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Thanks for your replies.
I don't know what the child was called, which makes my search difficult to say the least, but of what info I do know and hope is true (from a distant relative), then I think I have narrowed down the possibilities to two births. I will have to request some birth and marriage records to see if they prove to be of any help.....and hope that he kept his mother's maiden name.

Sorry for the vague title.
If a baby was born to an unmarried woman in WW1, do I understand correctly the child would be registered under the mother's surname unless in some circumstances where both parents attended the registration of the birth?
In the scenario in my family research, the father of the unmarried child died in WW1 before he could return home to marry the mother of his child.  I am told the mother later married another man. Does anyone know if the child would have kept his mother's maiden name as his surname or if there is a chance he would have been formally adopted by the step father and taken his surname?
A distant relative has implied to me the mother was from a 'nice' family and it sounds like she was looked after by her family.
I'm still trying to narrow down exact identities so I'm trying to see if this would affect my search for marriage and death records of the likely suspects of the illegitimate child....if that makes sense?

My Great uncle served in the Kings Shropshire light infantry 1/4 battalion and died in action in France and Flanders 7/6/18. I gather this was a day after a significant battle for this battalion.

I am curious to know whether there were specific dates young soldiers fresh out of training would join their allocated battalion, or would they just ship over a handful of fresh recruits as and when a few of them had received sufficient training? My Gt Uncle would have been 18 in May 1917, and a little bit of light research suggests that after 6 months of training, a soldier aged 18 yr and 6 months around 1917-1918 would be able to serve overseas. I understand this was reduced from age 19 because of the demand for soldiers on the front line.

Is there any literature on how soldiers transferred from training Battalions to active battalions on the front line or more specifically on the Kings Shropshire reg named above?

Thanks

I can search for birth records and I have been buying copies of records for some of the other possible names I have tried to narrow it down to based on some of the criteria I know is correct, but I also thought putting a request out on here might uncover info, but I find some of the replies read as being a little negative as if I am doing things wrongly or shouldn't be requesting info on the off chance someone else might have the same research interests. I can't afford to buy records every month so I have been doing so little and often.