The service records show that after mobilisation, my Grandad William Hodgson was posted to a reserve battalion of the Loyal North Lancs Regiment and then on the 16^th of October 1916 he was transferred to the 9^th battalion of the East Lancs Regiment, then serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary force in Salonika. After a few months with the East Lancs he was transferred again, this time to 801 Company A.S.C. MT due to his trade as an electrician. He rose to the rank of Corporal with A.S.C. and was demobilised in December 1919.