WW1 Burma???

[jimbohodge]

Hi,

I think that could be a pretty good assumption! 

My geat Aunt who i was talking with was sayin about how hard his life was joining the army at 17! Yes 17!
To be honest, i basically ignored this as i just thought 'No he would have been 21'!!!

So if it as true, that he was 17 when signing up, then he could have gone to the Far East like you say, got Malaria, and then eventualy come home just in time to go to France to fight in WW1!

His prvious experience would also have waranted a greater chance of his early promotion to sergeant too.

I dont have his death certificate, but my Great Aunt said it was pneumonia he died of, about 1939.

Jim

 

[jimbohodge]

Was there a war out in the 'Far East' a few years previous to 1914?

Jim

[Wendi]

Was there a war out in the 'Far East' a few years previous to 1914?

"War.......War, no dear, just Britain and Her Colonies"    -  Oops,  I'm sorry - by 1901 British Forces were stationed all over the world, so it's wholly possible he was in the Far East, perhaps India, Burma Hong Kong, who knows.

Anyway 17.....now we are getting somewhere, we are talking 1910 - can you obtain his death certificate, and it would be good to get his birth cert too - Jim it's kinda a rule that you always check out the info for fact before moving along, that way no wild goose chases.  It would be good to know how he died at 46, so young, it could have been as a result of wounds from WW1 he might have had a military pension, there might just be a clue on the certificate, just an idea.

Wendi

[jimbohodge]

Hi,

What would i be looking for on a birth or death certificate or possibly even marriage? As he married 1919.

Jim

[Wendi]

CONFIRMATION !

of the family stories, as that's all you are working with at the mo 

[jimbohodge]

Wendi,

(i have posted this on anotehr topic too, but thought you should see it)

I just ran his name through the Londn Gazettes online Archive for the WW1 period, i got 1 result:

Indian Army
1st June, 1914
Promotins - Captains to be Majors
Charles Frederick Woodward, 54th Sikhs

His real name was 'Frederick Charles Woodward', and with the link to the 'Far East' i was given, that could be the promotion that my grandmother was talking about?

Do you think this could be him?

Jim

[OldBraggs]

Jim, Major Charles Frederick Woodward, 54th Sikhs would be a different man altogether. He was appointed Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps in 1900.

Steve

[jimbohodge]

Steve,

Thanks for informing me - wouldnt want to be running around on a wild goose chase 

Its mazing how many men there were with very similar names 

Cheers
Jim

[Wendi]

The  and    of family history.

I did see your other post Jim, but have you tried to find his 1919 marriage cert or his 1939 death cert - one of them might really hold a clue.

Ok so they might not, I assure you the best of us have overlooked £7 and been sorry.

Unless anyone has a better suggestion these are the only "facts" we have to go on and they should be really easy to find.

Wendi