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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Milk delivery cart
« on: Saturday 03 October 09 13:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi Bill,
Desmond is my uncle (Dad's brother!) so I see him regularly. Des still farms in Hampshire.
If you want to get back in touch, send me a private message with your email and I'll let you have his.
Best wishes,
Simon

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Saturday 19 September 09 18:36 BST (UK)  »
Possible but the family rumour was death in the war so that is what I'm going on at the moment.

Even if I can't find his service record, I may find something in the regiment records don't you think?

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Saturday 19 September 09 17:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi Phil,
Thanks for looking in Lewisham. They did live around there so it's likely to be him but shame no mention in the volunteers.

Regarding Ernest Kemp, I have just received the death certificate of the Ernest in 1916 in Epsom but I don't think it is my Ernest. This one lives in a workhouse and I know the family around Ernest were quite well off, unless he was disowned. The photo I have of him in 1915+ is with the family group so I'm fairly sure it's not him.

The search for Ernest's death continues. I guess I need to try and find the RFA records from that time and see if I can find any more information.

Simon

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Friday 11 September 09 12:00 BST (UK)  »
Oh and one strip is Lance Corporal, yes?

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Friday 11 September 09 09:31 BST (UK)  »
Wow, a lot of information. So to summarise...

Benjamin Cooke "may" have been a volunteer in the Middlesex or Wandsworth volunteers during WW1.

Eric Cooke, his son, was definitely a Captain in the Royal Artillary, served in WW2 and lived to the ripe old age of 92.

Eric's wife's Uncle - Ernest Kemp was training at Fort Widley in 1911 for the Royal Field Artillery under Major Robert Geoghegan. He was photographed late 1915 and may have died in 1916.

Time for a death certificate I guess.  ;)

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 18:20 BST (UK)  »
Never knew that before but you are right! He is stationed at Fort Widley (which is really odd because it's not far from where my parents still live so I know it well!)

It even has his Commanding Officer although the scan is not very high resolution on the Census website and I'm not sure I can read this writing either!!

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 16:39 BST (UK)  »
I really should be working...... :-[

Anyway, have downloaded the 1911 census return, definitely him, born in Cheltenham. Now need a handwriting expert to read the unit....

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 16:20 BST (UK)  »
Great stuff Milly, I haven't had a chance to look at the 1911 for the Kemp family.
You're absolutely right, Minnie did die and Thomas Henry did remarry and have Aubrey (my family know Aubrey's children now) but I'd not thought about referring to his step mother.
I'll try Ernest in the 1911 to see if it gives his regiment and then try and find some records.

 ;D

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Armed Forces / Re: Identify Military Uniform and date please
« on: Thursday 10 September 09 13:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again for all the responses, I feel like I'm hogging the whole forum!  :-[

Eric was indeed a captain in the Artillary, I have his service record so only really posted the picture as an interesting background to the original picture.

As for Ernest, I know he was in Portsmouth on the 1901 census but was born in Cheltenham, 1894. The family remained in Portsmouth so I assume he did too. The "knowledge" that he died "very young" in the great war is family rumour so I'm trying to find the facts.

Can't seem to find his service record on Ancestry either, as I know his parents names, I can discount many of the E Kemp entires.

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