Audley Family History -

{AC40}

W Audley ( probably Walter Donald Audley)

 Born 14^th May 1900     Died 5^th January 1981

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars. Private, #35947

(11th Indian Cavalry Brigade Mesopotamia Cavalry Division)

British Army, Military Mounted Police, Private, #P17260

British Army, Military Mounted Police, Major, #P17260

(Enlisted with the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars in 1917 and was on active service in Mesopotamia, Persia, Iraq and India).

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W D Audley (either {C38} William Dundonald Audley or {C40} Walter Donald Audley)

 Born ????     Died ????

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, 38th Dogras Indian Army, 2^nd Lieutenant

{I71}

Walter Audley

 Born 1892??     Died Q3 1959

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Royal Navy, Service #228249

(Records note a Walter Audley aged 23 in 1911, born in Everton, Liverpool, and residing in an Overseas Military Institution.)

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{AA79}

Walter Audley

 Born Q1 1886     Died Q1 1924

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, King's Liverpool Regiment, Private, #9352

(In the 1911 Census, Walter Audley aged 23 of the 3rd Battalion, The King’s Liverpool Regiment, stationed at Ambula, Punjab, India, also did he serve as Private Walter Audley, Service No 009357 of the 2nd Battalion in the New Frontier, India, between April – October 1915, fighting Afghans?)

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{J165}

 William Audley

  Born Q4 1871     Died Q2 1951

 Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Hussars #229141

His service Record survives

 William Audley

  Born ????     Died ????

 Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Leicester Regiment ,#2442

His service Record survives

This person has not been identified

William Audley

 Born ????     Died ????

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, Driver, #1325

British Army, Royal Field Artillery, Driver, #820177

This person has not been identified

{U114}

William Audley

 Born Q2 1882      Died 28/06/1918

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Corporal, #7232

(He was killed in action on the 28th June 1918. He has no known Grave; his name is recorded on Panel 2 or 3 of the Ploegsteert Memorial in Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. At the time of his Death he was aged 38 and a Corporal in the 15th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. (Service Number #7232)

The National Roll of the Great War gives a slightly different date for his death;

Audley W., L/Cp, Royal Warwickshire Regt. Mobilised at the outbreak of hostilities, he was at once sent to France and served through the Retreat from Mons. He also played a distinguished part in the Battles of the Marne, the Alsne, Ypres, La Bassee, Neuve Chapelle, Bestubert, Loos, the Somme, Arras, Vimy Ridge, and Cambrai, but was killed on July 23^rd 1918. He was enrtitled to the Mons Star and the General Service and Victory Medals. 22, Wolseley Street, Small Heath, Birmingham

{AB48}

William Audley

 Born 10^th August 1884     Died Q1 1940

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment Date: 23rd September 1914

British Army,  King's Liverpool Regiment, Private, #2555

British Army, King's Liverpool Regiment, Private, #330582

Demobilisation Date: 25th February 1919 - Disembodied on Demobilisation

Overseas Service

France 12th March 1915 to 1st June 1918

France 15th June 1918 to 26th January 1919

(Private William Audley, Service No 330582, of the 1st – 9th Battalion Kings Liverpool Regiment, served later in the 55th West Lancashire Regiment Territorials. Fought on the Somme Battlefield at various places during World War 1.)

His service record survives

{N86}

William Audley

 Born 30th December 1877     Died Q1 1937

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Enlistment date: 8th September 1914

British Army,11th Battalion 9th Suffolk Regiment, Drummer, #3/9799

British Army, 11th Battallion 9th Suffolk Regiment, Private, #3/9799

Discharge date 15th February 1919

Total Service 4 years 162 days

Overseas Service

France 30th August 1915 to 14th February 1919

It would appear that he re enlisted 15th May 1923 to 14th May 1927

British Army, 11th Battalion The London Regiment #6630488

His service record survives

William Audley

 Born ????     Died ????

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, East Lancashire Regiment, Private, #241641

This person has not been identified

{U108}

William Henry Audley

 Born Q3 1898    -    Died Q2 1852

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps, Private, #357

British Army, Worcestershire Regimet, Private, #357, #2575

British Army, Worcestershire Regiment, Private, #73396

 Awarded British War Medal & *British Victory Medal”

 (*also called the Inter-Allied Victory Medal or affectionately known as “Wilfred” or when both these medals are worn together “Mutt & Jeff”)

 Father:- {U100} William Audley (1870 - 1960) served as a Lance Corporal Boer War

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William J Audley

 Born ????     Died ????

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

British Army, 23rd Reserve Battery Royal Field Artillery #9821

Transfered 7th  October 2014 Heavy Artillery Woolwich.

British Army, 119th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, Gunner, #281717

British Army, 119th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, Corporal, #SR/6717

This person has not been identified

{V26}

William John Audley

 Born Q3 1899     Died Q2 1929

Military Unit; Rank & Service Number

Date of Enlistment: 6th August 1917

British Army, Devonshire Regiment, Private, #70572

British Army, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Private, #34314

British Army, Training Reserve, Battalion #20285

Overseas Service

France 1st April  1918 to 24th February 1919

Discharge Date  24th February 1919

His Service Record Survives