i have since looked for my grandmother on the 1939 register available from Find my Past. Her specific birth dates are 13th December 1887.
Up until fairly recently many people simply didn't know the actual date they were born so that may not be the date appearing on her birth certificate.
we have a photo of him with a fleet of ambulances. I have checked Army hospitals and bases in S. Ireland; there was a large base and hospital at Clonmel, there was also a military hospital in Waterford. This info helps confirm possible origins of my grandmother's family.
Not sure that it does- British Army had units all over Ireland and the photo could have been taken when he was stationed somewhere temproarily, before he met his wife, etc.
The only other helpful information i have concerns a Patrick Roche who has turned up on a 1931 census as living at their address in Ealing London.
1931 is not available- do you mean the 1939 register? If it is the 1939 register what's listed as Patrick's date of birth?
One of my own brothers think my grandmother's family had a farm or certainly lived in a rural setting (we think there were pigs).
A farm is certainly possible but most were mixed farms and would have had a few cows, sheep, chickens, etc.
we think there's a link with Waterford as my grandmother had alot of Waterford glass.
So did my cousin's grandmother but she wasn't from Waterford.