Royal Fusilier- Enlistment, number prefix?

[TEW]

The man in question is L/13947 Walter Young.

I know he enlisted 15/2/1910 and discharged 24/2/17 but have no service, pension or MIC for him (can't find MIC with TNA or Ancestry). His medal roll and SWB roll exist and 3 entries on casualty list which will have to do. I'd like to find more L/ numbered men close to Walter's to work out his history. The two I have so far (below) are a bit varied.

The quick question is - might there be a L/13900 and a GS/13900 in the RF.

I've tried to find other men that would have enlisted and served with Walter and only came up with 2 possibles:

L/13934 C Woodroffe. Enlisted 3rd Bn. 11/2/1910. Transf. 22nd Bn May 1916

L/13942 John Edward O'Grady. Enlisted 3rd Bn 11/2/1910 as a Boy. Posted 6th Bn. July 1916.

Then I found:

13951 Stevenson. Enlisted 1915
13952 Allen. Enlisted 1915
13959 Francis. Enlisted 1915.

I guess these must have GS or G prefixes.

My other point which I may ask in another post is:

I have found O'Grady on 1911 census with 3rd Bn in Mauritius but not Young or Woodroffe, Can't find them anywhere. From what I can work out the three men should be together and would have been in Gallipoli together. Woodroffe served in Gallipoli, O'Grady seems to only have Mauritius, India, Home and BEF.

Thanks

TEW

[IPT]

There was a 28th April 1915 2nd Bn Gallipoli casualty, L/13949 Alexander Robert Carpenter, aged 25 of Battersea, previous service in India - http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/696859/CARPENTER,%20ALEXANDER%20ROBERT

[Colin W Taylor]

TEW

I'm inclined to agree with your assessment - there were two sets of numbers in this series L/ and G/. Also in many cases the G/ and GS/ seem interchangeable. GS/ seems for war raised personnel and L/ is for either pre-war and regular enlistments. That is on top of PS/, K/, J and numerous other prefixes with the same digits.

Kind regards

Colin

[TEW]

Thanks Colin and IPT.

As I've been trawling through WO363 and 364 number by number trying to find 139** men that have the L prefix and enlisted early 1910 I've been sidetracked by other 139** men and have to check each record to either find a GS prefix or enlistment date other than 1910 in order to move the search on. Now at least I know that eg 13950 might be an L or a GS and will need checking.

Thanks for the heads up on Carpenter, will check what other record there are for him and see if I can find him on 1911 census.

TEW