The 389 men listed below all became prisoners of war on or before the 25th December 1914. All served with the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and over 300 of them were captured on the 26th August, a mere 12 days after the majority had disembarked at Havre. This from Ray Westlake's British Battalions in France & Belgium 1914:
"Moved to defensive trenches west of Le Cateau (25th). Order received from Brigade Headquarters instructing the battalion, "There will be NO retirement for the fighting troops; fill up your trenches with water, food and ammunition, as far as you can." Enemy attacked (26th). Positions held until eventually surrounded on three sides. There was much hand-to-hand fighting. Lieutenant Colonel Bond records in his war history of the regiment, "There was no surrender. The occupants of the trenches were mobbed and swamped by the riding tide of grey-coated Germans." Fighting ceased about 4.30pm and survivors withdrew along the Reumont road to Estrees, then (27th) to Ollezy."
The original record - a nineteen-page hand-written list sent to Sir Ernest Goodhart on the 3rd February 1919 - is held at the Imperial War Museum in London (reference B.O.2 1/137). Filmed some years ago, the microfilm is difficult to read in places. My full transcription includes next of kin and their address.
The medals above were issued to 9738 Private Watling whose next of kin is listed as his father, W Watling, of 173 Ann's Street. Norwich. I bought Richard's medals yesterday; also those of his son who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Richard, who had enlisted in June 1908, was in Ireland in 1914 and was possibly one of those men captured on the 26th August. News that he was missing in action was published in The Times on the 26th October.
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8991 Philip Thomas Adams
8570 Thomas Alford
7276 Thomas Edward Allcock
10931 Charles Allen
9086 James Allen
7271 Thomas Allen
6058 Herbert Allender
7978 Ernest Allott
7434 James Thomas Annakin
7898 Alfred Arkle
6879 Fred Arran
8507 Frederick Charles Ashley
8386 David Ashton
7924 William Ashton
8642 Charles Frank Aston
10786 Francis Atack
9648 Ambrose Atkinson
9631 Frederick Atkinson
10756 William Austin
10661 Oliver Baines
8748 John Thomas Baker
8709 Albert Barker
9521 John Henry Barker
8583 Joseph Sidney Barker
5870 Oliver Barker
7255 John Bartle
10064 George Arthur Beardsley
10442 Alfred Beasley
10466 Harold Beaumont
9095 Richard Beavan
7943 Ridgdale Bellwood
10850 Samuel Best
7339 Herbert Beswick
7820 Percy Ernest Birch
7163 Peter Birmingham
7972 Ernest Blakemore
10589 Frederick Blatch
10217 Arthur Charles Boddington
6531 Frederick Bodsworth
8335 William Bolderson
10401 Albert Bolton
7235 George Bonsor
7061 William Herbert Booth
10418 Harry Bottomley
7238 Albert Boulding
9138 George Boully
7856 John W Bowerman
9382 John William Bradley
6235 Thomas Bradshaw
7244 John Brady
8366 John Brailsford
8626 Robert Ernest Brammer
8005 Christopher Bridgewater
7918 Alfred Bridsow
7957 William Brown
10545 William John Brown
7863 John Brownhill
10872 Ernest Bryan
7767 Joseph Bucci
9067 James Buck
8532 John Thomas Bunting
7285 Thomas Burchett
10163 William Henry Burgess
8676 Edwin Burke
8707 Thomas Burkenshaw
8134 Robert John Butler
8290 Thomas Button
8252 George Campbell
10736 Sydney Cardwell
7805 Frank Carpenter
8002 William Cawood Fred Cawthorne
6967 Thomas Chadwick
8504 Charles Challis
9129 John E Chaplin
10693 Arthur Chappelow
8218 Sam Charlesworth
8090 Thomas Henry Chatterway
9475 Samuel Child
10840 Edward Chivers
8278 Albert Chopping
8520 Harry George Coates
8656 Harry Cocker
10607 George Cockridge
8939 William Collett
10550 Joseph Conn
10595 Matthew Connor
9005 Alfred Cooper
8228 Joseph Cooper
10921 William Cooper
8182 Ernest Cooze
10816 Frederick John Corbett
9635 John R Coultish
7851 Edwin Cranleigh
7298 William Crawford
8641 Reginald E Cripps
8440 Percy J Crow
6481 John E Cunningham
9199 Alfred Darley
10290 Edwin Davies
10625 Lewis Davies
10959 Isaac Day
7137 Albert Denton
10866 Charles Dickinson
10977 Arthur Douglas
6766 John Draycott
10741 George Ernest Drury
10215 Thomas Duggan
10890 William Duggan
9053 John Dunn
9114 Daniel Dunnell
8882 Harold Eames 7031 Frank Ellis
6143 Harry Emerson
6464 William England
6696 Pte George English
7175 Thomas Eyre
8692 Arthur Fiddler
8686 William Henry Fleetwood
10709 Ernest Flockton
8514 Alma Fowler
5881 Frederick P Fowler
10800 Fred Fox
7387 Harry Fox
10860 Arthur France
8250 George France
8902 Albert Franklyn
8137 Alfred George Franks
10621 Thomas S Frith
8471 Henry C Fuller
7403 George Gabbitas
5981 Robert T Gadsby
9185 Frank Gallacher
7384 John Galloway
5938 Herbert Gilder
10770 Frederick Gilroyd
10503 Bernard Gleeson
9419 John Glew
8726 Joseph Godson
10685 Albert E Goulding
10998 Michael Goulding
10722 Walter Goulding
9102 Alfred Green
8855 Charless Paul Green
10687 Thomas Green
10066 Walter J Green
6427 Edward Greenfield
6556 Ernest Gregg
10863 George Hadfield
6780 George Hague
9266 Harry Hall
9575 Winning Hall
8519 Reuben Halstead
7984 George Hardy
10832 George Hardy
10911 Frederick Harrison
9017 George Harrop
8077 Edward James Hemp
9202 Stephen Henson
10969 Harold Heppenstall
7439 John Hewitt
7040 Frederick Hill
10578 John Robert Hirst
10766 Benjamin Hobson
7198 Joseph Hobson
8338 William Hodgkinson
9007 Martin B Hodson
8826 Matthew Hogan
10194 Charles G Hollick
6319 William Henry Hoole
7149 Thomas Houghton
4671 Harry Howard
6440 Percy Howard
6926 Samuel Howarth
6705 William Howson
10882 Frederick Hubbard
9785 John William Hufton
9128 Admiral Huntingdon
7799 Percy Alfred Hurst
8542 Charles Hutchinson
9923 William Hutchinson
8526 Andrew Hyslop
9130 John Charles Hyslop
8875 George Ibbotson
9091 Bertie Ingleton
7973 Alfred J Isaacs
8515 Alfred Jackson
10435 Bertie Jackson
7365 Miles Jackson
8330 Arthur Jeffs
10824 William Jennings
8547 John Frederick Jesson
7942 Albert Edward Jeyes
6446 Thomas Johnson
9244 Edward Jones
8598 Thomas Henry Jones
8144 James H Kennedy
10647 Samuel Kinchin
9209 Bertie King
8462 Herbert F King
9916 John James King
7155 Walter King
9814 Percy John Lambert
7919 Charles Large
7816 Herbert J Leavesley
8538 Harry Lemon
8258 James Leyland
10668 William Charles H Linnett
8213 Charles Littlewood
7160 John William Liversidge
7421 Edward William Lobb
10743 William Lockett
11036 Lewis Lomas
8575 Frank Long
6070 Horace Loukes
7346 Herbert H Loxton
8590 Walter Lycett
8467 Thomas Lynn
8332 George Machin
9425 William W Machin
8363 Richard Malyou
7308 Henry Mankin
8310 Charles J Marchant
7853 John Marriott
9168 Richard Marshall
7930 Thomas E Marshall
7*** John Thomas Marson
8095 Edward Thomas Martin
10856 George Thomas Mason
7146 James Mason
8112 William Robert Mayham
10867 Stephen McCall
10456 Peter McGregor
7193 Victor M McGuirk
9400 Henry McKay
8782 Michael McLoughlin
9736 Charles Mercier
10511 Frank Midwinter
6935 Charles Miller
6669 Joseph Molloy
7783 Arthur F Moore
10273 George Morris
8113 John Moss
7214 John William Mullins
7335 Herbert Munns
9267 William A Murray
8116 Albert Nance
10131 Harold Naylor
8407 James S Naylor
8718 Thomas L Neal
10603 Thomas James Nevard
8703 Frederick George Newall
9842 Joseph Newey
10825 Rhodes Nicholls
8039 William Nixon
9874 Joe Noble
8550 Thomas Notman
9290 Fred Nunn
10876 William O'Brien
7205 Walter Olaranshaw
9620 James Orton
7117 John A Parker
7357 George Parkin
9296 Herbert Peaker
7297 Albert Peters
8382 James Pike
6462 Ernest Poole
9863 John R Porter
8339 George Powell
9332 Henry Prescott
8770 John Price
10737 John Priestley
8554 William Priestley
8111 James H Raker
383 Matthew Reed
8268 John Reeves
9283 Renshaw
7778 Joseph Rhodes
9395 George Riley
7060 Edwin Roberts
5902 Albert Robinson
8927 Frank Robinson
7375 Albert Rogers
9120 Philip S Royston
7148 Samuel Roystone
8956 Jabez Sanderson
10715 Pte F Schofeld
9275 Frederick Schofield
7953 Joseph Schofield
8558 William Scott
8398 Willie Searles
8225 Richard Seiles
7889 Jonathan Self
8171 John Sharp
10388 William H Sharpe
6390 Ernest R Shaw
9036 Samuel Shaw
7282 Charles Shelton
6004 Tom Shemeld
7064 David R Sherwood
10659 Leonard Shilbeck
7945 Benjamin Simpson
9665 Fred W Singleton
8973 Charles H Slater
9866 Claude F Slawson
8280 Edward Sleigh
10038 Robert L Smeaton
7412 Alfred Smith
8153 George Smith
8529 Henry Smith
10116 John W Smith
9004 Joseph Smith
7975 John Snepp
7927 John J Spencer
8943 Frederick T Stampson
8042 Fred Stayton
10694 Royce Steels
9345 William Steers
8492 Henry Stone
10827 John Sykes
7124 William Sykes
5895 Frederick William Tagg
9144 Frank Taylor
8409 James H Taylor
10972 Joseph Taylor
[unclear] [unclear] Thompson
7186 Fred Thompson
7125 John R Thompson
7275 T Thorpe
7810 L/Cpl Charles Tilling
9111 Charles Todkill
6841 Charles Tompkins
9161 Percy J Towersey
8502 Frank Townsend
8785 Edward Trend
7342 William J Trydell
[unclear] Sydney E Tucker
10869 F Turner
10020 William J Tye
10978 John Tyler
8517 Arthur Ussher
8376 George A Varney
9215 Thomas Varney
10519 Arthur D Venters
7889 Frank Vickers
9448 John Viney
9192 David Wadley
8251 Harry Wakefield
9271 Pte Reginald G Wakefield
9642 James Walker
8920 Tom Walker
8203 Thomas Walters
7793 E Warburton
8666 Herbert Ward
5989 Thomas Ward
9145 Ernest Waterhouse
10364 John Waterworth
9225 Joseph F Watkinson
9738 Richard Watling
8117 Sidney Watson
10644 Victor G Watt
8648 Percy Watts
8585 Philip J Weaving
9468 Ernest Whincup
9477 Sidney E White
9263 William White
7210 John Whitham
10842 Albert Whittaker
[unclear] Edwin Whittaker
9041 William E Wild
8224 Martin Wilkinson
9846 William Willets
9094 John C Williams
8997 W Henry Williams
8919 John Willis
7390 Joseph Wilton
8423 George Sidney Wiseman
10563 John T Wood
8205 Henry Woodall
6186 John Charles Woodley
9140 George Woodward
7307 Enoch Wormston
10810 Samuel G Wright
8172 Thomas Wright
9105 Thomas Wright
8832 Wilfred Wright
8509 Robert Wyatt
8545 George Yeoman
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