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The Common Room / Re: Crew Lists, Merchant Navy Ship, 1891
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 13:52 GMT (UK)  »
Romilly said: He turns up in Swansea and marries my Grandmother Margaret Rees there in 1893. He’s untraceable before then…

His occupation on the marriage certificate states that he is a Painter ----- nothing to indicate that he was a sailor.

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The Common Room / Re: Glass Manufacturer
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 11:45 GMT (UK)  »
A possibility perhaps?
(snippet image courtesy of Ancestry)

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World War One / Re: What does 'Chelsea No' mean on a Pension Form.
« on: Sunday 03 March 24 17:40 GMT (UK)  »
Can you post the name and service number so that I can look at the record?

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Northumberland / Re: Where is PROUDLAW?
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 17:49 GMT (UK)  »
Snippet image (courtesy of Find My Past) from the Newcastle Journal, 7 September 1850 -- 'and Prodlaw and Low Mill Estates in the Parish of Bamburgh'

I have looked at early maps of the area but I can't find where Prodlaw actually was. Low Mill could possibly be Adderston Lowmill.

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Northumberland / Re: Where is PROUDLAW?
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 17:18 GMT (UK)  »
A couple of snippet images (courtesy of Find My Past) confirming Prodlaw Bamburgh

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World War One / Re: Help please! William Henry Gee
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 14:25 GMT (UK)  »
Reading the transcription of his medical record again, I cast doubt on the length of service shown (15 months) when you compare the length of time in the field (i.e. on active service) of 13 months. I can't see a man being deployed on active service only two months after enlisting. I have looked for surviving service records for men with a service number very close to 82616 and of the ones that I found I see that they enlisted in December 1915 -- if 82616 enlisted in December 1915 it is more likely that he would have been sent overseas July - September 1916.

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World War One / Re: Help please! William Henry Gee
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 14:09 GMT (UK)  »
The medical record mentioned above is a transcription:

Name -- William Henry Gee
Birth Year -- 1898
Age -- 19
Rank -- Gunner
Service No -- 82616
Regiment or unit -- Royal Garrison Artillery
Sub0unit -- 75 Anti Aircraft Battery attached to RGS K Anti Aircraft Battery
Hospital -- Red Cross Hospital, East Harnham, Salisbury
Length of service 15 months
Service 'in the field' 13 months
Arrived back in UK from France -- Hospital Ship Warilda
Disease or injury -- Trench Nephritis (kidney infection)
Transfer -- to Rushmore Auxiliary Hospital, Salisbury on the 5th October 1917

He is shown as being in the Army for 15 months -- this would give an estimated enlistment of July 1916 and in a theatre of war (France) estimated at September 1916

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World War One / Re: Help please! William Henry Gee
« on: Thursday 29 February 24 13:22 GMT (UK)  »
It looks like he enlisted with a false age and probably an assumed name -- both common occurrences amongst young men who were desperate to 'do their bit'

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World War One / Re: Military Medal
« on: Monday 26 February 24 11:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi JenB -- duplicated posts have me pulling my hair out (not that I have much these days ;D)

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