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From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] A Cyclist Corps
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:22:27 -0000
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Chris - Janice is of course correct - ACC = Army Cyclist Corps. The ACC was
an entity in it's own right - your man wasn't in any "regiment", he was in
the ACC, plain and simple.

Very difficult to research unless you have some supplementary information -
the ACC service medal rolls generally don't give you the ACC Company or
Battalion attachment, and without knowing that you don't know which war
diaries to search for locations / actions involved in, etc. Your best hope
is that a service record survives.

Your "action" code is simply a clerk's note re the medal roll entry - it is
of no consequence.
regards
--
Tom Tulloch-Marshall
Great War Military Research
http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/index.html



> I would be grateful for some guidance please - on the Medal Index Card
for
> John Thomas BACKSHALL, Private, No 18776, his Corps is identified as what
> appears to be
>
> A Cyclist Corps
>
> and further down on the card, against the heading "Action" it says
"ACC/35"
>
> Can anyone tell me what the "A" stands for/what Regiment he belonged to?
>
> With many thanks
>
> Chris SANHAM
>
>
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