Family Military History

[quotablepatella]

My 12x great grandfather Sir Gilbert Houghton was involved in the English Civil War.

A brother of my great grandmother was killed at Ypres in 1917, and his body was never found.

A brother of another great grandmother was killed in Malta in 1942 when his plane crashed. He was one of a large family which inclued 8 brothers, all of whom served in WWII.

One of my great grandfathers was in the last cavalry charge made by the British in WW1.

[Laudanum]

My 12x great grandfather Sir Gilbert Houghton was involved in the English Civil War.

A brother of my great grandmother was killed at Ypres in 1917, and his body was never found.

A brother of another great grandmother was killed in Malta in 1942 when his plane crashed. He was one of a large family which inclued 8 brothers, all of whom served in WWII.

One of my great grandfathers was in the last cavalry charge made by the British in WW1.

That looks very interesting!

[Barreldriver]

Nathaniel Maddox, Chief of the Name of the Maddox family. Served in the American Revolution under King George, died in the service of King George. A Red Coat basically.

[quotablepatella]

Nathaniel Maddox, Chief of the Name of the Maddox family. Served in the American Revolution under King George, died in the service of King George. A Red Coat basically.

One of my distant cousins, Nathaniel Greene (4th cousin 9 times removed), was involved in the American Revolution. George Washington is my 14th cousin 8 times removed.

Also, I'm a distant cousin of both Abraham Lincoln and General Lee (12th cousin 7 times removed and 17th cousin 11 times removed respectively).

[Hors]

My Father was in Military Intelligence and participated in military conflicts in African countries.
My paternal Grandfather was qualified as a fighter pilot but served in the Ministry of Armaments during the War, supervising the Katysha rocket launcher production.
My maternal Grandfather fought as an infantry sergeant in the War, he took part in the Dnieper crossing.
I have other more distant relatives who fought in the War.

[Loki]

My Father was in Military Intelligence and participated in military conflicts in African countries.

No doubt involved in the Border War in Angola?

[Hors]

No doubt involved in the Border War in Angola?

Ethiopia and Sudan. Thank Lord, not for long. We won and he was soon promoted to head the GRU network in a large NATO country.

[Amarantine]

well, as I am Mne, for us will be better question, do we have ancestors which were not in the wars.

hm...well...to be honest...each generation in my familly were involved in some kind of wars and so many battles...just in the past century they didn't miss even one battle-both Balkan wars, many Herzegovina's Risings which Mne King sent our Army as help, to Toplica Rising (Toplicki Ustanak) in WWI, and all WWI, WWII. One of my grand grand fathers didn't have time to come in Mne on time during the WWI (it was tradition that each Montenegrin no matter where he lived, immediately come to Montenegro and defend Montenegro) so he was so desperated and stays in USA in their Army

[Smitty]

I was going to start a thread on this subject, but I'll resurrect this one instead. Counting only direct ancestors that I'm aware of:

WWII: My maternal grandfather fought in the Pacific Theater and received a shoulder wound on Okinawa.

Franco-Prussian War: My 3rd-great grandfather Karl Linnemann fought for Prussia.

Civil War: My 2nd-great grandfather George Washington Smith and my 3rd-great grandfather Charles Kyger both fought for the Union, from Indiana and Illinois respectively.

War of 1812: My 4th-great grandfathers John Cromer and John Dunivan both fought for the USA. According to a published genealogy on the Cromer family, John Cromer fought in the Battle of the Thames against Tecumseh and the British.

Revolutionary War: John Cromer, Sr. (father of the above), James Henthorn (6th-great grandfather), and a 6th-great grandfather whose name I don't know participated. The latter "was shot through the breast [and] recovered" according to a county history.

[Armand_Duval]

My great great grand father was a Colnel of the Mexican Army and in 1865 he fought a battle in the mountains of Puebla against the French army and defeated them, it is a notable feat because those french soldiers were veterans of Magenta and Solferino battles.

It happened during the sencond French Intervention in Mexican Soil.

Here is the full story, only it comes in spanish..

https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_La_Laja