Album Relating to the East Riding Royal Garrison Artillery

Reference No:
C DMX/330/1
Dates:
1914-1918
Description:

An album compiled and presented by Major R. Saunders R.A. to Major Robert Hall & Officers, East Riding R.G.A. as a record of the Corps during the War, commencing August 1914. Includes a history of the East Riding R.G.A. during mobilization, photos of Corps Officers with a record of their Military careers, Names of all ranks who proceeded overseas, and a record of other Officers who did duty.

The front of the album contains a summary of the war giving details of men from the Corps who lost their lives, those who were wounded, those that were decorated, and those mentioned in despatches.

The volume contains photographs of the following officers:

Senior Officers

Major Robert Hall ( page 3)

Major R. Saunders (page 4)

Major H. Hall (page4)

Adjutants (page 5)

Capt C.A. Orton (Order of St Stanislas)

Capt A. Brown

Capt W.H. Costello

Medical Officers (page 6)

A.W. Scott

Capt A.H. Fullerton

Lieut G.H. Watson (attached from RAMC)

Dr M. Lethbridge Farmer

No 1 Company (page 7)

Major Frank L. Pawley

Capt C.D. Allderidge (DSO)

Lieut J.H. J.H. Soady

Lieut E.L. Robson (no photo)

No 2 Company (page 8)

Major F.M. Hamilton

Capt Adam Brown

Lieut W. Bernard Watson

2nd Lieut R.E.C. Keighley

No 3 Company (page 9)

Capt J.H. Fenner (MC)

Capt F. Holman

Lieut N.B. Bean

No 4 Company (page 10)

Major Harold A. Denham (DSO)

Lieut W.S. Downs

Lieut W.H. Costello

Lieut J.G. Ward

Reserve and Chaplin (page 11)

3 Photos description page missing

Ex Officers (Page 12)

Lieut Col R.E. Johnson

Capt Harold Easton

Capt Brian A. Bilton

From The Ranks (Page 13)

2nd Lieut F.J.C. Hindson (MC)

2nd Lieut H.E. Turner (Belgian Croix de Geure)

2nd Lieut A.L. Darnley

Mobilization (Page 14 - 27)

2nd Lieut Kenneth Hall

2nd Lieut H.K. Colbeck

2nd Lieut E.R. Bickersteth

2nd Lieut W. J. Jesse

2nd Lieut Peter Warburton

2nd Lieut J. Tuke Hosdell

2nd Lieut J.R. Henson

2nd Lieut J.P. Sargent

2nd Lieut T.G. Leonard (MBE)

2nd Lieut C.R. Burton (MC)

2nd Lieut T. Edgar Locking

2nd Lieut E. Kenneth Locking

2nd Lieut C.R. Thornton Varley

2nd Lieut D.D.M. Bonar (MC)

2nd Lieut W.B. Wheatley

2nd Lieut R.D. Ried

2nd Lieut G. Holdsworth

2nd Lieut D.E. Cromarty

2nd Lieut Frank Pearson

2nd Lieut A.D. Carmichael

2nd Lieut Middlewood (MC)

2nd Lieut W.B. Brittain

2nd Lieut F.K. Keighley

2nd Lieut A.G. Cameron

2nd Lieut W.L. Hirst

2nd Lieut S.T. Jarman

2nd Lieut A. Buxton

2nd Lieut F.R. Hamilton

2nd Lieut W.J. Slater

2nd Lieut J. Scott Forbes

2nd Lieut J.E. Fargus

2nd Lieut L.S.N. Lewendon

2nd Lieut Gerald E. Sykes

2nd Lieut B.D. Meeke

2nd Lieut R Fawcett (MC)

2nd Lieut J. Hornsby Watson

2nd Lieut M. Patton

2nd Lieut D.F.W. Scanlan

2nd Lieut S.B. Young (MC)

2nd Lieut H. Douglas Clarke

2nd Lieut A.C. Reynoldson

2nd Lieut J.F.B. Johnson

2nd Lieut J.H.G. Womersley (MC)

2nd Lieut W.W. Sawden

2nd Lieut A.M. Bentley

2nd Lieut A.C. Hoskins

2nd Lieut J. Corke (MC)

2nd Lieut O.W.H. Lewis (MBE)

Group scene R.G.A. officers 77th Siege Battery (page 29)

Ward

Soady

Allderidge

Group scene Officers, NCO's and Gunners of East Riding , part of 77th Siege Battery R.G.A. (page 29)

Group scene Officers No1 Anti Aircraft Company R.G.A. (page 30)

2nd Lieut D.E. Cromarty

2nd Lieut E.K. Locking

2nd Lieut D.D.M. Bonar

2nd Lieut R.D. Ried

2nd Lieut T.E. Locking

Lieut K. Hall

Capt H. Easton

Capt J.P. Sargent

2nd Lieut E.R. Bickersteth

2nd Lieut A.D. Carmicheal

2nd Lieut A.L. Darneley

2nd Lieut G. Holdsworth

Group scene No1 Anti Aircraft Company R.G.A. (page 30)

Royal Artillery Staff Humber Garrison 1915 (page31)

Major H.Hall (mising from photo)

Lieut J.H. Kirby

Capt W.H. Costello

Capt F.N. Baker

Capt Adam Brown

Capt J.L. McCracken

Lieut J.H. Soady

Major R. Saunders

Major R. Hall

Col H.R. Adair

Capt F.L. Pawley

Capt J.H. Fenner

Class Special Reserve Officers R.G.A. 19/02/1916, Hull (page 32)

Hon R.G. Whitley

S.R. Wood

W. Eatherley

L.J. Bethell

D.J Walters

W.J. Fox

Revd J.H. Hunt

H.B Barker

F.A.S. Newman

J. Quinton

R.G. Gething

C.H. Tanquaray

G.L. Morris

T.G.E. Chambers

G.L. Gamlan

T.F. Barker-Benfield

J.R. Ray

A.V. Sutton

Lieut H. Betholini (Sig Officer)

Lieut G. Eldred (Instructor)

Major F.N. Baker (Chief Instructor)

Lieut G. Cook (Instructor)

J.C. Irving

T. Dean

Administratative Centre March 1916 (pagr 34)

Gnr Broughton

Sgt Wilkinson

Gnr Hills

Gnr Bilton

Sgt Richardson

S.M. Huitt

Major R. Saunders

S.M. Head

Cpl Kay

List of officers who did duty during mobilization with R.G.A. Humber Coast Defence (page 36)

(other than those of the East Riding R.G.A.)

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 volume
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull City Archives
Collection:
Miscellaneous Deposited Items