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Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« on: Tuesday 20 April 21 10:50 BST (UK) »
Hi there - I have a Stanley Zike in the 1918 Absent Voters List and his Service Description is recorded as: 5080 R.F.A. (see photo).

Can anybody tell me, in this case, is the R.F.A. the Royal Field Artillery or the Royal Fleet Auxiliary - and whichever it is, are there any records that I can view online to help try and discover Stanley’s town or parish of birth (he was from Russian Poland).

Thanks for any advice.
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Re: Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 10:58 BST (UK) »
RFA= Royal Field Artillery.
I can't see a medal index card for him so home service only.
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Staffs.Edmonds;Addison;Duffield;Webb;Fisher;Archer
Salop:Easthope,Eddowes,Hoorde,Oteley,Vernon,Talbot,De Neville.
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Re: Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 14:22 BST (UK) »
This man married a Lizzie Wizodski with the marriage being recorded in the civil registrations as taking place in the Leeds District in the June quarter of 1904. (A family tree on Ancestry shows the marriage as being on the 21 May 1904 at St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, York Road, Leeds). His name is recorded as Stanley ZYKE. As he is from Poland, his given name was highly likely to have been STANISLAUS.

He appears on the 1911 Census but a search of the 1901 Census has failed to find him under both Stanley / Stanislaus Zyke / Zike. This suggests that he arrived in the UK between the time of the 1901 Census (taken on the night of the 31 March) and his marriage on 21 May 1904. A search of incoming passenger lists has failed to find him during this time frame. A further search of incoming passinger lists for a ten year period (1891 to 1901) has drawn a blank.

EDIT: He died in 1940 with the death being recorded in the civil registers of Leeds district. Obtaining his death certificate may give further information.

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Re: Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 14:37 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the suggestions - I do already have his marriage details and census returns etc... I also have his father’s name, but in order to trace back any further I will need to access the Polish records online. Unfortunately, these have been indexed only by parish, so I need to know which town or parish in Poland he was born in.
I was hoping his WW1 service record would reveal details of his birthplace...
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Re: Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 14:54 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately his service records was one of the many destroyed during the bombing of London in WW2. What was his father's name?

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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 15:02 BST (UK) »
His father was Martin (Marcin)... and based on marriage, death, census etc etc he was born between 1878 and 1881.
I’m waiting on his death certificate in the hope it may say more than Poland as his place of birth.
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 16:04 BST (UK) »
I came across a baptism for a Stanislaus Zyck in 1883 but the father's name was Valentinus.

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Re: Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 17:05 BST (UK) »
Have You located His Birth Date on the 1939 Register?, plus His origin of Birth might appear on next year's 1921 Census Release.
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Re: Help Identifying A Service Number - WW1
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 20 April 21 17:52 BST (UK) »
The 1939 National Register records his DOB as 21 May 1878, living at 24 Arundel Grove, Leeds