King’s Colonials/King Edward’s Horse 'R'

RABIN, Benjamin. 1458. Private, KEH. Transferred as Private, Royal Engineers, 251857 then Private, Royal Fusiliers GS/128840. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RAEBURN, Douglas Alfred. 415. Private, KEH. Born in Singapore in 1894. Attested on 1/04/1914 in London. Discharged on 8/12/1914 as unfit for medical service. Lived in Surbiton, London. No Great War Medal entitlement.

RAINER, Christopher. 2125. Private, KEH. Transferred from 2KEH as Private 912. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Discharged on 23/02/1919. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

RAMPLEN, Thomas. 1419. Private, KEH. Prior service in Botha's Natal Horse in German West Africa in 1915. Saw service with KEH from 12/01/1916 to 26/11/1916 in France. Awarded Sliver War Badge 312539. Later Lance Corporal in the South African Engineer Corps and died aged 72 on 22/01/1945. Son of George A. Ramplen and Matilda Ramplen. Buried at PORT ELIZABETH (SOUTH END) CEMETERY, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RAMSDEN, Ludlam. D/15347. Corporal, KEH. Prior service as Corporal, 7th Dragoon Guards then transferred as Corporal, KEH then Corporal, Corps of Dragoons. Discharged on 27/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RAMSEY, C. Captain, KEH. Captain in photograph Marlborough Barracks, Dublin 1918 see Figure 33. His portrait photograph wearing second pattern Officer's KEH headdress badge (Copyright Imperial War Museum HU 124675) is shown on the accompanying page. 

RANDALL,  . Private, King's Colonials. Trooper Randall named in 1904 King's Colonials St Albans camp photograph and he is also named in a photograph shown under STEVENS in Nominal Roll 'S' photographs.

RANDERS, Harold K. 1722. Private, 'B' and then 'C' Squadrons, KEH. Posted as missing at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Discharged on 15/03/1919. Born in Denmark and grew up pre-war in Australia. Settled in Argentina after the war. Died on 13/02/1943 after being attacked by a co-worker on a ranch. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RATCLIFFE, Thomas (Tommy) Massey. 666. Private, KEH. Entered France on 21/04/1915. Discharged on 24/09/1919. Born in 1884 in Colne, Lancashire, England. Served as a Captain with the Volunteer Reserve in Manitoba, Canada. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

RATCLIFFE, W. J. Second Lieutenant, King's Colonials 1902. Commanded 2nd Troop, 'A' Squadron (British Asian) in 1903 (Photograph Figure 4).

RATHBONE, Victor. 106. Squadron Serjeant Major, KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant KEH on 14/08/1915 later Lieutenant when at Longford in 1915. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Awarded the Military Cross as a Lieutenant in 1919. Applied for Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal but was ineligible and for 1914/15 Star trio from parents address in Liverpool, England. Born in Leeds, England on 4/04/1886, he lived in Uruguay, South America and died in Montevideo on 16/08/1947. He wrote a tribute to a German Jewish soldier killed whilst attacking the KEH trench https://www.thejc.com/news/features/first-world-war-max-seller-1.446088?highlight=Stephen+Daisley. He was a brother of Captain Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) who served with the Liverpool Scottish. Another brother, John was KIA with the Dorset Regiment on 4/06/1918. Victor is wearing Round Pattern KEH Officer's Service Dress collar badges in the accompanying photograph taken at Longford in 1915 and his cap badge although not visible but would be of the same pattern. 

RAW, Frederick C. 740. Private, 'C' Squadron, KEH. Entered France on 22/04/1915. Transferred as a Private, Royal Flying Corps (RFC), 14090 on 29/11/1915. Resided in Durban, South Africa post-war. Invented and built a new type of Armoured Tank-Destroyer during WW2. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Named in a photograph from the 1938 reunion in South Africa (Old Comrades Association Bulletin No 6, 1938). 

RAY, Kenneth. 20. Private, KEH. Entered France on 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers on 24/02/1917. From South Africa. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph and biography available www.kingedwardhorse.net

RAYMOND, William G. 1723. Private, B' Squadron, KEH. Discharged on 17/06/1919. Died in 1966. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RAYNER, Harris S. D/13631. Private, KEH. Transferred as Private, Corps of Dragoons, D/13631. Discharged on 4/12/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

READ, Albert Henry. 209. Private, KEH. Enlisted on 25/08/1914. Discharged due to sickness on 15/06/1915. Awarded Silver War Badge 87322. Did not serve overseas and no service medal entitlement.

REDFORD, Daniel Benjamin. 259. Private, KEH. Enlisted on 28/11/1911 and served until 28/02/1913. Re-enlisted on 1/03/1913 and discharged on 5/07/1915 due to sickness and did not serve overseas. Awarded Silver War Badge 19186. Born in Aufield, Liverpool, England in 1891.

REES, David Jenkin. 1129. Private, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Entered France on 15/09/1915. He was KIA on 19/08/17 at Passchendaele aged 40. He was born in Oct 1878 in Camberwell, Lambeth, London, England the son of Evan and Anne Rees. He returned from Peru to enlist. Buried in GWALIA CEMETERY, BELGIUM. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. 

REEVES, Allan S. 747. Corporal, 'A' and 'B' Squadrons, KEH. Entered France on 1/06/1915. Discharged on 18/04/1919. Died in Southern Rhodesia on 14/06/1958. Spent time before WW1 in Patagonia, South America. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

REID, Andrew. 152188. Private, KEH. Died in service in Boulogne of influenza on 21/11/1918 aged 32. Son of Andrew and Margaret Reid, of Collickreich, Ballater; husband of Isabella Reid, of Ballater, Aberdeenshire. Buried in TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE, FRANCE. No Great War Service Medal entitlement recorded but as his place of death was France in 1918, he may have been eligible for the British War and Victory Medals. Further research required.

REID, Harry. 1491. Sapper, KEH. Transferred to Royal Engineers as Sapper, 229155 then Sapper, Royal Engineers, WR/263358. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

REID, Jeremiah. 1597. Private, KEH. Enlisted on 6/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Lancashire Fusiliers, 45521. Discharged on 1/05/1918. Born in 1893 and resided in Cork, Ireland. Awarded Silver War Badge B31 and 1914/15 Star trio.

REID, Oswald Douglas. 1418. Private, KEH. Enlisted in Feb 1915. Accidentally drowned at Baldoyle, near Dublin, Ireland on 18/08/16. Born on 1/10/1891 the son of Thomas and Catherine Reid. Buried in ANNAN CEMETERY, Dumfriesshire, Ireland. No Great War Service Medal entitlement with home service. 

REID, Victor Irvine Ernest. Private, KEH. Returned from Chile and enlisted in the 1st Royal Dragoons and requested a transfer to the KEH in 1916 and saw service in Ireland. Transferred to the Royal Fusiliers as Private, 59075 and landed in France on 12/10/1917. He was KIA on the 7/11/1917 as part of a Lewis Gun crew of three at the Battle of Cambrai with the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment as Private, 26270. Buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium. Son of the late Robert Henry and Janet Irvine Reid of Valparaiso, Chile and born in Victoria, Chile on 24/08/1889. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. Portrait photograph in the uniform of the 1st Royal Dragoons courtesy of the South Pacific Mail. 

REILLY, J. J. Private, Reserve Squadron, KEH. As noted in the tenth edition of The Spur (the newsletter of the Reserve Squadron of the KEH whilst at Longford, Ireland and training at the Curragh in 1916) he was transferred on 12/12/1916 to the Rifle Brigade for active service in France. 

REISSLAND, Charles F. 1143. Private, KEH. Enlisted on 12/06/1915. Discharged on 17/03/1919. He was WIA and awarded the Military Medal for the defense of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918. Born on 28/03/1897 in Depot, Kempston, Bedfordshire, England and died in Oct 1976 in Claro, North Yorkshire, England. Awarded British War and Victory Medals. His Military Medal was sold in October 1984 and is held in a private collection in the UK.

REMMETT, Charles William. 873. Lance Corporal, KEH. 'A' Squadron. Served as a Cook. Enlisted in Nov 1914 from the Legion of Frontiersman. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Discharged on 27/02/1919. Awarded Meritorious Service Medal as a Lance Corporal (London Gazette 3/06/1919). Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

RENDALL, Richard W. 1605. Private, KEH. Discharged on 28/02/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

REYNOLDS, Allan Boyd. Captain, KEH in 1915 (photograph see Figure 19). Transferred as a Major (1915-18) and then Lieutenant Colonel, 12th Royal Lancers until 1930. Commanded the 1/1st Northumberland Hussars Mar 1917-Mar 1919. Pre-war service as a Lieutenant, 12th Royal Lancers (Army List 1902) having enlisted 23/05/1900. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Born in Hornsey, Middlesex, London, England on 12/03/1879 and was a first-class cricketer and attended Oxford University. Died on 2/06/1940 in Marylebone, London. Mentioned in Despatches in the 2nd Boer War. Awarded Distinguished Service Order, Queen's South Africa and King's South Africa Medals and 1914/15 Star trio. 

REYNOLDS, Alfred N. 1361. Corporal, KEH. Discharged on 12/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RICH, Geoffrey Gordon. Lieutenant, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Prior service as a Second Lieutenant, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, 7/424, New Zealand Expeditionary Forces then transferred as a Second Lieutenant later Lieutenant, 1st Troop, 'A' Squadron KEH at Vieille Chappelle in Apr 1918. Entered Egypt on 3/12/1914. Serjeant, Canterbury Mounted Rifles 7/424 on enlistment and transferred as a Second Lieutenant, KEH. Fought at the defense of Vieille Chappelle 9-11/04/1918 for which he was awarded the Military Cross as a Lieutenant. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the MacKenzie Battalion, New Zealand Army on 1/08/1941. Geoffrey was born 19/03/1889 in Fortrose, Southland, New Zealand and died on 14/09/1975 in Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Port Levy, New Zealand. His photograph in the uniform of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles shown on accompanying page plus photograph and short caption stating he had been WIA from the Auckland Weekly News of 30/12/1915 courtesy of the Auckland Online Cenotaph and a photograph of his prismatic compass from the Great War courtesy of the South Canterbury Museum.  

RICHARDS, John. D/17226. Private, KEH. Prior service as a Private, 1st Dragoons then transferred as Private, KEH then Private, Corps of Dragoons all with regimental number D/17226. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RICHARDS, Richard. 1627. Private, KEH. Transferred as Private, Royal Engineers, WR/285721. A member of the Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Awarded British War and Victory Medals.

RICHARDSON, Arthur. 1326. Private, 2nd Troop, 'C' Squadron, KEH. Enlisted on 16/11/1915. Entered France on 13/07/1916. Arthur was injured at Matigny, France on 13/04/1917 by his horse which kicked him and he sustained multiple leg fractures. Discharged on 14/08/1919. Prior service with 1st Rhodesian Regiment in German West Africa and discharged on Jul 1915. Born in Yorkshire in 1879. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RICHARDSON, William Roland. Private, KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers later Captain. From Vaucluse, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Noted in Under Friendly Flags by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having served with KEH. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

RICKARD, Joseph Charles. 1969. Private, KEH. Enlisted on 1/04/1917 and discharged on 21/02/1919. Awarded Silver War Badge 216877. Born in 1896. Awarded British War and Victory Medals which were sold on eBay UK in Sep 2020.

RIDGEWAY, William Kemp. 1593. Private, Reserve Squadron, KEH. Enlisted on 28/07/1916 in Longford with Reserve Squadron after three years' service with New Zealand Expeditionary Forces as Serjeant, 8/90 with the Otago Infantry Battalion having resigned to serve overseas on 14/03/1916. Discharged on 19/03/1917 through illness and awarded Silver War Badge 39056. Born in 1889 in Otago the son of Thomas Gamage Ridgeway who was living in Surrey, England post-war. Service commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RIDGWAY, George. D/16746. Private, KEH. Prior service as Private, 6th Dragoon Guards, GS/21465 then transferred as Private, KEH D/16746 and then Private, Corps of Dragoons, D/17646. Discharged on 22/02/1919. Born in 1882 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and died on 4/03/1945. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RIGDEN, C. A. Private, Reserve Squadron, KEH. As noted in the tenth edition of The Spur (the newsletter of the Reserve Squadron of the KEH whilst at Longford, Ireland and training at the Curragh in 1916) he was transferred on 12/12/1916 to the Rifle Brigade for active service in France. 

RIGG, Robert G. 1494. Private, KEH. Discharged on 30/01/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RINDER, Robert Toynbee. 1446. Lance Corporal, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Promoted to that rank on 10/10/1917. Enlisted on 9/02/1916, entered France on 16/11/1916 and discharged on 20/05/1919. He was WIA with a Gun Shot Wound to his right wrist at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 9-11/04/1918 and awarded Silver War Badge 294195. Born in 1890 in Canada. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RITCHIE, D. A. Private, Reserve Squadron, KEH. As noted in the tenth edition of The Spur (the newsletter of the Reserve Squadron of the KEH whilst at Longford, Ireland and training at the Curragh in 1916) he was transferred on 12/12/1916 to the Rifle Brigade for active service in France. 

RITCHIE, Ernest. 1763. Serjeant, KEH. Transferred as Serjeant, Tank Corps, 112012. Further research required.

RITSON, Ralph Gerald. Captain, Reserve Squadron, KEH. Commanded the Reserve Squadron from 22/05/1915. Attached from the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons whilst invalided from service in France. Entered France on 18/11/1914 and was Staff Captain, 8th Cavalry Brigade from 20/11/1914. Held the rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel in 1919. Born on 17/01/1880 in Hexham, Northumberland, England and died on 22/10/1966 in South Africa. Champion polo champion. His brother Ward Cuthbert Ritson served as a Lieutenant Colonel with the Rifle Brigade in WW1 and was awarded an Order of the British Empire. Gerald was awarded the 1914 Star trio.

ROBARTS, Geoffrey Ward. Private, KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery later Lieutenant, Royal Air Force. Further research required. 

ROBBIE, Alexander Benjiman. 1053. Private, KEH. From New Zealand. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Discharged on 4/01/1918. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ROBERTO, J. H. 1213. Private, KEH. Further research required. 

ROBERTON, James Basil Wilkie. Private, KEH. Born on 29/01/1896 at Wright St-Clair, Auckland, New Zealand. Studied at King's College, Auckland and then started in medicine at Cambridge University in 1913. Likely to have served with the University Troop of KEH. Entered France on 25/08/1915. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was WIA twice and served as a Signal Officer in France and Italy. Mentioned in Despatches. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio named to Northumberland Fusiliers. Awarded Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1918. After returning to Cambridge after the war, he became a doctor in civilian life in New Zealand. He then served as a Major in World War 2 attached to the Headquarters of the New Zealand Medical Corps, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Service Number 462018. He was an authority on Maori history and culture. Died aged 99 in January 1996 at Te Awamutu, Waikato. (Biography courtesy of the Auckland Online Cenotaph).

ROBERTS, Arthur Mathias. 1038. Lance Corporal, KEH. A member of the Anglo-Argentinian Railway staff. Enlisted on 12/04/1915 and entered France on 28/07/1915. Discharged on account of his wounds on 24/01/1917 aged 26. Awarded Silver War Badge No. B24036. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. Portrait photograph shown.

ROBERTS, Charles Ewart. 1240. Private, KEH. He was KIA at the defence of Vieille Chapelle 09/04/1918. Born in 1889 the son of Henry Roberts, of Pool Crescent. Newtown. Montgomeryshire. Buried in VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE, FRANCE. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. His name is commemorated on the Newtown War Memorial. (Possible photograph Figure 23). Civilian portrait shown courtesy of Imperial War Museum 'Lives of the First World War'.

ROBERTS, Donald Trevor. 83. Acting Squadron Serjeant Major, 'A' Squadron and 4th Troop, 'C' Squadron in 1918. Entered France on 22/04/1915, WIA at Savy in Mar 1917 and discharged on 3/03/1919. Awarded the Roumanian Medaille-Barbartie St. Credinta 2nd Class and Meritorious Service Medal with rank of Serjeant. Possibly born on 10/05/1895 in Barry, Glamorgan, Wales and died on 17/08/1955 in Warwickshire, Warwick, England. Possible photograph Figure 23. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ROBERTS, John Henry. 1213. Serjeant, KEH. Entered France 20/10/1915. Awarded Military Medal for defence at Vieille Chapelle in Nov 1918 (Possible photograph Figure 23). Discharged on 18/06/1919. Additional photograph of him as a member of the Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard) speaking with His Majesty King George VI at an LDV inspection at Woodford, Essex on 20/07/1940 (KEH Old Comrade Bulletin, No 8, 1940). Member of the King's Colonials Lodge. Awarded 1914/15 Star trio.

ROBERTSON, John. 446. Acting Corporal, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Captain, 3rd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders on 6/07/1916. Awarded Military Cross. Served with 7th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment as an Officer from 1934-39 and was a Lieutenant Colonel in WW2. He died on 1/08/1944 in Oxton. His mother Grace applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Oxton, Cheshire, England.

ROBERTSON, Thomas Struan. Second Lieutenant, KEH. Further research required.

ROBINSON, Frank. D/9137. Private, KEH. Transferred to Corps of Dragoons as Private, D/9137. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ROBINSON, Harry. 1076 Private, KEH. Then transferred as Private, Northumberland Fusiliers, 39914. Further research required.

ROBINSON, Nichol. 1710. Private, KEH. Discharged on 3/03/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ROBINSON, Peter. 1322. Private, KEH. Discharged on 31/03/1919. Resided in Kilburn, London post-war. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ROBINSON, Robert. 1555. Private, KEH. Entered France on 14/07/1915. Transferred as Private, Royal Engineers, WR/282206 then Private, Rifle Brigade, B/200727. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ROBINSON, William Cowper. Second Lieutenant, King's Colonials 1905. Named in 1902 camp photograph. Lieutenant in 1/05/1907. Further research required.

ROBOTTI, William L. 649. Private, KEH. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant later Lieutenant, Drake Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Awarded Military Cross and applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Highbury, London.

RODEN, Tom Corbitt. 809. Private, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Enlisted on 7/12/1914. Entered France on 2/06/1915. Discharged on 6/09/1918. He was born in July 1881 in Whitby, Yorkshire, resided in Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne post-war and died on 27/03/1961 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

RODNEY-RICKETTS, Stewart Arthur. 91. Serjeant, KEH. Entered France on 26/07/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 7/01/1915 later Captain, 'D' Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 82nd Brigade. He was KIA on 31/10/1917 aged 23. Son of Arthur Rodney-Ricketts and Ellie Ricketts from Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He attended Exeter College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1911. Buried in VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, Belgium. Awarded Military Cross on 10/01/1917. His sacrifice was commemorated on the St. George's College War Memorial, Harare, Zimbabwe.

RODRIGUEZ, George Harold. 1304. Private, KEH. Left Trinidad for UK on 18/10/1915 with 1st Caribbean Merchant and Planters Contingent. Discharged on 8/07/1919. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ROGERS, Harry William. 1440. Lance Corporal, KEH. He was KIA on 9/04/1918 at the defence of Vieille Chapelle. Buried in VIEILLE-CHAPELLE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, LACOUTURE, FRANCE. Lance Corporal Harry William Rogers was born in Feilding, New Zealand and grew up in South Africa. He is commemorated on a gravestone in Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa (photograph available). His sacrifice is commemorated on the Auckland Online Cenotaph. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

ROMANES, Francis John. Captain, 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron, KEH. Second Lieutenant on probation on 1/09/1914. Entered France on 18/06/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 24/06/1915. Lieutenant in photograph at Longford 1915 see Figure 19. Married Doris Helena McNaughton Wright on 5/08/1918 in Dublin and they had one son. Awarded Silver War Badge on (London Gazette 26/04/1919). Born in Nigg, Scotland in 1887 and died in Dunmow, Essex, England on 2/07/1944. Captain Romanes was a director of the Chiswick Press, London and was educated at Eton and St. John's College, Oxford. Some years before the Great War he went to America and started the Boy Scout Movement that country. He was a member of the Dunmow Rural Council. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio. Postcard of his 3rd Troop, 'B' Squadron he sent to a friend from the Scout Movement in the US from Watford, England in Jan 1915 shown on the accompanying page. 

ROPER, George Elliot. Second Lieutenant, KEH. Served pre-war KEH. Granted 12 months leave of absence (commenced 15/01/1912) from 20th (Corangamite) Light Horse (Australia) to attend Sheffield University and was attached to KEH. Returned to Australia and served with 20th Australian Light Horse and promoted to Lieutenant in 1916. Noted in Under Friendly Flags by Lieutenant Colonel Neil C. Smith AM as having served with KEH.

ROSE, William. 1920. Serjeant, KEH. Transferred as a Serjeant, Royal Engineers 208131 then Serjeant, Inland Transport Section, Royal Engineers, WR/503876. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals named to Royal Engineers.

ROSS, Carl Frederick William. 679. Private, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Entered France 2/06/1915. Awarded Military Medal for gallantry at Cambrai on 12/12/1917. Discharged on 4/03/1919. Born on 6/08/1893 in Capetown, South Africa. Arrived in England in 1904 and studied at Christ's College, University of London. Died on 17/11/1943 in Ealing, Middlesex, England. Portrait photograph circa 1915-16 courtesy of J. Smith from Ancestry.  Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

ROSS, Outram (Rossie). 703. Private, 2nd Troop, 'B' Squadron, KEH in 1915. Entered France on 22/04/1915. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Machine Gun Corps on 27/05/1917 later Temporary Lieutenant, Tank Corps. Born in the Cedars near Mackay, Queensland, Australia on 27/05/1886 the son of Henry Ross. Was in America when the Great War was declared and went to England to enlist. Married Sylvia May Burbidge in Brisbane on 11/08/1919. Settled in New Zealand where he died in KatiKati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand in 1961. Entitled to 1914/15 Star trio. 

RUECROFT, John W. 1196. Private, KEH. Discharged due to felony 29/05/1919. No medals recorded on Medal Index Card and would have been entitled to British War and Victory Medals.

RUFFHEAD, Arthur W. 427. Lance Corporal, Machine Gun Section, 'A' Squadron, KEH. Enlisted on 25/05/1914. Entered France on 1/06/1915. He was WIA by shrapnel at Windy Corner, Le Caury on 8/01/1916. Promoted to Lance Corporal on 23/12/1916. Sustained a Gun Shot Wound to upper left arm at 23/03/1917 at Savy. Discharged physically unfit on 12/12/1917. Prior service in the Royal Field Artillery (London) from 1909-11. Born on 9/10/1890 in Bedford, England and died in Dec 1971 in Droxford, Hampshire, England. Lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada prior to enlistment. Awarded Silver War Badge 304/166 and entitled to 1914/15 Star trio.

RUSSELL, Ernest Gordon. Lieutenant, KEH. Promoted to Captain, Royal West Kent Regiment then Major, Royal Army Service Corps. Born on 17/06/1870 in Grange, Banffshire, Scotland and died on 23/10/1953 in Kampala, East Africa. Mentioned in Despatches. Awarded OBE (London Gazette 3/06/1919). Image of Victory Medal sold on eBay UK shown. 

RUSSELL, George Gray. Lieutenant Colonel, KEH. Born in New Zealand and attended Wanganui Collegiate School and then University of Cambridge from 1902. He served in the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps prior to joining the Oxford University Troop of the King's Colonials. He appears on the 1910 Officers Nominal Roll as a Second Lieutenant and was promoted to Captain on the 5/11/1912.  As Major Russell he commanded 'A' Squadron of KEH in France before being promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in command of the combined Squadrons of the KEH. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order 4/02/1918 and Mentioned in Dispatches three times (one of which was published in the London Gazette Supplement 16/06/1916). Lieutenant Colonel Russell died on the 7/08/1965. Photograph taken as a Captain circa 1912-Aug 1914. Captain in 1915 see Figures 19 and 135. A solicitor in civilian life.  

RUTHERFORD, John C. 1689. Private, KEH. Enlisted on 9/11/1916 and discharged on 30/09/1918 due to being medically unfit as a result of being WIA. Originally from Wallsend-on-Tyne, South Shields and returned from Tatal, Chile to enlist. Employed at Lautaro, Nitrate Co. Awarded British War Medal and Victory Medal and Silver War Badge 356658. Biography courtesy of the South Pacific Mail. 

RUTTER, William Henry. 1243. Private, KEH. Discharged on 13/03/1919. Born on 16/10/1885 in Stanley, Falkland Islands and died on 15/07/1966. Prior service in the Falkland Island Defence Force. Entitled to British War and Victory Medals. His service is being researched by Diego Hernandez, his relative.

RYALL, Herbert Henry. Lance Corporal, KEH. Editor of multiple editions of The Spur, the newsletter of KEH while they were stationed in Longford, Ireland in 1916 undertaking training at the Curragh. Herbert Henry Ryall, son of Tom Ryall and Janet Sutherland Beck was born in about August 1894 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England. He married Janet Burton Chapman in 1942, their marriage was registered in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He died in 1975 in New South Wales, Australia. Herbert returned from a three years’ journalistic engagement in China to enlist in 1916 as reported in the Isle of Wight County Press of 22/01/1916. He was educated at Sandown Secondary School and was for some time engaged in journalistic work at Ryde prior to proceeding to China. Post-war he emigrated to Australia and as reported in the Isle of Wight County Press of 13/02/1926 he was now a Justice of the Peace and was appointed Private Secretary to the former Australian Prime Minister William Morris Hughes. Biography contributed in part courtesy of the Ryde Social Heritage Group. No medal entitlement as he did not serve in a theatre of war.

RYAN, Frank Dowland. Reverend, KEH. Acting Chaplain in 1914 and Chaplain to KEH from 1918. Entered France on 30/05/1915. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from the Chaplaincy, Bangkok, Siam in 1921. Photograph from The Sketch, Wednesday, 4/09/1918, page 4. He was noted to have been awarded the Military Cross with his medal ribbon shown in the photograph.

RYAN, Martin. Second Lieutenant, KEH. Transferred to 25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and entered East Africa in Apr 1915. Promoted to Captain later Acting Major. He was KIA on 18/10/1917. Lieutenant Fred Ryan, Special List attached 3rd Battalion, Nigeria Regiment WAFF, and his brother Major Martin Ryan, 40, of the 25th Royal Fusiliers, were both KIA at Nyangao, East Africa. The sons of H. V. and A. Ryan of Ootacamund, Nilgiri Hills, Madras, India both are buried in Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery. An “In Memoriam” notice published in 'The Times' on 17 October 1919 stated that they “were killed in action on the same day, at the same place, and near the same spot”. Mrs S. V. Stewart as next of kin applied for Martin's 1914/15 Star trio. Photograph of Captain Ryan in 25th Royal Fusiliers in East Africa shown. 

RYAN, Patrick Joseph. 1230. Corporal, KEH. Entered France on 4/05/1915. Transferred as Private, Lancashire Fusiliers, 40593. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, Royal Munster Fusiliers on 25/09/1918. Applied for 1914/15 Star trio from Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland.