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Hi
This photo was sent to our Facebook group by someone that had been to Egypt on holiday as we're all ex-Sappers - would be great if we could find his records and then find his ancestors and give them a copy of this photo.
Can any of your experts help?

The "engraving" says (but it looks like he made a mistake on the H)

SAPPER
I. A. WHEAL
R.E. 1892

Any ideas anyone?
Cheers
Dave

Please can someone help me?

I'm trying to find out if an ancestor of mine was enlisted in the 2nd Dragoon Guards upto 1794.

If he was, then how can I find his details, especially his date and place of birth?  I was hoping his details will be held on his regimental muster roll or other book.

Any help would be very much appreciated.
Dave

I read an article that a significant Masonic Lodge was established in Derry in the late 1790's, with the support of other Mason's, including those in the Fife Fencibles, who were there because of the Irish Rebellion.

My anscestor, Samuel Player, was a Freemason and involved in setting up this Lodge.  His son Joseph was born there.

Will there be any information in this Lodge that can be shared?  Any info would be very welcomed, even if only his date and place of birth.

Hoping someone can help.

This first Player in Scotland seems to be a Samuel Player that came from England and ended up in Fife.  There are records of a William Player arriving to the area around the same time, but we're not sure if they are actually related.  William died in Flanders and Samuel went on to have a family - it seems all Players in Scotland are descendants of Samuel.

We've searched everywhere for Samuel's place of birth, to no avail.

Are there any Player family trees with a Samuel and/or William around this period.  They enlisted  around 1795 so, at a guess, they could've been born between 1770 - 1775-ish.

We're searching for details of a relative, Sgt Samuel Player, that served with the Fife Fencibles (1794 to 1803) but we can't find his place of birth (we believe he was English).  We have all the info Kew has on Sgt Player.

We've tried to find the regimental Description Book, but no joy yet.  Any ideas?

We've been informed that a Gen Champagne inspected the Fife Fencibles and took a detailed register of all the soldiers details.  Where could we search for this document?  We're hoping our relative's details will be here...

There are 2 Gen Champagnes, that were brother's (links below) and we're not sure which one it was, but it was more likely to be Lt Gen Forbes Champagne (then Brig Gen) who served in the Irish Rebellion in 1798 when the Fife Fencibles were there also.  However, looking at the dates of Gen Josiah Champagne, there's always the possibility that he did the inspection during his brief postings in the UK (he served overseas a lot, as the link below shows)...

Lieutenant General Forbes Champagne
http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/067.htmlHe served as Brigadier General in Ireland, during the rebellion in 1798,
 
Portrait of General Sir Josiah Champagne, G.C.H.
http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/grant/paintings/2.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zzkYtitMBRsC&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=%22Josiah+Champagne%22&source=web&ots=sIsUomL-Ok&sig=5fUZ0xIYMHvONW_LyBaY7dOKfTc&hl=en&ei=LRKUSfSgHpir-gaK44GVCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA140,M1