IDDON, Harry. 1495. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 10/04/1915 in Liverpool and entered France on 30/07/1915. Transferred as Private, 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 611188 then Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 302799. Discharged on 5/03/1919. Born on 10/03/1887 in Everton St Ambrose, Lancashire and died in Mar 1964 in Preston, Lancashire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
INGE, Walter Charles. Second Lieutenant, 2KEH. Transferred to South Staffordshire Regiment (London Gazette 26/02/1916) later Captain. Entered France on 16/12/1916. Born on 22/05/1868 in South Norwood, Surrey, England and died on 6/02/1940 in Kilburn, London, England. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Broad Green, London.
INSKIP, Edward Digby. 1272. Private, 2KEH. Returned to England from Buenos Aires, Argentina to enlist on 16/12/1914. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment on 4/09/1916. Later served as a Second Lieutenant with 57 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Born in 1894 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England and died on 8/10/1964 in Punto Fijo, Falcon, Venezuela. His brother was Roland 'Tim' Debenham Inskip CB CIE DSO MC (17/09/1885 – 23/11/1971), an English first-class cricketer and British Army Officer. Roland served in the British Indian Army from 1905 to 1947, seeing action in the First World War, the Waziristan campaign and the Second World War. He was highly decorated in these campaigns and eventually reached the rank of Major-General. Edward applied for his 1914/15 Star trio from Santiago, Chile. Civilian portrait shown from 1950s courtesy of the Imperial War Museum Lives of the First World War.
IRONSIDE, David Cooper. 1699. Private, 2KEH. Transferred as Private, 20th then 18th then 14th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61207. Born on 5/03/1886 in Aberdeen, Scotland. Awarded British War and Victory Medals named to Northumberland Fusiliers.
J. J. Private, 2KEH. Could be a number of individuals with these initials as noted below. Two photographs shown of him mounted and standing at camp in 1915 have J.J. as the caption (courtesy of Joanna Bacon and now in the author's collection).
JACOBS, John. 539. Served as John COLE. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted in Liverpool. Entered France on 14/10/1915. He DOW on 13/12/1916 and died at the 10th General Hospital, Rouen. Born in Surrey, England and living at time of enlistment in Canning Town, London. Buried at ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime, France. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JACKSON, Joseph J. 1421. Corporal, 2KEH. Transferred as Corporal, 14th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment, 85705. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
JAMES, Francis Henry. 824. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 2/07/1915. Transferred as Private, Northumberland Fusiliers, 39908. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JAMES, H.W. Private, 2KEH. Promoted to Second Lieutenant 11/06/1915. Further research required.
JAMES, Maurice. 1345. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 15/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2KEH on 15/04/1917. Awarded Silver War Badge 45925 in 2KEH attached to the Machine Gun Corps. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Cardiff. His service is commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland.
JAMIESON, John McCuill. 30. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, Notts & Derby Regiment on 28/02/1917. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio which he applied for from Scotland.
JARVIE, Norman Alexander. 405. Private, 2KEH. He died in service on 13/12/1914 aged 40. Born in 1874 in Anderson, Glasgow. Commission as a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd /4th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry on 27/05/1895. On 28/07/1896 he was promoted to full Lieutenant and on 10/10/1899, The London Gazette announced Jarvie’s promotion to Captain. The very next day, the Second Anglo-Boer War broke out and on 25/01/900, the Dundee Evening Telegraph reported that Jarvie had been attached to the 1st Battalion and was soon to depart for South Africa. The 1st Battalion had suffered heavy casualties at the Battle of Magersfontein (11/12/1899) and Issue no 13, vol 2 of the HLIC stated that he was leading a detachment of 50 NCOs and men to replace these losses. On 5th February Jarvie had departed Devonport with his 50 men and was to sail that afternoon from Southampton on the ship Majestic. In late March, reinforcements from the 4th Battalion (likely including Jarvie) finally caught up with the 1st Battalion in the Orange Free State capital of Bloemfontein. The next day, the battalion had to make a forced march to join the Highland Brigade at Reitfontein. Assuming that Jarvie was not one of them, he almost certainly accompanied the 1st Battalion on its march to Heilbron, during which they lost 70 men to constant harassment from Boer guerrillas. The HLI’s roll for the Queen’s South Africa Medal lists that Jarvie qualified for the Wittebergen clasp, which required him to be in the area of Harrismith and Bethlehem in July of 1900. This means he probably took part in the HLI’s capture of Retief’s Nek on 23rd July. He may also have been present for the action at Spitz Kop on 15th August. Jarvie boarded the ship Britannic from Capetown on 6th October and was on his way back to Britain. On 16/11/1900, the London Gazette published a notice that Jarvie had been removed from the army, ‘the Queen having no further occasion for his services’. This dismissal immediately caused a minor scandal, with half a dozen newspapers printing the story. On 24th November, the Worcester Chronicle published the story under the headline ‘Officers Cashiered’. The manner of his dismissal and the reporting around it suggests that Jarvie’s military career may have ended in a court martial. When the next war broke out 14 years later, he was 40 and technically too old to enlist. However, he appears to have enlisted as a simple trooper in the 2KEH. Jarvie may have lied about his age to join up, but as he was physically capable and passed the tests, many examiners would happily have passed him. Furthermore, he may have omitted to state his previous service, since many regiments didn’t want court martialed soldiers in the ranks. However, the 2KEH was made up primarily of ex-patriot Britons from the Colonies and Jarvie’s family connections with Singapore and the Far East may have been a factor in his acceptance. He died of illness 13/12/1914 in Brentford Hospital, Middlesex, United Kingdom and is buried in Middlesex. His sacrifice is commemorated on the Glasgow Necropolis. Jarvie’s Officer’s sword was first recorded in Dix Noonan Web’s Auction of the 14/12/2006. It later appeared in Bonhams’ auction on the 5/12/2012. The sword carries the following Inscription: “Norman A Jarvie, Captain, 4th Ban., Highland Light Infantry, South Africa, 1899 -1900”.
JARVIS, Charles Wemyn Barron. 1011. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment on 14/05/1915 later Captain. He was KIA on 30/07/1916. His 1914/15 Star trio claimed by his mother from Tayport, Fife, Scotland.
JEFFREY, Sidney William. 1831. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 9/11/1915. Discharged on14/09/1916. Came from Australia in March 1915 noted on British War Medal Roll which is his sole entitlement. Born in 1892. Applied for British War Medal from Wellington, New Zealand.
JENKINSON, Christopher Russell. 1117. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant, 2KEH. Entered France on 30/09/1915. He was WIA at Pont Fixe in 1915. Transferred as Colour Serjeant, Lancashire Fusiliers, 45481 then commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps on 28/03/1918. Born in Jul 1873 and died in Jan-Mar 1938 at Lilliputian, Poole, Dorset, England. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Stoke Newington, London.
JEPSON, John B. 1437. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as a Private, Machine Gun Corps, 52909. Discharged on 2/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JERVIS, Ivan. 609. Serjeant Major, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Reduced to the Ranks on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, 101654, 29th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph as a 2KEH Serjeant at Langley Camp in Oct 1914 with his relatives is shown on accompanying page courtesy of Joanna Bacon and now in the author's collection.
JOHNSON, Albert H. 161. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Discharged on 19/04/1919. Entitled to a 1914/15 Star trio.
JOHNSON, Louis H. 61709. Private, 2KEH. He was a Trooper, British Columbia Horse and transferred as a Driver, 2KEH then Air Mechanic Second Class, Royal Air Force Photographic Section. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JOHNSTON, Andrew Archibald (Archie). 1162. Serjeant, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Born in Singapore on 10 December 1881, the son of an East India Merchant. He enlisted as a Trooper in 2KEH on the Army Reserve in Nov 1914, when he stated that his former occupation was that of 'rancher'; he would later state that he had also been a 'prospector' and 'trawler hand'. Rapidly advanced to Sergeant, he reverted to the rank of Private at his own request in April 1915, shortly before he was embarked for France. By Jan 1916, however, he was once again wearing Sergeant's stripes and he remained on active service until Jul 1917, when he was posted to No. 1 Cavalry Cadet Squadron at Netheravon. He was subsequently commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st (Reserve) Lancers and relinquished his commission in Mar 1919. He served with 20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers prior to Private 13538, 68th Company (Paget's Horse), 19th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry from 3/01/1900 to Jul 1901. He was awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Transvaal and South Africa 1900-01 clasps. Applied for 1914/15 Star Trio from Richmond, Surrey, England. He died on 6/11/1927 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 46 in a railway accident. His 1914-15 Star (1162 Pte. A. A. Johnston, K. Edw. H.); British War Medal 1914-20 (1162 Sjt. A. A. Johnston, K. Edw. H.) was sold at auction by Spink in the UK.
JOHNSTON, Guy Featherston. Farrier Serjeant, 2KEH. He may have had prior service with KEH. Served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant, 1363 with 8th Company, 4th New Zealand Contingent Left Wing from 19/06/1901 after four years in 'D' Battery, New Zealand Artillery. Sailed on the Gymeric on 31/03/1900. Captain in the New Zealand Militia in 1902. After serving in France with 2KEH returned to New Zealand as a Lieutenant, 12701 in the 13th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery, New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 15/12/1915 with an embarkation date of 27/05/1916 on HMNZT 54 "Willochra". From Wellington, New Zealand in Boer War and Auckland in WW1. Born on 2/9/1872, the son of Hon. C. J. Johnston, MP, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand and died on 2/01/1941. His brother Brigadier-General Francis Earl Johnston, CB was KIA on 7/08/1917. Guy was born in Wellington and was educated in England. Joining the British Army, he served with the Prince of Wales’s North Staffordshire Regiment in the Sudan and later in the Second Boer War in South Africa. He was in New Zealand on secondment to the New Zealand Military Forces when the First World War began and was posted to the NZEF as commander of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade. He led the Brigade through most of the Gallipoli Campaign. Later, on the Western Front, he commanded the 1st Infantry Brigade and, for a brief period, the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He was shot and killed by a sniper on 7/08/1917; one of three New Zealand Brigadier Generals killed during the war. Lieutenant Johnston noted as serving in the 2KEH in the Taranaki Herald 1/10/1914. His service is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.
JOHNSTON, Hector Camden. 1670. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 2/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Border Regiment on 26/06/1917. Awarded Silver War Badge 341142. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Eureka, Richmond River, New South Wales, Australia. Born on 9/07/1887 in Eureka, New South Wales, Australia and died there on 13/11/1939.
JOHNSTONE, James. 723. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry on 24/01/1917. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JOHNSTONE, Robert Philip. 1312. Private, 2KEH. Prior service as Private, KEH, 1312. Enlisted on 23/12/1914. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Discharged on 2/09/1916 due to wounds with Silver War Badge 177131. Awarded OBE. Born in 1890 in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and died in 1967. Brother of Corporal Romer Johnstone, 1316 KEH. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. Information courtesy of Helen Pollock.
JONES, Edward Arthur. 1593. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 29/04/1915 and entered France on 15/07/1915. Discharged on 9/08/1917. Born in 1888. Awarded Silver War Badge 14,571. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JONES, Frank (Fred) Wright. 927. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted in Dec 1914 and served in Serjeant Cowley's troop. Transferred to the Army Service Corps on 28/09/1917 as Lance Corporal, R/39963. The very grainy photograph shown of Private Frank Jones with Private Charlie Hakewill, 2KEH appeared in the Market Harborough Advertiser on 9/11/1915 while taking a break. The article with the photograph explains "Charlie was nicknamed “Peter the Painter” and Fred W. Jones was “Jockey” enjoying a “well-earned rest,” and we might also add, a well-earned refreshment. Both send cheery greetings to their Harborough friends". They are all serving in 2KEH, The Canadian Mounted Brigade. An additional photograph of Private Jones, 2KEH who was a cross-country horseman from a village in Market Harborough, UK on horseback is shown in Figure 39d from local sources by W. R. (Bob) H. Hakewill a published local historian in Market Harborough, UK.
JONES, Harry. 1750. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted in London on 24/07/1915. Acting Serjeant, Royal Engineers, WR12815 and then 205598 in the Inland Water Transport section. Discharged 21/4/18 as over military service age. Died in service from a lymphadenoma on 30/4/1918 on board H.M.A.T. "Suevic" en-route to Australia. Next of Kin, Mr W. Jones, Salop Street, North Kensington, Adelaide and Mrs. J. Lawn (Aunt), Main Street, Mordialloc, Victoria. Awarded Silver War Badge 360150 due to sickness and entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
JONES, John H. 1571. Private, 2KEH. Transferred to Royal Flying Corps (RFC) on 6/11/1917 as 107453. British War and Victory Medals named to RFC.
JONES, Stanislaus Robert. 1885. Private (Signaller), 3rd Troop, 2KEH Reserve Regiment. Enlisted on 7/04/1916. Served in Ireland. Discharged on 5/04/1919 on an army pension due to a service induced medical condition. No service medal entitlement. His mother resided in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
JONES, O. L. Private, 2KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 11/06/1915. Further research required.
JORDAN, Edward. 1156. Corporal, 2KEH. Entered France on 2/07/1915. Transferred as Corporal, 1st Battalion then 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 200715. He was KIA on 22/02/1917 aged 27. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Jordan, of Co. Carlow; husband of Edith Jordan, of Upper Holloway, London. Buried in MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT, France. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
JOYCE, James Bailey. 1864. Corporal, 2KEH. Transferred as Corporal, 3/85725 in the 20th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment and then to the 11th Battalion, Tank Corps as Corporal, 302886. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to the Tank Corps.
JOYCE, Percy F. 1350. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers on 29/1/1916 later Captain.1914/15 Star trio applied for c/o Messrs. Brown Shipley & Co, Pall Mall, London. British War and Victory Medals issued by Government of India.
JOYCE, Reuben (Robert) Jacob. 1305. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Discharged on 19/04/1919. Born in Singapore in 1892 and lived in Princess Gate, Knightsbridge, London. Multiple hospital admissions when serving with 2KEH. Died in Nov 1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio with British War and Victory Medals returned to be destroyed as unclaimed due to premature death.
JUDD, Henry Alexander. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1914. Promoted to Lieutenant in Oct 1914. Acting Captain then Captain with the 3rd Canadian Cavalry. Entered France on 3/05/1915. Twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 11/12/1917 and 20/12/1918). Lieutenant Colonel on his 1914/15 Star trio application. Awarded Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1919 list in the London Gazette as Lieutenant 2KEH. His 1914/15 Star and his OBE are shown on the accompanying page, courtesy of a private collector.
JUDD, Reginald A. 2023. Private, 2KEH. Transferred to KEH as Private, 2077. Discharged on 4/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
JUDGE, Arthur George. 1668. Private, 2KEH. He enlisted in London on 16/10/1917 in 2KEH and then transferred as Private, 59058, Royal Fusiliers then Private, 26318, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. He died at 48 Casualty Clearing Station, France, of pneumonia on 6/03/1919. Buried in Belgrade Cemetery, Belgium. Son of Elizabeth Jane (nee Withers) Judge of Watford, and the late James Judge. Arthur was born 1897 in Westminster, London, and resided in Balcombe, Sussex. On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Leweston, Dorset, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 13, he was living in Berkeley Square, London W, with his parents and no siblings. He was entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.
JUST, Leonard Wolfgang. 1045. Private, 2KEH. Noted as serving as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonials on 21/04/1903. Entered France on 4/05/1915 then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2nd/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment on 10/10/1915 later Lieutenant. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KANE, Denis. 1457. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 2nd/10th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment 91429 then Private, 10th then 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 202818, He was KIA on 2/09/1918. Buried at Dury Crucifix Cemetery, France. Born in Fiarveiw, Co. Dublin the son of Denis Kane and Bridget Prendergast. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KANE, Michael Douglas. 1542. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 21/04/1915 in Dublin aged 25. Transferred as Lance Corporal, Military Mounted Police, P/15732. From Rush, Dublin, Ireland. Further research required.
KEARNEY, John. 1498. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Deserted on 29/10/1915 and forfeited his Great War service medals entitlement.
KEEN, Arthur William. 1917. Private, 2KEH. Transferred as Private, 1st/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61191 then Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 302790. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
KEESHAN, Daniel Joseph. 1513. Lance Corporal, 2KEH. Born in Jul 1885 in Ireland and served as a boy soldier in the Leinster Regiment, 6102 from 01/1900-10/07/1903 then Private in the Irish Guards from 11/07/1903-11/03/1908 and then Corporal from 12/03/1908-19/03/1914. Transferred to 2KEH then Serjeant, King's Liverpool Regiment, 85715 from 14/04/1914-14/12/1918. Lance Corporal KEH, 1513. Re-joined Dublin Metropolitan Police on 8/11/1918 and difficult to ascertain when he served pre-war given succession of army service. Died in Dublin on 1/11/1944. Photograph of 1914/15 Star trio shown named to King's Liverpool Regiment.
KELLY, Arthur F. 177. Serjeant (Farrier)., 2KEH. Entered France on 3/06/1915. Discharged on 13/12/1918. Entitled to a 1914/15 Star trio.
KELLY, John George. 1619. Private, 2KEH. His birth name was Joaquim Vitali. Transferred to 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade as Private, S/29120. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Rifle Brigade.
KELLY, Joseph. 760. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 26/08/1914 and discharged 11 days later on 5/09/1914. Passed his medical examination but his Short Service Attestation papers state not appointed signed by Lt Col Montagu Cradock, Commanding Officer. Born in 1884 in Ratoath, County Meath, Ireland. No medal entitlement.
KELLY, Joseph. 1651. Private, 2KEH. Transferred to 1st/4th Northumberland Fusiliers as Private, 39987 and then Tank Corps as Private, 302919. He was interred as a POW from 29/09/1918 to 11/11/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Tank Corps.
KELLY, Robert. 806. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 25/08/1914 and entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 85716 in the 19th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment then transferred to Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch), Tank Corps on 27/08/1917 as Private, 302779. Discharged on 4/03/1919. Prior service as Private, 1505 with Nesbitt's Horse in the Boer War and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony clasp and King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and 1902 clasps. His medals were sent to his brother C. H. Kelly, Warder, Her Majesty's Prison, Lincoln. Born in York, England in 1880. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio with 1914/15 Star named to 2nd KEH and British War and Victory Medals named to Tank Corps.
KELSON, Gerald Miles. Private, 2KEH. Lieutenant 24/01/1917. Transferred and promoted to Major, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps. Served in German West Africa where he served from 26/09/1914 with Enslin's Horse as Trooper, 93 until 26/05/1915. Awarded Military Cross for gallantry on 8/10/1918 at Villers Otreaux as Lieutenant (Acting Captain, Tank Corps) (London Gazette 30/07/1919). Died on 27/12/1919 of an overdose of chlorodyne and buried in Plumsead Cemetery, Cape Town, South Africa. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.
KEMP, Joseph. 1765. Private, 2KEH. Discharged on 22/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
KEYS, Charles. 190. Serjeant, 2KEH. Promoted to Warrant Officer Class 2, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 11th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment on 4/08/1916. Lived in Muswellbrook, NSW, Australia. Awarded Silver War Badge 149868. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.
KIDDELL, Arthur James Bartram. 1420. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as Lance Corporal, Northumberland Fusiliers, 39957. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Charing Cross, London, England.
KIERNAN, Christopher. 1825. Private, 2KEH. Transferred to 1st/4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61281 then 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 302831. Died in service of sickness on 7/11/1918. Buried in ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN, France. Born on 20/05/1895 in Mullingar, Co Westmeath, Ireland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
KILLINGLY, John Charles Horwood. 138. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 27/08/1914. Served until 25/09/1914. Served in Belgium from Oct 1914 after he transferred to the 60th Remount Squadron, Army Service Corps as Acting Serjeant, 2672. Discharged on 3/04/1916 with a service sustained injury to return to Australia for work of National importance. Born in New South Wales, Australia. Prior service in the South Australian Light Horse in the Boer War. Married Daisy Helen Wensley on 14/08/1914 in Margate, England with two children, John and William. Father was William Edward Horwood Killingly who resided in London. Awarded Silver War Badge 88512 and British War and Victory Medals in 1926 and was living in Moore Park, New South Wales, Australia. Looks to have been eligible for the 1914 Star. His son John served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1939-1948 with service number 445459.
KINCAID, Alfred William. 1480. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 8/04/1915 and entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Corporal, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 112281. Discharged on 5/02/1919. Prior service with South Irish Horse. Surname corrected from KINCAIRD on Medal Index Card. Born in 5/09/1899 in St Peters Parish, Dublin and died on 19/11/1978 in Santa Barbara, California, United States of America. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.
KINCAIRD-SMITH, Alan. 1264. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry 12/03/1916. Eligible for Silver War Badge. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Salisbury, Rhodesia.
KING, Alfred Marston. 681. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 11/12/1915. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61260 then Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 302821. Discharged on 7/01/1919. Born in 1895. Resided in Brithdir, Glamorgan, South Wales. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KING, Charles Stanley. Private, 2KEH. Served with pre-war KEH from 1911 whilst a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. Entered France on 10/09/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery later Lieutenant. Awarded Military Cross as a Forward Observation Officer at the Battle of Loos. Mentioned in Despatches. He was WIA twice at the Battle of Messines resulting in 12-month hospitalisation. Born in 1890, educated at Hutchins School, Tasmania, Australia and died in Montagu Bay, Tasmania on 26/04/1959. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KING, Daniel Bagett. 442. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted at White City, London on 25/08/1914. Entered France on 4/05/1915 and discharged on 16/01/1919. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1867 and was married and living in Lambeth, London. Prior service with Bechuanaland Border Police, time expired. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Rank shown as Bombardier on his Medal Index Card but this is not a yeomanry rank so is an error.
KING, George Ernest. 2033. Private, 3rd Troop, 2KEH. Enlisted on 23/08/1916 at Kilkenny, Ireland. Served in Ireland for two and half years. Discharged on 19/03/1919. Born in 1888 and lived at Erdington, Birmingham and died in 1973. Applied for disability pension as a result of military service with deafness in both ears. He was employed as a brewer at South Berks Brewery Co, Newbury. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
KING, William S. 2053. Private, 2KEH. Transferred as a Lance Corporal, Royal Engineers, 229178 then Pioneer, Royal Engineers, 604663. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Royal Engineers.
KINGSFORD, Arthur. 979. Serjeant, 2KEH. From New Zealand. Entered France on 5/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 176th Tunneling Company, Royal Engineers on 10/09/1915. Later Acting Captain. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KIRK, Charles William. 483. Squadron Quarter Master Serjeant (Warrant Officer Class 2), 2KEH. Promoted to Regimental Quarter Master Serjeant, 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Notts & Derby Regiment on 25/09/1916. Joined 1st/6th Battalion in Dec 1917. He was WIA on 3/01/1918 by shrapnel from a shell burst and did not rejoin the Battalion but worked with Ministry of Munitions in Westminster, London. From Durban, South Africa. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio which he applied for.
KIRWAN, Patrick. 1518. Private, 2KEH. Transferred to Royal Flying Corps (RFC) on 17/02/1917 as Private, 65465. His British War Medal and Victory Medals are named to RFC. His service is commemorated on the Kilkenny War Memorial, MacDonagh Station, Dublin Road, Kilkenny, Ireland.
KITNEY, George. 1268. Private, 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 12th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, 55484. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KNAPP, Terrand Jeffery Cuthbert. 1418. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted on 12/02/1915 and entered France on 5/05/1919. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps, 230744. Discharged on 29/11/1917 as physically unfit for service. Born in 1874 and resided at enlistment at Southsea, Hampshire. Prior service with Robert's Horse as Private, 4608 and discharged with enteric fever in 1902. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Labour Corps,
KNOWLES, Benjamin. 389. Serjeant, 2KEH. Attested on 24/08/1914 at White City, London. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Promoted to Serjeant on 9/07/1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 9/11/1916 later Captain and then Major, attached 88th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). Awarded Military Medal as a Serjeant, 2KEH on 21/11/1916 and Military Cross as a Captain, RAMC (London Gazette 24/08/1918) when he was WIA while attended to the wounded and Mentioned in Despatches on 30/04/1916. Born in Aberdeen on 26/05/1885 and died on the 25/10/1933 in London. Prior service Scottish Horse. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and applied for medals from an address in Richmondhill Road, Aberdeen, Scotland. His brother Private John Forbes Knowles, 2719 was born on 26/02/1891 and was KIA at Ypres on 5/05/1915 with 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
KNOX, Wilfred Sidney. 1826. Private, 2KEH. Transferred as Private, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61244 then transferred as Private, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 043721. Discharged to the Reserve on 21/02/1919. Did not serve in France and was not entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Born on 29/05/1895 and died in Goodwood, Trinidad and Tobago. Brother of Harold (Harry) Dudley Knox, 1827, 2KEH.
KNOX, Harold (Harry) Dudley. 1827. Private, 'A' Squadron, 2KEH. Left Trinidad for UK on 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. He DOW on 3/06/1917 aged 22. Born in 1895 the son of William and Celeste Knox, of William's Ville, Trinidad, British West Indies and educated at St. Mary's College, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Buried at DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN, Pas de Calais, France. Brother of Wilfred Sidney Knox, 1826. Portrait photograph of Harry Knox shown and additional information on the Knox brothers is courtesy of Paul Sandford (His great uncle was Harold Knox).
KNOX-LITTLE, . Second Lieutenant, 2KEH. Arrived Merris, France on 28/06/1915 from Reserve Cavalry Regiments in England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
KOECHLIN, Marcel Charles. 649. Serjeant, 2KEH. Enlisted on 8/09/1914 at age 40, entered France on 5/05/1915 and sustained Gun Shot Wound to the scalp in Aug 1917 with no ill effect. Discharged on 14/12/1918. Awarded Silver War Badge due to sickness. Applied for his 1914/15 Star trio medals from Church Walks, Llandudno, Wales.
KRUGER, Charles Horace. 1919. Private, 2KEH. Enlisted in London. Private, 1/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61259. He was KIA on 19/12/1917. Only son of the late John and Edith Kruger, of Las Palmas, Grand Canary. His sacrifice is commemorated on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Belgium. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. His Victory Medal was originally sold by Great War Medals and then was re-sold on eBay in the UK with its image shown on the accompanying page.
