Chum Arthur Bernard Anderson – Hull Branch: 65628, 104th Battery, XXII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[1]
Chum Francis Ashworth – Letchworth & Hitchin Branch: 70247, 45th Battery, XLII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Charles Watkin Morris Cahill – Ashford Branch: 8716, 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers[2]
Chum William Crofts D.C.M. – Medway Towns Branch: 30627, 71st Battery, XXXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum William Curran – Exeter Branch: 57994, XLIV (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[3]
Chum Alfred Cecil Deabill – Nottingham Branch: 1505, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), Household Cavalry Composite Regiment
Chum George Dowman – Uxbridge Branch: 10104, 2nd Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
Chum Captain Henry Aubrey de Ferrers Furber – Maidenhead Branch: 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
Chum Alfred Charles Gould – Birmingham Branch: 5287, 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers
Chum John William Higginbottom – Warrington Branch: 6537, 8th (King’s Royal Irish) Hussars attached Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
Chum William Holloway – Middlesbrough Branch: 62781, 30th (Howitzer) Battery, XLIII (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Augustus George Hutchins (served as George Hutchins) – Founder (Hackney) Branch: 116S, Royal Marine Artillery, Motor Transport Section, Royal Naval Division
Chum James Johnson – Burton-on-Trent Branch: 1492, Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), Household Cavalry Composite Regiment
Chum Charles Percival Jones – Hull Branch: 9751, 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)[4]
Chum James Arthur Jordan – Hull Branch: 7710, 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Chum Arthur Victor James Lane – Ipswich & District Branch: 8370, 1st Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment
Chum Samuel Leeson – Leicester Branch: 58364, 118th Battery, XXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[5]
Chum Robert William Lingwood – Torbay & District Branch: 7326, 1st Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
Chum Frank Edwin Longley – Camden Town Branch: 11548, 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Chum James Lythgoe – Warrington Branch: 6878, 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Chum Cyril McLynchy – Sidcup Branch: 1776, 1/14th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Scottish) (Territorial Force)
Chum Stephen John Marshall – Medway Towns Branch: 14687, 3rd Field Squadron, Royal Engineers
Chum William Paul Miller – Margate Branch: 10012, The Connaught Rangers[6]
Chum William Moore – Slough Branch: 2628, 2nd Life Guards, Household Cavalry Composite Regiment
Chum Hugh Morrison – Winnipeg Branch: 50717, XII (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[7]
Chum Colonel Herbert Archer Hayes Newington D.S.O. – Woolwich & District Branch: 1/14th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Scottish) (Territorial Force)
Chum William Osgood – Cambridge Branch: 6595, 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
Chum Captain George Peck – Bishop’s Stortford Branch: 19346, XXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum John Alexander Pryke (Alex) – Woolwich & District Branch: 28715, No. 5 Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Chum Walter George Rowe – Southampton Branch: 15409, 20th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers[8]
Chum Albert Walter George Sellick M.M. – Exeter Branch: 1384, 24th (1st Wessex) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force)
Chum George Marshall Stanley – Plymouth Branch: L/7223, 1st Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Chum William Steer – Plymouth Branch: 8210, 2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
Chum Sidney Horace Stenlake – Plymouth Branch: 19222, Royal Engineers[9]
Chum Arthur A. Stone – Slough Branch: 25311, 12th Field Company, Royal Engineers[10]
Chum William Sullivan – Plymouth Branch: L/13291, 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Chum Sidney John Thursfield D.C.M., M.M. – Chelsea Branch: 5635, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Chum William Thursfield – Stoke-on-Trent Branch: 9222, 1st Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Chum Thomas Walter Tremain – Donnington (Salop) Branch and Scarborough Branch: 22936, “J” Cable Section, Royal Engineers Signal Service[11]
Chum Lieutenant Francis Edward Vigus M.S.M. – Plymouth Branch: T/363, Army Ordnance Corps attached XIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[12]
Chum Frederick George Wade – Warrington Branch: 10551, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards[13]
Chum Frederick Wadsworth – Warrington Branch: 7774, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers[14]
Chum Johnstone Walker M.M. – Glasgow Branch: D/5041, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
Chum James Walsh – Plymouth Branch: 7578, 1st Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
Chum Edward Warner – Donnington (Salop) Branch: 8046, 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
Chum Richard Francis Ernest Webber – Plymouth Branch: D/1802, 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards
Chum George Welford – Cambridge Branch: T/24450, No. 3 Company, Lahore Divisional Train, Army Service Corps[15]
Chum Harry Peter Whitfield – Plymouth Branch: 1807, 25th (2nd Wessex) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force)
Chum Arthur Gerald Woodman – Donnington (Salop) Branch and Birmingham Branch: 10376, 1st Battalion, The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry)
Chum Arthur Young – Plymouth Branch: 1981, 25th (2nd Wessex) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force)
[1] Joined the Hull Branch in January 1928.
[2] Recorded as Watkin Charles Cahill on the 1914 Star Roll. Details corrected on duplicate Medal Index Card.
[3] Recorded as having served with 137th Battery R.F.A. on his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 368, October 1964. His unit is confirmed from the 1914 Star Roll.
[4] Founding member of the Hull Branch.
[5] Chum Leeson did not qualify for the 1914 Star with Clasp, having been drafted to France on 12 March 1915. His Obituary Notice was published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 365, June 1964, which records his Battery.
[6] No confirmation that Chum Miller qualified for the 1914 Star and Clasp can be located on the 1914 Star Roll. His Obituary Notice was published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 365, June 1964.
[7] Chum Morrison served as Dominion Representative for the Branches of The Old Contemptibles’ Association in Canada.
[8] Joined the Southampton Branch in 1938.
[9] No unit recorded on the 1914 Star Roll (Royal Engineers Miscellaneous Roll No. 17).
[10] Chum Stone joined the Slough Branch in 1963.
[11] Chum Tremain held the rank of Boy when he landed in France on 14 August 1914, and was born on 4 December 1896. His surname is recorded as Tremaine on the 1914 Star Roll.
[12] Attachment to XIV Brigade R.F.A. recorded on the Branch Nominal Roll published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 352, May 1963.
[13] Joined the Warrington Branch in June 1932 and was on parade with the Branch on ‘Mons Sunday’ that August.
[14] Surname recorded as Wadworth on 1914 Star Roll.
[15] Joined the Cambridge Branch in 1938.
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