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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: SmallTownGirl on Sunday 12 August 18 17:19 BST (UK)
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Using William Edward Hodgett as an example, he's on the Medal Roll under the Leicestershire Regiment (Service No 44053) and then in the next column it reads:
91763 11/W.Rid.Reg
Pte
39436 22/Durh. L.I.
39436 1/7 Durh. L.I
Does that mean he served with the W.Riding Regiment first (on enlistment), then the 22nd Bn DLI, then the 1/7th Bn DLI, finishing with the Leicestershire Regiment, or all the other way around, please?
Given that he didn't qualify for the 1914/15 Star and 11/W.Rid Rgt was a training battalion, I'm thinking he started there and went via the DLI before ending the war with the Tigers. Is that right?
Also, can anything be gleaned from his various service numbers to indicate when he moved between Regiments, please?
Thanks
STG
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The medal roll will show each battalion he served overseas with in order. So if that's the order then he first went overseas with the 11/WRR.
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According to the Long Long Trail, the 11th/W.Rid Regt didn't go overseas.
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/duke-of-wellingtons-west-riding-regiment/
but the 22/DLI did in June 1916
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/durham-light-infantry/
STG
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So there's a mistake somewhere.
As you say the 11th. didn't go overseas but it's been included which is the mistake.
So you would have to go with the 2nd. Regt. which was 22/DLI.
Posted to the 7th. & then the Leics. which was his Regt. at discharge.
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So there's a mistake somewhere.
Thank heavens for mistakes ;D
Well, sometimes anyway ;)
STG
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I notice on the roll that information regarding overseas service has been crossed out.
Looks like an admin. error on someone's part not reading the rules.
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I notice on the roll …
Can you make anything of the writing in the final column (ending with the date 29.7.1925)? Do you think it possibly signifies he served after1920 and his records might be with the MOD?
STG (clutching at straws - can you tell? ;D )
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he's asking for his medals to be replaced ie. he's lost them.
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he's asking for his medals to be replaced ie. he's lost them.
Thanks :)
STG
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The LLT says 22/Batt. was absorbed by the 1/7 DLI in July 1918 so at least you know when he moved to them.
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There is another circumstance which produces a medal roll/card entry for a UK regiment. That is where the man is sent overseas, still "on the books" of the UK regiment to be posted only on arrival to his first "real" overseas unit. Not saying this is the case with this man, just noting another of the innumerable vagaries of wartime documentation.
MaxD