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Armed Forces / 'Ninth Army Reserve' in 1881
« on: Thursday 21 July 11 15:26 BST (UK) »
A census entry for a Henry Rouse in Isleworth, Middlesex in 1881 describes him as a 'Police Constable (9th Army Reserve)'
There appear to be rumours in part of the family that he may have served in India but these are vague. He was in the Hounslow area in the 1871 census and joined up subsequently. He spent at least some of the intervening years between the censuses in Liverpool where he married and had his first daughter in 1879. He eventually went on to rise to Inspector with the Victorian Metropolitan Police.
Can anyone help over exactly what the Victorian Ninth Army was/ comprised/ did? All Googling it seems to achieve is wonderful things about Americans in that little bit of WW2 they deigned to turn up for.
Henry's brother George was also in the army, but we only know this as we have his 1873 marriage lines at Christ Church, Fulwood, north of Preston, stating merely that he was a soldier in the local barracks. He is absent from the 1871 census and was previously with Henry in Feltham, Middlesex.
Any information or intelligent speculation concerning the above most welcome.
There appear to be rumours in part of the family that he may have served in India but these are vague. He was in the Hounslow area in the 1871 census and joined up subsequently. He spent at least some of the intervening years between the censuses in Liverpool where he married and had his first daughter in 1879. He eventually went on to rise to Inspector with the Victorian Metropolitan Police.
Can anyone help over exactly what the Victorian Ninth Army was/ comprised/ did? All Googling it seems to achieve is wonderful things about Americans in that little bit of WW2 they deigned to turn up for.
Henry's brother George was also in the army, but we only know this as we have his 1873 marriage lines at Christ Church, Fulwood, north of Preston, stating merely that he was a soldier in the local barracks. He is absent from the 1871 census and was previously with Henry in Feltham, Middlesex.
Any information or intelligent speculation concerning the above most welcome.