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Pollard family help please Accrington
« on: Monday 23 October 17 18:37 BST (UK) »
Good evening all I was hoping some kind person could help me I'm trying to find out as much info on family member as I can who served in the boer war he was
5398 PTE J POLLARD EAST LANCS REG
HE was from Accrington and is listed as living at 15 oak street Accrington at the time of his enlistment I think in 1897  aged 18years and 1 month but that's all I know any help would be great about his war service or family info ect I don't have access to any subscription sites as yet and was hoping some of you could please help on my quest
All the best
Nathan

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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23 October 17 18:54 BST (UK) »
Do you know what the J stands for ?

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Stevens /Godfrey /Rudgley /Claridge/ Gipson /George /Bliss
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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #2 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:04 BST (UK) »
How did you come by the information you have?

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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #3 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:17 BST (UK) »
Taken from the Accrington pals website

POLLARD, Pte. John, 15824 (11th Bn., East Lancs. Regt.); lived at 8 Ormerod Street or 78 Royd Street, Accrington; k.i.a. 1st July 1916; comm. Thiepval Memorial.

Could his service number & address been changed at some point?

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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #4 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:32 BST (UK) »
The John Pollard i posted , has a listing on ancestry for "Soldiers effects" his mother as Jane Pollard.

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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #5 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:41 BST (UK) »
You could try this forum as they seem to be researching Accrington men world war one.  Link

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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #6 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:45 BST (UK) »
Nathan,

A "Military" search on Findmypast using the surname of POLLARD & his soldier number of 5398 reveals a detailed army service record for John Richard POLLARD.

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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #7 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:56 BST (UK) »
The John Pollard mentioned by Mary is also shown on the Commonwealth War Graves Site.

That is a free site --- shows where soldiers who were killed in action are buried and is searchable. https://www.cwgc.org/

However this really depends on whether this is your ancestor. It you have his first name look at another free site
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

This will show you births, marriages and deaths for Lancashire and will provide his mother's maiden name. You should then find his parents marriage.

Transcribed census records are available on Family Search -- again free.

Lancashire Parish records you can find on http://www.lan-opc.org.uk ----- again a free site.

However you really need to provide his first name if you can and then we know whether we are looking at the correct soldier's records.

(I see that Willyam may just have found the correct person - but the sites I have mentioned are useful for future reference)

Also there is an 'Accrington Web' discussion Forum -- free but you will need to register. What they don't know on there about the East Lancs Regiment and Accy soldiers is not worth knowing!

http://www.accringtonweb.com

 
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Re: Pollard family help please Accrington
« Reply #8 on: Monday 23 October 17 19:59 BST (UK) »
Thank you both very much as I say I have no access to find my past or ancestry , I would be very interested to see the service papers , , and also to find out if he appears on any censuses , as to where I got the details I have , I have recently located his medals and have purchased them for a dealer and brought them home to Accrington
Atb and thanks so far
Nathan

P.s his forename is john