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I have found a surviving service record for a Harold Benjamin Mills who served with the 3rd Wessex Brigade RFA (T) .....
His Attestation shows that he attested on 11/12/1915 into the 3rd Wessex Brigade RFA (T) (part of the 217 Brigade) and given a service number of 2305.
In 1917, the Army renumbered all Territorial Force soldiers, Harold Mills was renumbered to 860679 (a block of numbers, 860001 to 865000 was allocated to the 217 Brigade)
However, he was transferred to the Regular RFA and given a new number of 288041 and he retained this number for the rest of his service.
Your man, Albert T B Green, would have followed the same path. On enlistment he would have had a four digit number just like Mills, then renumbered in 1917 to 860670 but by that time he had been transferred into the Regular RFA and given a new number of 281560.
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