They have updated so now have surnames A-N in the "Service Records". Sorry for anyone looking for O onwards!
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I've found my great-grandmother's cousin on there, who joined up in 1916 at the age of 35 (married with 2 young children) and was sent out to France May 1917, killed in action July 1917. His widow died in Feb 1919.
Looks as if all his valuables were pinched as there is a letter from his widow saying they are missing from the stuff that was sent back to her.Last edited by KiteRunner; 07-11-08, 19:30.KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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Thanks very much for that -- hope I find someone as every bit helps.
herkyherky
Researching - Trimmer (Farringdon), Noble & Taylor (Ross and Cromarty), Norris (Glasgow), McGilvray (Glasgow and Australia), Leck & Efford (Glasgow), Ferrett (Hampshire), Jenkins & Williams (Aberystwyth), Morton (Motherwell and Tipton), Barrowman (Glasgow), Lilley (Bromsgrove and Glasgow), Cresswell (England and Lanarkshire). Simpson, Morrow and Norris in Ireland. Thomas Price b c 1844 Scotland.
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I have searched and cannot find my Gt Grandfather's records.
Arthur Charles Franklin
Born Sept 1882 in Cosford Suffolk
Married Grace Edith Grayston in March Qtr 1901 BMD Ipswich Mar 4a, 1067.
All children born after 1901 are registered in West ham district of London/Essex
He died 11 Apr 1917 in Arras
Record is on CWGC
Regiment Kings Royal Rifles Number R/27748
There is his medal card, but no sign of his enlistment
Keep getting an Arthur Charles in Hackney of about the same age, but when you look at the enlistment papers thay are dated 23rd Jan 1917, so not him (died by then)
Anyone got any ideas?
Could not even find him on 1901 censusAvatar is my Gt Grandfather
Researching:
FRANKLIN (Harrow/Pinner 1700 to 1850); PURSGLOVE (ALL Southern counties of England); POOLE (Tetbury/Malmesbury and surrounding areas of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire (1650 to 1900); READ London/Suffolk
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I found one of mine a while ago, hairdresser before he joined up, finally discharged on medical grounds after losing two fingers, suffering varicose veins and a carbuncle neck(???).
Heaven knows how he managed to continue as a hairdresser after that lot but he did.http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/
Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid
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Just my luck
He did not fill in the 1901 census
{EDIT: Just found him on 1901 census, at last, At home of his in-laws}
And his war records were burntLast edited by TrevorFranklin; 07-11-08, 22:43.Avatar is my Gt Grandfather
Researching:
FRANKLIN (Harrow/Pinner 1700 to 1850); PURSGLOVE (ALL Southern counties of England); POOLE (Tetbury/Malmesbury and surrounding areas of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire (1650 to 1900); READ London/Suffolk
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