The 1st Regiment of Life Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. It was formed in 1788 by the union of the 1st Troop of Horse Guards and 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards. In 1922, it was amalgamated with the 2nd Life Guards to form the Life Guards.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 104 recorded WW1 deaths for the 1st Life Guards.
LAWRENCE, Bret. Trooper, 3503. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 27. Son of the late James & Margaret Jane Lawrence.
LEVINGE, Sir Richard William. Lieutenant. 1st Life Guards, Formerly :- (Reserve of Officers) 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars. White House Cemetery, St-Jean-les-Ypres, West-Flanders, Belgium. 24-10-1914. Age 36. 10th Bart. Son of the late Sir William Henry Levinge. Son of the late Sir William Henry Levinge and Lady Emily Judith Levinge (née Sutton); Husband of Irene, Lady Levinge (now Mrs. R. V. Buxton), of Thatchways, Priors Hardwick, Byfield, Northants. Born 12 July 1878, Ryde. Married 15 February 1910, Irene Marguerite Pix, at St George's Hanover Square, London; one son, Richard Vere Henry Levinge, born 30 April 1911.
LEVY, William George. Trooper, 2411. 1st Life Guards. Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 09-11-1914. Age 34. Son of George & Anne Maria Levy. Born at Lambeth, London, UK.
MARINER, Ernest. Trooper, 3089. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 20-05-1918. Age 24. Son of A. & H. Mariner of Gosport, Hampshire, UK.
MOODY, George Samuel. Trooper, 3014. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 22. Son of Dixon & Elizabeth Moody of "Middlethorpe Grange", Caunton, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, UK.
OGBOURNE, Harry. Trooper, 3278. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 20-05-1918. Age 26. Son of Susan Ogbourne. Native of Wargrave-on-Thames, Berkshire, UK.
PAGE, H.E. Trooper, 3583. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 15-05-1918.
PENN, Frederick Thomas Edward. Lance Corporal, 3482. "A" Squadron, 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 21-05-1918. Age 24. Son of Frederick & Margaret L. Penn of Waterstock, Wheatley, Oxfordshire, UK.
RAY, Francis Harry. Trooper, 3430. "A" Squadron, 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 20-05-1918. Age 23. Son of Harry & Eliza Ray of Hungerford, Berkshire, UK.Born at Romsey, Hampshire, UK.
RIDDLER, Wilfred Harry. Corporal, 3995. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military cemetery, 19-05=1918. Age 20. Son of H. & M. Riddler of Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK.
ROBB, Angus. Trooper, 4161. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 22. Son of Mr. & Mrs. Angus Robb of Milton Bank, Auchterfoot, Fifeshire, UK. Native of Dysart, Fifeshire.
ROWLAND, Albert Joseph. Trooper, 3149. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 23. Son of John & Janet Rowland of Hamilton Road, West Norwood, London, UK.
ROYCE, Eric Hooper. Trooper, 3609. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 22. Son of Mark Hubbard Royce & Minnie Hooper Royce.
SARTIN, A. Trooper, 4333. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 03-06-1918. Age 20. Son of Edward & Annie Sartin of Hill House, Hendon Hill Avenue, Yeovil, Somerset, UK. Native of Yeovil.
SIMKINS, Frederick John. Trooper, 4280. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 20. Only son of James & Hannah Bella Allenby Simkins of Thornton Heath, Surrey, UK.
St. GEORGE, Howard Avenel Bligh. Second Lieutenant. 1st Life Guards. Zillebeke Churchyard, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 15-11-1914. Age 19. Son of Howard Bligh & Florence Evelyn St. George of Coombe House, Kingston Hill, Surrey, UK. 2nd Lieutenant Howard Avenel. Bligh St. George, First Life Guards, was killed in action on November 15th. He was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. St. George, of Ashbourne Hill, Leamington, formerly of Clonsilla Lodge, Co. Dublin. Entered the service on the 14th January, 1914, and accompanied his regiment to the front where it was engaged in the attack on the German Guards a short time ago. It was in this charge that Mr. St. George was killed.
SPENDLOVE, Henry Lenton. Trooper, 4169. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 23. Son of Henry Lenton & Elizabeth Jane Spendlove. Born at Steeple Clayton, Buckinghamshire, UK.
SANIFORTH, Herbert Edward. Trooper, 3812. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 27. Son of the late David & Emma Staniforth of Dulwich, London, UK. Husband of K.E Staniforth of Natal Road, New Southgate, London.
SUTTON, (MC). Sir Richard Vincent. Bart. Captain. 1st Life Guards, Attached :- Guards Machine Gun Regiment. Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas-de-Calais, France. 29-11-1918. Age 27. Son of Sir Richard Francis Sutton, Bt. & Dame Constance Sutton of Brinsop Court, Hereford, UK.Remembered today: Captain Sir Richard Vincent Sutton MC, 6th Bart, 1st Life Guards. Died 29 November 1918, aged 27, and buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery. Richard, the son of Sir Richard Francis Sutton and Edith Constance nee Corbet, was born in London on 26 April 1891 and educated at Ludgrove and Eton. He joined the 1st Life Guards in August 1910 being promoted lieutenant in June 1912, captain in July 1914, and arrived in France on 8 October 1914. He had a lucky escape in the trenches at Zandvoorde on 24 October 1914 when a bullet grazed his jaw. The following day he was hit in the thigh by shrapnel and sent back to England. He was wounded in the forehead in the action near the Ypres-Zonnebeke Road on 13 May 1915 and sent back to England again. Pronounced fit for staff duty in August 1915, he served as ADC to General Sir Henry Rawlinson, Fourth Army, in France and was awarded the Military Cross on 1 January 1917. He returned to the 1st Life Guards, as adjutant, in September 1917 and was seconded to the Guards Machine Gun Regiment in May 1918. According to a letter sent home, he celebrated the news that the armistice had been signed with an alcohol-free lunch in Lille and remarked that it was truly wonderful he and his half-brother Philip 'should be alive to see peace without even losing a limb.' Richard was taken ill with a high temperature on 20 November 1918 and on the 23rd was sent to hospital suffering from influenza and from there on the 25th to the Base Hospital at Wimereux. He died in the late evening of the 29th and was buried on 1 December 1918.
Military Cross.
TAYLOR, Henry. Trooper, 3032. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 22. Son of Jacob & Mary Taylor of Barnes Place, Tonbridge, Kent, UK. Native of Hadlow, Kent.
THOMAS, Frederick. Trooper, 3050. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 20-06-1918.
TOBERTY, H. Trooper, 4150. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 32. Brother of Cornelius Toberty of Brown's Place, Felling-on-Tyne, Gateshead, UK.
TURNER, H. Trooper, 3681. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 20. Son of William & Rhoda Turner of Chorley, Lancashire, UK.
VESSEY, (LS&GCM). G.N. Squadron QuarterMaster Corporal, 2027. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 43. Son of the late George Thomas Vessey M.R.C.V.S.London. of Christchurch, Dorset, UK. & Mrs. Vessey of Bournemouth, Dorset. Husband of Emily L. Vessey of Harbord Street, Fulham Palace Road, London, UK. His Service with 1st Life Guards totalled 20 years & 8 months & included the South African war & 2 years & 6 months. Instructor of Musketry, September 1914 to February 1916.
Long Service & Good Conduct Medal.
VYE, George Samuel. Trooper, 3082. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 20-05-1918. Age 28. Son of William & Elizabeth Vye of Manor House, Whitcham, Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK.
WASPE, W.E. Corporal of Horse, 2960. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 25. Son of William B. Waspe Stretton-under-Fosse, Rugby, Warwickshire, UK.
WEBB, W.S. Squadron Corporal Major, 2052. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918.
WEST, Richard Hemming. Trooper, 4422. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 19. Son of Charles & Elizabeth West of "The Kennels", Milton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK.
WORNE, Leonard William. Trooper, 3779. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 21. Son of George & Elizabeth Worne of Edmonton, Middlesex, UK.
WYNDHAM, The Hon. William Reginald. Lieutenant. 1st Life Guards. Zillebeke Churchyard, West Flanders, Belgium. 06-11-1914. Age 38. 3rd Son of the late 2nd Baron Leconfield & the Dowager Lady Leconfield of Great Stanhope Street, London, UK.Date & place of birth: 16 March 1876, Petworth, Sussex Date & place of death: 6 November 1914, Belgium Lieutenant The Hon. William Reginald Wyndham, known as Reggie, fought in the Boer War as well as the First World War. There is a Wyndham WW1 Memorial Park in Grantham which was opened in 1924, after Lady Leconfield donated £1000 towards it as a memorial to her son. Reggie Wyndham was born in Petworth the son of Lord and Lady Leconfield. He was the third youngest of seven children. Reggie was in the 17th Lancers and fought in the Boer War from 1899 to 1902 and was given the Queen’s Medal with three clasps. He only left the army after a riding accident in 1903. He farmed in East Africa, then moved to the Rockies, USA eventually returning to England, spending his winters in Grantham where he hunted with the Belvoir hounds. In 1911 he was living in Grosvenor Square, London in the family home. When war broke out he was gazetted as a Captain in the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and later attached to the Household Cavalry First Life Guards. He was sent to France on 8 October 1914. Reggie was killed in action at Ypres on 6 November 1914 aged 38 and received the Victory, British and 14 star medals. He is buried in Zillebeke Churchyard, Belgium, which is known as the aristocrat’s cemetry.
YOUNG, Alexander Edward. Trooper, 3029. 1st Life Guards. Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-05-1918. Age 23. Son of Mrs. Young of Lower Queen's Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, UK. Native of Buckhurst Hill.