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Kings Own Scottish Borderers, service records & number.
« on: Wednesday 23 December 15 21:31 GMT (UK) »
My great grandfather Peter Bell was in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers due on WW1. How would I go about finding out his service records & soldier(?) number?
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Kathryn

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Re: Kings Own Scottish Borderers, service records & number.
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 23 December 15 22:18 GMT (UK) »
This web page should help you. Sadly not all records survived WW2 bombing, so you might be unlucky. If you haven't an Ancestry subscription, you may well get free access at your local library.
As long as your man served abroad, you should be able to find a medal card, even if service records have been destroyed. Good luck with the search!
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-soldiers-after-1913/
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: Kings Own Scottish Borderers, service records & number.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 23 December 15 22:27 GMT (UK) »
Hi Kathryn

If you go to the National Archives medal card website you will find that four men of that name served with the KSOB during WW1. You need to check the surviving records on Ancestry to see if the personal details match. Two-thirds of records were destroyed during WW2. If your man's record has not survived you may discover useful info from his number, including when he enlisted/was conscripted, and maybe his battalion.

Also, if he was over 21 in 1918 his army details may be on the electoral roll.

Ken
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