I wanted to find the records of my great grandmas brother william craig he served in the royal scots greys (he didnt die in the war). (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); If you enjoy the articles I post here, please consider making a donation in support. [9] Dunmore became Colonel of the Regiment himself in 1685. examining service records in, 2291 Kames Kirkaldy joined on 2nd April 1880, 2397 Alexander Dickson joined on 27th January 1881, 2476 George Walter Price joined on 2nd March 1883, 2661 Thomas Foster joined on 11th November 1884, 2702 Robert Hunter joined on 20th March 1885, 2785 William Rolph joined on 9th January 1886, 3001 Horace William Jenkins joined on 17th August 1887, 3055 Owen Deary joined on 23rd January 1888, 3346 Edward George Morgan joined on 13th March 1889, 3426 Charles Innes joined on 10th February 1890, 3548 John Cameron joined on 2nd February 1891, 3653 Charles James Betts joined on 2nd January 1892, 3826 William John Reeves joined on 24th July 1893, 3992 George William Francis Cunningham joined on 30th August 1894, 4276 John Lockhart joined on 17th March 1896, 4392 Thomas Hornsby joined on 11th August 1897, 4420 James Bowman joined on12th January 1898, 4772 George Collings joined on 30th October 1899, 4964 John Brake joined on 28th March 1900, 5243 George Cartrwright (aka George Richardson) joined on 4th March 1901, 5497 Richard Bain joined on 14th January 1902, 5755 John Henry Shepherd joined on 24th January 1903, 5938 William Swallow, formerly 3980 1st (Royal) Dragoons, transferred on 1st July 1904, 6026 William Anderson joined on 15th March 1905, 6230 John Burns joined on 12th January 1906.
The largest detachment of the Scots Greys to see action were the two officers and 44 men who were sent to join the Heavy Camel Regiment during the expedition to relieve Gordon at Khartoum. To download this war diary for a small fee click on the blue link below. Prior to this Army Order, all cavalry regiments had numbered individually by regiments. Casualty lists of the First World War Prisoner of war lists.
“C” Squadron in the village was heavily shelled throughout the operations. As the French fell back, the Scots Greys and the rest of the Union Brigade arrived at the end of their 50-mile ride. [79] After years of being known as the Scots Greys, though official designated as the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, their nickname was made official. An early form of the bearskin was adopted in 1768. This gave rise to a comic poem printed at the time, of which this is the first verse: O wae is me my hert is sair, tho but a horse am I. After Armistice, the Regiment moved to Germany before returning to England in March 1919. Due to breakdowns and losses along the way, the Scots Greys were reduced to 5 Grants and 10 Shermans. Ralph Pomeroy. [1] This was the origin of the motto Second to None. Troopers were equipped with matchlock muskets, sergeants and corporals with halberds and pistols; only the officers carried swords, though Lieutenants were armed with a partisan.
Private Papers of Brigadier-General W Long CMG DSO: Memoir of Lieutenant J. T. MacNab who served with the Regiment and Bedfordshire Yeomanry during the war. [110] Now attached to the 22nd Armoured Brigade, part of the 7th Armoured Division. 1935-1990 Recommendations for Honours and Awards Index. [77] For the rest of the war, the Heavy Cavalry, including the Scots Greys, had little to do. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Historical Enquiries Team The Royal Scots Museum The Castle EDINBURGH EH1 2YT. There, on 31 July 1760, the Scots Greys participated in Granby's charge, which broke the French left flank and then defeated the counter-charge of the French cavalry. There is a SCOTS Memorial Stone in the Arboretum which includes all the Scottish Antecedent Infantry Regiments. Long’s letters make interesting reading but he doesn’t have the clearest handwriting! Very cold weather, high wind and snow. Once the Michael Offensive began to grind down in April, the Scots Greys, along with the other cavalry regiments, were able to be withdrawn from the line to refit and reorganise. Grant, 2/Lieut. [138], The Scots Greys, along with certain other regiments of the British Army, handled the loyal toast differently. His service number was 9466 with no GS prefix. The regiment saw action in operations helping to capture Nijmegen Island, and the area west of the Maas. These records are not held by the Regiment, but are held elsewhere.
In January 1944, the regiment turned over its tanks to other units needing replacements and was transferred back to England.
When did my grandfather join up? [131], The final surrender by the surviving Nazi officials on 5 May 1945 marked the end of the war for the Scots Greys. Elements of the Scots Greys and Staffordshire Yeomanry formed a composite cavalry regiment assigned to reinforce the divisional cavalry element for Operation Exporter, the invasion of Vichy held Syria and Lebanon. Medal records are always a good place to start if there is no service record available: Medal Index Cards. [4], On 21 May 1678, two troops were raised by Captains John Strachan and John Inglis with a third under Captain Viscount Kingstoun added on 23 September.
[107] Although tanks had been introduced during the First World War, many senior officers believed that the horse still had a place on the battlefield. The Scots Greys saw action at the Falaise pocket, the crossing of the Seine, and was one of the first regiments to cross the Somme River at the beginning of September 1944. 1864 - 1904: G WO 76. Now, line cavalry and household cavalry were differentiated, and each corps of line cavalry was to use a separate number series extending to 49,999. In 1922, the Scots Greys arrived in India, where they would serve for the next six years.
Ordering the brigade to wheel about, the Scots Greys ended up in line with the Inniskilling Dragoons in the front row supported by the 5th Dragoon Guards. As they neared the Russian line, they started to take carbine fire, which killed the Scots Greys' commander and took the hat off of its executive officer. [71] As the Inniskillings shouted their battle cry, Faugh A Ballagh, observers reported that the Scots Greys made an eerie, growling moan. John Stirling, Our regiments in South Africa, 1899–1902: their record, based on dispatches, (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903) p. 424. On 7 June 1944, the first three tanks of the regiment landed on Juno Beach.
[80], In 1899, the regiment's years of peace ended with the start of the Second Anglo-Boer War. Unfortunately, the current pandemic has made it difficult for me to conduct as much paid research as usual, but I am committed to keeping the information on this site freely available to everyone. [14] Following the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, they were based in Scotland; after the War of the Spanish Succession began, they returned to Flanders in 1702 as part of Marlborough's army. In 1681, these troops were regimented to form The Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, numbered the 4th Dragoons in 1694. The Imperial War Museum holds the following collections relating to the Regiment: 16 August 1914 – 22 March 1919, 5th Cavalry Brigade, WO95/1139/3. Also, except for the Flanders Campaign of 1793–94, they saw no other active service during the French Revolutionary or Napoleonic Wars until the Waterloo Campaign of 1815.
However, the French soldier who had captured Ponsonby executed him and then used his lance to kill three of the Scots Greys who had attempted the rescue.
[12] Now officially known as Livingstone's Regiment of Dragoons, they were part of the force used by Hugh Mackay to suppress the Scottish Jacobite Rising of 1689-1692. [126] On 3 April 1945, the Scots Greys came under the command of the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division, forming up in Neuenkirchen.