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1st/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) (T.F.) at the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, Ypres, 13th May 1915
1st/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry (Prince Albert's Own) (T.F.) at the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge, Ypres, 13th May 1915
During this phase of the Second Battle of Ypres 8-13th May 1915, the Germans attempted to break through between the 27th and 28th Divisions. With the use of chlorine gas, overwhelming artillery fire and three Corps attacking, they succeeded in creating a 2-mile gap in the line which was initially and gallantly filled by the Canadian PPCLI. In the British stand on the 13th, the Leicestershire Yeomanry, part of the 7th Cavalry Brigade and fighting dismounted, lost seven Officers killed, including the Commanding Officer and two Squadron Leaders, and eighty-seven other ranks killed and missing; five Officers wounded, including the 2ic and one Squadron Leader, and eighty-eight other ranks wounded. At great cost to both sides, the German advance against the Salient had been stopped, and it was another ten days before fresh German forces tried again. The War Diary entry is attached to Lt Col Evans-Freke's record at https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/5312800 See also http://www.paoyeomanry.co.uk for more details (please note that I've included all those men on the 1914 Star Roll who disembarked on 2nd November 1914; they were not all at Frezenberg)
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Born 1896
Died 1972
British Army 305538 Private Tank Corps
British Army 2032 Private Leicestershire Regiment 1st Battalion
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British Army 1526 Shoeing Smith Leicestershire Yeomanry
British Army 255008 Shoeing Smith 4th Hussars
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Born 1884
British Army 1870 Private Leicestershire Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 305470 Private 16th Tank Corps
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Born 1877
Died 1915
British Army 2708 Troper Leicestershir (PAO) Yeomanry C Squadron
British Army 2708 Private Leicestershire Yeomanry
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Born 1896
Died 1977
British Army 1785 Trooper Leicestershire Yeomanry
British Army 255125 Sergeant Corps of Hussars Leicestershire Yeomanry
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Born 1885
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment 1/1st Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1881
Died 1946
British Army Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment 2nd battalion, leicest Battalion
British Army 990 Squadron Sergeant Major Leicestershire Regiment Frezenberg Ridge, Ypres, won the D.C.M.
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Born 1890
British Army 2042 Private Leicestershire Regiment later Inns of Court OTC and commissioned
British Army Second Lieutenant General List (Royal Flying Corps) (Injured in a German Air Raid at home, possibly Westminster)
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Born 1891
Died 1915
British Army 2317 Corporal Leicestershire Yeomanry
British Army 2317 Corporal Corps of Hussars
British Army 2317 Corporal Leicestershire Yeomanry - Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (including Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps)
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Born 1865
Died 1915
British Army Major Leicestershire Regiment Officer Commanding 'B' Squadron
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Born 1883
British Army 408946 Private Royal Air Force
British Army 2079 Private Leicestershire Regiment Wounded at Frezenberg Ridge, bullet wound to shoulder and neck
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Born 1871
Died 1915
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Leicestershire Regiment commanding 1st Battalion
More about The Hon. Percy Cecil Evans-Freke