Inland Water Transport - Royal Engineers

[forester]

Ady,

I have tried, including some long and tedious searches, but can't dig it out so far.

Phil

[forester]

Found it 

http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31210/supplements/2997

Phil

[mmm45]

Phil You are the LG Master!!

Great detective work

[Lesray]

Hi & Hello Phil,
Thanks so much for that, as MMM45 said it was a great piece of work, especially his original number is not shown. That would be off the active list or simply different unit?
Anyway great stuff

[industryarch]

Just found my grandfathers war record on ancestry he joined Inland Water Transport - Royal Engineers 15 Apr 1919 aged 33 a bricklayer and left 19 jul 1922
no idea were he served. He died in 1962 so no one alive remembers.

[mmm45]

Industryarch welcome to Rootschat
If you post his name im sure youd get some info passed to you

Ady

[industryarch]

Sorry I forgot
Vaughan Pitt
looking at the file again i think he served 07 Jun 1916 to15 apr 1919
i was confused by the date on the medal card of 1922

[loneygrandchild]

Hi, I have just found new info on the following person & am hoping to find out more about him. 
Can you help?

NOLAN, JOHN 11.11.1917
Rank:  Sapper
Service No:  150938
Date of Death:  11/11/1917
Age:  46
Regiment/Service:  Royal Engineers  Inland Water Transport Workshops
Grave Reference  I. G. 3.
Cemetery  AIRE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Harry and Agnes Nolan, of Dublin; husband of Alice Nolan, of 76, Eccles St., Dublin.

LGC

[misfit]

Hi
Just found this post while doing a google search for a distant relative, and wondered if anyone could help.
Gerald Frederick Knowles, sapper with the Inland Water Transport Battalion, looks like he enlisted in New York, died 8 May 1918 "home" which I assume was England, or does it just mean "home waters"? His memorial is at Hollybrook at Southampton.
He was born in Liverpool to Frederick Harry and Eliza Florence Knowles in May 1900 and they all appear in Liverpool in the 1911 census but I can't find any records after that so I am assuming the family may have emigrated to the US, which would make sense of an enlistment in New York.
However he would only have been 18 at the time of his death if this is the correct person. I figure it is possible that he could have enlisted at such a young age, but I am just hoping I haven't mixed him up with anyone else.
Ancestry has a reference, UK, soldiers died in the Great War, and the memorial is on the international Find a Grave index, but I cannot find an English death certificate for him. Hollybrook evidently is a memorial for soldiers who were lost in vessels torpedoed in home waters but I can't find any reference to a particular event in which he may have died.
Can anyone advise please?
Thanks, Dianne