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[lindy-lou]

hi all
apologises if not posted in correct topic...
i am researching the surname "Chads" and i have come across a medal roll for Lt W S Chads for WW1 serving with 15 Bty 36th Bde Royal Field Artillery...i have tried looking for a birth etc but haven't found anything...can anybody help please..

many thanks
lindy-lou

[Richard Knott]

The 1901 census has a William J Chads, 8, b Queensland (RG13/2368), whose father, Harry C Chads, 40, b Portsmouth, was a major in the army (infantry).

An Australian birth would account for his absence in the index.

Richard

[nanny jan]

Hi lindy-lou,

Have you searched the Service/Pension records that are available on www.ancestry.co.uk ?  If his records have survived you might find some more info.


Nanny Jan

[forester]

Hello Lindy-lou,


Major H C Chads also appears to be related to Lt H C Chads and Major H F Chads as he applied for both their medals after their deaths.

Phil

[km1971]

Hi Lindy-Lou

There were two men called William Chads with medal index cards for WW1. Captain William John Chads MC who served with the Royal Field Artillery, and Private William G Chads who served with a number of Scottish Regiments. The latter's records appear not to have survived.

William John became a Captain on 3 November 1917. He seems to come from a long line of army officers.  In 1891 there is a William J Chads, 60, a major in the General Reserve, and in 1871 there is another William, Wm C Chads, 81, Lt in the RMLI (presumably retired on half-pay).

If you search the National Archive website you discover there is a set of documents for a Major H F Chads who appears to have served from 1908 to 1923. These will probably be original documents, so you will have to visit Kew.

Ken

[lindy-lou]

hi
thanks to you all.........i have managed to account for all the other "Chads" and where they fit into family tree....WS Chads is proving to be a mystery...have wondered if his middle initial has been mis-entered on docs....i have had no luck finding service records on ancestry, i'll go back to the "drawing board to see if i have mis-interpreted info i have...

lindy-lou

[Richard Knott]

Have you come across "W S Chads" anywhere other than his medal card entry?

I notice that "H F Chads" has six different entries (presumably there were not six different people) so it is possible that "W S Chads" is the same as one or both of "W J Chads" and "William John Chads". Perhaps you will need to look at the entry for "W S Chads" to see if he has been mistranscribed, particularly if that is the only reference to him? Unfortunately it will cost you £3.50.

Richard

[km1971]

Service records of officers are not on Ancestry. They will be original documents in Kew, so you will have to visit.

Ken

[Orielbenfro]

If you are still around on this topic, from my database of Pembrokeshire related military heastones 1722 to 2006 I note that, Major H.F. Chads M.C. of the Border Regt., was killed in a flying accident at Castlebar County Mayo Ireland in September of 1920, he had only recently completed duty at Dublin.

This is one of approximately a 1,000 pembroke related references that I have not yet established the location of his headstone, but previous he had been stationed at Pembroke Dock.

I have over 2,700 Pembs military headstone jpegs with background research, but this is the only reference to Chads I have.
Rgds
Orielbenfro
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