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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Great War military unit ID
« on: Wednesday 13 August 25 10:51 BST (UK)  »
Thanks all for your input, the wonderful expertise on here never ceases to amaze me. I'm going to go along with the Canadian Tunnelling Company as the most likely answer.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Great War military unit ID
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:12 BST (UK)  »
(Sorry the second photo is on its side, I always seem to have problems uploading photos to this site.)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Great War military unit ID
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:08 BST (UK)  »
I've just found this written on another page. It doesn't add much but there is added lettering at the bottom which looks like 'in the field'.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Great War military unit ID
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Andy J2022 on Monday 11 August 25 11:28 BST (UK)
I can't help with the word, but are you aware that there are three records for Weller W J in the Library and Archives of Canada World War One collection? Link here
Thanks, I'll have a good look at that this evening.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Great War military unit ID
« on: Monday 11 August 25 16:58 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Monday 11 August 25 11:33 BST (UK)
More information please - full name etc, service number if known
Sorry all the info I have is in the photo.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Great War military unit ID
« on: Monday 11 August 25 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Is anyone able to decipher which regiment this is please? It appears to at '1st Can. Lem. Coy'. I'm assuming the Can means Canadian but it's the 'Lem' part which throws me. Or could it be 'Lun'?

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Australia / Re: Thomas Charles Lenton to Australia
« on: Wednesday 13 December 23 10:09 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks maddys52 :-)

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Australia / Re: Thomas Charles Lenton to Australia
« on: Sunday 10 December 23 13:07 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: shume on Sunday 10 December 23 09:28 GMT (UK)
Am glad so many generous people spent time on this post: it would have been more helpful if you had disclosed the information you had ( ? conjuror etc) in your initial post.
Sorry to say I'm still learning the finer points of how to use Ancestry and other research resources (we've all been there at some point). I didn't realise that knowing TL's trade of ventriloquism would be of such importance in finding him on a passenger list. Cheer up  :-\

Thanks all for your help. If he did emigrate to Australia in the 1880s I wonder why he found himself lodging in a village pub in Yorkshire in 1891.

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Australia / Re: Thomas Charles Lenton to Australia
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 10:12 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all. My reason for wanting to know his departure year is that I am researching and writing a local book, and Thomas Charles Lenton was a lodger in one of the village pubs in 1891. He was a conjuror and ventriloquist and seemed to be travelling around England with his trade in the 1880s. He made an appearance in 1893, and then my next contact with him was his wife's death in Kalgoorie in 1897. So I guess they emigrated between those years. I thought his stay in the local pub would add a bit of colour to the village's history.

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