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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: Coxon on Monday 27 July 20 11:45 BST (UK)
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Hello, I have previously asked about a relative who served in the 1/1 West Riding Heavy Battery.
Thanks to Max D and the links to the 1/1st West Yorkshire Heavy Battery war diaries he sent I have been able to trace this relative from York to his death at Pozieres in 1917.
I had another relative also in the Battery who survived, dying in 1922, from T.B (not his injuries, although he had a War Pension). I have a photograph of him sat in a car on some ranges. Max found that his no. 427 DVR was between two other men who joined in August 1914. Having read the War Diary for 1914-onwards, I think he may have been in the Reserve unit. The Reserve unit were sent to Bakewell in Derbyshire.
My questions are:-Would a diary have been kept for the reserve unit?
Where was the camp in Bakewell, Derbyshire?
Thank you
Louise
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I can answer the 1st. question & it's no they didn't. Only units on active service kept war diaries.
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Louise
I'm not sure why you draw the conclusion that Arthur John Vickers was in 2/1st (the second line battery). His arrival date in France 1915 is two days different from the arrival date of the battery which I put down earlier to an administrative error. I believe he went with 1/1st.
MaxD
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Sorry Max D, I was getting confused. I had re-visited the diaries and saw it say about the reserves and for some reason I thought Arthur had gone with them. Sorry to waste your time. Thank you Jim for your reply and sorry for wasting your time as well. I think I am going back over old ground and it is time to give up.
Sorry once again.
Louise
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Never a waste of time Louise, always best to re-check queries.
MaxD