A little help please with my soldier please

[magicnanny]

Hi 'could someone please help me with some information on Henry john Devonshire born 1884/1885. Uxbridge
I'm not having much luck he was in the territorials and called up 1914 went to Gibraltar.
but was then in hospital in Netley 1915.i do have a number 2394 middlesex reg and 583740, 6454583 sorry they are confusing but i dont no if they are all his numbers .I also think he may of stayed in the Army till after the war which is a bit  strange as he had a very young family  any help I' would be most grateful    thankyou

[CaroleW]

There is a WW1 medal roll index entry for a  Henry J Devonshire (Private)
Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment, Labour Corps Reg   2394, 583740

Awarded the British,  Victory & 15 star medals

Theatre of War is shown as (1) and entry date 9.3.1915

No WW1 service record for him - over 60% of such records were burnt during the WW2 blitz

[magicnanny]

Hi Thank You very much Carole sounds like my man . He was injured in Gibraltar or maybe Netley so have tried to see how etc but cant also dont seem to find anything out for him from 1915/20-21 when i think he left . I have got his family sorted but like to know more with his army life so can I' ask  please Army what is star medals and theatre war ? and a labour base sorry to ask so many questions
thankyou once again .magicnanny

[CaroleW]

Labour is the title of the particular Corps he was in (ie) the Labour Corps see
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/medals/ww1-campaign-medals.htm

Theatre of War is the country he was sent to/fought in but in this case it just shows (1) which indicates Western Europe as per
http://www.1914-1918.net/soldiers/theatrecodes.html

You can read about the medals here   http://www.greatwar.co.uk/medals/ww1-campaign-medals.htm

[magicnanny]

Thanks again will have read up on the medals from the link you sent is there no way i can find out with the 1914/15 onwards bit . ? thanks for your help .

[CaroleW]

As explained above

No WW1 service record for him - over 60% of such records were burnt during the WW2 blitz

[CaroleW]

May be something here

All the links above plus this one are via Google so you may be able to find additional info although not specific to a particular soldier

http://www.history.org.uk/resources/primary_resource_7891_66.html

[magicnanny]

May be something here

All the links above plus this one are via Google so you may be able to find additional info although not specific to a particular soldier

http://www.history.org.uk/resources/primary_resource_7891_66.html

thankyou for help and links .