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World War One / Re: Help wanted identiying regiment from uniform - updated
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 20:24 GMT (UK)  »
This is an update on my earlier post:

I recently checked the 1921 Census and saw that on the address of my grandfather's family there was a Francis Michael Killoran listed as visitor. His occupation was shown as a soldier and he also worked for the Post Office, so there is an connection between one of the men in this photo and the Post Office. I think Francis may be the man on the left and not Fred Lay (my great uncle ) who I originaly thought it might be. I think it's possible that Francis was visiting the family as he was  a pal of my other great uncle Albert Lay (b1900) who was a soldier.

Does anyone have any useful links or information about Post Office regiments during WWI?

I now think that it is Albert Lay on the right here. I'm not sure if he worked for the Post Office but he was certainly a soldier in the early 1920s when was listed a a rifleman in the Infantry in India and it is possible that he signed up to be a soldier earlier in WWI even though he was below age. Please see below two photos of Albert, I think that facially he is the same as the man on the right in the main photo above.

Any help/comments would be welcome.

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed with Ancestry subscription
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 22:18 GMT (UK)  »
That's great, thank you. I got the 12 month sub for 89.99, briliant.

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The Common Room / Help needed with Ancestry subscription
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 20:52 GMT (UK)  »
I have used Ancestry before and I am a member although my subscription has lapsed. I was thinking of joining again and thought that a 12 month sub would be better value than a 6 month one. However on the subcriptions page the maximum shown is 6 months.
Research on line (although strangely not shown the Ancestry site itself) showed that that gift memberships can be bought for 12 months via various on line offers from newspapers eg, The Sun.
But it seems that this has to be bought someone else but if they do and buy it for me does it mean I can continue using my old account or do I have to open a new one?
Any advice would be welcome.

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Monday 18 September 23 22:13 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for these, so it looks like hs name is Liffiton not Liffiter and he was a tailor, I will have to chek these records carefully and see if there is any connection to Thomas Grant.

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:44 BST (UK)  »
Thats useful, thank you.

The reason for asking aboutt his is that Thomas Grant went from being a servant in Bere Regis and East Stoke in Dorset in 1836 to being a furnitutre dealer in soho by 1841 and I was trying to find out how/where he might have obtained the means to do so. I wondered if George Liffiter was his business partner.

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Armed Forces / Re: Help needed identifying WWII RAF badges
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:40 BST (UK)  »
Thank you.

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Armed Forces / Re: More badges
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:40 BST (UK)  »
tonepad -thanks for the info, I guessed that was a cap badge but its good to have it confirmed. Any thought about the decorative pin/brooch?

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Armed Forces / Re: More badges
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:38 BST (UK)  »
I never thought of a bomb but your right it does have a look of a hand grenade about it. I have heard about various clubs members of the armed forces belonged to eg the caterpillar club and the goldfish club and wondered if these might be connected to one of those.

My mum's friend's husband was a sapper during the war, maybe the slide belonged to him and not her brother.

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Armed Forces / Re: badges
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:30 BST (UK)  »
Yes both have Royal Engineers written at the bottom, so these were both sweetheart badges althougth it seems sent to his sister not his sweetheart. How/where were these badges bought from and who made them?

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