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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Top-of-the-hill on Thursday 05 October 17 20:37 BST (UK)
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What is the occupation in the middle two entries - presume it is something military? I have included a bit extra in case it helps.
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Looks like "In Defence Corps" to me
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Agree with Corps but the first letter doesn't match the other Ds. The first letter of the third occupation looks the same as Lethum on the las line.
Carol
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I think that letter is a P as in Portsmouth. M Police Corps? Looks more like M Pelvice Corps, but that doesn't make much sense to me!
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I thought the first letter was P, but I can't make police of the rest, though it would make some sense.
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Is there two M's prior to "police" in that column, or is the first a stray M from the preceding column for married/male?
If both M's are in the column, I'm thinking it's M M police corps, as in Mounted Military Police Corps. Notice the small L in "Dealer" and "Appledore". They are quite different, but one matches the top "police", and the other matches the lower "police".
I can't make out what is following the top one (perhaps some abbrev. for Middlesex?), but the lower one looks like "Hants".
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To give some sort of context, they were Boarders in Barham, Kent.
One of them was James TAYLOR 27
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They were staying at one of the pubs in the village. If they were with a mounted police corps, which looks the most likely, I wonder what they were doing there? I suppose there would have been a stable at the pub. The nearby Barham Downs were often used for military musters and training, (from time immemorial!)
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The Military Mounted Police (MMP) was apparently formed in 1877.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Military_Police