Which Regiment?

Jellylegs

Jellylegs

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wedding cert (part).JPG

Views please on the Regiment of the Groom and the bit in brackets underneath.

Have included the brides' info for a comparison of handwriting.

Thanks
 
Thanks Archie's Mum and Molly May. Worcestershire is what I thought.

I have found a couple of bits from WW2 on the chap - an entry about an injury (FMP) and one about a Medal (Ancestry). Both give the regiment as Leicestershire, which ties in with his Army Number - it is in the batch allocated to the Leicestershire regiment.

Maybe he was transferred following his injury - think his arm was injured by shrapnel. After the war, he lost the arm - but don't know how many years later.
 
Thanks. The reason I asked is that I thought it may give a hint as to where he was but now I think it might relate to his transfer from his original regiment.
Edit...is the last word 'transferred'?
 
Not so sure now. What corps is the bride? Could also help if we knew where she was stationed. Near him when they met!
 
The bride was in the Women's Timber Corps. The marriage took place in Battle, Sussex.

Residence of the bride was an address in Battle (but think that was just where she was staying while she was a Timber Jill as she came from Hackney - and I have followed her parents who stayed in Hackney).

Residence for the groom says Ashford (presume where he was stationed), then his home address was one in Derby where he was born and his family still lived (though his parents had both died by 1945).

Can't give names as the lady is still alive.
 
Thanks arthurk. I will have to find out what his trade was before the war - if his son knows. Electrical Engineer looks good though :)
 
Sorry Jellylegs. I meant to get back to this thread. As it seems, it wouldn't have made any difference anyway. Not with Arthur on the trail. I had no clue.
Well done Arthur. ;)
 
Feel myself slipping off piste a bit- but I've noticed at times when I hit 'like' button it doesn't stay, even tho' the little grey patch appears up top. perhaps I should hit it harder. Don't want to break it tho'.

Good job again Arthur, stay on side won't you? you'll be needed.
 
Found a bit on this chap on the net on the Leicestershire Regiment Page.

He enlisted on 27 Aug 1938 and served with the Leicestershire Regiment in WW2. On 30 May 1944 he transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment. No other info, so I have printed out the relevant Forms so his Army Records can be applied for.

Info from his son:- He worked for a plastics moulding firm on leaving school. Later, he was a bus driver, then a lorry driver, so not so sure now about the Electrical Engineer bit. I did wonder if the bit in brackets just says Ex Leicester Regiment.
 
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