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Can anyone with eyesight of superman please read anything on a military image for me please..

The name is H Brierley age 23 abt 1895..its on the service records and the image no is 35905..

The address wouls be a god send..Thanks in anticipation....Wanda..

I get as far as his name being Harold, his Next of Kin being his wife, and he possibly has child(ren).

It is so feint I am sorry I can't make out anything else.

The only address is for the commanding depot of Bury, Lancashire

Joan and Diane..thank you for looking..oerhaps I have looked too long but I see on the address 17 A....
His wife was Lydia Brierley and I think I see the name Lydia when I look.Its the addy that is the bug bear...Wanda...

On another record #35905 I found the current address was 111 Stockport Road, Mossley. Lancashire in 1913. It's also marked in big letters...killed 3 5 1918.

Is this what you were looking for?

Joan

British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
about Harold Brierley
Name: Harold Brierley
Age: 17
Birth Year: abt 1896
Birth Parish: Mossley
Birth County: Lancashire
Regiment Name: West Riding Regiment
Regiment Number: 1388
Document Year: 1913

This may not be the correct Harold Brierley because the rest of the pages refer to his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Brierley and not his wife.

Joan

Hi Joan..no..even though its on the same image no the one from mossley isnt him..he is the other Harold all born Beswick but they have put the year of births all wrong...he is also the one with no details but has something like AE in big letters on the first page....keep looking at it every now and then but cant make any of it out..is there anywhere that can do this for me that you know of?...Wanda..

Wanda,

Are you sure you have the correct image #?

Joan

Image # 35905 is for the Harold from Mossley.

Joan

Did you see image #35903 and 35904?

http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1219&path=B.Br.Bri.35903

Check out all the pages previously and Next--there are quite a number of them.

Joan

Hi Wanda
I converted the image to white on black to try and make it easier to read...but the page is extremely faded as you know.

I make no guarantees ... but I think it may be
17A Birmingham Street
West something - or maybe Westminster

As an Aussie I can't use logic as I don't know the English locales to make 'informed deductions'

He appears to have been stationed in Bedford and been a bit norti....drunk and disorderly, absent without leave etc, hehehe 35900

page 35897
Full Address on discharge
27 Baker St, Kirdstall Rd, Leeds, Yorkshire
Enlisted 3 Apr 1918
Discharged 6 Dec 1918
No longer physically fit for war service
Rank - Sapper
age 26 yrs 5 mths

page 35903 a death record for
Harold Sergeant Brierley
died 1918, aged 19 months
father Harold, private Royal Engineers, no 351880
Mother Lydia
cause of death - acute bronchitis/cardiac failure

page 35904 is a memorandum requesting payment from a Mr Melling for the death certificate of Harold Sergeant Brierley

page 35902 appears to be Harolds 'Invalid Discharge' from service

Harold was tested at Fenny Stratford, efficient signalman

page 35892 start of service records
Name : Brierly, Harold
Service number 351880
Last page 35906

Hope this helps

Harold Brierley
Birth registration
A-M-J 1892
Bury 8c / 624
Greater Manchester, Lancashire

This would tie in with him being 26 years old at discharge in 1918

Harold Brierley and Lydia Cadden
Marriage registration
J-F-M 1916
Bury 8c / 998

RG13; Piece: 3638; Folio: 84; Page: 44
1901 Census Bury, Lancashire

Lydia Cadden, born c1897
Grandmother Alice Kay
Mother Susannah Cadden
Father Charles Cadden
siblings
Emily 5, Joseph 2

Joan..thank you for your help and Sharon thanks so much for all the info...I have made contact with a rellie in Canada and we have been trying to sort out where Harold moved to as my grandma Mary Ellen Goulden was his common law wife..this was the only page I had real difficulty with and think that maybe what you sid as westmunster is perhaps west Manchester..thanks so much to you all..Wanda.xxx