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12th LANCER CASUALTIES
Name
Casualty type
Type of Wound
Source
Burial
Location of Grave
Capt JC Michell
KiA
GSW mouth
Lawrence
Moÿ de l’Aisne
Cpl HG Gore
KiA
GSW heart
Lawrence Snelling
Buried in Moÿ de l’Aisne by the French
Memorial La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre
Pte H Nolan
KiA
GSW head
Whelan EDP 2-9-141
Buried in Farm near Cerizy
Memorial La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre
Pte AD Hunt
KiA
CWGC
Buried near Cerizy
Grand-Seraucourt
SQMS EJ Tomkins
DoW
Died on the way to Field Ambulance
Whelan
Buried in Moÿ de l’Aisne by French
Moÿ de l’Aisne
Cpl H Knight
DoW
GSW chest2
CWGC
Buried near Cerizy
Chauny (Joint Grave)
Pte C Coote
DoW
GSW back
Died on the way to Field Ambulance
Snelling
Moÿ de l’Aisne
Lt Col FWormald
Wounded
Stewart All
Returned to duty 29-9-14
Trpt Maj WH Mowlam
Wounded
Thigh
Charrington
Captured
Sgt AH Carter
Wounded
Thigh
Lawrence
Wounded at home until 16-8-16
LCpl WH Martin
Wounded
Arm Right side GSW
OCA Register 12L page 1883
Wounded at home until 12-9-16
Note: Pte AD Hunt is buried in a cemetery along with another ‘unknown soldier’ from 1914. It is possible that the unidenti ed individuals might be Cpl Gore or Pte Nolan who have no known graves and are commemorated on the Memorial La Ferte Sous Jouarre.
1 “one of my fellow townsmen shot through the forehead”.Whelan was from Dublin as was Coote.
2 A Sqn – did not charge
3 Held at Home HQ
demonstration of ‘how it was to be done – and how to get it right rst time’. This was achieved by implementing the lessons learnt from the Boer War, the use of combined dis- mounted and artillery re149 in conjunction with mounted attack. It was indeed a textbook demonstration of how to turn theory into practice.
149 J Battery – the ammunition resupply for the day was 200 rounds for 4 guns. Each gun limber carried only 24 rounds. This would indicate a an ammunition resupply would have been required during the engagement
There have been many ‘cavalry critics’ both past and present but despite the previous failings during the Great War and those still to come, it is worth asking what else was there available to Brigadier Chetwode in August 1914 that could achieve the same effect? His cavalry Brigade covered 1000 yards of open ground and deliv- ered a decisive blow that destroyed the best part of a squadron of German dragoons and their will to engage them in the future while suffering so few casualties – and all in less time than it takes to read this account.
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