Royal Horse Guards - Other Rank PoWs 1914

The outcome of a Royal Horse Guards mock trial in 1896

Navy & Army Illustrated, 6th March 1896

There is a just a handful - if you've got six fingers - of Royal Horse Guards soldiers who were captured by the Germans on or before Christmas Day 1914. This data has been transcribed from the following Imperial War Museum collection:

B.O.2 1/169 is a single-page typed (and badly faded) list sent to Sir Enest Goodhart  by the officer i/c records, Royal Horse Guards, Regents Park Barracks dated 7th January 1920.

For more information about these so-called 'Princess Mary tin PoWs' see my 1914 PoWs page. The majority of these men will also have records published by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Searching is free; finding your man is another matter entirely.

The full transcription is available for £15 as part of my Household Cavalry PoW collection. Contact me if you would like to purchase a copy.
1466 Corporal Ernest J Braby of Manhood Farm, Sussex 
1008 Trooper Harry Burchett Royal of Forge Square, Lyghe, Near Tonbridge, Kent 
151 Trooper A Dixon of Prospect Place, Market Rasen, Lincs 
47559 Trooper William Glassett of 37 Livingstone Road, Clapham 
46233 Corporal Wilfred Pocklington of 24 Woods Lane, Cottingham Hill, Hull

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