Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

[forester]

The first major offensive that they appear to have been involved in in 1918 is the Battles of the Lys (9th April onwards). If you can find anything on the build up to Lys for 57th Division you may be lucky.

The war diary is at Kew in WO 95/2978 and covers from Feb 1917 to April 1919.
Unfortunately it hasn't been digitised yet.

Phil

[WATTERS2831]

thanks forester , my gt grandfather was admitted to wharncliffe??? military hospital may 18th 1918 after suffering a gas attack i was hoping for some clue as to where it could of happened , what do you think the timescale would be from being injured in battle , to getting back to a british hospital

[forester]

Firstly, apologies for mis-leading you. Only 57th Division's artillery was involved in Lys.

http://www.1914-1918.net/57div.htm

As far as time taken to return to the UK, in both the cases I have studied, it was within a week.

There's a bit on Wharncliffe's history here:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=199-nhs3&cid=0#0

Phil

[jan4776]

Hello

I am trying to find out about my Grandfather in the Great War

 T4/027564 Dvr. T Blunden
Army Service Corps and  Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

He died in 1938 and I never knew him and I do not have a single photo of him which is rather sad.

I am interested in his service record as I haven't a clue as to why someone who lived and enlisted in the Army Service Corps in Kingston, Surrey would end up in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

Any advice would be welcome.

Thanks

[forester]

I found a few records of men with similar LNL service numbers and they were all transferred to LNL around mid-November to early December 1917. Mainly to 1/5th and 4/5th Battalions.

Amongst them were two ASC men, 28971 and 28990. They were both compulsory transfers. The stamp on both records is identical.

Phil

[jan4776]

Thanks Phil

There is so little I know of him, all I have is his medals, it would have been good to find out more.

Jan

[WATTERS2831]

Have you tried looking at his service records on ancestry

[jan4776]

Yes, I got his medal card from Ancestry and that's all it had, apart from another service number of      T/3/027564. My dad was 15 when his father was knocked down and killed in 1938. He remembers him saying he worked with horses in the Great War and he had his medals. That's it.

[forester]

In case you didn't know, the ASC "T" prefix is for Horsed Transport. The 3 and 4 are for 3rd and 4th New Armies.

Phil