Brenda has been very busy just lately. We, as a family, are very greatful to you for bringing the sale of the medals to our attention. I have managed to purchase 15, my son 3, Brenda got a couple, an Aunt a couple & my sister 1. We lost the lapel badges, 2 gold medals, 1 shooting medal and the China medal. I have a couple of photo's of Alfred with the medals. I will try to upload them later. Once again thankyou.
Norman
Hi Norman,
The feedback from enquirers is extremely important, the members give up their time and energy to assist, so learning the full end story is crucial, otherwise for them it would be a pointless exercise. Nobody likes reading a book to find the last page is missing. Your thanks and update are appreciated.
Anyway, we as a group are very pleased that at least some of Alfred's property has returned to the safekeeping of your family.
Hi, my apologies for the late reply!
As Norman said, I've been really busy lately, and because I had overlooked the notification of Norman's comment in May, I did't receive any further notifications, so hadn't realised that there were more comments, sorry.
I can't thank you all enough for alerting us to the fact that the medals had appeared on ebay. I'm delighted that we managed to keep most of them within the family.
The medals that we have date from 1906 to 1916, with the earlier ones showing him as a Sergeant Instructor with the Bengal Nagpur Railway Volunteer Rifles (up to 1910) and on the later ones he is a Sergeant Major with the Assam Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifles.
Many many thanks for all your help and encouragement so far, we'll carry on with our search and see what else crops up.
Regards,
Brenda
Alfred Davis 15772 was A/WO Class 2 (Company Sgt Major) in 2 Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt). He only received the British War Medal and presumably served in India throughout the Great War. One page of his pension record remains.
John
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I would point out that according to regimental records some NCO's may have been missing, as a 100 man strong detachment had been deployed to the Delhi, for duty at the Durbar some 5 days earlier on the 2 Dec.
I have just read this thread for the first time. I was interested by Al’s comment (AP1 on 21/11/11) that it looked as though your great grandfather might have been part of the detachment posted to Delhi during the 1903 Durbar. This detachment was commanded by my grandfather, GFH Dickson, and I think largely, or perhaps entirely, comprised C Company of the 2nd Bn (including Frank Richards, who described these events in OSS).
My grandfather’s career in the RWF is documented in scrapbooks in the RWF museum collection, currently in Wrexham at the Museum and Archives. (The thread under “Lt Col GFH Dickson” in WWI on this website traces my discovery of these scrapbooks: Thank You, RWF Forum!).
If he was in C Coy, I think there’s a good chance that there is a photograph of your great grandfather in my grandfather’s scrapbooks. For example, there is a group photograph of C Coy from soon after the 1902/3 Durbar on page 64 of scrapbook 15. I’ll try to add a copy of it here. Even if I can manage that it won’t match the resolution of the original.
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