LAHEE, Edward Sansom. 1204. Corporal. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Returned to England on 20/02/1917 to Cavalry Cadet Course. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant 2KEH on 24/08/1917 later Lieutenant. Born in Jan 1880 in Islington, London, Middlesex, England and died in 1949 in Cape Province, South Africa. Prior service with the Cape Mounted Rifles in the Boer War. One of nine brothers who served in the Great War, see details under Serjeant Herbert Micah Lahee, 669, 2KEH. Edward was entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LAHEE, Herbert Micah. 669. Serjeant 2KEH. Enlisted on 26/08/1914 at White City and entered France on 4/05/1915. Appointed Lance Corporal on 22/07/1916, promoted to Corporal on 26/02/1917 and Serjeant on 13/06/1917. Transferred as a Serjeant, Tank Corps, 111992 on 7/08/1917. Appointed Warrant Officer Class 2 on 7/04/1918 and served as Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant. Discharged on 21/05/1919. Born in 1888 and resided in Middlesex on enlistment. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. One of nine sons of Mrs. Lahee of Winchmore Hill, London who served in the Great War with Corporal Edward Sansome Lahee,1204, 2KEH. The sons were Henry Lahee, Union Defence Forces, South Africa; Serjeant Herbert Micah Lahee, 669, 2KEH; Frank Lahee in France with Queen Victoria's Rifles; Terence Lahee in France with Queen Victoria's Rifles; Sidney Lahee in Malta with 3rd Royal Fusiliers (City of London); Roy Lahee, Royal Canadian Rifles in Bermuda; Arthur Lahee, Union Defence Force, South Africa; Corporal Edward Sansome Lahee, 1204, 2KEH and Percy Lahee, Royal Field Artillery. Five sons had emigrated to South Africa per-war. Two sons, Arthur and Terence were KIA.
LAMBERT, William. 841. Private. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 18th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry on 23/04/1916. He was KIA on 2/06/1916. Son of William Lambert (late of Madras) and Henrietta Mary Lambert, of "The Limes", Haddenham, Bucks, England. He was buried in BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LANDON, John Robert. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was KIA on 3/09/1916. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Born on 27/04/1888 in Romford, Essex, England and had service with the Essex Royal Horse Artillery prior to 2KEH. His father, Harcourt Palmer Landon from Brentwood, Essex claimed his 1914/15 Star trio. Civilian portrait shown courtesy of Ancestry.
LANDRY, Romes. 1536. Private. Entered France on 5/07/1915. Discharged on 16/06/1916. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LANGE, Pierre M. 1358. Private. Enlisted in the KEH as a Private on 21/12/1914 and arrived in France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 25/09/1917. Transferred as a Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Brahmans. Born on 12/05/1885 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and was employed as a planter before the war. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Listed on British West Indies list in KEH Old Comrades Association article and photograph in St Mary's College yearbook is shown.
LANGLOIS, Wilfred Seymour. 1371. Private 2KEH. Left Valparaiso, Chile on 21/11/1914 to enlist in 2KEH at Hampton Court 28/12/1914. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, 40578 on disbandment of the 2KEH and later promoted to Serjeant. His Battalion lost 75% of its men in a single engagement. Sent to England in Jan 1918 and joined 19th Officer Cadet Battalion stationed at Brookwoods, Surrey. Born on 4/05/1891 the son of Mr and Mrs Lanlois of Vina del Mar, Valparaiso. Employed at the Bank of Chile. Visited Chile for 6 months from 13/11/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Portrait photograph courtesy of the South Pacific Mail.
LANGSHAW, Frank. 1390. Private 2KEH. Enlisted on 6/01/1915 and entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred to Labour Corps as Private, 230752 and discharged on 16/08/1917 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 260009. Born in 1882 and resided post-war in Salford, Manchester. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Labour Corps.
LAROQUE, A. Louis Robert. 1382. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Entered France on 1/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers on 29/01/1916 later Captain. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LAW, Ernest. 1431. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 300520. He was KIA on 27/09/1918 and buried in Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery and Memorial, Haucourt, France. Born in Canton, Hong Kong, China in 1885. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.
LAWRENCE, Dennis Herman. 1422. Lance Corporal 2KEH. Enlisted on 1/03/1915 in Hamstead and entered France on 5/05/1915. Twice WIA on 25/08/1915 and 29/09/1918. Transferred as Private, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 112024. Discharged 19/02/1919. Born on 8/06/1892 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and his father was a doctor in Collins Street, Melbourne. Dennis died in Perth, Australia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps.
LAWRENCE, Frederick John. Major 2KEH then Machine Gun Corps, late Rhodesian Field Force. Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (Lieut., Rhod. F.F.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., Rhodesian F.F.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., K. Edw. H.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.). Frederick John Lawrence served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Monmouthshire Militia, 1891-95. In the Boer War he was served a Lieutenant with the Rhodesian Field Force from 7/03/1900 to 29/06/1901, at which date he was promoted to Captain (Acting Press Censor) and served with the Press Censors Department in Capetown and East London until 20/09/1902. In the Great War he was appointed a Lieutenant in 2KEH on 10/08/1914, being promoted to Captain and entering the France/Flanders theatre of war on 4/05/1915. In his papers he states he received an eye injury from a shell explosion when in the trenches on 23/05/1915. Promoted to Major on 17/04/1917 as Second in Command, 2KEH, he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 4/08/1917, then HQ Staff, Cork, 1919. Born 13/02/1870 and educated at Cheltenham College 1885-88 and lived in Jersey post war, England. Medals sold with copied research details; clasps confirmed at auction by Dix Noonan Webb, UK in December 2006. Photograph shown on the accompanying page from a newspaper article as a Lieutenant when the 2KEH were on a field day at Richmond, courtesy of Joanna Bacon and now in the author's collection.
LAYLAND, Thomas Dawson. 1282. Private. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2nd/1st Dorset Yeomanry on 2/02/1916. Born on 14/02/1873 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England and died on 21/06/1943 in Cumberland, Comox Valley, British Columbia, Canada. He applied for his 1914/15 Star trio from British Columbia, Canada.
LAYTON, Horace. 1291. Private. Enlisted on 22/12/1914 and entered France on 4/05/1915. Wounded and discharged on 28/04/1916. Awarded Silver War Badge 71433. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LEADER, Sidney. 1196. Private. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Highlanders then transferred as a Second Lieutenant Indian Army Reserve of Officers. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Feltham, Middlesex.
LEANE, Arthur B. 696. Lance Serjeant. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 173rd Tunneling Company, Royal Engineers on 22/09/1915. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Possibly Trooper Arthur Bryant Leane, 14 who saw service in Boer War with Sir Lowry's Pass District Mounted Troop.
LEGGETT, Cecil. 195. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France on 4/04/1915. Transferred as a WO Class 2 Labour Corps, 414290 then Warrant Officer Class 2, 11th Battalion, Tank Corps. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LEWIS, Frederick Sydney James McKay. 1404. Private 2KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Welsh Regiment on 29/05/1917 later Lieutenant. Born on 14/10/1896 in St Leonards, New South Wales and died on 21/09/1983 in Seaford, Victoria, Australia. Served in WW2 with Australian Citizen Military Forces as Private, V357438 from 1939-48. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Civilian photograph courtesy of Ancestry.
LEWIS, William T. 1894. Acting Serjeant, 2KEH. Transferred as Acting Serjeant, Royal Engineers, 238524 then Acting Serjeant, Royal Engineers WR/553458. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
LINDSAY, William K. 1451 Private 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Royal Engineers, WR/215422 then Sapper, Royal Engineers 338724. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Hilton Village, Virginia, USA.
LINNEY, Edgar Walter. 1687. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 14/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment on 30/04/1918. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Born on 21/07/1889 in Lambeth, London and died on11/01/1950 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
LINSTEAD, Douglas Walter. 1151. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 5/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Company, 12th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers on 12/03/1916. He was KIA on 6/05/1916 aged 24. Son of the late Walter and Elizabeth Linstead. Born at Hammersmith, London, England. Buried in BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION, Belgium. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and medals applied from by his mother Mrs. E. Anderson from Prahran, Melbourne, Australia.
LIVINGSTONE, Robert Duncan. 1936. Private 2KEH. Attached 1st/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, 61201. Worked at Stewart & Lloyd, Clyde Tubeworks and for Agar, Cross & Co. in London and Buenos Aires before joining Harrods in 1914. Came to Buenos Aires in 1910. Born in Rothesay, 20 July 1887 the only son of the late Duncan and Sarah Livingstone (née McFarlane). Educated at Rothesay. Came from Buenos Aires to enlist. Member of the Tigre Boat Club. Missing Estaires 10/04/1918 presumed KIA. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. His sacrifice is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Portrait photograph shown.
LLOYD, Alfred Mostyn. 1289. Private. Enlisted on 22/12/1914 and discharged on 28/04/1916 due to sickness and awarded Silver War Badge 65158. Did not serve overseas. No medal entitlement.
LLOYD, Henry. 1719. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Private, Army Service Corps, M Russia/47663. Re-enlisted Royal Army Service Corps on 9/06/1919 as Private, M/354264. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
LONG, Charles Ernest. Captain 2KEH. Prior service as a Second Lieutenant with the South African Irregular Forces became Second Lieutenant 2KEH in Oct 1914, entered France on 27/06/1915 and promoted to Captain on 24/01/1917. From Reserve Squadron in England and arrived in Merris, France on 28/06/1915. Later Captain, Royal Army Service Corps. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.
LONG, Vincent William. 197. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Serjeant, 1/4th then 1/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, 61297. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LONGHURST, . 2329. Serjeant. 2nd Troop, 2KEH. From burnt portion of 2nd Troop, 2KEH Nominal Roll. Further research required.
LOOKER, Ernest John. 1698. Private 2KEH. Transferred as Lance Corporal, 12/13th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61224. Likely to have been born in 1890 in England and died in 1963 in South Africa. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
LOWE, John Worthington. 199. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps,580504. Discharged on 11/12/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LOXSTON, George Hugh. 1714. Private 2KEH. Enlisted on 10/07/1915 at Hampton Court, London, England. Entered France on 29/06/1916. Private Tank Corps, 112126 on 7/08/1917 and Acting Company Quarter Master Serjeant on 24/02/1919. Discharged on 30/05/1919. From Kensington, London and born in 1892. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.
LUCAS, Algernon. Second Lieutenant 2KEH. Falsely executed during Easter Rising on 29/04/1916. Born in 1879 in Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, England. Died in service on 29 Apr 1916 (aged 36–37). Son of Thomas Sloper Lucas and Mary (Clemments) Lucas of Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire. Brother of Arthur Lucas, Richard Lucas, Margaret Lucas, and Maud Lucas. Christened on the 28 December 1879 at Saint Mary the Virgin Church, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire. He was a graduate of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge (1908). He subsequently went to Montreal, Quebec where he established a school and began a career in teaching. With the start of the First World War, he returned to Britain and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 2KEH. Recovering from wounds in Dublin, Lieutenant Lucas was executed on a false charge of being a spy and without trial at the Guinness Brewery by Company Quartermaster Sergeant (CQMS) Robert Flood of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. It is alleged that CQMS Flood mistook him as a participant in the Easter Rising supposedly because of his American-sounding accent. Executed along with Lucas was the Guinness Brewery's night clerk, the equally innocent William John Rice, who had accompanied him to Flood's position. When neither Lucas nor Rice returned to their position, Lieutenant Basil Worsley-Worswick and Cecil Eustace Dockeray (a friend of Rice and fellow Guinness employee) went to investigate and Flood then ordered their execution as well. The murderous Sergeant was finally disarmed by a certain Captain Mariott. Astonishingly, Flood was acquitted of the four murders at his court-martial. Yet more surprisingly, he was later awarded the Good Conduct and Long Service Medal. The following year, he was killed in action in Salonika (now known as Thessalonika) in Greece. Lieutenant A. Lucas, Lieutenant B. Worswick, Mr W. J. Rice, and Mr C.E. Dockeray: requiescat in peace. Algernon Lucas was a recipient of the 1914/15 Star trio. Buried in Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Cabra, County Dublin, Ireland. Side profile photograph shown.
LUCK, Albert Percy. 1619. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 14/10/1915. Transferred to 1st/4th Northumberland Fusiliers as Private, 61275 then 11th Battalion, Tank Corps as Private, 302832. He was KIA on 8/10/1918. Buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, France. Born in 1897 in Guilford, Surrey, the son of Henry and Sarah Jane Luck of Spring Grove, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LUDLOW, Edgar Robert. 1192. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as a Private, 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 61243 then commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Lieutenant, Royal Air Force. Born on 30/12/1895 in St Eve, Cornwall, England and died on 15/12/1941 in India. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Aske, Richmond, Yorkshire. Civilian photograph as a young boy shown courtesy of Ancestry.
LUDLOW, Frank. 1849. Acting Corporal 2KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, East Lancashire Regiment on 25/06/1918. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Aske, Richmond, Yorkshire.
LUTTMAN, Henry Christian. 1278. Serjeant Major 2KEH. Enlisted on 8/09/1914 and entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as a Warrant Officer Class 2, 15th Battalion, Tank Corps, 111989. Discharged on 21/02/1919. Prior service as Corporal, 5th Dragoon Guards. Born in 1865 and resided in Islington, London at enlistment. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio named to Tank Corps. Named in a photograph taken at Meaulte in December 1916.
LYNCH, William. 1532. Private 2KEH. Enlisted on 16/04/1915 in Cork and entered France on 5/07/1915. Transferred as Private 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, 39912 then Private, 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, 40579 then Private 11th Battalion, Tank Corps, 302808. Born in 1893 and resided in Cork, Ireland. Discharged on 5/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
LYNCH-STAUTON, Leonard Alfred. 1027. Serjeant 2KEH. Entered France on 15/05/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2KEH on 22/6/1915 then Acting Captain, Tank Corps. Born on 6/09/1875 in Fareham, Hampshire. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. He had three brothers and two sisters. One of his brothers was Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Kirkpatrick Lynch-Staunton DSO and Bar, Mentioned in Despatches five times, 220th Brigade HQ, Royal Field Artillery was born on 9/04/1880 in London and DoW on 7/11/1918 in Baghdad, Iraq. Leonard died in 1925 at the age of 50.
LYON, Harry. 817. Private 2KEH. Entered France on 5/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Labour Corps, 421711. Discharged on 23/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio named to Labour Corps.
