Occupation

Gramps ID E0974
Date estimated between 1916 and 1919
Place Mesopotamia
Description South Staffordshire Regiment & Surrey Regiment. AMA, 2019: Ran away from 6th form (Cambridge?) to join up, partly to piss off his father Jonah. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29655/supplement/6732/data.pdf and https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29655/supplement/6733/data.pdf appear to show him being transferred from an officer cadet unit with the Surrey Regiment to be 2nd Lt in the S Staffs. He apparently served in the second Mesopotamian campaign. The National Archives page shows him as a Lieutenant with the S Staffs.

Source References

  1. NIA letters/family postcards in tin trunk [S0148]
  2. TGEA: TGEA < AMA [S0039]
  3. National Archives [S0161]
      • Page: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1133114?descriptiontype=Full&ref=WO+339/79283