Darloboy Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Hi. Thanks for letting me join. This is my first post and I am seeking help rather than contributing. I am researching the grandfather of a friend. He was not exactly a model soldier and I am trying to find out what his punishments were, he had a few. He enlisted and was placed in the reserves. While at summer camp he received four and a half days detention. . Six weeks after mobilisation he received 3 days confined to barracks and 2 days loss of pay. Then in a nine week period at Wyke Regis he received 4 days CC. 7 days CC. 5 days CC. 7 days CC. 7 days detention. 21 days detention Admonished. 7 days detention. In August 1918 he was sent to France for 7 weeks and was awarded 10 days Field Punishment No 1. . Help needed on what they all are and mean please. Thank you and STAY SAFE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) CC = Confined to camp, Wyke Regis being a camp on the outskirts of Weymouth. Field Punishment No.1 Here Alan. Edited 18 April , 2020 by Alan24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Detention = confinement in a military prison or similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) Admonished = Verbal reprimand and stern warning. Usually given when the default concerned doesn't quite cross the threshold to award a substantive punishment. However, it does go on record on the 'company conduct sheet' (which is periodically destroyed), leaving only the 'battalion conduct sheet' as a permanent record. Edited 18 April , 2020 by FROGSMILE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darloboy Posted 18 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Many thanks gentlemen. The soldier in question returned home in October 1918 and was discharged in April 1920, He seems to have spent the intervening 18 months in a hospital before being discharged with 'Exhaustion Psychosis'. . Before I began the research the family told me he came home suffering from 'shell shock', it seems that he may have had an existing problem. Again many thanks and stay safe. I will now go and have a wander around other parts of the site. I did look up Wyke Regis camp on Wiki, it said it was built in 1928 which threw me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 23 minutes ago, Darloboy said: I did look up Wyke Regis camp on Wiki, it said it was built in 1928 which threw me. The 3rd Battalion Dorsetshire Regt were there in 1917 as part of the Portland Garrison. The site is still green fields (at the moment) a road named 'Camp Road' run through it...bit of a clue there. The location is within the red ring below. Note! The red ring is not intended to mark the boundary of the camp, just the approx location. Regards Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darloboy Posted 18 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) Many thanks, he was in the 3rd at Wyke Regis May-August 1918. He went to France on the 27/8/18, do you know if the Bttn went or did they just get rid of him? Edited 18 April , 2020 by Darloboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 10 minutes ago, Darloboy said: Many thanks, he was in the 3rd at Wyke Regis May-August 1918. He went to France on the 27/8/18, do you know if the Bttn went or did they just get rid of him? They wouldn't of got rid of him. There was a desperate need for men by that time in the war. He would have been transferred to join another battalion already overseas. 3rd Dorsets would have remained a training battalion at Wyke Regis. His medal roll may show which battalion he first served with in the war zone. If you give his name I'll see if anything shows which battalions he served with overseas. Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 18 April , 2020 Admin Share Posted 18 April , 2020 I wonder if he was a conscientous objector. A detachment of the Non Combatant Corps passed through the camp at Wyke Regis. You would need to do more research, a name often helps Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darloboy Posted 18 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2020 He enlisted on the 10.12.1915. Mobilised 21.3.1917. William Stanley 40680 Originally Devons. May have been in some military unit before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 5 minutes ago, Darloboy said: He enlisted on the 10.12.1915. Mobilised 21.3.1917. William Stanley 40680 Originally Devons. May have been in some military unit before. The medal roll shows he was posted to the 1st Battalion Dorsets overseas. Regards Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxD Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 It looks as if he hadn't even arrived at his battalion in France when he committed the offence for which he received the FP No 1 as the offence was at Rouen on 31 Aug 1918, his date of arrival is given as 27 Aug. His battalion was in the line miles away near Belloy. The witnesses were two RAMC officers, the charge feigning disease, deafness which he didn't have. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 (edited) His service is quite nicely summed up here. 13th Devon (Works) Battalion...which became 3rd Labour Corps in April 1917 3rd Dorsets 1st Dorsets He enlisted under the terms of the Group Scheme and Between 10.12.15 and 21.03.17 would have carried on with his civilian job at home. He clearly didn't like being in the army despite being a volunteer! Regards Alan Edited 18 April , 2020 by Alan24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darloboy Posted 18 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Many thanks guys! On the front page of his service records it looks as though he answers 'yes' to being in the army previously and it looks like Gloucestershire ?? . I did tell the family that he may not be the dashing hero who missed out on a VC. Hope they don't think I was joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxD Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 His previous service was in the Gloucestershire Militia (the last word is very faint). Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darloboy Posted 18 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 18 April , 2020 Thank you, I could see some 'tall' letters I thought it might be volunteers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Woodland Posted 18 April , 2020 Share Posted 18 April , 2020 12 hours ago, Alan24 said: CC = Confined to camp, Wyke Regis being a camp on the outskirts of Weymouth. Field Punishment No.1 Here Alan. I did a week at Wyke Regis camp in 1965 whilst training on Chesil Beach with the RE prior to going to Borneo. As I recall it was an old camp with wooden accommodation so it may well have been the same camp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullerTurner Posted 20 April , 2020 Share Posted 20 April , 2020 On 18/04/2020 at 14:44, Darloboy said: The soldier in question returned home in October 1918 and was discharged in April 1920, He seems to have spent the intervening 18 months in a hospital before being discharged with 'Exhaustion Psychosis'. I would imagine his adjutant and RSM also suffered from exhaustion psychoses... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darloboy Posted 20 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 20 April , 2020 1 hour ago, BullerTurner said: I would imagine his adjutant and RSM also suffered from exhaustion psychoses... The friend I am doing the research for remembers, as a young child, seeing him as an old man and being told that he never fully recovered from 'his time in the trenches'. Trench time would seem to be very limited, if any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxD Posted 20 April , 2020 Share Posted 20 April , 2020 Wonderful! Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullerTurner Posted 22 April , 2020 Share Posted 22 April , 2020 On 20/04/2020 at 16:29, Darloboy said: The friend I am doing the research for remembers, as a young child, seeing him as an old man and being told that he never fully recovered from 'his time in the trenches'. Trench time would seem to be very limited, if any. There is no set time in the trenches to induce psychosis or PTSD. One man might last four years, another four days. Another might seem entirely asymptomatic until a trigger - a memory, a scent, a sound - came into play. i commend Lord Moran’s The Anatomy of Courage to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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