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Pte L J Forth NCC - Medal entitlement?


Guest Ian Bowbrick

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Guest Ian Bowbrick

Pte Louis Forth (266 Non Combatant Corps) is a local lad (to me) and is recorded as having been killed in action in France on 6 November 1918. Would he have been entitled to any campaign medals and/or a memorial plaque & scroll?

I have never come across any MICs to the NCC and always assumed that they had been HS men only!

Ian

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Ian

Eight NCC companies served in France and would have presumably been entitled to medals and scrolls, etc. The only thing they did not receive was the pay rise given to everybody else at the end of 1917.

Since the NCC served well behind the lines, I presume that your man must have died as a result of a tragic accident.

Charles M

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Ian

He is on the SDGW CD as :-

226 Private Louis John Forth

Non-Combatant Corps

Died, France & Flanders, 06/11/1918

Born Bedford

Enlisted Norwich

Residence North Walsham.

Note his slightly different service number and the fact that he is listed as "died" rather than "killed in action"

Steve

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see previous thread on NCC, there is a picture of Pte Forth's headstone

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