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Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 01 June 21 05:56 BST (UK) »
Well ignore everything I have just said, I have just discovered his last name was spelt MacPherson not McPherson, the documents my mum send me had the last name spelt wrong  :-[

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Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 01 June 21 10:55 BST (UK) »
The cap badge in the photograph is a bit 'fuzzy' but it looks like the Army Service Corps badge.

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Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 02 June 21 13:37 BST (UK) »
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looking at the Royal Engineers which were a part of the Army Service Corps
Your man is definitely ASC.
The RE was a completely different Regt. & not part of the ASC.
RE cap badge:
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 03 June 21 03:17 BST (UK) »
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looking at the Royal Engineers which were a part of the Army Service Corps
Your man is definitely ASC.
The RE was a completely different Regt. & not part of the ASC.
RE cap badge:

Oh perfect, thank you for clarifying that I didn't realise they had two different badges.
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