Guest robin miller Posted 22 October , 2004 Share Posted 22 October , 2004 Sidney Puttick Royal Sussex Reg 201508 Royal Sussex Reg L/12452 can anybody tell me what the L means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 22 October , 2004 Share Posted 22 October , 2004 Robin The 'L' prefix was used in the Royal Sussex Regiment to denote a regular soldier. I'm no expert on service numbers, but this 'L' number is very late - not pre-war. The first number is a Royal Sussex territorial number, and if they occur in the order you give, perhaps this is a man who was originally a territorial, and then joined as a regular at the end of, or after the war. Regards - Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest robin miller Posted 22 October , 2004 Share Posted 22 October , 2004 many thanks Sidney Puttick comes from steyning Sussex and is my Grand Uncle. I have photo which at the moment could be him but cant Download onto comp as scanner broke. I will be going to N A next week to get copy of MIC and search for service record if any. do you know if there any way i can find out which Battalion he was in????? Again many thanks Robin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Pattenden Posted 22 October , 2004 Share Posted 22 October , 2004 Is the same true of a 'G' before a number of the Buffs? Thanks, Hugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Light Posted 23 October , 2004 Share Posted 23 October , 2004 Sidney Puttick comes from steyning Sussex and is my Grand Uncle. do you know if there any way i can find out which Battalion he was in????? Robin If you do the next step from the MIC, and look at the medal roll, you should find out the battalions. As you can see from my signature, Steyning is one of the places that I'm interested in, but I've never come across any Putticks. Most of the Steyning men who were Territorials were in the 4th Battalion, especially at the beginning of the war. Your great uncle's name is not on the Steyning Absent Voter's List for October 1918. I see from the 1901 census that he was born in Henfield, and at that time was in Portslade, so perhaps he didn't move to Steyning until after the war. Hugh That 'G' prefix denotes a Home Counties New Army enlistment, and will be found across quite a few regiments. There's been a thread about it before - mainly debating where exactly the Home Counties are! Regards - Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Pattenden Posted 23 October , 2004 Share Posted 23 October , 2004 Thanks Sue. Hugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted 23 October , 2004 Share Posted 23 October , 2004 Yes, to confirm what Sue says, G is the prefix for New Army soldiers with the Buffs. However, just to confuse things a bit, they didn't all get posted to Service Battalions. For instance G1 to G50 went to the 6th Bn apart from G21 and G27 who went to the 1st. I can't speak for other Regiments but for this reason you should never assume which Bn a Buffs guy was posted to just because of his number. Are you looking at anyone in particular Hugh, I may be able to help. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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