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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: O1dgobbo on Sunday 02 May 10 11:11 BST (UK)
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I recently searched through several service records of men who enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry in September 1914 and went to France on 20 April 1915 - I was trying without much success to reconstruct the missing service record of William Herbert Harland, Pte no 2619 (I have a copy of his medal card). Some men's records included information about other men and these are the orphan records that are described briefly below. It may be helpful to other researchers if anyone finding such records adds a memo to this thread.
In the records of Alfred Henry LANGLEY, born Bridport, Dorset, no. 2623 Durham Light Infantry at image no. 52250 there is:
Statement as to disability
Unit 2/5th DLI, 2623 WRIGHT John Foster, 89 Thompson St West, Harrowgate Hill, Darlington, age last birthday 25, joined 7 Sep 1914 at Stockton, medical category in which joined A1. Signed "I do not claim to be suffering from a disability due to my military service.J. F. Wright, 12-2-19"
Among the orphan records there are also some typed hospital casualty lists that seem to have been used as page markers in the service record files. These records consist of a list of casualties and very brief details of their injury and treatment. I found two of these lists in the records of two soldiers:
Hardy HUDSON born Esh, Durham, no 2621 Durham Light Infantry at images 16112 and 16118 (the original sheet has been torn in half to give two images)
Alfred Henry LANGLEY, born Bridport, Dorset, no. 2623 Durham Light Infantry at image no. 52245.
A sample of a complete entry is
33044 Pte Lovitt E.G. 1.Bed, GSW Hand mild Adm.8 Sty.H Wimereux 25 October/17
Fire and water damage (and also tearing) have obscured some of these records but in every case the man's name, number, hospital and date of treatment are readable.
The attachment lists the men involved in alphabetical order but I have not transcribed their regiments or the hospital information.
All the best
Gobbo
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Hi
I just realized that RootsChat search won't search the text of an attachment so I have copied the list of soldiers in the attachment to my previous post. To get to an image go to Ancestry and browse the WW1 British Service Records.
Number Rank Name Ancestry image
245 L/C Adams WH Lan 52245
21538 Pte Bailey DT Lan 52245
43258 Pte Barwick A Hud 16118 & 16112
23808 Pte Blyth H Lan 52245
42977 Pte Bowers J Hud 16118 & 16112
6214 Sgt Capper W Lan 52245
54345 Pte Collinson G Hud 16118 & 16112
36456 Pte Cooper F Hud 16118 & 16112
50502 Pte Cox T Lan 52245
21689 Pte Dicks F Lan 52245
241078 Cpl Dixon J Lan 52245
27056 Pte Dransfield E Lan 52245
21/463 Pte Duthie RF Hud 16118 & 16112
37657 Pte Elderkin F Hud 16118 & 16112
43615 Pte Gathercole TH Lan 52245
41291 Pte Gilytt JE Lan 52245
36399 Pte Gray J Hud 16118 & 16112
50594 Pte Ingham ES Hud 16118 & 16112
43641 Cpl Jarvis W Lan 52245
307805 Pte Lee T Lan 52245
33044 Pte Lovitt EG Lan 52245
50441 Cpl Martin B Lan 52245
25861 Pte McCall R Lan 52245
40249 Pte McLennan P Hud 16118 & 16112
267922 Pte Morrin JH Hud 16118 & 16112
54634 Pte Nicoll G Hud 16118 & 16112
240400 Pte Parker H Hud 16118 & 16112
9956 Pte Proctor J Hud 16118 & 16112
40777 Pte Pugh W Hud 16118 & 16112
1283 Pte Smith E Hud 16118 & 16112
18967 Pte Smith F Lan 52245
267841 Pte Steele H Hud 16118 & 16112
32132 Pte Tordoff R Hud 16118 & 16112
1320 Pte Walker H Lan 52245
49838 Pte Wiegold G Hud 16118 & 16112
14924 Pte Wragg G Lan 52245