The musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra played their part in the First World War in different ways: in the trenches and back at home entertaining those left behind. We hope to be able to tell the story of the contribution made by our musicians and show a little of the part that culture and music has to play in global conflict. We have the following names, given in the minutes of the 1917 AGM and in information from concert programmes and family members, of musicians of the LSO on active service which we are trying to connect to this community and add their stories: William H Reed (1st violin, Leader), Philip Lewis (violin), Edward Carwardine (violin), Horace Ralph (violin), Thomas Peatfield (violin), Edgar Wilby (violin), Robert Carrodus (violin), Bernard Reillie (violin), Sidney Freedman (violin), Joseph Meacham (violin), Arthur Tibbetts (violin), Arthur Ives (violin), Charles Woodhouse (violin), C.Bertram Jones (violin), Frederick Hawkins (violin), David Roy Robertson (violin), Harold Bonarius Grimson (violin), Samuel Bonarius Grimson, Ernest Yonge (viola), Cecil Dorling (viola), Paul Kilburn (viola), Reginald Garnett (viola), Charles Crabb (cello), Arthur Maney (cello), Charles Blackford (cello), Richard Tabb (cello), John Silvester (double bass), Robert Murchie (flute), Frank Almgill (flute), Eli Hudson (flute/piccolo), Henry Nisbet (flute), Edward Augarde (clarinet), Harold Thornton (bassoon), Alexander Penn (horn), Harry Jackson (horn), George Bennett (horn), Ernest Hall (trumpet), Sydney Moxon (trumpet), George Eskdale (trumpet), Edward Garvin (trombone), C.Bertram Lewis (orchestra manager). Are any of these men members of your family? Do you know their service history? Please help us by connecting the names up here to the Lives on this site. Or have you got photos, memories, medals or other information about the men we have already connected below? You can help us to build their stories.
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Born 1884
Died 1935
British Army M/287111 Private Army Service Corps 384th Mechanical Transport Company
Born 1897
Died 1960
British Army 10167 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 10167 Lance Corporal Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 10167 Corporal Loyal North Lancanshire Regiment
Born 1877
Died 1961
British Army 5149 Private London Regiment
British Army 303174 Private London Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Army Service Corps
British Army 6138 Musician Scots Guards
British Army 6138 Private Scots Guards
Born 1886
Died 1917
British Army 763118 Private London Regiment 28th lond Battalion
British Army 9114 Lieutenant Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Born 1884
Died 1949
Canadian Expeditionary Force 425801 Canadian Expeditionary Force 45th Battalion
Born 1884
British Army 625895 Driver Honourable Artillery Company Artillery
British Army 282475 Driver Royal Field Artillery
British Army 625895 Driver Honourable Artillery Company
Born 1879
Died 1939
British Army R/258572 Private Army Service Corps
British Army M/303031 Lance Corporal Royal Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport
Born 1880
British Army 168458 Driver Royal Field Artillery 36th Area Company
Born 1876
Died 1942
British Army 25213 Guardsman Grenadier Guards
Born 1891
British Army 48617 Corporal South Wales Borderers
British Army 48617 Corporal South Wales Borderers 6th Battalion
British Army 43552 Private Welsh Regiment 12th Battalion
Born 1878
Died 1916
British Army 2488 Corporal London Regiment
British Army 2488 Sergeant Bugler London Regiment 15th (County of London) Battalion (P.W.O. Civil Service)
British Army 2488 Serjeant London Regiment 1/15 lond Battalion
Born 1886
Died 1957
British Army 181420 Sapper Royal Engineers Railway Troops Depot
British Army 197119 Gunner Royal Garrison Artillery 152nd Heavy Battery
Born 1888
British Army 6055 Acting Corporal London Regiment 16th lond Battalion
British Army 552834 Acting Corporal London Regiment 16th lond Battalion
British Army 552834 London Regiment
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Born 1882
Died 1917
British Army 9523 Private 2nd Reserve Cavalry Regiment
British Army D/9523 Private 6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)
Born 1878
Died 1919
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery 46th Anti-Aircraft Coy
Born 1881
Died 1966
British Army T1862 Warrant Officer Class 2 Army Service Corps
British Army T4/240209 Warrant Officer Class 2 Army Service Corps
Born 1880
Died 1941
British Army DM2/137985 Private Army Service Corps Motor Transport
Born 1882
British Army 42476 Private King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1st Garrison Battalion
British Army 66273 Lance Corporal King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
British Army 194420 Private Labour Corps
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