Roland(or Rowland) Voyce. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, October 17, 2011, 19:24 (4793 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Ahha ! Well done Marilyn (yet again!) that looks probable.

I did wonder if this might be related to WW1, as so many miners were involved in the Tunnelling Companies etc. However I presumed this might not be the case here as:
1. surely the family would still know of such things nowadays ? However I guess that sadly medals do get sold on, especially perhaps in the 30s depression, or buried with their owner, etc etc.
2. this enquiry seemed to me to be prior to the real Trench stalemate that resulted in such Companies being formed. This excellent website for all things WW1 shows me to be wrong, as the first such units in the British Army were formed in early 1915...
http://www.1914-1918.net/tunnelcoyre.htm

If this is "our" Rowland it's great to see he survived the war, to earn his Victory Medal, plus I cannot see him recorded as a casualty on the CWGC site (that said, this site "only" lists known wargraves. Another site has indicated a WR Voyce of Mitcheldean died during WW1, but I'm not a subscriber so have no more details.
http://www.military-genealogy.com/searchResults.php?product=ww1&q_initials=r&q_...

At first the "Spr(T)" prefix to the Army Number fooled me, til I realised it is of course Sapper, equivalent rank to a Private. I wonder if the (T) is for Tunnelling ?.