OK, I need some help please. I am rubbish at military records.
I have come to the library specifically to access Find My Past as the Black Watch website (https://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/hist...ing-a-soldier/) states that records between 1760-1913 are now online at FMP. But I cannot find my man.
So, what I know about him (I have previously asked for help finding his mum Alice, a thread that ran for 32 pages, so some of this may seem familiar to some of you):
Charles Harry JEPSON, b. 1881 Manchester and was listed in the 1901 census as a Private in the 2nd Royal Highlanders, Montrose, Angus.
He married in 1901 and is listed as a Bandsman in the Black Watch.
A newspaper article from 1918 states that he deserted in 1905, and I know that he went to the US at that time. (He joined the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as a French Horn player). I seem to remember, but can't find in my notes, that he may have deserted before (1896/1898? but I can't find the information at the moment)
I have contacted the Black Watch and they have said that they can't help as the records are at Kew and have been digitised.
So, can anyone search better than me, or does anyone have access / knowledge of other sites that may offer information about his military life? I have checked the British Newspaper Archive and all I can find on him is his divorce details.
If anyone else can find anything else, I'd be very grateful.
I have come to the library specifically to access Find My Past as the Black Watch website (https://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/hist...ing-a-soldier/) states that records between 1760-1913 are now online at FMP. But I cannot find my man.
So, what I know about him (I have previously asked for help finding his mum Alice, a thread that ran for 32 pages, so some of this may seem familiar to some of you):
Charles Harry JEPSON, b. 1881 Manchester and was listed in the 1901 census as a Private in the 2nd Royal Highlanders, Montrose, Angus.
He married in 1901 and is listed as a Bandsman in the Black Watch.
A newspaper article from 1918 states that he deserted in 1905, and I know that he went to the US at that time. (He joined the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as a French Horn player). I seem to remember, but can't find in my notes, that he may have deserted before (1896/1898? but I can't find the information at the moment)
I have contacted the Black Watch and they have said that they can't help as the records are at Kew and have been digitised.
So, can anyone search better than me, or does anyone have access / knowledge of other sites that may offer information about his military life? I have checked the British Newspaper Archive and all I can find on him is his divorce details.
If anyone else can find anything else, I'd be very grateful.
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