WWI. - BRITISH VICTORY MEDAL. - TO: 12044. PRIVATE. W. DUNCAN. HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
William Duncan served as a Private in the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. Almost certainly serving in India on the outbreak of war, he entered the France theatre, via Marseilles, on the strength of the 1st Battalion on 30 November 1914. This would have put him in line to take part in the battles of La Bassee, 1st Messines and Armentieres in 1914 and Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert and Loos in 1915, before moving to Mesopotamia in December 1915. He was Listed as 'Wounded' in the Casualty Lists issued by the War Office from 8 and 9 April 1916, thus suggesting he was wounded some time in March 1916, possibly in the attack on the Dujaila Redoubt on the march to Baghdad. In this List his rank was given as Lance-Corporal.
He was sent to the Section "B" Army Reserve on 15 November 1919. For his service he was entitled to the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, receiving these in the latter part of 1922.
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WWI. - BRITISH VICTORY MEDAL. - TO: 4182. PRIVATE. W. H. EDMONDS. 3rd. LONDON REGIMENT.
William H Edmonds was born on 20 March 1883 (or '86, sources vary) in Chelsea, London, where his next of kin were also resident. He served with the 2/3rd (City of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) as a Private, first under the regimental number 4182 and then 251629.
He went overseas to the France and Flanders theatre on 23 January 1917. He was captured circa 21/22 March 1918 at Quessy and made a Prisoner of War. At the time he was serving with 'A' Company. He was incarcerated in camps including Stendal.
He was listed in War Office Daily List No.5744, Report Date 10/12/1918 as a Released Prisoner of War from Germany, arrived in England. This List gave his Next Of Kin Address as Chelsea, S.W.
For his service he was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
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42756 Pte Lewis Musson Tyler, 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment, wounded 1918
Lewis Musson Tyler was born on 30 July 1899 at Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire. He was the son of William Musson Tyler, farmer (died 1909) and Eliza Tyler. An apprentice motor mechanic, he enlisted on 31 August 1917, aged 18 years 1 month. Passing through the Leicestershire Regiment (possible regimental number 15837) and Training Reserve (as TR/6/31439) - with some possible unrecorded service in the King's Royal Rifle Corps - he served as a Private with the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment under the Regimental Number 42756. Given his age he is unlikely to have gone overseas before the end of March 1918, when the minimum age was lowered from 19.
As L M Tyler he was listed as Wounded on War Office Daily List No.5592 of 14/06/1918, suggesting he was wounded in late April or early to mid May 1918. Possibly this was during the battalion's part at Riez-du-Vinage in the First Battle of Kemmel Ridge, 17-19 April 1918, or whilst in the line close to Busnettes, near Bethune, in Mid-May, where there appears to have been a steady stream of casualties. The war diary comments that there was "Much wiring and digging to be done. Front line is a series of posts and support line only dug in places. Wire bad". In the period in the front line from 12-20 May there were about 15 other ranks wounded and 2 killed. Pte Tyler was entitled to wear a "Wound Stripe" as authorised under Army Order 204 of the 6th July 1916, the terms of this award being named on this list. The list gave his Next Of Kin Address as Grantham.
Pte Tyler was discharged ftom Essex Regt at Warley on 4 October 1918, aged 19, under Army Order VI of 1918 paragraph 2a, and paragraph 392 xvi of King's Regulations.
He received Silver War Badge Number B20307, which he would have been issued shortly after discharge. He was pensioned at 16/6 weekly for one year from 5 October 1918. His postwar addresses were Wilford House, Huntingtower Road, Grantham and 50 Sherland Road, Twickenham.
His British War Medal and Victory Medal, although later returned for adjustment, would have been issued some time from June 1920 onwards. Subsequently he lived in Spelthorne, Surrey. In later life he may have served as a motor driver, being a member of the Morris Commercial Drivers Association, and joined the Royal British Legion (associated badge is numbered 216593). He died in 1975.
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PTE. THOMAS. B. PARTRIDGE. 88464. KINGS LIVERPOOL REGIMENT, Neurasthenia £47 posted
Thomas Benjamin Partridge was from Sileby and was employed as a shoe hand. He was born about 1881 in Syston, Leicestershire. On 21 October 1906 at Sileby he married Rachel Ward. In 1915 his residence place was 26, The Banks, Sileby, where he loved with his wife and son, Harold William Partridge.
Thomas Benjamin was also known in some sources as Benjamin Partridge.
He attested his willingness to serve on 8 December 1915, aged 34 years 1 month and was posted to the Army Reserve. From there he was mobilised and embodied into the 2/5th East Surreys, Kingston on Thames on 12 February 1917. After approximately seven months training he was posted to France for service with the 12th battalion, East Surrey Regiment on 15 September. However, within less than a week, he was transferred to the King's Liverpool Regiment and posted to their 2/7th battalion, then in the Ypres Salient. He was possibly one of a draft of 130 other ranks who joined from 38th Infantry Base Depot, arriving at 1.45pm on 21 September 1917, or the further draft of 50 which arrived on 24 September, both whilst the battalion was at Estree Blanche. By the beginning of October the battalion was at a total strength of 45 officers and 981 other ranks, fighting strength 37 officers and 923 other ranks. On the 20th October the battalion moved by 'bus to Proven and then marched to Plumstead Camp. This was followed by a move to Bridge Camp, Elverdinghe four days later and then to Soult Camp on the 25th, being caught by enemy bombing of the area that night, and then to Marsouin Camp in the support area on the 26th/27th. During this time the battalion was detaching men for various duties, forming working parties and supplying stretcher bearers, etc. On the night of 27/28 October the battalion suffered 24 other rank casualties from a gas shell bombardment and moved in the afternoon of 28 October to Eagle Trench to relieve the 2/6th Battalion. Relieving them in the front line at 5.30pm on the 30th, the 2/7th then remained there until 9.35pm on the 1st. During this time the battalion endured a 2 hour gas shell bombardment from 10.30pm on the 31st; in total 7 other ranks were gassed, 7 otherwise wounded and one killed. Meanwhile the portion of the battalion remaining at Bridge Camp suffered two bombing raids on the night of the 31st, with two other ranks killed and eight other ranks and two officers wounded. A further other rank was wounded on 1 November, location unspecified.
Amidst this, Pte Partridge served two months before being invalided home on 16 November. His S.N.B. [poss. Special Neurological Board] prior to discharge gave him the diagnosis of 70% disabling 'Neurasthenia' (one of the group of conditions often labelled 'Shell shock') dating from 1 November 1917, aggravated by active service.
After 107 days treatment for 'Disordered Action of the Heart', he was discharged from the King's Liverpool Depot as 'permanently unfit' on 25 February 1918. His Proceedings on Discharge gave his character as 'Good' and described him as 'a steady man'.
Unusually he appears to have been issued two separate Silver War Badges, Silver War Badge number 338,174 dating to March 1918, and then Silver War Badge number 497526 dating to 1920.
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VM to 315191 Pte F J Rawlins
Frederick J Rawlins enlisted on 27 October 1914 and served as 5039.
He served with the 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) battalion, the Sussex Regiment in the Egyptian theatre, going overseas in February 1917.
This battalion was formed from the 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry and previously served at Gallipoli, then with the 3rd Dismounted Brigade on the Suez Canal defences and subsequently in the Western Frontier Force. On 3 January 1917 it converted to infantry, becoming 16th (Sussex Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, 230th Brigade, 74th (Yeomanry) Division.
Leaving Egypt on 30 March, on 7 May 1918 the battalion landed at Marseilles.
Pre Rawlins was gassed on 17 September 1918, during the Battles of the Hindenburg Line
Phase: the Battle of Epehy, 18 September 1918
Third Army (Byng)
IV Corps (Harper)
5th Division.
V Corps (Shute)
17th (Northern) Division
21st Division
38th (Welsh) Division.
VI Corps (Haldane)
Guards Division
2nd Division
62nd (2nd West Riding) Division.
Fourth Army (Rawlinson)
III Corps (Butler)
12th (Eastern) Division
18th (Eastern) Division
58th (2/1st London) Division
74th (Yeomanry) Division.
First Name:
F J
Surname:
Rawlins
Incident Details:
War Office Daily List No. 5701
Report Date:
21/10/1918
Rank:
Private
Service Number:
315191
Wound Stripe:
Entitled to wear a "Wound Stripe" as authorised under Army Order 204 of 6th July 1916. The terms of this award being met by being named in this list.
Casualty Listed As:
Wounded
Next Of Kin Address:
Bognor
Service:
British Army
Primary Unit:
Royal Sussex Regiment
Invalided to UK 20 September.
After the War lived in 174 London Road, Bognor Regis. He was pensioned for gas poisoning.
Awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal which he would have received late in 1920.
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1914 - 1919 British War Medal S4-038971 CPL . J. Geddes A. S. C.
James Geddes. Served with the Army Service Corps as a Private, later Corporal, under the regimental number S4/038971. Possibly like S4/039004 Thomas Everitt Tillbrook and S4/039008 Herbert Cyril Hodson he was a baker, and enlisted in December 1914. All three men entered the France theatre on 19 May 1915, possibly on the strength of 14th Field Bakery (to which Tillbrook was posted in January 1915, later transferring to 26th Field Bakery and serving at Gallipoli and in Egypt) or the 15th, with which Hodson served. Both of these were later located at Calais.
Discharged to the Army Class 'Z' Reserve on 10 May 1919. Entitled to the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, which he would have received between late 1919 and mid-1920.
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WW1 Victory Medal M2/178163 PTE D. T. DASS A. S. C.
Pte Divan (or Diwan) Tulse (Tulsi) Dass (1882-28 January 1953) served during WW1 as a motor transport driver in the Army Service Corps. Like M2/178160 Arthur Shuffle and M2/178167 Peter McNicol (a chauffeur) he may have been mobilised around 10-16 May 1916, going overseas to France any time from about June 1916 onwards, and most probably employed as a motor lorry driver. For his service he was entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal. He may be identified with Diwan T Dass who in 1914-15 is shown in the electoral register as a taxi-cab driver and living in Aberdeen at 11 Bon-Accord terrace as a tenant and occupant. His story (as Diwan Tulsi Das) is further described on the website of the 'Making Britain' project:
"Diwan Tulsi Das taught Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen. Das arrived in Britain in 1900 as a student in medicine. He eloped with [Grace] the daughter of Dr Charles Maxwell Muller and settled with her in Aberdeen. He took up a number of professions, including taxi driving, and served in the army during the First World War, before being appointed Lecturer in Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen in the 1920s." (Source: https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/diwan-tulsi-das)
Diwan T Dass died in 1953, outliving his wife by seven years; both are buried, along with a number of their children, in Nellfield Cemetery, Aberdeen.
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BWM 57982 1AM B Bellchamber
Bertie Bellchambers was born in 1885, his father being a coachman, and mustered to the RFC on 25 January 1917, aged 32. His wife was Frances. Initially he was rank Air Mechanic 2nd Class, with his trade being Clerk (Tally Card). He served at No.1 Aircraft Depot, Royal Flying Corps, where he is also recorded as taking a turn at guard duty. After his transfer to the Royal Air Force he was ranked as Clerk 2nd Class, Clerk (Stores).
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BWM M/316575 Pte JJ Ellis ASC
John James Ellis was born circa 1898 in Hitchin. At enlistment (5 August 1916) he was an 18 year old fitter and lived at 15 Orchard Road, Baldock. He was mobilised between 21 and 30 April the following year. After training at tbe Army Service Corps Motor Transport Depot at Grove Park, he served with various UK-based units until passing his "Learners" Test (Fitter) on 28 June 1918, whilst with No.1 Depot Company. From No 4 Mobilization Company he went overseas two months later on 26 August 1918 on posting to "76 Auxiliary MT Company (548 Coy)" (possibly 76 Company ASC, later 7 GHQ Reserve Motor Transport Company). He ended his overseas service with the 59th Division Motor Transport Company as a fitter and NCO, before being sent home for demobilisation in October 1919. He was transferred to the Army Reserve Class 'Z' on 24 November 1919. For his service he was entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
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70319 Pte R H Clark DLI BWM
Robert Harry Clark was born circa 1899 and enlisted on 12 September 1916. He appears to have been mobilised on 18 August 1917. After passing through the Training Reserve he served with the 22nd Durham Light Infantry as a Private, regimental number 70319.
He also served as 59766 in the East Yorkshire Regiment. At some point he suffered a gun shot wound to his thigh, and also (in 1918) gas poisoning, resulting in functional aphonia (loss of voice), judged to be 20% disabling.
He was discharged under paragraph 392 xvi a of King's Regulations on 1 September 1919 and entitled to the Silver War Badge, receiving badge number B301170. His postwar address was Briggs, Lincolnshire.
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4859 Robertshaw VM
Jowett Robertshaw was born circa 1891. At the time of his attestation (6 December 1915) he lived at 12, School Street, Clayton, and worked for Aykroyd and Grandage as a dyer's labourer. Mobilised on 16 February the following year, he served as 4859 in the 3/5th and then 1/5th battalions, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment, in 147th Brigade, 49th (West Riding) Division, joining the latter in June 1916. Whilst attached to the KOYLI he was listed as wounded in the Casualty List dated 13 November 1916, indicating he was probably wounded in mid-October 1916, probably on the Somme. This gave his town of residence as Clayton, near Bradford. At about this time he must have been evacuated home and placed on the strength fo the 90th Territorial Force Depot.
Subsequently, from 2 July 1917 he served as Pte 256887 in 298th Reserve Labour Company and spent a period seemingly in civilian employment as part of the Army 'W' Reserve. From 11 April 1918, when he was recalled, he also served as Private/Acting Corporal/Corporal 57586 in the 3rd battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) and, from August 1919, in G Company, the 2nd Yorkshire Regiment.
He was demobilized by discharge to the Army Class 'Z' Reserve on 1 October 1919, classed as medical category B3. He was pensioned at 8/- weekly for one year for a gun shot wound to the back. He was entitled to the British War Medal and Victory Medal, which he would have received in 1921.
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Great War Pair with Miniatures 293833 Private H S Smith Middlesex and Essex Regiments
293833 Private H S Smith served with the Middlesex Regiment, 2/10th Battalion. He was listed as Wounded in War Office Daily List No.5439, Report Date 11/12/1917, suggesting he was probably wounded in mid-November 1917. This List gave his Next Of Kin Address as Canning Town, E.
He also served under the regimental number 56206 with the Essex Regiment. He was again listed as Wounded in War Office Daily List No.5711, Report Date 01/11/1918 (probably having been wounded in late September or early October), and thus was entitled to wear two Wound stripes.
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