QOOH / OY ROLL OF HONOUR
Remembered this Month - May
During this month we pay our tributes and due reverence to those soldiers who had served in a unit holding the QOOH or OY appellation, who gave their lives in pursuit of peace for the Nation. And especially that we are able to live our lives as we wish, without fear of dictatorships, race, or creed.
The names of the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Other Ranks who were either killed in action (K), died of wounds (DW), died in captivity (DC), or otherwise died in service (D) for remembrance during May are listed below.
Age at date of death, if known, is in brackets following date of death.
2nd Anglo-Boer War
1900
18/5/1900 Tpr Harry Offley D, of disease at Boshof, Orange Free State Province, S Africa
26/5/1900 Tpr Henry Corrie Jackson D, of fever at Boshof, Orange Free State Province, S Africa
26/5/1900 Sjt Daniel Legge D, of fever at Krugersdorp, Gauteng Province, S Africa
30/5/1900 Tpr Frank Graham Twiss D, of disease at Hoopstad, Free State Province, S Africa
First World War
1915
21/4/1915 (25) Pte Henry Wood D, France
Buried at Abingdon Cemetery, Berkshire, UK
27/4/1915 (29) Sjt Charles Frederick Hyde K, Vlamertinghe, Ypres, Belgium
Buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
28/4/1915 (27) Pte Joseph Edward Batchelor DW, Vlamertinghe, Ypres, Belgium
Buried at Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
28/4/1915 (26) Pte Reginald James Paice DW, received at Potijze, Ypres, Belgium
Buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, Nord, France
1917
18/5/1917 (26) Pte Ernest Roads K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
20/5/1917 (35) Maj Valentine Fleming, DSO, MP, MiDx2 K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France
20/5/1917 (33) Lt Francis Somerlad Joseph Silvertop K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France
20/5/1917 (24) Pte George Newton Buswell K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France
20/5/1917 (24) Pte Leonard George Gillett DW, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
20/5/1917 (29) Pte Joseph Lovejoy K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France
20/5/1917 Pte Charles White K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery, Somme, France
23/5/1917 Pte Christopher Arthur Williams K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile, Aisne, France
24/5/1917 (28) Sjt George Vernon Gare K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile, Aisne, France
27/5/1917 (20) Pte Alexander George Milligan K, Gillemont Farm, Somme, France
Buried at Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile, Aisne, France
1918
4/5/1918 (26) 2Lt Alfred Willie Hinton DW, Blofield, Norfolk, UK (received in air crash 3/5/1918)
Buried at North Leigh (St. Mary) Churchyard, Oxfordshire, UK
21/5/1918 (23) Pte Frederick John Thomas DW, at Wharncliffe War Hospital, Wadsley, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England Buried at Wadsley Churchyard, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK
24/5/1918 (19) Pte George Henry Vince D, England
Buried at Tanworth-In-Arden (St. Mary Magdalene) Churchyard Extension, Warwickshire, UK
31/5/1918 (27) Pte George Albert Clisby D, France
Buried at Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
World War Two
1940
6/5/1940 (29) Bdr Albert Edward Dumbleton D, of heart attack at Kineton, England
Buried at Banbury Cemetery, Oxfordshire, UK
11/5/1940 (36) WO1 Richard Harold Moore D, of a road accident at Wellesbourne, Warwicks, England
Buried at North Sheen Cemetery, Surrey, UK
1943
9/5/1943 (26) Gnr William Lionel Howard Sansbury DC, Chungkai camp, Thailand
Buried at Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand
16/5/1943 (32) Gnr Ernest George White DC, Takanoon camp, Thailand
Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand
QOOH Men Who Were Transferred Into Other Units in the First World War
During the First World War, and with the high number of casualties happening, there was an urgent need for replacement soldiers to back-fill these gaps. Many hundreds of these came from men of the 2/1st and 3/1st QOOH. Whilst being given a Service Number when signing up to the QOOH, these men were then re-issued a second Service Number on transfer and a great many men were lost to the QOOH records. Over time, a lot of records have been found informing us of a number of these transfers and where they ended up, and of course their casualty numbers. In the section below we list the QOOH men who were transferred into these other units and subsequently lost their lives. I would like to give great credit to Mike Cross and Harry Staff who have been delving into these further records and without their diligence these QOOH men would most likely not be remembered here on this page. As new information comes to light, these lists will be updated and is certainly a ‘Work-in-Progress’ situation.
In the lists below can be found the soldier’s original QOOH Service Number, his new secondary Service Number, and the Battalion he was posted to. It has been found that some QOOH soldiers had been transferred more than once, and this is mentioned in the text below where this has been uncovered.
QOOH Men Transferred Into Secondary Units
Infantry Battalion Names
1917 QOOH OBLI Bn
3/5/1917 Pte Walter John Harris 2551 32813 5th Oxf & Bucks LI
K, and Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
3/5/1917 (25) LCpl Albert Smith 2619 32878 5th Oxf & Bucks LI
K, and Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
21/5/1917 Pte Ernest Hanks 3015 203371 1st/4th Oxf & Bucks LI
K, and Buried at Hermies British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
1918
21/5/1918 (33) Pte Charles Tyrrell 3411 203413 2nd/4th Oxf & Bucks LI
K, and Buried at St Venant-Robecq Road British Cemetery, Robecq, Pas de Calais, France
Machine Gun Corps Names
1918 QOOH MGC Sqn
Fortunately there are no casualties reported for this month
Rank Abbreviations
2Lt – Second-Lieutenant
Bdr – Bombardier (artillery equivalent to Corporal)
BQMS – Battery Quarter Master Sergeant (artillery equivalent to Company QMS)
Capt – Captain
Cpl – Corporal
Gnr – Gunner (artillery equivalent to Private)
LBdr – Lance-Bombardier (artillery equivalent to Lance-Corporal)
LCpl – Lance-Corporal
LSgt – Lance-Sergeant (a local promotion of a Bombardier /Corporal by his commanding officer, usually with extra pay)
Lt – Lieutenant
Lt Col – Lieutenant-Colonel
Maj – Major
Pte – Private
QMS – Quarter Master Sergeant
RSM – Regimental Sergeant Major
Sdlr – Saddler
Sgt – Sergeant
SSgt – Staff Sergeant
SSM – Squadron Sergeant Major
Tpr – Trooper (cavalry equivalent to Private)
Tptr – Trumpeter (cavalry equivalent to Bugler)
Post-Nominal Letters
Post-nominal letters, are letters placed after a person’s name to indicate that an individual holds a military decoration, or honour:-
DSO – Distinguished Service Order (awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime).
MC – Military Cross (for officers only until 1993, when it was opened up to all ranks) – awarded for acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy on land.
MM – Military Medal (other ranks’ equivalent to the Military Cross until 1993) – awarded for bravery in battle.
MiD – Mentioned in Dispatches (is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described)
These awards in the British Armed Forces, are published in the London Gazette.
As more details of soldiers who have served with the OY and QOOH become available, this Roll of Honour list will be updated. This is very much a ‘work-in-progress’ item.
If you know of any person whom you think should be remembered in the Roll of Honour, please inform any of these people –Mick Luxford, Mike Cross, or Harry Staff – for consideration, thank you.
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