County Kerry?

[MacGrigor]

Hello,

Does this say ‘C. Kerry?’ It’s from some Tank Corps records; the battalion this man came from was on the Curragh in Ireland at the end of WW1, and this record is from 1919.

I’d appreciate any help!

Adam

[MacGrigor]

Here it is again, in a different hand:

[dublin1850]

Odd to have left the O out of Co..
Could it be a placename beginning with Castle? C. Kenny?
Any other counties on the page written in the same way?

[MacGrigor]

Or C for Camp perhaps? There’s only three places on that page, all the same, written in two different hands.

[a-l]

It doesn't look like a k to me. What does the rest look like so we can compare ?.

[MacGrigor]

Here’s the rest of the scan I’ve had to reduce the quality slightly, due to the maximum file limit.

[jnomad]

Chester. Written with a bit of space after the initial C.

[JenB]

Chester. Written with a bit of space after the initial C.

But the word in question (on the right-hand page) clearly ends with a 'y' 
'Chester' is written on the l-h page and is quite different.

[JenB]

The column in which the mystery word occurs is 'Discharge or becoming non-effective: place'.

Looking back at previous pages the word in that column is always the same, until one comes to page 159 when the word Canterbury appears. On various pages before that you will find Canterbury and C'bury in various different hands. See example below

So I suggest your mystery word is also C[anter]bury. In fact looking back through the records I can’t see anywhere else than Canterbury/C.bury ever being mentioned.