Regiment: Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion

During the First World War the Regiment gained 36 Battle Honours and 7 Victoria Crosses, losing 3,860 men during the course of the war.

1st Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Aldershot as part of the 1st (Guards) Brigade of the 1st Division.
Aug 1914 Mobilised for war and move to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1914
The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres.
1915
Winter Operations 1914-15, The Battle of Aubers, The Battle of Loos.
25.08.1915 Transferred to the 2nd (Guards) Brigade of the same Division.
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin, The Battle of Pozieres, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
1918
The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of Bethune, The Battle of Drocourt-Queant, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of Beaurevoir, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre.
11.11.1918 Ended the war in France near Maubeuge.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
10, WAVERLEY TERRACE, VILLA PLACE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
09/10/1917
       
Aged
23
BORN HULL 12/3/1894. SON OF LATE JOHN HENRY & SARAH ANN STANIFORTH, OF 52, WHITE STREET, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 10, WAVERLEY TERRACE, VILLA PLACE, HULL. A PLUMBER'S LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST BATTALION, COLSTREAM GUARDS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/10/1917, AGED 23. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT […]
4 SABINA AVENUE, BALFOUR STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
22/12/1914
       
Aged
17
BORN HULL 1897. SON OF WILLIAM & ALICE STOKES. BROTHER JOHN HENRY FOUGHT FOR CANADIANS & WAS KIA 6/6/16.HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS 16/6/16
7 BERKELEY TERRACE, CONVENT LANE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
       
       
Died on
28/09/1915
       
Aged
25
BORN 1889 ARDWICK, MANCHESTER. SON OF WILLIAM TAYLOR (1863-1927) AND RUTH HEATHCOTE SMITH (1860-1935), OF  7 BERKELEY TERRACE, CONVENT LANE, ANLABY ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A STONEMASON, FROM HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. WORKED AS A BRICKLAYER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST BATTALION, COLDSTREAM […]
, BARROW HAVEN, BARROW UPON HUMBER, NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
25/01/1915
       
Aged
2O
BORN HULL 1894. SCULCOATES. SON OF EMILY & EDWARD THACKERAY, OF SKIDBY. LIVED BARROW HAVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE. WELL KNOWN IN HULL, WITHERNSEA AND DRIFFIELD DISTRICTS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 9TH AUGUST 1914. POSTED TO FRANCE IN NOVEMBER 1914, WITH THE 1ST COLDSTREAM GUARDS. KILLED IN ACTION, AT CUINCHY, ON 25TH JANUARY 1915, AGED 20. H […]
BARMSTON TERRACE, STANLEY STREET, HULL, UK
       
Died on
19/10/1915
Reported killed in the Hull Daily Mail, on 17/11/1915. No CWGC records?
6 BOWLING AVENUE, KIMBERLEY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
22/12/1914
       
Aged
21
BORN HULL 1893. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF GEORGE & ALICE STEPHENSON.
58, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE SUBWAY STREET ROLL OF HONOUR. EX BLUNDELLS & SPENCE WORKER. PHOTO FROM THE HULL DAILY MAIL, 17/05/1915. * NO CWGC RECORD. NEAREST RECORD  LANCE CORPORAL, SYDNEY JOHN WHATLEY, 1ST COLDSTREAM GUARDS, DIED 29/10/1914, AGED 22. (FROM NORWICH)