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The Channel Islands and the Great War
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SAMUEL LE
BRETON IN CAMERA?
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We have received these from a gentleman in Jersey called
Barry Le Breton in the hope that the CIGWSG could help
regarding his great uncle Samuel Le Breton. Regrettably
little could be added to what was already known by the
Le Breton family following research with the regimental
museums, but, we've added the photographs in the hope
that someone will know more and can contact us with any
information on the men, the locations and the units.
Click on a photograph to enlarge
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| Written on the back - "S Le Breton
regt. no. 34751, Sept 27/17, No. 1 Company 19 Hut, 3rd Border
Regiment" - and we believe that the hut is
at Crosby Camp, near Liverpool where the Battalion were
based throughout the War. |
The football team
Painted on the ball is: "Dublin, AOC, 1916-17".
Unfortunately our research has not come up with anything
more.
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| A group in the Royal Field (?) Artillery.
On the building in the background is some wording, which
when enlarged reads: "C Sub 462 S??"
(it could be Sec) then the rest is obscured by the soldier's
head. |
This photograph is of a group with handwriting
on the back reading: "To my Dear Wife From Sammy,
Stationed at Olympia, London West, 35 Service Company, Army
Ordnance Corps" |
There is a clear link between the second and
fourth photograph in respect to the Army Ordnance Corps,
supported by an entry in the original 1919 issue of the
Jersey Roll of Honour and Service. But, connecting Samuel
Le Breton to the Border Regiment and the RFA is more difficult
to explain. The 1901 Census only lists one Samuel, who was
aged 16, while research into the Medal Roll Index has Samuel
in the Machine Gun Corps and later the Royal Defence Corps.
Was Samuel in all five of these regiments and corps? It
was not unknown during the Great War and must be a possibility,
no matter how slight.
Hopefully, a forthcoming visit to the National Archive at
Kew may turn up more if his service papers were not amongst
those destroyed in the blitz.
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Pictures courtesy of Barry Le
Breton
Contact
Barrie Bertram
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