When I visited the British Military Cemetery at Venray (Netherlands) I noticed that Lieut. Alexander Clark Morrison (273557) is buried there - his headstone says he was on the General List. At Venray three British General Hospitals were established to take in the casualties of the Rhine crossing - A C Morrison died of wounds on March 24th. This is what it says about him on the Graves Concentration Form: I would like to find out which unit he was attached to. Was he CMP? Why then is this crossed out? What does "General List" tell us about a soldier's career/service/function?
There is an explanation of the term in this link - https://grenadiermilitaria.com/product/general-service-corps-cap-badge-officers/ Steve
Ok - to quote from that source: "In February 1942 the General Service Corps was established for a similar purpose, as a 'Reception Corps' to administer recruits, this time of all ranks, before allocation to field force units. They wore the same pattern badge as those on the First World War “General List”, soldiers’ badges being in brass or gilding metal, officers in gilt or bronze. The General Service Corps was primarily intended to deal with the inevitably large throughput of personnel at times of war..." It still looks as if Lt. Morrison was sent into action and was wounded - maybe his allocation to a unit had not been formalized yet? Or maybe he had a special function? He was 27 years old - does not sound very young for lieutenant...
Officers on General List weren’t badged to a regiment or corps ie They were commissioned but unlike the majority they were not assigned to a parent regiment, even if attached to a unit for duty. Not entirely certain of all the reasoning behind it, but have seen plenty of examples when trawling through the LG
