Genealogy Chat

Bert Wolfe was born in Stamshaw Portsmouth in 1884/85 and is listed as a death in WWI at The Somme 15/9/1916. He was in the 15th Bn Hampshire Regiment and his Service No was 20285. I have found a Cyril Bert Wolfe born in Cambridge 1907, who looks like a candidate. His widow married my great grandfather and my grandmother said that she had three children, one called Cyril. I have checked the card system at Portsmouth Record Office and there is no mention of a mariage or children, so they must have lived away from Portsmouth but I can't work out whether there would have been a reason to go to Cambridge (assuming that I have the correct one). Jan

Bassingbourn was a USair base in WW2 and became the traing camp for The Queens, the Fusalers and the Anglians.(Guess who was trained there,) But this dose not meen your man was not posted to the area what years are we talking.

there is a Camp at bassingbourn Cambridge, He could have been posted there at some time (pos for basic training)

If a man from Portsmouth enlisted into the Hampshire Regiment for the first World War, would he had been sent to Cambridge for any reason? I have a candidate for a son of the man that I am researching but he has been born in Cambridge and the parents were both born and raised in Portsmouth.