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Hello, In 2012 I requested help with a Tom West in the West Yorkshire Regiment and I received a lot of help in understanding his WW1 Attestation Paper.
I have a lot of information on Tom West, born in 1872, in Skipton, Yorkshire. I know from his WW1 Attestation Paper that he served in the Boer War and that he had served previously to that in the 1st and 2nd West Riding Regiment for 5 1/2 years and the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment for 4 1/2 years. It is this that I would like help with if possible.
I can find Tom West on the 1881 census and then he disappears until 1899 when he marries and has in son in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. I can't find him on the 1891 census. I have found other Tom West's but on tracing these men forwards onto the 1901 census I can see that they are not my Tom West. 

Information on Tom West. Born 1872, Skipton. Boer War 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment No. 6940, invalided out.
WW1 West Yorkshire Regiment No.1480, invalided out and rejoined within a few months the R.C.C. Royal Engineers No.220861 and was again invalided out.
If he was in  the 1st West Riding Regiment in 1891 would he appear on a census? Or was the Regiment abroad at this point, and not on a census, if so, would there be anywhere that I can look?
Thank you,
Louise

Hello,
I have been re-visiting my Hay & Coxon families in Hartlepool. I have managed to find Hermit Street, Silver Street & Frederick Street on an old map that I have of Hartlepool. I have also looked on old maps on the National Library of Scotland but I can't find Tweddle Street, although for some reason I think it is on the headland.  I wondered if anybody knew where Tweddle Street used to be e.g off Durham Street or Baltic street, or even had a photograph of it.
Louise

Hello, I have previously asked about a relative who served in the 1/1 West Riding Heavy Battery.
 Thanks to Max D and the links to the 1/1st West Yorkshire Heavy Battery war diaries he sent I have been able to trace this relative from York to his death at Pozieres in 1917.
 I had another relative also in the Battery who survived, dying in 1922, from T.B (not his injuries, although he had a War Pension). I have a photograph of him sat in a car on some ranges. Max found that his no. 427 DVR was between two other men who joined in August 1914. Having read the War Diary for 1914-onwards, I think he may have been in the Reserve unit. The Reserve unit were sent to Bakewell in Derbyshire.
My questions are:-Would a diary have been kept for the reserve unit?
                            Where was the camp in Bakewell, Derbyshire?
   Thank you
Louise
                               

Thanks to Max D I was able to access the West Yorkshire Heavy battery through the archives. (They are free at the moment.) I am reading them & transcribing them to follow a relative through to his death in 1917 at Poziers. Not much was left of his records but I have found bits, such as the date of his disembarkation in France and the manner of his death. Using what I know I am following the West Yorks. Already through the diaries I know they left Lumley Barracks, York (he lived there, so joined locally) and marched to Hedon near Hull leaving the guns on the racecourse (Gt. Gran always said they billeted on a racecourse before going to France, now I know which one). I know which ship he sailed on & that he went with the first troops from the West Yorks (using his date of disembarkation), so I have learnt a lot just through the first 10 pages, including that the government water troughs were rubbish and rotted after 3 months.

My question is: What is an artifcer? I found it difficult to read, they were listed with the no. of men on the 4th August 1914. There were 12 of them and they came after the officers and sergeants and before the trumpeters and other ranks. This was a heavy battery with guns and horses, was he something to do with them.
Thank you in anticipation.
Louise