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Thomas Doyle cap badgePrivate Thomas Doyle

2/4th (City of Dundee) Battalion Black Watch transferred to 232nd Division Labour Corps
Service No: 202733 B.W, 481000 Lab. Corps

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Personal details

Family Information

Son of John Doyle of 13 Turner St, Coatbridge. From the 1891 Census - Address - 12 Bogside, Old Monkland, Coatbridge - John Doyle aged 57, Bridget Doyle aged 19, Thomas Doyle aged 17, John Doyle aged 15. From the 1901 Census - Address - 4 Howes, Old Monkland, Coatbridge - John Doyle, Bridget Doyle aged 29, Thomas Doyle aged 27, John Doyle aged 25. Thomas' Pension was awarded to his father John.

Born / Resided

Coatbridge / 13 Turner St, Coatbridge.

Died

Died on the 15/11/1918 at the 4th General Hospital, Camiers, France

Enlisted

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Employed

Coal Hewer / Miner.

Age

44

Buried / Remembered

Etaples Military Cemetery (L. D. 12), Pas de Calais, France.

Cemetery / Memorial Information

Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest CWGC cemetery in France. It is located near Boulogne on the former site of a large military hospital complex used by the Allies during the First World War.The cemetery contains 10,769 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Hospitals were stationed again at Etaples during the Second World War. The cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified.

Additional Information

Thomas is listed as Army Service Corps on the Coatbridge Memorial (A.S.C.). On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission site he is listed as 2/4th (City of Dundee) Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) transferred to 232nd Division, Labour Corps, Employment Company, Service No. 481000. What the Employment Companies done : The Officer Commanding each Employment Company was to maintain a list of men, categorised into the forms of employment for which they were best suited : Batman, Cook, Storeman or Caretaker, Sanitary Duty, Orderly, Clerk, Tailor, Shoemaker, Policeman, Butcher, Regimental Institute, Salvage, Loader and Brakesman, Bath and Drying Room, Laundry, Traffic Control, Telephone Operator. The Companies took over this wide variety of work once they had been established. The Divisional Employment Companies each came under command of the headquarters of a Division, while the Area Employment Companies came under orders of a Corps (sometimes Army or Lines of Communication) command. The Labour Corps of 1917-1918 : Before the formation of the Labour Corps : The Army Service Corps Labour Companies : Among the earliest such units formed, the Army Service Corps Labour Companies originated to provide manpower to unload British ships and operate the docks in France. Two railway labour companies were also formed. See photos for Thomas' Medal Index Card, his CWGC Grave Registration x 2, his Headstone Report, his Service Medal and Award Rolls, his Pension Records x 2, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects x 2, another photo of Thomas' grave, Etaples Military Cemetery, the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Cap Badge and the Labour Corps Cap Badge.

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