Army service record help please *COMPLETED*

[willow154]

I think this must be it, scrimnet - not much information.

So, if he wasn't hospitalised, what does the following line mean, please:
To Eng: ex 47 GH   1.12.19

Thanks, by the way - you're a star! 

[willow154]

Sorry, chopped off a bit too much (copyright issue)  - just Victory and British medals.

[scrimnet]

Eng is usually shorthand for Engineer....As he was...

But he could have been seconded to 47 GH for the reasons I said above...

[willow154]

Ok - but, what is GH then, scrimnet? (if that's what it is!)

[~Rachel~]

  oh my goodness. I got a cold feeling reading that. I'm so glad I asked for help on here, but it's a really strange feeling.

My grandads cousin (who I'm in regular contact with) remembers visiting a Delaney in the hospital. He couldn't remember the name though, but Charles died at the battle of Le Cateau in 1914, two previous brothers died before 1905 so that only left Arthur and Thomas. Arthur died after falling out of a tree in the sixties, so we narrowed it down to being Thomas that was the shell shock victim, we've just been trying to prove it was definitely him. I reckon this does prove it.

I've been to a friends so accessed the rest of the records I didn't download originally, so here goes.

[~Rachel~]

Oh, and I think the one I posted originally is actually the middle record. Although it does look like maybe it's a combination of the two?

There are a couple of other pages but they look more like enlistment info, just clarifying name, address etc.

Any other advice on the last two records would be much appreciated again, I really have had a shock with this thread.

[willow154]

Hi Rachel.
Glad your're back in charge - I didn't really think it was my place to ask those questions; but it is interesting.
You're in brilliant hands with scrimnet - I was hoping he would see the thread.
Paulene

[scrimnet]

Oh dear you are not reading my posts are you???

 

You must ave gone blonde overnight....

Hospitals need telephones/sigs/comms just as much as any other military unit. We do!

And 47 GH was in Treport in France!

[willow154]

Whoops! 
Yes, I did read it but I got a few messages on msn at the same time, and obviously didn't concentrate - sorry.
So it is GH - general hospital - but he went there to work.
Nice to know here he went - in France.