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By the way nearly all the Tubb brothers (George, Henry, Ernest, John and William, and possibly Alfred) all served in WW1. In different regiments though, and all but Henry came back. We thought Sidney didn't go, because he had a twisted leg, after breaking it badly as a young child. he supposedly followed in his fathers footsteps as a bootmender. So we are very confused as to why he disappears in 1911 (his mother is dead but his father is living with the eldest daughter Annie Lovegrove). You would have expected to find him there too or with one of his other siblings.  Thats what makes us think that it was some other brother that was the bootmender and Sidney had run off to join the army.  But where was he?  We found George and John and henry in the army records, but not Sidney!!!

Any other ideas are apreciated.

Thanks

Hi, can you help?

I have a great great uncle sidney tubb, born Marlow Bucks 1896. The only military records I can find show he died in 1918 in France. However I need to confirm beyond all doubt that he is the same person, because living memory says that Sidney lived to a ripe old age and worked as a bootmaker!!

Is there anyway of finding out as there are no 1911 records of Sidney when he would have been 16 years old. Did he run away to join the army maybe?

How can I find his enlistment records?

Thanks

Thank you David, bit I can't access the second one at all.

Thank you - I have no idea what one of those is though!!!

What would they have done? Would they have been like orphanges? These two girls were only 12 and 13 at the time.

Cathy

it was on both the transcript and the original page. There are about 20 people of all ages on the page.

Could it have been an institution of some sort? It does not say if they were inmates, patients or anything helpful like that!

Cathy