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There is a lot of documentation on the MG Cottage Homes e.g. annual reports in the Heritage part of Birmingham Reference Library.

A chance only....daily 2nd Bn deaths October 1917 using CWGC... 1st - 8 3rd - 1 4th - 2 5th - 1 6th - 2 7th - 2 8th - 4 9th - 80 (Judge Copse - LLT was probably using War Diary figures) 10th - 6 11th - 4 12th - 1 14th - 1 15th - 2 19th - 1 20th -1 21st - 2 26th - 3 27th - 2 28th - 3 Bn left...

I doubt whether Road and Quarry troops RE would have the rank of sapper. There are medals for three Alfred William Bakers - none remotely fit. There are 370 Alfred Baker's including 30 in the RE.

Sorry to be a pessimist but you cannot make any assumptions about local regiments from someone living in their geographical area. Just take look at the regiments of men listed, for example, in the Birmingham Roll of Honour - probably every regiment in the British Army and the Royal Warwicks are...

Brownowl40 you to decipher the Medal Card before going any further. He will be awarded any of.... British War Medal Victory Medal 1915 Star or 1914 Star For Labour Corps or ASC 'No Labour No Battle' published last year is invaluable. Written by John Starling and Ivor Lee.

Sorry I meant to acknowledge the source in the previous post - Birmingham Weekly Post - 13.10.17. I have an extensive database of all Royal Warwicks deaths as part of a major study of the whole regiment at war. I am willing to help transcribe the letters if you wanted to send me photocopies.

There were two tags in the Great War. During body recovery one was taken by medics/chaplains/soldiers to help recording of those killed in battalion records. This was probably one of those as the other one would,I suspect, stay with a body. In case you didn't know he was a fruiterer and...

Does anyone know anything about the First World War tank that was once inside the main gate of the Park but removed for scrap in the Second World War?

George Ravenhill Part 3 of 4 BIRMINGHAM DAILY MAIL WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 1921 BIRMINGHAM V.C.’s MILITARY FUNERAL With regard to the interment of Private Ravenhill V.C., whose death was announced on Monday, we are informed by the N.F.D.D.S and S that a message has been received from the Secretary...

George Ravenhill Part 2 of 3 3. FROM V.C. TO PRISON CELL 1901-8 BIRMINGHAM DAILY MAIL – JUNE 5 1901 MORE VICTORIA CROSS HONOURS. A QUARTETTE OF HEROES The ‘London Gazette’ of last night notifies that the King has conferred the Victoria Cross upon Captain N.R.House, New South Wales Medical...

Why has the Ravenhill name been blacked out on my previous post?

I have done some research into George Ravenhill VC. If this works it is Part 1 of 3. PRIVATE GEORGE RAVENHILL V.C. 1. Family background 2. Boer War 3. From VC to Prison Cell 4. Death and Funeral, 1921 1. FAMILY BACKGROUND George Albert Ravenhill was born on February 23rd 1872 in Thimble Mill...

When did he join and when did he go to France? You need Terry Carter or his book on the Bham Pals. They went to France in November 1915 and spent some time near Bray sur Somme holding the line before being sent to Arras in early 1916. They were still there on the first day of the Somme but...

Sorry - I tend to have more on those who fell. Terry Carter's book is the place to look for actions of the 15th - I have not get to that stage of the war yet. For a soldier discharged in 1921 his service records may have survived. Look at Researching a Soldier on the Long Long Trail web site...

Back to the St Andrews Pic. I found this yesterday. One of the officers is Major John Hall Edwards Bham Gazette 9.11.14.... John Hall Edwards had acted as chief of medical staff of the Curzon Hall recruiting station since outbreak of war - gazetted Major RAMC. "he was the distinguished Bham...

The St Andrews photo is 1914 and the senior officer present was Major Hall Edwards.

Possibly but not at the expense of the indigenous population which was Arab and mainly Muslim. The UN plan for partition (1947) would have been a suitable compromise given the population facts on the ground by that date but the Jewish 'land grab' using force led ultimately to the current...

Sorry Peter Not possible as I specialise in the Royal Warwicks and have a mountain of data relevant only to them. Alan

Bham Weekly Post September 2 1916

Correction - the Palestine mandate was part of the post First World War settlement in dealing with the former Turkish Empire. It had more or less been agreed by the secret Sykes-Picot Treaty of 1915 where Britain and France agreed a post-war Middle East carve up. So we took over a largely Arab...