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Title: Where do I go from here.
Post by: dudjac on Friday 12 January 18 14:06 GMT (UK)
Hi.
Found an ancestors marriage certificate in which he states that he is a sapper in the R.E. However cannot find any details thereafter.
He was William Thomas Jacobs. b.1889 Heatherlands. Parkstone, Dorset. He married Beatrice Pattenden 15th November 1918 in Parkstone, Dorset  Cannot find any service history at all. Where do I go from here?.

Dud.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: Jebber on Friday 12 January 18 14:22 GMT (UK)
Given his age and the date he married, it is quite likely he continued in the Royal Engineers after 1920, if so his records will still be with the MOD.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: groom on Friday 12 January 18 14:22 GMT (UK)
Have you seen the 1911 where he is a soldier in R G A?

From FamilySearch

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7KG-5B2
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: groom on Friday 12 January 18 14:24 GMT (UK)
His records are on Find My Past

He enlisted aged 17 years 9 months on 24 Jul 1905.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: Jebber on Friday 12 January 18 14:28 GMT (UK)
Tut tut, I missread his year of birth, I should pay more attention. ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: dudjac on Friday 12 January 18 15:15 GMT (UK)
Thanks for your replies. I'm not with FindMyPast but with ancestry and cannot find details there.
Again thanks for your help/

Dud.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: philipsearching on Friday 12 January 18 15:21 GMT (UK)
Quote from: dudjac on Friday 12 January 18 15:15 GMT (UK)
Thanks for your replies. I'm not with FindMyPast but with ancestry and cannot find details there.
Again thanks for your help/

Dud.

Jebber - Ah, the times I've done that!  I blame my advancing age  :'(

dudjac - consider doing what I do: keep a list of all info available on FoundMePissed then take out a one month sub and blitz them all (but remember to click the "don't renew sub" box)

Philip
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: dudjac on Friday 12 January 18 15:30 GMT (UK)
Thanks Phillip
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: jim1 on Friday 12 January 18 15:44 GMT (UK)
I find there's one William T Jacobs, 1st. Bdr. 44381 27/Bde. R.F.A. who received the 14 Star for service in France 19/8/14. Date says he was a full-timer or in reserve at the outbreak of war.
He transferred to the R.E. 28/4/17. as Spr. 251742.
Possibly your man.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: dudjac on Friday 12 January 18 15:56 GMT (UK)
Thanks jim1.  You're a star. It all seems to tie up.

Dud.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: jim1 on Friday 12 January 18 16:04 GMT (UK)
Not conclusive of course but would tie in with him having been a full-timer which your man appears to have been.
Without a service record it's impossible to be sure at this point.
What's needed is his service number.
You could try for the 1918 Absent Voter's list which might yield something.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: groom on Friday 12 January 18 18:13 GMT (UK)
When he enlisted it was:

Attestation service number   5038
Attestation corps   3rd Dorset Regt
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: jim1 on Friday 12 January 18 19:05 GMT (UK)
3/Batt. was reserve so might not have been a full time soldier at that point. If it's the same man.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: dudjac on Friday 12 January 18 19:55 GMT (UK)
Thanks for your findings.
 Apparently 27 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillary  were regulars,
 being formed prior to WW1.

Dud.
Title: Re: Where do I go from here.
Post by: jim1 on Friday 12 January 18 21:04 GMT (UK)
Yes 27/Bde. were fulltime soldiers however 3/Batt. Dorsets weren't.