John Robert Simon, 5th Btn

[quail]

from research done by colleague Paul Nixon [I believe sources and praise should always be given]:

322 joined on April 10th 1908
623 joined on April 20th 1909
810 joined on 22nd September 1910
842 joined on 2nd March 1911
978 joined on 23rd March 1912
1174 joined on 4th March 1913
1442 joined on 26th March 1914
1546 joined on 4th August 1914
2208 joined on 15th September 1914
2290 joined on 2nd October 1914
2442 joined on 10th November 1914
2561 joined on 30th November 1914
2627 joined on 4th January 1915

[LarsA]

As information, I also have the trio & TEM to number 401 / 240054 CSM Bertram Davies, disembodied in march 1919.

ATB,
Lars

[Hywyn]

[QUOTE=quail;61511][I believe sources and praise should always be given]:I wasn't aware that Paul used a source other than that which many, many others have access i.e SWB Rolls and extant service/pension papers. I'll email him and ask. Thanks for the heads up.

[Old Barrian]

Thanks to everyone who has responded to my original query. The information was all most useful and I now know that Pte. Simon was wounded at Gallipoli in, probably, September 1915. I have now ascertained that he was married in November 1915 so was presumably repatriated to the UK after being wounded.

Does anyone know what would be the usual procedure after his recovery - would he be returned to his Battalion overseas or is it more likely that he would be posted to another Battalion in the UK?

Any facts or conjecture most gratefully received.

[Baconwallah]

I don't know how many wounded and evacuated men eventually returned to Gallipoli. But I have a fair number of men in my database who, instead of going back to Gallipoli, ended up with the 1st Bn in France. Fifty so far, and I have checked about 60% of the 1st Bn postings. So perhaps 75 all told. It may have been the norm rather than the exception.

John

[Clive Hughes]

Old Barrian,
If you are able to access the RWF British War Medal and Victory Medal Rolls at Kew (not online), using the code numbers on the MIC card, his entry should tell you with which other RWF battalions he served overseas - if at all.

Clive

[Old Barrian]

Thanks for that suggestion about Kew. Unfortunately, I'm not in that area so it might be some time before I can follow it up.

However, I've now got some documentation about his award of the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal apparently in April 1920 which shows him as still attached to 5th Battalion so perhaps he wasn't posted to another unit after all.