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20th (British Empire Pioneers) Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps
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Sgt. Thomas Leslie Bainbridge MM. 20th (British Empire Pioneers) Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Granddad, Leslie Thomas was a very private man, and didn't ever talk about his service. We do know that he won his Military Medal on the Somme in 1916. After the War, he returned to Quarrington Hill, County Durham, and returned to mining, as a pit worker.
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Rflmn. William Frederick Moore 20th Btn., C Coy. King's Royal Rifle Corps. This soldier was my grandfather.
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Rflmn. E. A. Card 20th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.22nd Sep 1916) Rflmn. E.A. Card served with the King's Royal Rifle Corps 20th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 22nd September 1916 and is buried in Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery and Extension, Mazingarbe, France.
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Pte. Albert James East 20th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.July 1916) My Grandfather Albert East had this photograph taken before he went to Havre with the British Empire League Pioneers on 30th March after which he went on to Ypres Salient until 3rd July then moved down to the Somme. It is thought he was wounded on or about 14th July at Longueval or Delville Wood on the 20th July. He died at Havre in no 2 General Hospital or on his way to the port for onward evacuation to England. He is burried at the St Marie cemetery.
I have also copies of the war diaries, battalion history and war record with maps for Ypres and the Somme suitably marked up. I got this from the Royal Green Jackets Museum Trading Company Ltd. The short history of the 20th battalion is by Capt Turberville, MC.
His medals are gone somewhere?? as are my father's from ww2, can anyone help track them down?
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Rfm. James Lord 20th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps I have been piecing together such information as I have been able to find about my father's time in the KRRC during WW1. 13051 Rifleman James Lord 20th Battalion KRRC, volunteered 27th of May 1915 and was injured 26th of April 1917. The 20th Batallion, KRRC was the pioneeer batallion of the 3rd Division at that time.
He was injured during a short interlude between two battles. There were only two men killed that day both, I think, in the same battalion so he must have been on pioneeer work at the time when he was injured by a high explosive shell somewhere in the vicinity of Monchy-le-Preux east of Arras. Possibly on road repairs on the Arras to Cambrai Road.
Due to repositioning of forces, he was picked up by a Scottish Division and taken to W15 ADS, 47th Field Ambulance and thence presumably to a CCS. This must have been where his leg was amputated since there is an interlude of three weeks before he arrives at No.11 General Hospital, Camiers on 13 May 1917. This hospital was handed over to the Americans, presumably after evacuation of patients, two weeks later. So probably his move to Camiers was awaiting repatriation and his stay must have been less than those remaining two weeks.
What I do not know, and would be grateful if anyone could tell me, or point me in the right direction, is the whereabouts of the CCS. From the Hospitals and CCSs WW1 website I think I have narrowed it down to three places which were within reasonable reach of Arras and the dates when they were operational.
In order of distance from Arras they are,
CCS 8 or 41 Agnez-les-Duisans, CCS 24 or 30 or 42 Aubigny-en-Artois, CCS 45 or 49 Achiet-le-Grand.
I also have a photograph of him in what is obviously a makeshift hospital ward which may be Camiers or in UK, but I have not yet been able to find that out. The photograph is mounted on card and is obviously by a professional photographer.
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