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Great War regiments

The Great War Regiments they served in

Author: Chris Shaw

Note – many people served in more than one battalion or regiment

The Norfolk Regiment

1st Battalion

Bane, James Thomas – Private 43073

Bloom, Walter David – Private 6977

Burton, William Henry – Private 6566

Burton-Pye, Richard James – Lance Corporal 26191

Hewitt, Charles

Hewitt, Glynn Reginald – Private 203525

Hewitt, Herbert John – Private 3/7352

Walpole, Ernest Edwin – Private 3/7188


2nd Battalion

Bane, George Edward – Lance Corporal 7494

Burton, Harry Edward – Private 8450

Burton-Pye, Richard James – Private

Burton-Pye, Samuel Walter – Private 16238

Dunning, Edward – Private 7221

Empson, Gilbert Albert – Private 26758

Gotts, Cyril – Private 16236

Gotts, William Edward – Private 18506

Gray, William Henry – Private 15157

Hewitt, Charles – Private 10869

Lubbock, Ernest Oscar William – Private 19713

Smith, Ernest Charles – Private 16237


3rd (Reserve) Battalion

Bane, George Edward – Private 5909

Bell, Stanley – Private

Bloom, Walter David – Private 4804 & 6977

Dunning, Edward – Private 5697 & 7221

Gray, George William – Private 14928

Gray, William Henry – Private 15157

Hewitt, Charles – Private 10869

Hewitt, Gerard George – Private 25821

Mayes, Herbert George – Private 8454

Rogers, William George – Private 3/7639

Smith, William James – Private 37030

Turner, Henry – Private 18478

Ward, Frederick Jubilee – Private 27004

Ward, Sidney Thomas – Lance Corporal 13746

Whitwood, Edward – Private 15231


5th Battalion

Baker, Charles Henry – Private 290391

Dix, Robert George – Private 4780 / 241048

Farrow, Cecil John – Private 13799


1/6th (Cyclists) Battalion

Porritt, Gordon Love – Private 1272

Skipper, Frank – Private 265149


7th Battalion

Gray, George William – Lance Corporal 14928

Harvey, Basil John – Private 14843

Hewitt, Wilfred Henry – Private 15146

Rogers, William George – Private 3/7639

Skipper, Frank – Private 265149

Whitwood, Edward – Sergeant 15231


8th Battalion

Farrow, Cecil John – Lance Corporal 13799

Fox, Harry Norton – 2nd Lieut. 300940

Harvey, Basil John – Private 14843

Kimm, Ernest Edward – Corporal 32048

Porritt, Gordon Love – Private 43700

Skipper, Frank – Private 43496

Ward, Sidney Thomas – Lance Corporal 13746


9th Battalion

Burton-Pye, Ernest Robert – Private 15019

Claxton, James – Private 22785

Gotts, Robert Charles – Private 16233

Gray, George William – Private 14928

Harvey, Basil John – Private 14843

Hewitt, John Henry – Private 40223

Hewitt, Sidney Richard – Sergeant 3/10693

Hurn, Albert – Private 16235


10th Battalion

Gray, Herbert William – Private 16544

Gray, William Henry – Private 15157

Hewitt, John Henry – Private 15151

Turner, Henry – Private 18478

Whitwood, Benjamin – Private 16218


11th Battalion

Baker, Charles Henry – Private 6777


12th Battalion

Ward, Sidney Thomas – Lance Corporal 13746


Training Reserve Battalion

Bartram, William James – Private 31001


Battalion not known

Gray, Charles William – Private 18467

Gray, Ernest Charles – Private 24338

Nichols, Robert – Private 18687

Pearson, William – Private 3/10848

Temple, Walter William – Private 38270


Norfolk Yeomanry

1/1st Norfolk Yeomanry

Gray, Albert Edward – Lance Corporal 1129


2/1st Norfolk Yeomanry

Gray, Albert Edward – Lance Sergeant 140012

Temple, Walter William – Private 140224


3/1st Norfolk Yeomanry

Baker, Ernest George – Private 2706

Storey, William Edward – Private 2705

Temple, Walter William – Private 2721


Other Regiments & Services

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

8th Battalion

Fox, Harry Norton – Lance Corporal 2820


Army Cyclist Corps

21st Brigade

Storey, William Edward – Private 12687


Army Service Corps

(became Royal Army Service Corps)

Burrell, James Swann – Private 3005

Claxton, Robert William – Driver

Gray, Ernest Charles – Private 428376

Harris, Charles Alfred – Private T/438061

Jordan, Stanley Arthur – Private S/32823

Spurgeon, Jack Gerald – Driver 8889 / Private 321218

Storey, James John – Driver T4/045251

Tuthill, Arthur Henry – A/Corporal T4/108097


Australian Imperial Force

16th Battalion

Wadge, Frank MC & bar – Captain


Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment

1/1st Battalion

Bullimore, Charles George – Private 40858


Bedfordshire Regiment

2nd Battalion

Burton-Pye, John Thomas – Private 29325


3rd Battalion

Gray, Charles William – Private 37616

Harvey, Reginald Thomas – Private 13211


Border Regiment

7th Battalion

Whitwood, Benjamin – Private 21193


11th Battalion

Whitwood, Benjamin – Private 21193


Canadian Expeditionary Force

188th Battalion

Fox, Leonard Charles – Private 887918


Cavalry Regiment

5th

Self, John Elliot – Private 69045


Cheshire Regiment

15th Battalion

Jordan, Stanley Arthur – Private 51351


Coldstream Guards

3rd Battalion

Burton, Edward Thomas – Private 10751


5th Reserve Battalion

Baker, Ernest William – Private 15721


Dorsetshire Regiment

2nd Battalion

Dunning, Edward – Private 9799


East Surrey Regiment

1st Battalion

Rogers, William – Private 28605


9th Battalion

Rogers, William – Private 28605


Essex Regiment

1st Battalion

Gray, Theophilus Woodbine – Private 20801

Hewitt, John Henry – Private 20740

Larke, Charles – Private 20568

Lawrence, Charles Edward – Private 20949

Mayes, Herbert George – Private 20709


3rd Battalion

Hewitt, John Henry – Private 20740


2/5th Battalion

Gray, Ernest Charles – Private 4573

2/6th Battalion

Gray, Thomas – Private 24912

3/6th Battalion

Harris, Charles Alfred – Private G/73153


10th Battalion

Bird, Thomas Edward – Lance Corporal 28116

Dix, James Albert Moy – Private 350864


Battalion not known

Claxton, Charles – Private

Gray, Fred – Private 40896


Hampshire Regiment

2/7th Battalion

Saunders, William James – Private 206055


12th Battalion

Saunders, Frederick – Private 31901


Kings Royal Rifle Corps

1st Battalion

Aldrich, Herbert – Rifleman 205265


2nd Battalion

Moy, George Ernest William – Rifleman R/12226


7th Battalion

Aldrich, Herbert – Rifleman 205265


16th Battalion

Moy, George Ernest William – Rifleman R/12226


17th Battalion

Moy, George Ernest William – Rifleman R/12226


18th Battalion

Moy, George Ernest William – Rifleman R/12226


20th Battalion

Reynolds, Stanley William – Private 62253


Labour Corps

9th Labour Company

Bell, Stanley – Private 4858


42nd Labour Company

Lawrence, Charles Edward – Private 475704


63rd Labour Company

Ward, Henry James Gotts – Private 74129


94th Labour Company

Grout, James Richard – Private 55920


101st Labour Company

Smith, Roland Chapman – Lance Corporal 60216


103rd Labour Company

Hewitt, Robert Charles – Private 61432


106th Labour Company

Bullimore, George – Private 63485


124th Labour Company

Ward, Henry James Gotts – Private 74129


159th Labour Company

Knights, Frederick William – Private 290866


326th Home Service Works Company

Hewitt, Gerard George – Private 178095


331st Home Service Works Company

Hewitt, Gerard George – Private 178095


339th Home Service Works Company

Baker, Edward George – Private 595969


426th Agricultural Company

Hurn, George Henry – Private 181579


429th Agricultural Company

Neave, Charles William – Private 552890


430th Agricultural Company

Gotts, Robert Charles – Private 240765

Gray, Ernest Charles – Private 240316


433rd Agricultural Company

Hewitt, Walter James – Private 158005


436th Agricultural Company

Larke, Bertie – Private 241011


575th Employment Company

Hewitt, George Isaac – Private 159785


660th  Agricultural Company

Hewitt, John Henry – Private 671300


661st Agricultural Company

Gray, Ernest Charles – Private 240316


667th Agricultural Company

Baker, Charles Henry – Private 429111


676th Home Service Employment Company

Thurston, Walter – Private 461279


691st Agricultural Company

Claxton, Charles – Private 496385


Company not known

Baker, Henry Oliver – Temp. Corporal 59473

Burrell, Robert William – Private 376924

Claxton, James – Private 438267

Drury, Bernard William – Private 697240

Gray, Fred – Private 632057


Lancashire Fusiliers

9th Battalion

Lubbock, Owen Albert Victor – Private 30744


18th Battalion

Hewitt, Reginald Hedley – Private 56777


London Regiment

6th (City of London Rifles) Battalion

Reynolds, Stanley William – Private 62253


2/13th Battalion

Hewitt, Sidney Richard – Company Sergeant Major 617536


15th (Reserve) Battalion

Reynolds, Stanley William – Private 6225


1/24th (The Queen’s) Battalion

Dix, Charles Cyril Moy – Private 722833


London Yeomanry

1/1st Battalion

Harvey, George Victor – Private H/265496




Machine Gun Corps

5th Battalion

Craske, Edward John – Private 78192


19th Battalion

Gray, Herbert William – Private 48745


3rd Battery

Stone, James Robert – Private 131942


74th Battery

Ward, Frederick Jubilee – Acting Shoeing Smith Corporal 83486


Battalion not known

Drury, Reginald Chapman MM – Lance Corporal 6322


Merchant Navy

Harvey, Francis Joseph

Secker, William


Middlesex Regiment


1st Battalion

Rogers, William – Private 242784


3/8th Battalion

Rogers, William – Private 242784


25th Battalion

Rogers, William – Private 6002


29th Battalion

Harris, Charles Alfred – Private 159182


Battalion not known

Royall, Charles Godfrey – Private 169507


Military Mounted Police

Bloom, Walter – Lance Corporal P/467


Northamptonshire Regiment

4th Battalion

Baker, Ernest George – Private 43305


6th Battalion

Baker, Ernest George – Private 43305

Gotts, Bertie Ernest – Private 59518

Temple, Walter William – Private 205877


7th Battalion

Baker, Ernest George – Private 43305


17th Battalion

Bullimore, Charles George – Private 39317


Battalion not known

Baker, George – Private 40984


Red Cross – Voluntary Aid Detachment

Burton-Pye, Ethel Elizabeth

Claxton, Beatrice Lottie

Hewitt, Ellen May

Learner, Muriel

Tyler, Jessie


Rifle Brigade

3rd Battalion

Gray, Cyril George – Private S/32269


Battalion not known

Harris, Charles Alfred – Private 55545

Walpole, Ernest Edwin – Private 52164


Royal Air Force

Burton, Harry Edward – Private 300710

Drury, Reginald Chapman MM – 329179

Durrant, Henry – Private 306237

Mills, Charles William – Mechanic R/8490

Regis, Lynn – Sgt. Major 186069

Wells, Samuel Horatio – Private 194174



Royal Defence Corps

110th Protection Company

Gray, Thomas – Private 2055


113th Protection Company

Hewitt, William – A/Corporal 44617


116th Protection Company

Dix, Reuben Thomas – Private 23955


321st Protection Company

Gray, Thomas – Private 2055





Royal Dublin Fusiliers

6th Battalion

Gray, William Henry – Private 27844

Hewitt, Charles – Private 6/27855


Royal Engineers

208th ‘Norfolk’ Field Company

Burton, John – Sapper 85424


313th Road Construction Company

Bullimore, George – Pioneer 247060 / WR22551


499th Field Company

Burrell, Archibald James – Private 219696


643rd Field Company

Burrell, Archibald James – Private 219696


Company not known

Bane, Herbert William – Sapper 3034 / 546620

Burton-Pye, Thomas Daniel Mayes – Sapper 231425

Larke, Albert – Sapper WR/332964

Lubbock, Louis William – Sapper 217968 / WR262257

Mills, Ernest Arthur – Sapper 68145 / WR500138

Pitcher, James – Sapper 42185

Rogers, Matthew Bayfield – Sapper 85697





Royal Field Artillery

100th Battery

Burrell, Robert William – Driver 15424


307th Battery

Baker, Bertie – Driver 208639


1st East Anglian Brigade

Saunders, James William – Driver 2453


32nd Brigade

Gotts. Samuel Herbert – Gunner 46612


60th Brigade

Hewitt, William – Bombadier 41005


95th Brigade

Saunders, James William – Shoeing Smith 876014


96th Brigade

Saunders, James William – Shoeing Smith 876014


107th Brigade

Empson, Horace Walter – Driver 875739


119th Brigade

Reynolds, George William – Gunner 124133


507th Brigade

Skipper, Reginald Robert – Gunner 275910


11th Company

Harvey, Harold Charles – Driver 52899


Company not known

Gotts, Samuel Herbert – Gunner 46612


Royal Flying Corps

Baker, John William – 25704

Mills, Charles William – 3512


Royal Fusiliers

7th Battalion

Larke, Albert – Private G/37376


17th Battalion

Larke, Albert – Private G/37376


20th Battalion (City of London Regiment)

Hewitt, John Herbert – 41766 / G/53038


36th Battalion

Bullimore, George – Private 33316


Battalion not known

Baker, Henry Oliver – Private 53972

Hewitt, Robert Charles – Private 38958


Royal Garrison Artillery

Gotts, Archie John – Gunner 82517

Gotts, Samuel Herbert – Gunner 223532

Tyler, William – Gunner 147510


Royal Highlanders (Black Watch)

4/5th Battalion

Bane, John Walter – Corporal 4654


1/7th Battalion

Bane, John Walter – Corporal 6972


14th (Fife & Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion

Bane, John Walter – Corporal 293009


Royal Horse Artillery

Kimm, Albert Harold – Gunner 195078


Royal Irish Fusiliers

3rd Battalion

Bell, Ernest Albert – Private 26021


Royal Marines

Skipper, Reginald Robert – Private 20612


Royal Munster Fusiliers

1st Battalion

Lawrence, Charles Frederick – Private 9103


Royal Navy

Bane, Robert Henry – Leading Stoker 29650

Drury, Ernest Richard – F/39150

Drury, Sydney Charles – Boy 2nd Class J/56253

Glasswell, Thomas Henry – AB Seaman 168295

Harvey, John Henry – Sailmaker’s Mate 162392

Hewitt, Albert Henry – Boy 1st Class J/50206

Hewitt, Donald Thomas – Stoker K/47045

Hewitt, William John – Boy 2nd Class J/93486

Lubbock, George Albert – AB Seaman J/77800

Pike, Edward James – AB Seaman 215129

Shepheard, Leon William – Yeoman Signaller 192866

Woodhouse, George – AB Seaman J/10624


Royal Naval Division

Briggs, Herbert Ernest – AB Seaman R/1141

Baker, Ephraim – Able Seaman Z/1788


Royal Scots Fusiliers

Bell, Stanley – Private 37709





Royal Sussex Regiment

Risebrow, John Henry – Private G/1782 & 315421


Royal Welsh Fusiliers

14th Battalion

Hewitt, John Henry – Private 55867


Royal West Surrey Regiment (The Queen’s)

6th Battalion

Frary, Herbert Thomas MM – Lance Corporal G/12188


11th Battalion

Gotts, Matthew – Corporal 206999


Battalion not known

Grout, James Richard – Private 17720

Ward, Henry James Gotts – Private 47670




Scottish Rifles

1/7th Cameronians

Bird, Harold William – Lance Corporal 266549





Suffolk Regiment

8th Battalion

Pitcher, Herbert – Private 7985


14th Battalion

Bartram, William James – Private 64645

Gotts, Matthew – Private 31637


Suffolk Yeomanry

Regis, Lynn


Suffolk Yeomanry – 1st Reserve Battalion

Craske, Edward John – Private 2819





Tank Corps

15th Tank Corps

Harvey, Basil John – Private 308275


Corps not known

Craske, Edward John – Private 78192

Gotts, Cyril – Private 16236

Royall, Charles Godfrey – Private 535904