thomas john wallet,shropshire light infantry ww1

[barbarab2922]

hi looking for info and records of thomas john wallett , he was gassed in ww1 1914 .shropshire light infantry enginers reg no.6276 (86410) . he was married to jane ellen jones . and his father was william  wallett mother louisa houlston .1880`s about. he was my g.g.uncle. my gran edith wallett was his neice her mother lydia 1873.

[CaroleW]

There are no service or pension records surviving for him.  Over 60% of WW1 records were destroyed in the WW2 blitz

Do you already have his medal card details?

[barbarab2922]

hi.yes I have his medal cards.served france 12/12/1914 . swb .list TE/1137  or RE/1137. star 15 .RE/29 page 70  ,victory re/101B46 .Page 9708. BRITISH (can`t read . )remarks . DISC reg number 6276 R.E 86410. hope this makes some sense in helping thanks for your interest .barbara

[thomas1]

hi
as thomas john walletts grandsoni am also looking in to his pasti contacted the cheshire museum and a very helpful guy there has put me on to chatham as this is royal engineers http://www.re-museum.co.uk/ he also was able to tell me that he thought  thomas wallett was in the army proir to the war ,left and was recalled to colours in august 1914. as he was posted on the 12/12/1914 .i have not been able to verify this yet but when i asked if he could have been in the T A he thought this unlikley hi shropshire L I number 6276being a low one  points to him being a regular about 1900 as there is no sign of him on the 1901 census.

i hope to find out more when i call the museum in the next week

[Gwil]

The SWB list reference means his Silver War Badge* and they are now available on An/stry

Don't know if this link will work whilst you are logged on to them

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=2456&iid=wo329_2993-00240&fn=Thomas&ln=Wallett&st=r&ssrc=&pid=99409
If not, just put Wallett in the search page for Silver War Badge and you'll spot his number.
The page you see is that reference RE/1137 on the Medal Card.


He enlisted in 1900. Discharged 12/10/1917 due to illness aged 38 yrs.

You write as if he was in an unit called Shropshire Light Infantry Engineers. He went overseas initially as Shropshire LI 6276 and then transferred at some stage to the Royal Engineers when he was given the new number. The RE number seems quite low for them. Someone may want to give an opinion about roughly when it was allocated.

Gwil

*
Silver War Badge
http://www.1914-1918.net/grandad/swb.htm

edit: sorry Thomas1 you weren't there when I was writing out my reply!  :-)

[Gwil]

This excellent site on army numbering might interest you both

http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/King%27s%20Shropshire%20Light%20Infantry

Gwil

[barbarab2922]

hi.graham , is that you?barbara here thought I`d put some feelers out to find out a bit more.

[thomas1]

hi barbara
yes its me graham searching again lol. i cant thank gwil enough the link worked well now i know a lot more about his service.
i thought to start with like a lot or men that he joined up about 1914 but now see i was wrong.
funny that we both checked this site so now i will need to dig deeper and see what and why joined the   shorpshire light infantry after all he had a trade as a plasterer.

yours g