CSm Till

[Joe Walsh]

Does anyone have any idea to what kind of company or company my grandad was in when he entered the war in 23-8-15. He was in the RE.

[Terry_Reeves]

Joe

There were over 1800 RE units serving in all theatres. The range of units was very large , for example there were Field Companies, the Messenger Dog Service, Army Troops companies. well boring sections, the Army Postal Service, Field Survey Battalions, Electric Light companies, Searchlight companies, the numerous branches of the Signal Service, Printing companies, ect, ect. It is very difficult, and sometimes impossible, to pinpoint the unit of a Royal Engineer. Don't give up though, sometimes you can get lucky.

Terry Reeves

[Joe Walsh]

Once on the forum someone mentiones some thing about the date probably meaning he was in a tunneling company, but I don't really know where to go from there and i was looking for confirmation on this.

[bernardmcilwaine]

hiya joe,your grandad was in the 701st coy,No290121,CSM,born gorton

manchester,MM 20-8-19,bernard

i would check his place of birth,i think he was living there, not born

[bernardmcilwaine]

joe,this is all i can find mate,

701st RE,light railway,sept 1917 at fremicourt,another coy in the same area was employed on burying dead,so it looks like supplies going in and dead coming out.

officers

capt,r.b bristed

capt,w.ramsey

Lt,c.s yates

2ndLt,a.c newton

2ndLt,c.hoy

capt ramsey transferred to the chinese lab corps later on

you now have officers, an area,and a date,there is a war diary for this unit at the n/a,they were part of 58th group,bernard

[bernardmcilwaine]

i will check the casualtys in the diary,bernard

[bernardmcilwaine]

joe,these are the only casualties i can find for your g/fathers unit.

pioneers.

112022,william coleman,died at home 29-12-15

110408,john davey,died at home 1-2-16

111999,william,francis gough,died at home 20-3-17

111219,edwin hart,died in F+F 4-7-16

111961,harry mustow,died in F+F 30-8-16 [cpl] [not on cwgc]

111126,george ricketts,died in F+F 31-3-17 [missing]

111050,george rossitor,died in F+F 26-12-16

111161,charles scrivens,died in F+F 5-1-17 [a/cpl] [died of wounds]

111233,charles wheeldon,died at home 13-1-16.

bernard

[Joe Walsh]

Thanks alot I don't hnow how you did it. He wasn't born in Manchester but he did live there before the war. I reckon it is him because his labour coy was formed in sep 1917 in the mory area which is near Fremicourt i think. Just one thing doesn't add up the guy Ivor from the LC said in the routine order is an announcement fo mm on 25 feb 19 but pehaps he made a mistake. You got his reg. no. right so it must be him.

You've no idea how much you've helped.

Cheers

Joe

[bernardmcilwaine]

joe,the date i gave for his MM is probably the date it appeared in the paper,bernard