Genealogy Chat

Right. First of all you need to know the correct name of his unit. This was The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) and he was in 5th Battalion (Royal Westminster, or 3rd Middlesex Militia). For future reference (you will need to refer back to this), the regiment served in the following theatres of war: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914 '17, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 '15 '17 '18, Nonne Bosschen, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Bellewaarde, Hooge 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 '18, Albert 1916 '18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916 '18, Arras 1917 '18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, Arleux, Pilckem, Langemarck 1917, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 '18, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Avre, Villers Bretonneux, Lys, Estaires, Hazebrouck, Béthune, Amiens, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Épéhy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Italy 1917-18, Struma, Macedonia 1915-18, Helles, Landing at Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915-16, Egypt 1916, Megiddo, Nablus, Palestine 1918, Troitsa, Archangel 1919, Kilimanjaro, Behobeho, Nyangao, East Africa 1915-17. One of the above will be his place of death. Note this too for future reference: Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (London) Museum HM Tower of London, London, EC3N 4AB Tel: 0203 166 6910 Email: royalfusiliers 'at' fsmail.net Curator: Major C P Bowes-Crick You will do best to start with the National Archives. If you can find his medal card on: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/browse-refine.asp?CatID=10&searchType=browserefine&pagenumber=1&query=*&queryType=1 ...Then for £3.50 you can download his details immediately. You believe he died on active service. Therefore your next site is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14

Hi mandy, Have you looked on find my past? What was your Grandfathers name and when and where was he born?

Have you checked the CWGC site? Reg

can anyone help, my greatgrandfather was in the 5th battalion of the royal fusiliers during the first world war,i believe he died in service there,i have tried various sites to find more information about him but only know his name and the above info, looked at death war records, but dont know his service number, he lived in london so i presume he was in the london rf, can anyone help ?