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Please forgive me if this has been raised before, but can anyone confirm that all (E&W) Grants arising out of online applications are now indexed as being issued solely by the Central Registry.

I ask this because it seems to me that, as the result of this enforced change of practice, we have now lost a potentially valuable search resource by not being able to relate to a local registry.

By way of illustrating this point, some years ago I was able to clarify how it was that Probate for a Mr Jones, who had died in mid-Wales, was granted by the Newcastle Registry. Although this should have thrown me, it was enormously helpful because I separately knew that his daughter lived just over the border in Scotland - and so concluded that she had utilised the nearest registry in England.

Willyam

I have just been looking at the 1939 Register entry for a man whom I believe may be my grandfather.

Just to the left of his entry appears this annotation: I.C. (although the I could just as well be a 1)

It looks to me as if this was written at the same time, and by the same hand, as the name & date of birth were entered and it is therefore not a later addition.

Might anyone have an idea as to what the annotation I.C. (or 1.C.) was meant to indicate?

Willyam

Hello,

I am aware that it was standard practice that every new recruit had to undergo a medical examination to ensure that he was fit to serve.

However, I am wondering if the need for such an examination did not apply in the case of men joining The Army Remount Service of the RASC.

I mention this because in a "call to arms" recruitment notice, that formed part of a national newspaper advertising campaign in 1915, the RASC specifically stated that "ordinary standards of height and chest measurement may be waived provided men are organically sound" and also that the eyesight test could be taken whilst wearing glasses.

My thinking is that the usual medical examination of such recruits could well have been counterproductive, if it inadvertently led to the rejection of a disproportionate number of men that the Remount Service so desperately needed.

Perhaps instead just a visual physical check might have been conducted (e.g. all limbs present & correct etc.).

My interest in this topic is prompted by the discovery that an ancestor was accepted into The Remounts even though (as his medical discharge papers confirm) he would surely have been rejected had he undergone a full medical examination at the point of recruitment.

Does anyone have an ancestor who joined The Remounts around this time and who may have been "organically sound" but not otherwise fit enough for the rigours of the battlefield?

Willyam

I am seeking guidance on how to find the 2nd King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the 1911 overseas census.

It is my understanding that the 2nds were in India at the time but, to date, I have not been able to find them.

Any help will be gratefully received.

Willyam