Which RFA brigade did Walter Sayers serve with?

[AllanUK]

If someone has access to the medal rolls on Ancestry, they may provide some explanation.

Entry in BWM & VM rolls shows both numbers as per his medal index card.

Snippet image courtesy of Ancestry

[jim1]

Just to explain his 281428 number was in a batch allocated to the RFA Special Reserve.
Why he has it is another question.

[Andy J2022]

Just to explain his 281428 number was in a batch allocated to the RFA Special Reserve.
Why he has it is another question.

Thanks Jim.

[Davedrave]

Thanks all for your help. If anything, the plot seems to have thickened, but such is life.

Dave

[scrimnet]

In 1916 the Territorial Force Regimental Numbers (no such thing as a Service Number in the Army) were reoriganised.
The top number on the MIC clearly states TF.

Add to this the problem of the huge size of the RA at this time...

And then add that any soldier injured was not necessarily returned to his original unit....He was sent as to where he was required.

This is why you can see up to FIVE different Regiments and Corps on one MIC

[Davedrave]

In 1916 the Territorial Force Regimental Numbers (no such thing as a Service Number in the Army) were reoriganised.
The top number on the MIC clearly states TF.

Add to this the problem of the huge size of the RA at this time...

And then add that any soldier injured was not necessarily returned to his original unit....He was sent as to where he was required.

This is why you can see up to FIVE different Regiments and Corps on one MIC

Thanks. It seems likely, taking all this into account, that Walter Sayers’s service was with 3/4 N. Midland Brigade TF RFA, which became part of 298 Army Brigade RFA, and that he served in this unit until his period of sick leave in England in November 1917. Then, maybe, he returned to active service in 64 Army Brigade. (However, I don’t know how service with 240 Army Brigade would fit in with this scenario.) I wonder whether it may be relevant to the award of his Belgian Croix de Guerre that 64 Brigade was supporting the Belgian Division for some time in September 1918, during the advance in Flanders.

Dave