DAINES, Lionel. R. Private. Enlisted in the King's Colonials on 17/03/1905 and discharged from service 17/03/1914. Served in the Indian Army in WW1. Saw extensive service in WW2 at Dunkirk, North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Normandy and the Rhine. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the South African Army and was living in Rhodesia in 1951. Awarded Military Cross. Named in a photograph at Colchester camp in 1911 see Figure 67.
DALE, Thomas W. 975. Corporal. KEH. 3rd Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Entered France on 8/09/1915 and discharged 4/04/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DALGARNO, William A. 840. Acting Corporal KEH. 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Enlisted in the KEH having sailed to London on board SS Suwa Mara on 16/10/1914 from Shanghai. Entered France 22/04/1915 and discharged 13/04/1919 and returned to Shanghai. Born in Gateshead in 1887 and emigrated to Shanghai as a boy. Served with Light Horse Troop, Shanghai Volunteer Corps from 1904 until the outbreak of the war and post-war. Retired with the rank of Serjeant Major in 1928. Served as a Private in the 6th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in WW2. A popular horse racing identity. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DALTON, Harry. 721. Serjeant KEH. 'C' Squadron. Enlisted 23/11/1914 and entered France on 21/04/1915. Promoted to Lance Corporal 8/02/1916, Corporal 25/05/1917 and Serjeant 13/12/1917. WIA at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 with a Gun Shot Wound to his right hand and returned to England 13/04/1918. Discharged 1/03/1919. Born 1891 in Uxbridge, Middlesex. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DALTON, Henry (Dickie) Joseph. 948. Private. 1st Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron. Born in 1880 and died April 1949 in London. Master of Regimental Masonic Lodge. Discharged 5/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Discharge certificate available on Imperial War Museum website.
DANIEL, C. P. C. 19. Serjeant. King's Colonials.
DARE, Arthur Charles Coker. 1533. Private. Entered France on 26/12/1916 and served in KEH until 4/12/1917. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Somerset Light Infantry. Died on 24/11/1929. Applied for British War and Victory Medals whilst serving in the Alberta Provincial Police, Canada. Prior service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1911-1916. Named in two photographs of Ex Royal North-West Mounted Police serving in KEH taken at Longford, Ireland in 1916. (CU184577). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.
DARE, Geoffrey. 992. Serjeant. Entered France on 2/06/1915 and discharged on 8/03/1919. Died in 1968. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DARREL, Richard (Dick) Frederick William. 1051. Serjeant KEH. Returned to England from Siam to enlist. Entered France on 20/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Tank Corps on 3/02/1918. Died on 26/02/1919 of pneumonia. Son of William Darrel, of New Zealand; husband of Annie Darrel, of Bangkok, Siam. His 1914/15 Star trio was claimed by his widow. Buried in Manor Green Cemetery, England. His sacrifice is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Photograph shown on the accompanying page with his pal Lance Corporal Brian Frederick Wade, 1505, circa 1915 courtesy of the Sentinel Project, South African Defence Forces.
DAVENPORT, Anthony. 726. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France on 22/04/1915. He was WIA and interred as a POW at Bois d'Holnon, Savy on 23/03/1917. Discharged on 16/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DAVEY, Albert. Private KEH. Transferred from 1st King Dragoon Guards as Private, D/17020 to KEH then to Corps of Dragoons as Private, D/17020. Discharged on 1/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DAVIDSON, Douglas. 640. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron. Entered France on 22/04/1915. He was KIA on 9/04/18 at the defence of Vieille Chapelle aged 34. Lieutenant Pinckney was killed when trying to break through the German troops who had enveloped the bridge head at Vieille Chapelle. One of three sons of George D. and Emma Davidson, of "Geraldra", Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia. His name is commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio and his Medal Index Card notes his 1914/15 Star was issued to his next-of-kin on 22/10/1982. Photograph shown in 'War Services of Old Melbournians' compiled and edited by J. Beacham Kiddle OBE. His sacrifice is commemorated on the Commemorative Roll of the Australian War Memorial.
DAVIE, Algernon M. 994. Private. Entered France on 2/06/1915 and discharged on 5/04/1919. Argentinian who enlisted from Argentinian Railway staff. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DAVIES, Frederick R. 69. Serjeant. Entered France on 22/04/1915 and discharged on 28/02/1915. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio. His 1914-15 Star, (69 Sgt F R Davies K. Edw H) with Indian General Service 1908 with one clasp N W Frontier 1930-31, (7875146 Pte L M Davies R Tank C), 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, Defence and War, mounted as worn, WWII awards un-named as issued sold at auction by Wallis and Wallis, UK in Feb 2025. Accompanying photographs of these medals shown courtesy of Wallis & Wallis.
DAVIS, Harold Brereton. Private, 1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry then transferred as Private, King Edward's Horse. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, Royal Field Artillery. Awarded Military Cross. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Transvaal, South Africa.
DAVIS, Harold N. 265. Warrant Officer Class 2. 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Enlisted in 1913 in pre-war KEH. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 1/07/1919. Born in Bath, England on 29/10/1891 and died 12/05/1977. Photograph on kingedwardshorse.net. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DAVIS, Henry G. 1214. Private. Discharged 3/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DAVIS, Hugh Campo. 2215. Private. Enlisted 2/09/1918. Discharged 30/04/1919. Born 12/09/1895 in Araucania, Chile and died 13/09/1980 in Chester, England. Shown in KEH uniform in 1918 in a group photograph and portrait courtesy of Ancestry. No Great War service medal entitlement.
DAVIS, William. Private. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Discharged medically unfit.
DAVISON, Edward Summer. 1031. Private. Entered France 1/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers on 28/10/1915 (London Gazette 27/11/1915). Serving with 81st Wing, Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1919 as a Lieutenant when he applied for his 1914/15 Star trio administered by RAF c/o a Canadian address.
DAVISON, William. 1459. Private. Discharged 10/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DAWS, Reginald John. 595. Private. Enlisted in KEH in 1910. 'B' Squadron. Entered France 22/04/1915. Discharged 10/03/1919. Born 17/11/1890 in Beckenham, Bromley, Kent, England and died 31/12/1973 in Salisbury, Rhodesia. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DAWSON, Guy 'Pop' Harnett. 675. Corporal. 'B' and 'C' Squadrons. Entered France 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders on 23/1/1916. Promoted Captain, Labour Corp. Prior service with Border Horse as Lance Corporal and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Wepener, Wittebergen, Cape Colony and Transvaal clasps. Born 13/11/1888 in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia and died 24/01/1962 in San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina. Attended 3rd KEH reunion in South America. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.
DAWSON, James. 1452. Private. Entered France 14/07/1915. Transferred as Private, Army Service Corps, M/354262 on 25/01/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DAWSON, Oswald Charles. 1106. Corporal. Enlisted after arriving in England 22/05/1915. Entered France 2/10/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers attached Royal Flying Corps 3/11/1916. Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross 8/02/1919 when acting as Observer supporting the Desert Mounted Corps 19-26/09/1918 attached to 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Brother of Corporal Robert Dyer Dawson 1526 also in KEH. Born in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia on 1/01/1887 the son of Robert Weston Dawson and Eleanor Mary Bowler. Married Kathleen Elsie Fedden in Suva, Fiji on 17/03/1920. He died on 1/05/1974. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DAWSON, Overend William James. 1668. Private. KIA 27/10/17. Buried in BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Born 11/11/1881 in Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia the son of Robert Potter and Louisa Potter and grew up in Lancashire, England. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DAWSON, Robert Dyer. 1526. Corporal. Discharged 22/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother of Corporal Oswald Charles Dawson 1106 who also served with KEH. Born in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia on 5/07/1884 and died in 5/03/1955 in Nyngan, New South Wales, Australia. Victory Medal held in a private collection.
DAWSON, Thomas. 1226. Private. Discharged 13/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DAY, F. P. Second Lieutenant KEH in 1910 having joined as a Rhodes scholar while at Oxford University. Became a Professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, USA in the early 1920s.
DEADMAN, Ernest H. 1730. Entered France 14/10/1915. Transferred as a Private, Army Pay Corps, 24936. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Selhurst, London, England.
DEARLOVE, John George. 1017. Corporal. Enlisted 23/03/1915 and entered France 2/10/1915. Wounded at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and awarded Silver War Badge 458230. Discharged 6/01/1919. Possibly born in Kooringa, South Australia on 23/11/1896 and died in Broken Hill in 1938. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DE BALLARDIE, J. 5. Private. King's Colonials. Awarded Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Nov 1907.
DE COSTA, Errold. 2059. Private KEH. Discharged 9/04/1919. Entitled to British War Medal only.
DE GANNES, Raphael. 1302. Private. 4th Section, 1st Troop, 'C' Squadron Jun 1917. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. WIA at Bourlon Wood 26/11/17. Discharged 8/10/1918. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DEMPSTER, Chas Henry. 1483. Private. Enlisted 6/04/1915 and discharged 23/08/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 228676 and did not serve overseas. No Great War service medal entitlement.
DENBIGH, Arthur Everatt. 320. Warrant Officer Class 2. 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron. Reported as Missing in Action at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Held in Dulmen Camp as a Prisoner of War. Discharged 6/11/1919. From Wrexham in North Wales. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Portrait photograph shown on the accompanying page taken in 1914. He is wearing British Asian Squadron collar badges inferring that he was an original pre-war member of the KEH and likely had served with the King's Colonials possibly in the Liverpool Troop. Photograph courtesy of a private collector and kindly gifted from Everatt's family. The photograph was accompanied by a note from French prisoners of war thanking Everatt and two other British Officers for helping them with medical and food parcels whilst in Dulmen camp, also shown on the accompanying page.
DENING, Douglas Montgomery. Private. Entered France Feb 1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery in Dec 1915 later served as a Captain No 1 Balloon Section, Royal Flying Corps from Aug 1917. WIA twice. Awarded Military Cross 26/07/1918. Discharged 10/08/1919. Born in 1877 and married Mary Elizabeth Glenton-Kerr on 7/09/1904, in Brixton, Surrey, England. They had one child during their marriage. He died as a result of accidental drowning on 7/11/1922 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DENNISTON, John Geoffrey. 221. Lieutenant. 3rd Troop, 'C' Squadron. Served in the pre-war KEH with the Cambridge University Squadron. Mobilised 4/08/1914, promoted to Corporal 11/10/1914, Serjeant 5/01/1915, entered France 22/04/1915 and commissioned 9/09/1915 as a Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant 1/7/1917. Served in Italy after France and Ireland. Discharged 3/12/1918. Born in 1890 to His Honour John Edward Denniston of the Supreme Court in Canterbury, New Zealand. Studied at Christ's College Cambridge University. Returned to teach in Australia and New Zealand in Christchurch. Died in 1965. Noted in 'Southland Times' newspaper article 17/09/1915 as having been offered a commission and had served pre-War with the Regiment. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DE NOBRIGA, Joseph Oliver. 1295. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Enlisted 6/111/1915. Served with machine gun section. Discharged medically unfit 14/08/1918 with Silver War Badge, B24035 awarded and returned to Trinidad 6/11/1918. Born in Trinidad in 1897 and died there prior to 1946. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DE ROUX, Louis Herbert Austin Evelyn. 1691. Acting Corporal. Entered France 28/09/1915. Transferred to Northumberland Fusiliers as Private, 61200. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant (General List) on 8/03/1919. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Jamaica then Toronto, Canada.
DE SOLLA, Phillip. 736. Private. Enlisted 5/02/1917. Discharged 3/03/1919. Born in 1882, married in 1905 and resided at West Cliff on Sea. Prior service as Private 28700 with 51st Paget's Horse (Imperial Yeomanry) in the Boer War and awarded Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and South Africa 1902 clasps. No WWI service medal entitlement as did not serve overseas.
DE SOUSA, Alexander Ramsay. 1306. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged 3/11/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother of Private George De Souza, 1305, KEH.
DE SOUSA, George. 1305. Private. Left Trinidad for UK 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Taken prisoner of war 9/04/1918 and returned to England 20/11/1918. Discharged 5/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Brother of Private Alexander Ramsay De Souza, 1306, KEH.
DETTLEFF, William 1408. Private. Discharged 31/05/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DEVINE, Edward Feron. 1128. Private. Discharged 14/04/1919. Born in South Shields in 1893 and went to South Shields Marine School. Then at 15 was serving on the merchant vessel Pythomene. He followed his elder brother, also a mariner, to Australia in about 1905 and both settled in Sydney, followed by his wife and her mother in 1911. His brother Charles Lawford Devine volunteered for the Royal Naval Reserve and as a Lieutenant Commander on the monitor HMS M-28 was killed on 20/01/1918 aged 30 by a direct hit from the battlecruiser Goeben when it and the light cruiser Breslau sought to escape from the Dardanelles. Charles and Edward were the sons of Charles Feron Divine and Ellen R. L. Divine of 'Primera', Ryde Road, Hunters Hill, New South Wales; Australia. Charles was the husband of Joan Divine, of Buckfastleigh, Devon, England and is commemorated on a Memorial at the Lancashire Landing Cemetery. Edward died on 26/10/1937 when five days earlier he fell into the hold of the postal ship Olympia in Sydney Harbour. His wife never got over it. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of Edward in maritime uniform circa 1908, sweetheart badge (see Figure 351) and biographical information courtesy of Giles F. Russell, descendant.
DE WHALLEY, John Joseph Arthur. 76. Private KEH. 'A' Squadron. Entered France on 2/06/1915 and discharged on 14/02/1916 at term of engagement and eligible for an army pension. A student of the University of London. Born in Mar 1891 in Greenwich, London, England and died April 1973 in Maidstone, Kent. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio but forfeited due to desertion.
DICK, Martin Forster. 46. Lieutenant Colonel KEH. As Corporal Dick he originally served in the King's Colonial and served throughout Great War in KEH. Only Corporal Dick and Lionel James achieved this distinction. Corporal Dick had seen service in the Boer War with Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Canadian Horse) before joining the King’s Colonials in 1902. He was commissioned in 1906 as a Second Lieutenant, Lieutenant in the King's Colonials (named as a Judge representing the King's Colonials at a Military Tournament held with the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps on 10/03/1910. The programme for the tournament is shown under the King's Colonials section of this website, author's collection) and then KEH in 1910 and Major in 1913. Commanded 'B' Squadron, KEH in France during 1915-16. he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and commanded the Reserve Regiment in 1917-18 and then commanded the KEH for the last three months of the Great War. Born in 3/01/1877 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England and died on 17/12/1932 in London. Awarded Queen's South Africa medal and 1914/15 Star trio and he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. His medals are held in a private collection. Portrait photograph shown as Figure 48.
DICKINSON, Michael W. 988. Private KEH. 'B' Squadron in 1916. Discharged on 5/03/1919. Died in Braunton, Devon in 1943. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DIDSBURY, Albert B. 1402. Private KEH. Discharged on 5/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DIMMOCK, Thomas. 693. Private KEH. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Discharged on 7/03/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DINES, Ernest. 1051. Trumpeter. Enlisted on 21/09/1914 and discharged on 16/08/1915 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 157035. Died in London on 8/07/1955. No Great War medal entitlement.
DINWOODIE, Edwin Maxwell. 896. Private. 'C' Squadron. Entered France on 20/10/1915. Discharged on 27/03/1919. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff and returned to South America post-war and attended third re-union there in 1945. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. His brother Allegne Maxwell Dinwoodie was also with the Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff and served with the Army Service Corps.
DODDS, Walter Melbourne. 1005. Entered France on 7/01/1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Born on 20/05/1885 in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne. Died on 14/10/1918 as a Prisoner of War. Buried in the Poland Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Photograph of headstone shown on accompanying page.
DOHERTY, Joseph. 1273. Private. Transferred as Sapper, Royal Engineers 193768, WR/126881. Did not serve in France. Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.
DONALD, James William. 924. Private. Enlisted on 2/02/1915 and discharged on 10/04/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 22965 and did not serve overseas. No Great War medal entitlement.
DONALD, Walter Alan. Sergeant KEH. Student at University College, Oxford University. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 2nd Reserve of Cavalry and then transferred to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. Entered France 17/10/1915. Noted in the Otago Witness newspaper of 21/04/1915. He was from Auckland, New Zealand and his service is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DONALD, William. 1840. Private. Enlisted on 5/08/1914 in Kintore, Aberdeenshire with 1st/2nd Scottish Horse as Private, 4300 then 152167 at Gallipoli landing from 1/09/1915 until evacuated to Egypt serving there until 1/10/1916. Hospitalised from 12/10/1916 to 11/12/1916 with shortness of breath. Transferred to KEH as Private, 1840 but on some records as Private, 152167 on 30/03/1917 until discharged on 6/05/1919. Born 1890 in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Entitled to British War and Victory Medal as Acting Corporal, 1/2nd Scottish Horse, 152167.
DONNELLY, John Lawler. Private pre-war KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 24th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers on 1/06/1915 then Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment from Dec 1916. Entered France in Jan 1916. Discharged on 16/11/1919. Commissioned in the Indian Army Medical Services from 1926 and rose to rank of Lieutenant Colonel by 1940. Born on 15/03/1896 in Widnes, Lancashire, England and died in Mar 1962 in Tunbridge Wells, England. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Liverpool. Applied for Territorial Forces Medal but ineligible.
DORMAN, James. 2113. Serjeant KEH. Transferred as a Private, 1558 from 2KEH. Entered France on 14/07/1915 and discharged on 21/07/1919. Sergeant, 1558 on British War and Victory Medals. Pictured are his British War and Victory Medals with a KEH gilding metal headdress badge in an oak frame. Entitled to 1914/15 Star to complete trio (photograph courtesy of Margaret Gledhill).
DOUGLAS-HILL, Arthur Percy. 762. Private. Enlisted on 1/12/1914 and discharged on 12/07/1916 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 65160 and did not serve overseas. Born in 1882 in Urmston, Cheshire, England. No Great War medal entitlement.
DOWDING, William Elliott. Private KEH. Served in Ireland before transferring to Rifle Brigade as Private, S/29117. Entered France in Aug 1916. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment on 27/06/1917. Born on 6/04/1884 in Southampton, Hampshire, England and died on 30/12/1970 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Liverpool, England.
DOWLE, Maurice. 2070. Private. Transferred to KEH as Private, 2051 with 2KEH. Discharged on 31/01/1919. Born on 29/05/1891 in Southgate, London, England and died in Jan 1975 in Worthing, West Sussex. Awarded British War and Victory Medals with the pair sold by Capital Medals in July 1983 and then again by the Medal Centre in Jan 2022 as per accompanying photograph.
DOWLING, Geoffrey B. 412. Private KEH. Entered France on 17/06/1915. Discharged on 14/12/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DOWN, Albert H. 715. Private KEH. Entered France on 21/04/1915. Deserted on 12/10/1915. Forfeited his 1914/15 Star trio entitlement.
DOWNES, Leonard A. D/13356. Private KEH. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons, Private, D/13356. Discharged on 1/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Corps of Dragoons.
DOWNIE, Harry. 749. Acting Corporal KEH. Entered France on 2/06/1915 and rank changed to Sapper. Discharged on 23/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DOWNING, Edward James. 1578. Private KEH. Discharged on 10/07/1919. Resided in Holloway, London. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DOWNS, Alfred. 1713. Private KEH. Discharged on 18/06/1919. Served with the Shanghai Municipal Police from 1909-10. Applied for British War and Victory Medals from Missouri, USA.
DRAPER, William E. 518. Private KEH. Enlisted on 10/08/1914 and entered France on 1/06/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 242692. Discharged as physically unfit on 6/06/1917. Born in 1890 and lived in New Brighton, Cheshire where he died in 1947. Name commemorated on Liverpool College Roll of Honour. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DRENNAN, J. E. 24. Staff Quarter Master Serjeant, King's Colonials.
DREW, Thomas Kenneth. 1248. Private. Enlisted on 15/09/1915 and discharged on 14/02/1918 due to sickness. Awarded Silver War Badge 337155. Born on 29/11/1897 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada and died in July 1957. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DRUBE, Frederick Peter. 524. Lance Corporal. Entered France on 22/04/1915 and discharged on 5/04/1919. From New Zealand. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. His service is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph.
DRUMMOND, Oswald. 1416. Acting Serjeant. Discharged on 20/06/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DRURY, Charles James. 2015. Private, 4th Dragoon Guards, 5561. Entered France on 23/11/1914. Transferred as Private, Dorsetshire Regiment, 14049. Commissioned as a Lieutenant, Devonshire Regiment on 6/12/1915 then transferred to the KEH as a Private. Transferred to Royal Engineers on 11/01/1917 as Sapper 228674, 312095 and 613905. Discharged on 5/09/1918. Born in 1873. Awarded Silver War Badge 445966, and 1914 Star trio, which he applied for from London.
DRYSDALE, Cluny Leslie. 1206. Private. 'B' Squadron. Injured in railway accident on 13/03/1918. Discharged on 15/03/1919. Born in Armadale, Victoria, Australia in 1895 the son of George Russell Drysdale and Mary Drysdale Russell and died in Herbert, Queensland on 4/07/1931. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DUDLEY, Thomas. Private. Private, 1st Dragoons. Transferred to KEH then Corps of Dragoons. Discharged on 11/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DUFF, Peter. Private. Transferred to KEH from 3rd Dragoon Guards as Private, D/18470. Then transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons. Discharged on 23/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DUFOY . Private. New Zealander who served with King's Colonials (see Figure 52, 1904).
DUIRS, Mearns William. 379. Entered France on 10/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. He was KIA on 25/09/1915 at Loos. Born on 23/01/1893 at Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa the son of Dr David Peter Duirs and Agnes Emily Norman. His sacrifice is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.
DUKES, Sydney Owen. 999. Private. 'A' Squadron. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Discharged on 15/04/1919. Born on 17/05/1890 in Tisbury, Wiltshire and died in Sep 1976 in Kingsclere and Whitchurch, Hampshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DUNCAN, Alec. 763. Private KEH. Entered France on 16/06/1915 and discharged on 22/03/1919. Was a Temporary Major in the Royal Field Artillery in WW2. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio and his British War Medal was sold on eBay Sep 2021.
DUNCAN, Thomas Mitchell. Second Lieutenant KEH. Served pre-war KEH. Entered France in Aug 1915. Promoted to Major, Royal Field Artillery. Discharged on 5/06/1919. From Blundellsands, Liverpool, England and died in Stroud, England on 15/07/1956. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.
DUNCKLEY, Percy St. John. 834. Served in the King's Colonials from 1902. Part of Shanghai Contingent on board the SS Suwa Maru on 16/10/1914 from Shanghai and was employed in the Shanghai Municipal Council. Embarked for France on 22/04/1915 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters on 29/12/1915 then Lieutenant, 1/3rd Battalion, Ghurka Rifles. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to KEH
DUNKIN, Alfred Davey Hoskins. 1144. Private KEH. Enlisted on 14/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Notts and Derby Regiment on 29/01/1918. He was KIA on 3/10/1918. Born on 12/12/1889 in Camborne, Cornwall and buried in BELLICOURT British Cemetery, Aisne, France. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.
DUNN, H. Private. Prior service with South African Constabulary. Named in a photograph of Ex-Mounted Police serving in KEH in Longfield, Ireland in 1916, (CU184396). Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.
DUNSTAN, John Llewellyn. Private. Served pre-WW1 KEH. Served with AIF 30th Battalion in France from 22/07/1915 until discharged on medical grounds on 14/05/1918 from 29th Battalion. Served in WW2 as a Private, 31 with the Australian Garrison Battalion from 1941-1944. Born on 16/01/1896 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and died on 22/07/1959. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals issued by the Australian Army.
