frost army

[thomas1879]

can you make out whats written on this doc please

[mmm45]

Home ....which is UK service under that is either East or West Indies
The education one has me beat?? Fourth class??

Ady

[nanny jan]

Hi,

I think ......East Indies........


Nanny Jan

[mmm45]

If you have his Regiment we can trace its movements

Ady

[thomas1879]

hi he was in the border regiment service number 1725 cheers

[thomas1879]

i do have robert on the 1891 census at the army holding barracks at dover. The second line on the doc looks like east indies and can make out 88 days but not how many years so wondered if he had been to the east indies and had gone to the holding barracks on his return

[mmm45]

That number gives 1886 enlistment
They were in Sailkote Bengal before coming to Dover in 1891

Ady

[ShaunJ]

The page is duplicated on the file and the other version is complete but still very difficult to read because it has faded.

Home service started in June 1886.

NoK details: Father Robert, mother Hannah, younger brother Charley. There's something below this that I cannot read.

[thomas1879]

is the other more readable document on ancestry, its my great grandad, his parents are robert and hannah also brother charley was in the border reg