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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: woo7173 on Friday 08 November 24 21:16 GMT (UK)
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Hi all .This is a picture of my grandfather’s brother Joseph Wood b 1891 in Frome Somerset. I cant find any information on his military activities around ww1 apart from this picture . Can anyone help please .
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If his parents were Mr and Mrs Isaac Wood of 68 Avon Street, Bath, and he had brothers Frederick and William, he was in the 1st Somersets.
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There are pension records for a Joseph Wood, Welsh Regiment 25586
With wife Rose Wood, 6 Church Street, ...?bridge
Victory and British medals
SWB list J/1033
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His parents were Charles & Maria Wood living at The Butts , Frome . ( Charles had died in 1915 ) He did marry a Rose Pratt in 1922.
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Private Joseph Wood
25586 Welsh Regiment 3rd battalion
Enlisted 23.12 1914
Discharge 12.10.1917 Shrewsbury
SWB number 246737
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Age at discharge was recorded on the SWB record as 34.
I think the above man is NOT correct, as your Joseph Wood was born in Nov. 1891.
Unfortunately, a rather common name and lack of service records.
Maybe someone will recognise the shoulder badge. If you can get a better close-up of it, that may help.
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I don't immediately recognise the shoulder title however this man appears to be from
a mounted Regt. hence the bandolier.
RE, RFA drivers typically wore these but the shoulder title isn't either one.
Shoulder titles were typically one word denoting the Regt. or Corps.
Very few have two, Notts & Derby, Liverpool Scottish & Tyneside Scottish
spring to mind but it's certainly not the last 2.
The only others are for Territorials & they had a capital "T" above.
So still a mystery.
Do you know if he was still serving when he married?
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I have no information on any of his military history . Two of his brothers served in the Somerset Light Infantry and one in The Royal Flying Corps but none after the war stayed in .
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He is wearing a bandolier so was on horses.
There are 2 words on the title so he is not Somerset LI or the Welsh.
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Best I can do to enlarge it , Two letters and then a Y maybe , Yeomanry possibly ?
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I can't interpret the shoulder titles from the photo but from the uniform I'd have thought Yeomanry. If he lived in Frome then likely to be the North Somerset or possibly the Royal Wiltshire.
Maec
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If you knew what would have been his home address in 1918, you could see if he could be found on the relevant Absent Voters' List, and if that reveals his regimental details.
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If the shoulder title does say Yeomanry, then as MaecW says, the North Somerset Yeomanry is the most likely candidate. They were founded as the Frome Troop in 1798, and together with the East Mendip Regiment became the North Somerset Yeomanry in 1814. The Regiment has always had a base in Frome. During the Second Boer War the North Somerset provided around 115 troopers to form the 4th Company of the 7th Battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry. They were used in the mounted infantry role.
At the start of the First World War the Regiment was split into two, with the Territorial Force soldiers who had volunteered to serve overseas forming the 1/1st North Somerset Yeomanry which went to France on 3 November 1914 as part of 6th Cavalry Brigade, while those who had only signed up for the home defence role remained in Britain as the 2/1st North Somerset Yeomanry, stationed initially in the Calne area before being moved to Kent, then much later to Dublin.
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Every Territorial Regt. had the letter "T" above the title.
This one doesn't.
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I'm not sure that is necessarily correct.
See the attached Pembroke Yeomanry brass.
Perhaps it depended on time and place ?