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WW1 Help
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Unknown | Report | 5 Feb 2005 11:55 |
A very lovely lady managed to copy my ggrandfather's WW1 records for me last week. This morning I've had a look on the National Archives site for his medal card. Fortunately he has an unusual name and it only brought up 4 possibles. However when I clicked on my ggrandfather's name and number, it has brought up 2 numbers and 2 different regiments on the next page. Does this mean he was enlisted twice or is it a glitch and it is actually 2 different people? Thanks Lou x |
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Shaun | Report | 5 Feb 2005 11:59 |
Could both be for your grandad Lou, if a soldier was transfered to another regiment or even another company in the same regiment they were quite often re-registered with different numbers etc. Shaun |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Feb 2005 12:17 |
Thanks Shaun The number I have off the papers is 1597 Private Ernest Hawkridge Manchester Regiment. When I clicked on that it came up 253149 Private Ernest Hawkridge Labour Corps but underneath the above details????? If I click on one of the others (one happens to be Ernest's son also called Ernest!) it just gives the original info Lou |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 5 Feb 2005 13:19 |
That looks like the different numbers my Grandfather had. The "short" (4-digit) and the "long" (6-digit). The Labour Corps was formed later in the war - my grandfather served as a Lieutenant with both the Yorkshires (active, front-line) and later the Labour Corps (behind the lines after suffering shell-shock, or "neurasthenia"). Unfortunately there's no medal card for him: they weren't automatic for officers. There's a good site about the Labour Corps: http://www.geocities.*com/labour_corps/ (remove *) Christine |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Feb 2005 14:28 |
Thanks Christine Will take a look at the site. Feel reassured that both numbers probably belong to my ggrandfather. Would hate to include something in the tree book that wasn't accurate Lou |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 5 Feb 2005 14:43 |
I suppose you could enter it in such a way as to allow the doubt? Or can you get sight of his army records at Kew? About 30-40% survived the bomb that hit their WW2 "safe place" storage His record would incorporate refs to both numbers: the short one when he signed up, but the longer one would be the one you'd need to request the file. Christine |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Feb 2005 15:22 |
Hi Christine I have his records but they're slightly 'singed' in places and some of it is quite hard to read. I'll go back thru them and see whether I can find any reference to the 2nd number it mentioned on the site before working out how to enter the information Thanks again Lou |