A Yeoman Warder from 1st April 1922 to 28th February 1935 He was born in 1874 in Inverness, Scotland, and enlisted in to the 2nd Battalion, Queens Own, Cameron Highlanders on the 26th March 1889, at the age of 15 years 11 months, in Inverness, Scotland, at 5ft 3in in height he was also very short, he […]
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Robert Hall was a Yeoman Warder here at the Tower of London from 1st October 1917(aged 44) to 1st June 1939 Robert was born, 16 February 1874 in Yarmouth Hampshire. He enlisted into the Coldstream Guards on the 10 June 1893 (aged 19) and was discharged 9 October 1917 (age 43), his army number was […]
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Frederick was a Yeoman Warder here at the Tower from 1890 to 1920. Frederick was born in the parish of Saint Paul’s Maidstone, Kent, in July 1846 and, enlisted on the 25 July 1865, at the age of 19, for 12 years service with the 2nd Dragoon Guards at London. For this he received a […]
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This question is quite difficult to answer, I can only assume that Yeoman Warders were paid some form of retainer for the time worked, the remainder being made up of perquisites or as we know it today by the modern term ‘tips’. All perquisites were accounted for by two Yeoman Warders acting as accountants. They paid out for candles, […]
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Yeoman Warder and The Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard carry partisans whilst wearing State Dress. There is very little information on these weapons, although this passage taken from Claude Blair’s book ‘European and American Arms’ – Barsford 1962. “Partisan – a spear with a long triangular two edged blade, having two small upturned […]
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Again we have very little here about Albert, he was born on the 21 April 1889, and enlisted into the Military Mounted Police, and was discharged as a Staff Sergeant. His date of Enlistment and discharge is unknown.
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Bertie Walter Boyce (184) was a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London From: 3 March 1919 replacing Thomas Middleton (127), to 31 July 1937, when he was replaced by Arthur Kenny (216) previously he was a Squadron Sergeant Major with the 7th (Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards.
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Robert Martin Pilgrim (170) and Samuel Washington Tamer McKenzie Pilgrim (192), where brothers who both served as Yeoman Warders at The Tower of London Robert Pilgrim was a Yeoman Warder from 1st July 1912 to 14th January 1948 Samuel Pilgrim was a Yeoman Warder from 1st January 1924 to 8th March 1944 Their father James […]
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Richard Stone (120) was a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, from 13 March 1887 vice Parker (109) to his death on the 3rd January, 1916, and he was when he was replaced by Samuel Fear (179) He was born in 1839 Wargrove, Oxfordshire, to Mary Wake (Born 1816 – died 1892) and Charles […]
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I have no records of a Yeoman Warder Lockyer, he was a member of the Yeoman of The Guard, there are two Arthur Lockyers 1. Arthur Lockyer, Yeoman Guard from 1925 to 1957, a BSM in the Royal Garrison Artillery 2. Arthur Lockyer, Yeoman Guard from 1925, who was a Farrier Serge Major, in the […]
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