2KEH 'E-G'

EASY, Alfred Joseph Clinton. 1589. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 12/11/1914 and transferred from 4th Supernumerary Company, 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment as Private 6614 to 2KEH on 28/04/1915. Entered France 7/07/1915. Transferred as Private, 555644 to Labour Corps 555644 after a transfer to the 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment. Discharged 27/04/1919 to an address in Sussex. Died in Brighton, Sussex in 1976. Awarded Silver War Badge 279728. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.  

EDLINGTON, Charles John. 766. Staff Serjeant 2KEH. Trumpeter. Enlisted White City, London and entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred to 53 Squadron Royal Flying Corps and KIA 16/02/1917 aged 27. Frank William Harris Simpson and Sergeant Trumpeter Charles John Edlington were killed when their BE2c (6313) broke up in vertical nose dive after descending out of control from 9,000 feet near Nieppe. Born in Shorncliffe, Kent as the son of John and Kate Edlington of 82 Havelock Road, Brighton, England. Buried in Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery, Nieppe, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Named in a photograph taken at Meaulte, December 1916.

EDWARDS, Bernard Lawrence. 1967. Private. Enlisted 26/06/1916. Transferred to 3rd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment 8/08/1917. Transferred to Army Service Corps as Private 405477 on 14/02/1918 and served in Italy. Prior service with the Queen's Bays, Orpen's Horse and a South African Cavalry. Born in 1878, married with one child and resided in East Dulwich. Discharged 26/03/1919 with an army pension. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. 

EGAN, Thomas Francis. 1573. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 23/06/1915 at Hampton Court, London with an address in Liverpool, Lancashire. Transferred as Private, 61279 with 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers on 29/11/1917 and then as Private, 302874 with the 11th Tank Corps from 24/03/1918 as a gunner. Served in France 2/01/1916 until 23/06/1918. Discharged 19/05/1919. Born in 1886 in Liverpool and died 28/07/1959 in Sydney, Australia. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Windsor, New South Wales, Australia in 1928.

ELEMENT, Alfred George. 97. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred to Labour Corps as Private, 230732. Discharged 27/02/1919. Served from 1901-03 with Rough Riders Imperial Yeomanry as a Farrier. Awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps. Born 8/03/1875 in Islington, London, Middlesex, England and died 20/07/1930 in Battersea, London, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Labour Corps. Portrait taken in 1911 courtesy of Ancestry.

ELLARD, Michael Joseph. 1524. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private Labour Corps 404592. Discharged 24/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ELLENBERG, Edward Albert. 1737. Private 2KEH. Entered France 27/10/1915. Transferred as Private, 1/4th Battalion then 1/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61182 then Private 112219, Tank Corps. KIA 28/12/1917 and commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Enlisted in Putney, Surrey. Brother of Private Martin Ellenberg, 1848, KEH. Relationship between brothers noted on Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects. Born 8/05/1891 in London, England. Edward was entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ENFIELD, William. 1909. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 17/04/1916 and entered France 25/04/1917. Transferred as Private 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61183 then Private 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302801. Discharged 12/02/1919. Born Apr 1889 in Earith, Huntingdonshire, England, resided in Ilford, Essex and died Oct 1968 in Redbridge, Greater London, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

EVANS, Herbert Nunan. 1050. Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 31/08/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

EVANS, Robert. M. 1219. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915 and commissioned 5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 4/08/1916. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from General Headquarters, Northern Command, York.

EVERETT, Raymond Charles. Second Lieutenant 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Later Captain. Mentioned in Despatches 30/01/1919. Prior service with South African Constabulary and Marshall's Horse in Boer War and awarded King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps. Born 15/01/1879 in Swaffham, Norfolk and died 23/03/1961 in Exmouth, Devon, England. Awarded Order of the British Empire. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Worthing, England. Photograph in South African Constabulary shown courtesy of Laurence Everett on Ancestry. 

EVETTS, Hubert. 176. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 12/03/1919. Entitled to a 1914/15 Star trio.

FANCOTT, . 1862. Serjeant. 2nd Troop, 2KEH. Taken from burnt portion of 2nd Troop, Nominal Roll. 18-2 for Regimental number and name F--cott.

FARRELL, John V. 1310. Serjeant 2KEH. Discharged 23/04/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FARRER-BROWN, P. Y. 1080. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 51st Middlesex Regiment. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Crouch Hill, London.

FAULKNER, Albert Brown. 642. Private 2KEH. Entered France 3/05/1915. Transferred as Private, King's Liverpool Regiment (KLR) 88745. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant (29/10/1918) later Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps. Mentioned in Despatches. Born 25/10/1889 and died in 1958 in Stockport, Cheshire. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio (with British War and Victory Medals named to KLR) from Portsmouth.

FAULKNER, Arthur. 1360. Corporal 2KEH. Transferred as Corporal, 2nd/8th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment (KLR) 85720. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to KLR.

FEATHERSTONE, . 17394. Private. 3rd Troop.

FEILING, Reginald Ernest. 144. Acting Warrant Officer Class 2, 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 1/10/1915 later Captain. Awarded Military Cross inscribed to Captain R. E. Feiling and published in London Gazette 3/06/1919 to Lieutenant (A/ Capt.) Reginald Ernest Feiling. Military Cross sold by Dix Noonan Webb auctioneers, UK in Oct 1995. Entitled to a 1914/15 Star Trio and medals applied for from Army Agents in Whitehall, London. Born 21/03/1876 in Eltham, Kent, England and presumed to have died in South Africa.

FELL, Vincent. 785. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, Northumberland Fusiliers 61296. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

FERGUSON, Clifford C. 1466. Private. Enlisted 3/04/1915 and entered France 5/07/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 113330 due to illness and discharged 14/09/1916. Born 1887. Living at St Germains V Co Road, Dalkey Co Dublin on enlistment. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FERGUSON, Thomas. 1487. Private 2KEH. Transferred to KEH as Private 2114 from 2KEH. Arrived in France 30/07/1915 and discharged 29/07/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FERRARIO, John Ernest. 1133. Private KEH (incorrect spelling on British War and Victory Medal rolls as Ferraris under 2KEH). Entered France 5/05/1915. Lieutenant commissioned 2KEH 1/10/1915 then Captain 11th Battalion Tank Corps. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1914. Awarded Military Cross (MC) and Bar with the Tank Corps. MC and Bar group of four awarded to Captain J. E. Ferrario, 16th Battalion, Tank Corps, and King Edward’s Horse, the bar being awarded for conspicuous gallantry at Mortho Wood on 8/10/1918. Military Cross, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, reverse of cross inscribed ‘Lieut., King Edward’s Horse’; 1914-15 Star (1133 Pte., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) M.C. published in the London Gazette 18/06/1917, (2nd Lieut., King Edward’s Horse). ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty, while on reconnaissance. He displayed great coolness and skill in withdrawing his patrol under heavy fire, covering the retirement himself. His personal example was splendid.’ Bar to Military Cross published in the London Gazette on 15/02/1919. The recommendation states ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Mortho Wood, Villers-Outreaux, on 8/10/1918, when he assisted his company reconnaissance officer in successfully laying tape under heavy shell fire through German posts to German main line. Later he tried to get into a burning tank to rescue some of the crew; the tank was being heavily shelled. Again, later, he went forward under heavy shell and machine-gun fire to make sure that the last tank of his section had got into action. During the whole action he displayed total disregard to his personal safety.’ Born 1/10/1887 in Harrow, Middlesex, England and died in 1931 in Darvel Hall, Robertsbridge, TB Sanatorium, Sussex, England. Name commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland. His medals were sold at auction by Sotherby's in 1985 and then by Dix Noonan Webb, UK in April 2004 and an image of his medals are shown on the accompanying page. His sword, engraved with his name, was sold in the UK in 2019 and photographs of it are also shown. 

FERRIER, Alexander. 2058. Private. Transferred to KEH as Private 2071. Discharged 25/10/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FIELD, Albert. 1055. Private 2KEH. Entered France 18/08/1915. Transferred as Private, Tank Corps 300509. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.

FINCH, James Walter. 157. Serjeant. Entered France 5/05/1915. Wounded at Pont Fixe 20/06/1915. Transferred as Warrant Officer Class 2, 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61293 then Warrant Officer Class 2, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302774. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FINKLE, James. 1565. Corporal. Entered France 5/07/1915. Transferred as a Corporal, 11th Battalion, Tanks Corps 302860 then Corporal, 12th/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61225. Argentinian who enlisted from Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged 27/08/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FINNEY, Alexander. 61187. Private. Transferred as Private, 1st/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 112091 and then Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302802. Medal Index Card states eligible for Silver War Badge but unable to find record. Discharged 24/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medal.

FISHER, Alwyn George Edmond. 1006. Private.  Enlisted at Shepherd's Bush. Entered France 4/05/1915. Born in East Finchley, London and KIA 25/05/1915 aged 31 at the Battle of Festubert. Second surviving son of George Fisher, of Hurst, Sutton, Surrey, formerly partner in the firm of Messrs. Robinson and Fisher, of Willis' Rooms, St. James', and of Katie, daughter of Samuel Heath. Manager of an estancia near Bahia, San Bias, Argentina. Educated at Harrow. Trooper Fisher, being in England on a holiday at the time, joined the Legion of Frontiersmen on the first day of the War, afterwards exchanging to the 2nd King Edward's Horse. He went to France in April, 1915, and saw much fighting near Cuinchy and in the Battle of Festubert. He was killed on 25/05/1915, advancing with hand-grenades, for the second time, on the German trenches. A friend, who was with him at the time, writes: " I was running with him down the side of a trench, under heavy fire, when a chance shot must have skimmed a low part of the trench. He was struck in the head, and death was immediate; he could never have known anything." Commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France. (Possible photograph Figure 23). Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and medals applied for by his mother Mrs E. R. Fisher.
 
FITCH, Stephen. 1963. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private 1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61209 then Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302820. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

FITZGERALD, Francis John. 1168. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, 40559 later commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Westcliffe-On-Sea with British War and Victory Medals named to Second Lieutenant FitzGerald, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment sold by Christie's auctioneers, UK in Sep 2001.

FLETCHER, Edward Addenbrooke. 1496. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 1/06/1915. Transferred as a Lance Corporal, 1/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61174 formerly Lance Corporal, 112013, Tank Corps. KIA 10/04/1918. Born in 30/07/1886 in Weston, Lincolnshire and he had originally gone to Australia in 1914 with his brother Henry Mossop Fletcher for a new life. When war broke out he came back in 1915 to serve in the British Army but Henry stayed and died there. Name commemorated on the Australian War Memorial and on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Ploegsteert, Belgium. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FOARD, Frederick. 1601. Private 2KEH. 3rd Troop. Entered France 5/07/1915. Discharged 20/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FOLEY, James. 1850. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private, 85683 2nd/8th King's Liverpool Regiment and then as Private, 302883 in the Tank Corps. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to the Tank Corps.

FOOT, Thomas Morey. 1717. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 7/07/1915 and entered France 14/10/1915. Discharged 14/09/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 81,401. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Born in Jan 1883 in St Pancras, London and was living at St Hilde First Avenue, Hendon, London on discharge. Died 9/06/1938 in Honiton, Devon.

FORD, . Private. Named in group photograph taken in Ireland in 1917 shown under the 2KEH Uniforms section of this website and repeated on the accompanying page. Photograph courtesy of Simon Jervis.

FORD, Stanley. 1244. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 10/12/1914. Discharged on medical grounds on 31/03/1915. Born in Feltham, Middlesex, London in 1893. No medal entitlement.

FORDE, Jeremiah. 1642. Private 2KEH. Entered France 15/07/1915. Transferred as Private 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61186 then Private 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302791. KIA 14/04/1918 and buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Calais, France. Born in St. Finbarres, Co. Cork in 1878. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FORREST, Harold Archibald. 940. Private 2KEH.  Private H. A. Forrest, King Edward’s Horse, later Lancashire Fusiliers. 1914-15 Star (940 Pte. H. A. Forrest. K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (940 Pte. H. A. Forrest. K. Edw. H.). Harold Archibald Forrest was born in Streatham in 1889 and attested for General Service on 4/09/1914, giving his profession as Assistant Riding Master. He served during the Great War with 2KEH on the Western Front from 5/05/1915, and, having subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, was discharged on account of wounds on 9/08/1918 (entitled to Silver War Badge). He died in Rochford, Essex in 1948. Photograph of 1914/15 Star trio sold by Dix Noonan Webb UK at auction July 2017 shown.

FORSTER, Alfred Chapman. 1077. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Royal Defence Corps 68938 on 6/08/1917. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FOSTER, William. 1373. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as a Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps 25294. Commissioned 25/01/1918 as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FOUNTAIN, Owen George William. 1669. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 31/05/1915 and entered France 15/07/1915. Transferred as Private, 11th Battalion, Tanks Corps 302795 on 7/08/1917 then Private Northumberland Fusiliers 61185 from 27/08/1917 until discharged 15/02/1919. From Hampton Hill, Middlesex, England. Born 13/06/1892 and died Oct 1975 in Chelsea, London. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

FRASER, Ernest Albert. 1727. Private 2KEH. Enlisted in London having travelled back from Vereenging, Transvaal, South Africa. Entered France 30/09/1915. KIA 1/07/1916 and commemorated on Thiepval Memorial. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. 

FRASER, Guy Basil. Captain in 1914. Entered France June 1915. Wounded at Pont Fixe 21/06/1915. Later Captain Head Quarters, No 1 Training Group, Royal Air Force. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

FRYER, Horace Walter. 687. Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 40558. KIA 9/10/1917. Born in St. Pancras, Middlesex on 12/08/1887. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, France. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FULLER, Albert. 1078. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Discharged 14/12/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FULLER, Charles S. Lieutenant. Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 3rd Battalion Manchester Regiment 24/10/1916. Second Lieutenant 1st Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Awarded Military Cross. KIA 11/11/1917 while on an offensive patrol  when the wings of Nieuport Scout aircraft B6798 folded and collapsed during a dive on Dickebusch Lake, the aircraft crashed and he was drowned. Born 21/12/1887 in Hobart, Tasmania the son of Sidney Holgate Fuller and Emma Davis. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France. Commemorated on the Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

FUTTER, John Alfred. 1503. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 15/04/1915 and entered France 5/05/1915. Discharged 18/08/1916. From Butterworth, South Africa born 27/08/1884 and died in 1918. Prior service with District Mounted Rifles in South Africa. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GALBRAITH, Lawrence Lovel. 1906. Serjeant 2KEH. Returned from the Argentine to enlist. Attached 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles. Discharged 13/09/1919. Born 25/02/1889 in Kilkenny, Ireland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medal.

GALE, Edgar G. 972. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 13/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GARDINER, Frederick Cecil. 1313. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Lance Corporal, Machine Gun Corps (MGC) 154614. Discharged 13/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to MGC.

GARDINER, George Hy. 1738. Private 2KEH. Transferred as a Private, 2nd/9th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment 85786. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

GARDYNE, Thomas M. B. 438. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915 and discharged 2/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GARLAND, Charles (Dick). 932. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Lieutenant Yorkshire Dragoons 15/08/1916. Dick was born in Canada and educated at Brighton Grammar School in Victoria, Australia as his father Richard was General Manager of Dunlop Pty Ltd in Melbourne, Australia. Dick and his brother Ewart were living in London at the outbreak of the war and Dick enlisted in 2KEH in April 1915. He saw service with the 2KEH during the Easter uprising in Ireland and wrote a letter that was published in 'The Age' newspaper in Victoria on 1st July 1916 which caused a stir as to the scale of civilian losses during the uprising and the plight of the Irish people. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Ewart trained to be a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in July 1916. Photograph of Dick Garland in India in 1943 courtesy of the State Library of Queensland. http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/ww1/2016/03/28/charles-garland-easter-rising-1916/.

GARRETT, Roland. 1380. Private 2KEH. Came to England in Nov 1914 and enlisted 4/01/1915 at Whitehall and entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private Royal Engineers 244333, Private Liverpool Regiment 112117. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers 7/03/1919. A surveyor like his father and was working in the Malay States pre-war. Born 26/04/1876 in Wanganui, New Zealand and died there on 14/10/1954. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GAUSDEN, Nelson. 1634. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private Machine Gun Corps 22978. Temporarily attached to the 93rd Company, Machine Gun Corps from 28/07/1916 and saw action at Neuve Chapelle. Likely to be in the Frank Vans Agnew photograph of 2KEH draft to the MGC taken 21/06/1916.

GEARY, Valentine. 1533. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 16/04/1915 and entered France 5/07/1915. Transferred to 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302605, Private Northumberland Fusiliers 39907, Private 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers 40564. Gun Shot Wound to the neck sustained in Aug 1917 required hospitalisation. Posted as Missing in Action 29/09/1918 and repatriated as a Prisoner of War 9/12/1918. Discharged 31/03/1920. Born in Cork, Ireland in 1896 and died there in Jun 1946. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

GEDDES, Evans J. 134. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 13th Battalion Welsh Regiment 19/03/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GEORGE, Edward Royston. 957. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 264th Field Company, Royal Engineers 15/2/1916 and later promoted to Captain. Died 12/08/1917 at casualty clearing station. Buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Applied for his medals via cousin Mrs Draper, Swan Hotel, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. 

GEPP, Charles William. 1322. Private 2KEH. Enlisted at Hampton Court London. Entered France 5/05/1915. KIA 9/07/1915. Born on 9/05/1894 in Valparaiso, Chile. Buried in LA PLUS DOUVE FARM CEMETERY, Hainaut, Belgium. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

GERRETT, Leopold Eustace. 668. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 25/08/1914 and entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Acting Corporal Tank Corps 112115 on 7/08/19197. Discharged 19/02/1919. Born on 10/05/1885 in Chelsea, London, England and died 16/12/1942 in Middlesex, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.

GIBBES, Francis Gruzelier Vincent. 1368. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, King's Liverpool Regiment (KLR) 85730. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment 30/10/1918. Born 27/07/1891 in Chile. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio (with British War and Victory Medals named to KLR) from Mailef, Chile.

GIBBON, Oliver V. 1411. Private 2KEH. Entered 5/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 12th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment 30/01/1916. Entitled to a 1914/15 Star trio.

GIBBS, Richard Teasdale. 1456. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 29/03/1915, entered France 5/05/1915 and discharged 16/06/1916 due to wounds. Awarded British War Badge 10,540. 10914/15 Star Trio applied for c/o Stores Department, Central Argentine Railway as was Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Name recorded on the Church of St John the Baptist, Clontarf, Dublin Roll of Honour.

GIDWELL, John. 463. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, 4th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 45473. Served in Germany post Armistice. Likely to have had prior service in the Boer War with 2nd Kitchener's Fighting Scouts as Private, 95. Awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Lancashire Fusiliers. Name and service commemorated in the London County Council Record of War Service 1914-19.

GILES, Samuel Charles. 1096. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps 460121. Discharged 6/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GLOVER, Arthur Harding. 435. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment 25/09/1917 later Lieutenant. Awarded Military Cross. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Surbiton, Surrey and later Dunlop Plantation, Malacca.

GLOVER, James Victor. 153426. Private 2KEH. Transferred from Warwickshire Yeomanry as Private 3489, 311173 on 23/11/1915. Accidentally shot his foot while rabbit hunting 12/10/1918. Born in 1888 in Studley, Warwickshire and was married to Mabel. Discharged 9/04/1919. No Medal Index Card or Service Medal Roll entry identified.

GLYNN, John. 1471. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/5/1915. Deserted 16/11/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio but forfeited.

GODSMARK, Harry S. 992. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Discharged 10/02/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star Medal trio. A Harry Sharpley Godsmark who served in Kitchener's Horse in the Boer War appears to be unrelated.

GOODWIN, Arthur E. 1775. Private 2KEH. Entered France 14/10/1915 with 2KEH as Private 1775. Transferred to KEH as Private 2073. Discharged 10/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GORDON, . 157633. Private. 3rd Troop. 2KEH.

GORDON, William. 1544. Private 2KEH. Enlisted in Waterford, Ireland. Transferred as Private (Gunner) 12th Battalion, Tank Corps 112196. KIA 29/08/1918 aged 24. Son of James G. Gordon, of Kilclooney, County Galway and buried in MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY, France. Born in Fairymount, Roscommon, Ireland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

GORDON, William. 1783. Private 2KEH. Private 25th Indian Cavalry, Second Lieutenant Indian Army Reserve of Officers 7/04/1918.

GOUGH, Frederick. 1169. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Machine Gun Corps (MGC) 152602. Discharged 27/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to MGC and to be issued by the Police Force.

GOULD, John Ringrose. 1008. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned 2KEH 1/10/1915. Second Lieutenant then Major Royal Air Force. Wounded 8/7/16. Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 15/05/1917). Entitled to 1914/15 trio and applied for medals from West Byfleet, Surrey. Worked for the BUENOS AYRES WESTERN RAILWAY, LTD prior to enlistment.

GRAHAM, Gordon. 1467. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private, Army Service Corps R/384007 on 22/02/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

GRAHAM, Malcolm Hewley. 977. Private 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Commissioned Royal Garrison Artillery 6/07/1916. Born 7/07/1875 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England and died 14/12/1958 in Guildford, Surrey, England Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Medals applied for from Burnham-on-Crouch then the Lees Hotel, Westcliff-on-Sea.

GRAINGER, E. 1098. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Lance Corporal, Military Mounted Police P12030. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

GRANT, James. 1189. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as a Serjeant, Tank Corps 111990. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.

GRAVES, Walter F. 1734. Private 2KEH. Entered France 14/10/1915. Transferred as Acting Corporal, Royal Engineers (Railway Troops) WR204579, Private K Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, Heavy Branch (Tank Corps), 112125 but transferred as unsuitable for Tank Corps after 20 days as Private, 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, 857713. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GRAY, Charles Cecil. 1419. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 12/02/1915 and entered France 5/05/1915. Discharged 16/04/1917. Awarded Silver War badge B908. Born in 1882 and resided in Devon post war. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

GREEN, Alfred. Charles. 1510. Private 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/2023. Transferred as Private, 662nd Company, Labour Corps 230750. Discharged 29/08/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GREENE, Richard Alexander Maddon. 1232. Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 5/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, Northumberland Fusiliers 61298 then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Northumberland Fusiliers. Born in 1880 in Warbleton, Sussex, England. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Buenos Aries, Argentine.

GREENWAY, Mather. 1621. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 29/07/1915. Transferred as Lance Corporal, 22979 then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps on 25/06/1917. Born 17/08/1887 in Hampenden, Hertfordshire England and died 18/08/1922 in Hendon, Middlesex, England. 1914/15 Star trio applied for by his widow Mrs. M. Greenway, North Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.

GREENLAND, John. 140. Lance Serjeant. 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Awarded Croix de Guerre. Transferred as Serjeant, Labour Corps 471845. Discharged 17/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio

GREENWAY, Thomas. 1134. Private 2KEH. Enlisted 9/11/1914 an promoted to Corporal 14/11/1914 then Serjeant 8/12/1914. Entered France 2/10/1915 and reverted to Private at his own request on 20/08/1915. Transferred as Private 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 61289 on 7/08/1917 as then as Private 11th Battalion, Tank Corps 302864 on 23/03/1918. Discharged 2/03/1919. Born 20/08/1886 in Hendon, Middlesex and died 16/01/1958 in Kent, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.

GRIERSON, Alexander Stewart. Private 2KEH. Entered France 15/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Tank Corps 300523. Likely to have been born in 1892 in Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.

GRIEVE, William Grant. 1453. Serjeant 2KEH. Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers 26/01/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

GRIFFITHS, William. T. 2. Private 2nd KEH. Arrived in France 4/05/1915 as Private 2 in 2nd KEH and discharged 19/04/1919 as Private 2116 KEH. Previous service 10th Hussars as Private 3562 discharged 1907. Awarded Queens South Africa Medal with clasps Paardeberg, Driefontein, Relief of Kimberley. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio with his British War Medal held in a private collection in the UK.

GROSVENOR, Gilbert. Major the Honourable Gilbert Grosvenor, Rifle Brigade, King's Colonials, 2KEH and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry. Awarded Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 Medal with two clasps Transvaal and Cape Colony (Lieut: Hon. G. Grosvenor, Rifle Bde:); King’s South Africa 1901-02 Medal with two clasps (Lt. Hon. G. Grosvenor. Rifle Bde.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut. Hon. G. Grosvenor. K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Major Hon. G. Grosvenor.) The Honourable Gilbert Grosvenor was born on 22 August 1881, the second son of the 1st Baron Stalbridge and his wife Eleanor, and the grandson of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster. He was educated at Eton, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, serving with them in South Africa during the Boer War. He transferred to 'C' Squadron, King's Colonials in 1908. He then served with the 2KEH as a Second Lieutenant from Oct 1914 before transferring in 1916 to the Nottingham Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers) with the rank of Major. Grosvenor married Miss Effie Cree, the daughter of the Reverend Edward Cree, on 4 July 1913. He died without issue on 15 June 1939. Photograph of his medals sold by Dix Noonan Webb, UK at auction in December 2016 shown. Lieutenant in 'C' Squadron KEH photographed at Woodbridge in 1914. 

GULLY, Frederick Percival. 916. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Entered France 4/05/1915. Transferred as Sapper, Labour Corps 630151. Discharged 3/04/1919. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Caton Rectory, Church Stretton, Salop.

GUNNELL, Leonard Daniel. 2206. Private 2KEH. Listed as with 2KEH Reserve Regiment on 1919 Absent Voter List and living in Islington, London.