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=== Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 === | === Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30 === | ||
Isaac Rayner was born on 20 May 1888 to Thomas and Fanny Rayner. He had one younger sister Evelyn. The family lived for many years at Broadfold where his father was the Coachman for the Murgatroyd family. At the age of 13 Issac was working as a worsted spinner but by 1911 like his father, he is working with horses as a groom, for another textile mill owner in Tottington near Bury. His sister Evelyn was married at St Mary’s in July 1916 to Gilbert Murgatroyd of 27 Apple House Terrace. The couple moved to the Fylde coast after the war and shortly afterwards parents Thomas and Fanny also moved to the coast to be close to their daughter. Issac joined the Army Veterinary Corps as a private on 11th December 1915 service number SE/13287 and was posted to the Balkans shortly afterwards. We perhaps forget how dependant the army was on horses. The majority of heavy equipment was moved by teams of horses, a little by steam engines and some by the modern invention of the motor vehicle. So horses were a very valuable resource. It is estimated that during the war two and a half million horses were treated in veterinary hospitals in France with 2 million of those being returned to active duty. By the end of 1918, there were nearly 42,000 men serving in the Army Veterinary Corps. And in the Middle East where Isaac was stationed, not only did the corps look after horses, mules and donkies but they had specialist camel hospitals as well. Isaac’s first posting was to the Balkans. The fighting here was against the Bulgarians and took place in Greece, Albanian and Serbia. His war records are patchy, we know he was in Eygpt in 1918, but have no record of where he was between 1916 and 1918. Probably, he was part of Allenby’s Army that fought against the Ottoman Empire. If so he would have been in Palestine during these years. By the latter part of 1918 he was serving in Egypt and was promoted to acting Sergeant. The end of the fighting came a little sooner here than it did in Western Europe with an Armistice being agreed on 30th October 1918, but this came too late for Isaac who was already ill. He died on 23rd December of malaria and pneumonia in a field hospital in Deir El Belah a town now in the Gaza strip in Palestine, a few miles north of the present day border with Egypt. | Isaac Rayner was born on 20 May 1888 to Thomas and Fanny Rayner. He had one younger sister Evelyn. | ||
The family lived for many years at Broadfold where his father was the Coachman for the Murgatroyd family. At the age of 13 Issac was working as a worsted spinner but by 1911 like his father, he is working with horses as a groom, for another textile mill owner in Tottington near Bury. His sister Evelyn was married at St Mary’s in July 1916 to Gilbert Murgatroyd of 27 Apple House Terrace. The couple moved to the Fylde coast after the war and shortly afterwards parents Thomas and Fanny also moved to the coast to be close to their daughter. | |||
Issac joined the Army Veterinary Corps as a private on 11th December 1915 service number SE/13287 and was posted to the Balkans shortly afterwards. We perhaps forget how dependant the army was on horses. The majority of heavy equipment was moved by teams of horses, a little by steam engines and some by the modern invention of the motor vehicle. So horses were a very valuable resource. It is estimated that during the war two and a half million horses were treated in veterinary hospitals in France with 2 million of those being returned to active duty. By the end of 1918, there were nearly 42,000 men serving in the Army Veterinary Corps. And in the Middle East where Isaac was stationed, not only did the corps look after horses, mules and donkies but they had specialist camel hospitals as well. Isaac’s first posting was to the Balkans. The fighting here was against the Bulgarians and took place in Greece, Albanian and Serbia. His war records are patchy, we know he was in Eygpt in 1918, but have no record of where he was between 1916 and 1918. Probably, he was part of Allenby’s Army that fought against the Ottoman Empire. If so he would have been in Palestine during these years. | |||
By the latter part of 1918 he was serving in Egypt and was promoted to acting Sergeant. The end of the fighting came a little sooner here than it did in Western Europe with an Armistice being agreed on 30th October 1918, but this came too late for Isaac who was already ill. | |||
He died on 23rd December of malaria and pneumonia in a field hospital in Deir El Belah a town now in the Gaza strip in Palestine, a few miles north of the present day border with Egypt. | |||
He is buried at the War cemetery here, alongside 724 other allied soldiers. | He is buried at the War cemetery here, alongside 724 other allied soldiers. | ||
Revision as of 07:30, 6 September 2026
Sergeant Issac Rayner aged 30
Isaac Rayner was born on 20 May 1888 to Thomas and Fanny Rayner. He had one younger sister Evelyn.
The family lived for many years at Broadfold where his father was the Coachman for the Murgatroyd family. At the age of 13 Issac was working as a worsted spinner but by 1911 like his father, he is working with horses as a groom, for another textile mill owner in Tottington near Bury. His sister Evelyn was married at St Mary’s in July 1916 to Gilbert Murgatroyd of 27 Apple House Terrace. The couple moved to the Fylde coast after the war and shortly afterwards parents Thomas and Fanny also moved to the coast to be close to their daughter.
Issac joined the Army Veterinary Corps as a private on 11th December 1915 service number SE/13287 and was posted to the Balkans shortly afterwards. We perhaps forget how dependant the army was on horses. The majority of heavy equipment was moved by teams of horses, a little by steam engines and some by the modern invention of the motor vehicle. So horses were a very valuable resource. It is estimated that during the war two and a half million horses were treated in veterinary hospitals in France with 2 million of those being returned to active duty. By the end of 1918, there were nearly 42,000 men serving in the Army Veterinary Corps. And in the Middle East where Isaac was stationed, not only did the corps look after horses, mules and donkies but they had specialist camel hospitals as well. Isaac’s first posting was to the Balkans. The fighting here was against the Bulgarians and took place in Greece, Albanian and Serbia. His war records are patchy, we know he was in Eygpt in 1918, but have no record of where he was between 1916 and 1918. Probably, he was part of Allenby’s Army that fought against the Ottoman Empire. If so he would have been in Palestine during these years.
By the latter part of 1918 he was serving in Egypt and was promoted to acting Sergeant. The end of the fighting came a little sooner here than it did in Western Europe with an Armistice being agreed on 30th October 1918, but this came too late for Isaac who was already ill.
He died on 23rd December of malaria and pneumonia in a field hospital in Deir El Belah a town now in the Gaza strip in Palestine, a few miles north of the present day border with Egypt.
He is buried at the War cemetery here, alongside 724 other allied soldiers.