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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 14:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jim
In the letter Ernest refers to him as "The Colonel". However in the part that G(J?)A Harding writes he mentions applying for a commission in the Artillery. Would he need a commission if he were already an officer. I have no military knowledge so don't know.
Thank you

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 14:10 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Sunday 13 August 23 13:54 BST (UK)
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01sl5/
2/1, 2/2 & 2/3 are in the same bundle.

Thank you - these are fascinating. How wonderful to see what they were up to in Ipswich which is when I presume they got to know my great-grandmother's family. I couldn't find the Colonel's name listed or other people like "Goggs?"
Thanks again

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 13:20 BST (UK)  »
Thank you. I did try to log into the National Archives but for some reason the login page was saying that it didn't exist for me!

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 13:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Andy :)

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 13:08 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: louisemcm on Sunday 13 August 23 10:42 BST (UK)
Quote from: jim1 on Saturday 12 August 23 12:18 BST (UK)
The 2/2 FA diary is on Ancestry so also at TNA.
However I can tell you that the diary gives no details
on the 1/12/17 other than engaging in normal duties.
Ferreting around I found that on 15/11/17 32 stretcher bearers
were sent to 2/1 FA who were at Beugny (France) supporting an operation
being undertaken by the 56th. Div. (Cambrai Operation)
On the 30th. of Nov. - 2nd. Dec. the Div. suffered counter-offensives
resulting in many casualties.
The 2/1 FA C.O. doesn't mention men from his unit being killed or wounded
but he does give overall numbers admitted which may include his own men.
On 1/12/17 he states 194 OR's were admitted & 3 died.
It's more than possible one of those was Ernest.
I would suggest that your man was one of those bearers sent from 2/2 FA to 2/1 FA
& lost his life rescuing others.
As has been said it was a very dangerous job.

Thank you so much for this information. Best wishes

I forgot to ask - what is an OR that you mentioned above?
Best wishes

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 13:07 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Sunday 13 August 23 12:49 BST (UK)
Louise,
Just to save you some time searching on TNA, the link to the 2/2London Field Ambulance war diary is: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7354923

Thank you so much. I'll have a look

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Sunday 13 August 23 10:42 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Saturday 12 August 23 12:18 BST (UK)
The 2/2 FA diary is on Ancestry so also at TNA.
However I can tell you that the diary gives no details
on the 1/12/17 other than engaging in normal duties.
Ferreting around I found that on 15/11/17 32 stretcher bearers
were sent to 2/1 FA who were at Beugny (France) supporting an operation
being undertaken by the 56th. Div. (Cambrai Operation)
On the 30th. of Nov. - 2nd. Dec. the Div. suffered counter-offensives
resulting in many casualties.
The 2/1 FA C.O. doesn't mention men from his unit being killed or wounded
but he does give overall numbers admitted which may include his own men.
On 1/12/17 he states 194 OR's were admitted & 3 died.
It's more than possible one of those was Ernest.
I would suggest that your man was one of those bearers sent from 2/2 FA to 2/1 FA
& lost his life rescuing others.
As has been said it was a very dangerous job.

Thank you so much for this information. Best wishes

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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Friday 11 August 23 19:44 BST (UK)  »
Wow!
Thank you so much Andy!
The troop being based in Ipswich would explain how my ancestors knew Ernest Palmer and the Colonel and the other names mentioned.
I will have a look at the material you suggested. Thank you!
The twins that the letter mentions are two little children that my great-grandmother adopted, I think after the death of her son, Albert Edmund Nuttall in 1915. He served in the RAMC and drowned when the Royal Albert went down.
I hope the Colonel survived the war and if so, I could track down any of his descendants who might be interested in seeing part of a letter that he wrote from the front.
I've been trying to see if any siblings of Ernest Palmer had descendants who would like to see the letter too.
Best wishes
Louise


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World War One / Re: Help with identification of regiment and name
« on: Friday 11 August 23 16:46 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Thursday 10 August 23 22:43 BST (UK)
Quote from: louisemcm on Thursday 10 August 23 16:42 BST (UK)
Here is the first page of his letter which has his details at the top.
Does that help with finding where he was?
Unfortunately 'A section' only narrows him down to the first of 3 sections (the others being named B and C)) which made up a field ambulance. Every standard Field Ambulance would have had the same composition, and unfortunately his letter doesn't include his unit's name. Maybe it was on the back of the envelope.  You can see the structure of A section in the link I included in my previous post. He would have been one of 54 Private soldiers in A section, assuming the unit was up to full strength. The likelihood is that he was a stretcher bearer - an exceptionally dangerous job. The letter is ambiguous on this point.
I am still trying to locate his Commanding Officer Lt Col GA Harding RAMC

Thank you so much Andy
I've attached the middle two pages of the 4 page letter here. Unfortunately, there was no envelope with the letter.
He mentions several other names and I don't know if that would help find his unit?
Thank you so much for your help.
Kind regards

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