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ww1 have service num, but based?
« on: Monday 29 October 07 19:56 GMT (UK) »
i have the service number of David Muir hoey.
 regiment royal field artillery,
 service number 99635
he was a driver and died 26.05.1918
cemetery solferino farm Belgium.
 Trying to find where he was based and where he died.
can any one point me in the right directsion.
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Re: ww1 have service num, but based?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 October 07 20:13 GMT (UK) »
He is buried in the Solferino Farm War Cemetery

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http://www.cwgc.org

Just search on his surname and WW!

David

Sorry I see you have already found that.
Living in Berkshire from Northampton & Milton Keynes
DETAILS OF MY NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE
Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: ww1 have service num, but based?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 October 07 20:32 GMT (UK) »
The CWGC entry has the additional information that he was in "D" Battery, 153 Brigade.
The Brigade war diary is held at the National Archives under the reference WO 95/2496. It is unlikely to record him by name, but will record locations and events, often in some detail.

Phil
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
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Re: ww1 have service num, but based?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 29 October 07 20:58 GMT (UK) »
thank you
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