Didn't like being there

[Jo New]

Hi Folks

just looking at my great Uncles War papaers from ww1 and it seems he didnt like being there as there are may pages of offences for him from refusing to obey orders, quitting camp to having to be arrested as not going back on time  wahhay i knew id have a bad one some where at last ! lol

anyway, looking at the punishements some state 5 days CB , what is CB?

thanks ill know i can rely on someone out here in cyberland 

cheers Jo

[aghadowey]

You don't mention what branch/country he served but CB could be 'confined to barracks.'

[Jo New]

looks like he didnt leave England, just transferred about the country to different regiments, his first little encounter was when he had been there 7 months he was just 17, he was 16 and a half when he enlisted

i think your right with comfied to barracks, maybe it was his way of not being sent out to war, if you think about it there was a method in his madness

thanks aghadowey 

Jo

[Jo New]

just looking now he did 3 years in the uk and 5 months in france

[kizmiaz]

i think your right with comfied to barracks, maybe it was his way of not being sent out to war, if you think about it there was a method in his madness

I wouldn't be too harsh on him. The reasons for his disobedience may not have been so simple.

I wonder if he may have been trying to go to war to do his bit and was extremely frustrated to be kept in England and the disobeying orders was an attempt to get posted to the "action". If he enlisted at 16, he was obviously keen, and being kept back in England must have been a strain.

We can look at bald facts and make them fit to any hypothesis, but the reality may have been completely different

Glen

[Jo New]

very true there Glen, i think he possibly signed up because his elder siblings did too, looking further into it , he was wounded to his finger by a bullet, so possibly that happened in the time he was in France , not fit enough to go back( like holding a weapon ), and they decieded he was still fit but not fit enough to send back


ooh i love this hobby 

have just found he died in 1956, so im working my way thru marriages now to see if he ever married

thanks Jo

[mmm45]

One of my rellies only been in a week disobeyed an order got court martialled sentenced to hard labour 18 months ... they overturned  the sentence (must have been desperate for manpower!!) he was transferred to Tank Corps played the medical discharge game and got out that way!! He never went abroad .....his daughter had no idea about his record...... i managed to find it on ancestry.
Guess he didnt like been told what to do!

[harribobs]

looks like he didnt leave England, just transferred about the country to different regiments, his first little encounter was when he had been there 7 months he was just 17, he was 16 and a half when he enlisted
Jo

officially a soldier had to be 19 to serve overseas, he may have signed up as a boy soldier so his age was acknowledged by the Army and therefore he had to be kept back in England

[Jo New]

Thanks for that Harribobs, makes things a bit more clearer now, going to look at your website now looks very interesting

best wishes Jo