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World War One / Re: Haynes Medal
« on: Saturday 30 May 20 20:44 BST (UK) »
Thank You MaxD
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World War One / Re: Haynes Medal
« on: Wednesday 27 May 20 16:46 BST (UK) »
Oh yes, I mis-typed.
I haven't seen the actual war diaries but the information I have I did get from the National Archives, the Military Hospitals and Admissions and Discharge Registers WW1 and from family.
Katharine
I haven't seen the actual war diaries but the information I have I did get from the National Archives, the Military Hospitals and Admissions and Discharge Registers WW1 and from family.
Katharine
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World War One / Re: Haynes Medal
« on: Wednesday 27 May 20 14:27 BST (UK) »
Hi Max D,
His name was Edwin Hawkins and his number was 12130. When in France he was with the 254th Tunneling Co. I do have some of his records from the National Archives.
He was my great uncle and one of 6 brothers serving in various regiments. Another brother was awarded the Military Medal. I have a newspaper cutting about the family. All the brothers survived but sadly their mother died in 1918.
Katharine
His name was Edwin Hawkins and his number was 12130. When in France he was with the 254th Tunneling Co. I do have some of his records from the National Archives.
He was my great uncle and one of 6 brothers serving in various regiments. Another brother was awarded the Military Medal. I have a newspaper cutting about the family. All the brothers survived but sadly their mother died in 1918.
Katharine
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World War One / Re: Haynes Medal
« on: Tuesday 26 May 20 15:17 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your quick reply MaxD,
Just had a look at another bit of information I have on him and it says he was offered a stripe to stay in England as an instructor for a further 5 months but he elected to go to France. It doesn't say instructor in what. He was later made Sergeant and survived to come home from the war.
Just had a look at another bit of information I have on him and it says he was offered a stripe to stay in England as an instructor for a further 5 months but he elected to go to France. It doesn't say instructor in what. He was later made Sergeant and survived to come home from the war.
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World War One / Haynes Medal
« on: Tuesday 26 May 20 14:41 BST (UK) »
Hi, I have a Royal Engineer ancestor awarded a medal at Chatham for his fieldwork, Would this be the Haynes medal and what would he actually have done to get it?
Also he invented a noiseless turntable for working underground. For that he was made a corporal. Would this be recorded anywhere?
Hope someone can help,
Thanks
Katharine
Also he invented a noiseless turntable for working underground. For that he was made a corporal. Would this be recorded anywhere?
Hope someone can help,
Thanks
Katharine
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The Common Room / Re: R.A.O.B. funeral ritual?
« on: Monday 13 January 20 16:12 GMT (UK) »
My father was a long standing member. At his funeral after the vicar had done his part of the service at the crematorium, members from my father's Lodge gathered round the coffin to perform their part of the service.
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The Common Room / Re: Fabulous photos from 1857 rural Britain
« on: Tuesday 26 February 19 22:04 GMT (UK) »
Oh bless you Viktoria, That's fine.
I thought you might have misread what I wrote.
I think we all read too quickly sometimes. I am always telling my grandchildren to make sure they read questions carefully in exams as I know I often didn't and I then made careless mistakes.
Katharine
I thought you might have misread what I wrote.
I think we all read too quickly sometimes. I am always telling my grandchildren to make sure they read questions carefully in exams as I know I often didn't and I then made careless mistakes.
Katharine
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The Common Room / Re: Fabulous photos from 1857 rural Britain
« on: Tuesday 26 February 19 20:59 GMT (UK) »
Yes Greenvale they are the ones.
Viktoria, sorry if I didn't make clear what I was saying.
I know what the coats were, what I meant was that my husband and his colleagues who were all stockman with pedigree cattle, called their coats "smocks." Brown smocks and white smocks. This was in Gloucestershire.
Viktoria, sorry if I didn't make clear what I was saying.
I know what the coats were, what I meant was that my husband and his colleagues who were all stockman with pedigree cattle, called their coats "smocks." Brown smocks and white smocks. This was in Gloucestershire.
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The Common Room / Re: Fabulous photos from 1857 rural Britain
« on: Tuesday 26 February 19 17:23 GMT (UK) »
Fascinating photos.
When we lived on a farm the stockmen wore what they called smocks. They were in fact similar to those worn by warehousemen, laboratory technicians, grocers etc.
It was a sand sort of colour for ordinary work and white for taking the cattle to shows.
I thought it interesting that the name smock had stuck.
When we lived on a farm the stockmen wore what they called smocks. They were in fact similar to those worn by warehousemen, laboratory technicians, grocers etc.
It was a sand sort of colour for ordinary work and white for taking the cattle to shows.
I thought it interesting that the name smock had stuck.