WW1 serving soldiers

[bodger]

Has anyone got access to ww1 records of Manchester soldiers, looking for a Jonas Lockett, private, not sure of terminology, but he drove a horse drawn gun carriage, have looked in the National Roll, and there is a J. Lockett, but the address does not match.
                                                        bodger

[Biker]

Hi bodger

I think you'll get a better response on this from our Armed Forces experts so I'll move it there.  In the meantime, to make identification easier you may wish to provide some extra detail like his birthyear, birthplace etc.

Good luck
Biker

[bodger]

Biker, all we have is, b. 1881, Manchester, m.1902, to Elizabeth Dobson. in 1916 , the address was  19, Naval St.
                                                               Thanks, bodger

[Wendi]

Hi bodger,

Can we expand this a bit...does Jonas have a middle name?

Did the info you have come from his wedding cert?

And most importantly, do you have any other snipits of family info about him - oh and did he survive World War One?

Wendi

[Rochdalian]

Have you tried looking for his medal index card (MIC) at the NA documents online.  Go to

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/medals.asp

Had a quick look and found three J Lockett.

Good luck

Bob

[bodger]

Hi Folks,
           All info from my wifes memory, he had no middle name,  and  he was invalided out due to gassing.
Rochdalian, will check that site. I used to drink in Rochdale 40/50 year ago, there were one or too lively ones in them days. bodger

[Rochdalian]

See if your wife can come up with a Regiment.  When you see the three choices on the NA site you will see one is from the East Lancs which looks like the most likely.

Haven't lived in Rochdale for nearly 40 years so my memory is a bit hazy but I do remember the Grapes.

Bob

[bodger]

Extra, , on my mother in law birth cert, 7th/ Sept, /1916, he is described as, private, machine gun corps.- carter, and from that we assume he was home around Christmas 1915 ? . bodger

[harribobs]

i am a bit dubious about the east lancs, as it is a 7 fig service number, probably a soldier that stayed in the army rather than be invalided out

having said that i can't find any ORs in the MGC