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Hi Peter A 'Service' Battalion was a Kitchener's New Army battalion raised for the duration of the war. Thus a regiment would have it's pre war Regular and Reserve battalions plus the Territorial Force battalions and then the 'Service' battalions which were raised in 1914-15. I still have a...

Hi Peter Got the following from the WW1 site 'The Long Long Trail' . Having checked his Medal Index Card. It states that the theatre of war was 2B Balkans, which should be 2A. 2B was Gallipoli. 7th (Service) Battalion Formed at Lichfield in August 1914 as part of K1 and became part of 33rd...

Peter The 7th South Staffs was an infantry regiment and he could have been only the rank of Private, Corporal Sgt, etc. Driver rank was only found in the Army Service Corps or the Artillery. The Soldiers Died in the Great War and the CWGC have down as a Private which is correct. Terry

What was his name and service number? If we can establish what regiment or Corps he served in then we can probably say if it was a lorry or a horse. Terry

Hi Spooner I can email you some more pictures Terry

Hi Spooner London Cemetery is in the heart of the Somme Battlefield adjacent to High Wood. I will take a picture for you, no problem. Terry

Hi all I know this might be short notice. But this coming weekend I am off to stay at Auchonvillers in the WW1 Somme battlefield area. If any forum member would like me to take a photo of a soldier commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial or a grave in a Somme cemetery, get in touch and I will do...

Hello again below are three pictures taken by the RFC showing Falfemont Farm before and during the Somme fighting. The last one taken two days before the 15th attacked the strongpoint. Terry

The 15th Royal Warwicks on 3/9/16 were involved in an attack on a German strongpoint known as Falfemont Farm. Which was situated to the south of the village of Guillemont. If you can get a copy of my book 'Birmingham Pals' from your local library, I give an account of the attack. The 1/6th...

Over the last few days there has been several news reports regarding the events that have took place over the last year regarding the mass battlefield graves containing the British and Australian soldiers buried by the Germans after the Battle of Fromelles that took place on 19/20 July, 1916...

Hello again He was lucky it was the end of the war. He forfeited 57 days pay. Regards Terry

I have had a look at his service papers and to be honest a lot of it is quite hard to read and there is also info regarding being AWOL at the end of the war and being sent back to France under escort in early 1919. He attested for service on 10 December 1915, whilst living in Bristol. It seems...

According to his medal card he was also a Prisoner of War during WW1. Terry

Mike Thanks for the photo. I have a B Company Roll published after the Battalion was formed and that is where he is listed. Give me a couple of days and I will scan it and email it to you. In the photo you supplied he is wearing his Birmingham Battalion buttonhole badge presented to him by the...

I cannot explain why his name and number was not mentioned in the Birmingham Battalions Book of Honour. However, he is not the only original volunteer not mentioned. I can tell you that he served in B Company, 8 Platoon Terry

Do you have a photograph of him taken at the time so I might see if he his pictured in any photographs of the 1st Birmingham Battalion that I have. I see on his medal index card that he was later commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment. Terry

Roy The Territorial Force in 1917 changed all TF service men's army numbers into six figure service numbers. His Royal Warwickshire six figure service number 306887 was part of the block allocated to the 8th Bn. So he either served in the 1/8th or 2/8th battalions before transferring to the...

T P Jackson having the service number 168 and serving in the 1st B'ham Bn (14th Royal Warwicks) was the 168th person to enlist into the battalion. They started at no.1 in each B'ham battalion. The men applied to join the battalion either by contacting the B'ham daily Post or applying via the...

Hi Alan The same photograph was published in, if I remember corectly, in the Birmingham Daily Post sometime during September 1914. I actually saw the paper on the microfilm at the central library and took a photo of it with my digital camera. As a time expired soldier would he still not be a...

Hi Kev Great pictures. I am glad to see you are now a part of the B'ham History Forum. Terry below is my picture from September 1914 showing Royal Warwickshire reservists at Snow Hill. If that small soldier is NOT Arthur Vickers, I will eat my hat!!!