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6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers)    6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers) proceeded to France in August 1914 and served on the Western Front throughout the great War as part of 4th Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. 5th Aug 1914 Mobilisation 9th Aug 1914 Mobilisation 19th Aug 1914 On the Move 20th Aug 1914 In Billets 21st Aug 1914 On the March 22nd Aug 1914 In Support 23rd Aug 1914 Locks 24th Aug 1914 Holding the Line 25th Aug 1914 Enemy Position 26th Aug 1914 Shellfire 27th Aug 1914 Withdrawal 28th Aug 1914 Holding the Line 29th Aug 1914 On the Move 30th Aug 1914 On the March 31st Aug 1914 Attacks 13th of September 1914 A Showery March 23rd Aug 1916 Kentish Gazette Sixpenny Fund 17th May 1917 Reliefs   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers)? There are:6599 items tagged 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers) 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 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers) during the Great War 1914-1918. Biggs DCM. H.. Lt. Collins William Victor. Pte. (d.21st June 1917) Doyle Joseph. Pte. Hawkins Lionel Hope. Lt. att. 6th Dragoon Guards (d.31st Oct 1914) Head Robert Arthur. L/Cpl. (d.31st Oct 1914) 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 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers) records. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. 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If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 238164 L/Cpl. Robert Arthur Head 6th Dragoon Guards (The Carabiniers) (d.31st Oct 1914) Robert Arthur Head was killed in action on 31st October 1914. He enlisted in the 13th Hussars on 15th February 1911 and was discharged by purchase on 4th of February 1913. Robert re-enlisted in the 6th Dragoon Guards on 26th November 1913. Enquiry on his death reads: 353 Pte E T Webb 6th Dragoon Guards "On the night of 31st October 1914 I was in a trench with L'Cpl Head, during a lull in the German attack I heard Capt. Hartley ask him if he knew where the trench of A Squadron was. He replied that he did, as he had been there the evening before. Capt Hartley asked him if he would go and try to find out if the trench was still intact. He said he would, about 2 minutes after he left fresh parties of the enemy advanced up the ledge between A and C Squadron trenches. I never saw him again." Tom Add to this record. 224966 Lt. Lionel Hope Hawkins att. 6th Dragoon Guards Kings Dragoon Guards (d.31st Oct 1914) Lieutenant Lionel Hope Hawkins, of the 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards, was attached to the 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) when he was killed during the fighting for Messines on 31st of October 1914. Captain P. M. A. Kerans, the Adjutant of the Carabiniers, wrote to the parents of Lieutenant Hawkins and described the circumstances in which their son had died: “It appears that after the enemy had penetrated our line a party was observed by him approaching the trench which he held with his troop. He ordered fire to be opened on them, but they shouted – ‘Don’t fire, we are the Scottish,’ and he ordered his men to cease fire, and himself bravely, but incautiously, got out of his trench and went towards them. He had gone about 30 yards when the Germans – for it was the Germans and not the London Scottish – opened fire, and he was seen to fall. Two men went out and brought him back to the trench, and it was seen he was badly wounded in the right side. He was removed to a place of comparative safety, but died soon afterwards.” After Hawkins had died, it was reported that his body had been left by a fence on the edge of a wood by his soldiers, who were unable to carry him back any further as they were under fire and had been ordered to retire. They had covered him with a blanket before leaving. Lieutenant Hawkins was aged 28 when he was killed and was the son of Mr J. T. and Mrs M. H. Hawkins, who lived at 90 Drayton Gardens in London. Lieutenant Hawkins is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Add to this record. 222681 Pte. William Victor Collins 6th Dragoon Guards (d.21st June 1917) I don't really have much of a story about my grandfather, Pte William V Collins, who died on 21st June of 1917. What I do have is a lot of correspondence, acquired by Ancestry et al, from my great-grandfather, Frederick Stephens, to the War Office and latterly to William's CO, asking for his help in getting into contact/support some money out of him to support his daughter. Marrying my grandmother in February 1914, he instantly decamped from London to Glasgow, where he enlisted in the 6th DG, having lied about his place of birth. His daughter, my mother, was born on July 31st of that year - an enforced/shotgun marriage, then. William nevertheless served, without distinction, until his death in action on 21st June 1917. He had been coerced into returning to England to visit his wife and daughter, who was then around three years old. She remembered him as a tall man with pock-marked features, who cut her on the leg with his spur when he picked to her up. She bore the clearly-visible scar until she died. As for the circumstances of my grandfather's last action ....Where? I don't know. How? I don't know that either. And I've never been able to find out. I'd be very happy to enter into communication with anybody who can tell me where the 6th DG were operating on 21st June 1917. We've paid him a visit, the Guerard-le-Templeux Northern extension military cemetery where he lies, but there is a great lack of any information about his unit from the time of his death in action. Terry A de C Foley Add to this record. 209482 Lt. H. Biggs DCM. 6th Dragoon Guards I acquired two named grouping's of 2 different Soldier's of Great Britain, within a trade Deal where I sold a pick-up truck. The first being a Lieut H. Biggs, he was a member of the 6th Dragoon Guards and also the Queens 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooter's). I've been trying to research and realized he was a great man and soldier. I've also been looking through many regimental group images, to maybe locate a image of this man,to be added to his great military grouping of awards and decoration's. Before acquiring these grouping's, I didn't realize how special these are to hold. Many write-up's, of one or both of these 2 hero's occurred in the London Gazette, and other publication's, regarding this man. His decorations, were preserved in a display case with another man's, Sjt. J Arthur, who was a member of the Cameron Highlander's. In attempting to research, I discovered when this man earned his DCM's, via write up in London Gazette, on June 23rd,1915. Maybe through this wonder site, I could possibly make contact with a family member of one of these soldier's. I am an American, and before this, I love researching our war of the State's, WW1 and WW2. Now, I'm finding a love for the British Conflict's, through earlier generation's. If any fellow history buff, finds they have a image of one of these 2 hero's, please feel free to contact me, I'd love to view it, if you didn't mind sharing. I also thank these fine folk's who hold the men of these conflict's, in such high regard. Many Thanks. Timothy Alden Add to this record. 205634 Pte. Joseph " " Doyle 6th Dragoon Guards This is my grandfather. Like so many men of his time they gave so much. And, as we get on, they will be forgotten. So that the next generation can learn we must preserve their memory or it will be lost. Keep up the good work it not easy Kevin Doyle Add to this record.

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