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Tpr. Richard Ernest Bryant
British Army 4th Irish Dragoon Guards
from:Horsham
Dick Bryant joined the Irish Dragoon Guards around 1911 at Preston Barracks and with regiment was part of the BEF. He was in Captain Hornby's section at the Battle of Mons on 22nd of August 1914 when they were the first British troops to engage the German Troop of Uhlans.
He was gassed and badly wounded in 1917 at Arras while a mounted runner - needing a metal plate in his skull. He received an honourable discharge in 1920 and eorked for Southern Railway after the war as a ticket collector. He died in Horsham in 1923 of TB.