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209344 Dvr. Allan Herschell British Army 2nd Brigade, 53rd Battery. Royal Field Artillery from:Montrose (d.25th Oct 1918) My great-grandfather Allan Herschell was killed in action in France. I would be interested to find out what battle the 2nd Brigade were involved in around this time David J. Add to this record.    Additional Information: My grandfather Allan Herschell is the man in question. I estimate that he was wounded in the Battle of the Selle which followed the Battle of Cambrai - St Quentin that finally broke the Hindenburg Line. I have tried to fns out exactly where he was fighting without success. The battle is an educated guess based on his grave being in Vadencourt Cemetery. He would have been at Cambrai and moved forward with the attack, so it is fairly safe to assume that this is where he was fighting. He has the usual 3 WW1 medals. You might also be interested to know that he had served in the Boer War. He started life there in the 1st Scottish Horse and was seconded to Rimington's Guides that later became Damant's Horse. He has the Queen's South Africa Medal with 10 campaign clasps and the Kings South Africa Medal with both the 1901 and 1902 clasps, which is rare. Bill Corsar Reply Related Content: 2nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? If so please let us know. Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?" We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages. The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.