History while in the forces
07 Jul-10 Jul 1916: Bletchley Rest Camp, Fatigue Duties10 Jul 1916-15 Aug 1916: Birmingham Company Drill and Musketry
05 Aug 1916-14 Oct 1916: Dunstable Royal Engineers Depot. Instruction in Airline Permanent Line Instruments. Cable Wagon, Pony Pack, Man Pack, map reading and buried cables.
Instruments includes telephone, buzzer, fullerphone Q&I Detector Switchboards, etc.
14 Oct 1916-11 Nov 1916: Haynes Park, Bedford. One month's course of Field cookery. Erection and use of aldershot ovens. Trench ovens
11 Nov 1916-07 Jan 1917: Dunstable depot. Employed on general fatigue work
07 Jan 1917-26 Jan 1917: Hitchin Depot for equipment for foreign service
26 Jan 1917: British Expeditionary Force, France as a General Duty Pioneer
- Surname
- Capstick
- Forename
- John
- Service number
- 182814
- Rating or rank
- Pioneer
- Regiment or Other Unit
- Corps of Royal Engineers (Signal Service)
- Branch
- Wakefield
- Date of Birth
- 25 Sep 1881
- Date of birth
- 1881
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 05 Dec 1897
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 06 Jul 1916
