William Mcvey Highland Light Infantry

[George Rayner]

Currently in Normandy with a friend whose relative 

William Mcvey 3353 & 241057 (or McVey) served in 1/6th Highland Light Infantry

Died 5/10/1918

Buried Cantaing Cemetery (CWGC)

Ancestry has Effects

https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60506/42511_6117462_0173-00193?pid=697319&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D60506%26h%3D697319%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DYiy21582%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Yiy21582&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.192079146.1487240064.1565855077-1533967676.1499237068

Question 1 please

When did he sign on given this war gratuity paid to his father William?

War Diary for 5/10/18 has this page

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60779/43112_2898_3-00336?pid=517045&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DYiy21594%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D60779%26cp%3D0%26msydy%3D1918%26msydy_x%3D1%26msydm%3D10%26msydm_x%3D1%26msydd%3D5%26msydd_x%3D1%26_F0007CF4%3DHighland%20Light%20Infantry%26_F0007CF4_x%3D1%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26uidh%3Dq9c%26redir%3Dfalse%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D39%26fh%3D4%26h%3D517045%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D5&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Yiy21594&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=43112_2898_3-00336

Question Two

Can a clever map person please overlay this position onto a modern map?

(Working on the supposition that W Mcvey is the casualty as listed.)

 

I haven't found a service record yet. 

Question Three-can anybody else.

 

Thank you all in anticipation

 

George

 

 

 

 

 

[ss002d6252]

https://www.wargratuity.uk/war-gratuity-calculator/

 

Craig

[jonbem]

Place	Map Sheet #	Map Squares
Cantigneul Mill	57cNE2	F30

 

this is mentioned on previous page of diary from you link

However a search for a nearby Copse brings several possibilities https://library.mcmaster.ca/php/searchwwimaps.php?f=search&s1=Copse&type=place&submit=Search

[MaxD]

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15&lat=50.1548&lon=3.2142&layers=101465116&right=BingHyb  south of Proville marked on the trench map as (something) Copse/

Just on the next map sheet to the east from the mill at F 30.

Max 

[George Rayner]

Thank you all very much.

 

May need help with mapping still!

 

George

[George Rayner]

Got my head round it. Thank you very much.

 

Friend very pleased and will visit when homeward bound

 

George

[MaxD]

Great.  The copse is stlll there and makes sense with a move from F 30 starting at 1930 and relief complete by 2300 at A 26.  0.6 of a mile in a straight line.

 

No detailed service record except a medical record, epilepsy in Alexandria in Jun 1917

 

Max.

[jonbem]

On McMaster http://lt1.mcmaster.ca/ww1/wrz4mp.php?grid=57b

57b NW

1:20,000

Cambrai - Masnieres

1918/09

It looks like Paris Copse

[George Rayner]

Yes thanks Max that's what we also found this afternoon.

 

George