Sloggett E Pte GS/18791 Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regiment)

Edgar Ernest Sloggett was born on the 28th February 1896 in St Pancras, London. He was the youngest son of William John and Sarah Frances Sloggett. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in The Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary’s Regiment). He was demobilised on the 15th March 1919.

After the war Edgar worked as a wood carver and married Doris Amy Warren on the 30th August 1921. He died on the 2nd June 1984 aged 88.

Sutton H L/Cpl 1757 Surrey Yeomanry

SUTTON, HUBERT, L.-Corpl., No. 1757, A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Oswald Walker Sutton, of 17, Rosebery Avenue, E.C., and 2, Fernwood Avenue, Streatham, S. W., by his wife, Hannah Fletcher, dau. of Alexander Grossmann; b. Clapham, S.W., 25 Oct. 1892; educ. St. John’s, Brixton, and Alleyn’s, Dulwich; was a Commercial Traveller; joined A Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry, Nov. 1913; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war and transferred to C Squadron, Surrey Yeomanry; left England for Egypt, 20 March, 1915; arrived at the Dardanelles 3 Aug. and died on shipboard, 22 Aug. 1915, of enteritis contracted in the Gallipoli trenches; unm. Fond of sport, he was at the same time much interested in literature and was a good writer, and a posthumous work entitled “Fragments of Verse” was published by his parents.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1