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 World War 1  Audley Combatants whose Forenames commence with the letters G to H

The aim of the World War 1 pages in the Audley Family History website is to list all the people with the Audley & Aidley surnames who were combatants in World War 1 and to  provide a Tag Number so that their individual history can be linked to one of the Family Histories detailed within the 'Family Tree' pages on this website. Also included within these listings are a  few individuals who did not have the Audley surname but do have the name Audley name  as one of their forenames.  The individuals are listed in alphabetical order of their forenames and where only the initials of the individual is known they listed at the beginning of those people whose forename begins with the same initial letter.

  The information on this page has been compiled from a number of sources including; the Imperial War Museum website; British Army, Service & Pension records and Medal Roll Records from a well known subscription website.  For those people where service records or pension records survive there is usually sufficient information to identify the individual within the family trees developed on this website. Where service and and pension records do not exist the identification of the individual is purely based on the individuals name, in some cases such as where the individual only has a single forename, which frequently occurs it has not been possible to identify the individual.

If you have any additional information about these people and are willing to share that information with us please contact us through the website contact page.

 Tag & Badge Combatant

 {B101}

WorcestershireRegt

Worcestershire Regiment

 George Audley (1871 - 1920)

 

Joined up 24th August 1915     Discharged 24th January 1916     Service 154 days

Discharged King's Regs para 392 III cc -Discharged as unlikely to become an efficient soldier on Medical Grounds.

No overseas service

 Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, 17th (Local Reserve) Battalion Worcestershire Regiment #15/1506

A Pension record exists for him

  {J58}

WorcestershireRegt

Worcestershire Regiment

George Audley (1891 - 1957)

Awarded the ‘Victory’, the ‘British War’ and the ‘1915 Star’ medals

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment date  30th May 1911

Dischaged 18th April 1917 No longer physically fit for war service

British Army, Worcestershire Regiment, Private, #8692

Served Overseas in France 24th November 1914 to 23rd July 1916

Total service  5 years 324 days

Dischaged 18th April 1917

Reason for discharge: discharged on medical grounds having been wounded:

5th March 1916 - Gun Shot wound to the hip

20th July 1916 at Bazentin Le Petit - Gun Shot wound to the hip.

Awarded Silver War Badge (Service number given as 5/1992 in SWB roll)

His service Record Survives


 {J104}

MachineGunCorp

Machine Gun Corp

George Edward Audley (1890 - 1957)

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment Date: 10th December 1915

British Army, Machine Gun Corps, Private, #61878

British Army, Machine Gun Corp, Private, #545050

British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Private, #A/203441

He served in France 26th June 1917 to 18th November 1917

Date of Discharge: 6th February 1918

Reason for discharge: discharged on medical grounds having been taken seriously ill

He was awarded the Silver War Badge.

A Pension record exists for him

His Service Record Exists


 {F58}

RoyalFlyingCorp

Royal Flying Corp

George John Audley (1893 -1967)

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Air Force (RAF/RFC), #302464

(Enlisted in 1916 record notes him a Railway Clerk )

This person has been identified from his name and occupation

either{V8} or {QE17}

RoyalEngineers

Royal Engineers

George W Audley 

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

Mentioned in Dispatches (see London Gazette 18th May 1917 page 4878)

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Royal Engineers Light Signals Company, Corporal, #14425

British Army, Royal Engineers, Temporary Sergeant, #14425

British Army, Royal Engineers, Acting Sergeant, #14425

 

 {AB47}

LoyalNorthLancs

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

 

George Walton Audley (1882 - 1937)

Awarded the 'Silver War' Badge

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment Date: 8th September 1902

British Army, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Private, #6852

Discharge Date  14th June 1916

Reason for discharge: discharged on medical grounds having been wounded or taken seriously ill.

Awarded the Silver War Badge. The record of his Silver Award Badge gives an incorrect service number (6852) and records him as being a member of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

His service record exists for his time in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

 {B109}

TankCorp

Tank Corp

H M (Henry Mark) Audley (1900 -1960)

 Awarded the India General Service Medal 1908 - 1935

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, Private, #7871902

British Army, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry*, Private, #7376

1st (Service) Battalion

(*Formed by the Militia in 1916 and named the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry.

Moved to Bourne Park (Canterbury) in May 1917, under orders of 202nd Brigade in the 67th Division. 27th September 1917 : left the Division and landed at Le Havre, then transferred to 86th Brigade in 29th Division)

There are a number of options for who this person could be please see the reasons for believing this person to be {B109} in the following file

       Who is H M Audley?

{B197}

RoyalWarwickshireRegt

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Harold Audley (1897 - 1959)

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Private, #241189

This person has been identified from his name

 {J62}

RoyalFlyingCorp

Royal Flying Corp

Harry Audley (1900 - 1962)

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Air Force (RAF/RFC), #291132

(Enlistment in 1918 record notes him as a Facer & Fitter)

This person has been identified from his name

 {N31}

RifleBrigade

Rifle Brigade

(The Prince Consort's Own)

Harry Edward Audley (1899 - 1979)

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Rifle Brigade, Private, #46009

This person has been identified from his name

 {J168}

Leicestershire

Leicestershire Regiment

Henry (Harry) Audley (1865 - 1935)

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment Date: 11th January 1915

British Army, Leicestershire Regiment

British Army, National Reserves #3682

156 Protection Company, RDC #4818

Discharge Date: 29th March 1919

He did not serve overseas

His service Record Survives

 Not yet identified

RoyalFieldArtillery

Royal Garison Artillery

Henry Audley

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Royal Garrison Artillery, Gunner, #186091

This person has not been identified

 {B122}

Cornwall

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Henry Mark Audley (1874 - 1963)

Awarded the 'Victory', the 'British War' and the '1915 Star' medals

Joined up 19th August 1898    

Discharged 26th September 1919       Service 21 years and 39 days

Discharged Kings para 392 (xxi) Discharged on termination of second period of engagement.

Overseas Service  

South Africa 17th December 1899 to 17th February 1903

Gibraltar 8th June 1905 to 2nd September 1907

Bermuda 3rd September 1907 to 19th January 1910

South Africa 20th January 1910 to 21st December 1912

Hong Kong 22nd December 1912 to 19th September 1914

France 19th December 1914 to 30th January 1915

Medals

South Africa Kings & Queens medals clasps Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony, 1901, 1902

Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

WW1 - Victory, British & 1915 Medals

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Sergeant, #5629

A Pension record exists for him

 Audsley not

Audley

RoyalFlyingCorp

Royal Flying Corp

Henry Matthew James Audsley (1897 - 1968)

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Air Force (RAF/RFC), #22889

(Enlistment in 1916 record notes him as a Fitter)

This person has been mis-transcribed on a number of websites with the surname Audley when his actual surname was Audsley. The evidence that his surname should be Audsley is given in the following file.

        Henry Matthew James Audsley

 

{V25}

 RoyalFieldArtillery

Royal Field Artillery

Herbert Audley (1896 - 1963)

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment Date: 28th February 1916

British Army, Royal Field Artillery, Gunner, #2471

British Army, Royal Field Artillery, Gunner, #966683

Overseas Service

France 24th August 1916 to 13th February 1919

Discharge Date: 13th February 1919

His service record survives

 

{AB51}

 

poppy2

Herbert Audley (1888 - 1917)

Awarded the 'Victory' and the 'British War' medals

 

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, West Yorkshire Regiment, Private, #54308

Killed in Acton 1th October 1917

 

 He has no known grave. His name (as Herbert Audley) is recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 42 to 47 & 162, to the Missing that forms the North East Boundary, of the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Ypres Salient, Belgium, near to Passchendaele.)

He has been identified from his name

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