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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: matthewdeller on Friday 07 March 08 12:34 GMT (UK)
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My great grandfather William Deller born 18 Sep 1885, Wandsworth served during WW1. I have photo's of him but sadly no medals or regiment numbers. When i have searched index records a number of possible records show up but none look like London based regiments.
It's a tricky one but wondered whether there is a resource out there to at least get hold of the correct medal index card.
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Are you going to post his photo here Matthew to let us see G Grandfather William? ::)
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Are you saying he was from London? Are you sure he joined a London unit! :-\
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Yer Matthew don't assume that just 'cos he was born in Wandsworth he joined a London Regiment !!!
Do you know if he had a middle name? Have you got his birth certificate?
Did he survive the war?
Wendi :)
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Looking at the National Archives medal cards I can see several possibilities including London Regiments.
Can you post a good photo of him in uniform ? If so we can probably narrow the field considerably.
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He was born 18 Sep 1885 Wandsworth, Streatham. He has no middle name and certainly survived the war. My father thinnks he died in the 1950s.
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He was born 18 Sep 1885 Wandsworth, Streatham. He has no middle name and certainly survived the war. My father thinnks he died in the 1950s.
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Hi :)
It's not opening for me, I get hieraglyphics, can you save it as a jpeg (for photos), rather than as a tif file, (for documents). ::)
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I can see the picture but I can't make out the cap badge - is it possible to post a higher quality crop of that part of the picture?
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This is the best I can do from the picture that was posted
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Hi :)
Judging by the shape of the cap badge - which is not showing up clearly, he could be with the Labour Corp.
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Still think it is Labour Pioneer Corp cap badge:
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It does look like Labour Corps doesn't it. I can't think what else it could be.
There are only two William Dellers from the Labour Corps in the Medals Cards index:
Deller, William H H
Devonshire Regiment 30578(Incomplete) Acting Serjeant
Labour Corps 63282(Incomplete) Acting Serjeant
Medal card of Deller, William C V
Royal Engineers WR/4262(Incomplete) Pioneer
Labour Corps 34432(Incomplete) Pioneer
From what Matthew says it's unlikely to be either of them
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Useful site for Labour Corps research http://www.geocities.com/labour_corps/index.htm
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He possibly did not venture abroad during WW1, if he did not go abroad he would not be on the medal rolls. :(
Perhaps a visit to search the National Archives in person would be worthwhile.