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World War One / Re: Medal roll mystery
« on: Tuesday 30 January 18 11:20 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you tonepad Max D and Jim 1 for your replies to my question.They have helped sort a couple of
 things out.I have just been reading an account of a young fellow who enlisted and was transferred from unit to unit and eventually was transferred to the MGC and sent to Grantham  for 10 weeks training so perhaps that is what happened to my  grandfather.

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World War One / Re: Medal roll mystery
« on: Sunday 28 January 18 09:49 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Tonepad
It was only recently that we discovered that his cap badge was that of the Middlesex Regiment. I remember him telling us once that when he went to join up there were no central recruiting offices and he walked from town to town from the Wirral until he found a regiment that would take him but we thought it was the Machine Gun corps as when asked what he did, he said he was a machine gunner. We know that he was at Ypres ( he called it 'Wipes' ) and he went from sergeant to private for drinking too much vin 'rosie'.
I have a carved wooden keepsake box that was made by a  German POW in return for extra food when my grandfather was in the Labour corps.
Do the regimental numbers give any clues?
 

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World War One / Medal roll mystery
« on: Sunday 28 January 18 05:37 GMT (UK)  »
I have a photo of my grandfather in what I think is  the Middlesex Regiment uniform but on the medal
roll there is no mention of this with only the Machine Gun Corps ( reg. no.55909) and Labour Corps (418498) listed.

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