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Armed Forces / merchant navy officers records
« on: Friday 02 October 15 21:02 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps someone out there knows how to get info' from National Archives without going to Kew.
I have been trying to get the record of a relation who was an engineer in and after WW2. I got his medal awards OK but then drew a blank so I tried my own records in BT382. The same - nothing found. How come? My own details are John Jackson R395958 in London 1947, Deck Apprentice up to Master Mariner 1957. Surely couldn't be easier. Help!!

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Armed Forces / royal australian navy
« on: Sunday 06 September 15 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Been struggling to track my fathers complicated record in and after ww1. He was demobbed from HO's in RMA 17 March 1919 then promptly enlisted for 7 years in Australian Navy. He joined Brisbane when she was preparing to return from UK to Oz but apparently paid off 1 April 1919. Shortest 7 years on record, no?
In remarks column of record is "R 1.4.19 SC filed. Not to be claimed for further service in RAN vide P316/1/1 of 17.1.22"
Anybody know what all that means?

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Cork / Monkstown Residents
« on: Monday 24 August 15 17:48 BST (UK)  »
From Jakko. My grandparents, Richard and Susannah Jackson, died in 1943 and 1944 respectively.
Their certificates just give "Lower Monkstown". I believe they had an unmarried sister living with them.
The 1942 Guys gives just 1 Jackson in Monkstown - S.P.Jackson in Rock Lodge. I would think that was beyond their purse although grandma could fit and granddad had a sister Sarah living in Blackrock in 1911.
I suppose the voters list could clarify this. Is it open on-line?
Thanks for any help.

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World War One / Field Punishment WW1
« on: Monday 24 August 15 14:45 BST (UK)  »
From Jakko. My father Richard Howard Jackson 1408(S) served in an oddball unit in France 1916/19, the Royal Marine Artillery Howitzer Divn. as Gunner.
In January 1917 he earned himself 3 days FP No. 2. Not a good career development. In the remarks column of the Service Record, very faint, looks like B2069 which is, of course, the Charge.
Presumably he got nobbled by Court Martial to get that.
I would be interested to find out what he did to earn that. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Poor guy was only 19 and, from other evidence, I suspect he had just got a "Dear John" from his intended.
 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Royal Navy ship 1885
« on: Sunday 16 August 15 21:34 BST (UK)  »
Grandad was on a battlewagon 1885 to 1887, on record as "something"olas.

Can't find anything like that. Can anyone make sense of the handwriting, please? 

From Jakko

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Ireland / 1860 records in skull
« on: Tuesday 04 August 15 10:29 BST (UK)  »
Hope someone can help with this. Great granddad retired from 84th Foot in 1860 and married Eliza Moore in Skull. Her father, Hastings Moore, lived in Ballydehob. He had some sort of business there. I think it was him listed in Griffiths as renting or leasing 2 properties from Swanton but he doesn't appear in the 1864 Guy's. I would like to find out what he did.
Gt. granddad settled on Cape Clear and had at least 6 offspring. I would like to know what he did for a living - apart from fathering Jacksons. He is listed as being in Glen but I don't know which one.
Any ideas greatly welcomed.

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World War One / Royal Marine Artillery
« on: Tuesday 09 June 15 15:56 BST (UK)  »
Got an impasse. My father,Richard Howard Jackson, put his age up 1 year and enlisted in Cork in RMA Nov 1915. He served as gunner in howitzer divn in France until demobbed Mar 1919. His No. was 1408.
His story was that he stayed on until the Geddes axe and the amalgamation of RMA and RMLI 1923 then joined Essex police. I can't find a website with details of re-enlistments in RMA after the war. Is there one? Any help greatly appreciated.
From Jakko

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Family History Beginners Board / military history 1850's
« on: Sunday 31 May 15 20:50 BST (UK)  »
First post on rootschat. Searching my Irish past. Great-granddad on 1901 census is a 94th Foot pensioner. He was born about 1826 so was probably serving 1840-ish to about 1860. That should put him in WO97/1662 but findmypast don't have him. He married in Dec 1860 to a girl in Skull and his sprogs were born on Clear Island. Where do I look now? He was Richard Jackson and family stories had him in the Crimea. Some of the 94th did volunteer for that.

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