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    RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    Hi
    I am carrying out Research which requires that I trace
    the name(s) of Officer Deserters from the RWF in 1918.
    (Specifically, the RWF Batallion that was stationed in Ireland)

    Does anyone know if this can be done?
    Where are the Records located?

    Any Info gratefully received.

    Mike Roberts

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    Re: RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    Quote Originally Posted by RENDITION View Post
    Hi
    I am carrying out Research which requires that I trace
    the name(s) of Officer Deserters from the RWF in 1918.
    (Specifically, the RWF Batallion that was stationed in Ireland)

    Does anyone know if this can be done?
    Where are the Records located?

    Any Info gratefully received.

    Mike Roberts
    I can't help you and I am sure there were none from the Royal Welch! No sorry, I have no idea and I have not heard of any though it does seem unlikely that any did take such an action.
    Regards,

    Jerry B.

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    Re: RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    Hi
    Thanks for your reply.
    Do you possibly know which Battalion of the RWF was stationed in Ireland in late
    1918/1919?

    Regards
    Mike Roberts

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    Re: RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    3rd Battalion and 3rd Garrison Battalion. See link for dates. (Subject to confirmation by someone else I think 2nd Bn went there around Aug 1919 at which time they absorbed 3rd Bn)

    http://www.1914-1918.net/rwf.htm

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    Re: RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    hi
    the following link may be a start

    http://www.cairogang.com/soldiers-ki...welch-fus.html


    ivor

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    Re: RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    i do know that in Kew there is a thick book with all the Court Martials from the Irish Command covering this period. (cough,,my granddad is in it!).

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    Re: RWF OFFICER DESERTERS (List of)

    There are no recorded desertions by officers of the regiment during 1918 to 1920. There is only one officer recorded as being shot during world war 1 and that was for the murder of a military police officer who tried to arrest him for desertion. That officer was not commissioned into the regiment

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