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My grandfather, John Richard Taylor (service number 42213) of the 340th Battery, 337th Brigade of the RFA was injured on 30 July 1916 in France.  Can anybody decipher the place name where the injury occurred (see box 12 of attachment).

Fortunately he survived and was later awarded the usual medals for the time he served in France between 1915 and 1916, but I can find record of award of medals for the time he served with the 74th (Yeomanry) division in Gaza and Jerusalem between 1917 - 1918. Were separate medals awarded and do records survive?

I shall be very grateful for any advice.

Kevin

I remain intrigued by this photograph which I remember since my childhood.  My late mother said that she had no idea who the two ladies in this photograph were.  I imagined that my father, who died when I was two, might have brought the photograph back to Stepney with him after serving with the RN in WWII.  Perhaps they were actresses or entertainers for the troops that he had met in the West End (there is an address:10 Grey House, Duke York (sic), London W1 hand written on the back). 
Or are they bridesmaids from an unknown wedding?
The names Ivy and Jean are written on the front (neither of which are family names) and there is the address on the back, but there are no other markings.
Can anyone put a date to the photograph or suggest who or what the subjects might be?
Kevin now in Chester

I am new to researching in Ireland, so would be grateful for advice on finding more about a Catherine McHugh (bc1812) who was buried at Claretuam Cemetery, near Tuam, Galway in March 1892 in Section A, plot 85, memorial ID 169515091 (from Find a Grave).  Where might I find more information about the burial and acquire a death certificate?

According to oral evidence, my Catherine McCue/McHugh (nee Summers bc 1813) and husband James migrated from Belclare, Tuam (Galway) to Pontypridd (Glamorgan) in about 1840.  James, who worked as a Nailer, died in Pontypridd in 1867.  Catherine remained at least until the 1871 census (shown as Macew).  There is a newspaper report about Catherine in 1873 (South Wales Daily News), and possibly another in 1875 (County Observer), both relating to assaults.  But there appears to be no subsequent trace of Catherine in the 1881 census or any remarriage or death in South Wales.

I fear I am forcing the evidence, but perhaps my Catherine returned to Belclare, Galway at some point after 1873 and was buried there in 1892?  Intriguingly a Catherine McHugh makes an appearance at the Galway Petty Sessions on 15 August 1887 on an assault charge (although she and the accuser appear not to have troubled the presiding magistrate by attending the hearing).

Kevin now in Chester

I should be very grateful if someone could tidy up this small photograph of my late father in his working overalls, which was taken during his time in the RN (1943-1946).  Unfortunately my late mother disposed of the rest of the photograph, which I assume would have shown the setting or a group of his shipmates. My father was variously based in Portsmouth, on the Clyde and Freetown (now Sierra Leone), serving as a Submarine (U-Boot) Detector on many ships.
Many thanks
Kevin now in Chester

My grandmother told me, shortly before she passed away aged 96, that her first husband, Walter Alexander Carter - a man she loathed, deeply - travelled to Australia with his family when he was a child.
In spite of several decades of searching I have found no trace of such a journey.  Can anyone help?
The family was Allan George (Bob) Carter (b1879 Orsett, Essex - a bricklayer, later licensed victualler), his wife Emily Louisa Carter (nee Golding, b1878 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex) and two sons Charles James Carter (b1900 Leyton, Essex) and my grandfather Walter Alexander (also Bob) Carter (b1901 Leytonstone, Essex).
They were certainly in the UK on 20 January 1902 when Walter's birth was registered in Leytonstone, Essex and on 2 April 1911 when the census records them living at 69 Odessa Road, Forest Gate, Essex and in 1914 when they took over the licence of the Old Walnut Tree in Ben Jonson Road, Stepney, Middlesex, where they remained.   So any journey would have taken place between 1902 and 1914.
I have been able to verify everything else that my grandmother told me about her family, but I can find no confirmation of this story.  While it is from a part of her life that she rarely discussed, it seems to me to be an odd fact for her to confuse or invent.  I should be grateful for any help to locate this journey (or for firm advice that the journey didn't happen so I can give up the search!!!).