2nd Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Edward De Santis, MSCE, BSAE, P.E., MinstRE
(March 2026)

Figure 1 shows the male members of the Renny-Tailyour family who lived from 1812 to 1969 and who served in the Army, with four of the five men having served in the Royal Engineers. The military service of each man, as far as it could be determined, is presented in a separate section below. Much of the personal information was obtained from family trees found on Ancestry.com. prepared by Mr. Alistair Hicks.

The main character of our story is 2^nd Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour, R.E. His photograph, found in the Imperial War Museum web site “Royal Engineers” – Lives of the First World War, was what led the author to the Renny-Tailyour family and was responsible for locating the images and stories of the other men of the family who served in the Army. The images below show the highest rank achieved by each man.

Thomas Renny (afterwards Renny-Tailyour) was born on 18 March 1812 in Exmouth, Devonshire. He was the son of Alexander Renny-Tailyour of Borrowfield (1775-1849) and Elizabeth Renny-Tailyour, née Ramsay (1783-1825).

Gentleman Cadet Thomas Renny was commissioned as an Ensign in the Honourable East India Company’s Service (H.E.I.C.S.) on 13 August 1829 as a graduate of Addiscombe, the East India Company’s Military Seminar in Croydon. After his commissioning he was placed under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Pasley of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, for field instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining.[1] Following this training he received a commission as a 2^nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 4 November 1829.[2]

Renny was promoted Lieutenant on 20 May 1939, saw active service at Gwalior from 1843 to 1844 and was promoted Captain on 4 November 1848. On 16 November 1849 the following notice appeared regarding his change of surname from Renny to Renny-Tailyour:

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto Thomas Renny, Esq. Captain in the Corps of Engineers, in the service of the East India Company, on the Bengal Establishment, eldest surviving son and heir of Alexander Renny, afterwards Alexander Renny Tailyour, late of Borrowfield and Newmanswalls, in the shire of Forfar, Esq. deceased. Her royal license and authority that he and his may issue, in compliance with a proviso contained in a certain deed of trust, disposition, and deed of settlement executed by his said late father, take and use the surname of Tailyour in addition to and after that of Renny, together with the designation of Renny-Tailyour, of Borrowfield, and bear the arms of Tailyour quarterly with those of Renny, such arms being first duly exemplified according to the laws of arms and recorded in the Herald’s Office, otherwise the said royal license and permission to be void and of none effect.

And also to commend that the said royal concession and declaration be recorded in Her Majesty’s College of Arms.

Renny-Tailyour rose to the rank of Honorary Major on 28 November 1854 after having retired from the Army on 1 January 1854.[3] While serving in India he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Bengal Engineers.[4] He subsequently was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Honourable East India Company Service. He died in Montrose, Scotland on 3 January 1885.[5]

While searching the London Gazette for mentions of Thomas Renny-Tailyour I came upon mentions of another man with exactly the same name. The Gazette entries that I found were the following:

Author’s Note: This is an interesting entry as it seems to indicate the demotion of an officer.

Major Thomas Renney Tailyour to be Deputy Lieutenant. Dated 6^th February1860.[7]

This Thomas Renny Tailyour of the Forfarshire Rifles Volunteers obviously is not the same Thomas Renny-Tailyour of the Royal Engineers (Bengal Engineers) but their relation to each other could not be determined.

3. BREVET COLONEL THOMAS FRANCIS BRUCE RENNY-TAILYOUR,
Bengal Engineers, C.B., C.S.I.

Thomas Francis Bruce Renny-Tailyour, the youngest son of Thomas Renny-Tailyour and Isabella Eliza Cook Renny-Tailyour, née Atkinson (1820-1896), was born in Montrose, Scotland on 8 June 1863. He was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers on 14 February 1883.[10] He was promoted Captain on 13 August 1891, to Major on 1 April 1900[11] and to Lieutenant Colonel on 10 December 1901.[12] He was appointed a Brevet Colonel in 1906.[13]

Lieutenant Renny-Tailyour was posted to India in March 1885. In March 1886 he assumed the duties of an Assistant Engineer in the Military Works Department. He joined the Survey Department in April 1888 and became the Deputy Superintendent of Surveying in October 1891. He served with the Burma-China boundary commission from 1897-1899 and was appointed Superintendent of Surveying in November 1899. In June 1904 he was made the Assistant Survey General of India and the Survey General in 1910.

His war service included Burma from 1885-1888 and he was present at the capture of Mandalay. He later served in the Chin-Lushai expedition from 1889-1890, where he was Mentioned in Despatches[14] and the expedition along the Chinese frontier from 1890-1891, including the Boxer Rebellion in 1901, where he was again Mentioned in Despatches.[15]

For his services, Brevet Colonel Renny-Tailyour was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India (C.S.I.) in 1911 and Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.) in the 1920 New Years Honours List shortly before his retirement.[16]

A memoir published in The Royal Engineers Journal, September 1920, pp. 123-125, is presented below. It was written by “A Lifelong Friend” and deals mostly with Renny-Tailyours’ sporting experiences. The obituary provides very few details regarding his military service other than what is given in the second paragraph below.

“Henry Wauer Renny-Tailyour, who was born on 9 October 1849, at Mussoorie, N.W.P., was the son of Colonel Thomas Renny-Tailyour, J.P. and D.L., Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, of Borrow-field, Forfarshire. Educated at Cheltenham College (August 1859 - December 1867), he was in the cricket eleven of 1867, and the Cheltonian described him as “ a tremendous hitter in his day, though rather uncertain; also frequently shows good defence; a magnificent out field, having plenty of dash; sometimes useful as a change bowler.” A very few years later there was no uncertainty about his batting! At the R.M.A. (January, 1868 to July, 1870) he was in the elevens of 1868, 1869 and1870 (captain in 1870); in the football fifteen 1868 and 1869; in 1870 he won the mile and half-mile at the sports, and against Sandhurst was first in the half-mile. Before leaving the Shop he had given a striking example of what was to come afterwards by scoring 106 not out on Chatham Lines, for the R.A.M. against the Corps.

Gazetted lieutenant, R.E. on 23rd August 1870, he was at the S.M.LE. until December 1872, when he was posted to Portsmouth; but in May 1873, he joined the 4th Company (Submarine Miners) then on board H.M.S. Hood, which was moored off Gillingham Pier in the Medway. In February 1876, he went to Ireland as extra A.D.C. to the Lord Lieutenant, and the following January was ordered to Gibraltar; after a year there he returned to Chatham for three years, being Assistant Instructor in Telegraphy from May 1878 to February 1880. From April, 1881, to August, 1884,[17] he held the appointment of Instructor in Fortifications at the R.M.A, after which he returned to Chatham, as Assistant Instructor in Field Fortification, for nearly four years;[18] then followed three years at Gibraltar and three years at Sydney, in Colonial employment, as C.R.E. Defences, New South Wales.

The end of 1894 found him back again at Chatham, where he commanded the Training Battalion from August, 1895, to October,1899, when he retired from the Army in order to take up the appointment of Assistant Managing Director in the Guinness Brewery at
Dublin. He became Managing Director in 1913, and on resigning that position last year the following appreciation of his services was recorded in the Annual Report to the Shareholders of the Company: “The Directors have to report, with regret, the retirement of Colonel Renny-Tailyour from the Board upon which he has so ably worked for the past twenty years.” On leaving Dublin he went to live at Newmanswalls, Montrose, a property which, with Borrowfield, has belonged to the family for several hundred years. There he spent his time fishing, golfing and shooting, keenly interested in the garden, until he was quite unexpectedly taken ill and passed away after a week’s illness.

He married in 1875, Emily, daughter of John Wingfield-Stratford, Esq., of Addington Park, Malling, Kent – she died in 1904. By her he had a family of four sons and six daughters. One son died in Africa and his youngest son [2^nd Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour], in the Sappers, was killed in action near Ypres in 1914; his eldest son [John Wingate Renny Tailyour] commanded a battery of Horse Artillery in Mesopotamia, and was several times mentioned in dispatches.

The record of his life given above will suffice to show that he was a typical Sapper, well able to more than hold his own at any kind of work, but it is doubtless as a sportsman that “Renny” will be affectionately remembered by those who had the privilege of being associated with him in past years. Before he joined at Chatham in 1870, there were cricketers in the Corps who had made names for themselves among the amateurs of the day – Fleetwood Edwards, S. Reid Waller and Jim Fellowes, to mention only a few – but everyone will admit that to him was mainly due the raising of R.E. cricket to a position which it had never occupied previously and which has so well maintained since. It was not merely by his own contributions to the score sheets, large as they were, but his keenness in the field was infectious, and made everyone play the game to the best of their ability. He filled the position of Captain of the Eleven, with a few brief intervals, over a period of 17 or 18 years. In the years 1871-75 inclusive, his average each season was never less than 40, and in 1875 he had an average of 50; there were at that time no boundaries, practically speaking, on the Lines, and every hit had to be run out. In 1873, he was at the head of the batting averages, 46 for 31 innings, and he took 62 wickets with an average of less than 13 runs per wicket. He played for the Gentleman against the Players in 1873, and for Kent occasionally in 1873 and 1874, but he never accepted an invitation to play in outside matches if his presence was necessary in the R.E. team.

At football he had the almost, if not quite, unique experience of representing his native country, Scotland, under Association and Rugby rules; for the Corps he took part in the Association Cup matches of 1872, 1873, and 1874 (two finals), playing centre forward.

He excelled, not only in athletic games, but he was also a good shot and fisherman – an all-around sportsman of the best type.

Although not given to making great friendships quickly, all who were his intimate friends found in him a cheery, high spirited companion, upon whose absolute loyalty they could count at all times and under all circumstances. It may interest some who read this very inadequate memoir to hear that he retained to the last his almost boyish spirits, on occasions.”

Colonel Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour had no war service and very little service abroad, except for four years at Gibraltar and three years in Australia. During his total of 29 years of service he spent 22 years at home primarily as a instructor.

Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour died on 15 June 1920 at Newmanswalls, Montrose, Forfarshire. His death was confirmed by his brother, retired Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Francis Bruce Renny-Tailyour, C.B., C.S.I., R.E. and his son, Lieutenant Colonel John Wingfield Renny-Tailyour, R.A.[24]

John Wingfield Renny-Tailyour was born on 20 May 1810 in Malling, Kent, the son of Colonel Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour, R.E. and Emily Rose Tailyour, née Wingfield-Stratford.[25] He attended the Royal Military Academy and was commissioned a 2^nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 2 May 1900.[26] He was promoted Lieutenant on 3 April 1901, Captain on 8 February 1910 and Major on 30 October 1914.[27]

In 1911 Captain Renny-Tailyour was serving with the 137^th Battery, Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) at Bulford Camp in Salisbury.[28] On 23 February 1915 he landed in Mesopotamia where he served in the Royal Horse Artillery (R.H.A.) and the Royal Field Artillery.

For his service during the Great War, Renny-Tailyour was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.[29] For his service in the R.H.A. he was twice mentioned in despatches[30] He also was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.)[31] and the French Croix de Guerre.[32] Following the war he served in Afghanistan in the R.F.A. and was awarded the India General Service Medal, 1908 with clasp [AFGHANISTAN, NORTH-WEST FRONTIER, 1919].[33]

The 1921 Census of England shows Major John Wingate Renny-Tailyour, R.F.A. at the Brompton Hospital Sanitorium, at Frimley in Surrey. This institution specialized in cases of tuberculosis, however, as all the men listed in the census were officers or other ranks of the R.F.A. (including one Lieutenant of the Australian Staff Corps) it was difficult to determine whether all the men were patients at the sanitorium or whether they were men of an R.F.A. unit stationed at Frimley.

John Wingate Renny-Tailyour eventually rose to the rank of Colonel in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers (General List). In 1942 he attained the age limit of liability to recall for service and ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers on 7 March 1942.[34] He died on 9 December 1969 in Dubton, Montrose, Scotland. Given that he had served in the Reserve of Officers for about three years after the start of World War 2, he may have performed some service during the war as a staff officer.

Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour was born on 31 July 1891 at Hornbush, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the third son of Henry Waugh Renny-Tailyour and Emily Rose Renny-Tailyour, née Wingfield-Stratford.[35] He was educated at Arnold House[36] in Llanddulas, Wales, and Rugby School (1907)[37] and presumably at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers as a 2^nd Lieutenant on 20 December 1912.[38]

Following his commissioning, 2^nd Lieutenant Renny-Tailyour was posted to the School of Military Engineering at Chatham for his training as an engineer officer. His military training at Chatham included courses in field fortifications, construction, surveying, telegraphy, electric lighting, submarine mining, photography, chemistry, military law and tactics. The Field Fortifications course lasted for 4 months and 23 days. This course consisted of field and siege engineering, field defence, attack of fortresses, mining construction, demolition of railways and water supply. The Construction course was 6 months and covered building materials, engineering construction, hydraulics, construction of barracks, drainage, manufacture of iron and steel, mining, quarrying and machinery. Next came the Surveying course consisting of five months of technical training in geodesy, astronomy, meteorology, trigonometrical chain and road surveys and use of surveying instruments. One to two months of military topography followed, which included military surveying and sketching and elementary reconnaissance. In the School of Telegraphy, Electric Lighting and Submarine Mining he studied the theory of electricity, use of telegraph instruments, bracing and connecting instruments, making of batteries, firing mines and testing tubes. All of this was accomplished in two months with an additional one month devoted to electric lighting, signalling by flag, lamps and heliograph. The School of Chemistry was a short course of varying length that generally covered practical chemistry, especially relating to limes, concrete and other building materials. Finally, the School of Military Law and Tactics, also a course of varying length, consisted of special lectures in law and tactics as dictated by current military situations. This training at the School of Military Engineering lasted for just under 24 months.

In 1914, following the completion of his training at the S.M.E., Renny-Tailyour was posted to the 5^th Field Company, R.E. with the 2^nd Division at Aldershot, Hampshire.[39] On 15 August 1914 he proceeded to France with his company, his division being one of the first of the British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.) deployed to the Western Front. On 20 August 1914 the 5^th Field Company was stationed near Rouen[40] in preparation for the action that was to become known as the Retreat from Mons (23 August to 5 September 1914).

2^nd Lieutenant Renny-Tailyour and his company took part in the Battle of Mons from 23 to 24 August 1914.[41] By 25 August they were at Landrecies and on 1 September at Villers Cotterets.[42] From 7 to 10 September 1914 Renny-Tailyour and his company took part in the Battle of the Marne followed by the Battle of the Aisne from 12 to 15 September, crossing the River Aisne on 13 September.[43] On 14 September Renny-Tailyour was wounded in action and hospitalized,[44] but returned to duty immediately after treatment.[45]

He then took part in the Action at Aisne Heights on 20 September 1914 and was with the 5^th Field Company for the following actions:[46]

It was during the Battle of Nonne Boschen that young Renny-Tailyour was killed in action while leading his section in a successful charge against trenches held by the Prussian Guards at Polygon Wood, near Ypres, Belgium. Three other officers of the company were killed that day, presumably at Nonne Boschen:[47] As two of these officers were majors, it is possible that both had been commanders of the 5^th Field Company, although one would have been a replacement for the other and would have served for a very short period; indeed, that is, being killed on the same date as the man that he replaced.

Other Ranks killed with Renny-Tailyour, perhaps in his charge on 11 November 1914 were:

For his actions during this battle Renny-Tailyour was mentioned in the despatches of Field Marshal Sir John French on 14 January 1915 for gallant and distinguished service in the field.

Renny-Tailyour’s death is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 9. His Commonwealth War Graves certificate does not indicate his unit at the time of his death, nor is his name included in the CWGC list of fatal casualties of the company, but De Ruvigny indicates that he served in the 5^th Field Company.

In honour of his service, 2^nd Lieutenant Renny-Tailyour’s family would have received his 1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal along with a Memorial Plaque to commemorate his death on active service.

NOTE: The medals shown in Figure 8 are not those of 2^nd Lieutenant Renny-Tailyour. They are presented here for illustrative purposes only.

Major Alfred Herbert Tyler, Royal Engineers, was born at Hampton Court in 1870, the eleventh in a family of twelve children of Sir H. W. Tyler, R.E., M.P., and grandson of General Sir C. W. Pasley, K.C.B., R.E. Educated at Cheltenham College (where he took a Scholarship) and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1890, promoted Lieutenant in 1893, Captain in 1901, and Major in 1910. He was employed on two Boundary Commissions and in the Karene Expedition in West Africa, in which he was wounded, and for which he received a medal with clasp. He served through the South African War, for which he received the Queen's medal with four clasps and the King's medal with two clasps. On his return home in 1907 he was employed in the Royal Arsenal till 1912, and then as Assistant to the Chief Engineer, Southern Command, at Salisbury. Among the first to sail for the German War, Major Tyler was employed on Lines of Communication for three months and then appointed to command the 5th Field Company, R.E., in the 2nd Division. He took up his new post on 10th November, and was killed in action leading his men at the charge ahead of the troops on either flank in the fierce fighting before Ypres of the 11^th November, at 9.30 p.m. Major Tyler had a most considerate, gentle nature, and the rare faculty of bringing out the good points in others in intercourse with him which endeared him to everyone, and he leaves a widow and three young boys bereaved of his loving care. He had for several years been a Member of the Aeronautical Society, but could not, on account of his duty, attend the meetings.

Figure 9. Major Alfred Herbert Tyler and One of His Children.
(Courtesy of the Newdigate Local History Society)

Major, 5th Field Company Royal Engineers, eldest son of the late Colonel Roger North, R.A., by his wife Fanny Ellen (Briarwood, Camberley), daughter of Stephen Beeching, of Tunbridge Wells; born Bristol, 16 Aug. 1874; educ. Radley College, where he gained the Heathcote Mathematical Scholarship, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieutenant R.E. 10 Feb. 1893, and promoted Lieutenant 10 Feb. 1896, Captain 1 April, 1904, and Major, 25 July, 1913; served (1) in the South African War, 1899-1902, took part in the operations in the Orange Free State, March to May 1900, in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, Aug. to Nov. 1900, in the Orange River Colony, May to June 1900, in Cape Colony, south of Orange River, 1899-1900, and in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony and Cape Colony, 1901-2; and was afterwards on the Staff, and from 20 May, 1902 to 7 Aug. 1902, was employed under the Dir. Mil. Intelligence (Queen's medal with three clasps and the King's medal with two clasps); and (2) with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 15 Aug. to 11 Nov. 1914, on which latter date he was killed in action near Zonnebeke, during the First Battle of Ypres, being shot by a sniper while engaged in inspecting the erection of barbed wire entanglements in an exposed position. Buried in Zonnebeke Wood, N.E. of Ypres. The General Officer Commanding, Royal Engineers, 2nd Division, wrote: "Major North's death was a severe loss not only to his own company, but to the Royal Engineers and the service generally, as on several occasions his devotion to duty and his excellent work had come under my observation, and I have no doubt his example conduced largely to the fine performance of the 5th Field Company. Major North was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French's Despatch of 14 Jan. 1915.[50] He married at St. Mary Abbott's Church, Kensington, 18 Dec. 1913, Norah, daughter of the late Colonel Gribbon, of Inverness Terrace, W., and had a daughter Elizabeth, born posthumous, 31 March, 1915.

After leaving Clifton College, Collins' strong sporting background, including cricket and rugby, provided the physical fitness essential for the rigors of military academy training. He joined the British Army as a gentleman cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, entering on 28 January 1903 following success in the open competitive examination held the previous year. At Woolwich, Collins completed a standard two-year course emphasizing practical engineering, surveying, and military tactics, tailored for future officers in the Royal Engineers. Upon successful graduation, he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 21 December 1904. In his initial years of service, Collins performed routine duties as a junior sapper officer, including a posting to India from 1907 to 1914 where he served in the Military Works Service and as a Garrison Engineer, focusing on fortifications, signaling, and other engineering tasks in various garrisons. He had no overseas combat deployments prior to the First World War. He advanced steadily, receiving promotion to Lieutenant on 23 June 1907 and to Captain on 30 October 1914.

Collins deployed to France in August 1914 as a captain with the 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers, which formed part of the 2nd Division in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). The unit landed near Rouen on 16 August and quickly moved forward to support the BEF's early operations along the Franco-Belgian border. During the Retreat from Mons (23 August to 5 September 1914), Collins and his company performed critical engineering tasks under intense enemy fire, including bridge demolition to hinder German pursuit, temporary bridge construction for Allied withdrawal, and establishing communication lines amid the chaos of the BEF's 200-kilometer fallback to the Marne. These efforts were essential to maintaining divisional mobility and preventing encirclement during the disorderly but disciplined retreat. Following the counteroffensive, the 5th Field Company contributed to the advance to the Aisne (12-15 September 1914) by erecting pontoon bridges over the river at key points, enabling the 2nd Division's crossing and securing bridgeheads against German artillery. Trench construction also began here, marking the shift toward static warfare as the BEF dug in along the Chemin des Dames heights. Collins' leadership in these operations earned him mention in despatches for distinguished service, as noted in Field Marshal Sir John French's report dated 2 February 1915 (covering actions up to September 1914), where he was specifically recognized among Royal Engineers officers for distinguished service during the Mons, Marne, and Aisne phases. In October 1914, the 5th Field Company shifted to the Ypres salient, where Collins oversaw defensive engineering works, including trench fortification, wire entanglements, and communication networks in preparation for the First Battle of Ypres (19 October to 22 November). These tasks involved repairing shell-damaged infrastructure and supporting infantry positions at sites like Langemarck and Gheluvelt, contributing to the BEF's stand against the German assault up to 11 November.

Arthur Edward Jeune Collins was killed in action on 11 November 1914, at the age of 29, during the First Battle of Ypres in the Ypres salient near Ypres, Belgium. He was serving as a captain with the 5th Field Company, Royal Engineers, and was wounded during intense fighting in the area before being carried to a dressing station, where he succumbed to his injuries. Collins's comrades initially buried his body the following day near the site of his death, but the grave was obliterated amid the ongoing battles in the region. With no known grave, he is commemorated on Panel 9 of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

Figure 11. Captain Arthur Edward Jeune Collins.
(Image courtesy of the Imperial War Museum)

1. CONOLLY, T.W.J. Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers From 1660 to 1898. The Royal Engineers Institute, Chatham, Kent, 1898.

2. De Ruvigny, Marquis. Biographical Record of All Members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces Who have Fallen in the War. Volume II. The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd., December 1916.

4. Commonwealth War Graves Commission Memorial, 2^nd Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour, R.E.

5. Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 (2^nd Lieutenant Henry Frederick Thornton Renny-Tailyour, R.E.).

1. Staff Medal Roll, India General Service Medal, 1854 (Colonel T.F.B. Renny-Tailyour).

3. Royal Horse Artillery Medal Roll, British War Medal and Victory Medal (J.W. Renny-Tailyour).

4. Royal Field Artillery Medal Roll, India General Service Medal, 1908 (J.W. Renny-Tailyour).

1. The Royal Engineers Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, September 1920, pp. 123-125.

2. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal. The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, 1925-1932.

GASE, S. The Movement of Companies of the Royal Engineers during the Great War, 2022.

[1] London Gazette,, 28 August 1829, p. 1606.

[2] CONOLLY, p. 88 (170).

[3] Ibid.

[4] London Gazette, 6 February 1855, pp. 434 and 439.

[5] CONOLLY, p. 88 (170).

[6] London Gazette, 22 November 1859, p. 4192.

[7] London Gazette, 14 February 1860, p. 244.

[8] London Gazette, 7 May 1861, p.1945.

[9] London Gazette, 4 June 1861, p. 2355.

[10] Wikipedia.

[11] CONOLLY, p. 58 (1702).

[12] London Gazette, 10 December 1901, p. 3715.

[13] Wikipedia.

[14] London Gazette, 12 September 1890, pp. 4931 and 4938.

[15] London Gazette, 13 September 1901, p. 6047.

[16] Wikipedia.

[17] London Gazette, 5 August 1884, p. 3534.

[18] London Gazette, 3 July 1888, p. 3634.

[19] CONOLLY, p. 48 (1355).

[20] These dates are verified by Hart’s Army List, 1908, p. 940 and Renny-Tailyour’s Statement of Services found in the Royal Engineers Register (WO 25/3914).

[21] London Gazette, 14 January 1896, p. 224 and 5 May 1896, p. 2646.

[22] London Gazette, 15 August 1899, p. 5123.

[23] London Gazette, 3 October 1899, p. 6007.

[24] Probate Index, 1920, p. 2.

[25] Family tree.

[26] London Gazette, 4 May 1900, p. 2845.

[27] Gradation List of Officers, October 1917, Part 1, p. 507.

[28] 1911 Census of England.

[29] Medal Index Card.

[30] Supplement to the London Gazette, 19 October 1916, p. 10049 and Supplement to the London Gazette, 15 August 1917, p. 8330.

[31] Supplement to the London Gazette, 18 August 1916, p. 8224.

[32] Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 August 1917, p. 9108.

[33] R.F.A. Medal Roll, India Genera Service Medal, 1908.

[34] Supplement to the London Gazette, 6 March 1942, p. 1055.

[35] Family tree.

[36] Arnold House was a private boys preparatory school in Llanddulas, Conwy, north Wales, known especially for its association with Evelyn Waugh. (Wikipedia).

[37] DE RUVIGNY.

[38] Ibid.

[39] DE RUVIGNY.

[40] GASE, S.

[41] Royal Engineers Battle Honours.

[42] GASE, S.

[43] Royal Engineers Battle Honours.

[44] Imperial War Museum.

[45] DE RUVIGNY.

[46] Royal Engineers Battle Honours.

[47] Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

[48] The Aeronautical Journal.

[49] Dictionary of National Biography.

[50] Mentioned in the same despatch as 2^nd Lieutenant Renny-Tailyour.

[51] Wikipedia.