OK, now this is not to conclude matters as we still have the chance of the Liverpool Echo, when they get around to replying to you Annie, of throwing up a successful contact, but I've made preliminary enquiries with Liverpool Museum to see what Michel's other options could be.
I spoke with the Curator of the Kings Regiment, Liverpool Museum. He told me that the Machine Gun Corps was a WWI only organisation and so quite short lived, however, from what I told him of Annie's posting on the first page of the medal card details, it seems as though
Stead, Robert William
Liverpool Regiment
1466
Private
Machine Gun Corps
22397
Lance Corporal
Machine Gun Corps
means that he was in the Regiment that they are interested in before he changed to the Machine Gun Corps. I confirmed the Liverpool connections that Robert William stead had, his two addresses in Anfield and Gateacre.
There is no guarantee that the Museum would accept this wrist tag, but what will happen is that the Officers Committee of the Curators will meet to look into the question of whether they could accept and agree to look after it in perpetuity.
He asked whether Michel will be sending it to England, to which I replied that this was his plan when a place was found for it.
The Curator will look at this thread, although I tried to give him a short version, he assured me that he would read it all through, I think maybe he was a bit intrigued by our research and then contact me when he's checked out firstly that the connections would make it an appropriate item for them to accept and secondly that the Committee have agreed to be able to keep and maintain it.
The reference number for his file is Offer Number 3100 which is good to keep a note of with this thread.
Annie if you manage to turn up a photo that would be icing on the cake wouldn't it, keep trying girl!
All I can say now is
Please Mr Curator, we'd just like this wrist-tag to have an appropriate home.
