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Europe / Cyprus Death Certificates
« on: Thursday 11 May 23 18:54 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have advice  for contacting Cyprus to get a death certificate?
      Long story but a friend needs to get a copy of her husbands death cert (2008)
    we have sent email to relevant authority, but no response after a week, so we may have been given the wrong details.

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World War One / Re: Ernest Hudman, 2 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
« on: Saturday 02 April 22 22:22 BST (UK)  »
 
 I decided to see if I could find anything from the names of the other casualties in the newspaper report.
After checking the first 25 or so I manage to find some that had service record or pension records and they were all recorded as injured on the 14 Sept 1914 (and Pont Arcy was mentioned on 1 or 2)
Cross referencing with the diaries the 2nd battalion were at Pont Arcy ( Battle of Aisne) on 14th Sept 1914. they were heavily shelled from 6 am till 7pm and took heavy casualies.
 Thanks to all for the help that got me here!!



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World War One / Re: Ernest Hudman, 2 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
« on: Saturday 02 April 22 17:25 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Shaun , perhaps he was transfered to 1 battalion.

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World War One / Re: Ernest Hudman, 2 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
« on: Saturday 02 April 22 11:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi, yes I am a frequent visitor to this website. I have not found anything useful here for Ernest. When I first started my family History I paid for a search, which was not very enlightening.
 (There are a lot of family members that served in the Worcester Regt)
 As far as I know he was in the 2nd Battalion, He def was at the 1911 census in India, also his brother Tom. On the list for the 1914 Star, 2 Battalion Worcesters, Ernest is listed as disembarking 27-8-14.
 I did downloadmthe 2 Battalion War diaries from NA yesterday. I do know from that where/ when they suffered casualties but they list names of officers and senior ranks not privates. I dont know what the time scale was for the newspaper to list them, so would have to guess a date. i might note the name of officers mentioned in newspaper and see if I can find them in diaries.


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World War One / Ernest Hudman, 2 Battalion Worcestershire Regiment.
« on: Friday 01 April 22 21:59 BST (UK)  »
Ernest edward Hudman was born 16th March 1889 in Tywning Gloucestershire.
Enlisted with 3 South Wales Borderers 14th March 1905 (claiming to be 18)
I have a copy of his enlistment and it notes he was transfered to Worcs Regt 28th May 1905.

I believe his record of service in the 2 Worcestershire regt may have been in the "burnt records" His brother Tom served in same regt and they were in India at the same time, his record survives.  I found Ernest's disembarcation date for France as 27 Aug 1914 and I recently found a newspaper article of wounded from the Worcestershire Regt ( Bromsgrove and Droitwich Messenger 14 Nov 1914) and Ernest was listed as wounded.

 I know he was at Tregantle, Cornwall sometime in 1915. He had a friend George King who was in France and George's family lived in Plymouth. George had obviously given Ernest their address, so he visited them to see if they had any news of George.  There he met and fell in love with George's sister Harriet Ellen (Nellie, My Grandmother) and they wanted to marry. Ernest had to get permission to marry and as there nearly 9 years difference in age, permission was refused.
 Ernest went absent and was listed as a deserter 19 Dec 1915. However, on the 23 Dec 1915 Ernest was in Cardiff enlisting into the Army as driver in the Army Service Corps, with their wedding already planned for Jan 12th 1916.
 Ernest was released due to illness Jan 1919 and I have an idea of where he was during his time with the ASC due to notes in his pension documents.

I would love to know more about Ernest's service in the Worcestershire Regt and how or where he was injured, I feel I never will, but someone reading this may have a suggestion. Unfortunatly Ernest died relatively young (53) before my parents had even met. Any help or
 suggestions gratefully recieved!!!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Husband and I have mutual DNA Match!
« on: Sunday 14 November 21 15:25 GMT (UK)  »
My Dads father born in Gloucestershire, married in Plymouth during WW1, all his children born in Plymouth as was I, and had very little info about any other family members.

Although Hubbys 3xgggfather married a woman from Dymock they had lived together in Birmingham for several years and had 4 children before they married. In Fact he was married when he came to England, I havent as yet found what happened to his first wife.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Husband and I have mutual DNA Match!
« on: Sunday 07 November 21 22:47 GMT (UK)  »
I gave myself a rest from that one for a while as need time to really concentrate as I then found that i had a "Sandoz" b.France in a dna links tree, and "Sandoz" is the name of hubbys 3gggrandfather b. Switzerland. Said 3 gggrandfather married in Gloucestershire where some of my Dads side of the family came from including previously mentioned Robert and Mercy. It could take time!!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Husband and I have mutual DNA Match!
« on: Thursday 07 October 21 10:17 BST (UK)  »
Advice noted, I think I will be extending husbands Smith line first!

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Husband and I have mutual DNA Match!
« on: Thursday 07 October 21 09:52 BST (UK)  »
I think i need to do more work on husbands tree that is attached to his DNa test as at the moment there are no shared matches with FA. Thanks. I will update you if I work it out!!

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