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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    No probs mate...I know it repeated some of your stuff, but I thought the full story would be interesting....;)
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    Silver War Badge (SWB)

    The number on the rear is 129418 If anyone has access to the records pse!
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 10, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    Medical Supplies

    I get them where I can...I'm often offered stuff when I do talks... Just been given the effects (minus medals) and ephemera of a WW1 artillery...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 10, 2009 in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    At this point Mobbs, hearing from the returning wounded that most of the officers had become casualties, and that the second objective had been...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 10, 2009 in forum: Sportsmen & women
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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    More to the details of the death of Mobbs On 17th July the bn left Bayenham and marched to Renescure, a distance of 15 mile, and were billeted...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 10, 2009 in forum: Sportsmen & women
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    Medical Supplies

    Ahhh...Mine is canvas covered wicker, and is shaped to sit on the hip.... First came in during Boer war, and used throughout WW2 and...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 9, 2009 in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
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    Medical Supplies

    First of all, the RAMC MOs Regimental Pannier, or Medical Companion
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 9, 2009 in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
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    The Military and the X-Ray

    The job of the radiologist in the RAMC in WW1 was one of the most dangerous... Every morning, SOPs demanded that the operative place their hand...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 9, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    Medical Supplies

    I have a full compliment of RAMC equipment for a MO and a RAP-original.... I'll post pics as the day goes by...:) What Annie has put up would...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 9, 2009 in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
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    Silver War Badge (SWB)

    Here's a pic of the one that came down from the family, although I know not as to whom!
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 9, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    I have some more detailed accounts of his death and will post tomos... Also the Mobbs Memorial Match is no longer played at Franklins...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 8, 2009 in forum: Sportsmen & women
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    Rucksack ....

    Actually ...No...! As it was from Burberrys it cost him £1-2-6d on June 01 1916! Unfortunately, there are no markings on the thing that I have...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 8, 2009 in forum: Weapons, Technology & Equipment
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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    And somewhere I have a pre war pic of ER and the local VC winner, Rhodes Morehouse together with an early aeroplane...:)
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 8, 2009 in forum: Sportsmen & women
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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    Portrait in the Regt museum... [IMG] One face of the memorial... [IMG] Another... [IMG] And the entire thing, in frankly its pants,...
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 8, 2009 in forum: Sportsmen & women
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    Edgar Roberts Mobbs DSO - English Rugby Union Footballer

    Here's a pic I have of him on his last leave home... [IMG]
    Post by: scrimnet, Sep 8, 2009 in forum: Sportsmen & women