French need help - Traduction on silver British War Medal, 1914-18

[stefbkbk]

Sorry but i post in french,

Es ce que c'est possible de connaître le parcours sont unité pendant toute la guerre ?

Merci d'avance

[MBrockway]

I have tried to assemble a clear chronology for you Stéphane

Albert BROOKBANK

22 May 1882 - born in Manchester
Father: Joseph BROOKBANK - born: 18 Apr 1848; died: 03 Jan 1898
Mother: Jane GREENHALGH - born: 10 Apr 1848
[all from Stéphane]

1898-1899 - Lancashire Fusiliers Militia - probably meaning 5th Battalion (7th Royal Lancashire Regiment of Militia), Lancashire Fusiliers
See: http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_%28United_Kingdom%29
[from Chris Baker]

1900-1902 - South Africa, Second Boer War
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Unit: 85th Battery
[from Stéphane]
See: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconde_Guerre_des_Boers

Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps
Inscription: 6788 Gnr A Brookbank 85th Bty RFA
Rank: Gunner
Service Number: 6788
Unit: 85th Battery
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
[from Stéphane]
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_South_Africa_Medal


03 Apr 1911 - living at 23 Abel Street, Collyhurst, Manchester with his widowed mother and his two sisters, working as a Carter (Fr. charretier) - no longer in the Army
Household:
Jane BROOKBANK; 62 years; Head; Widow (née GREENHALGH); Born: ~1849, Warrington, Lancs.
Jane BROOKBANK; 31 years; Daughter; Married; Born: ~1880, Manchester, Lancs.
Albert BROOKBANK; 28 years; Son; Single; Occupation: Carter; Born: ~1883, Manchester, Lancs.
Florence BROOKBANK; 23 years; Daughter; Single; Occupation: Cotton Picker; Born: ~1888, Manchester, Lancs.
[from 1911 Census]


16 Aug 1914 - landed in France [from MIC] - note: a very early embarkation date and that he was entitled to the 1914 Star (the "Mons Star")
Rank: Private;
Service Number: CMT-187;
[the 'C' tells us he enlisted into the Special Reserve; the 'MT' tells us he was in the Mechanical Transport section of the ASC]
Regiment: Army Service Corps (ASC);
Section: ASC Mechanical Transport Section
Unit: No 51 (MT) Company, ASC (acting as the 6th Divisional Ammunition Park)
[all from his MIC]

11 Nov 1918 -
Rank: Acting Corporal;
Service Number: CMT-187;
Regiment: Army Service Corps (ASC);
Section: ASC Mechanical Transport Section
Unit: probably still in 51 (MT) Company, ASC
[all from his British War Medal inscription]


51 (MT) Company, Army Service Corps
Began the War as the Divisional Ammunition Park for 6th Division.
Became 3rd General Head Quarters (GHQ) Ammunition Park, then in Jan 1918, the 3rd GHQ Reserve MT Company

The unit's war diaries have unfortunately not yet been digitised. They are held as

WO 95/130 (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7349090) and

WO 95/134 (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7349122)

ASC Ammunition Park
The Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport companies called Ammunition Parks operated dumps, or stores, of ammunition. This included the larger calibres of artillery shells which required special handling equipment, smaller shells, mortar rounds, grenades and small arms ammunition too. As MT companies, they primarily used motor transport (petrol and steam) rather than horses.
[from the Mother Site here: http://www.1914-1918.net/asc.htm]
[note also that this matches what is in his entry in the National Roll of the Great War - see Post #4 above]

Great War Medals

1914 Star - CMT-187, Pte A BROOKBANK, ASC
British War Medal and Victory Medal - CMT-187, A/Cpl A BROOKBANK, ASC
For information on his Royal Army Temperance Association medal see: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BuzNzm-x0l8C&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jan 1919 - demobilised

approx 1919 - address in 175 Brook Street, Miles Platting, Manchester [from National Roll of the Great War - see Post #4 above]
[Miles Platting and Collyhurst are adjacent areas of inner Manchester]

1923-24 - returned to Arques, Pas de Calais, France to marry

1940-1945 - interned in a Nazi camp in Germany as an enemy alien in occupied France

1955 - dies at Arques, France

[stefbkbk]

Thanks a lot Mark

Its more clear now

[trajan]

I have tried to assemble a clear chronology for you Stéphane...

And I take my hat off to you sir!

[stefbkbk]

A question I ask myself

It is not a protest, I just want to understand

Excuse my english

With all the campaigns in South Africa (1900-1908) and all the great war from 1914 to 1919
he does'nt had a british military pension (if i am not wrong).
Why?
Because he lived in France ?
Because he was voluntary ?
Because he did not spend enough time in the army ?

Finally, he finished is life with a very small civil pension ! but happy.

[FROGSMILE]

On 12/11/2014 at 18:01, stefbkbk said:

A question I ask myself

It is not a protest, I just want to understand

Excuse my english

With all the campaigns in South Africa (1900-1908) and all the great war from 1914 to 1919
he does'nt had a british military pension (if i am not wrong).
Why?
Because he lived in France ?
Because he was voluntary ?
Because he did not spend enough time in the army ?

Finally, he finished is life with a very small civil pension ! but happy.

Yes, because he did not spend enough time in the army.  Only a full career earned a ‘military pension’.

Some men earned a disability pension, but the requirements were very strict and graded according to the severity of disability as a % of normal physical competence.