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  1. terry carter

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    Margaret I can only take a photo of George Minchin's name on the Thiepval Memorial. Your other two relatives are buried elsewhere on other areas of the Western Front. Regards Terry
  2. terry carter

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    Hi Chris I have checked the location of Bouzincourt Cem Ext and it is only a couple of miles or so from where I am staying in the B&B. So, hopefully, I will get a photo for you. Also buried in the same cemetery is Pte Arthur Earp a Birmingham soldier of the 5th Royal Warwicks who was Shot At...
  3. terry carter

    Somme Grave/Memorial Pictures

    Hello all In a couple of weeks time, I am visiting the Somme Battlefield for a weekend. I have promised two Forum members photographs of relative's graves as both cemeteries are on the Somme battlefield and are easy to access. If any other Forum member has a relative buried or commemorated on...
  4. terry carter

    Boer War Uniform.

    Off to the Somme soon for a weekend. I will still take a picture of the grave for you. Terry
  5. terry carter

    Uniforms of WW1

    Pauline, The badge looks like Royal Marines and could be a post-WW1 picture as the unit was not formed until 1923. Before that they were the Royal Marine Light Infantry but also had a light Infantry Bugle incorporated within the badge. Terry
  6. terry carter

    Advice/help on Medal Cards please?

    Hi Jackie, No it it does not. My list was compiled by a friend a few years ago. Terry
  7. terry carter

    Advice/help on Medal Cards please?

    George Cuthbert Emerson's name was published in the B'ham Daily Post casualty list 24 May 1917 as being wounded. The actual date of wounding would be around a week to two weeks prior the publication date. Harold T Emerson, was originally in the Royal Engineers and he qualified for his...
  8. terry carter

    Private Arthur James Beddard RWR

    The info I got was taken from 'Soldiers Died in the Great War' (Royal Warwickshire). Also, prior to forming the 1st B'ham Bn, volunteers had thie names and addresses published in the B'ham Daily Post, however, there was no such info for A J Beddard. Terry
  9. terry carter

    Advice/help on Medal Cards please?

    G C Emerson, was in the RAMC Territorial Force and his picture has him wearing his Imperial Service badge, service number 2227 ? he then went into what looks like the 28th London Regt, 6489, before being Commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a 2nd LT (officers had no numbers)...
  10. terry carter

    Sid Field

    Did Sid Field have any elder brothers. If so they may have served in WW1. Terry
  11. terry carter

    Private Arthur James Beddard RWR

    Arthur James Beddard was on original volunteer to the 1st Birmingham Battalion (14th Royal Warwicks). He served in No.4 Platoon of A Company. below is a platoon photograph taken around mid-1915. Unfortunately, unless you know what he looks like he cannot be identified. He was born in Nottingham...
  12. terry carter

    fenn royal warwickshire regiment 202106

    There is one possible answer to why a Royal Warwickshire soldier serving with the 9th Bn is buried at Dar es Salaam Cemetery. Tanzania being on the East Coast of Africa may have been on a shipping route for troopships taking soldiers to Mesopotamia (Iraq). He may have took sick aboard ship then...
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