217813 L/Cpl. William Redvers George wilks British Army 51st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment We were going through some old papers of my mum's mum and found my great granddad's (William Wilks) transfer to reserve demobilisation papers. Unfortunately we are unable to trace any further military activity of him. The information is as follows:
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Wilks, William Redvers George, Lance Corporal
Unit and regiment/corps from which transferred to reserve: 51st Battalion Royal Sussex. He enlisted on the 26th March 1918 for Royal Sussex Regiment.
Specialist Military Qualification: Gas Corporal.
Medical Category: A1.
Year of Birth: 1900.
Also on his demobilization paper it did say he was sent abroad and if this is right with the research I have done the 51st. 52nd and 53bn of the Royal Sussex Regiment were sent to Germany from March to August in 1919 as part of the 107th Division in the Eastern Part of the Rhineland. We do have a photo of him in his uniform as a private (my dad was in the army cadets and identified him as a private). My mum's mum has a photo of William Wilks in front of tents, which we assume is in Germany?
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