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From: Iain Kerr <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] CEF WW1,which battalion????
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 19:23:31 +0000
In-Reply-To: <016101c048a1$237b6dc0$a27d7118@poco1.bc.wave.home.com>

At 09:57 07/11/00, wrote:
>Hello All,
>I am desperately trying to find info on my gramps- Joseph Marriott
>Love's Battalion/Brigade or regiment, and would greatly appreciate some help
>finding this out. This is what I know from his WW1 record that I obtained
>from the National
>archives of Canada.

Teena,

From a UK perspective, I would suggest that your grandfather was serving
in the Canadian Army Service Corps, initially with horses, later with motor
transport. My interpretation of the military acronyms and abbreviations is
offered below.

>2 years prior service 19th company CASC

Presumably either two years regular service or territorial service in Canada.

>enlisted - 9 Apr 1915
>embarked overseas 11 May 1915 with the Remount Depot

Remount units were responsible for procuring and training horses for use as
replacement by operational mounted units.

>embarked Southampton 4 June 1915
>1 July 1915 appt' 1st class fitter Rouen

Embarked for France and Flanders, landing ate Rouen. Fitter is a trade
usually applied to mechanical/motor transport.

>31 July 1915 Can. Section 3rd Echelon

Canadian Section in 3rd Echelon (rear troops in a support role).

>22 Sept 1915 admt' #5 stat Hos. A section Dieppe.

Admitted No 5 Stationary Hospital A section at Dieppe.

>1 Dec 1915 at Roublais?
>10 Apr 1916 tranf' to ICVH Calvary Veterinary Hospital

Transferred to 1 (?) Calvary Veterinary Hospital.

>6 July 1916 admt' #39 gen Hos Havre

Admitted No 39 General Hospital at Le Havre.

>14 July 1916 trans to 1st Can. For Corp.

Transferred to 1st Canadian Forestry Corps. (A logistic formation tasked
with harvesting timber for use in the forward areas for trench
reinforcements etc.}

>15 sept 1917 in field at Cressy Gressy? forest

Probably Crecy , the scene of an earlier famous English victory over the
French in 1346.

>18 Aug 1917 attached to DD of F Rouen

Attached to Deputy Director of Forestry.

>29 Jan 1918 #3 Aus Gen Hos Abbeville

No 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbeville.

>23 My 1918 Unit now known as No 1 Coy Can Forestry Corp.

Unit renamed as No 1 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps.

>6 May 1919 posted to Can For 3rd echelon Corps depot Sunningdale

Returned to UK and posted to Canadian Forces 3rd Echelon Corps Depot at
Sunningdale, Surrey (not far from Windsor).

>31 July 1919 embarked Liverpool on the "Scandinavian"
>
>Can anyone tell me what his unit may have been called or numbered? I've
>poured over books until I'm blind and can't find anything mentioned at all.
>Did each unit in the war have calvary/foresters attached to it?

The cavalry were a type of operational horsed unit. He was never in the
cavalry. The unit names are as I have translated. The Forestry Corps was a
logistic organisation employed in the base areas.

Yours aye,

Iain Kerr
In Windsor, Berkshire
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