Author Topic: Mechanist Corporal Alexander Mason, regimental number 30263  (Read 1570 times)

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Re: Mechanist Corporal Alexander Mason, regimental number 30263
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 08 June 19 10:08 BST (UK) »
I posted some pictures at the end of this thread a few weeks ago, including one of Thompson:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=741752.90

Keeling was definitely hanging out with a lot of other Corporals in 1915 and 1916.

I will attach another here.

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Re: Mechanist Corporal Alexander Mason, regimental number 30263
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 08 June 19 10:10 BST (UK) »
Keeling is in the front row, first from the right.

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Re: Mechanist Corporal Alexander Mason, regimental number 30263
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 08 June 19 10:13 BST (UK) »
And the man I am most interested in finding more about, Mason, is on the right in this photo that I put in the photo restoration forum:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=812947.0

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Re: Mechanist Corporal Alexander Mason, regimental number 30263
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 08 June 19 10:21 BST (UK) »
74969 is MC/Cpl L J William, later Acting Sgt.
74963 was either not allocated or did not serve overseas so no medal record.

Of those you listed, 58, 64, 65, 66, 68, and 69 went overseas on the same date 31 July 1915 as William Keeling.

Of those, although medal records exist, only one 74969 has any other records which identify a unit to be found.  In 1918 he was in 7th Signal Company in the 7th Division.

Another quirk of the system is that 74958 was also issued to a William Edward Slater who was a Sapper in a unit in Salonika in 1916.   The Royal Engineers were not alone in having duplicate numbers.

So far no sign of Mason except on a medal roll.  He incidentally went to France in January 1915 so had been there 6 months when your grandfather arrived.

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Re: Mechanist Corporal Alexander Mason, regimental number 30263
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 08 June 19 10:29 BST (UK) »
Thanks for 74969.

I just checked another photo of the Mason I am looking for, and the exact caption on it is:

"Mason. B.E.F. Flanders. May 1916".