Hi everyone, I'm helping a friend with her family history and she has shown me a marriage register entry for Francis Fothergill, age 45 whose Rank or Profession is shown as "Blacksmith's Striker" and then under that what looks like "18 Platoon" and then possibly "New Army Durham" The marriage is dated 13th Sept.1914. My question is: Had the call for the New Army gone out that quickly after the outbreak of war? Or am I mis-reading what's in the Rank or Profession column regards, Peter Appleton My Family Tree website: http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/pappleton3

Hello The first 100,000 volunteers had already started basic training by September - The 'New Army' 'Kitchener's Volunteers' or Service battalions. The battalion I am researching were the first Sherwood Foresters 'Service Bn and was formed 24 August 1914. The 10 (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry was formed 22 August as part of K1 and was part of 43rd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division. He could have been in that. Going by his age, is it possible he was a regular before and came back to train the great unwashed! Regards Steve -----Original Message----- From: greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Peter Appleton Sent: 07 September 2006 18:20 To: GREATWAR@rootsweb.com Subject: [GREATWAR] New Army - When did the call go out? Hi everyone, I'm helping a friend with her family history and she has shown me a marriage register entry for Francis Fothergill, age 45 whose Rank or Profession is shown as "Blacksmith's Striker" and then under that what looks like "18 Platoon" and then possibly "New Army Durham" The marriage is dated 13th Sept.1914. My question is: Had the call for the New Army gone out that quickly after the outbreak of war? Or am I mis-reading what's in the Rank or Profession column regards, Peter Appleton My Family Tree website: http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/pappleton3 ------------------------------- 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

There is a Great War Historical Society on-line and they put out an e-mail newsletter if you want to go thru that - www.worldwar1.com/tgws/ and the latest newsletter - tha last e-mail from the newsletter person - --- Greetings, The August St. Mihiel Trip-Wire is now on-line at: http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/smtw.htm Let me give you a heads up for next month. The Trip-Wire will be changing homes and will be a feature of the legendary and groundbreaking Trenches on the Web site founded by the late Mike Iavarone. There will be a slightly different url next month which I will remind you about so you can bookmark it. All the best, Mike Hanlon ------------------------------------------------ Hope this helps: delilah evans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Appleton" <peter.appleton3@ntlworld.com> To: <GREATWAR@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:19 PM Subject: [GREATWAR] New Army - When did the call go out? | Hi everyone, | | I'm helping a friend with her family history and she has shown me a marriage | register entry for Francis Fothergill, age 45 whose Rank or Profession is | shown as "Blacksmith's Striker" and then under that what looks like "18 | Platoon" and then possibly "New Army Durham" | | The marriage is dated 13th Sept.1914. | | My question is: Had the call for the New Army gone out that quickly after | the outbreak of war? Or am I mis-reading what's in the Rank or Profession | column | | regards, | | Peter Appleton | | My Family Tree website: http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/pappleton3 | | | | | | ------------------------------- | 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