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Woodman "Woody" Pascoe Dorsetshire Regiment Pte. When Military Records and Army Casualties WW1 became available on line I If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. He is remembered on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey. Dorset Regiment Pte. According to CWGC, William was aged 29 when he died. Kut surrendered on 22nd April 1916. Bertie William John White 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment When the British Army was withdrawn to Egypt the 5th Battalion spent several months there, before going to the Western Front in the autumn and early 1917. The Wartime Memories Project is a non profit organisation run by volunteers. The regiment served with the 43rd (Wessex) Division in North-West Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.The 8th Battalion, which was also raised in 1940, was initially assigned to the The following member of the regiment was awarded the Lieutenant Vizard, an officer serving with 4th battalion in the First World War Formerly 25872 Somerset Light Infantry. 9377 Albert Edward SPANSWICK (MIST) Albert was born in Fulham on 4 th November 1892 and Christened in Burbage on 5 th February 1893. Think it maybe Beaumont-Hamel north of Thiepval). The Germans launched a gas attack which resulted in just under 500 casualties. William Jarvis White 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (d.19th Aug 1915) Pte. James Temple Robinson 5th Btn. Private in 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment Nr,19330. He was there recovering from Malaria in early 1917 as far as we know. Many came from Dorset but many did not. - 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment during the Great War - If you can provide any additional information, please All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, Link to post Share on other sites.
I have never found his name on any war memorial. All this because of postcards he wrote in 1907, and has been kept in the 11774 Private Frederick Elkins who served with the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment during WW1 and died age 25 on the 19th August 1915. The 1st Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (1 Dorsetshire RVC) was at Bridport, 2 Dorsetshire RVC at Wareham, 3 Dorsetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps at Dorchester, 4th Dorsetshire RVC at Poole, 5 Dorsetshire RVC at Weymouth, 6 Dorsetshire RVC at Wimborne, 7 DorsetshireR… Maybe my grandmother's brother was at the Battle at Messines. Share this post . does anyone have war diary for 1st Dorset for 1914. Dorsetshire Regiment (d.4th Nov 1918) L/Cpl. William Warford, was killed in action 13th of June 1917 in France, Flanders. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 252591 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit without contacting us first.
History of the Dorsetshire Regiment 1914-1919. 5th (Service) Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Regiment: ‘A’ Company, 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. His war gratuity was paid to his widow and sole heir Victoria in 1919. The 5th Battalion was in action at Messines Ridge in May and June 1917. We can reunite you with your friends who served at Dorsetshire Regiment and we have a wealth of information on different units, bases and ships in the site. Dorset Regiment (d.19th Apr 1917) Pte. They lost more than 2,600 men killed and about three times that number wounded. 13149 C Company 5th Dorset Btn, still actually only 17 years old (d.o.b 8/3/1898) suffering from Enteric fever. Henry Walter Whetham Paul 5th Btn. Formerly 25872 Somerset Light Infantry. to help with the costs of keeping the site running. The Dorset Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958, being the county regiment of Dorset.Until 1951, it was formally called the Dorsetshire Regiment, although usually known as "The Dorsets".In 1958, after service in the Second Boer War along with World War I and World War II, the Dorset Regiment was amalgamated with the Devonshire Regiment to form the … William Edward Anderson 5th Btn. Alfred J. Dowse 1st. Btn. The Battalion he was to have joined was already besieged at Kut Al Amara in Mesopotamia (Iraq). If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. Thomas William Gibson 8th Btn. Enlisted Taunton. Some were Regular soldiers, some Territorials. William Warford 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (d.13th June 1917) In researching William I discovered he was born in 1882 in Chew Stoke but I was unable to find a record of his death. Link to post Share on other sites.

Welcome to Forces Reunited the place where you can find information and friends from Dorsetshire Regiment. The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army founded in 1794 as the Dorsetshire Regiment of Volunteer Yeomanry Cavalry in response to the growing threat of invasion during the Napoleonic wars.It gained its first royal association in 1833 as The Princess Victoria's Regiment of Dorset Yeomanry Cavalry, and its second, in 1843, as the Queen's Own Regiment of … British artillery had failed to keep the Turkish troops away from their lines, who were able to fire directly into the advancing British forces struggling over open and flooded ground. Reginald Josiah Knight 5th Batallion Dorsetshire Regiment Pte.