Quite common but they are given a new service number for each regiment and
the Medal Card will list all the postings and numbers (usually).
The CWGC record sometimes has "formerly ...." but you can't guarantee it.
RHA and RFA and RGA seem to often get mixed up. I am going through local
war memorials, posting images and lists of names on my website but also
trying to link the name to a photograph on The War Grave Photographic
Project website where possible. I am finding that the details on some of he
war memorials are often very unreliable, these artillery units are very
often confused.
http://www.mbriscoe.me.uk/page186.html
This one looks like a simple mistake in writing a "6" as "0" at some
point.
I have notified the CWGC and waiting to hear what number is on the actual
headstone.
Martin Briscoe
Fort William
-----Original Message-----
From: powys-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:powys-bounces@rootsweb.com] On
Behalf Of Roy Davies
Sent: 31 January 2010 12:30
To: powys(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [POWYS] Wilfred Price Beavan WW1 soldier
Could he have changed regiments? One of my grandfather's cousins
served in three different regiments in the First World War and had
three different regimental numbers? Perhaps one of Wilfred Beavan's
service numbers could have been for a different regiment. The CWGC
record says he was in the "Royal Field Artillery" but Ancestry says
"Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery." Were the "Royal
Horse Artillery" and the "Royal Field Artillery" two different
regiments in WWI? If so that might explain the difference in service
numbers.