L.arnold Posted 4 September , 2013 Share Posted 4 September , 2013 Hi I'm after some help, I have recently got a Pair/MID to the man below and I just trying to try and confirm if the man served in the 184th Tunneling in WW1 so any help would be great, It has been suggested with his Block Number he did serve with 184th.....But would like to gain more info as I'm stuck at this point. 73189 SPR A.J.RUDGE RE, MID page 11804 LG 1/12/1916 Many Thanks for any help Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 4 September , 2013 Share Posted 4 September , 2013 No apparent service or pension papers on Ancestry UK. You might need to try the War Diary for 184TCRE as his MID might be logged there, if indeed that is his unit ,I guess at some time in the latter six months of 1916. WO95/336 is the NA reference,but is not yet digital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBrook Posted 4 September , 2013 Share Posted 4 September , 2013 A trawl of medal index cards and available service records for Royal Engineers numbered 73180 to 73190 shows that all those in this number series, with surviving service records, belonged to Signals Companies. Arthur John Rudge 73189 was entitled only to the pair so he landed in France 1.1.1916 on. All the others in the above number series qualified for the 1915 Star trio. They are as follows:- 73180 Alfred H. Rand, to France 6.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73181 Robert Turnbull, to France 6.10.1915 (service record survives/ available) 73182 Herbert A. Perry, to France 10.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73183 Edgar J. Perry, to France 26.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73184 Maurice Stacey, to France 6.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73185 Bernard Stacey, to France 6.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73186 Herbert Stanley Moorhouse, to France 6.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73187 Joseph Baylis, to France 20.12.1915 73188 Charles or Charley Henry Wield, to France 7.10.1915 (service record survives/available) 73189 Arthur John Rudge 73190 Gordon Gray Knowles, to France 28.11.1915 (service record survives/ available) So maybe Arthur John Rudge was a 'signaller' attached to 184 Tunnelling Coy.? It would be possible to continue this exercise from service number 73191 to say 73200 and see if the sequence of signallers continues. 73191 L. S. Elliman, to France 15.12.1915 later transferred to the R.F.C., so tunnelling skills not required there much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdoyle Posted 5 September , 2013 Share Posted 5 September , 2013 the MID is from General A J Murray, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, dated 13th October 1916 http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29845/supplements/11802 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L.arnold Posted 5 September , 2013 Author Share Posted 5 September , 2013 Hi Many thanks for the help time and effort. Luke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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