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Apologies in advance for the long winded nature of this post.
My grandfather joined the RFA 29/1/1900. records held at PRO, Kew - WO364-2490 show - 8 years in India - no promotions.
On reserve list until called up 11/9/1914
BEF to France 13/12/1915 as a gunner
14/12/1915 21st battery - A/Bdr
29/9/1916 promoted Bdr
18/5/1917 21st/2nd batt. - Act. corporal
22/6/1917 promoted corporal
18/10/1917 awarded Military Medal
1/12/1917 Posted to 42nd/2batt - corporal
23/11/1917 42nd/2 Act Sergeant
7/12/1917 promoted sergeant
17/11/1918  posted to 276/18 Royal Artillery, gleps dtl - sergeant.
Can someone please tell me
1. What does "gleps dtl" mean?
2. Why the dates on 42nd/2batt are out of sequence?
3. Where each battery was operating?

Answers to any of these questions would be greatly appreciated

Bill

Hello Taylorcat
This isn't an answer to your specific enquiry but it may help fill out some detail.
When I was a lot younger (about 1964/65) I was taken on a school visit to James Hastie's bakery. It was a commercial operation over a number of floors and was situated to the east of Greenlees Road, opposite the end of Hamilton Road. The company was quite substantial. I can remember there being a number of shops throughout Lanarkshire and the south of Glasgow.
Good Luck with your search
Bill

Hi Donegal

Welcome to RootsChat.

Thanks for the information on Robert Graham. Can I ask where you found the info as I have been searching for even the slightest scrap for some time, without any luck. (I would hate to think it was somewhere that I had already searched, and missed it!)
I will gladly take any information on his (or Ann Donnell's family)

Thanks again
 
Bill

To All,

Apologies for not responding to your posts.

Kingskerswell - I prefer to think of it more as adding to the soup rather than muddying the water! Thanks for the info.

Tony - again, it all adds to the mix. The trouble is by the time I find a clear answer I will probably have ripped out all of my hair - and I didn't have much to start with!

Moira - Isn't the Mitchell a great resource. I found details about my Gr-Grandmother (another Sarah Millsopp) on Poor Relief and eventually going to the workhouse in Hamilton in 1887.

I think a "redleader" may have been a person who applied red lead paint to steel and iron to inhibit rust. I may be wrong and will happily stand corrected if someone comes up with another suggestion.

Thanks again
Bill

My Father-in-law's father was a Steam Roadroller driver in the army during WW1. He was injured when a shell blew off the front roller.
What  branch of the British Army would he have been in?

Thanks in anticipation