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    Unknown North Staffs soldier... possible surname Palmer, Starkey or Nash

    Hi think we need a bit more info Aunts full name year and place of birth.also her parents full details..has to be a family member of your Aunt's I would say.. Col
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    10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1918

    Hi I am afraid Charles Lander (Landers War) received shrapnel wounds on the 8th May 1918 and was sent back to England on the 13th, his last diary entry is from October 1918 where he was sent to Dunstable on a three month signals course war ended whilst he was there. Colette
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    10th Battalion (19th Western Division) Royal Warwicks

    Michael that's fantastic and a great piece of history to add to his life. Thanks for sharing it with me Colette
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    10th Battalion (19th Western Division) Royal Warwicks

    Hi Michael I saw all about this on the news a few weeks ago, thought it would be a while before it came online was shocked they already had a beta test site...glad you found someone Colette
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    10th Battalion (19th Western Division) Royal Warwicks

    Hi Christina don't know if you have looked at the Soldiers WW1 letters to home there is a beta site and your Thomas Redding is there, you can download his letter, sadly my Edwards wasn't. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Wills?Surname=REDDING&Year=1917 Colette
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    10th Battalion (19th Western Division) Royal Warwicks

    Hiya I feel for you as there seems to be nothing out there for Joseph, just like my Edward NO ww1 records survived..I was lucky he already had a military career before ww1, it could be as the 10th Royal Worcesters were part of the 57th brigade he was moved from the 10th Royal Warwicks to them...
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    10th Battalion (19th Western Division) Royal Warwicks

    Hi Chris this is the only photo I found of the 10th Royal Warwickshires..
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi Charles was Edward Joseph's brother, Charles and my Great Grandad both came to Liverpool c1893 Charles joined the Police and Arthur worked his way up in the pubs, When Their parents died 1910 & 1911 Walter G who was a bit slow must have had to go into the Workhouse.It doesn't look like...
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi Colin I recently found this in a Coventry Newspaper really sad.
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi Colin if you ever come across a photo of him or the battalions he served in give me a shout, much appreciated..Colette
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    10th Battalion (19th Western Division) Royal Warwicks

    Hi Christina my Great uncle was a Reg Serg Major in the 10th Battalion RWR he was a long service man he joined in 1892 and fought at Atbara with the 1st Battalion RWR. Just wondering if you have found any photos of the 10th Battalion at all on your travels, I don't have a photo of Edward Joseph...
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Thanks Colin I have all that info but appreciate you looking for me..he lived in Kenilworth his parents moved there c 1891ish from Tile Hill Lane..His father Thomas Edwin Pratt was born in Kirby Corner Stoneleigh were I have gone back a further two generations.I have tried tracing what happened...
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi Colin Earlier Career.....
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi Colin thats him 2469 killed 20th Sept at Menin RD quote (Landers War) Sergeant Pratt took one in the side and refused stretcher bearers he walked all the way back to the dressing station were he collapsed and died, he was acting RSM he is also mentioned in despatches 22nd May 1917, his wife...
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi Alan he was Edward Joseph Pratt born 1875 Tile Hill Stoneleigh, I have his service records from when he joined the 1st Battalion 1892, but his WW1 records did not survive.his brother my Great Grandfather moved from Warwickshire to Liverpool so our side never really knew much about the...
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    Royal Warwickshire Regiment

    Hi my Great Uncle was also in the 1st Battalion RWR and he too served in the Sudan at the end of 1898 he went to the East Indies for four years, came back and was moved to various Battalions as a Sergeant. He came out the Army in 1913 after doing 21 years and went straight back in when WW1...
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    Mystery Photo

    Hi it looks like the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Although this corporal's shoulder titles are too blurred to read the bursting grenade device on his collar and shoulder straps clearly denote that he was a member of a fusilier regiment and the only such unit stationed in India during the very...
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