A,B,C & D Coys Heavy Section MGC Men

[IPT]

An incomplete list of A,B,C & D Coy Heavy Section men who have surviving service papers.

 

These are only men who initially went overseas with their units, not reinforcements.

 

A Coy 

 

627/200007 Leslie Saxon Bennett (Camberwell) BEF 14/9/1916

1590/200043 Donald McLaren Robertson (Perth) BEF 14/9/1916

1874/200072 Sgt Gilbert Milner Sykes (Bradford) BEF 14/9/1916

2723/200083 Andrew Egan (Edinburgh) BEF 11/9/1916

2814/200085 Henry Gifford (Grimsby) BEF 18/9/1916

2854/200087 Bertram William Bayley (Walsall) BEF 11/9/1916

2883/200088 Abram Wolfman (Liverpool) BEF 14/9/1916 

2910/200090  Walter Ewens (Chobham) BEF 14/9/1916

2907/200089 A/Sgt Leonard Cory Lose (Plymouth BEF 14/9/1916

32089/200121 Frederick James Cornell (Cobham) BEF 14/9/1916

32093/200123 George Fagg (Faversham) BEF 14/9/1916

32130/200126 John Duncan (Clydebank) BEF 14/9/1916

32135/200127 Laurence Campbell Chapman (Tideswell) BEF 11/9/1916

32155/200128 Victor Adrian Sharman (Gillingham) BEF 14/9/1916

32177/200129 George Lander Dick (Melrose) BEF 14/9/1916

32185/200131 John George Cocking (Doncaster) BEF 11/9/1916

32198/200132 Alfred Edward Lee (Thorverton) BEF 14/9/1916

32214/200133 Fred Bailey (Kettering) BEF 11/9/1916

32216/200134 George Frederick Griffiths (Weobley) BEF 11/9/1916

32225/200135 Charles Arthur Sponge (Eastwood) BEF 14/9/1916

32250/200136 John Darby (Walsall) BEF 14/9/1916

32251/200137 William Harris Beresford (Walsall) BEF 11/9/1916

32274/200138 George Salmon Middleton (Ramsey, Hunts) BEF 14/9/1916

32324/200139 James Somerville (Pitlochry)  BEF 14/9/1916

32325/200140 Ernest Smith (Chatteris) BEF 14/9/1916

32339/200141 Albert Joseph Brentnall (Coventry) BEF 14/9/1916

38061/200147 Percy David Springham (Lindfield) BEF 11/9/1916

38072/200148 Giles Ashley Purkis (Newport) BEF 11/9/1916

38075/200149 Frederick Charles Everton (Droitwich) BEF 11/9/1916

38076/200150 Francis Bladon (Cannock) BEF 11/9/1916

38083/200153 William Williams (Carnarvon) BEF 11/9/1916

38086/200154 Albert Joseph Herbert (Wisbech) BEF 11/9/1916

38087/200155 Edward Albert Barnard BEF (King's Lynn) 11/9/1916

38090/200156 Edwin Bailey Lodge (Dewsbury) BEF 11/9/1916

38091/200157 John Ferris Francomb (Plymouth) BEF 11/9/1916

38092/200158 Arthur Mallin (Tipton) BEF 11/9/1916

38095/200159 William George Bartlett (Frome) BEF 11/9/1916

38097/200161 Harold Trought BEF (Grimsby) 11/9/1916

38098/200162 George Henry Needham (Holbeach) BEF 11/9/1916

38100/200163 Charles Leonard Lewis (Lichfield)  BEF 11/9/1916

38103/200165 Robert Forbes Gwyther (Herne Bay) BEF 11/9/1916

38105/200166 Cyril Hobgen Clement (Lichfield) BEF 14/9/1916 

38106/200167 Sgt Percy William Henry Martin (Market Harborough) BEF 11/9/1916

38109 James McDowall (Ayr) BEF 11/9/1916

38123/200171 George Fletcher Nicholls (Walsall) BEF 11/9/1916

38124/200172 Robert Leonard Hutchinson (Leeds) BEF 11/9/1916

38129/200174  Aurelio Constantino Angeleri (Leominster) BEF 11/9/1916

38130/200175 Stanley Thomas Charles Reeks (Bournemouth) BEF 11/9/1916

38131/200176 Daniel Osborne (Holloway) BEF 11/9/1916

38133/200177 Edward Dawson (Burnley) BEF 11/9/1916

38134/200178 Frederick Capps (Norfolk) 11/9/1916

38135/200179 Thomas Fair Harris (Shrewsbury) BEF 11/9/1916

38183/200180 Frederick William Ainsley (Durham) BEF 11/9/1916

38139/200181 Leonard Bostock (Earls Court) BEF 14/9/1916

38150/200182  Robert Bruce Mason (Dewsbury) BEF 11/9/1916

38159/200184 Arthur Henry Leaver (Bristol) BEF 11/9/1916

38179/200186 William Edward Bocock (Newark) BEF 11/9/1916

38206/200187 Ernest Walter Gardner (Southport) BEF 11/9/1916

38210/200188 James Kidger (Nuneaton) BEF 14/9/1916

38127/200189 Herbert William Crouch (Wisbech) BEF 14/9/1916

38231/200190 Launcelot Thomas Hird Naylor (Kidderminster) BEF 14/9/1916

38366/200193 Albert Victor Day (Clapton) BEF 11/9/1916

38371/200196 Henry Wilfred Mabane (south Shields) BEF 14/9/16)

38378/200197 John Lister Hopkinson (Retford) BEF 11/9/1916

38388/200199 Bertram Ernest Ryman (Knaphill) BEF 11/9/1916

38394/200200 Leslie Gordon Bedggood (Wealdstone) BEF 11/9/1916

38395/200201 James Taylor (Southall) BEF 11/9/1916

38398/200202 Ernest Plumridge (Reading) BEF 14/9/1916

32039/200360 Henry Roland Sharpe (Bridlington) BEF 11/9/1916

38115/200408 Walter Simpson Scorah Baines BEF 11/9/1916

2713/200573 Leonard Patrick BEF 10/9/1916

2839/200588 William Smyth Bendle (Torquay) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 1/10/1916)

40076/200660 Cpl Archibald John Clewley (Wolverhampton) BEF 11/9/1916

38137/200671 Tom Shaw (Burnley) BEF 11/9/1916

38073/200910 Frank North (Bourne) BEF 14/9/1916

38004/201078 James Crummie (Hull) BEF 11/9/1916

40295 Reginald William Bell (Rotherhithe) BEF 14/9/1916

40312 Edward Stirling (Arbroath) BEF 11/9/1916

32175/205320 Fred Ainley (Rotherham) BEF 14/9/1916

32562/205430 Gordon Ernest Fuller (Faversham) BEF 11/9/1916

M2/022229/75005 Percy Wright Brierley (Huddersfield) BEF 13/9/1916

M2/201765/75018 Arthur Feaveryear (Islington) BEF 13/9/1916 (SS Ilston - Havre 16/9/16)

M2/103691/75006 Ernest Richard Hoyle (Reading) BEF 16/9/1916 (SS Hunsland? Havre 18/9/1916)

M2/194976/75009 William Waters (Cottesbrook) BEF 13/9/1916 (SS Ilston)

M2/188382/75008 Leonard Henry Whitmill (Hammersmith) BEF 16/9/1916

 

B Coy

 

1616/200282 James Shand (Aberdeen) BEF 14/10/1916

1918/200289 James Shearlaw (Reston) BEF 14/10/1916

2197/200291 Harold Henry Mills (Malmesbury) BEF 14/10/1916

2348/200294 Joseph Broadhurst (Wilmslow) BEF 12/11/1916

2528/200302 Sydney Fraser (Aberdeen) BEF 14/10/1916

2561/200307 Archie Harold Driver (Higham Ferrers) BEF 14/10/1916

2576/200308 George Hackney (Biddulph) BEF 14/10/1916

2589/200310 Charles Arkwright Wells (Farnham) BEF 14/10/1916

2634/200313 Walter James Peckham ( Lewes) BEF 14/10/1916

2799/200316 Frank Robert Terry (Stratford) BEF 14/10/1916 (att A Coy 21/10/16)

2807/200318 Frank Orr Turner (Hamilton) BEF 14/10/1916

2810/200319 Robert Arthur Ambrose (Nottingham) BEF 14/10/1916

2825/200320 George Victor Botting (Chichester) BEF 14/10/1916

2835/200322 Percy Karstaedt (Maidstone) BEF 14/10/1916

2843/200323 Thomas Henry Hood (Whitley Bay) BEF 14/10/1916

2846/200324 George C F Clarke ( Louth) BEF 14/10/1916

32033/200349 Hubert Allan Gibbons (Croydon) BEF 14/10/1916

32082/200362 George Foreman (Southwark) BEF 14/10/1916

32088/200363 Harry Bottini (London) - BEF 14/10/1916

32121/200364 Archibald William Jones (Bargoed) BEF 14/10/1916

32122/200365 Charles William Fibbens (Worthing) BEF 14/10/1916

32190/200366 Arthur Ashley Hawgood (Derby) BEF 14/10/1916

32282/200369 Vincent Pointon (Shifnal) BEF 14/10/1916

32305/200370 Horace Arthur Gilling (Stapleford) BEF 14/10/1916

32343/200371 David Sole (Chatteris) BEF 14/10/1916

32353/200372 Edward Middlemost (Guildford) BEF 14/10/1916

32355/200373 Walter Stanley Medhurst (Woking) BEF 14/10/1916

32356/200374 James John Miles (Stockwell) BEF 14/10/1916

32370/200376 Frederick Thomas Ward (Hungate) 14/10/1916

32375/200378 George Clifford Dimbleby (Hull) BEF 14/10/1916

32406/200381 Herbert George Randall (Royston) BEF 14/10/1916

32409/200383 Alan William Offord (Royston) BEF 14/10/1916

32416/200384 George Albert Deeming (Polesworth) BEF 14/10/1916

32424/200386 Harry Stephenson Breese (Eccleshall) BEF 14/10/1016

32429/200387 Alexander Barron (Mexborough) BEF 14/10/1916

32496/200389 William Maciver (Fortrose) BEF 14/10/1916

38131/200405 Henry John Patten (Exeter) 14/10/1916

38064/200407 Willie Jackson (Huddersfield) BEF 14/10/1916

38127/200409 Raymond James Jonathan (Abergavenny) BEF 14/10/1916

38401/200413 John Atkinson (Gorton) BEF 14/10/1916 

38147/200415 Henry Leopold Bennett (Pirbright) BEF 12/11/1916

38436/200416 George Henry Carus Davies (Bedford) BEF 14/10/1916

38439/200417 Frederick Charles Pyle (Basingstoke) BEF 14/10/1916

2797/200585 Harry Edward Emans (Nottingham) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 1/10/1916)

2806/200586 Gordon George Ramsay (Hamilton) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 30/9/1916)

2871/200589 Roland Harry Bee (Hinckley) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 30/9/1916)

2873/200590 Roy Mills (Hinckley) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 30/9/1916)

32125/200635 David Cox (Birmingham) BEF 18/9/1916

32128/200636 Henry Bardill BEF (Calverton) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 1/10/1916)

38006/200663 Alfred Thomas Wagstaff (Birmingham) BEF 18/9/1916 (C Coy 30/9/1916)

38082/200670 George Albert Sidwell (Coventry) BEF 18/9/16 (C Coy 30/9/1916)

38233/200674 John Ernest Charnock (Cardiff) BEF 26/9/1916 (C Coy 9/10/1916)

2890/200817 James Wilfred Harwood (Blackpool) BEF 18/9/1916

2931/200819 Francis Allen Kirby ( Norwich) BEF 18/9/1916

2945/200823 Joe Kitson (Bradford) - BEF 18/9/1916 

32345/200877 Montague William Russell (Great Canfield) BEF 18/9/1916

32346/200878 Frank Howard (Aylesbury) BEF 18/9/1916 

32358/200879 Charles Montague John Hever (Eynsford) BEF 18/9/1916

32371/200880 John Robertson Forbes (Aberdeen) BEF 18/9/1916

32402/200883 George Leonard Marshall (Blaby) BEF 18/9/1916

32408/200885 Wilfred John Werrett (Warmley) BEF 18/9/1916

32427/200888 Henry Oates Richardson (Dewsbury) BEF 18/9/1916

32428/200889 George Beaton (Stockton on Tees) BEF 18/9/1916

2695/200901 Jack Stagg (Yeovil) BEF 18/9/1916 (posted D Coy 30/10)

2798/201281 Charles Ingham Collinge (Larkfield) BEF 14/10/1916

2329/201765 S/Sgt John MacFarlane (Greenock) BEF 14/10/1916

2830/201851 George Beresford (Newcastle-under-Lyme) BEF 18/9/1916

32140/201925 Reginald Arthur Utting (Kings Lynn) BEF 18/9/1916

32163/201926 Edmond Lunton Faulkner (Rotherham) BEF 14/10/1916

32164/201927 Anthony Thomas Evans (Cardiff) BEF 14/10/1916

32456/201935 Edwin Arthur Levey (Charlton)

32472/205073 Frank Arthur Boyt (Woking) - BEF 12/11/916

2914/205247 Frederick Charles Minifie (Peckham) BEF 14/10/1916 (A Coy 22/10/1916)

32219/205389 Walter Fred Beadle (Ware) BEF 14/10/1916

32425/205446 Hay John Davidson (Elgar) BEF 18/9/1916

38181/205753 Clement Saville (Wakefield) BEF 14/10/1916

40048 James Craig (Stockton-on-Tees) BEF 14/10/1916 

32392/77546 Linnaeus William Cutler (Sutton Coldfield) BEF 14/10/1916

 

C Coy

 

2658/200082 Clement Hugh Tinker (Clapham Common) BEF 16/8/1916

1814/200500 Thomas Johnston Evans (Leith) BEF 16/8/1916

1752/200508 Stanley John Conder (Cambridge) BEF 24/8/1916

200513 Arthur Max Rose (Leeds) 

2176/200524 George Thomson Kennedy (Greenock) BEF 16/8/1916

2184/200525 Edgar Parry Williams (Bargoed) BEF16/8/1916

2204/200527 Harry Lodge (Lancaster) BEF 24/8/1916

2223/200531 James Colville Watt (Glasgow) BEF 24/8/1916

2230/200532 Roger Paterson (Edinburgh) BEF 24/8/1916

2241/200534 John Bunting Cornfoot (Perth) BEF 14/8/1916

2243/200535 James MacGregor (Aberdeen) BEF 16/8/1916

2248/200536 James Candlish (Glasgow) BEF 16/8/1916

2278/200537 Ernest Ramsden Spink (Leeds) BEF 16/8/1916

2283/200539 Charles Henry Wallace Hewitt (Blackwood) BEF 16/8/1916

2296/200540 Walter Bloodworth (Bourne) BEF 24/8/1916

2309/200542  Walter Robert Hamilton (Knaphill) BEF 16/8/1916

2527/299547 Frederick John Saker (Woking) BEF 16/8/1916

2602/200551 George Lloyd (Woking) BEF 16/8/1916

2614/200553 Vincent Greaves (Stoke) BEF 16/8/1916

2617/200554 George Kidd Stonehouse (Edinburgh) BEF 16/8/1916

2623/200556 John Edward Bottle Robson (Dover) 16/8/1916

2626/200557 Victor Cecil Newby (Bradford) BEF 24/8/1916

2629/200558 John Loving (Belper) BEF 16/8/1916

2639/200559 Robert Thomas Caldicott (Birmingham) BEF 24/8/1916

2661/200560 Alexander Garden (Aberdeen) BEF 16/8/1916

2663/200561 Clifford Charles Ridout (Birmingham) BEF 24/8/1916

2664/200562 Joseph Hill (Leek) BEF 24/8/1916

2672/200563 Ernest John Edwards (Newhaven) BEF16/8/1916

2692/200569 Alfred Ernest Hemington (Sheffield) BEF 24/8/1916 

2694/200570 Edward Lawrence Appleby (Castle Cary) 

2702/200571 Hubert Savage (Leeds) BEF 16/8/1916

2720/200574 William Neilson Smith (Glasgow) BEF 16/8/1916 

2725/200575 Harry Broster (Stafford) BEF 16/8/1916

2727/200576 Alfred Bernard Simpson (Highbury) BEF 16/8/1916

2734/200577 Daniel James Dean (Stafford) 

2736/200578 Frederick Cecil Stone (Belper) BEF 16/8/1916

2752/200581 Herbert Rothera (Bolton) BEF 16/8/1916

2773/200582 Joseph Shepherd (Kentish Town) BEF 16/8/1916

2796/200584 James McDonald (Shipley) BEF 16/8/1916

200591 John Monk (Wingate) BEF

2929/200592 Wilfred Clarence Edwards (Coventry) BEF 24/8/1916

2930/200593 Reginald Harry Fisher (Reepham) BEF 24/8/1916
2936/200595 George High Bissed (Dundee) BEF 24/8/1916

32483/200596 Alexander Lawson (Darvel) BEF 

2997/200597 John Webby (Yeovil) BEF 24/8/1916

32024/200624 George Joseph Rogers (Bedminster) BEF 16/8/1916

38028/200625 Gordon Jennings (Shipley) BEF 16/8/1916

32037/200626 Reginald James Acock (Cheltenham) BEF 24/8/1916

32063/200627 William Artemus Chadd (Camberwell) BEF 7/8/1916

32069/200628 Robert John Pritchard (Nottingham) BEF 16/8/1916

32085/200630 Thomas John Philips (Leicester) BEF 24/8/1916

32086/200631 James Alfred Booth (Rochdale) BEF 16/8/1916

200633 Donald James Thompson - BEF 24/8/1916

32115/200634 Walter Newington (Wadhurst) BEF 16/8/1916

32141/200637 John Alfred Witty (Leeds) BEF 24/8/1916

32186/200639 James Walton (Blackburn) BEF 16/8/1916

32283/200642 John Funk (Sheffield) BEF 14/8/1916

32329 William Alfred Tyrer  (Liverpool) BEF 16/8/1916

32361/200644 Robert Tate (Sunderland) BEF 16/8/1916

32476/200648 Wilfred Vernon Giddins (Crowland) BEF 16/8/1916

32482/200649 Reginald Whalley (Manchester) BEF 16/8/1916

200650 Robert George Carruthers (Edinburgh) BEF 16/8/196

32488/200651 Clifford Ainley (Rotherham) BEF 7/8/1916

32490/200652 Frank Halford (Bradford) BEF 24/8/1916

38013/200664 Joseph Edward Wressell (Scawby) BEF 16/8/1916

38046/200666 George Philip Jones (Leytonstone) BEF 16/8/1916

38049/200667 Henry John Groves (Witney) BEF 16/8/1916

38071/200669 Victor Toombs (Mildenhall) BEF 16/8/1916

38027/200673 William John Thomas Higgs (Coventry) 16/8/1916

38246/200675 Robert Read (Evercreech) BEF 24/8/1916

38055/200668 Reginald Ernest Pinnock (Hammersmith) BEF 16/8/1916

2686/200800 Arthur Wood (Hornsey) BEF 16/8/1916

2964/200825 Denton Winter (Leeds) BEF 24/8/1916

2966/200827 Louis William Vince (Whatfield) - 28/8/1916

38026/200904 Arthur Race (Barnsley) BEF 2/9/1916

2670/201066 Lionel Hemworth McAdam (London) BEF 16/8/1916

32124/201367 Francis John Dyer (Curry Rivel) BEF 16/8/1916

32485/201461 John Joseph Bowker (Tattenhall) BEF 16/8/1916

32046/201923 John Armitstead (Golder's Green) BEF 16/8/1916

32095/205384 Arthur Branfield (St Albans)  BEF 24/8/1916

2668/205390 Henry James Bedford (Walton-on-Thames) BEF 24/8/1916

2776/205450 Arthur Frederick Jakins (Lee) BEF 

2744/205438 Alfred Edward Howard (Wilmslow) BEF 24/8/1916

32480/205505 John Walter Sutherland (Wealdstone) BEF 24/8/1916

32479/205529 Eddie Walton (Oldham) BEF 16/8/1916

M2/033969 Alfred Boult (Thirsk) BEF 22/8/1916

 

D Coy

 

2074/200770 Albert Smith (Preston) BEF 28/8/1916

2098/200771 Sydney Thompson (Oldham) BEF 28/8/1916

2442/200774 James Anderson (Leith) BEF 28/8/1916

2443/200775 George Kenneth Hume (Edinburgh) BEF 28/8/1916

2444/200776 Arthur James Adams Pearce  (Brondesbury) BEF 28/8/1916

2475/200780 Fred Gomersall (Dewsbury) BEF 28/8/1916

2477/200781 John Morris Tennant (Edinburgh) BEF 28/8/1916 

2493/200783 John William Applegate (Aldershot) BEF 2/9/1916

2502/200784 Charles Samuel Smedley (Birmingham) BEF 28/8/1916

2511/200787 Cecil Sydney Chalfont (Wembley) BEF 28/8/1916

2522/200789  Ernest Alfred Didcote (Woking) BEF 28/8/1916

2569/200792  William Lauder Hogarth (Galashiels) BEF 28/8/1916

2625/200793 William Frank Steer (Sittingbourne) BEF 28/8/1916

2631/200794 George Goring (Birmingham) BEF 28/8/1916

2652/200795 James George Daniel Honour (Kilburn) BEF 28/8/1916

2677/200798 Alexander Urquhart Malcolm (Edinburgh) BEF 28/8/1916

2684/200799  Alfred Henry Roy Reiffer (Sydenham) BEF 1/9/1916

2697/200802 Gordon Beale Collins (Yeovil) BEF 28/8/1916

2715/200803 William Sinclair Barrie (Kensington) BEF 28/8/1916

2732/200804 Charles Maynard (Southend) BEF 28/8/1916

2739/200805 Alfred Howard Broughton (Nottingham) BEF 28/8/1916

2758/200806 Reginald Ninian Laverty (Winchester) BEF 28/8/1916

2762/200807 Gordon Fletcher Baldwin (Bonnyrigg) BEF 28/8/1916

2782/200810 Charles Platt Stuart (Wigan) 28/8/1916

2838/200812 Cecil Albert Mather (Nottingham) BEF 28/8/1916

2852/200813 Samuel Ernest Cotton (Loughborough) BEF 28/8/1916

2864/200814 Joseph William Clark (Corbridge on Tyne) BEF 2/9/191

2876/200816 William Ernest Foster (Manchester) BEF 1/9/1916

2906/200818 James Sowden Cressey (Hull) BEF 1/9/1916

2934/200820 James Gilbert Adamson (Cupar) BEF 28/8/1916

2938/200821 Richard John Powell (Balham) BEF 28/8/1916

2963/200824 Cecil Frederick Gloyn (Plymouth) BEF 28/8/1916

2965/200826 Charles Henry Leeming (Walsall) BEF 28/8/1916

2966/200827 Louis William Vince  (Ipswich) 28/8/1916

2972/200828 Horace Stanley Jeffrey (Northampton) BEF 1/9/1916

32003/200837 William George Shelton (Birmingham) BEF 28/8/1916

32030/200838 Francis Norman Moysey (Plymouth) BEF 28/8/1916

32012/200840 Arthur Kettel (Camberwell) BEF 28/8/1916

32036/200843 George Moscrop (Longtown) BEF 1/9/1916

32042/200844 James Blackmore (Porlock) BEF 1/9/1916  

32050/200845 Ernest Frank Hawken (Plymouth) BEF 28/8/1916

38001/200900 Leonard Barton (Manchester) BEF 28/8/1916

32053/205296  Douglas Benson Tweddle (Longtown) BEF 1/9/1916

32080 Frederick John Elliott (Burslem) BEF 28/8/1916

32399/200882 Ronald Nelson Hay (Oxford) BEF 1/9/1916

32468/200891 Cecil Frost (Plymouth) BEF 1/9/1916

32477/200892 John Owen Webber (Exeter) BEF 28/8/1916

32478/200893 Henry Thomas Frederick Reynolds (Exeter) BEF 2/9/1916

32499/200896 Fred Berry (Bolton) BEF 28/8/1916

38025/200903 Herbert Routledge (Carlisle) BEF 1/9/1916

38040/200906 Ernest George Wyatt (London) BEF 28/8/1916

38044/200908 Frederick Joseph Rule (Cornhill on Tweed) BEF 2/9/1916

38019/200912 Faraday Mendelssohn Sladdin (Brighouse) BEF 1/9/1916

32235/200948 Sydney Phillip Wenmouth (Launceston) 1/9/1916 

32148/201652 John William David (Wolverhampton) BEF 7/8/1916

38032/201673 George Edward Howard (Clitheroe) BEF 28/8/1916

38038 Edwin Morgan (Blofield) BEF 2/9/16

32377/201687 Charles Aggis (West Hartlepool) BEF 28/8/1916

32104/201924 Fred Eveson Dorricott (Walsall) BEF 28/8/1916

32232/201926 John Joseph Coles (Westcliffe-on-Sea) BEF 28/8/1916

2993/205064 Reginald John Vandenbergh (Wool)  BEF 28/8/1916

32242/205085 Jacob Glaister (Whitehaven) BEF 1/9/1916

2780/205085 Thomas Fredrick Clayton (Bolton) BEF 28/8/1916

32106/205225 Robert Percy Beesley (Coventry) BEF 28/8/1916

2471/205329 Walter Leslie Bell BEF (Birmingham) 28/8/1916

32326/205398 Alfred Bolingbroke (Brookwood) BEF 28/8/1916

32184/205737 William Marten (Wolverhampton) BEF 28/8/1916

2599/206229 Arthur Archer (Burton on Trent) BEF 28/8/1916

2503/206785 James Blackwood Brunton (Edinburgh) BEF 28/8/1916

Edited 11 December , 2020 by IPT

[Gareth Davies]

I will flag this for @delta

[delta]

We are in touch. IPT has also found several C and D Company crewmen who are not in the landing lists or Woods notebook

[david murdoch]

627/200007 Leslie Saxon Bell (Camberwell) BEF 14/9/1916

 

I have him as Leslie S. Bennett 267/200007 WOII (CSM) previously 3rd Battery MMGS.

Tank Corps 14/15 roll is useful with these early  200### numbers as it links to their previous MMGS number and original embarkation dates. 

[IPT]

27 minutes ago, david murdoch said:

627/200007 Leslie Saxon Bell (Camberwell) BEF 14/9/1916

 

I have him as Leslie S. Bennett 267/200007 WOII (CSM) previously 3rd Battery MMGS.

Tank Corps 14/15 roll is useful with these early  200### numbers as it links to their previous MMGS number and original embarkation dates. 

 

Quite right, my mistake - it's Leslie Saxon Bennett.

 

Cheers.

[david murdoch]

Just now, IPT said:

 

Quite right, my mistake - it's Leslie Saxon Bennett.

 

Cheers.

He jumped out due to that low MMGS number and low 200### number.  Just looking at 200005 the other day as he came from No.2 Battery. A few of the lads in this range seem to have been NCOs / WOs with prior experience in various original MMG batteries. Some possibly transferred to Heavy Section after being out wounded, or transferred as "core" personnel.

David

[tanks3]

IPT

 

For my Lincolnshire Tankies database I am interested William Edward Bocock (Newark - yes I know this is Notts but only just over the border!!)) and Harold Trought (Grimsby) both A Coy men in the list in your OP.  Do you have any further info on these two?  I have looked on ancestry and have their MIC and medal roll details but I was hoping you may have something to confirm their home address and service details.

 

Thanks

 

Tanks3

[IPT]

6 hours ago, tanks3 said:

I have looked on ancestry and have their MIC and medal roll details but I was hoping you may have something to confirm their home address and service details.

 

William Edward Bocock

Attested 9/12/1915 at Newark, aged 19, general farmhand

Father Joseph, Trent Farm, North Cottingham

Mobilized 4/5/1916 at Bisley

Posted to A Coy 27/5/1916

Embarked Southampton 11/9/1916 - Le Havre 12/9/1918

Graded 1st Class Tank Mechanist 29/7/1917

Acting L/Cpl 23/7/1918

Class Z reserve 5/3/1919

Address on discharge - Redhouse, Cottingham, Newark.

MM LG 17/6/1919 - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31405/page/7703/

 

Harold Trought

Attested Grimsby 11/12/1915, aged 18, motor engineer

15 Kettlewell Street, Grimsby. NOK Mrs Trought

Mobilized 4/5/1916 at Bisley

Posted to A Coy 27/5/1916

Embarked Southampton 11/9/1916 - Le Havre 12/9/1916

Wounded GSW left knee 20/11/1917, admitted 61 FA

Admitted 55 CSS 22/11/1917, 12th GH Rouen 24/11/1917, 2nd London General Hospital, Chelsea 19/12/1917 - 5/4/1918

Catterick Military Hospital - Broncho Pneumonia 18/5/1918 - 13/8/1918

Tank Corps Depot, Wareham

Transferred class Z 19/2/1919

 

I've also just added 38098/200162 George Needham, if you haven't got him.

Edited 1 November , 2017 by IPT

[johntaylor]

Hi, the list is very interesting - could you tell me the source of the information please?

 

Thanks, John

[IPT]

Hi John,

 

All the information comes from surviving service/pension papers.

[david murdoch]

2 hours ago, johntaylor said:

Hi, the list is very interesting - could you tell me the source of the information please?

 

Thanks, John

 It is very interesting - there are actually a lot more MMGS service records surviving than I had imagined - this in part being due to large numbers transferring to the Tank Corps (whose records have a higher survival rate than MGC), also there was a high rate of commissions especially amongst  the earlier volunteers.

 

[johntaylor]

Thanks for the explanation.  A lot of hard work has obviously gone into this list - well done!

 

All the best, John

[tanks3]

IPT

 

Lovely thank you so much.  Yes I would like Needham if it is not too much trouble

 

Thanks

 

Tanks3

[IPT]

35 minutes ago, tanks3 said:

Yes I would like Needham if it is not too much trouble

 

George Henry Needham

DOB 20/5/1897

Attested Holbeach 9/12/1915. Father George Henry.

Joined 1/5/1916 Bisley, aged 18, motor cyclist

Posted A Coy 27/5/1916, BEF 11/9/1916

Wounded 2/10/1917

Promoted M Cpl Class 1 26/10/1918

Promoted TM Sgt 23/11/1918

Military Medal 11/2/1919 - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31173/supplement/2121/data.pdf

Recruiting duty Whitehall 1/7/1919

19th Bn Tank Corps 16/7/1919

Class Z Reserve - 27/9/1919

Address on discharge - Church Street, Holbeach

 

Edited 2 November , 2017 by IPT

[tanks3]

Brilliant.  Thanks IPT

 

Tanks3

[INW]

38366/200193 Albert Victor Day (Clapton) BEF 11/9/1916

I met the daughter of this soldier at a tank lecture last Wednesday would like to pass on to her anything you may have on him. I think she has seen is service record but I cannot extract it from ancestry. Any advice on this would be gratefully received.

 

INW

[IPT]

1 hour ago, INW said:

38366/200193 Albert Victor Day (Clapton) BEF 11/9/1916

I met the daughter of this soldier at a tank lecture last Wednesday would like to pass on to her anything you may have on him. I think she has seen is service record but I cannot extract it from ancestry. Any advice on this would be gratefully received.

 

INW

 

I'm afraid I haven't got much;

 

Albert Victor Day attested 11/12/1915 at Hackney Baths

Age 18, Occupation: Silk warehouseman address: 3 Powerscroft Road, Lower Clapton

Born 13/12/1896 Shoreditch. Baptised 17/1/1897 Shoreditch St Leaonard

NOK: Parents Edwin & Alice - above address

Joined at Bisley 19/5/1916

Posted A Coy 27/5/1916

Embarked Southampton 11/9/1916, Le Havre 12/9/1916

Graded as 1st Class Tank Mechanist 29/7/1917

Wounded 20/11/1917

Appointed A/Cpl 8/8/1918

Military Medal LG 20/11/1917 - 200193 Pte. Day, A. V., 1st Bn. (Clapton) - https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31173/supplement/2121/data.pdf

Transferredto Class Z reserve 16/3/1919

 

 

1911 Census at 144 Bishops Road Bethnal Green

 

Edwin    Day    Head    Married    Male    Tailors Cutter    46    1865    City of London    
Alice    Day    Wife    Married    Female    -    44    1867    Bethnel Green E    
Emily    Day    Daughter    Single    Female    Dressmaker    20    1891    Dalston London    
Alice    Day    Daughter    Single    Female    Milliner    19    1892    Stoke Newington London   
Edwin Henry    Day    Son    Single    Male    Tailors Apprentice    16    1895    Shoreditch London    
Albert Victor    Day    Son    -    Male    School    14    1897    Shoreditch London    
Sydney John    Day    Son    -    Male    School    12    1899    Shoreditch London    
Winifred    Day    Daughter    -    Female    School    7    1904    Shoreditch London

 

Ancestry is free this weekend and the papers are here. Perhaps others can spot more that i've missed. - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/1219/miuk1914h_132279-00301?pid=515899&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DfKa245%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26gss%3Dangs-c%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3Dalbert%20victor%26gsfn_x%3D1%26gsln%3Dday%26gsln_x%3D1%26cp%3D0%26catbucket%3Drstp%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Didw%26pcat%3D39%26h%3D515899%26dbid%3D1219%26indiv%3D1%26ml_rpos%3D11&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fKa245&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true

 

Brother 106763 Sydney John Day, MGC - https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=fKa249&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&gsln=day&gsln_x=1&gskw="3 Powerscroft "&gskw_x=1&cp=0&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=1&uidh=idw&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=570963&dbid=1219&indiv=1&ml_rpos=24

[INW]

IPT

Thank you very much for this and the links worked fine.  I am a member of Ancestry but for some reason I just could not get a search to work for Albert's Service record on Ancestry previously. His army career was very similar to that of my Grandfather.

INW

 

[IPT]

I've added some C & D Coy men to this list. 

[Waggoner]

Nice to see some of the A.S.C. drivers listed. There are probably more.

 

All the best,

 

Gary

[delta]

Thanks for the updated list - more gold revealed.

32427/200888 Henry Oates Richardson (Dewsbury) BEF 18/9/1916 shown with D Company was probably a reinforcement originally with B Compay

I will  follow up  

Edited 20 November , 2020 by delta

[IPT]

8 minutes ago, delta said:

Thanks for the updated list - more gold revealed.

32427/200888 Henry Oates Richardson (Dewsbury) BEF 18/9/1916 shown with D Company was probably a reinforcement originally with B Compay

I will  follow up  

 

Yes, he was B Coy.  My mistake.

 

He was posted to D Coy 30/9/1916 but I have been following your 15/9 rule, so I will amend it.

[delta]

No please leave him where he was - I normally track them using their deployment date, 

Have just found his service record and see he was wounded on 20 Nov 1917 and again on 27 Sep 1918

I will be able to tell the members of the FTC Facebook Group about him tomorrow 

Thanks once again for all you are doing.

 

My current project is the first volume in a new Tank Corps history but I keep coming back to my obsession......

Edited 21 November , 2020 by delta
Inability to write concise English

[delta]

I have found details of his original crew in B Company from an entry of the Peterborough Station soldier's room.  Henry visited the place en route from Elveden on 6 September 1916.  

I have also found details of his marriage, the birth of his two children and the fact that he fell on hard times.  He became homeless and was later jailed for 2 months, following his theft from a Salvation Army hostel. Henry died in the summer of 1936; his wife and children living with his father in law in 1939. 

 

Lest we forget. 

  

. 

[IPT]

That’s an unexpectedly sad tale. What a shame.

 

I’ve put him in B Company for now though, because there are a number of other men listed there who were also posted to D Coy at the end of September.