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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Mac, Mc. & Mc
« on: Thursday 01 July 21 15:19 BST (UK)  »
I hoped that there might have been a reasoning behind how it was written, I think I might just be grasping at straws to try and make sense of  all of this!!  :-\

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Mac, Mc. & Mc
« on: Wednesday 23 June 21 01:29 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for all your responses.

The big issue I'm having is my great grandfathers war history. I have found a a few records that I think might be him but because the spelling is wrong I can't be sure and knowing a lot of records were destroyed I can't go further back apart from the medal cards!

I have searched most abbreviations of Mac and the only records I can find are Mc (the other Mac I found was not him)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Mac, Mc. & Mc
« on: Tuesday 22 June 21 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I was hoping someone would be able to help me figure out why these names have been written differently.

I have noticed on multiple records MacPherson seem to have been written differently. For people I know are MacPhersons some of the records show an uppercase M a little C (which sometimes looks like the @ sign) at the top and a dot underneath the c, has anyone seen this before?

My great-grandfather was born Duncan MacPherson, it is written MacPherson on his birth certificate and on his gravestone, however on my grandfathers birth certificate the names have been written with the little c and dot

Was this a way of writing Mac ?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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World War One / Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« on: Thursday 03 June 21 03:17 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Wednesday 02 June 21 13:37 BST (UK)
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looking at the Royal Engineers which were a part of the Army Service Corps
Your man is definitely ASC.
The RE was a completely different Regt. & not part of the ASC.
RE cap badge:

Oh perfect, thank you for clarifying that I didn't realise they had two different badges.

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World War One / Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« on: Tuesday 01 June 21 05:56 BST (UK)  »
Well ignore everything I have just said, I have just discovered his last name was spelt MacPherson not McPherson, the documents my mum send me had the last name spelt wrong  :-[

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World War One / Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« on: Tuesday 01 June 21 02:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: AllanUK on Friday 21 May 21 11:17 BST (UK)
Quote from: cath151 on Thursday 20 May 21 19:01 BST (UK)
Hi
Perhaps also where he was born in Scotland and possible next of kin (parents or wife) If you have a possible army number that can be searched on subscription sites.
Cathy

As Cathy has posted, details about his place of birth and family can possibly help in answering you post. Also, if you provide the service numbers that you have found, this would narrow the search.

I have posted the information that I have found, I'm not sure how to go about verifying any of it though.  :(

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World War One / Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« on: Tuesday 01 June 21 02:28 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Friday 21 May 21 11:24 BST (UK)
There's a photo of a Corporal D McPherson of the ASC in the Western Mail of 28 December 1915. Front row, 3rd from left:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000104%2f19151228%2f164&stringtohighlight=corporal%20mcpherson

Oh that is very interesting, I hadn't looked much on Find my past!

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World War One / Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« on: Tuesday 01 June 21 02:27 BST (UK)  »
I just posted a photo of him, it's the only one we have of him in uniform!

He was born 14/03/1892 in Sleat, Invernesshire, Scotland

His parents were Alexander and Mary McPherson


This was an email I sent to my grandpa outlining what I had found

The only Corporal Duncan McPherson I can find was in the Kings own Scottish Borders, which was involved in combat.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/5119/images/41629_612057_10626-00191?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=247722de21ebe0db4dc2f578a00b218b&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XyP262&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1136320


Acting Sargent Duncan McPherson (somehow went from private to acting Sargent) Same as above this is from Argyll and Sutherland Highlands which was a combat regiment.


https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/5119/images/41629_626640_11782-00186?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=247722de21ebe0db4dc2f578a00b218b&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XyP263&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1950585




The 2 below links is the closest match I can find to Duncan with the information I have.

Closest match so far Royal Engineers 424023 he was a second (lance) Corporal


https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/5119/images/41806_636897_11443-00044?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=042a6eda1ffd888a6a1e84d42858e99b&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XyP260&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1137172


But was also an acting Corporal which would have meant he wore a Corporals uniform.


https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/5119/images/41629_625537_9487-00235?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=042a6eda1ffd888a6a1e84d42858e99b&usePUB=true&_phsrc=XyP260&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=1136316


The documents I have gone through show all Duncan McPhersons that served in WW1, I have mainly been looking at the Royal Engineers which were a part of the Army Service Corps

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World War One / Re: Help finding information about my great grandfather
« on: Tuesday 01 June 21 02:22 BST (UK)  »

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