Army discharge under kings regulation paragraph 392 XI

[Jackiemh]

The name in question is Benjamin/Ben/B Hazlewood/Hazelwood b1884 in Coventry, occupation blacksmith.
1) Enlisted 24/8/1914 in Coventry, service number 88988, Royal Field Artillery (no3 Battery?), posted 3/9/1914  14'R'  343. NOK listed as wife. Discharged 2/3/1915. Prior Service in Royal Warwickshire Regiment c1901, service number 8570.
Source -findmypast military service records.
2) Sergeant Benjamin Hazlewood of Hampshire Regiment of 'address' formerly a blacksmith awarded Military Medal …….    Coventry Standard 11/1/1918
Findmypast gives his service number as 13334, Medal for action in Salonica.
Thanks for your interest
Jackie

[Malcolm33]

    They did recall soldiers to Service after a Civil Sentence.

    My Great Uncle William Grant - brother of my grandma Harriet Grant - was sentenced to 5 Cal months in Prison by a Civil Authority on 16th March, 1896, when he was serving in the Coldstream Guards.   At the end of the sentence he was transferred to the Reserve.

     Offence as shown in his Service Record has 'Drunk, Violently assaulting Police'.

    Then in October 1899 he was recalled to Service and posted to South Africa where he won medals for being in battles of Diamond Hill, Belmont, Modder River, Johannesburg, Dreifont and Belfast.

[Malcolm33]

Charge of the Coldstream Guards at Diamond Hill - one could be William Grant.

See sketch in this page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diamond_Hill

[hanes teulu]

Check the 1911 Census for Ben Hazlewood, location Coventry. Returns 2 hits - both Blacksmiths.

[hanes teulu]

Meant to add (lap top behaving very strangely at the moment!!) -

The newspaper reports about the award of the MM state where he previously worked. Check place of work on the 1911 Census and compare. The 1911 Ben Hazlewood with a place of work that "fits" the 1918 newspaper report is NOT the Ben Hazlewood that attested 1914. The 1914 attestation names wife as "Laura" - which "fits" the other 1911 Census record.

 

[hanes teulu]

Check the 1939 Register for Ben Hazlewood, Coventry. There's an entry that "fits" the younger of the 2 Ben Hazlewoods on the 1911 Census and the 1939 address is very close to the address given in the newspaper report re. the award of the MM.

[Jackiemh]

Thank you for looking at this for me. Sometimes, the answer is staring at you but you miss it. I looked at the 1939 map, and that helped as well.
NB I think I found the other Ben Hazlewood in a newspaper report in 1923, still being drunk and disorderly!
Jackie

[hanes teulu]

There are a number of newspaper reports searching under Benjamin Hazlewood and Ben Hazlewood.