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495th (Kent) Field Company, Royal Engineers



28th Oct 1915 At Sea

29th Oct 1915 Survivors

30th Oct 1915 Court of Inquiry

31st Oct 1915 Technical Stores

4th Nov 1915 To Rest Camp

6th Nov 1915 To Rest Camp

7th Nov 1915 To Rest Camp

8th Nov 1915 Admitted to Hospital

9th Nov 1915 Survivor

11th Nov 1915 Ready to Move

12th Nov 1915 Move

13th Nov 1915 Enquiry

14th Nov 1915 Orders

15th Nov 1915 Bad Weather

17th Nov 1915 Orders

18th Nov 1915 Orders

19th Nov 1915 Orders

20th Nov 1915 On the Move

21st Nov 1915 Back to Work

22nd Nov 1915 Construction Work

23rd Nov 1915 Construction Work

24th Nov 1915 Instruction

25th Nov 1915 Instruction

26th Nov 1915 Construction Work

30th Nov 1915 Construction Work

28th Jan 1918 Orders Received

30th Jan 1918 Offensive Patrols

1st Feb 1918 Patrol

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Spr. Sydney St.James Waghorne 1/1st Kent Field Coy. Royal Engineers

Sydney Waghorne, my Grandfather, enlisted on October 19th 1914 at the age of 19 years. His brother and him joined the 1/1st Kent Field Royal Engineers. Their first action was in October 1915 Gallipoli. While shipping over to the war front from Malta, the HMS Hythe was sunk during tragic accident. My grandfather lost many of his childhood friends even before he saw enemy. By the time he reached Sulva Bay, Gallipoli had already become a lost cause.

As a lineman for communications, it was a nightmare. The lines were in the trenches with the men often being trampled on and broken. Dysentery was decimating the troops and a surprise winter storm and days of rain, many died. During the evacuation in mid December, grandfather was one of those affected loaded until a hospital ship and taken back to Malta and then Gibraltar to recover from Dysentery.

Due to the tragedy of the HMS Hythe, he was reassigned to the 1/3rd Kent Field Company as a replacement under the London Signal Corp and the 29th Division. During the Battle of Ypres he was injured by a German shell while repairing a line. After another brief stay in the hospital, he served out the reminder of the war and marched into Germany with the 29th Division. He served 4 years and 127 days and earned the British 1914-15 Star, The British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal. Months after the war, he set sail to Canada and eventually settled in Wichita Falls, Texas until his day of passing in 1950.







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