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Border Regiment Regular Battalions: 1st Battalion, Border Regiment 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment 3rd Battalion, Border Regiment Territorial Force: 4th Battalion, Border Regiment 5th Battalion, Border Regiment 2/4th Battalion, Border Regiment 2/5th Battalion, Border Regiment 3/4th Battalion, Border Regiment 3/5th Battalion, Border Regiment Kitchener's New Army: 6th Battalion, Border Regiment 7th Battalion, Border Regiment 8th Battalion, Border Regiment 9th Battalion, Border Regiment 10th Battalion, Border Regiment 11th Battalion, Border Regiment 12th Battalion, Border Regiment Want to know more about the Border Regiment? There are:8527 items tagged Border Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with Border Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Abram Robert. 2nd Lt. 3rd Btn. (d.26th Oct 1917) Acton VC Abraham. Pte. 2nd Btn. B Coy. (d.16th May 1916) Alcock Alexander Francis. Sgt. 2nd Btn. (d.25th Oct 1914) Apps Victor George. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.29th September 1916) Archer William Henry. Pte. 7th Btn (d.8th Apr 1916) Armstrong Alfred. Pte. 6th Battalion Arnold Charles. CQMS 2nd Composite Btn., No 1 Coy. Bailey John Henry. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.28th Feb 1917) Bailey L.. Pte. 9th Btn. Bankhead Hugh. Lt. 10th Battalion Barnes Herbert. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.23rd Oct 1914) Barnes William Steele. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.1st July 1916) Barron Louis. Lt. 10th Btn. (d.19th July 1916) Beck Jocelyn. Pte. Bell MM. Gilbert Fenwick. Sgt. Bell MM James. Pte. 8th Battalion Bell Reginald Atkinson. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.14th July 1916) Benner Sidney. CSM. 10th Btn. Bentley Joseph Henry. L/Cpl. 6th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917) Bewley John. Pte. (d.19th May 1917) Blacklock MM. Thomas Edward. Sgt. 9th Battalion Blyton DCM W. L/Cpl. 7th (Service) Btn. Bowley Thomas Henry. CSM. 2nd Btn. (d.26th Oct 1914) Bradwell Fred. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.20th Jun 1916) Bramley Leonard Hunter. Pte. 11th Battalion, B Coy. (d.13th Apr 1918) Bridgewater Frank. L/Cpl. 7th Btn. (d.23rd Apr 1917) Britton Albert. Sgt. 7th (West. and Cumb. Yeomanry) Btn. (d.25th March 1918) Britton Frederick William. Pte. 8th Battalion (d.21st March 1918) Britton Frederick William. Pte. 8th Battalion (d.21st March 1918) Broadbelt Tom. Cpl. 7th Battalion (d.28th October 1917) Brogden Herbert. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.29th June 1915) Brown George John. Sgt. 8th Btn. (d.7th July 1916) Buchanan David. 7th Battalion (d.21st September 1918) Butterworth Enoch. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.13th Jul 1917) Callaghan Peter. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.16th May 1915) Callow Joseph. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.19th Dec 1915) Cameron George Stephenson. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.31st October 1918) Catterall MM. Samuel James. Sgt. 8th Btn. (d.8th Aug 1917) Catterall MM CdeG Samuel James. Sgt. 8th Btn. (d.8th Aug 1917) Caughey George. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.16th May 1915) Chadds MID, MC. Harry Francis. Maj. 2nd Btn. Chambers Walter M. P.. Pte. 8th Battalion (d.31st Oct 1916) Chandler Alfred James. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.1st July 1916) Charlton John. Pte. 7th Btn. Charlton Thomas William. A/Cpl 6th Batallion (d.26th September 1916) Cholmondeley C. A. J.. Capt 2nd Btn Clarke John. Pte. 9th Btn. (d.12th October 1916) Clay Reuben. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.26th Oct 1917) Coan Francis. Pte. 2nd Btn. Cockell Raynard. Sgt. 8th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917) Coles Arthur Robert. Pte. 12th/13th Btn. (d.8th Oct 1918) Constantine MC William. Capt. 7th (West. and Cumb. Yeomanry) Btn. (d.18th Sep 1918) Cookson James. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.25th Aug 1918) Cookson James. Cpl. 2/4th Coppinger Sydney. Pte. 11th Btn (d.18th Mar 1917) Coulthaite James. 2nd Lt. 5th (Service) Battalion (d.5th Aug 1917) Coupe Joseph. Pte 7th Btn (d.19th Apr 1917) Croser Joseph S.. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.25th March 1918) Davidson George. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.7th June 1917) Dornan William. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.1st July 1916) Douglas Robert. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.26th October 1914) Dugdale Thomas. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.1st Jul 1916) Dunning William Edwin. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.18th Dec 1914) Durbin MM. William Edward. L/Cpl. 1st Btn. (d.15th Oct 1918) Dutton Horace Frederick. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.31st Jan 1917) Earl Thomas. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.14th Jul 1916) East Edward William. 2nd Btn (d.11th Mar 1915) Edwards Robert Richard. Pte. 23rd Btn. (d.8th October 1918) Elliott Marshall. Pte. 5th Battalion, B Company (d.26th March 1918) Ellis Albert. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.13th August 1915) Ellis Elijah. 1st Btn (d.18th June 1915) Ellwood John Townson. Cpl. 8th Btn. (d.27th May 1918) Elson Arthur. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.27th Jan 1917) England James. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.23rd June 1916) England James. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.23rd June 1916) Errington Joseph. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.20th Oct 1916) Evans John Francis. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.17th Aug 1916) Excelby Albert Hugill. Pte 5th Btn. Farrar Matthew. Pte. 11th Battalion (d.3rd October 1917) Fell Henry. Pte. 1st Btn. Finch William. 5th Btn. Fitton Thomas Edward. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.1st July 1916) Fox William Henry. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.25th Nov 1917) Fulton Adam. Capt. 2nd Btn. Gaffing Daniel. Sgt. 7th Battalion (d.23rd Apr 1917) Gaffney Francis. Rflmn. 5th Battalion Gaines Ernest. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.5th Jul 1916) Gamage Frederick William. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.1st July 1916) Gambles Henry. Pte. 7th Btn, C Company (d.15th Feb 1916) Gayes Thomas Samuel. Capt. 11th Btn. (d.10th April 1918) Gibson William. Pte. 11th Btn. Gilchrist Edward Thomas. Pte. 8th Btn. Gilchrist Edward Thomas. Pte. 8th Btn. Gillett John Robert. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.9th Aug 1915) Gleeson Patrick Joseph. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.6th May 1915) Glen John William Currie. L/Cpl. 8th Btn. Graham Irving. Pte. 8th (Service) Btn. (d.7th Aug 1917) Graves Frank. Pte. 11th (Lonsdale) Btn. Greenan DCM. James. Sergeant 6th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917) Griffiths Robert Handel Mendelsohn. Pte. 3rd Btn. (d.29th Aug 1914) Gutteridge Walter Cyril. Cpl. 2nd Btn. (d.4th Oct 1917) Hahner Ernest Albert. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.16th May 1915) Halsall Robert. Pte. 7th West and Cumberland Yeomanry (d.18th September 1918) Halsall Robert. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.18th September 1918) Hamblin Walter. Pte. 8th Battalion (d.9th July 1916) Hammond Robert Henry. L/Cp. 7th Btn. (d.7th Aug 1916) Hammond Robert Henry. L/Cpl. 7th Btn. (d.7th August 1916) Hammond Vincent Edward. Pte. 11th (d.18th Nov 1916) Hancock J.. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.20th Sep 1918) Hardy Thomas. 2nd Btn. Harris R. A. M.. Capt. 11th Btn. Harrison John. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.27th Apr 1918) Haslam William. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.1st July 1916) Haughan James. Hawkins Geroge Benjamin. Pte. 6th Btn, (d.29th Sep 1916) Hayne Richard. Pte. 8th Battalion Heap Robert Robinson. Cpl. 6th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917) Hebson Joseph Wilson. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.23rd March 1918) Hennah Walter Ernest. Sjt. 1st Btn. (d.28th Apr 1915) Henry Charles William. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.22nd Feb1916) Hetherington George. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.30th Nov 1916) Heywood Stephen. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.23rd Apr 1917) Hold Edmund. Cpl. 8th Btn. (d.15th Jul 1916) Holdsworth Tom Brown. Pte 1st Btn (d.19th May 1917) Holmes William. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.16th September 1916) Howarth Fred. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.23rd April 1917) Howarth Fred. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.23th Apr 1917) Howe Herbert. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.28th June 1915) Howe William. Pte. 11th Battalion (d.2nd Dec 1917) Irving David. Pte. Isles Joseph McPheat. Sgt. 11th Btn. (d.10th Nov 1916) Jackson James. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.5th July 1916) Johnson Frederick. Pte. 2nd Btn (d.1st Aug 1918) Johnson MID Joseph. Pte. 4th Battalion Jones Christopher Edward. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.26th Oct 1914) Jordan Edward James. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.8th Nov 1918) Jordan Edward James. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.8th Nov 1918) Kew Arthur. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.27th January 1917) Laffoley George Henry. Cpl. Lake John Charles. Pte. 1st Bn. (d.20th March 1917) Lamb George William. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.13th Sep 1915) Langton John Thomas. Pte. 1st Btn (d.1st July 1916) Lawns George. Pte. 9th Battalion Leach John Norman. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.31st May 1918) Leach John Norman. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.31st May 1918) Lippman Simon. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.23rd Apr 1917) Livesey Vincent. L/Cpl. 2nd Btn. Lomas William. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.22nd Mar 1918) Long John Edward. L/Sgt 11th Battalion (d.18th Nov 1916) Madine William. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.23rd April 1917) Marriner Henry. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.1st July 1916) Marriott Harry. Pte. 2nd Battalion, Machine Gun Section (d.25th September 1915) Maxim Harry. Pte 7th Battalion McClair H.. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.1st Aug 1918) McDonald John. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.23rd April 1917) McKaskie Norman. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.12th Apr 1918) McLaughlin Robert William. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.2nd Nov 1914) McMullen John. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.1st Jul 1916) Mcpherson John William. Pte. 7th Battalion Moritz Oscar Frank. 2nd Lt. 99th Btn (d.27th July 1916) Morris James William. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.2nd Oct 1916) Morris Robert. Cpl. 2nd Btn. (d.12th January 1915) Mosdell MM. Arthur. Sgt. 2nd Battalion Nash William David. Pte C Company (d.1st July 1916) Neen Thomas. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.27th July 1916) Newton Herbert. Pte. 8th Battalion (d.13th July 1917) Nylands Michael. Pte. 5th Btn. (d.6th Nov 1918) O'Brian James. 3rd Btn. (d.2nd Sep 1914) O'Brien Thomas William. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.26th Sep 1915) Ogilvie W. E.. 2/Lt. 9th Btn. (d.27th September 1915) Painter George Harry. L/Cpl. 2nd Btn., A Coy. (d.29th April 1916) Parker Thomas Bateman. Pte. 11th Battalion (d.1st July 1916) Parsons Robert William. L/Cpl. 3rd Btn. Perriss Charles Henry. Pte. 2nd Battalion Preston William Carter. 2nd Lt. 8th Battalion (d.10th Apr 1918) Preston William Carter. 2nd Lt. 8th Btn. (d.10th Apr 1918) Prestwich Herbert. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.30th Sep 1918) Rae Allan. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.5th July 1916) Rhodes John Kenneth. 2nd Lt. 10th Battalion (d.16th Jul 1916) Richards D. H.. Pte Ridley Abraham. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.7th Aug 1915) Ridley Harold. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.15th Jul 1916) Robinson Harry. Pte. 2nd/4th Battalion (d.27th July 1917) Robinson Thomas. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.23rd April 1917) Rolfe Thomas. Pte. 1st Btn. Rook Morton. Pte. 5th Btn. Routledge John. 6th Btn. (d.9th Aug 1915) Rumney John. A/Sjt. 5th Btn Scrivens John. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.18 Mar 1916) Scrivin Albert. Pte. 2/4th Btn. Sewell Gilbert. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.2nd Apr 1918) Shaw Harold. 2nd Battalion (d.31st December 1916) Shew Francis Arthur. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.30th October 1918) Sidebotham Samuel Wilfred. Pte. 9th Btn. Sim John. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.7th Jun 1917) Skinner Thomas. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.14th Aug 1915) Slater Aquila Lund. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.20th June 1917) Smith Ellis. Pte. 11th Btn. (d.15th Apr 1917) Spink Edward Herbert. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.3rd May 1917) Stacey Archie. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.13th May 1915) Stacey Archie. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.13th May 1915) Starkie John. Sgt. 1st Btn. Sutcliffe George Allan. 2nd Lt. 8th (Lonsdale) Btn. Taberner John. L/Cpl. 3rd Btn. (d.19th August 1918) Taylor Harold Ruth. Pte. 2nd Battalion (d.1th July 1917) Tear James. Pte 7th Btn (d.3rd Jul 1916) Thompson William Cuthbert. Pte 9th Battalion Threader John Thomas. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.28th Aug 1916) Threlkeld Thomas William. 2nd Battalion (d.22nd Feb 1916) Todhunter Jeremiah. A/Cpl. 2nd Btn. Trewick Thomas. Pte. 7th Battalion, A Company. (d.4th May 1918) Trotter James Percival. Pte. 1/5th Btn. (d.1st October 1918) Turner Cuthbert. 2nd Lt. 7th Battalion (d.23rd April 1917) Tweddle John. L/Cpl. 8th Btn. (d.28th April 1916) Vineall John. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.17th Oct 1916) Walker John. Pte. 33rd Coy. (d.10th Jun 1917) Walker John. Pte. 33rd Coy. (d.20th June 1917) Wall George. Pte 11th Btn. (d.28th February 1917) Wallace David. Cpl. 6th Battalion (d.9th Aug 1915) Ward Thomas George. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.23rd April 1917) Weightman Harry. Pte. 11th (Lonsdale) Btn. Welsh Nicholas. Pte. 2nd Battalion, B Company (d.16th May 1915) Whitby John Arthur. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.11th Apr 1918) Whitfield James. Pte 1st Btn. Whittaker Frederick. L/Cpl. 1st Btn. (d.1st Jul 1915) Whittaker MM. John. Pte. 5th Battalion Wilde James. Pte. Wilkinson Leonard Norman. L/Sgt 2nd Battalion (d.25th Sep 1915) Wilson Edward. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.9th August 1915) Wood Andrew Philip. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.28th June 1915) Wood Edward. Pte. 3rd Btn. (d.19th Feb 1917) Woods Charles. L/Cpl. 7th (West and Cumbrian Yeomanry) Btn. (d.22nd March 1918) Wootten H. E.. Mjr. 9th Btn. Wormall John Edward. 2nd Btn. Yeowart William Nixon. Sgt. 5th Btn. All 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. Add a Name to this List More Border Regiment records. 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He was the son of Fred and Julia Leach, of 81, Alexandra Rd., Morecambe, Lancs. s flynn Add to this record. 1206202 Sgt. Joseph McPheat Isles 11th Btn. Border Regiment (d.10th Nov 1916) Joseph Isles was killed in action on 10th November 1916, aged 25. he is buried in the Lonsdale Cemetery in France. s flynn Add to this record. 1206180 Pte. Jocelyn Beck Border Regiment Our GG Uncle Jocelyn Beck was from Kendal (then Westmorland) and served in the Border Regiment. He was severely injured and was sent to the Norfolk War Hospital. Researching our family history we have just come across this newspaper article. Unfortunately there is no date on the article. Jean Foy Add to this record. 1206164 Pte. Abraham Acton VC 2nd Btn. B Coy. Border Regiment (d.16th May 1916) Abraham Acton was killed in action on the 16th of May 1915, aged 21 and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France. He wasthe son of Robert and Elizabeth Eleanor Acton, of 4 Regent Square, Senhouse St., Whitehaven, Cumberland. s flynn Add to this record. 1206046 Pte. John Norman Leach 11th Btn. Border Regiment (d.31st May 1918) John Leach died of wounds on the 31st of May 1918, aged 19 and buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of Fred and Julia Leach, of 81, Alexandra Rd., Morecambe, Lancs. s flynn Add to this record. 1206024 Pte. Ernest Gaines 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.5th Jul 1916) Ernest Gaines was a regular soldier. Living at Rigg Street, Caldew Gate, Carlise, Cumbria. He served in the 8th Border Regiment. He was born in York. A romany traveller man. He was sent to Romney Marsh Camp for training purposes in March to May 1916. He embarked to Boulonge. He was at Thiepval, the Somme on the 5th of July. He and his company took the German front lines and held them for 90 minutes. Till lack of reinforcement and ammmo forced a retreat. Sadly Ernest was killed/lost. He left a wife Annie and boy Alexander. He has no grave. But is on the Thiepval Memorial. Robert Mtchell Add to this record. 1205515 Pte. Christopher Edward Jones 2nd Btn. Border Regiment (d.26th Oct 1914) My Grandad's brother Christopher Edward Jones also served in the Great War but sadly was killed 26th October 1914. He was with the 2nd Btn Border Regiment. His wife Rosina and son are in the picture also grandmother (wife of Alfred) and his 2 children. Christopher Edward Jones is remembered at the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. Barbara Smith Add to this record. 263165 Pte. Henry Fell 1st Btn. Border Regiment Henry Fell was a Territorial in the 5th Battalion when war broke out. He went to France in late 1914 but did see combat until May of 1915. He witnessed his brother John get shot in the abdomen while bringing water for the troops in Ypres. He was in the line when the Germans used poison gas for the second time at the battle of Battle of Bellewaarde were the battalion took over 300 casualties. Between this date and the 1st of July 1916, he was transferred to the 1st Border Battalion. I know this because he did an interview for a book written by Melvyn Bragg in the 70's called Speak for England, where he takes about being there on the 1st of July. The 5th Border Regiment did not enter the Somme battlefield till much later. From there he was at all the major engagements that the 1st Battalion took part in. In the interview he mentions Passchendaele and Cambrai. He was never badly wounded, I know that he suffered from shell shock after the first day on the Somme. He also took a bullet through an ear which grazed the back of his head in 1917. He survived the war and lived to the grand age of 92 passing away in 1985. Luckily, I have a number of resources that feature Henry. The first, the above-mentioned book, where he and his brother W.S Fell MM with 2 bars are interviewed. Also, he has many mentions and published letters in the Wigton Advertiser. The research continues. Add to this record. 263050 Sgt. Raynard Cockell 8th Btn. Border Regiment (d.7th Jun 1917) My third-great-uncle Raynard Cockell was a police officer in Ashford before joining the army. Initially, he was with the 3rd East Kent Regiment before moving onto the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment. Whilst in an enemy trench during the 3rd Battle of Messines, he and 4 others where hit by shell fire and all died instantly. Their bodies were buried on the Messines Ridge in Belgium, any further attempt to recover the body properly failing due to being unable to locate his body because of continuing enemy shellfire. His name appears on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Ypres, Belgium. Ben Woolmer Add to this record. 262767 2nd Lt. George Allan Sutcliffe 8th (Lonsdale) Btn. Border Regiment George Sutcliffe joined the Border Regiment in late 1917/early 1918 (after 2 years fighting in East Africa). He joined the 8th Btn, B Coy on 4th of May 1918, and spent much of May training and getting ready to go into the line, NE of Reims. He wrote home on 26th of May saying 'ready to move out'. On 27th of May 1918, German troops overran the trenches to the north and quickly moved south, smothering his battalion. George was reported missing on 29th of May (all this from the Border Regimental Diary) and he was reported (in the Red Cross files) as being captured on 27th of May 1918, then sent via Karlsruhe to Schweidnitz internment camp in Silesia (now Swidniza in Poland). He was repatriated in 1919. Sheila Currie Add to this record. 261462 James Haughan Machine Gun Corps My grand father, James Haughan (Born 1897) enlisted from 3 Hobart Terrace, Moorville, Carlisle in Jan 1916. The house is now 16 Kingstown Road. He was a fireman on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway when enlisted. He signed up to 4th Border Regiment at 18 years, 5 months as a railway fireman on 18th Jan 1916. He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was demobbed in Oct 1919 to 9 Summerfield Street, Glasgow. He missed out on his gold watch for long service to the railway because he volunteered, had he been conscripted, he would have got it! Mark Haughan Add to this record. 261183 Pte. Fred Howarth 7th Btn. Border Regiment (d.23th Apr 1917) Fred Howarth served with the 7th Border Regiment I have Fred's death penny and am desperate to find a photograph of him or his regiment before his date of death. Add to this record. 260951 Cpl. James Cookson 2/4th Border Regiment James Cookson worked for Simpsons, the furniture makers, in Kendal. He also inscribed the names on gravestones; was a gifted photographer; and carved nearly all of the amazing woodwork decorations at Blackwell House. He was also a gifted artist who not only took his sketchbook and paints to Peshawar but used them to great effect. Will Garnett Add to this record. 260468 Pte. Edward Thomas "Ned" Gilchrist 8th Btn. Border Regiment Ned Gilchrist served with the 8th and 11th Battalion, Border Regiment. Yvonne McNamara Add to this record. 258265 Pte. Ernest Albert Hahner 2nd Battalion Border Regiment (d.16th May 1915) Ernest Hahner was the fifth son of Prussian/German immigrants who lived in St Pancras. The family suffered extreme prejudice as the war progressed, despite the fact their mother, and each of their twelve children had been born in London. To demonstrate his loyalty to the country, Albert Hahner Snr applied for British Naturalisation. This was granted partly on the strength of the fact he had five sons serving overseas, three in the Army and two in the RAMC. The four older brothers all survived and returned to the UK, while Ernest was killed at The Battle of Festubert seven months after he enlisted, aged 18. He has no known grave but is commemorated at Le Touret Memorial at Richebourg, France Anita Hahner Davison Add to this record. 258067 A/Cpl. Jeremiah Todhunter 2nd Btn. Border Regiment Jeremiah Todhunter enlisted in the Border Regiment, at Carlisle on the 15th of September 1902 at the age of 19 years and 6 months. During his time in the Army, he served abroad in India, from February 1904 to December 1904, and in South Africa, from December 1904 to September 1905.   As a member of the 2nd Battalion in World War One, he was deployed in France from the 25th of November 1914 to 19th of March 1915. During this time, he was wounded in action on the 12th of March 1915 during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (10th - 13th of March 1915), and then transferred to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion which remained in the United Kingdom. He was was medically discharged on the 14th of September 1915. Despite this, later during the war, in 1917, he attempted to re-enlist, but was denied on medical grounds. Et servivit honeste. Sasha Todhunter Add to this record. 258057 L/Cpl. John Taberner 3rd Btn. Border Regiment (d.19th August 1918) John Taberner was my grandfather. He served with the Border Regiment 3rd Battalion in WW1 and this appears on my aunt's birth certificate. John was killed on 19th of August 1918 serving with the Border Regiment as a Lance Corporal. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium. I have no other information about him as my mother was a young girl when he died and nothing was spoken about him or other family members. Crompton Add to this record. 257612 Pte. Edward Thomas Gilchrist 8th Btn. Border Regiment My grandfather, Edward Gilchrist, served with the 8th Battalion, Border Regiment in WW1. He was captured at Armentieres 10th of April 1918 and was a POW at Stendal Camp. Yvonne McNamara Add to this record. 257604 Pte. William Holmes 5th Btn. Border Regiment (d.16th September 1916) Born in 1896 William Holmes was the youngest of 9 children. His parents were Robert and Sarah Holmes. His father owned a flour mill in Abbeytown near Carlisle. William joined the 5th Battalion, Border Regiment when he was 18 in 1914. He was badly injured during the offensive at Flers-Courcelette on the Somme on 15th of September 1916. The following day he died of his wounds at Puchevillers Casualty Clearing Station. He was aged 20 when he died. William is buried at Puchevillers British Military Cemetery grave. Alex Holmes Add to this record. 257289 L/Cpl. Charles Woods 7th (West and Cumbrian Yeomanry) Btn. Border Regiment (d.22nd March 1918) Charles Woods served with the 7th Battalion Border Regiment in WW1. He died 22nd of March 1918 aged 21 years and is buried Hermies Hill British Cemetery in France. Son of Peter and Catherine Woods of 21 Marlborough St., Seaham Harbour, Co. Durham. Add to this record.

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