Hi all
This will sound very confused because I am too. I have a birth certificate from July 1940 which says that the baby's dad was a private in the Gloucestershire Regiment. All other details present and correct as far as we can see - birth registered by the mum. The baby's uncle was in the Glosters and so it made sense that the dad would be too, though he was from London not Wales. Having contacted a very nice man on the Glosters website, the uncle has been found - he actually joined up in 1935 - but of the dad, absolutely no sign. No one with that surname in the Glosters at all or with his mum's maiden name. A few possibles with his mum's original married name - his parents weren't legally married - which just happens to be Brown :( - though none of them look quite right and why he'd be using the surname of a man his mother left 20 years before he was born is a mystery anyway. He certainly used his own name on the electoral roll and to get married.
So, now being thoroughly confused, I'm wondering where he actually was. We have his entry from the 29th September 1939 Registry in his own name and from that he would have been conscripted, being only 27. Could he have been somewhere unpleasant like jail and the mum has used her brother's army details on the birth certificate to make it look better? Was that legal, especially in wartime? Or should I be looking in one of the London regiments since he was living in Hendon before the war?
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated
This will sound very confused because I am too. I have a birth certificate from July 1940 which says that the baby's dad was a private in the Gloucestershire Regiment. All other details present and correct as far as we can see - birth registered by the mum. The baby's uncle was in the Glosters and so it made sense that the dad would be too, though he was from London not Wales. Having contacted a very nice man on the Glosters website, the uncle has been found - he actually joined up in 1935 - but of the dad, absolutely no sign. No one with that surname in the Glosters at all or with his mum's maiden name. A few possibles with his mum's original married name - his parents weren't legally married - which just happens to be Brown :( - though none of them look quite right and why he'd be using the surname of a man his mother left 20 years before he was born is a mystery anyway. He certainly used his own name on the electoral roll and to get married.
So, now being thoroughly confused, I'm wondering where he actually was. We have his entry from the 29th September 1939 Registry in his own name and from that he would have been conscripted, being only 27. Could he have been somewhere unpleasant like jail and the mum has used her brother's army details on the birth certificate to make it look better? Was that legal, especially in wartime? Or should I be looking in one of the London regiments since he was living in Hendon before the war?
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated
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