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AndyJ2022,

Thank you for the reply. I guessed it would have a form of military police, keeping discipline etc, I have no doubt they dragged a few drunken lads back from the town at night! My 3xgg moved to Canada with the 88th as part of the police, before returning to Chatham in 1851. His military career ended after taking part in the major battles of the Crimea War where he took grapeshot to the leg and lost and arm at Redan, he was pensioned out in 1856.

Thank you again.
Steve.

I can’t remember, it was eighteen years ago!😄

My guess is he was a professional at Newport Golf Club (founded 1903) you could try and contact them. They have a Facebook page or via their  website. There is a copy of his marriage certificate on FindMyPast if you don’t have it.

Steve.

As Jim1 says, she would have been in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, but from 1917 WAAC telegraphists and telephone switchboard operators were employed alongside men in the Lines of Communication signal offices in France and Flanders¹. The LofC was the located to the rear of the fighting area, and connected the Corps headquarters back to the Army HQs and GHQ, and to the supply dumps. If she remained in the UK, it is less likely that she would have been employed in her home town unless it was also a major garrison or a major supply depot was located there.

1. Source for this is A History of the Antecedents of the Royal Corps of Signals by Major General RFH Nalder 1958  page 116.

She was from Newport,South wales, and I did wonder if she may have worked alongside men after 1917. Her death is shown in Newport December 1918, so I’m guessing it could have been from service or or more natural causes?She aged 31.

Thank you for the reply.
I knew the Signal Service were Royal Engineers and all men, I was just wondering if there were any exceptions to this?
I came across this lady listed in a Roll of Honour Book for WWI, she died at the end of 1918, and it seems in her local town.

Thank you again.
Steve.