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Title: Re: WW1
Post by: Maud Monaghan on Tuesday 11 November 14 21:39 GMT (UK)
Evening,

Wondering if anyone can help me with a query.
Title: Re: WW1
Post by: KGarrad on Tuesday 11 November 14 22:18 GMT (UK)
His Medal Index Card is on Ancestry - Victory Medal, British War Medal and 1915 Star.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission has an entry:
Private 18259 Robert Hamilton
9th Bn, Royal Irish Fusiliers
Died 19th April 1918

Son of Mary Hamilton, of Kilmore East, Ballinode, Monaghan. Enlisted March,1915.

Can't see his service record? But then some 65% of WW1 Service Records were destroyed in a WW2 bombing raid?!
Title: Re: WW1
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 11 November 14 22:21 GMT (UK)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Monaghan/Scotstown/Kilmore__East/812234/
Title: Re: WW1
Post by: Maud Monaghan on Tuesday 11 November 14 23:58 GMT (UK)
Thank you both aghadowey and KGarrad have that information. Such a pity to read that documents were destroyed during a later conflict. Would love to have found his medical records from WW1.
Title: Re: WW1
Post by: aghadowey on Wednesday 12 November 14 09:56 GMT (UK)
Best to say what information you already have and exactly what you are looking for when posting a request.

You've also another topic on MONAGHAN board with replies which means people are posting similar information on both.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=705012.0

Only about a third of WWI service records survive so there may be no further records for Robert Hamilton. Sometimes details of injuries, etc. about soldiers appear in the local newspapers but it's a case of searching each issue unless you have a date for a particular event.
Title: Re: Re: WW1
Post by: hallmark on Wednesday 12 November 14 11:16 GMT (UK)
Quote from: aghadowey on Wednesday 12 November 14 09:56 GMT (UK)
Best to say what information you already have and exactly what you are looking for when posting a request.

You've also another topic on MONAGHAN board with replies which means people are posting similar information on both.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=705012.0

 

Indeed it's best to say what information you already have and exactly what you are looking for when posting a request, instead of having people waste their time looking for stuff the poster already has!!
Title: Re: WW1
Post by: Maud Monaghan on Wednesday 12 November 14 18:05 GMT (UK)
Apologies. Unfortunately I misunderstood your suggestion re The Great War Forum and posted query twice. Sorry if you wasted time on my behalf.