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10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment    10th (County of London) Battalion (Hackney), London Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force with their HQ at 49 The Grove, Hackney. 21st May 1915 Baths 22nd Sep 1915 Posting 8th Jan 1916 Route March 10th Jan 1916 Route March 14th Jan 1916 Route March 25th Jan 1916 Poor Weather 28th Jan 1916 Route March 30th Jan 1916 Church Parade 7th Feb 1916 Route March 10th Feb 1916 Route March 11th Feb 1916 Field Day 10th June 1917 Brigade Order No.9 12th June 1917 Location Marine View.   17th September 1917 Infantry and Tank Attack. 17th October 1917 * * * Schedule to O.O.190 * * *   8th Aug 1918 Captured Weapons   © IWM (Q 6918)                                               © IWM (Q 6919) Officers of the 8th and 10th Battalions, London Regiment, 58th Division conferring by a captured German mortar near Malard Wood during the Battle of Amiens. If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment? There are:5246 items tagged 10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Battalion, London 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 10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Barrett Henry Charles. Pte Constable MC. James Milton. A/Capt. Daynes Ernest. Pte. (d.15th August 1915) Easey Henry George. Sgt. Fleishman Jack. Rflmn. Gay Ernest Frederick. Pte Gray Valentine L G W. Sgt. Jonathon George Ernest. Pte. Langton Arthur Edward. Pte McCombie Herbert James. Pte. (d.29th May 1918) Newman Joseph Charles. Pte. (d.19th March 1917) Nolan William H.. (d.19th April 1917) Scrivener MC. Arthur William. Capt. 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Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. 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.   Pte. Ernest Daynes 1/10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Btn. London Regiment (d.15th August 1915) Ernest Daynes was my great grandfather. Husband to Emily E. Daynes and father to Lilian. During WW1 he served with the 10th Battalion London Regiment but died at Gallipoli on 15th of August 1915 aged 29 years. He was listed as missing in action and his body was never recovered. Ernest is remembered on the Helles Memorial in Turkey (including Gallipoli). Son of Richard and Mary Daynes of 34 Twederwin Road, Hackney and husband of Emily E. Daynes of 21, Kemp Street, Old St., London. Paul Bonelli Add to this record.   Sgt. Valentine L G W Gray 10th Btn. London Regiment My husband's Great-Grandfather, Valentine Gray served in the 10 Battalion, London Regiment in WW1. Valentine was recorded as being on active service on the 20th of June 1915 with the 10th London Regiment. He died in 1960. Alex Gray Add to this record.   Rflmn. Jack Fleishman 10th (1st Hackney Rifles) Battalion London Regiment My grandad Jack Fleishman always refused to talk to us about his experiences during the First Word War. We know something very harrowing took place, my mother was never told. Jeremy Flashman Add to this record.    William H. Nolan 1st/10th Btn. London Regiment (d.19th April 1917) The family oral history of William Nolan is that he was on a ship near the coast of Gaza when the Turks boarded. He had his throat cut in the fighting. He had 10 children, 9 of them daughters. He has many descendents through his daughters, including my self. Glenn Cakebread Add to this record.   Pte. George Ernest "Jon" Jonathon 10th (Hackney) Btn. London Regiment George Jonathon was my grand father. He survived the Great War, but at a cost, he lost his right arm. I recently was left his medals from my aunt. I have had them cleaned and new ribbons, and lso had them mounted in a case. John Massey Add to this record.   A/Capt. James Milton Constable MC. 4th Battalion Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry James Constable served as a private with the 1/10th London Regiment and was commissioned into the Ox and Bucks Add to this record.   Capt. Arthur William Scrivener MC. 1/10th Btn. London Regiment (d.2nd November 1917) Arthur Scrivener was born in 1894 and attended Dartford Grammar School and some of his deeds were recorded in the school magazine, the Dartfordian. He wrote to the magazine in 1916 to describe the fighting in Gallipoli and his subsequent evacuation to Egypt, and then again in 1917 to describe his experiences in Egypt describing his work alongside Indian camel cavalry and the Bedouin. He was awarded the MC in 1917 and the following description of his achievement was published in the Summer 1917 Dartfordian: "Capt. Scrivener was at Dartford Grammar School from January 1908 to December 1910, and was a keen member of the OTC. Shortly after leaving school he became interested in a newly raised batt. of the London (Territorial) Regt. and even designed its regimental badge. He was gazetted captain prior to the war and we believe, we are right in saying, that at that time he was the youngest captain in the Imperial Forces. In July 1915 Capt. Scrivener's regiment proceeded to Gallipoli and on withdrawal of the troops from the peninsula went to Egypt and was for a time on the Western Frontier. It again went into action with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine and at the battle of Gaza where he won the MC Capt. Scrivener was wounded. We are glad to state that he has now fully recovered and has rejoined his regiment." Scrivener was killed at Gaza on the 2nd of November, and the following obituary appeared in the Winter 1917 Dartfordian: "Scrivener was at Dartford Grammar School from January 1908 to December 1910, and was an enterprising member of the OTC. He joined his regiment, a London territorial one, on leaving school, and gained his captaincy before war broke out, when he was only 19 years old. In July 1915, the regiment went to Gallipoli where they suffered heavily. On the withdrawal of the troops from the peninsula, Capt. Scrivener served for a time on the Western Frontier of Egypt, during which period he learnt to speak and write Arabic fluently. From Egypt he went to Palestine and won the MC and was wounded in front of Gaza last April. After a brief spell in hospital he returned to the Battle of The Gate (Gaza) and was killed in action on November, 3rd, four days prior to the fall of the city for which he had fought so long, a fortnight after his 23rd birthday." The CWGC records show that he was the son of Edith Mary Scrivener of Sidcup, Kent. To this day the prize for the yearly house competition at the school is the Scrivener Shield, a trophy presented to the school by his mother and which has the badge from his cap set into it. The letters written by Scrivener are as follows: Spring 1916 Dartfordian: A copy of the magazine came from Dines this morning, and I read it; it was absolutely refreshing to hear of the old school again, although there are so many strange names. We left England on the 29th of July, and arrived at Mudros on the 3rd of August. We came out on the Aquitania, and had a very good voyage. The Battalion went up to the Peninsula on the 10th of August, but I was left at Mudros with 200 men until the 16th, when I joined them at Suvla. It was pretty tough going there, we lost 400 men in one afternoon, during an advance against the Anafarta Hills. After this we dug ourselves in as best we could, but it was nearly all rock where our line was, so we could only get down a couple of feet at the most, and we had to lie absolutely flat during the day, unable to move without a squall of shrapnel being turned on us. As we were enfiladed by snipers from the Kiretch Tipe Sirt, and could get no water at all till dark, and then only a bottleful, it was very unpleasant, especially as it was between 90 and 100 degrees in the shade during the day, and there we had no shade. At the end of August we shifted to the Sari Bair at Anzac, and we were there till the 4th December. I got a dose of gastroenteritis, and did not rejoin until the 14th, so I missed the Anzac show. They've sent us to Egypt now; we were at Sidi Bishi, near Alexandria, for a week or so, and are now somewhere on the Western Frontier, where there have been one or two raids, but nothing has come our way as yet. We are close to the borders of the Libyan Desert, within a three hours march, in fact. The country is absolutely dead flat, and there is a strong salt deposit. Water has to come from Alexandria by rail to the nearest town, 20 miles away, and from there by a ramshackle light railway falling to bits with age and neglect. The native villages are for the most part filthy beyond description; we've had very heavy rains, and when we march through them, we're over our boots in sewage and filth, and all the stinks known to science come to greet you. H2S is a fool to them! Of course, it is not known how long we shall be here, or where we shall go to next, but, as they say here, It is on our foreheads. The fateful day on which 400 British soldiers are noted as being killed would be the 15th of August 1915, a day on which the CWGC lists 437 men as having died at Gallipoli, including 44 from the 1/10th London Regiment. Spring 1917 Dartfordian, letter dated 12/01/1917: I was jolly pleased to get a copy of the mag to-day, and to see the various changes. It seems a long time since I left, fellows who were in the First then are now in the Sixth! It must be nearly a year now since I wrote last: during the whole of which time we've been in the Desert of El Tib, in Sinai. It has been rather a rough time, particularly in May and June, when the daily temperature averaged 120degrees in the shade, and the Khamsim was blowing. The Khamsim is a strong south westerly wind, which invariably brings a sand storm with it, and the heat is like a blast from a furnace. The monotony of the last ten months has been rather wretched, in endless succession of long camel patrols with the Bikanceri and desert marches, the only relief being an occasional raid on wells away in the hills. The only fellows we've been up against are the Bedouin, the more reckless of whom sided with the Turks. They seem to be pukka men too, and must have a pretty rotten existence, wandering from oasis to oasis, with nothing but this awful desert in between. They're mostly of an exceptionally fine physique, and trek along with their scant herds and families. The hills our way were occupied by the Anhad Ali. Their agricultural implements are very primitive, and the only attempts at cultivation I've seen so far have been a few melon patches near the wells, and in a few of the Wadis. The desert in our sub-section is very undulating, with vast areas of ever changing dunes, rising from sea level at the canal bank, to about 1400 feet, thirty miles or so to the east, then comes to an abrupt ridge of limestone hills, well over 2000 feet high, and extending in a tangled mass half way to Kalaat-En-Nakhe. We've been down in the extreme southern end of the desert posts the whole time, and so missed the scrap at Romani. The Bedouin are first-class fellows when on their own ground, and don't give a hang for anyone. They sometimes have unpleasant methods with captured wounded though. It is rather hard to appreciate the tremendous difference between the operations in France and out here. Here, the distances are so vast, and the desert so immense, and in France, we seem right on top of each other. Our fellows are in first-class trim, and if pushed can cover their thirty miles in a day over loose sand, in fighting order. We had a very interesting trek last September, when we went out to Bir El Tawaal, and took the wells from the Bedouin. We covered rather over ninety miles during the week we were out, dislodging the enemy from his positions and followed him over a range of hills well over 2000 feet high for some miles. At one time we were down at Ayan Musa (Moses Wells), which is the place the Israelites first halted at after the trek from Egypt. We got a pretty big job coming off very soon, and we may with luck go to another fighting front further south. Gallipoli, Sinai, and who knows? With kindest regards to you all. Scrivener was one of more than 270 pupils from Dartford Grammar School who served in the First World War, 46 of whom were killed. D P Barrett Add to this record.   Pte Henry Charles "Mick" Barrett 10th Btn. London Rifles My Grandfather Henry Barrett served in the Dardanelles, Gallipoli and Egypt. He enlisted September 1912 at 208 Mare Street Hackney - born March 1897 so was age 15 but his declared age was 16 years. On enlistment he joined the 1st/10th London Rifles (infantry). He was passed ‘fit for foreign service’. On 15th Aug 1915 he was sent to Gallipoli, and on the 26th August he was wounded, a gun shot wound to left shoulder. He was admitted to hospital, firstly by HMHS Ascania to St David’s Malta and then in the County of London War hospital, Epson between 15th September and 12th November 1915. Mick returned to regiment “B” 3/10 London Regiment and arrived Alexandria on 13th February 1916 at 54th division base at Sid I Bishr. He was posted to No 3 company division at Mena Camp on 22nd February. He was granted the Good Conduct (GC) Badge on the 25th November 1916. From the 10th December 1916 he was attached to 54 Division at Shallufa, and finally moved to Cairo 15th February 1919. He was discharged from the army on 7th April 1919. Mick joined the Home Guard in 1940 – T.E.M. AO Aug 1940 Add to this record.   Sgt. Henry George Easey 10th (Hackney) Btn. London Regiment My grandfather, Henry Easey, served for the whole of the First World War at Gallipoli and in the Near East. We know little about his war service. I do have some photos. John Add to this record.   Pte Ernest Frederick Gay 1/10th (Hackney) Btn. London Regiment Ernest Gay joined 1/10th Hackney Rifles and was sent, after Gallipoli, to Alexandria and fought through Palestine to the end of the war. He had joined up in the Spring of 1915, under age he was born on 10th of November 1897. Christopher Gay Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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