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World War Two / Re: Very little info - where to start?
« on: Monday 18 August 25 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Jebber on Sunday 17 August 25 22:37 BST (UK)
Because you had to apply for your WW2 Medals not everyone who qualified bothered, some objected because unlike WW1 they were not automatically issued and also they were not stamped with the recipients details like the WW1 Medals. I had a relative who refused to apply for his, his wife applied after he died.

Thanks, that could well have been the case

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World War Two / Re: Very little info - where to start?
« on: Sunday 17 August 25 10:17 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much.  Having now read about the "eligibility for medals"  I think he may not have done enough to qualify.  We know he was overseas either right at the end of the War or just after, and he wasn`t anywhere there was ongoing conflict

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World War Two / Re: Very little info - where to start?
« on: Sunday 17 August 25 09:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for all of that.
Does anyone know if everybody who served during the War was awarded a medal?  My husband has no recollection of seeing any medals and there certainly weren`t any when the house was cleared after his parents` deaths

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World War Two / Re: Very little info - where to start?
« on: Saturday 16 August 25 10:16 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that.  Following your link I`ve done a search but no luck.  I`ll keep looking

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World War Two / Very little info - where to start?
« on: Friday 15 August 25 15:01 BST (UK)  »
We know very little about my father in law`s war experience other than that he spent time right at the end of the war in Palestine and Kenya "mapping" - so presumably in the Royal Engineers.  We have a few photos from that time but no service information or medals.
His name was John Kerby born 1/9/1922 in Meriden, Warwickshire.  He was from a farming family so may have been in a reserved occupation before joining up.
I don`t currently have access to Ancestry or Findmypast so it would be really helpful to know if there is any information about him online before I pay to search records.
Many thanks

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The Common Room / Re: Who/where were the Registrars?
« on: Wednesday 19 March 25 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much everyone.  I feel much better informed now.

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Gloucestershire / Re: Benjamin Kerby died Bristol 1829?
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 18:06 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: hanes teulu on Sunday 16 March 25 10:56 GMT (UK)
You're welcome.
Even spotted a Joseph Kerby watchmaker in Pontypool!! see column 3

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3393075/3393079/32/joseph%2BOR%2Bkerby

They get everywhere!!

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Gloucestershire / Re: Benjamin Kerby died Bristol 1829?
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 10:05 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all of your efforts - much appreciated.

It is looking more and more that the Bristol Kerbys are not connected to our Kerbys and  the fact that they were both watchmakers is just a coincidence

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The Common Room / Who/where were the Registrars?
« on: Saturday 15 March 25 16:04 GMT (UK)  »
Obviously I know that since 1837 births, marriages and deaths were meant to be officially registered but I don`t know how this was actually done or how it was enforced.

  I`m thinking in particularly about a couple of deaths from my family which happened in a village and the informant was someone who was unable to sign her name.  Surely every village didn`t have a registrar? But if there wasn`t one near to the event it must have been easy not to bother!

 I think there was a benefit to register babies to make them "official" and presumably marriages were overseen by a vicar.  But why go to the trouble of registering a death if you could get away with not doing it?

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