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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

Christine in Herts

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

Unknown

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

Christine in Herts

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

Unknown

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

Shaun

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

Unknown

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