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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: RanR on Friday 12 November 10 21:10 GMT (UK)
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This is my grandfather who thankfully survived the Great War.
I had thought that he was a clerk in the War Office but this photo seems to suggest otherwise!
I've managed to get a look at an image of a medal card that could be his on Ancestry during their free access week and wonder if there is any chance that this uniform might be that of someone in the Machine Gun Corps.
There is nothing else to help on the medal card except the regimental number of the serviceman. No regiment or battalion, no date of enlistment or even a theatre of war. He is recorded as being a Sgt and he was awarded the usual Victory & British medals.
If anyone can help please I would be most grateful.
Thank you very much indeed.
Ruth
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His cap badge is that of the Machine Gun Corps and the chevrons indicate that he had risen to the dizzy heights of Corporal when this image was taken.
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Oooh! Thank you very much indeed.
Very clever of you to recognise the cap badge. I couldn't make anything out on it at all!
That is very helpful thank you. Is there anything to give us any kind of clue as to which regiment he would have been attached to and whether this uniform is from the earlier or latter part of the war?
I'm assuming that it would have been earlier as you've worked out that he was only a corporal and his medal card said that he was a sargeant.
Any thoughts? I'd love to know where he served. It would be quite an irony if he was in the same MGC that my great Uncle was in (54th coy and a completely different side of the family).
Thank you very much indeed for your help.
Ruth