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74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation 21st Jan 1918 Course 5th Feb 1918 Course Ends 13th Feb 1918 Personnel 21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps? There are:5234 items tagged 74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. Large Frank. Pte. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 74th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps from other sources. 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To the best of my knowledge from paperwork and accounts told by my grandfather Herbert Large, he went over the top on the 25th of September 1915 at Loos. His pension records detail several interesting things I would like to share: His records detail that he served in France for 38 months out of the 51 months the war ran. He was wounded in the left forearm by a bullet. My grandfather always said that the bullet went through his arm. Funnily enough, my grandfather was nicked by a bullet in the same arm in WW2 in the Far East with the Royal Marines. He received field punishment number one for being late on parade on at least one occasion; a few other times, he was confined to barracks. He was made lance corporal, but reverted to private at his own request. He is detailed as having moved to the 8th Gloucesters for a time. He is detailed as having worked as a stretcher bearer, or at least qualified as such as far as I can tell. He also was in the 74th Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps towards the end of the war. He has two service numbers, one for the Gloucesters and one for the MGC. From family stories, he was one of the few to return to his village, where he found out that his fiancee had been killed by the Spanish flu. Whereas it was often the other way round for wives and fiancees to be left behind as the men were killed off. He returned and worked on the railways and raised a family. He never spoke a lot about the war as many did not, but towards the end he spoke to my grandfather and a few funny stories came out. Most of them were about the acquisition of alcohol through various means. I have his pension records, which are an interesting read. I have a copy of the War diaries for the 10th Gloucesters which is also interesting to read and details an inspection by the King. One of the most poignant facts I observed with the diaries is the change of handwriting as the war progresses and officers are killed, often with the new writer detailing his predecessor’s passing and the details. There was also a William Ingles who served with the 10th Gloucesters and won the DCM on the 25th of September but was killed two weeks later at the Hohenzollern redoubt. My great-great-grandmother’s maiden name was Ingles and I have often wondered if they were related somehow. David Large Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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