Sapper A Rampling 3/D.S Coy RE

[Rob B]

Hello,

The forum has exeeded my wildest dreams and has got me digging all sorts of things out and I wondered if any one could throw light on a Military Medal I bought 20 years ago.

312349 Sapper A Rampling 3 D/S Coy Royal Engineers it is 1st war and I would love to know what he got it for and where and what does D/S Company mean?

Thanks,

Rob

[Andrew Hesketh]

Rob,

Are you familiar with the London Gazette online? If not, it's at: http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSe...e=0&Referer=WW1

It's got one of the the world's most irritating search engines, but as Rampling is perhaps not too common a name you may be lucky. However you are unlikely to get a citation for an MM, just the date of the gazette.

D/S Coy? No idea.

[Andrew Hesketh]

Rob,

Are you familiar with the London Gazette online? If not, it's at: http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSe...e=0&Referer=WW1

It's got one of the the world's most irritating search engines, but as Rampling is perhaps not too common a name you may be lucky. However you are unlikely to get a citation for an MM, just the date of the gazette.

D/S Coy? No idea.

[mcderms]

Search on his number and you'll get a better response.

[Coldstreamer]

Hello

cant find it for you on the name / number on the LG

you could download the details from

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...1&resultcount=4

Ian

[Stebie9173]

A D/S company was a divisional signal company.

It operated telpehone lines (and other signalling devices) between the Divisions Brigades and Divsional HQ. Signallers within the Infantry battalions themselves handled communications between Battalion and Brigade levels.

3 DSC would be attached to 3rd Division.

See here for some details.

http://www.1914-1918.net/whatfieldcoy.htm

Judging by his number he would not have transferred to RE before the latter part of 1917 (or been allocated there if a later recruit). That might narrow down the MM award to a late 1917, through to more probably 1918.

Steve.