Please identify the regiment

[Ann E]

Thank you Anne,
Walter bap 18.9.1892 Carisbrook IOW, married Dorothy Brittan, 1915 Farnham, From Free BMD.
He survived the war & lived Eastbourne in the 1930s; I have found children in Free BMD that could be his.
 
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Thank you so much for finding his MIC: well done, that was very kind of you, I am so pleased.

AnnE   

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Hi  Ann:)


It is good to know some of Walter's background and that he went on to have a family. Here's a photo of the 10th Battalion, The Black Watch, on the march in Salonika.

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10th Black Watch were transferred to 66 Div, and were returned to the Western Front in July 1918...Could be a pic from then...Hence the lack of 26th Div tribal distinctions....

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Perhaps harribobs will appear with a pic of the 66th Div sign...

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10th Black Watch were transferred to 66 Div, and were returned to the Western Front in July 1918...Could be a pic from then...Hence the lack of 26th Div tribal distinctions....

Walter was a Company Sergeant Major by 1918, so the photo is not from then.   

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10th Black Watch were transferred to 66 Div, and were returned to the Western Front in July 1918...Could be a pic from then...Hence the lack of 26th Div tribal distinctions....

Walter was a Company Sergeant Major by 1918, so the photo is not from then.   

He was by the time he was discharged!!!

In 1919...

 

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10th Black Watch were transferred to 66 Div, and were returned to the Western Front in July 1918...Could be a pic from then...Hence the lack of 26th Div tribal distinctions....

Walter was a Company Sergeant Major by 1918, so the photo is not from then.   

He was by the time he was discharged!!!

In 1919...

 

He was also a CSM in 1918.   The photo shows him as a Corporal, and a well turned out soldier, presumably an instructor with the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion.  Their job was to provide recruits for not only the 1st and 2nd Battalions (Regulars) but also the Service Battalions. 

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If you look at the MIC, all of the red stuff is done in the same hand, and I would say at the same time...The WO2 bit has been added as an addenda...At a later date....

The z reserve remark was done at the same time and in the same hand when he was a Sgt...

I would opine he was promoted just before discharge...

People did skip ranks, Cpl to Sgt is no leap, and to give him the rank of WO2 from Sgt at that time is not either...

Here are some KOSBs from 9th Div...See how the Div badge is similar if not the same to this chap...




Are we sure we have the right MIC??

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Yep ...

Right MIC, and very few men named Walter in the Black Watch .....