Hello all. I am new among you, chasing a slippery grandfather and only recently discovered that he had a WW1 connection. Albert Edward Hoskins signed up with the Army Service Corps the day after war was declared in 1914 and was immediately made a serjeant, a rank he held to the end of the war. We presume that means he had some sort of previous service, and I have been told that an AE Hoskins was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal in 1912, which apparently means that man had served in the TF for 12 years. My Albert was 34 in 1914 and had worked in some sort of admin capacity on the London Docks, both of which facts may have contributed to his rank. The National Archives medals index shows two different AE Hoskins, although I suspect they are the same man. One is listed as a serjeant, the other as a corporal. Both have “231” (or T/231) listed as their regiment. Serjeant Hoskins (my man?) has a second line that has “T4/211746”. My mother recalled being taken by her father to some sort of military stables in the Greenwich-Plumstead area where he seemed to know the men and the horses. My main interest is in knowing where he was in mid-1916 (questions of paternity!) I need advice on two matters for starters, please: 1. I know I’ll eventually need to see if his war records have survived, but is there any way of telling from the readily-available information if these two Hoskins men are one and the same? 2. Can anyone tell me more about what T/231 and T4/211746 were, and point me in the right direction to find out the movements of these units (if that is indeed what they were). Many thanks Ray in Victoria, Australia