Information for a Donald Moss

[Gwil]

His pension card shows that he was also in the Labour Corps (service number 45319) -- this number was in a block (394500 to around 484900) that were issued between October 1917 and January 1918.

Allan. I'm afraid that you may have possibly misread his LC number. It is a 5 digit one and not a 6 digit one.
I now don't have access to a copy of No Labour, No Battle  to look up the 5 digit number but it's likely he was a KLR labour battalion man who went with the rest of that battalion to form an unit in the newly formed Labour Corps. I stress that I don't know for sure only that the number is low enough to fit that scenario.

[jim1]

45319 was in a batch allocated to the 11th. Labour Coy. KLR.
They became the 76th. Lab. Coy. Labour Corps.

[AllanUK]

Today, Gwil said Allan. I'm afraid that you may have possibly misread his LC number. It is a 5 digit one and not a 6 digit one.

Correct -- should have put my specs on

Today, Jim1 said 45319 was in a batch allocated to the 11th. Labour Coy. KLR.
They became the 76th. Lab. Coy. Labour Corps.

Just had a better search, yes, 45319 was in a batch (45001 to 45600) allocated to 11th Infantry Labour Company KLR

Apologies all round for any confusion.

[tedted22]

Thank you, very kind of you to pull this information out for me. Did they keep records about family or in particular siblings that were also called up or do we have to search manually by names to find each entry?

[AllanUK]

Thank you, very kind of you to pull this information out for me. Did they keep records about family or in particular siblings that were also called up or do we have to search manually by names to find each entry?

If (and it's a big IF) a soldier's service record survived the bombing of London in WW2 and IF the soldier listed names of next of kin and siblings then you would have to search on the names that he gave. Likewise, if no service record, and you know the names of the soldier's siblings, then you would need to search each one individually.