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Armed Forces / Re: where to find the movements of Royal Navy ships
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
Ships' logs are at the National Archives but are not digitised. See
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-navy-ships-voyages-log-books/

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World War Two / Re: Call-up if colour blind
« on: Monday 04 March 24 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
Colour blindness I believe meant that the RN was not possible, and probably also flying duties. It wouldn't preclude army or ground-based RAF service. Mining was a reserved occupation.

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Berkshire / Re: St B GH awarded a silver prize for rowing 22 Feb 1890
« on: Saturday 24 February 24 20:02 GMT (UK)  »
Try the River and Rowing Museum at Henley.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Accuracy, then and now
« on: Thursday 22 February 24 20:48 GMT (UK)  »
Anything posted online without a link to an original record (e.g. birth cert, baptism register, whatever) is potentially suspect. Some original records are wrong (try comparing Bishop's Transcripts with the register, and compare them with other records.....). It's a minefield. And people make things up, misremember things; and the websites make what are sometimes appropriate guesses and sometimes totally mad guesses.

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Armed Forces / Re: Sargeant in the RAF
« on: Monday 19 February 24 09:46 GMT (UK)  »
Go to the search page on cwgc website; if you use Cairncross as a search term it retrieves 20 names, and so it's easy to find Gideon

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Armed Forces / Re: Sargeant in the RAF
« on: Monday 19 February 24 08:30 GMT (UK)  »
37 Sqn ORB is digitised, see https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2503026

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Parents' names on burial for 39-year-old man (Cumberworth 1832)
« on: Saturday 10 February 24 10:36 GMT (UK)  »
My guess is that you're looking for a rule and there really isn't one, at least not one that was consistently applied, and that we are seeing the idiosyncratic approach of one incumbent. If only the various incumbents and parish clerks had considered at the time that we genealogists would want the data nearly 200 years on!

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World War One / Re: RAMC officer in WW1
« on: Saturday 10 February 24 10:32 GMT (UK)  »
Might be worth contacting Cranleigh. They may well know more. I can't see a direct link to an archivist, but they may well have one.

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Armed Forces / Re: 29th Regiment of Foot-Bartholomew Blake
« on: Friday 09 February 24 22:52 GMT (UK)  »
The Army Lists (now findable online) will enable you to trace his history with dates of commission and promotion. Hart's Army Lists loook much the same but as a private venture they also included details of officers' service, which battles they had fought in and so on.
If you haven't seen this guidance - it's worth a look
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-officers-1913/

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