Help: Court Martialled & Missing in UK, Capt: Albert Edward Harrison AIF

[DeeBoneham]

Hi Ian
Heres the link to the DVD of the programme I was talking about courtesy of Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sword-Honour-DVD-Daniel-Craig/dp/B00158FK1U/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1283182530&sr=8-1
By the way Daniel Craig played Crouchback and made a very good fist of it!

Will have to look up Hanover Street... I like Harrison Ford! Dont remember seeing that one..

Dee

[jds1949]

The Sword of Honour trilogy was, I believe, written by Evelyn Waugh - not Somerset Maugham

jds1949

[Craven-Harrison]

G'day Roger,

what FH and Military resources does the British Library have?

I remember, we were to have a look at A Harrison (Alec I think) of the 130 Bulchas.

I have a list of possibles that I will post in a couple of days, that might help the cause, before I post I'm trying to gather the list of blokes that have been done.

I was doing the list of LG entries, but I've had a really hard week at work and absolutely nil time for AEH, I'm hoping for a better week

Cheers

Ian

Ian

[Craven-Harrison]

Dear Dee,

thanks for the link to the Sword of Honour movie.

Hanover St is pretty much "I believe" AEH's story without the Courts Martial and the estranged family back home, it's an illicit love story set in WW2, The nurse being married already and the US Pilot Captain not knowing this and the rest makes the story

Cheers

Ian

[DeeBoneham]

The Sword of Honour trilogy was, I believe, written by Evelyn Waugh - not Somerset Maugham

jds1949

Apologies yes you are right jds. I was doing it off the top of my head...

[Craven-Harrison]

Dear all,

I've just received the August 1818 Army list CD in the mail, it's quite interesting and I'm still learning how to use it. It actually may have AEH in it, I'm not sure but it does have a mention of


Harrison A - Aust Contgt  and AE Harrison Reserve of Officers and I have no clue what "New Army" means.

I'll keep going and let you know what the outcome is

Here "below" is what's in the Index

Ian


        Harrison A -----New Armies  1327f
        Harrison A Aust Contgt       1899c
R-     Harrison A   659g
R-     Harrison A   655h, 659g
        Harrison A   Ches Rg   1101c
T       Harrison A   R Scots   901c  1562j

T       Harrison A             1615b
         Harrison A  Suff Rg   1016d
         Harrison A North’d   Fus  942d
         Harrison A    E Kent Rg  920
         Harrison A    ASC      1656
         Harrison A   RFA 598b
         Harrison A    A    1401, 1404c
T       Harrison A  E   990
         Harrison A E Res of Off 2320 & 2639

T  =  Territorial Service
R  =  Special Reserve Of Officers

[jds1949]

Ian,

the New Armies were the ones raised by Kitchener ["Your Country Needs You!"] - the first of them saw service from 1915 onwards.

jds1949

[Redroger]

Ian, I believe the British Library is particularly useful for the records of the East India Company and of India when it was taken over in the late 1850s and ruled as a colony. I am going likely Thursday, if you do not have all the information ready by then I will just look for the guy in the 130 Baluchas, no problem as I have some information to search for myself, and have had to bring the visit forwards by three weeks due to other committments. I shall probably be going again later in the month. That Harrison in the Australian Contingent looks very promising, specially as it is August 1918.

[regross]

Hi, this has been fascinating reading.

I rasied it with my mother who is 83.

She raised the possibility  that some of the "special" contingents  once enlisted were given new identities prior to their specialised training or to their leaving for the field of service.

This way there would be nothing in the official records to link any of the personel killed on one of the missions to the force they served with.

My mother worked on aircraft enginess at a RAAF training base in Australia  during ww2 and knew that most of those coming to do special trianing (parachuting etc) were already using completely new identities  whilst undergoing their training.

No one on the base knew their true identities.

There is no reason that this practice did not happen during and after WW1 it might explain the mising records etc.

Just another thought to add to this intriguing story.

Robyn