Scottish Unit Dec 1916 Continued

[Bobsy]

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My father was In RFA records are missing but have found a Photo  showing a Scottish Unit
Bob T
The cap badge looks like Seaforth Highlanders.
Andrew
 thats interesting info.  I am wondering if they can post people from RFA to them. He sent a Scottish Xmas card Dec 1916
Bob T
Thank you all for that
medal Info Royal Field Artillery Gunner
Date:   1914-1920 Victory Medal, British medal No info about Theatre of war.
May be he was a Seaforth TF & embodied in the same at the outbreak of war & then transferred to the RFA.
Jim1
I think the discusion should be on WWI Forum not Photograph Section
Bob T.
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Hi Jim
I have his paybook but it must be a replacement as apart from copied entries from old book
 
On 10 December 1915 he was attested for the Army.and was called up 10 May 1916 Age 20 for service in the RFA Fulwood Barracks Preston, Gnr 504 Bty 65 Brigade RFA, from 10 May 1916 to 19 Feb 1919 then Cook until 27 Aug 1919 Cook,  Demobbed and sent on 21 days furlough 8 Sep 1919 from 504 Bty RFA in Germany transfered to the reseve on 10 Oct 1919.
 
20 April 1917 Hospital, Lincoln. (Sick) from :-
Unit Trench Mortar Batteries of 9th Brigade RFA   
(thanks to this Forum)
7 July 1917 RA Barracks Challon Road Woolwich then on leave

I have some info from Aug 17th 1917 to  Jun 19th 1918 Admitted into 24th General Hospital. Boulac Cairo Camp Pyramids July 26th 1918 [Convalescent ]  Discharged Boulac Aug 2nd 1918,  Aug 23rd Rest Camp Faenza Aquata Scriyia Base Ronco,Cherbourg Aug 31st  1918 Sept 1st 1918 Blighty. 5 Sep 1918 in Manchester
then only postcards Oct 1918 Fargo Camp Hospital and an no date Amsbury Postcard 11 Oct 1918 picture of camp. Then 17 0ct 1918 lark Hill Camp Salsbury

[jim1]

Bob's photo

[Bobsy]

Hi Jim
i was not sure whether to put photo on but has been much  improved on Photo Forum.
I am rewriting all the info I have managed to find so far Not Much for Germany 504 battery RFA
Bob T

[macintosh]

The Glengarry badge looks more like Gordon Highlanders than Seaforth Highlanders.

James

[km1971]

The Sergeant standing on the left and at least two five others are wearing the Imperial Service badge showing that they are a Territorial battalion, and possibly pre WW1.

Ken

[Bobsy]

The Third left from the Sergeant looks like my father, and he sent a signed Scottish XmasCard 1916 but he was in RFA but moved about a lot.
If he was moved would he get another uniform?
Bob T.

[km1971]

Basically yes. He could not use his highland cutaway tunic in the RFA.

So he has the Imperial Service badge as well? Recruits enlisting in a TF unit after the war had to sign the Imperial Obligation - to agree to serve overseas - on enlistment. But I cannot remember the last day they issued the badge. Someone on the Great War Forum will know. If they received the badge well into 1915, it suggests that the photograph is pre WW1, when there would have been a mixture of men who had signed or not signed.

Ken

[alan o]

The rifles are not standard Lee Enfields but something else so it is either pre war TF or right at the start of the war.  I would agree with the Gordons.

[Bobsy]

Thanks for reply's

Is That the on above the right pocket so as
10 Dec 1915 Attested for [medical exam etc]
10 May 1916 Called up  [to Fulwood Barracks Preston, paybook age 20]
23 Sep 1916 Pic Card "The War - French Infantry attacting a German Custom House in the HIGT Vosges"
(The Vosges Mountains historically serve as a contested barrier between German and French empires.The artillery and infantry dominated frontal assaults of the Western Front of World War I).

This info is part of what I am finding from postcards so this must not be him. but the Xmas card is.
Just wonder why he had this Photo. Puzzled

BOB T.