2nd Battalion of Essex Regiment index

 

Regimental Information

1881-1928 Commanding Officers
1919-1939 Timeline of Station Posting

Biographies
  Private 41237 Walter William Ager  DCM
  Brigadier General Frederick Gore Anley
  Second Lieutenant Hugh Baldock MC
  Pte 5722 Joseph Henry Broad
  Temp Lt Charles Henry Chapman  MC  MSM
  Sergeant 1514 Bartholomew Gordon
  Air Commodore Edward Maitland Maitland CMG DSO AFC
  Colonel Sir George Murray Home Stirling
  Corporal 3/3105 John Tippins
  Second Lieutenant Gilbert Waterhouse

Before World War One  1880 - 1914
1900 Officer List
1913 Sports Day 1913

Boer War

1900-1901 Battalion actions in Boer War
1899-1902 1st Essex Summary of action
1910 Memorial at Chelmsford

World War One

  Brigade & Division to which the Battalion was attached
  Essex Regiment men named on POW records at National Archives
  Mentioned in Despatches by General French following Battles of Mons, Aisne, Marne & Flanders
1914 Composition of 4th Division of the BEF
1914 Christmas Truce
1915 Poison gas attack
1915 Battle of the Somme 1 July 1916
1918 Concert Party

After World War One

1919 New Look Peacetime Battalion
1923 Essex Regiment History Committe Members