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World War Two / Re: Can anyone please identify this uniform?
« on: Thursday 21 November 24 10:45 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for your responses @alan o and @Philip.  Maybe just not enough info in the photo, but it was worth a shot.
Much appreciate your input
- aitch

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World War Two / Can anyone please identify this uniform?
« on: Friday 15 November 24 17:41 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone able to identify this uniform please?  Could have been Royal Artillery but really don't know for sure.  He lived near Folkestone.  There was an army barracks at Cheriton, so may have been based there?
TIA

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Armed Forces / Re: 'Holland Batteries' around 1800-1805. Please can anyone help?
« on: Friday 11 October 24 19:59 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - I guessed that might be the case.    Mariners are pretty thin on the ground in the landlocked Staffordshire Moorlands, so my gut feeling would be that he'd was more likely have been a soldier, which I'd guess would might make him even less likely to be able to trace!

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Armed Forces / Re: 'Holland Batteries' around 1800-1805. Please can anyone help?
« on: Friday 11 October 24 18:32 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou @Jebber.    I guess it's one hope too many that there might be records for any of these Napoleonic era servicemen?   Any thoughts?

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Armed Forces / Re: 'Holland Batteries' around 1800-1805. Please can anyone help?
« on: Friday 11 October 24 17:48 BST (UK)  »
@ShaunJ     I've tried to work out who he is - but haven't been able to prove which one he might be There are several William R's around and although all villages are close by, I can't assume any of them.     I also link to some of these Richardson families through my paternal line (Phoebe & James are a maternal line), so have researched a good swathe of the local Richardson families and no sign of a likely James in the mix.    It's fairly possible that I might link with him through both M & P lines - such is the gene puddle of Staffordshire Moorland families! 

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Armed Forces / Re: 'Holland Batteries' around 1800-1805. Please can anyone help?
« on: Friday 11 October 24 17:24 BST (UK)  »
@KGarrad @ShaunJ.  Thankyou both.  Interesting reads all round and given that Phoebe cites 'Holland Batteries at Sea' maybe could suggest it was a floating one,   What is a bit baffling for me is what women were doing on board for her to have been born there?  Would it have been normal to have women in/on a battery?  And would they have been British or was it possible that they may have been Dutch for example if it was in or around Holland as she suggests?  Any thoughts?

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Armed Forces / Re: 'Holland Batteries' around 1800-1805. Please can anyone help?
« on: Friday 11 October 24 16:28 BST (UK)  »
@KGarrad - Thankyou for that.  My military history knowledge is close to zero pre WW1, so happy for any and all information anyone!

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Armed Forces / 'Holland Batteries' around 1800-1805. Please can anyone help?
« on: Friday 11 October 24 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Could anyone help please?  I’m trying to find the parents of my 3x g,grandfather James Richardson, who married in 1822 in Alton Staffordshire & who died in 1838.  I can’t find a likely baptism for him, though his death record gives his birth year at 1800.
His marriage record shows a ‘Pheby Richardson’ as a witness.  I have traced her (born 1805) and am assuming she was his sister.  The only clue I have to help in this is that she gives her birthplace in the 1861/71 & 1881 censuses as  ‘Holland Batteries at Sea’, ‘Born at Sea’ and ‘Holland Battery’.
Does anyone have any knowledge of Holland Battery, or know whether there are any records of servicemen in Holland in around 1800-1805?   Both James and Phoebe lived their adult lives in the same area of North Staffordshire, so I’d assume maybe a North Staffs Regiment?
Any help thoughts or ideas gratefully received – thanks! - Aitch

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Broad Ridding farm, Staffs.
« on: Tuesday 26 September 23 09:20 BST (UK)  »
Thank you still_looking.   Yes, I think we'll never be able to narrow it down with any certainly, but much appreciate your observations on the detail and for the V&A link!

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