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Hi
Can anyone look up Henry Brian (Bryon/Brien) Strutt b.1856 and his wife Roseanna b.1855?
I can't find them.  They lived in and around Thurning and were born in Briston.
They had plenty of children, again none of whom I can find.  They include Sydney 1882ish, Ethel 1884, Harriet 1886, Albert 1888, Emma 1890 and my gran Hannah 1896.
In 1901 they lived "near Briston Common"  RG13/1828 page 25 Thurning.
They died in 1920's so they should be somewhere but I can't find them.
Can anyone help?
Jules

I found my grandfather's (maternal side) pip, squeak and wilfred war medals yesterday while helping my dad tidy his house - he thought they had been stolen a few years ago - so that was great relief.  They also came with three army forms (B2067 - Character Reference March 20, B2079 - Discharge Certificate March 20, B2079 D - Discharge Certificate from reserves, March 26, which had some details confirming what my mum had told me years ago.

My grandfather, Charles Herbert Clarke, b 1888 in Southwark, was in the Middlesex regiment, 1st Battalion, and had served largely in India.  He was being demobbed in Woolwich when war broke out and was reenlisted / called up, and went out to France on one of the first boats and saw the war out.  He has a 1914 star.

I remember being told that the medals didn't have his name, and they don't - they have W G Clarke, L11026, Midd'x Regiment.  Family folklore is that my grandfather joined up because one of his brothers had died in the Boer War, and that he used his brother's name when doing so for some reason, but I can't find any evidence about that.

Anyway, his form B2079 declares he joined up in 9 February 1906 and that his first posting was the Middlesex Regiment (and the L11026 on the medals  fits in perfectly with that - (ref http://army service numbers.blogspot.co.uk/2009_07_01_archive.html).  He ended the war in the Royal Engineers, as a sapper, number 37653, discharged in March 1920.

I have been unable to trace any of the above on Ancestry, so i assume his records were lost in the WW2 fire. 

My questions and where I would like help please:
- does anyone know how I can contact the Middlesex Regiment to see if I can find anything about his postings previous to WW1, including any overseas census returns in 1911
- what can i do to see if he did join up as W G Clarke, L11026, and if it was not him, what his roll number really was?  As i say, I have his joining date as 9 February 1906
- has anyone else experience of someone having medals with the wrong name on them when they were being sent out?

If anyone has any ideas or thoughts, so please get in touch.  I would really appreciate it

Many thanks   Jules

Hi
Yes - he died in 1968.
Cheers  Jules

Hi all
My grandfather (b 1889) was an old contemptible - he joined the Die hards (1st Middlesex Battalion (regiment?)) and was posted overseas to India.  He was in Woolwich being demobbed when war broke out and was re-enlisted in to the Die Hards and was one of the first regiments to land on French soil, seeing service in Mons (the first battle involving the British army).
Unfortunately his war medals were stolen when my parents house was burgled  so I have no idea of his army number etc
I've tried searching the rolls on Ancestry and 1911 census but can't find him.
Any ideas on who I could approach etc would be most appreciated.
Jules