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Apologies Shaun, but my point is the same. TNA also say that the 1816 rolls have not been digitised.  If you have found them on Ancestry, clearly the TNA Discovery entry is out of date. Quite possibly all of the rolls for the 36th for that period (c. 1800 - 1820) have likewise been digitised which will make eileendavid's job a bit easier.

The muster rolls have not been digitised. You can find them at TNA in the following series:


1st Battalion
WO12 / 5028 for the year 1800
to
WO 12 /5039 for the years 1817-1818

2nd Battalion
WO12 /5097 for the years 1807-09
to
WO12 /5099 for the year 1814 (to October only)

You will not find his date of birth in the muster rolls. They are also unlikely to tell you exactly when he was discharged if he deserted and was not subsequently found. All that will have happened is that his name will no longer show up in the muster rolls. While the 1st Battalion was fighting in the Peninsular Wars, the 2nd Battalion will have acted as the depot back in Britain, therefore you may need to look at both sets of rolls to determine when he enlisted.

In February 1814 the 36th (Herefordshire) Foot Regiment consisted of two battalions. The 1st Battalion was fighting in the Battle of Orthez in Southern France so it is unlikely that he was serving in that battalion, unless he had been wounded in an earlier part of the campaign (the Peninsular War) and had been shipped back to Britain to recuperate or be discharged as no longer fit for service. Or he might have been a member of the 2nd Battalion which was then stationed in Brighton, but was well under strength. Indeed the 2nd Battalion was disbanded in October 1814 and its remaining soldiers transferred to the 1st Battalion when it returned to Britain in August.

Alternatively, if you live near one of these libraries:

The Library of Birmingham
Bridgend Local and Family History Centre
City of Westminster Archives Centre
Manchester Central Library
Newcastle City Library
Plymouth Central Library and
The British Library

you can consult the GRO microfiche to get the relevant reference. The GRO do not provide online search facilities for this Register.

War Agency Survey Inspection. Abbreviation was used to indicate that the individual was employed by a war-related agency and subject to a survey or inspection.

Sandra, I can't tell if this is just a guess, or if you have some source to back this up.

I am dubious for three reasons. First, this was September 1939 so while there was a War Office, most other government organisations still had their peacetime title. Technically speaking the country had only been at war for 27 days at that point. I can find no mention of a War Agency in TNA, Hansard* or elsewhere. Secondly "Survey Inspection" is tautologous. since in this context they mean the same thing. And lastly, in 1941 the War Damage Commission was set up to inspect and assess the damage to real property ('hereditaments') caused by enemy action, principally bombing, and to award payments to cover the cost of repair. If there had been a pre-existing Agency such as the one you mention I would have expected this fact to be noted in the War Damage Act 1941 since no doubt the War Damage Commission would have subsumed some or all of the duties of the earlier agency.

* there is one reference in Hansard between 1 January 1930 and 31 Dec 1945 to a 'Central Prisoners of War Agency'.