Ernest Edward Thomas, MM was a cavalryman in the British Army and drummer. While serving with the 4th Dragoon Guards he fired the first British shot of the First World War in Europe, at 7:00 a.m. on 2
Ernest Edward Thomas, pictured in uniform
Charles Beck Hornby
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Charles Beck Hornby, was a British cavalryman. While serving as a captain in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he is reputed to have become the first British soldier to kill a German soldier in the First World
Edward Thomas (British Army soldier)
…Alhaji Grunshi, of the Gold Coast Regiment, the first soldier anywhere in British service to fire a shot in the First World War, on 7 August 1914. Charles Beck Hornby, reputed to have become the first British soldier to kill a German soldier, using his sword, in the same action on 22 August 1914…
Hornby and his squadron charging against German cavalrymen at Casteau, by Charles Mills Sheldon