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The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) can be traced back to 1685.
Battalions during the Great War 1914-1918.
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Those known to have served with The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) during the Great War 1914-1918.
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725 2nd Lt. Leslie William John Clist 2/4th Btn. Somerset Light infantry Leslie Clist enlisted in the Army Service Corps and was a Corporal when he went to France on the 24th of July 1915. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. into the Somerset Light Infantry on the 26th of Novemeber 1917 and was posted to the 2/4th Battalion, serving in Palestine and France. He was promoted to Lieutenant on the 30th of April 1919. |
204855 Pte. Frederick Stanley Daymond 7th (Service) Battalion (d.22nd Sept 1917) Officers and men of the 7th. Somerset Light Infantry were conveyed in buses to Dawson's Corner, Elverdinghe Road (NW of Ypres) on the 22nd. September 1917 to provide carrying parties in support of the attack on the German's Eagle Trench, east of Langemarck which was planned for the 22nd but had to be postponed until the 23rd.
On the 22nd German Gotha aircraft dropped 2 bombs on the Somerset's tented camp, killing 8 and wounding 22. Those killed were Privates Shier, Gillett, Haines, Jarris, Chamberlain, Price, Daymond and Callow.
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204908 Sjt. Edward Edwin Priddice 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry (d.3rd May 1915 ) Edward Priddice was a game keeper in Broomfield, at the foot of the Quantock hills in Somerset. He was the son of Levi Elia Priddice of Rashill, Broomfield. He was killed by German fire and died on the 3rd of May 1915 at Ypres aged 22 and nine months. |
205945 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. |
205478 Pte. Reginald Harry Lawrence 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry My Father Reginald Harry Lawrence enlisted at Nottingham Recruiting Centre on 19th October 1916 when he was 17 years old, like many other recruits he said he was older than he was. He joined the Army Service Corps and was mobilized on 23rd February 1917. On 10th July 1917 he left Southampton to join No.4 Base Remount Depot B.E.F. France arriving in Boulogne on 11th July.
He was compulsorily transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry for posting to the 7th Battalion on 13th March 1918. He was sent up line and on the second day up line was gassed. After this he complained of general nervousness & dibility but was not sent off Line. He carried on after this with much difficulty.
Everything else that happened is very vague. I know my Father had shrapnel wounds in his legs and that he spent almost two years in hospital after the war, his date of discharge from hospital was 5th March 1920. |
205383 Sjt. William George Hunt 7th Btn. A Coy Somerset Light Infantry (d.16th Sep 1916) I never really knew anything about my grandfather, William Hunt, people didn't talk about it when I was young, but I obtained an interest when my great grandson joined the army cadets. I told him about my grandfather, and he was so interested I was determined to find out all I could, sadly mostly about his death, but I will try to gain other information. We have not one photograph of him, so that is my next project. |
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History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919 Everard Wyrall
Wyrall arranges his record of the regiment in chronological order, following the course of the war from the arrival of the1st Battalion in France. As he describes the operations and events he indicates in the margin the date of the action he is writing about with the identity of the battalion involved; operations in other theatres have their own chapters. Appendices list, by name, Honours and Awards including Mention in Despatches, promotions for service in the field, summary of other rank casualties (deaths) in each battalion (officers are totalled together) and brief records of service.
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