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Caernarvonshire / Re: what is Hendregaerog ?
« on: Sunday 18 June 23 16:28 BST (UK)  »
Welcome to Rootschat.

The link description suggests it's an item from 1878.

This is an account of the marriage of his daughter Miss J M Humphreys in December of that year

[starts bottom of column 2]

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3558435/3558440/35


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World War One / Re: Missing Medal Cards ?
« on: Saturday 25 March 23 09:51 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: ALAMO2008 on Thursday 23 March 23 21:49 GMT (UK)

....went over with BEF with the Royal Welch Regt as Sgt/RSM ?

Opinions or any Help please.



Not sure why you provided that link. My pedantic urge was activated by the above [in bold] and I responded to your request for opinion [in bold]

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World War One / Re: Missing Medal Cards ?
« on: Friday 24 March 23 21:39 GMT (UK)  »
The pedant in me wants to point out that there was no such regiment as the Royal Welch Regiment in the BEF WW1.
There was the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and there was the Welsh Regiment. Two different Regiments.

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World War One / Re: Will I ever find Jimmy Holmes?
« on: Sunday 19 March 23 11:41 GMT (UK)  »
To assist with your consideration/elimination of James Holmes 9043 Scots Rifles. His pension card gives his dependant i.e sister, Barbara Logan at 187 Castle Street, Townhead, Glasgow.

What is the 1911 census address that you have for your Jimmy Holmes please? And your great grandmother name [the relative who refused the payment.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Surname please?
« on: Friday 10 March 23 20:17 GMT (UK)  »
The address on the Isle of Man might be for a HQ or Admin. The actual camps were sizeable ones.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Surname please?
« on: Friday 10 March 23 19:47 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Friday 10 March 23 15:38 GMT (UK)

18th. Supply column was an ASC operation.
The 3/5th. KLR was a Reserve Btn. based in Oswestry pretty
much for the entire war.
Temporary secondment perhaps.
It is the 18th Supernumerary Company of the 5th Bn KLT [TF]
These were the companies formed to guard vulnerable points [bridges etc] and also guard PoW's. These Coys went to form the Royal Defence Corps when that was formed around April 1916.

The location for this one, the Isle of Man*, suggests the 18th Supernumerary Coy, 5th Bn KLR was a PoW guard unit.


* see other thread

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World War One / Re: William James Davies Uniform Indentification
« on: Thursday 23 February 23 19:16 GMT (UK)  »
No one in the AVLs for that address I'm afraid Dinah. As I said these are the 1919/1920 ones. He might have been on the 1918 one but I don't think there's a copy of that one deposited anywhere.

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World War One / Re: William James Davies Uniform Indentification
« on: Monday 20 February 23 11:48 GMT (UK)  »
What address(es) do you have in Ammanford Dinah?
Absent Voters list are available for that area for 1919-1920.

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World War One / Re: Dismissed Demobbed Discharged?
« on: Tuesday 27 December 22 13:05 GMT (UK)  »
He was 'disembodied' rather than demobbed/discharged. It is 'disem' on the MIC.

Embodied/disembodied were the terms used for the Territorial Force. He was Manchester Regiment  9th Bn man, i.e a TF battalion. [see his 1914-15 Star Roll]


"......The purpose of the TF

The concept of the TF was for it to ensure home defence while a large part of the British regular army was deployed to Europe as an Expeditionary Force. On mobilisation in the event of war the units would form a central mobile striking force and coastal defence formations. The TF was mobilised for full-time war service immediately war was declared. This was known as being “embodied”.

Men enlisting into the TF were not obliged by their terms to serve overseas, although they could agree to do so........"



Above from
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/the-territorial-force/

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