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The North Somerset Yeomanry The North Somerset Yeomanry were raised in 1798. Battalions during the Great War 1914-1918. 1/1st Battalion 2/1st Battalion 3/1st Battalion Those known to have served with The North Somerset Yeomanry during the Great War 1914-1918 Select a story link or scroll down to browse those stories hosted on this site. 2nd Lt. Richard Dolman MM. Read his Story. Private Victor G Harvey (d.18th Nov 1914) Read his Story. L/Cpl. Roland Tompson Read his Story. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add,, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch. Private Victor G Harvey North Somerset Yeomanry (d.18th Nov 1914) Victor was a tall strong man and it is this, according to family tradition, that proved his undoing as he was shot in the head by a German sniper near Yprs. He died of his wounds and is buried in Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery. His regiment had been in France a matter of two or three weeks. Victor had survived the First Battle of Ypres only to be killed within days of it's official ending. L/Cpl. Roland Tompson My Father, Roly Tomlinson attended Clarance School in Weston Super Mare. He served as Lance Corporal at Ypres with the North Somerset Yeomanry. He used to tell us stories about the wonderful horses which he helped to break in, then the regiment went mechanical and the chaps were issued with motor-bikes, so at 18yrs of age he transferred to the RFC. He told us he trained at a flying school in Princess Risborough and was commissioned for duty with the RFC as a 2nd Lieutenant, stationed at St Leonards on Sea. 2nd Lt. Richard Dolman MM. North Somerset Yeomanry My great grandfather Dick Dolman joined the Nth. Somerset Yeomanry around 1909. Equivalent to the TA they were called up in Aug 1914. I have a photo of him in Queen Square, Bath with his horse, waiting to entrain for Salisbury Plain. I'm sure he told me he had to supply the horse himself. At some point he moved to the Som LI and having been a sergeant in 1914 ended the war as a 2nd Lieut. No one in the family knows for what deed his MM was awarded. He survived the war unscathed and died in may 1970 at the age of 92.

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