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The Corps of Military Police
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Want to know more about the The Corps of Military Police? There are:6603 items tagged The Corps of Military Police available in our Library
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Those known to have served withThe Corps of Military Police during the Great War 1914-1918. - Gough Herbert Edwin. Sgt.
- Handcock Robert. 2nd Lt. 3rd Btn. (d.19th Aug 1916)
- Rawcliffe Thomas Aloysius. L/Cpl. Military Foot Police (d.4th Jan 1917)
- Rea Alexander Gunn. Pte. 2nd Btn.
- Sager Richard Riley. L/Cpl.
- Weaving Frederick Henry . Colour Sgt. (d.20th June 1918)
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1206286 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.
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265527 2nd Lt. Robert Handcock 3rd Btn. Leinster Regiment (d.19th Aug 1916) Veteran Who Fell at the Battle of the Somme Remembered.
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - 19th August 2020 During the First World War, many men of the Royal North-West Mounted Police left the Force in order to enlist. More than 2000 veterans of the Force joined up with units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, but others left the Force to join up with the British Expeditionary Force fighting in France and Flanders.
This is the story of one of those men.
Robert Handcock joined the RNWMP on 3rd March 1905.
In 1915, as the First World War was raging in Europe, Sergeant Handcock was the Non-Commissioned Officer in charge of Île-à-la-Crosse Detachment, located in a Cree community in northern Saskatchewan. With his term in the Force expiring, he was discharged from the Force on 6th September 1915, and he made his way to join up to fight.
After he departed, the Officer Commanding at Prince Albert inspected the Detachment and noticed that the wood stove was missing. Sergeant Handcock had traded the stove for a load of bricks and had built the chimney for the Detachment barracks!
Robert made his way to England at his own expense and once there was granted an officer's commission in the Leinster Regiment of the British Army.
Less than a year after his discharge from the RNWMP, 2nd Lt. Robert Handcock of the 3rd Battalion, Leinster Regiment was killed on 19th of August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme in France. He is buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Peronne Road Cemetery in Maricourt, France.
We will remember him.
Mark Gaillard, Historian RCMP Veterans Association
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265432 Pte. Alexander Gunn Rea 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Alexander Rea enlisted in Omagh, for short service in 1903. He was posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and served at home and in Egypt. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion in April 1904 and
Awarded a Good Conduct stripe on 21st of April 1905.
He Left Egypt on 25th of February 1906 and transferred to the Army Reserve on 20th of April 1906.At the outbreak of war he was mobilized at Omagh. He
transferred to the Military Foot Police on 1st of October 1916 and was demobilized in 1919.
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247167 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
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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.
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233830 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.
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