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Help with charles
« on: Thursday 22 July 10 12:46 BST (UK) »
hi there,

My grandfathers brother Charles William nicholls joined up in 11 Jan 1916 no 185999 RFA.
have problems with reading the following doc ??? . I would like to know where in France he was and the battle. also which regiment he was in.

Grateful for any help :D.

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Re: Help with charles
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 22 July 10 12:49 BST (UK) »
Also this may help

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Re: Help with charles
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 22 July 10 12:50 BST (UK) »
hi where was charles from?

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Re: Help with charles
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 22 July 10 12:59 BST (UK) »
Hi Kerry,

Charles had his address as Ganton Scarborough Yorkshire Born 1898.


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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 22 July 10 13:02 BST (UK) »
I think he joined up originally at Woolwich, Blackheath and yet the form which shows that he was leaving because of a disability says that he first joined at Beverley. The unit is R F. A and he was a driver.
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Have had a look at his papers again and what it says beside France is, I think, BEF which would stand for British Expeditionary Force and no particular place in France would be stated.
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Cline: Ireland and Berwick on Twieed
Collin: Eyemouth
Clyne: Ireland, Berwickshire, Northumberland
Barns, Barnes: Fife
Walker: Edinburgh & Stirling
Laing, Wilson, Forrest, Forrester, Colven, Rae, Cowe, Buglass, Johnson, Wilson, Thorburn, Darling, Broomfield, : Berwickshire
McRaw, Cameron, Taylor, Gould/Guild, McIntyre, Maxton, McDonald, Douglass : Perthshire
Cormack, Campbell, Sutherland, Doull: Caithness

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Re: Help with charles
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 22 July 10 13:09 BST (UK) »
Thanks excel,

Hoping to find out which battery or brigade he was in ???

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Re: Help with charles
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 22 July 10 17:45 BST (UK) »
Nick
Look at 2nd column it should have a numbered Bde...I cant see it as it gets pixellated if i zoom too much but am sure if you can magnify it you will get a Brigade

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 22 July 10 17:57 BST (UK) »
http://www.1914-1918.net/37div.htm

Think it is 123 Bde (LXX111)

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 22 July 10 20:42 BST (UK) »
Nick,

As far as I can make out:

He attested 11/1/16 and was placed on Reserve.
Mobilised 1/11/16 and posted to No.1 Depot RFA (Newcastle).
Later in November (3rd?) he was posted to No.6 Battery, 1b Reserve Brigade, which was based just outside Forest Row in East Sussex.
He proceeded overseas on 25/5/17, being posted to B Battery, 123 Brigade on 5/6/17.
On leave 14/2/18 to 28/2/18 and returned to 123 Brigade.
Returned to UK (Clipstone Camp) 31/1/19 for discharge 3/2/19.

 As Ady said, 123 Brigade was part of 37th Division Artillery:

The war diary is at TNA in WO 95/2521.

Some pictures of Forest Row Camp and 1B Reserve Brigade (click one of the buttons, top right for a full screen view):
http://www.philevans.org.uk/

Phil
Sussex: Satcher (Hamsey) and Gatton (East Grinstead)
Leicestershire: Pratt
South Wales: Evans (Neath)
Poland: Gonet, Deren

Forest Row: War Memorial and Camp WW1
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