Brighton WW2

[cupcake]

Can anyone help me find any information on my father Robert Titterington.

He married my mother at a Register Office October 1940. At the time they were living a 2 Norfolk Terrace Brighton. My father was an Inland Revenue Collector.
The other address I have is 15 Valley Drive, Brighton, BN1 5FA where my brother was born in 1943. My father was transferred to Glasgow at the end of 1943.

I would like to know more about my father before 1940 up to 1943. He was also in the Home Guard.

Any information would be vey much appreciated.

Regards

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[lizdb]

Hi
How old was your father when he married?
Who does he name as his father on his marriage cert?
Do you know when and where he was born and if he had siblings?

[cupcake]

Hi lizdb,

My father was 41 years old when he married.

His father was William Ernest Titterington.

My father was born 17 December 1898 in Kirby Lonsdale, Westmorland. He had two sisters and a brother, who all went to Australia. My father stayed in the UK.

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[lizdb]

Have you found them in 1901 and 1911 censuses, to find out more about his early life ?  Seems you already know most of what can be found!

[nanny jan]

Hi,

Have you thought about sending for a copy of his Home Guard records?

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/homeguard.htm


Nanny Jan

[cupcake]

lizdb,

No I haven't looked for him on the 1901 and 1911 censuses, to find out more about his early life.  That I would like to find out. His mother was Scottish and his father English, so I am not sure where to look.

That said, my father was 15 years older than my mother and, he enlisted in the First World War, I believe when he was 16. He was wounded while in the Somme and classed as unfit, that's why he didn't go to Australia around 1929.

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[cupcake]

Hi Nanny Jan,

I hadn't thought about  sending for a copy of his Home Guard records. Thanks for the address.

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[cupcake]

Nanny Jan,

Have been onto the site perhaps it's just me, but it is a tad confusing. From what I can make out, I would need his Unit name, which I don't know.

Thank you.

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[cupcake]

My father received a WW1 pension of £2.19.6 to help support his mother and his brother and sister. They were living in Bolton around 1917 after that, I have no idea. Curious to know when he went to Brighton, though.

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