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Camiers is next to Etaples. Many of the men who died in the base camp or hospital there are buried in the huge Etaples cemetery. We do not have a War Office - it has long been called the Ministry of Defence - and they do not hold records that will help. You will be wasting a stamp! And, sad to...

The thing in his pocket is likely to be his paybook. Every man had to keep it there. It was used for issuing his pay, but also carried his vital details - name, number, next of kin, etc. The paybook was used by burial parties to assist in the identification of the man. The photos are super...

Pam The Veterans Agency, as mentioned above, will not be able to help. They have no records of men discharged before 1921. Being discharged as he was, Harry will have been granted a disablement pension, even if only for a while. This would be your best bet...

Pte 1065 Herbert Arculus served with the 3rd Birmingham City Battalion, also known as the 16th (Service) Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was killed in action on the Somme on 26 September 1916 and is buried at the AIF Burial Ground near the village of Flers.

If it is of any help, his army service record is held at the National Archives in Kew. It is document reference number WO 339/25091.

"Soldiers Died in the Great War" says he was with 7th Reserve Battalion. This was a basic training unit which was based at Ludgershall on Salisbury Plain, although as his death was registered in Birmingham I doubt he was there at the time. It also says he "died", which means of illness, natural...

Men buried in the UK were not killed in action overseas. Repatriation of bodies was not allowed. If they are buried here it is possible that they were wounded in action, or taken seriously ill, whilst overseas and brought home for treatment. It is also possible (and pretty certain if you can't...

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Hello Rupert - sorry, I have not been here for a few days - got your message. I'll send the diary right away.

The war diary of his unit, 34th Brigade RFA, says that Major Whitehouse was killed by the premature explosion of a shell being fired by 50 Battery. Poor fellow. If you would like to let me have your email address (private message best for that) I will send you the pages. PS interesting to see...

Di.Poppitt, was your Jack Lunnon this man? https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3054716/LONNON,%20J Were you aware that he died not at sea but fighting on Gallipoli itself?

Only one man named Denis Breakwell served overseas with the British Army in WW1. When he first went (on 14 July 1915) he was serving as Private 3187 of the Army Cyclist Corps. He later served with the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) and then the Royal Defence Corps. This info is from...

I am not sure if this has already been mentioned: apologies if so. I have heard that Alan Tucker, an active and most helpful member of this forum, passed away on 5 September 2013. Alan was well progressed with work on a transcription of the WW1 war diaries of the battalions of the Royal...

Hello Phil. The number prefixed EMT is from his campaign medal index card. It implies re-enlistment in 1919 and by the look of the absent voter details you have he was still serving in 1921. That opens up a possibility that his service record is still held by the Ministry of Defence. You can...

Joseph Banford's number in the Worcesters is not far from that of a man I researched a while ago. He was actually transferred into the Worcesters on 6 July 1917, while in a camp at Calais. He had landed in France on 6 June and before that had been with the 12th Battalion of the Training Reserve...

On the assumption that Charles served overseas at any time during the Great War there are three "possibles" from the medal rolls. All were drivers with the Mechanical Transport ASC. They were numbered: M/337895, M2/151780 and M/279643. The last one re-enlisted in 1919 and became EMT/43886. Hope...

Logical but not correct, I am afraid. The WR prefix was used by the Royal Engineers for men who served in their Inland Waterways and Railways departments.

I did the same via a couple of websites, Alan. No response from either. Makes you wonder why you bother.

Valbern1, does the photo show any cap badge or other insignia that might help identify him? If it does, are you able to add the image to this page?

John's medal index card confirms he served with the Royal Field Artillery but neither the card or his original entry in the issuing roll gives his unit. This is not at all unusual for men of the RFA. He qualified for the British War and Victory medals, which tells us that he went overseas and...