Hi John The answer actually turned out to be 'yes'!! In the case of the Leinster Regiment it was on his medal card all along (in the form of 2/Leinster - meaning 2nd Battalion) and it needed the knowledge of someone in the know to work it out for me. My grateful thanks go to Mike Shingleton for interpreting the card. The Army Cyclist Corps is going to take a bit more by way of investigation to sort out. Jo ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:50:11 +0000 From: John Chapman <john@purley.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Can I find a particular battalion if I have the Regiment number? To: greatwar@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <DiyOmmAzN1sFFw91@purley.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed 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 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.5/645 - Release Date: 22/01/2007 16:10 BullGuard Anti-virus has scanned this e-mail and found it clean. Try BullGuard for free: www.bullguard.com