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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #9 on: Monday 29 January 18 15:16 GMT (UK) »
Ellenmai, With regards to the photo I posted it is unfortunate only one is identified and we know he served with the Medical Corps.  My first question to family members was do they recognise the two women, sadly their reply was no. However what a nice thought and a great idea your family members had to have the photograph taken whilst on leave.   

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #10 on: Monday 29 January 18 15:23 GMT (UK) »
A quick shufti at the medal index cards throws up a very small number of men who served in both the Welsh Regiment and in the RAMC.  Do you have the records of the man in the photo kneeling right?

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #11 on: Monday 29 January 18 15:39 GMT (UK) »
Hi MaxD
I found his medal index card (William S Cresswell Pte 27885 RAMC) but I have not found his army records.
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« Reply #12 on: Monday 29 January 18 16:03 GMT (UK) »
Worth a try but it looks as if his record has not survived.  Vague possibility that he joined the Welsh first.  His medal records show only the RAMC from departure for Gallipoli in October 1915, if he served at home with the Welsh beforehand it wouldn't show on the medal records.  No chance of dating the photo I suppose?

Did he live at Bristol Terrace Brithdir?

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It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #13 on: Monday 29 January 18 16:25 GMT (UK) »
Yes Max, he did live in Bristol Terrace.
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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #14 on: Monday 29 January 18 16:46 GMT (UK) »
There is a record for W S Cresswell on the British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-1918 list.It states he served from 5/11/1914 to 5/1919 Whole time on a Hospital Ship. Address 17 Bristol Terrace, Brithdir.

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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #15 on: Monday 29 January 18 16:49 GMT (UK) »
There is a Red Cross record for a WS Cresswell of 17 Bristol Terrace who served on a hospital ship, it appears throughout the war http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Card?&id=51940

A medal card has no family information - do you have evidence (other than the card) that gives your man the service number?  I tentatively suggest that if the address checks out then perhaps service with the Red Cross has become mixed up with the RAMC?? 

Doesn't clarify the uniform puzzle though!!

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It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

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Zoe



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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #16 on: Monday 29 January 18 16:58 GMT (UK) »
Don’t know much about military records but his service number seems high. My grandfather signed up, I believe, in late 1914, and left for Gallipoli in July 1915. His RAMC number was 1889. A friend who signed up with him was 1890.
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Re: Army group photo - please help with details
« Reply #17 on: Monday 29 January 18 17:30 GMT (UK) »
The number is OK.   RAMC numbers were not allocated on a RAMC wide basis but rather to the unit/area they joined up. There were at least 12 men in the RAMC with the service number 1889 as your grandfather and a number who joined in 1914 with numbers starting 278xx

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I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
Zoe



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