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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Henry Charles Monks
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Ldg.Sea. James Monks
Royal Navy HMS Indefatigable
from:Clonard Street, Balbriggan
(d.31st May 1916)
James Monks joined the British Navy in 1909 as a boy of just 16 years. He spent his early days on board the SV Orion before being transferred to the HMS Indefatigable. James had been promoted to the rank of Leading Seaman Gunner by the time he joined his new ship, his role was in helping to fire off shells from the eight 12 inch guns and the sixteen 4 inch guns.
James was lost when his ship was sunk at the Battle of Jutland. In the tightly knit community, his mother was getting a lot of visitors from neighbours following news of his death and on one occasion a caller got a terrible fright, dashing into the house claiming that she had just seen the ghost of a headless sailor outside the door.
L/Cpl. James Monks
British Army 12th Btn. B Coy. King's Liverpool Regiment
Pte. James Monks
British Army 1st Battalion Welch Fusiliers
from:Lancashire
(d.16th May 1915)
My grandfather, James Monks was lost in France do not know his story, I have spent many years trying to find out what battle he died in and how he died.
Pte. Francis Monnelly
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Breaffy, Killala, Mayo
(d.21st Sep 1917)
Francis Monnelly served with the 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers and died on the 21st September 1917. His home was in Breaffy , Killala, County Mayo, Ireland
Sister. Monroe
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 46 Stationary Hospital
Capt. William Herbert Monson MC.
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusilliers
from:Dublin
(d.7th Sep 2016)
Captain Monson, 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died of wounds received in action on 7th September 1916 near Guillemont.
On the outbreak of the war he volunteered and was attached to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, receiving his promotion in December 1915. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry and devotion to duty at Hulluch during a Gas Attack by the Germans (killing 800) on 27th of April 1916. He had also served in the South African War, and received the Queen's Medal with three clasps, and the King's Medal with two clasps.
Col. Edward Montagu CBE
British Army Suffolk Regiment
Col. Edward Montagu served with the Suffolk Regiment.
Pte. William Monteith
British Army 2nd Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
My Dad, Pte. William Monteith, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, was taken prisoner on the 26th of August 1914. I have the war office letter to my granny with the information of his capture.
Alexander Montgomery
British Army Cameron Highlanders
from:Lamlash, Isle of Arran
My uncle Alec Montgomery served in the Cameron Highlanders in WWI and survived the war. Sadly, he died several years later of a burst appendix, and I never knew him. I had his C.H. badge for many years. I am the daughter of Arran natives, born in the U.S. in 1933, and the last of our Montgomery line.
Gnr. Arthur Montgomery
British Army 173nd (East Ham) Brigade. Royal Field Artillery
from:Rainham, Essex
Art Montgomery was born in 1894. He enlisted in the British Army in May 1915. His service record states that he served `at home' from 26th May 1915 to 26th November 1915. He was posted to France from 27th November 1915 until 11th August 1918. Arthur's records show that he was on leave from 12th to 26th August 1918, although it doesn't state where he took that leave. He is recorded as being in France from 27 August until 20th February 1919. He was discharged from the army on 31 March 1920. He married Annie Low in 1918. They lived at Rainham where he worked as a farm foreman and had two children.
There is only one story about his time as a gunner in the artillery. During a German breakthrough, he and his fellow gun team had to make a hasty escape on horseback, abandoning the gun. They had removed the firing mechanism from the gun to render it useless to the enemy. This was thrown in the nearest water-filled ditch as they went hell for leather for their retreating lines.
I remember his comment when my brother, who was about six years old at the time, showed a great interest in the shotgun Uncle Art used for controlling vermin. `If you knew what damage guns can cause', he said, `you wouldn't be so interested in them.'
Pte. George William Montgomery
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:Dublin, Ireland.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Maj. John Montgomery
South African Army Natal Carbineers Regiment
from:Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire
Spr. John Montgomery
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Upperlands, Co. Londonderry
Sjt. R. Montgomery
British Army 122nd Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:47, Castlereagh Place, Belfast.
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Pte. Robert Montgomery
Army 1/5th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:Drum Manor, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone
(d.1st Dec 1915)
Robert entered the Balkans on the 8th of October 1915 and was killed in action at Gallipoli on December 1st. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial.
Pte. Robert T. Montgomery
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Robert Montgomery enlisted in 1914
S/Sgt. Robert Charles Montgomery MM & Bar.
British Army 10th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Liverpool
Robert Montgomery was transferred to the 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1918 when the 10th Battalion was disbanded. He survived the war and died in 1958.
Pte. Samuel Bloomfield Montgomery
British Army 10th Battalion Inniskillen Fusiliers
from:Liverpool
(d.1st July 1916)
Samuel Montgomery was posted as missing at the end of the battle, his body was never found and his name is on the monument at Thiepval
Pte. Thomas Montgomery
British Army 7th BTn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Alvah
(d.26th April 1915)
L/Cpl. Wiliam Edwin Montgomery
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
from:Cavan, Ireland
(d.27th Jun 1917)
Pte. William Longmore Montgomery
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Upperlands, Co. Londonderry
(d.29th Jun 1915)
My great uncle William Montgomery was a member of a regular battalion, the 1st Battalion Royal Iniskilling Fusiliers and was dispatched to Egypt but diverted to the Dardanelle Straits.
He landed at X Beach, Gallipoli, on 25th April 1915. He was subsequently wounded twice in the head by a Turkish sniper or snipers. I am unclear about the exact circumstances of his death, but believe that the second shot to his head was sustained as he lay on the ground. The reason for this conclusion was evidenced by the presence of two distinct entry and exit holes in the pith helmet he had been wearing at the time. He survived his evacuation from Gallipoli and the sea trip home. He was treated for his wounds in the 1st Southern General Hospital, Birmingham, where he died, aged 18, from his wounds on 29th June 1915. He is buried in First Ahoghill Presbyterian Churchyard.
Lt. C. D. Mood-Ord
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. David Drever Moodie
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Leith
David Moodie was my grandfather. He was an Old Contemptible and served throughout the war. Then in 1919 he sailed with the regiment from Liverpool to Rangoon, India, to serve in the prison service.
I have tried many times to access service records for him, but this has been unsuccessful. I have one photograph of him in uniform, in a group of soldiers He died in 1984.
Donald Moodie
British Army 2nd Btn Irish Guards
from:South Africa
I have a photo album that has 300 photos in it. One of the photos in my album is of Donald Moodie, written after his name Irish Guards S. Africa, Mar. 1918.
Pte. James King Moodie
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:Kirkwall, Orkney
(d.26th Apr 1915)
James was born at Silverhall, in Lady parish on the island of Sanday, Orkney Islands, on 9th July 1885, the second son of James Moodie and Margaret Moodie (née King). When he had finished his schooling on Sanday, young James left his large family and moved into a boarding house at 1 Bridge Street in Kirkwall. He served an apprenticeship as a shop assistant with Bailie J.F. Flett and Dean-of-Guild P.C. Flett, then moved to Kelso to work in a shop there.
James was keen to see more of the world, so in 1907 joined the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. It was then stationed at Cairo in Egypt, where James was to spend most of his army career. In 1911 1st K.O.S.B. left Egypt for India, and was stationed at Lucknow when war broke out. The Battalion left Bombay on 30th October 1914, and landed at Ismailia on 16th November, when 1st K.O.S.B. became part of 22nd Indian Brigade, general reserve of the Suez Canal Defence Force.
1st K.O.S.B. sailed on the 24th November in the cruisers Amethyst and Sapphire, to land on Gallipoli. At 5 am next day the Scottish Borderers lead a company of 2nd South Wales Borderers and the Plymouth Royal Marine Battalion ashore from cutters towed by trawlers at Y Beach, the furthest north landing beach at Helles. Fortunately only four Turks opposed the Borderers as they scrambled up the steep cliffs and then pushed forward 300 yards to the edge of Gully Ravine. The force waited, in vain, for British troops to advance from the southern Helles beaches to join it and only at 3 pm began to entrench on top of the cliff above Y Beach. Turkish field gun fire started an hour later and at 5.40 pm a series of fierce infantry attacks began that continued through the night. The Turks had withdrawn by daylight, but they had inflicted heavy British casualties and ammunition ashore was short. Requests for reinforcements met no response and there was even confusion as to which officer was in command of the mixed force. Evacuation of wounded from Y Beach in the morning of the 26th lead unintentionally to an increasing stream of demoralised men also boarding the boats and by noon the whole force had withdrawn.
However James Moodie did not live to join the withdrawal, having become one of 1st K.O.S.B.’s 296 casualties in the night attacks. James died at Y Beach aged 29 but his body was not identified until after the war and he is now commemorated on Panel 90 of the Helles Memorial.
Pte. William Moodie
British Army 1/19th Dunbartonshire Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:7 Brewery lane, Dumbarton
(d.10th May 1915)
On the 10th May 1915 between 08.00 and 09.00 William Moody's unit was ordered to reinforce the 2nd Cameron's with two other companies. Major George Christie led. A and D. to a position 200 yards west of Hooge at 09.30 they went over the top. Sadly my great uncle was killed during this action. His body was never recovered. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate. I feel proud even though I never knew this man. I visited the Gate in Ypres, Belgium on two occasions.
Pte. William Anderson Moodie
British Army 16th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Arbroath
William Moodie received a bad leg injury he was captured on the 18th of November 1916 at Mailly on the Somme and became a prisoner of war. In February or March 1917, William as POW was in the War hospital in Cambrai, (Krg. Laz. Bay 6 Cambrai) being treated for a broken ankle or thigh. William was re-repatriated from Germany on the 5th of May 1918 and admitted to King George Hospital, Stamford Street, Waterloo, London with a shot gun wound, ankle left, shrapnel wound. He was discharged from Army on the 12th of December 1918 as no longer physically fit for war service and awarded the British War Medal and Victory medal.
On the 10th of 1929 William Moodie, aged 45 (passenger 175071), previously of 5 Hill Road, Arbroath, departed from Port of Greenock on the Canadian Pacific ship, Montrose, heading to port of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (Third class passenger, No 57).
Pte Albert Moody
British Army Royal Field Artillary
from:Gateshead
Pte. Corbett Lee Moody
British Army 10th Btn Cheshire Regiment
from:Ellesmere Port
(d.17th Apr 1918)
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