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I have a young man who died in WW1, I have been looking for attestation papers for him but there doesn't seem to be any online, any help or ideas please
Louisa Maud
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Hi Louisa Maud
His are probably in the two thirds lost in a fire in 1940.
You should double check by using Findmypast.
Ken
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Thanks Ken
LM
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Louisa post his details there maybe other info available
Ady
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Hi
I have just found Find My Past as I do subscribe to that, I was interested in his attestation papers, will come back as I need to ask my friends permission before I include his name
Thank you
LM
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WW1
PRIVATE ROBERT FENWICK COX
Service number 26889
Regiment Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion 9th Battalion.
Birth place CUSTOM HOUSE, E.
Residence PLAISTOW
Enlistment place STRATFORD, WARWICK
Death 27/08/1918
Died in Flanders
I have found details of this lad on FindMyPast but cannot find any attestation papers which is what I am really after, any help much appreciated
regards
Louisa Maud
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I have an ancestor who signed up to the Duke of Wellington (West Riding) reg. but he was immediately transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment. The only way to find him was by chasing down his original army number, and this entailed tracing everyone with a similar name in the records. The records that do survive are often very confusing, as the men were shuffled around from unit to unit, depending on casualties etc, and they were passed around from different Commanding Officers, and obviously, there was a War on, so record keeping often took second place to everything. If he died in action, was he entitled to a pension? Did he have a next of kin? These records can sometimes point the way. Good luck--- there's always a way round!
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He is on Ancestry as Robert Frederick Cox.
Try searching service records for West Riding as Regiment and 26889 as number if all else fails.
Link to UK Ancestry site:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&MS_AdvCB=1&db=BritishArmyService&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&gss=angs-d&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&_F8007A65=26889&dbOnly=_F8007A65%7c_F8007A65_x%2c_F0007CF4%7c_F0007CF4_x%2c_F0007E0C%7c_F0007E0C_x&_F8007A65_x=1&_F0007CF4=west+riding&_F0007CF4_x=1&uidh=5k3&pcat=39&fh=0&h=396251&recoff=88+89&ml_rpos=1 (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&MS_AdvCB=1&db=BritishArmyService&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=2&gss=angs-d&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&_F8007A65=26889&dbOnly=_F8007A65%7c_F8007A65_x%2c_F0007CF4%7c_F0007CF4_x%2c_F0007E0C%7c_F0007E0C_x&_F8007A65_x=1&_F0007CF4=west+riding&_F0007CF4_x=1&uidh=5k3&pcat=39&fh=0&h=396251&recoff=88+89&ml_rpos=1)
Apologies if linking is not permitted or in the wrong format.
Steve.
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Huge thanks Steve, they make interesting reading but sad that this lad died in WW1 as other did
LM