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Offline toni*

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Re: Profession on a marriage cert
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 07 October 08 09:22 BST (UK) »
perhaps these may be able to help you?
http://www2.army.mod.uk/royalsignalsmuseum/index.htm
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Offline Graham Whitehead

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Re: Profession on a marriage cert
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 07 October 08 09:45 BST (UK) »
I have spoken to a retired Grenadier Guardsman and he thinks that perhaps in the days after semaphore a 'groundsman' in the Royal Signal Corps might have laid out the wires (before the signals became 'wire=less').
Warwicks: Whitehead, Allcock, Atkins, Bayley, Beacham, Bilson, Brooks, Cleaver,Farmer,Gilks, Lucas, Kendall, Oliver, Pickard, Shilton, Underhill.
Lincs: Kendall, Clark, Morley,Vincent, Withers, Barlow,Dawson.
Leics. Vincent
Notts: Bardill, Bugg, Morley, Winfield
Dublin: Brooks, Flood.

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Re: Profession on a marriage cert
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 07 October 08 09:54 BST (UK) »
Nowadays 'groundsman' refers to someone who is in a team installing aeriels but works on the ground. There is a reference to one in The Wire fairly recently although it may have changed its meaning: http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/TheWire_05Feb.pdf
(see page 39).

Having said that, my father was in the Royal Signals for 30 years and I never heard him refer to a groundsman.

Richard
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Re: Profession on a marriage cert
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 07 October 08 10:30 BST (UK) »
A Signalman was the lowest rank in the Corps of Signals, the same as a Gunner in the Royal Artillery. As such he was not necessarily occupied in signals (or gunnery), he could have been employed at the headquarters/camp looking after the grounds around the buildings, or the polo grounds for the officers  :).

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Re: Profession on a marriage cert
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 07 October 08 14:40 BST (UK) »
Thankyou all very much for the replies, they have been very helpful

Anne
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