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Berkeley Rumbold Goren born in 1867 at Bitterne, Hampshire

Major Berkeley Rumbold Goren
Born on 3 Jan 67
Commissioned as 2nd Lieut, Oxford Light Infy (from Militia) on 10 Nov 88
Transferred to the 2nd Bn, S Lanc Regt on 28 Aug 89
Promoted to Lieut, S Lancs R, on 11 May 92
Promoted to Captain on 25 Jan 99
Served in South Africa from 1899 to 1902; wounded at Tugela Heights on 22 Feb 00; mentioned in despatches in London Gazette of 10 Sep 01 and 29 Jul 02
Awarded the Queen's South Africa medal with 5 clasps: Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith and Laing's Nek and the Kings South Africa Medal with two clasps.
Adjutant, S Lanc R, from 1 Apr 05-30 Sep 08
Promoted to Major on 9 Dec 08 (2nd Bn, attd 3rd Bn, S Lancs R on 1910
Served in the Great War from Aug 14 to 1915.
Awarded the 1914 Star with clasp, BWM and VM
Retired on 17 Dec 15.


Son of Ames and Agnes Clayton Goren
1871 Census states that Ames was late Captain 1st Battalion, 19th Foot
1891 Census Berkeley was in Barracks at St. Mary, Jersey, Lieutenant Infantry

Berkeley has a MIC
Goren, Berkeley R
2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, Major

Per the LG 17th Aug 1915
Attached to Headquarters Units
Brigade Major
Major Berkeley R. Goren, The Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment). Dated 8th August 1915.

Per the LG 16th December 1915
The Prince of Wales Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Major Berkeley R. Goren retires on retired pay on account of ill-health. Dated 17th December 1915.

List of Officers who have held commissions in the North York Militia and the 4th Battalion (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own) Yorkshire Regiment, from 1758 to the present time. (ie 1907)
Taken from The History of the North York Militia now known as The Fourth Battalion Alexandra Princess of Wales' Own (Yorkshire Regiment) by Robert Turton Bell - A Major in the same Battalion - Published Leeds - J Whitehead & Sons, Printers, Alfred Street, Boar Lane. 1907

Goren, Berkeley Rumbold *
Lieutentant 1886; later, Oxfordshire L.I.
An asterisk (*) distinguishes those who served in South Africa.