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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: toby webb on Wednesday 02 March 22 10:11 GMT (UK)
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I am checking in again to the Common Room for I have received excellent help there in the past.
Looking in vain for a sergeant, I happened on the attached but cannot discover how to proceed from there. Can anyone help? Thanks, Toby.
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I can see the one you are talking about on Find My Past but it is just a list of records with no indication as to whether they are viewable.
Have you tried searching the 1921 Census using the name in which you are interested?
It may be that you will only be able to view these records at Kew.
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Hi,
National Archives ref RG15, the following is the connection
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=Ireland&_ser=RG%2015&id=C13340
Think the item you quote is the 6th item down, if you click on this it opens another page on the right of which it give connection FindMyPast search for free but have to pay for actual document as it is part of 1921 Census.
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Thanks for the help. Seems that one goes round in circles and that I will only get answers once the 1826 Irish census becomes avaiable. T
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Who are you actually looking for? Where in Ireland do you think they are in 1921.
Is he a sergeant in the army or is the surname sergeant.
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Sgt. Raymond Lonnon spent a couple of years in the occupying army in Ireland & Germany. That is all I know. Many thanks Spendlove if you are able to add to this. T
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When and where was he born? Without that information it will be difficult to assist you. Do you know who his parents were? Did he have siblings?
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Had a quick look, but will need more info.
When and where was he born, is Raymond his only Christian name?
Where have you obtained the info that he was a Sergeant, you say occupying forces in Ireland and Germany, so assume we are looking for service 1914-1918 war.
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Are we talking about the Raymond Lonnon born 1900 Newport, Monmouthshire?
Is so, he is on the 1921 census in Bristol - surname has been transcribed as 'Louman' instead of Lonnon. Not in the armed forces.
Annette
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Many thanks to you all for collective help. Annette7 well done . I would never have found it. Just emphasises what I have been saying for ages - transcriptions are of limited use. Nothing like the original. T
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Hi
Pleased you have found what you are looking for.
However how could Raymond born 1900 have served as a sergeant Ireland/Germany he was 14 when war started and 18 when it ended? October 1917 he appears in Dental Register, working for Smith’s of Newport where he commenced work January 1916.
Perhaps his war service was in the Home Guard during 2nd world war.
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He was conscripted very soon after leaving school having only a very short time at the dental business of A H Smith. He served in Ireland & Germany before going to Bristol University in, we believe, Autumn 1920. Not certain how I will find out the details of his very short military career. T