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Y/253 Rfn Percy C FIELDING King's Royal Rifle Corps


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Had this medal and wound badge for some time.....y253 pte P.C Fielding and wound badge rn 5281 i know nothing other than that they came from Cleveleys lancashire....cheers for any help...

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Silver War Badge 5281 (no prefix) relates to Pte 2454 Michael Keighery Irish Guards served 22/11/1905 - 6/6/1915 discharged = wounds. Went to France 13 8 1914.

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wow! cheers guys....... gives me something to go on....:)

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If you contact the Irish Guards Records office you will probably find his record, these were not held in the same place as the records destroyed in the Blitz.

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Rfn Percy C FIELDING, Y/253 (incorrectly indexed as '7253' on Ancestry), King's Royal Rifle Corps

Embarkation Date: 29 Nov 1914 meaning he would have joined 1st or 2nd battalions. 3rd and 4th battalions did not embark until 20 Dec 1914 (they had been in India). No other battalions went out until 1915.

Embarkation was after 22/23 Nov, so entitlement to 1914-15 Star only.

1/KRRC were in Reserve at Caestre 18 Nov to 22 Dec 1914.

2/KRRC were also refitting at Hazebrouck from 22 Nov to 21 Dec 1914.

Both battalions received drafts during this period.

The Y prefix suggests a Special Reservist or enlistment under the Short Service terms

Discharged to Class Z Army Reserve, so could not have been awarded a Silver War Badge. No sign of him in the KRRC's SWB roll anyway.

Could not find a Service Record.

Unlikely to get an individual mention in war diaries etc. unless he won a gallantry award, but will have a quick look tomorrow.

His trio is all on KRRC medal rolls, so no chance he served in any of the Guards.

1st Btn, Irish Guards were in 2nd Division together with 1/KRRC - that's a possible link, albeit somewhat tenuous.

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many many many thx .thanks for all your effort....Tony

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