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Title: ASC DRIVER HELP
Post by: g0bby-1 on Wednesday 14 April 10 02:38 BST (UK)
Hi all,
        I am trying to figure out what company my Grandad served with in WW1. I have his medal index card and on that it says he was a driver in the Army Service Corps and what looks like Ind Cont ?
Below is what I know.

T/34681 ARTHUR ERNEST BROWN
MEDALS:
 VICTORY: RASC/101 B(?)14915131
 BRITISH:   DITTO
 14 STAR : C484 RASC/42  1
 CLASP AND ROSE: 1VB/497/29438
 SWB LIST: RASC/4478

DATE OF ENTRY 22.9.14

I think he served in Flanders/France before being posted to Salonika. He was a mule/horse ambulance driver, but do not know who he was attached to, so have become stuck as to his other movements or that of the field hospital/dressing station he may have been with.

If anyone can help me look-ups via the medal rolls or has any other information as a way to go forward from here, it would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Dale.
Title: Re: ASC DRIVER HELP
Post by: forester on Wednesday 14 April 10 23:11 BST (UK)
Hello Dale,

Other than that he was a pre-war regular, Horse Transport, Indian Contingent, the rest is a minefield without a service record.

There are two men with similar numbers on SDGW:

Albert Grange, T/34624 (Meerut Reserve Park is on his MIC)
Died 28.01.18, Balkans.
80th Field Ambulance

Albert Farrar, T/34694
Died 30.5.18, Balkans
79th Field Ambulance.

Phil
Title: Re: ASC DRIVER HELP
Post by: g0bby-1 on Wednesday 14 April 10 23:46 BST (UK)
Forester,

                 Thanks for your help. I have tried on a certain web site to get his service record, but no luck. I couldn't find his service pension record either, but that could be down to me not looking in the right place... ???

I have asked a member of my family, and found out he was discharged in July 1919, and think this was at Woolwich dockyard.

I might have to go to Kew to see his SWB listing, but don't want to go all that way, and it says nothing different from his M.I.C.
I might try the local library to see if there is a absent voters list,  for 1918 and if he is in it.

Thanks for you help.

Dale.

 
Title: Re: ASC DRIVER HELP
Post by: OWENJOHN on Sunday 22 May 11 00:01 BST (UK)
Hi my great grandfather Philip J Owen is also listed as a driver with RFA on his medal roll, I have searched numerous sites but cant find his service record so i think it may have been destroyed. I do have his original letter of recommendation written by Captain H Ward RFA in Dec 1909 on headed paper, heading R A Mess Kildare. I also have an original Army Form W3201 sending him home on 23/03/1917 which states service no 41666 RFA 21 revs. I also have his dispatch papers dated 21/03/1917 which states that he reinlisted on 19/10/1914. The Medal Roll has Victory, British War and Star medals, the codes are RFA/168B 13611 RFA/2A-B 3511 and SWB list RA/331. theatre of War France, qualifing date 24/03/1915. Can anyone help deceipher which regiment or battalion he may have served with and where he may have served. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks