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Offline mike800966

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Walter Mears in 1914
« on: Thursday 30 March 17 11:40 BST (UK) »
Thats what it says on the back of the pic.
This chap is my maternal grandfather but I cannot trace any army record for him. He was a Londoner and  Corporal? (That's my guess never having been in the military) and the uniform looks new.
On my mother's birth certificate he was Walter Mears-Mears and his occupation was "Opera Singer" and I have another pic of him as a chauffeur, so he certainly got around!
Can you help?

Mike
 

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Re: Walter Mears in 1914
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 30 March 17 12:16 BST (UK) »
What year was he born?

The cap badge could be the Middlesex Regiment going by the shape.


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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Walter Mears in 1914
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 30 March 17 12:34 BST (UK) »
As far as I know  16th October 1898. In Greenwich I think

I thought Middlesex Reg as well, but no mention of him on their site?

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Re: Walter Mears in 1914
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 30 March 17 12:47 BST (UK) »
The National Archive medal card index has 14 records for Walter Mears.  One is:
pte G/29390 Walter H Mears, Middlesex Regiment.

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Re: Walter Mears in 1914
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 30 March 17 12:54 BST (UK) »
It looks as if his records were amongst the approximately 70% of those  lost in WW2.


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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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