Help to find death certificate.

[groom]

So, in spite of it being very odd, it must be him and someone must have informed the army of his death.

[garngad]

Also just gone over one of his papers again and I think I am doing him a great injustice he surely looks like a regular on the evidence of the stamps on the right.

[KGarrad]

He's not a regular - he's in the Reserves or Militia.

2 weeks annual training is (I think) all they had to do!

[groom]

He's not a regular - he's in the Reserves or Militia.

2 weeks annual training is (I think) all they had to do!

Which would explain why he was crew on a cargo boat!

[garngad]

But he was a regular 2 week soldier a few years stamped there me thinks.

[KGarrad]

Those are the stamps for his annual training.
No stamp = no pay!

A Regular soldier signed up for a number of years - not just 2 weeks here and there?!

[ScouseBoy]

But he was a regular 2 week soldier a few years stamped there me thinks.

   Surely that equates  to what  was recently called  "Territorial Army"

[ScouseBoy]

Special Reserve   one of the rubber stamps says.

[KGarrad]

But he was a regular 2 week soldier a few years stamped there me thinks.

   Surely that equates  to what  was recently called  "Territorial Army"

Exactly!

For a better description, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_Kingdom)
which explains the links between Militia, Special Reserve and Territorial Force