Could you help with these medals please?

[BuddysMummy]

Yes, you are right about the "no". I hadn't spotted that.

So, do you think he enlisted and was sent out to France without the basic training then?

If so, doesn't that make the atrocity of war even worse somehow.

I am just re-reading his record with this new info in mind and not making any sense of page 9. I think the first date of 1915 may be a mistake and be 1916, but even so this is a very different date to the attestation date. Can you shed any light on that?

I am not in the least offended by you pointing that out, by the way. Just very grateful to you for making sense of it all.

I was told that he was not expected to live a long life after his injuries. he didn't do badly, he died "suddenly" just a few weeks after his 99th birthday!

p.s. are you in Berkshire then? Me too, although we are making plans to move to Australia one day.

[pwenlock]

Good morning BuddysMummy

I'm having another good read of the Australian documents & I think you are correct in the assumption that the first date on page 9 is a transcription error or a badly formed 6 as he couldnt have been posted to a unit 4 months prior to attestation.  The date at the end of that row appears to be 5/3/16

The rest of the dates on that page are all for April & August 1916 which seems to make a sensible chronology.

Yes I am West Berkshire based.

Regards
Paul

[grandarog]

Hi Buds Mum,
                   Your dad may never have received the medal to go with the Police Special Constable Ribbon . My dad never got his. Apparently there were so many Specials during ww2 the government couldnt afford to strike enough so some just got the Ribbon. Maybe Scrim or one of the Experts on here can confirm if this is fact.
                                               Regards Rog.