Sgt. George Walter Furniss MM, 33048, 29th Field Ambulance RAMC, 9th (Scottish) Division 1916

[charlie962]

On 12/06/2021 at 11:54, Ivor Anderson said:

He appears to have gone to live and work in Venezuela for a time post 1923

1.  His service record includes medical reports 1920 and '21 from a doctor in Venezuela,  working for the Caribbean Petroleum Company. This company had been acquired by Shell in 1913. 

Furniss was a building contractor prewar. 

2. That second service number seems to have been issued 25/10/1918 when he was deemed to have enlisted under a normal engagement, ie 3/9. What was this about? Theoretically when he went to Venezuela he was still in the Reserve. 

Charlie

[Ivor Anderson]

Thanks Charlie. His father was a plumbing contractor and he was listed as a 'plumber & painter' in 1911. I suppose oil pipelines needed plumbing engineers.

He was home again in time to sail from Southampton to New York, on route to Venezuela in September 1927 (Manifest below - Ancestry)

[Ivor Anderson]

Found another consecutive sch. no. 33482, Abbott 27418, ASC att'd 27th FA RAMC (TNA image):

Edited 31 July , 2022 by Ivor Anderson