# Latest **URL:** https://dugout.discourse.group/latest.md [Latest](https://dugout.discourse.group/latest.md) · [Categories](https://dugout.discourse.group/categories.md) --- ## [We do not have rules: we have guidelines](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/we-do-not-have-rules-we-have-guidelines/10)
**Author:** [@Chris\_Baker](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Chris_Baker)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 6:31am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/we-do-not-have-rules-we-have-guidelines/10 "2026-08-14T06:31:05Z")
Please familiarise yourself with these community guidelines. By working with them, then you, I and all other members will enjoy a valuable time here. Make it a great place to be Please treat this discussion forum and i… --- ## [Welcome to In the Dugout!](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-in-the-dugout/5)
**Author:** [@system](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/welcome-to-in-the-dugout/5 "2026-09-09T12:04:09Z")
It’s great to see that you have joined this community. I hope that you find it valuable and that get from it all the help and value you might wish. I am Chris Baker, the owner and author of the Long, Long Trail website … --- ## [PTE Clifford Spindley DM2/165045 ASC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/pte-clifford-spindley-dm2-165045-asc/94)
**Author:** [@MikeK](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/MikeK)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/pte-clifford-spindley-dm2-165045-asc/94 "2026-10-03T07:56:16Z")
My relative initially joined on the 6 Sept 1914 Joined Pontefract Regiment: Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Discharged 9 Oct 1914 Not likely to be efficient soldier trigger finger injured 13630 I have records to s… --- ## [Are you going to TNA Kew?](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/are-you-going-to-tna-kew/91)
**Author:** [@SommePhantom](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/SommePhantom)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/are-you-going-to-tna-kew/91 "2026-09-30T21:36:15Z")
Current circumstances prevent me from visiting TNA Kew soon, but I need info from a WW1 officer’s file​:unamused\_face: A VERY QUICK search. I’d expect a result 30 \> 60 seconds after the file is opened, - a yes or no typ… --- ## [WW1 medal ribbon question](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/ww1-medal-ribbon-question/87)
**Author:** [@SommePhantom](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/SommePhantom)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/ww1-medal-ribbon-question/87 "2026-09-28T19:45:28Z")
Obviously apologies for rubbish photo, but a tiny subject. Photo taken on forecourt of Buckingham Palace. Man has just been awarded MC & Bar per London Gazette 18/9/1918, but what does ribbon bar show, - and hence when… --- ## [Assistance required to find company allocations](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/assistance-required-to-find-company-allocations/79)
**Author:** [@QuietHawk14](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/QuietHawk14)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2026, 7:11pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/assistance-required-to-find-company-allocations/79 "2026-09-23T19:11:50Z")
Hello all, I’m researching my great-uncle, Private William Elwyn Clee, service number 1842, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, killed 1 December 1917 in the attack on Gonnelieu during the Battle of Cambrai. No known grave — co… --- ## [War/VAD Hospital Records](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/war-vad-hospital-records/88)
**Author:** [@DaveCole](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/DaveCole)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/war-vad-hospital-records/88 "2026-09-21T20:48:01Z")
Anyone here have any knowledge or success with searching for hospital rolls or records, if they exist? I have an interest in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Hospital at West Harling Hall in Norfolk, along with the St Nicho… --- ## [A.W. M atthill warley record office](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/a-w-m-atthill-warley-record-office/82)
**Author:** [@Andrew\_Evans](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Andrew_Evans)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/a-w-m-atthill-warley-record-office/82 "2026-09-21T17:34:10Z")
In 1916 major a w m atthill worked at T. force records Warley, as asst oi/c . I need to know his first name, is there a record of the people who worked at warley in 1916 --- ## [1/4th Yorks & Lancs Poelcapelle 1917](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/1-4th-yorks-lancs-poelcapelle-1917/81)
**Author:** [@Florence-1](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Florence-1)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/1-4th-yorks-lancs-poelcapelle-1917/81 "2026-09-20T17:10:12Z")
Hello all Would appreciate any information re the 1/4th Yorks and Lanc’s regiment at Ravenbeek on 09/10/1917, what was their objective/mission, how involved were they ion any action --- ## [1/5th Bn Duke of Wellington's (WR) Regiment](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/1-5th-bn-duke-of-wellingtons-wr-regiment/25)
**Author:** [@RogerHildreth](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/RogerHildreth)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/1-5th-bn-duke-of-wellingtons-wr-regiment/25 "2026-09-18T18:13:05Z")
At about 11am on the 1st July 1916, the 1/5th Bn of the Duke of Wellington’s moved to the “Southern Bluff” near Authuille. I have been unable to establish where this is/was but guessing somewhere on the bank of the Ancr… --- ## [Soldiers photos](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/soldiers-photos/72)
**Author:** [@Jethom](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Jethom)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 8:11am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/soldiers-photos/72 "2026-09-16T08:11:24Z")
Hello - this is my first time here so not quite sure where to go or if anyone can help. I have a number of photos of soldiers in WW1 that were either family friends or relatives of my grandparents, but no names. Is the… --- ## [24th Combined Field Ambulance and 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/24th-combined-field-ambulance-and-2nd-battalion-manchester-regiment/80)
**Author:** [@DaveCole](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/DaveCole)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 15, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/24th-combined-field-ambulance-and-2nd-battalion-manchester-regiment/80 "2026-09-15T16:01:38Z")
Another example of my obscure interests is that of my great uncle Herbert Crook, who was a prisoner of war during the Arab revolt of 1920, and died in captivity on 22nd August, probably at Khan al Shilan prison in Najaf.… --- ## [Kings own royal Lancaster regiment](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/kings-own-royal-lancaster-regiment/67)
**Author:** [@Popsy1918](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Popsy1918)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/kings-own-royal-lancaster-regiment/67 "2026-09-10T16:35:34Z")
Hi all, just found this site, my grandfather was in the kings own royal Lancaster regiment . Any tips on how I can find where he was posted , I have his ,no,21399, Charles Carter. Some of his records were saved from the … --- ## [Service Medal and Award Roll Query for RGA](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/service-medal-and-award-roll-query-for-rga/78)
**Author:** [@ProudGlacier63](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/ProudGlacier63)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 12:31pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/service-medal-and-award-roll-query-for-rga/78 "2026-09-10T12:31:50Z")
Hello! I’m currently looking into the service of an ancestor who served overseas in the RGA. On his Medal and Award Roll entry it helpfully states that he was in the 56th S\[ie\]ge Battery. The column within which that in… --- ## [How/where to understand a soldiers' service number?](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/how-where-to-understand-a-soldiers-service-number/75)
**Author:** [@ProudGlacier63](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/ProudGlacier63)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/how-where-to-understand-a-soldiers-service-number/75 "2026-09-10T07:11:14Z")
Hi there, I’ve been looking into the service history of several ancestors. I know that (in the case of where the service record doesn’t survive) understanding which battalions/regiments a particular service number was a… --- ## [Number 10 Training Depot, Harling Road](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/number-10-training-depot-harling-road/76)
**Author:** [@DaveCole](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/DaveCole)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2026, 7:59am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/number-10-training-depot-harling-road/76 "2026-09-09T07:59:46Z")
Here’s a query for those who have interest in the Royal Flying Corps. Number 10 Training Depot was formed at Harling Road (Roudham, Norfolk) from 1916 and at different times homed units such as 51, 88 and 94 squadrons in… --- ## [ID tag ..explanation please](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/id-tag-explanation-please/73)
**Author:** [@Crakey21](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Crakey21)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/id-tag-explanation-please/73 "2026-09-08T15:18:32Z")
Hello I am rather hoping someone can help me a bit with the identity tag attached. I get the 1887 is probably the owner id number GR i’m hoping are the initials, Crake is the surname and COE is the religion … where I … --- ## [RFA Service WW1](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/rfa-service-ww1/68)
**Author:** [@BreezyFox10](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/BreezyFox10)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2026, 4:48am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/rfa-service-ww1/68 "2026-09-06T04:48:05Z")
Hi all, I’m looking for assistance in tracing the RFA service of my great uncle. William Allan Knight joined the 1st AIF in 1914 and served with the 6th Light Horse on Gallipoli in 1915. A bad case of dysentery saw him e… --- ## [Female doctors at War Hospitals in WW1](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/female-doctors-at-war-hospitals-in-ww1/70)
**Author:** [@SocMedHist47](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/SocMedHist47)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/female-doctors-at-war-hospitals-in-ww1/70 "2026-09-04T11:55:38Z")
I’m doing research on women doctors who qualified in the UK up to 1916, and their careers. I have a database of 1600 women in this category. My current interest is those who might have worked in the War Hospitals in the … --- ## [Passchendaele 12th Oct 1917](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/passchendaele-12th-oct-1917/69)
**Author:** [@Crpt1917](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Crpt1917)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 4, 2026, 6:01am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/passchendaele-12th-oct-1917/69 "2026-09-04T06:01:45Z")
Good evening I am new to the dug out and wondered if anyone could help. My great grandmothers brother was killed on the 12th October 1917 at Passchendaele. Age 32. He was a private in the Prince of Wales Own \[West Yorks… --- ## [RE Croix de Guerre](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/re-croix-de-guerre/61)
**Author:** [@Paul.Colbourne1](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Paul.Colbourne1)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 5:17am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/re-croix-de-guerre/61 "2026-09-01T05:17:58Z")
Currently researching Acting Captain R M Taylor RE,served with 15th Field Company RE, 8th Division. He is awarded Croix de Guerre for valor late Feb 17. I am trying to establish what event this relates to, he is mention… --- ## [My grandfather's ID tag](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/my-grandfathers-id-tag/65)
**Author:** [@CleverBreeze38](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/CleverBreeze38)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2026, 4:58pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/my-grandfathers-id-tag/65 "2026-08-31T16:58:13Z")
i’m new to here but i hope you can help me. i have found an id tag which i believe to be my grandfather’s from WW1. if i put photos of it up here, can someone help me get some information about him? --- ## [Signed Up & Have A Question](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/signed-up-have-a-question/62)
**Author:** [@rjkcWW1](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/rjkcWW1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 6:29pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/signed-up-have-a-question/62 "2026-08-30T18:29:32Z")
Hi Chris, and members, sorry I am late to the party. My interest is the Old Contemptibles of the 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment. They number approx 1850 ORs, NCOs & Officers. I believe from Andrew Thornton nbooks … --- ## [Number 1 Entrenching Battalion 1916](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/number-1-entrenching-battalion-1916/64)
**Author:** [@SommePhantom](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/SommePhantom)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/number-1-entrenching-battalion-1916/64 "2026-08-30T13:37:20Z")
No 1 Entrenching Battalion was formed on the Salient early in 1916 and effectively disbanded in early September that year. The original battalion was almost exclusively formed from the remnants of 1/4th Battalion Queens … --- ## [Gordon Dump Cemetery, Somme](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/gordon-dump-cemetery-somme/63)
**Author:** [@SommePhantom](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/SommePhantom)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/gordon-dump-cemetery-somme/63 "2026-08-30T13:31:41Z")
At the risk of boring everyone, everyone’s uncle, and everyone’s uncle’s dog, - I’ll post the question I’ve been asking repeatedly for thirty years :yawning\_face: When Capt. JS Hutton(\*) conceived Gordon Dump Cemetery h… --- ## [TMB's CWGC records](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/tmbs-cwgc-records/46)
**Author:** [@RogerHildreth](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/RogerHildreth)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/tmbs-cwgc-records/46 "2026-08-30T08:45:51Z")
I may be missing something obvious but how do I search for deaths within a TMB unit on the CWGC website? For example 147th TMB --- ## [Can someone help me to decipher this card?](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/can-someone-help-me-to-decipher-this-card/60)
**Author:** [@Nick\_Clark](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Nick_Clark)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/can-someone-help-me-to-decipher-this-card/60 "2026-08-29T13:33:32Z")
I notice there are 3 regimental numbers here. What I know so far is that Frederick Hide was transferred from the Royal Sussex Regiment to the 2/6th RWR and then eventually to the rank of Sergeant. A local Sussex pa… --- ## [Do you have a podcast, video channel or blog?](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/do-you-have-a-podcast-video-channel-or-blog/24)
**Author:** [@Chris\_Baker](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Chris_Baker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2026, 2:02pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/do-you-have-a-podcast-video-channel-or-blog/24 "2026-08-28T14:02:26Z")
If you have a podcast, video channel or blog on any subject relating to the British Army in the Great War, please let the users of In the Dugout know all about it. --- ## [Just stuck my nose in...who's round is it?](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/just-stuck-my-nose-in-whos-round-is-it/49)
**Author:** [@Ex-XIX](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Ex-XIX)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 28, 2026, 8:58am UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/just-stuck-my-nose-in-whos-round-is-it/49 "2026-08-28T08:58:47Z")
Hi all, just thought I’d stick my nose in and see what’s occurring, I’m Gary ,Gaz or Oy!! I’m trying to get recognised as an amateur local historian and I’m most interested in my local area of Teesside and East Cleveland… --- ## [Heads up! My next book](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/heads-up-my-next-book/44)
**Author:** [@Chris\_Baker](https://dugout.discourse.group/u/Chris_Baker)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://dugout.discourse.group/t/heads-up-my-next-book/44 "2026-08-27T13:12:01Z")
Advance notice that my next book, a history of the 1st Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment, should be available (hardback only at first) around the end of this year. Mote info closer to the time … [Next page](https://dugout.discourse.group/latest.md?page=1)