military records

[gloryer]

during the free weekends on some of the sites I managed to find some of my great great grandfathers military info. So now I have his military number would I be able to find out more and where would I get the information from?

[fronteria]

On Facebook FMP offer £1-00 for a month, don't forget to tick the box that stops automatic subscription charges otherwise you will get £9.95 drawn from your account after a month.

[Guest]

what did you find ? and can you put his name on here so people can look ? save looking for the same info

[gloryer]

Alexander Mckerrow
service number 3914
private
90th Foot (Perthshire volunteers)
Defence of Lucknow
Also McKerrow in Musters
Indian Mutiny Medal Roll 1857-1859

I believe this is the right person. However as far as we know he was also in Crimean.We went to the Black watch museum in Perth but they had no record of him and we always thought he was in the Black watch

[grumpy]

If he was in India, as seems likely, the FIBIS web site would have information on him, at least for the time he must have spent there and it would also confirm the unit that

he was with. Googling FIBIS will bring up the site. There is some correlation with the foot units and their modern day equivalents but I don't know where that information lies.

[gloryer]

Thanks Grumpy, just googled and got the site straight away so that's a good sign for me!!! LOL
I will give it a try.

[clematised]

http://www.nam.ac.uk/research/famous-units/90th-regiment-foot-perthshire-volunteers-light-infantry

Hope this also helps

Edna

[grumpy]

That's a nice condensed history of the 90th Foot Edna. Should put Gloryer on the right track.

[annswabey]

There's an A McKerrow of 90th Foot in the Crimea Medal Roll on Ancestry. As often happens with these records, the service number is cut off, but it ends with a 4, so perhaps the right man.

If his service records have survived, they will be in the British Army Service Records 1760-1915 database on FMP

If they haven't survived, his record could be traced by going through the Muster Rolls at Kew, which would give a quarterly account for each year, showing where he was and when, any promotions or demotions, disciplinary matters, etc and the last he appears in would show when he was discharged.

Also worth looking at the 1861 Worldwide Army Index on FMP as that will show you where he was at that time

[gloryer]

thank you for the info

[Guest]

have pmd you

[keldon]

He must have been one of the oldest surviving veterans of Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. Died aged 96. One of the newspapers gives a different service number.

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1920-01-01/1929-12-31?basicsearch=mckerrow%20crimean&somesearch=mckerrow%20crimean

[Guest]

when I tried to look at those links Phil it said I had to subscribe?

[keldon]

when I tried to look at those links Phil it said I had to subscribe?

Val, they are on fmp as well but I can't link to them.

[Guest]

oh okay shall have a look

[Guest]

found them thanks

[Guest]

how fantastic is that ,amazing age for those days

[Guest]

oh just found an old post about this and he died in 1909 so not the one we have been looking at Phil

[gloryer]

this is really a strange thing as we searched the black watch museum and couldn't find anything on him. We have a picture of his grave so he defo died 1909. A lady sent me an autograph of alexander mckerrow belonging to a nurse from the Crimean but he had dated it after his death so can only assume this would have been another alexander mckerrow. I have that one as being married to Elizabeth moore but have not got a connection on my tree to him

[keldon]

oh just found an old post about this and he died in 1909 so not the one we have been looking at Phil

Blimey. What are the chances of that?