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Great work Restorer 45. This sent chills down my spine as you have guessed the front door colour the exact same as it was when I was born years later! It makes her look so real stood there. 
Once again,  a huge thank you to everyone who has helped me. ..you are all very talented and kind

Once again thank you so much - these have certainly exceeded my expectations.
I am so appreciative for the time and effort provided by you all.

 

Hi

I know replying is not exactly right to add a JPEG attachment,  but I am struggling modifying my original post.

Here is Catherine Francis, b. 1916 pictured in the 40's...
Can anyone uncrease the photo please and maybe accurately date it?

thank you
Leyther

ha-ha that's a good one Viktoria - I know exactly what you mean...you can't help the slight disappointment before the smile arrives when you discover these things.  With my GGRandfather he was  "A huge strapping bloke, over 6ft tall....." from family stories..but these army records have actually  proved he was in fact 5ft 4 weighing 112lbs lol.

The best bit is that I was given a contact last year from someone on RC (Alan Gleaveson) who helps with WW1 records.  I have asked him about this final letter I have from the army asking his whereabouts to his wife in 1919.  Alan has just confirmed the letter was purely administrative as his file was never closed so the army needed to see if he was alive, dead, missing etc....so he wasn't actually serving in 1919 and after being discharged 3 times for the same reason, he would have NEVER served again after 1915  so all the stories about serving in Ireland are highly likely not to be true : )

Thanks for sharing your story - one day I hope to find a similar ending for my GGrandfather on my Mums side - he was always a policeman....but all records I have show him as a coal miner...but on his Daughters wedding cert he states policeman (He died 3years later and was a coal miner 5years prior).so maybe he wasn't a poiceman as we think?....ha ha

Thank you Viktoria...this is useful as one of the print out IS a Territorial number, now unless all the records are mixed up, the TA is the LAST application I can find for him in 1915 (he lasted a whole 6months this time instead of the few days he was used to) and I would have thought it would have been the first?  I wonder if it was possible to fail two applications in the regular army then to decide to try for the TA in those days?

All seem to link his discharge to a bad leg and his inability to march properly
My Great Aunt told me her Father said he did serve in Ireland for a while, now whether this is a made up story who knows!?

Thanks Viktoria - I never thought of separating TA to regular army