13 Berwick St Manchester

[heywood]

Do you have a military record for him?

[alan w jones]

As he stayed on till 1921 the MOD and civil service thinned his records down to two tiny strips giving hardly any info at all, disgraceful really , just trying to save storage space . Berwick St is the only " lead " really
Regards
Alan

[heywood]

I know you say the record is scant but you also say he enlisted in Manchester. Do you have the regiment?

[alan w jones]

He enlisted 10th November 1914 at Manchester into the Royal Garrison Artillery and into 59th Siege Battery RGA numbers 51328 and later 1410628 as a Gunner
Regards
Alan

[Comberton]

Free search of 1921 census
13 Berwick Street, (parish) South Manchester, (RD) Chorlton
Schedule numbers 40-45

William Edwin Matthews 1892 Crewe, Cheshire
Annie Matthews 1897 Tow Law, Durham
Daisy Matthews 1920 Manchester

John Garner 1858 Cheshire
Alice G Garner 1861 Lancashire

Albert Edward Rowe 1898 Hulme, Lancashire
Annie Rowe 1898 Ardwick, Lancashire
Lizzie Rowe 1917 Manchester
Albert Edward Rowe 1919 Hulme, Lancashire

Emily Parkin 1861 Liverpool    Lodger

Robert B? 1874        Boarder
Patrick Long 1877 Lancashire       Boarder

William Williams 1867 Liverpool
Ellen Williams 1869 Ireland

The Ancoats entry with same street address is home to
Denis & Mary Elizabeth Burns plus children and lodgers Bernard & Catherine McCaffery.

[jonw65]

my late grandfather was discharged from army on 28-6-1921

Though he was still in the army, William Jones should be in the 1921 census. Gunner in the RGA, I guess.
You would think he might be in England (or the UK, at any rate), about to be discharged?

There's a William Jones in Richmond, Yorks, born 1884, Manchester (RGA?) 
There are others, including abroad, i.e. one born 1887, Birmingham, in the Royal Artillery?
For those of us without full access, it's very hard to look.

[jonw65]

Speaking of access, or non access!
Royal Artillery Attestations 1883-1942
William Jones
Born 1890
Service number 1410628
Former service number 51328

[heywood]

He enlisted 10th November 1914 at Manchester into the Royal Garrison Artillery and into 59th Siege Battery RGA numbers 51328 and later 1410628 as a Gunner
Regards
Alan

There is a Fold3 Pension Ledger card for:
Jones Wm R G A 10628 or 1410628
Stamped on it ‘Reject’ with a date (smudged) but possibly 1st Nov 1922
Salvation Army Hostel, Park Lane, Liverpool

The card can be seen without access to F3. I presume there would be no further info.

Another card with just the 1410628 number dated December 1921
The card seems to be for ‘No Trace’ but someone with better knowledge might explain.

[jonw65]

And lots of writing on his medal index card, free on ancestry
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/97326:1262