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Armed Forces / Re: Help understanding calculation of army service length and sentence length
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Thank you Andy j2022 for a thorough response
Yes you are correct my 2GG is Rowland White and he was born 20 Oct 1851 so I presume no child soldier calculation needed.
I had the pension calculation record but had not appreciated it did show a purchase to buy out.
I wonder how he came by that amount I assume that 30 pounds was deducted from final pay?
I am in New Zealand so visit to UK archives is not possible.
As with most things in genealogical research we do go down rabbit holes at times and this was one of mine. I actually cannot find my 2GG's death record and while searching for that have re focused on every event in his early life. His last appearance was in the 1881 census in Manchester, and he has a few events post military service events in Manchester, so the military events needed to be re verified. The area of Manchester was Hulme in which there was a cavalry barracks (12th Lancers stationed there)
The only two things left in the military events is to confirm his enlistment date and to verify the first forces war record Rowland is my Rowland. These are related but need to be reconciled with the known census record that puts him in Aldershot sometime between 2 April and 30 April 1871.
My final question would be your best estimate of that enlistment date.
To reconcile the facts of the 1871 worldwide army index assuming both records relate to my Rowland and the census definitely does then the enlistment date needs to be early April 1871
(how long would a recruit be labelled a recruit until he became a private in the regiment?)
Thanks again for all your efforts.
Yes you are correct my 2GG is Rowland White and he was born 20 Oct 1851 so I presume no child soldier calculation needed.
I had the pension calculation record but had not appreciated it did show a purchase to buy out.
I wonder how he came by that amount I assume that 30 pounds was deducted from final pay?
I am in New Zealand so visit to UK archives is not possible.
As with most things in genealogical research we do go down rabbit holes at times and this was one of mine. I actually cannot find my 2GG's death record and while searching for that have re focused on every event in his early life. His last appearance was in the 1881 census in Manchester, and he has a few events post military service events in Manchester, so the military events needed to be re verified. The area of Manchester was Hulme in which there was a cavalry barracks (12th Lancers stationed there)
The only two things left in the military events is to confirm his enlistment date and to verify the first forces war record Rowland is my Rowland. These are related but need to be reconciled with the known census record that puts him in Aldershot sometime between 2 April and 30 April 1871.
My final question would be your best estimate of that enlistment date.
To reconcile the facts of the 1871 worldwide army index assuming both records relate to my Rowland and the census definitely does then the enlistment date needs to be early April 1871
(how long would a recruit be labelled a recruit until he became a private in the regiment?)
Thanks again for all your efforts.