Currently chatting with IWM regarding the mystery document.
1st to 8th July has turned up on Ancestry (not even The Queen's 7th website has this) .... No mention of Pvt Clack as only officers are named.
As you say, confusing and also open to countless theories. The document is also best described as not much more than a scrap of paper - could,...
I can't help but be swayed towards the document "reading" like the infantry position and Pvt Clack's name on the document "looking" like a...
I had come upon the diaries and, as for the first half of July, Isn't that always the way !
Thank you all so very much (that literally made my day) :). Sorry I have not been around for quite some time but I seem to have ground to a halt...
On the face of it, the document was destined for the Infantry Records Office at Hounslow and it does rather look to me as being actually signed by...
Needless to say, I had a VERY busy day today, not only adding all your findings (all morning) but also digging into the results of those findings...
It's looking like a Spanish holiday :)
Any luck with them coming back to the UK or Ireland ? And why might a serving UK soldier (militia) be in Canada ? (1867 marriage)
You are clever :)
I'm overwhelmed and feeling very humble (and also that my wife is not at work long enough tomorrow for me to follow up on this lot) .... 35 years...
I still don't get why everyone looked for Winslades ?
Nevertheless, some possibly good Lelliotts there to get my teeth into (bang goes the housework) s
I love the way "Benjamin" keeps being passed down, a really good hint.
"Lance sergeant" .... that ties in with what I have for 1871
It would be all to easy to pass on all the query(s) and let you guys sort it out but that's not the way I'm going to learn (and there's no fun in it)
So, as I see it, tomorrow I need one person to do/help with the housework (and reduce the fallout) and at least one person looking over my...
Looking at the spelling in the Ancestry entry , now I see why Ancestry couldn't find her in 1911 - poor as my spelling might be, not even I...
That's a good one !
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