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    1. Re: [GREATWAR] 3 photos of soldiers
    2. George Smith
    3. I don't think any are of the Machine Gun Corps as they all appear to be wearing Spurs which would indicate to me the are all from different regiments of cavalry. My father was in the MGC in WWI. The badge of the Corps was crossed Machine Guns surmounted by a crown. None of your pics seem to have that badge At 17:10 6/14/2007 +0100, you wrote: >One of my Brother-in-laws uncles was awarded the DCM and it was reported >in the London Gazette 3rd October 1918, unfortunately he was killed in >action 2 weeks later. > >57929 Cpl Thomas BALDWIN (machine gun corps) of Burscough, Lancashire >who won the DCM had two brothers and we have 3 photos of 3 different >soldiers but no names on any of them. > >I have put a link to all three photos on >www.mylancashireroots.co.uk/baldwin_text.htm > >Can anybody tell us from the uniforms or the cap badge which one is in >the machine gun corps. > >Many thanks > >Michael > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Regards George. George Smith <airforce@localdial.com> Home Page: http://web.localdial.com/users/airforce LRFHS Page: http://www.lrfhs.org.uk Jersey Island Page: http://www.jerseyvirtual.net Jersey Insight http://www.jerseyinsight.com Jersey Centenary Battle of Flowers: http://www.localdial.com/users/airforce/battle.html

    06/14/2007 05:04:34