Merry,
I've been taking a look at JCH's medal record card.
The card states that he forfeited his medals and it was said (somewhere) this was because he never saw action and was in the UK throughout the war. Is there proof of this?
I think it's rather odd to have a medal card filled out with all the wrong info.
Perhaps the medals were forfeited for another reason. Perhaps they got wind of his criminal activities?
If he really did go to France, he arrived there on 12 May 1915. This suggests that JCH may have been part of the 9th (Scottish) Division.
The 9th trained at Salisbury (Aug 1914) and Bordon (Sept 1914) and crossed to France between 9-12 May 1915.
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