Happy Boxing Day, Hopefully all fit and not hung over.
A Quiz for today
I show a 1916 Christmas Menu Card for 'D' Company, 2/5th Durham, Light Infantry.
On December 3rd 1916 Battalion HQ and D Coy moved to Kilo 71 which was near the front line on the Struma River. Monotonous life and bitterly cold.
Card has been signed by 8 Officers of 'D' Company
Capt W.E. Walker Company Commander
Lt Charles W Maitland (7th A & S Highlanders attached to 2/5 DLI
W Madgin
J.H. Tatchell
H.P. Dixon
Charles M Hale
H.C. ?????
Lt F.W. Hogan Quartermaster
Can anyone identify H.C. No 7 on the card?
Chris
Harold Charles Barnard Stacey, Lt W Riding Regiment, att 2/5 Durham Light Infantry, rank of Captain.
B 08/05/1889 W Hamstead, Middx, d 29/10/1973, Devon. (He shares my birthday, 60 years apart)
His younger brother Reginald Cecil Stacey was killed in France in 1917, while serving with the Gloucestershire Regt
Thanks Alan
Brilliant :)
Chris
Alan / Chris
Indeed it is - how on earth you saw the B in Barnard I don't know!
Initially I thought it might be Howard.
I suppose if you find a list of officers in 2/5 DLI you can more easily recognise a signature - good work!
Mike :)
Many years of trying to decipher signatures on cheques