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Re: Labour Corps WW1
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 26 July 18 11:04 BST (UK) »
It doesn't look like he transferred at the formation of the LC as his number is in a batch allocated to the 2nd. Lab. Coy. KLR. which became the 67th. Coy. LC.
So looks like he's been given a spare number sometime later.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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Re: Labour Corps WW1
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 26 July 18 12:11 BST (UK) »
Hi Max,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

James Johnson was born on 19 Feb 1881 in Alvington, Gloucs. He had a twin brother Ernest Johnson, who was in the Welsh Regiment and was KIA, in Flanders, in 1915.

James was in The Somerset Light Infantry 1898 -1904. Army record has birthplace as Caldecot, Near Chepstow, Mons., where his family lived. He served in South Africa.
He married Beatrice Love Oliver in Walsall in 1908.
They had two children: Ernest Arthur, born in Monmouthshire in 1909 and Marjorie, born in Doncaster in 1917.

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« Reply #29 on: Thursday 26 July 18 15:28 BST (UK) »
Jim - yes, he is one of a small number of men of other regiments in among a whole slew of numbers allocated to men of the Rifle Brigade!  The man with the previous number went to 107 Company.  Usual Labour Corps puzzle!

More later.

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Re: Labour Corps WW1
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 26 July 18 19:54 BST (UK) »
Gordon

The significance of the exchange about Labour Corps numbers is that your man's record has no discernible date for the transfer from KRRC to the Labour Corps and, as Jim1 has said, his number is in a block that was allocated to the mass conversion of one of the King's Liverpool Labour companies into one of the newly formed Labour Corps companies in 1917, which can be dated.

Thus all we have so far is the Labour Corps unit he was in when he finished his service and the certainty that, as he was in France until 23 November 1918 and immediately sent back to UK for early release as a miner, that LC unit was in France in the area covered by III Corps.

Others may be able to squeeze more out of his record as far as the LC is concerned?  You may wish to get a copy of "No Labour No Battle" by John Starling and Ivor Lee, the seminal work on the Labour Corps and see whether 263 Area Employment Company is mentioned.  This may help also:
http://royalpioneercorps.co.uk/rpc/history_records.htm

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I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

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Re: Labour Corps WW1
« Reply #31 on: Thursday 26 July 18 20:47 BST (UK) »
Max

Thank you so much for what yourself and Jim1 have contributed. I noticed that the Great War Forum mentioned that 263 Company were in Peronne in September 1917 and Ugny-Le-Gay in February 1918. His daughter Marjorie SS born 17 Feb 1917, so he must have had leave in the spring of 1916. I suspect he was wounded sometime in 1916 and then returned to the Labour Corps.

Thanks for the other places to look for further information.

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Gordon

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« Reply #32 on: Monday 03 September 18 18:31 BST (UK) »
Hello,

I've just come across this thread and wondered if anyone can help me please.

My Grandfather, James Mason, was in the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment. His regiment number was 13623. Unfortunately I have been unable to find any records for him on the subscription websites. I do know he fought near Ypres, was badly injured and gassed and sent to a hospital in Stoke on Trent. He also has a Labour Corps number, 16406, am I correct in thinking that after he was discharged from hospital he would have been sent to the Labour Corps. He didn't talk about the war much but he never mentioned going back to the front.....perhaps he served in the Labour Corps in England.

Is there any way I can find out where he went in the Labour Corps, I do know this is a long shot as the most of their records were destroyed.

Thanks

Ruth

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Re: Labour Corps WW1
« Reply #33 on: Monday 03 September 18 19:42 BST (UK) »
His LC no. was 167308.
His WRR Batt. was the 10th. Service Battalion.
His LC no. was amongst a batch given to the 25th. Works Battalion D.L.I. who became the 7th. Labour Battalion.
Warks:Ashford;Cadby;Clarke;Clifford;Cooke Copage;Easthope;
Edmonds;Felton;Colledge;Lutwyche;Mander(s);May;Poole;Withers.
Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
Notts.Clarke;Redfearne;Treece.
Som.May;Perriman;Cox
India Kane;Felton;Cadby
London.Haysom.
Lancs.Gay.
Worcs.Coley;Mander;Sawyer.
Kings of Wessex & Scotland
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www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

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Re: Labour Corps WW1
« Reply #34 on: Monday 03 September 18 20:16 BST (UK) »
Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply.  Gosh where did you get all that information from? I'm a novice with army records!  Sorry to throw more questions at you, but what did D.L.I stand for and also do you know where they went and what they did please?

Thanks
Ruth

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« Reply #35 on: Monday 03 September 18 20:21 BST (UK) »
Hi Jim,

Sorry, I should have Googled it before asking you! I've found what it stands for and where they were! Skipton makes sense as he was originally from a small village not far from there.

Thank you anyway

Ruth
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