Chum George Edward Amos – Uxbridge Branch: 5543, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Chum William Annand – Uxbridge Branch: 9897, 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
Chum Albert Barker – Blackburn & District Branch: 334, Royal Army Medical Corps[1]
Chum Samuel Barrow – Leeds & District Branch: 6830, 1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
Chum Frederick John George Barter – Croydon Branch: L/8316, 1st Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Chum Sydney Bartle – Doncaster Branch and Leeds & District Branch: 8742, 2nd Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
Chum Harry Beamer – Manchester & Salford Branch: 10893, 1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
Chum James Henry Bennett D.C.M. – Sidcup Branch: 5967, 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own)
Chum Frederick James Randolph Berry – Tunbridge Wells (Belcher V.C.) Branch: 76805, 1st Reinforcements and Base Details and 39th Battery, XIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[2]
Chum Edgar George Billing – Croydon Branch: 9559, 1/5th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) (Territorial Force)
Chum Harry Bloomfield – Tunbridge Wells (Belcher V.C.) Branch: 73901, 68th Battery, XIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Henry Edwin Cartwright – Chislehurst Branch and Sidcup Branch: 19957, 4th Airline Signal Section, Royal Engineers Signal Service[3]
Chum James Cawthorne – Nottingham Branch: 2042, 1st Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Chum Arthur Cockrell – Tidworth (Salisbury Plain) Branch: L/4780, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers
Chum Thomas George Cook – Reading Branch: 5336, 4th (Queen’s Own) Hussars
Chum John Joseph Crowley – Uxbridge Branch: L/9114, 2nd Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Chum William Harry Dale – Southend-on-Sea Branch: 15948, “B” Signal Company, Royal Engineers Signal Service[4]
Chum George William Desborough – St Albans Branch: 73359, 111th Battery, XXIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum John Dickson – Leicester Branch: 10903, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
Chum Albert Bernard Charles Dilley – Leicester Branch: 65108, “O” Battery, V Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
Chum Edwin Dix – Stoke-on-Trent Branch: 24278, 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers[5]
Chum John Dixon – St Albans Branch: 9787, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers[6]
Chum John Thomas Dowson (served as Thomas Dowson) – Chippenham Branch: 35514, VII Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
Chum James Doyle – Liverpool & Merseyside Branch: 5155, 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Chum Denis Driscoll – Worcester Branch: 5634, 3rd Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment
Chum Francis James Elson – Torbay & District Branch: 20657, 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Chum William Evans – Worcester Branch: 1599, 1/6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment (Territorial Force)
Chum Charles Gardner – Slough Branch: 45339, IV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Oliver Gasson – Hastings & St Leonards Branch: 9529, 1st Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
Chum Thomas Hinds – Derby Branch: 5367, 71st Battery, XXXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Albert Hoskins – Basingstoke Branch: 7776, 1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment
Chum Stanley Frank James – Croydon Branch: 9251, 1/5th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) (Territorial Force)
Chum Charles Henry Lane – Tidworth (Salisbury Plain) Branch: 73221, XXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum George Davis Lucas – Ipswich & District Branch: 20157, 11th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
Chum John McNamara (served as John Bell) – Belfast Branch: 47294, 112th Battery, XXIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery[7]
Chum William Oliver Martin-Smith – St Albans Branch: 8586, “E” Company, 1/5th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade) (Territorial Force)
Chum George William Mason – St Albans Branch: 3102, 1/1st Battalion, The Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorial Force)
Chum Thomas Walter Moore (Pony) – Leamington & Warwick Branch: 74720, “E” Battery, III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
Chum William Pearson – Hull Branch: 8356, 1st Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
Chum Clifford James Seago – Basingstoke Branch: H/687, 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
Chum Arthur Leslie Seavers – St Albans Branch: 9170, 2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Chum Thomas H. Simpson – Manchester & Salford Branch: SE/2173, Army Veterinary Corps attached 1st Signal Squadron, Royal Engineers Signal Service[8]
Chum Bertie Smith – St Albans Branch: 4618, “D” Squadron, 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers[9]
Chum Archibald Stephenson – Hull Branch: H/4434, 18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Hussars
Chum Walter Edward Morris Stripp – Bournemouth & District Branch: 8935, 2nd Battalion, The King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Chum Lionel Robert Allison Sutton – Southend-on-Sea Branch: 19, XXX (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Fred Taylor – Wellington (New Zealand) Branch: 1309, 7th Cavalry Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force)
Chum William Percy Tinkler – Basingstoke Branch: 65691, 126th Battery, XXIX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Chum Ernest Pevrill Lindley Watts – Bournemouth & District Branch: M1/6863, 4th Ammunition Park, Army Service Corps
Chum Paul Wynne-Tighe M.M. – Exeter Branch: 2015, 24th (1st Wessex) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force)
[1] No unit recorded on the 1914 Star Roll (Royal Army Medical Corps Details, Sheet 4). Stated as having served with an unidentified Field Ambulance on his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 377, June 1965.
[2] Units confirmed from the 1914 Star Roll and his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 377, June 1965.
[3] No unit recorded on the 1914 Star Roll (Royal Engineers Miscellaneous Roll No. 1) but is stated on his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 376, May 1965.
[4] No unit recorded on the 1914 Star Roll (Royal Engineers Miscellaneous Roll No. 3) but is stated to have been a ‘Linesman’ on his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 376, May 1965. His surviving service record confirms Chum Dale served as a Driver and was posted to “B” Signal Company R.E. on being mobilised from the Reserve in August 1914.
[5] Joined the Stoke-on-Trent Branch in 1937.
[6] Chum Dixon is recorded on the Branch Nominal Roll published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 381, October 1965, stating his unit as 32281, 9th Battery, R.G.A. However, correspondence from him printed in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 377, June 1965, confirms his regimental number and service with the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers as well as the Royal Garrison Artillery.
[7] Recorded as J. Bell on the 1914 Star Roll. Details corrected on duplicate Medal Index Card and also confirmed by his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 375, April 1965.
[8] Chum Simpson did not qualify for the 1914 Star and Clasp, having landed in France on 30 December 1914. His attachment to 1st Signal Squadron is recorded on his Obituary Notice published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 375, April 1965.
[9] Also recorded on the 1914 Star Roll (entry struck out) for the 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) under the regimental number L/11309, which was issued to him when he transferred to the regiment. His Squadron and unit are confirmed from the 1914 Star Roll and the Branch Nominal Rolls published in ‘The Old Contemptible’ No. 381, October 1965 and No. 409, February 1968.
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