Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry
The 2nd/1st DHY formed as a
second line Regiment in September 1914 and in July 1916 became a
cyclist unit. |
Lt.Col. F J L PRIESTLEY |
Captain J N MEREDITH |
Captain William Reid Hall
Commissioned into the 2nd DHY on the 19th of October 1914. He
was the Regimental Signals Officer in 1916 and the Brigade
Signals Officer in 1916/17/18. |
Lt. R E F Lloyd |
Lt. G A A Baker
Born 1891, in
Arkendale, Yorks; son of a Lincs. vicar. Died in 1947 in
Richmond aged 55. Durham School and Oxford University (Keble
College) and OTC. Enlisted Sept. 1914 and sent to 13th Reserve
Regt. Cavalry and then to 2nd RRC and “Dragoons of the Line”.
Discharged to Commission in DHY. 2nd Lieut., Denbighshire
Hussars, LG 15.3.1915 ex Private in the Reserve Regt. of
Cavalry. Invalided to Manchester June 1918 following severe fall
from horse during mounted parade (listed as Denbigh Yeo. attd.
MGC) which ruptured a kidney. |
2nd/Lt D W Birrell |
H/215450 RQMS J J Melhuish |
H/215816 SQMS James Smith
Enlisted
12/11/1901 - Discharged 14/12/1917 |
H/215001 FQMS John H Edwards
Enlisted 28/4/1908 - Discharged 24/9/1917 |
215038 A/Sgt. Henry R Dudley
Attached to the 6th
African Rifles. Died: 29th September 1918. |
Members of the 2nd/1st DHY at the School
of Musketry on the 24th of November 1917.
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Trooper |
DHY Cyclist
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215236 Corporal Benjamin Ernest
Payne
Died of Pneumonia Aged 28, 20th
July 1918
NORFOLK WAR HOSPITAL, NORWICH, U. K.
Buried with
Honour at OYSTERMOUTH CEMETERY
Son of T.S.& M.A. Payne of
Forgefield Terrace, Norton.
He was previously employed by
Messrs. Baldwin, Grocers, Mumbles. Enlisted October 1916, into
the 2nd/1st DHY.
South Wales Daily Post:-
Corporal Payne
was engaged as a shorthand writer & typist in the
Quartermasters’ office stationed at Eccles [sic].
A few days
after returning from leave he contracted influenza, pneumonia
supervening. |
1027 (DHY) 215466 (2/1 DHY) 288005 (Cheshire Regt) Tpr R
W Giles
Randolph William |
Trooper George Stephenson.
George enlisted in late 1916 as a Private with the 2nd/1st
Denbighshire Hussars Yeomanry Cyclists Battalion. In August 1917
his letters reported that he was training as a Cadet (No.4 Coy,
G.O.C. Magdalene College Cambridge). Then in December of that
year he was serving as 2nd Lieutenant with 2nd/1st Royal 1st
Devon Yeomanry (East Dereham).
By June 1918 he was at Curragh
Camp, Co. Kildare, in Ireland, then Mullingar Co. W Meath, and
lastly Oldcastle Co. Meath. His letters describe in detail his
training, the qualities of Army bicycles / equipment and
opinions of his fellow cyclists. As a Private during training he
was "booked" twice for not cleaning the inside of the mudguards
of his machine.
He qualified as a "Marksman" (about 5th in
his Regiment). After officer training he was provided with a
Humber bicycle and "his own man to clean it". While in Ireland
he wrote that he was responsible for "500 bicycles", also
describing how his duties included the role of "station master
of Leixlip" (near Dublin) - "a splendid life".
He became a
full Lieutenant with the 1st Devonshires in April of 1919. |
Trooper Stephenson seated wearing the
folding field service cap. |
Troopers in Chester-le-street, 1915. |
Troopers in Chester-le-street, 1915.
* Note the folding field service cap, it is the DHIY pattern
with the scarlet crown and kahki body (no cap badge). |
