Identifying a battalion / regiment in the 1921 census?

[ShaunJ]

Odd that he's not on the MoD's published lists of servicemen born before 1900 and discharged after 1920.

[ALAMO2008]

Good find ShaunJ
We have No Real Evidence that Charles Purcell was in India in 1921 or Even in the Army at all.
The Census Found was for Parcell

[jonwarrn]

Thanks - I'm sure that there were lots of battalions in India in 1921!    Ideally, if there isn't some data in the census that I'm missing, I was hoping for a list somewhere that says what was at Chanbattia / Chaubattia, maybe something akin to the reports on Stations of the British Army that appeared in newspapers before WW1.

Mad, rambling things
Keyword Chaubattia, 1,106 results in 1921 census index.
Including 555 privates.
British India Office Births & Baptisms, 12 results for Chaubattia / Chaubattia,St Michael in 1921
(come up as Jhansi in army birth indexes?)

Robert Lewis, d 3 Aug 1921, buried Chaubattia Cemetery
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1465851/robert-lewis/

[ShaunJ]

Anyone got any ideas of how to find what regiment / battalion / whatever he was in?

Research the other names on the same census page. Some will have served in WW1.

[jonwarrn]

Could CHP have served in WW1?
Medal index card of Charles H Purcell, SWB, is Charles Henry on the medal roll.
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D4744421

Probably he can be quickly eliminated , and Adrian is a military whizz himself.

Charles Henry Purcell on the electoral registers from autumn 1921, St Paul, P B of Blackburn.
That him? Was he an absent voter?

[ALAMO2008]

It is possible he was Conscripted 1917 into the Royal Welch but unlikely him.
 Depot ?

[ALAMO2008]

[AdrianB38]

Odd that he's not on the MoD's published lists of servicemen born before 1900 and discharged after 1920.

Yeah. Except that I've found (or not found) so many missing from those spreadsheets that I have zero faith in them... 

[AdrianB38]

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Charles Henry Purcell on the electoral registers from autumn 1921, St Paul, P B of Blackburn.
That him? Was he an absent voter?

That's him - though you got there before me - because the rest of that household is his family. Unfortunately (and I think I've tried this before as well), I can't locate the Blackburn Absent Voters lists in those years that he's marked up as being absent. FindMyPast doesn't have a separate AVL for Blackburn (unlike, Crewe, say) nor are the absent entries for those years at the end of the book as they are in some constituencies in later years.