Military help please

My grandfather served in all the services between 1910 and 1920.
Please look at the following site for document scans

Richard van Schaik...

This one links to a picture on your harddisk ........ I couldn't find
this harddisk on the internet :-D Please correct the link within the
.htm file of the .jpg to the location and name on your site.

CWatters...

Hi Chris,

We can't see the pictures because they reside on your hard drive. You need
to host the pictures on geocities or one of the free hosts like

I have his naval records and found that he was discharged from the service
after he deserted within a year of enlistment.

I then have his RAF records and these seems to indicate that he was in the
army from april 1916 and he then joined the RFC Feb 1918 and then the RAF
Oct 1918 as a mechanic.

But I am trying to find his Army records. I think that he was in the 3rd
Dorsets (a little difficult to read all the words) But the 3rd Dorsets never
left the UK. But again on the RAF record it states that he was wounded in

shrbw...

Any third battalion of a line regiment was usually a Special Reserve
unit. Before the war, they provided basic taining for the Special
Reserve, a volunteer force that undertook to present themselves for
regular training periods and an annual camp in Britain. Unlike the
territorials they could be called out and sent overseas in time of war,
or in an emergency. In the Great War, they exercised a training
function while providing a garrison at a vulnerable point in Britain.
But they also functioned as a draft finding unit for an active service
battalion.

Your ancestor would have trained with them, and then gone overseas to
another unit.

Oct 1916(when in the Army). His photo (see the web page) indicates that he

shrbw...

At this time of the war, he may have been serving with another
battalion of the Dorsets.

has two wound stripes.

There is another entry that seems to indicate that something occured in
egypt? Wounded or posted there with the RFC. Can anybody help here?

shrbw...

The Royal Flying Corps was part of the British Army at this time. It
was not incommon for personnel to be transferred to it from infantry
regiments.

I can not find him in the WW1 Campaign Medals search on the PRO site.

shrbw...

He may have been issued with another service number at some stage.

So the questions that I am trying to answer are.

Does his records show that he was in the 3rd Dorsets?

shrbw...

Only initially.

If he was, is it possible that he was transfered from them and then was
wounded?

shrbw...

He would have been drafted to an active service unit.

Would he have been entitled to some sort of medal?

I have not been able to find his army records (I paid for a researcher to
look for these on my behalf). Where else could I try in my quest to find
some record of his army life?

shrbw...

One assumes that he ended up in the RAF, when it was formed in 1918.
Have you tried their records?

Dr. Barry Worthington

Many tanks for any help

Chris Henning