Found something searching one of the on-line genealogy databases, says he was 9th Labour Company KLR from 1917, and later 74th Company Labour Corps. What I now suspect is that he was a Clerk with the railways before signing up aged 21, and rail was the main way to keep the army running back then, so I suspect his role in the Manchester Regiment, then KLR, then Labour Corps was all to do with rail supplies, hence Labour company work right through the war, and his later life with LNER.
Steve
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