Author Topic: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920  (Read 3292 times)

Offline hallmark

  • ~
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • ****
  • Posts: 17,525
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #9 on: Friday 23 February 18 17:26 GMT (UK) »
Maybe ask here??


http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/index.html  home page of the Bureau of Military History 1913-1921 (BMH) Collection at Military Archives. This is a joint initative of Military Archives and the National Archives

This site is not for people who served in in the British Army, you need the one ShaunJ posted.

One only needs to find out what Units were in Elphin!

Why should one ask if they know?
Give a man a record and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to research, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Offline RoserAncestors

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 390
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #10 on: Friday 23 February 18 17:41 GMT (UK) »
I am trying to work out if the James Heath who married Sarah Madden was a man whose birth was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1898 in Chelsea London as James Ridgway to an unmarried mother (no mother's maiden name recorded on the GRO indexes). I'm pretty sure his mother was an Ellen Ridgway who married a George Heath on 25 Dec 1899 at St Jude Kensal Green. James then appears as James Heath in the 1901 and 1911 census. He dies as James Heath on 9 Feb 1932 aged 33 in Kensington with the informant being G Heath father. Prior to that he appeared in electoral rolls with a Sarah Heath from 1926.

Offline hallmark

  • ~
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • ****
  • Posts: 17,525
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #11 on: Friday 23 February 18 17:55 GMT (UK) »
Have you searched in Kew?
Give a man a record and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to research, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Offline RoserAncestors

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 390
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #12 on: Friday 23 February 18 18:00 GMT (UK) »
I've searched the National Archives website but I'm actually in Australia so I can't search any physical records in London unfortunately.


Offline hallmark

  • ~
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • ****
  • Posts: 17,525
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #13 on: Friday 23 February 18 18:15 GMT (UK) »
Have you tried posting that image on Great War Forum??

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/
Give a man a record and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to research, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Offline RoserAncestors

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 390
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #14 on: Friday 23 February 18 18:19 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Hallmark, I will try that.

Offline Sinann

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 10,813
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 24 February 18 00:31 GMT (UK) »
I was going to say as he married in 1920 he would probably have been in the last regiment on the list on the card which I think is the London Regiment but the second one on the list is the MGC.
The Machine Gun Corps was formed in 1915 and disbanded in 1922 so it's possible he could still have been in that and the MGC was in Ireland in 1920 because Private WR Rodgers of the MGC was shot in Limerick in 1920.
http://www.cairogang.com/soldiers-killed/rodgers2/rodgers.html

But than I wonder if he was still in the Army in 1920 would his medal card be online, maybe this card belongs to someone else.

Offline RoserAncestors

  • RootsChat Senior
  • ****
  • Posts: 390
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 24 February 18 01:55 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Sinann, yes I can't be sure that the medal card is his, it just had the same full name and place (ie Middlesex/London). I'm going to try and order his military file from the Ministry of Defence as per Jebber's hint once I get his birth date from his birth certificate, although I think I need his service number which may complicate things if that medal card isn't his.

Offline Sinann

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 10,813
    • View Profile
Re: British army units stationed in Elphin in 1920
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 24 February 18 10:20 GMT (UK) »
The question of service number often crops up on the Armed Forces board
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=777701.msg6315260#msg6315260
You don't need it but you do need his death cert.