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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 03 October 18 16:52 BST (UK) »
Could be worth pursuing a 'forename reversal' - not uncommon ... but so far I cant tie anything in - I really need census access !

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 04 October 18 15:37 BST (UK) »
Hi AVM228,  sorry I've been so long coming back, confirm that yes Reginald Collins was born on 23/5/1892 (got this from 1939 register).
Found marriage cert, 1/09/1915 to Daisy New. Witnesses Florence May New (Daisy's sister) and Percy Prior (don't know who he is).
Occupation Private in Army ? Corps, Journeyman Baker ?

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 04 October 18 15:47 BST (UK) »
Army Service Corps, perhaps?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 04 October 18 15:48 BST (UK) »
Are there just blank spaces for Reginald's father's name and occupation?

What was his place of residence?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 04 October 18 15:57 BST (UK) »
Hi,  yes it could well be Army Service Corps.  No entry in father or father's occupation columns.  Address given as New Barracks, looks like 'Fermoy'

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 04 October 18 16:01 BST (UK) »
Have found birth certificate for first child, Kathleen, dated 15/10/15 (just one month after the marriage).  On that certificate he is definitely Army Service Corps Journeyman Baker.

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 04 October 18 16:02 BST (UK) »
Here's an old thread about the New Barracks in Fermoy (I haven't read through it yet):

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=322135.0
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 04 October 18 16:19 BST (UK) »
Regarding the Army Service Corps (ASC):

The Supply section, Field Bakeries and Butcheries

The ASC provided an important service in the production of bread and meat for the troops in the field [...]

Reserve Supply Personnel depots (RSP) were located at Aldershot, Bath, Hastings and Prees Heath.

From: www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-army-service-corps-in-the-first-world-war/

So was he perhaps recruited at Aldershot as a baker, transferred to Fermoy but returned on leave to marry Daisy because of her pregnancy?


Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Collins in Hampshire
« Reply #26 on: Thursday 04 October 18 19:16 BST (UK) »
I think that’s very likely, however he must’ve lived close to Daisy 9 months before at least as none of the family travelled out of the district in those days, they were just farm labourers.  It’s his earlier life I’m finding a total brick wall.  For instance, why has he no military record ?
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