History while in the forces
07 May 1916: joined Royal Field Artillery, training at PrestonOct 1916: promoted to Bombardier
Dec 1916: recommended for Commission, transferred to Machine Gun Cadetship at Burley
Apr 1917: gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, Machine Gun Section, stationed at Grantham and Clipstone
Jul 1917: on active service in France
Nov 1918: transferred to 33rd Machine Gun Corps
Jul 1919: resignation of Bank's service given and accepted, still in army, invalided, proposes eventually to take up course for accountancy.
- Surname
- Rich
- Forename
- Tom Brown
- Rating or rank
- 2nd Lieutenant
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 33rd Machine Gun Company
- Branch
- Stretford
- Date of Birth
- 15 Feb 1897
- Date of birth
- 1897
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 08 Sep 1914
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 07 May 1916
