BIFFO Posted 5 January , 2020 Share Posted 5 January , 2020 after Nov 11th 1918,and units were being "stood down"when they troops were in France/Belgium,would they be demobbed there OR brought back to uk them demobbed from their depots?. My latest "researched"welsh man was in the 19th Glamorgan Pioneers Welsh Regiment,he was in France ,the WD doesn't say other than the 1st batch sent back to uk 14th January 1919 would he be returned on a troop ship gone to his depot for the Welsh Regiment then demobbed from Maindy barracks Cardiff?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 5 January , 2020 Share Posted 5 January , 2020 This article may help https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/other-aspects-of-order-of-battle/dispersal-units-for-demobilisation-purposes-1918-1920/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIFFO Posted 6 January , 2020 Author Share Posted 6 January , 2020 Thank you Chris, thats cleared up the confusion Biffo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matlock1418 Posted 6 January , 2020 Share Posted 6 January , 2020 You might also be interested to read THE SOLDIERS' PEACE by Michael Senior (2018) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RobertBr Posted 7 January , 2020 Share Posted 7 January , 2020 On 05/01/2020 at 18:13, Chris_Baker said: This article may help https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/other-aspects-of-order-of-battle/dispersal-units-for-demobilisation-purposes-1918-1920/ Chris Did this apply to all men, independent of service branch, based on their area/county of residence? My Grandfather was RFA from Oxfordshire which should mean he was discharged at Chisledon (quiet convenient actually) however his diary records him travelling by train from Swindon to '?eysbury' (first character(s) is unreadable) on the Salisbury Plain. I have various demob papers which are stamped Woolich, Blackheath and Fovant. The only rail station I can find on existing/closed lines out of Swindon that could match is Heytesbury for Knook Camp. Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 8 January , 2020 Share Posted 8 January , 2020 Heytesbury immediately came to my mind when I read your last post. And there was a railway station nearby. During the Great War, it was called Heytesbury Camp and then re-named Knook. Swindon, of course, is very close to Chisledon, which had its own station and siding and platform. (This wasn't on the main line, though a camp halt was opened after the war.) And, as the LLT article shows, Fovant was also a demobilisation centre. One can suggest all sorts of reasons for your grandfather's journey. Perhaps he had some business to carry out at Heytesbury Camp and the journey from there to Fovant would have been easier than to Chisledon. Moonraker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIFFO Posted 21 January , 2020 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2020 i have a chap Rees Jenkins 2779, 6th batt W.R,born in Swansea,joined the W.R, went off to WF,became wounded(dont know how yet) released no longer physically fit,with S.W.B. and pension,all his papers say,from infantry base depot,as per Chris post would that mean western command dispersal area,? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertBr Posted 21 January , 2020 Share Posted 21 January , 2020 On 08/01/2020 at 16:56, Moonraker said: Heytesbury immediately came to my mind when I read your last post. Thanks Moonraker. That makes sense, the MSWJR was a Red Herring! Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grantowi Posted 21 February , 2020 Share Posted 21 February , 2020 On 21/01/2020 at 20:15, RobertBr said: Thanks Moonraker. That makes sense, the MSWJR was a Red Herring! Possibly not, the MSWJR line ran from Southampton to Swindon, so would have been the logical way to get troops from the ships, up to the main London / Bristol line and from the camp at Chiseldon to the Southampton ships for deployment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertBr Posted 22 February , 2020 Share Posted 22 February , 2020 On 21/02/2020 at 23:00, grantowi said: Possibly not, the MSWJR line ran from Southampton to Swindon, so would have been the logical way to get troops from the ships, up to the main London / Bristol line and from the camp at Chiseldon to the Southampton ships for deployment I omitted from my first post that prior to his Demob he was stationed in Germany(Germund). His diary lists his route as Calais to Dover, then London, Reading, Swindon and then Heytesbury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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