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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Friday 15 September 23 12:27 BST (UK)  »
Fantastic, UK premium for £60. I've managed to blag half price every year for the past several now using these 'expired'/forgotten deals. Many thanks for keeping these pinned.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Correcting mistakes
« on: Friday 18 August 23 22:45 BST (UK)  »
BC as in Before Christ?  :P

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Armed Forces / 3rd, 4th & 7th Queen's Own Hussars photographs
« on: Thursday 10 August 23 21:12 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather served in the III, IV & VII Queen's Own Hussars during the interwar years, so I've been trying - so far, in vain - to locate any regimental photographs from this period in order to see if it's possible to identify him in any. Does anyone know of any resources for these? Does anyone have relatives who served in these regiments and have any photos of your own?

He didn't serve in the Great War so wouldn't be on any from then, so I'm really looking at 1920s/30s.

I have contacted the National Army Museum but date-wise nothing turned up apparently.

Thank you.

EDIT: updated to include the 3rd Hussars also.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William Geoffrey Mobley (known as Geoffrey)
« on: Saturday 05 August 23 21:13 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I don't know anything besides he married in Burma - presumably to a Burmese woman. I did contact the woman whose Ancestry tree it is (Russell's second wife) but I don't know if she'll respond. If so, she may be able to put me in touch with someone from the family.

There is a Sep 39 birth for a William G Mobley in Luton (and a previous Mar 1908 marriage in Luton) - as far as I know these aren't related to our William G Mobley. My guess was that one/both of the 62/75 marriages are for this other man, but of course it's possible I'm wrong.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William Geoffrey Mobley (known as Geoffrey)
« on: Saturday 05 August 23 15:50 BST (UK)  »
OK, it's definitely the right Russell. I've since found him on what appears to be a family tree for his second wife (still alive as far as I know).

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William Geoffrey Mobley (known as Geoffrey)
« on: Saturday 05 August 23 14:49 BST (UK)  »
Going by the names I was given, I am pretty sure the son was the Russell Leonard Mobley who died in December 2015 in Hornchurch. The DOB is actually 3 years out from the one on the consular register, but I can't find any other likely candidates and the L being Leonard would fit his grandfather. If anyone can dispute this then by all means let me know.

There are two girls (both Burma) on the consular register who are likely Russell's sisters; one fits a name I was given, the other isn't (as I was only given two names, Russell + one girl) but being Mobley, Rangoon and the same timeframe then surely it has to be the same family.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William Geoffrey Mobley (known as Geoffrey)
« on: Saturday 05 August 23 14:29 BST (UK)  »
Never thought to check consular births - thank you, Jon!

I think I've found the girl.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William Geoffrey Mobley (known as Geoffrey)
« on: Saturday 05 August 23 13:17 BST (UK)  »
I have been given the names of two (possible) children, but won't post them here as presumably they're still alive. However, I don't know whether these people were born in the UK or Burma, and I think tracing his family will be problematic in general. This person knew her uncle's name and that he'd married in Burma after the war, but has never met her cousins.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: William Geoffrey Mobley (known as Geoffrey)
« on: Saturday 05 August 23 12:49 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks, Carole!

I did see the 60s and 70s marriages but thought they may have been for the Mobley chap born in the 1930s.

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