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Lt. Hugh StClair Roy MC and bar.
British Army Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Hugh Roy was my great uncle. He began the war in Enslin's Horse and was then commissioned into the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, where he was awarded the MC twice for his service in France. At some point he joined the RFC but it seems he was injured and returned to the Inniskillings. As far as I know he died from wounds in 1919.
Bmbdr. James Smellie "Toff" Roy
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:148 McLean Street, Govan, Glasgow, Scotland
James Roy was my grandfather. I am not sure what happened to him in WW1 only that his address in 1917 when he registered his son's birth was Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. He was a Bombardier in the Royal Field Artillery.
Sgt John Roy DCM, MM
British Army 250th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers.
from:Windygates, Fife, Scotland
John Roy was my Great Grandfather. A miner to trade, he arrived in France in 1915 at the age of 41. He served with the 250th Tunneling Company for the duration of the war. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal during this time.
Extract from the London Gazette, 2nd February 1919 "121813 Sjt. J. Roy, 250th Tunneling Coy., R.E. For the last three years he has shown consistent gallantry and devotion to duty during a long period of active mine warfare, when employed on the erection of concrete pill-boxes and in the search for enemy-land contact mines. On 25th June, 1918, he, with six sappers, loaded and transported over 30 tons of concrete to a required site and unloaded. During this operation the party was subjected to particularly severe machine gun fire. It was entirely due to his personal example and determination that the emplacement was erected in time."
Pte. L. Roy
Royal Canadian Regiment
(d.2nd April 1915)
Private Roy is buried in the Calvary (Prospect) Roman Catholic Cemetery, Bermuda, Grave 85.
Pte. George Royal
British Army 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment
from:Peterborough Crossing, Queen Adelaide, Ely, Cambs
(d.20th November 1918)
Pte. Richard Harold Royall
British Army 1/6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Bromyard, Herefordshire
Dick Royall is supposed to have joined up at 15, originally with 1/6th Welch Regiment.
Lt. John Royle
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
Pte. William Thomas Royle
4th Btn.
from:Blackburn, Lancashire
(d.23 March 1918)
William Thomas Royle was born in Rochdale in 1891. In 1911 he married Mary Ann Hall from Blackburn. Billy and Polly, as they were known, settled in Blackburn and had three daughters Elizabeth (Betty), Jane (Jenny) and Sarah (Sally).
When the First World War broke out, Billy was working as a painter's labourer. As family members, friends and colleagues signed up as volunteers Billy said he was not going to fight until he had to because he had a wife and three children to care for.
One day, opening his lunch box at work, Billy found a white feather. White feathers were given to men, mostly by women, as a sign of their cowardice in not joining up. Originally given by society women to their better off boyfriends when they wanted to get rid of them, the practise was adopted around the country by other classes. Some men actually started wearing badges stating that they were in reserved occupations to avoid being presented with the white feather. On his way home from work that day Billy went to Canterbury St Barracks in Blackburn, signed up and went home to announce what he had done.
Billy was a member of the 4th Battalion East Lancs Regiment. In early 1918 he came home on leave. When he had left home to return to Barracks at Colchester, Polly noticed he had left his dogtag on the windowsill. Bill's brother in law, who was returning to Colchester the next day said he would take it with him. When he arrived in Colchester, Billy had gone, posted overseas.
On March 23rd 1918, in the early hours of the morning, the 4th Battalion East Lancs Regiment was in the trenches of the Somme, waiting for the order to go over the top. Billy, as lookout was one of the first to go. Billy was killed as he went on the offensive, his body was never identified and he remains missing to this day. Billy is commemorated on the memorial to the missing at Pozieres in Northern France
At the end of the war, when the soldiers returned to parade through Blackburn, Polly went along with her mother Sarah. She saw a soldier, who from behind she thought was her Billy. He was Walter Peace and Polly later married him
His story was told to me by his daughter Jane, who was my grandma, and by my great-gran Polly.
Sgt. William Royle M.M.
British Army 250th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Sale Cheshire
(d.25th April 1918)
Pte. Robert Royles
British Army 2nd Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:Denbigh
(d.17th April 1918)
Robert was the husband of Margaret E Royles, 30 Water Street, Denbigh.
Sgt. F. Ruane
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Sunderland
F Ruane was wounded in the left ear
Cpl. Henry Joseph Rubery
British Army South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Brierley Hill
Henry Rubery served in the South Staffordshire Regiment during 1914-1918. At 49 years of age at the beginning of WW2, he joined the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps on the 25th of October 1939, but was discharged as a Corporal 158 days later on the 31st of March 1940, due to not being able to meet the physical requirements. He died in 1953
Pte. I. Rucastle
British Army 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
(d.10th Jun 1917)
Capt. Charles Edmund Ruck-Keene
British Army Royal Fusiliers
from:Swyncombe, Oxon
My grandfather Charles Edmund Ruck-Keene of Swyncombe House in Oxon, turned the house into a hospital for wounded men during the war. He served in the Royal Fusiliers.
Cpl. Charles Flower Rudd
British Army 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.9th Jan 1915)
Charles Flowers Rudd, Corporal 8215 enlisted in North Shields and served with the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. He was killed in action age 31 on the 9th January 1915 and is remembered at St. Paul's Church and the Ypres(Menin Gate) Memorial. Panel 8 and 12. His medal card records that he was killed in action and the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Charles was born in Newcastle 1883, son of Charles and Margaret Rudd. He was married to Ada Eleanor Rudd nee Angus of 18 Birch Street, Jarrow. in the 1911 census he is living at 2 Addycombe Cottages, Rothbury, age(27) a Postman with Ada, age(29)married for 5 years and no children.
Pte. John Rudd
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.21st Feb 1915)
Pte, Lancelot Addison "Lall" Rudd
British Army 1/12th Btn. C Company Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Addlestone
Lancelot Addison Rudd served with the 12th and 2/4th Battalions, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment during WW1. He served in Macedonia, Egypt, Salonika, Palestine and France. He was mustard gassed and also contracted malaria, but he safely returned home to his wife and family and died in 1966.
Pte. George Ruddell
British Army 109th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
Pte. Steven Rudden
British Army 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt)
from:Shoreditch, London
(d.3rd May 1917)
Cpl. Herbert George "Tip" Ruddle
British Army 5th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Swindon, Wilts
(d.25th January 1917)
Herbert Ruddle, or Tip as he was known to friends and family, was born in Swindon, Wilts in 1892. The 1911 census saw him working in South Wales as a coal miner, an odd occupation for the son of a tailor, and given the level of employment at that time in the town.
In 1914 he became engaged to my great aunt, a local Swindon girl, but with the outbreak of the war he soon felt obliged to sign up and by 1915 he found himself heading off to the Dardanelles where he was involved in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign.
It was not long after the retreat from that theatre of war that the regiment moved down into Mesopotamia and it was there that Tip was killed as the British worked their way down towards Baghdad. He died on 25th January 1917 without ever seeing again his fiancee. She remained a spinster, to my mind a rather sad and somewhat bitter woman (but who could blame her for what life had thrown at her). On her death the family made a poignant discovery, a full collection of many hundreds of cards and letters sent by Tip to her throughout his time in the Army, from the day he joined up to the eve of his death.
Bertrand Frederick Ruddock
British Army 23rd Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Ingrow, Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire
(d.29th June 1918)
Bertrand Ruddock served with 23rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps.
Harry Ruddock
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Stoud Lane, Shamley Green, Guildford
Harry Ruddock joined up at the age of 21 on 13th of November 1915. He was a signalman with 119th Siege Battery, RGA. He was demobilized on 18th of July 1919 and received his medals BW and V on 10th of September 1921 by this time he was living at Down Road, Guildford, ready to marry his fiance Florence who waited for him during the war. They married in 1922.
Sgt. James Ruddock
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.12th October 1914)
Sgt James Ruddock of the Royal Irish Rifles was my grandfather and he was killed in action at La Couture in France on 12th of October 1914 just 21 days after his youngest son (my father) was born. He also had 2 older children, my grandmother was left a widow with 3 small children. Legend within the family has always been that my grandmother was the first Northern Ireland war widow of the First World War. We have no idea whether this is true or not but whatever the truth we will always try and ensure that his name is never forgotten.
Capt. A. Ruddy
British Army 173rd Brigade, A Bty. Royal Field Artillery
Cpl. Anthony Rudge
British Army 4th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:aberbargoed wales
(d.9th August 1915)
Pte. Harold Rudge
British Army 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Walsall
(d.29th Sep 1916)
Pte. Thomas Rudge
British Army 12th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.27th Sep 1915)
This photo is the only one my family have of my Great uncle Thomas Rudge and his fellow soldiers, sadly we do not know which one is Thomas.
Thomas was killed at the battle of Loos and died aged just 21.
Pte. Harry Rudiger
British Army 2nd Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Bethnal Green, London
Gnr. John Rudiger
British Armuy 7th Divisional Amunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:Bethnal Green, London
I am the youngest son of John "Jack" Rudiger who went off to war with his two brothers, Harry and Ernie. I have a cutting of the three of them from the Hackney Gazette, at the time. All three returned although my Father sustained a head wound.
You may find a certain irony in the fact that my Grandfather was of German origin, hence the name! He came to this country as a young lad, and the fact that he sent his three sons off to war against his native country showed how he had integrated in the UK.
Dad never spoke too much about the WW1, he was an ARP Warden in WW2. I have my Father's 'Pip Squeak & Wilfred' but have no further details of his military career or where he fought. You would think with an unusual surname name like ours it would pose no problems, but all internet searches show no trace! I do not know his Battalion or Brigade, so if anyone out there can offer any help or assistance, it would be most gratefully received. I am endeavouring to get something together for my Grandchildren.
UPDATE: Jack's medal card has now been located on Ancestry.co.uk
and it shows he served with the 7th Divisional Ammunition Column.
Hauptmn. Freiherr von Dieklage Rudolf
German Army 2/Inf Reg 74
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