M2/182194 Private Harold Thomas Fry, Royal Army Service Corps

[las camelias]

I’m researching the names on Wiltshire war memorials and have got stuck with this one:

M2/182194 Private Harold Thomas Fry, Royal Army Service Corps, 593 Mechanical Transport Co att. V111 Corps Heavy Artillery. 
Killed in action 12 April 1918 age 33, commemorated Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium, Grave Ref 111.E.15

593 Mechanical Transport Company was formed in October 1915; an Ammunition Column for 33rd Brigade RGA, they served in France under XIV Corps and VIII Corps as “H” Siege Park

Can anyone help by telling me where Private Fry’s unit was on 12 April when he was killed and hopefully what was happening there?  I’ve been going round in circles on this.

Many thanks
LC

[genechaser]

Hi

Take a look at this sites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_%281918%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazebrouck

[las camelias]

Thank you for taking the time to send links to the sites, but they don't tell me which battalions, etc. were involved in those battles ??

LC

[ScouseBoy]

That number looks to me more like a WW2 serial number assigned to a man in the RASC.

[las camelias]

The service no is correct.  Definitely WW1.

LC

[ScouseBoy]

Have you searched for him on the CWGC  web site?

Have you seen ( with your own eyes)  the details on a war memorial?

There are several inconsistencies in the details which you have given

He was in the "Army Service Corps"        which had not at his date of death been awarded the "Royal"  prefix.

[las camelias]

Soldiers Died in the Great War
Harold Thomas Fry M2/182194
Enlisted Salisbury Wiltshire
Residence Tisbury Wiltshire
Army Service Corps
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CWGC
H Fry M2/182194
KIA Age 33
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Tisbury War Memorial - H T FRY
WW1 Plaque St John's church Tisbury -Drv Harold T Fry RASC
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Harold Thomas Fry - Birth registered June Q 1886 Alderbury Reg District (Wiltshire)
Making age at death (1918) 33 which corresponds with age given by CWGC
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Could you please explain the inconsistencies
Thank you
LC

[ScouseBoy]

Army  Service Corps

NOT  "Royal"  at his date of death.    Sorry to be pedantic, but it may help you in further searches.

[las camelias]

Oh, for goodness sake, is that it?  I've just spent half an hour dragging all the info together to send to you and you are picking a hole like that?  In fact, on the WW1 Memorial it does say Royal, even if it is technically incorrect.  I've researched nearly 200 WW1 casualties of now and I really thought I had gone way way astray after you said "there are several inconsistencies in the details you have given".

Please, don't do that again to anyone.
LC