foulsham Harry Shirley. Sgt
- Golding James. Pte. (d.2nd November 1918)
- Hawkins Leslie William. 2nd Lt. 6th Battalion
- Horrod Edwin. Rflmn
- Kettley George. Sgt.
- Watson VC, DSO. Oliver Cyril Spencer. Lt Col. 2nd/5th Btn. (d.28th Mar 1918)
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1206391 Lt Col. Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson VC, DSO. 2nd/5th Btn. Middlesex Hussars (d.28th Mar 1918)  Oliver Watson also served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was killed in action on the 28th of March 1918, aged 41 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery in Arras, France.
Son of William Spencer Watson, F.R.C.S., and Georgine Mary Jane Mair Watson, he served in the Tirah Campaign with 19th Bn. Yorkshire Regt., also served in China during the Boxer rebellion.
An extract from "The London Gazette," dated 18th May, 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery, self-sacrificing devotion to duty, and exceptionally gallant leading during a critical period of operations. His command was at a point where continual attacks were made by the enemy in order to pierce the line, and an intricate system of old trenches in front, coupled with the fact that his position was under constant rifle and machine-gun fire, rendered the situation still more dangerous. A counter-attack had been made against the enemy position, which at first achieved its object, but as they were holding out in two improvised strong points, Lt. Col. Watson saw that immediate action was necessary, and he led his remaining small reserve to the attack, organising bombing parties and leading attacks under intense rifle and machine-gun fire. Outnumbered, he finally ordered his men to retire, remaining himself in a communication trench to cover the retirement, though he faced almost certain death by so doing. The assault he led was at a critical moment, and without doubt saved the line. Both in the assault and in covering his men's retirement, he held his life as nothing, and his splendid bravery inspired all troops in the vicinity to rise. to the occasion and save a breach being made in a hardly tried and attenuated line. Lt. Col. Watson was killed while covering the withdrawal."
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237530 Pte. James Golding 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Yeomanry) (d.2nd November 1918) James Golding is buried in the Birr Military Cemetery in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
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237529 QMSgt. Thomas William Allen 1st County of London Yeomanry (d.29th March 1919) Thomas Allen was the son of Edward and Janet M Allen, husband of Daisy Evelyn Allen of 100 Elphinstone Rd. Hastings.
He was 27 when he died and is buried in the Birr Military Cemetery, Grave 46, in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
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224980 Sgt Harry Shirley Foulsham 6 Squadron Shirley Foulsham joined the army on 21st October 1914 serving with the City of London Yeomanry. He transferred to RFC in 1916 and was a Sergeant Observer and aerial gunner on photographic reconnaissance, flying in RE8 aircraft with 6 squadron in Belgium. I have aerial photographs taken by him. He is in a photograph on this website with a sergeant pilot/navigator wearing goggles under the details of Hector Cameron Gardner.
Shirley Foulsham, who was my father, was shot down on 3rd September 1917 and captured near Menin with a machine gun bullet in his left wrist and taken to Courtrai Hospital for 3 days before going to Magdeburg Hospital in Germany as a p.o.w. from 9th September. He was repatriated on 12th January 1918. He was debriefed on arrival in UK and the record is in the National Archive Ref: WO/161/100/112. He convalesced on a farm in Stradbroke, Suffolk where his father had been a dispensing chemist. He married Martha Catling who was the farmer`s eldest daughter. He later became a representative for Fisons Fertilisers. In WW2 he became a Captain in the Home Guard and a town, district and county Councillor and JP. He died on 9th December 1972.
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211102 L/Sgt. Ernest William Andrews Machine Gun Corps My Grandfather, Ernest William Andrews, was a Lance Sargent-Light horseman/Farrier who was a rough rider with the City of London Yeomanry 1914-1916. I am trying to find out information about him as I believe his serving records were destroyed in a fire. He was born 26th Feb 1896 and died 10th Feb 1955 and lived at Rose Cottage, Totteridge. His only son and my father, Robert Andrews, now 86 is living in Australia and would like to find out more details if somebody could help.
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206217 2nd Lt. Leslie William Hawkins 6th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment Leslie Hawkins was my Grandpa. He enlisted in the Second County of London Yeomanry in December 1915. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in August 1917, then Kings Own Royal Lancs. Then after a discharge, he was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant of the 6th Battalion in the Sherwood Foresters in March 1918. He saw action at Bellenglise, Sambre-Oise Canal and Cambria. He survived, resigned his commission in 1922.
Apparently he rarely talked about the horrors. He died at 80, but sadly being too young to know, I never got a chance to talk to him, recognise what he had done or really appreciated his experience in his presence. Clearly an extraordinary man but also in my memory, good to be around. Gone but never forgotten.
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205274 Sgt. George Kettley City of London Yeomanry I have the Victory Medal of Captain George Kettley of the Royal Defence Corps plus service record and also a photograph. He served as 9939 & 300238 Sgt in the 1/5th London Rifle Brigade and City of London Yeomanry from 1898 to 1916, thereafter being commissioned into the Royal Defense Corps. In 1918 he was apparently C.O. of the POW Camp for German Officers at Ripon. I wonder if anyone has any further information on him ?
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