WW1 or 2

[forester]

Hello Adrian,

I'm going to stick my neck out and say he was probably in 2/4th Somerset Light Infantry. 
Whether he went to the Western Front with the SLI or 34th London, I don't know.

http://www.1914-1918.net/somersets.htm

Phil

[liverpool annie]

Looks like somebody was praying for him last year .... do you know if any of the family go to that church ?? 

We remember Kenneth Ashford, John Mullally,
Roger Hosking, Jim McFarland, Charles Hay-
ward, Arthur Rotherham, Lucy Mancini, Fr Mar-
tin Flannery, Charles Doherty, Wyn Fussell,
James Young, Delia Hoey, Violet ‘Betty’ Turner,
Dorothy Hurst, Mary Ridewood and all whose
anniversaries occur at this time

[scrimnet]

Hi,

     Further to my original post, I now have further information on Wyn Fussell.  He was in the army in India (as the attached uniform and cap badge picture).  He still has the swagger stick but I am told it was commocn amongst many ranks there.
    He went from India to fight in the Middle East (I am told Palestine fighting a Turkish invasion which doesn't sound right to me).  Here he was injured in the leg by artillery shrapnel. After recovery in England he went straight to the trenches on the western front.

I'll take each question in turn... for you..

    Numerous questions arise.
    What was his Indian Regiment?

He is badged up for the Somerset Light Infantry

    Would he have been fighting the Turks in Palestine?

In a word yes...The British Army was fighting the Turk there...Think Lawrence Of Arabia...


    As to the replies in the original post, I wonder if he was an injured long service war weary soldier it might explain his rather sloppy dress sense?  I am still told he was an NCO.

 

It is very unusual for a soldier to be sloppy in his dress either during or post service...

[scrimnet]

Ummmm... Are you sure these two are one in the same???

I'm not!!!

[Blackdog]

Thanks both Phil and Annie,

        Yes your info on the Regiment certainly looks as if it fits the story line, his son will be thrilled to be given this information (by the way the story is he was recruited by Major Clutterbuck whilst in the family farm orchard picking apples with the clasic line of "you look like just the fit and healthy young man that we are looking for".

         He died on April the 15th in Oakhill which is close to the anniversry date but there is no great link with Bath expect a very reclusive nephew by marraige. So I am unsure of the church link, but interesting to follow up.
                    Adrian

[Blackdog]

Hi Scrimnet,

        I do see what you mean in the slight differences but I am 100% percent certain.  I have just come back from seeing my distant cousin who is his son. I had a copy of the first photo from an uncle but have now seen them side by side in the original family photo album both labelled by his wife. He married her after the war and would have assisted putting the collection together.

                 Adrian