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What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:11 BST (UK) »
My grandfather was born in 1901, lived in Bethnal Green with his aunt's family in 1911 after the death of both parents, and married in Dover in 1922. On the marriage certificate his occupation as shown as 1st Class Motor Mechanic but he has also entered C.A.M.S R.E as his rank suggesting he was in the Royal Engineers at the end of WW1. Can anyone tell me what C.A.M.S (or C.O.M.S/C.Q.M.S) might stand for? Thanks!

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:19 BST (UK) »
Could well be CQMS RE - Company Quartermaster Sergeant Royal Engineers.

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:22 BST (UK) »
At age 20-21 he would be a bit young to be a CQMS in 1922. 
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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:26 BST (UK) »
ShaunJ makes a good point, can you post a copy of the bit of the marriage cert that has the abbreviation?

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I am Zoe Northeast, granddaughter of Maximilian Double.
 
It is with great difficulty I share with you that in the early hours of 07 August 2021, Maximilian passed away unexpectedly but peacefully.

With deep sadness,
Zoe



Double  Essex/Suffolk
Randle/Millington Warwicks
Sokser/Klingler Austria/Croatia

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:54 BST (UK) »
Thanks for quick response - am trying to find out how he came to be in Dover (and can't wait for the 1921 census!). Jpg attached - the rank is not his father's as he was a house-painter and died before 1911. I wondered if the M.S was anything to do with Motor Services...

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:59 BST (UK) »
It's the father of the groom so he could have been the Quartermaster. Think maxD got it right.

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 01 July 17 11:59 BST (UK) »
It is the father's details not not the groom, Company Quarter Master Sergeant .
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 01 July 17 12:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jillb111 on Saturday 01 July 17 11:54 BST (UK)
the rank is not his father's as he was a house-painter and died before 1911.

As the bride's father is described as a Painter, it's possible that the fathers' occupations were switched in error.

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Re: What does C.A.M.S R.E stand for?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 01 July 17 12:09 BST (UK) »
Thanks all! I can now see that the entries for father's occupation have been put against the wrong person. My grandmother's father was indeed in the army (he moved down to Dover with the Forfar and Kincardine Artillery). I hadn't known the later stages of his career so you've just sorted that for me!
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