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Armed Forces / Re: Gunner RAF
« on: Thursday 02 May 24 18:18 BST (UK)  »
If he wasnt aircrew then he may have been RAF Regiment

https://www.rafregt.org.uk/raf-regiment-association-information/raf-regiment-history/

Ady

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World War One / Re: Machine Gun Corps Help please
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 22:10 GMT (UK)  »
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61588/?name=william++david_gray

Ady

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World War One / Re: Find 1st ww soldier
« on: Tuesday 06 February 24 23:33 GMT (UK)  »
https://cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Content/Internet/542/795/6637/41929152940.PDF

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-yeomanry-regiments-of-1914-1918/lothians-and-border-horse-yeomanry/

Hes on here -looks like he could have been absorbed into 17th batt Royal Scots

1762 Yeomanry Number and 270764 his RS 17th Battalion number - went overseas post 1915 as no Star awarded

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World War One / Re: Can Uniform be Identified and Dated Please?
« on: Tuesday 06 February 24 23:21 GMT (UK)  »
Has a Wound stripe too so maybe on casualty reports somewhere they were introduced August 1916

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Armed Forces / Re: KOYLI, Mau Mau any info on Pte H Gill
« on: Monday 11 December 23 22:27 GMT (UK)  »
hi Val
yes 

https://www.gov.uk/get-copy-military-records-of-service/apply-for-the-records-of-a-deceased-serviceperson

death cert and date of birth will be needed

Ady

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Armed Forces / Re: KOYLI, Mau Mau any info on Pte H Gill
« on: Friday 08 December 23 22:13 GMT (UK)  »
1st Battalion KOYLI  deployed to Kenya in 1954 As part of Mau Mau emergency

This site may help?

https://www.therifleslikoyli.co.uk/


Ady

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Armed Forces / Re: Finding information
« on: Tuesday 21 November 23 16:57 GMT (UK)  »
3rd Battalion KRRC

Probably a War Diary which will let you know where he was usually on NA website

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Armed Forces / Re: What did this man do in WW1 and what was the 140th Batallion of the RFA?
« on: Sunday 19 November 23 23:34 GMT (UK)  »
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/4th-division/

Looks like he was part of the Heavy Trench Mortar Battery  too

https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-british-trench-mortar-batteries-in-the-first-world-war/

The  V prefix is for Heavy

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Family member
« on: Wednesday 01 November 23 15:23 GMT (UK)  »
This is the CWGC info for the A Hunter died 1916


Son of Joseph and Phoebe Hunter, of Barnsley, Yorks; husband of Fanny Ellen Hunter, of 26, Victoria St., Manningham Lane, Bradford, Yorks

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