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The Corps of Military Police



21st Jan 1915 Passes to be Checked

Jul 1915 Training Instruction

Jul 1915 Billets

10th Sep 1915 Instructions  location map

14th Sep 1915 Instructions

15th Sep 1915 Defence Scheme

17th Sep 1915 Reliefs  location map

21st Sep 1915 Orders  location map

16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme

1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets

7th Dec 1915 In the Thick of Things

11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment

10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens

7th February 1916 Road Control  location map

9th February 1916 Call Ups

4th March 1916 Move

5th March 1916 Further Parties Return

4th of August 1916   location map

13th Mar 1917 Report  location map

Mar 1917 Military Police

Sep 1917 Traffic Control

17th Oct 1918 Advance

13th Jan 1919 Suspected Theft

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  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

The Corps of Military Police

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Gough Herbert Edwin. Sgt.
  • Rawcliffe Thomas Aloysius. L/Cpl. Military Foot Police (d.4th Jan 1917)
  • Sager Richard Riley. L/Cpl.
  • Weaving Frederick Henry . Colour Sgt. (d.20th June 1918)

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L/Cpl. Thomas Aloysius Rawcliffe Military Foot Police Military Police Corps (d.4th Jan 1917)

Thomas Rawcliffe died on 4th January 1917 age 26 and is buried in the Ste. Marie Cemetery in France. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Rawcliffe, of Chorley, Lancs.

s flynn




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Colour Sgt. Frederick Henry Weaving Military Police Corps (d.20th June 1918)

Frederick Weaving was born in Hammersmith in 1891, son of Thomas and Henrietta Weaving. The 1911 Census shows him living with his parents and siblings at 2 Apsley Terrace in Horn Lane, Acton, London. For a while he was employed by Acton Council in the Education Department as a clerk.

It is believed he initially enlisted with the British Army at Chiswick in November 1913 or January 1914 (possibly with the East Kent Regiment). He was Acting Warrant Officer with the 10th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. In late 1917 he was serving in the Middle East as Colour Sergeant, Military Foot Police, Military Police Corps, with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. At this time he contracted Malaria and in early June 1918 he was admitted to 31 BSH at Baghdad where further symptoms of Typhus appeared. On the 20th June 1918 he was transferred to the Isolation Hospital at Baghdad and died four hours later from Typhus. He is buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery in Iraq and is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.

Courtesy of www.stmaryacton.org.uk

Caroline Hunt




244773

Sgt. Herbert Edwin Gough Wiltshire Regiment

My late husband, Herbert Gough, was working in London when World War 1 broke out. He was 15 years old but put his age up to 18 years and joined the Wiltshire regiment. He fought at the Battle of the Somme he later was a Sergeant in the Military Police. He was one of only two survivors out of 17 young men who joined from his village.

Patricia Gough Fraser




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L/Cpl. Richard Riley Sager Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Grandfather, Richard Sager was injured at Mametz Wood on the 10th of July 1916. He died in 1978 aged 86.

Robin Sager








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