Lt/Capt V Vart Labour Corps

[Peterhastie]

Hello

Can anyone help identify which company or Battalion this chap would have been a Captain in.

Vernon Vart

http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af6/pet...tie/VVart-1.jpg

Two mentions in the Gazette and service records on Ancestry, but no mention of the Labour Corps

except on his medal card.

His gson mentioned a connection to the Chinese Labour Corps

Peter

[janecavell]

There is a Faculty Office marriage licence, dated 1919, for Vernon Vart, 'Lieutenant Chinese Labour Corps', of Bishop Auckland, Durham, and Jeannie Anne Leith Doran, to marry at Wanstead St Mary.

It's in a bundle of marriage licences (Ref. D/P 292/1/58) among Wanstead parish records at the Essex Record Office.

Hope this helps

PS have also just found this interesting CWGC publication, 'The Chinese Labour Corps at the Western Front'

[Peterhastie]

There is a Faculty Office marriage licence, dated 1919, for Vernon Vart, 'Lieutenant Chinese Labour Corps', of Bishop Auckland, Durham, and Jeannie Anne Leith Doran, to marry at Wanstead St Mary.

It's in a bundle of marriage licences (Ref. D/P 292/1/58) among Wanstead parish records at the Essex Record Office.

Hope this helps

PS have also just found this interesting CWGC publication, 'The Chinese Labour Corps at the Western Front'

Thanks for that Poppy3