Can anyone identify WWI uniform please

[harribobs]

not sure if this would make any difference to the NA search but....

there were three types of artillery in ww1

RFA (field)
RGA (garrison)
RHA (horse)

and IIRC there wasn't that much difference between the badges

(btw what would be the chances of him not serving??  slim to none i'd say)

it might be worth another search under each of them

[Kevwood]

Right then, might have hit the Bullseye.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=6186183&queryType=1&resultcount=4

Im gonna download it, just wondered if anyone can find anything out. And what would he do with the rank off Corporal Shoeing Smith and then be in the Royal Scots Fusiliers???

Help!!!!

Kev. 

[old rowley]

Hi Kev,

Glad that you have "found" your Wood rellie ( I'm still stuck with my Wood rellie in 1890). Cannot help you to understand the reasoning behind him going from the Labour Corps to the RSF but it may have been that once fit for front line service (after the Labour Corps that is) he may have been sent to join the nearest regiment to where he was then based and he would most probably would have kept the rank that he had earned in the RA, mind you it is only a guess as I am no expert perhaps Manmac can help on this one.

One site that I have used in the past is
www.geocities.com/labour_corps/ancestors
have a look at this site as it may help you with regards to John's transfer to the Labour Corps. You may want to contact Ivor Lee who runs the site as he is very knowledgable with regards to this body of the armed forces during world war one.

old rowley

[harribobs]

Right then, might have hit the Bullseye.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/details-result.asp?Edoc_Id=6186183&queryType=1&resultcount=4

  excellent!!!  made my day!

And what would he do with the rank off Corporal Shoeing Smith and then be in the Royal Scots Fusiliers???

it's not as silly as it sounds, each battalion had around a hundred horses, motorised transport was rare, but i wonder if it was just that he kept his original (last) rank?

[Kevwood]

Thanks everyone,

Now then, this is it, i thought i knew my way around an MIC, but not this one.

Anyone care to inform me of the main pointers?

Think it says 7th Brigade of RHA.

Kev.

[liverpool annie]

Kev!

Any chance you have the birth year wrong ?? I'll write them out if you need me to!
1891
Wood John H    13 Son Bristol Gloucestershire
RG12/1980 Folio   128 Page   9

With father John Wood born Somerset

Annie  

[Kevwood]

Dont think so, he definately had no middle name and been to grave.

Kev.

[harribobs]

I'll have a go at the MIC

cpl s/smith john wood 28713 ( we know the other regiments and s/ns) but i wonder (and i think i'm right) that the rank was corrected later to sergeant (note the asterisk next to 7th and Sgt written above cpl

john was an old contemptable !!, he went out to france 15-8-14 and earned th 1914 star with I or L battery 7th brigade RHA (see this reference for details http://www.1914-1918.net/rha.htm) , and as you'd expect he earned his 1914 star under fire, hence the 'Clasp + Roses' 

from  long long trail  'A bar inscribed "5 Aug. to 22 Nov. 1914" was given to all those who served under fire. Since the same ribbon is used with the 1914-15 Star, holders of the earlier award were permitted to wear a small silver rosette on their ribbon when the decoration itself is not worn. On the medal index cards this is usually noted as the "Clasp and Roses".'

also served labour corps (raised in 1917 iirc) and royal fusilers, demobbed 20-11-19, quite late but possibly having then completed his full term as a regular

[Kevwood]

Thanks, im really not sure if it is him now.

Kid born 07/08/1915 and he left in the previous august??

and another in 1919??

Kev.