Soldier Record

Herbert Shaw is my mother's father. He died in 1949 on his 60th birthday, 28 days after my birth. I never knew him, but my mother told me many stories of his life. I have been researching my grandfather's history through various web sites in England. I recently was able to locate his remaining service records from the WO 363 files. I am currently in the process of decifering the contents of these documents, they are badly damaged.

I know he was in the Army Service Corps from 1903 until 1914 when the War broke out. He then transferred to the Royal Engineers and served in France from August 1914 through 1916. He was injured and sent home to recover for a year. He was then sent to India and Mesopotamia from 1917 through 1919 where he was a locomotive driver. After the War he lived in Great Harwood and worked in the local Mills. In 1925 he moved his family to Greenfield New Brunswick, Canada where he operated a farm. While in India he had contracted TB; he died after a lenghty hospital stay in Saint John, NB. He passed in 1949 on his 60th birtday.