Help with Handwriting

Elma

Elma

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Sorry if I have duplicated this thread but I did try and post it on Friday and I think that's when there was a problem. So I'm trying again.

Can anyone help read this red writing please? It's from military records. This young fellow was discharged from the military as incorrigible and worthless on 24th May 1901 but I think this might say, he tried to enlist again. My eyes let me down these days sorry.

With thanks ElizabethScreenshot 2024-06-07 at 18.31.30.png
 
the best i can do ...

Irregularily enlisted on 15.11.01 into Guards ???? No 4451 Private L H Sasken(?) Coldstream Guards
Tried and sentenced to 168 days. Imps H R ?? -- discharged with Ignominy
 
In his military papers on FMP there is another version of the entry which says he was sentenced to 168 days I.H.L. then to be discharged with ignominy. Looking up I.H.L., it appears to stand for International Humanitarian Law which
"is also known as the law of war or the law of armed conflict. IHL is a set of rules which seek – for humanitarian reasons – to limit the effects of armed conflict. It protects individuals who are not, or are no longer, participating in the hostilities and restricts the means and methods of warfare." It originated, apparently in 1864 and has sort of evolved over the years.
 
Thank you everyone. I would never have got there. It just goes to show never think you have all the information about someone. How else could I have worked out this name change?
Chimp 'Tasker' was his mother's maiden, so that makes sense but not I deduction I would have been able to work out.
Thanks again
Elizabeth
 
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