Completed - Many thanks - Any significance to only wearing one glove

[JoJoBuggins]

Just to let you know, this might clear one thing up

I put the photo up on the Restoration Board and a few people have enlarged it and given it close scrutiny, he his wearing a fine leather GLOVE

Jo

[meles]

I seem to recall that some horse riders (those who drive carriages) wear a glove on the right hand (the one that hold the reigns) only. Can anyone else confirm that? Could he have transported ordnance?

meles

[scrimnet]

Manmack
A lot of its calculated guessing these are the reasons
1.The cap badge on the Phot is(in my opinion) AOC
2.The MIC is to a private however he could have held the rank of Temporary Cpl or Acting Cpl and then been reverted to Pte
3.He has 2 Overseas Chevrons so if he went Overseas in 1915 that would take him to 1917 and then for whatever reason he was rear based in UK he wouldnt qualify for any more.
4. C.F. were written first and the" harles" added after

I know MICs are sometimes lost and inaccurate so we possibly need a little bit more info to clinch it.

Ady

It is/was usual for an acting rank / tempoaray rank to be only one up...ie L/Cpl from Pte, Cpl from L/Cpl...

It may be that he was busted!

[themonsstar]

Get someone to have a look at the Medal Rolls at the NA Kew, In the rolls it will tell you the units & Bn he was with.

[mmm45]

Jo
Have sent you an email ref 25th (Frontiersmen) Batt Royal Fusiliers
The Charles Fred Verity the MIC belongs to shows He was one of the original members joining up around March 1915.There is no mention of him been wounded in the unit war diary

Thanks to Steve  who has carried out extensive research on the unit for this info.

Ady

[JoJoBuggins]

Ady

Thanks to you and Steve for all your help (forgot to mention thanking Steve on PM)  It really is much appreciated

As regards to the hand/glove the jury is still out on that one, everybody seems to have a different opinion.   have contacted a member of the family to find out if he did have an injury to his hand, will keep you informed

Many thanks everybody for your input

Jo

[JoJoBuggins]

Ady and Steve a big thank you

I passed on the information which you sent me, to Charles's granddaughter she was absolutely over the moon with it.

With regard to any injury Charles may have sustained in the War, she doesn't remember there being any talk about a false hand, though she does remember her mother telling her that he got Malaria.

I cant believe that you could get so much information from the MIC, to me it was just a jumble of letters and numbers.

Jo

[mmm45]

Hi Jo
Glad to have helped saw the pics in the photo restoration area of the hand and the malaria story adds to the picture of him been a  25th RF Frontiersman-(Theres another avenue to explore!)
have passed your thanks on to Steve.

Ady