I hope this is the correct list - please let me know if it isn't. My grandfather, James Mangan, served in both of two regiments during WW1 - he was at Passchendaele and the Somme. I know his regiment numbers from his medal card. Can this information be used to determine which battalions he served in? Leinster Regiment: 10017 - Rank: Private Army Cyclist Corps: 1203 - Rank: Acting Corporal Hoping that someone can help! Thanks Jo -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.3/642 - Release Date: 20/01/2007 22:31 BullGuard Anti-virus has scanned this e-mail and found it clean. Try BullGuard for free: www.bullguard.com

Jo The simple answer is NO There are a few cases where you can have a pretty good guess, for example knowing when a Kitchener battalion was being formed or when you have a territorial number. Some regiments used to prefix the regimental number with the battalion number eg 3/3452 but this usually only applied to large territorial regiments or reserve battalions. Regards John In message <000f01c73d36$d37f4490$0201a8c0@your6c2ff8962c>, Jo <granite@waitrose.com> writes >I hope this is the correct list - please let me know if it isn't. > >My grandfather, James Mangan, served in both of two regiments during WW1 - >he was at Passchendaele and the Somme. I know his regiment numbers from his >medal card. Can this information be used to determine which battalions he >served in? > >Leinster Regiment: 10017 - Rank: Private >Army Cyclist Corps: 1203 - Rank: Acting Corporal > >Hoping that someone can help! > >Thanks > >Jo > -- John Chapman