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Glamorgan Yeomanry
Territorial Force: 1/1st Glamorgan Yeomanry 2/1st Glamorgan Yeomanry 3/1st Glamorgan Yeomanry
The Glamorgan Yeomanry was a unit of the Territorial Force, serving with the South Wales Mounted Brigade. Their HQ was in Bridgend. A Squadron was drawn from Swansea, Neath, Port Talbot and Reynoldston. B Squadron from Bridgend, Maesteg, Cowbridge and Porthcawl. C Squadron from Cardiff and D Squadron from Pontypridd, Nelson, Llwynypia, Caerphilly, Mountain Ash, Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil.
1/1st Glamorgan Yeomanry was a territorial unit, they proceeded to Egypt in March 1916. In March 1917 they retrained as infantry and converted to become 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan) Battalion, Welsh Regiment.
10th Aug 1914 Imperial Service
31st Aug 1914 Reorganisation
1st Sep 1914 On the Move
Nov 1914 Reorganisation
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
4th March 1916 On the Move
14th March 1916 On the Move
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Those known to have served withGlamorgan Yeomanry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Davey Augustus. Cpl.
- Gidden Authur Maurice. Cpl. 24th Btn.
- Goss James. Pte. 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Btn. (d.1st December 1917)
- Hopkins Frank Manaton.
- Lewis Albert. Pte. (d.23rd Sep 1918)
- Lewis Albert . Pte. (d.23rd Sept 1918)
- Lloyd Herbert James.
- Marsden Morris James. 2Lt. 214th Coy. (d.20th September 1917)
- Morris James. 2nd Lt. (d.27th Dec 1917)
- Thomas Ivor Cecil. Cpl.
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262040 2Lt. Morris James Marsden 214th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.20th September 1917) Morris Marsden was born on 16 June 1895, the son of John and Mary Anne Marsden, of Maes-y-Clere, Cribyn. Morris is my great great great uncle.
He had served with the Glamorgan Yeomanry, on home service, before being commissioned into the Machine Gun Corps on 26 January 1917, and embarked for France on 8 March 1917, joining the 214th Company, Machine Gun Corps, which was attached to the 58th (London) Division.
Morris joined up with the battalion in time to take part in the pursuit of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line. During May 1917 the Division fought at the Battle of Bullecourt, and later that year moved to Ypres, where it took part in the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge.
Morris was killed in action during the Battle of the Menin Road, on 20th of September 1917. He was 22 years old, and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
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247292 Pte. James Goss 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Btn. Welch Regiment (d.1st December 1917) James Goss was a Royal Navy Seaman, who left the Royal Navy after marring his sweetheart, Jessie Gillard on 4th November 1911. They lived at the Malt House in Pen Y Fai and had two boys. He worked as a collier at Coytrahen Colliery, Tondu, prior to joining the Glamorgan Yeomanry.
In 1916, the Pembroke Yeomanry and the Glamorgan Yeomanry embarked for foreign service for the first time in their history. They spent the next 12 months in Egypt, taking part in the historic offensive into Palestine, leading to the liberation of the Holy City of Jerusalem.
James Goss was killed, along with 14 other men from his Regiment, on 1st December 1917, just 8 days before the Ottoman surrendered and Jerusalem was liberated. The are all buried at Jerusalem War Cemetery.
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238623 Cpl. Authur Maurice Gidden 24th Btn. Welsh Regiment My Grandfather Cpl Arthur Gidden saw service in Egypt between 1916 - 1918 as part of the Glamorgan Yeomany and then as part of the 24th Welsh Regiment. I have read that they were then sent to France during 1918 I cannot find out if he did go to France or was sent back to the UK
I would be interested to hear what if any battles he took part in.
After the war he when back to his old job as an Electric Tram Driver with Cardiff Tram Company. He died in 1938
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236779 2nd Lt. James Morris Glamorgan Yeomanry (d.27th Dec 1917) Jim Morris was educated at Neath County School. He played rugby for Neath, Glynneath and scored on his Neath debut v Glynneath. He was seconded to the 24th Battalion, Welsh Regiment and died in the Middle East.
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231435 Herbert James "Bert" Lloyd Glamorgan Yeomanry I have my grandfather's diary written during his time in the Holy Land. He saw Laurence of Arabia being presented with a white camel and speaks of how rare white camels were. Every block house they stayed at he lists the dimensions and talked of all the flies. As a child he told me many stories of this time. Learning to ride on Sherringham Beach being allocated a grey mare.
Out in Palistine they were aware of the, as he called them, "fuzzy wussys" stealing kits. The troops would only take off one boot to sleep and tied the other to it so they couldn't be stolen.
At what he called the Bahrain Oasis they joined in with a Trible wedding. I have the jewelry he was given that day. The saddest day seems to be when they got to Alexandria. The men were refusing to hand their horses over to Arab horse traders before the men set sail for France. They had seen the way the Arabs treated their animals and couldn't bear to give them over. He said that some men shot their own horses but never said what happened to the men because of this. He carried all his mementos in a black cat tobacco tin which I still keep them in.
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221403 Cpl. Augustus Davey Glamorgan Yeomanry I know very little of my father, Augustus Davey's service career. He did talk about camels a lot for which animal he had very little regard! From this I concluded that he served in Egypt.
One day when I was doing my history homework on WW1 he looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh I was there'. At the time I was studying the battle of the Somme. I could not understand how he got from Egypt to France because he never told me anything else about his wartime experience.
In recent times I have researched the issue and of course discovered that he was sent to Egypt and came back to France for the second Battle of the Somme as part of the 24th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment. I have no idea exactly where he went in Egypt or in the Somme or what his experiences may have been.
I have a photograph in my home somewhere (irritatingly, I cannot find it) of my father on horseback with a sword in his hand.
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208141 Cpl. Ivor Cecil Thomas Glamorgan Yeomanry My father, Ivor Thomas, joined the Glamorgan Yeomanry the day war was declared in 1914. He was sent to France and transferred to the Royal Engineers when policy scattered county regiments among other units to disguise casualty rates. As a child I met a fellow Yeomanryman, a Mr Williams, then a coal merchant in Porthcawl, who had also served in GY. He had transferred into Transport Corps and ran mule trains in the Balkans where he saw his first Negro, driving a mule train in the opposite direction. Since Cardiff (30 miles away) had a sizeable black population at that time it shows how little people traveled before WWI.
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205164 Pte. Albert Lewis Glamorgan Yeomanry (d.23rd Sep 1918) Albert volunteered for the Glamorgan Yeomanry and served in Egypt with them in 1916. They were called to France in May 1918, and on September 18th whilst fighting at Giuillemont Farm near the Hindenburg Line, he was wounded, and he died on the 23rd. Albert is buried at St Emillie Valley war cemetery.
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