- July 2020
Sergeant Henry Hartigan VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020Henry Hartigan, March 1826 – 29 October 1886) was born in Drumlea, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he was awarded…
Lieutenant Alfred Stowell Jones VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020Alfred Stowell Jones was born at 3, Huskisson Street, Liverpool on 24th January 1832, the son of Archdeacon John Jones and his wife, Hannah,…
Private Robert Newell VC, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th July 2020Robert Newell (1835-1858) was born in 1835 in Seaham, County Durham. At a young age, he enlisted with the 9th Lancers. Little is sadly…
Troop Sergeant Major David Rushe VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th July 2020David Rushe (1827-1886) was born in Woburn, Bedfordshire on 28th April 1827. He joined the 9th Lancers at the age of 18, taking part…
Private William Goate VC, 9th (The Queen’s Royal) Lancers
9th July 2020William Goate (1836-1901) was born on 12th January 1836 in the Norfolk village of Fritton. His father, a farmer, died when William was 5…
Lieutenant Frederick Brooks Dugdale VC, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
9th July 2020Born on 21st October 1877 at Burnley Lancashire, and educated at Marlborough and Christchurch College Oxford, Frederick Dugdale was the third son of Colonel…
Troop Sergeant Major David Spence VC, 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers
9th July 2020David Spence (1818-1877) was born in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, to Robert Spence, a mason, and Agnes Anderson. David married Elspet Mathieson in 1835, when…
Death Notice Captain Bryan Perrett (17/21L & RTR)
9th July 2020it is with regret that I inform you of the death of Bryan Perrett on Tuesday 16th June 2020 aged 85. He completed his…
Death Notice Mrs A.J. Clark Kennedy (9/12L)
9th July 2020It is with regret that I inform you of the death of Mrs A.J. Clark Kennedy, widow of Lieutenant Colonel John Clark Kennedy MC,…
Death Notice Trooper Robin ‘Ginge’ Spencer 17/21L (1958-1968)
9th July 2020It is with much regret that I have to inform you of the death of Robin Spencer on Tuesday 2 June 2020 aged 78. …