Would it be normal for two people to serve in the Royal Field Artillery in WW1 and have the same army number?
Perhaps one man died before the other got the number?
OH's super-brick-wall grandfather, John Hamilton, has a medal card on Ancestry (army no 56967) and so does someone else in the RFA called Frederick T Smith ().
I don't really know why I'm asking this, but as we have been searching for "anything" about JH for 25 years........you never know what someone might say that might make a difference!
If you look on the back of John Hamilton's card you will see that he had to relinquish his medals. The reason was that he spent all of his time in the army during WW1 on Salisbury Plain! It's only today that I noticed how long it took for this to be corrected. Pretty typical of him really!!
If a crystal ball could tell me where his Irish birth record is, that would be great!! (29th April 1895).....
Perhaps one man died before the other got the number?
OH's super-brick-wall grandfather, John Hamilton, has a medal card on Ancestry (army no 56967) and so does someone else in the RFA called Frederick T Smith ().
I don't really know why I'm asking this, but as we have been searching for "anything" about JH for 25 years........you never know what someone might say that might make a difference!
If you look on the back of John Hamilton's card you will see that he had to relinquish his medals. The reason was that he spent all of his time in the army during WW1 on Salisbury Plain! It's only today that I noticed how long it took for this to be corrected. Pretty typical of him really!!
If a crystal ball could tell me where his Irish birth record is, that would be great!! (29th April 1895).....
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