Military Chat

My father in law would not have been able to serve in the forces because he only had
one eye However I have a photograph of him in army uniform with a small cross within a circle on each arm there is a badge on his hat but I cant make out the design can anyone help with this query.


Thomas

It may be a medical uniform. Royal Army Medical Corp.

Just google it Unkown.
Maurice.

dont know how to google a photograph

Click on the link below and hopefully it will work.

Was your father in law in WW1?

www.ams-museum.org.uk/museum/history/ramc-history/

Good luck
Maurice.

Try this and then navigate to the History link on the site

http://www.ams-museum.org.uk/museum/

(There does seem to be a problem linking directly to that particular page)

https://archive.org/details/badgestheirmeani00unse

Not found anything fitting the description on that site

To Maurice and Marie Celeste

Many thanks for the information

yes Maurice he was in this uniform in world war 1

Thank you GlitterBaby

Thomas if you give his details, dob and where born perhaps a service record survives.

I am sure myself or someone will have a look for you.


Maurice.

Not sure if this will help?

http://www.photodetective.co.uk/RAMC.html

Medical Orderly.
Embroidered red Geneva cross within a yellow circle worn on the sleeve by Medical Orderlies mainly in the Royal Army Medical Corps,but often seen in WW I photographs being worn in Infantry or other units also


Geoff Newman Militaria


www.gnmilitaria.co.uk/home.php?id=1

Embroidered WW II example of the smaller size yellow and blue on a red circle sign worn by Army ... small size service dress collar badges with ... cross within a ...

Thanks for all your replies regarding the badge on my father in laws army uniform
I was not aware that he was able to serve because of his disability he never talked
about his service

kind regards Thomas.

Request for specific record search
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/military_chat/thread/1349821

Looking at that other thread there is this record

First name(s) George
Last name Drury
Service number 101273
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit / Battalion -
Event year 1918
Age 21
Birth year 1896
Birth town Boston
Birth county Lincolnshire
Birth country England
Residence town Boston
Residence county Lincolnshire
Series WO 363
Record set British Army Service Records 1914-1920
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Residence Place: 38 Frampton Place, Boston Lincs
Annie Maria Whelbourn - mother

This matched details on 1911 census if it is him ?





First name(s) George
Last name Drury
Service number 128080
Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps
Unit / Battalion No 2nd Company, 7th Training Battalion
Event year 1920
Age 23
Birth year 1896
Birth town Boston
Birth county Lincolnshire
Birth country England
Residence town Boston
Residence county Lincolnshire
Series WO 363
Record set British Army Service Records 1914-1920
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Record collection First World War

One of his service records shows fitted with artificial eye 2.4.18
Enlisted 8.2.18

Will forward that image

Precis

Occupation Labourer
Conscription form signed 8 Feb 1918 in Derby.
Medical classification B2
Age 20 years 240 days
5ft tall – chest 34 ½ ins
Deemed to have been enlisted 2/2/16
Called 18/2/18
Training Battalion 18/2/18
Appointed with pay to RAMC A/Cpl 14/10/19
Service 8/2/18-4/3/20
Vision 6/6 in right eye, nil in the left
Recommended for an artificial eye – fitted 2/4/18, probably at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
……..

Occupation before enlisting – apprentice plumber & fitter
Stepfathers name Arthur James
……..
Admitted to the Connaught Hospt, Aldershot 12 -23 Nov? 1919 with tonsillitis

Various postings in the UK – although they give depot numbers, they don’t give place names.

On the new thread you mentioned that he may have been in Nottingham during the war where he met his wife.
My Lincs lot were for ever trotting over to Notts to match, hatch and despatch, so don't assume they met due to war work

To Glitterbaby &DetEcTive
Many thanks for all the information with regard to George Drury and his service in the RAMC it is a real surprise to me to know he served in the forces and because I know he only had one eye your information really clinched it for me
Once again Many thanks. Thomas

To Glitterbaby &DetEcTive
Many thanks for all the information with regard to George Drury and his service in the RAMC it is a real surprise to me to know he served in the forces and because I know he only had one eye your information really clinched it for me
Once again Many thanks. Thomas