208014 Pte. Herbert Callister British Army Royal Scots My grandfather served with the Royal Scots during the 1st World War, Private Herbert Callister, I know he received the Silver War Badge D/A/551, also the Victory Medal and Campaign Medal (I am unable to read the references for these from the Medal Index Card). I would like to discover which Battalion of the Royal Scots he actually served with, but have such little information.
Editor's note: The Medal Roll reference from his card reads, D/101 B17. page 1735.
Additional Information: | I have now discovered that he actually enlisted with 17th Battalion Royal Scots (Roseberry), also known as Lord Roseberry's Bantams. He was discharged on 24.10.1918. He returned to his home in Tyldesley, where he lived until 1923, when he went missing in July of that year. A body was recovered from a local lodge in September of that year and mistakenly identified as that of Herbert. Nothing was heard of him, until he was 'discovered' alive in Manchester in March of 1927, by which time his 'widow' had remarried. He spent a few weeks in the local workhouse hospital, after which he disappeared again and nothing more was heard of him, until a couple of years ago, when I managed to discover he had actually died on 16.07.1946, in The Prestwich Workhouse Hospital. I subsequently found he had been buried in Philips Park Cemetery,Manchester, in a pauper's grave. The family have now placed a cross on his grave. Grandad obviously had quite a sad life after the war and just goes to show, that not only the 'killed in action' were victims of this horrible war. Marilyn Mercer
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