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Title: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: Yorkshire_Lad on Saturday 01 February 20 14:24 GMT (UK)

Can anyone help me with his service records? TIA

Title: Re: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: KGarrad on Saturday 01 February 20 14:31 GMT (UK)

Two-thirds of all the WW1 service records were destroyed in a WW2 bombing raid.

If his records survive, they will be found on Ancestry or FindMyPast.

Title: Re: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: Treetotal on Saturday 01 February 20 14:48 GMT (UK)

Hi Yorkshire Lad and welcome to Rootschat...here is a snip of a soldier's personal effects with the same name. All the info matches but date is not right?
Carol

Title: Re: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: Treetotal on Saturday 01 February 20 15:02 GMT (UK)

Here is his medal card. There is also a Pension Record Card, but it is a "Fold 3" document which I don't have access to a Premium Subscription, but someone else may. All I can read is that he had a tattoo on his left forearm.
Carol

Title: Re: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: MaxD on Saturday 01 February 20 15:12 GMT (UK)

The effects register has his date of death wrong,  It was 9 Jun 1918, CWGC entry here:

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/640893/squire,-/

His gratuity allows his service to be calculated, he was either serving at the outbreak of war or   joined up in the period 4-8 Aug 1914.  His medal card shows he went to France on 13 April 1915 (he was serving with 4th Battalion at the time, later moving to 5th Battalion and then 8th with whom he was serving when he died (died usually means died from wounds or sickness  rather than killed in action).

You can download the war diary for the period when he was in Italy at:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4557393

His record, if it survives, will show when he moved battalions which could lead to earlier war diaries

MaxD

Title: Re: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: Treetotal on Saturday 01 February 20 15:15 GMT (UK)

Nice one Max...I noticed that too and all the other info matches so it must be him.
Carol

Title: Re: 09/06/1918 242870 Private Jabez Squire 8th Battalion KOYLI
Post by: MaxD on Sunday 02 February 20 09:32 GMT (UK)

I have modified my post, he is more likely to have been one of the first to join 4th Battalion on its formation in August 1914.
MaxD