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Title: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: jenny53 on Tuesday 29 July 14 12:03 BST (UK)
hi my Gran father was in the 108 TH FIELD CO Royal Engineers as a Platelayer can any one push me in the right direction ..
Private Joseph Peters  from Whitchurch Hampshire

thank you
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 29 July 14 12:09 BST (UK)
Some sketchy information about the unit here http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/royalengineers108fldcoy-gw.php
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 29 July 14 12:15 BST (UK)
Just looked on FindMyPast which has an army file for 56883 Frederick Joseph Peters, a platelayer, of 108th Coy RE. Address Great Lane, Bell St Whitchurch. Married to Edith Goddard in 1898, 7 children 1900- 1915. Is that him?

EDIT it's also on Ancestry
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: jenny53 on Tuesday 29 July 14 12:20 BST (UK)
hello yes this is him but on my father birth cert he down as joseph
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: jenny53 on Tuesday 29 July 14 13:27 BST (UK)
have been looking on the net seem he was in the army  before he joint this unit but cant read what it said help
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 29 July 14 13:34 BST (UK)
3 years 53 days Special Reserve ( I think)
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: newburychap on Tuesday 29 July 14 13:48 BST (UK)
108 Field Coy RE - war diary is available at TNA (not yet digitised)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C7360718

Given that he was a platelayer it seems that they did plenty of railway building and maintenance.
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: pharmakon on Tuesday 29 July 14 14:50 BST (UK)
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have been looking on the net seem he was in the army  before he joint this unit but cant read what it said

I think you'll find a militia record for him on Findmypast.

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on my father birth cert he down as joseph

I'm wondering whether you need to get a few more certificates because the marriage index shows his name as Frederick George PETERS.
Title: Re: granfather 108th field Co
Post by: ShaunJ on Tuesday 29 July 14 15:41 BST (UK)
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a militia record for him on Findmypast
I see it - Frederick Peters 7363

I see also that he is Frederick J Peters on the 1901 census