The more i find out about my great grandfather the more confused i become...
It looks like he may have lied about his age, he said he was 32 when actually nearer to 42! Why would he have done this? He was from Birmingham but his attestation certificate shows he joined the Royal Warwickshires however his service record shows him training with 12th batt worcesters at wareham from 17.8.14 to 14.10.15. Now the first part of my confusion, i thought basic training was only around 10 weeks or so.... why was he with them for the best part of 14 months?
Anyone know whereabouts of the camp was (wareham could be a generic term for bovington, worgret or lulworth and the area in between)
My great grandfather landed at Gallipoli on 28.10.1915 as a part of replacement troops for the 9th Battalion Worcesters. They had already landed as a unit in June 1915, as part of 39 Brigade of 13 Division. On 15.2.1916 he left for Mesopotamia. On 21.8.1916 he was evacuated to India with illness. On 21.12.1916 he was transferred to the Royal Warwicks. The papers say he was in Mespot till 1919,and then on 14.3.1919 to 29.3.1919 he was in Egypt. There is some missing information on the postings sheet so it looks incomplete and in places confusing.
Anyone know the wherabouts of the hospital in india....could he have caught malaria?? He was granted leave due to 5 of his brothers dying and also his mother, whilst on leave he wrote to the war office asking to be released from service due to chronic rheumatism caused by active service in the dardanelles and mesopotamia, the regt told him to get back to egypt with his birth certificate because they thought he'd lied about his age on joining up
Anyone know what the 9th batt were up to in mesopotamia? lots of questions i know but the more i find out the more i need to know!!!!