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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: MET128 on Tuesday 10 January 17 17:21 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
Does anyone have access to look up a forces record for Katherine?
Born 1896 in Cheriton.
I found this reference but I cannot see the document :-(
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7520174
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Have you tried buying it and downloading it :-\
Name Tanner, Katherine Sarah Service number: 7488 Date of enrolment: 16...
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Hi,
No not yet. It is getting very expensive as I have a lot of people to look up and no starting documentation! I was hoping someone might have a registration to something which allows them to see the document.
Cheeky I know but I can't afford to keep buying all these documents and certificates!
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It looks as though Kew (TNA) only have it on their website. It may be worth you changing your heading on your first post to Look up at National Archives. There are a couple of people who visit that may be able to look for you.
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Hi,
Full enrolment date is 16th January 1918.
Using the image viewer, there is 4 pages to the document & it is an enrolment form into the Women's Army Auxillary Corps.
Page 3 of the document seems to suggest employment in some capacity (maintenance repairs possibly but not sure) within the Royal Flying Corps.
The only way to be sure about the details is as rosie99 suggested above & download the document.
Hope this helps though!
Kind regards
David
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Just to confirm that the record does not appear in its entirety on either FindMyPast or Ancestry so no-one will be able to help in that way. As has been said, the only way is to download it.
maxD
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update.
I downloaded it! but it wasn't very helpful. No next of kin or anything listed :-(
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Since both her parents were alive at the time (indeed father Charles d.1952 and mother Mary Jane in 1962) her next of kin would surely have been them anyway.
Annette
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I was looking for her children
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She was clearly still single in 1918 when she enlisted but can find no marriage for her, nor indeed a death entry so what became of her?
Annette
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I found a marriage of Katherine Sarah Tanner to John S Sharpe in 1922 in Wandsworth.
I do not know if it is her. I will order the marriage certificate and see if there is a father listed which might tie it up.
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I see - didn't pick up on this because this person married as plain Katherine Tanner.
If this was her she and John S. Sharpe (bc.1898, d. Mar.qtr.1928 Wandsworth) had 2 sons with initials H.J. in 1922 Wandsworth and M.A. in 1924 Wandsworth (won't list full names in case still living but you can easily find them on FreeBMD birth index).
You'll be able to find them in the 1939 Register (on FindMyPast) which will give you their birthdates.
Katherine is listed as plain Katherine Sharpe in electoral rolls but there is a death entry for a Katherine Sarah Sharpe b.12/11/1896, d.Oct.1988 Croydon.
If you find Katherine on 1939 register this will give you her birthdate and you can then see if that is the same as that for the Katherine Sarah who died 1988.
Annette
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Hi Annette,
Yes this is as far as I got.
A bit of an assumption that the 1939 Katherine S sharpe in Wandsworth widower is Katherine Tanner married to sharpe, is Katherine Sarah Tanner daughter of Charles Tanner from Cheriton.
The only thing I know about her is she used to visit Cheriton/Alresford on the train from "London".
A bit of a wild stab in the dark! But luckily it is not a common name!
I will have to order the marriage cert I think to see if it gives any further details.....