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Want to know more about the North Devon Yeomanry? There are:6588 items tagged North Devon Yeomanry available in our Library
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Those known to have served withNorth Devon Yeomanry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Fulford Thomas Percy. Lt
- Thynne DSO Algernon Carteret. Lt.Col. (d.6th Nov 1917)
- Trathen Alfred Edward. Pte. (d.26th Nov 1915)
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255172 Lt Thomas Percy Fulford Army Service Corps My Maternal Grandfather joined up in 1914 initially with The North Devon Hussars as a Motorcycle rider.
He later was Gazetted into the Army Service Corps as a Second Lieutenant ultimately as Lieutenant.
He saw active service in Gallipoli, Palestine then France.
He survived the war
The photographs show him at the commencement of the war with the second dated as 1919 at his wedding.
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221342 Pte. Alfred Edward Trathen North Devon Hussars (d.26th Nov 1915) Born in 1874 in Clovelly Devon, Alfred Trathen was the son of John and Fanny (nee Smale). He was married to Bessie German with a daughter Winifred Bessie, registered as a Refreshment House Keeper. He is remembered in Green Hill Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.
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218317 Lt.Col. Algernon Carteret Thynne DSO Royal North Devon Hussars (d.6th Nov 1917) Lieutenant Colonel Algernon Carteret Thynne DSO served with the Royal North Devon Hussars during WW1 and was killed in action on the 6th November 1917, aged 49. He is buried in Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel. He was the son of the late Francis John Thynne, of Haynes Park, Beds and husband of Constance Thynne, of Penstowe, Bude, Cornwall. He had served in the South African War.
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