Recruitment pre WW1 ?

[Spidermonkey]

Sometimes I find it helps to do a timeline of events and locations, because sometimes that can make things clearer.  As far as I can see, we have this so far:

1868 - bn Kensington
1871 - 3 Masbro Terrace
1881 - 101 Kentish Town Road
{joins 3rd Bn East Surrey Regiment}
1883 - joins 3rd Bn Royal Fusiliers (based in Hounslow)
1891 - joins Army Reserves (section d, 1st class, army reserve)
1891 - Working in Earlswood Asylum, Reigate
1893 - Marries MQH in Reigate (what info is on marriage cert?)
1894 - Birth of son Arthur William in Reigate (what profession is given on birth cert?)
1895 - Discharged from army
1896 - Birth of son George Thomas in Bromley (what profession is given on birth cert?)
1896 - re-enlists as reservist
1898 - birth of daughter Margaret Nellie in Bromley (what profession etc)
1900-1901 - in SA (2nd Boer War)
1901 - Margaret Quick Kemp dies
1911 - Marries Louisa Innell
1911 - birth of daughter Sylvia P Kemp in Bromley
1912 - birth of son Jack A Kemp in Bromley
1917 - birth of son Reginald Kemp in Bromley
1939 - living at 50 Plaistow Lane

[kr236rk]

Great minds 

That's exactly what I'm doing now.

Thanks

[ShaunJ]

George's baptism 12 January 1896: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G96W-FCN8?i=519

Arthur's baptism in September 1894 (living in Redhill, baptism in Beckenham): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L96W-FCB2?i=494

[Spidermonkey]

Link to info about the Philanthropic Farm School in Redhill https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/culture-and-leisure/history-centre/marvels/royal-philanthropic-school-at-redhill

[Spidermonkey]

Incidentally, I think that Margaret's older sister - Ellen Elizabeth Humphrey was also working at the asylum in 1891.

[guest189040]

From our NAM website Militia Poster dated 1906



Note for Admin, website says that the image is Out Of Copyright

[ShaunJ]

Margaret Nellie's baptism, April 1898: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-896W-FCWY?i=564

[Maiden Stone]

From what I know about Arthur he was a carpet layer and probably a carpenter as well, his appointment to an asylum is also something I would like to understand.

I imagine that a cv including military service would have been an advantage when applying for a post as an asylum attendant.
Is Reigate anywhere near Folkstone? There was a big army training camp, Shorncliffe, near Folkstone.

[kr236rk]

From our NAM website Militia Poster dated 1906

Thank you. My grandfather loved the army, he was too old to enlist for WW1 & too old for Dad's Army in WW2. He did get in, but someone spotted his Boer War ribbons, & he was out. Possibly for the best, wearing his spectacles he could see the far sight of a rifle but not the near sight; without his glasses on he could see the near sight but not the far one. One of his final comments to my father was about his regiment, but I'm not sure which regiment that would have been, Royal Fusiliers or his reserve corps with which he went to South Africa?