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NOK Name on Service Record
« on: Monday 21 July 14 12:52 BST (UK) »
I am after help working out the name of the Next of Kin on the attached snippit from a service record

I read it as...

Mother Sarah Bell Violet Bauk Heudon
Annan NB     Middlesex


It doesn't mean much to me so if someone could give me a different idea it may be helpful

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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #1 on: Monday 21 July 14 12:53 BST (UK) »
NOK
Mother : Sarah Bell
Address: Violet Bank, Hendon, Middlesex

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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #2 on: Monday 21 July 14 12:55 BST (UK) »
Thank you

Thought it would make sense to someone else.
I have little idea about UK geography!!

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NAYLER - Brockley and Lewisham
FORD - Brockley and Lewisham
RAYSON - Brockley & Lewisham
CUNNINGHAM in Australia but not getting very far!!
And many others.........

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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #3 on: Monday 21 July 14 12:57 BST (UK) »
What was the chaps surname? Presumably the same as his mother, that is, Bell?
I am trying to work out what the Annan N.B. refers to ...


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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #4 on: Monday 21 July 14 12:58 BST (UK) »
The service record is for Robert HAINING
So not too sure where the BELL fits in.
NAYLER - Brockley and Lewisham
FORD - Brockley and Lewisham
RAYSON - Brockley & Lewisham
CUNNINGHAM in Australia but not getting very far!!
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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #5 on: Monday 21 July 14 12:59 BST (UK) »
Did his mother remarry someone with the surname Bell? Do you know if Robert's father had died prior to his enlistment?

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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #6 on: Monday 21 July 14 13:01 BST (UK) »
... or .... was she Sarah Bell Annan? Still no idea what the N.B. is though ....

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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #7 on: Monday 21 July 14 13:01 BST (UK) »
I dont know much at all - it is all on my wife's side of the family so still trying to put things together as the family has little information

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NAYLER - Brockley and Lewisham
FORD - Brockley and Lewisham
RAYSON - Brockley & Lewisham
CUNNINGHAM in Australia but not getting very far!!
And many others.........

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Re: NOK Name on Service Record
« Reply #8 on: Monday 21 July 14 13:05 BST (UK) »
"N.B." was commonly used for North Britain (i.e. Scotland) at that time.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)