2nd not 1st: Essex 1899-1914 (6th ed)

at Le Havre on 30 November 1914. On 14 May 1915 the regiment was holding reserve trenches to the east of Potijze near Ypres, now the site of a Commonwealth War Grave Commission Cemetery. The Germans began a bombardment on the frontline trench, forcing the occupants to retire. The Essex Yeomanry and other units were ordered to retake the trenches and their attack began at 2.15pm. The objective was some 1,000 yards from their positions and they advanced at the double but the Germans fell back before the Essex arrived. The Germans then bombarded the retaken trench until dark forcing the Essex men to fall back to a line of dugouts in front of GHQ. Of the 302 officers and men who made the assault, 160 became casualties. During the attack, Robert Edwards was severely wounded in the face and neck, and lay in no man's land for 24 hours before being able to re-join his men. Edwards was unable to return to the front line so was later stationed at Shirehampton Remount Depot at Barrow Hill near Bristol and also served with the Remount Service in France. He was demobilised at the Officers Dispersal Unit, London on 15 September 1919 and promoted to Major on 1 July 1920. After he resigned his commission on 7 May 1921, he retained the rank of Major and went to live at Beyton House, Beyton in Suffolk. On the 1939 Register he stated he was a retired land agent and retired major in the Essex Yeomanry with a wounded officer’s pension. A single man, he had a married couple as butler and cook, and also a housemaid. When he died in 1965, he left £349,949 (almost £7 million in 2020). Batting and fielding record M I NO RUNS AVE 100s 50s CT ST Friendly 1 1 2 2.00 Bowling Balls M R W 5wI 10wM Friendly 66 1 74 1 Highest score: 2. Best bowling: 1-74. Acknowledgments to the excellent war records of Hazlewood School at http://www.hambo.org/hazelwood/view_man.php?id=209 , on which most of this section is based. Guy, John Keble (1884-1971) Born 21 June 1884, Walthamstow, Essex. Died 18 May 1971, Cuckfield, Sussex. Played 1910, 1914. Keble Guy was a member of the dynasty that for eighty years was synonymous with Forest School, the Walthamstow proprietary school that has produced many Essex cricketers. He was the son of the Reverend Thomas Edward Barlow (‘Ned’) Guy and Mary Charlesworth. Ned succeeded his father as headmaster of Forest in 1886, and was followed by his brother in 1894. Ned was vicar of Fulford, York, until he retired in 1928. Keble attended Forest where he was a fine all-round sportsman. He was captain of football in 1900-1 and later played for Old Foresters and Corinthians. In 1947 he became a school governor. The school historian said ‘he was a man of tremendous charm and made countless friends’. Keble’s mother died in 1890 and in 1891 he was staying with his Charlesworth grandparents in Nutfield, near Reigate in Surrey. His grandfather was a dealer on the London Stock Exchange and Keble became a stock jobber. In 1909 he married Gwynneth Mary Pelly in