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2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)    2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) saw action on the Western Front during the Great War, serving as part of 1st Cavalry Division. 4th Aug 1914 Orders Received 4th Aug 1914 Mobilization 7th Aug 1914 Mobilisation 10th Aug 1914 Horses 11th Aug 1914 Horses 12th Aug 1914 Mobilisation Complete 13th Aug 1914 Route March 14th Aug 1914 Queen's Bays depart for France  The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) depart from Aldershot, marching to Farnborough station to entrain for Southampton. http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php?dy=43 14th Aug 1914 Move Begins 15th Aug 1914 Queen's Bays sail for France  The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) arrived at Southampton Docks and embarked for Le Harve on the SS Minneapolis. http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php?dy=43 15th Aug 1914 On the Move 15th Aug 1914 On the Move 16th Aug 1914 Queen's Bays arrive France  The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) disembarked at Le Harve from the SS Minneapolis, having spent the night anchored in the bay. The horses were stabled in a large store at the docks until noon, then the regiment moved to a large cotton store near the railway. The men spent most of the morning conversing with French soldiers who were guarding the docks. Lieutenant A. J. R. Lamb recorded in his diary:- "Sailed into Le Harve docks and began disembarking about 5:30 a.m., All the horses of the regiment were put into a large store shed, and stood there from about 6:30 a.m. till noon. A party of French soldiers are guarding the docks, and it does not take our men long to become on speaking terms with them. They seem to quite interest each other in spite of not being at all acquainted with each other’s languages. Left these docks about noon and then moved on to a huge store shed near the railway (the biggest thing of its kind I have ever seen), where the horses were fastened up in lines." http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php?dy=43 16th Aug 1914 On the Move 17th Aug 1914 Queen's Bays at Le Havre  The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) having spent the night in a large cotton store near the railway, underwent exercise and grazed the horses by the coast. That evening Headquarters mess dined aboard the Dieppe of the Newhaven-Dieppe line, which was engaged in bringing ammunition across from Newhaven. A Squadron left at 9pm to entrain for the concentration area. http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php?dy=43 17th Aug 1914 Entraining 18th Aug 1914 Queen's Bays depart Le Havre  The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) left cotton store near the railway, with Headquarters minus the Machine Gun section departing just after midnight with ‘C’ Squadron and MG section following at 3:30am. They gathered at point ‘S’ entraining place, where there was an hour's wait to entrain then a further three hours before departing. They enjoyed a breakfast of hard boiled eggs, jam and tea and had a good wash in buckets beside the train before leaving at 8:15am for the concentration area. They traveled via Rouen where they stopped to water and feed the horses, and the men had hot coffee made by the French soldiers. The train moved slowly with frequent stops where the locals handed over flowers and cigarettes. They traveled via Amiens and Busigny to Mauberge on the Belgian frontier. http://www.qdg.org.uk/diaries.php?dy=43 18th Aug 1914 On the Move 18th Aug 1914 Orders Received 18th Aug 1914 On the Move 19th Aug 1914 In Billets 20th Aug 1914 In Billets 21st Aug 1914 In Defence 22nd Aug 1914 Gun Fire 23rd Aug 1914 Retreat 23rd Aug 1914 Maps 24th Aug 1914 Fighting Withdrawal 25th Aug 1914 Fighting Withdrawal 26th Aug 1914 Fighting Withdrawal 26th Aug 1914 In Action 27th Aug 1914 Rear Guard 28th Aug 1914 Rear Guard 29th Aug 1914 Enemy Active 30th Aug 1914 On the March 31st Aug 1914 On the March 1st Sep 1914 A Sharp Fight 1st Sep 1914 In Action 1st Sep 1914 Fog 1st Sep 1914 Under Attack 1st Sep 1914 Counter Attack 1st Sep 1914 Attack 13th Sep 1914 Battle Commencing 13th of September 1914 A Showery March 23rd Sep 1914 At Rest 20th Oct 1914 In Action   21st Oct 1914 In Action   22nd Oct 1914 Shelling   23rd Oct 1914 Reliefs   13th Nov 1914 Lieutenant's Funeral 13th May 1915  23rd May 1915 Queens Bays suffer losses 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 4th Jan 1916 Dismounted Cavalry in the Trenches 8th Jan 1916 In the Trenches 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 9th February 1916 Call Ups 10th Feb 1916 Snipers Active If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)? There are:6640 items tagged 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) 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 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) during the Great War 1914-1918. Bates Eustace. Pte. (d.1st Sep 1914) Biddulph Robert Assheton. 2nd Lt. 2nd Btn. (d.19th November 1916) Bloomer James. Pte Grant John Brabazon. Capt. I'Anson Christopher. (d.19th June 1915) 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 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) records. 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If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 19th Nov 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 250066 Pte James Bloomer 2nd Dragoon Guards James Bloomer was my grandfather. He was born 28th of Nov 1897 in Kilkenny, Ireland. He served with the Queens Bays. Gary Bloomer Add to this record. 240384 2nd Lt. Robert Assheton Biddulph 2nd Btn. Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) (d.19th November 1916) Second Lieutenant Biddulph was the son of Florence C. Biddulph, of Pan's Garden, Warnham, Sussex, and the late Assheton Biddulph. He was 25 when he died and is buried in south-west entrance of the Killoughy Church of Ireland Churchyard, Killoughy, Co. Offaly, Ireland. S Flynn Add to this record. 223888 Pte. Eustace Bates 2nd Dragoon Guards (d.1st Sep 1914) 6328 Private Eustace Bates was killed aged 25 on the 1st of September 1914, in the Picardie village of Néry. The village was the site of a largely cavalry-versus-cavalry action early in World War; which occurred as the overwhelmed British Expeditionary Force retreated from Mons in August 1914. Eustace Bates was in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (The Bays) part of the British 1st Cavalry Brigade. He would fall that fateful Friday along with 17 of his comrades in ‘The Bays’ – the exact details of his death at Néry are not recorded. The British Cavalry and their Royal Horse Artillery battery at Néry were caught largely unawares, but managed to repel a surprise attack by the German 4th Cavalry Division (twice the number of cavalrymen and guns). The British defence against the odds resulted in the stemming of the German cavalry advance, the capture of 12 German guns and three Victoria Crosses awarded to soldiers of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, as well as numerous other decorations. Eustace was the son of a soldier, although he would not have known him; as his father (a retired bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment) died shortly after Eustace was born in the Sabathu Cantonment, India – his father was aged 40. His father, Robert David Yates, was originally from Canada; he had joined the 100th Regiment of Foot in 1864, whilst they were stationed in Malta (probably as a drummer boy aged 13). Robert eventually transferred to the Wiltshire Regiment whilst stationed in India. Prior to his military service the 1901 census records him as being a pupil at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Chelsea, London. Eustace Bates was then recorded in the 1911 census as serving as a private in the “The Bays” - well before the outbreak of the Great War. The regiment would leave Aldershot and embark for France in August 1914 via troopship from Southampton docks. Eustace was not married and his listed next of kin was his mother Jane Bates (nee Fletcher). She would live till 1930 and died not far from where she was born in North Lincolnshire. Eustace was the youngest of eight children (although not all eight seemed to have survived to childhood). Chris Tomlinson Add to this record. 219790 Christopher I'Anson 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) (d.19th June 1915) Christopher I'Anson was my 1st cousin 3x removed, the son of Christopher I'Anson and Martha Heslop and was from Ripon. He served in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, (Queens Bays), Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line. He joined in Harrogate and his service number was 6464. He was a Shoeing Smith. Christopher died of wounds on 19th June 1915 and it appears that he died in this country as the record states 'Home', his place of residence at the time of death was Snelston so maybe he was in hosptial there. He is remembered in Nunhead All Saints Cemetery, South London, panel 3. Maybe his body was taken back to Ripon for burial but as yet I haven't looked for him there. I don't have a photograph of him and unfortunately haven't been able to find one. Amanda Wass Add to this record.

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