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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Walter welfare Conductor Indian Army Corp Clerks
« on: Tuesday 14 March 23 22:56 GMT (UK)  »
That would be really helpful as was unsure how to get certificates from abroad. I cannot believe how helpful people on this site are  :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Walter welfare Conductor Indian Army Corp Clerks
« on: Tuesday 14 March 23 20:36 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your very helpful information.I am absolutely brand new to this but very interested and particularly now I know how to apply for Grandad’s service records.
The records I have show him being baptised in St John Wapping Middlesex but on the 1911 Census his birth was St George’s of the East now known as Stepney.
As with most families there clearly some skeletons in the cupboard
I think as my Mum was definitely born in Quetta February 1931 which was 2 months before my Grandparents were married here in Somerset so wonder how or why my Grandmother was in India at that time. Again I’m not sure how I can find this information.
I have some old photo’s showing my Mum as a baby being cared for by a ayah and many of my Grandfather but none of him in uniform.
I also have some lovely old letters from my Mum to her Father written in 1943 when she was 12 and at that time the family address was: 46/2 Block, Napier Barracks, Karachi.
I believe my Grandfather was killed in a car accident just after the war ended and was always told he was driving to look at a tea plantation he was hoping to buy when the accident occurred
My next step is definitely to apply for his war records.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Walter welfare Conductor Indian Army Corp Clerks
« on: Monday 13 March 23 22:35 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you that’s helpful. The strange thing is my Mum was born in February 1931 and in Quetta India so clearly before her parents married. I am aware she then lived there for 12 years before coming home with her Mum Lucy and 2 other siblings who had been born there. My Grandfather Walter never returned home as it seems he was in a road accident 6 weeks after the War ended and died and is buried in Burma (Myanmar)
It’s the period 1931 until the start of the War we are unsure of what he was doing in India. He was part of the V Force for a time gaining information and disrupting the Japanese forces.
Of course this is mostly here say as my Mum and her siblings are no longer with us.


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Family History Beginners Board / Walter welfare Conductor Indian Army Corp Clerks
« on: Monday 13 March 23 16:40 GMT (UK)  »
I’m searching for info on my Grandfather Walter Welfare who was an “acting conductor in the Indian Army in 1943 and then a WO1 Royal Army Service Corps in 1943?
I know he was in Quetta in 1930/1931 as my own Mother was born during that time. What I don’t  know is why he would have been in India during that time. Would he have enlisted into the Indian Army or been transferred from the British Army?
My understanding is that he was at some time in the Somerset Light Infantry but unsure over what period of time

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