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Armed Forces / Re: Major R.F.Craster,marriage to Mary McAllum,Deoli,Rajputena.
« on: Monday 21 May 07 20:38 BST (UK)  »
Gereon,

I've found a newspaper funeral notice for Lt Col RF Craster.

As the mourners are listed, and given that the funeral was in 1955, there might be living persons mentioned, I've sent you a PM.

Regards,
Arf


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Armed Forces / Re: "Bandmaster 4th Regiment" Sydney NSW 1837
« on: Wednesday 16 May 07 21:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mary,

I would say his regiment was the 4th Regiment of Foot (The King's Own Regiment).

The 1st battalion was indeed in NSW during the years you mention, their deployment was;

1830 England 
1831 at sea escorting convicts to Australia
1831 New South Wales 
1837 India 
1848 England 
1854 Malta 
1854 Crimea 
1856 England

http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/004-1.htm

Regards,
Arf

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Armed Forces / Re: Army Major
« on: Thursday 08 February 07 19:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again,

I've just found some interesting info regarding Major Roney and his 'extra' surname.

Click the following link to Google Books and in the search box enter Roney Dougal and search 'Full view books' then click on the top link..

http://www.google.co.uk/books?hl=en

Regards

Arf :)

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Armed Forces / Re: Army Major
« on: Thursday 08 February 07 19:18 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: homeguard on Thursday 08 February 07 17:47 GMT (UK)
Thanks Arf that mre than I could have hoped for, do you know if  it would have been possible for him to have come back to the UK to marry, in Scotland in 1851 ?

No problem.

I'm not sure of the regulations regarding returning home to get married. He might have been home on furlough at the time.

Hopefully, one of the experts here will have the answer.

Regards

Arf :)


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Armed Forces / Re: Army Major
« on: Thursday 08 February 07 16:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

There is a Captain Richard Roney mentioned in the 1855 Army list serving with the 96th Regiment of Foot.He had been 17 years on full pay and his promotions were;

Ensign (By Purchase) - 14th September 1838

Lieutenant - 30th April 1841

Captain - 16th July 1850

The 96th Foot deployment;

From http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/096-824.htm

  1836 Ireland 
  1839 England 
  1839 New South Wales 
  1844 New Zealand 
  1847 New Zealand 
  1849 India 
  1854 Ireland 
  1856 Gibraltar 
  1857 England 
  1860 Ireland 
  1862 England -detachment to New Brunswick: St. John, Fredericton (Trent affair)
  1863 Cape of Good Hope 
  1865 India 
  1875 England

So this would tie-in with the children being born in India prior to 1854.


Arf :)

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Armed Forces / Re: Photograph - help with some things
« on: Friday 02 February 07 15:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Cell on Friday 02 February 07 14:14 GMT (UK)
can you identify any of the medals in the picture, and what rank that some of  these men held?

I can't help with the medals but the photo looks like a gathering at a Senior NCO's mess do (SNCO's being sergeants and above) as they are wearing mess dress. The three men on the right of the pic seem to be wearing Sgt's stripes.

Has anyone noticed the circular badge on the lower right sleeve of two of the men? Could these be Warrant Officer badges? ???

Arf

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Armed Forces / Re: Help with uniform
« on: Monday 29 January 07 15:29 GMT (UK)  »
Are you sure about the uniform colours?

If they were the other way round, I would say he was in the Grenadier Guards, who have a red tunic and blue collar.The collar badge is the same.

I'm sure that someone will correct me if I'm wrong. ;)

Arf


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Armed Forces / Re: Army Book 136
« on: Sunday 28 January 07 17:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I think that the locations mentioned could be casualty clearing stations, Beauval, Daours and Peronne (Peronne-la-Chapelle) certainly were, I'm not sure about the others.

http://www.1914-1918.net/ccs.htm

It might explain the references to sickness and the clearing stations would have been visited by concert parties to cheer up the troops.

Arf :)

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Armed Forces / Re: What regiment is this Uniform Please
« on: Saturday 20 January 07 23:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Linda,

His regiment is the Royal Army Service Corps.

Arf


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