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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 15 November 18 11:08 GMT (UK) »
Yes that is what I meant in my post, he (whoever) is listed as driver (which means horses) and being trained at some stage and qualifying as a shoeing smith absolutely normal, not a normal progression for the gunners.  (A brewers assistant may well have been involved with the brewer's dray horses?)

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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #37 on: Thursday 15 November 18 11:18 GMT (UK) »
Can I ask Max, if William was in the army in January 1918, but was discharged before the end of the war, is it certain that he would have received a SWB and be somewhere on the rolls? Or is it not certain?
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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #38 on: Thursday 15 November 18 11:21 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Max. I hadn't considered that he may have had prior experience with brewery horses, but that makes perfect sense.

In the film "They Shall Not Grow Old" they talked about how it was very common for the lads to be asked if anyone had knowledge of, or experience with, various things, and they were syphoned off to do that if required. That may have been the case with William.

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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #39 on: Thursday 15 November 18 13:32 GMT (UK) »
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If he was discharged under the regulations applicable to a SWB it would be entered on his medal record and there was a separate record too.  These were not among those records lost in WW2.  If he was discharged at the end of a term of service, and it did happen, then no SWB and if his record was lost then only the medal records would remain.
The only William Wrights who are definitely identified as shoeing smiths are those we have eliminated.
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It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
Zoe



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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #40 on: Thursday 15 November 18 13:47 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, Max.
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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #41 on: Thursday 15 November 18 17:54 GMT (UK) »
Is this one a possibility?
William Wright  RFA Service numbers   911, 675158, 728389
Rank   Driver,Driver,Farrier Sergeant

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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #42 on: Thursday 15 November 18 19:57 GMT (UK) »
Our man has no rank in his 1918 photo and although Farrier is a natural progression from shoeing smith, for some, he would have had to have been promoted 3 steps up the ladder for it to be the Farrier Sergeant.  No record though so that has to be opinion.
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It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
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« Reply #43 on: Thursday 15 November 18 22:11 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your continued interest Jan.  :)

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Re: WW1 RFA Shoeing Smith
« Reply #44 on: Monday 19 November 18 12:08 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for moving this thread Dawn.

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