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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 4 566 Send Message	Malc /GG and Jackie	Report	29 May 2021 22:11
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 4 566 Send Message	Bit confused . According to ancestry grandad was in t6he labour corps during WW1 but all my information about him so far points to a fighting unit . How can I check further please. Oh itv also says he was i9n London when in fact he lived in Northampton but everything else matches ??? :-0 :-S :-S
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7 013 Send Message	nameslessone	Report	30 May 2021 08:33
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 7 013 Send Message	He was mentioned on a tv programme? Where one was born or lived doesn’t always mean they were in a local regiment. Also they can be moved around between units and regiments if numbers have been decimated.
Member Since: March 2011 Posts: 17 432 Send Message	JoyLouise	Report	30 May 2021 08:37
	That's right, names. My uncle was put into a Scottish Regiment and he'd never been to Scotland in his life!
Member Since: January 2008 Posts: 2 698 Send Message	Andysmum	Report	30 May 2021 12:00
	According to Wikipedia The Labour Corps was formed in 1917 to provide manual and skilled labour on the Western Front and Salonika. That might be interpreted as a fighting unit.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 4 566 Send Message	Malc /GG and Jackie	Report	30 May 2021 22:11
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 4 566 Send Message	Thank you peeps