Officers Serving or Attached to 179th Tunnelling Company RE 1915-18

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name

rank

Dates with 179 Coy

Prior Unit

Subsequent Unit

Service Record at National Archives

Dates & notes

Locality

Alabaster, Eric Osborne

Capt

2/8/15- 1/11/15

RE Regular

Leaves to form 89th F Coy

WO 339/66639 – apply MOD

1887-1937

 

Allan, John Caldwell

2Lt

19/9/15-

Indian Army Reserve of Officers, 1st S&M

 

WO 339/70121

1893-1969

Portugal

Bates, Percy Joseph

2Lt

4/9/15-28/3/17 KIA

RE; ranks Staffs Yeo

 

Y

1892-1917

Silverdale, N Staffs

Binns, Ray Ellerton

A Capt

tbc

226, 1st Company Canadian Royal Engineers Motor Machine Gun Brigade [sic]

 

Y REB:WO 339/37231

[RB:WO 339/48040]

 

Blackheath

Bowen, John [Jackie]

2Lt

8/8/15-

RE

 

Film: John RE P/152261 (61399) no record

1890-1951

 

Broadbridge, Edward George B

Capt

tbc

176th Tunnelling Coy

 

 

 

 

Brodigan, Vincent Frederic

Capt

27/10/17-

 

 

Y WO 339/55704

1876-1922

Johannesburg

Bullock, Stanley Crossland

Lt

22/2/16-

 

 

Y WO 339/51957

1881-1945

 

Burton, Harry Dennis

2Lt

8/11/15-15/12/15 ret to unit

10 Essex; Bde Mining Officer

 

Y WO 339/2700

1888-

 

Buswell, Gordon

2Lt

19/9/15-

Indian Army Reserve of Officers, 3rd S&M

 

No G Buswell

 

 

Calvert, Cecilius Frederick Holcombe

2Lt

15/8/15 - KIA 14/9/15

Comm 3 S Staffs; joins 2 E Lancs 22/5/15

 

Y

1894-1915

 

Carr

 

-21/7/16-

 

 

 

Mentioned in Lyall diary 21/7/16, can’t trace other mention.

 

Cherry, Herbert Cecil Edgar

Lt

26/9/15-

6/Glos; 8 (S) Glos (formed Bristol)

RFC; post war IARO Burma S&M

Not found: post war service IARO

(WO 339/17666 for brother)

1892-1942

Bristol

Creswick, Wilfred Bertram

Lt

12/9/1915-10/4/1916 KIA

4 KOYLI

 

Y

1886-1916

Wakefield

Ford, Leo Dorey

2Lt

19/9/15-

Indian Army Reserve of Officers

 

WO 339/90997; WO 339/118680

c1887-

Newcastle; Upper Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Foster, George Haslewood

2Lt

1917-KiA 21/3/18

 

 

Y WO339/114382

1885-1918

Birkenhead

Fox, Ralph Henry Shoolbred

2Lt

9/11/15-

8/ Norfolk; Bde Miners

 

Film 57822 no rec

MC 1896-1960

Norfolk

Fraser

2Lt

2/2/16-

1 Dorset carrying parties

 

 

 

 

Gibson, J

2Lt

1/12/15-

RE

 

 

 

 

Hance, Henry Malkin

Captain, (OC)

17/10/15-

1st KGO Sappers & Miners; Indian Army Reserve of Officers; 176 Coy

Indian Army

y

1879-1945

Liverpool; Bristol; Calcutta

Hawtrey, Ralph

2Lt

-3/9/16 KIA

2 [8th?] Northants

 

WO 339/34019

 

Romsey Hants

Hudson, W

2Lt

10/12/15-31/12/15 [toCCS]

RE

 

Check film

Poss William

 

Humphrys, Herbert John

Lt

-24/1/16

1/7 Black Watch TF

To 251 Coy 24/1/16

y

1881-1965

Ilkeston St Mary; Fife; Doncaster, Edenthorpe.

Hutchison, Lawrence George David

 

26-27/8/15

1/8th KLR TF

 

Not in WO338 or WO374

 

 

Jones, Stanley Ramplen

Lt

2/8/15-

RE

 

Y WO 339/48768

 

1882-c1954

Malaya, Perak

Kerr, Hugh Ripley

Lt

28/8/15-

3rd(or 5th) Norfolk Regt, att. KO Lancs Regt, 4th Div

 

Y WO 339/4490; WO 339/40408

 

1890-1965

Staines, Mddx.; Mysore, Kolar Fields

Kidd, Alastair Wilson

2Lt

11-27/10/15

RE from 9th Seaforth Pioneers

27/10/15 to 252 Coy. D. 26/10/18

Y WO 339/45158

1884-1918

b. Dornoch, Cty of Sutherland

Lamb, John

2Lt

-DoW 17/10/17

 

 

Many in wo339

-1917

 

Leyland, Herbert Edward

2Lt

-DoW 17/10/17

 

 

Check: WO 339/110823; WO 339/127414

-1917

 

Mackay-White, Eric William

2Lt

15/8/15-

RE

 

Y WO339/41997

1883-1947

1929: Trail, B.C., Canada.

Mainhood, Albert Ewart

2Lt

19/1-2/2/16

1 Dorset carrying parties

 

 

 

 

McKay, Alexander Matheson MC

2Lt

24/2/16- DoW 18/5/18

184 Coy

 

Y WO 339/56766

 

1891-1918 MC

Edinburgh

Melville, George Peters

2Lt

30/9/15-25/10/15

RE

253 Coy

Y WO 339/45161

1896-

 

Morgan, Arthur Mansel

2Lt

[leave 22/7/16]

Welsh Regt

RFC

Check

WO 339/22970

WO 374/48705

1891-

 

Pretyman, Frank Remington

Lt

28/8/15-24/10/15

 

To IWT RE 24/10/15; 2 Scots Guards KIA 4/7/17

Y  WO 339/27409

1891-1917

Bournemouth

Reid, John Lindsay

2Lt (A/Capt)

25/11/15-DoW 18/10/17

RE

 

Y WO 339/45413

188-1917 ‘J W Reid’

Dennistoun, Glasgow

Rowan, Gilbert E

2Lt

26/8/15-10/7/16

1/7 Black Watch TF; Bde Mining Sect

254 Coy

Y WO 374/59369

1886-  No initial E on other recs

Cowdenbeath, Fife

Rylands

2Lt

19/1/16-

4? Lancs Fus

 

 

 

 

Slorach, James William

2Lt

26/8/15-27/3/16

1/6 SR

 

y

1884-

Glasgow

Stuart, James Davidson

2Lt

25/9/15 – 27/10/15

9 HLI TF

252 Coy, 180

Check:

WO 339/45166; WO 374/66188

-1929

 

Symington, Percy George

2Lt

19/1/16-

17 HLI D Coy; KiA 1/7/16

 

Y WO 339/21630

1896-1916 Permanent carrying party only

 

Thompson, Geoffrey

2Lt

19/9/15-KiA 3/9/16

2/ QVO Sappers & Miners, Indian Army Reserve of Officers

 

Film:

Poss 165476 but no file.

Not 130356: WO339/57762

 

1889-1916

Montreal; parents Weybridge, Surrey

Woodward, Charles Edgar

2Lt

16/1/16-

RE, ‘from Base’

 

Y WO 339/49900

1887- 1948 or before. DSO MC

Worksop

Young, James

2Lt

8/8/15-7/6/17

RE

256 Coy

Y WO339/32106

1885-1949

Crosshouse, Kilmarnock; 1937 Newton Mearns, Glasgow

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