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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: cathybryant on Friday 10 April 09 20:34 BST (UK)
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Hi, can you help?
I have a great great uncle sidney tubb, born Marlow Bucks 1896. The only military records I can find show he died in 1918 in France. However I need to confirm beyond all doubt that he is the same person, because living memory says that Sidney lived to a ripe old age and worked as a bootmaker!!
Is there anyway of finding out as there are no 1911 records of Sidney when he would have been 16 years old. Did he run away to join the army maybe?
How can I find his enlistment records?
Thanks
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Most WW1 service records were destroyed in WW2. He doesn't apppear to be in the 1911 census and nor do his parents who presumably had died. Interestingly by searching in the 1911 census for his brother John b Marlow there seems to be an entry in Farnham in the army. If his elder brother was in the army in 1911 it would make sense that Sidney did too. Not really sure if this helps or not.
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Most WW1 service records were destroyed in WW2. He doesn't apppear to be in the 1911 census and nor do his parents who presumably had died. Interestingly by searching in the 1911 census for his brother John b Marlow there seems to be an entry in Farnham in the army. If his elder brother was in the army in 1911 it would make sense that Sidney did too. Not really sure if this helps or not.
I guess this is the commonwealth War Graves entry you've found
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1749679
Although he died while in the Gloucestershire Regiment, he had earlier served in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Regiment (Number 14349). He was born in Marlow and enlisted in Oxford.
If his record survives, you either have to wait for surnames starting with T to be put online by Ancestry or visit the National Arhives in Kew.
Glen
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Thanks, yes, it is what we found on the commonwealth war graves site records.
Any idea when the T's will be up online?
Cathy
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By the way nearly all the Tubb brothers (George, Henry, Ernest, John and William, and possibly Alfred) all served in WW1. In different regiments though, and all but Henry came back. We thought Sidney didn't go, because he had a twisted leg, after breaking it badly as a young child. he supposedly followed in his fathers footsteps as a bootmender. So we are very confused as to why he disappears in 1911 (his mother is dead but his father is living with the eldest daughter Annie Lovegrove). You would have expected to find him there too or with one of his other siblings. Thats what makes us think that it was some other brother that was the bootmender and Sidney had run off to join the army. But where was he? We found George and John and henry in the army records, but not Sidney!!!
Any other ideas are apreciated.
Thanks
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Not sure when the Ts go online. I had thought it was by the end of 2008 ::)
You can always try your local LDS centre. Look for films 2179517 and 2179518 which cover the T surnames.