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Cumberland / Re: Woolpack Inn
« on: Thursday 05 January 12 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks scookio

yes! was in there myself in December. The owner tells me it's all original,nothing structural really altered-just revamped to suit them. Interesting that it was still the Woolpack in the 70s / 80s.

jardiner

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World War One / Re: Medal Card info please
« on: Friday 21 October 11 10:12 BST (UK)  »
On the medal card of "my" deserter - Harry - it says "Declared a deserter 15/5/17" and " 14 Star ret'd (deserter) 15/6/17".  It also listed his references for the Victory and British medals. When I checked the medal roll in the National Archives, however, it was written against his name "No medals". 1922 dates are also on both records, so I think that's when the medals were awarded.

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World War One / Re: Medal card
« on: Friday 21 October 11 09:55 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all the info, folks! Much appreciated. :)

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World War One / Re: Medal Card info please
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 20:38 BST (UK)  »
Sorry can't help with decyphering medal card, but interested that your relation deserted in 1917 as my grandfather deserted that year too (May).  It's not easy finding out about deserters - but extremely interesting. Had he been in the war long? Was he in the Tank Corps?  On reading about the conditions the men coped with in the trenches it is a real eye-opener. My GF just disappeared. Probably changed his name etc. Still noted as a deserter in 1922 in the medal roll book at the National Archives. You might be able to find a War diary for his regiment there too, covering the time he deserted. Good luck!

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Canada / Re: King / Earl (e) / McQuillan
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 16:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi Folks

thanks again for all the input and I look forward to hearing from you jeffster.


Regards

jardiner

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World War One / Medal card
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 14:40 BST (UK)  »
On my grandfather's medal card it says "Date of entry therein : 4/11/14". Does that mean he volunteered go to the front on that date - the day before they embarked for France - or was he likely to have been training as a Territorial up until that date?  Was it up to individual TA soldiers to decide whether they wanted to volunteer for the war, or did their Officer decide for the whole regiment? Thanks in advance.

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United States of America / Re: Ashberry AIKEN, New York 1930
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 14:09 BST (UK)  »
Yes, thanks. I know Harry travelled to New York in 1912 - but he returned to the UK 6 weeks later. Don't really know why he went then - perhaps on business? But I cannot find him in the US apart from in the 1930 census. Assuming it is him, of course, but I know he was still branded a deserter from the British army in 1922, and leaving for the US, using his (uncommon) middle name and pronouncing himself single does ring true somehow. Also the census says he arrived in the US in 1919, and there is a man called Aiken, roughly the right age, on a passenger list to Quebec around then. Unfortunately it seems he often lied about his age (eg marriage certificate in Belfast 1912), and I have seen Aiken and Ashberry spelt various ways (Aikin, Aken, Ashbury, Ashbery etc) so any info I take with a pinch of salt!  Hopefully someone out there can help me put together a bit more of the puzzle.  I'd love to know if I have US relatives!

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Canada / Re: King / Earl (e) / McQuillan
« on: Wednesday 19 October 11 20:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank-you all for the input. They are definitely the same ladies and I realised,just after I'd written my reply, that of course the 'A' stood for Alfred. Margaret is the missing link. Rachel and Minnie- Canada,other siblings - remaining  in Northern Ireland or England. However if I give an extract from the letter from "Bengough Rural Municipal hospital" written by K on 30th November (somtime in the 1960s)

" Dear Uncle Alf and Aunt Sadie (my Grandparents)......I hear from Aunt Rachel often and she sent me your address. Aunt Minnie passed away on the 19th Nov and laid to rest on 21st in Regina...Uncle Alex will be very lonely now....We are not looking forward to Christmas this year without Mom and dad"

All this would indicate that another sister went to Canada and the writer is related.

Kind regards

jardiner

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Armed Forces / Re: Shorncliffe camp
« on: Wednesday 19 October 11 16:47 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for that AskAnExpert.
 

regards

jardiner.

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