Officers Serving or Attached to 185th Tunnelling Company RE 1915-18

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name

rank

Dates with 185 Coy

Prior Unit

Subsequent Unit

Service Record at National Archives

notes

Locality

Bowen, David

Capt

5/10/15-16/1/16 returns to Bn

1/8th W Yorks R

 

Y WO 374/8009

1885-1950

Headingly, Leeds

Cardwell, Robert Holgate

2Lt

5/10/15-

 

 

Y WO 339/39477

1884-1927

Kew, Hampstead; Rhodesia

Casson, Henry

2Lt

10/2/16-

5 Border (2Lt), 8 Border (Pte); (from No 4 GBD)

 

Check

WO 374/12807

WO 374/12808

1885-

Cleator Moor

Cutts, Leonard Edward

2Lt

27/10/15-

 

DoW 11/10/18 256 Coy

Y  WO 339/15059

1887-1918

Parents  Blackwell, Alfreton, Derbyshire; wife Coningsby, Lincoln.

Davies, Cyril Nutcombe

2Lt

19/2/16-3/16

No 4 GBD

 

No CND-, Too many CD-

 

Johannesburg

Davies, R D T

2Lt

10/2/16- [30/12/16]

No 4 GBD

 

 

Relinq comm. ill health 30/12/16

 

Dunère, Charles G N

 

-6/16-

Comm 6/R Sussex, resigns; Pte 2nd King Edwards Horse

 

none

Dismissed GCM 25/10/16 [check?]

 

Eddowes, Hugh Mortimer

Lt

1917-11/18-

 

 

 

-1929 DSO

 

Graham, Harry Woodthorpe

2Lt

19/2/16-

No 4 GBD

 

Check film

WO339 no H W. WO 339/4425

WO 339/33158

WO 339/49468

WO 339/52022

WO 339/61070

WO 339/87747

WO 339/88351

WO 339/91325

WO 339/108058

WO 339/110218

WO 339/115789

WO 339/118453

WO 339/128060

WO 339/129464

WO 339/134714

MC

Johannesburg

Hall, H C

2Lt

23/11/15-

No 4 IBD

 

Check Poss WO 339/7388

 

 

Hill, Stafford

2Lt

-4/2/16-

 

 

Y WO 339/47711

1858-

Aldeburgh Sussex; Inyati, Bulawayo, Pretoria

Howland, Ernest Robert

2Lt

18/10/15-

 

cLate 1916 Commands Rly Unit

Y WO 339/45156

1881-

London, New York

Joseph, Jack Ben

2Lt

- KiA 8/1/17

 

 

Check film

WO 339/97082

WO 339/55519

WO 339/57178

WO 339/133900

c1883-

Oudtshoorn, South Africa; Gorsdz, Russia.

Knox, Andrew Ronald

2Lt

21/11/15-12/12/15 KIA

No 4 GBD

 

Y WO 339/44343

1882-1915

Stockingford, Nuneaton, Cheslyn Hay

Lance, A E

2Lt

14/2/16-

No 4 GBD

 

Not found. R Lance: WO 339/114781

 

 

Latham, Arthur James

2Lt

19/12/15-4/2/16 KIA

No 4 GBD

 

Y WO 339/1888

1890-1916

Coleford, Gloucs

Lyall, Edward

Lt

16/11/15-

2 N’brian FA RAMC TF; 171, 178, 179 Coys

 

WO 339/62685 can’t id WO374, check WO339 film

1869-1929 DSO

D. 9/1929 Barton, Darlington, obit in The Northern Echo

McDouall, Philip Hastings

2Lt

5/2/16-

L/Sgt 2nd King Edwards Horse

 

Y  WO 339/54525

1884-

Otago University; Waihi, New Zealand

Plummer, Benjamin Douglas

2Lt

2/2/16-

No 4 GBD

 

Check film

WO 339/5435

1893-

Hexham, Northumberland

Richardson, Thomas Charles

Capt

5/10/15-4/2/16 DoW

RE SR

 

Microfilm: 18933 ‘Destroyed’

 

1885-1916

Clifton, Bristol; Bournemouth, Rio de Janeiro

Rickard, Harold

 

2Lt

27/10/15-6/1/16

RE

 

Y WO 339/42185

 

1875-

Surrey, Mexico, Toronto, Veracruz

Routledge, Henri Oscar

2Lt

29/12/15-

‘from England’; PPCLI

 

Film: P/119031/1x (118807)

Prob not: WO 339/123729

1886-1965

Wareham, Dorset; Hastings, Montreal

Shute, Percy Burgess

Lt

18/10/15-

N. Staffords

IARO

Y WO 339/30991

1890-1932

Urmston, Manchester; Canada

Smith, Thomas Henry

2Lt – A/Capt

25/12/15-20/3/1919

No 4 GBD

 

Y WO 339/46918

1885-

Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham

Tait, Alexander

2Lt

18/10/15-

 

 

WO 339/27439

WO 339/85843

WO 339/112594

WO 339/122045

WO 339/136825

 

 

Thomson, Ronald

2Lt

2/2/16- DoW 27/1/17

No 4 GBD

 

many

1886-1917

Rotherham

Tomlinson, William Fisher

2Lt

-1/1917

RE

 

Y WO 339/40929

1875-

Dunedin, Riccarton, NZ

Waterfield, Edwin William

 

5/10/15-15/5/16

Queens Westminsters; RE

 

Y  WO 339/45783

1892

Bromley, Brentford/Southall, Middx.; Ipoh, Perak, Malaya

Wilson, William Thomas

Lt

18/10/15-14/3/16

CVC/ Can Remounts

mining adviser XVII Corps; 256 Coy

Y WO374/75868

Can Rec

1876-1938. DSO, MC.

Dreghorn, Ayrshire; Québec, Ottawa, Duncan, BC.

Young, James Seton

2Lt

18/2/16-

7th Bn TF A & S Highlanders

 

Y WO 339/55659

1894-1939. MC

Larbert, Sterlingshire

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