Look-up please for SDGW

[liverpool annie]

Thanks Kev!! 

We dunk donoughts in coffee here!! - good stuff Maynard!!

 

Though I do like McVities Plain Chocolate Digestive 

[manmack]

Thanks Kev!! 

We dunk donoughts in coffee here!! - good stuff Maynard!!

 

Though I do like McVities Plain Chocolate Digestive 

i work right next to the place,the smell of ginger biscuits is terrible,i think i will pinch one of the armoured vehicles from work and drive it through the place mack

[Leofric]

Wow!

What a response! Thanks to all who gave their nuggets of information.

I have now downloaded the MIC. It is merely annotated 'Died'. He was awarded 3 medals: the Victory, the British, and the 14 Star. It also states qualifying date 23/8/1914.

I assume he must have been wounded in action and died back in Blighty? Does anyone know if there was a policy of bringing back bodies in the early stages of the war? I  can't see it somehow.

There's nothing for it but to obtain the death cert.

I only found out about this relation yesterday and already I know quite a bit about the poor chap. My thanks again to all who replied.

Leofric.

[liverpool annie]

Hi Leofric

Can you post the medal card

Might have something on there that might give us a clue !!

Annie 

[Leofric]

Annie,

Here it comes then..........hopefully!

[harribobs]

it doesn't really tell us much more than we knew, other than the date he arrived in france, 23/8/14, 5 days before he died

we can just about rule out illness, perhaps an accident prior to the battle? (i still think a enemy inflicted wound would have meant a 'died of wounds' entry but that may just have been an omission)

how about a post on the great war forum? http://www.1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/ post  a query to the soldiers section, with his name and royal dublin fusiliers in the title line and maybe one of the experts there may have the war dairy

[liverpool annie]

I wonder if you could get help from here too ?

http://www.tcd.ie/General/Fusiliers/DUBFUS/TRACING/HTML/trce_top.htm

Annie 

[harribobs]

that gives you the reference for the war diary needed , there's no guarentee it'll tell you any details, but it will (should) tell you what they where doing

WO95/1481   

2nd Battalion    Aug 1914 - Nov 1916   1481 [4th Division, 10th Brigade]

[Leofric]

Harribobs & Annie

Thank you both. To make certain, I shall order his death cert and also have a bash at getting his service docs from Kew. One or the other will surely have the answer as to how he met his maker.

I'll let you know in the fullness...

Thanks Leofric