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Silver wound badge number
Is anyone on one of the 'ancestry' websites and happy to check a number for me please ?
Thank you B223080 |
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Looking at your other post (the one with photos) I read the number as B223088
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Thank you, may even be a 6 ?
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Had my glasses on , but enlarged photos to check and definitely an 8 .
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Thank you Mike, much appreciated. Always good to have two pairs of eyes.
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My one pair of eyes are not as good as they used to be , so if I can't make out numbers on badges I quite often take a photo and enlarge it.
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Looks like B223088 to me?
If it is the badge was issued to 77593 Gnr. Lewis Milnes, Royal Garrison Artillery. Enlisted 12/12/15, discharged 4/6/19. Lived 3 Cleveland Ave. Siddal, Halifax. Now it looks like to me -in his pension record- he suffered from "Neurasthenia & Hysteria" Neurasthenia is often wrongly interpreted as 'shell shock' - although in many cases I'm sure it was- but you just cannot be certain as it can encompass a number of nervous conditions. But with this 'hysteria' qualification surely this man was suffering combat fatigue of some form?
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The only match (name and birth year,1890) in the 1939 register has him living at 48 Exley Gardens, Halifax. A "Motor Mans Mate, 50 cwt ws"
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Thank you Mike I really appreciate that.
Concussion from firing heavy guns all day everyday ? |
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Or shelling of his battery position by the enemy. Artillery duels were common. Even at long range.
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I blew the picture up and think the third number is a 6 not a 3 Hence B226088
Dave |
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226088 issued to 55144 Gnr John Arthur Anderson, RGA, 17 Aug 1917
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Hi
Any other volunteers happy to check out two of my "B" prefix badges? I do have a contact on Ancestry but I'm afraid of overloading her and I have no doubt that there are members who, like me, just enjoy having a reason to look up stuff. Or maybe that is just me..... If so I will post the numbers. This is just for my own interest as I plan to keep them! |
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I'd go with a "6". There are some very odd fonts used for the SWB numbering (plain, serif, small,etc.) Some numbers are clearly individually punched (with varying degrees of success...) and some are clearly in some type of "holder" resulting in perfect alignment.
I was talking to an engineer friend who says that the force required to impress some of the numbers would suggest that the badge must have been also held in a jig of some description or the badge would have been substantially deformed by the process. Thoughts? Insights? |
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SWB numbers?
OK, here they are for no one in particular out there:
B 265595 (just the box only, darn it....) B 431748 366910 NOT a "B" prefix and I do have name for the guy (I think RGA) but it would be nice to know more. Eternal gratitude awaits those who reply.... |
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